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The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia for to
day are for partly cloudy weather,
showers in west and north portions,
with variable winds. Eastern Florida,
partly cloudy weather, occasional
Bhowers, with variable winds.
One reason for the Republican po
litical landslide is vouchsafed by the
Fairfax (S. C.) Enterprise, edited by
Mrs. Virginia D. Young. She points
out that President Roosevelt Is a
woman suffragist, and advises young
men In South Carolina who want of
fice to declare themselves in favor of
woman suffrage and go in and win.
Is it an error, after all, to say that
the United States are the spendthrift
nation of the world? Statistics gath
ered by the Department of Commerce
and Labor, show that while the United
States have only 9V4 per cent, of the
population of the world, the savings
banks figures show that the people of
the United States contribute over 29
per cent, of the total of the savings
deposits of the world. The total sav
ings deposits and the average amount
per depositor are much larger in the
United States than any other country.
Generally speaking, When Senator
Depew makes a Joke it is easy enough
to see the point of it; but when he
talks in earnest there are many per
sons and papers who have difficulty in
determining what he is driving at. For
instance, at Senator Platt’s buckwheat
breakfast the other day Senator De
pew said: "It is an admonition and a
warning to the party in power that the
new Governor of Massachusetts, in a
state which has been Republican so
long, will have an enormous patron
age.” That the Senator is Immensely
worried about the patronage is plain
enough. It has been charged that he
thinks more about patronage than
anything else connected with public
office. But why is Mr. Douglas’ elec
tion an admonition and a warning?
The Boston und Springfield papers are
puzzled.
Chile and the Argentine Republic are
political rivals of long standing, and
on numerous occasions have been open
and hostile enemies. Two years or
bo ago they entered Into an agreement,
for mutual benefit, under the terms of
which each government was to cut
down its naval establishment and limit
Its expenditures for war preparations.
The agreement was hailed in all parts
of the world as a long step towards
peace and prosperity and civilization.
This agreement was entered into be
fore Brasil became active as a navy
builder. Lately, however, Brasil has
shown unwonted activity In providing
herself with war veseels, and now the
Argentina has asked the concurrence
of Chile ht the proposition that she ex
pend 1it,000.000 for war vessels to be
used only in the Atlantic. Bhe pro
poses to give Chile all the aseurance
that nmjr be needed that the vessels
will not be emit Into the Pacific to
menus Chilean territory, but she
<eein an liureaaed navy neeeeaary to
herself agaktet any possible
Mgresstoo en part of lUbmU.
RUSSIA’S BALTIC FLEETS.
Dispatches from St. Petersburg and
the Far Eust indicate that Russia en
tertains high .hopes that the operations
of her two Baltic fleets, or Pacific
squadrons as they are now called,
when they shall have arrived In Asiat
ic waters, will change the tide of war
In her favor. Notwithstanding the
delay caused by the North sea fishing
fleet Incident, Rojestvensky’s division
has made very good progress towards
Its destination, and the expectation is
that the second division, being com
posed of faster vessels, will overtake
the first division shortly after It passes
through the Suez canal and that the
two will be consolidated and proceed
together. On paper the consolidated
fleet will be quite formidable, but will
It be really formidable when it reaches
the waters in which it is expected to
fiiht?
The Russian vessels have still a long
and hard Journey ahead of them.
There is no port at which they may
stop for repairs. They are permitted
to live only from hand-to-mouth In
the matter of coal and supplies. Even
the friendly French ports at which
they are stopping en route will permit
them to take on no more coal and sup
plies than are actually necessary in
order for them to reach the next port.
Meanwhile the machinery is deteriorat
ing and in need of attention. When
the shins shall have reached the Far
East there will be only two friendly
ports into which they can run, Port
Arthur and Vladivostock; and the pos
sibilities are that this number will be
reduced to one, since the fall of Port
Arthur is dally expected. It would
be marvelous if the vessels, like our
famous Oregon, should arrive at their
destination in fit condition to go Im
mediately into battle. It is practi
cally certain that their bunkers will
be about empty, the men Jaded and
the supplies low.
And In what condition will they find
the enemy? The chances are that Ad
miral Togo’s fighting vessels arc like
championship prize fighters, trained to
the minute and in perfect fettle. While
guarding Port Arthur, they are not
performing arduous blockade duty, but
are lying at anchor In the Elliot Is
lands at a well equipped naval base,
where men and ships are kept always
In condition. They are in communi
cation with torpedo boat scouts at
Port Arthur, and are ever ready to
make a dash to any point at the first
authentic note of warning. Japanese
scouts will watch for the new-coming
Russians, of course, and Togo's highly
efficient fleet may be expected to
pounce upon the Jaded and depleted
enemy somewhere between Formosa
and Port Arthur or Vladivostock. It
is not difficult to surmise what would
be the outcome of such an encounter.
The combined Russian fleet Is larger
than Togo’s, but It would not bo In a
condition to meet the perfectly pre
pared enemy.
Naval experts in Washington and
London seem to be agreed upon the
point that the chances are against the
Baltic fleet’s rendering any very ef
fective service to the Russian cause
in the Far East.
ELECTRICITY FOR FARM WORK.
How long will it be before the elec
tric motor will supplant, to a great
extent, human and horse labor on the
farm? That is a question that is now
being asked In some of the most pro
gressive farm districts of the West.
It is stated that in Kent county, Il
linois, experiments have been in pro
gress with the electric motor for farm
work six months or more, and the re
sults obtained are highly , satisfactory.
It is claimed the work on the farms
is done at one half the expense that
it is done with men and horses, and
that consequently there has been a
very great increase in the price of farm
lands of the county. About every
thing that is done by men and horses
In the way of cultivating the farm is
done by means of electricity. The land
is ploughed and the crops cultivated,
the machines for harvesting and
threshing the grain are run and, in
fact, about everythihg about the farm
in the way of labor is performed by
machinery, electricity being the motive
power. The electricity is supplied by the
electric railway that runs to all of
the principal towns and villages of
the county, but if the demand were
sufficient, and, it is said, it soon will
be. Independent plants for supplying
the electricity would be established.
How long will it be before here in
the South the fanners will begin to
experiment with electricity in their
farm work? If the statement from
Kent county, Illinois, is correct there
is no reason why the farmers shouldn't
plant and cultivate their cotton and
corn by means of electricity, and also
transport their crops to the local mar
kets. With such progress in the cul
tivation of crops greater effort would
be made to invent a machine for pick
ing cotton, and with effort would, in
time, come success. With a machine
for picking cotton, a machine In every
respect a success, farmers could af
ford to grow cotton at a price much
below that which they are now getting.
No' doubt such a machine will be in
vented in the course of time, but the
introduction of electricity on the cot
ton farms would hasten the invention
of it. Now that the cotton farmers
are in a prosperous condition there is
no reason why they shouldn't experi
ment with electricity or anything else
that promises to lessen tha cost of
production.
. A devoted Jersey City wife reoently
imagined that the love of her lord and
master for her was cooling. In order
to strengthen It she went to a. fortune
teller and paid $6 for a small box of
"love tablets,” that were guaranted to
restore waning affections and make
them a* good as new. The wife mixed
some of the tablets in her husband's
pancakes, and hopefully awaited re
mit*. Hhortly the husband fell desper
ately 111 of Indigestion. A medical eg
amltmtlon revealed tha fact that the
"love labials" conelated of beeswax and
a little sugar. The husband on whom
the spell ass proposed to be worked le
disgusted With the scheme and has
|iMd for divorce.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 21. 1904.
DANGEROUS FOOD PRESERVA
TIVES.
The impression prevails very gener
ally that the drugs used in preserving
foods are harmless. That this Impres
sion is Incorrect has been demonstrat
ed by Dr. Wiley, the chemist of the
Department of Agriculture.
For three years he has been engaged
in determining by experiments the ef
fects which these preservatives have
upon the human system. His subjects
are young men employed In the de
partments at Washington or in hts
laboratory.
Dr. Wiley delivered a lecture at the
Academy of Medicine in New York on
Thursday night on borax and boraclc
acid as food preservatives. As Is well
known these drugs are quite extensive
ly used In preserving foods. He de
clared they were harmful, no matter
how small the quantity used. The ef
fect of them is to impair the digestion
tind to cause headaches. Those who
are poisoned with them find it Impos
sible to do the same amount of men
tal work they did before they became
affected by them. Dr. Wiley has no
doubt that the long continued use of
either of them would have a most se
rious effect. The kidneys find It diffi
cult to do properly the additional work
they impose upon them.
It is claimed there is no good rea
son for using these drugs in this coun
try to preserve foods, because cold
storage houses are numerous and the
charges for the use of them are so
reasonable. There is one thing that is
certain, and that Is if the use of them
is permitted the cans and Jars con
taining fruits preserved by them, and
meats that have been treated with
them, should be plainly labeled, so that
people might know what they are eat
ing.
It is expected that Congress will
take some action in this matter at its
approaching session, but there doesn't
seem to be much use for it to do so,
since pure food laws do not seem to be
enforced or respected. It doesn’t ap
pear to be anybody’s business to see
that they are enforced. Hence, little
or no attention is paid to them. If
'any one feels aggrieved, he can
have the laws enforced. So little
is known about them, however, that
the violators of them feel they are in
no danger of punishment.
SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION.
Southern congressmen are, as a rule,
confident that an effort will be made in
the next Congress to reduce the repre
sentation in Congress and the Electoral
College of those states which have
practically taken the ballot from the
negro. They do not give their reasons
for this confidence. It is evidently
based, however, on the big Republican
victory in the recent election.
The states that would be affected by
such legislation are North Carolina,
South Carolina, Virginia. Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama.. They have
the “grandfather” clause in their suf
frage laws or some other provision
that restricts the negro vote.
Rut the South will not lose any of
her representation without a bitter
tight. That is admitted by all. Amd
there.are difficulties in the way of the
legislation in question that would be
hard to overcome, particularly in the
Senate. In that body some radical
changes would have to be made in the
rules.
But are not Southern congressmen
apprehensive rather than confident
that legislation of the kind in question
will be attempted? From a party
standpoint the Republicans would have
very little to gain, and they might
lose a great deal.
The majority of the Northern people
have no particular interest In the ne
gro. The more they study the race
problem the less inclined they are to
take sides against the South in respect
to it. They see the negro is not wanted
in their section. White labor is driv
ing him out of abont all the avenues
of employment there, and it is a fact
that where negroes collect in large
numbers in Northern communities there
is always an increase in court ex
penses, owing to the increase in crime.
Hence, outside of a few extremists,
there isn’t any desire that the country
shall be worked into a frenzy for the
purpose of taking a little of the
South’s representation from her.
There is another factor which will
make its appearance if the question is
brought to the attention of Congress.
It is the large moneyed interests which
Northern men have in the South. These
Northern owners of shares in Southern
railways and mills want the South to
prosper, because they want Income
from their investments. Therefore they
are going to throw the weight of their
influence against any agitation of the
representation question. With North
ern Influence against agitation and the
South fighting It the chances of get
ting legislation that would lessen the
South’s influence in Congress is re
mote.
There is no good reason for borrow
ing trouble. There will be no race
question bill in this Congress, and if it
is introduced into the next it* progress
will be so slow that there will come
final adjournment before it reaches the
point at which It Is to be voted on In
the Senate. Therefore there Is no rea
son for worrying about the matier yet
awhile.
Twenty-one department stores In
New York city have entered Into an
agreement for the purpose of prevent
ing end punishing shoplifting. It Is
estimated by the managers of these
stores that they suffer an average an
nual loss of not less than $600,000 from
the pllferlngs of shoplifters. It Is the
purpose of the combination to discour
age the idea that stealing from stores
is “kleptomania” and not plain, ordi
nary theft, and to insist that shopping
thieves be punished to the full extent
of the law.
Senator Shelby M. Cullom proposes
a non-partisan commission to consider
changes in the tariff. Of course, a
non-partisan tariff oommlaston would
be composed of such persons as Net -
son W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, Hen
ry fibot Lodge of Massachusetts and
Hhelby M. Cullom of Illinois, The
■•stiff must IfS ''reformed" only by ua
friends.
Universal sympathy will go out to
Mrs. William Palmer Armstrong of
Chicago, aged 19, a bride of less than
a year. She is suing for legal separa
tion from her husband, and she ought
to have it. She says on oath that she
married for love, but instead of
hisses and affection she was given a
steady diet of history, dictionaries and
poetry books. Her husband told her
that it was his purpose to “improve
her mind and prepare her for the
higher life," of which she knew noth
ing and cared less. When she wanted
him to hug her, he would recommend
that she memorize one of Browning’s
poems; when she wanted a kiss he
would tell her to learn a page of
polysyllables in a spelling book. The
youn# wife ardently desired to be
petted on her husband’s knee, and he
ordered her to merfiorize Longfellow's
“Evangeline.” Then he began to
give out words for her to spell, pro
nounce and define, and she grew indig
nant and kicked. A quarrel followed,
and next the separation proceedings.
Gov.-elect Douglas of Massachusetts
is already giving the Republicans un
easiness. He declares that he will ap
point a commission to inquire into and
report on the subject of a revision of
the tariff. Now Gov. Douglas knows,
as everybody else does, that Massa
chusetts has no tariff laws to be re
vised; but he also knows that if a
strong commission of Massachusetts
business men takes hold of the sub
ject of the revision of the taMfif, Con
gress will not dare to treat the com
mission’s recommendations otherwise
than respectfully.
PERSONAL,
—The novel theory of Dr. Voight, a
German astronomer, is that the great
er part of the moon’s craters represent
work of coral insects in long-vanish
ed seas. He finds that if the earth’s
tropical ocean were suddenly dried up
the bed would resemble the face of
the moon, the coral formations appear
ing exactly like the craters of extinct
volcanoes.
—To avenge his defeat in the muni
cipal elections for the Provincial
Council at Tralos Montes, the Marquis
de Xanos cornered the entire stock of
the butchers and poulterers of the
town. The inhabitants had to subsist
without meat for a week.
—Assistant Postmaster General
Wynne will visit North Wales on his
trip abroad. His parents came from
there.
—Three men rule Japan’s destinies
in her present war with Russia. The
first is Marquis Oyama, commander of
all the forces In the field—a small,
podgy, pock-marked man, whom no
caricaturist could fall to lampoon as
a frog. Next comes Gen. Baron Koda
ma, the executive brain of the Japa
nese general staff. The third member
of the triumvirate Is Gen. Fuku
shima, whose genius has been the
concrete mortar which has cemented
into solid block the rough-hewn ma
terial of Japan's general staff. The
three men are of very small stature,
and Gen. Fukushlma Is fair for a Jap
anese. Oyama’s tremendous success
is due to the fact that he whipped
China on the very fields over which he
is now so diligently pursuing the
Russians. It is said that no other
commander In history has ever been
called to operate twice over the same
squares of the map. Oyama knows
Manchuria as well as he knows Tokio.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Employer—“Young man, I notice
numerous oversights In the towel de
partment.” Employe—“Well, sir, I was
employed to oversee it, as I under
stood It.”—New Orleans Times-Demo
crat.
—“Has your husband a steady Job
now?” "Its almost steady, sir; he goes
to work at 4:30 in the morning and
works till 12:30 at night, but they give
him time out for meals, sir.”—Cleve
land Leader.
—Mr. Rhinstein—"Vhere is der man
ager? I vant to get mine shewelry
and dlamonts insured.” The Boy—
“ You’re in de wrong stall, boss. De
plate-glass insurance department is on
de next floor.”—Judge.
—Tramp—"S’cuse me, mum, but hev
youse anny wood that youse want
sawed?” Lady—“ Yes, indeed! You are
the very man I’ve been looking for.”
Tramp—"S’cuse me agin, mum; but dls
is de very place wot I ain't lookin’
fer.”—Chicago Daily News.
—“Things are very dear,” said the
dissatisfied citizen. “Yes,” answered
Senator Sorghum; “but we are all
feeling It alike. I can remember the
time when votes could be bought for
a dollar apiece that, can’t be bought
now at any price.”—Washington Star.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Charleston Post (Dem.) says:
“Secretary Shaw has called upon the
national banks to return 25 per cent,
of the government funds on deposit
with them into the treasury. It was
only about a week ago that he was
saying he should probably not have to
make this call. The prospects of the
Roosevelt administration’s extrava
gance must -be growing clearer as the
days pass toward inauguration.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: "When Secretary Taft shall re
turn from his diplomatic encounter
with the officials of Panama he will
doubtless be able to institute interest
ing -comparison of the natives on the
isthmus and the natives in the Philip
pines ,as to their respective capacity
for self-government. There Is hardly
room to doubt that the Filipinos, if left
to themselves, would succeed as toler
ably in managing their own affairs as
have any people of the West India Is
lands, where the experiment has been
tried.”
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem.) says:
"The lesson in the increase of the So
cialist vote In the recent election Is
one that should be studied. Ths in
orease Is not due merely to the wild
talk of Debs and Watson and Hearst.
The idea of paternalism, which Is the
fundamental one In the Socialistic the
ory, is being Inculcated chiefly by the
Republican party, with Its Dlngley tar
iff, its pension carnival, Its subsidy
plans, etc. No wonder many voters
conclude that if the government may
do so much, It might as well go ahead
and do everything.”
Anew political factor must be reck
oned with In the future if we are to be
lieve the Minneapolis Journal's (Ind.)
statement that ths traveling salesmen
of Minnesota were largely responsible
for the election of John A. Johnson,
the Democratic oandldate for Govern
or. “More than 90 per cent of the
traveling men living and working In
Minnesota enlisted themaelves under
the banner of John A, Johnson,” It
says, “and, nest to selling goods, they
made It their business to rnako votes
for J'Smeon They talked Johnson to
customers whether they sold them
, guards or not.”
Grace Before Meat.
Francis B. Loomis, assistant secre
tary of State, who was at the Albe
marle over Sunday, related the follow
ing election story, says the New York
Globe:
“On the train coming from Wash
ington I got into conversation with a
man who is a manufacturer in Lynch
burg, and a stanch Republican. On
the night after the election he gave a
supper to celebrate the Republican
victory to his workmen, some 300 In
all.
" ’I asked my foreman,’ he said, in
telling the story, ’to preside at the
gathering, as I would be unable to be
present myself. He is a bit of a char
acter, rough in his manners, but good
ljearted, and a splendid worker. When
I asked him to take the head of the
table at the celebration he didn’t
much care about accepting the task.
That kind of a darn Job ain’t in
my line .sir, an’ I wouldn’t know how
to hold it down,” he pleaded. "I sug
gest you get one of the clerks in the
office to fill It.”
“ ‘ “Tut, tut, nonsense,” I protested
to him. “AH you will have to do will
be to first open the dinner with a
grace, and when it comes to the cof
fee and cigars, to Introduce the speak
ers, and so on. I am sure you can
easily do that.”
“ ’ “Me say grace!” he said in some
astonishment. “Why, you might as
well ask me ter recite the Declaration
of Independence in Greek.”
“‘“Oh, come off, now; you can
surely say a grace,” I said. “All you
need say is this: ‘For what we are
about to receive may the Lord make
us truly thankful.’ ”
“ ‘Well, I finally got him to agree to
preside, and I wrote down the “grace”
on a piece of paper, so that he could
learn it by heart at his leisure.
“ ‘At 7 o'clock, the hour for the din
ner, he took the chair. Presently he
got up, and said with a serious look
and uplifted hand;
“ • Gentlemen, afore we eat it is my
dooty ter say grace ter yez. ‘For what
we are about ter receive may the
Lord Jesus Christ be mighty thank
ful.’
" ‘The laughter that went up could
be heard a block away, and when it
had subsided the foreman, whose face
had now assumed a puzzled and dis
appointed look, turned to a fellow
workman sitting next to him and in
quired:
Say, Bill, what are the guys
laughin’ at?””’
Snnsages and Voters.
One of the best of the William F.
Sheehan stories is about campaign
guessers, says the New York Times. It
concerns a ward leader that Mr. Shee
han once befriended. He was a sau
sage manufacturer and absent-minded,
but nevertheless an excellent ward
leader. Election generally came in the
busy sausage season, when the tasty
edibles were being turned out by the
hundreds of thousands. Naturally he
had sausages and votes on his mind
night and day, and it is small wonder
that he got his politics and sausage
figures alarmingly mixed. He would
claim votes by the sausage list and
vice versa. Finally his wife took him
in charge, becoming his secretary and
general help, answering letters, regis
tering voters and making out bills for
the sausage business. To make things
easy she marked his books and papers
thus:
Thorns sausages.
Thems Democrat voters.
After this the politicians missed the
sausage claims for which the district
had become noted, and the forecasts
were nearer to the truth.
A Serious French Duel.
“Yes, William was passing by a va
cant lot some place in Paris where one
of these French duels was going on,
says the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"And what did William do?”
"He looked on while the principals
Jabbed the dir with their swords. Fin
ally he got tired and was going away,
when they brought out pistols.”
"Yes.”
"Both fired at the word, and one shot
grazed a tree In the next field, and
the other tore a hole In William’s
hat.”
“What did William do?”
“He got mad and chased the whole
party for two miles through the woods,
but the only man he could catch, was
the doctor.”
“What did he do to the doctor?"
“He kicked a hole in his surgloal
case, traded hats with him, and let
him go.”
Not So Easy us It Seemed.
He was stopping at a Cleveland ho
tel and went down to the Union De
pot on an errand, says the Chicago
News. There he met a man who seem
ed to want to be friendly, and after a
bit the first one said:
“Yes, I am a total stranger here. I
am almost without baggage, and yet
they have let me run up a hotel bill
of about sl2. What Is there to pre
vent me from taking a train and Jump
ing the bill? I could be 100 miles
away before they missed me."
“Well, I dunno," doubtfully replied
the other.
“But don’t you see how easy It would
be?”
"Y-e-s, it looks kind o’ easy, but
don’t you see I am the hotel detective,
and having a suspicion that you In
tended to beat us I have been follow
ing you for tho last two days.”
Eocleiliatical Langnnite In London.
At the Revision Court held at Bark
ing. says the London News, Mr. New
bould, for the overseers, objected to the
names of the Rev. J. W. Elsdell, vicar
of Barking, and the Rt. Rev. Thomas
Stevens, Bishop of Barking, both of
whom live at the vicarage, Barking,
and whose qualification was given at
"dwelling house. Joint," a qualification
which, Mr. Newbould declared, was un
known to the law.
The Revising Barrister: That can be
altered to "house, Joint.”
Mr. Ward said the Bishop was fath
er-in-law to the vicar, who, when call
ed on by the overseers' canvasser, said
that the Bishop lived with him In the
vicarage and that “he paid his wihack."
The Revising Barrister: "Paid his
whack!" I suppose that Is ecclesias
tical language.
Both names were allowed to stand.
Abraham's Lincoln's Response.
An enthusiastic supporter from Buf
falo made the trip to Washington dur
ing the civil war to see President Lin
coln, sayß the Buffalo Express The
visitor, whose name was Johnson, had
prepared this polite speech of address
to the President, as he reuched him at
the public reception: ‘The people of
Buffalo, sir, believe In Almighty God
and In AbrahAm Lincoln.’
The President gave an extra warm
grasp of his visitor’s hand, whispering
In his ear: "You tell them that they
are more than half right.”
A Pickaninny Monies Xnrlpfsrr.
Mr*. Qasena Llghtfoot of Montgom
ery, Ala., has In her menage a picka
ninny protege who had been taught to
recite the line from the Muster: “It Is
L Be not afraid.”
When the little fellow came before
the negro Muuday school, where be was
to do his part, hs waa ashy with stage
fright, but with hie email voice full
of tears and trembling like ealvtsfoot
Jelly, managed to eay;
“ Taint nobody bat me. Unas' git
ekotred."
SEVEN AND THE ELECTION.
From the New York Press.
The figure 7 In symbolism takes
high rank. C. L. Darrow, a Brook
lynite, says: “The number of Mr.
Roosevelt’s electoral votes is 343.
which equals 7x7x7, or 49 sevens. Mr.
Parker’s vote was 133, or 19 sevens.
The President's majority is 210, or 30
sevens. There are 476 electoral votes,
or 68 sevens. The sum of the digits 6
and 8 is 14, or 2 sevens. The sum of
the digits 133 equals one seven. In the
number 343 the sum of the middle
digit and either of the others is seven.
Seven is the middle digit of 476. The
sum of these (4-j-7-|-6) is 17. or one
10 and one seven.
The President’s majority of the pop
ular vote is set down at 2,168,000.
Taking the significant figures—2l6B—
first two (21) equalthree sevene. The
first and last (28) equal four sevens.
The last three (168) equal 24 sevens.
The sum of the middle digits is seven.
The sum of all the digits equals 17,
another 10 and 7. The sum of the
cubes of these digits is 737, which
gives two more sevens. Seven plus 3
plus 7 equals 17—another 10 and 7.
The significance of number 17 is this:
It Is made of 10 and 7; the latter is
the number of life and the symbol of
perfection: the former is the symbol
of law and righteousness, that is, the
Ten Commandments. The law of
life is based on the law of righteous
ness; the one involves and necessitates
the other. It is as true of nations as
of individuals. Join the two symbols,
10 and 7, and we have, of course, 17.
This election year is 1904. The num
ber is equal to 272 sevens; 272 equals
16 seventeens, or 16 tens and 16 sev
ens. The sum of the digits of 1904 is
14. equal to two sevens. The sum of
the square of the digits of 1904 equals
98, or 14 sevens, and 9 plus 8 equals
17, or yet again one 10 and one 7."
TOM AND THE TOMATO.
Thomas E. Watson, late Populist
candidate for President, describes In
"Bethany,” his novel just published by
the Appletons, the feelings of a pub
lic man at a formal dinner. After
celebrating the lavish hospitality of
the South before the war. where all
the viands were set on the table at
once, he says:
“It has happened to me several
times In my life to be arrested, con
victed and sentence to dine with oth
er well-dressed convicts, male and fe
male, at a swell dinner—one of those
formal functions where solemn flunkies
bring you one thing only to eat at a
time. When you have pecked awhile
at that one thing, whatever It may be,
solemn flunkies take it away and bring
you another plate and some other
thing to peck at awhile.
"Sometimes it happens that this one
thing is a big, defiant-looking tomato.
To sit In one’s chair, gazing at the last
course, which the flunky has just put
on: to realize that this entire course
consists of a solitary tomato, looking
fiercely red and raw; to glance along
the table and to realize that all the
convicts, male and female, have one
tomato apiece, and are trying to look
cheerfully at the convict boss —the host
—has overwhelmed me every time it
gt the chance. The scene is heart
rending.”
FOOTBALL TRAGEDY.
On the bloody gridiron the two
teams, evenly matched, contended for
the mastery, says the Chicago Tribune.
The game -was nearly over. The
score stood 0 to 0, and the spectators
in the grand stand were wild with ex
citement.
Suddenly a, shrill, piercing, agonizing,
appalling, insisting shriek rose high
above the din.
The people in the grand stand rose
to their feet and or&ned their necks.
Whence came that wild, maddening
scream?
None could tell.
Still it pealed through the atmos
phere.
The struggling athletes paused an In
stant and looked around in affright.
All but the self-possessed young man
who had the ball.
Seeing the way clear, he ran around
the end, scored -a touchdown, and the
game was won.
Then the agonizing shriek stopped.
But whence came it?
Listen, and you shall hear.
Boys on the outside of the grounds
had caught a half-grown pig, tied a
roped around his hind feet, and strung
him up on a stout nail in the fence.
Thus had one lone rooter accomplish
ed what all the others had failed to do.
BUSINESS ABILITY IN THE PULPIT.
From the Ohio State Journal.
A magazine writer says the
church is in crying need of "business
clergymen.” He explains that congre
gations of which he knows have
grown from almost nothing to great
size because of the business ability of
the pastors chosen to lead them. He
thinks the influence of the church will
wane and dwindle unless men fitted
to deal with administrative and finan
cial problems enter the ministry in
large numbers. We do not remember
ever having seen the commercial trend
of the present age better illustrated
than in this article. Probably the
writer would consider a great poet, a
great scholar, or a great statesman a
failure unless his success were attest
ed by the number of his disciples or
the size of his bank account. Business
ability is a good thing to have, what
ever one's calling, but the need of the
church is mdte true spirituality In Its
leadership.
CELERY AND HHRIIMATIIH.
From the New York Press.
Ho, all ye rheumatics! Celery never
was finer than that which you find
In the market Just now. Chop up the
stalks in pieces an Inch and a half In
length, boll them in water until soft,
then drink the water. Or stew them In
milk and butter, thicken with a little
flour and eat warm with toast or po
tatoes. Rheumatism Is impossible. It
Is said, If the vegetable be cooked and
freely eaten. Besides, there Is no
greater delicacy than stewed celery.
The value of the plant lies In the aplol,
or parsley-camphor. It contains. This
dilates the blood vessels and has few
equals as a diaphoretic and diuretic.
Anything that produces a profuse per
spiration Is good for the rheumatic
patient. All the world knows that
celery Is the best absorbent a drinking
man can take, and Its action on the
kidneys and viscera Is most healthful.
DOG RAN OFF WITH THUMB.
From the New York World
Otto Froeltch, 25 years old, wm chop
ping wood Wednesday afternoon In his
father's back yard In Nyack. A neigh
bor's dog was frisking about.
Suddenly the ax slipped and cut off
Froellch's left thum. Froellch howled.
Tha dog ran up, saw tbe thumb lying
on the ground, picked It up and dis
appeared around the corner. Froellch
has been unable to find either bis dis
membered thumb or the dog.
—The little Prince of Piedmont, un
like bis slat era. Prlnceeacs Yolanda and
Mafalda, Is being nursed by his
mother. Queen Helene reluctantly
gave tha other ebtldren up to the
nurae, but when the long-hoped-for
heir to the throne arrived she abso
lutely refused to let any other
Iterealf give Ml* nourishment.
Hood’a Pills
Esnsr ”K.rs?
promptly, cleanse effectually and *
Give Comfort
Sold by all druggists. 25 con..
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
wlvier vvkkk day schedule.
Effective Nov. 1, 1904.
*BLE OF HOPE LIXeI '
- —y e<? n Isle of Hope and 40th Street.
A V M Ot p S \i Lv ’ Isle of Hope.
630 Al ’ A.M. P.M.
7an ;•** 6:00 l : oo
830 l-Jo ’ 7:o <> 2:00
. . ■ 8 9 : .°0° 0 3: °<>
nl|® 3:30 , 10:00 '4:00
!!; 3 .° 4*so‘ • 11:00
. 6:00
.... I 6:30 ‘ 5 :0 ®
” - 9:00
10 si . l0 : 00
..... 11:20 .j?: 33
... * via Montgomery to city,
jjetween Isle of Hope & ThunderbolT
AV !le p' M H ° pe ' Lv. Thunderbolt
A-M
--100 6:00 *7:22 * s:^
*n':oo . i|i|j §: 33
512-minute wait at Sandfly.
Parcel car, passenger trailer.
MONTGOMERY SCHEDULE
Between Montgomery and 40th Street.
Lv. Montgomery. Lv. 40th It
A. M. P.M.
o.riO §1.30 fi.cfi i ,<ia
8= ! 'fiZ 1
fig
•Connects with parcel car for city
tThrough to Thunderbolt,
city B ' minute waU at Sandfly going to
Between Montgomery & Thundeboit
A. M. P. M. a M P M
Si 80 8:08 7:22 * : ?g
>■s3 6:50 8:22 6:38
7’og 7:38
MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE.
Effective July 13. 1903.
Leave Whitaker and Bay streets.
A -M. p.M. P.M.
6-'4O 12:40 S:2#
•7 00 lf-so 1:20 6:00
7. jo tV-AA 2:00 :<
2.22 1200 2:40 7:20
£.22 2:20 8:00
-’Ll® 4j40
. Leave MUI-Haven.
• i.JV *•**. P.M. P.M.
7 : 00 12:20 3:40
11 40 1:00 *6:05
l.Vi 1:40 6:20
2:22 2:20 7:00
2:22 , 2:00 7:40
2.22 2:40 8:20
1I 20 ::::: , 4 : :20
•Dally except Sunday.
<- ittrt>ay hvening'special: - '
Leave MUU
an r> St *’ Haven.
P 9 M 2O
10-40 10:20
10:4 ® 11:00
THUNDERBOLT LINE.
City Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton Street Junction.
Beginning at 6:30 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Casino at Thunder
bolt every half hour until 11:30 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton street Junction
15 minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
_ .Beginning at 6:63 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak Station for city every half
hour until 12:08 midnight.
COLLINSVILLE LINE.
Beginning at 6:05 a. m. cars leave
Waters roftd and Estill avenue every
20 minutes ujitil 12:06 midnight.
Beginning at 6:05 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Waters road and
Estill avenue every 20 minutes until
12:05 midnight.
Through cars are operated between
Market and Thunderbolt via Collins
ville and Dale avenue as follows-
Lv. Market. Lv. Thunderbolt
0:48 7:30 A.M.
6:45 P, M. 7:30 p. m.
WISBT END LINE HLlnfoln "Parle )
Car leaves we s t side of City Market for Lin
coin Park 0;UO a. m. &Qd CTorr 40 mirntM
thereafter until U:46~n nt 617 40 mlEute *
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market 6:90a. m.
and every 40 minutes thereafter until 12o’olock
midnight,
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR
Leaves east side of Cltv Market for Thunder*
Sf..% Cat . tle park ’ s ndflv. Isle of Hope and aU
intermediate polnts-9:Ua. m„ 1:15 pm., Its
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandfly Cattle Park.
Thunderbolt and allmtermediaM ioUU_SOO
a. m., 11:00 a. m„ 3:00 n. m.
r j't btcar l eaT es Montgomery at 550 a M
and 2:3ft p. m., connecting at Sandfly with reg
ular parcel car foi city. 1
Parcel oar from the city carries freight to
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for eooommodatlonof passenger*
Any further Information regarding passen
ger schedule or freight service can be bad by
applying to L. R. NASH. Manages
HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS.
Hotel Highlands
Ninety-first st. Near Lexington Aye.,
• NEW YORK. •
A Sigh- Out Burnt at Moderate Rata.
Comfort, Repose. Elegance, Economy.
Depots, theatres,
shops. 15 minutes by
Broadway, Lexing
ton Ave. Line, Mad
ison Ave. Line, Third
Ave. Line and Third
Ave. Elevated Road
(89th Street Station).
Beautiful Roof
Garden and Play
Ground. Special
floor* reserved lor
Lsdles’Parlorfend
Boudoir, Library,
Writing and Smok
ing Rooms. Hlgb
____J eet point la City;
. , .. pure air, perfect
drainage. Near Central Park. On same
street as the mansions of Carnegie, Van
derbilt, Sloane, Burden and Belmont.
Culftne noted lor particular excellence.
400 Rooms; 100 bath room*; 100 telephone*.
All night elevators
Rooai and Bath, |1 up, dally; American
Plan, room, both, board, |2.60 to |6.00, dally j
Room, bath and Board.|U.oo to|2.o<kweekly:
Suites i Parlor, Bedroom and Both at pro
portionately low ratio.
Being conducted by the owner, not by a
lessee, very moderate rates are possible.
Write for City Guide and Map. (Gratia)
l’i - >ru Hdru <—
Open all year. Large airy rooms,
T.OOO feet please*; JOO rooms with pri
vate bath Telephone service In every
room Liberal Inducements to fami
lies desiring permanent board
WAT SDN 4k FuWEHM, Proprietor* .