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ItCItSDAY, DIXEMBER 8, 1804.
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Meetings—Zerubbabel Lodge No. 15,
F. & A. M.; Fraternal Order of Ea
gles.
Special Notices—Quick Loans, Em
pire Investment Cos.; Notice to Super
ior Court Jurors.
Business Notices —Park & Tilford Ci
gars, A. M. & C. W. West; Never
Kick, Sommers’ Cafe; Santa Claus, G.
W. Thomas; Fresh Meats, Roos' Mar
ket.
Special Daily Sale No. 4—B. H. Levy,
Bro. & Cos.
Amalgamated Stockholders —Thomas
W. Lawson.
Savannah Theater—Saturday Matinee
and Night, Quincy Adams Sawyer.
To-day and To-morrow —Krouskoff
Bros. & Cos.
Reminders—Sternberg & Cos.
Auction Sales —Old Boss Sale, Cen
tral of Georgia Railway,
American Club Ginger Ale—The Ka
lola Cos.
Whole Store in Holiday Attire—Leo
pold Adler.
Lunch Alenu —Jerry George.
Whisky—Lewis ’’66” Rye.
Hair Work Made to Order —Gersts’
Hair Dressing Parlor.
Annual Holiday Sale—Dr. M.
Schwab's Son.
Save the Strands—J. T. Shuptrine.
Just to Jog Your Memory—Edward
Lovell’s Sons.
Red Cross Coffee—Henry Solomon &
Son.
Household Washing Savannah-
Georgia Laundry.
Gannymede Whiskey—Henry Solo
mon & Son.
Sachets and Perfumes—Rowlinski,
Druggist.
The Thing Appropriate—The Metro
politan.
Whiskies—The Delmonico Cos.
Fancy Boxes and Christmas Bask
ets.—Conida’s.
Bicycles lor Boys and Girls—At Lat
timore’s.
Medical—Peruna.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal, Mis
cellaneous.
The Wentlier.
The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for fair
weather, with light fresh west winds.
Mrs. Chadwick’s husband is another
of those unwilling men who have been
dragged into notoriety by brilliant
wives.
A Western newspaper takes its par
ty contemporaries to task for "gush
ing over" Senator Cockrell. But isn't
It a fact that the American papers
and people too often wait until a man
Is dead before they ran find anything
good to say of him? The Cockrell
case has proved to be a refreshing ex
ception to the rule.
Public charity will be worked upon
"for all that it is worth," during the
next three weeks. Street beggars will
spring up like mushrooms and stand
on the corners and Importune all pas
eers-by for alms. Possibly one in ten
of them will be worthy of attention,
the others deserving no consideration.
There is, however, one charity that
should not be overlooked during the
holiday season. It is that one which
Is conducted under the auspices of the
Salvation Army The Salvationists do
an Immense amount of good, and the
modest requests of their workers for
assistance deserve to be met with a
friendly and liberal response.
Referring to the fact that Panama
has reduced her tariff and postal
charges, and In other ways prepared
to do business on a friendly plan with
the United States, a Republican con
temporary says: "The new republic
U small, but It aceme to be able to rise
to the occasion." Yes, to be aura; par
ticularly since Secretary Tuft weigha
*2O pounds, and stood ready to assist
tha rising of the new republic with
the toe of his boot. If It did not rise
voluntarily. It is remarkable with
whet celerity a little fellow can rise
to an occasion" whan a fellow that
is biggei sod stronger couuiauids him
is do it.
WILE THE TARIFF BE REVISED?
Nobody seems to have any definite
idea as to whether or not there will be
a serious attempt to revise the tariff
at this session of Congress. There is
a great deal of talk about the matter
among congressmen, and several tariff
bills have been introduced, one of them
' calling for a tariff -commission
to report upon the entire sub
ject. The President has given
no indication as to what he intends
to recommend, if anything. He did
not mention the subject In his mes
sage. The inference from his failure
to do so is that he intends to send to
Congress a special message on the sub
ject .
The feeling among the majority of
the Republican members of the House
is that the wiser course is to let the
tariff alone for the present. The New
York Herald on Monday interviewed
ninety-nine congressmen as to the ad
visability of tariff legislation at this
time. Seventy-seven opposed it and
twenty-two favored it. That propor
tion of Republicans against revision
would seem to settle the question as to
whether there will be any reductions
of the tariff In the near future.
Still, there Is undoubtedly a strong
sentiment in parts of the country in
favor off reducing certain of the tariff
schedules, those particularly which
shelter trusts. It is not improbable,
therefore, that an attempt will be
made to satisfy this sentiment. Some
of the shrewdest of the Republican
leaders are talking in favor of bills
striking at certain schedules —popgun
bills they are called. By means of
them schedules may be reduced with
out disturbing the whole tariff law.
But, as already stated, there is noth
ing settled about the matter, and
nothing will be, in all probability, un
til after the holidays, when the Re
publicans will hold a caucus on the
subject and endeavor to outline a pol
icy. In the meantime, no doubt, there
will be given out by their party leaders
a variety of views on the tariff,
the purpose of which will be to mys
tify and mislead the public. If the
caucus decides that a reduction of cer
tain schedules is advisable the Pres
ident probably will send a message to
Congress on the subject, and in that
way the country will be prepared for
the legislation. But it can be stated
there will be no tariff legislation of a
radical character.
GOOD ADVICE SOW.
The advice of Mr. Harvie Jordon,
chairman of the Cotton Growers’ Pro
tective Association, to cotton farmers,
to hold their cotton, is good now what
ever it may Have been earlier in the
season. There is not much probability
that the price of cotton will go lower,
while the chances are that, after the
present scare passes, it will advance
to 8 cents, and perhaps more, a pound.
It may appear a little later in the
season that the government estimate
of the crop is too high. In that event
the price is certain to advance very
considerably.
Mr. Jordon lays the blame for the
decline in the price on • Wall street
speculators. Well, wasn’t it Wall
street speculators who put up the
price last season to 17 cents? Perhaps
when we come to think about it there
are just about as many Wall street
speculators who are anxious for the
price of cotton to go up as there are
that it shall go down. Just now those
who are betting for a decline have
the best of it, because the government's
report showed the crop larger than the
markets of the world would take at
10, or even 9 cents, a pound. If
imformation should be furnished to
day that a mistake had been made,
and that the crop was only 11,000,000
Hales, the price would advance at once
to 10, and it may be to 12 cents a
pound, and Wall street men who are
now betting the price will be lower
would immediately begin to bet that
the price would be higher.
Occasionally strong syndicates are
able to put up or down the price of
cotton for a short time, but the price
is rHally made by the supply and de
mand. The demand is pretty accurate
ly known, and when the supply is
known the price is soon approximate
ly fixed. That being the case, the
farmer who sells his cotton early in
the season does better with it oftener
than the farmer who holds for a higher
price does with his.
It looks now as if the cotton farmers
had grown a little too much cotton
this season if they want 10 cents a
pound for it. A 12,000,000 bale crop
means about 8 cent cotton and a 10.-
500,000 or 11,000,000 bale crop 10 cent
cotton. Cotton farmers should bear
this in mind in planting next season.
In a few years probably the world
would will take a 12,000,000 bale crop
at 10 cents or a little better.
During reconstruction days In the
South a number of newspapers were
subsidized by means of giving them
the acts of the Legislatures to publish,
at a fat price per inch. Some of the
spiciest scandals of the post-recon
struction period turned upon the fact
that editors had been bribed by this
public printing. It is observed that
there is now a movement in Pennsyl
vania to have the newly-enacted laws
of the state published in certain of
the newspaper. That means the po
liticians are reaching out for the more
complete control of a certuin part of
the press. Notwithstanding Quay is
no more, he has left the Republican
machine of Pennsylvania in hands
worthy of his instructions.
Earl Gray, the new Governor General
of Canada, is an optimist. At a dinner
a few evenings ago he expressed tiie
opinion that within twenty years the
population of the Dominion would be
equul to that of the United Kingdom.
And doubtless lie has the Idea that
within another generation It will be
as great as that of the United States.
That Canada is growing rapidly, and
with a healthy growth, cannot be
questioned successfully; hut the Do
minion makes a mistake In not seek
ing closer affiliation with the United
Btates.
The Democratic congressman now
gathered in Washington are no doubt
putting lit a goad deal of tbHr time
telling Mi.ii other livw It happened.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. DECEMBER S. 1904.
THE IM,ATT REDUCTION DIM,.
Senator Bacon's letter to Mr. Hard
wicke, published in the Morning News
last Sunday, was doubtless based upon
knowledge which the Senator had of
the purpose of Senator Platt to intro
duce a bill reducing the representation
of the South in the House of Repre
sentatives. The bill, It Is stated, was
prepared by the Committee on National
Affairs of the Republican Club of New
York. It would be Interesting to know
how much the committee knows about
political conditions in the South. The
chances are it knows very little, but,
feeling it had to do something, it pre
pared the bill in question and had
Senator Platt introduce it.
The understanding is that the basis
of the bill is the disfranchisement of
negroes. That being the case, on what
ground is it asked that Georgia be de
prived of three of her representatives?
The negro is free to vote here in Geor
gia. He isn’t disfranchised. It is true
that the number of negroes that vote
is small, but then the number of whites
is also small. At the last election not
half the registered votes were cast. The
people felt sure as to how the state
would go, and so a large percentage
of them remained at home on election
day.
But that has nothing to do with Sen
ator Platt’s bill. The fact that those
having the right to vote do not choose
to do so affords no excuse for Con
gress to interfere. As stated, negroes
are as free to vote at any election in
this state as they are in any other,
and if we are not mistaken they are
not disfranchised in either Texas, Ten
nessee, Florida or Arkansas. It is
difficult to understand therefore why
these states are named in the bill.
There will be a great deal of discus
sion of this subject before the bill
comes to a vote, if it ever does come.
There is no probability that it will
come up for consideration at this ses
sion of Congress. What the outcome
of the discussion of the bill will be it
is of course Impossible to foretell with
any degree of certainty, but there is no
doubt that the Southern people will
never again permit negroes to have a
prominent part in their municipal,
county or state governments. Loss of
some of their representation in Con
gress, and the Electoral College is
preferable.
COCHRAN’S CARIOSITY.
Is there any probability that the
curiosity of Representative Bourkc
Cockran, of New York, relative to the
amount of money each of the political
parties spent in all presidential cam
paigns from 1892 to 1904, will be satis
fied?
His bill, introduced into Congress
on Monday, provides that a commission,
composed of the senior associate jus
tice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, the junior judge of the
Circuit Court of the United States for
the Third circuit, together with two
senators and two representatives of
different political parties, shall be ap
pointed to find out the amount of
money each party expended in the
foregoing elections.
During the recent presidential cam
paign Mr. Cockran stated that he would
introduce such a bill. He gave no
special reason, but it was known the
reason was the enormous campaign
fund the Republicans were reported to
have. It was stated that they had
all the money they wanted for all sorts
of purposes, and that they had $400,000
after all bills were paid. The impres
sion was, during the campaign, that
the great corporations and trusts had
determined to keep the Republican par
ty in control of the government, and
were willing and ready to put up the
money for that purpose.
If Mr. Cockran’s bill should become
a law the commission would perhaps
And some difficulty in getting the facts.
Doubtless the records of campaigns
prior to the recent one have been de-
stroyed. but if they haven’t a com
mission wouldn’t And it easy to get
access to them, if there should be a
disposition to withhold them.
But the bill, if it should be passed,
would afford the opportunity of calling
the attention of the country to the
evils of the use of money in enormous
quantities in a presidential campaign.
The trusts and great corporations could
come very near turning an election
whichever way they pleased.
The bill is a timely one, and may
lead to legislation limiting the amount
of money a political party may use
in a presidential campaign. Such legis
lation would be in the right direction.
New York has a law which requires
candidates and party managers to
make statements of the amount of
money they spent in their campaigns.
Under the Dick military law, the ap
pointment of any retired officer of the
army to a position in the militia serv
ice in any state restores him to the
active list of the army and the pay
thereof. Lieut. Gen. Miles has been
selected by the Governor-elect of Mas
sachusetts to be adjutant general of
that state. That will give him a salary
of $10,500 from the general government.
HIS salary from the state of Massa
chusetts will be $3,000 a year. Since
Massachusetts elects her Governor for
only one year at a time, it is not sure
that Gen. Miles will hold his new po
sition for a longer period; but the pres
ent adjutant general of the state has
been in office for eleven years, and
Massachusetts has a way of holding on
to public men who have demonstrated
their fitness for their positions.
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Last August there was launched at
Belfast, Ireland, a steamship, the Vic
torian, that it was predicted would
mark a departure in ocean steamship
construction. The Victorian was fitted
with turbine engines which, It was
claimed, would make her the fastest
vessel of her class afloat. Numerous
trials of the Victorian have been held,
hut on not one of them hat It been pos
sible to get the vessel on anything like
contract speed. The Cunard Company
Is said lo have held up Its orders for
iruiis-Atluntlc steamers of the turbine
type pending further development*
Turbine engines on small steamers
havs proved successful, but It seems
there Is a serious question with respect
In their adaptability to the larger class
of skips.
The Dodge-Morse, divorce case, that
has already become, an Interstate scan
dal, bids fair to furnish more sensa
tions. The United States Supreme
Court has affirmed the order of the
District Court of Texas, in which state
Dodge now is, remanding him to the
jurisdiction of the New York courts,
where he is wanted to answer to a
charge of perjury growing out of his
former wife's divorce suit. Dodge, who
was an Atlanta hotel man, it will be
recalled, swore that he had not been
served with the necessary papers in
connection with the divorce suit
brought by his wife, who subsequently
became the wife of Charles W. Morse.
If it were true that Dodge had not
been served with the papers in ques
tion, then the divorce of Mrs. Dodge
and her subsequent marriage with
Morse would both have been illegal.
But, after Dodge had denied on oath
the service of the papers, it is alleged
to have been proven that they were
correctly served on and acknowledged
by him. Out of this condition grows
the charge of perjury. The whole ease
has been unsavory. Dodge is now in
Texas, where he says he will reindln,
at least until the mandate of the Su
preme Court is received.
Those Northern newspapers, the
Philadelphia Ledger among others,
that have been talking about the “po
litical aloofness” of the South, are ad
vised to give some attention to the vote
of the state of North Carolina in the
recent national election. The official re
turns show that for President, Parker
rr -eived 124,108 votes; Roosevelt, 82,-
372; Swallow, 361; Watson, 819, and
Debs, 124. These figures show that the
vote for the Democratic presidential
candidate was a fraction more than 60
per cent, of the vote cast. The re
turns further show that Roosevelt, the
Republican candidate, carried twenty
tivo out of the ninety-seven counties of
the state. Can the Philadelphia Ledger
make any such showing as this of a 41-
vision in political public sentiment in
Pennsylvania? Facts like the forego
ing tend to show that the South is far
more liberal in its politics than some
of the states of the North.
The wise Christinas shopper—and
nearly everybody is a Christmas shop
per these days—will pay strict atten
tion to the advertisements that are ap
pearing daily in the Morning News.
The perplexity that the casual shopper
feels at this season of the year will be
much relieved by the suggestions that
are to be found in the advertisements,
and the experienced shopper will find
the announcements of the merchants
to be great savers of time and nerve
force in arriving promptly at correct
selections. There*probably never was
a time when the advertising columns
were fuller of intelligent and inform
ing matter.
“The Illinois Legislature will not
make its usual appropriation for graft
this year,” says the Philadelphia In
quirer. Of course nothing of the kind
can be said of the Pennsylvania Legis
lature. That such an appropriation
will be made by ft, as usual, will be
regarded as quite a matter of course.
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PERSONAL.
—T" 1 ■
—Mr. Kato, formerly Japanese Min
ister in London, haS purchased the To
kyo journal, Nichi Nlchi Shimbun,
which he will personally conduct.
—A letter found in a mail bag cap
tured by Gen. Rehnenkampf, the Cos
sack chief, shows, apparently, that
Marshal Oku is the most admired of
the Japanese genefals.
—Reports from. London Indicate that
the Duchess of Manchester (formerly
Miss Zimmerman of Cincinnati) is be
coming more and more of an Anglo
maniac the longer she lives in the
tight little island.
DRIGIIT BITS.
—"You don’t know Gabbie, do you?”
“Indeed, I do. I got some advice from
him once that was worth all I paid
for it.’’ “Why, he isn’t a lawyer or a
doctor. Why should he charge for ad
vice?” “He didn’t. I got it for noth
ing."—Philadelphia Press.
—A Daring Deed—“ Now, my man,”
said the gallant leader, ‘‘don’t forget
the watchword—give no quarter!"
With a yell of determination, the at
tacking party dashed for the door. In
another instant the room was empty.
So was the waiter’s outstretched hand!
—Cleveland Leader.
—Naggsby—“l tell you these raifroad
magnates are a crafty lot.” Waggs
by—“lndeed they are. I never go
through a tunnel without thinking how
thoroughly they know how to keep
things dark and cover up their
tracks.”—Baltimore American.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
(Dem.) says:. “Who says we are not
In favor of tariff revision downward —
at least of other people’s tariffs? It is
formally announced that ond of the re
sults of Secretary Taft's mission to
Panama is the. agreement of that coun
try to make a 33 1-3 per cent, reduction
of her tariff.”
The Birmingham Age-Herald (Dem.)
says: “All countries belleVe In Im
proving their navigable waters. Money
thus spent Is considered money well in
vested. France has recently spent In
the Improvement of her rivers $250,000,-
000. and all other countries do not hesi
tate to improve their navigable waters.
Neither should this country.”
The Columbia State (Dem.) says;
"In his Spartanburg speech John Sharp
Williams declared that the Statesboro,
Ga., lynching cost the Democracy a
half million votes. He, further, placed
lawlessness in general as one of the
four contributing causes of the recent
overwhelming defeat of the Democratic
party. Evidently Mr. Williams is not
agreed with some of our other distin
guished Southern statesmen In their
disregard for legal authority.”
The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says:
“It is not pretended that the black
men who are given federal positions
In the South are the best qualified
citizens of their districts. Such ap
pointments are given distinctly as a
recognition of the race rather than of
individual desert. They inevitably re
call to mind the reign of terror when
the local offices generally were filled
by negroes, and they thus drive back
even the moat liberal and progressive
whites Into their altitude of vigilant
defense This Is neither right policy
nor sound patriotism; It Is not what
any reasonable part of the American
people of whatever party can thought
fully desire.”
Law Ont West.
"Sam Brown, the champion bad man
of Nevada in the old days,” says Sen
ator Stewart in the Washington Post,
“was a giant, 6 feet 4 inches high, 250
pounds, and as ferocious looking a
man as ever mortal eye beheld. Kill
ing was his trade, and one winter In
Virginia City he slew sixteen men. I
had been retained by a client whose
interests were opposed to the despera
do, and I thought it best on the day
of the trial to put a couple of old
fashioned derringers in my overcoat
pocket. When I saw him enter the
idea came into my mind that he had
come to make me his latest victim.
His favorite weapon was a big bowie
knife, and the knowledge that the vil
lain meant to stab me to death made
me feel exceedingly uncomfortable. But
I knew it would never do to show the
creature that he had me scared, and,
looking him squarely in the eye, I
brought the pocket of my overcoat
around to where he could see the full
shape of both my derringers. My hand
was grasping the handle, and I was
ready to shoot on the second. These
pistols shot with terrific force, and
would knock down, even if they did
not kill. I saw his eye fall on the
weanon. Before this he had been
fumbling at his knife, but immediately
he ceased, and presently he walked
out of the room. When the business
was over I found him in a saloon, tak
ing a drink. With a smile intended
to be amiable, he invited me to join
him. A week later he asked me to
represent him in a mining suit.”
No Old Angels.
She is too young to understand much
about the “life hereafter," but old
enough to think she has grasped that
problem thoroughly, says a Philadel
phia exchange. For this reason she
talks often and much about heaven.
The other day she was observed to be
revolving something in her mind for
quite a quarter of an hour, and just
as her mother was about to ask her
what she was thinking about, the little
girl said:
“Mother, is your grandmother dead?”
“Yes,” answered the now thoroughly
perplexed mother.
“Well, is she in heaven?” then pro
pounded the youthful seeker after
knowledge.
“I hope so,” said the mother.
“Well, I am afraid not,” replied the
little one, “for I never saw a picture
of an old angel.”
And with an expression on her little
face that showed she had solved an
other knotty question, the child re
turned to her play.
That’s Strange.
There was a lawyer in B whose
name was Strange, and it was said
that never since he had started in his
profession had he told a lie, says Tit-
Bits. But one day he died, and a col
lection was raised among those who
knew him for the erection of a me
morial stone. After they got it a dis
pute arose as to what would be the
most suitable inscription to put on it.
They all had something to say except
one individual, who did not seem to
take any interest in the matter, but
nothing seemed suitable. At last the
person referred to was asked what he
thought about it.
“Well,” said he, "I have something
short and sweet. How’s this: ‘Here
lies the body of a lawyer who never
told a lie.' ”
“But people won't know who he
was,” they protested.
“Well,” he said, “when people see
that inscription they will say, ‘That’s
Strange,’ and so it is.”
Reliability of Testimony.
The headquarters detective was talk-;
ing about the reliability of witnesses*
says the New York Sun. Suddenly he
turned his-back on his auditors, looked
over his shoulder and said:
“What color is the tie. I wear?”
Most of them gave it . up. One
thought it was blue and another black.
When all had had their guess the de
tective turned around with a grin and
showed a grey tie with a black figure.
"Now that’s a point about evidence,”
he said. "You’ve all been talking to
me face to face for ten minutes, and
yet you don’t know the color of my
tie. That would be true with 999 men
out of 1,000. When I hear a witness
go on the stand and describe minutely
the clothes and general appearance of
a man whom he has seen only for a
few minutes I am pretty sure that he’s
lying. When his description is very
general and hazy I think that he's
probably telling the truth.”
Fanhion Food.
Thomas Fogarty, the illustrator, was
talking about modern fashions in
dress, says the San Antonio Express.
“It is hard to keep up with the
fashions,” he said. “They are certain
ly confusing. I remember one night
in my boyhood at the theater, a man
in a rear seat all of a sudden jumped
up excitedly.
" ’Down with that red umbrella in
front,’ he cried.
"But his wife pulled him back into
his chair.
“ ‘For mercy’s sake, hush!’ she
whispered. ’That isn’t an umbrella;
It’s anew winter hat.’ ”
The Last Words of the Jokosmlth.
The humorist lay a-dying, says the
Cleveland Leader.
“I haven’t much to leave,” he gasp
ed, looking around at the bare room.
"But I want my family to have every
thing. My wife must have the furni
ture; I give my clothes to my brother.
To my mother-in-law I leave the batch
of unused jokes you will find in my
desk—she will be glad as she reads
them to know I have remembered her.
My watch”—the Words came slowly
now—“l have already given—to—my
uncle."
We bent nearer to catch his last
words. They were:
“And that’s no Joke!”
The First Knife.
From the Houston Post.
I'd like to go back to where I lived
some sixty years ago,
I’d like ter hunt up all the kids—the
kids I used to know—
I'd like ter find the swimmln' holes
and climb the trees I dumb
In far away vacation times and hear
the wild bees hum;
I'd like to look around, and you can
bet that I’d be glad
If I could find the knife I lost, the
first I ever had.
With every year that's slipped away
I guess I've lost some things.
I’ve lost my kites and marbles, too,
and tops and chalk and strings,
And later on I’ve lost some things
that meant a lot to me.
I have lost tn speculation more than
e’er I hope to see.
But If I had my choice of alt, you bet
that I’d be glad
To claim again that brand new knife,
the first I ever hud.
If I could just go hack to-day two
thousand miles or more
I’d sneak away all by myself to where
I played of yore,
Behind Pat Hayes’ wagon shed and I
would look again
To see If I could find a crack I might
have dropped It In:
I search my pockets every time I
think of it. egad!
I'd give a lot lo find that knife, the
first I ever had!
STOCKS IN HIGH ALTITUDES.
From the Denver Republican.
“It is dangerous for me to go to bed.”
That announcement by a stylishly
dressed woman at the desk of the Al
bany Hotel office last night startled
'William Maher, one of the proprietors,
who was standing at the counter.
“What is the trouble?” asked Mr.
Maher, as soon as he recovered his
voice.
“The room is filled with electricity,”
replied the woman. “If I walk across
the floor and touch ray face with my
hand there is a snap, and if I touch
the iron bed I get a shock. Why, kind
sir, it's awful! Everything I touch
snaps! You might think I was some
electrical freak and belonged with
some show. But lam not. Honest, I
never knew before that my system was
electrified!”
“Where is your home?” asked Mr.
Maher.
“San Francisco,” replied the woman.
“I thought you were from the sea
level," said Mr. Maher. “You have
nothing to fear. The room is not
charged with electricity. There is
nothing wrong with the telephone or
electric light wires. You see, madame,
that you are not acclimated in Denver.
The air here is extremely dry and is
therefore surcharged with electricity,
so that you in touching iron feel a
slight shock and also a slight shock
when you walk across the carpet and
then touch anything with your hand or
shake hands with anybody. You’ll get
over it in a few days.”
The woman went away mystified but
satisfied, and Mr. Maher said:
“That’s a common complaint in every
hotel in town. Those of us who live
here will now and then feel an electric
shock by touching a conductor or when
walking over a carpet if we touch our
■faces or shake hands, but we are not
as subjective to electrical influences as
those who come from sea level or from
places where the air is moist. These
people, of course, are shocked easily,
and as it is anew experience for
them they invariably believe that the
telephone or electric light wires are
crossed and that they are in danger
of electrocution.
“We had a woman in this hotel last
week who was startled because when
she began to comb the hair of her
French poodle electric currents ran up
her arms. She thought that somebody
had been playing a joke on her dog.
and she was furious until I explained
to her the cause."
CASSAVA CAKES FOR DESSERT.
From the New York Press.
“New Yorkers are continually hunt
ing for something new to eat,” said
the manager of a branch of one of the
largest grocery establishments in the
city. "Cassava cakes are now the
rage. They resemble pancakes made
of white cornmeal. but are as thin as
wafers. They are put in the oven
and delicately browned and then but
tered. When they are served with a
cream cheese and preserves you would
have to hunt a long while to find a
daintier dessert.
"You don’t know what Cassava is?
It is a plant indigenous to South
America, but in a small way it has
been raised in Florida for fifty years
without attracting much attention. The
United States Department of Agricul
ture has been strongly advocating its
cultivation in Texas. The root of the
plant is ail that is used in making
these cakes, although the stalks, which
grow three or four feet above the
ground and resemble a certain variety
of palm, are said to make good fodder
for cattle. The root grows three or
four feet into the ground and it is
somewhat difficult to gather for this
reason.
"In the experiments in Texas this
year, I have been told, the farmers dug
as much of the root with the hoe. as
they x'quld and then turned the .intel
ligent pig 16ose on the rest. The pigs
like the Cassava root and it would not
be surprising if they were trained to
dig them out jugt as dogs hunt truf
fles in France.
"The demand for Cassava at present
is so large that the farmers can make
good money reasonably. One of the
experts of the Department of Agricul
ture says that six tons of Cassaya root
can be produced to the acre. This is
twice the tonnage of sweet potatoes.
It is also excellent food for milk cows.
In Florida, where the crop has in
creased very much in the last few
years, dairymen say they would have
to go out of business if they could not
get Cassava. The milk and butter are
said to be better as a result of Cas
sava feeding than when the cows are
given any other provender.”
LETTER FORTY YEARS LATE.
From the New York Times.
Hartford, Dec. s.—ln a few days
Gen. O. O. Howard will receive at
his home in Burlington, Vt., a letter
written to him nearly forty years ago
by Gen. W. T. Sherman. Gen. How
ard never saw the letter until last
Friday, when he came here to lecture
at Trinity College. The letter has been
hanging in a frame in Horace B. Aus
tin’s house for years.
The letter is dated May 20, 1865, at
Gen. Sherman’s headquarters in
camp near Alexandria, Va., and re
quests Gen. Howard to ride with the
writer at the head of the column of
troops in the grand review at Wash
ington on May 24. As Gen. Howard
by some accident failed to get the let
ter he was riding during the review
in Gen. Sherman’s staff, when the lat
ter sent for him and directed him to
take his place beside him.
Mr. Austin's father got the letter
from a man who was a clerk at
Sherman's headquarters.
WHEN HON CARLOS NODDED.
From the London Chronicle.
The King of Portugal has the re
pute of being a man of careful words,
and it is hard on him that the trans
lator of his little speech as Windsor
the other evening should fail to real
ize the superfluity of the “and” before
a relative which is not a reiterated
one. ”1 thank your majesty for the
cordial reception you have given us,
and which we appreciate." "The words
you spoke at Lisbon, and which have
now become historic,” etc. Queen Vic
toria was herself guilty of breaches
of the Queen's English in this respect:
“We are in the midst of a ministerial
crisis, and which will be followed by
others,” she once wrote. And her fa
vorite minister wrote novel after
novel, in which there was at least this
rampant superfluity. Take a case at
random from "Endymlon:" "He had
become possessed of a vast princi
pality, and which was not an hour's
drive from Whitechapel.” Nor was
the grammar!
A STATESMAN’S BRAIN.
From the London Globe.
Prof. Retzlus of Sweden has recenty
described the brain of a Swedish states
man, whose name is withheld, but who
was prime minister at forty, and a
gifted Jurist, thinker, orator and phil
anthropist. He was tall, blonde, and
of the genuine Swedish type. His bruin
weighed 1,489 grams, was well formed,
and richly convoluted. Seen from be
hind it is ovoid, and widest at the
subparletal region. The frontal and
parietal association areas are complex
and rich in fissures, but otherwise
without redundancy of development,
aa was to be expected, for he was u
good all-round man. He was a clear
and skillful debater, and could famil
iarize hlinaeir with arts and sciences.
This well-balanced mind, or harmon
ious const ruction of mental abilities,
agrees with the symmetry irf his brain.
It is noticeable, however, Ufat the left
aub-frontalgyre (the motor-speech (en
ter) is more favorably developed than
tbs same region on Uud right side.
Distress
After Eating
Nausea between meals, belching, vom
iting, flatulence, fits of nervous head
ache, pain in the stomach, are all
■ymptoms of dyspepsia, and the longer
it is neglected the harder it is to cnre it.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Radically and permanently cure it—
•trengthen and tone the stomach and
other digestive organs for the natural
performance of their functions.
Accept no substitute for Hood’s.
*■ “I had dyspepsia twenty-five years and
look different medicines but got no help
until I began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Have taken four bottles o' this medicine
and can now eat almost anything, sleep
well, have no cramps in my stomach, na
burning and no distress.” Mas. Warns
G. Baerpit, 14 Olney Bt., Providence, E. I
Hood’s Sarsaparilla promises t
Cure and keeps the promise.
HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS.
Hotel Highlands
Ninety-first St„ Near Lexington Ave.,
• NEW YORK. •
A High-Clast House at Moderate Rates.
Comfort, Repose, Elegance, Economy.
~1 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
floors reserved for
Ladiea’ Parlorsand
Boudoir, Library,
Writing and Smok
ing Rooms. High,
eat point in City;
. . pure air, perfect
drainage. Near Central Park. On same
street as the mansions of Carnegie, Van
derbilt. Sloane, Burden and Belmont.
Cuisine noted for particular excellence.
400 Rooms; 100 bath rooms; 100 telephones.
All night elevators.
Room and Bath, $1 up, daily; American
Plan, room, bath, board, $2.50 to $5.00, daily ;
Room, Bath and Board , $ll.OO to $25. 00, weekly;
Suites: Parlor, Bedroom and Bath at pro
portionately low rates.
Being conducted by the owner, not by a
lessee, very moderate rates are possible.
Write for City Guide and Map. (Gratis.)
DE SOTO HOTEL, Savannah, Ga.
Open all year. Large airy rooms;
7,000 feet piazzas; 100 rooms With pri
vate bath. i Telephone service in every
room. Liberal inducements to fami
lies desiring permanent board.
WATSON & POWERS. Proprietors.
A PARADOX/
Qn to the Golden Gate,
|n comfort all the way,
Let any one gainsay:
Burn oil to keep you clean.
Unhealthy smoke
Reminds you no more.
Nor cinders in your eyes
galore.
Exhaust your patience and
pleasant mien.
Remember the
SOUTHERN PACIFIC to all
points
Louisiana, Texas, Mexico and
California. Special rates to
Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico
anil Arizona in November and
December.
Information cheerfully glvem
J. F. VAN RENSSELAER,
General Agent,
13 Peachtree street Atlanta. Ga.
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