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4 jgte JMgfwinfl ffietog. Homing News Hu lid lug, Bar*nnsh. Cia ItCItSDAY, DIXEMBER 8, 1804. Registered at Postoffice in Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail; one week, 18 cents; one month, <0 cents; three months, $2.00; six months, $4.00; one year, SB.OO. THE MORNING NEWS by mall, six time a week (without Sunday issue), one month, 50 cents; three months, $1.50; six months, $3.00; one year. $6.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mail, one year, SI.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by money order, check or reg istered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of sender. Transient advertisements, other than local or reading notices, amusements and classified column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch in depth—is the standard of measurement. Classified column ad vertisements, 1 cent a word each inser tion. 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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. ■' ■■ g g , I 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. -■* •■<■ • 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. 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