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IMifcl Vi KEY) ADVEKIISEMENIS
Meetings—Mistletoe Camp No. 4,
Woodmen of the World.
Special Notices—Furs Never Get Old,
B. Simon; Creiv Notice, H. Voge
mann, Agent; Dividend No. 33, Chat
ham Real Estate and Improvement Cos.;
The Hungry Man, Veruki’s Cafe; Bids
for Stock, James Hunter; Crew No
tice, Williamson & Rauers, Agents;
Fish and Oysters, M. S. Gardner;
Crew Notice, Straehan & Cos., Con
signees; Dr. George M. Norton Has'
Returned.
Business Notices—For a Christmas
Gift, Walter F. Higgins; Go Once,
Sommers’ Cafe; Santa Has a Snap, G.
W. Thomas.
Friday Special Sale—Gustave Eck
stein & Cos.
Seasonable Helps—McGrath & Rans
ford.
Christmas Oranges—W. D. Simkins
& Cos.
Fashion Makes Demands—The Solo
mons Cos.
Gam-brill's Patapsco Flour—Henry
Solomon & Son.
You Take No Chances—Pete Dailey.
Simply Works Wonders—J. T. Shup
trine.
Legal Notices—ln the Matter of
Mark Apple and Metzger and Brun
son, of Chatham, John G. Brown of
Bulloch, and A. J. Dixon of Pierce,
BankruDts.
Manufacturers’ Lace Curtain Sale—
Leopold Adler.
American Club Ginger Ale—The Ka
lola Cos.
Lunch Menu To-day—Jerry George.
Publications—The Delineator for Jan
uary Out To-day.
Southern Pacific Greeting—J. F.
Van Renssalaer.
Genuine Hot Stuff Stoves—Edward
Lovell’s Sons.
Read the List —Livingston’s Phar
macy.
Perfumes—Rowlinski, Druggist.
For Quality—Knight’s Pharmacy.
Take a Look—The Metropolitan.
Christmas Goods—At Lattimore’s.
Delicious Hams—The Delmonico Cos.
Special Daily Sale No. s—B. H. Levy,
Bro. & Cos.
The Tail End—Connor & Sullivan.
The Place to Buy Fresh and Dried
Fruits—New York Cash Grocery.
Asa Source of Pleasure—Cortez Ci
gars.
Savannah Theater—Saturday, Mati
nee apd Night, “Quincy Adams Saw
yer.”
Medical—Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets.
Suggestion to Christmas Buyers—
Estate Daniel Hogan.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for
fair weather, with light to fresh west
winds.
And to think that Col. Roosevelt will
have to say it all over again next
'March, when he is inaugurated!
Considering the recent record of Bt.
Louis for graft and bribery, It Is a
matter for congratulation that so few
cases of crookedness with respect to
exposition awurds have cropped out.
There are some few cases of the kind,
to be sure, and they may be sufficient
to create a small scandal. But on
the whole the exposition seems to have
been well and fairly managed.
What a magnificent Junket President
Francis of the late St. Louis Expo
sition has planned for himself! He is
going to tour the world and visit all
of the Powers, princes and potentate*
that were represented by special com
missioners ut the great show. That
will put him directly In touch of el
bows with King Edward, Emperor Wil
liam. Czar Nicholas, King Carlos,
Dowager Empress Tsl An, the Ah
k<Knd of Swat, the Multan of Hulu, the
Mikado and about all of the others of
the Illustrious la-raonugea ut the brad
Of governinenta. And Mr, Francis will
have to cal dinners and make Speeches
Innutneial.le. Why didn’t Senator De
pew of New York fotesee the posslhil
lUm of the presidency of the esposl
u'*l' application for the
PANAMA CAN Al. OBSTACLES.
Agitation has already begun In favor
of a sea-level canal at Panama. The
House Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce, that recently visit
ed Panama, came back pretty well con
vinced that there was a difficulty In
the way of a lock canal not easy to
overcome, and that a sda-level canal
was the only kind of a canal that could
be built. Senator Kittredge, who ac
companied the committee to Panama,
entertains the same opinion, and is
making headway, so it is said, in the
direction of converting the Senate to
this view.
The difficulty is the lack of a suit
able foundation for the projected dam
across the Chagres river. The plan
tlfat has been adopted calls for a lock
canal, the water of the Chagres river
to be utilized in operating the locks.
But it seems that Mr. Wallace, the
chief engineer, hasn't been able yet to
find a foundation for the dam. He has
bored to the depth of 165 feet on the
banks of the river without finding
rock, or 'anything resembling it. It is
said that it wouldn’t be practicable to
go much deeper for a foundation.
The statement is made that Mr. Wal
lace has a plan for taking dare of the
water of the Chagres river In the
event a sea-level canal is finally de
cided upon. The plan calls for a tun
nel through ‘a mountain. Of course the
water of the river must be taken care
of whether the lock plan or the sea
level plan is adopted, but, as stated,
In the lock plan a great lake is to be
made by the construction of a Jam
across the river and the water used in
operating the locks.
No doubt Mr. Wallace knows what
he is talking about when he says the
water of the river can be provided for
by means of ‘a tunnel, but how long
will it take to construct a tunnel, and
what will the additional cost of the
canal be? Besides the cost of excavat
ing a sea-level canal will be very much
greater than that of a lock canal.
It is probably within the bounds of
reason to say that if the plan is chang
ed the cost of the canal will be doubled
and the time of construction will be in
creased at least ten years.
And what assurance is there that Mr.
Wallace's plan for taking care of the
water of the river is practicable? One
statement is that the cost of the pro
jected tunnel would be $100,000,000.
Estimates for grefat public works are
nearly always far below the real cost.
When we purchased the property of
the Panama Canal Company we thought
there was nothing in the w*ay of the
construction of the canal that couldn’t
be overcome. The commission that in
vestigated and reported upon the mat
ter stated that the engineering diffi
culties could be mastered easily. And
here, on the very threshold of the great
work, we have It stated that there is
doubt whether a foundation can be
found for the Bohio dam that is to
control the floods of the Chagres river
and provide water for the locks; that
it looks as If the problem of getting rid
of the river’s water will have to be
solved in some other way and that the
canal will have to be a sea-level one.
Had the French engineers discovered
that a lock canal w’as impractical on
account of the Impossibility of getting
a foundation for a dam across the
Chagres river? And, if so, was our
commission that reported in favor of
the Panama route in ignorance of the
fact? These are questions that will
be asked if the subject of changing to
a sea-level comes up in Congress, and
it looks now as if it will.
COTTON MILLS SUFFER.
The impression prevails to some ex
tent that the slump in the price of
cotton from 10% cents to 7% cents
hasn’t been followed by a decline in
the prices of manufactured goods. It
is erroneous. It Is said that the cot
ton section of the textile Industry has
received a pretty severe blow by the
decline In the price of cotton. The
cotton mills and the cotton commission
houses had based their prices on high
priced cotton. Therefore when the
swift decline in the price of cotton
came their business was practically
paralyzed. Cotton goods cannot be
sold for the prices at which they were
held when cotton was 10 cents. Hence,
there has been a cut all along the
line.
This is a pretty heavy blow to mills
which have a large stock of 10 cent
cotton on hand, because it Is certain
that they will have to sell their product
on a basis of 7% cents for the raw
material.
The millß did not make any money
last season when the tendency of the
price of cotton was upward, and it
looks now as if they weren’t going to
make much this season, since they can
not sell their products, made of 10-
cent cotton, at prices that will yield
much, if any. profit.
, It would be much better for the cot
ton mills if there were no fluctuations
In the price of cotton. There would
be no speculating in cotton manufac
turing industry then, and a legitimate
profit would be demanded and re
ceived.
Doubtless the cotton goods trade will
soon adjust Itself to the new condi
tions, but what the mills have lost
will hardly be regained—certainly nut
In the next few months.
That there are limitations even to
divine healing came out In a Des
Moines. la., court the other day, when
Mrs. Mary Orr secured a divorce on
the ground of cruel treatment. Mrs.
Orr testified that she was a divine
healer and that her husband was an
owner of race horses. Mrs. Orr gave
the horses “treatment” to make them
win races, but they proved unrespon
sive and lost. And when they lost their
races, Mr. Orr lost his temper and
swore ‘and treated Mrs. Orr cruelly.
Three Panama hats, valued at $lO.
were stolen from a Columbus, 0., man
last winter on a steamer from New Or
leans to New York. On the return of
the ship to New Orleans a Cuban was
•airested on suspicion of having com
mitted the theft. Three times the Co
lumbus man waa called to New Or
leans to leatlfy In the case, necessi
tating 7,500 miles of travel at the state’e
expense, and finally the court decided
that It had no jurisdiction. Our courts
Miailmie du queer thing*
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. DECEMBER 0. 11HH.
THE CHADWICK CASE.
The mystery deepens In the Chad
wick case, and the curiosity of the
public is on tiptoe as to the outcome
of it. Mrs. Chadwick was before a
United States commissioner yesterday,
but nothing new was developed. She
is to have a hearing on the 17th of
this month. In the meantime she will
be permitted to go where she pleases
if she gives bond to the amount of
$15,000. Just now, however, she is in
prison.
She confided to the United States
marshal who had her in charge that
the time would come when she will
show she Is an innocent and much
abused woman. The inference from
what she said was that she thought
the public would then be sorry it had
not accepted her declaration of inno
cence.
It may be that she will be able to
do what she says she will, but Just
at present the public is more concern
ed in finding out the facts in her case
than it Is in thinking whether or not
it will be sorry for her in the event
she proves she is guiltless of wrong
doing. Additional revelations are look
ed for with the keenest relish. It Is
agreed that the $1,250,000 of Carnegie
notes are forgeries, and there seems
to be doubt about the story that there
is $5,000,000 in securities belonging to
Mrs. Chadwick locked up in a Cleve
land bank. If there were such an
amount of property belonging to her
the wonder is that it isn’t forthcom
ing or some evidence of its existence
presented.
It wouldn’t be surprising if it should
turn out that the only evidence of
wealth she possesses are the proceeds
of the forged notes. Still, the state
ment that there is a certificate in ex
istence, given by the treasurer of a
Cleveland bank, that she has on de
posit in his bank $5,000,000 in securi
ties needs explanation. The further
statement that when the facts are all
known, it will appear that a number of
prominent men in the East and West
will be found to be mixed up with Mrs.
Chadwick’s transactions only increase
interest in the case.
Of course there is but little sym
pathy felt for those who lent Mrs.
Chadwick money. Greed was at the
bottom of the loans they made to her.
According to accounts they got from
her 10 to 40 per cent. That she agreed
to pay such enormous bonuses ought
to have aroused their suspicions, but,
it seems, it didn’t. They were so glad
to think they were getting such big
returns on their money that they over
looked the fact that the security
might not be gilt-edged. It our'-it not
to have taken a gread deal of common
sense to arrive at the conclusion that
the offer to pledge for loans more than
$1,000,000 of Andrew Carnegie’s notes
was sufficient cause for suspicion and
inquiry. Probably there will be no
further disclosures to the public un
til the case comes up for hearing, or
the Ohio grand jury makes a report.
If Mrs. Chadwick shows she is an in
nocent and much abused woman the
public will be greatly surprised.
MERELY MISCEGENATION.
Considerable attention has been at
tracted by the case of the white sol
dier, connected with the hospital serv
ice at one of New Jersey's posts, who
was discharged from the army because
of the fact that he had married a ne
gro woman. This occurred some days
ago. A dispatch was sent out from
Washington to the effect that an in
vestigation had diclosed the woman
to be not of good character, that she
had a husband living from whom she
had not been divorced at the time of
her marriage with the white soldier,
and that on these grounds the dis
charge of the white man who married
her had been ordered.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Tribune has taken the
trouble to look Into the case, and
finds the reason given by the War
Department to be based on a quib
bling report from the garrison at
which the man was stationed. It is
intimated that it would be the hardest
thing in the world to prove the woman
to have been of bad character. Says
the Tribune’s correspondent: “The
object of the discharge was to rid the
service of a soldier who had married
a negro woman, and it was intended
to put the discharge on some other
ground than that of the alliance with
a colored person, the desire being to
avoid all reference to the racial fea
ture of the case. • * A white soldier
who marries a colored woman of
course becomes an objectionable per
son at any garrison, and the military
authorities were justified, say most of
the garrison officers, in getting rid of
such a man with as little ceremony as
possible and as little explanation of
the incident.”
In short, there was an insuperable
objection on the part of the officers
and men of the garrison to having
anything to do with the white sol
dier with the negro wife. But, proba
bly for political considerations, an
other reason was given for the dis
charge of the offender.
A London cable says that tn the new
British naval orders, to be made pub
lic next Monday, there will be 'an
order withdrawing all save two of the
vessels of the British navy now In
American waters. One of the ships to
be left will be In the Pacific and the
other In the Atlantic, with headquar
ters at Canadian ports. It Is also
stated that all save two vessels will bo
withdrawn from West Indian waters,
and that those left will be light cruisers.
An officer of the admiralty is thus
quoted: "While the relations of the
United Bfiates and Great Britain re
main as they now are, we do not
need any warships over there. It
would be a waste of money to keep any
there.” And then, again, It Is just
possible that Orest Britain rrtiy need
about alt the naval force she can mus
ter In waters nearer home. The Hus
sion papers are demanding that their
government make arrangemenla with
Turkey for the release of the 'Black
Hea fleet, so that It may proceed to the
Far East, whether England likes It or
not, And should Turkey permit the
passage of (he Hubs la ii ships through
the Mosphoious, In violation of Irraty
agreemvnta. Great Britain would n*
yinty apt not to like it.
Even bicycle racing is controlled by
a trust. It seems. Five teams of the
best riders taking part in the Madison
Square Garden races believed that they
were being treated unfairly in the
matter of scoring, and entered a pro
test. They were told that they could
either go on riding, under the alleged
injustice, or get out. They elected to
quit. Then they were Informed that
the bosses had suspended them, and
that they would not be permitted to
ride on any track, not only in the
United States but In the world, during
their term of suspension. No matter
what their abilities or their records
for fair dealing may be, the bicycle
racing trust thus aj-bitrarlly shuts
them out from their means of making
a living, until such time as the riders
are willing to knuckle to the terms of
the trust.
It seems that there are still some ex
ceedingly rich plums in the govern
ment's political orchard. Attorney
General Moody calls attention to the
fact that the United States district
attorney for the Southern District of
New York received in salary and fees
between March 31, 1890, and June 30,
1904, the magnificent sum of $273,000.
The salary of the office is $6,000 a year,
in addition to which it is stated there
are fees that come to it which average
about $51,000 a year. Thus this district
attorney receives about $7,000 a year
more than the salary of the President
of the United States. The Attorney
General’s suggestion that the district
attorneys be given a flat salary and
no fees would seem to be eminently
sensible.
Hello, mamma; Leon and I are mar
ried, telephoned a young lady from
Millerton, N. Y., to her mother in
Winsted, Conn., a day or two ago. The
girl and “Leon” had run away the
day before. Doubtless as she held the
receiver to her ear she expected to re
ceive the parental blessing and be in
vited to copae home at once and sit
down to a sumptuous bridal feast. But
nothing of the sort came over the
wire. "Well," said “mamma,” “if you
are, you’d both better keep away from
here; your father has got his gun
loaded.”
The Illinois State Board of Pharma
cy is continuing its investigation of
the drugs and drug stores of the state.
The other day the board sent out 139
dry prescriptions to be filled at Chi
cago drug stores. When the com
pounds were received they were ana
lyzed by the board’s experts. In twen
ty-three of the prescriptions there was
no trace of the drugs cailed for; six
ty-six of them were 80 per cent, im
pure, ten 20 per cent, impure, and
only thirty-one were pure. Asa re
sult, 100 druggists are to be prosecuted
for selling impure drugs.
Did the King of Italy mean to make
a joke at the expense of J. P. Morgan,
whom he has decorated in recognition
of the restoration of the Ascoli cope?
The decoration that has been con
ferred on Mr. Morgan is the Grand
Cordon of the Order of Lazarus. Had
it been the Grand Cordon of Dives
there would have been nothing hu
morous about it; but, in the name of
humor, Lazarus I
The President some months ago gave
his department chiefs to understand
that brevity in their reports would be
appreciated. Bu he does not believe in
the rule of brevity for himself, evident
ly, Judging from the length of his
message. Had the message been half
as long, it would have been read by
twice as many people.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Employer—“Where is that bit of
paper with the combination of the safe
on it? I told you to put it away very
carefully, you know, and I can’t open
the safe without it/’ New Secretary—
"l locked it in the safe, sir.”—Judge.
—Friend—“Wfiat! You alive? Why,
all your friends had been mourning
you as dead.” Gadaboutsky—"Why,
that’s peculiar. Whatever got that in
to your heads?” “We read in a Lon
don dispatch that you had ‘ended your
life at the Carlton Hotel. Well
that was all right. Don’t you know
that the best way of ending your life
at any particular hotel is to move to
another hostelry?”—Baltimore Ameri
can.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: “Although the President avoids
all tariff discussion, he does recom
mend a lower rate of duties on exports
from the Philippines to the United
States. It may be possible that herein
is contained a hint that he will not
be less considerate of the people of
the continent than of the people of the
islands. His silence is at least sug
gestive.”
The Chicago Tribune (Rep.) says:
“Within the last few years the cotton
manufacturing business In the South
has made amazing progress, until now
the mills in that section take as much
cotton as those of the North. The
steel industry in the South is growing
rapidly, as is also the lumbering in
dustry. with its various manufactures.
Memphis is now the largest hardwood
market in the world. Formerly the
South used to buy Its corn of the
Western states: now it raises its own.
The South is diversifying its indus
tries to such an extent that the money
which formerly was spent elsewhere
will remain in that section. The re
sult will be that the South will grow
steadily richer, no matter how it be
haves politically.”
The Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.) says:
"We advise our fellow Democrats in
the present Congress *nd In the next
one to stand by the President in all
things in which he stands for the un
mistakable purpose of the people and
for the honor and interest of the
United States. Merely factious or par
tisan opposition to him. bv the De
mocracy, may vindicate the capability
of that party for folly, but the past
should suffice for such vindication. The
President will encounter, within his
own political household, more opposi
tion from banded selfishness and from
enoyeted Bourbonlsm than he should
receive. He should be able to over
come that Opposition, not merely by
the support of the best slements with
in Republicanism, but ateo by tha
sympathetic and patriotic assist an ce of
the la-st elements within Democracy,
If the latter party would •< ape the
extinction of federalism when the star
of Jefferson shone •< Mu bortson, or
the estliwiton of Wblgtsm. whei ty,al
party was paralyzed by the unethical
touch of slavery and proved fate*- to
tin monitions of freedom In (he period
of Taylor and of Fillmore,’' <
JaiiauAchek* Hoodoo.
Mme. Fanny Janauschek, who died
last week at Amltyville, L. 1., was an
actress whose face was coined in sil
ver, like that of Faustina, and its
minted beauty brought sorrow to those
who made it, just as Faustina’s fea
tures on the Roman coin brought dis
aster to Sertorius.
When Janauschek was a young wom
an, says the New York Press, she
played ingenues in the theater in
Frankfort-on-Main for which Goethe
made his dramatic story of Mignon—
but long afterward, of course. Frank
fort was then a free city and made
its own money, which passed current
through the country now embraced in
the German Empire. Its treasurer was
Herr von Grefke, a young man who,
in addition to his other duties, was
superintendent of the mint. He be
came infatuated witfy the young act
ress, whether from artistic influences
or other is not recorded, but in honor
of his sentiment he had struck off an
issue of silver coins which bore her
features, marked even to a scar on
the cheek, which the actress bore to
her death.
The scandal created by this issue
of coins was tremendous and within
its limits worked the overthrow of the
local government and led to the sui
cide of Herr von Grefke. It also led
to the passing of the actress to this
country, where she always afterward
remained. Numismatically the Janau
schek thaler, which was issued in lim
ited numbers, is worth about $lO, or
10 to 1.
Mme. Janauschek possessed a string
of them, thirty-five in number, which
she wore in “Leah the Forsaken” when
she played that strong part, and at no
other time. She did this because at
the time the coin was struck she was
playing a minor character in the same
drama. She first came to this country
to play in German, and Frederick Pi
lot, her manager, who afterwards be
came her husband, induced her to at
tempt English renditions. She essayed '
the highest effort, and her husband
and she knew a long series of disas
ter before she established herself as an
actress of real power in the English
version of “Bleak House,” known as
“Chesney Wold,” playing the dual
parts of Lady Dedlock and Hortense.
In the interval before that success
she was forced to pawn her jewels—
and among them the row of Janau
schek thalers—in Philadelphia. When
she redeemed them there were two
missing, and she conducted an un
successful series of lawsuits for their
return.
Side LlKhts on History.
Commodore Perry had just won the
battle of Lake Erie, not far from
Cleveland, says the Chicago Journal.
“Don’t give up the ship, lads!” ex
claimed the heroic sailor, “unless, of
course, Mrs. Chadwick should happen
to want to borrow it.”
With this remark on his lips, he
went down below to get a drop of
something to wash it off w’ith.
Note—lt was Lawrence w r ho made
the remark, of course, but Perry would
have made it if he had thought about
it.
’Twas the night before Christmas,
and all through the house not a crea
ture was stirring except Santa Claus.
“I hope nobody sees me,” he whis
pered to himself, “for I should prob
ably be mistaken for Dowie.
“I ought to have copyrighted my
make-up," added the saint.
Perfectly Right.
Regular army officers say that volun
teers are a trifle deficient In matters
of military etiquette, says Collier’s
Weekly. As illustrative of their weak
ness in this respect, MaJ. Gen. Corbin
tells an amusing story of a young
lieutenant of militia who accompanied
his fellow-volunteers to the war game
at Manassas recently.
It appears that the young volunteer
officer In question was conversing with
certain regular army officers near
Gen. Corbin's tent, when Gen. Grant
and his staff passed. The regular
officers arose and saluted, but the
volunteer lieutenant sat still.
"That was Gen. Grant,” said one of
the regulars to the lieutenant. “Why
didn’t you salute him?”
"Oh,” responded the volunteer,
nonchalantly, “I’ve only been here a
few days, and we haven’t been in
troduced.”
In the Political Menagerie.
The elephant looked with some cu
riosity at the animal on the other side
of the partition, says the Chicago
Tribune.
“What are they trying to do to you,
my friend?" asked the elephant.
The other animal was a forlorn look
ing creature, whose long ears had been
folded back and tied down. Its body
had been painted white, a yellow mane
fastened to its neck, and somebody
seemed to be engaged in making a
long, flowing addition o its tail.
It gave one wild, swift kick with
both feet, and somebody went flying
out through the rear window, carry
ing the sash along.
“The blamed fools are trying to re
organize me!” brayed the enraged ani
mal.
Poems By Mntsnliflto, Emperor of
Japan.
From The Independent.
I.
My heart's at peace with all, and fair
would I
Live, as I love. In lifelong amity;
And yet the storm clouds lower, the
rising wind
Stirs up the waves; the elemental
strife
Rages around. I do not understand
Why this should be.
11.
’Tis surely not our fault;
We’ve sought to be sincere In deed
and word;
We have exhausted every me&ns to
press
A clear and truthful case, but all In
vain.
Now may the God that sees the heartH
of men
Approve of what we do!
111.
They’re at the front,
Our brave young men; and now the
middle-aged
Are shouldering their arm*; 'and In
the fields
The old men gather In the abundant
rice,
•Low stooping o’er the sheaves; all ages
vie
In cheerful self-devotion to the land
Kyoto, Japan,
(The above translation of poems by
his majesty, the original of which up.
peared In The Knkumln Khlrnbun for
Nov. 7, I*o4. seem to have been com
posed at different periods. No. I. evl
dently was written before the war,
whsn the Emperor saw himself sur
rounded by ominous signs of a corning
conflict, No. II datss from the actual
commencement of the war, when all
peaceable means had been ethausled
ami the of war t,*4 ho.
come inevitable No. 11l la what we
see in Japan to-day. Only this after,
noon I passed s gang of women taking
'heir hoobands slid brothers' pistes In
the building of a midge Hi, m- jcsty
has every rwteaon Ut be proud of tbs
laady self Sec fin- tag spoil of in# umu
pie ~ Arthur Lloyd )
GULD AND SILVER EMPLOYED FOR
Cl RE OF PNECMONIA.
From the Parle Edition of the New
York Herald.
A sensational communication was
made to the Academie de Medecine to
day by Dr. Albert Robin, who report
ed his discovery of the fact that cer
tain metals, such as gold and silver,
very finely subdivided and employed in
infinitesimal doses, exercise a consid
erable effect on the vital phenomena.
Reduction of the metals to the de
sired state is obtained by their electri
cal dissolution in water. The metal
so treated acquires the property of de
veloping a force similar to that of a
ferment. This peculiarity of the phe
nomenon has led Dr. Robin to use the
term “metallic ferments” in reporting
his discovery. *
His metallic ferments are employed
in cases of pneumonia in hypodermic
injections of from five to ten cubic cen
timeters of solution, containing from
nine hundredths to two-tenths of a
milligramme of gold, silver, platinum,
etc., produced a brusque defervescence
of the malady in six cases out of ten
before the seventh day.
Thirteen cures were obtained in four
teen cases thus treated.
There is a complete similarity be
tween the natural favorable crisis In
pneumonia, and that produced by me
tallic ferments. Those ferments, there
fore, are capable of producing, aiding
or hastening this natural favorable
crisis.
After one or two injections the tem
perature falls suddenly, almost al
ways in a definite manner. The em
ployment of these metallic ferments
does not constitute the complete treat
ment of pneumonia, for complications
and the predominance of certain symp
toms necessitate accessory therapeu
tics, but great progress would appear
to be made by their use in the treat
ment of this frequent and serious mal
ady.
WHEN IS A MAN DRINK?
From the Philadelphia Record.
Pittsburg, Dec. 6. —Judge Marshall
Brown, Assistant District Attorney
John S. Robb, Jr., and a jury shied at
an interesting question of law and fact
in the Criminal Court to-day. It was:
At what moment does a man become
an intemperate person—just before he
takes the drink that makes him woozy,
or after he takes it and is woggled?
Constable W. H. Johnston was in
Samuel McCutcheon’s tavern, at Breck
enridge, and saw him serve to a man
standing at the bar a drink of whisky.
It was admitted on both sides that the
man was not drunk at the time; but
soon after getting the drink his legs
were noticed to become unsteady, and
in a short while he was unmistakably
and admittedly drunk.
“You oughn’t to have given him that
last one, Sam,” said Constable John
son. “It’s against the law to sell liquor
to an intemperate person.”
“But he wasn't intemperate, Bill, un
til he took that one,” said Tavern
keeiler M,cCutcheon. “It might be
against the law to sell it to him now;
but it wasn’t when he got it.”
The upshot was that the constable
made an Information against the tav
ernkeeper, charging him with selling
liquor to an intemperate person.
On the statement of facts being sub
mitted to Judge Brown and Mr. Robb,
both admitted that it was a close ques
tion, and neither seemed to be partic
ularly anxious to get into the argu
ment.
Mr. Robb discreetly made a motion
for a nolle pros, and Judge Brown
granted It.
BLONDES AND SANITY.
From the Indianapolis Star,
A woman who bleaches her hair does
so for one sole and single purpose,
namely, that of making herself more
attractive to the world in general and
commonly to one man in particular.
Dare any man rise and declare that
this is a sign of mental weakness? Is
it not urged upon woman as her high
est duty and privilege to make herself
presentable in the eyes of man? From
very infancy is she not taught that
she should cultivate good looks? Does
she not gather from the newspapers
from the time she begins to read them
in her early years that the woman
who distinguishes herself in any way,
whether as a bride, a suicide or the
murderer of her grandmother, Is in
variably beautiful and that no plain
woman need expect to get herself
placed under big headlines next to
pure reading matter? Then why should
any man have the audacity to - ques
tion her mental soundness when, In
obedience to time-honored masculine
dictates, she does her best to make
herself pleasing in the masculine sight?
It may be said, of course, and truly,
that her taste is bad and her method
of beautification to be deplored, but
this does not prove the point made by
her critics, for, Judging by the number
of admirers that the most pronounced
peroxide lady usually has In her train,
she has no monopoly of bad taste and,
in fact, proves shrewdness rather than
lunacy when she applies the fluid that
turns her dark locks to gold.
ROOSEVELTS JAB AT KIPLING.
From the Philadelphia Record.
New York, Dec. 6.—The matter of
lynching In America and wife-beating
in England came up at a recent lunch
eon in Washington when Theodore
Roosevelt and Rudyard Kipling were
present. Kipling became quite frank
In his criticism.
Roosevelt attempted to break into
the conversation, but the poet kept on.
At last the Englishman came to the
climax of his criticism. Whatever
Americans might have achieved, one
thing was reasonably certain—no na
tion which habitually tolerated the kill
ing of men without trial could claim to
be highly civilized.
Mr. Roosevelt turned upon him with
flashing eyes.
“That's right, Mr. Kipling,” he ex
claimed. “I agree with you. It Is a
national fault, a national shame. Each
nation has its fault. You have your
fault and we have ours. We kill
men—”
He hesitated. Mr. Kipling smiled
and nodded.
” —And you beat women.”
The smile left the Englishman’s face
and the subject was dropped.
Within the past week one of the
clergymen opposed to the present
movement In the Protestant Episcopal
Church to check divorce has privately
expressed his belief that If serious ob
stacles are placed In the way of di
vorce wife-beating will become as
common In the United States as It la
In England.
Mil. RICHARDSON ’II SELF DENIAL.
Front the Syracuse Post-Standard.
Ell Richardson, of Hartln, Tenn.,
lived seventy years without kissing
a woman. Then he died.
Odd as it nfay appear, Ell was wont
to boast till his death, which occurred
last week, of hi* singular abstinence
He explained that when he was h
young ntan he wa* extraordinary diffi
dent, Some of his mates resolved to
lure him Into kissing a young Fady of
his acquaintance. The fateful mo
ment arrived, and Ell, having nerved
himself for the ordeal, was about to
taste unknown Joy* Rut, alas' he
caught sight of a pm, which the mis
chlevou* damsel had placed In her
mouth for his recaption, and It was
"all off.” Mr. Richardson entertained
a grudge against the sez thereafter
To be sure, he married afterward
but he kept hla bearded llj m to him
self.
Masculine readers may well have
great sighs of pity for the mis
guided Eli Ms should hays been
lessoned with, but Hi 100 isle
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