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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 16. 1904.
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Special Notices—Dividend Notice,
Savannah Bank and Trust Company;
Notice, Savannah Bank and Trust
Company; Crew Notice, J. Davis, Mas
ter; Ship Notice, Strachan & Cos., Con
signees; Crew Notice, H. Vogemann,
Agent.
Business Notices —Fish and Oysters,
Boos' Market: Juvenile Bicycles, Oak
man & O'Neil; Juvenile Bicycles, G.
W. Thomas: Just Try a Meal, Som
mers’ Cafe; Xmas Bicycle Needs, Wal
ter F. Higgins.
Shiver Days Due —B. H. Bevy, Bro.
& Cos.
Factors, Good Cheer—A. Ehrlich &
Bro.
Friday Special Sale—Gustave Eck
stein & Cos.
Special Daily Sale, Nov. 11—B. H.
Levy, Bro. & Cos.,
Electric Lights Are Safe Lights—Sa
vannah Electric Company.
Toilet Articles for the Holidays—
Livingston's Pharmacy,
Red Cross Coffee—Henry Solomon
& Son.
Foods—Postum Food Coffee.
Young Man—E. &W. Laundry.
Catoosa Springs Water—Knight's
Pharmacy.
Sweet Maiden Soap—Henry Solomon
& Son.
Genuine Hot Stuff Stoves—Edward
Lovell’s Sons.
Delightful Shampoo Soap—Shup
trlne's.
Saturday Is Bargain Day—Rowlln
ski, Druggist.
Useful Presents—At Lattimore's.
25 Per Cent. Off —Dr. M. Schwab's
Son.
More Good Things—The Metropoli
tan.
Maillard's Candies—The Delmonico
Company.
The Tall End—Connor & Sullivan.
Want to Know the Best Things—
Falk's, Around the Corner.
Oranges—W. D. Stmkins & Cos.
Kalola Praised—The Kalola Com
pany.
Special Shirt Waist Sale—Estate
Daniel Hogan.
Medical —Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets.
Christmas Shopping—Leopold Adler.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal, Mis
cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with fresh
northwest winds. Eastern Florida,
fair weather, with light variable
winds.
It is to be hoped Secretary Taft took
with him an abundance of linen when
he went to Panama. Minister John
Barrett says he had to pay *9 for a
ahirt there. Barrett Is a small man.
If Barrett’s shirt cost $9, one to fit
Taft would probably knock a big hole
In his week's Income.
James Jeffrey Roche is to be ap
pointed American consul at Genoa.
James Jeffrey Is a poet, and one of ex
ceptional ability. Indeed, he has made
•'South" rhyme with “drought.” May
be it is for this reason that the Pres
ident wants to get him out of the
country. He will not have much to do
in Genoa, and may have time in which
to study his rhyming dictionary.
Since the foundation of the govern
ment, probably 1,000 Judges have eat
upon the federal court bench. Of thl*
considerable number, four members of
the federal Judiciary have been Im
peached. The Impeachment of Judge
Hwayne, of the Northern district of
Florldu, makes the fifth <aee of the
kind in the hietory of the country.
The other cases ars as follows: 1803
—Judge l*l< k ring of New Hampshire,
removed for drunkenness and profan
ity; 1804-Justice Phase of the Hu
prame Court, tried on semi-politic*l
chargee, but nut removed, rio Judge
Peck of Missouri, .bulged with arid
trary and illegal conduct, but no 4 ton
'4c4'-d IMI Judge Humphreys of Ten
nessee, removed for repudiating b'r
allegiance and ac'vpttng g I vnfed'
raate < ominieeion, This rvurd Is one
of high <mdii to the nstioieal Jodi
• Uur.
GOV. LA COLLETTE'S AMBITIOV.
Having won his fight against the
Spooner faction. Gov. LaFollette of
Wisconsin Is preparing for his fight
against the railroads of his state. He
is determined they shall pay a larger
share of the taxes and shall 1' make
rates that are equal and fain for all
shippers. He announces that a* soon
as he has settled with the railroads of
Wisconsin, he will be a candidate for
the United States Senate, where he
hopes to be an important factor in the
fight, which, he says, is coming be
tween the peoole and the railroads.
It is his opinion that the government
must fix the rates of the railroads,
on interstate commerce or own the
roads. In an interview at Toledo on
Monday last he said: "The political*
issue in this country for the next ten
or fifteen years will be between gov
ernment for special interests and gov
ernment for the people." In other
words, he believes the issue is pluto
cracy or Democracy.
Gov. LaFollette has shown himself
to be a man of great force of char
acter, and there is no doubt that he
is very ambitious. It is probable that
he thinks there is a chance for a man
of his characteristics and his views,
on public questions to reach the presi
dency in the near future, ’
And it wouldn’t be surprising if he
were right. There is undoubtedly a.
growing feeling against the trusts.
The evident purpose of those institu
tions to grab everything within their
reach, regardless of the .rights of the
people, is gradually creating' a deep
seated hostility to them. But Gov.
LaFollette is making a mistake in
thinking the feeling of the people is
directed wholly against the railroads.
The feeling against them isn’t so great
as it is against the tariff, because if
it were not for the shelter which the
tariff gives to some of the most in
iquitious of the trusts the objectionable
features of these trusts couldn’t exist.
There is no good reason why the steel
trust, for Instance, should be permitted
to charge so much more for steel rails
and other steel products than is
charged for these articles In England.
The feeling against the railroads is
not due so much to high rates as
it is to unequal rates. Asa mat
ter, of fact, the rates in this coun
try are not as high as railroad rates
in Europe. It is the discrimination
it: favor of the big shippers and fav
ored localities that causes the trouble.
Gov. LaFollette is also mistaken
In thinking that the time is com
ing soon when the government will
own the railroads. The people have
too much good sense to want govern
ment ownership of them. Under the
government they wouldn't be run as
satisfactorily as they are now, and they
would be a source of danger to the
republic. A forceful and unscrupulous
President could re-elect himself as
many times as he pleased, if he had the
railroads at his back as well as the
officeholders. There would be scarce
ly a limit to the campaign fund he
could raise and the votes he could
control with the patronage at his com
mand. ' - .• * -
The government may control the rail
roads In so far as to regulate their
interstate commerce rates, but the day
Is far distant when it will own them.
If Gov. LaFollette is aiming to become
a political power by championing gov
ernment ownership of railroads, he is
doomed to disappointment.
SICXB OK CEXTHtLIZATIOK.
The life Insurance companies say
they do not object at all to the proposi
tion that the government shall have
supervision of their affairs. Indeed
they rather court such supervision, be
cause they think that eventually it
will relieve them from compliance with
state laws. At present the laws of
the states In reference to life Insur
ance companies differ greatly, and the
companies find It difficult and annoy
ing to comply strictly with them. It
would suit them to be placed directly
under national law’s and to be relieved
from compliance with the laws of
the states in which they do business.
And it is probable that all corpora
tions which do an interstate business
would prefer to be required to comply
with only one set of laws, and those
the national laws. They would prefer
this for only one reason, namely, that
It would relieve them from the annoy
ances and expense of complying with
so many different sets of laws admin
istered and enforced by officials hav
ing so many points of view.
And it is found practically lmppssi
•ble to remedy the divorce evil by leg
islation because of the difficulty. of
getting the states to agree to it uni
form divorce law. Therefore, it ia
probable that there wouldn’t be very
strong opposition to an effort to give
the national government authority to
deal with the divorce question.
All the time there is some question
coming up which could be handled to
better advantage by Congress than by
the Legislatures of the states, at least
It seems to be admitted It could.
HencfJ, the constant movement to
wards the centralization of authority
in the national government. The
movement la so slow that it attracts
but little but when viewed
through a long period it is seen that
It is great enough to suggest the ques
tion whether slate lines will not be
practically obliterated eventually.
Christmas gifts to the great edu
cational Institutions of the North arc
beginning to attract the attention of
newspaper readers. It Is the under
standing that Mr. Rockefeller Is go
ing to give, or has given, a sum
amounting to not less than $2,000,004 to
$3,000,000 to the University of Chicago;
and other magnificent gifts are being
ieported almost daily. And while the
Northern colleges ars thus growing
affluent, the colleges of the Mouth, 111
which section education is most need
ed, are forced to continue to Uvc tioiti
hand-to-mouth, seriously hucidn a|<p> 4
for the want of means,
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I lost on Is happy. Th< price of beans
may bes little high and coppei stock*
uncertain, but one of Jeer favorite eon*
has vindicated Nt birthplace’s *is mi
to being the inteiieetuai hub of lb*
universe. John I, Mutitvau h*#”gone
on the l#' *or * rasa rum.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. DECEMRER 16. 1004.
R I SSI A HOPE KIT..
Is the Russian officer quoted In our
St. Petersburg dispatches yesterday
right in his statement that the Japa
nese have reached their high water
mark, and that they will not be able
to achieve any additional success at
Mukden, even though Port Arthur
should fall and they should receive re
inforcements from there to the extent
of 50,000 men? It seems in Russia the
belief prevails tttat the fall of Port
Arthur will not be of any great as
sistance to the Japanese. The posses
sion of that port will not enable them
to make greater headway in the effort
to drive the Russians out of Man
churia.
The Russians are of the opinion that
the Japanese have missed the psycho
logical moment. By that they mean
the Japanese should have concentrated
all their forces in the effort to drive
the Russians out of Manchuria when
Kuropatkin had but a small army to
oppose them. It would have been much
e'asier to prevent the Russians from
regaining a foothold in the province,
eVen after they had been reinforced,
than it will be to drive them out now
that they have been reinforced.
With the Russians out of Manchuria
the Japanese could have t'aken Port
Arthur at their leisure. Now Kuro
patkin has about 500,000 men at Muk
den, and Japan has called out nearly
all of her reserves, so it is said, and
is practically unable to greatly increase
her armies in the field. On the other
hand, Russia can continue to pour
troops into Manchuria by the thou
sands.
If this is the true situation there may
be something in the statement of the
Russian officer quoted In our dis
patches. But there may be another side
of the story. Port Arthur rrtay be neces
sary to Japan to get supplies to her
army when all of the streams become
frozen. When the other available ports
are closed by ice she may be able to
keep open that port.
And then it is not certain that she
Has practically exhausted her resources
;in putting her present army in the
! field. No doubt she viewed the situa
tion from all points of view, and chose
the course she followed, knowing all
about the advantages which is now
.pointed out by the Russian officer.
The army she has at Mukden is a re
markable one, and If handled rightly
may prove to be more than a match
for the army which confronts it,
though greatly outnumbered.
MRS. CHADWICK’S PROMISED REV
ELATIONS.
Mrs. Cassle L. Chadwick, although
in jail with seven pr more indictments
against her, is still hopeful, judging
from what she says, namely, that she
will “come out all right.” In a state
ment made to the reporters she said
that she didn't think she had done
any wrong. She must have rather
queer ideas of right and wrong. There
are reasons for thinking she has had
such ideas for a good many years.
SJie insists that she has a tale to
unfold that will change public senti
ment in regard to her, but says she
wilt hot tell it until she has paid all
of her creditors. That means that she
will not tell It at all. It is doubtful
If she has any story that will show
her in a light different from that which
the story of her financial transactions
Places her. It Is probable that she
would be put on trial at once if it
were not for the fact that Mr. Car
negie, who is wanted as a witness,
says he is unable, on account of his
health, to go to Cleveland just now.
It may be that it will be found possi
ble to get along without him as a wit
ness. Still the drama would not be com
plete without him. He was dragged
Into it without his knowledge, and no
doubt would like to avoid making a
public appearance in it.
But what about Mrs. Chadwick's
husband, Dr. Leroy Chadwick? He is
in Paris with his daughter. In an in
terview he said he knew nothing about
his wife's financial transactions. Mr.
Beckwith, the president of the wrecked
Oberlin bank, tells a different story.
He says that Mr. Chadwick knew
about the Carnegie notes and about
his wife’s financial affairs. In part
payment of the money loaned upon the
notes the doctor, Mr. Beckwith says,
gave him checks for a large sum of
money, and promised to give him more.
The checks were of no account, how
ever. This would seem to indicate that
he knew his wife was getting money
in large amounts on questionable se
curity. ■ And it has been published that
he also gave the Massachusetts bank
er, Newton, checks for part of the
amount due that financier, checks
which were returned because there was
no money with which to pay them.
If Mrs. Chadwick has any other story
than that which has been told it Is
time for her to make it public. She
is in need of all the assistance and
sympathy now that she can get.
If it is true that the Russian war
ship Sevastopol has been successfully
torpedoed by the Japanese at Port
Arthur, and there seems’to be no good
reason for doubting the correctness of
thc'report. then the Port Arthur fleet
of the Russians has been wiped out.
There may remain a‘ few torpedo boats
end destroyers, but their number is
so small and they are so impotent that
they need not be taken into consid
eration as units of offense or defense.
With the elimination of the Port Ar
thur fleet, Admiral Togo is at liberty
to take such steps as he may deem ex
pedient to deal with the oncoming Bal
tic fleet. Meanwhile, there is a Arm
conviction in the minds of many ex
perts that the Baltic fleet will never
reach Far Eastern waters: that It
will be turned back before It has
leached the zone of danger.
A Chicago paper publishes s picture
of Mrs. Chadwick's left hand and
wrist, showing that she habitually
wore ten rings containing in non*
I th*fit roih* Iwmiy-flv# In
ti'SdMion 1 o I wis tug#•>!*'(m of diamond*
I and leads. The rings were distributed
Ih* follow*: Two oft tli* flrii finger,
J hn* on tlu muni two on Uur Oilrd
j u<4 in** on Mi# fourth. THt ring*
i 4#n4 4sfc!fofi4#> nr# *iir**4 to tuff
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! MwyU M w* ttu Hdtltlni
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The heart-to-heart talks that some
of the high-financiers are having w’ith
each other, through the medium of
the advertising columns of the news
papers, are highly amusing, to those
who are not interested In stocks.
Such choice epithets as “liar,” “fakir,’’
“widow-wrecker,” “robber,” charla
tan,” and the like have abounded in
the paid advertising space of the con
tending parties. There was even a
suggestion of a personal encounter
between Col. Lawson and Col. Greene,
with possibly pistols and coffee on the
side. But it did not eventuate. Col.
Greene said to Col. Lawson that he
knew all about him, and that he was
a thoroughly bad man. Col. Lawson
replied that Col. Greene was a man of
excellent Judgment, since he had put
his properties into Col. Lawson's
hands for management, telling him he
was the only financier he knew who
could be trusted; nevertheless, that
Col. Greene had woefully and wilfully
prevaricated when he had asserted
that Col. Lawson’s recent raid on Wall
street was not unselfish and wholly
for the good of the dear “peepul.” And
thus it goes along. The high finan
ciers have gdt their knives out for
each other; and in the meantime if
the lambs have the least bit of wit left
they will keep out of harm's way.
The fire department of Janesville,
Wiq., was recently in need of one
small rubber plug, which it ordered
from a hardware store. The plugs are
worth 9 cents a dozen. The hardware
firm sent in a bill for % cent. The
chief of the Are department declined
to “O. K.” the bill, and the city treas
urer refused to pay It. The hardware
firm has now brought suit against the
city for the amount of the bill. The
firm declares that there is a “princi
ple” Involved in the matter ,and that
it is willing to spend hundred of dol
lars to have that “principle" vindi
cated. There are many lawsuits that
are equally stupid and foolish.
“God save young men from ‘stylish’
women,” is the fervent prayer of Vicar
General Fox, of Trenton, N. J. Doesn’t
it seem as if mature financiers and
sedate bankers were quite as much in
need of the pious solicitude of the
good Father Fox as the young men?
We do not recall any young man in
connection with the Chadwick case.
PERSONAL.
—Ex-Queen Liliuokalani and Con
gressional Delegate Kalauiauoale of
Hawaii have arrived in the United
States. The former queen is s.tjll hope
ful of securing an appropriation from
Congress to reimburse her for the loss
of former crowh lands.
—Many of the congressional families
find it hard to enter the social life be
cause of the lack of what i considered
a proper place to receive calls. A
group of ladies from one Western
state have surmounted this obstacle
very cleverly for the last several win
ters by combining and engaging the
parlors of a large apartment hotel in
which several of them reside. The ar
rangement proved a most pleasant and
desirable one.
—The Wiscottpin Legislature that
convenes next January will have
among its members ten men who hold
degrees from the University of Wis
consin. Graduates of the university,
while not preponderating in member
ship in the Legislature, will have con
siderable Influence in formulating
laws. Of the ten members the Sen
ate has five and the assembly the
same number. This means that 5 per
cent, of the Senate and 5 per cent, of
the assembly are graduates of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin.
BRIGHT BITS.
—The Main Penalty.—Mr. Jackson—
“ Sam Shinbone done got thirty days
In Jail to' stealin’ chickens!” Mr.
Johnson—“ Gee! Dat's long time to go
wivout chickens!”—Puck.
—Miss Flyrty—“Jack Hansom was
telling me about a romantic adven
ture he had at the party last night. It
seems he bumped Into a girl in a dark
hallway and kissed her; and he doesn’t
know yet—” Miss Elders—“Oh! tee
hee! That was I.” Miss Flyrty—
“What? Oh! for goodness' sake, don't
tell him now. Let him love his ro
mance.” —Philadelphia Press.
—lmmune.—"Doctor,” said the call
er, “somehow I’m afraid of pneumo
nia. There’s a good deal of it in town,
I hear. What causes it? Riding in cold
cars?” “No,” said the doctor. “That
toughens a man. All my pneumonia
patients contracted the malady by liv
ing in overheated steam flats.” The
caller went away with a light heart.
He was doubly safe.—Chicago Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Record *(Dem.)
says: “It is t 9 be noted that yester
day's renewed and heavy slump in the
slock market followed the presidential
•announcement that the auesrion of
tariff revision had been dropped for
the time being. We may thus leafn
that assurances ‘to let the blessed tar
iff alone constitute no protection to
prosperity quotations. If the slump
had followed an announcement that
an extra session would be called to
revise the schedule, how emphatically
would the stand-patters have pro
claimed It as an unmistakable'effect.”
The Pittsburg Post (Dem.) says:
"Mr. Roosevelt's plurality over Par
ker whs 2.549.16 U. or almost exaotlv
one-half of the JOtol vote cast for the
Democratic candidate. The vote given
to the Republican candidate wuh the
largest ever given to any candidate for
President. His majority over all was
1,746.901 so that even taking into con
sideration the voters who did not ex
ercise the right to cast their ballot last
month it would seem as though Mr.
Roosevelt had the light to claim that
he was the choice- of a large majority
of all the voters of the country. With
such a commission behind him he cer
tainly ought to have every Incentive to
keep his pledge to be the President of
the whole country, 'and not of any
party or faction.”
The Louisville Courier Journel
iDem.) says: "Thete is wave of
condemnation for the Chadwick wom
en, upon whom the strong hand of the
law has been plu< ed for acts wlilt h
are no worse then those committed
fonatsntiy by men who swindle Inves
tors out of their money by false rep
resentations, and yet so free to pose a
successful financiers Foigery Is, aft
er all, only one form of nits-repre
sentstlon differing in moral crime from
the floating of bogus corporations and
selling of worthless etoi Ira In the pun.
islimsnt afflsed to tbe former If sit
lit# su-ai*ed magnates who roll |n
wraith by pi set bee as fraudulent as
lbior for whicb Mis ClisdwUb is now
they deserve t ton r at mi Id not be prison
• otnnrrdatpn, euffbnnl fa* them
Nothing Too Good for John.
“John,” said Mrs. Atwood, thought
fully, “everybody In society appears to
think an awful lot of genealogy these
days.”
“Jennie what?” exclaimed John, look
ing up from his evening paper, says
an exchange. ,
"Genealogy,” repeated Mrs. Atwood.;
“What’s that?”
“I don’t exactly know,” replied Mrs.
Atwood, “but I think it’s a tree of
some kind. At least, I heard some
ladies refer to it as a family” tree.”
"Well, what of it?” he asked.
“Why, it seems to be a sort of fad,
you know, and everyone who is any-'
one has to have one, I suppose.” .
"Buy one, then,” he said, irritably.
“Buy the best one in town and have
the bill sent to me, but don't bother
me with the details of the affair. Get
one, and stick it up in the conserva
tory, if you want one, and if it isn’t
too large.”
"But I don’t know anything about
them."
“Find out, and if it’s too large for
the conservatory, stick it up on the
lawn, and if that ain’t big enough I’ll
buy the next plot in order to make
room. Then <;an’t any of them fly any
higher than we can. and, if it comes
to a question of trees I’ll buy a whole
orchard for you.”
Still she hesitated. !}
“The fact is, John,” she confessed at
last, "I don’t just know where to go
for anything in that line. Where dd
they keep the family trees and all,
such things?” ,
“What do you suppose I know about
it?” he exclaimed. “You’re running
the fashion end of this establishment,
and I don’t want to be bothered with
it. If the florist can’t tell you any
thing about it, hunt up a first-class
nurseryman and place your order with
;hlm.” ‘■ -■ . .*
The Siamese Twins—Were They l
Brothers f
The late P. T. Barnum was a keen
student of human nature as well as
a natural humorist and nothing which
set forth human traits that were odd
or amusing escaped his attention, says
Success. He was very fond of telling
stories of incidents that brought out
features in human character —one of
which, that delighted him immensely,
was connected with the Siamese
twins.
When he was exhibiting those orien
tal freaks the press of the country
made them widely known and they
became very soon one of his best
drawing cards.
One day there came to see them a
back country rustic, who was per
fectly absorbed in them and inquisitive
enough In regard to them to require
almost a bureau of information to
answer his Innumerable questions.
Mr. Barnum happened to be the one
questioned and he was asked their
age, occupation, original home, wheth
er they were single or married, their
weight and stature and their religious
belief. Nothing at any rate, was too
trivial or irrelevant, which the rustic
thought of, all of which interested the
showman intensely.
Finally the bucolic visitor started
slowjy, but reluctantly, to leave, but
after walking away a few steps he re
turned and Said with the' most solemn
: simplicity:
“They are brothers, I presume.”
The Log-leal Inference.
Mr. Kidder looked up from the even
ing paper upon which he had been In
tent, says the Smart Set.
“I see, my dear,” he said sorrowful
ly, "that Christmas ts again cOming.”
"What else canyydu expect this time
of year?” queried .Mrs. Kidder, un
shocked by the news.
“Still,” said Mr.'Kidder, argumenta
tively, "It is a distressing and harrow
ing fact which no reputable newspa-.
per should thrust upon a man’s, es
pecially a family man's, attention. I
think I Shall have to change my pa
per. I can’t stand for such ‘yellow
ness.’ ”
“Why, does the paper announce it?”
asked Mrs. Kidder, with some sur
prise.
“Well, not in so many words,” re
plied Mr. Kidder, carefully ahering to
the exact facts; “but it is the deduc
tion from what it does say which no
logical mind can resist, especially
that of the husband of a wife.”
“Why, what does it say?” asked
Mrs. Kidder, stopping her darning in
her curiosity.
“It says,” replied Mr. Kidder, sol
emnly consulting the article to make
sure he was correct, “that two women
were Injured and several fainted in
the crush at Seller & Doomore’s neck
lace sale this morning.”
His Order for Eggs.
There is a certain lawyer of the
town who devotes all his leisure time
to the perpetration of elaborate and
solemn jokes, says the Washington
Post. Nobody on earth is too august
for him to tackle. He wfts in London
last summer, and one morning he went
Into a restaurant with his most dig
nified air, and proceeded to order
breakfast.
"I want two eggs,” said he to' the
waiter. “I want one fried on one side
and the other fried on' the other.',’
The waiter nodded and ’Withdrew. A
little later he returned.
"Beg pardon, sir,” said he, "but I
am afraid I didn’t quite catch your
order. Would you mind repeating it?"
“Not at all,” said the American, sol
emnly. “I want two eggs, one of them
fried on one side and the other on the
other.”
“Thank you, sir,” said the waiter. “I
thought that was what you said, but
I wasn’t quite sure, sir.”
Five minutes later an apolegetjc
waiter returned to the American’s el
bow.
"I beg pardon, sir,” said he again,
"but the cook and I have had some
words. Would you mind having those
eggs scrambled?”
Cleveland's Twins.
Grover Cleveland caught many a
fine bass In Lake Erie at the mouth of
Cattaraugus creek before he became
Governor of New York, says the New
York Press. One day, while doing
some bottom fishing, he lost his.only
lead sinker. “Shun" Bissell's boat
was a mile away, and you know how
much a musy fisherman hates to move,
and how slowly he comes to your re
lief. While waiting for his partner
Cleveland had a happy thought. His
flask! Why not use It as a sinker? No
sooner thought than done, and down
went the line again to the bottom.
Just as Bisscll got close by Grover
pulled in two fine bass, one on each
hook. “Hey, Grove, that's tt lusty pair
of twins you've got this time," he ex
claimed, "Yes," retorted Cleveland,
"and brought up on the bottle, {oo."
The Cnrreel Keeling.
II was tin morning after when the
man met hla Southern friend in the
hotel cafe, snys the New York Hun,
He was about to try a hair of the dog
that bit him and he made the usual
Inquiry.
“Yea, sub. I will, I wag about lo
order one when you appeared." Mid
Ihe 4out heritor •
They Mt silent for a illils and then,
with an effort, the Ulan ask* I llow
do you feel this morning Colon*!?”
The MoUlhernet straightened up a
Mt and replied. "How and I font* Why,
sub. I feel a# every true Hour hern gen
lb men 4ee* In tgs Banning t fasl
A NAPOLEON IN COLORADO.
From the Baltimore. Sun. .
Denver, Dec. 11. —Adjt. Gen. Sherman
M. Bell believes that he resembles
Napoleon In more ways than one and
has said so over his signature. To
day Willard P. Hatch, who was en
gaged to write a biography of the
general, but w r ho disagreed with him
over the financial end of the deal,
made public a portion of the biography,
which is really autobiography, ac
cording to Mr. Hatch, who says the
General wrote it himself. Excerpts
from Gen. Bell’s opinion of himself are
given literally;
"He (Bell) is conceded to be the
most thorough military officer in disci
pline and efficiency In the United
States and has the traits and tactics,
Us well as the fac-simile appearance
of Napoleon In his youth. The Colo
rado brigadier general, ranking with
all the war generals of the past and
present centuries, in the person of Gen.
Sherman M, Bell—his major general
ship will stand as a monument to Colo
rado, no doubt in the whole United
States, if not in the entire world, to
the memory of the man who was named
after the irfan who ’marched to the
sea'—Gen. William Tecumseh Sher
man.”
There is much more in the same vein,
and' Mr. Hatch offers the General’s
copy In evidence. The two men have
been denouncing each other for several
weeks and might have fought a duel
Had they agreed on weapons. Hatch
insisted on the privilege of the chal
lenged person and chose swords, but
Gen. Bell refused to fight with cold
steel.
HOW SOUTHEY WORKED.
From the Cornhill Magazine.
Southey was a methodical and rapid
literary craftsman. “I am a quiet, pa-
I tient, easy going of the mule
breed; regular as clockwork in my
pace, surefooted, bearing the burden
which is laid on me, and only obstinate
in choosing my own path,” he wrote
to a friend. But his method was by
no means simple.
He was a poet, a historian, a critic
and a miscellaneous writer; he turned
out an enormous quantity of matter
and succeeded in doing so by working
fourteen hours a day and diversifying
his labors within his daily round. He
had six tables In his library. He wrote
poetry at one, history at another, crit
icisms at a third and so on with the
other subjects upon which he was en
gaged, and when he was tired of spin
n|ng his brains into verse he turned to
history and criticism.
There is a story that he once de
scribed to Mine, de Stael the division
of his time—two hours before break
fast for history, two hours for reading
after, two hours for the composition of
poetry, two hours for criticism and so
on through all his working day. “And
pray, Mr. Southey,” queried the French
woman, somewhat unkindly, "when do
you think?”
COLt'MBUS’ LOG DOES NOT EXIST.
From the New York World.
Paris, Dec. 10. —“Quote me most em
phatically as saying that neither the
Duke d’Albe nor any one else possesses
the original log of Columbus’s voyage,
for the simple reason that it doesn’t
exist, having been destroyed in Co
lUmbuS’s lifetime because it contained
entries the Columbus family wanted
suppressed,” said Henri Vignaul, doyen
'of the American Diplomatic Corps in
Europe, arid greatest living authority
on Columbus matters. “The Duchesse
u’Albe, the present Duke's mother, a
scholarly woman, gathered all the pap
ers and archives of the family and
published them in several volumes,
most of the contents of which have
beea ividely quoted- One contained ex
!tracts .purporting; to have been taken
from the log In question, but they were
largely surmise. I believe the
Duohesse exhausted the archives thor
joughly, little of value remaining. The
Duke is absent from Paris at the mo
ment* but the Spanish Embassy prom
ises to notify me of his return, when
It is possible I may learn the extent
of the papere remaining, if any. But
there is no possibility of the existence
of the much-talked-of log .which I am
erroneously said to be trying to per
suade the United States to buy.”
HOW TO GO TO SLEEP.
From the Chfcago News.
Sir William Laird Clowes advocates
a novel remedy for refractory cases of
insomnia. "I have recommended such
people, after h'avtng ascertained what
is likely to be the most comfortable
position for sleep,” he says, "to affix
a small bright light two or three feet
above the head, so that in order to see
it without moving the head the eyes
must be rotated upward.
“For this purpose an ordinary electric
glow Tamp, covered with opaque black
paper, in which is cut a hole the size
of a pin’s head. Is very suitable, pro
vided, of course, that the hole be ar
ranged so that It is in or near the
imaginary line joining the glowing fila
ment and the position which the eyes
will occupy. The brighter 'and smaller
the point of light the better. Let the
upward-rotated eyes bo directed stead
fastly at this, a persistent effort be
ing employed not necessarily to keep
the eyelids open, but to keep the
eyes themselves bent upon the required
spot.”
FROM HIGH ALTITUDES,
From the New York Press.
A man came here the other day from
Mexico City and tried to drink all the
whisky in town. The same chap was
here three years ago trying to do the
same thing. Our wood alcohol seemed
to haye no effect on him, which he ac
counted fpr in a simple, common
sense way. Men from high altitudes
who are addicted to liquor can drink
vastly more when they descend to
lower levels. The average increase of
capacity is about one pint per diem
per 1,000 feet. Therefore, a. man who
drinks a quart a day In Mexico City
and manages to attend to business can
drink nine and one-half pints In New
York without being under fhe influ
ence, inasmuch as the capital of our
sister republic is 7,500 above sea level
and we are at the water’s edga.
GEN. NTOESSEL OK SWEDISH DES
CENT.
From the Echo de Paris.
Various stories as to the nationality
of Gen. Sloessel have made him out
a German, a Jew, a Swiss and a
Swede.
It appears that in a way Russia is
indebted to her ancient enemy, Sweden,
for the Valiant defender of Port Ar
thur, for Gen. Stoessel’s grandfather
was a Swedish army officer. But his
father served in the Russian army
and was a member of the orthodox
church. Gen. Htoessel, who Is now 56
years old, studied at the Pavloff Mili
tary Academy In the same class as
Kuropatkin, and served through the
war with Turkey. Then, as a com
mander In Siberia, he won high dis
tinction for administrative work.
PYGMIES COST Kit AMI IS gn.lUf,
From tha New York Times.
St. Louis, Dec. 4.—A barrtl of salt
flat the King of the Pygmies and a
huge "pearl” necklace for their Queen
tere the presents chosen by President
Francis of the imposition for the rul
ers of this Interesting people, nine rep
reeeniattves of which have been at
tjie World’# Fair all aunimsi.
They alerted home Ibis morning
after bidding Mr. FisuHi farewell. To
each hr gave ( wet■ h fob worth M
Mule and three |v-miii places. The
hsuel of salt for their King cost Mr.
Franc ie 11, end the swUeiie for the
Queen M osots so the price ef his
ganeoueiip ail told war /test NN.
Tonight
Just before retiring, If yonr liver i.
sluggisb, out of tune and you feel dulL
bilious, constipated, take • dose ol
Hood’s Pills
And you’ll be all right In the morning
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE.
SUBURBAN LINES.
Effective Dec. 6, 1904.
ISLE OF HOPE Lim
between Isle of Hope and 40th Street
_ Lv. Isle of Hope.
*- A.M. P.M.
730 6:00 1:00
8 I 7:00 2:00
2:30 . 8:00 3:00
9-30 ..... 9-00
1030 3:30 ,10:00 4:00
11-30 | u ; oo
•* ® :3 ® ..... 7:00
7= 30 ...... 8:00
3:3 ° ...... 10:00
}® :3 ® _ * 10:55
*Vla Montgomery to city.
Between Isle of Hope & Thunderbolt!*
Lv. Isle of Hope. Lv. Thunderbolt
A. M. P. M. A. M. P. M.
••••• *3:00 .... *1:50
700 6:00 17:22 *5:60
3: °° 88:22 6:38
, . *9:50 7:38
512-minute wait at Sandfly.
•Parcel car, passenger trailer.
MONTGOMERY '
Between Montgomery and 40th Street.
Lv. Montgomery. LvTiOth St
„, P - M - A. M, P. M.
*5:50 51:30 . 8:30 1-30
'6:50 12:30 ’ 10:30 2:30
t7 . :53 J 3: °5 t..... 3:30
9:50 t5:50 6:30
•Connects with parcel car for city
'Through to Thunderbolt
it HB-minte wait at Sandfly going to
Between Montgomery & Thundebolt
A - M. P. M. A. M. P. M.
6:50 3:05 7:22 3:38
.’.53 6:50 8:22 6:38
—* ’ " 7:08 7:38
MII.L-HAVEN SCHEDULE.
Leave Whitaker and Bay Streets.
A. M. A. M. " pi M. P. M
6.20 10:00 12:40 6:20
6:40 10:40 1:20 6:00
7:00 11:20 2:00 6:40
7-20 12:00 2:40 7:20
f : ®® 3:20 8:00
9-20 4;40
t 9:20
' tl 0:00
'•: ’ * •’•••, til:2o
TSaturday night only.
__ Leave Mill-Haven.
A. M. A. M. p. M. p \f
6:40 11.00 12:20 5-4(j
700 11:40 1:00 'loi!
Z.?? I 1:10 -6:40
H® ' 3:00 7:40
10;™ , 4 . :2 f . 9 . :00
1 tlO: 20
til :00
tSaturday night only. tl-.00
Hermitage one-half mile from
terminus of Mill-Haven Line.
THUNDERBOLT LINeT^
City Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton Street Junction.
<-"? e^r nn t n ? ® a - m. cars leave
City Market for Casino at Thunder
bolt every half hour until 11: SO p m
Cars lfeave Bolton street Junction
15 minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 6:53 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak Station for city every half
hour until 12:08 midnight.
COLLINSVII.LE LINE.
Beginning at 5:50 a. m. cars leave
Waters road and Estill aventie everv
30 minutes until 11:50 p. m.
Beginning at 6:15 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Waters road and
Estill avenue every 30 minutes until
12:15 midnight.
Through cars are operated between
Market and Thunderbolt via Collins
ville and Dale avenue as follows-
Lv - M*r k et Lv . Thunderbolt.
cii- 7:30 A. M.
6. 4 :> P. M. 7;30 P.M.
WEST END LINE ILlneoln Park >
Car leaves west side of City Market tnr T i™.
coin Park 6:<*o a. m. and everv in
thereafter until 11:4*1. “ minute*
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market 6.-80 a m
midnight 40 mlnute * thereafter until lSo'clock
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR
Leaves east side of City Market fnrThT,./iL
Kaararfij-iisrS
Bass
Preiaht car leaves Montgomeryat 5.50 a m.
and 2:35 p. m., counectlng atSaudnVwtth reg
ular parcel car foi city. * “ anyw l“ *
Parcel car from the city carries freight to
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation of passengeta
Any further information regarding
passenger schedule can be had by ap
plying to L. R. NASH. Mgr.
r THROUGH TRAIN
SERVICE
TO
CALIFORNIA
AND ALL PRINCIPAL
POINTS WCST
via
Union Pacific
SHORTEST route
FASTEST TIME
SMOOTHEST TRACK
Electric Lighted Trains Daily.
Inquire at
3. F. VAN KF.NMELAER,
18 Peachtree St.,
"v_ ATLANTA. OA. /
Seed Oats, Seed Rye,
Bee Keepers' and
Poultry Supplies.
HARDEN &ROURK,
Hay, Grain and Feed,
ll* Hay hirer,. Weet-
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