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)M)LX 10 ADVEfiIISEMENTS
Special Notices —Just to Remind You,
Andrew Hanley Cos.; Fancy King Ap
ples, Collins, Grayson & Cos.; Fresh
Mushrooms. M. S. Gardner; At Joyce’s
To-day; To Investors, James Hunter.
Business Notices—The Season’s Game,
Sommers’ Cafe; Bicycles for Boys and
Givis, G. W. Thomas; Pinafore Mix
tures, A. M. & C. W. West.
Our Saturday Bargains—Rowlinski,
Druggist.
Special Daily Sale No. 12—B, H. Levy.
Bro. & Cos.
Christmas Presents For All—At The
Bee Hive.
Sweet-Scented Sachet—Livingston's
Pharmacy.
Values Extraordinary To-day—The
Metropolitan.
Diamonds—Dr. M. Schwab's Sbn.
Foods—Royal Baking Powder; Grape-
Nuts.
Whisky—Lewis’ 66 Rye.
Two Dozen Pieces —E. & W. Laun
dry.
One More Week—Lattimore.
Try Tetterine To-day—Shuptrine.
Boys and Tomboys—Edward Lovell’s
Sons.
Good Advice—Pete Dailey.
7',4 Cent Cotton —A. Ehrlich & Bro.
Green River Whiskey—Henry Solo
mon & Son.
Proposals Wanted—For Constructing
Hospital at Fort Screven, Ga.
This is Bargain Day—Rowlinski,
Druggist.
The Pure Food Store—The Delmonico
Cos.
Latest Things in Stationery—The
Solomon Cos.
Men’s Clothing—B. H. Levy, Bro. &
Cos.
Christmas Shopping—Leopold Adler.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
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Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal, Mis
cellaneous.
Tlie Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for rain, with fresh south
to west winds. Eastern Florida, rain,
with south to west winds.
It must be gall and wormwood to
Mrs. Carrie Nation to see how Mrs.
Chadwick is playing in the limelight
these days. Carrie will have to get a
larger hatchet, talk louder and smash
more costly fixtures than has been her
custom heretofore.
Mrs. Chadwick and President Beck
with of the Oberlin bank spent a very
pleasant quarter of an hour together
in the Cleveland Jail. Mrs. Chadwick
was gracious, and President Beckwith
was a delighted as if he has still other
thousands to loan on brown paper se
curity.
Hotel clerks in ail parts of the coun
try are advised to give attention to
the story that a hotel clerk in Nash
ville, Tenn., has just received a check
for SIO,OOO from a man to whom he
showed some civil attention several
years ago. There is never any know
ing when one is entertaining an angel
mf&wares.
Commissioner of .Pensions Ware paid
his farewell visit to the President the
other day. He goes out of office on
Jan. 1, next, with the best wishes
of all who are not pension applicants.
His unvarying good nature and quick
wit have made him innumerable
friends—always with the exception
noted. “1 uni going back lo Kansas,”
said Mr. Ware, "among the cyclones
to get a little rest. 1 want something
easy.” After a, time in ttie pension of
fice it is not surprising that Mr. Ware
regards Kansas cyclones a* restful and
nerve-soothing.
Representative Tuwney of Minnesota,
who has Just returned from s trip to
Alaska, says there are in that territory
unlimited supplies of spruce timber
available for paper-pulp making. Tbs
paper-pulp supply furs become a ques
tion of great Interest to |Nt|>er usets
In this country As the law now
•lands, *>gporis of timber, lumber, logs,
pulp or ny of the manufactures
OtetMif from Alaska lo the United
IRsles are prohibited, niacin ally. Ml
TiVfMry || |u#i|ig t|j liilrodun # tt it 111 lii
relieve the sltuatpar and permit of the
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ADVICE FOIt CTTO\ FARMERS.
It is interesting to note the various
plans that are proposed to the cotton
farmers to get a better price for the
balance of their cotton than that now
prevailing. In Thursday's issue of the
Atlanta Constitution, there are three
of these plans outlined. The authors
of them are Thomas E. Watson of
Thomson, Ga., who was the Populist
candidate for President, George Dole
Wadley of Bolingbroke, Ga., and E.
A. CiUwford, of Tallahassee, Fla.
Mr. Watson says the slump in the
price of cotton was brought about part
ly by a huge combination among the
bears and partly “by the method in
which the government report has been
handled.” He is confident there is no
good reason for the slump that has
taken place in the price of cotton. His
plan is to hold cotton. He says;
"Keep the cotton and you are the
masters of the situation. Make up
your minds not to sell until next sum
mer. Do that and stop selling. Then
you will see cotton prices run up.
* * * * The bull can do nothing, the
bear can do nothing, the mill can do
nothing, without the actual cotton.
The man who has got the cotton can
dictate prices.”
Evidently Mr. Wadley doesn’t think
Mr. Watson's plan a good one. Accord
ing to his view the price is governed
by the actual amount of the cotton —
the size of the crop. Therefore, he
proposes to reduce the amount by put
ting a part of the crop out of exist
ence. He says:
"Let every owner of cotton in the
South bring to the county seat of his
county on the 24th day of this month
one-tenth of all the cotton he holds,
whether in warehouses or at home,
and there in one combined pile make a
bonfire of it. These fires extending
from Virginia to Texas, and taking
place as nearly as possible at the same
time, would not only take away from
the supply of cotton in the South some
700,000 bales, but would put the man
ufacturing world on notice that we
do not intend to furnish it for less than
a remunerative price.”
Mr. Crawford’s plan saves the cot
ton to the world and threatens the
bears with financial ruin. He says if
the cotton growers want to get ahead
of those "genial gentlemen of the
North who have been industriously
kicking them for forty years or more,”
they should carefully consider his plan.
It is this:
"First, let every cotton grower of the
South go to his local merchant or
banker and have that gentleman buy
for him, through the New York Cotton
Exchange, a contract calling for 100
bales of cotton, to be delivered in Oc
tober of next year, the price at which
delivery is to be made will, of course,
be the price prevailing now, as fixed
by the ‘bears’ and spinners.
“Second, then let every grower go
to his home and plant just exactly one
half as many acres in cotton next year
as he planted this year, producing a
total crop of between 6,000,000 and 7,-
000,000, instead of a crop of between 11,-
000.000 and 12,000,000, and—then rest
and be happy. Such a crop for 1906
will readily command 25 cents per
pound—sl2s per bale—and a total of
about $800,000,000, at about one-half
the cost that was required to produce
this crop. Then his contract cotton —
100 bales—will pay him the difference
between, say 8 cents and 25 cents, or
17 cents net, $8,500, and he can keep
on being happy at the- other fellow’s
expense.” k
Mr. Crawford's plan promises much
the largest return. Indeed, if carried
out successfully it would make the
cotton farmers so rich that thev could
afford to give up farming and spend
the rest of their days in cutting cou
pons off their bonds. But there aye
two questions which he seems to have
overlooked. The first is, how could all
the cotton farmers be persuaded to
adopt it? The second is, if they did
adopt it, wouldn't the price of cotton
be pretty high before all the contracts
were placed?
Mr. Wadley’s plan would, of course,
affect the price of cotton, but while
every cotton farmer would be willing
for his neighbor to burn one-tenth of
his cotton, how many would b willing
to follow Mr. Wadley’s example and
burn his own?
It is worthy of notice that in all
the plans the fact is recognized that
the size of the crop is partly, if not
wholly, responsible for the fall in
price. The bulls and the bears, the
spinners and the speculators haven’t so
much to do with putting up or putting
down the price as that one fact. The
lesson, therefore, which the present
situation teaches is. don’t plant so
much cotton. Diversify crops. Plant
for a fair-sized crop when the price 1?
profitable, and then the world will be
come educated to cotton that yields
tha farmer a profit.
A BALD SUGGESTION.
An express train of the Great
Northern was hurtling through the
night uir. There had been delays, and
it had time to make up between Spok
ane Falls and the Northern division.
The engineer, with nerves tense and
eyes "peeled,” sat in the window of
his cab. Telegraph poles snapped past
the vision of the watchers. The train
was literally "burning"' the wind,” as
it is sometimes phrased. Meanwhile
the alert engineer was watching his
track, tis aU good and faithful engi
neers do, especially on fast trains that
are behind time. The powerful head
light shone down the track and illum
inated it for the distance of several
hundred feet. As the train, flying
along and touching the earth only on
high places, approached the Columbia
river, the watchful engineer saw some
thing white, scintillating and menac
ing on the track. The rays of the
headlight were refracted from It and
made the white object seem as big as
a hogshead and as dangerous as a
boulder. The engineer was temporarily
fascinated by the apparition, but me
chanically he shut off the steam and
applied the air brakes. With a shiver
the train came lo a dead stop three
feet from the object; which proved to
be the bald head of Peter Walkirk,
who had gone to sleep on the approach
of the bridge with his polished pale Dare
to the glare of any headlight that
might happen along. The uueatlon
arises. If a bald head is thus effective
In stopping a train, why would it not
lie a good Idea to abolish the sema
phore system and subatltule bald heads
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ANOTHER VIEW OF THE HACK
QUESTION.
Lawyers, politicians and Journalists
are not the only ones th'at are discuss
ing the race question. Farmers are tak
ing part in the discussion, and what
they are saying shows they have given
it a good deal of thought, and Wave a
better understanding of it than
many of those who write elab
orate easays on it. For in
stance a farmer of Talladega, Ala., in
a letter to a New York paper, expresses
some views that will strike the average
reader as being well considered and
sound.
in answer to 'a statement of Booker
Washington in the Montgomery Ad
vertiser, as to why the negro leaves the
farm and goes to the town, he says that
the War of Secession emancipated the
poor whites of the South as well as the
blacks, and that after the war the plan
ter thought himself better than the poor
whites who constituted more than half
of the South’s population and wouldn’t
associate with them. The planters
therefore found themselves with only
negroes for neighbors. So their children
moved to the towns, and soon after
wards they followed them. The planta
tions were rented ’to poor white men, in
many instances. Gradually these poor
white men brought their relatives from
their mountain homes, and, together
with their own families, cultivated the
land. Of course they had the help of
the negroes when they hadn’t sufficient
help of their own, but, gradually, the
number increased, and therefore they
had less use for the labor of the negroes.
The consequence has been that those
who were classed as poor whites be
for the war have become the farmers
of the South, and they are gradually
taking up the land and opening up
farms. They are the people also who
are supplying the labor for the cotton
mills. They are the people who furnish
ing the foremen for the Iron mills and
the coal mines and for most of the
other enterprises. They are building up
the South.
What they have done and what they
are doing is apparent to all. This year
they have done the largest part towards
producing more than 12,000,000 bales of
cotton, besides more corn, hay and
other crops th’an the South has ever,
in any one year, produced before.
This Alabarrfa farmer concludes his
letter by saying that these white men
from the mountains mean to make the
Southern country a white man’s country
They don’t intend it shall be a Hayti.
It is because of this intention, he says,
that the South is solid.
There is of course much truth in 'this.
It is a fact that the greater part of the
cotton crop is made now by white
labor. It is planted, cultivated and
picked by white people. And to a great
er extent every year the farms of the
South are worked by white hands. It
is well understood of course that the
operatives in the cotton mitys and most
other factories are white. This is be
cause white labor is more efficient.
But if the poor whites and their des
cendents expect to make the South what
it ought to be and what it is capable
of-becoming they ought to take care
th'at their children have the very best
education it is possible for them to get.
It is a notorious fact that the mill
people do not seem to J>e as deeply in
terested in the education of their child
ren as they ought to be. They put them
in the mills as soon as they are old
enough to earn a dollar.
In South Carolina it is proposed to rem
edy this condition of affairs. A bill
will be introduced into the legislature
when it meets next month making at
tendance at school compulsory. It is
alleged that in that state there are now
about 20,000 more negro, than white,
children in the public schools. That will
never do if South Carolina Is to remain
in control of the white people. The poor
whites may be proud of what'they have
accomplished, but to meet their re
sponsibilities fully they must educate
their children.
A SOI THEKNKK IN THE CABINET.
There seems to be a pretty general
impression that the President will come
South for one of the members of his
new cabinet. There is no good reason
why the Impression isn’t well founded.
The South is growing in wealth and
population rapidly, and is now prob
ably the most prosperous section of
the country. And Mr. Roosevelt had
a good many supporters in the South
in the recent election. The proportion
which he got of the votes cast in this
and some of the other Southern states
was 'about as large as the Democratic
candidate got in some of the strongest
of the Republican states.
From what is being said in the news
papers and from resolutions that are
being adopted by commercial bodies of
the South, it seems that the selection
of Col. R. J. Lowry, of Atlanta, would
meet with approval of the Southern
people. He has made an impression
upon the South as a man of ability,
and as a banker. The fact that he is
a Republican and a strong friend of the
President hasn’t lessened the esteem In
which he is held iu the least. If he
shodld be made Secretary of the Treas
ury he would fill that high office to the
entire satisfaction of the country, and
his appointment would be pleasing to
both Republicans and Democrats.
As the president of the Lowry Bank
ing Company and ex-president of the
American Bankers’ Association, he Is
widely known. If the President were
looking for handsome men as members
of his cabinet he would select Col.
Lowry at once. In Col. Lowry, how
ever, he would secure a gentleman of
llrst-class ability as welt as of flue
uppeai'ance.
A writer in the Outlook points out
that between Jan. 1, 1902, and June 80,
1903, there were killed in strikes 180
persons. Injured 1,631 and arrested 5,583.
Non-union men seem to have got the
worst of it all along, as 116 non-union
to 61 union men were killed. In ar
rests and injured the proportion was
about the name. During the time IS
• ■IIP cm of the law Were killed and IS4
Injured In cimriection with lalmr trou
bles.
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A Mil Is to he Introduced Into the
Nebraska leglelalure prohibiting foot
ball In the stale, The same legislator
Mini pmfMMMW tire bill ought to follow
If With one prohibiting the uae of p|„g.
There have been oeveral death# from
the e a alb< tng of pma
A school is maintained in connection
with Chicago’s prison system. Com
petent teachers give daily instructions
to the prisoners. Not long ago one
of the instructors delivered a lecture
to his prison class on radium. Shortly
thereafter one of the members of the
class was discharged, having served
his time. A few nights later the office
of a prominent physician was burglar
ized. The burglar passed over a num
ber of cases of costly surgical instru
ments and stole only a bit of radium
with which the doctor had been ex
perimenting. It transpired that the
burglar was the prisoner who had
heard the radium lecture in the prison
school. After this, of course, it can
not be questioned that the education of
criminals is attended with advantages.
Except for hi 6 attendance on the lec
ture, the prisoner would never have
known that radium is worth something
like $200,000 per ounce.
Willis W. Cooper was one of the vic
tims of the Iroquois Theater disaster
in Chicago last year. Mr. Cooper was
a wealthy man. Among his other be
quests he left SIOO,OOO to Lawrence
University, at Appleton, Wis. Law
rence University is a Methodist school.
The trustees have declined to accept
the bequest, on the ground that Mr.
Cooper came to his death while in at
tendance at a place of amusement,
contrary to the rules of the Methodist
Church. Had Mr. Cooper met death
accidentally on a hunting trip, or had
he fallen down an elevator shaft at a
hotel, there would have been no ques
tion raised about accepting his money.
But because he was at a theater, the
school is to be denied the benefaction
which he hoped and planned to be
stow upon it.
The late L. Clark Davis, editor of the
Philadelphia Ledger, was the head of
a rather remarkable literary family.
He was himself a man of far above
the ordinary literary instincts and
ability, and every member of his fam
ily has become 'an author of note. His
wife, Rebecca Harding Diavis, is the
author of many novels and numerous
papers in leading magazines. One of
his sons Is Richard Harding Davis, the
novelist, traveler and war correspond
ent. Another son, .Charles Belmont
Davis, is well known in the world of
letters, though not as well known pos
sibly as his. brother, A daughter of
Clark Davis is also known to maga
zine and novel readers through her
excellent work. Lt is not often that
one family contributes so much to the
intellectual side of contemporary' his
tory. .'Jj
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The Indianapolis News prefaces a
story thus: “In these winterish days,
when most outside work is impossi
ble- —” And this, mind you, is in the
Middle West of our country. Early In
December, with winter hardly started,
they are having days in which "out
side work is impossible." We seldom
have such days here in the South,
throughout the ti-hole season. It fre
quently occurs That we sit on our
piazzas after Cfiffstmas dinner and
enjoy the balmy'atmosphere. There is
not the slightest tUfftctilty in working
out-of-doors practically the whole year
around. Nor aiwour suinmers more
oppressive than those of Indiana. The
fact is, we have the finest, most even
and delightful climate in the world, that
is perpetually a Joy to those who are
so fortunate as to live in it.
PERSONAL.
—-Melvin O. Adams, who has just
been named United States district at
torney for Massachusetts, has made
an enviable record as a railroad pres
ident and also as -a lawyer.
—One of the Republicans swept into
Congress by the landslide in Missouri
is William T. Tindall of Sparta. The
congressional convention for the Four
teenth district nominated Mr. Tindall
without his knowledge or consent.
When the notice of his nomination was
received he said: "Pshaw! I’d decline
it, only I hate to waste a 2-cent stamp
on it.”
BRIGHT BITS.
Johnsing—"Yo* ain* no heavy
weight, now I tell yo’ dat!” ’Rastus—
“ls dat so? Well, Ah ain’ hea'd no
visitors in de City Tourin’ Cahs ask
whah you lives at, neithah!”—Cleve
land Leader.
—A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his
granny,
“A canner can can
Anything that he can.
But a canner can't can a can, can
he?”
—Exchange.
CIHRENT COMMENT.
The Natchez (Miss.) Democrat
(Dem.) says: The sectional hatchet
is not buried deep enough. There
is just enough of the handle sticking
out to afford a good grip to the mis
guided man who wants to pull it out
and shake the blade in the air.”
The Louisville Courier Journal
(Dem.) says; "Having determined
to appoint Crum because of his color,
the President has stubbornly stuck to
that determination, and all the more
stubbornly because of the objections
urged against the appointment. That
s the long and short of the Crum
incident.”
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun
(Dem.) says: "It is said that the
Latimer good roads bill, although,
favorably reported, is doomed to be
defeated, on account of the economi
cal wave that is sweeping over Con
gress. Georgia, however, should not
be affected by this, hut should go
right ahead with the work of Improv
ing her public highways."
The Chicago Tribune (Rep.) says: "If
judges, who above all other men are
supposed to know and respect the
laws, do not keep honest expense ac
counts. ordinary mortals should not be
expeoted to be perfect. Nor are they.
One dints often members of state
lioards or commissions, who are al
lowed so many dollars a day for every
day they are “actually employed,"
swelling the numb'i of days and rob
bing the slate. The eonoclenca of the
congressman does not sting him when
tie travels to Washington on a pass
and then collceta his mileage. Gov
ernment employes and those of private
corporations are often none too scrup
ulous m making out expense account*
Absolute honesty Iti such matters Is
must desirable If the contemplated
Impeachment of Judge Mwayn* shall
make judges more particular the good
example they art may gradually In
flueoce tboag xby hold lea# liviss slrls
Poe-uoux.” *
*
A Itrr)iiiimrnillnon to Hen. Spinuer.
Applicants for government positions
under the civil service have a more
or less discouraging time of it, says
the Washington Post. It was not so
in the olden days, when positions were
first thrown open to women during
the Civil War. Here is the story of
the appointment under Gen. Spinner
•of one who is still a clerk in the Treas
ury Department':
“It was in 1864,” she said, “two years
after the appointment of women had
become a permanent thing. I was in
Washington visiting a sister. I made
up my mind that I wanted a position,
and so, without saying a word to any
one, I went to the treasury and made
my own application. I simply walked
into Gen. Spinner’s office and said:
“ ‘Gen. Spinner, I would like a po
sition in the treasury.’ The general
looked up carelessly, and then went on
with his work.
“ ‘How long have you been in Wash
ington?’ he asked.
’’ ’Three years.’
“ 'What influence have you?’ he ask
ed.
“ ‘What influence?’ I stammered. ‘I
don’t know what you mean.’ I was be
ginning to get embarrassed.
“ ‘Yes, influence,’ he said. ’What
congressmen do you know?’
" I don’t know any,’ I faltered. This
time the general threw down his pen,
leaned back in his chair and looked at
me.
“ ‘You’ve been in Washington three
years and don’t know any congress
man?’ he queried. ’Good! That's rec
ommendation enough. The position is
yours.’ ”
What it Boy Should. Know.
From the Young People’s Magazine.
Avery successful man, in speaking
of what a young man should know to
begin a business life in the right way,
summarized the qualifications about as
follows: ,
He should be able to write a good
legible hand.
To spell all the words that he knows
how to use.
To write an ordinary receipt.
To speak and- write good English.
To write a good social or business
letter.
To add a column of figures rapidly.
To make out an ordinary account.
To deduct 16V& per cent, from the
face of the account.
To receipt an account when It is paid.
To write an advertisement for the
newspaper. v-isim
To write an ordinary promissory
note.
To reckon the interest or the dis
count on the note for years, months
or days.
To draw up an ordinary bank check.
To take it to the right place in the
bank to get the money.
To make neat and correct entries in
day-book or cash-book.
To tell the number of yards of car
pet required for the parlor.
To tell something about the great
authors, statesmen and financiers of
the present time.
If, says the successful business man,
a boy can do all this it is probable
that he has enough education to make
his wa\ in the world.
Doubling on Hlm Trail.
A well known lawyer tells of an ac
quaintance who -called on him a few
days ago The visitor is 82 years old
and has lived in Los Angeles for half
a century, says the New York press.
His two trips to Ne<v York were ex
actly thirty years apart—lß74-1904
and on tte recent journey he endeav
ored to repeat' the experiences of the
former; that is, he went to the same
hotels, wherever they still existed ef<?.
Being rich in 1874, nothing was too
good for him; and it would interest
you to hear him tell of the moth-eaten,
ramshackle hostelries of to-day which
were regarded as palaces thirty years
ago. He found but one hotel in the
entire list that survives in perfect up
to-dateness, and that is in New York
—the famous old Fifth Avenue. The
aged visitor registered at the Fifth Av
enue Hotel and asked the clerk for the
same room he occupied in 1874. The
registers were gotten out of the store
room and the number was found.
"That room is occupied,” said the
obliging clerk, “but I know what a lit
tlement sentiment is, and sympathize
with you. Fortunately, its occupant
is an intimate friend. He’ll vacate
for you, I know.” Which proved to be
the case, and the old fellow was meas
urably happy.
The Variety of Ghosts.
Morgan Robertson, the writer of sea
stories, has four or five newspaper clip
pings which give him a ip ugh every
time he looks at them, says a# ex
change. , . -
“Some time ago,” he explains, ”1
gave an order to a concern which fur
nishes newspaper clippings, telling the
manager that I wanted ghost stories.
I undertook to explain that what 1
wanted was Action that dealt with
spirits and spooks, but the clipping
man said he understood and would fix
me allright.
“In a few days I began receiving
clippings about ghosts. One of the
slips was taken from a country paper
in Pennsylvania, and it said that
rival sheet had ‘given up the ghost.’
Another clipping, taken from a Louis
ville paper, was a pert paragraph Jrom
some other paper regarding Bryan' and
the Democracy, over which was the
captain, ‘Hamlet Without the Ghost.’
"Another clipping referred to the pro
duction of Ibsen’s ‘Ghosts’ In London,
while the fourth was an editorial para
graph from a North Carolina paper in
which a political convention was re
ferred to ag a ’gh ist dance.’ I never
realized before thst there were so
many kinds of ghostt”
Wlnlom' WhiMporM.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
It is well to take time in thinking
before making accusations.
There is a species of treason in car
rying water on both shoulders in a
love affair.
Women take fright easily over a
lover's compliments to another of the
fair sex.
in every man there is a disposition
to do the grand where women are
concerned.
Some women say nice things in a
way that bring a feeling of pride as
well as satisfaction.
When one man sneers at another it
is fair to presume Jealousy Is at the
bottom of it.
It hurts a woman’s pride to have an
other woman share with her a man's
attention.
Many men delight to play the heavy
swell in uniform that Is gaudy anil
cheap.
A woman who can use her eyes with
effect Is dangerous rival.
When a man regards himself as Irre
sistible it Is time to do some quiet
thinking and self-abnegation.
New One on Him.
The principal of the school was talk
ing with him about hla boy, auya the
Chicago Tribune.
"By the way, Mr. Wipedunka,” he
said, "I have mads a discovery about
Jerry. He’s ambidextrous.”
"I don’t ate how that •an he.” re.
piled Mr. Wipedunka, with rising In
dig fist loti * lie hatn’t lievor been eg
lamed to It. H.-alde* he was vaccinated
laet year, wa baihe him reg lar every
week, and Me mother always make*
him a ear a little bag of aaeaflddlty j
tied around hla nark Home of live i
other hojfx lt heat, lyin' ou him." J
THE POPULAR VOTE.
From the New York Commercial.
The official figures of the popular
vote for President in the recent elec
tion are now practically completed,
and they constitute a basis for some
interesting comparisons and specula
tions. Briefly, the total popular vote
amounted to 13,533,000, of which the
Roosevelt electors received 7,640,000 and
the Parker ticket virtually 5,100,000 —
the balance being divided between the
two Socialist, the Prohibition and the
Populist candidates for the presi
dency.
Roosevelt’s vote exceeds McKinley’s
in 1896 by practically 535,000 and that
of 1900 by about 430,000. On the other
hand, Parker’s vote r*an behind Bry
an's in 1896 by 1,400,000 and behind
Bryan’s in 1900 by nearly 1,300,000. It
even fell behind Cleveland’s vote in
both 1892 and 1888 by nearly 500,000;
and it barely surpassed Cleveland's
vote in 1884 —twenty ye'ars ago.
And an odd circumstance is that the
total vote for President at the recent
election—all candidates included—is be
tween 400,000 .and 500,000 less than it
was in 1900 or in 1896. This clearly
indicates that there was a vast army
of voters—most of them, evidently,
Democrats—who did not take the pains
'to go to the polls last month. It is
true that the combined vote for the
two Socialist candidates—Debs. and
Corregan—is 300,000 greater than it
was in 1900 and that the Populist presi
dential nominee, Watson, polled a vote
of about 124,000; but this plainly does
not account for the tremendous dis
crepancy between the vote cast for
Roosevelt and that cast for McKinley
in 1900 and again in 1896, or for the
enormous falling off in the Parker vote
as contrasted with the Bryan vote in
both these same years.
These statistics furnish excellent
ground for the inference that an enor
mous number of Democrats —or, at
least, of voters on whose support of
Parker the Democratic leaders had
counted—voted for . Roosevelt. They
bear out the presumption, further, that
•a considerable number of Bryan’s for
mer adherents rallied to the Roosevelt
standard—whether from motives of re
venge or because they believed that the
President was more in line with their
views than Judge Parker each person
will have to decide for himself. Un
doubtedly, however, the “prosperity”
argument had a strong effect with
many voters of anti-Republiean proc
livities.
But in whatever light it may be re
ceived the President’s triumph was a
remihriMble one, and it is doubtful if
we wiaJl look upon its like again—at
least, in the immediate future.
FLOWERS THAT WON’T FADE.
From the New York Sun.
San Francisco, Dec. 14.—Following
his production of the thornless cactus,
Luther Burbank has developed an
everlasting real flower that will not
fade or lose its odor. He calls it the
"Australian Star Flower.” He evolv
ed it after crossing, recrossing and se
lection from a half hardy annual found
in West Central Australia.
Mr. Burbank describes the plant as
a "unique and beautiful plant, which
grows readily from seed in any ordi
nary garden soil, preferring rather
sandy loam. It blooms early in the
season and continues to bloom for a
long time.”
The fragrant flowers are of a crim
son shade, sometimes approaching
white. They are produced in large,
graceful clr ;ters, which, when cut, will
retain their form and color permanent
ly. The full grown plants are about
one foot high and the same across.
Although the stem of the flower may
dry up, the blossoms will not fade.
Me. Burbank has a cluster of these
blossoms in his library which have re
mained there unchanged for a year.
These real flowers bid fair to work a
revolution in millinery, as they are
far more pleasing than artificial blos
soms.
WHO OWNS A WOMAN’S HAIR.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.
There is nowadays virtually nothing
that a wife can do for which she can
not make her husband pecuniarily re
sponsible. Whatever happens he has
always got to pay her costs. And
though he leaves her at his peril, she
can always leave him at her pleasure;
and the law she can put in force to
compel his return to her is of no use
whatever to compel her to return to
him.
“When,” a benedict had decasion to
plead lately—“when I married her I
became in a sense part proprietor of
her hair.” Now she had brought him
before the Cadi on a charge of steal
ing that same hair. If it had been the
hair of her head and he had exercised
it in the course of business the charge
of stealing might perhaps have been
unsustainable. But she had bought
the heir with her own money and had
been at charges for making it up. The
husband had. as the Cadi pointed out,
no claim to the hair under the clrcum
i stances; there was no part ownership,
as there might once have been consid
ered to be, in the product, and no right
to raise money on it. In point of fact
the -relation between husband and
wife had come to be such that there
was only a committal for trial.
OIL GEYSER IN GULF OF MEXICO.
.From the New York Sun.
There was enough oil last Thursday
in the Gulf of Mexico, about 125 miles
southwest of the delta of the Missis
sippi, to calm the troubled waters of
a little ocean in a hurricane. There
have been reports heretofore of the
appearance of oil on the surface of
the Gulf and they have been received
with some degree of scepticism by
folks ashore.
Capt. Risk of the Mallory liner San
Jacinto, in yesterday from Galveston,
is responsible for the definite declara
tion that there were not only acres
and acres of oil that made the Gulf
about him look glasslike in smoothness,
but that the oil was distinctly seen,
close aboard ship, bubbling several
inches above the surface.
The captain declares that not only
did it look like oil, but that it posi
tively was oil. In his report he calls
it “crude petroleum." He was a day
out from Galveston, and he was more
than ten minutes steaming through the
preternaturally smooth sea. Where the
sea bubbled the surface was thick and
heavy with It.
It is said that the submarine oil
geyser in some way may bo connected
with the recent upheavals In Texas
oil wells.
INDIAN VOTERS IN OKLAHOMA.
From the Kansas City Journal.
At the last election In Oklahoma
three tribes of Indians voted. These
tribes are the Poncas, Kaws and Otoes.
Since the election four years ago these
tribe* have treated with the govern
ment and have allowed their lands to
be allotted. With this the member* of
the tribes became citizens, with the
full power to vote.
The Kaws took the liveliest Interest
In the • lection. There are forty-live
member# of the tribe who are entitled
to vote, and twenty-three of this num
ber are full bloods. Every one of the
forty-live, without exception, voted.
The Kaws are nearly all Republican.
Each Indian who could not read Eng
lish was allowed two Interpreters, a
Republican and a Democrat, *ii,i went
with him Into the Issith and assisted j
him In voting his ticket. With the
Ponca tribe the election was somewhat ]
different. They bud no ftxcd ideas and j
lk#y wanted to vote as • belt friends de- |
ailed. Tlie Judgi a and clerk# vvoilod j
bald until noon and succeeded in get.
I lug truly ten of til# bundled eligible
voter* si live Ulbe Is Civet lbell bal- j
lots, j
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City of Savannah, Office Clerk of
Council. Dec. 13, 1904.-—The follow
ing applications to retail liquor dur
ing the year 1905 were read at the
meeting of Council Dec. 7, 1904, and
referred to the Committee of the
Whoie. J. ROBERT CREAMER,
Clerk of Council.
Abel, Ohas., s. e. cor. Bay and Aber
corn sts.
Anderson, Jos. N., No. 42 Reynolds st.
Badenhoop, J. H., 523 West Broad, cor.
Huntingdon st.
Christopher, Geo., 510 Berrien st., w.
Christopher, Geo., 102 West Broad st.
Capatan, G. P., Bay and Farm sts.
Cunningham, Hardy C., s. w. cor. Ber
rien and Jefferson sts.
Dulohery, C, & Cos., East Broad and
Hartridge sts.
Friedman, J., 135 Margaret st.
Goldberg. Joe, 1821 Ogeechee road.
Gerken, H., agt., 715 Wheaton st.
Hevvett, M. W., Gwinnett and Bur
roughs sts.
Hodge, L. E., 565 Oak st.
Hermann, Peter, 317 Congress st., w.
Hicks, R. M., 21 Congress st., w.
Heitmann, J. F., 634 President st., e.
Heitmanp, C. H., 25 Eaat Broad st.
Helmken, J. H., s. e. cor. Liberty and
Whitaker sts.
Jenkins, H. W., “Marshall House,” 123
Broughton st., e. ,
Kuck, John, 412 Drayton st.
Lubs, John F., n. w. cor. Liberty and
Habersham sts.
Lang, Nicholas, 39 Barnard st.
Mosenzza, S. & Cos., Burroughs and
Duffy st. lane.
Ohsiek, Chas., 202 Reynolds st.
Peters, N. F., n. e. cor. Park ave. and
Burroughs st.
Rocker, John & Bro., s. w. cor. Jones
and West Broad sts.
Slahmer, John, Bryan and Ann tfts.
Sullivan, John, 15 Congress st., w.
Vollers, Wm„ 430 West Broad st.
Wellbrock, John F., 524 Jefferson st.
Wade, John TANARUS., s. w. cor. Oglethorpe
ave. and Houston st.
Wilkins, C„ West Broad and Gaston
sts.
INSPECT ANI) REPAIR YOUR
SIDEWALKS.
Notice to Owners oi’ Real Estate.
In conformity with resolutions
adopted by the City Council, on March
11, 1904, notice is hereby given:
I. To owners of abutting realty,
their lessees and agents, to keep in re-'
pair the sidewalks along their respec
tive frontages, including the small iron
boxes for gas and water connections,
wash payments, and the like, which
latter have metal covers adapted to
the sidewalk level.
11. In case of suits for damages
against the Mayor and Aldermen of
the city of Savannah for injuries to
persons or property, sustained by per
sons by reason of holes In sidewalks,
broken, displaced or loose brick or
stones, or of gas or water boxes, with
out covers, or protruding above side
walk level, or of other defects or ob
structions in and on sidewalks, the
owners of abutting realty or other
persons whose negligence may have
caused such defects and obstructions,
will be vouched to defend, and will be
held responsible for all damages
awarded against the city on account
of such Injuries to persons and prop
erty.
111. Sidewalks throughout the city
are being inspected, and notices have
been and are being sent to owners of
abutting realty, and to whom it may
concern, to repair sidewalk defects
promptly, or bear the consequences of
their neglect of duty.
Savannah, Ga., July 1, 1904.
GEO. M. GADSDEN,
Director of Public Work*.
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