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4 gfe fHofnittg gifttpg. Moraine Mown Building, Snrannnh, (in SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1901. Registered at Postoffice in Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, one week, IS cents; one month, 70 cents; three months, 12.00; six months, $4.00, one year, 18.00. THE MORNING NEWS by mail, six time a week (without Sunday issue), one month, 50 cents; three months, 11.50; six months, 13.00; one year. 16.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mail, one year, 11.00. Subscriptions payable In advance. Remit by money order, check or reg istered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of sender. Transient advertisements, other than local or reading notices, amusements and classified column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch in depth—is the standard of measurement. Classified column ad vertisements, 1 cent a word each inser tion. Every word and figure counted— No advertisement accepted for less than 15 cents week days, 25 cents Sundays. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at. busi ness office. Orders for delivery of the Morning News to either residence or place of business can bo made by mail or by telephone No. 210. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately re ported. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed “MORNING NEWS,” Savan nah. Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York City, H. C. Faulkner, Man ager. )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 Wanted, Employment Wanted, For 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 U*.in. *r'oJ t AIL*. ,,, “** *** 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 hi* grfu y >*•!*? m A HrvH profftWMir •*? h* h #lJ*mivit"| that the* m*Mill it *TH'liHtf In I,HP* pin** ill# Ijtgf tiun Hnii il |l Willi it*! |*<A4f* vs|t*Al Hit* I m m*m* turn h§<* SAVANNAH -MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1904. 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. — * * ’ - 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 — >♦. - 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 Hood’s Sarsaparilla Has won success far beyond the effect *f advertising only. The seciv. of its wonderful popular ity is explained by its unapproachable Merit. Based upon a prescription which eured people considered incurable, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Unites the best-known vegetable rem edies, by such a combination, propor tion and process as to have curative power peculiar to itself. Its cures of scrofula, eczema, psori asis, and every kind of humor, as well as catarrh and rheumatism prove Hood’s Sarsaparilla the best blood purifier ever produced. Its cures of dyspepsia, loss of appe tite and that tired feeling make it th . greatest stomach tonic and strength restorer the world has ever known. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is a thoroughly good medicine. Begin to tak- ;* —''MV. Get HOOD’S. r THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE TO CALIFORNIA AND ALL PRINCIPAL POINTS WEST via Union Pacific SHORTEST ROUTE FASTEST TIME SMOOTHEST TU,U K Electric Lighted Trains Daily. Inquire at J. F. VAN RENSSELAER, 13 Peachtree St., K ATLANTA, GA. A OFFICIAL. '^TjQrSITTICEXSR 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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