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HEALTH
is the
Most Important
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from bad merely by the appearance;
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fallible one;
Some cheap brands may raise the dough,
yet contain unwholesome ingredients.
There is one safe, sure way, i. e.,
to follow the recommendations of the
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INTERNATIONAL POOL FORMED
TO CONTROL STEEL RAILS
London, Dec. 16.—Confirming the
report of the formation of an interna
tional steel rail pool, a telegram from
Barrow savs:
"The agreement, which was signed
by all the representatives of the Brit
ish, French, German and Belgian mak
ers, extends for a period of three years,
and Is likely to include American mak
ers at any rate over certain zones. It
was felt that the European agreement
left the door open for severe American
competition, so overtures were opened,
though not so much on the question of
price as on the zones to be allotted to
the European and American makers,
respectively.
"A scheme has been mapped out and
DEATHS.
ROCKER —Died at St. Joseph’s
Hospital this (Saturday) morning,
John Rocker in his fiftieth year. Fun
eral noitice later.
OBITUARY.
Nr. John Coleman.
Mr. John Coleman died at Macon
Thursday of pneumonia after an ill
ness of four months. He was 30 years
of age and was born in Savannah. He
was in the employ of the Central of
Georgia Railway at Macon as baggage
agent. Before going to Macon he was
employed here by the same company.
Two brothers, Mr. H. E. Coleman
of Statesboro, and Mr. M. J. Coleman
of this city survive. A sister, Mrs.
Thomas F. Gleason, resides at Pineora.
A widow and three small children also
survive. The remains were brought to
this city yesterday morning for burial.
The funeral will take place at 11
o'clock this morning from St. Pat
rick's Church, and the interment will
be in Cathedral Cemetery.
John Hooker.
Mr. John Rocker died at St. Joseph's
Hospital at 2 o’clock this morning
after an illness of six weeks. He
was a native of Germany and was
49 years of age. He leaves a moth
er, father, two sisters and a brother
in Germany, a brother, Henry, in Sa
vannah- and another brother, Richard,
in Miami. The funeral will probably
take place from his residence at Jones
and West Broad streets, where the
remains were removed by Thomas
Henderson’s Sons.
Mr. Williamson Lee Henderson.
The death of Mr. Williamson Lee
Henderson occurred yesterday after
noon at 1 o’clock at the residence of
his mother. No. 108 Gaston street, east.
He had been ill twelve months from
throat trouble. He was born in Sa
vannah 47 years ago. Mr. Henderson
1* survived by his mother, Mrs. M. E.
Henderson, and a sister, Mrs. Drum
mond. The funeral will take place
Sunday afternoon. Rev. J. Y. Fair
will conduct the services.
Mrs. R. p. Gannt, Hey v tile S. C.
Beaufort, S. C., Dec. 16.—Mrs. R.
P. Gaunt, of Hayvllle, Barnwell coun
ty, died yesterday, after a brief ill
ness. Her sons. Messrs. F. H.. W. D.
end R. l. Gaunt, left this morning
*o attend her funeral.
Prlnes Anion Itarislwlll.
Berlin, Dec. 16.—Prince Anton Rad
prominent In Berlin court life
end an Intimate of Emperor William
I. Is dead.
KILLED YOUNG WOMAN.
Hlrhardeon Shot Himself Then sod
IHed Soon After.
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practically agreed upon both by the
continental combine and the American
steel corporation. It Is anticipated
that the new pool will come into op
eration Jan. 1, and under its auspices,
it is expected that the price of heavy
rail sections, now 85 shillings per tonr,
will be lifted to 100 shillings. The com
bined Interests of all the large steel
mills of the four countries will be cen
tered in a London office through which
all the business will pass, and from
which orders will be allotted.
“This promises to be the strongest
and most effective combine ever
brought Into existence in connection
with the steel or any other trade in
this country, and the first time Brit
ish, German. French, Belgian and
American interests have been arranged
on a common platform.”
INDICTMENT OF LAWSON
Ik Songht Beeanse of Hlk Adrfrtiie
nirnt About Amalgamated.
New York, Dec. 16.—An application
for the indictment of Thomas W. Law
son and for the showing of the books
of the Amalgamated Copper Company
was made at the district attorney’s of
fice to-day by Henry Wellington Wack,
who lives most of the time in Lon
don.
Mr. Wack asks that a demand be
made on the Amalgamated Company
for its books, to ascertain just what
its stock is worth and if Lawson's
declaration proves false, he wants him
indicted under the code which pro
vides that any person who knowingly
circulates a false rumor, statement or
intelligence against a stock is punish
able by a fine of not more than $5,000,
or by imprisonment for not more than
three years, or both.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW
Wub DiKCUHKed By the President and
A- J. Cassatt.
Washington, Dec. 16.—A. J. Cassatt,
president of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, called at the White House to-day
prior to the cabinet meeting and had
a conference with President Roose
velt.
The conversation between Mr. Cas
satt and President Roosevelt related
largely to the proposed changes In the
interstate commerce law as suggest
ed in the President's annual message.
It is said that they found themselves
practically in agreement upon the sub
jest of proposed legislation.
Mr. Cassatt subsequently went to
the Capitol and conferred with Mr.
Elkins regarding the Interstate com
merce law.
DODGE ORDERED BACK.
Houston, Tex., Dec. 16.—Federal
Judge Burns to-day entered an order
in the case of Charles F. Dodge, want
ed in New York on a charge of per
jury, ordering the United States mar
shal to take Dodge back to New York
and threatening any one interfering
with the order with the extreme dis
pleasure of his court.
To Make Lancaster Independent.
Manchester, Dec, 16.—Sir Alfred
Jones, presiding at the first annual
meeting of the Rrltish Cotton Growing
Association, to-day predicted that the
movement would result not only In
making Lancaster independent of
America, but to some extent in mak
ing America dependent upon the col
ton growing fields of the British em
pire. Mr. MrCara announced that the
spinners' federation at a meeting to
day. had decided to energetically sup
port the British association.
A New Flavor
FOR BREAKFAST,
GRAPE-NUTS FOOD.
Hurnifhes the Carbohydrate*
in form of Post Sugar, valu
able for Athletes, Brain
Workers, or Invalids,
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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1904.
FUNERAL OF KRUGER.
Mnt* Fired at the Command ot
Kins Ktlwnrd.
Pretoria. Dec. 16.—Two thousand
burghers attended an Impressive re
ligious service to-day prior to the
bursal of the body of former Presi
dent Kruger. An Immense crowd til
ed through the death chamber.
Gen. Botha read a letter from Mr.
Kruger, exhorting them to preserve
their Boer national spirit. The read
ing of this letter created a profound
impression.
Gen. Botha in a speech strongly rec
ommended unification of the white
races in South Africa, as that is the
only means by which they can become
a great people and realize Kruger’s
ideal. .
By the King’s special request a sa
lute of twenty-one guns was tired as
the coffin was lowered into the grave.
INJUNCTION COULDN'T STAND. #
Not Lawful to Prevent the Organis
ing of a Strike.
New York, Dec. 16.—Justice Jenks
of the appellate division of the New
York State Supreme Court handed
down a decision to-day that an in
junction against organizing a strike
cannot stand.
He modified an injunction to pre
vent a strike which had been issued
by Justice Dickey of the Supreme
Court in a suit brought by William
F. Mills, William Kissam and other
employes against the United States
Printing Company of Ohio, the Inter
national Stereotypers and Electrotyp
ers Union and the New York Stereo
typers Union, in which the plaintiffs
asked the court to prevent the union
men from striking to force the print
ing company to discharge the non
union men. The court held that it
could not enjoin the strike and also
that "picketing” which consisted only
of stationing men for observation
without molestation would be lawful.
FRIENDS OF DEPEW
ARE NOT HOPELESS.
New York, Dec. 16.—From all that
can toe gathered to-day, It is more than
evident that' the friends of Senator
Depew do not regard the conference
which was called by Gov. Odell and met
last night \in this city,, as at all con
clusive. An attempt to commit the
gathering on the senatorial question
failed. Senator Depew said to-night:
"I had a very pleasant talk with the
Governor. He explained the situation
to me, and I now believe that thihgs
are coming my way.” ■
KUROKI WASN’T KILLED.
San Francisco, Dec. 16. —Capt. P. C.
March, of the general staff of the
United States army, one of the officers
selected by the department to accom
pany the Japanese army in the field
for the purpose of taking military ob
servations, has returned on the liner
Mongolia. Capt. March brings ‘abso
lute refutation of the report that Gen.
Kurokl was killed by a Russian shell.
The captain says he was with Gen.
Kuroki until Oct. 30, whereas the sev
eral reports he had seen said the Gen
eral was killed on Oct. 5.
AGAIN GEN. STOESSEL
SUFFERS A WOUND.
London, Dec. 17. —Gen. Stoessel, the
Russian military commander at Port
Arthur, according to a dispatch from
Che Foo to the Daily Telegraph, has
again been wounded, this time by a
rifle bullet. The correspondent adds
that the wound is not serious.
THE BANDIT RAISULI
AGAIN GETS BUSY.
Tangier, Morocco, Dec. 16.—Ralsuli,
the notorious brigand chief, boldly
raided a caravan within the town of
Tangier to-day. The chief had pre
viously attacked another caravan live
miles outside of Tangier and took
eleven prisoners and a number of
mules. He then came into Tangier
and repeated his exploit. In the lat
ter case he released his prisoners, as
the men he was seeking were not
among them.
Accept the Principle.
Washington, Dec. 16.—Secretary Hay
to-day transmitted to the American
ambassadors and ministers accredited
to the powers signatory to The Hague
Convention, for presentation to the
several foreign offices, a circular note
giving a summary of the replies to
his note of last October, suggesting a
second Hague conference at the Hague,
to complete the work begun by the
first conference. The effect of the note
is permanently to record the hearty
acceptance, in principle, by all th&
Powers addressed of this government's
suggestion.
Pal ton Is Chairman.
Chicago, Dec. 16. —Robert H. Patton,
of Springfield, 111., was to-day elected
chairman of the Prohibition National
Committee, to succeed Oliver W. Stew
art. Mr. Patton was the candidate
of the Prohibition party for Governor
of Illinois in the last campaign. After
the committee adjourned, Mr. Patton
declined to serve, thus leaving the com
mittee without a head.
For International Arbitration.
Richmond, Va., Dec. 16.—-A large and
enthusiastic mass meeting was held
here to-night In furtherance of the
principle of international arbitration.
Gov. Montague presided and addresses
were made by Mgr. O'Connell of Wash
ington, Hannis Taylor, ex-minister to
Spain, Prof. S. C. Mitchell of Rich
mond College and Thomas Nelson
Page. Resolutions were adopted urg
ing the United States Senate to give
prompt and favorable consideration to
the arbitration treaties.
Plans lor Football Games,
Richmond, Va., Dec. 16.—At a con
ference In Charlottesville to-day It was
decided that the annual Thanksgiving
Day football game between the Uni
versities of Virginia and North Caro
lina shall be played In Richmond for
the next three years, and after that
shall be played alternately In Rich
mond and Norfolk.
O. 11. Ashley, New York.
New York. Dec. 16.—Osslan Doolit
tle Ashley, widely known In financial
circles for more than half a century,
died at hla home here to-day, aged
*5. Mr. Ashley was president of the
Wabash Railroud Company for several
years. He was s prolific writer on
financial and railroad topics.
Oy ration I'iinn Wilson.
New York, Dec. 16.—A successful
surgical operation wss performed up
on President Woodrow Wilson of
Princeton University at the Presbyter
ian Hospital here to-day, Hupeiin-
Undent Pteher of the hospital said
tile operation was not a serious one,
Three Members Ktpsllsd-
Mew Turk, Dee 16—Three members
of the Consolidated Mtrsk t&grbsng*
have been repelled for > ASdiid al
leged to be detrimental to the inter*
eels of that institution They are 16,
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Cut ton.
PAIN IN LOST LIMBS.
Physical Experience by Which Sur
geons Arc Sometimes Pumslrd.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Three weeks ago Glen Bacheler of
Indiana lost both hands In a railway
accident. The amputated hands were
placed In a Jar of alcohol and Mr.
Bacheler's arms received the most
careful surgical attention. He suffered,
however, for two weeks from severe
and peculiar pains where the hßnds
formerly Were.
Mr. Bacheler Insisted that his lost
hands were crowded In such a way aB
to give him the sensation of severe
cramping pains, and when bi learned
how they had been disposed of he de
manded that they be properly burled.
The hands were taken from the jar,
were straightened to a natural posi
tion, were carefully wrapped, were in
cased in a box. and were buried. As
soon as this was done Mr. Bachelei
was relieved of the pains that had kept
him in agony for two weeks.
The story will be received with smiles
by the younger experts of the medical
profession, with shakes of the head by
the older surgeons, and with ready be
lief by hundreds of men who have suf
fered as Mr. Bacheler suffered.
Many a man who has suffered ampu
tation of a leg or foot has been kept
in anguish by the feeling of some ob
ject between the toes, by an Intolera
ble itching where a toe ought to be,
or by a sharp rheumatic pain in the
ball of a missing foot. A man who has
lost a hand or an arm has been seized
suddenly with a distressing pain In the
limb or In the finger, and has become
almost hysterical because he could not
relieve It by touching the hand that
was not there.
Surgeons called to treat such cases
have contended that the feeling was
simply hallucination; that men who
have suffered amputation have read
stories of queer sensations In lost
limbs, and that these stories have taken
such a hold upon the Imagination that
they experience the pain attributed to
the men whose stories they have
read.
Acting on this theory the surgeon
falls in with the belief of the man, ad
ministers something to quiet his nerves,
and. In cases where the missing hand
or missing foot is accessible, gives di
rections for its proper handling and
interment.
However, this does not settle the
case. In a week or a month the man
of the lost hand or lost foot has othei
trying experiences, and the surgeon
tries to laugh him out of the hallucina
tion. In good time the patient ap
parently surrenders his belief as to
pfain In the lost foot or hand, but In
his own heart he hold to It. He may
not talk about it, but he will insist
that the sensation In the missing foot
is so real and so exasperating that It
•at times drives him almost to the point
of insanity.
There are strong men who have had
such experiences, and their theory Is
that some careless treatment of the
nerves severed in amputation Is respon.
slble for the queer sensations. A few
surgeons have admitted that there may
be something in this theory, but If it
be admitted that the theory is correct,
it does not explain the sensations ex
perienced by Mr. Blacheler.
In this age, when the nerves of men
and women receive morfc attention from
the medical profession than ever be
fore, is it not stt*ange that these so
called hallucinations as to sensations
In missing members of the body have
not been more closely investigated?
Are these sensations the work of the
imagination, or are they the result of
real physical conditions?
FAST TIME IN FRANCE.
Tfl
Hallway Train Speeds Greater Than
In America.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Although this country holds the rec
ord for fast running of trains, the
Paris, Lyons and (Mediterranean Rail
road no doubt will take the record for
the long-distance speed train, as this
company will during the winter months
establish a service between Paris and
Nice, a distance of 647 miles, which
is to be covered in thirteen hours and
fifteen minutes. The Twentieth Cen
tury Limited of the New York Central
and Lake Shore Railroad companies,
which no doubt holds the record for
long distance, takes twelve hours and
forty-two minutes to travel 1,000 kilo
meters, while the Nice Express will do
the distance In eight minutes’ less
time.
For some years both British and con
tinental trains seem to have excelled
in high speed sustained for long dis
tances, the effort being toward excel
lence in this direction rather than in
the direction of record spurts for short
distances. The express runs showing
the fastest start-to-top performances
for 1904 on British railways has Just
been compiled in London, and the ta
ble is a remarkable one. One rail
road, the Great Western, has fifteen
regular trains which daily negotiate
runs between 106 and 245 miles at an
average speed of 55 or more miles per
hour.
The Northeastern makes the fastest
regular run in Europe with Its train
between Darlington and York, a dis
tance of 44*4 miles, which Is made at
the average speed of 61.7 miles per
hour. No less wonderful is the per
formance of the Great Western’s Pad
dington-Bristol train, which Is op
erated by the way of Bath, and which
runs 118(4 miles at the average rate
of 59.1 miles per hour. Following this
are eleven other trains, each on differ
ent roads, which negotiate daily Jour
neys from 32 to 175 miles long at an
average speed varying between 60.3
and 58.8 miles per hour.
During the winter and spring months
the Northern Railway of France, takes
the palm away from the Northeastern
by a train between Paris and Amiens,
which makes the distance, 81.15 miles,
in 77 minutes, or at the average rate
of 63.2 miles per hour. Other French
trains also show remarkable speed,
the Nord Company, for example, hav
ing five trains which travel at an aver
age rate of one mile per minute over
their entire Journeys, and fifty runs
with speed above fifty-five miles per
hour.
The fastest regular train of this
company runs between Paris and Lon
geau, a distance of 78% miles, mads
at the rate of 60.5 miles per hour.
There are three runs by this company
from Paris to St. Quentin, 95% miles,
at the rate of 60.4 miles per hour, and
one run from Paris to Buslgny, 112%
miles, at the rate of 60.2 miles per
hour.
PEON RESTAURANTS.
From the Mexican Herald.
Very few Americans and Aglo-Sax
on residents of Mexico City know any
thing about the numerous peon res
taurants, except what they see from
a glance through their front door
ways.
At many meat shops there Is a huge
earthenware bowl filled with a hetero
geneous mass of cooked scraps, such
ns hog, goat and sheep hearts, pigs’
fest, ears, snouts and tails, roasted
tripe and entrails and cracklings, etc.
For one centsvo a small piece Is sold
and upward according to the alas and
quality of the place This, with three
tortillas for one cantavo, makes ‘‘a
square meal" for a very poor peon.
Then again there are etands where the
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This Store
Wants
50 Salesladies
at once.
Apply to the
Manager.
stocks, while the largest
Christmas Shopping
in our history goes on. In return for this confidence we have spared no pains,
no money, no efforts to bring about the most pleasing results towards the accom
modation and convenience of the public—we have strained exhaustive systems in
the relationship of good store service; every obstacle that could indicate to the
patron even a hypothesis of displeasure has apparently been removed, and now
we stand on the threshold of bidding for the most powerful trade conditions ever
experienced by us.
THE STOCK OF
Holiday Merchandise
now in full display is so complete, so eminently fitful for Holiday Presents for old
and young, male and female, that such gathering in its entirety is an object of
wonderment to the city—and a record mark to the state.
Ladies, Gentlemen and Children,
to whom this grand store structure is indebted for its lofty and glorious exist
ence—who have built through their efforts stone on stone until the business
ranks now in line with the largest department stores in the Southern States —
We Extend to You a Warm and Most Cor
dial Invitation to Visit It.
LEOPOLD ADLER
thick entrails of hogs and cattle are
cut into small pieces and blood sau
sage fried In a shallow sheet iron pan,
in a gravy made of grease and to
matoes and fine cut potatoes. A loaf
of bread, called "pambazo,” or rather
“pan bazo,” made of common (lour,
and about three Inches long, is cut In
half lengthwise. This loaf Is hollow.
In the spoonful of chill sauce poured
over It; the other half loaf placed on
top, and there you are for three cen
tavos.
There are other stands where only
tortillas con carne are sold. About a
tablespoonful of clean, sweet, boiled,
shredded mutton is placed on two
tortillas; that is made into a tight
roll and fried in mutton fat or lard
until It is a crisp brown. This is pala
table and nutritious. They sell for
three centavos. Sometimes the filling
is of a vegetable hash. The latter are
very good also, and, according to the
size, sell for from one to three cen
tavos each.
Some of the doorway stands sell also
boiled sweet potatoes at from one to
three centavos each, according to the
size. There are also tea and coffee
stands, where a cup of either can be
bought for from one to three centavos.
Some of the better class of stands keep
“tortas compuestas," which are a
kind of a sandwich made of hogshead
cheese, sausage, boiled hum, fried
pork, canned corned, beef, chicken,
etc. These sell for from six to ten
centavos each, according to the qual
ity of the meat used In them.
Breakfast ean be had in the morn
ing from 5 to 6 o’clock, either in regu
lar eating houses or at doorways of
tlnedas; a cup of tea, “hojas de na
ranjo” (orange leaves) or coffee can
be had for from one to three centa
vos. A cup of coffee and milk costs
five centavos, and a loaf of bread two
centavos. In eating houses they sell
“panzita” or "menudo" mixed with
boiled corn; an ordinary sized plate
ful costs three centavo*. In coffee
houses a cup of coffee and milk with
a loaf of bread costs seven to fifteen
centavos, and a glass of pure milk six
centavos.
At the regular restaurant, where din
ner and supper Is served, there Is a
list of standard dishes and a regular
dinner costs fifteen, eighteen and twen
ty-five centavos. The twenty-five cen
tavo dinner Includes a good piece of
boiled beefsteak. The following Is the
customary bill of fare:
Beef or mutton soup, about an ordi
nary sized teacupful. three centavos;
boiled rice, mixed with fine cut chill,
two centavos; guisado, a stew made of
meat and three or four kinds of vege
tables, three centavos; boiled beans,
two centavos; chicken stewed In a
dark mahogany-colored gravy, three
centavos; boiled beef and potatoes,
three centavos; three tortillas, one
centavo, or a small loaf of bread, three
centavos; a big glass of pulque, two
centavos.
In all fondas and even In good res
taurants the famous "mole de
guajoote" is the bill of fare every
Sunduy, and the sign "Rico Mole de
Guajolote los Domingos" is always vis
ible either on the facade of the res
taurant or on the menu cards, If there
are any. Regular meals are sold every
day. and In all fondas until 3 o’clock
In the afternoon; after that time serv
ice Is done ala carte, and It costs a
little more money to get the same stuff
on* can get before 3 o'clock.
The cooking utensils and tableware
are always fairly clean. Where a ta
blecloth Is used it I* put on the table
on Rundny morning, tnd by the next
Hunday morning It looks as if a drove
of hog# hud tramped over It. Th#
muchachas or girl waitresses also don
a dean dress and apron every Hun
day icmlng and wear them all ~k.
at th* end of which period they look
as If their wearers had been dipped
in a slop barrel and hung out on the
tine to dry.
Store Open Every Night Until the Holidays.
The strongest attestation of a store’s popularity, its
truest symbol of pleasing the public,
Is Emphasized by Its Patronage.
With grateful acknowledgment we are now look
ing upon the ever increasing crowds visiting our
store from day to day, doing us honor in expressing
kind sentiments over the grandeur of our Holiday
INDIANS STILL THUMB.
Guard tlie Entrance to Many a TV>-
bnrpo Store.
From the Kansas City Star.
“I can remember when every tobac
co store had a wooden Indian in front,”
said the retrospective man. “You’d no
more expect to find a tobacco store'in
those days without looking for the
Indian first than you'd expect to find
a barber shop without a striped sign.
And now they’re all gone—disappeared
Just as the buffalo has disappeared or
as the real Ind ”
“Oh, you're all right about the wip
ing out of the wooden Indian," said
the fresh guy, "but I wouldn’t go cry
ing about it. They didn’t do so
much good when you come to think of
it. One little want ad. to-day will sell
more cigars than a wooden Indian six
feet high. Times have changed, and
you don’t seem to realize it. It wasn't
so long ago that a tobacconist would
put a few pipes, some empty cigar
boxes, and u half dozen packages of
smokin’ in the window. They would
stay there for six months or two years
—until you couldn’t see through the
windows—then, if the cigar man was
feeling good there’d be a change In the
display. Nowadays they have a chain
of stores, and Instead of showing dusty
cigar boxes, they make a display of
fresh, clean cigars—no dummy boxes
go. Ribbons and fancy paper decorate
the windows and once a week the deco
rator for the owner makes the rounds
and puts in new cigars, new pipes,
fresh, bright paper, and pictures that’ll
drag a man across the street. Why,
the old-timer ”
"What I was talkin’ about was wood
en Indians, not window dressing,"
broke in the retrospective person. “I
am somewhat observing—l keep my
eyes open as I go through life—and I
have observed that there isn’t a wood
en Indian in Kansas City where there
were once hundreds of ’em. What’s
become of the cigar store. Indian, and
why? That’s what I am trying to
find out. In all Kansas City there Isn’t
a real old-time Indian In front of a
Cigar store. Illuminated signs and
overgrown lanterns have taken their
place—pushed the fine old figure of
the noble red man with bow ahd ar
row and hand shielding th eyes ”
“I see you Insist on weeping about
the cigar sign, and that when it’s al
together unnecessary," said the fresh
guy. “This town Is full of Indians "
“I mean wooden ones.”
"Yes. wooden ones, too. It’s full of
’em. I've heard that song about the
disappearance of the cigar store sign
until it tired me. All the Indians gone
to the country? No. fd like to have
a dollar for every Indian, wooden, 1
can show you in half an hour."
And he was right. One of the popu
lar fallacies of the day Is that the
wooden Indian has disappeared from
the cities. It’s true there are not so
many as In the years gone by, but there
are still enough to stock a small reser
vation. In a walk on Main street from
Eighth to Missouri avenue, across to
Walnut and back to Eighth, six cigar
Indians are passed. And there are
plenty of them in other parts of town.
A wholesale tobacconist on Main
street says an Indian of any standing
at all used to cost from $75 to $125
new. "W used to keep ’em in stock.”
he said, "but now the only one we own
Is that little fellow In front. We've
had him since the business was
founded, thirty yt*ara ago. Hs's a good
Indian yet. A coat of paint now and
then is all h* asks. Home time ago
we had a call for one from a town
In Kansaa —Red I *n, I think It was—and
we had to go to an auction house for
him.”
At an auction house on Walnut
street there was a young Indian lady,
a Petition l us, standing In fient. Rhe
had only on* arm; the oilier, with a
hand holding a bundle of cigars, lay
at her feel. "Indiana* Never with
out 'em," said the manager, "Hell you
Uf*t one for s!>. the paint's worth more
then that. We’ve had three or four
at a time lit here. You eee that one
down the street? Sold him for $S the
other day. All hand-carved and hand
painted, too. Cost S6O when he was
new.”
DRUM WITHOUT STICKS.
Mechanical Mean* of Beating the
Leather Head.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The record of recent progress In the
army and navy would seem to Indicate
that as Boon as some Inventor devised
a projectile which would carry through
any of the existing armor plates he Is
Immediately followed by another who
devises an armor plate which will repel
anything known In the way of projec
tiles. We would like to witness the
application of this progression in an
Inverse ratio uppllcd to a recent inven
tion which has come to our notice.-
The latter is nothing more or less than
a drum from which the small boy
cannot only extract more noise, but
he can do it with less exertion on his
part. We would like to see some
one come along at this stage of the •
game and Invent a drum without any
noise.
The man who would expend any
quantity of gray matter to the end
of Increasing the amount of noise
which might be extracted from a toy
diiium must he one who has been,
free from family cares, for we cannot
conceive anyone who has been the
father of a boy or two and who has
ever been foolhardy enough to supply
these young hopefuls with a drum or
two ever repeating the offense or do
ing anything to amplify the racket
Issuing from the aforesaid drums. No
matter how inspiring the drum may be
under certain circumstances, in a pa
triotic poem for fnstanee, an actual
experience has the sure effect of re
moving some of the sentiment which
has been placed around the instru
ment. There is a monotony about the
music which can only be likened to a
foghorn. There are some disagreeable
sounds which we can shut our ears
to, but the music of the drum and
foghorn win penetrate the thickest
walls and seek the remotest corners.
The desperate father, in the times
before the latest improvement here
noted, could resort to the strategy of
hiding the sticks, which had the ef
fect of bringing about a cessation of
hositilitles until some substitutes could
be secured, but the newest drum will
not permit this relief, for It Is stick
less. and wherever the drum is there
Is also the means of making It opera
tive.
This device has the beating meohan
lsm placed Inside, and the leather
head Is thumped from within. The
noise Is created by means of a stout
wire protruding from the side, plain
and harmless looking, but possessed of
a noisemaking capacity rated at 16-
dogpower.
The means of making use of this
attachment can soon be mastered, ac
cording to the Inventor, and In a
short time any combination of beats
can be produced with as much skill
as the most accomplished drummer.
—Bllbson—"Did she slug 'For All
Eternity'?” Gllbson — "I don’t know;
she was still singing when I came
away.”—Town and Country.
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