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34 PACES.
MIX 10 ADVERIISEMESIS
Meetings—Teutonia Lodge No. 7. K.
of P; Gernfan Volunteers.
Special Notices—Serve Oysters In all
Styles. Veruki's Cafe; Champney’s Is
land Property, T. M. Cunningham;
Crew Notice, Williamson & Rauers,
Agents; Turkeys, L. Putzel; Fancy
Florida Oranges, L. Putzel; Diamond
Jewelry, Theus & Cos.; Furs, B. Simon;
Joyce's Menu; Arriving Daily, E.
Meyers & Cos.; Crew Notice, John D.
Leitch, Master; Green Grocery Stand
For Rent, "Wm. J. Miscally; A
Pointer for Christmas, C. Hamp Leo
pold; The Dixie Steam Laundry, J.
H. Furber.
Business Notices —Boys’ and Girls'
Wheels, G. W. Thomas; Take Dinner
To-day, at Sommers’ Cafe; Don't Be
Hung Up, Electric Supply Cos.; Some
Day, C. F. Cler; The Most Beautiful
Assortment, Theus & Cos.; Now is the
Time to Do It, Savannah Steam Dye
Works; Plush Robes, Cohen-Kulman
Oarriage and Wagon Cos.; Holiday Sug
gestions, R. Van Keuren & Cos.
For Christmas —T. A. Bryson.
Open Evenings This Entire Week—
Foye & Eckstein.
Just One Week More—Jackson &
Gutman.
Trunks, Bags, Suit Cases —Chatham
Trunk Factory.
We Submit for Your Approval—Gus
tave Eckstein & Cos.
The Great Beautifler —Dr. Charles'
Flesh Food.
The Holiday Season Is Here—B. H.
Levy, Bro. & Cos.
A Big Lot of Little Ones—T. O. Bry
son.
Some Furniture Snaps—Rhodes-Hav
erty Furniture Cos.
Popular Presents —Livingston’s Phar
macy.
Buy Your Christmas Goods Here—C.
A. Munster.
Delicious Candles—Conida's.
Pure Wines and Liquors—Henry Sol
omon & Son.
A Veteran—Le Panto Cigar.
Take Us at Our Word—J. & C. N.
Thomas.
Unexampled Holiday Shopping—Leo
pold Adler.
Christmas Greeting Walsh &
Mever.
Have You Decided Yet?—Walker-
Mulligan Furniture Cos.
An Ideal Xmas Present—Electric
Supply Cos.
Raving With Delight—The Connor
Book Store.
We Undersell the Others—Allen Bros.
Long List—At Lattimore's.
An Unusual Opportunity—Dr. M.
Schwab's Son.
Stands In Readiness—The Delmonico
Company.
Rare Offerings for Present Buyers—
The Metropolitan.
New Subscribers—The Bell Telephone
Company.
Christmas Suggestions—Byck Bros.
Handsome and Appropriate Gifts—J.
L. Morrison & Cos.
Father John's Flaster— Rowllnskl,
Druggist.
For the Holiday Shopper—Thos.
West & Cos.
Suggestions to Buyers of Christmas
Gifts-Estate Daniel Hogan.
Liquors—A. Ehrlich & Bro.
Holiday Goods—At the Bee Hive.
Solid Carload of Fast Sellers—Jack
sonville Grocery Company.
Good Cheer for Christmas—McGrath
& Ransford.
Superb and Delicious Menu—Jerry
George's Restaurant.
Holiday Slippers—Globe Shoe Com
pany.
This Store Will Be Open Every Night
•-Falk's, Around the Corner.
Special Notice—Savannah Buggy
Company.
Savannah Theater—Tuesday Night,
“The Jewel of Asia;” Thursday Night,
“The Office Boy;’’ Friday night, and
Saturday Matinee, a Girl From Dix
ie."
Gas Lamps With Handsome Shades
•—Savannah Gas Cos.
The Kind You Should Buy—M. S.
& D. A. Byek.
A Gift for Christmas—Cortex Cigars.
Fine Millinery—H. L. MoKlndsey.
A Complete Line of Christmas Slip
per*—Nichols, the Shoe Man.
Christmas Goods—New York Canh
Grocery.
Good News From the East—R. V.
Connsrat.
Christmas Presents —Krouskoff Mil
linery Cos.
Whisky—Lewis' M Rye.
Patents—Munn * Cos.
Urinary Disease* Promptly Cured—
Pr J. Newton Hathaway.
Msdlcsl- Warner's Safe Cure; Duf
fy'* Purs Malt Whiskey; Peruna; Py
ramid Pile Cure; "77” for Grip, (jres
ler’s Headache Wafers.
The Wsalbrr.
The lndl< at lona for Georgia and
Kastern Florida for to-day arc for
fair weather, with west to northwest
winds.
INTERSTATE RAII.ROAD RATES.
In An interview Wednesday Mr. Mor
ton. the Secretary of the Navy, said
that the administration considered the
question of interstate railroad rates the
most important now pending before
the American people. The evidence
that the President considers It such Is
found In his last message to Congress.
"When the Interstate Commerce Com
mission was created it wals thought
it had been given authority to fix a
reasonable rate in cases where it found
an unreasonable one. The Supreme
Court has decided It has no such au
thority. The cry from all parts of the
country Is that interstate rates are In
equitable—that there are discrimina
tions which favor the strong shippers
and destroy the weak ones—that ruin
some communities and build up others.
It Is also claimed that there are rates
which are too high—rates that are out
of proportion to the service rendered.
It looks as if something were going
to be done by Congress in the near
future to remedy this condition of
affairs, to insure equal and Just rates.
The Interstate Commerce Committees
of the House and the Senate have the
matter under consideration. They are
hearing the complaints of shippers, and
it is regarded as certaiu that they
will report in favor of legislation that
will give the government greater au
thority in the matter of rates.
For years we have held the opinion
that both the railroads and the people
would be benefited if the government
were given authority to supervise in
terstate rates and the railroads were
permitted to pool their earnings. That
arrangement would insure equitable
rates, and would prevent cut-throat
competition. The railroads have been
trying for years to prevent such com
petition, not only because it is ruinous
to their revenues, but also because it
Is productive of unequal and unstable
rates. If there is a thing the shipper
dislikes more than discriminating and
unfair rates It is unstable rates. Gov
ernment supervision with power to fix
a maximum rate and pooling would do
away with all grounds for complaint.
In the course of his Interview Secre
tary Morton, who, by the way, has
been a Tailroad man pretty nearly
all of his life, said: "Without govern
ment supervision of rates pooling can
never be legalized, but with such su
pervision every objection to pooling
disappears. Shippers say they don't
care how railroads divide up their
money so long as they earn it fairly.
Legalized pooling would permit the
railroads to stop rate wars and disas
trous competition. It would secure sta
bility of rates, which are as desirable
to the shipping public as to the rail
roads.”
We don't know exactly the reasons
the roads have for opposing this plan,
If any. Whatever they are, they will
■be made known in the next few
months, for it is evident that this ques
tion of government supervision of in
terstate rates is going to be the lead
ing one in Congress before the end
of the present session.
RAILWAYS FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
It looks as if there were an organ
ized effort to work up sentiment in
favor of lending the Filipinos money
or credit with which to build rail
roads. The bill which passed the Sen
ate on Friday provides that the Phil
ippine government may guarantee an
income of 4 per cent, on investments
in railroads to the extent of $30,000 per
mile. No pretense is made that the
proposed roads would earn that
amount. It is estimated, however, that
the roads that would likely be built
could earn, under the right kind of
management, about 2 per cent. In
come net. The insul'ar government,
therefore, would have to pay the 2 per
cent, on the amount Invested up to
$30,000 per mile. It Is proposed to In
vest not less than $50,000,000. That
would increase the burdens of the peo
ple $1,000,000 annually. It is claimed
by those who have given the islands
a very thorough study that the people
find it difficult now to meet the bur
den of supporting the inßular govern
ment. And they are at.no expense of
supporting the military establishment.
The United States bear that expense.
But the bill that has passed the Sen
ate is only a feeler. The real pur
pose is to have the United States guar
antee bonds for building railroads in
the islands. Some of the newspapers
are already saying that the United
States should lend the Philippines $50,-
000,000, either in credit or cash, for the
construction of railroads. The experi
ence of our government with the Pa
cific roads ought to be sufficient to
cause Congress to steer clear of the
Philippine railroad programme.
It wouldn’t be surprising if there
were syndicates of speculators behind
this railroad movement. Their concern
isn’t for the Philippines. It is to get
their hands into the United States
treasury. If they can get the money
or the bonds for building the railroads
it will be a long time 'before the gov
ernment will get its money again.
There would be another tie binding the
Philippines to this country, a tie that
It would be hard to break if the time
should come when we thought it advis
able to let the Filipinos try self-gov
ernment.
If the American people are wise they
will not encourage Congress to throw
away their money on railroads in the
Philippines. Let the rich syndicates
that have lands and timber in the is
lands which they want to bring Into
touch with markets build their own
railroads.
The Impeachment of Judge Swayne
must be before the full Senate, and
It will require u two-thirds vote to
convict him. The penalty in the event
of conviction, atcordlng to the consti
tution, ’’shall not extend further than
removal Dom office, and disquali
fication to hold and enjoy any office
of honor, trust or profit under the
United Htatea.” It 1* the understand
ing, however, that conviction ut
the bar of the brume might be fol
lowed by prosecution In the criminal
court a. Hut the fact that Judge
Hwayne bus been impeached does not
mean that he hae been convicted. He
la to be presumed Innocent until found
guilty by a court of competent juris
dictionin tine instance, the Menate,
SAVAXXAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1004.
SANTA CLAPS AND MOTHER GOOSE.
It Is really distressing to note w-ith
what alarm certain women's glubs—
composed mainly, no doubt, of spinsters
of uncertain age—are regarding the
moral and intellectual deficiencies of
Santa Claus and Mother Goose. Why,
these dear old people have actually
been assailed by resolutions and
speeches in as many as a dozen clubs
during the past few months. The first
has been charged with being a pagan
myth, and obtaining presents under
false pretenses, and other things like
that, while at the door of Mother
Goose have been laid the allegations of
silliness, stupidity, lack of literary mer
it, and so on.
For the sake of argument merely,
let it be assumed that Santa Claus is
a myth of pagan origin; does that les
sen his reality and his benefactions in
the homes of millions of non-pagans
every year? Can any sane person, who
is a parent, believe for one instant
that the beautiful sentiment that al
most casts a halo about the head of
Santa Claus is calculated to pervert
the mind of any little child? We are
strongly of the opinion that the enemies
of Santa Claus are to be found almost
exclusively among those who have
never known the delight of watching
the emptying of the stockings on
Christmas morning; in whose hearts
there is no responsive vibration to the
shrill and rippling laughter of delight
ed tots in the finding of new wonders
as the stockings are Investigated and
the packages untied. But it is not to
be admitted for one instant that Santa
Claus is unreal, actually. He is Just
as real as can be. He is a composite
saint, made up of the aggregated mass
of loving fathers and mothers who have
kept their hearts young and tender,
and find delight in delighting the im
pressionable innocents in their own
and other homes. He Is the personi
fication of tenderness and charity and
sweet affection; of the proverb, “It is
more blessed to give than to receive;"
of that correct principle that greatest
happiness Is to be found In making
others happy.
And as to Mother Goose: Would
any person seriously assert that the
charming stories of "Little Boy Blue,”
or "Simple Simon,” "Jack and the
Beanstalk,” or ‘‘Old Mother Hubbard”
are singly or severally responsible for
any moral lapse In any child, or that
they are dangerous to ehai'acter-build
ing? Nine hundred and ninety-nine
children out of a thousand, possibly,
are possessed of a better sense of pro
portion than those adults who are ob
jecting to Mother Goose. The child
knows that the droll rhymes are merely
a play of Imagination; but the wonder
ful adventures of the imaginary people
of the stories are not the less enter
taining for all that. If it were
the case that children were born
with fully developed minds, then
It might be possible to elimi
nate Mother Goose and substitute
Browning, or Omar Khayyam, or
Shakespeare. But, happily, the child
comes into the world with a mind suit
ed to its body. It delights in quaint
imagery and verbal gymnastics. The
rhymes of Mother Goo.se serve as a
diversion; they do not form habits
of thought or modes of action. No
child takes "Tom, the Piper’s Son” as
a model of deportment, but every child
delights to recite how Tom ran, and
was caught and beaten when his theft
was discovered.
Santa Claus, the patron saint of In
nocent childhood, and Mother Goose,
th* favorite poet of the nursery, may
be ever so strongly assailed, but they
will not be deposed from the proud
positions they occupy. They are too
firmly entrenched in the hearts of all
save misanthropes to be disturbed by
iconoclastic assailants.
THE CHADWICK SENSATION.
Until the affairs of Mrs. Cassie L.
Chadwick are discussed in court it Is
probable we shall hear very little more
about them. Her jailer will not ad
mit the newspaper mdn to see her, and
she has announced that she will not
talk any more until her case is heard,
because some of the newspapers have
published things she didn’t want made
public.
There is no occasion for her to talk
a great deal more. Pretty much
everything is known in respect to her
loans. It is true, there is some mys
tery about the loan she Is said to have
secured from certain Pittsburg, Pa.,
millionaires. The amount Is reported
to be $300,000, The terms on which
she secured this money Isn’t public
property yet. The men who made the
loan are so ashamed at being taken In
by a woman so easily that they are
trying to keep the matter out of the
newspapers. It is stated, however,
that the security for the loan is a note
for $500,000, having Mr. Carnegie's
name attached to It. How Pittsburg
millionaires could have been led into
accepting such a note is one of the
mysteries. All of the prominent men of
that city must be acquainted with Mr.
Carnegie’s affairs to such an extent
as to know that he wouldn’t likely
have, notes for $1,000,000 outstanding.
He lived in Pittsburg for many years,
or at least did business there, and his
signature ought to be familiar to about
all of the officers of the banks of that
city.
Just how the money was obtained
isn't known, but it Is surmised that the
bonus, besides the legal rate of Inter
est, which Mrs. Chadwick agreed to
pay, was large—that Is, greed was the
moving rßuse for lending the money.
But, whatever it was. the Pittsburg
millionaires are willing to pocket their
loss if. by .that means, they can ob
tain immunity from publicity.
The next chapter of the sensation
wilt begin with Mrs. Chadwick's ap
pearance In court, but it Is hardly
probably that there will be Important
developments for several weeks.
A degenerate who claims the distinc
tion of being "the world's oldest
thief" was at rested in Washington the
other dsy, He gave his name as
George A. Walker, and claimed to he
the brother of Dr. Mary Walker, the
eccentric woman's rights advocate.
Walker said he was 104 years old, and
had apent a good portion of his life
behind prison bars.
The emptiness of the performance of
the King of France, who, with 20,000
men, marched up the hill and then
marched down again, is hardly to be
mentioned in the same breath with the
emptiness of the meeting between Mr.
Thomas W. Lawson of Boston and
Col. Greene, the bad man from some
where out West, who was going to
eat him alive for his assault on the
stock market. Col. Greene utilized
a number of half-pages of newspaper
space In a denunciation of Mr. Law
son, calling him all sorts of hard
names and finally winding up by in
forming Mr. Lawson that he would
call on him personally the next day.
Readers of the advertisement had
mental visions of pistols, coffee, cof
fins, cadavers, hearses, and all that
sort of thing. There was no conclu
sion to be drawn but that when Law
son and Greene came together there
would be "something doing” of a very
serious nature. But they met, smiled,
shook hands cordially, went into an
office, and held a conference lasting
several hours. Lawson the bear and
Greene the bull, spent a most charm
ing afternoon together. What they
discussed and what arrangements they
made with respect to the lambs, may
or may not be developed during the
next few days.
The New York papers of Friday con
tained sensational stories—some of
them under headlines five inches down
the column—detailing how Max Hart,
a postal clerk, had found $30,000 worth
of bonds of the Douglasville (Ga.)
Electric Lighting and Water Company
concealed In an old trunk that he had
bought for a song. Max must have
had dreams of yachts, and automobiles,
and trips abroad, and other delightful
things. He must have anticipated the
pleasures of wealth, and pictured to
himself the great things he would do
when he clipped his coupons and col
lected the interest on his bonds. But
how must Max have felt the morning
after, when he read in the papers that
his bonds were not worth more than
the paper they were printed on, be
cause they had never been negotiated
and were absolutely without value!
Several New York brokers are alleged
to have "established their value with
out question.” but the weight of evi
dence seems to be that the prettily
printed pieces of paper will be of more
service in covering a bare place in the
wall than anything else.
A young woman, alleging Geo'rgia
as her home, Is in trouble in New
York. She was arrested on a charge
of larceny, the specification being that
she had unlawfully appropriated to
her own use certain Jewelry of a
fridnd. When confronted with the
charge the young woman became in
dignant. “Why.” she said, “I don’t
have to steal. I own a bank at ,
Ga.” The name of the town she gave
does not appear on any map of Geor
gia, nor does the postal guide give
it,
PERSONAL.
—Therese Humbert, who Is confined
in the prison at Rennes, has developed
such a mania for writing abusive, in
coherent letters to officials concerning
the supposed dissipation of the Craw
ford millions that the authorities are
considering her transfer to an asylum
for the insane.
—Rev. Henry Marsh Warren has be
gun the holding of religious services
in New York hotels every Sunday and
is meeting with great success. He uses
the dining rooms, which on all such
occasions are crowded. Having shown
that bis idea is feasible and popular,
he Is about to arrange a regular
schedule of services among the ho
tels. Mr. Warren at one time was
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church.
BRIGHT niTS.
—"Ah. you poor devils of bachelors!
Now, when a married man gets a lit
tle rent In his clothes—" “He’s got
to p’ay it to the landlord! I see!”—
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
—“The idea of buying one handker
chief! Why don’t you get half a dozen
while you’re about it?” “It’s too near
Christmas. I’m sure to get a couple of
dozen then.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
—Possible Purchaser—"Wh’at is the
title of this painting?" Artist—" That
is ’A Ship in a Storm.’ ” Possible Pur
chaser—"lt’s wonderfully effective and
striking. Would—h’m —would you mind
telling me which is the ship and which
is the storm?”—Chicago Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: “The enraged Republican par
tisans in and out of Congress are very
loud over the necessity of cutting down
the representation of the South be
cause of the disfranchisement of Illit
erate negroes; but they manifest no
anxiety to rut down the representation
of the trusts in the Senate of the
United States.”
The Charleston Post (Dem.) says:
“Mormonism seems altogether unlove
ly from the facts that are known of It,
but to some people It is, no doubt, an
impressive and controlling religion and
while its practice Is within the law of
the land It seems that it should be en
titled to the same consideration that
Is given to other religious organiza
tions, unless we are to change the or
ganic law and make prescription of
the kinds of religion that may he right
fully practiced in this land of the free.”
The “big stick” policy Is likely soon
to get us into serious trouble at San
Domingo, thinks the Detroit Free Press
(Ind.): “However reluctant this coun
try may be to Interfere or Intervene,
we must respect our own edict that no
other nation will be permitted to do
so. We must acknowledge that our oc
cupancy of four ports for the purpose
of collecting the revenue is an Intru
sion from which we cannot withdraw,
so that, willing or unwilling, It is more
than likely that before long we will
find ourselves bound to Intercede for
tli** benefits of civilization and good or
der."
Reverting to the meeting of the Civil
Service Reform League In Washington
recently, und to the practice of making
exceptions to the rules, the Boston
Herald llnd Dsm.) observes: "The
Idea that better men arc obtained by
not adhering strictly to the rule Is
somewhat discredited by the circum
stance that two of tbe Hires so ap
pointed tiy McKinley have been dis
charged for dishonesty, and (hat one of
Mr. KooeeveU’s men for whom an eg.
■ epGon was made was that Dumont,
Itispector of hulls, wlio has been dis
missed on wreount of his Incompetaney,
or worse fault, dlwioasd by the Inves
tigation sr ths Un. Wotum tisgsdy.”
Why Col. Billups Subsided.
Happening to have a few moments
to himself. Col. John Billups of Ari
zona, decided to take a street car ride
and see the beauties of the capital,
says the Washington correspondence of
the New York World. He entered a
car, took a seat and devoted himself
to looking at the places of historical
Interest he passed. Coming to an un
interesting stretch, he looked around
the car and discovered a very beau
tiful woman sitting with an ill-favored
man. Directly behind the woman Bat
another man, looking intently out of
the window.
Col. Billups was attracted by the
beautiful woman, just as any South
ern gentleman Is attracted by a great
picture or a fine horse. He looked at
her In open-mouthed admiration, pay
ing the tribute the real Southern gen
tleman pays to beautiful woman,
wherever found.
Suddenly, to the great amazement of
Col. Billups, the lady turned and wink
ed roguishly at the man behind her.
It was a full-sized, enticing wink. The
man looked out of the window with
out noticing. Col. Billups watched.
Three times the lady turned and wink
ed at the stolid citizen behind her,
and three times the man refused to
notice the advance.
This was too much for Col. Billups.
He moved across to the seat where the
clod was sitting. They rode for a
square, and the lady turned again and
winked.
“Sir,” said Col. Billups, to the oaf,
“it is a beautiful winter’s day.”
"It is,” he replied, still gazing out
of the window.
"Sir, said Col. Billups, “have you
remarked that extremely beautiful
lady who sits in the seat directly in
front of us?”
“She’s good-looking enough,” replied
the stolid one, still looking out of the
window.
“Sir.” said Col. John Billups, “I am
a Southern man and an admirer of all
that is beautiful in nature. I say to
you that that lady is fair game. That
man with her is not her husband.”
“I know it,” replied the person who
was gazing out of the window, ”1 am.”
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Not a Case For an Understudy.
“I’d like to have a day oft next
Wednesday, sir,” said young Thomp
son to the Senior Partner, says the
New York Press.
The Senior Partner frowned. He did
not approve of holidays.
“We don’t like to establish the prece
dent of giving time off,” he said.
“But I have some important busi
ness on hand,” urged young Thomp
son, “and ”
“And I suppose no one possibly could
attend to this 'lmportant business’ but
you,” sneered the Senior Partner.
“Well, not very well, sir; because,
you see——”
“Young men are too prone to over
rate their own importance,” inturrupt
ed the Senior Partner. “It’s a com
mon failing among them to consider
themselves indispensable, while nine
times out of ten they are only block
ing the way of better men. Now, in
this little business matter of yours no
doubt, if necessary, you could depute
someone else to attend to it for you—
someone just as able and just as will
ing as yourself.”
"Without doubt, sir,” said young
Thompson, “but, as I’m to be married,
the lady has conceived the notion that
I am indispensable to the ceremony.”
Time to Hustle.
Gen. Pickens of North Carolina, is
the cleverest story teller who ever
came to Washington from the Tar
Heel state, says an exchange. This
is one of his latest:
“A hard shell exhorter was holding
forth in exalted strains about the time
of the attack on Fort Donelson. He
declared that the Lord fought on the
side of the South, that Jehovah was
encamped around about the Confed
erate army, and that it was Impossi
ble for the invading Yankees to con
quer them.
"Just at the close of one of these ex
travagant statements a man dashed
up to the country church and cried out
that the Yanks had captured Fort Don
elson and were then making their way
up the river.
"There was consternation among the
church members, and the parson said:
“Then, my brethren and slstern,
save yourselves, for the Lord has got
licked.”
Chicago Soup Plate'* Accompani
ment.
Two New Yorkers were lunching to
gether at the Bellevue-Stratford, says
the Philadelphia Ledger.
“One hears strange stories about
Chicago,” said the woman in the chin
chilla tricorne, "but I never believed
half of them until I werjt there a
while ago on a visit. Will you believe,
my dear, that I went to a dinner
where there was a little silver trum
pet beside each soup plate?”
“What were they for?” inquired the
girl with the violets.
VI didn’t know at first, but I found
out later that they were called ‘soup
coolers,' and were used for blowing
the soup!” said the traveled one.
The Result.
It Is Christmas morning in the
home of Gittouski Klckkemoft in St.
Petersburg, says Judge. From the
children arise loud walls of anguish
and disappointment.
Papaskl rushes to the nursery.
“What Is the matter, childreno
viteh?” he asks.
“We have no presentski,” they wall.
“No presentski?”
“No. Ivan, to show his patriotism,
asked Santaskl Clausoffski to give him
a Japanese toy regimentski and Santa
ski did, and the Japanese regimentski
captured all our other gifts and
marched away with them.”
The Future Hypnotic Household.
From the Chicago Tribune.
[Dr. Quackenbos urges the establish
ment of an Institute of hypnotism,
saying the general practice of the
science would be beneficial to all.]
Don't snap your fingers near my ma:
You’d change her smile into a frown—
She has been hypnotized by pa.
And thinks she’s got a brand new
gown.
Don't snap them, either, where pa is,
Or else there’ll toe an awful clash—
Ma now controls those thoughts of his
And makes him give her all the
cash.
The parlor's dark: pa went In there
And hypnotized my sister’s beau
Until he said: “Well, I declare.
It's getting late and I must go.”
My sister—she got angry then;
Pa made her anger disappear—
He made a pass or two again
And now she thinks her beau's still
here.
Pa’s went around all smiles to-day.
Lust night a hill collector earne
rs hypnotized him ri*h% away
And the eolleetor signed his name
And gave pa the receipted bill.
You ace. the other man obeyed
My pa’a Intense hypnotic will
And thought et once the bill was
paid.
I lead my claes at our school—
!*a simply makes a pass or two
And then I know each word and rule
And all the sums 1 have to do.
Don’t snap your fingers If you go
Into the kitchen -tneke no fuse.
I’e'e hypnotised the cook, and ea
■be U May another week with us.
“CATCHING SUCKERS.”
From "Catching Suckers,” by Will
Payne in the Saturday Evening Post.
An innocent farmer boy in Kansas
learned from his uncle how to work
a simple trick with cards. It looked
so much like a sure thing to his friends
that by county fair time he had $lB
in money and a cultivated appetite for
short cuts to success. At the fair the
usual fakir put the inevitable brass
watch chain and glass-set ring in the
cornucopia, along with the time-hon
ored prize box containing from 1 cent
,up to S2O. The corner of the S2O bill
often stuck right out of the box
overlooked by the fatuous fakir.
And so presently the farmer boy had
six lots of jewelry, worth perhaps 30
cents, and six little pasteboard boxes,
each containing 1 cent. He borrowed
a quarter to get something to eat and
walked sadly home.
But the fakir was glad. There had
been other bright farmer boys in the
crowd and trade had been brisk. That
evening he sorted and counted nearly
SIOO with a hot and eager heart, for
he was only twenty miles from Abi
lene, where there was a faro game, and
he had worked out an infallible sys
tem for beating the tiger.
The man who ran this faro game
knew perfectly well that there was an
infallible system, but it was different
from the fakir’s—in fact, he was work
ing the system himself. The second
day the fakir borrowed a few dollars
to lay in a fresh supply of little paste
board boxes and brass watch chains
and went back to work, pondering the
defects in his faro system.
The faro man, however, was gay.
There had been others besides the fakir
at play. His bank roll was swollen
until his pockets bulged out. He knew
the proprietor of a flourishing bucket
shop in Kansas City, and could prove
as plain as the nose on your face that
it was the chance of a lifetime to make
a killing in wheat. He shipped the roll
to his friend in Kansas City and saw it
no more, for wheat went down in
stead of up. He sighed, oiled up the
secret spring In his faro box and re
turned to his humdrum trade.
Now, the simple farmer boy knew
perfectly well that his friends were
going to lose their money when they
bet on his trick. It amused him to
see how foolish they were. And the
fakir was acutely aware that the sim
ple farmer boy was going to get noth
ing but pennies; the boy must be a
chuckle-head to suppose he was run
ning the game to lose money! Next,
it was clear to the faro man that the
fakir was going to be cleaned out; he
had thoughtfully fixed the game to
that end. And the bucket shop pro
prietor had not the remotest doubt that
the faro man’s roll would remain in
his possession; certainly he wasn’t
running a bucket shop for his health.
And so, knowing all about things,
being an adept at the game and hav
ing the best of Information, he bought
Amalgamated Copper at 110 to beat the
band. In due time his bucket shop was
closed, his horses Were sold, and It
dawned upon him that even he, in
stead of being the king-pin, was a
mere link in the great get-rich-quick
chain.
HELEN GOULD’S CHARITIES.
From Harrier's Bazar.
Her law school course illustrates an
other trait in her character. She is
careful, judicious, 'an excellent busi
ness woman, even in the bestowal of
her charities. The misdirected fervor
of the sentimental giver of gifts is
not hers. She is fortunate that it is
not. Emotional philanthropy would
long ago have made her a bankrupt.
She receives about 100 letters a day
asking for sums which make a week
ly total of about $150,000. She is -asked
to buy vessels for old sea captains, to
raise mortgages on Western farms, to
train the voices of embryo Pattis on
the prairies, to educate young men for
the ministry, to contribute to ladtes'-
aid-society fairs in country villages, to
endow all sorts of institutions. Her
self a strikingly unextravagant wom
an in matters of dress and all personal
expenditure, she is asked by prospec
tive brides to provide sums ranging
as high as $2,000 for their modest trous
seaux.
Parents write her enthusiastic let
ters describing the charms of young
Helen Miller Gould Smiths or Joneses,
and saying how gratefully a nucleus
for these young ladies’ future dowries
will ibe received. In one banner week
the begging public—lncluding, of
course, the respectable beggars for
worthy charities as well as the mere
preyers on unsophisticated kindness
asked for a million and a half dol
lars!
ARTIFICIAL DIAMONDS.
FVom the Chicago Journal.
The reward of the inventor who can
produce artificial diamonds is so tempt
ing that the Moisson experiments with
the electric furnace, which were inau
gurated some eight or ten years ago,
have been continued until the present
day. They are now being carried on
in the laboratory of the Sorbonne, in
Paris.
The first diamonds made by the elec
tric furnace were of microscopic size
and few in number.
As the work continued various mod
ifications were worked out, as the ex
perience of the investigators became
greater, until now success seems immi
nent. The crystals are positively
known to partake of all the charac
teristics of the diamond In crystalline
structure, hardness and chemical com
position.
The largest crystal yet obtained Is
only one-half a millimetre in length,
and while this is only a spark, it In
dicates that the process is capable of
yielding diamonds of good quality, and
that some day in the not distant fu
ture the laboratory process of Mother
Nature, as exemplified in the Rand,
may be duplicated In man's laboratory
and In a commercial way.
TELEPHONES ON TRAINS.
From the Baltimore American.
Members of the Merchant* and Man
ufacturers’ Association, while recently
touring Western Pennsylvania and
Ohio in a special train were provided
with novel telephone facilities, which
may be the forerunner of standard
equipment of fast trains. Each Pull
man car was provided with a tele
phone running to a "central" Installed
in one of the smoker's apartments. At
each station where the train stopped a
temporary telephone connection was
made, so that the members of the party
could call up any part of the country
without stirring from the train. Much
preliminary work, of course, had to
be done to run wires from the various
local exchanges to the railroad station
to a point convenient to the train berth,
hut on arrival of the train It was only
necessary for the porter to run out
about twenty-five yards of wire and
insert a plug In a socket. The serv
ice was much appreciated and well pat
ronized .
LAWSON PIN MONEY.
From the New York American.
Boston, Dec. 14. —Thomas W. Lawson
lost the combination of the safe In his
State street office, and the expert who
opened It was so long at It that his
employers took him to tusk. "Why, I
was busy talking the stuff out," was
his replY.
Then he explained that the strong
boa In the safe In which Mr, Lawson
keeps what he mils the pin money for
his wife and family is divided into sit
compartment. and that these are gen
erally kept full. The safe expert eel I
mated that there wee |MC,oOu in ths
eat*, all in double eagles.
Distress
After Eating
Nausea between meals, belching, Torn
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ache, pain in the stomach, are all
■ymptoms of dyspepsia, and the longer
It is neglected the harder it is to cure it.
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Strengthen and tone the stomach and
other digestive organs for the natural
performance of their functions.
Accept no substitute for Hood’s.
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look different medicines but got no help
until I began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Hare taken four bottles o' *bis medicine
and can now eat almost anything, sleep
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OFFICIAL.
liquoiTlicense!
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
Whole. J. ROBERT CREAMER,
Clerk of Council.
Abel, Chas., *. 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., F. 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.
Hewett, 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.
Heltmann, C. H., 25 East 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.
Ohslek, Chas., 202 Reynolds st.
Peters, N. F., n. e. cor. Park ave. and
Burroughs st.
Rocker, John & Bra, s. w. eor. Jones
and West Broad sts.
Stahmer, John, Bryan and Ann sts.
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 AND REPAIR TOUR
SIDEWALKS.
Notice to Owners of Real Estate.
In conformity with resolutions
adopted by the City Council, on March
11, 1904, notice is hereby given:
I. lb 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 Works.
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