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TUESDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1904.
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lIiDEX 1U titfi ALiVtKIiStMOTS
Special Notices—Crew Notice, South
ern Shipping Cos., Agents; Notice to
City Court Jurors; For Christmas, M.
S. Gardner; Our Stock of Jewelry,
Theus & Cos.; Finer Than Ever, James
J. Joyce; The Dixie Steam Laundry;
Checks Lost, H. L. McKindsey; Ship
Notice, Strachan & Cos.. Agents.
Business Notices—Juvenile Bicycles,
Water F. Higgins: Fountain Pens, J.
W. Fretwell’s Sons; Given Away, Roos’
Market; Bicycles for Boys and Girls,
G. W. Thomas; Private Dining Rooms,
Sommers’ Cafe: Christmas Suggestions,
Desbouillons; A Handsome Bos, A. M.
& C. W. West.
Special Drily Sale, No. 14— B. H.
Levy. Rro. & Cos.
The Four-Track News —George H.
Dcricis.
Gifts for Men—B. H. Levy, Bro. &
Cos.
Send Us Your Orders Early—Coni
dr.'s.
Have Your Dress Shirts Laundered —
Savannah-Oeorgla Laundry.
Pure Wines and Liquors— Henry Sol
omon & Son.
Have You Made Your Purchases—
Edward Lovell's Sons.
Whisky -Lewis’ 66 Rye.
Publications —Everybody's Magazine
for January.
Foods—Royal Baking Powder
Good Enough for Any Man—Pete
Dailey.
Sure and Safe—J. T. Shuptrine.
Be Well During the Holidays—Row
linski, Druggist.
Specials in Suits and Overcoats—The
Metropolitan.
Eyeglasses and Spectacles—Dr. M.
Schwab's Son.
Dainty Little Wheels—At Latti
mores’.
Holiday Slippers—Globe Shoe Cos.
Rush in Liquor Orders—A. Ehrlich &
Bro.
Time for Shipping Christmas Or
anges—W. D. Simkins & Cos.
Savannah Theater—Tuesday Night,
“The Jewel of Asia;" Thursday Night,
“The Office Boy.”
High Grade Specialties—The Kalola
Cos.
Grand Holiday Shoppings—Leopold
Adler.
Medical—Swamp Root.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia and East
ern Florida for to-day are for fair
weather, with light variable winds.
I -
A Chicago club woman says the se
cret of Mrs. Chadwick’s power con
eiets of “a smile a rustle and a bus
tle." Those who are interested may
figure It out for themselves.
Anew verb has found Its way Into
the language, “to Chadwick." It is
hardly necessary to say from whence
It came or what It means. When the
statement is made that a banker has
been chadwicked out of *1,000,000,
everybody will understand it.
The advertising columns of the
Morning News during the current
week will contain a lot of interesting
reading, and wise shoppers will not
neglect to consult them dally. The
best bargains, the newest goods, that
the merchants have to offer are fea
tured in their advertisements; and it
Is probably safe to say that never be
fore have the stores offered to pur
chasers such an excellent variety from
which to make selections.
An appeal has been made to the
PosloftWe Department to shut Thomas
W, Lawson's advertising out of the
mails withs fraud order. The depart
ment has very properly replied that
It has no reason to suppose Mr, Law
son Is operating a fraudulent bureau
of Informal ion, nd that the courts are
open, If he has libeled anybody. While
Lawson rosy be as vulnerable as the
people he has been attacking In his
*4vrUsetnetiis, there tan be no quea
ttnn that he would have found him
****** "Htri long ego If be had not
telling the truth. It Is often
truth that hurts worst
LEND A HELPING HAND.
Preparations are now being made for
the entertainment of the delegates to
the national convention of the Travel
ers Protection Association which
meets in this city next .May. The time
for the meeting of the convention is
of course nearly five months in the fu
ture, but, as the event is going to be
one of unusual Interest, It Is none too
soon to begin preparing for it.
As is well known this is one of the
largest and most important of the
many conventions that meet in this
country every year. Every city
wants it, not only because the dele
gates are men of great Influence In the
business world, but also because it is
in the power of the association to do
the city, in which its annual meetings
are held, a great deal of good. It helps
to make a city known. That is what
a city that has advantages for home
seekers and investors wants.
Our Chamber of Commerce under
standing how great the benefit to the
city the holding of a national conven
tions of the T. P. A. in it would be,
invited the association to meet here
next year. The invitation was ac
cepted, and there will be between six
hundred and seven hundred delegates
present, many of whom will be ac
companied by their wives and daugh
ters. They will come from every state
in the Union. Besides these national
delegates there will be large delega
tions present from all the cities of the
state in which the association has
posts. From this brief statement it
is apparent that the occasion will be
one that will be worth Savannah’s
best efforts in the way of entertaining.
She has never yet failed to meet ex
pectations in this respect, although her
reputation as an entertainer is second
to that of no other city in the coun
try.
To do what ought to be done, what,
in fact, every well wisher of the city
would like to have done, the local post
of the association will have to have
considerable assistance. That this will
be freely given there is no room for
doubt. Besides individual contribu
tions from business men and citizens
generally the city doubtless Will lend
a helping hand. It is the custom, it
seems, for the city in which the na
tional convention of this association is
held to recognize in substantial man
ner the association's importance, and
the benefits it derives from being chos
en for an annual convention. There is
no doubt the local post will have all
the assistance It needs from both the
public and the city, and that the dele
gates will have such a good time that
they will never forget their visit to
Savannah.
DILEMMA OF THE COTTON FAIIM
KHB.
Cotton farmers are having brought
home to them the fact that when the
cotton crop Is a large one, the price
is pretty certain to be low. and Mr.
Stevens, Commissioner of Agriculture
of this state. In an interview in the
Morning News yesterday, said that if
they will plant only half the acreage
they planted this year they will get’
12 to 15 cents per pound for their cot
ton. There is not much doubt of the
truth of the statement. Last year's
crop was a rather short one, and at
one time the price went as high as 17
cents.
But if the farmers should plant for
a little more than half a crop the
European spinners would set to work
at once to develop new cotton fields,
just as they did last year. The cot
ton associations in England, France
and Germany all began experimenting
In the growing of cotton in Africa and
other parts of the world where cotton
Isn't now produced as a regular crop.
The reports from these experiments
have, in some instances, been prom
ising. But it is probable that all of
these experiments would be abandoned
If cotton could be obtained in this
country for about 8 cents a pound,
that is if it could be obtained at that
price at the farms.
The cotton farmer seems to be be
tween the devil and the deep blue sea.
If he grows a big crop of cotton he
gets practically nothing for it—that Is,
after the cost of production is paid
there is nothing left for him.
On the other hand, if he grows
a small crop, he is threatened with
the opening of cotton fields In countries
where land and labor are so cheap
that he would have to produce cotton
for almost nothing eventually or aban
don the planting of cotton altogether.
It would be fortunate for the cotton
farmer ft he could strike a happy
mean. If he could regulate matters
so that he would produce a crop that
would satisfy the world's demand at
a price that would give him a fair
profit he would be fortunate, but it is
impossible to do that. So the situation
will remain as it has been these many
years, namely, when the price Is high
everybody will go to planting cotton
and every available acre will be culti
vated in cotton, and when the price is
low some lands will be abandoned and
many will turn their attention to other
crops or to other means of gaining a
livelihood.
Maybe it is just as well that the
Russian subject has not the full meas
ure of liberty that is enjoyed by the
American citizen,. Think of the pit
falls offered by the language to the
man who chanced to stay out late at
night! Suppose Ivan, coming In at 2
a. m., with his boots in his /hand,
should be confronted at the door by
Glga, the wife of his bosom, who, with
the poker in one hand and a rolling
pin In the other, commanded him to
"Hay 'Rozhdestvensky' and 'Zem
stvo, * " is it leastnable fo think that
Ivan would be able to do It? Under
the present arrangement, the paternal
government makes him get to bed ear
ly and thus avoid the danger of linguul
tmim.
In Iho * oui*♦* of ih broking-up of
the shows aio> g the Pike In Kt. Louts,
after the conclusion of tin- fair, u UIMI ,
star rattlesnake escaped and has been
at Urge over sine*. It is asserted that
numerous Ml. loouie husbands ate mak
ing use of tils escaped rattlesnake as
an tii'tia* for the condition of th.it
breath when they reach home tats si
night.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. DECEMBER 20. 1904.
SCHOOL CHRISTMAS I’HKSKMS.
The public school authorities of New
York have deemed it wise to send out
notices to the various schools to the
effect that there should be no ex
change of presents between teacher*
and pupils during the Christmas holi
days. That the notice is timely and
perfectly correct there can be no ques
tion. And the rule of "no presents”
should hold good in all other cities
as well as in New York.
The salaries of public school teach
ers are not princely. The average
teacher "works for a living” and needs
every penny of the income for neces
sary expenses. If the practice of
giving gifts were to become a custom
in the public schools, the income of
the teacher would be seriously impair
ed during December. And then again,
the parents of all pupils are not simi
larly situated with respect to incomes.
In probably a majority of instances it
is about all the workingman can do
to provide his child with the books
that the state authorities have ordef
ed for public school pupils, in addi
tion to paying his other necessary ex
penses. It is not possible, therefore,
for the child of poor parents to give
a gift to the teacher at Christmas;
and when other children bring their
offerings, the poor child is wounded
and discontented because it cannot do
likewise. And when there is the giv
ing and taking of gifts ibetween teach
ers and pupils, there is more than apt
to be favoritism. It may be that the
favor is unconsciously shown, but it
is naturally and inevitably shown
nevertheless. The teacher who had re
ceived a present worth $lO from a pupil
would be more than human if he or
she could refrain from partiality to
that pupil as compared with the pupil
who had given nothing.
The safe course in public schools is
to have no presents, and no collections
for any purpose. That puts all of the
pupils on the same footing and pre
serves the self-respect of those who
cannot afford to give.
A BARBARIAN SURVIVAL.
Some few nights ago two young men,
hardly : more than boys, met in San
Francisco to fight each other with their
fists. Several thousand persons gather
ed to -witness the spectacle, paying
$5 to S2O each for the privilege. The
"gate receipts” amounted to about $25,-
000, and Uje winner of the tight received
something like $6,000 as his pay for
beating his opponent until he was borne
bleeding and dazed to his corner of
the ring. This, of course, was the Nel
son-Corbett fight. It was advertised
throughout the length and breadth of
the land, and tens of thousands of per
sons were interested in it. No item in
the paper of the following morning
was more eagerly looked for than that
which would tell whether Nelson or
Corbett had won. It was essentially
a brutal exhibition, and yet it created
more general interest than would the
founding of an academy of arts and
sciences with an endowment of $1,000,-
000. '
In the heart of the shopping district
in New York city a few days ago a
big Maltese cat, a family pet, started •
to ruti across the street. An Irish
setter dog saw the eat and Ifnmediate
ly gave chase. The cat was caught by
the dog at the sidewalk, and a ferocious
fight ensued. For ten minutes the bat
tle raged, and every second saw the
crowd watching it increased. It 1S : es
timated that fully 300 people stood
around the fighting animals, a majority
of them being women who had been
out shopping. Everybody watched the
fight with intense interest. There were
offers among the men to bet money
pn either the dog or the cat. After
ten minutes of fighting both of the
dog’s eyes had been torn out, and the
cat’s back was broken, and still they
were fighting, covered with blood. But
not a soul among the great crowd of
spectators had made a move toward
putting an end to the combat. The
madness of battle and blood was upon
the crowd. At length a policeman came
along and put both of the animals out
of their misery with blows of his club.
And the crowd laughed and dispersed.
In the Madison Square Garden a six
days’ bicycle race is in progress. It
is a competition to demonstrate who
of the riders can withstand the torture
of many hours riding and come out of
it with most speed. The riders must
deny themselves needed sleep, rest and
food, and pedal around the track with
limbs aching and mind wavering. Some
Of the riders, indeed, are periodically
given hypodermic injections of drugs
to keep up their vitality. And d'aily
tens of thousands of New Yorkers pay
the price of admission to see this ex
hibition of physically tortured men fol
lowing each other around the track.
They even grow enthusiastic and shout
and clap their hands when one poor
devil, after a “shot of dope,” sprints
ahead of the others for a short dis
tance.
All of this, of course, is a reminder
that if our vaunted civilization be
scratched, barburlanism will be found
beneath the surface.
The recent unfought duel between
Col. Greene and Thomas W. Lawson
recalls a story of P. T. Barnurn.
6reone and Lawson, it will be re
called, were at each other’s throats,
though the medium of newspaper ad
vertising. Greene ia booming one cop
per concern and Lawson another, both
concerns having stocks to sell. Once 1
on a time Hurnum and a rival were
in a bitter advertising war. They could
find nothing too hard to say of each
other, fu their advertisements. Public
interest was Immensely aroused. A
newspaper man asked Mr, Harnuni
about the quarrel. “My rival and I,"
said the great showman and philoso
pher, "are like two blades of a pair
of scissors. We appear to cut each
other, lb reality we cut only wltai
tomes between us." And there you
or*. Law non and Greene have been
t uning the fleece off of the back* of
the uonflding lambs that have (tone
between them.
Now there are protests against the
use of hand gienudes In the pr Past
war, btscauee they ha vs proved so
leadly. Why, Isn't It the business of
war to kill? And does It tugtter a
grtst deal 4 lltv >k ad ttiatl whet hat
**> I read Is blown off or It# bus u hole
I tfwouga bis boar I ?
If newspaper reports are to be cred
ited, there is in Washington a Fair
bank's machine that is endeavoring to
arrange for the nomination of the at
tenuated senator from Indiana for
President four, y*ars hence, and a
Roosevelt machine that is trying to
keep Fairbanks out of it. It seems
that there is no 'love lost between
the President and Vice President-elect,
and that the former has it in mind
to dictate his successor. It is further
more asserted.,that Senator. Fairbanks
has for more than a year been laying
pipe for the 1908 nofhlnation, while for
an equal length of time the Roosevelt
machine has been working to keep him
out of a position of advantage. Should
Harry S. New of Indiana be chosen
vice chairman ’ of the Republican Na
tional Committee it would indicate a
gain for the Fairbanks gang, but it is
believed the administration gang will
not permit New to be chosen for the
place.
Arrangements have been perfected
for the publication of "The Watson
Magazine,” in New York, commencing
in February. The editor, of course,
is to be Thomas E. Watson, of this
state, late Populist candidate for
President. A capital of $50,000 has been
subscribed and paid in, it is said, “by
half a dozen plefrsons interested in the
propagation of the political ideas for
which Thomas E. Watson stood in the
recent election.” Dr. John H. Girdner
of New York -is said to' be one of
the largest stockholders. Dr. Girdner
is a close personal friend of William
Jennings Bryan. Whether a monthly
magazine devpjted principally to politi
cal discussion can be made a success
remains to be seen.
“Marse Sydney” Mudd, of Maryland,
delivered hipiself of a political epi
gram the other day that deserves to
become a classic. A young irfan asked
his indorsement for a minor political
job. “Where dp you live?” asked Con
gressman Mudd. fc i "I live in Balti
more,” said the candidate, “but I used
to live in your district.” "Young man,”
said the astute and lucid Mudd, .“let
me tell you (hit there is no such thing
as a past tense in politics. Politics
deals only witJij (the present and the
future.” There was once another great
man—maybe as great as Mudd—who
defined gratitude as “a lively anticipa
tion of favors to come.” And thus it
goes, in politics.
Christmas wilf he a sad day in Port
Arthur and along the Shakhe river. The
day will, of course, mean nothing to
the Japanese, bttt it will mean much to
the Russian soldiers, who are all de
vout adherents of a Christian church.
T 6 them will come visions of home,
Wives, Children, parents or sweethearts,
and the sweetness of their memories
will make all the more bitter the dif
ficulties of their' present situations.
The President* is credited with say
ing: • “The boy that won’t fight is no
good.” In Norfistftwn, Pa., the other
day a judge on tije bench said: “Boys
■have fought since the creation and
boys will fight until doomsday."
'Nevertheless in fpo riritt breath he sen
tenced tq the penitentiary a 15-year
old boy who had killed another of
about the same a£e in a boyish fight.
The hotelkeepers, shopkeepers and
saloon men of Washington are unani
mously in favor! of the enactment of
Senator Stewart’s bill to increase the
salaries of congressmen Of course they
have no personal interest In the mat
ter. They merely-hold to the opinion
tha,t, the lire not adequately
compensated for..their valuable serv
. iCPS. _ . ,
BRIGHT BITS.
—The clockmaker should not be too
arrogant in ordering his hands around
unless he wants h strike.—Philadelphia
Record.
—Wiggs—“Who Is your closest
friend?” Waggs—“Boggs; he wouldn't
lend me a cent If I was starving.”—
Cleveland Leader.
—Jaspar: I hear there has been a
big washout on the P. D. Q. Railroad.
Jumpuppe: Some of the water has
leaked out of the stock, I suppose.—
Judge.
—First Chauffeur—“ How did you
come to hit the chap—were you run
ning too fast?” Second Chauffeur —
“Certainly not—he was running too
slow!” —Puck.
tilt KENT COMMENT.
The Charleston News and Courier
(Dem.) says: “Whatever else may
be said of the South Carolina dis
pensary we believe that history will
show that from its inauguration in
1693, the gun practice of the consta
bles has been remarkably effective. No
man has ever yet ‘gotten the drop’ on
a dispensary constable.”
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem.) says:
“In spite of ail the noise that he made,
and in spite of all the help given him
by the Hearst yellow newspapers, Tom
Watson, Esq., polled Just half of the
Note received by Dr. Swallow, the Pro
hibition candidate. Thomas may have
confirmed a few stay-at-homes in
their lethargy, but he doesn't seem
to have absorbed many of those who
voted.”
The Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.) says: "If
Oklahoma becomes a state It will he
at a fearful cost. It cannot have any
liquor for ten years. When one con
siders the effect of the bracing West
ern atmosphere on thirst, this senatori
al threat —the senators in this case are
hiding behind the W. C. T. U. —means
that Oklahoma will contain barely a
corporal’s guard of voters, and you
can't elect senators with a corporal's
guard. As, however, a mnjori.ty of
senators and representatives ’drink,’
the current report may be a tarrydld
dle.”
The Istuisville Courier-oJurnal
(Dem.) says; "The Courier-Journal be
lieves, with Col. Harvey, that there Is
no real division between the North
and the Mouth to-day; it believes that
if the Northern people do not fully
understand and sympathise with the
altitude of the Bout hern whites oq the
question of race they are fast coming
to do so. Hut It la not noaslblo fully
to convince the Mouth of that as long
as such propositloiis for discriminative
legislation against tile Mouth ss urged
by the l*L((s and Crumps, kers are
not disowned by the party which .on
trots evei y section of the country ex
cept t|e Mouth, When that shall Ire
tfnglly don#, tee shall have a Mouth
qualified wit only for llwnordk |**d.
•rehip, but lot Republican leadership
aa well,"
What They Say.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Old Bachelor—
When a man hasn't enough worry he
should marry.
Many a .woman keeps a secret in a
bottle labeled “hair dye.”
Bitter are the domestic sweets Which
are preserved in family jars.
The only thing that equals the
warmth of a woman's love Is her tem
per.
No woman who is true to her sex
Will button anything she can pin.
You may drive a girl to boarding
school, but you can't make her thipk.
If a woman hasn’t anything else- to
talk about she talks about all the
time. . *.
If a woman has no troubles of her
own she' goes to a neighbor and bor
rows some.
A woman can do anything with' the
aid of a hairpin—except sharpen a
lead pencil. t .-;4
t Many a man is in advance of his
age—and many a woman is several
years behind hers.
The woman who doesn’t think some
other woman homelier than herself has
yet to be born.
With the exception of chocolate cara
mels there is nothing so sweet to a
girl as love's young dream.
A woman’s idea of a good conversa
tionalist is a man who can think of
something to sajr while she pauses to
regain her (breath.
Take the baby talk a woman uses
in conversing with an infant, give it
the proper pitch and you will have a
first-class college yell.
The Spinster—
The meaner men try to be the less
they enjoy it.
It isn’t so much what a man thinks
as what he does that counts.
The more worthless some men are
the longer they seem to live.
The father of a bright boy is a firm
believer in hereditary smartness.
An idea must feel awfully lonesome
when it gets into some men’s heads.
When a man doesn’t feel well he al
ways says he has been working too
hard.
If man is realty made of dust that
explains why so many men are al
ways dry.
If men could read each other’s
minds there would be a radical change
in thinking.
Ask the average man where he got
his umbrella and he will hesitate be
fore replying.
The man who doesn’t know what he
wants is always kicking because he
doesn’t get it.
A man who accompanies his wife to
a bargain sale is about the cheapest
looking thing in sight.
The parson adds one to one and the
sum is one; the divorce judge sub
tracts one from one and two remain.
A man is apt to learn a good many
things from his children until they
get old enough to know as little as
he does.
Some men seem to think because
self-preservation is the first law of na
ture that it is necessary to keep them
selves soaked in alcohol.
Great Presence of Mind.
On one occasion a great public din
ner was given 'to Isaac Hull by the
town of Boston, and he was asked to
sit for his picture to Gilbert Stuart,
the celebrated artist, who was a gre*at
braggart. When Hull visited his
studio Stuart, according to the In
dianapolis News, took great delight in
entertaining him with anecdotes of
his English success, stories of the mar
quis of this and the baroness of that,
which showed how elegant was the
society to which he had been accus
tomed. Unfortunately, in the midst
of this grandeur, Mrs. Stuart, who did
not know that there was a sitter, came
in with apron on aiYd fier head tied
up with some Handkerchiefs, from the
kitchen, and cried out: "Do you mean
to have that leg of mutton boiled or
roasted?” to which Stuart replied, with
great presence of mind: “Ask your
mistress.”
A Droll Kentuckian.
Congressman “Dick” Wintersmith of
Kentucky and his wife were walking
in Pennsylvania avenue one after
noon, when a dandy little Frenchman
who was directly in front of them
slipped and fell. The tumble was a
ludicrous one and Mrs. Wintersmith
laughed heartily. The little French
man picked himself up daintily and
with a flourish handed the congressman
a card. “Dick’’ looked at it thought
fulyy and asked:
“What’s this for?”
“Your ladee, seare,” snorted the
dandy. “She laughed at me. I de
mand ze sateesfaezione.”
Mr. Wintersmith handed hack the
card, saying: “The lady is no blood
relation of mine. Tell you what you
do. You hunt up her brother and kill
him. Good day.”
Pork Prohibited.
In the New Era Comment, organ of
the New Era Club of East Broadway,
New York, is this story, about that
grand old philanthropist banker and
broker. Sir Moses Monteflore, who was
raised to the baronetcy for meritorious
public services: A certain duke of the
realm made an insulting reference to
a passing Jew, at which Sir Moses
turned red with anger. The Duke,
probably under financial obligations,
exclaimed: “Oh, I beg your pardon!
I did not mean to offend you. Why,
Sir Moses, you look as though you
would eat me.” "I am sorry I may
not,” returned the venerable financier.
"My religion does not permit me to do
so.”
Of Home 11m nt Lout.
An actress whose name for years In
this country was a household word,
who starred in many plays and gave
away fortunes made on the stage, re
cently lost her husband, a well-known
man about town, popular to the last
degree, but hopelessly unpractical and
dependent. The other day she dropped
into the office of a Wall street broker
to buy some stocks. "Why, where on
earth did you get another fortune?”
asked the broker, who had known her
for years. "Why,” she said, ’’l've Just
collected Jack's llfp Insurance of *lO,-
000. Poor, dear fellow, he turned out
to be some good at last, didn't he?”
Filial Morrow.
The late William M. Evarts used to
tell a good story about himself. While
he was in the United Btates Senate,
his wife and children were in their
mountain home In Vermont. "One of
the latter was looking out of the win
dow, thinking of her father, and wish
ing that she could see him, when a
donkey in a contiguous pasture came
to the fence, poked his head over the
top rail and bruyeil most dolefully.
The child wiped a few lonesome tears
from her eyes and then called to the
donkey: “Never mind! Don’t he lone-
Home. for pupa will be home Saturday
evening.”
IVtulil Keel ■ Turkey's Age.
Senator Murray Crane told this story
on Thanksgiving J>ty; “A farmer
one* asked his chare boy;
*’ linger, can you tell Infallibly a
.young from on niff turkey?*
" 'Yes, indeed, I can, air,’ Roger an
swered
" ‘How do ybu tell?* pursued the
farmer.
” 'Bv teeth.’
** ‘Oh. rubbish, nonsense, Mid the
farmer. 'I am aahamed of you. Roger
Turkey* have no teeth,*
” No,* Maid Huger, gunning, 'fait |
have.’
, “PITTING IN” NEW TINES.
This is the season of the year when
many an Italiao organ grinder takes
his instrument to the place where he
can "getta the new tune* in.” There
are' several of these workshops in
’ New York, whose sole business is re
pairing and refitting the “carrousel or
gans,” as they usually call them. Two
or thfree are in Park Row. In this
city* particularly do the grinders seem
anxious for the latest popular airs.
Many a grinder comes with his organ
on his back for thf new tunes. For
the small organ he pays $5 a tune,
and the operation takes half a day,
if the establishment isn’t particularly
rushed. Usually he wants a tune that
is far more up-to-date than common
repute would guess. Last week such
a grinder came to one of the Park
Row establishments to have “Please
Come and Play in My Yard” and “A
Bit of Blarney” put on his cylinder
in place of ‘Til Be Your' Chauncey
Olcott” and “Hiawatha.” This par
ticular mart was a cripple, whose
headquarters were at Bridgeport, Conn.
He came to the city, playing his own
way, through Mount Vernon.
The piece is transcribed by ear from
piano music, the chief workmen in
the shop being musicians by training.
They place the cylinder on a frame,
which has an attachment for showing
the equal divisions of the cylinder’s
circumference, and with diminutive
chisels, each in the position of a par
ticular note of the scale, they punch
the space tfiat each staple is to occu
py. The mechanical process of insert
ing the brass staple is performed in
anpther part of the little shop. The
usual charge for putting eight new
airs in a srpnll or "hand” organ, is
$25. Such an organ originally costs
perWaps SSO. Something very lively,
such as a sailor’s hornpipe, is usual
ly wanted. So, too, are patriotic airs,
suited to the grinder’s clientele. Fre
quently he asks for “St. Patrick’s
Day,” saying that at many places his
hearers will derrfand that he play that
air, and will smash his organ if he
hasn’t it. “The Marseillaise,” “ The
Watch on the Rhine’ ’and “Dixie” are
wanted for certain parts of the coun
try. “Yankee Doodle,” too, is a gen
eral favorite. Latter-day believers in
the transcendant value of being able
to write the songs of people ought
to get a corner on this market.
FOUND MANY ARCTIC FLEAS.
From the New York Sun.
Quebec, Dec. B.—An Arctic expedi
tion for the sole purpose of making
a collection ofQleas has just returned
from the far north after an absence
from civilization of nearly four years.
The expedition sailed in the schoon
er Bluebell, and was fitted out by
Charles Rothschild pf London, whose
chief hobby is the collection of these
rare entomological specimens. The fa
mous naturalist and capitalist has a
museum at Irving Park which contains
thousands of specimens, all labeled and
classified and packed away in hermeti
cally sealed vials.
He was well aware of the fact, how
ever, that there were many specimens
of these insect parasites to be found
upon the animals inhabiting the Arctic
regions of America which were virtual
ly unknown to science, since no speci
mens of them were in any existing
collections. The skipper of the Blue
bell, F. G. Simpson of Grimsby, Eng
land, was chosen to secure specimens
from the polar bear, the musk ox, the
gray wolf, the blue fox, the huskie
dog, and the other denizens of the
region.
The Bluebell located in Frobisher
Bay, one of the great fiords that run
back a full 20 miles into the heart
of Baffinland. Capt. Simpson is un
able to detail the distinguishing fea
tures of his numerous and varied Arc
tic finds of the flea tribe, but he be
lieves that they include many unique
specimens. The polar bears killed
proved veritable mines, owing to their
thick, hairy covers, which conceal my
riads of the parasites. The musk ox
also yielded many specimens, but be
cause of the comparative rarity of the
Arctic fox it was difficult to obtain an
adequate assortment of the insect
domiciled in its fur. But this was
eventually done, and so far as it was
possible to do so in the time at his
command, Capt. Simpson believes that
his collection of Arctic fleas has been
made very complete.
RECORD POTATO CHOP.
From the New York World.
This season’s potato crop of the
United States is the largest ever
known. As the United States are not
exporters of potatoes, but for the last
few years have frequently Imported
enough to make up for the deficiency
In the supply here, the 288,700,000 bush
els of this year’s crop will provide
three and a half bushels for every man,
woman and child In the United States,
, which is a little more than the ordi
-1 nary consumption.
Maine Is the champion potato state,
with a yield of 200 bushels to the acre,
and New Hampshire next with 145.
lowa holds the record among the
Western states in potatoes, as in corn,
with 118 bushels to the acre. New
York has the largest acreage, with
Michigan second, but New York's yield
per acre is only 86, less than the aver
age of the United States and much
lower than the yield of the states situ
ated further north.
The acreage planted in potatoes has
varied slightly in the last four years.
Almost the same amount is planted
every year and the difference in crop
comes from the variation in yield.
The prices this year are lower than
usual, and during the present month
considerably lower than they will be
in the spring. A two-and-a-half-bushel
barrel of bag can be bought for *1.75.
A NEW DESTROYER.
From an Exchange.
The artillery forces at Fort Riley are
experimenting with anew shell fitted
with what is known as the Semple
tiacer. The tracer is a small Cylinder
at the base of the shell, filled with a
composition which is ignited by the
discharge of the gun. In burning it
traces the trajectory of the shell from
the gun to the point of fail. It fur
nishes a quick means of determining
range at night. Traveling at about
two thousand feet a second, the shells
had the appearance of comets. At the
point of fall the tracer left the shell
and shot straight up into the air about
one hundred feet and then, turning all
aglare. shot to the ground like a shoot
ing star over the spot where the shell
had struck.
EXTRAORDINARY HAND AT WHIST.
From the London Dally Mail.
A wonderful hand at whist was
played at the Mt. Paul's institute,
Grimsby, yesterday.
The cards were shuffled and dealt in
the usual way, but when the players
looked at their hands they found that
one of them (the dealer) had twelve
spades, another eleven hearts, the
third man twelve diamonds, and the
fourth eleven clubs.
Mpadfs were trumps, and the lucky
dealer simply threw In his hand and
claimed the twelve tricks.
IMAGINATION C AUSED INCATH.
From the Chicago Nws.
A workman on the Mlberlan railway
was accidentally locked Into a re
frigerator car and wna afterward
found dead. Imagining that He was be
ing slowly frozen to death, he bad rt
deerded bis sufferings with • piece of
cdialk on the Itoor.
The refrigerating apparatus, how
ever, was out of order, and the tem
perature In the t-er had not fallen bf
low la degree# Farenbell throughout
the jour*' *'
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