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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1904.
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But Little Time Left—Thomas West
A Cos.
Fresh Fruits—The Delmonieo Cos.
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Cheerless Indeed Is the Stocking—
Savannah Qas Cos.
Savannah Theater—Thursday Night,
‘ The Office Boy;” Friday Night, and
Saturday Matinee, “A Girl From
Dixie.”
Medical—Kodal Dyspepsia Cure.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
"Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for
fair weather with fresh west winds.
It la predicted that every Iron and
steel manufacturing plant in the coun
try will be working full time by Jan.
1 next. However, the price of steel
stocks is not based upon the activity
or prosperity of the mills, but upon the
ability of Wall street influences to
manipulate the markets.
A newspaper writer recalls the fact
that In 1784 a congressional committee
was appointed to select names for the
new territories in the West added to
the government’s domain. Some fanci
ful nomenclature was evolved. The
designations first selected were: Syl
vsnla, Mlchigania, Chersonesus, As
ecnlsipla, Mesopotamia, Illinois, Poly
potamia and Pellslpla. It is a cause
for congratulation that the selections
were subsequently modified or reject
ed.
A shipment of household goods by
dray from London was received In
Philadelphia the other day. A wealthy
cotton merchant who had been living
lu lndon desired to remove to Plillm
delphlii. If* mdered wevernl furniture
drays and a number of rgpert pack
ers. Whan the dray* had been
filled th* driver* asked, “Whers to?”
“To Philadelphia," replied the mer
ehant. And so the vehicles were put
aboard a train an 4 sent to IJ verpooi,
where they were hoisted Into the bold
of a hlg eteemeblp and transported to
th* I'eonsytvsnts cHy. When they
tumbled up lo th* door of the Phlied*).
ptils hours, there waa isc4*s mud on
wlmMi,
j REPIDIATED BONDS AND ARBI
TRATION TREATIES.
It was hoped that the arbitration
treaties with England, France, Ger
many, Italy and Switzerland, which
have been signed, would be ratified
without debate. Within the last week
or two, however, the question as to
whether or not these treaties could bo
used to force a settlement of the re
pudiated bonds of the Southern states
has been raised. Quite a number of
letters relative to the treaties has been
received by the Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and several of them
raise this point respecting the repu
diated bonds of the Southern states.
It is stated that a syndicate of Amer
ican and foreign capitalists hold a
great many of these bonds which ag
gregate with interest about $200,000,000.
Some of the governors of Southern
states have been heard from in respect
to the matter. Senator Foster of Lou
isiana has called the attention of the
Board of Trade of New Orleans to
the treaties, saying that there is “a
well deiined report that there lurks in
them, under the fair guise of peace and
arbitration, a great menace to the
South.”
Of course Southern senators will look
carefully into the treaties and if the
report is well founded they will offer
vigorous opposition to their ratification.
These bonds of the Southern states
were repudiated after they had been
carefully scrutinized and shown to
have been unlawfully issued. The ut
most care was taken in this state in
sifting the genuine bonds from the
fraudulent ones. Still, there may be
doubt as to what a court would do if
asked to pass upon the validity of
some of the repudiated bonds.
Recently the United States Supreme
Court decided in favor of the validity
of ten of the repudiated bonds of the
state of North Carolina, and that state
has been directed to pay the bonds
befdre the first Monday in January on
pain of having some of its property
seized. The decision was in favor of
the bonds, however, by a very nar
row majority, the court standing live
to four.
Of course an individual holder of
these repudiated bonds cannot sOe the
state that Issued them. The only way
suit can be brought on such bonds is
by disposing of them to a state. The
North Carolina bonds were given to
South Dakota, and that state brought
the suit. It must appear beyond ques
tion that the gift is genuine. It will
be recalled that New Hampshire has
a statute enacted expressly for the
purpose of enabling holders of these
repudiated bonds to get their money,
but the court said that New Hamp
shire couldn’t become a collecting
agency. New Hampshire wasn’t made
the beneficiary of the bonds.
A few days ago a man named
James, a resident of Philadelphia, of
fered to give lowa ten of the bonds,
but the Governor of that state de-;
dined to accept them. He doubtless
thought it was simply a scheme of a
lot of in the bonds to get.
a decision on tlibir validity, and he de-;
dined to be a party to any such
scheme against a sister state.
The decision in the case of the
North Carolina bonds causes’’ no great
uneasiness In the South for two’.rea
sons, namely, each issue of bonds of
each state must stand on its own
merits and. as the decision was by;
such a narrow majority, the proba
bility Is that in another case the de
cision would be against the bonds.
Besides, there isn’t any other state
that is going to be In haste to ac
cept a few bonds to assist a lot of
speculators.
THU PRESIDENT’S GOOD INTEN
TIONS.
There is a good deal being said in
the newspapers nowadays about the
President's good Intentions towards the
South. The latest expression from tho
President on this line is that to which
Thomas Nelson Page, the author, gives
publicity.
According to Mr. Page, the President
said to him a day or two ago: ‘‘lf
the South will wait two more years
before passing judgment upon me, I
believe she will be satisfied as to
my good Intentions.” The South isn't
so anxious to pass judgment upon the
President as to go out of her way to
do so. She will pass no Judgment
upon him unless he gives her cause.
If he is Just and fair to her she will
be prompt to recognize the fact, but
if he does things she knows is against
her welfare she will not be slow to
pass judgment on him, but she isn’t
going out of her way to hunt for an
excuse to condemn him.
After the President makes his visit
South, and gets a full understanding
of the race question, he will toe better
prepared than he Is now to show his
"good intentions" to her. He will And
the Southern people have no ill-feel-
ing for the negro, that, In fact, they
wish him well, and are prepared to
aid him all they can, as long as he
travels along a line that doesn't en
'dangqr white supremacy, but that
they are against anything that threat
ens that supremacy. The same feel
ing W’ould exist In the North, if the
negro population there were large
enough to cause apprehension. And
it isn't for the President or the North
ern people to say there is no danger
of anything of that kind. They are
not In a position to Judge, There
may be forces at work of which they
know nothing.
If, as Mr. Tage says, the President
asks for a suspension of judgment it
Is only fair that his request should be
complied with. The South Is willing
to be convinced of his “good Inten
tions.”
Senstor Forsker announces that the
snti-bouth apportionment bill of Rep
resentative Morrill of Pennsylvania
will not bs passed at the current ses
sion of Congress. Nobody expected
that It would, nor at any other seaaiou
In ths near future. Nevertheless, Mena,
tor Forsker may b able to pose ss a
political seer on ths Strength of his
otinouiicsnisii t.
"•
“Klljeh" Douie eey* that after all of
i tils debts have bum paid, to Is |?l,lMfi.-
i USD “lo Die god ” Evidently Mow!# has
1 found some flnanrtai system that bests
even Mrs. Chadwick'#.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1904.
CONDITION# AT PORT ARTH|R.
Military experts in London, Berlin,
Paris and Washington have been look
ing forward to the early fall of Port
Arthur for two months. But the post
is still holding out, and there Is no
telling when it will be c'aptured by the
Japanese, if at all. The insistent Japs
are continually hammering at the walls
of the forts, and gradually weakening
the defenses, but the time of the capi
tulation of the Russian garrison seems
to be as much in doubt now as it has
ever been heretofore. Commander Mlz
zenoff, formerly executive officer of the
battleship Poltava, has arrived at Che
Foo after a perilous trip from Port
Arthur. He expresses the firm convic
tion that the Japanese will never take
the place. The opinion may be based
on the hope that Admiral Rojestven
sky’s Baltic fleet will soon arrive to
relieve the beleaguered port. Neverthe
less. 'that the Russian officer actually
believes what he cannot be doubt
ed.
He reports that the entire popula
tion of Port Arthur has been put on
regular army rations, and that under
that arrangement there Is an ample
supply of food for three months more.
Meanwhile the supply of shot and shell
is sufficient for much more than three
months. The men in the line of forts
number upwards of 16,000. That they
are brave and daring needs not to be
asserted. With an available fighting
force of that size, and with a suffi
ciency of provisions and ammunition
•for upwards of three months, Gen.
Stoessel feeis that his position Is far
from hopeless. And it is his purpose
to hold out against the enemy until
the last biscuit is eaten and the last
cartridge spent.
Meanwhile the fighting is severe and
the casualties large. The Russian of
ficer reports that Gen. Nogi, the Japa
nese commander, lost not less than
22,000 men in the recent assaults on
the forts. But there were always sur
ly and determined Japanese troopers
ready to take the places of those of
their compatriots who had fallen In the
fighting. No qifarter Is being asked
or given on either side. It is a fight
to the death between besieged and be
siegers at Port Arthur. The Russians
are contending against heavy odds, but
they are making a fight that will add
to their military glory through all the
ages to come. And meanwhile they are
straining their eyes towards the hori
zon to catch the first glimpse of the
smoke of the anticipated rescuing Bal
tic squadron, which may never get
within several thousand miles of them.
The figures of Stoessel and his gallant
men at Port Arthur make up one of the
most striking and pathetic pictures of
modern military history.
A LOCK OR SEA LEVEL CANALf
A question which has been presented
to Congress in connection with the pro
jected Panama canal is, whether the
canal shall have locks or shall be on
the level of the sea. It was thought
when the property of the Panama Can
al Company w is purchased for $40,000,-
000 that that question had been settled
in- favor of locks. The surveys that
have so far been made by Chief Engi
neer Wallace show that it Is doubtful
if a foundation for a dam, with which
to secure sufficient water to operate
locks, can be obtained. He says that
the French engineers took boulders for
solid rock, and hence reported that
there would be no difficulty in carrying
out the plan for a lock canal. He has
bored to the depth of 163 feet and has
failed to find solid rock, and it is his
opinion that it wouldn't be advisable
to go deeper for a foundation.
Assuming that Engineer Wallace
isn’t mistaken in his conclusions it
looks very much as if a sea level canal
is the only kind of a canal it would be
advisable to build. It would cost a
great deal more, but the cost of main
taining it would be a great deal less.
Besides, if a dam were built without an
adequate foundation there would be
danger all the while that it would give
way.
It is evident that the completion of
the canal isn’t any where near in sight.
When it was decided to build the canal
cn the Panama route it was asserted
that the great work would be complet
ed in ten years, and that its cost would
approximate $200,000,000. If it should be
decided to construct a sea level canal
the cost wouldn’t be less than $300,000,-
000, and the canal wouldn’t be com
pleted inside of twenty years. Indeed,
it is doubtful if the canal could be
built in twenty years or for the amount
stated. The chances are that a quar
ter of a century would be spent upon it
and that it would require $500,000,000 to
complete it.
There will be plenty of time for the
South to get ready for the groat bene
fits which this canal is expected to con
fer upon her. Before she receives the
impetus which the opening of the canal
will give her she will herself be very
much richer than she Is.
National bank notes are good,
whether or not the bank Issuing them
has failed. This Is made possible by
a system of insuring the value of the
notes, under national supervision. Mr.
J. C. Hallock of New York advances
the proposition that national bank de
posits could be made just as secure
as national bank notes by a somewhat
similar Insurance arrangement. That
something of the sort 1s highly de
sirable Is from time to time made evi
dent by statements In the news dis
patches that a national bunk has failed
and that the depositors will probably
get nothing. It has been estimated
that an insurance deposit of 20 cents
on SI,OOO would supply a fund sufficient
to protect every depositor In a na
tional hank. The cost would fall on
the banks, of course, hut the Increased
confidence In them that would follow
the adoption of the plan, It Is asserted,
would more than offset the expenes.
Apparently to die In Havana la an
expensive luxury for an American. T.
K. Jacobs of Chicago departed this Ilfs
In a Its vena hotel antns few days ago.
Tim hotel put in a Mil of SIOO tor the
pi iv liege, I|| undertaker charged S7M
I for hts strict* and tbe doctor wanted
j u f*e almost *# large f<ir a few days'
| attendance. Ass matter of feet, the
| privilege of dying costs too much about
I everywhere.
A government report shows that last
year 37,000,000 gallons of pure whisky
were distilled, but that In the same
time 100,000,000 gallons of "whisky”
were consumed In the country. Whence
came the 63,000.000 gallons of stuff that
was sold as whisky? Dr. Wiley of the
Agricultural Department says that the
American people are pouring down
their throat# millions of gallons of dan
gerous decoctions that masquerade as
pure whisky, and these figures would
appear to bear him out In the state
ment. Much of the horrid ’stuff sold
over bars drives the drinkers to crime
and Imbecility; yet the law-makers
are too timid to take up the question
of legislating for the protection of
whisky consumers. National and state
governments derive revenues from
whisky selling, and they permit deal
ers to dispense just about any sort
of decoction they please under the
name of pure whisky. Any whisky is
harmful, however high Us quality may
be, but the consumer deserves protec
tion against cologne spirits, prune
juice, wood alcohol, tobacco juice, pep
per tea and the other stuff that is
thrown together and sold as whisky.
This is the most strenuous week of
the holiday shopping season. Both
clerks and purchasers will be at an
extreme tension until Saturday night.
Streets will be 'crowded and stores
jammed, especially of afternoons and
evenings. In this condition of affairs,
the wise' shopper will make it a point
to consult the advertising columns of
the Morning News every morning at
breakfast, and then try to get • down
town at the very earliest hour possible.
There are fewer people in the stores
of mornings than of afternoons, and
the salespeople have more time in
which to show goods. By shopping
early better selections are possible and
prompt deliveries are more certain.
And another thing; the salespeople are
deserving of thoughtful consideration.
They work hard and their hours are
long. Let the purchaser exercise pa
tience and forbearance, and try to as
sist in the satisfactory filling of their
orders instead of making things un
pleasant with unnecessary kicks and
complaints.
When "Elijah” Dowie returned from
Europe some few months ago, a
strange young woman was in his par
ty. It was announced that she was
Miss Ruth Hofer, a Swiss heiress,
worth millions of dollars, who had
been converted by Dowie, and who
would devote all of her fortune to his
queer religious enterprise and become
the bride of “Elijah’s” unkissed son,
A. J. Gladstone Dowie. It appears
that the young woman was actually
married to “Glad” Dowie, but quickly
grew tired of her bargain. A Lon
don cable says that she has returned
to her home in Geneva, after a five
months’ stay in Dowie’s Zion City,
a much sadder, wiser and poorer
woman. Miss Hofer is alleged to have
reported the conditions iji Zion to be
unbearable. She found herself, not a
wife, but a servant,land ended the
hateful conditions as related to her
self at the very earliest possible mo
ment.
Now, it seems, Mrs. Chadwick is sus
pected of being a dhimond smuggler,
in connection with her other exploits.
The story is that some months ago
she took a party of ten young ladies,
belonging to aristocratic #famllles in
Ohio, on a tour of Europe. She paid
SIO,OOO for their tickets and expenses.
They were her guests, and nothing
was too good for them. In France
and Holland Mrs. Chadwick is sus
pected of having bought at least $200,-
000 worth of diamonds which, with the
aid of her young guests, she succeed
ed In smuggling through the New York
custom house. Where these diamonds
are the authorities are now trying to
find out. The catalogue of this wom
an’s sensational activities seems to be
almost without end.
The revival of the talk in the news
columns about Greene and Gaynor is
almost like turning back to and scan
ning a page of ancient history.
PERSONAL .
—At Knoxville, Tenn., one day last
week six young women went to the
Court House, asked for Deputy -Sheriff
Groner and reproved him for suppress
ing the names of some young men
whom he had caught in a gambling
house. The young woman who did the
talking told him they ‘‘thought it due
them and every girl in Knoxville who
feels the same way about it that all
names be made public so that they
might make no mistake and be seen
with no such young men.” Groner
promised to act upon that view of the
matter in future.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
(Dem.) says: “Mr. Roosevelt Is wise
enough to see that Platt’s bill would
have amounted to the disfranchisement
of over one-half of the negroes of the
South. Naturally he could not stand
for any such foolishness.”
The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says:
"We venture no opinion about Judge
Swayne's guilt, or even blameworthi
ness, at this stage.of the proceedings,
but It must be apparent to anybody
that if a United States Judge were to
accept favors from a railroad, when
he Is eventually to decide questions
of great moment to tho railroad. It
would be difficult to name any graver
crime; because. If the courts arc poi
soned, where lies the hope of Justice?”
The New York World (Dqpi.) says:
"President Harper denies with more
or less heat the report that the Doxolo
gy Is no longer sung at the University
of Chicago. The report was crudely
untrue. Everybody knows thtot lhe
students' version of the Doxology is
still the favorite hymn at the universi
ty. It. runs in this fashion:
“ 'Praise John from whom oil bless
ings flow;
Prslae him oil creatures here lielow;
Praise hltn oil of ye heavenly host.
Praise William some, but John ths
most!' "
Senator Hie wart's bill to Increase the
salaries of the President, Vice Prcel
deni and members of Congrrse, leads
the Wsshitigrtoti Hist (Ind.) to ob
serve. "Whatever the weight of the
argument may be ae resjo-i is jmlithaJ
plates, there eeeine no good ground for
disputing the eeeertton that federal
judges of the higher grade ar<- not
as well paid a# they should be When
they l*k> > rifle* H is for life, and I heir
whale tune is given to the government.
Tint is to aey, lhey abandon ail oilier
fedlvs employment gut pay.”
The Lady and the Lace*.
This story is told among the depart
ment store sleuths of an alleged epi
sode of this rush season, says the New
York Sun. A man pushed into a crowd
ed store, wiping his brow, and panted
in the ear of one of the floor detec
tives;
“See that woman, George; the clever
looking one In the black dress?" Indi
cating a woman who had Just entered
the store.
George saw her.
“Well,” said the perspiring stranger,
“watch her; she’s the limit; she’s just
come from our store. We know her;
she’s been playing the game there for
some time; she'll load up like a pack
horse if you give her a chance. I've
piped her off all the afternoon and
have shadowed her up here. Watch
her, I tell you.”
The woman in black approached a
counter on which was a display of lace
handkerchiefs and, looking around
cautiously, slipped about half a dozen
of them under her cloak.
“What’d I tell you, George? Pipe
her,” said the sleuth from the other
store, as he nudged George in the ribs.
From the lace handkerchief counter
the woman in black visited the silk
hosiery counter and then went to sev
eral others. At each she helped her
self, generously and dexterously.
George, with the other sleuth, follow
ed at a convenient distance. The
woman, when she started to leave the
store, not only had a load under her
loose fitting cloak, but her pockets
were bulging.
“Leave it to me, George. I know her
game. I’ll get her for both of us,” said
the visiting sleuth. “You stand here at
the door.”
George stood at the door for five
minutes. Then he went out into the
cold world and is still looking for:
1— The woman.
2 The other sleuth.
3 A job.
lie Knew the Train.
A traveler went into a Union avenue
barber shop yesterday morning to get a
shine, and decided to inquire about his
train, says the Kansas City Star.
“Say,” he said, addressing the negro
bootblack, “what time does the Mis
souri Pacific leave for St. Louis this
morning?”
“You mean the one that makes the
daylight run?" queried the negro.
"Yes, that’s the one,” said the man.
“It ah the train that connec’s wif the
one frum Leavenwuth, ain’t it?" asked
the bootblack, as he brushed away.
“Yes.”
“Runs fru Wahnsbur’gh?”
"Yes.”
“An’ Jeffahson City?”
“Yes.”
“I knows the train yoh means, all
right. Stan’s on the secon’ er thud
track, doan’ it?”
“I think it does.”
"Changes ingines . Le’s see. Wha’
do that train change ingines?”
“I don’t know,” came from the man.
“What I want to know is its leaving
time.”
"Ah knows jes’ what yoh wants, an’
Ah knows jes’ ’xactly what train you
means.”
“Well, when does It leave?"
“Oh, yes, when do it leave? Ah's
suah Ah doan’ know ’bout that, boss,”
was the negro’s reply.
Scrubwoman In the Clonds.
The last act of “Die Walkure” was In
progress last night on the Metropolitan
Opera House stage, says a New York
dispatch in the Baltimore Sun. The
setting was a carefully planned cloud
scene, the pride of Heinrich Conried,
who designed It. ■'
Mme. Senger-Bettaque, who had
made her debut earlier in the evening
as Brunnhilde, occupied the front of
the stage.
Suddenly there broke through the
clouds a strange figure that none of the
spectators could possibly associate with
grand opera without laughing. The
figure was that of a woman of ample
dimensions. The sleeves of her ging
ham dress were rolled Well up, and in
her hand she carried a pail of soap
suds. On her face at the sight of the
vast audience was a look of bewilder
ment. She dodged behind a scenic tree,
while Director Conried and the stage
hands signaled and called In stage
whispers that she should remain there.
But Mrs. Geohegan, one of the opera
house scrubwomen —for she It was—
was only the more embarrassed by the
attention she received, and, determined
to escape at any cost, plunged wildly
back into the clouds, which swallowed,
her from the view of the laughing au
dience.
Woman and Art.
Two women 'affecting the airs of the
connoiseur weer looking at the pic
tures and statues In an art gallery In
which there were beautiful statues of
Hebe and Psyche, says the Woman's
Home Companion. Carefully scrutiniz
ing the Psyche through her glass for
a moment one of the women said:
"Do you know, my dear, I don’t Just
like this Fishy, after all. Do you?”
“No, I cannot say that I do,” replied
the other woman after a moment’s re
flection. ‘‘But,’’ she added with en
thusiasm. "I do like that Heeb."
"Well, yes, so do I. At least, I like
the Heeb a good deal better than I
like the'Fishy.”
The Professor.
The professor handed a quarter to
the street car conductor, says an ex
change.
The conductor gave him two 10-cent
pieces In change.
He handed them back.
“What’s the matter with them?” ask
ed the conductor.
“I want money that talks.”
"That talks?”
“Yes —at the telephone booth.”
The conductor gave him four nick
els. glared at him, and passed on. He
thinks he’ll know him next time.
The Path of Progress.
From the Chicago Tribune.
(Luther Burbank of California has
perfected a fadeless flower.)
The horseless carriage whizzes by,
With puff and dash and slam;
Through every breath of ours may fly
A wireless telegram;
The seedless raisin on the plat#
We Joyfully devour;
Things are perfected while we wait—
Here comes the fadeless flower.
The coreless apple is announced;
The whiplesa school Is here—
No scholar an.v more Is trounced
By teacher kind and dear;
The scentless onion now is grown—
Improvement every hour
Into the scheme of things Is thrown;
Behold the fadeless flower!
The Jokeleas comedy we see,'
The tailless horse we drive;
The honey served to you snd ms
Comes from a beeless hive;
Buckwheat less buckwheat cakes we
eat.
And gather strength less power;
Home new things every day we greet—
Observe the fadelese flower.
Oh, would they freeae some mettle##
Ice,
Or make some footless gas
Or furnish coal without s price
Fate Is unkind, sis#’
Henceforth the maiden fair to see
Will grew reserved arid eour,
And any ’Bring withered bloom# to
M-
No ilatf eld fade lea# flower!**
LYMAN ABBOTT’S FAITH.
From the New York World.
Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 18. —Leaning
far out over the pulpit In Appleton
Chapel, his long white beard and flow
ing gown making him look like a verit
able patriarch. Dr. Lyman Abbott, in
a sermon to Harvard students to-night
broke away from the theology which
to-day forms the basis of the faith of
millions of orthodox Christians and
sounded the keynote of anew religion
founded, not on the Bible, but on
science, and the out-reachings of the
human heart.
"I wonder,” he said, “if you students
in Harvard will understand me when
I say that I no longer believe in a
great first cause. To-morrow *the news
papers will get hold of this and brand
me as a heretic. My God is a great
and ever-present force, which is mani
fest in all the activities of man and
all the working of nature.
“I believe in a God who is in and
through and of everything—not an ab
sentee God, whom we have to reach
through a Bible or a priest or some
other outside aid, but a God who is
closer to us than hands or feet. Science,
literature and history tell us that there
is one eternal energy, that the Bible
no longer can be accepted as ultimate,
that many of its laws were copied
from other religions, that the Ten Com
mandments did not spring spontaneous
ly from Moses, but were, like all laws,
a gradual growth, and that man is a
creature, not a creation.
“No thinking man will say there
are many energies. The days of poly
theism as past. There is only one
energy. That energy has always been
working. It is an intelligent energy.
No scientist can deny it. It was work
ing before Christ’s time, even as it is
now. For three years the clouds broke
and the light flashed through. Then
they closed ag*ain.
“Yet God has a personality. We rec
ognize it as we recognize the personali
ty of a Titian or an angel. Only God.
is always working, always creating,'
whereas their work is done God stands
near us. The mother of a deaf, dumb
and blind child gives her daughter one,
•two, three gifts without being recog
nized. Finally there breaks through
the child’s intelligence the fact that
these gifts, so kind, so loving, spring
from the same source. It feels the
mother’s hand and face, then throws
its arms around her neck ’and kisses
her. Even so we, ever in the presence
of God, tome to realize His proximity
and love. God makes for good, man’s
progress is a progress upward, each
day is better than the first.”
TELK WEATHER UY PET FLY.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Bangor, Me., Dec. 16.—“ They can
hdve their barometers and thermo
meters and their government weather
forecasts,” says Capt. A. J. Robinson,
of the schooner Andrew Neibenger,
“but I’ll stick to my tty—he never goes
back on me as a weather prophet, and
I swear by him.”
The Andrew Nebinger is one of the
fleet of schooners owned by the East
ern Manufacturing Company, of Ban
gor, and Capt. Robinson, her skipper,
is a skillful sailor. He carries a ba
rometer, of course, but, as he says, he
depends chiefly upon a fly—a common
housefly—for straight tips as to what
is coming in the weather line. No one
knows whether this fly is a native of
Bangor or of New York, for the An
drew Nebinger sails between the two
ports all the time, and no one happen
ed to observe this particular fly when
he came aboard. But that makes no
difference. The fly is a weather sharp,
all right, and has been a pet on board,
the Nebinger since last May. Should
he not survive until the vessel hauls
up Capt. Robinson will be at a loss
to know what weather to expect.
The fly lives In a snug corner of
Capt. Robinson’s stateroom, and when
a warm and fair spell of weather is
due he comes out and disports him
self on the ceiling of the cabin. He
w 4 as there the other day, when a re
porter, called to find out about him.
“Just you look at that little critter,”
observed the Captain, pointing with the
stem of his pipe to where the insect
was promenading upon the dingy ceil
ing of the cabin, twirling its hind legs
and leisurely twisting Its “for’ard
feelers,” as the Captain called them.
“You see, he’s feelin’ good to-day, and
that means that we’re goin’ to have
a fine spell o’ weather.” Sure enough,
the fine spell had already arrived.
When a storm is brewing the fly
disappears Into its nest, and then, if
at sea, Capt. Robinson shortens sail
or puts in somewhere. In very warm
weather the fly comes down from the
celling to the table, and is quite chum
my, but when the mercury is about
to drop, up he goes to the ceiling.
WHEN THEATERGOERS SMOKE
MOST.
From the Philadelphia Record.
"You wouldn’t suppose on the first
thought that there is any connection
between the state of the drama and
the retail tobacco trade,” says a man
who runs a cigar stqre close to one
of the down town theaters, “but there
is such a connection, and It Is a close
one. On any night when the theater
has a musical comedy show or any
thing of that kind I get twice the busi
ness I do when the performance Is a
comedy, drama or tragedy. Now that
1 have pointed the thing out you see
the reason for It, of course. The light
er forms of entertainment in which the
bunching of good looking chorus girls
Is a feature is attended largely toy men
who go by themselves. They go out
between the acts in crowds and dur
ing the play and after it is over my
business is good.
"But with the other kind of show,
even though the house be crowded, the
bulk of the audience consists of cou
ples. Men take their wives or their
sweethearts and, as a general rule,
sit still between the acts to discuss the
play. The difference is so marked in
my business and the fact is so well
established that I make it a rule to
know the coming shows as long be
forehand as possible and govern the
kind and amount of stock I have on
hand accordingly. The theater natur
ally runs largely to cigarettes.”
ONLY “RILL” CLI tl DINES “BILLS.”
From the Philadelphia Record.
Excelsior Springs, Mo.. Deo. 9.—What
is believed to be the only "Bill” club
in the world gave its first annual ban
quet here to-night. The pass-word
“Hello Bill" was taken up as each
“Bill” entered the banquet room, also
a dollar bill. Covers were laid for 40
"Bills."
Bill Fowler introduced Bill Thomp
son as toastmaster. The Toastmaster
then Introduced the mascot of the
evening. Mr. Bill Goat, who occupied
the center of the banquet room. The
speakers were nil "Bills,”
Letters of regret were received front
Hill Hummer, Kansas City; Bill Wal
lace, Kansas City; Bill Bryan. Lincoln,
Neh.; Hill Hughes, Connellsville, Pa.;
and other ’ Bills.” The "Bill” Club Is
to be made a permanent organization.
The honorary hills are; Bill (United
State* Senator> Stone. Bill (Major)
Warner and Bill Bryan.
tOI EINS A* I I Hli t nr.
From the London Dally Mall.
A man living In Quc<*tiabury not only
uses hi# coffin as a piece of household
furniture, tail he hee also a grave muds
in the local churchyard by a <i n rwyp
In the local (hurctiyaid headed by a
gravestone <* which hts name Is get
out In conventional aisle. I'nderr.eaf h
la lb* line "Not dead, but wailing ■
One nun at Tong, naai Bradford,
kept Ills Sunday clothe* in his .offin,
and another, who ate porridge at
brsakfsast. used his < tdin as a meal
bin
Rome years age a Krtgblsy man kepi
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