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Special Notices—Christmas Dinner,
Veruki’s Cafe: Compliments of the
Season, Prager Laundry Company; A
Merry Christmas, Jas. J. Joyce; The
Dixie Laundry, J. H. Furber; Crew
Notice, British Bark, Pass of Brander;
General Insurance. W. T. Hopkins.
Business Notices—Enjoy Yourself, G.
W. Thomas; Dinner To-day, Som
mers’ Cafe; There Are Many Valuable
Christmas Gifts, Pennlman & Ennen;
Leather Novelties Are Acceptable
Presents, I.- H. Friedman & Cos.; A
Merry Christmas, Roos’ Market; Yon
Don't See This Often, Cohen-Kulman
Carriage and Wagon Company.
Merry Christmas—Foye & Eckstein.
On Monday Morning—Jackson & Gut
man.
You’ll Not Worry—Savannah-Georgia
Laundry.
The Great Day Has Dawned—The
Delmonlco Cos. •
Our Best Wishes for a Merry Christ
mas—Gustave Eckstein & Cos.
To the Vast Nmber—Savannah Gas
Cos.
Hold Your Cotton—Ludden & Bates
S. M. H.
To-morrow—McGrath & Ransford.
Financial —Southern Bank of the
State of Georgia.
Merry Christmas to All—Falk's,
Around the Corner.
In Making Merry Christmas—Edward
Lovell’s Sons.
Seed Potatoes—Henry Solomon &
Son.
Hand-Painted China—Thos. West &
Cos.
Special Notice—Gerst’s Hair Dress
ing Parlor.
Pause and Consider—Electric Supply
Cos.
Merry Christmas to Friends and Pa
trons—The Bee Hive.
A Very Cordial Christmas Greeting—
B. H. Levy, Bro. & Cos.
Greetings Sincere—Estate Daniel Ho
gan.
This Day Is Not for Business T. A.
Bryson.
I Make Weak Men Strong and Well
—Dr. J. New’ton Hathaway.
Merry Christmas to All—Lattimores’.
Huyler's Candy and Bon Bons—Sol
omons Company.
May Your Christmas Be Full of
Sunshine—Dr. M. Schawb’s Son.
Nunnally’s Candy Livingston’s
Pharmacy.
Delicious Candies—At Conida’s.
Always Good—J. T. Shuptrlne.
Compliments of the Season—Row
linskl, Druggist.
A Gigantic Holiday Business—
Rhodes-Haverty Furniture Company.
Red Cross Coffee—Henry Solomon
& Son.
Mid-Winter Schedule Peninsular
and Occidental Steamship Company.
Compliments of the Season—Ogle
thorpe Savings and Trust Company.
Savannah Theater—All the Week,
the Arnold Stock Company.
Saddles and Harness—Leo Frank.
Apples—W. D. Slmkins.
For the New Year—The Connor
Book Store.
To Those Who Motor—R. V. Con
nerut.
Remembered—Connor A Sullivan.
A Merry Christmas to You All—Leo
pold Adler.
Closed All Day Monday—Foye &
E> ksteln.
Our New Shirt Work—E. & W.
Laundry.
Medical—Peruna.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted. Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Kale, Lost, Personal, Mis
cellaneous.
Tito Weather.
The Indications for Georgia for to
day arc for rain, with fresh west winds.
Hosiern Florida fair weather, with
light west winds.
A 1 hi-dot tor of the name of L
t M E X* tgier, has awed the estate
of a * attain d*-‘ -Sim 4 rich woman Ft
llztnoo for medical get tinea. Maybe If
the doc tor irsd hom aMs to rnoai *i
eco r,< i m JUsl he wtsuid have swsd I-,r
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CHRISTMAS.
Everybody knows, of course, that
Christmas is celebrated as the anni
versary of the birth of the Babe in
the Manger. It is a holiday through
out Christendom. But it has become
of larger meaning than a mere Chris
tian feast day. Asa matter of fact,
its blessed spirit extends far beyond
creeds, and on this day Jews and Mo
hammedans as well as Christians will
be found giving gifts and exchanging
the compliments of the season wher
ever they are associated together in
what for convenience is called a Chris
tian country. Nor do the Christians
enter more heartily into the celebra
tion of the day than the other religion
ists, who have no especial reason in
their faith for making a feast at the
recurrence of the anniversary of the
birth of the infant Saviour. The fact
is, the spirit of the day is so sweet,
so captivating, that it reaches beyond
all creeds and becomes universal in
character, because it is based in love
and human kindness.
The first Christmas impulse of the
loving heart is to give something; some
token, by which the recipient may he
reminded of the kindly and affectionate
feeling of the giver. At Christmas
love and charity have their
full fruition. It is then that
gifts are exchanged. Intrinsically
they may be poor, but the sentiment
that accompanies them makes them
rich beyond price. A doll worth ten
cents may carry with it joy and hap
piness that could not be purchased for
a million dollars.
The amount of money that is spent
for Christmas presents and Christmas
cheer is practically beyond computa
tion. It runs into the millions, easly;
but not a dollar of it is wasted if the
sentiment that accompanies the ex
penditure is taken into account. The
mails are loaded down, the express
companies are jammed with the extra
ordinary amount of business offered,
the stores are crowded and the sales
people worked to the point of exhaus
tion. But all the while everybody is
cheerful and smiling. Why? It's
Christmas. It is the season for smiles,
and happy greetings and good cheer.
The spirit of the season is in all hearts.
Everybody is willing to do more and
give more, for the happiness of the
community. The spirit of Christmas
defies complete analysis, but it is a
delightful psychological fact.
THE LIMIT REACHED.
The disorder on Broughton street^last
night reached the limit. It was as
destructive to business and the pleas
ure of sightseers as a riot would have
been. Men and boys, white and black,
filled the street, and with devil sticks
and torpedoes not only kept up such
a din that it was impossible for cus
tomers in stores to communicate with
clerks, but the exploding torpedoes
alarmed people, and forced them from
the street. The condition of affairs
that prevailed was outrageous and dis
graceful. It ruined Christmas Eve
for a very large percentage of the peo
ple of the city, and for whose benefit?
For that of a few men and boys who
have little or nothing at stake In the
city, who don’t care whether the mer
chants do any business or not, and who
are totally Indifferent to the wishes and
rights of Christmas Eve shoppers.
It is up to the Mayor and the City
Council to say whether we are to have
this sort of thing every Christmas
Eve in the future. We are sure if
the retail merchants could have their
way, If peaceably disposed citizens and
well-wishers of the city could make
their voices heard there would never
be such another exhibition of noisy
disorder here on Christmas Eve as
there was last night.
The retail merchants should meet
and put themselves on record against
the sale of devil sticks and torpedoes
for Christmas Eve celebrations, and
they should bring the fact home to the
Mayor that they are as much entitled
to police protection on Christmas Eve
as on other occasions. They pay for
the privilege of doing business and
they are defrauded when conditions
are permitted that prevent them from
doing It.
Last Christmas Eve a bluff was
made at checking the disorder, but it
was ineffectual. It was hoped that this
year the police would see to It that
Broughton street was kept free from
the torpedo and devil stick nuisance,
but the hope was not realized. The
condition of affairs surpassed that of
last year, and will steadily grow
worse unless the merchants and citi
zens generally make their protest so
emphatic that the city authorities will
heed it. _
THE GROWTH OK THE CHURCHES.
Recently there has been much pother
about the out-of-dateness of religious
creeds, the decline of church attend
ance, and things like that. Ministers
and others have expressed opinions as
to why men do not attend divine serv
ices in larger numbers, and what
should be done to bring the people out
to the churches. Through It all there
has run a somewhat pessimistic vein,
as If the world were faßt going to
the dogs. But when the facts and
figures are consulted, it appears that
the churches are steadily forging
ahead; some of them, indeed, faster
than the growth of the population.
For example, it appears from the offi
cial reports of the Episcopal Church
that that organization has added 25,915
to its membership during the year,
making its present membership 807,351.
This is an Increase of 3 per cent.,
against an estimated Increase of 2 per
cent, in the population. The Fresby
terlan increase in membership Is 2V4
per cent., and that of the Baptists and
Methodists about 291 per cent. The
Catholic figures have not yet been
made public, but It Is predicted that
they will show an Increase of not less
than 4 per cent.
Dots that look us If the churches
were falling Into decay; that religion
wea beeondiig unpopular; that the
people no longer took n deep and abid
ing Interest in the spiritual Ufa? Does
that look ms If preachers weie obliged
to (elk to empty lurches, while the
populace sought worldly pleasures on
Ibe Mebb.ths When the growth of the
churches *i> w 4* relatively the growth
of population, the .via, nos la tamely
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slve that the churches are vital, mili
tant and convincing. There may be
defections here and there, but the
great stream of modern thought con
tinues in the old channel and its vol
ume is all the time being increased
by important additions.
It is stated in the Presbyterian hand
book for 1905 that the religions of the
world have 1,430,000,000 adherents, di
vided as follows: Christianity, 477,080,-
158; Confucianism, 256.000,000; Hindu
ism, 190,000,000; Mohammedanism, 176,-
834,372; Buddhism, 147,900,000; Taoism
and Shintoism, 57,000,000; Judaism, 7,-
056,000, and various heathen faiths, 118,-
129,479.
The adherents of Christianity are di
vided into the following branches;
Catholic, 230,866,533; Protestant, 143,237,-
625; Greek Church, 86,016,000; Church
of Abyssinia, 3,000,000; Coptic Church,
120,000; Armenian Church, 1,690,000;
Nectorians and Jacobites, 150,000.
Till STS MIT 17 DANGER.
Those who are watching the discus
sion of the trust question are no doubt
coming to the conclusion that trusts
are no longer in danger of being de
stroyed. During the campaigns of 1896,
1900 and, to a limited extent, the cam
paign of 1904. the attacks upon trusts
were so bitter that many no doubt
thought the time wasp't distant when
an indignant and much oppressed peo
ple would rise up in their might, as it
were, and smite them so vigorously
that they would all be dissolved into
the little corporations out of which
they were formed.
Now, however, we are being told
that they are necessary to the condi
tions which prevail in the business
world of to-day, and that what is
needed is not their destruction, but
that they be wisely guided and direct
ed so as not to injure any other in
terest or oppress the people. This is
virtually the position the President
took in his message to Congress, and
it is the position taken by the Com
missioner of the Bureau of Corpora
tions. It is the view also that is being
taken by some of the ablest and most
influential thinkers of the country. It
Is worthy of notice that comparatively
little is now being said in favor of de
stroying trusts. The discussion is all
in the direction of devising ways and
means for directing and controlling
them. Efforts are being made to dis
cover how the federal government can
be given power to supervise them, and
so control them that there will be no
discriminations in their favor.
In the course of his address at the
New England dinner in Philadelphia
last Thursday night Chief Justice
Mitchell of the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania said that man’s na
ture cannot be changed by stat
utes, that "the people want
trusts and they will have them.”
There were trusts, he said, in the sec
ond century and we have them in the
twentieth century, expanded along
more diverse lines. More than six
hundred years ago the British Parlia
ment undertook to wipe them out and
failed, and all the talk and legisla
tion there has been against them in
the last dozen years have made no
impression upon them. They are still
doing business at the old stand, and
new ones are being formed all the time;
If this Is a correct statement of the
situation the thing to do now is pot
to continue the fight to destroy them,
but to bend all our energies towards
placing under proper guidance and
direction, so that they will cease to be
a menace to the welfare and interests
of the people.
WHO IS A GENTLEM AN t
"We referred some days ago to the
decision by an English court that a
schoolmaster could not be a gentle
man. An absurb statute, still pre
served in the English code, provides
that a “gentleman” shall have a high
er standing in the eyes of the law
than a “tradesman,” and that his oath
shall have greater weight. It was
held by the court that a schoolmaster
was a “tradesman” because he work
ed for his income, and that therefore
the schoolmaster occupied a third-rate
or fourth-rate position in the eye of
the law'. The judge took pains to
say that there was no intention on
the part of the court to reflect on the
moral character of the litigant in
question, but merely to hold that, in
law, one might not be a gentleman,
whereas he might be one in every oth
er relation of life.
The whole thing seems ridiculous to
the Intelligent American. In this
country we hold as gentlemen all those
who are “gentle men;” who regard the
sensibilities of others; who would not
willingly and knowingly wound the
feelings of those they come in con
tact with; who would put themselves,
to inconvenience to be obliging and of
assistance; who never forget to be
deferential to women under all cir
cumstances; who are clean of person
and thought end action, and against
whom no breath of reproach can be
brought. In short, in America "gen
tleman” mean3 an upright, honest man
who strives to do right and live up
to the golden rule.
But In England they have a different
idea. It was Carlyle, we believe, who
described a gentleman as "A man who
keeps a gig." Another Englishman
said that a gentleman was one who
"wears Sunday clothes on weekdays.”
The English law, tt seems, defines a
gentleman—possibly not In so many
words, but In effect—as a tnan who
doesn't have to work for his living, but
who has an independent Income, how
ever, small. Thus J. P. Morgan, who
goes to his office and works, would
not bo regarded as a gentleman un
der the English although his
Income were a thousand times great
er than that of some “tlanneled fool”
of the leisure <lass.
Oddly enough, in some parts of the
United States the designation, “gen
tleman," Is employed In the directories
to describe persons who have no known
occupation. The man may be a gam
bler, fakir or all-round disreputable
person, Hut If be has money, he goes
Into the dirts lory as “gentleman” or
“capitalist
To ih* average American mind, how*
ever, ' 'gentleman” means—and will
• uttilnue to mean—a man who en
dutU himself la a genii*, lonaiderai*,
liberal manner; a man whose soul
is above meanness and avarice; a
inan In whom honor governs and to
whom selfishness Is unknown. In
America the gentleman may not have
a second shirt, but if his morale are
right he is “the real thing.”
Col. William Jennings Bryan passed
a hot afternoon in Denver the other
day, notwithstanding there was snow
on the ground. He wanted to write a
letter, and asked for a desk In the of
fice of the depot master at the rail
road station. That official accommo
dated him, but slammed the door as he
went out of the office. It chanced that
the door Hastened with a spring lock,
that the office was very small and
that the steam was turned on the ra
diator at full force. When Col. Bryan
had finished his letter he discovered
that he couldn’t get out, and mean
time the temperature was continually
rising. For an hour and a half he was
a prisoner in the little room, which
during the while had been converted
into a veritable sweat-box.
The "frenzied financiers” after whom
Thomas W. Lawson is gunning, are
finding many ways of striking back at
him. One of the largest schooners in
the world—a seven-master —bears the
name of Mr. Dawson. She is owned
by a syndicate. A director of the syn
dicate the other day introduced a reso
lution at a board meeting ordering that
the name of Mr. Dawson be taken off
the vessel because of his sensational
articles In the newspapers and maga
zines.
PERSONAL.
Joseph Smith, a citizen of Hobart,
I. TANARUS., aspires to be appointed scaven
ger in that place. He showed up be
fore the appointing authority with these
indorsements on his petition: Saloon
Men’s Protective Deague, Law and Or
der Deague, Young Men’s Christian
Association, Women’s Christian Tem
perance Union, Anti-Prohibition So
ciety, American Protective Association
and Catholic Union of America. Some
curiosity is felt as to just what “pull”
he would have produced had he been
looking for a really good job.
—The Beecher-Tilton trial Is recall
ed by the death a day or two ago of
William H. Davis, the last of the
twelve men who made up the Jury
which sat in the trial. In all the time
which has elapsed since the Beecher
trial Mr. Davis, according to the state
ment of his relatives, has never told
how he voted on the jury, nor express
ed an opinion in regard to the guilt or
innocence of Mr. Beecher. After the
jury returned to the courtroom and re
ported a disagreement it was discharg
ed. The individual members were ask
ed for expressions of opinion in regard
to the case. None of the twelve men
would consent to say anything, and it
was learned that before the verdict
was brought in all had agreed never
t j divulge what had taken place In
the juryroom, even to their own fami
lies. It is believed that with the death
of Mr. Davis the last chance that the
proceedings of the jury would become
known has vanished.
BRIGHT HITS.
—Windig—“l don’t know what we
are going to do with our youngest
boy.” Joblots—"What’s the trouble?”
Windig—' He’s getting so we can't be
lieve a word he says.” Joblots—"Why
don’t you get him a job in the pre
diction department of the Govern-,
ment Weather Bureau?”—Chicago
Daily News.
—Nearly All Standing—Jokeley—
“There’s the result, of Roosevelt’s re
election for you. See how the stand
ing army’s been increased lately.”
Cokeley—"What! Why, I hadn’t heard
of it.” Jokeley—“No? Haven’t you
noticed the army of shoppers going
home in the street cars these holiday
times?"—Philadelphia Press.
—“What’s them letters you got up
there over the door?” demanded Nu
ritch, Inspecting the plans of his new
mansion.
“That,” replied the architect, “is
‘S-a-l-v-e,’ which means ”
“ ‘Salve?’ I never made any in me
life. My money was made in soap.
Take ’em down.”—Philadelphia Press.
CI HHEST COM MUST.
The Richmond News Leader (Dem.)
says: “It is to be supposed that the
magazine Thomas E. "Watson proposes
to publish will be devoted largely to
'frenzied politics.’ ’’
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.)
says: “The fact remains that there is
no trade, profession or current means
of earning an honest livelihood but is
open without reserve to the negro in
the Southern states, but naturally the
best opportunities that are open to
him are in some department of labor.
The demand for negro lawyers, doc
tors, clergymen, school teachers and
the like is limited, but for laborers
of every class, whether skilled or un
skilled, for men as well as for women
for domestic service, is practically un
limited. Under these conditions the
educated negroes find it more or less
difficult to secure a profitable field for
their special accomplishments, while
the uneducated are sure of employ
ment, If they will accept it. Doubtless
the educated negroes will find better
opportunities in the Northern states,
and it is certain that all, whether edu
cated or not, who aspire to a state of
social affiliation with whites are mov
ing northward at every opportunity.
Whether they realize their desires re
mains to be seen.”
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
(Ind.) says: "Southern cotton plant
ing interests are displaying symptoms
of having lost their heads since the
i big slump in prices of cotton following
the government’s estimates of produc
tion. They are, in the first pluce, or
ganizing a movement to have the re
mainder of the crop held back until
the price has been forced up to 10 cents
a pound. But if the crop is as-large
as indicated the effect of such a move
ment, could it be brought about, would
be like that of damming up a stream
only in the end to see it break away
and inundate those engaged in the
operation. It would work exactly as
have corners in wheat or corn—pro
ducing a temporarily higher price, to
he followed on the break by lower
prices than prevailed at the beginning.
And now we are told an organized ef
fort Is to be made to compel the gov
ernment to cense collecting ginning
and other figures as to the size of the
cotton crop-on the theory that these
statistics constitute an unwarranted
•xponurs of the -business affairs of the
planters. The Western grain raisera
have ns good u right to make the as me
demand, and acquiescence would in
volve an abolition of the whole crop
reporting bureau at Washington In
times of short <ro|>a when Its reports
help boost prices as well as In times
of large crops. Hut If the government
retired from the business there would
be, as (here are now, plenty of private
concerns to Uk* It up. and the pro
ducers would have gained nothing U>
secrecy for their business. '*
The Diver’s Gratitude.
"A few years ago I was in Little
Rock, Ark., selling goods for a Chi
cago house,” said a Seattle real estate
nfan a day or two ago, says an ex
change. “I made that city my head
quarters and ran out through the state.
One day I started to make a trip with
several big trunks of samples. The
negro expressman was such a good
nutured, accommodating fellow that I
took a liking to him. I bought a twen
ty-four hour accident ticket, according
to my custom, but before the train
started I met a man I wanted to do
some business with and I decided to
stay.
"As I started to leave the station I
saw my expressman talking to a ne
gro woman and as I passed him he
said:
“ ‘My ole woman is goin’ on de same
train wid you, boss.’
' ‘l’m not going,' I said, 'so I'll just
give your wife this accident ticket.’
" ‘What’s dat fur?’
“ ‘Why, if your wife is crippled in an
accident she will get money, according
to how badly she is hurt, and if she
is killed you will get $3,000.’
“The couple seemed much pleased
at the investment and I went away
and forget it. In the evening I learned
that the train which I had failed to
take had been wrecked and several
persons had been killed. After dinner
I was sitting in front of the hotel,
when my expressman came along look
ing anxiously on all sides. When he
saw me he came forward and ask
ed:
“ ‘Be you de gemman I hauled
some trunks to de depot dis rrtawning
fur?’
" ‘Yes, you took some trunks down
for me.’
" ‘Den you is de man dat give me
dat ticket?'
“ ‘I believe I did give you an acci
dent policy.’
“ 'Well, de ole woman was killed in
dat smash-up,’
“ ‘ls that so? I am very sorry, I
said, offering him my hand. ‘She was
a nice-looking woman and I know she
must have been a good wife.’
“ ‘An’ you told me ef de ole woman
got killed I’d git $3,000?’
“ 'Yes, that is what those policies
call for.’
“ ‘Am dat sholly true, white man?
Does I git $3,000?’
“ ‘You certainly will. The company
is good for it.’
" ‘Well, dat do beat all! Now I kin
buy a fine house, an’ have an organ in
it, an’ have a two-horse team ’stead
of one ornery mule. White man, lemme
shake yo’ hand agin.’ ”
The Mystery Cleared Un.
A man with a wild look of hope in
his eye entered a West Baltimore street
business establishment, says the Bal
timore American.
Stepping up to a salesman, he said:
“I’ve got one I’ll trade to anybody
eight unseen. So trot out any of ’em
and I’ll swap mighty quick and glad
of the chance.”
“One what?” asked the mystified
salesman.
The visitor put his hand to his ear
nnd looked puzzled, proving that his
hearing was slightly defective. Being
not quite sure that the salesman had
spoken, the visitor went on:
“Yep, mine isn’t a very good one,
I’ll admit, but it might suit some man
with a tougher conscience than mine.
Some fellow who has a longer life
ahead of him in which to live it down
might get along very well with mine,
while I’m willing to take his and ask
no questions.”
Still more profoundly be-addled, the
salesman called the proprietor and
said:
“Here's one that’s nutty for keeps.
I’m away off from understanding what
he’s driving at. Come and take a
whirl at him and see if you can get
next.”
The proprietor came forward briskly
and said, with his lips close to the
stranger's ear:
“What is it you want?”
“Why,” said the stranger, “I want to
patronize your place of business. I
saw a sign out there on the window
'Records Exchanged,’ and I was tell
ing your clerk I had an unenviable rec
ord that I would be willing to get rid
of at any terms.”
And the proprietor of the phonog
raphery went out and changed the
sign.
The Pane nnd the Pun.
Tuesday afternoon a good sized au
dience lined the curbstone opposite the
Electric building and watched three
men in the third story of the afore
said edifice holding a large pane of
plate glass that had broken and was
in an admirable position to fall down
upon the sidewalk as soon as the trio
was willing to let go.
Perhaps it was due to the vaudeville
atmosphere of Keith’s theater, perhaps
it was just natural "curbstone” dia
logue, but at all events a number of
amusing observations were made by
the interested spectators. .
’’That’s certainly a paneful situa
tion,” remarked one.
"Its a difficult problem to know what
to do with It,” said another.
“Oh. I don’t know, anybody can see
through tt,” put in a third.
“I hope there isn't a ball pitcher
among the three.” said the first.
“Why?” asked an innocent bystand
er.
"Because he might get a glass arm.
I wonder if they'd like to sell the
pane?”
"Yes, I bet they’d let anybody take
it off their hands cheap.”
“I guess Its a heavy glass.”
“No, Its only a light.”
And the glass continued to hold the
attention and the trio continued to hold
the glass.
<‘Bo Yonnit, So Wise.”
A gentleman going Into the Royal
Hotel at Ramsgate the other day who
had not been there for some time, says
Ally Sloper’s, missed a familiar face
and inquired:
“Where Is old William, the head
waiter?”
“Oh, he’s gone,” replied the land
lord.
"Gone? Not dead. I hope?”
"Oh, no! But the fact Is, William
had been here so long that he got too
big for his breeches, and so I thought
it was better that we should part.”
A bright-eyed little maiden of about
7 chanced to hear this conversation,
and an hour or two later, when some
one In the coffee room observed, “I
wonder what's become of William, the
old waiter?"
Someone else replied: "Oh, I think
he's been discharged.”
"What for?”
”1 don’t know."
“I do," volunteered the diminutive
damsel.
"What was it, then?"
•• 'Cos his trousers was too short.”
From Urmlle to Grave.
The stork disappears and we look
Into the cradle and behold a male
child, says the Lockwood (Mo.) Times.
After running the gantlet of measles,
mumps and chlekenpox he enters
school. At the age of 10 he is a red
headed, freckle-faced boy and the ter
ror of tho neighborhood. At 12 he is
an apprentice In a printing office, At
18 he has acquired two cases of long
primer and an army proas and Is th
editor of a country newspaper. At 20
he la married. At *0 he la 4>;ild-hondd.
stoop-shouldered and the father of a
large family. At It he la a corpse In a
cheap ptne coffin, and as 500 delin
quent subscriber* fll past his bier f., r
the last look they are hoard to say:
"Ha waa a good fellow, but be couldn't
aava hta money ”
CHRISTMAS—LOVE’S FESTIVAL.
From the Commoner.
Christmas is love’s festival. Set
apart from the commemoration of
God's gift of His Son it has grown
into a great holiday which is observ
ed throughout Christendom by rich
and poor alike. Even those who re
fuse to take upon themselves the
vow's of any church are constrained to
join in the beautiful custom which
makes both parents and children look
forward to this day with pleasant an
ticipations. For weeks before Dec. 25
busy hands are at work, tiny savings
banks are gathering in their sacred
store and eager expectancy is written
upon the faces of the young. To the
boys and girls Santa Claus is a sort
of composite donor who monoplizes
the distribution of presents and w'ho,
reading the minds of his little friends,
rewards the good (and ail are good
just before Christmas) with the very
toys that they themselves have se
lected, while the older ones learn by
experience that it is more blessed to
give than to receive. Back of Christ
mas and the Christmas present is love,
and the broad, brotherly love taught
and exemplified by the Nazarene is
not content with the remembrances
which are exchanged as tokens of af
fection between members of the fam
ily and between intimate friends; it
is compelling a widening of the circle
to include the poor and the needy
though not of kith or kin.
What an Instructor love Is! How it
develops the -one of whom it takes
possession! It is the mightiest influ
ence known among men. When once
it is awakened it dissolves all opposi
tion. Dr. Parkhurst, the New York
clergyman, in illustrating the differ
ence between force and love said
(quoted from memory) that force is
the hammer which can break a block
of ice into a thousand pieces but
leaves each piece still ice, w-hile love
Is the ray of sunlight which, though
acting more slow'ly and silently, melts
the ice.
At this season of the year our
thought turn to the contemplation of
the new degree of love revealed to
the world by Jesus. To love betw-een
members of the family and love be
tween friends He added an all-per
vading love that Includes every mem
ber of the human race. Even enemies
are not beyond the bounds of this
love, for man’s puny arms are not
strong enough to break the bonds
that unite each son of God to all his
brethren. "Love is not stupid,” says
Tolstoy. It makes known to us our
duty to our fellows and It will some
day rule the w-orld. Force Is the weap
on of the animal in us; after it comes
money, w'hich the intellect employs,
sometimes for good, sometimes for
harm. But greater than all if love, the
weapon of the heart. It is a sword that
never rusts, neither does it break, and
the wounds that it leaves are life
saving, not life-destroying. No ar
mor can withstand it and flo antag
onist can resist it. But why try to
define this love or to measure Its
scope? Paul, the apostle In his first
epistle to the Corinthians describes it
in language to w'hich nothing can be
added and from which nothing can be
taken. Let his words suffice:
“If I speak with the tongues of men
and of angels, but have not love, I
am become counding brass or clang
ing cymbal. And if I have the gift
of prophecy, and know all mysteries
and all knowledge; and if I have all
faith, so as to remove mountains, but
have not love, I am nothing. And if
I bestow all my goods to feed the
poor, and if I give my body to be
burned, but have not love, it profit
eth me nothing. Love suffereth long,
and is kind; love envieth not; love
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
doth not behave Itself unseemly, seek
eth not its own, is not provoked,
taketh not account of evil: rejolceth
not in unrighteousness, but rejolceth
with the truth: beareth all things,
bc-lieveth all things, hopeth all things,
endureth all things. Love never fail
eth; but whether there be prophecies,
they shall be done away: whether
there be knowledge, it shall be done
away with. For we know' in part, and
we phophesy in part; but when that
which is perfect is come, that which
is in part shall be done away. When
I was a child, I spake as a child, I
felt as a child, I thought as a child:
now that I am become a man I have
put away with childish things. For
now we see in a mirror, darkly; but
then face to face; now I know in part;
then shall I know even as also I have
been knowm. But now abideth faith,
hope, love, these three; and the great
est of these is love.”
DO ANIMALS REASON?
John Burroughs in Outing.
When a bird selects a site for its
nest, it on first view, as if it
must actually think, reflect, compare,
as you and I do when we decide w'here
to place our house. I saw a little
chipping sparrow trying to decide be
tween two raspberry bushes. She kept
going from one to the other, peering,
inspecting, and apparently weighing the
advantages of each. I saw a robin in
the woodbine on the side of the house
trying to decide which particular place
was the best site for her nest. She
hopped to this tangle of shoots and sat
down, then to that, she turned around,
she readjusted ho-rself. she looked
about, she worked her feet beneath her,
she was slow in making up her mind.
Did she make up her mind? Did she
think, compare, weigh? I do not be
lieve it. When she found the right
conditions, she no doubt felt a pleasure
and satisfaction, and that settled the
question. An inward, instinctive want
was met and satisfied by an outward
material condition. In the same way
the hermit crab goes from shell to
shell upon the beach, seeking one to
its liking. Sometimes two crabs fall
to fighting over a shell that each wants.
Can we believe that the hermit crab
thinks and reasons? It selects the suit
able shell instinctively, and not by an
Individual act of judgment. Instinct
is not always inerrant, though it makes
fewer mistakes than reason docs. The
red squirrel usually knows how to
come at the meat in the butternut with
the least gnawing, but now and then
he makes a mistake and strikes the
edge of the kernel, instead of the flat
side. The clifr swallow will stick its
mud nest under the eaves of a barn
where the boards are planed so smooth
that the nest sooner or later is bound
to fall. It seems to have no Judgment
In the matter. Its ancestors built upon
the face of high cliffs, where the mud
adhered more firmly.
“I’M THE FUNERAL,” MAUI THE
BOY.
From the London Chronicle.
A curious story of a burial scandal
comes from Congleton, a little town
In Cheshire. Notice had been given
to the officials of the parish church
that a burial would take place, and
at the appointed hour the clergyman
and sexton met in the churchyard to
await the cortege. After considerable
delay the sexton went to the gate to
see whether the mourners were in
right. Here he found a small boy
standing with a perambulator covered
with brown paper. The sexton told the
hoy to move sway ms h funeral was
expected. When he was startled by the
observation of the little rtfap.
I’m the funeral!" Tile amaaed sexton
removed the paper from the (terarnbu
lator and found a small coffin whMi
contained the bodies of two babies It
afterward transpired that ihe ••,m n
W-d been paid for and th interment
fee*, so It ia stated, found by i| w rr .
iU-vtng Oflli er af the town No lie,-ifn.
era same and tba children wars buried
aa they war a.
Jill Humors
Are impttre matters which the sk n
liver, kidneys and other organ* can
not take care of without help, there i*
•uch an accumulation of them.
They litter the whole system.
Pimples, boils, eczema and othei
eruptions, loss of appetite, that tired
feeling, bilious turns, fits or indiges
tion, dull headaches and many other
troubles are due to them.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Remove all humors, overcome all
their effects, strengthen, tone and
Invigorate the whole system.
“I had salt rheum on my hands so that I
could not wftrk. I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and it drove out the humor. I continued
Its use till the sores disappeared.” M**,
lax O. Bkqwu, Rumford Falls, Me. ~
Hood’s Sarsaparilla promises to
cure and keens the promise.
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC GO.
SIND AY WINTER SCHEDULE.
SUBURBAN LINES.
Effective Dec. 4, 1904.
ISLE OF HOPE LINE;
Between Isle of Hope and 40th Street.
Lv. 40th St. Lv. Isle of Hor^T
A. M. P. M. A. M. P. m!
7:30 12:30 8:00 1:00
8:30 1:30 9:00 230
9:30 2:30 10:00 3-<X)
10:30 3:00 11:00 330
11:30 3:30 12:00M. 4:00
- 4:30
..... 6:30 .... 700
MONTGOMERY LINE]
Between Montgomery and 40th Street.
Lv. 40th Street. Lv. Montgomery.
A. M. P. M. A. M. P.M
8:30 12:30 * 7:50 12 30
10:30 1:30 • 9:50 2T5
11:30 2:30 til:3o *3:08
..... .... 4:15
..... 5:30 ••••• 6:15
•Through to Thunderbolt.
tlB-minute wait at Sandfly.
Betw-een Montgomery &~Thunderholt.
Lv. Montgomery. Lv. Thunderbolt.
A. M. P. M. A. M. P. M
7:50 1:08 8:38 1:38
9:50 3:08 10:38 3:38
Between Isle of Hope & Thunderbolt]
Transferring at Sandfly.
Lv. Isle of Hope. Lv. Thunderbolt.
A. M. P. M. A. M. P. M.
8:00 *1:00 * 8:38 1:38
10:00 *3:00 10:38 3:38
*l4-minute wait _at_ Sandfly.
, MILL-HAVEN
Leave Whitaker and Bay Streets.
A. M. A. M. pTmTpTm]
6:40 10:40 1:20 6:00
7:20 12:00 2:40 7:20
3:00 ..... 8:20 8:00
3:40 ..... 4:00 8:40
9:20 4:40
__ Leave Mill-Haven.
A. M. A. M. p] M. P M.
11:00 12:20 6:40
7:00 11:40 1:00
7: 4 0 2:30 7:00
8:20 3:00 7:40
9:00 • 8:40 8:20
9:40 4:20 9:00
10:20 5:00
Hermitage one-half mile from
terminus of Mill-Haven Line.
WEST END LINE.
Car leaves west side of City Mar
ket 7:20 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until 10:40 p. m. Last car
at 11:30.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Mark
ket 7:40 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until 11:00 p. m. Last car
12 midnight.
thunderbolt line.
City Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton Street Junotlon.
Beginning at 7:00 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Casino at Tunder
bolt every half hour until 11:30 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton Street Junction
15 minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 7:23 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak Station for city every half
hour until 12:08 midnight.
Special service Sunday afternoons.
Any further information regarding
passenger schedule can be had by ap
plying to L. R. NASH, Mgr.
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