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TUESDAY. DECEMBER 27, 190*.
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tors, Southern Bank of the State of
Georgia; Lard, M. S. Gardner.
Business Notices —Entertain Your
Friends, Sommers’ Cafe; Cuts the
Price. G. W. Thomas; For Social Func
tions, A. M. & C. W. West; Don’t For
get, Roos’ Markett.
Hay, Com, Etc.—W. D. Simkins &
Cos.
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More Than We Hoped For—At Lat
tinriores’.
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Begin the New Year —J. T. Shup
trine.
Whisky—Lewis’ 66 Rye.
Not a Hitch—Savannah-Georgia
Laundry.
Buchu Gin—Henry Solomon & Son.
Sold All Over Town—Pete Dailey Ci
gars.
Whiting's Superb Stationery—The
Solomons Cos.
Join the Pure Food Store —The Del
monico Cos.
Eggs—A. Ehrlich & Bro.
Are You Aware —Penniman & Ennen.
Savannah Theater—To-night, "Mid
night in Chinatown.”
The Model Restaurant—Jerry George.
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
Eastern Florida for to-dav are for
rain, with brieh south shifting to west
winds.
So far as the information goes, Hon.
David Bennett Hill remains firm in
his determination to retire from poli
tics on Jan. 1 next. But nobody is look
ing for the sun to be darkened or for
the skies to fail on that (fate.
"Pennsylvania is suffering from a
lack of water," says an exchange.
There is also a shortage of the H 2 O
brand of moisture in Kentucky, we
believe, tout there has been no reports
of anybody suffering from it.
We quite agree with the Hartwell
<Ga.) Sun when It says that "the
man who writes it Xmas ought to be
xourted beyond the pale of civilisation
and xecuted without benefit of clergy.
There is no xcuse for the perpetrator
of such xecrable spelling to xiat."
A Cincinnati newspaper presents the
most doubtful pair of paradoxes
of the holiday season. It tells of a
sample case of Bibles that was stolen
from a drummer in a saloon, and a
case of whisky that Was stolen from the
vestry of a church. Of course neither
of these things could have happened.
Our "benevolent assimilation" of
the Philippines Is aIBO educational.
It has taught us that there Is In the
Island of Samara tribe called Pulu
janes, and that they are a warlike
people. The other day they ambush
ed and killed a lieutenant and thirty
seven enlisted men. We should never
have known about the Pulujanes ex
cept for our occupation of the Is
lands. N'ow we will be able to recall
them as we do the Molly Maguires.
It is currently believed in Washing
ton that Hanto Domingo will shortly
be seized by this government for
debt. At least one Dominican cfcs
tom house is already In the hands of
United Ktutes fiscal agents—that at
Puerta Plata—and It is said other*
will he taken over. There is no sug
gestion of a permanent occupation of
the territory; but once the American
flag has been hoisted over Hanto I>o
mtngo, "who Is going to have It down."
George Ade, the phryright and fable
raipenter, must be very happy this
Christmas season. He will not he üblr
to eat turkey, nor plum pudding, nor
fruit cake, nor nuts, nor raisins, nor
any of the good things that are usu
ally associated with I'iirtMmu cheer
and dinner, But I hen It occurs that
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IPtol epeccee of Indigent tori that Dou
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WILL POOLING Hi; LEG ALIZED t
It is thought that pooling will be
provided for in the bill gtving the In
terstate Commerce Commission author
ity to regulate railroad rates on inter
state commerce, which Mr. Morton, the
Secretary of the Navy, is preparing.
This bill will contain the administra
tion's views as to what should be
done to remedy the evils growing out
of rebates and discriminations of
which shippers and communities com
plain, and is being prepared by the
Secretary of the Navy because he is
supposed to be well acquainted with
railroad problems, having been a rail
road man the greater part of his life.
Several of the presidents of the prin
cipal railroads have discussed the sub
ject of pooling with President Roose
velt since the latter's message was sent
to Congress, and it is stated that they
have about convinced him that if the
railroad problem is to be dealt with at
all by Congress it should be dealt with
thoroughly.
It is the fierce competition for busi
ness that is at the bottom of rebates,
rate cutting and other things which
are so disastrous to shippers and com
munities. If the railroads were author
ized to pool their earnings those in
equalities in rates would disappear.
The rates would be stable, and ship
pers are almost as anxious to have
stable rates as uniform rates —that Is,
rates that place shippers and com
munities on an equal footing.
Of course, pooling would put an end
to competition, and there seems to be
an impression that without competi
tion rates would be ruinous. There
is no reason why rates should be high
er with pooling than without it. If
pooling is permitted the Interstate
Commerce Commission will be author
ized to keep the rates within reason
able limits. If complaint is made that
a rate is too high it will be lowered
by the commission, provided the com
plaint is sustained.
It is the understanding that those
who are advocating that authority be
lodged in the Interstate Commission
to regulate rates are not opposed to
legalized pooling. If they are not, and
the railroads favor it, there ought not
to be a great deal of difficulty in in
corporating it in the proposed bill for
regulating rates.
The trusts, like the steel and beef
trusts, are, of course, opposed to the
pooling of railroad rates, because it
would take from them the power they
now have to force concessions from the
railroads, but Congress would hardly
be guided by their wishes and inter
ests in the matter.
PLANNING FOR MR. ROOTf
Is it a fact that the President is
trying to arrange the situation in his
party so that ex-Secretary of War
Root will be nominated to succeed
him? It is known, of course, that he
has great admiration and respect for
Mr. Root, and it has been stated In
the public prints that he would like
to see him occupying the place of
chief executive of the nation, but there
has been no statement as yet that he
wias planning to make him his succes
sor.
It is an open secret that Vice Presi
dent-elect Fairbanks is laying wires to
capture the nomination in 1908, and
doubtless he has many supporters in
the West, but from present Indications
he isn't in the line of succession.
At the annual dinner of the New
England Society in New York on
Thursday night, ex-Judge Henry How
land, in the course of his speech, at
tracted a great deal of attention by
practically naming Mr. Root as Presi
dent Roosevelt's successor. He didn't
call Mr. Root's name. What he said,
after some remarks leading up to it,
was this: "It is not necessary for me
to mention that leader of our Ameri
can bar who—shall I say it?—may be
our next President and may give us
our ideals of national life.” Were
Judge Howland's remarks relative to
the next Republican candidate for
President simply an expression of his
own views, or were they the expression
of the Republican leaders of New
York? That is a question that was
commented on considerably at the din
ner at which Judge Howland’s spech
was made, and it is being commented
on quite generally now.
It Is impossible to lose sight of the
fact that New York Is the greatest
market for gold bricks in the world.
In the big papers of New York last
Sunday there appeared various dis
played advertisements advising people
that the advertisers would be pleased
to inform prospective Investors how to
buy or sell stocks, on the payment of
a certain small fee. other advertise
ments asserted that "straight tips” on
the races could be had for small fees.
In both cases certain profits were
promised. Of course if the tipsters
had "inside” Information they would
play the markets and the races for
their own benefit. Nothing could in
duce them to take the public into
their confidence. And yet in New
York there are tens of thousands of
"suckers" who will bite at the baits
thus thrown out by the tipsters. And
the fools and their money are soon
parted.
The correspondent of a Philadelphia
paper, writing from Dover, Del., says:
“It sedtris almost a certainty that who
ever is selected United States senator
from Delaware to succeed L. Helsler
Ball will have to purchase the honor
from the Legislature. This may seem
an odd statement, but it la nevertheless
true, us the conditions here are prac
tically such that legislators do not
grant favors without being recom
pensed, ‘lt is Ihe custom of the coun
try," ss a Hussex county man put it,
sod this lias become aggravated during
the ten years of Addieklsm." And on
the lop of this is to be considered the
fa< l that the administration at Wash
ington is giving aid and comfort to the
Andn k gang in Delaware,
It is announced that the t’sar is de
termined to restrict tit* freedom of
(lie pees* lit limans. It wtll probably
take him about on* minute to com
plete ike Job if lb# fieaulom of ilo
Kuasian p*e* -ouid tie cundene*4 into
a eotid bdf, M would raiite a*ouad
ftp lire bub sf a iasstiid saai.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1004.
THE TANTALIZING DODGE CASE.
What is the mystery in the Dodge
case about which there has been so
much in the newspapers during the
last year? What are the sensational
revelations which Charles F. Dodge
is expected to make to the grand jury
of New York county to-morrow? The
Dodge case is a tantalizing one because
so much is published about it and so
little that satisfies curiosity is said.
We are told that when the facts are
out some very prominent men in New
York will find themselves in a peril
ous position, and that the New York
Bar Association will have occasion to
pass upon the question as to whether
several well known lawyers of that
city shouldn't be disbarred.
It is known of course that Dodge
was indicted for perjury in New York
city, that he fled to Texas and that
after months of effort and the expen
diture of a large amount of money—
said to be about *30,000 —the district
attorney has succeeded in having him
brought back. It is also known that
on his arrival in New York, repre
sentatives of two prominent law firms
made frantic efforts to see him on the
plea that they had been retained as
his counsel. Dodge, however, refus
ed to see them, saying they were not
authorized to act for him. He made
a confession to the district attorney,
which he has agreed to repeat to the
grand jury.
Who are the parties who are on
the anxious seat in consequence of
Dodge’s return to New York? They
must be greatly disturbed, since they
spent, so it is estimated, about *BO,-
000 to keep Dodge in Texas. If we are
to believe what the New York news
papers state, the revelations, when
they are made public, will be more
startling than the explosion of a ton
of dynamite.
Dodge was a hotel clerk in Atlanta
when his wife secured an absolute
divorce from him with permission to
remarry. That was in 1898. She sub
sequently became the wife of Charles
W. Morse, president of the ice trust,
who was then, and is now, a very
wealthy man. A year ago last October
it was told to her that her divorce
from Dodge was not legal, because he
had not been personally notified with
a summons of the Buit. In fact. Dodge
made an affidavit to that effect, and
said for that reason he had made no
defense to the suit.
Mrs. Morse was almost frantic, and
at once began a suit for the annul
ment of the divorce from Dodge. The
divorce was set aside, and then Mr.
Morse intervened and it was clearly
shown (hat Dodge had sworn falsely.
It was proved beyond doubt that he
had been summoned, and that the di
vorce had been properly granted. The
upshot of the matter was the restora
tion of Mrs. Morse to all her rights
as th£ wife of Mr. Morse. They are
now in Europe, and as far as the world
knows, are happy in each other's so
ciety.
There has been no intimation that
Mr. Morse, at any time, wanted to
get rid of his wife. Hence, there is
no reason for supposing that he had
anything to do with bringing Dodge
forward to commit perjury. The only
other supDosition is that there was
a conspiracy to blackmail him out of
a large sum by threatening to show
he was not legally married to Mrs.
Morse. If the disclosures prove to
be as sensational as predicted, they
will cause the Chadwick case to be
forgotten for a few days.
MR. SCHWAB'S NEW DEPARTLRE.
Mr. Charles M. Schwab seems to have
recovered from the effects of the worry
which the scandal of the shipbuilding
trust caused him. In a lengthy inter
view in the New York World he tells
of his plans to make the Bethlehem
Steel Works one of the greatest steel
plants in the world. He says he is
going to show the people that the price
which he sold the Bethlehem plant for
wasn’t too high, as was charged In the
shipbuilding trust scandal.
The plant cost Mr. Schwab about
$5,000,000 and he turned over to the
trust for *10,00,000, but the fact that
he didn't get cash must be taken into
account. He got stocks and bonds,
and of course he took the chance that
they would be worth their face value.
The shipbuilding scandal is, however,
a thing of the past, and if Mr. Schwab
makes a success of the Bethlehem
Steel Works—lf he makes It the great
money earning institution he says he
will—his friends doubtless will come to
the conclusion that his efforts to In
crease the size of his pile of dollars
In the shipbuilding trust wasn't alto
gether unjustified.
There is no doubt that Mr. Schwab
understands the steel-making business
and he will make a success of the
Bethlehem plant If anybody can. It is
worthy of mention that it is his opin
ion that the United States are to have,
for a number of years, even greater
prosperity than at present. The basis
of his opinion Is the steadily Increas
ing demand for steel products.
In view of the fact that the steel
makers claim that the tariff is of no
great benefit to them Congress ought
not to hesitate to reduce the steel
schedules. There might then be more
activity In the steel trade, though the
prices of Bteel products wouldn't be
quite as high as they are at present.
Mr. Schwab says he has gone into the
Bethlehem enterprise partly for vin
dication. If he succeeds In making the
public believe that he was unjustly
condemned, and also in increasing his
fortune he will not have so much cause
to regret the shipbuilding scandal. Bui
it will be difficult to make some peo
ple forget the shipbuilding trust's pros
pectus.
Sir Howard Vincent of England,
wants the people Of the United mates
to discard a part of "The Star Spang
led Banner" because It is uncompli
mentary to his country, W cannot
retail that any country Mas a national
song composed in honor of another
■ ouuiry that was trying to kink U
when the song was written.
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ft is understood that ' sou Paul"
Kruger left a fortune of 11,bag, tsar, and
there are some Jiuerg wan are so P
r verewt as tv ssk, '’bit *i* did be
1 got HT*
Capt. Jensen of the bark Silicon has
just returned to Philadelphia from a
cruise in Greenland waters. He says
that In the neighborhood of Vigitut
bay he encountered a race of men
seven, eight and even nine feet tali.
In color and contour of features they
are like American Indians. They have
a language of their own, and know
eiothing of the E.- ,u:rr.aax tongue.
They were able to express themselves
very clearly to Capt. Jensen by means
of signs. They told him that they
had come from their homes in the
distant north, and had been driven
out by great storms and cold weath
er. The report of this race of giants
to the northward will doubtless stim
ulate the energies of Arctic explor
ers.
Philadelphia papers of Sunday last
contained two interesting pictures.
One was of a registration certificate
showing “Herbert F. James, gent.,”
to be a taxpayer and voter in good
standing. The other was a portrait
of Herbert F. James, showing him to
be a lusty baby of 9 months of age,
with innocent eyes and dimpled cheeks.
It is asserted that little Herbert was
duly voted for Roosevelt and the Phil
adelphia gang at the late election.
When Congress comes seriously to take
up the matter of apportioning repre
sentation on the number of ballots
cast, Philadelphia will have to be
given a good deal of attention.
The Spartanburg (S. C.) Journal is
of the opinion that the rural free de
livery system is being over-developed.
If the thing goes much further, the
Journal wants to know, “What excuse
will be left to a lonely farm chap for
taking a run to the village for an
evening?” If the mail is brought to
the door daily, and small parcels are
delivered promptly by the postman,
there will be nothing left for the
“lonely farm chap" to do but stay at
home and work. And he doesn't want
to do that all the time. He wants to
go to the postoffice occasionally and
swap gossip with the congenial spir
its he finds there.
PERSONAL.
—Supt. Maxwell will ask the New
York Board of Education at its next
meeting to adopt a plan for giving ten
ement district school children a mid
day meal. It the plan should be adopt
ed and the luncheon set should cost 6
cents each it would cost the city $6,-
804,000 a year.
—A. D. Buck, a civil engineer of De
troit, has started from St. Louis to
walk to New Orleans. This because
he lost a wager made last month in
his home city. He and a friend were
discussing the Chicago-Michigan Uni
versity football game, which was about
to be played between the cities named.
He is to receive *BO a month for the
time he is away, and if he completes
his walk within ninety days he will
receive double pay. He started with
out a cent in his pocket and must pick
up a living as best he can.
—A Chicago roan just returned from
a visit to New York declares that
nothing can exaggerate the exorbitant
prices charged by fashionable restau
rants there and that the haughty wait
ers in such places gave him cold chills.
"Accompanied by another Chicago
man," he says, "I Went into one of
those dens of thieves and, calling a
distinguished looking person in even
ing dress, asked him if he was the
waiter. With rather a bored air he
answered that he was the waiter's
valet, but that he would call the wait
er. He did so. A still more distin
guished individual approached and
said: "What can I do for you, sir—
I mean, what can I do for you?' Oh,
yes,’ In response to mild protest, "that
may be a little bit overdrawn, but not
much.
BRIGHT BITS. *
—“I could have married Miss Rox
ley, but her father ”
"Ah! he put his foot down, eh?”
"No; he put his foot up good and
hard. That's what hurt!" —Philadel-
phia Press.
Gladys: What did the Count give
Ethel for Christmas?
Edith: Some kind of a thoroughbred
dog. I believe.
Gladys: He didn’t—er—offer himself,
did he?—Judge.
—“Are you not afraid you will un
duly alarm people concerning mi
crobes?” asked one scientist.
“No," answered the other. "There
was some little scare, but since we
told the public that money is full of
microbes they lost all their terrors.”—
Washington Star.
—“Little boy, do you ever go to Sun
day-school?”
The urchin looked up. “I hain't been
fur a long time, ma'am.”
“Don't you want to go this morn
ing?”
"Nome,” he said, a flush of pride
and resentment showing through the
dirt on his cheek. “I’m a bad boy, all
right; but I ain't one o’ those Sun
day-school Chris’mus tree bad boys!”
—Chicago Tribune.
cm HE VI COMMENT.
To remove the tariff barriers between
the Philippines and the United States,
thinks the Hartford Times (Dem.)
would be merely to give the Filipinos
what they have a right to demand, for
“if the Philippine Islands are a part
of the United States, the producers of
those islands have as much right to
have what they produce admitted to
every other part of the United States
free of duty as the farmers and man
ufacturers of Connecticut have to send
their products into Massachusetts,
Bhode island or New York without the
payment of duty."
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: "If an uncrossed ‘t* In the
Dln-gley tariff law be discovered and
that 't' toe crossed, then look for a
disturbance In the business world! If
a man In Washington whisper: 'Let us
revise by dotting that undotted *l,*
straightway all th* sheep on the hills
■begin to shiver, symptoms of foot-rot
appear and bricks start tumbling from
the walls of the wool mills throughout
America. Ho thinks Mr. Theodore Jus
tice, defending anew that must sensi
tive of earthly <fntrlvanres, the high
tariff act now in force."
Tit* Louisville Courier-Journal
(Dem.) *ys: "The intelligence that
UstMior Morgan of Alabama does not
Hit"w the physical vigor which he eg
hlblted si the last ssaeion of Can,
frees, during which tie sghltoited such
activity on th* Panama question, will
to* received with leg lat by men of alt
parties, He is serving tot* Mfth MM>.
mm utive ieita k* senator, tosving tsk*u
hi* east is Hit. tie paused hi# eightieth
>war oar June Si tael, and his term
Will argpiaw in llgii. Hi# <ltoof w*. Own
slur i'Miu* ig lew 'I) Hurt year* hi*
•ardor, aoU is tMrttattf tots f war th tartar,"
A lifmion in Manners.
“I wish you wouldn't, pa,** said the
eldest girl, according to the Chicago
News.
“Wish I wouldn't what?” asked the
plain citizen.
'Bat with your knife.” replied the
daughter; ‘‘it's so ”
"So what?” asked the old gentle
man, knitting his shaggy brows.
“So unconventional.”
"Now, lookee here,” said the plain
citizen, "I'm sixty years old and get
ting older every minute, but I'm not
too old to learn. If you can show me
any way of gettin’ gravy up to my
mouth with a fork I'm willing to try
it. I've got to use a knife.”
''People don't do it, pa.”
“You're mistaken about that. I know
a heap o' people that do it.”
"But not refined people, pa.”
“Ireeny,” said the plain citizen,
"you make me tired. I b’lieve in be
ing polite when there's sense to it.
Manners is manners, an’ I always
taught you manners when you was a
young one. I wouldn't let you grab
for the biggest piece o’ pie on the
plate, and I wouldn't let you spill,
and when you drunk I made you drink
quiet. You wasn't allowed to wipe
your mouth on the tablecloth or
speak with your mouth full. Them's
manners. Jess so long’s I keep my
own knife on my own vittles I claim
that it’s my own business whether I
put it in my mouth or not—ain’t it?”
"Well, perhaps it is, but ”
“There isn't any ‘but’ about it. When
I took you to the city last fall there
was a feller setting at a table in the
restaurant where we was; dressed to
kill he was, too, and when he got
through eating he lit up a cigareet—
and wimmin setting right there —
'member that?”
“Yes, but ”
“No ‘but’ about it. If he'd be’n a
boy o' mine I’d have jerked him out
o’ the room and taught him manners.
When that fam'ly was stayin’ with us
last summer you fussed because I sat
down to the table in my shirt sleeves.
The man he set down without even a
vest and that was all right. I think
it was all right, too, but why is mus
lin any more improper than blue and
white stjiped flannel, and how is a
belt any better than suspenders?
They're both to hold the pants up.”
“Why, pa!”
“I hope you don’t mean to say that
pants is unconventional. Ireeny, you
talk a lot of poppycock. I’m willing
to be polite, as I said, but I’m go
ing to use common sense about it, and
I’m going to eat with my knife as
much as I dern please and I don't
want to hear any more out of you
about it. Understand that, don’t you,
Ireeny?”
“Yes, pa,” replied the daughter,
meekly.
His Moving Plantation.
“I was at Memphis, lending money
to planters for Eastern parties,” said
the judge, according to the Chicago
News, “and one day a planter who
had more than a mile front on the
Mississippi came in to see me about
making a raise of several thousand
dollars. After some talk It was ar
ranged that he should send on his
titles for Inspection, but after four
or five days he wrote me:
“ ‘Yesterday the river cut fifty acres
of land off my property, and I suppose
I'll have to get the papers fixed up
before sending them on.’
"I replied to him, and a week later
he wrote me:
“Last night the river cut in on me
again and took my whole plantation
across into Arkansas. I suppose I’ll
have to get the deeds made out ac
cordingly.’
“But the papers never came,” con
tinued the judge. Two weeks passed,
and then I got a letter saying:
“ ‘Never mind about that loan. The
river has cut in on me again and
carried my plantation seventy-five
miles downstream, and I’ll try to bor
row the money elsewhere and not both
er you any more.”
Clerical Slips.
A Scotch minister who was in need
of funds thus conveyed his Intentions
to his congregation: “Weel, friends,
the kirk Is urgently in need of siller,
and as we have failed to get money
honestly, we will have to see what
a bazaar can do for us.”
It happened in Cornwall, says Cham
ber's Journal, according to report, that
a pastor complained that his congre
gation had the habit of looking round
at late comers, and, while he thought
It natural enough, he saw that it dis
turbed their religious duties, and so
determined to announce by name those
persons who came in late. According
ly he several times paused during the
prayers and said: “Mr. S., with his
wife and daughter,” then again, “Mr.
C. and W. D.” This went for a while
and the congregation kept their eyes
fixed on their books, but when it was
given out, "Mrs. B. in anew bonnet,”
every feminine head in the church was
turned.
It was a curate who read in the
lesson for the day:
“He spoke the word, andcathoppers
came and gras3ipillars innumerable.”
Incident of Travel in Montana.
Congressman Dixon of Montana Is
telling of the experience of a young
Eastern woman with one of his con
stituents. She left the train at a way
station irt Eastern Montana one after
noon and asked the only man In sight
how she could get to her destination,
far out in the country. “You'll have
to wait for the stage in the morning,”
said the man. “You can't get any rig
here." “But where am I to stop?”
inquired the young lady. ‘There’s
nothing here but the station and I
can’t sleep on the floor.” “Guess you’ll
have to bunk with the station agent.”
“Sir!” she exclaimed, “I am a lady.”
“So's the station agent,” said the man.
Would Sell a President in I (hniice.
Mayor George B. McClellan of Great
er New York walked down the steps
of the City Hall the other evening and
bought a paper from a newsboy. While
waiting for his change he said: "Well,
my little man, how is business to
day?” The little merchant looked up
and answered, “On the bum." The
Mayor thought for a moment and fin
ally said: “Keep at It, my little man.
You have a chance to become ne
President some day.” The little fellow
answered Immediately: "Dat might be
so, but I'll sell my chances for a
nickel right now.”
A Me Never Pasrd Ills 1.1 p*.
A Scotchman and an American were
one day conversing in a railway car
riage, and In the course of the con
versation the subject turned upon the
relative truthfulness of the two na
tions. "Do you know, sir,” said the
American, "that a lie has never pass
ed my lips?" What's that?” said the
astonished Scotchman, his faec ex
pressing the greatest surprise and be
wilderment, which gave place to a
look of relief and understanding as he
added. “Ohl I understand now, sir, you
speak through your nose.”
Itrln.li and A merles n Maters.
A Briton who was decrying Amir-
Min polltt. a mad* s thrust wbb h he
imagined would suppress his opponent.
"You nr* ruled,” h* said, "by 4 |„ (
of twigs* rascals whom you would
no vs dieses of Meeting so. tally
don 1 yu know "
les ” Sold Ike sharp-tong u*<l
AsurUes. Met In k.iigtend you sir
twH kf s M # poop).- who would
os*at dream ef Meoeuog you strlsll) '*
TWO ARMIES AND A PIG.
From the New York Times.
On the Front Line of Russian De
fense, Below Mukden, Nov. 20.—We
have just come in from a ride around
the front. It was nearly a mile to
the extreme front through fields of cut
kaolin, the giant millet of Manchuria,
which is being rapidly burned for fuel.
Whole villages of Chinese huts have
been gutted of 'every particle of wood
work for the same purpose. Nearly
the whole of the army is living under
ground, where body heat has to serve
instead of fires, and with those who
can afford fires at all a little fuel has
to go a long way.
The men have plenty of tea and
they are fairly well fed, but fresh
meat is a luxury that is not to be neg
lected at any juncture, and suddenly,
while we are talking to some officers
at an extensive encampment, some
fresh meat made its appearance.
There was a row toward the for
ward line of trenches that might have
presaged a Japanese attack, and we
rushed to a knoll that commanded a
view. There, from a seemingly de
serted Chinese hut, rushed a half
grown pig. a shoat of the Manchurian
razorback variety.
After it went a Cossack in hot pur
suit. Other Cossacks joined the chase,
but the pig, threading the trenches,
gained the open ground and headed for
the Japanese lines, less than 400 yards
away.
Reckless of death or anything else,
six Cossacks dashed in pursuit, with
their long brown coats tucked about
their waists. But the pig had the
legs of them, and with ear-piercing
shrieks headed across the imaginary
dividing line and charged the Japan
ese position.
The opposite hill slope had been to
all appearances vacant and silent as
the grave, but a hidden trench sud
denly gave up a party of Japanese,
and away they went after the pig.
The Cossacks stopped, and the Jap
anese headed the pig diagonally back
toward the Russian lines. They did
not catch it, but a fresh relay of Rus
sians took up the chase and the pig
veered over again to the Japanese.
Not a shot was fired all this time,
and the Japanese and Cossacks stood
within a hundred paces of each other
in the open, laughing at each other’s
non-success and hurling mutual male
dictions after the pig.
The last we saw of it the pig was
keeping strictly to the neutral strip be
tween the two forces and heading
westward in the direction of the Liao
river.
DEFYING THE FIRE FIEND.
From the Minneapolis Journal.
Two Baltimore architects have drawn
plans for a building entirely without
wood. It is to be built for Mr. Hil
genburg, who does not wish to be
burned out again. It will be six stories
and will have a frontage of forty-one
feet six inches. The entire structure
is to be of reinforced concrete and
steel.
Even the doors, trims, window
sashes and door-jambs are to be of
metal. The windows will be glazed
with wire glass. The frame for the
show windows will be of steel, into
which the plate glass will be fitted.
The side walls, columns and rear walls,
as well as the supporting columns of
the front walls, will be of concrete.
The floors will all have a top-dress
ing of cement one and a half inches
thick.
The stairs will be of concrete, with
slate treads and wrought-iron balus
trades. The elevator shaft will be of
concrete, as will also the inclosure
around the stairway and the elevator
hall. The cellar and roof are *o be
of cement. In order to eliminate all
wood the two flagstaffs on top of the
structure will be of steel. If this mass
of metal, stone and cement can be
crumbled or destroyed by fire, the
struggle for an absolutely fireproof
structure might as well stop.
OCCIPATIO.N NECROSES.
From an Exchange.
There are a number of curious nerv
ous diseases, the best known of
which is writers’ cramp, caused by
monotonous and excessive use of any
given set of muscles in a particular
way requiring rather fine adjustment
of the muscles; such motions as those
involved in sewing, lacemaking, type
writing, etc. A a motion of consider
able extent and force, such as
pounding or chopping, does not seem
capable of producing this trouble.
In the few such cases where autop
sies have been possible (it is never
fatal itself) no anatomical changes
could be found to account for
the disease. There are three types,
the spasmodic, the paralytic, and the
tremulous. In the first an attempt to
perform the operation causes an In
voluntary spasm; in the second, the
will loses power to move the muscles,
and in the third an irregular trem
bling is produced. In watever occu
pation the disease is acquired it is
practically always of the same na
ture. Dr. L. H. Mettler lays down
the following rules regarding treat
ment —absolute cures are rare: When
the trouble is fully developed, abso
lute and prolonged rest is the only
treatment of any value. Drugs are
powerless. Massage and gymnastics
give the best results. Electricity is of
no use.
THOUGHT AND DISEASE.
From Suggestion.
Thousands of people actually think
themselves to death every year by ‘al
lowing their minds to dwell on mor
bid subjects.
The idea that one has some incipient
disease in one's system, the thought
of llnanclal ruin, that one Is -getting
on in life without improving prospects
—any of these or a thousand similar
thoughts may cany 'a healthy man to
a premature grave. A melancholy
thought that fixes itself upon one's mind
needs as much doctoring as physical
disease.: It needs to be eradicated
from the mind or It will have just the
same result as a neglected disease
would have.
Every melancholy thought, every
morbid notion and every nagging wor
ry should be resisted to the utmost,
and the patient should be protected
by cheerful thoughts, of which there
is a beautiful store In every one's pos
session. Bright companions are cheap
er than drugs and plasters.
The morbid condition of mind pro
duces a morbid condition of body, 'and
if the disease does happen to be in
the system It receives every encour
agement to develop. We need more
mental therapy.
AX ANTITOXIN AGAINST KATIGI K.
From the Medical Record.
Should the development of the study
of toxlne and antitoxin render pos
sible the production of an anti-body
capable of neutralising the results of
muscular fatigue, the consequence
could hardly be predicted. Yet a Ger
man Investigator seriously claims to
have taken more than one step in this
direction already, and publishes re
sults that are at Mast surprising.
Wulchardt (Munrhener Medlslinsrhe
Wacheiis. hrtft, Nov. it. loi), says he
has obtained a stable antitoxin, which,
when taken by th* mouth in moderate
doses, permits the out pat of an In
creased amount of muscular energy
without fatigue, and when taken con
tinuously causes a sense of general
bleu etr and augments th# rapacity
for work. ll* •■ommends his prepara
tion to clinicians as a promising ana
lepllr bn' convales.ei.ts neurssthanh s
•U The fatigue anutosm u obtained
front horse* by Injeeflog thern with
fatigue loath prodtrsd In the M>us> bw
of animate that lores bean sobtectsd
b* wait ania Mtuaaubw srhaaotum.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Has won success far beyond the effect
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The secret ef its wonderful popular
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Merit.
Based upon a prescription whicl
cured people considered incurable,
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Unites the best-known vegetable rem
•dies, by such a combination, propor
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Its cures of scrofula, eczema, psori
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as catarrh and rheumatism prove
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
the best blood purifier ever produced.
Its cures of dyspepsia, loss of appe
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Hood’s Sarsaparilla
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WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE
SUBURBAN LINES.
Effective Dec. 6, 1904.
ISLE OF HOPE LIVE
-ggtween Isle of Hope and 40th Street.
40t h St. Lv. Isle of Hope,
sin P ' M ' • . A.M. P.M.
7 ™ i 6:00 1:00
sin i 7:00 2:00
l ™ 2 - 2 <> , 8:00 3:00
1? 3:30 ! 10:00 ’4:’oo
1130 ••••.( 11:00
. * V] a Montgomery to city.
Between Isle of Hope & ThunderboltT
Lv. Isle of Hope. Lv. Thunderbolt
A -M. P. M A. M. P.M.
••••• *3:00 .... *l;50
1 jj® 6; 00 17:22 *5:50
~?:22 58:22 6:38
(.’9° , *9:50 7:38
.o' mlnute wa,t at Sandfly.
Lgfcel car, passenger trailer.
„ . MONTGOMERY SCHEDULE.
Hetueen Montgomery and 40th Street.
Lv Montgomery. Lv. 40th Stl
~p M . A.M. P.M.
5J:30 8:30 1:30
t7. : 53 t3:0 0 6 10:30 IV O
•Connects with parcel car for city
tThrough to Thunderbolt
city " min Ute WaU at Sandfl y S° ln S to
Between Montgomery & Thundebolt
‘VVn" p ; aTmTIpTmT
6-50 3:05 7:22 3:38
7:a3 5:50 g : 3B 6:38
J-U7 08 7:38
MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE.
Leave Whitaker and Bay Streets.
A - J*. A. M. P. M. P. M?
® J9 :0 ° 12:40 5:20
8:43 10:40 i ; 2O 6:00
7.00 11:20 2:00 6:40
729 12;00 2:40 7:20
3:00 3:20 8:00
2:12 COO 8:40
9-20 4:40
t 9:20
tl 1:20
tSaturday night only.
Leave Mill-Haven.
A k ■ , A V ~ P. M. p. M.
7nn iJIn 12:20 5:40
700 11:40 1:00 6:05
I 1:40 '6:40
• 1:12 2:20 7:00
qinn ' 3:00 7:40
I 3:40 8:20
10:20 ::::: ..V. 25 . 9 : 00
' tl0:20
• til: 00
tSaturday night only. t 12.00
Hermitage one-half mile from
terminus of Mill-Haven Line.
THUNDERBOLT LINE.
City Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton Street Junction.
nit e^V nn ! V 8:30 a - m - cars leave
City Market for Casino at Thunder
bolt every half hour until 11:30 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton street junction
15 minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
t 7 5:53 a - m - cars leave
Live Oak Station for city every half
hour until 12-08 midnight. *
COLLINSVILLE LINE.
Beginning at 5:60 a. m. cars leave
Waters road and Estill avenue every
30 minutes until 11:50 p. m.
„,? e S‘ nn ' n * 7 6:18 a - m - cars leave
City Market for Waters road and
Estill avenue every 30 minutes until
12:15 midnight.
T w r ? U,?h .. ca .X2 are operated between
Market and Thunderbolt via Collins
ville and Dale avenue as follows:
7 ‘ v - Market Lv. Thunderbolt.
6; 48A -M- 7:30 A.M.
- < 45 p - M. 7:JO p. M
WEST END LINE.
Car leaves West side of City Mar
ket 6 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until 10:40 p. m. Last car
at 11:30.
. ? a J ' Paves Lincoln Park for Mar
ket 3:20 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter untU 11:00 p. m. Last car
1J midnight.
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR.
bol* B^, e “; t .".L de c 0,c ‘‘ l r Market for Thunder
e . Parl f' /’•add*- Isle of Hope and all
“'•'mediate polnts_*;i s e. m „ i;i ß p m ..4:H
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sendflv Cattle Perk.
alar parcel car foi city. 7
Parcel car from the city carries freight to
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel ear carries trailer os eaoh
trip for accommodation of passengeia
Any further information regarding
passenger and freight schedule can be
nad by applying to
L. R. NASH, Mgr.
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can wear beautiful rings.
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co.tlng only Five cents.
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