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4 %\/t jßmfning gifts#. donut .lowl liolWUag. sTnnh. <>* TUESDAY. DECEMBER 27, 190*. Registered it Postcffice in Savannah. TILE MORXING NEWS Is published every day in the year, and served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, ©r.e week. IS cents; one month, 76 cents; three months, *2.00; six months, *4.00; one year, *O.OO. THE MORNING NEW S by mail, six time a week (without Sunday issue), one month. 50 cents; three months. *1.50; six months. $3.00; one year. *6.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mail, or.e year. *I.OO. Subscriptions payable In advance. Remit by money order, check or reg istered letter. Currency sent by mall at risk of sender. Transient advertisements, other than local or reading notices, amusements and classified column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch in depth—is the standard of measurement. Classified column ad vertisements, 1 cent a word each inser tion. 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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 ttworgw Ad* is suffering from the idea* IPtol epeccee of Indigent tori that Dou bt** John It liocibefeMet, and H e be tailor is sorts hundreds of uniiiorut Sf tattoo* To hsvt Ike same wit of •MHadr that pi,su* a multi...in too •*** H HiiMfl t* §ll Willi fttfjf i H § imm# *|j#fr tff ktmUm 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. as*. —— m 0 0 ■ ... 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 el advertising only. The secret ef its wonderful popular ity is explained by ita unapproachabli 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 tion and process as to have curative power peculiar to itself. Its cures of scrofula, eczema, psori asis, and every kind of humor, as well as catarrh and rheumatism prove Hood’s Sarsaparilla the best blood purifier ever produced. Its cures of dyspepsia, loss of appe tlte and that tired feeling make it the greatest stomach tonic and strength, restorer the world has ever known. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is a thoroughly good medicine. Begin to take it today. Get HOOD’S. SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO. 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. The Ladles Who Use Crystaline Salt can wear beautiful rings. Full Information In every Hound Carton co.tlng only Five cents. Imported Molasses. Ml Pusu,eons j hogshead* It Mrrela, Muscovado Mslasses. is a*ved by bark Lstiata. Far sals kr C M. GILBERT 4b CO. WWW 4