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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for fair
weather and decidedly colder, with
brisk northwest winds.
It would be interesting to know the
Identity ot the unnamed "well known
Georgia politician,” who asserts that
there was nothing In that political
conference of some two years ago,
which Mr. Osborne has asked Mr.
Morris to tell about, further than a
showing of hands between the Steed
and Morris factions. If yiat Is all
there is in the matter, Mr. Morris will
have no difficulty or hesitancy In turn
ing the glaring white light of publicity
upon it.
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.)
studying the returns of the recent na
tional election, reaches the conclusion
that "the race problem is a dead is
sue in the South.” Then why does
the Inquirer, and it's Morrells and
Cnimpackers and 3. Warren Kelfers,
try to galvanize it into life by the
Introduction of bills to cut down 'the
representation of the South In Con
gress and the Electoral College? If
the thing is dead, why not let it stay
dead?
A Wesleyan professor, after extend
ed experiments, announces that the
human engine Is the best ever con
structed. A man, he says, develops
twice as much energy for the amount
of fuel consumed as the beat locomo
tive ever constructed, and 50 to 80 per
cent, more energy than the most eco
nomical types of stationary engines.
Incidentally the professor says he has
discovered that brain energy does not
dspend on the kind or quantity of food
consumed by the man.
following ths war between China
and Japan, China was assessed to
pay a heavy Indemnity to the vlcto
lions islanders. M Hung Chang ne
gotiated a loan of lIOo.MM.oug from
Kuaelan capitalist* to China, which
was paid aver to Japan as a part of
th* indemnity. It waa this money
that Japan used to arm herself for
'he grant struggle with Huaala that Is
Mm going on it the time the Rue-
Rone loeaed the money they prohahlr
had little idee that It Would ha used
'•** purpose of l><easing iha mil.
jHk*' l **•*“• l itself own -ountfy.
THE CZ.4H PROMISE* REFORMS.
The agitation which has been, and
is still, going on in Russia for gov
ernmental reforms of various kinds
promises to be productive of good re
sults. The Czar’s reform edict, issued
on Monday night, a synopsis of which
was published in our dispatches yes
terday, deals with eight subjects, all
of which will be referred to commit
tees of the council of ministers with
instructions to report at an early day.
Some of the proposed reforms are far
.reaching; and if adopted, will bring
about a great improvement in the con
dition of the Russian people.
It is impossible to predict with any
degree of certainty what the reports
of the committees will be, but the pre
sumption is that in the majority of
cases they will be favorable. It is
not reasonable to suppose the Czar
would raise hopes of reforms if he
did not intend to grant them. No
doubt some of the ministers will be
against the reforms suggested in the
edict. It is stated in the dispatches
that the reactionaries think too much
is premised. The Liberals, however,
are disappointed. They think the Czar
hasn't gone far enough. The fact that
both parties are dissatisfied is a pretty
good sign that something will be done
in the direction of reform.
If only one of the reforms should be
adopted and made effective, the one
providing that there shall be a full
and equitable enforcement of the exist
ing laws, the common people would
have cause to be thankful.
In Russia so many people are im
prisoned or sent to Siberia without a
full, legal trial that the certainty of
such a trial will be a great step for
ward. Besides, if greater freedom of
the press is accorded, public questions
will be discussed, and there will come
into existence a public, sentiment which
will exert powerful influence with the
government in the struggle for addi
tional reforms.
No doubt the Czar realizes that if
the proposed reforms are granted agi
tation for others will be at once be
gun. He may resist it for a time, but
eventually he will have to make other
concessions. The people of Russia will
not be satisfied until they have a con
stitution —until they are allowed a
voice in the government. It may be
half a century before their demand in
that respect is granted, but it will be.
In the meantime the people will be
prepared for their new responsibility
by a system of education.
WHY WOT IMPROVE ITf
Franklin Square, at the corners of
Bryan, St. Julian and Congress streets,
is supposed to be one of the delightful
little parks of Savannah’s famous sys
tem of small breathing-places. But a
resident of any other part of the city
suddenly dropped down there would
not recognize it as such. In all prob
ability he would be ashamed to own
it as a part of the park system. It
is a barren, dirty place, and a disgrace
to the city. Some of the streets ad
jacent to it are occupied by stores and
small industries and others by resi
dences. There is a dense population in
the neighborhood, and no other park
is near at hand. Franklin square
should be a recreation place for the
children of that section of the city.
The people living in the vicinity of
it should demand that an appropriation
be made to put it in as good condi
tion as any of the other squares, and
that without delay. If there should
develop any trouble in keeping the
square in good order a special police
man should be detailed to look after
it. The present condition of Franklin
square is a reproach to the commun
ity.
THE TALBOT-IRVIWE CASE.
The grounds of the new presentment
in the Talbot-Irvine case—ithe case
which stirred up such a sensation in
Central Pennsylvania a couple of years
ago—are not public, and will hardly be
made miblic before the beginning of
the Inquiry. The accused party is the
Right Reverend Talbot, Bishop of Cen
tral Pennsylvania, and the prosecutor
is Rev. Dr. Ingram N. W. Irvine.
Episcopalians all over the country are
deeply Interested in the case, because
it is an unusual one In the church.
The case had its beginning in 1899.
Dr. Irvine was in charge of St. Paul's
Church at Huntingdon, Pa., in Bishop
Talbot's diocese. He asked the Bishop
for instructions as to the standing in
the church of Mrs. Alexander Elliott.
She had been twice divorced and had
then become the wife of Mr. Elliott,
after he had obtained a divorce from
his former wife, on the charge that
she had deserted him. The advice Dr.
Irvine received from the Bishop was
that Mrs. Elliott was excommunicated,
but it seems he receded from that po
sition.
Out of this condition of affairs grew
a prolonged dispute, in which there
was disclosed some sensational fea
tures. The Bishop demanded Dr.
Irvine's resignation, and, when it was
not forthcoming, the doctor was de
posed by means of an ecclesiastical
trial. Then followed an inquiry into
the Bishop's ecclesiastical and personal
conduct, which resulted, by a majority
of one, In hts favor.
Now there is to be another inquiry
on anew prosecution of facts. It will
be begun at Reading on Jan. 10. The
statement Is made that the coming in
quiry will be much inure sensational
than the first one.
A health specialist living In Duluth
believes that sleeping out of doors, no
mutter what the temperature may be,
ia conducive to health, strength and
long life. He Is trying It on his baby,
aged 18 months. He puts the child
on the porch In a basket, if the ther
mometer is at sero. Meanwhile he
wraps himself up In double blankets,
inside the house, and snoozes away.
The authorities are considering wheth
er or not llgty shall take hold of the
matter. It would be poetic juatlce If
they ware to make him sleep outside
and send the baby to bed like other
children,
John Mitchell Is at iaat In bad re
pute with the union miners. He la ac
* u**4 f having smok-d a non-union
cigar and eaten a gilt# of non-union
mead Mg Will bo 4 eun< bald eg *
plaining tg do.
HANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY.DECEMBER 28. 1004.
THE BRYAN CONFERENCE.
Will Mr. Bryan be able to recapture
the machinery of the Democratic party
from the Eastern Democrats? That
is a question that many of the leading
Democrats in the East and South are
now considering.
Mr. Bryan and his Nebraska friends
are discreetly silent about the con
ference which they held at Lincoln on
last Friday night. About the only
thing decided upon, as far as known,
was to organize throughout the coun
try clubs of those who entertain ideas
as to what the Democratic party should
stand for similar to those to which Mr.
Bryan gave expression immediately
after the presidential election.
It will not be difficult to organize
political clubs, provided somebody
stands the expense of maintaining
them. But it is doubtful if there would
be much enthusiasm in them. Mr.
Bryan has lost his hold on the great
majority of his party. He still has a
following in the West, but his friends
and admirers in the South and East
are few and far between. He may be
personally popular in all parts of the
country, but his political ideas are
not. He still clings to free silver coin
age. The East and the South have
very little use for a leader who clings
to an issue as dead as that of free sil
ver.
And there is another matter worthy
of careful consideration. It is that
the South is going to be more in evi
dence in the next campaign for Presi
dent. If she doesn’t furnish the can
didate she will name him.
She will not name Mr. Bryan. She
may have a great deal of respect for
him, but she doesn't put much faith
in the political judgement of a man
who insists he is right about silver
when, as a matter of fact, the whole
country thinks he is wrong.
A month ago it was thought Mr.
Bryan and Mr. Watson would work
together, but more recently some
things have cropped out which create
a doubt as to whether they are in en
tire harmony. The fact is probably
that neither wants to play second fid
dle to the other. That faot may keep
them apart.
Mr. Bryan's getting into the presi
dential field so early would seem to
indicate that he expects a long, hard
fight to get control of the party ma
chinery. Perhaps Mr. Taggart, the
chairman of the National Committee,
could be induced to step aside and let
him have his place. Mr. Taggart
doesn't seem to be exactly the man
for the position.
FEVER IN CL BA.
The facts relative to the appearance
of yellow fever at Santiago, Cuba, are
presented in a letter from that city
to the New York Herald under the
date of Dec. 17. It seems there were
two cases, both of a comparatively
mild type. One of the men who was at
tacked was an employe of the Span
ish-American Mining Company at its
smelting works. The works are not
in the city. They are in Punta de Sal,
opposite the city. The other case was
that of a man employed in the mines
of the Spanish-American Mining Com
pany. The mines are twenty miles
away from Santiago. Both men were
new arrivals in Cuba.
Why these two cases of yellow fe
ver should have been the subject of
so much newspaper talk and so much
official discussion it is difficult to un
fterstand. No evidence has been
produced that the fever was contract
ed in Santiago. Hence there is no good
reason for assuming that the appear
ance of the fever was due to the bad
'sanitary condition of Santiago, or
that the sanitary condition of San
tiago is bad. Asa matter of fact it is
probable that the real sanitary condi
tion of that city is not much better
than it was prior to the American oc
cupation of Cuba. The streets prob
ably are kept a little cleaner, but no
body has ever contended that yellow
fever is produced by the kind of litter
that gives streets an untidy con
dition. If filth causes the disease it
is the filth that is in the soil and
otherwise concealed. It is probably
close to the truth to say that there
is pretty nearly as much of that kind
of filth in Santiago as there was be
fore the Americans gave the city a
cleaning.
We do not undertake to say what
tho cause of yellow fever is. but it is
a fact that Cuban cities have been
practically free from the disease
since they were occupied by the
American army, but it doesn't follow
on that account that there will be no
more yellow fever epidemics in the
island. The chances are that the fe
ver will make its appearance when
ever the climatic conditions are fa
vorable for it. We doubt if yellow fe
ver experts would be greatly surpris
ed by the appearance of a good many
cases in Havana within the next two
or three years.
Drainage and cleanliness are the
best protection against the fever.
While the Cuban cities are made
cleaner than they were under Span
ish rule, it is a question whether
their drainage has been greatly im
proved.
As to whether the fever has been
driven from Cuba, as some of the
yellow fever experts claim, the next
few years will demonstrate. If the cli
matic conditions should be favorable
for the development of the fever, the
chances are there would be more or
less cases of the disease in about all
the Cuban cities. .
A Brantford. Ont., story says that
Mrs. Chadwick appeared there some
months ago, entered a barber shop, had
her luxuriant hair cut close and de
manded of the barber to know where
she could buy a false moustache. The
supposition 1* she wanted to borrow
S2O on a “phoney" watch. This story
ought to suggest something to Atlanta,
since that town he* not yet been able
to get hold of a local end of the Chad
wick sensation.
Th* tax books of Westchester coun
ty, New York, show that the assessed
value of pro perl y In the county is
$100,000,090, which IS $25,000,000 more
than th# total assessment of the state
of Nevada, with Its sliver mines. Nev
ertheless Nevada has two represents*
Uvea In the l’tilled glales Menate and
o4*e la lbs House of ItspiessMlgtlvss.
Once on a time there was a lazy
man who had the Lord's Prayer
printed and framed, and he hung it
at the head of his bed. Each night as
he tumbled in between the sheets, he
pointed to the framed invocation and
observed, “Lord, thqm’s my senti
ments." High official society in Lon
don. it seems, has adopted the scheme
in a modified form. At the recent city
banquet to the Lord Mayor, the Lady
Mayoress and the high sheriffs, all of
the speeches of the functionaries were
printed in the programme, along with
portraits of the persons supposed to
have delivered them. When it
came the turn of Sheriff Ve
zey Strong to respond to a
toast he said; “My ladies and lords,
for my reply, see page 11.” Under
this plan long and prosy dinners are
avoided and each ambitious speaker
gets the benefit of a revised and per
sonally corrected copy of his re
marks. It is to be hoped the inno
vation will not be long in reaching
Washington and New York. Senator
Depew will not like it, of course,
since he is fond of the sound of his
own voice. But there are others who
ought to be considered.
Suppose we were to attempt to fol
low all of the directions of the “emi
nent authorities,” what would be our
end? One set of eminent medical au
thorities has decreed that we eat too
much and do not drink enough water;
and now comes another set with the
assertion that the eating it not so
much the matter, but we drink too
much. The drinking is not of the wine
when it is red in the cup, nor of the
spirit of the golden grain after dis
tillation, but plain water, of the sort
we get from the well or the hydrant.
“Every drop of water taken into the
body means additional work for the
heart and the kidneys,” says one doc
tor. “If water is taken into the sys
tem in such quantities that it cannot
be properly handled by the kidneys, it
does very great harm,” says another.
“The practitioner should be very
careful in advising his patient how
much water to drink,” says a third.
Does it all mean that we shall short
ly have to attach water meters to
our drinking cups?
Gen. Lew Wallace has jumped into
the territorial statehood fight with the
declaration that New Mexico should
demand the preservation of its integ
rity by means of its name. He is
against the amalgamation of New Mex
ico with Arizona under the name of the
latter. And, really, since we have a
New York and a New Jersey, both
names brought over from England, why
should we not have a New Mexico?
This is the time of year to take
good resolutions out of moth-ball stor
age and brush them up for use next
week.
PERSONAL.
—J. P. Morgan gives away almost
as much money in the course of a year
as any of our other great philanthro
pists, but does not like to have his char
ity known. Ten big charitable insti
tutions in New Yorfc were built by him,
but none bears his name. His great
est charity is keeping young boys off
the streets by getting them work.
—ln New York recently a reporter
made several vain attempts to see J.
Pierpont Morgan, both at his office and
his residence. Finally his opportunity
came. He was interviewing another
financier and, incidentally, came into
possession of the latter's card. He
,kept it. then, going to Morgan’s resi
dence, sent in his own card in com
pany with that of the financier. The
ruse was successful and he was shown
into Morgan’s presence. When the re
porter had stated his reason for the
call the financier said: “Do you know,
young man, that at least ten reporters
have tried to see me to-day with ref
erence to this question? I have de
clined to see all of them.” The re
porter smiled and replied: “Yes. sir,
I know that, for I was the whole
ten.” He got his interview.
BRIGHT BITS.
—“You say the weather here doesn’t
agree with him?” “No; it doesn’t.
He's the weather forecaster, and the
weather always does the very opposite
of what he says it’s going to do.” —
Philadelphia Ledger.
—“I see that the Igorrotes were the
best paying feature of the St. Louis
Fair.”
“That’s strange. What was there
about them that attracted attention?”
"Little or nothing.’’—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
—“l’ve become convinced of the su
periority of woman over man,” said
the green goods merchant to the bunco
steerer. “For what reason?” “We’ve
got to work hard to get a few hundred
dollars from a farmer. But a woman
can walk into an Ohio bank and get
$500,000 on any kind of a piece of pa
per.”—Washington Star.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The New York World (Dem.) says:
" ’Tom’ Watson has made the amaz
ing discovery that ‘the campaign of
1904 was but a prelude to the cam
paign of 1908.' And that of 1908 will
be but a prelude to that of 1912, and so
on without limit.”
The Hartford (Conn.) Times (Dem.)
says: “Mr. Roosevelt Is dinning it into
the ears of the congressmen that some
legislation regarding railroad supervis
ion must be accomplished or at least
started, this winter, and the result
fnay be that a measure will be reported
In the house of representatives and
passed by that body without much
prospect, however, of getting through
the Senate. He is said to be willing
to accept as a compromise the plan
of Secretary Morton, according to
which the interstate commerce com
mission would fix the rate irv the first
Instance subject to review by the spe
cial United States court that Mr. Mor
ton would create.”
The Mobile Register (Dem.) enys:
The South is fair enough to concede
that the President has his good quali
ties; and that be ts honest and pa
triotic. He has ability, ton; but Ida
Judgment ia at times at fault, and the
people suffer by reason of the fault.
The trouble arises from the fact
that Mr. Roosevelt worships the idol
’Principle,' recognizing only one such,
namely, the one before which he hap
pen* to prostrate himself. But there
are other principles, well deserving of
worship, and Mspedleiu y tells u*
which ia the one moat deserving. Ho
far the President seemingly has failed
to understand th* value of the advice
that Kspedl*u*y can give. He liu
adopted the theory ,f Ja, kauri’s Be
stirs you srs right, then go ahead,’’
hut. In our optnioii, has not taken suffl
* lent cars ts discover just what Is
inssnt by being right.”
“Seeing I> Believing.”
It is often easy for a man to con
vince himself that he believes a cer
tain thing but to act on the belief
sometimes requires a powerful faith,
says the Youth's Companion. That was
evidently the quality lacking in a col
lege professor who went with Simon
Lake into the diving compartment of
his submarine boat. The story is re
lated in "Submarine Navigation," by
Alan Burgoyne.
Every one knows that if an uncocrked
bottle filled with air is placed in wa
ter, mouth down, only as much water
will enter it as is required to compress
the air in the bottle enough to equal
the pressure of the water. If the air
pressure could be otherwise increased
no water at all would come in.
For more than half a century this
principle has been made use of in sub
marine boats to provide a mode of
egress for a diver. In the Lake boat
there is an “air chamber” forward in
which the air pressure is made a trifle
greater than the water pressure out
side. When a door in the bottom of the
car is opened no water comes in. and
those in the boat, reaching down with
a short rake, are able to pick up oys
ters, sponges of whatever they see on
the bottom of the ocean.
The professor was a learned man,
and he knew all about the theory of
the case; but still he had not quite
faith enough to trust himself under
water in a bottomless boat. Mr. Lake
took him into the diving compartment
to exhibit it.
After closing the air-lock door he
noticed beads of perspiration standing
on the professor’s forehead. When the
compressed air came in with a great
noise, the professor grabbed one of
the frames and looked longingly at
the closed door.
“By the way, professor," said Mr.
Lake, turning off the air, “are you
troubled with heart disease?”
“Why, yes,” he said, “my heart is
a little affected.”
“Well, never mind,” said the inven
tor. "This little distance will not dis
turb you. If you feel any pain swal
low' as if you were drinking water."
He turned on the air again, and the
professor began to swallow. During
the half minute or so following, while
the pressure was increasing, he swal
lowed enough, the inventor said after
ward, to have drowned himself. When
the pressure was right, Mr. Lake
stooped and began to unscrew the
panel in the floor.
“What are you doing?” demanded
the professor.
“I am going to open this door so
you can see the bottom.”
“No, no,” said the professor, throw
ing out his hands, “don’t do that. I
would not put you to all 'that trouble
for the world.”
Just then, however, the door drop
ped open. The professor, who had
turned deathly pale, started forward!
Not a drop of water entered. As he
saw the calm surface of it there be
neath his feet as unruffled as if it had
been the very top of the ocean, instead
of almost the bottom, the color came
back to his face and he drew a great
sigh.
“Well," he exclaimed. “Well! Of
course I knew it wouldn't come in. I
know why it doesn’t come in. But if
I had not seen it I should never have
believed it!”
Some Revised Xninn Jokelets.
“Say, old man,” said the first club
man, according to the Louisville Cour
ier Journal, “those ties you’ve been
wearing lately are in excellent taste,
and I’d like to get some. Give me
the name of your haberdasher, won't
you?”
“I’ll have to ask my wife for it,” re
plied the second clubman, as he rang
for a Scotch highball. “She gave
me those ties for Christmas. They
are rather the real thing, aren’t they?”
The parson was a little disappointed.
He needed some slippers badly, and
according to the funnysmiths he was
due to receive forty or fifty pairs for
Christmas.
But no slippers had been forthcom
ing.
“Well,” said he cheerfully, “I got
over SSOO in money. Guess I can af
ford to spend a dollar or so for a
pair.”
"Henry,” said the wife, “here are
some cigars I got you for Christmas.”
After the wife had left the room the
visiting friend burst into a grand guf
faw.
"Ho, ho, ho!” he roared. “Wifey
selected Christmas cigars, eh? Wow!
Wow!”
"Yes,” responded the husband, calm
ly, "my wife was raised on a tobacco
plantation and she’s about the best
judge of cigars there is in this town
ship.”
And he proceeded to light a perfecto
beside which the average twenty-flve
center is but an El Flor de Skunkweed.
Sticklers for Form.
Not long since a native in Kaii,
Hawaii, cheated a neighbor out of a
small sum of money. The community
was Indignant, and determined that
the guilty party should be punished.
The day of the trial came, the testi
mony was conclusive, the judge clos
ed his charge, reminding the Jury that
"it takes nine to convict,” for a three
fourths majority was required, instead
of a unanimous Jury. It was thought
that the twelve might decide in the
box, but the Hawaiian likes form, and
they gravely withdrew to the Jury
room. They were gone an unconscion
able time. At length the Judge. Im
patient, sent to find out what in the
world was the matter, and discovered
this predicament: All twelve were for
conviction, and no three could be in
duced to vote for the defendant.
A Chief Justice Who Joked.
Lord Erskine. when Chief Justice
of England, president once at the
Chelmsford Assizes, when a case of
breach of promise of marriage was
tried before him in which a Miss
Tickell was plaintiff. The counsel was
a pompous man named Stanton, who
opened the case with solemn empha
sis thus:
' Tickell, the plaintiff, my lord."
Erskine dryly Interrupted him with:
“Oh, tickle her yourself. Mr. Stan
ton. It would be unbecoming to my
position."
The Opcntna of Congress.
From the Washington Post.
The opening of Congress,
How much Its import moans.
Where’er Its course may steer us
Toward every zone it leans.
Our granite-founded nation
Has reached a giddy hlght,
May granite ne’er seem sandstone
Through party’s wilful spite.
Let pure and noble manhrgtd
That swayed Columbia's past.
Beneath yon dome emblazon
Those truths that time outlast.
May bust and picture chiding
Mid anger’s ruthless flame.
Its ravening extinguish.
Enshroud Its pride in shame.
In legiHlation’s midnight
When doubt brings forth despair,
May each behold s morning
That proves ”our flag stilt there/*
On human shoulders Ib-th
The refuge of th* world.
Move gently with your brethren
Lest thunderbolt* be hurled.
And oh. y* men of wisdom
On true success you'l! rid*
If fcejlng st each ballot
Thai (Jod I# on your aid*.
Rev f hr. ltd ward O, Flagg.
New York city.
THE OLDEST ALTAR IN AMERICA.
From the Pilgrim.
Many Americans with the two his
torical dates of 1607 and 1620 firmly
fixed in their minds may be surprised
to learn that for nearly a century be
fore the days of Jamestown and
Plymouth Ro<’k, Christian altars had
been standing on this side of the
great waters. The daring Spaniards
followed close after the great discov
erer and braved the seas in search of
treasure. So it was that the intrepid
Cortez marched upon Montezuma’s
capital after burning his ships be
hind him at Vera Cruz. Here at
Tlascala. twenty miles north of Puebla
and less than fifty miles east of
Mexico City, Cortez found stanch al
lies. Their four chiefs he baptized
from a huge black lava font. Each
of these rulers had a key to the great
treasure chest, which can still be seen,
an enormous affair having four locks.
Here is also shown the banner Cortez
carried in his conquest, and afterward
presented the Tlasealans for their loy
alty. it is about ten feet long and
forked at the end; its fine and heavy
silk was once a beautiful crimson.
The Tlasealans have again and again
refused almost fabulous sums offered
for it on behalf of Spain. These na
tives throughout the country cling
with a wonderful tenacity to any such
relic for in their eyes it is supremely
sacred. At the time of Cortez, Tlas
caia was an important city. Charles
V of Spain signed the grant of arms
to the city, while Phillip II affixed
his signature to the city charter at
Barcelona, May 10, 1585.
The church of San Francisco, the
original one built by order of Cortez,
is in good preservation, having been
well cared for. On the pulpit in the
chapel is found this unique inscrip
tion, “Aqui tubo principio el Santo
Evangelio en este nuevo mundo.”
(“Here the Holy Gospel had a begin
ning in the New World.”) Like the
interior of all Mexican churches, this
chapel is highly decorated, being espe
cially rich in elaborate statues.
Tlascala is the capital of the state
of the same name, which happens to
he the smallest commonwealth in the
Mexican union. The city now num
bers barely 4,000 inhabitants, while
the greater part of its public build
ing show there is no progress and
but very litt'ie repair.
BED FISH OF DEATH.
From the Honolulu Bulletin.
A large influx of the alalauwa, the
famous red fish about which the Ha
waiian superstition has it that their
appearance denotes the death of a
member of the royal family or some
one occupying high place, is now caus
ing much speculation among the Ha
waiians on the water front.
The schools of alalauwa first made
their appearance Just a week ago. On
Saturday, Sunday and Monday night
fairly large schools of these fish ap
peared. On Monday night they dune
in an amazing large number. On Tues
day night there were fewer of them,
and since then their number has been
gradually diminishing. It is expected
that it will cease altogether either to
night or to-morrow night.
The fish generally appear at about
5 o’clock in the afternoon. The Ha
waiians say they cannot tell where
they' come from. Schools of them swim
up and down the harbor for a little
which, and then disappear again. The
fish are about three inches long and
of a bright red color.
The Hawaiians say that the fish
appear very seldom, and that their
appearance in so great numbers as at
present is an infallible sign of impend
ing death of someone occupying a
high station. As soon as the schools
of fish cease to come this death will
take place. A few of these fish ap
peared just prior to the death of the
late Robert Wilcox. With that ex
ception, the boat boys say that they
have not been seen in the harbor since
the death of Queen Kapiolani and
Princess Kaiulani.
THE PURSUIT OF BEAUTY.
Paris Letter to London Telegraph.
You must suffer to be beautiful, ac
cording to a French saying. There
seems to be some truth in the state
ment, if a lady’s maid is to be be
lieved. She has revealed the secrets of
her mistress’ boudoir, or, rather, tor
ture chamber. The lady herself is now
beautiful, but one wonders that she is
still alive. For months she lay flat on
her back on the floor, motionless, with
her arms close to her sides, during
several hours every day. This was, it
appears, to improve her figure. Dur
ing the rest of the day, for the same
period of time, she sat on a high stool
giving and rocking the upper part of
her body backward and forward and
from side to side unceasingly. By
this process she is satd to have ac
quired a statuesque throat and a
sylph’s waist. The lady’s nose, hav
ing a soaring nature, was corrected
and made Grecian by the constant
application day and night for months
of a spring bandage. One nostril was
originally larger than the other, so
she work a small sponge in it for a
year. Her cheeks have been filled
out and rounded by injections of par
affin. Her ears for months were com
pressed against the sides of her head
by springs, while heavy weights were
attached to the lobes to produce the
required elongated shape, which has
been successfully achieved. Having
suffered this complicated martyrdom
for a year, the lady, as already stated,
is now beautiful.
SEWING MACHINE FOR ESQUIMAUX.
From the Seattle “Post-Intelligencer.
A band of eleven Esquimaux from
the Aleutian Islands passd through
Seattle on their way home from the
St. Louts Exposition, attired in the
garments of civilization, and two of
the squaws are taking back sewing
machines, which will be Installed in
their Ice huts to supplant the bone
needle and gut thread with which they
have been wont to sew their gar
ments.
On the down trip the party could
not appreciate a bed and all slept on
the floor. Now they take to the beds
us naturally as they do to seal oil on
their native heath, and, strange as it
may seem, none of them is homesick,
and all are anxious to return to this
country next year.
One of the articles that are being
taken back by the head man of the
party is a stovepipe hat. He saw
President Roosevelt wearing a high
silk hat at the fair, and when told
that it was the President who wore it,
he at once commissioned Mr. Bales
to go out and buy him one. As be
comes th“ dignity of the chieftainship,
he will only wear the hat on state
Occasions.
The four children are also dressed
In knickerbockers, shoes and slock
ing*, and aro very proud of their
American garb.
SNOW HEAT.
From an Exchange.
In the course of an address before
the Royal Geographical Society on Ex
ploration In the Western Himalayas,
Dr. W. H. Workman Said that at or
above the altitudes of 20,000 feet It
would hardly lie expected that the
mountain climber would utter from
heat. Asa natter of fact, he did
suffer severely. The more snow th*re
was and the fresher and whiter it
was th* greater the heat. Ry noon,
with the new mow and a bright sun,
he had found the heat almost Intoler
able. and together with the altitude,
caused sever* ic ."Im ho and lassitude
Regarding mountain sMumss, tig found
that s larga proportion of his coolies
suffered from it. but nons of tfe# Kura*
um In it* f*rty did
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SAVANNAH ELECIRIC CQ.
WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE.
SUBURBAN LINES.
Effective Dec. 6, 1904.
ISLE OF HOPE LINE.
Between Isle of Hope and 40th Street.
Lv. 40th St- _ Lv. Isle of Hope.
A ’M. P. M. c A. M. P.M.
630 ..... 6:00 1:00
730 1:30 , 7:00 2:00
830 2:30 8:00 3:00
9:30 9:00
3:30 10:00 4:00
| ; S0 j 5:00
6:f® 6:00
f:3* 9:00
*Vla Montgomery to city.
Between Isle of Hope & Thunderbolt.
Lv. Isle of Hope. Lv. Thunderbolt
A. M. P. M. A. M. P. M.
700 6:00 *7:22 *5:50
*11:00 *9:50 7:38
512-minute wait at Sandfly.
♦Parcel car, passenger trailer.
MONTGOMERY SCHEDULE.
Between Montgomery and 40th Street
Lv. Montgomery. Lv. 40th St.
A - M. P. M. A. M. P. M.
51:30 8:30 1:30
*6:50 52:30 10:30 2:30
t(:53 t3:05 , 3 : 30
9:50 t5:50 6:30
•Connects with parcel car for city.
tThrough to Thunderbolt
518-minute wait at Sandfly going tg
c tty.
Between Montgomery~&~ ThundeboTt
A. M. P. M~ A M. p7m7
6:o0 3:05 7:22 3:38
7:63 5:50 8:38 6:38
MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE. ~
Leave Whitaker and Bay Streets!
A. M. A. M. P. M. P. mT
6:20 10.00 12:40 5:20
6:40 10:40 1:20 6:00
7:00 11:20 2:00 6:40
7-20 12:00 2:40 7:20
8:00 3:20 8:00
8:40 4:00 8:40
9:20 4:40
t 9:20
tlO :00
TSaturday night only.
Leave Mill-Haven.
A. M. A. M. p. M. P M
6:40 11.00 12:20 5:40
7:00 11:40 1:00 1 6:05
Z 26 I 1:40 '6:40
l : *° n 2:20 7:00
*2O , 3:00 7:40
®-60 | 3:40 8:20
s&g ::::: . 9 :°
' t9:40
’ • tlO: 20
til: 00
• • • • • tl2:00
tSaturday night only.
Hermitage one-half mile from
terminus of Mill-Haven Line.
THUNDERBOLT LINE.
City Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton Street Junction
Beginning at 5:30 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Casino at Thunder
bolt every half hour until 11:30 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton street junction
1 5 minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 5:53 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak Station for city every half
hour until 12 08 midnight.
COLLI NS VTLLE LINeT
Beginning at ,5:60 a. m. cars leave
Waters road and Estill avenue every
30 minutes until 11:50 p. m.
Beginning at 6:15 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Waters road and
Estill avenue every 30 minutes until
12:16 midnight.
Through cars are operated between
Market and Thunderbolt via Collins
ville and Dale avenue as follows-
Lv. Market. Lv. Thunderbolt
s : ir 7:30 A - M
-6:45 P. M. 7;30 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.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Mar
ket 6:20 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until 11:00 p. m. Last car
12 midnight. _
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR
K „V, e “ves east side of Cltv Market for Thundes
boh- Cattle Park. Sandfly. Isle of Hope and aU
Intermediate polnts-:lsa. m„ 1:15 pm.. 11l
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandfly. Cattle Park.
Thunderbolt and all intermediate DOtnW-*
a. m„ 11:00 a. m„ 3:00 p. m. points—o.J
Freight car leaves Montgomery at 50 a to.
and 2:35 p. m., connecting at Sandfly with reg
ular parcel car foi city. r
Parcel car from tho city carries freight to
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation of passengeia
Any further Information regarding
passenger and freight schedule can be
had by applying to
L. R. NASH, Mgr.
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In the January Uslinsator la Usun
a asrtea ut that will occasion
wtd* interval, firing th* roman** and
orifin of lhr famous hymn* <*f tb
world. Th* Aral i<ai>er contains ll.a
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