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i!\Dtl 10 m ADVEfiIiSEMEJSIS
Meetings—Alee Temple, A. A. S. N.
M. S.; Knights of Columbus; Fraternal
Order of Eagles No. 330.
Special Notices—Dividend Notice,
Commercial Bank; Brokerage Business
For Sale; Reserved Seats, Mehrtens’
Concert Company; Prickly Ash Bark
Wanted, Llppman Bros.; Ship Notice,
British Steamship Epsom; Notice to
Memhers of the Bar.
Business Notices—Cotton Seed Meal
and Hulls For Sale, Seaboard Cotton
Oil Company; Blue Points, Sommers’
Cafe; Bicycle Repairing, G. W.
Thomas; Mercury Dropping, A. M. &
C. W. West.
These Snappy Cold Days—B. H. Levy,
Bro. ft Cos.
To Provide a Guaranteed Annual In
come —Pennlman & Ennen.
Eggs—A. Ehrlich & Bro.
Whisky—Lewis’ 66 Rye.
Proposals Wanted—For Constructing
Concrete Walks at Fort Moultrie, S. C.
Kosher Chicken Fat—The Delmonico
Cos.
Old Harvest Corn Whisky—Henry
Solomon ft Son.
Twelve Years of Goodness—Le Panto
Cigars.
Dainty Desserts—Conida’s.
Good Work Every Day—Savannah-
Georgla Laundry.
Genuine Hot Stuff Stoves—Edward
Lovell's Sons.
Try Tetterine—J. T. Shuptrine.
Hot Water Bottles—Rowllnski, Drug
gist.
Ammunition—At Lattimore’s.
One-Fourth Cut from the Prices—Dr.
M. Schwab’s Son.
Savannah Theater—To-night, “The
Garrison Girl."
Medical—Peruna.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for
fair weather, with light to fresh west
winds.
Lydia Thompson, the celebrated bur
lesque actress, is coming back to this
country for a stay of several weeks.
She will And things much changed
from what they were when she first
came over, in the Mayflower.
The Ambidextrous Society has been
organized in London. Its purpose is
to encourage the use of both hands.
The grafters of the Philadelphia poli
tical ring will doubtless investigate the
organization, with the idea of adopting
lts practices in their business.
In the strenuous days when Presi
dent Roosevelt lived out West the
eow>boy used to have a way of ex
pressing extreme contempt for a thing
by saying it was "not worth three
hurrahs In h—The New York World
modifies the idea thus: "It isn’t worth
three whoops in Harlem.”
Vice-President Elect Fairbanks was
awakened in Pittsburg in the middle
of the night between Monday and
Tuesday to deny the report that he
was dead. Neither has he resigned.
There is an old adage which turns on
the statement that "they neither die
nor resign.” It seems to fit Mr. Fair
banks.
For years the Philadelphia papers
have been Iterating and reiterating,
“801 l the water,” “Boil the milk," and
things like that. They have got to the
point, apparently, of believing that
the only preventive against any imag
inable evil is to ’’boil It." Ho It oc
curs they are now saying, "Boil the
boll weevil."
An extraordinary session of the
Delaware Legislature convenes to-day,
and there Is great curloalty to know
whether Addleka. the gas man, will
control twenty-two <sr twenty-four
votes. Twenty-seven votes consti
tute a majority. Whether Addkk# will
be able to build up the requisite num
ber of vote* to elect him to the Bait
ed Hint** Menat* Is now the burning
quest ton In Dels ware. The election of
s senator ts not to be held at this gas
•tori, to he sure, but It ts espe> t*4
• kst the alignment at the aeestoo will
feteeaat what tblogs ate to eouur at
tee (sguiea -imp i_
A CRUMPACKER SENSATION.
Evidently Congressman Crumpacker
would like the country to believe he Is
receiving great numbers of threatening
letters because he proposes to Introduce,
or has introduced, into the House, a
bill to reduce Southern representa
tion. A dispatch in a Republican paper
of New York from LaPorte, Ind., Mr.
Crumpacker's home, says; "Congress
man Crumpacker of this district is be
ing deluged with threatening letters
written by Southerners. The threat Is
openly made in the letters that if
his proposed bill is enacted into a law
the people of the South will retaliate by
ostracizing and persecuting the North
erners residing among them.” The
dispatch goes on to say that Mr. Crum
packer will not be deterred from the
course which he has marked out and
that he believes his bill will be passed.
The trouble with Mr. Crumpacker is
that he ig afraid he is being lost sight
of in this question of reducing the re
presentation of the South. The bills on
the same subject that have been intro
duced by Senator Platt and Mr. Mor
rell have caused his bill, in a great
measure, to be forgotton. Hence he is
attempting to bring himself to the
front again by having it published that
he is being threatened by Southerners
for urging the passage of such a mea
sure.
Mr. Crumpacker should be more
specific. He should publish some of
the letters he has received together
with the same names signed to them.
Then it would appear whether or not
representative Southerners have writ
ten him letters such as those mention
ed in the dispatch to the New York
paper. We venture to say that he has
received no such letters from men of
influence in any section of the South.
No doubt he has received a few let
ters, but probably they are from men
who are interested in having the
bill passed. They may be white
or black Republicans or some of them
may be disgruntled Democrats who
have no standing in their respective
communities. No Southern man of
sense would write such letters to Mr.
Crumpacker as he says he has receiv
ed, because they are just what he
wants to get. He will use them in his
speeches in behalf of the bill, and will
try to make the country believe that he
is being persecuted for doing what he
believes to be his duty. No Southern
man of sense, even if he harbored a
bitter feeling for Mr. Crumpacker,
would threaten to persecute Northern
settlers in the South because of legis
lation by Congress against what he
thought were the interests of his sec
tion.
THE PAPER MONOPOLY.
It must be a source of grief to that
New York newspaper that has become
widely known for its bitter war on
trusts, that the government has laid
its heavy hand first on the General
Paper Company, since that is about
the only great trust the newspaper
in question hasn’t attacked. The suit
that has been begun against the Gen
eral Paper Company iB a civil one, and
if it should be successful most of the
companies that are included in it
would be operated as independent
plants. In that case would paper be
cheaper than it is at present? That
is a question that cannot be deter
mined offhand.
There is no doubt that the price of
paper, such as newspapers use, has
advanced considerably since the trust
was created. Whether the advance
was due to causes over which the trust
had no control or was arbitrary is a
question that will be made clear no
doubt during the trial of the case.
To what extent does the trust con
trol the timber of this country that
is suitable for paper making purposes?
That is a matter in which there is a
great deal of interest, because if the
supply of timber is limited and that
supply is in the hands of those who
control the trust the outlook for cheap
er paper, qven if the trust should be
smashed, isn’t very promising.
Perhaps Congress can be Induced to
take the tariff off of wood pulp. The
supply of timber fit for paper mak
ing purposes is practically unlimited
in Canada. It is in the power of Con
gress to say whether or not whit# pa
per shall be cheaper.
Is it the purpose of the government
to bring suit against the beef trust,
the sugar trust, the steel trust and
other trusts, just as it has against
the paper trust? If so, then there is
likely to be lively hustling on the part
of the trusts in their efforts to cover
their tracks.
NO BOLL WEEVIL REMEDY YET.
The report which has been made by
the board of practical farmers, that
was created by the Texas Legislature
to award the t50,0O” "mize to the dis
coverer of a remedy .c- ih. .11 weevil
evil, shows that the i. rna i mind
hasn’t thus far proved equal to the
task. There were a good many people
who wanted the prize, and some of
them made strenuous efforts to get It,
but the remedy of no one satisfied the
board of hard-headed farmers. The
board didn’t regard with favor the
Guatemalan ant, nor any of the nu
merous poisons that were recommend
ed.
One conclusion to which the board
came is this: The insect cannot be
reached in a growing crop without de
stroying the crop. In the course of
its report the board says: "The wee
vil do not feed upon anything but cot
ton. They do not reproduce in any
thing but cotton squares and bolls.
If the planter can produce a reason
able crop of cotton from some early
maturing variety that may be picked
slid out of the field on Oct. 15, speed
ily destroying the plant left in the
field at that date while It Is green
and full of squares, he will not only
get the crop of boll weevil that Is In
the egg, larva and pupa form, but hr
wli 1 destroy the food of tlie adult, and
by this means leave few boll weevil
to enter hibernating quarters.”
From l lie foregoing It Is apparent
that up to the • (resent (line all w*
know respecting lha boll weevil leads
Ui Ibe < ole lueton I bill II call fee sue
| ceaeluMy fought In only Iwo wsye.
The Ural is fey meane of an early co4>
ion that #r fee got ou< of (fee Acids
| fey Out. Ik and tne other ig fey plant
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1904.
ing all the lands Infected by the wee
vil In crops other than cotton for a
year or two.
Of course the search for a remedy
continues, and there Is hope that one
will be found. Those who have had
experience with the weevil do not
share In the belief that the insect
will disappear as other Insects that
have attacked the cotton plant have,
but will spread over the entire cotton
belt, if its progress is not arrested.
Assuming their belief is well founded
no expenditure would be too great to
insure a continuous and vigorous
search for a remedy.
THE DINNERS’ REPORT.
The Ginners’ report that was made
public yesterday, and which the hold
ers of cotton hoped would show pre
vious estimates of the cotton crop to
be too high, confirmed the impression
that the crop would be round about
13,000,000 bales. There was conse
quently a decline in the price of fu
tures and no disposition to quote the
snot market.
Naturally the very great decline in
the price of cotton is having a de
pressing effect throughout the cotton
states. There is a great deal of cot
ton yet in the hands of the farmers,
the country merchants and small spec
ulators. At the beginning of the season
the hope was entertained by many
farmers that the price for good mid
dling would go to 12 cents. Later,
they felt it couldn’t possibly go below
10 cents. Their confidence in this re
spect was shared by the country mer
chants and small speculators. A glance
at the present price of cotton Indi
cates the extent of their losses and
their feeling of depression.
It mav be that the 13.000.000 bale es
timate is too high, but a crop of even
that size ought to command at least
? cents a pound at the railroad sta
tions. Perhaps the fact that the re
cent estimate Is larger than it was
generally thought the crop would be
had the effect of causing the price to
fall lower than it would have gone
had the season begun with the belief
that the crop would be 13,000,000 bales.
If that is the case, vve may reasonably
expect that the market will be con
siderably better a few weeks hence.
The fact is the large crop—the large
yield per acre —is due to the extraor
dinary season. There has been scarce
ly a day since the beginning of the
season that conditions have not been
favorable for picking cotton.
AGAIN THE CANTEEN.
There doesn’t seem to be much doubt
that the canteen will be put Back In
the army, though before it is there
is bound to be a big fight between the
prohibitionists and these who favor it.
It was abolished after a long and
rather bitter fight, and it will not be
restored without a struggle.
The bill which has been Introduced
into the House provides for ’amending
the anti-canteen law’. It gives the
Secretary of War authority to issue a
permit to any post for the establish
ment of a canteen when it is shown
by the officers that temperance, health
and discipline would be promoted by
it. It seems the Secretary of War has
sent to Congress a statement that the
abolition of the canteen has “increased
drunkenness, disease, insubornation and
desertion and moral and physical de
generation.” If it Was done all this,
there ought to be no hesitation In re
storing the canteen. And that it has,
is testified to by all the general of
ficers In the service except two, -and
by practically all the other officers.
In fact, at the posts there has been
an increase of all sorts of offenses
since the canteen was abolished of
about 95 per cent. Even the Inspector
General says that it was a mistake to
abolish it.
Asa matter of fact, here in this
section of the country there is Ample
evidence that the soldiers would be
better off with the canteen than they
are without it. At Fort Screven sa
loons have been established within a
stone’s throw, as it were, of the post,
and It is to be presumed that every
possible effort is made to Induce the
soldiers to spend their money In them
for drink. It has been found neces
sary at about all the army posts to
find fault with the manner in which
the near-by saloons are conducted, and
indictments have been found against
them for violating the liquor laws. If
the officers at Fort Screven were ques
tioned it is probable they would say they
would much fiather have the canteen
so they could control the drinking of
the men and also so they could be sure
that the liquors the men drank were
fairly good.
As the facts are all against the anti
canteen law, it would seem that the
Prohibitionists, if they oppose the
pending bill, were more anxious to have
their way In the matter than that the
thing best for the soldiers should be
done.
There is pending in the Senate a
treaty with Cuba recognizing the own
ership by that republic of the Isle of
Pines. It is announced that, follow
ing the holiday recess of Congress, this
treaty will be strongly combatted.
Certain American Interests have ac
quired valuable holdings in the Isle of
Pines and they are opposed to the
domination of that speck of territory by
the Cuban government. Cattle, hides
and valuable hirdwoods are the princi
pal products of the little island. The
United States furnish a good market
for these things, provided they can be
brought here free of duty. Should the
ownership of the Island 'by Cuba be
acknowledged by treaty, the tariff
would Immediately become operative
against Imports from the Isle of Pines,
A considerable lobby Is said to have
descended on Washington for the pur
pose of Inducing senators to vote
against the treaty and In fsvor of
making the island Amerloan territory,
Don’t neglect to make a good resolu
tion for New Year’s Day, In sll prob
ability It will not be Itept longer Ilian
s week. Nevertheless the practice of
making good resolutions for Ike new
year Is to be oomtnended. Every if,
| hurt, every promise mods to one # self,
to reform sad do kHisr, Is s step In ike
I rtgfet dUmtlou, Therefore, ’‘turn ever
g new Issf,’' even though It besoms
twiid feeder* the gSMUtti is pul
The Young King of Spain is reported
to be betrothed. He is hardly more
than a boy, yet for state reasons it is
necessary that he become a husband
and father at an early day. The poor
chap Is really to be pitied. He will
never know the keen delight of wooing
and winning that is enjoyed by the
ordinary man. His bride has been
selected for him, and he must take her,
and she him, whether they like each
other or not. There is no sentiment at
tached to the union, except such ficti
tious sentiment as will be worked
up by the court reporters for form's
sake. The King is cut oft from having
a sweetheart, whose touch will thrill
his every fiber. He can only have a
finance, selected for him by his mother
and his ministers of state. Is there a
healthy young American who would
change places with him?
Judge Beacom of the Criminal Court
at Cleveland, 0., has ordered that
hereafter the doors of his court shall
be closed to all persons who have no
business before the court or a very
good reason for being present. He
said; “This court has become a school
for crime. Young men, women and
boys stand here for hours listening to
skillful lawyers defending prisoners
and learning how to evade crime.
Having acquired such information
they become dangerous criminals.
Vice and crime are daily exposed here,
and pleas in extenuation of criminal
acts resulting from vice are made.”
Unquestionably Judge Beacom is
right. Criminal courts are too often
the schools for crime and vice. It is
impossible to estimate the amount of
harm the Nan Patterson case has
caused.
A Wall street story is to the effect
that John D. Rockefeller is desirous
of “getting rid” of Henry H. Rogers’
name in connection with the Standard
Oil Company. Thomas W. Lawson’s
stories of “frenzied finance” have
brought Mr. Rogers' name quite prom
inently before the public, and the al
legation is that this is much to the
displeasure of Mr. Rockefeller, the ac
knowledged head of Standard Oil in
terests.
A physician of Upper New York
state remembered his friends in a
unique way on Christmas day. He
distributed to them 1,000 handsome
teaspoons, on each of which was en
graved: “Dedicated to those who have
survived my practice.” The doctor's
fancy and his little joke cost him up
wards of $2,000, but the satisfaction
he got out of it was doubtless worth
the money.
A dabbler in statistics has discover
ed that the cost of the United States
navy during the past twenty-two
years has been $1’,029.463,276. If the Re
publicans remain In power that long,
the cost in the next ten years will pass
that of the last 'twenty-two years. The
amount that Is requested by the
authorities for the navy this year is
$104,436,000.
The city council of Dallas, Tex., has
instituted a vigorous war against gam
blers. It has ordered that all profes
sional gamblers and habitual frequent
ers of pool rooms shall 'be regarded as
common vagabonds and dealt with ac
cordingly. Imprisonment and expul
sion from the city is the penalty for
vagabondage.
BRIGHT HITS.
—“Do you keep silkoline?” asked
Mrs. Youngwlfe of the dry goods
clerk. “I am sorry, madam, but we
are all out of It to-day. “Oh, what a
pity! I did want it awfully. But if
you haven’t it I will have to make
something else answer. Please give
me two yards of cottolene.” —Wash-
ington Life.
—The Rev. Dr. Fourthly—"l hope.
Brother Hardesty, you are not tinc
tured with anthropomorphism.” Dea
con Hardesty (wondering where he has
heard that word before) —“Well, some
times I think I a’m, and then, again,
I don't know. When you’ve had the
grip good and hard It always leaves a
lot of aches and unpleasant feelings
you don’t get over for a long time—l
know that.” —Chicago Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
\
The Chicago Record-Herald says:
“Many thoughtful men have lost their
faith in the Jury system as 'the pal
ladium of our liberties,’ and are ready to
do away with some of its features un
animity In verdicts among other things.
Whatever one may think of proposals
of this kind. It Is impossible not to re
cognize that trial by jury as it is too
often witnessed is very unlike the the
oretical conception of that ancient and
cherished safeguard.”
The Norfolk Landmark says: “New
Orleans thinks that she will get 75 per
cent, of the trade between the United
States and the Isthmus of Panama.
Add to that the 75 per cent, expected
by Galveston, the 60 per cent, expected
by the Virginia ports, the 60 per cent,
expected by Savannah and Charles
ton, the 50 per cent, expected by Balti
more and Philadelphia, the 40 per cent,
expected by Wilimlngton and Mobile,
and the SO per cent, expected by New
York, to say nothing of the Pacific
coast expectations, and we Nave one
phenomenon of the future.”
The New York Globe (Ind.) says:
“As to trusts, the primary regulation
need Is a national measure, like the
English companies act, which will ef
fectively prevent the Issuance of false
prospectuses, -balance sheets or reports,
most rigidly guard against false cap
italization, and secure the rights of
minority stockholders. This can only
be secured by national action. Miracles
do not happen nowadays, and there Is
no way of securing a stnlllnr statute
from forty-five different states. It is
worthy to note that In their testimony
before the industrial commission. John
D. Rockefeller. H. H. Rogers and John
D. Archbold all strongly urged the en
actment of a national Incorporation
law.”
The Columbia (8. C.) Ktnte (Dent.)
says: "Th<- Hon. Thos. K. Watson Is
going to keep In touch with the public.
He has discovered that the ’personal
contact’ of even an orator la entirely
Inadequate for his propose and, like
Tom Lawson he has recourse In the
only reliable tin-ana of publicity
printers' Ink It may he, tun, thsi Mr.
Watson viewing the achievements of
Mr Hryan In that line, has an Idea that
while conducting a et*nspi< uoue ad van
Mae-meni money may fee Incidentally
niede At any rate there la anew In fee
issued from ogfe<e In New York the
Tom k a (son Msgaalnr * In Ida prna*
pH ut k mtm/H says that its Is is
wdeeil to gevige the neat font yaets
Ip a iempaleo vf sduvstioit.'
A Pretty Little Story.
It isn’t often that one finds a good
story in a book of science, but here
is one from J. G. iMillais’ "Mammals
of Great Britain and Ireland:” In
1886 there lived at Aberdour, on the
estuary of the Forth, N. 8.. a remark
able old sea captain, who possessed an
extraordinary power in taming wild
birds and animals. A friend in Edin
burgh who knew him stated that the
old gentleman was usually to be seen
walking down the village streets fol
lowed by a flock of canaries, which
accompanied him in his short pere
grinations in the neighborhood of his
house. One day some fishermen sur
prised a half-grown common seal In
the mud flats and took it to the sea
captain, who soon trained It with such
success that the poor creature became
a perfect nuisance. The seal would go
every morning into the estuary and
hunt for fish and then make its way
home over the mud up to the house,
at the door of which It would knock
or push with its fore-flippers. Its fav
orite resting place was the drawing
room sofa. The daily arrival of mud
and wet into the best parlor was soon
too much for the good captain’s tidy
wife, so the day came at last when
he reluctantly promised to get rid of
the beast in the most humane fashion.
A boat was hired; the captain and
his pet sailed away far out to sea off
Portobello, where the man bade fare
well to the seal, which apparently had
not the smallest intention of saying
good-by to him. The seal swam around
the boat a few times and then dived,
and the kind-hearted old sea dog sadly
turned his boat’s head homeward, con
vinced that he would never see his
amphibious friend again. A surprise,
however, was in store, for when he
opened his cottage door it was to hear
his wife’s voice raised in anger; there
was the seal on the drawing room sofa
once again, safe and sound, and look
ing up reproachfully with his innocent
black eyes.
Trm. Then.
The bank president called one day
on Gov. John G. McCullough of Ver
mont, says the Salt Lake Tribune.
"Governor,” he said, “I want to
recommend to your notice Sabastian
Sutro. This young man would fill a
place of trust with discretion and
integrity.”
“He is a good man, eh?” the Gov
ernor asked.
“He is one of the best men,” said
the bank president, solemnly, “Moral,
high minded, generous to ‘a fault ”
With a laugh the Governor interrupt
ed the bank president.
“This fervid praise,” he said, "re
minds me of a case wherein I appeared
in San’Francisco.”
He laughed again. Then he went
on:
“It was a will case. We were trying
to break the will of an elderly gentle
man who, ignoring his relations, had
left the bulk of his property to a total
stranger. It was part of our case to
prove that the dead man had been ec
centric, irregular, cruel, dissipated, and,
after we Had proved this point, the
defense summoned a witness in re
buttal.
“The first question put to the de
fense’s witness was, ‘What do you
know about the character of the de
ceased?’ And the man answered, in
words like these:
“ ‘He was a man without blame,
beloved and respected by men, pure in
all his thoughts, and ’
“But I interrupted the witness.
” ‘Where,’ I said, ’did you learn all
that?’
“ ‘I got it,’ the man answered, ‘from
the tombstone.’ ”
He Preferred Peebles.
Andrew Carnegie, at a recent dinner
in New York, talked about Peebles,
says the Kansas City Journal.
"Peebles,” said Mr. Carnegie, "would
strike the stranger as a bleak place.
Despite its waulk mills despite its
black cattle and its black faced sheep,
despite its River Tweed and its hand
some iron bridge across the Tweed,
Peebles is not a parish to strike the
visitor as gay or lively.
“Nevertheless, the Inhabitants of
Peebles love their home. They are
an odd people, a people gifted with
the power of saying amusing, memor
able things.
“An old Peebles sheep raiser once
got together a little money and made
a journey to Paris. Paris, he had
heard, was the most Joyous, the
most beautiful city in the world.
Therefore, he would see It before he
died.
“On his return, a month or so later,
his friends gathered round him.
" ‘Tell us,' they said, ‘what Paris
is like. 'Tell us how it compares
with the Scottish cities you have
seen.’
“The old man compressed his lips.
Then he said, rubbing his chin with a
reflective look:
” ‘Paris, all things considered, is a
wonderful place; but, still, give me
Peebles for pleasure.’ ”
A Good Joke.
The late Charles Parsons, the mil-
Uanalre railroad man of New York,
was noted for his kind heart and for
his dislike of practical Jokes, says the
Philadelphia Bulletin. He one day
said:
“I have loathed practical Joking ever
since my residence in New Orleans,
some fifty years ago.
“I knew In New Orleans a young
man of sensitive nature, who happen
ed to be deaf. He hated his deafness.
He tried to make believe that, really,
he was not deaf at all. And this con
duct, which was excusable enough,
drew down upon him an amount of
rlducule that was pitiable.
“I shall never forget the poor young
man's look of pain on a day when he
was the unconscious victim of a prac
tical Joker.
“The joker, walking with me, spied
the dear youth on the other side of
the street, and said, ‘Now for some
fun,’ and before I could intervene,
catching the other's eye, he opened his
mouth and worked it frantically as
though shouting at the top of his
lungs.
“The deaf man hurried over with
a vexed, bothered look.
’* ‘You needn't shout so loud. Do
you think I can't hear you?’ he said.”
Nnlde Lights on History.
“My name’s Macbeth,” remarked
that gentleman as Mr. Macduff ap
proached. says the Chicago Journal.
“The devil himself,” rejoined Mac
duff pleasantly, "could not pronounce
a little more hateful to mine ear.”
“Lay on, Macduff," exclaimed the
other hotly, ’And damned bs he who
first cries 'Hold, enough!’”
"Gentlemen, gentlemen,” protested
one of the pirty, "pray lower your
voices If you are going to talk like
that or people will think this Is a
match between Col. BUI Greene und
Toni Lawton.”
Whereupon the embattled heroes were
much mortlfled.
Alexander of Macedon had a grouch.
'They cell me Alexander ihe Great,"
Im said, “and It Is true I have con
quered the world.
"Hut how will I look to posterity
compared with my name sake. Alik
Jonas, who will he able lo buy g . |,a
leaw In Krarice after being a drain
age (rusts* for a few vswrs?”
taring which b# gave Mueephaius g
dig Is ibs gists.
COST AND WORK OF A LOCOMO
TIVE.
From the Chautauquan.
The modern locomotive costs $15,000
or SIB,OOO, according to size and equip
ment. The passenger locomotives in
former days were embellished with ex
tra brass work and trimmings, the
bright parts were kept by the firemen
in a state of glittering effulgence, and
the passenger engine cost more than
the freight engine. Nowadays, the
trimmings are not put on. and the pas
senger engine, being lighter, costs less
than the mammoth freighter.
When the engine goes Into commis
sion it is a fine piece of machinery,
with power to pull long trains over
miles of track, day after day, but with
the strenuous work comes the certainty
of deterioration and the necessity of
constant repairs. When work was
lighter, trains not so heavy, and mile
age in lower figures, an engine could
be expected to live thirty years, but
in locomotives the tendency is toward
a decrease of longevity, for the man
agement strives to get all the service
possible out of them. The age of ex
pectancy is only approximate. Bad
water, that is, water bad for the in
ternal economy of boilers, and which
causes scale, is perhaps the greatest
foe to an engine’s hopes for an hon
orable old age. A bad water division
uses up its motive power far more rap
idly than hard work elsewhere. A hilly
country causes more strain. Local con
ditions on the line largely affect the
motive power. Then, too, housing fa
cilities have much to do with the life
of the engine. If it is possible to keep
up with needs in repairs, the power
stands a better chance for giving long
service. The demand for engines, how
ever, may be so pressing that the least
possible repairing that will ansiver is
given, with the result that the locomo
tives constantly deteriorate and lose in
efficiency, until complete overhauling
becomes a positive necessity. “A stitch
in time saves nine,” in railroad as well
as in garment repairs.
NEGRO TURNING WHITE.
From the Chicago Record Herald.
Monmouth, 111., Dec. 24.—1 t remains
for Henry Wallace, a full-blooded ne
gro of this city, to furnish an affirma
tive answer to the scriptural quota
tion questioning the ability of the
Ethiopian to change his skin. For six
years he has been bleaching slowly,
until now one-fifth of his body is as
white as a Caucasian’s. Thirty years
hence, if the rate of metamorphosis
keeps up, he expects to be able to
qualify as a white man.
Six years ago Wallace was as black
as a prince of Numidia. His complex
ion was of such a midnight hue that
he was known as “Coal Hole Henry.”
One day he noticed a spot of white
on his forehead and tried to wash it
away, thinking it was mortar. The spot
however, was impervious to water, and
within six months it has spread over
Wallace’s entire face. It went to his
scalp and turned his hair red and then
gray. From his collar up the Sene
gainhiian looks Jike a distinguished
white man, but his hands are black.
He wears gloves always to keep up the
illusion.
White spots have appeared on other
portions of Wallace’s body and have
spread until one-fifth his skin is
bleacked to a chalky whiteness. His
arms are still ebony, while his broad
chest is half and half. His case is a
puzzle to medical men. and several
skin specialists from Chicago who have
examined him are at a loss to account
for the transformation.
Wallace is 52 years old, and has not
been ill a day in his life, except a
week a few years ago, when he was
overcome by the heat. He does not
use alcoholics or tobacco. The trans
formation has made a difference in his
disposition and bearing. Since his face
turned white he has refused to work
at odd jobs and insists on being called
“Mr Wallace” by other negroes.
CHORUS GIRLS AND THE PEERAGE.
From an Exchange.
By careful breeding and selection
through a series of years the Maine
Agricultural College has produced a
strain of hens that lay over two hun
dred eggs a year. The record hen laid
251 eggs within the past twelve months.
The average American hen lays about
eighty eggs per annum, so the Maine
hens lay more than double the aver
age per capita production. There was
no corresponding increase in food cost.
The egg crop of the United States
is worth more dollars than the wheat
crop. In New York city the average
daily consumption of eggs is over a mil
lion, which at 2 cents apiece amount to
$40,000 a day. The people of New York
pay more for eggs than for either the
police or the public schools.
The important change in the habits
of hens brought about by the Maine
breeding experiment is to induce them
to lay in the fall and winter. Three
quarters of the eggs consumed In
New York during November and De
cember are storage eggs laid the pre
ceding spring. Comparatively few
New York families know what a fresh
laid egg is. Even in the spring most
of the eggs sold come from the West,
and were laid several weeks before
they are eaten.
The total cost of these Maine ex
periments was less than the cost of
one 12-inch cannon, less than the cost
of transporting one regiment of sol
diers from San Francisco to the Phil
ippines. To produce a similar breed
of hen in every state in the union
would cost less than to build one new
fort.
SIZE OF AN ATOM.
From an Exchange.
How large is an atom? "Perhaps the
simplest, though not the most exact,
way of arriving at a rough estimate
of the size of atoms Is by measuring
the thickness of a soap bubble film,
which is an thin as possible, just be
fore it bursts,” says a writer. "Such a
film, if composed of atoms, must be
something like a pebble wall. Now, a
pdbble wall would not stand if it were
not several pebble thick, and If we had
reason to suppose that it was about
a dozen pebbles thick, we could easily
make an estimate of the size of the
pebble by measuring the thickness of
the wail.
"That is the case with the thinnest
region of a soap film. It Is found to
have a very definite and uniform
thickness. It Is the thinnest thing
known, and by refined optical means
its thickness can be accurately measur
ed. It must contnln not less than some
thing like a dozen atoms In Its thick
ness, and yet It Is only about the
twenty-millionth of an Inch In thick
ness by direct measurement. So that
the dimeter of an atom comes out be
tween one two hundred millionth and
one three hundred millionth of an Inch.
In other words, from about 200,000,000
to 300.000,000 of atom can lie edge to
edge in n Una arch."
HEYN AND THE EGG ( HOT.
From the New York World.
An epidemic of matrimony with
chorus girls has broken out again In
the British peerage. Three young lords
and a marquis art depleting the stage
of Ih* same theater. Contrary to the
recent announcement by the solicitor
of another peer that ss soon as he
had murrled an American heiress hla
debts would le paid, these theatrical
alliances can have n financial motive.
Yet the chorus-girl marriages mi.hi t tt
turn out a well aa those arranged
on purely business principles And
marriages out of I heir awn < irrle heap
ihe British peerage mure virile than
the < ’otiUnrtilal nobility with thsar in
termlsfeia quartering*.
Distress
After Eating
Nausea between meals, belching, vom
iting, flatulence, fits of nervous heau
ache, pain in the stomach, are all
symptoms of dyspepsia, and the longer
it is neglected the harder it is to cure it.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Radically and permanently core it—
strengthen and tone the stomach and
other digestive organs for the natural
performance of their functions.
Accept no substitute for Hood’s.
' “I had dyspepsia twenty-five years and
took different medicines but got no help
until I began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Have taken four bottles o' ‘hla medicine
and can now eat almost anything, sleep
well, have no cramps in my stomach, no
burning and no distress.” Mbs. William
G. Barrett, 14 Olney St„ Providence, R. L
Hood’s Sarsaparilla promises to
euro —’ •' >h D'omlte.
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE,
SUBURBAN LINES).
Effective Dec. 6, 1904.
ISLE OF HOPE LINE.
Between Isle of Hope and 40th Street.
Lv. 40th St. _ L.V. Isle of Hope.
A.M. P. M. „ A. M. P. M.
L3O 1:30 j 7:00 2:00
*•3O 2:30 8:00- 3:00
9:30 3:00
10-30 3:30 t lO 00 4:00
11:3 <> I 11:00
♦Via Montgomery to city.
Between Isle of Hope & Thunderbolt.
Lv. Isle of Hope. Lv. Thunderbolt
A. M. P. M. a. M. P. M.
*3:00 *1:50
700 6:00 {7:22 *5:60
8:00 |8;22 6:38
•ilfOO *9:50 7:38
512-minute wait at Sandfly.
♦Parcel car, passenger trailer.
MONTGOMERY SCHEDULE.
Between Montgomery and 4Cth Street.
Lv. Montgomery. Lv. 40th St.
A. M. P. M. A.M. P. M.
*5:50 51:30 8 30 1:30
! . 2:SO 10:30 2:30
77:53 t3:05 3:30
9:50 t5:50 630
♦Connects wtth parcel car for city.
tThrough to Thunderbolt
518-minute wait at Sandfly going to
city.
Between Montgomery &
A - M. P. M. a. M. pTmT
6:50 3:05 7:22 3:38
7:53 5:50 8:38 6:38
MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE.
Leave Whitaker and Bay Streets.
A. M. A. M. P. M. P. M.
6:20 10:00 12:40 5:20
6:40 10:40 1:20 6:00
7:00 11:20 2:00 6:40
720 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
tsaturday night only.
Leave Mill-Haven.
A - M. a. mT " p. m. p7m7
640 11.00 12:20 5:40
7:00 11:40 1:00 6:05
•;••• 6:20
720 . l;40 -6:40
7:40 2:20 7:00
*2O I 3:00 7:40
9:00 i 3:40 8:20
9:40 4:25 9:00
70:20
til :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 6:30 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.
Beginning at 5:63 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak Station for city every half
hour until 12JO8jnldnight
COLLINSVILLE LINE. "
Beginning at 6:60 a. m. cars leave
Waters road and Estlll avenue every
30 minutes until 11:50 p. m.
Beginning at 6:15 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Waters road and
Estlll avenue every 30 minutes until
12:15 midnight.
Through cars are operated between
Market and Thunderbolt via Collins
ville and Dale avenue as follows:
Lv. Market. Lv. Thunderbolt
. 6:45 A. M. 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 FARCPLCAR
ueaveg eaßt glde o rcitv Msrket for Th under.
w>h, Csule Park, Send fly. Isis of Hope and all
intermediate points-:XS a. m,. 1:16 p. m..6:U
Leares Bile of Hope for Sandfly, Cattle Park,
Thunderbolt and ail intermediate points—s:oo
a. m., 11:00a m., 3:00p. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at 5.50 a
and 2:36 ft m., connecting at Sandfly with ro F
ular parcel car fot city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight to
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for aocommodatton of passengers
Any further information regarding
passenger and freight schedule can be
had by applying to
L. R. NASH, Mgr.
Only a nickel for a
Round Carton of
Crystaline Salt.
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