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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1904.
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\mi lu m ADVEfiiisEMCsrs
Special Notices—As to _ Closing of
City Offices on Monday; January In
terest, Savannah Electric Company;
Home-Made Mince Meat Pies, Shaf
er's Bakery; Notice to City Court Ju
rors; Ship Notice, Uruguayan Bark
Maria; Notice to Superior Court Ju
rors; Crew Notices, British Steamship
Hydra; Ship Notice, British Steamship
Romola,
Business Notices —After Theater Par
ties, Sommers’ Cafe; Punctures Patch
ed, G. W. Thomas; Just Drop In, Ve
ruki’s Cafe.
Hotels—Hotel Empire. New Tork.
A Good Overcoat—Falk's, Around
the Corner.
The Very Best—W. D. Simkins &
Cos.
Old Abe Whiskey—Henry Solomon &
Son.
None Better—Pete Dailey Cigars.
Eastman Kodaks Livingston's
Pharmacy.
Hot Stuff Stoves—Edward Lovell’s
Sons.
Beyond Doubt—J. T. Shuptrine.
Warburines for Colds—Rowlinski,
Druggist.
The Othello Range—At Lattimores'.
Are You Growing Bald?—Solomons
Cos.
Catoosa Springs Water—Knight’s
Pharmacy.
Red Snapper Sauce —The Delmon-
Ico Company.
Friday Special Sale—Gustave Eck
stein & Cos.
Christmas Goods at Cost Price —New
York Cash Grocery.
Eggs—A. Ehrlich & Bro.
Begin New Year Right—Cortes Ci
gars.
Savannah Theater—To-night "The
Price of Silence;” Monday, Matinee
and Night, "The County Chairman."
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 north winds.
Nan Patterson, Dodge and Mrs.
Chadwick continue to vie with the
Russo-Japanese War for first place in
public attention.
The time seems opportune for Thom
as W. Lawson to get into the cotton
market with two revolvers and a bowie
knife and whoop things up.
The manufacturers have been cla
moring for a big cotton crop; and now
that they have apparently got it, they
don’t want to pay anything for it.
It Is a Chinese custom to begin the
new year with all debts paid and the
score clean. That is one practice that
we civilized and enlightened peoples
might well adopt from the benighted
heathen.
The prevailing cold snap in the North
ought to have the effect of starting
th ; tourist travel southward at a rap
id rate. The resorts from Savannah
to Key West will doubtless feel the
Impulse during the next ten days.
An odd ball was held in Cleveland.
0., the other night, under the auspices
of the “Missing Link Club.” Each
participant In the festivities was minus
an arm or a leg. No person with the
full complement of members was per
mitted to dance. The one-armed and
one-legged revelers made a great even
ing of It. There were several women
present, fully qualified for membership
In the rlub.
A Luhouu dispatch of a day or two
ago estimated that the various ship
ping and commercial Interests of lhat
capital had lost not less than 860,000,-
o<Hi by the heavy fog that prevailed
last week. Horne days ago w# noted
that Hir Oliver Lodge, a British aclen.
list of fame, had perfected an electrical
apparatus by means of which he claim
ed fog could be dispelled -precipitated
in the form of rain—within a radius
B#b in ¥lO feet. It Would saeen that
L '.<1.1, ..net* ei) eg. client field for U
-perinio i with Hir Oliver’s appeiatue
I* he has really Invented a fog-dlepelt.
t'g *aa<4Mnr. he may shortly lewm*
hhe W the rk Lmt utmo In the world.
THE COTTOK SITUATION.
Now that the bottom has dropped out
of the cotton market any number of
people are coming to the front with
the statement that they notified the
cotton planters what would happen if
they planted too much cotton. What
if they did tell them what would hap
pen? They didn't tell them anything
they didn't know. There isn't an in
telligent cotton farmer who wasn't well
aware of the fact that if the supply
exceeded the demand the price of cot
ton would decline, and that the de
cline would be in proportion as the
supply was greater than the demand.
Each and everv one of them took
the chances that the supply wouldn’t
be greater than the demand at a price
that would yield a profit. Each of
them speculated on the cotton sit
uation. The idea prevailed that there
was a shortage of cotton goods, and
that, as the crop last season was a
comparatively short one, this year's
crop, even if it were a big one. would
bring a high price. The farmers
planted for a big crop, and they got
it. But it is probable that if the sea
son had been an ordinary one the crop
wouldn’t have been big enough to
cause the price to fall below 10 cents.
The season, however, was an extra
ordinary one. It was so favorable
that from Its beginning until Christmas
there was hardly a day that wasn't
favorable for picking cotton. The re
sult was that the yield per acre was
almost unprecedented. And what has
happened to the cotton farmer this
year happens frequently to the wheat,
corn and truck farmers. And it has
happened to the cotton farmers in oth
er years.
Prof. Phillips, of the University of
Wisconsin, has a long letter In Wed
nesday's Constitution in which he
points out that last spring he urged
the planting for a moderate cotton
crop, and makes a long statement
showing how much more profitable a
moderate sized crop is than a big one.
What Professor Phillips says is inter
esting, but not new nor particularly
Instructing. The newspapers in this
state, and we presume in other cot
ton states, have been telling the cot
ton farmers ever since that time in
the nineties when cotton sold for 5
cents a pound, that their true inter
ests are in diversifying their crops—
in producing their own bread, meat
and hay. And they didn't tell the
farmers anything new. The farmers
knew all about that. Asa matter of
fact they did diversify their crops as
long as cotton remained at a price that
yielded only a moderate profit. But
when cotton jumped up to 18 cents a
pound, as was the case last season,
and the talk on all sides was that
it never would again go below 10 cents,
the cotton farmers caught the specula
tive fever, and. like all other specu
lators, they put every foot of land
they could cultivate into cotton, hop
ing the price would remain high un
til their crop was marketed. They
simply speculated and lost—at least
they were not wholly successful, be
cause the price dropped before they
got all of their cotton to market.
Now if Prof. Phillips and the oth
ers who are filling the columns of
the newspapers with their, “I told
you so,” and their suggestions as to
the size of a crop the cotton farmers
ought to raise, so as to get the best
possible return, will point out just how
to keep the cotton crop within certain
limits —that is, how to get the cotton
farmers to agree to raise only so much
cotton, and to stand by their agree
ment—they will do the cotton farmers
and the South a great service. The
talk about diversified farming and a
10.000,000 bale cotton crop being worth
more than a 11,000.000 bale crop, is en
tertaining and may be instructive to
those who haven’t given the subject
attention, but it doesn't meet the sit
uation. It doesn't solve the prob
lem as to how to get the farmers to
plant for a 10,000,000 bale crop. Instead
of a 11.000.000 bale crop, when there
is a pretty fair outlook that the price
of cotton will be high.
The farmers did this year just what
they have been doing ever since the
planting of cotton began in this coun
try. namely, they planted all they
could cultivate because they believed
they would be able to sell it at a price
that would bring them a profit. And
now they are proposing to do just what
they have always done under similar
circumstance*, namely, cut down nex:
year's acreage. Some are saying they
will buy cotton at present prices and
hold it until next season and not plant
any at all, and others are proposing
to burn a portion of their present crop
so as to reduce the supply, and thus
bring up the price.
The situation is the same that we
have had in time* past. If Prof.
Phillips and other thinkers desire to
I introduce something new in It let them
I point out the procedure by which the
j crop can be kept within profitable lim
its—how the farmers can be induced to
raise just so many bales of cotton
| and no more.
The administration at Washington
has received semi-official advice* from
Venezuela to the effect that Herbert
W. Bowen, the American minister to
that country, does not possess the full
confidence and good w ill of the govern
ment of that country, and that Presi
dent Castro and his cabinet would be
much obliged if he were recalled. It
seems that Minister Bowen has bear,
persistent in reminding Castro and hU
government of certain claim* held by
Amtr leans against Venezuela. Castro
doesn't like to be reminded of bill* due.
hence when Bowen became Insistent
he sent complaints to Washington. But
it isn't likely that Bowen will be re
called. Rather it is more likely that
| Castro will be given a view of the
Big Hit. U.
- t -
The announcement has been official
ly made that such progress ha* been
made In the collection of funds for the
propow-l Wealey Memorial Hospital
that the instil uilon will he able to re
ceive patlanta In improvlaed quarters
by March 1. nest This will hr | ,ras
ing news to the Metbodlvts throughout
Georgia The hospital Is to ha eetab
' llahed Im Atlanta, hut its
and min let ret Pm# will cover the whole
•tata. Tb# Christ,,,*, gay
| for the boepMal weir inwet gratify.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. DECEMBER 30. 1004.
BETTER RE OX THE SAFE SIDE.
The senators from the states which
have repudiated bonds are very much
exercised over the probability that
there is something in the arbitration
treaties which this country has nego
tiated with a number of European
countries that would permit the ques
tion of the validity of the repudiated
bonds to be arbitrated. They have
scanned the provisions of the treaties
very carefully, and have not been able
to detect a loophole through which the
bonds could be dragged into an arbi
tration court Still, the loophole may
be there. Language may conceal loop
holes as well as thought. It is pos
sible there are some exceedingly shrewd
attorneys engaged upon the problem
of getting the cash for the repudiated
bonds. The prize is a big one. It is
a safe statement that no means known
to human Ingenuity will be left un
tried to have these bonds, the product
of reconstruction corruption, declared
valid.
If there is a possibility that the
treaties can be construed as including
these bonds as subjects for arbitration
there ought to be no hesitation in
either rejecting them or having them
so amended that the bonds of a state
wouldn't be covered by them under
any circumstances. Perhaps it would
be the better plan to have the amend
ment put in the treaties whether they
are thought to contain a possibility
of covering them or not. The amend
ment could not do any harm and might
prove to be a very wise provision. It
is better to be on the safe side—to
take no chances.
THE LEGAL BATH.
If that opinion from the Police Court
bench, that one tubful of water con
stitutes a bath, two tubfuls two baths
and three tubfuls three baths—each to
be charged for separately—had been
delivered in Charleston, we could
have understood it. There are at
least two reasons why the bath in
Charleston should have a legal limit.
One is the scarcity of water, and the
second is that the man who will at
tempt to lave himself in a second or
third tub of Charleston water, at one
sitting, so to speak, deserves to be
penalized. The peculiar brand of mois
ture that is piped down from “Geese
crick'’ is not well calculated to invite
the tackling of more than one tub of
it at a time. When the bather has
shaken himself free from the salt and
alum crystals, he Is usually willing to
quit . . ■*
But the case in point was decided in
Savannah, where water is abundant,
pure, limpid and sparkling; where full
length, stationary bath tubs are the
rule and not the exception, and where
the city authorities have heretofore
been only too glad to permit the full
est and freest use of water for pur
poses of personal cleanliness and
household sanitation. The statistics
of the waterworks department show
that the pumpage for a year averages
something like 6,000,000 gallons a day.
At times it runs up aa high as 10,000,-
000 gallons a day. It is roughly esti
mated that the pumpage averages
something like 100 gallons per day per
inhabitant. That would be pretty near
ly enough to give every man, woman
and child in the city two or three all
over, full length baths every day, with
a good margin left for other purposes.
Nor are the charges established by the
waterworks department based on the
number of tubfuls of water required
to cleanse an individual. The charge
is based on the number and size of
faucets on the premises, and the con
sumer is permitted to draw off all the
water he finds necessary to the accom
plishment of the purpose he has in
View.
To make a hard-and-fast rule that a
bath shall consist of a certain number
of gallons of water would be mani
festly absurd. As well say that only
one ounce of soap shall go with each
bath. Circumstances alter cases.
While one tubful of water and a sliver
of soap might be an abundant suffi
ciency for a persistent bather who
tubs religiously morning and night,
manifestly the allowance would not be
sufficient for the weary traveler with
cinders in his hair, smoke in his eyes
and grime and perspiration soaked into
his cuticle. As well think of limiting
the washerwoman to one tub of water
for the cleasing of soiled linen; and no
housewife would put up with that sort
of thing.
We do not believe that the legal
opinion that one tubful shall constitute
a bath will hold water; nor do we be
lieve that visitors to the city should be
doled out water with which to refresh
and cleanse themselves at the rate of
a cent a gallon. Rather should our
visitors be Invited to use all the water
they need, so as to make themselves
clean and sweet and good-natured.
The Morning News and Evening
Scimitar of Memphis have been con
solidated as an afternoon paper un
der the name of the News-Scimitar.
This development further accentuates
the fact that there are very few cities
in the South able to afford adequate
support to more than one morning and
one afternoon newspaper. The Com
mercial-Appeal cover* the morning
field so thoroughly and so excellently
that the Morning Newt, not In the
least lacking in enterprise and merit,
found tt Impossible to make headway
against It; and the field was not big
enough for two such excellent papers.
DuifHT '-he past dozen year* several
new morning papers have been at
tempted In Memphis, but one after an
other they have succumbed to the in
evitable and quit the struggle. A news
paper, like any other enterprise, must
have something to live on, and where
there is room for only one enterprise,
two cannot possibly survive.
Oen. Vgl. who was "killed” some
two months ago. according to St. Pet
< rsburg dispatches, has Just sent his
'iiipUments to some German officers
aaeuring Ibsen of his good health and
best wishes Meanwhile other fit. Pet
* tsborg dispatch— say that he has
been wounded. The proverbial eat has
one lives It seems Nogt he* as many.
Who can biases the f gar far lefua-
I ing te tattaMleh a PgM*M Congress.
when he rsfless that M would yrsfe
I *t<lr ••taiuteh a < ‘oogresstonal Ke*.ecd
, si.o * free seeds dMdrfhufMmf
South Carolina newspapers are look
ing forward to a rare fight in the
Legislature, which meets in January,
on the dispensary question. Of late
the dispensary has suffered some
rather hard blows, through a local op
tion plan adopted a year ago by
means of which several dispensaries
have been “voted out” and closed.
This sort of thing does not please the
friends of the "great moral institu
tion,” and they are now seeking some
means of saving it from destruction at
the hands of the voters. Once on a
time the temperance element supported
the dispensary system, but when it was
fully developed that the dispensary
was not for temperance, but for reve
nue, the blue-ribboners changed about
and are now arrayed against it.
Some days ago it was announced
that President Roosevelt had determin
ed to weed out the “society” diplomats
from the American foreign service and
replace them with "diplomats of the
Roosevelt brand.” This is now fol
lowed by the statement that Ambas
sador Choate is coming home from
London and Ambassador Porter from
Paris, and that they will be succeeded
by Whiteiaw Reid and G. L. Meyer
respectively. Mr. Reid is editor of the
New York Tribune and an old news
paper friend and “bunkie” of Secre
tary of State John Hay. He was min
ister to France under Harrison's ad
ministration. Mr. Meyer is at present
ambassador to Italy. Mr. Choate and
Gen. Porter, as is quite well known,
are famous as after-dinner speakers.
We sincerely hope the progressive
and hustling business men of Rome,
who are pushing the project for
opening a waterway from their
thriving city to the gulf at Mobile,
may have a full measure of success,
but if they are looking for an appro
priation in the next river and harbor
bill, with which to start the work, they
are likely to be disappointed. The
River and Harbor Committee appears
to have been seized by such a desire
for economy that river and harbor
projects that are being improved are
in danger of suffering for funds.
Still, there is no telling what persistent
and intelligent work will accomplish.
The Rome project, it seems, calls for
only about 86,000,000.
PERSONAL.
—Arthur Raikes, counselor of the
British embassy at Washington, has
■been appointed British minister to
Chile.
- ames B. Winston, secretary and
treasurer of the Richmond, Fredericks
burg and Potomac Railroad, after fif
ty-six years' service, has resigned.
—Congressman Cannon was not al
ways so powerful in Washington as
he has been of late years. He tells
with glee of a visit he once paid to
the Postoffice Department when blunt
Frank Hatton was Postmaster Gener
al. He took with him a constituent
who wanted to be postmaster of his
village. Cannon was bitterly opposed
to him, but did not want to turn him
down openly. When they reached the
department Cannon left the would-be
postmaster outside the screen door and
went in to see Hatton. He told Hat
ton he intended to bring the man in
and ask for the place for him, but
begged Hatton to refuse it. “Where's
the man?” asked Ifatton. “Just out
side the door,” Cannon replied. ”In
that case,” replied Hatton, raising his
voice so he could be heard a city block,
“I want you to know I have lying
enough to do here without lying for
you. Bring him in.” Cannon brought
him and Hatton blandly appointed
him.
BRIGHT BITS.
—“l’m engaged in the dairy business
now,” eaid the lawyer. “You don’t
say!” exclaimed his friend, the doc
tor. "Fact,” rejoined the legal light.
“I’m milking an estate.”—Chicago
Daily News.
—Lawson Up to Date—lnquisitive
Girl—“ Why do you stand in front of
that kettle ringing a bell all day?”
Salvation Army Captain—“l’m prac
tising. ‘Frenzied Finance.”—Cincin
nati Commercial-Tribune.
—"Cholly says he doesn’t patronize
one tailor only. He goes to the best
wherever he finds them.” "Huh! It’s
evident that less than nine of them
have had a chance to work on him so
far.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
“Don’t you sometime* think that you
are too much attached to money.”
“No,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. "If
you knew all the schemes to pry a man
loose from it, you'd realize that he
has to be closely attached.” —Washing-
ton Star.
CIRRF.IT COHMEIT.
The Houston (Tex.) Post (Dem.l
says: "Walter Wellman says the
President has found an old Supreme
Court decision which makes it clear
that Congress can grant the rate-mak
ing power to the Interstate Commis
sion. What the public needs is a de
cision which will show that Congress
will do it.”
The Hartford (Conn.) Times (Dem.)
says: “If Platt and Depew will give
up their monopoly of the federal
patronage in New York, letting Odell
in “on the ground floor." the New York
Governor may yet consent to allow
Depew to be re-elected to the Senate.
The New York senatorial contest Is as
sordid a political squabble as has ever
occurred in that boss-ridden state.”
The Columbia (S. C.) Record (Dem.)
says: "The demand for more liberty
and some participation in the govern
ment made upon the Czar has been
received by him somewhat after the
manner of legislative bodies—as in
formation. He promises in a way to
refer the various demands to proper
commissions, but whether they are
granted or not must in the end de
pend upon his own will. The seed ha*
been sown, however, and will bear
frulL It may take time, but absolutism
In government cannot stand much long
tr before the enlightenment of uni
versal education which Is rapidly com
ing.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says
'M will create no surprise to learn
that Commissioner Garfield's proposal
for federal regulation of corporations
is scarcely more than a repetition of
the plan propounded before the In
dustrial Comintaslon by John D. Arch
bo id. of the Standard <tl Company,
li has all the appearance of s trust
proposition; It has her . tu<j,My ae|*
i omed by Mr Dill, *hi*f trust lawyer,
end H would probsMy be found bo
work In tb* interest of (he gri < tn
bti<a*ions They do ml Ilk* Wl>p<lMl
ts the authority of forty-five states
They would gladly a*p< supervtsusi
whatever that msy meet, ■ 4*y the
national government for the sake
f ea aping frvn. SUMS *4*hUS)
Redman's Firewater.
This is a story told by the Semi
nole Capital: At a recent meeting in
Guthrie of a large number of Indian
Territory and Oklahoma editors one
of the “pencil pushers” from the In
dian Territory appeared at the sup
per table at the Royal, where were
seated quite a number of editors, and
during the running conversation at the
table remarked: "Gentlemen, this is
the first time I have been out of the
Indian Territory for fourteen months.
During that time I have drunk noth
ing stronger than Adam's ale. tea or
coffee. After the meeting adjourned
this afternoon I thought I would take
a little touch of ‘high life - in Guthrie.
In order to bring about the desired
effect I have for the last five hours
been taking in rapid succession one
after another 'gin fixzes, - “cocktails.'
■straights’ and 'highballs.’ As you can
readily see, they have not in the
slightest degree affected my equili
brium. I would like to ask. What is
the matter with Guthrie whisky ”
The query was answered by one of
the brethren from Oklahoma. who
said: "They took you for an Indian,
and you have been drinking Indian
‘firewater’ all the afternoon, which
never intoxicates, no matter how
much you drink.”
A Till Tapper.
Joseph Letter was in New York the
other day. He had luncheon at a fash
ionable restaurant, says the New York
Tribune.
During the luncheon the subject of
widows arose, and on the interesting
topic many original ideas were ex
pressed. Mr. Leiter said:
“Some widows are to be pitied: oth
ers. again, are to be felicitated. My
father used to describe a widow of the
later sort.
“She lived in Maryland: she kept a
little village store. Her husband was a
worthless fellow. He never worked and
he drank a great deal. A worthless
fellow, I repeat, but nevertheless, when
he died suddenly, many persons made
calls of sympathy and condolence on
the widow.
“My father did not call, but one day,
stopping at the store to buy some
trifle or other, he thought it was no
more than right to say in a feeling
tone:
" ‘You must miss your husband a
great deal, madam?'
" ‘Well, sir,' said the widow, ‘it does
seem strange to come into the shop
and find something in the till.’ ”
“Out—Hammed” Hamm.
Next time Max Mintz goes in a
horse trade he will look out for “Da
vid Harums," says a Morristown, N. J.,
dispatch in the New York Tribune.
His one experience has cost him a
horse (a “plug,” to be sure), but he
has only a wooden hobby to show for
the trade. Max was filled with the
Christmas spirit when he met John
Braisted, a hackman, Monday night,
so he at once proposed a horse trade.
Neither horse to be traded was on
view. Braisted said his was in the
barn.
After some parley an agreement was
reached. Each was to go at once and
get his horse and take it to the other’s
stable. Max was filled with joy, and
chuckled loudly with glee, as he start
ed out with his spavined, wind-broken
“plug.” Braisted, likewise,
bursted with joy. When Max on his
return saw the wooden hobby horse he
thought it was a joke, and laughed
loudly, and long while waiting for the
real animal to arrive. When it did not
come Max complained to the police,
who are laughing yet, but have made
no arrests.
Wished to Try Hypnotism.
The Boston Herald tells a story of a
woman who wanted to use hypnotism
as a substitute for a love philter. This
brilliant idea occurred to a woman
who had listened to a lecture on hyp
notism by an eminent physician. Vol
unteers from the audience went upon
the platform and were thrown into
harmless trances. So this woman wrote
to the lecturer next day, stating that
she desired to consult him. and he
waited for her coming, thinking she
was a patient. "Oh, no!” she said. “I
am quite well, but I am very much in
love with a man who will not ask me
to marry him. Now I want to invite
him and you to lunch, so you can hyp
notize him and make him propose!”
The doctor, who was immensely divert
ed by this idea, suggested that she
should trust to her own hypnotic at
tractions, and the disappointed lady
went away observing that hypnotists
are most unpractical.
The Children Left the Table.
This story is told by the Atchison
Globe of the family of the late Sen
ator J. J. Ingalls of Kansas.
At the dinner table one day Mrs.
Ingalls dropped a little gravy on the
front of her dress. One of her daugh
ters called her attention to it. Mrs.
Ingalls said: ”My *dear, I knew the
spot was there. You need not have
troubled yourself to' call the attention
of other people at the table to it.
If the spot annoys you, you may leave
the table.” And the next time Mrs.
Ingalls dropped something on the
front of her dress all her children got
up and marched away from the table.
The event has passed into the family
joke book.
llle Objection to School.
Richard Mansfield’s interesting
young son has begun school life. He
was supposed to be enjoying it till one
morning recently, when he esdered
the library, where he found hl3 fa
ther. seated himself carelessly in the
largest chair, and said:
"I’m getting tired of going to
school, father. I think I shall stop.”
■■Why,” said Mr. Mansfield in some
surprise, “what's your objection to go
ing to school?”
“Oh.” answered the youngster, sup
pressing a yawn, "it breaks up the
day so.”
What Have We Done To- 1 In y ?
From the Christian Intelligencer.
We shall do so much in the years to
come.
But what have we done to-day?
We shall give our gold in a princely
sum.
But what did we give to-day?
We shall lift the heart and dry the
tear.
We shall plant a hope in the place of
fear,
We shall speak the words of love and
cheer,
But what did we speak to-day?
We shall be so kind in the after-a*
while.
But what have we been to-dsy?
We shall bring to each lonely life a
smile.
But what have we brought to-day?
W* shall give to truth a grander
birth.
And to steadfast faith a deeper worth.
W# shall feed the hungering souls of
•a rib.
But whom have we fed to-deyT
We eheU reap eurh jeye In the by and
by,
But what have we sown t o-deyf
We shall build ue mansions In (he sky.
But whet have we hull! to-day?
'Tte sweet In idle dreams Id bash,
Bui here and now 4a we do out task?
Yes. this is the thing our soul must
eah,
"What haws we fiwae to-day TANARUS”
Mifiss Watstmaa.
GOLD LEAF PACKED IX BIBLES.
Chicago Chronicle.
“James,” said the English gold
manufacturer, "we are out of Bi
bles. Go down town and buy six
dozen.”
James in due course returned with
the Bibles in a hand cart. They were
taken from him by three men, their
covers were torn off and the pages
were trimmed with sharp knives down
to a certain small size. Then these
little reduced papers were sewed
together into a multitude of small
books.
The small books were distrbuted
among the hands and in them the
firm's output of gold leaf was packed
—between every two Biblical leaves a
leaf of gold.
"It seems irreverent, not to say sac
riligious, I know,” said the head of
the firm, “but we always do so. We
have done so for generations. Gold
leaf is always put on the market in
little books made of Bibles.
“Why? I'll tell you why. Gold leaf
must be packed between printed in
stead of plain pages, for the reason
that it would slip out of plain pages,
which are too smooth for it, whereas
the indentations made by the types on
the printed pages are just sufficient
to hold the leaf in place firmly.
That's why printed pages are used.
“We choose among all printed pages
Bible ones, for the reason that the
Bible is the best printed book agoing.
The type is more evenly set and the
printing is finer than in any other
work, and we need the best type
setting and printing in our busi
ness. you know, for any roughness
or unevenness is apt to tear the gold
leaf.
“That’s why all English gold leaf
is packed in Bibles. It’s a neces
sary thing to do, but all the same,
I've often wondered that the churches
'ave never gotten after us gold
leaf manufacturers for our hirrever
ence.”
DOWSER FIXDS GOLD.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Harrodsburg, Ky„ Dec. 23.—During
the last year of the Civil War an old
gentleman named Ryncarson, who
owned a small farm in the Chaplin
Hills, and who lived in a commodious
double log cabin, buried 82,800 in gold,
fearing that it might fall into the
hands of guerrilla bands. A year aft
erwards he was stricken with apoplexy
and died without revealing the hiding
place of the treasure.
Several years ago a grandson
named Lewis built a more pretentious
dwelling and razed the cabin. Some
days ago a tramp printer was dined
by Lewis. At. the table the recent
drought was mentioned, and Mr. Lewis
remarked that he intended to drill a
well. Thereupon the typo remarked
that he was a dowser and could lo
cate underground streams. Next morn
ing. with a forked twig, the tramp
walked about the yard, but the rod
never changed its position until the
“wizard” stepped upon the large rock
that had been the hearthstone in the
cabin. Then the twig began to trem
ble convulsively. The dowser inform
ed the land owner that water could
be found at a depth of twenty feet.
That afternoon the printer left for
Cincinnati.
A week from that day Mr. Lewis
had the machinery hauled to the
place and the stone was removed pre
paratory to begin drilling.
When the stone was lifted a num
ber of tin boxes were found. They
were filled with gold coins of every
denomination. The amount corre
sponded with that buried by Mr. Ryn
carson. The drill was put to work, and
at last reports no water had been
found.
CIRCASSIAN GIRLS’ TROI SERS.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
“Ever been to Circassia?” said the
sailor.
"No, of course not.” the druggist
answered.
“Then I'll tell you about the trou
sers of the Circassian girls.
“In Circassia the girls is all beau
tiful. They have straight noses, clear
eyes, white teeth and heavy hair.
They are slim and they wear bright
clothes—red shoes, flowin’ veils, sashes,
trousers. Their trousers is what I am
goin’ to tell you about.
“Only three colors in trousers Is
worn. red. white and blue.
“Supposin’, in Circassia, you saw a
girl walkin’ in front of you in white
trousers. If you was a single man the
thing for you to do then would be to
get ahead of her and, lookin’ back,
size her up. If you liked her looks you
might speak to her in a respectful
way—ask her to take a sherbet, for
instance. She wouldn’t be offended.
Why not? Because, wearin’ white,
she’s be a single girl. White trousers
is only worn by the unmarried in Cir
cassia.
"If you saw, glidin’ along in red
trousers the most beautiful girl in the
world you’d have no right to speak
to her. no matter how much her love
liness might attract you. Red trousers
is a sign the girl is married—red
danger—hands off.
“Blue trousers, again, is all right.
If your Circassian girl has blue trou
sers on step up to her as free as you
please, tell her she is lookin’ well and
ask her if she won’t take supper with
you. She’ll not be offended if you are
respectful and polite. Her blue trous
ers show she is a widow.”
THE UNIVERSALITY OF “'WHOA!”
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
“When I started on my trip around
the world. I intended,” said a horse
man, “to find out what was the word
for ‘whoa’ in every language. I had
a little book, and in it I intended to
make a long list of the various words
for 'whoa.’
“Do you know what I discovered?
I discovered that ‘whoa’ is the same
in all the languages. The Russian
stops his horse with 'whoa,' the Per
sian stops his with ‘whoa,’ the China
man his with ’whoa,' and the Dutch
man his with ’whoa.’
"And ‘whoa,’ I discovered, has been
from the dawn of time the word to
stop horses with. The Greeks and Ro
mans used it in a slightly different
form—’oho.’ The old English ’whoa’
was 'ho.'
“A philologist told me the other day
that many of out 'animal words’—the
words we order our animals about with
—gre as old as or older than ’whoa.’
Take, for instance, ’co-boss,’ the sooth
ing call to the cow. ’Co-boas' comes
from the Sanscrit root 'gu,' meaning to
low. Another cow word, 'soh, soh.’
which might be translated 'Please keep
still,’ comes from the .Sanscrit ’sough.’
meaning to stay motionless. And you
knew our chicken word—’chick, chick,
chick.’—the word spoken In a high key,
wherewith we summon our chickens
to their meals? Well, that comes di
rectly down to us from the Banscrlt
’kuk,’ a domestic fowl.”
THE SICK MF TIIF.IK SHOES.
From an exchange.
The European papers tall of a curi
ous custom among traveling women.
It appears that the women when stay
ing Ml hotels or the like do not it* re
to exhibit lo the pssaers along ths cor
ridors the exact slso of their fet, so
they carefully carry with them a couple
of pairs of liny, delicate shoes, which,
instead of the ones they are wearing,
they plate outside their doors for the
►■ itstiis to <slu> down snd clean All
the big boot shops In Parly now make
a afterlally of this tiny footgear and
pair or two torn* a port inn of tke
timtesaau of every up iu-gale told*
Mndnd women are autd Is have lit*
smallest feet, Peru via a smsi ruma
’id the afsrtaaa girt# ate a gawd
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SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE.
SLBIKBAN LINES.
Effective Dec. 6. 1904.
ISLE OF HOPE LINE ~
Between Isle of Hope and 40th Street
Lv. 40th SL _ Lv. Isle of HopeT
A - M. P. M. . A. M. P. M.
30 ... 6; oo 1:00
730 1:30 7:00 2:00
8:30 2:30 8:00 3:00
9:30 9;00
1030 3:30 10:00 4:00
11:80 11:00
..... 6:30 ...... 7:00
*Vla 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 *6:50
8:00 *8:22 6:38
*11:00 *9:50 7:38
si 2-minute wait at Sandfly.
♦Parcel car, passenger trailer.
~ MONTGOMERY SCHEDULE.
Between Montgomery and 4 oth Street.
Lv. Montgomery. Lv. 40th St.
a. M. P. M. A. M. P. M.
•o:50 *1:30 8:30 1:30
'6:50 82:30 10:30 2:30
t7:53 t3 OS 3:30
9:50 t5:50 „.... 6:30
•Connects with parcel car for city.
tThrough to Thunderbolt
818-minute wait at Sandfly going to
city.
Between Montgomery & Thundebolt.
A. M. P. \L a.~?L 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
• tll:20
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 6:05
1 2:20 7:00
820 3:00 7:40
9:°2 1 3:40 8:20
tSaturday night only. 2 °°
Hermitage one-half mile from
terminus of Mill-Haven Line.
Tll UNDERBOLT' 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
COLLINSVILLE LINE.
Beginning at 5:50 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
12:15 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 LINFL
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 PARCFLCAR
I J. es •* side Of City Market for Thunder.
¥}:■ Csttle Park. Sandflv. Isle of Hope and sit
pm[ & " P° ,nt8 —®:15 s. m.. 1:15 pm. 4:14
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sindflv OattiA Papir
S ll Ca' dia “’ point*-4:<S>
Freight car lesree Montgomery at* 50 a ta
and 2:35 p, m., connecting atSandfivwlth reg
ular parcel car foi city. '
Parcel car from the city came* freight
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation of passengeis
Any further Information regarding
passenger and freight schedule car. be
had by applying to
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