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Ml 10 m ADVERIiStMESrS
Meetings—Georgia Chapter No. 3, R.
A. M.
Special Notices—l>r. J. F. Rogers
Has Returned; Ship Notice, Strachan
& Cos., Consignees; Notice to City Court
Jurors; Rlood Oranges, M. S. Gardner;
Early Closing, Retail Grocers.
Business Notices—Early Train
Breakfast, Sommers' Cafe; Coming,
Pete Dailey Cigars; Bicycle Tires, Wal
ter F. Higgins.
Amusements—Baseball To-day, Jack
sonville vr. Savannah.
Plumbing and Heating Supplies—
The Chasmar-King Supply Company.
Gas Comes So Near Perfection—Sa
vannah Gas Company.
The Great Rebuilding Sale—B. H.
Levy, Bro. & Cos.
Milk Chocolate—E. F. Whitcomb &
Cos., Distributors.
Foods —Force.
We Launder 24 Pieces—B. & W.
Laundry.
Red Lion Courage Gin—Henry Solo
mon & Son.
Your Summer Home —Lattlmore's.
Nadine Face Powder—National Toilet
Cos.
Warburlnes Good for Constipation—
Rowlinski, Druggist.
Schools and Colleges—Miss Mason's
School for Girls, Tarrytown-on-Hud
son. New York.
Seasick Preventive Livingston's
Pharmacy.
We Have an Expert—Knight’s Phar
macy.
Mineral Waters—The Detmonlco Cos.
Delightful Soda Drinks—Livingston's
Pharmacy.
Medical—Ozomulsion; Herplcide; Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery;
Vlnol.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with fresh
northeast winds. Eastern Florida, lair
weather, with light variable winds.
The new army forage cap appeared
on the streets of New York some days
ago, on the heads of a company of en
listed men from Fort Myer, Va. The
people took the soldiers for either Brit
ish or Canadian troops and stared at
them in surprise, since no foreign
troops were expected in New York at
that time. The new cap is a rimless
douhle-ender of cloth with a deep
crease lengthwise through the middle
•f the crown. The men do not like It.
A British parliamentary return, made
public a few days ago, shows that from
1851 to 1903 nearly 4.000,000 Irishmen
have emigrated, the number more than
equaling 88 per cent, of the present
population of Ireland and being about
74 per cent of the 'average population
of the island in the period covered by
the. report. During the five census pe
riods included In the return Ireland
had lost 2,093,610 of population. Avery
large number of the Irish emigrants
came to this country, where they have
made good American citizens.
Now that Noah Rabey. of Piseataway
poor house, New Jersey, has been
gathered to his fathers, at the age of
134 ytfars, we shall probably have to
take up Hiram C’ronk of Dunn Brooks
N. Y., as the old citizen to write things
about. Hiram is said to be the sole
survivor of the War of 1812. On his
104th birthday, which occurred recent
ly, it was discovered that he was cut
ting anew set of teeth and that a
new growth of Wair was covering his
previously bald head. Doubtless he
hopes to get well along in his second
century, with his new equipment.
Ex-Speaker David B. Henderson
opened a law office in New York upon
his retirement from Congress. But he
says he does not like New York life
and is going back to lowa. There is
less money to be made In the Western
city, but according to his ideas, life Is
better worth the living there than In
the crowded metropolis, where, "on
every face is that driven look, that
strained, nervous expression that tells
of high pressure." Gen. Henderson
thinks that relaxation, recreation and
rest are not without their Value, and It
is only with extreme difficulty that
these can be obtained in New York.
HGARST MEN WANT TO BE DELE
GATES.
The Augusta Chronicle Is of the
opinion that some Georgians who are
seeking to be delegates to.the St. Louis
Convention are Hearst men. and that
finding they have no chance of being
selected as members of the delegation
as Hearst men are asking to be select
ed on personal grounds. It may be
that if they are active enough they
will succeed in their effort. Still, there
are so many who want to be delegates
who axe not friendly to the candidacy
of Mr. Hearst, and have never regard
ed him with favor, that it is doubtful
if there will be a place for a man who
is known to have favored Mr. Hearst’s
nomination.
It is a fact, however, if we are right
ly informed that in some counties the
friends of Judge I’axker haven't been
as active as they ought to have been.
They have permitted little squads of
court house politicians to select the
delegates to the state convention, al
though they had the power to send
Parker men. It Is probable ¥hat while
the Georgia delegation to St. Louis
will not be instructed it will be requir
ed to vote as a unit. In that event, if
one or two Hearst men should succeed
in getting on the delegation, they
wouldn’t be able to help Mr, Hearst.
Their votes would be counted with
the votes of the majority.
At present there doesn't seem to be
any probability that Mr. Hearst will
have much of a following in the St.
Louis Convention. Thus far he has
twenty-four delegates instructed for
him, and there isn't much prospect
that many more will be so instructed.
If he goes into the convention with 150
delegates he will have more than is
now conceded to him.
It is true he defeated the Harrison
faction in Chicago on Monday, and
thereby gained a good many delegates
to the Illinois State Convention, but
the Democrats of the state are gener
ally against him, and he will not be
able to control the convention In that
state. Indeed, from present indica
tions, he will get very few delegates in
the Middle West, and it is doubtful if
he will get any in the South. The
fact that John Sharp Williams of Mis
sissippi, the leader of the minority of
the House, has come out so strongly
for Judge Parker, makes It pretty cer
tain that all of the delegations from
the Southern States will be for Parker.
Mr. Williams says that he personally
favors Parker because he comes from
the "right state and the right section."
And he believes that the Democratic
party would stand a better chance of
winning with him than with any other
candidate, because be would come
nearer to uniting the party than any
other. "We may not," says Mr. Wil
liams. “be united on everything that
has occurred or upon every political is
sue, but about things that axe now is
sues, having become such by applica
tion of fundamental Democratic doc
trine to present actions and condi
tions, we are united."
No doubt there will be efforts to have
a platform adopted thait will not be
acceptable to Judge Parker and there
will be attempts to sidetrack him.
Therefore Georgia should send to the
National Convention a delegation that
will not only stand by him and insist
upon a platform that will command the
support of Democrats generally, but
that will make Georgia’s influence felt
in making both the platform and the
ticket. As Georgia is the Empire State
of the South she should be prepared to
take a leading part in the convention.
A PACKING HOUSE NEEDED.
A couple of weeks or so ago we pub
lished an interview with a representa
tive of one of the lurgest of Chicago’s
meat packing firms relative to the ad
vantages possessed by this city for a
meat packing house. The Inference
from the interview was that Swift A
Cos., the packing firm In question, was
considering the advisability of estab
lishing a packing house here.
We are sure that such an industry
would be a profitable one in this city.
It is probable that a very large supply
of high grade cattle and hogs couldn't
be obtained at once, but as soon as it
became known that there was a good
market here for live stock—that is, a
market that would take a large amount
of live stock to supply it —farmers
would give attention at once to im
proving their breeds of cattle and hogs,
and would also begin raising live stock
on a much larger scale.
We call attention to this matter now
for the reason that there Is a large
amount of unoccupied land tributary to
Savannah that is well adapted to stock
raising. A great deal of it haa been
fenced in within the last two years. It
produces grass all the year around and
if It were properly eared for there is no
doubt It would answer admirably for
stock raising purposes. Much of it is
close to streams of fresh water, and on
all of it artesian water can be obtained.
The point Was been raised that the
cost of putting cattle in prime con
dition Is much greater her* In the
South than it Is In the West. We do
not see why It should be. It Is true
the coat of com Is greater, but then it
la not necessary to depend upon corn.
Cattle thrive on cassava, and It Is
much cheaper than corn. Indeed, the
statement ts made by those who hsve
given tne subject attention that cas
sava is preferable to corn for fattening
cattle and that cattle like It better.
There is no doubt that cassava can
be grown successfully In all of the
South Georgia counties. It Is grown
with great profit In many of the coun
ties of Florida. With cheap lands that
will produce grass all the year round
and a cheap food for fattening purposes
there Is no reason why cattle raising
shouldn't be a profitable Industry In all
of South Georgia and Florida. A pack
ing house here would give a great im
petua to It. Let It be known that
ample capital has been put Into the
packing business In Savannah and
within a year there would be hundreds
of farmers In this Immediate section
preparing to raise cattle.
RiII.DING LOTS TOO *M ILL.
Some suggestions made by Col. Mer
cer at the close of the meeting of the
Georgia Historical Society on Monday
night, and reported In the Morning
News yesterday, relative to making
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homes in Savannah more attractive
and the city more beautiful, ought to
arrest the attention of the owners of
land Inside of, or adjacent to, the city
limits. One of the things to which he
called attention Is the small size of the
building lots upon which houses are
now being built. These lots, he said,
are a disgrace to the city.
It will be recalled that at last com
mencement exercises of the public
schools Col. Mercer discussed this mat
ter at considerable length, and drew an
attractive picture of the kind of homes
that should be built in Savannah.
Each home should occupy a good-sized
lot. In which grass and flowers coul-1
be cultivated. Instead of that little
frame houses placed close together,
are being built, leaving no room for
grass plats or vines or for anything
else that would help to make them at
tractive.
Col. Mercer is of the opinion that this
condition of affairs is due to the greed
of the land owners. Doubtless it is, to
a great extent, but it is not to be ex
pected ttf.it the owiners of the lund will
make Sacrifices in the Interest of at
tractive homes. Land owners in this
city, as in every other, get ail they can
for their land. If It were shown to
them that by making the lots larger,
thus affording an opportunity for beau
tifying homes, they could get more out
of their investment, they would adopt
the larger-lot plan, but nothing will be
accomplished by simply criticising
them for doing what they think will
bring them the best return on the
money they have put in unoccupied
city land.
But how then Is the much desired re
form, which Col. Mercer advocates, to
be brought about? As far as we are
able to see there is only one w'ay. It is
this: Let the holders of land adjacent
to the city limits, or even within the
limits if it is not already platted and
partly disposed of, be cut up into lots,
each large enough to afford a site for
a cottage and still leave room for a
small yard and garden, and offer the
lots at prices that will cause them to
be preferred to the smaller lots now
on the market. Much land adjacent to
the city that Is now available for
homes could no doubt be sold at a
large profit if this plan were adopted.
It is probable that the street car com
pany would extend Its lines to a su
burb started in this way, and which
promised to speedily become a prosper
ous settlement. The popularity of the
larger lots would doubtless force the
enlargement of some tracts already
platted within the city limits.
And in connection with the larger-lot
pi'an the other reforms mentioned by
Col. Mercer could be adopted, namely,
a building line and longer blocks. As
far as we are informed arrangements
could be made with the city for longer
blocks, but the building line would
have to be tlxed when the laud was
platted and sold. There is no doubt
that a uniform building line would add
greatly to the city's beauty and longer
blocks would be an improvement in
some ways, besides lessening the ex
pense of keeping streets and lanes >u
repair and sanitary condition.
The Bible Class of John D. Rock
efeller, Jr„ is a never failing matter
of interest to the New York papers.
Monday would be a "dies non” with
those papers if they did not have a re
port of the young man's religious
teachings of the day before. The fact
that he is the son of the richest man
in the world makes his splrituaJ deliv
erances of paramount interest to
wealth-worshipping New York; and
when a member of Mr. Rockefeller's
class develops and expresses an idea,
the fact is good for display head-lines
in the papers next morning. For in
stance, on last Sunday Mr. Rockefeller
was talking about reconciling one's be
lief in a just and loving God when
there was so much suffering in the
world. “What does God mean by send
ing to us trials and disappointments
and illness and suffering?” he asked.
One of his bright young men stood
up. "I think I can answer that ques
tion," he said, "by citing the twenty
fifth verse of the first chapter of Isaiah,
which says, 'I will turn my hand upon
thee, and purge away thy dross, and
take away all thy tin.' The trouble
with most people is that they have too
much tin in them." The incident was
given a half a column in the papers
next morning.
Arboriculture, a journal devoted to
forestry and trees, says: "The South
has realized, in the aggregate, a iarge
revenue from the yellow pine timber
which was so extensively distributed.
The lumber which has been used at
home, that sold in the North, and a
very large quantity exported, besides
the naval stores has brought a very
large income. But this will not last
always; the end is approaching. What
then?” Then we shall have broad and
fertile farms, and cattle ranges and
fruit oi chard*. The pine lands in
Georgia, cleared of their original
growth by turpentine and Umber oper
ators, have been found to produce a*
fine peaches, pears and plums as one
would want to see; and they will grow
cotton, peas, potatoes, hay, corn and
other crops In profitable quantities.
Meanwhile In many sections of the
South new growths of pine trees arc
coming on, so that in all probability
It will be quite a while before the
question of 4tyost growth will be an
acute one.
The greatest bank in the world is
about to be brought into existence in
London through the consolidation of
the Lloyds Bank. Limited, and the
Manchester and Liverpool District
Banking Company, Limited. These
institutions rank first and thirteenth,
respectively, in the list of British
private banks. The consolidated con
cern, according to the Bankers'
Monthly, will overshadow even the
big government banks, like the Bank
of England and those of the French.
German and Russian nations.
There must be a good deal of pros
perity in the country, when there are
men in it who can afford to pay $2,-
000,000 for private residences. That is
the price that was paid a few days
ago for the New York residence of the
late William C. Whitney by James
Henry Smith.
Bamum's circus has just added to
its staff a preacher; not as a freak,
but nevertheless because he is needed
in the business. The preacher, or
chaplain, wifi travel with the circus
and be on hand or within easy call
at all times. The modern circus car
ries an army of employes. These peo
ple, like other human beings, are more
or less religious, and deaths, mar
riages and christenings are not un
known In the circus army. There are
occasions, too, on which accidents oc
cur, when the victims feel the desire
for a clergyman to say a word of
hope and cheer on the brink of the
dark river. To provide for these wants
the office of circus chaplain has been
created; and if the chaplain Is the
right man he will be able to do much
effective work for his great cause.
A contemporary gives some facts
and figures of an anti-mosquito cam
paign carried on last year by the gov
ernment of Brazil In the neighborhood
of Rio de Janeiro. Twelve hundred
men were employed In drainage, oil
spreading and other works, and the
sutn expended was about $1,250,000.
That money and men were well used
is shown by the marked decrease in
the yellow fever records. In the
months of January and February, 1904,
there were but nine cases of the fever
In Rio, against 275 cases during the
same months last year. From 1850 to
1896 there were 61,600 deaths from yel
low fever in Rio. Not in a hundred
years has the death rate in that city
been so low as it is showing itself at
present.
The St. Louis papers are devoting
themselves to the task of counteracting
the impression that has gone abroad
that it requires a small pot of money
for one to see the fair. The Globe-
Democrat has prepared a list of prices
of necessaries which shows that one
may live well in St. Louis and see the
great show for a cost of $2.25 per day,
if one's rnt'ans be slender, and that
from that minimum cost the prices
may be gradually raised, according to
one’s means, until the roof is reached.
The largest item in all of the low
priced lists is for a place to sleep,
which is never less than $1 per night.
“Huge chunks of hail, some of them
ten inches in circumference,” fell near
Austin, Tex., the other day. At least
that is what a correspondent wired
the New York Times. He ought to be
able to tell a good snake story.
PERSONAL.
—H. J. Horn, recently chosen gen
eral manager of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, entered the service of that
corporation as a draughtsman fifteen
years ago, receiving S6O a month pay.
His advance has been steady, until
now, at the age of 40, he finds reward
in his present position. Howard Elliot,
president of the road, has had similar
experience, having begun work with a
surveying party twenty years ago.
—Ludovic Barnay, the famous Ger
man actor of villain parts, doubtlms
has had more experience in dying than
most other members of his profession.
He has met death on the stage some
thing over 1,000 times, 314 being by sui
cide. About a dozer, other modes of
exit are mentioned in his recently pub
lished memoirs. By way of cheerful
set-off against this wholesale decease,
Herr Barnay was married 1,171 times,
over ha’f of his unions having been
bigamous.
—Col. Carey M. Jones of Davenport,
a well-known live stock auctioneer, In
association with a number of other
prominent auctioneers, will open in
July in Davenport, la., a school of
auctioneering and oratory. The aim
of the school will be to develop auc
tioneers capable of rolling off talk by
the yard. There will be courses in
oratory, grammar and other branches
and a competent specialist in charge
of each department. 001. Jones con
ducted sales of fancy cattle in seven
teen states of the Union last year.
BRIGHT BITS.
—"Did vou motor yesterday?” "No;
we gasolene-launched.” Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
—"She says she can’t sing because
she has a severe cold.”
"Well, it's true she can’t sing, but
she's mistaken about the reason.”—
Brooklyn Life.
—One-half of the world doesn’t know
how the other half lives, you know.”
"Well,” she answered, “it’s the ignorant
half's own fault. Everybody has a
chance to go around and find out when
the 'for rent' signs are put up.”—Chi
cago Record-Herald.
—A charitable young lady, visiting a
sick woman. Inquired, with a view to
further relief, as to her family. She
asked: "Is your husband kind to you?”
"Oh. yes. Miss.” was the instant re
sponse, "he's kind—very kind. Indeed,
you might say he’s more like a friend
than a husband.” —Brooklyn Life.
CURRENT COMMENTS.
The Galveston (Tex.) News (Dem.)
says: "The Crum nomination was not
confirmed, but what difference did that
make? What do the advice and con
sent of the Senate count for with the
man with the whip? He has run
his man in five times. In spite of the
Senate and the people.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: "As the result of his observa
tion President Ogden, of the South
ern Educational Society, says that the
negroes are treated with more benevo
lence In the South than by their pro
fessed friends, the Republicans of the
North. What grieves the Northern
Republicans the most in the Southern
treatment of the negroes is that the
Ignorant masses of them are deprived
of the suffrage. In the South the
negroes are not allowed to hold any
offices. So the account, so far as
treatment of the negroes is concerned,
appears to be pretty evenly balanced.”
The Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.)
says: "The Pensacola News objects to
the nomination of John Sharp Wil
liams for Vice President on the ground
that 'he Is too capable a man to be
laid away on that sort of shelf.’ Don't
be too sure about that. John Adams.
Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van
Buren were vice president first and
were afterwards elected Presidents,
and they were capable men. John
Tyler. Millard Fillmore. Andrew John
son, Chester A. Arthur and Theodore
Roosevelt all became Presidents by ac
cident. Thus, of twenty-six Presidents,
eight, or nearly one-third, had been
Vice Presidents. Whether they were
all capable men or not, they attain
ed to the highest position, which ts
certainly a strong argument in favor
of putting a good man on the ticket.
If he does not become President by ac
cident it night give him a good boost
for the succession, and Williams is yet
young."
Personal Anecdotes.
Lawrence D'Orsay, the English actor,
finds the American gamin a source of
endless delight. While standing In the
doorway of a theater in Philadelphia he
saw a newsboy leading a disreputable
yellow dog by a string. “If you will
give me that dog," said D'Orsay, ''l'll
get you into the show." The boy re
plied: ‘‘How do I know you'd take
care o’ de pup?” The actor laughed
and got the little chap a front seat in
the gallery. Next day he saw the
newsboy and asked: "How did you
like the show?” ’’Huh,” growled the
gamin, "I’m glad I kept me dog.”
Senator Beveridge was discussing the
liquor problem with some friends the
other day. He told of a social reform
er in Indiana who was holding forth on
this subject in a little town. “My
friends," said the orator in concluding
a moving appeal, “you simply cannot
drink and get ahead.” Here a rather
rough-looking fellow arose and said:
“You dunno what you're faJking about.
Say, you get full to-night and see if you
don't get a head on you by to-morrow
morning.”
An ancestor of Tolstoi, the Russian
author, was an army officer and very
clever as an imitator. One day he Was
mimicking the Emperor Paul to a
group of his friends when Paul himself
entered and for some moments looked
on unperceived at the antics of the
young man. Tolstoi finally turned and,
beholding the Emperor, he bowed his
head and was silent. “Go on, sir,”
Paul. “Continue your perform
ance.” The young man hesitated a
moment, and, then, folding his arms
and reproducing every gesture and in
tonation of his sovereign, he said:
"Tolstoi, you deserve to be degraded,
but I remember the thoughtlessness of
youth and you are pardoned.” The
Czar smiled slightly at this speech.
“Well, be it so,” he said.
How Language Is Formed.
There were inriching the English
treasury of figurative speech, says the
New York Press, and this is the way
they did it:
“Gee, I like your work. You seem to
think you're all the eggs,” said one.
“Oh, I don't know. I s'pose I carry
just about as much pressure as you
do,” said the other.
"Is that so? Then turn around and
let me look at your steam gauge.”
“Oh, it ain’t necessary. I don't s'pose
I’m no radiator, like you, am I?”
“I know what you are, Jimmie. You
are a furnace, but you’ve got a bum
draft.”
“Is that so? Well. I don’t see no
storm doors on your face.”
“No? I guess that's becuz your win
dows Is frosty. You want to get some
body to wipe you with a hot cloth. ’
“Gee, you're full o’ come-backs, ain’t
you? Where’s all your medals? Got
’em on the other vest?”
“No, I can’t wear ’em. I’m so hot I
melt ’em. Feel ’o me. I’ve got asbestos
underclothes."
"They tell me different."
"Yes? Well, that’s lumpy work. They
tell me different! You must ’a’ read
that on some wrapper."
"Don’t let that annoy you. No mat
ter where I get ’em, I can pass ’em
back to you every once In a ■while.”
"Oh, I don’t know.”
“Oh, I guess yes. You know you ain’t
the North Pole. You can be reached.”
“Yes? Well, you ain't the only shirt
in the laundry neither. You can be
done up.”
"Yes, easy—but not by the boy that
drives the wagon.”
“Huh!"
“Huh!"
The Jn<lge Rewarded.
A certain judge who possesses a de
gree from a leading university drop
ped in one day at anew thirst re
sort, incidentally to see the decorations
of the place, says the San Francisco
Call. When the judge entered, one
of the barkeepers was discoursing to
a customer upon the beauty of a stain
ed glass window.
“Dat window,” he said, “is de hand
somest one in any Joint in town. I
don’t know what dat Eye-talian on It
means. Wish’t I did.”
“That motto,” said the Judge, obli
gingly, “is ’Dum vlvimus vivamus,'
and means, ’While we live, let us
live.’ ’’
“Say,” replied the barkeeper, “ain’t
dat great! I’m mighty glad to know
what dat spiel stands for.”
The next day, the judge being in the
same neighborhood, again entered the
resort to get some refreshment, when
the b’arkeeper cheerily greeted him:
“Good mornin’. Professor. Glad to
se you. Say, I’ll give youse some good
whisky dis time.”
Strange Language.
Francis Wilson, <the comedian, has
recently added to his large and val
uable library a oolleation of English
tracts and sermons of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, says an ex
change.
These pamphlets are interesting on
account of the strange phraseology—a
kind of religious slang—which they re
veal. Their titles exemplify 'this slang
well, and the following are a few of
them;
"The Spiritual Mustard Pot to Make
the Soul Sneeze With Devotion.”
"The Snuffers of Divine Love.”
"Crumbs of Comfort for Hungry
Hoseas.”
“Biscuits Baked In the Oven of
Charity, Carefully Conserved for
Chickens of the Church, Sparrows of
the Spirit and Sweet Swallows of Sal
vation.”
A Remarkable Echo.
Saya the Youth’s Companion: An
ordinary echo is a curious thing; but
according to the statements of a
Frenchman at a watering place on the
Pyrenees, one echo on the Franco-
Spanish frontier is so far from
ordinary that it must have started In
America.
"As soon a* you have spoken," said
the Frenchman, who had secured an
audience of wide-eyed tourists, “you
hear distinctly the voice leap from
rock to rock, from precipice to preci
pice, and as soon as it has passed the
frontier it assumes the Spanish tongue!
But yes, I have heard it often!”
Little White Lily.
From Pearson's Weekly.
Little white lily, afloat on the stream,
Open your tender heart, wake from
your dream;
Lift up your face to the kiss of the
sun,
Wake and rejoice that the winter is
done!
Though you are tiny and humble and
frail,
Live and be happy, and fear not the
gale;
Little white lily, though soon you must
fade.
He loveth all things. Who all of us
made!
Little white lily, there's give unto
you.
Something to live for and something
to do;
If to one heart you bring, seeing you
there.
Thoughts of the Hand that created you
fair;
If you lift one soul from earth for a
space,
'Twas for that Heav'n gave you beauty
and grace;
Little white illy, although you are
small.
You are His servant. Who fashioned
us all!
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Steps are being taken to develop
valuable deposits of fullers’ earth, near
Buelah. Pueblo county, and near Ak
ron, Washington county, in Colorado.
The few deposits of this substance al
ready located in the Centennial State
are said to be among the purest found
anywhere in the world.
—Machinists and iron workers are
greatly interested in the discovery of
the art of welding casit iron, which
W. S. and L. R. Schaap, of Love
land, Colo., claim to have made. They
declare that the compound which they
have Invented also will braze alumi
num, as successfully as borax will
braze steel.
—For a winter climate, Canon City,
Colo., has a reputation second to no
locality in the United States. During
the winter of 1903-1904, hundreds of
robins, bluebirds and turtle doves
made their homes in that vicinity, and
there was no weather during the whole
season so severe as to harm the feath
ered creatures.
—One of the largest and most ex
pensive mineral collections in exis
tence, owned by John F. Campion, of
Leadville, Colo., forms part of Colo
rado's mineral exhibit at the St. Louis
World’s Fair. The collection is val
ued at $250,000, the bullion value alone
being SBO,OOO. It has never before
been placed on exhibition.
—The Tibetans are believed to be
the dirtiest people on earth, and the
Llamas are the dirtiest Tibetans. A
correspondent remarks that the coun
try people are probably a little less
dirty than the townsfolk, because they
are “constantly exposed to the puri
fying winds of t)be tablelands, which
are the nearest equivalent In Tibet to
a cold bath.”
—The telephone was used a few days
ago for the first time in the history
of the Roman Catholic Church by its
Supreme Pontiff, at the Vatican, when
Pope Pius X. telephoned to Venice,
three hundred and fifty miles away,
and talked with Monsignor Cavallari,
whom he had Just appointed patriarch
of that see, the office formerly oc
cupied by the Holy Father himself.
—One million dollars a mile is the
estimated cost of constructing a tun
nel, four miles in length, on the line of
the new Moffat Railroad, from Denver,
Col., to Salt Lake City, Utah. Con
tractors hesitate about bidding for
the work, because of the hardness of
the granite through which the tunnel
must be bored. Sticks of dynamite
make little impression on the rock,
and the railroad company, Itself, may
have to build the tunnel.
—Recognizing the great and imme
diate Importance of investigation of
the nature and properties of radium
the radio-active bodies.the court of the
Goldsmiths’ Company, of London, re
cently signified its willingness to hand
over a sum of $5,000 to the Royal So
ciety to constitute a radium research
fund. The council of the Royal So
ciety at once accepted the duty of ad
ministering this grant. Proposals re
lating to the method of utilizing the
fund for the assistance of scientific
investigation have at the same time
been communicated to the company
for its approval.
—The sacred scarabel, little Egyp
tian charms, are manufactured by a
Connecticut firm. They are carved
and chipped by machinery, colored in
bulk, made to simulate age, and ship
ped in casks to the Moslem dealers
at Cairo. The Arabian guides are the
chief buyers, many of them being
adepts at “salting” the sands at the
base of the pyramids, or about the
sacred temples, where they artfully dis
cover these scarabei before the very
eyes of the Yankee tourist and sell
him for an American dollar an article
manufactured at a cost of less than
a cent, perhaps within a stone’s throw
of his own home.
—ln a report on the German esti
mates for this year a secretary to the
British embassy in Berlin states that
in the new estimates a sum of $40,000
is inserted under the head of "further
ance of scientific, especially ethnologi
cal, studies in China.” In explanation,
it is mentioned that, as the opening of
China advances, a more exact study
of the individuality of East Asiatic
nations is becoming a necessity. It is,
therefore, advisable to station perma
nently in China a German scholar well
acquainted with ethnology and the
Chinese language, whose object is to
develop Intellectual relations with a
little known form of civilization.
—lt is stated in an English journal
that the Canadian government has
purchased the steamer Gauss, which
was built three years ago .for the Ger
man Antarctic expedition, and the
vessel is now in Bremen harbor. The
Gauss is to be commanded by Capt.
Bernier and a picked Canadian crew,
and is to be employed at once in con
veying relief stores and coal to the
government steamer Neptune, at pres
ent wintering in Hudson bay. Subse
quently she will be engaged in survey
work on the coast of Labrador. Capt.
Bernier hopes to be able to utilize the
Gauss in 1905 in an attempt to reach
the north pole from Canada.
—A French specialist on the throat
and voice has discovered that every
man unconsciously betrays his charac
ter when he laughs. So does every
woman. So to study your sweetheart's
silvery cachinnation is to probe the re
cesses of her mind, says the physiol
ogist. Each person laughs in one of
the vowel sounds. The man or woman
who laughs in “a,” who emits a hearty
"Ha-ha,” is frank, loyal and loves
noise and movement. Those who laugh
in “e” are phlegmatic, some of them
even melancholic. Their forced “He
he!" comes from no sense of forgive
ness, nor is it impelled by hmusement.
The laugh in **o" indicates on the one
side generosity and good companion
ship; on the other boldness or brutality.
Never a villain in a melodrama but
who mocked his victim with a "Ho-ho!”
Those who laugh in “u” are misanth
ropes, and the hateful noise they utter
when they grin should Warn their fel
low-creatures against them.
—The Department of Agriculture re
ports most interesting experiments
made by Prof. Poffa, of the University
of California, upon men engaged in
haTd manual labor most of the time
and students working to support them
selves while pursuing their studies.
The professor says; "Nut are the
cheapest source of energy, peanuts
ranging far ahead.” The price, 3.6
cents per 1,000 calories of energy, is
at less cost than any animal food, or
potatoes at 90 cents a bushel. Pea
nuts deserve special mention because
the cheapest domestic nut containing
the highest percentage of proteine, with
maximum fuel value and minimum
refuse. Ten cents, for instance, will
purchase more proteine and energy
when spent for flour or meal, but
these are raw materials, requiring con
siderable preparation before they are
eaten. This is not necessary with
fruits and nuts. Ten cents' worth of
peanuts will contain about four ounces
of proteine and 2,767 calories of energy
Although peanuts supply proteine and
energy for a smaller sum than bread,
they are outranked by dried beans,
which, at 5 cents a pound, will sup
ply for 10 cents over 200 grams of pro
teine and 3,040 calories of energy. If
more peanuts and dried beans were
used by the fruitarians the diet would
be enriched and the cost decreased.
Fifteen cents a day was the average
cost, with fruit, nuts, beans and a
limited quantity of cottage cheese and
egg?.
Your Liver
Will be roused to Its natural duties
and your biliousness, headache and
constipation be cured if you take
Hood's Pills
Sold by all druggists. 26 cents.
The Geneva Ophthalmoscope
an instrument for looking in the b v
of the eye for diseases. The Re
oscope, is an instrument for testing
the eves by the shadow test for
glasses without asking a question.
The Hardy Ophthalmometer is for
testing for astigmatism; this is, the
only sure test. Get your glasses from
us and,have them absolutely accurate.
Our store and dark room is the most
modern in the South. No one else in
Savannah has these instruments.
TUXES OPTICAL CO
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Only enough water trip to make
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Full information from Ticket
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addressing
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Getting a New Crop of Hair, and Has
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with marvelous results. The dand
ruff disappeared; anew crop of hair
has taken root, and the bald spot is
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the only hair preparation that kills
the dandruff germ that digs up the
scalp In scales as it burrows its way
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the hair to fall out. Kill the dandruff
germ, with Herpicide. Sold by leading
druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sam
ple to the Herpicide Company, Detroit,
Mich.
Livingston's Pharmacy, Special
Agent.
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