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GORMAN’S ACTIVITT.
The presence of Senator Gorman in
New York and the announcement that
he is having conferences there with
Mr Murphy, the Tammany leader, and
with Prominent Democratic politicians
from the West and South are the
cause of the statement that is ap
pearing in the Northern newspapers
that he Is planning either to be the
nominee of his party for President,
or to name the nominee so as to get
the credit for bringing the two fac
tions of his party together.
All that is said about Senator Gor-
man in this connection is pure fiction.
He is not the sort of a man to talk
i about his plans, except to those he
! knows he can trust implicitly. And.
as a matter of fact, none of the news
-1 papers are quoting him or attributing
{ to htm any views relative to the ex
! isting condition of affairs In the Dem
ocratic party. As far as the public
knows to the contrary he may be in
New York in the interest of Judge
1 Parker.
In some of the Washington dls
j patches it is stated that Senator Gor
| man hopes to capture the Bryan-
Hearst section of the St. Louis con
vention and secure the support of It
for himself by suggesting that Mr.
Tonne, Mr. Bryan's great friend, be
given the second place on the ticket
with him. It is doubtful if he ever
made a suggestion of that kind. And
it is doubtful if Senator Gorman
would be satisfactory to Mr. Bryan,
even if Mr. Towns were nominated
on the ticket with him. It is certain
he wouldn't be anywhere near as sat
isfactory to Mr. Bryan as Judge Par
ker would. It doesn't seem to be rea
sonable therefore that Senator Gorman
is planning to get the nomination. As
a matter ot fact, there is no evidence
to show that he has regained the po
sition in his party which he occupied
before the Panama canal treaty came
before the Senate for ratification. All
things considered therefore there
doesn’t seem to be any good reason
for thinking that he Is seriously ex
pecting to get the nomination. If
there were a popular movement for
him that would be ground for think
ing he was working for the nomina
tion, but there is no such movement,
and there Isn’t likely to be any. It Is
a safe statement that Mr. Cleveland,
at this time, stands a better chance
for getting the nomination than Sena
tor Gorman does.
There is no doubt of course that
Senator Gorman is popular in the
South, and he has many warm friends
in the North, but If Judge Parker re
mains a candidate for the nomination
Senator Gorman will stand very little
chance for getting It. And the Indi*
cations are that Judge Parker is going
to be a candidate until the ticket is
made.
Much of the speculative matter that
Is now appearing in the public prints
as to who will be the Democratic nom
inees for President and Vice President
has very little foundation In truth.
There will be much more of the same
sort of matter before the meeting of
the National Convention. It is worthy
of notice that the Democrats of the
states from which Democratic majori
ties are expected are for Judge Par
ker. That of itself is the strongest
kind of reason for thinking he will be
the nominee.
THE St’NOAT PROPOSAL.
Lovers generally, and marriageable
maidens particularly, should be inter
ested in a lawsuit that is pendtng In
the courts at Norristown, Pa. The
parties to it, plaintiff and defendant
respectively, are a plump and prStty
young woman and a handsome preach
er with curly hair. The young woman
alleges in her bill of complaint that
the handsome preacher laid siege to
her heart and after ardent wooing
won it. She loved him for his earn
estness, his eloquence, his devotion to
good works and his personal attrac
tiveness. In his moments of tender
ness his eyes would look an appeal
while honeyed words dropped from his
lips. Having capitulated to the rev
erend wooer, the maiden anticipated a
marriage within a reasonable time.
This time, she says, she waited with
patience; then she began to make in
quiries as to what was wrong and
what she might expect. The upshot of
it was that the persuasive preacher In
formed her that he could not marry
her; whereupon she consulted a law
yer, who has brought suit for SIO,OOO
damages for blighted affections and
disappointed hopes.
The chief point of interest, however,
is in the preacher’s defense. He does
not deny the love-making, the proposal
and promise of marriage. He is willing
to admit that he “kept company" with
the fair plaintiff; that he walked home
with her from meeting and even
squeezed her hand as he whispered
sweet things Into her ear. But he holds
that the proposal (tnd promise of mar
riage occurred on a Sunday evening.
Now, the law holds that a promise of
marriage is a contract. In the eye of
the law there is no difference In con
tracting to marry a woman and con
tracting to deliver a ton of coal or to
buy a barrel of beans. Furthermore,
it Is the law in Pennsylvania that a
contract made on Sunday is null and
void, that it Is illegal and cannot be
enforced. The preacher declares, In
legal form, that this marriage contract
was made on a Sunday, and is there
fore Invalid, and that all subsequent
promises were but the culmination of
the original invalid and illegal prom
ise, therefore he Is under no obligation
to the plaintiff.
Should the preacher's contention be
sustained by the courts it might have
far-reaching effect. There is more
courting done on Sunday than any
other day of the week. Indeed, It is
probable that the sum of Sunday
courting would balance the aggregate
of all the other days. On Sunday the
girl has on her freshest and finest
gown and looks especially charming.
On Sunday the swain is newly shaved,
and, diked out in his best clothes, he
has a good opinion at himself and
most confidence in his newer* to fas
cinate. The exercises of the day tend
to bring the maid and the man into
close association. The calm of tbe
evening superinduces thoughts of love
MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. MAY 8. 1904.
and companionship, and under the in
fluences of environment the man pro
pounds the fateful question, to which
the maid gives answer. Sunday-made
matches ere lfteraHy numberless, so
numerous are they. But suppose it
should be held by the courts that
I Sunday proposals were void and ille
| gal. wouldn’t it upset things? Papa
: would object to the wasting of Sunday
night gas: Mama would know it would
be no use for her to go to bed at half
past nine, and Daughter would in
some manner give Willie to understand
that she was suffering with headache,
but that it would probably be better
to-morrow night. And Willie would
fee! that a shower of Ice water had,
been turned loose on his spine. Sunday
sparking would quickly be tabooed, (
for prudential reasons, and much of
the sunshine of life would be behind
a cloud.
THE JAPANESE SOLDIERS.
When the war between Russia and
Japan began the opinion was quite
often expressed in the public prints
that the Japanese couldn’t stand de
feat —that a few reverses would de
moralise their forces on land and sea.
That opinion Is undergoing a change,
not because of reverses the Japanese
have suffered since the wur began, but
because of willingness of the Japanese
soldiers and sailors to die rather than
surrender. They have met with no re
verses as yet, but if they should meet
with some it is doubtful if they would
become discouraged and allow the
Russians to overrun their country. The
probability is they would fight as long
as there was the least hope of win
ning, or of saving something from the
w reck.
Gen. Descfrarmer of France, who
helped to form and train the Japanese
army from 1866 to 1876, is of the opin
ion that if the Japanese should get
the worst of it, they would have to be
destroyed, practically, as a people, be
fere they would admit they were con
quered. "I should not be surprised,"
said Gen. Deseharmer, "if in case of
defeat the Mikado had recourse to sui
cide by lrari-karl." If this view of the
Japanese Is a correct one. the Russians
may have occasion to wish many times
before the war is ended that they had
met the Japanese half way when the
diplomatic negotiations were going on.
A TALK WITH JIDGE PARKER.
Judge Parker is not doing any talk
ing himself, but he is doing some
through his friends. In an interview
in Washington on Thursday, Elliot
Dtanforth, of New York, one of the
closest political friends of David B.
Hill and Judge Parker, gave out an
Interview on public issues In which, he
says, he expressed the views of Judge
Parker.
It is probable that Mr. Danforth went
to Washington partly for the purpose
of giving out this interview. There
have been some pretty caustic criti
cisms' of portions of the platform
adopted by the New York Democrats—
the platform supposed to contain the
views of Judge Parker on the political
issues of the day—and It wouldn't be
surprising if It was thought advisable
by Judge Parker's friends to hate
something in the newspapers, as com
ing from him, to offset these criticisms.
Mr. Danforth said that a few days
ago he had a long talk with Judge
Parker at Esopus, on he subject of
trusts, the tariff, the South and its
problems, and, in fact, all of the mat
ters which are Issues before the coun
try. Mr. Danforth gave Judge Parker's
views, and It Is doubtful If any Demo
crat, sincerely anxious for the wel
fare of his party, could reasonably find
fault with them.
There was one plank in the platform
adopted by the New York Democrats
that seemed to Indicate that Judge Par
ker was opposed to federal con
trol of Interstate trusts. On the con
trary, he favors such control, but
thinks that a state should deal with
trusts that are wholly within Its jur
isdiction. He believes the tariff should
be reduced, particularly where It
shelters trusts or permits monopolies
to sell their products in foreign mar
kets cheaper than they sell them in
the domestic market.
With reference to the Southern peo
ple Mr. Danforth quotes him as fol
lows:
“ ‘Elliott, they are a great people;
they are the countrymen of Washing
ton and Jefferson arid Madison and
Jackson and Lee. Their courage and
their constancy have never failed.
They have changed velvet for home
spun and endured the pinch of honor
able poverty, and are just now begin
ning to reap the reward of their great
sacrifices.
" 'I have Implicit faith In their ability
to solve rightly and righteously the
difficult problems with which they are
confronted, ‘and I believe it is the duty
of their countrymen at the North to
permit them to solve those problems un
molested by irritating political Inter
ference from the outside.’ ”
Judge Parker must have been fav
orably impressed by what he saw and
heard when he was in Georgia last
summer. There is no doubt of course
that his views on public questions are
all right. No Democrat will find fault
with them except one who Is unfriend
ly to his candidacy for the presidential
nomination of his party.
WOMAN’S “FRIGHTFUL FAILURE.”
Mrs. Flora McDonald Thompson
boldly throws down the gauntlet to the
"new woman" in an article In the North
American Review. "The truth about
the woman tn industry,” she says, "Is
that she is a frightful failure.’’ That
Is quite enough to set the “new” wom
an bridling, but It is merely the begin
ning of the arraignment. At some
length and with great positiveness
Mrs. Thompson charges' that woman
tn Industry has the effect of reducing
wages, crowding out man, fostering
"race suicide” and detracting from the
home. Nor Is that all. The woman
at work ts a charity, and a costly one;
she Is "an economic pervert and a so
cial menace.’’ There is no mincing of
words In that declaration.
Again, it is charged that woman is
not a permanent factor in the industrial
world. She does not make her work
her Hle's business, as man does. The
marriage factor la always before her.
Her atm in industry is to tide ever the
| time until she marries. She is therefore
an inconstant element In wage- earning.
And her inconstancy, among other
reasons, causes the rate of her wages
to be smaller than that of the wages
of men. Women's wages are not fixed
with any reference to the cost of liv
ing. In- competing with men. there
fore, the tendency is to reduce the
wage rate below what It costa to live.
"Thus, as women abandon the economy
of the household for wage-earning,
they put labor in the anomalous posi
tion of having living expense* increase
in inverse ratio to wages. ' While the
competition of women results in the
lowering of the wages of men, "the
man remains liable for the support of
the family, even though his wife and
daughter, by competing with him in
business, should lower his wages to the
starving point."
Mrs. Thompson declares woman la
bor as an economic element to be "as
abnormal as oonvict labor, and equal
ly pernicious, for the reason that legiti
mate labor is taxed for its support.
To a question as to what the industrial
revolution has accomplished for the sex*
she replies; "It has secured her a
competence averaging less than $1 a
day. It has undermined her health. It
has trained her In the work of a ma
chine and made her unskilled in all
the labor which supplements the office
of wife and mother in the family. It
has taken her out of the home."
Having taken her out of the home
and made a business or industrial
worker out of her, the woman is un
fitted for the cares and duties of do
mestic life. "That child-bearing should
be a reproach to a woman follows logi
cally upon economic independence of
the sex. The woman who aims to be
a producer of wealth is Justifiably to
be blamed for bearing children. Ma
ternity interrupts her 'career,' and
the demands of business are such that
chances are against her making a suc
cess of her children. Very reason
ably, in the modern scheme of eco
nomics for women, maternity is ridicu
lous—a fault, an error, even almost a
crime.”
So vigorous an attack upon the new
order of things, so bold a challenge to
the defenders of the new order, will
not be apt to go unnoticed. The wom
en’s clubs will doubtless take the sub
ject up, and Mrs. Thompson's ears
will probably be burning for some days.
At the race track in Louisville the
other day a young man approached a
bookmaker for the purpose of placing
a bet. When asked what he wanted
he began to stutter. "Hurry up,
please,” said the bookmaker, “you are
seeping a lot of people waiting.” But
that only made matters worse for the
stutterer; he couldn't get out a single
intelligible word. "Ob. he wants to
bet on 'Lady Lasca,’ ” said a man In
the line; "give him his ticket and let
him get out of the way." The stutter
er tried to protest, but was pushed
along. When the race was over "Lady
Lasca” had galloped in a winner at
long odds, and the stutterer cashed in
for $3,000. He had tried to bet on
“Alice Lloyd," a horse that finished
sixth.
PERSONAL.
—Justice Crane of New York city,
when automobilists were first brought
before him for violating speed ordi
nances, fined them $5 each. He soon
found that this was not enough, and
ha 8 gradually raised his figure to $25.
The other day he sharply Informed an
offender that blowing a horn does not
give a chauffeur the right to run over a
pedestrian who fails to Jump out of the
way on hearing the toot-toot.
—Medway, Mass., boasts of the only
fire department In that state, or, per
haps, in any other which has a clergy
man for its chief. Rev. Robert W.
Drawbridge, pastor of a wealthy Con
gregational Church In that village, has
been its chief engineer for three years
and is said to have won that envied
position through merit as a fire fighter.
His comrades in the department refer
to him as a preacher who fights fire in
this world as well as in the next.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Singleton; I’m In a box. My wife’s
dressmaker has sued me.
Doubleton: You’re in a dress suit
case, you mean.—Cleveland Leader.
—Young Author: When I write far
into the night I find great difficulty In
getting to sleep.
Friend: Why don't you read over
what you have written?—Princeton
Tiger.
—Mrs. Hatterson: I wonder If It
has paid to give our daughter such a
good education?
Hatterson: Paid! Why, of course.
Don't you see from her manner how
superior she Is to us?—Life.
—"Are there clubs for women in this
town?” asked the suftragiat from the
East.
“Certainly not,” replied the gallant
Westerner. "We can handle women
without clubs.”—Chicago Evening Post.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Indianapolis News (Dem.) says:
"The fact that lowa has chosen Hearst
delegates will not affect the situation
in Indiana or in a single Southern
state. The candidate that the party
wants is one that will be strong in
the states that the party has a chance
of carrying.”
The Galveston (Tex.) News (Dem.)
says: “The cost of the Roosevelt ad
ministration exceeds that of McKln
,ley by $211,000,000, and Cleveland's by
$883,000,000. Almost all this increase
Is due to the imperialistic madness. A
big army, a big navy, a huge pension
fund—all the things conducive to graft
ing, disturbance and war!”
The Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.) says:
"Every drunkard means to reform.
Every high tariff party means to re
duce the tariff. The drunkard means
to reform when he thinks It is time
he did. The prolectiontst means to re
duce the tariff-when he thinks It should
be reduced. The trouble is that the
time for so thinking never comes to
the drunkard, and the time for so re
ducing the tariff never comes to the
high protectionist.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: ’President Roosevelt's failure
to remember Thomas Jefferson’s con
nection with the Louisiana purchase
rhay be readily forgiven. He has a
habit of preoccupation and inadvert
ence. as illustrated on the Antletam
occasion, when he forgot Gen. McClel
lan: and he doesn't think much of Jef
ferson anyway. But the other per
sonages who managed to forget Jeffer
son at the exposition opening will not
be *o readily excused.”
Dr. "Not Much.”
A "bright young Dane, not yet out of
bis ’teens, has lately taken a position
as night elevator boy in an upper
Broadway apartment house, says the
New York Commercial. He is "out”
from the home country less than a
year and understands English very
well already, although encountering
some difficulty in speaking it.
Last Sunday night one of the tenants
went out, leaving the apartment with
nobody in it. He called on some out
of-town friends at a downtown hotel,
and while there called up his own
house on the telephone. "Vilhum” re
sponded.
Has anybody called since I’ve been
away?" he was asked.
"Dere vas two —yes. sir.”
"Who were they? Did they leave
any cards?"
"No, dey leave no cards. I don’t
yust remember dere names. Walt a
minuter’’
A brief period was allowed William
in which to brush up his memory, but,
not response coming, the tenant took
up the inquiry again.
"Well, who were they, William?”
"Not much.”
" ‘Not much!’ What do you mean?
I want to know the names of those
callers."
"Two dere vas—a yentleman and a
lady. Dey give der name. Not much
it was. Dat’s all I can remember of
it. He was a doctor, he say.”
It was disclosed next day that Dr.
Doolittle and hi3 wife had called.
"Not mu|:h'' was William's Danish
way of expressing "do little" in Eng
lish.
Bits of Korean Wisdom.
The Boston Transcript prints the
following Korean proverbs and say
ings, which afford an interesting in
sight into their modes of thought and
illustrate the intellectual aptitude and
power of observation of the people:
A thing is good when it is new.
A man Is good when he is old.
He who hath eaten salt drlnketh
water.
One can paint the fur of a tiger, but
not his'joints.
One knows the face of a man, but
not his interior.
If one is not observing ona sees
nothing.
Even the blind man can find his way
through an open door.
When the tiger is gone the fox is
master.
As soon as the moon is full it be
gins to grow smaller.
The higher the mountain the deeper
the valley.
Does smoke come out of a fireless
chimney?
Even a hedgehog says his young ones
are weak.
A single high wheat stalk is not
distinguished from the rest in the field.
A basketful of gold is not so valu
able for a son as instruction in one
of the classics.
It is only the thirsty who dig a well
When the ox has broken through the
stall repairs are first made.
A family who has po sickness for
ten years must be rich. __
Both Imuginary.
President Nicholas Murray Butler of
Columbia University, passed his boy
hood 4 n New Jersey, in the town of
Elizabeth, says the New York Tribune,
and an Elizabeth man said of him
recently;
“I am not likely ever to forget the
precocious things that I heard Butler
in his childhood say. This youngster
had a man’s wit in a baby’s body, and
it was impossible to get the better of
him.
"One day I heard a minister trying
to joke him a bit.
“ ‘Nicholas," said the minister, ’can
you tell me what the earth’s axis Is?'
" 'Yes, sir,’ answered the boy. 'lt is
an imaginary line, passing from one
pole to the other, on which the earth
revolves.’
” ’Very good,' said the minister. Then
he winked at the rest of us. 'And I
suppose, Nicholas,’ he went on, 'that
you could hang a wash out on this
imaginary line, eh?’
“ 'Yes, sir; of course, sir,’ said the
boy.
“The minister looked blank at that,
for it was not the answer he had ex
nected.
” Oh, you could, could you? What
kind of a wash?” he asked.
“ ‘An imaginary wash,’ said Butler."
A Wise Virgin.
The woman reporter was interviewing
Senator Arthur P. Gorman about suf
frage, according to the Troy Times.
The astute politician answered with a
story. “Now, young woman. what
would happen to men if women enter
ed politics? Why, they are keener
than we are. even in thefr Sunday
schools, and we wouldn't stand any
chance with them. In one of the few
Sunday-school classes I ever address
ed I was nonplussed by a miss of six
summers. I was telling the girls the
story of the seven wise and seven fool
ish virgins, and I asked what we might
learn from the beautiful story, when a
little blossom in blue replied: ‘That’s
easy enough; learn to keep our eyes
peeled for a bridegroom!’ ”
Little Johnny Again.
Little Johnny was carefully studying
a dictionary, and hie poor, tired, bald
headed old “pop” had just begun to
be comfortable in an arm chair, with
his cigar and evening newspaper, says
the New York Telegram, whqn the
young hopeful broke the peace with;
"Say, pop?”
"Well, my son.”
"The Court House le the place where
prisoners ire taken, isn’t it?”
"Yes, mv son.”
“Well, why don't they spell It
c-a-u-g-h-t house then?"
A short period of absolute silence en
sued.
"Johnny,” said his father, "here it Is
9 o’clock, and 1 have told you half a
dozen times that sitting up late is bad
for little boys. Go to bed at once.”
The Bold Ghost.
From the Smart Set
The year was young, but the place was
old.
And the house had gone to sleep,
And the ghost that came by night was
bold.
For the silence was so deep.
i
Aloud he called to his heart's fair
queen,
But she would not unbar the door.
And the window from which she used
to lean
Stirred at her touch no more.
In vain through the empty night he
cried,
But there came no answering tone;
And then be bethought him that since
he died
A hundred years had flown.
But a hundred years should have
brought more near
The love that he loved so well:
And the bold ghost’s heart turned cold
with fear—
Where was the old-time spell?
Had she forgotten what he held fast?
They say ’tis a woman's way;
Was M a dream that love could
last,
The dream of an Idle day?
From the silent house the bold ghost
turned—
Why dream that a dream is true?
Ashes were where love’s fire once
burned;
Death's meaning M last he knew.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The London fire department is try
ing the experiment of having gongs on
its apparatus, but the cockneys find
that these gongs "have not the electri
cal effect in clearing the streets which
is produced by the firemen's vocal 'Hi!
hi! hi!"
—A London postman stole stamps
from the letters he collected from
boxes. Finally stamps marked with
invisible, sensitive ink were posted for
his benefit. He was caught with some
of them upon him. and they were "de
veloped” in his presence.
—Natural gas is used for cooking in
more than half a million homes and
more than four and a half million per
sons use It as an illumlnant, according
to the report of the Geological Sur
vey. It is the fuel In 8,000 factories
and supplies the world with lamp black.
—The Duke of Wellington, an old
time battleship, which led the British
Baltic fleet in the Russian war of 1554-
6, U to be sold at auction. She has
been used as a depot ship at Ports
mouth lor many years. She is a three
decker of 6,071 lons and 240 feet six
Inches in length, is built of wood, car
ried 104 guns and had a crew ot over
1,000 men.
—lntercolonial (Canada) railway em
ployes are making a concerted effort to
get their pension scheme before Parlia
ment at the present session. The
scheme originated with the Employers
Insurance Association, and is designed
to cover cases that are not included
In the insurance scheme, as well as to
promote greater efficiency in the va
rious branches of the railway service.
—A recent estimate of numbers ad
hering to the great religions of the
world is as follows; Christian. 5349,-
017,341; Mohammedans, 202.048,24*/;
Jews, 11,037.000; Confuc-i’ans, 253,000,006;
Taoists, 32,000,000; Shintoist*, 17,000,000.
According to these statistics the total
population of the world is nearly equal
ly divided between monotheists and
polytheists the latter including the sav
age.
—A method of producing soft zinc
has been patented in France. Equal
parts of zinc and aluminum are melt
ed, to which a small amount of bis
muth is added. This alloy is added
to molten zinc until volatlzation
ceases. The zinc is heated to a tem
perature of from 900 degrees to 1,200
degrees Fahrenheit. It is stated that
the soft zinc so produced is of 90 per
cent, purity.
—The latest proposal for Intensifying
the oxidizing action of air on metals
is that of M. I Par met; and has for its
object the treatment of cast iron, pro
ducing a refined iron or steel. Molten
iron is caused to flow through a fine
channel surrounded by an annular air
blast, which thus forms a turpere, driv
ing the metal forward In a fine spi‘ay.
This spray is collected and allowed to
flow together again in a receiving
chamber, from which the molten steel
can be tapped.
—A French inventor proposes to man
ufacture incandescent gas mantles out
of cellulose, applied to a form, which
he believes produces a much stronger
and more durable article. The usual
knit mantle, impregnated with salts
of the rare earths, is replaced by a
foundation made by applying a paste
or solution of cellulose with which are
mixed the rare earths to a fire-proof
form and after allowing same to
burning off the organic matter in the
usual manner.
—At last something is likely to be
done to preserve from final disappear
ance the last vestige of Da Vinci’s
great masterpiece, “The Last Supper,”
painted on the refectory wail of a
monastery in Milan. It is not the fact,
as h'as been reported, that the paint
ing has ceased to exist, but the dan
ger has become so imminent that, after
supinely neglecting two reports by
Prof. Cavenaghi urging measures for
rejoining the parts that have lost co
hesion without attempting any inter
ference with the panels, or colors, the
Municipal Council has at last passed
a formal vote for the preservation of
a work which is pronounced “the glory,
not alone of Milan and of Italy, but
of the civilized world." The vote de
clares that the last vestiges of the com
position threaten utterly to disappear.
—One of the unique exhibits pre
pared by the University of California
Agricultural Department for the dis
play at the St. Louis Exposition is a
large map colored to show the nature
of the state's soils. Dr. Robert H.
Loughbridge, assistant professor of ag
ricultural geology and agricultural
chemistry, has supervised the making
of this chart, a task which has never
before been done in this fashion. The
map gives a remarkably clear idea of
the situation and extent of the culti
vable and uncultivable regions. Of
the latter there Is a surprisingly large
area, including high coast range moun
ts!',*, the high Sierra, lava beds and
desert. In spite of the preponderance
of useless territory, the rich arable
lands are scattered generourly through
out the state. The map indicates the
location of cultivable coast range
mountains and the redwood region, the
interior high valleys and mesa and
cultivable portions of the Mojave pla
teau.
—Failure in cancer research Is the
lamentable result bemoaned in all
countries and by all investigators, says
American Medicine. Although “cer
tainly discovered’’ a score or times,
the pathogenic organism and the path
ogeny are as elusive as ever. At a
recent meeting of the directors of the
London Cancer Hospital, Dr. Herbert
Snow, the senior surgeon, said that he
and his associates had studied the dis
ease as, to the best of their knowledge,
it had been studied nowhere else in
the world. They had attacked Its
problems with the microscope in one
hand and the scapel or the stethoscope
In the other. They had labored by
every means In their power to substi
tute for the mass of chaotic confusion
and traditional fallacy, which had
hitherto prevailed—a genuine and pre
cise cancer-science, as a sure founda
tion for all future research. And in
this attempt they had failed—utterly
and miserably failed. And now on all
hands they found schemes of cancer
research. Those also must fail—must
of necessity fall—until some step was
taken to clear away all the traditional
lumber of past centuries and to form
ulate precisely what was known with
certainty, what was known only im
perfectly. and what yet remains to be
ascertained. Cancer is not one but
many diseases, as it includes ten gen
era and thirteen species. Each variety
is established by a different cause or
chain of causes. Each probably re
quires a separate line of research. He
had long thought that proper scientific
investigation erf the physiological rea
sons for those remarkable diversities
referring mostly to the action of the
iymph-glands on the cancer proto
plasm. would assuredly far advance
the practical knowledge of cancer and
might even lead up eventually to the
ideal non-aurgical cure. But he heard
no rumor of any such contemplated
Investigation. At present all was
groping In the dark—or little more. Is
there, then, something wrong with
the methods of research of the pathol
ogists? Hsus there been too great re
lianoe upon bacteriology and labora
tory ways, and too little upon clinical
and physiologic observations? It seems
as if some obscure country practitioner
stands as good a chance to solve the
enigma as the most famed and eru
dite. Perhaps the bacillus is not after
all the arbiter of health and destiny.
That
Tired Feeling
Is a Common Spring Trouble.
It’s a sign that the blood is deficient
in vitality, just as pimples and other
eruptions are signs that the blood
is impure.
It’s a warning, too, which only the
hazardous fail to heed.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Remove it, give new life, new coop
age, strength and animation.
They cleanse the blood and clear the
complexion.
Accept no substitute.
“I toil tired all the time and could not
Sleep. Alter taking Hood's Sarsaparilla
a while I could sleep well and the tired
reeling had gone. This great medicine has
also cured me of scrofula.” 2*l aa. C. M.
Boot, Gilead, Conn. w
Hood’s Sarshparllla promises to
euro find Uncoo the promise.
OFFICIAL.
City of Savannah. Office Clerk of
Council. Savannah, Ga., May 4. 1904.
The following applications to retail
liquor during the year 1904 were read
at meeting of Council, April 27, 1904,
and referred to Committee of the
Whole. J. ROBT. CREAMER,
Clerk of Council.
Petition of M. Kolman for permis
sion ,to transfer her liquor license from
corner Indian and Ann streets to cor
ner Jefferson and Bryan streets, re
ferred to Committee of the Whole.
Petition Wm. Brown, for permission
to retail liquor at corner Pearl and
White Bluff road, referred to Commit
tee of the Whole.
Petition Emanuel Stefamopoulos, for
permission to retail liquor at corner
President and Arnold streets, referred
to rhe Committee of the Whole.
Petition George Cooper, for permis
sion to transfer his liquor license from
232 St. Julian street, west, to M. B.
Ehrlicher, at same place of business,
referred to the Committee of the
Whole.
Petition of B. Goodman, for per
mission to transfer his liquor license
from 18 Flirm street to No. 335 Jeffer
son street, referred to Committee of
the Whole.
• NOTICE.
City of Savannah, Office Fire De
partment. Savannah, Ga., May 5. 1904.
—Bids will be received at the office of
the undersigned until noon of Monday,
May 9, 1904. for furnishing this de
partment with twenty four (24) tele
graph poles, f. o. b. cars at Savan
nah, to be of best black cypress, made
ready. Length to be not less than
thirty-five (35) feet. Diameter at top
to be not less than seven (7) Inches.
The committee reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
JOHN E. MAGUIRE.
Superintendent
CITY PROFERTY TO KENT.
City Marshal's Office, Savannah, n
Aug. J, 1903.—F0r rent the store and
warehouse at the northeaat corner of
River and West Broad streets. For
particulars apply to
HENRY E. DRBIESON.
Cfty Marshal.
AN OLD IDEA
Shown to Be Absolutely False by
Modern Science.
People used to think that baldness
was one of those things which are
handed down from generation to gen
eration. from father to son—just like
a family heirloom.
Science has shown the falseness of
this belief by proving that baldness
itself is not a constitutional disease,
but the result of a germ invasion of
which only Herpicide can effectually
rid the scalp.
Washing only cleanses the scalp of
Dandruff, it doesn’t kill the germs.
' Destroy the cause you remove the
effect.”
Newbro’s Herpicide will do this In
every case. It Is also a delightful
dressing.
Sold by leading druggist a. Send 10c
in stamps for sample to The Herpicide
Cos., Detroit, Mich.
Livingston’s Pharmacy, Special
Agents.
PROPOSALS HAVIkD. “
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Savannah, Ga..
Collector's Office. May 4. 1904.
Supplies For Revenue Vessels.—
Sealed proposals for supplying ship
chandlery rations, and coal to vessels
of the United States Revenue Cutter
Service, regularly stationed, or tempor
arily, at Savannah, Ga., and delivered
on board said vessels at that place
during the fiscal year ending June SO,
1905, will be received at this office until
2 o'clock p. m. of Tuesday. May 17,
1904, at which time and place they will
be publicly opened. The coal furnished
to be anthracite or bituminous of best
quality; uniform in character; to
wiygh 2,240 pounds to the ton; tp b*
delivered on board the vessels at such
times and in such quantities aji may be
required, at localities readily accessible
to said vessels, and to be subject to
inspection as to quality and weight.
Bidders will name the prices both for
steaming and stove coal, and also tho;r
facilities for furnishing the vessels
with fresh water, and their charges
therefor. Blank forms of proposals,
with schedules showing articles of ship
chandlery and component parts of ra
tions, with specifications, may be had
upon application to this office; and pro
posals must be submitted on these
forms. Separate bids will also be re
ceived at the same time and place for
lubricating and illuminating olle. The
right is reserved to reject any or all
bids. John H. Deveaux, Collector.
FORT MOULTRIE, S. C„ MAY 6,
1904.—Sealed proposals in triplicate will
be received until 11 a. m., May 25. 1904.
for constructing frame subsistence
storehouse here. Information furnish
ed on application. U. S. reserves right
to reject any or all proposals. En
velopes containing proposals should be
marked “Proposals for Construction,”
addressed F. L. Buck, Q. M.
BRENNAN & C 0„
WHOLESALE
Fruit, Produce,
Hay, Grain, Etc.
\22 Bay Street, West
Telephone 866.
Stammering Cured.
Dr. G. W. Randolph, the noted voice
specialist, has opened a permanent voice
sohool at Lowndes building, Atlanta,
ia .for the cure of ST AMI I* ERI N
He guarantees to teach any stammerer
how to talk tn from 8 to 7 days. Many have
be#n cured oy mail. Come or write to him
at once.