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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13

state Thus the first power an animal
acquires is the coordination of its mus
Giles and it's WILL the power to make a
prompt, decisive movement OF its limbs.
This is a power acquired by children dur
ing the first year or two of their lives,
and Is nearly the entire sum of the facul-
ties OF the lowest savage. In the state of
sleep this power is lost first. for sleep
walking Is an entirely unconscious action.
the body acting as a machine not under
control of the will. As the savage rises
in the plane of life he acquires the rudi-
mentary reasoning powers and becomes
able TO estimate roughly the relation of
cause and effect. This logical power is
the next faculty we lose as sleep rises
from the depths over u.s.
Everyone must have noticed that in
dreams things happen at random We
find ourselves in strange places and peo-
pie appear and disappear on the scene In
an absolutely lawless manner. While We
are in this condition we are still capable
of remorse II we do anything wrong. and
we feel fear or joy. Our higher moral
natures are still active. Now. the con-
science and the establishment in the mind
of a reasonable standard of ethics Is the
last thing that grows up in the mind of
man either in the race or in the individ-
ual. Savages have but the rudiments of
either, and only the man in whom the
conscience is developed can be called CIV
ilized In the final stages sleep rises so
high as to cover up our moral natures,
the peaks of which had projected above
the fog covering our logical powers. In
this condition we kill our best friends in
our dreams without the slightest hesita-
ton and are troubled with no remorse,
though we commit in Imagination fright
full and unnecessary crimes in a mood OF
placid indifference
1t Is believed that the experience of
or. rather, Of sleep. will confirm the real
ity of the above stages.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13
SOME PROPHECIES.
A New York Newspaper Man Takes
Flyer Into the Future.
From the New York Press.

Anybody can prophecy, but few can
foretell future events. Mother Shipton
was a lamentabIe failure, and Totten is
fraud-as to divination, although a COM
petent expounder of Piazzi Smiths the
cries and a successful inventor of "stra-
tegos." Charles Adiel Lewis C'Ten AL
cot y Totten has ended the world several
times. and is now retired from Yale on
his laureIs. Other celebrated settlers of
the future are in disfavor. therefore, let
a new prophet arise. The only correct
way 10 judge the future is to build on
the past.
In less than fifty years we shall have
LIQUID air engines that will drive through
distance at 200 miles an hour This will
necessitate straight tracks. The Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. for example, between
New York and Philadelphia will be as
dead straight as the alleged road from
ST Petersburg to Moscow, which the
Car surveyed on a piece of tracing pa
per with a foot rule and pencil mark.
We shall travel from one city to the other
in less than half an hour. We shall have
an air trunk line from the Atlantic 10
1he Pacific, which will enable a New
Yorker TO reach San Francisco in fifteen
hours.
Air ships will be as common fifty years
hence as stage coaches We're half a CEN
turv ago They will be operated by troll
lev. Ships win he provided with machin-
erv that will receive momentum from
electric stations along the route, say $50
miles apart. There will be no limit TO
sneed. ] predict that we shall go to Chi
caro in two hours.
THE time between New York and Liver
nooI will he reduced 10 a day and half
Inv means of wireless biography. Mechan-
isms on board passenger ships will be
set in motion from shore and sea stations.
Steamships will not have to carry their
own fuel or its equivalent This VIII give
great space for passengers and freight.
Such a thing as Sitting down to meal
on a table. with such membranes as
knives. forks, spoons, plates, table cloths,
nanl<ins finger bowls, etc, will not be
countenanced. All food will be composed
of the active principle, and of that only.
There will be an end of waste For in
stance: Irish potatoes contain only about
1oib per cent of nitrogenous matter, The
system Graves IT. Why should we ear
the other S7i5 per cent Of the potato?
We shall quit II. The active principle of
the potato will be put in pellet. which
we shall dissolve in the mouth along with
other pellets Of beef, lamb, peas, aspara-
gus etc.
ZONES gets out Of bed late after a bad
NIGHT He Jumps into his clothes and
swallows his breakfast as he dresses and
uaebes and combs There VIII be no
more Of this. lie viii dress at leisure,
take pocketful Of pellets consisting Of
the active principle OF eggs, toast tender
loin and coffee and eat them on the
Journey down town to his Office BY
sho time he arrives there he has had
hearty meal and has bolted nothing HIS
digestion remains unimpaired aud he lives
long. happy life.
In Afty years we shah have an aflsloc-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.

had the right to seize his daughter and
remove her to his own lodge. This was
done in spite Of Bearhead's protests \
few days later the Blood chief arrived
with a few of his kin. and another council
was held, composed of all the leading men
in the tribe. II gave the Blood full power
20 disigure his wife as he chose, according
to the ancient law. About noon we heard
the camp crier shouting: Listen; listen
to the words of the chief; you are all TO
assemble at his lodge, there to witness
the punishment Of an unfaithful wife. All
women, especially, are required to be pres
emit I did not wish to see the cruel
spectacle, but went with Bearhead to
prevent him from doing anything rash.
There was a great crowd around the
lodge, and presently Many Whhe-Horses
came forth then the Turtle, then the chief
and some warriors, two of the latter lead
ing Silver Leaf between them. She was
apparently as calm as could be, and look
ed around coldly at the crowd until she
saw Bearhead by my side; then for an
instant bright smile lit up her face.
Listen said the Blackfoot chief.
This woman, as you all know, has com
mitted a great crime; mark well the pun
ishment you wives especially, and see
that IL does not fall to your lot some
day to receive the same
1.-The men on each side of Silver Leaf
now grapsed her more firmly by the
arms, and another one COMING UP Dtninh
seized her head and held It firmly. Then
y-White- Fl orses. a long, keen knife
In hand, took hold of her nose, and with
one clean deliberate stroke. sliced it off
from the bridge to the lip. The men loos-
ened their hold and she sank to the
ground
There said the Blood 10 Turtle, take
back your daughter and give me my
horses
!" NO. no." Turtle shouted. IT was
fair bargain. ] will not give back the
horses; / will not take my daughter
Hush said the chief, the horses are
no longer yours; return them at once.
Lee him take them, then ne cried.
But YOU advancing to his daughter and
shaking his fist at her. you have ruined
me I will not own you
az will, then said Bearhead, stepping
forward and gently raising her from the
ground. You have spoiled her face he
continued, addressing the Blood, but you
could not spoil her heart; that was al
ways mine
THAT was the way the Biackfeet ad-
ninistered their law"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13
BIoomers on the Road.

Then said | to myself in solemn con-
clave; 'Will you give up riding?" New
err replied myself, mot for all the con-
temptible towards in France who call
themselves menr" Then my troubles be
Gan The man VINO spoke 20 me as he
nassed soon minded as little as a mos
auto in frosty weather. but the man who
shouts from the other side of the road
still makes me turn hot and cold. 1t may
anpear to have little bearing on the sub
iect bur the annoyance is much greater
when the offender is unprepossesslng
For instance when great, fat animal
saueaked from a high dOgcart: Il want
nv little butterfly. | want my little but
terflvr only the thought that had never
in nv life hit a mark prevented me from
hopping from my trusty steed and heavins
a rock at him.
|. Yet it is hard to decide which is easier
10 bear, the jeers of the boomer girls or
the criticism-whether favorable or other
wisc-of the the connoisseurs along Inc
wav. A man will walk deliberately into
the middle of the road, stare at you in
amaze, and say:
But that goes very well'' / think, on
the whole, my sense of humor makes me
come nearer enjoying the bloomer girls
scorn and merriment.
one sight of her as she disappears
around the bend in the road, or a side
view as she rides dlong. none too stead
ilv often. does much to turn aside wrath.
A soft, gray felt hat, broad-brimmed ana
| round-crowned, pushed over what is sur
nrisinglv often a tip-tited nose, halr
brushed straight up the back, looking IKE
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13
THE pHENoMENA OF DREAMS.
Many Curious Connections between
the Mind and the Body.
From the Philadelphia Times

From the Philadelphia Times.
Mental phenomena have Of late years
been subjected to scientific investigation
in what is known as modern physiology
oalspsychology. and an attempt has been
made TO bring them under the laws that
apply TO material things. Many curious
connections between the mind and the
body have been discovered, but dreams
seem 10 resist analysis. II Is impossible
for an outsider TO note the dreams Of
another person. and the dreamers own
report is apt 20 be- very indefinite, for he
cannot tell what he really dreamed, but
only what he thinks he dreamed. We al
have noticed how quickly dream fades
and IS forgotten unless yet down In writ
ing promptly on waking
A theory has been adcuced which seems
70 connect the phenomena Of dreaming
with the gradual manner in which human
coneciousness has risen from the depths
from dead matter. perhaDs-ln the long
history - the race. n ~ that sleep sub
fnergfa us sometime 40 HOOD might
sIbmerec q continent covering ~ the
loWsr part Of our natures fret ana not
iiyfrnR on our higher moral principle
800 me last, am Thereby reversing the
sfeIs ~ fbs process through which man
passed b. biz degeiopment from lDUer
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13
ADMIRAL DEWEY MAY RETURN.
Possible That He VIII BE Needed as
Witness in Damage Suit.


Admiral may return to Macon; that is.
he is badly needed as a witness in a case
which negro woman threatens TO bring
on the day that the Admiral arrived
here the procession moved up Mulberry
street in order 40 get to Mr.. Plants resi-
dence, where the Admiral was to be en-
tcrtained While crossing Spring street
the Admirals aide, Mr.. Herbert Smart.
who was riding by the carriage on horse
back, had a collision with a negro wo-
man, who claims to have been knocked
down and run over by the horse. The
mented on it, say that Mr.. SNARE was GER
tainly in no way to blame. Immediately
the woman arose, In a furious tenper
and seemed to want to make trouble
about IL then and there, but the process
sion was moving too rapidly for her. on
Friday she wens to Mr.. Smart and de
manded sum Of money to prevent a law
suit She left the store and from there
went Immediately to a lawyers office and
prepared to bring suit
Admiral Dewey would. Of course, be one
Of the most prominent witnesses in this
case and while u Is likely that his testi-
mony viii be wanted, yet a number Of
other gentlemen went 10 Mr. Smart yes
terday and assured him that they saw the
collision with the woman. and would be
willing 20 swear that his horse did no.
even touch her. but that by a missfcp
she fell IN front Of the horse. and her
dress was tramplcd on. Those who saw
her when she got her skirts from under
the horses heels. however. realized that
trouble was brewing.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13
PUNISHMENT OF A WIFE.
SUBSTITUTE FOR DIVORCE AMONG
BLACKFEET INDIANS.

II Consisted In SIicing or the Erring
Wife's Nose and Is Said To Have
Been Effective Generally The
story of silver Leaf and Her old
Husband n Case in Point.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13
HOW LUCK RUNS IN ALASKA.
Fate's Irony Nowhere Better shown
Than There.

From Ainslee's Magazine.
At first sight IT would seem that the
like good luck might fall to any man, but
the reality runs much the other way. The
man of quick intelligence, of judgment
and decision is not the man who ordi-
narily achieves this sudden wealth 1t is
the man who is too stupid to know the
man who plunges wildly and misses no
desperate chance. who seem favorites of
the god Of chance. Nor do all good luck
stories have pleasant endings Often after
the pile" Is made, accident, disease or
death steps in to prevent its legitimate
enjoyment. One man dropped dead when
o. the weighing Of the first cleanup he
found himself a rich man. There was
something wrong with his heart. He had
the physical strength TO make the fight
against bad food and water, to endure the
back breaking toll Of developing and work.
ing out, and all the strain of the uncer-
tainty that went before. The supreme
moment Of success was more than he
could stand, and the use OF the gold PASS
ed from him with ifs requirement. A GER
tain James Mead. lay down with typhoid
fever IN an outlying camp just as he was
starting for home with the accumula lions
Of the year and he and his bag OF dust
entered Dawson together on "A litter. IL
took six men 10 bring him matchmaking
four 10 carry and two 90 rest-and he paid
each man SIS a day. once In Dawson
Meade seemed to grow better. and when
bis sailing day came he walked TO the
boat re reached The wharf and fell dead
aa be- was about 10 20 aboard.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13
Alone In the Bots.

Alone In the Bots.
One might think a girl who rides alone
in Paris would have courage enough tor
anything: you certainly would think so if
you had tried it. OF course, any woman
can ride in Paris, any one with figure
built after the pattern of Dutch burSher
or a clothespin, possessing a pair OF
boomers made out of six old shirts, but
such ladies' are Invariably supplied with
manly escorts, and being so numerous, cali
forth neither enthusiasm nor the reverse.
They are part of Paris-thats all. But
transport one of the vast army of maids
and matrons. decorously clothed ana IN
their right minds, who ride each morning
through Central Park and onward, to the
Bots then look out for tales of woe, tears,
or melancholy philosophizing, according TO
the temperament of maid or matron.
II came upon me as "a great surprise. L
had ridden in New York for several years,
with only the occasional comment OF the
butcher boy to mar the serenity OF my
ride and started off one lonely autumn
morning to follow La Route des Erabies
through the Bots, a bicycle path smooth
as a billiard table. running through woods
of pine. maple. and horse chestnut, TO
make one dream of dryad faun and satyr
But the dream had bitter awakening. A
wheel rustles the occe SiOnal dead leaf be-
hind YOU coming along at a good pac@'
as it approaches II SLOWS up SLOWS uP'
slows up. until you see a front wheel at
YOU side. You push along briskly, so does
the wheel you slow up, so does the wheel;
then a grinning face, of an unprepossess-
ing tyne is abreast of you, and few
remarks are made in colloquial French
with beautiful accent that is an added
insult and soft rolling of the RS calcu-
lated to make even the voice of a brute
musical.
The construction is not taught in the
Meisterschaft system, nor the accent d's-
seninated from your school, so what is
said is beyond you: but that does not
diminish your helpless rage. Your tor
menter then leaves with laugh and a
remark about lies Anglaises;' and that
is the last straw for the English woman
NAV shine in golf, but she doesn't even
slimmer on a wheel. l was cut to the
heart one day to hear one of my country
men saw to friends as l rode past: An
English girlr But perhaps he had never
been in England AS 1 rode through the
Rois that first day, it is no eXaggeration
10 saw every other man spoke to me as
he Dassed so that on my way home l
pressed my nose against my refreshinglv
cool haudlebars and-none spoke, for
none passed.
BIoomers on the Road.
Then said l to myself, in solemn con-
clave: "WiH you give up riding?" New
or " replied myself mot for all the con-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13

thing must be done! We had arrived on
the 9Th of the month; the 9th of the next
oeheld the beds in fair white raiment-in
linen sheets, rough dried, it is true but
clean and laden with that indescribable
odor only French clothes possess fresh
from the wash. 1t is something to save
muscle, doubtless; but the result is agree
able nevertheless.
| hardly dare trust myself, to speak on
the subject of coal and wood; they come
IN the weekly bill of extras, and all winter
long nave torn at our heartstrngs and
denuded us of silk shirtwaists tucked by
hand and many other necessaries When
we paid 10 cents for a log of wood that
burned as many minutes we realized wood
was a luxury but the winter vaxed Sc
we're, and American flesh and blood are
not attuned to the ever-present. penetrat-
ing mist and dampnesS. Cold and colder
grew the winter, high and higher mount
ed our coal and wood bills, and less and
less adequate became our miserable open
CRATES, for they We're plural number now.
Inc french houses are built for a mild
climate, but the climate has since signed
a treaty for an open door" from the
North, and the results are continual
colds and an existence only rendered bear
able by the perpetual hope of an early
spring. never saw fires that gave out as
little heat as these. Each person has one
III iiNi pchi OOiil, that IL absolutely tSSru-
tial There is one in the dining room and
that is all. The door of the salon" is
not opened from December to March, I'M
less by venturesome youth, wrapped in
street garments, searching for book and
pneumonia. For the chillness, the damp
ness of that unfired drawing room begga s
description. II is no breach of etiquette
to go to meals in an overcoat-in fact, we
have all done so for the past three
months. The oldest member of the party
is placed next the fre-espeCially if the
Oldest happens 10 pay the bils-the young
est next the window The window is what
is known a French window in America;
it is certainly French, but more certainly
a wind trap l know, for l am the young
est.
To the guileless traveller who comes for
the exposition and finds himself for good
and sufficient reasons pointed toward such
a pension, my advice is, take little heed
of daily, weekly, or monthly bills-they
are purely nominal-but let him be a very
Frenchman when it comes to settling in
advance what he shah pay for extras
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13

No Dangcr.-"ile sat on my Joke"
"rhaf vas safe"
"R8fe."
"Yor There wasn't any point to IT,
Harlem Life.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-11-28
The Carver Fair md Gentle.

The athletic girl has n new field for
her talent In the guise of the Thanks.
giving turkey. II is no longer settled
without dispute, that she has fulfilled
her social duty when she makes one
around the festal board, whose glories
are heightened by the nutbrown bird.
She must be able, II called upon, to
WELD knife over It's done-to-turn.
ness, and carve Il with the cold scru.
tiny Of medical student at his first
dissection; she must know leg from
wishbone and be able to give n wing.
n neck and bit of breast to the hope
less invalid of the party without a
smile ;she must not be overcome with
confusion when the terrible child asks
for n small piece of the "illck and the
flin," nor must she draw the diagram
on the outside of the bird, as she was
taught to do at cooking school. 1t Is
considered compliment TO be asked
to carve the bird at the Thanksgiving
dinner, and the receiver of the delicate
flattery must not be found wanting in
experience and willingness. Carving
rs a fine art has possibilities which the
girl of today, with her eye open to
the necessities of completeness in her
repertoire of agilities, has not been
slow to recognize. For the time be-
ing she has transferred her skill from
the golf links to the turkey links, and
with the grace OF habit and health,
stands sponsor for the correct dlsmem-
berment of the piece de resistance Of
the holiday. There are less interest
Ing sights than pretty girl at a
daintlly decorated table fronted by
the platter with its crisp contents.
over which she wields the knife and
fork with the celerlty, correctness and
pointed aim, with which she admins
ters social cuts, when circumstance
renders them necessary.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-11-28

haven't told you, Mrs. Beede made me
n present this morning of big pump
kin; she had three sent her from the
country, and she did not need this one,
so l shall make two big pumpkin pies.
Won't that be nice?"
Jolly" said Tommy. clapping his
hands, "why, Wen have dinner fit
for a king? Day after tomorrow
don't / wish 'twould hurry up and
comew
Remember, we have much to do
before 1t comes" replied Dora; "to-
morrow will be busy day."
Tommy opened the little box where
he kept his savings and spread the
pile Of coppers. nickles and dimes out
before him.
There proved to be enough to get the
things he had planned and few
cents over, which he said he should
invest In coffee.
Thanksgiving morning dawned bright
and clear, and Dora and Tommy were
early astir and surveyed witty pride
their well filed pantry. The pNe OF
golden pumpkin looked delld Pul
enough to tempt . king. The NJ
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-11-28
The Unique Horn of the Unicorn.

The horn OF unicorn was shown
at Windsor Castle. and In 1903 was
valued at over $4,000. Lewis Yer
tomannus, a gentleman of Rome, saw
with his own eyes two unicorns pre-
sented to the Sultan of Mecca by a
King of Ethiopia. They We're in n
park of the Temple of Mecca, and
We're not much unlike n colt of thirty
months of age. This was in 1903. The
animal became extinct about the end
of the seventeenth century.
The unicorn is represented in the
ruins at Persepolis, and 1t was adopted
by the Persians as the emblem of
speed and strength. In the Middle
Ages 1t was the symbol of purity. The
unicorn hated the elephant and it used
to whet its horn on Il stone before II
struck the foe in the abdomen. No
family. by the way, should be without
one of these horns, the average length
of which Is four feet. They defend
from witchcraft; thus Torquemada
had one always on his writing table
Furthermore, a drinking cup made
from one will be safeguard against
poison, as will the ground powder put
in drink, and, indeed, the wells of the
Palace Of st. Mark could not be pois
oned in the good old days Of adventure
because these beneficient horns had
been thrown into them. Unicorn's
horn was formerly sold by apothe
carries at $120 an ounce.-Boston Jour
nal,