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The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
A House with closets Enough.
From the Youths Companion.


Among the trials of housekeepers
none is more common than that of
lack Of closet room. If she could on
ly plan a house herself; many busy
housewife thinks. Her imagination
revels in the vision of big linen closets
and dainty china closets, or preserve
closets guarded by lock and key, Oh
hall closets for the children's straying
overshoes, of magazine closets TOT the
constantly accommodating periodicals
She is certain that she could not nave
too many.
There is, however. one house, de-
scribed in IAN Old New England
Town., - which has closet room enough
TO satisfy the most ambitious house
keeper: indeed. it is possible, consid-
ering the memorable demands OF
housekeeping times that one might
even be willing to dispense with a rev
of the treasure places. The mouse Is
the old Sherman mansion or Falrnelu'
Ct and is said to contain no less than
GO closets-clOsets within closets, ana
closets within closets within closets.
At the time that it was built 1t was
the finest residence in the region.
Tradition declares that when the par
lor carpets; ordered from abroad, ar
rived seven feet zoo long, 1t was de-
cded to buid an extension at each end
of the parlor in order to acccommo-
date them. Certain it is that the
wings were added and cellars-it has
three-and closets.
During the last years of her life
Mrs. Sherman was an invalid and
unable TO go into the second story, yet
so marvellous was her memory that
she knew precisely all the contents of
her great family OF closets. and con-
stantly dispensed the linen, flannel,
calico, hams, pickles and preserves,
kept in their separate hiding places.
OF late years the old mansion has
become church property and Mrs.
Sherman's successors nave found the
closets a not wholly unmitigated de-
light II Is said. however. that the
minister submits with grace, cultyat-
ing a spirit Of levity when dog,
book, a child, suit OF clothes, a pot
or lam or next Sundays sermon goes
into strict retirement for an hour.
month Or year. II N sure 20 De dis
covered sooner or later In one Of the
closets.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
THE BIBLE.
No protestant" Version, But an At
tempt to Get at the Exact Meaning
of the Original.

No protestant" Version, But an At
tempt to Get at the Exact Meaning
of the Original.
From the New York Examiner.
Father Earley's controversy with
Miss Helen NJ. Gould will bear fruit in
many ways, of which we may have
occasion to take notice. Just now
we wish to take note of remark of
his, repeated many thousands of times
in past discussions and wholly false.
He says. The Catholic Church does
object to the reading of the Protest
ant Bible" &c. That church teaches
that there is a Protestant Bible and
Catholic Bible and that the two Bibles
vitality differ. Speaking of the
English Scriptures, there is a Catholic
Bible, which is printed under the
Church's authority and which alone
her children are permitted to read.
but there is no Protestant Bible. This
fact should be repeated in Sunday
school and public school until it is
universally understood and appreci-
ated.
From the beginning and more es-
pecially in the late centuries, aside
from texts and versions authorized by
the Roman Catholic Church, the pri-
mary question concerning the Bible
mas Oeen as 10 the genulneneSS ana
authenticity of the text. Have we the
Bible as it was originally given? Have
we the exact readings of the original
texts Hebrew and Greek, and have we
adequate translations of these texts
into English? 1t is not a church
question in any sense of the word. 1t
is a literary and historical question,
precisely as would be a similar inquiry
concerning the writings of Julius Gaze
sar or of Shakespeare. The church
cannot authenticate the Scriptures, as
the Roman Church insists. On the
other hand, the Scriptures must au-
thenticate the church.
We have in recent years had a new
version of the English Bible. Schol-
ars of different denominations joined
in the work. This fact does not make
| the book a Protestant book. 1t is an
| honest endeavor. by competent men,
| to get just as close as possible to the
meaning of the originals. The Ro-
| manist scholars should have joined in
this endeavor, but did not. 1t is not
| for them to mock at this work by
| is not. 1t is for all who wish to read
the Bible in English. Whether it is
right and wise to read the Bible in the
| public schools is another question; but
we ought to resent the effort to ex-
clude it by stigmatizing it as Sectarian.
| We shall have yet better translations,
| through the growth of knowledge and
scholarship, and through the determi-
nation to have the most exact versions
of the perfect originals.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
ANCIENT JEWISH CUSTOM.
Cleansing of a Flour MIL in Prepa-
ration of the Passover Feast.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
An ancient Jewish custom was re-
vived when Rabbi Lipschitz and a
local manufacturer Of matzos. the un-
leavened bread used by the Jews dur
ing the passover festival. went to In
dianapolic to purify" flour mill
which the matzos manufacturer had
chartered for six months.
According to the Jewish custom. the
-four used in the baking of unleavened
bread must not come in contact with
-four made for ordinary purposes. and
must be made especially for the bak-
ing Of matzos. AS the matzos baker
has not mill OF his own, he must char
ter one for the period during which he
bakes the matzos. The mill which has
this year been chartered Is located In
Indianapolis. As II has been used dur
ing the past year for the manufacture
of ordinary -four an elaborate process
of cleaning becomes necessary. This
takes one week, during which time
rabbi must stay m the mill 10 see chat
the work IL done well. and not speck
Of the unhalloNed meal remains. A.
the end Of the week he makes a thor
ough examination, ard then issues
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
MAKES MEN SLEEP.
Discovery of the Parasite Thought
to Cause the Dread Disease.

to Cause the Dread Disease.
From the New York Sun.
A dispatch from Liverpool the other
day said that medical mission was
about to start for the Kongo to inves-
tigate further the supposed connection
of the parasite trypanosoma with the
sleeping sickness which, within the
past. fifteen years. has caused the
death of many thousands of African
natives.
This disease was first observed on
the Kongo. In the early stage the
patient is quiet, with a dull facial ex-
preston and an almost uncomfortable
impulse to sleep.
AS the disease advances there is
paresis of gait and speech, tremofs of
the tongue, lips and hands, and the
dulness of expression deepens. In the
third stage these symptoms become
more pronounced, and the patient is in
a state of complete lethargy until
death relieves him.
The disease has decreased on the
Kongo, but it has spread eastward,
and it's ravages about tive years ago
reached Uganda. on the north shore
of Victoria Nyanza. 1t has not yet
extended further east, but is still car
rying off hundreds Of victims in
Uganda.
On Nov. IL, last year, DR.. Castellani,
who was examining a specimen Of GER
ebro-spinal fluid taken during life
from a well-marked case of sleeping
sickness, was surprised to observe a
living tryphanosoma. In his later in
Vestigations many tryphanosomeS were
found.
He suggested as a working hypoth-
esis on which to base further investi-
tigation that sleeping sickness was due
to the species of trypanosoma which
he had discovered in the cerebro-spinal
fluid of the patients. Later studies
by the physicians in Uganda have
| seemed to establish the. correctness of
the theory. 1t now appears certain
| that every case of sleeping sickness
| has trypanosomeS in the cerebo-Spinal
| fluid.
How is the parasite introduced into
the human system? The Uganda ply
sicians believe they have solved this
problem.
They were impressed with the sing
ular fact that the disease in that re-
gion occurs only along the northern
| shores of the Victoria Nyanza, in a
strip of country about fifteen miles
wide. They reached the conclusion
that trypanosomes were carried by
some bloodsucking insect. They final
| ly found the parasite in a species of
the tsetse fly and have proved by
| their laboratory experiments that
| these flies have conveyed trypanosomes
| to a monkey.
The investigation had reached this
point when the report of the sleeping
sickness commission was published in
August last. 1t is at least encourage
| ing to think that the cause of this ter
rible malady is likely soon to be fully
| understood.
With this knowledge gained there
will be reason to hope that remedies
may be found for the disease which,
until now, has baffied medical skill
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
HOW TO COOK WILD DUCKS.
From the Baltimore Sun.

AOiAA eAA~ ADclAbA1AlOlG OuHs
Ex-President CIeveland's recent es-
say on the art of shooting wild ducks,
with brief suggestions for cooking the
birds after they have been bagged, has
made a deep impression on Philadelphia
euicures. Our esteemed contemper-
ary the Press, publishes a two-colulnn
essay on the subject by ANNE Rit-
tenhouse," who sought advice from
Mr.. Cleveland's cook and succeeded in
obtaining the latter's recipe for pre-
pairing ducks to suit the palate of the
Princeton sage. "Mr. Cleveland" it
is stated, likes the birds very rare
The blood must drip out when he draws
the knife across the leg Twenty
minutes is as long as the ex-Presi-
dents chef allows the ducks to remain
in the oven. If he did not take them
out promptly on the minute he would
receive a message from the sage COM
pared with which the Venezuelan mes
sage was mild and genial. Anne Rit-
tenhouse" states that "in wild-duck
cookery Philadelphia yields only to her
two rivals in all things courtly and
OVERWHELMINGLY, the state of Mary
land and the state of Virginia" In
the Quaker City a wild duck is con-
the oven IL minutes. 1t is served
with currant jelly in Philadelphia.
That is contrary to the rules laid down
by the Southern epicure, Col. Carter
of Gainesville" Ten years ago the
Colonel gave his views on the sub
ject to a. New Yorker. He said, as
reported at the time:
Jelly, no, sub; not a suspicion of it,!
A pinch of salt, a dust of cayenne,
then shit yo' eyes and mouth and
don't open 'em except for a drop of
good red wine. 1t is the salt marsh
in the early morning that you are
tasting, suh--not molasses candy. You
Nawtherners don't really treat can
Vasback with any degree of respect.
You ought never to come into his pres
ence when he lies in state without
takin off yo' hats. That may be one
reason why he skips over the Nawthern
states, when he takes his annual fall
outin.. The wild duck, sun. is pawn
of the salt ice, braves the storm ana
lives a life of peril and hardship. You
don't degrade clam with confectlon-
cry; why a canvasback duck?
OF course, no educated Southern man
ever spoke in such a dialect as that
in which Col. Carter" proclaimed the
law as to ducks. But if the dialect Is
an invention of the reporter. the SEN
timents attributed to the "Colonei are
unassailable. The man who would put
''molasses candy" on q canVasback is
guilty of treason to the most tooth
some bird that ever adorned the table
of the enicTre
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
ONLY 10000 MILLIONAIREs.
Number Includes All There Are i'm
the Whole Wide World.

Number Includes All There Are i'm
the Whole Wide World.
From the New York Press.
If there are 100000 millionaires in
the United States, as Senator Depew
said at the dinner given by John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., to his Bible class, an
official of a great commercial agency
and the president Of one of New
York's richest banks are decidedly in
error. Both placed the number of mill
lionaires in the entire world at 10000
There are 1000 in the United States,
and 1000 of these live in New York
city, whether they pay taxes here or
not The financial Red Book, a most
carefully compiled publication, gives
the names of practically all the per-
sons in the United States who are
supposed to be worth more than $780,
900. And there are only $1,000 names
on the list. No claim is made that the
name of every person worth that
amount or more is given, but the pro-
portion of those left out is extremely
small, for a most exhaustive investi-
cation has been made.
There may be a few more than 1000
millionaires in the United States" said
the official of the mercantile agency.
Il doubt it, however. l also doubt
if there are more than 1000 million
aires in New York. 1t is absolutely
impossible to tell accurately. 1t may
seem strange that we should not be
able to tell, especially when he are
engaged in finding out how much a
man is worth and giving such infor-
nation to our subscribers.
But in the last few years there has
been a marked tendency among men
of wealth to conceal the amount of
their worldly possessions. The first
incentive in this respect is the vulgar
prominence given to the man that has
lots of money.
There are other reasons men have
for suppressing knowledge of the
amount of their wealth. Some wish to
avoid heavy taxation and give false
returns. Another man may have made
his money in a business not commonly
supposed to be especially lucrative, and
he does not care to have his afffuence
blazoned forth to arouse competition
There also are some rich politicians
but it might arouse suspicion if they
stated the exact amount of their
wealth. And there is another class
the men that have their piles in call
ings that might be frowned upon in
the circles they wish to enter pro-
prietors of gambling houses, saloon
keepers, owners of dives and other re-
sorts. They don't care to have Others
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27

and it is not open to doubt that rea-
sonable people will accept this. The
souls of the wicked are condemned to
pass into animals and to stay there
until they have discovered prospective
tenants worse than themselves.
This theory explains everything.
The liars inhabit fish. the tricksters
horses and those given to butting in
become goats. In the attempt to end
their tenancy by finding suitable suces-
sors the evil spirits resort to temp
tations, with, alas! unfailing success.
The half-pound trout dropping off the
hook flaps his tail in ecstatic certainty
that the angler will proclaim him a
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
Green's August Flower

Is the most popular remedy on the
globe for the cure of all stomach. di-
gestive, liver troubles and habitual
constipation, with their miserable eff
fects. We advertised as test in 1880
newspapers all over the United States
for any case where August. Flower
was used that did not give satisfac-
ton. Only three gases of failure in
thousands of letters; two of these
were cancer of the stomach. Price
rs and IS cents per bottle at all drug
gists. Knights Pharmacy.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
FASHIONS IN WORDS.
Is the English Language Becoming
Corrupt

Corrupt?
In an article on this question in Har-
pers Magazine, Prof. Lounsbury cites
an amusing imaginary dialogue by
Beattie in which Swift, Mercury and a
bookseller were supposed to be the
participants. 1t shows what We're then
considered corruptions of the English
language:
swift is disguised with the express
sions used by the tradesmen, and begs
Mercury to translate his gibberish into
English. a few of the words and
are still strange to us; but most of them
are in a state of distress because of the
impending ruin of the tongue.
1T is both suggestive and instructive
to learn a little9of this new language
which had just come into fashion, as
Mercury gives Swift to understand.
Instead of life, new wish for. take.
existence, novel, desiderate, capture, in.
gurgitate, etc, asa fever put an end
10 his existence. Instead of a
new fashion, you will do we'll to say
q novel fashion. You must on
no account speak of taking the enemy's
ships, towns, guns, or baggage; it must
be capturing This last word, we are
told, had been imported about twenty
years before. Sort and kind were un-
fashionable nouns, and indeed quite
vulgar; descriptions, on account of it's
length and Latin original, was better.
Instead of undertaking your enemies,
you set no store by them. Unfriendly
and hostile had both given place to in
imical. This word is said to have come
in at the same time with capture; but
though a great favorite, it was pro-
nounced differently by those who used
It.
There are many other words and
majority of us would now think we
could hardly get along without. Line,
meet, marked, feel and go, we are told,
were employed on all occasions, wheth-
er they had any meaning or not. Instead
of saying conduct, it was fashona BILE
to say line of conduct. You meet a
persons wishes and arguments. You
are received with marked applause, or
contempt or admiration.
THE words am and be were in dan
ger of being forgotten, having been
crowded out by feel Accordingly, in
stead of using is with the following ad-
jectives, one says he feels anxious.
afraid, warm, sick, ashamed. Instead
of saying that ones arguments proved
certain things, we must assert that his
arguments went to prove. For refor-
nation, again, everybody was learning
to say reform, this latter being a
French word and the other vile old
English. Instead of for the future it
had become fashionable to say, in fu-
ture."
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27

five-pounder at least. And the look
of human authorization on the face
of n goat about to knock some I'M
suspecting person into a barbedwire
fence can only proceed from the knowl-
edge that the resultant explosion will
lower another soul in to the mlre as
a stepping stone for himself.
The theory is irrefutable and it's gen.
eral acceptance would help the world
to a higher plane.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
Holiday Suggestions.
A NICE PIANO.

Good Practice Pianos $25. SIS, $50.
SIS, 500. on terms $40 cash, IS a
month.
A Small Upright Piano for $1oos
monthly payments IS month.
New Upright Pianos 5000, $3.50.
5000, $500, $500; monthly payments
$40 a month.
Fine Cabinet Organs at SIS, SIS,
500, SIPS.
Regina Music Boxes at $40. $40,
$50, $50, SIS.
Cecllian Piano Players at $3.50.
Piano Stools at $3.50.
Music Rolls soc. soc. 800, $500,
$500.
Mandolins $500, $500. SO, $40.
Guitars $500, $500, $500. SO.
Violins $3.50, $500, $40 upwards.
Harmonious 15c, Csc, soc.
Talking Machines SIS, s25, $50.
Macarthur & Sons Co.,
Macarthur Building,
I2I and 1923 Congress ST., West.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
Money Orders Sold at

Express Office, 70 Bull street
Express Office, Union Station.
Livingston's Pharmacy Co.. 70
BrOughton street. west.
knights Pharmacy Co, corner Ogle-
thorpe avenue and Drayton street.
J. Il. shuptrine, Druggist. 229 Con-
gress, west. corner Jefferson.
A. I. Ford A Co, Druggists. s5i
West Broad.
Savannah Bank ana Trust Co., Bay
and Drayton streets.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27

report declaring the flour religiously
pure.
The manufacturer of matzos begins
at the latter part of December although
the passover festival does not COM
mence until the beginning of April.
But so great is the demand that the
manufacturer has all he can do to
supply it within three months. Mr..
Manischeurtz, the local manufactures.
is the largest dealer in the country.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
AUCTION SALES FUTURE DAYS.
ATTRACTIVE HOME
ON EAST SIDE
AT AUCTION.
q. III. DORsETT, Auctioneer.


VIII sell at the Court House in Sa-
vannah, during the usual hours of
sale. on TUESDAY, Jan. 5. 1904,
Lots 25 and 80 Cumming ward, hav-
ing southern front of so feet on
Thirty-second street and extending
northward to the lane. The improve
ments known as No. 216 Thirty-second
street. east, consists of a large two
story residence, with piazzas on both
stories on the east, four bedrooms,
three rooms kitchen and pantry on
first floor, and a two-story outbuilding
with stable and servants rooms wood
house. large yard and garden. This
will make an excellent home, being
well located. between the Abercorn
and Habersham trolley lines, and be-
ing in the vicinity of some Of the
most valuable and attractive houses
recently built.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
known how much they have accumu-

lated.
80, while it is impossible for us to
tell exactly how many millionaires
there are, we would not take the
number of those who are known to
possess a thousand thousands at least
and then multiply the number by 10.
For that is what Senator Depew
seems to have done in his anxiety to
urge Mr.. Rockefeller's young men to
get rich"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
RATES ARE AS FoLLOWss
SHIP YOUR GOODS
SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY

which operates on 10000 miles of frst-clas
routes, with connections with other com
panies, to all points accessible by express
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
Sold on all points in the United States,
Canada, and on Havana, Cuba.
CHEAP AND CONVENIENT.
NO APPLICATION REQUIRED.

A receipt is given and money will be re-
funded if order is lost
Sold at all agencies of the Southern Ex-
press Company at all reasonable hours.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
That Delayed Car
of CddiIIacs

IHdI DeIdyeQ IdF
of CadiIIacS
viii, be here the end of the
week. and then we will be
ready to turn out the 1904
kind for which so many have
been waiting.
Tho Cadillac needs no
praise from us. We could
print inches of advertising
setting forth it's merits. We
sell it on its record-what it
has done. What it does here
now.
OF course the 1904 model
will be the very latest thing
in automobiles. Nothing can
equal it for a family equip
ment. Seats five-all facing
forward-the equal of any
machine costing double the
money. Come and see these
1904 models.
The 0IdsmobiIe,
The king pin of all runa-
bouts. Built by people who
successful runabout, and
who, through all the years
since have built the best
runabouts on the market.
To-day the Oldsmobile stands
alone as the worlds stand
ard runabout. We have sold
a lot of them here, and they
| please the people in every
way, The Oldsmobile is so
easy to manage-so reliable
and convenient. Nothing
like it anywhere. None of
the machines sold here have
front seats. Experience
makes it clear that the front
seat is a back number. 1t is
uncomfortably in the way,
and not calculated for the
safety and pleasure of riders.
We would like to explain
the advantages of the method
of seating on our machines.
Repairs and Storage.
We hope to stay here in 1904
and just grow. The people
are beginning to understand
what right attention is and
/
partment gets an addition.
You can't keep people from
good thing. They will have
the best and when it can be
had so easy by coming here
what's the good of going else
where. Even the co-ops.
will not neglect us and give
up their places for something
that fadeth away and is not
there when it should be.
We Are Here,
Up-to-date, alive and push
ing. What's to hinder us
growing?
Columbia Wheels
and
The Best Bicycle
Repair Shop.
7. A. BRYSON,
242 BULL STREET.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27

FOR SALE, A FINE MAHOGANY
case upright plano; cost $4,000; will
sell for $4,000; must have money. Ad-
dress Cash. News Office.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
JOF4NSON'S TONIC
-Wi11 Core Grip
eCted and Mistreated Cases of Grip.

1t will cure every every and every child who will
take Superb Grip Cure, driving every of grip poison
from the SYSTEM does its work quickly effectively 1t acts
In and begins to neutraze
Grip poSon within day places the victim beyond point
danger and before the end of the ddy attest
to perfect health
Those who take the tonic and depend solely upon
Those who do place their lives in jeopardy wonderful
medicine and is hundred better than quinine doing in
single day what slow and uncertain qunne do days.
Keep bottle of this tonic always hand You may need
any moment and when you want you badly Men
driven rough roads twenty-five miles to get it,
the price $oo should consider this high when
compared with the good it does
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

WANTED. POSITION AS PRE-
scriptionist; several years experience
with best drug stores in the state. Ad-
dress Salol, care Morning News.
MIR. BLACK AND MISS GARDEN
will give a soree at their dancing
academy, Catholic Library Hall, Mon
day evening, Dec. %.