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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-06-26
esoSeiA soLoNs GATHER.
SESSION Of Ffsy Days Expected-Leg.
S'stvre Meets Wednesday.

'''1AlA, June Wednesday morn
= a ~ O'clock the present general
eA-o-y VII convene for its second
SUI The advance guard is expect.
!, acre today and tomorrow. though
- Is U,,-e preliminary work 10 De
-, 'of b1e legislature Will take ~
= NoiS r.slt NLere il was left on at
N'''ae CT the session last taI.
ne Clerical forces of both bodies
q D. oeg'r their wora r.-.lt Al the start.
"a Soaa I. Bolteuuet. clerk OF the
-'e MI BE here today or tomorro ~.
- easrosSins an. enrolling of bills
-. a. probably begin within Two or three
~'er the session starts.
'e ls practically no doubt that
session viii last 50 DAYS. the full
,,11'ational limit. There was some
eAiy In the year about a short
~. and il is likely Senator Skel-
~. ND others may make the issue;
a.. neneers Of the legislature say
-, ooUa bodies are overwhelmingly
eurtailing the session and as
49, ma there Is no likelihood Of its
Vile Il is true that the legislature
~0roaehly organized and can be-
sNsslHg bills on the first dav Of the
g., there ara many matters which
So va --QUire lenz4h~ dis
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-06-26
FATAL GAS EXPLOSION.
Many Injured and Killed In Mine Acct
dent at TamaCua.

Tamaqua, Pa. June 23.-By an ex
ploSiOn OF gas in the No. 4 mine last
night IA men were so badly burned
that 1t is thought six of them will die
Daniel Lewis, miner. Succumbed
TO his injuries today. Two English.
speaking miners and three foreigners
are in a critical condition. ard their
recovery is doubtful The explosion,
II is believed. vas due TO a defective
safety lamp.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-06-26
TWO KILLED; SCORE INJURED.
People Returning from Funeral Nee:
With Accident

San Francisco. June pa serious
disaster occurred on the North Shore
railroad yesterday afternoon in which
two persons were killed and a score
more or less. seriously hurt.
The dead are:
Anton Roman. founder OF tho Over
land Monthly.
NJ. VI. Kirk. of San Francisco.
Seriously injured:
Thomas DOnneau, ex-county clerk Of
Marine county.
James Tunstead. sheriff of Marine
county.
All OF the victims were returning
from the funeral Of Warren DuttOn
president Of the State Dairymen's as
ISOLATION, and president Of the Bank
Of Marine county at TOmales.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-06-26
ScUFFLE ENDS FATALLY.
Men Fall In Bay From Tug and Are
Drowned,

San Francisco. June 23.-While the
tug Priscilla, with a number of excur
siCnists on board was entering her
wharf here last night. J. D. Paulsen
a bookkeeper for an electric company
aged So years. and Edward Sellinger. a
bar tender, aged "a years, began to
scuffle in a friendly way and both fell
in the bay.
Life preservers were thrown out to
them but. instead of utilizing the
buoys the unfortunate men engaged in
q desperate struggle with each other
and before assistance reached them
were drowned.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-06-26
Driven TO DESPERATION.

Living at an out of the way place,
remote from civilization, family is
driven TO desperation in case Of ac-
cident, resulting in Burns, Cuts,
Wounds, Ulcers, etc. 1t is the best on
earth; 15c, at Autobiography Drug
Store and Tydings Il Co. N
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
THE JAPANESE NOVEL.
Written Nowadays After the Euro
pean MOdeI-A story Teller Gone.
From the Japan Mail.


pean MOdeI-A story Teller Gone.
From the Japan Mail.
The death is announced of Mr.. Ozaki
Tokutaro, who, under the nom de plume
of Koyo Sanjin. shares with Prof.
Tsubouchi the honor of having intro
duced the modern style of novel writ
ing in Japan. All the novels Of former
days, notably those OF the celebrated
Bakin, were written partly in so~called
colloquial and partly In ornate literary
ser fences, and we can remember with
feelings of still poignant bewilderment
how the unhappy foreign student OF
Japanese in very early days used to
pore over these ancient novels. hoping
to discover in their pages some models
for modern colloquial construction, and
not recognizing until late period OF
his laborious career that even the con-
versations put into the mouths of their
heroes and heroines by Bakin, Shunsut,
Saikaku and 80 on were not a bit like
the colloquies of everyday life.
Prof. Tsubouchi took the novel Of
Europe for exemplar and presented TO
the japanese public scenes from real
everyday life, making the actors and
actresses move and speak as naturally
as they do in most novels of the west,
which is not very naturally. 1t must
be confessed. Koyo Sanjin followed in
Prof. Tsubouchis footsteps with dis
tinguished success. He has died at the
early age Of thirty-seven, carried Off
by that terrible scourge Of Japan, cam
GER of the stomach. He spent three
years in the Imperial University, but
never graduated his mind even then
being filed with romantic ideas.
1t Is related Of him that though he
could never write satisfactory answers
to the scientific questions propounded
by his examiners, the unscientific an
swers that he did write astonished the
faculty by their literary skill. He
was also a renowned composer of
haikwai (the seventeen Telegraph stan
za), and on his dea thbed he wrote the
lines:
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
SAVAGES IN HOTELS.
Plant of "a Host Who Sees How His
Patrons Disregard Decency.


From the New York Times.
In all of the big hotels of New York
there are rooms that the guests never
see or hear Of. Some of them are in
the basement and some are on the
roof, according to the convenience of
the management. They belong to the
carpenters, engineers, electricians and
other workmen, who are kept busy
every day all the year round. In every
hotel of pretensions a large force is re-
quired to mend furniture, do odds and
ends of painting, put on door locks,
repair broken water pipes and do any
number of other things that are indis-
pensable If the house is to appear In
good order all the time.
1T is my experience" says the man
ager of a hotel in Broadway, that
men and women who will put up with
no end of Inconvenience and disorder
at home or in a cheap boarding house
kick nightly If they do not find ev-
erything spick and span at a hotel. A
man who will sit night after night in
a frayed chair in his parlor at Four
Corners will make an awful fuss If he
finds a neglected piece of furniture in
a hotel parlor or bedroom. A woman
who has to light the parlor stove ev-
cry day when she is at home and
spend half her time in keeping the
house warm will say she is cold even
If the steam is on at full pressure in
her room at a hotel, and she will keep
a man busy two or three hours a day
running around to see II there is not
something the matter with the pipes.
1T seems to be weakness with
n II n
niture in hotels, in order to get their
moneys worth. A man who will not
dare to throw a burnt match on the
carpet in his own house and who would
as soon thing of flying as of lying on
the bed with his boots on will do these
things and worse in a hotel bedroom.
1t takes two or three hours to put the
room in order after he has gone. Of
ten we have to send at least one piece
of furniture to the repair room. If
one of the small furniture dealers
scattered around the city could get as
much furniture to mend as is sent to
hotel repair roms every day he would
begin to talk about prosperity.
Perhaps 1 am putting it strongly,
but in all seriousness carelessness and
wilful neglect of guests in great no.
tels-men and women from whom
such a thing would not be expected
put us to great expense. Would man
spit tobacco on a carpet or burn cur
tains and bed covers with cigarettes
if they were his own property? These
things are done every day in hotel.
Some men will not scratch match
anywhere else If they can scratch it
on the wall paper.
Again, lot of room we should like
for other purposes is occupied with
unclaimed trunks and other baggage
belonging to persons who have for
gotten to pay their hotel bills. Most
hotels keep rooms especially for this,
and they have anywhere from 100 to
$50 trunks on hand all the time. They
are obliged by law, to hold them three
months before sending them to the
auction-room. Many proprietors keep
them a year."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
Low at st. Louis.

st. Louis, Dec. 25.-Almost zero
weather prevails tonight in st. Louis
and vinicity. This afternoon a fall Of
81 degrees in the temperature occurred
in four hours. This fall in tempera-
ture was accompanied by a high wind
that gained velocity of forty miles
an hour doing considerable damage in
various parts of the city. In the
Worlds Fair grounds considerable
damage resulted from the wind, which
blew down scaffolding and wrecked
some temporary structures.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
STICKS TO THE STORY
OF P0PE'S MILLIONS.

Paris. Dec. 25.-The Rome CORE
spondent of the Figaro maintains the
accuracy of the statement that the
Pope has received through Cardinal
Gotti, project of the Congregation of
the Propaganda, several millions of
dollars, which was held back at the
request of the late Pope Leo. The
correspondent adds that the money
had been invested and that Cardinal
Gotti simply transferred to Pope Plus
a memorandum of the investments
without, however, handing to him the
actual securities.
1t is pointed out that the official de-
malls only cover this latter point.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
BUCHANAN AT PANAMA.
United States Minister Has Present.
ed His Credentials.

Panama. Dec. 25.-W. I. Buchanan,
United States minister to the republic
of Panama, presented his credentials
to the provisional government to-day.
His reception was most enthusiastic.
IN presenting his credentials Minister
buchanan said:
Il am deeply sensible of the honor
conferred upon me by President Roose-
welt, and profoundly grateful for the
opportunity I am afforded of meeting
your excellencies and the people of
Panama and of studying the conditions
existing, and the possibilities Of the
republic of Panama.
The advent and future and devel-
opment of this new nation is now
the subject of keen and kindly in
terest on the part of people Of the
United States. all of whom wish your
excellencies, your people. and your
country that wide progress, and ad-
vancment which pride, and economy
bring to all nations.
IT am charged by President Roose-
welt to express his ferVent wish That
these benefits shall come to the re-
public of Panama and that happiness
and contentment will all abide with
your excellencies and your people"
Senior Jose Augustus Arrange, presi-
dent of the junta, replied to Minister
Ruchanan's address. He said that the
provisional government had received
with great satisfaction President
Roosevelt's letter accrediting Mr.. Blu
chanan as a special envoy to the re-
public of Panama, which was "a proof
of the spirit of justice which animates
the great people of the North, for
whom the people of Panama have the
best wishes.
Senior Arrange said that the junta
considered the selection for minister of
a man of Mr.. Buchanan's attainments
to be a good omen, and he believed
that the new minister would succeed
in bringing still closer the ties of
friendship which united the two re-
publics.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26

prospective purchasers do not intend to
delay placing contracts beyond the sea-
son OF inventories and repairs.
Expressions of opinions are heard in
many prominent markets that orders
VIII pegln to appear about the middle
Oh January, and a liberal volume of
business will be placed for work to no
done early in 1904.
shoe shops are receiving few new or
GERS and there is little effort at pres
ent to increase activity. Eastern
mnoissaIers are more cautious regard
ing actual contracts for spring lines
but Western jobbers are seeking sun.
plies literally.
Conservatism is still the leading
characteristic in every department of
the cotton goods market. Mills are
steadily curtaillng output and find it
impossible to secure advances in fin
lshed product commensurate with the
rise In raw material. Purchasers of
cotton take only for urgent needs and
refuse to pay the quotations asked for
distant deliveries. No demand for
China is seen, and the export division
is doing nothing, prices being we'll be-
yond the views of foreign customers
Cotton has again risen above all
records for quarter of a century, and
fluctuations of $3.50 a bale in a sin
gle session is no longer exceptional
while options trading of a million
bales daily Is nothing unusual. Few
cash sales are reported, and the plant
ers are now receiving 1858 for their cot
ton, yet the mills have no raw ma
terial on hand and will be forced to
pay the prices or else stop work.
Exports have continued on a liberal
scale. Grain moved within narrow
limits no special news appearing other
than new record for wheat produc-
ton in Australia Prices are firm.
Failures this week numbered 2S4 in
the United States, against 209 last year.
and twenty-five in Canada compared
with year ago.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
HOLIDAY TRADE AS
DUN & co. SEE IT

Nav York, Dec. 25.-R. G. Dun &,
ro,s weekly review of trade to-mor-
row will say;
holiday conditions pervade the mar
bats and most of the exchanges have
closed until Monday. Manufacturing
n,ants are stopping for inventories and
repairs, in many cases the extent of
,dleness being considerably greater
than for the corresponding season in
recent preceding years. There has
been a liberal volume of business in
holiday goods, but reports are some
what conflicting in comparison with
1902. An encouraging sign is the i'm
movement in collections.
Railway traffic was not seriously i'm
needed by recent storms, owing to bet
Ter methods of operation. and earn
ings thus far reported for December
exceed last years by per cent.
Agreements are being made with little
}rIction except in the case of coal min
ing. and several idle plants have fixed
the date for resuming work.
Few labor disputes are in progress,
and steel producers look for much new
business early next month.
Enga gements of gold were checked
by a sharp recovery in foreign ex-
change, although receipts have raised
treasury gold holdings far above all
previous records, and money is I'M
usually easy for the season. Owing to
the decrease in speculation both ex-
changes for the week were 1871 per
cent. smaller than year ago at New
York while at other leading cities there
was a gain of IS per cent
Leading interests in the iron and
steel industry brought more stability
to the situation by deciding against any
further reductions in production, and
there are numerous indications that
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
A NEW FERTILIZER i.
Solving the Problem of Gathering
Nitrogen from the Air.
From the Baltimore American.


Nitrogen from the Air.
From the Baltimore American.
United States Consul General Frank
H. Mason, at Berlin, Germany. sends
the following account Of a valuable
discovery:
The gradual but ultimately inevita-
Bile exhaustion of the known nitrate
deposits of South America lends a
growing interest to the methods which
have been devised for obtaining a sup
ply of nitrogen for fertilizing purposes
from the ineXhaustible storehouse of
the air. That this can be done as a
scientific process has long been known.
The first method was by passing a
current of air over red-heated copper,
whereby the oxygen combined with the
metal to form oxide of copper, leav-
ing the nitrogen free. At first the nj
trogen thus produced was fixed by COM
bination with calcium carbide to form
nitrate of lime (Kalkstickstoff) or cal
cium cyanide. a combination Of lime
carbon and nitrogen, which had all the
essential properties of nitrate fertili-
ger. But as the use of calcium car
bide rendered the product unduly ex-
pensive, a method was sought which
would employ a substitute for that ma
terial, and this was found by DR.. Erl-
wein who brought the nitrogen into
combination with a mixture of pow
dered charcoal and lime in an electric
furnace. The product of this combi-
nation Is a black substance contain
ing, besides the lime and carbon, 10 to
Is per cent of nitrogen, in perfect con-
dition to be used as fertilizer. From
the experiments thus far made with
ri al nil fn-
known in commerce as calcium cy-
anide-lt appears that its nitrogen
acts upon plants quite as effectively
as that contained in a. proportionate
quantity of nitrate of potassium or So
dunn nitrate (Chili saltpeter). The
scientific problem of obtaining nitro
gen for fertilizing purposes from the
atmosphere would seem, therefore, to
be satisfactorily solved. Whether it
can be done on very large scale and
at a cost which will make it econom-
ically available for general agricul-
tural purposes remains to be demon
strated by practical experience.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
WIND BLEW DOWN
FWE-ST0RY BUILDING.

Possible Loss of Life Feared From
the Occurrence.
Washington, Ind, Dec. 25-A severe
windstorm passed over this vicinity
this afternoon. A new five-story
building of the Cincinnati Heating
Company was levelled to the ground,
and it is possible that some lives were
lost in the debris, many visitors being
in the building during the afternoon.
The fire department is conducting a
search.
The lost to the building is s25, Ooo
The telephone and telegraph wires are
down. Seymour, Ind. also reports
damage by the storm.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26

should load up a photograph with these
yells, and boots, and cries, and set the
machine outside your house some night
and turn it loose-you couldn't arrest
any one for riot, could you? II would
be a practical joke, wouldn't it? And
no judge or jury could hold you for a
practical joke played on a rabbit, could
it? Well. l guess not" In the mean
time the mere dog who knows his
masters voice. is entirely passe in
Lake county, ILL.,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS.
Little Archie Manages to Get Special
Mention.

Washington, Dec. 25.-Christmas at
the White House was q quiet day.
President Roosevelt's morning ride
was abandoned that he might attend
the funeral services of Mrs. Hoar. Prior
to this he spent an hour at his desk.
Distribution of the numerous presents
to the children took place Immediately
after breakfast. There will be no fam
lily tree, although Archie Roosevelt took
possession of the White House sewing
room several days ago and devised a
tree of his own, on which he hung re-
membranes to the family.
Secretary Cortelyou of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor and Gen.
Young, chief Of staff of the army, saw
the President during the morning. Com
mander and Mrs. Cowles spent a por-
ton of the day at the White House.
This evening the President entertained
number of friends at dinner.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is
Pleasant to Take,

The finest quality of granulated loaf
sugar is used in the manufacture of
Chamberlains Cough Remedy, and
the roots used in its preparation give
1t a flavor similar to Maple syrup,
making it pleasant to take. Mr.. w.
L. Roderick, of Poolesville, Md, in
speaking of this remedy, says: ct
have used Chamberlain's Cough RENE
dy with my children for several years
and can truthfullly say it is the best
preparation of the kind 1 know of.
The children like to take 1t and it has
no Injurious after effect" For sale by
all druggists.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
OBITUARY..
p. y. O,connor, Augusta.

Augusta, Dec. 25.-Capt. P. ]. O'Con-
nor, ex-sheriff of Richmond county and
one of Augustus well-known citizens,
died to-day at IL o'clock. He was sher-
IN for fourteen years prior to last
January He had been in failing health
Tor more than a year, and had several
acute attacks of Bright's disease, dur
Ing which his death was daily expect
ed. He is survived by his wife and
hve grown children, two sons and
three daughters. The funeral to-mor-
row takes place at IL O'clock from Sa-
cred Heart Church.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26

The Ave youngest members Of the
House of Representatives in Washing
ton are Benton Lee French. Idahos
one member. the baby OF the House.
who has Just turned his twenty-eighth
year; Morris sheppard OF the first
Texas district, three months older than
French; Frederick Lands OF the eley-
enth Indiana, aged 30: Asbury Francis
Lever, seventh South Carolina. not yet
20, and Thomas William Hardwick.
tenth Georgia, who mas yet 70 1ae his
thlrty-nrst year.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
shut Down at Century.

Pensacola, Fla, Dec. 25.-The big
mills of the A1gier-Sullivan Company
at Century were closed down yesterday
afternoon. and will remain closed until
Jan. 4. The mills have been running
night and day for the past two years.
and the present shut down is for the
double purpose of giving the men a
rest, and making minor repairs to the
machinery
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
Isnnc sharp. Kanaas.

Washington, Dec. 25.-Ex-Gov. Isaac
sharp Of Kansas died here to-day OF an
affection OF the stomach, aged II years.
lie was a native OF Pennsylvania,
put went 20 Kansas in the early 'fif-
Ties, where az free soiler" he play
ed prominent part In the Kansas
Missouri struggle. He had lived In
Washington since 1882. The remains
WIZ be sent 10 Council Grove, bis for
iner home for interment
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
NEGROES WE'RE RIOTING,
One Negro Was Shot and n Police
man Also Wounded.

st. Louis, Dec. 25.-Albert Chambliss
colored, who was being held as
hostage for the arrest of a confeder-
ate. was shot and fatally wounded to-
day by the other, also a negro, named
Abingdon. Patrolman Peter Dolan, who
mad the negro in custody, was also
wounded, but not seriously.
The shooting occurred in the west
ern section of the city, where a num-
Der of negroes began rioting this aft
ernoon. Abingdon, who did consider
able promiscuous shooting, retired to a
cabin which was surrounded by a doz-
en- policemen. and a crowd of citizens.
Owing to the presence in the cabin of
a negro girl, the police refrained from
bombarding it. although Abingdon FIR
ed at least fifty or sixty shots at them.
When Alingtons ammunition finally
gave out the police arrested him with,
out further trouble.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
-rhe Mount Hermon School, a

The Mount Hermon School. at
Mortified, Mass, founded by the late
ID. l.. Moody, has decided to found
an AGRICULTURAL department and offer
courees OF instruction In that study.
This step on the part Of one Of the
largest secondary schools In the United
states VIII be OF interest 70 those who
are following the progress Of secondary
agricultural education.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
Just prior to his departure for Ma

Just prior to his departure for Ma
Mia Archbishop ]. j. Harry OF St.
Louis left his entire fortune. amount
ing TO almost $4,000, to st. Leo's
Church, the parish In which he had
spent hteen years. When the Arch
bishop started on his journey he took
only enough money to pay his pas
sage and expenses. He gave his for
tune TO help consummate the ambi-
ton OF his life-to see the church free
from debt.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
Fire Mt NeMnrIs.

Newark, n. j.. Dec. 26.-Fire early
this morning destroyed the Specially
Paper Box Board Factory, causing a
loss of $4,000. The fire is still burn
ing. The building adjoins Seidler s
Hotel and the guests have been order
ed TO leave the building.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26

II want TO get camera" said MIR.
Nupop. "one that will do good work
quickly" Yes, SIR" said the clerk
what size?' "Ob. six months size
I guess. He's only two months old
but big for his age. "--Philadelphia
Press.