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The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13
ORIGIN OF A MAsTERPIECE.
How Chopin Wrote His Famous
"FuneraI March,"
From the Independent.

From the Independent.
Though 50, Felix Ziem. who has his
studio in a curious old ruin on the
heights Of Montmarte. Paris, still
works away, painting Venetian scenes.
One of the dearest friends of his young
err days was Chopin. and how Chopin
wrote his Funeral March," is thus told
by Ziem About 1910 my studio was
in the Rue de Breda. No. 81. That
day | had invited a friend or two to
dine with me. After the meal some
other friends had Joined us in the stu
dio. l may mention CheVandier de
Valdrome, Ludre De Polgnac, the mu-
sician; Chopin. and Ricard. who had
painted my portrait. We were a gay
party and prolonged our "causeric"
into the small hours of the morning.
1t must have been about o'clock,
think, when, being for a moment alone
with Ricard in the middle compartment
of the studio--the others were in the
sleeping room beyond the divan-I
seized a skeleton l used for draping
on the suggestion of some mad fancy
passing through my head, and. shroud-
ing it in the piano cover, which Ricard
obligingly whipped off for me. / raised
the tapestry and made it Jig before
cur friends on the further side.
AT first they saw only the comic Of
the situation. Their previous merri-
nent grew louder and reached it's max
inum when De Polgnac stalked for
ward took the skeleton from me. in
simulated himself beneath the shroud
and, sitting down at the piano, made
the bony fingers of the puppet play.
1t was a weird spectacle. All of US
were fascinated by the grim humor of
this skeleton man performing on what,
with some truth, might be called skel-
eton instrument. its naked hammers
looking like so many teeth moving
within a skull. We began to affect or
to feel a sort of fright, for which rhyth-
mic taps on the diVan, secretly admin
istered by one of the company, were
partly responsible. There were re-
peated Oh! obs! one. at last. more en-
ergetic than the rest, proceeding from
Chopin. We looked at him. Moved
by a sudden inspiration he advanced
toward De Polignac, seized the skele-
ton in his turn, and displacing the
performer, himself sat down on the
stool. The first chords that he struck
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13
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SWALLOWED HIS TEETH.
f. @. Smith Then Had FaIse Plate
Taken From stomach.
FROM the Baltlmore Sun

From the Baltimore Sun.
DR.. Roswell Park, of Buffalo, has
successfully performed an operation on
Fred C. Smith of this city, for the re-
moval of a set of false teeth from his
stomach. Two attempts were made to
get the teeth.
The first operation was performed
yesterday and was unsuccessful. The
second operation was performed, just
as soon as the patient had rallied suffi-
GENTLY from the shock of the first OPP
GRAFTON to stand it.
Smith is young and vigorous man.
He is yardmaster for the Lehigh VAL
ley Railroad in this city. Friday night
during a fit of coughing he swallowed
a plate containing two false teeth. The
teeth first lodged in the esophagus, and
did not cause much distress. Smith did
not tell his friends what his trouble
was, but he soon left work and con-
suited DR.. O. f.. McCarty of this city.
That physician advised him to go to
Buffalo for an operation.
DIR. Park. who is one of the plysi-
clans who attended the late President
Mckinley, made an examination and
advised an operation at once. 1t was
performed at the Buffalo Hospital yes
terday afternoon. but it was not sue
cessful. as it was found that the teeth
had passed into the stomach. DR..
Park advised the patient of the seri-
BUSINESS Of an operation to remove the
teeth, and he at once consented to take
the chances. as there seemed no other
way of obtaining relief.
The X-ray was used to locate the
teeth. The delicate organ was then
cut open. and the foreign matter re-
moved. Smith is doing well.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13
THE NAMES OF DISEASES.
NY knowing the Right Ones,
Trouble Is Sometimes Averted.

Trouble Is Sometimes AVertcd.
From the Youths Companion.
One of the first essentials in the
study of any science is a definite no
menclature-the fixing of one name to
one thing-for without that there can
be no common ground of discussion,
and the words of a writer may con-
vey wrong impression and give rise
to erroneous ideas, the opposite, per-
haps, of what was intended.
Unfortunately, definiteness in names
is conspicuously lacking in medical
science, and not only in the popular
names of diseases. but even in the
terms employed by physicians them
selves. The confusion of speech is par
ticularly unfortunate in medicine, for
it may be the occasion of very serious
errors. For example, a mother hears
that a neighbours child has membrane
Gus sore throat. That seems a simple
little thing, and she takes no care to
Keep her own child away from the
neighbours house. The neighbors them
selves are not alarmed, but even let
the little visitor in the sick room. If
the doctor had not employed a eu-
phemism, but had called the "mem-
branous sore throat" dipththeria,
every one would have known the grav-
~ - zig SoSSb anu OlIeT CnlIQTen
would not have been needlessly ex-
posed.
Much misunderstanding results from
the loose use of the word typhoid ="
1t really means resembling typhoid"
and so the term was attached to a
FEVER some of the symptoms of which
resemble those of typhus fever But
II Is applied also in the form of an
adjective to other conditions and dis
eases. Thus, the typhoid state" is
condition of extreme weakness. with
temporary mental clouding, such as
one sees in the third or fourth week
OF severe typhoid fever. In the
same way the term typhoid pneu-
monia is sometimes employed to des-
lgnate a pneumonia in which the pa
uent is overcome by the poison of the
dlsease and has fallen into the ''ty-
phold state" but it does not imply
a mixture of typhoid fever and pneu-
mona, as is popularity believed.
Inflammation of the lungs and lung
fever are popular expressions meaning
pneumonia, but the term pneumonia
user Is applied to several entirely dis
tlnct diseases of the lungs.
scarlatlna is another name for scar
let fever, and it does not signify a
mild form of the disease. Varioloid
also is real smallpox only in mild form.
and varioloid patient may give small
poX IN most virulent form to an I'M
protected person.
All this goes to show that diseases.
IKE other things, should be called by
their right names.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13
A BOOK OF RECIPES
THAT SOLD FOR $1,600,000
From the New York World.

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The most valuable book in the world
is a recipe book, and it contains the
formulate for but two liqueurs-green
and yellow chartreuses.
This remarkable book, with the Sc
crets it contained, was sold in the
open market for $1,6O0,0OO the other
day.
Originally this document, now a vol
ume of more than 100 pages, consisted
of but a single slip of parchment, but
during the centuries of experiments in
the manufacture of this famous liqueur
new ingredients and combinations were
discovered and recorded, so that the
book now contains 1877 entries, each Of
the greatest value.
When the monks of La Grande Char
treuse were expelled from France a
few months ago a small casket of tenn
pered steel was carried by the senior
abbot and it never left his possession
for a second. In this casket was the
book, soon afterward to be sold. Pic
lures. tapestries, even jewels. might
be shipped, but not the precious re-
cipes for the world-famous twin liz
ueurs.
other recipes, too. have proved verit-
able gold mines. The original formula
for absinthe was bought by a rich
French distiller for $4,000, who quick
ly made a million with il. Its inventor,
a French druggist named Ordinarire,
sold it for $780,
The formula for a certain kind of
pill brought $4,000 at auction in Lon
don a few weeks ago. Several pro-
prietary medicine recipes have brought
even larger prices in this country.
The oxford Press Syndicate values
the formula for making the thin tough
paper used in printing their Bibles at
more than a million dollars, it having
cost them over twenty-five years Of
hard work and 100000 in cash to dis
cover and perfect the process. Even
more valuable probably is the secret
of the manufacture of the paper upon
which the notes of the Bank of Eng
land are printed, which belongs. as is
pretty generally known to the Por-
tails of Laverstoke, who have accumu-
lated a fortune from it within two
generations.
The brilliant crimson cloth Of which
the cardinals robes at the Vatican
are made has been supplied for gem
erations past by the same family Of
cloth merchants at Burtscheld, near
Aix-l -Chapelle, the secret process By
which the dye Is distilled having been
handed down from father to son. The
family, curiously enough, is OF Hugue-
not descent. and its members are TO
this day stanch Pedestrians.
An English firm OF pork packers paid
no less than $4,000 for the Branden-
burg method Of curing hams: while q
certain special chutney or, rather the
method OF mixing II, originally bought
Tor "A few rupees from a poor Hindu
trader, changed hands a few months
back for tS7,O00.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13

Worm farming is the strange hobby
of another man. William Griswold, a
public official in St. Louis. His whole
farm is encompassed in two good
sized packing boxes, yet despite its linn
tied accommodations it counts about
10, 900 head of stock.
In order to be ever ready for the
sport on a minutes notice Mr.. Girls
void conceived the idea of cultivating
his own bait instead of having to grub
for it as occasion demanded.
The tenants of this stock farm are
earth-worms. not a strange or rare
breed, but the ordinary, common,
everyday, wriggling earthworm. There
are four species-black, red, sulphur
and blue clay worms. They are di-
vided into classes, according to their
kind, and carefully nursed in separate
Enclosures
Pigeons form a means of revenue for
a Los Angeles man who found that
to meet the demand of dealers and sat
isfy the appetite of the public he must
raise at least $1,000 of the little feath-
cred creatures every year. Fifteen
thousand little white and gray pigeons,
called squads in the vernacular of the
produce market, go out to all parts
of the United States from this farm,
for Mr.. T. Y. Johnson, the owner, has
no rival in the country.
His farm, which is the only one in
the world, covers an area of eight
acres. Three gigantic lofts contain al
most 10000 rooms.
The menu for each meal is: One
wagonload of screenings, two sacks
of wheat, twelve gallons of boiled meat
and about half a barrel of stale bread
soaked in water. This costs on an
average of $500 a month.
At South Pasadena, Cal, lives Ed
win Cawston, whose fame as an os-
trick breeder is worldwide. His farm
is the parent farm, the headquarters
of ostrich culture in this country.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13
McNALLY
On Sunday Saints and Sinners
BY LAWRENCE PORCHER HExT.

II wint to church. to-day" said Pat,
but whin l tried to pray
Me tongue got tied, l could not find q
single word to say"
I'm not surprised" responded Mack,
yer tongue rafused to speak;
It's learnt tn langwidge that ye use
tn balance aV tn week.
Eye need not think that ivry time We
fall upon yer knees
Yen coax yer lips to tell tn Lord
phwat liver tale We please;
Yer heart will scramble to yer throat
and choke yer words away;
Yer soul will not permit yer tongue to
break tn Sabbath day.
"Av course, We say, We know some men
that sin throughout tn week,
But Sunday finds thin full av prayers,
an sanctified an meek,
But, don't We think that iVry time they
twist their tongues to pray,
They breathe a breath av blasphemy
upon tn holy day?
1--we seen TIL men We have in mind;
they'll steal yer daily bread
They'll make we pawn yer clothes to
keep a roof above yer head;
They'll turn yer childher in tn streets,
an garnashee yer pay,
An ask tn Lord to save yer soul, upon
tn Sabbath day.
"Yell find thin busy all TIL week; they
scheme an plot an plan;
They are but human sharks that prey
upon their fellowman;
Six days they sin, wit might an main,
an make each momint pay
FIR time they lose on Sundays, whin
they have to watch an pray.
"Ye'n find thin early at tn church;
ye'd think they own tn place.
Ye feel so vile ye hardly dare to look
thin in tn face;
They squeeze yer hand an hurry on, to
see tn sick an poor
To close tn sody-water jints, an
watch tn bar-room door.
'They blush to think av SIGH a thing
as Sunday games an sports;
They think tn sacred concerts should
be handled be tn courts;
They say no work should be performed
upon tn Masters day,
But do not timpt thin wit a job that
offers double pay.
'"They think they are provided wit a
time f'r ivrything-
A time to sacrifice to sin; a time to
pray an sing
| They watch tn clock. an listen to tn
church bells Sunday chime;
Six days FIR sin, wan day FIR church
without much over time.
but Satan loves SIGH sanity cranks
he has no anxious fears;
He knows their souls belong to him.
so long they say their prayers,
| FIR, though they pray wit mighty
voice. old Satan smiles an grins--
| TIL prayers they say on Sundays are
but double barrel sins"
WELL" said O'Flynn, Eye cannot say
I'm classed wit SIGH a crowd,
! FIR whin l tried to say me prayers
could not speak aloud"
Eye need not shout" said Mack, tic
make tn Master hear We pray,
Mr. need We wait FIR Sunday-He's on
juty ivry day"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13
CURIOUS FARMS.
Their Only Crops Are Worms, Mush-
rooms, Ostrichs, Etc.

From the New York World.
Bait farms and fish farms, ostrich
farms and mushroom farms, ginseng
farms and pigeon farms-these are
some of the hundreds of unique indus
trial enterprises which this age of
specialization has developed in the
United States.
And in most of these odd branches
the monopoly of the worlds trade is
carried, for when your American de-
velops fad that pays he doesn't stop
growing until he has to. This is why
over for unusual occupations and bust
nesses
A goldfish farm which pays $4,000
year and is the biggest thing of its
kind in the world, is the property of
William Shoup of Waldron, Ind. Mr..
Shoup couldn't make ordinary farm
ing pay, for his soil was poor. He
went in for pet stock and stocked a
pond with goldfish as a pastime.
He soon found that they were null
tlplying SO quickly as to crowd each
other out of their preserves.
In order to get rid of them he sent
10 the East to find a sale for his SUI
perfuous fish. Mr. Shoup's especial
hobby in his love for pets has always
been goldfish and as his were among
where, he received a prompt request
for more, until he decided that it would
be worth while to devote additional
farming space to his fish.
SO from a mere pastime sprang the
biggest goldfish industry in the world.
AT rough calculation he has 100000
fish.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13
"CHEERFUL" FUNERALS.
NoVel surroundings of London
Fashionable Interment.
From the London Mail

From the London Mail.
Many people find it difficult to real
ize that the old-fashioned funeral. with
its somber hearse, black horses and its
atmosphere of crepe and black border
ed handkerchiefs, is now almost a
thing of the past and survives only
among the poorer classes.
Perhaps the account of a Seventh
Day Adventist funeral, in which the
body was borne in a blue and silver
hearse and the mourners attended
dressed in bright colors, may have
seemed extraordinary, but in reality
the event in question was not much in
advance of modern fashion.
In the north of London, for example,
an enterprising firm of undertakers,
Messrs. Beckett & Sons, has provided
number of many-hued hearses Ito
suit the taste of everybody" Il have
hearses in chocolate and gold" said
Mr.. Beckett, land others in blue and
gold. There is also a pure white
hearse and another in white and gold"
Mr.. Beckett's most magnificent We
hicle, however, is a hearse entirely
covered with gold, even to the wheels,
and this, he states, is in constant de-
mand. Mr.. Beckett, however, draws
the line at green and gold hearses, as
he does not consider them quite in
keeping with a funeral.
The manager of one of the largest
and most fashionable funeral compa-
MES in London also bore witness to the
growing taste for "unfunereal fune-
rails.
"At modern better-class funerals" he
remarked "black is now rarely seen.
We keep in stock a large quantity of
colored velvet coffin coverings. Gray
is popular and looks well. Crimson
velvet, too is used at military funerals
to an increasing extent. l have even
had orders for child's coffin to be
covered with yellow velvet. The alb
sence of the mutes, black pals, black
gloves and black ostrich plumes at
modern funerals helps people, ! think,
to restrain their feelings on such occa-
sions. There is now none of that wild
abandonment of grief that was once a
feature of so many interments.
BLACK clothing" he continued, lis
seldom worn now at fashionable flu
nerals. Ordinary morning dress is
more usual, with gray neckties for
men and subdued colors for the women
mourners. / have even known lounge
suits to be worn. Light carts are some
times used instead of hearses, and at
a funeral of a duke a Shooting cart
was used to convey the coffin. Gray
horses, too, in many instances replace
the old-fashion long-tailed black ami
NAL"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13

The hundreds of ostriches Mr.. Cav
ston breeds, to meet the enormous de-
mand for feathers have sprung from a
single cargo which he brought from
Africa. Here are displayed the pro-
cesses of ostrich cultivation from the
beginning. Incubators filled with
eggs about to be Matched, young chicks
and full-grown ostriches ready to be
plucked. The owner has the world as
his market place.
j. G. Osborn of Westfield, Pa, has a
hobby for raising ginseng, the Chinese
drug which has found such favor in
this country Until Mr.. Osborn took it
up ginseng users had to content them
selves with taken chances of getting
the favorite root from "sheng' hunt
ers, who seek it in the woods, or nav
enormous prices for the imported ar
ticle.
1t requires about eight years before
the first crop Of ginseng root can be
dug, and during all that time the
growing plants require constant watch
ing and a great deal of care.
Chicago has the largest mushroom
farms in the United States and it's
farmers are women. In several low
brick structures, standing partly I'M
der and partly over ground at North
western and Bowmanville avenue. are
$1,000 square feet of beds, from which
during the hight of the season is taken
a ton of mushrooms a week.
The most beautiful American farm is
on the estates of Mr.. Arthur Cowee
known as 'Meadowvale farm" near
Troy, n. Y.
For years Mr. Cowee, who is one of
the country's bituminous coal barons.
has taken a keen interest in the Gull
tivation of gladioluses, his favorite
flower. Seventy-flve acres of his farm
are devoted entirely to the growing of
tehse blooms. Nowhere else are to be
found as fine varieties and colors as
this farm displays every season. From
all parts of the world, at enormous
cost, Mr.. Cowee has gathered gladiolus
bulbs of the most expensive species.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13

each appearing on the others Shout

each appearing on the others Shout
derS.
This seance was the last of a long
series in which a score of distinguish
ed foreigners assisted, Being the last,
the spirits were specially asked to
make it a success. Their answer
was: Don't blame us if the result does
not please you" AS a sequel Nine,
d'Esperance was i'll for three weeks.
Speaking of the dangers of taking
part in seances, Nine. d'Esperance de-
clared that once the youthful son of
a great friend of hers was incautiously
admitted to the seance, and that he
caught hold of the spirit" and pulled
it from the cabinet. AS a result his
mother died, after three weeks of great
suffering.
Nine. d'Esperance explained how
spirits materialize. They gather the
"eXhalation" given off by those taking
part in a seance and gradually solidify
that until it assumes human shape,
which is distinctly visible and appar-
emily solid. Then, at the end, it fades
away again.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13

We're with the skeleton on his knees;
but, warming to his theme he let It
clatter to the ground. A deep silence
fell on us. 1t was the Funeral
March" he was playing. There is no
need for me to enlarge on the applause
that greeted Chopin at its conclusion.
We knew and he knew that he had
composed a masterpiece. Before go
ing to bed he spent four hours in put
ting onto paper his new creation. 1t
is possible he may have added to his
improvisation some chords, some few
bars even that rendered it more COM
plete. But he changed none of it's es-
sential features. The music we heard
on that memorable night was substan-
TALLY what is contained in the written
notes of to-day"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13
GHOST ITS OWN TAILOR.
Some Weird Stories of Spirit
"Medium."
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
The pictures IN the salon of the
Royal Society of British Artists looked
down last night on the spectacle of
several hundred spritualists listening
to Nine. dEsperance, who is known
as one of the most remarkable "me-
diums" of recent years.
Nine. d'Esperance's lecture, "What
l Know Of Materializations from Per-
sonal Experiences" contained much
food for the iests of the irreverent.
There was the story of the ghost, who,
appearing one day at a
seance, said that he had
no clothes. and did not know
how to make any. At the next seance
Nine. dEsperance presented him with
a sort Of dressing gown which she had
made from some muslin curtains, but
he threw II out OF the cabinet, from
which he afterward appeared, proud 10
show the clothes he had made himself
Then there was the story Of a fash
light photograph suddenly taken OF the
interior Of a cabinet. When the neg
alive was developed II was found that
the heads Of the spirit and Nine. d'Es-
perance had ben changed, the head OF
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13
Tying Horses to Holes.
From the New York Press.

II you were travelling in the desert
just an ordinary California, New
Mexico or Arizona desert-how would
you tether your horse at night, there
being not a bit Of wood within 100
miles, and the Fitzhugh Lee patent
tether having been left behind? Tie
the lariat to your left leg, or to your
wrist, Ell? That has been done many
a time by travellers completely ex-
hausted by the heat, and in the midst
of a deep sleep the animals, crazed
for water, have galloped madly away
dragging their human anchors to de-
struction and death. The desert In
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13

dams, half-witted mortals, tie their
steeds to holes in the ground. First,
they dig the hole with their hands.
which are like dogs paws, making the
bottom larger that the top. Then they
tie an immense knot on the end of the
halter rope, lower it into the hole and
pack sand around it with their feet
until it is about as hard as sand
stone. How does that appeal to the in
YentiYe Yankee genius?
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13

uOnS OF DOdy Dfaln, nerve ana muScl
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey not only
drives out disease germs, but builds
up new tissues and renovates the en-
tire system. 1t aids digestion. en-
riches the blood; stimulates circula-
ton. tones up the heart, quiets the
nerves, invisorates and builds up the
body so that ii will throw off and pre-
vent disease.
At the Medical Convention in AL
bany A LEADING DOCTOR SAID: ~
would rather have Duny's Pure Malt
Whisliey to cure consumption and dis
eases of the throat and lungs than
all other medicines in the world"
And the doctors present agreed with
him unanimously.
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is good
for old and young. 1t promotes health
and long life. keeps the old young,
and makes the young strong.
Duffys is absolutely pure, conta
key recognized by the Government rs
CAUTION-When you ask for Duffy
get the genuine. UnscPuIulOus deal
preparation, will try to sell you chea
tutcs, which are put on the market I
liCVing the sick, are positively harrn
you get II. 1t is the only absolutely pu
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13


and who ched
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-13

Don't you think" asked Mrs. Old
castle, that the new minister is in
clined to be pedantic?" "Oh, I don't
know. Josiah thinks so, but Il
mightn't be anything but the prickly
heat. Chicago Record Herald.