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UnpnrniIeled Generosity.

Town Councilor-Have you heard. MT. Skintlint. that our generous towns man, Mir. Muller, is defraying the cost of new promenade all round the town? We think wealthy man like yourself might also do something for us.
 Skinfiint-Well, what do you say to my giving you park of oak trees?
 Town Councilor-Oh. you noble heart cd philanthropist! Why, do you really mean to-
 Skin1int--Y yes: I'll make the town q present of an oak forest. You have only to find the land. and will supply you with as many acorns as you may want for seed.-Chronik der Zelt.
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FLOWER AND TREE.

Heavy pruning of growing trees will check growth.
 Towering plants should never be watered with cold water. It chills tDt plants.
 The Madeira vine is one of the bes climbers. having a wreath of leaves eQualcd by few other pants.
 Repotting of plants becomes necessa " at intervals for two rVasons. Tho plant uses up the available fertility in the soil and fills the pots With roots.
 The ink plant of New Granada is q curiosity. The juice of it can be used as ink without any preparation. A, first the writing is rcd. but after Il few hours it changes to black.
 In watering the primrose observe this: Water should not be poured upon the crown of the plant nor the pot filleG so full that the water flows over into 1t. This is fatal to the health of the plant.
 To destroy aphiGes or plant lice d:I the ends of the twigs into strong tea made by sleeping tobacco stems in liJl water or syringe wi,h whale oil sotp suds, repeating the optration ia s.X c: seven days.
 An old writer comments in the fol lowing quaint manner on the superior ity of English food over that of tue poor people ill France: 'They ate no bread that beans in were. but of cock. ct or clermatyn or else of clean wheat ne no piece of bacon. but if it hn fresh flesh: other. fish fried. other, bake"
 But, for all that. the impossibillty Of obtaining fresh fish daily forced the ordinary layman to fall back upon the salted article, and the consumption of badly salted fish has since been point ed out as one of the chief causes of the medieval sco,lrge of leprosy.-LoudoD Chronicle.
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The Worm Turn ed.

He loved her devotedly. He was also bowlegged. BOtb facts gave him pain ut times.
 He passed it by with rueful smile when she merrily said that his atfiic. tion gave him such an arch look ana that, after all, he was pretty good sort when you got on to his curves. He bore it patiently when she referred to his walk as parenthetical progress. But he rebelled and broke the engage ment when she called her pet dog through the wicket formed by his legs.
 ''I may not be so over ornamental" said he, but l emphatically object to being made useful so unseasonably early in tho gamc!".-Smart Set.
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Tt would surprise you to know that heavy per cent of the persons ". o travel on sleeping cars make no effort to disrobe before they retire." said q conductor who runs between New Orleans anu Chicago. "fhey simply roll ip with boots, spurs and all. They do not seem to know that berth on Il sleeping car is just the same as bed In private home except in size. Some of them will pull off their coats and collars. Some of them will slip their shoes from tEeip feet. There are many, of course, who are used to travelling and who go in for q good nights sleep.
 With women it is different. You can never catch a woman so indifferent to comfort and cleanliness in this re- spect. She will pull her shoes off ev- cry time."-New Orleans Times-Demo- crat.
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WHY WE EAT SOME FOOC5
It Is Not Alone That We Like Them,
 but Nnture Demands Them.

Why do you take milk In your ter Most persons would answer because they liked 1t that way, but the scien. lists have found deeper reason, p.ac. ing the custom on purely scientific grounds. These learned ones discourse as follows We use sugar in our tea tc prevent injury to the coatings Of oui stomachs. Whenever jamie acid md albumen meet, they fall desperately ip love with each other, get married with. out bans and live together ever after. ward as tannate of albumen, or leath. CT. Now, there is tannic acid in tea and . lot of albumen in the coating of the stomach. The tannic acid weds as much of this as is allowed by the laws of chemistry and so far injures the stomach.
 But milk also contains albumen When milk is added to tea, therefore the molecules of jamie acid select their albumen partners from 1t, and as a divorce is unknown to tannate of al bumen the albumen of the stomach re mains single, and so the lining of the 6tOlluCu IS ulllHJuTeu.
 Now. you may imagine that when you mix a salad dressing you put win egar in 1t because 1t tastes better made that way, but you are wrong again It is for Il chemical reason, which is as follows:
 Raw vegetables are easily enough dl gested by cows and horses, but with difficulty by the human stomach. be- cause they contain that hard, fbrous substance cellulose. But acids dissolve cellulose, and vinegar is an acid. That is why we take it with salad and cab bage, and doubtless that is why u tastes so well, for the palate is an ex cellent judge of what is good for the stomach. Oil is added for the very good reason that it protects the lining of the stomach from the action of the acid in the vinegar.
 Why do we take butter on bread I Partly because wheaten four does no! contain enough fat and partly because butter contains triiling quantity Of substances called "eytractives," which in some unknown way stimulate the appetite and aid digestion.
 Why do we take pepper, mustard and spices? Because they tickle the glands of the stomach and make them work. Consequently they produce an abun- dant supply of digestive juices. They also stir up the liver. and a stirring up of this organ is an important thing for people wEo live sedentary lives.
 Why do we put salt on our meat! Why, there are two principal salts in our body, and their supply has to be kept up. They are sodium salts aud potassium salts. There is sufficient of the latter ill the food we eat, but not ot the former. We therefore have to add the sodium salts in the form of common salt, which is sodium chloride. Anotll- CT reason why we eat common salt Is that a certain amount of hydrochlor.c acid is needed by the stomach for the purposes Of digestion and also to kill off some of the microbes we swallow. This acid is manufactured in the stoIn- ach from hydrogen and the chlorine of common salt. We take more salt with some meats than with others Da' cause some naturally contain less sat than others. So by our condiments we seek to even up things.-New Iori Press.
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Are you familiar with the motives of Jigganini's new opera?" "Yes; he needed the money."-Puck.
 Nodd-"How did you come out of that scrape with your wife" Todd -"As usual l apologized for being right" "-Brooklyn Life.
 Fudgc-"So you have given up smok- ing? Did 1t take much will power to do 1t" Judge-"No; 1t was won't power."-Baltimore Herald.
 Not to Escape.-"What did Miss An tique do when she was finally success full In finding man under her bed send for polceman" No; she sent for minister.
 "I wonder what he'd do if he could see himself as others see for about a minute" "Pshaw! He'd say he was jealous of himself and go 1t In the same old way."-Chicago Tribune.
 ,"Pa, ma is maxim somepin' awful pretty out of an ol' barrel an lot O striped red stuff" "Oh, sonny, am afraid it's Christmas necktie for your poor downtroddcn father!''-Indianap lis Journal.
 Spoke From Experience.-Friend-I haven't seen you for some time. Poet No. Fact is, have become a good deal of recluse lately. Friend-I feared as much. How much do you owe?-Tt-Bits.
 Doctor-Your temperature is up to one hundred and seven. Auctioneer drowsily)-Hundred an seven! Hun. dred an seven! Going, going at hun dred an seven! Who'll make 1t a hun dred an Chicago News.
 A Change.-"Well" said Noah, as he hunted for dry spot on the top of Ararat, "a lot of people came down to the pier to josh us when we started, but l don't See any of them around to poke fun at our homecoming. g."-Life.
 Hamley-You seem interested in the horse show; have you any entries there? Phamley-Well-er-ye Ham, ley-Prize winners? Phamley-I hope so. They're my three eldest daugh- ters, and all marrageable.-Philadel- phia Press.
 Son of the House-Won't you sing something. Miss Muriel? Miss M.- Oh, l daren't after such good music as we have been listening to. Son of the House-But I'd rather listen to yoW singing than to any amount of god music!-Punch.
 "I don't suppose he meant anything unkhd," sid the young woman; but it was very startling coincidence" What do you meanY Just before Harold and I got married his friends persuaded him to join a don't worry club. b."-Washington Star.
 Well, we'll" he exclaimed, as he tackled Ter first pot-pie, where did you get this!" "I made that out of Mrs. Shouter's cook book" replied the young wife; tits -" "Ahw he broke in, 'this leathery part is the binding, suppose. e."-Philadelphia Press
 If one would hear really fine mu- sic," said the Wagnerite, ''one must ex- pect to pay well for It." That's right replied Hauskeep. Now. I was listening to some music to-day that was great, but eXpensive-a couple of tons of coal rattling into my cellar."- Philadelphia Press.
 And when you marry" she softly said, "I hope you'll remember to invite me to the ceremony" He looked thoughtful. Tt will be awfully crowd ed, no doubt" he said. but 1 think can ring you in somehow" And a mo- ment or two later she declared the ring was an astonishingly good fit.-Cleve- land Plain Dealer.
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One per cent of the population of ln- dia profess the Christian religion.
Holbrook argus., 1903-02-28

Austria was the first country to adopt the system of postal cards. This wns in 1869.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-23

dicates. 1t may be necessary to pause
n little to get our breath after the pace
we have gone, but if there is any Sc
rious check it will only be because we
have lost our nerve and courage. The
course of business to-day very largely
depends upon the bankers. If the
banks continue to act wisely and con-
servatively, as they have. they can
avert anything like serious trouble and
keep the country in shape for a con-
tinuance of very prosperous times. In
doing this, they can perform a most
patriotic service to the country, and,
as is usually the case, patriotic
thing to do is the wise and sensible
business course as well. The banks
have only to stand by and look out
for the best Interests of their custom
ers and stockholders"
The paper of ]. F. McAshen, cashier
of the South Texas National Bank of
Houston, Tex, on THE Money Supply
of the United States,' was then read.
He said in part: ~
1T seems to me that perfectly sat
isfactory emergency circulation could
be devised along the following lines:
Authorize the Secretary of the Treas
ury to issue treasury notes to the Ma
tional banks to the extent of rs per
cent. of their paid in capital, on the
following terms and conditions: The
loan of these notes to the banks to
be a general liability of the banks, Sc
cured by the several and proportional
obligations of the stockholders of the
banks to whom the notes are loaned.
This pledge of the stockholders to be
in the form of a stockholders vote
and to be in the nature of a continu-
ing guarantee. This obligation to be
in addition to the present general
stockholders liability of 100 per cent.
This loan of treasury notes should not
be made indiscriminately, but only to
such banks as have stockholders whose
responsibility is unquestioned, and
has been ascertained by the treasury
agents, the bank examiners.
Thus, when bank showed among
it's liabilities any emergency circula-
tion,. instead of creating any, uneasi-
ness in the public mind. it would pro-
mote confidence, and be a badge Of
honor or merit, as showing that the
stockholders of the bank had been as
certained by treasury agents to be
good and responsible men. The ire
sponsible bankers would thereby be
eliminated. Such notes should be re-
deemable at the treasury or any sub
treasury. A duty should be charged
upon such circulation. so low during
the ndTFe SedSOH lIldl rDdIihS WOulQ
be encouraged to take them out, and
thereby facilitate the commerce of the
country, and this duty should be so
high during the time that the emer-
gency does not exist as to force the
| retirement of the notes and thereby
prevent imitation. This duty should be
at the rate of about per cent. from
July to January and at the rate of
about 10 per cent. from January to
July.
1.-The proceeds of this duty should be
held as a safety fund out of which to
pay the expenses of the issue and re-
demption, and for the purpose of re-
deeming those notes loaned to any
failed banks.
Under the call of states, reports
from various sections were received,
in relation to the general condition of
the banking business.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-23

Pittsburg, Pa, Oct. 22.-Following
the suspension yesterday of the Fed
eral National Bank. Pittsburg, the
First National Bank of Allegheny fail-
ed to open it's doors for business to-
day, and it's directors have notlhed the
controller of the currency that the in
stitution has gone into voluntary liqui-
dation. and requested him to take the
necessary action in such cases.
For some time the Allegheny Bank
has been connected by rumor with the
Federal National Bank, but it was be-
lieved up to late yesterday that it
would weather the storm. notwith-
standing the heavy run made on it,
brought about by these reports.
The directors, however, at meeting
last night, decided that considering the
best interests of all concerned, the
action noted above should be taken.
BY a vote of the Stock Exchange 1t
was decided that for the balance Of
the week no bank or trust stocks will
be dealt in.
The suspension of the Allegheny
Bank which has been the representa-
tive of the Federal National in the
clearing house, is looked upon by bank
ers generally as an almost necessary
sequence of the failure yesterday. and
believe that no further trouble will fol-
low.
At $3.50 o'clock this morning Vice
President r. J. Stoney, Jr., of the
First National Bank of Allegheny is
sued the following statement after a
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-23
Tallahassee Notes,

Tallahassee, Fla, Oct. 22.-Charles
Wilkinson, a white man from Ware
county, Ga, was arrested to-day, ac-
cused of stealing SIS from a negro wom-
an who runs a restaurant near the Sea-
board Air Line depot. Wilkinson came
to Tallahassee about eight months ago,
but had been here only a short time
when he was given three months in the
county convict camp for stealing a coat
and pair of trousers from a negro man.
The football team of the Florida State
College will play the cambridge team
in that city Friday afternoon. On Oct.
80 they will play the East Florida Sem
mary team, of Gainesville. On Nov. Z
they go to Atlanta for game with the
Techs. The F. S. c. team is stronger
this year than ever before Last week
they downed cambridge by a score of
% to o.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-23

the block contains from thirty to fifty
houses
The provincial superintendent begin
the work of organization year In ad-
vance Of the census date. Officers are
designated, the villages in each circle
are listed, block lists are prepared,
every house is numbered. In some
provinces the census authorities deter
mine in advance the size OF the num-
Der, and specify the proportions OF
red ocher and oil, or other ingredients,
forming the substance with which the
number is to be painted. Even in
this simple detail, however, racial diff
ficulties are encountered: In Hydera-
bad objection is made to tar because
OF It's color, and red ocher is substitute
ed; in some other localities, on the
contrary, the natives consider red
ocher unlucky, and IL II is used they
carefully erase the figurs. On huts OF
waited bamboo a small space is
plastered and then whitewashed, to
form a background for the number.
In the case OF huts made of leaves, and
also when objection is made. on ac-
count Of caste restrictions, to the touch
ing OF houses by enumerators, the num-
bers are painted on bits of tin, tiles,
or pots conspicueusly placed, and are
usually treated with great respect by
the natives.
In this immensely pcpulous and r6-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-23
ALONG NATIONAL LINES
u,.hop GaiIOr Wants the Episcopal
church Developed.


washington, Oct. 22..-At the morn
80 session of the Pan-American Con-
+.rance of Bishops, Flight Rev. Thomas
,Sranl1 Gailor, the Bishop of Tennessee,
-s,.ocated the development of the Epis-
anal Church in the United States
s,onr national lines, with view to the
,reation Of a distinctively American
e.tTrcb Bishop Gailor took the
rronnd that the United States did not
ssasd the Church of England. but the
Tburch of America. He was opposed
~ The Episcopal Church being called
branch of the Church of England, and
oiso 20 the introduction Of English
forms and customs into the American
church.
pishop Gailor is in favor of a change
- name Of the Protestant EPISCOPAL
Cburch to a more appropriate title.
The Bishop of Southern Virginia, the
D. Rev. DR.. Randolph, read a paper
mon 1,c the work of the church among
tbe negroes in the United States.
AFTER resolutions of sympathy and
s.oternal greeting to the Archbishop
Of Rupertsland, prevented by sickness
Sron1 being present, the conference ad-
journed. -,
Bishop Randolph in his paper said
.bs need Of the negro as a foundation
NJ character and civilization was fac
torv life. He regarded the Negroes
contact with politics as an obstacle to
bis religious and moral development
and expressed the opinion that the re-
strjction of the negro's right of suffrage
in the Southern states had removed the
obstacle to such development. Indis-
Criminate suffrage, the Bishop said,
had depraved the negro conscience and
the political conscience of the whole
nennle.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-23
ANOTHER PITTSBURG BANK
PUTS UP THE SHUTTERS
Too Closely Allied With the First That Failed
to Survive the Run That Was Started.

the Clearing House Committee of the
Pittsburg Clearing House Association,
which lasted from o'clock last even
ing until 1920 o'clock this morning:
Allegheny. Pa. Oct. 81, 190S.-At a
meeting of the board of directors Of
the First National Bank of Allegheny
held this evening, Oct. 81. 1908, it was
resolved that, although the bank has
ample assets to pay all of its depos-
itors in full and leave a handsome sur
plus for the shareholders, yet its sup
posed connection with the Federal
National Bank of Pittsburg has ere
ated wide distrust and caused a run
on this bank to such an extent that
we feel 1t to be our duty to place the
bank in voluntary liquidation, and the
officers of the bank and the directors
have decided to make application to
the controller of the currency to take
necessary steps to accomplish this pur-
pose.
(Signed) John Thompson,
President"
The First National Bank of Allie
gheny was organized in January, 1854
and has capital stock of $3.50, 900, a
surplus of 100000, and undivided
profits Of $34,S71.S0. The officers Of the
bank are as follows: President, John
Thompson; vice president, r. ]. Stohey,
Jr.; cashier. e. r. Kramer: assistant
cashier, John d. Kramer.
The First National is one of the old
est banking institutions In Allegheny.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-23
WORDS WITHOUT RHYME.
Difficulties OF Poets with Silver,
Month and Carpet.

Difficulties of Poets with silver,
Month and Carpet.
In a well known musical comedy the
kingly poet of a mythical state makes
a frantic demand on his subjects for
Thyme with sarsaparilla. The question
calls to mind the surprisingly few
words there are in the comparatively
harsh English tongue, with its plethora
of consonants. for which there are no
rhyming equivalents. Sarsaparilla as
manufactured name is hardly a fair
example, but there are said to be only
three familiar words of everyday
speech which loom up ferociously be-
fore the student of metrical possibili-
ties. They are silver. month and car
pet. OF these silver alone remains abb
solutely unassailable, for Swinburne
has in one of his poems word of Greek
derivation which may be said at a
pinch to rhyme with month. and w.
s. Gilbert, of "Pinafore" and "Mikadcf'
fame, has in the Bah Ballads ingen-
iously conquered carpet as follows:
One day that Turk he sickened sore,
Which threw him straight into a
sharp pet.
He threw himself upon the floor,
And rolled about upon his carpet.
The same author has also established
record in Patience" for rhynning
unfamiliar words that look extremely
formidable to the novice. The verse
runs:
When from the poets plinth,
The amorous calocynth, etc,
which, although it be very beautiful.
is hardly ineligible.
But silver is still obstinate. and the
young Musaens who ends his first line
with that fatal word had better stick
to blank verse.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-23
CENSUS TAKING IN INDIA.
A Colossal Work Accomplished De-
cennfaIly by the British.

A Colossal Work Accomplished De-
cennially by the British.
w. r. Merriam, in the Century. 4,
In India demonstrating is a colossal
task accomplished decennially with
noteworthy success, by the British gov
eminent. Even among those who find
descriptions Of census methods dry
reading at best, interest must be awak-
ened by the difficulties surmounted in
TINT land of splendor and squalor, vast
population, and innumerable races,
languages, and religions.
The population of India Is 294,266, 70l
"a figure so vast that II is better real
ICED by considering the fact that there
are more than 900 villages and towns
scattered over an area Of one and 2
half million square miles. To make
the enumeration of this vast territory,
Virtually a million enumerators are
required.
The successive steps of census organ
ization are the enumerator' block, !"
the circle" the charge" the district,
the province, and finally the Imperial
Census Commission A charge COM
prises two or more circles, circle is
composed Of ten or fifteen blocks, and