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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
Bold Head Men Want Many Hair
Cufs Sf4Fa

The sensitive, taciturn barber was
finally, induced to-talk, says the Provi-
dence Journal. He remarked: I've
noticed one popularity about my Gus
toners that could never quite ex-
plain. The less hair man has the
more attention he pays to 1t. oa
There's a real estate agent who
comes in here nearly every week for a
hair cut, and if / shaved him clean
from the back of his collar to his fore
head you'd never know that I'd touched
him. He's got a short, light colored
fringe that plays around under the
rim of his hat, like the soft, fluffy
fringe you see on those shawls the
women wear over their shoulders, but
you'd think, to hear him, that he could
braid it and do it up in coils. 1 hui
NOR him, of course. I take handful
of somebody else's hair and sprinkle
it on the cloth 1 put on him and then
snip the air gently for ten or fifteen
minutes and make great ado when
I whisk him off.
And when he leaves the chair and
says he mustn't let it grow so long
again I say it was pretty long. I hope
the Lord will forgive me. Nine out
of every ten of the bald heads are that
way, but men who've got plenty of
hair will keep away from here until
they look like the edges of an old
fashioned hay loft. It's curious and,
as 1 said, 1 never could account for
II -
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
BRIGHT BITS.

Where do you suppose
that 203 Metre Hill got it's manner" Egg
bert-"Oh, 1 guess that's where the
Port Arthur Gas Works are located
Yonkers Statesman.
: so you come from Chicago, eh?'
finally remarked the quiet passenger.
That's what" proudly replied the
Windy City man, who had been boast
ing about his town. Well, you're
lucky. Think of the poor fellows who
have to stay there. Philadelphia
Press.
How is your daughter progress
ing in the study of languages %
Beautifully" answered Mrs. Cumrox.
HAS she a good foreign accent? ?"
Yes. Her teacher says that she
speaks German with a French accent
and French with a German accent
Washington Star.
--CIarence-''I don't believe in this
aw--telepathy y know. A professional
mind readah experimental on me to-
day and the fellah positively got no
wesults at all. bah Jovel" Florence
THAT doesn't prove anything. But it
certainly corroborates something I've
long suspected. "-Cleveland Leader.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
Was ON Forbidden Ground.

"A debating society was formed in
one Of the counties of my district
said Representative Kehoe of Ken.
lucky, according to the Nashville Ban
ner. and among the first questions
debated was: Resolved that the ne
groes have more cause for complaint
than the Indians.
1T was stipulated the arguments
should be confined to the United
States. The first disputant on the AZ
flrmative opened with speech to sus-
tain his position. every word OF which
was listened to with close attention by
the chairman. The disputant for the
negative made few remarks in an
swer and then turned to the Bible and
commenced reading passages for the
purpose of proving that some OF the
points made by his opponent were not
backed up by the good book
The chairman stopped him with.
Halt right where you are. Jim. Don't
go any further. You have gone out
OF the United States for argument. "
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
Personal.

The will of Edward L. Wentz, the
young Philadelphia who was mystic
riously slain in the mountains of West
Virginia year ago, has been filed at
the office of the register of wills in
Philadelphia. The bulk of the estate,
valued at $50OOOo.- is devised in trust
for the benefit of Che testator's fiancee,
Cornelia Brookmire of st. Louis, Mo-
The will was dated Sept. 8, 1903. Let
ters of administration were granted to
two brothers, Daniel B. Wentz of
Wyncote, Pa, and John L. Wentz of
this city.
When Prince Fushimi and Justice
Holmes of the United States Supreme
Court met in Washington the Judge
said, jokingly: ST suppose the EN-
peror sent you over here because he
was afraid you would get killed un-
less he prevented you from fighting
any more?" The famous Jap fighter
replied seriously: We'll, in the Chi
nese War 1 was really apprehensive
of getting a bullet. because l wanted
to live to achieve something, but now
I am ready; do not care; felt no APP
prehension."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
RDEx 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

eetings-Zerubbabel Lodge No. 10
F. & A. NJ.
Special Notices-Notice to the Pub
lie, Railroad and Steamship Agents;
Dividend Notice, The Citizens Bank
Of Savannah; Dividend Notice. Savan-
nah Bank and Trust Co.; Crew Notice
British Steamship Brunhilda; Ship No
tice. Austrian Steamship Jenny.
Business Notices-Time is Nearly Up
G. w. Thomas; Good Things of the
Season, Sommers' Cafe; Watch This
Space Daily. Penniman & Ennen;
Fine Nuts, A. NJ. & c. w. West.
Appropriate AS Christmas Presents
The Metropolitan.
To-day The Time-Edward Lovells
Sons.
TetterineAShuptrine's Drug Stores.
Big Cut in Perfumes-Rowlinski,
Druggist.
Fancy Boxes and Baskets-Conida's
Christmas Presents For All-At the
Bee Hive.
Lowney's Fancy Candies-New York
Cash Grocery.
How Does This Strike You, Lady
Leopold Adler.
whisky-Lewis' 66 Rye.
A Special Offer-The Four-Track
News.
Watch the Others Copy-E. & w.
Laundry.
Red Cross Coffee-Henry Solomon &
Son.
No Let Up in Good Work-Savannah-
Georgia Laundry.
Wines and Liquors-Henry Solomon
& Son.
Eyeglasses and Spectacles-Dr. M.
5chwarb's Son.
Old Crusted wines-The Delmonico
Co.
Buy Your Piano at Murphy's Piano
Warerooms.
Special Daily Sale No. 16-B. H. Levy,
Bro. & Co.
Xmas Present Seekers Flock to U.s.
Allen Bros.
Eggs-A. Ehrlich & Bro.
Savannah Theater-To-night, 1.-THE
Office Boy" Friday night, "A Girl
From Dixie"
A Box of Imported Cigars-J. s..
Pinkussohn Cigar Co.
Fruit Flavoring Extracts-The Ka-
lola Co.
Medical-Peruna.
American Club Ginger Ale-The Ka-
iola Co.
Cheap Column Advertisements-HeI
Wanted, Employment Wanted. For
Rent, For Sale. Lost, Personal, Mis-
sellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
CHAMPAGNE.

Interview in London Telegraph.
And what do you say Of champagne?
see that the Rheims Chamber of
Commerce has published figures which
show that the number of bottles ex-
ported in the year 1904 fell off by
nearly million and half, while sales
for home consumption increased more
than half million bottles.
These figures are interesting. II is
very certain that the consumption of
champagne has dropped very largely
here, not only in hotels, as the pub
lished reports have disclosed, but in
private houses. Yes, I think there has
been a certain change of taste. Whis-
ky is displacing champagne even on
special occasions. People are drinking
less sparkling wine. Champagne is
a very extravagant wine, especially at
hotels and restaurants, where 12s. to
los a bottle is charged for the best
brands which cost rs. or SIS. Anv
quantity Of good champagne IL 10 be
had-'9S, 80 and 1900 were all good
wine years. But the object of shin
pers Is TO keep up the price Of cham
payne.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
"sPOoKv THE THIEF.
From the New York word

the new 1OTh NOTlu-
DR.. I. K. Funk. the eminent Prohi-
bitionist and publisher, would not
suspect a spiritualist, and much less
a disembodied ghost, of vulgar thiev-
ing. But somebody alive or dead
walked off from spirit seance with
a gold-framed portrait of DR.. Funk's
mother.
1t happened at the meeting of the
First Spiritualists' Church in Aurora
Grata Cathedral, Bedford avenue,
Brooklyn, week ago last night The
Spiritualists who meet there are the
very aristocracy of the cult, and they
were all shocked last night when Mrs.
May S. Pepper, the medium, made
this statement.
i must ask members of the congre-
CATION not to place anything of value
on the pulpit
/ 1t is the custom for believers and
seekers for knowledge from the de-
parted to place various articles on the
pulpit. Mrs. Pepper takes them up,
one by one, when she is under con-
|'troL@ and delivers messages that
many believe to come from the other
world.
Last Sunday night" Mrs. Pepper
went on to say, DIR. Funk left a
much-prized portrait of his mother, in
a gold frame, on the pulpit. Clark
Bell, the president of the Medico-Le-
gal Society, left a wallet containing a
large sum of money. After the serv-
ices these articles could not be found.
Some one must have stolen them or
taken them by mistake. If any per-
sons have made a mistake / call up
on them to return this property.
Tonight 1 see on the pulpit a wal
let and package which seems to con-
tain something of value. The owners
of these should keep an eye on them,
as any delay to claim them at the
close of the meeting may be danger
GUS"
Here Judge Abram S. Daily, a
leading Brooklyn lawyer, rose and
announced that he represented DR..
Funk. 1--WE hope" said he, that the
portrait will be found to have been
taken by error. and we have no in
tention to take any steps if it is re-
| turned. Also I hope AMr. Bells wallet
will come back with the portrait"
DIR. Funk, at a spirit seance some
| time ago. received a message alleged
| to be from Henry Ward Beecher,
which reminded him that he had bor-
| rowed and forgotten to restore to its
owner a rare coin. DIR. Funk thought
he had returned to the coin, but found
| that s''Beecher" had told him the
truth The owner of the coin was
dead. Dr. Funk has since inyesti-
gated spiritualism a good deal. He
| took the portrait to Mrs. Pepper to
see whether. through that means, he
| might receive a message from his
dead mother.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
SHE GETS GOULD's PENSION.
Hazleton, Pa. dispatch in Philadel-
Dhia Record.

HaZleton, Pa, dispatch in Philadel-
Dhia Record.
The story of how a poor Luzerne
county widow was granted a life pen
sion by George Gould of New York,
the American railroad king and multi
millionaire, has just come to light.
1t unfolds a tragedy enacted on the
American warship Chicago in the har-
Dor of Gravesend, England, before
King Edward VII assembled the throne.
His royal highness, then Prince of
Wales, paid the ship a visit in COM
pany with George Gould, the Wander
bilts and some other prominent Ameri-
cans. 1t was after the war with Spain
When American naval officers were
feted in every foreign port.
After paying their regards to the
officers and inspecting the ship, his
royal highness and party were about
to take their leave, when George
Could prompted no doubt by a love of
variety, offered a $40 gold piece as a
prize to the sailor who would climb to
the top Of the mast and descend the
quickest.
About thirty entered the contest,
among them being Thomas Quinn of
Luzerne. In descending Quinn missed
his balance and fell headlong to the
deck, landing within four feet of the
Prince.
The dead sailor was the only son
of widowed mother, to whom he had
sent a few dollars every month dur
ing his time of service in the navy.
Every month George Gould forwards
to Mrs. Quinn an allowance far in
excess of the amount she had received
from her son. and she has been in
formed that the pension will continue
during her life.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22

Marie Corelli, who has recently beer
lashing the selfshness of modern life
went from Stratford to London recent
ly and lunched with an American lit
erary woman at the Carlton, says the
San Antonio Express.
During the luncheon. apropos the
selfishness that she has been discuss
ing in the periodicals of late. Miss
Corelli said:
"A typically selfish modern man was
a farmer who visited my Stratford
dentist last week.
This farmer. as soon as he entered
the operating room, blurted out his
business.
" "A tooth to be pulled he said, and
will pay nothin' hextra for gas. Just
yank 1t out, If it does hurt
'The dentist smiled.
You're pluclky, SIR he said. let
me see the tooth, please
oh, faint me that's got the tooth
ache, said the farmer. It's my wife;
she'll be along in a minute.'"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
A Statesman studies History.


Senator Culberson of Texas and Bob
Cowherd, a, well-known figure at the
Capitol. are both students of the bat
tie of Gettysburg, and they discuss it
whenever they meet. says the Wash
ington correspondence of the New
York World.
Representative Burleson of Texas
heard several of these discussions.
Burleson knew nothing about Gettys-
burg except that it was a right
smart" fight He was ambitious to
take part in the discussions of strategy
and all that however, and a night or
two ago he bought a book on the bat
tie and took it home to post himself.
Next time discussion began Burle-
son butted in. He advanced all sorts
of propositions and maintained them
vigorously. Culberson and Cowherd
listened for time in amazement. Then
they went off in a corner and discuss
ed Burleson.
Lets question him." said the sena-
tor
They put Burleson through a cross
examination. AS gently as possible
they told him that everything he said
was wrong.
Il can prove all I say by a book"
Burleson insisted.
"Pshaw!" said Cowherd. mo book on
top of earth has any such fool stuff
as that you have been telling us about
Gettysburg. Let's see your authors
tysS,
Burleson produced the book. The ex-
perts examined it. They found moth
ing in it to substantiate Burlesons
ideas. Then it developed that while
he was reading the book Burleson
skipped a couple of chapters. and that
those charters contained denials of
every proposition he made. Now Bur-
Lesson, chastened. listens to the discus
sions of the battle and does nothing
but summon the waiter.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
HAIR TONIC FOR SENATORS.
Washington Correspondence Pittsbur
Gazette.

Washington Correspondence Pittsburg
Gazette.
A statement of the goods held in
store by the sergeant at arms of the
United States Senate shows some in
teresting articles one would scarcely
expect to find among the necessities for
running the national Legislature. The
public may indulge it's imagination to
the limit. Here is the list:
Thirty-three bottles of cologne sew
enteen ice-picks, sixty-nine funeral re-
galias, seventeen bath brushes, three
gallons alcohol. two cakes, shaving
soap, seventy nail brushes, twelve bot
ties hair tonic. one funnel, one half
gallon copper measure, eight lemon
squeezers and one hundred and eighty
six glasses. There are many other
things equally as odd.
CHANGING at the Senate In session
from the galleries it requires no
stretch of imagination to guess the
need of hair tonic. The cologne. the
nail brushes and the bath brushes are
accounted for by the official barber
shop in the Capitol, but the lemon
squeezers, the ice-picks, the funnel
and the one hundred and eighty-six
glasses are open to a slight suspicion
at least.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22

One of the show pieces at the Column
bian Exposition, Chicago, eleven years
ago, was a so-called solid silver statue
of Ada Rehan, on a so-called solid gold
pedestal. 1t was claimed that the
statue contained $4,000 worth of pure
silver and the base 100000 worth of
pure gold. A few days ago the statue
and base were broken up, after ex-
hibition in various parts of the coun-
try. when it was found that both of
them were hollow shams. A hundred
exact duplicates could have been made
for the price of the solid" silver and
gold statue and base. However. no.
body suffered any actual damage be-
cause of the fake.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
THE MERCHANT THE SUFFERER.

When the books relating to this sea-
sons cotton crop are closed, it will
probably appear that the chief suffer-
ers by the slump in the price of cot
ton are the factors and country mer-
chants. The farmers have sold the
greater part of their cotton or have
! drawn on their factors or country mer-
! chants against it for amounts based
on a market value of Z, S or cents a
pound. There is, of course, a great
deal of cotton on the farms, but much
of it is there not because it is owned
free of incumbrance by the farmers,
but because the country merchant or
the factor who has a lien on it has
been waiting for the price to improve
| before ordering 1t shipped.
That there is much truth in this
view of the situation is evident from
| the difficult which the wholesale deal
ers are having in making collections
from the country merchants. The mer-
chants are calling for more goods all
the time, showing that the farmers
are able to buy literally, but there isn't
payment of bills The usual reply of
the country merchants to a request for
payment of bills long past due, is that
they have plenty of cotton, in which
their ready money is tied up, but that
they are waiting for a better price
No doubt the farmers are holders of
considerable cotton on which there are
0P Iii
ing to get something out of that on
which there are liens, but if the price
shouldn't advance beyond what it is
now the chances are it will be found
that the chief losers are those who
made advances on cotton when the
price was somewhere near 10 cents a
pound.
In the early part of the season the
impression that the price of cotton
wouldn't drop below 10 cents a pound
was general. Indeed, some of those
wise men who take 1t upon themselves
to advise farmers when to hold and
when to sell their cotton, were abso-
lutely sure that the price Of cotton
would never again drop below 9 cents
pound. If they can be convinced
of anything they are probably now
willing to admit that they knew nothing
of the subject of which they wrote so
glibly, and with such a show of con-
fidence, and that to say in the early
part of September what the price of
cotton will be in the latter part OF
December is a very difficult thing to
do.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
RHNOcEROs BuTTs TRAIN.
From The 81. James's Gazette

From the 81. James's Gazette.
A collision recently occurred on.the
Uganda Railway. British East Africa.
that would be possible nowhere else
on earth. A hugh bull rhinOceros rush
ed out Of the bush and charged al fun
speed the so-called "up-mixed" train.
which WAS slowing down as II an
preached the station Sultan Ham
ond, 2ie miles from Mombasa. Tho
train was stopped and the "rhlnoY
WAS discovered about 100 yards down
the track. Slowly he returned ID the
Jungle, and Was inst % sieht. He an
nf escape uEharmed. fqr pieces III
bic thick skin were found adhrring io
fhs train, but the ncfcfuors ~ ~ a.
Hault smashed fhe engine aiep and
apilniffed 49, inih AID a half foot
board ~ ne nfrt carriage.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22

There seems room. and plenty of it,
for criticizing our vaunted jury sys-
tenn, when, under it, the guilt or in
nocence of a man charged with a
serious crime can be determined by
the toss of a penny. Yet that is what
occurred in New York the other day.
Nine jurors stood for the acquittal of
the accused and three for his convic-
ton. There seemed no way of break
ing the deadlock. One juror proposed
that penny be Tipped. head guilty"
tails mot guilty" The proposition
was accepted. The coin was tossed in
the air and fell with heads up, and a
verdict of guilty was returned by the
jury. The attorney for the accused
man has moved that the verdict be set
aside and a new trial ordered. and it
seems that his demand is reasonable.
1t is a great pity that there is nc
way of preventing one-cent men from
sitting on a jury
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
mandea the MInI.ter the por.

A minister was one day walking
along a road, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, and 10 his astonishment saw a
crowd OF boys sitting IN front OF q
ring with n small dog IN the center.
When he came up 10 them he pot the
following question. What are Won do.
lnF with that doFY One of tho boys
said Whoever tells che biggest a.
wins o." "oh." said the minister. ~
nm surprised af you boys. f0r when 4
Haa lihr you ! never told q lio" There
Naa e'lenrf for while. until one ~
che boys shouted Hand him the
iuFfH
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-22
WALL STREET DISTURBED.

The war between Thomas w. Law
son of Boston and Henry H. Rogers
of New York is giving Wall street a
series of sensations such as it has not
had in many years. 1t is doing more
than that. 1t is giving the confidence
of the public in Wall street methods
some severe joIts.
Just when and how the war is go
| ing to end no one seems to know, but
the impression appears to be that Mr..
Rogers will be goaded into taking a
step that will result in a thorough
exposure of the ways and means by
which some of those who are now
! prominent in the world of finance have
built uD their great fortunes.
Mr.. Rogers lawyers notified the pub
fishers of the magazine which is pub
fishing Mr.. Lawson's articles on "F'ren-
zied Finance" that they would be La
BILE to prosecution for criminal libel if
they put the January number of their
publication on sale. 1t seems that in
that number Mr.. Lawson is particu-
larly severe on Mr.. Rogers. 1t is be-
ing sold, however, Notwithstanding the
threat.
Mr.. Lawson is quoted as saying that
he would like nothing better than to
be brought into court by Mr.. Rogers
and his Standard Oil associates. He
pretends to know a great many things
Mr.. Rogers and his associates wouldn't
like to have known-things that would
place them before the country in a
most unfavorable light. Just how
much of this is bluff and how much is
truth the public doesn't know, but it
is curious to have all the facts Mr..
Lawson is prepared to give out.
Mr.. Rogers, it seems. has been ex-
tremely restless ever since Mr.. Law
son began the publication of his ar
ticles, and would have begun legal
proceedings against Mr.. Lawson before
this if his associates had not per-
suaded him that silence was the bet
ter policy. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, so
it is stated. is the chief adviser of
that policy. In his very successful
career he has seldom taken notice of
attacks of any kind, and there is no
doubt that he was wise in. pursuing
that course He is a much more pa
tient man than Mr.. Rogers, however,
and is able to stand the attacks of
his enemies with little or no evidence
of being disturbed.
There is considerable speculation as
to when the drama of which Mr. Tau,
son and Mr.. Rogers are the principal
characters will turn out to be trag-
edy or a farce, but there doesn't seem
to be any reason why there will not
be exposures that will be damaging
to the regulations of some men who
are now high in the world of finance,
and excite pretty general dis
trust of Wall street methods of get
ting rich.