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The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-24
wANTnD-MIsCELLANEoUs.


WANTED. CYPRESS AND Pop
lar wood sawed in lengths of four
feet, round sticks and not split; we
are paying $500 per cord for this wood
delivered at our factory; 1t must be
sound and comparatively free from
knots. Write us for specifications. Pier
pont Manufacturing Company, Savan-
nah, Ga.
OLD BOOKS? YES, / WILL BUY
all that are desirable. VIII call city
or country IL description justifies. An
tiquarian, p. o. Box s. Savannah. Ca
WANTED. A MEDIUM SIZE
safe in good condition: Address
Safe" Postoffice Box No. 425.
WE ARE RENTING AGENTS AND
not property owners; we want your
business and will give you better serv-
ice than the other fellow who is the
owner of more property than you pos
sess. Youmans & Demmond.
WANTED. HICKORY, LOCKWOOD,
ash, perslmmon and holly logs. James
Cockshott, Charleston. S. c.
HIGHEST SPOT CASH PRICES
paid for scrap iron and steel, metals,
bones. and rubber. f. w. Storer &
Co.
STAMP COLLECTIONS? YES, /
buy them, IL desirable; will call IL
your description justifies. Antiquarian,
p. o. Box 5, Savannah, Ga.
WANTED, OLD GOLD AND Sill
yer for cash. or will make new jewelry
of IT, Wilensky, jeweler and opticlan,
2A Broughton, west.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-24

HANDKERCHIEFS FOR LADIES
and men, S5c and 4Oc, dozen; hose for
men, ladies and children, pair for
loo; Bailey's violet talcum powders. Sc
box, 75c dozen; j. o. Kings spool
thread. zoe dozen. M. A. Stokes. the
speciality man.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-24

WANTED. POSITION BY FIRST
class circular sawyer; is also filler and
hammerer; strictly sober: state sal
airy paid. Address Box No. 46, Screven,
Wayne county, Georgia.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-24

KIMBALL'S ANTI-RHEUMATIC
ring is giving relief to the many that
use them. Why continue to suffer
when so simple remedy can be got
ten? J. Gardner, Agent. Is Broughton
street, east.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-24

City ticket offices of the railroads
will be closed to-day on account Of
Thanksgiving.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-24
Personal.


BEDROOM SUITS, cash OR
credit" at Miller's; sideboards and din
ing tables; try us once. Wen meet you
half way in price and quality. 207
Broughon, west.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-24
EMPLOYMENT WANTED.

WANTED. POSITION, YOUNG
man, Danish; speaks three languages;
as clerk, waiter, porter, anything; not
afraid of work. Peter Rasmussen, w /.
G. T. U, Liberty street, east,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-24

CHRISTMAS rs COMING: WE
sell you pure old port wine, muscatel,
sherry, rhine wine at so cents bottle;
pure blackberry and chianti wine, 65
cents; other imported wines and liq-
uors, moderate price; macaroni, spdg-
hetti, olive oil, figs, nuts raisins.
Georgia syrup, oat meal. buckwheat.
shredded wheat biscuit. ETC.; give us
a call. Trapani. Barnard State.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-24

Mr. Julian H, Kinard, soliciting agent
of the Charleston and Western Caro-
lima, with headquarters at Charleston,
was in the city yesterday.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-24
FOR RENT-FLATs.

TO RENT, A SECOND-STORY
fiat, No. Park avenue, east; these
are fine rooms: rent $13 per month.
Apply on premises.
FOR RENT. PORTION OF HOUSE.
317 Liberty street, east. Apply to J..
+. Brooks, Is Bay street. west.
NICE FLAT, FOUR ROOMS:
large cedar closets; gas and water.
dale residence). Jones and Haber-
sham.
THREE NICE ROOMS, 3i1 WEST
Waldburg; with use Of bath; $40.
A FLAT FOR RENT ON BAR
nard street, with all modern improve
ments. Apply E. Moyle, 10 Broughton
street. east.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-24

THOMPSON'S TRANSFER CO
call and get price of our beautiful
fourhorse team for a straw and a
days outing. II 1t is business you
want instead of pleasure let us call
and make estimate for moving. Bag
gage called for and delivered. ONCE
210 Whitaker street, Savannah. Ga.
Bell phone, 1874; Ca, 1717.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

du american visits the
Nkf Isthmus of Panama, one of
w the first things that he
notices as he meets the in
habitants is hat a surprisingly large
proportion of them speak English
But still more surprising-amazing.
in facts the way they speak it.
They don't speak a pigeon Eng
lish.' They speak a particularly good
English and, wonderful TO say, the
negroes speak it the best of all.
Wonder number three is that not on
ly does a large proportion of the very
blacklist negroes speak good English,
but they speak it with a true, un-
mistakably English accent, for all
the world like the Londoner OF the
stage.
This is because a great part of the
cOlored population of the Isthmus
consists of Jamaica negroes who were
sent from the island of Jamaica TO
dig the canal in the time of De Les
seps. Jamaica is an intensely British
loldlQs anu AuG lCAlONS AAANlN ali cHNdh
with an English accent.
OF course, the main thing on the
lsthmuS at present is the Panama
railroad, which has several interesting
features.
1t is one OF the shortest railroads
in the world and one of the most i'm
portant. Ii is the only railroad in the
world that runs regularly without a
change OF cars from one ocean TO an
other, sending through two passenger
trains and two freight trains every
day.
1t carries almost exactly as many
passengers in one direction as in an
other throughout the year. 1t carries
almost exactly as much freight one
way as another.
On its trains there is almost sure to
be II car that has hardly anybody in
il and other cars that are crowded
with all they can hold.
This is because it has both first
class and second class accommoda-
tons. In its first class cars it carries
less than eight passengers a day. In
its second class cars II carries on an
average about $50.
1t carries a more varied assortment
of freight than does any other rail
road in the world. for ships from all
countries carry freight to it from the
Orient to 60 TO Europs and from Eu-
rope to 60 10 the Orient. II carries
the produce OF tropical forests To
both seas to pass east and west.
American Kerosene and English.
French, German and Yankee hard
ware travel side by side with bananas
and %cOcoanuts and balsam from al
most unknown places. Ivory nuts
from woods inhabited by monkeys are
/ carried IN the same car that carries
huge boxes OF dry goods from Fall
River and New Bedford. Coal from
the Pennsylvania mines is hauled in
company with turtle shell from far
lagoons and rubber from vast prime
val forests.
Caterers OF palm nut oil travel
with "drummers" for American and
German factories. Hats made bv ma
chimes. that turn them out a dozen IN
a minute, come in. and hats made by
natives, who work for a whole year
over one, 60 ont.
Bananas are the most plentiful Of
the things that are sent from the
IlSthmuS. Dry goods and provisions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

NIL JAM has NONA'~N ~
goats. The funny persons OF
~ the United States had been
paying attention to them
long before Uncle Sam did, but they
did not spread quite the same facts
about them. According to them the
goat is really only a humorous OBJ
ject, living mostly on ash heaps and
eating loose property, such as shirts
hung out to dry.
But Uncle Sam finds that his goats
are extremely valuable possessions Of
the United States. His census men
collected the figures from all the
States and found to their amazement
that there are almost two millions OF
goats IN this country.
There are more than 1871 900 on
farms only. More than 100000 of them
are the beautiful Angora goats, but
the rest. which are just the plain, or
binary, common goat, are not to be
despised. The value of all the goats
on the farms is estimated at being 4
little more than three and a quarter
millions of dollars.
Yet with all these goats in the coun-
try the United States still imports all
of its goat skins from other lands.
This is not due TO the fact that the
business isn't worth having, for last
year the imports of goat skins amount
ed 10 twenty-five millions of dollars,
but the fact appears TO be that the
goat herders and the goat skin max
ers of other countries demand so little
money and live so poorly that there IS
nothing in it for the American farmer,
and he prefers to raise his goats for
their hair, as in the cast OF Angoras.
while he uses the common goat TO
furnish milk and meat.
The twenty-five million dollars
worth of goat skins that are imported
by Uncle Sam each year gives work TO
many strange races. and draws on goat
herds from Uruguay and Australasia
10 the White Sea in Russia and Lab
rador IN far northern Canada.
On the oceanic peaks of the Azores,
in the beautiful Madeira Islands.
where the days are all as dreams,
afar in the wild country around the
Black Sea, high among the clouds OF
the Swiss Alps, the herds are feeding
to-day to furnish skins for the shoes
and gloves and other wearing material
Of the boys and girls of the United
States.
The soft. velvety skin that forms
your gloves to-day may have passed
through adventures before it reached
you that would make a story in the
most thrilling of story books seem
pale. The goat that bore it may have
~campered over the barren plains of
Russia with wolves at her heels. \
Servian mountaineer may have driven
her e the black mountain dehles OF
his native land 10 save her from the
Turks. An Arab may have driven
her through the pastures of the Holy
Land.
Even the Himalayas, distant though
they be from civilization, fed and
sheltered goats to furnish American
clothing. The fierce men of Tripoli
escorted long caravans across the
burning African lands to bring the
goat skins safe 70 port that they might
be shipped in New York and Boston
on some rusty battered tramp steam
G. that has poke! her Ugly and prosaic
nose into all the lands OF romance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

81 AhOSL NOAiuSl4ul insect lie OF
4 u the world reaches its full de-
velopment in the south OF Eu-
rope, when the praying mantis and
other grasshopper-like insects that
mimic plants and leaves are full grown
and can be seen everywhere.
The strangest of these disguised
insects Is the empusa. This creature
lives exclusively on one kind of bush.
and never frequents any other plant,
as If 1t knew that Is power of mimicry
would be of no avail except on the
one shrub.
Like the leaves on this bush, the
color OF the empusa IS light green aud
delicate brown IN notified patterns.
The empusa's abdomen and tail end
are shaped exactly like the buds of the
shrub. The long hind legs, which are
used for hopping, are set with tiny
look exactly Ike the thin stems OF
leaves But funnier still are the fore
legs, each of which actually has green
streamers on il that initiate the ragged
leaves OF the shrub perfectly.
On it, queer head the empusa has
little spray-like f%eelers, and its eyes
are really the only things that do not
look infinitely like a plant.
So thoroughly does the cmpusa re-
eemble the plant on which il live that
close observers have been known TO
examine a bush closely without being
able to see a single insect on IL. Yet
the me the shrub was tapped
sharply, making the insects move. II
was seen that the bush was literally
covered with them.
In common with all other mimickinC
insects, the empusa has the habit OF
sitting quite still on the plants during
the day and moving freely only al
dusk.
Another grasshopper, also known
as twig insect, IS the Bacillus Rosii.
1t Is three or four inches long and It's
body is as thin and round as a stalk
of straw. 1t has no wings, and when
II sits on a branch its long legs are
so spread out that they look exactly
like thin twigs, while the body, with
It's green color, absolutely cannot be
distinguished from any OF the stems.
Even If one looks directly at one or
more of these insects II i almost i'm
possible 10 realize that they are living
things, and not parts OF the rose or
lilac bushes on which they love 10 sit.
This insect, while its thin body is
bright green. has soft brown tints here
and there, and thus it can lie even
among the brightly colored blossoms
without being seen.
The nose grasshopper" Is still
more remarkable, for is two f~eeiers
are actually shaped like leaves. and arc
enlarged So enormously that when the
graSshopper sits perfectly still the eve
can see nothing except two beautifully
shaped and tinted leaves apparently
growing from a particularly brilliantly
cOlored stem.
This insect Is in many ways the
most beautiful Of all the plant-like in
sects OF Europe. for It's color is a very
soft green suffused with rose.
The praying mantis, which is the
best known Of the family. bellies its
rame most thoroughly. for, although
an the mimicking insects are savage
h%uuters Of smaller creatures. none OF
them equals the praving mantis in ra-
pacity or bloodthirstiness.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

genious and complex modern appli-
ances, such as steam vessels. the finest
OF diving armor and even electric
light. The other class of divers is
that OF the most squalid and wretched
Indians in existence, who dive with
no protection Of any kind. They use a
stone TO drag them TO the pearl oyster
bottom. and as the seas around the
lsthmus OF Panama are frequented by
the most savage sharks in all the
world. fatal encounters are common
and the Panama pearls have indeed 4
bloody history. Those persons who
believe that sharks do not attack hu-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03
Engidnd'S Famous Shop
VVYHENEVER military men get
MAJ together in a party in which
Wv there happen tc be British
amy men, somebodY

Wv there happen tc be British
army men, somebody is
sure to mention the shop"-a ref
erence which mystihes the outsiders
invariably, for the term is used with
no explanatory adjuncts.
Then, if the conversation in addition
falls on "hoxters,' SMOKERS" and
GROWERS" the listeners may we'll be
excused if they begin 10 doubt the
sanity of the Britons.
The shop" is the clearest kind of
English to an English soldier. 1t
means the famous Royal Military
Academy at Woolwich, which has
been renowned in song and story and
history for generations. No grad
uate OF this university ever dreams Of
referring to it by name. 1t IS the
shop" to him and TO everybody who
ever had anything to do with it.
The whole life of Woolwich has its
particular slang, that Is quite unintel-
ligible TO outsiders.
The successful candidate for admis-
sion is confronted with the first my5-
terry when he arrives at the station and
is hailed with the remark Here's
your growler for you"
He may look around N vain for
anything that looks like that mys-
terious thing, a growler; for a growler
is neither a dog nor a man; il is merely
a common, plain. ordinary cab.
Arrived at the entrance TO the acad-
envy, the newcomer probably will be
told by the first person of whom he
makes inquiry, that his first visit must
be to Adjy. Who Ably is, 10 one
condescends to inform him, and as the
term is used with such evident famil-
iarity, the new arrival may be excused
for believing, as he often does, that
Ably is a sort of handy man around
the place. So he moons along asking
for Ably till a kindly individual ex-
plains to him that Ably is no less than
that awful military glory, the Adju
tant.
Having passed the Adjutant success
fully, the newcomer has become a
smoker" This title, neither digni-
fed nor illustrious, and calculated to
confer little pride on its wearer, is the
term for new cadets. Nobody knows
who invented il or when the first cadet
was labelled with its unpleasant dis
tinction. but from time beyond the
memory Of Woolwich men the new
man has been a smoker"
The Smoker" has barely learned
his new name, before he Is warned
that he would better get TO bed as
early as possible in order to be ready
for the "hoxter."
1t is hard to say how the word
"hoxter' originated. what it mean or
if it ever meant anything. But it Is
expressive, somehow, for it IS the
name for the early morning drill
which is held at $50 am. and is the
pet aversion of all SMOKERS as II
is the pet drill for the corporals and
under-oficers to inhict on the "snook-
ers" on all possible occasions.
On an appointed night the whole
"shop" assemblies in the gymnasium,
and the SMOKERS" mount, n after
the other, on a rickety chair set on
a still more rickety table, and sing
songs. If they sing a sentimental
song or forget their words. they are
forced to hop clear around the room
twice while the corporals pelt them
with shoes. caps, and other wearing
1 apparel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

man beings would soon learn some
thing TO the contrary by spending a
short time in a colony of native divers
on the Panama coast.
Ice costs 5 cents a pound.
1t costs 25 cents to mail a package
over the A miles between one ocean
and the other.
Panama is in Geographic communi-
cation with all parts Of the world. but
it often requires a whole day 70 get ?
message through 70 the United States
II costs $40 TO ride from n end o,
the line 10 the other in the first class
cars and S. III the second class.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

are the most plentiful of the cargoes
that come in. Second to dry goods in
point of importation is liquor, sad TO
say. Then in order come coal, hard
ware, lumber and kerosene.
The biggest amoun of freight goes
through between New York and San
Francisco.
the buyers of pearls About 100000
worth are bought there each year.
These pearls are collected by two
vastly different classes Of humanity
One IS composed of white men. who
do the work with all the most in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03
Disguised Insects

A I THIS time Of the year the
- most wonderful insect life Of
4 y the world reaches its full de-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03
UorLd U)ide Goat

- Uncle SAM has counted his
y goats. The funny persons OF
~ the United States had been
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03
Queer Panama Facts

TvFHEN an American visits the
NAf Isthmus of Panama, one of
Wv the first things that he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-25
THE PANAMA RESOLUTION.
That Adopted by Democratic Caucus
Placed Before Senate.

The resolution adopted by the democratic
senatorial conference for presentation 10
the Senate, covering the requests for IN
formation concerning Panama and Colom-
bia. which have been made by a dozen SEN
tors in separate resolu- ons was To-Day
placed before the Senate by Mr.. Culoerson.
This resolution prov deS that the PRESIDENT
be requested to inform the Senate whether
all of the correspondence and notes De-
tween the Department of State and the
legation of the United States at Bogota,
and between either of these and the gov
eminent of Colombia for the construction
of an isthmian canal and all the CORE
spopdence and notes by the United States
and any of it's officials or represen satives
or the government of Panama, concern ng
the separation of PInama from Colombia
have been sent to the Sen tie, and If not
that he be requested to send the remain
ing correspondence and notes to the Senate
in executive session.
Democratic leaders today stated that this
resolution is entirely within the bounds of
usual senatorial proceeding They state
that the correspondence they desire may be
sent TO the Senate either to be printed as
a private document or merely read to the
Senate and then returned to the depart
ment 1t has frequently happened that in
formation called for by the Senate from the
President has been read in executive seS-
sion without notes being taken of it by
any one and then returned TO the depart
meut.
Whether or not any of the correspondence
in the hands of the President is of nature
that 1t would be deemed advisable not to
print is to be seen. 1t is understood among
democratic senator's that If there Is such
correspondence that can be read to them
in the Senate to give them a more clear I'M
Outstanding of the situation at Panama
that not only will it be received as private
in nature, but that no senator would ua-
dertake to even refer to it in any public
speech he might make in the Senate or
elsewhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-25
THE WEEK IN CONGRESS.
No Program in Senate-Army Bill in
the House,

The Senate has no program for the pres
ent week beyond a continuation Of the de-
bate on the Panama question. The fact
that the German resolution of inquiry was
disposed of last week does not change the
situation, except that IL makes necessary a
new basis for speeches. This will be sup
piled in the resolutions Of inquiry which
were introduced today as the result of Sat
urday's conference of democratic senators.
A number of addresses are still to be made
on both sides of the controversy, and 1t is
quite certain that the debate will continue
for many days 1t is well understood on
both sides of the chamber that in reality
the treaty and not any particular resolu-
tion is being discussed, the reason being
that the treaty itself could not be dis
cuSSed in open Senate, whereas the resoiu-
tions can be. The democrats prefer an
open discussion of this question, and the
republicans,fas a matter of policy and IN
the interest OF, expedition Of the vote on
the treaty. have not objected When it be-
comes apparent that the discussion in open
session is exhausted executive sessions
will be ordered, and the debate will pro-
coed behind closed doors
1t is quiter we'll understood that the
amendments, to the treaty reported by the
committee on foreign relations Will De
withdrawn before final action Is taken
The Housewife devote practically the en-
tire week to consideration of the army and
urgent deficiency bills. The former is now
before the House.; and Chairman Hemen-
way of the committee on appropriations
has given notice that the latter measure
will be called up Immediately on the dis
position Of the former. Friday will be pri-
yate calendar day. Opportunity will be
given each day, Immediately on converting
or just before adjournment, to secure ae &C,
ton upon minor measures but any Dill
which is likely to precipitate debate will
not be permitted to come before the House
during the tendency of the two approprfsi-
ton bills mentioned.
The army bill is being read under the
fye-minute rule in committee of the whole
for purposes of amendment. and thus far
less than onerthird of its provisions nave
graphs become the subjects of extended
discussion final action can be had on the
bill in one more day.