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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
DEFYING THE FIRE FIEND.
From the Minneapolis journal.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
Two Baltimore architects have drawn
plans for a building entirely without
wood. 1t is to be built for Mr.. Hill
genburg, who does not wish to be
burned out again. 1t will be six stories
and will have a frontage of forty-one
feet six inches. The entire structure
is TO be of reinforced concrete and
steel.
Even the doors, trims, window
sashes and door jambs are to be of
metal. The windows will be glazed
with wire glass. The frame for the
show windows will be of steel. into
which the plate glass will be fitted.
The side walls, columns and rear walls.
as well as the supporting columns of
the front walls, will be of concrete.
The floors will all have a top-dress-
ing OF cement one and a half inches
thick.
The stairs will be of concrete. with
slate treads and wrought-iron balus-
trades. The elevator shaft will be of
concrete, as will also the inclosu-e
around the stairway and the elevator
hall. The cellar and roof are TO he
OF cement. In order to eliminate all
wood the two fiagstaffs on top of the
structure will be of steel. If this mass
or metal stone and cement can be
crumbled or destroyed by fire. the
struggle for an absolutely fireproof
structure might as well stop.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
OCCUPATION NEUROsEs.
From an EXCHANGE

There are number of curious nerv-
Gus diseases, the best known of
which is writer's cramp, caused by
monotonous and excessive use of anv
given set of muscles in particular
way requiring rather fine adjustment
of the muscles; such motions as those
involved in sewing, lacemaking. type-
writing, etc. A a motion of consider
able extent and force, such as
pounding or chopping, does not seem
capable of producing this trouble.
In the few such cases where autop-
sizes have been possible Qt is never
fatal itself) no anatomical changes
could be found to account for
the disease. There are three types.
the spasmodic the paralytic, and the
tremulous. In the first an attempt to
perform the operation causes an in
voluntary spasm; in the second, the
will loses power to move the muscles.
and in the third an irregular trem-
bling is produced. In watever occu-
patton the disease is acquired it is
practically always of the same ma
ture. DIR. L. H. Mettler lays down
the following rules regarding treat
ment-absolute cures are rare: When
the trouble is fully developed, abso-
lutte and prolonged rest is the only
treatment of any value. Drugs are
powerless Massage and gymnastics
give the best results. Electricity is of
no use
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27

From the New york Times.

From the New 1Ork Times.
On the Front Line of Russian De-
Tense. Below Mukden. Nov. 20.-We
have just come in from a ride around
the front. It was nearly a mile TO
the extreme front through fields of cut
kaolin, the giant millet of Manchuria,
which is being rapidly burned for fuel.
Whole villages of Chinese huts have
been Quilted of every particle of wood
work for the same purpose. Nearly
the whole of the army is living under
ground, where body heat has to serve
instead Of fires, and with those who
can afford fires at all a little fuel has
to go a long way.
The men have plenty of tea and
they are fairly well fed. but fresh
meat is a luxury that is not to be neg
lected at any juncture. and suddenly,
while we are talking to some officers
at an extensive encampment, some
fresh meat made it's appearance.
There was a row toward the for
ward line of trenches that might have
presaged a japanese attack, and we
rushed to a knoll that commanded a
view. There. from a seemingly de-
serted Chinese hut, rushed a half
grown pig. shoat of the Manchurian
razorback variety.
After it went a Cossaek in hot pur-
suit. Other Cossacks Joined the chase,
but the pig. threading the trenches,
gained the open ground and headed for
the Japanese lines, less than 400 yards
away.
Reckless of death or anything else
six Cossacks dashed in pursuit, with
their long brown coats tucked about
their waists. But the pig had the
legs of them, and with ear-piercing
shrieks headed across the imaginary
dividing line and charged the Japan
csc position.
The opposite hill slope had been to
all appearances vacant and silent as
the grave, but hidden trench sud-
denly gave up party of Japanese,
and away they went after the pig.
The Cossacks stopped. and the Jap
anese headed the pig diagonally back
toward the Russian lines. They did
not catch it, but a fresh relay of Rus
slams took up the chase and the pig
veered over again to the Japanese.
Not a shot was fired all this time,
and the Japanese and Cossacks stood
within hundred PAGES of each other
in the open, laughing at each others
non-success and hurting mutual male
dictions after the pig.
The last we saw of it the pig was
keeping strictly to the neutral strip be-
tween the two forces and heading
westward in the direction of the Lao
river.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
Personal.

-Supt Maxwell will ask the New
York Board of Education at it's next
meeting to adopt plan for giving ten
ement district school children mid
day meal If the plan should be adopt
ed and the luncheon set should cost
cents each it would cost the city S6,-
$4,000 a year.
"A. D. Buck, civil engineer of De-
troit, has started from st. Louis to
walk to New Orleans. This because
he lost a wager made last month in
his home city. He and a friend were
discussing the Chicago Michigan Uni
versity football game, which was about
to be played between the cities named.
He is to receive $50 a month for the
time he is away, and if he completes
his walk within ninety days he will
receive double pay. He started with
out cent in his pocket and must pick
UP living as best he can.
"A Chicago man just returned from
visit to New York declares that
nothing can exaggerate the exorbitant
prices charged by fashionable restau-
rants there and that the naughty wait
ers in such places gave him cold chills.
Accompanied by another Chicago
man." he says, Il went into one of
those dens of thieves and, calling a
distinguished looking person in even
ing dress, asked him if he was the
waiter. With rather a bored air he
answered that he was the walters
valet, but that he would call the wait
er. He did so. A still more distin-
guished individual approached and
said: What can I do for you, sir
l mean, what can do for you? Oh,
yes in response to mild protest, that
may be little bit overdrawn, but not
much.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
THOUGHT AND DISEASE.
From Suggestion.

AOAAA gus 5CSliOil.
Thousands of people actually think
themselves to death every year by al
lowing their minds to dwell on NOR
bid subjects.
The idea that one has some incipient
disease In ones system, the thought
of financial ruin, that one is getting
on in life without improving prospects
any of these or a thousand similar
thoughts may carry a healthy man to
premature grave. A melancholy
thought that fixes itself upon ones mind
needs as much doctoring as physical
disease: 1t needs to be eradicated
from the mind or it will have Just the
same result as a neglected disease
would have.
Every melancholy thought, every
morbid notion and every nagging wor-
ry should be resisted to the utmost.
and the patient should be protected
by cheerful thoughts, of which there
Is a beautiful store in every ones pos
session Bright companions are cheap
er than drugs and plasters.
The morbid condition of mind pro-
duces a morbid condition of body, and
If the disease does happen to be in
the system II receives every encour-
agement to develop. We need more
mental therapy.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27

I wish you wouldn't. pa" said the
eldest girl. according to the Chicago
News.
Wish I wouldn't what?'' asked the
plain citizen.
Eat with your knife" replied the
daughter; its So
so what?" asked the old gentle
man, knitting his shaggy brows.
50 unconventional"
Now, lookee here" said the plain
citizen, I'm sixty years old and get
ting older every minute, but I'm not
too old TO learn. If you can show me
any way of gettin' gravy up to my
mouth with fork I'm willing to try
it. I've got to use a knife"
People don't do it, pa"
You're mistaken about that. I know
heap o people that do it."
But not refined people, pa"
"Ireeny," said the plain citizen,
you make me tired. l blieve in be-
ing polite when there's sense to it.
Manners is manners. an 1 always
taught you manners when you was a
young one. 1 wouldn't let you grab
for the biggest piece o pie on the
plate, and 1 wouldn't let you spill,
and when you drunk made you drink
quiet. You wasn't allowed to wipe
your mouth on the tablecloth or
speak with your mouth full. Them s
manners. Jess so longs I keep my
own knife on my own vittles I claim
that it's my own business whether l
put it in my mouth or not-ain't it %
We'll, perhaps it is, but
There isn't any but about it. When
I took you to the city last fall there
was a Teller setting at a table in the
restaurant where we was; dressed to
kill he was. too, and when he got
through eating he lit up a cigareet-
and wimmin setting right there
member that?''
Yes, but"
mo but about it. If he'd ben a
boy O. mine I'd have jerked him out
O. the room and taught him manners
When that family was stayin' with us
last summer you fused because I sat
down to the table in my shirt sleeves.
The man he set down without even a
vest and that was all right. I think
it was all right, too, but why is mus
white striped flannel, and how is a
belt any better than suspenders?
They're both to hold the pants up"
why, pa!'
81 hope you don't mean to say that
pants is unconventional Ireeny, you
talk a lot of poppycock. I'm willing
to be polite, as 1 said, but I'm 60
ing to use common sense about it, and
I'm going to eat with my knife as
much as 1 dern please and l don't
want to hear any more out of you
about it. Understand that, don't you
Ireeny?"
Eyes. pa" replied the daughter,
meekly.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
MIR. somwAR's NEW DEPARTURE.

Mr.. Charles NJ. Schwab seems to have
recovered from the effects OF the worry
which the scandal of the shipbuilding
trust caused him. In a lengthy inter-
view in the New York World he tells
of his plans to make the Bethlehem
Steel Works one of the greatest steel
plants in the world. He says he is
going to show the people that the price
which he sold the Bethlehem plant for
shipbuilding trust scandal.
The plant cost Mr.. Schwab about
$5,000,000 and he turned over to the
trust for 100000, but the fact that
he didn't get cash must be taken into
account. He got stocks and bonds,
and of course he took the chance that
they would be worth their face value.
The shipbuilding scandal is, however,
thing of the past, and If MIR. Schwab
makes a success of the Bethlehem
Steel Works-if he makes II the great
money earning institution he says he
will-his friends doubtless will come to
the conclusion that his efforts to in
crease the size of his pile of dollars
in the shipbuilding trust wasn't alto
gether unjustifed.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Schwab
understands the steel making business
and he will make a success of the
Bethlehem plant II anybody can. 1t is
worthy of mention that it is his opin-
ion that the United States are to have.
for a number of years, even greater
prosperity than at present. The basis
of his opinion is the steadily increas-
ing demand for steel products.
In view Of the fact that the steel
makers claim that the tariff is Of no
great benefit TO them Congress ought
not to hesitate to reduce the steel
schedules. There might then be more
activity in the steel trade, though the
prices OF steel products wouldn't be
quite as high as they are at present.
Mr.. Schwab says he has gone into the
Bethlehem enterprise partly for vim
dicatlon. II he succeeds in making the
public believe that he was unjustly
! condemned, and also In increasing his
fortune he will not have so much cause
TO regret the shipbuilding scandal. But
Il will be dificult 10 make some peo-
pie forget the shipbuilding trusts pros
poctus.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
BRIGHT BITS.

IT could have married Miss Rox-
ley, but her father"
''Ahl he put his foot down, eh?"
mo; he put his foot up good and
hard. That's what hurt!'-Philadel-
phia Press.
Gladys: What did the Count give
Ethel for Christmas?
Edith: Some kind Of a thoroughbred
dog. 1 believe.
Gladys: He didn't-er-offer himself,
did he?-Judge.
fare you not afraid you will I'M
duly alarm people concerning mi
crobes?" asked one scientist.
NO" answered the other. There
was some little scare. but since we
told the public that money is full of
microbes they lost all their terrors."-
Washington Star.
little boy do you ever go to Sun
day-school?"
The urchin looked up. II hain't been
fur a long time, ma'am."
Don't you want to go this morn
ing?'
Nome" he said, flush of pride
and resentment showing through the
dirt on his check. I'm bad boy all
right; but / amt one o. those Sun
day-school Christmas tree bad boys!''
Chicago Tribune.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
ADEX 10 bEH ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Standardization Of Direc-
tors, Southern Bank of the State Of
Georgia; Lard. N. S. Gardner.
Business Notices-Entertain Your
Friends, sommers' Cafe; Cuts the
Price. G. W. Thomas; For Social Func-
tions, A. N. & C. w. West; Don't For
get, Roos' Market.
Hay. Corn. Ete.-W. D. simkins &
Co.
Hunters-Edward LovelPs Sons.
More Than We Hoped For-At Lat
timores'.
MISUNDERSTANDING Druggist.
Begin the New Year,. T. Shup-
trine.
Whisky-Lewis' IS Rye.
Not Hitch-Savannah-G Georgia
Laundry.
Buchu Gin-Henry Solomon & Son.
Sold All over Town-Pete Daley CT
gars.
Writings Superb statiOnery-The
Solomons Co.
Join the Pure Food store-The Del
monico Co.
Eggs-A Ehrlich & Bro.
Are You Aware-Penniman & Ennen.
Savannah Theater-To-night, Mid
night in Chinatown"
The Model Restaurant-Jerry George.
Medical-Swamp Root.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent. For Sale. Lost: Personal: Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
WILL POOLING BE LOCALIZED:

It is thought that pooling viii be
provided for in the bin giving the IN
terstate Commerce Commission author
fty to regulate railroad rates on inter-
state commerce. whfch9AIr Norton. the
Secretary Of the Navy. is preparing.
This bill will contain the administra-
tons views as to what should be
Of rebates and Determinations Of
which shippers and communities COM
plain, and is being prepared BY the
Secretary OF the Navy because he is
supposed TO be well acquainted with
railroad problems. having been a rail-
road man the greater part OF his life.
Several Of the presidents Of the prin-
cipal railroads have discussed the sub
jet Of pooling with President Roose-
welt since the latter's message was sent
TO Congress. and it is stated that they
have about convinced him that If the
railroad problem is to be dealt with at
all by Congress it should be dealt with
thoroughly.
1t is the fierce competition for bust
ness that is at the bottom Of rebates,
rate cutting and other things which
are so disastrous to shippers and COM
munities. If the railroads were author
tied 10 pool their earnings those in
equalities in rates would disappear.
The rates would be stable, and ship
pers are almost as anxious to have
stable rates as uniform rates-that is,
rates that place shippers and COM
munities on an equal footing.
OF course, pooling would put an end
to competition. and there seems to be
an impression that without competi-
ton rates would be ruinous. There
is no reason why rates should be high
er with pooling than without it. If
pooling is permitted the Interstate
Commerce Commission will be author
lied TO keep the rates within reason
able limits. If complaint is made that
a rate is too high it will be lowered
by the commission. provided the COM
plant is sustained.
1t is the understanding that those
who are advocating that authority be
lodged in the Interstate Commission
to regulate rates are not opposed to
legalized pooling. If they are not, and
the railroads favor it, there ought not
to be a great deal of difficulty in in
cooperating it in the proposed bill for
regulating rates.
The trusts, like the steel and beef
trusts, are, Of course, opposed to the
pooling of railroad rates, because it
would take from them the power they
now have to force concessions from the
railroads. but Congress would hardly
be guided by their wishes and inter-
ests in the matter.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27

81 was at Memphis. lending money
to planters for Eastern parties" said
the judge, according to the Chicago
News, land one day a planter who
had more than a mile front on the
Mississippi came in to see me about
making a raise of several thousand
dollars. After some talk it was ar
ranged that he should send on his
titles for inspection. but after four
or five days he wrote me:
Yesterday the river cut fifty acres
of land off my property, and I suppose
I'll have to get the papers fixed up
before sending them on
81 replied to him, and a week later
he wrote me:
Last night the river cut in on me
again and took my whole plantation
across into Arkansas. 1 suppose I'll
have to get the deeds made out ac-
cordingly.'
But the papers never came" con-
tinued the judge, Two weeks passed,
and then 1 got letter saying:
Never mind about that loan. The
river has cut in on me again and
carried my plantation seventy-five
miles downstream, and I'll try to Dor
row the money elsewhere and not both
er you any more"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
CURRENT COMMENT.

To remove the tariff barriers between
the Philippines and the United States,
thinks the Hartford Times (Dem.)
would be merely to give the Filipinos
what they have a right to demand, for
III the Philippine Islands are a part
of the United States, the producers Of
those islands have as much right to
have what they produce admitted to
every other part Of the United States
free Of duty as the farmers and man.
ufacturers OF Connecticut have to send
their products into Massachusetts,.
Rhode Island or New York without the
payment of dutv."
The Philadelphia Record CDem.)
says: III an uncrossed e in the
Dingley tariff law be discovered and
that q be crossed. then look for a
disturbance IN the business world II
a man IN Washington whisper: Let us
revise by dotting that undotted 4, .
straightway an the sheep on the hills
begin 20 shiyer symptoms Of foot-rot
appear and bricks start tumbling from
the walls OF the wool mills throughout
America. 50 thinks Mr. Theodore Jus
tice defending anew that most sensi-
tive of earthly cOntriyanccs, the high
tariff act now in force
The Louisville Courier Journal
memD says 1.-The Intelligence that
Senator Morgan u Alabama does not
snow tho physical vFor which be- cK-
hihlfe1 a. fbe laai session ~ Cone
gross. during which De eEhiDifcd fuch
ACTIVITY on ihn Panama question, VIII
he received Hlfh regret 81 men ~ nll
parties. w. la serving hla nffb c0nr
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30 ahaf lu ltil. iie plffed hls eiFhHDfh
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nrniuf. Hua q Harl4nH his flHffu tenn. N
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
AN ANTITOXIN AGAINST FATIGUE
From the Medical Record.

Should the development Of the study
OF toxine and antitoxin render pos
sible the production of an anti-body
capable OF neutralizing the results OF
muscular fatigue, the consequence
could hardly be predicted. Yet a Ger
man investigator seriously claims 10
have taken more than one step In this
direction already, and publishes re-
suits that are az least surprising.
Welchardt (Munchener Medizlmsche
Wachenachrift, Nov. 20. 1900. says he
has obtained a stable antitoxln, which.
when taken by the mouth IN moderate
doses, permits the output n an in.
creased amount Of muscular energy
without fatigue, and when taken COM
finu0ufly causes a sense ~ general
bien eire ana aumnenia the capacity
~ HDfk te commands his prepara-
iipn fo ellnlfi1na tf q promising ana.
lHpiie on ruuYalesrfuis. ufufnHfhoniar.
etc. Tho fatigue nniifoKiu lf ohfainrf
ffNnl horses hf Injecting fhfm With
failTur fnHIn produced in fhf mual a.
nf IfiuaiH fhaf NaFF been nulifrfes
~ fFiffma muscular eahaunfion.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
Clerical slips.

A Scotch minister who was in need
of funds thus conveyed his intentions
to his congregation: "Weel, friends,
the kirk is urgently in need of siller,
and as we have failed to get money
honestly, we will have to see what
bazaar can do for u.s."
1t happened in Cornwall, says Cham
ber's Journal, according to report, that
a pastor complained that his congre-
cation had the habit of looking round
at late corners, and, while he thought
it natural enough, he saw that it dis
turbed their religious duties. and so
determined to announce by name those
persons who came in late. According
ly he several times paused during the
prayers and said Mr.. S., with his
wife and daughter" then again, Mr..
C. and w. D." This went for a while
and the congregation kept their eyes
fixed on their books, but when it was
given out, Mrs. B. in new bonnet"
every feminine head in the church was
turned
1t was a curate who read in the
lesson for the day:
HE spoke the word, andcathoppers
came and grassipillars innumerable. -
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
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