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The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21
DANGEROUS FOOD PREsERVA-
TIVES.

The impression prevails very gener-
ally that the drugs used In preserving
foods are harmless. That this impress
sion is incorrect has been demonstrate
ed by DR.. Wiley, the chemist of the
Department of Agriculture.
For three years he has been engaged
in determining by experiments the eff
fects which these preservatives have
upon the human system. His subjects
are young men employed in the de-
partments at Washington or in his
laboratory.
DR.. Wiley delivered a lecture at the
Academy Of Medicine in New York on
Thursday night on borax and boracic
acid as food preservatives. AS is well
known these drugs are quite extensive
ly used in preserving foods. He de-
clared they were harmful. no matter
how small the quantity used. The eff
feet of them is to impair the digestion
and to cause headaches. Those who
are poisoned with them find it impos-
sible to do the same amount Of men
tai work they did before they became
affected by them. DIR. Wiley has no
doubt that the long continued use of
either of them would have most Sc
rious effect. The kidneys find it diff
cult to do properly the additional work
they impose upon them.
1t is claimed there is no good rea-
son for using these drugs in this coun-
try to preserve foods. because cold
storage houses are numerous and the
charges for the use of them are so
reasonable. There is one thing that is
certain, and that is If the use OF them
is permitted the cans and jars con-
tanning fruits preserved by them, and
meats that have been treated with
them, should be plainly labeled, so that
people might know what they are eat
ing.
1t is expected that Congress will
take some action in this matter at its
approaching session, but there doesn't
seem to be much use for it to do so,
since pure food laws do not seem to be
enforced or respected. 1t doesn't APP
pear to be anybody's business to see
that they are enforced. Hence, little
or no attention is paid to them. If
any one feels aggrieved, he can
have the laws enforced. So little
is known about them. however, that
the violators of them feel they are in
no danger of punishment.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Charleston Post (Dem.) says:
Secretary Shaw has called upon the
national banks to return rs per cent
of the government funds on deposit
with them into the treasury. 1t was
only about a week ago that he was
saying he should probably not have to
make this CALL The prospects Of the
Roosevelt administrator extrava-
gance must be growing clearer as the
days pass toward inauguration"
The Philadelphia Record CDem.)
says: when Secretary Taft shall re-
turn from his diplomatic encounter
with the officials of Panama he will
doubtless be able TO institute interest
ing comparison of the natives on the
isthmus and the natives in the Philip
pines Jas to their respective capacity
room to doubt that the Filipinos IL left
to themselves, would succeed as toler-
ably in managing their own affairs as
have any people of the West India Is
lands, where the experiment has been
tried"
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem.) says:
The lesson in the increase OF the So
cialist vote in the recent election is
one thldl tnOuiO De dtuultu. Inc IN
crease is not due merely 10 the wild
talk OF Debs and Watson and Hearst.
The idea Of paternalism, which is the
fundamental one In the Socialistic the
DRY, is being inculcated chiefly by the
Republican party, with its Dingley tar
IN, Its pension carnival, It's subsidy
plans. etc. No wonder many voters
conclude that II the government may
do SO much II might as we'll go ahead
and do everything"
A new political factor must be reck-
oned with In the future II we are to be-
lieve the Minneapolis Journals Qnd.)
statement that the travelling statesmen
OF Minnesota were largely responsible
for the election OF John A. johnson,
the Democratic candidate for Govern
OF. More than 30 Der cent. Of the
travelling men living and working m
Minnesota enlisted themselves under
the banner Of John a. Johnson" Al
says, land, next a. selling goods. they
made q their business 10 make y0tee
Tor Johnson. They talked Johnson 20
customers whether they sold them
ggsdn ~ not"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21
ELncTRIoIrY ron FARM work.

How long will 1t be before the cleo
trio motor will supplant, to a great
extent, human and horse labor on the
farm? That is a question that is now
being asked in some of the most pro-
gressive farm districts OF the West.
1t is stated that in Kent county, IL
linois, experiments have been in pro-
gress with the electric motor for farm
work six months or more, and the re-
suits obtained are highly. satisfactory.
It is claimed the work on the farms
is done at one half the expense that
that consequently there has been a
very great increase in the price of farm
lands of the county. About every
thing that is done by men and horses
In the way of cultivating the farm is
done by means of electricity. The land
is ploughed and the crops cultivated,
the machines for harvesting and
threshing the grain are run and, in
fact, about everything about the farm
in the way of labor is performed by
AAAe1SAAAhOAye NACSNAANANy bCAA6 bhC AAAOLlNG
power. The electricity is supplied by the
electric railway that runs to all of
the principal towns and villages of
the county, but If the demand were
sufficient, and, 1t is said, it soon will
be, independent plants for supplying
the electricity would be established.
How long will 1t be before here in
the South the farmers will begin to
experiment with electricity in their
farm work? If the statement from
Kent county, Illinois, is correct there
is no reason why the farmers shouldn't
plant and cultivate their cotton and
corn by means of electricity, and also
transport their crops to the local mar
kets. With such progress in the Gull
tivation of crops greater effort would
be made to invent a machine for pick
ing cotton, and with effort would, In
time, come success. With a machine
for picking cotton, a machine in every
respect a success, farmers could af-
ford to grow cotton at a price much
below that which they are now getting.
No doubt such machine will be in
vented in the course of time. but the
introduction of electricity on the cot
ton farms would hasten the invention
Of 1t. Now that the cotton farmers
are in a prosperous condition there Is
no reason why they shouldn't experi-
ment with electricity or anything else
that promises to lessen the cost OF
production.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21

He was stopping at a Cleveland ho-
tel and went down to the Union De-
pot on an errand, says the Chicago
News. There he met man who SEEM
ed to want to be friendly. and after a
bit the first one said:
Eyes, am a total stranger here. I
am almost without baggage, and yet
they have let me run up hotel bill
of about S12. What is there to pre-
vent me from taking train and jump
ing the bill? 1 could be 100 miles
away before they missed me-"
We'll, l dunno" doubtfully replied
the other.
but don't you see how easy it would
be?"
''Y-e-s, II looks kind o. easy, but
don't YOU see l am the hotel detective,
and having a suspicion that you in
tended to beat us I have been follow
ing you for tho last two days"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21

Dispatches from st. Petersburg and
the Far East indicate that Russia en-
tertains high hopes that the operations
of her two Baltic fleets, or Pacific
squadrOns as they are now called,
when they shall have arrived in Asiat-
ic waters. will change the tide of war
in her favor. Notwithstanding the
delay caused by the North sea fishing
fleet incident. Rojestvensky's division
has made very good progress towards
its destination. and the expectation is
that the second division, being COM
posed Of faster vessels, will overtake
the first division shortly after it passes
through the Suez canal and that the
two will be consolidated and proceed
together. On paper the consolidated
fleet viii be quite formidable, but will
it be really formidable when it reaches
the waters in which it is expected to
fiSht?
The Russian vessels have still long
and hard journey ahead of them.
There is no port at which they may
otCP AOA ASRohhs LANy eShC PSAAAAN~SN
to live only from hand-to-mouth in
the matter of coal and supplies. Even
the friendly French ports at which
they are stopping en- route will permit
them to take on no more coal and sup
plies than are actually necessary in
order for them to reach the next port.
Meanwhile the machinery is deteriorat-
ing and in need of attention. When
the ships shall have reached the Far
East there will be only two friendly
ports into which they can run, Port
Arthur and Vladivostock; and the pos
sibilities are that this number will be
reduced to one. since the fall of Port
Arthur is daily expected. 1t would
be marvellous if the vessels, like our
famous Oregon, should arrive at their
destination in fit condition to go inn
mediately into battle. 1t is practi-
cally certain that their bunkers will
be about empty. the men jaded and
the supplies low.
And in what condition will they find
the enemy? The chances are that Ad-
NH dl IObO ltSitlilB NNSSCio oil INV
championship prize fighters, trained to
the minute and in perfect fettle. While
guarding Port Arthur. they are not
performing arduous blockade duty, but
are lying at anchor in the Elliot Is
lands at a we'll equipped naval base,
where men and ships are kept always
in condition. They are in commune
cation with torpedo boat scouts at
Port Arthur. and are ever ready to
make a dash to any point at the first
authentic note Of warning. Japanese
scouts will watch for the new-coming
Russians, of course, and Togo's highly
efficient fleet may be expected to
pounce upon the jaded and depleted
enemy somewhere between Formosa
and Port Arthur or Vladivostock. 1t
is not difficult to surmise what would
be the outcome of such an encounter.
The combined Russian fleet is larger
than Togo's, but it would not be in
condition to meet the perfectly pre-
pared enemy.
Naval experts in Washington and
London seem to be agreed upon the
point that the chances are against the
Baltic fleets rendering any very eff
fective service to the Russian cause
in the Far East.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21
From the Sew York Press.


The figure in symbolism takes
high rank. C. L. Darrow, a Brook
Ignite, says: THE number of Mr..
Roosevelts electoral votes is S4S,
which equals 7x7x7, or 40 sevens. Mr..
Parker's vote was 1873, or 10 sevens.
The Presidents majority is 21O, or 30
seVens. There are ATS electoral votes,
or 6S sevens. The sum of the digits 6
and is IA, or 2 seyens. The sum of
the digits 133 equals one seven. In the
number S43 the sum of the middle
digit and either of the others is seven.
Seven is the middle digit of 476. The
sum of these (4-i-7-l-6) is IL. or one
10 and one seven.
The Presidents majority of the pop
ular vote is set down at 2,16S, 900.
Taking the significant f1gures-216S-
the first two (21) equalthree sevene. The
first and last (2S) equal four sevens.
The last three (16S) equal "a sevens.
The sum of the middle digits is seven.
The sum of all the digits equals II,
another 10 and Z. The sum of the
cubes of these digits is 737, which
gives two more Sevens. Seven plus 3
plus equals 17-another 10 and z.
The significance of number II is this:
1t is made of 10 and Z; the latter is
the number of life and the symbol of
perfection; the former is the symbol
of law and Righteousness, that is, the
Ten Commandments. The law of
life is based on the law of righteous
ness; the one involves and necessitates
the other. 1t is as true of nations as
of individuals. Join the two symbols,
10 and 7, and we have, of course, II.
This election year is 1904. The num-
Der is equal to 272 sevens; 272 equals
16 seventeens, or 16 tens and 16 sew
ems. The sum of the digits of 1904 is
IA. equal to two sevens. The sum of
the square of the digits of 1904 equals
9S, or IA sevens, and 9 plus equals
II, or yet again one 10 and one T."
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21
NDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Clinton Lodge. No. 81, F.
& A. M; Irish-American Friendly So
ciety.
Special Notices-General Insurance,
w. t. Hopkins; Thanksgiving Procla-
nation.
Publications-Everybody's Magazine
for November.
Fine Furniture-Lindsay & Morgan.
The Very Finest Work-E. &C w.
Laundry.
Be Wise-Lattimore's.
Promptness-Rowlins Druggist.
1t Cures Itch. T. Shuptrine.
For Goodness Sake-Le Panic Cigar.
Show Cases-Henry Solomon & Son.
Trusses-Knight's Pharmacy.
Just Right Lenses-Dr. NJ. Schwab's
Son.
Mocha and Java-The Delmonico Co.
Savannah Theater-To-night 1.-THE
Little Stowaway."
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21
FOOTBALL TRAGEDY.

On the bloody gridiron the two
teams, evenly matched, commended for
the mastery, says the Chicago Tribune.
The game was nearly over. The
score stood to 0, and the spectators
in the grand stand were wild with ex-
citement.
Suddenly "a shrill, piercing, agonizing,
appalling, insisting shrek rose high
above the din.
The people in the grand stand rose
to their feet and craned their necks.
Whence came that wild, maddening
scream?
None could tell.
Still it pealed through the atmos-
phere.
The struggling athletes paused an in
slant and looked around in alright.
All but the self-possessed young man
who had the ball.
Seeing the way clear, he ran around
the end, scored touchdown, and the
game was won.
Then the agonizing shrek stopped.
But whence came it?
Listen, and you shall hear.
Boys on the outside of the grounds
had caught a half-grown pig, tied
roped around his hind feet, and strung
him up on stout nail in the fence.
Thus had one lone rooter accomplish
ed what all the others had failed TO do.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21
A Serious French nuel.

Eyes, William was passing by a va
cant lot some place in Paris where one
of these French duels was going on,
says the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
And what did William do?"
"EIe looked on while the principals
jabbed the air with their swords. Fin
ally he got tired and was going away,
when they brought out pistols"
Yes"
Both fired at the word, and one shot
grazed tree in the next field, and
the other tore a hole in Williams
hat
What did William do?"
HE got mad and chased the whole
party for two miles through the woods,
but the only man he could catch was
the DOCTOR"
what did he do to the doctor?''
HE kicked a hole In his surgical
case, traded hats with him, and let
him CO."
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21
----o-@l=o--
Personal.

The novel theory of DR.. voight, a
German astronomer. is that the great
er part of the moons craters represent
work of coral insects in long-vanish-
ed seas. He finds that if the earth's
tropical ocean We're suddenly dried up
the bed would resemble the face of
the moon, the coral formations appear
ing exactly like the craters of extinct
volcanoes.
TO avenge his defeat in the NUM-
cipal elections for the Provincial
Council at Tralos Monies, the Marquis
de Xanos cornered the entire stock of
the butchers and poulterers of the
town. The inhabitants had to subsist
without meat for a week.
Assistant Postmaster General
Wynne will visit North Wales on his
there.
Three men rule Japan's destinies
in her present war with Russia. The
first is Marquis Oyama, commander of
all the forces in the field-a small,
podgy, pock-marked man, whom no
caricaturist could fail to lampoon as
a frog. Next comes Gen. Baron Koda-
ma, the executive brain of the Japa-
nese general staff. The third member
of the triumvirate is Gen. Fuku
shima, whose genius has been the
concrete mortar which has cemented
into solid block the rough-hewn ma
terial of Japan's general staff. The
three men are of very small stature,
and Gen. F'ukushima is fair for a Jap
anese. Oyama's tremendous success
is due to the fact that he whipped
China on the very fields over which he
is now so diligently pursuing the
Russians. 1t is said that no other
commander In history has ever been
called to operate twice over the same
squares of the map. Oyama knows
Manchuria as we'll as he knows Toxic
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21

Chile and the Argentine Republic are
political rivals of long standing, and
on numerous occasions have been open
and hostile enemies. Two years or
30 ago they entered into an agreement
1or mutual benefit. under the terms OF
which each government was 10 cut
down its naval establishment and limit
Its expenditures for war preparations
uhe agreement was hailed IN all parts
OF the world as a long step towards
peace and prosperity and civilization
This agreement was entered into be-
fore Brazil became active as a navy
builder. Lately, however, Brazil has
shown unwonted activity IN providing
herself with war vessels, and now the
argentine has asked the concurrence
OF Chile IN the proposition that she ox-
pend tib.0O0000 for war vessels 10 be
used only IN the Atlantic. She pro-
poses 20 give Chile all the assurance
maj may be needed that the vessels
VIII not be sent into the Pacific 10
Henhfe Chilean territory, but she
Deems ~ Increased navy necessary 90
protect herself against any possible
NAs'e'sion 90 ihe part VI Brazil.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21
SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION.

Southern congressman are, as a rule,
confident that an effort will be made in
the next Congress to reduce the repre-
sentation in Congress and the Electoral
College of those states which have
practically taken the ballot from the
negro. They do not give their reasons
for this confidence. 1t is evidently
based, however, on the big Republican
victory in the recent election.
The states that would be affected by
such legislation are North Carolina,
South Carolina, Virginia. Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama They have
the grandfather" clause in their suf-
frage laws or some other provision
that restricts the negro vote.
But the South win not lose any Of
her representation without a bitter
fight. That is admitted by all. And
theresare difficulties in the way of the
legislation in question that would be
hard to overcome. particularly in the
Senate. In that body some radical
changes would have to be made in the
rules.
But are not Southern congressman
apprehensive rather than confident
that legislation of the kind in question
will be ATTEMPTED? From a party
standpoint the Republicans would have
very little to gain. and they might
lose a great deal.
The majority of the Northern people
have no particular interest in the ne
gro. The more they study the race
problem the less inclined they are to
take sides against the South in respect
to 1t. they see the negro is not wanted
in their section. White labor is driv-
ing him out of about all the avenues
of employment there. and 1t is a fact
that where negroes collect in large
numbers in Northern communities there
is always an increase in court ex-
penses, owing to the increase in crime.
Hence, outside of few extremists,
there isn't any desire that the country
shall be worked into frenzy for the
purpose Of taking a little of the
South's representation from her.
AASiC 40 diiOl1CT ldCbOT WHICH VIII
make its appearance If the question is
brought to the attention Of Congress.
1t is the large moneyed interests which
Northern men have in the South. These
Northern owners of shares in Southern
railways and mills want the South to
prosper. because they want income
from their investments. Therefore they
are going to throw the weight of their
influence against any agitation of the
representation question. With North
ern influence against agitation and the
South fighting it the chances of get
ting legislation that would lessen the
South's influence in Congress is re-
mote.
There is no good reason for borrow
ing trouble. There will be no race
question bill in this Congress, and IL it
is introduced into the next its progress
will be so slow that there will come
final adjournment before it reaches the
point at which 1t is to be voted on in
the Senate. Therefore there is no rea-
son for worrying about the matter yet
awhile.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21
snnsages and voters.

One of the best of the William F.
Sheehan stories is about campaign
guessers, says the New York Times. 1t
concerns a ward leader that Mr. Shee-
han once befriended. He was % sau-
sage manufacturer and absent-minded,
but nevertheless an excellent ward
leader. Election generally came in the
busy sausage season, when the tasty
edibles were being turned out by the
hundreds of thousands. Naturally he
had sausaaes and votes on his mind
night and day, and 1t is small wonder
that he got his politics and sausage
figures alarmingly mixed. He would
claim votes by the sausage list and
vice versa Finally his wife took him
in charge, becoming his secretary and
general help, answering letters regis
tering voters and making out bills for
the sausage business. To make things
easy she marked his books and papers
thus:
Thems sausages.
Thems Democrat voters.
After this the politicians missed the
sausage claims for which the district
had become noted. and the forecasts
were nearer to the truth.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21
CELERY AND RHEUMATISM.
From the New York Press.

from the New YORK Press
Ho, all We rheumaticsi Celery never
was finer than that which you find
in the market just now. Chop up the
stalks in pieces an inch and half in
length. boil them in water until soft,
then drink the water. Or stew them In
milk and butter. thicken with a little
flour and eat warm with toast OF po-
tatoes. rheumatism is impossible, It
is said, IL the vegetable be cooked and
freely eaten. Besides, there Is no
greater delicacy than stewed celery.
The value Of the plant lies in the apiol,
or parsley-camphor. 1t contains. This
dilates the blood vessels and has few
equals as a dlaphoretic and diuretic.
Anything that produces a profuse per-
spiration is good for the rheumatic
patient. All the world knows that
celery is the best absorbent drinking
man can take. and its action on the
kidneys and viscera Is most healthful.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21

Twenty-one department stores in
New York city have entered into an
agreement for the purpose of prevent
ing and furnishing shoplifting. It is
estimated by tho managers of these
stores that they suffer an average an
nual loss Of not less than 100000 from
the pilferings OF shoplifters. It is the
purpose Of the combination TO discour-
age the idea that stealing from stores
is "kleptomania" and not plain. ordI-
nary theft. and TO insist that shopping
thieves be punished to the fun extent
OF the law.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21

A devoted Jersey City wife recently
imagined that the love of her lord and
master for her was cooling. In order
TO strengthen II she went 70 "A fortune
teller and paid IS for a small box Of
love tablets" that were guaranteed TO
restore waning affections and make
them as good AZ new. The wife mixed
some OF the tablets IN her husbands
pancakes, and hopefully awaited ro-
suits Shortly the husband fell desper-
ateiy III Of Indigestion. A medical ex-
animation revealed the fact that che
love tablets" consisted of boeswax and
q iittlo sugar The husband on whom
tho spell was proposed 10 be worked ~
disgusied with the scheme and has
1ped Cos divorce.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-21

Generally speaking, when Senator
Depew makes a joke it is easy enough
to see the point of it: but when he
talks in earnest there are many per-
sons and papers who have difficulty i'm
determining what he is driving at. For
instance, at Senator Platt's buckwheat
breakfast the other day Senator De-
pew said: ut is an admonition and a
warning to the party in power that the
new Governor of Massachusetts, in a
state which has been Republican so
long, will have an enormous patron
age" That the Senator is immensely
worried about the patronage is plain
enough. 1t has been charged that he
thinks more about patronage than
anything else connected with public
office. But why is Mr.. Douglas cleo
tion an admonitlon and a warning?
The Boston and Springfield papers are
puzzled.