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ITe Florida Legislature has before It a
bn£svhich proposes that In suits for dam
ages for personal injuries the court, in
its discretion, may order a physical ex
amination of the person bringing the
suit. New York has a law somewhat simi
lar. i Some time ago a young woman who
had been bitten by a dog, and who was
suing the owner of the dog for damages,
lost her case because she declined to give
ocular proof of the truth of her allega
tions.
Gen. Joe Wheeler is not to go to the
Philippines, but he Is to have active duly
is. duty as active as can be had
where there Is no lighting going’ on. A
new department, to be known as the De
partment of Texas, is to be created, and
Gen. Wheeler is to be assigned to the com
mand of it. Whether the little cavalry
man will be content with the dull routine
of department work is not known. The
President declined to send him to the Phil
ippines at this time, it is said, because he
did not want him to go unacclimated In the
rainy 'and sickly season.
Savannah has been enjoying comparative
immunity from fires during the past few
months; but no such good fortune has fal
len to the lot of New York. The records
of that city show that there have been
1,800 fires there during the last three
months—an average of twenty fires a day.
That Is a pretty severe record. Still there
is no talk, so far as the information goes,
of the Insurance companies having put
their rates up. A corresponding record in
a smaller city would probably have been
attended by an addition of 25 per cent.
to the rates, and a heavy light on the fire
chief.
Edouard Rod, the distinguished French
critic and author, visited Chicago the
other day. When Chicago thinks kindly of
a great man and earnestly desires to
antuse, edify and impress him, she takes
him out to the stock yards and shows him
how they stick pigs. M. Hod struck Chi
cago's fancy, so out to the stock yards
he went. One of Chicago's masterpieces
is, "From Pig to I’ork in Five Minutes."
being an object lesson in quick butcher
ing and dressing meat. "Ugh. it is horri
ble; it is barbarous!" cried M. Rod as
the blood spurted; and then he fainted.
Chicago is not quite sure that she has
made the sort of impression she wanted
to oe the Frenchman.
The appointment of the Duke of Areas
to lie Spanish minister at Washington lias
re rived an old story, the present point of
which is that the lady who is now the
Duehe.b of Afros might have been Mrs.
Admirai George Dewey it she hud so mind'
ed. She was Mis* Virginia Lowery, a
Wasdilrtgion belle, and Dewey and i lie
Spaniard lell in love with her about the
same time, iioih proposed, aml the for
eigner won. The lady probably followed
the dictate* of her heart; hut In this coun-
Irv, and al ( i,,, t lt ne especially, I icwev *
■ auk and tup am regarded ut> being tar
aliov* tho*e of d‘Areas.
HE k R ADMIRAL KAfTZ’S LETTER.
Rear Admiral Kaurs Is a splendid olfi
eer and. as far as the public knows, has
thus far acted courageously and wisely
In all matters pertaining to the Samoan
problem, but he onuld not forego giving
expression to his feelings toward the Ger
mans when an opportunity to do so pre
sented hinvwlf. It iR true he didn't expect
what he said, or rather wrote, would
reach tUe public, ns hi* letter was ad
dressed to his ooudln, in Cincinnati, a wo
man, who was so tickled at getting a
letter front the admiral thut she straight
way sent it to a newspaper for publica
tion. In view of this letter from Admiral
Kautz, anil the little speech and song by
Capt. Cpghlan, of the Raleigh, at the ban
quet in. New York, it does seem as if the
nuvy department ought to have a circu
lar, showing just what naval officers may
and may not say, sent to each officer.
If they haven't discretion enough to know
when to talk and not to talk upon ques
tions bearing upon the relations existing
between their country and other coun
tries the Secretary of the Navy will have
to put a padlock on their lips.
Neither Admiral Kautz nor Capt. Cogh
lan meant to be offensive to the German
Emperor or the German people, hut what
they said was of an Irritating character,
and. in the case oi Capt. Coghlan, brought
a protest from the German government.
No notice has yet been taken of the
Kautz incident, but it Is by no means cer
tain that it will be permitted to pass un
questioned.
These naval officers didn't seem to real
ize that there are newspapers which would
rather provoke a war than miss an op
portunity to get an item of news—or at
least what they are pleased to call news.
In fact, ad they care for Is an excuse
to print something calculated to get in
dividuals. communities or na'ions into
trouble with each other. Officials there
fore cannot be too careful in expfessing
sentiment* for which the government
might be held responsible.
There are people In this country who do
not like the Germans or the German Em
peror, and there are newspapers which
majte it a point to encourage such dis
like, but the vast majority—those who
really make publio sentiment—recognize
the Germans as a great people and the
German Emperor as a man of ability and
force of character. Those who would be
little either are lacking In common sense.
The policy of this great republic should
be that of peace and good will and oppo
sition to militarism. A large part of the
people are of German decent, and while
they are loyal Americans they have a
warm place in their hearts for their na
tive land. If the Jingo press and thought
less publio speakers represented the senti
ments of the peopla we should very soon
be on the edge of war with every other
nation, and instead of being engaged in
Industrial pursuits, adding to the wealth
and prosperity of the country, our young
men would be forced into armies, our sub
stance would be wasted in wars and the
life of (he nation imperiled.
The alarm which for a few months last
summer prevailed along our coast when
It was supposed the Spanish fleet was free,
was insignificant in comparison with what
it would be if we were to have war with
one or more of the Powers of Eu
rope.
We have had a taste of war within the
last year—in fact, we are still having a
taste of it—and we found it rather
costly, though fortunately it didn't cost as
much as it might. We do not believe that
the people are anxious for more war. They
will always be ready to defend the honor
of their country and its territory, but
they are not hunting for prexets for war.
Our policy should be one of peace. In
deed, the people would rejoice if they
could be assured that there would be no
more wars for a generation. Therefore
they do not believe it advisable to encour
age letters and speeches like those of Ad
miral Kautz and Capt. Coghlan—letters
and speeches which are likely to cause a
• rupture of the friendly relations which ex
ist between this and other nations.
BELMONT’S LETTER.
WUI Mr. Bryan undertake to answer Mr.
Belmont's last letter? There are undoubt
edly a great many Democrats who would
like to have him answer it.
There is one point in it that ought to
be answered, and that this: On what
ground does Mr. Bryan base his position
that only those who are willing to stand
by the platform of 1896 ought to be per
mitted to assist in making the next plat
form, in view of the assertion of Mr. Bel
mont, that he, Mr. Bryan, refused to stand
by the platform of 1892, and yet insisted
on having a hand it, making the platform
of 1896?
Mr. Belmont goes further than that, and
declares that Mr. Bryan conspired with
Silver Republicans and Populists to over
throw the platform of 1892 long before the
meeting of the Democratic, convention of
1816, and. with the help of others, finally
succeeded in overthrowing it. If, prior to
the convention of 1896, Mr. Bryan thought
it right to refuse to stand by the platform
of 1892, why does he think It wrong, pre
vious to the convention of 1990, to refuse
to stand by the platform in existence—the
platform of 1896? This la virtually the
question which Mr. Belmqm asks, and
which Mr. Bryan is expected to answer.
The answer ought not to be delayed long,
and It ought to be to the point when It is
made.
The auditorium for the reunion of Con
federate Veterans at Charleston has been
completed and turned over to the city. It
is said to be a handsome and well ar
ranged building, with a sealing cniwcity
of 7,tX)O peisons. The building is described
as being "practically one solid piece of
iron, closely bound and welded, and ab
solutely safe.” The exits have been made
convenient and large, so that If every seat
were filled the building could be cleared
in a few minutes In the event of panic.
1 The grounds are to b beautified with
palms and grass plats. These, however,
cannot be provided in time for the reunion
This auditorium, which Is a permanent
Ktruciurt and a creditable one to the cltjg
will put Cti.i'ies'on henceforth into the list
ol liig couvcutlon elite*.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1809.
CHOKER ON THE COMING CAMPAIGN
Just before he started for Europe Rich
ard Croker was asked by the newspapers
of New fork whether he had made up his
mind as to th>- proper policy for Tammany
Hall to pursue .n the campaign of 1900.
He said he could not speak for the organi
zation, but that speaking for himself he
was satisfied that if the Democrats made
the Tt to 1 Plea the leading issue they
would fail in electing their candidate for
President, In his opinion the money ques
tion should be left to Congress for
settlement. He also said he didn’t
think thqt one-fifth of the voters of
the country agreed with Mr. Bryan’s
anti-expansion views. Asa matter
of fact he doesn't think Mr. Bryan is
nearly so big a man as some other men in
the Democratic party. If he could have
his way he would make an anti-trust
piank the leading one in the Democratic
national platform.
But Mr. Croker isn’t anxious to keep the
Philippines. He would favor a policy of
swapping them for the British West In
dies, or a part of Canada, but not before
we have compelled the Filipinos to ac
knowledge our authority. We must settle
all trouble In the islands before we under
take to dispose of them.
Mr. Croker undoubtedly expresses the
views of the leading Tammany Democrats,
and perhaps the leading Democrats of New
York, when he says that the Democratic
party cannot carry the country on a plat
form which makes silver at the ratio of
16 to 1 the leading Issue. And it Is prob
able that he expresses the opinion of many
Demoerntlc leaders of the West. The Chi
cago Chronicle, one of the great Demo
cratic dallies of the West, In its issue of
Tuesday says: "There isn't a Democratic
Governor in a Northern state. There isn't
a Democratic representative In the Senate
from any Northern state. With Bryan as
leader and 16 to 1 as an Issue there Isn’t
likely to be a single electoral vote outside
the old cotton states for the Democratic
nominee."
Are Mr. Croker and the Chronicle of suf
ficient Importance as political prophets to
cause the Democratic leaders to hesitate
about making‘the 16 to 1 issue the leading
one in the next national campaign?
DESPICABLE JOURNALISM.
The effort being made by some of the
Northern newspapers to anake it appear
that all of the newspapers of Georgia and
of the South condone the offense of the
mob which lynched Sam Hose is so con
temptible that it ought to be passed un
noticed. If it were unnoticed, however,
there might be good people in various
parts of the country who would be misled
by the slander. One of these papers which
shows that it is more willing to slander
the Southern people than to disseminate
the truth is the Chicago Record. In speak
ing of the Newnan affair it says: “The
press of the state that seeks to condone
the offense, as does the Atlanta Consti
tution, by diverting attention from the
crime of the mob to the. crime of the vic
tims, is a disgrace to journalism.” Fur
ther along in its article it says: "No acts
of criminal negroes could do as much to
reflect discredit upon the South as has
this exhibition of violence by a
Southern white mob and Its condonement
by the Southern press,”
When the Record printed thl3 stuff It
didn’t know that the crime committed
by the Newnan mob had been condoned by
the Southern press. It knew from the
Associated Press w hat one paper had said
in reference to the action of the mob, but
it didn't know what other papers in this
state and in other parts of the South had
said, and hence when it alleged that the
entire press condoned the violence of the
mob it scattered abroad a falsehood. At.,,
it did it knowingly. Such conduct shows
degeneracy that is deplorable. We are
sure that nowhere in the South could there
be found such utter disregard of the truth
—such willingness to slander the people
of a whole section of the country.
We have nothing to say in regard tc
what the Constitution printed In respect
to the Newnan affair. It is well able to
take care of itself, but we say emphatical
ly that it isn't true that the whole press
of thq state or of Ihe South condoned the
violence of the Newnan mob. As far as
we have noticed only two papers In the
South have attempted to do so.
Commenting on the lynching of Sam
Hose, the Philadelphia Ledger concludes
a scathing paragraph with these words:
“Northern men do not like to live in com
munities where such practices are sup
ported by public sentiment.” We hate
and abhor the crime of lynching as much
as the Philadelphia Ledger possibly can;
but there is Just one little matter to which
we would like to call our contemporary's
attention, namely, in the Associated Press'
report of the affair it was stated that one
of the men who lifted the can and poured
the kerosene oil over the negro was" sup
posed to be a native of Ihe commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. In ihe special report
of the Atlanta Constitution It was stated
that the man announced that he was a
Northerner, as he raised the can and pour
ed the oil, but added that he was glad to
take part in the lynching. We wish that
all Northerners who come among us—and
good people are always welcome— would
identify themselves with the law and or
der-loving native element, and not aid and
abet in the commission of horrible, blood
curdling crimes, and corrupting public
sentiment, as it appears this Pennsylva
nian did. f
Magistrate Kudlich of New York city Is
not precisely in line with that St. Louts
judge who says that a husband h is a right
to beat his wife 4f she crosses his will,
but he may gel there In time. The New
Yorker told a petulant young wife who
had made a groundless complaint to his
court about her husband, "You need lo go
home and gel spanked,” and discharged
the husband.
When Richard Harding Davis dispatch
ed Messenger Jaggers from London to
Chicago he gave him a letter and a pack
age for Mi** Cecil Clarke of the latter city.
The package contained their engagement
ring Th* announcement now comes that
the wedding Will he solemnised next week,
at the Massai'huaatls summer home of (ha
parents of (be hi t ie. ,
Dr. Henry of Walton has presented to
the Florida Legislature a memorial from
the State Medical Association calling at
tention to the rapid fgiread of tuberculo
sis, and asking far legislation to prevent
"tndiserimina/e kissing and spitting.” Re
specting the’first mutter proposed to be
Inhibited, we really cannot see how it is
to be governed by law. There isn't any
body in Florida who would admit giving
or taking kisses indiscriminately, and it
is not kissing with discretion which , is
sought to be prohibited. What the doc
tors wish, no doubt, ts that there shall
be no exchanges of labial salutations be
tween persons afflicted with tuberculosis
and those that are not; but would the
doctors have each girl and each beau in
the state go about with a certificate of
inspection pinned in a conspicuous place?
As far as spitting is concerned, that is
easier to get at, and the practice of the
filthy habit tn public halls, cars and simi
lar places should be stopped by the strong
hand of the law
We noted a day or two ago that some
wonderful results were being obtained by
artillery experts in Vienna with anew
gun and new explosive. It was said that
the gun was capable of extraordinary ra
pidity of fire,'that the projectiles had in
creased range, and that there was no
smoke and practically no noise from the
discharge. It appears that the new ex
plosive in question is liquid air, or a prep
aration of that wonderful product. Three
weeks ago the Morning News printed a
long article descriptive of liquid air and
some of the marvels that have been per
formed with tt. In that article Us explos
ive force was dwelt upon. Mr. Triplet,
the liquid air expert of New York, thinks
the Austrian experts have gone about
making their new explosive on the lines
laid down In the article in question, the
data for which was furnished by Mr. Trip
ler.
Miss Lilian Bell, author and critlq, of
Chicago, has made a suggestion for the
benefit of that city which, with some
slight modification, would seem to be
worthy the most distinguished considera
tion of the city of Savannah. What Miss
Bell said was this: "Chicago needs goats,
If it is to become beautiful. A city can
never be even ordinarily handsome If its
streets are not clean. A great many
goats could be employed to eat the waste
paper and the old cans and other articles
that litter the streets.” Did Savannah
make a mistake when she passed the anti
goat ordinance?
! ' PERSONAL.
—lt is the degree of LL. D. and not Ph.
D., as generally reported, which Harvard
conferred on Gen. Nelson A. Miles. At
Harvard Pb. D. is no longer conferred and
LL. D. is the highest honor In the gift of
the university.
—Most of the rag carpets covering the
floors of the Washington mansion at
Mount Vernon are woven on an old-fasl\-
ion loom by an ancient colored woman,
■‘Aunt Phemy," whose forbears have for
generations been connected with the Wash
ington estate and family.
—The Rev. Dr. De Costa of the Church
of St. John the Evangelist, New York,
has made an appeal for the closing of
places of amusement on Sunday, on the
ground that without considering the re
ligious side of the question, the actors
need rest just like other people' After
enumerating the evils of the Sunday the
ater the preacher sayti they may he sum
med up under the head of overwork.
—A, J. Smith, a well-to-do business man
of Salt Lake City, registered at the best
hotel in Omaha last week. He had plenty
of money' with him, but seemed depressed.
In a few days Salt Lake friends of his
wrote to Omaha, asking whether anything
had happened to him. An Omaha paper
got hold of till) fact nr. I made a tits*
of supposed stiio. le ut „f it. Smith read
the paper and went to his room and swal
lowed a fatal dose of arsenic and chloro
form.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The other day .the Morning News made
some remarks respecting the South Caro
lina law under which the heirs of the vic
tim of a mob may recover $2,000 damage?
from the county. Of the matter the Wash
ington Post (Ind.) says: "Our Savannah
contemporary intimates a well-founded
doubt as to. ’’whether the heirs of a person
lynched can secure a verdict.” In a case as
to which the sympathy of the community
is with the lynchers, no such verdict can
be secured, no matter how strong the
proof. It would be Impossible, for example,
to enforce such a law- in Ripley county,
Indiana, v. here public sentiment indorse!
the wholesale lynching of four men, not
one of whom was accused of the one and
only crime that is held to justify that
summary proceeding. A clergyman of that
locality went into print in an attempted
apology for his murderous neighbors. Is it
likely that South Carolina wilf be more
favorable than Indiana to the execution of
a mulct law? Even in counties and cases
where public sentiment abhors the lynch
ing for which a suit is brought, we appre
hend insurmountable difficulties in getting
a verdict. The people will feel that they
ought not to be compelled to pay for acts
for which they are not, in any way, re
sponsible Something higher, deeper, and
stronger than mulct laws will be required
to abolish lynchlngs or. to limit mob mur
ders to the perpetrators of the crime for
which public sentiment prescribes lynch
ing as the proper penalty.”
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says:
"Now that the traveling salesmen of the
United States have taken up the fight
against the trusts there would seem to be
little prospect ahead of the latter except a
lorced unconditional surrender. The trusts
may wax fat on the Inactivity of Attorney
General Griggs, and may even prosper in
spite of the random suits at law brought
by state officials. But when the drummers
of the country carry the anti-trust senti
ment into every corner grocery or other
meeting place of village eolons through
out the land the power of a Wholesome an
tagonism to unjust monopolies should not
be slow in asserting itself. At all events
the drummers can talk the monster octo
pus within an Inch of hia life if he is not
entirety aeolched."
The Chicago Tribune (Rep.) says; "Capt.
Coghlan of the Raleigh is not as discreet
as the great admiral he never tires of
praising, but he shot straight at Manila,
and hia fault at the Union League Club
banquet at New York may wett be over
looked as far as may be consistent with in
ternational courtesy. The captain of the
ahi|> that tired the first and also the last
shot tn the SpanDh-Anwrir.in war should
learn from his admiral that In peace "noth
ing an becomes B inau as modest siilintaa
And humility.*'
A Tramp"* Soft Snap.
*'l was up in Vermont, near the Cana
dian line,” said the tramp, according to
the Chicago Nows, "and a farmer offered
to let me work for my board during the
winter. As he had a big woodpile at the
door and only a few head of live stock to
take care of, I Jumped at the chance. I
thought it would be three square meals
per day, apples and popcorn in the even
ing and only about two hours' work out
of the twenty-four. Two days after I
had engaged with him theTe came a snow
storm. The farmer spoke of it as a 'flur
"ry,’ but there was a fall of eighteen inches.
He pointed to a snow s' vel and told me
to go to work. I dug j s to the barn,
the well, the hencoop and the pig pen,
and had just got through moving about a
hundred tons 6f snow, when another ‘flur
ry* took place. Two feet were added to the
eighteen inches. I had to go all over my
work again and keep open the road to
the country school house besides. My
back was still aching when there came
what was called the setting in of winter.
It began on a Monday evening and snowed
right along till Thursday noon. By that
time it was up to the second-story windows
of the house, and you couldn't see a fence
on the farm. It took me two days to un
cover the house, and another to tunnel
a path to the barn. I was kept at. It for
twelve hours per day for ten days, and
during that time I believe I moved enough
snow to make good sleighing all over the
state of Rhode Island.
“There is only one thing harder than
shoveling snow, and that is sawing up
hickory wood with a dull saw. Gee-whiz,
but didn't my back ache o' nights! I was
ready to quit the job, but I couldn’t get
out of the country. There was seven or
eight feet of snow on the highways and
nothing moving, and so I had to hang to
the snow shovel. I wasn’t quite through
around the house yet when another ‘flur
ry’ added a foot to the depth. Then I
thought it best to make a few inquiries
and I asked the farmer:
“ ‘Do you call this an unusually hard
winter?"
"' 'Oh, no,’ he replied; ‘this is what we
call an open winter.’
“ 'How much more snow do you look
for ?’
“ ‘Well, not over twenty feet.’
"I had had enough of it,” continued the
tramp. "My figures showed that I had
moved 50,000 tons of snow, and that there
were ten times as much coming. One day
It rained for an hour and then turned
cold, and this formed a hard crust on the
surface. Without saying goodby to the
farmer, I started off, and, though my
nose and ears were frost-bitten in getting
out of the C..’mtry, I never kicked about
it. I had been tied to a snow shovel for
three weeks, and I don’t propose to do
another stroke of work as long as I live.”
Rothschild Posing- as a Beggar.
One of the closest friends of Baron
Rothschild of Paris was Carolus-Duran,
the artist, eays Harper’s Round Table.
During the entire course of a certain large
dinner party the great financier noted
that the painter kept looking at him with
a most Intent and peculiar expression. Aft
er the coffee and cigars, the Baron drew
his friend aside and said: “My dear fel
low, pray tell me why you have stared at
me so peculiarly this evening?”
“I’ll tell you with pleasure,” answered
Duran; “I am painting a beggar for the
salon, and had looked all over Paris for a
suitable head to draw from. I've finally
found it. Yours is the ideal.”
Rothschild laughed heartily, and prom
ised to sit for his friend in "suitable attire
on the follow ing day.
During the progress of the sitting a
young artist, one of Duran's pupils, came
into the room. Naturally, he had not
been in a position to meet people of Baron
Rothschild’s importance, and so did not
know him; but the beggar's miserable
rags, wan face and wistful expression ap
pealed deeply to the ypung man's sympa
thies. Waiting until his master was busy
mixing colors, the pupil took a franc from
his vest pocket and held It out behind his
back to the model, who seized it with
feigned avidity.
When the sitting w-as over Rothschild
made inquiries of Duran concerning the
philanthropist, and was informed that he
was a student of great promise and at
tainments, but among the poorest of the
Inhabitants of the Latin Quarter.
Some six months after this occurrence
the young man received a note, which ran
about as follows:
"Dear Sir—The franc that you gave In
charity to a beggar in the studio of M.
Duran has been invested by us, and we
take pleasure in forwarding to you our
check for 2,000 francs, the principal and
increment of the same. Yours, etc.,
"Rothschild & Cie.”
Honyt From the Sea.
The Cruise of the Raleigh.
From Leslie’s Weekly.
Out of the shining Indian seas,
Far from Manila's strand,
Westward a steel-clad ehip-of-war
Rides to her native land.
The sky is blurred with her funnel-smoke,
fishers puli their oars;
Or hold their nets as they dream away
Of the slumb’ring Persian shores.
And the tropic waters have borne to her
The songs that the sirens sang,
Qr the cries of the captive? of long ago,
When the old sea-battles rang.
And the ghosts in the Roman, galleys,
Chained to their metal bars.
Have watched the sweep of her flowing
stripes
And the crown of her silver stars.
Yea, the portß of the dim Atlantis
Have signaled to her in vain;
(They guard the hulls of another fleet
That came not back to Spain!)
And the gulls have plucked at her flashing
shield
As they swung in her homeward flight.
But they sank below in the running sea
As they crushed their breasts of white!
Sailor, the guns of war are still;
The moonbeams glance across the foam;
And In their wake ah echo falls—
The twilight song of coming home!
—John James Meehan.
The Value of Stocks.
A writer in the New York Press is re
sponsible for this story:
When Tom Johnson, son of Herschel V.
Johnson of Georgia, was Collector of Cus
toms at Savannah, an acquaintance call
ed one morning to ask his opinion on Cen
tral Railroad stock. "Why do you want
to know?” said Tom. “Got any of It?”
"Yes, I have, and I'd like to know whether
it's worth holding on to or not. What's
your honest opinion?” ‘ See that old nig
ger mammy sitting out there on the side
walk with her little stock of goobers and
chestnuts? She's blind. This morning as
I passed her she held out her hand for
something, and I was feeling sorter blue
I gave her a piece of paper I happened
to have In my Angers. She crumpled It
up. and, discovering It wasn’t a bank
note, said: "Mura Johnson, whut Is d|*
yo's gibin' de ole mammy?' I told her it
was a hundred shares of Georgia Central
Railroad stock, and she handed It back
saying: 'Mars Johnson, dis ain't no t,m
fo' jokin', please sab, take di* back en
gimme a nickel.' ”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Something very like a real campaign
in behalf of the metric system of weights
and measures has been started in England
and the London papers are giving much
space to arguments for and against the
immediate and complex abandonment of
the unscientific end complex British
standards.
—Under the auspices of the army Y. M.
C. A. the soldiers at Porto Rico are to
have a first-class cafe, also a reading
room and a gymnasium. Gen. Henry has
co-operated with the secretaries and the
army officers are all in sympathy with the
work. The initiative in a movement for
union of the Baptist Church, North and
South, has been taken in Missouri. The
young people’s unions of the two divisions
have bee* united and now a committee has
been appointed to promulgate the idea of
a union of their missionary interests in
that state.
—Seven exploring expeditions operated in
Labrador last year and reports from ail
have been received by the geographical
and other societies of London. The con
sensus of opinion, as derived from these
reports, is that the countr- ts by no means
such a sterile region as has been supposed.
Geologically, the formation of the country
is very like that of the-Klondike region and
there are scientists who believe that there
will be rich discoveries of gold and other
metals thbre. Vast forests of spruce pine
exist and there are other valuable timber
trees of good size and commercial value.
—ln a reference to the report which Sir
William Garstin will present on his recent
journey to the Blue and White. Nile, a
correspondent at Cairo sends to the Lon
don Mail an account of the Shillooks. This
tribe Sir William describes as good-look
ing below knees. Their attire was
conspicuous by its absence, but the men’s
head-dresses were of the most elaborate
order, and no man ever stirred without
his spear, decorated near the point with
ostrich feathers. The Shillook women
are much smaller than the men, and as
they shave their heads they are not par
ticularly prepossessing. Their garments
consist of two skins, which they wear af
ter the manner of a 1 sandwich man and
his boards. The Shillook is not a Moham
medan; in fact, he appears to have no re
ligion beyond some vague idea of the de
sirability of propitiating malevolent spire
its. He is fond of smoking, and his huge
pipe, which will comfortably contain half
a pound of tobacco, is carried about, when
not in use, by his faithful spouse.
—Dr. John M. Steele, surgeon of the
monitor Monadnock, has just returned
from Manila, and is visiting friends in
Baltimore. Speaking of the insurgents, he
says: "'They are rather an indolent lot nat
urally, on account of the climate, but are
brave even to fanaticism. They are child
like and easily led. From what I gathered
I do not think Aguinaldo is a popular lead
er. He is rather a military despot, and
rules by fear those about him. His domin
ion does not extend over the whole of the
island of Luzon. On the north and east
skies, the most fertile sections, are a large
number of wealthy Filipinos. These prefer
peace to war, but do not wish to fee invad
ed. I do not think the Filipinos as a whole
are prepared for self-government, nor are
they competent. I was Interested while
in the Philippines in studying tropical dis
eases. American soldiers, until they became
somewhat acclimated, suffered considera
bly from bowel troubles and typhoid. Asa
general thing now the health of the troops
is good.”
—The number of piece* of solid gold plate
which formed a portion of the wedding
gifts presented to Mr. Vanderbilt and Miss
Virginia Fair may render It of interest to
know that the- services popularly known
as "gold services” are only of silver gilt,
and that the quantity of real gold plate
that is now to be seen is very small, says
the London News. Only five examples of
real gold plate were exhibited among the
art treasure collected at' South Kensing
ton in the loan collection of 1862—a gold
cup and cover of seventeenth century work
given by Bishop Hall, to Exeter College,
Oxford, a cup on baluster stem, given to
the corporation of York in 1672, a covered
cup of 1673, the property of J, W. Walrond,
a chocolate cup and cover with one handle
found in the lake at Knowsley belonging
to tbo Earl of Derby, and a pair of mas
sive ce-pails from Blenheim, weighing no
less than 365 ounces, the gift of Queen
Anne to the great Duke of Marlborough.
There are two gold salvers in the collection
of plate of the Queen at Windsor Castle,
and Mr. Cripps, in his standard work “Old
English Plate," states that a small salver
of pure gold was note-1 by Mr. Octavius
Morgan among the plate of King Wifdam
IV., which was said to have been made
of the presentation r.ings of serjeanls-at
hw,
—Queen Victoria has recently been en
gaged In the pious work of restoring the
tomb of her royal Stuart ancestors at the
ancient palace of Holyrood, Edinburgh.
The remains of many of the Stuart kings
were buried in a vault In the chapel royal,
Holyrood, but at the reformation of 1688,
when ami-Cathollc feeling ran high, the
chapel royal was destroyed and the royal
vafflt shamefully violated. The leaden
coffins which contained kingly and queen
ly coffins were broken opefl and the re
mains strewn upon the ground Some of
the hones were collected and restored to
the vault, but for a century or more were
exposed to the public gaze. T?he vault of
the Scottish kings has now been restored
and all the remains that be gathered
placed therein. Anew oak doorway has
been placed upon it, and outside has been
affixed a brass plate with the inscription:
"This vault of the Scottish kings con
tains the remains of David 11, of James
II and his Queen, Mary of Guildres, of
Arthur, third son of James TV; of James
V, his Queen Magdalen and second son,
Arthur, Duke of Albany, and of Henry]
Lord Darnley, consort of Queen Mary of
Scots. Their resting place was desecrated
in the year 1688. These mortal remains of
her Stuart ancestors were reverently col
lected and entombed by command of
Queen Victoria.”
—There are many curious tracts extant,
says a writer in London Truth, but I have
come across nothing more precious in this
form of literature than a printed paper
which has been distributed hy the mis
sionary at a Kaffir mission at Groutvi.le
In Natal. "Dear friend," the reverend
author begins, "having come to realize the
solemn fact that the Lord Jesus Christ
Is liable to cafl for me at any moment
and that it Is His orders for me to have
everything in readiness, as I would wish
to have when He comes, I am offering the
following property for sale at the reason
able prices given.” It seems that his rev
erence Is doing so In the first p.ace berause
most of the things offered have been a
snare to him in Caking his atlention awav
from ' the ministry of the Word." To pre
vent any misconception on the part of
potential customers, however, he | s <-are
ful to explain that "he docs not ‘ m '
that It is wrong for anybody to use these
things, only that it Is wrong for him "
and then he give* a price list, from which
it appears thst he has been lured from'
the ministry of the Word hy t|„ attrae
tiona of auch miscellaneous goods as
turning lathe and a portable forge „ g rltv i
stone and a snapshot camera a pnm
presa and a b-eycle! The emalogue con.
eludes with some pious exhortation* aa
to ho uncertainties of IKe.
FOR BABY’S SKIN
SCALP ANDHAiR
And preventing the first symptoms of a:,
tressing rashes, nothing so pure, so
wholesome, so speedily effective as r- r „, 40
Soap, greatest of skin purifying and- , R *
lying soaps, as well as purest and
for toilet, bath, and nursery. For ; :r ,,.
blotches, red, rough, oily, motby skin i 1
thin, and fafiing hair, red, rough hams -JJ
for Simple rashes and blemishes of chUhmoi
it Is simply incomparable.
First-class accommodations for 500 -
Among the improvements the past su-m wt
new hath rooms were added. Tourists til
Savannah the most Interesting city t D .2
6outh. An ideal winter resort. Snec i
for families remaining week or more. *
PULASttt HOUSE,
Rates, $2.50 Per Day.
Chas. F. Graham,
Proprietor.
PUNTERS HOTEL
CENTRAL!.V LOCATED.
Street cars from all depots to hotel
Ratee J 1.50 and 82 per day Hot an!
cold water on each floor. Electric lights
throughout the house. Clean rooms, goig
cooking, and polite attention to all gticti
Meal tickets reduced.
GEO. W. LYONS, Manage
LEGAL NOTICES.
''GEORGIA] CHATHAM COUNTfC
Notice is hereby given that I have [risk
application to the Court of Ordinary lor
Chatham county, for leave to sell forty
five shares Savannah Brewing Comity
stock, eleven shares of stock National
Bank of Savannah, one bond Savannah
Volunteer Guards, par value slu). Also
sixteen (16) lots in Chatham comity, kniren
and described as block “H” of Noriii Ken
sington, of sub-division by George Witte.
Also one gentleman's watch, chain and
charm; one lady's watch studded with dia
monds and chain attached; one diamotd
ring, two rings, one diamond bri. 'ipin t _
one diamond scarf pin, one pair large dia-~
mond earrings and one pair-large diamond
bracelets, one share Vernon Park Com
pany stock, 1 share Chatham Brewinj
Company stock, fifty-two shares stock Sa
vannah Cotton Mills, 98 shares stock
Electric Supply and Construction Com
pany, and interest in fire-proof sheeting
and eoofing invention, belonging to estate j
of Gustave Fox. deceased, for the payment
of debts and distribution, and that Mid
order will be granted at May term. 1899. ol
said court, unless objections are* Sled
thereto. * P. J. OTT,
Administrator Estate of Gustave Foi^
GEORG IA. CHATHAM COUNTY-
Josephine Horning has applied to the Court
of Ordinary for a twelve months' support
for herself and minor children out of th
estate of J. B. Horning, .deceased. A? -
praisers have made returns allowing same.
These are, therefore, to cite all whom it
may concern to appear before said cow l
to make objection on or before the firs
Monday In May next, otherwise same wU
be granted.
Witness, the Hon. Hampton L. Ferrtli
ordinary for Chatham county, this the 6th
das’ of April, 1899.
FRANK E. KEILBACH
Clerk C. 0., C- C-J
NOTICE "to "DEBTORS AND CREDIT
ORS.
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTV>
tlce Is hereby given to all persons havml
demands again- 1 Michael M. Sullivan. W
of said county, deceased, to present the*
to me, properly made out, within ti.i
prescribed by law, so as to show tael
character and amount; and all persons!!-
debted to said deceased are required <*
make immediate payment to trie.
MARGARET SULLIVAN'.
Executrix Will of Michael M. Sullivan.
Savannah, Ga., March 28, 1899.
PETITION'~TO CHANGE fll
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY— T*
petition of the Savannah Cotton Ex-Inn*'-
a corporation duly chartered by the l*® l
of the state of Georgia, and having i-j
principal place of business in the out*
Savannah, In the county and state aWi*
said, respectfully shows:
That It desire- have its eh**tt
amended in the following particular
That is to sav, by striking out from
tide 111, section I, of its said charier. •
words, “City of SavannalK" and substitut
ing therefor the words ' United St t-s®
America," thus ranking sec ion 1 of .ini-*
111 read as follows.
"Any person Of good standi- g in lHW ‘
ness in (he United States of America
be elected a member of till- association-
Wherefore your petition.-i prays that
charter may he amended it; the mam”!
as above set forth, in accordance wi, * l J*Tl
statute in such cases made and pi-ovl-wA
THE SAVANNAH COTTON KV
CHANGE.
' By HENRY T. WILLIAMS’.
J. P. MERRIHEVV, Pi- !,:nt '
Secretary and Superintend*nt.
Petition for amendment of charter n>
In office April 27, 1899.
JAMBS K. P. CARR-
Clerk. S. C . c. c i
JOHN 0. - BUTLER
—DEALER 1N-
Palnts, Oita and Glass, Sash Doors
and Builders' Supplies, Plain and b'
live Wail Paper, Foreign and 1
Cements, Lime, Plaster und Ha r.
Agents for A beet me Cold Water P‘“
ID Congress street, west, and i St. J
street, west
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