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AUGUST 20, J90i
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most desirable qualifications of the current and it
may be that they will outweigh the objections ac
cruing from an increased cost of operation. There
is nothing to prevent steam and electric power be
ing employed on the same line, and should the lat
ter be used only for the fast passenger trains, the
cost of equipment, as regards locomotives and
power plants, would be greatly reduced.
In the stationary application of power in all
phases of industry and commerce, the current has
gone long strides in forcing out steam. Large and
small factories find great advantages and compara
tive economy in its use, and it is more especially
suited to use in cities on account of its silence and
cleanliness in operation.
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ONG distance electrical transporta- j
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locomotives on its main line be- ; nar y ' ne ? have m ^ reputations in devising new
tween Croton and the Grand Cen- j a,ld alluring modes of preparing him for the festal
board. No banquet is complete without his pres
ence and the poorest families seldom pass a winter
without making the acquaintance of one of the
many varieties of his brethren. He is the food alike
War Correspondent
Is Doomed
NE of the most striking
features of the present war
Is that it seems to her
ald the fall of an empire
older than the sway of
Russia at Vladivostok and
wider In Its range than
all the Rumrias, all the
Slberlag and all the other
places that are not prop
erly watched. The Japa
nese may or may not have
overthrown 'the Russian
colossus, but one thing
they have done, with the cordial, though
undesigned, cooperation of their enemies
—they have ended the picturesque su
premacy of the war correspondent.
Inaugurated with the Crimean war, the
rule e? the reporter has iaatnd for half
a century, thrilling tile hearts of millions
of peaceful newspaper readers all over
HE first “R” month is impending and 1 , clv " ized „ world and vexing the minds
with it the welcome descent ot the hundreds of other generals,
oyster, so long an exile from the
inland by reason of the heated term.
While he will not appear in his full
effulgence until the first twitch of
cold weather, many of his most ar-
Along' the Highway
By FRANK L. STANTON
Ghe Busy
Inspired by the victories of
Togo and Kamimura over the
thur and Vladivostok fleets, respt ?J ,/
the Japanese have made a formal
for the surrender of Port Arthur. ^
graph last week. Requests for it ar ® indicate that General Stoessci wS;
so frequent now, I’ll fcave to have it accede to thjs demand, it i
The war correspondent is the represen
tative of the curiosity of democratic coun
tries and especially does he represent the
Anglo-Saxon inquisitiveness. To the
newspaper reader and hence to the corre
spondent who is to supply him with news
nothing Is sacred. la. wants to know
soon as
SONGS OF HOME.
1.
The captains and the sailors
That seek the harbor-light,
Hear eongs of home
Across the foam.
And footsteps In the Night:
II.
Above the stormy billows
They listen—soon and late,
For voices sweet,
And pattering feet,—
The latch-clink at the gate!
III.
Sail sure, O ships; forever,—
White sails, like gulls in flight!
While still they hear,
In storm and fear,
Faint footsteps in the Night!
so frequent
typewritten.
| i must be famous—for five people
turned round to look at me on the
tradition that the army and navjj^
never surrender to avoid a fight,,,
hauling down the flag when sper;*^
tral station in New York, a distance
of 44 miles. It is said, moreover,
that the management is seriously
contemplating equipping with the
same force a duplicate line of track
which it controls between New
York and Buffalo. The electric lo-
are eighty-fivi
dent admirers will COUrt him from everything about everything
the very opening of his annual de- ! poss,ble - His highest gratification is to
T* if ! receive bulletins of a battle while It Is
but. It IS probable that no sea-jj n progress, just as he gets the score
dainty is as universally popular in of a cricket match, the evidence of a
all parts of the country as this same ‘ Jlv o rce case or the tape prices of stocks.
„ . tt . ii n When war was regarded as imminent
oyster. He is esteemed by all In the p ar East great preparations were
classes of eaters and chefs who are made for keeping the neutral world
recognized as geniuses in the culi- P° sted - Correspondents arrived, picked
1 men, sturdy of body, sharp of mind,
graphic of pen. They were lavishly sup
plied with recourses; one even chartered
a vessel with a wlrelesw installation,
thereby drawing down on himself a curi
ous circular froip the Russian government
threatening to treat such proceedings
with the rigor of martial law. If the
, . . , . , , | correspondent in question had been ar-
ot king and peasant, rich man, poor man, beggar- rested he would only have needed to give
man, cliv f, doctor, lawyer, merchant, thief. But, the text of his messages to show hfs com-
i;otwithstanding the fact that he always finds an p,et ^™ ocence of fpy,n *’
J ATTITUDE OF JAPANESE.
But the bland, inscrutable Japanese
him j have marked themselves out for a ruling
hygienists I race not less ’w thelr rejection of parts
oomotives Which are being built for °P en door . the oyster has had to combat lately sev
the 44-mile pull on the original line, ! eral prejudices which have sprung up against ’ ’
vo.tnn machine', and are said to be ca- along tiie !-ne of health. Physicians and hygie
ve-ton macnines ana are sam iu ui «. a ° , .... . . f . . /f . ..or western civilization man bv
pable of hauling heavy trains at the rate of seventy- Gained t. «t he not infrequently induced typhoid j eeptanee of other parts. They
five miles an hour. Outside of sporadic lines in ^ e ' ei a most malignant type, that occasionally tierce or fussy; they simplv, with the
New England, Oregon and Texas, this development, 1'toma.nc poisoning might be traced to the con- !
is one of the most significant of recent years inj purn P‘ lon ol ‘ Hm » an d that in certain localities £nd P <j the august correspondent to confine his
the electrical traction world. The trolley, in its | People of certain predispositions, the too constant i honorable activity to the magnificent bll-
many adaptations, has already completely supplant-j use of oysters tended to the incubation of malaria. I M^nwhne^if th^fasTnTu^st stages
ed steam, and all other forces, in the operation of ‘‘ 1S doubtful, however, if with all this arraign- 1 0 f the war, the tentative movements,
urban and suburban lines, having practically driven 1 ment of ills the prestige of the oyster declined to! rapld marches cautious reconnoitrings,
the railroads out of this latter branch of the busi-j au appro iable degree. People have a way of shying weTnowtX™™” have
ness. From present indications it seems likely to.°u from the dicta of physicians when aimed at a
achieve further triumphs in the invasion of the true I darling habit of vice, and the oyster was no excep-
province of the railroad—the long-haul business. 1 ‘ion to this rule. Many argued that the doctors
SOME OLD-TIME PHILOSOPHY.
The long lane is sure to have a
turning; but sometimes the horses
are going so fast—over goes the
wagon at the turn.
It’s a sad thing when a man gets
between the devil and high water,
and is afraid of fire, and can’t swim!
What’s the use in railing at the
world, when the world rolls on, and
never turns round to listen?
Don’t grieve when the cow kicks
the milk over. Turn her out to graze,
and thank God that the meadows are
green!
It’s well enough to hope for good
times; but the man who rolls up his
sleeves and goes to work for them
has the wisdom of Solomon.
Fighting the devil with fire may
be a good idea; but every man who
ever tried it got scorched!
street yesterday, and all shook their fea t has compelled that action.
- 1 — -- v '~'“ to the R',,
stiffer.i'd
The birth of an heir
tlrcne has undoubtedly
courage of the troops in the fi '• iri-
years the czar has hoped for a siict*.
and his people have joined him in p :;
ers at the time of the czarina's;..
.. , couchemelt. Up until the present net-,.
sisted of seven sonnets, fifteen love wishes nor prayers have been avai ing,.'.
lyrics and twenty-nine speeches. j t jj e r0 y a ] family has been com
girls. Scenes in St. Petersburg, M
and throughout the empire wer. :r.r ,
sive and hilarious when the a' ■ - 1
ment of the birth of an heir wa
The event has dou* much to soft -
disaster of the last few months on
and water and is_ expected to go fa:- ,
ward unifying the empire.
neads and smiled!
I had to discharge my secretary
on Tuesday last. He had the audac
ity to hint that his salary was due.
I dined at an author’s banquet on
Wednesday last. The bill of fare con-
AFAR WITH LOVE.
of western civilization than by their ac-
were not
GOT THERE AT LAST!
“That author has been writing for
recognition twenty years!”
“Ever get any?”
“Oh, yes! Editor told him ‘Good
morning’ yesterday!”
LEAVES
I.
Love built a savage cot
Far in a dim retreat,
But flowers came,
With hearts of flame,
And there my rest was sweet!
II.
No palaces that, rise
To heaven can tempt me now:
In this bright land
Love’s own dear hand
Wreathes roses round my brow!
NEGRO MISSIONARY HYMN.
I.
De heathen tarrify you—
De goodness only knows!
De whole year long
De same ole song: —
He aollerin’ fer cloze!
II.
You sen’ him coat en collar,
But still de cryin’ grows!
De same ole cry
Fum fur en nigh: —
He hollerin’ fer cloze!
III.
He only need umbrellers—
De way dat hot sun goes!
But night en day—
De same ole way,
He hollerin’ for cloze!
double track railroad was projected between Chi-. die &Q°d, old fashioned plea that such rules are
cage and New York, and while the scheme is at nwde “for the other fellow,” and still others', espe-
present in abeyance, it is said to be receiving favor-' daily since the fraternity could not agree on the
able consideration at the hands of capitalists and
professional experts.
The greater development of this mysterious force
will he one of slow evolution. The capital at pres
ent invested in steam locomotives, the plants for
their manufacture and repair and their known re
liability will alii mitigate against a sudden or radi
cal revolution in the kinds of power used. It is
done, in full activity.
Then, when the armies, or some of
them, were i n touch with the enemy the
x „ -it t . correspondents were let loose. They
Two or three years ago an electrically equipped 1 tmght be wrong, others comforted themselves with could do no harm, for the Russians ai-
’ ’ * r ’ ’ " ready knew all that the neutral observer
could find out. Accordingly, some ex
cellent particulars of the fighting on tho
Yalu came through, belated, no doubt,
giving us a taste of the old thrill—mere
ly a taste, for the Russian and Japanese
official accounts, both remarkably truth
ful and modest for official accounts, had
told us all the essential details over a
week ago. Then the curtain shut down
again on the armies of Japan because
they were once more doing tntngs that
they did not want the Russians, to know.
The Russians, as befits thei^ traditions,
have been even Jess apparently accommo-
The correspondents they per-
subject, viewed the whole thing in the light of a
bugaboo.
They have been vindicated by a recent report of
Professor Giard, of the British faculty of sciences,
submitted to the minister of marine. The learned
man premises his statements with the assertion
that none of the maladies of the bivalve are com
municable to* man. Proceeding on this broad
likely that the first distinct use of the electric loco- | ground, he alleges that he_has found it impossible | da « n j[
motive will be in the passenger traffic,
merits in Germany and elsewhere have demon- that at all events such instances are so rare as to j existence. The Russian commanders have
strated that it can'be used at a sustained speed of be negligible Where disorder has occurred he as-! Santa'S?™ there wlTnoTtSm
something over too miles an hour. While, of course,: cnbes it to plain over-eating, such as might be pro-
such trials are yet in the embryonic stage, the dis-j duced from gluttony with any other article of food,
tinct feasibility of the proposition has been satis-; Having given the oyster a clean bill of health, so to
speak, he further attempts to make amends for the
aspersions cast on it two years ago by highly rec
ommending its nutritious qualities.
The minister of the marine had specially dele
gated Professor Giard to make this investigation, o ___
in view of the fact that oysters and fish constitute 1 ^™??? £ J? < L p ? et ) t ? ?J ld at aI1 times and
- i I vninese minor Is ot the most erratic
a large part of the navy s menu at sea, and the de- description.
factorily demonstrated. The chief obstacles to the
use of the current for all classes of railroad work
is the cost of its transportation. Improved gener
ating machinery and advanced skill in applying wa
ter power to its production have greatly overcome
objections in this direction, but it cannot be said
tliat the problem of transmitting it from place to I
place has been as gratifyingly siiNpIified.
Sent long distances, even with the most improved
devices, the power of the current deteriorates per
ceptibly so that, in order to maintain an efficient
yen any sign of
nothing
that the Japanese did not know or could
not be practically certain to find out.
As for the unhappyin newspaper men,
their communications have related chief
ly to the arrivals of unestimated num
bers of soldiers and the detail of re
views and proclamations, which are the
same for all armies in ail wars. The
other correspondents who could not get
to the seat of war, though more free to
report, have had nothing Dut canards.
FROM AN AUTHOR’S
JOURNAL.
I have been interviewed by three
reporters today, and dunned by seven
bill collectors.
Five persons asked for my auto-
JINGLE OF DECLINATION.
Ten little poems
All in line;
An editor declined one—
Then there were nine!
Nine litle poems
Sighing in the sun:
Fell in a waste-basket;
Then there was none!
Ang'ora Goat Farming'
As Profitable Southern Industry
IN FOUR PARTS—PART I.
By HELEN HARCOURT.
Wrlton for CAe Sunny South
HERE are goats and goats.
In some much profit, in
some little profit, and in
some no profit at all,
nothing but vanity and
vexation of spirit, espe
cially the latter. The An
gora goat belongs to the
other goat, and in its native country is
preferred to mutton. The kids are A f ery
tiny creatures at first, but they grow
fast, and mature early.
Goats,, in a state of nature, frequent
hills and mountains, and always prefer
elevated situations when domesticated,
but it is a mistake to suppose, as some
do, that they will not thrive on level
ground. Being adopted by nature, how
ever, to rocky and dry soils, they should
not be kept in marshy iplaces, as this
former category, the com. j causes disease of the feet, and general
mon goat that is turned
loose in the highways and
byways, fo the no-profit
list or worse. And so it
is of the Angoras that we
will talk, because we of the south are
coming to have more and more to do
with this fleecy animal. Just as we are
with a good many more profitable things
that we used to know or care nothing
about.
The name of this famous goat is de
rived from tiie place of its nativity, the
vilayet, or province, and the city of
Angora, in Turkey, about 250 miles
from Constantinople. The city has long
been celebrated for its goats, whose
soft, silky liatr, about 8 inches long. Is
partment felt it could not conscientiously authorize, am- ^Jws^aper^Avii^'gtv^'up^eporting
a food in which might lurk danger of disease. While many?,!’ them^are^orry they senfoot a h ny I th ^? b ^f article o7e?port. The hair of
plenty of other experts will doubtless he found to correspondents at all; if the press could ! th “ se s° ats Is very fine, and it is an
, ' • r .( Ti.r_ C'l i a come to a general agreement its retire- , odd thing
contradict the inferences of Mr. Giard, it is prac-; sentative mi^ht er near^ e |u € return. r< And
working capacity it must be reinforced by pow- j ticallv certain that the admirality will accept them:
’ - A ~~ i.'h or American war.
Modern methods of fighting do not fa-
„ vor the correspondent. A stray indication
this disadvantage will shortlv be greatlv obviated The report will do much, too, to clear up uncer- 1 r hi ™’„impomiMe for even a skilled
1 -1--. 1. : ^ u 1 — taintv in the minds of the public generally in xLtlg- j enemy a clew to some movement which
er houses at frequent intervals along the road. It j and worry itself no more about infection from the
is the belief of electrical engineers, however, that succulent bivalve.
and that much improvement will also be reached in
cheapening the present cost of production.
Even with the handicaps outlined above, railway
managers are asking themselves if it will not be to
their financial advantage to use electricity, at least,
in the passenger business. Speed, safety, cleanli
ness, silence and ease of control are some of the
ing that the hair of the cats,
dogs and other animals of the country
ipartake in a large degree of the fineness
and length of the goats' hair. When any
of them are removed from their native
surroundings, they soon lose much of
their distinctive beauty. The skins of
the Angora eats, especially, are so soft.
Money in the Cultivation of Basket Willow
willow. The custom has been to plant in 1 willow ware designed for countless other
HE culture and manufacture
of basket willow have not
attained in the United
States the degree of perfec
tion and profit that mark
the industry In Europe.
This is for several reasons
the most important, being
the relative compensation
of labor and the failure of
the American grower to j higher than under existing methods, but
That there is some
of Angora
i which causes this fine growth of hair is
an undoubted though unexplained fact,
j The Angora goat Is often confounded
I with the Cashmere goat, but they are
x I entirely distinct varieties, as we shall
presently note more particularly. There
are two or three varieties of the Angora
rows 3 feet apart, spacing a foot in the
rows between the sets. A far better
plan is to put the rows only 20 inches
apart and reduce the distance between the
sets to 9 inches. When this is done and
the crop is cut close to the ground t-he
rods will be longer and iess branchy, the
uses. Could all these be as cheaply man
ufactured here as there their use by us
would doubliess be as extensive as that
across the sea. Eor willow ware Is not
only prettier than its substitutes, but,
•what is still mofie important, lighter and
more durabla
Another use for willow in this country
plants longer lived and the yield per acre !* s found in the growing demand for willow
much greater. The initial cost is slightly 1 furniture, which has become fashionable
adopt the most Improved
methods. The growing,
’".rvesting, care and man
ufacture of willow require manual labor
wholly unassisted by machinery. The
cheap labor of Europe has grown willow
and woven it into baskets at a profit im
possible with us and our better paid labor.
American ingenuity has still further com
plicated the issue by producing a cheap
split wood basket to take the place of
the more expensive and durable willow.
Thus an industry of good possibilities is
languishing.
The bureau of forestry has taken up the
matter and given it careful study. Its ex
pert has thoroughly investigated the
methods of culture and manufacture both
in this country and in England. Germany
and Holland. In addition, the bureau
has established a willow plantation on
the department's experimental grounds
near Washington, D. C., where the best
species of basket willows w«ere set out
on different soils and spaced in accord
ance with different methods of planting.
The results of this research will Shortly
be made known by the bureau In a bul
letin entitled "The Basket ■Willow.”
The bureau’s purpose was to discover
a means of reducing the cost of the raw
product, peeled and unpeeled willow rods
and also of Improving the quality. This
has been definitely ascertained. It is
entirely a matter of properly regulating
the distance between tbe sets in plant
ing, care in cutting the crop of rods and
la selecting better species and strains of
this is more than offset by the increased
returns. At present an average produc
tion of 6 tons of green rods per acre 1s
exceptional; by the method now advo
cated by the bureau 8 or more tons per
acre of batter rods can be produced. When
to improved methods of culture the ad
vantages from a choice of better Europ
ean varieties of willows for planting are
added the result will be a marked reduc
tion in the price of the raw material and
a distinct betterment of the condition
of both the produced and the manufac
turer.
The growing of basket willows was in
troduced into the United States some six
ty years ago by German basket-makers,
who settled in western New York and
Pennsylvania. They first attempted to
use wild willows, but soon abandoned
these ns Impracticable and imported the
purple or Welsh willow. They grew tho
rods and the manufacture into baskets
was made profitable by whole families
engaging in the weaving. Their prod
uct has always been a cheap variety of
basket, since they use steam in peeling
the rods, which gives them an undesir
able dark color. When the industry was
extended farther west and down to the
Baltimore district, Maryland, hand-peeled
rods were used and a much higher grade
basket manufactured. But this country,
in the extensive use of willow ware,
has never approached Europe, where are
found not only heavy farm baskets and
receptacles made of unpeeled willow, but
market, clothes and fruit baskets of
peeled willow, furniture, hampers and
trunks and most artistically wrought split
in the north, while In the warm climate
of the south it is rapidly taking the place
of upholstered furniture. Good wages can
be paid In the manufacture of this kind
i of furniture. It is a profitable industry
and steadily growing in importance, while
willow basket-making has barely held its
own in the last decade. The demand for
furniture material has been met to this
tin»e chiefly by importing French rods.
But this can be changed if our own wil
low growers will adopt more scientific
methods of culture and market their rods
only after they are well seasoned—not
soon after cutting, as is now customary.
In the bulletin the bureau will issue in
a few days ever/ aspect of willow cul
ture and manufacture is exhaustively
treated. The character of the ground to
be used, preliminary cultivation, cutting,
sorting, peeling and packing, all are dis
cussed thoroughly and advice as to each
branch of the work is clearly given. The
virtues and defects of the different spe
cies of willows suited to basket manu
facture are described. Inundation in the
spring after harvest and before 4he new
crop season opens is a new aid in pro
tecting the holts from insects and in
fertilizing the sets especially advised by
the bureau.
A valuable part of the bulletin is a
chapter on insects injurious to Dasket
willows, prepared by the bureau of en
tomology. This not only describes Khe
insect enemies of the willow, but also
gives methods for their control. The
bulletin should prove invaluable to all
present producers and manufacturers of
basket willow, and of great interest to
farm or s who desire to add willow-grow
ing to their other crofis. it can be ob
tained by application to the forester.
United States department of agriculture,
Washington, D. C. . -1
1-111,1 "nnrl A fpw will (lonhtless be infill-' was Hn J& ma tical before. Xx>t us suppose, 1 !on >? si]k J* thnt the > r - as well as the
land and Amenta. A tew will aoUDtiess oe innu for lnstam , ej that he nlen tions casually goat skins, are ranked among the chief
enced by the Views of Other physicians, but tne bulk | that he 'has seen some electric light I articles of export
of people, as before stated, have such a constant af- j L?ore lighting a begfns t0 wm f not 4 the In- i | pecu!iarity in thP atmospher
fection for this particular food that the stanchest | 1 "^. er p * b ^ t de a d n i|ai n ‘?t? a< -' k ls threat-
sort of evidence will be necessary to affect their modern WAR 'difficult TO
practice in this direction. REPORT.
Then, again, the war correspondent
now can s ee very little. Ranges are long,
powder smokeless, positions extended,
formations open. A battle is a long string j goat, but all possess the one distinct
of men popping at the lanscape with j feature, which is the length and fineness
bullets whining over them. Occasionally i of their hair. This covers the whole
! body, and part of the leg s with close,
i matted ringlets. The horns of the male
‘ differ from those of the female, being
! spiral in shape, and sloped vertically
' backward, while in the female they have
a horizontal slope, like those of’ a ram.
The faee of the Angora resembles that
of a sheep, having a decidedly “sheep
ish” expression. In fact, this famous
goat approaches very nearly to the
sheep, in nature, habits and form, even
its voice having a strong resemblance to
that of a sheep.
SHEARING TIME.
The coat of the Angora Is made u p of
two kinds of hair. One is short ana
coarse, and looks like ordinary hair,
which it is in fact. The other kind is
long and curly, looks like wool, and
forms the outer covering. Tiie short
hair lies close to the skin. Both kinds
are valuable, and are used by manufac
turers; but, of course, the outside por
tion of the hair, which fortunately i s by
far the most plentiful, is the most
esteemed, and brings the highest prices.
The shearing takes place in the early
spring, and is conducted with, the utmost
care. Eacn animal yields an aggregate
of about two and a half pounds of hair.
The best quality comes from castrated
males, and the next best from females.
The average export of wool from An
gora averages two million pounds, and
its value is over one million dollars. The
Turkish farmer values the goat so highly
that it was only after strong and con
stant persuasion that a few of the
animals were secured for export. This
reluctant concession was only obtained,
even then, by the payment of high
prices for the animals. Some of the
males cost the exporters $1,200, while
the females cost $700. Even now, from
$250 to $300 is a common price for the
goats at Angora.
The Angoras are poor milkers and poor
mothers, so you see that they are not
perfec«|in, any more than the plebian
goat of the highways. Its flesh, how
ever, is better eating than that of any
the landscape knocks one over. Guns pitch
shells from the other side of hills. The
landscape may become quiet and the men
crawl on or it is too fierce for them and
they ciawl back.
Perhaps some day the popping will be
done away with liKe the smotve. Uhen the
soldier will be lying down and clicking a
machine at the hills with a whizzing of
deadly insects round him, a few men in
sight on his own side and nobody in
front. It is a horrible idea, and though
it may make good psychological fiction,
it does not lend itseif to narrative. We
had a debauch of special correspond
ence in the south African war. It was
much overreported and as we were gen
erally fighting on the wire our papers got
the news fresh and fresh. The Boers
usually knew more about our positions
than we did ourselves, so there was no
danger in publishing anything. Further,
we had only our own men to depend on
for information. Boer official news, al
ways untrustworthy, soon disappeared
with the official Boer element; the conti
nent was bitterly mendacious and had
hardly anybody at the front from its
newspapers. We did the war to ueath. It
was rather a small wa r for numbers and
battles and it was spread over a vast
area and a long time. Even foreigners
•f military eaucatlon caught the craze
and absuirdly exaggerated the impor
tance of the whole aaffir.
The Japanese and Russians have called
us back to the normal procedure of mod
ern warfare. To be sure, the outA)f-the-
way and pathless nature of the scene of
war render secresy fairly easy, but what
the two belligerents have done is what
all professional soldiers will want to do.
War is a business, not a spectacle; men
who fail are not butchered to make a
half-penny hoildav for newspaper readers
In foreign countries. The real scientific
soldier objects to fight with a reporter at
his elbow; it is danger to his plans and
to a certain extent a shame to his reti
cence.
Moltke, “silent In seven languages,”
succeeded in having- most men tolerably
silent about himself Probably the bitter
experience of our newspapers, keeping
representatives abroad in expensive
countries and getting hardly any news
past the censors, will sicken their editors
and proprietors of the game and cure
the British public of its morbid curiosity
for e.xciting details. The war correspon
dent as we knew him is doomed.
ill health. If this point is heeded, and
iproper care given, there are few animals
more hardy, or less liable to disease.
The Angoras can bear heat and cold
equally well, but do not like storms or
winds, and if left to roam in a field,
there should always be a shed to shelter
them. This shed should be closed in on
the north ami west sides, and if in a
cold alimate, on the east also.
It was through a southern man that
the beautiful Angoras were first intro
duced into the United States. During
the administration of President Polk,
the then sultan of Turkey requested him
to send to him one who was competent
to conduct experiments in raising cotton
in Turkey. Dr. Samuel R. Davis, of
Columbia, S. C., was accordingly recom
mended for the position, and at once
appointed by the sultan. Dr. Davis spent
several years in Turkey, and his work
was so gratifying to the sultan that upon
tiie former’s return to the United States
in 1349. he was presented with nine
Angora goats, seven does and two bucks.
These animals were at the time, and
for many years after, thought to be
Cashmere goats, the differences between
them and the Angoras not being then
understood. The "Davis goats,” as they
were popularly known, were exhibited at
various state fairs, and everywhere re
ceived much attention and favorable no
tice. The progeny of the Davis goats
were scattered here and there, the farm
ers paying high prices for them, under
the impression that they were the fa
mous Cashmere goats, from whose woo!
alone the famous cashmere shawls were
made. It was an unfortunate mistake,
for of course all that was claimed for
the Cashmere goat was claimed for
these. Equally of course the Angora
'goat can no more take the place of it
cousin, the Cashmere, than the Jersey
cattle can take the place of the big beef
breeds. The results was a general dis
satisfaction with the "Davis goats,” so
that it was not very long before they
had almost dropped out of sight.
But after a time, the truth came to
be known, and the Davis goats, in their
real character of Angora goats, took their
proper place as worthy of care and con- I
sideration. In 1853 the goats, the origi
nal Davis flock, were purchased by Col-
onel Richard Peters, of Atlanta, Ga., :
with the exception of one that had be
come the property of Colonel Wade 1
Hampton, of South Carolina, another
owned by Mr. Davenport, of Virginia,
and one secured 'by Mr. Osborne, of
New York. Later on, as his flock flour
ished in the mild soutjiern climate, Col
onel Peters sent to Angora for more i
goats, but these were, for some reason,
not as satisfactory as the Davis impor- i
tation. To Colonel Peters belongs the
honor of being the real founder of the
Angora goat industry in the United
States—an industry that is now rapidly
assuming large proportions. Other im
portations followed up to 1876. The re
luctance of the Turks to allow any of the
Angora goats to leave their native coun-
rty, has already been noted. It natur
ally followed that this feeling was in
tensified by the repeated successes of the
hated foreigners in carrying off their
treasured animals. The dissatisfaction
eventually became so strong that it was
brought to the attention of the sultan,
who, in 1881, forbade the further export
of the goats, a prohibition that is still
in effect. *
SCATTERED BROADCAST.
The Angoras of the several importa
tions found their way into the different
sections of the United States, where they
gave-more or less satisfaction. When the
civil war was over, nearly all the An
gora goats that were left in the United
CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.
f
l C E ADMIT.,
1VITHOFT, who i
killed recently, t
one of the czv
trusted naval < <
manders In the
East. He had
stationed at V
yostok until the ■
astrous sinking
the Petropavlovsk
April 13 last, v
he was sent to tat
naval command
Admiral IVithoft Port Arthur, relies
ing Admiral Prince Ukhtomsky. who wa
temporarily in command. Adrni:
Withoft served with distinction in :ns
Turkish war. He was 53 years of ae»
This is the second admiral Russia
lost in the war. Makaroff having per: = : l
when the battle ship Petropavlovsk was
lost.
HE most inter^sli-i;
fiancee of the seas a
is Miss Pauline A>
tor. Miss A--
who is engaged to
to be married o
Captain Spend r
Clay, is the or
daughter of Will:
AValdorf Astor. t ?
well known Ameri
can millionaire vt
has made Englar.3
his home. Mr. As
tor, who is the pio
Mis* Astor prietor of The P '
Mall Gazette, spends most of his tin.;;
at Cliveden, but has a town house *'
Carlton House terrace and is a mem':" -
of the Marlborough and Carlton clui
It is said that love, not money, is m '
aging 'the affair. Air. Astor is to make
no settlement on his daughter. Captain
Clay has an income of $150,000 a year
Miss Astor has beautiful brown hair and
brown ej-es. Her favorite amusements
are dancing and motoring.
A PTAIN AVILLIA M
i. McDonald, the
•ommand'er of a
company of Texas
rangers, who within
i he nast few days
has captured single-
handed HJiri e desper
ate;. t«air_ -rebbass—:!j~
central* Texas, re
cently made one of
iiis periodical visits
to his headquarters
at Fort Hancock.
Prior to going after
Captain McDonald
and a few ot his men had been employed
for several months in running flown mur
derers and other lawless characters in
a remote section of east Texas. Foil
Hancock is situated on the banks of the
Rio Grande in the extreme southwestern
part of the state nearly 1.000 miles from
the scene of the recent labors of Captain
McDonald and ills squad of men, but
this place will continue to be the head
quarters of the company lor some tune
to come, it^ commands the situation
for a big section of the Mexican border,
where an outbreak of trouble is lik* 1 ’
to occur at any time. Captain McDonald
■ ls the mos t noted officer in the rana- r
| service. H> has a record for bra very,
| cool-headcdness and endurance that w is
i probably never excelled or
| west.
Capt McDonald
the train robbers
equaled in the
Hr T Sutherland
S head of the great
Peninsular and Ori
ental Steamship Ur>.
Sir Thomas Slither-,
land is an extremeiy*
important personage
in these days when
sober English states
men are seriously
discussing the possi
bility of -war result
ing from Russia's
seizure of several
liners of his big
fleet. In accords nee
with English custom, Sir Thomas nag
carefully refrained from expressing any
public opinion on the controversy # but
it is known that be is in constant com-
mun i dit on 9
snWernment and
strenuously insists quit Russia should be
compelled to pay and apologize for her
transgressions of the neutrality laws
and to stop the sort of game she is now
Playirg against Britain’s mercantile ma
rine. Sir Thomas Sutherland is one of
the most interesting and remarkable of
En
J C A Irishman
two
of industry.
NDOUBTEDT.Y, two
of the most active
diplomats in .1-
world just at pres
ent are the Ameri
can minister at Cor.
stantinople, John <>.
A. Leishman. aril
the Turkish official
at AVashington. Ch -
kib Bey. Since Un-
'le S|m and i 10
"Sick Man of ire
East” have betii
tilting lately, thc.-e
entlemen have worked overtime-
the one pressing the claims of this gov
ernment, and the other adroitlv side
stepping for his Oriental master. A
crisis in the Turko-American situation
is soon expected.
TIPS FROM TOV/N TOPICS.
“May I kiss you?”
“Not much.”
All rig.*%; I wanted only one or two.’ —
Town Topics.
Mrs. Bixby—What do you think of my
bathing dress?
Bixby It s an improvement on your
other one: this one is visible to the naked
eye.—Town Topics.
George AVhat can be more sickening
than to see another feilow making love
to a girl?
Harry—To see another fellow making
love to your girL—Town Topics.