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IM&X 10 SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—German Friendly Society.
Spacial Notices—Notice of Closing.
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& Cos.. Agents; Savannah Building Sup
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The Weather,
The indications for Georgia to-day
are partly cloudy weather, probably
occasional showers in eastern portions,
variable winds; and for Eastern Flor
ida, partly cloudy weather, with oc
casional showers, light to fresh north
easterly winds.
The mother of the late Secretary of
State Gresham celebrated her ninety
eighth birthday a few days ago at New
Albany, Ind. Quite a large party as
sembled to congratulate the old lady;
and not only did she meet and enter
tain them, but personally asaisted in
preparing dinner for them.
A Western doctor claims to have
discovered a function for the vermi
form appendix. But that is nothing
new. Everybody has known that it
had a function, for some time; name
ly. to afford the doctors a reason for
cutting people open, and sending In
prodigeous bills for the carving.
The South is threatened with a Car
rie Nation visitation. Atlanta is try
ing to secure her as one of the attrac
tions of the Fair to be held in that
city, and it is stated that. Jacksonville
also would like to give her a date.
Mrs. Nation's manager is said to be
anxious to bring her South, if he can
secure engagements at satisfactory
prices. It will be observed that her
crusade has degenerated Into a mere
hunt for box office receipts, in pursu
ance of which she is quite willing to
pose a* a side-show' freak
In Greater New York there are ap
proximately 3.500,000 people, and not a
few politicians; nevertheless nobody
in New York knows who is most likely
to be the Democratic nominee for
Mayor. Boss Croker. who is abroad,
has not yet expressed himself, and un
til he does so there will be no choice.
On the other side. Boss Platt has not
named his candidate, hence the Re
publican nominee is in doubt. Thus two
men control the "political destinies of
3,500,000 people as absolutely as if the
people were mere chattels.
Mr. Carnegie’s bounty continues to
agitate the town of Sharon. Pa. Some
time ago he offered the town a sum
of money for a public library, on the
condition that it guarantee a sum for
maintenance. Several town meetings
w-ere held, and the proffered gift was
declined. Recently some women ask
ed Mr. Carnegie to give the Central
Presbyterian Church at Sharon an or
gan. He replied that when the church
debt had been paid he would be pleased
to consider the matter. The other day
the women notified his agents that the
debt had been discharged, and the
agents went to Sharon to take the
measurements for the organ. The con
gregation then for the first time heard
of the matter, and a tempest in a tea
pot was immediately brewed. The ma
jority of the congregation oppose the
acceptance of anything whatsoever
from Mr. Carnegie.
An effort is afoot to have the “good
roads train," which has been touring
the Southeast recently. to visit
Charleston during the Exposition, and
demonstrate to the multitudes that will
be assembled there how common coun
try highways may be easily and cheap
ly transformed into good and perma
nently hardened roads. It is to be hop
ed the effort will be successful. Im
proved country roads are badly needed
in this section of the country, and any
thing that will arouse the interest of
the people in the improvement of the
highways is deserving of warmest com
mendation and support. The Charleston
Exposition is to be opened in Decem
ber It would be far from a bad idea
if the management of the Georgia
Stale Fair would use its best efforts to
have the train sent to Charleston,
stopping en route at Savannah for the
Elate Fair in this city in November.
COTTON IN GERMAN AFRICA.
A year or so ago the Ger
man government secured the ser
vices of several American negroes
of education to go to the Ger
man colony in East Africa and
i conduct experiments in the cultivation
lof cotton and maize. The experiments,
I as was explained at the time, were in
the line of providing for Germany a
raw cotton supply Independent of the
United States. It was believed that
the climate and soil of German East
Africa were well suited to the cotton
plant, and the experiments were to the
end of ascertaining whether or not the
belief was well grounded.
In the party of American negroes to
go to Africa under the auspices of the
German government was John W. Rob
inson. of South Carolina, who had re
ceived his training at Booker Wash
ington's school at Tuskeegee, Ala.
A letter written by Robinson
on July 1 has recently been
received by a newspaper pub
lished by negroes in Bennetts
ville, S. C., in which is given some
account of the experiments and the
prospects for cotton and maize culture
To judge from Robinson's letter, be has
high hopes of the future, not only for
cotton culture In Africa, but for Ameri
can negroes transplanted to that sec
tion of the world The experimental
farm on which he is employed has 100
acres under cultivation in cotton, be
sides the maize acreage. On July 1.
he says, the cotton stalks were six feet
high and well fruited. Both season and
soil seemed to agree with the cotton,
and there was every prospect that a
god crop would be gathered. There
were certain contingencies that were
to be feared, but the cotton crop
in Africa was not less promising
than a similar crop in the United
States. The maize, or corn, according
to Robinson, was higher and generally
better than the cotton, and the ears
were filling out well. One of the chief
enemies of the corn crop was monkeys,
some of them six feet tall, that pulled
off the ears of corn and carried them
In the shade to eat them. Practically
all of the common domestic animals do
fairly well in the colony, after they
have become acclimated. The natives.
Robinson says, are intelligent and
shrewd.. As traders they are very
smart, and “will cheat you sure," but
theft is punished among them severely.
He regards them as promising subjects
for the efforts of civilizers.
This report ought to be interesting
to Bishqp Turner, and those who be
lieve with him that the future of the
negro lies in Africa. It indicates that
there are abundant ■possibilities there
for intelligent, thrifty and economical
blacks. There can be no such thing as
a general deportation of American ne
groes under government auspices, but
if cotton and corn and cattle can be
made to thrive in Africa by intelligent
management, there is no insuperable
reason why emigrants to that country
cannot win a competency and even for
tune from the soil, besides exerting a
powerful influence for the uplifting of
the native* of the ' Dark Continent.”
. HANNA AND ROOSEVELT.
No one doubts that Vice President
Roosevelt has been doing a good deal
of work during the last few months
for himself as a candidate for the
presidential nomination of his party.
Of course he has not announced that
he is a candidate. If he were asked,
it is probable that he would admit that
he is trying to make himself popular
with the hope that his party will
make him its standard-bearer in 1904,
But as a matter of fact will the
people to whom Mr. Roosevelt is now
appealing have much to do with the
naming of the nominee? It is doubt
ful. It was stated by the United
States Commissioner of Labor, in an
article recently, that ten men, nearly
all of whom live in New York city, ab
solutely control the railroads of the
country. It is probably not far from
the truth that a less number than ten
control the Republican party.
Mr. Hanna is at the head of the few
men who hold the destinies of that
party in their hands. It is not known
that he wants the nomination for
President. He is undoubtedly ambi
tious. but It is probable that there
is a very serious doubt in his mind
as to whether he could be elected. If
he believed that he could be elected
there is hardly a shadow of a doubt
that he would take the nomination.
As to his ability to get it there does
not seem to be any question among
those who understand the situation in
the Republican party. The men who
with him absolutely control the Re
publican organization would rather
have him for President than any one
else. He could be depended upon to
do just what the leading men in the
party want done And he has control
of the Republican organizations in all
of the Southern states. The delegates
from those states will go to the Re
publican National Convention prepared
to do what he tells them to do. They
know that he will see to it that their
expenses are paid. They will be about
one-third of the membership of the con
vention. With such a nucleus and with
the following he and his immediate
friends are sure to have from other
sections of the country, it is easy to
see that he will control the conven
tion and will name the presidential
ticket.
It is all well enough for Mr. Roose
velt to travel over the country and
build up a following. He may be the
man that will suit Mr. Hanna and his
friends when the time comes for mak
ing a nomination- But if he does suit
them it will be because he is willing
to permit their dictation in many very
important matters. The great indus
trial and railroad trusts which exert
a powerful influence in the councils of
the Republican Tarty want a man in
the White House whom they can de
pend upon to favor their interests.
The Board of Health of the town of
Lonaconing. Md., has posted notices
calling upon all housekeepers to exter
minate files. Flies, according to the
health authorities, are the greatest dis
seminators of disease germs. By do
ing away with them the board hopes
to reduca ihe amount of sickness in the
town.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,190 L
PROHIBITION IN MISSISSIPPI.
Mississippi is almost a prohibition
state, not by a general prohibition law.
but bv means of local option. The
campaign against whisky has been
carried on so quietly that the fact that
the state was gradually coming under
the control of the prohibitionists was
not widely known beyond the state's
limits.
It is said, however, that the cam
paign against liquor has been more
exciting than a presidential campaign.
And it is asserted that the counties in
which liquor has been voted out are
prohibition in fact as well as in name.
Of the seventy-five counties sixty
nine have declared against the sale
and manufacture of intoxicants. Six
alone are now open to barrooms. Three
of these are coast counties, and are
regarded as suburbs of New Orleans,
rather than as parts of Mississippi. Of
the other three two are to soon hold
local option elections. They are Mad
ison and Monroe counties, and the opin
ion is expressed that both will vote
against whisky. There will remain
then only one county which the pro
hibitionists expect to capture. They
will make a hard fight for it.and those
who are in a position to know say that
the chances are that they will get it.
Then Mississippi will be practically a
prohibition state, and the people there
will have prohibition, not blind tigers
as there are in Kansas and Maine.
In Maine there is a general pro
hibition law, and it has been found
impossible to enforce it in those coun
ties which have not been educated
against whisky. In Kansas there is a
similar condition of affairs. Indeed in
the latter state prohibition has been
admitted to be a failure.
We have pointed out time and time
again that the only way to bring about
genuine prohibition in a state is to
educate the people against the liquor
habit and the liquor traffic. Get the
majority of the people in each county
against whisky and there is no trouble
to enforce a prohibition law.
The writer of the dispatch giving an
account of the way Mississippi has
been captured for prohibition, says;
Moreover, with the support of local
public opinion, as shown in the popu
lar vote, it is possible to enforce pro
hibition in the Mississippi counties and
towns far more thoroughly and satis
factory than in Maine, where it is
forced on many counties which do not
want it. Prohibition in Mississippi,
therefore, usually means prohibition.
There are a few blind tigers, that is.
illegal saloons, but the number is small
and it is decreasing. The sheriff elect
ed by a vote shown to be prohibition
is pretty apt to carry out the law
against barrooms if he wants to be
re-elected.
It is evident that it is well under
stood in Mississippi that there can
not be successful prohibition where
the majority sentiment is against it
Here in this state a. good work has
been done in the capture of about
three-fourths of the counties by the
prohibitionists. Now the prohibition
ists propose to risk losing all they have
gained by demanding a general pro
hibition law. They refuse to learn
anything from the experience of other
states. They insist upon learning by
their own experience. Simply be
cause whisky is sent from wet coun
ties to dry counties, it is proposed to
abandon the local option method by
which the state is being raptured and
adopt a method for stopping the liquor
traffic which has been tried often, and
which has always proven a failure.
The fact that whisky can be obtained
by dry counties from New York as
easily as from Savannah or Atlanta,
makes no Impression upon them what
ever.
NOT AN OIL WELL OWNER.
Mr Bryan pronounces the story, that
has been floating around in the news
papers for several weeks, that he had
purchased a tract of oil land in Wyom
ing and was preparing to sink a well
upon it with the hope of striking oil to
be wholly without foundation. It
seems that he has not invested in oil
lands in Wyoming or any other state.
He says that his only business enter
prise is The Commoner, and it is his
purpose to devote his time to it.
It is rather remarkable that a story
connecting him with an oil well in one
of the far Western states should have
bfeen set afloat. It is difficult to un
derstand what the purpose of the au
thor of the story was. It certainly
was not a friendly one, because the
story has been productive of a great
many newspaper paragraphs, some of
which were not of the most kindly na
ture. It may be that someone with
more imagination than regard for
truth thought it would be amusing to
lead the public to believe that Mr.
Bryan had followed Mr. Towne, who,
it will be remembered, was nominated
for Vice President on the Populist
ticket, into the oil producing business
—that he had decided to make an ef
fort to get rich quickly. Very few
people see anything amusing in a
false report. The newspapers do what
they can to guard against fake stories,
notwithstanding the fact that there
are many who think they prefer to
have a sensational story, which has no
foundation in truth, to the bald facts.
Of course, they seek to have their
news presented in an attractive shape,
but they want the truth as near as it
can be obtained. When they publish
what is not true it is because they have
been misled by those who furnished
them the information.
Mr. Bryan, who is a newspaper man.
know's that there are very few' news
papers that prefer falsehood to truth,
and. hence, in his denial he does not
complain of the newspapers for sug
gesting in their comments that he was
ambitious to become an oil king and
a millionaire, because he believes that
they were misled by the Wyoming oil
land story.
Some persons have a peculiar idea of
humor. That story of a $400.00a bet
on the yacht races was a fake, out of
the whole cloth; there wasn't a word
of truth in it. The perpetj-ator of It
said he told the story as a “joke.” and
evidently regards himself as one of
the greatest of jokers. But just where
the point of the joke is nobody has
been able to discover. Some plain
spoken pei eons might be inclined to
characterise the story in more vigorous
language, for instance, as a silly lie.
told for the purpose of acquiring a Ut
i tie notoriety cheaply.
Early county, in this state, has taken
a progressive step which should be
speedily followed by the other coun
ties. Early has taxed herself for good
roads. During ths next year she will
have probably SIO,OOO to be spent on
draining, grading and permanently
hardening her country highways.
Within a few years, if the plan is fol
lowed. the country will be cobwebbed
with a system of good roads, and
thereafter road maintenance will be
a mighty small item of expense. There
is no investment that a county could
make that would give it better and
more certain returns. Thousands of
dollars are wasted every year in
patching up old roads after the anti
quated and useless plan of throwing a
few shovelsful or earth in the low
and wet places, not to speak of the
waste that results from wear and tear
upon animals and vehicles, and the
increased cost of transportation over
bad roads. We consratulate Early
county upon her progress, and predict
that her good roads will help her to
the greatest prosperity she has ever
enjoyed.
There is the possibility of a strike in
the government printing office in
Washington. The cause for discontent
is that one woman declines to join the
union and thus make the department
in w’hich she labors solidly union. The
woman has been in the office for twen
ty-five years, and there is no charge
of inefficiency against her. She is un
der the civil service law-, hence cannot
be discharged except for cause. If the
union decides that its members shall
not work with non-union help, there
will be no alternative and a strike will
be called.
PERSONAL.
—The King of the Belgians is said to
be the most scholarly monarch in Eu
rope. His tastes, too. are simple and
he prefers a pipe to a cigar, smoking
an English bird’s-eye tobacco.
—The Longfellow house at Portland,
Me., has been opened to visitors as a
museum of relics of the poet. A small
fee is charged, the proceeds going to
the Longfellow memorial fund.
—The King of Portugal has invited a
number of English tennis players to
visit Lisbon in October and take part
in the tournament to be played there
In which the King himself is to be one
of the competitors.
—Gov. Herried, of South Dakota;
Gov. Savage of Nebraska, and ex-Gov.
Hoard of Wisconsin, will be among the
speakers at the Farmers' National
Congress, which is to be held at Stoux
Falls, S. D., Oct. 1.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Has His Agreeable Intervals.—Up
gardson: Doesn’t an extemporaneous
speaker always bore you?
Atom: No. Only when he tries to
speak.—Chicago Tribune.
—Sentimental.—The capitalist colored
when he spoke of the check that hung
in a neat frame over his desk. "A
bit of sentimentalism!" said he. "The
first billion I ever made!”—Detroit
Free Press.
—Old Gentleman: My friend, what
do you do with your wages every
week—put part of them in the savings
bank?
Bus Driver: No, sir; after paying
the grocer, butcher and the rent, I
pack what's left away in barrels; I
don’t believe in savings banks.—Tit-
Bits.
Suburban Sabbath.—Stranger: Your
congregation was rather email to day.
Minister; Yes, they only promise to
come "weather permitting."
Stranger: But it was clear.
Minister: Well, they mean if it rains
they'll come. If it is clear they play
golf and go fishing.—Chicago News.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The universal sympathy for the
wounded President is reflected in the
country’s newspapers. The few editorial
comments which follow may be taken
as typical of the tone of the whole
press. North and South.
The New York Times (Dem.) says;
“The President has lived openly, sim
ply, a life in close aceord with the old.
the good traditions of our land. He has
neither paraded nor concealed his
practice of what most Americans re
gard-thank Heaven—as the virtues
belonging to the home. This, too, the
people could understand, and for this
they have respected and trusted and
loved him. They are bound to him by
ties of peculiar and lasting sympathy.
Their hearts go out to him- Their pray
ers, in millions of homes, go up for
him. God guard and save him."
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph (Dem.)
says: “To the people of the South this
tragedy is peculiarly shocking. Al
though of another political party than
most of us, President McKinley is very
popular in this section of the country.
He has been a friend of the South; he
has done a great deal to abate the
prejudices growing out of the Civil
War. When in Macon he wore a Con
federate Veterans' badge. In our state
capital he declared that the bones of
the Confederate soldiers ought to be
cared for by the national government."
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: “As
he lies upon his bed of suffering Pres
ident McKir.ley has such solace as can
cone to him from the knowledge that
he has the profound and heartfelt
sympathy of every section of the coun
try and of every true man and w oman
in it. His kindly personal character has
made him popular even with his po
litical opponents, and as Americans
they resent with unspeakable indigna
tion and horror the act of the assassin
and unite in the prayer that his life
may be preserved to bis friends and
country."
The Atlanta Journal (Dem.) says;
Our Presidents have, without excep
tion. been men of high and noble char
acter. but not one of them has been
more universally beloved than William
McKinley. No sectional lines bound the
extent of the affection in which he is
held. The dearest purpose of his heart
has been to soothe the last lingering
soreness that was left by our civil 1
strife, and his hand has laid upon it
the balm of healing as no other hand
ever did."
The Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.) !
says; “If the prayers and hopes of the
people of the Southern states can avail
his life will be spared and the term for \
which he was elected be filled by him
to the last moment."
The Atlanta Constitution (Dem.)
says: “The nation is shocked at the
dastard deed; the hearts of the people
bleed for the distinguished victim; but
nowhere Is the shock deeper nor the
affliction felt stronger than in the ,
South.”
Another Trade by David.
The gentleman known as David Ha
rum stopped the deacon on the road,
says the Indianapolis Sun.
"Deacon." said David, “I'll give you
a dollar an’ my sorrel mare fer that
black colt you're drlyin’."
"Done," said the deacon.
The horses were unhitched and soon
David sat behind the black colt and
the deacon was in possession of Da
vid’s sorrel.
"Where's the dollar, David?" he
asked.
"I paid you," answered David.'
"Didn’t I give you four quarters?”
"When?" asked the deacon.
“Why. ain't there four quarters in
the boss?" asked David.
The deacon shook his fist furiously
and muttered something that sounded
like “I'll have the law- on ye fer this.
Dave Harum," but David only grinned
good-naturedly and drove on.
Kipling and His Style.
Probably no writer of the day has
been more severely criticized for the
kind of literature he grinds out than
Rudyard Kipling, says the Chicago
Chronicle. To all such criticisms, how
ever, the author deigns no reply. A
certain duchess asked him at a recep
tion one evening what he considered
the greatest book ever published. He
unhesitatingly replied.
“ The Light That Failed.' ’
“But that is your own book, Mr. Kip
ling," answered the Duchess
"Yes, but when I read 'The Light
That Failed’ I know I am reading
something good,” was the unblushing
response
Kipling's code is that if people want
furniture polish let them have furni
ture polish so long as they pay for it,
and he is having just as much fun out
of the publishers who accept and pay
for his doggerel as his critics think
they are having with him. He knows,
as everyone else knows, that a big
name will bring him money, regardless
of the quality of the wares. Before
Kipling was a name he had some good
things returned "unavailable.” He is
now getting even and the publishers
t>ay the price.
Utilization of “Dittoes.”
Tommy was much interested in hear
ing for the first time in his language
lesson the other day about a pair of
little dots that the teacher said meant
' ditto," says the New York Sun. How
his soul—a curious mixture of laziness
and thrift—thrilled at. learning that if
he were to write “a cat,” or “five
boys,” or ' $10” on one line, and wanted
to repeat the same words or figures
on the next line, all he had to do, In
stead of writing the words in full, was
to nut the ditto marks, and everybody
would know it was "a cat,” or "five
boys.” or "$10” (as the case might be)
that was meant. Some time after this
Tommy, while away on a visit, had oc
casion to write home. He simplified
the hated task by turning his latest
knowledge to account.
The letter looked like a literary pol
ka-dot.
"Dear father," it began:
"I hope you are w'ell.
“ , mother is “
“ “ sister “ “
“ “ Dick “ “
“ “ gr’dma “ “
“ wish you were here.
” “ mother was “ '
“ “ sistefi “ “
“ “ Dick “ “
“ “ grandma “ “
you would send me some
money.
"Your affectionate son. TOM.”
Won Him a Bride.
A certain major told a good story of
his experience in helping a. friend to
get the girl of his choice, says Tit-
Bits.
"He was a good fellow,” said he,
“but young and without capital. The
girl was a beauty and loved the boy.
but the father (the same old irate
father) objected and demanded that
the boy should show that he was capa
ble of supporting a wife. This was
about ten years ago. and the boy came
to me with his troubles.
“ Never mind,' said I. ‘l'll fix it up
all right. By the way, how much will
you take for your right leg?'
“He looked at me as though I were
crazy, but made no answer.
“ I'll give £5,000 for it.' I said. ‘Will
you take it?'
“ No, I won't,' he said. 'What do you
take me for?’
“Well, I knew the girl’s father, he
was a merchant, and I called to see
him. We finally drifted around to talk
ing about this young fellow, and the
old man flared a little, stating that he
wanted someone who could support a
wife to have his daughter.
“ Support a wife?’ said I. in surprise.
‘Why, he certainly can do all that.
Only a few days ago he refused £5.000
for a piece of property.'
“ 'His own property?' asked the
father.
“ ‘Certainly.’ said I.
“ 'Who offered him the money?’ ask
ed he.
“ 'I did; and he refused it,’ I answer
ed. 'He claimed it was worth more."
“Well, th}s made a hit. and no more
questions were asked. The boy is do
ing well now and has a good family. I
haven't spoken to the father since.”
Old Grimes.
Old Grimes is dead, that good old
man—
We ne'er shall see him more;
He used to wear a long black coat
Ail buttoned down before.
His heart was open as the day,
His feelings all were true;
His hair was some inclined to gray—
He wore it in a queue.
Whene'er he heard the voice of pain.
His breast with pity burned—
The large round head upon his cane
From ivory was turned.
Kind words he ever had for all,
He knew no base design;
His eyes were dark and rather small,
His nose was aquiline.
He lived at peace with all mankind,
In friendship he was true;
His coat had pocket-holes behind,
His pantaloons were blue.
Unharmed, the sin which earth pol-'
lutes
He passed securely o'er—
And never wore a pair of boots
For thirty years or more.
But good old Grimes is now at rest.
Nor fears misfortune's trown;
He wore a double-breasted vest—
The stripes ran up and dowm.
%
He modest merit sought to find.
And pay it its desert;
Ho had no malice in his mind,
No ruffles on his shirt.
His neighbors he did not abuse—
Was sociable and gay;
He wore large buckles on hi* shoes.
And changed them every day.
Hu. know ledge, hid from public gare.
He did not bring to view,
Nor make a noise town-meeting days,
As many people do.
Hie, worldly goods he never threw
In trust to fortune's chances.
But lived (as all his brothers do)
In easy circumstances.
Thus urdisturbed by anxious cares
Kir .Hactfu! moments ran.
And everybody said he was
V fine olu gentleman
—Albertly Greene, j
ITEjfs OF INTEREST.
—Consul Listoe writes from Rotter
dam to say that Chicago as a seaport
commences to attract the attention of
Europe. A Rotterdam ship broker firm
advertises in the local papers, for the
first time in martime history, that it
wall accept freight to go through with
bulk unbroken to Chicago.
—There is a rumor, says a writer in
the Onlooker, which I give for what
it is worth, that when the King look
ed over the regalia, which was espe
cially brought for his Inspection from
the tower to Marlborough House, tt
was decided the unlucky opal should
not appear in the crown, or Indeed in
any other of the royal jewels connect
ed with the coronation of the seventh
Edward.
—Cash registers and adding machines
are practically unknown In the section
of Brazil about Santos Consul Glri
mondi of that port thinks they would
meet with a ready sale if introduced
by agents speaking the language. He
also believes there Is a good opening in
his district for photographic apparatus
and supplies, and suggests the intro
duction of up-to-date postal scales to
replace the crude articles In use at the
present time.
—Hungary, which has a flourishing
milling industry, would now be a good
market, it is said, for American flour
bags and sacks, as the Austrian jute
spinning and weaving trust has raised
the Drices of these articles, so that,
in spite of the important duty on the
foreign bags, 1.200.000 sacks have come
in from Germany. Agricultural asso
ciations exist in all districts in Hun
gary, and purchase sacks, implements,
etc., for their members.
—The Italian steamship Regina Mar
gherita, lately arrived at Buenos Ayres
from Italy, has j brought one of the
most extraordinary parcels that has
ever appeared in the manifest of any
vessel, i. e.. a holy brick. We do not
mean a jolly friar in holy orders. He
would not be manifested. We mean a
real brick, a squared mass of burned
clay, declared to be holy because it
was taken from the Holy Gate in the
Vatican. The parcel is forwarded by
the Pope to Argentina as a mark of
special distinction.
—The English war office's new
scheme for the training of Tommy At
kins in maneuvers embraces many
novelties, which will in due course see
the light of practical demonstration,
says the London Express. Among these
none is more interesting or fraught
with greater possibilities than the de
vice for training soldiers to locate guns
firing smokeless powder. Arrange
ments are being made to carry out ex
periments in this direction at Aider
shot. and the sappers have already
constructed an ingenious battlefield up
on Ash Ranges, which will make field
firing very realistic. In the trial to
come an infantry force will approach
the ranges, and will immediately be
fired upon by distant guns. Endeavor
will be made to locate the field pieces
and the infantry will move forward in
cover. As they advance surprise tar
gets representing cavalry and mounted
infantry will spring up on flank and
front, an armored train will run out
and all the features of a modern bat
tlefield will be represented against the
advancing force. This method will call
for great initiative from commanders,
and the targets will be so made that
good shooting will be recorded by the
targets being knocked over. As an
inducement to make infantry take cov
er anew device has been adopted. Ar
tillerymen are to accompany the ad
vancing columns, and when a distant
gun fires its dummy shell they will
produce a corresponding explosion
among the attackers by means of a
small mortar, thus teaching the lesson
of cover and caution as no other means
short of live shell could do.
—Wordsworth's lines regarding the
faith that believes in the enjoyment
by the plant of the air it breathes may
find, perchance, some far-off justifica
tion—one dare not say confirmation as
yet—in the researches of Dr. B. Nernec,
who has published a learned treatise
on the manner in -which plants are
capable of transmitting impulses or
sttmuli through their bodies from one
p&rt of the organ to another, says the
London Chronicle. Dr. Nemec thinks
he has discovered certain special fea
tures in the living matter of cells
which appear to warrant the conclu
sion that plants possess structures cor
responding to the nerve fibers of ani
mals. The researches of Sir J. Burdon
Sanderson long ago proved that the
movements of the Venus fly trap's
leaves gave much the same electrical
reactions as do muscular movements
in the animal. There is no doubt that
whatever be the exact source of the
movements, it is to the living matter
(or protoplasm) of the plant that we
must look for the discovery of the real
seat of the action. In old days it was
believed that each cell of a plant was
completely shut off from all Its neighbor
cells. Now we know that, so far from
this being the case, the living matter
of the plant is continuous in Us na
ture. Fine threads of protoplasm pass
through the cell walls, and bring the
various series of cells into close con
nection. There is nothing inconceiva
ble, therefore, in the notion that cer
tain threads of living matter may de
velop the function performed by
nerves in animals, that of conveying
stimuli. When, too. we learn that a
sensitive plant can be rendered insen
sible by making it respire ether, the
argument can be drawn closer for the
identity of animal and plant sensation.
—Only ten miles from London lies
lavenderland, says the London Express
Glorious patches of purple flowers
bathing in bright Surrey sunshine seem
to make the air heavy with their sweet,
old-fashioned scent for miles around.
Just now they are busy in lavender
land gathering in the season's harvest.
The inhabitants of the little village of
Wallington—upon which the mantle of
Mitcham, formerly the center of the in
dustry. has fallen—are cutting the pur
ple blossoms and making them into
sheaves. From the fields the sheaves
of lavender are taken to the great dis
tillery which stands within the flower
laden garden of Miss Sprules. the lady
lavender farmer who has done so much
for the revival of the local industry.
Years ago. when Miss Sprules first be
gan its cultivation, the local lavender
was in a bad way. A succession of se
vere winters with killing spring frosts
had almost exterminated this one fam
ous lavender of Mitcham and the neigh
borhood. and the foreigner was pour
ing his inferior scents into the English
market. Now the industry has become
again a large and important one. and
in spite of the encroachments of the
builder, which have already driven the
lavender from Mitcham and are threat
ening it in the neighboring villages of
Carshalton. Wallington and Bedding
ton. there is enough of it grown in the
district to last yet for many a year.
The old London street cry Is almost
dead. In but few places now can the
old. familiar call, "Sw'eet lavender,”
bring back to memory the days when
the use of the flower and its scent was
almost universal among the women of
England But in spite of this the sale
of the English lavender is again in
creasing, thanks largely, no doubt, to
the patronage of the late Queen. Lav
ender in branches, lavender In bags,
oil of lavender, salts of lavender, lav
ender disinfectant and lavender water
—all are being sent away in quantities
from the little cluster of Surrey vil
lages.
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