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cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia to-day
ere fair weather,’ light to fresh north
erly winds: and for Eastern Florida,
fair weather, light fresh north to
northeast winds.
There is said to be in Des Moines,
la., a young man whose brain “ticks
like a watch.” The Item will no dWbt
call out any number of "wheels-in-his
heart" and “on-tick" funny paragraphs.
Just watch.
Said Pasha is onoe more.and for about
the fifth or sixth time, the Grand Vi
zier of the Sultan of Turkey. Said
has the reputation of being an abso
lutely incorruptible official, which
may account for the number of times
he has been fired by his royal master.
It may be well enough to remark that
Said Pasha has never had any connec
tion with the comic opera that bears
his riame.
Some of the rich American women
who are going to be present at the
coronation of King Edward will wear
duplicates of royal crowns. Mrs. John
Jacob Astor will wear one that Is a
reproduction of the crown worn by
Queen Victoria on her jubilee day. Mrs.
Clarence Mackay has one almost a re
production of Mrs. Astor’s. Mrs. How
ard Gould will wear a replica of the
crown of Queen Margherita of Italy.
Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes has chosen as
a model for her head-dress one of the
royal crowns of Spain, and Mrs. Brad
ley-Martin will wear a reproduction
rf the crown of Empress Josephine.
There is a plan afoot in Washing
ton to have the grade of vice ad
miral revived by the approaching ses
sion of Congress. With both Sampson
and Schley out of the way. by reason
of their retirement, there ought not to
be any great difficulty in having the
necessary bill passed. It does not ap
pear just who would be raised to the
grade, should it be created, but we
have no hesitation in saying that the
people would be immensely pleased if
the honor were bestowed upon Capt.
Clark of the Oregon, who took his
ship half around the world in
response to the first alarm turd brought
her to Jupiter Inlet ready for action,
with not a bolt started and not a seam
leaking. Clark is one of the most
brilliant figures developed by the war,
and he has not yet received just rec
ognition.
Old Klondiker# declare that there Is
much more than idle talk in the report
of a contemplated rebellion in that
station against the Canadian govern
ment and the setting up of an Inde
pendent republic. The Dominion gov
ernment. they nay. is intensely unpop
ular with practically all of the miners,
who think that it doe* not treat them
fairly. Luting six month* of the year,
while the hard winter i* on, It would
be impossible for Canada to conduct
military operation* against an upris
ing in tha Klondike, and during the
short summer there are so many dlf
ftculUa* in the way of a campaign in
that region that no large foree could
be employed. One <4d Kbmdlker at
piooenl in tbl* country la quoted a*
saying that 6MM nl arnmd men of
the degrrmlned chaiartei of it* m iti
er could do a* Itx-y pieaoed and bM
deftoime to tfa* a-uuoiu* of Gauada.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
The Committee on Constitutional
Amendments appears to be Inspired by
a feeling in favor of genuine reform.
It has agreed to amendments to the
constitution providing for biennial ses
sions of the Legislature and for a term
of four years for Governor and other
State House officers—the Governor not
being eligible for re-election until aft
er an interval of four years. The com
mittee also agreed to recommend terms
of four years for all county officers.
We venture to say that all of these
amendments will have the approval of
the people. There are those of course
who are looking for offices, and others
who manage in some way to make a
living out of politics, who will find
fault with the amendments, but the
feeling is pretty general that we now
have too many elections. When the
primaries are taken into account, to
gether with the state, county, munici
pal, congressional and presidential
elections, It is apparent that there are
only small intervals between elections.
There are more elections than the peo
ple have time to attend to. We are
sure that they feel they would be bet
ter off and better satisfied with half
the number there is at present.
It is the custom now to keep the
Governor in office for four years. There
is no probability that the custom will
be changed. What then is the use of
going to the expense of electing him
twice? It may be said that under the
two-year term system a governor can
be got rid of at the end of that term
if his administration is not satisfac
tory. That is true, but it is a remote
probability that a man whom the peo
ple choose for Governor will be so un
fit for his position that the state's in
terests would be served by getting rid
of him. —Tter-compcUtinr. rm Lite of*
fice is so keen that the candidates from
whom a choice is made are thoroughly
known; besides, if it should be found
that a mistake had been made, a thor
oughly bad Governor could be got
rid of by means of the power which
the Legislature has.
Let us have biennial sessions and of
ficial terms for four years by all means.
The proposed amendments would bring
about a big saving of expenses and
give the people time to think
about something else than politics.
SAVANNAH HAIIUOR IMPROVEMENT.
Representative Burton, Chairman of
the River and Harbor Committees, is
satisfied that a river and harbor bill
will be passed at the coming session
of Congress, but he s expects there will
be some difficulty in passing it, for
two reasons. One is the amount it
will carry, and the other is the diffi
culty in harmonizing conflicting inter
ests. He says that the demands for
appropriations for new improvements
are going to be very great, and that
the refusal of these demands will make
enemies for the bill.
The Committee, he says, feels bet
ter qualified to frame the river and
harbor bill since its trip to the Pa
cific coast last summer than it was
before that trip, but it is its purpose
to visit some sections in the South
before the bill is completed.
Of course it is impossible to say
what amount the bill is likely to carry,
but Mr. Burton says that it will be
considerably greater than the amount
of the bill that was framed at the
last session, and was talked to death
by Senator Carter. That bill, how
ever, will be the basis of the new bill.
Some of its items will be stricken out
altogether and others will be Increased
Of course new items will be added.
Savannah is profoundly interested in
the bill that is to be framed this win
ter. The bill that was defeated last
winter carried a large appropriation
for the deepening of Savannah harbor
to 28 feet, and it is expected that the
new bill will contain an appropriation
for that work. The importance of the
bill to Savannah cannot therefore be
overestimated. -
There Is no reason to doubt that
Savannah will get the appropriation.
Representative Lester occupies a prom
inent place on the River and Harbor
Committee, besides being a very influ
ential member of it. The fact also
that the bill of last year carried an
appropriation for this work justifies
the conclusion that there will be no
serious opposition to giving to Savan
nah an Improvement which her grow
ing commerce demands.
THE STATE AND THE SOLDIERY.
The value of the volunteer soldiers
of the state as protectors of the com
monwealth and preservers of the peace
is too well known to need discussion.
They have not only given their time
and risked their fives in serving the
state—that is, their fellow' citizens—
but have provided armories and all in
cidentals appertaining to the mainten
ance of the' military organizations at
their own expense. Without this or
ganized body of citizen-soldiers the
laws, in some instances, could not
be enforced. It is not alone moral
support w'hlch a well organized and
disciplined soldiery gives the law;
sometimes the soldiers are called upon,
when prompt action means much, to
give physical force to the civil estab
lishment. The unfailing promptness
of the military to respond to calls made
by those in authority should make
every one willing and ready to con
tribute to the support of the volunteer
militia. As it is, the individuals who
perform the services referred to and
the members of the communities in
which the organizations have their
headquarters, bear the burden of pro
viding and maintaining this bulwark
of the state’s defense. It is the duty
of the State to eontribute, out of the
general fund coming from the people,
to the support of the militia as a re
turn for the defense which the state
enjoy*. It Is hardly conceivable that
any right-thinking body of men would
hesitate a moment In providing for and
encouraging our volunteer* by a lib
eral appropriation toward* their ti
: iiense*.
The hunting season In Maine seem*
;to be progressing finely. Not with
| atandlng the season 1* only a few
VNrtd'k#’ old. IftOf ItM ()lAll fttA<*|Vt* Jy I •
not* Imv# by liutiu-m. of
I v\ hi< h iiunitier flv# w*t killed uuiiipM
i*t far •• ti** luiM'iiiMitoii ifi#
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THE MOKNING NEWS: THURSDAY. NOYE3IBER 21, 1901.
MISS STONE STILL A PRISONER.
It would be interesting to know Just
what the facts are concerning the ef
forts to secure the release of Miss
Stone, the missionary who was cap
tured by Bulgarian brigands. One day
there is an account that the ransom
is to be paid at once, and another day
it is stated that the brigands will ac
cept nothing less than the amount they
originally demanded. In the dispatches
Wednesday it was announced that Mr.
Dickinson, the American diplomatic
agent at Sofia, having located Miss
Stone in a defile of the mountains, had
called upon the Bulgarian government
to send troops to rescue her, believing
that under no circumstances would her
captors harm her.
It is pretty nearly three months since
Miss Stone was captured, and negotia
tions have been going on all the time
for her release. A great number and
variety of stories have been told as to
the character of the men who cap
tured her. It has been stated that
they are professional brigands, patri
ots, farmers who embarked in the
scheme to capture her for the sake of
the ransom they might get, and some
of the accounts have intimated that
they are Turkish soldiers. Asa matter
of fact very little that is reliable seems
to be known about the affair. The
only thing that is certain is that since
Miss Stone's capture on Sept. 2 the
papers have contained dispatches al
most daily bearing upon some phase of
her case.
It seems that Miss Stone is well
known in Sofia, in fact, in all of the
Balkan provinces, having been a mis
sionary in that section of the world for
many years. Her residence is in Sa
lonica, and at the time of her capture
she was on her way, with quite a large
party, from Bansko in Bulgaria to Di
urafiriajn Turkey. In faot, she had
crossed the border Thto Turkey. The
fact that she was captured in Turkey
led to the talk that it was the purpose
of our government to hold the Sultan's
government responsible for the cap
ture and detention of Miss Stone. In
deed, according to statements which
have appeared in the public prints, our
government has assumed a very ag
gressive tone in what it has said to
both the Turkish government and that
of Bulgaria, in regard to the outrage.
It is probable that the bandits
thought the ransom they asked would
be paid promptly. There has been so
much delay, however, and the Turkish
and the Bulgarian governments are
showing so much activity in respect to
the matter, that it is probable that the
bandits are becoming alarmed. In that
case it is not improbable that Miss
Stone will be released without the pay
ment of an excessive ransom. In fact,
she may be returned to her friends
without the payment of any ransom.
A BILL 1 HAT MEANS TROI'BLE.
While the state Is straining every
nerve to keep its debit and credit ac
counts even, it is proposed—and a com
mittee of tlje House of Representatives
has reported favorably upon the bill—
to establish a "bureau of labor,” with
a commissioner and a good salary at
tached. The good salary is doubtless
one of the most important parts of the
scheme. The bill is an innocent ap
pearing measure, but if it is passed a
trail of trouble in its wake may be
looked for.
Its author is the gentleman who came
to Savannah some months ago, and left
behind, as a memento of his visit, a
dozen or more men who lost their jobs
because of his activity and "friend
ship” for them. If the farmers of
Georgia desire trouble, let the “bureau
of labor," so called, be organized, and
they wifi have men standing around
their cotton fields advising their la
borers to strike Just when the most
important work, such as harvesting, is
to be done.
That is the way the average labor
agitator works. His job depends upon
creating discontent among working
people and discord between employer
and employe. The members of the
House will do well to read and ponder
the report submitted by the minor
ity of the committee to w’hlch the bill
was referred. That report shows there
Is no necessity for any such bureau,
there being already a sufficiency of law
covering the matter; that the salaries
provided for the officers of the bureau
would be a useless waste of the public
money; that the machinery provided in
the bill could be easily used as a means
of preparing information, and giving
it official sanction, with W'hich to insist
upon* the enactment of other and fur
ther labor legislation on the same fines;
that the bill is dangerous and a menace
to the true policy and interests of the
state; that the expenses of the bureau
would increase from year to year and
the powers provided for in the bill
could be used to harrass and injure
many worthy enterprises and institu
tions in this Btate. This is a mild state
ment of the dangers of the bill, but it
should be sufficient to put the friends
of Georgia's progress on their guard.
The color question is not peculiar to
this section of the country, by any
means. We have here a two sided ques
tion, but in Oklahoma the- race issue
is three-cornered, with the possibility
of a fourth corner developing. In the
territory there are white, black and
red people, with a considerable smat
tering of yellow. Some time ago the
w'hite children refused to go to school
with the black children, and separate
schools for the whites were provided.
In many counties Indian children at
tended the white schools, until the
whites, both parents and children, de
clared a repugnance to association
with Indian bucks and squaws and
pappoose*. It wms then proposed that
the Indians be sent to the negro
schools; whereupon the Indian* got
mad and threatened to raise ructloniy
generally, declaring they would never
mix with the blacks. The matter ha*
become a political Issue in the terri
tory. and there are many peroon* who
look forward for a kick on the part of
the Chinese respecting race associa
tion* In th* school*.
Disturbing tumor* of the HI health
of tli* Pope are again being test out
from Home. Leo XIII 1* now a very
old man, liruK the i urn or* of tits fatt
ing strength ate not to be regarded
lightly. Should tie five to see Man ti S,
neat, he will he t 2 year* of age, and
the day following wifi Is the twenty
fourth suiui*i*ci) of hi* coiwiniUoa
i ** P'/bUH. ,
It is a bit surprising how little the
average Northern ns?isp§per knows of
the geography of the however
well informed it may be otherwise.
For instance the Philadelphia North
American, printing a story about the
coastwise trip to Florida of the Edi
son party in a small launch says: ''Af
ter leaving Charleston the only really
dangerous part of the journey will
commence. For about fifty miles, from
Charleston to Sapelo, the party will
have to take its chances on the broad
Atlantic. From Sapelo, however, there
will be another long stretch through
Georgia and Florida waters." The lit
tle craft, it will be remembered, Is
ccming down by the "inside route."
That route, to the - northward, Is bro
ken at Wrightsville Sound, near Wil
mington, N. C., and picked up again at
Georgetown, S. C. It is between these
two points that the party must put to
sea. From Georgetown southward to
Charleston, through Mosquito creek ca
nal and Bulls Bay, there is an inside
route and smooth water, and from
Charleston south to Florida by way of
Tybee there is an excellent inland wa
terway over which a. considerable com
merce is carried. The distance from
Charleston to Sapelo, too, is much near
er 128 miles than 50 miles. It would
be an act of wisdom on the part of
Congress to perfect the inside route be
tween the North and the South by
cutting a canal that would connect the
headwaters of the Waccamaw river
with the Cape Fear river near Wil
mington. That would make the route
continuous and perfectly safe to small
craft.
A Bridgeport, Conn., man promises
that within a year flying machines will
be as cheap as automobiles and far
to produce an aerial car that will car
ry six persons at a very high rate of
speed, yet which will be all the time
under perfect control. He is now
making a model that is to be shortly
given a public demonstration. A num
ber of New York capitalists are said
to have put money into' the scheme.
The six-seated flying machine is to be
marketed at a cost of $2,000 or less.
When this flyer gets out somebody
with sporting blood ought to arrange
a race between it and the automobile
of Henry Fournier which the other
day turned off a mile in a fraction
above 53 seconds.
PERSONAL.
—Lyman D. Goff, a millionaire man
ufacturer of Pawtucket, R. I„ will build
a fine clubhouse for boys betw-een the
ages of five and fifteen, who are in the
habit od making . the streets their
homes.
—The Buller Memorial Committee of
Devonsnire, of which the Mayor of Ex
eter is chairman, has issued an appeal
for shilling subscriptions for a me
morial to Gen. Buller. The nature of
t,he memorial must necessarily depend
upon the amount of subscriptions re
ceived, but the following have been
suggested; A statue, to be erected at
Exeter; a statue, to.be erected on Ply
mouth Hoe; a convalescent home for
soldiers at Credition (Sir Redvers-Bul
ler s birthplace).,
BRIGHT BITS.
—As He Understood It.—"l reckon
yo’ doan’ know what de paper means
by breadwinners. - ’ "Oh’ Dat’s easy
’nuff. It means when de head of de
fambly plays policy an’ comes out
ahead!"—Puck.
—A Maryland youth who is fond of
hunting, and who sleeps with a shot
gun at the head of his bed, awoke sud
denly from an exciting dream the other
night,/and mistaking his feet for rab
bits, shot one of them full of holes.
The Maryland pattern for feet must
be almost as peculiar as that of the
colored individual who was sleeping
on his back with his feet in the fire.
Awaking in the night he caught sight
Of the feet, and imagining that they
were a couple of interloping juveniles,
shouted at them: "Wha" you mean,
you brack chlllun, standin’ ’tween me
an’ de flah!” and then forcibly kicked
one of them into the-blaze.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Discussing the anti-anarchy bill in
the Georgia Legislature, the Charles
ton News and Courier (Dem.) says:
“It is reassuring to be told that the
Georgia bill defines the offense in ques
tion so clearly as to avoid trouble on
this score, but that is not the point
we wished to submit to the over-the
river legislators. It. is ratner that they
had better let this matter alone. It is
not good to put notions into people's
heads by unnecessary legislation. As
soon as there is a law in Georgia
against anarchy some man or men will
be moved to break it, and possibly
Some of the societies in New Jersey
or Ohio will be impelled to organize
branches in Georgia, where they have
never been thought of before. More
over, it is not well for the Legislature
of any state to go off .half cocked. An
archy has a very small foothold in this
country. Only one President has been
killed by anarchists so fan—in a hun
dred years. If there must he legis
lation against lawless killings in our
part of the world, let it take the form
of more effective laws against lynch
ings and other murders. There are
thousands of such affairs among us
every year, and all the crimes of all
the anarchists pale before the total of
our popular record.”
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
(Ind.) says: "Georgia cotton manufac
turers individually denounce child
labor, like those in Alabama, and, like
the latter also, they oppose child labor
legislation. The bill now. pending in
the Georgia Legislature follows the
resolutions of the mill-owners adopted
last summer—prohibiting employment
of all children under 10 years, of all
children under 12 whose parents are
not indigent, and of all children under
14 unless they can read and write.
Nevertheless, this bill Is meeting with
strong opposition, which can only
come from the mill-owners They seem
to resemble that Massachusetts treas
urer of the Alabama cotton mill, who
denounced child labor as un unmiti
gated evil without the merit of being
economical, and then permitted ill*
mill to lead the fight In the Legislature
to defeat child-labor legislation."
Tin- Philadelphia Times (Dam.) say*:
"Renalor MrLaurtn declared VVhui
we need in this country to-day is a
rtOfi'MfUdfful patriotism and states
manship more devoted to th* build
ing up ot our country than the achieve
ment of party success ' What the
tiiauship that will gland fur fieri up.
that at- gtariugly fiiuiiat<d la tlei* at
tempt t*> laid Up Ti*au subsidy
Is not Dtluociatlv 4*a fill**,
Two Sufficient Reason*.
The senior partner did not make his
appearance at the office until about 2
o’clock, and then the junior partner
was not there, says the Pittsburg Com
mercial-Gazette.
"Where Is Mr. Tenterhook?" he ask
ed of the bookkeeper.
“He left the office awhile ago. sir,"
replied the man ,of daybook and
ledger, "and he £aid he wouldn't be
back to-day." %
"I hope nothing is the matter with
him," the senior partner added. "I’m
afraid he Isn’t very well, for he com
plained of a pain in his stomach yes
terday.”
"Well,” the bookkeeper explained,
"he said something about having eat
en some fish at lunch that didn’t agree
with him. and he added that there was
a football game this afternoon that he
wanted to see, anyhow."
President a Story Teller.
The cabinet has anew rule of pro
cedure, says the Washington corre
spondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. It
used to be the law that when that
Illustrious body assembled at 11 o’clock
on Tuesday and Friday mornings busi
ness should be taken up at once. But
that is not the practice now. Instead
of getting to work at once on the sup
posedly great questions of state, the
President takes from fifteen to twenty
five minutes to tell his advisers the ex
periences he has had w ith, the gentle
men who have been giving him "hot
air" about offices and schemes they
want him to recommend to Congress.
The President is a good narrator and,
therefore, the first half hour is unusu
ally interesting. He doesn’t tell stories
to illustrate a point he is making, as
Lincoln did, but tells everything that
has been happening that has impressed
itself upon his mind. His sense of hu
mor is good and the humorous side of
the picture* that pass before him is
not overlooked. ,
Fine Old Southern, Etc. •
The story came from North Carolina,
says the New York Evening Sun. A
student at the Tar Heel University w as
surrounded by a group of old college
mates at a hotel in New" York the oth
er night. They were welcoming him to
the metropolis and incidentally plying
him with questions.
“What has become of old Dawson ?’’
someone asked.
"Oh. he's back, studying law. Did you
hear how he escaped being expelled?
No? Well, he was hauled up before the
faculty for playing poker. It looked like
a cold deal for Dawson . until old
’Prexy’—you know how a soft answer
turns his wrath—asked: ‘Mr. Dawson,
what would you think of me if I were
to engage here in a frlendy little game
of poker with the other members of the
faculty? What would you think of me,
Mr. Dawson?’ he thundered.
"Without cracking a smile Dawson
spoke up: ‘Well, doctor, I think you
w ould skin ’em.’ ”
"And Dawson escaped expulsion?’
“Of course. ’Prexy’ was highly pleas
ed at Dawson’s tribute to his ability.’
Song With a Sentiment.
People living around the vicinity of
Fifth and Chestnut streets had a good
laugh one day last week, says the
Louisville Times. A little negro girl is
in the habit of coming to the pump at
the corner to get water. She brings her
bucket along, and, being too small to
handle the pump, she usually begs
some passer-by to pump for her. They
always accede. The other day she had
reached her destination with the buck
et. and as she did so a tall, sober look
ing gentleman passed. iMister.” said
the small African damsel, “won’t you
please fill my bucket for me?”
The gentleman instantly halted, put
the tin bucket on the spout and started
to pump. As he did so, the negro bloom
er began singing in a loud voice. “I'se
got er w'hite man wukkin’ fer me.”
The familiar tune of the variety song
struck the bystanders and passers-by,
and they were convulsed with the sit
uation. Not so the pumper. He evident
ly did not know anything about comic
songs of that character, and did not
see the joke, for he went on pumping
gravely until the bucket was filled and
handed to its songful ow'ner.
You couldn’t get any of the fellows
near there now to fill that bucket un
less the girl could be bound over to
keep the peace while they pumped.
The Lost Pocketbook.
The two men happened to meet at
the corner of a street, says an ex
change.
"What’s the matter?” asked the first
rnam "You seem to be looking down
in the mouth.
"Well, I think I have a right to look
down in the mouth,” said the second
ma V' Y ? u would - too. if you lost a
pocketbook with a lot of and
papers in it."
"Oh." said the first man, "an aliga
tor skin pocketbook. with a strap and
stiver buckle? Peculiar appearing at
fair?" f
“Yes. indeed; made by special order ’
said the second man quicklv. "oid
you"—i ■
Had five £2O notes and £45 in small
note* in it?
“Yes. yes. Did you’
"Had some life insurance papers and
a, couple of property deeds, and also
two rings, one a diamond solitaire and
the other a blue turquoise set’ing?”
"The same, the same. Oh. where"
"You dropped it in Prince street
somewhere between the Caledonia Sta
tion and Castle street?”
"Yes, yes,” exclaimed the excited, but
radiant loser. "Where did you find it*"
"I didn’t .find it,” said the first man,
as he moved away "I read your ad
vertisement In the newspapers. Hope
you will find It, old man. Good-by.”
The policeman on the corner threat
ened to arrest the man that lost the
pocketbook if he didn’t stop using vlo
lent language on the street.
Pntintin'* Reprehensible Loop.
[lt is now claimed that Gen. Israel
Putnam never made his historic ride
down the stone steps, but that he took
a roundabout course through a hidden
lane.]
They’ve knocked the pins from under
good old Jonah and the whale;
They’ve proved he never took that
thrilling inside way to sail;
They’ve shown by facts and figures
that fair Helen and the horse
Did not affect the Trojans with some
sad and sore remorse.
And now they rise to taunt us with
derisive jeer and- whoop—
They say that good old Putnam made
the biggest kind of loop!
They say he never galloped down the
faropu* stairs of stone;
That if lie had he mu*t have most in
fallibly been thrown:
And, anyway, he wasn't there: and, if
lie was. beside,
H<- couldn't take the flying trip—he had
no horse to ride;
And, furthermore, to history each
shoolboy 1* a dupe
Because, instead of jumping tttair*, old
"Put” Just looped the loop.
Good-by to "Put," be'* gone 'way back
with Jonah to ait down;
Along with Moll) i’ll char, who ne’er
•
And fired the noisy cannon at tit* Hilt.
Ih<-r dragoon*
ii> * gone to join the glory of H*n But
i mi<l t !*• •(mum.
T*k* run.gih 1 ii*iD ih* Hull of
ulKj him oft 111*
’lluy'v** toy tUmgi+m *l)4 < halt
to* otol/ 1 tfe* loop.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Cologne has just celebrated the
eight hundredth anniversary of the
death of St. Bruno, the founder of the
Carthusian order "in the original Char
treuse near/Grenoble. The celebration
was held in the Church of St. Cunlbert,
where Bruno was a schoolboy. It came
just at a time when the monks of the
Grande Chartreux had made up their
minds to seek authorization from the
French government and to remain in
France.
—Adelaide Rlstori recently celebrated
the eightieth anniversary of her ap
pearance on the stage. Her mother
was an actress, and the future tragic
actress was brought upon the stage
when a few months old in a play where
a baby was needed. She received the
congratulations of Ernest Legouve,
senior of the French Academy, now' in
his ninety-fourth year, whose "Medea”
provided Rlstori with one of her most
famous parts.
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell of
the National Geographical Society of
the United States has been notified by
the chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the International Geographi
cal Congress that that body will meet
in the city of Washington in 1904. The
first international geographical Con
gress was held in Antwerp. Belgium,
in 1871. The meeting to be held
Washington in 1904 will be the first ev
er held outside of Europe. The im
portance of the international geogra
phical Congress and its meetings, in
the way of promoting the science of
geography, arctic and tropical explo
ration, etc., cannot be overestimated.
—Unless vast new stores of coal
which can be mined and transported
at a reasonable cost are discovered ere
this generation draws its last breath,
says the New York Tribune, the ex
pense of crossing- the Atlantic in the
fastest steamships is likely to soar to
lofty figures. The number of coal con
suming vessels, naval and mercantile,
is increasing rapidly every year, and
the demand for fuel for pnch craft is
steadily expanding. Coal fields which
can be worked to advantage for the
supply of steamships do not contain
inexhaustible treasuries of carbon. The
biggest and fleetest boats on the sea
burn 500 tons or more each day. Long
before this century ends the fuel prob
lem may become perplexing.
—Most of the Russian peasants pass
a great deal of their lives in work
shops, where they work, eat and sleep,
the same room sheltering a number,
and probably a pig in the bargain, says
the Saturday Review. There are few
beds. Instead, all around the four
walls of the room is fixed what may
be literally described as a bench. It is
made of wood, and at this works the
peasant by day and on it he sleeps by
night, each man at his own spot. The
conditions of the Russian workshop, or
factory, and the Russian prison and
military barracks, so far as interior
arrangements are concerned, are akin.
Chairs there will also be, and table,
rudely fashioned, as a rule, by the men
themselves.
—“I have always thought that a man
named Smith, or Jones, or Brown, was
handicapped in the race for a career,
but now I have reason to take a more
hopeful view of it," says a man named
Smith, quoted in the Philadelphia Rec
ord. "I was talking recently with an
old friend of mine about some ambi
tions that I have long cherished, ana
he said to me: - You’ll have to change
your name. The world refuses to take
a man seriously whose name is Smith.’
Although he said this jokingly, I was
somewhat impressed, for it was rather
in the line of my own thoughts. Sev
eral days later I picked up a copy ot
’Who's Who in America, - a book that
contains biographical sketches of per
sons prominent in the professions and
in public life. Just out of curiosity I
turned to the Smiths, and it tickled
me to death to count 123 of them, to
say nothing of ten Smyths. There were
also sixty Browns and forty-six Jones
es. This was a revelation to me, and
it has given me renewed hope.''
—“You can generally size up a man’s
caliber by the way he smoked a ci
gar,” said the Philadelphia Record’s
communicative conductor. "You think,
being on a street car so much of my
time, I have little opportunity for ob
servation, eh? Well. that’s where
you’re wrong. I come in contact with
the meanest kind of smokers, the kind
who carry their buts with them on the
cars, and light up again wh they get
off. I don’t mind a man walking a few
blocks to finish his cigar rather than
throw- it away, hut I do kick on the
cheap skate who carries his cigar into
the car. Sometimes he lets it smoul
der, to the annoyance of women pas
sengers, and then tells you he isn’t
Smoking. Other times he will nib it
against the back platform until the
fire is extinguished, and then hold the
butt between his fingers. Few things
are more obnoxious to people who don't
smoke than the smell of a cigar that
has gone out, and once a cigar has gone
out it loses its flavor, and only a cheap
man would attempt to relight It.”
—The crews of the new "sub-marine”
are subject to hair-raising experiences
occasionally, even in the piping times
of peace, says the New York Post. For
instance the men on board the new
French sub-marine Triton narrowly
escaped drowning like rats in a trap
the other afternoon. The vessel had
gone out from Cherbourg for the pur
pose of making plunging trials with an
apparatus invented for the purpose by
M. Leubeuf. When in about seven
fathoms of water the plunge was made,
and the machinery acted so rapidly
that the ship struck the bottom and
sustained considerable damage. Water
began to flow in rapidly, but the engi
neer ordered the "safety leads” (de
tachable weights affixed to the vessel)
to be cast adrift, and the boat quickly
rose to the surface, but none too soon.
Had the accident happened In rather
deeper water it is thought that nothing
could have saved her. As It was, she
had a very narrow escape. In the few
minutes that she occupied in rising to
the surface she took in much water,
and her crew were panic-stricken. Once
on the surface the pumps were got to
work, and a tug came and towed her
into the arsenal for repairs.
—ln the accounts of Journey* In
Switzerland of the last century it is
often remarked that the clocks of Basle
were an hour too fast. Tradition re
veals to us the origin of this custom,
says an exchange. When, five cen
turies ago, the city was besieged, the
enemy designed to make a surprise at
the Instant when the main clock should
strike 1. The clockmaker who had
charge of the public clocks learned In
time the signal of attack and set the
apparatus so that it should strike 2
o'clock Instead of 1 o'clock- The enemy
was dlsconceried and abandoned tiie
assault. In memory of this happy de
liverance of the city the clock was stilt
allowed to strike an hour in advance,
and the other clocks were regulated by
this one. do. for centuries, time lit
iiaale ass cue hour in advance of that
of the rest of the country. The clock
maker, who by this ruse prevented the
enihlpeted attack, and who was ven
erated to the end of his ds ya. made
as a souvenir of this event a mechanl
<l chef-d'oeuvre in tbs form of s hu
man head, which he place and at the aide
of lhe > lock In su> h a way thal It
looked In the 4lfslios whenm lhe at*
• ask was io pi weed. Kmrr m finite
ibis band etu* k out its longin' as it
to me- k Ur enemy.
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Office at Iff York Street. West,
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GO.
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of a large number of patients under
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a permanent branch of the Institute in
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the Henderson building, rooms I, 2,3,
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These eminent gentlemen have de
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The object in pursuing this course is
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The doctors treat all forms of dis
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