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Newspaper Page Text4 gfjje Jfiirfning Morning Mews Building Savannah. Gs SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 83. 101. Registered at the Postoffic* In Savannah. TUB durMM> NEWS In published every day in the year, and served to subscribers In the city, or sent by mall, et 70 cents a month, $4,00 for *lx months, and IS.OO (or one year. THE MORNING NEWS, by mall, eli times a week (without Sunday issue), j three months, $1.50; six months, H. 00; one year. *6.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two Issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mail, one year, sl-00. Subscriptions payable In advance. Re mit by money order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of Bonder. Transient advertisements, other than epeoiw column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen llnee of agate type—equal to one Inch in depth—is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. Orders for delivery of the Morning News to either residence or place of business can be made by mall or by telephone No. SO. Any Irregularity In delivery ehould be immediately reported. letters and telegrams should be ad dressed ••MORNING NEWS,” Savannah. Os. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row. New York City, HI C. Faulkner. Manager. SmTTo MW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—Fire Insurance Em ployment Wanted: Thanks <to My Friends and Sympathizers. M. S. Gardner; Fine Deer, Bear and Wild Turkeys. J. .T. Joyce; Ship Notice, J. F. Minis & Cos., Consignees. Business Notices—Raisins, Currants, Etc'., A. M. & C. W. West; Oranges, Bananas, Celery, at Munster’s; Roller King Flour, Trapani & Branan; The Finest Beef We Have Ever Had, The S. W. Branch Cos. Men’s and Boys’ Suits and Overcoats —The Metropolitan Clothing Company. Watches —Waltham Watches. Baking Powder—Royal Baking Pow der. Legal Notices —Application for Incor poration of Material Men’s Association. Prospectus—Of the Meldrum Cam phor and Chemical Company. Amusements —“Two Little Vagrants,” Matinee and Night, at Theater. Firearms of All Kinds —Palmer Hard ware Company. Grape-Nuts Food—Postum Cereal Company. Mineral Water—Hunyadi Janos. Medical—Blood Wine; Horsford’s Acid Phosphate; Dr. Hathaway Com pany; Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Pills; Hyomei; Crossman’s Specific Mixture; Tutt’s Pills. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent: For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis cellaneous. The Weather. The indications for Georgia to-day are rain, colder weather in western portion, fresh easterly winds, shifting to northerly: and for Eastern Florida, rain, fresh easterly winds, becoming northerly. The Republican papers have not yet succeeded in reading Representative Babcock out of their party. However, they haven't yet given up the attempt. “Mrs. Roosevelt handkerchiefs” do not appear to be In much demand. The other day the President’s wife sent a handkerchief to a charity bazar at Freehold. N. J. It was sold at auc tion, and the highest bidder secured it for $1.25. _ A correspondent at Rome cabling to the World respecting the Pope's health the other day, said: “Leo XIII has no body; he cannot be sick. Some night while at work he will go out without warning, like a sacred lamp whose fuel ia consumed." The Pope has al ways been a frail, delicate man. Twen ty-four years ago when he ascended the throne of the church it wia* fear ed he would not live the year out. For ages Santiago de Cuba was noto rious as one of the dirtiest and sickli est cities on this side of the Atlantic ocean. It was a pesthole in which yel low fever had a permanent abiding place. Now, however, it has been made an exceptionally clean city and Its health is excellent. It is understood to be the purpose of Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood to make Santiago a model city, to which end he Is now devoting him self. Should he do so, he would build to himself a lasting memorial. Representative Burton of Ohio, chair man of # the River and Harbor Com mittee, is opposed to the ship subsidy scheme, and will actively oppose its passage. He declares the argument made that the subsidy will give benefit to American producers cannot be sus tained. “Freight rates." he says, “will not be lower and the increase in the quantity of the shipping will not ma terially affect the freight situation. The benefit of the subsidy will go to the ship owners rather than the pro ducers." Representative Burton is one Republican who will not stand for a grab. There is a Uvely contest on in Boston between two rich society women. Borne time ago Mrs. "Jack” Gardner built a magnificent Venetian palace, construct ing n artificial Venice to go along with the palace and set it off to beat advantage Mrs. “Jack's" palace hsa been the talk of the town for months. Now Mra. Chari** P. ftprague i* going to eoitpa* her by importing an entire and rati Venetian peiare, with furnish ihga, and aettiug it up complete in Brookline It la said ah* has bought on* of ha ft neat old plica in Venice, had It taken down and 4 usefully boned and snipped to Boston Mo ttpragu* 1* worth ttoaoUMt white Mm Gee Utter i* worth only mum* i...u00.0a Mre bpMMU* lht-14-fuo Ougfcf tu Make four tut.*# the dtepi-y ash by ... be* rival SAM JONES EXPRESSES AN OPINION. In the opinion of the Rev. Sam Jones the Wright dispensary bill, whicli has 1 passed the House and Senate, and which has gone back to the House for concurrence in some minor amend ments made by the Senate, is a good thing for the cause of temperance. He was moved to express this opinion by an attack which the Rev. Walker Lewis made on the bill, in an article in the Atlanta Journal. The Rev. Mr. Lewis threatened that if the Legisla ture passed the bill all the Methodist ministers in the state would Join in a crusade against the liquor traffic, and would give Georgia prohibition. Evidently he spoke without authority, because, when he offered a resolution against the Wright bill in the North Georgia Con ference the other day, he was promptly told that It was not the business of the conference to meddle with legisla tive matters, and his resolution was tabled by a very large majority. The Rev. Mr. Jones, speaking of the Rev. Mr. Lewis’ article against the bill, says: “I have never heard of Brother Walker Lewis tearing his clothes on a question of prohibition. If he has ever made a prohibition speech I don’t, know it.” From this it would appear that the Rev. Mr. Lewis has only recently be come an enthusiastic prohibitionist. If he had been a worker for prohibition, such as the Rev. Sam Jones is, the latter would certainly have known it. What. then, is the occasion of his sud den zeal in behalf of prohibition? What has happened to him, or occurred in his experience, that inspires him to seek to be the leader of the opposi tion to the Wright bill—a. bill which has the suppert-otf-many of the ablest and most influential prohibitionists of the state? Of course, we cannot doubt his sin cerity, but, at the same time, we won der why it is that he has not hereto fore been standing shoulder to shoul der with those, who have been bat tling against the whisky traffic, ever since Georgia has been a battleground on the liquor question. The Rev. Sam Jones seems to think that if the Wright bill served no other purpose. It would be a. good thing to pass It If it called the Rev. Walker Lewis to the front on this question and put him on the stump in the interest of prohibition. And he points out that it should be passed by all means if it would cause the 600 Methodist minis ters of thp state to leave their pastor ates and go on the stump and battle against the liquor traffic. Clearly, the Rev. Mr. Lewis has not given the \\’right bill the thoughtful consideration to which it is entitled. We suggested as much a few days ago, and the Rev. Sam Jones supports us in this position. And what the Rev. Sam Jones says in respect to the Rev. Walker Lewis' record on prohi bition Justifies the inference that the latter doesn’t know much about the whisky traffic question—that his sud den zeal against the Wright bill isn’t justified by anything he has ever said or done to advance the cause of tem perance in the state of Georgia. TIIE GATHMAXJf OIIS FAILURE. There was a good deal ot politics mixed up In the appropriation for the Gathmann gun tests, which resulted in the failure of the gun at the govern ment proving grounds the other day. The army board of ordnance, of which Gen. Buffington is the head, had re ported adversely to the Gathmann gun and its aerial torpedo. The board said it had examined the inventor's plans and claims and reached the conclusion that they were not practicable. How ever, Inventor Gathmann was fortu nate in having the friendship of Sena tor Hanna, who, notwithstanding the adverse report of the army officers, was able to procure a government ap propriation of 1125,000 to cover the cost of the proposed tests. How the tests resulted has been set forth fully in our dispatches. The pro jectile. or aerial torpedo, utterly failed to demolish the armor-plate target against which it was fired. To show that it was not a victory of armor against shot, a regulation shell was fired at the target from a gun of small er calibre than the Gathmann gun, with the result that the target was torn to pieces. Thus the army board and Gen. Buffington were vindicated, at a very considerable cost to the gov ernment. The new gun must be writ ten into the list with the "dynamite cruiser” Vesuvius and other expensive failures that the government has from time to time been persuaded to experi ment with. The Gathmann experiments, however, were not entirely barren of results. They demonstrated that it is entirely possible for large charges of high ex plosives to be projected from service guns with safety to both guns and gun ners. In the Vesuvius armament, it will be recalled, the propelling force used was compressed air. It was be lieved that the explosive force of gun powder would certainly detonate the gun cotton in the torpedo, with dis astrous results to both the craft and the firing party. But with the Gath niann gun. shells containing 500 pounds of wet guncotton were several times fired, with powder, with entire safety, and at no time did the charge explode before the target was struck. That in itself Is an important achievement and may lead to developments of moment in tile future. Whether it tv as worth 1125,000 to learn that, however, is a question for ordnance expert*. One of the best known writers on naval topics in this country is Park Benjamin. In a recent issue of the In dependent tie has an article in which it is shown that Admiral Hampton never, either directly or Indirectly, gave Mariay any justification or sup t-prt for his charge* again*' Admiral Hchiey, Nor Is IM any attempt to * white-wash" Hampton Mr. Benjamin liU heretofore shown himaeif to be a friend and defender of *►# hi# y. What lie desires i* sifnpiy to have Jueiice don* o*j the other aide If the truth were known it w-ouid pinkably It* found 'hat flftnjsipa* a and h-hley few! kindly towards *a<it otkor, end that the Mf oniaw of ike motiovorwy had He urt - gen fn ike 1 iittae* to Washington, THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1901. HELP THE POOR WHITE BOYS. lue address of Mr. Richard H. Ed monds before the Southern Cotton Spinners’ Association in Atlanta the other day ought to have the careful and friendly thought of those to whom it was directed. It was a plea to give the poor white boy a chance by afford ing him the opportunity of acquiring a technological education—an education that will fit him to take part in the in dustrial development of the South that is going ahead in such promising man ner. The South is rich In raw mater ials, but none of them is more prom ising than that out of which may be made future engineers, builders, super intendents. etc.—her white boys. Through force of circumstances much of this first-class material cannot be polished up and finished without out side aid. The parents of the boy* haven't the means to give them the education they need. Mr. Edmonds submitted a plan by which several hundred Georgia boys, he thinks, would be helped to an edu cation of the kind referred to. He would have the railroads, the manu facturing establishments and corpora tions of other kinds take the matter up and establish scholarships, to be bestowed after competitive examina tions. In order that the beneficiaries may not feel that they are objects of charity, the sums advanced for the schooling are to be repaid in easy In stalments after the graduation of the pupil. In other words, the necessary money is to be in the nature of a loan on long time and without interest un til the pupil is graduated and becomes a wage earner. The details of the idea were clearly set forth in Mr. Edmonds’ address. There are many reasons why it should be—a-dopted and pone that we can conceive of why it shouldn't. Thk need for more technically edu cated young men is already being felt in the South. The few schools of tech nology that we have cannot supply graduates fast enough to meet the de mand. Railroads are being extended, mills are going up, mines are being opened; there are bridges to be built, tunnels to be bored and roads to be graded. All of these things require ex pert knowledge for the building and the after operation. We have here an abundance of brains; all it needs is training. We must have more white beys in the technological institutions. Mr. Edmonds has shown one way of getting them there. And we need more schools to train the hands and the heads in the Industrial arts. WHY" AMERICAN WORKMEN EXCEL. We called attention a few days ago to one of the reasons why American workmen excel those of any other nationality—the one being that they consume less alcohol in the shape of • beer, wine and spirits. Some esti mates. in millions of gallons, recently published, show that wine, beer and spirits are consumed in the leading countries in the following proportions: Wine Beer Spirits United States 20 870 73 United Kingdom ....15 1.160 39 Germany 60 1.230 99 France 990 196 71 Austria 130 376 97 Taking the foregoing figures as a ba sis the alcohol consumption of the dif ferent countries is about as follows: The United States, having a population of 77.000,000, consumes 78,000,000 gallons of alcohol; the United Kingdom, hav ing a population of 39,000,000, consumes 73,000,000 gallons: Germany, having a population of 52.000,000, consumes 111,- 000,000 gallons; France, having a pop ulation of 38,000,000, consumes 143,000,- 000 gallons and Austria, having a pop ulation of 41,000,000, consumes 78,000,000 gallons. From these figures it will be seen that the per capita consumption of al cohol is smaller in the United States than in any on* of the countries in the foregoing list. And there Is ground for saying that among American workmen there is a steady decline in the drink habit—that is, among the better class of workmen. We are not in a position to make a statement on this point In respect to the sweat-shop workers. But the great railroad and Industrial cor porations are doing all they can to dis courage the drink habit by refusing to employ drinking men. If the corpor ations persist in the course they are pursuing in this matter American workmen will be sober men, and the United States will continue to lead the world in all industrial enterprises. A STEP FORWARD. The order which the Mayor has given respecting policy gambling Is a step forward. There was a time, not so very long ago, when the policy gamblers turned their wheels without any fear of interference from the police. That time, it is to be hoped, will never re turn. There is no form of gambling that is so harmful as that of policy, because it requires but a small amount of money to indulge in it, and it appeals to the cupidity of the small wage-workers. It is a safe statement that when policy gambling was tolerat ed in this city many families were of ten in a starving condition, because the money that should have gone for food was lost in policy gambling, and it is probable that that kind of gambling led to a great deal of dishonesty among servants. The Mayor has decided to use the police to close and keep closed the pol icy gambling places. His decision in this matter will be commended. There Is no doubt of the ability of the police to prevent policy gambling. In future if there is gambling of thla kind within the city limit* it will be understood that the police are not diicharglng their duly faithfully. Philadelphia ha* a compulsory vac cination law for school children. Then* is one little fellow In the city, Wiliam McLain, who** system refuse* lo be affected by vaccine virus. In othsr word*, It sen'i "lake/' Because It won’t "lake," and Willi# <an not show a s<*r, the authorities refua* to let him go to w boo) Bertgtnf ' "u- U)th Ist Illinois I* going to li.t i 1i- < at the coming *a**;oo of < 'i*tig<*** a bill to |e*ti4* fov a Hill tiv memorial to Abraham Lincoln to be erected 4b Washington l titer# to be ‘SHnpetiilon lietaesb the M-Kn.ie-y I sod Like -.-in **44 i*4V* iat 0- bellies f The other day it was announced that the Commercial Cable Company had given an English firm the contract to construct and lay its proposed cable from Hawaii to San Francisco. In view of the great manufacturing ac tivity of the United State* it was some what of a surprise that the order did not go to an American firm. Mr. Ward, a vice president of the cable company, was asked why the Order had been placed in England and not in this country. He replied: “There is no company in the United States that could, we felt, perform the work. They have not the machinery, and we could not afford to have the work of lay ing the cable take the form of an ex periment.” The English company to which the contract was given, he ex plained, has been in the business for upwards of forty years, and has laid most of the deep-sea cables through out the world, so that it understands perfectly just how the work should be done. The estimated cost of the company’s cable, when completed to the Philippines, is $15,000,000. This is a round sum of money for American manufacturers to see going out of the country. Neither the United States nor Great Britain maintains a large standing army, both are earnest advocates of the peaceable settlement of interna tional differences; nevertheless t/hese two governments are now spending more for their armies and navies than any other governments in the world. The Montreal Herald recently compil ed a table of military expenses of the five leading governments, taken from their latest budgets, which makes the following showing: United Kingdom $445,080,000 United States 330,727,000 Russia 7(08,800,900 Germany 2'‘6,900,000 France 204,500,000 The figures for the United States in clude, of course, the pension expendi tures, which are properly added in the military expenses. Deducting $140,- 000,000 of pensions, however, it will be seen that the United States are pay ing almost as much for their military establishment, small as it is, as either France or Germany, which latter gov ernments have nearly a million men under arms. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock comes from Missouri, where he is some thing of a leading political light in his party. There is a man of the name of Kerens in Missouri who seeks to be the Republican boss and dis pense the patronage. Mr. Kerens is the state’s member of the National Committee and therefore had a good deal of a pull. Lately Mr. Hitchcock and Mr. Kerens have clashed, and it now appears that one of them must get out and leave the control to the_ other. Each has recommended men for appointment to the office of col lector aira appraiser at St. Louis, and the matter is now before the Presi dent. Should the President accept Hitchcock's men it is said Kerens would resign from the National Com mittee, while should Kerens win out in the matter of the appointments Hitchcock would resign the Interior portfolio. Since it is purely a Repub lican fight, Missouri Democrats are watching it with complacency. A Chicago clergyman has found in his city a prevalent and malignant malady which he calls “morbus sab baticus.” That his Latin is correct haa been disputed, but there is no question ing the prevalence of the complaint. It is. he says, a sudden, subtle and stealthy indisposition, liable to prove infectious, which prevents people from going out to the meeting house on Sun day and listening to the preacher. Its victims appear well and sprightly enough during the secular days, but when the Sabbath comes they suddenly find themselves feeling too badly to go to church. The ailment is most violent during the time of the ringing of the church bells, and usually wears off when it is too late to attend services. The probabilities are that the same complaint exists in a great many cities. The olergyman who can find a specific for it will merit and receive the thanks of the gentleman of the cloth. There has recently been some talk of Adjt. Gen. Corbin going to New York to take charge of the police force of that city. So far, however, the scheme la rather nebulous and there is no as surance that the general would ac cept the place. It has been said that he might be able to get a leave of ab sence from the army for two years, and thus draw the New York police salary and his army salary at the same tame. CURRENT COMMENT. Commenting on Lord Rosebery’s sug gestion of a government of business men, the Detroit Free Press (Dem.) says: “Genius for government and genius for business are not even dis tantly related. Take the United States for example. Washington was a suc cessful business man, but he might be called the first and the last of Ameri can statesmen who deserved the title. Nearly all the. other bright names in the history of American government, from Jefferson to McKinley, have been possessed by men. who. if they were not slothful in business, were by no means successful." The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says: “The first step toward a solu tion of the negro problem should be the withdrawal of the right of suffrage by constitutional amendment Then, as Senator Culberson suggests, instead of vain and vapid clamor for a social equality which Nature forbids, ‘let us have education, forbearance, moral training, Juat treatment, opportunities for labor, social separation and na tional tranquility.’ " The Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.) say* "Reciprocity In Its full ness would meet th* Democratic Ides; as advocated by Republican* it I* nn apology for protection. There will be genuine tariff reform only under a re united Dmm racy, and a united t>*. moor** y will be a triumphant Dun. ocr*<y." Th* kprlflgAeld (Mas*) Republican (fnd 1 say* “Tbs i#*gio is#* In Gear gia. a# • otdti.g Hi prof Du ltia of At lanta I’**ivarsity, accumulated II ut tasat.i* propet 1 y during if## past yes* arid t* now #*n#-#**d *1 |l. •.'# There la nothing toil **#-vijl gfli*ni in (l*at fg# 4," Don’t Get Rich, “Papa.” The children of a certain family, during its prosperity, were left in the nursery in charge of servants, says Success. When adversity came, the servants were discharged and the par ents lived with the little ones. One evening, when the father had returned home after a day of anxiety and busi ness worry, his little girl clambered on his knee, and, twining her arms around his neck, said; Papa, don't get rich again. You did not come into the nursery when you were rich, but now we can come around you. and get on your knee and kiss you. Don’t get rich again, papa.” A man whose wealth keeps him from his family, sleep, healthy recreation, or the time to enjoy the legitimate pleasures of life, is managed by money. The Whims of a Spoiled Child. “Sit down,” said the fierce old man and the trembling youth obeyed, ac cording to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Well, what is it?” The unhappy young man cleared his throat. “I have came; that is, I have come," he began in stammering accents, “to ask you for the hand of your daugh ter Ruth.” The old man leaned back in his chair and intently regarded his visitor. “Does my daughter want you?” he asked. “Yes, sir: I am sure she does,” the youth replied with some eagerness. “She sent me to you.” The old man sighed. “The whims of that child are really unaccountable.” he muttered. “It seems but a day or two ago that she cried for a doll. Then it was a pony. Now it is a monkey. Of course she’ll have to have it if she wants it. That’s all. ’ Good-day.” A Blind Doctor’s Diplomacy. Dr. F. J. Campbell, a celebrated blind educator of England, once had an amusing experience at a rough-and ready hotel in the backwoods of Amer ica, says the Chicago News. Two girls were at the dinner table with the doc tor, and one of them was touchingly sympathetic. “Does your blindness make any difference to you when you eat?” she asked. “Why, yes; I know when my food’s good just as well as you do,” said the doctor. “And when you drink?” “Why, it’s just the same.” “And can you fall in love?’’ “Dear me, why, of course I can. I have fallen very much in love.” “Well, but how can you say whether a girl is pretty? Do you mind telling n*e if I am pret ty?” Not in the slightest” “Shall I put your hand on my face?” “I know without that,” said the man with closed eyes; “you are thfe prettiest girl on the creek." ”My! That’s true!” exclaimed the girl as she rushed to her friend and asked: “Now, how did he know that?” Like Harry Lehr. There is anew feature in the street organ industry that has just made its appearance in the up-town residence district, says the New York Times. There is the usual girl, rather pretty, dressed in bright raiment, and a man who turns the crank. With them is a stout, rather placid-faced youth of about 18, who stands by for a while and listens to the music until a rag time tune is ground out. Then he sud denly gives quite a wonderful exhibi tion of high kicking and performs va rious acrobatic feats, his countenance remaining perfectly immobile the while. It is a performance that never fails to draw a crowd and a shower of pennies. Odd as it is, the dancer some what resembles Harry Lehr and pos sesses the same accomplishment. Two years ago Harry Lehr astonished New York society by an exhibition of high kicking at a cotillon. Previous to that he had always confined the perform ance of this “stunt” to the quadrilles at Bar Harbor. Without warning he would kick high, touching the chande lier with the toe of his slipper. So un expected was this divertissement that it never failed to make a sensation. Friendly Advice. On the trip down the Hudson River Railroad, when I saw the two girl students, I also had a view of the spreading town of Haverstraw', says Julian Ralph in the New York Mail and Express. I smiled as I saw it. There was once a great strike among the brickmakers in Harerstraw, and I was sent to report it. The mayor of the town figured in the affair, and him I found in the barroom of the best hotel. He was toning up his nervous system with plentiful elbow exercise at the bar, and his frame of mind was philos ophical, calm and kindly. "I am a reporter of the Sun.” said I. "Well,” said he. "if you—you’r er 'porter of Sun, then I kin—give yer er ’portant piece of ’dvice.” Here he turned slowly toward me. steadying himself with one hand on the bar and waving a highball grace fully through the air, so that its con tents worked an arabesque pattern on the dusty floor. "I kin give yer er ’portant piece of ’dvice,” he repeated, "and it is thish Never let the pin feathers ’f yer imag ination fly away with ther coattails ’f yer judgment.” The longer I have thought of this sage counsel the more value X have plated upon It. If only he had said it to the man in Belgium who cabled that Leopold was coming to New York, and who then caught ‘ the coattails of his imagination.” put them behind him. as one should do with every temptation to err, and cabled that Leopold never had any notion of coming here, how much better it would have been—for everyone except the cable company. Mother Died To-night. From Success. "Your mother died to-night”—that’s all It said: But, somehow, in that simple line I read The last sad words of love and sym pathy, The last heart-blessing that she gave to me, The admonition that all went amiss. And what God ne’er can give—her fare well kiss: The fadeless picture as she knelt to pray The she might meet me up above— some day. "Your mother died to-night” Is all it said. As on the throbbing wire the tidings sped From that old, happy home, from which I came. To strive anew for honor and for fame. To moll with will to win a golden store To lay in solemn suppllance at her • door; But shattered are the hope, unnerved the might, By that sad message, "Mother died to night.” n stars that glide through heaven’s unfathomed aea. May I not meet her in Alcyone? fh, let me know, as oft in childhood’s harms, That p*me found only nulling In her arms! Gone the gray hair, the eyes that wept in vilq, fjuft# th<* tfiiiit* I fth|| it## <}on# lh* |fi## limit, (ht lovo- Gone the une richer to her test long —Hebert Mackey. ITEMS OF INTEREST. —The Belgian Royal Meteorological Observatory has published the esti mates made by various mathemat'icians and physicists regarding the depth of the atmosphere surrounding the earth. Biot estimated that the depth was only forty miles. Bravas 70 miles. Mann 81 miles. Callandrau 100 miles. Schiaparelli 125 miles, Marie Davy 187 miles, while Ritter stated that it reached to a hight of 216 miles. In Great Britain, during the early part of the last century, the depth of the. atmosphere was generally accepted as being forty-seven miles, but the fact that meteors became incandescent at a much greater altitude proved that this calculation was at fault. Sir Rob ert Ball states that meteors have been observed at a celsitude of more than 200 miles; and since they only become incandescent when they come into contact with the air the calculation of Ritter appears to be the most correct. —A big black cat that makes its home in a Camden hotel and is on friendly terms with many of the thirty habitues of the place has recently developed a well-defined penchant for illuminated art, says the Philadelphia Record. The cat was first noticed jumping to the top of one of those nickel-in-the-slot machines which exhibit photographs of more or less clothed women. There it would lie by the hour softly rub its nose against the neck of any one who dropped a nickel into the depths of the machine and started the pictures on their rounds. Then, one day, the mix ologist was stupefied to discover that the cat had learned how to “push the button and see one picture free.” It was a. fixed habit with it after that and the black beast can scarcely be kept away from the machine now. When the agent comes around to put in new sets of pictures the cat is the first to get a peep and is never happier than when some customer drops a nickel into the slot for the fun of seeing the cat gaze upon the revolving pictures. —“A couple of years ago," says the advertising agent of a tobacco firm quoted by the Philadelphia Record. “I wished to introduce among the Chinese a two-for-five cigar that my people were heavily interested in, and I de cided to draw up a little card extolling this cigar in Chinese characters. I eought out Lo Hen Wong, in San Francisco, a very intelligent fellow, and got him to write me a few sentences in praise of my article. I had what he wrote lithographed and distributed the cards by thousands in all the Chinatowns of the United States. They were inscribed with a piture of the cigar, and below were the words: ‘Smoke this cigar. It is the best on the market, and two for five is its price.’ That, at least, is what 1 thought was the meaning of the Chinese char acters. I found out, some six months later, my mistake. The words Lo Hen Wong had written which I had had lithographed were: ‘Don't smoke this cigar. It is not good. But the Gong Company’s cigarettes, for sale in every Chinatown at 3 cents a package, are excellent.’ Lo Hen Wong had got $lO from me for his work, and I don't know how much he got from the Gong Com pany. We distributed many thousands of the cards before we got on to the trick that had been played on us.” —The King Alfred, which was launched the other, day, is the very latest type of cruiser added to the Brit ish navy, says the New York Post. She is 500 feet long, 71 feet wide, and when in fighting trim she will displace 14,100 tons, her draught being 26 feet. Her speed will be 23 knots, attained by means of two seta of triple-expansion engines, developing 30,000 horse-power —said to be the most powerful machin ery ever put into a warship. The ves sel carries 2,500 tons of coal In her bunkers, and will therefore be able to steam at a cruising speed of fourteen knots for 12,500 sea miles, equal to a volage from Portsmouth to Melbourne, without renewing her fuel supply. She will carry thirty-five guns, varying in energy from the twenty-eight-ton wea pon, firing a 380-pound shot, with a power capable of sending one ton weight nearly three and a half miles into the air. One of these guns is mounted on the forecastle, firing ahead or on either side, and the other is on the poop for astern or broadside at tack. They are 36.86 feet long, and of 9.2 calibre, and, using cordite, develop a muzzle energy of 17,830 foot tons. It is expected that they will be able to maintain a continuous fire of four shots per minute. Their mountings are of a new type, and are arranged to be work ed by hand as well as hydraulic power. The whole revolving weight of the mounting, with its gun, is 120 tons, and this can easily be worked by hand. There are eight six-inch guns on each broadside, arranged in a series of two story casemates. These are seven-ton guns, firing 100-pound projectiles, and are capable of firing eight rounds per minute. Two of the guns on each broadside fire ahead as well as four 12- pounders and the 9.2-inch weapon, and thus the King Alfred, when chasing an enemy, will be able to fire ahead per minute 4 projectiles of 380 pounds, 32 projectiles of 100 pounds and SO projec tiles of 12V4 pounds. She will be able also to discharge an equal weight of metal astern. She, Is subdivided into 248 compartments, and carries a crew of 900 officers and men. —Despite the extreme severity with which Mr. W. L. Moore, the head of of our Weather Bureau, recently as sailed everybody who pays any atten tion to reports from Europe about the protection of crops from hail by the use of specially constructed canon, says the New York Times, we venture to note the fact that the Swiss govern ment, generally regarded as a rather intelligent body, possessed of some common sense, has been investigating the subject with care, and that its agents have advised the adoption of whatever system of cloud canonading further inquiry may prove to be the best. Their report says: “A direct proof that hall shooting properly practiced will under all circumstances prevent hail is of course impossible to furnish; but the fact that certain districts of Slyrla, which were before the use of hail guns devastated by hail-storms, year by year, have not for the last five years, since the guns are in use, experienced any hail, is a strong point in favor of the hail guns.” It does look a little that way to the ordinary ob server. though of course Mr. Moore, mindful of his success in prophesying the continuance of last summer's hot will doubtless stand by bis equally courageous assertion that at tempts to interfere with the formation or progress of even the smallest of lo cal storms are obviously absurd. The Swiss agents admit that the effect of the air ilng which is shot Into the hail clouds has not yet been satisfac torily or sufficiently explained, but they ssy that from Htyria, where it started, the system has spread throughout Hungary and into many parts of Italy and France, everywhere justifying its cost, at least to the minds of those upon whom the expense falls. After fir ing a shot from one of the hall oantton, a white ring rites from the funnel, gradually increasing In else to the di ameter of nine to twelve feet, its force Is sufficient to break wooden sticks on Its way, and If It tuts at a distance of 306 feet or more a targat made of ooeree hurdlework It cuts out a ring, leaving the center and the circumference un hurt W# at* not troubled very much i a ted, anl abet < onquera the one ought to or tula hi hove sows rtloet upon the (M I, P I L Extraordinary Cure A Statement Given by Thos. C. Hall of Belleview, Fla., the well known Merchant and firm of Hall Bros. This is to certify that I have beet afflicted with a very severe case oif stricture for the last twenty years and have suffered untold misery. I have been treated by over fifty physicians in the states of Florida and Georgia, some of them recommended to me a* being the very best physicians in the South. They have used all forms ot treatment, some of them even operat ed upon me and came very near kill ing me. At last they gave me up and I started for New York to have a sur gical operation performed by a spe cialist who was recommended to me by these different physicians. While i Savannah I was recommended to con suit Dr. J. Newton Hathaway, a spe cialist of that city, before going to New York. I did so but with little faith. However, after talking with the doctor I somehow felt as if he were the man' I had been looking for, as his con fidence in his ability to cure me seem, ed to be sure and positive, so I placed my case into his hands for treatment, and to my surprise and delight in a very few days I commenced to get bet ter and after about two month’s treat ment I was discharged thoroughly cured and have not had any trouble whatever since that time. The pleasant part of the treatment was that I was not under any surgical operation, neither was there any amount of pain caused by the treatment. This. I con sider, wonderful, and I certainly be lieve if all persons who are suffering with stricture could avail themselves of the skill of Dr. Hathaway that they would save theonselves much suffering, besides a great deal of expense. 1 was advised by a large number of reg ular physicians that Dr. Hathaway could not do anything for me, there fore, while I had heard of nis reputa tion, I would not come to see him be cause of their statements. I wish, however, now that I had gone to him when I first heard of his reputation. I write this testimoniay for pur pose of benefiting humanity, regardless of my personal feelings in the case. THOS. C. HALL. Bellview, Fla.. Nov. 8, 1901. The above case is only one out of hundreds that Dr. Hathaway is cur ing where other doctors fail. Consult him free at office or by mail, 26 East Bryan street, Savanmaih, Ga. S. T. & I. OF HOPE RT AND C. & S. R’Y SCHEDULE. For Isle of Hope, Montgomery. Thunder bolt. Cattle Park and West End. Dally except Sunday*. 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