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The Wmthrr.
The indications for Georgia to-day
are fair weather, light variable winds,
mostly southern on the coast; and for
Eastern Florida fair weather, variable
winds, mostly light to fresh east.
The watermelon days have come, the
juiciest of the year.
What is spoken of as a "counter dem
onstration” to the recent Tilden Club
dinner in New York has been arranged
by George Fred Williams, to be held in
Boston on or about July 28. Mr. Bryan
will be the chief speaker of the oc
casion.
Hatters in New York and Chicago
predict the early passing of the pana
ma hat fad. They base their belief
on the fact that rich men do not wear
panamas. Most of the wearers, they
say, are clerks and others of moderate
means.
Some of the aldermen of the city of
Seattle cannot see any difference be
tween ping-pong tables and billiard
and pool tables, In so far as city rev
enues are concerned, so they are con
sidering an ordinance to place a license
tax on ping-pong.
Once more a "cure” has been discov
ered for consumption. This time it is
an Irish physician who has made the
discovery. The treatment consists of
the inhalation of the juice of garlic
under certain conditions. The doctor
says he has tried the treatment in
about fifty cases, curing many of them.
Diamonds are trumps in London
this week, and it is said that American
women are going to outshine the
duchesses and other titled folks on ev
ery possible occasion. Some of the
greatest displays will be at the opera,
on one evening of which Melba will
wear more than $850,000 worth of dia
monds.
Mr. Bryan has been invited by Tam
many Hall to deliver one of the "short
talks" before that organization on the
Fourth of July. No reply has been re
ceived from him. The “long talkers”
are to be Bourke Cochran and Senator
Bailey of Texas. Mr. Bryan has so
long held the center of the stage that
it Is probable he does not care to play
a minor part even Irt a Tammany cele
bration.
Why doe* New Jersey like trusts?
They pay her taxes. It was stated a
lew day* ago upon official authority
that the icirporaUons controlled by J
J'lerpiui Morgan pay into the state
treasury annually 1150.71* -a sum sutb*
rjSftt iii pay tu entire running ex-
of the state It la herd to
coo Vila ** the Jerseymau that inetitu
tsms who a take the leg burden off his
aya ue
WEALTH FOR THE SOUTH.
If the purpose wnieh Swift £. Cos.
and other great meat pack ms of Cii
cago have In view Is carried out the
South probably will become the cen
ter of the cattle industry of the coun
try. In our Sunday's edition we pub
lished a dispatch from Chicago in
which it was stated on the authority
of the Inter Ocean of that city that
Swift & Cos. and other Chicago packers
had about completed plans for the pur
chase of a very large tract of land in
Northern Florida and Southern Ala
bama. the land to be used for the pro
duction of cassava with which to feed
and fatten cattle and hogs.
It seems that fully a year ago, after
it had been satisfactorily demonstrated
that the soil and climate of Florida
were well adapted to the cultivation of
cassava, a committee of gentlemen in
terested in the growing of cassava, to
gether with the representatives of the
Louisville and Nashville Railway Com
pany, visited Chicago and consulted the
great meat packers relative to the ad
visability of experimenting with cas
sava in the raising of cattle and hogs.
They were much gratified with the in
terest the packers took in the matter.
They were so encouraged that steps
were at once taken to put their views
into practical shape. It is the under
standing that everything is now about
ready for undertaking the experiment.
There Is no reason to doubt that the
experiment will be successful. It is
claimed that an acre of fairly good
land in Florida or South Georgia will
produce an amount of cassava that, for
beef or pork making purposes, is equal
to twice the amount of corn or grass
grown on an average acre of land in
the West. In other words, the conten
tion is that cattle and hogs can be
fattened on cassava at less than half
the cost of fattening them on corn.
It is a fact that the lands in South
Georgia from which the timber has
been cut are being rapidly fenced in,
the understanding being that it is the
purpose of the owners of them to
give attention to cassava and cattle.
If the Chicago packers should carry
out their present purpose an Immense
impetus would be given to stock rais
ing in the South—at least in all those
sections of the South in which cassava
can be grown successfully. For the
maturing of cassava several months
are required. It will thrive there
fore In all South Georgia, as well as
in the whole of Florida.
Cassava has hardly been introduced
into this section yet. The farmers are
just beginning to inquire about it. A
considerable acreage was planted In
South Georgia counties last spring, ow
ing to the agitation in regard to it by
the conventions held in Brunswick. In
Florida it has been grown in consid
erable quantities for several years, and
at least one large starch factory is in
successful operation there.
It is a safe prediction that if the
claims respecting cassava are any
where near realized the raising of
stock will become a great Industry In
South Georgia and Florida, and Sa
vannah will become the home of pack
ing houses that will rival those of
some of the cities of the West.
CHOLBUA IN MANILA.
The health authorities in this country
do not seem to be alarmed at the in
crease in the mortality among Ameri
can troops In Manila from cholera.
Gen. Wheaton, who landed at San
Francisco from the Philippines on Sun
day last in an Interview with a repre
sentative of the Associated Press, said
that he thought the health authorities
ait Manila would soon have" the cholera
under control.
It is certainly to be hoped they will.
Twenty-two enlisted men died of the
disease In Manila between April 25 and
May 6. It is spreading throughout the
islands. In Manila there have been
1,490 cases since the epidemic began,
and 1,197 deaths, and 6,595 cases and
5,098 deaths In the provinces. There
does not seem to be any sign that it
Is abating. On Thursday last, in Ma
nila, 35 cases were reported and
28 deaths. It is worthy of notice
that the number of deaths keeps pret
ty close to the number of cases.
Gen. Wheaton thinks that tens of
thousands of Filipinos have been saved
from death since our occupation of the
islands by the efforts of the physicians
and sanitary officers of the army. When
the smallpox made its appearance soon
after the beginning of the war it was
feared that Us ravages would be terri
ble, but the sanitary officers of the
army took hold of the situation vig
orously and enforced regulations that
quickly checked the spread of the dis
ease.
And then the bubonic plague showed
Itself, but before It could get a firm
foothold the army stamped it out. It
is to be hoped the sanitarians of the
army will be as successful In dealing
with the cholera. It must be admitted,
however, that they do not seem to be
| meeting with much success in their
| efforts to check it. The reports indi
; cate that it is gaining ground all the
| time.
The authorities at San Francisco are
supposed to be on the watch to keep
it from getting a foothold in this coun
try from vessels and passengers from
Manila. The watch ought to be a very
careful one. If the cholera should
reach this country from the Philippines,
even the Imperialists would regret that
we ever had anything to do with those
islands.
It appears that Richard Croker is
coming back to New York shortly,
probably in the latter part of August,
It is not politics, however, that is to
bring him hack. If reports are cor
' rect his business in New York will be
! to "smash John Kheehan s face." gome
time recently Mr. ghechan made the
statement that Mr. t.’roker got $1,500,*
000 out of the Third Avenue Railroad
wreck, through his reputed connection
! with Naughtln A Cos. The friends of
the former boss say this statement
j Has made him mad through and
j through, and that he will maka ghee.
I ban "take it hack ”
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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. JUNE 24, 1902.
EXCITED DELEGATES.
The delegates in Congress from
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arizona
are very much excited over the pros
pect that the Senate will refuse at this
session to consider the omnibug bill
passed by the House admitting these
territories as states. In view of the fact
that the Republican party in Its na
tional conventions has been promising
statehood to these territories for years
if. does seem a little strange that the
Senate refuses to take up the bill.
The House passed the bill with great
promptness early In the session, but
the senators do not seem to want any
addition to their number. The reason
piobably is that the political complex
ion of at least two of the three terri
tories Is Democratic.
Delegate Rodey of New Mexico has
threatened to resign If the Senate does
not admit his territory, and he has
been trying to get the delegates from
the other territories to make a like
threat. It is probable, however, that
the Senate doesn't care whether he re
signs or not. That being the case he
would spite nobody but himself if he
were to caimy his threat Into execu
tion.
Senator Beveridge, the chairman of
the Senate Committee on Territories,
has promised the delegates that the
Senate will take up the bill at the
next session of Congress. He has told
them that there Is not sufficient time
at this session to debate the bill as it
should be debated. That promise, how
ever, does not satisfy them. They have
had such promises before. In the case
of New Mexico it does seem as if
there had been sufficient delay, if it
is intended ever to grant statehood to
her. It is now about half a century
since the first bill to make the terri
tory a state was introduced, and bills
for that purpose have been before
twenty-one Congresses. Either the
House or the Senate has passed at
different times eighteen bills, but only
once did the two houses pass a bill
during the same Congress, and in that
case the bill was killed in conference.
But It must not toe forgotten that
New Mexico doesn't grow very fast,
and she wouldn’t toe a very big state
when admitted if she should be kept
out a half a century longer—that is a
big state from the standpoint of wealth
and population.
CLEVELAND IN' POLITICS?
The statement is made in the New
York Tribune that Mr. Cleveland is in
politics again, and that he is against
Hon David B. Hill for Presi
dent. According to this story
Mr. Cleveland favors y the nomi
nation of Richard Olney of Boston
for President by the Democratic party.
It is well enough to take stories of this
sort with many grains of salt. It is ex
tremely doubtful if it Is Mr. Cleveland’s
purpose to take an active part in poli
tics again. In fact, in his speech at the
opening of the new headquarters of the
Tilden Club last week he practically
said that he was out of politics for all
time.
The only thing, as far as we can see,
that would influence him to abandon
the determination that he formed quite
a long time ago, namely, to keep out of
politics, is a desire to prevent Mr. Hill
from reaching the presidency, and he
would have no such desire unless he
was “Mr. Hill's bitter political enemy or
believed him unfit for the position.
There is no reason for thinking that
he is now a political enemy of Mr. Hill.
If he were his enemy he would not
have met him so cordially on the oc
casion of the Tilden Club banquet. By
his conduct on that occasion he let the
impression get abroad that he and Mr.
Hill were on the very best of terms and
that he cordially endorsed Mr. Hill’s
purpose to make himself the presiden
tial nominee of his party.
It Is probable that if Mr. Olney were
a candidate Mr. Cleveland would pre
fer him to Mr. Hill, because Mr. Olney
was his most trusted adviser during his
second term, but Mr. Olney a few' days
ago, addressed a letter to a number of
admirers in Memphis, saying that he
was not a candidate for the presidency
and requested that all efforts in his be
half be discouraged.
It is probable that the Tribune’s
story, that Mr. Cleveland is getting
ready to knife Mr. Hill, grew- out of a
visit paid Mr. Cleveland a day or two
ago by Jacob A. Cantor, an influential
anti-Hill politician of New' York city.
The object of this visit is not
known. It is simply surmised that it
meant that Mr. Cleveland intends to
antagonize Mr. Hill. The surmise is as
likely to be wrong as right.
Immediately after the Tilden Club
celebration some of the Democratic pa
pers assumed that it was Mr. Cleve
land’s purpose to seek a third presiden
tial term. In view of what he said in
his speech at the celebration it is diffi
cult to see on what ground such an as
sumption rests. It is safe enough to
say that Mr. Cleveland is out of poli
tics to stay, and that he is not using
his influence to destroy Mr. Hill's
chance for success.
The German Emperor has invited
Gen. H. C. Corbin, Gen. S. M. B.
Young and Gen. Leonard Wood to wit
ness the autumn maneuvers of the
German army. Under ordinary circum
stances the commanding general of the
United States army would have been
one of the distinguished army officers
invited, but it appears that Emperor
William was aware of the friction be
tween the Administration and Gen.
Miles, hence made his selections as
noted, leaving the commanding gen
eral out of the list. It Is said Gen.
Miles feels the slight keenly. He must
be a very sensitive man. He has been
slighted so often lately that it seems
he would become Inured to such things
after a w title.
Senator lb>|>ew At* lares that Ameri
can representatives should conform to
foreign customs, even to wearing knee
breeches and buckles t the court it)
England. Why should not this rule be
reversible? Why should foreign repte
setitatives < ling to their gold |*< e, un
iform#. curbed hats etc., when tiny
oma to Washington '' A>- ending to t/i
I rep*-w s idea it would ariii l|i* propel
thing for Ml Alone an Si 110 < bines*
lowt to wear a <*ueur, and bis gbiif
on the outside
The new pension bill which has Just
been passed by Congress provides that
the pensions of all persons who served
one year or more in the union army
shall be sl2 per month. This will ma
terially Increase the pay of thousands
who are already on the pension rolls
and afford new applicants more than
they could otherwise have secured. It
is estimated that the increase In pay
ments from this cause wfll be at once
not less than $1,500,000 a year, and that
the increase will continue to grow.
This, added to the already enormous
pension burden, will run the payments
up pretty nearly to the $150,000,000
mark. It was announced the other
day that there were now on the rolls
only a few thousands short of 1,000,000
pensioners, and In all probability the
number will go to 1,000,000 and beyond
before there comes a steady decrease,
which was predicted to be due ten or
fifteen years ago. Some Northern and
Western congressmen seem to regard
it as a part of their sworn duty to do
all they possibly can to increase the
pension burden.
They have a unique and breezy way
of doing things in Pennsylvania, not
only in politics but in domestic af
fairs as well. For Instance, in Wilkes
barre the other day Mrs. George Saug
foss returned to her house from a
visit to find her mother and her hus
band missing. On a table was a little
pile of groceries and a note reading:
“Dearest Wife; I am gone, inclosed
I also left you them sardines and ten
dollars to feed Gtniva and Baldy and
you. Don’t forget the hog. Your ma
is mv wife. She is all right. When
she dies, see if Me and you can fix
things up again. When the vitels is
all et, bust the ten. Please don’t git
married, because whin your dear
dies I come back to you, maybe. Your
husband once. George.”
Gen. Egan, who made a reputation
during the Spanish war in connection
with the army’s supply of beef, Is now
living in Mexico, where he is making
another reputation. A dispatch from
Hermoslllo says: “Egan has been pos
ing here as an all-round bad man with
a gun,” and recounts an altercation
between the general and one Abe Gold
baum in which the latter threw the
former to the floor violently and took
his “gun” away from him.
PERSONAL.
—Baltimore is considering a plan of
changing the name of its North ave
nue to Schley avenue in honor of the
rear admiral. The present name is no
longer appropriate, the northern boun
dary of the city having extended far
beyond the avenue.
—Numerous inquiries are being made
as to what would be King Edward’s
name if he had the honor of being a
citijen of the United States. His
mother's name was Guelph and she
married a man whose family name wai
Wettln. Therefore should his most
graclius Majesty desire to become a
citizen of this country his papers would
be made out to Albert E. Wettin.
—Someone asked Representative
Cushman the other day what sort of
nerve food he took in order to give
him the temerity to make his “asbes
tos and hand grenade’’ speech attack
ing the rules of the House. “Well,”
replied the lanky Washingtonian in .the
same drawl in which his remarks were
delivered in the House, "it was just
this w r ay. I’m mighty tired of fight
ing the Democrats out in my state half
the time in order to get elected to Con
gress and then spending the other half
fighting the Committee on Rules in or
der to get recognition, so I just thought
I would say something hot enough to
burn an opening for myself."
BRIGHT BITS.
—The Complaint.—" You object to
that man because he used money to
secure your election?” “No,” answer
ed Senator Sorghum; “that's not the
point. He didn’t use it. He w r asted
it.” —Washington Star.
—Kelly's View'.-—Hogan—“Would yez
loike t’ see King Edward coronated?”
Kelly—“ Would Oi? Glory be! Troth,
Oi’d loike t’ see him coronated an’ his
ashes trun on a shlippery pavemint in
front av a Saint Pathrick’s-dav pa
rade.”—Judge.
—Willing to Oblige.—“ See, here,”
said the kindly old lady, “I’ll give you
a dime, if you'll promise not to go right
off and spend it in that saloon on the
corner.” “All right, lady,” replied
Thirsty Tanques, “if you got a grudge
agin dat booze-jint I’ll cut it. I’m will
in’ ter paternize any rum-shop yer in
t’rested in.” —Philadelphia Press.
—A patriotic Celt, orating at a pub
lic function one evening last week, in
formed his audience that “the brightest
gem in the British crowrn w r as the fam
ous coronation stone.” As the stone
formed a good-sized seat for some of
our ancient kings, one can well believe
the remark made by the late Mr.
Shakespere (or was it Bgcon?)that "un
easy lies the head that wears a crown.”
—Glasgow Evening Times.
tIKHENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: “President Palma and his cabi
net have already set about devising
ways and means to tide the Cuban
sugar planters over the critical period
due to federal repudiation of fair prom
ises to the islands The way is rough
and thorny; but it leads to safety and
prosperity. The Cubans will find an
ounce of self-help worth more than
tons of vain assurances from timid and
time-serving politicians at Washing
ton.”
The Syracuse (N. Y.) Post-Standard
(Ind.) says: “The success of Gov.
Taft in his mission to Rome, is a tri
umph of the American ideas of educa
tion, and American ideas of separation
of Ihe church and state, and American
ideas of religious freedom. The carry
ing out of the provis.ons of the agree
ment reached in Rome cannot fall to
increase the friendliness and sympathy
between the people of the islands and
the government of the United States.
Furthermore it will bring prosperity
rather than disaster to I h<- Catholic
Church in the Philippine Islands.”
Th# New York Journal of Commerce
(Ind.) says: “A great statesman Is left
in obscurity by a Washington dispati h
that does not name the Republican con
greaaman. who says In regard to the
Fowler hill, that what Is wanted Is to
drop the bob- floats lal matter till Dis
people forget abiHit it. which they soou
will, and then, |f the flame lor* of the
country <sn ngr • upon sown thing. It
can I* sneaked through <’rutgi-m while
no oi o' i* loAiiiy, itwi got lnt* t to wall-,
tg of tile VaJut* laik before ttM- poo.
pi*- nod uui *bu! ft utid make double
fib general (ato.||4e this give* g am.
MUtai Mas of Ibe ob<Hn that ought
in *tr iats**s 1 <o*tgr *ss and lire pure
pie But <o deal w-tfi Ibe apt* Iff* mat.
'ey lerei i#4 to, t! ig Uu limiiatwst poll.
1 Una H*>egioabi ”
Ac "Essential Oil.”
Ernest Ingersoll is as quick at rep
artee as he Is keen in his observation
of nature, says the New* York Times.
It happened some time ago that his
daughter asked him a question con
cerning the difference between essen
tial and fixed oils. He explained at
some length.
"Well,” said she, "to which class does
skunk’s oil belong?"
‘‘To both,” was the prompt rejoind
er. ’’lt's essential to the skunk and
fixed on the man.”
Russian Retl-Tapism.
The following little scene at an in
quest upon the body of a murdered
man is reported by a correspondent of
the Anglo-Russian from Astrachan:
The coroner dictating to his clerk:
“On the table was found a bottle . . .
no; stop for a mom<*it; we must as
certain its contents.”
The coroner, tasting the liquid, dic
tates: “The bottle contained English
gin . . . perhaps not, lam not sure!
taste it yourself.”
The clerk, having done so, replies: "I
believe it Is simply strong vodka.”
The coroner, tossing off another
glass; “No: really, it tastes like gin.”
The clerk, tasting the liquid again:
“I still think it Is only vodka.” The
bottle having gradually become emp
ty, the coroner proceeded to dictate in
a decisive tone: “Write: ’An empty
bottle was found on the table, and all
measures taken to ascertain what it
had contained were of no use.’ ”
Tlir Street Car Whistle.
Two men, unknown to each other,
says the Great Round World, were
standing side by side on the platform
of a street car. One was whistling
vigorously so close to the ear of the
other that the other cast frequent
glances of annoyance in the direction
from which the sound came and
shrugged his shoulders with evident
discomfort. For a long while the whist
ler exercised his whistle without re
straint, appearing not to notice the an
noyed glances directed toward him.
When he had finished off "Rip Van
Winkle was a lucky man,” with shrill,
exultant bravado, he turned upon his
neighbor and said:
“You don’t seem to like my whist
ling.”
"No,” came the frank answer of a
man well known to the world of read
ers, “I don’t.”
“Maybe you think you are man
enough to stop it.”
“No,” was the reply, “but I hope you
are.”
An Exceptional Demand.
At the Tilden Club Thursday night
Frank H. Brooks w'as among those who
walked up to shake hands with ex-
President Grover Cleveland, says the
New York Times.
"Mr. Cleveland,” said Mr. Brooks, “I
am very glad to see you. I owe to you
the only political honor I have had in
my life.”
“How was that?” asked Mr. Cleve
land.
“You appointed me Consul to
Trieste.”
“Ah, indeed! How did you like
Trieste?”
“I didn’t go thete. You afterward
changed the appointment to Consul
Geperal at St, Petersburg, the salary
of the Trieste Consulship not being
such as I could accept.”
"Well, how did you like St. Peters
burg?”
“I didn’t go there, either. Familv
reasons compelling me to decline that
appointment also. ’
“Shake hsr.’ds again,” said the ex-
President. “I have bad some hpnor m
my time, but never before, to iny
knowledge, have 1 had the dlttei
guished honor oi shaking hands with a
Democrat who rofur-cd two offices.”
Stories of J. H. Keene.
When James R. Keene first arrived
in Wall street with his dozen Califor
nia millions he did not much fellow
ship the gallant crew of leaders then
making historic plunges, says the New
York Times. He and Addison Cam
mack were on friendly terms, and he
used sometimes to hobnob of evenings
with Charles F. Woerishoffer. It was
Keene who first started on its rounds
the story that Ursa Major Cammack
refused to approve a new' moon be
cause it was “too blanked high.”
But the Wall street figure most at
tracting the Western man was Travers,
genial and genuine William, who stut
tered Mid-summer away out on a Long
Island farm, whereupon one Sunday
Mr. Keene descended.
“Have something to drink?" urged
the host. “Have a glass of cham
pagne?”
“No, I’d prefer, if you please," in
tervened the visitor; “I really would
prefer a glass of milk from one of
those glorious Alderneys out there on
the lawn.”
“Nay, nay," estopped Travers. "Take
the chain-champagne. It’s-it’s-it’s
cheaper!”
There are many veterans in Wall
street w'ho do not discredit the theory
that many a current “story" attributed
to local notables and started on its
rcund by Keene has been invented and
located by the California party himself.
A CompariMoii.
I’d ruther lay out here among the trees,
With the singin’ birds and bumblebees,
A-knowin’ that I can do as I please,
Than to live what folks call a fife of
ease
Up thar in the city.
For I really don’t ’xactly understan’
Where the comfort is for any man
In walkin’ hot bricks and usin’ a fan
And enjoyin’ himself as he says he can,
Up thar in the city.
It’s kinder lonesome, mebbe you'll say!
A-livin’ out here day after day
In this kinder easy, careless way.
But an hour out here’s better'n a day
Up thar in the city.
As for that, just look at the flowers
aroun’
A-peepin' their heads up all over the
groun',
And the fruit a-fcendin' the trees w'ay
down,
You don’t find sech things as these in
town.
Or, ruther, in the city.
As I said afore, sech things as these-
The flowers, the birds and the bum’l
bees
And a-livin’ out here among the trees.
Where you can take your ease and do's
you please—
Make it better'n the city.
Now, nil the talk don’t ’mount to snuff
’Bout this kinder life a-bein' rough,
And I’m sure It's plenty good enough.
And, 'tween you and me, 'tnlnt a* tough
As livin’ in the city.
—James Whitcomb Riley.
—A Swiss engineer, who has been
making u • artful Investigation of the
subject, with a view more to the fu
ture than the present, says that enough
electric power could he developed from
the waterfalls of the Alps to run all
lb” railways of Pwilxeidmid He ~*t|.
mates that about MMMjb hole--power
outd he produced from 21 of the
terfaite that he has examined, whereon
..( ly eo.ntsi hot** power would he nesd
*•l for the railway*. At present theie
would be little or no re<sU<!lon of cost,
** **tt**hru| has to import all
*’*'*•*• '** < nances sis that
• pctiplty s/r*r s Willis take |Us
plat# if etas m as a uu/Uts pawar, (
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Five torpedo boats and fifty de
stroyers were in collision during last
year in the English ngvy.
—There is talk of erecting at the en
trance to Sydney Harbor, as a monu
mental tribute to the triumph of fed
eration, a colossal statue of “Australia
Facing the Dawn.” a sort jof rival to
“Liberty Enlightening the World,”
lrom the island in New York Bay.
Funds, however, have not been forth
coming, and now it is reported that
one of the principal advocates of the
project has written to Lord Rosebery
suggesting that a contribution from the
£3.000,000 left by Cecil Rhodes to "pro
mote the consolidation of the English
speaking people" might be legitimately
allocated to this purpose.
—Of the '258 men of the graduating
class of Princeton this year sixty-nine
members will study law, 48 will go into
business, 23 will enter medical schools
and 10 will study for the ministry.
There are 185 Republicans in the class
and 30 Democrats; while three declare
themselves anarchists. More than a
hundred are Presbyterians, one is a
Christian Scientist, one a Mohamme
dan, one a Latter Day Saint and one
a transcendentalism Scott was voted
the favorite author, with Dickens a
close second. Longfellow Is the favorite
poet, with Burns next. History is the
favorite study, baseball is the favorite
sport, and Vassar the favorite woman’s
college.
—Peter Sands of Castle Valley com
pleted recently a tour of the world. Of
the peoples he conversed with the Chi
nese most impressed him, says an ex
change. This is what he says on this
topic: "They tell you the French are
economical and ingenious. They point
out to you how the French train rats
•to clean the flesh from bones that are
used in manufacturing, and they de
clare this people, when they kill rats,
use their skins for gloves, their furs
for caps, their bones for toothpicks
and their tendons for gelatine. All that
may be true. But in certain parts of
China they have trained gulls that fish
for them, and a good gull will fetch
its master from 80 to 100 pounds of
fish a day. They have trained cats
that kill little birds for them —30 or 40
birds, maybe, to an animal. And they
have trained dogs that, day in and
day out, work like Trojans keeping
the crows out of the rice fields.”
—Very few people are acquainted
with the peculiar fact that the ma
jority of Russian Jews, even those re
siding iu this country, still use the
Jewish method of date-reckoning in
stead of the Christian, says the Boston
Transcript. Thus in writing a Jewish
letter, the writer would invariably place
on the date line In Hebrew characters
the year 5661—0 r rather, 661—for the
first figure is dropped similarly to the
first two by the ordinary method. But
the most peculiar part of the date line
is that instead of placing there the
name of the month, the writer writes
the name of the chapter of the Penta
teuch. which he, like other Jews, is
supposed to read that week. To avoid
confusion, the reader must be ac
quainted with the fact that the Jews
divide the Pentateuch into fifty-three
chapters, and not Into 183, as the Chris
tians do. One chapter is read on the
Saturday of each week of the year
save one. when two chapters are read.
As the chapters are named in most
cases after their first words, and as
some of the Hebrew words possess the
attribute of containing two or more
words in one. to translate some of the
date lines into English would be some
thing like this: “Chapter, In the Des
ert.' 661;” “Chapter, ‘And I Besought,’
661;’’ “Chapter, ’Balak,’ 661;" “Chap
ter, ‘Judges,’ 661,” etc. In order to in
dicate the exact day of the week, some
Jews place one of the first seven letters
of the Hebrew alphabet before the
chapter, thus- “Day b, Chapter ‘And
He Called,’ 661.” The letter b thus
designates that It is the second day of
that week.
—Not even the sponge can escape the
efforts of the breeder. If the govern
ment succeeds even measurably In its
efforts, there willl he a stock farm of
sponges on the Florida coast some day,
where a man can go and buy eggs or
young sponge* as he would buy hens’
eggs or calves now. Some time
ago Dr. H. F. Moore began
experiments at Sugar Loaf Key,
about twenty-five miles east of Key
West, and at several places in Biscayne
Bay. Several thousand sponge cuttings
were planted at these places under a
variety of conditions. The chief prob
lem confronting the experimenter in
this field is to find some ready means
of attaching the cuttings to a durable
support, capable of resisting the action
of salt water and the ravages of the
toredo and animals having similar de
structive habits, and, which at the
same time, will not have an injurious
effect upon the growing sponge. The
cuttings live and their cut surfaces
heal without difficulty. About six
weeks after the plants were made they
were examined, and, under favorable
conditions, it was found that about 95
per cent, of the sheepswool cuttings
were alive, healed and apparently
healthy. In several cases, where the
plants were made in places exposed to
very strong currents, many of the
pieces were torn loose from their sup
ports, while others had been killed by
rough action of the currents. The cut
tings from yellow sponges suffered a
much greater mortality than those
made from the sheepswool sponge, but
whether this be due to the more deli
cate nature of the animal or to the
accidental conditions under which they
were planted is not yet determined.
So far as has been discovered, the more
valuable sheepswool sponge seems to
possess greater hardiness than its cog
ener.
—The possibility of extracting from
seawater the gold it contains suspend
ed within its mass has always formed
a fascinating problem, not to the chem
ist only, but to the commercial specu
lator as well, says the London Chron
icle. Everybody admits that an im
mense quantity of the precious metal
must be held in solution, as it were,
in the ocean of the globe, but that it
would pay mankind to be at the ex
pense of securing it, is, of course, quite
another matter. Still it is quite likely
that despite the scientific difficulties in
the way of extracting the oceanic gold
many mouths will water at the state
ment made by Prof. Lupton of Leeds
who. speaking at the annual meeting
of the Institution of .Mining Engineers
last week, declared that, according to
his estimate of the amount of gold in
the (tea, there was sufficient to give
aix millions ntt'iiing to every man
woman, and child on the face of the
earth. It would be highly interesting
to learn how Lupton arrives at
this conclusion, t ertalnly the figures
are somewhat astounding. \ Ordinary
people talk gliby about a million, not
realizing at all the immensity of the
sum with which they are dealing. With
regard to the estimate in question. "I
ha e my doubts, ' as the cautious Kcols
man said. Hut 1 am open to n,nvlr
•*">; leader, or if the professor
himself will give rue some adequate
data to work from. fly nbe way I
observed that the president of the in-
Slltutlon, Mr J h IMgon of Glasgow
hery'oi ei rry * •*“ -T*
I *ry operation, , r carried on by means
of electricity, M rid by aid of high
steam engines,
lull „ IM |II * ** vilt * *' f *•> at
millions of Urns of coal per year Mould
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SMITH BROS.,
.Wholesale Distributors for Savannah
Savannah Electric Cos.
Schedule Daily Except Sunday.
In effect June 14, 1902.
Subject to change without notice.
ISLE OF HOP ELI NE. '
Leave 40th Leave
and Whitaker. Isle of Hope.
A M P M P M AM P M u
630 100 630 600 12 30 7 M
730 200 700 700 130 800
83 0 230 730 800 230 830
930 300 800 900 300 900
10 30 330 830 10 00 330 9an
11 30 400 900 11 00 400 10 00
5.30 10.30 6.00 l”00
6.00 11.3# 6.30
MONTGOMERY LINE
Connecting at Sandfly with Isle of
Hope Line.
Leave 40th Leave ~
and Whitaker sts. Montgomery
A M P M A M PM
10 30 3 00 .5 so sj 45
® 6 50 *2 33
‘ . 733 353
1100 8.53 4.53
t 9 53 to 53
‘‘Connects with parcel car to city.
IConnccts with parcel car from city.
MONTGOMERY AND THUNDER
BOLT LINE,
Via Cattle Park and Sandfly.
Lv. Thunderbolt. Lv. Montgomery.
A M P M A M P M
7 22 4 22 \ *5 50 §1 45
8 22 5 22 6 50 *2 53
922 638 753 353
.... 738 853 453
§9 53 to 53
•Connects at Sandfly with parcel car
for citv.
SConnects at Sandfly with parcel car
for Isle of Hope.
THUNDERBOLT LINK
City Market to Casino, via Bolton
Street Junction.
Beginning at 5:45 a. m., cars leave
City Market for Casino at Thunderbolt
every 15 minutes until 11:30 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton Street Junction 15
minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 5:53 a. m., cars leave
Casino at Thunderbolt every 15 min
utes until 12:08 midnight _____
COLLINSVILLE LINE,
(Fair Grounds and Dale Ave.)
Beginning at 6:00 a. m., cars leave
Bolton and Ott streets every 15 min
utes; returning, cars leave Estill ave
nue and Waters road at 6:07 a. m. and
every 15 minutes thereafter, connecting
with cars on Thunderbolt line. Be
ginning at 9:00 p. m„ cars run every 30
minutes until 12:00 o’clock.
WEST END LINE.
(Lincoln Park.)
Car leaves west side of City Market
for Lincoln Park 6:00 a. m. and every
40 minutes thereafter until 11:30 p. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market
6:20 a. m. and every 40 minutes there
after until 12:00 o'clock mid night. ,
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR.
Leaves east side of City Market for
Thunderbolt. Cattle Park, Sandfly, Isle
of Hope and all intermediate points—
-9:15 a. m., 1:15 p. m., 5:15 p. m.
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandfly.
Cattle Park, Thunderbolt and all in
termedlate points—6:oo a. m., 11:00 a.
m., 3:00 p. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at
5:50 a. m. and 2:53 p. m., connecting at
Sandfly with regular parcel car for
city.
Parcel car from the city carries
freight to Montgomery on each trip
Regular parcel car carries trailer on
each trip for accommodation of pass
engers.
Any further Information regarding
passenger schedule or freight service
can be had by applying to
O. O. NAGLE, Manager.
Blood
POISON
Primary, Saoondary or Tartiary Bloed PoW
Permanently Cured. You can betreated
under same guaranty. Capital $500.000. _ or ii
the most obstinato cases. \\ e have cured t _ ur *
cases in 15 to 35 days. If you have token
iodide potash and still have aches and- per
Patches in Mouth. Sore Throat, Pimides. t
Colored Spots, I T lcers on any part of the
or Eyebrows falling out, write for prool-
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