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Til* Weather.
The indications for Georgia for lo
fiay are for fair and warmer weather,
with light to fresh winds. Eastern
Florida, partly cloudy weather, with
variable winds.
The newly laid cable to Manila will
be formally opened for business on July
4 —lndependence Day. The Filipinos
ought to celebrate the event enthusi
astically, they have so much independ
ence.
The Hon. Perry Heath of Muncie,
Ind., is becoming more and more In
dignant as the Postofflce Department
Investigation progresses. Indeed, it
has been intimated that he is already
bo angry thkt he is contemplating a
long trip to Europe and possibly to
Egypt to cool off.
Notwithstanding the enthusiasm that
has been worked up in New York on
the America’s cup races, the betting
is said to be very slow'. Little money
has as yet made its appearance. The
first odds to be offered were by an
Englishman on the Lipton boat, the
figures being $5,000 to $3,500. The bet
was taken.
M.’ss Stone, the missionary, is about
to return to Turkey and resume her
missionary work in that country. It
cost the people of the United States
$72,000 to get her away from there in
1902. It may be doubted that they
would again put up that sum if brig
ands were to catch her and carry her
into the mountains.
Word has been received in Washing
ton that the Congress of Colombia,
which convened a week ago, will
probably ratify the canal treaty with
in a short time. The Colombians
have probably reached the conclusion
that Uncle Sam cannot be held up for
a larger sum of money than he has of
fered, and that a $10,000,000 loaf is bet
ter than no bread.
An interesting suggestion that Is be
ing discussed in New York is that
the six sloops of the cup defender class
now in those waters —the Columbia,
Constitution and Reliance, and the
Shamrocks I. II and 111, be brought
into competition in a grand race after
the cup contest shall have been decided.
All are good boats, and to put the six
Into a race would be to awaken enthu
eiaßin that would be widespread and
sincere. Sir Thomas Lipton said the
other day that he would be “ready for
anything” after the main event had
been decided. The proposed six-corner
ed race would be something worth go
ing miles to see.
T. Tom Fortune, President Roose
velt’s special commissioner to the Phil
ippines, has got back to the United
States, after a squabble with the police
and a quarrel with the civil authorities
of the Philippine capital. The sum and
substance of T. Tom’s investigations
are that he thinks the Philippine archi
pelago would be a fine place for the
American negroes, with Booker Wash
ington na governor of the dependency.
And flor that expression of opinion,
which do.an t umodnt to a pinch of
•alt. with salt worth 20 wnU per 100
I'•Hinds the people of the United Htatee
must jay some UvnMurulg Ot dollars for
9 Win, - Iru/eGng expellees to and
frtnn I lie Iskutda. If Ronaavoit really
WMt.G-ff to ge r*4 *>( that UxiuWe.mak
ing u*gi o, a* wag reported w n*n Ire
**r him to Manlia, why didn't hr give
him th* jr* *p< (a! ■ okmkWih,.! to
1 **wly *>'•< la <‘antral Afrit*’
EIUCATED MEN IN POLITICS.
At the Yale exercises the other day
Andrew D. White, ambassador to Ger
many and ex-president of Cornell,
made an appeal to American million
aires, and to Mr. Carnegie especially,
for $14,000,000 with which to establish
chairs in twenty-five American uni
versities for the purpose of educating
young men for public life; that is, the
holding and administration of offices.
In the course of his address, explain
ing his appeal, he asserted that the
greatest need in American life to-day
is educated young men to hold public
office honestly, capably, intelligently.
He scored roundly the conditions exist
ing in the state of Delaware and the
cities of Minneapolis, St. Louis and
Pittsburg, and declared that courses in
universities in the several subjects
mentioned by him would aid America
more than anything else open to uni
versity influence at present.
The subject of the educated young
man in politics is an old one. For
many years it has been argued that if
college men would enter politics, the
result would be cleaner polities and a
more efficient administration of the of
fices. This line of argument, which is
that of Mr. White, presupposes that
few if any college men enter politics,
that if they were to do so they would
take into public life with them high
purposes and clean hands, which they
would maintain throughout their ca
reers, and that if there were a class
of young men trained for office-holding
in colleges they would promptly be
given the offices upon their entry into
txditics.
Asa matter of fact many college men
do enter politics, and it may be as
serted that politics would be cleaner if
some of them were out of it. All col
lege men are not of that moral fiber
necessary to political purity. Educa
tion alone does not make a man hon
est. There must be character as well
ns training, or the college-bred politi
cian will be as corrupt as and more
dangerous than the politician who
works himself up from the position of
ward heeler. If young men were es
pecially educated for office, relatively
few of them would succeed in getting
offices. Under oiir system men are
seldom chosen at the polls for office for
their erudition or special training; the
man who can hustle the hardest and
corner the most votes is the one who
gets the office, whether he is the best
fitted for the position or not. We have
no office-holding class in this country,
as in some of the countries of Europe.
On the other side one’s public career
may almost be picked out, hence it is
easy to have a young man educated for
the line of political service he is to
pursue. Here, however, the office is
for any man of any class who can get
it, and there are always hustlers
scrambling for It.
It would be a very good thing if the
consular and diplomatic services could
be divorced from politics and put on
a business footing; if they were not re
garded as spoils of periodical contests,
but as useful establishments for the
conduct of public business. In that
case, it would be an excellent idea to
especially educate men for positions
under these services. But the idea of
college courses for men to hold the do
mestic elective offices is ahead of the
times.
THE PHOGHAMMK FOR GEN. WOOD.
It was suspected of course when
Gen. Wood was sent to the Philippines
that the President intended him to fill
a high position there just as soon as
he could arrange to give him a posi
tion of that kind.
It seems it is his purpose to mage
him a major general and put him at
the head of the military in the Philip
pines. It was his intention originally,
bo it is reported, to put him in the
place occupied by Gov. Taft and make
some other provision for the latter.
Washington advices say that the
President isn’t going to find it an easy
matter to carry out his programme in
respect to Gen. Wood. There is much
opposition to him in the Senate. Of
course his nomination to a major gen
eralship would have to he confirmed
before it would become effective.
The opposition to him is not confined
to the Democratic senators. Repub
lican senators are said to object to
his further promotion unless he does
something deserving it. It is only
about five years since he was a sur
geon in the army holding the rank of a
captain. Now he is a brigadier gen
eral. It is probable that If the Presi
dent could have his w’ay Gen. Wood
would be in command of the army
within a very short time.
We do not undertake to say whether
Gen. Wood is deserving or not of the
honors which the government has
showered on him. There is no doubt
that his rapid advancement has been
the cause of a great deal of dissatis
faction in the army. Old army officers
feel they h’ave been passed over in
order that this favorite of the Presi
dent might be promoted.
Lately there has been a great deal
in the newspapers that hasn’t been
to Gen. Wood’s credit. Whether or
not there is truth in the stories that
are being told it is of course impossible
to say, but it is asserted that many
of the senators believe there is, -and
the statement is made that if his name
is sent to the Senate for a major gen
eralship these stories will be investi
gated. They relate malqly to Gen.
Wood’s administration of affairs in
Cuba.
It is said that the President will
send Gqn. Wood’s name to the Senate
at the extra session which, it Is ex
pected, will be (.‘ailed in November.
Between now and that time it is prob
able that Gen. Wood's enemies will
succeed in getting whatever informa
tion against him there Is to be bad
In Cuba.
Here'* salve for consciences of
those Delaware lyncher*: £)-. Oeorge
F. Haler of Norwood, Pa., aays the ne
gro suffered no pain; that when lt
was thrown Into (be fire he was In*
: sane from fright land ricitrnuioi, and
that during the brief period between
( ibe time when he Drat reached Hie
j stake and when life wsa extln. | hi*
frensy was such that he felt u* pain
For • res 1. nice, painless lynching.
| therefore, burn (lie victim sflvsl
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JUNE 29. 1903.
A STANDAItD PURE FOR COTTON
SEED.
Until recently the farmers were the
chief opponents of trusts. One reason
Ivhy they have not been able to form
trusts is the difficulty of putting their
interests under one management. There
is no doubt, however, that they are
preparing to combine for the purpose
of fixing and maintaining prices for
their products.
It is announced that the North Louis
iana Cotton Planters’ Association,
which includes most of the planters
in the Southern part of Louisiana, has
decided that no member of the associa
tion shall sell his cotton seed, but that
he shall turn it over to the Executive
Committee of the association and that
committee will arrange for its sale.
The purpose is to prevent the cut
ting of prices. The planters find that
cotton seed buyers are able to get seed
at much less than it is really worth
by dealing with the planters direct,
and so the plan is proposed to have
the crop handled by the association.
It is probable that by this arrange
ment the planters will be able to get
more for their cotton seed than they
would otherwise. They do not seem
to have any fear of tin law against
trusts, and it is doubtful if any anti
trust law that has yet be%n hnacted
would reach them. The next move
ment probably will be a trust to fix
and maintain the price of cotton. Of
course such movements are in the
nature of experiments, and it remains
to, be seen whether or not they will
prove to be successful.
But as there are labor trusts, in
dustrial trusts and railroad trusts there
does not seem to be any reason why
the farmers should not undertake to
protect their interests by means of
a trust. Competition is as injurious
to them as It is to the railroads or the
Industries. It prevents them from get
ting as good prices for their products
as they might if they were organized
for the purpose of maintaining prices.
Cotton seed, that was once consid
ered to be almost as worthless as saw
dust, is now a very valuable product,
bringing millions of dollars to the cot
ton planters annually. If the plant
ers of Louisiana succeed in doing what
they are attempting it will not be long
before the planters in every cotton
state will be organized for the purpose
of holding cotton seed until a price is
offered for it that will yield them a fair
profit. There is no doubt that under
the present system of disposing of the
seed the planters do not get for it very
profitable prices.
ATOMIC THEORY ABANDONED.
Following the discovery of and ex
periments with the new substance
called radium, some of the world’s fore
most scientists have been forced to the
conclusion that the old atomic theory
is incorrect, and several of them lxave
discarded it as untenable. Profs.
Crookes, Curie and Lodge within the
past few vvqeks have declared them
selves to this effect, and advanced a
new theory of matter that is so pro
found as to make the old theory ap
pear as a primary lesson beside it.
The substance of the new theory may
be explained in a few sentences, but
to comprehend its full scope and logi
cal sequences would tax the world’s
greatest minds.
The old theory is that the atoms of
elements consist of indivisible units.
The new theory is that instead of be
ing indivisible, each atom is a whole
stellar system of infinitely smaller but
absolutely identical units, all in or
bital motion; that matter is not sta
ble in Us atoms, but is constantly in
motion; that the atoms themselves are
constantly undergoing disintegrati m
and change. This latter, however, may
be so slow as to baffle the conception
of the human mind. In some instances
it may require millions of ye'ars for
changes of consequence to occur, yet,
according to the new theory, v the pro
cess is going forward, just the same.
In radium alone of the known sub
stances is the disintegration of atoms
sufficiently rapid to be easily ob
served, and yet the efflux from radium
is so inflnitessimal that one square
inch of surface would lose only a grain
in a thousand million years. In more
stable atoms, even longer periods of
time are necessary to changes. Prof.
Lodge, however, affirms that the
changes seem bound to occur, accord
ing to fixed laws.
The character of a substance, ac
cording to the new theory, depends
upon the number of units, or ions, in
its atoms. A hydrogen atom contains
700 such ions, an oxygen atom 11,200
ions, and when 137,200 ions are com
bined into a single atom, the result is
gold. Thus by reason of the disin
tegration of atoms and the rearrange
ment of their ions various substances
are produced after the lapse of the re
quired number of millions of years.
Discussing the new theory, the London
correspondent of the New York Sun
says it is in effect an astronomical
one; that chemistry has in fact be
come the astronomy of the infinitesi
mal. “One is led to wonder, then if
the earth and the other planets are
not mere ions forming a single atom
of a higher universe, where perhaps
they constitute a speck of dust that
worries the careful housewife in the
world above us.”
Chivalry still lives, and its home Is
in the mountains of North Carolina.
On Quaker mountain the other day a
neighborhood quarrel resulted in a
pitched battle. In the midst of the
hostilities a picnic party appeared
moving along the road that separated
the enemies. As soon as the fighters
saw the picnickers one of them called
out, "Boys, stop shooting until these
young ladies and gentlemen pass.” At
once the firing ceased and the young
ladles and gentlemen passed In safety.
Could there have been finer chivalry,
even In the days when knighthood wus
in flower?
It Is alleged that one of the reasons
Ml ex teg session of couit was not
called at Wilmington, Del., to try the
negro White, wno was lynched the
other daj, la that Hie regular asaalon
' had Just ended end the officials wanted
I u> gei away on their vsisiion* Had
ah eglrs session been celled || would
I have delayed their departure (or the
I seaside and the iiwueuua foe sevetal
I days.
Chicago may shortly be making
faces at Kimberley and telling that in
teresting town to go way back and
sit down, since its glory as a diamond
center has departed. According to
Prof. Crook of the Northwestern Uni
versity, there is a vast diamond field
between Chicago and Milwaukee, and
almost any day the mother lode may
be discovered. Already, he says, sev
enteen diamonds have been found near
Chicago, the largest weighing 2114
carats. They were deposited along the
shores of Lake Michigan by glacial
action in the remote past. AVith char
acteristic hustle there are already Chi
ikgouns grabbling in the sand for peb
bles, but no new Koh-i-nor has been
reported. Isn't it wonderful, by the
way, what remarkable discoveries
these Chickgo professors announce
from time to time?
A special dispatch says: “So rapidly
is Indianapolis filling up with Southern
negroes that the white population is
beginning to grow restive and out
breaks are not infrequent.” The dis
patch then goes on to say that on the
night before the ore on which it was
written a mob of '<• ' white men and
boys attacked a•. church (and
broke up ar lig ..s : S be * hf l
therein. A'.l of Dus sc... s odd to
Southerners. who xu-re .ir the im
pression that Sv.dix s w rrt very
find of the coh red ..rother EiJ ws.i
welcome his siw:.i . i. \y r-aabsrt
In five >iars theta have bees oght
murders in Delaware Tfct swr\ srest
penalty inflicted in any rare vu six
years ir. prison In fear cases there
were no convictions. In one css* a
woman with a babe .n her arms was
brained with an ax by her husband.
He was sentenced to two year*. A stu
dent in W ilmington was assaulted and
beaten to death with a baseball bat.
The murderer was sentenced to prison,
but was shortly pardoned. Such admin
istration of justice for crimes of vio
lence is held to be largely responsible
for the lynching of the negro White.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Quadian, in
the Punjab, has sent a challenge to
“Elijah II” Dowie, at Zion City, near
Chicago. The Indian, who is a Mo
hammedan priest, thinks Dowie is a
fraud and imposter. In order to prove
it, and at the same time to prove the
correctness of his own religion, he pro
poses that he and Dowie meet in a
duel of prayer to the death. At a cer
tain time the praying is to begin, each
to his own deity, and the burden of
the prayer® is to be that which ever is
the liar shall be stricken dead.
PERSONAL.
—The widow of “Brave Bill An
thony,” whose coolness the night that
the battleship Maine was blown up In
Havana harbor made him famous, has
been given a clerkship in the perman
ent census bureau, with a salary of
S9OO a year. When Anthony committed
suicide he left his widow destitute.
—Richard Strauss, who is by many
authorities regarded as the greatest of
living German composers, completed
his thirty-ninth year last week. His
father wus Frank Strauss, first horn
player in the Munich Grand Opera
House. When 17 years old he penned
a symphony. His wife was Pauline
De Ahna, a well-known opera singer.
—Oscar Johnson, who has just been
appointed assistant paymaster in the
army and ordered to Manila, was for
several years a newsboy in Minneapo
lis. He was recognized as a leader of
his associates and finally received a
position in the business office of one of
the flour city’s dailies. He has since
been promoted a number of times and
is highly spoken of by his employers.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Stern Father—“So, sir! You want
to marry my daughter, do you?” Ter
rified Young Man—“ Y-yes, sir; but not
any worse than she wants to marry
me.”—Chicago Tribune.
—Edyth—“Aunt Margaret used to
say she wouldn't marry the best man
on earth.” Mayme—"And did she keep
her word?” Edyth—“ Yes; but she got
married just the same.”—Chicago Daily
News.
—First Sportsman—“ Good guide, is
he?” Second Sportsman—“Oh,, yes! If
necessary, he’ll do the shooting and
bring home the game and let you say
you did it and whip anybody that says
you didn’t.”—Puck.
—Harlemite —“lf you wrote yester
day morning, how is it I only got your
letter this evening?” Downtowner—
“ Probably because I affixed a special
delivery stamp, und wrote across the
envelope, ’Rush!’ ’’—Brooklyn Life.
—“And let’s have plenty of palms,”
said Mr. Cumrox. “That is a very
good suggestion,” answered his wife.
“I’m very fond of palms.” “Yes;
they’re useful as well as ornamental.
There’s nothing handier than a good
big bunch of palms to go to sleep be
hind during a musicale.”—Washington
Star.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Chattanooga Times (Dem.) says:
“It is graft and spoils politics of the
worst sort that is responsible for the
postoffice scandals now, just as it was
the same thing that produced the Star
Route frauds. Moral: Turn the ras
cals out from top to bottom.”
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says:
"Congressmen are now beginning to be
gathered in as a result of the Postoffice
Department unpleasantness and there
are indications that even some United
States Senators are sleeping in the barn,
lest their slumbers be disturbed by a
deputy marshal calling at the house
with legal papers of a disagreeable
character. Mr. Clarkson’s dismal ap
prehensions respecting the ill effect of
the proceedings upon ’the party' are
i entirely unjustified, howeve;-. ’The
party’ has a strong stomach, a* it de-
I monstrated in the Star Route business.
I It is only when the other crowd does
something wicked that ’the parly’ be
gin* to throw fils and otherwise evinces
signs of nervous collapse.”
The Cleveland (O.) Plain-Dealer
(Dem.) aays: "As the first Important
Dana* ratic convention of the year the
Dee Moines gathering was significant
sa showing present Democratic tend-n
--cn-s, pn tally In the Middle Weal. The
platform MUsraiu a* cun only mean that
the chief las us of the last two nations!
| cainpalgua la relegated to the grave
yard of dead and gone things, and the
i infercm eas to the i< sdei In those < am.
latlgtis ia baldly less obvious The el
j Wnc* >J< last year's platfono Oh Die
eilirr question was less eloquent, stipe
isfsrriut to the Kansas |ty j tanks
wus omitted ss ills leswit of s deal be
j tween gold 1 >rn<u rats and 'regglsis
to units os vsdpi*la* Cut ‘oosi-ea
’ Tile *• tioii of ikt# year's usiowtiss
I uatiuoi he iio-ii4e|artt*K "
The End in View.
Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee has a
story of personal experience to tell to
those who seein swamped in worries,
according to the Milwaukee Journal.
It happened during the first years of
his ministry, when he was rector of a
Philadelphia church. The parish mat
ters, social and financial, were in a bad
way, and straightening them out was
slow work. He was distinctly discour
aged one day when, having gone to
New York on business, he stopped to
look at the Brooklyn Bridge, then
building. A man, covered with dirt,
was working on the abutments.
"That’s pretty dirty work you are en
gaged in,” said ttye bishop.
"Well, yes," answered the laborer,
“but somehow we don’t think of the
dirt, but of the beauty which is to
come out of our work.”
"It was the lesson I needed, and I
went back to Philadelphia the better
for it,” said Bishop Nicholson.
Did Not Report.
Col. Mills, superintendent of the
West Point Academy, has a reputa
tion for sternness even among army
men, says the New York Tribune.
Tears ago. when he first took com
mand of the post at Buffalo, lie found
that station extremely lax in disci
pline and it was no secret among his
friends that he proposed to work
some reforms. Shortly after his tn
sta'.’.ation he was one 1 day annoyed
by the receipt of a telegram from a
subordinate off or. a furlough, which
read “Will r.ot report to-day. as ex
pected. account unavoidable circum
stan.cM.
The tone of the message wag not
at a. . to Col. Mills’ mind, and he
•stred at once in reply; "Report a6
expected or give reasons.”
Within an hour the following mes
sage came over the wires, dated from
a hospital in New York:
Train off—can’t ride; legs off—
can t walk. Will not report unless
you insist."
The colonel did not insist.
Testing Fares.
As the conductor received the fares
he gently scratched each coin on the
edge with the nail of his forefinger,
says the Philadelphia Press.
“Is that some new good luck sign
that you are working?" asked the man
who rides on the platform and asks
questions.
“No; but I’ll tell you what it is,
though. It’s one way of beating the
company. The fast of the matter is,
lam getting old. The company does
not know how old I am. If they did
they’d fire me mighty quick. Then
where would I be? I am getting so
old my sight is failing fast. If I put
on glasses it would be a give-away
on my age. I c'an’t tell by sight wheth
er a coin is a quarter or a nickel, nor
the difference between anew one-cent
piece and a dime, so I just scratch the
edge.”
“What good does that do?”
“Why, it’s simple enough. The sil
ver pieces are all milled on the edge,
while the nickels and coppers are
smooth.”
Modern Castles In Spain.
“If there's one thing more ingrained
in the average man than another it is
the feeling that he is entitled to some
property that someone else is keeping
him out of.” remarked a man who look
ed as if he possessed plenty of com
mon sense, says the Philadelphia
Ledger.
“Even now I flatter myself that 1
know a little of life and the world, and
I have read the newspapers enough to
be alive to the fact that many unprin
cipled men make a livelihood by dis
covering claims that never existed; but
I’m readv to admit that I felt more
than elated the other day when I re
ceived notice from one of these agen
cies that I’d better call, as I might be
interested in a case they had under
investigation.
"This man questioned me as to my
family history as far back as I could
remember, and it wasn’t long before I
was as much interested in the matter
as he seemed to be. There was no
doubt he had studied up our branch of
the family pretty industriously, for he
told me many things that got me in
terested in his scheme at once, and I
began to feel that if there were im
posters in the business at least he
wasn’t one. According to his way of
figuring there was $250,000 tied up with
red tape in one of the English courts,
to which I came in on the ground floor
for one-fifth. j
“I began to feel that perhaps my
mother was right, after all, when she
contended that the family had been de
frauded out of a large inheritance, and
I felt sorry that I had once told her
that if we were kept out of any prop
erty it was by the rightful owner.
When the man saw I was interested
he grew eloquent and dilated upon the
ease with which the fortune could be
obtained. Of course it would require
money, but I would be a fool not to ex
pend a little when the return would be
so great. I allowed him to exhaust him
self in picturing my good fortune, and
then I sprang a little scheme of my
own.
“ ‘lf there’s anything in this,’ I said,
‘you can bet I won’t allow it to slip
through my fingers.’
“ ‘Anything in it?’ he echoed, slap
ping roe on the back. ‘Why, man, the
money is as good as if it was in your
pocket.’
“ ‘l’m so glad to hear you say so,’ I
replied, dropping into a very confiden
tial tone, ‘because, to tell the truth,
I'm rather embarrassed just at pres
ent. Say, can’t you let me have S2O
for a day or so?”
"My words seemed to stagger the
man, and he dropped back In his chair
as if he had been shot. When he show
ed no inclination to respond to my re
quest I left him, feeling satisfied that It
wasn’t advisable to push a claim for
thousands on which I couldn’t borrow
a twenty-dollar bill.”
Summer Knin.
Yestermorn the air was dry
As the winds of Araby,
While the sun, with pitiless heat,
Glared upon the glaring street,
And the meadow fountains sealed,
Till the people, everywhere,
And the cattle In the field,
And the birds in middle air.
And the thirsty little flowers.
Sent to heaven a fainting prayer
For the blessed summer showers,
Not in vain the prayer was said;
For at sunset, overhead,
Sailing from the gorgeous West,
Came the pioneers, abreast,
Of a wondrous argosy.
The Armada of the sky!
Far along I saw them saJI,
Wafted by an upper gale.
Saw them, on their lustrous route,
Fling a thousand banners out;
Yellow, violet, crimson, blue.
Orange, sapphire; every hue
That the gates of heaven put on
To the sainted eyes of John
In that hallowed Patmlan isle,
Thlr skyey pennons wore; and, while
! drank the glory of the sight.
Sunset faded into night.
Then diverging f ar and wide.
To the dim horlson'e aide,
Silently and swl/tiy there,
Every galleon of the air.
Maimed by son a celestial crew.
Out itg precious cargo threw;
And th* gentle summer rain
Cooled the fevered earth sen In.
Edmond Clarence Stedman.
•Teaet Master (to chairman of
puMi l dinner! "M ould you hit, pro*
puae your toat now, my lord, uf
I eb’rbld * * let rig enjoy IlitnUKOee a
ibu longer!” Jfuocjt-
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The London Chronicle remarks that
"for soaring and coruscating eloquence
no Irishman on this side of the At
lantic can hold a candle to Bourke
C’ockran.”
—Australia wants 300,000 British
wives, Canada wants 90,000, and the
Cape would like 30,000. It is stated
that there are nearly 1,000,000 more
women than men in the British isles.
—lt Is as a deadly pheasant-shot that
King Edward has won his reputation
as a marksman. He Is conslc-*rw, aft
er Lord Walsingham and Lord De
Grey, the finest pheasant-shot in Eng
land.
—All German soldiers must learn to
swim. Some of them are so expert that,
with their clothing on their heads and
carrying guns and ammunition, they
can swim streams several hundred
yards wide.
—Admiral Sir Harry Keppel, "the
father of the British fleet,” has begun
his ninety-fifth year. The venerable
officer is a sailor by Instinct, and has
often declared that he hopes to die and
be buried at sea.
—Though not taking all the money
he could find, a burglar who broke into
a woman’s house in Paris left a note
saying he could not find it In his heart
to take her jewels lest they were heir
looms.
—R. T. Daniel, who owns many
blocks in Spokane, most of the town
of Trail, in British Columbia, and 10,-
000 acres of land in Cuba, left Glasgow,
ICy., twenty-five years ago and ar
rived in Spokane with just $1 in his
pocket.
—A characteristic story of the late
Sir Hector Macdonald is just told. Al
ways a man of few words, when send
ing his only son to a public school for
the first time he addressed the follow
ing brief note to the headmaster:
“Herewith boy Hector, to be made a
man of.”
—A Japanese Buddhist dignitary was
buried a few weeks ago. The police
made the following terse return of the
side issues of the ceremony: "311 in
juries, 75 fainting, 121 thefts, 374 pick
pockets captured, 1,021 articles lost.
Seventy-nine people fell into creeks or
ditches.” ’
—"The Stickit Minister” was begun
late one evening, and the bulk of It
was written in less than a week. Then,
as the author himself said afterward,
he “ignominiously lost hpld.” But aft
er a little time he was seized with
fresh inspiration and the rest of the
book was written in forty hours, actual
working-time.
—The Protestants of Boston are mak
ing contributions to a fund of $60,000 to
convert Spanish women. Headquarters
will be opened in Madrid, and it will
be known as the Gulick Institute. Bish
op Lawrence of the Episcopal Church
of Boeton says it is time for his church
to oonvert the Italians, who are settling
in that city in large numbers.
—The irrigation works recommended
by the Geological Survey give interest
to the report on the irrigation works
of India. The net revenue to the gov
ernment was 7.36 per cent, on an outlay
of $110,000,000. The value of the crops
raised on the irrigated area during the
year is estimated at $135,000,000 —a sum
in excess of the capital outlay.
—John Whittier, a Lowell weaver, is
a consistent advocate of physical cul
ture. He walks twenty-four miles each
day between the factory and his home
in Littleton. Between the daily jour
neys on foot Whittier spends ten hours
before a loom in a Lowell suspender
factory. He is a small man, about 49
years old, and is all muscle and grit.
—One of the largest families in St.
Louis, Mo.—that of Arthur W. Becker—
is joyously celebrating the birth of a
baby girl. This is the first time in 140
years that a girl has been bom in the
family. The grandfather, J. Becker,
had five boys, and his father, Jacob
Becker, had four male heirs. The father
of Jacob Becker had no sisters and no
daughters, and none of his sons had
any daughters.
—An important event in the scientific
world is the acceptance of a profes
sorship in Columbia University by Prof.
Joseph John Thomson, D. So., F. R.
S., 1889, for the last eighteen years
Cavendish professor of experimental
physics at. Cambridge University, Eng
land. His recent work in the investi
gation of atoms and molecules and
their relation to electrical charges are
fresh in the mind of the public.
—British residents of Greece are
much wrought up over the action of the
government in accepting the offer of a
foreign capitalist to erect a gambling
casino in the old British cemetery In
Corfu. When the lonian Islands were
ceded by England to Greece in 1864, it
was specifically provided that the cem
eteries would remain undisturbed. The
new scheme includes a hydropathic in
stitution, concert hall and casino, where
a full “lay-out” will be run after the
fashion of Monte Carlo.
—Mr. Herbert Gladstone is still occa
sionally greeted by the historic nick
name which he bore so cheerfully at
Eton. When his father added twopence
to the income tax about thirty-five
years ago, Herbert, who was then a
diminutive lower-form boy, was
promptly Shristened “Tuppence,” a
name which clung to him through the
remainder of his school days. Mr. Glad
stone is a shortish, broad-shouldered
man, of great physical strength, and
with the complexion o.f a Spaniard.
—A movement is on foot among Brit
ish Roman Catholics and others to se
cure “The Monastery” at Littlemore in
peimanence as a memorial to Cardinal
Newman and those associated with him
under that historical roof. “The Mon
astery” was composed of a row of
workmen's cottages, and the room in
which Newman and Stanton were re
ceived by Father Dominic, the Pas
sionist, into the Roman Catholic com
munion is capable of identification from
plans and papers in the possession of
friends of the Cardinal.
—Rumors from Honduras Intimate
that an ex-President at that often per
turbed country Is chained to the fl<*r
of a cell In the prison of Teguclgnlpn.
His wretched plight reminds the stu
dents of Mommsen of the fate of Ju
gurtha, King of Numldla, who was
thrust by the cruel old Romans Into
"the bath of Ice" under the Capitolina
hill, to perish of frost and hunger
"Cold are thy baths, oh, Apollo!" nx
elalmed Jugrurtha. What words of pro
test will be heard from the Capitolina
hill of Tegucigalpa ?
—There is a policemen's college in Ht
Petersburg U train applicants for the
force. There Is a museum combload
with the school where the pupils make
themselves familiar with the Mote gg
criminals Jimmies, drills chisels —f
'onirtvancse far lobbing collection
Urges, a special Held of Ituaalan
thieves, The Russian passport *yttnn
Is studied In detail. The duties of
the dvomlks, a tart of saelwtaiit re,
Mat, are taught They lm. p welch on
•he I cent •'lit tm. t|otl on Ipe hshl'e of
lh leasalr, their visitors, tisiulia the
pefirts f tastumer* end flint Mom,
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Buchu Gin
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Sweet Maiden
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Harvard Beer
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Hill’s Refrigerators
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Cream Indigo Blue
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Club Cocktails
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Club Blend Whiskey
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Schlitz’ Bottled Beer
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Men had something to do
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Old Crow Bourbon
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A. B.C. Bohemian Beer
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LePanto Cigars
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