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Amusements—Dancing Every Night,
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tan Cos.
Hotels and Summer Resorts—Hotel
Isleworth, Atlantic City, N. J.; Harris
Lithia Springs Hotel.
Educational —Notre Dame of Mary
land; 'Ward Seminary for Young La
dies, Nashville, Tenn.; .Elizabeth Col
lege and Conservatory of Music for
Women, Charlotte, N. C.: Brenau Col
lege and Conservatory, Gainesville, Ga.
Railroads —Only $26.65 to New York
City and ReUirn, Seaboard Air Line
Railway.
Within the Shadow' of the Glorious
Fourth —The Mutual Gas Light Com
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Your Sluggish Liver—Rowllnskl’s
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More Than We Want—Allen Bros.
Beers—The Delmonico Cos.
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The Pierce, Tribune and Cleveland —
At Lattimore’s.
Railroad Schedules—Savannah and
Statesboro Railroad.
Morphine and Opium Habit Cured—
Dr. Long, Atlanta, Ga.
Beer—Anheuser-Busch Brewing 00.
Silver Polish—The Gorham Cos.
Medical—Swamp Root; Chamberlain
Remedies; Medical Lake Salts; Casca
rets.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For
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cellaneous.
The W €‘ii flier.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with light to
fresh southwest winds. Eastern Flor
ida, occasional showers, with _variable
winds.
Army worms in a solid column 150
yards wide and three miles long are
marching through Walla Walla county,
Washington, destroying all vegetation
In their path. Th Republican party,
of course, has got to shoulder the re
sponsibility for the army worms, since
it has taken credit for the wheat crop.
A Stamford, Conn., minister preach
ed the other day with two bottles
of whisky it) front of him on the pul
pit. They were "exhibits" to prove
that the barrooms were open on Sun
day. He said tfiembers of his con
gregation had bought them that day
on 'the way to church. Rut. did he
smell the breaths of those members?
Senator Pettus of Alabama gives the
Democrats of the country something
to think about. "I have no choice
for the presidency,” he said to an in
terviewer, "and if I had a choice X
would not name him at this time, as
it would cause him to be attacked by
one or the other factions. If the Dem
ocrats of the United States keep up
the war among themselves there is no
use of nominating any one. * • I
am particularly opposed to the Demo
crats making any alliance with any
other party. Before we made such al
liances the party was the most con
servative party that ever existed in
the United States. We have never
gained one thing by an alliance with
any other party.” All of which is
true.
PLANKING FOR IJIO4.
It Is thought psobable by many
Democratic leaders that Mr. Tom L.
Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland, is out
of the race for the Democratic nom
inafion for President, but It seems
that such is not the case. The lead
ers of the Ohio Democrats are telling
him that he must accept the nomi
nation for Governor, and that he can
beat Mr. Herrick, the Republican
nominee, They point out that if he
beats Mr. Herrick he will have the
credit of having downed Senator Han
na. They argue that If he were in
a position to be pointed out as the
man who defeated Senator Hanna's
candidate, and hence SSrjator Hanna,
nothing could prevent him from get
ting the nomination of his party for
President.
There is no doubt that the repu
tation for having downed Senator Han
na would be a big advantage to him
in a campaign for the presidential
nomination, but he doesn’t feel quite
as confident of downing Senator Han
na as some of the Democratic lead
ers of Ohio do. He has not signified
his willingness yet to accept the nom
ination for Governor, if tendered him,
but there seems to be some ground
for thinking he will regard the prop
osition with favor.
Of course the Ohio Republicans
claim to feel absolutely certain that
they will elect their state ticket next
fall, and so they pretend not to care
whether the Democrats nominate
Mayor Johnson or not. Asa matter
of fact, however, they know that
Mayor Johnson is a very popular man
In Ohio, and that he would come
nearer being elected than any other
man the Democrats could name.
But what v'ould Mayor Johnson’s
chances be for the presidential nomi
nation if he were to be elected Gov
ernor of Ohio? They would be bet
ter no doubt than they are now, but
it Is doubtful if he could get the presi
dential nomination. He is too close
a friend of Mr. Bryan, and is in sym
pathy with the latter’s political views
to too great un extent to get the nomi
nation for President. It looks now as
tf the Democrats in their national con
vention next year would pass by any
candidate for the presidential nomina
tion who was in close sympathy with
either Mr. Cleveland or Mr. Bryan.
Mayor Johnson is, of course, a very
able man, but it is doubtful if he Is
the man the Democrats need to lead
them In the campaign for the presi
dency. He will have to wait a while
longer to have his ambition grati
fied.
FROM MESSENGER TO MANAGER.
There is inspiration for every boy
of ambition and brains in the story of
the earger of Alfred H. Smith, the new
general manager of the New' York Cen
tral Railroad. At the age of 39 he
has reached the top rounds of the rail
road ladder through sheer force of
character and ability. He wasn’t boost
ed, he climbed, from the very bottom.
The son of poor parents with a large
family. Smith had early to earn his
own living. He wasn't quite 14 years
old when he got a Job as office boy
and messenger in the office of the Lake
Shore road. In Cleveland; and he was a
good office boy and a prompt messen
ger. The floors were always swept
neatly, the messages were delivered
promptly and accurately, and Smith
never watched the clock for quitting
time. After nearly two years of this
w'ork, for the w*age of $4 a week, he
got an opportunity to join a gang of
trar;k laborers, at $1.50 a day. Young
as he was, he handled a sledge with
the best of the men, and was soon
able to drive a spike or “true up” a
rail a little better, a little quicker and
a little easier than any other man on
the gang. Meanw'hile he was filling
his head with information about prac
tical railroading. One day the super
intendent wanted some information
about a piece of repair work on the
line. Smith knew all about it, and ex
plained it so promptly and accurately
that he was promoted to be section
foreman, with a gang of his own. That
was probably the proudest day of his
life.
At that time, Mr. Smith says, he
had determined to learn all there was
to be know'n in the railroad business
and W'ork himself as near the top as
he possibly could. After remaining as
boss of the gang for some months he
went on the road as a brakeman,
changing over from the construction
to the operating department. His ad
vancement was steady, not by leaps
and bounds. He went through all of the
steps and mastered the details in each.
In turn he was brakeman, conductor,
telegraph operator, assistant dis
patcher, dispatcher, division su
perintendent and general super
intendent of the Lake Shore
with which corporation 'he remained
for nearly twenty-four years. After
the Park avenue tunnel disaster in
New York city In 1302 Mr. W. C. Brown
was put in charge of the operating de
partment of the Central, and he se
lected Mr. Smith to be his right-hand
man and general superintendent. So
efficient have been his services that he
has again been promoted to be general
manager of the greatest railrclad sys
tem in the United States and one of the
greatest in the world.
Among all of the sermons preached
in Northern pulpits last Sunday on the
lynching in Delaware, that of Rev. Dr.
George C. Lorimer, of the Madison
Avenue Baptist Church of New York,
comes nearest to hitting the mark.
“However much I may be opposed to
lynching,” he said, "the negroes must
be taught the true horror of these out
rages. The white man will not stand
these assaults." And it must be the
work of the better element among the
colored people to teach against the out
rages. The preachers, school teach
ers, editors and other leaders among
the blacks should organize a strong
crusade against crime, not against
lynching; that will take care of Itself.
It is simply a case of cause and effect.
Remove the cuuse, and the effect will
be removed.
Dr. George H. Powell of La Crosse,
Wis., proposes that burning at the
stake be made the legal penalty fort
crimes against women committed by
negroee. Dr. Powell is said to be an
Indian. He talks like one, at all
event*
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. JULY 1. 1903
IRRIGATIQN IX FLORIDA. :
We associate irrigation with that
section of the West that is arid and
for the reclamation of which the first
steps were taken by-the last Congress.
Irrigation is being practiced with great
success, however, in sections of the
country where there is a plentiful rain
fall, but where the rain does not al
w-ays come at the time it is wanted. In
Florida, for instance, there are many
irrigation plants, and the area that is
being subjected to irrigation is stead
ily Increasing. It would probably sur
prise those who have not given the
subject attention to know the extent
to which irrigation has been carried
in that state.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Commercial Bulletin
has summarized a recent report of a
census office expert on irrigation who
made a thorough study of the subject
as it presents itself in Florida. The
land that is irrigated there is far
more productive than that which is
not, the yield is much greater per
acre and the returns are so large that
the number of acres that is being irri
gated Is increasing with great rapid
ity. Asa matter of fact Florida is a
state that can be easily irrigated, be
cause It is so nearly level. The irri
gation is not, as a rule, by means of
ditches from the lakes and streams,
but from the straams and lakes by
means of steam pumps and windmills,
and by artesian wells. It does not cost
a great deal to sink a well, and one well
furnishes sufficient water to irrigate
five to ten acres. The artesian wells
flow naturally, and after they are sunk
it is only necessary to control the flow
from them.
Irrigation began in Florida soon aft
er the great freeze which destroyed
the orange groves. The people felt
they had to do something for a living
and so they turned their attention to
truck growing. They have had won
derful success. Of course all the
farms are not irrigated. Only
a small percentage of them are, but,
owing to the results obtained, the num
ber is increasing all the time —increas-
ing rapidly.
It would seem that there would be
no need for irrigation in Florida where
the rainfall is so heavy, but, as a
matter of fact, there are dry months,
and in some years during these months
actual drought prevails. Irrigation is
carried on extensively on the Island
of Terra Ola on the Gulf coast and in
Brevard county on the east coast. But
there are many localities In which it is
a success. At Sandford, particularly,
it has been made immensely profitable.
The following gives some idea of the
cost of it and the results:
The irrigation systems of Florida In
operation in 1902 cost $512,859, an aver
age of $136 per acre. There was also
reported twenty-five irrigation plants,
costing $26,658, that were not operated
in 1902. Since 1899 the number of irri
gators has increased from 180 to 405,
or 125 per cent. The area irrigated
has increase from 1,538 acres to 3,772
acres, or 145 per cent. The capital in
vested in irrigation systems has more
than doubled, while the total value of
irrigated Crops has increased from
$302,870’ t0'51,432,530.,: or 373 per cent.
During the same period the average
value per acre of irrigated crops has
increased from $204 to $432. The highest
value per acre of irrigated products is
reported from Manatee county, on
farms irrigated by windmills, steam
pumps and hydraulic rams. One of
these systems Is employed on two
acres of pot plants and nursery stock,
which are sold mainly to owners of
conservatories in the North. The value
of the products in 1902 is reported as
(30,000, or $15,000 per acre.
HANNA IS IN THE WAY.
Some of the Republican papers, the
New York Press for instance, think
that Senator Hanna is a burden to
the Republican party. If the Press
is sincere in what it says noth
ing would please it better than
for the Senator to join the so
cialists or start a party of his
own. The other day the Press suggest
ed that Senator Lodge be made the
chairman of the Republican National
Committee. Senator Lodge responded
by saying that Senator Hanna ought
to be kept at the head of the com
mittee. The Press answers that every
body except his admirers knows that
Senator Hanna did not assist in the
least in the election or re-election of
Mr. McKinley.
That is the first time probably that
it has been stated that he was not
the main support of Mr. McKinley-in
both of hs presidential campaigns.
Senator Hanna raised the money with
which the campaigns were conducted.
If it had not been for the money
which he raised and judiciously ex
pended it is probable that Mr. McKin
ley would have been beaten in 1896.
But the Press says that Senator
Hanna stands for the trusts, for boss
rule, for the use of money in elec
tions and about everything else w'hich
Mr. Roosevelt is against. It aii tms
is true Mr. Roosevelt is so very much
better than his party that its leaders
may decide to throw him over before
the meeting of the nominating con
vention. Just what his party is, is
evident from th results of the in
vestigations of the departments at
Washington.
Unless we are greatly mistaken the
New York Press and a few other
papers are alone in demanding that
Senator Hanna be removed from the
chairmanship of the Republican Na
tional Committee. He is a power in
the party, and it is pretty certain that
many of its influential leaders would
rather have hitn for their presidential
candidate than Mr. Roosevelt.
It is said that Gov. Pennyffacker of
Pennsylvania does not read the news
papers. That is easy to believe. Only
a short while ago, in justification of
his press-muzzler law, he said some
thing about people having been hung,
drawn and quartered a hundred years
ago for daring to criticize public of
ficials; which indicates that he is about
that far behind the times. But, if he
doesn't read the newspapers, somebody
might at least send him a calendar
so he could see what year it is he is
living in.
The New York Sun has an article
in which it refers to "former Gov.
Albion W. Tourgee of South Caro
lina.” South Carolina has many
things to answer for. it is true; but
not that, not tliaU
It was an intensely interesting, elo
quent and practical talk that Coi. Mer
cer, president of the Board of Educa
tion, gave to the graduating class at
the close of the exercises at the thea
ter last light. It was about homes, the
kind of homes that ought to be built
in this city, and about physical culture.
He declared it to be his opinion that by
intelligent exercise any woman could
make herself comely—could secure the
glossy hair, bright eyes, clear com
plexion and shapely figure so necessary
to beauty. Exercise would bring
health, and all the other things men
tioned would follow. It was, however,
to the description of the homes that
should be built here that most of Col.
Mercer’s brief talk was directed, and
his picture of the cottage with its set
ting of flowers, shrubbery and trees
was so vivid that the impression it
made upon the graduates and the au
dience will be a lasting one.
The Columbia State thinks Savan
nah is worried about Charleston’s
prize big ship, the Rancagua, which
is alleged to have gone into that port
“drawing 27 feet and with four feet
under her keel.’’ No, friend; not In
the least worried; only amused. The
bright young man from the interior
who reported the arrival of the Ran
cagua probably saw the depth marks
on the rudder post and thought the
one highest out of the water stood
for the draught of the craft. The
Register gives the tannage of that
prize ship as 3,873. Sdvannah has 5,-
000-ton steamships —regular liners at
that—in and out of the port almost
every day, and all loaded to their
capacity with merchandise. There will
be much more than four feet of water
under the keel of the Rancagua when
she goes out, to get a cargo at Nor
folk.
The movement of raw cotton from
New England mills back to the South
continues. Lowell mills last week ship
ped 8,000 bales to New Orleans, and
it is expected that other shipments
will be made this week from Fall river
and Providence to the same city. Mill
men are talking about shutting down
for a time. Some of the mills, in
deed, are already idle because of the
high price of cotton. British mills, too,
are beginning to feel the pressure
keenly, and practically every mill in
South Lancashire is on the verge of
a temporary suspension of operations.
To-day is July 1, and Saturday is the
Fourth. On Sunday and Monday many
parents will regret that they did not
heed the warning, which we now give
them, to keep dangerous explosives
out of the hands of their children.
During next week the news columns
will tell nfany stories of accidents,
deaths and cases of lock-jaw from
Fourth of July explosions. In New
York and Philadelphia the hospitals
are laying in extra supplies of tetanus
■antitoxin, in anticipation of Fourth of
July accidents. They know they will
need it. i
Pittsburg has a unique Irish society,
called the "Sons of One
of the fundamental reties of the or
der is that each and every member
hjust bear the name of Patrick. About
forty Patricks signed the application
for incorporation.
PERSONAL.
—George Madison Randolph, a lineal
descendant of Pocahontas and the Ran
dolphs, lives in ySt. Louis. He claims
to be seventh In descent from the fam
ous Indian maiden by her marriage
with John Rolfe.
—Dr. Milo Roy Baltbie, secretary of
the Municipal Art Commission of New
York city, has been instructed by the
commissioners to spend July and Au
gust in Europe on municipal business
and to visit thirteen cities and pur
chase maps, plans and illustrated ma
terial.
—Carrie Jennings, an Oklahoma City
girl, is to have a great celebration of
her twentieth birthday, which comes
on July 4. She is the daughter of a
Scotch father and an English mother
and was born on an English vessel
flying the American flag while cross
ing the Irish sea.
—Judge Harlan and wife of Savan
nah, Mo., aged 88 and 81 respectively,
are on a tour of Ohio and Indiana vis
iting relatives and friends whom they
have not seen for many years. The
judge claims to be about the oldest
living ex-congressman, having repre
sented an Indiana district in the ear
ly ’4o’s.
CTRKENT COMMENT.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
(Dem.) says; "There is a hat trust as
well as a steel trust, 6r at least there
is a trade agreement among the lead
ing manufacturers by which the prices
of hats, bonnets and hoods, are put up
about 66 2-3 per cent, above what an
imported article w'ould sell for. A hat
that costs $5 all over the United States
at retail is matched by an equally guuu
article sold in Canada at $3, and so on
and so on. On all articles of clothing
the robbery is stupendous, and the
clothing trade comes next to the steel
and iron in value."
The Hartford (Conn.) Times (Dem.)
says; "Where vote buying is open and
incessant at all elections as in Dela
ware and Rhode Island, the negro
voter naturally learns to regard him
self as above and out of the reach of
the law. The effect of Addicksism has
undoubtedly been most demoralizing
upon the people of both races In Dela
ware. If the existing demoralization In
that state is to be cured, the first thing
to be done is to deprive the boss cor
ruptionist of the favor which he now
enjoys from the leaders of the Repub
lican party in Washington.”
The New York Herald (Dem.) says;
"If Gov. Cummins had invented the
lowa idea he and the trust agents
might make it over to suit themselves
without interference from anybody
else. But it w'as the people of the
Northwest who became convinced by
the pressure of inexorable facts that
the tariff needed revision. Gov. Cum
mins and his friends told them that
this revision could be accomplished by
the Republican party. The stand-pat
ters' say it will not be. Whether they
are right or Cummins is right, or both
sides are right. Is a matter that con
cerns chiefly the Republican organi
zation. The people of the Northwest
will continue to recognize facts; they
will continue to demand relief from
oppressive trade restrictions, especial
ly on the Canadian border, and if the
Republican party will not give them
that relief they will turn to a party
that will. The Democratic Convention
in lowa gave the idea it? vital form
in calling for 'the removal of the tariff
from all trust-made goods,' and for 'a
tariff for revenue only.' ”
The Don’ager a Favorite.
The Dowager Czarina is a great fa
vorite in Russia, says an exchange.
Among other stories illustrating her
character is this: She saw on her hus
band’s fable a document regarding a
political prisoner. On the margin Alex-,
ander 111. had written: "Pardon im
possible; to be sent to Siberia." The
Czarina took up the pen, and, striking
out the semi-colon after "impossible, '
put it before the word. Then the in
dorsement read, "Pardon; impossible
to be sent to Siberia." The Czar let it
stand.
netter Lost Year.
The story is told of a Scotch
preacher who gave his people long,
strong sermons, and delivered them
in a remarkably deliberate manner,
says the Youth's Companion. One
Sunday he asked a friend who was
visiting him to occupy 'his pulpit in
the morning.
"An’ were you satisfied wi my
preaching?” asked his friend, as they
walked home from the kirk.
“VVeel,” said the host, slowly, “it
was a fair discoorse, Will’m, a fair
discoorse; but it pained me at the
last to see the folk looking sae fresh
and wide awake. I mistrust ’twasna
sae long nor sae sound as it should
hae been.”
M. De Blowitm’ Heal Name.
“Observer” gives his account of “the
mysterious M. de Blowitz” in West
minster Review:
His original name was Opper, and
not Blowitz. Blowitz was the name
of the townlet in Bohemia where he
was born. Opper, Oppert and Opp are
various forms of a Jewish name which
at first was Oppenheimer; that is, a
man from Oppenheim, in Rhenish
Hesse. It has been the frequent habit
of Germans of Hebrew descent to as
sume towns’ names.
When taking up his abode in France
Opper soon called himself “Opper de
Blowitz.” This might mean either a
person of aristocratic descent or one
that hails from a town called Blowitz.
The transition to "M. Blowitz” was
then easy enough.
After becoming a convert to Roman
’Catholicism under the Second French
Empire, he received, through episco
pal intercession, the regular govern
mental permission to change his name
of Opper into that of "De Blowitz.”
Henceforth, dropping his pre-name,
which is said to have been Abraham,
he, in apparently high aristocratic fash,
ion, used no Christian name at all, but
.was from then figuring hefore the
world, is simple grandeur, as Mons.
de Blowitz.
Her Ingenious Excuse.
There is a very black cook in an up
town family wno is death and destruc
tion to fine china and cut glass, says
tiie Baltimore News. Every day some
one of the treasures of the mistress of
the house falls ‘a victim to the care
lessness of this vandal.
But she always has an excuse ready
when wrath is about to fall on her
head. You see, almost all of the things
that the woman has broken have been
heirlooms, pieces which have come to
the family from relatives who are now
dead. Therefore, when a dish is brok
en, and the mistress remonstrates, the
first thing the cook is, "Didn't
that berry dish belong to yo’ mother
in-law, Mis’ Smith?”
Nine times out of ten “Mis’ Smith”
is forced to say yes.
‘ 'Cose it done broke, den, ’ declares
the sable maid. "Dere ain’t no use
trying to keep anything dat belonged
to daid people. I done tole yo’ dat.
Daid people’s things break w’eii dere
ain’t nobody nt‘ar dem. Jus’ fall, to,
pieces of demselfs. ’Clare to you’, Mis’
Smith, ef yo’ would offah me yo’ moth
er-in-law's black silk dress w'at yo’
got upstairs I wouldn’t take it. Hit
wouldn't las’ no time, an’ it would be
bad luck, besides. I’m sorry 'bout the
cut-glass berry dish, sure, but dere’s
no use tryin’ to keep daid folks' t’ings,
-I tells yo’ now.”
And if that isn't an excuse as in
genious as it is superstitious, then
whUt is it? Still, when Dinah was
finally made to pay for the things she
broke it was quite remarkable how
much longer the articles which had
been owned by the late Mrs. Smith
lasted than they had before this new
rule went into effect.
Dreams.
Prom the San Francisco Bulletin.
Somehow when my eyes are drowsy
and the embers nearly dead—
When the night has drawn its curtains
and the world has gone to bed,
Somehow something stirs within me
that I never knew was there,
And my mind goes wand’ring back
ward over pathways that are
bare;
Over pathways dim and ghostly, lead
ing back and ever back,
Through the land of tribulation where
the clouds are thick and black,
Till they bring me to the region where
the 6kies are blue at last,
And I breathe again the glories of the
old davs that are past.
Then I drink the lazy lotus and forget
the cruel scars,
For my soul has traveled backward
and has burst away it bars;
Health is with me: wealth and honor
just a little way ahead.
And to mar the bright illusion comes
no spectre of the dead—
Comes no pale and ghastly Banquo to
appal the marriage feast.
For the sun of youth and hope is rising
redly in the east,
And the baldric of Ambition ’round the
universe is cast,
As I breathe the early glory of the old
days that are past.
Were they days, or wro they mo
ments—all the hours that lie be
tween?
All the sorrow and the heartache ot
the years that intervene?
Did I dream that weary Journey
through the burden of the day,
Till my anxious eyes were dimming
and my head wds turning gray?
Oh, the folly of such dreaming! for X
tread again the fields
Where the very air around a thou
sand inspirations yields;
And one well-remembered joy upon an
other follows fast.
As I gaze into the faces of the ola
days that are past.
Ah, when Memory comes tenderly and
takes you by the hand,
When she leads you gently Youthward
to some half-forgotten land,
Can you tell me of some magic which
shall make forever seem
All that sweet, entrancing vision which
perchance is but a dream?
Can you paint the hues of Springtime
on the wintry sky of Age?
Stop the gliding of dread fingers oe’r
Time’s hieroglyphic page?
Oh, for some divine magician who
could make those visions last,
When I roam across the meadows of
the old days that are past!
But, alas, a clangor wakes me! 'Tls
the solemn midnight chime,
Sounding like the sickle ringing at the
feet of Father Time;
Cold and dead the blackened embers
fall and crumble in the grate.
An epitome of life —for it grows late,
ah, very late!
Gone the bright, alluring visions, Hke
the embers’ cheerful glow
Which goes down into the darkness
that some day I, too, shall know!
Then again Oblivion’s mantle o'er the
restrospect Is cast.
And I bid farewell forever to the old
(lays that are pasts, ........
—Lowell O. Reese.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—ln attacking Mr. Chamberlain in a
speech before the Primitive Methodist
Conference the other, day at Newcastle
on-Tvne, England, the Rev. A. T. Gut
teiry of Newcastle defined the present
policy of the British government as a
"relgri of blood, beer, and Birming
ham.”
—George Kettler, an aged cobbler,
died recently at Argentine, Kan., and
was once said to be worth $12,000,000.
He was a German, and during the
Franco-Prussian war owned big shoe
factories in Hanover, making a great
fortune from government contracts.
Later he lost everything in speculation,
and came to this country penniless.
—Following a long period of unus
ually wet and sultry weather, a plague
of mosquitoes is reported in Paris. It
is said that the ornamental, but stag
nant or sluggish, ponds have something
to do with the situation, which is ren
dering mosquito nets necessary in
many houses. Many remedies have
been suggested—from filling up the
ponds to poisoning the water.
—A married couple named Luxwold
er-Van Dort, has just been celebrating
the seventy-fourth anniversary of their
marriage in Langezwaag, Prussia.
The husband is 97 years of age
and his wife 91. At the celebration,
the 'husband, who, as well as his wife,
is in good health, made a little speech,
in which he told his guests that he
and his wife had agreed to live to
be a century old.
—An anonymous but fortunate writer
is sought through the medium of the
following advertisement in a recent is
sue of the London Athenaeum: “To
Poets. Notice. If the writer of a
poem, entitled ‘Red Rose,’ which is pub
lished at the Sign of the Unicorn to
day, will send his Name and Address
to the Publishers, he will receive by
return of post a cheque for Fifty
Pounds. The Unicorn Press, Ltd.”
—ln spite of the ineffectual attempts
made by agents of the late King Alex
ander of Servia to irtsure his life in
Paris and London a few weeks before
his death, it seems that both the King
and Queen Draga were really insured
for 2,000,000, with a Belgian and a
Dutch insurance company. Half of the
sum will go to Queen Draga’s surviving
sisters, and the remainder to ex-Queen
Natalie, who is legal heiress to her
son.
—A Moscow dentist has invented a
system whereby false teeth can be
made to grow into the gums as firmly
as natural ones. After a few months’
use it is just as hard to extract them
as it is to dislodge the genuine molar,
made on the premises. Soon, possibly,
this tooth grafting Muscovite will
achieve, suggests the London Globe,
that giddiest hight to which the den
tist can soar, the manufacture of false
teeth that ache.
—A recent leading article in the only
paper printed on the Napoleonic Rock
advocates the conversion of St. Hele
na into a sort of penal settlement as
the only mode of salvation. St. Hele
na had an extraordinary boom of pros
perity during the South African war,
when thousands of Boer prisoners were
isolated there. Now there is no mar
ket for the local beef and vegetables,
and the agriculturists are in despair.
"Their lands are full of weeds; their
gardens unplanted.”
—The number of bicycles in France
last year was 1,250,000, or ten times
more than in 1595. Roughly speaking,
the number of bicycles has increased
•by 125,000 annually for some years. The
last census showed 6,000 automobiles,
half of them with two places and the
rest with four or more places. Bicycles
and automobiles are most numerous in
the Department of the Seine, especially
around Paris, but they are plentiful in
all the North of France and down the
Valley of the Rhone and along the
Mediterranean.
—Gen. O’Connor, who seems to be
bent on carving out for France anew
colony in Morocco, made his military
debut in the corps of guides which
distinguished itself in the battles be
fore Metz in the Franco-Prussian war.
During the second siege of Paris,
brought about by the Commune, he
was Aide de Camp to Gen. de Gallif
fet, who was the first Minister of
War under the recent Waldeck-Rous
seau administration. He has also
campaigned in Tunis and commanded
the cavalry in Tonkin.
—Lord Grimthorpe, who was 87 the
other day,' has the double distinction of
being King Edward's oldest counsel
and our only peer clockmaker, says
London Tit Bits. He spends most of
his time at Batch Wood, near St. Al
bans. in a workshop fitted up with
every mechanical appliance known in
the clockmaker’s trade. He is the de
signer of Big Ben at Westminster, and
personally superintended the great
clock’s construction, giving a guaran
tee that it should never vary more
than sixty seconds in a week.
—The English railways are about to
devise a plan by which the loss of
baggage in transit may be reduced to
a minimum. In England there has
hitherto been no adequate system of
registering baggage, so that if the
piece is stolen and replaced by an
other the loss is not discovered until
the owner attempts to identify what
he does not recognize. In the first
quarter of the present year the French
railway companies paid no less than
9,000f. as reimbursement to clients from
whom packages had been stolen.
—ln Norway drunkenness is punished
hy imnrisnnrnent . As Soon as a m°o
is incarcerated the delinquent has a
loaf and wine morning and evening.
The bread is served in a wooden bowl
full of wine, in which it has been soak
ing for an hour. The first day the
drunkard swallows his allowance will
ingly enough. The second day it seems
less pleasing. At the end of eight or
ten days prisoners have been known
to abstain altogether from the food
thus pitilessly presented. This course
of treatment finished, the drunkard,
except in rare instances, is radically
cured.
—Dr. Grenier, the French Islamite,
who was the Mussulman Deputy for
the Doubs, has been found by a Paris
ian in his native Pontarlier, whither
he retired alter his defeat at the gen
eral elections. He is practicing his
profession there, where he has opened
a dispensary for the poor. Has dis
carded his Oriental garb, but still goes
about trying to make converts to the
faith of the Prophet, and reads the
Koran to the country people whom he
meets on his rambles around Porttar
lier. While in Paris the doctor used to
perform his abltitions in the Seine,
near the Chamber of Deputies.
—The Negro Development and Expo
sition Company of the United States is
to be chartered in Richmond, Va., with
an authorized capital stock of $1,000,000,
to arrange an immense exhibit at the
Jamestown Exhibition of the progress
of the colored race since 1566. The com
pany purposes to erect a large build
ing on the grounds of the Jamestown
Exposition, and suggests that each
state in the Union shall have depart
ments for its exhibits. The presidency
has been offered to Booker T. Wash
ington, but if he cannot accept, then
John H, Smythe of Hanover, Va., for
merly Minister to Liberia, and now
president of the Negro Reformatory,
will be made president.
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