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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with fresh
west winds. Eastern Florida fair
weather, with fresh northwest winds.
An exchange suggests that “Panama
nians" be amended to read “Panameri
cans." That certainly sounds better.
But hadn't we better wait until after
the election?
The revolutionists of San Domingo,
having set up a provisional govern
ment, are denied recognition by the
government of the United States.
These revolutionists haven’t got any
thing we want.
Mr. Cleveland's latest ‘‘no”ought to
be considered as conclusive. The
Brooklyn Eagle accepts it as final
and will cease to urge his nomination.
Now, let’s all get together on Gorman
and sweep the country next fall.
Discussing the Texas boll weevil the
other day. Congressman Overstreet re
marked to a group of his fellow-mem
bers: ".Nature should have a method
of exterminating the evil; usually you
will find that nature provides a rem
edy for all pests.” Whereupon a Dem
ocrat retorted: “Then, what about
Grosvenor of Ohio?” Wherein he illus
trated the fact that there are excep
tions to all rules.
It appears, according to the state
ment of Tracy Robinson, an American
resident of Panama, that the revolu
tion on the isthmus was a financial
victory. In a sense. There was no
fighting following the announcement of
the secession of Panama because the
■Colombian soldiers In that department
were paid money to go home without
making trduble. The money, it seems,
was raised in New York, and when
the handful of Colombian troops in
Panama left the isthmus they carried
with them SB,OOO of the revolutionists’
gold.
It is extremely difficult to induce a
New England newspaper to look on
both sides of a question where a black
man is concerned. Naturally, it seems,
the New England mind seeks to find
the black man a martyr and the white
man a merciless tyrant. That is the
position of the Springfield (Mass.) Re
publican in considering the recent peon
age cases before the United States
court in this city. Referring to the
fact that negroes were held for debts
by white men, it says: "Surely we are
not expected to include these (white
men) among the very best friends the
negro has in the United States, and
the ones best able to deal with the race
question.” No attention whatever is
paid to the facts that the peonage cases
were reported by Southern white men,
who insisted that the practice should
be stopped; that the court was pre
sided over by a Southern white man,
who imposed heavy fines on the de
fendants, and that the jury that would
have tried the cases, had they come to
trial on their merits, would have been
composed of Southern white men. The
white men who moved to lay the hands
of the law heavily upon the shoulders
of those who were illegally using the
negroes are certainly deserving of
credit and should be numbered among
the negro’s sincere friends.
PROFESSIONALISM IN SPORTS.
Professionalism in college sports has
been a subject of discussion for many
years. It seems, however, to be re
ceiving more attention this year than
before. College presidents and leading
writers on sporting topics have taken
the matter up and are endeavoring to
find a remedy for the evil; that it is
an evil is admitted on all sides. Presi
dent Eliot, of Harvard, writing of
football, said recently that the ethics
of war governed the game, generally
speaking. Another high college official
said that many modern college sports
were characterized by “professional
ism, trickery and commercialism.” The
spirit of the competing teams is too
frequently to “win at all hazards,’’
rather than to win on merit. It is
charged that there are college coaches
who deliberately instruct the players
in tricks by which to "lay out” their
opponents, and that those who be
come known as "star” players are the
men who are most successful in "lay
ing out” the men against whom they
play most directly. Caspar Whitney,
the sports writer, excoriates the "dirty
and contemptible” methods that are
frequently resorted to by players in
football games, such as falling with
stiffened knees on a man who is down,
driving the knee into a man's groin,
driving him in the throat with the el
bows, and knocking him on the head
when he is down in the skirmishes. "I
know of teams.” says Whitney, “that
are coached and entreated by the
coaches to ‘lay out' their opponents.
These are not casual cases nor widely
separated cases; it is almost the rule
to coach a man to put out his vis-a
vis.”
How is the practice to be stopped?
The adoption of rules merely will not
do it. Year after year rules have been
adopted designed to cut out profession
alism and brutality, but they have
been more honored in the breach than
the observance. There is always found
a way around, in favor of the player
who is really desired. Unless a player
is "caught with the goods on” it is
difficult to prove professionalism
against him, and “accident” is a word
that covers a multitude of sins. The
only hope, it would seem, lies in arous
ing a true spirit of sportsmanship in
the players and teams; a spirit of jus
tice and fairness that would despise
bushwhacking and brutality. The
thrill of pleasure that comes With vic
tory in honest contest fairly won is
the very soul of true sport.
A CONSUMPTION Cll.df
The American consul at Moscow
sends an interesting and possibly im
portant communication to this govern
ment. It is to the effect that a Rus
sian engineer has brought from the
mines of Siberia a specific for con
sumption. The story goes that the
specific was discovered by an ignorant
miner; that the miner had successfully
treated a considerable number of cases
of consumption, and that upon his
death he bequeathed the recipe to the
engineer, iwho had been his friend and
benefactor. Our consul ait Moscow says
he has given considerable attention to
the matter and has faith in the claims
of the engineer as to the efficiency of
the remedy. The nature of the medi
cine and of the treatment are not dis
closed, but it is intimated that the
world will shortly be given the benefit
of the discovery, which, if it will do
what is claimed for it, will prove one
of the greatest boons ever vouchsafed
the human family.
There is only a slender peg on which
to hang the hope that the cure for con
sumption has been found. It seems
hardly reasonable to suppose that an
ignorant delver in the mines of Siberia
accidentally hit upon the thing for
which the veiry best trained medical
minds of the world have been search
ing for so many years. And yet the
history of medicine is full of incidents
not less romantic than this narrative
from Moscow; several Important
treatments and medicines have been
developed from unmedical sources.
Jenner is credited with having intro
duced vaccination in England; but it
is also claimed that he was largely in
fluenced to that end by the observa
tions of Lady 'Mary Montagu in Con
stantinople while 'her husband was
ambassador there. The lady knew
nothing of medical practice, yet she
was, in a way, the means of causing
the great Jenner to make the experi
ments that have proved of inestimable
value to civilization. It was a woman,
too, who first introduced quinine into
Europe. She was the Countess Chin
chon, wife of the Viceroy of Peru, who
had been cured of a fever by the use
of a powder made from cinchona bark.
This .was in 1639. Later some Jesuit
priests who had been missionaries to
Peru carried some of the powder to
Rome, where it was employed with suc
cess in the treatment of fevers. For a
number of years the orthodox phy
sicians of the period declined to have
anything to do with the powder, while
the Protestant Church utterly repudi
ated it. The dispensing of the powder,
or quinine, was thus left in the hands
of Jesuit priests for nearly forty years,
until Robert Talbot, an English apoth
ecary, took up the new drug and by
the use of it gained himself knighthood
and appointment as court physician to
Charles 11. From the time of Talbot’s
success the popularity of quinine was
assured, and to-day It is universally
used.
In view of these Incidents in the his
tory of medicine, and others of the
same general character, it would not
be wise to pooh-pooh the idea of a con
sumption c-ure coming out of the em
pirical practice of an ignorant Siberian
miner. Stranger things have hap
pened.
Last Thursday was peculiarly a
cooks’ holiday in Philadelphia. It
seems that in that city Thursday is
the regular (fay off for cooks, and
that they refused to modify their
"rights" because it chanced that a great
feast day fell upon that time. There
was a good deal of discussion about
the Thanksgiving dinner, but the cooks
delivered their ultimatum that they
would either have their regular (fay off
or they would quit altogether, and the
housewives had to give in.
Meanwhile Gen. Leonard Wood pro
ceeds peacefully with the business of
killing Moros.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1903.
MICROBES.
The yme is in the memory of per
sons not yet old when mention of
"microbes" would send the average
listener to the dictionary to ascertain
what the word meant. But it is not
so now. Even the children in their
nurseries are able to discuss microbes
and warn each other against coming
in contact with them. Modern medi
cal science has "put us next" to the
fact that there are countless millions
of little organisms floating in, the air,
swimming in the milk, swinging on
beards and even clinging to ruby and
kissable lips, ready to do their -worst
to those who neglect to sterilize every
thing they touch. We are told that
the street cars, the theater, the church,
the streets, the railway cars, are breed
ing places of germs; that cats carry
diphtheria, flies carry typhus and mos
quitoes yellow fever. At every turn
there is danger of infection from the
little “bugs" of something or other.
"Microbes snatch at. us from around
every corner,” says Eugene Wood in
Everybody's Magazine. "We can get
on the good side of a dog by patting
his head, and we can please the cat
by scratching her under the chin (if
she doesn’t scratch first). We can
tame other animals by giving them
food or by putting the weight of our
hand on ‘them. If they won’t be pet
ted or tamed, we can pick up a rock
and let them have it between the eyes.
But when a creature has no tail to
wag and nothing to purr with, how
can we pet It? How can we, without
getting a crick in the neck, stoop down
far enough to say ‘Pretty microbe!'
to something that is to us as a grain
of sand is to Mount Blanc? If it comes
to exterminating them, what chance
have we with a creature that every
two hours breaks into two pieces, each
of which is a perfect organism, ready
in another two hours to break in two
again, and each of these halves to
break in another two hours, and so on
and so on until in three days the pro
geny of one single bacterium numbers
4,772 billions? Nobody can keep up
with that rate of increase. Of all the
discoveries made by science it seems
to me that the most disheartening is
the discovery of germs.”
Our grandparents did not know about
these things. They kissed and were
kissed; they danced, and rode in pub
lic conveyances, and sat with the sick,
and fondled their pets in blissful ig
norance of the horned and horrid lit
tle creatures that surrounded them on
all sides, and then lived to green old
ages. Without knowledge of either ap
pendicitis or bacilli, they feared neith
er and grew old gracefully. Their
peace of mind was not destroyed
whenever they came into the presence
of a person with a cough; the buzz of
a fly or the hum of a mosquito did
not conjure up visions of millions of
wriggling things seeking an entrance
to their veins to destroy their life's
blood. Now it is different. We are
germ-wise. But are we happier or
healthier? The development of t'he
germ theory was doubtless a good thing
from the standpoint of medical science.
But wouldn't it have been a good idea
for the doctors to keep their informa
tion to themselves? They have given
the laymen Just enough information to
make them uneasy, and frequently
foolish.
ALL THINGS ELECTRICITY.
All of the old theories of chemistry
are based on the assumption that ele
ments are constant and that one ele
ment cannot change into another. But
now, it seems, radium is about to up
set that theory. Sir William Ramsay
of London announced a few days ago
that he had watched radium change
Into helium of its own accord and
without assistance. Radium is con
stantly giving off minute particles.
These first take the form of a heavy
gas, which can be collected in flasks
and measured and weighed. Sir Wil
liam collected some of the gas which,
in about twenty days Changed into
helium. This, he explained, was an
“actual transmutation of one element
into another. In which the ancient al
chemists believed when they tried to
change lead into gold.’’ Commenting
on the discovery of Sir William, the
London Daily Mail says: “It is as
though gold were to change into iron
of its own accord and completely up
set the laws of the old chemistry. No
wonder that..with this amazing fact
before them scientists are hopeful of
reading the riddle of the universe.
They are now inclining more and more
to the belief that all things are elec
tricity in different forms and in vary
ing combinations, and that in this mys
terious force, which we use every day,
but which we cannot satisfactorily ex
plain, is the solution of the great prob
lem which has tasked mankind for
centuries.”
The despised sage brush of the West
ern plains and foothills may, after
all, solve the problem of a rubber sup
ply. While the demand for rubber
has been increasing steadily for a
nurhber of years, owing to its use for
•tires on automobiles, bicycles, etc.,
the supply Was been dropping off, with
the consequence that prices have been
high and scientists have been racking
their brains to find a satisfactory sub
stitute for It. It is said that a min
ing prospector, lost in the mountains of
Southern Colorado, was reduced to the
extremity of chewing the roots of the
sage brush to sustain life. Being some
thing of a chemist, the chewing of
the roots attrticted his attention to a
gummy substance In them and he de
termined to ascertain the nature of it
and whether or not it was good for
anything. His investigations showed
that in the sage brush roots growing
at a high altitude there was some
think like 25 per cent, of commer
cial rubber. He formed a company,
which Was set up a plant, and now good
rubber is being made from the hitherto
hated shrub. The supply of sage brush
containing rubber is said to be almost
exhaustless.
The Manufacturer’s Record publishes
statistics to show that the South is
now actually producing in the neigh
borhood of 40 per cent, of the total
exports of the country, although it
embraces but about 30 per cent, of the
total area of the country and contains
less than one-third of the population.
The murderous young villains, Van
Dine, Neidermeier and Rosskie, who
were run down and captured by
the Chicago authorities after they had
killed half a dozen or so persons and
committed several robberies, deserve
not the slightest particle of sympathy
if half that is charged against them is
correct. And yet it is practically cer
tain that a web of romance will be
woven about their deeds that wdll make
heroes of them, and they will have the
sympathies of numerous more or less
hysterical women. It is unfortunate
for the country that crimes such as
these men have been guilty of are not
shown up in their hideousness, instead
of being treated as if they were of the
realm of romance.
"Prince Cupid,” the new Republican
delegate from Hawaii in Congress,
gives promise of becoming an ornament
to his party. He has the right party
spirit, as was evidenced a day or two
ago. A friend said to him in the lobby
of a Washington hotel: "You people
do not seem to be accomplishing much
in the extra session.” "No," said
"Prince Cupid,” "we are not passing
many laws, but look at the mileage
some of us draw!” Who could doubt
after this that he is a coming Repub
lican politician?
John W. Book waiter of Ohio is Mr.
Bryan's latest suggestion for the Dem
ocratic presidential nomination. Mr.
Bookwalter is a free silverite and has
written a book on the subject. Mr.
Bookwalter is worth about $8,000,000,
which he made in building small steam
engines for plantation and similar
work.
PERSONAL.
—The Duchess of Bedford is the pro
prietor of a skating rink in London,
which is one of the most fashionable
afternoon haunts in the English me
tropolis. The Duchess herself is in
daily attendance and an enthusiastic
skater.
—William H. Eustis of Minneapolis
is being urged as a candidate for
Governor of Minnesota by his friends.
He has thus far refused to give his
consent, but it is thought probable
that if the delegation from his own
county is united in his support he will
be found in the running.
—This is one of the favorite sayings
of President Diaz of Mexico: “A strong
personal government is necessary for
a Latin race.” That is what he has
always aimed to give the people of
Mexico. Another of his sayings is.
“The strongest alliance I know of is a
commercial alliance,”
—To honor the memory of Emilio
Castelar, the celebrated Republican or
ator and former President of the Span
ish republic, his friends intend to
raise a monument to him at Madrid.
Subscriptions for this purpose have
been received from all quarters of Eu
-1 ope, Mexico, Cuba and several coun
tries of South America.
BRIGHT* HITS.
Booker—“I see, a Western Shaks
pere*an scholar has revived that old
discussion about Bacon. What do you
think about it?” Rooder—"Well, all I
know is that we have to pay 18 cents
a pound now for the same stuff we
used to get for 12. "—Philadelphia Led
ger.
—Ethel—.“l can’t decide which of
them to accept.” ' Kate—“ Why, that
ought to be e“asy.” Ethel—“l know,
but you see, Jack;, always gives me
roses, and Reggie always gives me
violets, and the florist tells me they
cost exactly the same price.’’—Cincin
nati Commercial-Tribune.
—Mrs. Suddenrich: I never heard no
such way of talkin’ as you’ve got into
at boardin’ school.
Daughter: I’ve learned to speak as
the teachers do.
Mrs. Suddenrich: Well, Jus’ drop it
Them poverty-stricken hirelings don’t
move in our set.—New York Weekly.
—The speeding trains came together
with a dull, sickening thud. A mo
ment later the happy pair sat facing
each other in the corn field, far away.
“Well, what are you crying for?” ask
ed the man.
The lady wept anew.
"It—it ls our first falling out,” she
sobbed.—Cincinnati Commercial-Trib
une.
CURRENT COMMENT,
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
(Dem.) says: "If the Moros will keep
busy for a little while longer perhaps
all of this talk about Maj. Gen. Wood's
inexperience will have to be stopped
In these piping times of peace it is
something even for a corps commander
to slay seventy-five men. The Senate
will doubtless take note of this latest
achievement of American arms, and
assess the credit that is due to so dis
tinguished an example of what an un
tried soldier can do on occasion.”
The New York World (Dem.) says:
"Mr. Bryan now presents to the De
mocracy as an ideal standard-bearer
Mr. John W. Bookwalter, one of the
noble army of Democratic candidates
for Governor of Ohio, and one who en
joys the additional distinction of not
having been beaten as badly as Tom
Johnson. There is inspiration in the
name of Bookwalter. It would thrill the
marching hosts of Democracy. At least
it would thrill them more than the
name of the Hon. "Gumshoe Bill"
Stone of the baking powder trust
whose portrait was the first in Mr!
Bryan’s gallery of presidential avail
abilities.”
The Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.)
says: "If all tha Democrats of the
Southern States Will unite in a grand
effort for old-time Democracy they can
plant a sound man on a sound plat
form, and with the hearty indorsement
such a ticket would get from conserva
tive citizens everywhere we believe
that success is more than probable. If,
however, the Southern wing of the
party goes to the convention divided,
or if, God forbid! there should still be
a determination to cling to the un-
Democratic theories which have twice
defeated us, then and in that case it
were infinitely better for us to keep
our mouths shut and let the Demo
crats of the North and East name both
candidates and platform.’’
The Albany (N. Y.) Argus (Dem.)
says: "If President Roosevelt is to be
the Republican candidate, whatever his
strength in the jack-rabbit states, New
York Democrats need not fear him.
Fresh from the gory hights of Kettle
Hill, touring the state in his Rough
Rider regimentals, he won for Gover
nor by only 17,000 plurality, and was a
minority Governor, as the vote shows.
That year (Roosevelt Governor year)
Albany county gave a Democratic
plurality. With Roosevelt heading the
ticket, the Democrats of this county
swept the deck, and everybody knows
that the causes, which lost us the state
in 1898, were not the strength or the
popularity of Theodore Roosevelt, in
this conservative and sensible old
commonwealth.” •
A Lost Opportunity.
"This," said the genie, "is a magic
ring. Rub it and you can have any
thing you want.” ,
"Do tell!" said the merchant, accord
ing to the New York Times. "I think
I’ll rub it and wish to have a lot of
such rings. Then I’ll start a jewelry
store, and I’ll get all sorts of prices
for my goods because anybody who
buys will be able to rub a ring and
get his money back.”
“All right,” said the genie. “It’s up
to you.”
And he vanished.
About six months later the genie
called around ae’ain. The merchant
had opened a magnificent store, which
was filled with rings. But there were
no customers in sight.
“How is business?” asked the genie.
"Dead slow,” replied the merchant.
“Nobody will buy—don’t want to pay
the prices. Very few people come in,
and those who do look at me, when I
tell them about these rings, as sus
piciously as if I were offering them
something in the line of common or
preferred stock. I can’t do any bus
iness. In fact, I have to rub these
rings to pay the rent. I don’t under
stand it. The country is prosperous,
but there seems to be a want of con
fidence.”
"Do you advertise?" asked the genie.
“N—no, I didn’t think it was neces
sary.”
"Chump!” exclaimed the genie fierce
ly. “How do you expect to do busi
ness if you don’t advertise? What is
the use of giving a magic ring to a
fool like you?”
And before the merchant had time to
rub a ring and wish the genie corked
up in a bottle, the genie had snatched
a ring, rubbed it and wished for the
rest. Of course he got them, and the
upshot of it was that the merchant was
obliged to call a meeting of his credi
tors and persuade them to accept elev
en cents on the dollar.
Edmund Kirk mid Jell Davis.
The death of J. R. Gilmore, known
better perhaps by his nom de plume
of "Edmund Kirke,” calls up a story
about him and the President of the
Confederacy, says the New York Press.
Mr. Lincoln sent him and Col. Jaques
to the headquarters of the Confeder
ate government on a mission of peace
in 1864. While in conversation with
various officials, including Mr. Davis,
he overheard the latter quote incor
rectly a verse of whidh he himself was
the author. He Immediately correct
ed the President, who, quite naturally,
was dumfounded at the apparent ef
frontery of the envoy. “And how do
you know I am incorrect?” sternly
asked Davis. “I am the author of the
verse,” said Gilmore. Davis was much
impressed with the incident and de
clared himself as pleased to meet the
author, even though ihe was an enemy
of the South.
When the war broke out Gilmore was
A merchant doing a large trade with
Southern cities. He was heavily in
terested in shipping, his vessels ply
ing between New York and all ports
on the South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida coasts. One of his fastest
ships was the brig Echo, whidh, be
ing caught in one of those ports, was
captured by the Confederates and
christened the Jeff Davis. She was
the first privateer that preyed on
Northern commerce. The defeat of the
Confederacy, entailing the loss of for
tunes among Southern merchants deal
ing with Gilmore, so embarrassed ihim
that he laid aside his pen and engaged
in business to keep body and soul to
gether.
McKinley's I Mefillness.
Senator Frye was in a reminiscent
mood the other evening, and told me
of McKinley’s first appearance on the
floor of the House of Representatives,
says the National Magazine.
“He was genial, yet somewhat shy,"
said Senator Frye, "and when we drew
lots for seats he drew a very good
seat and I drew a poor one. The next
morning I found all his things in my
seat, and my books and papers had
been removed to the better seat that
he had drawn.
“ ‘How ls this. Major?' I asked;
‘there's some mistake.’
“ 'Not at all. Congressman,’ he re
plied, graciously; 'this seat belongs to
you.’
“ 'No, this will not do,’ I said: ‘you
drew this seat and I must insist upon
you keeping it.’
" 'Now, look here, Congressman,’ said
McKinley, ‘you have been here before
and you are likely to obtain the at
tention of the Chair and address the
House, while this is my first term, and
I am expected to do nothing but look
wise.’
“ ‘Yes, but the rules of the House?’
I replied.
“ ‘What are the rules of the House
between friends? You take the seat,’
was the answer of the future Presi
dent.”
Maj. McKinley never failed to win
friends wherever he went, and his
superb selfishness and goodness is a
treasured memory of all who knew
him.
Wanted u. Perfect Man.
We cull the following correspondence
from the pages of the Hardwareman,
says the London Standard. The owner
of the hardware shop in an American
town, who wants an assistant, thus
describes his requirements to a factor
in another city:
”He must be steady and sober-mind
ed. Must not drink, smoke or play
cards of any kind. Must be absolutely
truthful and be one who don't run
after the girls or don’t want to be out
evenings. He must be one who would
rather remain at home and read or
study. I would like him to be one who
would rather be with elderly people
than young ones. He must be of a
pleasant disposition; always courteous
and polite to me and my customer. One
who never becomes impatient or an
gry, and who never indulges in gos
sip or light talk. Who likes to go to
church twice on Sunday and to Sun
day-school once. Who don’t care for
holidays and who never dances. Who
is not engaged and don’t correspond
with young women. Who puts away a
little money each week, and don’t care
to spend much on clothes."
The factor’s answer*was brief and
to the point:
“I cannot find you a boy like that
here. There is only one place where
one can be found. That is in heaven."
“Sure Money.”
Fred Landis, the attenuated Hoosier
representative, who quit work to come
to Congress, was lunching with friends
recently in the House restaurant, says
the Washington letter of the New York
Tribune. "I am sorry that we are go
ing to have a change in the weather,”
said Landis, as he gazed reflectively
at his cup of coffee.
"Change in the weather?” repeated
“Jim" Griggs, the hustling Georgia
manager of Democratic Congress cam
paigns. “Why, I never saw a more
beautiful day in Washington— bright
bracing, and the sun shining so bril
liantly that we ought to be at the
races, instead of listening to tariff
arguments.”
"Can’t be helped,” insisted Landis
“we are going to have a storm. The
bubbles rising from the sugar in my
coffee, and known to all loyal Hoosiers
as ’lucky spots,’ remain on the surface
in the center of the cup, instead of
separating and going to the side in
fallible sign of a change. It is as safe
to bet on that sign s it would be to
back the chances of Republican suc
tiex* Both are easy monev.”
With a pitying smile, Griggs called
for unother cub of coffee, but careful
ly refrained from using sugar.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The only large cities that have not
a large German population are Boston,
with less than 5 per cent. Germans, and
Washington, D. C., with 7 per cent.
—From a patch of land only thirty
feet wide and 200 feet long, Mr. Jen
ness of Portsmouth, N. H., raised 1,700
boxes of strawberries, which sold at
an average of 19 cents a box.
—The annual report of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, just issued,
shows 80,000,000 messages transmitted,
$29,000,000 earned; net revenue. $8,000,-
000, and a surplus of $13,000,000.
Of the 100,000 men in Newfoundland
more than half are fishermen, who
catch 150,000,000 pounds of cod a year,
consume one-fourth of it and sell the
rest to Catholic countries for $4,450,-
000.
—The seacoast defenses of the
United States are now more than half
completed. Twenty-five harbors now
have a sufficient number of heavy guns
and mortars. The total cost of the en
gineering work is estimated at $50,-
000,000.
—About $5,500,000 have already been
paid in Spanish war pensions; the av
erage yearly value of the Spanish war
pension is $137. and the average annual
value of all other pensions is $133, and
30J.809 applications for Spanish war
pensions await adjudication.
—Records prove that the college man
at 30 is far in advance of the man of
the same age who entered by the ap
prentice door. Even at 30 it is shown
that four years spent at college were
not wasted, and that he really ac
quired the ability to learn how to do
things.
—The total production of pig iron in
Canada in 1902 from Canadian and
foreign ores amounted to 357,902 tons,
valued at $4,243,545, of which it is es
timated 71,665 tons, valued at $1,043,-
011, should be attributed to Canadian
ore and 286,238 tons, valued at $3,200,-
534 to the ore imported.
—The Removal Society organized in
New York city is finding employment
and homes in different parts of the
country for Jews from the overcrowd
ed ghetto. Last year the society sent
3,000 persons to forty-five states and
only 3 per cent, of them are now in
large cities and but 1 per cent, have
returned to New York.
—Andrew Beard, a negro, who has
worked in the machine shops of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pany, in Birmingham, Ala., for twen
ty years, it is reported, has just sold
a patent for a car coupler of his own
invention, for SIOO,OOO. In addition,
he is to get a royalty on every coup
ler made on his model for seventeen
years.
—Ex-Congressman E. B. Taylor of
Warren, 0,, who succeeded James A,
Garfield as representative of the old
Nineteenth district in Congress on the
advance of the fatter to the presidency,
has just completed the fifty-eighth year
of his practice of the law. It is said
that no other lawyer in Ohio is able
to show so many years of activity in
the profession.
-Ex-Gov. James P. Eagle of Ar
kansas was elected president of the
Baptist State Convention recently held
in Little Rock, a position which he has
filled for twenty-one successive years.
He was chosen by acclamation. The
convention was the fifty-fifth annual
session of the association and there
Were over 1,000 persons in attendance.
One pleasing incident was a reception
tendered to the venerable Dr. R. H.
Graves and his wife. Dr. Graves has
spent forty-seven years as a mission
ary in China.
—A junior officer on the flagship
commanded by Admiral "Fighting
Bob" Evans writes to a friend, saying
that the chaplain on one or two oc
casions took Evans to task because
of the profanity in which the latter so
frequently indulges. The Admiral took
these rebukes good-naturedly, but did
not seem to have profited greatly there
by. One day the chaplain found him
reading the "Sermon on the Mount”
and made this somewhat ungracious
comment: “Glad to see you doing that,
Admiral. I shall tell the men of it to
offset the oaths you utter.” “All right,
chaplain,” said the Admiral, "and while
you are about it tell them that my
profanity is like your piety—only skin
deep.”
—Many years ago the oak fittings of
Winchester College, England, were sold
for less than $5,000 to a clergyman ,in
Cornwall. There were panellings, seiits,
chimney-pieces and other work all rich
ly carved by the facetiously named
Grinling Gibbons. London Truth says
that this collection of priceless carv
ing has now been sold for SIOO,OOO to a
Mr. Cooper, who last year purchased
Hursley Park, the ancestral se’at of the
Heathcotes, where it will find an appro
priate home. About the same time that
the college oak was sold, the Dean and
Chapter disposed of some of the cathe
dral fittings, including the famous oak
throne erected- by Bishop Trelawney.
This almost priceless treasure is also
supposed to be somewhere in Cornwall.
—A buffet made of oyster shells would
hardly appeal, it would seem, to the
average householder, and yet a resident
of Diamond street, near Sixteenth, has
an oyster shell buffet that his. visitors
admire more heartily than any other
piece of furniture in his dwelling, says
the Philadelphia Record. This buffet
looks like mother-of-pearl. The shells
in it are bautifully polished, and what
gives the piece its chief distinction is
the black spots, or eyes, upon each
shell. These spots have an effect upon
the shell’s silvery, pearly surface that
is indescribably striking and harmoni
ous. The buffet was made by a cabinet
maker of Woodbury, N. J. The shells
are set side by side in oxidized silver,
and their background, or base, is black
walnut wood. It is doubtful if there
is another such piece of furniture as
this in existence.
—ln the early days of North Dakota
Senator Jud La Moure and Alexander
McKenzie, the latter famous as the
most daring sheriff in Bismarck, were
bitter personal and political enemies.
Whatever one wanted done was sure
to be opposed by the other, and they
carried their enmity to each other to
great and sometimes ridiculous ex
tremes for'men as level-headed as they
were in ordinary matters. Bach had
a host of friends and these were ar
rayed in hostile camps, political, so
cial and business. The two men have
become reconciled, however. Some
time ago McKenzie got into trouble in
Alask'a and narrowly escaped a prison
sentence for contempt of a local judge,
from whose jurisdiction the Blsmarck
ian removed a prisoner. After a hard
fight McKenzie was released and re
turned east, broken in health. For
months he has been lying in a St.
Paul hospital, hovering between life
and death and deserted by a majority
of his former friends. Here his old
enemy, La Moure, found him and at
once took up his station at the bed
side of the stricken man, ministering
to his every want with the solicitude
of a mother. Mainly owing to La
Moure’s careful nursing McKenzie is
recovering his health and expects to
leave the hospital in a week or two,
when his oid-time adversary will es
cort him to Bismarck. It Is safe to
say that the friendship thus established
will never be broken. McKenzie a few
years ago was a perfect specimen of
physical manhood, standing 6 feet 4
Inches and being built in proportion!,
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