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4 §£ije IHofnittfl £?eu>& Mornini News Building, Savannah. Ga. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1004. Registered at Postoflice in Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail; one week. 18 cents; one month, 70 cents; three 84.00; one year, 88.00. v THE MORNING NEWS, by mail, six Ames a week (without Sunday issue), one month, 50 cents; three months, $1.50; six months, 83.00; one year, 86.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mail, one year, 81.00. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by money order, check or reg istered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of sender. Transient advertisements, other than local or reading notices, amusements and classified column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch in depth—is the standard of measurement. Classified column ad vertisements. 1 cent a word each inser tion. 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Grocers and Butchers—Henry Solo mon & Son. For Your Ladies—At Lattimore's. If They Bother You To-night—The Solomons Cos. Mrs. Thrifty Housekeeper—The Del monico Cos. Auction Sales—Two tTwo-Story Dwellings, by I. D. Laßoche, Auc tioneer; Splendid Building Lot, by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer. Medical—Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup; Herpiclde; Ozomulsion; Stuart Dys pepsia Tablets; Pyramid Pile Cure; Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Cheap Column Advertisements —Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis cellaneous. Thp Weather. The indications for Georgia for to day are for showers, with fresh south east to south winds. Eastern Florida, fair weather, with fresh east to north east winds. Senator Bard of California has intro duced into Congress a bill carrying an appropriation of 1150,000 to be divided into two prizes, which are to be paid to whomsoever may discover the physi cal basis of meteorology and the laws which govern the weather. In other words. Senator Bard wants to know what causes weather, and how its vari ations may be predicted accurately. Uncle Sam could well afford to pay $150,000 for the information. Dr. Darling of the Baltimore City Hospital believes that he has isolated and cultivated the germ of mumps. If the doctor has any doubt about it, let him feed the germs on vinegar and watch them. Any boy who has ever had the ailment knows that vinegar and mumps are deadly enemies. Dr. Darling says, by the way, that the mumps germ is somewhat similar in appearance to that of typhoid, except that it is shorter and appears in pairs. It is thicker than the germ of con sumption. It is sincerely to be hoped that the State Department of Agriculture will be able to assure the farmers of Pike county that the specimens of bugs sent them from that county are not cotton boll weevils. It is hardly to be supposed that the weevils would, or could, jump from the banks of the Mississippi river into the interior of Georgia, without showing themselves elsewhere between the two points. Be sides, there are many kinds of harmless little beetles that are to be found in cotton fields. Walter 'Wellman, the well-known Washington correspondent, has been watching Mr. Hearst’s campaign quite closely. He writes to the Philadelphia Press, under date of March 25, that Mr. Hearst tried without effect to at tach Henry Watterson to his staff, and gives these details with respect to the attempt: Hearst offered Henry Watterson. the brilliant editor of the Louisville Cou rier-Journal, $25,000 to spend this win ter in Washington and write occasional letters to Hearst’s papers. Mr. Wat terson declined as politely as he could. Mistaking the politeness for wavering, Hearst came back with a renewal of the offer. This time Mr. Watterson declined, still politely, but with a little more posltlveneiss of expression. He said he could see no more reason why he should write for Hearst'* paper than why Mr. Bennett, or Mr. Luffnn, or W’hltelaw Reid, or any editor, should do the some thing, and ndvised Mi. Hearer to try noire of those gentle men, atiU unable to understand, Hearst tor the third time renewed hi* offer. And this time Col. Watterson* reply was io this eff./t "V*eur Ale You haven't m sough money tn ynur family and never will have. le juduce iia to wilts one ha# (or you.” COLOMBIA OPPOSING THE CANAL. What is the purpose of Warren R. Wilson, the Chicago attorney, who has b-gun an equity suit In the Su preme Court of the District of Colum bia to stop the construction of the Panama canal, and who are the par ties behind him? He says he is act ing on his own responsibility, but that statement will hardly be accepted. What possible interest can he have In preventing the construction of the canal? As far as the world knows he has no interests which w'ould be in juriously affected by the building of it. It may be that he represents the Pa cific Railroads or the Colombian gov ernment. Of course, the Pacific Rail roads do not want the canal built, but If they were opposing its construction it is hardly reasonable to suppose they would engage a comparatively un known Chicago attorney to bring a suit for them—a suit that, if It were in tended to amount to anything, would be entrusted to some of the ablest law yers in the country. The dispatches say that Lawyer Wil son has clients in Colombia and it wouldn’t be surprising if some of them, acting in the interests of the Colom bian government, had employed him to bring the suit. It is a safe proposition that Colom bia isn’t yet reconciled to the loss of Panama, and the $10,000,Q0, together with the 8250.000 a year rental which she was to have received if she accepted the Hay-Herran treaty. Her first thought was to recover possession of Panama by force, but she soon saw that that plan was impracticable. She recalled the troops she had dispatch ed on an expedition to Panama, and set about discovering other ways to obstruct the canal until she received what she thought was proper com pensation for her consent to its con struction. She has brought two suits in Paris, one to prevent the French government from consenting to the transfer of the property of the Panama Canal Com pany to the United States, and the other to have herself recognized as a stockholder in that company. At first our government didn't think there was much in these suits, but recently It appears to have regarded them metre seriously, since it has sent two promi nent lawyers to Paris to look after its interests in them. This suit which has just been begun in the District of Colombia may not raise any questions which threaten to interfere with the government’s plan in respect to the canal, but ,it may cause delay. If Colombia is behind the suit the purpose may be to force our government to propose a com promise of some sort rather than have the work of construction interfered with. Some pretty big questions are raised In the suit, and if these ques tions can be carried to the United States Supreme Court months may elapse before a decision of them can be obtained. Doubtless the true in wardness of the suit, together with the parties behind it, will be made known within a few weeks. PARTY LINES IN THE SNVAYNE CASE. The statement given out in regard to the case of Judge Swayne of the Northern District of Florida by ex- Senator Chandler, of New Hempshlre. and ex-Senator Higgins, of Delaware, is an extraordinary one to say the least of it. It seems to be the purpose of it to arouse party feeling, and thus pre vent the impeachment of Judge Swayne, or, if impeached, to prevent a verdict against him. These eminent Republicans ask a suspension of judgment In the case. They say they participated in the dis cussion when his nomination was be fore the Senate, and that they are sat isfied that his conduct as a judge has been above reproach and that there exists no just cause for Impeaching him. They also say they are sure that he will appear to the House to “be completely justified as to any and every transaction which may be called in question by the majority report” of the Judiciary Committee. These gen tlemen say further that In their opin ion he will appear deserving of high praise for "his just and courageous action In connection with subjects which have been most criticised.” If Mr. Chandler and Mr. Higgins are right In this matter then the majority of the Judiciary Committee of the House are mighty poor judges of the weight of testimony. The committee heard testimony for as well as against Judge Swayne, and although a major ity of It are Republicans a majority found against him. Perhaps the subjects to which Mr. Chandler and Mr. Higgins refer are of a political nature. Unless we are greatly mistaken the things for which the committee thinks. Judge Swayne ought to be impeached have nothing to do with politics. Probably the ef fort will be made to show that the prosecution is political in its nature. If that is done it will be for the pur pose of drawing party lines and in fluencing the House to refuse to vote to impeach Judge Swayne. It looks now as if nothing would be done in the case before the next session of Congress, or If the House sustains the majority report the chances are the trial will not take place at this sess sion. Evidently Judge Swayne depends upon partisan feeling to get him out of the trouble in which he finds him self. Otherwise two such partisans as Mr. Chandler and Mr. Higgins wouldn’t have published a card expresetng the opinion that it will be found that he deserves praise rather than blame for the things for which he ta criticised. W’e do not undertake to say whether Judge Swayne should be Impeached or not, not having seen alt of the testi mony. but it does seem that the House in passing upon the committee’s re port should he guided by the facts rather than by partisan feeling. An exchange oaya; ”A Colorado man claims to have invented a pro cess by which en Indian’s skin may he tanned into the finest leather.” This ought to be Interesting Information to those agents of the government out West who have for years been en gaged in sllr:Mtns **>• Indiana, a* it opens up anew satires of revenue ta i them. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY.MARCH 30. 1904. THE RALE QIESTION IN THE HOI SE. Representative Gillette of Massachu setts. who is disposed to be fair-mind ed when discussing matters pertaining to the South, expressed himself pretty freely on the race question in a speech in the House on Monday. He admitted that the feeling against the negro Is stronger in the North than tn the South, that is, there is a stronger nat ural repugnance to the negro, but he declared that the Northern people don't recognize "this preposterous talk about social quality and inequality.” It doubtless Is true that they don’t have as much to say along the lines of social equality and Inequality, and the reason is plain. It is that the percent age of the black population is so very much smaller In the North than it is in the South that there is but little appre hension there arising from the efforts of the blacks to cross the line dividing the races. Make the percentage of the black population in the North as great as It Is in the South and the same talk of social equality and inequality that is heard In the South would be heard In the North. Indeed, as the natural repugnance to the negro is greater in the North, the probability is that thi3 talk would be greater there. If in the North the natural repugnance to the negro Is greater, as Mr. Gillette says, why shouldn't the apprehension of the evils arising from an excessive negro population be greater there than here ? The trouble with Mr. Gillette and other apparently fair-minded Northern men is that they do not tty to put themselves In the place of a Southern er when discussing the race question. Mr. Gillette admits thav among the rougher element in the North the senti ment that favors lynching a negro for certain crimes is present, but says that it Is present among the better element in the South. The reason doubtless is that the rougher element in the North feelg the pressure of the negro element of the population to a greater degree than the better element does. Let the negro population in the North increase until it is as great, in proportion to the whole population, as it is in the South, and it is probable that Mr. Gillette would see the lynching sentiment as strong in the better element there as it is In the rougher element. Mr. Gillette says that the North doesn’t favor black domination in the South, but he wants the blacks edu cated to a point where they will be qualified voters and good citizens. But when they become qualified to handle the ballot what is to hinder them from dominating wherever they are in the majority? And there are states in which they are in the majority. But Mr. Gillette would doubtless answer that they wouldn’t ever want to domi nate, that they would divide on public questions, just as the white people do. That Is Mr. Gillette’s opinion. An appeal to race feeling would unite them, and there would be demagogues who would appeal to that feeling. In Utah the religious sentiment unites the Mormon voters. The Mormon vote is cast where it will do the most good foj the Mormon Church. Retigfous feeling is no stronger than race feeling. Mr. Gillette lives In a section that isn't troubled by the race problem, but it is a section that wants to settle that problem. As yet it hasn’t presented a solution that would be acceptable to its own people if the problem were a local one. The Southern people de plore lynchinge as much as the people of the North do, and their officials do what they can to check them. A way to stop them hasn’t been found yet, either in the South or the North. It is difficult to keep posted as to the political situation in New York, so far as it relates to the Democratic party of that state. For instance, we have it from one source that ex-Sena tor Hill is using Judge Parker to get back Into political power. One faction says he would be Parker’s Secretary of State in the event of the latter’s elec tion. Another faction says he is work ing to succeed Mr. Depew in the Sen ate. Is there anybody who knows what Mr. Hill is after? And in connection with these reports there is one from Washington that Mr. Hill is prov ing a heavy burden for Judge Parker to carry. But what about Mr. Murphy, the Tammany leader? Ac cording to a report in the Herald, he is at heart a Hearst man. This is, of course, stoutly denied. Anyway, it is admitted that Mr. Hearst called on Senator McCarren of Brooklyn—McCar ren is the boss of the Brooklyn De mocracy—and endeavored to get him to agree to an uninstructed delegation from New York. He left the impres sion on Senator McCarren's mind that Mr. Murphy was favorable to his can didacy. It seems that Senator Mc- Carren spurned this request of Mr. Hearst. He stated that it was neces sary for Judge Parker’s success to have the New York delegation to St. Ix>uis instructed, and that he should do all he could to have the delegation instructed. Dally there is anew crop of rumors. There will be but little re lief from them until after the meeting of the New York State Convention, when the delegates will be chosen. The civilized world will bo pleased to hear more of Lieut. Krinitski, of the Russian torpedo boat Silni. He is one of the dashing heroes so far developed by the war in the Far East, and the probabilities are that his exploit will not be overshadowed by any future occurrence during the war. It was he who took the frail little cruft out of Port Arthur the other morning and, single handed, fought off the attack ing Japanese torpedo fleet and saved the harbor from being bottled up. Notwithstanding the overwhelming odds against him he dashed fiercely into range of his country's foes and handled hla few guns so effectively that the dummy ships the Japs proposed to •Ink In the harbor entrance wer# driv en out of their course and sunk where they could do no harm. Krinitski lost seven men kilted and twelve wounded, and hia llttls host was so badly pounded that she foundered shortly after returning to the harbor, but It la a genuine pleasure to record that the brave and daring officer •. caps* unhurt out of ths vary jaws of wrhat appeared Inevitable death. It was In ancient Rome, at an un certain date, B. C. A vast throng had assembled to witness the thrilling and stage-elevating spectacle of two gladi ators hacking each other into mince meat in the amphitheater. The pros pective combatants were renowned for their skill and pluck. Each had filled a private graveyard, hence everybody wanted to get a good view of them. There tvas as much curiosity over mur derers in those days as in these. The ancient Roman ladies were decked out in new spring hats, with immense plumes and ribbons—the latest crea tions from Paris and New York, and not one of which cost less than 100 drachmas of silver. There was a mur mur In the rear seats. “Shoot the hats!” called out the disgusted citi zens in the rear, who had given up good money for their seats and wanted at least a look-in at the show. The ladies with the hats only curled their lips and thought unpleasant things about the kickers. But the dis satisfaction in the rear grew apace, un til the gentlemanly ushers and the equally gentlemanly manager could no longer disregard it. The protest against the hats had /-become an uproar. At this juncture the manager straightened himself in his Tuxedo, made a rapid pass over the '‘headlight” in his shirt bosom, walked down to the front, cleared his throat, and said; “Ladies will please remove their hats.” Not a hat came off. “I mean, of course, that old ladies and bald-headed ladies are excepted, and need not remove their hats,” he continued. Instantly every hat in the vast audience was doffed. The story has just reached Charleston, and they are laughing heartily over it there. After the first day of next month the boss plumbers of Alton, 111., will not be permitted to do any work, save to hustle around and get jobs and pay their men their wages. The plumbers’ union of Alton has adopted a resolu tion requiring the bosses to keep hands off of all jobs, and, to assist the bosses in keeping hands off, the resolution requires that they shall wear white shirts, starched stiff, all the while during business hours. In a blue flan nel shirt a boss plumber might be tempted to take hold with his own hands and stop a leak or solder a joint, but with a “boiled” shirt on, he would not run the risk of getting his linen soiled. After April X, therefore, the bosses must wear white shirts, on pain of having their men go on strike. A comparison of data of automobile accidents and railway accidents would doubtess show that more people are killed or crippled by the former than the latter. Almost every day there are reports of automobile accidents in some part of the country. In New York a day or two ago a woman was thrown out of an automobile and killed, and in another case four people narrowly escaped death by reason of the chauf feur being hit in the eye with a mar ble thrown by a boy. The chauffeur’s sudden pain caused him to lose con trol of the maphine, which ran into a wall and was wrecked. PERSONAL. —President Eliot of Harvard, recom mends the following plan for a stu dent's day: Ten hours for study, eight for sleep, two for exercise, and four for social duties. —Rather a dramatic wedding cere mony is reported from Fort Scott, Kans. Some months ago Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Hallowell Were divorced because of incompatibility. They had one child, a small lad, and the youngster refused to adjust himself to the changed con ditions. At last, on his account, the couple decided to remarry. As they stood before the Probate judge for the ceremony the boy took his station be tween them, holding tight to a hand of each. PERSONAL. —Brown—“l understand your SSOO didn’t go very far in that grain deal." Green—“l should say not. It was mere-, ly a drop in the bucket shop.”—Chica go Daily News. —“He had a play produced by an amateur company the other night, I believe. Who was the hero of it, do you know?” "I was one. I sat through it." —Philadelphia Ledger. —"Did you go into that speculation you were talking to me about?” "Yes." “What do you expect to realize , from it?” “Just at present there’s a strong prospect that I will realize what a fool I was.”—Philadelphia Press. —“Do you believe,” she asked, “that a genius can possibly be a good hus band?” “Well," he modestly replied, “I would prefer not to answer that ques tion. But my wife ought to be able to tell you.”—Chicago Record-Herald. CI RRENT COMMENT. The Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.) says: “The compact between Mr. Sully and his partners in the cotton corner appears to have been a ‘gen tlemen’s agreement’—the kind that only holds when it wins.” The Nashville American (Dem.) says: “While Mr. Cleveland need not be considered in connection with the Democratic nomination, the number of Democrats in Tennessee who are out spoken for him, and the manifestation of Cleveland sentiment in the state must be something of a surprise to the demagogues who have imagined it the proper thing to denounce and abuse him.” The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says: “Both the two-thirds rule and the unit rule are obnoxious to the majority principle, which should gov ern in the deliberations of Democratic nominating conventions. In fact, the unit rule has its occasion in the ef fort of political leaders to escape from the dangers incident to the operation of the two-thirds rule, which has of ten enabled an active minority to over turn the will of the majority, thus compelling the i>arty to ’dark horse' and doubtful selection. In view of the extensive and unusually active effort to make outright purchaae of dele gs es 'io the next Democratic Ni tionul Convention, with a view to the mlschlevoue utilisation of the standing two-thirds rule, it Is now conceded to he important that instructions shall be vcged for candidates whom the party might hope to elect if they should be nominated If. however, there should arise objection to In structions for candidates every stste convention should nevertheless instiuct Its delegatee to vote solidly against the further application of the iwo ehirde rule. It ta not Democratic It Is daagereate It has not worked t# ( advantage. le t tire major) / > Why the Tiger Spared Him. “I hear all you fellers telling stories," said the conjurer, who is in league with all the evil spirits, including dialect, according to the New York Telegraph, "und I want to tell von myseluf. There Was a feller in Chicago, he is Dutch und he ain’t got no place to go und nothing to eat. He is poor, and he is Dutch. "So what does he do Von • day he comes down der screed and meets a friendstershis is coming down der streed too. “So he sayes to himself. ‘Here _is vhere I should gedt a chenst to get someding to eat and a place to sleep.’ “So he sayes to his friendstershis, ’Give me someding to eat, fifty cents; I get also a place to sleep.’ "His friendesayes: ’Such a business! I am tickettaker down to Hagenback's animals.’ “So he sayes: ‘What do I care hel about Hagenback’s animals? I want fifty cents for supper and a bed.' “So he sayes: ‘Here is fifty cents; also you should get two dollars a day to be a bear. The bear is dead.’ “So he sayes; ‘l’ll done ft,’ and he gets into a bearskin and he is the bear for two dollars a day und every ding is good. Plenty to eat und a place to sleep. “They prod him with Iron sticks mit prongs, und he goes: ,f ’U-r-ggg-rrrh!’ Such a noise. “But one day the fool lecturer puds him in der cage mit der tiger. “Der tiger is coming mit der nails ouidt to smeck him so he will die. “ ‘Dunt smeck me!’ he says, ‘I aind’t a bear. I'm only a poor Dutch.’ “ ‘Dund be afriad,’ said the tiger. ‘I vund hurt you. I am a Dutch my self.’ ” Barrett’s Loguacity Has a Limit. John Barrett, recently minister to Argentina, who is now being trans ferred to Panama, has many accom plishments. but Spanish is not one of them, says the Washington corre spondent of the New York Tribune. When Mr. Barrett was sent to Bue nos Ayres a few months ago he bought a Spanish grammar and phrase book, and devoted several hours a day to “cramming” Castilian on his way down the South Atlantic.' But fluency in a foreign tongue does not cotne in a minute, even to the Characteristically fluent, and the diplomatist would have been much at sea still had it not been for capable interpreters in the employ of the legation at Buenos Ayres. An American who attended a public function at which Mr. Barrett was a guest in Buenos Ayres last month re cites the following monologue which Mr. Barrett delivered to a prominent Spanish woman who opened a conver sation with him In her own tongue: “Spanish I no talk. I study Spanish. Get along well. Think speak Spanish soon. Very fond of Spanish. Delight ful language. So easy. So simple. So much like French and Latin. Sweet sounding tongue. So musical. Charm ing language. So easy.” Better Tlinn That. Henry M. Earle, the lawyer, Is tell ing his friends of a conversation be tween two of his office boys which he overheard last week, says the New York Times. The lads are hard work ers, ambitious, and on more than one occasion have given evidence of pre cocity. Mr. Earle was reading in the library, the stenographers were out to lunch ar.d it was unusually quiet. The boys were in the adjoining room, and the door stood ajar. “Let’s get out of this law business and make some money,” said the younger, who is about, 14. “What’ll we do?” said his associate, a boy of the same age. “Oh,.start, a batik.” “What on,, in heaven's name?" "Well, a good front.” Mr. Earle thought that the young man who understood the value of a good front was in a fair way to suc ceed, when he heard the other lad say; “Don’t you think a good backing would be better?” I'mlecided. One day a certain professor of math ematics at Ohio University prepared to set out on a short journey on horse back, says Lippincott's. He was an absent-minded person, and while sad dling the animal was thinking out some intricate problem. Some students stood near and watched him abstract edly place the saddle on hind-part-be fore. “Oh professor,” exclaimed one of the group, “you are putting the wrong end of your saddle foremost.” “Young man,” replied the professor with some tartness, “you are entirely too smart. How do you know it Is wrong, when I have not yet told you in which direction I Intend to go?” Race Prejudice. The Japanese soldier was faint with loss of blood and abstinence from rice, says the Baltimore American. The Red Cross nurse held a bottle to his lips. “What is it?” feebly whispered the soldier. , “Whisky,” replied the nurse. Resolutely he turned his lips away from the tempting bottle. “No,” he murmured. “I don’t like the last three letters of the word. They are undoubtedly Russian.” Seeing that he was determined, the nurse gave him a large swig of brandy out of the same bottle, and he was soon himself again. Some Balia. A correspondent at Birr, Ireland, de scribes a lady being killed while hunt ing, and adds: “The deceased met with a similar accident on a previous occasion.” Another “had been in the Transvaal between six and seven times;” and still another correspond ent declares, with a spirit which only does him credit, that he has "never put his name to an anonymous letter.” ‘This evening's performance cannot take place; it will be repeated to-mor row night,” is a provincial anonunce ment. Military Bookkeeping. From the London News. (The Russians report that the Japa nese vessels bombarded Vladivostok from a distance too great for shots to take effect, at a cost to themselves of about £20,000.) The foe came proudly to the fight. His gun’s loud thunder shook the main. While we, secured by space—and right— Were wrapped in undisguised dis dain. We saw them come, by Folly led. And calmly we retired to bed. But our accountants were alert. We gave to each a little slate. And. on their reckoning, assert The foe’a expenditure was great; We valued every shot and shell That abort of our entrenchment# fell. A trigger pulled—there * fourpenee went’ A barrel heated nlnepence there; The shot--there sev'ral pound* wer# •cent. To be dispersed upon the air. Ten piston stroke* si twopence each— And thus the total coat we eeach. With all the Item* noted down In proper column#, straight and neat We know within, say. he if-a- rawn. Whet coat that outing of ike fleet, Apd tf tbta aott of thing goes on He fighting gtlength wttf gwog be gone lIEMS OF INTEREST. —There are now forty college grad uates In Sing Sing, serving sentences. —Peru contributes more young men to American universities than any other South American republic. About 500 are now attending our institutions of learning. , —Yale will send with Its exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition a reproduc tion of the Y'ale campus, with build ings, gates and fences. The model will be exact on the scale of twelve feet to an inch. —The British Admiralty is about to try the experiment of giving a premium to the workmen in its service who fin ish a job in the quickest time. Those who do work in the ordinary time will receive the ordinary wages. —The London Daily News wants to know whether the Napoleon statue in Washington will represent the Corsi can in his uniform as a general of the republic or in the iniform.he designed for himself when "the pear was ripe” and fie overturned the republic. —Alexander Hume Ford, in an arti cle in Pearson’s, attributes the intense patriotism of the Japanese to the fact that they are Shintoists. They believe that the power of the Emperor is de rived direct from God and that his commands are to be implicity obeyed. Imbued with this idea they hesitate at no task that is set them by the Mi kado. —The Illinois Shiloh Battlefield Com mission has decided to dedicate the monuments to Illinois soldiers who fell at Shiloh on April 12 and 13. Gov. Yates will deliver an address turning over the monuments to the Federal government, which will have represen tatives there to receive them. Adjt. Gen. Scott will ship a number of tents to Shiloh for the accommodation of Il linois ■ veterans. —So much currency has been obtain ed In the press by a story that the Emperor of Korea had married an American woman named Emily Brown that United States Minister Allen, at Seoul, has been obliged to print iden tical replies to a number of women cor respondents, denying the truth of the story and declaring that there is no room in Korea for foreign female nurses, governesses, companions and the like. —Some French’ publishers have- be gun to issue not only the classics but works of current literature for a franc each, Instead of the time-honored 3f., 50c. The book trade has suffered se verely during the last few years, and it is believed by bringing literature within reach of everybody It may be revived. The cheap books are as well made up in the matter of paper, pic tures and printing as the more expen sive ones. —According to a weekly paper pub lished at Wlnamac, Pulaski county, Indiana, the United States has a new born son. The announcement reads as follows: "Born to United States and wife, Feb. 18, 1904, a son.” This may seem strange, but there is a negro in Pulaski county so named, and this being their first child, United States and his wife issued cards to their friends to attend the christening of the new son on March 5. —The force exercised by growing vegetation has received many illustra tions. No incident illustrates this power more forcibly than one which was noted recently in England. A few weeks ago some half-hardy annuals w.ere sown in a frame just cleared of a winter'crop in the gardens’of Kil sey Park, Beckenham, and the lights closed to hasten germination. Some days afterward signs of c-racking were Observed in the brick (vork, and grad ually a block weighing in the aggre gate one and one-half hundredweight was pushed out of position. After cutting out several bricks a mass of mushrooms was found, three pounds three ounces in weight, growing in the center of (he wall. ’ The myce lium had run freely in the mortar and on the inner face of the bricks. —Don’t jump up the first thing your eyes are open, says a medical journal. Remember, that while you sleep the vital organs are at rest. The vitality Is lowered and the circulation not so strong. A sudden spring out of bed is a shock to these organs, especially to the heart, as It starts to pumping the blood suddenly. Take your time in getting up. Yawn and stretch. Wake up slowly. Give the vital or gans a chance to resume their work gradually. Notice how a baby wakes up. It stretches its arms and legs, rubs its eyes and yawns and wakes up slowly. Watch a kitten wake up. 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