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INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Calanthe Lodge, No. 28. K. of
P.; Meeting of the Lodges I. O. O. F.
Special Notices—Competent Bicycle Sales
man Wanted, R. D. & W’m. Latt(more;
Ship Notice, Wilder & Cos., Agents; A
Proclamation by Allen D. Candler, Gover
nor of Georgia; Election For Wardens and
iVestrymen, St. Paul’s Church.
Business Notices—Shakespeare Cigars,
Henry Solomon & Son.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Railway Schedule—Central of Georgia
Railway.
Amusements-Wilbur Opera Company at
■"heater. Nov. 28.
Legal Notices—Application of Josephine
Heidt for Exemption of Personality, etc.
Medical—Cuticura Remedies; Hood's
Pi.ls; Johann Hoff's Genuine Malt Ex
tract; Castoria; H. Y. F.; Ayer's Hair Vig
or.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted-; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The cold snap has probably been attend
ed with a considerable mortality among
the fattened hogs in Georgia pens.
1; may be safely predicted that the cen
sus -takers in Hawaii and the Philippines
will have lots of fun gathering their statis
tics, if it is proposed to have our new
possessions represented in the next cen
sus.
The hue and cry against the admission
of Representative-elect Roberts of Utah
to the House, for ihe reason that he is a
Mormon with three wives, seems to come
principally from the Republican press.
Roberts is a Democrat.
A farmer of Orangeburg county. South
Carolina, this year devoted an acre of his
cotton land to sugar cane, from which
be made syrup. He has recently completed
Ms harvest, with the result that he has
600 gallons of excellent syrup from the
one acre. Should he sell his syrup for 25
cents a gallon—a low price for a fair arti
cle—he would have $125 from his acre of
cane. He could not possibly have pro
duced sls worth of cotton on the land,
or on twice the amount of land.
The Sulu Islands, which it Is now sug
gested that we may want from Spain, lie
In the Indian ocean about midway be
tween Borneo and Mindanoa. There are
162 Islands In the group. In 1877 a treaty
was made between Great Britain. Ger
many and Spain by which English and
German shipping was to have free trade in
the Sulu archipelago. The Hamburger
Nachrlchten a few days ago claimed that
et the time of the making of the treaty
Bismarck successfully contested Spain’s
claim to have the Sulu regarded as be
longing to the Philippine group.
Boston is unappreciative of heroes. John
11. Kelly, who went with Hobson on the
Merrimac, honored Boston by spending
Thanksgiving with her. Kelly's excess of
patriotism caused him to celebrate the day
tn the happiest manner that he could
think of. Being a Merrimac hero, he no
doubt thought that Boston would not mind
seeing him in a somewhat jolly mood and
having a good time. But Boston did
mind; Boston was shocked, and had the
hilarious young man pulled by the police;
end the next morning he was fined $5.
That is what a hero got for spending a
glorious national holiday in Boston.
By a vote of four to three the court of
appeals of New York has decided that the
anti-scalpers' law passed by the last legis
lature of that state Is unconstitutional.
The gist of the decision of the Court of
Appeals is that a legislature cannot take
away from all the people the right to con
duct a given business because there are
wrong-doers in it, and that the enactment
of the slatute in question did not consti
tute a valid exercise of the police power.
The opponents of tick- t scalping, mean
time, contend that the scalpers <lo not con
u-tit themselves with buying unused tick
ets and selling them again, but that many
ol them commit forgeries and frauds, rob
bing the railroads of fares which by ail
light and justice should go into the tills
of the road. Beyond this, the scalpers are
often the agents of weak roads that se
cretly cut rates or make rebates, there
by making It almost impossible for the
to,ids to maintain a just and equitable
iw. seuger tariff.
! nniocß.tTir leader of the
HOI *E.
Will Mr. Bailey be the leader of the
Democi its in the next House? That is a
question which is receiving a good deal
of attention just now. For some reason or
other Mr. Bail y is not popular with many
of th. Democratic members of the present
House, and the opinion appears to prevail
that he will be not any more popular
with the Democratic members of the
next House. He is a man of ability, but
he does not seem to lie wholly acceptable
as a leader. At the last session, members
of his own side of the House did not give
his leadership the hearty recognition It
shonid have had In order to be successful.
Still, he has a considerable following, and
will undoubtedly try for the position
again.
Besides Mr. Bailey there are two other
candidates for the position. They are Mr.
D. A. DeArmond of Missouri, and Mr.
John H. Bankhead of Alabama. Both
have a following and both have made con
siderable reputation in Congress. Mr.
Bankhead, however, appears to have the
qualities of leadership in a much greater
<5 gre e than < it hereof tie other Candida tea.
He may not be so ready a talker as Mr.
Bailey, but he has excellent judgment. It
1* said of him that in political matters he
seldom makes a mistake.
It is important that the Democratic lead
er in the next House should be a man of
good judgment. Questions will come be
fore that Congress which will have great
influence in determining the political com
plexion of the next national administra
tion. It is said that one of the reasons of
the hostility to Mr. Bailey, Is the fact that
he was among the first to take a position
against the policy of expansion. The
statement cannot be entirely correct. The
hostility to Mr. Bai’.ey existed before the
question of annexing outlying territory
came up for consideration. Besides, the
Democratic party has not yet taken a
position on the question of the advisability
of acquiring the West India Islands and
the Philippines. If Mr. Bailey Is beaten
it will bo because he lacks, In the opinion
of his Democratic associates, some of the
qualities essential to successful leadership.
SASSAFRAS.
"What is sassafras good for?” asked a
South Carolina correspondent of a South
Carolina newspaper the other day. The
correspondent, if he is a native of the
South, has probably been familiar with
the plant all of his life. No doubt he has
drank sassafras tea hundreds of times,
smacked his lips over it and asked for
more. Nevertheless he knows no more of
it than that sassafras is a shrub or tree,
the roots, branches and leaves of which
have a rather strong, pungent, aromatic
and sweetish taste, and that tea is some
times made of the bark of the roots. Fa
miliarity with the sassafras has made it
uninteresting; nobody In the South pays
a great deal of attention to It. It grows
almost everywhere, and especially likes
the soil of old fields and hedge rows. It
grows wild. To suggest to a Georgian or
a South Carolinian that sassafras be cul
tivated would be laughed at.
Nevertheless the sassafras plant is full
of virture from the lowest point of its tap
root to the crown of its foliage. Bark,
leaves, wood, pith and roots contain
valuable properties. The leaves are heav
ily charged with a mucilaginous juice
which may be made to serve every purpose,
of gum arable. The pith also Is a gum
producer In even larger degree than the
leaves. An investigator says that a few
inches of sassafras pith put Into a glass of
cold water will in a few minutes make a
glassful of mucilage. During the civil
war in some parts of the South sassafras
leaves were employed to furnish the thick
ening for soup; and it was very palatable
and healthful thickening, too. During that
time, also, sassafras tea was largely used
as a substitute for coffee and the ordinary
tea of commerce. The sassafras infusTon,
however, is a more healthful beverage than
either coffee or tea. It has positive al
terative properties, and as a blood remedy
it should be ranked along with sarsapa
rilla. It is also a diuretic and a sudorific; it
is good for the kidneys, and to produce
perspiration. It is valuable in cases of
colds or fevers. Oil of sassafras, accord
ing to a medical authority, “is used In the
treatment of cutaneous diseases, rheuma
tism, gout, etc." It is commonly used in
connection with other drugs. It has been
staled that a great many of the "magic”
cure-all proprietary liniments which are
so popular, at 25 to 50 cents a bottle, are
made of spirits turpentine, costing about
40 cents a gallon, and a little oil
of sassafras, and that a great many
of the "discoveries," “cures" and the like
which cost $1 a bottle have as their base
an infusion of sassafras. We recognize
the virtues of the sassafras and the tur
pentine after somebody a thousand or so
miles away has mixed them and given
them a calchy name; but we do not care
much about them in their natural state.
Flavoring extracts are also made from
sassafras, and there is no more delightful
and refreshing beverage than cool sassa
fras beer on a hot day. The mucilage from
the pith of sassafras is said to be an ex
cellent remedy for sore eyes, or for al
most any Irritated and sore tissue. Asa
gargle for sore throat sassafras tea, with
alum, has a recognized standing in every
rural housewife's cupboard. Still, most
people are unfamiliar with the sassafras,
for the reason that it Is so common.
The city fathers ought, by this time,
to have enough of experimenting in road
building, and with paving materials, to
last them a hundred years. A consider
able part of the paving done during the
past few years has been In the nature
of experimenting, and no wry great part
of it has been attended with satisfactory
results. There should he no more cxperl
mtnting of the sort done In the city lim
its.
The lack of an auditorium in Savannah
has bem pointedly emphasized during tin
past two or three weeks. What splendid
military concerts might have been enjoyed
since the Seventh Corps has been here If
there had been a large auditorium! What
a magnificent and stupendous Thanksgiv
ing dinner could have been served the oth
er day In a great auditorium.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1898.
j FROM THE FAHMEII S VIEW POINT.
In an address delivered recently at Con
cord, N. H., Mr. Herbert Myrick. editor
of the American Agriculturist, considered
the question of annexation and expension
from the standpoint of the farmer. He
sees in the present drift of affairs a very
serious menace to the American farmer.
Annexation and expansion, he contends, Is
the demand of Spanish property holders
in Cuba and Porto Rico, and of property
holders in Hawaii, who, with a small but
rich and powerful coterie in this country,
seek to mono;ollze the cheap labor and
marvelous productiveness of the tropics.
"These interests realize.” he says, "that
wealth beyond avarice will be theirs if
they can gain free access for their prod
ucts to the largest and best market in the
world—that of the United States.
The case of Hawaii is referred to as
showing how the capitalists anil large land
owners hope to comiiete with and gain an
advantage over American producers. The
sugar plantations of Hawaii are cultivat
ed by coolie labor. There are thousands
of coolies at present there, under contract
Thousands more are being carried there,
under contract, notwithstanding Hawaii is
now nominally a part of the United
States and will actually bocorfle a part
of this country with the promulgation ol
the new form of government that is being
arranged by ihe annexation commission
ers. All of these contract cheap la()orers
will be retained, after the form of govern
ment changes; and the owners of the
plantations will get the benefit of the
American market in competition with the
Louisiana planters and the beet sugar pro
ducers of other states.
By the remission of duties, Mr. Myrick
says, the annexationists would make an
extra profit of S3O to S4O on every ton of
sugar from Hawaii, Porto Rico and Cuba;
they would make extra $5 to $S on every
pound of cigars; $1.50 on every pound of
wrapper tobacco; sss to S4O on every ton
of rice, and proportional profits on all
early fruits and vegetable? brought from
the proposed American West Indies to
this country. He estimates that $10,000,000
would be taken from the government rev
enues annually, and that the amount
would constantly increase; and not only
that, but the taxpayers of this country
would be called upon to make up the de
ficiency. “In other words,” says Mr. My
rick. “after having given freely of
our blood and treasure to drive out their
Castillian oppressors. Spanish proprietors
in the East and West Indies now seek a
yearly bonus of untold millions from their
deliverers; and certain domestic combina -
tions in the sugar, tobacco, trucking and
fruit trades have entered into an unholy
alliance with them. History fails to re
veal so shameless a conspiracy of pelf at
the national expense."
Mr. Myrick thinks that Florida and
South Georgia would be seriously hurt.
These sections are now becoming famous
for their fruits. They are also begin
ning to raise tobacco on a considerable
scale. Florida is a cigar making state of
importance. There are a number of large
and prosperous cigar factories at Key
West, Tampa, Jacksonville and elsewhere.
These, he says, would In all probability
be driven to Havana, Ponce and elsewhere
in the Islands under the plan of the an
nexationists, and the tobacco growing In
dustries of the Carollnas, Virginia, Penn
sylvania and Ohio would be seriously
hurt. "The best things in American ag
riculture to-day,” he says, “are threaten
ed by the annexationists.”
"MADE IN GEORGIA.”
There is in Germany a law which pro
vides that all manufactured products
shipped out of that country shall bear the
imprint, “Made in Germany." The legend
serves a two-fold purpose; it advertises
German wares, and it inspires the makers
and shippers of them to see to it that a
high standard of merit is maintained. If
inferior articles were sold with the imprint,
it would soon be detrimental to the export
business.
•Georgia is rapidly becoming a manufac
turing state, in various lines. It might not
be a bad idea for the Georgia manufactur
ers to copy the Germans to the extent of
branding their wares. “Made in Georgia."
We confidently believe that those articles
which are made in Georgia are of super
ior excellence. Take Georgia syrup for in
stance. There is nothing in the world of
the kind that is finer in flavor, and more
wholesome to the consumer. It is “sweeter
than honey In the honeycomb,” according
to an expert In saccharine articles. Maple
syrup is not more palatable or more health
ful; nevertheless the Georgia article is sold
for about half the price of the maple syrup.
The reason is that Georgia syrup is not
widely enough known. Makers are content
to supply a limited market under the or
dinary brand of “cane syrup,” or just plain
"syrup" without any qualification what
ever. If the merits of the delectable article
were more widely known, and each gen
uine package of it carried the legend.
“Made In Georgia,” the demand would
shortly be much extended and the price
improved.
Georgia syrup, however, is only one ttem.
Take textile fabrics. The mills of Georgia
are new. They are filled with modern ma
chinery. The goods they turn out are,
therefore, the products of the latest Im
proved apparatus. Naturally, they are of
I jetter grade than goods made on old and
Inferior machines. "Made in Georgia"
stamped on sheetings, shirtings and drills
would attract the attention of purchasers
to tho localities of the mills, and one sat
isfactory order would be followed by oth
ers. Purchasers would Insist on having the
"Made in Georgia” kind. The sentence
would become a trade mark, signifying that
articles I tearing It were of highest grade,
and Georgia manufacturers, for their pe
cuniary interests and as a matter of state
pride, would see to it that qualities were
always kept up to the standard.
Gov. C'andlcr has been in politics a long
time, and is too shrewd to permit himself
io be used by political schemers; neverthe
less It Is probable that he has just had an
experience that Justifies him In holding
■ tie opinion that he has yet something to
<arn in politics—one tiling for instance,
i hat it is not ulways wise to talk too
freely to political fiicuds.
Dr. Parkhurst insists that America's
greatest duty to humanity is to attend to
business at home, and not to go running
half way around the world see-kins; some
body to succor. The number of those who
agree with Dr. Parkhurst respecting this
matter is very large.
PERSONA L.
—The houses of Byron and Bulwer Will
be united by the wedding in London of Ne
ville Lytton, the younger of the late earl's
two sons, and Miss Judith Blunt, grand
daughter of Byron's "Ada. sole daughter
of my house and heart." B h are very
young and the bridegroom will not be 20 at
the time of the wedding.
—Elijah Woodworth of Fishkll! Land
ing, N. Y., saw some tempting apples on
the top of a tree near his home. Despite
his 94 years he climbed after them. When
he had almost reached the fruit a limb
gave way.Mr.Woodworth fell to the ground
and now nurses a ba lly bruised leg by way
of reminder that climbing trees for apples
is hardly suitable occupation for a citizen
so near the century mark.
—Bishop Mark of Marquette,Mich., is the
oldest living missionary to the American
Indians, his work among the red men in
Michigan having begun early In the cen
tury. He found the untutored savages al
ways truthful and says that, contrary to
the general belief, they wore not a cruel
race. Mrs. R. G. Wilder of Montclair, N.
J., is another venerable missionary. Though
75 years of age, she is about to start for
India to lesume work there as a Presby
terian missionary.
—Admiral Dewey is to be honored in Ver
mont by the erection of a “Dewey hall’ at
the state's military institution, Norwich
University at Rutland This institution has
long been military school and many of
the officers who served in the civil war
were among its graduates. It is likely that
the legislature will appropriate a sum to
ward the addition of this hall to the uni
versity and it is proposed also to raise
money by popular subscription for the
same purpose.
—Prof. George Adam Smith, of the Uni
versity of Glasgow is engaged to deliver
the Lyman Beecher course at Yale next
year. In a recent conversation with a
friend thg latter remarked to Mr. Smith
that the writing of the biography of so
great a friend as the late Henry Drum
mond must have been a most enjoyable
task. "So it would have been,” replied the
professor, "did I not know that Henry
never wanted a biography written, and my
feelings that when we meet tn heaven he
may be displeased.
BRIGHT BITS.
—“Your wife seems Intensely patriotic.”
“Patriotic! If eagle was good to eat you
would never see a turkey on our table
Thanksgiving day.”—Chicago Record.
—“Riches hab wings," remarked the old
colored man philosophically. “Ya-a-s,” an
swered Mr. Eraslus Pinkley, "but dat
doesn’ make de real thing. Dey isn’ chick
en.”—Washington Star.
—The pouter pigeon swelled Itself out
and strutted.
“Falsiaff!” contemptuously exclaimed
the pelican.
“Cyrano de Bergerac!” scornfully retort
ed the pigeon.—Chicago Tribune.
—Appreciated Fervor.—“l went down on
my knees to Miss Jinks when I proposed
to her.”
"How did she take It?”
“She asked me not to move until she
got her kodak."—Chicago Record.
—Kerrigan—“Do yez believe in dhrames,
Riley?—“Oi do." Kerrigan—"Phwat’s it a
soign ov whin a married man dhrames
he's a bachelor?” Riley—“lt's a soign
that he’s going to mate with a great dis
appointment—when he wakes.”—Tit-Bits.
—A Modern Maid.—“Am I the first girl
you ever loved?" she asked him. nore as
a matter of habit than anything dse.
“I cannot tell a ’.ie.” s lid he. "You are
not. You are simply the best of the
bunch."
Being a modern maid, she was content
with that.—Cincinnati Euquirer.
—An Iconoclast.—Miss Tommey: Mr,
Bunting is a singular man.
Miss Filkins: How so?
Miss tommy; He says he doesn’t like
golf.
Miss Fiikins: But lots of men don't like
golf.
Miss Tommey: Yes. but Mr. Filkins says
he doesn't care who knows it.—Judge.
4 I K RENT COMMENT.
Will Get Something.
From the Springfield Republican (Ind.).
Mr. Bailey of Texas Is absolutely fear
less. He will be the Democratic leader of
the next House or know the reason why.
Very likely he will get-the reason if not
the leadership.
Anglo-Saxon Supremacy.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
The policy of expansion is a grave men
ace to all the people of the United States.
It is doubly perilous to the Southern
negro, who may be forced, by the logic
of events, to suffer politically because he
is not an "Anglo-Saxon,” and to find that
the Republican party that gave him a
vote Is an indirect agent in the process of
nullifying that vote.
Has Been Done Once.
From the Birmingham News (Dem.).
What the South did before the war in
raising its own foodstuffs can be done
again. It is gratifying to know that slow
ly, but surely, the tendency is in the direc
tion of diversified agriculture. Until the
South gives to diversified farming the at
tention which it demands, ceasing to give
so large a proportion of its attention to
cotton, its agricultural interests cannot
attain the prosperity enjoyed under the old
food-producing system that prevailed prior
to 1860.
Where t the Doetrlnef
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.).
What has become of our Monroe doc
trine? We once refused to allow that any
European power could acquire territory
in this hemisphere, and Secretary Olney
informed Lord Salisbury in that wonder
ful dispatch about the Venezuelan bound
ary that England must expect to clear out
from Canada and the West Indies. Our
position was this: "European powers
must keep out of this Western hemisphere.
Just as we keep out of the Eastern." But
now we are going into the Eastern hemis
phere by seizing the Philippines. We
might dominate one hemisphere, but wo
can hardly expect to lord It over both. The
Monroe doctrine is not elastic enough to
be Stretched over the entire globe. When
Germany some day seizes a province in
Southern Brazil we shall have no logical
basis on which to rest a demand for her
to clear out. It will be simply might
against might.
A Little Girl in Porto Rleo.
The American commissioners of evacu
ation ha'l been in Porto Hico’s capital
perhaps two weeks, says the New York
Sun. Admiral Schley and Gen. Gordon
were stopping at the Hotel Inglaterra,
while Gen. Brooke, the senior member of
the commission, was with his escort of
regular cavalrymen and his staff at Rio
Piedras, a suburb, eight miles away. It
was lonely at the hotel. There were, be
sides the commissioners and their staffs,
a dozen Or fifteen other Americans about
the place, mostly correspondents and mer
chants, who were following ciosely in the
wake of the army and navy for business
reasons. They all hobnobbed together In
a brotherly sort of way, but the .anguage
all about them was Spanish—which none
understood except Admiral Schley. The
proprietor of the hotel was a Spaniard,
the cooking was essentially Spanish, th.
one bathroom was also essentially Span
ish, being very dirty, and, altogether, de
spite the courtesy of the Spaniards and
the natives, it was not very pleasant. Ev
ery one was longing for home. All wanted
to feel again the fresh, keen breezes of
the states, to have their blood revivified
and cleansed of tropical enervation. They
wanted to see the 'Stars and Stripes sup
plant the red and yellow flag of Spain,
which still floated tauntingly from every
public building, and to hear the strains
of the music which stirs American pa
triotism, instead of listening to the rapid
time beats of the Spanish quickstep. In
truth, every one was homesick, and glo
ried in the fact.
One evening, after a particularly bad
dinner, the Americans had gathered in
the interior court of the hotel to talk over
matters and wonder when, if ever, the
longed-for embarkation of the Spanish
soldiers was to begin. They occupied the
great wicker rockers which are ranged in
a square around a big settee in the cen
ter, whereon was placed a huge palm, al
ways and forever breathing forth the pes
tiferous mosquito which continually 7 show
ed its good taste by preferring American
to Spanish blood. There are no windows
in this court, and bedrooms—also with
out windows—open off it on all sides, so
that mosquitoes once in there never get
out; but that has nothing to do with this
particular evening. Admiral Schley was
naturally the center of the group. Next
him sat Gen. Gordon, while the general’s
son, a lieutenant in the army, and Lieut.
Sears and Wells and Ensign McCauley of
the admiral’s staff were close by. All of
them were In uniform.
Conversation was lagging a little, for It
was very hot and the mosquitoes were
particularly objectionable. Nostalgia was
gaining rapidly when there entered a dark
haired, dark-skinned little kirl who looked
to be no more than 13 years of age. She
must have been older, fbr laier it devel
oped that she was a wife. With her was
her husband, who on this occasion was
mistaken for her father. They had just
come from dinner and in proof of it had
tootdipicks in their mohths —a custom not
inconsistent with good breeding in Spanish
or Spanish-American countries. The Sittle
girl strolled nonchalantlv to the piano and
her husband took a chair by her side.
Running her fingers lightly over the keys
she played some Spanish air, the music of
which was on the rack before her. For a
moment then she stopped and a ripple of
polite applause ran around the room.
The girl turned half-way on her stool,
smiled pleasantly, and shifting the tooth
pick lo the other side of her mouth again
touched the keys with her fingers. And
what a thrill went through every Ameri
can in the room as the notes of “The Star
Spangled Banner” sounded forth! Here
was a breath of home, coming unexpected
ly, to some of the men who had helped to
make this home a place of which to be
proud. With a common impulse they rose
to their feet and stood in silence until the
hymn was ended. The little girl faced
around again, smiling at the applause
which greeted her de icate compliment.
“We i hank you,” said the admiral in his,
sweetest way, and every one bowed.
The Spaniards had heard the song and
they peered from their rooms and peeked
into the court from the hotel office, no.
sourly, but in wonder at this defiance to
their flag. But no one said a word In
opposition, no doubt accepting the situa
tion as part of the transformation then in
process. Not for many a day had that
song been played in San Juan, because
even to hum it on the street would have
served as a signal for the mob to rise.
Rut this little Porto Rican girl—for
though married she was no more than a
child—had broken the Ice and thereafter
there was always the solace of American
music for the exiles.
Having Fun With the Engle.
From the Toronto World.
I’m writing this here in the old drill hall,
which was built by the people to
shade gt
Our brave volunteers, who were called out
to fight—the time of the Fenian Raid.
I've been reading “The Truce of the
Bear," and I fancy it’s perfectly le
gal
For me to express, with considerable
stress, that I doubt the truce of the
Eagle! -
Do I do that bird an injustice? Was I in
the country of dreams
When I saw him clawing the Lion, with
the most blood-curdling screams?
How he shrieked for Mr. Monroe! But
now he’s looking quite pleasant;
I tell you, young feller, you’d better watch
out for the Eagle that looks like a
pheasant!
When the Bear was very pugnacious, and
the French and Germans looked wise.
That bird was bothering the Lion, and
trying to pick out ids eyes;
But now' he is learning to cackle, and he
looks quite friendly—but then—
You'd berter watch out. young feller, for
the Eagle that looks like a hen!
His voice is mellow as music; it hath a
most unctuous “quack.”
I hope it’s all in good earnest, but I won’t
take anything back.
I'm jolling you, Mr, Canuck, I hope you
will listen, my buck—
Keep your nose to the wind, and keep
your eye skinned, for the Eagie that
talks like a duck!
A Mon of Many Paris.
Here is an amusing old handbill, some
what similar to the one reproduced in
these pages a week or two ago, says the
London Sketch. This bill also was printed
and circulated in Cumberland early In the
century:
“I, James Williams, parish clerk, sax
tone, town oryer and bellman, make and
sells all sorts of haberdasharies, groceries,
etc., likewise hair and whlgs drest, and
cut. on the shortest notice. Also—
“N. B.—l keeps an evening school, where
I teach at reasonable rates, reading,
writing, singing and sums.
N.8.—1 plays the hooboy occasionally,
if wanted.
N. B.—My shop is next doore, where I
bleed, draw teet hand shoe horses, all
with greatest sell.
"N. B.—Children taut lo dance, if agree
able, at six pence per week, by me, J.
Williams, who buy and sell old iron and
coals—shoes cleaned ond mended.
“N. B.—look over the door for the sign
of the three pigeons.
“N. B.—l sell good ayle, and sometimes
cyder-s-Lodgings for single men.”
ITEMS OK INTEREST.
—The most expensive tobacco ever im
ported to this country was sent to the
New York public stores for appraisal last
week. There were six bales, each weigh
ing seventy-five pounds, and each bale
was invoiced at SI,OOO, or at the rate of
$13.33 a pound. It was Havana wrappers,
the duty on which Is $1.85 a pound.
—The violin used by Mme. Camilla Ur
so, who is giving concerts throughout the
country, was made in Italy in 1727 by Jo
seph Guarnerius Del Jesu. Mme. Urso
purchased ihe instrument in London sev
eral years ago, and has on several oc
casions been offered $6,C00 for it. She
would not part with it for any price.
—An inventor has hit upon a method of
putting store soles on boots and shoes. He
mixes a waterproof glue with a suitable
quantity of clean quartz sand and spreads
■ t over the leather sole used as a founda
tion. These quartz soles are said to be very
flexible and practically Indestructible, and
to give the foot a firm hold even on the
most slippery surface.
—Preparations are on foot in Honolulu
to test the applicability of the United
States immigration laws to the Hawaiian
Islands by the importation to the cane
fields of 1,000 Korean laborers. The con
tract form, as advertised by the agent
who proposes to furnish the Koreans, pro
vides that they shall be paid $12.50 per
month each, United States gold.
—Rats and rabbits are becoming a plague
in the Azores. The rats now attack fruits,
such as oranges, bananas, grapes, and in
fest the granaries. The rabbits are de
stroying the vineyards. Moreover, pigs
run wild, and have nearly exterminated
the partridges by eating their young. The
"Islands of the Blest" are in a quandary
as to how they should remove the curse.
—According to the Journal d’Agriculture,
Mr. Dickson and Prof. Malpeux of Berth
onval, Pas-de-Calais, finds that molasses
mingled with their fodder tends to fatten
sheep, pigs, cows, and horses; to increase
the supply of milk, butter, ar.d cheese
(though this does not of itself warrant the
recommendation of molasses as food for
milch cows.) The -treacle makes dry fodder
like straw, appetizing and easy to digest.
—The function of "bloom,” the white,
powdiy coating on some leaves and fruits.
Is not generally known. According to some
notes by the iate Prof. H. L. Jones of
Oberlin College, published by his assist
ant, Miss Roberta Reynolds, it has been
shown by a series of experiments that
bloom serves to check the transpiration of
water. With several forms of agave, which
were tested, the loss from this cause when
the bloom was removed was from one and
one-third to two and one-third as great
as when it was left on the leaves.
—ln a paper read recently before the
American Society of Mechanical Engi
neers, F. W. Dean showed that the cost
of steam power had decreased nearly 40
per cent, since the year 1870. Seventeen
per cent, of this is attributed to the use
of multiple cyl.nder engines, steam jack
eting, higher steam pressure, and super
heating the steam. Five per cent, is due
to the use of verticie engines, 7 per cent,
to improved boilers, 7 per cent, to econ
omy realized in heating the feed water,
and 2 per cent, is put down to the credit
of improved construction of grates. The
least consumption of steam per horse pow
er in 1870 was twenty pounds, whereas,
the least in 1897 was twelve and a half
pounds.
—The use of enamel as the insulator for
resistance wires of electric heating and
cooking apparatus is now general, and
manufacturers have found out which
enamels give the best results. The desider
ata are, firstly, that the expansion of the
enamels shall be about the same as that
of the metals employed, and, secondly,
that the enamel shall be about the same as
that of the metals employed, and, secondly
that the enamel shall not be very brittle.
Mr. Saglio's researches on highly expan
sive enamels, contained in his paper to the
Soeiete d’Encouragement de I'lndustrie
Nationale, are of interest In this respect.
He found that silica, kaolin, petalite, and
zircon impart to the enamel infusibility,
but lessen ihe expansiveness; that calcic
phosphate increases the expansiveness,
gives viscosity to the enamel in fusion,
and imparts to it a certain insolubility;
that cryolite, fluorspar, and, above all, ru
tile, (which seems to fix the boracic acid
well.) increase the expansiveness and the
fluidity of the enamel.
—lnstances of natural selection in the
animal kingdom and of the survival of
the fittest are always of interest, espe
cially when the particular instance is not
due simply to the long results of time,
but due to a local cause, the effect of
which can be appreciated in a few years.
Such an instance was recently brought
forward by Dr. H. L. Jameson, who ex
hibited before the zoological section of
the British Association examples of a
race of protectively colored mice that are
found on a sandy island in the Bay of
Dublin, known as the North Bull. The
marked predom.nance of sand-colored
mice, or mice distinctly lighter in color
than the ordinary variety, is considered
by Dr. Jamescn as due to the action of
natural selection. A reference to old
charts shows that this island came into
existence about a century ago, so that it
is possible to fix a time limit within which
this light-colored race has been evolved.
The explanation given for the survival
of this particular colored mouse is inge
nious, and is a typical example of the
survival*of the fittest. It is explained that
the hawk and owls, which frequent this
island and hunt by sight, are the only
enemies that the mice have to compete
against. It is evident that the dark-color
ed mice are the most easily seen when
viewed against the sandy ground, and
thus a weeding-out process of the darker
colored mice has been going on for some
hundred years.
—The Belgian government is following
out a scheme of technical education which
has some admirable features. In many
rural centers of the country gratuitous in
struction in dairy Hvork is provided
throughout the summer to the peasant
population. The course usually lasts three
months, and is open to all girls over 15
years old. For girls of a somewhat high
er social position, for the daughters of
tenant farmers and small proprietors—for
the very class, in fact, for which neither
In England nor in this country has any
practical provision whatever yet been
made—a system of agricultural colleges
has been organized, which cannot fail to
exert a far-reaching influence on the fu
ture prosperity of Be’gium. The daily life
in these colleges is singularly healthy and
attractive, alternating as it does between
theoretic work in the class-rooms and
practical work in the farm or garden. Dai
ry work, poultry raising, bee-keeping, fruit
and flower growing, are thus all brought
within the sphere of a woman’s activities.
Virginia M Crawford, tvho writes on this
subject, says that for women there is no
more pleasant way of adding to the mod
est incomes of country homes than by
taking up some agricultural pursuit in a
practical and scientific spirit. She asks:
“Who would hesitate between the pleas
ure of manipulating butter in a clean,
sweet dairy and the weary toil of working
a typewriter ten hours a day in a stuffy
ofTFe, when once It was realized that one
is us profitable as the other?” ,
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