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■ATTRDAY, APRIL 1, 1904.
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ple; Quality, M. S. Gardner.
Business Notices—Bicycles. Walter
F. Higgins; Mince Meat, A. M. A C.
iW. "West; Satisfaction, at Munster's.
Bankrupt Stock of Metzger & Brun-
Kon —Leopold Adler.
To-day Veritable Bargain Day—At
IFoye & Eckstein's.
Financial—Oglethorpe Savings and
{Trust Company.
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ip* Monumental Church Association.
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inore's.
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to.
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Look Out for Yourself—James G.
iNelson.
Medical —Herptcide.
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cellaneou*.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for showers, with fresh to
brisk southwest winds. Eastern Flor
ida. fair weather, with fresh south
west winds.
Speaker Cannon Is doing his best to
keep the members of the House away
from the Benning race track, so that
they may attend tc the public business
He might do well to try the effect of
a, few slot machines in the cloak rooms.
The New York Journal of Commerce
finds that the trade of Japan with the
United States is larger than that of
Russia, and that our trade with Japan
Is steadily Increasing while that with
Russia has for some years shown a
decline.
Isn’t it worthy of note that the peo
ple and papers that are calling upon
Judge Parker for an expression of opin
ions are those who are opposed to his
nomination and election? Those who
me desirous of seeing the party put
out a winning ticket are not worried
about the Judge's opinions.
The Columbia (S. C.) State tells of
a "one-horse farmer of Anderson coun
ty, working on ordinary land," who
made last year more than *1,200 —less
than *SOO being made on cotton. That
sort of thing illustrates what can be
done on the lands in this section of
the country. This Anderson county
fanner, the State tells us, compounded
his own fertilizers, and the probabili
ties are that, with the help of his fam
ily, he did practically all of his owA
work. His income from his one-horse
farm, therefore, was greater than that
of the average clerk in the city, and
Its value considerably more than If it
had been an income of *1,200 in a city.
Concrete facts like this, coming to the
knowledge of the small farmers of the
iWest, will cause them to investigate
the South with a view to settling here.
Gov. Heyward of South Carolina has
received and made public a letter that
ought to set yie people of that state
to thinking. It is well known that
South Carolina does not grant divorce
for any cause whatsoever; and it ap
pears from the letter that there is
no law in the state by which a recre
ant husband can be made to provide
for his children. The letter is from
a woman, the mother of two children,
E and 3 years old. She says that her
husband abandoned her in destitute
circumstances three years ago, since
which time she has struggled hard to
earn a living for her little children.
Now, being out of work, unable to
secure any and with starvation star
ing her children and herself in the
face, she appeals to the Governor to
give her a letter to "some state that
has a home for the friendless." where
her children can find "refuge until
they are old enough to get about.”
It is incidents like the foregoing that
cause one to ponder If divorce, after
ell, is an uumixed evil, *
JAPAN’S SUCCESS OS THE SKA.
It wouldn’t be wise to jump to the
conclusion that Japan is going to be
the victor in her war with Russia sim
ply because she has shown her supe
riority on the sea, but there is no
doubt that the feeling that Japan is
going to succeed is much stronger
than it was when the war began.
Then It was felt that though she might
score some successes in minor engage
ments, Russia, like a great glacier,
would move down upon the island em
pire and crush the life out of it. But
It is becoming apparent that Japan
knows how to take care of herself.
Russia Is no match for her upon the
sea. That is so apparent that it is
generally admitted. Japan has practi
cally destroyed the Russian fleet at
Port Arthur, and yet there has been
no general engagement between the
fleets of the two nations. By means
of mines and torpedoes the work of
destruction has been carried on.
If the Russians are as unskilful in
handling their ships in an engagement
as they have shown themselves to be
in avoiding agents of destruction in
their own harbor, it wouldn't take the
Japanese long to destroy the Russian
fleet in a general engagement. The
events of th war thus far have dis
closed the fact that the Japanese are.
far ahead of the Russians upon the
sea.
And how is it going on Jand?
Of the courage of the Russian sailors
and soldiers there is no question. They
have in them the material for the mak
ing of men capable of doing wonders.
On land the Russians will give a good
account of themselves, provided they
are properly led and are in every re
spect prepared to meet their foe, but
If the army is as unprepared for the
work it is called upon to do as the
navy lias shown itself to be. then the
Russians may expect a series of dis
asters on land.
The preparedness of the Japanese ex
cites admiration. Their fleet at Port
Arthur has accomplished wonders, and,
that too, without much loss of life on
their part, or Injury to their ships.
They know what they want to do and
they do it. Will they show the same
severe discipline, and the same quick
ness, alertness and skill on land as
they show on the sea? If they do then
Russia, big and powerful as she is,
will have reason to wonder If she didn't
make a mistake In furnishing a cause
for the war.
A SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT.
The name of Chief Gunner's Mate
Monson of the battleship Missouri
should be written high In the list of
heroes of the United States navy.
“Brave Bill" Anthony’s intrepidity at
the time of the destruction of the
Maine was not finer than Monson's
display of courage and presence of
mind. Anthony knew that the wor3t
had happened when he saluted Capt.
Sigabee and announced that the ship
had been blown up and was sinking,
but Monson did not know what was
to follow, when, as soon as he heard
the explosion in the turret, he sprang
Into the powder magazine and. closed
the door after him. In all probability
he expected every beat of his heart to
be the last, and that at any instant
he would be torn tjito bits as fins as
powder. But, like another Jim Blud
soe. "he seen his duty and he done
it.” He staked his life on a chance
to save his ship, and won. It was a
splendid achievement, at a time when
seconds were of incalculable value. It
Is a genuine pleasure to record that
Monson came out of the adventure
none the worse except for a thorough
soaking in the flooded magazine. Uncle
Sam ought to see to it that he wears
a medal for his bravery and quick
and correct judgment.
SAVANNAH A CO*UH STATION.
The formation of r company to es
tablish a coaling station at this port
shows what can be done, in bringing
new enterprises to this city, by per
sistent and well directed effort. The
Morning News has. on a number ot
occasions, called attention to the fuet
that a coaling station here would be
very helpful to the commerce of the
port, and at the same time a great ac
commodation to vessels loading here,
but Its suggestion, that such a station
would pay as a business undertaking,
had always been met by those In a
position to speak with some authority
in respect to the coal business, by the
statement that a coaling station
wouldn't pay. Those who have gone
into the Savannah Coaling Company
have studied the situation thoroughly
and thev are satisfied that a coaling
station here will pay. So satisfied are
they on that point that they are put
ting their money In the enterprise.
There Is one thing that should be
kept in mind by the company, and
that is that the undertaking will likely
prove a failure unless a man of busi
ness capacity and possessing a deter
mination to succeed is put in charge
of its affairs. Doubtless there will be
some obstacles to be overcome in the
beginning of the enterprise. Shipmas
ters will have to be convinced that,
all things considered. It will be to their
advantage to coal here rather thun at
Norfolk, and there will have to be close
figuring in order to secure business in
the beginning and yet leave a fair
profit for those who have put their
money In the undertaking. With th£
right man in charge of the business
we have no doubt that Savannah will
become a popular coaling station.
It is understood, of course, that the
coal Is to be brought from the West
Virginia mines, but in time It may be
shown that about as good coal for
steaming purposes can be had from
the mines here in Georgia, or from the
Alabama or Tennessee mines. It is
a fact, known to some who are famil
iar with the coal deposits of the South,
that the Georgia coal, particularly that
on the Chattanooga division of the
Central Railroad, Is of an exceptionally
good quality.
It wouldn’t be surprising if the es
tablishing of a coaling station here
should result, in the course of time, in
bringing Georgia, Tennessee and Ala
bama cqal into favor with steam
ships visiting this port. There is a
belief now that It Isn’t as good for
steaming purposes as the Virginia coal,
but It may be the belief is only a prej
tjudlc** which may gradually disappear.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATTTRDAY. APRIL 16. 1904.
A BIT OF HISTORY.
In an editorial entitled "The Truth
of History” Mr. Henry Watterson, ed
itor of the Louisville Courier-Journal,
makes a convincing reply to the charge
made against Parker by Don M.
Dickinson, who was a member of Mr.
Cleveland's cabinet, that the defeat of
Mr. Cleveland in 1888 was due to the
"nefarious campaign" carried on for Mr.
Hill by Judge Parker. Mr. Watterson
was in a position to know the facts
of the campaign of 1888, and, hence,
what he says in reply to Mr. Dickin
son’s charge can be relied on.
Mr. Hill was the Democratic candi
date for Governor of New York In
that year and Judge Parker was his
campaign manager. Mr. Cleveland was
the Democratic candidate for Presi
dent, and Calvin S. Brice was the man
ager of the presidential campaign for
the Democratic party. Mr. Hermann
Oelrichs was the head of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of New
York. In October of that year Mr.
Oelrichs called on Mr. Brice and said
that the State Brewers' Association,
which controlled 25,000 votes, had de
cided to use its Influence for Mr. Hill,
believing it would be for its interest
to do so, and he said that It would
willingly do the same thing for Mr.
Cleveland, provided that the latter
would do what he could for the elec
tion of Mr. Hill. Mr. Brice asked what
the association wanted done. Mr. Oel
richs said that If Mr. Cleveland would
write a letter in support of Mr. Hill
the association would be satisfied. Mr.
Brice said: "Suppose Mr. Cleveland
will not write the letter." Then, sajd
Mr. Oelrichs, "let him appear here in
New York at a public meeting in com
pany with Mr. Hill.”
Mr. Brice went to Washington at
once to see Mr. Cleveland about the
matter. Mr. Cleveland declined to ac
cede to either’ proposition. According
to Mr. Watterson he felt so sure of
his re-election that he wouldn’t make
any concession to secure the 25,000
votes controlled by the State Brewers’
Association. Mr. Cleveland lost the
electoral vote of New York, and, hence,
the presidency, while Mr. Hill was
elected Governor. The inference is
that if he had bargained for the votes
controlled by the brewers he would
have been elected.
Mr. Watterson says there Is no rea
son for thinking that Judge Parker
knew anything about the arrangement
with the State Brewers’ Association.
It was a matter outside of him alto
gether. Mr. Cleveland lost the elec
tion not because of anything done by
Judge Parker but because “he thought
he could safely spurn what he thought
was a dicker.”
No doubt there will be many attacks
upon Judge Parker between now and
the meeting of the St. Louis conven
tion. but there isn’t much doubt that
all of them will be answered satisfac
torily.
THE HULL RUN BATTLEFIELD.
The old Bull Run (Manassas) bat
tlefield is to be peopled once more with
matching, counter-marching, charg
ing, retreating, defending and assault
ing armies. In the coming instance,
however, there will be no such scenes
of carnage and fierce conflict as in
those two battles which more than
forty years ago raged over the same
ground and made the names Bull Run
and Manassas famous in American
history. It has been decided that the.
fall military maneuvers of the regu
lar army and the militia shall be held
on the old Virginia battleground, and
plans to that end are being perfected
in the office of the adjutant general
of the division of the Atlantic. As
far as is practicable!, soldiers from the
states that were represented in the
great battles on the same field dur
ing the Civil War will take part in
the maneuvers. Sham engagements
will be fought. How closely these will
adhere to the lines of the original
fights has not yet been determined, but
It is the understanding that some of
the principal movements of the historic
occasions will be duplicated in the
sham battles.
The government appropriation will
permit of the assembling of some
eighteen thousand men for the maneu
vers. All expenses will be paid, and
the men will receive the regular army
per diem, rations and transportation.
The period covered by the maneuvers
will be about fifteen days. The states
that have been invited to send militia
men to participate in the exercises are
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, District of Colum
bia,West Vlrginia.Virginia, North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Geor
gia, Florida. Alabama, Missis
sippi, Louisiana and Texas. It
is hoped and believed by the
military authorities at Washing
ton that every state will send its quota
and that the maneuvers will be not
only the largest but the most success
ful ever held. Aside from the mill-,
tary training that the citizen soldiers
will get, their interest in American
military history will be Increased, they
will arrive at a more thorough under
standing of two famous Civil War
engagements, and their appreciation of
American valor and soldierly qualities
will be enhanced.
The Galveston News published an il
luminating interview with ex-Gov.
Hogg a day or two ago. Hogg, it will
be recalled, has propounded a series
of questions to be answered by Judge
Parker and announced that the Judge
cannot expect his friendship and sup
port until he has answered all of the
questions satisfactorily. The follow
ing is an extract from the interview
in the Galveston paper: ‘’Then the
gentleman said that Hearst was rich
and putting up money for the nomina
tion. ’So much the bettqr,’ answered
the ex-Governor. ‘He won’t be pass
ing around the hat for you and me to
help elect him. That's the kind of a
candidate I like.’ ”
The New Jersey Legislature has
passed a biil prohibiting the shooting
of pigeons and other birds from traps
in the name of sport. The bill pro
vides a penalty of SSO for each viola
tion of the law and an additional pen
alty of $25 for e'-ery pigeon or other
bird so killed. It Is believed the Gov
ernor wiil sign the bilk
Nearly all of Russia’s battleships are
formidable looking monsters. They
stand high out of the water, their free
boards being almost as high as a two
story house. Thetr guns and top
hamper are far above the water, mak
ing them top-heavy and liable to "turn
turtle” when struck below the water
line. That is what occurred to the
Petropavlovsk. She was one of the
tail-structure shins. As soon as the
compartments on the emitted side filled
with water, she keeled over and went
to the bottom. The new vessels of the
American and some other navies show
a very low freeboard, thus bringing
the center of gravity nearer the keel
and at the same time presenting a
smaller target for the enemy to fire
upon. It will be recalled that the British
battleship Camperdown, another high
standing ship, "turned turtle” and
went down in the Mediterranean some
few years ago after being in collision
with another ship of her fleet, and in
the Chino-Japanese war a Chinese ship
of the same general pattern suffered a
similar fate upon being struck below
the water line.
In May, 1898, the United States
cruiser Columbia, running at sea with
out lights, In obedience to the Navy
Department’s orders to look for Cer
vera’s fleet, ran into and sank the
British ship Forcoll. The Columbia
was violating maritime rules made and
provided for the safety of shipping at
sea, but she was doing it in war times,
under orders. Now, after a delay of
six years, the courts have decided that
the government must pay the owners
of the Foscoll for the loss of their
ship. It seems that a case of the kind
might have been settled in less than
six years. However, the British ship
owners are lucky. If they had been
Americans they might have had to
wait six years longer. Uncle Sam is
notoriously poor pay In claims cases,
but when the individual gets into debt
to him, he demands cash on the nail.
If Grand Duke Cyril went to the
front to "win his spurs,” so that he
might go home and marry the woman
of his heart, as has been alleged, he
may now return to St. Petersburg and
summons a priest. He has had his
baptism of Are, and of salt water at
the same time, and it would be a hard
hearted lady who said that his exper
iences had not been sufficient to prove
his mettle.
A professor of the University of Chi
cago says that flirting is a cure for
brain-fag; that it "is not merely an
outlet for the dissipation of surplus
energies as it has been considered, but
is instinctive and tends to the develop
ment of the higher and intellectual
faculties.” If that is a fact, it is clear
ly evident that there are some profes
sors in Chicago who have never, never
been guilty of the fascinating pastime
of flirting.
PERSONAL.
—Henry J. Ackerman has been living
in a dugout ne'ar Pueblo, Col., for six
years. Formerly he was a well-to-do
resident of Brooklyn. In 1898, while
cruising in his yacht, he met and fell
in love with a young jvoman. She mar
ried another man, whereupon Acker
man left his home and took up Ids
abode in his present quarters, where
he has lived a hermit’s life gver since.
—Since the w r ar in the Bast began a
good many newspaper readers have
wondered how Port Arthur came to get
its name. The first foreign vessel to
enter that bay was a British war ves
sel in charge of Lieutenant Com
mander Arthur, who modestly gave his
own name to the place. Thiit was
about fifty years ago, and as Port Ar
thur it has been known ever since.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Buxanbuz—“Whatband seems to be
taking quite an interest in old Gotit’s
daughter.” s. T. udent —‘No, it’s on
ly the principal he’s after.” —Princeton
Tiger.
—“After all, I believe the Chinamen
are our friends.” “Well,” responded
the man with the glossy shirt front,
"they must be our bosom friends.”—
Chicago Dally News.
—Lady Maud—”D6 you think it’s un
lucky to be married on Friday, Sir
John?” Sir John (confirmed bachelor)
—“Certainly. But why make Friday
an exception?”—Punch.
—Eflie (to whom a motor brougham
Is quite a novelty)—"Oh, mummy dear,
look! There’s a footman and a big
coachman on the box, and there isn’t
a horse or even a pony! What are
they for?” Mummy Dear (not well
versed in electricity and motor mech
anism) —"Well, you see, Effle, dear—
the —(by a happy Inspiration) but, dear,
you’re not old enough to understand.”
—Punch.
CtiRRENT COMMENT.
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer (Denj.)
says: “Some of the Republican party’s
’ready reckoners’ have figured out that
Roosevelt can be elected without New
York. The President is known to be
anxious about.the state, and with rea
son. If all for which he stands fails
to appeal to the Republicans of his
own state, what reason is there to be
lieve that his course will be more
strongly Indorsed, by the doubtful
states of the East and the Middle
West?"
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem.) says:
“Some say that Mr. Hearst is a man
of small ability. This may be true ex
cept with regard to his knowledge of
the power of money: It is certainly not
true as to that. With his money he
has arranged matters beautifully. It
is said that he cannot himself make
a good speech or write with force; but
what of that? He pulls a wire, and
Brisbane writes. He pulls another wire,
and Congressman Ltverwurst makes
a speech. He pulls still another wire,
aaid the judicious Ihmaen produces a
fresh supply of happiness and pleas
ant smiles among the nature’s noble
men who bring up the rear of the
boom.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says:
"A magnificent American fleet is pre
paring for a long summer cruise in the
Mediterranean Sea. It is intimated
that a portion of the fleet will be sent
into Turkish waters in order to hold
the Sultan to the fulfillment of certain
obligations. But why should there be
any official secret about this matter?
Why should the uneasy Roosevelt ad
ministration be always seeking for in
ternational complications in some quar
ter of the globe? There was truth in
Bourke Cockran’s sarcasm that while
Congress has the constitutional privi
lege of declaring war, the President
makes war. There would be war now
on both shores of the Isthmus of Pana
ma If the Republic of Colombia were
not toe feeble to fight.”
r* Girlhood.
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m Jmj jJ/)i I girls are P ass ‘ n S through ■
critical periods, girls that need I
(fc? more and richer blood, should I
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Sarsaparilla I
B The Great Alterative *and Blood -and -Strength -making
§| medicine. Only three small doses a day, and pleasant to take.
If there is bilioUSneSS “Mv little girl was greatly run down. I procured
Or Constipation * bottle of Hood’s Sarsaparilla and before she had
r finished one bottle we saw a great improvement in
HOOD’S PILLS her condition. When she had taken three bottles she
j i . , was stronger, had a better appetite and was in better
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B Accept no Substitutes for Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills.
No Substitutes act* like them.
—Jjbg
Cockran. Fooled Him.
Col. “Bill” Sterrett of Texas sat de
jectedly in the House press gallery last
Saturday while Bourke Cockran was
delivering Kis great speech on the de
cadence of the House and the Presi
dent’s service-pension order, says the
Washington correspondence of the New
York World.
“What's the matter, Bill?” asked a
friend. “Why don’t you go in and hear
Cockran?”
"No,” said Sterrett sadly, “I can’t;
I .Jest plumb can’t. Why, I remember
ten or twelve years ago, when he made
his speech on the income tax. I was
in there then. I saw that man stand
there at the head of the main aisle
and talk and shake his head and pull
his hair over his eyes and come charg
ing down the aisle, so much in earnest
that he couldn’t talk, agitated and in
tense, full of surging thoughts, and
when he got down in front of the
Speaker jest roar it out and then go
back arid come charging down again.
By George! I saw all that, and I
can't forget' it.
“He had me crying one minute and
hurrahing for the Lone Star State thg
next, and I went out and wrote four
columns to my paper and said he was
the greatest orator since Cicero, and
had Cicero beat a block when it came
to the real thing. It seemed to me
like it came from his heart, and I
had hysterics about it for four col
umns.
"Then the next day his secretary
told me he had been practicing that
speech for four weeks and had written
It over and over and -over, and all
those spontaneous utterances were cut
and dried as a smoked herring; and
I quit. I jest plumb quit. I’m taking
my acting on the stage now; not out
there in Congress.”
Bull Run Over Again.
So we are to have the battle of Bull
Run over again! writes Victor Smith
in the New York Press. Mighty Scipio!
Is it to be the first or second Bull
Run? And why Bull Run? Who shall
suffer? Is Gen. Corbin to be McDowell
or Pope? Both got terribly licked, the
former by Beauregard, the latter by
Lee. In the secorid battle 15,000 Federal
soldiers were killed. We cannot stand
any more of that.
Why not give us a replica of the bat
tle of Gettysburg—Cemetery Hilt' and
Seminary Ridge, for instance? If Lee
had licked Meade it would have been
impossible for Garfield to say—" God
reigns! and the government at Wash
ington lives!” Lee woujd have cap
tured Washington. But that’s history
—therefore tiresome and trite. I was
going to tell what a celebrated South
ern general and orator said to his
troops just before leading them into
battle. “Boys,” he cried, “I am go
ing to take you to a place where ihe
grape are iron and the vintage blood!”
They followed to a man, and most of
them went into the vintage.
Juvenile View* of Marriage.
He was a curly-headed boy with life
before him, says the Philadelphia Tele
graph, She was a little girl with a
saucy pug nose, but wise, it would
seem, beyond her years. The fact that
she was nursing a doll with eyes that
opened and shut with a click may have
been his inspiration.
”Say, sister, I t’ink I’d get married
if I knew how.”
"Oh, that’s easy,” replied the owner
of the pug nose. “First you buy a
diamond ring and give it to her; then
you buy a gold ring, like mamma’s
got, and give that to her. And then
you must buy her a watch for her
birthday.”
"An’ what she give me?” expectant
ly asked the little chap.
•Why, nuthin’, of course,” smartly
replied his little companion.
“Say, sister, he added, "I guess I
won’t marry.”
How Many, Oh, How Many!
From New Fads.
How many bowls to make a bowler?
How many shoals to make a shoulder?
How many drams to make a drama?
How many bats to make a battle?
How many rats to make a rattle?
How many folks to make a focus?
How many croaks to make a crocus?
How many quarts to make a quarter?
How many ports to mak& a porter?
How many fans to make a phantom?
How many bans to make a bantam?
How many aches to make an acre?
How many fakes to make a faker?
How many wraps to make a rapture?
How many caps to make a capture?
How many nicks to make-a nickel?
How many picks to make a picket?
How many capes to make a caper?
How many tapes to make a taper?
How many tons o make a tunnel?
How many funs to make a funnel?
How many surds to make a summer?
How many bums to make a bummer?
How many tails will make a tailor?
How many jails will make a jailer?
How many Jumps will make a jumper?
How many bumps will make a bfimper?
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—lt is said that Prof. Markwald has
discovered minute quantities of anew
radio-active substance in pitch-blende
which is assaociated with tellurium.
On account of its associations he has
named it radiotellurium. The profes
sor says the new substance is even
more difficult to extract than radium.
—The recent annual report of the
Bell telephone interests discloses the
immensity of the telephone traffic in
the United States, this one company
handling, during the past year, 3,263,-
000,000 calls or over 10,000,000 messages
for every weekday in the year.
—ln view of the announcement by
the New York State medical authori
ties of the abandonment" of their ef
forts to find a cure for cancer, it is in
teresting to learn that the London au
thorities are attacking with renewed
energy their experiments with high
frequency electric and light treat
ments for cancer. It Is announced,
however, that the radium experiments
along this line have been permanently
abandoned.
—ln. a recent report, Pnof. Greeff,
principal of the eye hospital attached
to the Berlin University, says that
in some cases blind persons are able
to distinguish certain objeots illumi
nated by radium rays. He also found
that those Whose optic nerve had not
been destroyed could see objects in
front of a screen made fluorescent by
radium. He concludes by saying, how
ever, that the blind cannot expect for
some time to get any relief from this
new element.
—The suburban electric railway men
operating roads in New England feel
that during the past winter they have
"squared" themselves with the de
tractors of the electrics, who have been
freely predicting that an old-fashiond
winter would put the lines out of bus
iness for weeks at a time. Asa mat
ter of fact, most of these cross-country
electric lines have maintained their
schedule time throughout the snow
season quite as effectively, if not more
so, than the steam roads, with their
heavy equipment,
—ln order to help pay the expenses
of a war which it saw was inevitable
Japan recently established a regie, or
government monopoly of the tobacco
trade. Tobacco was introduced into
Japan in the seventeenth century, and
at the present time there are large
quantities of the weed grown and
smoked there. As yet cigars have not
reached the pinnacle of esteem they
hold with more civilized nations, but
Japan is making grand efforts to at
tain the standard of the Weßt, and
there are hopes for her. Just now the
favorite smoke is a very small pipe,
which is thrown away before it reaches
the stage when it is able to walk alone.
In that much the Jap is in advance of
some of his more polished white breth
ren.
e-Thc electric equipment of succes
sive designs of battleships becomes
more important and extensive. For
instance, the electric equipment of the
Kearsarge is about eight times as
large as that of the old Indiana. The
Missouri, which may be taken as typ
ical of the modern type vessel, has a
425 horse-power electric plant. This
supplies power for the ship's main
ventilating system, for four portable
electric fans. The lighting outfit com
prises 770 incandescent lamp fixtures,
four 30-inch projectors, two night sig
nalling sets and two diving lanterns.
In addition, there are motors for am
munition hoists, turret turning and
loading of turret guns. It has recently
been proposed to adopt electric steer
ing gear.
—A new department has been or
ganized by the Carnegie Institution at
Washington., the purpose of which Is
to investigate problems that relate to
the magnetic and the electric condi
tions of the earth and Its atmosphere,
not specifically the.subject of inquiry
of any one country, but of Interna
tional concern and benefit. The
changes in the compared direction
from year to year'are to be investi
gated over the entire globe, with a
view to discovery of the cause of the
shifting of the magnetic poles of the
earth. Magnetic storms will be stud
ied and magnetic observations made at
sea for gradually acquiring data with
which more nearly correct magnetic
charts than have been heretofore
made can be supplied to mariners. Dr.
L. A. Bauer, in charge of the mag
netic survey of the United States, con
ducted under the coast and geodetic
survey, has been appointed director of
the department.
—Some experiments recently made
at Aberdeen to discover the number of
electrons present In the air under va
rying conditions of the weather led to
the following results, as summarised
in the London Electrical Review: East
erly winds carry very few electrons,
the insulation having bean perfect for
hours at a time. .Winds from the west
bring about a quicker discharge of an
electrified body, and it would not ap
pear that the amount of aqueous va
por has much to do with this action.
An increase in the number of elec
trons seems to have an appreciative
effect upon the temperament, and pos
sibly the vitality, of human beings.
The ionizing agencies produce equal
numbers of positive and negative ions,
but there are agencies at work in na
ture which produce an excess of one
kind or the other. In the neighborhood
of waterfalls there is an excess of neg
ative ions, while the dashing of the
waves of the, sea against the shore pro
duce an excess of positive ions in the
atmosphere.
—Six hundred acres of San Joaquin
county land are being turned over every
twenty-four hours by plows hauled by
traction engines. There are now fif
teen traction engines engaged in plow
ing on lands in this county, and each
engine plows from forty to fifty acres
per day, says the Stockton (Col.) Rec
ord. On the islands a few of the en
gines are kept plowing night and day,
These peatland engines are provided
with headlights as powerful as those
used on modern locomotives, by the
aid of which the engineer Is enabled
to follow his last furrow as closely as
in the daytime. Not only does this
big steam horse plow the land, but
it seeds and harrows It at the same
operation on land which Is to be plant
ed to grain. Each plow Is fitted with
a seeding device, behind which follow
teeth that cover the grain just at the
proper depth. Ne'arly aJI of the en
gines are oil burners. Four men and
a span of horses and a wagon make up
the crew of one of these big plowing
machines. On the engine are the en
gineer and fireman. The third man
rides on the plows and the fourth
hauls the seed, oil and water to the
outfit as it is needed.
—The first impression one gets of
Muskogee, the largest and most im
portant town in Indian Territory, li
that of a Southern city with a larg<
negro population, says the Kansas
City Journal. The negro predomi
nates, tfie whites come in next, and
the red men are often pointed out as
exceptions, one might almost say rari
ties. And yet legally and technically
in Muskogee a large proportion of
these negroes an® white men are In
dians and are called such; and this is
true throughout the Creek and Musko
gee nation. The title Indian includes
Indian by blood, Indians by Intermar
riage and freedmen. The freedmen
are the 6laves who were liberated dur
ing the Civil War, or their descend
ants. They were admitted to full cit
izenship in the Creek nation and are
entitled to share In the distribution of
the lands and moneys of the tribe.
They can vote for the tribal officers,
and are eligible to the tribal offices.
The Creek Council, consisting of the
House of Kings and the House of
Warriors, is in part made up of ne
groes. Freedmen, however, have not
been admitted to citizenship in the
two Southern tribes, the Choctaws and
the Chickasaws, but the United States
government proposes to give them for
ty acres of land apiece, but it must
reimburse these two nations for the
lands thus presented by a generous
government to those who ’ were for
merly in bondage to the government’s
wards—the Indians. Intermarriage be
tween fullblood Indians and the freed
men has been frequent and extended
among the Creeks; somewhat less so
among the Seniinoles, and practically
unknown among the Choctaws and
Chickasaws. The existence of these ne
groes in such numbers as In the Creek
nation and under the cricumstances
creates a negro problem of great Im
portance and greater difficulty.
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