The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-31
ITEMS OF interest.

is suing Dr.. c. Eugene MacChesney. prin-
cipal of MacChesney Business and CLASH
cal College. Williamson wanted 5000 dam
ages for alleged breach Of contract. Fred
b. Williamson, son of the plaintiff, was
twelve years Cd in 1894, when his father
sent him 10 MacChesney's College with the
understanding that he was TO be given
a good commercial educat on, with partc-
ular attention TO bookkeeping. He paid
S4JO a year for four years course. Al the
end of that time Mr.. Williamson asked
the boy 10 figure out the discount on a bill
Of goods. The boy was unable to 90 so
and the father reluctantly paid the last
$50 due and took the boy from MacChes-
neys S. The suit for breach of contract was
based on the alleged lack of attention Civ
en- the boy at school. Young Williamson
testified that the teachers We're always
too busy to explain anything, and that
they simply allowed the pupils to copy
lessons flom text books.
I Kruger comes from sect of the
Beers called Doppers, says the Chicago
Times Herald. This singular community
broke off from the Dutch reform Church
when that church, some fifty years or
more ago, substituted hymn singing for
psalm singing. The D1ppees, VINO were al
most all Krugers, FOR the family is an
enormous one, adopted curious dIess,
the men cutting their hair as If a bowl
ing broad-brimmed, gray beaver hats.
short coats cut like an Elton jacket and
trousers stopping a tile above the ankle.
The women wear black alpaca dresses and
caps or kepjes of the same They settled
down in the district of Mddleburg, Cape
Colony, where they do only what work is
necessary to keep them from actual star
walton. They have so intermarried that
idiocy insanity. blindness, deafness and
all the other Affections consequent on such
a course are frightfufly prevalent They
are unspeakably dirty in their houses and
habits, their only concession to personal
cleanliness being to wipe off their face in
the morning with the same cloth with
which the dishes and pots are cleaned dur
ing the day. They remove only their shoes
or veldtschoenS, when they go to bed at
night. The story is that when Kruger
came back from his visit to England in
'SS his good Vrouw exclaimed when she
saw him preparing to take off his trous-
ers before going to bed, God Almighty!
What are you dolng?"
The excavations made by NJ Chantre
in Cappadocia in 1884, says the Baltl-
more Sun, resulted in the discovery of
numerous inscriptions in the Hittite char
acter and also of q series of twelve cunei-
form tablets in the Hittite language.
These texts have now been translated in
part, and their contents prove, according
to a letter from c. B. Condor in the Lon
don Times, that the Eiittites were Moguls
Most of them date from $50 or 1130 B. G.,
when the Assyrians were attacking Cap
padocia. It is shown that the name Hittite
applied only to that section of the race in
habiting Syria. Those living in Cappadocia
properly Katpaduka, the northern land)
We're called Kau. Some tablets and seals
found by Mr.. Chantre go as far back as
2000 or $500 B. c., but most of the letters
belong to the period of the decay of the
early Moguf Independent princes of Asia
Minor. They were finally conquered by
$50 b. c., by the Modes in the East and in
the Northwest by the Lydians, Phrygians
and Ionians of the Aryan race before 600
3. c. The Assyrians conquered the Hittites
in M b. c. Hittite and cuneiform char
acters are in some instances used side by
side, and it is shown that the Utilities con-
tinued 10 use the cuneform characters
after the twelfth century. No doubt is left
it is affirmed, that their language was
Monaghan. Among other things, it is
brought out that in Cappadocia as early as
B. c.. 1000 there was an active trade in tin,
leather, cloth, horses, etc. The cuneiform
Inscriptions found in Babylonia have long
since made il clear that already in EIo-
mer's day the civilized world was in its
old age.
Writing from sucre, Bolivia to the
Chicago Record, w. E. Curtis says: Sucre
is very old town and was founded sew
eral centuries before the conquest. 1t
was formerly known as Chuquisaca, but
i'm 1924 was christened in honor of Gen
Sucre, one of the heroes of the war of
independence. The stoves of the Bolivian
Indians are curious things. A hole is
dug in the ground about eighteen inches
deep and a foot square, and over this is
built a roof of clay with holes of different
sizes to receive the various cooking pots.
Roasting is done ON splits passed through
the holes, so that the meat comes out very
much smoked unless great care is taken
to have only live Goals at the bottom of
the oven. The national dish, and the
common food of the masses, is "chupe''
a sort of first cousin to the Irish stew 1t
is a conglomerate, composed of irregular
constituents from the animal and vege-
table Kingdoms mess of mutton and
such other meats as are avilable; chicken,
fish, fruits, potatoes, carrots, barley,
corn, rice, onions, vans, etc, chopped up,
highly seasoned with peppers and herbs.
and stewed to consistency of porridge.
What happens to be left from one meal
SINNERS in the pot until the next. If the
fire goes out the 'chupe" is allowed to
cool, but it is warmed up again and a
new supply of the ingredients added to the
water-logged and greasy stuff for the next
meal. In the cities, at the hotels and
restaurants where there are French or
SWISS COOKS. the Cnupe is SdVOry ana
p1latable, but the farther you go from the
centers of civilization the worse it gets
One eats it at first under protest, then
from necessity, and only to escape starva-
ton; but finally the stomach rebels and
you limit your diet to boiled eggs and
fruit, which are usually TO be obtained;
but the experienced traveller always takes
canned meat and bread with him.
The Manufacturer of Philadelphia Is
Pencoyd Iron Works, which has just COM
pleted the railroad bridge over the At
bara river, forming necessary link be-
tween Cairo and Khartum. The Atbara is
the first affluent of the Nile which one
meets in the ascent of the latter river
1t comes from the mountains of Abyssinia,
and in the rainy season carries a large
volume of water. The bridge was bid for
English firms, and was secured by an offer
to complete and erect it in three months,
by the Pencoyd Works in competition with
the best offer made by an English firm re-
quiring twice that time. The iron used In