The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-24


roads of the United States than on those
of any other country in the world. says the
New York Press. The average is about
PA cents a mile as against go in Eng
land. 225 in Belgium. 2.99 in Germany,
S.o5 in Austria and 1886 in France. If the
American rate had been in 1897 ! cent more
a mile than il was (which would be less
than the average rate in Franco, the ex-
ira cost to the people and the correspond |
ing profit TO the railroads of the United
States would have been $13Q000,090. The
difference between the United States and
foreign freight rates is far greater than
that In passenger rates. While our ma
tive roads haul ton for 0S7 cents, Ger
many charges 132 cents, Belgium 1.39,
Austria, LIS, France, 1.59, and England
1.S5 Mr. Turk says that if the average
of American freight rates were as high
as it is in Belgium the people in this |
country would have paid to the railroads
in 1897 about $2S6,O0O,O00 more than they
did. If the rates had been as high as they
are in England, We should have paid the
roads about $685. 600, 900 more than we did
There are clocks innumerable-histor
cal and commonplace-in the home of the
President of the United States, says the
Philadelphia Can. But one of The clocks
is of American make. 1t was bought by
James Monroe and has always Remained
in the green room. 1t keeps just as good
time as its foreign contemporaries, though
in the early days America did not shine
as a successful clock making country.
The clock in the blue paTlor was once
owned by Napoleon Bonaparte, who gave
it to Lafayette, who in Iurn bestowed it
upon Washington. 1t has a frame of ala
baster and gilt bronze and is wound but
once a month. 1t keeps time to-day as ac-
curately as when it was new The Lincoln
clock is in the red room and is made of
ebony and gold. 1t strikes the halves
and quarters, as well as the hours. In
the room now occupied by Mrs. Mckinley
is a clock which has been ticking away
for thirty years. The clock with which
the public is most familiar is on the stairs
leading to the Presidents office. and many
a weary and anxious waiter has watched
its hands creep relentlessiy across the
face. 1t is modern and commonplace. The
private secretary has a clock with a cathe-
dral gong, which is a good time-keeper.
The Penobscots offer a fair example of
what education and school training can do
for the Indian, says tine Boston Transcript.
This tribe is on an island in the Penob-
scot river, near Old Town, Me, and still
maintains its tribal organization, elects its
chief and council and makes its own laws.
Although the village is no longer made
up OF birch bark wigwams it is composed
of attractively built houses, varying from
a one-room shanty to the tWo-story dwell
ing of the modern American type win
parlor. dining-room and kitchen on the
first floor. There are also a church and
two halls, in the latter of which public
meeting and festal gatherings are held.
They have a substantial and well-planned
school house, lacking nothing but books of
proper and sufficient kind. Not only does
the schoolhouse and its pupils feel this
lack but the older Indians are eager for
good reading matter. History is their ia
vorite subject, and next to this they prefer
stories of travels and accounts of birds
and animals. Anyone having books
which he would like to donate to some
charitable purpose may rest, assured that
they will be appreciated to their fun
worth by those Penobscot Indians. They
may be sent direct to the Indian village,
addressed Penobscot Indian Library, Old
Town, Me, or they may be sent to Mr..
Montague Chamberlain, Quincy Hail. Cam
bridge who is keenly interested in the
welfare of these Indians-the original
American stock.
As the modern reader picks up his pa
per to learn the news of the same day at
Manila, he hardly realizes what a differ
ence the telegraph has made in the MAX
| ing and marring of mems fortunes says
| the New York Commercial Advertiser. A
| mistake is far more fatal now than it was
in the days of old. AS Sir John Seeley
| has pointed out, Napoleon's career would
have ended in Egypt had immediate public
| ity been possible and the responsibility
| been brought home to him. Nelson had
| destroyed his fleet, he had lost 5000 SOL
| diers, and he was deserving an army, he
| could not bring away. Before France
| knew the fact, he had won her heart with
| fresh victories, gained with fresh soldiers.
| Similarly the real truth concerning the
| terrible Moscow campaign was not under
| stood for months. Even the result at
| Waterloo was not definitely known in Lon
| don, a few hundred miles away, till four
days later; for the Morning Chronicle of
| June %, under the heading, Total Defeat
of Bonaparte," began its dispatch, I'VE
stop the press TO announce" etc The mod
| ern reader would not buy his paper could
| he not hear of even trivial occurrences the
| day after they happened; and while an
| old-fashioned general would be deciding
| what to do next, the modern one would be
| hopeessly condemned by the world and
recalled by his government.
| One of the most interesting discoveries
| which have taken place in Rome for some
|
| time past says a Rome correspondent OF
| the Baltimore Sun, is a collection of frag-
1 ments of marble on which the plan Of the
| city was originally engraved. A consider
| able number of these line the staircase
| leading up to the sculpture museum of the
| capitol. Several are reproductions from
drawings preserved in the vatican library,
made by Bellori when the fragments which
| are now lost We're found. Seventy flour OF
| he fracr in he 81.
| century are lost, and are preserved by
| those copies each marked on the capitol
| staircase by a red star. The new findings
made on the banks of the Tiber, near
| Farnesina palace, while removing an old
| wall, amount altogether to $50 fragments
| OF varying sizes, but mostly small The
pieces already on the Capitoline staircase
were nearly all found near the forum, for
they formed the covering of one end OF
the temple of the city of Rome. Such as
| they are they have served to determ ne
the site and the form of more than one