The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-01
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out at much less expen-e The Northern
manufacturers could not stand this com
petition. They decided to make better
quality of goods. Heretofore the nne quail
tiles were imported from abroad. Now as
good quality is manufactured by the mills
of Fall River and Is for home consump-
ton. New machinery was substituted for
the old. The old hands employed in the
mills were of sufficient experience to turn
out the good quality. This has resulted In
a decline of imported goods. I DO not
mean by this that the South has all the
cheap cotton trade. There are ten mills
IN Fall River and New Bedford which turn
out the cheap grade. The other seventy
or eighty mills are devoted to the nner
grades"
The Washington letter Of the Chicago
Record says: Col. O'Reiley of the army,
surgeon in chief at Fortress Monroe, has
been very successful In his treatment of
soldiers who have returned from Cuba and
the Philippine islands, saturated with ma
larial poison. Several officers who suffer
ed from fevers during the Santiago cam
paign have had periodical returns of those
complaints. They come about once in
three or four months, each time with an
creastng severity, but DR.. O'Reiley, with
simple treatment, has given most of them
permanent relief. He takes a drop of
blood from the ear of the patient, and if,
under a microscope, he discovers maiarial
germs, he prescribes F'owlers solution of
arsenic in such doses as the microscopic
examination suggests, the average being
five drops three times day after each
meal. If the eyes of the patient water the
dose Is reduced. After two weeks of the
treatment the blood is examined again AMI
usually found entirely free from malarlal
germs. If not, the treatment is continued.
THE series of successes in South Africa
has given wonderful impetus to the medal
trade in Birmingham, says a London pa
per. Medals have followed victories with
such promptness that a medallion history
of the war would be by no means i'm
possible for practically every important
victory has been celebrated in this way.
Among the first issued was a neat little
badge sent out from one of the biggest
houses in the trade. 1t was surrounded
by a gilt crown and a horseshoe, and in
gilt and enamel were the words, Good
luck TO the gentlemen in khaki" Thou
sands of these were worn in hats and but
tonholes. The news of Ladysmith relev-
ed was followed by a shower of medals
and photo buttons. Most notable of all
are the medals for the Queens visit to
Ireland, one house turning out fifteen va
rieties All bear the portrait of the Queen,
and some on the reverse side depict an
Irish harp with the motto, april 1900. In
commemoration of Her Majesty's visit to
Ireland in the sixty-third year of her go
rlous reign"
Judge Williams has decided in the Su-
perior Court of Wisconsin that street car
conductors have no right to order passen-
gers to Move forward" The court sail
that the man who stands up in the car If
he does not block up the aisle has as
much right to his place as a passenger has
ia
has no more right to oblive a person to
change position than he n blige one
to give up his seat to arott.-r. The pas
sengers who get on last must find places
for themselves or adapt themselves to the
congested condition of thej car. The court
said that the law upheld passenger in
keeping his standing room notwithstsnd-
ing the fact that the conductor ordered
him to move along The decision was
handed down in the suit brought by Alex
ander Schmidt of Milwaukee to recover
$500 damages claimed to have been sus-
tained by him because he was put off a
car. Mr.. Schmidt was riding in Third
street in the evening. The car was crowd
ed and IL was quite warm. Near Walnut
street the conductor ordered him to move
along, but Mr. Schmidt refused to do so
because the only vacant space left was in
front Of a hot stove and he declined to go
forward. He was elected from the car
favor of plaintiff, which the court, after
taking the matter under consideration
granted.
Before the war of 1s70-71, says the En-
cheering Magazine, optical telegraphy
comprised signaling by means Of flags by
day. and by means of lanterns or torches
by night; but IN that war the heliograph
proved its efficiency. The electric light
was at once suggested to make the sys-
tenn independent OF sunshine and fair
weather but the difficulty of having Il on
hand in the field was then too great, SO
other sources of light (such as improved
petroleum lamps were used. England
however, adhered to the Telegraph and
had great success in it's use In India and
In South Africa, In some cases for dis
tances of more than 100 miles. Ordinarily,
however, the heliograph. using as Ii does
the SUMS rays as the source of light, Is
limited to range of about fifty-five
miles; but by means of relay stations ii
can, Of course, be used to much greater
distances. However, in the fed such
relay stations are liable to interruption
by the enemy's cavalry, the messages
can often be intercepted at certain points
by interposing a cloud of smoke made by
burning brush or damp straw, and, fin
ally, the number of repetitions increases
the chances Of error. The electric-arc
light is faE-Here efficient, is Independent
of the weather and can be used by night
as well as by day. BY it's means the
range has been extended TO more than
400 miles. In the Transvaal war the Brit
fsh made use for this purpose Of the cleo
trio searchligbts from the ships, and this
was, indeed. the only means of communi-
cation with the external world relied upon
by the besieged garrisons of Ladysniith
and Kimberley.
The most amazing thing about a
Moro is his trousers. says a writer in
Ainslees Magazine. II he is of any sta
ton. or has any money, they are made
of silk, and the moro colors and the
brighter they are, the better have seen
red, green, yellow. white and black all in
one pair. And the greens and reds are
no soft, subdued affairs; they are the
| most violent and vehement things in the
color line. 1t is the fit of them that is
the wonder, though If they were OF
the right shade of brown, you couldn't tell
that there were any trousers. Nothing so
tight ever was contrived by any sartorial
artist who uses the English language. But
for one thing the conclusion would be ir-
resistible that they are made on the wear
ers and worn off-4haf Is that sornatin,aS