The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07
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said recently that he considered President
Diaz of Mexico, an ideal ruler for Span
ish-Americans. strong, honest and steady.
OF 1.0l6 townships in the state of In
diana forty-slx are named after Jackson,
forty-six after Washington. twenty after
| Harrison, twenty after jefferson, twelve
after Wayne, and Twelve after Clay.
Gibson II. Sakurai, a japanese, who
has come to this country to study the
condition of American working women,
says it is only a question of time when
the japanese women will be as progress
i've as those of this country He is direc-
tor of the Meigi Girls Seminary, in To-
kio.
On the marble tomb of Lord Nelson
in the crypt of ST. Paurs Cathedral, Lon
don, is a square perforated cardboard on
which is worked in worsted letters: I'm
loving memory of dear Lord Horatio Mel
son. THY viii be done " 1t was brought
J to the tomb six years ago by a little gir
| who had evidently taken great pride and
interest in her tribute to the great naval
hero. While 1t is against the rules to
allow anything of the kind to be placed
on the tomb, an exception was made in the
case of the little girls sampler, and the
memorial still remains.
Mr. Moody was strongly opposed to
faith heaters. Not long ago, in Chicago,
he said: God heals through doctors and
through medicines. Do not be carried
away through rawlings of fanaticism We
have a new ism in America about every
year-beware of the ismsr What would
l do if l fell sick? Get the best doctor
in Chicago trust to him and trust to the
Lord to work through him. The doctors
have done wonders as their knowledge has
grown; they have reduced the dangers of
death from diseases that once slew all
they touched; and the doctors, if God
helps them, will yet find a way to stop
| the ravages of other terrors."
Norman w. Stearns of Dorchester,
Mass, has presented at the war depart
ment for payment a curious claim against
| the government He is the holder of a
promissory note. drawn in favor of his
| t-grandfa Their, Eli Stearns, on Au-
| l, 1881, as reimbursement for S1S67 which
| the latter advanced for the requirements
of some sick soldiers in Boston. The note
reads said sum shah be paid on the first
| day of December ensuing, 1871, and if not,
| then the same shall bear interest of 6
| per cent per annum until paid Stearns
| claims that payment was deferred on the
| date specified, and that the interest on
| the document now amounts to over 3d.
| 900. The government is investigating the
matter.
The Internationales Criminal Polizei-
| blatt, just started in Mayence, Germany,
will furnish police all over the world with
| the description of criminals who are
wanted" by the various governments. The
paper is published in German, French
and English, and IS embellished with the
photographs of vllainous looking ruffians.
| The English section is a marvel of Origi-
| nal composition For instance, a fugitive
Il Il.
Co. m; darkfair hair; a beardless beard,
| an ordinary nose and a round chin. The
| royal states prosecutor wants us to deliv-
| er him to the nearest courts prison by
| notice giving hither." An insurance agent
is described as being ''of broad-shouldered
| stature, with a full-beard beard which
| grows only since a short time, gray
| tippet for dressing, and as particular
| marks spectacles in a white Frame
Admiral Dewey. having been requested
| by the Columbia (Io) Herald to decide as
to the relative merits of several Santa
| Claus" letters submitted to that journal
| by the little folk just before the holidays
| selected as the prize winner the epstle
| of a little girl who wanted "one penny
| doll, one sheet of green tissue paper, one
| cream dipper, one set of coored pencils,
| candy, almonds. pecanS, one lunch box
| silk handkerchief, one toy bank. P
| S.-One Bible" In communicating his
/ decision the Admiral said: THE peculiar
| points of this letter. which in my opinion
| is the best and most characteristic of a
| girl are that IL is novel and unlike most
| of the letters; that ii is so clear and bust
| ness-lke as to leave no room for misun-
| Outstanding the desires of the writer, and
! that it is characteristic of female hand
| is that it contains the inevitable P. s.,
| without which a woman's letter is incom-
plete."
Sidney O'Brien, an Irishman, of Wash
! ington in a letter to the Detroit Free
| Press, makes some statements concerning
| the Beers that will seem to most people
| incredible ANY Roman Catholic" he
| says. who may stray into the ranks of
| the Boer volunteers should leave all trace
| of his religion behind wear no Scapular
| or beads and forget his religion, even at
| moments of peril or suffering-for should
| he unfortunately betray his religion, al
| though fighting for the Beers, they will
| hang him to the nearest tree. 1T came
| to the writer's immediate knowledge that
| a DOOR illiterate Irish teamster was badly
| probably fatally crushed by his wagon,
| and in moments of agony he beseeched
| those around him to bring a priest This
| was overheard by some Beers, and that
| night the suffering IriShman was dragged
| from his shelter and hanged on the gable
| of a cabin. For a Catholic to be allowed
| to die on his bed would be a crime in
| that land of heretics God help the wound
| ed British of the faith. The Boer stipulat-
| ed at Modder river that only cergymen
| of the Reformed church should ofTiciate
at the burial of the British dead The
| feeling is abroad that the A. P. AS are
| willingly supporting the Beers, because of
| their intense hatred of Catholics for they
! Ohe A. z. AS think any country or con-
stitution should be upheld that will try
to crush Roman Catholicism. Is this right
| in land of freedom
DIR. Carl Peters, who arrived in Lon
don the other day from Africa, has given
some further details concerning his discov-
cry of what he believes to be the ruins of
! the ancient Ophir, He said that he hal
| been exploring the country between the
! Zambesi and the Pungwe in Portuguese
| East Afriea and Eastern Mashonaland
| Before he started from England he had