The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-01

is of Irish extraction, being the great
grandniece of Robert Emmett. "She has
BEEN says the King, lone of the most
beautiful women in the Transvaal and
though now the mother of a numerous
family, is still very charming and come
iy little woman. She is a highly cultured
woman, weA read musical. of artistic
bent, and, in times of peace, a most sue
cessful and popular hostess. Those who
knew the Bothas at home before the war
began describing the family as being IN
habits and tastes very similar to good
class English country family. Mrs.
Botha knows England and the English
we'll. She was in this country a couple
of years ago, and has relatives in Lon
don. When entertained at dinner by Lord
Roberts she suggested that feminine in
huences would be necessary 40 bring peace
to Africa, and her recent efforts to cause
a cessa ton of the war prove that she is
as practical in diplomacy as she is apt
in pointing a way"
A New York dispatch of May IS says
Twenty miles of good steel cable, origi-
nally worth $4,000, will be cut up to-mor-
row into four-foot lengths and sod as
junk for $500. Pennsylvania steel mills
are always glad to get big ropes of this
decription, and the passing of the old
Broadway cable line brought several bids
for this part Of the equipment. The last
cable car was run on Broadway at
O'Clock last night and, strangely enough
it had the usual accident at Dead Mans
Curve in Union square, where 50 many
luckless pedestrians are knocked down
and disfgured. The Pencoyd Steel Works
of Pennsylvania have engaged to remelt
the cable and make Ii into beams angie
frames and plate for structural work
Because of its great tensile strength the
quality of steel in the cables is consid-
cred of the very highest grade. 1t COM
mands a higher price than other grades.
The transformation of the Broadway ca
Bile line ends profitable business for the
junk men. The cable costs them but half
a cent a pound, and the profits in resell
ing to steel companies is very great.
Charles S. Goodnight. pioneer ranch
man in the Texas Panhandle a genera
ton ago, arrived in Kansas City recent
ly, says the Kansas City Journal. Dur
ing his long career he has kept abreast
of the constant changes that have been
made in ranching. He says this genera
ton has seen the passing of the million
acre ranch, and that immense tracts in
one body have seen their day in Texas.
Mr.. Goodnight says that ten men with
10000 acres each can operate more sue
cessfully than one man on 1,000,00 acres.
OlAOWlhS liiSs theory, he began SeIll1S
off his originally immense ranch into
smaller ranches, and now only has 10000
acres. This is enough, he says, and is
model ranch. On it he has several
thousand herd of Buffalo, and the largest
herd of Persian sheep in America. He
has commissioned Buffalo" Jones to go
to the Rocky Mountains and secure as
may mountain sheep as he can. These
he will ship to Texas and cross with
efrva T.
night expects to have one of the most
unique and valuable herds in existence.
If Londoners have any real sentiment
to waste, says the London Telegraph, it
should rather be directed toward the APP
preaching demolition of the time-honored
though frowning and repellent frontage
of Coutt's Bank. The name of it con-
jures up the thoughts of heaps of gold
second only in size and amplitude to those
of the Bank of England Is not Coutts
the largest private bank in England, and
has it not a more extensive connection
than any other with the mobility and
landed gentry?' To possess "a snug
banking account at Coutts " has been
the stock synonym for riches with all
the novellsts of the nineteenth century
Great George Our King" opened an ac-
count with the shewd old Scotchman who
not only founded bank, but founded
family by marrying each of his three
daughters to men of title. The Duke
of Wellington was another of his most
famous clients, and DR.. johnson and Sir
Walter Scott banked their moneys in his
keeping. The history of such an institu-
ton, could it ever be written, would be
far more interesting than any romance
1t is understood that the building will
not be wholly destroyed, and the most
notable features of the interior will of
course, be preserved. These include cost
ly marble chimney pieces of the ford
Cipriana school and a valuable collection
of portraits of the friends of the founder
of the bank, while the dining room is de-
scribed as being hung with Chinese sub
jects on papers which were sent to Mr..
Coutts by Lord Mccartney, while on his
embassy to China in 1792-95''
I'm an interesting autobiographica1
sketch, published recently in London, Gen
Booth writes the following touching
the nomenclature of the Salvation Army: |
But it is a mistake to suppose that we |
have taken the military as a model. We !
have never taken anything as a model no |
church. no chapel, no army. In fact, the |
title captain was, in the first instance |
intended to be nautical rather than midi
tary, and was meant 10 catch the eye of |
the Whitby fishermen; the subsequent ad- |
dition of other military titles was a mat |
ter of necessity. It became essential to |
define the position of the assistant evan |
gelist. And what more convenient term |
could be found than that of lieutenanH? |
Elders and class leaders were no more. |
and some substitute was necessary. Ser |
geants and sera geant majors just met the |
difficulty. The rapid increase of the work |
made il advisable to group the stations |
into districts, under the charge of the |
most experienced evangelist. distn- |
gushing title again became a necessity. |
The clerical catalogue had been aban-
doned as unsuitable. Hence it appeared |
advisable once more 20 have recourse 10 |
military phraseology, and the major and |
the colonel were accordingly introduced.
AS to my own title-weh. it also came as
naturally as the rest. / had up to then
been plain William Booth, general super
intendent of the mission. Captain Cad
man one day announced me at a meeting
as the General of the Salvation Army.
1t has stuck to me ever since. I never |
took the title. II was forced upon me by |
others in exactly the same way that
Christians were first so called at Antioch"
THE Flora of Man" may seem at first
sight somewhat inexplcable, says the
London Chronicle, but 1t formed the sub |
ject OF a highly interesting address de- |
livered before the Manchester Literary |
and Philosophical Society by DR.. e. |
Metchnikoff. of the Pasteur Institute. |
Paris The lecturers text was the dis |