The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-29

represent a. young woman resting Hel
hand on tablet which bears the
words: The rights of man." This
has suggested clever notion to Nine.
who favors equal rights. At her own
cost she has caused to be printed
large number of stamps showing
young man resting his hand on a tab
let bearing the words; The rights of
woman" Nine Auclert has mailed
hundreds of letters TO all parts of
France, each letter bearing one of her
stamps alongside that demanded by
the postal authorities. Other female
suffragists are calling for supplies of
the stamps for use in their correspond
ence.
About a year ago there lived in the
north OF London a retired clergyman
who handsomely aided an otherwise
slender income by writing sermons for
other men of the cloth. The sermon
writer died rather suddenly, but left
good supply of pulpit material. This
was about all he did leave, however,
so his widow, a clever woman of edu-
cation took up his work. She has
been carrying on the business" ever
since, and the fact was discovered
only a month ago. Most of her SER
mons are bought by clergymen of the
Church of England, who are under the
impression that her husband is stu
alive. The widow sees no harm in
keeping up the deception. especially as
it is fair to presume that the sermons
she furnishes are better than those
which her correspondents could turn
out.
For years it has been the custom
among well-to-do, but overworked,
business and professional men TO
periodically drop their cares and sail
TO Europe, not because there was any
thing across the water which they par
ticularly wished to see, but merely to
get away from their arduous duties
for the short time of the passage each
way, says the Springfield Republican,
Is there not danger that the practical
development of wireless telegraphy
VIII put a stop to this rest cure?- II a
steamer can be hailed in midocean ana
a Geographic message conveyed to one
of her passengers, where Will the tired
business man be safe? Obviously he
must go on an ocean trip fully equip
ped with stenographers and clerks,
and sit at a desk all the way over, in
order TO keep the pace, In the coming
age a man cannot very we'll get be-
yond the reach of the telegraph. TO
really be, safe from interruption, the
future man of affairs must take pas
sage incognito leaving the country
perhaps under some such circum-
stances as Robert Belcher adopted, in
one of Or. Hollands best stories
According to a Vienna. coTespon-
dent OF London newspaper, the late
Grand Vizier, KhaIil Rifat Pasha, was
shrinking example of the indolent,
phlegmatic fatahstic Turk. He ap-
pears to have cared for nothing but his
title and his salary, and to have allow
ed the Sultan and his creatures at the
palace to exercise the functions of the
Vizierate in any way that might seem
best to them. Not infrequently he only
heard of what was done, through the
newspapers, as he candidly admitted
to an interviewer just before the
Greek war. When he was appointed in
November, 1885, something better was
expected from him ON account of his
energy in stamping out brigandage
when he was governor general or the
Vilayet of Kossovo. But as soon as ne
was created Grand Vizier he simply
allowed things to drift, and permitted
others to usurp his authority without
resistance or protest. His one aim,
apparently was to lead a. quiet life,
| unvexed by state problems. Nothing,
| of course, could have pleased the pal
| ace favorites better They had their
| own way almost in everything and
Khalii enjoyed himself, perfectly in
| different to the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
which has been bringing the country
nearer and neare. to ruin.
The French military press exhibits
| anxiety about the progress which is
being made in Germany in the devel-
| opment of a quick-firing fleld-gun.
| With the construction of the so-called
| 75-gun-a field-piece of 70 millimetres
| calibre--the French believed that they
! had provided their artillery with a
weapon far superior to that in use in
! any other army. They now learn.
! however, that German artillerists. al
| though for the time outpaced have OF
! late been rapidly regaining lost ground.
| The France Miitaire reports series
| of trials made with some pieces con-
structed, or rather converted from an
| old to a new pattern in the krupp
factories. IT is said that twenty
rounds were fired in fifty seconds, Of
course without any relaying of the gun
| between the rounds, and that at $500
yards range the projectiles all struck
1 within a rectangle Of forty yards in
| depth and three yards in width and
at 1000 yards within a rectangle Of
sixty-four by five yards. Equally good
| results were ODtdAn6u WHen L06 gun
was fired on paved or macadamized
roads and also when in action on an
ascending slope of six degrees or on
a descending slope of nine degrees.
If the French journal says, these
| reports are true. and there seems no
reason to doubt their substantial ac-
curacy, our 75-gun is likely to be not
| surpassed, perhaps, but equalled. In
| Germany strenuous efforts are being
made to catch us up, and if these have
| not been altogether successful it must
De admitted that we have lost much
| of the start we had gained"
The Yellowstone national park
abounds with the great game animals
which once were so numerous in what
was long known as the wild West"
! but they are not so savage as they
once were. The Secretary of the In
terror, in his annual report, relates that
| the large game in the park, with the
! exception of the buffalo, seems to be
! more numerous than ever at least
! more has been seen. This is believed
! to be due to the regulation concerning
! dogs being more strictly enforced the
! present season. While one small dog
would not harm large game, il would
| drive II back from the roads so none
could be seen by the average tourist.
| AS this is one of the most interesting
/ features TO visitors, it is desirable they
should have an opportunity to see it.