The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-31
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their wonderful skill and of the odd
ness and beauty of their designs, and
the younger women of the tribes can
make more money at other work. If
the art survive. therefore, it will be
Que TO efforts that are now being made
by lovers of art among US. Some of
the manual training schools have taken
the subject up. and are forming classes,
and al least one art company is CIV
ing instruction in it. Perhaps the
workers thus taught may not be able
TO produce designs that equal those
produced by the squaws, but the art
VIII be preserved. at any rate.
To properly govern automobile rae
ing and to secure national legislation
in matters of Importance to the sport
and industry are the objects of a ma
tional alliance of clubs, plans for which
were completed to-day at a meeting
of a special committee appointed by
the Automobile Club of America A
call will be soon issued to motor-vehicle
clubs of the country asking that dele
gates be sent to attend an organiza-
ton meeting in this city, when Off
GERS can be elected, rules adopted and
a movement started to secure national
laws in favor of automobiles The
new body will probably be called the
National Association of Automobile
Clubs. A body to control racing will
soon be organized to work in harmony
with the National Association, and its
first work will be to consider a change
from horse power to weight in racing
classification.
-Thre Trustees of Bryn Mawr Col
lege. Pennsylvania, have organized
large committee to assist the President
in raising money for the erection of
| a i6Tar hut
which are regarded as urgently need
ed. For the former 5000 900 and for the
latter $4,000 are desired. mistak-
en- rumor has ben circulated to the eff
| feet that by the will of it's founder,
DR.. Taylor, the college is forbidden to
| accept gifts of money. In fact the COL
| lege has already accepted the gift OF
Dalton Hall, the laboratory building,
and 100000, all told, in money. Within
year $4,000 has been given to the
archaeological department alone. The
false rumor perhaps arose from the
fact that no more of DR.. Taylor's gift,
the original endowment of the coll
lege, may be spent in building. The
college is therefore now dependent on
it's living friends for the new buildings
so much needed.
Interesting statistics on the de-
| crease of the prison population are
given in the annual pamphlet of the
Massachusetts Prison Association. The
number of prisoners in the various
penal institutions throughout the state
on Sept. 80 was 6,661. This is a falling
off of 1928 as compared with the number
year ago, and is a smaller number
of prisoners than at the same time in
any previous year since 1892. There is
even a more marked decrease among
women criminals. In 1883 the number
of women arrested in Massachusetts
! was S,813, a little over II per cent. of
the total number of both sexes arrest
ed. In 1900. although the population
had increased over so per cent, there
were only II more women arrested, and
the proportion of women to the total
number of arrests had fallen to 9 per
cent. 1t is rather remarkable that
with this decrease in crime generally
there should be an increase in the num-
Der of juvenile criminals. The number
of those under IL years of age brought
before the courts is steadily increasing,
and during the past fifteen years has
| increased three times as rapidly as the
population of the state.
Years ago beer. usually sour, was
served to the British sailors, but as
the amount of rum allowed for a man
| occupied less bulk in the storeroom it
gradually superseded the typical heavy
| British drink in the years Immediately
preceding Queen Victorias reign. When
| first occasionally served in the middle
of the eighteenth century the men had
the rum undiluted. A naval officer,
famous in his day $50 years ago, came
to the conclusion that if the rum-half
| a pint wine measure to each man at
| that time, and drunk half at midday
and half at night-were diluted, prob
ably the men would be rendered less
| sleepy and quarrelsome by their daily
tot" which to this day they call "mu~
tiny" He instituted the reform of
J mixing water with the rum before CIV
ing 1t out. AS the admiral was nick
named "Old Grog,' from the fact that
he wore a cloak of grogram-a coarse
mixture of silk and mohair-in foul
weather this mixture of rum and wa
ter has always been known in the
navy as grog. But the word has pass
| ed into the landsman's vocabulary with
much wider Interpretation, and is
applied to almost any spirtuous drink
| on occasions.
| Every hospital in Pennsylvania
every institution that depends on state
appropriations, is compelled to yield
| tribute, says Pennsylvania, in the
1 Atlantic. l know a state senator in an
! interior town who is offensive, because
| of his allegiance to Quay, to the ma
| .1ority of his constituents; but has been
returned again and again on this ar
| gument: HE stands in with the ma
chine and can get us an appropriation
If we send the Wanamaker candidate
to Harrisburg, he'll be an outsider, and
| we'll have to close our hospital" The
! hospital in this case is an institution
| of much local pride, and its welfare
commands enough unwilling votes to
return a Quay member of the Legisla-
ture from a naturally anti-Quay dis
| trict Not only do the hospitals pay
| tribute in the shape of votes, as in the
| case just mentioned; they are also
compelled to pay by giving a mantle
! of decency to the machine cause, as in
| the case of the clergyman. The direc-
| torates of the hospitals and normal
| schools Of the state include the most
worthy men in their communities, the
natural leaders of the reform move
ment But they are compelled, for
| their institutions good, to pay the trib-
ute OF silence, or often of actual moral
support to the machine.
Once upon a time-to be more pre-
else, in the latter part of the eighteenth
century-there lived a worthy Connec-
| ticut divine named the Rev Samuel
| Peters, says Leslie's Monthly. Peters
was a picturesque parsonage in his
| way, but his fame rests entirely upon
| the fact that he wrote a book This is
| one of the most marvellous works ever
! issued from the press. 1t was Mr.. Pc
| tiers for exaunula who first discovered