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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
FLORIDA.

The st. Augustine Record gives the
following account of the death of Eli
jan Carter from the bite of a rattle
snake. mention of which has already
been made in the Morning News: Mr..
Garter with a party of friend was in
the woods hunting and sat down on a
fog to rest. On arising he was struck
several inches above the heel. Imme-
date investigation was followed by
the horrible revelation that the sting
ing sensation he experienced had been
caused by the fang of rattlesnake.
The horror stricken friends of the
young mar hurriedly carried him
home. where every available remedy
and antidote was applied. Neighbors
on hearing the news FASTENED to offer
what assistance they could, but de-
spite the efforts to counteract the eff
feet Of the poison, the young man
gradually grew worse until 1890
O'Clock yesterday morning when he
died. He was struck about IL o'clock
the previous forenoon. Mr.. Carter was
a son of Mr. David Carter. and was a
splendid specimen of physical man
hood. He was we'll known throughout
the county and his untimely death will
be mourned by his numerous friends.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
An EXTINCT FLORIDA TOWN.

The wehawitchka News gives the
following account of the present APP
pearance of the old town of ST. Joseph,
once the most nourishing seaport of
Florida: At old st. Joe millions of
brickbats and whole brick mark the
site OF the town that once had from
5000 to 5000 inhabitants. The only in
habitants we saw were about fifty head
of cattle and a pair of sandhill cranes.
Yet this place. back I'm the 30's and
4O's, was the most important place in
the state II was here the first Con-
stitutional Convention was held, and
came near being the capital OF the
state yellow fever In the early 40's
depopulated the town and from that
time on II went down. Many Of the
houses were moved 20 Apalachicola.
We visited the old cemetery and found
many graves. but only ten with in
Ecriptions 20 Identify them The vaults.
made OF the best brick. had been open
ed and bones can be seen The fences
around the graves had fallen down by
fire burning the post yet to-day. some
sixty years afterward. the pickets are
sound AZ q dollar. From All reports.
81 JOseph was wide-open town.
gambling IN sight on Sunday az well
as week days and n Is said there wa
not a church ia the place"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
Notice.

We solicit articles for this depart
ment The name of the writer should
accompany the letter or article, not ne
cessarily for publication, but as an
evidence of good faith.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
NEWS OF 3 STATES,
HAPPENINGS IN GEORGIA, FLORIDA
AND SOUTH CAROLINA

Hon. w. A. Worsham of Monroe
county has stated to his friends that
he would positively be in the race for
the Senate from the Macon district
Mr.. Worsham has represented Monroe
in the Legislature and is a live man in
q political campaign. He will prob
ably have opposition in his own county
PRESBYTERIAN PASTORS CHANGE.
DR.. 1. c. Reed of Columbia, S. c.,
who has been temporarily in charge
of the First Presbyterian pulpit at
Rome yesterday, made vacant by the
death of Rev. DR.. George T. Goetchius,
preached his farewell sermon yester-
day. He leaves Rome for Knoxville,
Tenn, where he will preach during Au-
gust Dr. S. G. Sydnor OF Augusta,
the new pastor, will arrive this week.
He will move his family tc Rome early
in the fall.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29

Questions and communications rela-
tive to agricultural and horticultural
subjects, If addressed to Agri. Editor,
Drawer N, Milledgeville, Ca, will re-
ceiVe immediate attention.
The Conservative, 1901-10-31

pIlhlUlNO SpoCh VI pIOGOpldSll, lTOUu
which everything else was developed
Can this primitive speck be created;
or in other words, can protoplasm be
artificially manufactured by chemical
processes? The answer must be No;
not by any process now known. The
similarity of chemical composition,
and the increasing conviction of the
universally of natural law and of evo-
luton, have led to belief that such
spontaneous generation Of life might
be possible, and any number of unsuc-
cessful experiments have been made
to produce it. For time the balance
seemed to be very evenly held be-
tween the supporters and opponents of
spontaneous generation. The inves-
LEGATIONS of the late John Tyndall,
however, conclusively proved that
while certain bacteria which float in
the air, can, when dry, Withstand
great degree of heat-far beyond boil
ing point-then the air is absolutely
pure, no life ever appears, and the in
fusions never putrefy. On questions
of this character, all who are not ex-
pert Investigators must be guided by
authority, and we must accept the
dictum of Huxley that biogenesis, or
all life from previous life, is the con-
dition at the present day. But in so
doing we must not forget Huxley's
caution, "that with organic chelnis-
try, molecular physics, and physiology
yet in their infancy, and every day
making prodigious strides, it would
be the height of presumption for any
man to say that the conditions under
which matter assumes the qualities
called vital, may not some day be ar
tificially brought together" And
further, "that as matter not of
proof, but of probability, if it were
given me to look beyond the abyss of
geologically recorded time, to the
still more remote period when the
earth was passing through chemical
and physical conditions which it can
never see again, I should expect to be
a witness of the evolution of living
protoplasm from onliving matter. -"
In the meantime what may be said
as to Huxley's reservations is this:
A considerable step has been made in
the direction indicated, by the success
of modern chemistry in forming, arti-
ficially, what are called organic COM
pounds, that is, substances which were
previously known as products of ami
NAL or vegetable secretions. I may
mention two-indigotine, the prin-
ciple Of the blue coloring matter of the
indigo plant; and alizarine, that of
madden. These are now articles of COM
merce. If chemists can make the in
digotine, which the growing plant
The Conservative, 1901-10-31

ruStS iron. LII certain SeIlSe tHe lIoH
may be said to eat the oxygen, reject
the hydrogen, and grow, or increase
in weight by what it feeds on; but
the result is not bigger piece of
iron, but new substance, rust, or
oxide of iron. That living matter
should feed internally is not so Won
derful, for it's semi fluid condition may
we'll enable foreign molecules to pene-
trate it's mass and come in contact
with it's own interior molecules but it
is all experience different from any
thing known in the inorganic world
that it should be able to manufacture
molecules Of protoplasm like its own
out of these foreign molecules, and
thus grow by assimilation. For in
stance, when amobae, bacteria, and
other low organisms live and multiply
in chemical solutions which contain
no protoplasm, but only inorganic
compounds containing the requisite
atoms for making protoplasm, or when
a plant not only chemically decom-
poses carbonic dioxide, exhaling the
oxygen and depositing the carbon in
it's stem and leaves, but also from this
and other elements drawn from the
soil or air, manufactures the living
protoplasm which courses through it's
channels, the result is that life has
added to itself by utilizing non-living
materials. If we take sensation, this,
in it's last analysis, is change, or mole
cular motion, induced in body by
the action of it's environment. Here
there is a certain analogy between
living and non-living matter, for the
latter does respond to changes in the
surrounding environment, as in the
case Of heat and electricity; but liv-
ing matter is far more sensitive, the
changes are far more frequent and in
volved, and in certain cases they
are accompanied by a sensation of
what should be called not conscious
ness, but consentience, which in the
higher organism rises into a percep-
tion of voluntary effort or free-will
as factor in the transformation of
energies Thus it happens that in the
case of dead matter the alterations
produced by a change of conditions,
follow fixed laws and can be predicted
and calculated, while those of living
matter are more complicated-I can
not say more capricious, for my con-
viction is that the inadequacy of our
knowledge explains great deal. We
can tell, however, how much all iron
bar will expand with heat, but we
cannot say whether, if a particle Of
food is brought within reach of an
amoeba, it will or will not shoot out
a finger to seize it. If the amoeba is
hungry II prOhahlv will. If II ic ON =
The Conservative, 1901-10-31
Che Conservative.

of motion, which is after all only SEN
sation applied in the liberation Of
energy, which has by some chemical
process been stored up, either in the
living mass, or in some special organ
of it, such as muscle. Iron, for ex-
ample, moves when it expands by heat
or is attracted by magnet; but it
moves, like the planets, by fixed and
calculable laws; while living matter
moves, as might be expected from the
variable character of it's sensation, in
a manner which, with our present
knowledge, cannot, as general rule,
be calculated There are cases, how
ever, of reflex or involuntary motion,
where, even in the highest living Or
ganisms sensation and motion seem to
follow change of environment, in a
fixed and invariable sequence, as in
shrinking from pain, touching, or gall
vanizing nerve; and it is possible
that the apparent spontaneity and var
liability of living motion is only the
result of the almost infinitely greater
complexity and mobility of the ele-
ments Of living matter.
Reproduction.
Reproduction remains for considera-
tion. 1t is the faculty most character
istic of life, as we'll as the one which
distinguishes most sharply the organic
from the inorganic world. In the in
organic world there is no known pro-
cess by which dead matter reproduces
itself, as the cell does when it con-
tracts in the middle and splits up into
two cells, which in their turn propa-
gate an endless number of similar
cells, increasing in geometrical pro-
gression until they supply the raw
material from which all the countless
varieties Of living organisms are built
up, which, in their turn, repeat the
process, and reproduce themselves in
offspring. This is the real mystery of
life; we can, to some extent, under
stand how it's other faculties might
arise from all extension Of the known
qualities and laws of matter and of
energy but we can discern no analogy
between the reproductive nitrog-
enous carbon compound, which
makes so near all approach to proto-
plasm in it's chemical composition, and
the reproductive protoplasm, which
is fertile, increases and multiplies,
and replenishes the earth. Can the
gap be bridged over: can protoplasm
be manufactured out of chemical ell
ements? It is done every day by
plants which make protoplasm out Of
inorganic elements, and by the lowest
forms of vegetable. life which live and
| ,,,,, 1%i n1v in oh oYnico1 co1utionc IT. 10
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1901-09-13
For the Housewife.

We have just received the finest
and largest stock of Glassware,
Queensware, Crockery, etc, ever
seen in this city. 1t includes every
thing in the lines mentioned from
the cheapest to the dearest. We
can fit any pocket book and we
want the ladies to come III and look
over the stock. 90
W. w. Chapman.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1901-09-13
w. w. Chapman.
"A LonIsine Dress.

A lovely dress in a lightweight,
warp-prilted Louisine has a yoke and
close-fitting sleeves of creamy Cluny
lace. Over these sleeves are sleeves of
the silk, extending to a bit below the
elbow, where they bell slightly. Down
the outside of the arm they are slashed
the length. finished, fitted with worked
eyelets, and then faced with soft black
cord.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1901-09-13
okrahoma.s Voting ropu,at. op.

Oklahoma is increasing rapidly in
population. -Four years ago it cast 3d.
100 votes. Last year the total vote
cast was $4,000, gain at the rate of
5000 votes a year. Mississippi, which
cast 10000 votes at the election of
1896, cast only $4,000 at last years
presidential election. 1t is estimated
that Oklahoma will have q voting pop
Ll1tion Of at least 100000 BIZ 1904.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1901-09-13
Makes 'Em Laugh.


Charges Of d very serious nature are
to be preferred this morning against
Matthew McB Thompson, grand orator
of the grand lodge of Masons. He has,
tits SAID been giving the thirty second
degree to great number of Masons in
northern Idaho, charging SIS in each
instance.
It is charged that he has no right to
confer this degree. He. however, claims
he has perfect right, under the old
Scottish dispensation,
The charges. it is understood, are to
be preferred in the Masonic grand lodge
by gentleman from the northern part
of the STATE. one of those victimized by
the grand orator, who has worked
largely In the vicinity of his home at
Moscow.
! Thompson is a painter by occupation.
He is here in attendance on the grand
lodge, and it is said he will fight the
charge to the bitter end. Those under
standing the situation say that the Of
fense4is of such a serious nature that,
if he cannot d;sprove it, he may and
probably will be expelled from the
4 order entirely.
The above is from the Boise
Statesman Of Wednesday, aud 1t
shows the great Boise daily dIdn7t
get it's points from very reliable
source.
Mr.. Thomson lives IN Montl elier
He has established q Council o.
Kodosh 33rd degree Masons in thi
city, and this council has a charte
for it's authority. He is himself
3Srd degree Mason by the Scottisl
Rite, and a Knight Templer by tn
York Rite, and he has the proof
for it ALL The charter under whic
the council is working in this cit
; was granted by the Grand Councl
, of Rites of Scotland the oldes
Scottish Masonic.body in the worlc
and the original one. And it cost
five or SIX times Sl5 to get the d
grees up to and including the 32nc
Mr.. Thomson and his associate
have been assailed before, but IL
denuneiation always comes from Il
same source, j. e., the southel
! Jurisdiction of Scottish Masonr
= The present denunciatIon will {
- the way of the others and amout
Z to nothing. Neither will he be G
: PEELED from the Masons, for Il
= Scottish part has nothing to do wi
the blue lodge. Mr.. Thomson
ie able to hold his. own as he W
> prove when his case comes up, if
. ever does.
to ---sr 4--
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1901-09-13
Pres. Mckinley Not SO Well.

The EXAMINER understands this
morning that a telegram received IN
Pocatello during the night, states
that Pres. Mckinley took turn
for the worse about midnight.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1901-09-13
Great Scheme

oCNGk1G
"Of the rich, for the rich and by
the rich" That's what the present
administration seems to stand for.
If you don't believe it, read the fol
lowing order made Tuesday by
secretary Of the treasury, Mr.. Gage:
Recognizing the unavoidable infu-
ence upon general business affairs of
continued absorption into the public
TREASURY OF revenue beyond expendi-
lures l have directed that incoming
internal revenue receipts be placed with
national bank repositories until bal.
ance with each is reached equal TO the
par value of the bonds held as security
from such repositories. This will
divert about five millions from the
treasury vaults.
Collecting money from the people
aid lending it TO the banks without
interest. The scheme is a dandy
for the banks. Here it is illustrated:
A bank buys, say, $4,000 of
bonds which draw about 5 per cent
net or $4,000 per year interest.
Then the bank deposits these bonds
with the government and the govern
meut gives them 90 per cent, OF
$4,000 of this back in bank note
money. Heretofore the banks have
only been out the use Of one-tentE
OF their money, but have drawn in
teres. on ten-tenths or the whole
In the example just cited the bank
would be drawing $4,000 interes
on all actual investment of $40, 0Ot
or 80 per cent. That beats any Il
or "a per cent of these western
states. But now comes Gage AM
orders that the other one-tentif b
left with the banks for their use
and the bank with $lOG, 600 capita
rs noted above, gets $4,000 yea
out Of the government and hasn't
single cent invested, as it now ha
hack all the money it started with
Isn't it a fine scheme, though? An
It's all done to help the none
market. How? The banks hav
already loaned nine-tenths Of thei
capital and now Gage has fixed
SO they can loan the other tent
Then they will be drawing intere
from the government on their ca
ltal and at the same time drawn
interest from their private custo1
ers on the same money.
Yes, but some say, it helps t.
money market and money owner
Did anybody ever hear of Ga
lending any government money
the farmers, stockmen or merchant
10 help them out of d pinch. n
by a joyful; only the bankers (
serve such favors and only they G
them.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-12-21
The Fuel Oil Consumers Of s,

The Fuel Oil Consumers Of st.
Mary have organized temporarily
and propose and permanent com.
pany, which will buy a we'll on
Sindle Top and operate said we'll
especially for their benefit Among
the prominent planters connected
with the scheme are the following
Capt. Jno. N. Pharr, A. Patou
& Sons, Pharr and Bussey, Ok
nard and Sprague, John Baldwin
s Co. T. B, Williams, John Todd,
Robt. Martin, Frank Barker, of
523 Decatur Street, New Orleans,
La; 81. G. Rose; Oscar Zenor,
WibIay J.. Thompson; Lewis s
Clarke; W. w. Sutcliffe, Joseph
Brig
Mr.. Clarke requested that the
issue be not confused by the ad
mission of purely investment
stockholders until more permanent
organization had been effected, as
the prime motive of the organizers
at present was to organize a com
pany of consumers
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-12-21

The failure of the Schley Court
Of Inquiry to come to an agreement
10 deplored by everyone who has
taken the least interest in the. case.
The Navy department considers
that it is still in an equlvocal posi-
tl0n because Of Admiral Dewey's
very favorable minority report and
Admiral Schley's friends are sorely
disappointed because the finding of
the court did not result In a COM
plete vindlcatlon of the Admiral.
As matters stand there is little
change IN the situation from what it
was before the Court met. It ls now
considered almost certain tia, there
will be congressional investigators
In the near future.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-12-21
ABSCONDED.

II the Creole restaurant changes
its name as often as it changes pro
prsetors, it ought to enjoy a con-
tlnued season of prosperity. A few
weeks ago Mr.. Dugas sold the bust.
ness to Mr.. Ledeaux, who a short
time later sold il 10 Mr.. Charles
Koch, of New iberia. Koch made
= small payment on the business,
made some improvements, and on
Wednesday last disappeared since
which time he Las not been feen or
heard Of. His place Of business in
New Iberia wae sold BY the Sheriff
last week. MI. Ledeaux is now in
possession of the restaurant and
will close the business out between
nov and Jan. 1st.-Crowley News.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-12-21
2.
The Crumpaeker Bill.

= M
Crumpacker is a representative
from Indiana. He has notion
that he has a good idea and he has
embodied that fiotion=zaIl. a.: bill,
which he is insisting that the
present session Of Congress shall
pass into law His bill provides
that a states representation in
Congress shall be based upon the
votes cast in the general elections,
rather than upon, the.spopulation,
as returned in the United States
Census. This il pprely nseffort
to reduce the .senthenl influence
in the nations iegisla tivs.:halls, FOR
the South has,the laggeYkilliterate,
disqualified numb mall adults
of any section ofstho e5antrys
This state has been Smuggling
for many years to paIsf ythe bal
lot and 70 take away pm i such
Influences as would DE any ex
cuse for ballot, box ,etuffi1g or
fraudulent retqra dSIthis it
was necessary 60 incof pofate in
our states c0nstitnti5eS Ennl, con.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-12-21

Abbeville may get an oil well
yet. Last week Mr.. Bennett an oil
well contractor irem Beaumont
was here locking over the field.
He examined the gas deposlts on
W. A. Whites place, along the
Coulee Valcourt just north Of town
and pronounced it vsrY promi--
ing indication of educational.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-12-21
Rev. Lrl IL. Hicks Is Not Dead
Notwithstanding a widely cul

Notwithstanding a widely cur
rent rumor that the Rev. Irl r
Hicks was dead, he never did a
harder and more successful years
work than that just closing. He
has just completed his large and
splendid Almanac for 1902 and,
with his staff Of able helpers, has
brought his journal, Word AND
WORKS, justly forward into inter
national reputation. For a quar-
ter Of century Mr. Hicks has
grown in reputation and useful
ness as the peoples astronomer,
and forecaster of storms and the
character of coming seasons
Never were his weather forecast:
so sought after as now, his timel.
warning of serious drouth thi'
year having saved the people from
loss and suffering Millions o
bushels of wheat were harvested
through his advice to plant crop
ft statu 6y rf %at1 HcK sarI When II
costs them SO little and the bene
| fits are so great. His fine Alma
mac of 200 pages is only 25c, an
his splendid family journal is onl
one dollar year including tn
Almanac. Send to Word AN
Works Pub. Co., 22O1 Locust st
st. Louis, Mo.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-12-21

A large number of the best sugar
producers of the country called on
the President last week and urged
him to withdraw from his attitude
on the subject of reciprocity with
ukau.asa&as 2 aa.aazsai* laatanad xar2
American Beet Sugar Company had
issued a circular letter saying that
there was no fear that even with an
nexation Cuban sugar could evel
assume proportions which would
endanger the beet sugar industry Of
this country. He assured them that
the most authentic lnio nation from
Cuba did not warrant their fears
wished them all success aud posi-.
ilvelY declined to retract his recon-
mendatlons to Congress.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-12-21

affairs falling into the hands OF
carpet baggers and INSCRIPTIONS
politicians. The dead would have
to periodically leave their rest to
again help save their country by
voting. The packer bill would
pack ballot boxes till we would
threaten to rival New York in , the,
number Of congressman we would
be entitled to on basis of the cleo.
ton returns.
:. Any Crumpacker can frame a
such a bill but it would take fal
greater power than he to enforce
it. Why legalize the incentive tt
to practice fraud?
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-12-21

+. Senator Frye has RENT, oduced
his Ship Subsidy bill with some
modification from the measure as
introduced last year and has made
public statement defending Its
provision. The Senator believes
that such subsidy as the bill pro-
vldes IS essential to the establish
ment of regular steamship lines be,
tween this country aud foreign ports
and without such regular lines all
efforts to cnalrge the foreign trade
of the country will be seriously
hampered While the members OF
Congress are 10th to express them
selves IN advance | have met mum
ber.of representatives who are oppos
ed the mea>ure and 1t is very doubt
full If 1t will became law.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1901-12-21

The Seventh Annual COnven-
ton of the Louisiana State Public
School Teachers Association will
assemble in Franklin, La, on De-
cember 26, q and 2S.-It is an,
nOunced that DR.. Edwin A. Alder
man, president of Tulane, and DIR.
G. Stanley Hall, the present OF
Clarke University of Worcester,
NJ ass will be in attendance and
will deliver addresses.