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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15
The Weather.

The indications for Georgia to-day are
for showers. warmer weather in eastern
portions, light to fresh east to south
winds; and for Eastern Florida, showers,
light to fresh east to south winds.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15

Probably the most patriotic woman in
the country lives in Baltimore. She is
the mother of four children whose birth
days fall upon the Fourth of July.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15
STOCKTON HOTEL,
CAPE MAY, N. j.

Uni Ns
Largest and most spacious on the coast;
every modern comfort and facility. Or
chestra, Is pieces, billiards. tenpins,
lawn tennis, golf, magnif-
cent beach front driveway and promen-
ade three miles long. Rooms with private
baths when desired. Rates SIS to $S5 per
week. Special reduction for July. Write
for booklet. H NJ. CAKE.
Also Hotel Normandie, Washington. DC
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15

Maine is now shipping granite to Scot
land Pretty soon we shall be making a
regular business of sending Goals to New
castle.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15

The Governor Of Pennsylvania has sign.
"a an set which makes % q mlsdemeanor
Tor an employe of telegraph Or tele.
phone company 10 impau 40 o third per.
quiro becaure N his or hof position during
fhe transmission of msssaFes. The new
.ss Imposes q penalty n 800 nne, imprl.
onmsni Tor ola m0nths. o. both
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15

Prof Smith OF the New Jersey Agri-
cultural Department has sent 10 Bayonne
FOR bottle Of mosquitoes. He says he
is seeking o way 20 locallse and destroy
the pests. Tho bottle method seems 90
De- q yery rood Wsy 10 iocslIze them. And
having bottled them, the bottles miEht be
eafi Into she see o. q merry furnaos
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15

The "bue-gum Niger" superstition has
reached Camden. N. j.. and. as usual
has carried terror with 1t. The other day
a teamster OF the name OF Day was Bit
ten on the hand by colored boy named
Fred. Somebody told Day that Fred was
a "blue-gum Niger" and explained that
the bite OF such a person was as bad as
the bite OF a rattlesnake. Day hurried 10
a hospital where. frightened out OF his
wits. he told what had happened. The doe
tors tried TO quiet him. but he has since
become violent and h likely 90 die At
last adyices the police were looking for
the "blue-gum" 20 arrest him.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15

1t is said that Senator Tillman is
loading his blunderbuss to the muzzle for
McLaurins friend. John G. Capers. Mr..
Capers has been appointed District At
torney for South Carolina, but he has not
yet been confirmed. The Senate is the
body to make the confirmation, and Till
man is counting on bagglng Capers In
that body. The nomination of Capers. a
Democrat has angered some of the Re-
publican leaders in South Carolina, and
Tillman is counting upon them to use
their influence in Washington TO aid him
in preventing the confirmation. Tnlman,
of course, would prefer to have Re-
publican in the Office than a Democrat
OF any other mans selection than his own.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15

Treasurer Norlin, of Kearney county
Nebraska, thinks he is a much abused
man, and that since the farmers of Kear-
ney have become capitalists they are try
ing to ride rough-shod over the poor who
are trying to help themselves. Norlin's
cause for complaint is this: he got short
in his account Of the public funds by
something like $1,000. so he banged him
self around in such manner as to acquire
a few bruises and scratches and ANNOUNCE
ed that he had been assaulted and robbed.
Nobody believed him, but everybody talk
ed about putting him in jail. Then he set
fire to the court house for the purpose of
destroying the records; but the unsympa-
thetic Kearneyites put the fire out and
saved the papers. Norlin, now In Jail, de-
clares the people are down on him, not
withstanding his heart beats true to his
country.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Columbia Is. c. State Dem.) says:
I'VE do not conceal our opinion that the
Ohio plan is likely to be very generally
adopted by the Democratic conventions
of this year and next The average poll
tician thinks that two defeats on silver
are ample, and the average voter is never
so devoted to a principle or a theory as
to be willing to uphold it indefinitely in
the face of defeat. But the result in
Ohio will very greatly influence the plat
form action to be taken in other states,
and so the contest to be waged this sum
mer in Hanna's preserve will command
almost the interest of national cam
paign. And rightly, for its influence will
be national and its possibilities porten-
tous."
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem) says:
ANY perfunctory denunciation of lynch
ing is utterly worthless and laws enacted
to punish lynchers will prove as abortive
as are most OF the laws denounced against
other violators. The courts which do not
punish the latter will not punish the for
mer, The only remedy is in a radical re-
form OF the machinery of the law. When
ever that can be depended on to work
with the certainty and promptness found
in the English courts. then lynching will
cease, because there will be no longer
occasion for IT, Until then the situation,
which has for years grown worse, will
continue to do so until popular Justice
will prevail In every state of the Union"
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
qnd) says; THE congressional junlseting
party which sailed from New York for
Manila Wednesday on the government
transport Mcclellan Is about equally al.
vJed politically The Democratic MEM
bers said that they mad been fed on Repub-
lican conclusions 50 long that they were
now determined to have some facts
Democratic facts The Republican mem
hers must thus be IN search OF more Re
publican conclusions. They all get their
transportation free. hut are expected 20
meet the costs Of subsistence and thos,
extras" incidental 10 all junkets out OF
their own pockets"
The Norfolk Cva) Landmark DEM
says. I'VE believe that events have
taught the necessary lesson ana that in
1904 the real Democrats Of the oountr,
will come 10 che front. dispiacing fhofr
Who have no hesitation in standing on the
platforms ~ several parties "a rho snm
time Tho ohio Dcm0efata have sounded
che keynote"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15

Mr. Lawson of Boston, owner of the
Independence, wishes to be known as
"dead-game sport" He has given it to
be understood that if his boat should not
be chosen to defend the Americas cup
this year, and If Sir Thomas Upton
should lift the cup in the races with the
Constitution, he would challenge the
holder of the trophy and build a new
boat to race on the other side next year.
1t will be noticed that two large ifs"
stand between Lawson and his entrance
into the class of racers for the blue rib
bon of the ocean,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15

1t is pretty generally understood that
the recent Ohio Democratic Convention
was under the domination of John r.
Mclean of Cincinnati. 1t is interesting,
therefore, to hear what Mr.. Mclean has
to say of the conventions failure to pay
any attention to Mr. Bryan or to indorse
the Kansas City platform. The Cincin-
natl Enquirer, of which Mr.. Mclean is
owner and editor, says one of the no
table things about the conventions ac-
ton was that there was mo recognition
of William ]. Bryan as the monopolis-
tic saint of Democracy" and adds: 1.-THE
omission of Mr.. Bryan and silver was
not intended to be an affront, or even
slight. to anybody. The country is now
enjoying a plentitude of money, which
was the principal object of the free sill
yer movement. So, there is no free sill
yer issue now. And Mr.. Bryan is not
the Democratic nominee for President"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15

The sunshine and hot winds in the
Northwest are literally burning up the
money of the farmers. The Herald has
estimates from Kansas, Missouri. the two
Dakotas. Minnesota, Nebraska and Wis
corsln to the effect that the losses on
crops in those states will not be far from
$350OO0,O00. However, 1t is quite probable
that the estimates are much too large.
Farmers are apt to overshoot the mark
of their prospective damage when they
see their crops whitening and no sign of
rain in the sky. At the time of the
harvest 1t will probably be found that
the losses were much smaller than the
estimates. The wheat growers, by the
way, have got a good thing. Owing to
the scarcity of hay the price of wheat
straw has bounded up from 81 per ton in
Kansas to 50. with the demand strong.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.

Presbyterian College for women
A select home school Of high grade for
Young ladies'. Number limited, full coll
legiate courses, conservatory advantages
in music, lady physician resident In col
lege, elegant grounds and buildings
healthful and delightful climate. Al
dress ROBT. p. PELL, President.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

probation and sympathy of Notre
Dame, DR.. John G. Shea, the historian,
was chosen to be the first recipient of
the medal. The list of subsequent
names numbers some of the most
prominent Catholic laics-both men
and women-of the United States.
Since 1888, the year in which DR.. Shea
was the recipient, the following men
and women have received the honor
in the order named: Patrick j. Kelley,
architect; Eliza Allen Starr, art critic;
Gen. John Newton, civil engineer: Pat
rick V. Hickey, editor; Anna II. Dor
sey, novelist; William j. Onahan. pub
licist; Daniel Dougherty, orator; Mai.
Henry P. Brownson, soldier and
scholar; Patrick Donahue, editor: Au-
gustin DAILY, theatrical manager; Gen.
William S. Rosencrans, soldier; Anna
L. Sadlier, author; DR.. Thomas A. En-
met, physician; Timothy E. Howard,
jurist; Mary Gwendolin Caldwell,
philanthropist; John A. Creighton,
philanthropist.
Mr.. Cochran has been a devoted
Catholic, giving his influence, voice
and means to aid in upbuilding the
church in America. He delivered
powerful grafton at Cooper's insti-
tute, New York, in 1891, directed
against the spoliation of the propa-
ganda. On the celebration of Arch
bishop Corrigan's jubilee, in 1898, he
gave a large donation to the seminary
fund. He is a frequent contributor
to the extensive charities of the
Church of st. Francis Xaxier.
Mr.. Cochran is the youngest of those
who have received the Laetare medal.
The formal presentation will be made
in New York by Archbishop Corrigan.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

sliced into bits with iackknife. and
fed to its former owner, who, with the
blood dripping from its newly-shorn
crest, devours it with avidity, fire.
quently clucking a cordial invitation
to the hens to come and join him.
This is surely game" Every we'll
arranged stable has medicine chest,
with remedies for smallpox, diph-
liberia, and the various bird diseases,
and the cocks are carefully attended
when sick.
On the eve of a fight the warriors
are fed on tortillas soaked in milk, and
raw meat with sherry. Very little wa
ter is given, the idea prevailing that
they bleed less if wounded. The cocks
are seldom fought before they are two
years old. Many never live to fight
second time, yet they enter the arena
jauntily, with heads up, plumes way
ing, and growing Justify. There is
something admirable in the general
department of the fighting cock, and
he seldom knows when he is clicked"
Some cocks go through five and six
battles, their wounds being clean-cut
and easily healed on this account.
Los gallos are usually held in a small
plaza, surrounded by seats, like
miniature bull ring. An orchestra dis
penses lively music, while a peon
stands in the ring and shouts at the
top of his lungs, announcing the next
event, and urging the spectators to
place their bets-in any amount from
% cents to $500, or even more. Heavy
players stake as high as $1,000 on
single fight.
All this means, too, that in Mexico
are many men who make a life bust
ness of cock fighting. 1t makes a
queer sight when these cock fighters
transport their birds from one place
to another. The birds are carried in
cone-shaped baskets, several of them.
one above another. The particularly
odd feature of it is that only the dandy
tails of the ROSTERS show. As the
fighter carries along his burden of
several cocks the gaudy tails dance up
and down, making a very singular
sight.
Among the men who follow the
cock-fighting business are some who
have lost fortunes at the sport, but re-
fuse to abandon 1t. 1t is not unusual
to see women at cock fights in Mexico,
and they bet their money as freely as
men. At these fights an orchestra
plays, and people eat, smoke, gossip
and drink with more vigor than they
do anywhere else on earth.
When a rooster turns tail and runs
away in fight the spectators are free
to chase it and kill it. All of the cocks
killed in battle or otherwise are eaten
by the natives.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
A LAND OF MARVEIIS.
Prof. MCGEE Calls 1t the "Country
of the Cacti."
Water Barrel of the Desert, Armed
with Natural Fish HOOks-Plant
Sacred to the Rain God
Giant of Plant Life.

The country of the cacti-weirdest
of all regions on the earth, so far as
its vegetation is concerned-was Wis
tied by Prof. w. j. Melee, of the bu-
reau of ethnology, in the course of the
expedition from which he has newly
returned. He describes it as land of
marvels-a territory where the domi-
nant forms of plant life are uncanny
things armed with spikes and natural
fishhOoks. Some of them are of gil
gantic size, reaching 50 feet in height,
and harboring strange inhabitants,
such as little owls.
This wonderland. much of which
has never been explored, lies to the
south of the ella river, to the east of
the Gulf of California, and to the west
of the Sierra Madre mountains" said
Prof. McGee to New York Herald
correspondent. st forms a sort of
triangle, the northern edge of which
is in Arizona, but which is mainly COW
cred by the state of Sonora. in Mexico.
For the most part an inhospitable
desert, it affords conditions more
favorable to the development of cacti
than are to be found anyv here else in
the world.
Desert plants are commonly
obliged to store up water in one way
or another, so as not to persh during
the long periods when there is no rain
fall. Various species of cacti do this,
and in the region l describe the tired
and thirsty traveller occasionally
comes across a spiky thing, about the
size of a beer key, which is to him
godsend-perhaps even a rescue from
death in hideous shape. 1t is the So
called water barrel of the desert
species of cactus which is a living
spring, containing within itself con-
siderable supply of the purest water.
One has only to chop off the top of it
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

grant the Louisiana lottery a re-
newal of its charter. The fight for
the continuation of this charter was
of national interest, and because of
the tremendous power welded by the
lottery people was severe and pro-
longed. AS a reward for his services
in this respect Mr.. Foster was nom
mated for governor by the anti-lot-
terry forces and defeated Mr.. McEn-
cry, who will be Mr.. Fosters col
league in the senate, and who at the
time was nominated for the governor
ship by the regular democratic forces.
Mr.. Foster served two terms as gov
ernor and now succeeds Mr.. Caffery
in the senate. Mr.. Foster two years
ago promptly put down sympathet-
ic strike in New Orleans when even
the making of bread, delivery of wa
ter and maintenance of the city gas
works was interfered with. He
threatened to call out the militia, and
within "a hours the strike was at an
end Mr.. Foster was born in Louisi-
ana and is a lawyer by profession.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

with a machete, when a mass of pulp
is disclosed, somewhat resembling in
consistency the pulp of watermelon.
If bowl-shaped cavity be cut in the
top of the pulp mass it will quickly fill
with water, which may then be
drunk. Or, if preferred, the pulp may
be chewed.
This water barrel cactus, when
ripe, has a crown of fruits, the pulp
of which is edible and grateful to a
thirst that has been aggravated by
alkai dust. The plant is the thorniest
of all the cacti of the region, being
provided with straight spikes and
crooked spines that operate like fish
hooks. 1t is for this reason, indeed
that the water it contains is pure and
drinkable.
"Other cacti are protected by chem
ic ingredients in their juices, which
make the latter unpleasant to drink,
but this one is furnished with such
formidable external and mechanical
devices for protection against enemies
that it does not find it necessary, as
one might say. to poison its fluids
'In the days of early exploration in
the southwest the Cereus giganteus
was the first of the great cacti to come
under scientific notice. 1t was consid-
cred the most extraordinary product
of the vegetable realm. Nevertheless,
| have myself seen in the region OF
which | speak an immense forest of
single kind of cactus, larger than the
Cereus gigantus and extending con-
tinuOusly over many square miles,
practically to the exclusion of all
other forms of plant life. This is the
Cereus pingleii. known to the native
Indians as the comb cactus because
it furnishes them with combs for their
hair. 1t attains a height of so feet,
and when full grown has a trunk as
large as that of the biggest oak tree
This cactus bears fruits in lunches
resembling in appearance horse chest
nuts, and it is the burrs that are used
for combs. The branches show many
little holes made by woodpeckers,
which peck through the outer skin
into the pulp and dig out cavities in
the latter of a size and shape suitable
for their nests. To heal wound thus
inflicted the plant exudes a viscid Sc
erection that hardens into woody sub
stance, so that in a short time aft
er the nest has been formed in the
manner described it surrounds itself
with hard shell, perfectly clean and
dry. When the cactus dies it's pulp.
which is largely composed of water,
withers away, leaving behind only a
skeleton of slender ribs representing
the great branches; but the woody,
bowl-lke woodpecker nests remain
intact and do not decay"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
OBJECT TO BEER AS CLEANER.
Protest of w. C. z. U. at the Idea of
Cleaning City Hall Brick.

The temperance people of Topeka,
and of Kansas for that matter, are
indignant. The city is just complet-
ing a fine city hall and auditorium,
which is to be opened with cere-
monies early in September. Prepara-
tory to this event the city admins
tration has decided to revamp the
new brick structure little, and for
this purpose will use a lot eff stale
beer stored at the police station for
washing the walls of the new build
ing. This stale beer has been seized
from time to time, and in accordance
with law must be spilled into the
street. Rather than waste this liquid
it is proposed to use it in making
the new brick walls shine for the
dedication ceremonies.
The State Temperance union, w. C.
T. L. and other temperance organi-
cations declare that such procedure
would be an outrage and rather than
permit it threaten to go to the city
prison and forcibly turn the stuff
into the streets
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
CAVALIER AND PEON.
Both Consider Cock Fighting a Most
Interesting Sport.
Down in Mexico Game Birds Are
GrOOmed and Dieted with Par
ticuiar Care-FOrtunes Won and
Lost on Battles Royal

In Mexico cock fights are commonly
termed los gallos, just as bull fights
are called los toros; and at all the
popular fiestas they are only second in
favor to the latter. A good game cock
often costs as much as a horse, but
this is not saying much, as a fair sad
die pony is frequently sold for SIS, or
even less; while a game cock may
bring $50, and occasionally 500. The
usual price paid, however, is from S12
to $25, according to weight, breed and
past record of the strain as fighters.
The best cocks come from the United
States, and hundreds are shipped into
Mexico during the year, being in con
slant demand during the fiestas, which
are always in progress in one part or
another. There are also many cocks
bred there, the hens being largely
japanese. The cocks are cared for by
trainers, who feed, clean and exercise
them as regularly as a jockey does a
running horse. Their house is in real
ity stable, each cock having his own
stall, with his name above it, as Ell
Garrean (The Sparrow, Chato (Snub
Nose), Tesorero (Treasurer), Moreno
(Brune), Tirante (Tyrant), Cato
(Ca) and so on. A champion is called
Gel Mauser." In these little stalls the
cocks eat, drink and sleep, being
fastened by a cord to ring in the
floor. Every morning they are taken
out for run, one at time. and each
has half an hour in the dirt box, to roll
and dust himself
When not fighting they are fed once
a day, about shutdown, when they have
all the wet corn they can eat, in indi-
vidual pans, set in the stalls. They are
then watered, and the inner rooster
being satisfied each cuddles down in
his stall ana goes to sleep. Their
spurs have been cut for their own com
fort in sleeping, and to prevent their
hurting themselves.
In trimming the combs a curious
lstom prevails. The piece cut off is
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
TIE LAETARE MEDAL.
diana's Catholic University Goes
to w. BOurke Cochran.

W. Bourke Cochran, the New York
orator and lawyer, has been chosen
this year by the faculty of the Uni
versity of Notre Dame TO receive the
Laetare medal.
Eighteen years ago, when the facul-
ty of Notre Dame determined to
choose each year from the ranks of
the Catholic laity of the United States
man or a woman conspicuous in
furthering the interests Of morality,
education, citizenship, and to confer
on him some tangible mark of honor
that should bear witness of the ap-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
MURPHY J. FOSTER.
New senator from Louisiana Owes
His Preferment to His Anti-LOt-
terry Sentiments.

Murphy j. Foster, of Louisiana,
was doubtless elected to the Unit
ed States senate because of the
strong stand he took against the
Louisiana lottery. He was the lead
er against the anti-lottery forces in
1890, when the legislature refused to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

Shells he kind to his family?
He-I think not. He never sends
any money home when he is on the
road.
''Well, that's what 1 would call I'M
renting kindness. Chico go Even
ing News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
German Soldiers as Swimmers

The German army has swimming
school for troops, where everyone
must learn to swim. The best swim
mers are able to cross a stream of
several hundred yards width, even
when carrying their clothing, rife
and ammunition.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

The teacher of the Sabbath school class
approached one little fellow who was pres
emit for the first time, and inquired his name,
for the purpose of placing it on the roll.
''Well," said the youngster, they call me
Jimmie for short, but my maiden name u
James. Christian Register.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16

The Missouri senate has passed a
bill making kidnapping capital Of
tense. A bill has been introduced
which makes chicken stealing fell
ony.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
Hard on Incipient webster,

Montana is inclined to curb the
eloquence of lawyers in criminal
cases. A new law in that state pro-
vides that the judges charge shall
precede the arguments of counsel.