The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-01

Nbcluue WANlS, 10 Let, TOT ohle, etC lS A military critic in Die Zeit of Vien- ( i1a anticipates a Russian naval attack
 for the capture of Constantinople. He & thinks that people are being deceived
 1hy Russian activity in northern China
 and that the uneasiness in the Balkan
 peninsula and Russian eagerness in the < Black Sea presage a coming attempt to X Heixe the Turkish capital.
 Y W Mrs. Helen c. Neagle, of Bath, Maine,
 who has just celebrated her hundred X ma fifth birthday, has been and is a wonderful woman. She was able to
 support herself after husband and chill < dred had died. It was not until few < years ago that she called on the city | for support, deeding to it, in return, ( her home She is able still to do her < lousework unassisted.
 Residents of northern Finland use a z peculiar stone, which is rather common
 lin that country, as substitute for
 barometer. This stone turns black or < Ablackish- gray when bad weather is ap- { proaching Fine weather has the effect x Of turning 1t almost white. The Films Z regard the stone with superstitious rev.
 Sefence, but scientists say that its
 changes in color are due to salts con-
 fained in its composition.
 z By decision of the United States Court of Claims the State of Pennsyl-
 varia is declared entitled to receive from the United States treasury $700, s000, the State of Maine $1,130,000 and New Hampshire and Rhode Island 'smailer sums. The decision was in the scage of claims for interest and expenses t6ia certain loans which they made dur Sifg the civil war for the purpose of zeQaipping troops for the government.
 At the opening of the North Carolina AState fair Governor Aycock referred to
 Booker washington's dinner as the guest of the president, told the negroes lt that 1t would avail them nothing in se-
 niiring social recognition in the South sand urged them to build up society
 of their own founded on culture, intel Slfgence and virtue" A spirited reply
 Was made by the Rev. MT. King, a sprominent negro Methodist, who told the governor that negroes did not care sto dine with white people any more than white people cared to dine with negroes. J The Philadelphia Record thus quotes a business man: Unless a man has specially schooled himself memory is bound to be treacherous sometimes. T don't trust mine at all any more. It ms gone back on me too often. Be- | Sides, q postal card only costs cent, and II always carry lot of them | around with me. My end of the busi- | ness CALLS IIie dWay rum tHS Stoic O great deal and, no matter where l may | be-riding on street car, walking or | in ore of the numerous places of busi- ness which I frequent--when an idea occurs to me that requires my atten- ton iot memorandum of 1t down on a postal card, address 1t to myself and drop 1t in the nearest letter box. Some days I will send a dozen postal cards to myself, and the next morning they are on my desk awaiting me- I have been doing this for two or three years, and think it's pretty good system"
 The message of Governor Cander to the Georgia legislature devotes more space to the subject of the public schools than to any other topic. One reason for the lack of better school fa- cilities in Georgia is the absence of a local healthy sentiment on the subject The counties look to the State entirely Tor school funds. In the present year, to the message, Ill counties ut of the 137 draw out from the treas . lry for schools and pensions alone more than they pay in for all purposes n faxes; six are about self-supporting, while the other twenty not only support heir own schools and pay their own ,ensioners but pay all the expenses of he State government. One result of his is to lessen the revenue which night be derived from the prosperous ,ounties, the taxpayers in which resent he injustice and dodge the tax-gather- . r when they can. The remedy sug- rested by the governor is to divide the ost of the schools between the State c