The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

to we have been compelled to depend
on private sources for information of
this kind, which has always been in
complete and often inaccurate. The
Department of Agriculture, however,
has just made arrangements with the
principal foreign government for an
interchange of official reports, and the
scheme will go into operation as soon
as the necessary details have been
presented.
An expert from the United States
Labor Department, with six special
agents, has been investigating the way
in which the working people of New
York live Enough has been discovered,
he says. to show that the most urgent
demand on men who have money to
spend for the public good is not the
building of colleges and libraries, but
model tenements. AS an illustration of
what he means, he cited the case of a
skilled mechanic, whose family, con-
sisting of IL persons, lives in four
rooms This, he says, is positively indie
cent, for it prevents privacy, and with
cut privacy there can be no civiliza-
ton. He would see no colleges endow-
ed and not a book given to a library
until the people have the right kind OF
homes.
Chicago is to have something de-
cidedly unique in the way of sacred
buildings and organizations when the
Church of Silent Demand" will have
been built. The Prentice milford Club
of Chicago-which began life in June,
1900 as the Auto Life Society-is the
organization which is to erect the 81
lent church. Each of the clubs 100
members is fully convinced of the po-
tency of silent devotion, of concentrat-
ed thought-energy. In the new church
or temple the voice of prayer or praise
or preaching will never be heard, the
only sound tolerated to be that of the
organ. Notices on walls and doors will
warn those entering to silence and con-
centrated devotion. The church is to
be located in the downtown district,
in order that its peace and restfulness
may be as easily available to a great
number of persons as possible In it's
erection one of the famous temples of
India will be copied Its interior will
be as beautiful and soothing as art
and skill can make it. Fine pictures
will decorate it, and growing plants
will be in abundance.
The Buddhist Lama of Pekin, who
has just completed tour of Japan,
seems to have confined his travels here
tofore to Tibet and China. In Japan
the Lama was entertained by Count
Okuma at his country estate, the resi-
dence on which was DESTROYED by fire
not long ago. AS the new building was
not complete the feast was spread in
marques set about under the trees
While Okuma and his gusts were con-
versing the Lama observed something
unusual about one of the Counts legs.
The latter, observing this, had the in
terpreter inform the Lama that the
limb was an artificial one. Had the
amazement with which this was re-
ceived been manifested by a less au-
gust parsonage than the Buddhist pre-
late of Pekin it must certainly have
been amusing to those about him. But
Count Okuma FASTENED to explain
Even then the Lama seemed incredu-
lous, and it was not until he had ex-
amined the artificial leg critically, felt
II with his own hands and studied the
working of its points, that he seemed
satisfied of the correctness of what
had been told him. Then he gave free
expression to his establishment He
said that surgery had not reached a
point in either Tibet or China enabling
them to perform such operations as
Count Okuma had undergone, nor had
the artisans of either country attempt
ed the manufacture of such wonderful
contrivanceS as wooden legs, the pli-
ant joints of which enabled their pos
SCISSORS to go about almost as freely as
If they had all their original members.
THE camera has become as indis-
pensable an accessory in war as the
typewriter" says a write in Ainslee's.
No report of a campaign would be
complete without photographs of bat
| tie fields, marching men, and firing ar
W. frln f,sTY. raIi
lating to the Spanish war you will find
the text profusely illustrated with half
tones from pictures taken by officers
! and correspondents In the distribution
of Photographic goods the United States
lead the world. The American camera
| is now found all over the Seven seas.
| Two dealers" writes an exporter
| are doing thriving business in the
Sandwich Islands, and we presume
that after American school teachers es-
| taDlish themselves in the Philippines,
the natives will arm themselves with
kodaks instead of rifles. You perhaps
| are in as good position as we are to
realize the tremendous amount of work
| which has been done with kodaks in
| the hands of newspaper correspond
| ents in Cuba? South Africa, China and
| the Philippines. Not only the CORE
| spondents but the soldiers themselves
have carried the folding pocket kodaks
| in many instances; not only the Of
| f1cers, but the privates as well. have
done a great deal of picture taking,
| and have unwittingly advertised our
| goods IN these countries" All over the
East, from Mandalay to Port Arthur.
the American camera is now so famil-
lar that 1t no longer excites the curios-
| ity of the native. The Japanese long
ago became expert photographers. and
they consume great quantities of our
printing papers.
No product of the earth is so cara
fully traced from the beginning of the
process Of production to its final con-
sumption as cotton, says the New
York Mail and Express. Even the
precious metals are somewhat elusive
and while we keep pretty close track of
their production, they escape from
view ana we cannot tell what becomes
of all of the supply. We watch cot
ton assiduously from the planting.
through the growing crop. the har'
Vesting, tie marketing, the distribution
| the visible" supply at all times from
| all parts of the world, the consume
ton of each season in each country
| and the surplus stock left over from
year to year. Thus calculations ana
| computations are continually made
based upon a close following If tbe
| law of supply and demand. so as 10
| fix prices for spot" and for Cultures"
| and narrow the margin of fluctuations
In this there may be speculation, even
gambling" but IL steadies the mar