The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-14
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his movements, which enables detec-
tives to follow and convict him, and
the self confessed robber of the Selby
Smelling Works, in California, was no
exception to the rule He worked
alone, according to his own story, ana
thus avoided the danger always Incl
dent TO having confederates but he did
some very stupid things. One was that
he left his cap in the tunnel through
which he carried out the gold, and this
gave the first clue to him. Articles
used in digging the tunnel and break
ing into the gold vault We're also left
lying about his lodgings, where they
helped to fasten the guilt on him, and
in this manner the detectives were able
to pile up so much proof against him
that when confronted with it he broke
down and confessed. It. was very
ingenious crime, but ii carried it's own
detection with it.
1t must be confessed with humility
that there is a fashion in drugs which
is comparable with nothing so much
as with fashion in dress. Drugs which
but yesterday were extensively used
are to-day almost forgotten. The an
| tipyretics which were prescribed so
freely fifteen years ago are hardly ever
given now for their effect on tempera-
ture though the more important MEM
bers of the group are given still, but for
| entirely different reasons, The drugs
which at the present moment appear
to be at the hight of their popularity
are animal extracts and antitoxines,yet
the discerning eye may even now per-
ceive that many of them have passed
their zenith and ere long will be for
gotten, or at most will be employed
only in rare and isolated cases There
is much excuse to be made for the men
tai attitude of extreme hopefulness
with which we receive each new medi-
cament, for there are still so many dis
eases and symptoms appealing for help
and we have to acknowledge that we
can do but little for them. Yet it
would be well if we adopted a more
cautious attitude in receiving new
drugs and new methods of treatment;
| they deserve to be tried and to be tried
thoroughly, but we must not expect
| too much and must sift carefully the
evidence for and against them.
jeremiah O'Donovan Rosa, a
unique character in modern Irish his
tory, will be in Chicago. Aug. Is. to
speak at the Irish nationalist demon
stration at Oswald's grove, Fifty-sec-
end and Halsted streets. Rosa was
one of the leaders of the Fenian move
ruent in Ireland and for his participa-
ton was arrested in September 1865,
and tried before Judge Keogh, who, it
| is said, betrayed his country in a pre-
Vious national movement and ended his
own career by committing suicide. In
passing sentence on Rosa, Judge
| Keogh said: I'VE have found on the
| ciearest evidence that so far back as
1863 you were the most trusted of the
| friends in this conspiracy of James
Stephens and John O'Mahony. No I'M
rrejudiced man who has listened to
these proceedings can arrive at any
! other conclusion than that the jury
| were imperatively coerced to find the
verdict which they have We have no
discretion left except to pass upon
you the sentence of the court-that
! you be kept in penal servitude for the
term of your natural life" Rossa's
suferings and fortitude in British
| dungeons stirred Irishmen the world
over Evidence adduced before the
| commission of inquiry appointed to in
! yestlgate the treatment of Rosa in
! Chatham prison showed that he was
almost starved to death. During six
| years of prison life he was incarcer-
ated in six different English jails. He
was released on condition that he leave
| the country.
To crush the wholesale Importation
on the United States Mexico interna-
uohal line, is the plan of the United
| states authorities. The government
| agents and line riders along the south
ern boundaries of this country have
found themselves unable to cope with
/ tne chinese smuggling situation and
| United States Marshal NJ H. McCord
and William Hoey, collector of Gus
toms at Port Nogales, have placed the
matter before the authorities at Wash
lngton, who have decided upon prompt
| ana decisive action. A well-organized
| gang of slave dealers has been discov-
cred in Nogales on the Mexican side
| or the line, where Sing Lee, a celestial
| experienced in human traffic, superin-
tends the smuggling of hundreds of
coolies into this country. The slaves
arrive from China either by way of
! Guaymas, Mexico or from San Fran
cisco, travelling in bond through This
| country to Mexico. The heathens are
drilled and disguised in Mexican cos
tune in the Oriental colony established
Just across the line and otherwise
taught how to run the gauntlet of line
| raiders. If they are successfully SNUG
| gled across the line they live for sew
| eral months as a rule in colonies es-
tablished for that purpose in Arizona
and are finally furnished with tickets
/ AOl san W0ere IneX SLOWLY
work out the price of their importa-
ton. The republic of Mexico is in
great trepidation because of the plans
of rich foreign companies to import
| thousands of Chinese coolies from
China, and it is believed that govern
ment is preparing a Chinese exclusion
act. The purpose of bringing in con-
| tract laborers is the development of
| rich agricultural lands lining the Pa
cific coast and is offering inducements
| for the opening of a port and for rail-
| road construction, but frowns upon
plans to displace its own laborers by
| the Chinese. and the Mexican poems
| threaten strenuous warfare against the
| coolies.
The Congregational Church finds it.
self under the apparent necessity of
establishing a theological seminary in
the South because the Southern grad
yates of Northern seminaries prefer to
remain in the North. leaving Southern
pulpits empty of Southern men. The
| Congregational Church is not strong in
! the South, but there is reason to be-
| lieVe that the tendency exists in other
churches as well. The South Is an at
tractive section for residence, in a So
| cial old-fashioned way, and a white
| harvest for the reaper of the church.
| Why, then, should Southern theologi-
cal graduates drift to the North? For
/ the ho ~.