The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

died In off1ce. The Republican party,
which succeeded the Wing party, has
elected in forty-one years six Presi-
dents-Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield,
Harrison and Mckinley. Three of
these-Lincoln, Garfield and Mckinley
were assassinated. This is a startling
and a tragic record. The Democratic
party has been in existence ITO years.
During half that period it has been in
power in the nation. 1t elected nine
Presidents of the United States, Messrs.
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson,
Van Buren,, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan and
Cleveland. Five of these. namely, JEFF
ferson. Madison, Monroe, Jackson and
Cleveland served two term seach OF
the entire nine Democratic Presidents
elected in 10 years not one died in
office. 1t is worthy of note also that
the only ex-President living is a Dem
ocrat.
The London papers continue to
chronicle from time to time a few
eases of plague at Cape Town or at
Hong Kong, but the British public
hardly seem aware of the ravages now
being made by this pestilence in India,
says the London Standard, Yet the re-
turns for the last few weeks show
condition of affairs far worse than
anything recorded at this time of the
year since the plague first established
itself in epidemic form in India. Ev-
erything, indeed, points to the coming
cold season being a record one for
plague mortality. Already long before
the cold weather has declared ITSELF
the mortality has reached dimensions
which must be described as simply ap-
palling. Four weeks ago the deaths
from plague during the previous seven
days had totalled upward of 5000.
This was greatly in excess of the NOR
tally during similar period in pre-
vious years. Yet the following weeks
showed further increases, the last re-
turns giving no less than S,551 deaths
from plague for the week ended Oct.
II. Some seven-eights of this terrible
mortality occurs in the Bombay presi-
dency, in parts of which the plague is
now raging to an extent hitherto en-
tirely unknown. But the figures from
Mysore, the Punjab, the Northwest
provinces and Bengal are sufficiently
serious What it will be a few months
hence one cannot ever guess.
From Coventry we learn, says the
London News. that the death of Mr..
]. K. Starley took place there yester-
day. after an operation for an internal
affection. The deceased, who was As
years of age, was known throughout
the world as the inventor of the safe
ty'' bicycle. He was perhaps the most
prominent figure in the bicycle indus
try. nephew of Mr.. James Starley,
whose monument, as the father of
the cycle trade, stands in Coventry
to-day Mr.. j. K.'Starley migrated to
the city of his future career in 1872,
to rise in due time to a partnership
with his uncle, and finally to become
the head of the Rover Cycle Company
Limited. Mr.. Starley had always been
firm believer in the advantages of all
forms of athletics for ladies, and in
1885 he devised the forerunner of the
present safety bicycle, which made
1t possible for ladies to Join in the
pastime of the road. Gradually, as
the safety was improved, it super
seeded the old high bicycle, till now it
is practically the only type. Mr.. Star
ley was, naturally, one of the foremost
figures in the cycle trade, but in other
directions he was widely known. A
lifelong Liberal, it was current rumor
that he might have carried the party
banner in Coventry on more than one
occasion, and his popularity and prom
inence in the life of the city would
probably have assured his return. He
was warm supporter of the Young
Mems Christian Association and of all
works for the advancement of mus
cular Christianity among both sexes.
and money to Kentucky. The Secre-
tary of the State Board of Health says
that the prevalence of the disease has
caused more deaths, and a greater eX-
penditure of money to stamp it out
than any other disease which the
health officers of the state ever had
to encounter. All except nine of the
119 counties in the state, those nine
Ln oil If
travel, have had more or less expert
ence with smallpox during the present
epidemic, covering a period of nearly
four years. A total of 1894 distinct out
breaks are reported, eighty-five of
these being fresh importations from
other states. In all II, 269 cases are re-
ported, with 1874 deaths, a mortality of
1853 per cent Special hospitals were
erected in sixty-three counties and mu-
inequalities, but probably majority of
cases outside of the large cities and
towns were isolated and treated in
their homes. Reports are made of 392-
ESQ persons vaccinated during the cpl
demic, and of 40S,s25 found protected
by one or more previous vaccinations,
out of a total population of 2,147,174,
leaving 1886, 039, or a little more than
So per cent. unvaccinated The actual
cash expended from county and mu-
nicipal treasures on account of small
pox was s30S.271, to say nothing of the
expense to individuals. The reported
loss from interference with business
was 1874, 900. This does not include the
great loss to transportation companies
from interference with travel and COM
merce. And much of the expense might
have been avoided and many of the
lives lost might have been saved had
heed been given to the warnings urg-
ing vaccination.
In an article in Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly for December Fang
will discusses the famous project of the
recolonization of the Jews The task,
he says, to which Israel is thus called
is of an originality congruous with his
unique history. Netherlands have al
ways created colonies. Here colonies
are to create motherhood, or rather re-
Great her. 1t is not essential that all
her daughters shall return to her
skirts. Long before Titus conquered
Jerusalem. Jewish settlers had followed |
in the wake of Tyran and Phoenician |
commerce. The problem is simply to SET |
up a center of Jewish life and concen- |
trate all ones labors on it. Gradually |
1t would become the magnet of the |
race. The task is difficult-more diff |
fcult, perhaps, than any in human his |
tory, beset with more theological and |
political n-traps-unique in its pro- |
blem OF migration. But the very great |
ness OF the task should stimulate the !
most maligned of races to break the |
desolate monotony of this brutal vvorld |