The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-19
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cratic side of the chamber-Mr. Pettus
and Mr.. Morgan of Alabama and Mr..
/ Cockrell and Mr.. Vest of Missouri.
Senator Pettus in point of years is the
father OF the upper house, having pass
/ ca his eightieth birthday nearly a year
ago.
I'VE recall an incident" says the
editor of lions Herald of Boston,
| which occurred many years ago, and
which was very influential in helping
the writer to correct notions concern
Ing the daily press. In a private cir
Gle of friends, made up largely of
ministers, the daily newspaper became
/ the subject of ersation-mainly of
severe criticism and condemnation.
Among that company was an ex-gov-
ernor, a man of large experience in
/ public life, able. honored and revered,
and familiar for fifty active years with
! journalism. Finally, after patiently
listening TO the criticisms, he said. gem
! tly, but firmly: Gentlemen, You are
mistaken. The public press is indis-
pensable for the dissemination Of in
formation and for the direction of pub
lie opinion. In the main. it is right
| and beneficent. II is almost mirac-
ulous in its alertness in going to the
bottom of things. and usually il is cor
rect and can be trusted.
How long does a dream last? Some
times a dream seems TO have lasted
several hours, when really IL was not
more than a second in length A doc
tor was once sitting beside the bed of
sick boy, says the Cincinnati En-
quirer. He felt the boys pulse with
out disturbing him and waited for him
| 10 awaken. After a few moments a
-lR1Qh hx- . he e~f.-
ringing bells. AS the first tones of the
| bells reached the room the sleeper
awoke. Doctor" he said, Il am so
glad that you awakened me, for / had
a terrible dream that lasted for several
hours. l dreamt that l was sick and
that my little brother Rob came into
the room with a string of the most
horrible sounding bells and rang them
IN my ears. 1 couldn't move or speak
to him. The dream seemed to last for
so long time, and l am so glad that
you awakened me-" A ringing of those
bells for one second had caused all of
that dream, and just at the waking
moment.
"A dispatch from Washington says:
There was a narrow escape from Sc
rious trouble in the Island of Basilan.
| Phlhpplne Islands, as d result of the
efforts of naval surgeon to treat a
Moro after being attacked by a croco-
| ollie These reptiles infest the rivers of
| Basllan. Quite a number have been
shot recently by naval officers and
the enlisted men, affording a good deal
of sport, especially as the crocodiles
are ferocious and make a lively fight.
| A Venturesome Moro recently had his
| leg nearly bitten off at the thigh, and
I he was sent to the hospital for treat
inent by Passed Assistant Surgeon ].
A. Guthrie. The man entirely recov-
cred, but the surgeon was obliged to
engraft considerab BILE skin. The author
tiles called ON old Dato Pedro, the chief
OF the island, who required some of
his subjects to donate portions of their
epidernis to the disabled native. The
requisition was unique in the annals
or the Moros, and, as stated, nearly
precipitated a rebellion.
Color blindness is a physical de-
feet of which most people have heard.
Word blindness is less familiar phe-
nomenon, Of which DR.. James Hinshel-
wood of Glasgow, gives several in
stances in the current number of the
! Lancet. The first and most striking
! is that of well-educated man of a.
| VINO. after apparent recovery from an
attack of paralysis, found himself one
day unable to express his ideas either
by writing or speech, and equally UNI
able 20 interpret any communication
| made TO him by others. Gradually the
worst symptoms disappeared but he
| was frequently at a loss for word in
| speaking. In reading printed matter
he was often unable to recognize n
word, and with manuscript he had
even more difficulty. DR.. Hinshelwood
proceeds; The patient knowing
Greek, Latin and French, l tested him
as 10 his power of reading each of these
languages. Greatly to his surprise I
found that he read Greek correctly and
with very little difficulty. 1 tested him
| with passages from Thucydides, Homer
and Xenophon, and he read them all
| correctly. He read somewhat SLOWLY.
making very few plumbers, which he
always corrected at once himself. On
testing him with Latin, l found that
| though ne did not read this so correct
| ~ as the Greek, he read it much more
| huently and correctly than the English
and that he was able to recognizes nv
sight a much larger number of words.
| Many long Latin sentences he read
without pause; only now and again
| he failed to recognize a word by sight
! and had to spell it out letter by letter
| French he did not read so well as
Latin, but he read it better than Eng
fish, being able to pick out bv sight
alone much larger number of words"
Most people, says Pearson's, know
that beer is matted barley, favored
with hops-but what is entaiIed in
mailing the barley and favoring it
with hops, and slowing the resulting
| liquor in barrels, is little dreamt of nv
the philosopher who calls at the bar
for his bottle of Bass. In the olden
| days. when William Bass. 1777. laid the
| foundation of the present business. if
might have been possible to under
stand the ms and outs of his brewery
in an afternoons call. His pioneer es-
adjustment was of the size of a mod
crate garden. Now Bass's premises ex-
tend over $50 acres. The original
power in the brewery was manual
aided by horse occasionally-now the
steam engines in Bass aggregate about
| l,O0O horsepower. Old William Bass
carried his beer about the rutty coun-
try roads with the help of a. few
horses. His descendants, to manipulate
their traffic in their own premises
alone run some eleven special brewery
locomotives, each capable of drawing
200 tons. In their stables are more
than 100 grand horses, and now the
ubiquitous motor-car has entered upon
the scene to take the place of the
horses. On their own premises. Bass
own some fifteen miles of railway line
and have the power to run their trains
over seven miles of branch line belong
ing to the Midland Railway COMPANY
They employ about $4,000 railway