The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-26

flowers in table decorations. The ia
vorite novelty is a miniature landscape
somewhat after the Japanese fashion,
with tiny lakes of real water bearing
small craft of all sorts. and bordered
with messy banks and dwarf forests.
Sometimes the florist beds down the
whole center of the table with rare
ferns, rooted, or small Towering plants,
violets, pansies, arbutus. etc. This is
especially favored for woman's
luncheon, as the guests are permitted
&c gather bouquets during the last
course as souvenirs of the occasion.
Missionaries in this country are on
an equal footing before the law with
the clergy of the Catholic Church.
says the Mexican Herald. The Fed
eral nor the state government makes
any distinction between them. Around
the members of all communions is
thrown the protection of the federal
constitution. Because some of the more
fanatical and uninfuential people of
Catorce warned the missionaries to
leave the town the impression has gone
abroad that the whole community was
hostile to Protestant missionaries. 1t
is time that this utterly false impress
sion was done away with. The NUM-
cipal government of Catorce is composed
of enlightened and unprejudiced men;
they will uphold law and order in that
community.
Strikes, now so prevalent, says the
London Chronicle, are commonly
thought to be a nineteenth century
production, but it is only the name
(said to be of American origin) that
is modern. Their power as wage rails
ers was tried at least as far back as
the sixteenth century, for in the Cal
endar of State Papers is letter from
Sir William Fitz William to Mr.. Sec
rotary Cromwell containing the state
ment that the workmen at Dover re-
fused to work except for sixpence a
day. Two of the ringleaders had been
some time of the black guard in the
Kings Kitchen" No moral imputa-
ton was conveyed in calling them
black guards; all that was implied was
that they formerly guarded the pots,
pans and other utensils of the King.
It was a much later generation that
turned the term to purposes Of abuse.
The case of E. J. Dimmick. late a
private in the United States Marine
Corps, is unique in the history of the
military service, says the Washington
Star. Both the age limit and the time
service limit were waived in his case.
He is 90 years of age, and his period
Ol SeTNlC6 GAlGIlQ6u only ITOIn aug. II
to Sept. is of this year. During that
period he was rated as a private, with
pay at the rate of $13 a month. DIM
mick is a lieutenant colonel and in
| spector of rife practice in the Illinois
National Guard, and spends consider
able time in this city advocating the
enactment of the new militia bill. He
is an expert with the rifle, and makes
1t a point to attend rifle meets and
state guard encampments. His serv-
ice with the Marine Corps was that of
a coach" to it's rifle team, which took
| part in the recent match at Sea Grit,
/ N. ]. His term of enlistment merely
covered the period of preparation and
participation in the meet. 1t required
the special authority of the Secretary
of the Navy to get him in, as well as
to get him out of the service.
The whaleback barge which went
to the bottom of Lake Superior with
cargo of iron ore went out of exist
ence as a representative of a discred-
tied type of freighter, says the Mil
waukee Wisconsin. When the whale
back first appeared great advantages
were predicted because of her ability
to disregard all rules as to freeboard
and safely take the chances of becom-
ing diving bell during heavy weather.
She was successful for a time but
never appealed strongly to practical
seamen, who, as a rule, prefer float
ing upon the seas to diving through
them. But the new type would prob
ably have had long run of useful
ness, nevertheless, because purely
financial considerations generally
count, had not the interlake channels
enabled marine investors to build larg-
er ships with greater depth of hold
in proportion to length, and thus led
- &1.N tr,.Na To-. e
which have substantial amount of
freeboard even when they are loaded
to their utmost. These ships are safer
and more attractive as investments
than the queer hump backed freight
ers which have won among lake sail
ors the name pig"
There are 1913 members of the House
of Representatives yet to be elected,
says the New York World. The states
of Maine, oregon and Vermont have
already elected their representatives.
The Democrats have made $40 nominal
tons; the Republicans, 1893; the Prohi-
bitionists, SO; in sixteen states, Social
ist Labor, IL; Socialist Democrat,
10; Labor, /; United Labor, 4; Peo-
pies Party s; Populists, 7; Antitrust,
/; Third Party, in Missouri; Union
lists, in Pennsylvania, and Citizens, 3,
also in Pennsylvania. The Democrats
made no nominations in two New York
districts and in four Philadelphia dis
tricts, while the Republicans put up
no candidates in Florida, Georgia, Mis-
sissippi and South Carolina, and in one
district in Arkansas, one in Kentucky,
one in Louisiana, two in New. York,
three in Illinois, three in Tennessee,
five In Texas and two in Virginia In
one district of North Carolina both
parties agreed upon one man, Robert
n. Page, who although a Democrat,
got the Endorsement of the Republi-
cans because he voted for Mckinley.
and in the Tenth Pennsylvania district
William Connell the present member
from the Scranton district, a Republi-
can, received the Endorsement of the
Democratic boilers, the regular Demo-
Gratis nominating George Hawley, a
Republican, who also received the in
dorsement of boilers from his own par
ty. Two women are among the candi,
dates, Mrs. Mary Burkhart being the
nominee of the Prohibitionists in the
Tenth Kentucky district. She will be
unable to vote, as will Miss Ida Haz-
lett, the Socialist candidate for son
gressman-at-large from Colorado.
The game of polo was held in great
esteem in Persia before the dawn of
history down to the eighteenth GEN.
fury, says the New York Tribune
though later it seems to have flourish.
ed chiefly in India, says Mai. Sykes in
his 10000 Miles in PERSIA We are
given some Interesting oIipopSaS - a.