The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-05

"A New Yorker who has just re-
turned from a visit to Mexico. says
that many Americans are making
fortunes out of the mines throughout
the Republic. Already there are five
thousand silver mines and over on
thousand gold mines being operated,
and last year the value of these met
ais exported was nearly $4,000 600. In
no other country in the world are cot
ton mills paying such dividends on
the capital invested as those in Mexico
and new manufacturing plants Of
every description are going UP all over
the republic. 1t has great future, and
in developing itself it is beneiting the
business men of the United Sta-es- The
importation of machinery from this
country in the last year amounted to
over $6,000.0 900.
Women are constantly complaining
that eligible men show a most uncom-
promising desire to remain single in
stead of selecting a wife, says Wo-
mans Life. 1t is, therefore, good
thing that the same conditions do not
prevail in England as in some parts
of China, or the probability is that not
one in a thousand would ever take a
woman "for better or for worse" In
these CeleA.ial regions the bridegroom
elect has to submit to being dressed up
by mis- friends in any sort of costume
they like and, thus habited, they ac-
company him in state through the
streets of the town. Perhaps in that
part of the world men are overanx-
ious to be married, and everything
which can possibly be done to induce
them to remain single until they ar
rive at a more mature age has to be
raGnrta6 ic another nf all
being fair in love and war, and no
doubt the Chinaman who is shouting
to-day, as he accompanies his friend,
knows full we'll that next week he may
be the bridegroom elect, and so the
punishment is robbed of much of it's
terror.
The social life of the Kansas towns
is varied. The Kansan is by nature
a Joiner" he delights in grips and
passwords. Lodges, camps posts, con-
sistories, temples, tribes, and com
manderies in bewildering array at
tract him. The state always wins in
a contest with other jurisdictions for
membership, for each citizen is will
ling to join many orders, says the
September Atlantic. Husbands and
wives are alike eligible to member
ship in many Of the long list of as
sessment orders that flourish. and
around the lodge rooms clusters a
of many towns. In addition to fur
nishing a vast amount of insurance
and benefits at what is yet an abb
surdly low rate, the regular sessions
of the lodges, the surprise parties,
dances, and other features add to
their good work. Then there are card
clubs, literary clubs, women's fedora
lions, balls, and receptions. Dress
suits are more common than they
and gowns that would be satisfactory
to the wearer a thousand miles far
Their East are the rule.
M. ]. King. a retired farmer of
Chardon o., is firm in the belief that
fish reason and can also be hypnotized
says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Five
years ago Mr.. King built a pond near
his home and stocked it with mountain
trout from government hatchery.
The fish thrived and developed re-
markable growth. There are over L.
600 trout in the pond now, some of
them weighing two and a half pounds.
Mr.. King exercises wonderful influ-
ence over some of the fish. He can
reach down and take them out of the
water, pat others on. the back, while
hundreds of them will eat out of his
hand. One large trout he claims to
be able to hypnotic. When taken
from the water, after a series of
strokes on it's sides with the hand, the
fish appears to be dead, not a move
ment of it's gills being visible. An
other trout will, before being fed, at
a wave of the hand make a circuit of
the pool, jumping clear out of the wa
ter at intervals of five or six feet, and
sometimes turning a somersault in
it's career. Mr.. King cannot explain
the actions of the performing trout,
but is certain that fish can be hypno-
tized.
The world. we have been assured
time and again, knows nothing of its
greatest men. Perhaps it is equally
ignorant about it's greatest books, says
the Era. Are we quite sure that the
idols in our literary pantheon are ar
rayed in their due order of precedence?
The rules of precedence change, and
who shall assert that those prevalent
at any given time are the final ones
But above all, are we quite certain
that there may not be a notable work
of genius lying unnoticed and unknown
amid the wrecks of the river of time
waiting only for some lucky accident
l4dl SHdlt reveal II III ali It's beauty To
an astonshed world? Such accidents
with such results have been frequent
in the history of the past. Indeed,
such accidents have preserved or have
revealed to the world no insignificant
proportion of it's now acknowledged
masterpieces. The books of the Bible
themselves have experienced the mar
rowest escapes from what might have
resulted in their total loss. The most
notable example is that of Deuter-
onomy, which disappeared from the
Jewish world for over a century. The
story of it's rediscovery by the high
priest HeZekiah during the reign of the
good King Josiah is set forth in the
Old Testament. Shakespeare was
practically forgotten in the days when
Addison wrote his Account of the
Greatest English Poets" with never a
mention of the name of the very great
est. Yet it was very shortly after
wards that Shakespeare was resusci-
tated. Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam'
and Blackmore's Lorna Doone" drop
ped still born from the press and later
won sudden popularity by accident.
When Macaulay embalmed Madame
de Maintenon in the pages of history
as creature of a tact so consum-
mate that it was impossible to find
a parallel, he wrote without the facts
which would have made him marvel
still more at the extraordinary self
control of a woman who, though the
wife of king, was not queen, says a
writer in the Era. The Count de