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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23
HIS IDEA OF THE SOUTH.
Curious Letter From Wisconsin
Man 10 a Savannah Firm.

Curious Letter From "A Wisconsin
Man 10 a Savannah Firm.
Savannah real estate firm received
a curiosity of letter a day or two
ago from a Wisconsin man who had
written for some information about
Savannah and Southern Georgia, and
to whom the real estate men sent a
supply of Central Railroad circulars
descriptive of the advantages of this
section of the state.
The Wisconsin man, after acknowl-
edging the information, wrote as fol-
lows:
II am very much pleased with the
explanation you furnished me about
your city and vicinity, and I have not
the least doubt but your city is a lively
and enterprising business town, where
all kinds of traffic is going on to a
great extent both by land and water
1t must likewise be a pleasant winter
resort, but the summer season is UNI
doubtedly very hot, as the statement
in the Encyclopedia Britannica (vol X
page 435), says that along the sea coast
the summer seasons are intensely hot,
and malarial diseases are prevalent
Savannah and the coast region south
are sometimes visited by the dreaded
scourge of cholera and yellow fever.
The mean temperature for July has
been known to be as high as SO degrees
Fahrenheit.
But for all that this does not dis
courage me, if only the winters sea-
son Is healthy and pleasant. 1 intend
to come and spend the next winter
there, and If the summers should prove
too hot or unhealthy for me 1 can go
up North again. How about the ne
groes? Are they peaceaible or do they
seem to run everything to suit them
selves. I spent sometime in Mobile and
New Orleans a year ago, and l was
much disguised with the black folks,
as they seemed to feel above the white
people, and do as they pleased when
ever they had chance. We up North
here do not have many negroes, and
do not appreciate them very much.
AS a rule there are very few of the
Northern people who have any idea
about the South. Many of them are of
the opinion that the Southern states
consist mostly of swamps, woods, ne
groes and cut-throats.
Now then, why is there not some
enterprising men amongst you who
could boom-up your city by advertising
and sending out circulars among
Northern people stating the capacity
and the rates of your hotels; also the
different rates of your restaurants; the
capacity and rates of furnished rooms;
the house rent and cost of different
articles of provision, etc. This was the
way Los Angeles became so noted as
tourist station, and a resort for
Northern and Eastern people And the
consequence of it was they had a great
boom and the populate and business
doubled in a few years, until it be-
came the greatest tourist resort in
America. There is no reason why some
of the Southern cities if they were
doomed and advertised, would not also
become noted winter resorts.
with many thanks and much re-
spect for your kind information. 1 re-
main, ETC."
After the man from Wisconsin has
spent winter and summer in Savan-
nah he will probably have a different
opinion of the South than he seems to
have now.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23

phasis. 1--WE thought these were the
Y. M. c. A. Where is your Campus?
Where are your dormitories? Where
are you Greek Letter Societies."
well" he said slowly, 1.-The Campus
used to be at Clifton, about two miles
northeast of here. There isn't any any
more. We don't live in dormitorieS.
aren't any Greek Letter Societies"
Thomasina shrugged her shoulders
with a MSat-to-you -mean-by-it eX
preston. How do you know your
buildings apart?" she demanded.
I'VE don't" said the young man inn
perturbably, except by situation"
Herewith, he pulled out and handed to
Thomasina a pocket University direc-
tory, bowed, and went his way.
"Graciousi" gasped Thomasina, with
a SILVER, to think of stumbling into
Johns Hopkins without knowing it!
Let's get right out of this university"
More easily said than done. We tried
Garden street and Ross street, only to
encounter windows lined with rows of
bottles, with male heads bent over
them. Howard street and little Ross
street were still collegiate. THE idea"
shifted Thomasina, of a university all
tangled up with a city in this unprinci-
pied fashion, Where are the immemo-
rial elms? the antiquity?-the atmos-
phere?"
Antiquity. I'm an institution just cell
ebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary?
Nonsense / protested. AS for at
mosphere, n you should step inside
that Chemical Labortary, you would
md plenty Of 81" / was wrong; for
approved venulating hoods and fues
have made Johns Hopkins Chemical
Laboratory the least sulphurous In
christendOm. But how was ! 20 know
that2
Arrived ia our peregrinations az the
door OF mccoy Hail, we went ln under
the carved komanesque archway. 90
the office Of the president Having held
the Chair ~ Chemistry ever since tho
university opened. Dr. Remsrn has not
relinquirhed it even nov when noe
whole burden ~ the institution has
fallen On bis efficient shoulders Bui
you never would haze fnnoled him u
busy man as b. settled down go con,
siesf our case. &c. auFEesfed that ue
make nhe Frand tDur ~ enc DuiidinFs
sfffnE Johns hopkins with our own
zee -. pfoilaee win a cheat of caFGf
81 inffp1nelOu. We Ufff boNiur our
solves eut when Thomafina. Hitherto
tfeoWinFIF silent reitfl hff Foire "A
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23

copyright, 1902, by Mary B. Hartt)
Rumors of an approaching quarter
centennial celebration at Johns Hop
Mns University determined me to go
and see what manner OF place it might
be. That is was a postgraduate
institution I knew, and that it was
spreposterously learned. But there my
information ended. Therefore, I and
my good friend Thomasina-best of
/ travelling companious-betook our
selves to Baltimore. Our first walk
brought us inevitably to Monument
Square, center and soul of the venera-
BILE citys life. Strolling up Monument
street in search of an approachable
person to direct us to the University,
we came to the conclusion that nine
tenths of Baltimore's population were
men, and that nine-tenths of Balti-
more's men were young. Not a petit
coat appeared.
1t was Thomasina, of course, who
wearing her second-best smile, accosted
a youth in a doorwalk with, Il beg
pardon, but can you direct us to Johns
Hopkins?"
Ladies'" he replied, his eyes twink
ling irrepressibly as he lifted his hat,
you're right in it,
What ?-Where?" gasped Thomas
ina, wheeling to look about her. Big
dull, red brick buildings, with round,
brownstone arches, stood flush with
the sidewalk on both sides of the street.
The youth indicated these and includ-
ing vaguely all points of the compass,
replied. oh all about here. Were you
looking for anything in particular"
I'VE were looking for university"
quoth Thomasina with reproachful en-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23
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The president strangled a smile, MUIR
muring something courteous about the
point of view" l bolted into the pass
age to hide my confusion. Richard
Harding Davis indeed Shades of Johns
HOpkinsi
The charge of the architectural bar
renness we retracted in the shining
oaken corridors of Mccoy Hail. newest
and finest of university buildings. We
caught a glimpse en- route of the leo
nine head OF Prof. Paul Haupt of Poly
chrome Bible fame. Thomasina said
she never had supposed he was real.
Through literature and language sem
inaries,' big audience halls, and splen-
did reading rooms, we prowled, and
so came again to the street, and over
the way, to the Chemical Laboratory.
The professor who showed us
through said it was not show labor
atory; and perhaps from the stand
point of pure beauty it was not. But
light, air, working space, water power,
and electricity were unstinted. AS for
apparatus they have everything that's
to be bought, and also some that isn't
for the machine-shops are by no means
the least important part of the uni
VerSity.
Thomasina, whose idea of chemical
experiments was confined to brief OPP
erations ending in a pop and a mess,
was overawed by the scope and seri-
BUSINESS of the work going on in doz-
ems of little private laboratories where
graduate students were industriously
transforming themselves into Phi. DIS
The infinite patience which keeps a
man pegging away for a twelve-month
upon one circumscribed investigation,
with the chance that in the end they
may write over against his work, Re
suits purely negative'-was beyond
her ken. l am afraid she joggled out
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23

of a half hours work a Phi. D., who
doing delicate chemical weighing, de-
termining thousandths of a gram with
the help of a beautiful balance and lit
ale fish scales for weights which would
be disqualified by immediate use by
the moisture of your finger tip. He
graVely took the temperature and con-
suited the barometer before he went
to work. proceedings which we were
inclined to regard as a huge joke. But
it seems he meant it. their being a
difference between culinary and chem
ical standards of eXactness. Our guide
told us that many a time when he had
important experiments in hand he had
worked with the balances through the
dead of night, till the clock, striking
4, set in motion again the rumbling
city carts, sending disconcerting vi
brations through his delicate inStru-
ment, and putting a period to exact
work That's the price Johns Hopkins
pays for her city site.
We said we would like to see some
practical results of so much pure sci
ence, and to know what becomes Of
the pure scientists, turned out by Johns
Hopkins every year. In response they
showed us a series of books full OF
samples OF beautiful ralnbow-hued
cloth. Those colors, or rather the dyes
result of the sweat of the chemists
brains. They mean the most abstruse
mental operations, the most strenuous.
Juggling with the relative geometrlc
positions OF unthlnkable atoms in
space The big German dyers have in
their employ dozens OF illustrious doc
tors OF philosophy, who think In coll
ors, determining by their Vaccinations
with coal tar the hues In which so
ciety shall array itself from generation
10 generation. That ~ one OF the many
commercial fields open 20 the theOret-
teal chemist. Most Johns Hopkins
men. however, go 10 satisfy the de-
manda for Hopkins graduates na pro-
fessors in the colleges and universities
~ the land"
We found The geological laboratory
mixed ~ confuHnEly with the Weather
Bureau and the Maryland Geological
survey That ls because br. clark,
director ~ the laboratory. H. also clerk
~ fhe weather anl chief ~ fhf survey,
Advantage ln plenty arcfucf both 40
university ana state from this part
usffbip. The students fft between
tlree Hna four moAfht artual hsld
work every geaf Hnd farn q nifis
money 1bf state. 90 ifH fids sets fhF
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23
THE FLYING FROG.
He Sails From Tree to Tree Like n
Bird.


Bird.
Upon seeing the expansive MEM
braue on the feet of this little frog
shown in the picture, you might easily
imagine him using them in the hot cli-
mate of his home (Borneo) as fans to
keep himself cool. To be sure, frog
tanning itself with it's feet would be
a funny sight, but 1 think this little
fellow can do 1t, thought naturalists
do not report ever having seen him so
employed. They do, however, know
positively of one use he has for them,
and that is, in sailing from tree to
tree. They enable him to do this IN
the same way as the wings of our
modern flying machine enable it's In
ventor to remain for a time in the air.
When he wishes to leave the tree on
which he is resting, he leaps into the
air. at the same time spreading out
his great webbed-feet for sails, using
them so as to maintain a horizontal
flight. reaches another tree 20 or more
feet away.
When he has finished the flight the
toes are drawn together inclosing the
membrane between them so that ex-
cept for the awkward length of his feet
you might take him for only a common
tree frog. w. H Worrall.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23

superlatively the place in all America
for original research. They told us
that they are always loaning to other
institutions volumes of the rare old
technical journals of which they have
complete sets. We asked if there was
not danger of losing them. But"
said they. reproachfully, there is more
danger that somebody won't get what
he wants" That is Johns Hopkins Ill
over. Given really adequate endow-
ment, and along lines of research 1T
least, everybody will always "get wat
he wants"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23

Uncle George-"Come. Dick, why
don't you shake yourself together and
get to work at something? Industry,
you know, must prosper" Harry
Yes, but isn't industry pretty heavy
price to pay even for prosperity p
Boston Transcript
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23

observation-disclosures Surely. Edith" eX-
claimed the minister to his daughter
you are'not going to attend a theatre
cal performance this evening" Eyes,
father" Shame! Do you forget that
this is the penitential season." "Oh,
no; that's just it, You see, this is an
amateur performance.-Phila
Press.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23

"A Remarkable Analogy.-"You've
got to become well acquainted with a
classical composition" said the must
cal enthusiast, before you can really
like it," YES" answered Mr.. CumroX,
in an amiable effort to keep up the
conversations cts a good deal the
same way with a dog. Washington
Star.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23


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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23
Machine
Type
Settlers.
Said TO be Hard
on Operators.

The work of a typesetter in a mod
ern printing Office is very exacting,
particularly IL he runs a linotype or
pesetting machine. 1t requir es the closest
tention aend rapid and sympathetic action
both brain and hand. This IN 'c 1 n
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10

Here is full-blooded, savage Yaqui
Indian hard at work in the great So
moran desert, near Torres, Mexico. He
is digging q big Bisnaga cactus, and the
result Of his labor has recently been
transferred to the New York Botanical
gardens, where it is now growing as
usual in the glass house.
The popularity of this Yaqui and Of
nearly all his tribe is simply stated.
When he can get work and pay he is
tie best of laborers. When he cannot
get work he joins all of his fellow
Yaquis who are idle, and the troop pro-
ceeds to sally forth to rob and pillage
farms and small towns and massacre
all who oppose them.
They cheerfully engage the Mexican
troops, exterminating and scattering an
entire command. They have success
fully fought the Mexican troops since
the foundation of that country and are
as unconquered to-day as ever. They
must have work and pay or war.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10
All the News in the Head.

"I suppose our western country has
furnished more funny things in the cpl
taph line than all the rest of the
world" remarked eX-COngressman
LATE Pence Of Colorado at the Riggs
House.
Il remember one that adorned the
cemetery at Leadville IL the palmy
days of that great mining camp. It
seems that in the course of e. bar
room broil one Jim O'Brien, a we'll
known character, had his existence ter
minated prematurely. He was a good
fellow in the main and not without
friends. One Of the dead mans asso-
ciates, in deep grief over his demise
erected a wooden slab over his grave
on which he had written in large let
tiers:
"'Jim O'Brien departed for heaven
at $50 4. m.
"A local humorist happened along
soon afterward and appended the fol
lowing:
Heaven, APO p. m, O'Brien not yet
arrived. Intense excitement. The
worst is feared "-Washington Post.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10
a HORSE WITH A MUsTAcHE.

One of the Unique Sights on the Streets
of Chicago.
Chicago has something unique in the
animal line and you don't have to pay
admission fee to a museum to see it.
A horse with a mustache is not an or
binary creature and stranger still Is the
fact that this particular horse is a fe-
male. Wondering citizens stop to gaze
as Myra II high-steps down the boule-
ward. On her upper lip is long, black
mustache-not a spare thing made up
of a few scattered hairs, but one of
luxuriant growth, like the false affairs
villains wear on the stage. The horse
is the property of f. A. King and, as
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10

ing the war under a lease. April %,
1879, it was bought by the United
States government and described as
1.-THE Confederate Cemetery, formerly
occupied by the Camp Chase Rebel
Prison" In the Enclosure are buried
1920 Confederate soldiers.
Colonel Knauss, who is well known in
the Confederate camps In the South, in
vited them to send flowers for the I'M
was general. Nearly every State in the
South responded and many contribu-
lions were made by Southerners who
live in the North and by Northerners
as well.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10

A report is made by the American
consul at Liverpool upon municipal So
eialism in Great Britain. Among the
enterprises managed by municipalities
are Turkish baths owned by Leaning
ton and Harrogate; rabbit-warren, by
Torquay; an oyster-fshery, by Colches-
ter; a crematory, by Hull. DOncaster
and Chester own race-courses, and in
Doncaster the town itself manages the
races. St. Helen's supplies sterilized
milk. The report says that nearly a
thousand municipalities in Great Brit
Elm own water-works about a hundred
own street railways; many more own
gas works. Speaking generally, the
consul finds that municipal government
in the kingdom is honest, intelligent
and energetic and, as a rule, political
considerations have little to do with
the engagement or retention of civic
employees.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10

For months laughing boy has been
the bone of contention In a famous
New York law suit A husband and
wife had parted. They viewed each
other as strangers across a trial table
in a court room. There was no doubt
about their love for the boy. 1t was
pure gold. 1t should have made wo-
man more tolerant, a man more forgiv-
ing. Happy married folks can't IN
derstand how the mothers and faith
ers Of children can ever separate and
learn to hate. In this case there was a
great deal of money on one side. 1t
meant fine clothing for baby, and
nurses, rich food, carriage drives and
costly toys. Some day 1t would mean
a yacht, a valet, a private car-an Of
the things that can be had for money.
On the other Side-the mother s-there
was much love and very little money.
1t was possible that her son would
be compelled to work some day, and
that he would be denied all sorts Of
comforts and luxuries that go with
great incomes. What a problem for
the Judge! This Judge, whose name
is Hickey. has some strange ideas. He
thinks that when married folks are
foolish enough to break up a relation
that should mean peace and content
ment, it is the business of the court
to place the welfare Of the children
above every other cOnd ton. That
doesn't mean money always. Listen to
the modern Solomon: The boy needs
the personal attention and the loving
care of his mother more than he needs
the money of his father, if the father
has the affection for the child he pro
feSses he will see that his boy is
clothed and fed wherever he is In
other words. a mother is closer to her
children than a father, and, for once
the law has recognized 1t. The idea
Of the superior claim of a father to
his children has received an official set
back. Where no question of morals is
involved and when love and money are
antagonists. Justice should throw her
influence on the side Of hearts as
against gold. Because it is best for the
| children.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10
An Amusing under.

Apropos of the difficulty of speaking
foreign languages correctly, a story is
told of a dainty French lady who re
Gently visited our shores. She is SEN
sitive to the point of nervousness, and
realizing the liability to err in a for
eign tongue, she was generally careful
to make selection of each individual
word. Wherefore she was but the more
amusing when, one evening, feeling
moved to demonstrate with a gentle
man upon the chilliness of our north
ern May, she said: Freely eet ees so
cold here all re time Eat have sat all
re day weeth my feet over re tran
some"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10

LA De CLAHENONr men, although under
the American average in size, are SPLEEN
did specimens of manhood. Many Of
both sexes have curling hair and all
are fair-haired and blue-eyed. Sports
among them hold almost as high
place as among the ancient Greeks.
They are skilled in simple arts and
have all kinds of athletic exercises.
Both man and woman are wonderfully
graceful dancers, and in these national
exercises they adorn themselves with
all kinds of curious ornaments-bits Of
colored stone, claws of birds and gay
feathers and flowers. They are thor
oughly domestic and they keep their
houses as neat as any model house.
keeper of our own country. They are
clean in every way, although their
homes are simple bamboo houses like
those of the brown natives.
Originally these people were Moham-
medans. Now they are being Christian
lied by their ruler. This ruler, as a
youth, was taken to Spain and edu-
Gated, and he is now instructing his
people according to the knowledge he
derived in Spain.
The origin of this strange white race
/ is unknown. The people are very ex-
elusive and are averse to the entry into
their country of foreigners.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10

huge bowlder which marks the resting
place Of the dead Confederates. On it
is chiseled in bold letters the word
Americans" AT the top of the arch
is the statue Of a Confederate soldier
In full uniform. The memorial stands
in the center Of the cemetery. Immedi-
ately In the rear is the tall fiagpost upon
which Old Glory floats.
The cemetery plot contains about two
and one-half acres. The land was held
by the United States government dur
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10

There ought not to be either political
or industrial differences of opinion over
the announced intention of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor to support all
legislation directed toward the aboli-
ready protect their children. In bring
ing pressure to bear upon those States
which do not, the federation Is pro
noting the welfare of mankind, as
well as furthering its own interests.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10

This is a story for boys. 1t is not
exactly "a Sunday school story" but it
has the right sort of good ring to it
just the same Frank Provost. of To
ledo, Ohio, drives a delivery wagon
He is a pleasant and accommodating
lad and when an old gentleman asked
if he could ride about the city with
him, Frank readily assented. After
an hours drive the stranger asked
Frank to 20 to a saloon and have a
drink The boy declined, saying he
never drank. The old man asked if
he chewed tobacco and upon receiving
a reply in the negative offered the boy
a cigar, which he also declined. That
is the first chapter The old man who
rode with the delivery boy was that
eccentric millionaire, Mr.. Higginson, of
San Francisco. Higginson, wherever
he goes, is looking for boys like Frank
Provost. Before leaving Toledo the
millionaire went to Frank and present