The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-12


burg correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, was born. on April, 70. 1871, the
boy who became the fifteenth Presi-
dent Of the United States-James Buch-
anan. A few years ago the people of
Mercersburg saw fit to preserve this
relic, and with that object in view the
hut was removed for a couple of miles
from its original site to its present
place, at the edge of town. Since then
local interest in the little structure has
died away 1t was rented not long
since to a colored family. and to-day,
save for their occasional ministrations,
receives neither care nor repair.
One of the things that most i'm
pressed Gen. Wood, says the London
Chronicle, was the stolidity of the Lon
don crowds. They disappointed him.
He had heard so much Of British
cheers" that he expected to see all
American outbursts thrown into the
shade. Instead of that he found less
show of enthusiasm, even when the
King and Queen rode through the city,
than may be met with any day in the
states at a baseball match. This is a
comment which American visitors Oft
en- make. and not without reason. The
London crowd is more hearty and vo-
ciferous than the French or German
crowd, but compared with an Ameri-
can gathering on any big occasion, a
political meeting, for instance; a civic
welcome to a victorious admiral. or a
varsity football match, 1t is as Aber
waterfall to Niagara. On the other
hand, it is claimed that the Americans
do not really cheer; they yell.
"A brand new occupation for the
blind. and one in which they will ex-
eel the seeing is beginning to be taught
in the asylums," said a physician in
the Philadelphia Record. This is the
occupation of the masseur. The blind
with their delicate sense of touch and
with their soft, supple hands, take to
massage as a duck takes to water.
Massage. you see, doesn't require eye
sight, for the masseur's busy hands
hide from him what he is doing; it re-
quires just those qualities that in the
blind are developed to an excess-an
ability to see, as it were, with the fin
gers. l know a blind maSseur who
practices in New York. His work is
a revelation No seeing man or woman
] have ever met could come anywhere
near him. The massage, as you know,
is becoming more and more popular
daily; we are getting more and more
masseurS, and soon, 1 am glad to see,
a good proportion of these men and
women will be blind"
Some alarm has been recently oc-
casioned in England by statements
concerning the erosion of the coasts.
But compensating forces are at work,
which has long been engaged in re-
claiming territory from the embraces
of the sea, according to the Windsor
Magazine. That part of England
which was not visible in the time of
Julius Caesar comprises some thou
sands of square miles. 1t is to be
found along the shores of the Thames,
on the coast of Kent and Essex, in
Lincolnshire and in many other parts.
Romney Marsh, together with Walling
and Guilford Marshes, containing
about $4,000 acres, is the earliest in
closure of which we have any record
In later times, particularly In the sew
enteenth century, the Dutch, with their
native skill In the art of embanking,
were employed. Some of the princi-
pal Enclosures of recent years have
been made on the Norfolk and Lincoln
shire coasts; part of Sunk Island in
Yorkshire (the whole of which Is re-
claimed land); Pagham Harbor, Sus-
sex; islands in landlord Water, Es-
sex; Brading Harbor, in the Isle of
Wight and parts of the estuary of
the River Dee. The reclaimed land of
Lincolnshire amounts to more than
$4,000 acres, or more than 1000 square
miles. In the estuary of the Humber
about 290 square miles have from time
to time been gained from the sea.
Interesting discoveries have recent
ly been made at the Tower of London
of some inscriptions made on the walls
by persons confined there in past times,
says the London Telegraph. In the
work of repairing g. defective window
opening in the ST. Martins Tower, a
piece of deal framing had to be re-
moved. Behind this was found the
name of Ambrose lockwood, a wealthy
young Suffolk squire, who was con-
cerned in the gunpowder plot. 1t was
finely carved, and the surname was
divided, lockwood" indicating the
nature of its derivation. The unfort-
innate culprit was drawn and hanged
in Palace Yard, Westminster, with
other of the conspirators, on the last
day of January, 1906. Mr.. Hepworth
Dixon, in Her Majesty's Tower" gives
an account of Rookwood's exciting
ride out of London to his home at
Goldman Hall, Suffolk. after the gun
powder plot was discovered. He COW
cred thirty miles on a single horse, and
the entire distance of eighty-one miles
in less than seven hours, a remarkable
performance, considering the state of
the roads at that period. A more elab-
crate inscription than that of Rock
woods, and one of the finest of the
whole series in the St. Martins tower
is one that has been found through
the removal of some coats of white
wash Beneath an emblem of the
Trinity appear the sacred letters, 81.
H. S." and then the name, George
Beisley, Priest" On the left is a shield.
containing the T1eur-de-lis, the word
Maria, and the date, 1890" A Latin
inscription which follows is supposed
to be a verse from the Psalms. LAS
the hart panteth after the water
brooks, SO panteth my soul after Thee,
o Cod" But this cannot be stated
with absolute certainty, as several
words are wanting.
Curious was the find made in Sha-
ron, Conn.,, by a couple of youths while
hunting. They discovered an old tree,
into the hollow of which an altar had
been built by cementing in fiat stones
at from ten to twelve feet from the
ground and piling others at the base
up to hight of some three feet. A
tablet was fastened in the back of the
hollow, about six feet from the foot.
which bore in Greek the Inscription
which St. Paul saw on the altar In
Athens, ITO the Unknown God" This
use Of a Biblical quotatio was evil
IDENTIFY made in spirit of mockery. The
| altar is supposed to have been erected
by an irreliglous sect or society which
fiourished in Sharon in the early years
Of fhn autn