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The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-19

Isabel Shooter. and Miss Eliza Lamar
Hull.
SOCIETY EVENTS AND PERSONALS.
Hon. and Mrs. Roland Leigh were
the guests Of honor at a small infor-
NAL dinner given last evening by Mr..
and Mrs. Beirne Gordon. The table
decorations were American beauties.
The guests were Hon. and Mrs. Ro-
land Leigh, Mr.. and Mrs. George j.
Baldwin, and Mr.. and Mrs. w. W.
Gordon. Jr.
Mrs. George j. Mills will spend
Christmas with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Wilson Hodge in New York.
Mrs. J. D. Weed has returned from
Noroton. Conn.
Miss Mary Houstoun of Baltimore is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George j.
Baldwin.
Miss Madge Reid expects to leave
next week for a trip to st. Augustine.
Mr.. Antonio waring has returned
from Yale for the holidays.
Miss Mary Clay, who is the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Lang, will leave
Tuesday to spend the rest of the, win
ter with her father in Brunswick.
Invitations have been received in the
city from Mrs. Berta Meador Swift,
to the marriage of her daughter,
Jeanne, to Mr.. James Frederick Lewis,
Thursday evening, Dec. 81, at Q o'clock,
at 91e West Fifty-eighth street, New
York. Mr.. Lewis, who now lives in
Atlanta, resided in Savannah at one
time, and is very cordially remembered
here.
Cards have been sent out by Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Boyken Underwood of
Fayetteville, to the marriage Of their
daughter, Ellen Hale, to DR.. David Gill
lespie McKethan, Wednesday, Dec. 30,
at 8 o'clock at st. Johns Church, Fay
etteville. DR.. MacKethan is a brother
of Mr.. Edwin r. MacKethan, former
resident of Savannah. and is well
known here.
Miss Elizabeth Waller has returned
from abroad.
Miss Minnie Mackall and Miss Mil
dred Cunningham have returned from
Bfiar Cliff, the new Pennington school
on the Hudson, for the Christmas holi-
DAYS. Miss Claude McAlpin has gone
to South Bethlehem TO join Judge and
Mrs. McAlpin.
The usual Saturday tea will be served
this afternoon at the Golf Club. Mrs.
A. b. NJ. Gibbes win be the hostess.
Miss Virginia Bisbee has returned
home for the holidays.
Miss Constance Chestnut has returned
from washington for the holidays.
Mics Edith Seamans Of New York is
the guest OF Miss Chestnut.
Miss Lucy Dancy IL a. home for the
Christmas holidays.
The Misses cathsrps ava Etbsl Me-
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-19

Mr.. Antonio Waring has returned
from Yale for the holidays.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-19

Beware Of accepting cigar from
any attache of the Court House. They
are all loaded and already a number
of innocent victims have had their
eye brows and mustachios singed by
the sizzling havannas as the fuse light
ed. Johnny Dillon sings with glee, at
a distance, when he sees a victim puff
fing away at one of the little volca-
noes in the shape of a cigar.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-19

Miss Madge Reid expects to leav
next week for a trip to St. Augustine.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-19

Isabel Shotter, and Miss Eliza Lamar
Hull.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOLS.
Experience of Dawson Physician
Who Spent TWO Years in Europe.

DR.. w. c. Cassels, an old Tacoman,
is in the city renewing acquaintance
of ten years ago. He comes now from
Dawson. where he has established a,
big practice and done well in every
way. The doctor is well know here
to a host of people, and his success.
in the ten years he has been absent
will prove interesting. With the ex-
ception of two years spent at Edin-
burgh, Paris and Berlin, taking post
graduate courses in medicine and sur
gerry, he has practiced in the North
country, and is the one American
physician, solitary and alone, who
passed the discriminating examina-
ton established in the Yukon in
1898. Dawsonites will remember that
the Canadian doctors found Dawson
entirely in the hands of American
practitioners and secured the passage
Of law ignoring certificates of all
American colleges and requiring that
all American practitioners submit to
examination at the hands of the Can
adian doctors who wanted their prac-
tice. DR.. Cassells was the only one
to "cut the mustard" in the graphic
language used On that occasion
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
THE PILOTS UNION.
The One Formed Year Ago by Men
Who Run Mississippi River Boats.

Considering the extraordinary diff
culties of navigation on the Mississippi
it is not astonishing that the pilots
role became of the first Importance.
Realizing this advantage, and that
none could be found to fill their places
save such as they themselves might
teach, the pilots ofthe Mississippi river
formed a union. the pilots Protec-
tive association which limited the
number of apprentices and thus elm
mating all competition, was able to
maintain an excessive wage scale.
Ten thousand, even $4,000 was
not an unusual compensation for
pilot for eight or nine months SER
vice. One hundred dollars day was
about as little as the self-respecting
pilot cared to accept. Steamboat
owners complained that they gave
their pilots all the profits and were
obliged to accept whatever these
princely individuals were generous
enough to allow. Such complaints,
however, were not well grounded for
as much as $4,000 was often cleared
in a. single run. 1t was not uncommon
for a new boat to pay for herself on
the first trip.-Everybody's Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
OLD AFRICAN GOLD MINES.
Evidences of Extensive Operations
Carried on Many Years Ago.

Rhodesia, or British Zambesia,
ranks among the chief gold-bearing
countries of the wurld. The ancients
mined and carried away enormous
quantities of the precious metal, but
under the scientific mining systems of
the present day their operations will
be greatly surpassed. In the recently
published work on the Ancient Ruins
of Rhodesia," the authors, Messrs.
Hall and Neal, endeavor to discover
who the ancients were and whittier
the gold went.
Perhaps Rhodesia was the ancient
land of OphiT. the land of the mysteri-
Gus king Solomon's mines" but the
theory is strongly combated by some
investigators. The ancient gold work.
ings are the basis of modern workings.
For every ten square miles of Rhode
STA there was one ancient mine, that
is, there are $4,000 old holes, which
means that a stupendous wealth was
dug out of the earth before the days.
of Cecil Rhodes. Much of this wealth
must have gone to the North and
East; it was probably wrought into
the crown of the Queen of Sheba and
filed the Golfers of Solomon.
The ancient smelling furnaces are
still easy to recognize. They are sunk
into the floor. The furnace blowpipeS
are made of the finest granite-powder
cement, and the nozzles of the blow
pipes are covered with splashes Of
gold The Innings Of the holes are
covered with specks of gold. When
the first lining became worn by the
heat, fresh lining of cement of ami
excellent quality, which has outlasted
time, was smeared round on top of the
old lining. One can take an old lin
ing, split off the layers with a KNIT
and find gold splashes in abundance.
Apparently the ancients wasted
gold lavishly. Gold has been found in
large quantities in the form of pellets
as large as buckshot in the vicinity
of the furnaces, and also thrown away
on the debris heaps outside of the old
buildings.
The tools of the ancient workers
which have so far been discovered
include small soapstone hammer
and furnishing stones of water-Worn
rock. to which gold still adheres.
There are evidences that the anclents
carried on an extensive industry in
the manufacture of gold ornaments
and utensils. Thirty-fve thousand dol
lars worth of gold ornaments have
been taken in the last five years from
the ruins of Matabeleland alone
Youths Companion.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
TELLS OF TONAPAH'S GLORIEs
"I'n from Tonopah. New"

That was all H. c. Morris had to
say for himself-at first. He is a
stocky man, short, and short-spoken,
yet very affable withal.
Mining man?'
The question was natural, for Mr..
Morris looked like young man.
Eyes, just that"
And how's everything in Tonopah?"
The face Of Mr.. Morris frightened.
tits the only mining camp on earth, +"
Its great. You never saw anything
there now, and two years ago there
were thirty, Talk about increase in
population, did you ever run against
anything like that?"
There was but one possible response.
The other man never had.
II thought not. There hasn't been
anything like it, and this is only half
could tell There is going to be a
continuous rush. Well have railroad
in less than a year, and the plans for
mills and amalgamators and concen-
trating plants are something wonder
full"
ANY railroad?"
mot yet, but we've got one coming
up. The nearest station is Soda Springs
on the Carson & Colorado railroad, 60
miles distant. That's our shipping
point, but there'll be branch road in
short time. Everything is working
nicely and the road will be built; that
we can ship direct to Salt Lake City
without that sixty-mile drag of expen-
sive hauling
"The biggest company operating in
the camp is called the Philadelphia
company. 1t operates the Mixpah ledge
and is turning out the finest ore you
ever saw in your life. 1t is gold and
silver. The silver predominates, but it
is rich in gold.
who II" concluded Mr.. Morris, in
answer to question, "ah, I've got some
prospects out there, fine ones, too, but
don't care to speak about them. I'm
talking of the place in general, and
when tell you that it's going to boom
mean what | say, and l know what
I'm talking about Denver Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

The Toronto Mail says: "The annual
report of the chief of the metropolitan
police, sent to the Home Secretary re-
Gently, is interesting reading. We have
in London an area exclusive of the
city proper of 6S8 square miles, being
radius of Is miles from Charing
Cross. The London corporation and it's
police have control over the small area
which includes the district of st. Pauls
and the bank of England. But for the
large area outside London has police
force of 10000 hen, 60 per cent of
whom are employed on night duty.
The number of persons apprehended in
the year 1901 was over 10000, or l 200
more than in 1900. The police cost Lon
don 6 $4,000 for the year 1901, which
is not grudged when it is remembered
that felonies relating to property were
over 900 in 1901. And yet, for all this
mass Of crime, London, or that part of
it which the visitor sees, is as reputable
and as crimeless and as safe as any
rural village. The police find most OF
their work in the overcrowded dis
tricts, where poverty and public houses
keep each other company.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
ANTS AND SPIDERS AS FOOD.
The Children Of Other Lands Have
Queer Dishes and Enioy Them.

6QSSf DISUSS db& EHIOy iHStfs
In some countries the people eat
ants. In Sweden they mix them with
rye and flavor the stew with brandy.
They make dish of pressed ants and
soften it with milk until it looks like
our chocolate.
In Africa the children roast large
white ants and eat them by the hand
full like popcorn. Travellers who have
eaten them say that they taste like
almond paste.
Many people cook and eat the To-
Gust They boil them in salty water,
roast them in Oil or fry them in but
ter. Sometimes they dry and grind
the locusts and make the powder into
bread by adding little water.
The Mexicans are fond of roasted
spiders. They also grind dry the
eggs of certain water fly, grind
them into flour and sell it by the
sack. The flour is sweet and much
used for cakes.
These are only few of the many
queer things eaten by the boys and
girls of other lands. The children of
Our own country often eat roasted
grasshoppers AID say they taste like
parched horse corn, or maize.--L0s
Angeles Times.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
Shaw began q search FOR just the right

Shaw began a search FOR just the right
man to succeed him. About the mid
die Of December Secretary Shaw reached
the conclusion that he had found the
man in the person of his private secre-
tary. And so three times within space
of four years private secretaries to the
secretary Of the treasury have been in
vtted to become assistant cabinet OFF,
GERS. Frank A. Vanderlip, now vice
president of the National City bank,
and Milton S. Allies having been pro-
noted in similar manner by eX-Sec-
rotary Gage.
Mr.. Armstrong, coming to the treas
ury new and unfamiliar with it's varied
and intricate workings, has, within
eight months, proved himself to be in
valuable. He has been quick to see
where defects and weak spots existed
and not less quick to suggest and in
augurate the remedy.
Some Common Sense Reforms.
The most notable attack upon the
old good enough" policy was the
transformation OF the old system Of
handling mail from the slow coach style
of fifty years ago to the swift pace Of
1903. Under the old system letters ar
rived in the treasury at 9 o'clock reach
ing their ultimate destination any time
between II and o'clock Now they
are delivered into the hands of the ad-
dresses at from 9:10 to 10 o'clock. Not
only that, but convenient and easily
accessible system of reference has been
perfected, electric time recording
stamps have been added so that the
hour and minute of the arrival of mail
is indicated upon each communication.
The old system of delivering tele-
grams by messenger boys from the
main offices of the telegraph compan-
les has been abolished. Now each COM
pany has an office in the treasury build
ing, and messages are delivered with
minutes delay where formerly there
were hours. Each message is taken in
duplicate, stamped with the time stamp,
and replies are now given over the
wires where formerly the messenger
boys were trying to patch up pune
tured tire preparatory to delivering the
dispatch.
The old confusing system of hap
hazard numbering of rooms in the treas
ury has given way to the modern Sys-
tenn. A method of expediting matters
requiring investigation has been in
augurated, with saving of many hours,
and sometimes days, in time. Letters
are answered the same day as received
If a complete reply cannot be made an
acknowledgment is sent, advising that
more complete details will be forward
ed at the earliest moment.
These Improvements in system and
in execution have all been worked out
| by Mr.. Armstrong, with the sanction
and Endorsement of the secretary, and
other time and labor saving schemes
will be introduced from time to time.
Mr.. Armstrong, for obvious reasons, has
not indicated in any way his plans in
the conduct of the great customs bu-
reau, but there is a general feeling that,
following the line adopted in the treas
ury department, the new assistant Sec
rotary will, in conservative way, seek
to strengthen weak spots and increase
the efficiency of the customs service
generally.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
CAUGHT IN HIS COON TRAP.
Saved His Life by Cutting Of His
Finger With a Barlow Knife.

Silas Remy, who lives on Chapline
river in Mercer county, is a famous
trapper. Monday Silas and his little
son spent all the afternoon setting
traps along the river cliffs, and set their
last one just at nightfall.
This was one of Silas' own invention
and most effective in catching coOns
On the river bank was log that every
Silas set his trap. An auger hole was
bored in the log, crawfish dropped in
and four long steel nails, as sharp
pointed as needles, were driven in at
an angle so that Mr.. Coon could thrust
in his hand for the crawfish easily
enough, but not withdraw it, because
the points of the nails are like barbs
that thrust into his paw, and the hard
er he pulls the deeper the barbs stick
into the flesh.
So when Silas had set his trap, as it
was now almost dark, he thrust in his
finger TO feel the points. They seemed
to be set about right-in fact, were set
so nicely that when he tried to with
draw his finger he was in Mr.. Coon's
plight exactly. One of the barbs enter
ed his finger and almost before he
knew it all had him tight. The more
he struggled the deeper the barbs sunk
into his flesh. This was anything but
a laughing matter to Silas. His old
knife was too dull to make any head
way in cutting the nails, so after think
ing the matter over he started his little
boy home with a lighted lantern to get
the pinchers to pull out the nails. The
boy made his way up the cliff, lost his
way, fell over rocks and logs and ex-
tinguished the lantern. Unable to get
his bearing the lad slept under ledge
of rock and came near freezing. Mean
while Silas sat astride the log in pour
ing rain and thought Sunday school
words. But real danger began to
threaten him. The river began rising
rapidly. 1t crept up until it reached
the lower end Of the log.
AS daylight approached it began to
rock slightly and Silas knew an end
was floating. Higher and higher rose
the water and Silas knew that if he
washed into the current with the log
death was certain. In his desperation
he pulled his dull barlow and literally
sawed his finger off above the middle
joint, and the log floated away. In five
minutes afterward another trapper
came along and found him. He was so
chilled that he was unable to walk
home alOne.-Louisville Evening Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

A Lehigh Valley freight train con-
sisting of 104 loaded cars, containing
4,013 tons, was handled between Sayre
and Weldon, Pa, distance of 81 miles,
by single locomotive. From what we
are able to learn" says the Railway
and Engineering Review, this is one
of the heaviest trains ever handled
with one engine for the distance, or
over an entire freight division"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
ROBERT ARMSTRONG'S RISE;
LIFE STORY OF AN IOWA BOY

He appointment of Robert
Burns Armstrong, at the
age of 20, as assistant sec
rotary of the treasury, in
charge of the customs of
the United States, a posi-
ton second only in re-
sponsibility to that of the
secretary of the treasury,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
Reflections of a Bachelor.

It's long bill that has no paying.
Woman is made of equal parts of
vanity and clothes.
Every mans ambition is to get rich;
every woman's to get married.
The only ecstasy which surpasses a
woman's wedding day is when she goes
to a matinee and thinks the leading
man can't keep his eyes off her.-New
York Press
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
The Retort Courteous.

"Why are you in mourning?" ooh!
for my sins" Il didn't know that you
had lost any,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-26
GERMAN INTERESTS
At Caracas viii Be in Charge Of Our
Mr.. Russell.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Baron Won
Sternburg, the German minister here.
called upon Secretary Hay, today, to
request that Mr.. Russell. the United
States charge at Caracas, be author
ized to care for German interests at
that capital pending the arrival of
Herr Peldram, the newly appointed
minister to Venezuela, who is now
fastening to his post. Mr. Russell is
already looking after the interests of
one of the parties to the hostilities, but
his naw functions are considerably en-
larged, owing to the resumption of
diplomatic relations between Germany
and Venezuela. Secretary Hay at once
assented to the request and proper in
struetions were forwarded to Mr. Rus
SELL
The protocol from the commission to
9djudicate the claims of The Neither
lands government again Venezuela was
finished. today. Baron Covers The
Netherlands minister saw Mr.. Bowen,
today, in regard to the matter. There
yet remains TO be inserted in the pro-
tocol the name of the umpire (which
will he done as soon as a selection has
been reached. Progress is reported in
the preparation of the other protocols
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-26
LAW COURT DECISION
On Rights to Take Grass and Timber
from State Lands.

The law court has handed down a
rescript. drawn by Justice Savage. in
the case of State of Maine vs. Charles
w. Mullen. The case is of special in
terest here both because of Mr.. Null
lens prominence az I from the fact
that it contains rulings in regard to
the right to take timber and grass from
State lands. The rescrip is as fol-
lows:
Penobscot case: State of Maine VS..
Charles w. Mullen Rescript by Saw
age, j.
/ BY the act of 1850, Chapter 1875, it
was provided that in all townships or
tracts of land unincorporated or not
organized for election purposes. sold
or granted by the State, in which lands
have been reserved for public uses, the
land agent should have the care and
custody of such reserved lands until
such tract or township is Incorporated
or organized for election purposes. And
the land agent was directed to sell for
cash the right to cut and carry away
the timber and grass from off the re-
served lands which have been located
the right to continue until the tract or
township should be incorporated or or
ganiZed for election purposes. The
lands so reserved for public uses in
Indian township We're duly located, and
the right to cut timber and grass
thereon had been sold by the land
agent and such right had vested in
the defendant prior to the incorpora-
ton in 1901 of a portion of Indian
township as the town of Millinocket
The reserved lands as located are all
within Millinocket as Incorporated
The acts of trespass complained of
were the cutting of trees on the re-
served lands after the incorporation
OF Millinocket-held:-
l. That the right of the defendant
to cut. timber On the reserved lands
was terminated by the Incorporation
as town of a portion only of Indian
township, but in which portion the
reserved lands We're located; and there
fore that the acts complained of were
trespasses.
2. But that although the State is
the trustee of reserved lands, and may
maintain trespass for injury to them,
it is such trustee only until the town
ship is Incorporated. and that in this
case it's interest in the reserved lands
III was terminated ny Tie III
corporation of Millinocket Therefore
it cannot maintain this action.
9. That when a portion Of a town
ship is Incorporated, and no exception
Or provision is made with reference to
the reserved lands, it is to be deemed
that the Legislature intended the re-
served lands within the portion incor-
porated to follow that portion and vest
in it; and that it did not intend the
right to cut timber to continue in a
grantee thereof, under the act of 1850
Chapter 1876, after the title to he land
itself had vested in the town by in
corporation.
4. That the title to the reserved
lands and the timber thereon, within
the town of Millinocket, have vested
in that town.
Plaintiff nonsuit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-26
WORSHIP. OF GOD
viii Some Day Be Alike by Protestants
and Catholics.

Berlin, Feb. 25.-Dr Harnack the fore
| most liberal theologian of Germany, dis
| cussing Emperor Williams recent letter
to Admiral Holman councillor of the
German Oriental Society, which was an
outcome of His Majestys attending Pro
fessor Dolitzsch's lecture on the Baby
lonian origin of the Bible, says: 1T is
a personal confession Of the Emperor $
faith and is in no way a command.
Therefore silence cannot be observed -
While agreeing with the Emperor that
religion needs forms, DIR. Harnack differs
with His Majesty's views in regard TO
the revelation of the divinity of Christ
and contends that Professionalism recns-
nizes the revelation in persons alone. The
correctness of the formula Divinity of
Christ must be questioned. Christ never
used it, nor did the primitive church
without qualifications, speaking ways of
divinity and humanity. Divine humanity
is therefore the preferable formula.
Christ never concealed that he was Lord
and Saviour, but he never revealed the
secret of his relation to his father. Even
the formula Divine humanity in Christ
is therefore open TO objection as it en-
croacho5 Upon secret which cannot be
penetrated.
Dr. Harnack predicts that the time IS
coming when all Protestant denomina-
tons and the Catholics also will join in
a simple recognition of Christ as Lord
and in determination to do His will.