The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

half an inch long and are perfectly
black, with white feet. They do not
sing and their bite is like the sting
of bee. People who are obliged to
go out of doors wear as a protection a
hoop on their head, from which hangs
a netting, which is belted to the waist
They carry about them a piece of fat
pork, Which when applied to a sting
or bite acts as an antidote. The Chop
tank river region is the great market
garden of Baltimore, Philadelphia and
other Eastern cities, and one theory
to account for the remarkable size of
the mosquitoes is that they feed on the
splendid fruits and vegetables which
grow so luxuriantly there and are
thus fattened to a far greater degree
than their brothers who live in less
favorable localities.
Cashmere shawls are still made, says
London Answers, but their glory has
departed and the cheap and seductive
aniline dye has displaced the soft, and
beautiful colorings in the ld-time vege-
table dyes. The men who understand
their manipulation have gone to more
lucrative fields or else they lie in hum
BILE graveyards hard by the struggling
village streets af Cashmere The cash
mere shawl industry received its death
at the breaking up of the French
court. The shawls were brought to
France for the great Napoleon and
fashiona Immediately set her seal up
on them. But when the court of Ma
poleon III crumbled in the dust the
vogue of the cashmere shawl fell with
it and famine and distress invaded the
far-away valleys of Cashmere. Shadi-
pore, which was once one of the CEN
nf
is beautifully located in a valley at
the junction of Sind and Jhelum rivers.
But the village has shrunk to a mere
hamlet of rickety houses and the lux
uriant vegetation fails to cover its
baroness and poverty. What is left
of the shawl industry is carried on by
boys and men, who earn from 2 to 8
annas a day, or from twopence to four
pence in British coinage. For this beg
carly sum they sit all day long at the
looms, which are almost as forlong as
themselves in appearance, for they
date back to the days of prosperity and
are held together by a generous use
of string.
"A friend who knew Lord Salisbury
intimately, says the London CORE
spondent of the Manchester Guardian.
gave me some years ago an interest
ing clue to his mind and life. Lord
Salisbury was, as everyone knows,
profound believer in the Christian rev.
elation. The contemplation, habitual
to him from boyhood, of things I'M
seen had imbued his mind with two
all-pervading thoughts-the immensely
of God and eternity, the pettiness or
man and time. The study of the ply
steal sciences had deepened in him the
abiding sense that men are like ants,
and their world grain of sand lying
amid innumerable milliards of similar
grains on the floor of the universe.
Nothing that could happen to these
ants during their period of anthood
mattered very much. The only ques
ton of interest was what would hap
pen to them when they developed into
some larger life. Applying this gen
eral principle to the particular line of
ant-life with which he was profess
sionally engaged, this pessimist-or,
rather, this minimist-saw little to
hope from political Institutions The
few ameliorations of the ants lot
which could be effected by positive law
such as preservation of life and goods
and individual liberty-had been Sc
cured long ago; religion and the NOR
al sense must do the rest. Legislation
could do nothing but mischief, and all
that the most powerful statesman
could hope to accomplish was to ar
rest that mischief and put a spoke in
the wheel of further change. If poll
tician could say when he went to bed,
Il have hindered my fellow-ants from
doing something mischievous to-day"
he had attained the summit of posi-
BILE achievement
The habits of people in general do
not seem so bad when one considers
the average individuals limitations as
to knowledge and thought. The fact
is that most people don't know, don't
think and hence don't care. Let them
read more science, think more sensi-
bly, and act more seriously, then their
habits will be more satisfactory. The
alimentary receptacle-the stomach or
vat in which foods and liquids are
received and miXed-is habitually con-
Verted by many persons into a chemi-
cal retort for all sorts of drugs and
remedies, with the view of reaching
and relieving the ills of the various
organs of the body from dandruff to
cornS. The writer believes that he can
give no more and better reasons for
his confidence in the therapeutic value
of remedies than most other physicians.
but he wishes to emphasize here the
transcendent element of common sense
in their administration. Before and
above all things, however, what is
wanted is a clean gastro-intestinal ca
nal, and his claim is that water, prop
erly used, is the best agent to effect
that cleansing. On a par with this
canal in Importance are the elinina-
tive tissues and organs of the system,
the Kidneys, mucous membrane and
skin. What therapeutic agent, proper
ly used, is better than water? After
all the assimilative and eliminative
organs and tissues have been thorough
~ rlnsed with pure, soft water, then
II 1t be still necessary to administer
a chemical agent, one may be selected
that Will, with these organs and tissues
IN better condition, work wonders. IF
you are so foolish as to allow yourself
TO become foul from head to foot
clense yourself with water before re-
sorting to chemical aids.
"A wonderful tree of unknown va
rlety has been discovered in a noun
tain canyon in spur of the San ia
clnto mountains, down near San Ber-
nardino. 1t was discovered by a par
ty of prospectors who penetrated the
canyon in search of water. A branch of
the tree and its blossoms were brought
10 TINS city for classification. but if is
unknown to botanists in this civ The
leaves OF the tree resembles in size
ana shape the fig leaf, but they are
OF a vivid purple color and the under
side OF the leaf is thickly covered with
stln hairs, which stand out from the
zeal fully half an inch. These hairs