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New-York tribune., 1903-06-30

When large numbers of gamblers are arrested
in simultaneous raids upon Manhattan pool
rooms, and only eight out Of more than hVe
hundred prisoners are held for trial may not
the Police Department be inclined to DOUBT
whether the game is worth the candle? IN
questionaby the poolroom swindles and frauds
and violations of law should be dealt with
sternly. Nevertheless, may 1t not be possible
to obtain sufficiently convincing evidence to
cause city magistrates to demand bail from
more than eight prisoners out of five hundred!
New-York tribune., 1903-06-30
DIAGRAM ON APPLICATION

Miss Anna, who lived down in La.
Had a caller; her sister said "Wha. p
On learning his name,
She asked: Whats his gamer
He surely amt coming 10 wa. %
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23
THE LOTOS LAND
BY NOBLE IVES.
With illustrations by the Author.

Aunt Molly had read the poetry to
me in the first place.
did not understand it all, but
good deal Of it was easy. 1 had seen
Iotos pods, and knew that the big
brown seeds that are in the top had
some magic in them, and that 1 could
understand-for how could one read
the Arabian Nights" through and not
understand magic?
But there were some queer things
about the Lotos Country that I
couldn't quite see through, and 1 don't
much believe you could, either, unless
you've been there. I didn't quite see
how there could be a land where all
things always seemed the same"
There must have been weather of some
sort.
| haven't told you yet what the poe
trv was The man who wrote it was
named Tenny something or other, and
il was about some people who got in
a boat and went off to a strange coun-
trv. and left all their families at home.
The captains name wasn't mentioned
in the poetry. but Aunt Molly said he
was a real man, and he was called
Ulysses.
Well, they got to this funny land.
where the lotos flowers grow, and 1t
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY AUGUST 80 1909

Probably the best method of leaving
messages by means of sticks and
stones for others who are 10 follow one
along trail which has yet been In
vented is now being used by a party
of boys who are camping in Pike coun-
ty, Pennsylvania.
To the ordinary observer, these
stick and stone ciphers look like moth
ing more than a few pebbles and twigs
scattered at random by the roadside;
but to the initiated they are nearly as
plain as great primer type.
Two of the essential requirements
of a good cipher are present in the
stick and stone alphabet. Such a mes
sage does not arouse the curiosity of
every one who happens to run across
it. by advertising the fact that it is
cipher message, and yet it is not in
the least obscure to those to whom it's
secret is known.
AS can be seen in the diagram, the
letters are arranged in groups of four;
and each letter is made of two parts
that is, two sticks, two stones, or a
stick and a stone.
The first four letters of the alphabet
are made by arranging sticks and
stones placed horizontally and touching
each other. "C'' is stick to the left
and a stone to the right placed hori-
zontally and touching each other.
I'd" is shown by stone to the left
and stick to the right placed hori-
zontally and touching each other.
The next four letters of the alphabet
are made by arranging the sticks and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23

bath and then TO fast for twepty-four
hours. After this he went into the
temple and gave up his consultation
fee. which was called votive Offering
and was placed before the statue OF
the doctor. Then a priest led him
around tho temple, explaining mys-
teries and telling him the wonderful
cures which had been accomplished.
The doctors of those times believed in
advertising, and all about the temple
were tablets with Inscriptions which
must have read much like the patent
medicine advertisements of to-day.
After taking a dose of physic the
patient sacrificed rooster or a sheep
to Aesculapius and repeated certain
hymns and prayers, which the DOCTOR
priest having him In charge read to
him. Then, if he was rich he went
to sleep on a cot near the statue OF
the god VINO appeared to him in the
course of the night and prescribed for
him.
the temple gardens and the god visited
him there.
The doctors of the temple seem to
have been faith curers to some extent,
for they impressed upon their patients
that unless they had absolute faith
they could not be cured
When a patient died they said 1t was
simply a lack of faith that killed him.
Aristides died In the temple of Cos.
He was a sick man when he reached
there, and the god appeared in the
night and prescribed hemlock and
gypsum and blood letting. The great
man grew worse and the god appeared
again and prescribed more blood LETT
ting, directing that 1870 pounds Of
blood should be drawn from him.
Aristides, naturally, died and the doc
tor-priests announced that his demise
was due to his lack of faith.
1t is expected that a most curious
assortment Of ancient surgical instru-
ments will be unearthed in the temple
of Cos, for every man who invented a
new continuance of that kind was
Obliged to deposit it with the priests,
who thus ran a sort of medical and
surgical patent office, as every In
ventor of new remedy was obliged
to inscribe his discovery on the gates
or pillars of the temple.
This celebrated temple was not such
a large building after all, the explora-
tions showing that IT must have been
about the size Of an ordinary city
business building.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23

began to gather rapidly in the sky and
the thunder rumbled in the distance.
The old man threw down his load and
ran faster and faster. but the thunder
rumbled nearer and nearer.
Then the old man assumed his prop
er shape of a huge porcupine and went
scampering away, shooting his quilts
out behind him as he ran. But the
thunder followed him with peal after
peal until, finally bolt of lightning
struck him and destroyed him.
Then the three Thunderers appeared
again and said TO the youth: Now
that our work here is done, we Will
carry you home to your mother, who
has been grieving for you all the time"
So they gave him cloud-suit with
wings like their own. and the four
swept away through the air to the In
dian village where the youths widowed
mother dwe1t.
It was night when he found himself
in his mothers cornfield and, going to
the opening Of the lodge, he drew back
the curtain which covered ii and stood
there in the moonlight.
The widow started up and gazed at
him with terror, but he said: do not
be frightened, mother; ii is no ghost,
but your long lost son who has come
back to take care of YOU"
Then the widow wept tears Of Joy,
while he told her all his adventures and
they lived happily ever after. And that
Is why the Indians dance and sing to
the thunder.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23
wounds received in a fight with the

wounds received in fight with the
enemy.
Great was the grief of the boys
widowed mother, who wept and groan-
ed at the loss of her son.
But the youth was not dead. AS
he lay in the cleft in the rocks where
the wicked warrior had thrown him,
he saw, sitting a little way off, a
strange looking old man, who said to
him:
"Ah, my son, what have your friends
done to you?"
''They have left me here to die, l
SUPPOSE" replied the youth with calm
ness, for he was ashamed to show that
he was afraid.
"Oh, you will not die IL you will
agree to do as l require" said the old
man. II will make you well again.
but in return you must be my slave
and hunt for me all the rest of your
life"
To this the youth agreed, as he saw
no other way out of his predicament,
and the old man (who was not an old
man at ALL but a porcupine who had
assumed the shape of an old mani
cured him Of his hurts and soon had
him hunting for him and bringing
home the game he killed to the cleft
in the rocks.
whenever you kill ANYTHING which
Is too heavy for you to carry, call me
and l will come and help you," said
the old man.
All winter the youth hunted for his
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23
THE TEMPLE OF AESCULAPIUS
Interesting Discoveries Being Made
on the Island of Cos.

on the Island of Cos.
All over the world the spade of the
archaelogist is unearthing the temples
of lost gods and the palace of forgot
ten kings. Not only centuries, but
thousands of years are turned back
as the excavators turn over the earth,
and the traveller of to-day can tread
the-courts of Priam's palace and read
the writings in the library of Sardan-
apolous.
The latest important archaeological
discovery is that of DIR. Rudolph Her
zog, who has brought to light the long
lost temple of Aesculapius, the father
of medicine, who was worshipped as a
god in the Island Of Cos in the Aegean
sea.
For nearly. 900 years this, the great
est of all the temples erected to
Aesculapius,h has been lost to the world.
DR.. Herzog discovered it under the
ruins of Byzantine church erected
early in the Christian era to the
Blessed Virgin of Tarsus.
The earth was rich above the ruins
of the early Christian Church and the
ancient Greek temple, and so covered
with plants and shrubs blooming amid
the wrecks Of time that the inhabi-
tants of the island call the place the
garden of the flower buds"
Digging down, the entrance to the
temple was reached, and over 1t the
explorers read the inscription, placed
there when the world was young;
"Sundry elders from different states
have decided by vote to carry on this
holy Asylum to Aesculapius."
Columns were found, some standing
whole and some thrown down and
broken, and votive offerings left by
people who had been cured of disease
by the power Of the god of the shrine.
They also found a statue of Hygeia
and a serpent carved in stone, the
symbol of Aesculapius; and other dis
coveries are constantly being made as
the work advances.
1t is expected soon to uncover the
famous tables on which are recorded
accounts of famous cures and descrip-
lions of disease and remedies, from
which Hippocrates is supposed to have
complied his book on medicine, the
first book on that scitnce ever pub
lished in the world.
Aesculapius was the first medical
practitioner of whom we have any ac-
count, and he lived so long ago that
he had already become a god when
authentic history opens. He formed
little medical trust all by himself
and, being the only doctor in the
world at the time, had things pretty
much his own way. He was a mighty
successful practitioner. too successful
for mis- own good, for he saved SO
many lives that Pluto, the god of the
Internal regions, complained to Jupi-
ter that the lower world was beine
depopulated by him. not enough peo-
pie coming In to keep up the popua-
ton. So Jupiter killed Aesculapius
with a thunderbolt.
When the temple at Cos was in its
glory. the sick fiocked TO II from all
the countries lying on the eastern
shores OF the Mediterranean, and the
ferings.
The patient was made to take a
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23

master One day, when the spring
had come, the youth killed a big bear
which was too heavy for him to carry
to the cleft IN the rocks alone.
Now I will go and call the old
man." he said.
But just as he was STOPPING down
to feel of the bear and see how fat
he was, he heard murmur OF voices
behind him and, turning in surprise,
beheld three men, or figures in the
shape of men, who wore cloud-like
garments with wings.
who are you and what are YOU
doing In this wilderness where no man
ever comes?'' cried the youth.
Then they told him that they were
the Thunderers, whose mission II was
to go about over the earth doing good
and destroying things which harmed
mankind. Just now they were after
the old man who lived in the cleft in
the rocks, who was no old man at all,
but a wicked porcupine, as they would
presently prove to him.
Run back they said, and tell MINI
to come and help you with the bear.
So the youth went and told the old
man that he must come and help carry
the bear home But the old man said
he could not go out IL there was any
sign of a cloud in the sky.
The youth looked around and SAID
that the sky was clear. So the OLD
man came out and went with him to
where the carcass of the big bear was
lying Then they cut up the bear, the
old man constantly urging the youth
to make haste, and the meat was plac-
ed on the old mans shoulders as he d.
rected, the youth all the time being
greatly astonished at the strength he
showed.
Loaded with the bear meat the OLD
man began to run toward the cleft in
the rocks as fast as he could, but CLOUDS
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23

"oh, Lou! Don't just? Where do
they grow?"
Right across the river, in the
marsh, about a mile from here"
And to think that l had been living
all my life so close to the Lotos Land
and never knew it!
Can 1 really go, Lou? And what
will you do about the lessons? There's
Miss Matte calling now"
"Oh. I'll fix her"
And what did that funny boy do
but go UP in the woodshed chamber
that's where we have our schoolroom
and he took a long clothesline, and
the first thing that Miss Matte knew
he had her tied to the chimney that
runs up through. He tied her tight, so
she couldn't call, and then Lou picked
me up on one arm and just scooted
for the boathouse, and we were in
the duckboat and padding off for dear
life before mother found out that there
wasn't going to be any lessop-time
that morning.
I had to sit very still in the bottom
of the boat while Lou padded, for
duckboats are awfully shaky things,
and you mustn't stir or they'll tip.
We were heading straight for the
marsh across tie river, and beyond
lay the wonderful country.
Would I ever want to go back
home? The house looked so pretty
and white in the sunshine, and there
were mother and father and Alice and
Jimmy-well, IL the Lotos people gave
me any fruit to eat, thought I'd save
it till got home again. Maybe we
could send Miss Matte off to the Lo-
tos Land afterwards, and then we
wouldn't have to do any more frac-
lions and things. l took the littlest,
carefullest peer over my shoulder. and
just them something hit me In the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23
WHY THE INDIANS
LOVE THE THUNDER
the Young Slave and the Three
Thunderers.

Their story of the POrcupine Man,
the Young Slave and the Three
Thunderers.
Among some tribes of Indians the
thunder is held in great reverence;
they sing songs to it, and have dances
in its honor.
AS a reason for doing this they tell
the following story:
Once upon a time three young men
were on the warpath far from their
homes, when the youngest of them
had the misfortune to break his leg.
BY Indian law it became the duty of
the other two warriors to carry the
youth safely to his home. So they made
a rude litter and carried him on 1t I'M
til they became tired.
Finally they came to a range of
mountains and, as the trail was steep
and it was hard work to carry the
youth any further, they laid the litter
down and went to one side, where they
held council together.
LET us leave our wounded compan-
ion where he is" said one. "It is too
much work to carry him farther"
Agreed" said the other. I'VE will
say that he was killed by the enemy
and no one will ever be the wiser,
for he will certainly die If we leave
him here"
SO the wicked men threw the youth
into a deep cleft in the rocks and went
on their way home to the village.
When they had come there they re-
ported that the boy had died from
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23

Nm Mono. We might have If
you hast laughed at the bullfrog
and made him mad. But, you see, he's
the doorkeeper, and when you did
that he just put for home and told
them there was some big roaring ami
NAL out here, and they'd best not show
themselves. They never laugh, Doro-
thy. They haven't any sense OF hu-
NOR"
but the mountains-where are
they?"
"Oh, over there. l could see them II
the weeds and things weren't so high.
You see, they're fairy mountains, and
the nearer you get to them the more
you can't see them, unless you have
green eyes, and youths are brown, you
know"
But yours are green, Lou. Can you
see them eVerF
mot to-day on account of the grass.
But | have seen them"
ION. Loul What did they look
like?"
WELL" Lou said, slowly, as IL he
were remembering very hard, they
are red-headed with fringe of pine
trees across their foreheads, and wa
terfalls in the backs of their necks,
and purple overskirts. They wear
hats made of cotton batting, and they
are very high toned.
They won't speak to you unless
YOU call on them when there's a
thunder storm. They're awfully
afraid of thunder. But even then you
mustn't get too near to them, for If
they don't like your looks they'll drop
stones on your head. Look out there,
you nearly tipped us over Now,
trim boat till / get this big fellow"
And he wouldn't say another word.
He said it was getting too deep for
him, and l don't know what he meant
by that, for the water was very shall
low.
/ did want to go ashore and see the
rest of the things, but Lou said ia
get stuck in the mud and lost in the
marsh if tried, so we put it off till
some other day.
And then we showed back through
the green tunnel in the wild-rice for
est, and past the fence of PUSHES, and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23

was afternoon when they arrived.
There was a full moon shining over
the valley right in the daytime, and
there were little streams and water
falls everywhere.
When the men in the boat got pref
ty near the shore the people came
swimming out to meet them, bearing
branches of enchanted lotos-fruit, and
they gave some to Ulysses and the
others, and the strangest thing hap
pened to them when they ate. All of
a sudden there was a far-away sound
in their ears, like what you hear when
you are in bathing and turn bucket
upside down over your head. They
could hear their hearts beating music,
aAnd their voice were thin and small,
and then, somehow they didn't ever
want to go back home any more.
Oh, how l did long to see that land!
What fun we could have if we had
that yellow sand to build forts in;
and we don't have any waterfalls
where I live. 1 never saw anything
of that sort, except the drain on the
bank when we have our spring rains;
but 1 go down to watch that when
the water pours out of it, SO L know
how a bigger one would look.
Then the mountains-the purple
mountains! How 1 longed to see them!
You see, we live on an island in the
middle of a big river, and it's just as
fiat as fiat. There isn't a hill big
enough even to slide down in the VIM
ter.
The thing happened when Cousin
Lou came down to spend his vacation,
and get tutored by Miss Matte, our
teacher, so he could go to college in the
fall. Lou is a big boy, and has Boats
of his own, and he knows heaps.
Lou likes rowing and fishing better
than being tutored, and so do 1, and
he let's me go out with him most every
time-he's very good friends with me.
One day-it was one of those still,
warm. summary days-he said to me:
Dorothy, do you want to go lotos
hunting?"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23
A House PnnEIe Rhyme.
BY G. M. L. Brown.

BY G. M. L. Brown.
In the following verses there are hid
den the names of different parts OF
house. There are ten in ALL See how
many you can find.
Said the bookseller to the baker,
Here's a letter for you, sir;
Whenever their backs hear sealing
wax,
They're important, infer"
EeR9sSgssSS -
But the baker, silly fellow,
Who had never learned to read,
Put down his pan, tried the postmark
to scan,
But, of course. did not succeed.
II must be blind this morning"
He remarked with vacant stare;
my eyes gives me pain, will try it
again
When the sun hasn't such a glare!"
Thus the baker, stupid fellow.
Tried his ignorance to screen,
And his neighbor, meanwhile gave
vent to a smile,
But stopped so Il should not be seen.
Next Sundays paper will have the
correct solution Of this puzzlel.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23
Freak Tales.

Freak taxes are nothing new under
the sun. In London there used to be
a window tax, every householder hav-
ing to pay so much for every window
in his dwelling. In the days of Charles
II, the British capital had a tax on
chimneys. which produced many a
pound to guild the pleasures of the
merry monarch. There was the germ
of an idea behind the chimney tax, for
London was beginning to get smoky
then, and it was thought that by tax
ing chimneys their number would be
reduced and there would be less
smoke.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-23

/ they are immune against the very dam
gerous horse disease of Africa and also
against the deathly "tsetse" fly. The
question was. therefore, raised whether
the zebra could not take the place of
the mule, commonly used In the trop-
les. The greatest credit with refer
ence to the solution of this problem
Is due to Prof. Cossar Ewart, who has
been trying since 1896 to produce
crosses between horses and zebras, with
a view to developing an animal supe-
rior in every respect to the mule.
Three species of zebras still exist
in Africa-the so-called "Grevy" ze-
bra, on the high plateaus of Schoa: the
common or mountain zebra, formerly
found everywhere in South Africa, and
the "Burchell' zebra, still frequently
found.
Prof. Ewart produced crosses from
mares of different breeds and zebra
stations of the Burchell kind. The
offspring Is called zebrula, and on ac-
count of its form and general bodily
condition-especially the hardness of
the hoofs-is especially adapted for
all transport work heretofore perform
ed by mules. The zebrula is much
livelier than the mule and at least as
intelligent
The Indian government has already
experimental with zebrulas for trans
porting mountain artillery at Quota.
In Germany much interest in this
animal is manifested. The we'll
known Hagenbeck Is experimenting in
this direction and intends to intro
duce the zebrula into Germany and
America. The geological garden at
Berlin possesses some very fine spect-
mems. The zebra stripes are often
WELL preserved, while the undftone
of the skin is generally that of the
mother A full-grown zebrula is four
teen hands high and the girdle circun1-
ference about SO inches.
The experiments so far have been
so successful that it is predicted that
the zebrula during the present CEN
fury will completely supersede the
mule.
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face. 1t was TAN rush, and pretty
soon there were straight, round rushes
all around US, pattering against the
duckboat and making the jolliest CUR
Cling down underneath it, and Lou
had to push hard with his paddle. l
suppose those rushes were put there
on purpose to keep people out, but
Lou is so big and strong that the
PUSHES couldn't do a thing, and on we
went. The rushes got thicker, and
thicker, and the water shallower, and
pretty soon, bumpi We went against a
hummock.
I looked around then, for the boat was
stuck fast and couldn't tip. There
wasn't anything to be seen anywhere,
only rushes back of us, and in front a
great forest of wild rice, that waved
high over our heads, like corn field.
Cant we get it, Lou?" / said; and
all Lou did was to pick me up and
stand me on the hummock. and then
he took off his shoes and stockings and
got out of the boat.
"Now stand perfectly still. and I'll
pull her through"
l did stand still. l didn't dare wig
gle, for the hummock was so little, and
then Lou pushed and tugged at the
boat till she moved along and slid into
water beyond. Then he came and put
me in again, and this time / could sit
looking forward. There was a long,
dark-green hole, as If somebody might
have made it on purpose so as to get
through the wild rice jungle. 1t might
have been done by some wild animal, or
maybe by the Lotos people. asked
Lou, and he said they never came out
so far Away at the end of the hole
was the sunshine again, but it was all
shady down there under the grasses.
Lou punted the boat along, and pretty
soon 1 could see the blue water in the
sunlight. In minute more might see
the Lotos people with their dark faces
pale against the rosy fame" holding up
the blossoms and fruit. There was a
soft thud, and we were out of the rush