The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-16

bring about a quicker discharge of an
electrified body, and it would not ap-
pear that the amount of aqueous va
por has much to do with this action.
An increase in the number of cleo
irons seems to have an appreciative
effect upon the temperament, and pos
sibly the vitality of human beings.
The ionizing agencies produce equal
numbers of positive and negative ions,
but there are agencies at work in ma
ture which produce an excess of one
kind or the other. In the neighborhood
of waterfalls there is an excess of neg
ative ions, while the dashing of the
waves of the sea against the shore pro-
duce an excess of positive ions in the
atmosphere.
Six hundred acres of San Joaquin
county land are being turned over every
twenty-four hours by plows hauled by
traction engines. There are now fif-
teen traction engines engaged in plow-
ing on lands in this county, and each
engine plows from forty to fifty acres
per day, says the Stockton (CoI.) Rec
ord. On the islands a few of the en-
gines are kept blowing night and day,
These peatland engines are provided
with headlights as powerful as those
used on modern locomotives, by the
aid of which the engineer Is enabled
W 1OilOW Ills last 1uTTOW DIS CLOSELY IS
in the daytime. Not only does this
big steam horse pillow the land but
it seeds and harrows it at the same
operation on land which is to be plant
ed to grain. Each pillow is fitted with
a seeding device, behind which follow
teeth that cover the grain just at the
proper depth. Nearly all of the en-
gines are oil burners. Four men and
span of horses and q wagon make I'D
the crew of one of these big blowing
machines. On the engine are the en-
gtneer and fireman. The third man
rides on the plows and the fourth
hauls the seed, oil and water to the
outfit as it is needed.
The first impression one gets OF
Muskogee, the largest and most Inn
portant town in Indian Territory, il
that of a Southern city with large
negro population, says the Kansas
City Journal. The negro predomi-
mates, the whites come in next, and
the red men are often pointed out as
exceptions, one might almost say rari-
ties. And yet legally and technically
in Muskogee a large proportion Of
these negroes ana white men are In
dams and are called such; and this Is
true throughout the Greek and Musko-
gee nation. The title Indian includes
Indian by blood, Indians by interInar-
riage and freedmen. The freedmen
are the slaves who were liberated dur
ing the Civil War, or their descend
ants. They were admitted to full cit
izenship in the Creek nation and are
entitled to share in the distribution Of
the lands and moneys of the tribe.
They can vote for the tribal officers,
and are eligible to the tribal offices.
The Creek Council, consisting of the
House of Kings and the House of
Warriors, Is in part made up of ne
groes. Freedmen, however, have not
been admitted to citizenship in the
two Southern tribes, the Choctaws and
the Chickasaws, but the United States
government proposes to give them for
ty acres Of land apiece, but it must
reimburse these two nations for the
lands thus presented by a generous
government to those who were for
merly in bondage to the governments
wards-the Indians. Intermarriage be-
tween fullblood Indians and the freed
men has been frequent and extended
among the Creeks: somewhat less 50
among the Seminoles, and practically
unknown among the Choctaws and
Chickasaws. The existence of these ne
groes in such numbers as in the Creek
nation and under the circumstances
creates a negro problem of great I'M
portance and greater difficulty.