The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-24

The Japanese colony in st. Louis
will have an official daily newspaper
published in Japanese on the Worlds
Fair grounds.
A correspondent OF the New York
Sun suggests that. in view of the fact
that Turkey is called the sick Man of
Europe" China be called the Sick
Woman of Asia"
+ Representative Dayton of West
Virginia. has introduced bill in the
House appropriating $4,000 for the
erection of a monument at Fort Sey-
bert, Va, TO commemorate the capture
in 1858, of Capt. Seybert and a number
of men and women by the Indian chief,
Kill Buck.
The Secretary of War has approved
the design of the new medal represent
ing the Medal of Honor Legion. 1t
consists of a five-pointed star of light
gun metal. The words United States
Of America" and "Valor" appear in
raised block letters. The ribbon is blue,
and is attached to the back of a sus
pended eagle.
1t appears that the Boer war and
all it's consequences were due to the
fact that Jameson had weak lungs.
Had his lungs been strong he would not
have been ordered to the climate of
South Africa; had he not gone to South
Africa there would have been no jane
son raid, and had there been no jane
son raid there would have been no Boer
war.
Before long the rules governing the
bestowal of the Victoria Cross will be
altered. 1t has long been felt that the
cross should be awarded NOT so much
for an act of bravery in saving an in
dividual life as for an act of bravery
benefiting the nation. or the particular
fighting section of it to which the in
dividual belongs. The amendment of
the rules will be based on this wider in
depreciation of an act of bravery.
Nowhere in this country will war
news be watched for more eagerly than
down on the island of Nantucket, ac-
cording to the Buffalo Commercial
There are two score of old sea captains
in that locality, retired for a decade,
yet half of them, at least, know every
inlet of the Asiatic coast as we'll as they
do their own little island. Having lit
tie else to do, they keep posted on the
news of the day. Not in the War Of
flee in Washington will the Russian
Japanese conflict be more closely fol-
lowed than in Nantucket
Laurent Delarue, a criminal who
robbed on so large a scale and with
such method and resource as to win for
himself the title of king of the Bur-
glars" was brought up for trial in
Paris recently. Delarle was graduated
in his profession by systematic course
OF education, working for some years
as q shoemaker and afterward as a
locksmith. Having thus acquired much
valuable technical knowledge, he took
up his quarters at Sartrouville, a viii
lage ten miles from Paris, and raided
houses in every direction. Some five
hundred or six, hundred robberies are
put down to him.
"A training school for theater audi
ences is what Fred Thompson pro-
poses to introduce at the big Fire
and Flames" spectacle at Luna. Park.
Coney Island, this summer The show
is to be given inside a huge auditori-
UNI, and full-sized New York city
block will be burned at every perform
ance, with the excitement of all the
attending features, engines, crowds.
water towers horses, firemen and the
like. The proscenium opening of the
stage will be almost 800 feet across.
Before every performance a lecturer
will point out to the audience the va
rious exits in the auditorium and the
best methods of reaching them, and
will close with the request that in leav-
ing the theater the people will use
them, in order that they may become
familiar with them
Whether all followers of the
'back-to-nature food doctrines live ex-
clusively upon raw fruits and nuts or
even on gooseberry soup and Dreaded
peanut chops, l may be permitted to
doubt" says Eugene Wood in Every
body's Magazine for March. II have
seen some of these uncooked-fruits-
and-nuts people. l don't say saw the
right ones. Like enough, I saw only
those who, for the good of the cause,
should never have been allowed to
wander forth into society. They one
and all protested loudly to be in the
rudest physical health. But 1 don't
know; l don't know. 1t seemed to me
they lacked the proper scenic accesso-
ries. floral pillow with Rest on
it in immortelles, say about here, and
a sheaf of wheat tied with a purple
satin-faced ribbon over there, and one
or two Gates Ajar scattered around
would have seemed more natural and
their mental vigor, after had heard
them talk awhile, l gave right in to
their most cardinal doctrine: A man
is what he eats. If he eats beef he be-
comes of the beef, beefy; if he eats
nuts, he becomes-but enough"
American railroads have almost as
many different kinds of cars for carry
ing animals as they have cars for pas
sengers, says the Washington Post. One
kind of car that is used for shipping
horses is known technically as a palace
horse car, and, excepting for fine wood
work and brasswork, it is a palace car,
giving horses fine accommoda lions.
Each horse has his own stateroom, so
to speak, for the car is fitted with in
dependent stalls. Each stall has man
ger and water trough, and overhead
are racks for holding extra feed. Sheep
and hogs are often carried in cars with
two stories. These are known as dou-
ble-deckers. They have room to lie
down in and water is supplied to chem
from pipes. Horses and cattle are side
tracked at Intervals If the cars are
making long run, and the beasts are
led out and allowed to run around for
exercise. Then they are driven back to
their cars and resume their Journey
Sheep are often unloaded within a few
miles of their destination and turned
loose to rest and feed until they are in
good flesh. This is not done merely
from motives of humanity. 1t has
been found that the sheep are so much
improved by it that they bring higher
prices when they reach the market.