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The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-14
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mean?
AS vet we are not quite certain how
TO answer that question; but 1t may
be said with safety that the Becquerel
rays and the behavior of radium and
it's kindred elements have seriously
disturbed our comfortable ac1uiescence
in the two great congratulations OF
modern thought-the conservation OF
energy and the atomic theory.
THE MYSTERY OF IT ALL.
We have a piece of radium which.
for all time Of its existence, so far as
we can tell, has been emitting stream
of fragments infinitely tiny, but still
appreciate.
1t has been calculated with q show
of accuracy that the rate of effiux IS
such that a piece of radium loses one
grain from every square inch of its
surface in about 10000, 100000 years.
The amount is not gzeat, but still 1t
is enough to make us ask anxiously
where the constant supply of energy
to shoot out this stream of fragments
comes from. Also we have TO ask
what tile inconceivabIy small frag-
ments thus emitted can be-they are
infinitely smaller than any hypotheti-
cal 'atom" Of Dalton's theory. 1t has
been thought that they may represent
the ultimate atom Of which all the So
called atoms of our elements are built
up-the ''primordiaI natter of the
alchemists, who were not far wrong
ION this theory in holding that they
could transmute lead into gold by some
Encouragement of atoms.-Baltimore
Herald.
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-14
Deafne.. Bar to Bushes. Success.


''If l were asked to state what phys
zeal misfortune is the greatest handi-
cap In business 1 would say deafness,
said a downtown merchant the other
day. "a person who is crippled can
manage to get around in some fashion
lat least, he will not undertake more
than he can perform. A blind person
always knows his limitations; he
either retlres from active participation
in his business. or has assistants who
can attend to certain details But there
is no defense against deafness. People
do not know you are deaf until they
speak to you. and You PERKINS, enot
think you are as deaf as "a really
are.
II know one man who lost his whole
fortune simply because he was deaf.
He ran a-haberdasher's shop on Broad
way, and as he had been in the busi-
ness for a good many years he was
quite prosperous. An accident nearly
deprived him of his hearing, but he
thought Il would not prove a complete
bar to his work. He began TO lose
money. He lost nearly all his old
customers, and had TO depend on
chance patronage. Why? Simply be-
cause he could not hear what the Gus
toners said to him. If one asked him
for hat. he was apt to show him the
latest in neckties. Shirts would be
exhibited to the man who wanted to
buy half a dozen collars. His friends
urged him to sell out and retire, but he
refused to do so until he had sunk his
last dollar In trying to regain his lost
patronage. New York Press.
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-14
She could Read WRITING.

An insurance agent with an office
downtown. who, like other business
men, dictates his correspondence to a
stenographer and sends out his letters
typewriter, was waited on the other
day by one of his customers, an elder
ly woman from a New Jersey town.
She was angry all the way through
and at first the agent could not under
stand what about. He was polite, but
she would not be appeased. Finally
out 1t came.
''You needn't send me any more
printed letters" said she. Il can read
writin'." New York Sun.
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-14
THE STORY OF DICK.
A seaeuiI Who Kept Tryst for Twenty

n 0SdQuu VITO INCPt > > --7S
four Consecutive Years
Out in the ocean, about four miles
off the shore of Rhode Island and just
south of Narragansett bay. is an
chored Brenton's Reef lightship. some
go years ago the lonely watchers on
the ship had their attention attracted
by a seagull that so far put aside his
wild nature as to swim close TO the
vessel in search of food. The friend
illness and trustfulness of the bird i'm
mediately won the hearts of the keep
ers, and soon he was supplied with
all the food he wanted. Not only this.
but every day, without break, the
bird, which by this time the men had
named Dick" came back, and Just
as regularly was he supplied. This
soon grew into a habit; and the prep
aration of Dicks allowance become
one of the cooks fixed duties.
There would have been nothing
very remarkable in a wild sea fowl
following an instinct that led it to re-
peat a search for food so regularly
and SO bountifully successful, were 1t
not for its later history. One day
near the first April follow
ing Dicks appearance at the lightship
he was missed, and was not seen again
until about the LIST of the next October
when the same program of daily feed
ing was resumed and kept up as dur
ing the previous year. Then, as the
list OF April drew near, Dick would
again take himself of to his summer
home. wherever that might be, only
faithfully to return with the following
October
This repeated going and coming.
with the constant round of daily feed
ing. was kept up for "a consecutive
years; and Capt. Edward Fogarty, in
charge of the lightship, writes to us
that the last seen of the old fellow
was in April, 1895, when. according
to his custom, he left for his summer
vacation. but, for the first time in
"a years, failed to return the next
October.
What becamesof him no one knows.
His great age may have SO enfeebled
him that he was unequal to the long
fight to and from his unknown sum
mer home. He may have chosen to
stay there, or he may have died OF old
age.
It was noticed by the ships keepers
that during his last visit Dick plainly
showed the effects of ~ increasing
years, and that he @as N pger able
to hold his own with the 81 gulls
in maintaining his exclusiS Aght to
the bounty thrown out from ght-
ship.
The Smithsonian institution 49,
the history Of Dicks visits and As
DESTROYS of obtaining his REM
when heaRsad, but, while it is
sible I'd ATaA later life he nd
have been ca 81 - forcedatQ
his days on ships AZ
one on board the liga
to make the attempt
in others,
The report of Dicks
parture were faithfully fe
the captain in his ships -
If they were an important iteE
marine news, and in the neighbd
of Newport. at least, he was as
known character as any pet elep
or monkey within the safe con
of geological garden is to the
and boys in the cities. Dicks vs8
and playground was the whole ATTAIN
tic ocean, il he had wished, but he
was faithful to the friends whom he
had always found faithful to hsn---
St Nicholas.
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a woRLD OF ILL., THINGS.

A lEtIe trim Of laughter, chord IN natures
song;
4 little deed Of righteousness to stand
against the wrong;
4 little duts needed; little honor won;
little hill snrmounted, and little kind
ness done;
A lltsle labor daily little prayer and
praise;
A little act Of kindness to gladden. weary
days;
And 50 tho whole creation to its ceaseIess
Hsaven swings,
For little man Is living in a world Of little
things.
little hope to cheer US, although 1t walt
eth still;
A little ars for comfort when Winter nights
ara chill;
A little dream, God-gIven, to bless US on
tho way
A little welcome waiting US at ending of
A little purpose shining through every deed
We do;
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-14

So far from there being any real
danger Of the defilement Of the Ian
guage by the profusion of Criticisms
of Americanisms, Of Canadianisms
and Australianisms, of New Zealand
isms-if such exist. as no doubt they
do-English is really the most fortu-
nate of all modern tongues in that it
has so many sources of refreshment,
so varied. so remote from each other.
-Brander Matthews in Harper's Mag.
azine.
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next day. procured me a very accepta-
bic position on the paper A few weeks
later l had the privilege of witnessing
and reporting the execution.
Poor Uncle Jonah. His savings went
to the crown, but he really was of
some service to me.-The King.
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A PIceadIIIx Rebd

A London pickpocket
A.ove the valuables Of a Picc
reproachable" as he s
club the other morning.
proachable seized the thief
wrist, gazed at his filthy paw
dung it from him with disgust i
ing. For goodness sake, my goc
man. wash your hands before you D,
them in a gentleman's pocket
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Supplementary Sc.

During lesson in physiology VIII
lies eacher asked him if he knew
the name Of the last teeth people GET
to which he replied:
"Yes'm; false teeth, Little Cbron.
icle.
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-14

The astronomer has heat-measuring
devices that can detect infinitessimal
variations Of temperature, and indi-
cate the heat of stars distant millions
of miles from our earth, and chemi-
cal compounds sensitive to light that
our eyes never can see.
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-14

Dr. r. il. Barton, president Of the
Aeronautical Institute of England, an
nounces that he is building an airship,
which will be fitted with 150-horse-
power motors. If this is successful
he will build one which viii carry mo-
tors of 500 or 500 horsepower, and
win be able to fly from so to so miles
an hour. He has devised system, he
says, whereby the size of the support
ing balloon decreases as the size of
the aercplanes increase, and he thinks
he has solved the problem of the CON-
mercial airship.
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GO ON FOREVER.


The curious thing is that there is no
apparent need of an exciting cause for
these rays. They go ON continuously,
aud they do not seem to be affected
by any treatment, such as heating or
liberalization, to which the emitting
crystal is submitted. In all other
cases of the kind, such as th2rfamiliar
one of the Roentgen rays. DIS neces-
ssTy TO supply energy frem outside
in order to excite the vacuum tube and
start the radiation. Indeed 1t is a
fundamental doctrine of modern sci
ence that no work can be done without
the expenditure of an equal amount of
energy; nothing for nothing, as they
say, and very little for sixpence. The
cornerstone of our physics is the theory
of the conservation of energy-the ne
cation. so to speak, of the possibility OF
perpetual motion. But NJ. Becquerel's
discovery. with the extensions made
by M. and Nine. Curie and other work
ers in this field. causes us to ask, with
some searchings of heart, how it is to
be reconcilsd with the conservation
of energy.
Research has shown that the radiant
phenomena discovered by NJ. Bee
ouerel are characteristic of small
group of new elements. found in close
association with uranium, but prob
ably through the world of nature. of
which the most active has been christ
ened radium. This element has the
extraordinary property of continually
emitting stream of material particles
which seems to go on forever without
diminution or change.
WORK WITHOUT POWER.
The proof that these "Becquerel
rays" do consist Of a stream of such
particles, and are not mere vibrations
like those of light or the Mareonigram,
is that If they are allowed to fall upon
an electrified body they discharge it
Just as a jet of water would do and
now Sir w Crookes' discovery has
proved the matter beyond a doubt
Obviously the piece of radium, which
is constantly emitting such a stream
of particles, is doing work all the time,
just like a fire engine while it plays.
The emitted stream is also capable of
doing work in small way. as when
it affects a Photographic plate; and
now 1t appears that Professor Lipp-
mann's announcement at the Academic
DIES Sciences that it may also produce
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-14

Few people realize that they are
eating an English knight when they
saw their way into sirloin steak. A
fine loin Of beef was once set before
King Charles l., and as he was a bit
hungry, he said that the meat was
good enough to be knighted, and gave
1t the title OF Sir Loin.
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-14

Pigmies are now found only in the
interior of Africa. A German anthro-
pologist shows that they once lived in
Switzerland and Alsace and in Silesia
down to the tenth century, and that
some of the Alsace race were less
than four feet in height
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-14

A little bunch Of roses to oyerspread the
Fue;
A little peace SURPRISING to which the
spirit clings,
For little man is living in world Of little
things.
little hope, a little love. little toll and
rest;
A little glimpse beyond the veil. little
problem guessed;
A little faith, little doubt. little blinded
A Iitiis haltIng journey, and little of its
dust;
A little knowledge merely Of little ways we
A little dream Of Heaven awaiting at the
end;
A little struggling upward, although on
brokon wings,
For little man is living in world OF little
things.
Alfred J. Waterhouse.
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The italian govefament has Just
erected a fortress on the great Chab-
erton summit, oppcsl Briancon, for
the defence OF the smplon tunnel.
This fort is 10000 feat high. and is
believed to be the most elevated forth
fed point in the world.
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-14

The earliest extant manuscript of
the Hebrew Old Testament is copy
of the Pentateuch, now in the British
museum, and assigned to the ninth
century. and the earliest manuscript
bearing precise date is a copy of
the prophets, at st. Petersburg, dated
A. d. 916. while the majority of the
manuscripts belong to much later Pc
RODS.
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QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

or the 100000 people in England
more than half of them live on an in
come of less than $l2 week, and the
earnings of 100000 Of this number
do not exceed Sc a week for the fam
ily
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More than half the external business
Of Costa Rica Is with the United
States,
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
n THE 9,
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" MENT THAT SEEMS AKIN 3.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

LUMP of pitchblende Is not
a very attractive thing. One
may pass it casually in the
museum without seeing any
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-18
AGED GENERAL
VIEWS DEFENSES
OF NEWCHWANG

NEwCHwANG, March 17.-The
patriarchal General Litevitch, who
was accompanied by General Kov-
dratonovitch, after a survey yesterday
of Newchwang and its defenses, which
had been prepared for his inspection,
returned to his command at Liaoyang.
He also visited Kaichou and points af-
fecting the protection of the gulf
coast and the holding of the weak zone
along the main line of railway op-
posite Newchwang.
Although disclaiming any apprehen-
sion of the Japanese landing here, the
authorities are satisfied to have for
eigners understand that the Russians
are prepared for any local emergency,
and the arrival of an additional bat
terry of artillery and also $50 scouts
to-day is significant of coming events.
1t is apparent that both civil and
military strategists and the diplomats
in Mukden apprehend a collision with
the Chinese, probably fearing that the
increasing number of their small bands
of scouts operating between the Lao
River and the Great Wall are the
surest instruments for their entangle-
ment in conflict, particularly as this
zone is in the nature of No-Mans
Land, on account of having been aban-
doned by the powers and also because
the Chinese jurisdiction is incompe-
tent. Russians competent to judge
profess to regard General Mas atti-
tude as dangerous to the peace of
Russia and China.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-18
LACK OF CAVALRY
WEAKENS JAPAN'S
MILITARY FORCES

PARIS, March 1.-THE st. Peters
burg correspondent of the Echo de
Paris has interviewed General Dramo-
garoff. Ex-Governor General of Kieff
and late member Of the Council of
State, who, while making reservations.
owing to his personal ignorance Of the
localities in the theater of war, gave
the following conclusions at which he
had arrived:
THE Japanese will be much ham
pered by the necessity of making an
invasion by sea. Sea crossings are al
ways disastrous to cavalry, which els
notoriously the weak point of the jap
anese troops. Moreover, the Japanese
Will need in Korea conveyances drawn
by horses, to which they have been
unaccustomed. The japanese will not
be able to depart far from the Korean
coast, as they must remain near their
ships"
The general added that the Rus
slams must watch the YaIu River.
which is liable to sudden floods and
which it would be useless to cross If
they could not return. It is essential.
he says, to have a strong bridge, forti-
fed on the side where the Japanese
are.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-18
ITO is RECEIVED
WITH MILITARY
HON0RS IN SEOUL.

SEOUL, March 17.-Marquis Ito ar
rived at Chemulpo this morning. He
was greeted by a delegation of high
Korean officials. G. Hayashi, the Japa-
nese Minister to Korea, and General
Ijichi, commander of the Japanese gar
rison here, who went to meet him, ac-
companied him to Seoul.
When the special train arrived at
Seoul it was received with military
honors. A Korean guard of honor sa-
luted and surrounded the handsome
green palanquin in which Marquis Ito
was carried to the mansion prepared
for him by the Emperor. The route
was lined by Japanese troops, who sa-
luted the Marquis as he passed. Thou
sands Of Koreans also witnessed his ar
rival.
Marquis Ito will be received by the
Korean Emperor on Saturday, March 19.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-18
JAPANESE PLAN
FOR CREATION OF
TOBACCO MONOPOLY

TOXIC, March 1.-THE proposed law
relating to the Government tobacco
monopoly, if enacted, will go into effect
on the 1st of next July. The manufact-
ure and sale Of japanese cut tobacco
will be allowed to continue until April
19. The Government proposes to have
the stocks, machines and plants exist
ing on June 30 next appraised by joint
appraisers. AS compensation for their
good wilI'' the Government proposes
to pay the manufacturers and dealers
a sum equal to their income for three
years as shown by their books. The
sum which will be required TO launch
the monopoly has not yet been de-
termined, but the Government pro-
poses TO make a large payment in
bonds.
1t is believed that the only new Gus
toms duty will be on sugar. The pro-
posed rate is as follows: Dutch stand
ard No. 1. yen per hundred; No. ?,
yen and 40 sen; No. 8. 3 yen 80 sen;
No. 4. yen 20 sen.
Unless the conventional tariffs inter-
fere it is probable that tariff will be
levied on wooden stuffs.
General s. P. Hamilton Of the British
army in India arrived here to-day. he
will accompany the Japanese forces as
a military observer.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-18
FOES CRUISERS PREVENT
LANDING OF BROWN MEN
|"Phantom" Naval Force Lying in Wait
for the Transports of the
MikadO.
1904


SEOUL. March lit is reported by
the projects of Northeastern Korea that
bodies of Russians, accompanied by IN
terpreters. are surveying the country,
ascertaining the population, the quan-
tity Of supplies and the sentiment Of
the people. The proposed japanese
landing at Wonson, on the eastern
coast, has been delayed by the threat
ening attitude of the Vladivostok naval
squadron, consisting of four ships,
which are now anchored at Possict
Bay, an excellent base for attacking
japanese transports approaching Won
son.
The Japanese authorities have been
advised that the Russian cavalry in
Northern Korea has partly recrossed
the Yalu River and that a Cossack
battery also has withdrawn. A small
Russian force still occupies Chongju.
Five thousand engineers are now en-
ployed in the building of the military
railroad from Seoul to Wiju. Only a
few miles has been completed. Civil
ians are working on the railroad from
Seoul to Fusan. This road cannot be
completed before next October.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-18
RUSSIA REQUESTS
PERMISSION TO USE
CHINESE RAILWAY

PEKING, March 17,-Russian COM
missariat officers have applied to the
Chinese railway officials at Hsinmintun
for permission to use their line for the
transportation Of troops and. stores.
The officials have replied that this re
quest presents many difficulties and
that they must refer it to the author
tiles in Peking.
Some questions were asked regarding
the possibility Of purchasing fodder and
other supplies; also regarding the pro-
curement of carts for transportation
purposes should the railway not be
available. Native agents of the Russo
Chinese Bank at MukGen have ap-
preached the railroad officials upon the
same subject.
The magistrate at Chinchou will not
allow the natives to sell supplies of any
kind to the Russians.
The Japanese authorities here say
that no land engagement of any mag
pitude is likely before another month.
A military attache here considers the
mechanical mines laid by the japanese
fleet at Port Arthur efficient to prevent
the Russian fleet leaving that port
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-18
EVERY TEN DAYS STEAMER
WILL LEAVE PORTLAND
Eight Vessels With Carrying Capacity
of 10000 Tons Will Connect North
ern Port With Orient.

PORTLAND, March 17.-Commenc-
ing about May 1 the Hartman steam
ship service out of Portland will con-
sist of eight steamships with COM
bined carrying capacity of $4,000 tons
and a schedule which will give this port
an oriental steamer sailing every ten
DAYS. In order to increase the service
so as to admit of such frequent sailings
the three steamships now compris-
ing the Portland and Asiatic Steam
ship Company's fleet will be released,
as their charters expire in April and
May, and will be replaced by four new
freighters of the most approved type
with a carrying capacity of 1000 to
5000 tons on a draft of "a feet.
News of the charter of this new fleet
was received at the local offices of the
company yesterday. The vessels are all
Hamburg American liners, and on ac-
count of their large carrying capacity
on comparatively light draft of water
are particularly adapted to this trade.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-18
GRAND JURY INDICTS
SIX LIQUOR DEALERS
Kansas Inquisitorial Body Finds Fault
With Methods of Men Who Vio-
late PrOhibitory Law

WICHITA, Kans., March II. = The
Federal Grand Jury returned sixteen
indictments to-day. Six of them are
against Kansas City and Kentucky
wholesale liquor dealers. who are
charged with violation of the prohib-
itory law. The method complained of
is the shipping of liquor by the deal
ers to fictitious persons and then al
lowing express agents to dispose of
the packages to whoever wants them.
The names of the dealers against whom
true bills were found were not made
public.
True bills were also found against
Chauncey Dewey, C. P. Dewey, w. j..
Mcbride and w. ]. Ratcliffe for inclos-
ing Government lands.
KANSAS CITY. Mo, March IL
Two months ago three wholesale liquor
dealers were indicted on charge sim
liar to that made at Wichita to-day,
and at the time it was stated that nu-
merous arrests would follow, both Of
LIQUOR dealers and express agents. who.
it was alleged, were conniving to ship
whisky into Kansas and that portion
of Texas where local option obtains,
against the laws of those States.