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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

Day after day the stranger showed
Peter more beautiful things and made
, him long for them. And whenever he
! observed that Peter felt the least bit
unhappy because he couldn't get them,
he would tell him again that he was
too soft-hearted.
So at last Peter believed it. And
one night he asked his companion how
he could cure himself.
! Nothing easier than that" said his
! companion. Tomorrow / viii take
you to place where it can be DONE"
! The next day they jumped into
train and went far into the hills. until
Peter began to recognize the country
and saw that they were going toward
home. His soft heart leaped in his
breast and the tears of joy came to
his eyes.
I'VE will soon cure all that, Peter"
said his companion, tapping him on the
breast And his eyes shone strangely
7 like cats.
Not far from Peters home they
alighted from the train, and Peters
companion led him up the mountain
side till they reached the black mouth
of great shaft that seemed to bore
straight down into the earth.
step in" said his companion point
ing to the bucket. He leaped IN him
self and the bucket descended slowly,
till all that could be seen far above was
little circle of daylight. Down It
went. down. faster and faster. so that
the rocky sides of the shaft, with the
water streaming from them, seemed
to be darling upwards past them.
SUDDENLY the darkness gave way to
dazzling light and the bucket stopped
Peter stepped out and found himself
in a huge valuted chamber. all hung
with glttering white crystals.
ion, I've are at my nome. and in a few
moments you snail be cured OF your
soft heart"
He stepped to a niche in the rocks
and returned with a finely polished
perfectly formed heart made OF iron.
This" said he. is the kind OF heart
30 wear. ] have one myself and
have given II to many Of the people
whose wealth you admired 10 much
They are all much better of since
they made the exchange"
But how could you put II into my
breast2' asked Peter, half frightened
and half interested.
Simple enough" was the reply
This iron heart, as you can see, IS
hollow ! will simply press IL into
your breast and lock II around the
absurd soft heart 10 prevent Il from
making a fool o. you"
The next instant before Peter could
utter q cry HIS companion grew tree
mendousiy Do hight till bis hoaa
reachod the cryaial-sfudeed ceiling
With one ifnense haud, as bic az
steamship, he seized abe trembling
Peter. and with the other. presto he
pressed fhe iron heart % his breast
Immediately Peter felf HfrlnHFlv cNlA
and indifferent ne pgf DE hhnq 20
DE heart 900 found fhaf Their
none RI fhe fnmulinouf beaiinE ina'
lconuass6 On Fsss gvsss -ssysn.'
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

should still inherit fierce hatred Of any
creature that smells like a leopard.
Dogs and cats are not the only an
finals that still show inherited fear or
hatred of other beasts which they
have never seen themselves. Thus
the rhinoceros is frantically in fear of
anything white, and naturalists say
that this is because once upon a time
some big white animals hunted him.
But that must have been long ago,
for there are no big white animals now
where the rhinoceros dwells.
Chickens that have never seen a
fox will cackle and run in fear if they
come across the place where the ami
NAL has passed or where his carcass
has been dragged. If fox has been
anywhere near a cats drinking dish,
the cat will not approach it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11
WHY Do DOGS HATE CATS?
IL Seems to Date Back to the Time
of the LeODards.

1t Seems to Date Back to the Time
of the LeODards.
Why does the dog hate the cat?
Scientists have been investigating the
enmity between these animals, and
they believe that the instructive hatred
which certain beasts feel of each other
is due to inheritance from ancient
times, when the animals met in a wild
state and preyed upon each other.
The enmity between cats and dogs
seems to be due more to hatred on the
part of the dog than of the cat The
latter animal apparently hates dogs be-
cause dogs chase her: while the dog
hates the cat because she is a cat.
a cat will feed at a place where a
dog has been without betraying any
signs of anger; but a dog generally be-
comes excited and wild if he scents the
trail of a cat anywhere near his food
or sleeping place.
Now this enmity is not to be explain
ed by anything that happens between
dogs and cats in domesticity or any
thing that ever happened between them
as long ago as human history goes. In
all these thousands of years dogs and
cats have been kept as pets, and of all
animals they are the two which should
be the most friendly.
But the reverse ia the case. One nat
uralist, DR.. Zell, seeks il i'm the fact that
the common cat not only looks like, but
smells like. the great cats Of prey. And
of those cats of prey there is one, much
like a domestic cat In many ways,
which hunts dogs by preference. This
big cat is the leopard.
The domestic cat and her larger rel
alive. the wild cat. have never harmed
the race of dogs, but their great speck-
led cousin is. and always has been, the
most ferocious OF dog-murderers. and
the cat must pay for Il.
Authorities agree that there is no
animal that the leopard would rather
eat than the dog. as result, there are
many villages la tho districts IN which
leopards are plentiful whore nobody
can keep dog. The great cats will
not hesitate to break Into the houses
20 seize their favorite dish.
But says the doubter the modern
dog certainly could not have known
loopards In many thousands of years.
He has been "a domestic pet IN regions
where there have been no lcopards
since man first appeared
That ~ true. says Dr. Hcll But he
points 20 the fact thar doss have a.
habit ~ turning around several times
before they De down. This. be- says,
DEL due 40 fhr fact that when they
were boz "a wild state they had 10 90
fhis fo prcst down leaves and fwlga
ln order io prepare f0 bod f0r theme
selves nnd HH flfY h1No nof overcome
fhiH habit DOB no floIl yfara of domeg.
tieliN o. "a quite natural fhat Any
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11
HOW BIRDS SOAR.
The Best Filters Slide Up and Down
On the Air.

The Best Filters Slide Up and Down
On the Air.
In the past few years the desire of
mankind to discover a means for navi-
eating the air has led to a deep study
of the flights of birds and a great deal
of material has been gathered.
1t is beginning to be the consensus
of opinion that the bird world as a
whole is not nearly perfect in its at
tainment of fight.
All birds that have to flap their
wings continually, such as sparrows,
finches, thrushes, crows and so on, are
still in an imperfect stage.
More advanced are such birds as
pigeons, swallows, etc, because they
can dart ahead for a space after they
have gained a good start by the rapid
Tapping of the pinions.
But the only perfect fliers are the
eagles, vultures, aT1batrosses and other
great fowl that can raise and fall
sway and soar in the air indefinitely
without moving their wings percepti-
bly,.
Now, how do these big birds man
age to ascend to great nights with
out Tapping their wings? 1t is certain
that such birds as the eagle and the
Vulture can soar into the air gradually
till they disappear from the eye of the
beholder, and yet 1t will be quite i'm
possible to denote single motion of
anything except the tail.
One observer, Erich Hoffman, had
an unusual opportunity to gather
some facts that bear on this question.
Two years ago he was in the Caucasus
on a mountain peak that assembled
close to another one. Over the latter
there scared a great eagle, and, far as
he was from earth, The was quite close
to Mr.. Hoffman.
When he was seen first he was
hanging almost motionless in the air.
Suddenly he moved swiftly ahead,
pointing his head slightly toward the
sky, and thus he glided along without
Tapping a wing till his motion had
ceased of itself. AS it stopped he lifted
his wings high in the air. dropped his
head and permitted himself to fall.
AS soon as he had fallen a short
distance, his broad pinions spread out
to their fullest extent again and inn
mediately the impetus gained by the
fall sent him gliding forward and up
ward, so that within a few moments
he had actually slid upon the air to a
position higher than he had been in
before
After he had done this five times he
had assembled so high without flying
once that the observer could see him
only as a black speck in the air.
TIL eagles method was exactly that
of boy who slides down a hill in a
wagon, and thus gets enough speed to
| carry him up the next hill Only in
| the eagles case his Mills were of air.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11
TREES THAT GROW
ON OTHER TREES.
The Giant Lehua of the Hawaiian
Islands.

The Giant LehUa of the Hawaiian
Islands.
"Orchilds aren't the only plants that
grow in the air. said an employee
of the Government Bureau of For
estry recently in discussing tropical
plants. I'm the Hawaiian islands is a
tree, growing from thirty to one hum
dred feet high, which often begins life
away up on top of other trees. Unless
it did this it could not exist at all in
those dark, dank forests. 1t is a sun
loving tree, of the kind that foresters
call fntolerant,' because they will not
tolerate other trees near enough TO
them to shade them.
These trees are the lehuas. When
a mature lehua casts its seeds, a. good
proportion of them fall on other trees
Whether these other trees are alive or
dead, the lehua seed begins to germi-
nate on them as healthily as if it had
fallen into the richest ground.
LAS soon as the seed opens and
begins to sprout, tiny roots go climb
ing down the trunks of the trees to
the ground. With time, as the little
plant becomes large, the roots in
crease in girth, until at last they are
great, solid things, as thick and pow
erful as those of any other big tree.
Usually the tree on which the
lehua grows begins to decay about
this Time and after a while it withers
and rots away. This leaves the lehua
standing on its roots high in the air:
and such a forest presents a wonder
full and wierd sight.
1T is no joke to get through a lehua
forest where all the trees have grown
this way. The roots run one way
and another, and interlace so that
often there isn't a space big enough
for a rabbit to crawl through. There
is no use in trying to cut or hew a
way into the lehua woods, for the
roots are as tough as roots generally
are, and no American farmers boy
who has ever put in a season at break
ing out stumps needs to be told just
how tough that is"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

face. and 10! in a twinkling. the sham
Sultan was changed into the wicked
magician again. and fell, begging for
mercy, at the feet of the true Sultan.
All the people of the palace assem-
bed. and before them the man con-
fessed all-how he had wrought his
spells with the help of the other ma
gician, who. in consideration of re-
ceiving two-thirds of the royal reve-
nue., had consented to retain his hum
BILE position and act as the false Sui
tan's spy in the restless city.
The wicked men were sent to Mad
agascar to search for the roc's egg,
and they never came back. AS for
Ahmed. he was made the Sultan's vi
zier eventually, and married the Prin-
cess Gulnare, while Bagdad ceased
from its murmurings and lived happy
under the mild sway of its rightful
master.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

in the farmland woods busy
mother bird built large nest. Her
brood was a noisy little gathering.
and throughout the warm summer
days they peeped al the edges OF the
thatch and wondered what the great
world that stretched out beyond the
tree tops was like.
A. the hours pnssod these little
birds began 10 scheme "A tour for
Themselves au inYestiFatiuw trip
from iho home nest which WAS be-
coming TOO tame to them
Mother bird. pfruhed on q branch
nearby, warned each one M hrr chile
dron not fo nttrmDi d. you alI faI
upen ne Eround,' 40 teclared. "and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11

then the wolves or the cats viii get
you"
Al this good advice some Of the
little birds needed her and remained
quiet. but others decided that moth
ors could not know what was best
after All, agd out they fopped with
their weak little wings. only 90 tum.
bic 20 the ground
a cat. happening that way had tho
best meal of his lifetime. How many
birds tumblod out7
A certain number ~ the little birds
remained safely in the nest cut fhe
circle. al shown by dottei lincH. and
fold fo make a complete nrHf contain
lnE fhefe Ntflo ones. knowing fhe
home birds y0u can ell lust how
maly togk q tlnuhie.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-11
Solution of Last Sundays Numerical
Puzzle.

THE elephant" is the animal de-
scribed by the eleven letters in last
Sundays paper.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-08

bic u secrecy. Messter exhibited COM
binatiOn talking aud moving pictures.
Many airship experiments were
made. the most successful being those
Of the Lebaudy brothers OF Paris. who
made a new spcad record of forty-four
miles In 100 minreS: Er. Grcth. who
sailed over san Francisco: Stanley
Spencer at London. and Epuhow. who
used new system Of automatic steer
Ing and balancing near Syracuse. y. Y.
Professor Langley's man-carrying aero
drome. built under government avs
pices. was tried on the Potomac. near
Washington. and proved q complete
failure under existing conditions -. =
Pickering of Harvard di>credijed the
long accepted Franz theory II moon
craters. Professor hugan discovered Il
small planet Great spots were on-
served near the central meridian of tie
sun. Ten new stars were discovered.
German explorer located new
land In antarctic regions. New
gospel papyri were unearthed in Egypt.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-08
DEATHS FAvORITES

Ont of all the unnumbered depar-
lures for the life beyond, the few
whose eminence of work or official sta
tion made them known to all are the
following:
Ex-Premier Sagasta of Spain; Julian
Ralph. journalist; NJ. de Blowtz, Journal
list; Abram S. Hewitt, philanthroplst; DR..
j. L. NJ. Curry, diplomat: Ada Ellen Bay
ley EDNA LyalD author; DR.. Ed r. Shaw,
educator: DR.. Richard J, Gatling. inventor;
Joseph Henry Shorthouse. author: Maj jor
General Schuyler Hamilton; Rear Ad-
miral Beknap; Rev. William Fl. Milburn.
senate chaplain; Brigham Young, Mormon
apostle; Hillary Bell, journalist: Richard
Henry Stoddard, author; Max O'Rell au-
thor; Archbishop Vaughan. prmate of
England; Major James r. Pond: William
Ernest Henley, author; Pope Leo XIII:
James MacNeill Whistler. artist: Phil
May, artist: Noah Brooks. author: William
Z. Dodge, philanthropist; Frederick Law
Olmstead, landscape gardener: Rabbi NJ.
NJ Jastrow; Gordon Mckay, inventor:
Samuel f. Morse. editor; Right Hon.
William E. H. Lecky, author; Rear Ad-
miral Lester A. Beardsley; Dr. Cyrus
Edison. physician: Professor Mommsen
historian Ex-Governor Daniel Fl. Hastings
of Pennsylvania Herbert Spencer phi
losopher; Lord Salisbury premier of Eng
land; Dean Farrar of Canterbury: Paul
Du Chaillu, explorer; Stuart Robson actor:
Slbyl Sanderson. singer; p. NJ Arthur
chief of Locomotive Engineers; Alexander
Balm, educator; Richard II. Savage, au-
thor; Andrew II. Green, Father Of Greater
New York. I
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-08

. TIE tendency 10 vast industrial
combinations which characterized pre-
ced!ng years continued. but with sign,
OF abatement. Notable Instances were
the iron combine OF the middle west
the cOsstwlse schooner trust. complete
street railway combines In New YORK
and Baltimore combination of largest
banks in several cities. the automobile
trust and the glass machine works.
. . Other industrial efforts We're the
commercializing OF wireless Ielegraphy
and publication Of first wireless papers
on laad and sea. President Roosevelt
receiving the first wireless message
from Europe: the putting into opera
tion Of the new American cable TO Ma
Mia. woman's daily paper in Lon
don. Developments OF long distance troll
ley systems. beginning Of Pennsylvania
tunnel under Hudson river. beginning
Of union station al Washington. fight
against holl weevil in Texas.
Next To watered stock, the aggressive
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-08


voted to elaborate courses in fire pro-
lection. Forestry was taken up at Cal
ifornia. cattle killing at Iowa and gar
dening at Columbia. Western Reserve
started school for librarians. Mis-
souri, had trveling school of farm
work. Columbia established chair
of Chinese. Southern schools gave in
creased attention to actual gardening,
both for training and support. Travel
ing medical university for country doc
tors in Germany. Throughout the north
more attention was paid TO manual
training and kindergarten work. Charles
NJ. Schwab began the establishment of
a series of trade schools. There
was a continuance of the era of eX-
pansion. the enrolment of students in
public and private schools and colleges
rising to new records, and the total of
benefactions running into the tens Of
millions. Throughout this country a
concerted effort was made by teachers
in public schools to secure higher sal
aries. Nevertheless prominent
churchmen. notably Cardinal Gibbons
and DR.. Greer. began a vigorous assault
on our educational foundations because
of the failure OF the schools TO incul-
cate u religious spirit and seriously
proposed 10 reorganiZe by letting the
churches take their proportionate share
of the schools and operate them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-08

w. r bTOWN anu Il lullDeT Dl large
corporations conceded higher wages to
their employees, some voluntarily.
Wall street saw record payment of
dividends and laughed at the wise
acres. 1t was not many weeks before
signals of distress began TO show in
curtailed dividends and public distrust.
Morgan hastily returned from Europe,
but even his magnetic name failed TO
stem the tide of downward prices when
the shipbuilding trust went under in
June. carrying many fair reputation
in its wake. Then followed a long era of
tobogganing, nearly all the standard Sc
curities dragging after Steel and the other
industrials The great war between the
PENNSYLVANIA and Gould systems had
become acute over the destruction of
Western Union poles pending litigation,
and the outcome was Rockefeller
Morgan financial duel. with victory for
the man of OIL Whether due to this or
to the lessening output, the price of oil
has steadily advanced. Schwab was
superseded by Corey as head of the
steel trust. The collapse of Lake Su-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-08

and union recognition. Mitchell setting
a conservative pattern Staggered at
first by this onset, the captains of in
dustry took mp the gauntlet under the
leadership of David VI. Parry, the cho-
sen head Of the Citizens Industrial AS
sOciation of America. a militant COM
bination Of all the great employers. In
many cities employers associations
were started. Labor's effort to rule the
government printing office resulted in
the presidents open shop" declaration
in the Miller case. With Sam Parks
and his pal in prison. the striking iron
workers fought on against a solid
phalanx of builders. but unionism was
taught lesson. A new movement was
the starting of independent unions.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-08

Ile iuleIlldl poIlNE VI
the administration were the effort to
check trusts through the enactment of
the Elllins law, the effort to expose and
punish corruption discovered in nearly
every department. chiefly in the postal
service: the insistence on the recogni-
ton of negroes in official appointments,
the open shop declaration in response
to labor's challenge in the Miller case
at the government printing office, Gu
ban reciprocity at % per cent off the
Dingley rates, the reorganization OF the
army under general staff and the
unifying of the state militia. For the
thoroughness of the postal exposures
credit is due to Mr.. Bristow. Other
important acts at the closing session OF
the Fifty seventh congress were for
free trade in coal, for Philippine gov
ernment. antianarchy. creating the de-
partmant of commerce ana labor ana
appronriating q total of S1.554 .10S,514
for the two years. The ship subsidy bill
failed and the statehood deadlock in
the senate went over to the present
session on compromise. 1t was I'M
der the Spooner act that the treaty
with Colombia was made. The Flfty-
eighth congress. summoned in extra ses-
sion for the confirmation of the Cuban
treaty. started in with new house lead
ers. Cannon being chosen speaker
while Williams of Mississippi took
command of the minority and scored
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-08

ber, he decided to 90 it alone and the
Balfour cabinet went to pieces. though
again patched up for a time with
nondescript material, Balfour himself
taking a moderate course for retalia-
tory tariff and the free trade war
horses snorting in opposition alignment
= At the same time an internal sore
of long standing was healed in the his
toric passage of the Irish land pur-
chase bill July q. piloted by Redmond
and Wyndham and sealed by the royal
journey through Ireland England
has exerted new power through Jhp
diplomatic personality of King Ed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-08
Ups and Downs
OF the Workaday World
+ = -

Taking in sail. There, in three words.
is the last analysis of the whole indus
trial and commercial tendency of the
calendar year past. The fact is writ
large over the economic face of the
world. with war aud fear of war plus
famine in the orient and eastern Eu-
rope. with western Europe struggling
desperately under trust competition
and the handicaps of vast national
armaments. while young America. big
and proud of new powers, pushes on.
but with the white face and set teeth
that betoken a bad case of financial
indigestion This. too. in spite of a
good crop year. generally speaking.
Looking particularly at our own case
a diagnosis will place before us vir-
tually the business history of the pc
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-08


ing the possibility of the transmutation
Of metals. Other women figured
notably in scientific achievement. DR.
Florence X. Sabin of the Johns Hop
kins faculty received the $1,000 prize
for the most original work throwing
light on the mysteries Of the lymphatiC
system. Mrs. Workman. in company
with DR.. W. H. Workman. made new
worlds record for mountain climbing
getting 23,656 feet high in Himalayas
Dr. Charles Barrows of New
York announced the success of forma
lin as a cure for blood poison. From
all quarters came news of successful
serum cures. such as Dunbar's hay fe-
yer. Tizoni's pneumonia. Aronson's
scarlet fever, Fletcher's cholera infan-
tum and number for tuberculosis.
The microbes of sleeping sickness. hy-
drophobia and smallpox were identi-
fed Carbolic acid and the salts Of
chloride and potassium were used sue
cessfully in lockjaw cases. Professor
Hatai of Chicago discovered food
called lecithin. producing rapid growth
of animal tissue New mercury
arc light and static converter We're per-
fected by Steinmetz and Hewitt Pro.
fessor Bedell of Cornell sent alternat
ing and direct electric currents stimuli
taneously. German government made
new worlds trolley speed record of 1901
miles an hour. Professor Goodspeed of
Philadelphia photographed from hu-
man body's radiations. Ruhmer, in Ger
many, made wireless telegraphy capa.