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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
Does the Mother Shark Swallow Her
Young?

There is a prevalent belief among
fishermen and sailors in many parts
of the world that the mother shark is
able to protect her young when in
danger by opening her mouth and let
ting them swim down her throat.
Many naturalists dispute the belief,
but others uphold it.
While it is certainly true that living
young have been found in the stom-
achs of large sharks after the latter
have been killed, it is not proved
whether they were swallowed in Of
der to protect them. At Port Royal,
Jamaica, in 1901, white shark over
twenty feet long was captured by the
sailors of the guardship Urgent"
When it was dragged on deck and cut
open, no fewer than twenty-five
young ones were found in its stom-
ach, most of them alive. Many other
incidents of the same kind are on
record.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

RAl is name derived from
- the Latin pratu1n-a meadow.
Il Plat has the same meaning,
from plateau, the French term
for fiat, level surface.
The first of the Pratt family was
probably called de Prato, of the mead
ow, or he who lived in the meadow.
Pratellis is one of the variations of
the name. Perhaps the first of the
name was Baron William de Prate1-
lis OF Normandy, who went over with
the Conqueror. In Battle Abbey Roll
his name appears as Re Sire de
Preaux.' Clerks who made records
III Domesday Book translated the
names into Latin or French, or re-
tanned them in Saxon, as best suited
their pleasure; hence those occupying
meadow lands would be entered Du-
pre-, for example, or &C Pratensis;
while others, in the language of the
conquered people, were Maedes or
Mead Other variations of Pratt are
Praed, Pradt, Prate, Praty, Pretie,
Prettie, Pretty and Praer. "Preyers
Henricus" Henry Pratt-was sum-
moned for military service in the
reign of Edward l. In Spanish, the
name is Prado; in Ital an, Plato; in
Portuguese, Prado; in Danish, Plat; in
German and Swedish, Platt.
Modern variations of the name are
Pratt, Pirate, Pratte.
One family tradition is that the ar
mor-bearer of the early kings of Eng
gland was of this family. Peter de
Pratellis, the Crusader, was hereditary
standard-bearer and so beloved of
Richard that the king kept him al
ways by his side Peter de Pratellis
and his brother William were as gal
liant and loyal knights as ever bore
the cross. AS plain Peter and William
Pratt, however, their exploits would
certainly lose some of their romantic
interest.
Anthony du Pratt was Chancellor of
France and Francis Is Prime Min
lister. He accompanied his king to
Italy when he went to confer with
Leo K. about the Pragmatic Sanction.
a few hundred years later Charles
Pratt, Earl of Camden, was Lord
Chancellor of England, but he was
obliged to surrender the great seal
because he opposed taxation of Amer
lean colonists. His views on this sub
ject were perhaps biased by the fact
that some of his relatives had settled
here.
The first pilgrim Pratt was Phineas,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
SOME STRANGE ARTILLERY

The leather artillery used by the
Tibetan in two or three engagements
proved powerless against Col. Young
husbands MaXims. But although it
could not turn back the Anglo-Indian
invaders from the gates of Lhassa, it
has not always been so useless in war
fare.
Create 1eatherne gunnes" were used
by King Henry VIII. at the siege of
Boulogne, according to the old chron-
icler, John Evelyn. A Scottish soldier
Of fortune named Robert Scot made
a number of leather cannon for Gus
tavus Adolphus III the Thirty-Years'
War. They won the battle of Leipsic,
easily silencing Tilly's guns, which
were made of bronze and iron.
These leather guns were strongly
bound with iron. Some built on the
model of those of Gustavus Adolphus
were used with great success by the
Scottish Covenanters against the
Cavaliers of Charles II.
Six cannon made of ice were fired,
without bursting, in honor of the mar
rage of Prince Galitzin in the reign
of the Empress Anne of Russia.
The Gaekwar of Baroda, one of the
wealthiest of the Indian princes, owns
two cannon made of pure gold, lined
with steel, SO that they can be fired.
The value of the gold alone is esti-
mated at over 100000, and the breech
of each gun is set with precious stones.
Wooden guns are mounted on the
walls of Pekin and other Chinese
cities, but they are merely dummies
intended to have moral effect. Dur
ing the French Revolution, however
the use of wooden cannon was seri-
ously considered, according to Carlyle
One citizen has wrought out the
scheme of wooden cannon which
France shall exclusively profit by in
the first instance" he says. ct is to
be made of slaves by the coopers-
of almost boundless calibre, but un-
certain as to strength" The last
statement may readily be accepted.
Perhaps the queerest guns in all
the world are to be found in the
British fortress-colony of Malta-not
in its extensive modern armament
but in the relics left by the Knights oil
Malta, who owned the island centuries
ago.
They were warlike community
who always had quarrel with one
or more of their neighbors. Conse-
quently they had to fortify the island
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

ed. The Cuban never got out of the
water more quickly, but the shark
bumped against him two or three
times as it foundered madly round
and round the bath looking for the
opening by which it had entered. The
man was not hurt.
He was luckier than another Cuban
refugee at Kingston-a woman named
Gonzales. She was rowing on the
harbor with her husband, a few weeks
before the incident related above, and
unthinkingly trailed her hand over
the side of the boat few inches in
the water. A small shark seized it
and would have dragged her over
board had the husband not beaten him
off with an oar. Two of her fingers
were bitten off and the hand badly
lacerated.
No port in the world is more thick
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
"Pretty" Variation Of the Name "Pratt''

or Phinehas, as his name more fire.
quently appears. He came over in
the Sparrow. Joshua Pratt helped
lay out Plymouth into lots, receiving
peck of corn daily as compensation
One Of the pioneers of Buffalo was
Captain Samuel Pratt, who was al
ways on friendly terms with the In
dams. One of his young sons was
once pursued by an Indian and came
running into the house, the wild man
at his heels. When the Devils Ram
rod-such was the Indians name
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

discovered to whom the boy belong
ed, he thrust his knife into the side
of the house instead of the boys head,
exclaiming, II will not kill" Then,
with grand and naughty air, he
strobe from the house. Another ira
dition in this family is that the first
carpet ever seen in Buffalo was the
one Captain Pratt had in his log
cabin
Prattsville, N. Y, was founded by
Zadock Pratt, son of the Revolution
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

together that no shark, barracuda or
other dangerous fish can swim in be-
tween them, while, of course, the
water surges in and keeps the bath
fresh.
In 1893, shortly after the conclusion
of the Spanish-American war. a Cuban
refugee in Kingston, Jamaica, Owed
into one of these pile baths for his
last swim before going back to Cuba.
He did not notice that three of the
piles had been broken away by
recent ssquall; neither did he observe
that large white shark-one of the
worst of these tigers of the sea-had
swum through the opening. and was
lazily basking in the center of the
pool.
The bather dived almost on top of
the shark. 1t would be hard to say
which of the two was the more alarm
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

~ INFESTED by sharks than Durham,
Natal. Sailors assert that anybody
who tries to swim there is sure to be
seized and dragged under, and sew
eral tragedies of the kind are certainly
on record. When the British cruiser
Powerful was at Durham during the
siege of Ladysmith, a petty officer in
charge of dinghy put his naked feet
in the water. They had not been there
halt a minute when his left foot was
bitten clean off by shark.
One OF the most remarkable escapes
from sharks on record was that of the
third officer Of the British steamship
Spoke Hall" which foundered in the
Persian Gulf in 1902 during typhoon.
He was the only man saved; he chung
to some wreckage and was picked up
by another steamship twenty hours
after the wreck. All that time, &C
cording to his own story, lie was sur
rounded by number of large white
sharks, which swan around and
around him, but did not once attack
him, although his body was partly
submerged in the water The sailors
who put off in boat from the steam
ship to rescue him had to scare away
the sharks by splashing violently with
their oars.
Another extraordinary escape hap
pened III 1896 at Kingston, Jamaica.
A colored boy swan out into the mid
die of the harbor, which is about
three miles wide, resting his body
upon large plank. Suddenly he was
attacked by hammer-headed shark
perhaps the most hideous and vorac-.
ious of all its tribe He tried to keep
the fish away by splashing the water
with his feet, but it was not to be
frightened, and came right in and
snapped at his waist. By almost mi
rac11lous LICK the terrible teeth hare
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
A New View of Immigration.

"You Americans complain of Ital-
ian immigration" said an Italian mer-
chant the other day, "but really Italy
has better reason. to kick. Do YOU
know that every adult Italian who
comes here has cost his country, on
an average, $1,000 to bring him up
That money is lost, of course. to
Italy and gained by America. y"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
Only Practice.

Tumbles-Dr. Pullem tells me he
has splendid practice.
Grumbles (whose face is swollen
with toothache)-I'm glad he doesn't
flatter himself by calling it more than
mere practice
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

that hunt man.
~ In the West Indies and other
parts of the tropics, the natives
are far more afraid of the barracuda
than of the shark The barracuda is
q giant pike. which sometimes attains
the length of six or eight feet, and
is rarely found outside of tropical
waters. 1t cannot devour a man, like
d shark, but it can mutilate him Sc
verely, and it often does. The shark
IS one of the slowest of fish, so slow
that clever, cool-headed swimmer
can dodge it; but the barracuda is
amazingly swift. OF all the fish that
hunt man, there is none which is more
ferOciOus. 1t will attack a bather a
hundred times more readily than
shark will.
The native fishermen of the West
Indies, who go out at night in small
canoes and fish with lines, have a
salutary horror of the barracuda.
They say that whenever they hook
one and draw it up into the boat it
will spring straight at them and try
to nip off a finger or take a piece of
flesh out OF the body. The truth of
the statement is proved by the fact
that many of these men have lost
fingers or been otherwise mutilated
They always carry a machete in the
canoe, and have it ready to cut
barracuda i'll halves directly one is
hauled out of the water
Nearly all fish belonging to the
important family of the blennies are
dangerous to mankind. They are all
carnivorous and extremely voracious
The worst is the sea wolf" which,
according to the Rev. J. G. Wood,
distinguished authority, attains a
length of six or seven feet off the
British coasts and much greater di-
mansions in the northern seas.
II the sea wolf is taken in net
and drawn into a boat it will tear
the net to pieces with its terrible
teeth, which are not only placed in the
jaws, but also arranged in a double
band on the palate 1t attacks the
fishermen with such ferocity that they
usually stun it before pulling it
aboard.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
BY ELEANOR LEXINGTON.

~ RAFT is a name derived from
- the Latin pratum-a meadow.
Plat has the same meaning,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26
RAILWAY FATALITIES.

One does not get much of an idea
from the news columns of the press of
the number and casualty lists of rail-
way accidents in the United States.
When passengers and trainmen are
killed the railroad enjoins silence upon
all its employees. If the accident hap
pens at a distance from cities, reporters
are not promptly at hand; if close to
cities they are met by a conspiracy OF
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26
PEARSON KEPT
OUT OF SIGH

The Cali says: Henry H. Pearson
formerly of this city, but later a resi-
dent of Salt Lake, where he figured
as the principal in sensational muir
der trial in 1887. was among the pas
sengers who arrived from the Orient
yesterday on the steamship China.
When the China arrived at Honolulu
Highson was on hand with two Terri
torial officers with authority to arrest
Pearson.
The latter, however, learned of the
plan to take him off the vessel and
succeeded in eluding the officers by
slowing himself away until the China
had proceeded on her. course.
Arriving here yesterday and appar-
emily fearing that he might be sub
jected to further notoriety, Pearson Sc
cured the services of tug, which con-
veyed himself and wife ashore in adj
vance of the other passengers. On
reaching the wharf the couple were
driven Immediately to the ST. Francis
Hotel, where they locked themselves
in their rooms and sent word to the
Office that they would not receive any
one. During the evening in response
to a call from newspaper representa-
tiyes Mrs Pearson said her husband
had retired for the night and would
not sse any callers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26
POLICE GRAFT.

And now II. NJ Dow is under arrest
Ter leaning out bail money to the
members of the Police force. The rate
of interest is said to be nsurious and
contrary to law: the diversion Of public
money for such purposes is also nm
lawful. Mr.. Dow is understood to make
the defence that Deputy Auditor Mey-
ers told him that the bail money was
not a Government realization and that
STr Dow could do with it what his
sudgment dictated. AS Mr.. Meyers Is
absent from this island now the point
cannot be referred to him; but In any
event there is no excuse for Mr.. Dow
who ignored or eva6ed a plain law.
The arrest Of Mr.. Mossman for en-
bezzlement also took place last night.
People are beginning to see what the
Advertiser meant when it referred,
some days ago, to "the bullying appear
ance of the Governors sleeve" Carriers
summary courses, like those Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt in the postoffice affair
are pelng 3usuneo py the leseeS- -'oA
has the whole story been told. Daily
for weeks Detective Halter made
written report to the Governor OF
things strongly duplicating the police
and If this report ever sees the light
as 1t may through the Grand Jury, Il
viii show that the Governor acted none
too soon. Then if Hatter's story is put
with the actual tale of the Ten Dollar
Club, it win establish the fact thai
the most highly organized and uneon,
scionable graft in all Hawaii was dis
guised in uniform and decorated will
a star.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26

Jack Kalakiela, for many years a
clerk in the receiving office at the
Police Station, was yesterday promoted
by High Sheriff Henry to the position
of Police Court clerk, vice Dan Renear
resigned.
The new appointee is a Hawaiian,
who has been studying law for several
years. He has been a favorite clerk at
the station, and has a large coterie
of friends. He is. active in Republican
politics in the Fifth District.
Robert Parker, Jr., son of Senior
Captain Parker. viii succeed to the
vacant cIerkship in the receiving Office.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26

A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND
is exactly what Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy is. It is the
mothers help when she is suddenly
awakened in the night by the ominous
husky cough, and labored breathing OF
her babe. Tt is the safe resort of the
youth or adult when he has caught
cold" and there is coughing and irrita-
ton, of the mucous membranes of the
throat. It allays the irritation and
cures the cold. Sold by all dealers.
Benson, Smith & Co.. Ltd. Agents for
Hawaii.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26

silence. Only the disasters that tell
their own story get adequate reporting
and as for the smaller ones. which
count up so fast and add 50 many
deaths to the total, their individual
news value is small The truth how
ever, is known by the INTER State Com
merce Commission and it is with aston
ishment the public will learn on the
authority of the annual report of that
important body, that during 1903 there
were $4,000 casualties including 10000
deaths, on American railroads. Such
figures suggest the vital statistics of a
campaign like that in northern Lao
tong or before Port Arthur.
The reasons given are, first. rapid
and shifty construction of railways and
immense trafic: the fIimsy character
OF passenger coaches as compared with
Pullmans, which usually escape much
harrh in collisions; single track lines
on which many trains run in both
the general rush of siren
uous life" But It is pointed out that,
during the time when 10000 people were1
killed on American railways only six
were killed on the railways of Great
and it is said in explanation
that the severe prosecutions under
British law reaching directors as easily
as trainmen account for the COMPARE
tive immunity enjoyed by the British
travelling public.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26
New Imported Silks
Are Now on Display

With silks the plain quiet most fashion
able this Autumn. There big names of novelties
to talk abou-no wallpaper designs make fuss
But the exquisite coors and the wonderful
suppeness bring visions of gowns ordinarily
charming
iaffetas represent the finest quality of silks brought
ny european manufacturers this and
cnHon tahetas or tateta chifonet They remark
aoy SOFT hnsh IN new changeable effects blacks.
AL guaranteed to wear
we Were fortunate in securing small advance
shipment of the new chiffon taffetas in black and
Gnangeabie colors Italian are ST. yard.
French weaves SIPS.
Among the new soft dress silks are Frasquita in
black at SIPS yard, and Louisne silks for evening
wear at $I-25 per yard
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26

Col. soper is right in saying that
Governor Carter cannot do anything
with an incompetent Legislature. The
moral is to pick out the competent men
to vote for.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26

If the Baltic fleet goes into a panic
when it sees a few fishing boats what
win it do when it sees Togo?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-25
Central of Georgia Railway.
Changes Schedule Sunday, March q

A through train will be established
between Savannah and Augusta, in
creasing the service between these
points to three trains daily.
Leave Savannah daily, S:45 a. M,
800 p. M, 900 p. M. arrive Augusta
daily, lis p. M, 1880 p. M. 6:45 a. m.
Leave Augusta daily, 700 a. M,
1870 p. M, $40 p. m. Arrive Savannah
daily, 1880 a. M, $40 p. m, 700 a.
m.
Trains leaving Savannah 800 p. M,
arriving 11:30 a. M, run through.
Trains leaving Savannah 900 p. M,
arriving 700 a. m, carry through
sleeper.
Trains leaving Savannah 800 p. m.
and arriving 1870 a. M, will connect
at Dover with trains to and from
Dublin.
Train No. 2 daily from Atlanta and
Macon will arrive Savannah 6:10 p.
m.
No. Except Sunday, for Egypt,
will leave Savannah $40 p. M, arrive
Egypt 7:4O p. m.
No. daily will discontinue stop
ping at Paramour Hill. Scarboro and
Ogeechee.
No. daily will discontinue stop
ping at Pooler, Bloomingdale, Eden,
NARROW and Pineora.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-25
PHYSICIANS ANSWER
SUIT FOR DAMAGES.
Aver That CasOn's Injuries Were
Not Caused by Negligence.

Aver That CasOn's Injuries Were
Not Caused by Negligence.
With the clerk of the United States
court yesterday DR.. George l.. Smith
and DR.. Leonidas p. Lane filed their
answer to the damage suit brought
against them by John M. Cason. The
answer was filed through the respond
ents attorneys. Garrard & Meldrim.
In their answer the physicians ad-
NIT that Cason was badly injured, his
legs sustaining simple and compound
fractures, and that he was placed I'M
der their treatment. They deny, how
ever, that there was any lack of skill
in their treatment or any negligence,
or that any pieces of bone, or dead
bone. were allowed to remain in the
flesh. Every possible aid, they claim,
was extended to the plaintiff.
In reply to the statement of the
plaintiff that from the many times he
was given morphine by the attending
physicians he contracted the morphine
habit, the defendants admit that he
was given morphine to allay the pain,
but deny that from this he contracted
the habit. His sufferings, they aver,
were but the natural result of his in
juries, and were not due to lack of
skill, or negligence, or malpractice on
their part.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-25
MAN WANTED FOR
MURDER, UNDER ARREST
Negro Who Shot Another in Charles
ton Caught Here.

Negro Who Shot Another in Charles
ton Caught Here.
On a charge of murder, Scipio Jen-
kins, a negro, was arrested yesterday
by Patrolman McCabe, of the Ocean
Steamship force.
The killing for which jenkins was
arrested took place near Charleston
last Saturday, and was the outcome of
card game. The superintendent of
police has received a telegram from
Charleston, asking that Jenkins be held,
as an officer will be sent for him at
once.
Jenkins admits shooting the negro In
Charleston, though he says he did not
know whether he had killed him or not.
According to his statement, he had been
playing in a skin game for some time
and had lost all his money, but 10
cents. The other negro picked this up
off the table, he says, and refused to
give it up.
dime did not belong to him, jenkins
states, but he kept it. He stepped to-
wards him to make him give it up,
Jenkins says, when the other negro
put his hand in his pocket. jenkins
then pulled his pistol and fired. He
says when the man was struck he
turned around and walked out of the
house, and that he followed him. AS
the yard was reached, the man fell
and Jenkins left the scene at once.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-25
ABOUT TEN THOUSAND
DOLLARS INVOLVED
In Bank Cases Before the Board of
Tax Assessors.

In Bank Cases Before the Board of
Tax Assessors.
No decision has been reached by the
Board of Tax Assessors in the banking
cases that were heard Tuesday, when
representatives of the banks appeared
before the board to protest against the
taxing of real estate held by the banks.
1t is claimed by the bank officials
that as their capital stock is taxed,
real estate holdings should be relieved.
A decision viii probably be rendered
by the assessors this week. The banks
have always heretofore been made to
pay on their real estate, and there is
no reason to suppose that the Tax AS
SCISSORS will change this custom.
The sum involved for the city
amounts to not quite $4,000 in taxes.
All the real estate holdings of Savan-
nah banks are assessed at something
over 100000. The taxes on it will
amount TO less than 100000. Should the
assessors decide that the banks are
not liable, the city would lose that
amount.