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LEFT GOLIATH 357 GOMEZ are 19 shapes of clubs, but six are usu- ally sufficient for a man's needs. The different clubs are used under different circumstances; for example, a putter for playing short strokes on the putting green; a cleek for drives; the driving iron when it is advisable to make a long drive, lifting the ball moderately high, the lifting iron when it is required to pitch the ball very high; the niblic for raising a ball out of ruts; the driver for long drives from a tee. GOLIATH (go-ll'ath), a giant of Gath slain by David (1 Sam. xvii.). His height was ''six cubits and a span," which, taking the cubit at 21 inches, would make him a little over 11 feet. The Septuagint and Josephus read, "four cubits and a span." GOLIATH BEETLE (GoUathus), a genus of tropical lamellicorn beetles, in the subfamily Cetoniidm. They are dis- tinguished by their large size, by the horny processes on the heads of the males, and by the toothed lower jaws or maxillaa. Several species frequent tropi- cal and south Africa, and related genera occur in tropical Asia. The male of the largest form, G. druryi, from the Gold Coast, measures about four inches in length. In color, as well as size, these goliaths and their relatives are splendid insects. The family Cetoniidse is famil- iarly represented in Europe and Great Britain by the rosechafer {Cetonia aurata) . GOLITZINE, NICHOLAS, PRINCE, a Russian statesman, member of an il- lustrious Russian noble family, born in Wiesbaden, Prussia. He was known as one of the most reactionary supporters of the Czarist Government. In the fall of 1916, when the Duma demanded a more responsible form of government, Trepoff, then Premier, was forced to re- sign, and was succeeded by Golitzine as Premier. Golitzine, however, played en- tirely a subordinate part to that of the Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, the latter being responsible for the activities of the Cabinet, which finally led to the revolution of March, 1917. GOLOMYNKA {Comephoma or Cal- lionymus baikalensis), a remarkable fish, found only in Lake Baikal, the only known species of its genus. It is about a foot long, is destitute of scales, and is very soft, its whole substance abound- ing in oil, which is obtained from it by pressui'e. GOLT-SCHUT, a name colloquially used for a small ingot of gold. Also an itzcbu; a silver coin in Japan, worth 44 cents. GOLTZ, KOLMAR, BARON VON DER, a German soldier, born in Bielken- feld. East Prussia, and educated in the Military Academy in Berlin. He saw his first military service in the war between Austria and Prussia in 1866 and also participated in the Franco-Prussian War, after which he was appointed instructor in the Berlin Military Academy. In 1883 he entered the service of the Turkish Government as chief of military educa- tion, in which position he continued un- til 1896. After this he re-entered the German military service, becoming a lieutenant-general in 1908, when he again went to Turkey to superintend the re- organization of the Turkish Army. When the World War broke out, in 1914, he was back in Germany, and, after the German invasion of Belgium, was appointed military governor of the con- quered territory, but in November, 1914, he was sent back to Turkey, where he was appointed military commandant of the capital and acting Minister of War. He was chiefly responsible for the ex- cellent defenses erected on the Gallipoli Peninsula and the defeat of the Allied expedition there. In April, 1915, he suc- ceeded Simon von Sanders as chief of the First Turkish Army. GOMATO (go-mii'to), or GOMUTI (go-mo'te) PALM, the Saguenis sac- cliarifier, or Areng, a species of trees found in the Moluccas and Philippines, which supplies abundance of sugar. Palm sugar is generally obtained from the juice which flows from different palms on wounding their spathes and ad- jacent parts. It is commonly known in India by the name of jaggery. The juice of the gomuti palm, when fermented, pro- duces an intoxicating liquid or toddy. In Sumatra it is termed neva, and a kind of arrak is distilled from it in Batavia. From the trunk of this palm, when ex- hausted of its saccharine juice, a good deal of our commercial sago is obtained. A single tree will yield from 150 to 200 pounds of sago. The stiff strong fiber known under the name of gommuti, or ejow fiber, is obtained from the leaf- stalks, and is extensively used in the manufacture of cables and various kinds of ro,je. GOMERA, one of the Canary Islands. GOMEZ, JOSE MIGUEL, a Cuban soldier and politician, born in the prov- ince of Santa Clara in 1846. He served during the Ten Years' War from 1868 to 1879 aiid took an active part in the revo- lution of 1905, rising to the rank of major-general. He was governor of the province of Santa Clara during the_ First American Intervention and served in the