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IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
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GEORGIA.
Covington will soon have a telephone ex
change in operation.
Dr. Samuel H. Freeman, widely known
physician of that section, died at his home,
six miles east of Lawreneeville, near Do
cula, Wednesday.
There are 61,336 members in the Metho
dist church, composing the South Georgia
conference. There are 387 Sunday schools,
with a membership of 35,879.
Ground has been broken for the new jail
of Fulton county. According to the terms
of the contract, the Jail must be com
pleted by the first of next January.
Petitions are being circulated at Ameri
cus asking Gov. Atkinson to commute the
death sentence of Sam Grant to life im
prisonment. Grant is sentenced to hang
on Jan. 29.
The city election at Abbeville Wednes
day resulted as follows: J. R. Monroe,
mayor; council—Will Sommers, T. B. Hol
ton, A. T. Baker. W. H. Dick, E. A. Moody
and Dr. J. R. Smith.
The municipal race In McDonough Wed
nesday was lively and good natured.
Thomas E. Sutton was elected mayor and
W. A. Simpson, J. F. M. Fields, E. M.
Copeland, A. C. Sowell, W. R. Rivers and
Joel Bankston were elected as aldermen.
Rome Tribune: Simon Borg, who bought
the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus
railway, said, in discussing the outlook for
railway Investments In the south, that
there was too much adverse legislation
down here, and it had a tendency to dis
courage capital.
Hundreds of bales of cotton held in ware
houses at Am eric us will be thrown on the
market if the price reaches 7 cents, as is
expected. Farmers who held a large por
tion. of their crops have determined to
close out at that figure. One man has 500
bales, half of which he raised, and will
eell the entire lot at 7 cents.
A young man named Tom Randall was
arrested at Da Grange Wednes
day by order of the marshal
of Eanet. Ala., charged with hav
ing stolen an overcoat and S2OO in money
In that town. The young man denies the
charge and went back with the officer
without & requisition. He says his home
Is in Columbus, Ga., where he has been at
•work with the electric light company.
Cartersvllle Tribune: The constable of
Byram's district sold at public outcry last
week the tombstone from over the grave
of a poor woman, to satisfy an old out
standing fl. fa. Some few present at the
sale made up a small sum (within a few
cents of what the tombstone brought) and
asked that it lie accepted and the tomb
stone be allowed to stand. But the plaint
iff in 11. fa. persisted in having it moved.
Wrlghtsville correspondence Morning
News: After a good deal of talk the bank
Is now a fact. The money lias been paid
in and certified to. Application for a
charter has been made and by Feb. 10 the
bank will be ready for business.—The
Nannie Lou Warthen college is in full
operation with a fine corps of teachers
and a good attendance of pupils.—Wrights
vllle’s new paper, the Record, will make
its appearance next week.
Waycross correspondence Morning
News: E. G. Be Bourveun & Cos. of Jack
sonville have just finished their contract
with the Plant system hospital depart
ment in putting in the new general em
ployes hospital in this city a complete
system of electric bells and electric lights.
The work was begun Monday afternoon,
and Mr. Be Bourvean superintended the
work himself. This company also furn
ished the electric fittings for the new un
ion passenger station in Jacksonville, and
the branch hospital of the Plant system
at High Springs.
A special train left Wadley at 4 o'clock.
Tuesday morning over the Wadley and
Mount Vernon railway with a party of 300
dove hunters. When the shooting was
over and the count made, it was ascer
tained that 2,000 birds had been bagged,
besides leaving a large number in the field.
G. D. Tyson, the manager of the road, had
a 700-acre field well baited and arranged
the programme for the hunt. A number of
men from Millen, Eouisville, Macon, Sa
vannah and Atlanta were among the
crowd. President H. M. Comer and sever
al other gentlemen connected with the
Central railway remained at Hodo a day
or two to hunt. Mr. Comer's private car
being side tracked there.
Mrs. S. J. Purtell of Atlanta has filed a
cult asking that she be appointed receiver
of the Mallory-Holcoinbe Plow Company.
She a.so asks for an injunction to prevent
the present managers of the company from
diverting the assets. She charges that she
owns a considerable portion of the stock,
and as she has the ability to look after
the business she is the proper person to bu
receiver. She claims that she obtained a
patent on what is known as the A. R. Mal
lory plow, and she claims that the defend
ants, A. R. Mallory, W. H. Holcombe and
B. J. Boyd will probably dispose of the
patent unless they are restrained. A tem
porary restraining order wns granted and
the hearing set for Jan. 27.
The Moore & Marsh building at Atlanta
was not sold Wednesday, as first report
ed. It was bid In by Charles A. Conklin
for the owners. E. W. Marsh and the
heirs of the late William A. Moore, who
was a partner in the firm of Moore &
Marsh. Some of the heirs to the Moore
estate are dissatisfied with the action of
the executors In buying in the property
and they will be settled with by the others,
leaving the property In the hands of B.
W. Ylarsu and those of the heirs who are
satisfied. Nothing will be done with the
building for the present. The executors
have letters from a Chicago firm looking
to opening negotiations for the property.
This firm has one of the largest depart
ment stores In the world in Chicago, and
another In New York. It is the Intention
of the firm, should they get possession of
the property to use the building for a de
partment store.
The county commissioners of Floyd conn,
ty and anerin Mcconneu uo not agree gs t Q
the amount the latter ought to receive as
compensation for his labors. The sheriff
has been allowed for soma years $2.13 for
each prisoner conducted to the court room,
und the same amount when the prisoner
Is carried back to his confinement. Th
present board claims the county has no
authority under the law to pay these fees,
holding that they ought to be charged to
the defendant If convicted, and when the
prisoner Is not able to pay the line, the
cost, the law says, is put upon the insol
vent list. The sheriff claims this view of
the matter Is unjust ami contrary to both
precedent and law. The commissioners
also contend that the sheriff has unne
cessarily brought prisoners to the court
house and conveyed them tiack to Jui! sev
eral times during one day, and the county
Is not liable even under ft very broad coti
setruction of tho statute relative 'a ueh
matters. Sheriff McConnell conten is it is
necessary to have so many prisoners in
court all the time, and he carried out the
court's orders He denies they were con
veyed back and forth for the purp.se of
making fees out of the county. He has
filed a hill aggregating over STaO against
the county for general ex|>en,ses of the Jail.
The commissioners have demanded a spe
cific statement of each expenditure con
nected with the Jail before they will order
the fee bill paid. In other words, they have
declined to pay tht hill as it stands. The
sheriff claims the amount I* not exhorbi
tant at ail ano alleges there are other items
which he did not place in tlie bill, prefer
ring to make the amount as small as pos
sible.
FLORIDA.
Tarpon Springs now has a brass band.
In DoLand most every one is banking
his orange trees with straw.
The board of county commissioners of
Franklin county have appointed an In
spector of oysters.
The Episcopalians are holding the con
vocation of the missionary Jurisdiction of
Southern Florida at Tampa this week.
.Mr. Wall, at Seaside, near Tarpon
Springs, has made walks of marl found on
his land, which become as hard and as
durable as stone.
During the period from March 1, 1890, to
Jan. C, 181*7. there were fifly-four inter
ments at the Orlando cemetery, twenty
four whites and thirty Colored.
B. F. Moody of Gulf City estimates that
he now has 50,000 barrels of oysters In fine
condition on his cultivated bar at the
mouth of the Dlttle Manatee river.
Rev. D. W. Humphreys, after serving
the Presbyterian church in Hake City as
pastor for twelve years, has resigned. De
clining years and feeble health is the main
cause.
Cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, and to
matoes are being shipped Steadily from
Deeburg. The first carload of cabbage
that will leave Florida this season will
probably feave there some time next week.
Mrs. VanDeusen, who was severely In
jured at St. Augustine Monday by an ac
cidental blow from a golf stick in the
hands of her husband is out of danger.
Twenty bits of fractured bone were re
moved from her skull.immediately left of
the left ear.
The government lands in Dade county
that are open for homestead entry are be
ing taken rapidly. Many settlers have
passed through Miami recently to look
for locations. Many of the mechanics, who
have been employed at Miami during the
summer, have settled on these lands.
The making up of the sugar crop on the
St. Cloud farm at Kissimmee was com
pleted and the mill closed down Friday.
The mill has been In operation about sev
en weeks and has kept about 300 fnen em
ployed during the time. The sugar crop
will amount to about 1,100,000 pounds of
raw sugar, a portion of which has already
been shipgied north to be refined.
Madison Correspondent Morning News:
Miss Annie A. Putnam and H. F. Ander
son were married here Monday. Rev. Dr.
Mickel of the Presbyterian church officiat
ing. The bride is a descendant, on her
mother's side, of George Washington, and
on her father’s, to Israel Putnam. The
ceremony took place at noon at the fam
ily residence, and the happy oouple im
mediately left for their future home in
Washington, Ga„ where the bridegroom
resides.
The case of the United States vs. Joseph
S. Price and A. M. Jngersoli, a suit in
which the defendants are charged with
cutting timber on government land In Clay
county, was taken up In the United States
court at Jacksonville Thursday morning.
The timber which Price and Ingorsoll are
charged with cutting during the years 1895
and 1896 was 360 pine trees in Clay county.
The case was tried before a Jury, which
rendered a verdict in favor of the govern
ment for $360 and interest at the rate of
8 per cent, from June 4, 1896.
Jacksonville Times Union: Harry Berry,
formerly a clerk at the Travelers* hotel,
was brought to this city Thursday night
by Sheriff J. W. Hagan of Putnam coun
ty, who had arrested him on a message
from Sheriff Broward of the county. Ber
ry Is charged with stealing a watch from
Mrs. Maggie Finley, proprietoress of the
Travelers' hotel. The watch had been left
at the hotel by a guest in payment for
board. A week ago last Wednesday Berry
loft town, taking the watch with him. He
went to Crescent City where he stayed lor
two days. He returned to the city and
sent a note to Mrs. Finley, saying that
he would call in a Jay or two and settle
for the watch. Mrs. Finley waited pa
tiently. hut Berry failed to appear. Mon
day Mrs. Finley decided that Berry did
not Intend to make a settlement of *he
matter, so she went before Justice Wil
lard and swore out a warrant against
Berry, charging him with the larceny of
the watch, which she valued at $3O. Sher
iff Broward, hearing that Berry was in
Crescent City, wrote to Sheriff Hagan and
requested him to arrest Berry. The arrest
was made Thursday and Berry was
brought to this city and locked up in the
•county jail.
THIS W \S IN ATLANTA.
The Native Was Not Fall of Informa
tion anil lliiln't Know Too Mneh.
From the Calhoun Times.
The newly arrived stranger in Atlanta
started up Whitehall street in search of
Information. On the corner of Alabama
street he encountered a tall, yellow-faced
Individual in a droopy coat and soiled tie.
"My good sir,” said the stranger. ‘T am
In search of Information concerning this
great state of Georgia and fell sure that
you can assist me very materially. What
Is your population?”
"Dunr.o."
"What kind of school system have you
here?”
“Dunno.”
“How about your tax rate?”
"Dunno.”
“Is your government friendly or un
friendly to manufacturing eorpotatlons?”
"Dunno.”
“Let's see—how does Georgia rank
among the other states of the south in
Its agricultural products?”
“Dunno.”
"Ah, you don't live here, then?”
"Yaas.”
"What do you do?”
"Oh. I'm Jest a member of the legisla-
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THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JANUARY in, 1897.
Mr. J. P. Utley, of Mt. Vernon, In
terviewed by a Reporter.
IE TELLS OF HIS SUFFERINGS
WITH TROUBLE OF THE STS&fiGH.
Row He Fought it for Years—Physicians Tried to
Cure Him but Failed — Finally He Discov
ers a Remedy and is Cured.
From the ffun, iff. Dnton, Ind.
Mr. J. P. Utley, aged sixty-four years,
whose post-office address is Mt. Vernon, Ind.,
has been a resident of Posey County for forty
eight years, and is one of Posey County’s
most prominent and prosperous farmers. Mr.
Utley lives in Lynn township, about seven
miles northeast of this city, and he desires to
speak through the columns of the Ann a few
\
words in behalf of a famous remedy for dis
eases of the Wood, so that his many friends
may profit by an experience which he had.
Haul Mr. Utley a few days ugo to a reporter:
"Several years ago T began to suffer with
some kind of stomach trouble. My food did
not seem to agree with me and I was unable
to do any farm work. Food that I ate at
times caused severe pains and cramps in my
stomach and would cause it to swell. I at
first began to doctor with a physician who
was traveling through the country, but he
did me no good. I then went to Mt. Vernon
and consulted one of the best physicians in
the city who pronounced my case abscess of
the liver,and began to treat me by first blister,
ing my right side aud back. He then gave
me one or two different kinds of medicine all
of which afforded me but temporary relief.
After doctoring with him for five or six
months without receiving any permanent
benefit, I tried two other physicians with the
same result.
"A year ago last February, I was con
fined to my bed and suffered one of the
worst attacks I had ever had, and while
doctoring with one of the aforesaid doctors,
I read in a paper of the wonderful curea that
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
were accomplishing and the testimonials of
people who had taken them and been re
stored to health, so I decided as soon as 1
was able to get to town, 1 would buy a box
and try them.
LIRE THE IILACK DEATH.
Tlie Plngne In India Resembles the
Medieval Scourge.
From the New York Sun.
The black death, which devastated Eu
rope in the middle ages, had several symp
toms in common with the plague now rag
ing in India. Swellings in the groin were
an especial feature, and it was distinct
ively a bubonic plague. It first appeared
in China about 1345, and, in the course of
the following year, spread over India and
Asia, and reached Egypt. Caravans were
the principal instruments of its communi
cation from one country to another. Ships
carried the contagion from the caravans,
when they reached the sea coast, to Con
stantinople and other Mediterranean ports.
The plague was also brought to Constan
t.nople from the northern coast of the
liluck sea, after it had depopulated the
countries through which the routes ot
commerce passed, and it appeared as eariy
as 1317 In Cybrus, Sicily, Marseille* and
some of the Italian seaports. The follow
ing ye.tr it appeared in Avignon, and other
cities in the South of France, from which
it spread to the North of Italy and to
Spain.
After sprendtng over France and Ger
many, the black death finally resulted
England in August, 1345, eight moat tvs af
ter its appearance lu Avignon. It did not
reach Sweden until November of the suc
ceeding year, and llussla was exemptt un
til 1351, more than three years fruan ita
tirst appearance In Constantinople. Russia
apparently was infected from the west,
after the pestilence, which had its origi
nal European focus on the lilack sea, had
made the circuit of Europe.
The mortality due to the Hlack Denth Is
almost inconceivable. More than 13,000,000
of people are sail to have died in China,
and the deaths In the rest of Asia wvre re
ported to Rope Clement at Avignon to
have numbered 33,tM*MWO. Parts <if India
were actually depopulated, as they bid fair
to be now. None was left alive In Cara
munla and Caesarea. Tartary, Mesopo
tamia. Syria, and Armenia and other As
iatic countries are described as being cov
ered with dead bodies. Five hundred died
dally In Aleppo, and 22,000 people and most
of the animals (lied in six weeks In Gaza,
Cairo lost daily, when the pestilence was
at lln height, from 10,000 to 15,0u0.
Following are figures given in a trealise
on the Itiaek Death by Dr. J. F. O. Meeker
of Derlln. an acknowledged aiuhority, of
the mortality Ui a number of European
cities:
Florence 00,000
Venice 100,000
Marseilles, in one month lti.uoo
Siena 10,300
Curts ' lio.ouo
St. Denys H.llOo
Avignon 50,000
Strasbourg lfi.ouo
l.ubcck 1 0,000
Basle it.noo
Erfurt, at least 10.000
Weimar 5,000
Limburg 2,600
“ In a few weeks I was able to go out and
accordingly went to W H. Fogns'drug "•ore
and procured n box of Pink Pills which I
took home. On my way home 1 began to
study about taking the pills, and became
afraid to try them, as I bail taken other
patent, medicines and been doctoring with
first-class physicians, so I laid the box away
where it stayed until lust September. I
then began to take one after each meal.
The third day after I had been taking them
food began to smell good to me I began to
feel better and relish my food, and strangn
to say it agreed with me which was some,
thing I had not experienced during my thre*
years illness.
“After taking five boxes of the pills I now !
feel entirely well and am not bothered with
my old trouble at all, my only trouble now,
is. that my stoipach is not big enough to hola
what I desire to eat. I am also able to da
as much work as any man of my age.
“ Since I h*e received permanent relief
and believe myself cured I have recom*
mended the Pilfa to.a number of my friends.
This is the first proprietary medicine I ever
recommended in my life, but 1 am happy to
do it if it will help any sufferer to regain
health and bodily activity.
“ I occasionally take some of the pills, but !
not regularly. It is said the pills are stimu- j
luting, but I cannot say that they give mo '
any such sensations that I am aware of.
They merely cure aud that is enough.
[Signed] “J. p. Utley.”
Subscribed and sworn to before me thin
Bth day of August, 1896.
John B. Davis,
Justice oj the Peace.
The Sad Condition of One of Indiana's
Fair Noting Ladles.
From the AVu t, Indianapolis. Ind
Probably one of the most direct, as well
as extraordinary cases where Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills was the immediate cause of effect*
ing a permanent cure of complete nervous
prostration, is that of Miss Pearl Hosier,
who lives in the country with her grand*
mother, Mrs. Michael Crull, ten miles west
of Richmond, Ind.
Hearing of the case a reporter visited this
young lady a short time ago and learned the
following facts:
Miss Pearl is nowin her nineteenth year.
Up to the time that she was fifteen she was
well, stout and very hearty. As she developed
into womanhood a slight twitching of the
nerves and muscles of the hands, arms and
iaee were noticed, and rapidly became worse
from day to day. and a disposition was shown
to avoid all company, and she became mel.
ancholy.
The best medical advice was obtained and
she was treated by two physicians, both oi
whom failed in giving her any relief.
It was while the disease was at its worst
that her father came across a notice in one
of the paper* of the curative powers o i
the Pink I’iils for Pale People, and he at
once procured a box for his daughter and
had her brought home. The results were
almost immediately effectual to the great
joy of Miss Hosier’s friends and relative*
and the astonishment of everybody, all of
whom are happy in testifying fo'the same.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain all the
elements necessary to give new life and rich,
ness to the blood and restore shattered nerves.
They are for sale by all druggists, or may be
had by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicin*
Company, Schenectady. N. Y., for 50c. pel
box, or six boxes for
London, at least 100,000
Norwich 61,100
To which may be added—
Franciscan Friars in German* ....124,434
Minorities in Italy 30,000
Dr Meeker goes on to say:
“This short catalogue might, by a la
borious and uncertain calculation, deduced
from other sources, be easily further mul
tiplied, but would still fail to give a true
picture of the depopulation which took
place. Lubeck, at that time the Venice
of the north, which could no longer con
tain the multitudes which flocked to It,
was thrown into such consternation on
the eruption of the plague that the citi
zens destroyed themselves as if In frenzy.
Merchants whose earnings and isse
'sions were unbounded, coldly and willing
ly renounced their earthly goods. They
carried their treasures to monasteries and
churches and laid them at the foot of
the altar; but gold had no charm for the
monks, for it brought them death. They
shut their gates; yet, still it was cast to
them over ihe convent walls. People
would hrooke no impedient to tbe last
pious work to which they were driven by
despair. When the plague eeaseid men
thought they were still wandering among
the dead, so appalling was the livid aspect
of the survivors, In consequence of the
anxiety they had undergone, and the un
avoidable infection of the air. Many
other cities probably presented a similar
appearance, and it Is ascertained that a
great number of small country towns
and villages, which have been estimated,
and not too highly, at 2UO,(X, were bereft
of all their Inhabitants.
“In many places of France not moire
than two out of twenty of the inhabitauts
were left alive, and the capital felt the
fury of the plague, alike In the palace and
the cot. Two queens, one bishop and
great numbers of other distinguished
persons fell a sacrlflee to It, and more
than GOO a day died In the Hotel Pteu. un
der the faithful care of the religious wo
men, whose disinterested courage. In this
age of horror, displayed the most beauti
ful traits of human virtue. For although
they lost their lives, evidently from con
tagion, and their numbers were several
times renewed, there was still no want of
fresh candidates, who. strangers to the
un-4'hristian fear of death, piously de
voted themselves to their holy calling.
"The church yards were soon unable to
contain the dead, and many houses, left
without Inhabitants, fell to ruins. In Avig
non. the pope found it necessary to conse
crate the Rhone, that bodies might be
thrown Into the river without delay, as
the church yards would no longer hold
them; so likewise In all populous cities,
extraordinary measures were adopted, In
order to speedily dispose of the dead. In
Vienna, where for some time 1,200 inhab
itants died daily, the Interment of corpses
In the church yards and with
in the churches was forthwith
prohibited. and the dead were
then arranged in layers, by thous
ands, in six large pits outside the city, as
had already been done In Cairo and Paris.
Yet, stilt many were secretly burled, for
at all times the people are attached to the
consecrated cemeteries of their dead, and
will not renounce the customary mode of
Interment. In manj places it was rumored
that plague patients were buried alive, as
may sometimes happen through Kenseh-ss
alarm and indecent taste, and thus the
horror of the distressed pc-ople was every
where increased. In Krfuri, after the
churchyard were filled, 12,QU0 corpses were
thrown into eleven great pits, and the like
might, more or less exactly, lie stated with
respect to ail the larger cities. Funeral
ceremonies, the last consolation of the
survivors were everywhere impracticable.
"In all Germany, according to a proba
ble calculation, there seem to have died
only 1,211,131 inhabitants; this country,
however, was more spared' than others;
Italy, on the contrary, was most severely
visited. It is said to have lost half its in
habitants, and tills account is rendered
credible from the immense losses of Indi
vidual cities and provinces, for In Sardinia
and Corsica, according to the account of
the distinguished Florentine, John Vllianl,
who was himself carried off by the Black
Plague, scarcely a third part of the popu
lation remained alive, and it is related of
the Venetians, that they engaged ships
at a high rate to retreat to the islaftds. so
that after the plague had carried off three
fourths of her Inhabitants that proud city
was left forlorn and desolate."
Two-thirds of the population of Padua
were missing at the cessation of the
plague, says the same authority, and in
Florence the publishing of the mortality
figures and the tolling of bells at funerals
were prohibited so that those yet alive
might not be driven to despair.
Nine-tenths of the population of Eng
land were said to have perished, an es
timate which, although manifestly too
high, none the less indicates the unpar
alleled mortality. A single burial ground
in London contained 50,000 bodies arranged
in layers in large pits. Scotland was free
from the Black Death until the Scots
availed themselves of the misfortune of
the English to make an invasion of their
territory. The Scottish army was almost
destroyed by the plague and the sword,
and the survivors spread the pestilence
through the rest of the country.
The cold of Greenland failed to exempt
It from the Black Death, and the pesti
lence made up for its tardy appearance
In Russia by being unusually destructive.
Dr. Hecker thinks the death of a fourth
part of the population to be a moderate
estimate for the entire continent of Eu
rope. He estimates the population at 100,-
000,000, so that Europe lost through the
Black Death 25,000,000 inhabitants.
The pestilence was followed by remarka
ble fecundity in women; marriages were,
almost without exception, prolific, and
double and treble births were frequent.
GOSSIPS IN A KLI ITER.
NVlfe of Secretary Francis Breaks n
Precedent.
From the Chicago Record.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 7.—Official soci
ety in Washington is all in a turmoil, and
Mrs. Francis, wife of the newly appointed
Secretary of the Interior, is the cause of
It. The row all grows out of a vio.ation
of official etiquette peculiar to Washing
ton, and social gossips are talking them
selves hoarse to-night over the question
as to whether the wife of the Secretary
of the Interior merely made a mistake or
Intended to snub some of the caHers. Ac
cording to the usual rule at the outset of
the social season everybody must call up
on everybody else in official life, etiquette
requiring that persons of subordinate low
er rank shall call first upon those of high
er up. This rule is adhered to very strict
ly, and no senator's wife would think of
calling on the better half of a represent
ative first, while tf course the same rule
holds good as to the departmental social
four hundred.
Everybody, of course, has to call first
upon the cabinet families, and these visi
tations were duly made at the home of
the Secretary of the Interior. The official
etiquette requires that these calls shall be
returned by the wife of the cabinet officer
in person, or at least that she shall make
the rounds in her carriage and have cards
sent in by her footman. The laws of the
Medes and Persians are but a unanimous
consent in the United States Senate as
compared with this social statute.
Society was set in a flutter yesterday by
Mrs. Francis adopting anew system. It
was cabinet day, and of course everybody
who knew anything at all knew that the
wife of the Secretary of the Interior was
necessarily at home holding the usual
formal reception. Nevertheless messen
ger boys in full uniform were sent out on
this particular day distributing her cards
to all those who had called upon her.
There was at once great rage in official
society, and sundry informal caucuses
were held during the evening at which
the proposition was made by some of the
ladies that the cards should be sent back
by mail without further ado. It cannot
be learned that this course was waken by
anybody, but several of the ladles, includ
ing the wives of a number of assistant
secretaries whose official aivd social ranks
are undoubted, declare that they will elim
inate the house of the Secretary of trie
Interior from their list of calls hereafter.
The affair has created no end of talk, and
has resulted in calling attention to the
fact that the only other instance when the
unique manner of returning calls was
adopted was in the case of another St.
Louis woman, the late Mrs. Noble, who
was curiously enough also the wife of the
Secretary of the Interior. Mrs. Noble
did not trust to a messenger boy, but sent
out a man on a bicycle, who distributed
cards upon official and resident society,
and the result was an immediate cold
shoulder similar to that said to be in
preparation for Mrs. Francis.
The only other time when society has
been upset by an infringement of the
strict rule was a couple of years ago, when
Mrs. Calvin Brice attempted to observe
the externals without subjecting herself to
the bother of driving about town. She
sent out Iter carriage empty, but supplied
the footman with a list and a big bunch
of cards which he distributed faithfully
and in fact successfully in many places,
but before his rounds were completed the
fact that Mrs. Brice was not In the car
riage became evident, and there was con
siderable hubbub in consequence.
As Mrs. Francis used a district messen
ger and there was no attempt at deception
some of the society ladies believe that the
affair grew out of Ignorance of the pecu
liar customs of Washington society rather
than a desire to defy them. Whichever
may be true, sympathy seems to be witlf
Mrs. Francis among people not In the so
cial set, for the cabinet ladies arc Imposed
upon constantly by people who call upon
them and expect the calls to hA returned,
when, as a matter of fact, it Is a serious
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on the outside is inclined to think that a
district messenger or a bicycle Is about as
good a means of eomrhunication as even
a tall English footman with a bug in his
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TRICKS WITH THE KINETOSCOPE.
Effects Produced by Heverslng tlie
Film unil Varying the kollon.
From the New York Sun.
An odd experiment with the kinetoscope
took place not long ago In Boston. The
subject was a man eating dinner, and
the film, prepared especially for the occa
sion, was of unusual length, so that the
whole performance could he recorded. The
man entered the room, and, seating him
self at a table, proceeded to cut up the
food. The motion of the fork from the
plate to his lips was carefully recorded un
til the last morsel of food had vanished.
Then he arose and walked out of the room.
The series of pictures was then reversed.
It showed the man entering the room walk
ing backward. He sat down at the table
upon which there was nothing but hare
dishes and proceeded to extract the food
from his lips until he had tilled the potato
dish with potatoes and gradually put to
gether a steak on the platter before him.
Then he calmly hacked out of the room,
and the. waiter did likewise with the meal
that the man had apparently created.
Exhibitors of the cinematograph and
biograph, and all the other “graphs'' and
''scopes” of the same family are missing
a point here in New York which. If prop
erly brought out, would prove to be in
interesting part of the performance. Uhe
principle of these machines affords scope
for a great deal of novelty, especially
when the ribbon or long Him Is reverse'll
and made to run backward, or when the
pictures are produced at Varying speeds.
In the case of the phonograph little
amusement is afforded by reversing the
cylinder, as the result is a conglomeration
of disconnected syllables, but as with the
kinetoscope, a variety of speeds, from very
fast fa very slow, will give interesting re
sults. Take for example, the picture of
Niagara falls, where the foam Is seen to
rise from the water as it falls into th
pool below. Her. the water would as
cend and run back, smoothly over the
brink and disappear in the distance—a be
wildering effect.
Still another novelty might be produced
with the picture of the Empire State Ex
press, which is seen to approach and pa?*
at the rate of nearly sixty miles an hour.
It probably never ran backward as fast
as that, but it could be made to do so
on c anvas. The last car would appear first
in the picture, and finally the engine. th*
whole train vanishing a mile or so down
the track, where, in the true picture, it
first came into view. In a like manner the
sound-money parade might be turned into
a farce, for here the men would be seen
actually walking backward.
The biograph, cinematograph, and oilier
machines of that nature merely show kin
etoscope pictures enlarged by' means of a
stereopticon lens. All the pictures shown
in the theater are of moving objects taken
while the machine itself is at rest; but a
double effect may be produced by having
the machine move too. A good example of
this double effect could be made by plac
ing the machine on the front of a Broad
way cable car and making a trip of sev
eral blocks down Broadway, or, better
still, by taking the curves at Fourteenth
street. This picture thrown on a screen
in a darkened theater while someone
shouted “hold fast" would make a scene
familiar to every New Yorker, as the
view, looking through the front window
of the car, would be naturally depicted. It
is probable that cinematograph and bio
graph operator* have refrained from these
amusing exhitd.lons, as the effect would
not be required to explain the reason for
it.
PAID HIS NARRAGE PENALTY.
A Rnclielor'a Club's Penalty For
Member Ueddiug.
From the Philadelphia Record.
New York, Jan. 10.—Four years ago Hy
man Hein and two do*en of his unmar
ried friends formed the Bachelors’ Club,
whose rules called for twenty-four dress
suits from the first man among them who
married. Even if he should buy tho
clothes at wholesale, he cannot offer his
friends suits at less than SSO each, so at
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Mr. Hein and Miss Emma Jerkoivski
have announced their engagement, and ie
ceived the congratulations of their frien<
this afternoon. The bride-elect is ® alJ
to be worth $250,000,