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HDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notice**—Notice In Regard to
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Treasurer; Bicycles, Hardware, Etc., R.
D. & Wm. Lattimore; It's M an Money,
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the Gem. George C. Schwarz; Van Horn's
Supply Depot; Th* Saturday Night Lunch
a> the Gem; Beckmann's Cafe.
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ry Solomon !fc Son. Southern Agents.
You May Look and You May Hunt for
Bargains—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Steamship Schedules—Baltimore Steam
phi p Company.
Talk About Bargains—M. S. Brown.
Amusements—Sousa and His Band at
Theater Monday Matinee and Night, Jan.
Good, Better, Best, Cheap, Cheaper
Cheapest—Leopold Adler’s Clothing De
partment.
Mineral Water—Hunyadi Janos.
Condensed Milk—Borden's Eagle Brand
Condensed Milk.
Suburban Railway—Savannah. Thunder
bolt and Oily and Suburban Railways.
Beers—Anheuser-Busch Brewing Asso
ciation Beers.
Medical—Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills;
Hood's Sarsaparilla; Cutlcura Remedies;
Erie Medical Company; Dr. Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy; Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral;
S. S. S.; Warner’s Safe Cure.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
That Missouri genius w ho organized and
for months ran a bank without a cent of
money ought to take a flyer into the dig
ging of a canal across the isthmus of
Panama. He ought to be able to do the
Job with the price of a meal ticket.
Some of those who a year or two ago
Were most vehement in their protests
against this country trying any experi
ment in the matter of the currency are
How doing their best to get the country to
try even more dangerous experiments in
the way of annexing colonies and govern
ing races against their will.
Magistrate Pool of New York city has
barred the Bible from his court room, ex
cept as a t>ook of reference or quotation.
He will have no more kissing of the book
by witnesses. He says kissing the Bible
in court serves no purpose further than
to distribute disease germs. Hereafter he
will swear witnesses by making them hold
up their right hands.
Some of the Republicans are making
much of Admiral Dewey's statement that
after many years of wandering he lias
come to the conclusion that the mightiest
factor in the civilization of the world is
the Imperial policy of England. Mean
time, it should not be lost sight of that
Hewey is a fighter, not a statesman, and
that his long wanderings nbout the earth
bave probably dulled his appreciation of
the tenets of the true Americanism.
Representative -Mauldin lias before the
South Carolina Legislature a bill which
will put the dispensary question squarely
to the test. The bill embodies local op
tion, pure and simple. It provides that
each county shall decide for itself whether
liquor shall be sold within its limits, and
If so, under what conditions. Under the
bill each county would make Its own
liquor laws; and there can be l no question
tht-t under such coiulitions the laws would
be obeyed. The bill is a good one. It oi
lers the best, and the only true, solution
of the liquor problem. It is ihe embodi
ment of the principle of local self govern,
incut.
Speaking with reference to the ratifi
cation of the treaty and the policy of ex
pansion, the New York Tribune asks?
‘'Shall the minority die lab ?'• That is
usually the cry when a majority feels that
it is losing ground; that its arguments
ore bring weakened by the onslaughts of
r ‘• son and Justice and truth; that its
adherents are wavering. "Shall the mi
nority dictate?” is one thong of the lash
used to whip weak-kneed or lukewarm
partisans to (he support of the party.
That the cry has been raised
should be a matter of encouragement to
those who are standing for American prin
ciple and precedent.
THIS AGIIEEMEVT \ < OMPKOMISE.
I't s tm: to l*e pretty well understood
th I the agreement to take a vote on
the question of ratifying the treaty on
•
'ldle story is that a committee of Ihe ad
ministration senators went (o the Presi
dent and told him that the outlook for
the ratification of the treaty at this ses
sion of congr. ss was not good unless it
were agree,l that there should lie a vote
taken, prior to a vote on the treaty, on
the question as to whether it is Ihe pur
pose of this government to retain perma
nent possession of the Philippines. There
is no doubt that a majority of the Senate
is In favor of a declaratory resolution to
ihe effect that it is not the intention of
the United States to hold the Philippine
Islands In perpetuity.
It is said the President would much
rather have had the treaty ratified with
out any thing being said as to the inten
tions of this government respecting the
Philippines, but that he did not think the
matter of sufficient importance to justify
an extra session of congress.
Ad a matter of fact, will a declaratory
resolution as to this country's intentions
in the Philippines cut much of a figure
in shaping th. policy of tin government
in respect to those Islands? After the rat
ification of the treaty this administration
will have its policy in respect to the
islands, and the next administration can
continue the same policy or adopt anew
one. If (he Republicans win the next
national election the policy inaugurated
by the McKiniey administration will In
all probability be* continued. If the Dem
ocrats are successful they may have a
different policy.
II looks now as If the tredty would be
ratified when the vote is taken on the
question of its ratification, but it is safe
to say that nothing can be predicted with
any degree of certainty as to the exact
relation which this country will bear to
the Philippines. It is within the bounds
of probability that these islands will be
come a great politcal issue, which will
change party lines to some extent and
push into the background some of the
leading issues of the last presidential con
test. A declaration by the Senate that it
is not our purpose to hold the islands in
perpetuity would settle nothing. But it
would have a soothing effect on the
Filipinos and would tend to lessen the
effect of what the anti-expanionists say
against imperialism.
rHVSES OF QUAY’S CASE.
Interest in the ease of Senator Quay is
growing. It is developing new features
all the time. He does not seem to be
making any progress in his effort to be
re-elected United States senator, and he
appears to be more unwilling than ever
to go to trial on the indictment in which
he Is charged with using the funds of the
state without permission. The McUarrell
bill, which is now pending in the legisla
ture of Pennsylvania, and which his
friends are making extraordinary efforts
to have passed at once, is said to be a
bill in his favor. The bill, as staled In
the Morning N, ws yesterday, provkles that
the prosecuting attorney in state cases
shall not have the privilege which he now
has of requiring jurors to stand aside un
til he makes up his mind as to whether
or not he will accept them. The Philadel
phia papers call it ‘‘a bill to relieve Mr.
Quay.”
It would seem as if such a bill would
have the effect of strengthening the belief
that the senator is guilty of the charge
which has been brought against him. It
is pointed out that the law relative to the
challenging of jurors has been in exist
ence since the organization of the com
monwealth, and that it seems remarkable
that there should be such pressure to
change it now just because a prominent
man like Mr. Quay would stand a better
chance of being acquitted if it were
changed. It was hoped, probably, that the
bill would slip through the legislature
without attracting attention. If there
were those who entertained that hope,
they h ive been disappointed.
Some of Senator Quay's friends are
quoted as saying that the senator does
not want the senatorship, except as a vin
dication, and that he would willingly re
sign immediately after election if that
would satisfy the opposition. It is believ
ed that if he were re-elected United States
senator, it would be difficult to get a Jury
that would convict him on the criminal
charge, because the action of the legisla
ture would lie regarded ns a verdict of
“not guilty” by the people. At present,
however, it doesn't look as if he would be
re-elected. He has not gained any votes
since the balloting began. The opposition
is as firm as when the first ballot on the
senatorship question was taken. His case
promises to lie a celebrated one in the po
litical and criminal history of the state.
•fine house of the Kansas legislature has
passed a bill making it unlawful for resi
de nts of New York. Chicago and other
cities to send cast-off children picked up
in the slums and by-ways to Kansas for
homes. It would probably not be diffi
cult to find certain successful men, who
had thus been sent to Kansas to grow
up with the country, occupying positions
of honor and trust in that state and others.
Gov. Brady of Alaska, as a child, was a
homeless waif In New York city. He was
sent to a farmer in lona by a childten's
aid society. He grew up a good and use
ful man. and went to Alaska as a mis
sionary.
The Democratic Club of New York, of
which Richard Crokor Is the head, is to
lie open to women daily after the second
week in February. It is the common ac
ceptance that whenever Mr. Crokor does
anything, a political motive exists for do
ing it. Has Mr. Croker reached the con
clusion that woman's political influence
is largely on tin* increase, and that it may
not be a great while before she will wield
the ballot on u footing with man? At ail
events, the presence of ladies in the club
rooms wi.l have a rt lining influence upon
the men who gather there.
Most of the expansionist orators in Con
gress seem to have pin the sprinkling noz
zle on to their stream of eloquence.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1899.
WHY SO M %>Y ASSESSORS?
It is Intimated that the incoming city
administration will provide by ordinance
for a board of three assessors, the law
under which the present board was ap
pointed having been abolished.* Mr. Myers
is quoted as being in favor of a board of
three assessors, but he throws out the
suggestion that the salaries of the mem
bers of the )>oard might lie reduced and the
cost of the hoard thus reduced. In another
part of the same interview Mr. Myers is
quoted as saying that it is his purpose to
run the city on business principles, and to
reduce expenses wherever they can be re
duced without injury to the public service.
We cannot tei? ot course-what view of
ihe matter the incoming Council will take,
but it seems to us that if there is a sincere
desire to reduce expenses of running the
city government there is no better oppor
tunity for doing so than is presented by
the board of assessors. About ail of ihe
work of the board is now done by one of
its members. The places held by the other
two members are practically sinecures. For
the greater part of the year their pres
ence at the office of the assessors is not re
quired. The tw*o offices are fat places to
lie bestowed on political favorites.
On (lie first of April the present board
will go out of existence, and there will be
no law authorizing the appointment of
their successors. The slate will be clean,
and the incoming administration will have
it in its power to provide for the assess
ment of projierty for city purposes at less
than half the cost of the assessment at
Ihe present time. One capable man can
do the work as well as it is being done
now, anil in addition attend to the duties
of the office. If it is thought advisable to
have the judgment of more than one as
sessor, when real estate and stocks of
goods are being assessed, the services of
two good men can be obtained for a couple
of weeks at a reasonable per diem com
pensation.
Mr. Myers is quoted as saying that theie
may be some offices which are unnecessary
and some employes whoso services can he
dispensed with. We have no doubt that
there are, and as the Incoming administra
tion is not pledged to provide for any one.
and is under no obligation lo any individ
ual or faction, there will never he a lietter
time than the present for the city to get
on a thoroughly business basis.
It is a fact that the rate of taxation is
altogether too high, especially as assess
ments in some instances are above the
market value of (he property and in most
eases fully up to what the property would
bring al either public or private sale. If
the city is to prosper as it should there
must be a lifting of some of the tax
burden. The great cost of living here is
due io a large extent to the high tax rate.
Cut down the tax burden and there will be
much more encouragement here for the
establishment of enterprises of one kind
and another.
One assessor, with the kind of assistance
which we have suggested, can do the as
sessment work, and do it as well Why
then should there be a board of three as
sessors ?
THE AUGUSTA STRIKE.
We are not well enough acquainted with
the various features of the strike in the
Augusta mills which has just ended to ex
press an opinion as to the merits of it,
but we are heartily glad that it is ended.
The operatives have lost a large sum in
wages and the mill owners made nothing
while their plants were idle. It is to be re
gretted that some way cannot be devised
for the settlement of differences between
employers and employes without resorting
■to strikes and lockouts.
In a general way we know that the mil)
owners said that they were not making
any money and could not afford to pay
the scale of wages in force. The opei
atives thought that they were being paid
little enough and believed that the mills
were doing very well. If mill owners were
disposed to be satisfied with what fair
minded men would say were reasonable
profits, and if operatives were willing to
let mill owners have such a profit, there*
would probably not be any difficulty in
reaching an agreement as to the wages
that should be paid. The difficulty in the
way of such an adjustment seems to lie
that the operatives are not wilflng to ac
cept the statements of the mill owners
as to the earnings of the mills, and the
mill owners are not willing to increase
wages when business is in a more than
usually prosperous condition. If a slid
ing scale of wages could be agreed upon
dependent upon the earnings of the mills,
and the operatives could be made satisfied
as to what the earnings actually were,
there would lie a basis for harmonious
action between the mill owners and mill
operatives. Somehow or other, however,
it seems about impossible to reach any
such basis, and it is probable, Iherefore,
that settlements of differences will have
lo continue to be reached through strikes
and lockouts.
The country is anxiously awaiting some
further statement from Representative
Newlands, the gentleman who was not
elected to represent Nevada In the Senate
as successor to William M. Stewart. Mr
Newlands said in a statement to the pub
lic the other day that his failure and
Stewart's success was a victory for the
Southern Pacific Railroad. How can that
be? For. is not the Southern Pacific one
of those "money devils” that old man
Stewart has been fighting for the last
twenty years or more; and what interest
cculd a "money devil” possibly have in
the reiteration of the story of the crime
of '7B?
A Tennessee legislator wishes It made
Into law that every package of patent or
proprietary medicine shall have its for
mula. duly attested, printed plainly upon
the wrapper. That is to say, he wishes
every valuable secret possessed by a man
ufacturing druggist to be made public,
under penalty of the law. At the same
time, it is perfectly safe to say that if
anybody should suggest that the law
force from the man who introduced the
bill every valuable secret which lie might
chance to possess, he would cry out ve
hemently against the outrageous tyrauny.
Female nurses will probably be regular
ly connected with the army service here
after, notwithstanding the objection of
Gen. Shatter and other high officers to
them. A bill is before the Senate provid
ing that there shall be employed one fe
male nurse for every 200 men in the army,
and that the nurses shall receive S4O per
month. All nurses employed are to be
graduates of a training school of recog
nized standing.
Several mysterious stories are afloat re
secting the Keeley motor mystery. One
is that those fine hollow wires were thrown
away as junk fifteen years ago, and
that the steel cylinder under the floor had
nothing whatever to do with the motor.
Another is that Richard Croker of New
York knows a great deal about Keeley’s
iiecret, and may take hold of a company
organized for the purpose of bringing it to
perfection.
PERSON AI..
—Rev. John R. Hyres, a missionary,who
was sent to Manila by the American Bible
Society, writes to the society that he has
had an interview with Aguinaldo, who de
chares he is a Protestant.
—The Prince of Wales is a colonel of
thirteen British regiuents, the Duke of
Connaught eight, the Duk** of York throe
and the Duke of Cambridge eight. These
of course, include regulars, volunteers and
yeomanry, and most of the positions are
honorary.
—The funeral of Mrs. Norah Finnegan,
w'ho died at Wichita, Kan., last week at
the age of 101 years was a remarkable cer
emouy. Six sons of the deceased, the old
est of whom was 81 years of age, acted as
pallbearers. On leaving the church these
six sons W'ere replaced by six grown
grandchrildren who lowered th‘ body in*
to the grave.
—Mrs. Fuller, wife of the chief justice,
is in delicate health and will not partici
pate in social functions this year. Mrs.
Aubrey, who is more socially inclined than
the other daughters of the chief justice,
sailed last week for Germany, where she
will pursue art studies. Miss. Jane Fuller,
the prospective bride of Nathaniel Francis,
is spending the last days of her girlhood
in complete seclusion.
The “Grant Family Association” has
been formed, with Ulysses S. Grant of San
Diego, Cal., as president; Rev. Dr. Roland
D. Grant of Concord, N. H., as first vice
president; Dr. Thomas D. Grant of Louis
ville, Ky., as second vice president; Frank
Grant of Westfield, Mass., as secretary
and treasurer; Rev. Arthur H. Grant of
Montclair, N. J.. as recorder. The associa
tion comprises descendants of Matthew
Grant of Windsor, Conn., and in that
town biennial reunions are to be held, the
first on Oct. 27 next.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Old Lady (to policeman at the corner)—
“I want the Bank of England.” Polite Po
liceman— .“I’m afraid I can’t let you have
it, mum.”—Tit-Bits.
—Mrs. Murray—“ Give me tin cints wort
av ham.” Grocer—“ Sugar-cured madam?”
Mrs. Murray—“No I want some thot has
nivir bin disazed.” —Judge.
—Uncle Hiram—“ They say that the sun
never sets on the British Empire.” Aunt
Hannah—“ Doesn’t it now? And we have
such magnificent sunsets over here!”—
Puck.
—At the table d’hote the fish is already
served; and yet a guest, a serious man,
sits dumb before his soup.
The head waiter steps up to him and
asks: Your soup is still to warm?”
The serious man replies very sharply,
“On the contrary.”
The roast beef goes the round; and yet
the guest does not touch his soup.
“Perhaps the gentleman doesn’t like
cream of celery?” mikliy suggests *the
head waiter. “Perhaps he prefers consom
me?”
The serious man begins to drum with
his fingers on the table cloth. “I am ex
travagantly found of cream of cefery.”
“But may 1 then ask why the gentleman
does not cat? The other dishes will be
cold.”
“Why don’t I eat my soup?—l have no
spoon.”—Boston “Globe.”
Cl lIHEN T CO M >IENT.
Respecting the President’s promise of
immunity to witnesses before the war in
vestigating commission, as that promise
bears upon the Eagan case, the New Or
leans Picayune (Dem.) says: “The Presi
dent can set aside, by the granting of par
dons, any verdict of conviction by the
United States civil and military courts
after judgment has been pronounced; but
he cannot grant license and immunity be
fore hand for any crimes that may be aft
erwards committed. It is-'difficult to see
how the court can accept the accused’s
defense and acknowledge any right on the
part of the President to grant license and
impunity to persons who desire to outrage
the laws.”
Of our position in the Philippines the
Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.) says: “It is a
miserable business. The prospect for war
fare between the American army and the
Filipinos could have been averted by a
simple, straightforward avowal of gen
uine American prinicples—that the Philip
pines should be independent as soon as the
details of orderly government could be ar
ranged and established. That assurance
was not given because a political element
is eager to possess foreign territory, en
joy the spoils of office and exploit the gov
ernment concessions that go by. favor of
the bureaucracy. It is no matter to that
element whether thousands of American
young men and other thousands of Philip
pine blacks are sacrificed on the altar of
their greed. It is a miserable business.”
The Chattanooga Times (Dem.) is dis
gusted with the pocket-borough state of
Nevada and would like to read it out of
the union. The Times does not like the
doctrine of “once a state always a state,”
and asks: “What would become of that
ridiculous political superstition if Nevada
■became quite entirely depopulated? Would
Congress then accept wild burros and
grizzlies as members and senators? Ne
vada, began business, in 1864, with some
64,X) iopulaiion. This fell to 42,000 In 1870,
rose again to 62,000 In 1880, and fell to 45,700
in 1800. and is now rapidly receding. • * •
Presently it will Tot off the limb.' and the
country will bo well rid of the thing”
The Nashville American (Dem.) takes
the other side of the question, thus: “The
Times forgets that enough men would al
ways remain behind to ho.d the federal of
fices so that the ‘wild burros and grizzlies’
would not have a complete monopoly of
th* i>i\ South Carolina US into some
i" . ‘
that a state could leave the union, as the
Times well reme mber*. If a state cannot
go out of its own volition, how can it be
forced out against its volition? We re
peat it. ‘once a state always a state.' ”
A !)a> liulil Glioml.
The various members of a Christmas
house |>ariy were sitting around the big
hail fireplace, with no other light than the
leaping, fitful flames from the brazing
driftwood, which burned blue and green
and scarlet with many a hiss and crackle.
They were telling ghost stories, says
the New York Tribune.
“Yes, I nave actually seen a ghost,”
said one of the group, “and what made it
more uncanny, it was in broad daylight,
in practical, crowded, busy New York.
That is, I feel sure that I saw one, but J
was made so uncomfortable about the oc
currence that I stopped at my doctor’s
be for* l going home, and he said that it was
all ‘stuff and nonsense.,’ and that my liver
was out of order, and gave me a prescrip
tion. Hut this is what I saw, or thought
I saw:
“As we have moved away up town, on
the east side of Fifth avenue, I boarded,
as I often do after shopping, a Third ave
nue elevated train at Twenty-third street.
It was about 1 o’clock in the afternoon.
The car I entered was not crowded, and di
agonally opposite the cross seat in which I
seated myself was another that was empty.
At Twenty-eighth street a man got in and
took the vacant seat, a red-faced middle
aged, burly looking mechanic, I judged by
his dress, as he wore a flannel shirt with
out a collar, and was in what were evi
dently working clothes, although clean and
respectable. As he took his seat, and af
ter the car had started, a woman in black,
who seemed to have got up from another
place where she was seated, came forward
and took the vacant place beside him.
with an eager, possessive look, so to
speak, which made me carelessly think
she must be a relative, and 1 looked to set
his surprised recognition when he turned
to greet her. He seemed, however, quite
unconscious of her presence, and what
struck me suddenly as very odd, he glanc
ed carelessly toward the other side of the
car, just as if he looked through her, the
woman meanwhile regarding him with a
wistful look that was quite pathetic. She
seemed a woman of about 30, and had an
interesting, refined face, although sharp
ened evidently by illness, which. with
her large, dark eyes, dusky hair and black
garments, gave her a shadowy appearance
that was peculiar. I also saw to my sur
prise that she was dressed in a rusty black
suit, cut with large sleeves which were in
vogue several years ago. 1 say to my
surprise, for I had noticed that women of
that class invariably follow the fashions,
and would no more wear a gown that was
distinctly out of style than would milady
of Murray Hill. Ail at once, without warn
ing. a chill run down my backbone.
“ That woman is no woman,’ I said to
myself with conviction. ‘She is a ghost.
The man cannot see her,’ and I assure you
as I thought this I actually saw the man
put his arm on the seat and it passed
right through the flimsy shadow of her
veil.
“Was T dreaming? No. There sat the
man and the woman, a commonplace
enough looking couple to a casual obser
ver, ami no one but myself api>eared to
notice them. By this time I had arrived
at my station, where 1 got out, and the af
fair has ever remained a mystery. But
nothing could ever persuade me that I had
not seen a veritable spirit.”
Tlie Xew “Soldier of the Legion.”
From the Springfield Republican.
A soldier of the legion lay starving in the
camp.
The girls were not around him, the grass it
was too damp;
And he loathed the cold potato, and the
bread which broke his fast,
And wept for the cold bottles and the hot
birds that were past.
And a comrade knelt beside him in the
chill and falling dew,
As he heard of the deserters, and he swore
he’d slip off too;
While the boys went serenading, just to
make the colonel kind,
Playing softly, playing sadly,—playing
“Bacon on the Rind.”
Said the soldier of the legion, as he heard
the music’s storm,
“Give my best girl the brass buttons which
are on my uniform;
She can fix her shirt-waist with them, she
can wear them on a string.
On the string where she has had me for
a year or more, by jing!
I would dare all rangers for her,—never
show the foe my back,—
But the bravest heart will weaken after
weeks upon hardtack.”
Then the soldier of the legion left the
army far behind,—
And the l>and kept on a-playing,—playing
“Bacon on the Rind.”
l'n|iialifle<l Permission.
A woman who has been a victim of in
digestion and is kept to dyspeptics’ diet
most of the time was recently invited to a
dinner, which she was anxious to attend,
says the Youth’s Companion. She went
to her telephone, and, trusting to a some
what unreliable memory, she asked to be
connected by the ever-obliging “Central”
with telephone 2,394. When the connec
tion had been made she began her plain
tive query without any prefatory “Is that
you, doctor?”
“I want very much to go to a little din
ner to-morrow night,” she began rapidly,
“and do you think it would hurt me if I
ate just a taste of soup, and perhaps a
little fish, or the least trifle of game and
a bit of salad or ice? I really think my
stomach” —
Here she was interrupted by a voice
from the other end of the wire, “Madam,”
it said, coldly, “eat whatever you please.
This is the Meteor Rubber Company.”
Her Case of llie Grip.
A negro woman who had been sentenced
to the Island for five days by a magis
trate in an uptown ponce court this morn
ing, says a New York letter, turned around
as soon as her case had been disposed of
and flung these instructions to her hus
band, who was sitting on the back seat:
“It’s five days, Thomas Jefferson, and you
be good; you hear me? An’ doan’ you
forg* t that the baby mustn’t eat no meat,
no tripe, nohow. An’ when you take home
Miss Miller’s washin’ to-day you tell her
I'm a very sick woman and won’t be able
to do her washin’ next week nohow, but
will be all right week after next. Doan’
forget that, Thomas Jefferson. Say it’s
grip.” Then the woman walked off to the
prison pen as if she was contented and not
at all disturbed by the prospect of five
days away from her washtubs.
A Pair of Revelatlonn.
The Kansas City Journal tells a story of
a Kansas man who believes that God sends
revelations to true Christians. Not long
ago he had a revelation in which he was
informed that one of his church brothers
had stolon his harness. Meeting the broth
er in the road, he proceeded to divulge the
nature of the revelation and to demand
restitution. Immediately the brother went
into a trance, from which he came pres
ently with the statement that ho had con
sulted the angel of the Lord and had been
informed that it was his duty to smite
his accuser hip and thigh, whereupon he
began to belabor the first brother, who
stood still and took his whipping with un
complaining humility, after which the pair
said in unison: “Let God he prased!” and
then went their several ways. But, up to
last accounts, the hiding place of that
missing harness had not been divulged.
ITEMS OF* INTEREST.
—Gen. Lew* Wallace, author of “Ben
Hur,” says his publishers told him that
more copies of the book have sold than
of any other book evei published in the
United States.*'
—According to Le Jardin, the hortensia
can be made to carry blue flowers by us
ing a compost of equal parts of heath
mold, coal cinders and vegetable mold
(terreau de couche). The coal ash is. how
ever, the most effective ingredient for pro
ducing the blue tint.
—The United States coast and geodetic
survey steamer Blake is now engaged in
an expedition to Porto Rico with a r>arty
of engineers who will make a thorough
survey of the coast and harbors. It is
their intention to proceed as rapidly as
possible with the survey of the entire
Cuban and Porto Rican coasts, which
have been very imperfectly mapped, or in
many cases have never been surveyed.
—The International Bureau of Weights
and Measures, which is supported at Paris
by a number of the leading governments
of the world, for the purpose of con- (
st rue ting and testing the standards of
weight and mass, reports that a bar com
posed of 36 per cent, of nickel and 64 pe*r
cent, of steel was expanded by heat only
1-50 of the amount to be expected from the
separate inetals. Such an alloy will prove
most valuable for astronomical clocks, as
it will practically eliminate questions of
temperature in their adjustment.
—A process of seasoning timber by means
of electricity has recently been brought
out. The material which it is desired to
treat is placed in a tank containing a spe
cially prepared liquid and immersed to
rather more than half its depth. A cur
rent of electricity is then applied. At the
end of six hours all the sap has been ex
tracted and the wood is then placed in
another tank where a septic solution is
forced into the pores by an electro-capil
lary method. The cost of seasoning tim
ber by this process is not given, but it
would seem questionable whether it is any
less than the ordinary method of creosot
ing or any more efficient.
—At the time of the discovery of the
Philippines in 1521, there were found in
the islands the brown Malayans, w'ho are
now in the great majority, and the small
black Negritos, of which only about 10,000
survi e. Dr. Brinton of the University of
Pennsylvania believes that these two races
are ethnographically distinct, and that
their ethnic and historic relations offer
some interesting problems in anthropolgy.
For example, the Negritos believe that
if one of their people dies it is due to the
black art of these Malayan adversaries,
and they endeavor to slay a Malayan in
his place. The anthropologists and eth
nologists of Europe are awaiting with in
terest the results of investigations which
they expect that American scientists will
prosecute in the Philippines.
—Russia is the scource of practically the
entire amount of platinum used in the
arts, but the mines are now nearly all in
the hands of foreigners. In the Verk
hotursk district, where the most impor
tant mines are located, the production last
year amounted to about six tons, an
amount that does not seem large when it
is remembered that platinum is the heav
iest of metals, except iridium, which is
still rarer. In value, it is to lie compared
only with gold, and the estimated price
per ton in connection with the recent pur
chase of mines by a Paris syndicate, is
stated at between SBOO,OOO and $960,000. No
new veins of this precious meta! have been
discovered in Russia for a long time, and
it seems probable that the present veins
will soon become exhausted.
—The United States geological survey is
making rapid progress with its topographi
cal maps of the United States. The maps
are published in sheets covering a square
degree, on an approximate scale of a mile
to one inch, or more exactly 1:62,500. Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
are entirely mapped and large portions
of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
have been completely surveyed, and the
maps are ready for distribution. Already
133 sheets for the New' England states
have been finished, while for New York
and several other states a large rfumber
of sheets have also been published. A
circular is issued by the survey stating
what maps are ready for distribution,
and they are sold to the public at a nom
inal cost to cover the actual expense of
printing. •"
—ln the preservation of eggs by cold sto
rage so that they may be sold as “fresh”
after a considerable interval of time, a
number of precautions must be observed
in reference to the temperature maintain
ed. While a temperature of forty degrees
suffices if the eggs are to be stored for
three months, it has been found that, if
kept for a longer period of time they tend
to become musty, and if it is desired to
keep them for greater intervals a tem
perature of thirty degrees is essential. The
eggs must be cooled gradually, particular
ly in very warm weather, as the effect of
sudden cooling on the egg tissues is bad,
since they require time to rearrange them
selves, and, conversely, a sudden warming
is equally detrimental to the egg. The
most marked characteristic of a cold
storage egg is the thinness of the white,
or albumen.
—Methods of rendering nitrogen of the
air available in agriculture are being con
sidered on account of the theory held by
certain scientists that the amount of this
element found in the earth is being ex
hausted. A process to accomplish this end
has lately been proposed by M. Noissan
in connection with his recently discovered
method of producing pure calcium. The
plan suggested consists in bringing the
calcium into contact with nitrogen at a
high temperature, when the metal changes
in color from white to yellow*, until it takes
fire at a low* red heat and burns, forming
a bronze-colored nitride* If this calcium
■itride is thrown into water it decomposes
With effervescence, producing ammonia
and calcium hydrate. The metallic cal
cium is produced by means of the elec
tric furnace, the nitrogen is free In the
atmosphere, and the ammonia obtained
can be used for any of the agricultural
or industrial compounds in which it Is
desired.
—The Medizinisches Wochenblatt of Mu
nich, Bavaria, announces that Drs. Lange
and Meltzing have finally succeeded in
photographing the interior of the stomach.
Having for some years experimented in
dependently of each other, they have in
the end combined their efforts. The pho
tograph can be taken in every case where
a tulie can be admitted. The photographic
apparatus, which is fastened to the tube,
has a <ength of sixty-six millimetres (2.S
inches) and a diameter of eleven milli
metres. Through the tub runs a fine
wire, by means of which the electric lamp
is made to function. In order to pho
tograph the interior of the stomach it
must have a distinded surface. To pro
duce this, the stomach, after being emp
tied and cleaned, is filled with air, where
upon some forty or fifty photographs can
be taken in ten or fifteen minutes. By
turning the apparatus on Us axis, a re
production of every part of the gastric
surface can be obtained. These pho
tographs have the size of a cherry stone,
but can easily be enlarged so as to plainly
show the condition of the mucus mem
brane.
Soft White Hands
IN A SINGLE NIGHT
Boak the hands thoroughly, on retirfe~
a hot lather of Ccticcra Soap and„. 8
anoint freely with Ccticcra (ointm’Cf
greatest of emollient 3kin cures. Wear ’
gloves during night. The effect is trul v 4
derful, and a blessing to all with sore handl'
itching palms, and painful finger ends. *
LEGAL SALES.
mill Property, Timber Lands
and Railroad.
The undersigned, Joel Hurt, receiver in
the case of Marion M. Jackson, a !:ninis
irator de bonis non of the estate of Henry
Jackson, deceased, et al., vs. SuwaneeY'i.
nal Company et al., in Fulton Superior
Court, by virtue of the decree entered j n
said case on the 11th day of January. >.
will sell all of the property of said Su
wanee Canal Company, both real and per
sonal, and wherever situated, except the
manufactured lumber on hand and
and claims due to the receiver, in a sir. -
parcel, without valuation, redemption "or
appraisement, at public outcry, for
at noon on the FIKST TUESDAY in
March, 1899, the same being the v-nth
day of March, before the court house ,:., -
of Fulton county, Georgia. No hid t,, u
received at said sale, unless accompan I
by a deposit of twenty thousand doli i- , n
cash, or a certified check for that amount
on some solvent bank, or a deposit „f
twenty thousand dollars, face value of \ ~,
first preference Men bonds of the Suu , .a
Canal Company, the purchaser at the Sl ;.>
being authorized to pay instead of ca-h
the amount of his bid in first prefir. nre
lien bonds and coupons as provided for by
said decree, except that if the receiver
should not have in hand sufficient money
to pay the preferential claims provided
for by said decree, then the purch.ts.-r
shall pay in cash a sum sufficient to mak
up the amount of said preferential claims.
The purchaser at said sale to receive a cl
title, free of all liens and encumbrances
of every nature and description, and free
from the claims of ail creditors and stock
holders in the Suwanee Canal Company.
The property so to be sold consists of 258,-
259 acres of land, more or less, situated,
lying and being in the counties of Pierc<t
Camden, Clinch, Ware and Charlton, in
said state, there being 499 acres, more
or less, in the Ninth district of Pier’,
county; there being 15 acres, more or less,
in Camden county, at Bull Head Bluff!
with wharves and two frame houses sit
uated thereon, on and near the Satilla
river; there being 12,750 acres, more or
less, in the Twefth and Thirteenth dis
tricts of Clinch county; there being 3,7(0
acres, more or less, in the Eighth and
Eleventh districts of Ware county, and
88,000 acres of land, more or less, also in
Ware county, not divided into land lots,
and known as swamp property; there be
ing 980 acres, more or less, in Charlton
county, with the mill, dwellings, and oth
er improvements located thereon, and 24-
990 acres, more or less, in the Tenth dis
trict of said Chariton county, and 127 2.5
acres, more or less, not divided into land
lots, and being known as swamp property,
aiso in said Charlton county.
Also any and all other real estate held,
owned or claimed by said Suwanee Canal
Company, whether included in the lands
above described, or not, and embracing the
right of way owned by said canal company
from the edge of the swamp near Camp
Cornelia, to the St. Marys river, in Chari
ton county. Also one circular sawmill,
complete, with a capacity of 30,000 feet per
day; one Perkin’s shingle mill with a ra
pacity of 30,000 shingles per day; two
steamboats; one Osgood drege, 244 yard
sholvef and one set machiney for Bucyrus
drege, 344-yard shovel; one IJdgerwood
skidder; one McArdie & St. Clair pull boat;
twenty-two miles of standard gauge rail
road, extending from Camp Cornelia to
Bull Head Bluff, and one locomotive, three
box cars, and seven flat cars; aiso genera)
commissary stock, consisting of articles
usual in such stores, and of the value of
probably S4OO or $500; two mules, one way
on, one cart, blacksmith tools, three 9)
horse-power boilers, and one 30 horse
power boiler, and all other personalty
choses in action and rights of whatsoever
kind and description, held, claimed, or
owned by said Suwanee Canal Company,
whether included in the above descrip
tion or not.
Further and detailed information as to
all or any of said property can be obtain
ed by inquiry of said Joel Hurt, receiver,
at Atlanta, Ga.
This Jan. 12, 1599.
(Signed) JOEL HURT,
Receiver Suwanee Canal Company.
and the Day Express over the
FROjl
ATLANTA
—TO
ST. LOUIS.
Double Daily Service
—and—
Through Sleeping Cars.
Only one change of cars
SAVANNAH
-TO
ST. LOUIS.
For information call upon or address ff.
G. BREWER, City Ticket and Passenger
Agent. 39 Bull street, Savannah. Ga. _
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