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nl-rECTIVES WERE ATTACHED.
Cause Why They Should
M,t He Held In Contempt.
_ h . investigation o£ the connection of
, iv „ Wetherhorn, Sdully. Barrett
lV 'j , ~! with the Ocllla safe blowers.
whom indictments were returned
0 r.iuy. resulted in the United States
'Vi. i jury making a special presentment
* ri judge Speer on the subject. Asa re
i'’u Ih ”y have been attached for contempt
court.
c , rl jj before the foreman of the grand
made the presentment in the con
3j‘ijra, y , tse, this matter came up. It had
thought by those who were aware
- . . vamination of witnesses on this
L ' v„ •: • > Ihe grand jury that some such
that embodied in the special pre
a , , mI t would be taken, and it was no
B un ,it was read by the foreman as
l0 .![ grand jury deem it their duty,
un ,l, r their oaths, •to respect
ful! v submit this, a special pre
sentment. for such action as
vo,;r honor may deem proper. During the
L , ligation by the jury of the case of
i nited States vs. Harry * Belmont,
Him Nelson and John Perry, in which
w ‘, ~, returned a true bill for the bur
hrv of the postofflee at Ocilla, Ga., it
u < i r,mght out in the testimony that
uv o of the prisoners, Belmont and Nel
son were taken after their arrest, with
ou- iiuhority either of the state or Unit
ed States authorities, to various places
jn where intoxicating drinks
NV ,r> furnished them and they were in
du > i to give up four pistols and a pack
n£r,. (die contents of which the jury is
unable to ascertain) to the parties who
a, ompanied them. The jury finds, fur
,l,,that no return or report of the de
livery of either the pistols or
package was ever made, either to the
[•. ; ,e-j States or municipal authoiities by
,h, urtics who received said pistols an 1
package from Belmont and Nelson. Yo.r
jury further finds and presents that said
Belmont and Nelson have, since their con
finement. been and are now being fed from
a restaurant regularly and at the expense
of two of the parties who received sai l
packages. While your jury cannot find
from the evidence that any crime has been
committeed against ihe United States by
these parties,, we report to your honor the
a*, nvnt indiscreet and improper conduct,
tlabow mentioned, of the following nam-
M parties: Henry Wetherhorn, J. J. Shea,
Martin Scully, J. J. Barrett.”
After the indictment had been read.
Judge So * r asked Foreman McDonough
if he understood that these acts of the de
ceives mentioned in the presentment
had been committed after the prisoners
were in custody by direction of the Unit
ed States, and Mr. McDonough replied
that at the time they were not under
warrant, but were detained at the in
stance of Assistant District Attorney
Lea ken.
“Mr. Clerk,” said. Judge Speer, “issue
attachments against the persons named
in the presentment, requiring the mar
fhal to bring them before the court, to
show cause why (hey should not be pun
ished for contempt.”
In accordance with this mandate the at
tachments were issued and served. The
detectives all appeared and gave bond
with security, in the sum of SIOO, condi
tioned to answer for their appearance be
fore the Court of Ordinary mh m hm hm
On the bond of Detectives Wiiherhorn
and Shea. Julius D. Hirsoh appears as
surety, while on those of Detectives Bar
r u and S. u'ly, James McGrath performs
thu same ofiire. The hearing will be had
before Judge Speer this morning.
good < itowD axd good sales.
Beal INtate Was Sold at Good I’rlees
Before t!e Coart House.
There was a larger attendance even
than is usual at the sale of property be
fore the door of the Court House yes
terday. and the various pieces that were
offered brought good prices. The general
tone o the real estate market, judging
from these sales, is steady and healthy.
Sheriff Whelan, of the City Court, sold
u lot < f land on Price street, being n por
tion of ihe old Fairlawn tract, having a
front or 30V2 feet and a depth of 41V4 feet,
to El Whitcomb for $1,960. Sheriff Whe
-41,1 also sold the southern portion of the
oil Schley homestead property at Beau
lieu. one of the handsomest in point of
natural advantages on the salts, for $1,265.
Ine purchaser was Joseph Galina, who, it
is said, will erect a beer garden on the
premises.
ty -heriff Sweeny sold a lot in
Brownsville, with a fiont of 50 feet and a
v '\ u "Ki‘lar depth <f iro feet, to Michael
ami !-r $225. Auctioneer C. H. Dorsett
ofter. and for sale the property known as 207
Jones stieet. west, with the improve
™>n>- md it was knocked down to Emile
A'.wnian tor $5,C00. Mr. Newman repre-
SHI,S be holder of a deed to secure deb:
on the property.
l( 1 * 1 s V l Is< the property known as
• 1 11 >all street, with the residence
inenon situated for S7OO. The lot at the
v'h* Ul *^ rn °ld Wheaton streets,
a. t • improvements, consisting of a
- ’ r\ residence and store, and three
*., ■ r.v hotis' s. was knocked down by
1 ' at $2.600. Mr. Dorsett offered
/ . ’. 1 vv ° blocks of the capital stock
• ‘ eutiiam Heal Estate and Improve
inxinv, which went for 57 1 k and
•• r -ectively.
M • i- 1. |) Ha Roche sold he prop
m northeast corner of East Broad
! " M ~jreets, having a front on Gor
of 56 feet and on East Bro id
; loot - to George Ehleis, for $2.-
" !r * 'll l° ,s tt-, Soufhover were : old
'd 1 I' each.
I bought a lot <■ ntalnin .
’' ill houses, on the south side of
, , avenue, near East Broad
‘ The property adjoina
.. •'“ ‘cy. Mr. E. l-\ Whitco n >
i, , ‘ Purchaser of a lot, 47 by 75 feet.
'* i S I{ow , <>n East Boundary
" r which he paid $950.
I'hOK Ol T HOTEL llEl.t*.
t oloi*.<i ct ,
1 waiter He-
Uaw Turiled
l( \ unship City of Birmingham left
t( ork last night with many ho
‘ '*ngerH. The help arrived
,h-v * e lfternoon from Florida, where
f' "\• 1 in the winter hotels.
■c v 1 was com Ptetely filled, all the
M,, . passenger room being taken up.
w-r, . fV , help were white, but there
of n ’ col °red men and women. Two
were not allowed to take first
*l - . t l® e * r - )ne , of them w f as head
n , , ~, e Tam P a Bay Hotel, and ono
u agine the wrath of such a
tn v . , 7‘ hoa 'l waiter of a great ho
lt ’' believed him dignity outraged.
that, ignorant of the color of
, ve Passenger, an agent of
'k. • V ‘ r> , (, ° n) Pny sold a first-class
fr t. , in ‘ ln * lorida. The head wait
* . . ! . 10 cou l<l use the ticket, and
’ * . v exasperated when he learned
1 rnr,, > *T | P any furnished intermediate
, ltlonH f° r bis color and did not
0 *be first-class sections.
r 1 , 'dent and General Manager
b 1 rr. n of the Georgia and Ala
•>ne north on business.
r,,.’ ‘lent John M. Euan of the
l' il n . ‘ ,lll on th* line of the road on
Mr. r T ..
Alrey, general agent at At-
lanta for the Mobile and Ohio, was among
the visitors in the city yesterday. Mr.
Airey has a lost of friends here, who are
always glad to see him.
Mr. M. M. Ansley, commercial repre
sentative at Atlanta for the New Or
leans and Northeastern, was in Savan
nah yesterday.
TEARS PAPER IN FANCY DESIGNS.
11. T. Culver, Albino Reprenentntive
of Formaldehyde.
The Formaldehyde remedies will be ex
ploited in Savannah during the next few
days by a man of striking appearance,
Mr. H. T. Calver, an Englishman by birth
and an Albino. His hair is of unusual
length, as white as cotton and fine as
lamb’s wool. He combs it out in a pecu
liarly fluffy manner, and he would at
tract attention anywjpre. His complex
ion is fair and his eyes have that pinkish
shade peculiar to Aliflncs. Alt geihtr, ho
is a very remarkable lcoking man. He is
an expert paper tearer, and with his
thumb and fo:efinger tears paper into all
sorts of designs and. makes some very
pretty patterns for ladies to use in em
broiderifS. He will give exhibitions at the
stores where the Formaldehyde remedies
are sold.
WILL. GET FREES DELIVERY.
Postal Finns for Tlioinasvtlle—Other
News Notes.
Thomasville, Ga., April 3.—Thomasville
and Thomas county are to get some of
the good things of Uncle Sam’s postofflee
organization. Thomasville, under the rules
of the department, is now entitled to free
delivery, and this system will doubtless
be established here during the year. The
wee tern part of the county south of Cairo
is also to have a free rural delivery
route. This will be one of the experiment
al routes the postofflee authorities are
trying in different parts of the Country.
About 200 families will be served on this
route. The work will be done by one car
rier and it will require about nine hours
for him to make his rounds.
John Jackson, colored, was arrested here
recently, on a charge of assault with in
tent to murder a street car conductor in
New York <*!ty in 1898. A detective has
just returned to New York, carrying Jack
son with him. It is alleged that while in
a druriken condition ihe negro cut the con
ductor severely for trying to eject him
from the car.
The Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf Rail
way has decided to build Its depot on
Dawson street, direc'tly east of the Piney
Woods Hotel.
WANT FREE FOR ILL PRIMARY.
Di**en*ion* in Augusta May Lead to
Two Ticket*.
Augusta, April 3.—At a njeeting of the
White Primary Committee this, evening,
the following resolution was adopted:
“Resolved. That the chairman- and 1 sec
retary be and they are hereby instructed
to call a mass meeting of the white voters
of the city of Augusta and of Richmond
county to assemble at the Court House cn
April 10, 1900, a* 8 o’clock p. m., for the
purpose of ratifying the action thus far
taken by this committee, and to give to
this committee such further instructions in
the premises as it shall deem wise an 1
proper.”
This White Primary Committee is no
content with the call for a Democratic
whii.e primary’, but wants an open, five
for all primary’ and a secret b l ot.
The County Democratic Executive Com
•miilee declined to make any such conces
sions and the primary- committee proposes
to submit the question to a miss meet n?
whetehr there shall be co-operation in the
Democratic white primary or whether on
independent primary shall be held and put
out opposing candidates to the Democratic
nominees.
The Race* at Henning*.
Washington, April 3.—Another large
crowd attended the races at Bennings to
day. The weather was fair and the track
in good condition, though' the fields in
three events were rather small. Three
favorites won. (Summaries:
First Race—Three-year-olds and up
wards, purse S3OO, five and a half furlongs.
Golden Rattle, 3 to 5, won, with Jac<k Gay,
20 to 1, second, and Rough Rider, 30 to 1,
third. Time 1:11.
Second Race—Maidens, 2-year-olds, purse
S3OO, half a mile. Educate, 7 to 5. won.
with Albert Enright, 6 to 1, second, and
Moor, , third. Time 0:51. Moor and
Bounder coupled in betting at 15 to 1.
Third Race—Selling, 3-year-olds and up
ward, purse $300; seven furlongs. Queen
of Song, even, won with Robert Metcalf,
8 to 1. second, and Post Haste, 4 to 1,
third. Time 1:30.
Fourth Race—'Three-year-olds, non-win
n rs of $750 or three or more races, purse
$00; six furlongs. 3 to 1, won,
with Cetvlia, even, s; coni, and Balkan, 10
to 1, third. Time 1:19.
Fifth Race—Three-year-olds and up
wards, purse $30); live and a half fur
longs. Thermos, ’0 to 1, won, with Cupid
ity, 8 to 5, second, and Sir Christopher, 4
to 1, third. Time 1:10
SncriMl Ground.
From Chamber’s Journal.
The ground on which a foreign legation
stands is considered at* belonging to the
country whose flags floats from the lega
tion roof. Supposing a member of a for
eign legation in London committed a mur
der, all we could do would be to “sug
gest” la favorite diplomatic word, always
used, except in relation to China) that the
offender should be sent back to his native
country and punished there. Some time
ago, when a certain gentleman, whose
name was well known at the time, was
kidnapped into the Chinese legation, an
inspector from Scotland Yard immediate
ly proceeded thither and released the
prisoner. This was a most serious breach
of international law, and was intently
discussed “in diplomatic circles.” Since
the Chinese legation is part and parcel
of China, an invasion of the Celestial
empire was thus made by a Scotland Yard
official.
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THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Wednesday and Thursday:
Georgia: Fair in south rn, rain in north
ern portion Wednesday and probably
Thursday lain; brisk northerly, shifting
to easterly winds.
Hasten* i’lo da: Fair Wednesday, part
ly cloudy Thuisday, with rain and cooler
in northern portion; fresh southwest to
south winds.
Western Florida: Fair Wednesday, rain
and cooler Thursday; brisk southerly
winds.
South Carolina: Rain Wednesday, and
probably Thursday; fresh northerly
winds.
Yesterday’s Weather at Savannah.—
Maximum temperature, 4:30 pm. 79 degrees
Minimum temperature, 7 a. m.. 53 degrees
Mean temperature 66 degrees
Normal temperature 62 degrees
Excess of temperature 4 degrees
Accumulated deficiency sine©
April 1 18 degree©
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. 1- 210 degrees
Rainfall .00 inch
Normal .12 inch
Deficiency since April 1 36 inch
Deficiency since Jan. 1 83 inch
River Report.—The hight of the Savan
nah river at Augusta at 8 a. m., 75th me
ridian time, yesterday, was 9.5 feet, a
fall of 0.3 foo< during the preceding twen
ty-four hours.
Observations taken at the same moment
of time ni all stations, April 3, 1900, at 8
!>. m., 75th meridian lime:
Name of Station. , - -T.j •V. Rain
c}ear j 44 J 12 | .14
New York city, clear —| 46 j 24 T
Philadelphia, clear j 50 ! 10 .00
Washington city, clear ..j 52 L .00
Norfolk, clear | 56 6 .00
Ha tteras, cloudy j 58 12 .00
Wilmington, clear 60 J L .00
Charlotte, cloudy j 52 | L ! T
Raleigh, clear \ 56 j L | .00
Charleston, clear j 62 | 10 | .00
Atlanta, pt. cloudy j 70 | 14 j .CO
Augusta, clear .j 72 | L .00
Savannah, clear | 66 j 12 .00
Jacksonville,, clear j 70 | L .00
Jupiter, clear | 70 j 8 j .00
Key West, cloudy | 70 | 8 j .CO
Tampa, clear j 66 \ L J .o*o
Mobile, clear | 64 | 6 ; T
Montgomery, clear ! 74 | 8 [ .00
Vicksburg, clear ■ 70 ! 12 j .00
New Orleans, cloudy 68 6 | .01
Galveston, pt. cloudy ...J 66 | 12 j .00
Corpus -Christ!, cloudy 4 70 24 | T
Palestine, pt. cloudy ...4 76 { 10 J .00
Memphis, pt. cloudy —j 70 8 j .CO
Cincinnati, pt. cloudy ... 54 | L | .00
Pittsburg, cloudy 42 j L j .CO
Buffalo, clear 34 j 10 '] T
Detroit, clear | 34 | 10 | .12
Chicago, clear ! 34 24 | .00
Marquette, clear 1 28 j 10 | .02
St. Paul, clear j 40 j 10 j .00
Davenport, clear j 44 j 8 | .00
St. Louis, clear 58 | 12 | .00
Kansas City, cloudy ' 60 | 6 j .00 *
Oklahoma, pt. cloudy ...j 78 j 10 | .00
Dodge City, pt. cloudy ..! 64 I 30 j .00
X< rth Platte, pt. cloudy) 56 j 22 j .00
-j-T, temperature; •V, velocity of wind.
H. B. Boyer,
Observer Weather Bureau.
AIM WITH BOTH YOUR EYES.
/
Error* of the One-Eyed Sqnlnt—The
“Master Eye” Theory Condemned.
Letter to the Editor of the London Times.
The correspondence on this subject
which has lately appeared in your col
umns does not appear to me fully to eluc
idate the facts or conditions of the prob
lem, which I should like to state from the
point of view in which they present them
selves to me. 1 will take the ordinary
case of a young adult possessing two
sound and equal eyes of good or “normal”
vision, neither of which requires a glass
or would be assisted by one; such a per
son, in short, as would be eligible for a
commission in the royal navy. The two
eyes are globes which move more or less
in unison with one another, and each
moves by rotation about a fixed Amter.
The movements are effected by the con
traction of the muscles appropriate to
each; and these muscles consist of six
pairs attached to the outer tunics of the
eye and inserted into the bones of the
skull. The stimulus to movements is fur
nished by the presence of an object of
vision, toward which one or both eyes may
be turned lor the purpose of seeing it
clearly. A straight line drawn from the
object of vision to the posterior pole, or
center of the back, of the seeing eye is the
•‘axis of vision” of that eye. As the cen
ters of the eyes are about two and a half
inches apart, it is manifest that the two
axis of vision can never be coincident.
They form the sides of an isosceles, tri
angle. the apex of which is at the object
of vision, while the base is formed by an
imaginary line uniting the posterior poles
of the two eyes. When the two eyes are
directed .toward an infinitely distant ob
ject, such as a fixed star, the apex of the
triangle is infinitely distant, and Us sides,
for all practical purposes, ace parallel.
When the eyes ate directed toward a near
object, suc'n as a spot on a piece of paper
at a distance of twelve inches, the apex
Of the triangle is on the spot, and its sides
are decidedly convergent. The possible
movements of the eyes are numerous and
complicated, but it is sufficient for the
present purpose to think only of those
which ghange the dire Along of the axes
of vision from parallelism to convergence,
or vice versa. The parallelism may be re
garded as a state of approximate rest or
equilibrium; the convergence as a state of
activity, called into existence for the sake
of obtaining that “fusion” or combination,
of the tw’o visual Images, by which our
ideas of relief or solidity are formed, and
by which our instinctive judgments with
regard 10 the magnitude, the distance and
the position of the object are mainly
guided.
In taking steady aim with a rifle at a
fixed object the vision is of necessity mo
nocular. The barrel of the rifle, with its
two sigjits, must coincide accurately with
the axis of vision of one eye, and can
not by any possibility coincide with the
axes of both, because they never coin
cide with one another. Such aim may
be taken from the right shoulder with
the right eye, or may be taken with the
left eye from the loft shoulder, or from
th# right shoulder by means of a bent
stock; but it cannot be taken with both
eyes at once. The non-aiming eye may
be open or shut, but the image which it
receives should make no Impression upon
the consciousness, and should take no
share in the direction of the weapon.
Firing from the right shoulder. In the or
dinary way, it Is easy, whether the left
eye be open or shut, to bring the two
sights and the object into line—that is, to
bring the barrel and its two sights into
coincidence with the axis of vision of the.
right eye. If the position be maintained
unchanged, and the right eye closed, so
that the image of the left is attended to,
the sights will no longer appear to be in
line, either with the object or with each
other. They will appear to have deviated
to the right of the object. From the
right shoulder, with a straight stock, it
w r ould be impossible to bring both sights
into line with the left eye and the ob
ject; and, if either of them were brought
into line, and the rific fired, the projec
tile would go far to the left of the point
aimed at.
For the many forms of shooting which
do not require the shooter to “draw a
bead” the combined use of both eyes is
conducive to accuracy. A rabbit crossing
a ridge, or a snipe before it begins twist
ing, is more likely to be caught with both
eyes than w r ith one. But the sportsman
in these cases is not conscious of the
sights of his gun or of their relation to
the object. He throws the barrel into
what he feels to be the right direction,
and in doing this he is guide partly by
vision of the object and partly by the
endowment known as “muscular sense,”
by which we are enabled to regulate the
amount of force employed in accordance
with the nature of the work that is to be
done. We estimate weight, for example,
by our muscular sense of the amount of
effort which we exert in order to sustain
the ponderous body, and if we attempt to
lift something w’e commence by the em
ployment of an amount of force such as
we think will be sufficient <0 overcome
the expected resistance. In like manner
w’e estimate the precise position and dis
tance of an object of vision mainly by
our “muscular sense” of the effort exert
ed by the eye muscles in so moving the
eyes that the images presented to the two
are blended or “fused.” This fusion doe©
not occur spontaneously. If we look at
the flame of a street lamp, say a hundred
yards away, w’e begin with a mental con
sciousness that there is only one lamp
there, and, if w r e saw two close together, 1
we should immediately bring the eyes into
the relative position necessary to combine
the two images, so that the physical im
pression might coincide with the mental
knowledge.
Many people w’ould at once form an al
most unconscious estimate of the distance
of the lamp, and by moderate practice
such an estimate may be rendered very ac
curate. But if w’e close one eye and place
before the other a glass which entirely al
ters the aspect of the flames, siy a plano
rylindiical lens, which will give it the ap
pearance of a long line of light, extending
in a direction perpendicular to the axis of
the cylinder and if we then open the oth
er eye. the images received by the two
eyes’ will be so dissimilar that the stimulus
to any attempt to combine or fuse them,
will be taken away, the spectator will be'
reconciled to the spectacle of a Hr.© of light
wih a lamp flame near bu-f n-4 quit*’
touching it. The apparent distance be
tween the two aspects of th© flam* will
differ in different people, and also will t>e
more marked in some positions of the cyl
inder (whether it be ver'icle or horizontal,
for example), than in others; but perfect
fusion of the two, in which the line would
appear only as prolongation of the flam**,
is by no means common. Practically
spooking, in th© great majority of people,
the eyes when at rest are not directed to
the same point in space, and only become
so directed as the result of a voluntary or
instinctive effort, which is performed
more slowly and w’ith more difficulty the
greater the degree of the na naive devia
tion, but which affords, by reason of our
muscular sense of its amount, an Import
ant aid to our instinctive or acquired pow
er of Judging of distances and dimensions.
Th© binocular shooter learns from the
muscular sense of his eye mus les the pre
cis© position of the object which he
and has acquired, by attention to the mus
cular sense of his arm muscles the power
of rapidly bringing the barrel of a g. 11
into a direction corresponding with the
position of the object.
The “master eye” is an unfortunate ex
pression, because it redly means the mor**
promptly obedient of two servants. When
the axes ore net both directed to the same
point one of them must be misdirected
and the difference between the two is in
no way visual, but simply muscular. A
person whose left i.- Ihe "master y ’
that is. a person who rapidly direc.s ihe
left correctly, while the right is si ill a
little out of line —has no difficulty at all in
aiming with the right eye, assuming that
he has time in which to bring it o bear
upon the object. As for the “m Ate:*
hand,” that is probably, as Benjamin
Franklin pointed out more than a 1 entufy
ago. mainly a result of vicious education.
Any young adult who will take the trouble
may acquire what is called ambldexhri'y
by a very moderate amount of p notice.
But, as Franklin said in his “Complaint
of a Neglected Half-Brother,” the 14ft
band is not only not taught o business, bu.
U usually chidden if it attempts (o folio v
one. P. Brunder.el! Carter.
Harley street, west, February.
WONDERS OF N ATI HE.
Some Minute Form* of Life nevealed
by the MAeroweope.
Dr. W. H. 1) 11 linger. F. R. S.. in the New
York Evening Post.
Thls*subjcct will never be exhausted.
The wonderful disclosures that resulted
t hrough the earlier approaches to the p r
feeti: g of the microscope were, of course
so remarks! le and appealed so to the pop
u ar imaginati n that he dis Icsur s mad
to us by more recent instruments, on the
same or equally remarkable material, do
r.ot appeal equally to the ordinary mind.
The subj ct, indeed, Is crowded with de
tails, In the knowledge of which alone tlu
maivels of what is disclosed can be fully
grasped. It appears, therefore, somewhat
futile to attempt thus briefly to bring
into prominence the inevitable fascination
of the subject, but experience proves that
sugg stlons, catefully made and brief
glimi ses wisely g.ven may incite to a
tMrst for further knowledge. All we hrpe
to do in this paper is to arouse an interest
in minds that have hitherto been nega
tive or indifferent to the existence of mln
uto objects and to kindle pleasuie therein
in the mind of the general reader.
Little as it is realised, the remarkable
and unimaglned !i< all around us. The mi
croscope can unfold the wonderful to us
in the garden, by the. hedgerow, upon the
heath, on the surface and below the sur
fuce of the commonest pond, along the
shores, through the depths and on the
floor of the sea; nay. even the dust and
debris of our homes may be affluent of
much that ran arouse our interest and
wonder. Even the plumage of th© com
monest bird, the decorations of the moth
or butterfly, the adaptations of insects,
largo or minute, and a thousand other
things, all are capable of disclosing this
unexpeetid through the optical agency of
a w’ell-used miscroscope.
One of the most fascinating results of
the use of the microscope was the dis
covery by Prof. Eherenberg that a certa n
earth or rock in the Barbados was liter
ally composed of minute and extrermdy
beautiful "skeletons.” They w rc mostly
composed of silica 01 flint, and their forms
were of extreme variety and beauty. The
earth or rock itself is quite chalk-like in
appearance, and is fairly hard, so that it
can be cut into shapely bars or masses.
It was formed in the Miocene epoch, but
so enormous is it that the Tertiary sys
tem in the Barbados alone rises in one
point to over 14.0C0 feet, and covers an
area of 15 0)0 acres, and a go and p oportion
of (his consists of these iema*kab'e rjeks
They are simply composed of the minute
ske’etons to which we l ave referred. Just
as a heap of millet would be composed of
the separate millet seeds. Of course bil
lions are crushed, splintered, and pow
dered; but the rocks are composed of the
skeletons and their debris.
This can easily’ be settled if we cut a
slice off such a piece of rock anywhere
and at any angle, arid grind it th n
enough; then, by placing it under a micro
scope in proper condition, it is found to be,
as it were, a thin leaf of the rock, simply
composed of these beautiful skeletons,
some it may be. left whole or but slightly
Injured, others broken, defaced, or crum
bled. The same end is gained if we dis
solve a small piece of the rock so as not
to injure the skeleton©; it falls into a pow
der of perfect or imperfect forms visible,
so far as the detailed beamy of the r
shape is concerned, only by mean© of the
microscope. And this peculiar formation
of rock is found not only in the Bar ados,
but in the Nicobar Islands and th© Jura.
That these remarkable ami beautiful
skeletons were formed by animals there
could from the first be little doubt
but while the fossil skeletons astonished
the world and delighted every observer. It
was not until much later that Prof. Mul
ler carefully studied the animals and es
tablished the existence of a group known
as the Racdiolaria, and these included the
enormous quantity of minute fosei's dis
covered by Eherenberg in the “Barbados
Earth.”
The animals themselves are usually ex
tremely minute, and absolutely "simple”
to all means at our disposal for research;
that is to say they are unicellular—their
whole body substance, with all its func
tions, Is contained in a single cell. How
these specks of living Jelly become the
builders and constructors of beautiful
skeletons or envelopes It deifies all ojr
knowledge to explain; but we know that
they or© developed or formed by vital se
cretion in or through the gelatinous cell
substance of the minute animal.
Their shapes are manifold, but in every
case they are rich in the most delicate an 1
refined beauty. Sometimes an invest lug
lattice work' of glass-like appearance
suffices, which may be spherical, oval or
flash-shaped; again, the plates and fib' r
of silica may be raldal, hexagonal, cruci
form, or Innumerable, interchanges ard
combinations of all these, but in all the
utmost perfection of form is the result.
While these were known only os fos- 11
forms discovered by microscope research,
they aroused the keenest interest; but th->
discovery that they were to be found
among th© extant fauna of th© wo Id
quickened that interest. How important
a® living things these minute creator s
really are in regard to th© life found in th •
great oceans was not made clearly m nl
fest until the dredging operations of Her
Majesty’s Ship Challenger showed us that
tl se tiny organisms dwell on th * s irsace
of the open sea, at various marine depths
in several oceans, or else they are abys
mal, living, that is to say. t the bottom
of the sea. not resting on or attach-d 10
its floor, but floating some little distance
above. ,
These minute animals multiply in great
abundance; they are immensely prolific,
and their individual lives are relatively
short; the result is that from every
“zone” of the ocean’s depths there must
be a continual rain of tiny creatures
whose lives ar© spent, failing slowly down
to the ocean floor, where at length their
flinty skeletons alone survive decomposi
tion accumulate in countless millions, and
slowly reneat the siliceous rock produc
tion of which we have’such conspicuous
instances in the geology of the Barbados
and the Nicobar islands.
It will be enough, then, if we illustrate
what extreme refinement and beauty many
of these minute skeletons renlly have,
making our selection rather from # extant
forms than from the fossil skeletons ?<>
prolifically discovered by Eherenberg. To
him they were known as polycistina, and
that name was long retained for the beau
tiful forms. He enumerated thirty-one
species, all being fossil forms, of a genus
known as podocyrtis, meaning "a basket
with feet.” It has been found that.many
of these arc still extant in the Pacific rti
diolarian ooze, and many new forms have
been discovered. One of these was taken
in th. living state, but the skeletons was
alone preserved. The beauty of this form
is quite manifest when magnified 250,000
times. Now if we remember that Eheren
berg first and hundreds since found incal
culable millions of forms allied to this,
composing a vast area of “rock ’ in the.
Barbados, i> will enable us to realize that
the microscope is a revealing instrument.
Quit© another genus is the skeleton of
o kindred form. The complete skeleton
or shell represents n latticed sphere; th’s
is composed of hexagonal pyramids, and
. ach pyramid sends off a radial tube bear
ing a terminal corona. 'Th© appearance
it presents would be seen whatever posi
tion it were placed in, and a close exam
ination shows the radial arms with their
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A Traveler With Valuables.
From the Cleveland Iy-nder.
Doublless a number of the gentry who
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hotels who has always with him in his
room from sjb,i/00 to $109,900 worth of <lla
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The possessor of all this portable wealth
Is a member of a firm of manufacturing
Jewelers and diamond merchants, and ho
travels al/out the country selling the firm’s
wares to the Jewelers. He has two trunks
ihat he says are about as secure as any
hotel safe In the country, and for that
reason he keeps tils valuables In his room
Instead of placing them 4u the hotel
safes where he mopes. The trunks are
solid-looking affairs of steel, and there are
more locks on them than would be on a
dozen ordinary trunks. His wife travels
with the owner of the valuables, and
either the wife or husband Is In the room
with the trunks all the time, dny and
night.
In conversation the other evening ho
said that he thought he had been on the
road longer and traveled further than any
other diamond salesman wlrhout being
robbed. The only time he feels uneasi
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and Jewelry In between the rnltway sta
tions and hotels. He always hires a spe
cial wagon to convey the trunks, and fol
lows In u cab close enough so 4hnt he
always has hls eye on the valuables.
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