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IMPOSING OF DEAD. .-HE CLAIMS OF CREMATION AS “ a HEALTH MEASURE. I t!' Trcsen* Tim About 2.000 TSoillos trt . Annuullr Cremated In the United Bettsioas and Other Objactions jo Cre*w*Uon. fl Tli question cf disposing of the todies of the dead by cremation is an interesting one, and it is not surpris ing that insurance societies and re )jglous associations are giving it their Rendon, says the San Francisco Bul letin. It will probably startle the aver se reader to learn that at the present time about 2 f ooo bodies are annully -rmated in the principal cities of the .{juited States, and according to data recently published for ths years 1876- li;98 there were cremated during this period 8,885 bodies in the various cities cf this country. While there were but jgo cremations during the year 1888, je n years later, that is during 1898, the lumber had reached 1,699. Since then then there has been a further increase, but the complete returns for the past year are not yet available. This in trease has probably been contributed , to by San Francisco in quite as large \ percentage as any of the other large cities, for inquiries at the health of fice here brought the reply that every fear finds cremation in excess of the previous year, The insurance compan ies object t this process of disposing of the dead on the ground that incin eration serves as an incentive to crime, particularly that of poisoning, in view of the increased opportunities of des troying the evidence of guilt. The re ligious element, however, objects whv.ly upon the ground that the Scrip tines require the body to be buried in tAe ground. The objection submitted by the insurance companies presents a new phase of the question. It is easy to conceive how the insurance fraud ( may be encouraged in his conspiracy A FORTUNE IN OLD OUILTS In Georgia a mother and daughter have earned enough money by the making of old fashioned quilts to pay off the mortgage on their farm and re stock it with the best blooded animals and the most approved implements. The mother had received among her wedding presents forty years ago near ly half a hundred beautifully made iiuilts. Only a small number had ever been used, and when the rainy day tame these wedding presents were as good as the day when they had first been stored away in the various cedar chests of the garret. At a loss to know how they were to tarn money for their daily bread the mother at last thought of the quilts. Fancying that some of her country neighbors might be willing to buy them at reduced prices she took them from their hiding places and suggested it to her daughter. Fortunately the daughter had learned that such things were in demand among the northern Afoo\it Toothpicks New York city consumes 700,000,000 wooden toothpicks annually. Nearly all of these come from Japan, Portugal and Maine. Five thousand cords of wood are used for the industry in the United States each year, and 95 per cent of it comes from Maine. The tim ber used is mostly white birch, with some maple, and most of it comes from Franklin county. Outside of the Pine Tree state, the Industry is confined to Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York. When the lumbermen in their ynter camps find a fine white birch ‘fee, its choice portions are laid aside for toothpicks. The logs, after being seasoned in the open air, are taken to the factories, stripped of their bark, automatically cut into veneers about as thick as toothpicks and as wide as •oothpicks are long. Another oper- SUN’S POWER. rt ** th Greatest Heat That nas Been Produced. The problem of lipping the giant strength of the sun, of controlling some portion of the y,swer and heat so freely given to n'.r.n, has been Passed from the ancients to the mod erns through the hands of the great est men of learning of all times with out any adequate solution until the flawn of the twentieth century. The Grecian Archimedes, the Edison of his dsy, was perhaps the first to handle the Question, and to set it traveling d '^’ n the centuries; Ericsson, the and Mouchout, the French man, were among the last to seek the solution, and both succeeded in mak 'u? the sun operate small motors. Nothing more was done, says Pear son’s Magazine, until Dr. William Cal 'er, Washington invented the pan p!iomotor, and can now control a heater degree of heat than man ever grated before. The fiercest degree eat that any one has hitherto been a ole to make is the 6,000 degree that 33 bee n registered in the Electric arc. • Calver is able to generate 24,000 agrees of heat. Of tjiis he is able ®ty, while he is at present at week when the assurance has gone forth that a certain person when dead wiil be cremated. A mercenary wife may destroy her husband far the insurance on his life, and vice versa, for almost as many women are insured in this age as men. Had the insurance fiend, Holmes, who was executed a few years ago, been able to dispose of his victims by cremation, it is doubtful it the law would ever have encompassed him. Numerous other instances might be re called where cremation would have saved the murderer from prosecution and conviction. So that the argument of the life insurance companies is one that appeals to the highest interests of society, to the domestic life of the nation. In the argument of the religionists, however, there is less worthy of con troversy. It is largely a matter of sentiment whether a body be burned or interred in a hole in the ground. The mere fact that the Scriptures con tain no record of incineration is a flimsy excuse for opposing the prac tice. As well hold that because the body of Christ was laid in a tomb the remains of his apostles and of the gen erations following should likewise have been entombed. Indeed it may be suggested here that had the remains of the Savior been committed to earth, as other bodies have been, the world would have fewer doubters than it has. The Scriptures record earth burials for the reason that intelligent cremation was not known at the time. What matters about the body whether it lie in the earth fcod for worms, or be reduced to ashes by incineration? The bottled ashes should surely fur nish as much solace to mourning friends as the meaningless mound in the city cemetery The argument is all on the side of cremation. The pub lic health demands it, and even the in surance companies may be insured against loss by advocating in every city where the practice is permitted a thorough examination of the body, so that the cause of death may be ascer tained before it has been placed in the crematory. The Happy Discovery Made by a Georgia Girl boarders of the large hotels in a fash ionable winter resort near them. She took a few of the best quilts and trudging a distance of nearly five miles offered them for sale to the ladies of the hotel. The prices they paid made her open her eyes, and when they ask ed if she had more she invited them, with all the unconscious independence of a Georgia cracker, to call on her mother and take their pick of the others. Her invitation was accepted that same day, and before the week ended they had not only sold all the old quilts that they would part with, but had taken orders to make others like them to the amount of several hundred dol lars. From this beginning they have worked up a trade that pays them a snug sum each year, and which, the daughter declares now that she has set her farm to rights, she intends pushing to an established and remunerative business. Interesting Statistics Concerning the Little Pieces of Wood. tion cuts these veneers into finished toothpicks at the rate of a thousand a minute. As the manufacture is so rapid the factories run only a few weeks to prepare the supply for a year. The best toothpicks come from Portugal, where they are whittled by hand from orangewood splints by girls, who re ceive 10 cents a day for their labor. These toothpicks are remarkably smooth and do not splinter. They are found in first-class restaurants and in the houses of men who are particular about such conveniences. Japan comes next to Portugal in the number of toothpicks exported to the United States. They arc cut by hand from reeds and are sold in close competition with the American product, notwith standing a duty of 35 per cent, owing to the cheap labor of Ja,pan. constructing an apparatus which will easily give him the mastery over the full amount of heat that he gener ates. With his invention, which, brief ly, consists of an arrangement of mir rors to reflect the sun’s rays upon a fo cusing spot, D,r. Calver could burn down a rocky mountain and reduce it to a level plain without as much as lighting a match. Russian iron, of the kind so unburnabl? that it extinguish es the fire in the fiercest furnace?, melts under the btat at his control as a wax match ir. melted by tho flame. Tough silvci coins or stout glass tumblers become in a moment running liquid in the heat of the fo cused rays; while with his apparatus he will perforate* a soaking-wet plank of wood with a dozen holes in as many seconds. Socialist! Oppose an Italian BUI. The socialist deputies have been most anxious to impretß on the peo ple of Italy that they are not respon sible for the murder of King Humbert, yet at a recent meeting they decided to oppose a bill which the government intends to submit to parliament on the lines of the French law against anarchists, because they consider that the proposed enactment restricts the personal liberty of their fellow-citi zens of the anarchical persuasion. THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERSVILLE. GA. A FAMOUS OFFICER. THRILLING SERVICE OF LIEUT. D. H. JARVIS. He I* lonmmnder of the Unite I State* Revenue Slfßmer ltenr nn<l CnncrnM Has Just Ren anted |llm for ISimery In I.tfo .Savins Within Arctic Circle. A man upon whose breast there rests a medal, struck off by congress at the special request of President McKin ley, for conspicuous bravery shown in tile succoring of human life in the Arc tic circle, is Lieut. David H. Jarvis, commanding the United States revenue cutter Bear and whose remarkable ex periences a3 an officer of the United States government in the far north has made him one of the most famous revenue officers in the marine service. Although but 85 years old Lieut. Jar vis is probably more familiar with our northern territory than any other offi cer, having spent ten summers in northern latitudes. During the past summer Lieut. Jar vis spent most of his time at Nome City, where as commander of the U. S. S. Bear he was the highest officer of the government in that adventur ous city and was really the law. The story of his masterly suppression of what threatened to be an epidemic of smallpox in that faraway mining camp is familiar to all. One of the most noted accomplishments of this famous revenue officer was his heroic rescue SPORTS IN CHURCH. Rev. Milton R. Kerr, pastor of the Congregational church at Westville, a suburb of New Haven, Conn., is at tracting wide attention by his unique methods of drawing to his church those who otherwise would spend their leisure amid less elevating influences. By many the methods of the pastor are warmly supported; by others they are heartily condemned. A peculiar feature in the situation is the fact that the opposition comes largely from members of the church who are not blessed with an abundance of this world’s goods, while the most hearty commendation comes from the wealthy, a class the methods of which meet with Mr. Kerr’s most severe de nunciation. The poor members are afraid Mr. Kerr will drive from the church the necessary support of the rich, while the wealthy members seem REV. M. R. KERR, to agree with the pastor’s idea as to the failings of the rich in the line of duty. One thing is certain—Mr. Kerr’s peculiar methods have succeeded in enlarging the church membership by forty within U’o and a half years and In greatly augmenting the attendance <it morning and evening services. DECLINED with thanks. Famous Writers Who Found It Difficult to Dispose of Works Young writers who find it difficult ,o place their work have no cause for real discouragement. If they have ability they’ll win in the end. Rider Haggard is said to have had his enor mously successful work, King Solo mon’s Mines, rejected by two or three publishers before its ultimate appear ance, when it caught on at once and was the beginning of his fame. Still, it is hard to understand how a book like Vanity Fair could go to twenty publishing houses, to be refused by all. However, Thackeray believed In his own work, and brought it out himseir, the result being fortune and fame. Sartor Resartus was rejected by all the chief publishers of London, who treat ed it with something approaching scorn. Tom Jones, the novel which opened up anew field of fiction, and to which Dickens acknowledged the greatest indebtedness, failed altogeth er to obtain publication until Fielding had made a name as a dramatist. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was refused by a dozen publishers, and it was at length brought out in serial form by a week ly paper. Afterward a small firm was round to publish the tale at the usual are of percentage. Lorna Doone went to many publishing houses before one arm agreed to bring it out. Mr. Barnes of New York, was rejected by all the American and London houses alike to whom it was offered. Mr. Gunter’s eventual decision was to publish the story himself. It was an instant of success, and it is said that out of that tale and Mr. Potter of Texas the au thor made a fortune running into six figures. Even the inimitable Rudyard Kipling had difficulty in finding a publisher for his first successful work, if repoit is true, and now —well, there is perhaps no publisher in any English speaking country , who .would not jump at the chance of producing Qne of the great man’s books always ?ro- of a crew of imprisoned whalers caught in the ice at Point Barrows in the fall of '97. Starting with a small party Lieut. Jarvis succeeded in doing what no white man had hitherto ac complished—making his way overland in the fury of an Arctic winter, through seemingly endless wastes of ice and snow, and arriving at Point Barrows in time to save (he lives of the icebound whalers. It was for that brave deed that he was awarded the medal by congress. If.eut. Jarvis, whose home is ia New ... $ t LIEUT. D. H. JARVIS. Bedford, was bern in Maryland in 1862. He entered the revenue service as a cadet in 1881, became a third lieuten ant in 1888, a second lieutenant in 1890 and a first lieutenant in 1895. vided he possessed the necessary money. A SLAVE OF TOBACCO. Love of the Weed One of the Weak nesses of the Great Carlyle* As is well known, Thomas Carlyie, the great, Scottish essayist and his torian, was a slave to tobacco. In his home", his study or out of doors, he was seldom seen without his pipe, and ho smoked the strongest tobacco he could procure. During the last part of his life he was a sufferer from insomnia., and his friend, Sir Charles Gaven Duffy, once suggested to him that one who suffered so much from sleepless ness and indigestion ought not to smoke so constantly. Carlyle replied that he had once given up smoking for an entire year at the instance of a doc tor, who assured him that his only ail ment was too much tobacco. At the end of the year he was walking one evening in the country, so weary that he was hardly able to crawl from tree to tree, when he suddenly determined that whatever was amiss with him “that fellow at least did not under stand it,” and he returned to tobacco and smoked afterward without let or hindrance. In his latter days he used a clap pipe made in Dublin and known as the “Repeal.” He was unable to renew the supply and Sir Charles Duffy assured him that, these pipes were strictly reserved for beiievers in Irish nationality and promised him a supply if he qualified in the ordinary man ner, Carlyle never qualified. FUEL FROM SAWDUST. Austrian Firm Makes a Profitable Busi ness of It. The increasing scarcity and dearness of the ordinary kinds of fuel are lead ing European manufacturers to the consideration of various new products and combinations which may serve in place of coal and wood. The Ameri can consul at Coburg reports that saw dust is being used extensively in that country for fuel purposes. The saw dust is impregnated with a mixture of tar and heated to the proper tem perature. It is then passed over a plate of iron heated by steam from which a screw conveyor takes it to a press, where it is made into bricks of the required size. One American fam ily produced last year over 7,00u,000 of these bricks, costing about 16 cents a thousand, and selling at from 95 cents to sl. This suggests the ques tion why the dust turned out in such vast quantities by the great sawmills of our lumbering regions, moat of which now goes to waste, might not be converted into a salable product for both domestic and foreign use. If compressed into hard bricks, as in the American process, the difficulty of transportation raised by the bulkiness of the sawdust would be largely elimi nated. Lictnie* Issued to Childrou. Nearly twelve hundred boys and girls are licensed by the city council of Liverpool to sell matches, newspapers, bootlaces, etc., upon the streets. Be fore the licenses are granted consent must be obtained of parents and guard ians, as well as of the local school of ficials. The age limit for girls is from eleven to sixteen years, and for boys from eleven to fourteen years. No child is allowed to peddle in the streets ar ter 9 o’clock in the evening. All must be decently clad and free from physical defects. No business must be done dur ing school hours. Monologue, Not Argument. The late Charles Keene, the artist of Punch, used to describe with great de light the method of a certain man whom he called "a pothouse Ruskin.” This person was sitting with a friend in an inn parlor and was haranguing the other man on matters in general. Finally the friend ventured mildly to interpose an objection. The speaker drew himself up with much dignity. "I ain’t a-arguing with you,” said be, "I’m a-telling you.” WOULD SIGNAL MARS. TESLA SAVS THE PLANET HAS INHABITANTS. And Forthf: mow A*f*rt* That ll* Can Them Fumnih Ulectrlclan hikl Scientist Declarei That. lie hnouj How to Attract Their Attention. Nickola Tesla, the famous electri cian and scientist, positively states that he has discovered a means of signal ing to the planet Mars. "As sure as there is a divine being.” he says, "I have found a way of talking to the people of that planet. 1 made the dis covery a year and a half ago. Al though 1 am ready to talk with the people of Mars, I shall not tell how soon the talking shall begin. All will be told later.” Tesla is a firm believer that the planet Mars is inhabited and says that there should be no doubt on that sub ject. In fact, he speaks with all the positiveness of one who already has held intelligent conversation with the Martians, Tesla is an interesting man in more ways than one. He is of striking phy sique, very tall and slender. His bony head, the complexion denoting the for- NICKOLA TESLA. eigner, and his bright, snapping eyes attract instant attention. He speaks more than half a dozen languages with fluency, although pronouncing with a slight foreign accent, and his quick speech attracts and pleases the ear. Born of humble parents in a Ser vian village about 35 years ago, Tesla has climbed the ladder of fame solely through hard work and ability. His father was a clergyman of the Greek church. His mother was a woman with a distinct gift for invention. It was from her that Nickola believes he received his inventive turn. While a boy he attended the polytechnic school at Gratz, where he acquired his first fascination for mathematics and the study of electricity. Wnile still quite young he obtained a position as as sistant in the government telegraph engineering department at Buda-Pesth. Later he went to Paris, where his hard work and studies continued. Later he crossed the Atlantic and ob tained employment in one of Thomas A. Edison’s laboratories. His assid uousness quickly attracted the atten tion of Edison, and he received much valuable aid. his studies were directed along different lines from those of Edison and the two separated. THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE. Woman Declared to Me In a Decision of a Federal Court. The ancient and vtnerable questior first raised in Adam’s day, and dis cussed with more or less vigor by that gentleman’s descendants ever since, as to who is the head of the house, the man or the woman, has been settled, it may be hoped finally, by Judge Pur nell of the United States circuit court. The point came up in a case in Vir ginia, where a woman, a storekeeper, endeavored to take advantage of the bankruptcy law, but had her petition denied by a lower court on the ground that she was married and living with her husband, she was not the head ol the house. Judge Purnell reversed this decision and rendered n opinion to the effect that a married woman liv ing with or apart from her husband is the head of the household in the legal sense of the term. As this decision is rendered in a federal court, it applies, of course, to the whole country, and all American women from Puget Sound to Calais may rejoice that their status has been fixed beyond further dispute. Husbands and other mascu line usurpers may now step down and out. Foreigners' Rights In Chins. At present, by treaty right, foreign ers are entitled to live and trade in a few cities of China, generally those along the coast and on the big rivers, but it is the intention to revise those treaties so that foreigners can come and buy and sells anj where throughout the empire, engage in all kinds of business and enjoy all the commercial rights that are usually enjoyed by for eigners in civilized countries, to apply to China the same rules and laws that govern foreign residents in England, Germany or France. Turning a FeU to Gooii A-crounl. The rabhits are the greatest pest of New South Wales. At one period over 100,000,000 acres were infested with them and 25.280,000 were destroyed in one year and their skint paid for by the government. It is estimated thai altogether about 18,000 miles of rab bit proof wire netting fences have al ready been erected, and many hun dreds of miles more are now in course of erection. Latterly an export trade In frozen rabbits and in rabbit skins has sprung up, and it is expected that by and by it will reach great propor tions. TOM HOOD AS A JOKER. How Hr Oner Go! Hi* Wile Into it Riml Scrnpe. It is one of the Ironies of fate that a wit or humorist is sometimes married to a prosaic, jest-proof woman or an imaginative, humor-loving woman to a literal-minded, matter-of-fact man. li has been suspected that Laurence Sterne, the creator of ”My Uncle Toby” and Shandy and Uorporal Tim, had such a wife as the former, by whom his siy, rich bits of Rabelaisian humor —his mediaeval double enten dres, his quoilibets and quid pro quos modeled on Scarron and exploding like pyrotechnics—were not. only unappre ciated, but almost unnoticed. How for tunate <* was for that prince of lesters. Thomas Hood, that, with his fondness for both verbal and practical jests, he was married to a woman of the sweet est temper, who, though often cheated by them, conid join in the laugh which they provoked even when at her own expense! On one occasion, when living by the seaeoast. Hood gave his wife some useful hints on buying fish. "Above all things, .Jane,” said he, “as they will endeavor to impose on your inexperi ence, lot nothing induce you to buy a paice that has any appearance of r< il or orange spots, as they are sure signs of an advanced stage of decomposi tion,” Armed with this information and rather anxious to show off he r knowledge, Mrs. Hood was prepared to do battle with the cunning fisher woman, one of whom soon afterward called. As It happened the woman had nothing but plaice, which had the ominous spots, and Mrs. Hood, shak ing her head, hinted her fears that the fish wore not fresh. In vain did the fisherwoman insist that, they were only just out of the water. Mrs. Hood, in the innocence of her heart and the pride of conscious knowledge, was ready. “My good, woman, it may he as yon say, but T should never think of buy ing any plaice with unpleasant red spots.” “Lord bless yer eyes, mum!” re plied the astonished fisherwoman with a shout, "who ever seed plaice with out spots?” A suppressed giggle cn the staircase behind her revealed the joke, and, turning her head hastily, Mrs. Hood caught, sight of her husband hurried ly disappearing in an ecstacy of laughter, leaving her to appease t.ho angry sea symph as best she could. llno*in’n Advance In Machine Tool*. Most Englishmen must feel aston ishment at the headway made by France, Germany and Russia in recent years; it is a revelation which, sus pected by some and known to a few, was undreamed of by most. Germany and France have the largest exhibits of machine tools at tne Champs do Mars, Tut if the Vincennes annex at the Paris exposition is included t.hd Americans come out a good first, both in size and in point of interest. Bel gium. Switzerland and Italy make com paratively little show in machine tools, though strong in other produc tions. A feature that is likely to as tonish many is the appearance hero in force ol Russia. In metallurgy chiefly, in railway plant, and in ma chine tools, though in a lesser, degree, she occupies an important position. And it is not that of an amateur, but of a people in possession of sound practical knowledge. That great, and until recently inert nation, has defi nitely entered into rivalry with the western nations of Europe and we may anticipate that not many years will elapse before that rivalry will be se verely felt. The nation that figures s:<> largely herr in metallurgy and in ma chinery, and that is able to construct a trans-Siberian railway without out side help, is capable of great things— Cassier’s Magazine. :■ . The Amricn SohIU r in CTiinit. In spite of his,many handicaps, the American soldier has fully held hia own. He has numerous weaknesses, but fear of the enemy is not, fortunate ly for the security of the; republic, among them. I heard foreign officers freely criticise his military manners, and organization, but never,, tys fight ing qualities, once his burden pf ; anti quated methods has been cpst asida and he faces the foe on the firing-fine. Then he is as he always was, and, let us hope, always will be. In ,all the criticism one hears there is, an under current of respect. 1 never ; see ,him in a fight but 1 feel, wua absolute, cer tainty that the American soldier, will ever give a good account of himself if not asked to do more than should ho asked of a man. Other elements being approximately equal, the stoutest heart and steadiest nerve will win the most battles. In uiese qualities IJnole Sam’s boys are second to none. ’“They'vo done their share,” is the verdict of people in China who nave been here through it all.—-Thomas F. Millard, in Scribner’s. Where Pigeon* Were I'le-nlitnl. The American ornithologist; Alex ander Wilson, who undertook many journeys in several parts of the States to collect knowledge for his great work on the feathered creation, stated that near Shelbyville, Kv.. he came upon a roosting place of the carrier pigeons upward of 40 miles in extent. He found the branches of • almost every tree in the country, which was thickly wooded, filled with pe,sj.s. . A marvelous spectacle was presented by the pigeons in flight, as on rising. from the trees they formed fluttering multi tudes, with wings roaring like thunder. Early every morning the pigeons set out for their feeding plac e at a dis tance cf from 20 to 60 miles,away, and the advanced party generally arrived back by noon. * ~*.