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A CHEAT 'BEJVEFIT Tho founder o! the United States Life-Saving St* ire. Dr. William A. Mewefll, is still living at the ripe age of 83 and pracf i<-ing his profession of medicine at Allentown, N. J. I)r. New ell's thoughts vv re fleet directed to the question of lit iving by his witness ing the wreck -f a vessel at Ixong Bfuach, N. J., m which thirteen lives wore lost. The- was in 1839. In 1846 Hr. Newell entered congress and there began hts agila' >n for some method by which navigation along a certain por tion of the New Jersey coast might be rendered less dangerous. Among those whom he Interas supporters of his views were Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams. When the light house bill of iae senate came before the house for onsideration, Dr. New •ii offered a .second resolution, provid ing for surf-bonts. rockets, carronades ami other necessary apparatus for the better presei rion of life and prop erty from shipwreck along the New Jersey coast. An appropriation of 010,000 was asked. This resolution in itbe form of an amendment to the light house bill wr.n unaaitnously adopted. In the third session of the thirtieth congress, an extension of the service from Little harbor to Cape May • * DR WILLIAM A. NEWELL. WHERE THE DAY BEGINS. Yl Internatlunnl Date Lina. as Uccog nlr.cil l>v Our Nuvt* What is known ns the International f>a.te Line, where the day changes, as vessels sail across the Pacific, lies along the meridian ISO degrees west of Greenwich, hut does not follow it ex actly It deviates slightly to the east and again to the west at various points In order to include certain islands into the area in which the American date is kept and vice versa, to include other islands in the area iu which the Asiatic date. Is kept. W hen this line is crossed (going west skippers gain a day: when tly cross it going east they lose one. Tlge United States navy recognizes the lino as beginning at a point north o£ Siberia, southeast to Bering Strait, through which it passes midway, leav ing the St. iAwrence island on the American side, and, turning, passes in * southwesterly direction, crossing the WOth meridian at about latitude 60 de grees north, to a point just to west ward of the Near Islands, so that all of tb< Aleutian islands may be on the American side; thence in a southeast erly direction back to <h. 180th meri lbn at a latitude of al*out 48 degrees worth, thence alon ; the 1 SOth meridian to a point 5 degrees south latitude, thence in a direction about southeast toy south to a point midway between the Fiji and Hainoan Islands, the SYlendly Islands being on the Asiatc •Hie; thence about south by west to the vicinity of Chatham, leaving it on the Asiatic side; thence in a southwester ly direction back uj the 180th meridian, where It remains. Yt* Permit Ia Urctntgl CnH*. There is a farm in Wisconsin for the ywtoting of wormwood, from the oil of Which that dreadful drink, absinthe, is procured. Tli- oil has a remarkable penetrating power and for this reason -Ab much used In '.he making of oint ments. Absinthe itself ig becoming a power ful curse to mankind. It .has secured awoh a stronghold in Paris that the government is taking step.: to stop the •ale of the "green terror” in France. It was absinthe in the hands of Mc- Allister, Campbell, Kerr, and Death which caused Jennie Bosschleter'g Aeath one lonely night at Paterson, N. J., for which crime the men were sen tenced to long terms of imprisonment. A large dose of the oil will produce rn&erisibility, convulsions, dilated pu- Bdls, sluggish pulse, and other serious effects- -the after-effect often including _,. “ Uhe Lif e - SaOtntf Service of the \/niled States. was secured, with an appropriation of SIO,OOO. In the next congress an addi tional appropriation of $20,000 was made, as the result of Dr. Newell’s ef forts, and the experiments were ex tended to other points on the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico. In 1857-59 Dr, Newell was governor of New .Jersey; and in 1861 he was ap pointed by President Lincoln as super intendent of the New Jersey coast lifo saving service. Returning to congress in 1865, he was enabled, from his four years' experience in the work, to great ly advance the usefulness of the sys tem. In 1866 he proposed extensions of the service, and successfully advo cated appropriations of $50,000. Today the government appropriates for this purpose more than $1,500,000 annually, maintaining nearly 300 res cue stations, manned by 2.000 brave and skilled wreckers and life-savers. It is said that this feature of our gov ernmental system, which is under the direction of the treasury department at Washington, has no counterpart in any other country. It is estimated that 225,000 lives have been saved by the methods which Dr. Newell originated, and in great part perfected, half a cen tury ago. tense thirst, tingling in the ears, illu sions of sight and hearing, and other disagreeable results. A person in a stupor from the drug experiences tho most pleasant dreams and imaginings. Like all excesses, it kills the gentl* emotions, freezes kindness, rouses Ip. man the spirit of the beast, and accom plishes more vile deeds than are dreamed of. Once the habit of using absinth® is contracted escape from its bondage is most difficult. Uvlnjg Down a Hoodoo. A New York hotel that is daily over crowded with patronage of the first class was designed as an apartment house and occupied as such until ghosts drove the tenants away. Every night there were strange noises in each of the 350 or 400 rooms. The occu pants lost sleep and nerves. Women were afraid to be left alone in broad daylight. Leases were ruthlessly bro ken and people moved away in swarms. The news that the place was haunted spread all over the country, enticing scores of bold investigators. The noises continued, but no ghost was >een. The proprietor was in despair. Some advised him to burn the house down, others to wreck It. Finally he sold. Another of New York's seven day sensations dropped out of mind, and presently new tenants, who had never heard of the "haunts.” flocked in to take avantage of the reduced rates. Today we witness the spectacle of a hoodoo lived down in the very heart of our great city.—New York Press. V.kin’* R*ra*rhbl llella. Pekin is rich in remarkable bells. th finest specimens being located in the hell tower on the western aide of the tartar Gity, and the TRchungsu. or temple of the great bell, beyond the city wall. The latter contains the great bell of Pekin, cast by order of the Emperor Yong-Lo In 1115 and hung in the present tower by the En*>eror Waulcb in 1578. This gigantic object is 15 feet In height, is 9 inches thick, and has a circumference of 34 feet at the rim. It weighs 53Vi tons, and is cov ered inside and out with •iscriptions from the Buddhist outras in Chinese characters Multiplex Tfprprlutln t Telegraph. According to the Cologne Gazette, the Baudot multiplex typeprlntlng tel egraph operates so excellently that the w hole telegraph business between Ber lin and Paris, ivbich heretofore requir ed five telegraph lines, can now be eas ilv done over one. THE WEEKLY NBWS, CARTERS v /LLE, GA. : IT STIRS THE HEART. A LOVE STORY OF THE LONG AGO. Koinunc* of 400 Yean Ago Wblcb RtlU F.icllm Interest How PhlUlpiae Welser ■ Peasant Girl Won the Lose of a Fringe. Of all the sweet, true love Bturlos that hr.ve come down to us from anti quity none is more charming t&fto that of Philippine Welser, wife of Ferdi nand, archduke of Austria and count of the Tyrol, writes Annette I* NohJe, In The Book World. After a lapse of nearly 400 years her memory is kept green and her picture Is found todpy in almost every house in Innsbruck. Philippine was born in the city of Augsburg, Bavaria, and grew up to be one of the most beautiful women of her day. When she was 17 the famous Diet of Augsburg, where the first Prot estant confession of faith was pre sented to the Emperor Charles V., was held and it was then that Ferdinand first saw the beautiful girl. It was a case of mutual love between them. But the Emperor, the proud grandson of the great Maximilian, interposed and threatened Ferdinand that if he married Philippine he would never be received at court. Ferdinand was not deterred. He was by right Count of Tyrol and among his possessions was a delightful old castle, high above the valley in which lay the city of Inns bruck. So he married Philippine and took her in the sunshine of her youth to his castle, where she lived, beloved by her people, until death claimed hei’ 30 years later. The only cloud which ever darkened the married life of Philippine was tho Emperor’s coldness. For herself she did not care, hut she deeply felt far her husband and their two hoys, all of whom were excluded from the im perial favor. She begged her husband to make peace for them and for him self and leave her alone In the shadow of royal displeasure, but Ferdinand re fused. And then she tried her own expedient. One day, keeping her pur- PHILIPPINE WELSER. pose a secret, she clad herself In a way to enchance her every charm, and, tak ing with her the two boys, she went unbidden into the presence of the Emperor. Once face to face with him. then kneeling at his feet in tears, she left him to guess for himself at the parentage of the two little fellow's who, with their mother’s beauty, had their father’s noble bearing. Grandfathers’ hearts are soft the world over. When Philippine left the Emperor’s presence she went as the honored and acknowl edged wife of a pardoned sou and on the two boys had been bestowed titles suited to their rank as grandsons of an Emperor. Almost 400 years have since passed, but the descendants of Philippine Wel ser still hold the old castle and the sweet story of her love and loyalty still is told in the region around. Seen In a Dream. Special Policeman Harry Hagcrty, of the Pennsylvania railroad, lias be come a firm believer in dreams. This is because, the other night, in a dream he saw four men drilling into the safe of the Phoenixville station. He rushed into the room, according to the dream, threw one of the men on the floor, and, w'hile holding him down by a Arm grasp on his throat, began to cry loudly for help. The shrieking of a passing engine, as he thought, woke him up, when he found that he was clutching his wife by the neck, and that her screams of terror were the noise that he imagined was the whistle of a locomotive. It was 1:30 a. in., when Hagerty related the dream to his better half, who, after 3ome gen tle admonitions, allowed him to go to sleep again. Upon glancing over The Record the next morning he was as tonished to find that a gang of four burglars had blown the safe to atoms at the Phoenixville station at 1:30 a. in., and had escaped on a handcar, which was subsequently found near Frazer. Hagerty claims that he can tell the faces of the four men ii he ever runs across them, as their fea tures are as vivid to his mind as if he had actually been on the scene.— Philadelphia Record. Will Employ Only Mon. Some business men will not employ women, on the principle that every woman employed deprives a man of a position, and makes It harder for him to take care of some woman, says Suc cess. Julius Scoten.. a St. Louis, Mo., merchant, will not have a woman in his store, and will not employ a male clerk for less than $75 a month. He declares it costs him $2,500 more to conduct his business with men only, but he makes more happy firesides than he could with his store filled A M'KINLHY STORY. Ha Uad No Thought of Raaehiag tho Whlto Hoim 12 Year. Ago. The second inauguration of Presi dent McKinley suggested the follow ing to a former western congressman who is visiting New York: “I was in Washington on the day of the inauguration of President Harri son. Major McKinley, as he was then called, was In the lower house of con gress. Anyway, he was In Washington on the day referred to. He was stay ing at the Ebbitt House and so was I. “After the procession I went Into the dining room rather late. Major Mc- Kinley was alone at a table and beck oned me to It. Naturally, we talked of the event of the day, and I said among other things that I presumed he would be in the same place as Harrison some Jay. He replied in these words as nearly as I recall them: “‘lt is the one thing which would, always make me hesitate to he presi dent.’ (Meaning the parade.) 'I sup pose we must all have an inaugural parade, and address from the east side of the capitol, and review. But I would dread them if I were president. And then there is the Inaugural ball. “ ‘lf I had my own way about It I should dispense with that unless t/ie date could be changed as it ought to be. The inaugural address should he de livered in the lower house. Few of the people who assemble in front of the building egn hear the address. They go there to see the president. They could see him much better along the line of the parade. “ ‘Some of these days, unless we change the date of our inauguration, a president will die from the effects of exposing himself by appearing as he is now required to do first as a speaker and afterward at the reviewing stand in front of the white house.’ “While he was talking I was listen ing. He talked and ate at the same time, and I remember distinctly that his ability to do the latter left me without any nuts and raisins. He hogged the w r hole layout, and I told him so, in a joking way. He replied: “ ‘Well, if I ever get to be president you come over to the white house and i will .give you all the nuts and rais ins you can hold.’ “I have never seen him since he be came president, but if ever 1 go to Washington while he is in the white house 1 am going to hold him his promise. But 1 shall want the first whack at the stand for McKinley can eat nuts faster than any man I ever saw.” GEN. CHAFFEE’S GALLANT DEED How Ho Gained a Not # ed Distinction in a Figlit with the Apaches. The battle of “big dry wash” in the cummer of 18S2, in which Gen. Chaffee won distinction, is cherished by caval rymen as one of the most gallant fights in their arm of the service. About 150 White Mountain Apaches, who had ta ken to the warpath, were on one side of a canyon in the Mogollon plateau. Chaffee, a major, with a pursuing troop of the sixth cavalry, held the summit of a rocky hill commanding the en trance to the canyon. The battle went on for hours. One of the scouts fell some two score yards from where Chaf j fee was standing. A second scout at Chaffee’s elbow remarked that the ! fallen man was done for, but the ma j jor saw that he was only wounded. I “Come along,” he said, “we’ll fetch him iu.” Then he threw himself flat on the ground and crawled toward the wounded soldier. The scout followed. 31owly and painfully Chaffee and his companion, in the face of a concen trated fire from all the Indians, worked their way to the wounded man and half carried, half dragged, him back within the lines. The handful of troopers on the rock thrilled with the deed that had been performed, forgot the task in hand, stopped fighting and began to j cheer. This made Chaffee furious, and j he shouted at the top of his voice: “Shut up that noise and go on shoot ing!” Thus recalled to the work of fighting Indians, Cfiaffee’s men again turned their attention to their carbines and, relieved in the nick of time by two troops of the third cavalry, slowly they fought the foe to a standstill. The Apaches, almost to a man, were killed or captured. Chaffee was breveted a lieutenant colonel for this day’s work, I and in 1897 the brevet became a com | mission. Government Helps the Farmer. In New Zealand, the Interests of the farming population are very closely watched by the government and the farmers are aided in many ways. This is especially so as to the dairy indus try. The government loans money to butter-makers, making each advances up to SIO,OOO under certain conditions. The interest paid is 5 per cent and the loan is to be repaid within fifteen years in half-yearly installments. The gov ernment has also cold storage plants, where all butter Intended for export is frozen, given free storage for a month and then put on the steamer. The law provides that all exported butter must pass through these plants, and thus he subject to government inspection. Th© Great Mtlmo Palace. Work is in progress near Monterey, Mexico, on the great Milmo palace, which when completed will he the largest private residence, except Bilt more, on the American continent. On all sides, as far as the eye can reach extend the 578,000 acres, or nine hun dred square miles of the Milmo estate, dotted here and there with beautifnl Mexican forests and crossed by half a score of rivers rising in the distant mountains. The palace, a marble pile 400 feet Jong and 380 feet wide, will consist of two porticos, or colonnaded courts, surrounded by low buildings of the true lonian architecture. QUAINT MONARCH. IS luitpold the present RULER OF BAVARIA. A King in Fact Who May toon Rfcom* a King In Name—He Recently Cele brated His Eightieth Birthday—The Ablest of Knropeau Monarch*. The recent celebration of the 80th birthday of Prince Luitpold, of Ba varia, has served to call attention tc one of the least known, yet ablest, ot European monarchs. While not a King in name, Luitpold is such in fact, per forming the duties of sovereign as re gent tfor Ihis insane nephew, King Otto. Additional Importance attaches to his person just now, from the fact that the King is very ill and cannot survive another month, according to his doctors. When he dies Luitpold will be actually King of Bavaria and while his responsibilities will be in no wise enlarged it will give him a more equal standing among the royal heads of Europe. With the exception of Christian, of Denmark, he will he, if he becomes King, the oldest ruler in Europe. Luitpold is one of the remarkable men of the old world and is said to he the most popular prince in Germany. He is the one sturdy figure of a royal family who stapds forth conspicuously and honorably in contrast with its other weaklings and incompetents. His father was Louis 1., who forfeited his throne because he could not resist the blandishments of Lola Montez, the American beauty, and fthose neglect of his royal duties, while spending his time with this adventuress, brought about a revolution in 1848. Luitpold then was entrusted with executive du ties. When Maximilian. Luitpold’s eldest brother, came to the throne, the younger man’s was the guiding hand of his reign. Upon Maximilian’s death and the assumption of power by Louis 1., Luitpold was for a time in the back ground, hut the King’s insane desire for pleasure and his general mental incompetence ultimately necessitated his entrusting the task of governing the kingdom to Luitpold. When Louis PRINCE LUITPOLD, OF BAVARIA, died and crazy Otto became King, Luit pold was formally declared regent and has since performed all the functions of a sovereign. The Bavarian regent has seen some fighting. In ‘the war of 1866 he com manded the troops of Bavaria and at Helmstadt made a gallant defense. In the Franco-Prussian war he received the iron cross for gallantry at Ville pion and it was he who, on behalf of the various rulers of the sovereign states of Germany, tendered the crown of the German empire to William of FTussia. The most intimate friend of Luitpold is Fjjanz Joseph, of Austria, and they spend much time together, despite their advanced years, in stalk ing the chamois on the Tyrolean Alps. Shoes for Geese —Spectacles for Cows. Cows wearing spectacles and gesse wearing shoes are not common, but they exist. In Bohemia, when geese are to bo driven for a long distance to a market, they aie made to walk re peatedly over patches of t.ar mixed with sand. This forms a hard crust on their feet, which enables them to walk for great distances without, be coming sore-footed. In one section of the Russian steppes are to be found 40,000 cows wearing spectacles. In that region the snow lies white on the ground for six months of the year, and the cattle pick a scanty living from the tufts of grass which grow below it. The sun shines so dazzlingly upon the white surface that the animals form erly suffered from snow-blindne3s. Then it occurred to some humane per son to try smoked glasses for the cat tle. The experiment proved a success, and large orders were given for the strange spectacles. “A. gg le'’ Ride, the Wheel. People who have the impression that Aguinaldo is a barbarian are evidently very much mistaken, for it is an undis puted fact that he is an accomplished bicycle rider. When in Hong Kong his favorite diversion was bicycling and he is said to have been one of the nattiest riders on Governor’s road. He wore the regulation cycle costume and was invariably accompanied by his secre tary', Sixto Lopes, now in Boston. He rode a high-geared American wheel and was a strong, graceful rider. He took his bicycle with him to Manila and had it been a race on wheels be tween him and Funston it is probable that he would not be a captive today | Slock Exchange Scat Sell. f 538.000. ! It is said that $58,(H)0 was paid for a seat in the stock exchange in New York Monday. The prediction is made that if the present activity in stocks continues, $60,000 will be paid for a single seat. CENTURY OLD AND WORKING. Wonders Wh*4 Will Happen to Ql When He Gets Axed. The new superintendent of street at Calais. Me., has just reappoint*! Patrick Meyers, who will be 105 y e ,“ old next June, to his old place as cus. todian of the city sidewalks. a p™ which he has held for 37 consecutive years. In 1854. when substitutes were getting from SBOO to SI,OOO to go to th war, and national and state bountiel made the total sum up to $1,500 to $i 800, Myers enlisted, and having passed a successful examination as to his physical abilities, was rejected on ac count of his age, being 68 years old at that time. “It was discouraging to me,” said Myers, in speaking of the matter last week. “I was a poor nun and the bounty money would have bought me a fine home, which I should have enjoyed after serving out my time in the army. I felt so bad that I didn’t care to do any kind of work for nearly a year. I knew I was as .strong and healthy as 1 ever was, and age doesn’t count to men built the way I was. After a time I secured a job for the city to work on the streets When I had been digging sewer ditches and shoveling dirt for ten years they put me in charge of the sidewalks, where I have been for a long time. My work is not hard, but it keeps me busy. I earn my money and intend to stick to the work as long as they will have me.” The old man lives in a small house, which he has bought and paid for out of his earnings at $1.50 a day. His widowed daughter acts 03 housekeeper for him. Report says he has a tidy sum in the local savings bank. His body is bent from hard work and he limps at times when the rheu matism gets into his legs, but his gen eral health is still good. He eats his three meals a day and sleeps ten hours every night. He has smoked two 10- cent plugs of tobacco a week for the past 94 years, never any more nor any less. Years ago he took a glass of whisky when he "felt that he needei it, hut was never addicted to the habit. Since he has passed his hundredth birthday he has frequently regretted that he was not permitted to enter the army. “If I had served a year or two," said he, “I could get a pension to help j me out when I grow old and unable to work. Lots of men younger than I am who were in the army and never received a scratch are drawing as much as sl2 a month, I am told.’’ —Chicago Journal. Oldest Family In Great Britain. F. L. O’Brien, of Dublin, in speaki'4 of the antiquity of some of the Iria families, told the following story: “There lives in the North of Ireland* said Mr. O’Brien, “a family name! O’Neil. Their greatest claim to promi nence lies in the fact that they are the oldest family in the United Kingdom. When Plantagenet, Tudor or Guelph was not, the O’Neil was. They ruled: as kings before ever William lookew with covetous eye across the. EngMj Channel toward the white cliffs of Al bion. This long line of descent hai bred in the family a reverence for their ancestry that approaches idol atry. The mainspring of their life and action, the pride of their being, is that a long line of dead and long since for gotten O’Neils carry them hack in th* direct line to the Dark Ages. As ma! be imagined, their family tree is coloal sal in its proportions.. It has a length of something like eighteen or nineteen feet, and when it is unrolled at tbl castle a holy hush falls over all. TANARUS a visitor there some years ago was! in due course of time and as a special mark of favor, shown this marvelous! pedigree. Stretched on the enormous! billiard table, it lapped three feet a1 either end. The visitor’s eye rail back over that lengthy line of O’Neilsl long since turned to dust, and he won* dered why they took so insane a pridß iu their descent.. Just then he becafflfl conscious that that thought had oc* curred to other aliens, who had before* times seen the O’Neil family tree, jfl penciled note in the margin, about hajß way down the tree, caught his eye. read: ‘Just here came Adam.’ N*® ; York Tribune. I —■ "■ ■ Fruit a tt Medicine. m According to a celebrated health e*B | pert, blanched almonds give the high*® nerve or brain and muscle food, a 15 ® the man who wishes to keep up bjj brain power will do well to incluß them in his daily bill of fare. fruits give more or less the high*® nerve or brain food, and are eaten MB ; all men whose living depends on tbei® ! clear-headedness. Apples supply ft"B I brain with rest. Prunes are said to lB | ford proof against nervousness, hut j not muscle-feeding. They should ! avoided by those who suffer from J liver. But it has been proved t®V I fruits do not have the same e upon everybody. Some men CSB *U eat. apples without suffering fro® uC "J dyspepsia. “Fruit cure’’ is a for® treatment which is quite the ragp continental Europe now with Per suffering from real or Imaginary H adies. I Orig'nal European Eaueo.C**- It is said by philologists r . 1 are thirteen original European guages. the Greek. Latin, Genua® ‘‘J vonic, Welsh. Biscayan, Irish. an, Tartarian, Illyrian, JaZ ' g ‘ V Chaucin and Finnic. B England'* Drink Bill. . Last year England spent on $667,607,215, an average of * ?0 ‘ JM head of population; Scotland e*P $71,529,305, an average of $16.58 _ and Ireland $65,322,070, an $14.40 a head. I The straw plaiting industry o 51M ,V nd gives employment to * ' ft 000 women and 4,000 to 6,000 ffl ■