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ij Eth&n A. Hitchcock Though generally regarded as less Important than ms! of the cabinet po sitions and ' Hiking below six of them in the presidential succession. that of secretary of -he interior has a greater diversity cf duties than any of the other portfolios An outline of the scope of his department indicates but ruoagerly <h. duties and responsibili ties that oooie to him in a day. The general land office, the patent office, the bureau of pensions, office of Indian affairs, offi- e of education, oflice com missioner or railways, the geological survey and the central office all pour a mass of knotty and difficult problems into the sorrefary s office for solution. The education of children in Alaska; introduction of reindeer in Alaska; general supervision find application of the money appropriated for agricultu ral colleges in the different states, now aggregating $J ,200.000 per annum; land-grant railroads; internal affairs of Indian Toritory, Arizona, Hawaii, New Mexico, Alaska and Porto Rico; na tional parks and government reserva tions; ele. .smosynarv institutions of the District of Columbia, including the hospital for the insane, now having un der construction a miilion-dollar addi tion; Freedmen’s Hospital, Howard In stitute, and c hospital for the deaf, dumb and blind; the care, repair and ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK. THE PET LAME VICTORIA. An lucidant of Mir F.ur!j l>;iv of the ItrltUU tjueen. John Kxton. a wealthy merchant of i this city, uu Englishman by birth, once had an interview with Queen Victoria without Itf 'e in it. it was near the close of the 'Bos and Queen Victoria had been on the throne but a short time. Young Exton and his brother Adam were playing near a stream that ; flowed through their native town one day. when they saw a matronly look ing woman approaching, accompanied by a beautiful young laity. They ap proached the boys and engaged them in conversation, both oi the ladies stroking their hair in a kindly way. John and his brother had with them a lamb whose fleece w'as of snowy white ness. says tue Philadelphia inquirer. The elder of the ladies asked John how much he would sell the lamb for. Drawing himself up to his full height, John said that the lamb was named Victoria and that nobody could have her but the queen. “And cau the queen have her?" ask ed the lady. ‘‘Yes,*’ said John. The ladies seemed to be greatly pleased with his reply and before their depart ure the yuutigor of the ladies slipped a coin into the hands of the boys and made them foal for the time being among the rich men of England. A short time after that incident a gomtle inan called at the Exton home and* said the queen desired the lamb Vic toria, and it was given to him. but not without receiving ample compensation. An official of the town explained to the Extons that the ladies were none other than Queen Victoria and her mother, who were going out among her people in disguise.— Chicago News. I.ed a Varied Cart-fr. Ex Congressman George Willard, who died at his home in Hattie Creek, Mich., the other day, was born in Bol ton, Vt„ and at the age of 12 went with his parents to Michigan, where in turn he became student, teacher, minister, professor, member of congress and editor. He was rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal church at Kalamazoo for two years, but resigned from the min istry because of the conservatism of the society. For ten years he was re gent of Michigan university, and it was largely his influence that opened the doors of the institution to women. He was elected in 1872 to congress, where he served four his most notable achievement bo*ug 3 vigorous speech against the “fo'T.e bill” that was not relished by many of his Re publican colleagues. Mr. Willard es tablished the Battle Creek Journal in SIDE LIGHTS ON A POPULAR CABI NET OFFICER.?* reconstruction work of the national capitol —these and scores of others mqko up the burden carried by the secretary of the interior. In this trying position, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, of St. Loui3. the present incumbent, has acquitted himself most creditably and enjoys the esteem of his chief and hi3 subordinates as well. Mr. Hitchcock is a great-grandson of Ethan Allen, of Vermont. He was born in Mobile, Ala., September 19, 1835, lived a year at New Orleans and then removed to Nashville, Tenn., where he attended private schools, completing his course of study in \WU> at the military academy in New Haven Then he went to St. Louis and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1860 he went to China as the representative of a large commercial concern. In 1872 he retired from business and spent a couple of years in Europe. Returning to the United States in 1874, he was en gaged as president of several manu facturing, mining and railway compa nies, until he was appointed in 1897 en voy extraordinary and minister pleni potentiary to Russia. When the title of this commission was changed to am bassador, Mr. Hitchcock was the first to be thus designated. In 1899 he was appointed secretary of the interior to fill the vacancy caused by the retire ment of Cornelius Bliss. 1872, and managed the paper up to tho time of his death. Th Hill Uiw a Counterfeit. In a well-known New Yortt restau rant the other evening a youth who had just eaten a substantial meal v as sisted by a very pretty girl, was stam mering and blushing at the cashier's desk. He had just discovered the loss of his pocket book and money, he said. His watch was gone likewise. The cashier, being suspicious of all man kind, received the tale scornfully, de manded instant satisfaction and threatened to call a policeman. The youth seemed ou the verge of collapse and the lady was about to faint when an elderly, • well-dressed man bustled up to the desk. ‘ How dare you ac cuse this gentleman of being a swin utet?” he demanded, wrathfully. “I don't know him myself, but I am sure he is honest.” Then, handing over a new $lB bill, the elder Samaritan paid the check himself and hurried out. The grateful youth ran after him. “Oh, thank you.” he girT^ 4 *-; *:1 "C.". have your card and I’ll send you the money iu the morning.” “Never mind, dear boy,” replied the elderly one. as he boarded a cable car, “don’t s take the trouble. It was a counter feit.” RimeJl Snge at a Humorist- Russell Sage, the New York multi millionaire, has never been exploited as a humorist, yet he is net devoid of the sense. His Yankee ancestry re appears in his face, figure, speech and thought. Once, when Manhattan Ele vated stock went below par, someone asked him his age. He smiled, an swered and added: “But, like the Elevated, I propose to go above 100,” To an impertinent friend who asked what was the most philanthropic way of using a largf fortune he replied: “Keep it constantly active, in order to give employment to the largest number of human beings.” When he gave Sage hall to the Troy Female semiuary* someone said: “Why don’t you present it to some men’s college?” Mr. Sage responded quickly: “The women needed it the most.” The Popular Carnation. A carnation mania has taken hold of flower buyers. At a conservative esti mate it required 500,000 carnations to supply the demand in New York city during Easter week. These flowers sold from 35 to 50 cents a dozen for the inferior kinds to $5 and $6 a dozen for choice varieties. At least $75,000 was spent by New Yorkers to satisfy their liking for these flowers THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERSYILLE. GA. HYPNOTIC 1 THICKS. AS REVEALED BY A FAMOUS SUBJECT. The tVnuilerfu! Training XVMcti Mails Thoma. Minnock u Master In the Art of D.-ct)j>Mon —Can Control Ite.jilration. Heart and I'ulae. That many of the mysteries of hyp notism are nothing more than clev erly executed tricks is proven, if the statements of Thomas Minnock are true. Perhaps no one is better quali fied to speak on this subject. For years he has acted as a hypnotic sub ject, or ‘ horse,” as the character is termed in the language of the profes sion. He Is one of that class of men who sleep for hours in a store window, are buried alive, drink and eat pois onous substances, and submit to hav ing pins and needles stuck into their flesh without flinching. He claims to have traveled with such noted hyp notists and magnetic healers as San tanelli, Schlatter, Keen, the Lees, the Sages, and to have received his train ing from the famous Dr. Charcot of Paris. He has not only deceived the general public, but some of the world’s leading scientists and physicians. His training has led him to gain a won derful control of his faculties and or gans. He can control his heart beats and respiration, anti produce an ac tion in the muscles in his wrists to in dicate that the pulse is not beating the same in each. Ill* Karlv Training:. Minnock was brought to the atten tion of Dr. Charcot in Brussels, Bel gium. He went to Europe with Bar num’s circus and acted the part of the “baby clown.” This consisted in run ning about the ring and imitating all the acts of the real clown. Dan Rice was the clown and the old funmaker thought a great deal or the boy. When the show was in England Minnock at tracted the attention of the manager of a local circus. It was a small affair, but the manager offered him a larger salary than he was getting and he accepted it. The circus went to the Brussels exposition and became stranded and wrecked in the Belgium capital. Minnock had no money and when almost on the verge of starva tion appealed to the American con sul. That official could not furnish him with transportation to the United States, but gave him a little money and a note of introduction to Dr. Charcot, who was then in Brussels. The doctor was impressed with the ap- THOMAS MINNOCK. pearauce of the boy and took him in his service. Then his training as a hypnotic subject commenced. He says: “The doctor began to stickpins into various parts of my body, but only pricked me a little, and. though I winced considerably, I at last learned to submit quietly, no matter how deep ly the pins were stuck into me. The* lie taught me to lower my respiration and heart action at will—a process that took several months of constant practice. But these are. essentials to a successful hypnotic subject, as I will explain. Thu Cataleptic Condition. “To begin with, in order to simu late the cataleptic condition, it is nec essary that the respiration should be very faint. It have learned to keep alive on two breaths a minute, which you will admit is rather a small al lowance. The control of the heart is more complicated—being in reality a control of the pulsations by which they may be increased or diminished at will. But even this is attended with deception, particularly when I pretend to have two separate pulses, one side running high and the other low. I have deceived the ablest doc tors in the world with this act.” After Minnock had become profi cient the doctor used him to illustrate his lectures and scientific lectures, and pakl nim well. When the physician died he left him SSOO in his will. Min nock then returned to the United States and soon spent his money. When he became stranded h 8 went to work in dime museums as the human pin cushion, ( an* in this capacity made a reputation all over the coun try. A Multi-jHUllunalre'a Peculiar Death. John P. Duncan of New York, who made $6,000,000 in the wholesale gro cery business and in real estate devls in Broadway and Fifth avenue in that city, died from blood poisoning. Sun day. While eating oysters a bit of shell was swallowed which lacerated a membrane of the stomach leading to poisoning of the blood. Mr. Duncan was 72 years old, born in New York, of Scotch parents. -He was a Presby terian of the Calvanistie school and one of his customs was to close the shades of the house and serve cold meals on Sunday so that the servants might spend the day religiously. A ROYAL PHYSICIAN. Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria a True Philanthropist. Few names are graven on the rolls of royalty whose bearers have elected a lifework other than that to which their lineage has made them heirs. The most conspicuous instance of this in modern history is Dr. Karl ’Theo dor, as he chooses to be called, other wise Duke Charles Theodore of Bava ria, head of the side line of the king dom’s royal house, who has abdicated in favor of his younger brother, in order that he may the more complete ly give himself up to scientific pur suits. By rigid devotion to the study of medicine, and, in particular, the science of ophthalmology, he has at tained such rank in his profession that his clinics are known to scientific men all over the world. These clin ics are conducted irrespective of finan cial considerations, and any worthy man can have the benefit of the ducai doctor’s skill and knowledge without cost. It was the Franco-Prussian war that first turned the duke’s mind to the profession of a physician. He took an active part in many of the battles, and became particularly interesthd in the hospital service, and at the close of the war he announced his inten tion of studying medicine. Naturally this resolve aroused much opposition in his family. The strongest pressure was brought to bear upon him, but he was steadfast. Willingly foregoing his political rights, he entered the clinic of a distinguished Russian professor at Mentone, whither he had gone for his health. Thereafter he assisted at various clinics in Vienna, in all of which he was noted for his indefatig able industry and patience, and whole souled devotion to his work. Eventu ally he became an independent opera tor in eye surgery, in which branch he soon gained a high reputation. Having given his time, the duke now set about giving his money to his profession. On Lake Tegernsee, at the foot of the Bavarian Alps, he built and endowed a large hospital. In this building is maintained one of the duke's famous ophthalmic clinics, to which the afflicted gather from far and near. At Munich. Merane, in Aus tria, and near Mentone, he established other clinics, spending part of the year at each. But it is the'hospital on the Bavarian lake that he loves the best, and there most of his time is spent. ATTACHED TO PRISON LIFE. After a Long Incarceration, Some Crim inals Dislike Freedom. Afto* the civil war many negroes found themselves so helpless in their suddenly enforced freedom that they begged to he restored to slavery. From long habit they had grown attached to slave life. So W'e find prison life endeared to long-term convicts. Comte de Lorge, confined for thirty years in the Bastile, declared when released that freedom had no joys for him, and, imploring in vain to be al lowed to return to his dungeon, pined to death in six weeks. When Chin vang the Chaste ascended the throne oi China he ordered the prisons to be thrown open. A venerable prisoner of 85 yeai‘3 pleaded that he might be al lowed to remain in his cell. For sixty three years he had lived in its gloom and felt that he could not bear the glare of the sun and the bustle of the city. A woman in Leyden, on the expira tion of a long term of imprisonment, begged for permission to return to her cell, adding if the request w’ere re fused as a favor she would commit some crime which would give her a title to her old quarters. A prisoner condemned to death had his sentence commuted to seven years' close con finement on a bed of nails. At the end of five years he declared that If ever he were released he would adopt from choice what habit had rendered so agreeable to him. A w-ell-known criminal once said that he had grown to like the quiet and the subuued light of his cell, the spots and patches on the walls, the hardness of his bed and the regularity of his life, with its free dom from ail care and worry. He did not wish to be released. It is an ev eryday practice of negroes to commit offenses that will return them to the chain gang, where they will be in fa miliar company and get plenty to eat and drink. From Sod House to (Sorernor. Ezra Periu Savage, who will soon be come governor of Nebraska and live in the beautiful executive mansion at Lin coln, lived in a sod house in 1880. He was born in Connorsville, Ind., in 1842, and was left at the age of 10 years the sole support of his widowed mother and the family of little brothers and sisters. Y’oung Savage worked hard on fnrms and in other occupations, meanwhile managing to pass through high school and college. He studied 'law, removed to lowa, made some money in land speculation, and then re moved to Nebraska. He was the first mayor of South Omaha, laid out the town of Sargent, and grew rich when the railroad was built through the town. Among his other good records is one he won as a soldier and scout for Grant and Sherman during the civil war. England’* Crown Four Time* Pawned. At least four times the crown of England has been in pawn. Henry 111. and Henry V., Edward 111. and Richard 11. all resorted to this means of rais ing money. The merchants of Fland ers once had possession of the crown, the city of London held it as security for SIO,OOO and it was pledged at an other time for SIOO,OOO. Edward 111. disposed of it to the bishop of Win chester for $67,500 and Charles 11. would have used the crown as a per sonal asset if he had been able to turn it into money. WON FAME IN WAR. DISTINGUISHED SOLDIER WHO DIED RECENTLY. Hrlg.-Den. John P. Hatch Wa a I)U --tlUKOtohad Military Genlua—Co-operate, 1 with Shoiman In the Destructive Cam pAlgn !i> teorgia. Brig. Gen. John Porter Hatch, U. S. A., who died in New York the other day, was a distinguished military man. He was a great-grandson of Maj. Moses Porter, aide of Benedict Arnold at the battle of Saratoga, and w’as born in 1822. Graduating from West Point in 1845, he participated in every battle of the Mexican war and was three times brevetted for gallantry on the field of battle. President Lincoln made him a brigadier general at the break ing out of the civil war. He served under Gen. Banks in the Shenandoah valley and made a notable record as a tactician and for bravery in the field, in the second battle of Bull Run he was severely wounded, and was also wounded in the battle of South Moun tain. For conspicuous bravery in the latter engagement Gen. Hatch was awarded a medal by congress. During the famous march through Georgia Gen. Hatch co-operated with Gen. Sherman, being in command of the coast division. At the close of the war he resumed his place as a major in the Fourth Cavalry, and was retired in 1886 as colonel of the Second Cav alry and second brigadier general. Gen. Hatch was a member of the Army of the Potomac Society, presi dent of the Aztec Club of ’47, the Loyal Legion, Foreign Wars Society, and was also a prominent Grand Army man. He leaves a widow, one son, Mark 8., of Washington, and one daughter, Miss Harriet A. Hatch of New York. The body was taken to Washington on Monday evening, and BRIG. GEN. JOHN P. HATCH. on Tuesday the distinguished soldier was laid to rest with military honors in Arlington. WANTS TO RETIRE. A Sunday School Treasurer fll ..oars De sire to Stop Work. The oldest officeholder in this vicin ity has retired from office, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. At the age of 91 the treasurer of the Bellevue Presbyterian Sunday school, after per forming the duties of that important position of trust for sixty-one years, refuses point blank to do the work any longer. The Sunday school got the impression that it could depend on its treasurer going rigiit along until hs was 120 or 125 years old, doing their work for them. But a man owes something to himself, much as he may wish to serve his fellow creatures and the Lord, and in justice to his fam ily and his own future ought to retire before all the fire of his youth has spent itself. No man ought to work a day after 91. Too many men go rigut along piling up task after task as their proficiency grows with years, until they are cut off in their fresh young manhood of 80 or 90, when, if they had uot overworked, we should have had them with us yet, to con fer on us the benefit and blessing of their ripe experience and judgment. Every thinking person will heartily endorse the determination of the treasurer of the Bellevue Sunday school in stopping work at the time he does. Sixty-one years is enough time to give to any one religious or ganization. After such a successful record one would better see what he can do with other Sunday schools, if he still wishes to continue in the har ness. It may be said that the proud est record in these parts has been made by this gentleman. For, in the sixty-one years that he has been in charge of the Sunday school finances, not a cent has been missing and the school has always had money. He would have been a prize to any mu nicipality. Hunter AnulyzeJ. We feel hungry when the blood ves sels of the stomach are comparatively empty. When food is taken and diges tion begins there is a rush of blood to the stomach and the hunger is appeas ed. Many anemic patients have no ap petite even when the stomach i3 empty, but the blood vessels of the stomach are not empty in such cases, but rather congested. In healthy peo ple lack of blood in the stomach acts upon a special nej-ve and the nerves of the mouth and tongue are branches of the same nerve trunk. Hence a stimu lus applied to the tongue by a spice, for example, creates or increases ap petite. On the other hand, when the nerves of the tongue are affected bv a diseased condition of the mucous membrane of the mouth, the patient has no appetite, though his stomach may be empty and he may be in actual need of food. There is often more of Christ in the kitchen than m the cathedral. HEAD of our army nurses Mr* DU. H. KJnny Kojoy. the „ and Hona*.hU Dtatkotlou. Mrs. Dita H. Kinney holds tk unique distinction of commanding corps in the regular army sa vc t * lie’s Weekly. Her force, however u not made up of fighting men. it com! prises the young women serving i n th American military hospitals scattered all over the world. There are hun dreds of these gentle Samaritans in the army nursing corps. In their soft uniform of white linen, with a tinv red cross attached to the collar they are to be found in the farthest cor ner of the earth where the stars and stripes have been planted. Wherever they may be, all these army nurses are under the control of Mrs. Kinney and from her office in the war depart ment at Washington she directs the work of the entire corps. The posi tion takes with it the responsibility of nursing an army of over 100,000 men, and it is the most important ever held by a woman nurse. Although women had long been employed in at tending the sick soldiers of Britain and of France, yet there was no such thing as a corps of female nurses in the American army until the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. Since then they have been retained as a per manent institution. The nurses must be graduates from a training school giving a two-year course, and they are paid from S4O to $75 a month. Mrs. Kinney, who was graduated from one of the Boston hospital schools several years ago, joined the corps soon after the outbreak of the war. She served in the great hospital at the Presidio in San Francisco, and was in charge of the surgical word. Several weeks ago she was ordered by telegraph to report to Surgeon General Sternbe,,* at Washington. Though much puz zled at the instruction, she hurried on to the capital. There she was amazed to find that she had been elevated to the command of the entire nursing corps. TURKEYS ON STREET CARS. Transit Kinployoes* Difference of Opin ion Results in a Judgment. Judgments in favor of the plaintiffs were entered yesterday in the damage suits of Henry and Valentine Sauer brun against the St. Louis Transit company in the sum of S3OO, in each case, says the St. Loui3 Globe-Demo crat. The point in dispute was wheth er or net the St. Louis Transit Com pany should carry a passenger and a live turkey for one fare. According to’ the petitions in the cases a difference of opinion exists among the employes of the Transit company on this ques tion. The Messrs. Sauerbrun relate in their petitions that November 29 last they boarded a car of the Broadway line at O’Fallon street, each carrying a live turkey. They say the conductor made no objection to hauling them and their turkeys for single fares, but that he accepted their money and gave them transfers to the Easton avenue line. On this line, however, trouble ensued. The conductor refused to ac cept their transfers, telling them that they had no right to bring the turkeys on the car at all, and ordered them to get off. They demurred, and the con ductor called a policeman and hail them arrested. They were arraigned before Judge Sidener, who dismissed the cases against them. They filed suits for SSOO actual and $2,500 puni tive damages each. Yesterday the case of Henry Sauerbrun was called in division No. 6 of the circuit court When the venire was called it was found that only sixteen persons who had been summoned on the jury had responded, and the case could not pro ceed without eighteen. It was also aoted that eight of the sixteen jurors who appeared were Hebrews, of the same faith as the plaintiffs. After a short parley a compromise was effect ed in both cases, as stated. The suit of Valentine Sauerbrun was in division No. 1, and a similar Judgment was en tered in thi3 case. Only tli Men. Children, says a writer in the Spec tator, have a strange sense of justice., They have been taught to sympathize with the sufferings of animals, and to show them an unvarying kindliness. Human beings, on the contrary, are divided, in their minds, into the two classes of good and bad. The good are to be rewarded, after the manner of fairy tales; the bad are to be punished. Ronald’s father one day gave an ani mated description of *a bull-flgh meaning thereafter to point a moral. But the lad was delighted. “Wouldn t you like to see a bull-flght. daddy? he asked breathlessly. “Why, no. my boy. Surely you wouldn't want to see cruel men baiting the bull? wouldn’t like to see poor horses gored to death?” “No,” said Ronald, with*, the thoughtfulness of eight years. ! shouldn’t like to see horses hurt; but, he added, after some reflection, shouldn’t mind seeing those men g° ,e • though.”—Youth’s Companion. Careful of Ills Cash. An old farmer in Bruichladdic . Islay, N. 8., once went to have a trou blesome tooth extracted* Said the den tist, after looking at the offending ro Jar, “It is a very ugly one. I wouia, advise yon to have it out by the pa n less system. It is only a shilling cx tra.” He showed the farmer the ap paratus for administering gas. remar mg that it would cause him to a isleep for a minute, and before *•* awoke the tooth would be out. Ait^ r slight resistance the sufferer oonsen e ' proceeding to open his purse. ' never mind paying just now! s a!l ‘ * - , dentist, kindly. “Hoots: ” answers the cautious old Scot. “I wasn t <- nI ing o’ that; but if I’m gaen ta sleep thought I wad like to count ma -i fust.” —London Tit-Bits.