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~W. R. Wainwright, Proprietor,
E. L. Wainwright, Editor & Mgr.
Eatered at the postoffice et Folkston,
Ga, as Second Class Matter. ™
History lis full of “also rans,”
meers the New York Times,
A man used ‘to be satisfled to pad-.
dle his own canoe, insists the New
York Times, but now nothing less
than an ocean-going yacht satisfies
him,
* Bacteriological science has proved
that the transmission of germs 'is
caused chiefiy by the carelessness of
sufferers and their. unwitting viola
tion of the laws of health, argues the |
Washington Star. The exhibits in the |
museum are eloquent of this truth,
The youngest child with the reason
ing power developed in any degree
must understand that it is possible,
by the observance of certain well de- f
fined rules, to confine tuberculosis to
relatively small compass. ;
Postmaster General Meyer's sug
gestion that postmasters go into the
schools and show the pupils how
properly to superscribe letters is a
good one, to the Lowell Courier-Citi
zen, The department does not care
particularly how the * missives are
phrased, but with the dead letter of
fice working overtime it §s interested
in how they are “backed.” Last year
more than 13,000,000 pieces of mail
matter reached that office because
the postoflices were unable to deliv
er them. A little simple instruction
from those who handle letters will
help those who write them and the
correspondence sent to the literary
morgue in Washington will become
less. Incidentally the postal officials,
if the arrangement is made, will tell
the puplls a lot about the way the
business s handled, something of
Wwhich the public has only a very
yague and general notion,
: 'flege are many proverbs which in
dicate a perception on ghe part of
aany people that life is mnot quite so
simple as it seems, and that the world
one man lives in may not be at all
like that in which his neighbor makes
his home. We talk about putting our
selves in another man's place, or we
say that one-half the world ddes not
know how the other half lives. Such
sayings are merely hints of things
which may be more complicated than
appears to the ordinary observer, con
tends the Christian Register, It is not
going beyond the fact to say that no
two persons have the same point of
view, that they do not see the most
common facts of experience at the
same angle or in the same light, and
that the world they see around them
couid not be described by one of
them in terms which would precisely
match the experience of the other
one, Even the most common facts of
observation, such as the effects of
sunlight and moonlight, heat and
moisture, the forms and colors of
land and water, mountain and plain,
summer verdure or winter snows; all
make different impressions on the
mervgs and the mind, so that, even
in the literal sense, twd persons whoe
may be as near each other as man
and wife will pass their lives in total
ly different worlds. What gives plens
ure to one gives pain to the other:
what arouses joy in one in the other
excites foreboding. So that, whether
at home or abroad, at work Or taking
pleasure, life and the visible world
are for one unlike that which is fe
veated to the other.
W. M. OLLIFF,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Folkston, Ga.
Investigations of Land Titles a
Specialty,
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Govenor Smith States That Sa
vannah Does Not Need It.
Reported that Troops Would be Used
to Enforce Prohibition Law in
Chatham County.
Atlanta, Ga.—ln reference to the
rumor that there had %een a confer
ence between Governor Hoke Smith
and parties interested in'the strict ob
servance of the Georgia prohibition
law in Savannah, Ga, in which Gov
ernor Smith was said to have decided
that he would warn the people of Sa
vannah that they must abide by and
be governed by the Georgia prohibi
tion law, and if the warning was un
heeded he. would put the ci!y\under
martial law, Governor Smith 'stated |
that no such decisfon had been
reached,
Governor Smith further stated that
he had received no official informa
tion that the law was being violated
fn Savannah, and that no such confer
enee Wad heen held. He was firm in
the belief that the officials of the
county in the state would not tolerate
for an instant any open violation of
the prohibition law or any other law
in Georgia,
For some time there have been
persistent rumors which claim to
have origin from substantial sources,
to the above stated effect. A special
digpatch from Rome, Ga., in regard to
ramor, is as follows:
“Rome, Ga.—lt is reported, on un
doubted authority, that Governor
Smith has decided to warn the people
of Savannah that they must abide by
and be governed by the Georgia pro
hibition law, If, after this warning
and due time is given for complying
with it, the violation of the prohibi
tlon law is econtinued, the governor
will put Savannah under martial law,
and will endeavor to enforce the pro
hibition law in that manner.”
When asked about this report, Gov
ernor Smith made the following state
ment ;
“I have made np such decision. I
have no official information that the
law is being violated in Savannah, 1
cannot believe the good people of auy
county in Georgia would countenance
the open violation of a law of the
state, -1 cannot _believe that the offi
clals of any c¢ounty would permit an
open violation of the prohibition law
or of any other law of the state.”
$2,000 WANTED FOR SCHOOLS. ‘
Sale of Fertilizer Tax Tags May Yield
That Amount.
Atlanta, Ga.—An effort is being
made by the department of agricul
ture to sell a sufficient number ot
fertilizer tags to give to each of the
eleven distriet agricultural schools
$2,000 to start off their schools, which
will open this month, The law re
cently passed by the legislature gives
to these schools for their mainte
nance and support all of the proceeds
derived from the sale of these tags,
except the actual expenses of the de
partment,
With the approach of the new year
the sale of fertilizers throughout the
¢tate opens up generally, and as each
sack Is sold in this state has to be in
spected and properly tagged, there is
now a great demand for these tax
tags,
These agricultural schools, support
~d in this way, are to act as feeders
for the Agriculiural college at Athens.
In additiony to the regular agricul
tural topicd taught at these schools,
~abinl stress will be laid upon - cac
tle raising and dairying and similar
farm industries. In cotfom seed meal
mixed with hull¢, Georgia has the
cheapest as well as the best cattlé
feed on the market, an? this is being
generally used in all of these schools
in the conduct and operation of the
cattle raising and dairying depart
ments.
FARMERS' WIVES CONFERENCE.
Feature of Big Farmers' Meeting at,
Athens This Month.
Athens, Ga.—Among the many in-|
tresting features of the big fnrmers‘]
conference that is to be held in con
nection with the State College of Ag
rieulture in this city this month will
be a conference of the farmers' wives.
Fvery farmer is urged to bring his
wife with him so that she may take
part in the exercises,
The reduced rates on railroads ap
ply also to the farmers’ wives. A rest
room will be provided for them at the
new agricultural hall, and every ef
fort will be made to make their stay
most pleasant, ° 1
Mrs. Walter B. Hill of this city is
in charge of this feature of the con
ference, and has arranged a most ex
cellent program, in which many well
known people will take part.
These schools also conduct scien
tific poil tests to determine which fer
iizer will give best results, *
NEW SURVEY COMPLETED.
Read Between Moultrie and Valdosta
To Be Completed During 1909,
VMoultrie, Ga~The surveying corps
f the Valdosta and Moultrie railroad
reached Monltrie completing their
first line, The route has been sur
veyed before and the new company
has the use of the old survey, but an
additional line will probably be run,
The distance from Valdosta is forty
twp miles, ¢
'ghu Valdosta financiers who are
nr,\moting the line were here to meet
the surveyors and to look up a suit
able terminal property for the road.
They say the road will be completed
in 1909 and that they are already con
tracting the bridge work.
$20,000 TAX GN SALGONS.
City Council of Milledgeville Prohib
_its Sale of Beer.
Milledgeville, Ga.-—~With the first
intimation that a “near-beer” saloon
was to be established in this city,
the council has increased the tax
from SIOO to $20,000 a year, making
the operation of such a business vro
hibitory. The council also placed a
tax of SIO,OOO on all locker clubs.
The action of the council has made
Milledgeville one of the drydst towns
in the state.
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" THROUGHOUT Tef STATE, WP
Officlals of eighty counties have no
tified the prison commission that they
will use their quotas of cgnvicts on
the public roads after April next. Thet
majority want “overs” as well as
their own supply. Requisitions to
date dispose of between {hree and
four thousand prisoners, It is ex
pected that about twenty-five more
counties will decide to avail them
selves of the privilege of the new
convict law before the mnew system
is put into effect. :
Preparations are well undey way to
have ready for the inauguration of
President-elect Willlam H. Taft next
March a marching club of one thous
and members, who will take p:y in
the big Washington parade ons the
‘day of the inauguration of the distin
gulshed Ohian, who is now taking a
rest in the neighboring Geongia city
of Augusta. The club will be formed
from supporters of Judge Taft in
every congressional district of the
state, and will be accompanied to
Washington by one hundred and ten
cadets of the:Georgia Military col
lege at Milledgeville, together with
their cadet band and bugle corps. A
committee has the plan in charge,
consisting of one mam from each dis
trict, The personnel of the committes
follows: First district, 8 Schwarz
weiss of Wayneshoro; second district,
J. L. Phillips of Thomasgville; third
district, W. E. Burch of Hawkins
ville; fourth district, C. E. Smith of |
Carrollton; fifth district, Henry 8.
Jackson of Atlanta; sixth distriet,
Warren Edwards of Macon, who is |
also the chairman of the committee;
seventh district, J. 1. Fullwocd of
Cedartown; eighth district, .
Parker of Elberton; ninth distriet,
B. F. Anderzon of Dahlonega; tenth
district, Joel Smith of Augusta; elev
enth district, A, M. Smith of Bruns
wick. 3
Mrs. May Huff, a resident of Lin
dale, is asleep and cannot be awak
ened, She has been unconsclous
since Christmas day at ncon. Every
doctor in Lindale has tried to waken
her, but without avail. Her pulse is
low, but otherwise she gives no evi
low, but otherwise she gives no evi
dence of any unusual condition. Mrs.
Huff is given to these spells. This is
the fourth time she has entered a
prolonged sleep, once having lain un
conscioug for nine days, When she
finally is aroused she is dreamy for
a day or so. At other times she
sleeps very little, ordinarily not re
tiring before 1 or 2 o’clock at night
and getting up at daybreak. Her last
spell was four months ago. The phy
sicians are unable to explain the phe
nomena. X
Eighty truck farmers in Chatham
and surrounding counties held a
meeting in Savannah and agreed to
build a canning plant there. to can
fruits and vegetables. The capital
stock will be SIOO,OOO, In addition to
the farmers a number of Savannah
business men are interested. A -
tract was ordered awarded by a com
mittee of the.farmer= for the speedy
erection of the plant.
Big, round, red Georgia apples with
the complexion of carmine and the
flavor to tempt a gourmet, completed
with apples from all the southern
states at the national apple show t 32%
has just come to a close at Spokane,
Wash.,, and carried away the second
prize. This is the substance of a let
ter received by Colonel John P. Fort,
of Athens, from the secretary of the
show association. Enclosed with the
letter was the handsome red ribbon
bearing in letters of gilt Colonel
Fort’s designation as second prize
winner in contest No. 8, class 5. The
apples, which answer to the romantie
name of “Mollie’s "Fancy,” were
grown in Colonel Fort's orchard at
Turkey Cove in Rabun county, 2,500
feet above sea-level. i
Vigorous steps will be taken at
once to round up the near-beer deal
ers doing business in the state, for
the purpose of compelling payment
of the special tax levied under the
Wise act, according to rumors at the”
capitol, | The 'state authorities;, it is
stated, fi'e not satisfied with returns
so far received by reason of the law.
Unless they improve, the hope for a
large fund with which to carry out
plans for the new penitentiary sys
tem will be only partially realized.
The situation is an ndg one, as the
authorities are in doub% as to steps
that may be taken to enforce the law,
It is incumbent on county ordinaries
to collect the tax, Inasmuch as they
are allowed no fees for the work,
théy are not apt to give it much of
their time, Neither the tax collectors
nor sheriffs are charged with the duty
of ferreting out and prosecuting those
who fail to make the payment as re
quired. Proper demands have bheen
made by the comptroller general on
the ordinaries. Any further steps
taken here will have to come frgg:
the governor, §
Caldwell, a small station on the
Chattanocoga branch of the Central
of Georgia railroad, has had its
name changed by the officials of the
Centre! to Boody. It is understood
the change was made on account of
confusion arising from the similarity
of Cedartown and Caldwell, -
The city of Athens has delivered
to the University of Georgia a check
for twenty-seven thousand dollars,
this money being the amount given
by the people of Athens_to the uni
versity by a vote of the people last
spring,. Two thousand dollars of the
amount is accrued interest. This
money wilk be used to pay off a debt
oR a certain part of the new campus,
the alumni society having advanced
the money to the land trustes three
'vears since, The money will be paid
over to the agents of the alumni so
ciety and will be ready for them
when the society begins the erection
of the new alumni Y. M. C. A. hall,
United States Marshal Walter H.
Johnson has consolidated the Colum
bus district, composed of about four
teen counties, and hae placed Deputy
Marshal Blue of Buena Vista in
charge of the district. MarsK)l Blue
will have his headguarters in §lolum
bus, ; 3 g
Honorable Sam P, Maddox of Dal
ton has made announcement that he
will be in the race for congress from
the seventh district at the next .elec
tidn, to fill the place now occupied by
Gerdon Lee, of Chickamauga.
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EARTHQUAKE LOSSES. : :
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Many Thousands Killed in Previous Disasters. :
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Losses of life in previous big earthquakes were as follows: :
Island of Yeddo, Japan, 1703; 190,000 lives lost. <&
Lisbon, November 1, 1755; 50,000 lives lost; damage, SIOO,- :
.000,000. o
Island of Krakatoa, August 26, 1883; 50,000 lives lost.
Charleston, S. C., August 31, 1886; 50 lives lost; damage,
$5,000,000. &
Japan, June 15, 1896; 30,000 lives lost. ®
St. Pierre, Martinique, May 8, 1902;.25,000 lives lost. ¢
Calabria, September 8, 1905; 3000 people killed, 30 towns 2
wiped out. ¢ :
Mount Vesuvius, April 5, 1906; 500 believed to have per- o
ished. &
& San Francisco, April 18, 1906; earthquake and fire, 500 z
i killed; damage, $500,000,000. $
Valparaiso, Chile, August 17, 1906; 1000 killed; 140 small e
9 towns destroyed. &
§ Kingston, Jamaica, January 14, 1907; 1500 estimated killed. - :
Calabria, October, 1907; 600 estimated killed. &
z Karatagh; Russgn Turkestan, October, 1907; 14,000 killed ¢
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HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE 5
4 REGION IN ITALY DEVASTATED BY -
7 - EARTHQUAKES AND TIDAL WAVES
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Messina, the Ruined City, is 2700 Years Old and Has Had
Many Masters and Catastrophes.
Studied wigs,!;; maps and accounts of
the more recent of the great earth
quake disasters of Italy, it is seen
that in the latest catastrophe the dis
turbance reached the surface on the
northern border, close to Swiss terri
tory. Bomodossola is among the
Alps, and the mountain range seems
to have been the route of the earth
quake. It passed to the ‘southward,
followihg the Apennines. There is a
twenty minutes difference between
the time of the shocks reported in
upper and lower Italy.
In Calabria, which has been laid
waste again and again by such dis
turbances, this earthquake first
touched the surface with its full
effect. Lofty signal posts of disaster
marked its way, for it struck with
full force at the eftinct volcano of
San Giovanni, spread its devastation
across the Strait of Messina to Sicily
and rolled up another score of death
and ruin all about the slopes of
Mount Etna, reducing to ruins the
ancient and famous city of Messina
and tumblingthebuildings of Catania,
fifty-nine miles farther south, only
to again overwhelm the busy port
soon afterward with a great tidal
wave.
The spread of the earthquake in
Sicily and Soathern Italy, according
to the cable dispatches, was through
very much th: same area as that of
the earthquake of 1873, which was
the most destructive in the history
of Italy. Then, as now; the earth
quake caused -enormous damage on
both sides of the Strait of Messina,
which separates the toe of the so
called “boot” of Italy from Sicily.
The historic disaster completely
wrecked the populous seaport of Mes
sina in Sicily near the northern end
of the strait and destroved many
smaller cities and towns in Southern
Italy and Sicily. - :
_The loss of life in this disaster of
1783 was estimated at 60,000, Mes
sina, a city which is for the most part
‘but little above the level of the sea,
suffering terribly—then, as now, from
a tidal wave. The region to the
s%uth of Messina has also been often
overwhelmed by eruptions from
Mount Etna. The southeastern and
eastern portion of the island has been
aamaged time and again by eruptions
of Etna and very little by earth
quakes, while the northeasters por
tion has sustained heavy loss of life
and property from earthquakes and
very little from volcanic eruption.
‘Messina, which as in 1783 suffered
the greatest loss of life and property
from this earthquake, is a city and
seaport of upwards of 80,000 inhab
itants, while in the commune em
.bracing the city, suburbs and adjacent
country, the population is upward of
Skirt Manufacturers Decree
Complete New Spring Outfits. 1
Toledo, Ohio.—Husbands, take no- |
tice! The makers of women's styles
decree that you must buy your wife
a complete new outfit for spring.
There's no chance to save by making
over, clothes, for it cannot be done,f
they say. It must be a three piece
suit with a hipless effect and in one
of these colors: Ashes of roses, green,
taupe, electric blug, reseda, stone
gray, catawba, cedsr or wistaria. |
This edict was issued by the Na
tional Cloak, Suit and Skirt Makers. -
152,000. Nex! to Palermo, it is the
chief commercic]l town of Sicily and
its harbor, which is formed by a
peninsula, is the busiest in Italy from
the standpoint of steamboat trafiic.
The principal object of interest to
tourists, apart from the scenic attrac
tions of the place, is the cathedral,
which was begun in 1098, at the time
of Norman occupation of the island,
and parts of which are still standing
as originally constructed with the ex
ception of the evidences of damage
wrought by the frequent earthquakes.
The town is one of great antiquity,
and derived its first known name,
Zanole (a sickle), from the shape of
the harbor. It was founded hy Cu
maen pirates and Chalcidians in 722
B. C.,, and was governed by the laws
of Charondas.
In 396 B. C. the town was de
stroyed by the Carthaginians, but was
rebuilt a few years later by Dionysius
of Syracuse, only to fall again into
the hands of the Carthaginians under
Hannibal in 263. The first Punic
war, however, left the place in the
hands of the Romans, and the place
was of importance second only to that
of Syracuse and Lilybaeum in Sicily
during a period of Roman occupation
lasting for several centuries.
In 831 A, D. the town was taken
by the Saracens, but in 1061 it was
taken from them by the Normans.
The city prospered greatly during the
Crusades, being a favorite rendezvous
for soldiers from the continent en
route to the Holy Land. In the Mid
dle Ages also it became a flourishing
commercial city.
Its commercial importance disap
pehred after a bitter struggle hetween
the aristocratic faction, or Merli, and
the democratic faction, or Mavizzi, in
1674. The demoecratic faction ap
pealed to the French and the other Yo
the Spaniards. The former faction
were at first victorious, but eventual
1y were deserted by the French, the
city was taken by the Spaniards, and
when the struggle was over the popu
lation was reduced from 120,000 to
about a tenth of that number.
The town never fully recovered
from this disaster. - Whatever recov
ery was made was neutralized in the
eighteenth century by a series of dis
asters. In 1740 about 40,000 persons
died of the plague, and in 1783 the
town was almost entirely overthrown
by the great earthquake of that vear.
Great damage was ecaused by bom
bardment in September, 1848. The
chaolera carried off no fewer than 16,-
000 victims in 1854 and earthquakes
in 1894 and 1906 also caused loss of
life and property. In 1880 the town
was occupied by Garibaldi. It be
came a part of united Italy the fol
lowing year.
L R R ———————
Prehistoric City Being Une
ear:hed Near Florence, Ariz.
Washington, D. C.—An American
Pompeii is gradually being brought
to light, according to the annual re
port of Charles B. Walcott, secretat%’
of the Smithsonian Institution. The
work is the excavating of a buried
city at Casa Grande, near Flor
ence, Ariz. Already a number of
structures have been discovered, but
the largest one excavated during the
year was a building 200 feet long,
with' eleven rooms, the massive walls
inclosing a plaza.
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One of the most conspicuous hang
ers on of the early court of Louis
XIV. was a certain Lorenzo Tonti, a
.Neapolitan banker. Tonti was one of
that aumerous broed of sheculators
wiho found so fruitful a field of spee
ulation in the Europsen courts of the
seventeenth century.’ OFf an adven
turous disposition, unlimited person
al resource and unbounded confidence
in himself and his schemes, he read
ily wormed his way into the royal fa
vor, became a confidential gecretary
to Cardinal Mazarin, a pensioner of
the Crown and a valued adviser on all
financial affairs. He abounded in
ingenious devices for increasing the
national revenue, paying off the debts
of the clergy, erecting great public
works and building up the foreign
trade, especially in the FEast Indies
and the South Seas. At one time he
aroused much speculative interest in
a plan for stimulating the growtn of
silkworms by vianting mulberry trees
on all the highways of France. His
fame rests almost entirely upon the
fact, however, that he was the inven.
tor of that scheme of gambling on
Lkuman lives now generally known as
tontine.
Tonti first proposed his plan to
Mazarin in 1656. Like Mazarin,
however, he was an Itaiian and there
fore personally unpopular. Parlia
ment refused to register the under
taking, and the publie, in a spirit of
ridicule, gave-it its present nickname
of tontine. Tonti himself soon for
feited the royal patronage; lost his
pension, and, for some reason now
unknown, landed as a prisoner in the
Bastile. Thence he indited many ap
pealing letters to the King and Coi
bert, describing his misery and pov
erty and continually harping upon the
advantages of tontine. 'Tonti’s death,
which took place toward the end of
the seventeenth century, is another of
the many mysteries enveloping tie
Bastile. One of his sons was that
Chevalier Tonti whose adventures
among the Indians of the Northwest
with La Salle and Iberville is one of
the romances of early American his
tory. .
King Louis, although he neglected
poor Tonti himself, never entirely
abandoned his scheme. In 1689,
when surrounded by a European coa
lition, harassed for money and unable
to borrow further from the bankers
or to wring another penny in taxes
from his exhausted peasantry, he
raised 1,400,000 livres on the tontine
plan. He followed precisely the pro
gram mapped out by Tonti more than'
thirty years before.. He invited sub
scriptiot, at 300 livres each, to a
general ffund. He agreed to pay the
total interest on this fund to all sur-.
viving subscribers. Each member’'s
share of the income was to cease at
death and revert to those who still
lived. lEach member's income. that
is, increased “in proportion to the
deaths of his associates. It was clear
1y a lottery in annuities, in which the
prizes went to” the long lived mem
bers. It acquired popularity because
of this gambling feature and because
it apparently promised a provision
for old age. Tts essential advantage
to the King was that the ecapital fund
itself need never be redeemed. It
was a State loan, that is, upon which
interest only was paid and which was
entirely liquidated when the final sur
vivor died.
King Louis’ first tontine apparent
1y had a successful career. It met all
its obligations and continued until
1726. The solitary survivor was a
widow, one Charlotte Barbier, who
died in her ninety-sixth year. At that
time she drew an annual income of
73,000 livres, in return for an orig
inal subscription of 300. King Louis
and his successors frequently utilized
this method of supplementing the
public funds. In the eighteenth cen
tury private speeulators also estab
lished a large number of tontinés; in
France there was little less than a
tontine craze. Nearly all these pri
vate undertakings, however, ended
disastrously, In most instances the
tontine managers were dishonest. The
greatest private tontine, the Caisse
La Farge, cheated the public out of
nearly 60,000,000 franes. Dishones
ty was inherent in the plan itself.
Tonti did not devise hi\ original
scheme in the interest of the people,
but of the Government. “I believe
this is an easy way,” he wrote to Col
bert from the Bastile, “whereby the
King may get several millions from
‘his people which would never be sub-=
Ject to redemption. The King might
wuse them to redeem his domain, and
‘for the execution of other designs.
This might be done without its being
known. It transforms France into a
gold mine for the monarchy.” Pri
vate capitalists adopted the plan in
an identical spirit; to get a large cap
ital fund which they might use for
their own immediate purposes, and
which they never need payback. Their
awindlings became so outrageous that
ultimately the State prohibited ton
tines by law. lln England and Amer
ica the idea waschiefiy utilized as a
method of raising money for public
buildings and hotels. In this case
the property was held intact and uiti
malely divided among certain nomin
ated survivors. The Tontine Cofiee
House in New York, at Wall and
Pearl streets, was constructed on this,
basis. These enterprises also usually
failed of complete success. Toward
the close of the eightesnth century
there was no more odious word i
Europe than tontine. » v