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OCILLA DISPATCH.
OCILLA, GEORGIA.
HENDERSON & HANLON, Publishers.
The regularity with which the Kite
Mr. Keely kept hi* victims signing
checks was perhaps the nearest ap¬
proach to perpetual motion on rec¬
ord.
American exports of every kind are
increasing steadily, agricultural ns
well as manufactured. And there is
no immediate likelihood of radical
change in this respect American
natural resources are so vast and var¬
ied and American industry now is so
efficient and well organized that Amer¬
ican producers are prepared to adjust
themselves to any change that may oc¬
cur in economic conditions.
It has long been remarked .by cer¬
tain physicians that the origiu of can¬
cer should be sought for in some widely
spread condition effecting various an¬
imal and vegetable organisms. This
idea is based upon tha seeming fre¬
quency, in especial, of the disease in
isolated houses on the banks of rivers,
particularly if close to woods, it hav¬
ing been observed, too, that trees un¬
der these same conditions are affected
with veritable tumors which bear a
striking resemblance to cancer. Late
investigations by M. Noel, of Paris,
are said to show a certain relation be¬
tween arboreal “cancer” and that of
man; that is, not only the frequency
of malignant tumors in habitations
surrounded by or near woods, but also
a considerable mortality from cancer
among certain persons whose occupa¬
tion obliges them to live in these con¬
ditions, as, for example, excise offi¬
cers, who in certain sections pass
through long distances in isolated
woods.
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Women show genius of a high ordei
whenever they attempt to explain the
causes of the ills which afflict most of
mankind. A woman, one of those in¬
tellectual, up-to-date women, who
would rather discuss the nebularhy-
potbesis and account for psychological
phenomena than'cook or attend to
wifely duties, has stated that the
colors of the dresses which women
wear are responsible for their nervous
complaints. Green, for instance, pro¬
duces indigestion, while ball gowns of
the same color cause headaches; a
royal purple dress is a sovereign rem¬
edy for a sore threat; black, that dig¬
nified color which adorns most women
so gracefully and beivitchiugly, is re¬
sponsible for the over-excited person;
certain other colors close to the
throat, she avers, produce blindness,
deafness and other horrible afflictions.
Tbe benefactors of humanity are
those who reduce any philosophy to a
practical science, and this woman-
heaven bless her!—is entitled to a niche
in the world’s pantheon for supersed¬
ing the science of medicine by point¬
ing out the relation of colors to health.
All of us may rest assured that food
has nothing to do with indigestion; it
is the color^green. And whenever we
are physically, mentally and morally
suffering the colors we wear are not in
the proper juxtaposition to the human
frame. The evidence presented may
not be. indisputable, but with this
feminine logic has no concern.
The oyster has just been the sub-
jeot of an elaborate communication tc
the British Boyal Society by Profes-
sor Hardman and Mr. R. Boyce. They
say that they did not find the typhoid
bacillus in any oysters obtained from
the sea or market—that would only
have happened if they had got them
(which was not their purpose) from a
taiutedspot. But for experiment they
infected clean oysters with germs, and
the two principal results were emin¬
ently satisfactory. One was that,
while the typhoid bacilli could be de¬
tected in the body of the infected oys¬
ter for ten days, or even more, after
introduction, they showed no signs of
increase, and in the intestine actually
perished. The other showed that by
washing infeoted oysters in a stream
oi clean sea water the typhoid bacilli,
in from one to seven days, uniformly J
and invariably either , greatly dimm-
ishod or totally disappeared. It is
clear, therefore, that sea water is bos-
tile to the development of these nox¬
ious germs. Of the green’oysters, the
investigators say that some are per¬ 1
fectly wholesome, while others are not.
The reason is a simple one. The
greenness in the former case is due to
the presence of a harmless vegetable
pigment. There may be also a small
quantity of an iron salt associated with
it; but this has no connection with the
coloring matter. In the other kinds
of green oysters the color is due to a
deleterious salt of copper. The epi¬
cure, therefore, will do well not to eat
green oysters unless he knows where
they come from.
NEW HIDE-AND-SEEK.
WE8TERN GAME FOR BOYS AND
PONIES.
tfnrd Runti and High Jumps—The I»-
£«*r«*8t That HorttoH Took In the Sport
—UiderN Often Left in Creeks or
Hanging from lloughg. V
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One of the games boys played on
horse-back in California in my day
was hide-and-seek. It was exciting
sport, says the New York Commercial
Advertiser. As I recall incidents of
the game they seem to me now to have
been dangerous, but that is a mature
view, which never occurred to us then.
Our favorite place for the fun was on
the edge of a neglected park, with a
creek running through it, and another
crossed a field nearby. Both of these
were hard jumps, especially for some
of the ponies. But there were several
good jumps, five or six over three or
four board fences, two over hedges,
and fallen trees were innumerable.
The great advantage of this place,
however, was a perfectly straight road
along the side of the park. We meas¬
ured off a distance of about 300 yards
down the road from the nearest bunch
of woods. For this distance there was
no obstacle except on one side, a fence
too huge to take. It was the home¬
stretch to the line we drew with ouf
spurs across the road, and many were
the hot races down it.
For the game was to pick a boy to
be "it.” Usually the fastest horse de¬
cided that point. The boy who rode
him had to count 100 or 200 to give the
others time to scatter off into the
woods, across the creeks and down any
of the many side roads, paths, trails
out of sight. Since everything was
clear off east of the home mark, all the
riders went off to the west before they
left the main, straight road. After
that they could ride any distance in
any direction.
But they did not go far, for the pur¬
pose of each boy was to get back
either undetected to the home mark, or
STRANGEST BRIDGE IN THE WORLD.
Many and strange were the things
seen by the French expedition of Bon¬
valot de Bonchamps in Africa, but
nothing stranger than the bridge of
vines over the Omo river in Abyssinia,
which, is pictured in L’lllustration,
from a photograph taken by a member
of the party. In most parts of Africa
bridges are undreamed of; big rivers
are crossed by rafts and little ones
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forded. But in the mountains of Abys¬
sinia the torrents that pour down to
jb in the Nile are not so lightly
stemmed. Over one of these the Abys-
sinians, who have something like a
settled country and stable government
have thrown the bridge. Unlike the
Brooklyn . bri dge or the suspension
bridge at Niagara, these Abyssinian
engineers had no cables, no scientific
bands of steel. Instead they had only
nature’s growth with which to with¬
stand nature’s force. But ingenuity
succeeded in the absence of other re-
source. It is built upon the suspen-
Statistics on Children.
As the result of a careful investiga¬
tion of 24,000 cases, Dr. Jarosie pre¬
sented to the director of the Hunga¬
rian bureau of statistics the following
conclusions: The offspring of parents
between the ages of 20 and 25 are like¬
ly to be weak and delicate,but between
25 and 45 will probably be strong and
thrive. The mother bears most ro¬
bust children between her twenty-fifth
and thirty-fifth year. When the mother
If seen, to rfde across this line before
"It” did, and he tried to ride cautiously
after us, slipping along on his horse at
a walk, while ho peered Into the Woods
and high brush to catch a glimpse of
hoy or horse. When he saw one he
called the rider’s name and rode for
home, unless the fellow caught gave In
to save the horse’s wind. And if "it”
called a boy from a position between
home and the hiding place, this usually
happened. This wasn’t easy to do,
however, for the lay of the land was
such that the outs could work around,
moving north or south from the main
road and then eastward, while "it” had
to hunt sometimes half a mile from
home and far off on one side or the
other.
Then when he was off the road beat¬
ing up after the sound of horses one
way he would catch the rattle of hoofs
from the other way or see a flying pony
and would have to put hack for a race
to home base. It was a disgrace to let
more than one or two riders in without
a contest. Well-mounted men liked to
he "it” so as to make high records,
and of course the variety erf animals
was very great. learned the
All the horses, however,
game and enjoyed it. Indeed, it was
their interest in the sport that made it
dangerous, for often when a rider
would not see "it” coming, the horse
would, and at the familiar call would
dash for home regardless of l° w
houghs and trees close together. It
was a common occurrence for a pony
to get home safe, but without his
mount, so common that it was a point
long unsettled whether this should
count safe or not. Sometimes we
would agree before a game that it
should, sometimes that it should not.
"It” had to be a good horseman, for
his horse, put on the alert by his
cautious movements, would listen and
watch. and at the slightest sound of
running hoofs would whirl and dart
off at full speed. Fences were taken by
horses with unready riders, creeks re¬
ceived boys who could not keep up
with their horses, and brush and the
limbs of trees often kept them back,
suspended till help came.
sion plan, hung from big cables made
of twister creepers; from these de¬
pend the uprights bearing the floor
supports. The roadway is very nar¬
row, for no one ever travels across the
hills except with caravans of porters
bearing trade goods. The skill with
which the bridge is built is something
marvelous. The Bonvalot de Bon-
champs party set out from Djibouti, on
the Red sea, and traveled across the
Somali desert and the Abyssinian hills
to join Marchand at Fashoda, which
he reached from the west coast. Thus
they planned to throw a strip of
French soil right across the dark con-
tinent. It reached the head waters of
the Sobat and went boating merrily
down the river; but meanwhile the
British gunboats reached the junction
of the Sobat with the White Nile, and
the expedition is now toiling back to
Djibouti. The road going out is a
good deal longer than it was going in.
is ten -years younger than the father
the proportion of healthy children is
greatest, the chances being 10 per
cent more favorable than when the
parents are of about the same age.
Something; Wrong.
“This orchard picture is a peach,”
exclaimed the enthusiastic studio vis¬
itor. “But I intended it for an apple
orchard,” said the artist, plaintively.—
Detroit Free Press.
MEN AN D WCMtN OF SALOICA
Uttn Dwptlt of Coixp.ti.ix with the
Gordon* c«v» B8 .
As for the male population.it con-
sists mainly of some 50,000 replicas of
Sir Henry Irving as Shylock, says the
London Chronicle. They have all bor-
rowed his sash, his furred gaberdine
and his complete "make-up.” These
are the descendants of Jews who tied
from the Spanish lmiulsltlon, and
whether it be the result of in-breeding
or of some other cause, they are all
alike. No doubt they know one an-
other, and perhaps a practiced real-
dent can tell them—just as a shepherd
can tell his flock—apart. Their worn-
enkind wear a remarkable uniform,
which might have a certain charm if
worn by people of a different shape.
It may be said to consist chiefly of
decolletage—no corset—and a green
satin door-knocker at the back of the
head. Feminine vanity takes the form
of competition in the size of the door¬
knocker. It is not a vision of perfect
beauty, but at any rate it is better
than a yashmak. The truth is that
key have given up trying to wear at-
tractive clothes out of sheer despair
at the unapproachable gorgeousness of
preeent tie other de, u'cSn.tnnO-
nople at the semi-offlcial farewell of
M. Cambon. the departing French am-
bassador. The central figure on the
railway platform, towering above am-
ST..“LKT™
the first cavass of the British embas-
AUvyniT «„rvoiimoa cnctnmJlJ n,n -ffoe-fo ff hr!-ieri (So
trkef^ jacket, jaunty iauntv ™ cap Xd and stiff stiff, t white white haf bal-
looked nlhed tn to ipp see /hpR" these gentlemen gentlemen pirou n rmf
ette on^their toes^ 1 he cavass is noto-
nous y an< pari.ona j vain. is
not only that he is conscious of a cos-
tume, he remembers that he was once ,
a janissary. Hence he goes armed to
the teeth, even though it is only to
carry his mistress lap dog. If we ever
introduce the cavass into London—|
and why not?-in the affections of the j
nursemaids he will prove a formidable
rival to Policeman X. and Dandy Dan,
the life guardsman. And he is as use-
ful as he is ornamental. The protec- j
tion of a cavass gets you through the
customs with hardly the opening of a
hat box, knocks 25 per cent off the
sum by which you are cheated in the
bazaars, and even keeps the irrepressi¬
ble little Jewish shoeblacks from run-
ning at your heels. His dignified
port, though it at first abashes, at
last stimulates and fortifies you. You !
feel that you are taking part in the
procession, and that now or never is |
the time for your demeanor to be not-
ed by the reporters as "affable.” This
is the cavass frame of mind. And to
think that you can enjoy the harmless
exaltation for “the ridiculous sum” of
a few piasters!
LETTERS SENT TO NOTED MEN
Those curious personages who de¬
light in prying Into unexpected sub-
jects and classifying the results in
learned form have been very busy re-
cently with the letters received by
prominent people. The president . of
the French republic, for instance, is
said to receive daily 700 letters, and
these are made up as follows: Beg-
ging letters, 250; petitions on political
affairs, 150; petitions from criminals,
100; complaints against various func¬
tionaries, also 100; anonympus letters
containing insults, 80, and threats of
assassination, 20.
The daily post bag at Marlborough
house, London, too, contains some ex-
traordinary letters. By one post there
arrived the following: A request f° r
- loan of ?5,000 to enable, student of
entomology to start for Africa; a peti-
tion from a poor old lady to provide a
0„w,. ? her laughter Who ahoa.
to be married; a pressing letter from
„ French toveMor o, a new dirt.g
„r„a. begging the Pri.e, o, W,„. .0
don it and dive into the Seine when he
next visited Paris, and a calm request
for money to redeem a workman's
tools.
Of course few of these curious mis-
gives ever reach the Prince of Wales,
for his experienced secretaries sift the
correspondence with care and knowl-
edge. Every day theie aie scores of
letters connected with the public cere-
monies in which the prince takes a
part, for every item is submitted for
approval. Then there are the thou-
sand and one social invitations re¬
quiring a reply, and unnumbered ap¬
peals for money In aid of charities.
The private letters for the prince are
very numerous, for his relatives keep
him ih touch with all interesting them.
His sister, the Empress Frederick, is
a charming letter writer, and corre¬
sponds with the prince regularly.
I
Ah She Expressed It.
“Yes,” said the lady from Boston,
speaking of her favorite lecturer, “he
is one whom the lady would designate
as a biscuit john.” “Beg pardon?”
said the member of the laity. “Oh, to
be exnlicit a crackerjack.’’—Indianap-
olls Journal.
Must Explain.
A man must not only have a fractur¬
ed skull, but a clear and coherent ex¬
planation as to how he came to get it,
before he is admitted to a New York
hospital.—Puck.
There is one portion of the human
body which continues to increase in
size throughout life, and does not
cease with the attainment of maturi¬
ty. This is the crystalline lens of the
eve.
hiJLilJh DDDUI (]AP[TAf \Jn.l 11 flii
11 |j Au i q DljJjlN Tjijrvr *TX lAIVlJrl V”UKf
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General n i MacArtllUI ,*1, 3 Men M^r, OsnlnM Capture
tho Cittr of Malolos
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i a. DESPERATE ONSLAUGHT
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Americans . T Lost , Twenty Men. Tvr^r,
Rebels Were Slaughtered.
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1 1:30 o’clock
I The wav denavtment at
i Friday „ .. morning gave out , the loiiow- j
! ing dispatch from Gen. Otis:
“Manila, March 31.—Adjt. Gen.
, Washington: TT , . Mac Arthur . .. oaptnked . i
Malolos at 10:15 this morning. Enemy
i retire<1 after Bli B bt reslstance and fll "
l ing the city. Particulars later. Hall
! had several engagements beyond Mari- ;
i , being . driven. ,. Oris.
_
. strl>nc opposition Encounter.-,,.
MmtArthnr ..lv.need to.ttnok
Malolos, the seat of the insurgent gov- j
“Kj. at 7 o’clock Thursday morn- ! j
Uo met with strong resistance, . ,
was _
the ,*4, north, r where f ■.r Agumaldo and ‘7* the r >
cabinet have been for two days.
The Americans finally drove the j
Filipinos ^ back. Although r there were !
^ of str(mg ntren chments
aIoll « the railroa d track, the enemy
made Hcar( , ely nc defense there.
General MacArthur and his stall'
w ere walking along the track abreast
of tbe ]ine with everything quiet, when
8ud( j enly they received a shower of
bulletg f rom sharpshooters in trees
an(J Qn house tops, but these were !
g g( jily dislodged.
The enemy’s / loss was heavy,although ^
^ ju lu fforded them s ch proteo .
tion tbat the Americans were unable
to Bee tbenl and in the flring were
gn j ded by the sound of the Filipino
s ^ 0 ^ s _
Tbe American artillery was handi-
ea pp ed f or the same reason.
Thursday night’s long line of camp !
tires made a beautiful sight, with the
Twentieth Kansas regiment on the !
left, of Guiguinto station and the Penu-
„yi V ania regiment on the right, beyond
tbe ,.j ye) .
The provision train was delayed by
broken bridges, but the stores of grain
aud fl oc ij a 0 f du cks in tbe locality fur-
nisbed ample food and forage. ,
The hospital work is remarkably
efficient, as it lias been throughout tbe
whole campaign.
The telegraphers keep abreast of tbe
ji ne and maintain a constant connec-
tion with the city.
DEMOCRATS BANQUET.
Colone! Bryan Was a Guest and Dis¬
cussed “Democracy.” I
A democratic conference and ban-
quet under the auspices of the demo-
cralic state central committee of Kan-
saR was held in Topeka Thursday
eveniftg.
Prominent speakers, including Col.
M 7 . J. Bryan, of Nebraska; Champ
Clark, of Missouri, and Allen O.
Myers, of Ohio, were present. Covers
were laid for more than a thousand
guests.
The meeting was in The nature of a
conference of the democratic leaders.
politcy of the party in the cam-
P a ^K u being touched upon,
Mr. Bryan himself was given the most
P rominen t' Pj ace i his subject being
“Democracy.
M r - Bryan stood ont squarely for ^ the
Chicago platform and said that there
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^^0^*.IT.'.SS ZlS"” „ I
fully understanding the nature of the
struggle.”
GENERAL FLAGLER’S REMAINS
Are Sent From Old Point Comfort, Va.,
To Washington.
A dispatch from Newport News,Va.,
gays; The remains of General Daniel
E. Flagler, chief of ordnance. United
States army, who (lied at Old Point
Comfort Wednesday, were taken aboard
the steamer for Washington Thursday,
ICE PLANT FOR MANILA.
Government Will Erect One For Ben¬
efit of Otis’ Troops.
Bids were opened at Chicago Thurs¬
day at the division army headquarters
for the construction of a large combi-
nation refrigerating aud iee manufac-
tilling plant for the government at
Manila,
The bid of $193,152 by the DeLa-
vergne Refrigerating Machine Compa-
nv of New York was the lowest,
There were several other bids, includ-
ing $205,820 by Theo Vitter, Mihvau-
kee, and $215,613 by the Frick Com¬
pany.of Waynesboro, Pa.
GERMANS ARE SKEPTICAL.
The Kaiser’s Government Discredits
the Reports From Samoa.
A Berlin special says: The German
government was taken wholly by sur-
prise with the news from Samoa. A
well-informed individual states that
the government is skeptical as to Ad¬
miral Kautz’s instructions. He adds
that Herr Bose, the German consul,
would have protested, as his govern¬
ment had instructed him to strictly
conform to the Samoan act.
MAY Au.NI> riONfciY «AUn.
Representatives of Cuban Assembly
W()n ’ tQive u p Arm y R*
A dispatch from Havana says: Gov-
ernorGeneral Brooke has almost, made
U P h* 8 m ' n <l Hel *d the $8,000,000 §
military back to the assembly United States does not if the give Cuban j
the rolls. up
army “You may as well do J
80 1111,1 IIO * i * r ' de any longer, said
Secretary Alger, da when discussing the j
ln a * ter f ,ew 7 s a K°» * n conference |
IV* . ** ^ * and General
1 el !,V a roo <e
Domez. 1110 , bitter said . that such
a
course would serve the assembly right,
Anyway, the impression is spread-
’ nR * V* tlle g0vern l r general ma J r «'
tur,1 ; t ie m °ney to Washington, and it
is stirring up fresh feeling against the
assembly. General Ernst called upon
the Cuban general, Rafael Portuondo,
chairman of the executive committee
°t the assembly, J three days /y ago. f and
sked fo) . the 0 , u . “ D( 0l come
from General Brooke?’* asked Portu-
™ d °' “ Yea >” re P]* ed ,^ e “f ral Ernst -
. ]? Ulu,fficl ll * r
u 5.° lUa °,? allH ere( ^ l tiie y - American c ? me
w
’ reM>r ' ea TO'tnomio. 1 can only
do i so on oftmal . recognition. ”
OT obSv°be IKS
«b«a they were, but the,, te e t.ehng
tba ‘ a ‘“ l " t “ ke might be m “ fle ? n, f th ®
dmini hation placed , m the light of
" "" d “' !>os ' 1 ’ ”
laughed ■ g at •
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tired of this jangle with the assembly.
I have learned something about this
people which I did not know before,
They are an ungrateful people. They
<lo not appreciate what the United
Htates government is doing for them—
a service in which I am assisting,
“These assembly commissioners
have run off again to the United States
to beg for money, while I, who have
a wife in San Domingo, have not mon-
<*y enough to bring her here. But
there I do have a house and might be
sure of enough to live on. I am old
and tired and I feel like going back.”
The organization of the so-called
Cuban national party is proceeding,
Meetings are held nightly, and Thurs-
day the promoters issued a manifesto
to the people of Havana, calling upon
them to unite their efforts and to or-
ganize ward committees, with au idea
of disseminating information prepara-
tory to a national convention,
RIVER STEAMER SINKS.
The Rowena Lee Goes Down and Two
Women Are Drowned.
.Definite information was received at
the general office of tbe Lee line at
Memphis, Tenn., Thursday, regarding
tbe nature of tbe steamboat disaster at
Tyler, Mo., Wednesday afternoon,
Two lives are known to be lost and
one man is missing. The dead are: Mrs.
Chambers, of Caruthersville, Mo.,and
a negro woman.
The missing man is George Keuch-
ler, the mail clerk.
General Manager Robert E. Lee of
the Lee line, furnished the informa-
Gon regarding the casualties as soon
ag j(, reached his office,
The message said that the boat left
Tyler at 4 o’clock, and in backing out
from the landing to reach the middle
0 f channel struck some hidden ob-
struction, the nature of which was not
known, and she began to sink rapidly.
As soon as this fact became known
tbe pilot changed the course of the
boat and started back to the landing,
but before it was re „ched she had set-
tied down in thirty-five feef of water.
^ be p asa engers and crew were
saved, excepting those whose names
bave been given. She
The Iiowena Lee is a total loss.
cost $40,000 in 1893, and was insured
j cr $15^00 with the Louisville under-
writers.
BR , T , S „ eMBaSSy" NOTIFIED.
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At Sam,,. C.alirma
S.or, o. Bombardment.
The British embassy in Washington
has received advices from Samoa in
the shape of a dispatch to the British
foreign office from its representative
Imder date of March 20th and
is a brief repovt 0 f the collision be-
tweeu two native factions there and
the bombardment by the British and
American vessels.
The dispatch does not go into details,
but is confirmatory of the advices al-
re-uly • J received by J the Associated Press,
THE SAMOAN AFFAIR
Occupies the Attention of Officials In
Washington.
The serious condition of affairs in
Samoa engaged the attention of Wash¬
ington officials throughout the day
Thursday and there were conferences
at the white house between the pres¬
ident and Secretary Hay and at the
state department between the secretary
and tlio British ambassador aud Baron
Sternberg of the German embassy.
Out of it all not a word of additional
information was contributed from auy
official source. The only authoritative
statement came from the navy depart¬
ment, giving' a brief dispatch from
Admiral Kautz.
CLEVELAND LEFT OUT.
The Ex-President Not Invited To Bel¬
mont’s $io Banquet.
A Princeton, N. J., dispatch says:
Ex-President Grover Cleveland was
asked Thursday whether he expected
to attend the Belmont $10 Jefferson
dinner to be given in New York oily
on April 13th. had received invi¬
He said he not an
tation. AU he knew about the dinner
was what h% had seen in the papers.