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OCILLA DISPATCH.
OCILLA. GEORGIA.
HENDERSON A HANLON, Publishers,
A bicyclist has just obtained a ver¬
dict of $24,500 against a railroad com¬
pany for the loss of his legs, If he
had not been a wheelman what would
the sum have been?
Kovaraa is a member of the Japa¬
nese Diet. That body had been con¬
sidering a laud tax bill which the gov¬
ernment was determined should be-
come a law. Wheu the roil was
called Koyama announced that certain
agents of the government had paid him
.$4000 to vote for the tax bill,and then
sedately proceeded to vote against the
measure. In his artless Japanese
fashion, Koyama further rebuked his
would-be corrupters by pocketing the
money. While this is exceedingly in¬
teresting evidence going to show that,
the dawn of civilization in Japan has
become a sunburst,it is disappointing.
Koyama is evidently young, He
must learu that the first requisite of a
successful |)olitciau is to stay bought
anil say nothing about it._
It is a little over a year since Phila¬
delphia transferred to the United Cias
Improvement company, under a 30
years’ lease, the franchise of the gas
company, and reports recently made
mark sharply the difference between
political control and business manage¬
ment. The city now has a revenue of
10 per cent, on an increased quantity
of gas sold at $1 per thousand, where¬
as it was formerly unable to make
both ends meet at a higher rate. Con¬
sumers are supplied with better gas,
and the worn-out gas mains have be n
replaced with new oues, to the com¬
fort of citizens who a 3 noses had
been assailed with the odor of escap¬
ing gas. In this .work of betterment
$1,112,829 has been expended within
the year, although the lease only re¬
quires the expenditure o' $1,000,000
i 1 this way during the first three years,
and of $10,000,00 thereafter. All these
improvements, it should be noted,
will ultimately revert to the benefit of
the city, as at the end of the 30 years
the gas-works must be returned to the
city without the expenditure of a dol¬
lar of public money on the improve¬
ments made or to be made.
More evidence of the use of boracic
acid as a meat preservative comes from
Philadelphia. A soap-maker in that
city, who purchases the excess fat
from the market stalls, says that about
five years ago he noticed that some¬
thing in conn-ction with the tallow
was preventing ils union with the lye
in the soap-making process. He con¬
cluded that there was an acid of some
kind in the tallow, and on making
that statement to the firm that sup¬
plied the tallow it was admitted that
the meat men were using a wash for
the meat, and that it was boracic acid.
He asked if the fluid was injected in
the meat, and was told that it was
used only on the surface beEore the
meat was put into the ice-cliest. The
soap-manufacturer adds that he has
often since that time noticed in butch¬
er shops that meat that had been un¬
deniably washed with a preserving
liquid or pow er was avoided by^the
flies, while they would swarm on un¬
treated meat. He had observed also
tliat he had less trouble with the acid
in Gold weather, when it was presuma¬
ble that less of the preservative was
used.
Apropos of the phenomenon of
sleep, a printer in a newspaper office
in Bangor, Me., thought that he lpul
solved it. He might have succeeded
had not nature called him to account
for his trifling. His scheme was sim¬
ple and plausible. He did not be¬
lieve that slumber had any effect on the
muscles; they need simply rest or
change in the character of exercise. As
to the brain, that could be rested in
the same way. He dropped off a few
minutes from his sleep every day. In
the course of a month he had re¬
duced his ordinary time of slumber of
eight hours to five. At length he
reached the supreme moment when he
was to pass his first sleepless consecu¬
tive twenty-four hours. As has been
said, he was a printer, a compositor.
He needed a certain font of type that
was kept in a dark corner of the
room. He climbed up on the stool.
Three hours later they missed him. A
search revealed him sitting on the
stool fast asleep. He was taken home
and he slept for long periods through¬
out a week. So far he has not found
his experiment profitable. This is a
good illustration of all the attributes
of nature. Poor humanity cannot ig¬
nore her laws without a stern admon¬
ishment.
HEARING THE HEAT.
INGENIOUS ELECTRICAL IN¬
STRUMENT INVENTED.
Now Thornwmiotor Will Doubtless Re of
Much Value In Cold Storage Ware*
house* and on Warships— Or. Whipple
the Inventor.
It Is now possible to hear heat and
cold. Hr. George C. Whipple has in¬
vented an electrical instrument by
means of which the various ranges of
temperature may be heard in an or¬
dinary telephone receiver. Explorer
Peary owns one of these instruments,
and he will take lb with him to the
north pole to listen to the very in¬
tense cold which is supposed to pre¬
vail there. The apparatus is very
simple in construction. In external
appearance, according to a writer in
the Golden Penny, it is like an ordi¬
nary electric battery box, such as is
used in sick rooms. Prom one side
of the box extends a very long insul¬
ated wire, carrying a small coil of
bare wire on the end of it. Prom the
other side of the box extend wires
which hold a telephone receiver. The
latter Is to be held to the ear, so that
the temperature into which the bare
coil is thrust may be heard. It may
seem strange that heat and cold may
be heard as well as felt. To be ac¬
curate, it is the presence of heat, or
cold acting on the bare coil of wire
which causes an electric current to set
up a buzzing in the telephone. When
the instrument is used the telephone is
held to the ear, while the listener
looks at a dial on the battery box
mentioned above. This dial, which in
appearance is like the face of an or¬
dinary mechanical thermometer, is
marked with figures representing de¬
grees of temperature above and below
zero. Let us suppose, for instance,
that we are to listen to the tempera¬
ture of a pail of water. The coil of
bare wire is thrust into the water and
the observer places the telephone to
his ear. There is a band or pointer
pivoted in the middle of the dial face.
The observer proceeds to turn the
pointer from figure to figure on the
dial. ‘When the telephone Is placed
first to the ear a loud buzzing sound
is heard. This is because the pointer
does not happen to be at the figure
representing the temperature of the
water in which the bare coil is placed.
As the pointer nears the figure that
indicates the correct temperature, the
buzzing sound in the telephone gets
fainter until, when it comes opposite,
it stops altogether. As soon as the
buzzing stops the observer knows that
the temperature of the water has been
found. Dr. Whipple tried the instru¬
ment the other day in a room the
temperature of which was about 70
degrees. An experimenter placed the
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ed up n mountains and had a
populationi all the inhabitants of ess; than were 2 farmers 0D0^ wno ^y
had their fields spread ou n 1-
leys r:; and ;; alot ^ L^ed the viSe Sasso
Rosso, 3,000 feet, above abov the ^
streets. the highest of
Pizze Rotondo group,
the St. Gothard peaks. The inhabi-
telephone to his ear and heard a loud
buzzing. Dr. Whipple moved the
pointer toward the figure 70. The mo-
ment 70 was reached the buzzing
stopped. This was because the tem-
of the room surrounding ,, the
perature found. Dr. Whipple
coil had been
then held the bare coil of wire be-
tween both hands, The buzzing in
the telephone began again, because the
warmth of his hands had raised the
temperature of the coil. The experl-
mentor moved the pointer around until
it reached 98 degrees. The buzzing
stopped again, Bhowing that the tem¬
perature of the hands had been found.
Then Hr. Whipple lighted a match and
held the flame against the coll. The
buzzing began again, and the pointer
had to be moved forward until the
temperature of the lighted match was
found. The coil was thrust into a
basin of water. The ljuzzing until com¬ the
menced and did not stop
pointer was moved down to 60 degrees,
showing that to be the temperature in
the basin, When the coil was held
against a piece of ice the pointer had
to be turned back to 16 degrees above
zero. The instrument is now being
used in cold-storage warehouses to as¬
certain the temperature of the various
rooms without opening them. Ih the
old days of cold-storage work it was
necessary to keep the refrigerating
plant operating under high pressure
all the time, because it was not pos¬
sible to tell the temperature of any
individual room without opening it,
and It was not always advisable to do
that. So to make sure of all of the
rooms they were kept as cold as pos¬
sible. Now, however, each Individual
room in the warehouse has in it one
of these new electric thermometers.
Several times a day an official goes
to a series of push buttons upon the
office wall and throws into circuit one
after another the thermometers in the
various rooms of the warehouse. By
placing the telephone, to the ear and
manipulating the dial he is able ac¬
curately to determine the temperature
of every room in the building. The
new thermometer will doubtless be of
much value in factories where furnaces
and ovens are used. It can be made
to ring an alarm, and hence would be
useful in the powder magazine of a
warship. In fact, it will be invaluable
in any situation where increases of
heat or cold must be known at once.
CROSSING DASHERS.
They Are Not the Least of the Trials
of the Motor man.
“These here crossing dashers will be
the death of me yet,” grumbled a trol¬
ley car motorman, as he gave the
crank a vicious twist, says the New
Orleans Times-Democrat. “What are
they, did ye say? Why, those unde¬
cided folks that stand waiting for the
car to pass until it’s just beginning to
move and then give a plunge and
barely clear the safety net. See that
woman? She’s the worst kind of a
crossing dasher. I know her because
she’s given me palpitation of the heart
more times than I’ve got fingers and
toes. When 1 stopped a minute ago
she came walking up to the corner
and stood there, looking kind of re¬
signed, as if she was really waiting for
me to go by. There was time enough
for a whole regiment to crawl across
on their hands and knees, but she
never budged an inch until I had
tants of Airolo for some time had been
uneasy about the Sasso Rosso, as the
cliffs of the mountain overhanging the
village showed signs of being ready
to drop down upon it. Engineers were
sent to Airolo to examine into the re-
ported danger, but before they could
comp the ir work the disaster which
& d happened.
Tuesday morni ng rocks began to
fall midday. from the cliffs and continued until
Early next morning great
maggeg fell upon the villag e, crushing
the hotel and wrecking many houses,
The debris covered a space of nearly a
turned on the current and the wheels
were just beginning, to move, and then
she made a dive that nearly scared me
to death. What makes them do it?
1 dunno. They seem to be working up
their courage and get It to the sticking
point at about the same time ye get
through waiting. They are the plague
of the business, but I think I broke
one crossing dasher of the habit a few
days ago. He was a middle-aged man
very respectable-looking and very tim¬
id. yet he’d take chances right along
that were worse than San Juan
hill. ■ At last I got tired of having my
nerves jolted that way, and, besides,
I didn’t want his blood on my wheels,
so I lay for him. Next time he came
to the crossing I watched him out of
the corner of my eye and I started up
real slow with my hand on the lever,
He gathered himself together, glared
around, like they all do, and made his
rush, but the minute he did It 1 re¬
versed the motor, rang the gong about
100 times, and yelled at the top of my
voice. You ought to have seen that
dasher. He was so scared and be¬
wildered that he turned around like
a top and scooted first one way and
then another, right in front of the
fender, until I thought I’d split laugh¬
ing. If I hadn’t stopped the car he’d
have been killed sure. His plug hat
fell off into the mud, he dropped a lot
of books he was carrying, and never
stopped sprinting until he tripped over
a rail and sat down hard enough to
make a hole in the street. Wfien I
helped him up he told me I was the
preserver and began clawing for his
wallet, but I stopped him and said no,,
I’d only done my duty, and that, kind
sir, is reward enough. Great speech,
wasn’t it? I read it in a novel. It’s
what the hero says when he—yes, that
is your street. Tell you the rest an¬
other time. AVell, good-by.”
TAX DODGING IN ITALY.
Government Is Taking Steps to Capture
the Offender*.
It Is always said that Italy is a
heavitly-taxed country, but it might be j
more truly said that the taxes are
heaviest for those who are unable to
avoid paying them, says a Rome cor¬
respondent of the London Post. Among
the wealthier classes, manufacturers
and professional men in Italy a great
deal of what Americans call “tax-dodg¬
ing” goes on and if the “tax-dodger”
possesses political influence he is often
able to escape punishment. At the
beginning of the year the chamber
passed an important law on infortunii
sul lavoro, or accidents to workmen,
by which the responsibility of employ-
ers for accidents happening to their
workmen was defined' In it employers
were called on to state the number of
workmen in their employ and the
number of steam engines and other
machines in their factories. A large
number of Palermitan employers, how¬
ever, feared that if they informed the
government of the real number of
workmen in their employ the tax agent
might be able to calculate the amount
of their profits and increase their in-
come tax. In fact, out of 1,000 steam
engines In the Palermo district only
one has yet been reported to the au-
thorities, while of the 8,000 men at
work in the sulphur mines only 3,500
have been declared. A government in-
spection is asked for and meanwhile
square mile. Wonderful to say, onlj
three people were killed. The falling
rocks had warned the people, and those
who lived near the cliffs had removed
themselves and their household goods
to a place of safety. The damage done
to the village is estimated at $200,000.
Steps are being taken to save the vll-
lags from further disaster by under-
mining the great masses of rock which
still hang threateningly over the place.
The people whose houses were de-
stroyed are now camped out at a safe
distance from the toppling crags. The
Chicago Inter Ocean.
the employers who have not conformed
to the law are being prosecuted.
Giant Flies.
A fly is not very tall, yet it stands
over six feet without, shoes or stock¬
ings.
The Paris Ice Company has con¬
ceived the idea of making some of the
glaciers furnish the ice needed for con¬
sumption, the last winter having been
so mild that their other resources
failed.
CARTER HARRISON
MAYOR OF CHICAGO
Present Incumbent Is Re-Elected
By a Handsome Majority.
DEFEATED TWO OPPONENTS
The Election Was Fought Out
Entirely on Local Issues.
Carter II. Harrison was re-elected
mayor of Chicago Tuesday by a total
vote of 146,914, ’ against f 107,804 for
Zinar . _ R. Carter, the republican ,
can-
didate,and 45,410 for John P. Altgeld,
the independent democratic candidate,
Harrison’s plurality 39,610.
The democrats also carried all the
town elections, electing assessor, col-
lector, supervisor and town clerk in
the north, south and west towns, the
majorities ranging from 6 to 10,000.
The vote from the wards indicate
that the republicans have elected four-
teen aldermen and the democrats nine.
The contest in several of the wards is
very close and the official count will
probably be necessary to determine
the result.
The city council has been composed
of foriy-five democrats and twenty-
three republicans, and the democrats
will without doubt retain a working
majority.
The election was entirely upon local
issues, no element of national politics
entering into the campaign. The firm
stand taken by Mayor Harrison
against the proposed fifty-year extern
■■ ion of the street car franchises was a
strong element of his popularity and
gained many from the republican par¬
ty, besides holding closely to him
many of ^the democratic party who
might have cast their votes for the in-
dependent democratic candidate.
Another fact that drew to him many
republican votes was the existing op-
position to the republican machine
among the rank and file of the repub¬
lican party. Thousands of votes were
cast for Harrison that would have
been received by Carter, the re¬
publican nominee, had not the latter
been backed by the machine politi¬
cians. There was nothing against Mr.
Carter personally, but the fact that he
was reputed to be the machine nomi¬
nee was enough to set many against
him.
Several independent and republican
papers supported Mr. Harrison,among
them The Times-Herald and Post,
which have been known as McKinley
organs. *
The election revealed some remark-
able changes in the republican vote,
particularly in the strong republican
wards, where the shifting to the demo¬
cratic candidate was very marked.
The election was one of tlm quietest
that the city has ever experienced.
Mayor Harrison declared himself as
being greatly pleased with the result
of the election, saying:
< i It shows that the people of Chicago
are pleased with thd administration,
and I am glad of that, for I honestly
endeavored to give them the best ad-
ministration I could. The result
shows for itself.”
Mr. Carter, the republican oandi-
date, said:
“I do not take the Harrison victory
to be a rebuke to the republican party.
Indeed, I think that national issues
were not in the minds of the people
when they cast their ballots—simply
the idea was uppermost that Carter H.
Harrison was alone to thank for de-
feating the , attempt at long-term , fran- „
chises and that re-election was due to
him as a reward for that act. ”
John P. Altgeld said of the result of
the election:
“One reason for the election of Mr.
Harrison was that the press supported
him almost without exception, and the
great republican papers were on his
side. Why did the republican papers
support. Harrison? The reason is hard
to find. They saw that Mr. Harrison
had already betrayed the democratic
party, as he bad it in his power to do,
and he will carry the betrayal a great
deal further, and this makes the re-
election of McKinley a certainty. The
republicans look on this fight as the 1
first battle of 1900 and feel that the
re-election of Mr. Harrison already I
seals the results of the next presiden- j ]
tial campaign.”
TO CONSTRUCT NEW ROAD.
Work Will Begin On Columbia and
Savannah Line This Month. j
A special from Raleigh, N. 0., says:
In the course ot an interview with a I
leading Southern railway official, he j
said of building the work by the line Southern Columbia railway j
its new from j
to Savannah will begin this month, j
The surveys are well under way. The
line will extend to the westward of the
Florida Central and Peninsular rail-
road and will be a triangle. There
will be no trouble in getting into Sa¬
vannah. There are two lines from Sa¬
vannah to Jacksonville, but if neces¬
sary the Southern will build to Jack¬
sonville.
A PLETHORA OF ACCIDENTS.
Five Men Are Killed In Joplin, Mo.,
In One Day.
Five men were killed in three acci¬
dents at Joplin, Mo., Monday. Three !
were killed by the caving in of a :
sewer.
At the “Old Shoe” mine Dan Oar- j
mine was knocked down the 120 foot [
shaft and died soon after. At the Mis- [
souri Head and Zinc company s mine ,
falling John Smith, boulder. a miner, was killed by a j '
TO DUST
Cuban Asseml
moves
A dispatch The] o]
vans says: |
ban military
Tuesday night., conn]
particular
Americans herd
been discounted
The America!
while pleased tl
I disposal of the
removed, had b
tribute the $3,0
the assembly’s
drawn up duplii
In this work
nors were co-c
ban command®]
In addition, tli ,
iresing verifl iuquiri] e d aJ
pendent
another moiitjh.
distribution of
soldiers will pi
vicinity of Hava
; p] 16 g enera i
distribution ar<
who have enlist!
! and to exclude
I holding govern
longing to privajtg thel r
ing each $10oM
ed officer
a balance remH
to each officer.
FLOA
The Subject of
state!
A Washingt!
interstate cc
Wednesday, ul
sioner Prouty, H
the mingham Kansas Railroc CitJ
which mainly in]
j floating cotton. :
The commissi
sential transport
ing the cotton to
it again in the 1
transporting to
through rate in
' 0
1 he question .
ment 13 to co
entitled to a thrcl
and calling for al
in effect to and!
point. I
The carrier commissi]
the may a
for the through I
cotton to be ston
pose of grading fu
the privilege entd
part of the servic
and should be sd
tariffs.
Second, that tn
ture of a througlJ
tract and if the c
. .
cee, a u P°. n a oon
ment, as is show
case, it may be ci
shipment and bei
through rate. I
CONDONED
A St. Louis Polii
ders a Ur
A decision we
p ea b 0 dy j n the
c01lr t Wednesdi
eon ditions a hut
k eat w jf e r
nard Kretzer, c
his wife because
jq., pj m j n (.fie
children. Judge
j n „ judgment:
“In this case
guilty than the h'
con tradict and tl
j u pregi
and setting them
he had a right tc
times when a w
band to such an 4
control himself al
j on g a |
^ 01ie> j don^t belij
WOHEN’S
Municipal Officer
AH
l n tl 16 c '*y e ' ec !
two tickets were i .
posed of women al
Mrs. Charles Totta
aill \ Mrs. Sbeldou
Smith, Mrs. Kirli
f°r council, while
clerk, won easily.
The women dr;
riages all through
storm carrying vi
Th e police judge
men.
ELECTION IN 4
Republicans Carry
ocrats 5 ho
1 The Rhode Isl
which was held \
ih a republican v
democrats made gi
ties.
The entire repu
was successful and
bly will be republn
jority, though no
year. ]
Eighty districts
state lican, give 16,812; forgoverj Ghel
932; Herrick, soci
Peckham, prohibitil
TIERNEY TR
Major Will Be A.
Duty at
A dispatch from r|
says: Major Tierne
E ort Monroe, left
Thursday under or
Manila, where he \v
active service. Col
succeed Major Tieri
at the fort.