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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 AIROLO. SWITZERLAND, OVERWHELMED BV A LANDSLIDE. £=. §§ ll a a S T-~=r V f? ' ^41 cSS'ii. r ■; « r 5| t# jtjp ps i ms-i few* N mm v-3. i y-j i nHP? ,r 'M' m c'l '-A g||gg 1 ) ill mmm J* it -TS BS Y. mm i i m SS Ki :;; +Vl „ t j-n11nn pnu nf the St Goth- ,, t , j or was t i le village of Air Th( s other dav the side of a “ 1< ; u “ ta “ . f ,, n aad nearly blotted °"t the P i ®‘the T u e village was perch- 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.