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OCILLA DISPATCH.
OriliLA, GEORGIA.
HENDKBSON & HANLOX, Publishers.
The B.slou Transcript wants to
have rea ling cars substituted for
jniokers on the railroads as being
more civilized.
If the increasing fondness for the
automobile continues we shall find
the horse show with a dangerous rival
the first thing wo kuow, and it will he
“beauty and the machine,” instead of
“beauty and the beast.”
Fmgland's queen has given another
illustration of her good heart and
common sense. A few weeks ago she
set a practical example to the lauded
proprietors of the United Kingdom by
having her herds tested for tuberculo¬
sis ami ordering all infected animals
to be slaughtered.
According to Sir Dyoe Duckworth,
the treasurer of the Royal College of
Physicians of London, public opinion
in England has of late much veered
round towards the simplification of
funerals. There is a Burial, Funeral,
and Mourning Reform association, one
of whose principal objects into abolish
the old-fashioned and barbarous lead
coflin and advocate the earth-to-earth
system of burial.
Bicycle riding in some portions of
the world is considered incomplete in
joys until a patented tow rope has
been added to the rider’s outfit by
means of which the woman rider may
make a sure and tireless journey up
hillsides at the expense of the man
of the party. That dropping out of a
line for her to cliug to is an old idea
but the line is perfect now with
springs and coils and all that sort of
thing. No wonder that bicycle riding
is losing its popularity, it is getting
to be a rather onesided sort of
proposition.
Massaekusetis now has two associa-
tiousfor providing annuities for retired
public school teachers—oae for Bos¬
ton teachers only, the other and the
youngest for the teachers ia the cities
and towns. The last is believed to be
tlie only guild organized by the union
of small cities and towns. Though
scarcely six years old, the resellers’
Annuity guild has a permanent fund
of over $51,000 and an annuity fu id
exceeding •■$10,000. It is provided
that annuities shall be 80 per cent, of
the annual salary at the time of re¬
tirement, with a limit of $000. Tlio
present assessment is one per cent, of
annual salary, with a limit of $20 per
annum, which it is proposed to reduce
to $10. A similar plan has been
adopted in a number of large cities in
the country.
By careful computation the Finan¬
cial Chronicle finds that the cotton
crop for the year ending Sept. 1, 1899,
amounted to no less than 11,235,383
bales. At average present prices tki3
means a wealth of $3 >7,061,490 taken
from the soil in the form of a single
crop which is grown only in a part of
the country. Wo are becoming a great
manufacturing nation. We are espe¬
cially multiplying and extending
our cotton mills. Yet of our 11,235,-
383 bales of cotton we have manu¬
factured only 3,647,118 bales, while
we have sent abroad 7,3(32,788 bales
for the workmen of other countries to
convert into cloths. Obviously our
cotton-spinning and cotton-weaving
industries are still in their infancy.
Think of the millions in wages that
will be paid to American workmen
wheu we come to manufacture all our
cotton I__
Careful estimates made during the
year 1896 indicated that no less than
120,000 horses were required for the
propulsion of the street cars in actual
use in the various cities in the United
States. Recent estimates indicate
that about 15,000 horses are all that
are requisite today for the horse-car
service throughout the eutire United
States. This surely is a remarkable
evidence of the emancipation of the-
street oar horse. Thirteen years ago
it was estimated that over 20,000 of
these patient and noble servants of
man were rendered useless from the
excessive strain and overwork to which
they were subjected. So soon does
the public mind adapt itself to changed
conditions that comparatively few peo¬
ple appreciate fully the beneficial
effects which the elimination of the
street car horse from our public
.thoroughfares and the adoption of the
cable and electric systems has se¬
cured.
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UMNS. TRY US.
J. SMITH, BULLION AIRE
It was a typical autumn I.ondon
night, the streets flowing with greasy
mud, the air yellow with smoky fog,
and a cold, sleety drizzle falling, as
Hilda Smith arrived at Paddington sta¬
tion.
It was her first experience of the
great metropolis, but she had received
her instructions,and selecting her port¬
manteau she had it removed to a cab,
and, jumping in, ordered the man to
drive to the Ballarat mansions in Vic¬
toria street, Westminster.
Hilda was not a little anxious be¬
cause she had arrived in town a day
ahead of her invitation, and she was
not certain whether her bachelor
brother, with whom she was going to
stay for a month or six weeks, would
be ready to receive her.
The door was opened by a hard-faced
looking woman of the charwoman type,
w.ho stood gazing at her without mov¬
ing away from the entrance.
“Is this Mr. Smith's?” asked Hilda.
“Yes, miss,” replied the woman,with¬
out offering to let her in, however.
“Is he at home?”
“No, he ain't, and I don’t know when
he will be.”
“But did he not expect me? He is
my brother, and I have come to stay
with him.”
“Oh, indeed, miss. Well, he didn’t
say nothing to me about it,” answered
the woman. “But I suppose you’d bet¬
ter have the spare room,” and she step¬
ped aside with a grudging air as she al¬
lowed the fair girl to enter.
Turning on the electric light, she
showed Hilda into a handsomely fur¬
nished bedroom, whose white and gold
paint and blue satin furniture caused
her to open her eyes in wonder, for her
brother was not supposed at home to
be in luxurious circumstances, and by
the time she had washed her face and
hands the housekeeper brought her a
cup of tea and some bread and butter,
after which she retired to rest, and did
not wake until late the following morn¬
ing.
“Mr. Smith came home late last
night, miss,” said the housekeeper,
when she aroused her with the hot
water, “and told me to say that he
would join you at breakfast.”
The breakfast table was a picture to
the eyes of the frugally brought up
country girl, for it Was covered with
every delicacy in or out of season, and
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Hilda was admiring the priceless china
when she heard footsteps approaching,
and turned around to welcome her
brother.
“Oh, Jack!” she exclaimed, dancing
toward the door with her arms out¬
stretched, “I’m so glad-”
Then she stopped suddenly as though,
she had been shot, for a tall, dark,
handsome man, quite the opposite of
her brother in appearance, entered the
room.
“I am afraid that somebody has made
a mistake," he said, in a soft, kind, re¬
assuring voice. “But I can not be suf¬
ficiently grateful to whoever is to
blame for sending me such a charming
guest to breakfast."
“I expected to meet my brother—Mr.
Smith,” observed Hilda, nearly chok¬
ing with confusion. “John Smith.”
“My name is John Smith,” said the
Btranger, with an amused smile.
“Of No.- 8 Ballarat mansions,” con-
tinued Hilda.
"Ah! Now I see how the mistake oc-
curred,” exclaimed Mr. Smith, “Thi3
is No. 6, but there is another John
Smith at No. 8, and our letters fre-
quently get mixed up. 1 can only say
that I am sorry it is the other John
Smith who is the lucky man on this
occasion, And now, my dear young
lady, let us go to breakfast.”
At first Hilda could neither eat nor
speak, but. her host in a short time had
succeeded in putting her so much at
her ease that she was chattering away
to him about her family, her homq, and
all her little domestic affairs.
That breakfast must have lasted an
unconscionably long period, but Mr,
Smith did not appear to be desirous of
hurrying it, and everything was so de-
lightfully strange and novel to Hilda
that she did not notice the lapse of
time until her companion suggested
that if they went around now -hey
would most probably find “the other
Mr. Smith” at home to lunch.
Hilda hurried away to put her hat
on, and the more she looked at the ex¬
quisitely furnished room, with Its cut-
glass perfume bottles, chased silver
powder boxes, and all the hundred and
one little additions that go toward
making a woman happy, the more she
wondered who It had been prepared
for.
Fortunately, when they arrived at 8
Ballarat mansions, they found “the
other Mr. Smith at home on the top
floor, and Hilda could hot help noticing
how wonderfully civil he was to her
host, and how eagerly he accepted his
offer to dine on the following evening
for himself and sister.
After he had gone, however, the mat¬
ter was explained.
“That is John Smith, the millionaire,
said her brother, impressively, “and he
is the managing director of the com¬
pany I work for.”
The dinner was followed by a thea¬
ter and a supper, and so it went on,
until the night before she should have
gone home Mr. Smith asked her if she
would change her appellation from
Miss to Mrs. Smith.
Hilda has always had an overwhelm¬
ing desire to penetrate the mystery of
the spare room, hut all the information
she could obtain from her husband was,
that he kept it fitted up in that man¬
ner in order that he might be able to
entertain an angel if one called upon
him unawares, and he always added:
“And if it had not been for that pre¬
caution, my dear, I should not have
had the dearest and sweetest little wife
in the world.”—Ally Sloper.
BANK CLERKS.
Are Specialists in Handwriting, but Are
Not Experts.
New Orleans Times Democrat: “I
am free to say I don’t repose much
confidence in bank clerks as experts in
handwriting,” said an experienced pay¬
ing teller of this city. “I mean, of
course, experts in the broad acceptance
of the term. The average teller be¬
comes familiar with the signatures of
the customers of his bank and in time
he acquires a remarkable facility for
memorizing the characteristics of any
autograph on sight, that doesn’t make
him a scientific expert in chirograpliy.
In nine cases out of ten his opinion as
to whether two documents,for instance,
were written by the same man, would
have no special value, and for that rea¬
son a great deal of the so-called expert
evidence received in court is really
worthless, A bank teller or cashier
is a specialist in signatures, but ex¬
actly how he identifies them and de-
tects forgeries with almost unfailing
accuracy is something that very few of
them are able to explain. It is very
difficult, in fact, to put it into words. As
nearly as I can express it, a teller rec¬
ognizes a signature in much , the same
way that he recognizes a friend on the
street—not by any single feature, but
by the ensemble, by a general summing
up of all his characteristics. He would
know him in spite of changes in attire
and even changes in the manner of
wearing hts hair or beard, and by a
similar process he recognizes signa¬
tures written under varying conditions
—they are dissimilar, but they have the
old familiar look. A forgery on the
other hand is almost certain to impress
him as strange. He can’t tell'exactly
why, perhaps, but he knows it ‘doesn’t
look right.’ A modern expert in hand¬
writing basis his opinion on certain
exact rules and close, detailed analysis,
but with a banking man the thing is
half instinctive.' ■ He has to decide on
the spur of the moment and has no
time for measurements and micro¬
scopes. Most tellers know nothing
whatever about the science of chirog-
rap-hy.”
Mrs. Gladstone.
Mrs. Gladstone, widow'of the grand
old man, is a woman of wonderful
strength and endurance. Not long ago
she was driving in a pony carriage,
when the animal started to run and
overturned the vehicle. Though much
shaken up and shocked,at the time, the
venerable lady, soon recovered and
showed no 111 effects of her accident
SENSES OF THE BLIND.
German Iconoclast Demollnhes a Long
Efltablliiltcd llellef.
The Lancet: A long series of experi¬
ments has recently been made by Prof.
H. Griesbach, of Basle, upon the rela¬
tive acuteness of the senses of hear¬
ing, touch, taste and smell in the case
of the blind and those who possesf
normal vision. The results are con¬
tained in Pfluger’s Archiv. The obser¬
vations were made on those who were
otherwise healthy. In the differentia¬
tion of tactile impressions no remark¬
able differences were observed between
the seeing and the blind, or If small
differences did exist they were in favor
of the seeing. In those born blind the
tactile sharpness was somewhat less
than in the seeing, and in some cases
the sensorium generally was equally
defective. The blind in particular feel
less acutely with the tip of the index
finger than do those who see, and in
many cases the tactile acuteness of the
two index finger tips differs. In the
blind, especially in the region of the
hand, a stronger impression is re¬
quired to produce a tactile impression
than in those possessed of sight. In
the capability of localizing impressions
of sound no difference exists between
the blind and the seeing, In both
great individual variations occur. As
a rule, both in the seeing and the
blind the use of the organ of both
sides gives better results than the use
of one alone. No difference in the
acuteness of hearing exists between the
blind and those who see. No relation
was observed between the acuteness
of hearing and the power of localizing
sounds in either the seeing or the
blind. No difference was observed in
the two classes in regard to the acute¬
ness of smell. In the execution of
manual labor the blind become fa¬
tigued sooner than do those of equal
age who see. The blind are more fa¬
tigued with manual than with mental
work, which is not the case with the
seeing of the came age. If any differ¬
ence exists in regard to exhaustion af¬
ter mental labor it is in favor of those
of the same age who see. Both among
the blind and the seeing there are
persons who have many, others who
have only a few, and others again who
have no illusory or erroneous impres¬
sions of touch. These results are in
many respects opposed to generally re¬
ceived opinions, for it is usually sup¬
posed that deprivation of sight leads
to exaltation of the acuteness of the
other senses, especially of the touch
and hearing.
A MAN BARGAIN-HUNTER.
Not Agreeable as the Provider for a
Household.
When the man becomes a bargain-
hunter he goes about it with masculine
seriousness, hunts bargains by level
and rule, and there Is nothing femi¬
nine that can equal him, says the
New York Times. There is one man
in New York who never buys anything
at the regular market price. Just now
he is wearing a straw hat that cost 35
cents. That really is a bargain in bar¬
gains, though he has limited himself to
50 cents for a straw hat and $1 for the
soft felt hats he wears In winter,
also rejoices in a suit that cost $7.50, cn
and the man who orders his clothes at
the shop where there is only “one
price” says he cannot see much differ¬
ence between the bargain suit and his
own, where there are two figures in
the dollar mark. But then a bargain
always looks better on the other man.
The woman who knows says that a
bargain-hunting man is never a bar¬
gain as a husband. The bargain habit
in the woman is only a bit of feminin¬
ity emphasized, but the bargain spirit
in the man means a strong character¬
istic which is not agreeable in any one
who is the provider for a household.
There is a P. S. to this story, which
has come in at the eleventh hour, and
which goes to show that man as a class
is a recognized bargain hunter. These
latest advices show that at the time
the man—supposed to be a rara avis—
when he purchased his 35-cent hat,
also purchased a number of other
small things, his entire bill amounting
to 75 cents. Thereupon the clerk in
the shop, which undoubtedly caters to
the man bargain hunter, presented
him, in consideration of his extensive
purchases, with a card numbered
around the side for punches, entitling
him to have his shoes blacked fifty
times in that establishment, without
charge. Did ever a tea store offer a
woman so large a premium as this?
A Kruger Story.
President Kruger recently refused an
interview to a celebrated Englishman,
who thereupon sent back word that he
must see him; that he was no ordi¬
nary person; that, in fact, he was a
member of the house of lords. The
servant went away and returned with
the message: “The president says he
cannot see you, and adds that he is a
cattle herder.”
Nine Policleg.
Chicago News: Insurance Clerk—
“Here is a woman that wishes her pet
cat insured.” Manager—“All right,
but tell her she’ll have to take out a
policy on each one of the cat’s lives.”
Quite Attached to It.
Philadelphia Record: Dedbroke—“1
hear you called on the lady’s father last
night. How did he like your suit?’
Harduppe—“Very much, I think. H;>
kept half the coat'collar when I left.”
Cook in Earthenware Vessels,
Cook nothing in iron vessels that
you can cook in earthenware. The
heat in the latter is more uniform, thi
flavor better preserved and there is leas
liability to burn.
OUR AGREEMENT
WITH THE SULDS
President Schurmnn Throws Light On
the Subject.
SATISFIES ALL CONCERNED
Interference With Present Cus¬
toms Is Unnecessary,
A Washington dispatch says: In
view of the current discussiou of the
military agreement between General
Bates and the sultan of Sulu the views
of President Seburman, of the Philip¬
pine commission, on the subject are
interesting.
Mr. Seburman was one of the first
Americans to visit Jolo, the seat of j
Spanish pelago, and government had extended in the Sulu interview nrehi- j j
an
with the sultan before the arrival of
General tered Bates. between The General arrangements en- j
into Bates and ;
the sultan was considerably influenced
by this meeting.
Although the full agreement with
the Sultan has not been made public
by the Washington authorities, it can
be stated that it practically conforms
to the previous convention existing
between the Sultan and the Spanish
government. In this agreement Spain
never claimed anything more than an
external protectorate over the Sula
group, the right to suppress piracy in
its waters and to prevent the periodic
migrations of the oathbound Moham¬
medans who went to the northern
islands under a vow to kill Christians
and thus secure au entrance into Par¬
adise.
Professor Sehurman said when ques¬
tioned about the probable continuance
of polygamy and slavery in the islands
after they came under the American
dominion that this was a subject
whick would have to be dealt with in
the most careful fashion to bring an
ultimately satisfactory solution. He
laid:
“It seems to me that were it not
for the ignorance displayed, the pres¬
ent hue and cry about polygamy and
slavery solutely in these islands would be ab¬
criminal. In taking over the
Sulu group we have acquired no rights
of any sort there except those be¬
queathed us by Spain. She was bound
by her agreement with the sultan not
to interfere with the religion or cus¬
toms of the islands and it would be i
most unwise for us to attempt this by
force when it- can bo ultimately ac¬
complished by the slower method of
civilization and education.
“The Sulu group proper contains
about 100,000 inhabitants. They are
all Mohammedans, as are about. 150,-
000 of the residents of Mindanoa,
directly east. To attempt to interfere
with the religion of these people
would precipitate one of the bloodiest
wars in which this country has ever
been engaged. They area different race
physically and mentally from the resi¬
dents of the Viscayan isles—powerful
men and religious fatiatics of the most
pronounced type, who care nothing for
death and believe the road to heaven
can be attained by killing Christians.
Polygamy is a part of their religion,
and slavery, about which so much is
being said just now, is a mild type of
feudal bondage.
“The sultan believes from what lie
has seen of Americans that they are
ready to be friendly and deal honestly
by him. Our soldiers and officers al¬
ready travel into the interior of Jolo
with perfect impunity, where Span¬
iards never dared to set. foot. It has 1
been suggested indirectly to the sul¬
tan thuthe should maintain ari Ameri¬
can of good standing as a confidential
adviser at his court to aid him in the
work of material development for
which the beautiful group of islands
is ready, and which is bound to come
when they are thrown in touch with
the civilized. I believe that he will
take kindly to this suggestion.”
RETURNING STRAGGLERS.
Members of Stampeded Regiments
Showing Upat Ladysmith.
A special dispatch recieved in Lon¬
don from Pietermaritzburg, Natal,
dated Tuesday morning says:
“Stragglers from the Gloucestershire
regiment are arriving at Ladysmith.
A number of mules with a portion of
the mountain battery are also coming
in.”
TEXAS SAYS NAY.
She Refuses to Lift Quarantine Until
Colder Weather Comes.
The Louisiana state board of health
is making an earnest effort to have
Alabama and Texas raise their quar¬
antines against New Orleans now that
Mississippi has done so, and earnest
telegrams have been sent to the offi¬
cials of both states.
Dr. Blunt, of Texas, however, wired
the Louisiana state board that he
could not consent to the raising of the
quarantine until the weather condi¬
tions justified it. Several towns in
Louisiana have also refused to lift the
embargo.
BIG BUILDING COLLAPSES.
Three Men Killed and Others May Be
Under Debris.
Three men are known to have per¬
ished and three others are reported
missing as the result of the collapse
of a six-Btory building in Chicago
Wednesday.
Considerable damage was done to
adjoining property and during the ex-
citoment it was reported that as maif
as forty lives had been lost. About
$200,000 damage was done.
WA5 A SACRIFICE.
The English Newspapers Criticise
Blunder Hade By Army In
South Africa.
The London Morning Post com¬
ments sevtrely upon the British con¬
tempt for the enemy, as shown by the
behlief that the large Boers forces at
Acton Homes could be held back by
Carleton’s small column. It points
out that even if the British there had
been supplied with ammunition they
could have held out only a few hours
longer, inasmuch as they were in the
most complete sense detached, and
because nobody apparently at Lady¬
smith had anj idea of their distress or
took any measures to rescue them.
“The column was sacrificed,” says
the Morning Post, “because it was
sent into action gagged and blind¬
folded, It had neither scout nor pat¬
rol. Twelve hundred men were thrown
away for lack of cavalry, which would
not, have been missed from another
part of the field.”
The Standard, which comments in
similar terms upon “the fact that Gen-
eral White made an effort to extricate
the column from the impossible situa-
tion into which he had thrust it,”
draws a sad picture of men, “hoping
for relief and then realizing with bit-
terness of heart that some one had
blundered; thai^thev had been forgot-
ten by their general and his staff, and
that nothing was left but surrender
and imprisonment at Pretoria Hill un-
til the end of the war.”
The Daily Chronicle says: “It is
evident that somebody blundered, but
more details are required before the
blame can be apportioned.”
The Times says: “The dangers of
Sir George White’s plans are patent
even to civilians, but it is not impos¬
sible that the Cape boys in charge of
the mountain battery, who quite re¬
cently were suspected of disaffection,
may have been tampered with by the
Boers. Otherwise such a large and
comprehensive stampede is a very ex-
traordinary occurrence from such a
slight cause.
“General White’s whole movement
so far as it can be understood, from
preseut information, is open to criti¬
cism, especially in the complete ab¬
sence of communication with the main
body.”
GEORGIA nA 50NS
Re-Elect Old Officers At Their Con¬
vention In nacoij. A
At the final meeting of the gra
lori 8 e of Masons of Georgia at Maori
Wednesday, all the old officers wq
re-elected. The election of office
was the most important proceedings
of the day. The officers who were
elected are:
W. A. Davis, grand master.
Max Mayerliart, deputy grand mas-
ter.
J. D. Harrell, senior grand warden.
Thomas A. Jeffries, junior grand
warden.
James W. Raskin, grand treasurer!
W. A. Wolihin, grand secretary. I
R. W. Hubert, grand chaplain. 1
Henry Banks, senior grand deacon!
B. F. Tkurmon, junior grand deal
con.
George M. Napier, grand marshal.
W. B. Haygocd, first grand steward.
James B. Clements, second grand
steward.
A. H. Woodruff, third grand stew¬
ard.
The grand tyler is always appointed .
by the grand master, but no name has
yet been announced.
PROHIBITION IS IS MEET.
Georgia flembers Assemble In Atlanta
and Discuss Situation.
The prohibitionist of the state of
Georgia met in Atlanta Wednesday
morning with many delegates present.
The convention was presided over by
the president, Colonel C. R. Pringle.
The body was organized after which
the meeting resolved itself into an ex¬
perience meeting, the different dele¬
gates relating their idea and experi¬
ences in reference to the whisky traf-
fie and the best manner in which to
stamp it out of the state.
Among the resolutions unanimously
adopted by the convention was tks
following: heartily favor
"Resolved, That we
the enactment of such a law as will
eliminate the ignorant and purchasa¬
ble element of our voters in Georgia.
And that wo urge the legislature now
i'n session to take steps looking to the
accomplishment of this resolution.”
LOCATION OF WARSHIPS.
Nashville Reaches Gibraltar and Mari¬
etta at Ponta del Gada.
According to dispatches received at
Washington the Nashville arrived at
Gibraltar Monday enroute to Manila.
The Marietta also bound for Manila
arrived at Pouta del Gada last Satur¬
day. Commander E. H. C. Leutze
has been detached from the command
of the Monterey at Manila and ordered
home on waiting orders. His place
as commander of the Monterey
will be taken by Commander 0. C.
Cornwell, now in command of the
Petrel, at Manila.
PRESIDENT INVITED
To Nashville To Welcome Returning
Troops From Manila.
A Washing dispatch says:^ A dele-
gation of citizens from Nashville,
Tenn., visited the president and the
heads of tlie various executive depart¬
ments Monday and invited them to
isit Nashville on the occasion of the
reception to be given the .First Ten-
riessee volunteer regiment, which is
now on its way home from the Philip-
pines.