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6 DEATH or E. T. hterr of Hfa Hr*<l lUtail Fr*l* hch—M-a. VrbMva. 0.. Oci New* waa rwftr'i ftere to-day of thr death .and Z T ls*s*l* I Adams- county, wln*rf hr war horn. la*—l* ■OI Into th" hood broker*** hurim*, vhllr cvndurtlnx a rmatl pin itr bnk 111 tl.l* elty. Ho dIKOnUnU"! >< ".l opened ■ n ofllor it) Pttytem. O wi • ■ nu*ht c,amiv mi l nvinir4>:il b n-le. itpulwl in* mJwmv .. ihot the> i-hiKiJ.l 1" "i lb •*,rm| hlc Monk.* wfiloh he w.ui >1 furn.eh. II a via* Secured flu- original* " fl lM I'**#** du* pllcatea of the *ame ' minor it I di nomi nations- lo nn\ • xient h- W(-h*d I hi* oeUun.'lr fit- miul'l ft!* hut ih* foi*d l>on*l ho would ii'• no . <>llateral recuilt, for lot* .*. It ’ iMlnumJ tl>o' ,t ih. time of hi. .xporuro lot hod out U-twooti anti W*i n f' °f forgo.l l.it.ilt • . ..llateral for loon. II" oocurvd tbaae I • ■ from >ank. financial toon and Itu-uranre comiuuileis a.l over ’he count,. laiTO 10..na having toon aecured In lloot i [, vvi, i- tt*l detection In hi. pecula tion* b> I'ttyln* Intoro.t on hi. loin* and then oh prang the rmu.m- no 'h<- forgotl bond, a-hl-h ho would prs-'ersd to collect. In thl. nay ho prevented two .*t. of cotn |mnt> Itrlng prirented for i urn lit ll vai* iwrdor* I from th** iifrlti'niiHf y ti a . riving condition AUHTfIU.% All) IT % I*A %**L\T. If !• YH Itrridril .! V) hut ••* Third 4 !•■ Mmn. Berlin. Or SI —A high *>fh il of th© , German for*ign ofli *• -*©rt*l to-nUht j that AtHtr-Hun:: iry I I* i.y have *x pr*©d their f-<rm.il ulhrni. • i< th© An glo-o#rm*n agr***m**n4. The Vo>*-i he V. itung referr’nff to th** report fhat tr.e Unl(©d Ktatew before giv ing a flrwil answer, wlnh* German\ nnd (kMt Britain to explain whit i* meant I by eiaur*- hr©* . tbit I©. whether If •)- otber Power eelxi* territory, they mten-l to rem’ip th*mn-Ivee by annexations, nnri whether they Intent! to prevent neU un by force, wjr: "The answer *o mirh a auntinn will prohuMy l*e that Germany and Great Bri tain have not ve* rerrhwi u itcliloti on that (Ktri, but Intaid to drcld© onlv after a eelaurr ©trail hav*- or* -urrvd, einre the rierlelon muet defend upon tho Interests tnvolvrd ** MAllVf 'I OF rtYIM. •‘IT.KI). Ylrttiah Slil|iewiier Reltirtanl to (orapete Karflier. London. Oct. 24 —The Imlly Telegraph pubhehes an arilria from It a Liverpool oorriponri<nt wWh referenra to the ques tion of awl ft t ran*-At lan tic liners. .The writer nuyv "fthlp owners grt little or no encourage men* fr\>rn the governtnent to build fast llnarp No sooti**r is an hnprove<| vesse batH that* a rrulaer suheiily Is withdrawn from one of the older a tea mere and given to the new one. Increases! speed meane larm lv IncTiaees! co-| consumption find working experts, nnd speaking icrenr ally. British shipowTwrw are disposed fo think that the maximum of paying speed bar been about r .'illxrd nnd they are re lurtart to rfn|ate for a greater speed unless quite certain thnt It will pay." PI HI.IC HBttTII 49WN I ATIOY. lafereaflag Hretlng Being Held at Indianapolis. Indianapolis. Oot. 23 —The flrst session of the convention of the American Publk* Health Association assembk*<i here to day. President Pater H Bryce. M. D.. Toronto. Ont., called the meeting to or der. Among the large number of dele gates present were several men of Inter national prominence In the field of sani tary and im-fHcal science. A discussion of aanltary questions and the election of olllcers oi*ctn*l*fl the morning sessions At the afternoon session President Bryce delivered Mh annual address, arul In the evening ex President Harrison wel cofTMKi the <!<-legat’S. I)r. Hordbeck of Charleston. P C.. read the report of th* committee on "The Kti ology of Yellow Fever.” Klrherd'a Vtacing 'in eras. Auguat.i, (h*. 23.—Auguatans are re- Jokir k In the great aucerss of Mr O. L. Rtobordj. known as "Judge.” In racing circles at thw North. Mr. Rlcherds lived In Augusta for mny years utid Is the owaer of the horse. Pharemua. which bnuke the world s record for a mile ami n quarter at the Yonkers track Monday This is the second champion nicer that has been fwnai by an Augustan. Burch, owned by the list** George Kerncglain >f thia city, was the first horse to lower Ten Broeck's record for a mile. WiiniN IMmlr Hucknl, Oct. 34.—The Pally Mull thN moruinif dwotm an ctfltorml to the lc rufviacinn of the aiHhorltie* for “cn courdfUur ami protecting" Mr Dowle *'lf fh** Hturfent* !)-• M*r'**♦•,led |n <tuf king • hi* fraud. ** It *ay*. "no gi.m harm would have don* He l* able to raly on the wbo4*' atrenath of the poiftr# tor no rth*r purpow. except to fleece the jmblt'• Hi* meeunaa *houll be ntoppal. He dnif-rvfii no more oonnkleration thun tha ‘weleher’ of the ra< •* roun®." Trlrirnm from the Pultun. Berlin. Oct 23 Km;*ror William ha* recHve| teh-gnim from Ab*lul Hamid. Mprrpflnt; a hop** for the re.'overy of Dowager Kmpreg* Fr*Pri*k and assur ing the Kaleer of hie mvehak'n frleml ehfp A r* ply rKH'ho| In the a irmcnt forma aw i*-nt l*y Km|eror William Ito 4 l* n*c • ’I oMiirrt I nlte<l l,ni Berlin. Oet. 23 -fount von fluelaw, the Imperial Chancellor, authorlx**! the utatt mont that hla cc*‘**lnn to th chancel- Jorahlp win rr.in no ch in*e 1i O* rmnny'n friendly attitude toward the I’nltod Hfat-*#. either politically or financially. —Mra Henrietta Chaw of Danbury, Crmn.. dk-d recently, leaving quite little property to varloua To AUrnmn Chan®, who was auppoaed to he her favor ite tiffjitw ahe bcfiuaurthed ‘my ret of falae teeth, whk h will he found In the up pr rlirbt h;*nl drawer of my bureau " The young man at once concluded that hla aunt muvt have concealed wane diamond* or other precious Mon*** in th* ret of teeth. Aroordlvmly ama#hecl up hli baqueat. hut fourul no Jewels. He will now contest the will. !mt! !• your breath bad? Then your beat friends turn their heads aside. A bad breath means a bad liver. Ayer’s Pills are liver fills. They cure constipation, biliousness,dyspepsia, sick headache. 25c. All druggists. Want fuf ii>mit*cti *ir hrird * i**uUfut ®fwji ot rich Mm>|( f 1 h*t. •!•** BUCKINGHAM'S OYEBM&. ' J °™ ~ "■ %PPtJ\DH IT I* AIPOaH >l. IKictora IliaMgree In m I’ntertalnlng, if \it Inatrurtlvp, Wanner. From the Ok vrlud lx a.lor. Thr "Appendicitis Bymi^sium'" of the Cuyahoga founty al Society a’ the Me llc.*l Library Building last evening wa ►o r-ntortalnifig that It will he resumed two w >k* hrr- •. when the (tapers for which there w.m not time last eiening will be presented and the spicy dlseui-‘**n cot t:nu I On the of appendicitis, on th' ady’laabillty of cutting .*p n taople wh have the dis* •>. on the u,-. of opium for It. and even on the prontm latloo of the word the doctors disagreed The young doctors made fun of the old one?* aid the old on mad*' fun of the young Some of them pronounced the word as though it were spelled ”Appendlecetls/* ami other* A j*i*endes!g hti* I*apers were read by Drs. Guy H F’itx gera Id. t'hhrle* B Parker, Charles G Foote. L. 11. Til* k* rman and Joseph \ Kofroti Dr. Parker told how lo tell whether a |**r .*n has a ppe mile It la. saying that the patient'* stomach usually had a "hoard-like" feeling when felt Ir Foote said tha some ta*tents got well anyway, whither any thing was done for them rr not. ami tht sme died, no mat ter h>w nsueh n* lom* He thought the pat tents's chances were letter if there were *n operation. Dr Tuckerman said people had amen dtefttia >ears Iwfore the dDense was "dis covered." and named appendlclts. and they got well of it before all the rn sler discoveries were dreamed of He thought there had been an increase in th disease since the grippe epidemics. He said he gave camomile, tartar emetic and opium for I? *m! his patients got well wl’hont te! ig cut up. although he realised that If a doc tor refused to operat** on a cs< |t would usually go to some other doctor who would Dr. Kofpon said per cent of the rases of apiendicitls were in children between 4 am! lii years obi. und fhat 70 per cent, of them were boys. Dr. E. F. Cushing told of the discov eries of a French doctor that showed th it all that has been raid urnl written alsxit the cause of the disease Is wrong, and that the disease Is mused y germs that are present In all healthy insld*s. hut which are made virulent and lamed tnt%> dangerous appendicitis btfgs when th* appendix geie twisted or Stopped up so that the bugs in It are Isolated. Dr Quirk thought the statistics as fo the (importton of cases nrmaig mm ami women were all wrong because the worm n went to gfnaeeologin- with their appen dicitis cases, and these specialists were not InduAtd In th** count of the number of rases treated. Dr. Chrl*(i J Aldrich. the president of •he so letv, said ho would like 10 bc-ir what fflr rtf the older dooiom *ll*l before the a p pond lei 1 1 * and the operation tor It w**r** dlkiovfrwl Dr A 8, Hurl sold he hart treated th* rtl**a* tor years before the nam<* an*l operation wrrr Invent*l; that he h*l nev er noon a case In whirl* he thought H necessary tht there should he an opera tion, and that he hint never lost a rare. Then It settled down into n fight be tween the mnrttelne doctor* anrt the sur geon*. Dr P. H Bjlytl', u ... b>. k**l about as ol<l ui I>r. Hart, ealrt he hart treated lota of the ca**** hefor** the new rangled mine anrt operation were rtlscov erert. hut that now he was afrai.l to hnn rtle a serious rate without advising an .•(•oration "I used to give . amor oil anrt opium, anrt all the other thing* ntrt-ttme rto. lor* gave, hut now 1 think nppenrtlcl tl m a surgl.ol disease." he ealrt. Hr. F. J Morton asked Dr Parker If It were isisstlilc that the l>oard like feeling of the ah*t .men might be absent In i raae of api'endl* Hl* Dr Parker replied. "Any thing I* possible In medicine " Itr Ft K Hager ealrt; "I do not think It I* right to try to scare the young doctor*, of whom a grew! many are present. Into thinking that they must turn every case of appen dicitis over to a surgeon Farts of them grt well without an operation." hr Frol Herrick told of a rase of ap pendlcltts that hart the closest attention of a number of prominent physicians, and then turned out to he Jaundice. Hr. Ro laml R Hkcel so 1.1 he thought the cases the other doctor* hod been telling about having cured In twenty-four hour* with out operations never hail been appendi citis. He sail he was a surgeon and med icine doctor Itoth and belle VI *1 in nitra tions I>r T-eo Heich told of a Kurop* an doctor who cured .ip|s*ndl* Ills with noth tng but opium * "It ts unfair to the surgeon for the doc. tor to wait until the case I* almost dead and then call t surgeon and put the re sponsibility of the iwith tit's life on him." said Dr G W. Crile, who Is a surgeon ' I think that the m.-rttcal practitioner of experience has lust as mucFi right to Judge when an operation should he per formed ns a young upstart of a surgeon has." said l'r o Ft Campbell "| have bundled a few cases of appendicitis anrt operated on a few, and perhai .** I hav* had as many case* of appendicitis ns Dr Crtlw " "1 have operate*! on 2k' cases of appen dicitis," said Dr t'rllr quietly, "and had a great mor.y others tn which I 11*1 rot operate All I have in *a\ Is that 1 be lieve that the surgeon should he called ini.> a-nnsultatlnn In the early stage of the e*e so that he may have a v *l. * In rto cldlng whether there should he an ottera taon an*! when t! should be performed. In stead of being given the ••**■ when the (■atlcnt Is taretty nearly dead, as some times happens " Dr W D Porter of Cincinnati, who was present as guest, had some oil which he poured on the waters that were he*-omlng quite troubleal. "It m tn * tome," herald, "that for the sake of the- lattlenl and the profession, the medical practitioner and the surgeon should work together There Is no doubt • Hut In mam case* the surgeon Is not rall *d until the patient ts atmut dead, and then the burden Is thrown tii>nn the sur geon of not saving the patient. This has a had •(feet on the paihlt. l mln.l They all know nbout the neigh Isa hood that the pa tient l very 111. The* watch the doctor come day after day arad ►.* that the |*a- Ih-nt gfows worse Then they re.- the surgeon mfiaa* l*rrhr|is the* -urg-<n ha* an assistant with him Then the under taker comes. In this way people get the Idea that am ..|* ration is a very much more dangerous thing lhnn It need he, and wlaeia they should Fae Of.erat.-1 aapon they refuse to <or.sent. I rl. uld to lie surprised If In time the surgeon* wall re fuse to take cases In which the doctor has not coiled them as s-sin as he should, refusing for the sake of their own repu tations and for the rcpaitaiion of their profession." One of the young doctors .naked: "If the appendix la statslilve and painful when THE MOKNINO NEWS: WKIINKSDAY. UCTOHKK 24, 1900. palliated. Is it a lgn of apfiemlk'ltls **" "It k rot." * old Dr. Tuckerman. ”! have u aensttiv** ippendlx rnyseif and I never ha*l apiiemlbltl** " KAHId M bHo MIMTHBIA. bditln Forrest nnd Joseph Jefferson Appeared in Hurnt 4 ark. From II * iV’iiludHphlo Haturday Evening Fust. A limit thirty or forty years ago. when Edwin Forrest was In the heyday of his p>V'ilartt\. he went into a Western town, th*- x.*' t ;>. itiun of which 1 do not rt*fli, aid |4ayal to such large atMilonccs dur ing Ids May that on the morning lie was to hove h** remarked to the manager that he was sur|*rlse<! to find su h a cultured town and that It could furnish such large audien* > for Bhakcs|iejrean p.a>s "Tht minstrels are here,” reidled the manager. VVh.it has that got to do wdth it?" ask <l the tragclian. "Why. fh*- minstrels play in the noon ami the am* Into town to ••• them, then, having nothing to do In the evening, they come here." Porhajm the manager was attempting to b** funny m:d ♦ xngg* rated mutters But ther** Is a foundation for the story. * one whose memory goes hack thirty or forty year> will ..dtint Negro min*f!>Hy tCMlay has settlel into u regusir thing, |*eoplc go to .i shw. n* Joy It. n>*morn, the "gag*, work them off with an tiru'on.'K'knjs and suontaneou?* lr *n less fortunate friends and then w*ait for the return of the show to lay in u new supply. But (here was a time when inlnMrfkty had a tiegintilng, Just Ilk* the north uod Adam ami Eve. and It was n neginning with a boom, an*! everything else gave way before It. There is s*rne. disagreement as to which was the first minstrel organisation, bus undoubtedly it was Christy's minstrels that first spr*-.d the fan*** of the organ ised troupe ami made an Impression on the courier)' Ami as for its ttnpreesion on the Old World, where the ban*! made Its bom*' for several years, Thackeray himself stands wit nee* Christy became .ynai> m*>iiH with the word minstrel, as my own x|**rt*n< v e well attests. A rninstiel m this country ha- the satis faction of knowing that he 1* working hi n kin I of amusement that is the gt-nye Ine product of America. I suppose, how ever. tfust ririake-iM are put th first ne gro on the slug* (a M***r to him was a negro), but Othello was not a rnim-trel. he played a heavier lln** of business. From airnoM the U'glnnlng of American stag* history there were negroes of th** min strel variety impersonated on tlte .-tags, though it was not until about the that they were organised into bund*. Sonv of the greatest actors of later days had • heir ex|erlence as minstrels, anvmg them Joe Jefferson and kklwin Forrest. Forrest was given a negro "song.ami dance act" to do when he was very young, and after he had studied It up he asked where was the "old negro Indy" that was to act as his .resistant In th.* piece. The management trl .1 several of the women who w. re memliers of the company, hill none of them would consent to blacken up and. In fad, they were very Indignant over the |Moposltlon. The actor, however. Wits hot easily discouraged, an.l on the night of the first performance he hlick ened up and went around the corner to un old negro woman who did his washing "Hello, Dinah," he- said on entering "Flow you l er Delin' dis Fiery fine ela-n- Ing?" "Hello. yoV replied the African lady. " 'Fears to me yo' em er tiery fresh nig ger." “I'se ro nigger." answered Forrest, and then, lime Ulng rather short, he a-sum *d his natural voice and told Dinah, much to her surprise, that he w is Forrest, the actor .and that he wanted her to go on the stage with him that night and laugh loudly ui frequent intervals—which was I the f* niale part cal;. I for. The two made a great hit, and were kept on for some line which g.es lo show that For rest might have h* en a good minstrel Ftart he been of an ambitious nature. The imint I* that when the mlnstral hands w< r. lakli g on rharaeter and -imp Ing themselves for the future the worn* it refused to t.ik<- twin, which, without le-tng ungallant, I think was Just as well. The minstrel organisation as It F* known to-day was brought ulsiut by the wonder ful success that certain m. n made as In dividuals. Mead of these men are hut dimly remembered to-day. fine of them, curious to relate, was John It. dough, afterward famous as a temperance ora tor. Another was the famous Thomas D lltee, whose Jim Crow holongs to the his tory of nations. How Jim Crow found hi* way on the stage Is an Interesting part of the story of minstrelsy. In lma. while Klee was doing a small ne. gro tat the Igiulsvllle Theater, h** hap pened to look out of the hack window, which factd a stable kept hy an old and broken-down negro called Jim Crow. One of Crow's shoulders was much lower than the ocher, his left leg wns stiff and crook ed al the kttee. ro that when he walked h. went up in-1 down In a most ludicrous fashion. This day he was standing In the yard humming a peculiar lurtc to himself, the words of which were his own. When he had finished a verse he would give a Jumping step, which has sln.-e become fa mous ns "rockin' de heel." The refrain of Ids song war: Wheel about, turn about. Do Jes* so. Ac.' cliery time I wheel about I Jump Jim Crow. Klee saw that here was something new He studied the old mart, made the tune a little l>lt more lively, wrote a number of new verses, and copying the original very closely In mak- -up appeared as Jim ('row at the l.oulsvilh- Theater. Fie w as recall ed mere than ewenty times the first night, and always after was known as Jim Crow Klee. in ISS3 when Joe Jefferson was only 4 year* of age, Rice appeared at a liencflt al the Jefr.-rson Theater in Washington, an.l carried the little fellow on the ***** In a hag. costumed and blackened exactly Ilk.- the Jim ('row Klee. As Klee sham bled on the stage he sing th* couplet: I-a.l!. sand gentlemen, l*d have you for to know l’se got a little darky here to Jump Jim Crow. Whereupon he emptied the bag. and those who were present say that little Joe Immediately assumed the attitude of the elder Jim Crow, and danced and mimicked Rice in a way that caused the audience to cheer. ho there was a great minstrel lost to the work!. —compulsory Proportions,—"You're n >t half so etout as you were. FFtlly." "No. we've moved Into a flat, and Justi hod to get thin.”—lndianapolis Journal. MOST OLICATE OF SCALES. I nil) TO DO DOVER ft HimT WF.lbll- IM. AT 11 %s|||Vl, l OV. Even fbe Ileal of the Body Affects the Instruments ttul the AAelghtng Is l*ne I ram Afar—The Standard K lla* raiinnc nnd Helrr <Hli*r Stiinilsrds I rgentl) Aeeiled. From the New York Aun In the window less has* m* nt rorm. origi nal: built for u coal vault, of an old mansion near the National Capitol In Washington Is moont*d the most delicate pair of a ales In the Fnltcd S* tes To these scales is Intrusted th# w-rk **f do ing the government's weighing. They are part of the equipment of the Treasury l>e- I'-irtrn* nt s |lur* iu of Weight and Meas ures which Is at recited to fh* coast ur %e>, though why this should be so nobody ha** * ver mlequately explained So delicate are these scale that they will weigh accurately a ten*millionth part of a gram They are so sensitive that the warmth given off by the body of a per ron approaching them near enough to open the glass case ur to shift the weights would expand the balance arms and pro liic m appreciable error in the results. Th#*refort* they have la*cn so < onstructed that they may be operated at a distance of twenty feet It is n t necessary to open the * ae or to go n**r the machine even to shift the weights. Thr** long brass rod l extend from the base of the ca*** containing the scabs, and at the extrem ity of each Is a wh**#*|, an*) by turning these wheels the weights may be shifted from one pan tj another, or any other nts effwry operations conduct# l The read ings are ma#l* through a small telescope mounted where the i iMTutor stand*. Too late It was discovered that the es tablishment of the Instrument In a corner of th** room was a mistake The fact that n r wall is three feet away and th*- *>pfo site one nine fe*t. has a mork**d effect on the scalea. On th** aide where the wall Is c*os* the pmpratur** is different from the other side, nnd whenever the instrument Is us*d It has been found necessary to sur round It with iorg* heels of asbeshm paper. Besides this. th. attraction of the wail for th** metnl in the scale beam* has to be tak* n into account. Tliwn* are only ft few of fhe thing* which have to be allowed for In iloidk a fine Joi* of weighing. Large corrections have to he nwi*' for the temperature. humidity arul density of the air With each weigh ing ther* nuet he a reading of the ther mometer. barometer and hydrometer and corrections to > orrespond to the condition* existing at the time. In Germany there ore ao.dea so bulk that the weighing can le conducted in a vacuum, but thie gov ernment owns no such upiMmtus. Incredible as It may seem ;he difference of an Inch or two from the center of the earth, thouanruk* of miles away, causes an irtr I‘iaMe variation in the weight • f the objects This is Illustrat'd by plac ing two equal weimta sfrle by side in each jan. when the beam no varia tion. But place one of the weights on top of the other in one pan. leaving the other pair side by sWIe In the other pan. and the Uttar*, will be disturbed. The weights used in this experiment are scarcely two Inches In hlght. so thot the difference In distance from the earth's enter, considered In comparison to the • listan* c itself, is inflniteslm il A still further allowance Is *|emanded hy scientific accuracy Even In a flfteen hundred-dolkir ituphrecht Instrument, ilke the one owned by the government bureau, it te not pretended that the taro arms of the halan e are of the warne ie ;i h Official Verifier Frank A Wolff says that no scales w. re ever buMt :n which the arms were of exactly the same length. Tne only thing to do therefore i* to cheek up the error by weighing al t* rmitely on one side an l the other, and then fiveraging the results. Th standard from which measures of kngth and mas* are derive*! are stored In the same building near the (ViMioi The standar*! of mass is a cylltvlrlcal-ahape*] piece or whitish metal shout the site of h tennis ball. The standard of hnvth Is a bar of the aims sllver-ltke nv ml about three feet long and a little less than an Inch square Each face Is deeply groove l and In on** of the grooves at either end Is a polished spot on which three iel! ate hair lines are marked. The middle one *f these lines determines the *nd of the bar The bar is a standard metre, and the cylindrical weight Is the x an lari k 1 • gramme. The nut* rial fiom which they are made is a mixture of pla'ilnum and iridium, h** latter being added to give ad ditional hardness to the metal which above all others Is recognis'd u* the most durable. The value of th* metal alone in hl* standard meter Is $1,500. but it has a much greater value from the UUvr ex pended In tn.iking it perftet y aura e The kilogramme end metre standard* are the result of fifteen years’ labor by i joint congress of scientist**, supported by seventeen of the lending civilised nation*. Th*- International Metric Convention wua organised In 18TS. an*! on June 2 l*t\ the President of the I’nlird Htates broke the seal of th** rtandard kilogramme and metre which fell to the share of this coun try. anti In the present* of the secretary of the treasury and a number of Invit'd guests, assembled In the cabinet room of the executive mansion, dec.and them officially adopted. These originals have Ken used but once slme. This was when i very accurate copy was made from each lor practical use by the government bureau tn regulat ing the standar.l weights and measure* of the country. The original knogramme was then pin e*l under two glass hell Jan* which were locked and sealed. No human hand has touche*! the kilogramme since it P*ft the makers in Paris; what little handling has Ken necessary has hern done with a pair of special forceps cov ered with soft •hamol* skin. Thia is to prevent Increase of we.gh* bv the ad hesion of rnlnute quantities of foreign sub stances. or deems# of weight by nn abra sion It has not been found necessary to ex ercise an equal degree of care In preserv ing th- standard meter, a little moisture or dirt would not lengthen or shorten the metallic bar Nevertheless it is kept In a case of velvet surrounded with wo s1 and protected on the out aide by a heavy Nature’s Health Drink No need o Journey to Saratoga Springs in search of health. Saratoga Arondack Water, the great health drink, is now bottled and brought to you. The benefit to stomach, nerve* and kidneys are immediate, great and lasting. Arondack Water is prescribed by leading physi cians everywhere. It is the purefl alkaline water known. jt Saratoga |g Arondack 1 Water For sale by grocers and druggists. '* - „ Junes M. Dixon & Cos., Wholesale Agents. . iron cylinder with a screw cap It ia re moved only on apeclal occasions July 3N !***- t ongraas (>assed an *ant making the metric system lawful through out die United Btata and defining the weights and measures In common use in t'-rms of the units of this a>strm The government mint however, has a sys tem of lia own. By • special set of Gon - grc*> |r 182* the Troy pound wrws made (he standard for weighing the gov ernment bullion, and a trototype obtained ihe previous year from IstmUm and made by Gallatin, wit declared standard. Although there has been no adequate I* gislatton on the subject, the government attempts In a haphazard sort of wav to s lpfdy the states with accurate standards of the ordinary pound, bushel and gallon used In every day commercial transac tions Earh state u supposed to have a full set of the government prototypes,and the bureau at Washington Is now engaged In making two sets, for recently admitted states of the Far Wear. Each state is *up |4s*d to have an official sealer of weights and measures with a corps of inspector* under him; and then each municipality or township Is *uppo*+d to have its duly appointed authorities who have their working copies of the standard measure* and h*** flat tradesmen do not employ false scales in dealing out their wares to the people Thnt is the theory of it; the wav It worki out in practice la very different The carefully woiked out standards which sic furnished by the governmsnt are us ually stored In cellars or unused vaults and th#ir very existence forgotten In on** **f the Eastern state-* It was discovered recently thtit the gold-plated half-hushel standard measure was being used to feed the horse belonging to the assistant chief of the fire department; the standard pound wight was busy holding a door open, the gallon measure found Its sphere of useful re ss a* a cuspidor and the smaller proto types all bad Jobs as paper weights. In another state the custodiwn bored a hole In the standard of liquid measure and fit ted it with i spigot in order to facilitate the measuring operation* BomeMmes the state officials begin to suspect that tbetr measures are in n*ed of polishing up and they send them to Washington for renewal Thus weights which never should be handled except with specially devised instruments come ir. battered and bruised and corroded tin til they have not a suggestion of accuracy about them There t* no doubt that the public Is cheated daily In a thousand small ways by falso wGghts and measures. There is .i certain style of scales in common use which th© government experts say should be absolutely forbidden This is the scale which has two pons supported on up right* which rise from a horteontnl bar balanced In the middle on a pivot. The balance may be perfect and the weights up fo standard, and yet the customer may have abort weight given to him by the simple device of placing the weight on the outskle of the pan and the m**rr<in disc on the side nearest the p4%*ot. Thus one arm of the balanco !f lengthened and the other dealer. The advent of electricity and the general advancement of science ha* brought new work to the Bureau of Weights and Measures. It has alto emphasised the need of adequate legislation under the constitutional power to provide the coun try with uniform standards All over the land people ore paying for electric light; and yet they have no standard by which to measure It or to gauge the size of their hills except the say-so of the company which furnishes ft. There 1* no legal standard of measure and the ohm. which I* borrowed from Germany, may be a big or a little ohm a* It suits the company to make It. There Is no stand ard candle power, and there Is no way for a customer to know whether his lamp Is of a certain brilliance or not. The same principle applies to the scale of electric power for the running of machinery The United R.ates have bought some test ing apparatus for measuring volts and ohms from Germany, but no effort ha* been made to furnish standards to the states. The appropriation for this pur ists.- lias b'-sm entirely Inadequate Thera Is almoat no occupation where the need of accurate standards of come kind Is not felt For example. It Is sail that It Is almost Impoasthle to get on accurate clinical thermometer. A physician hap pens to have a high registering Instru ment, and all the pa Kent a he * called up on to examine show an alarming tempera ture. A surveyor has a wrong tape and years lotcr the error results In a lawsuit and great loss Not long ago a disc rep sney amounting to JWl.hno between a bkl of lading and the goods delivered was traced to defective hydrometer used to gauge ilcohogc spirit*. In the customs duty on sugar, the importations of which amount to a hundred million dollars a year, an error of the smallest fraction In one of the small disks used In the tests will cause a difference In the amount of receipts amounting to thousands of dol lars. The need for uniformity tn the cus toms sits reoognlxed In 1880. when an In vestigation showed, great discrepancies resulting In such serious lose lo the gov ernment that the Secretary of the Treas ury wa* comfieliert to lake action with out waiting for Congress The question of establishing an Amer. lean Standardizing Bureau will come be fore Congress at next winter's session A bill was Introduced Inst December and was favorably reported by the House Committee having U In charge. The Bon nie Committee on Commerce has not yet given It consideration It Is proposed to create h bureau with authority to under take all function* contemplated hy th* clause In the Constitution relative to "fix- Ing the standard of weights and meas ures." —The new report of the British and Foreign Bible Society states that last year there were Issued M2.MW Bibles, l.a&nu* Testaments an<l 2.9.17.1112 portions of the errlpture*. or set.XWl more copies that-, were ever Issued In one year before Gut of the total 2.027.. W copies In 2hn lan guages passed through the Bible house In I-onrton —A coroner's Jury In Mississippi recently rendered the following remarkable ver dict: "We. the Jury, find that deceased came to hi* death hy a stroke of an cist hound train. No. 2t'4, on I. C. R R at Fentress. Miss , In Choctaw county, on the 27th day of September. lfgifi. he being In a reasonable slate of Intoxication." jgßtj The Straight-Front Corset M captured the country by it, grace, health. 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Through one of them you can qualify for a GO)I> sal aried position, and not lose a (lay front work or leave your homo wtdle study ing. 1 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. I ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. (Including Complete Electrical Outfit.) S ARCHITECT ERE. 4. CIVIL ENGINEERING. 5. SANITARY PH MIIISO. HEAT ING AND VENTILATION. HOW TO VOTE. Cut out the attached Voting Cou pon. and mail or bring It to the bu*lne** office of the Morning New*, Savannah. Ga. Each Coupon must bear the name of the person for whom you wl#h to vote. McDOKOIGH & bALLANTYNE, V Iron Founders, Machinists, 08 > “r* H.rlakla Kiaaiitaa, Wrtla.l and lop Maonla, fcra Mill., saear Mill aad l-aaa, aha las, *-all*ya, ala. TELEPHONE NO. 123. s.. u i Of hopi by m a 5 & rt SUh.U l Lt. For Isle of Hope, Mor.a<>tnery, Thunder bolt. Cattle Dark and West End. Dally except Sundays, ttubjeel to c.iany, without notice. 18LE Cir HOPE. I.V iny lor I or 11. t.v Isle of Hope I SO ant from lenui j ti uu am for Bolton 7 M ant from Tenth i m> am for Tenth R3O am from Tenth < <|o am for Tenth li art from Bolton , S 00 am for Tenth 10 SO am from Tenth 110 09 am for Tenth UOD n'n from Tenth |)I at nm for Bolton 1 IS pm from BoMon ill So am for Tenth 190 pm from Tenth j 200 pm for Tenth ISO pm from T.-nth j 2 tu pm for Boltoo 4hi pm from Tenth j Jw pm for Tenth * pm from Tenth IN pm f..r Tenth SO pm from Tenth | OO pm for Tenth TSO pm from Tenth 7JO pm for Tenth tSO pm from Tenth [ hOO pm for Tenth SO pm from T- nth j XOO pm for Tenth to SO pm from Tenth jlO opm for Tenth ill 00 pm for Tenth MONTGOMERY. 1.1 e|t v f*.r M.tftj T7* Montgomery 590 am from Tenth | 7 13 am for Tenth * 2 SO pm from Tenth | 1 15 pm for Tenth *_r!L pm ,rom T " n,h I 6 041 i m tor Tenth CATTI.E PARK. ‘ ' ' • rairk .. Cat tie Park - C SO am from Bolton | 7Ou am for Bolton 7 am from Holton |SOO am for Bolton 100 pm from lioltori ISO pm for Bolton * SO pm from Holton | S 00 pm for Bolton 7 00 pm from Bolton | 7 SO r m for Bolton *OO pm from lioltori : x so pm for Bolton TH UN DhirtHuT/1. Car leaves Holton street Junction 534 a. m. and every thirty minute* thereafter until 11:S9 p. to. Car leaves Thunderbolt at 4:0(1 * m . „ n q every thirty minutes thereafter until 12DO midnight, for Bolton street Juno tlon. KKiiiuHT and parcel cak ~ This car carries trailer f or pasnongcr* on all trips and leaves west side of city market for lel* of Hope, Thunderbolt and all Intermediate points at u.uo u. m IDO p. m , 6 00 p. m Leaves Isle of Hop* for Thunderbolt. City Mark** and all Intermediate point* at OO a. m 11 00 a. m„ 240 p m VS Lai END CAK. Oar leaves weal aide of ctly market for West End 4:40 a. m and every to minut.-s thereafter during ths day until ll;So p. m. Leaves West Fnd at t> 30 a. m. and ev ery to minute* th.-re -f<.-r during the day until 12 00 o'clock midnight. If M T.gftov ny Mgr [ ABBOTT’S * EAST INDIAN Corn Paint * Caret Corns. Banions aid Warts | Speedily sad Without Pain. t fOfl SAli ST iu OF'JSOtSTS > HP PM AN BBOTHERB, k Wholosalo Druggists, lippmaa's Block, Bavaacah. Oa. fL?IHYROYftL FILLS I ••*! IJwlv liei wlne HArf . t •!* ,! . I a.|lre.d l<ratr<H T ‘ 1, “ H "TKK s KNIILUUI jEk ST !3 *" •• •' J.I.SSO Hr f..*s I*7 - fcy? l * 'Statistic.. s.d ImvS. I / fJT Uw *' f*** *1 y** r timctMi. *f *w*4 4c. • fjr “ 1 I Utt*>. be rw. ._ A Vlatl. Il,iiti# Tsetitgiiieli itt ITII. f** 1 *?? *ssrs- I'Mtl-A .fl W M. Mk(ll*l| ft Veww MMt \,g ... OlsD N EWIPA PKRn. *o for B cola, at Duatneat office Horning New a CHEMISTRY. 7. COMMERCIAL BRANCHES. Is MECHANICAL DRAWING. (Including Complete Drafting Outfit ) * ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING. (Including Complete Drafting Outfit i 10 ORNAMENTAL DESIGN. | (Including Complete Designing Outfit VOTING COUPON. 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LAPlES'rb^v A safe and powerful remedy for iiinctioru troubles, delay, pain, and irregularities. '• A PI ©LINE ichpotcaut) ■ Successfully prescribed by eases of Wawsrn Price 1.00 of sll Drsgg l or bjduiL P Q- aa*i. N