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7 1^"'IX r ? i i VOL. IX. ARP ON SUICIDES It Is a Rare Event Anions thf Negroes. SAYS THEY HAVE NO REMORSE Old "Uncle Lewis" ? Pistol and Poison Sl-ou'd Not Be So Handy. The rapid increase of suicides in th< south is alarming and provokes th? serious study of our thinking people. Fifty years ago a suicide was a rar? event among the white race, and novel heard of among the negroc-s. When it did occur, it was considered an evidence of insanity. I do not recall but one Instance In my youth and that was a woman who jumped into a deep well when no help was within reach. Hut nowadays almost every daily payer contains an account of one or mor* self-murders, and oven negroes hav< taken the infection, for they will imitate every vice and frailty of the whites. Old L.ewls, who is my woofi chopper, asked me the other tiny how i! was that the white folks kill "dersolvct so much, and de niggers dident." "Decause," said I. "white folks are mor< easily overcome with grief, or remorse or distress, than negroes. You negroes don't borrow trouble, nor take it harri when it does come. You don't giv< yourselves much anxiety about to-morrow. or next week, or next year. You don't grieve long over a death in the family; your emotional nature is of a low grade; your marriage relation is loose; in fact, it is on the tie line since freedom came. The marriage records show that your legal marriage are 60 per cent. less, according to population, than in the white race, and the decrease gets less and les? every year. Your young men and wo men don't mam" tiw>v Iik-i .J mi.iw- ufc ami quit when they please, and bo men don't care very much about tin welfare of their children, if they have any. Besides all this. Uncle l^ew'.s your race has .a trait of stealing little things, and this arcounts in a great measure for their indifference to the laying up of something for the future; something for the winter, or the rainj days, or for old age. If the worst comes to the worst, tlicy know thoj can steal or beg. If your young folks mem and women, haven't got out a dollar in the world, they will spend it for a watermelon, or an excursion, am' take the chances. Now. Uncle Lewis you remember when there wasn't i ehaingang in the south, nor a hetnouj crime nor a brutal outrage, committed by your people, from the Potomai river to the Rio Grande. Now then are in Georgia alone over 4.000 of youj people in the chaingangs, and then would he 4.000 more if all the littl stealings were.punished." Uncle Ijewi: had stopped cutting and was leaning on his ax helve. "Dat's ?1* so." a" ho, "and botv. I knows u, and host what I wants to know is dis: What must we poor niggers do about it?' There is the rub. I couldn't tell him. but 1 did say, "Uncle i .* #!*. your ract has got some mighty good traits, and I like to have you about ns; you art kind-hearted, good-natured, easy t< please, and don't carry malice or revenge in your Lea tc von steal hut you don't cheat anybody. The whltf rare won't steal, but thry will cheat or take advantage in a trade, and that is worse. If you trust a negro with anything he will not abuse your ton fidence, but a white -man will era bozzle and defraud and even the cashiers of banks will appropriate th< bank's money, and falsify the books for months and years. Every rare hn? its rare traits, lKith bad and good Some of your bad ones were almost run out by slavery, but tliry have eomr bark again, and all your college education dors not stop it. It makes ii wors-e. There is nothing will stop it but work, constant work, every day under some good employer. Work or the farm is your best safeguard, 01 work as mechanics under good contractors. Your people mike good mechanics. and the white people employ them and patronize them just as willingly as they do white mechanics. Th? negro blacksmiths and masons get good employment here and every where, and as for cooking and washin? and nursing, your women have it all The two paces would fit together nicely If It wasn't for politics and idleness. An Idle negro Is a dangerous creaturand should l>e taken up and put tc work. He is much more dangerous than an Idle white man. for he has no shame, and fears not God nor regard* man. If I were a law-maker, I would make continued idllenwss a orimnio ror. as Hon franklin tays. "It Is the parent of vice.'* I started to wrjte about suicides, but got to preaching Unci'* I>*wis a ser mon and got off the track. Nineto- n hundred years ago Plutarch, the Creek historian, said that self-uiur.h r was cowardice, for a brave man woul 1 suffer rather than take the life that Cod gave him. S' If-mmurder was a heinous crinio under the old English law. The estate of the felo de se was confiscated, and t iken away from his family. His body was burled on the hlghwav without a cothn and a sharp stake thrust throush it. to mark the accursed spot. Suicide was under the ban of the church, and no prayerwere said for his soul. In no civilized country has suicide been justified, except In such cases as that of Saul, who fell on his sword because, as he s?id, "Lest these uneircnmcised Philistinethru-t me through and abuse me." 0*perhaps that other notablo case th I % A )RT FO scriptures record, that cf Judas, whose remorse was so dreadful he preferred hell or aQything that would be a change. But generally it is "better to endure the ills we have, than fly to those we know not of." Almost every day we read of young men and young women killing themselves because of disappointment or dissipation, or about love or money. They must believe there is no hereafter, or all punishment ends with this life. Surely no unnstian man or woman would think of self-murder. Walt, wait, young man, young woman; wait. 1 say?suffer and be strong; only cowards kill themselves. The soul is looked tfcp in this casket and God only has the key. Wait and trust Him. Remorse for a great crime may atone somewhat for self-murder. Miss Morrison might have killed herself after she killed her rival, and it would have seemed heroic. When Othello discovered his great mis take in killing Desdemona, his peroration was grand as he said. "I took the circumcised doe by the throat and smote him thus." and then stabbed himself and died, for, as Shakespeare says. "He was groat of heart." In ancient Greece and Rome their notable warriors sometimes killed themselves, rather than suffer the stings of defeat in battle. In Japan military officers commit what is called harakarf (ripping open the odbomen) to avoid personal disgrace. But In our land the pistol or poison lias superseded all other moans of suicide. It would save' thousands of lives if the pistol was ubolished py law. Not one should he allowed in any household; they aro entirely too convenient for murder or suicide or robbery or revenge. And the sale of poison should bo so regulated that no one could buy it except upon the most careful inquiry as to its j intended use. Human life is too sacred [ to be endangered by pistols and poison i for as St. Paul tvays, "We are made in the image of God." Well, we see that Mr. Crumpicknr, or Stunt psuoker, or somo such name, j from Indiana, has opened the ball at Washington with his usual screech owl ! howl against the south. Ho was in ' such a malignant hurry that he got in the first hill, and it is to reduce the I representation of the south In con- 1 gross. He reminds me of Hainan, whose stomach would not digest his i food as long as he saw Mordeeai sit- I tins at the king's gate. Ho lias begun to build a gallows for us. Ix>t. him J beware, for it was It lmnn who was hanged. Some of these rabid republicans remind me of old Sato, the Roman censor, who hated the Garthe-j genians so bad that he never voted on, any question in the Roman neiiatq j without adding. "And I also vote that | Carthage l><? destroyed." But nobodv | cares: we will yet have a schoolbook < commission in every southern state. . The south is moving right along in spite of northern insults and northern , ! literature. ! see that "Barbara Friet | chie" is to he played in Atlanta. I ( wonder if that dramatic lie will bo pa- | tronized by any self-respecting southern man or woman? Many years ago a yankee troup came to Rome with' ( "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and we egged, , tin m out of town. That's what wo | 1 done. They may abuse us from afar i off. hut they shan't come down heroj i ; and nil) it in. Bill Arp in Atlanta I I Constitution. Murderer Shot liy i?n Offlccv. ( At South Seattle. Wash.. Willinr.i teuton murdered his sister and two children and then chopped off ids un- I ele's heat! with an ax. The murderer ; was shot by an oCioer wliile resisting , arrest, lie admits bis crime. Chiiiit tu Kat Our I'otnlnen. The tirst large shipment of potatoes that has gone forward from the State of Wasldngton to China was sent from North Yakima and consisted of fioo ' tons destined for Shanghai. Four ltoyn I'ubtlrly I.nHlied. ' Four boys were publicly whipped r.l 5 Evnnsville, Ind., by tlielr parents, as ordered by Judge Winfrey. The boys 1 had stolen a barrel of apples from a freight ear. The parents used an old r bicycle tire on the youngsters, whose names are Walter Snyder, fourteen; Ollle 0. Geiger, thirteen; itoy Allison, nine, and Gerhold Yost, ten. Warm Weather Affect* Lumber Trade. I.umbering operations in Minnesota ' are at a standstill on account of the warm weather, and unless cold weather sets in soon lumbermen will La > heavy losers. Tried Sulrloe at Same Time. Anna Lambert, twenty-two years ! dd. and William MeGyerck, a teams ter. both of St. Louis, Mo., bad a } sweethearts' quarrel and each tool; | carbolic acid in separate parts of the city and reached the City Hospital at about the same time. Antidotes wera applied, and hotli will recover. i SpiiiilKh Order For (too Car*. The American I'ar ntul v.in.i.i.t- i Company, of Detroit. Mich., has re( ("ivcil an order for ?'ak? ears for the Northern Spain Hallway. The contract ' at Jo Imi filled Itv Mumli 1 lCoJec-K Appointment ?? Senator. C. A. Smith, a wealthy Swedish- ' Vmerlenn lumberman, of Minneapolis. , Minn., and a Republican, has declined ' tie informal offer of Governor Lind, i Fusionist. to appoint him Senator to tueeeed the Late Cushman K. Davis. , Murder of n Wlftroiistn I.tnnberninn. George Furbush, one of the host 'cnown Ininla mien in Wisconsin. \vn? ' otind dead in the road near Ashland, witli a bullet in his head, lie was | murdered. 1 f l r ' 'li ' :T MIL RT MILL, S. C., WED? !HEE11E: 5. D. Stokes Shot the Rev. J. H, Wohl in a Street Duel, RESULT OF A STARTLING SERMON III.- Tragedy Occurred at AVilliatrmom AY. Vu. ? Minister l'ansetl the Lie ntni First Drew Hit ltevoUer?Ai the L?w> yor Fell Seriously Wounded lie Shot una rviiu-u II In Assailant. Huntington. \Y. Yn. (Special).?At Williamson, the county seat of Mingo County, W. Yn.. S. Davis Stokes sliot ami Instantly killed the Rev. John H. Wohl. pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, in a street duel. The tragedy was the outcome of a sensational sermon tilled with the spirit of reform. Mr. Wohl determined to put a stop to the many dances given by the young people, and to accomplish this end on Sunday preached an exceptionally pointed sermon with dancing as its theme, illustrating the various arguments by original cartoons which showed that the dance hall was an ante-room to destruction. Williamson was shaken to its centre. Mr. Stokes publicly told the minister that but for his sacred profession he would take great pleasure In blacking his eyes. The minister laughingly responded that lie had seen the day when he bad whipped men physically Stake's superior for less. Mutual friends hushed the matter up and pudeavored to reconcile ail parties Concerned. Stokes stopped in from of the resilience occupied by Mr. Wold, several lays later ami whil" engaged in conversation with Mrs. Sarah Levine, of Richmond, Va.. a visitor to Williamson. was ordered to move on from in front of the residence. Seemingly in I ^ good humor. Stokes started to com- I |ily, when Minister Wold, standing on the steps of his porch, angrily told liim to hasten. Stokes stopped. Hot words passed.' Wold shouting "You lie!" advanced ilowtt the yard toward liis foe. As he , faced hint he drew from his hip ' pocket a revolver and levelled it at Stokes, who slowly retreated, though still facing the pistol. "You lie!" again shouted Wold and ' is lie did so palled the trigger. Pierced through the ten side. Stories dropped to the sidewalk and in the fall drew i liis revolver and covered his assailant. Wohl shot again and simultuncously Stokes tin d. A crowd of people gathered. Wohl | ivas dead. lie had been shot through thy brain. Stokes was seriously tvoundod. On the poreli. where she , tail taken refuge, lay Mrs. Levlne !u t dead faint. Mr. Stokes refuses to say anything concerning the tragedy. \Vr. Wohl tvas recognized as one of the most forceful and eloquent of Presbyterian ninisters of this State. Mr. Stokes Is n former President of Virginia J l uiversity and comes from one of the est families of the Old Dominion. A/RECKS ON NEW ENCLAND COAST ' tinny I t Di-.vcn Ashore lit tli? Kmterly Gale. Boston (Special). Anotlier Southern ; storm has swept over New England md gone the way of all such disturb- | inres straight off to the northeast, md. like hundreds of its energetic , > redecessors, left death and destrueion in its wake. .lust what it areola- j dished in New England can be 1 summed up ns follows: ; Five (lloueester lisliermeu drowned, lix coasting schooners complete , vreeks, nine vessels stink, eight , schooners ashore and eleven others uore or less injured through collision md loss of gear. The usual amount of damage oc- l urred on land -buildings blown down. I olograph wires prostrated and sonic ' lelays on railroads in Hie nnrtimm tort ion through heavy snows. ________________ * ENVOYS AT PEKIN ACREE. nstructlons Sent by Secretary Hay to Minister Conger. I Washington. I>. r. (Special?.?The State Department has lieen informed hat the foreign Ministers at I'ekin 1 cached an agreement which was subnitted to the home Governments. Sec- i clary Hay cabled Mr. Conger author- ! zing hint to sign the agreement on he- i talf of the United States Government. On the l>asis of settlement the tie- | aand for the decapitation of the elev- ! n princes is set aside. As to punish- i ncnts, they arc to l?c the severest that an he indicted by the Chinese Gov- ] fitment. As to indemnity, the Chi ichc Government is to formally aduit its liahility and then the matter s to he left for future negotiations. ^ PINGREE PARDONS GUARDSMEN ieti?riil<? White anil Marsh to Pay fc.lOOO Kneh in Itmtnl men!*. Detroit. Mich. (Special). Governor >lngivc announced that he had paroncd both General \V. I,. White, ormer Guarteriunster-Geiieral. and i ieni ral A. F. Marsh, former Inspector leneral of the Michigan National ittard, con\ ieted of complicity in the date military clothing frauds, npott lie payment of $">ooo tine |>y each, in ' nnunl instalments of $1000 each. White was committed to .lackson 'ris< ^ Tuesday to begin the ten-venr nti'iv' Imposed <>ti tlw previous dny J I.v.-h is under lunula pending appeal I rem his conviction. f ?. y ) r" L 1 IESDAY, DECEMBER ?* C. I ????? The news epitomized WASHINGTON ITEMS. Consul Doty writes from Tahiti thai the islands of Kum and Kiniatara liav? boon annexed by France. Friends of Representative Itmitelii^ of Maine, ill in an asylum, will Intro, duee a bill to have liini retired as :> naval captain. Lieutenant Lay IT. Everliardt \va? appointed executive ottieer of tin scholarship St. Mary's. Senator Frye introduced the Shin Ctlltisiflf 1*111 ! ...11- -? ouuoui%> inn it mi imviri'SM'u \ in* rM'ir ate upon it. The President offered the vacant Internnl Revenue Comntissiouership Joseph H. Mnnley, of Maine. The Treasury Department, scandal* ized by the growth of Chinese smuggling. is making a special effort to Hop it. The twenty-seventh annual convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union opened in Washington.' Ol* It AltOPTKI) 1 si.an its. The Porto Itiean Honse of Delegates was organized. Senor Manuel K. Uos Sy being eleeted Speaker. Coventor Allen's message was well received. Three complete drafts of a constitution for Cuba were submitted at I lav anna. Twenty-two hundred natives took the oath of allegiance to the United Ktates at Yigun, P. I. Frigadier-tleneral llare reports that the natives on the Island of Santar. I., continue, on the approaelt of American troops, to burn their villages and Bee to the mountains. DOM KSTIC. Frank & Du Hois, brokers, of New fork City, estimate that their trusted flerk. Willittiu M. dates, robbed tliei.i if Sl'o.iHM). Professor Clampett. former instruetor at St. John's Military School, at Manilas, X. Y.. was found dead at a lot el in Manilas. Death was title to la t ttra 1 causes. William Wirt Henry, grandson of Patrick Henry, and a member of tlu! Virginia bar, died at Itiehinoud. Ya. II. M. Manna, brother of Senator! Ilanna, lias given the Lakeside Hosjj iiii.ii. :u ? leventnii. tMilo, isni,s.?ii. The ttnv.i of Nashville, Ark., line! >l(M),(MNi lir?', which originated in tin* f)por:i House, situated in a block of 'rat lie buildings. Kortoii otiicirls started a crusadt Igai ist bucket shops and swindling inv'cstineiit" companies. Because the girls flirted with tht| hedical students across the way. tlnj j itoanl of Education closed the Wesl Side High Sehool. at Chicago. Professor F. A. Starr, of Cldcng<. University, was nearly killed in at empting to hoard a street ear. General 'land.ill is I 11i 1 <Iiri-_r a harbor )f refuge at the niouih of Nome Ui\c >y const met ing a long and substantia >reak water. The Massachusetts Supreme Coir" leeided that it is illegal to sell liipio: tetweeii the hours of II p. in. and t l. in. in the State. Near Chatieroi, l'entt.. tin- mutilated lody of a man washed up by the Hoods vns exhumed. The police think i: inswers the description of George fill, who litis been missing two year J The estate of the late Senator tK, , Davis, of St. Paul, Minn., will prob C Ihl.v inventory between tfitb.ooo and I 17b.(MM), exclusive of a valuable library ( The new church of the Sacred Heart | fits dedicated at Augusta, Ga.. h> Cardinal (Ilbhons. By a shrewd trick thieves took over !<>(> heatl of eattle front Alfred Me Joy's pastures in Indiana ami shipped 1 heiu to Chicago. The hotly of Egbert I'ill. a farinet 'ashling in Griggs County. Georgia van loiiuil III a lli*i*l Willi II l>ll!l(<t lloli u the back. The steamship Centennial arrived rt Port Townseud, Wash., from Nome vith twenty-two Federal prisoners, 0 he sent to McNeill's Island. Alexander Jackson, of Camden. I>**1., >egnn distributing his fortune among leserving persons. FOKKIGN. Eighty thousand invitations were is-, tied for tin* irr?*:?t papal ceremony in *f. I'elcr's. at Koine, of the closing o-" he holy year. The function occur.*! it midnight, December .'51. The (Queen's speech declared fit iresent session of ParHam* nt WAij ailed solely to provide money for tlv* iriny. Stewards of the London Jockey ciulj lecided not to grant a license to "TodK loan, the Aineriean jockey, to riicj text year. The President of Santo Doming*! irged reciprocity with tin Fnite I (tales in ins message to Congress. . Consequent upon a rumor of th< \)po having undergone an operationj 1 reassuring scinl oilicial stateiinuj las been made at Koine tint* bis hcalti] s perfect. The French flovernment will off**:; o huv for liic National Ciillerv in tin* ar.eiubntirg I'nlncc :i number of tlxliettrvs Ity Ainerienn nru->is in tlr. 'aris K\pi^iilnn. 'I'ii'" linltx."ri:iit Cabinet 1ms resigned iwing to Minlsb rial dllTen nees. Tlif cr.nvnleset m e of Uio Czar Is 'allowing a favorable eourso. Former I'r? blent Kr tiger. of 1 l:o rrni:sv..al. will await the Czar <if 1111 - a's roenvery before trying lu ilni. Con Mil-ftcnernl Stowe. of Cape Iowa, a ri.ed at launion on bis way ionic. He give.s via! Itoer war four nouths to cml IME: . 12, 1!)00. a division of Millions Cornelius Vanderbilt Left an Estato Appraised at $72,500,000. Uesiiltinry stmro ??l" Alfrvil AVill 11?- SU,? 600,000 ? ll:iti<lm>uir CJICt For tin* Oilier UotrH. Now York City (Special!.- Tlio estate loft by tlio Into Cornelius Vanderbilt Is valued at .S72,."?(ki.ihmi. of this $."2.ntKMMN) is personal ami roal property. As iimoli of the proporl.v is in stocks ami bonds tlio valuation is made on Wall stroot's closing prices of tlio day Mr. Vanderbilt died, to September. it is much greater now fully twenty per coin. On the basis of the oilit'ial appraisal. Alfred Itwyniu* Yandorhilt, as residuary legatee ami head of tin* lioust> of Vandcrbilt. will receive as his share of the estate S i 1.."im>.oimv Mr. Ilashmuck. legal representative of tin* State Controller. made this statement: "We have fixed the valuation of the personal property of the late Cornelius Vamlerhilt at S~?*2,."i(to.(ItMl. I represent the State, ami my light has heett for is liiirlt a tax as this State is entitleil to under the law. I am jrhul tit last (o say that an agreement has heen rettehed with Anderson & Anderson, representing the heirs of Cornelius Vamlerhilt. and the eotitroversy is cnd?d." The breaking of the continued deadlock over the estate was brougli* about it a conference held a few days ago. it which it was decided that rather than make a light in the courts to sustain their claims as to valuation the ! ?xeeulors would accept the figures | fixed by the representatives of the State Controller. Mr. Ilasbrouck. Kxccutnrs of the Vamlerhilt estate have held that the personal property if the estate should he valued at J?!!?.VJi;.Ni;.V.m;. This Would have made the iggregate transfer tax to he paid to I he State S I'.tp.lMS. l'.y ids determined Maud 111attorney for the State Controller has increased this tax to IN Ml. Charles IV O'Conncll, State Appraiser, announced that the figures agreed I jpon l?y the lawycrs for lho Slate ami !he estate were satisfactory to him. The Yanderbilt millions willheappnr:li?iio(l anions the heirs before the holilays ami will constitute tlm richest "lirlstinas present ever distributed to the meniliers of any family in the tvorld. The estate will he (listributed amnii'.; 'lie heirs in the following manner: AI'recl Yanderliilt's share. SM.ritm.iMMl. of ivhieh he receives as residuary legaee. Sri7.tMHt.tHM); Cornelius Yamierhilt. ?7. "><><1.1ttmt; legacies to tihulys ami Reginald. each, S7.r.<M?.(it>(); Mrs. Cornelius \ "amlerhilt. the widow. S'J.tHMt.tMMt. ami lie rctnaimler of the millions will l?e ipportioncd among the friends of tin* !ate Cornelius Yamlt rhilt who wero remembered in his will, executors, harit'es. servants, etc. iACAN RESTORED AND RETIRED. ['resilient llemit* the Utiexg.ireil Term of II is SiiK|>elinlnii. Washington. I?. C. (Special), ilriga;lier-( Jetieral Charles I'. Kngnn, Cointiissary i.eiieral, 1". S. A., sentenced >y court martial to dismissal from the irniy for ahusive language to Ceneral Kelson A. Miles, his snneriur, and vliose sentence was commuted Vy the I'rcsidcnt to Live years' suspension 'roin duty, with pay, was restored to luty. ami at oaee placed on J he retired list. The order issued by the President remitted the unexpired portion of his lenience and restored him to "a status ?f duty with station in this city." This ivas immediately followed by one is sued by Ceneral Miles, announcing that ileneral Kagnu had been placed an the retired list on his own application tifter thirty years' service. ( rnprnl Knimton KoiiIh Filipinos. (Sciicral Funstoti sends to Manila nn account of ;i two-hours' tight in the woods of S:mto Domingo. I'. I., between nn American force and ."<K) rebels commanded by Sandico. The American force, consisting of tliirty native scouts, commanded by I,ictttenant Jornigan, attacked the rebels, wlio retreated, leaving on the Held sixteen men killed, including the rebel leader Aguilar and an American negro. Not one of Jcrnignn's men was wounded, KnmoiiN Composer l?< :et. Mr. Henry Kusscll. composer of over StHi songs. including "A Life on the Ocean Wave," and "Cheer, Hoys, Cheer." diet* in London Kngland. lie was born a* 'Jheeruess, December 24, 18115. Prominent la-opln. King Oscar of Sweden Is stendil; improving in health. y.tccn Victoria, it is understood, vil go to Cimic/, in the spring. Theodore ltonsevelt is going- to Col orado ibis winter for a hunting '.rip. The Herman Crown ITlr.c? promise, to liecome title of the liuest shots it Ktirope. Senator Hannn. rays positively thi he will never again lie a candidate fo a public oliice. Dr. D. K. 1'oarsons, the phllnnth"np Is t of Chicago, will give $."???.?mk? i tVunniuo Colicirr. . A fTiTcnpo mils Irian who is n 11 < *r? ?1 to have fallen heir to a title and a 1 ?itf fortitno considerately notilies an in I crest ml world that there will no no "hot time In the old town to-night.'1 V' . C . " kjt >' NO. 39. THE SILVEK ECC. A silver spoon held over :i tallow? candle soon r?voives :i coat lie: of black. If this same spoon with its coat inn of lampblack be planned Into a vessel of water, says the Scientific American, a , ...in i ? "" - w,. i) 111 iiiijipvu. i i!? spoon will no lonsriT appear bhtek. but metallfe. When it is removed front the walor. liowovor, we rind, contrary to our supposition, that tin* mutiny of lamp hluek lists not born waslml away. Tito photiotuonon rati lir readily o\ plained. Tito wsitor tan not pourtratr tbo layor of tlir blaok. tlioroforo mete ly atbtpts Itsolf to tbo shapr of tlio spoon w(tlimit eotnlnj; in contact with \ the tnotsil. and rctlccts light as per- \ fcctiy as si mirror. ' The oxpcriniont in si modified form can only lie performed in the follow ins; manner. Alt ecu is held over a caudle or. preferably, si smoky petroleum lsimp until it is eoinpletely coated with lampblack. When placed in st vessel of water the eyy will have a metallic sheen, and will appear to have been silvered over. When removed from the w tiler. however, it imnuuli ately becomes black again. Sliesirs in ;i steel mill in Coatesvillc. I'.i . etit a slab *?f iron four feet wide and two feet thick at one stroke. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Central Timn i?t .liickumvllli) mul Savannah.) Esinturn Tonu sit Otlior Point* Schrclulo in KfTect M'iy Otii. 1900. .Mixrt'vT,, qilVn "J1 tmilyj M Cv.'.la 'kNi.tivitTi- (P~) ~~! ?~ HOMn 7 4-VpJ Savannah (So Ky ) 12 lap 1A O.wv lio n well 4 0-j) 4 iwa\ Hl.ivkrillo 4 ITp I l.A' Springfield 4 40p 4 Svia . ... 4 48p 4 Ar.Columbia . .. 60Jt> 608a f.v Ry . 'Oft ; t Stiiuniervillo .... 7 4ln l-MOnt brnuehvUlo 8 56h 1 sxxil ? (lr.iugebnrg .. ....... 0 -.la 50u Kingvilln 1j |"iii 4 !Kla Ar ('uluiiikia . 11 oOn. 5 ?>?a f. V A lie it It si. Tso Kv~) T-. rJt*j? .1 OOP TTSop t.v. Urnnitrvilb . A 4!Siv :i3lp 10 15p f.v. F. lecticiii . i i lop . ... t.v AlUcii ' Stiftlp . . l.v. Troiitoti .. f> oiic 4 tRip 11 O'p " .InliliHton 5 At'ii 4 I4l> 11 Alp Ar Coliinibin. {IT. DA Si.lp I! lest. I.v. Colombia, (BUlg fit 0 JOti OlOp fi 15a' " Wuinaboro 7 OJp 7 2oa ' Cheater 7 5H> 81'Ja; " Hock Hill H'JJp 8 47a Ar. 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'lab* 4 8D* .lohnntoii . ... 1()!S0|, | yap f>y2? Trent..u ........ I HlUp 1 4Bp. fi 4X? Ar Alk.<r ~~~ T37p f7lSS Ar. isdgeftgid ?asj> 1190a Ar OrauTlevillo ;?UOnt 215p 7 18a A ' Aueuata .. , . . *1 i?)n L'ioy U <*la Lv (JolnmLui (So. Ity > ..... 4 06p~T;)6a KlngvlUt. 4 48p 2 32a vsi uiiguiiurff. :>4VJp 3 4rA " Itrnuchvllle f? l&p 4 25* " Sunituorvliin 7 2B|> R ">2a At- Oharlagton n).'?? T 00* i Lv Columbia tiso. Uy ) '.. . ifShi 1 i'aa J Ar saily 12 42p 2 37* M Springfield l-'iiOp 2 43* fl Hlaekvilla ] ]->p a.Ofia ?| lUrnwrll 1 V7p 3 20* Savannah .'(2ij> J I.'ik A r .1II. . .11 O lie I r S 1 ? 4<rj> <J JB Trwu* 43 and 14 11 i; *I xeept Suuduyt arrivn unil dap&rt from Hamburg. 1 Dully exi ajit Sunday Sl??pi i" jj Car Sarvico. Kxrellent daily passenger corvico bntwen* JH Florid*ud N'f>* York fl N>.-, n and 34 N?w York apd Florida Kx- S f>r<*m. 1 irawiug room nlceping c?i * betwaafe M Aiigvifcta ai..i New York i'uUmnii drawing-mom sleeping rxri Ik?- jUt twirn I'urt Tunivi. .liu-ksunville. Savannah, HH Washington uuil Nrw York. *' Sj Pallmaa tlMiping can between Chariot to and Richmond Diulng can between (Jhurlulla liirt Hmftnnah ^^B N'us V) an.J :0V- IT S. Fust Mail. Through J I'ullnian drawing room buffet Bleeping cars be- ,--Bl tweeii .(ackauuville and Now York nnd l*ulS men alnemnc car* tielwceti Aug-mta and Char* lot ie Oialng cars serve all omnia enrouta. Pullman seeping car* between Jacksonville an.I Columbia enroute daily between Jackaon* mite and Cincinnati, vim Aabuville, FRANKS (4ANNON, J.M.CTTM*. Third V P & (4mi. Mgr. Traffic Mgr., Washington, D O. Washington, L>. C. W A TURK, S n.HAKOWICK. lien Pass Ag't.. A * I Uvu. i'ntis. Ag't., WaaUlugluu. U. C. Al.uUi, Q*. .J< promptly procured. OH f!0 f EE. Send model. rk<-t<J^ J' A r r fflvo r> pot on p*?V nUMIHjr. lv?.k vflr? W J. t .< I H and K>r.' <n rjloot.<aiidTrvi4.M?rli?, w A TREE Ka.re?' t-Tti.e ever ofTrtwl t>? |???ntor? W r PATENT LAWYERS OF 2d TEARS'>*ACTICE .!Al A ,20.000 PATENTS PROCURED THM&H THEM. A I) All i'tiaiiitvs nliacniiiil, boun? ^Vlck *.utnfullt) Vv rv M xW*to charge. ? ^ w Sww C. A. SNOW & CO.? A pATr/er LAWYERS. v 0pp. U. S. Pattntttffioe, WASHINGTON, a C.S <