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TILE ICE KING. Below Zero Weather Advances Even into Florida. THE SOUTHFROZEN UP. The Entie Co-n C a Mantl!e C wW Which lia-1. bitter vorthwrest th in cbuds t:lroug h etr s the bidewalks in :o:!.e piavet ar:u io others piling up 3 . -et ,n' una i. street eleaning dep irtimeut. after gling for 3 hours to e-ar t Le principal streets. ga'.e lip entirely, even smr:eu dering Broadway to the wiud an:d snow. In the suburbs. where tile wids have free sweeps. drifts are 5 to 10 feet high. Street railroads have stopd altogether and suburban steam railroa.is are blocked. Many neizhboring towns are cut off from New York altwoemher. Of the 15,000 destitute faniles in this city, as estimated by Blair. superin tendent of the outdoor poor. nearly all are either freezing or starving to death. G BELOW ZERO AT TALLAHASSEE. Jacksonville. Flit.. Feb. 13.-Un precedented weather visited northern Florida today. Sleet was followed by light snow early this morning in all of western and middle Florida. The low est temperature was 2 degrees below zero at Tallahassee, 9 degrees above at Jacksonville and a temperature of from 15 to 40 degrees in the orange belt. Winter maturing veietables were kiild. What damage was done to orange trees is yet in doubt, subsequent %eather be ing an important factor in determining. In the orange belt the temperatures were not so low as they have been. in northern Florida the weather was un precedented. The snow between mid night and daylight was followed by sun shine and a clear sky, but with a cold northwest wind. ClARLESTON ASTONISPED. Charleston, Feb. 13 -When the city awoke this morning it found itself wrap ped in a blanket of snow. It was bit terly cold all of last night, the ther mometer registering as low as 13 de grees. Until after midnight rain and sleet fell. The snow did not come till towards morning. The fall is various ly estimated at from 2 to 3 inches on a level. Business has practi cally been suspended all day Merchants, clerks, business men and private citizens have paraded the streets, engaging in snowball battles. The street cars have not been able to run and no trains have entered or gone out of the city today. The weather is the coldest ever experienced here. the thermometer registering 9 degrees at 2 p. mn., today. "COLDEST ON RECORD.' Augusta, Ga.', Feb. 13.-Augusta is in the midst of the coldest spell on re cord. With half a foot of dry snow on the ground and the theinometer 15 to 25 degrees below the freezing point, a stiff northerly wind intensifies the cold. The snow ensed failing at 3:30 a. m , and the sun shone all day, but without causing any diminishing effect in the bitingecold. The lowest point reached by the mercury f'or 24 hours ending at 8 p. mn., was 4 degrees. The maximnur was 17 degrees, and the deficiency o! temperature over th,, samne date la-t year was 40 degress. At 9 o'clock to night thermonit ter -vas at the 10 degree point, with every inication; ot being near zero before mornsg. NORTH CAROLtNA S DOSE. Charlo.e. N. .. Fe b 13.-Charlot te is havi.i I ie e..idest weathe-r kiown in~ 10 -.r 15 years. Sn..w began falliie Saturday morni Si anid cotlIinuJIe through the day an i it. iner~-asing in severity toward Suniday morning. 1. continued all day Sunwiay and up to 11 o'clock Sunday night. At 10:30 to night thermometers registered from 1 to 4 degrees below zero. One of the worst blizzards on record is raging is the mnountains in the western part tof the State. At Blowing Rock the ther mometer was 10~ below zero this umrn ing. At Lenoir it' stood at 2 degreen below. At Winston zero was reacehed. In many towns a coal and wood famine is threatened. BUSINESS SUSPENDED. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 13.-Today has been the coldest on record in this city. At 10 a. mn., the mercury stood at 8 grees above zero, with the city ut. ' a 2-inch snowfall and a brisk wind blow ing. Henry Lewis. colored died from the cold in his house. Street cars were for 12 hours stalled by snow-all over the city. In several instances motor men andeonductors who waited on their stalled cars for orders were so badly frostbitten that they had to be lifted off the cars and sent home and to bed. BIATTLE AGAINsT THE ELEMENTs. Philadelphia, Feb. 13.-After a day of heroic battle, all the human fo-ees that could be brought into play agains the elements have been force-d to eu cumnb, and to night the city is fast lock ed in the embrace of the wcrit blizzard in the history of the local weather bureau. Steami and local traffie are at a standstill, and the snow-Leaped streets are deserted. There were a number of deaths and a good many cas ualties attributable to the prevailing conditions. SENTRIES SUCCUNUEI'. Anniston, Ala., Feb. 13.-Daniel Chatman, a Negro, was found frozen in his bed this morning. The tempera ture this morning was 14 below. th& coldest ever known. The enlistedi men at Camp Shipp are well equipped, and suffered no inconvenience from the cold. Many sentries. mainly Negroes, however, fell on their beats from nunmb ness, and had to be taken to the hos pital to be thawed out. TWENTY-FOUR BELOW ZER'). Lexington, Ky,, Feb. 13.-Attested thermometers registered 24 degrees be low zero this morning. The poor have been fed free at -soup house all day, and various citizens have donated coal. Only one or two coal yards in Lexing ton have any coal, and they will not furnish to any one person more than a ton. Coal has jumped from 82.2-> to $4la ton. AT CANP MARION. Charleston, Feb. 13.-A special to The News and Courier from Campt Mar ion says: The soldiers suffered consid erably by the blizzard and snow storm. Today there was an insuflietent supply of wood, and none could be gotten in the town for love or money. THlE sNOW IN TIRGINIA. Richmond, Va., Feb 13.-The di rector of the~ weather 5tation here re ports tliat the present snow stormi is the heaviest on reel rd in Virginia. It SatuIrday and e )ton 'p tto to en t a ti ' t t pn0 T i a t the ex p eece all t h Vir:.:inia. Lu this vicinity the --iw I, i 7t 1inc hes- dep ,n a Iovel. h tinnu .es iSdriteCi to a dep:il AS : mP. i he e iv. z, rp. -X !-:r I I, i -' I)'pu Iini Z.iri: T:non the o. andv wi be non tomorrow. as the citiz' have 1 ruied a -uiicient fund to provide, for it'! Wam.WN;GI'('VFS UP. )t ' -h. 1 A.--With two inches. Jes than ii three t of snow on a eVel ani ti mercurv hovering on sztanty near zero, th! capital today was ill the graiy-p the most severe blAizzard iu its history. The snow fall. which b-gan on Saturday evening. con tinuedQ without ee-sation until 11 o'clek tonight. the oficial measure ment in 50 hours being '20 inches on tot of the heavy fall of a few days pre eeding. Driven by a high -iorth-we-t wind it drifted in banks of fron five to eight feet in depth. supending all traffic, tieing up the streCt car lines. cutting off the city fronm all outside communication by rail and cau-ing un told suffering among the poor. At mtidtiight the weatner had cleared ane the wind had moderated. The railway mail service is paralyzed by the storm and mails are at a standstill through out the Atlantic region. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Text of a Bill that Passed the House last Week. After considerable discussion on Thursday the House passed a bill "to prevent fire insurance companies, asso ciations or partnerships doing business in this State, or the agents of said coni panies. as;ociations or partnerships from enterinz into combina'ions to make or control rates for fire insurance on property in this State, and provid ing punishment for violati';ii of this act. Followin-is the bill: That it shall be unlawful for any fire insnrance company, association or part nership doing a fire insurance business in this State to enter into a combina tion or compact with other fire insur ance companies, associations or part n-rships, or to require or allow their agents to enter into any compact or combination with other insurance agents, eompanies, associations or part nerships, for the purpose of governing or controlling the rates charged for fire insurance charged on any property in this State: Provided. That nothinr herein shall prohibit one or more of such companies from employing a com mon agent or agents to supervise and advise of defective structures or sug gest improvements to lessen fire hazard. That all fire insurance companies, as sociations or partneiships doing a fire insurance business in this State shall cause to be filed on the first day of Mlarch. 1900, and in each year thereaf ter, with the comptroller general of tI s State. the aflidavit of some offieer or agent of ai company. assoc-idiin or tart nershi:' who res ie in this State. setteg for th the fa. t ba: the cai an of ub ich he is an -finleer or ap.'t ha, ot in the 12 'comb p viVous to tt. -iate of the -ai'i aiia-.t cntered& i':t. any t rust, cobi::ion- or ass'ociati.-n. tor the purose of p-reventi:a cari' II tion in insuram,-e rat--- in this S a-, iten: miadle in ,. affid~vt ,hail b. meat:t~ pe'rjury. and punis~t-d by a fi.1 o not iess ti an $100 lor more than $1. 100, and by confinemientin the peni ientiary for one year. or. in the discre tion of the court. by confiniementin jail tor a period of not less than 30 day, nor mot e than 12 tuonths: Provide'i. furthe-r. That any attempt to erade. thin ct, by agreeing upon any one per son or number of persons, fir the pur oose of making rates for all such insur atnee companies, association or partner -hips. ->r by buying rate books made by any person or persons, shall be deemed a violation of this act and shall be ptunished as herein provided. The comptroller general or other offi cial to whom said companies, associa tions or partnerships are annually re quired to report to this State, shall forthwith revoke and recall the license or authority of such company or com panies, association or associations, part nershiip or p:rtnershps, to do or to transact business in this State, for an., violation of this act. and no renewal o* authority shall be granted to it for three years after such oflitial re voca tion: notice of such revocation to be duly published for one consecutive week ia three or more daily papers published in this State; and fon a viola tion of any of the provisions of tii act by any such company or companies. as soc'ation or associations. oartnership or partnerships. they th111. on conviction thereof pay a fine of not less than 850 it shall be the duty of the attorney general or the solicitors upon his re quest to cause the rnovisions of this act to be- enforced. It shall also be the duty of the comp troller general, or other official now charged ir to be charged with the en forcment of the insurance laws of this State. to require every fire insurance company, associatx:n or partnership do ing a fire insurance business within this State. to file with the annual statement made to him. a state ient duly sworn to by the manager or president ef each company, association or partnershlip, legally admitted in this State, that it has not, in the year intervening between the issue of its last hteense and that ap plied for, violated the conditionsof this act. This act shall be in force from the day of 1900,. and all acts or parts of act inconsistent therewith are hereby re pealed. ________ Four Children Burned. A special dispatch from Dubois, Pa. says: A dwelling house at French Run. 35 miles east of Dubois, belonging to a woodsman named Carlson was burned Friday morning. Carlson was away froim home , bt his wife and five little children were in the house. The moth er was awakened by the noise of crack ling wood,. and had j':t time to grasp he. oaby and jumi: from a second stor-y windonw into the snow. Sh': was then obli-ed t-. -tand and n'aneCss the burn ing to death of her four other little ones .ig-d twelvec. seven, five and two years ARCHER'S LOCAL OTION BILL. The Text of the measure as it Passed the Senate. The Archer bill. a, it passed the a. and as it coies before the llow rea s asf--!!ows: T1 . Nina) b. on-- or fmolrI county - l'ti11:eU fr each county. 1;4. t* (11ea t , f h~- .I a w " e-n ;brd (f coitrlt, but tie Nat of Control n1u1t Li'e con r: ere. more than one uit.pee; can bli-c se in any count%, except I Ila: m Ie couintv of Spartanbure oily o t ri-o.r shall be a, poiited and () .. Wne Q i,5ra shall he e':ablih Sd: ani wien the county board desiaua t s a itt alitv for a dispensary. twenty ua. o' publie notice of which shall be given, it shall be cormpetent for a majo rity o ihe qualified voters of the town 4i;pt in %%hich such di:spensary is to be lo-ated to prevent its location in such tmwush iip by signing a petition or peti tions addressed to the county board, requesting that no 6i-pensary be estab liv'ed in that township. Any county may secure the establish ment of a dispensary or dispensaries, or the removal of a dispensaries, within its limits, in the following manner: U pon the petition of one-fourth of the qualified voters of said county praying for an election upon either the question of the estiblishment or the rt-moval of dispensarics therein being filed with the county supervisor of ea.h county, he shall forthwith order the commissioners of State z nd county elections to hold an election within thirty days, and o. at least twenty-one days' notice in the newsnapers of the c'?unty, submitting the question of -dispensary" or "no dispensary" to the qualified voters of such county, which election shall be condacted as other special elections, and if a majority of the ballots cast be found and declared to be for a dispen sary, then a dispensary may be estab lished in said county, but if a majority of the ballots east be found and de clared to be against the dispensary, then no dispensary shall be established there in. and any dispensary already established shall be closed. Elections under this section can be held not of tener than once in four years. No dispensary shall be establishedin any county. town or city whereii i sale of alcoholic liquors was prohib prior to July 1, 1S93. except as he permitted: Provided, that where di rensaries have been established in ehi county, town or city they shall retraia as established until removed or closed as permitted in this Act. That all Acts oi parts of Acts incon sistent with this Act be, and the same tre hereby, repealed. COST OF PRODUCING COTTON. Facts and Figures Gathered by Gov ernment Officials. Under the supervision of the Statis tician. Hyde, of the department of ag riculture, the cost of growing cotton has been ir ;estigated and the results of the invettigation are to be publish ed within a few days in a pamphlet. This report will show that the average cost of producing an acre of upland cot ton in 189S was S15.42, sub-divided in to the following items: IRent $2.88, plowing $2.81, seeds 21c., planting seed 2Sc., fer. ilizers $1.30, dis tributing fertilizers 16c., chopping and hoeing $1.31, picking $3,37, giuning and pressing $1.02, repairing imple ments 40ic.. all other expenses 41c. It wazs ascertained that the pounds of tint prodced per acre were 255.6 sold. !.ir ; 7e. per pountd; bushels of seed pro d-.tee'l 1G, ptri.'e per bu-hels 11.9c. The ,.tal return to the planter w--s $19 03. .hich gave him a net ptrofit of $3 G1 per' aere. The Cost of picking cot itt icr hundred pounds was 44c., while .C eCost of protducing the lint per potund -a .7cnt.Severalthue -x on ptlanter'. contributed to thle-' tat- ' ano ot the entire nambr re e-uted 20 per cent, reported a loss. are ly due to dhficient productioin. .,wing to drought o- other causes. The sea island cotton costs $21.95 s'er acre, or as av'erage of 11.59e. per poiund and the total return for lint and ,,ied of sea i:.land cotton was $28 65, shbieb gave the planter a net profit of $6.70 per acre. The planters that report a profit in the raising of upland cotton produced 273.9 pounds per acre, while those that repoxted a loss produced only 176 pounds. The effect of the use of fertilizers in the raising of cotton is very distinctly dlisclosed, and the general result is that,' in proportion as the quantity of fertilizers used increased, the profit of raising cotton per acre also increased. It has been discovered in this inves tigation that cotton is produced to a limited cxtent, but at a high rate cf proit, by means of irrigauo su wt erm Tenis and the southiwesterni part o Utah. In Texas irrigation had the <f feet of producing 512.4 pounds of lint per acre, which is 290.3 pounds greater than the average for the whole State. For 1896 many special inquiries were made by a former statistician of the department and the estimated cost of producing lint cotton per pound, in gold, was S.32 cents. One of the rc amarkable revelations is the compara tiv'e cost of marketing cotton in 1840 and in 1897. The comprarison is item ized and shows that in 1S40 it cost $18.15 to market a bale of cotton from Alabama to Li'.erpool. while in 1S97 this cost was S7.S9. MIr. James M. Smith of Columbia. S C. writes: Dear Sir-it &ivn me great pleasure to say tnat tne uid North State Ointment bought of you has entirely cured mc of eczema when everything I had used previously failed to give any relief. It is a great medi cine. and I would not be without it in my house. I use it for almost every thing, where any medicine is needed, and have gotten the best of results every time. Respectfully, James M. Smith. Coldest Ever Known. The oldest inhabitants of the South say that the recent cold spell was the coldest the South has ever kronx~. In msany places in this etioni ont .Monday morning the thermemctto- wais as los as 12 degrees below zero. It went b~elow even in some ptarts of Florida. Greatly Damaged. The Atlanta Journal estimates the damage to the wheat and oat crop of Georgia by the late freeze at one mil lioin dollars. No doubt the damage in South Carolina has been verygreat too. A Fitting Union. Miss MIamie Witless and Henry Folelrwere married in Lincoln county G'a.. last week. Heaven will Isurely smile up~on such a fitting union at that. North Carolina tobacco growers are TOOK MORPHINE. Suicide in Savannah of a Stranger in that City. LEAVES A PATHETIC LETTER. Could Not Stand Poverty. His Farewell M-ssage to the World He Found too Cold. S. T. Bracihfeld was found dead in his room at No. 307 Broughton street, Savannah, Ga., oa Monday, February 23. He had tasen morphine and had been dead for ,oue! time. The liou:.e is a lodging house and is conducted by Charles Collman. About two weeks ago Brachtield avplied fur lodging and was assigned to a room. Even then he waa in a moody and despondent condi tion, and complained frequently of his poverty. He was a stranger in the city, and nothing was known of his past life. He was reticent and gave little infor mation about himself. He said that he had been divorced from his wife, and had three children living. The stranger's efforts to secure work there were unavailing, and he became more and more depressed. Vague hints that he let drop seem to indicate that even then he entertained ideas of sui cide. The last seen of him alive was Saturday night, when he was in Gil dea's place on Broughton street, across from the house in which he was living. On Sunday he did not leave his room, but the people in the house thought he was too poor to buy a meal and kept his room for that reason. He seems to have had an unusual pride and had rupulsed gruffly and indignantly even a hint of charity. Monday morning he did not respond to the knocks on the door of his room, and at 4 o'clock had not been soen, and it was determined to force an entrance. Mrs. Collman's brother, D. Schwartz, and S. Marcus broke in the door and found the body of Brachfield lying on the bad. He had removed his shoes, but was otherwise fully dressed. Cla-ped to his breast was a picture of his child, from which his fingers could scarcely be -(,leased. On the mantel was the bottle Lhat had contained the morphine with which he had ended his life. On the table was a letter which the dead man had written, giving his reasons for sui cide. The letter was written in He brew, bat concluded with a few words of English. The following is the let ter: "I pray that I may receive a Jewish burial. "The last request of one to whom life is so burdensome that he takes his own life. "To whom do I write this? I don't know. Who is a friend to me? I don't know. Who in these days has any feeling for a fellow being? I don't know. Who can or may do me justice? Nobody. Every one will say, what do I care for him?-nothing at all. What did he take his life for? He must have been crazy and did not know how to take the world; let him go. "They ar-e truly in the right; they understan~d well. I really did not know how to take the world. I have observed people who have no kind feel ings. and who do no: know what hu manity is. prosper in the world. They are happy; they have plenty to eat, and do as they please. When they arc hard up they apply to societies and ask for what they want without any feeling o'f shamie. I think they are right, and if I had been like themi I might have aived to oid ace. But I canu't do it, 1 ean't do it, I can't do it; I cannot live .1-:pending u:.. oth'ers. I do not neeo to be excused. I always believed. ano believe yet, that it were better to steal tha in to be. 'Iam tired of this world. I can'm "ear any more. I am alone to blame fo'r all that ha, driven mec to my deatn I v-an not even blauwe my parents, thoug; :zad they been more wise than pious, I migtht niot have been brought to this. end. But I can't blame them, for the.y did what they thought was for my best *Farewell, my friends. Farewell my unfortunate children. I wish that you n:ay be more fortunate than your unhappy father. I am unhappy. I am oif no good to myself nor others. I have no object in life. Then why should [ prolong suffering? God! God! God! I know that it is wrong to take one's own life; I cannot help myself, and I do not believe that you will visit punishment on me, for what you know too well I cannot help. "S. Brachfeld." The style and contents of the letter. though it abounds in repetitions and wild expression natural to one in Brach feld's condition, indicate, nevertheless, a man of considerable feeling and edu cation. It expresses well the condi tion of perfect desponbency and of utter and absolute despair, that the unfor tua-ite man must hav-e been in, when he :eok his ewn life. R.ailrcad Accident. A construction train on the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad was completely wrecked by the spre ading of the tracks about fifteen miles of Char leston on last Tuesday. Tiwo men were killed. eight were more or les seriously injured. The engine had gone out of' Charleston with a crew of five :;., a c.:r: ied five others, who were ii the employ of the long distance Bell Telk phone company. now constructing lines bet ween Charleston and Augusta. When eleven miles out the engine fifseenng on a stroight track at about ffenmiles speed. Without a mo ment's notice the track spread and the engine was thrown into a ditch. With one exception the men who had been on it were caught under it. TIlE DEA.. M1. B. Jackson of Atlanta. telephone employee. Fred B. Fobbes. of Ypsilante, M1ichi gan, a telephone employee. He leaves a n idow. W\. R. Ether!Je oft .. en, in-:wnal'y injuri h' 2 hmy die. i: :0 in A ugusta, Ga.. cut and bIeen dout body and face. \z. IF. Wells of Atlanta, bruised about the body. Conductor Edward Coughman, frac tured collar-bone. W. D. M1ormian, engineer, dislocated shoulder, fractured collar-bone. J. E. Clark. fireman, wounds on hand and head and legs. John D)oyle, brakemar, legs mashed. MIr. M1ulligan was the only or.e of the entire party who wasi not caught under the engine. Hie assisted the other men to escape from their perilous pt sition. Another train that was due at the 11 mile post was flagged before itran into wreck, and from it assistance was obtained from the city. During the atfternioorn all the wounded men were brought here and cared for. They are all doing as well as could be expected. ALL IN ONE YEAR. The Changes That Have Taken Place in that Time. Oneyea a:. \edne:-day the t l'itt-ii Sates batteICiip Maine. Capt. C. ). Sigsbee. lay at anchor in Ifavana harbor. o; po ite 31orro Castie from w hie..c turret floated the Spanish flag F;'zhuh I'e. former najor general in ti 'thifiteat armv. un.is Consul gel trai lor ii.- Uni; d States in Cuba, and .\iarba-l:;l 10a:ci If SpAin was governor general Of the i-land. Toda% ihe United sian s ba Telship Texas. C!ajpt. C. 1). S:be. ie-s at ancior in flavana har hor. oppit M orro Castle. whence the Ani-ricajn fli floats in t lie breeze; Fitz hugh i-e, oejir general. United States armyv. i- gve.nr of HIavana provivce, aid Mlaj. 6in. J. I Brooke. U. S A., is governor gt-eral of Cuba. In the foul waters of the harbor lies the twi-ted fran: 4 the shattered 3aine, aiid iu the C(ilon eemletery repowe the boues Of near thr..e lindred of the crew that iannedi her. In this contrast lies the stiory of a w-nd: rf'ul year. The Maine has been remembered and Spain has departedi firever from the Western Continent. From February 15th. 1898, to the sanie date in the present year, events moved with great rapidity, though at times they seemed to the im - patient to drag slothfully along. The terrible shock which the whole country received with the news of the Maine's destruction. will not lie forgotten soon. .or the tense strain of the weeks when the court of inquiry was studying the causes of the disaster. The American people, wrought through half a century by the sufferings of Cuba, were carried to frenzy by the foul destruction of the Maine, and they were barely held in momentLary check from springing at the throat of Spain. The exciting period of debate in Congress is well reniem bcred; the piesident's strong effort to turn back the tide of war. or.o del.'y its encroachments for a time: the retreat forced upon him, the final swell, over whelming all conservative regard, and then war. The rest was hurry and ac tion. less harrowing than the waiting and preparation. A short and brilliant war, a complete victory for the Ameri can arms. an empire lost to Spain, and a new leaf turned in the history of the world. All this since that awful Feb ruary night in Havana harbor when the Maine was shattered and her brave crew sent to their doom. In Havana today. memorial services are being held over the graves of the sleeping victims of the Maine. Their fate has been avenged. The red and yellow flag which flaunted in derision at the wreck of the proud ship, is no more in evi dence. The Spanish warships that saw the red flames leap from the Maine on that fateful night or came later to view the charred and wrecked frame of the great ship, are now in Spanish harbors or rusting on Cuban beachcs. The American flag floats over Cuba, and the conditions, which made possible the crime of Fcbruary 15, are ended forev er.-Charleston Post. CAPIURE OF ILOILO. How the United States Troops Cap tured the City. Particulars of the capture of Iloilo by the United States forces under Brig. Gen. Miller, on Saturday last, have been received. On the morning of Fri day, Feb. 10, Gen. Miller sent an ulti matumn to the commander of the rebels oft.shore, notifying hiin that it was his intention to take Iloilo, by force if nec essary. Noncombatants and foreign i'rs were warned to leave the town with in 2. hours. The rebels were also warned that they must make no fur ther belligerent preparations. The 2unboat Petrel was then moved to a puosition elo.-e in shore and near the reb el fort, while the cruiser Boston took up her station at the other end of th< iiw n. Friday passed quietly. During the may many re-fuges left the town of ILo 1o. Tne majotrity of them were taket .n board foreign stmips lying in the bar "ur. Searchlights from the Unitee States warships were kept all nigh. long illuminating the town and its de fenses. The rebcels, so far as the look iuts on the ships could discover, re mained quiescent throughout the day. At 8 o'clock on the morning of Satur day, Feb. 11, the gunboat Petrel sig called tohthe cruiser Boston that the rebels were working in their trenches. In return the Petrel was ordered to fire warning shots upon the town from het three pounders, Thir was done, and the rebels replied with a hanuless fu silade. The Boston and Petrel then bombarded the rebels' trenches, com pletely clearing them of their occupants in a very short time. Soon after the bombardment begat flames broke out simultaneously in va rious parts of the town. Thereupon 4S marines, acting as infantry and artillery. were landed from the Boston, and a company was sent ashore from the Pe trel. These detachments marched straight into the town of Iloilo, and hoisting the Stars and Stripes over the fort. took possession in the name of the United States. The capture of the town a:. d its defenses having been ac comptlished. the .marines and soldiers who had been sent ashore proceeded to cave the American, English and Ger man consulates froma destruction by the tire which was raging anxong the in flammable buildings of the town. The Swiss consul's residence. which was in the s:ine row as the consulates named. was burned, but foreign mercantile property escaped with slight damage. There was some desultory firing by the enemy in the outskirts of Iloilo, but not a single Americani was injured. Gen. Miller's fotrce had complete con trol of the situation when the Petrel sailed fromt Iloilo for Manila. The Sixth U. . artillery regiment occu pied a position commianding tioth the bridges Leading into the town. and the '1e nne=see volunteers and the Eigh teenth l' .infantry were occupying the irc es that had been constructed Coldest on Record. A dispuatch from Chicago says not since 1872 has Chicago experienced such intense cold as that which pre vailed Wednesday. The lowest notch reached since the establishment of the weather bureau in Chicago was 23 be low. At 11 o'clock Wednesday night it was 19) below. Reports from points in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois show tempecratures ra nging from 16 to 34 de grees below zero, the latter at LaCrosse, Wis. There is much suffering in the interior towns among poor people. Atlanta in Luck. Andrew 'arnegie has offered the city of Atlanta S100,000 for a free public library. Mr. Carnegie makes his offer conditional to the extent that Atlanta shall furnish the site and appropriatc 85.000 Thursday for the maintenance of the library. Mr. Carnegie recently gave $100,000 to the city of Washing ton for a public library. ABSOUTELY Pi Makes the food more deli ROYAL DAVJNG POwE1 S TRANGE STORIES. Derelicts in Australia Who Pre ceded Louis de Rougement. AN ESCAPED CONVICT. White Men Who Had Lived So Long Among the Savages that they Had Forgotten Their Native Language. The meteoric appearance or Louis ce Rougemont, with a marvelous story of hitherto unheard-of adventures during an alleged residence of some thirty years with the blacks of Northern Aus tralia, revives recollections of the "wild white men" that from time to time have fallen into the hands of the un civilized Australian aborigines and been restored to white humanity after long years of separation and degrada tion. The first recorded wild white man was William Buckley, a native of Mac clesfield. and at the close of the last century a soldier in the 4th, or King's Own, Regiment. On December 24, 1802, in company with six other soldieri, he was involved in an attempt on the life of the Duke of Kent. He was sen tenced to transportation for life and taken out in a convict-ship to the An tipodes. During a brief stay at the head of what is now the harbor of 'Mel bourne he contrived to escape in com pany with two other convicts. The latter perished-how was never ascer tained-and when Buckley was subse quently questioned as to their fate he was exceedingly reticent and discon certed. That it was a case of cannibal ism was the general belief of the early settlers around Mel bourne. Anyhow, in the last stages of hunger and privation, Buckley lay down upon what proved to be the grave of a recently buried chief. Luckily for him the widow came along, and superstitiously concluded that her dear departed had returned to life in the shape of a white man. She prompt ly annexed him as her own, led him to the camp of the blacks, exclaimed the circumstances under which she had found him, and secured his admission as a chief of the tribe, a position for which he was physically well qualified, as he was a man of great stature (6 feet 7 inches), strength and endurance. For the next thirty-two years Buck ley led the life of a savage, hunting, fishing, and fighting with the tribe that adopted him. It was on July 12, 1835, that he saw a'white face for the first time after the lapse of more than thirty years. On that day the pioneers of the city of Melbourne landed from their little schooner, and Buckley advanced to meet them. He had by this time be come but little superior to the savages around him, but the newcomers noticed the comparatively light color of his skin. He tried to summon up some English words from the depths of his memory, and at last succeeded in'ar ticulating the word "bread." He made himself very useful as an interpreter between the new white settlers and the blacks, and when his story reached London, the imperial authorities mag nanimously drew the sponge over his offence and sent him a free pardon. He enjoyed a small pension in his later years, and lived until February 2, 1856, when he was thrown out of a cart and killed in his seventy-sixth year. The site of the present town of Geelong, about forty miles from Melbourne, was the headquarters of the tribe to which Buckley was attached during his three decades of savage life. Three miles from Geelong there is still shown a cave in a river gorge where he is said to have resided, and the adjacent rap ids continue to perpetuate his name as Buckley's Falls. James Morrill, a native of Maldon, Essex, was the sole survivor of the shipwreck of the bark Peruvian, that struck on a reef off theQ northeastern coast of Queensland on March S, 1846. He lived with the Queensland blacks until his rescue in February, 1863. An other shipwreck sailor, John Renton by name, was with the Queensland blacks for an even longer period, twenty years. The story of a little cabin-boy named Narcisse Pierre Pellatier ought to have attracted the attention of the boys' novelists long before now. He en gaged as cabin boy on the St. Paul, bound from China to Australia with 350 Chinese emigrants. She also struck on a reef off the northeastern coast of Queensland. Officers and crew got away in the boats, not troubling them selves about the Chinese passengers, and in their hurry forgetting the little cabin boy, who was subsequently found by the blacks in a dying condition in a cranny among the rocks. They nursed him back to life, fed him, treat ed him well, and, in fact, made him the pet of the tribe. Nearly all the Chinese passengers were captured by the blacks and eaten up two at a time. The flesh of a Chinaman is esteemed a great deli acy by the cannibal blacks of Queens land. From the point of view of a can ibal, a vegetarian is vastly superior to a meat-eater. Little Pellatier lived with the blacks for seventeen years, and was rescued by a British ship, the John Bell, on April 11, 1875. Aluminum Instead of Linen. Collars, Cuffs, shirt-fronts and like rticles usually made of linen are be ng made of aluminum, coated with hite Japanese varnish, *en which de signs in imitation of weaving and sew ng are marked. 4c Cotton Makes 4::. ?cices. Not o-ly on Provisions. Clo'thing. Furniture and all the a:-tual necssaries f living, but as well oin things apper aining tz our enjoyment and culture. This is specially true as to Pianos and Organs. Wise 3Manufacturers realize that in these close times prices must be exceedingly low, and they are meet ing the emergency. Notice the latest advertisement of Ludden & Baites Southern M1usic [House. Savannah. Ga:.. in this issue, and write themi for their Four Cents Prices. This is a wide awake never-get- left ana thoroughly reliable house. whose offers always mean just what they say. It costs nothing to write Ludden & Bates for atalogues, Prices and Easy Install ment Terms, which they send with cious and wholesome I CO., NEW vORK. GIP'S LIVELY EXPERIENCES. A Renarkabl b Dog and Some Incidents of: Ili% !Itsy Life. There is a smll m: nanied Gyp liv Ing at llaseys. N. J.. and belonging to Jacob Storms. that has had at one time and nuother a lot of lively ex periences; perhaps not as any dog in Ramsey's. (yp's irst experience was with a passing freight train, which threw him for a considerable aistance. He was picked up for dead, but found to be alive after all. No bones had been broken. and, carefully treated. it wasn't very long before he was around again. With another dog much bigger than himself Gyp was playing one day in a shop that took fire. Not much dam age was done by fire, but the shop was filled for a time withsuffocatingsmoke. The big dog was found later lying on a bench dead; Gyp, down on the floor, off in one corner by a knothole, with his nose to the opening. living. Later Gyp fell out of a second-story window of a barn and sprained one of his hind legs. Lying in the road one day. and of about the same color as the dust, he was run over by a team, and one of his forelegs was broken. It was set and done up in sprints, and In due time It healed all right and Gyp went about with sound legs again. Gyp's most recent lively experience was with muskrats. He is a great ratter, and he has the pluck and grit of a bulldog, but muskrats were just a little bit too much for him. They bit him and tore him and scratched him and used him up very badly, and poor Gyp had to be carried home In a wheelbarrow. It was thought at first that the right thing to do would be to chloroform him to put him out of his misery, that he couldn't live: but when it was considered what he had lived through before it was thought that he might come out all right even from this: and Gyp has justified this expec tation. ITe is around to-day as lively as ever. and as sound. barring his teeth and his tail. He has lost nearly all his teeth, and the few he has left are loose; and for a tail he has but a stump of a few inches, the rest was gone when he came to Ramsey's. It Is be lieved that Gyp lost his tail by some lively experience, and that he has had other vicissitudes besides those record ed; but this is only an account of what has happened to him since he has be longed to his present owner. FOR THE FESTIVE PARISIAN. Uumanageable Charges to Ile Comfortably Conveyed to Their Destination. A brilliant idea has struck the police authorities in Paris. From this day forward vehicles specially constructed for the conveyance of festive persons whom an excess of Iced but strong drinks, added to the effects of a trop Ical sun, has brought to the verge of physical collapse will be provided for use dt all the police stations In this city. Some of these new carriages are already In view. The vehicles are built on two wheels, and very much after the pattern of the coster's cart, save that they are lower, narrower and longer. The passenger to be con veyed will be placed on the barrow, and securely kept on by a belt which is attached to the sides of the vehicle. It is confidently believed that the new cart will prove comfortambly for those who travel in it, and will make it an easier matter for the police officials to conrey unmanageable charges to their destination. "One more person drunk in a wheel barrow," will In future be a familiar phrase here, and the Parisian street urchin may be expected thus uncon sciously to take a leaf from the books of Captian Marryat. Dan;gerous Smells. Some smells are dangerous. A single sniff of highly concentrated prussic acid will kill a man as quickly as a shot through the heart. The odor of a bad egg is due to the presence of sulphuretted hydrogen, and the objectionable perfumes of sewer and bone factories are attributed chief ly to the same gas. Chemical labatories are famous for bad smells. Berzelius, who discovered the element called "selenium," once tried the experiment of permitting a bubble of purehydrogen selenide gas to enter his nostril. For days after ward he was not able to smell strong ammonia. the olfactory nerves being temporarily paralyzed. Selenium gas has the odor of putrid horse-radish. Tellurium is even worse. T here is a story of a physician whose patient, a lady, refused to take an ab solutely necessary rest because she was so fond of being always on the go in society. He gave her a pill con taining a small quantity of tellium, and her breath was affected by it to such an extent that she was not able to appear In public for a month. She never guessed wlit the trouble was. The volatized essential oil of roses Is supposed to cause "rose cold." This peculiar complaint is so far nervous In its character that paper roses Impreg nated with this oil sometImes excite the trouble. Newspapers in the World. A statistician has learned that the annual aggregate circulation of the napers of tile world is calculated to be 12.000.000,000 copies. To grasp an idea of this magnitude we may state that it would cover no fewer than 10.450 square miles of surface; that it is print ed on TS1.:250 tons of paper, and, fur ther, that if the number, 12.000,000.000,, represented. instead of copies, seconds. it would take over 333 years for them to elapse. In lieu of this arrangement we might press and pile them vertically upward till gradually reaching our highest mountains. Topping all these, and even the highest Alps, the pile would reach the magnificent altitude of 4930 miles, or, in round numbers, 500 mIles. Calcula.ing that the average man spends five minutes reading his paper in the day (this is a very low estimate). we find that the people of the world altogether occupy time equivalent to 100,000 years reading the papers. Animal Instinct. The moment that a yourng crco dle breaks its shell It is to all intents and purposes as active as it Is at any ime during its life. It will make straight for the water, even if it be out of sight and a good distance off, and It will pursue its prey with eager ness and agility during the first hour -f its free existence. Cattle and Sheep Killed. The estimate of losses to the cattle and sheep interests caused b~y the re cent storms in ('olorado made by State Veternarian Charles Gresswell. reports a total of 8200 0)00. covering 4,200 head of! cattle and 47.500 head of sheep A large number of sheep and cattle were killed in Wyoming and northern New Mlexico at the samne time. but MIr. G ress well has no data from which to base an estimate. The whole country from M1aine to Florida and from the Atlantic to the Pacific is frozen hard. So we have plenty of company in our struggl-s to THE RETIRED BURGLAR. HiL Dflficulties on Once More Taking Up The Ordinary Ways of Lfe. "For a long time after I had given :business." said the retired burglar, -lh:'Al great difdicuity in accommodat iig mnyself to the ordinary conditions of lift,. "Thre were soine curious things about this that mi;;ht never occur to rou at all. For inst-ince, in those days, if I conie home latf at night, that is, at the hour at which formerly I had zne into other peop%1es houses, I never went in at my own front door; I used to go in at a cellar window. And then I ma le it easy for myself. too,. When I lwked up the cellar nights I used to lave aa cellar window unfastened so tiat it was perfectly easy for me to *'But one night. or one morning ra'ther. about 2 o'clock, when I got ar'o'l to that window. I found it as.tened. and I know well enough what iiad happened. My wife had a per Ceet horror of btirglars. and I knew she must have been around the celiar after me and soon the window unfastened Id turnod the buttons. But that was no iipedimeint to me; it made me laugh to myself to think how easy it was, and I opened the window and id in as usual. "Besides having a horror of burglars Py wife was great on pickles and pre erves and jellies and that sort of thing. which she used to put up her elf aind keep down cellar on a hang ing shelf, consisting of a nice broad plank suspended by side pieces nailed o the floor beams overhead. I don't know how I did it-as a general thing we never do know how we come to do things-but when I slid In that night got turned in some way so that I was in danger of faling, and I threw >ut my arm instinctively to save my elf and my hand touched the end of that shelf-and 'naturally enough it 2losed over the board. And the sport >f it was that I yanked that end of the shelf free from its support and pulled it down, and the bottles and lars went slam-scattering down on the :ellar bottom-and I went down among em. The upshot of that experience was that I stayed in the house six weeks to repair damages, and as a matter of fact that aid- more to bring me back o the ways of other people than any :hing else. I was half helpless at first, Ind I gradually became accustomed to the habits of the house. By the time I was able to go out again, indeed, I and quite fallen Into the ordinary ways and hours of living. I got up when ather people did and came in early nights, and came in with a night key instead of a jimmy, just as natural as could be." Snal,; Are in Favor in France. The stories about the Frenchmen eating snails are believed by ma'y people to have no foundation in fact, but snails are eaten and to a very con siderable extent in France. Nearly 100.000 pounds weight of snails are sold daily In Paris markets to be eaten by dwellers in that city. They are carefully reared for the purpose in ex tensive snail gardens in the provinces and fed on aromatic herbs to give them 3 fine flavor. One such garden in Di jon is said to bring in to its proprietor several thousand francs a year. Many Swiss cantons also contain large snail gardens, where they are reared with great pains. They are not, nly regarded as a great delicacy, but are considered very nutritous. Hy ienists state that they contain 17 per :ent. nitrogenous matter and that they are equal to oysters in nutritive prop arties. Snails are also extensively used as an article of food in Australia, SpaiAl Italy Efnd Egypt and tne countries on lie African side of the Mediterranean. Indeed, the habit of snains as food has existed in various parts of Europe for many centuries. D~sease1 of the Memory. Writing of diseases of the memory, a ussian doctor gives an interesting account of some of the eccentricities f his patients. In the case of a literary man. some time previous to his seeking advice he had been troubled with an absolute failure of memory. He could remember exactly every thing he had done more than a year ago, but occurrences of later date he had entirely forgotten. When attack ed by the disease he was engaged in writing a novel, ivhich he had half inished. He remembered the first half but could not tell how he had intended to finish it. He was at last unable to remember whether he had In another case the patient tells of his travels, but reports the tales a dozen times an hour, with the same phrases. He would play a game of cards carefully and well; five minutes afterward he would mention that he ad not played for weeks. He wouild say "Good morniny," when the doctor made his iirst visit of the day, but did not remembe~)r the visit three minutes later, if the doctor again looked in. P'opular Itolefs. The research into popular beliefs is an absorbing and not a pronitlessstudy. Scarcely a day passes that we do not run across some piece of superstition that dates, inl one form or another, from a far antiquity. Salt Is spilled at table. and we jest with our neighbor over the prospect of a quarrel, half believing in the? sign, though we may nt know tant the Itomans did the sae.A dog howls at night, and we - reall the widespread belief that the hwling of the dog foretells death, but forget that our early Aryan ancestors assigned to the dog the officer of mes senger from the world of spirits. The every-day custom is as old as humanity; the rursery jingle may be traced back to an origin in the world's babyhood; the familiar tairy tale whi'ch delights nineteenth century chil dren is found in varying forms In all countries, pointing to a common origin in a remote age, embodying old Aryan myths, and giving us interesting in formation of the conceptions of our ancestors regarding nature and human Eu;" For Albumen Paper. More than 3.000.000 eggs are used every year in this country for making the albumen paper that is used in potographs. Water Dearer Than Champagne. Speaking at a meeting of the London orporation, Mr. Miller said that owIng to the system of the water companies of charging for water upon the ratable value of premises instead of for the quantity used, water in Newgate street, where he had premises, was dearer than champagne. The Dromedary's Hump. The hump on the back of the drome dary is an accumulation of a peculiar speies of fat, which Is a store of nour ishment beneficently provided against the day of want, to which the animal is often exposed. We A11 Know Him. The man who has a most exasperat ing laugh is the man who laughs the longest arnd the loudest. It must be a great joke to him to think of the misery be is inflicting upon humanity. Book of Marble. At the Srozzi palace, in Rome, there is a book made of marble, the leaves bing o 2arvelous8 thinness. A gir can't be in love and have a