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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-10
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
They Furnish the Excuse for Q Novel
Enterprise

- 0ttD0
There Is a peculiar industry in
Gotham which has grown to aston
fshing proportions. This is the
business Of furnishing newspaper
clippings to individuals, firms and
corporations. There are half q
dozen of these concerns in New
York, which supply customers, not
only In the United States, but in all
parts of the world. One of these
newspaper clipping bureaus received
an order the other day from the
Hawaiian government to send Presi-
dent Dole all the notices, editorials,
cartoons and other published matter
regarding Hawaii, it's government
and its affairs. This is n of the
largest orders ever received by a
clipping bureau, and it will require
the labor ofhalf a dozen bright young
women to cull the clippings from the
newspapers to fill this order. Every
prominent author, actor, politician
and professional man is now a sub
scriber to one or more of the clipping
bureaus, and a busy man finds the
system very convenient, for he is
enabled, as it were, to read his news
papers by proxy.
The manager of q New York clip
ping bureau, in speaking of the pc
culiaritias of his business, said:
MANY of our customers are folks
with fads and hobbies. A mar sent
US an order recently for all items
about two-headed calves, three
legged chickens and other mon
stEosities. A leading politician
evdered one hundred Memorial day
addresses, from which he could com
pile a Fourth of July GRAFTON which
he had engaged to deliver. Society
bellies are beginning to make scrap
books Of their newspaper notices,
and the custom will doubtless be-
come a regular social fad in time.
The wives of public men are among
the best patrons of the clipping
bureaus. About the strangest order
we have is that of a dealer in tomb
stones and monuments. He takes all
the death notices."-N. Y. CONNER
cia1 Advertiser.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-10
A RELIC OF BAR9AR,SE.
Belief in Remedial Qualities of Part
of the Human BODY.

VI Tx t4GiiioH oOOY.
That belief the Chinese have In
the remedial qualities Of substances
forming o part of tho human body
seems to be irradicable, says the
New York Times. Thinking that
Europeans still held the same silly
ideas led as rnuct. as anything else
to the Tien-Tsin massacres of
twenty-five years ago. Prehistoric
man drank from a human skull, be-
lieving that the uncanny goblet had
a certain potency.
Not so long ago the skull Of a
suicide " used in Caithness as a
drinking-cup for the cure Of
epilepsy. Cases have been cited
where supcrstitious people, within
the last thirty years, have dug up
BODIES so as to possess themselves of
skulls for the same purpose. AS
late as 1878 in the official pharma-
copeia of the London College of
Physicians mention is made of the
skull "of a man who had died a
violent DEATH" For centuries in the
past, for the manufacture of certain
quack nostrums, notably an ONT
ment, ground skulls were used. The
medical books of Nuremberg of two
hundred years ago also cite mumia-
or the embalmed flesh Of mummies
AS a sovereign cure for certain
diseases. The Egyptian mummy was
a specific for one malady, the Ten
eriffe mummy for another.
Excluding all the other strange
substances employed In early medi-
cine, there is a trace of cannibalism
in the use of these mummied sub
stances. It has been shown that
cannibalism does not arise in ali
cases from hunger, but that to cot
human flesh is a religious rite and
favored by the gods. In some re-
mote manner 1t has something,to do
with sacrifice. Describing super
stitions the fact is cited that to-day
Irish peasants use skulls to hold
water il under the belief that the
water thus becomes curative.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-10
Freshest News.

Mr.. Joseph Willard, for a long time
clerk of the superior court of Massa-
chusetts in Boston, relates in his HALF
a Century with Judges and Lawyers"
many good anecdotes.
Col. Edward G. Parker, who was
rather pedantic, wrote a life of Mr..
Choate. He was relating an incident
which happened in the third century
before Christ, about the time of the
death of Ptolemy Ill. and he appealed
to John S. Holmes, who stood by.
Didn't he die about that time, John?~
who's that that's dead?" asked
Holmes.
"Ptolcny ILL.," said Parker.
What! What!" said Holmes, stretch
ing ont his hands. You don't say he'a
dead!''
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-10
EGYPT,
n Curious Semi-IseliEious Custom
SOuthern GoorriS.

XIV S"tiifiheiiEtou Custom In
Southern Gcorsja.
lyon pretend to know enough to
come to congress from Georgia. re-
torted the colonel, disgustedly, land
don't know what walking Egypt Is?
We'll, it's a grand Indian file pro-
cession to which the colored a gives
way once a year in its churches. They
lift up their voices in a horrible wall.
the congregation does, and suddenly a
negro jumps up in the aisle.
Next a sister jumps up. She places
her hands on his shoulders, and there
they stand jumping up and down,
stiflsnced, like you've seen sheep When.
feeling festive.
"Us1ally these two are a misft-he a
small, runty little fellow, she a big.
strapping wcnch.
THE singing on. Others get
up until the whole congregation is in
procession, hands forward resting on
the shoulders in front, like u lot of PEN
ftentiary people going to dinner.
keeping a jerl1y time to the moan
ing, the procession, like a long, black
centipede, jumps and jerks its wa up
one aisle, down another" says the
Washington Post, until their religious
fervor has cooled.
That's walking Egypt and L sup
pose tho rite was imported from
Guinea two hundred years ago."
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-10
Not What He Expected.

Convalescent-I was surprised,
sir, at the amount of your bill.
Physician-Why, I thought 1 made
1t pretty small, considering the
length and serious nature Of your
sickness.
Convalescent-You did, sir. Al
l was going to say, the bill seemed
to me quite reasonable.-Somer
vile Journal.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-10

Adam Smith, the author of the
wealth of Nations" regarded his
book with the genuine love Of an au.
ehor. He was often seen reading II
nth apparent satisfaptioH I'D.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-10

It is very certain, says the
Richmond Dispatch, that the to-
bacco crop in Virginia has been
greatly curtailed, first, by the
drought, and then by the frost.
A large part of the to bacco which
was sta nding in the fields on
Tuesday morning was ''bitten,"
and will be hardly worth cutting,
since it can only be marketed at
very low rates.
A portrait of General Washing
ton. said to have been painted by
Gilbert Stuart, and stolen nearly
a century ago, has been found on
the Isle of Man, by William A.
Shaw, of Philadelphia. The por-
trait is a replica in oil Of the
Lansdowe portrait, a full-length
painting, now owned by Lore
Rosebery, and is said to be in &
fine state representation.
The New York police have
found anthony and arsenic il
the carpet of the room occupied
by Mrs. Mary A. Fleming, &C.
cused of poisoning Mrs. Eveline
NJ. Bliss. In their pursuit OF
evidence they not only search
ed the room carefully, but took
up the carpet and shook it, with
the excellent result stated,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
| THE POLICE RET|REMENTS
Captains Douglass and Stone
Making a Strong Fight
to Stay.
Excitem emit In the Department Over
Probable Promotions and
Appointments.

The excitement in police circles over the
removals, promotions and appointments
in the near future is steadily on the in
crease.
1t is understood that the promotion of
sergeants to lieutenants and patrolmen to
sergeants and detectives has been left en-
tirely in the hands of Chief Crowley and
nothing definite will be known as to the
lucky ones until probably the next meet
ing Of the Commissioners on July 10.
1t was looked upon as foregone con-
clusion from expressions dropped by the
Commissioners that Sergeants Gillen and
Whitman would I'LL the VACANCIES caused
by the retirement of Captains Short and
Douglass, but nothing was said as to
the City Prison or who would be the ad-
ditional captain for the new district.
Within the past few days something has
oc curred to show that at least one of the
captains, whose retirement is requested on
July 20, does not intend to comply with
the order if he can avoid it. In other
words, that he is brin ging all the pressure
he can upon the Commissioners to have the
request withdrawn.
In view of Captain Douglass retirement
the men in his division formed commit
tee to get up a suitable testimonial. The
work was started, but was as suddenly
stopped. Then it became generally known
that the captain was making desperate
fight to stay, and it would be time enough
to recommence the work of getting up the
testimonial after it was definitely known
whether he would have to quit.
1t is said that the captains strong plea is
that Captain Dunlevy has been retained,
but Captain Dunlevy was not asked to re-
tire.
1t is also said that Captain Stone is max
ing quiet but none the less strong, fight
to retain his position.
What success will attend their efforts
remains to be seen. Commissioner Gunst
has gone to New York, and the opinion is
general that everything was settled before
his departure as to the retirements and
those who are to fill the vacancies.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
A VICTORY FOR COAL MEN,
End of Famous Patent Hop
per Litigation involving
Thousands.
The Appellate Court Decides In Fa-
vor Of the Oregon Improvement
Company.

On last Thursday the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals rendered very i'm
portant decision bearing on the coal COM
panies doing business in the City. The
title of the suit was the Excelsior Coal
Company versus the Oregon Improvement
Company, and the judgment of the higher
court ended litigation of eight years.
The Chronicle stated that the decision was
in favor of the plaintiff, and the coal men
have been considerably exercised over the
report. This was a mistake, the decision
being entirely in favor of the Oregon I'm
provement Company, and virtually
knocked out all patent rights of the Rob-
erts' hopper.
John L. Howard, manager of the Oregon
Improvement Company, was asked yester-
day what effect the decision would have on
coal companies, and then it was learned,
for the first time, that the decision was in
favor of the coal men. Had it been other
wise it would have meant the loss of
thousands of dollars to the Oregon I'M
provement Company, the Black Diamond
Company, ]. Rosenfeld S Sons and A. Duns-
muir e. Sons.
Martha r. Roberts held a patent for
many years on coal-hopper which had to
be used by all coal importers, who paid
handsome tribute to the inventor. When
Mr.. Howard came here in 1891 to take the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
HOW BRODER|CK FIGURES.
Claims Neat Surplus l.
Possible After the Bills
Are Paid.
THE OLD FISCAL YEAR Is DONE.
The Fortunes 1t Has Made and the
Trouble 1t Has Caused Are
All History.

The prodigal and anxious - prodigal
and then anxious old fiscal year is bit of
history now.
1t ended on Saturday. To-day is a
breathing spell. Tomorrow the long
looked-forward-to future becomes the more
easy going present-the beginning of the
next fiscal year.
70 be sure the work of the old year is
not all done. Very many transactions
have to be rounded up and the bills of this
last month especially have to be figured
out and provided for before the history is
completed. Still nothing more of mischief
can be done in the old year than has been
done. and it only remains to cast up the
accounts.
1t has been already related how Auditor
Frederick gave it as his opinion that there
will be no deficit in the finances, that is to
say that there will be money enough to
meet all bills save the hold-over salary de-
mands, provision for which must be made
IN the tax levy. He draws his conclusions
from the reports of the several institutions
made to him, as well as from his own
knowledge of the status of the city's reve-
nues. From these he has figured it out
as follows:
Demands to June 80, estimated yet to come in.
audited June 27; '
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

MIA and arrived in 1859, locating at once in
Michigan Bluff, Placer County, where
they engaged successfully in the general
merchandising business.
In 1860 he came to San Francisco and en-.
gagged in the study of law under the firm
of Wade & Buchanan.
After varied pursuits he drifted into the
real estate business and purchased tract
of land in Castroville. He was afterward
known by the cognomen of "Town
Builder" having in one year, under the
of which he was the founder and manager,
built and sold 300 houses, and during his
connection with this association he erected
1900 dwellings, disposing of them upon his
system of installment plan. In 1878 1.-THE
Real Estate Associates" became financially
embarrassed and failed. from the shock OF
which be nevery fully recovered, though
he engaged in large transactions there
after.
In 1861 he married the daughter (Sarah)
of DR.. Kimball Favor of Placer County, by
son, who is married, and daughter, single,
and these, together with the widow and 9
host of friends, he leaves to mourn his sad
taking off.
Mr.. Hollis died suddenly at his resi-
dence, 1.-THE Renton," 712 Suffer street. this
City, on the evening of June "a, of apo
plexy, after only four hours sickness.
His funeral was from the Masonic Tenn
pie, under the auspices of Oriental Lodge
No. IA, r. and A. NJ. The impressive ser
vices according to the masonic ritual were
quaintances, as well as his masonic breth-
rem, the family and officers of the Placer
County Association, OF which he was treas
tlrer
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

back cover extending aft. In fact it is
hard to tell whether she is of the whale or
turtle species.
II is at the bow where she differs most
from the Everett, whose under sloping
stem points up in the air like a sled run
ner. The English craft has the decidedly
English cut. stem perpendicular from the
forefoot to the highest point. She has an
entire double bottom on the cellular sys-
tenn, and with specially subdivided tanks
at the after end, so that without any dan
ger to the vessel water can be admitted for
ballast when the consumption OF coal
lightens the steamer. The large turret
gives ample space for the accommodation
of the crew.
The Progressist is of 500 tons burden
and is one of the nine vessels Of the type
built in England. Her trip from Sunder-
land was uneyentful, having with the ex-
ception of few days calm weather all the
voyage. She will go in the coal and gen.
eral freight business on this coast.
The bark Margaret went to sea yesterday
and came back to port again under peculiar
circumstances. After the tug had cast of
outside the heads all hands were called to
make sail, but they failed to spring aloft
on the dizzy yard with that cheerful
alacrity SO characteristic of sailorhood.
The skipper, with the ever-handy hand
Spike III MS NSC. went IOTRdTQ 10 TedSoH
gently with his recreant crew. But he
found them sodden with waterfront liquid
and beyond the potent arguments OF a
club or mate. The bark was drifting rapidly
on the rocks for want of the spread canvas
that would watt her away. He hurriedly
signaled the tug and was towed back to
port.
This morning when the Margarets men
awake to soberer state she will again be
towed seward.
The Olympia continued her inspection
test in the bay yesterday. A general over.
hauling of the torpedo gear took place and
one of her Whitehead torpedoes was dis
charged from the tube. 1t was, OF course,
unloaded and was recovered after having
run the limits of it's course under the water
and rose to the surface.
The cruiser will, in all probability, re-
main in the bay until after the Fourth, In
which case her battalion will parade with
the Philadelphia's men ashore during the
celebration.
Both vessels are short of men, and enlist
ments will take place on board to I'LL the
vacancies among the crews.
To-day both vessels will be thrown open
to the public, and visitors will be received
on board between the hours of 10 A. NJ. and
P. NJ. Three tugs will run between Clay
street wharf and the vessels for the accom-
mediation of those who wish to inspect the
line new warships.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
A PARK MUSEUM ANNEX,
The Park mmiSSionerS Have
Decided to Erect a New
Building.
Valuable Collections Refused Be-
cause the Present Structure Is
Already Occupied.

The Park Museum is to have an annex
This has been definitely decided by the
Park Commissioners, who have come to
the conclusion that more room is an abso-
lutte necessity. The main building is
already full, so liberal has been the re-
Spouse to the Commissioners call for
donations issued several months since.
Several days ago wealthy resident of this
City, whose name the Park people are not
at liberty to disclose at present. offered a
very fine collection of oil paintings for
exhibition, which has been gathered from
the best galleries of Europe during the
past twelve years. At first he intended to
let the collection go to the Hopkins Art
Institute, but afterward changed his mind
in favor of location where the people
could have the benefit of his collection.
lie visited the museum and the lack of
room where the pictures would show to
good advantage was at once apparent.
The matter was brought to the attention
OF Irving M. Scott, and he in turn laid it
before the other Com missioners, with the
result as announced. No plans have yet
been decided upon, and the work cannot
be commenced until the Commissioners
get their next appropriation, as the old
fund is about exhausted. When the new
structure has been completed the ex-
hibits throughout will be rearranged.
At the present time there is noticeable
lack of order in the assignment of the
different collections, due primarily to
limited space. For example, extensive
samples of California products occupy a
room with the natural history exhibits
1t is the idea of the Commissioners to
keep the departments separate and ex-
clusively for collections belonging to that
department.
A case in point occurred yesterday
Mrs. Oscar Edlhard, a former resident Of
San Francisco, now living at Guadalajara,
Mexico, sent to the museum a valua BILE
collection of Toltec and Aztec idols. The
collection numbers 100 images in stone, the
former taken from the ruins at Soldad. in
the State of Vera Cruz, and the latter from
the former site of an Aztec temple at
Otumba, thirty-five miles from the City of
Mexico. For lack of space this collection
has been set up in the Spanish room,
which already contains a great many
things in no way connected with Spanish
history.
The most valuable collection of Alaska
relics in existence is owned by the Alaska
Commercial Company of this City. These
relics have been offered to the Com mission
ers, and Will be accepted when room is
provided by the erection of the new annex.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
AROUND THE WATER FRONT
Arrival of the British Whale
back Progressist From
England.
THE MARGARETs MERRY MEN
Visitors Will Be Admitted on Board
the Olympia and Phila-
delphia To-Day.

The steamer Progressist, Pinkham mas
ter, another whaleback, arrived yesterday,
81 days from Sunderland, England, with
5000 tons of coal for Dunsmuir q Son. She
is the British idea of a whalebaek and
differs materially from he Wetmore and
Everett. Her principal feature is her APP
pearance above the loadline, below which
she looks like an ordinary steamer.
The vessel has no sheer, her surplus
buoyancy being provided for without the
upspringing of the hull fore and aft. She
is provided with three decks, the upper or
weather deck being protected from the
seas forward by raised bow and turtle
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
HORTICULTURAL QUARTERS
The State Board to Decide the Cues
item of Moving at Its Next
Meeting.

1t is not yet determined whether the
State Board of Horticulture will remain in
its present quarters. at 900 Suffer street,
for the next fiscal year or accept the rooms
which have been offered at the Mills
building.
A committee consisting of Mark Nc
Donald of Santa Rosa, Elwood Cooper of
Santa Barbara and j. L. Mosher of San
Jose has the matter under advisement, but
has come to no conclusion. If the reduc-
ton which has been asked by the commit
tee is made the board will probably con-
tinue it's headquarters where they are at
present. Otherwise it will move to the
Mills building.
The committee will report to the board
at its next meeting, which has not yet
been called, and at that time action will
be taken.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

management of the Oregon improvement
Company he Immediately went to work
on the construction of coal-bunkers at the
foot of Beale street, in close proximity to
the Company's yard. In 1887, about the
time the patent on the Roberts hopper
was to expire, suit was instituted against
the Oregon improvement Company for in
fringement of patent. The action was
brought by the Excelsior Company, the
hackers of Roberts, and Judge Sabin rem
dered Judgment against the local concern
for $500.
1--WE took an appeal to the United States
Supreme Court" said Mr. Howard yester-
day, land got new trial before Judge
McKenna, who also decided against us.
Our counsel asked for a rehearing on the
ground that the court labored under mis-
conception of the two machines and on the
second hearing Judge McKenna decided in
our favor. Roberts appealed to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, and the
higher tribunal decided on Thursday in
our favor. Roberts had also begun action
against the Black Diamond Coal Company
and obtained Judgment in the lower court
The case was appealed to the United States
Supreme Court, where the validity of the
patent was attacked, and the Supreme
Court decided that Roberts machine was
not protected by the patent at all as there
had been many changes in the original
machine. 1t was mainly on this de
cision that we won our case, and Roberts
waited till the last minute before commence
ing his suit to enable him to run his
claim up into the thousands. Had he won
his suit it would have meant large loss
to the coal men on the coast
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
A REPLY TO DR. FITCH.
Miss Susan B. Anthony and
Rev. Anna Shaw Discuss
His Statements.
WRONG ABOUT THE CENSUS.
They Say the Doctor Would
Surely Starve Women into
Matrimony.

Miss Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna
Shaw have hesita ted about replying to the
structures of DR.. Fitch on the new woman
They have scarcely thought that the man
who, in Miss Shaws own words, "has
never seen us, does not read what we say
and yet knows all about us" was worth
their serious attention.
Last night, however, they decided tc
answer few of the chairman of the liter.
airy committees representations of the new
woman question.
81 have no intention of being drawn
into controversy with such man as DR.
Fitch" said Miss Susan B. Anthony, "hut
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

child in the family should become of age.
The land in question was sold long before
that time, however, and the Crooks heirs
brought suit to quiet title to it The court
held that as under the will Mrs. Crooks
was left an undivided half of the
estate, and was sole trustee of the other
half for the benefit of the children, she had
power to sell this small parcel, as she had
an undoubted right to dispose of her own
half interest in the land, and as trus-
tee, had also the power to pass the title of
the other interest in unimproved lands,
under the terms of the will.