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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
KLONDIKE DOCTOR FEES.
Amputating a Frozen Toe, 5000; a
Leg Arm, 500.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

Leg or Arm, 500.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
What is the use of a young physician
struggling and fasting for years to build
up a practice at home when he can go to
the Klondike and trim off frozen toes at
the rate of 5000 toe?
For the last few years that has been the
schedule price in the Alaska gold fields.
Two hundred dollars for toe or finger,
and $500 for a leg or an arm. The number
Of fashionable surgeons even In New
York, who receive larger fees for similar
purposes, can be counted on their fingers
the number who would gladly operate on
a whole row of toes for half the money
is too great to estimate.
DR.. Roswell S. Larned, formerly of Chi
cage, H., but now a Forty Mile, Alaska,
has returned recently to the states, after
three years of successful practice in the
Yukon country.
After his graduation from an eastern
medical school he went TO Colorado for
his health, and obtained his first practice
among the miners of Cripple Creek 1t
was rather experimental, but miner who
had been punctured in the lungs or legs
through some slight misunderstanding
could not well complain of his wounds
were not treated according to the most
approved methods; and as Larned's treat
ment was rarely fatal, he in a short time,
worked up a respec table practice.
When the news of the gold TO be found
in the Yukon was received and the first
wild stampede for Alaska began, Larned
accepted an invitation to join a party of
miners and become their medical advis-
err
Luck came my way from the first. F."
declares Dr. Larned, with chat case-hard-
ened nerve peculiar to his profession. Il
did not charge anything for resuscitating
drowning men who had tried to shoot the
Yukon rapids. There were six or eight
of them nearly over the bay when
went through, and more by accident than
anything else l brought them all around
in good shape.
That gave me a pretty good start, and
when ! reached Forty-Mile and hung out
my sign / didn't have to sit around and
whistle for patients. Frozen toes and
fingers were the most common cases.
have amputated as nigh as six toes a week
and got the dust for all of them. Twelve
hundred dollars is more than / could have
made in the states In three years, and
that was a single weeks receipts. When
they had been in hard luck / wouldn't
charge anything. But in all the time I
was at Forty-Mile l never lost but one
fee, and that was from a poor chap who
had his hand frozen, and after getting
apparently well, died from blood poison
ing.
There will be barrels of money up there
now for a couple of young fellows who
have the capital to open a drug store in
Dawson City or Dyea. All they need to
do is to stock il with patent medicines
and few simple remedies, and charge
their own prices"
Dr. Larned declares that he took 81 900
in gold dust from the Yukon fields as a
result of his practice among the miners.
lie viii return in the spring.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23

by the dozen, fully expecting that you will
get them for 10 cents. You are not a little
amazed when the merchant tells. you 10
cents the dozen. You get mad call the
man a fool, and insist that you ought to
get reduction by taking a quantity Not
so with the Jap that is not his way of do
ing business If you take one he reasons
that is 1 cent, but If you take a dozen he
VIII have to count them, and then It will
be l3 cents. IL is the same with the man
ufacturer. You give him an order for
a hundred Of kind, and then wish to
make it a thousand. Immediately he de-
mands an advance in the price Should
he, however, reluctantly agree to take the
increased order at the original price, you
VIII probably get the first hundred articles
fairly up to sample, but as the delivery
goes on the quality Is sure to fan off And
this smallness Is not confined 10 small
people. It permsates the whole country
and one OF the leading banks advertises
that it allows 1885 per cent. interest on
current accounts and 5115 per cent. on
saving bank deposits
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
STARS FOUND WITH
An Instrument whose Light-Gather-
ing Power ~ Almost Perfect.

ing Power u Almost Perfect.
From the Chicago Ttmes-Herald
The great Yerkes telescope has unmask-
ed hitherto unseen worlds. The great lens
has been focused into space. and to the
great joy of Director Hale and Prof Bar
nard and their associates, the Hght-gath-
ering power Of the glass has been proved
perfect. 1t far surpasses the thirty-six
inch lens of the Lick observatory, and
Prof. Burnham, who is acquainted with
all the great telescopes in this country ana
abroad, has given it as his opinion that
the Yerkes lens is the most powerful OF
all.
The wonderfully constructed lens has
light-gathering powers that pierce far in
TO the unknown, and even the hazy mists
of the nebulae have been penetrated. Most
of the objects connected with the nebula
in Lyra, the great cluster In Hercules
and the Dumbbell nebula have yielded UP
their secrets In the past only through the
agency of the Photographic plates. Prot
Barnard had seen these only family at
Mount Hamilton At Lake Geneva he has
been able to view them with unusual dis
tinctness. After Prof. Barnard mad swept
the sky in the region Of the nebulae he
pointed the instrument toward a region
located to the astronomer in Pos 312 de-
gIGes, ulSt. % minutes. GfOI. Burnham
had frequently pointed the Lick instru-
ment at the same spot with the expecta-
ton of finding something new To Burn
ham on Mount Hamilton 1t was all space
and nothing more. He watched whole
nights and discovered nothing. He swung
the giant tube toward the region. and the
first discovery at the Yerkes observatory
was registered on the dial near the dome
The unknown wanderer was found near
Winnecke's companion to Vega. AL
though II might claim some distant re-
lationship to Vegas companion it was
too far away to be considered as physic-
ally connected with the luminary, and
may have an orbit Of its own. AS Vega
has been one Of the best observed bodies
of the heavenly wanderers the discovery
speaks volumes for the new lens. 1t also
disproves the theory of Prof Lowell as
to the unfavorable atmospheric condi-
tons of the region in which the telescope
is located.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
CAPT. PURSE RETURNS.
The Cotton Rate Question May BE
Taken Up in n New shape.


Taken Up in n New shape.
Capt. D. G. Purse, president of the Sa-
vannah Freight Bureau, returned last
night from saluda, N. c., where he has
been for the last month resting and re-
cuperating from his labors. When asked
about the reported dispute between HIM
self and Secretary Massel of the railroad
commission, he said:
There was nothing in it, nothing what
ever except l made demand for informa-
ton l had a right to have. That's all,
and do not think there will be anything
more heard of it,"
Capt. Purse indmated that the question
of a reduction on cotton rates would be
brought up again sometime in the near
J future, in a new shape, though it is too
late now, he says to do the farmer any
particular good this season. The legis-
lature, 1t is expected, will take hold of the
railroad commission law at it's coming
session, and, it is sa d. some developments
are looked for. The proposition of elect
ing them by the people, it is intimated,
may be then discussed
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
TIE SCHOOLS IN GOOD SHAPE.
Three Vacancies in the Public
Schools Are Filled.

Everything is now in readiness for the
opening of the schools on oct. /. Super
intendent Ashmore says they could be
ready to open tomorrow The janitors for
several days have been opening up the
buildings to give them thorough airings
after having been shut up during the va
cation. They are also cleaning up the
premises carefully in order to have all the
sanitary conditions good by the opening
day.
AS has been stated. the cards of admis-
sion to the schools will be given out to the
white children at the superintendent
office son Sept q, IS and 49, between the
hours of and o'clock. The cards for
the colored schools will be given out at
the buildings by the principals. None but
the children who dropped out Of school be-
fore the June examinations and the
new pupils will have TO have
cards for the admission to the grades, as
those remaining until the close of the
schools for the holidays will have their
seats retained for them whether they
were promoted or not.
Several appointments to teachers places
have been made lately. Mr.. Fred Obern,
formerly teacher at Bethesda, has been
given charge of school at Pine Forest.
Clautelle Lewis, one of the teachers Of the
country schools, has been appointed an
assistant at the East Broad street colored
school to fill a vacancy resulting from the
resigna ton of the teacher of the fourth
grade All the teachers below that grade
will be promoted Fannie Habersham has
been. appointed teacher Of the colored
school at Vallambrosa.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
SOME OBJECTIONS MADE.
Florida Railroad Commissions
Rules Not Yet Adopted.

Assistant General Passenger Agent H.
c. McFadden and Assistant General
Freight Agent James Menz,es of the Plant
system returned yesterday from Tallahas-
see, where they went to attend the meet
ing of the newly-organized railroad COM
mission of Florida.
The proposed rules of the commission
that are to govern the traffic in Florida
were not adopted on account of the objec-
tons that were offered, and the fact that
there was a representative, Judge Rainey,
of the board of trade of Pa.atka present,
who desired tine to examine the objec-
tons to certain of the rules that had been
submitted.
The meeting was called to order Mon
day afternoon, when the objections We're
submitted in writing to the commission.
Judge Rainey then asked that he might
be furnished with a copy of the objec-
tons of the railroads. Another meeting
was held on Tuesday, and the commits
sion then adjourned until next Saturday,
when it will receive the counter objec-
tons Of the board of trade of Palatka or
any other place, provided they have any
to submit The railroad men will then, in
their turn, be given another opportunity
and their replies will be heard on next
Tuesday.
Representatives of all the Florida roads
we're present at the meeting. There was
only one or two objections to the rules
offered by the passenger departments, but
the freight men were not satisfied with
fifteen Of those bearing on their business.
The commission is composed of three
members as is the Georgia commission.
It is made up of a lawyer, farmer and
a railroad man, in accordance with the
statute creating it. The lawyer is Col Fl.
R. NJ Davidson of Quincy the farmer,
Judge Bryan of Kissimmee and the rail
road man, Mr.. II. +. Day of Gainesville.
The traffic departments of the railroads
comprising the Southeastern Freight AS
ISOLATION have not yet been notified of the
adoption of the differeutial OF cents on
flour shipped in less than carload lots. As
soon as Chairman Parrot of the associa-
ton sends out these notifications, the ad-
vance on the small lots of flour, grts and
meal will be 4 cents on every hundred
mounds. This differential will prove great
advantage to the jobbers of the south after
il is put in force. The agitation that has
resulted in the securance of the dliteren-
tial began two or three years ago
in the Southeastern Mississippi Valley As
ISOLATION. The question was submitted by
that body to the conference committee OF
the Southea 81 tern Freight Association. This
committee agreed TO the differenual and it
went back to the Southeastern Mississippi
Valley Association where it was also
adopted
Mr. F. B. Papy, general freight agent of
the Plant system, has gone north on bus
mess.
Mr.. A. Pope, general freight and pas
senger agent of the Georgia and Ala
bama railroad, left yesterday by the Plant
system for New York.
Mr.. Charles b Roberts. stenographer In
general freight agents office of the Plant
system, has returned from Jacksonville.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
Battles with Ball and Bat.

If Boston should win the pennant Sc
lees men ought to be very grateful to
New York. for by defeating Baltimore
yesterday the Giants put Boston within
one point of the orioles. New York won
two out of the series just played with
Baltimore. Boston won easily from
Brooklyn yesterday, going up two points
AS the race IS dra wing to a close, it
is getting closer. and consequently more
interesting. To-day is an off-day with
most Of the clubs. the only scheduled
game being Cincinnati at st. Louis. To-
morrow Boston will meet Baltimore in the
latter city. With these clubs almost tie
and the Dennant within reach of both Of
them il is needless to say that the games
will be warm.
The following is the standing of clubs
including Yesterdays games:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
MATTERS IN CUBA.
Recent EIectiOns-A Large Number
of Native Cubans Disappear.

Havana, via Key West Fla, Sept. o.
According to advices from Puerto Prin-
cipe, Senior Bartolome Masso has been
elected vice president of the Cuban repub-
lie, Gen. Maxine Gomez, minister of war,
and Calixto Garcia has been appointed
major general, Gen. Gomez remaining
commander-in-chief of the army of liberia
ton.
Word comes from Santa Clara that Gen.
Gomez has ordered a new invasion of
Western Cuba, with view of proiting by
the rainy season.
1t may be safely estimated that over
10000 native Cubans have disappeared
from various causes. In certain towns
entire families have been wiped out. Sick
ness continues at a high rate among the
troops, probably about $1,000 soldiers be-
ing on the sick list, most of them victims
of fever
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
KIssIMMEE's BUDGET OF NEWS.
Damage From the StOrm-Finc Cane
CrOps-Other Matters.

''H"Sc rrOm the StQrm-Eine Cane
CrOps-Other Matters.
klssimmee, Fla, Sept. 21-This place
was visited by one of the severest rains
IN It's history, the rainfall being eight and
one-nalf inches inside of twenty-four
hours the most of it being within twelve
hours Last night the streets and gardens
were somewhat damaged. Some damage
was also done to the railroad tracks in
me county, several washes being report
'l but no damage to trains. The young
'oaeeo plants, it is feared, are very much
injured.
mere have been good crops made in this
section this year; in fact, the finest ever
made The sugar cane of the Disston Land
company at st. Cloud, the famous sugar
P'"'7uon, is very fine this season, some
nasSIls here on its way to the Nashville
,.P9sluon measuring fifteen feet from tip
~ w The cane was grown on some of
famous muck land of which they
Io o,e thousands of acres on which could
~ oyaled quite a number of large mills
ag a's property is now under the able man
NJ, r.'sNt Of j. Clarity, an experienced su-
c-it-'eH"ent from Louisiana.
NJ "t court will convene on the first
v,ii '4aY m October at which time there
n ~ We number of criminal cases, most
a""HlcA are cases of color blindness, the
c7t1 nor being able to tell their own
from their neighbors.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
AN ABLE SERVITOR.
Washington Folk Hear With Regret
of the Death of MIR, FaisOn


of the Death of Mr.. FaisOn.
Washington, Sept 22-The announce
ment of the death yesterday at his home
in Wilmington, N. c., of Walter E. Fai-
son, formerly solicitor of the department
of state, was received with genuine sorrow
by one and all of his late associates in the
state department
Mr.. Faison's record as an official was a
bright one, and up to the date of his re-
tirement last spring, was pointed out as a
triumph of the fullest application of the
civil service reform principle. He was APP
pointed in 1886 from North Carolina at a
competitive examination, to a 81, 200 clerk
ship in the consular bureau. His promo
ton was rapid and Secretary Gresham
made him chief of that bureau, which he
administered with signal ability.
Upon the resignation of Solicitor Dab
ney, Mr.. Faison was promptly installed in
the solicitors office by Secretary Olney,
who had a keen appreciation of his legal
abilities.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
WHERE MICE ARE IN DEMAND.
A Toy That Caused Their Price to
Rise to Ten Cents.
From the Baltimore American.

From the Baltimore American
Westfield, Mass, Sept. 19.-Not a little
attention has been attracted recently by
the advertisement of a Westfield firm Of
fering cents each for live mice in any
quantity. So badly are the mice wanted
by the concern that the offer was soon
afterward raised to 10 cents for each and
every live mouse delivered. Some weeks
ago a shoe dealer arranged in his window
an exhibition of live mice and a teeter
board, A mouse running up the little
board would incline in the opposite direc-
ton, and as the lively little creatures
seampered back and forth over the board,
IL would be almost continually lettering.
The show attracted much attention, and
other inventive minds saw its possibili-
Ties as an advertising scheme, and i'm
proved on 1t by replacing the teeter board
by an inclined disk, which rotated rapidly
when the mice ran over its surface. From
the disk was evolved a hat or umbrella
teetotum. This is the most advanced
stage. A toy company quickly saw its
possibilities, and arranged to put the thing
on the market An agent with sample
case of the attractions was sent to the
large cities of the central and middle
states. and he had but to show 1t to make
sale on the spot. The company now has
orders far beyond the powers to hll, the
chief cause of delay being the scarcity of
mice. That is why the price of the ro-
dents is quoted at 10 cents in Westheld,
with the market bullish.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
METHODS OF THE JAPANESE.
You Are Never Sure of Getting what
You Pay For.
From the Boston Transcript.


From the Boston Transcript.
An American manufacturer, writing
from Japan. says that those alarmists who
would make the world believe that the
japanese can do everything don't know
what they are talking about, and that
the people Of the Flowery Land, unless
they change their entire nature, or at all
formidable commercial rivals with any
civilized power. The real fact is that the
Japs do nothing; they only half do IL, and
therein lies the cause Of their failure.
The Jap thinks of nothing but the pres
emit; of what he can make now, and how,
by making his commodities a little infe-
rior, he can add few more cents to his
profit. If he has TO pay more for his la
Dor the idea of economy, or the bold de-
claration that he can no longer sell at the
original price, never strikes him, but he
extends the whole of his ingenuity in try
ing TO diminish the quality without any
loss in the appearance. There is no such
thing as standard quality. You are never
sure Of getting the quality you are ask
ed to pay for so much Is this so in ia
pan that man seldom buys an article
without unwrapping and examining il on
the spot. The correspondent continues:
The Japanese mind Is so small that II is
difficult TO weigh il with American scales;
i'm fact, II may be said that it Is made up
OF trihes. and II is the attention-the labor
ed attention-the Jap gives to these tribes
which makes him incapable of ever becom-
ing anything more than unit In what
ever he may be concerned in. As an Illus
tration of what / mean, l will give exam
PIES, which are of daily occurrence. You
want TO buy an article, and you ask how
much IL is. The answer Is, say, 1 cent
Then you ask how much the articles are
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
A HURRICANE IN ITALY.

Great Damage Done I'm Several
PrOvinces-Many Persons Killed.
Brindisf Italy. Sept. PA cyclone swept
over Sava, Oria and Latiano, all in the
province of Lecce, yesterday evening.
Forty persons were killed, seventy peo-
pie wounded, twenty houses were destroy
ed and Geographic communication with
the scene of the disaster was cut off
At Oria the railway depot was demol-
ished and all the railway men engaged
there were killed. Two chateaux and thir-
ty houses were destroyed in a neighbor-
ing village, where twenty were killed and
twenty-four injured
AT Mesagne, a province of Lecce, fif-
teen were killed and five injured
Great tracts of country have been de-
Vastated by the hurricane.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
cARoMNA's WHITE CAPPERs.

'hent Citizens Tried For As
quitting the Mormon Elders.
49, '''lnoia. 5. c., Sept 22.-The trial of
""tecappers who attacked the Nor
4, , e''ers and their converts was begun
"Innsboro to-day.
s,r. .'nents against twenty-four men,
vs.. 'Aem of the best class of farmers,
agsi,sst sven en- to the grand jury. True bills
Were ~ SIX Of the supposed ringleaders
ent inoi"'IIined. Forty witnesses are pres
are t'gIng ten women, two Of those
So n ole girls that held at bav mob Of
'neir house. '' mon eioerS escaped from
dire, -estlmony Of several witnesses is
'''' against the indicted. WITNESSES .
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
PETIT NOT Guilty. OF MURDER.
A #. G. and y. Engineer Tried For
Killing PeOpIe in q Collision.

Columbia, S. c., Sept. 22.-H. J. Petit
was to-day acquitted of murder in Lex
ington.
On Oct H. 1896 trains collded at Swan
sea, on the Florida Central and Peninsu-
lar railroad. The engineer on one train
was scalded to death, a mail agent was
killed and others injured. Petit was the
engineer on the train running out of time
when the collision occurred, he jumped
and took to the woods. but later giving
himself up. He was tried for causing the
death of these people.
The jury was out five minutes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
HAPPENINGS AT ATHENS.
A New Base Ball Captain EIected-A
Gin House Burned.

Athens, Ca, Sept. 22-J. T. Moore,
catcher of last seasons university base
ball team, was this afternoon unanimously
elected captain of the team for this year.
The gin house of j. G. Johnson was par
TALLY burned this afternoon. Johnson
himself was badly cut up in his gin yes
to-day
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23

Hard Luck.-"I see here in the paper
that some teller has a corner ia wheat''
said Mrs Beanpod "Goshr' replied Farm
er Beanpod. Sorry fer him. / he'd a
whole field, and wisht I'd he'd more."--
Philadelphia North American.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23

Lynch called the contest at the end of the
seventh on account of darkness, few were
sorry This was the last home game of the
season. and Boston won from Brooklyn, 70
TO O. The game was one of the most un-
interesting OF the year. Stivetts pitched
four innings, then Sullivan went in At
tendance $500, Score
Boston ............2 8 0 Oh Is l
BroolSlyn ...0 0 0 0 o. 0 2
Batteries-Stivetts, Sullivan and Lake;
Payne and Smith Umpire Lynch. Time
1888.
New York, Sept 22.-New York made
nearly enough runs in the first and Sec
ond innings off Amole, Baltimore's young
southpaw, to win the game to-day, and as
he was a trihe wild and also easy, Rob-
inson put Hoffer in. Hoffer pitched a.
beautiful game and was very effective.
Seymour was unsteady at times. but in
tight places managed to pull out In good
form Attendance 1890. Score:
RHE
New York ....1 2 / 0 o 2 ks s 3
Baltimore 80 o 0 0 IA 2
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Warner; Amole,
Hoffer and Robinson. Umpires Hurst and
Carpenter. Time 1855
Cleveland o., Sept. 22.-The Colts put up
the most horrible fielding game seen here
this year, while the Indians slugged the
ball hard all the time. Arson was put
out of the game In the third Inning by
O'Day for kicking. Attendance 400. Score:
R.H.E.
Cleveland ...2 0 1 3 2 / x--1S 1s
Chicago .....0 0 0 5 0 0-78 8
Batteries-Young and thinner; Friend
and Kittredge. Umpire O'Day. Time 2:05,