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The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
ADVENTURE OF A CHECK.
CONSERVATION Caused by Its Tempo
rary Loss,

CONSERVATION Caused by Its Tempo
rary Loss.
Steward L. Woodford Denison. a clerk
for the American Sugar Refining Com
pany (sugar trust). took a check for
SIS, $50 40 to the New York Custom house
last Tuesday to pay duty on two cargoes
of sugar consigned to the company.
While in the rotunda he stopped to talk
with John l.. Rafferty, of the firm of j..
w. Masters e. Co., custom house
brokers. He laid the check down on a
desk. Edward Z. Barrett, clerk in the
custom house, passed, and Rafferty, picked
up the check and handed 1t TO him, say
ing, HERES the money l owe you. "
Barrett took the check and passed on.
Denison did not observe that it was the
sugar trusts check that had been given to
Barrett. When he discovered his loss he
turned pale and exclaimed, MY God, I've
lost check for SIS, 900"
Rafferty, thought he would let the joke
60 on, but Denison was in such a state
of mind that after a minute or two he
told him that Barrett had the check.
They went in search of Barrett, put could
not find him. Then Rafferty, began to
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
LAND TRANSFER SYSTEMS.

How Germany and Austria Facilitate
Realty Sales and Loans.
c. Fortescue- Brickdale, the Assistant
Registrar OF the Lana Office. was, on the
suggestion of The Land Registrar in May
last, instructed by the Government 10 in
vestigate the practical working OF the
system OF land registration carried on in
Germany and Austria Hungary, says the
London Standard. The British embassies
at Berlin and Vienna procured the fullest
official and general facilities for the in
quiry. which included visits to Berlin and
Vienna, and to several important towns
in various parts, as well as TO some of
the smaller provincial centers and country
districts.
1t appears from the report Just pub
lished that systems of registration Of title
practically the same as the colonial "Tor-
rens" system and the system partially es-
ia blished in England under Lord West
bury's and Lord Cairns acts OF 1852 and
1875. are now in almost univertal opera
tion over the whole Of the German and
AustTo- Hungarian empires. These sys-
TENS are everywhere exceedingly popular
Landowners, business men (particularly
bankers and others employing capital in
loans on real security, and even lawyers
appear unanimous as to its advantages
The system is found to be cheap easy,
rapid, simple and safe. This is not due to
any special simplicity in the titles, rights
or transactions them selves. the majority
of which are quite as com plicated as aver
age dealings in England.
Several examples are given of the regis
tration of what We should call Eobleme n s
and country eentlemen's estates-one,
com prising 40, 600 English acres OF town
village, arab e, pasture, WOOD ana waste,
i filling two folio volumes OF 500 papes
apiece, together with 600 sheets of the
cadasiral map. These properties are sub
| ject to entails and settlements similar to
! those prevalent in England, and often to
charitable and religious doles and charges
| of great antiquity, and likewise to heavy
mortgages. On the other hand small
properties are far more common than with
Us and give rise to such numerous trans
| actions that in Austria over 20 per cent of
| the sales are far under ESQ., Very low
scales OF fees suffice to pay all official ex-
| penxes.
In Prussia, for instance, the fees for reg
| istering sales begin at Sd for a value of 4
at f20 the fee is 2s "a, at f100 il is rs Sd, at
! $1,000 it is f1 los. at $4,000, "a 5s, and so
on. Where dispatch is not demanded,
| ten and fifteen days is the usual lime oc-
| cupied over sales and mortgages. In Prus-
sia, the security of registered purchaser
is absolute Immediately on registration,
and in Austria practically so, though a
nominal interval is given for possible OBJ
! Quently do, look up titles for themselves
reducing the lawyers work to the mere
drawing up of the deed. In the country.
| in Prussia, even this is not usually wanted
| the mere verbal declarations of the buyer
and seller, made before the local registrar.
being sufficient to pass an estate. The
| privacy OF the registers is strictly guarded
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in most of the German States-only per-
sons having an interest in the land being
allowed TO inspect the registers.
Owing 10 the clearness and security of
all titles the trouble and responsibility
incurred by the lawyer on sales and mort
cages is very trhing and costs little. An
eminent advocate in Vienna states that
flis very usual fee for purchasers s
lawyer; f10 is high fee, even in large
matters and with wealthy clients. One of
the Judges in Vienna spoke somewh at
complainingiy of a lawyers bill of f6 12s
Sd. which he had had to pay on a pur-
chase of f4I76 value. The system OF regis
tration of title has prevailed in some dis
tricts-especially in the older provinces of
Austria-from the middle ages, but in
Others its introduction is of later, or even
of quite recent date. In some parts-the
Rhine provinces, for instance-it is still
in course of introduction. In the Tyrol it
is about to be introduced.
1t has been compulsorily applied to the
new districts from time TO time by Minis
terial orders, under powers conferred for
the purpose by general laws. The system
is administered locally, in districts about
the same size as our own County Court
Registries. No place is more than ten or
fifteen miles from its local land registry.
In Baden and Wurtembere every COM
mune has its own registry. Where the es-
tates run into several districts they can
be registered in any one. Some large es-
tates in Au5tria are registered in the capi-
tails. instead of in their local registries.
The report concludes with a detailed de-
scription of some fourteen Continental
land Notwithstanding those of Berlin,
Vienna and Dresden with plsns) Bnda-
Pesth, Munich, Prague and Cologne-per-
sonally inspected in the course of the in
OuirY,
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ABOUT BooMs

One Started with = Half Finished Mil
and Ended with n Finished Wreck.
Some one had asked the ex- boomer from
Oregon to describe the theory and prac-
tice of his late profession.
Every BOOM" he said, ''has its pre-
text, which may range from a projec ted
railroad to a salubrious climate, and its
promoter, whose real object may be al
most anything imaginable, but is gener-
ally desire to buy or sell some particular
piece of property. and booms are as va
rious in inception and development as
their pretexts and promoters.
"The most successful and far-reaching
boom is a disturbance far beyond my pow
ers OF description. Capital and specula-
tion are, however, the only vitality neces-
sary elements for the creation of a small.
sized boom, and it is possible that one ex-
perienced man may represent both of
them and be wholly and directly respon-
sible for q boom OF considerable magni.
tude.
81 may cite as an example OF such a
boom my own experiences with sawmiIl
which had started to build for neigh
bor of mine, man of large experience in
the lum Der business, who died suddenly,
leaving ME in possession of a half-hnIshed
plant, of whose operation l knew abso.
lutsly nothing. On trying to sell dis
covered that none of the other mills in
the vicinity had been making money for
some time, and that it would be i'm possi-
BILE TO find purchaser for my property as
it stood.
"Well, had capital involved. and pro.
ceeded to speculate with every cent pos
sessed. finished the mill, adding plan
ers, Iath, shingle and box making ma.
chinery, and an electric light plant TO the
original plans. and began running day
and night With the first lum Der sawed
l constructed a spur 10 the mill from the
railroad near by, built large general
merchandise store, q blacksmith-shop and
a hotel, all of which l operated myself
my mployes- l also secured the estab-
lish ment OF railroad, telegraph and ex-
press station aud a postofice, and soon
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
ABOUT OCEAN TELEPHONY.
Edison Doubts If the Voice Will Eve
Reach Across the Atlantic.

Edison Doubts If the Voice Will Ever
Reach Across the Atlantic.
Edison, who has been interve we'd as to
he statement of a Russian inventor that
4 cable could be laid by which telephony
could re carried on between London and
New York, says the thing is absolutely
impossible. Edison followed up the as
sertion by figuring out why it could not
be done The Russian claims that he has
telephoned under ten miles of water. In
doing this he would be confronted with
many difficulties But the difficulty of
telephoning increases according to the
square root OF the distance. To telephone
twenty miles would be four times harder
tnan TO telephone ten miles; forty miles
would lie sixteen times as hard; eighty
miles, sixTv-fOur times as hard; and so on
up to 1850 miles, nearly the distance
across the Atlantic, which would be Co.,
$50 times as hard. So, as Edison puts it,
II the Russian engineer can tackle and
overcome q Job 60,536 times as hard
telephoning under ten miles of water, he
NAV possibly telephone across the Allan
tic Ocean.
1t Is not a question OF battery, but of
leakage and the overcoming of resistance
ana the impossibility Of getting rid Of the
current at the moment the voice ceases.
=
poses that a two-inch pipe is run across
the ocean and that the human voice con-
sists of water. The man talking at one
end would have 10 hold forth long time
before he could fill that tube and pour his
voice out at the other end. Even when he
got il filled and finally stopped talking
tht man at the other end would have TO
wait an equally long time for the water to
run out before he could get it going his
way. In fact, such a distance, especially
under water, affords entirely too clumsy a
channel for the quick and variable cur
rent necessary to 4 te@e phone wire.
Edison closes this disqujsition on the
subject by saying: "If l could erect poles
three miles high l would undertake TO
telephone around the world. AS you
approach the. earth. however, the diff.
culties increase greatly, and they are of
such nature that l am afraid they will
never be overcome-at least not with the
present human intelligence. '-Pittsburg
0isnatCh
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think it was not so awiully funny. After
a long time it was found out that Bar
rett lived in Harlem. Denlson and Raj.
ferty went to his home. When they ar
rived there they were informed he had
gone ont for the evening. It was late
when he returned. In the meantime the
two men had visions of Barrett on the
way to Canada. Barrett was surprised to
see his visitors.
where's that check?" demanded Raj
fertv.
What check ?" asked Barrett.
THAT check l handed 10 you in the
custon-ho this afternoon"
Was that a check?' inquired Barrett.
81 thought 1t was a piece of paper and I
guess 1 threw it away"
Denison nearly dropped dead.
Maybe put it in my overcoat pocket"
continued Barrett With that he dived
his hand down in his pocket and pulled
out piece of crumpleG paper.
Eyes, here it is"
Denison went home with the check and
dreamed he had been robbad of SIS, co.,
600. COO 600, 00O. .-Pittsburg Dispatch.
1t is not generally known that, with cer-
tain exceptions, the population of the
British Isles is liable to conscription for
the militia.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27

Partisan cabmen are not allowed to
smoke pipes while driving.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
A HORSE THAT EATS PIES.
He Likes Them Better Than Oats an
Prefers the Mince Ones.

He Likes Them Better Than Oats and
Prefers the Mince Ones.
Leonard Jacobs, pie peddler, has one
of the most remarkable horses in Con-
necticut. Other towns have boasted OF
horses that chew tobacco, chew gum and
drink beer, but Jacobs horse will eat pie
The horse is % years old. Jacobs pies
come from New Haven, packed in cases,
and in transportation some of them gem
orally get broken and cannot be sold
One day Jacobs threw a broken pie on the
ground near tie horses head. The ami
NAL smeled OF it, touched it with his
tongue, Tapped it up and ate it with a
relish. Then Jacobs began TO feed pies 10
the horse. The horse soon got to like
them and would even refuse oats when
pie was TO be had. The habit has grown
on HIM until now, when JACOBS says pie
to him, the horse will turn his head and
wink eXpectantly.
He has decided preference for mince
pie, and the more raisins and currants
and cider there are the better be is pleased.
Apple pie is not great fayorite with him.
Most bakers put grated nutmeg into the
apple pie, and this doesn't seem TO agree
with the equine taste. Pumpkin pie he
likes, and cranberry tarts are an especial
delight. Peach, apricot, berry and prune
pies are accepta BILE, but unless the prunes
are stoned he will not touch prune pie
after the first pie. The horse is fat, slick
and youthful in his movements, and
Jacobs ex poets to keep him on the pie-cart
until he is long past the age when most
horses are turned out to grass for the rest
of their days, or are carried 10 the ceme-
terry by the side of the murky waters of
the Naugatuck River.-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
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had bustling little town started. l man.
aged to find some employment for every
man, woman and child that wanted it,
and had more money in circulation in
the county than the oldest inhabitants
had ever before known Of
ITO keep the mill going after the legiti-
mate local demand for lumber was ga IS
fed began to stock new yards in the two
nearest county seats, put up fence all
around my ranch and built new corrals and
sheds all over the place.
AT the end of three months after the
mill had started running l had about ex-
hausted my capital but had gained repu-
tation that nearly sent me to the State
Legislature that year, and, more TO my
purpose, had received several offers TO in
corporate or sell my business. The best
of the offers finally accepted and trans
ferred the whole layout to q number OF
moneyed men from the State capital for a
price that gave me net profit of $40. 900.
''The following summer 1 spent abroad.
On my return six months later the prop
erty was in the hands of a receiver and 1t
was sold at auction in the following year
for $1,000. New York Sun.
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body of soldiers, fell in love with Mrs.
Truett's eldest 81 ter, Mary. He wooed
her and was in fair way to win his suit
when he was ordered TO another post.
When he returned TO his former love ey-
eral years later he found that another
more constant lover had carried off the
prize.
Mrs. Truett's father ard brother have
been in the Senate at the same time. She
was a woman unaccustomed to boasting,
however. and never spoke of these things
except in the sanctity OF the home circle.
The deceased leaves two daughters, a
son and several grandchildren. The
funeral will take place to-day at Sacred
Heart Church and the interment will be
in Holy Cross Cemetery.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27

Francis CARLYLE
nmand
matinee girls
the the leading of
California He stoled
the duck distinguished himself
sensational startling meodram
Dark
Fohman
Colone Kerchiy
OF of
the original company
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BOARD OF HEALTH Will FIGURE AT TIE ExPosITToN

W to XII h HA %M hi h hg he a t demonstration
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No fewer than 1000 people in Paris are
employed in the preparation of human
hair for the market
The Chipley banner., 1897-08-14
Our Corn in Europe

If 1t is true that man is made by what
he feeds on, Europe must be gradually
trying to Americanize herself. Ten years
ago she knew nothing Of our maize, ex-
cept as a statistical expressions; six years
ago she began to use 1t for her horses and
fowls because Of short wheat crop. But
now she has tried cornmeal, and has fall
len in love with it, evidently, for the Or
ders continue to grow, and the West con-
tinues to fill them proptly. Europe need
not curb her appetite for the toothsome
product of the prairie soil and climate
the hoosier is too gallant to refuse, and
he will enlarge his acreage II needed be,
and even give her corn instead Of wheat
II she prefer 1t. AS long as the drafts are
paid, the corn will flow as freely as Ten
nyson's brook and keep it up as long
Citizen.
The Chipley banner., 1897-08-14
lncrt aSing Iron Trade.

One of the most gratifying evidences of
the revival of trade is found in the state
of the Tennessee and Alabama iron in
dustry. During the six months ending
June 30, 52s, 1893 tons Of pig iron and iron
pipe were shipped from Alabama and
Chattanooga district of Tennessee, and
this amount was almost 10000 tons. more
than in the same period last year. More
significant yet is the fact that from the
same territory in the six months, 10000
tons Of iron were shipped to Europe, as
against only 1900 tons in 1896. The nat
ural advantages Of the United States for
building up great export trade in iron
are unsurpassed. Most Of our disadvan.
tages are artificial.-Ex.
The Chipley banner., 1897-08-14
Let ii Pass

The Pensacola Times OF the 9th inst.
says under the above headline:
"At a meeting of the city council held
Wednesday night notice was given that
at the next regular meeting an ordinance
would be introduced prohibiting boys and
girls under the age of sixteen from lott
ering on the streets at night. This is as
1t should be, and will no doubt meet the
hearty approval of all persons regardless
OF sect or creed who are interested In the
future welfare of our boys and girls.
SIT Is a common sight, even late at
night to see numbers Of boys and some-
times girls Of tender age, lettering
around without any apparent business
who are likely to come in contact with
such elements of vice and immortality as
will surely cause their downfall
"The Times fails to see any reason why
such an ordinance should not pass by an
overwhelming majority, I'm fact we think
every member Of the council will vote for
the ordinance. 1t has been tried in many
cities and has resulted In much good. II
is an ordinance as old as the hills and
was vigorously enforced by our forefath-
ers who were deeply interested In the
welfare of their boys and girls. Let II
pass by all means and no family will ever
live to regret the passage of the ordinance
The Chipley banner., 1897-08-14
Reply to Japan,

Washington, D. c., Aug. Sit is un-
derstood that the reply Of Secretary Sher-
man to the last japanese protest against
the annexation of Hawaii will be brief by
comparison with the long letters that
have gone before, but will be conciliatory
in tone. This is accounted for by the fact
that the state department'has taken note
of the published utterances of eminent
Japanese statesmen, which, while un-of-
fcial are still Of vndoubted ,authenticy,
all going to show that japan has herself
no design upon the island, but seeks only
to conserve her treaty rights.
However, the basic tone of the note on
this point will be the declaration by Sec
retary Foster, when submitted to Pres
ident Harrison the original treaty Of an
nexation in 1893, which failed, owing
mainly to the immediate change Of ad-
ministration.
The Chipley banner., 1897-08-14
A Great Risk.

The discovery of gold in Alaska and
British America will to some extent be
good In its effect. Anything that adds to
the sum of values in the world is benefi-
cial, and from present indications 1t is
reasonable to believe that the gold fields
just discovered will add tens of millions
annually to the money of the world.
But when we consider the individual,
and especially the individual who goes to
Alaska, we believe as rule the discovery
with its tempting prospects Of easily ac-
quired fortune, will prove disastrous.
Some will make independent fortunes,
but they will constitute the exception
not the rule. The majority will return
poorer than when they went. Many will
not return at ALL for the climate will
claim as its victims large per cent Of
, the gold seekers.
Why do we believe this9 What was the
experience of the tens of thousands who
went to Caifornea when the gold fever
was at its height? Few-very few--be-
came rich. The large majority returned
to their homes poorer, or remained to
build up their fortunes in ways other than
gold mining. They went to country as
fine as any on earth-a country with soil
and climate the best. II they failed to
strike 1t rich at mining, agriculture, COM
merce, transportation, offered them op-
portunities, and most of those who sue
ceeded did not owe their success to their
luck in digging gold.
In Alaska when mining fails all has
failed. There will never be any agricult-
ure i'm the mining portion of the territory
/ There will never be any commerce or
transportation except such as is depend
ent on the mines or on the fisheries, and
the fishing will be done by transient rath-
er than regular inhabitants. A failure to
find gold in Alaska will be a final failure,
and the prOspector who does not consider
the probability Of needing money to re-
turn NAV find himself stranded in a coun-
The Chipley banner., 1897-08-14

try, and reap the rich harvest. One Of
the most notable instances of the week is
a nearly full page Florida letter by editor
c. c. Packard of the Toledo Ohio Jour
nal. This Is one of the most important
papers on Florida appearing in an out Of
the state press in year, and coming
from so eminent source, and from the
pen Of so able journalist, is worth its
weight in gold.
The railroad commission after issuing
its circular for general hearing for Aug
25th at tallahassee, on the Goth ult., took
recess until the 11th inst. The commits
sion will do practically nothing before
the general hearing set for Aug. 25th, at
which all parties interested will be enti-
tied to hearing.
Letters patent have been issued this
week to the Florida Kaolin and Mfg Co.
with capitalization of 80, ,OOO, 900; and to
the Bagdad Sash Factory, with capital
Of $4,000.
There is as yet no reliable estimate of
Florida's tobacco crop, but the crop is
very fine and will be worth many hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to the state.
Few people realize the enormous output
of the tobacco product Of Florida. Within
the last three years 500, ,OOO, 900 cigar have
been manufactured in Florida, valued at
over s25,0OO.OOO. 1t is estimated that the
tobacco industry of Florida will this year
be worth ten millions. The pinapple crop
has been very fine, and estimated at 3Oo,-
900 crates,
The Chipley banner., 1897-08-14

1t seems very strange that Senator
Mark A. Hanna's campaign to succeed
himself in the Senate should be made to
rival one in which the presidency is in
volved. II is estimated that the campaign
will cost 81 100000 and about fifty men of
national reputation have been engaged
tostump the state in his interest. 1t has
even been assearted that the President
himself will make tour of the state in
behalf OF the man to whom it may be said
he owes his position. Hanna's election
Is OF no importance to any considerable
portion Of the people, even In his own
state, and yet he practically proposes
buying his way back into the Senate
Such gigantic efforts to attain such ends
should be frowned down upon, and the
people should mark them with the STAMP
OF their disapproval.
The Chipley banner., 1897-08-14

The negro porter who robbed the Unit
ed States treasury of sls while handling
money sacks for weighing, will probably
be given term in the penitentiary for
his dishonesty, but Dingley, Aldrich,
Jones & Co., who foisted upon the coun-
try measure which successfully robs the
people for the benefit of few trusts, are
now enjoying rest at the seaside or in
the mountains. To some men, however,
1t Is one thing to rob the treasury, and
quite another to filch from the pockets Of
the people.