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EDWARDS HAS NINETEEN CASES
Mobile Reports Seven Cases, Including
 Victims at Nearby Towns.
IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP THE DISEASE
In Its Mad Career in the Gulf City-Three Cases at Fontainbleau Camp and Two at McHenry-Mayor of
 Edwards Victim.
DEATHS.

DEATHS.
 ANTONIO s.IINACCA, 54O St. Phillip. RAUL ST. PHILIP, 1926 s,. Charles. HENRY A. BoURRIAQUE, 1925 St. Koch avenue, ascertained after official report was made.
 NEW CASES.
 MRS. DRENNEN, 2123 Bra'nsrd street. ANTONIO SINACoA. $40 St. Phil.p. REV. BEVERLY WARNER, 2115 Chestnut
 MISS AMANDA GENIN. 2122 Bayou road.
 EMMA BROWN, 519 Miro. . w. P. TATE, Fourth, near Chippewa. JOHN NIATElES, 2029 Cont. DAISEY LONGLEY, 1129 Fourth. MRS. MAY DAHLsTRoM, Ills south Howard.
 MADELINE TCNfALI 1425 Charles DAN DUNCAGAN, 1511 Dublin. I1zzIE SALvADoRU, 2715 Chippewa. FDWlAlRD J. MALIlDTT, 63G6 Hursh JAIMEs H. FLEETWOOD, 727 Lower lime.
 JAURETTn REIIA4EY, 1912 Con- stance.
 WILL and EVA JOOR, 6O63 Laurel. BESSIE DICKINSON, 1495 Jackson. MIIUo FERGUSON, 15oo Henry Clay avenue.
 JOHN J. BRTTTON, 2103 Baronne. ALBERT BAnDWlN WOODS. 1432 Eutepe.
 laARTIN REGAIN. s22 Howard ave- nue.
 EDGAR PERRILLoUX, S5S1 Elm street.
 MRS. ADAM MARK, St. Ann and Bourbon. ..- -,-,- WALKER KEEGAN. IDA KEEGAN, S6O6 Magazine street. DR. W. H. MAGRUDER, 624 Louis iana avenue.
 - NBEUEY, colored, Marine Hos pltal.
 - GARRISON. Marine Hospital. 2 New Orleans, Oct. 1.-Today was again something of record-breaker in the matter of new eases. They cropped up in all directions, but up to o'clock the death record was still low.
 The fever is rapidly spreading in many directions, but the largest major ity of cases are proving to be of a harm less type.
 The infectious character of the fever Is, however, shown in the fact that there are again today numerous in stances of new cases in houses where sickness has already existed.
 The weather is warm and the condi- tions fit for new cases. But the death percentage has fallen considerably be- low the record of 1878.
 The usual care is not being taken in diagnosing cases, and 1t is quite prob able that many of the cases that are reported as yellow fever are the result of hurried examinations by physicians. Four deaths and twenty-nine cases were reported.
 Rich and poor alike have been strick- en today, and the board of health re- ports seem to show that the best drained and kept streets are presenting cases as numerously as those which are minus of sanitation.
 The authorities continue to keep the water plugs open, and every gutter is filled with running water. A number of eases, some ten or more, were dis charged today as cured. A bitter fight is being made on the board of health because it Is insisting on quarantining inmates of houses in which yellow fever exists and those houses which they adjoin.
 SEVEN NEW CASES
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Chance For stenoerapbcr,

Washington, Oct. 1.--There is larger demand for male stenographers and typewriters in the departments at Wash ington that the civil service commission has been able to meet The salaries range from 5000 to $1.o0O per annum. From the following states the opportuni-
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Henry George For Mayor

New York, Oct. 1.--At the city nomi- hating convention of the democratic alliance of Greater New York held to- might. Henry George was unanimously nominated fer mayor. The nominating speech was made by Charles Francis Ad- ans T,se nominee was greeted with en- tllIsia stic applause.
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Lee at Lexington

Lexington, Va, Oct. 1.-Gen. FEzhugh Lee arrived here this afternoon and is the guest of Hon. William l.. Wilson, president of Washington and Lee uni- versity. Gen. Lee will lave tomorrow for Richmond.
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Resume Work

Farnumsvi1le, Mass, Octt. 1.-The Far huntsville cotton mill wll start up on full time on Monday, after a shutdown of about one year. The mill is the principal industry of the village, giving employ ment to about 200 hands.
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New Island Found.

Singapore, Oct 1.-Earthquakes are re- ported to have shaken many places on the northeast coast of Borneo and a new island has been thrown up near Msm- phatuka.
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SEVEN NEW CASES
At Mobile and the Disease Spreading Grand
 V, Bay and St. Elmo Has the Fever.
NOW cAsEs.

"A. R. KELLEY, Second, near Augusta MRS. ALICE GILLIAN, corner Church and Conception.
 ALICE COHEN, samep lace. r ,aTAYLoR BEAN. city hospital.
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,continueo on Second Pagc.)
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reproduced-the forger made the mis-
take of writing 10000 dollars" without
the dollar sign, and beginning the word
dollars with small I'd" Fair always
placed the dollar sign before figures
representing money, and invariably
wrote the word dollars with a capital
3D."
To any one who has made a life long
study of the peculiarities Of handwrit-
ing, these fine points of difference be-
tween genuine and forged handwritings
are noticeable at a glance. When once
they are pointed out, even to the lay
man, they are as easily seen as sign
post on country road-and that is
why the work of a forger can never be
successful if the writing is called in
question. The only way he can hope
to elude justice is by arranging mat
ters so cleverly that no suspicion will
be aroused for the moment the hand
writing expert is allowed to turn his
microscope upon the forger's work. it
is all up with the criminal.
DANIEL T. MES.
Copyright, 1897, by Bacheller Syndicate
The herald., 1897-10-24
Weighing the Earth

OF course the planet on which we livl
has not been put on pair OF scales
and weighed, but mathematicians have
calculated it's weight. Professor Mas
kelvne first attacked this subject IN
1772, when, by repeated experiments. ID
determined the attraction exerted by
Mount Schihallion, in Perthshire, Scot
land. on a plumb line, which it caused
to deyiate from the perpendicular near
ly six seconds. Playfair, Cavendish,
Hutton. and other scientists then de-
termined that the structure of this
mountain gave it density, as COM
pared to the mean density of the earth.
of five to nine. Then the density OF
Schihallion as compared to water was
ascertained; and as that of the earth
to water was known to be about five
and a half to one, it was not hard to
calculate the rest, knowing the cubical
contents of the earth. The result has
been stated as 5,S42 trillions of tons
of 2,240 pounds each,-a value in pounds
averdupois represented bv thirteen and
twenty -four ciphers.
The herald., 1897-10-24
NEW USE FOR p SEARCHLlGHT I

One of the native chiefs of Borneo Is
soon to have the most wonderful toy
that ever delighted the heart of
| dusky savage. This is nothing less
| than modern electric searchlight,
which the chief proposes to set up near
| his royal residence to furnish enter
| tainment for himself and to astonish
his visitors.
The chiefs name is Kalumanlo,
| and he is said to be one of the
native leaders. He lives some distance
back from the coast among the hills,
| but is very friendly with the whites,
and can speak a few words of English.
Last year he came down from his viii
| lage to see the sights of one of the
coast towns of British North Borneo,
, and was received on board trading
steamer that happened to be in the
, harbor. The royal savage spent sew
eral hours in looking the vessel over,
and expressed the greatest astonish-
ment at her engines and other ma
chinery.
The steamer had recently been
equipped with searchlight, and as
darkness came on the light was set in
operation for the benefit of the dark
hued visitor. AS the chief saw the.
powerful shaft of light piercing the
darkness, bringing into bright relief
the buildings of the distant town, he
was speechless with amazement. From
this, however, he presently recovered
to ask a torrent of questions, ending
with an eager inquiry as to whether II
would be possible for him to have one
of these little suns set UP in his own
village.
The working of the little sun" was
explained to him at length; and al
though the nature of the electric cur
rent which operated the light was quite
beyond the savage sovereign's under
standing, he examined all the ma
chinery with the greatest interest ana
insistently demanded to know the cost.
1t was pointed out to him that to op-
crate a searchlight in his village, ne
would need an electric current, which
could only be furnished by steam or
water power, but the enthusiastic chief
declared that he would get steam en-
gine, too, if that were all.
When the price of the coveted
plaything, with all it's accessories,
was explained to him, he re-
mained for some time in deep
thought, probably casting up the
cost in hundreds of cocoanuts, the
usual standard of value in the Kalu-
The herald., 1897-10-24
Willy OIL CLO' MAN TOLD HIM WHY.
The Young Man Whom ie Always Stopped interviewed His
Prosecutor and Got Some Curious Information
for Quarter.
for a Quarter.

For a long time the young man had
wondered why all the old clothes men
in town had picked him from all the
fered to buy his old clothes, hats, shoes,
and shirts, and give him fabulous
prices for them.
At first the offers had hattered him,
and he felt that he must indeed be a
well-dressed young man to be thus
noted by as humble person as an old
clothes man; but as the offers became
more frequent and the would-be buy
ers more insistent, doubt took the place
of pride, and he began to suspect that
there might be something in it besides
his immaculate makeup.
He noticed that although they in
varably accosted him, they had way
of totally ignoring other young men
who were dressed quite as we'll as he,
and sometimes a great deal better.
This discovery hurt his pride not a
little. He decided that from the next
one who tackled him he would find out
lust why he had done it, and why he
had not tackled the others.
He found out. The man who prowls
I'D and down Broadway, between
Twenty third and Twenty-eig
streets, every afternoon gave him the
information. After he had finished the
old stereotyped speech: Il beg your
pardon, sir, but have you any old
clothes, or old shoes, or hats to sell?''
the young man stopped him.
, "I haven't any old clothes, or old
hats, or old shoes, or any other old
things to sell; but if you'll come around
the corner where we can be out OF
the way, I'll just give you twenty-five
cents to find out why you thought
had them to sell. and why all your
/, gang always think so.''
The young man Tipped quarter
from one hand to the other as an evil
dence of good faith, and the old clothes
broker, wondering, but fierce for the
Iquarter, followed him.
The herald., 1897-10-24

for eight or ten dollars they amt no
money for us in the business"
"Well, you never tackled me and had
me walk a block and come back, did
your" the young man asked.
Maybe I never did; but we all has
to take chances. Now, you looked as
if you might come back. Not that
think you were thinking about where
to get two dollars or five dollars; but
you have that kind of appearance"
What kind Of an appearance is that
kind?"
"Well," replied the broker. "while you
look jaunty all right, you look as II
you didn't get that way without study
ing and thinking about it. Your trous'
ers look as if you might have creased
them yourself and your coat dom
match them, and your vest don't matcl
your coat. Your collar amt one q
them forty-centers, either. and you
shoes have been patched and you pu
blacking over 'em to hide the patch
Amt 1 right?"
The young man admitted that b
was.
Does get the quarter now?"
He got it.
Copyright, 1897, by Bacheller Syndicate
The herald., 1897-10-24
Professor Ames Gives a Most Interesting
Explanation of Methods Used in the
Fair Will Investigation.
MASTERLY ANALYSIS OF WRITING.
Showing Why 1t Is Practically Impossible for Forger to
Succeed When Once Suspicion Is Aroused=--
Curious Details

Perhaps the most remarkable case
that has ever come under the notice of
the handwriting expert is the Fair will
case, which was lately decided against
Mrs. Craven, who sought to have de-
clared genuine a forged will and other
documents that arranged for the dis
tribution of twenty millions of dollars.
But the task of making plain the
whole plan of the forger's work was
never more palpable to an expert than
in this case. The person who wrote
the will purporting to have been writ
ten by Millionaire Fair, and who
forged his signature, was minutely
particular in certain ways; but though
ignorance of fine points familiar to
those who have made handwriting a
study, and perhaps from lack of ade-
quate skill, the work as whole scarce
ly reached the dignity of a respectable
forgery.
A section of the forged will and a
portion of a genuine document written
The herald., 1897-10-24

manlos domain. Although he shook
his head over the terrible expense, the
attraction finally proved too strong for
him. He is very rich for a native; and
sometime after his first introduction
to the wonders of the searchlight he
sent orders to the Singapore firm,
which furnishes most of his supplies,
to procure him one at any expense.
The Singapore firm had long ago
learned not to be astonished at any or
der their royal customers might chancs
to give; so they promptly forwarded
the commission to the Dynamo works
in Jersey City. Mr.. Rushmore, who
has built many of the large search
lights in use in this country, faithfully
executed the order, and produced a
thoroughly up-to-date article, which,
though "baby" light, has 10000 candle
The herald., 1897-10-24

ing from his copy letters and syllables
and combining them. When the word
former" in line three of the forged
will was written, the forger had a
walk-over, so far as the first three let
letrs were concerned, since the word
"for" is a common one. 1t was easy
to find it in Fairs writing and repro
duce it by tracing, but the remainder
of the word had to be made up by COM
bining single letters. 1t can plainly be
seen where the forger, after copying
the for" which is almost a perfect
fac-simile of Fairs writing, broke off,
and hunted up copy to go on with the
word. The "mer'' is not like Fairs
writing at all; any one can see that it
does not harmonize with the first part
of the word, either in the formation
and joining of the letters or in the
spacing. The same snag was struck in
writing the word "bequeath' in line
four of the forgery. The be- is an ex-
cellent copy of Fairs writing; then the
forger was stopped by the absence of
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"Now," demanded the young man.
"why is it that you struck me for old
clothes, and let that gentleman just
ahead of me go along his way un-
molested? He was as well dressed,
wasn't hep
Il get the quarter, do I, whether
hurts your feelings or not?" asked the
merchant.
"You get the quarter however much
you lacerate my feelings. Go ahead
"Well, SIR" said the broker, confiden-
TALLY, "the reason didn't ask that
other gentleman was because he was
better dressed than you. He don't look
nicer, you understand" he added
quickly, "but you see his clothes cost
more when he bought 'em. They are
made to order and costs him probably
$50. Well get 'em all right in time,
but not from him.
"Now, while your clothes is nice and
tidy and Stylish they amt made to or
der and they didn't cost you no $50
when you bought them.
| "Now, we has to be good judges of
human nature in this business. We has
to be able to spot the young gentlemen
who likes to look nice and stylish but
| hasn't got the price. We takes the men
that we think have to study and worry
around before getting a suit of clothes
or an overcoat. Maybe they're think
| ing how they can get hold of a couple
O. dollars when we asks them. If they
are, then we gets 'em.
"I've had 'em shake me off anl walk
block before they thinks what I was
saying. Then it occurs to 'em, and
they walks back and says, You come
over to So-and-So's; maybe I've got
an old suit you can have
"Time and again I've had that hap
pen, and let me tell you now l don't
get the old suit they were going to lei
me have without working for it. They
have an idea I'm going to give them
few dollars less than they pays for 1t
and that Is where they gets fooled. III
these days Of -clothes made to ordel
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by Mr.. Fair are here reproduced. At
first glance they might seem to be
written by the same hand. But, are
they? Let us glance at few of the
most important of the five hundred or
SO tell-tale breaks and retouches in the
forged document.
To begin with, the forger found a
hard row to hoe when certain unusual
words and combinations of letters were
required, for which there were no
models in the samples of the genuine
writing which he doubtless had before
him. He was forced, for instance, to
make up such words as "bequeath, -
equally" and Executors" by select
The herald., 1897-10-24

a 20" to copy. Here is beautiful in
stance of the almost insurmountable
difficulty of successful forgery. The
forger could not find "a in any of
the Fair writing in his possession. so
he just went ahead with an ordinary
orthodox %" leaving in so doing the
most damning evidence of his crooked
work-for Fair, as it happened, made
very peculiar "a and never varied
from it. In the illustration, where fac
SMILES of this word "bequeath" in the
forgery and of the same word in Fair s
handwriting, are placed in juxtaposi-
ton, it will be seen how bad a failure
was made by this "penman." How
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power, and will furnish plenty Of
amusement for His Royal Highness, IL
he is ever able to put it in successful
operation. The Singapore firm pickedl
up an old engine themselves, and will
send a man to set up the plant i'll the
Borneo village. This man will also in
struct the natives in the mysteries or
operating the steam engine and dyna-
mo, and unless they blow up or "elec-
trocute" themselves and their royal
master, the latter will doubtless be the
proudest potentate in all the East
Indies. According to the Singapore
traders, the chief gravely asseverated
that the little SUM- would be of the
greatest value to him in discovering
the monkeys that steal his cocoanuts
every season.
Copyright, 1897, by Bachelor Syndicate,
The herald., 1897-10-24

ton. Fairs writing is done with a free
forearm movement, which gives long
easy sweeps, while the writing in the
will shows a cramped finger movement
and unnatural formations.
The illustration shows one of the
genuine Fair signatures and one of
those declared to have been forgeries.
1t will be seen that the forged sigma
ture is very stiff and formal; that there
are numerous breaks and retouches,
such as may be noted in the "s;" also
unnatural spacings between the let
ters, as between the &c" and the "F, !"
and the "e" and 50 in James.
In another part of the will-not here
The herald., 1897-10-24
Manuscripts Of the New Testament.

There are in existence no fewer than
1,76O ancient manuscript copies of the
New Testament, though not all Of them
are complete.
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Deafness CaNMot be Cured
ITO be continucd.]

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reach the diseased portion of tho ear
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional REMEDIES
Deafness Is caused by NJ, inilamcd con
ltion Of tho mucous lining of lie Eustach.
ian Tube. When this Tube gets in.
famed you have rambling sonnd OF
imperfect hearing, and when 1t is entirely
closed deafness is the result, and unless
the inflammation can be taken ont and this
tube restored to its Normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever ninc
cases ont Of ten nre caused by catay,l,
which is nothing but an intIamrd cot,ili
ton of mucous surfaces.
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any case OF Uea filcss (cansctl by catarrh)
that cannot lyc cured BY Halls Catarrll
euro Send for circular, free.
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Sold by all Druggists, 75c,
Halls Family Pills are the best
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the tree.delivery system universal
in Great Britain than of the fame
that came OHM from the pleasant
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The minority in the Senate scored
q victory when they forced mating,
,jute baggiug use,l for baling cotton,
and gunny cloth to be restored to
the free list. The fight was made in
the interest of the farmers of the
North anil South and was won by
silver Republicans, Popolists and
three straight Republicans voting
with the Democrats. It is now III
order for the minority to force the
Senate finance committecto replace
cotton ties on the free list.