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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-09-04
SHAREHOLDERS MEETING.

There will be q meeting Of the shareholders
81 the tompaguic Generate dcS PhosphateS de
In Florida at the Offices of Edgar p. Allen. at
iornnE- at-Law. in Ocala, Florida, on Tuesday.
August u. 1881, Il II o'clock in the morning. to
consider and d"termin" all matters pertaining
Co the property and contracts OF the company
ana 10 amend the bylaws and articles of the
company in accordance with the action Of the
meeting il necessary.
PAUL GIRAED, President
By T.. p. Allen, Attorney.
tEASCIS1CE SCREE. Secretary.
BY l.. L. Allen, Attorney.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-09-04
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

Notice = hereby given that tn" undersi gned.
". Evrndt. has this day retired as partner
from the Chemical and Analytical La bora tory
"i EI-chucr * Co. The business will be con
rinu"d Ivy Mr.. {. EIschner only. who assumes
the irm's assets and liabilities.
VI. ENFNDT.
This Aug. J. 1897. {. ELSCHNER.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-09-04
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
OF COMPREHENSIVE.

Motto" is hereby given that the co-partncr-
ship existing between Edgar Pierce Allen and
Albert Wright. practicing law under the firm
name and style OF Allen " Wright, has this
day been dissolved 10y mutual consent. 3ir.
Alton Will remove 70 New York City where he
will "n%a%" in the practice of Jaw. Mr..
Wright Will take charge Of all business OF the
firm. continuing the practice of law in OcaIa.
This the 31st day Of July, 1891.
EDGAR 2. ALLEN,
ALBERT WRIGHT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-19

heard of one rather pathetic incident wn,c ;a
,aveloped during the Holly Springs ePiu e'l;
)ne of the most active workers on the Cit~st ~
Relief Committee was well known iawyei. mHo
sDent the day and night ministerng TO Inc na,oe
+ his felow-townsmen. One day ne peonn.
involved in an argument with another woa hei
a physician which became 50 strong tla' q ' a.
len &c to a duel was issued and accepteu' ~
mutually agreed. however, that IL was n.y. 90
proper time for duelling, and II was uliu n CON
that the men should fight with plstolo % ,,na
-, the epidemic was over inns Pio5 Lt. CO..
would probably have been carried gu. W, totor
he intervention OF Providence. re" DAYS uIis
The lawyer was attacked with yellow ieTei' .hrao
temperature rose fearfully, ana WITHIN Nd
laws he was dead. He knew that uedtn md
,Ioi,ned him. and his last words to thOSe a. ,ht
him we're BURY me quick" He reanz .rdoa d"I Of
delay in burying corpses assisted the sp'e"N
he disease
Arriving in the stricken city OF Memphis, ""
found the pail Of fever covering commune ~
about one-third the normal population. Ai W.
could do so had gone North at the llrSC aiia, IN
and Of those who remained only rev eScap[5I
tho ravagcs of the plague. business was suSpeiiH
cd and business houses were closed. me SUM-
necessary for the sick and their nurses VIZ ga
in from other cities and arrived by lne va
daily These supplies were distrIputeu ~ and
depots opened in various quarters Oh 'he '''s' ''N
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-19
~ 4 YELLOW FEVER epidemic
\ TRIP THROUGH THE SOUTH DURING IiiA-
TERRIBLE DAYS OF 1873
The Milwaukee Sentinel.

From The Milwaukee Sentinel
mao ,vbo has travelled through the South
, during the prevalence OF a yellow ie'cr cpi ,,
drruic Is apt TO have experiences when ne VIII
not readily forget. | retain vivid recollcctlois
OF a trip | made over the Illinois 'cntraI ran
road from New Orleans to Memphis, lenn'' uui
inE the awful epidemic of 1919 Wheh t,c ietv.
RACED in every town along the line ana people
we're DYING SO fast that the disposal OF tncr
bodies was q trying problem. frame OF couls''
was dcmoralizcd. and II ! remember cOrrcc'Iy
there was only passenger train ddlly OUT
from New Orleans, The train when carried IN.
gentleman whom / accompanied ana me no'cu
along nj the provoking rate or twelve inlleS an
hour being under orders not TO go faster
Marks ~ the devastating epidemic were to be
sron on every hand. At intervals or Il Few mics
were found quarantine camps "hcrc Hicn III
their shirt sleeves and with bhOt guns on M,
shoulders paced up and down drihed lIiicS' WIN.
a little further on would bc Il huge column or
smoke rising from fire fed on bedding. cIothIhE
and other infected materials our tram srcu
through the towns without stopping and IN
st,itr OF intense heat the car WINDOWS we're 10" =
cred as We went through the fever-strickcn
communities In order to lessen the danger Oh
coming in contact with germs.
We were to stop at Holly Springs. MISS. on
our way to Memphis We reached that little
town. where the fever was particularly pai' III
the early morning. ana nftcr carrying US three
miles beyond the depot the conductor stopped
the train and put us or in the woods. We
walked back to the city over the railroad track
AMI experienced the novelty Of walking over
morning on an empty stomach. was not n par
ticularly pleasing diversion. In Holly Springs
wc found that about 20 per cent OF the popula-
ton normally. | think, about 1000. had fled NJ
the first sound 81 alarm. the greater part OF
those who remained had died and most or the
others were taking their meals At the one hotel
which remained open. All business was at
etaudsliU shops ana stores OF every description
had been deserted, and supplies OF food. medi-
cine and clothing were distributed daily by
committee whose duty was to see that nobody
suffered for want Of the ncccsstie. ~ life At
the hotel We were cordially greeted and told
that the only outsiders VINO had come
into the city for several weeks. The town at
that time pretty nearly cut Off from com
rnunicatiOn with the world. The one telegraph
OPERATOR who had stuck to his post hcroically
day and night for weeks. about to sue
cumb. AMI it was impossible TO get n man TO
come and relieve him. Six operators who had
preceded him during tho epidemic had died one
after the other. and Il was difficult matter to
find volunteers 10 face what seemed to be almost
certain death.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-19

note that the suspension bridge when taken uo"n
will be rebuilt across the gorge at l""
the site OF the bridge destroyed by "inua'o,' va
on April l6. 1864. and which was never reoo'''
having since remained grand oid "Iech' d.
tracing the attention OF touriSts Inc u''''
ton of this bridge has gone Gown III '.'c a''''''
OF history as due to carcleSshess' "a '"0''
before II was ruined large amount u
gorgcd about the anchorages OF 'he 6u'' ,
were lOoscncd. 50 that they "ouiu no' VI '
away when the ice moved. i'c''''"'
following the loose guys were o''''0''
when a wndstorm swept down the b'' eo - '"'
ricd away the bridge
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-19

tined. no doubt. to attract much attention nos
only while in building. but in its finished state
At the Canadian end is the Queen Victoria Mag
ara Falls Free Park. while at the American end
is the New-York State reservation. Thus 1t will
afford bridge connections between these two
great free parks. which are visited by many
thousands of people every year. When completed
it will add another notable attraction TO the
Niagara gorge. for. as stated, it will outrival all
existing steel arches in the world. the following
being the location and dimensions OF some OF
-, mast notable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-19
PROSPERITY IN KANSAS.
From The Kansas City Journal

Speaking Of prosperity Items" remarked n
Rice County man. they're so common out with
US that we pay 10 more attention TO them than
We do to the blackbrdS I'll just give you an
instance, An old farmer come into town last
week and asked me II could recommend him
to the best man to repair little things l asked
him what he wanted and he pulled out a wallet
that looked as II it had been filled with patent
sausage suffer.
"'Wcn he said. this id pocketbook has
busted on me- and I'm looking for some man
who can put 1t together SO that II will be neat
and substantial. The way II Is now It won't
hold my money. 1t was good poke book. but
when you try to stuff two or three thousand dol
lars into 1t 1t won't hold"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-19

The method Of construction will be very SIM
liar to that employed this summer in the build-
ing Of the first new arch across the Niagara
corgc-that is by means Of false work and huge
travelling dorrcks. The steel viii be erected
from the ends simultaneously, the last panel De-
ing placed in the centre.
In connection with this it is interesting 10
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27
ECCELS' NEW JOB.

James 81. Eckels, comptroller of the
currency, has accepted the presidency
of the Commercial bank of Chicago
and will assume his new duties on
January l. He will receive salary of
s2o, 900 year, or s14. 900 more than he
receives as comptroller of the currency.
His term Of FIVE. years in the latter
office. to which he was appointed by
President Cleveland, will not expire
until April %, 1898. When President
Mckinley assumed Office he requested
Mr.. Eckels to serve out the full term
but he could not reasonably decline
the offer that has come TO him from
Chicago. he is q young man, but
has made a brilliant recesd as finan-
cier. He has been offered the preoi.
deney of the Metropolitan Trust com.
pany OF new York, and also the presi-
dency of the Colonial Trust Company
of the same city. The Chicago baEk
to which he goes has a capital of
81 600 600, with surplus of about the
same, while its deposits aggregate
SIC, 900. GOO. Mr.. Eckles will send his
resignation to President Mckinley
after submitting his annual report to
congress on December
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27
WILL IMPAIR CONFIDENCE.

Enough has been given out of the
proposition that will be submitted to
the coming session of congress for
reforming the currency to show that
it is the most gigantic scheme for rot-
bing the people that has eyer been
proposed in this or any other country:
The plan outlined by Secretary Gage,
and the one that will probably be
recommended in the presidents mes
sage, is to issue sufficient 8 per cent
bonds to cover all the uncovered
paper now in circulation, which in the
aggregate amounts to about $3.50. .000,-
600. Which In effect Is q seheme to
tax the people 8 per cent interest on
all the circulating medium outside of
actual metallic coin. 1t can be nothing
short of this. FOR it is proposed to issue
bonds equivalent to every dollar of un-
covered paper money now in circula-
tion, and to permit national banks to
issue bank notes iD lieu thereof. and
as Secretary Gage asserts that the
amount of circulation shall not he de-
creased, it means simply that $780,
OOO, 900 in new bonds shall be issued,
thus increasing the annual interest pay
ment s22. 100000. AS we have now in
circulation.of gold and silver coin, gold
and silver certificates and national
bank notes only about about $3.50, ,000,.
ooe of which s2O6, 900, 600, is national
bank notes. .ea which the people are in
paying 5 per cent interest,
the interest upon the bonds deposited
to secure their payment, under the
operations Of this plan there would be
but $3.50, ,0oo, 900 in circulation on which
no interest is paid, while s9b0,000, 900
of the money used in conducting the
business Of the country would be an
interest bearing debt. In short, |
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27
SAYS FOOTBALL IS a NECESSITY.
Dr. Day, of Syracuse University, Defends
the Game.

Dr. Day, of Syracuse University, Defends
the Game.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. 23.-Rev. DR..
James r. Day, chancellor of Syracuse
university, aud Methodist clergyman,
says in public address:
81 believe that some such game as
football, which contains elements of
roughness and danger, is necessary to
the development of many young men
in the universities and seminaries. The
future is tending towards more open
playing of the game. / do not like the
hurting of one. mass of humanity
against another until one or the other
become exhausted, but do not like
joining the universal outcry against
the game.
"The American people are easily iu
fuenced into general epidemic of re-
form, but think football has come to
stay. 1t is engineered by the faculty
of Syracuse university. Football would
fail in one of its chief features, think,
if it should not teach the young man
sef-control. A man who goes through
a season of being trodden upon and
knocked down, deserves fairly dfplo-
ma in the art of self-control. 1t is very
good discipline"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27
trogress In IsacterIoIorv.

No science, unless it be that of the
electrician, can boast such a wonder.
full growth in the past quarter century
as that of bacteriology, which has de-
veloped with remarkable rapidity
since Pasteur made his initial investi.
cations. 1t is now known and con-
ceded by all branches and schools of
the medical profession that nine-tenths
land probably even a larger per cent,
Of all the diseases of both man and an
imals are due to the presence of Ger
tain OF the bacterial species, and, in.
significant as they are in size, their
presence may rapidly bring about
wonderful structural changes, this
owing to the amazing rapidity with
which certain of the species propagate
twenty minutes in some instances
sufficing for the complete lifetime Of
generation of millions.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27
PRESIDENT AND FINANCE.

The forth coming message of the
president to congress, it is announced,
will embody a lengthy decision of the
currency question and will make rec
concentrations as to currency reform.
just what these recommendation will
be has not yet been made public, but
likely they will follow the plan of
Secretary Gage to retire all the credit
currency, place the power to issue paper
money in the hands of national banks,
and authorize the issuance of bonds to
secure the same. This is briefly the
plan of Secretary Gage and also of the
self constituted monetary commission,
but it is not plan that will result
beneicially to the people at large.
Delegating the sole power to issue
credit currency to national banks
would virtually be creating monopoly
of the money issuing power. 1t would
be as if carrying the mails were given
to one corporation with power to
charge whateyer could be extorted for
transmitting letters and periodicals.
If this gigantic institution was in the
hands of cor rporation the tax on
matter that go through the mails
would be limited only by the power of
the corporation to extort tolls. We're
authority to issue credit currency dele
gated to the national banks it would
be no less a monopoly than turning
the mail system over to a single COR
poration.
1t is possible, however, that the
president will take broader view of
the question than. does Mr.. Gage and
that he will recognize that the whole
financial system should be in the hands
of the government, because it is of
vital importance to the whole people,
and it should not be left to private in
dividuals and corporations, who by
the reason of the power thus given
them, make football of the govern
ment to the detriment of the greater
part of those governed. By placing
the finances sof the country in the
hands of few persons, by the reason
Of the power of money, those few per-
,ons,~ become the governing power,
congress and the ex-
scutiye officers.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27
II QUESTION OF CHOICE.

One of the charges often brought
against the spirit of the age is that
marriage in the middle or wealthier
circles of society is more beset with
conventional obstacles than ever be-
fore. Young men with what was for
merly considered reasonable income
say they can no longer afford TO marry
or to engage in courtship, and so they
settle down from necessity to bach
elor's life. But human nature is a
powerful thing, and occasionally a
young man and young woman break
>through the artificial barriers and get
married without regard to them. If
both are of good character and suited
to each other in age, culture and in
telligence, and are not acting from
mere impulse, the question of social
caste is not one appealing strongly to
the generel judgment. The natural
sorder of things is that young men and
young women should mate. To GER
tain extent, safeguards must be thrown
about them, but when the marriage
ploblem becomes merely a matter of
family ambition nature will protest
and so will the vast majority of man.
kind. A false view of marriage and
the family can destroy nation and
even a race. : Marriage is not otintended
to be piece of machinery for family
aggrandizements ...------ -
Elopements as rule are not to be
commended. 1t is grave step to acv
counter to parental wishes or advice.
Parents should be wise through ex-
perience, and affectionate considera-
tion is their due. But the parent who
desires his daughter to make grand
match as the first object to be gained
by marriage is not we'll grounded in
wisdom. The literature of every age
cries out against sucn view of mar
riape. Hundreds of the most power
ful books and dramas tear it to pieces. |
II the course of true love seldom runs |
smooth yet it usually reaches its desti- |
nation, and the world applauds its
happy ending. Marrying exclusively
for wealth or position is reproach,
and is generally mentioned with pre-.
diction that it will not turn out we'll.
The list of social sh:pwrecks founder
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27
COLUMBIA IMPROVEMENT

After Chairman Hooker and other
members of the house river and harbor
committee examined the site of the
proposed boat railway around The
Dalles of the Columbia, they are pre-.
pared to report on the matter, and 1t
is probable that their report will be
adverse to that plan of removing the
distractions. Mr.. Hooker is some
what reticent about expressing an
opinion regarding the recommen-
dation he will make to congress, but
other members of the committee who
visited tine coast last summer are free
to express an opinion that the boat
railway scheme will not be approved
in the next session of congress and
that the committee on rivers and har-
bors will not take favorable action for
any improvement there that does not
have for its object different plan
than either boat railway or a portage
railway. 1t is very probable that
what will be done is the authorization
of a survey to be made for the construc-
ton of canal and locks, and which
will secure the passage of boats of
about four feet draft. 1t is asserted
that boats of greater draft than this
cannot operate successfully above the
dalles, and that boats of this draft can
go far up the Columbia river, the
Snake and the Clearwater. 1t is the
general belief that canal and locks
of the kind contemplated could be
built at an expenditure of less than
81 900, 900, and also that they could be
pushed to completion at an early day.
AS method for river improvement
a canal and locks are unquestionably
the most feasible and the least ex-
pensive to operate. When once con-
they are permanent, and are
ever ready for the use of vessels. A
boat railway between here and Cello
might prove practicable, but it would
be largely experimental, and it has
ever been wonder that the govern
ment engineers recommended it as o
means of overcoming the obstacles to
navigation. Should congress at the
next session authorize the construction
Of a canal and locks it would have to
reverse the judgment of the engineers
which is an uncommon procedure,
nevertheless it would seem to be the
most reasonable plan to pursue.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27
Judge Bahrs Yields.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22-When
the attorneys interested in the Durrant
case assembled in Judge Bahrs' cham
bers this morning in accordance with
the arrangement made Saturday last,
when the court refused to settle the
bill of exceptions in the matter of the
proposed appeal from his order refus-
ing to set the Minnie Williams case
for trial. Judge Bahrs announced that
he had changed his mind after think
ing the matter over, and thereupon
signed the bill of exceptions, thus per-
fecting the appeal.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27
Il JUST DECISION.

In refusing to grant the petition OF
some 500 citizens of Union county to
commute the sentence of Kelsay Por-
ter, Governor Lord has not only acted
wisely but Justly. Porter was con-
: victed, after a fair trial, of one of the
most cold-blooded crimes ever perpe-
trated in the state. His act showed
that the murder was premeditated, and
! was committed after cool deliberation.
Tohave commuted hissentence would
have been licensing such crimes, and
would have been a miscarriage of JUS
tice. The claim that he was crazed
from anger was. no excuse whatever,
for the evidence showed there was no
immediate cause at the time of the
killing to create great excitement or
anger. The plea that he had prev
iously been confined in the insane
asylum and that brother was
maniac, and had killed one of his chill
drep while demsnted, could be no ex-
cuse for Porter crime. IT his mind
was so shattered that he could deliber-
ately plan murder and execute it, he
would be a dangerous person to turn
at large or even to confine in the peni-
tentiary.
The evidence against Porter was
most damaging, and Governor Lord
showed good judgment in refusing to
save his life. To have set aside the
verdict of the court and jury that con-
victed him of murder in the first degree
would have been an exercise of exc :
cutive clemency for which there was
no excuse. 1t would too have en-
couraged like crimes, in that it would
remove the fear of death from ether
red-handed assassins whose temper is
so ungovernable that they can plan or
execute deliberate murder. Governor
Lords refusal to save Porter's neck
will act as a safeguard to the COM
munity in the future, as would-ps
murderer's will know they must suffer
for their crimes if convicted by the
\purts,
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27

eyen play lauda b1eS
rising very far. 1t is trdeHv400DDde
BRIDES grandfather reached one of the
highest places in the history of the
country, but it was not through socia
ambitions or alliances.
He was always man of the people,
even homespun in his ways, and it is
not conceivable that he would have
withheld his blessing from the grand
daughter who has asserted the right
to choose. life partner whom she
loves and respects. If any aspirations
for a grand marriage and establish
dent have been destroyed the two
persons most concerned are heartily
glad of it, and wisely so. AS for other
sufferers from the event they have
only to look back one generation to
find better social ethics and better
exampie.-Globe-De
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-27

ST. PAUL, Nov. 25.-The Norther RI
Pacific has arranged to ship two car
OF dogs to Seattle, where they will b,
put in service for transportation pur
poses in Alaska. The dogs were gath
cred up in Wisconsin and other states
There are number of packs of dog;
and each pack is in charge of several
me3.
The Northern Pacific has also ar.
ranged for shipment of reindeer de.
signed for Alaska transportation. They
were procured by the government in
Lapland, and will arrive in New York
in a few days. From there they will
pass through St. Paul to Seattle, and
thence will be sent to Alaska.