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plauded. Then one of the party remarked what a fine thing it would be if any one could be hypnotized and made to play like that. Another, who had expressed his belief in hypnotism and claimed he possessed some knowledge of the science, said he believed he could hypnotize any member of the party and cause him or her to play the violin, perhaps not so well as the last performer, but passably we'll He was at once urged to make the experi- ment, but no one was willing to be ex- perimented upon. Finally the young lady mentioned was, at the solicitation of her friends, induced to consent to be hypnot- ized.
 The usual motions were gone through and she gradually passed into the hyp- notized state. Then a violin and bow were placed in her hands and she was directed to reproduce the sonata last played. She went through the entire piece without an error. and played it about as well as the gentleman who had preceded her, to the wonder and astonishment of all, and especially the first performer. He had not the least idea that the lady was a violin player, and imagined that there must be more in hypnotism than he had supposed. He had his revenge later when the joke was explained to him by rec marking that this was fair sample of the workings of hypnotism.
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OLD ROMAN BATHS REVIVED.
In the Town of Bath England, the Baths
 Built in A. D. 60 Have Been Restored.

A strange and interesting sight to the visitor in the town of Bath, England, is the old Roman baths, built by the Ro- man invaders of England A. D. 60, which have recently been restored by the Duke of Cambridge and now thrive in all their ancestral glory. They are situated on either side of the main street, which owes its origin to the invasion of Caesar, and are massive stone structures, one 50 by 40, and the other 50 feet square. Until the last three or four years, they have been utterly neglected, until the Duke of Cam bridge proposed their revival, when the work was taken up with considerable en- thusiasm
 The work was undertaken together with the restoration of the old Roman Promo enade and the Grand Pumpe Room Annexe, and completed at the cost of 830,000. The mutilation which the baths had suffered through the centuries in which they had lain idle was repaired as best it could be- and today they lack little of their pristine glory.
 The history of the town tells of the popu- larity of the baths until the invasion of the Saxons in the sixth century, when the entire town was burned and sacked. For centuries the baths were used as quarrieS by the Saxons and later by the Normans, until they were finally utterly lost sight of. Then when the Abbey was built they were rediscovered in the year 1764 in the course of excavations near the spot, but no effort was made to restore them until 1S71.s Then they were uncovered, but it was not until the Duke of Cambridge finally sug- gested their complete renovation that an effort was really made to re-establish them.
 Now the two are used, one for hot wa ter bath and the other for cold. Be- side affording an interesting relic of the Roman civilization, they are an immense aid to the sanitary provisions of the town.
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brother and sweetheart vainly entreated

brother and sweetheart vainly entreated him to remain. The scene is depicted by a looker-on, who truthfully adds that 1t reflects credit upon Teddy.
 Come down wid ye, Teddy!' cried his mother. Come down, now, to your old mother! Sure, it's fog ye they will, and strip the flesh off the bones of yez. Come down, Teddy, darlint."
 Its honor that won't let me, mother dear" the soldier said, as he set his teeth.
 Teddy. come down, ye fool Of the world!" said his brother. "Come along down, wid ye!''
 "Its honor, brother, it's honor," replied Teddy, sturdily.
 "Oh, Teddy" cried his sweetheart. "come down! Sure, it's me, your own yell break the heart of me, Teddy. Come down!'
 Its honor, Kathleen; it's honor bright that tells me to go," said Teddy fixing his eyes steadily before him.
 Come down, Teddy, honey!
 Freddy ye fool, come down!''
 ''Oh, Teddy, come down to mel" was the chorus from mother, brother and sweet heart.
 "would you have me lose my honor?" exclaimed the soldier, not daring to look at his dear ones, whose words moved him so deeply.
 The next moment the whip cracked and the coach was off, bearing the gallant Teddy with 1t. Then gentleman Wno sat beside him spoke up:
 .'when does your furlough expire?" he asked.
 "The 1st of March, sir, bad luck to it of all the bad days of the worldi And some way it come sudden on me like shot"
 ''The 1st of March Why, my good fel- low you have a day to spare, then. To- morrow is the 1st of March; 1t is leap year, and February has twenty-nine days"
 "Twenty-nine days, is it?' cried Teddy, his countenance illumined with hope. Say it again! You're sure of that same?"
 The next moment he leaped from the coach and ran back to his lamenting friends.
 "Oh, mother, mother, it's your almanac that deceived usr" he exclaimed, and in the exuberance of his joy he hugged moth- CT, brother and Kathleen. My words saved, and it's a happy man am! But plague to the old almanacv
 They had consulted the previous years calendar.
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Judge Graves, and when the judge came he said:
 Mars Ben, you know I didn't steal no hog. You been knowin' me since l was a boy, and you know Austin never stole nothin'. bought dat hog. Mrs. Ben, from Bill Taylor"
 The judge told him that he would let hmy out of jail if he would go and bring Bill Taylor into court. He asked Austin if he thought he could bring him, and the negro replied:
 "I dunno, Mars Ben. whether I can bring dat nigger or not. He's a pretty bad nigger."
 The judge told him that he must bring Taylor in or he would have to go to the penitentiary, and that he must bring him in dead or alive.
 All right. Mars Ben, Ise gwine to bring . dat nigger in, cause I don't want to go to no penitentiary for no hog dat I didn t steal"
 Two days later, while Judge Graves was sitting in his office in the old court house, Austin came in, hat in hand, and lowing politely.
 Mars Ben, Pse done fotched dat nig- ger He's out here in my waggin'."
 Bring him in. Austin,'' said the judge.
 Well, Mars Ben, you done tole me to bring dat nigger in dead alive. He said he wouldn't come, and had to shoot him. But 1 fetched him, and if you'll wait a minute I'll get somebody to help me and we'll bring him in de room.''
 The judge, now thoroughly alarmed, rushed out to the street, and sure enough there was the body of Bill Taylor lying in Austin's wagon. He had a bullet hole in his breast immediately over his heart and death must have been instantaneous.
 The killing of Taylor under such unusual circumstances caused great deal of talk and there were threats of indicting both Judge Graves and Thompson for murder but the judges rugged integrity and the previous good character of Thompson caused the matter to be abandoned. and there was no indictment. Nor was Thomp- son ever put on trial again for stealing his neighbours hog.
 A few years after this incident Thomp- son removed to Lexington. where he work ed at blaeksmithng until his death last week He made and saved. ard in his will provided well for his relatives.
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LIKE A BOGUS TRILBY.
Could Fiddle Under Hypnotism as We'll as When
 Not Under It.
From the Oregonian.
calendar.

From the Oregonian.
 A short time since there arrived in Port land young gentleman who is a very
 skillful and artistic performer on the violin. On account of this and other good qualities he found a warm welcome in musical circles, and frequent gather ings of the musically inclined were held for his entertainment and to have the pleasure of listening to his playing.
 On one occasion recently there happened to be present at one of these gatherings a young lady whom he had not previously met, and who was also performer of no small merit on the violin. It was ar- ranged among the party that a joke should be played on the newcomer. The evening passed pleasantly, many beautiful selec- tions being played on the piano and other instruments by members of the party in- terspersed with singing and conversation, the subject of hypnotism being brought up and discussed at some length, the new conner expressing his total disbelief in this occult science
 Just before the time for parting he played with great feeling and taste one of Beethoven's sonatas, which was loudly ap-
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WHY SHE DIED.
A Woman's Clever Ruse That Long Worked
 ConceaIment.

From the Chicago Journal.
 Several years ago a woman known as Clara Burley died in Chicago and was buried. Yet one who had seen her in her coffin, who had heard the earth rattle down upon her and had later planted grass seed on her grave and watered it with tears of penitence, met her face to face in the quiet village of Concord, Mass, but week ago and fell in a faint at her feet
 When he came back to consciousness she was sitting at the base of the British monument, and her face, turned toward the wintry sky, showed just such a record of battles lost and won. She was not looking at him, but he crept to her side in silence and, after awhile, her glance rest ed on his face.
 1T am glad that have had these years for my own," she said. T knew the time would come when you would find me- But l am no longer afraid of you. I tricled you into believing me dead and was glad to know that you had married again, for l shall never come to life to make that other woman feel shame or other sorrow than she must have because she is your wife. How did I feign death? I did not. I had had model made of my face and figure in Paris, and when Aunt Margaret saw my agony when I discovered your baseness she helped arrange it all. She is 1leTo WllH me. BuC LnlS meeting means that we must move on again. Please go now"
 She rose and inclined her head toward him, with cold, calm courtesy, and he watched her with daZed, half-compre- hending eyes as she went away from him.
 It had been commonplace story enough. They had been husband and wife and were seemingly happy. Then the blow fell, and she discovered his faithlessness. Forum ately there were no children to suffer, and Clara Burley's first plan was to die. Then she thought of the image that had been made by the man who made the model for her dressmaker abroad, and with the aid of the old aunt and the physician who had known and loved her since her ear- Hest childhood, sent it to the grave as her substitute, while she began life anew. There had not been much difficulty Her husband had not much pressed his lips to the waxen face, and she had burn ed every bridge behind her.
 George Burley left Chicago for an east ern town, where he has been known by the name of Eaton, and there, too, he had begun anew.
 There were two quiet passengers on the last outgoing French steamer. One old in truth and one because sorrow mas- querades as age. A man stood on the wharf watching the great ship clear.
 Friends of yours sailing, Eaton?" asked an acquaintance, but the man start ed and answered hurriedly: 'No"
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PlZEN GULCH REVENGE.
Came Two Weeks Late, But No Apache Was
 Left.

From the Mexico Two Republics.
 '"rhe man who said that the only good Indian was dead Indian was about as near right as men get," said Col. Ham Sploggett, of Arizona, the other evening as he wrestled with a mint mash. land if any man oughter know what he's talking erbout in them matters I guess it's me. I went to Arizony a mighty long time ago. Them alarmed 'Apaches wuz erbout as onery as eny sort of Indians, and not day passed but what we fellers down in Pizen Gulch heard erbout men losing their scalpS and women and children being butchered like forty, the news coming from way out on the frontier.
 q wuz sorter getting a grip on Arizony jess then, an I didn't want to lose it, so jess stayed away from the line an tended ter business with one eye open. We had ter get out an hustle, however. Indians wuz getting more rampageous every day, and finally band of the measly murder ing robbers rid inter small settlement erbout fifty miles from the gulch and killed every soul thar, not leaving one to tell the tale. This Tiled the boys at the gulch, an we thought the time had come to do something. Two hours after we got the news we wuz out for biz. We rode away, an an hour afore sundown we reached the place whar the settlement had been. Well, sir, I've seen many odd SlSnlS III ny lllc, Dul tutt uttie Stllit- ment wuz erbout the saddest that ever met these old eyes-not so old then. neither. Ashes showed whar some cabins had stood and thar, too, could be seen what re- mained of home things, an jess on the outskirts of the settlement we found the bodies of folk what had formed the peace- full village.
 "Men, women and children alike had gone to satisfy the awful greed for blood They had been dragged together, and the bodies, there must have been about twen- ty of them, were piled in terrible heap, mutilated and horrible to look at. The saddest sight of it all was the form of a little baby. The small crittetr wuz lying on the breast of woman, maybe it's mother, and it's little fists wuz fastened in the long hair that was all tangled and flowing like. At first I thought it wuz sleepin', but 1t wuznt. It wuz dead, and a little round black hole in the middle of its forehead showed whar the bullet had done it's work. Thar 1t wuz, a monument of Indian ferocity, an the poor little limbs of the baby wuz cuddled up an it's white face wuz smilin' jest as though death had caught 1t while it wuz lookin right into its mothers eyes. The sight of that little one thar, naked to the skies made the grim look on the faces of the boys jess kinder deepen like, until they seemed desperate and deadly. We left the place without word, but when we crept up on the band what did the work we paid them back to the death, even if 1t wuz two weeks later. Them ~uz bad days, I tell you"
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judge of Fayette county. He lived about five miles from town, and near by lived Austin Thompson, colored blacksmith, whom Judge Graves held in high esteem.
 He had belonged to the judges father, and the judge had known him, of course, ever since he was child. Some one stole hog from a neighbor of the judges, and the meat was found in Austin's smoke house. He made no attempt to conceal it, and told the officer who found it that he had bought the hog from a negro named Bill Taylor. Notwithstanding his protesta- tfons of innocence. the officers arrested Austin and took him to jail. He sent for
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Bostonians, will star next season under the management of Frank l.. Perley.
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play of "Theodora," and will produce it in America next season. She now owns the American and Canadian rights of La Tosca," "Cleopatra," Fedora "Gis- monda, but wherever the latter two are presented she is still obliged to pay roy alties to Sardou, whose representative re- ceives statement of the box office re- ceipts whenever these tragedies are per- formed Since 1885 she has paid the French playwright for royalties and bo- nuses $400,000
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Rosenstihl Bros., Jewellers, 117 2Oth St., have engaged MT, J. H. Havill, of Chicago (who is well known here), to con- duct the great auction sale of their entire stock, beginning February l.
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HONOR SAVED BY A biY.
It Was Leap Year, But the Simple Folk Didn't
 Know It.

From the Youths Companion.
 At the time when, in England, the pun- ishment for overstaying a furlough was fogging poor soldier who has or thought he had, overstayed his time. was seated on the top of stage coach. pre- pared to return to his post. His mother,
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HE BROUGHT TAYLOR IN.
The Negro Was Innocent and He Brought Him
 in to Prove It.

From the New York Sun.
 The death of the wealthy negro black smith, Austin Thompson. and the probat- ing of his will at Lexington last Saturday, recalls one of the most peculiar incidents in Kentucky jurisprudence. In 1873 Benja- min F. Graves, now dead, was county
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l6 pounds leaf lard $l.OO.
 CASH GROCERY co.

Rosenstihl Bros., Jewellers, will throw their entire stock upon the market at auction beginning Feb. l. Everybody cordially invited.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-25
WILLING TO COOPERATE.
President Comer's Letter to Health
officer LeHardy.

officer LeHardy.
President Conner of the Central of Geor-
gia Railway Company has replied to
Health officer Le4ardy's letter, in refer
ence to increasing the flow of water in the
Ogeechee canal by letting in the waters of
Musgrove creek at Gays lock, on Spring
field plantation.
Mr. Conner said that he saw no objec-
ton to having Musgrove creek empty into
his desire to cooperate with the city in
any way in maintaining the property of
the company within and near the city in
thoroughly sanitary condition.
Agent r. G. Irrelevant has been directed
to confer with Health Officer LeHardy, in
order that any suggestions which the lat
ter may make in the way of sanitary i'm
provement of the company's property may
receive prompt attention.
Musgrove creek is now carried under the
Ogeechee canal and finds it's way to the
river by different route. By emptying
into the canal the city's drainage in that
section would be simplified and consid-
cradle amount of fresh water supplied to
the canal.
DR.. IeHardy's idea is that the present
condition of the canal is due largely to
the fact that the water from the river
being backed up in the canal twice daily
and receding very slowly the silt from
the river is deposited at the bottom of the
canal with no current to wash it out.
When the canal is low this filth is exposed
10 the action of the sun. The water from
the creek, DIR. LeHardy thinks, will furn-
ish current to the canal and help carry
the silt back to the river
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caused all to cry out with despair, for
had she struck us again both ships would
have stood no more chance. Suddenly,
however, swinging clear of us, she
beached. We hoated unaided until the
storm had about passed, and boats were
sent out, but not until forty-eight souls
were lost. Some of the officers were saved
during the storm when we neared the
shore. They came down the ropes while
the seas were rolling so high under the
bows of the steamer that before the men
had advanced ten feet down the ropes they
would be nearly submerged, and nothing
but the noble efforts" of the natives pre-
vented them from being washed off and
carried away by the currents. AS soon as
each man came down he would be grasped
by the strong arms of the Samoans and
carried to the consulate. Most of the men
had but scant clothing, and all had their
little valuables tied in handkerchiefs.
which they held on to firmly.
THE captain insisted on being the last
man to leave. A heavy sea struck the ship
and washed him overheard. That was the
last ever seen of him.
with others l was still in the rigging
They surrendered but for thirty-eight
hours 1 battled with the waves without
anything to eat. l was missed, but was
supposed TO have been one among the for
during the storm. 1t was night when We
were wrecked, and no one can imagine the
welcome the dawping day has for lost
seaman. Yet 1 hardly dared hope.
could really see no escape from ON awful
fate. But l waited and hoped until
strength was gone. Part of the rigging
had crushed my feet until could neither
move nor climb.
81 was pinned to the rigging. and when
found had to be lifted out bodily which
was an awful task. 1 was supposed to be
dead, but after some hours was resusci-
tated. l was discovered by crew sent
out to look for any unfortunates and was
brought in.
Every assistance was given me. / was
! nursed and cared for and so brought back
to life. II was, indeed, the experience of
a nightmare. Nothing can describe 1t.
No one can imagine its terrors.
Some time after that-it took a long
time. to recover-I engaged as paymaster' s
clerk on the United States ship Monocacy
for six years. 1t is now cruising on the
Yang -Kiang river, China.
1T was also soon after the awful event
of the Vandalia break that / married my
wife, who is a Japanese lady. She has
become Americanized rather more than !
have become a japanese. You know 1t is
hard for free Americans to change. / ex-
pect to make my home in Japan. / am
engaged there in businss and like the
country and its people"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-25
NAVAL RESERVES TAKE A VOTE.
Fifty-nine Want COlding for Lieu
tenant Commanders.

The non-commissioned officers and sea-
men Of the two divisions of the naval mill
tia met at their quarters last night by
agreement for the purpose of considering
the contemplated election of battalion off,
GERS and of expressing their preference as
to who should be nominated by the two Sa-
Vannah divisions for lieutenant command
er of the battalion, composed of the two
local divisions and the two Brunswick di
visions.
The situation as 1t now stands is under
stood TO be that Brunswick is to have the
battalion commander by reason of the Sc
niority of one of its officers and that the
lieutenant commander is to be given Sa-
Vannah. There is another officer to be
chosen, that of navigator, but it is said
that will be taken up some time after the
election of the first named officers. But
there Is, or has been, some contention
among officers of the local divisions as to
who should be nominated. The men got
together therefore, determined to come to
a harmonious understanding. After the,
meeting was called to order and organized
by the election of chairman and other Off
GERS the following was offered and passed
by an almost unanimous vote
1T was stated in the Morning News of
March 10 and %, that there is to be an cleo
ton of two battalion officers for the four
divisions, naval militia, Savannah and
Brunswick. and that Savannah has con-
ceded the first position to Brunswick on
account of seniority. The second position
has been conceded by Brunswick to Sa-
vannah. There are two or more candi-
dates in Savannah. Now, therefore, to give
expression TO our views, be 1t resolved
First, That Lieut.. Colding, having en-
deared himself to each of us by his rour-
teous and friendly conduct and having be
friended the organizations from its origin
by his advice, harmonizing influence, his
individual (and to himself expensive) eff
forts in procuring arms, boats and equip
ment, and his friendly financial aid here
tofore and now being extended, is now, and
always has been, the choice of the enlist
ed men of the Second and Third divisions,
naval militia far the chief battalion Off
Ger in Savannah
Resolved, second, That a copy of these
resolutions be conveyed to each of the COM
missioned officers in Savannah with the
assurance that if acted upon favorably, OR
hearty support and earnest efforts shall
be given the camps"
Sixty-two men were present, fifty-nine of
whom voted for the resolutions, three not
voting. The strength of the two dlvi-
sions is ninety seamen and eight Of
ficers.