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The evening times., 1898-08-30

The American troops at Manila are
tired of being imprisoned in the city by
the insurgents. When they wander out
side the town limits for a breath of coun-
try air they are halted by Aguinaldo'
armed men. who revfle them and order
them back. The situation has lost no.:e
OF its queerness since the fictitious sur
render of the Spaniards.
The evening times., 1898-08-30
CONFESSION FORCED BY A MOB
Alleged Bank-Wrecker Todd Says
Funds Are Intact.

Winona, Mimi, Aug. 3o.-Threatened
with death at the hands of a mob clam
oring beneath the windows of his cell
to lynch him, N. R. Todd. the alleged
wrecker of the Fillmore County Bank,
confessed last night that the funds of
the bank supposed to have been swept
away in unfortunate specuIations were in
tact and in the possession of confederate
at Lacrosse, Wis
The police are looking for the confeder-
ate. The sum taken from the bank p
placed at Sis, ,000.
The evening times., 1898-08-30
STOCKED WITH CANADIAN LOGS
Michigan Firms Hold Big Supplies
Of DOnai ID ion Lumber.

Saginaw. Mich. Aug. 30.-Many lumber
manufacturers claim no money has been
made in manufacturing Canadian logs
at the prices at which they have been
selling all his season-from SO TO sl2
per Thousand feet. Some firms have
stocked up largely with logs in anticipa-
tion of the operation OF the prohibitory
action of the Ontario legislature and this
apprehension has stimulated the market
for Canada logs.
The Sagsnew Lumber and Salt Company
which is running Its Crowl Island plant
day and night has enough logs bought
and put In by the company to stock she
mill during the whole of next season
The evening times., 1898-08-30
Too Much.
FYem ,JudCe.)

Cabman (stting in the street amid the ruins
of his cab and horse, to driver of the bus which
occasioned the disaster)-You - ---!!H
III! Ill! Hip
Constable Ito the editer)-Now, now! You
mustn't call him such names that!''
Cabman Tin frenzy)-Him wot smashed me cab
an killed me orse, an left me 'elpless cripple!
wot the - do yer expect me to call ina
'owlin hangel2
The evening times., 1898-08-30

The daily revelations of suffering among
our soldiers should be read by Secretary
Alger without prejudice. If he should
run down single case reported in the
dispatches, he would learn that it is not
newspaper sensationalism and malice that
give rise to the reports.
The evening times., 1898-08-30
Queer Place to Bury q CHA.

Bridgeport. Conn.,, Aug. 3o.-Workmen in
repairing the old Benjamin Smith prop
erty yesterday morning, while tearing
out the foundation came across small
box containing the bones of a male child.
No skull could be found. The bones had
been sealed up In the foundation for
many years.
The evening times., 1898-08-30
Benehcent Volubility.
(From the Cleveland Leader.)

'Does your wife always make you give an ac-
nighty' -st's. = ~,i, e-H
'No. She always occupies the entire time
telling me what she thinks Of me. and detailing
just what she is sure have been doing. Some
good thing, after all. /"
The evening times., 1898-08-30
ssi.sinx-word Contest.
(From The -Chicago Tribune, y

His tongue Glove to the roof Of his mouth. q
That is'' he faltered. "you-" And then he
suddenly caught her to his bosom. you know
what would sayP' he cried Frigidly she dis
engaged herself "Another missing-word fake" I"
she muttered, pale, but calm.
The evening times., 1898-08-30

ready to lad him up 10 cases that will
make his blood boil -Wifh-thesfury OF his.
anger at the shameful and murderous
indifference and ineficiency OF officers
on his pay rolls.
The evening times., 1898-08-30
DEATH OF J. B. /. MAAAMAM

HIS Widow the Dasxhter Of = WASH
fngt0D1an.
Louisville. KY. Aug. 3o.-John B. T.
Maraman. Of the Maraman Grocery Com
pany. died yes.erdayC ased twenty-nine
years. About five years agp he married
Miss Ray Walker. daughter OF Major R.
]. Walker. of the Pension Once, In
Washington.
Mr.. Maraman died from pleurisy after
an illness Of nine weeks.
The evening times., 1898-08-30
Maaculiue.

From the Detroit Journal.)
''She has masculine mouth don't you think p
Every. ] fancy she couldn't hold more than q
dozen pins in it to sxve her iife.''
The evening times., 1898-08-30
FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED.
Engineer Did Not See the DanRel
Siuuol.

Charlottesville, W. Va. Aug 3o.-An
engine and three cars on the Southern
Railway were deraiIed and rolled down
city yesterday.
The engineer was slightly injured. The
fireman and front brakeman escaped by
jumping from the train. The accident was
due to the failure of the engineer to see
the danger signal.
The evening times., 1898-08-30
Malicious Youth.

(From the indianapolis JournaL)
Miss Sear-I could tell Of one Of the herocs d
the war who-who proposed to me.
Young Fidgely-which warf
The evening times., 1898-08-30
cHIcAaos PEACE CARNIVAL.

Celebration Scheduled for October
II and 10.
Chicago. Aug. 30.-The committee ar
ranging details for the peace carnival.
has decided to hold the celebration Tues
day and Wednesday. October IS and 10.
A parade In honor of President Mckinley
will be the feature OF the second day.
On the first day there will be public
services In many halls throughout the
city. and In every public school local
orators will talk on patriotic subjects.
The evening times., 1898-08-30
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Readers Of The Times who may at any time
be unable to procure copies OF it at any news
stand railroad station or on railroad trains.
will confer a favor upon the management by send
ing to this Office information Of the fact.
The evening times., 1898-08-30

The Advertisers Guarantee Company, Of Chi
cago, hereby certifes that it has, by its expert
examiners, proven and attested the circulation
of THE TINES, Of Washington. The daily aver
age PAID circulation for the month Of July. 1893.
was 81, 500 copies
This is GUARANTEED to the advertisers Of
the country by BOND of s5o,o 600 in the Fidelity
and Deposit Company, of Maryland, deposited
with the Northwestern National Bank. OF Chicago
ADVERTISERS GUARANTEE COMPANY:
by ]. r. MASON, President.
The evening times., 1898-08-30

Communications intended for publication in
The Times should be tersely and plainly written,
and must in all cases be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. Rejected CON-
muneations will not he preserved, and only man
uscripts of obvious importance will be returned
to their authors.
The evening times., 1898-08-30
THE MINISTER WENT AWAY.

hand was horribly crushed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24

OF the sixty-nve banks that compose the
Clearing House Association forty hVe are N'-
tional banks and nineteen state DanKs; Inol1
are besides tn sc scventy-eight banks anu
trust companies which are rot members In
addition there are seven foreign nanklng HOUSES
with a total capital OF about SloV'O,Vpo, winch
are actively represented in the business pnr-
suits of the city. OF these four are Canadian
and two English. on the Brooklyn side OF me
river will be found about twenty 1--we NatlohaI
and state banks with a combined capital 81
x oo0 900 New-York has twenty-five savings
banks and Brooklyn fifteen out ~ me totai
amount of money deposited in the saVings
banks of the United States. estimated at H2op,'-
OOO.OOO. New-York state represents about Stoo.
600 UD Looking carefully at the population or
New-York City and the large number OF
these financial institutions II VIII be seen ,hat
as 4 class the inhabitants Of the Island ~ Man
haitian and surrounding territory are inclined
toward economy, frugaIity and saving.
A QUESTION SETTLED.
The last year has seen the honorable discharge
NJ the trustees Of the New-York Clearing House
Association. which has had charge Of the funds
arieinr from the sale Of the Pne-st. property
formerly owned by the association Some OF the
trustees have served continuously since 1910.
There was friendly suit brought In the courts
To determine the disputed points arising from the
sale This having been settled and the duties OF
the trustees fully carried out the association
voted their discharge with thanks and deep
annexation Of the valuable services rendered
On account Of the payment on the v ar bonds the
supply of gold has been decreased IN the vaults
Of the association. and the reserves OF the asso-
ciated banks were naturally reduced. 50 nuch
so in fact that the weekly bank statement was
watched for and the course Of the stock market
was affected temporarily under the influence,
the hears using this as an argument FOR nam
mering down prices The associated banks In
New-York have had on hand a large surplus Of
funds. and money for great part OF the year
has ruled extremely low. Bankers nave been
among the first to predict a return Of pros
perity' and the Clearing House and all the great
financial institutions back Of it stand prepared
70 do their part in restoring the business or the
country to its former successful standard.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24

II will be seen that in both Columns '"e S0'
1898 shows a big gain.
BALANCES PAID IN MONEY FOR TEN YEARS.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-20

dominated by sight. Suppose you are touched while in the dark; how do you know where you are touched? Cornell professors assert, and say they have proved, that in the majority of cases it is from the picture coming in the mind, and not by the touch at all. Aft CT all, we have better idea of the appearance of our bodies than we, per hapS, credit ourselves with having. If you had not very accurate sense of the appearance of your body, it is a question whether or not you would know exactly where any part of it is touched on occasion. The sense of touch is evanescent at best, and un- less you formed a mental picture at once you would not be able to locate the sensation two minutes afterward.
 The point can easily be proved by blindfolding the eyes and touching the hand with the end of an ordinary pen holder. Having done so, try to find the place where you were touched without looking at it. It will be found almost impossible to do 1t, and the hand being only a few inches wide, even the frac- tion of an inch difference in locating the correct spot would count much in favor of the theory. In blind man the state of affairs is still more compli- cated. If stricken with blindness he would have a memory picture of the appearance of his body, but if born blind he could not have any visual map; therefore we may have the cu- rious operation of the building up of touch picture. The blind man, by va da ;er1,t conceived ideas of the general shapes and appearances of his head, arms. legs, thorax, abdomen and other parts of his body. Hence when he is touched this introspective picture immediately looms up in his mind, and he knows that it is his knee, foot, hand or other part of his body which has been touched.
 In one of the big dark rooms in Cor neil there is a curious piece of appa- ratus used in connection with these ex- periments in touch. It is a chair. the back, seat and footrest of which can be strengthened out so as to form a reclin- ing chair, or when perfectly flat a table. It is operated on a pivot so that the whole affair can be spun like a top The man to be experimented upon is asked to sit in it. Then the gas is | turned off and the walls of the room are so constructed that not one ray of light can reveal his surroundings. Without acquainting him with the fact that any change is to be made the chair is moved into various positions. He is made to sit, to recline and to lie down successively, and as the changes ] ora made he is asked ta ct "a rrao;SoIx the position of his body. The mistakes which some of the subjects have made have proved conclusively that when in
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of paper represented an enlarged dia- gram of the retina of the eye. The subject whose blind spot was to be found was asked to look straight at the paper on the wall A round piece of black paper one inch in diameter was now produced and was moved very slowly up and down the mer1d- ians or curved lines on the wall. By moving up one line and down the next and thus going from line to line the spot of black was sure in the end to have passed every part of the design on the wall. While it was being moved along one of the lines the pro lessor suddenly cried out:
 "Oh, I cannot see it now!'
 Then as it proceeded a little further on he said: There, now I see it againi'
 Blank or dead spots in the skin are not so hard to find. They exist all over the body. When you touch any thing. or when some hot substance comes in contact with the skin. you instantly feel it, because it's bulk, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, covers not only many dead spots on the skin but equally as many sen sitive spots. You are in the habit or supposing that every part or the skln is susceptible to pain induced by neat or cold. and therefore you imagine that every portion of the part toucheo ;s in pain. But if heat or cold can be conveyed to the skin through some delicate point of contact it will be found that in the aggregate some very
 of skin Verita- bly, dead.
 Tn Cornell College there is dia- gram of an ordinary mans thigh, on which are shown spaces which are 1n- sensible to heat, cold or pain. In some nlaces there are almost no sensations of temperature. Against these places VOL might almost lay hot iron, and it would have but little effect. You might prick other spots with sharp needle. and, unless you penetrated too deeply. it would not be felt. Some of the instruments are sharply pointed af- fairs. heated with boiling water. They travel forward and backward over the skin, touching every minute part of it in succession, and reproducing, by means of pantagraph- like instrument, as the sensations of the subject indi- cate. a complete diagram of the dead spaces on his skin.
 In line with these experiments on dead spaces one of the biggest things Cornell has done has been to prove that we have not, after all, a varied sense of touch That is, if any part of the body is touched we do not become aware of it by any sense of acute feel | ing in that part, but by the mental picture of the proceeding which We in- stantly form. In other words, the sense of touch in normal persons is entirely
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-20
A WORD WITH HUSBANDS.
Give Your Wife a Little Praise and
 See How It Works.

"If husbands only knew or if know ing, only cared, how very much their words and manners affect the temper ature of the home world, they would never, by word or deed, leave IL en- shrouded in gloom" argues Mrs. A. M. Marriott in an article entitled Praise Your Wife," in March Woman's Home Companion. ITO most wives the hus- band is the sun around which every thought revolves. There IS scarcely an instant in which his presence IS not felt as she goes about her work, or even when at rest.
 There is no true woman put VIII re- pay her husband over and over agaln for kind, thoughtful treatment. He is ready to call her childish, and she may seem so to him; but one thing IS sure, a woman never forgetS. All Httle oeeds of love or tnoughtfulnesS soWn by his hand yield a certain anu aounoanl harvest. She may love her home bet ter than any spot on earth, yet she sometimes gets so weary or the daily routine of never-ending duties that fall to her lot that she cas-not help an oc- casional feeling of envy Tor those who have more time for recreation, for go- ing abroad, for all the little thlngs dear to the heart of every woman, but which the stern hand of duty most effectually debars her from enjoying
 If she is preparing the meals the way John likes this or that, or some remark he has made about some ar ticle of food is recalled to mind; if she looks about her she sees his hats and coats hanging on the hooks, and the hats invariably wear the same expres- sion that Johns face wore when he left in the morning; jolly, good humored look if he went away pleasant, if angry a gruff, defiant. attend to vour-own- business air takes the place of the so lately gentle pliable shapes in felt, and fairly bristle with wrath over some trifle, but still enough to obscure the sun in the little world for many a weary day, perchance. ere it is seem ingly forgotten.
 "Still, for all that. she would not for the whole world exchange places, even if she could, with any other woman, leaving home and John-dear old John as the price of her freedom from care If your wife has been a faithful and true wife to you tell her SO
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Y T may greatly surprise many per
 sons to learn of the fact that
 everybody has blind spot in each
 eye. Not only this, but every 0 person has a great number Of
 blank or nerveless spots on the skin in which there is little or no feel ing or sensation. These facts have been developed by certain experiments carried on in Cornell University
 The experimenting professors say that when you look at great paint ing or play, or a newspaper, or any thing that comes within the limits or ordinary vision, you do not see it all at once. There is point directly op- posite your individual blind spot which is invisible to you. It IS so in the best of eyes. The lower animals are in the same condition.
 As to the blank spots on the skin the professors say that you could be touched with hot iron on one of these places and not feel any pain. Stran- ger still, these spots are scattered all over the body. They are small in size, but they are to be found on the hands, arms, face, chest, legs and feet, and, in fact, everywhere on the hu- man frame In order to find them out and if possible make map of mans blank skin spots, the professors in Cornell applied scalding water to the subjects skin. In places the warm water was too painful to be borne; in others, it could not be felt at all.
 Blind spots are caused by the optic nerve itself That which gives to the xrit al NrinniDla particular point detracts from it. After all, we really see with the brain. The eye is merely a camera in which what we look at is photographed on the retina, or sensitive plate, at the back. Now, the optic nerve enters through the retina, and it's very en- trance causes a break in the smooth, reflecting surface of the retina. It is of a stringy nature, but the so-called string is by no means round. There fore it enters the retina by way of what would be an irregularly shaped hole. This is the blind spot The nerve interferes with perfect sight to the extent of an irregularly shaped spot in the retina. This spot, when en- larged through the very natural pro- cess of looking at white wall few feet away, appears, when outlined in black, very much like splotch of ink about as large as quarter of a dollar. The shape of the blind spot in different persons varies, just as does the size of their heads.
 In the laboratory of psychology in Cornell College there is a map of the blind spot of the eyes of Professor Tichenor. It was procured in a very curious yet very simple manner. On a blank sheet of paper several feet square there were drawn eighty mer- idians or lines, extending in a vertical curve from top to bottom. The sheet
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Christian archaeology with the alleged discovery in the Palace of Tiberius, on the Palatine Hill, in Rome' of q "graffito" representing the Cruel fxion which occurred during the reign of Tiberius.
 A .'grafito," it may be said, is pie ture or inscription scratched on the wall. Making graffiti was habit to which the Romans were very much ad- dicted, and owing to it we have been fortunate in obtaining much lntorma- ton which we could not have obtained in any other way
 A distinguished archaeologist, Profes- sor Orazio Marucchi, the director of the Egyptian Museum of the Vatican, has devoted himself for many years to the study of epigraphy, and now he has brought himself into great prominence owing to his discovery of the graff1to referred to.
 The picture is scratched on the level of the ground close by the angle of one of the passages which lie under the structures adjoining the bridge of Cali gula, in the immediate neighborhood of the Clivus Victoriae. The building is really a gallery made by Caligula to connect the palace with the Forum.
 One reason that even the archaeolo- gist has great difficulty in making out the topography of the Palatine is that it is covered with vast series of sub- structures which supported the palaces and which afforded rooms and passag ge- ways for the servants, slaves, and es- pecially the soldiers. At any moment a large force of soldiers could be con- centrated at any point of danger. It is conjectured that the graffito is the work of a Christian slave or soldier who had witnessed the crueifxion.
 It is not surprising that the soldiers for diversion used to scratch lines and drawings on the rough plaster of the wall The "graffito" of the crucifixion is very crude, as is so often the case in sketches of this kind.
 It is believed that the picture was drawn by a soldier who took a more or less active part in the cruci1ixion of Mount Calvary.
 The figures are about fifteen centi- meters high. At the right and left are crosses, and soldiers mount ladders placed against them. Each person in the great tragedy is duly inscribed with his name, and "Filetus" was un- doubtedly intended for Pontius Pilate
 The inscription of twelve or fifteen lines begins with the word "Crestus,' D which is already known as a rough form of the name of Christ. There is
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considerable doubt as to the meaning of the rest of the inscription.
 * M. Marucchi deciphers part of * * it: "Crestus, virgis caesus de- * * cretus mori, super palum vivus * * fixus est" which is to say: * * Christ, after having been * ;: beaten with rods, having been * * condemned to die, has been at * * tached living to the cross" *
 Various interpretations have been made of other parts of it, some of the lines being love verses. It was, how ever, customary to add to or subtract from such inscriptions; so this objec- tion of archaeologists does not initiate against the theory that the picture really represents the Crucifixion
 Some contend that Professor Mar ucchi is mistaken, and that the scene represents a ropewalk, but what ob- ject would Roman soldiers have in DOT traying ropewalk, and how does this do away with "Crestus" and Filetus?
 M. Marucchi makes a great point in showing that behind the central figure there seems to have been third cross, for 1t is still pos
 
 running up the same height as the others and also third rope hanging downward like the rest. Other profes- sors say that the "graffito" represents the preparations for a battle. All doubts will probably be set at rest when Professor Marucchi publishes a pamphlet upon the subject. This pamphlet is in preparation.
 This is the second "graffito" of great note that Professor Marucchi claims to have discovered in the ten years he has been studying the "graffiti' in the pal ace of Tiberius. The other "graffito" was also a picture of the Crucifixion, in which Christ appeared with an ami malls ears on his head. After long and hard study Professor Marucchi came to the conclusion that the picture of Christ was originally drawn by a Christian soldier and that afterward in a spirit of ridicule, some pagan had attached the drawing of the ears of an animal to the figures head The in scription under the figure had appa- rently likewise been altered in a spirit of derision
 A copy of the new "graffito'' has been made by Professor Marucchi and pre- sented to the Pope.
 The 'graffito'' is carefully protected by a grating, and it is probable that the study of it may bring some new details to light, but at the present time the evidence points to it's being an early representation of the Crucifxion.
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STRANGE EXPERIMENTS WITH OUR NERVES
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total darkness we have very different sensations from what we have when in the light of day.
 Strange things are done with this chair in this dark room. Men are placed in it and are whirled around until they are dizzy. Then, when they least expect it, platinum wires heated to brilliant whiteness are made to glow by means of an electric current. The subject is required quickly to point out the spot at which the wire is glowing. But this, strange to say Is not always possible after the whirling of the chair.