The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-10
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firm hold on the Emperor of Corea as
on his humblest subject. once every two
years King Ye-Hui visits the tombs of his
ancestors. The little matched houses in
the center of the broad avenue are remov-
ed to make room for the royal procession,
and, as little notice is given, the scene is
often one of understandable confusion. The
King is carried in a state sedan chair, and
to- battle any of his enemies who have muir
derous intentions, duplicates of this chair
are carried at different places in the pro
cession.
1t is only year or two since an En-
glish military officer rebuked the public
with the blandly patronizing air of his
profession, for ignorantly looking forward
to quick-firing cannon-.as an important
factor in war The impossibility of check
ing the recoil in field service, he mildly
explained, would restrict them to use on
ship-board. When he wrote the German
army was already secretly introducing the
new quick-fring Krupps, at a cost of $780,
100000, and the French army is now being
supplied with a similar arm so rapidly that
the change will be effected by 1900. The
guns have bore of three inches, and fire
ten or twelve shots a minute.
The very unusual scene of a man
walking through the street with a two
bushel meal sack full Of silver dollars was
witnessed at Lexington, KY, few days
ago. Just before the close of banking
hours two men, apparently good, old far
mers, walked into the Phoenix National
Bank, one of them carrying the sack. They
told Cashier Waller Rhodes that they
wanted to make a deposit, which he
knowing the men to be citizens of the
country, from near Jacks Creek. accept
ed. They united the bag and counted out
a sum which looked to be about $1,000, eV-
cry piece of which was shining silver
''plunk." A part of the money was care
fully wrapped in paper packages, $40 in
each. The scent of these packages clear
ly indicated that the money had been bur-
led beneath the earth.
LENA Winslow, who sued the knights
of the Maccabees for So, 600 damages for
dislocating one of his kidneys while initi-
ating him four years ago, was recently
awarded $4,000 by a jury in the Circuit
Court at Kansas City, Mo. Mr.. Winslow
was candidate for membership in Kan
sas City, Kan. and during the process of
initiation, according to the ritual of the
order, was pushed from a plank raised
about three feet from the floor. He Vas
bhndfolded and in falling struck the edge
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a Kidney loose and he now has what is
known as a floating kidney. Physicians
testified that Mr. Wnslow, who was a
butcher, will never again be able to do sat
lsfactory physical or mental labor The
plaintiff put in evidence the ritual of the
order. This ritual prescribes the tests"
that the candidate for knightly honors
must undergo. One of the tests is a march
and another is battle The candidate
must "surmount bstacles, scale ramparts
and conduct himself in a generally mar
tial manner He must crawl through
snakes and venomous reptiles, over OIL
cloths covered with damp cloths to repre-
sent the cold bottom of cave. He must
leap from dizzy height and go through
an the horrifying din of a mock battle
All OF this Mr.. Winslow says he did. A..
Expert David N. Carvalho, who has been
testifying in the Carter court martial in
New York, the other day gave some in
teresting information with regard to his
methods in determining whether handwrit-
ing is or not forgery. Upon redirect ex-
animation by Col. Barr the Witness in
Response to inquiries, said that between
the ages of % and 80 every man acquired
a style of chigf0gaphy that continued with
him through the rest of his life. In his
study of signatures the expert had three
SSlleIdl pIluclplSS 10 SullC ngn. IL was
known that a genuine signature of any
given writer would always show slant
of a certain number of degrees; secondly,
that il would always have the same weight
or pen pressure, and, thirdly, that the let
ters would always approximate a base
or horizontal line drawn as nearly as DOS
sible at the bottom of all the letters IN a
signature. To illustrate his testimony, Mr..
Carvalho showed to the board, signature
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fed to be a forgery, and compared it with
ether signatures known to be genuine. The
witness pointed out how the alleged for
gerry differed from the genuine signatures
in the three points he had named as vital.
The members of the board exhibited much
interest In the demonstra ton. Mr.. Car
Valho said that as every man had pecu-
liarities of handwriting that could be in1i-
tated to some degree, so would-be forger
had other pecularitles of which he must
rid himself to escape detection. 1t was
possible he said, to initiate the Stops and
base-line relations of a signature very
closely, but the weight of pen pressure
could not be closely simula ted. Mr.. Car
valho in like fashion, compared what
he had called a forged signature of Arson
M. Bangs with others known TO be genu-
inc, and pointed out the differences.
The 'hypocrite" once was only an ac-
tor, the player of part on the stage, Says
the Portland Oregonian. So the orator,
who was a consummate actor, was also a
hypocrite. The word even in old Greek
soon was applied to any dissember be-
cause the life of such person was found
to resemble the histrionic art in striving
to appear different from what it really
was. The English language took it UP,
and the moral judgment of English-speak-
ing people makes it carry the heaviest
weight of odium that can be attached to
personal character Pretend" was once
an innocent word and counterfeit simply
meant imitation conveying no suggestion
that the imitation was to be fraudulent
ly substituted for the original. The Door
was originally a husbandman, and the
villain was only a laborer or peasant
attached to the villa or farm. Heather
meant merely a dweller on the heath. and
a pagan" was a dweler In the open
country. idiot" a Greek word meant
only a private person. as distinguished
from one clothed with office and in this
primary sense it was often used in Eng
fish of two centuries ago, as when Jeremy
Taylor said Humility is a duty in great
ones as well as in idiots" "Obseauoious''
was used formerly only in relation to flu
nerals. Shakespeare has many examples
of the word applied in this sense IT does