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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-12

RESULTS IN ENGLAND OF THE LEGAL EXEMP-
TON or CONSIDERATIONS DIRECTORS"
A widespread feeling Of disgust was excited In
England last winter when Parliament so modi-
fed the old compulsory vaccination law as 10
exempt all conscientious directors" who went
before "a M gstratc and took out a certificate.
1t was felt that 4 concession had been made to
ignorance and prejudice that was unfortunate
in many ways. The medical profession was cspc-
cially disturbed. and such distinguished for
oicuers as Yirchow complained that England
had made he fight for compulsory vaccination
in other lands harder than il was before.
The anxiety " the more sensible classes in the
island kingdom has now been increased by the
arnounc .meut that a very large number Of
certificates Of exemption have been taken out
This state OF feeling has given rise to rather
imperfccty organized movement for bringing
Indirect pressure TO bear the anti-vaccina-
tonists
II is proposed Tor instance. that individuals
and boards that arc authorized to give employ
ment shall make vaccination prerequisite to
favor Such position as that Of teacher is
peculiarly important. because Of the large num-
Der Of children that would be exposed to danger
If the occupant Of the place were not vacci-
mated 1t has been suggested that mistresses
should insist on the vaccination Of servants, and
that such organizations as insurance societies
and mutual benefit associations should press the
idea upon their members.
That which far-siGhtcd and philosophical
people fear is that when large proportion OF
the population. especially children that are con
grocated In schools. are left unvaccinated. an
epidemic viii break out which win find an ap-
palling number Of victims before the dreadful
harvest IS over and the nation has received the
needed lesson. To mitigate that visitation as
far rs possible is the immediate aim OF those
Who are now agitatng for indirect pressure"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-12

could imagine Unless, as ] much doubted this
was a known spot for b6chc de mer or pearl
shell fishers. there but the rernotest chance
OF my rescue while, without anything fioatable
but my poor little hencOOp passing that barrier
OF breakers was impossible. Fortunately I have
always tried TO avoid meeting trouble halfway,
and with n thankful feeling OF present wants
supplied actually went to sleep again. though
stiH and sore from head to heel.
BATTLE AND A RESCUE.
OF the agonies Of the previous day. which. al
though ] was better fortified to meet them.
were greater than before The numbers Of my
hidcOus assailaUts were more than doubled as
far as / could judge. The whole patch of sand
seemed alive with the vOraciOus ycrmin. SO
nuch so mat when saw the approach o., those
horrible hosts my heart sank, ny flesh ahrank
on my bones and clutchcd At my throat. But
could not strange myself, though had pos
seSsed knife should certainly have chosen
. swift exit from the unutterah!. horror OF my
position, hercely az / chung to life. To Ice de
voured pIeccm"al, retaining every faculty till
the last could rot bear the thought There
was no time for reflection however the strug
gle began at once and continued with a peril
nacity on the part OF the crabs that promised
a speedy end TO it for me. How long ii lasted
! nave no idca-tO my tortured mind il was
al eternity. At last. overborne, exhausted sur
rounded by mounds OF those l had destroyed.
over which fresh legions poured in eyer in
crcasng numbers. Garth and sky whirled around
me and fell backward As / went with many
u the vile things already cliuging to me, /
hcarc d yell-a human voice that revived my
dulling senses like Galtanic shock with one
last fash OF vieOr ! sprang 10 my feet, seeing
rs J did SO Il canoe with four Kanakas y il. not
MY yards away, III the smooth water between
tn beach and the barrier. Is uuding like a
buck needless of the pain as Uy wounded feet
clasheo among the nnumerdbie spiky cara
pa 1i my enemies / reached the water and
hurled myself headlOng toward that ark OF
safety. How reached 10 DO not know. nor
aHylnl further until l returned 20 iifc again
on board the Warigal. Of sydney. as weak ~
d bale and feeling century older.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-12
VAIN THREATS or "REPORTING'
NEGLIGENT employees WHO DO NOT THAB
PUNISHMENT

NEGLIGENT EMPLOYEES WHO DO NOT Tl.AB
PUNISHMENT.
Conductors. motormen. elevator men. janitors,
walters and men who follow kindred occupa-
tons know 40 well that men and women fire.
quenty make tho threat 81 will report you"
merely rs blum. and that the average person
VIII suffer Inconvenience and annoyance rather
than have man discharged. that they often
take advantage Of the fact 20 the discomfort Of
the public. This charity on the part Of the pub
lie was spoken OF az criminal neglect q few
days ago IN one OF the large downtown Office
buildings man came into the hallway and
hearing ne starter call Going upw stepped
into an elevator which was so crowded that he
had to force himself into the space. The door
remained open. and the late arrival discovered
that the crowded was waiting for the ee-
vator man. lie stepped out and asked tho
starter II he knew that it was wrong 20 allow
people IN the elevator when there Was no at
tendant there to take care Of It. He simply
grinued and slammed the door of the elevator
which had finally begun its trip under the man
agomeut Of tie tardy conductor
Don't you Know that child in that car or
d drunken man or a moddiesono person might
have started Che car and that number OF peo-
pie might have been killedY" asked the man.
The starter gave an imrertiueut answer. and
whom he was told that he would be reported
lecred ut the man and said. Go ahead and re-
port"
n an accident had taken place in that elevator
there would have been little sympathy for tina
peoi.o who were 80 1ooihardy to enter it
under those circumstances. Yet no one reported
he nan who would have been responsible for
the accident and he is still in charge OF the
elevators, and will probably remain there cali
ing Going up" and pointing to unattended
elevator cars.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-12
IMlTATING RARE BIRDS EGGs,
London letter in The Chicago Record

London letter in The Chicago Record
In these times. when such Tarities as the egg
Of the extinct great aux are constantly chang
ine hands. the prices running into the hundreds
Of pounds, u is interesting 20 learn that there
Is in Paris q man who makes an excellent living
BY manufacturing the eggs Of rare birds and
selling them 10 public institute rs and amateurs
of ornithOlogv lie seems t. be a workman OF
exceeding skill A visitor actually saw him
make penglin's egg mat could not be dis
tinCuisned from the genuine model displayed
before hin. The shell was made o. plaster Of
paris which after being cast was hardened by
burning and then glazed Another Of ms meth
DDS is TO turn the eggs ~ a common species into
those Of 4 rarcr one For instance. The eggs OF
z common fycatcher aye almost worthless. but
treated with chemicals they acquire the blush
green shining color Of the hlgn-prccd eggs OK
the suktan. a common duck ccg is stained a
slvery green and is then passed of as the egg
OF q falcon, which Is worth from 10 10 go francs
Pigeons and wood pigeons eggs are also easily
transformed into the eggs Of scarce birds The
ordiuary lark's egg. coiorcd a dusEy brown, be
comes the egg Of the nightingale, which s diff
6cult 10 procure and therefore very expensive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-12
THE KAISER AND EGYPTOLoGY.
From Tho London News.

From Tho London News
The German Emperor has shown the Keen IN
terest he takes IN the promotion OF the stuGy OF
Egyptology by granting funds for the punIca-
ton of dictionary OF the Egyptian language.
to comprise all words preserved IN leXlS NrItleh
tr b,ornolvrbics while references to Denote
ard Copfic texts will be introduced when essen
ia 70 the calculation OF words found IN the
hieroglyphics. This great undertaking IS to be
earned ont under the conduct Of a committee
Appoin.e ed by the Royal Academy o. Sciences at
Berlin AID three other leading learned societies
in Germany. and II is estimated that the work
will be finished IN about eleven years Inc CO.
operation OF the Administration OF Antiquities
IN Egg pt, % foreign museums and owners OF
r,T- ..aic collections without whose aid the pro
posed WORK could only be very Imperfect, Is be-
In sought and in most cases, ! learn. readily
granted. This assistance is specially reques ieo
In the form Of copies squceZos and photographs
Of texts neVly discovered or otherwise Unknown
Communications Of this Kind VIII. or course De
regarded ny the committee as confidential, ana
would be made use Of only for the purpose OF the
dictionary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-12
ELEPHANTS AT sKITTLES.
ber.ondor Chronicle.

From The London Chronicle
where will the training OF animals stop II
some limit is not soon set 10 Il we humans VIII
soon nnd ourselves ousted from our seats by our
fou--f1ot.d rivals At the Palace Theatre JUST
now three elephants play nightly at skttlcs In
an astonishing and vastly entertaining fashion.
One sets up the pieces one bowls al them. and
the third chalks up the score on blackboard.
We have rarely seen anything 10 e1qulsiteiy
funny ~ the long long aim taken TO the po~isf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-12

before he finally hurls the ball. Like a golfer
addressing the ball" ne swings and swings and
hcsitat"s. and finally cocks up one hind leg in
the squirming fashion u the amateur billiard
player. while the nervous elephant behind tho
pieces bobs W and down H. uncomfortable
anxiety II Is a most entertaining and original
Spectacle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-12
~pnocRESg' IN STRlTroRD- on lyon.
From The Birmingham Post.


The clerical staff. postmen. rural messengers
and others connected with the Strauord post
1fce and the sub-postmas'crs or the distinct
were entertained at supper al the unicorn no
tel on Tuesday night TINS being the twenty
seventh annual gathering. The Mayor (Mr W.
pcarco) presided and was supported 10y mum
Der OF the leading tradcsmen. the vice-char be
ing occupied by II. f. Wynn Responding for
our Postmistrcss" Wroposed by q. BoydeD
Mr.. Uoonan (chief cleric spoke % the great in
crease OF work at the Stratford postoflce. WIN
IN the last f-w wears thu clerical stan nad been
doubled and the number OF kilograms was N
crcasing 81 the rate ~ ten thousand q year
The year 1897 showed an Increase OF ten thou
sand over those in 1896 and now from the re
turns Just made up II appeared that there was
a further increase Of ten thousand over those In
1891. (App,ausc) The telephone was apout 10
be added the clerical STAFF was to he further
iuc--ol sod the duplex system OF telography had
teen authorized IN order 20 cope with the IN
,;eaqcd work and notwithstanding that the
,ostoiIicc had been built only "A few years, some
important structural alterations and eniaTge-
rnentg had become imperative and were about
to be carried out lAppldusc) AL ths showed
that they were progressing at a most salts
factory rate. and he looked forward to further
important developments
The age-herald., 1899-10-08
WHEN OTHERS
 FAIL CONSULT

Men suffering from Sexual Weakness Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Structure, Syphilis, etc., I offer a certainty of cure. My charges are within the reach of all.
 I refer you with permission to First Ma tional Bank Alabama National Bank, Jet- ferson County Savings Bank and Steiner Brothers, bankers, as to my responsibility for my contracts. I cure many patients by mail treatment. Write for prices and terms. Address Dr. Y. E. Holloway, Watts Bldg, Third Ave. and Twentieth street, Birming- ham, Ala
The age-herald., 1899-10-08
The Refreshing Peat Bath

From a London Letter.
 The latest craze among the society wo- men of London is the luxury known as peat baths, and Strathpeffer Spa begins to rival Harrowgate in their affection. Ac- cording to one who knows, one's first bath is luxury not easily forgotten, and its effect on the complexion Is magical. First comes the period of immersion in a bath tub filled with warm, soft peat, brought from some distant moor, and pounded and beaten and mixed with water in the sub terranean regions. A lid with an open space for the bather's head is lowered over the occupant of the bath and the soft-vofced Highlander girl in attendance leaves you to the dreamy reflection induced by the warmth and fragrance of the peat. When twenty minutes are up you are set in a corner to have the first coat of peat spray ed by a hose. plunge in a warm tub that is ready alongside the peat through com pletes the process and, wrapped in warm towels, you are left to rec1ine on couch while pleasant drowsiness overcornes you. When you have dressed and spent twenty minutes or more in the pleasant little cooling room, you return to your hotel, feeling physically and mentally giant re- freshed, and the compliments of your i'm proved appearance will make you wish that peat bath were a less costly luxury. Ac- cording to tradition the virtues of the peat bath were discovered by accident. A Hitter of little pigs which widowed daily in the peat mud on a hillside, were noticed to have much more glossy coats than their fellow piglets. The example of the piglets was speedily followed and the peat bath became fashionable as cure for skin dis ease.
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inches wide, put on in English fashion, round and round the sleeve
 The flannel waist, the modistes say. will not become popular, even as an outing garment. It makes the jacket hard to get on and off and it is clumsy. As an after noon garment, for sewing or wearing in the house. it is different But for occa- sions where one pulls on and off the coat often it will not do.
 The remarkable thing about the fashions, either in street of on bicycle, is their. color, the most brilliant shades being seen gnn all the plaids and plain stuffs.
 At Fontainbeau these pleasant days there is a riot of color, damson red being the popular shade. It is combined with egg shell blue which has made its debut as a street color.
 A ladies' cloth of damson red was t1tm- med with applique of blue cloth set in the bodice as a vest and introduced in the skirt as panel Collar and cuffs of blue and a jaunty Scotch cap of blue cloth was worn
 The neatest little silk skirts are worn with jackets of damson red cloth and skirts of red.
 A very comfortable fashion has been lately introduced. both lin street and out ing suits, in underwear. Petticoats are made out of flannel as far as the knee, below which silk is used. This gives lux ury and warmth flor the woman who wants to wear pretty things without loading down her hips with skirts. The silk is put on
The age-herald., 1899-10-08
4 Prominent Memphia1 Write.

Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta: Having been great sufferer for three years from indiges- ton, and been treated by many physicians. who failed to give me any relief, and con tinuing to grow worse my brother advised me to try Dr. Mozley's Lemon Elixir. which remedy he had used for several years. I commenced it's use, and must say that your Lemon Elixir Is the greatest medicine on earth. I have never suffered day since I commenced using Lemon Elk IT, R. l.. Rocco.
 206 Hernando St., Memphis, Tenn.
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modiste told me that both dresses would be lined with lack luster silk and that the skirts would be trimmed with bands of the rep. The jacket of each would be an Eton faced with dull silk, and both would open over black flannel waists trimmed with bands of dull ribbon. Across the left sleeve of each would be the real note of mourning in the shape of a band of black crepe three
The age-herald., 1899-10-08
FAST TIME
Between Birmingham and Kansas City.

The attention of parties contemplating eoinr to Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Kan sas, Colorado. California and all western points Is called to our fast train leaving Birmingham at 12:05 noon. arriving at Kan sas City the following morning at $50
 This train runs solid from Birmingham to Kansas City, carrying first-class coaches
 reclining Chair Cars and Wagner Buffet Sleeping Cars, arriving at Kansas City many hours ahead of all competitors, where
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tfcoat for the wheel, for golf and flor hunt ing, will find this a very convenient and comfortable mode
 Plaid black cashmere is used for outing dresses; and a very refined appearance it has, doing away with the necessity for skirts if tights are worn; the latter are made on the pajama pattern which is warmer than the skin tight combination garment
The age-herald., 1899-10-08

different from the broad-like stuff of last season. This corduroy is almost as thin as serge and is much lighter than twilled goods. It is very manageable and being practically indestructfble is a great favor ite. hunting suit of this material has an open coat of the corduroy in leaf green trimmed with a diagonal band of the ma ferial It opened over a vest of hunting s'pink," that vivid scarlet which the hun ters use. The skirt was trimmed with bands of the ''pink"
 A very remarkable order was shown me
The age-herald., 1899-10-08

close connections are made for all western poiats. This train makes close connection at Memphis with the Cotton Belt and Iron Mountain Railroad, placing passengers at all points in Texas many hours ahead of all competing lines, also close connections arc made at Nichols, Mo-, for Fort Smith, Fayetteville and all other points In northern Arkansas. It will be to the interest of all parties going west to call at the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad office before making arrangements for their trips. aug 17-tf
The age-herald., 1899-10-08
MOZLEYS LEMON ELIXTR. Regulates the Liver, Stomach,
 Bowels and KiduevS.

For biliousness, constipation and malaria. For indigestion, sick and nervous head ache.
 For sleeplessness, nervousness and heart failure.
 For fever chills debility and kidney dis eases, take Lemon Elixir
 Ladies, for natural and thorough organic regulation, take Lemon Elixir.
 5oc and $1 bottles at druggists.
 Prepared only by Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta Ga Ai'@
The age-herald., 1899-10-08
4 Card.

This is to certify that used Dr. Moz- 1ey's Lemon Elixir for neuralgia of the head and eyes with the most marked bene- fit to my general health. I would gladly have paid $500 for the relief it has given me at a cost of two or three dollars.
 H. A. Beall. Clerk Superior Court Randolph co., Ga.
The age-herald., 1899-10-08
4 Prominent Minister Writes.

After ten years of great suffering from indigestion, with great nervous prostra- tion, biliousness, disordered kidneys ana ton, I have been cured by pr. Mozley's Lemon Elixir, and am now a well man. Rev. c. C. Davis,
 Elder M. E. Church, South. Mo- 2S Tatnall St., Atlanta. Ga.
The age-herald., 1899-10-08

the other day by one of the most reliable modfstes in Paris. It was for two outing suits of deep mourning for of the ladies of the Vanderbilt family One was for a golf suit of fine soft black red, the other for bicycle dress of the same goods The
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as a hounee and Is sewed to the flannel in
 such a way that it can be removed when the skirt is laundered Or, if wash silk be used the entire skirt can be washed. For outing purposes tights are generally worn. but those women who Insist upon the pet
The age-herald., 1899-10-08
PRIVATE
 DISEASES

Any physician sending me a case Of Syphilis that I do not cure to his en- tire satisfaction in from 20 to 40 days, 1t will cost him noth- ing. I do not at tempt to cure all diseases that affiict the human family, but confine my study and practice to the treatment of private diseases only.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-06-27
INHERITED HEALTH.
There Are Men Who Are Self-Made
Physically a. Well a.
Finan cAallY.

There il, it is true, as great an in
equality in the Inheritance of health as
in the heirship of wealth or brains, says
the North American Review, Some are
born with fortune of vigor and sound
ness SO large that not lifetime Of eager
squandering will leave them poor and
others enter the world paupers OF need
80 dire that no charity from medicine
can. ever raise them to comfort; but
most of us have just that mediocre leg
acy Of vitality which renders us undis-
tinguishable units in the mass ea,:
1t lies in the hands of each to improve
or waste that property as he chooses,
for there are selfmade men physically
as we'll as financially; those who. be-
cause of ancestral wastefulress. have
only sixpence of health and turn it
into fortune; and there IRE spend
thrifts of health who come to as sor-
rowful case as spendthrifts of goll.
The body is q realm where wise ard
frugal ruler brings happiness as surely
as foolish one insures distress, and
wisdom here, as elsewhere, lies in learn
ing and obeying natural laws.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-06-27
uNDERsEL1 eovERNMENr.
New York Dealers in Second-Hand
Postal Cards Compete with
the Post Office.

There are half a dozen men in New
York who undersel the United States
government in respect to postal cards.
These E:ea sell 100000 or 5000, 900 one
cent postul cards annually at on av-
erage price of nine-tenths of a cent
apiece, one-tcnth of cent less than
the official price, Notwithstanding that
the cards cost them nearly half cent,
at least two-sevenths Of a cent, and only
cost the government "a cents q thou
sand.
The competitors of the government
are men who buy cards upon which an
address or advertising matter has been
printed, and erase or obliterate the
printing without Illegally changing the
card.
They purchase the printed cards in
small and large quantities from all
sources. When two firms consolidate
the postal cards addressed and printed
belonging to each firm are useless. A
firm changing the location of it's shop
and desiring to inform it's patrons OF
the change usually overestimates the
number of postal cards needed. A man
ufacturer in a large way who sends out
hundreds of thousands of cards every
year often decides that the printed mat
ter on a batch of cards is not satisfac.
tory, and may have hundred thousand
useless cards on his hands. The post
Office will not take them back with
money refunded and will not issue 9TH
er cards in exchange for them. These
cards are bought at cost of from one.
fifth to one-quarter of a cent each. The
1ealer either grasses the printing with
chemicals, by a secret process, or OBJ
,iterates it with glazed wash resem-
ding calcimine. The composition of
the calcimine is supposed to be a secret
with the inventor of this second proc
ess, but the secret is so open that other
firms have discovered the art and are
practicing it in opposition to the orig
inator. The chemical process leaves
the cards like new; the wash process
leaves them, except where the govern
mental printing is at the top of the face,
any color commonly used.
There are no similar dealers in
stamped envelopes upon which adj
dresses have been. printed. The post
Office takes back such envelopes, paying
two cents each for the postage stamp.
IN. Y. Post.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-06-27
The New Reporter.

This is the way new reporter on
one Of our exchanges described a head
end collision:
The engineer perceived the other
train coming about thirty yards dis.
tant and Immediately reversed his in
rector and slapped the damper over
the top OF the smoke stack, but the
force OF the smoke and steam com inc
out 80 fast pushed the engine ahead.
When the two big engines hit thew
made a big racket. In the passen.
ger engines boiler the keraumm;r
was twisted and jammed into the ker.
fiibber, 30 that the spiral spring that
keeps the boiler stiff, let 90 with nm
awful whang and smashed the klam.