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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-15

President General OF the T. s. S: Many thanks
for the parcel OF sunshine sent 10 my address at
Christmas time. 1t most unexpected and
peasant surprise. 1t is always nice 10 be remeIn-
bered perhaps so when the gift comes from
an unlooked-for source. 1t certainly Is a very great
pleasure to belong TO the T. S. =. and feel that we
are AL family so 10 speak. In my last letter
| sent linen needle-book. Please consider that
the dues for Miss Bessie Mask Of Newtown, Conn,
for 1899 is still confined to her bed-her eighth
year I'm bed-and prospect Of ever ICING any bet
ter saw not long ago that some one had written
her but had received no answer. she received the
letter but unable to answer much OF what Is
sent her and has whom she can call 10
write for her II tires her very much 10 write, ana
she simply cannot | want TO thank you most
heartily for the Wheel-chair sent to Miss Lima
Hunter. She wrote me she received IT, but was too
III TO write much about It. | presume you Will hear
directly from her. Yours is blessed work, and
may the good Lord reward you. II goes 10 snow
that II Is such cold. selfish world as we are
led TO believe, for | am sure people respond noby
10 every call for help and comfort. Wishing you
all prosperity for the year and with many
thanks yours truly, Mrs. HOBART II. CChllS'
Newtown, Conn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-15

Mrs Margaret Black Of Glasgow. Scotland. is a
member Of the city Board OF Education She is
also an officer OF the school Of cookery ana Is ac-
tive I'm other lines OF valuable work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-15
READING EXCHANGE.

Selected by ]. c. P. and J. F. b.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-15

SON Philosopher and Sage. ana james f'us9c'i
Lowell Poet and Man OF Letters
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-15

The New-York State Womans Christian Tenn
perance Union won the "Y'' banner 1899 for the
greatest increase in paid membership during 1888.
which was 225. The "bannerctte" for the greatest
Increase I'm per cent ~ membership went 10 In
diana which reported a gain Of 200 per cent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-15

President General OF the r. S S.: | wish to con-
tribute the incosed lines from the pen OF Mrs. j.
c. r. Dorr whose home The Naples. is nestled here
among our hills as my dues. Respectfully yours,
Rutland VI Mrs. A. b. ENGREM.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infamed
condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is
infiamed you have rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed, Deafness is the result
and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be de-
stroyed forever, nine cases out of ten
are caused by catarrh, which is moth
ing but an inflamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of deafness Caused by
Catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Hall Catarrh Cure Send for our
circulars; free
f. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, % cents.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10
A New Noah.

A nineteenth century Noah has APP
peared at New Haven Conn, and he is
busily engaged in building a new
ark to outride the flood of waters,
which the Almighty is preparing to
drown out the wicked Of this day and
generation. His name is Milton Stew
art, and he has evidently read the BIZ
BILE with very little profit, or he would
have more faith in the promise of the
rainbow. Stewart is guiding an ark
on the top of West Rock, near New
Haven, about five miles from water,
and he says he is willing to take
aboard all who have faith when the
Almighty floods the land. which he
predicts will be the form of devasta-
tion which will visit the United States
He says the waters of the Atlantic
Ocean will be let loose upon the land
by the powerful hand of Deity and the
earth drowned out as it was in the
early ages. Mr.. Stewart is firm in his
belief that the American people are
very wicked, and that the Lord is pre-
pairing to wipe them off the face of the
globe. His boat will be a plain sloop
yacht, about forty feet long, with ac-
commodations for twenty people The
new deluge is to come next summer in
the dryest part of the season, with no
rain in connection with it.
All this has been revealed to Mr.. Stew
art in dream, but if he waits for the
waters of Long Island Sound to ad-
vance inland five miles before he
launches his boat, he will have to live
a very long time. But his prediction
Of the end of the world is a pleasing
relief from the tales of those other
prognostlcators, who are going to de-
stroy us with blazing meteors and
other fiery horrors fthe ARMAMENT
Oil City Derrick.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10
The Meanest Man on Earth.

Il think have discovered the
champion mean man Of New Orleans
said lawyer, who always has an eye
for human curloslties. IL locatad him
in a restaurant the other day, but must
confess that would never have done
50 at first glance The truth is, he con-
cealed his accomplishments Under a
rather bland and benevolent exterior
and looked like an ordinary. good
natured, middle-aged person in some
minor line of business, with nothing
to especially distinguish him from
thousands of others of the same kind.
While he was lesurely eating his din
ner and l was lelsurely ordering mine,
a newsboy came in with a bundle of
papers. The benevonelt looking gent
beckoned him over, took paper and
began to peruse 1t. He went about the
reading with care and delibera lion and
occasionally he laid down the sheet
and took few mouthfuls of dinner.
Meanwhile the newsboy was fidgeting
from one leg to another and shooting
anxious glances at possible customers
around the room, but the bland gen
tleman read on regardless. l was
watching the pair out of the tail of my
eye and kept track of the time by
clock that hung overhead. Five min
utes elapsed then 10, then 10, and the
newsboy who had collapsed wretchedly
into a chair, began to drum the floor
with his feet What's the matter with
you? said the bland man, looking up,
you're the most nervous child l ever
saw in my life. But I've found, what l
wanted he added, and I'll just cut it
out; it won't hurt your parer, for it's
down here in one corner where nobody
will notice With that he produced a
penknife, cut out a paragraph, folded
The paper and handed it back. Here
you are,' he said; take it and run
along! The newsboy made sort of
inarttculate noise, took the sheet and
shufiied out. He seemed to be stupe-
fed by the mans transendental gall,
and the fact is, felt little that way
myself. When last saw him he was
putting the clipping in his pocket. l
am willing to back him at even money
against any other mean man in Louis
lana"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10
Gentlemen--Please let me
know how can get the Peoples
Standard History for six cents
per day.
Name. .... go. ..
Address. go. ... ......
Boy Mail Carriers.

Columbus o., Dec. S.-The United
STATES Grand Jury today indicted John
Cline, boy mail carrier of Marietta,
who was charged with abstracting val
uable letters from his pouch. He
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
six months in the Marietta jail. For
est Zonker, another boy mail carrier OF
Woodsfeld, pleaded guilty to the same
offense, and was sentenced to one
year In the Marietta jail. William Dill
Ion, of Woodsheld, also a boy carrier.
1t is charged, robbed his pouch OF
$lO.Sl, and was indicted, His trial
is set for next Wednesday.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10

cred in raising the voltage of trans
mission line was to make insulators
that would stand the strain, This has
been accomplished Another embar-
rassment incident 10 high pressure IS
leakage into the air. This is hardly
discernable at 10000 volts, and even at
1000, the present maximum in prac-
tlce, the loss is not serious, though 1t
is clearly perceptlble But DR.. Bell
says that at $4,000 or 10000 volts the
amount of energy which escapes is
enough to prohibit resort to the pres
ent method without some changes in
details. The wires are now left bare,
and are carried on poles through the
air. 1t is possible that inclosure in
tubes, with oil around the copper, or
burial under ground, might overcome
the tendency to leak. But ii is feared
that either of these plans would open
up new technical difficulties. Further
experiment is much needed, therefore,
anu Dls DSil wants W 5SS u line WHICH
shall be $50 or 200 miles long con-
structed on sufficiently new principles
to serve as test. The amount of
power thus transmitted need not be
large. A high pressure can be obtain
ed in a small steam boiler as well as
in big one. The trial might be made
for instance, with a plant generating
from 1,5OO to 1000 horse power.
The suggestion has been offered
more than once within the last few
years that even If Niagara power is
not transmitted to New York City the
metropolis might nevertheless be sim
ilarly served from the coal regions
If Pennsylvania great stores of fuel
were converted into power before leav-
ing the state; consumers at distance
might get the benefit of it just as
cheaply as now-perhaps more cheap
ly. 1t does tax the Imagination Sc
verely to conceive of this clty's streets
being traversed by horseless vehicles
and its atmosphere remaining uncon-
taminated by smoke. The millennium
may really be nearer than most people
uppose.-New York Tribune.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10
Electric Power Transmission.

An increase of a few feet in the
length of an ocean steamship, or OF
half knot in her speed over that OF
her predecessors, is regarded as a
matter of much Importance by the
general public, as well as by marine
architects and engineers. Yet even
more remarkable advances have been
made in applied science within the last
half dozen years. When the trans
mission OF power in the form Of cleo
tricity over long lines began in this
country the highest pressures used
were between 5000 and 10000 volts.
When the line between Niagara and
Buffalo was put into operation in 1896,
the current was sent at 10000 volts for
time, although the pressure was
doubled inside of year The voltage
employed on the famous Folsom-Sac-
ramento line in California was 11,50O
By degrees on some of the latter trans
mission lines these limits have been
exceeded, until, as DR.. Louis Bell
points out in the current "Cassiers," 4"
a pressure of 10000 volts is now in sue
cessful use.
The pressure at which electricity is
sent over a wire is more significant
from a commercial point Of view than
is the quantity transmitted. The high
er the pressure the more economical
is the enterprise. The conductivity of
a given thread of copper increases as
the square of pressure Less met
al is required, therefore with a high
potential than with a low one. 1t is
common to raise the pressure, for
transmission only, far above that at
which the current is to be used at its
destination, and then at the latter
point transform it down again to the
proper level for lighting, operating
cars and other industrial uses. 1t fol-
lows then, that the limit of the volt
age possible on a line determines the
distance to which power can be econo-
mlcally transmitted. And on this often
depends the choice of a site by manu-
facturers who are intending to employ
electricity.
After the great power plant at Mia
CARA was ready for business most OF
the industries that were to make use
of the facilities thus offered were es-
tablished close to the Falls,and a mag
nificent development is now taking
place there on that basis. Neyerthe-
less there has been much talk about
the possibility OF transmitting from
the cataract to cities 75 15O, 300, and
even 500 miles away AT present the
maximum distance to which Niagara
power is sent is twenty miles, but DR..
Bell says that several plants are now
in successful operation elsewhere
which send their SUPPLIES of energy to
distance OF one hundred miles.
One OF the first difficulties eneonnt-
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10
Communicated.


Editor of the Leader
l desire to make a brief statement
touching the matter of the removal of
the post Office from its present quart
ers to Putnam street.
In September last l learned that Mr..
A. w. Hutchinson had made an offer
of $1,000 per year rent for the
room now occupied by the post Office.
The government under the present
contract which expires in II months,
pays $3.50 and Mr.. Mills furnishing the
equipment, heat and light The pres
ent outfit was purchased second
hand nearly ten years ago, from Salem
Ohio, where the receipts of the Office on
ly amounted to $4,000 year. 1t is 25
years behind the times and wholly in
adequate for city like Marietta.
With the view of securing a central
location and modern Office and in or
der to give the people the very best
service, conferred with Messrs. Cram,
Follett & Conner relative to securing
quarters in their building when COM
pleted. The proposition was submit
ted and on Thursday a contract was
signed for lease of 10 years for the
west room. The lessons under the
contract to equip the Office with mod
ern furniture at a cost of S2,50O. The
floor of the public lobby is to be in tile
with a wainscoating five feet wide. A
swing room in the basement is pro-
vided for the carriers and an addition
al room for storage, with an open way
to the Union Depot five feet wide.
This will enable us to have the mail in
the Office promptly on the arrival of
the trains and the same can be dis
tributed at once. The pouches for the
mail to be dispatched can be locked
out five minutes before the departure
of trains, which will be great ac
commodation to the public.
At the present time we give the
business district four deliveries a day
and four collections if necessary. This
will be increased to five, hence the
claim made that the business men will
in any way be discommoded is not well
taken.
In order that the contract for the
building could be awarded and the
provision made for the requirements
of the post Office it became necessary
to have final action at once and the
matter was presented to the Depart
mentThursday,t the contract was signed
and the new office will be strictly up
to-date in every way.
M. M. ROSE, p. NJ.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10
Good Indian Plays Football.

The good Indian has ceased to be the
dead Indian; he is the Indian that
plays football. Schools and colleges
know the advertising value of football
teams, as parents know the benefit of
sending their sons to schools and col
leges were a healthy athletic spirit
prevails. But football, as rehabilita-
tor CT whole race is football in an
ambitious role. Yet there is no doubt
that the remarkable showing of Car
Isle has had a great effect on the way
the whole country has come to look
upon Indians. We pushed the Indians
to the wall and then tossed them a
crumb in the shape of school to make
the remnat of his race as like the
white man as possible. And, as in all
charitable doiIgs, We patronized where
we gave-the superior race, elevating
the inferior. always condescends. But
out attitude is changing. Carlisle as
charitable institution, is one thing;
as school that turns out a team to
rank close up with the very best teams
we can produce from colleges with
their thousands TO pick from, is quite
another matter.
The Indian that has come down to
us in history and fiction is not, on the
whole, as honorable a creature as the
white-although it is our natural
enough habit to attribute to the In
dian race the misdeeds CT its lowest
specimens, while we really repudiate
the misdeeds of our own outcasts.
The Indians of the football field, how
ever, have as honorable a record as
any team in the country, and a far
higher record than some that have as
pired to the first flight.
For us it must be said that we have
been only too willing to acknowledge
these good qualities of those whom
we have dispossessed of their land and
against whom we might naturally har-
Dor some resentment, were we not
magnanimous. With pleased surprise
we find the Indian as sportsmanlike
a sthe best white. Many of us are still
under the dominion OF ideas inherited
from our parents, when Indians scalp
ed and otherwise comported them
selves in a way hard of plausible ex-
panation; but the nation is now be-
ginning to feel that a race that pro-
duces as honorable a football team as
that Of Carlisle, possibly has good
points we have hitherto overlooked
The Commercial Advertiser.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10

John P. Bower, President Of the In
diana Forestry Association, has been
IN Cincinnati few days this week
visitor at Big -Four headquarters
Mr.. Brown "a he originator in this
section of a unique idea to relieve the
present strained conditions of the rail-
road market, and he has a contract
with the G. c. C. & st, L. to plant one
of that company's big farms in Marion
county. Ind, entirely with timber
in other words to grow the trees from
which ties are to be made. Fifty
thousand trees have already been
planted.
Speaking of his project Mr.. Brown
yesterday said to a Commercial Trib-
une reporter:
"All the main line railways in the
Northern states are experiencing diff
ficulty in obtaining enough crosstles
to supply their necessities. The oak is
well nigh exhausted in the principal
timber states, the South now furnish
ing the great majority of ties, both
of oak and also of yellow pine. Much
of the latter is substituted for the more
durable white oak. A limited quantity
of tamarack still remains in the vicin-
lty of the Great Lakes, while redwood
is largely used on the Pacific coast.
But the supply is rapidly dimin-
ishing," continued Mr.. Brown. "The
wasteful method Of numbering prac-
ticed throughout America effectually
prevents any material increase from
young growths. 1t is morally certain
that within a few years-even within
the life of the middle-aged man of to-
day-the end Of our timbe supply will
be reached Some of the railways,
knowing that this will become scarcer
each year, have begun the planting OF
rapid growing timber trees on their
vacant lands, with view to their use
for ties. 1t was with this object in
view that the c. C. c. G. st. L. people
contracted with me to plant their Mar
ion county farm. The catalpa species
has been selected as the tree best suit
ed for this purpose. The catalpa is a
native of the Lower Wabash Valley. 1t
formerly flourlshed about Vincennes,
and was used by General Harrison in
building the stockades in defense
against the Indians, and the great
length of time they were preserved
proves the extreme durability of the
wood. Numerous instances are re-
corded of posts and other timber re-
sisting decay for seventy-fve to hund-
red years. Singularly enough this
remarkably durable timber is of very
rapid growth, trees having attained a
growth of forty-eight inches in six
teen to twenty years from seed. On the
prairie states, where tree-planting has
been made a study and practice for
half a century, the catalpa is well
known, several forests covering
square mile each having been planted
by railway companies and others.
Experience has shown this to be a
profitable investment, trees large
enough for telegraph poles and cross
ties having grown in twenty years. 1t
is to be hoped that the Big Four catal-
pa forests in Indiana will prove a
complete success, and that others will
be planted, and in large quantities. -
Gin. Com. Trib.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10
Corn GriddIe Cakes.

Put one half of a cupful of corn meal
in a pan and add one-half of a tea
spoonful Of salt; pour one cupful of
boiling water over it. stirring it until
smooth. Beat two eggs; add one pint
o fmilk to them; add this to the scald-
ed meal and pour this over one and
one-half cupfuls of meal. Beat well
that there will be no Jumps. Have the
griddle very hot before baking the
cakes and beat the batter well before
putting on the grilde. Serve with but
ter and sugar, or put One-half cupful
of sugar and one-half cupful of boiling
water in a small pan when the sugar
is dissolved lover the fire. serve it
with the cakes.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10
Got the Best Of the Boer.

An Outlander at johannesburg
mounted on a smart looking horse
was stopped by Boer official in the
market square and ordered to surren-
der his steed for the service of the
republic. He declined, and was prompt
ly pulled of. Regaining his feet the
outlander lowered his head and charg-
ed straight at the Boer, after the fash
ion Of an angry goat. The Boer, taxi
en- by surprise at this novel mode Of
resistance was rolled in the dust by
the dust by the force of the impact,
and before he could recover his foot,
Ing the outlander was remounted and
was galloping away at racehorse speed
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10
What Was the First State
Admitted Into the Union?
616

This and thousands of other ques-
tions answered in the Peoples Stand
ard History of the United States by
Edward l.. Ellis. Fill out this blank
and send to the Leader or Register Of
flee or mail to the Peoples Standard
History Publishing Co., Cincinnati, O.,
and full particulars will be given:
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10

The news of the projected change in
the location of the post Office was con-
siderable of a surprise-to some a most
agreeable and satisfactory piece of
news, while to others it did not have
the effect of making them especially
well taken with the proposition.
Some people have the impression
that the post Office is a business
bringer, and we believe that all such
cherish a false idea of the matter. We
don't believe that proximity to the
post office in this city has made any
great change in anybody's affairs. In
several years past the location has
been shifted a number of times, and
we question if any man has suffered by
these changes.
In conversation with one of the lar
gest retailers on Front street, whose
business is in the near neighborhood
of the post Office, that gentleman stat
ed that he did not consider that his
business would be affected in the least
by the change, and his is a represen-
tative retail business which of itself
attracts.
To cite an exemple of what Marietta
will be like when the change shall
have been effected and in operation We
would mention Parkersburg. Her Of
fee is what might be termed isolated,
but does 1t in the least affect Market
street in going forward as the leading
business street of the town? The
same condition applies to GAINESVILLE.
The people who go to the post Of
fee are not necessarily traders or buy
ers, especially not so much so as the
class of people who pass back and
forth among the retail stores, attract
ed by the stores themselves and not by
the proximity of the post office.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10
Notice To Shareholders.

Marietta, Ohio, Dec g. 1899.
Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the Shareholders of
the Citizens National Bank of Mari
eta will be held at its Banking House,
corner of Putnam and Second streets,
on Tuesday, January 9th, 1900, between
the hours of 10 a. m. and A p. m.
T. NJ. SHEETS,
Cashier
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-10

It is rather interesting to note with
what soul the Register throws itself
into the post Office matter. They are
for "the people," Of course, and un-
selfshly think of everybody but them
selves in this particular matter.