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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-01
Art Needlework.

We invite inspection OF this charming COL
lection of foreign novelties and the very
m tolerate prices at which they are offered will
constitute one of the pleasant features OF the
exhibit.
MinistuIe, copied from any photographs on
buttons, brooches, sc.
Crepe Paper Lamp Shades Electric Light
Shsd Paper Flowers for table decorations,
go, made to order.
Crc,ts Initials and Monograms ombroidcr'
ed to order on handkerchiefs, towels, table
linens, or other articles intended for gifts.
First floor
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-01

DRY HOoIs.
v Woodward & LOtbrOp
10th, 18th and F StS.. N. ".
We Will Exhibit
TODAY, THURSDAY. AND FRIDAY,
Paris, Berlin and Vienna
Novelties, Bric-a-brac and Italian
Marble Statuary, Foreign
Pottery, &c.,
Represoptipg rare and beautiful specimens of
our direct importation and personal selection
anil elegant examples of Art Noedlework,
designed especially for
Wedding, Anniversary and Holiday
Gifts.
Superb sevres Figures and Vases. Bronzes
and Miniatures, Carrara Marble Busts, Statu'
cites and Reclining Figures Italian Marble
Pe6estals; Exquisite Onyx, Marble, Royal
Bonnie, Wedgewood, French Gilt and Enam-
eled Clocks Studded with jewels: Venetisn
and Bohemian Glass, French Gilt Candelabra
Boudoir Ormou Mantel Sets, French Gilt and
Onyx Ornaments, Jardinieres and Pedestals
and Venetian Vases, Italian and Austrian
Ornaments, and variety OF other articles
representing both modern and 10th century
art
Also French Gilt and Sterling Silver Photo
Frames, with Rhines one Settings; Russian
Enamel and Sterling Silver Desk Sets, Ink
stands, Seals, Paper Cutters, Letter Rocks
Portfolios. Memorandum and Address Books
Wedgewood Perpetual Calendars
Also Elegant Evening Fans, Opera Glasses,
Party Bags; Glove aud Handkerchief Boxes'
Leather Travelling Clocks Toilet Cases, Chat
elaines, Card Cases. Pigskin, Elephant, and
Seal Pockctbooks, Cigar and Cigarette Cases,
Safety Pockets, Sterling Silver and Gold
Purses, Pearl Necklaces, Silver Back Hair
Brushes, Combs, and Other Toilet Articles;
Pearl Gold, and Silver Long Chains. Silver
Manicure Sets, Silver Tea Kettles and Coffee
Urns, Silver Form Dishes, and scores of other
things for Gifts and Souvenirs Also Dainty
Bits and Eegancies in
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

and trades, impure air, overcrowding, the
habitual use or abuse of drugs and alco-
hohc liquors, over-excitemtn of the nerv-
Gus system, excessive brain work worry,
grief, anxiety, and the direct accidents of
life.
The present duration of life could be
greatly increased without any thera-
peutic applications of electrical medica
or anything else IL one or two things are
done
while il cannot be mathematically
proved that we ought to live to attain the
age of 100 years, this Is, nevertheless, rem
dered highly probable by a variety of cir
cumstances.
What can be done to retard the pro-
gress of senile involution? The discom-
forts and miseres of old age, apart from
actual disease, are varied and numerous
and they are in general rebelous to treat
ment. Active medicines are apt to dis
agree with elderly people and a great mas
ter of medicine was wont to remark that
the only drug that did them any good was
sulphate of magnesia. Under these cir
cumstanceS it seems to me that a new
plan of treatment which promises, if not
to prevent at least to retard greatly the
progress of the disabilities of old age ana
10 disperse them to a great extent after
they have become established should be
welcome addition to the therapeutic re-
sources of humanity.
Madame de Stael remarked that the
great agents for retarding the inroads
of old age were exercise, study, and love.
There is much hidden wisdom in those
recommendations. 1t seems TO me, how
ever that the true theory-at least it Is
mine that the degeneration of the neuron
is the base of all forms of senile invou-
ton. 1t follows therefore, that the pro-
gress of the latter can only be arrested
by causing an improvement in the nu-
triton of the neuron. This l believe |
have done. Experience has led me to
think that such a remedy exists, in the
careful and appropriate use of the con-
slant electrical current"
The current used is not the ordinary
galvanic, but something on the order of
the snusoidal.
DR.. Prosser's description of the appara-
tus he uses is, perhaps, designedy a lit
tie vague, but 1t is our belief that II is
the new sinusoidal There are several
kinds of electrical currents. Some go
straight as 1t were, others alternate.
Some give a sharp up beat, then pause,
and make an equally steep declination
towards the other pole. The sinusoldaI
is one way which seems to have no pref
erence-it makes a waving, regular mo-
ton, like semi-circles alternately Joined
together.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14
scrcy Directly to the Base Of the Brain and Has Post

practical, scientific method Of post
poning old age has been discovered and
hoiic liquors, over-excitement of the nerv-
cess by DR.. J. d. Prosser. Medical Di-
rector Of the Abbo Medical and Surgical
institute.
DR.. Prosser is the founder Of the Ab5o
Institute and fer three years has done
the largest and most successful practice
of any physician in Savannah or in the
South. He has made a specially of the
treatment Of disease by electricity and is
regarded as a man of the highest profess
sional eminerce.
II is by the application of special cur
rent of electricity directly to the base of
the brain and spine that DIR. Prosser re-
tards or ameliorates Old age. While treat
ing patients for various ailments by cleo
tricity he discovered by accident that the
treatment had a marked effect upon senn-
ity. He then begun to practice 1t syste-
maticaily for this last disease.
In the first place II should be remember
ed that what we cali old age is far snort
Of the natural length of life of our spe-
cies. Most Psychologists agree that man
should naturally attain a life OF at least
100 years and that only abnormal condi-
tons cause him to collapse from old age
before then TO give man his natural
length of life is all that DIR. Prosser seeks
at present. To Morning News reporter
he explained his discovery and mis- treat
ment, which has been given to many of
Savannah's leading citizens who were
bowed down by premature age and innrm-
tiles, who now exclaim. mo longer do 1
walk; l fly Young fellows have now a
difficulty in keeping up with me-"
DR.. Prosser explains that The arterio-
Notwithstanding of the walls of the
arteries-which is the first symptom of
old age-is followed by a disintegration
of the brain cells, which gradually invades
the whole organ and extends last TO the
medulla oblOngata, near the basis of the
brain. II is this process which produces
the well known mental characteristics of
advancing age The medulla ob.ongata is
obviously the spot to which restoration
and rejuvenating treatment may be ap-
Piled
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

the bureau will each receive an average
salary Of about 500 per year. They win
not be paid so much al the start. This
VIII involve an outlay of 81, 100000 per wear
for clerical work alone There employees
work six and one-half hours per dav =,
that the loss of one minute per day in the
work of the bureau would cost the govern
ment $1,000 per year. This examine is
only one of many Illustrations that coulG
be given of the importance Of having eff
Gent and rapid work
Iaking into account the saving of tim.
ana the Increase in efficiency. a building
costing $4,000 would pay for itself in one
year and in five years, or the duration
OF one census, would save to the govern
ment three-fourths of a million dol.arA
Ihere is some reason to believe that If
the new building is found to meet The re-
qulrements of the bureau, il will be pur-
chased by Congress for The permanen,
home of the census.
Whlle 1t is impossible to estimate he-
forehand the expense of taking the con
sus, 1t is pretty certain. on the nost 500
nomca4 basis, TO amount to more than $40 =
OOOp. That is the minimum of what !,
will cost us to learn how great we have
become as a nation"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

by holes punched in the cards Experience
has shown that the average number of
records that can be transferred from the
schedules to the punch cards by each clerk
in one day is 200. 1t is the intention of the
census authorities, as soon as the sched-
ules are received to set 1000 clerks at work
with the punching machines. This will
mean something like 100000 punched cards
per day, and should exhaust the entire
number of 70,0O0000 or Whereabouts In APP
proXimately one hundred working days. OF
course little longer time may be re-
quired, or a little less.
The punching machine, which is the
principal time and labor saver of the new
apparatus, is something like a typewriter
in appearance. The punch is attached TO
movable key. which plays over a per-
forated keyboard arranged like the key
board of a typewriter. Ii contains over
200 symbols, and is an exact duplicate of
the cards employed to contain the stalls
ties of each person. For the most part
these symbols consist Of figures and cas-
lily understood authorizations, and the la
Dor Of learning TO operate the machine is
hardly any greater than that of mastering
the typewriter.
LAS fast as they are punched and sorted
according to sex, nativity or color the
cards VIII be taken 10 the machine room
and run through the electric tabulatIng
machines To take off all the information
contained on the cards they will be run
through the machines four or possibly five
times Each Instrument is capable of
disposing of about 5000 cards per day. and
il will, therefore, require 40 of them 10
keep up with the punching machines.
Roughly described. the electric count
ing machine consists of a box of needles
set on spiral springs. These needles de-
sceud on each card as it passes through
the machine. Where there are no hoes
they pass through and dip into a cup Of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14
How Old Age May Be Postponed.
Blu DIR. ]. D. PROSSER, Medical Director Of the ABB0
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE President
of the ABBO BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION,

Our mean lifetime is at present about
80 years. but the complete cycle of ply
siological life to which We ought all to
aspire is 100.
1 have come to the conclusion that if
old people receive about the sixtieth or
sixty-hfth year-or, indeed, al any time
when age has begun decidedly to tell
upon them-proper and faultlessly car
ried out applications of electricity to the
brain, either daily or every other day for
some time, they may keep their faculties
fairly well until the age of so or go I'M
less the case should be complicated with
serious organic disease.
In cases of senium proprium-true old
age-more especially in its early stage,
1 have likewise found trat we are able
by a cautious use of the constant cur
rent to the brain, and more especially
to the vase-motor center in the bulb,
greatly to retard the progress of the
arterio-sclerosls and the invoiutlon or
the central neuron. A week or two al
ter the commencement of such treat
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

the impediments to the work in the census
of 1890. At that time the census bureau
paid out in rents more than $150.O0O. 1t oc-
cupied a number of different buildings and
different floors of buildings none of which
were especially adapted to its use. The
lack of a suitable home in the past has
made the proper supervision and control
Of The census work impossible, and has re-
suited in serious delays and inconvenien-
ces, as well as in the loss of property
and records.
"At the recent session of Congress no
action was taken on the question of a
building, and no appropriation for the pur-
rose was made. We think however, that
private capital win undertake the cree
ton of a building according 10 plans pre-
pared by ourselves The rent of such a
building, constructed 10 meet our particu-
lar requirements, will be less than the cost
of securing a sufficient amount Of room in
any buildings now available for the pur-
pose In Washington.
The building viii be of brick, one story
high, except i'm the portion devoted 10 the
administration. II will be lighted almost
entirely by skyfights. One wing win con-
tain the punching room, $50 by go feet,
with accommoda tons for the Loco clerks
employed in that department The other
wing will be occupied by 1000 tabulating
clerks. Between the two will be rooms for
the schedules, for supplies and for the
counting machines. In the rear will be
room for the counting machines with
small printing establishment for the use
of the bureau in printing its own cards,
bulletins and circulars.
Around the large rooms viii run ga
leries for the storage of materials, and
these will also accommodate few clerks
engaged in special work.
The matter of proper supervision is OF
great importance in work of this kind
For example, the 5000 clerks employed N
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

mercury placed underpeath. This com
q,letes an electric circuit and sets In mo-
ton an Indicator like the second hand OF
a clock, the various dials thus enumera-
ting all the facts and combinations OF
facts wanted From the Indicator dia!s
the figures are copied off on result slips
and filled for the compiling clerks.
1T Is estimated that each OF the taou-
lating machines complies and registers
information that would require the ser
vices of twenty clerks under the old sys-
tenn of tally-sheets. A consideration Of
even more Importance is It's greater aceu-
racy. The machine automatically throws
out any card that is wrong,
For example, IL one of the details, say
sex, has not been indicated on the card,
the -plunger will not register and the bell
at the side of the machine when rings 70
indicate the correctness Of each caro- re-
mains silent. Ii is then comparatively
easy matter 10 go back to the schedules
and supply the missing information,
where as on the tally-sneets SUCH mis-
take would hardly be discovered.
THE third stage in preparing the facts
and figures for publication is the tabu-
latlng. This will be in charge OF force
of 900 clerks and eopyists. whose work
will be the preparation of statistical Ia
bles, and copy for the printers. The
fourth and final stage is the typesetting,
printing and binding, from which the
bulky volumes will emerge ready for dis
tribution.
Not only viii the coming census have
superior mechanical appliances for pre-
pairing its results, but It will probably
be the first in this or any other country
TO have the advantage Of a building con-
structed especially to meet the needs OF
census work The plans for the building
are already drawn and its erection, 1t
is hoped, will begin within short time.
1.-THE lack of such a building was one "
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

Scientists recognize two forms of old
age-premature senility and the genuine
old age that comes with years. Both Of
these seem 70 be cured by the electrical
treatment devised by DR.. Prosser. Virchow
has said, "a man is as old as his arte-
ries.' 1t is known that in man what is
known as arteriosclerosis-a hardening of
the walls of the arteries-begins to set in
about the Goth year. This, however, seems
to form no barrier TO the success of the
Abbo method of fighting old age or re-
storingto the graybeard the youth he has
lost.
"Our mean lifetime is at present about
80 years, but the complete cycle of physio-
logical life, to which we ought all to in
spire. is 100. That so few people reach
this contamination seems TO me to be ow-
ing to bad inheritance, mismanagement
of children, neglect of the sick and aged,
improper food, unwholesome dwellings
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

These papers will be returned to Washing
ton, and if not properly filled out, the APP
plicant for an enumeratorship viii be re-
iected In this way we probably shall get
n better set of enumerators than ever be-
fore. This is a matter of primary import
ance for if the Information supplied by
the enumerators is faulty, or incomplete,
no amount of care in the central ONCE
can remedy the defect.
1.-The agents appointed to report on spe-
cial Industries win he selected on the basis
Of skill and experience, and their employ
rnent will be in the nature of expert work.
when the machinery for the gathering
of information Is ready for operation, the
blank schedules, in the form of portfolios,
will be sent out TO all enumerators, They
viii go about from house 10 house jot-
ting down in proper order the name age,
sex nativity, color, occupation. etc, of
each person When the enumerators have
thoroughly covered their territory the port
fo1ios will be returned to Washington, and
the facts transcribed TO cards for compE-
alton.
'gThe old method Of computing the facts
contained in census was by laoorious
system of hand-tallying Every fact relat-
ing 10 each person was indicated by pen
Gil mark under the proper heading, on big
sheets provided for the purpose. This plan
was clumsy. slow and exceedingly liable to
error. Toward the end of the last census it
was superseded by the new method Of
mechanical compilation. Every process
formerly executed by hand is now carried
out by the Hollerth machine many times
more rapidly and with much greater ac-
curacy. Their highest recommendation.
however. is that they enable US to count
combinations of facts.
I'm compiling the results of the enumers-
alton, every person in the United States
will be represented by card. The facts
recorded concerning each person are shown
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

The western vault in the United States
mint now being constructed in Philadel.
phia' will. ii is said, constitute the largest
strong box in the world. Its various d.
mansions are upward of ninety-eight INV
two and ten feet, and the several comnart.
ments into which it is divided viii have
total holding capacity of $ll2.Om.OO. To
silver dollars, It may be noted. This western
vault viii DC devoted entirely; the otba.
two east and north, being designed 10 CON
lively. 'T tesPec-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

Couldn't Let Go the Handles and
Thief Went Through His Pocket.
From the New York Sun.

Acih tAle view 1Ah sun
Jantel Goroditzslx, a Hebrew, who had
fun flowing board and wore a high hat
and fine frock coat, entered the Delaney
street station last night a thoroughly an
cry man. He said that he was from Phil
adelphia, and that ne had found New
York too swift for him. AS he related his
experience, angry as he was, he laughed
He said he was walking in Grand street.
when he saw man with an electric ma
chine peddhng shocks to children at
penny shock. The little ones laughed
so much that he fished out a penny ana
said he'd try the machine himself.
He bulls oudt der handle a liddle way
said Goroditzski, "und / veels somedings
diekle mine handt. Den he bulls oudt der
handle away oudt und bod off mine handtS
go up in der air und CANT get EN- down.
VIE HELPLESS am / a loafer runs ub una ne
dakes mine watch and schain. / stamp
und rache und schwear, but der felier inlL
der machine keebs mine handts in DER ar
undil der def ISIS gone, ven he bushes der
hantle in ind rus away nit der maehine
Goroditzski displayed considerable mon
ey that he said he was willing TO spend u
catch the thieves.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

n1ent the energy of the system is habu.
tqly found to have been considerably en-.
hauced. The old man takes fresh interes
in ,ba affairs of daily life, he resumes HI,
work with some amount of vigor, he has
more erect attitude, he walks and stand.
better, and he has quicker digestion
and healthier step.
His general aspect is so much Changed
that he looks five or ten years younee,
than before the treatment was commenc.
ed.
In no case t1at i have treated was III.
treatment entirely useless. The function
which improved in every one of them wa,
that of walking.
In PRESENTLY. or premature old age
too early decline of the veril or physical
powers, manifested by a commencing de.
cadence of the reproductive organs. vast.
ing of the PROSTATE. tesies, mamae or
ovar,es caused by overwork, sexual ey.
cesses, or sedentary habits, it is unez-
celed as a vitalizing tonic to the wItherei
glands of the reproductive system.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-14

AT the Afro-Amercan Club.-"I s'pos7
dem folks in Samoa am cullud?'
Il spec dey is. Why?" III,
II wuz jes t'inkiu' IL a Teller had a p-"
wild de administration he might gu az
p'inted King of Samoa. PUCK.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-06-30
SCIENTIFIC LIGHTING.
Men Who Are Experts at This Sort of
Work Are Now Regularly I'm
pI0yed by Architects.

As people are gradually coming to
realize that hot and badly ventilated
rooms mean debility and eventual sick
ness, the ''ventilating engineer" has
taken his place on the staff on which
the architect relies for the carrying out
of his designs in dwelling construction.
Side by side with this improvement in
the hygienic conditions of the interior
of houses has arisen new conception
of the esthetic possibilities of artificial
light, and in the creation of the modern
houses of the wealthy classes the light
artist" has become a very important
parsonage.
A well-known light designer talks en-
tertainingly on the subject. He COM
parcs light with happiness, which is all
a matter of contrast, and must be treat
ed accordingly. He tells how Alma
radema, in London, has a small door
to his atrium, in order that its size may
be the more felt on entering; so must
the degree of light be graduated
throughout the building. On entering
dimly-lit hall from the dark it APP
pears brilliant; but this, again, must
be cclipsed by the light of the recep-
ton rooms. So there should be, as in
Il good photograph, light and dark por-
tons, and semitones, for a room lit
equally throughout gives fiat effect,
and is neither artistic nor restful. 1t
should not be forgotten that the pupil
of the human eye has considerable
power of expansion and contraction;
and in the presence of a bright light
an involuntary contraction takes place.
Reading under such conditions is de-
structive to the eye. Frost your lamp.
and, though you get actually ten per
cent. less light, you get apparently
more, for it is diffused. S~S~
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-06-30
AMERICAN WOMEN,

There are Jap women clergymen.
Lawyers who are not men are 20S.
Female detectives are 27O in number.
Consulting fashion expert is a St.
Louis woman's occupation.
Journalists number SSs, with 2,725
authors and literary persons.
About 800 girls are employed in the
harness trade in New York.
Only two women have been Mscov-
cred who are veterinary surgeons.
In New York a blacksmith's shop is
managed by three young women.
OF chemists, assayers and metallur-
gists, there are twoscore lacking one.
Nineteen women brave the dangers
of wilds and forest as trappers and
guides.
In New Orleans one of the finest or
chestras is composed entirely of
women.
At the Young Women's Christian as
ISOLATION, Philadelphia, two young
women are in charge of the elevators.
A fact foundry-or an agency for sup
plying facts upon any subject at short
notice-is the industry of two Chicago
women.
The woman manager of California
insurance company is credited with the
largest salary paid to any woman
$4,000 year.
An entire block of houses In New
York was papered by a young woman
who takes the contract for such orders
from builders.
Female teachers and professors num-
Der 100000, exclusive of teachers of
music, who are 34,5l0 strong. and 10000
artists and teachers of art.
The chamber of commerce, Cincin-
natl, has restaurant run by three
Scotswomen, and they clear about $l5,-
900 yearly, although their annual rental
is $1,000.