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The evening times., 1899-05-22
ORDERS FOR AMMUNITION.
Mary yland Company to Make PrOjec.
tiles for the Government.

Cumberland, Md. May 22.-The order OF
the United States Government placed with
the Cumberland Steel and Tin Plate Com
pany for pojectiles calls for 100 10-inch.
100 Pinch, and LOO 13-inch. all Of which
must he completed in two years. The To-
inch are almost completed. To make a
lo-inch projectile il requires SEQ POUNDS
of steel. a 12-inch 1900 pounds. and 49,
inch 2.l00 pounds. The company manu-
factures all its chemicals used in STEEL
making. In making the projectiles the
steel is poured through runner" that
is. it comes up from the bottom. instead
OF being poured in at the top of the mold
The company is increasing the capac t.
Of the plant, which. with the tin mil, COW
ers eleven acres. Many improvements
have just been made, chief among them
the installation of an acid open-hearth
furnace. :he construction of which re-
quired 800. 600 fire brick. all of which were
made here. This is the first furnace of the
kind to be built in western Maryland and
will be followed by others. Heat is sup
piled by Swindell gas producers and the
whole will be inclosed in large steel
building. to be completed some time in
June. The 24-pot crucible furnaces havs
all been rebuilt. The hammer shop has
five hammers of from 1,500 to 5000
pounds. and in the machine shop there a:e
thirty lathes and presses. Over $50 men
are employed at the combined plants.
The evening times., 1899-05-22
Gen. RuiH Rivera,

(From the New Orleans Times -Dcmocrat)
Gen. Ruis Rivera. who has Just been appoint
ed Civil Governor of Havana. is entirely unlike
the typical Cuban-the small. dark. wiry. ex-
citable. gesticulating son OF the tropics. lie is
a big. grave man. desp-chcsted. slow-spokcn and
courtly. Most of the Latin people have aqui-
line features, ascetic sensual. according to
temperament. General Rivera looks like bronzed
Norwegian. equatorial Viking. His nose is
almost rctrousse. His eyes -iidded;
his expression is sad. austerc. thoughtful. Those
who know say he is the best educated and most
intellectual Of all the Cuban leaders When seated
in conversation he is fond Of turning sideways in
his chair, linking his hands across the back and
listening with his eyes half closed. lie tails
calmly, concisely, and without any excitement.
and he conveys invariably an impression of great
reserve power. His English is very good. but his
phrasng is somewhat formal. which is usually
the with anybody who has learned language
chiefly from books One finger Of the right hand
is missing; it was annputatnd years ago by bull
let. General Rivera has been in New Orleans
frequently, and visited here last winter. Before
the last Cuban revolution. when lie was an exile
coffee planting in British Honduras. he used 10
occupy his leisure inventing problems in chess.
some of which he sent to the Times Democrat"
They were printed and attracted much attention.
The evening times., 1899-05-22
ASSESSMENTS IN MONTANA.
Taxes ON Press Assoclations and
Hallway Franchises.

Taxes ON Press Assoclatlons and
Railway Franchises.
Helena, Mont. May Pat a recent
meeting Of the city council the following
self-explanatory report was made and
adopted:
Your special committee to whom was
referred the matter Of assessing franchises
and comforting with the county asse ssors
with reference thereto beg leave to report
that we have had meeting with the coun-
ty assessors, and as a result thereof would
recommend that the following valuation
be placed upon the franchises herein enu-
me rated:
Helena Consolidated Water Company.
s400, 900: Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. $1,000: Postal Telegraph Company.
81 900; Bell Telephone Company. $4,000;
Helena Gas Company, $1,000; Helena Elec-
trio Light Company, $780, 900: Independent
Associated Press franchise, $25, 900; Herald
Associated Press franchise, $4,000: Helena
Water and Electric Power Company, $l.o00;
Great Northern Company, 100000; North
ern Pacific Railway Company, $40 .eeO.
While the legality Of the assessment viii
doubtless be determined In the courts.
prominent attorneys say that the assessors
have not acted without their functions as
prescribed by law. 1t is believed that
Helena Is the first city In the country TO
tax press associations and railroad iran
chises.
The evening times., 1899-05-22

plant, he should. of course. see reputa-
BILE physician at once and obey his direc-
tions implicitly. In the case Of slight
illness. little rest and good nursing will
often be all that Is needed. But there are
nine chances to one that irresponsible dos
ing will do more harm than good. There
are three or four different sorts OF COM
plants, whose manifestations. in their ear
ly stages, are rather alike, and the person
who advises his friend to take such and
such thing for a headache, because he
himself has been helped by it. may be pre-
scribing the very worst sort of remedy for
the headache in question. 1t does not
make very much difference whether the
remedy is old-fashioned herbs or patent
medicine, or druggists compound, 1t Is
likely to do harm in any event. There used
to be an old proverb. Stuff cold and
starve a fever" and ignorant and IRA
food to a person suffering from influenza
and never thought that that proyerb might
be another one syncopated, as. in fact. it
is. The original warning was, Stuff a
cold and you will have to starve fever"
The proper thing to do with a cold is to
put 1t on a meagre diet. and inasmuch as
half the diseases from which we suffer are
due to overfeeding of some sort or other
it is not a bad plan to limit ones self to
a plain but wholesome bill of fare, what
ever may be the matter
Almost any physician will frankly admit
that if his patients would live healthy
life, with plenty OF outdoor exercise, free
dom from worry, plain food. and all the
sleep they could get, two-thirds of them
would be well and strong in less than a
year. The trouble with most of us is that
we live under unnatural conditions, and
call in the physician, not to make us we'll,
but to rescue us from the results of our
own self-abuse. Sometimes this self-abuse
is forced upon US by the necessity OF earn
ing living, and sometimes il is the re-
suit of foolish ambition or love OF pleasure.
In either case, dosing will not cure the
trouble. If one has a disease which will
not yield TO natural. wholesome treatment,
let physician attend to it: but the less
ones system suffers from the assaults of
strange and unwholsome drugs the more
likely II will be to withstand the inevitable
wear and tear OF existence
The evening times., 1899-05-22
THE MARTINS DESERT AMERICA
swear df Fheir Aiiestance and
Leave for England.

New You'd May 22.-The Journal
prints the following:
1T can be positively announced that
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martin have turned
their backs upon their old friends. and
have left these shores forever. There
have beent allj sorts of rumofs as to the
real intentions of the Bradley Martins,
but these were all set to rest the day be-
fore they sailed for Europe. when they ap-
peared at the tax Office in this city and
swore off both their personal taxes and
their allegiance to the United States.
President Feitner of the tax board, re-
ceived the Bradley Martins. who were ac-
companied by Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Brad
ley Martins mother. in the same office
where William Waldorf Astor made an af-
fdavit that he was foreigner. Mrs Mar
tin spoke freely Of the reasons which had
lied the family to leave the land where
the millions she had inherited from her
father were made by selling barrel slaves.
She made clear her belief that the social
set in which she had spent a part OF her
married life suffered greatly when COM
pared with the highest social circle in
England, in which she expected to live and
move.
President Feitner finally said that
Mrs. Martin. her brother and husband
would have to make an affidavit of their
intention to leave American and never re-
turn to 1t as a dwelling place. Though
they did not like to be compelled to swear
to anything. and said that their word had
always been taken everywhere as the
truth. President Feitner read from the
statute and convinced them that II they
wanted to escape paying personal taxes
mere they would have to take big oath
and sign paper stamped with big seal.
After the official ceremony was over
and there was no chance for the Bradley
Martins escaping from the solemn compact
which made them foreigners they shook
President Feitner warmly by the hand, and
invited him to drop in and see them when
in London.
The personal property Of the Bradley
Martins and Mrs. Sherman has been taxed
for years at $4,000, coo. and it is said that
one reason for the removal to London was
that their assessment on their real and
personal property had been raised to
$l,0o0,0O0. They paid $4,000 taxes"
The evening times., 1899-05-22
REED NAY NOT RETIRE.
Delights Of Power May Keep tn
CxaH I'm C0nUHeaa.

Csar in Congress.
New York. May 22.-"So long as there is
the remotest possibility of Thomas B.
Reeds remaining in Congress and becom-
ing again candidate for Speaker, l shall
be for him and against everybody else. "
exclaimed Congressman George w. Ray,
after visit to Senator Platt at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel yesterday.
Mr.. Ray represents Mr. Platts old Con-
gressional district, and is intimate with
both the Senator and the Speaker Il can
not believe" continued Mr.. Ray, that Mr..
Reed seriously intends to retire from Con-
gress, knowing as he does that his party
has a very slight majority, and that every
Republican Of brains and every Republican
vote will be necessary to maintain control
of the next House.
"Yes, know 1t has been announced that
the Speaker is to retire and join a law firm
in this city-on his return from Europe.
have been making a pretty thorough inves-
tigation, and l have yet to find a man to
whom Mr.. Reed has confided his intention
to get out of Congress before his term ex-
pires. You will nose that he has not yet re-
signed. Nor SO far as i am informed is
there any contest in his home district as to
who shall succeed him.
You have been talked of as Speaker
ship possibility yourself?"
We'll, 1 might be If l were sure that
Reed is out of it."
That there was bit of truth in Mr..
Rays surmises was made evident by en-
quiry yesterday. Senator Platt could not
say that Reed had personally told him he
proposed to get out of Congress. though he
had accepted as authoritative the statement
of William NJ. Barnum that Reed said be
would become the head of his law firm,
and would certainly retire from Congress
and devote his entire attention to the prac-
tice of his profession.
The evening times., 1899-05-22
FATAL FIRE CAUSED BY A CAT.
4 Lamp Upset and nm Aged Woman
Turned.

Newburg. NJ Y, May 22.-Miss Agnes
Sutter, wealthy woman, seventy-six
years old. was burned to death under pc
culiarly shocking circumstances yesterday
morning in her home. in this city. The
structure is large three-story prich
building.
Miss Suffers house was formerly occu-
pied by Captain William Blanford and
family. with whom she boarded. The
Blanfords moved out last Friday. and Miss
Sutter was left alone in the house that
night and last night.
Miss Sutter had pet cat and the Blan-
fords owned large dog. The dog fright
ened the cat away from the house about
week ago After the dog went away WIN
the Blanfords the cat returned to the house
on Friday Miss Sutter generally occupied
a room of her front sitting room on the
second floor There was bed in the
former and a couch in the latter.
The blinds OF the Sutter house were all
closed tightly last night. and this morning
il appeared from the outside as though
there was no person within. Shortly a1ter
. O'Clock. however. smoke was seen issuing
from the front windows on the second
floor.
Miss Suffer was found lying on her face
on the floor OF her sitting-room, with
part Of a marble mantel across her. Her
head and body were burned to crisp and
her right arm missing. Close by the body
lay the remains Of Miss Suffers pet cat,
which had also been burned to death.
The aged woman was attired only in her
night clothes. and evidently slept on the
couch in the room where the fire started.
There was small stove in the room. but
there were no indications OF a fire having
been in it. On the parior floor below was
found broken lamp that had fallen
through a hole burned in the floor. 1t was
known to be the custom of Miss Sutter
to burn this lamp all night, and she usual
ly left ii standing on a table. 1t is be-
lieved that the lighted lamp was upset and
knocked OFF the table by Miss Suffers pet
cat and the fire. which resulted in her
death, was started in this manner
Miss Sutter was a niece OF Jarvis Knapp.
who died here few years ago at the age
of ninety-eight years. She was a grand
niece of Uzal Knapp, the last survivor of
Gneeral Washington's lifeguard, who died
in 1856. at the age OF nirety-six. Her on
ly living relatives are nephews and niece5.
The evening times., 1899-05-22
DEATH OF REV. DE-. sourHoArr.
Prominent EpincOpal Rector Expires
Suddenly In AnnapOlia.


Annapolis. Nd. May 22-Rev. DR.. Will
liam Scott Southgate. rector Of St. Anne's
Protestant Episcopal Church, Annapolis,
died suddenly last evening at his residence
on Murray Hill. He had been i'll since
Tuesday, though sitting up. His daughter,
Mrs. E. ID. Pusey. who had left his room
TO go downstairs, heard noise. and on
entering lis chamber found her father
dead. Two hours before, DIR. W. c. Claude.
who attended him, found his patient cheer
full. He said he felt very much better and
intimated there would be no further use
for attendance on him. Incidentally. DR..
Claude remarked that this was his birth
day. He had baen afflicted with diabetes
and his sudden death is attributed to heart
failure. He mad fallen out Of chair in
which he was sitting, and was alone when
the end came.
DR.. Southgate was born at Portland, Me-,
April 10, 1888. He graduated from Bowdoin
College in 1851. and from the General
Theological Seminary in New York in 1855.
He was ordained in July OF the same year
and for year and half was rector Of
the church Of the Advent In Boston. He
then went to Brattleboro. VT. where for
four years he was rector Of st. Michaefs S
Church. The three years following were
spent at Lltcnneid. conn. his VIE III
health took him abroad and the next four
years were spent in Europe and in Mexico.
He was called to st. Anne's parish in 1863
and settled In Annapolis in October Of that
year. On the first of next October. there
FORE he would have completed the thirtieth
year Of his rectorship.
His was the longest and most successful
incrmbency OF the forty-one ministers
who have been in charge of that venerable
parish since 1t was established under the
act OF 1892 as Middle Neck Parish Of Anne
Arundel County. Including DR.. Southgate,
seven of those rectors have died in the
service of the parish. and none OF them
survives him. In November, 1858, DR..
Southgate married Harriet Randolph Tai
colt. daughter of Col Andrew Ta.cott,
United States Army. Mrs. Southgate died
in 1886, leaving three sons and three
daughters. The eldest son. Rando' ph. is
assistant superintendent of roadway OF
the Southern Railway. The second son,
William. is living in New York. Tne
youngest son, George, is paymaster's c,erk
in the navy. Grace. the eldest daughter.
married Chief Engineer a. V. Zane, Tn ted
States Navy. The second daughter, Fan
ny, is the wife OF Rev. John c. Gray. rec
tor of Grace Church. Elkridge Landing.
The youngest daughter. Anita, is the wife
of Prof. E. d. Pusey. of st. Johns Co.
lege who was recently captain in the First
Regiment Maryland. Uunited States Vol
unteers. DIR. Southgate was well known
throughout the State and was gene. ally
admired for his profound learning and
great Utility.
The evening times., 1899-05-22
The Electric Fire Rail.

(From the New Orleans Times Democrat)
Electricity is like mule in one re-
spect." said a veteran operator. You can
never tell just when it's going to get up
on its front legs and kick you into the
middle Of next week. / remember. years
ago, when was night chief operator at the
office in Richmond, Va, a very strange
thing happened. l was sitting at my table
one night at about II O'Clock waiting for
it to stop raining so l could go home.
There was a big storm up the line. and
while We didn't feel it to any great ex-
tent in the city, the lightning had been
playing the mischief with the wires in the
Office and several of the connections had
burned out. All of a sudden I heard a
strange swapping sound at my instrument.
and the next thing knew flash OF blush
white fire lit up the whole room. Then a
globe of fame about the size of an orange
seemed to spring from the armature and
began to roll slowly from over the top of
the table. AS nearly as l can describe the
thing. it was like globule of molten met
al, glowing through and through with in
candescent fire and shimmering with every
color of the rainbow. 1t was beautiful to
look at. and fascinated me like a snake.
Moreover. 1t seemed as fragile as bubble
as If a touch would shiver it to atoms
and without thinking l reached for it with
a wooden ruler. Luckily my assistant had
more sense and he yelled at me so fran
tically that l stopped before I touched it.
Just then the fiery ball reached the edge
and rolled off. AS it struck the floor it
shattered like a drop of quicksilver and
suddenly disappeared. When 1 recovered
my senses and looked at the table l was
shocked. The instrument was a wreck
and the track of the electric apparition
was charred into the wood a half inch
deep. If had prodded it l wouldn't be
telling the story. for the ruler had a metal
edge. and certainly would have been cleo
trocuted then and there. l have heard of
such balls of fire from a few old opera
tors, but that's the only one ever saw,
and IN not yearning to see another. Mo-
body has ever been able to explain them.
OF course, the time speak Of was before
the introduction Of improved current ar
resters. and nowadays such visitors are
pretty effectively barred out"
The evening times., 1899-05-22
The Disappearance of Teeth.

Much has been said recently on the sub
iect of what man is coming to. Certainly
in many ways he is undergoing gradual
transformations, and apparently for the
worse II a pessimistic view be taken it
must seem that man is beginning to re-
turn to that shape which Darwinians be-
lieve was his starting point in the process
of evolution.
For example, there is growing tenden-
cy for the jaw of modern man to recede.
One authority attributes this to the habit
of allowing infants and often young chill
dren to continually suck what are called
babies comforters. or teats. This. it ap-
pears, has an inclination to draw in the
law at an age when the bones are hardly
set.
Primitive man, it has been proved, used
his teeth as a weapon, in the same way
that dog does. When he came to rely
more on weapons of his own manufacture.
the strength of the teeth was no longer
called into service for protection or de-
dence. This, also, has tended to make the
human jaw recede.
Then, again, there is at the present time
a great increase in the decay of teeth. es-
pecially among children. Eminent dental
surgeons who have been consulted on the
matter agree that the decline Of the teeth
is due to the present artificial mode of
ilNlUS, 10 duulteidtSu pEONIoloho, anu "
the habit of cooking everything until ten
der
One eminent specialist says that in Lent
he is twice as busy as at any other time.
The reason for this. SO he asserts. is that
there are fewer parties then. and people
do not mind so much being a few days
mot at home" to their friends. should
their front teeth want repairing. In this
respect it is interesting to learn that men
are even more vain than women.
The dentist in question tells good sto-
ry of q woman who certainly had an origi-
nal reason for having her teeth attended
to during Lent.
81 have put off coming to see you about
my teeth until now." she began, as she
sunk into a seat. because have several
to be stopped AS. OF course. you'll tell
me to starve myself for twenty four hours
each time you stop one, 1 may as well do
it in Lent. when. in any case. l should
have to do little fasting."
AS showing the decadence Of the teeth Of
the present generation, It may be recorded
that a physician has been studying the
condition of the mouths Of centenarians.
He finds that outof forty-two centenarians
only fifteen were without a tooth. and the
others were In possession Of an ample sup
ply. Yet in people about eighty years Of
age the average number Of teeth Is rarely
more than five. -
The evening times., 1899-05-22
TO DEMAND HIGHER WAGES.
Grerse's Creek Miners Believe Their
Employers VIII Acccdc.

Cumberland. Md. May 22.-The miners
of the Georges Creek Cumberland coal re-
gion will demand an advance of 10 cents
a ton for mining coal. The miners are in
a partially organized state. They number
1900 men.
When the reduction Of 20 per cent was
made few years ago the strike which fol-
lowed il is claimed, was settled by the
companies promising TO restore the old rate
as seen as conditions would permit The
men contend those conditions have arrived
and cite the fact that voluntary increases
have been made in the Elk Garden and
Clear.ield regions. The Berwind- White
Coal Company. of Clearfield. Pa. employ
ing over 10000 men, and one Of the COM
peti,ors OF the Georges Creek operators.
has made an advance to 30 cents per ton
for pick mining. The miners of the
Georges Creek region are now receiving i5
cents. The belief is expressed by miners
that the advance will be granted them
without trouble.
The evening times., 1899-05-22
TEE DREYFUS REVISION.
Events Leading Thereto Prevented
by the Figaro.

Paris. May 22.-The Figaro" this morn
ing begins a history Of the events that led
to the demand for a revision OF the Drey-
fus case. 1t says that the demand was
mainly due to three men. Matthew Drey-
fus. Colonel Picquart. and NJ. Scheurer-
Kestner. and that u. Zola played the role
OF prophet Every point OF II. Zola's 5
famous .'Je Accuse" letter to the late Pres
ident Faure is being fulfilled
The Figaro gives an interesting account
of Colonel Picquart's work in the intel
ligence department. adding that it believes
that Colonel Schwartzkoppen was the au-
thor of the Petit Bleu," and that he him.
self tore up the document and threw it
into a waste basket, having received in
formation that the dispatch was not neces-
sary
The evening times., 1899-05-22
Heraic Remedies
lrrom the Hartford Conran,.

CFrom the Hartford Courant.)
Another medical man has broken loose about
tuberculosis. He calls attention to the dreadful
destructiveness of the disease and repeats that
every case is traoeable TO previous one lie asks
if smallpox would be tolerated without isolation
to the extent that consumption il and at least in
ferentially calls for the segregation of all human
consumptives. Killing them would b. the shorter
route to the same end II all persons afflicted
with tuberculosis and all cattle suspected of the
ailment were to be buried, the disease would go
with them. What the feelings of the thou
sands of today compared to the happiness of whole
genera atoms vet unbornl
The evening times., 1899-05-22
LOST IN HAWAIIAN MOUNTAIN.
a Russian Officers Experience in
Searching for n Crater.

a Russian Officers Experience in
Searching for Crater.
San Francisco. May 22.-Capt. T. Ser
vetsky. of Siberia, Russian military Off
Ger, who recently visited HilO. Hawaii. at
tempted to go to the top of the volcano
OF Manua Kea without a guide. He lost
his way and spent a week in the gu,ches
and woods of the mountain with little
food and no shelter. When he found his
way back to Hilo he was in an exhausted
condition. His tongue was swollen and
he bore evidence of the hardships he had
experienced.
Captain Servetsky has had large expe-
rience in exploring the Businesses of s.
IBERIA. He is of an adventurous and scien-
tific turn of mind and it was these charac-
teristics that led him to undertake his per-
ilous adventure. He left Hilo with food
enough to last him three days. Losing his
way. he was compelled to make it last
much longer. 1t was only his pluck and
endurance that saved him his life.