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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-31
New Cotton Rate to Stay.

ATLANTA. GA. January 3O-The cot
ton-rate war 10 southern and eastern
points. inaugurated a few days ago by
the Seaboard Line. with a cut Of 80 per
cent, followed by an additional cut from
the same road Of cents per hundred
pounds, is here TO stay, . joint cotton
tariff having been issued by the South
eastern Freight Association. making the
rates permanent and regular, beginning
tomorrow.
Cotton was moved from Atlanta 10
Liverpool Saturday on a rate of 80 cents.
4 cents cheaper than cotton was hauled
under the old rate from Atlanta 10 Bruins
wick or Savannah.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-31
In Defence of the Chinese Dog.
(The Spectator.)


He was a red chow called "Fingo,' the
winner Of the three first prizes at the
Crystal Palace and Aquarium shows, ana
therefore a typical specimen Of his breed
one Of his chief characteristcs was
urioue devotion to me as his master, for
however long left him with other
friends. whenever ! arrived he refused TO
look az anybody else, and became my
devoted slave lie was an excellent
watchdog. but so amiable that he never
bit anybody IN his life. He had very
fndependent and rather naughty air,
which l have known other dogs resent,
though there was nothing mischieyous
about II. lie did not care for the caress-
es Of strangers. and would receive them
with amusing Indifference; but if a friend
pronounced his name, his tail never fall
ed TO give n sympathetic shake on the
TOP Of his back, and if l spoke 10 him
his nose was nuzziing my hand in mo-
ment. and he was begging me 10 repeat
his name.
lie was no good for sport, because he
could not hunt without giving tongue,
and he could not retrieve; but he had n
good nose and very 20 sight, and was
porfesly obedient. After one or two les
sons n used TO walk through a flock Of
sheep without needing them, and he
would come TO heel when called, even
though he was I'm full cry after a cat. l
did not care 10 teach him many tricks,
but those / wanted him 10 learn he mas
tered with great ease and never forgot.
What made him specially good for the
house was that his coat never had any
offensive smell. and he contrived 20 make
everybody devoted 10 him. out OF doors.
] think. the most remarkable Characters
tic was his power OF finding his way
home. wherever ne happened 10 be.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-31
The Beckers Probably Sailed.

The family Of Moritz Becker, a tailor
of this city, was probably started back
10 Russia from New York yesterday.
The Messrs. Flegenheimer, counsel for
Becker. attempted 10 engage a lawyer I'm
New York 20 sue out a writ OF tabeas
corpus IN that city Sunday. and thus pre-
vent the sailing of the wife and children,
but were unsuccessful. The fight was
given up. and Becker has resigned all
hope Of ever seeing his family again, un-
less no can arrange TO 80 to Russia.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-31

TIL. Ike the sunshine. It's splendor DC
shed
over yon Isle OF the Sea!
Down with the banner OF Yellow ana heds
In With the FTag OF the Free,
~ HOWARD MORTON.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-31
Tn. Animal PnrIm Masquerade.

The annual Purim masquerade D"t
the congregation OF Sir Moses M9'., =,
will be given az Sanger halb re-.
18th -Four handsome prizes ""'
awarded
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-31

Mr.. John Il. sloan. OF Charlotte. n a.
Is In the city for the purpose OF org
ling a new lodge OF the Order or hep.
sophs Mr. Sloan VIII be here Tor sef''
days
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-31
pickett Camp.

Pickett Camps weekly business ui''
ing was held last night. s.s,.
A considerable amount OF routine w.
ness was transacted
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-31
broken Rnnls Dividend.

WASHINGTON. January 3).-The Comp
troller OF the Currency has declared an
$50 per cent. dividend in favor OF the
creditors OF the insoNent City National
Bank, OF Gatesyilie. Tex.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-31

orders for printing sent toNhe Dis
patch Company will be given prompt at
tention. and the style Of work and prices
will be sure ~ please you.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-31

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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-30

IL may be of interest to know the
sources OF the bible as it appears to-
day. In the first place, the making of
the bible did not begin in it's modern
aspect until the middle of the fourth
century after Christ. The bible is
based upon four great manuscripts.
One of them the Codex Alexandrinus.
now in the British museum; the Codex
Vaticanus, now in the Vatican, and the
Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Eph-
raemi. Each of these is of immense
antiquity.
The Codex Alexandrinus in the Brit
ish museum is at least 1900 years old.
and it is the most priceless object in
the vast collection of that famous in
stitution. This document consists of
773 sheets of dull gray goatskin, the
skin being exceptionally thin and each
sheet measuring 12A inches by 1914
inches. 1t is written on both sides Of
the sheet in two columns of faint but
clear Greek characters. 1t once be-
longed to the patriarchal chamber OF
Alexandria and was sent as a present
to King Charles l. in 1927.
From manuscripts such as these J;
from the Latin version of the fourth
century; from manuscript translations
of the bible into Coptic, Syriac and
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-30

other languages dating from the sixth
century, and from the writings of the
early Christians of the second century
comes the bible of today.
The home of the University Press Is
a great quadrangular building. or Sc
ries of buildings, erected in 1880. and
laid out in the usual college form with
a square court of flowers and grass in
the center.
The composing rooms of this place
are its most wonderful feature. There
are fonts of type for the printing of
the bible in 800 different languages,
comprising all the known tongues Gf
the past and present. There is a bible
for every savage race on the face of
the globe, and the wonders of compost
ton represented by some OF them
would stagger The ordinary printer.
For instance, there is now a piece of
type setting going on which was begun
in 1863 and it won't be finished until
the twentieth century is we'll under
way. 1t is little brochure in Peshito
Syriac for the use of old manuscript
students. The compositor works over
case containing one thousand boxes,
each with its separate character. A
single letter requires six different
pieces of type, and some of them re-
quire ten. With thousand boxes be-
fore him the compositor cannot work
with machine like rapidity, and his
fingers often fall into the wrong box
Since this particular task was begun.
thirty-three years ago, thirty-one of
the hundreds of compositors engaged
upon it have passed to the great be-
yond.
The number of bibles turned out
daily averages 5000 the year through.
Some are little and some big. and with
bindings of all kinds Mistakes sell
dom get into any of these millions OF
bibles, for there is standing offer Of
a guinea to the person who first dis
covers an error Toward tie end of a
long edition the constant wear on the
plates sometimes mashes 4 letter. Once
the word teaching" was changed into
'eaching," and then the letter was
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-30

worn down, changing it into aching.
Fifty thousand bibles were sent out
with this imperfection, but they were
all recalled and the error rectifled 0y
the laborious use of hand stamp.
1t took more than thirty years to per-
feet the kind of paper which is now
used for printing bibles. This paper
is wonderfully thin, but is absolutely
Opaque. 1t is called India paper, and
was discovered by an Oxford student
while travelling in the far east. The
native method of preparing it was too
laborious for modern use, and it was
not until 1874 that a process was dis
covered by which it could be made rap
idly and economically. This process IS
a carefully guarded secret, known only
to two or three men, the workmen en-
gagged upon it being intrusted with only
a fraction of the secret.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-30
HEATING STREET CARS.

| Ii is not generally known that the
electric heating of street cars, besides
| being odorless and cleaner and more
easy to control than stove heating,
is now found to be much cheaper than
the older system. 1t is not long since
very different showing was made in
test made to decide on the merits of
an electrical heater for the warming of
cars. Careful tests showed that each
heater consumed two electrical horse
power. and as it required four heaters,
or eight electrical horse power to warm
properly each car, the company exper-
| imenting was advised that in the state
of the art at that day electric heating
would be uneconomical. Now, the
same railway has grown extensively,
concentrating its power plant in large
central stations, improving its meth
DDS of steam generation and expansion
and constructing its generators and
heaters more scientifically, and the sit
uation has been so far modified that
the company is today not only heating
it's cars exclusively by electricity, but
doing it for less cost than would be
possible by coal stove heating. In this
particular case an examination of the
books of the service showed that
while the cost per electrical horse pow
er had greatly decreased, the economy
resulted chiefly from conditions pecu-
liar to street car warming. 1t was pos
sible to dispense with the large force
of men who had formerly to be en-
ployed for the repairing, cleaning and
lighting of the stoves. At the COM
mencement of the winter, too, during
periods of moderate temperature, it
had been customary to light the stoves
for an hour or two in the morning and
evening, or at the request of particular
passengers during the day, and this
would necessitate the consumption of
whole stove full of fuel, where. with
electric heating, the current could be
switched on and off at will. A ven
tilating engineer, speaking on this
subject, says that on many street car
lines the waste of electric heat in the
cars is positively disgraceful, causing
serious loss to the company and in
tense discomfort to the passengers. An
instance is given OF a certain line on
which the cars were raised to such a
suffocating heat by electric heaters.
even in only moderately cold weather.
that the passenger traffic of the line
fell OFT considerably. With electric
heating it is possible to maintain a
comfortable and healthful tempera-
ture within the car and anything above
that is wastefrn and an indication of
inexcusably bad management.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-30

Oxford there is printing house which
turned out an edition of 3,970,439 of a
book during a recent year and not a
800 years the presses of this institution
have been printing this same book.
and the demand has steadily increased
from the first year of it's existence to
the presence time. How many copies
have been turned out in the past three
centuries would be vexing problem
for the brain of mathematician to
compute. 1t would run into scores of
millions, figures too magnificent for
human realization.
This concern is the University Press,
whose sole business for centuries has
been the printing of bibles. The place
was established some fifty years after
the German Gutenberg invented NOV
able type, and the first book turned
out bears the date 1868, but this was a
mistake by ten years; it should have
been dated 147S. For nearly one hun
bred years the Oxford Press printed
books # all kinds, and then. toward
the end of the sixteenth century. it be-
gan the printing of bibles. From that
time to the present the presses have
been turning out bibles and testaments
and nothing else.
Were it not for the religious wars
which vexed England in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries the University
Press wonld have begun its career Of
printing bibles at an earlier period
Wycliffe, the first man to translate
the bible into English, escaped torture
but his bones were dug up and burned
by frenzied priests. Tindale, another
translator, who brought out new tes-
lament in 1925. was strangled and
burned, and Batthews was burned NJ
Smithfield because of the bible he pub
lished in 1897.
rhe disputes and wrangles continued
until 1911, when an authorized version
was decided upon. and when it became
safe to print bibles on these lines the
Oxford concern, under a special patent
of the king. prepared to start on the
work which it is still pursuing.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-30
TApPERs OF RACETRACK WIRES.
Losses of Poolrooms Small Because the
Sharpers Are Clumsy.

The race track wire-tappers always
overl each themselves in exactly the
same gross and clumsy fashion, con-
tinued the speaker. They cut in
somewhere on the lee side of pool
room and in their anxiety to pull OH a
long shot give the race to some I'M
possible old hack that every bootblacK
knows couldn't win in a thousand
years. If they don't do that, they may
be depended upon to betray themselves
by their foolish eagerness to get down
their money. The success OF such
schemes, when they succeed in any
measure, is always traceable to the
rank carelessness of the people who
are victimized A reasonable degree
of precaution unmasks them with I'M
failing certainty, all of which supports
nv original assertion that intellectual
crimes are never committed outside OF
novels. Your ordinary crook is an ex-
traordinary chump, and when a nat
urally able man goes in for crime ne
seems to turn stupid when he begins 10
steal. Diplomacy, generalshlp, anu
finesse are as rare among criminals as
royal Pushes in a nickel slot machine.
They are things you read about, but
never see. One reason which may be
assigned for the lack of intelligent CO.
herence in crooked enterprises is the
fact that the rascals can never trust
one another Honor among thieves is
an exploded delusion. 1t is an I'M
known quantity, the letter X in the
chemistry of crime. If it wasn't for
traitors and tattlers among lawbreak-
ers every detective bureau in the coun-
try would have to shut up shop. This
S we'll known among the crooks them
selves and is fatal to organization. AS
a consequence it is impossible for them
to perfect any plot requiring nice elab-
Grafton of detail. Lack of brains and
absence of mutual confidence are two
characteristics of the criminal classes.
Under the circumstances honest folks
may remain tolerably tranquil. New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-30

Every once in while one reads Of
the enormous edition of some book,
an edition of 100000 or perhaps zoo, 900,
and the world marvels at the genius
whose brain evolved such a master
piece. Such book is reviewed by lit
erary critics in every corner of the
world, tremendous hullabaloo is
raised and the universe is aglow with
enthusiasm.
In the historic university town of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-30

A cooking teacher advises that lem
fish, like halibut, cod and others Of
that character may be brushed with oil
or melted butter and broiled on the gas
broiler. This way of cooking. it is as
serted, is similar to frying and does not
fill the house with the smell of fried
fish.-From the New York Evening
Post.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-30
5000 BIBLES A DAY
HOLY BOOK PRINTED IN 800
LANGUAGES. :
THE GREAT OXFORD PRESS

Compositors Have Been Working SO
Years on Bible in Syriac-Takes
Ten Pieces of type for. a Single
Letter-Errors Seldom Allowed to
Stand Long.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-01-17
RAPPAHANNOCK NOTES.

The employees of the Lehigh Valley col
lieries in this district received pay for the
last half of December on Saturday.
The Brady Minstrels, of Ashland gave
hrst-class performance in the basement Of st.
Joseph's Catholic church Saturday evening
Misses Sadie McAndrew and Lizzie Wink,
of Homesyille, spent yesterday with Lost
Creek friends.
Miss Mary Mills of Shenandoah, spent
yesterday with her parents here.
Packer colliery No. 8 only worked days
and hours last week.
Two unknown men have been seen loafing
in this vicinity the past few days and are
suspected as being burglars.
Misses Lizzie German, Hannah Joyce and
Mary Collihan, three popular young ladies of
Connors, spent yesterday with Mahanoy City
friends.
Messrs. John Coyle and Martin Monaghan,
two popular young men of Homesyile spent
yesterday with friends here
Misses May Kehoe and Kate Dixon, two of
the Girardville 400, were the guests of Lost
Creek friends yesterday
Over 100 people were in attendance at the
fair in st. Josephs Catholic church Saturday
evening All were highly elated over the
splendid performance given by the popular
Brady minstrels of Ashland.
Polish sleighing party from Shenandoah
passed through here yesterday and had seri-
GUS time to get out of the mud.
The fair being held in st. Joseph's CathO-
lie church for the purpose of building a
new parochial residence, has so far been a
social as well as a financial success. Over
81, 100 in clear profits have been made al.
ready.
Thomas Mills, of Gilberton, spent Sunday
with friends here,
The remains of Martin Gill, an aged man
Of Girardville, were inferred in st, JOseph's
Catholic cemetery yesterday morning.
| Patrick Mullarkey, of Lost Creek, spent
last evening with friends here.
John Lucid, member of Co. F. sth Regt.,
| p. V. L. is home on a furlough.
The bonneville dramatic company, under
the sole management of Martin Monaghan
are at present rehearsing the great laughing
success "Slow VS. Swift" The cast of this
company has been carefully selected by the
worthy manager who says he will surprise
the theatre goers with this piece.
Several articles have been lost at the fail
during the past week, Any person wishing
to get what they have lost should apply a
the pastors house during the week.
Messrs. James McGinnis, Joseph Horar
and Anthony Mcdonald, three popula
young men of Girardville, took pleasan
trip to Mt Carmel on Sunday.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-01-17
MERCHANTS
SWINDAED
A Smooth Talker Palmed Off Bogus
Soap or Them.
HE MADE SEVERAL VICTIMS
Tallow and Washing Soda Supplied as a
First Glass Laundry Article Ashland
Merchants Also swindled--Ef-
forts Are Being Made to
Catch the Fakir.

number Of merchants of this town and
Ashland have been victimized by soap
swindler, who worked his game successfully
aud got away before the fraud was dis
covered.
The swindler is described as a heavy-set
man with smooth face, about IS years old
and 175 pounds in weight He wore a dark
suit, overcoat and Derby hat. He is a
polished talker and easily gains confidence.
The list Of victims is not complete as sew
eral of the business men are opposed to pub
licity in connection with the matter and have
refrained from speaking of it, One Of the
grocers has spoken freely, however, aud told
how the scheme was worked. The stranger
came to town aud took orders for what he
represented as an unusually good quality Of
laundry soap and made a tempting bait of
the price. The sample displayed was in ac-
cordance with the representations and the
stranger had little difficulty in securing
orders. On account of the price asked the
terms of sale were cash on delivery
The stranger delivered the goods in person
and received payment, after which he lost no
time in shaking the mud of the town from
his feet. After his departure the merchants
opened the cases to exhibit the soap for sale
and were surprised to find nothing but cakes
/ VI Guhlulou ldllON COnldlulls a lhIBt dulOuuA
of washing soSo to give them white color
1t does not appear that any very large indi-
/ vidual purchases were made from the
swindler, but the aggregate sales were con
siderable.
Had it not been for little incident at Ash
land involving the cashing of check there
would probably have been no steps towards
capture of the swinder, as the individual
sums involved were not sufficient to induce
the victims to prosecute. But there is hot
chase after him on the part of ElwoOd
Hester, drummer of Ashland. The
swindler received check in payment of soap
and paid hotel bill at Ashland with it.
The clerk of the hotel ran short of
change and Hester cashed the aforesaid
check for him. When Hester presented the
check at the bank he found the grocer who
issued it in return for the bogus soap had
stopped payment on it, Heister is now
mounted and spurred in chase of the soap
fakir and VOWS he will capture him, or chase
him out of the state. Hester was in town
to-day and teegraphed to the Mauch Chunk
police, having leaIf I'd that the soap man was
due there to-day. Whether or not the tele-
gram was effective has not been learned.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-01-17
GOVERNOR W. A STONE.
The Inauguration Of Pennsylvantn's
chief Magistrate.

chief Magistrate.
Harrisburg. Jan. 17.-At noon today.
with simple ceremonies, William A.
Stone was inaugurated as governor ot
Pennsylvania. A platform had been
erected in front OF the executive man
sion, and here the oath Of Office was
administered and the inaugural ad-
dress delivered. At the close of the
exercises the governor and other in
coming state officials were driven TO
large platform along the river front
to witness the parade. The entire di-
vision of the National Guard and many
political, civic and soldier societies
formed the procession, there being
nearly 5000 men in line. The largest
crowd in recent years visited the city
TO witness the Inauguration.
Governor and Mrs. Stone and Miss
Stone arrived from Washington at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon. They and
their Washington party were met at
Union station by the joint inaugural
committee and escorted to the Lochiel
hotel, where a suite of rooms had been
elegantly fitted up and decorated for
their brief occupancy. After exchanges
OF greetings with members Of the in
augural committee. state officials and
others, Governor and Mrs. Stone were
driven to the executive mansion, where
luncheon was given in their honor by
Governor and Mrs. Hastings. After the
luncheon Governor and Mrs Hastings
retired to the residence of a Harris
burg friend and the Stone family took
possession Of the mansion.