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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07
Copyright 1900, by the Author.

Vention by which visitors to the Paris Elk
position viii be able to see by the aid of
the telelec troscope scenes which are &C
curing at a distance of hundreds Of mil s.
The precise nature of this invention mas
not been made public; but from the de
scriptions which have appeared it is evil
dent that it is to do for the eve what the
telephone does for the ear. Combine the
long distance telephone and the te.elec 'ro-
scope. and there is no reason to doubt that
in the twentieth century, il may be posi-
BILE for millions OF spectators in all quar-
ters of the civilized world to watch over in
their own homes the movement of armi $
on the field of battle, the development of
the attack, to follow the fortunes of the
defense, to see men drop from the fire
line, and to hear the thunder of artill ~
or the crackle of small arms.
If the telephone has removed the bar
riers which renders il impossible for hui
man beings to be audible to each other
the telelectroscope makes this pl net
transparent as a crystal. The possl hi ity
of seeing through things, which our fore
fathers used to believe was Possessed only
by supernatural beings, is now the p-s-
session Of every one who is capable of us
ing the Rontgen rays. Wireless tie egra-
ply and the Rontgen rays have opened he
windows of new world for the ordinary
man. He begins TO perceive possibilities
before undream of, and things which he
would formerly have dismissed as thu
fantasy of a disordered magna lion, he
now admits may quite possibly be within
the pale of practical achievements Hence
it is that 1 no longer feel that speculatons
which have been familiar to me for years
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THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY JANUARY T. 1900

my body of communicating information
which l exclusively possess, to another
person at a distance; If il is further cap
able of facilitating the transmission OF
these communications or manufacturing
body in shape, weight and substance in
distingushable from my actual body. but
which is nevertheless capable of vanishing
into thin air the moment its purpose is
served then it will seem more and more
absurd to question the proba bility not to
say the certainty, or the continuance Of
the individual after the decay of this
earthly tabernacle, which is even as a
tent pitched for a season for our Tempo
rary habitation during the time when we
make our brief pilgrimage through this
wilderness of the desert of sin. The Ego
OF each of US is something infinitely
greater, more marvellous, more multifari-
Gus in its methods of manifestation and
its capacity for expression than we have
hitherto imagined. 1t makes use of the
body as a kind of temporary tWo-legged
telephone, for the purpose of communicate
ing at short range with other entities
using similar two-legged telephones; but
It's existence IS no more confined to the
use of that telephone than the existence
of each of us is limited to the communica-
tons we pass across the telephone wire.
After little time This two-legged tele-
phone will be switched, but the entity be-
hind 1T will pass on 20 complete the
circle of its experiences.
By w. T. Stead.
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Nv w T Stead.

The closing century has enabled man.
kind to surmount many difficulties in the
way of intercommunicarion.w which, at the
beginning of the century, had appeared in
surmountable. In fact, it may be said
that the great triumph of the nineteenth
century has been the subject of time and
space by the mind of man.
The introduction of steam and later Of
electric transit, has changed everything.
II has been record breaking century,
both on land and sea. We already think
nothing Of express trains travelling at
sixty miles an hour as their normal
speed. Occasionally trains are run at
eighty miles an hour, and engineers speak
confidently of 100 miles an hour rate as
certainty of the coming century. On sea
the progress has not been so rapid in com
parison with the progress made on land;
but it is still remarkable enough.
The meaning of this is that, for the pur-
pose of human intercourse, the world is
not a quarter as large as it was at the
beginning of the century. Time and space
have been not conquered. but compelled
10 abate the despotsm which they have
exercised without limit over all preceding
generations of men. Even in the convey
ance of hunks of matter in its rudest
form, the thoughts of men, embodied in
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07

merly Commodore Gamers yacht Mohawk
is also declared by the sailors to be haunt
ed. Some twenty years ago the Hohawk
was lying at anchor off Tompkinsvile,
Staten Island the present naval anchor
age. The weather was calm and pleasant,
with just enough wind to keep the yacht
pointing due east, crossways 10 a gentle
tide. There was no watch on deck save
the sailing master, Commodore Garner and
his party being in the cabin at luncheon.
The ship had her starboard bow anchor
out and both mainsail and staysail had
heen left standing when she came to her
flying moor. For some unaccountable rea-
son, the captain hauled off the main sheet
and secured it before he went to his own
dinner. He had hardly gone below when
a furious squall came up. In moment
the yacht was on her beam-ends and near
ly every one of the merry party in the
cabin was drowhed. Since then, they say,
the sailing master comes on deck every
night, precisely at z, rushes aft to the
main sheet and tries frantically to cast
it loose and save his vessel.
A Onc-Eyed Paynaster's Ghost.
Down to 1890. when the wardroom coun-
try of the old corvette Monongahela was
overhauled and reconstructed. the second
room of the port side of the vessel had
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07
FLEET OF HAUNTED CRAFT.
ITS FLAGSHIP Is THE FAMOUS
CONSTITUTION" NOW A RE-
CEIVING HULK.

InexpIicabIe Doings on the FroIic.
The GhOstIy Noises Heard on the
Fern, in which the Rats Will No
Longer DwcII-The SpoOk of a Pay
master on the Ongah eIa--The
TiconderOgn's Assistant Surgeon
who Came Back to the Ship.
copyrighted, 1900 by S. S. Mcclure & Coz
Though steam and steel have displaced
bellying sail and sturdy oak in the navies
of the world, Jack Tar is still super
stitious soul on every sea And young
and modern though he be, Uncle Sam
himself possesses a fleet of haunted ships
The natural flagship of this squadron IS
the famous old Constitution. a relic of
the days when the Flying Dutchman was
as much a reality in the minds of many
mariners as any craft that ever plowed
the waves.
1t is eishty-seven years since the Consti-
tuition whipped the British frigate Guer-
riere, and the staunch old Yankee craft,
has long been used as receiving ship in
the navy yard at Portsmouth. Neverthe-
less, some of the seamen attached to her
say she is still haunted by the ghost of
Capt Isaac Hull; every midnight they
allege, the wrath of the gallant old sailor
may be seen pacing the quarterback, ar
rayed in uniform coat, shining cooked
hat and the famous white trousers that
were split in the memorable engagement,
of August 1872 He carries a long glass
under his arm, now and then levelng il
at the horizon as if in search of an ene-
my's sail.
Ghost or SOmnambuIists
The Frolic, an old-fashioned craft OF
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Portrait OF w. r. Stead.

the steam engine and the dynamo, his tri-
umphed over obstacles which had baffled
the ingenuity and the resources of the
human race since time began
AnnihiIatiOn of Distance
If this has been the case in the domain
Of what may be called brute matter
what much more signal triumphs have
been achieved when thought was dealing
with It's own special domain! Here, given
necessary apparatus, distance has been
absolutely anuihilated and man can speak
with man without any regard to the old
fatal barrier of distance. The first and
almost triumph of mind over distance was
the electric telegraph.
The telephone was the next great al-
vance. The electric telegraph merely con-
veyed thoughts as expressed in sounding
words. The telephone enabled us TO mount
sound upon the wire aud in apparent de
fance of the law by which sound waves
Travelled, enable the citizens of New York
to carry on a conversation with a citizen
of Chicago as if no thousand miles inter-
veaed between The two capitals
If the telephone has triumphed over dis
lance, The monograph may be said to rep
resent a similar conquest over time
y
dead have cried with vain longing to hear
sound of the voice that is still. But in
dreams alone or in those rare visions
vouchsafed TO finer souls was the PRAYER
ever granted. The very sound and accent
of The living words of the dead whose
bodies are in the dust. have become the
common Inheritance of mankind. But hese
achievements, vast as they are. represent
but the beginning of things. the conquest
by man of a new realm upon the thresh-
cd OF which he is standing, and the laws
of viii h he but imperfectly apprehends.
materialist proud Of the achievements
and triumphs of the nineteenth century,
points out that If he has conquered mat
ter t. has been by the aid of matter Ii is
by the adaptation of material instrume nts
that he has been able 20 overcome mater
ial obstacles Thought has indeed been
communicated from continent TO continent
across supervening oceans, without regard
10 the Obstacles of mountain rampant or
desolate wilderness; but nothing has been
done without the presence of the material
INSTRUMENT.
The first great breach in the citadel of
his kind of materlalism was the discov-
cry that IL was perfectly possible for mind
10 communicate with mind with the aid of
tel graphic Instruments. ithout any con-
NC ing wire. The marvel of wireless tel
egraphy," a dozen years ago would have
been secuted as a preposterous fable. To-
day it is one Of the recognized agents OF
CIVILIZED intercourse.
The materialist, however, exultant V
remarks that even although the wire is
abolished. the telegraph recorder at eth
er end Is Indispensable, aCd that mater
can not be vanquished without the aid Of
matter, and although we may alternate
the scepter, we can never dispense with
its use.
Seeing Through Things.
Hardly have we become accustomed 10
\ the marvel Of wireless telegraphy, when
i've are told Of new and marvellous in
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The thing is there now-lying in my
bed"
| The officers crowded to the door of No.
| 2 Nothing was found-abSolutely moth
ing, though there is a weird but improved
tale that when they examined Mr.. SIS
berth they discovered two or three small
pieces of barnacled seaweed. After that
strange occurrence, the story Of which Is
an established legend in the navy, room
| on the port side of the Monongahela was
unoccupied until the reconstruction.
The Assistant Surgeons Ghost.
Few officers are alive to-day who serv-
ed with the Monongahela on that memora-
bic cruise; but the following story con-
corning strange happenings the Ticon-
deroga has been told by an officer of high
rank now in the department of naval in
telligence and another at present connect
ed with the bureau of ordnance. The
Ticonderoga was of the Monongahela
class, wooden steamer of 1000 tons dis
placement, and she had seen good service
during the Civil War Among her officers
on cruise in the South Atlantic during
| the early 70s was a young assistant sur
! geon named W.. He had a firm be-
lief in the supernatural and the ridicule
that was heaped upon him by the other
members of the mess made him very bit
| ter.
IAN right" he would say ''You fell
| lows can laugh at the truth as much as
| you please, but if should die while any
| Of you are attached 20 the Ticonderoga, I'll
come back and haunt the blamed old lug
ger until you'll all be glad 20 apply for
other duty"
Well, the young officer died suddenly. OF
heart disease, one night, in a bowling
storm off the coast of Brazil. His body
was committed to the deep next day, and
that night the trouble began. Strange
rappings were heard from VS. state
room, and though the officers who went
there to investigate discovered nothing,
they were seized by an overpowerng feel
ing of dread. In the sick bay that night
a sailor who was very i'll with consump-
ton started from his sleep with a scream
of terror. He declared that a shadowy
hand had felt his pulse with the familiar
touch of the dead ships doctor who had
attended him so long. The manifestations
continued while the ship at sea, and
did not stop until after she had reached
New York. A day or two following her
arrival a dinner party was given on
board, in the course of which one of the
officers related the story of the recent
strange occurrences. AS he concluded a
hush fell over the company, and in the
midst of the hush a succession of raps
followed by a sharp crash came suddenly
from the haunted state room.
The cause of the noise could not be dis
covered by the most careful investigation,
but there were no similar manifestations
on the vessels subsequent cruises.
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THE WIDOWS OF CALVARY.
A Religious Order 10 Which widows
Only Are Eligible.

New York, Jan. 5.-There is an order IL,
New York city, known as The Women
of Calvary" 1t is of the Church of Rome,
but founded for absolutely non-sectarian
work. 1t ministers to women suffering
from incurabe cancer, without regard to
race, color or creed The members are all
widows, the founder being Nine. GARNER,
pious, benevolent and widowed French
lady. These women are in no sense of
the word religious, they take no vows,
wear no uniform and are not clustered.
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Their lives are led, so far as mingling
with the world is concerned, just as that
l of any other women of pious inclina-
ton would be.
Although no woman except she be widow
is eligible to membership in the Women
of Calvary, its auxiliary, the Daughters
of the Cross, is recruited from the ranks
of single women. or widows, just as it
| happens. Both these orders are pledged
| to the service of women who are incura-
BILE cancer patents. They receive no sal
airy or compensation in any way. Tie
Women Of Calvary dress the wounds Of
| the patients, wait upon and watch with
| Them The Daughters of the Cross do
the housework; everything, washing
scrubbing, cooking. But as all are serv-
ing the same master, there is no such a
word as servant ever used.
The house at No Perry street New
York, opened for the reception of patients
in the early autumn of last year is the
only one in the English-speaking world
and Mrs. Storrs is the only woman Of
the English-spealing nations who is en-
titled to wear the decora ton of the Cross
of Calvary bestowed upon her as a re-
ward for fifteen months service in the
sister house in Belgium. 1t it pitiful 20
be obliged to state that even before the
doors of the Perry street house were OPEN
ed. nearly every bed was spoken for The
greatest number of sufferers from cancer
are poor women and of these women far
the larger portion were mothers. Moved
20 pity by this condition of affairs. Mrs
Storrs served fifteen months in the Bel
! GUM Calvary to gain the requisite knowI-
! edge. Then returned to America with
the fixed purpose of here opening a house
of refuge for the incurable cancer patients
of her native land.
Although he first House of Calvary in
| the English speaking world is in New
| York city, TO the slate of North Carolina
belongs the honor of founding the work
| on the western hemisphere for both Mrs.
| Storrs, the director and Mrs s. CASTOR
| Elailieff the vice president, belong 10 dis
| tiuguished North Carolina families.
The House of Calvary is supported en-
| tirely by voluntary contribution. One dol
| lar month makes the donor a contribltt-
| ing member. The home is for the poor.
| Those who can afford to pay are not re-
| ceived The New York Calvary is the
| seventh one founded in the world In
1912 Madame GARNER. with a few assist
| ants, opened the first one in Lyons.
| France, where they dressed the wounds
and soothed and comforted the few re-
naming hours of. such of their suffering
sisters as applied for admittance. In 1866
| the second was opened in Brussels In
| 1874 a Calvary was founded in Paris, which
was soon followed by one in Saint Etienne.
and in 1881 another was successfully es-
| tabished in NIarseilles, and in 1892 stih
/ another was founded in Rouen, France.
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THE BORDERLAND BEYOND our KEN.
w. L. Stead Tells Why He Believes Firmly
in Thought Transference.

Communicnhon-deas
ind to Mind as On
How Do I-SOme Persons
EIOvN and thu BE veaIed
Many in the tieth
right by the Author
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Ten miles north of Topeka" says the
Kansas City Journal, elves colored man
by the name Of Benjamin Vance. who was
born "a slave In Kentucky. sixty-four years
ago. He came to Shawnee county seven
teen years ago with team of horses and
50 cents. To-day he owns 400 acres of
land without a dollar in mortgage upon It,
several hundred head OF stock a fine resi-
dence and the other property usually
found on well ordered farm. Recently
he gave one of mis- daughters a grand
plano as birthday present, and his house
3 luxuriously furnished. Every dollar
he has he made on a Kansas farm, first
as a renter and then as an owner"
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Merely a Hnt,-Mr. Borem d1 p. M
My motto is PAY as you CO.
Miss Cuttng-Well, I'm willing to lend
you small amount ii it will help you
out.-Chicago News.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-04-21

II. Clark, Chauncey, Ca, says DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve cured him of piles that
had afflicted him for twenty years. 1t is
also a speedy cure for skin diseases. Be-
ware of dangerous counterfeits. ]. Frank
Frazer, Druggist Elkton.
Jesse Wall, Dorchester muskrat
dealer, sent to market during the season
Just closed $40 600 worth of rats, and other
dealers have done as large business.
Otto Korb, Grand Chancellor, X. Of p,
Boonville, Ind, says, "DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Save soothes the most delicate skin
and heals ulcers with certain and good
results" Cures piles and skin diseases.
Don't buy an imitation. J. Frank Frazer,
Druggist El<ton, Md
-Wicomico county was visited last week
by scores of commission men from Northern
cities to arrange with farmers and fruit
agents for this seasons crops.
J. |. Carson, Prothonotary, Washington,
Pa, says, 81 have found Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure an excellent remedy in case of stomach
trouble, and have derived great benefit
from its use" 1t digests what You eat
and can not fail to cure J. Frank Frazer,
Druggist, Elkton, Nd.
F. M. FULLER, formerly photographer
at the Naval Academy, was found dead at
hiS hnme mar Chasterfield Ammo Arnnd nI
county, Sunday morning.
"No family can afford to be without
One Minute Cough Cure. 1t will stop a
cough and cure a cold quicker than any
other medicine, " writes c. w. Williams,
Sterling Run, Pa 1t cures Group, bron-
chitis and all throat and lung troubles and
prevents consumption. Pleasant and
harmless. j. Frank Frazer, Druggist,
Elkton, Md.
A bunch of two hundred swans was
an unusual sight seen in the Susque-
hanna River the other day.
81 think DeWitt's Little Early Risers
are the best pills in the world" says ".
Z. Lake, Happy Creek, Va. They remove
all Instructions Of the liver and bowels, act
quickly and never grippe. J. Frank Frazer,
Elkton, Md
The Howard County Medical Associa-
ton wants the office OF vaccine physician
Of the county abolished
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Local News.

"A telephone line is in contemplation
to connect Corbett, on the Northern Central
Railway, with Baltimore city, and to eX-
tend to Mount Carmel on the west to
Taylor, Hartford county, on the east.
w. w. Mayhem, Merton, Wis, says,
81 consider One Minute Cough Cure a
most wonderful medicine, quick and safe. :"
1t is the only harmless remedy that gives
immediate results. 1t cures coughs, colds,
Group bronchitis, grippe, whooping cough,
pneumonia and all throat and lung diseases.
It's early use prevents consumption. Child
rem always like it and mothers endorse it.
j. Frank Frazer, Druggist, Elkton, Md.
The voters of Queenstown district,
Queen Anne's county, will hold an election
on the 29th, to decide the question of tke
sale of Intoxicating liquors in the district.
Cleanse the liver, purify the blood,
invigorate the body by using DeWitt's
Little Early Risers. These famous little
pills act promptly. j. Tram: Frazer,
Druggist, Elkton, Md.
David C. Bale, farmer of Medford,
Carroll county, was severely injured and
almost killed Saturday by falling log
which he was trying to load on wagon.
w. II. Shipman, Beardsley, Mimi,
under OATH says he suffered from dyspepsia
for twenty five years. Doctors and dieting
gave but little relief. Finally he used
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and now eats what
he likes as much as he wants, and he feels
like new man. 1t digests what you eat
J. F. Frazer, Druggist, Elkton.
During last week the new Independent
Tinplate Mill, recently started in Cumber-
land shipped five carloads Of finished
block plate, weighing 500 900 pounds.
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hcngainc and cloth. which alone can dis
play them to their fullest advantage.
There are many attractive liberty fab
rics in which. vague forms appear in two
tones of the same color. There are, like
wise plaidS in which satin bars are
shown on tatIcta ground.
y new material for bridal gowns is Il
luminous MORE with silvery metallic re-
Elections. 1t is made only in white. Sat
III, however. continues to be the material
par excellence for the wedding costume
The picture illustrates an attractive
costume for Il young woman. 1t is of
pink crepe de chine, the skirt being sun
plated and having two sun plated tu-
MICS, all Lorjlrrcd with narrow black vel
vet ribbon. The bodice is also plated
and there is a wide corsclct belt of black
velvet oruamcntcd with jcwclcd buttons
The p!asCron and collar are of black vel
vet, the rcvcrs of guipurc bordcrcd with
black velvet. The cravat is of pink silk.
The sleeves are plated horizontally and
have a black velvet band down the out
side. The hat is of pink flowers. with
foliage. JUDO CHOLLET.
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or tucks at the top and close skirts flaring
at the edge and plain or finished with Il
circular rutllc are the rule. \ soft sash
belt tying with long ends ut the back or Il
furah scarf falling ut the side is often
seen.
Round, pointed and sailor collars Of
Irish gupure are greatly liked for chill
drcn, both boys and girls.
y picture is given of an attractive
spring walking costume. 1t has a skirt
of nickel gray CLOTH which is laid in pan
els, buttOning over with small steel but
tons as far down as the knee. Below that
there are plaits let in, and the skirt falls
free. The double breasted vest is of the
same material and has two rows of steel
buttons and rcvcrs of broche pompadour
silk. The plated chcmiscttc and the col
lar and cravat are of cream surah. The
bolcro, which has deep points in front, is
of black cloth, with revCrs and dircc-
toirc collar trimmed with narrow black
velvet. The hat is drapcd nickel
gray grosgrain, with coques ut the side
and cluster Of pink primroscs.
JUDO CHoLLET.
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Carload Seed Potatoes direct from the
North. Il. p. FRAZER.
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WOMAN'S INTEREST.
THE NODE.
Materials and Trimmings For the
Coming Season.

Taffeta continues to be immensely worn
and will he much used for elegant gowns
during warm weather. Many fancy
weavcs are seen in which dots, stripes
and checks appear with a brocade effect.
For young women and girls this material
is particularly liked, and in the case of
the latter mousselinc de sole composes al
most the entire decoration. For others
point de vcnisc and guipure dart are
greatly employed as trimming.
Passementeries and rich cmbroideries
are only seen on plain goods, such as