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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
AT THE PARIS MoRGUE.
subiecting Criminals to Terrible
 Ordeal.

eubiecting Criminals to a Terrible
 ordeaL
 A law that has recently come Into operation gives prisoners the right of communicating with counsel within tWenty-four hours after their arrest, says a Paris correspondent Of the Lon don Standard. One of the immediate consequences Of this measure may be to put stop to those 'confrentations' at the morgue. which are so dramatic feature of French criminal proceed ufe. With q view to bringing mur- derer 10 confess, he Is taken to the morgue. and there brought face to face with the body of his victim. Every artifice is used to make the eonfronta- ton as impressive as possible, as 1t is hoped that the terrible sight he is com. pelled to gaze on will so trouble the murderer that he will lose command over himself and make clean breast of his crime in his agitation. When lie enters the room he can see nothing, as the stone bench on which the body is exposed is concealed by curtain. The examining magistrate presses him with questions, and then, at what he considers the opportune moment, gives the signal for the curtain to be pulled back The murderers who have stood this ordeal without flinehins have been comparatively few The majority of them exhibit the utmost terror, and fmplore to be taken out of sight Of the corpse. There Is a chair in the room where the confrontations take place in which the majority of the most no torious murderers of the last thirty years lave been seated. Their names are inscribed on it's back, one of then being Troppman, who, just before the Franeo-German war; butchered an en. tire family. French criminal counse have found that these confrontations almost always result in the confusion of their clients, have looked into the matter, and beliere they have diseoy. cred that the examining magistrate has 10 legal right to subject prisoner to this ordeal For the futqre they arc going to advise their c1ients to refuse to allow themselves to be taken to the morgue, and it seems that it is a moot point whether the authorities will be able to convey them thither by force.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
THE BURLINGTON ROUTE
 BEST LINE,

WEST St. Louis to Kansas City St. Joseph, Omaha, Nebraska. Den. rec, Utah Pacific coast-TWO TRAINS DAILY. Weekly California Excursions.
 NORTH WEST: to Black Hllls. Montana, Washington, Puget Sound via tine short Billings Route-50 to 500 miles saved from St. Loais. Toasrlsts sleepers Tuesdays and Tkursdays. Kansas City to Seattle. NORTH to St. Paul and Mime Apolis- THREE TRAINS DAILY. MOMEsEEkERs' EXCURSIONS ito the Nest and Northwest.
 7b0O Miles of Standard Railroad. The Main Travelled Road in the '1-eaisiana Purchase.
 Widely estlbGled, Pintseh-hghted complete traius of chair cars (seats Ifreea, Pullman sleepers.
 All Ticket Agents can ticket via che Great Burlington Route.
 Write,
 M tUGG, L W WAkELY, TP A. GOA Pine St, Gen. Passenger Ag't
 St Lnufs. mo St. Louis. Mo.
 HOWARD ELLIDTr, Gen'l Manager.
 Sr. Louis, Mo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
GET THEIR TIPS FROM CROOKS
Bank oncials Tale Means to Protect
 Their Treasure from Thieves.

Their Treasure from Thieves.
 It is said by a police official at city hall headquarters that some of the city banks, whose hoard of surplus cash has been increasing largely of late, have been experimenting with an ex- pedient long in use by the Bank or England officials of paying known crooks for information of any eonten1. plated rad upon their vaults. The Bank of England's first experiment o1 this kind dates from 1850, when the directors of the bank listened to startling proposition made by ditch digger" The faborer told the directors that he had discovered a new and un- suspected method of getting into tie cellar vaults, where the gold and sil- yer bars were kept, and that be would sell his secret to them for money. The directors hesttated, believing that they had taken every precaution against loss from the vaults in putting up heavy masonry, with plenty of iron bars, and by manning the building with armed watehmen. But finally they granted ths man, who seemed to talk fairly, a chance to try his plan. and a night WAS named for the undertaking. At the appointed time committee Of the directors descended to the cellar and heard a peculiar scratching sound under their feet. Two hours later the floor opened and the ditch digger bobbed Up 9ereneiy, like the evil spir- Its in the spectacular drama, Al around them lay bars of precious metal, totaling in value e3,00o,oo0. The man explained satisfactorily how it was done and as reward the diree- tors assured him an income from life on an investment of $10,000. The crook was content and it is believed he remained honest ever afterward. But other cracksmen were tempted by his luck to try the same game and the l directors were inundated with sugges- | tions and tips on new methods of bur l glary and how to prevent them. Among other things, they paid $20.000 for a | process, invented by young chemist, for copying the ink, paper, water marks and designs of the bank notes so perfectly as to defy detection. The | directors found they could use his sys- 1 tenn more satisfactorily and more proftably than their own in the pro- duction of their cdrrency.. Despite the fact that these expenditures have run up into big figures in the last half century the directors of today say that all the money was well invested.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
 HE KIPu.
q Bunch of Strings Used by the AncIents

to Keep Accounts.
 Dr. Ma6 Uhle, a dlstinuished Ger man scientist, has been for many years engaged in archaeological ex- plorations in Peru. He now ret ns to that country under the auspices of the American Exploration society, for the purpose Of clearing some of the unsolyed problems of the ancient clv- ilization of the 1ncas and to complete q collection for the museum of the University Of California. fe bad made a similar collection for the Uni versity of Pennsylvania Dr. Uhle proposes to remain two years in Peru to complete his work. Among other important discoveries of Dr. Uhle is the kipa. q collection ef knotted strings Of different eolors, which were used by the people Of the ancient eiyiIiza tions Of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia for the purpose Of keeping accounts. They had no written language and no sys- tenn of figures. Their arithmetic con- sisted solely of little knotted strings. Among the primitive villages of tho Andes the descendants of the Ineas depend upon the kipu for keeping ae- counts, and Dr. Uhle was SD fortunate as to discover them in the hands of Indian herdsmen, who used them so skillfully that they are able to make a record of every animal, every bushel Of feed and article of property that i5 intrusted to their care. The eolors Of the different stlings represent differ- ent articles, such as harley, corn. sheep, rams, ewes, lambs. horses, etc, while the knots, by their size and dis tance from each ether, express hun- dreds, tens and units, in such 4zsan- Ter as to accurately include the daci- mals. For example, one of the kipus obtained by Dr. Uhle from a shepherd near Lake Titaeaca showed that he had delivered 3S7 sheep, 285 rams. f21 lambs 1 year old, and g still younger; the number of bushels of barley that had been used the number of sheep killed and furnished to the kitchen of the owner of the flock, and the num- Der eaten by the shepherds, the num- Der that died of disease, the number killed by wild animals and by aeei- dent, as completely and as accurately as if 1t had all been set down by i double-entry bookkeeping.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
EERLtN'S CLEAN STREETS.
Residents Vic with One Another In
 Making Them Prese1stahle.

Residents Vic with One Another In
 Making Them Presentable.
 Bfeyolists who have ridden much on the asphalt streets of German cities say that tho tendency to 'Aside slip" is there much less marked than on sim- liar pavements in this country. The explanation of this fact may possibly lie in the statement witch is made by the American consul at Breslau that the asphalt streets in that city are regularly washed, the purpose of the, washing being to remove the slime which the asphalt seems to leave and to keep the street from being slippery. The washing has the further effect of preserving and hardening the asphalt. The care taken of the asphalt by the city authorities contrasts strongly with the methods usually adopted in the United States. For instance, the space in front of the consulate is di- vided into four squares, which are in charge of one man. After cleaning the streets early in the morning he wheels out barrow load of very fine, sharp sand and scatteTs it lightly over the streets to prevent slipping. On sainy days the process is repeated sev. eral times Once a week. the whole street is sluieed and thoroughly washed with sprinkling carts. These are followed by ample roller brushes. which sweep the water and slime into the gutter, whence it is carted away. After this the man who has charge of the street comes along with his wheel barrow and sand sprinkler. n spring or autumn, when the streets are often sloppy and wet. the washing Is done several times during the week.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
MORE ENGLISH IRON.
Timely Discovery at Kent In the Dover
 GoalfieIa.

When the coal boring was put down at Dover about six or eight years ago, by MT. F. Brady, on the site of the old Channel tunnel works, there were indi- cations in the cores of the presence of iron ore in the strata between 500 and 600 feet from the surface. The indica- tions have now proved correct, says the London Chronicle Tn the course of sinking the No. ? shaft a bed of valu- able oCIitic iron ore has just been struck at a depth of rather less than 600 feet. The seam proves to be no less tends over great area, the quantity being practically unlimited. The diam eter of the shaft is twenty feet and the quantity brought to the surface in passing through the twelve feet amounted to about $50 tons. Samples of the ore have been submitted to anal ysis, with highly satisfactory results, a washed sample of the ore yielding 45.S per cent of iron. On visiting 1he col fiery works today I inspected eonsid- erable bulk of the ore and the mana ger informed me that washed sample tested at the works yielded between 30 and so per cent og iron. The analysis shows that the ore is free from sul- pffur and phosphorus The ore is stat ed to be of much richer quality than the Wealden ironstone, worked in Kent and Sussex a century ago. Prof Boyd Dawk1ns, in a paper read before the British association in 1894, described a sample obtained from the original boring. From this 1t appears that this bed of iron ore is Identical with that described by Blake and Hudleston at Abbotshury, in Dorset. where it occurs between the Kimmeridge clay above and the Corallian rocks below. It is also practically identical with the val uable iron ore worked for many years in Westbury, Wiltshire. The ironstone presents very singular physical char acteristfcs. It is composed of dark brown. shining grains of hydrated OK, ide or iron. like mil1et seed, imbedded in crystalline base, partly of cal csum aud partly of iron carbonate.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
rho worlds Tobacco Product.

Although tobacco first became known to the civilized world through the dis covery Of America, where the natives cultivated and smoked it,yet about two- thirds Of the worlds yearly product of tobacco is now produced in the east ern hemisphere. The total product is estimated at 1900, 100000 pounds. of which America produces 650,0oo,00 000. Cuba, whose tobacco is reckoned the finest of all, produces only 62,oo0,oo pe8Das, being far exceeded in respect fo quantity by the state of Kentucky, whose product is put at 1s6,ooo.ooo pounds.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
HAIR PLANTING.
Successful Experiments of Turkish
 Physician.

i
 Physician.
 A Turkish physician has been ex- perimenting successfully on the trans planting of hairs one by one to bald parts of the scalp His results seem to show that there is no impossihility in the complete renewal of a lost head of hair by this means. The physician, Dr. Menahem Hodara, according to foreign paper, tried his experiments in the case of a disease that had re- moved part of his patients hair. His plan was to scarify the bare surface and to implant thereon hairs removed from other parts of the patients head The hairs used for the purpose were trimmed with scissors at each end. Some four weeks after implantation certain number of the hairs were found to have taken root, and in no long time goedly new crop was pro. duced. Encouraged by these results. Dr. Hodara has since applied the method ii other cases of badness fol- lowing fayus, and he thinks himself justified in stating that "elinieaIly there can be no doubt as to this very curious fact-that small bundles of hair stems cut with scissors and im- planted in the ineisions made with tho scarifler can take root and grow, form ing in time long and visible hairs" Sy microscopic examination he has satisfied himself that after some weeks a real new bulb forms at the lower end O. the implanted hair. Dr. Hoda- ra's results are interesting in them selves, and still more in the promise which they appear to offer of further results, undreamed of, CT at any rate unmentioned. by the ingenious experi- menter. Why, asks the New York Herald, should not the same treatment be applied in cases of ordinary bald ness? Many bald men would gladly submit to have their scalps plowed and afterward sown with new hairs If there was a reasonable hnpe of even a moderate harvest.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
Remarkable Loss of Memory.

A remarkable case of loss of mem- ory occurred in London, England, re- gently. It appears that aa old gen. tleman, we'll dressed and apparently well to do. was found by the police wandering in Moorhelds lie was taken TO the nearest police station, but, be- ing unable to give any satisfactory ac- count of himself, he was conveyed to Guys hospital. There it was found that he was suffering from loss Of memory, and despite every device adopted nothing could be gleaned as to his identity. Upon his clothes be- ing searched an address, Spring Bank. Hull" was found upon him, and as the result of a telegram dispatched by the police to that address 1t was ascer- tained that the old gentleman was Mr. George Patchett, who lived at the ad- dress given. He had been missed from Hull for some days, hut how and when he got to London neither his friends nor Mir. Patchett could say.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
,s,a..frls poxxer from Waterfalls.

Electric power aefiFe1l from the uater falls Of Tigol which constitute sone of the most famous gems of Ital- f1sa scenery, is ION transmitted about Hffeen miles across the Campagna to Illuminate Rome and to drive the 1krzsncars, whose presence in the streets IT fhe Eternal City is 70 striking q r 7aIier of the universaiity of mods
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
Railroad. Time-T abIes
Iron Mountain Route.

Iron Mountain Route.
 ARRIVES DEPARTS sssffAe hoek Accom- 5.50 D. n. 6s5 m v S9rtheoAna ...........s.I0:55 um 1l:o0 m x <satthbeuna .-.... ..... $50 m a:55 m
 Cotton Be,t Route. <Srfnpound 1.-s-.s. ..s 3:05 D m 2:10 J m Sasa Inbound -............. $50 q Iii 3:35 a fn <s0ythnound ...-s...... los D III .:i0 D Ill Nssffh h5ound ..... 1:a5 a m f:40 nj
 ALrHKfMEE BRANCH. Little Rock Accom-. 1o.40a q n ksstie Hpck Accom-. 2fs5 ? n xsine BiaT Arkansas River Ky. Aseniar Passenger .10.10a n BOO D Iii Arkansss River Packet Co. &zeaAaers Thursdays .le:U0 m
 Fridays ff:00 n
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
carnlvera Have Weak Lungs.

It is a somewhat curious fact uni versally noted by travellers that lions, tigers and other fierce carniyora are too weak in jung power to run more than a half-mile.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
 Many Are Graduates

The sleeping car porters are gradu- ates of schools. The Pullman and Wag- ner companies have organized the schools all over the country. The schools are usually located in the de- pots. The equipment is but hare room. in which complete sleeping car berth is set up, with curtains, cush- ions and all, just as they are in the cars. After an applicant has been ac- cepted and assigned 10 duty he reports at the division office and is conducted to the schoolroom. Here, under the tutelage of one of the old porters, he ie shown lAe proper and only method of making up a berth. Then how to con- vert it back to a section, how the cur, tains are folded, where the pillows are placed. how the cushions are utilized. and all the mysteries of the craft. He Is then trained in his duty to the pun lie and the public to him, and stands and rehearses before his tutor-Phila. delDhia Telegraph.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
Forgot fine Ffret,utfff

Beattle. Kan, had fire the other night, and the next morning, after it was all over. the town suddenly re- membered that it has fire outfit that 1t had forgotten about.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
TELsCRAPnlc BRIEFS

EEP your blood pure and your
 " stomach and digestive organs in a healthy condition bv taking Hoods ssafsaparilla and you will be WELL.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21

Constipation leads to liver trouble Raahd torpid liver 10 Bright's disease. EriekIy Ash Bitters Is certain cure sft any stage of the disorder Sold hy Walker Drug Go.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-21
FILLING UP SIBERIA.
By This Method Russia Cuts Down Her
 Great Surplus.

Great Surplus.
 Since the commencement of the Trans-Siberian railway immigration to Siberia has developed with enormous strides, says the London Leader Be- tween 1882 and 1885 only 650.000 per sons entered the country, viz, 50,909 every year. In 1896 the numbers sud- denly sprung up to 203, 900, in 1898 they reached 205,0 ,000. The immigra- ton Is conducted by a committee of officials. whose members portion out the land through which the new rail- way runs. Up to the present moment 15,000,000 acres have been occupied, and this comprises all the available agricultural land. But, notwithstand- ing, the Russian government allows thousands of immigrants still to swarm into Siberia, and to go to ruin i'll the barren and miserable marsh lands. The reason of the governments apathy is due to the fact that the officials wish thus to get ri9 of the starving thou sands in European Russia. There IS no civilizing influence with these fresh immigrants. The majority are beg gars with scarcely more intelligence than the Asiatics already in Siberia, The filling up of Siberia by the pres ent-day proceas is nothing less than the useless saerifice of thousands of hapless beings.
 Aua ia n- Rnrn naad
 One of the oldest Australian-bern members of the fair sex died the other day in Sydney at the age of 92. She was born in Sydney in 1907, and in 1923 was married, at the age of 16, to aieading eolonist. She has Left behind her 12 children. 72 grandchildren, 146 great grandchildren. and 10 great greats grandchildren. making total of 240 souls. She was the daughter of one of the first twins born in the colony which makes her one of the second generation, while her descendants go down to the sixth generation of Aus tralian-born. The old lady had good stories of olden time in Sydney, for when she was born the present streets of Sydney were but tracks. and the suburbs wild bush, while the back country, where now there are great cities and towns and all the develop ments of civilization, was a terra in cognita to the white man. The colony was only nineteen years old when the deceased lady first saw the light.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-05-04
Public School Exhibition.

The public school entertainment
held in the Friends Normal Insti.
tute building on Thursday evening
of last week was a most gratifying
success to teachers and pupils. The
large room was crammed and jam
med, there not being a square foot
of spare room left. The program
was well chosen and well rendered
and the performance was applauded
by the large audience to the echo.
Misses Brickley and Leedom added
very much to the enjoyment Of the
evening by their performance ON
the violin, guitar and mandolin.
Both ladies are fine musicians and
the audience showed their appre-
citation by hearty applause. The
teachers, Eugene A. Reynolds and
Miss Minnie B. Brickley, have
cause for congratulating themselves
over the success of their efforts.
About 800 were received at the
ticket office, which will go towards
increasing the public school library
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-05-04
ATeIephone Fight

The Cecil Telephone company
finished planting the poles from
North East to Rising Sun last week
and the wofkmen are now engaged
in stringing the wires. One of the
poles was planted in front of HI. j.
Sheppard's and another back of his
garden, it being the intention to
run the wires across his yard. AS
the poles were not high enough for
the wires to clear the trees in front
of the house and in the yard, the
workmen attempted to trim off she
branches. Mr.. Sheppard would
not permit them to come on the
premises and the matter was resting
until the linemen reached town
with the wires. When the town
awoke yesterday morning it was
discovered that the pole in front of
Mr.. Sheppard residence had been
taken up, laid along the pavement,
and the hole filled up. There was
talk of a cyclone during the night,
but nobody heard the wind.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-05-04
Electric Railway No. a.

This is the third electric road to
be built in Cecil and one we have
not heretofore mentioned. OF
course they will all be built but
hardly in this century, whose
sands are fast running out. This
third railway is the North East,
Rising Sun and Elk River Electric
Railway, chartered and incorpor-
ated in 1898, and granted extended
privileges by the last Legislature.
By Act of Assembly the company is
empowered to construct and operate
an electric railroad for the purpose
of transporting freight and passen-
gers from the Delaware State line
to the Susquehanna River, embrace
ing Elkton, Iron Hill, North East,
Perryville, Port Deposit, Rising
Sun, Bay View and Zion. It's
charter also grants all other cleo
trical privileges. The officers are;
James Mullen, president; J. A. M.
Carhart, vice. president; George
Cosden, secretary and treasurer;
Andrew Anderson, l.. O. Cameron,
VIM. L. Mearns, A. L. Crothers,
Mount Il. Kirk, DIR. Frank Mackie,
Ellis Duyckinck and Jos. T. Reed,
directors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-05-04
Prohibition Convention.

Delegates from each of the nine
election districts throughout Cecil
county assembled in Elkton Tues
day afternoon for the purpose OF
attending the Prohibition Conven-
ton for Cecil county. The conven-
ton was called to order by William
t. Weldon, chairman of the State
Central Committee. Prayer was
offered by Rev. Oliver Hemstreet.
Rev. L. e. Poole, of Chesapeake
City, was chosen secretary. The
following delegates to the State
Convention, to be held in Balti-
more on May 81, were named: Rev.
A. S. Mowbray, Rev. L. Il. Poole,
w. T. Weldon, Geo. w. Townsend,
Rev. G. w. Bowman, John F.
Roach, Jos. 8. Scarborough, VIM.
H. Anderson, John T.. Prouse and
Rev. A. r. Brown.
District chairmen were named as
follows: LIST, w. III. Anderson; I'd,
W. T. Reed; Sd, A. Il. Taylor;
4th, VIM. T. Mccullough; 9th, J..
F. Roach; 9th, George Balderston;
Sth. Geo. Fl. Stebbings; 9th, Amos
r. Brown.