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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21

dust in columns fully 1000 feet high, and accompanied by flashes of light. which apparently start from no particu- lar place but pervade the dust every where. Yet there is no lightning, prop erly speaking Persons exposed to these storms become so strongly charged with electricity that sparks pass from their bodies to any metal objects. What is the meaning of these storms, meteorolpgcally speaking? Nobody knows. The Weather bureau does not pretend to be able to say.
 How to Avoid Lightning.
 As result of its study of the subject, the Weather Bureau gives the following advice to the people:
 Do not stand under or near trees dur ing thunder storms. or in the doorways of barns, or close to cattle, or near chim- neys and firep,aces. or close by the ter minus of wire clothes line. Avoid sus- pending the clothes line between a corner of the house and convenient tree; rather let it be hung from one tree or post to another. On the other hand. there is not much sense in going to bed, or in trying to insulate oneself in feather beds. And it is an absurdity to suppose that small articles of steel have the pow CT to attract lightning.
 Just before and during thunder storms many people suffer from a nervous de pression. which Is not easily accounted for. Others are frightened. though for such fears there is no sufficient reason. II should always be remembered that one who lives to see the lightning flash need not concern himself much about the pos s!Mlity If personal injury from the fash
 Effect of Lightning
 Lightning when it strikes a person. ire quently causes a temporary paralysis, stopping the breathing and the heart beat If the victim is left alone he is likely to die. Bnt there is d good chance of bringing him back 10 life if proper means are taken Hot hannels and bot ties of not water should he applied. to keep mp the warmth of the body, and the limos should be rubbed energetically upward. so as to force the blood to the heart and brain. As soon as the pa tient can swallow. a small quantity of whisky or coffee should be given. En- courage sleep, and above all send in- stantly for q physician.
 Rene Bache
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21
LIGHTNING GADESTROYER
WHAT THE WEATHER BUREAU
 SAYS ABOUT IT.
It Kills Seven Hundred to Eight Hundred People in the United States Every Year-How and Where Thunderbolts do
 Most Damage.
Washington Special to The. Charleston

Washington Special to The Charleston
 News.
 to conclusion an investigation of the utmost interest relating to destruction of life by lightning. which has been in progress for the last eleven years. As result. it finds that from zoo to sO0 lives are lost in this country each year by thunderbolts, and that the mortality from this cause Is sufficiently greater in some regions than in others to make ii worth while for residents of electric ally threatened districts to take special precautions
 rabulation of Deaths is not vet completed for the last year, but in 1900 no fewer than 1l3 persons in the United States were killed or fatally injured by lightning Of this number 29l were killed in the open. l5S in houses. 51 under trees and a5 in barns Just how the remaining i5l died is not known. In addition to the above !1S persons were more or less injured in l9o0-by lightning Etroke--57 of them in barns and 70 under trees.
 II is unfortunate that people are so ad- dicttd, when a thunder storm comes up 10 seeking shelter in barns and under trees. because, is shown by the above figures death frequently comes in this way. Men like animals. are killed by ihuuderbolts, not single, but in punches. when thev huddle together. tree par ticuarlv is first rate thing to avoid
 
 injudicious for persons under such cir cdmstances to crowd together under < threshing machines. sheds, or in grand Islands at race tracks CT county fairs. especially under or near the flagstaff.
 Regions of Thunder Storms.
 In the United States thunder storms are frequent over all of the territory east Of the both meridian. West If that me ridaan except ia the Rocky Mountain region, the frequency steadily dmin- 'shes. until along the Pacific Coast such a phenomenon is rarely observed The three greatest thunderstorm regions are In the neighborhood of Florida. in the middle Mississippi Valley, and in the mid de Missouri Valley. Florida which has the highest average, shows a record of about fortY-tVe such storms annually; the. other two regions thrty-tiVe and thirty rfspeeuN elE.
 The areatcst number ai
 '. Fatal Lightning Strokes eeeur in the Middle Atlsnuc States The ohip Valley and Tennessee come next,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21

and the middle and upper Mississippi Valley. a close third; During the five Der of deaths QS6) occurred in Pennsyl- vania. followed by Ohio with 1So. and Indiana, Illinois and New York with l?4 each. The utmost fatality of a single stroke occurred at Chicago, where eleven persons, huddled together in d zinc-lined shanty. under a pier, met instant death by single bolt.
 City Not Safer Than Country.
 The belief that the chance of injury by lightning in cities is less than in the country seems to be rather general. but the Weather Bureau experts say that it has no basis in fact. It is true that the modern city building. with its metal covered roof and steel frame. Is fairly good conductor of electricity. and on that account is in much less danger of re- ceiving a damaging stroke than an iso- lated dwelling In the open rural districts. Also. the multiplication of telegraph, tel ephone and electriclight wires in cities help to carry off the surplus electricity during a storm; but. should a really great storm cloud with a tremendous store of energy approach. all of the wires in New York would not prevent 1t from discharging right and left,
 Science of Thunder Storms.
 It has often been suggested that the Government ought 10 make experiments on a large scale, with view to obtain ing knowledge that would render life and property more secure during thunder storms. Unfortunately the phenomena of lightning are manifested in such gigantic way that laboratory study is of little use. It is true that small light ming flashes can ne produced in the la boratory. with the aid of a modern alter hating machine and d transformer. but lightning flash of mile or more in length so rastly ;"anscends the feeble spark induced by the electrician that very little is gained by observations of the kind.
 A current cf loW0 volts will jump across space of about half an inch between two metal points, and hence it is inferred that lightning flash which extends from Il passing cloud tu the force of many millions of volts. When it is considered that many thunder storm clouds are at least a mile above the earth, it is obvious that the energy in- volvod is gigantic indeed.
 Causes of Lightning.
 Respecting the causes of thunder and lightning. almost pothing is known. strange 10 say. Certain conditions of heat, wind and moisture. obviously pres ent in the formation of thunder storms. have 10 do with tn, phenomena devel- oped. IL is suspected that motion of some sort is accountable in the premises either motion If the wind. causing fric- tion betw zen the air particles. or mot on ! Of tho molecules of water Vapor when | condensed into liquid to form rain. But there is not always rain when there i is lightning. though particular heavy aoNnrour is liable ju follow immediately upon s shock of thunder, and, in short, | the matter is a good deal of mystery. | In Kansas and Colorado tremendous | wind storms sometimes occur. carry ing
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21
Savage Duels Fought in Germany.

The dueling nuisance in Germany shows no sign of abating. and one was mortaly wounded. As in the Ia nous Bennigsen- Falkenhagen duel. the man who fell was the husband who had been wronged. , .
 But more horrible duel is reported from Resensburg. in Bavaria. Two lawyers had difference about a. variety theater girl who had ruined both financially. Each believed his bad treatment due to the others in fuence. The challenge was that they were to meet beside a wayside cross to declare they they were innocent of plotting against one another for the girls affections. the man who declined to swear it to shoot himself. They met but as both took the oath. they agreed next morning to meet with pistols. Both were 1rnnnded serinuslN.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21
AN ARMY CONTRACT.
Chicago Packers Get Order From the
 Government.

Chicago. March 2o.-Another large or der for supplying the United States army in the Philippines with provisions has . been given to Chicago packers by Major G. C. Krauthoff. chief purchasing com missary officer of the Department of the Lakes.
 Specifications of the contract provide that the subsistence stores be delivered in Manila before May 2oth, and include, 35.016 cans of corned beef 60,0l6 cans of roast beef, 4.ooS cans of corned beef hash. 5.O49 cans of chippcd beef 5,016 cans of Vienna sausage. 250,00 pounds of bacon in crates and 110, 900 pounds of bacon in cans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21
Drifting Toward Annexation.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
 The Cubans do not feel that they are the United States and many of them want to be adopted in the family. It is not clear that the annexation of Cuba is desirable, but that is the direction in which things are drifting. AnneNauen was the ultimate purpose of many of those who indorsed the action oi gress in promising to Cuba unrestricted freedom and independence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21
The Atmosphere of Books.

SUCCESS. =. acter building books. and less bric-a brac and costly furniture our children would get a much better start in life.
 To bring a child up in an atmosphere of books, to surround him with the works. of great minds from his infancy and lead him gradually to an appreciation of the works cf the intellectual giants of the race, is equal to liberal education.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21
Last of the Fisk Singers.

Ella Sheppard Moore is the last survivor of the famous jubilee singers of Fisk university institution As a member of the company she travelled five years In Europe and six years in America and has sung before Queen Victoria and many of the crowned heads of Europe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21
WILL STOP AT WASHINGTON.
Mgr. Sbaretti to Confer With Ameri-
 can, Officials

Rome. March 2o.--Mgr Sbaretti. the Papal Delegate to the Philippines. who is on his way to the Philippines. will make a brief stop at Washington. in order to consult the United States Gov ernment In connection with Philippine affairs.
 It is the Vatican's desire to finally ad- just matters in the archipelago in accord, ance with American views and interests.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21
EXPERIMENT ON LAKES,
Wireless Telegraphy Between cleve-
 land and Detroit

Cleveland. O.. March 2O.-Failure of the first attempt to use wireless telegraphy on lakes has been followed by success on the second trial. J. V. Toplir repre- sentative of the originator of the system says that one of the code words agreed upon had been both sent and received fl lom Detroit.
 The success achieved on the second at tempt is aScrjbed partly to better weather conditions and partly to better adjust meat of the apparatus.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21

Not only has the old Slldertown been brought out of itself but it's good works have gone on. Other sections ol Day tol' n have caught the spirit. until scarcely street in the city has not felt the move ment for cleanliness and beautifying.
 one of the most satisfactory things in this reform is the fact that there IS no disposition on the part of a person once enlisted for the work to drop back mo the old slovenliness and dirt. The ola ways become intoerable and impossible
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21

An7.ricsr Siiversniths gre the latest to in wade the English market
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-21

|. has started many boys in the n;

j. I. has started many boys in the nab
 l,ilxtrS and thrift vho mig It otherwise have learned nothing more val uable than smoking cigarettes and chew ing tobacco.
 1. It has made unsghtly and unwhoie- some surroundings beautiful and attract i've. with a corresponding effect on the happiness of the people. H. 5. Indirectly 1t has affected the city government, which has provided clean streets and we'll kept pavements 10 cor
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-31
ANXIOUS FOR 3-CENT FARE.
staten Island Mass Meeting Favsrs Roger
Plan for Cheap Ferriage.

A mass meeting of the business men OF
the North Shore OF Staten Island last night
in the opera house in West Brighton con-
sidered the ferry situation. and the Com
mittee Of i0l. which was appointed last
week by similar meeting in Stapleton
Of the business men Of the East Shore.
will be increased in membership by another
hundred.
The speeches made during the evening
were all in favor of the H. H. Rogers plan
OF a double ferry and a three-cent COM
mutation rate, as opposed to the single
ferry line and a fiat five-cent fare, pro-
posed by the Staten leland Rapid Transit
Company. Mr.. Rogers proposes to run
to Tompkinsville and New Brighton. con-
Meeting at both points with his trolley lines,
he owning all in the borough.
The Rapid Transit plan proposes to con-
tinue to land at st. George and to afford the
trolley lines trackage into its yards and
terminals in its train sheds. Mr. Rogers
offers all new boats and the Rapid Transit
company offers two new ones, to be operated
with the Garrett and Castleton.
The ferry franchise over which the fight
ia being made has almost two years to
run, but Mr.. Rogers wishes II sold now, 30
that II he obtains ii he will have time to
build the boats needed He promises to
run boats from the foot Of Whitehall street
to West Brighton in thirty-five minutes
and to Tompkinsville in twenty minutes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-31
.PUSHBALL on PONIES.
FINE. Ridins At the Duriand Annual Christ
mas Frol1c.

Santa Claus brought q new game to town
last night and it furnished sport and excite
annual Christmas ride Of the puriand Riding
AoaSarv ~ ws. nn.Shsii Ma ed m nony.
Academy. wes pusnoam. p"yeu On pony
back by eight nimble youths. An evolu ton
ride to music. in which seventy women and
men ,vere ths actors. opened the evenings
s s.en "Tn' H ,ns commsnSsd nv Charles +
Krsu.s and At the end the eaue. triennes in
the class were presented with souvenirs by
santa Claus. who came straight from Toy.
Ia an n r,st r.nrssenting a Nnrember,
l~nu Oh no 'ep' a.. d.. LII. 80
cottage Ms horses bore JlhRiuR oehs ana
were harnessed In white FUR. santa Chus
wore red coat which had the effect on the
~nnsn could 40 70 oct IN air ma es o,ose enough
womeh oou.a 40 70 &c. tnen uss' s'o.e eno.sn
to old st. Nick to enable them 70 take the
gifts from his hands. But the act was great
success and a GOOD starter for the night a
.S
Am I.,. NJ w.. ,o,ov.a h.,xssr n oo,..
man, J. c. Punderford and j. r. Dimond.
The play was marred bv some rough riding
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TO-DAYTHEY CLEAN THE CLOCKS.
Annual Kerosene Bath Of the Park Row
Time Works.

To-day will be celebrated by Park row
business men as clock day For many
years 1t has been custom among the store
keepers on the Row to clean up their store
clocks on Dec. 81. Bright and early the
storekeeper or his clerk will take his time
piece from the wall and put 1t behind his
counter, where he can work at 1t when he
has no customers to attend to. The clock
in Halls Hotel will be taken down and
cleaned by the lunch man, who has done
this work for twenty years. He will take
the works out, battle the wheels in kerosene
OIL polish the bearings with stif brush
and then put the works back in the clock
and start it a going for the new year.
In a little cigar store not far from the
Bridge entrance the proprietor took the
clock from the wall last night and began
ahead 50 that he would have the job finished
before the old year had died.
This year." he said, three of us are at
work at the clock, for the dust raised by the
tunnel contractors has left our clock in an
awfully dirty condition. Harry. my part
an hour on the clock and In that time dug
out two cigarboxfuls of dust. Our clock
has hung on our wall for twenty-seven
years, but has never accumulated as much
dust before a. il did this year.
Another Park row storekeeper said he
had found all sorts Of curious things mixed
up with the clocks works.
AFTER taking out box Of dirt, he said,
Il found two hairpins, three Bridge tickets,
a cigarette Stub a lock of gray hair, box
OF matches, two lead pencils, three pens.
a five-cent piece. a shoe lace and a pair OF
socks. Now, how in thunder did all of
those things get into that clock since last
New Years Day?'
One OF the storekeepers says he hopes TO
find a ton of coal in his timepiece when he
starts in to clean it.
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play, but the ball soon surged under the
pushing and went OF on tangent to the
side wall. The work was continued until
the big ball was tackled to and fro. similar
70 yacht against gale. time and time ssein;
team made a goal from nearly the centre.
getting a fine roll on the aphere and Rallop-
ing after u, yelling as wildly a. COmanohe
lnaians, The time was mjn ,ts % second:;
ran his pony into the ball at top speed, the
nag bouncing back. while the push sent the
balloon. kitine The reds followed up the
attack In good style but the blues played 2
out Of bounds. In play again. slow pushing
by the ma "a was In order till time was called
seconds.
The last ps,,od was as short ~, IN sstus! play:
by the nags. with no great gains for either
team until near the end. when the blues
looked like, winners. The men rode their
hardest and the steam .rose in clouds from
resistance by the reds. only the whistle kept
the blues from scoring. The time was three
minutes and forty-twO seconds. This gave.
the match to the red team. one goal to nothing
r% par %ss sS.r1 Dur
horsebs but II was seen in this city for the
first time last night.
There was g. more open riding in The as.t
he resained his saddle. There were sight on
each team. Charles Geyer and Marshall Clapp
being the captain The prize was won BY
Geyers , team DICK Donnel{ failed 70 sp-
Hestherbloom and Ride. but the evening
ended with some clever timb Der topping hY
horses owned by the school.
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STANDARD OIL co. PENSIONS.
Half Pay for . Year After Retirement,
Then Quarter Pay.

Through its general solicitor, s. c. T.
Dodd, the Standard Oil Company an
nounced yesterday the completion Of a
pension plan for it's employees which will
take effect on Jan. 1. The system is in
general that Of the majority Of railroad
pension plans and is said to be the fist
effected by large industrial corporation.
The plan provides that any employee
who has reached the age OF "a years after
serving the company for twenty-five years,
may retire on half pay for one year, after
which the regular pension Of one-fourth OF
his salary at retirement will he paid 70 him.
The grade of the retiring employee or
his salary at retirement Is immaterial.
The company's president, secretary or
general agent will he entitled to his pension
az fully a. the laborer.
Mr. Dodd said yesterday that he had
not yet been able to compute the number
Of employees or the amount Of money in
volved in the plan. The employees ran into
their tens of thousands, he said, and the
wages into the millions. He thought there
would be several hundred employees en-
titled to retirement on Jan. I, under the
provisions Of the system.
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SHOT WIFE AND HIMSELF.
Ungrateful Husband Tried 70 Murder His
BenefactOr.

Jacob Lichtman. a tailor. 80 years old.
OF 4O2 Bushwick avenue, Williamsburg,
after a quarrel yesterday with his wife
because she refused to give him part of
her "a wings shot her in the forehead and
then shot himself dead.
Mrs. Lchtman. who is two years older
than her husband. was married to him in
Russia fifteen years ago. Five years later
she came to America and started grocery
at the Bushwick avenue address. She
prospered and saved considerable money.
She sent passa &c money to Lchtman three
years ago and when he arrived she made
him general mana ger of her store.
Lichtman wanted to be boss and because
his wife refused they had frequent quar-
rels. They quarrelled yesterday morning
because Mrs Lichtman refused to give him
money and she called him drunkard.
Lichtman went out and bought a .3s-
calibre revolver. On his return he shot at
his wife as she was going to a rear room.
She saw the glitter of the weapon in look
ing glass and turned around quickly. As
she did so she received bullet In the fore
head over the right eye. She fell and
Lichtman, evidently believing that he had
killed her, ran to the front of the store and
shot himself.
The woman's wound h not serious.
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GIRL WHOWANTS ROUSS MONEY
FIRST NET THE BLIND MER.
CHANT IN 1893.

when She Was Soliciting Cont ributions
10 Schley House Fund-He Gave Her
q for It-C0ntract 10 Pay Her SIS
aWeek for Life Signed the Next Year.
Edna Weller Mcclellan OF 1906 West Sew
enty-seventh street, who is suing the estate
Of Charles Broadway Rouss in the Supreme
Court TO enforce the performance OF q
contract which she alleges the blind mill
ionaire merchant made with her on June
10. 1900. TO pay her S35 week for life, is
the sameyoung woman who attained con-
siderable newspaper fame in 1899 through
her success in raising money for fund to
buy a house in Washing, on for Admiral
Schley.
She was q member OF the New York
executive committee of the .Women's
National Industrial and Protective League"
which started the fund scheme, and through
an endless chain which she started here and
by personal soliciting she is said TO have
raised over 5000.
1t was while engaged in this work that
she first met Mr. Rouss He contributed
IS to the fund.
Benjamin Steinhardt OF the Arm of Howe
Il Hummel, who il conducting Miss McClel-
lan's suit, refused yesterday to say what
was the original consideration upon which
the contract was based.
Nothing appears in the papers to show it,
and according to the lawyer 1t Is only neces-
sary in the suit to prove that such contract
existed.
Besides the original contra signed by
Mr.. Rouss and witnessed by Caroline NJ
Mcclellan, the girls mother. Howe 4 Hum
nell have letters from the merchant adj
dressed to Miss Mcclellan in Paris, which
Mr.. Steinhardt says prove Mr.. Rouss's
acknowledgment of his obligation; and
bank book of the Union Dime Savings
Bank in which deposits made by the girl In
trust for her mother show weekly the entri,
Of $35 each up to the time of her departure for
Paris in July 1900, three weeks after the
signing of the cont act
Miss Mcclellan remained abroad until
after Mr.. Rouss's death last spring end
during her stay carried on correspondence
with him In one OF the letters written
In August. 1900, Mr.. Rouss complains Of
her long stay abroad. Later he tells his
dear girl" that he can't send her money to
Paris.
Il can give you m oney when you come
back. he said, but If Mr.. Lumley (Rouss's
agent in Paris) will lend you 500, all right
He can take this as his authority for doing
so. Perhaps you have some other source
from which you can obtain $780," Toward
the end Of the correspondence Blanche
ID. Vollmer, Mr. Rouss's private secretary
Mcclellan always to include her address
in her communications because her letters
were destroyed as soon as received
At the Mcclellan house yesterday II was
said that Miss Mcclellan and her father
had left town.