Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1896, Page 16

‘ THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. CORONA SEEN AT VARIOU S TIMES SINCE 1857. DISCOVERY IN LIGHT Solar Corona Photographed in Bread « Daylight. CATHODE RAYS. FROG SUN SPOTS Bearing on the Knowledge of Meteorological Conditions. -——_——+--—_ AID TO SOLAR RESEARCH of elec’ egy—the sur has been pho- vad day- aphy are Packer till this m thor when he is 2 real them fre at he mizht late date ous fs conv one, t he makes ar his brother a: ‘The sun‘s corona, be scen only durin: ery beams - of the moon as | It ha ‘s that sume w king out the sun's ed, so that it mi in ordinary The met long been known that or metal fil let strong light ordina thicknes. are extremely opaque. Packer now discovered that the rays that di reecd in getting through are the photographic rays, in which the corona is very rich, while the solar disk, with all its glare, has relatiyely few of them. He, theref)-e, simply photographs the sun through o: hese films, and re of what no mortal eye can —the solar corona in broad daylight. Value of the Discovery. The impcrtance of this to astronomers may be aed when it 4s known that they have not yet decided what the coron:: is. Probably most of them agree that it is an envelope cf very thin matter sur- rounding the sun, and shining either by reflected light or electrically. But it is hard to find out anything about a thing that can be s2en clearly only once in two or three years, and then for but a few seconds. however, the corona and its changes can b2 observed from day to day, and probably Mr. Packer has seen more of it in the past few months than have all the other astronomers of the world since the dawn of time. first photographs were taken with 2 camera, of four-inch aperture, through screens of tin and lead foil and sheet copper. Later he substituted a pin- hole for the camera lens, with great ad- vantage. He made three or four pictures at a time, some with the leis, and some with t n hole, and the close agreement of detail showed that the pictures were real, not the result of some reflection or refraction in his instrument. This was an important point to prove, since his broth- er astronomers, would be sure to suggest that such remarkable results were prob- ably unre ale ‘aphs thus taken show that ‘amers of the cerona are very close- ly connected with sun spots. Every spot has its own ray; wherever a prom!- hoots out in the corona, a } ire to be found at the bot- The corona ch; too, with the number of accounts for the The its shape ot from which most promi- rpris- hg fact, rev . and at pres- ent inexplicable. Electrical in Its Natare. But the most interesting part of the new discovery is the announcement that it defi- nt roves the corcra to be electrical in If this is so, every sun spot st be a vast center of electrical dis- Sending out visible rays into ce. The similarity of th se to the much- talked-of cathode rays will at once attract dd the apnouncement of the ‘oming as it ¢ close up gen’s, is something of a coinci- have long believed Streamers to he electric, and ed them to those of the au- » the aurora is more like the rtially exhausted tube, the vs of a highly ot. Bigelow of often pointed out tween the curves of the cor- nd those of electric or mag- of force, such as those in which pee themselves when sprinkled over a magnet. He thinks that they ulti- mately reach the earth, where they pro- foundly affect the weather, originating ey- clonie storms, cold and warm waves, etc. The discovery cf Mr. Packer may thus pu: at our disposal the machinery for studying the causes that He at the root of all our changes of weather. We can already pre- dict pretty well the progress of a storm when it has once started; we may now be able, by studying a series of corona photo- sraphs, to tell when and where it wiil start. These experiments are strikingly iMlus- trated by some performed recently by Dr. Pupin of lumbia, who obtained an arii- f al discharge, strongly resem- ng the corona, from an electrified brass sphere inclosed in an exhausted glass globe. CATS AND DOGS AS TEACHERS. Demestic Animals to Impart Retter mers to Lions and Tigers. ew York Wor entrance to a cir- ‘ht winter d to see what them- | in the buildings which quar- eer beasts from all parts of YS you would be ast @ number of are of all sorts and sizes: huge ous Di and wolf hounds and | pe The cats are large, hand- ng fellow: us mous- d have alr of shown well | ers some of the! sleek and well- by cats of bility S who are nt visitor, “that Ss you keep so mesiic ones? I should think you | uld have enough to do feed tone of ti nese ration.” to ais in our midst. You have often heard it said that lions er be raised in captivity, the time. One of s that we let con- in of the rger animais. The latter asant objec on, and are i of the mania of eating their young, suc; ful mei = ——-+ Winter's His strongholds, frost fenced, has Phoebus laid ne, Tiis fetters that held her earth now Is far flng- he streams, tong his prienors, And safe “neath the brier th clinging, Hi banks are bright with the celandine’s 15 impotence show, | frst primrose 1s ide the sheep-bell fs ‘Winter must x — soe Desire vs. Capacity, Srom Truth. Mr. Calipers—“What kind of a boy Is Willie Wiggles?” Little Clarence—“He is a Nar, pa.” Mr. Callipers—“You should not talk so Bbout one of your playmates, Clarence.” Little Clarence — “Well, he is, pa! Why, ‘at the church supper, the other night, v one of the ladies asked him if he all he wanted to, he told her ‘y mz dnst of saying that he'd had al! he c i ju Iging from the number that were seen, ART OF THE ANGLER. Care Taken in Approaching the Fish and Casting the Fly. From the Fertnizhtly Review. As fish have grown more knowing, man has grown more cunning, and has devised new schemes to outwit his prey. Now, in- stead of fishing downstream, he fishes up- stream, that he may be below and behind the fish, and, therefore, less in sight; for fish, it must be borne in mind, always lie with their heads upstream. Moreover, where he used to stand, he now kneels or crawls. That his rod may not be seen, he moves horizontally—not vertically, as of old—and he never, if he can help it, allows the point to extend over the water. That his line may be seen as little as possible, he no longer eearches the water at haphazard, but reserves his cast until he has found and noted the exact position of a rising fish, or, at any rate, of a fish lying so near the rface as to suggest the strong probabill- ty that it is on the watch for flies. Then, instead of u two or three flies, he se- lects one, ing, as closely as may be, in color and s.ze, the natural flies he has erved on the water. This he deftly casts, so that It shall fali on the as l'ghtly as a flake of snow. scme e'ghteen inches or so above the fish, and float with its wings erect—“apeak,” as they say of a cutter’s foresail—and he al- lows it, without check or suspicious move- ment, to be carried by the stream over the nese Of the trout. At that instant, if for- ne smiles, he '$ a bubble rise, hears a t sound like a baby’s kiss, and the tug- If the trout refuses, or the ei not quite accurately made, he lets the di float on, far below the fish, so tha the ripple made in withdrawing it from the Water may rot disturb the trout, and verberare nebulas, to dry his fly whipping it backward and forward r until it is once more buoy- tries again. Should the trout second time of asking, the an- will change his fly; if very ange his . Making a men- note to “call again.” This slight sketch will enable the reader to see the importance of closely imitating the flies on the water, and the ili required in presenting the counterfeit to the fish. = ee A Battle With Alligators. From the Florida Times-Unien. J. A. Dalton of Barton returned lately from his tomato farm, near White Haven, and tells a thrilling story of a battle with alligators. Dalton’s partner, J. B. Lover- irg, drove a wagon, to which two horses were attached, into Lake Winterset, to fill some barrels with water. While Lover- ing was at work the horses began to am in mortal agony, and he realized y were being attacked by alligators. The horses plunged violently, but soon fell down, their legs having been brokén. When the horses fell the ‘gators rose and began to tear the bodies of the animals. Lover- ing had a Winchester, and began firing at the ‘gators, hoping to drive them away. The shots, however, increased the anger of the saurians, and they made a rush for the wagon, and overturned it. Lovering, holding to the rifle, fell into the wanter near a big “gator, which immediately made for the man As the ’gator came Lovering thrust the rifle into its mouth and fired, the bullet inflicting a mortal wound. ‘In its death agony the saurian swung its tail and knocked Lovering out of the water and onto the beach, twenty feet away. At this juncture Dalton arrived, and dragged Lov- ering away, as the ’gators were again rush- ing for him. Assistance was procured and tte horses and wagon pulled out. The horses were dead, having been horribly ngled: by the ‘gators. It is thought Loy- drove his team into a den of ‘gators, VALUATION OF MAN According to Railroad, Insurance and Supreme Court Ideas. COS? TO RAILWAYS OF ACCIDENTS Fully $3,000,000 a Year Paid in Settlement of Damage Suits. INGENIOUS PLAN —— AN price, the price at which he values himself; the price at which others value him; the price Insurance companies put him on, and the price the Supreme Court holds is suffi- cient for any human being in general, and the man in question in particular. The man’s | developmen: is completed. The whole pro- valuation of himself is a variable quantity, which jumps up and down ratic style that it must needs be left out. The valuation of insurance companies Is the most lberal of those which are fixed, and the valuation of railroads Is the poorest. Next to a general battle to win the railroads of the country acrifice lives at the smallest possible cost, = bankruptcy. many to be exce: life,yet the aggre: on the railroads far exceeds those lost under Several of the ea: have on their human life Railroad compani fetions cannot be comp. n that sum for any life lost through the elessness and negligence of their man- The person kille father of a large family, a: and ability may e: family twice or thrice as worth at the agement. quits by a single $5,000 p: orphaned little ones mu: the support and subsisten Denth is Cheaper, If the passenger is mutilated, but not quite killed, the r road he ‘as injured may be compelled to pay any sum not obviously unreasonabie that a jury may assess. It often happens } that in case of accident it is for the im- terest of the railroad company that the in- | jured passengers die, ecmpany's liability to 35,000. in rather than that they should recover suffi- | ciently to sue for damages and be awarded | man to grab perhaps a much larger sum. = ger roads nave sinking funds for emergencies, but just reads general meet fixed charges that a reserve fund is | not to be thought of. The amount of money paid in settlement of damage suits by American railroads can- not be computdd with any positiveness, be- cause it variéw considerably from year to year. When ‘toads are in good condition, accidents invélving loss of life or serious bodily injury ‘are rare; when roads are in poor condition; ‘such accidents are frequent. The large sysl¢ms of the country spend on an average in’ the settlement of damage suits about $150,000 each, and the smaller railway companies bring up, probably, the total amount paid to about $3,000,000 in all. Although the American railroads carry ecliectively in'@ year 600,000,000 passengers, the number of fatal accidents averages but about 300, arid) of injuries to passengers about 3,000, or lone killed for every 2,000,000 csrried, and ‘one injured for every 200,000. Pictures on the Tickets. Said a local railway ticket agent to a Star reporter the!other day: “I am lookihg’ forward to the adoption of a plan on the railroads of the east that will absolutely establish people's identity and thereby prevent many swindles. I re- fer to the California plan of photographing every purchaser of a railroad ticket on the ticket itself. In this way people can be traced up to the mement of ‘their disap- his price 1s badly be-| pearance, and the little pictures will prove hind the times. It is| to be the strongest kind of evidence in in great need of re- | court modeling, to suit the ideas and customs of the present. It should read: “Every man has several prices,” HE STATEMENT that every man has The California plan works in this way. A purchaser presents himself at the win- dow and asks for a ticket. ‘The sensitized end of the ticket, with {ts paper covering, is slipped into a frame in the twinkling of an eye. The whole ticket is then inserted in the slot at the top of the machine. The for he possesses, @S @ | agent presses a spring, a percussion cap ex- noted humorist has | plodes, igniting a flash light, the lens un- said, “several, if not | Ccvers, shutting almost instantly, and in a saaret flash the picture is beinggautomatically de- - veloped. The explosion of the flashlight There is his OWN | sets the machinery in motion, an elevator draws the ticket down, leaving the light- tight case behind, to a point where the first bath mects it. This bath is filled with de- veloping solution. ‘The first bath then gives place to the sécond. As these baths recede they, empty into the lower tank, where the cess occupies less than a minute. “When that plan goes into effect there will be plenty of men who value themselves at a million who can be bought for a cent, especially if they try to travel on a ticket that contains the face of another, or they get hurt and the man to whom the ticket originally belonged should come forward and claim damages. That would be a state of things. in such er-} who has an important | a et this cost has driven several roads into He Was Too Kind. Coa! mining is considered by | From the Philadelphia Record. dingiy dangerous to human A well-known woman of this city contem- ate of humin beings killed plated giving a reception, and one evening when she hal been remarking to her hus- band that it was fully time the invitations Were out he resolved to give her a pleasant surprise by sending them all off without her knowledge. So he got his wife’s address book and went to work, going right down the line of addresses, supposing, of course, they were all calling acquaintances. When his wife returned from the even- ainme vhich she had been, ern and tern states tute books a law which nm Pennsylvania, rating uutside $5,000. s coming ander their ju: 1 to pay more y be the industry | he suid to her gayly, “Well, Mary, I've got for the support of that | all the invitations off.” yearly, yet the “pleasant answer, you know whom to invite? . well, I got your address book and went down the list. I thought I would sur- prise you.” “If you wanted to surprise me you have succeeded admirably,” said his wife. “Do you know whom you have asked? The butch “leaners, laundresses, dress- makers and my own friends. I hope that I have very fewpuch surprise: rable mis- . the company is ment, and the look elsewhere for e thus with- ilroa ilroad company on whose From the Cinch “There whl imiting the | horseless carm case, | Won't mistak chirrup to go Engutrer. one advantage about the said Maud Ethel. “It e sound of a kiss for a ter and compel the young reins with both hands.” see oe Irme Old Joke. Fron Culeazo¥o Bate. ww “Dere's net 4 superstitchus "bout me,” remarked ‘Tyre Pim as he downed another whisky. ain't afraid of spirits.” eby the smaller | have such a struggle to | TOWER OF THE NEW POST OFFICE BUILDING. sine EE: PURE WATER SUPPLY System of Filtration as in Use in This Country. INFLUENCE ON NUMBER OF DEATHS Something About the Cost of Plant and Operation. PROTECTION FROM DANGER Allen Hazen in Health Magazine. N AMERICA, UN- l til recently, but little interest has been mantfested In filtra- tion, In 1886 the late J. P. Kirkwood, then engineer for the wa- ter board of the city of St. Lou's, was sent to Europe to in- vestigate the pro- cesses of filtration then in use. Mr. Kirkwood was much impressed with the utility of the process and ils adaptability to American conditions, and earnestly rec- oramended its adoption at St. Louis. Not so much wes known then as now in re- gard to the effect of filtration upon the healthfulness of water, and Mr. Kirkwood was not able to urge what would now be the strongest arguments for filtration; and the clty government declined te make pro- vision for carrying out his recommenda- tions. Although St. Louis did not adopt Mr. Kirkwood’s advice, his report resulted in the construction of filters at Poughkeepsie and Hudson, New York, and a siail filter, apparently based upon the descriptions in his report, was constructed at St. Johns- bury, Vt. These remained the only suc- cessful representatives of the process in America unui 1892, although quite a num- ber of water works following Mr. Kirk- Wood's suggesti had, at an early date, constructed filters; but without important or successful results, because they were equate in area, and were not properly or taken care of, and were, in almest every ¢: ept those mentioned, aban later. the subject of the filtration of the ater supply Ww: ken up at Law- where remarkable results had been at the experiment station of the state board of health. The city had for years suffered from an unusual mortality from typhoid fever, which had been di ry and definitely traced to the pub as it was by the owell, eight miles above, and ities farther up the river. The city goveriment voted the money to con- struct a suitable filter, and plans for it were pr d by Mr, Hiram F. Mills, who from the 1 the direction of the exper ate board of health and who wes deeply interested in the wel- fare of the city, end gave his invaluable services gratuitousiy to the city. Decrense in the Death Rate. This filter has an area of two and one- half acres, and is able to supp!y a maxi- mum of five million gallons y for a poration of fifty thousand souls. The to- tal cost of the filter was less than seventy thousand dollars. It was put in operation i ptember, 1893, and its use was follow- ed by a prompt and decisive drop in the death rate of the city. For six years, trom to 1892, the city averaged over fifty hs from typhoid fever annually, In there vere thirty-nine deaths, thirty- five of them in the nine months before the filter was put in operation. In 1894 there were but twenty-four deaths, or less than half as mary as there had been before; and of the twenty-four people who died, twelve were operatives working in certain mills where unfiltered river water was used for washing purposes, and was used for drink- iug by the operatives notwithstanding the prohibition of such use, because the river water was more <ccessible than the city water; and four of the others probably contracted the disease out of town. In 1895 the number of deaths was still further reduced to sixteen, of which nine were among the operatives in the above meationed mills, and two are supposed to have contracted the disease out of town, jeaving five not accounted for, where be- fore the ‘ntroduction of filtration there were over fifty, and that with a smaller population, The great and immediate success of the Lawrence filter has since led to the con- m of filters in a number of small n municipalities, among which may be mentioned Mount Vernon and Ilion, New York, Grand Forks, Dakota, and Ashland, Wis. In accordance with the American desire to do things rapiy any attempts have beca made in uniry to construct filters which would purify water at a much more rapid rate than has been found ad- visable or possible in European practice. se filters have met with great success in certain manufacturing operations where only a moderate degree of purity is re- quired, ard the attempt has often been made to use them for purifying the water for city supplies. By Mechanical Means, Owing to the high rate of filtration em- ployed, the purification obtained cannot be satisfactory so loug as no other conditions than those occurring in ordinary filtration are brought into play; and consequently the attempt has been made to treat the water with chemicals in such a way as to allow satisfactory purification to be attained at cigher rates than would otherwise be pos- ible, and as are cnly suited to sand filtra- tion. This attempt has given rise to the so-called “reechanical fi * of which the peculiar features are filtration at retes many times as high as are allowed in Eu- ropean pr e, and the use of alum add- ed to the water as a coagulent before fil- tration. These filters have been used for the fil- tration of @ considerable number of public water supplies in the United States, partic- ularly in the south and west, but up to the present time no definite and unquestionable has been given that publie wa- supplies can be adequately purified in this way, as has been abundantly shown to be the case with the slow s ation so extensively used abroad. The commer- cial interests involved have largely _pre- yented the impartial consideration of the merits and demerits of these filters; and up to the present time rigid and scientific tests of their efficiency have not been made published, although there is reason to hope that the results of such thorough tests will be available at an carly date, ‘There has been some contention as to which was the more expensive, mechanical filters or ordinary sand ‘filters, for while mechanical filters operate at very much higher rates, and consequently require only a much smaller filtering area, the cost of constructing them unit of area 1s enormously great- and the ageregate cost of a plant ith @ given capacity is not so much less than that of ordinary sand filters as might be at first supposed. Data are also lacking for determining the comparative costs of operation, but the alum required with the mechanical filters is an ftems of consider- able importance for which there is no gauivalent in ordinary sand filtration; and it is probable that sand filtration is as cheap, or cheaper, in its operation as me- chanical filtration; while the hygienic re- suJts from sand filtration are much better understood and cannot in any case be ex- ceeded, and probably cannot be equaled, by those from mechanical filters. About Sand Filters. The extent to which sand filtration is used is well shown by a list of fifty Euro- pean cities, prepared from my notes, with an aggregnte population by the census of 1890 (or 1891) of 15,284,148. This list does not include innumerable small cities and some larger ones, which would increase the total to, probably, at least ‘twenty millions. Filtration was also employed by numerous cities in India, China and Japan, some of the works being quite large; ‘while in America at the present time at least elght municipalities with an aggregate popula- tion of 110,509 are supplied with water fil- tered by sand filtration. - ‘The construction of sand filters involves RAILROADS. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. THROUGH THE GRANDEST 6CENERY Iv AMERICA, ALL TRAINS VESTILULED, HABIT. ELECTRIC LIGHTED, STEAM HEATED. ALL From the Evening Times, Buffalo, N. ¥. WEALS SERVED IN DINING vans. sTa- Charles Redorick of No. 187 East Genesee street, TION SIXTH AND B STREE: Buffalo, N. ¥., a hale, hearty lad, stood leaning 2 carelessly against the banister at the head of te Schedule in effect November 17, 1895. state. 23% eat. DALLA —C ding SC. Louis Spee He was dresed in his working clothes, His | #5 rain ior Cincirasti, Pullman sleepers igs to Clucian sata St. 5 c trousers, shirt and hards were covered with paste, | change. Tarior cate ene Se heals, withous, for they were papering at his home. Fe looked p2il@ PM. DAILY” FF. Y. the perfect picture et robust, manly health. fF eencinuati. "Yes," he said to the ‘Times reporter, stretch- | han een ahd da re fi ing his arms and expanding “his chest, strong as an ox vow, but you ought to ha: CIGARETTES. A VICTIM'S STORY OF THE DEADLY train tty Pull “Tm as | chatize, Wednesdays and Saturday ven | Clunath to Chieago and St. Lone, pen | 10:57 AM. SCI me a year ago. Why you really wouldn't have | gS) AM. i oa known me. 225 PM nsville, Chartottens “rm t ashamed to say it. but Tam addicted | xitle, nd for Michwond, daily, except to the ciza: things ond t tte habit. ‘The smoking of these lttle |" itiscrvations and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio bewiog bore me right down. ofccs, 513 and 1421 Peopsyivauia avenue, and at and worse. Fach day, each week | the station. saw my step mere fecble, my form more emaciated, 4028 Gene ens leno jeted ane: ee ae PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Station corner of Gth and B streets, ~ In effect January 6, 1896. 10:30 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED.Pollman Sleeping, Dining, Smoking and Observation C: Harris. icago, “Clucitaatl,- Lodianapol jand apd Toledo. Buffet Pari Fast LINE.—Patlman Buffet, Parlor Car to Harrisburg. “Parlor and Diving Cabs, ure taburg to Picsburg. hing. No man ever had better T did, bur * was afraid to go to sle; death. 3:10 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPT lieve I told best of medical | Pultman Buffet Parlor Car to Hurrisbusg. cd nent. Six are to put thelr ing and Dining Cors, Harrisburg to St. Louis, J me without success, and _Cinelunati, Luitisville ond Chicago. a. 7:10 PM. “W N EXPKESS.—Pcliman Sleep- the doctors by mame | ing Car'to Chicage ard Hurrisburg to Cleveland. 7 Dining Car to Chico. prominent in the city, Mving on 3 0 P.M. SOUTH-WESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullinan Franklin, Genesee and other fasbioi Secping 0 10:40 nd Dining Cars to St. Louis, and Sleep- cinuath. PRESS. —Puliman Sleep- fares. About @ year ago I took my first box of the medicine that has saved my Ife. “I tell you frankly that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are th: best medi have ever “I took tiv hox than I had And the pills oni: “I don't like Sunday. ink Pills, Just one Tess For Williamsport daily, ctors, and was a well man. 7:10 PM. for Willis Magara Falls daily, exc Saturday, with Slowey ing Car Washington to. Suspension’ Bridge via Buffalo. 10:40 P.M. for Erie, Cenamtaigua, Rochester, But> falo oud Niazara Falls daily, Siceping Car Wash- ington to Elantra, PCR PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND TH East. 4:00 P.M. IONAL LIMITED a lor Cars, with Dining Car from Malthus Regular at 05 10-00 Winiig Cav) 6:40, (Dining (Dining 4:20. 6 " © reporter turned : ve if it wasn't be- ms t' Jet you use my I want others to be benefited by my dis- Propte are now VHood. bth en to the pul nd nerve restore arising from a watery condition of the blood or The pis 1 hy all deal- nt post paid or six boxes for & ered as to wheth to be secured will € ers will not be undertaken to nt a dozen ¢ ay single life ner to pre fever. It must be shown that the advan- tages to be obtained are comparable with invoived. ‘To do this we 10, 10:00, ney 1, 9:00 A.M, 12:15 and 4:20 t 80 often xcept Sunday. Sundays, 9:0) AM M of projects for the or for the adoption E ts. Line. Augustine 1st rs for a eity of geological, ms, Which can . With what average Ameri- stimate the cost and a half 1,000 for a city yilants, and interest on Deg 4 Ait h 24 - x mn he infuries resulting from the 2 impure water to be balanced again is cost are many. A few m are the objectionable nee, taste and odor of | 5M such water; the c: i heea and minor disea : 2 == - i “WRAL Ww w on a whole ser other conditi ed in tht I. datiy. “Richi Kichmond only, 10:57 daily, and dstion for Quantico, 7:85 A. . week do 42 3. R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent. SOUTE IN RAILWAY. (Piedmovt Air Line. in effect Janucry 6, 1896, vive aud have at Pennsylvania i. ville, Connects ay Sint cept Sunday, and re With tn aid Western daily, & OU. daily for Natural Bridge and daily—The UNITED STATES FAST ont rs New York people suiferi and ing rina city ng from it, destors’, nurses’ and hos- pital bills and less of ‘the Hves ef those dying. ‘Then there is the danger from cholera, and while we hope that this dread diseas will not again have a thold on on shores, we know from all past experien: that should {t do so, it would att cities with polluted’ water supplic Scbedu' AN toins Pa senger Daily—Local for V. s Pullman Buffet Si and Washin: lutte wit man Sleeper Ne to Jacksony Pullman Sleeper for Aug York to New © ng at Aviadta with Pullman Slecp- and St. Louis, ung, daily, except Sum supplies for much the same reason that we pay insurance rates to protect our- selves from a great and terrible, although remote, danger. Siar aps: Won a Rride and a Farm. From the St. Lonls Globe-Democrat. Miss Anna, the daughter of J. M. Hayes, was married at Chattanooga, Tenn., to Geo. Miller, jr., of Toledo, Ohio, under rather ro- mantic circumstances. The groom is the son of Rev. George Miller, a Presbyter! minister of Toledo. During the dedi of the Chickamauga Park last September Rev. Miller met his old boyhood companion, Mr. Hayes. The latter has three grown daughters. The min y to Miss Anna, and determined that h. should marry her, or at least one of his old friend's daughters. He took home photo- graphs of the three girls, and offered his son a farm if he would marry one of them. The Local for Charlotresvitie, tion Sleeping man | Dr: mpa ond Augusta; Vestibuled D, Augistine, and Dining Car, Salisbury St. August inc 3. HiSGTON AND ROUND , OL A.M. duiiy and 4:45 P.M, eaily, except $ dvi; for Lecsburg, r took a great for’ Kt Sunday, Herndon. ng man liked bes Miss An The coupl and Monday young Miller saw his flancee for the first time. Both were pleased, and, after spending a week here, the couple will go to Onio to reside on the farm thus won. A Familiar Make Up. the picture of became engag. excepts nsville ivania a © Ste furnished at offices, SUL and 1300 Penn: . pond Wa Voumsylvania General Superintendent. F From Tid-Bits. or Fig ee Mrs. Dix—“I wonder what present my = wsabciac Bertini — husband will bring me tonight?” BALTIMORE AND OHI) RAILMOAD. ’ Mrs. one? Is it M Hicks—“What makes you expect your birthday?” » Dix—‘‘No-o; we quarreled this morn- Schedule in effect December 1, 1885, Leave Washington from station corner of New Jemey avenue and € st nd Nortnwest, Vestibuled Limited as Changed Hin Course. From the Chester (Pa.) Democrat. Hoax—"I understand you ran away to sca when you were a boy?” Joax—“No! I started to; but my father caught me, and I went on a whaling ex- pedition with him!” = and » pam. For Lexington and Staucton, 11:30 a.m. Toial Bi All tra’ or Phil x Gladness Comes |!) jc%.05. 2 i oa all day wit a better understanding of the <= transient nature of the many phys- ical ills which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual di ease, but simply to a constipated condi- tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrap of Figs, prompt- ly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millions of families. and is everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness, without debilitating the organs on which it acts. 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