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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25
NEWS Summary.

OCT. 16.-At Memphis the death rate
from yellow fever was smaller than on
any previous day since the fever set in
:. III cases are reported at Decatur,
Alabamr. Among the deaths is JEFF.
Davis, Jr., only son of jefferson Davis
Official returns from Ohio make
Barnes majority for Secretary of state
8, 154. Dispatches from Waterproof,
Louisiana, say about twenty-five hundred
negroes are engaged in the reported out
break there; that fighting took place
in which it is said that Sc negroes were
killed and the whole Of them dispersed
The fourteenth annual convention
of the international brotherhood of To-
connective engineers met in indianapolis
Serious trouble from Indians is an
ticipated on the Pacific slope. Fires
occurred at Troy, N. Y; loss $4,000;
and New Orleans, loss $4,000. As
sistant United States district Attorney
Hoxie, of Brooklyn, to-day resigned and
made a written confession that he has
lost in Wall street, monies entrusted to
him as government official. Count
Deu, son-in-law of the Emperor of Bra
zil, RENTED to minister Noyes, four
hundred francs, contribution to the fever
stricken people of the United States. =.
The transfer of the territory coded to
Servia by the treaty of Berlin, is now
state that Count Won Beust being un-
friendly to Germany, his appointment as
Austro- Hungarian minister at Paris has
created i'll feeling in Berlin. The In
dian, Civil and Military Gazette, states
that the British have made raid upon
Wavering, border village of Afghanis-
tan, and captured four chiefs who are
held as hostages.
/ OcT. 17.-Lieut. Benner, of the "Cham-
bers," died at Vicksburg. the fever
seems to be abating in most places,
though reported spreading on louisa
ma plantations. The president of the
French Senate has contributed one hun
dred dollars to the yellow fever sufferers.
-. Senior Mendez Rego has been APP
pointed Spanish Minister to Washing
ton. 1t is reported that England, Italy
and France have informed the Belgrade
government that they will not recognize
Servian independence until the civil and
political equality of the Jews is pro-
claimed. :. . The concentration of Afgh-
ans in Khybur is. causing uneasiness.
The garrisons at Peshawr and Gahat are
being reinforced. The bark "Susan, -
of New Bedford, Capt. Peeks, who left
with crew of twenty-f1 five men on a whal-
ing VOYAGE, encountered hurricane and
capsized, and all but three of the twenty
five men were drowned. AT Chattano.
ga, Wilberger, Peyer Cos. cotton factory
burned. Loss $4,000, insurance $4,000
-. A dispatch from Buenos Ayers says
a terrible hurricane on the river Plat
caused a great inundation. The Mod
crate Liberals and Conservatives have
come to- an agreement on the disputed
points in the German socialist bill
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Nature. impartial in her ends
When she made man the strongest,
In Justice. then to make amends,
Made woman's togue the longest.
GHnArE ann WEBSTER

Perhaps the weight and power of Web
ster's character were due as much to the
hours he. spent in the woods and fields
and on the ocean, chatting with farmers
or sailors as he was engaged in hunting
or fishing, as to the hours he spent in
study.
Now Choate, superior to Webster in
quickness of comprehension, and imagi-
nation, was an indoors man. The lar
ger portion of his life was spent in
the sitting atmosphere of the courts, or
in what Milton calls "the still air of de
lightful studies;" that is, in his library.
He, of course, was not so foolish as to
neglect exercise; but his exercise was
commonly confined to long walks
through the streets or around the Com.
mon Of Boston. No one ever enjoyed
nature more intensely; but he never so
journed with her. His friend Charles
g. Loring, one of his competitors for the
leadership of the Suffolk bar, once invit.
ed him to spend summer day at his
residence on the Beverly shore. Mr.
Choate was full of enthusiasm as he
walked among the woodland paths or
gazed at the varying aspects of sky OF
ocean; he doubtless stored up in his
mind images of natural beauty which
flashed out afterward in many popular
speech or legal argument; but he ex-
hausted the capacity of the place to feed
his eye and imagination in half dozen
hours. My dear Loring,' he said, in
parting, ''there has not been twentieth
part of minute since entered this ter
restrial paradise that have not enjoyed
to the top of my bent; but let me tell
you that should you confine me here for
week, apart from my work and books,
l know that should die from utter en-
nui. You are fortunate In being able to
serenely delight in it day after day" II
he had been asked to pass q fortnight
with Webster at Marshfield, or at his
New Hampshire farm, and had accom-
panied him day after day In his shoot
ing or fishing expeditions, not even Web
ster's conversation could have saved him
from being devoared with an impatient
desire to escape from the monotOny of
such an existence. All the eccentric
originals of the neighbOrhood, whom
Webster delighted in year after wear, he
would delighted In for day, and then
dismissed them from his mind as intol-
cradle bores; the mountain or ocean
scenery might have enthfalled him for
few DAYS more; but the shooting and
fishing in which Webster took such
pleasure, would have seemed to him a
scandalous waste of time, which might
have been more profitable bestowed on
Eschylus and AFistophanes, on Thucy-
dides and Tacitus, On Hooker and Jere-
my Taylor, on Bacon and Burke, on
ShakspeaEe and Milton
In one particular Choate excelled
Webster-that OF constant high-bred
courtesy to men and women Of ali ranks.
Edwin p Whipple, in Harper's Mag
szine for November.
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NnIIcE.

!, q. B. Lowe, sheriff OF Lyon county. Kan
sas, hereby give special notice by pFoclama-
ton throughout Lyon county, that ON Tues
day, November the 18th, 1873, there win be
held general election, At which election
there are to be chosen the following officers,
to-Wit:
Governor.
Lieutenant Governor.
Secretary Of State.
State Treasurer
1 Auditor OF State
Attorney General Of State
State Superintendent Public Instruction.
Chief Justice.
l Congressman State at Large
Congressman fer Sd con gressional district
Clerk district court for Lyon county
County Attorney for Lyon county.
Probate Judge f0E Lyon county.
Snpe Of Pub. lnsf,n- for Lyon county.
! sheriff ito MI vacancy for Lyon county
ReGister Of Deeds to III vacancy for
Lyon county.
County. Commissioner for 1st distries
Lyon county.
Representative for a2nd district
Representative for e3rd district.
In witness whereof I hereunto set ny hand
and oincza1 seal this 14th CAY Of
October, A. D 1916.
n. B. LOWE, Sheriff
42-St Of Lyon Co., Kas.
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A few days ago a tramp, who was
sparring his devious way along near Re
no, conceived brilliant idea for raising
the wind. He knew that the Wells Far
go stage would pass along that road in
about half an hour, so he took off his
coat, tore his shirt and pockets, rolled in
the dust, and finally tied himself with
much difficulty to tree. His intention
was to tell the passengers that he had
been foully dealt with by highwaymen,
and have subscription to repair his
losses taken up on the spot. The stage,
however, took short cut by new road
that day, and didn't go by at all After
waiting until dusk, the tramp tried to
take off his bonds, but before he got the
first knot loose grizzly came down out
of the mountain and picknicked off the
greater part of his left leg-San Francis
co News Letter.
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For some days past A. J. Freemyre
became satisfied that his COW, being pas
tured on the flats below the village, was
daily MIXED by some one, as he scarcely
got a quart at milking. A watch was
accordingly set, when it was discovered
that fox was the depredator. He would
come up to the cow, and getting up
close to the udder, would sit and get his
fill as handy and natural as a calf. The
cow seemed to like these visits from his
foxship, and stood perfectly still for him
TO get his dinner. The story, strange as
it may seem, is nevertheless true, and we
doubt if its equal can be found.-Mid
dleburgh Gazette
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RETIRING NATIONAL BANK NOTES.

There are some Republicans as we'll
as many Greenbackers, who advocate
the retiring of National bank notes and
the issue in their place of greenbacks,
and at the same time keep the entire
greenback issue "as good as coin" The
Commonwealth demOlishes this propo-
sitiOn in the following manner:
1.-THE man who couples a demand for
the issue of 1922, 000, 900 more legal ten
ders with proposition to keep the le-
gal tenders at par with gold, is either a
raYing lunatic or a monumental fraud.
We need go no further back than our
own war for a sample of that kind of
work. In 1862 we had $3.50, 0O0, 900 of
greenbacks which we were pledged to
redeem sometime. They were then
worth in coin about $f47,00O,O0O. In
1854 the total issue had risen to $780,
OO0, 600, and with additional and solemn
pledges (1st) never to issue any more,
and (2d) to redeem them at the earliest
possible moment The total value of
these $3.50, 000, 600 was then about $145.-
O0O, OOO-in other words, despite the most
solemn pledges not to issue any more,
and to redeem these at the earliest posi-
BILE moment, the renewed issues had so
diminished the public faith IN their ul-
innate payment that the whole $3.50,
0Oo, 900 were worth even less than the
original $3.50, 900 had been.
Now, for the application: We have
today $346, 100000, which we stand
pledged to redeem on and after the 1st of
January next and it is well known that
we have on hand abundant coin to do it
with. The pledge to redeem at so near
date and the known ability to redeem
have appreciated these $346, O0O, 600 of
legal tenders until they are worth about
$344, 270, 600 in coin. 1t is now propos-
ed by the Democratic party to repeal
the pledge of resumption, to increase the
| legal tenders to 1910, OOO, 900, and to leave
them out not only without any pledge
of any purpose to redeem at any time,
but absolutely to prohibit all and any
measures looking toward redemption
1t is clearer than the simplest axiom
| that such legal tenders would go down
with rush until the whole 1910, O00, O0C
would be worth in coin less than quar-
ter of their face value.
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Visitors from the country, at the door
of a southside residence, to a German
next door:
"Jane not at home, did you say ?"
German-"Nein, Chanes nod at home -
Visitor-"Where is shey''
German =" She's gone der cemetery
down"
Visitor-"When will she come back 90
German-"Oh, she wont come pack al
ready any more; she's gone to stay; she's
Diet
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CHICAGO SCREW Harrow
SOMETHING NEW FOR FARMERS.

I have secured the agency for the sale Of
the celebrated Chicago Screw Harrow for
Lyon, Chase, Greenwood, Ostge, and Morris
counties
It VIII SOW grain, roll land, cat corn-stalks,
pniTerize ground, from one 20 six inches deep.
Zach machine viii make two corn culsya-
tors, and it can easily be adjusted to do any
kind OF work named.
It VIII pay for itself every year in the in
creased yield Of grain,
It Is the best machine for the farmer ever
invented
Persons in any OF the above co1nties want
ing further inform alton can have Il BIZ cali
ing on or addressing =. p. ALL.
Also agent for the Chicago scrsper. A~
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SheriHIs Sale

Notice is hereby given, that pursuant to an
alias execution issued out Of the District
Court Of Norris County, State Of Kansas, on q
Judgment In said court in favor Of Elijah T
and TO me directed, will on Monday, the 4tf
day Of November, A. D. 1873, at the hour OF
II O'Clock in the forenoon of said day, offer
for sale at the front door of the Court House in
the city of Emporia, in the county of Lyon,
and State Of Kansas, and sell to the highest
bidder. for cash in hand, all the right, title
and interest c6said Solomon II. Dodge in and
TO the north half of southwest quarter OF
Section No 81, Township Is, Range Is, Lyon
County Kansas, which has been levied upon
70 satisfy said execution and others now in
my hands against said Solomon II. Dodge.
Said property Is appraised at $500.
h g. LOWE
Gh.riC fsT non
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The paragraphers' association is to
have sweet revenge at last. "Erratic
Enrique" is to fetch out a book next
month, entitled Don't Give 1t Away
being compilation of the best writing
done in this country during the last ten
years, with engraved portraits of the per
petrators thereof, and sketches of their
wild and reckless lives. The book will
show clearly what to avoid when the
overworked farmer wants book to pick
up on hot summer afternoon to read
himself to sleep.
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did you say that 1 never missed a
drink, sir 20 asked a man of a neighbor,
in an angry and threatening manner. 81
may have done So" replied the neigh
Dor. But you know never drink, and
detest the smell of liquor said the 9TH
er. "Well, then" returned the neighbor,
you never miss drink, do you ?'' That
put the matter in different light and
they took a-smoke together.
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Notice of Attachment

Thomas Campbell, Pin. %. Jacob Reder, Deft.
COMPLAINT IN ATTACHMENT.
Plaintiff q demand, $4,000, with legal interest
from July 31st, 1873.
Notice is hereby given: That on the 10th
day of October, 1873, W. j. Combs, a Justice
OF the Peace of Elmendaro township, Lyon
county, Kansas, issued an order Of attach
ment in the above named cause for the sum of
$500: and that said cause will be heard On
the 18th day of November 1878, at 10 O'Clock
a. m, at the ofice of W. j. Combs a Justice
OF the Peace. THOMAS CAMPBELL
HAETFORD. KAs OBJ PlainfiR
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always leave a door the way you
find it, says an exchange. 1.-THE owner
certainly knows best whether he wants
it open or shut" A Fort Wayne man
failed to heed the advice and now he
will have to guess at the taste of straw
berry shortcake for the next three years.
He found door closed one night, and
opened it with a crowbar-Breakfast
Table
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MISCELLANEOUS.
HOTEL DIRECTORY.

PARK PLACE HoTEL-w. b Luther, pro-
prIetor. Three story brick hotel, near the
A, 7. Il S. f. depot, with excellent accommo-
dations. Transient rates, 81 90 per day.
MERCHANTS HOTEL-H. Ii. lines, proprie.
tor. corner Merchants street and 4th avenue,
Excellent accommodations. Three sample
rooms. Transient rates, 50 90 per day
WINDSOR HoTEL-Emerson Il Sons, Proprs
This is a large frame hotel, near the A., 4. Il
s. f. depot. Good accommodations. Tran
sicnt rates, 80 per day.
EAPoRIA HoUsE-C c Hinman. proprietor
New frame hotel, on Commercial street.
few rods south of the A , Il. u 5. r. railroad.
Good accommodations Transient rates, $I.OO
per day.
SHERMAN HOUsE-Capt. Sanford, proprie-
tor. Two story brick hotel, on Commercial
railroad. Good accommodations. Transient
rates. 81 90 per day.
FIFTH AVENUE HoTEL-W. B. Powell,
proprietor. Large frame hotel on 9th ave-
nue., d few rods easI of Commercial street, and
close to the business center of the city. Good
day q. a.:
INDIANA HoUsE-Van Mccullough, proprie-
tor. Two story frame hotel, on Union street,
few rods south of the A, T. 4 s. railroad
GOOD accommodations. Transient rates, 100
per day.
large frame hotel, at the Emporia Junction of
the A. T. Il 3. +. and M. X, i. L. railroads.
Coed accommodations. Transient rates, 81 90
per day.
WILSON'S HOTEL-w. B. Wilson, proprie-
tor. This is a new frame hotel at Emporia
junction. Fair accommodations. Transient
rates, 81 90 per day.
NATIONAL HOTEL This Is frame hotel
at the NJ :, X. & 7 depot. Far Accommoda-
lions. Transient rateE, 81. 90 per day.
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Vegetine.

GOOD FOR THE CHILDREN.
BOSTON HONE, II TYLER STREET.
Boston, April, 1876 I
H. r. STEVENS: DEAR Strive feel that
the children in our home have been greatly
benefited by the Vegetine you have so kindly
given us from time to time, especially those
troubled with the Scrofula.
With respect,
MRS n. WORAELL Matron.
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THE SUPPLY OF Legal, TENDERS

The "Fiatists" are constantly asserting
that the resumption act destroys the lie
gal tender of the greenback; and that
after the list of January next the Nation
al banks must redeem theiI notes in
coin, and debts cannot be paid in green
backs unless creditors consent to accept
them in payment.
We have before said that there was nc
truth in these statements, and as conclu
Sive on this point we print the following
letter from the United States Treasury
Department to the editor of the Utica
Republican, in answer to the question
will resumption of specie payment, un.
der existing statutes, take away the le-
gal-tender quality of the greenback, and
compel the National banks to redeem
their notes in coin 80
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PmhIicafinn Nntice

Sarah Etson, q nonresident of the State OF
Kansas, will take notice: That she has been
sued by z. ID. Etson; that the petition has
been filed in the Office of the Clerk of the
District Court of Lyon county, Kansas; that
the parties to said petition are said G. M.
Etson, plaintiff, and said Sarah Etson, defen-
dant; that she must answer said petition on
or before the second day OF December, 1878
or the same will be taken as true and judg-
ment rendered diVorcing the said parties to
said sction.
BACHELLER 4 BACHELOR,
A2-3t A ffOrneYa for Plaintiff
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BARRER SHOP DIRECTORY.

HARRY LRIBFRIED's BARBER SHOP AND
BATH ROoMs.-West side Commercial street,
between 4th and 5th avenues. Shave 10 cents,
hair-cutting, IS cents. Hot and cod baths to
order.
HEUsFIs BARBER SHOP West side Com
mercial street, near corner of 9th avenue
Shaves, IL cents; hair cutting, Is cents.
HAUssLER's BARBER SHOP AND BATH
Rooms -I54 Commercial street. east side, be-
tw cen 81 h and 9th avenues. Shaves, 10 cents
hair-cutting, Is cents. New chairs. Hot
and cold saltwater baths to order.
STAPFoBD's BABBER SHoP.-Corner Com
mercial street and 9th avenue. Shave 10
cents; hair cutting, % cents.
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LEGAL NOTICES.

To sehOBs 1t may Concern: have been ap-
pointed administrator of the the estate of
Henry Wright, deceased, and desire all per-
sons having claims against said estate to pre-
sent the same at once for allowance and nav
ment. 42-3t j. JAY BUCK, Admir-
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RESTAURANT DIRECTORY

FRRHCH's REsTAURAET-P.J. French, pro-
prietOr Commercial street, neary opposite
moderate rates. Ice cream and oysters in
their seasons.
STONES REsTAURANT-Wm Stone proprie-
tor. Corner Commercial street and 7th ave
nue., one block north of the postofice. Meals,
IS cents; table board at reduced rates. Ice
cream and oysters intheir season.
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REAL ESTATE DIRECTORY

THE NEWS REAL ESTATE AeENCY-Stotler
4 Graham, over the Postofice, Emporia, Ly-
| on county, Kansas Do general real estate
business, Our list comprises forty Thousand
acres of good unimproyed land in Lyon coun-
| ty, large number Of Improved Farms, from
~ 70 ~ acres eacn' ana All KINDS OF CITY anu
accurate plats of Lyon county are at our Of
fee. Land buyers furnished all information
| in cur power and cordially invited to call or
write. The Land Buyer, our real estate pa
per, sent free 90 any address.
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TREAsURY DEPARTMENr,
Washington, d. c., Oct. 2, '7S.

WdoAlAStOus L. -, OCt- q, 20.
SIR-Your letter of the 3Oth ult. is
received. After resumption, National
bank notes viii be redeemed as hereto
fore, in United States notes. The legal.
tender quality of the United States notes
will remain after RESUMPTION as before,
and the circulating notes of National
hanks are redeemable in United States
notes Very respectfully,
j. &. UPToN, Chief Clerk.
The resumption act did not change
the legaltender quality of the greenback.
Nor viii the outstanding greenbacks be
retired or destroyed by the treasury de
partment after the LIST OF January. A
law passed by the last congress f0rbids
any further retirement of Greenbacks,
and fixes, as the smallest amount of
greenbaeks that must be kept in circula-
ton, the amount in circulation at that
time, which was @34686f, 600. The
National bank notes in circulation swell
the volume Of paper outstanding 10
something over $700. 000, goo, and every
dollar OF this paper currency is now
practically On 3 par with gold and silver.
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Mamma and sister died this evening
what must do?'' was the telegram re-
Gently received by gentleman at DIAL
las, Texas, from his nephew, little boy,
left all alone in New Orleans.
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Vegetine
REV. ]. P. LUDLOW. WRITEs

REV. J. P. LUDLOW, WRITES:
IT'S BALTIC STREET, BROOKLYN, N.Y.
November 18th 1874.
H. Il. STEVENS: Dear Sir-FrOm personal
benefit received by its use as well as ffom
personal knowledge of those whose cases
thereby have seemed almost miraculous. ]
can most heartily and sincerely recommend
the Vegetine for the complaints which it is
claimed 70 cure, JAMES p. LUDLOW,
Late Pastor Calvary Baptist Church,
Sacramento. Cal.
Vegetine.
SHE RESTS WELL.
SOUTH POLAND, ME-, Oct. II, 1876
MR. H. Il. STEVENS: Dear Sir-l have been
sick two years with the liver complaint, and
during that time have taken great many
different medicines, but none of them did me
any good. was restless nights, and had no
appetite. Since taking the Negetine rest
well and relish my food. Can recommend the
VegetIne for what it has done for me.
Yours respectfully,
MRS. ALBERT KICKER.
Witness of the above:
MR.. GEORGE NJ. VAUGHAN,
Medford, Mass.
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Final Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given: That the under
~ signed will. on Monday, Jan. 9Th, 1879
make final settlement of the estate of Joseph
Owen, deceased, at the Office OF the Judge of
the Probate Court in Emporia, Kan. 4l-4t*
JOHN j. HOMAS, Administrator
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A clergyman, in speaking of one of his
parishioners who was so go given to ar
gument that it was difficult to converse
with him on any subject, said: Brother
- is SO argumentative that he will
dispute with guide post about the dis
lance to the next town, and argue with a
tombstone as to the truth of its epitaph."
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"Of all the things that we have dis
covered this is about the simplest" con-
tinued Mr.. Edison, land the public will
say so when it is explained. We have
got pretty well advanced now, but there
are some few improvements | have in
my mind. You see it's got to be so fixed
that il can't get out of order Suppose
where one light only is employed it got
out of order once year, where two were
used it would get out of order twice a
year, and where thousand were used
you can see that there would be much
trouble in looking after them. There
fore, when the light leaves the laborato-
~ l want 1t TO be in such a shape that il
cannot get out of order at all, except. of
course, by some accident"
Leaving Mr. Edison TO continue his
work, the reporter accepted the invita-
ton Of Mr.. Griffenn, his private secreta.
~, TO view the generating machine.
Mr.. Edison has just purchased a new
one" he said, (which gives much more
power, and in a few days he will have 4
fifty-horse power engine to work IL as
we don't get power enough with The
present one. As regards the generators
MT. Edison has as yet given but little
attention 10 them. The cost can by an
improved generator be reduced to a much
smaller figure" ~ -