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ming, now; wasting few hundred to pass
the tine-waiting for the gold room to
open, you know, which won't be till well
after midnight-then you'll see him beti
He won EI4,0 there last night. They
don't bet anything there but big money"
No Candidates for Suicide.
The thing 1 chiefly missed was the hag-
gard people with the intense eye. the hunt
ed look, the desperate mien, candidates for
suicide and the pauper's grave. They are
in the descriptions, as rule, but they were
off duty that night All the gamblers, male
and female, old and young, looked abnor-
mally cheerful and prosperous. However,
all the ations were there, clothed richly.
and speaking all the languages. Some of
the women were painted, and were evident
ly shaky as to character. These items Tailed
with the descriptions we'll enough.
The etiquette of the place was difficult to
master In the brilliant and populous halls
and corridors you don't smoke, and you
wear your hat, no matter how many ladies'
are in the thick throng of drifting humanity;
but the moment you cross the sacred thresh-
hold and enter he gambling hell, off the hat
must come, and everybody lights bis cigar
and goes to suffocating the ladies.
Hunting Out the Right Bath.
But what came here for, five weeks ago,
was the baths My right arm was disabled
with rheumatism. To sit at home in Amer
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VIEWS OF THE WIZARD.
Every Particle Of Matter, He Says, Is Imbued
With Consciousness.

Every Particle Of Matter, He Says, Is Imbued
With Consciousness.
'My mind is not of speculative or.
DER" said Mr.. Edison; "it is essentially
practical, and when am making an experi-
ment think only of getting something
useful, of making electricity perform work.
81 don't soar; keep down pretty close to
earth. OF course there are problems in life
I can't help thinking about, but don't try
to study them out. It is necessary that they
should be studied, and men fitted
for that work are doing it. L am
not fitted for it. I leave the theoretical
study of electricity TO the physicists, con-
fning my work to the practical application
of the force. 1t is nv belief, however, that
every atom of matter is intelligent, deriv-
ing energy from the primordial germ The
of man is, take it, the sum Of
the intelligencies of the atoms of which he
is composed. Every atom has an intelli-
gent power of selection and is always
striving to get into harmonious relation
with other atoms The human body, I
think, is maintained in its integrity by the
intelligent persistence Of its atoms, or
rather an agreement between the atoms SO
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They went their way, one after the other,
down into night and oblivion, lesving no
account of themselves, no memorials The
Romans arrived Q, 800 years ago; other parts
of France are rich with remembrances of
their eight centuries of occupation, but not
many are here. Other pagaus followed the
Romans. BY and by Christianity arrived,
some 400 years after the time of Christ.
The long procession Of races, languages, re-
ligions and dynasties demolished each
others monuments and obliterated each
others records-it is mans way always
As result, nothing is left of the handi-
work of the remoter inhabitants of the region
except the constructions of the lake DWELL
ers and some Roman odds and ends There
is part of a small Roman temple, there is
part of q Roman bath, there is q graceful
and battered Roman arch. 1t stands on q
turfy level over the way from the present
great bath house, is surrounded by magnolia
trees, and is both picturesque and sug-
gestive object. 1t has stood there some
1000 years. Its nearest neighbor, not 20
steps away, is Catholic Church. They are
symbols of the two chief eras in the history
Of AK. Yes, and of the European world.
Roman Arch without q Sign.
I judge that the venerable arch is held in
reverent esteem by everybody, and that this
esteem is its sufficient protection from in
suit, for it is the only public structure I
have yet seen in France which lacks the
sign: 'It is forbidden to post bills here" |"
Its neighbor, the church, has that sign on
more than one of its sides, and other signs,
too, forbidding certain other sorts Of desecra-
tion.
The arch's next nearest neighbor-just at
its elbow, like the church-is the telegraph
Office. So there you have the three great
eras punched together-the era of War, the
era of Theology, the era of Business. You
pass under the arch, and the buried Cesars
seem to rise from the dust of the centuries
and fit before you; you pass by that old
battered church, and are in touch with the
Middle Ages, and with another step you can
put down 10 francs and shake hands with
Oshkosh under the Atlantic.
Well, all these eras above spoken of are
modern, they are of last week, they are of
yesterday, they are of this morning, so to
speak. The springs, the healing waters
that gush up from under this hillside vii
lage, indeed are ancient; they, indeed, are
genuine antiquity; they ante-date all
those fresh human matters by professions of
centuries; they were born with the fossils of
Dent du Chat, and they have been always
limpid and always abundant They fur
nished a million gallons day to wash the
lake dwellers with, the same to wash the
Caesars with, no less to wash Balzac with,
and have not diminished on my account
AsmalI Quantity of Water.
A MILLION gallons day-for how many
days? F. lures cannot set forth the number.
The Livery, in the aggregate, has amount
ed % an Atlantic. And there is still an
.tlantic down in there. By DR.. Wakefeld's
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ATOMS HAVE WILLS.
Thomas A. Edison Believes
Every Particle Of Matter
Is Intelligent.
MAN IS A COMBINATION
Of Conscious Atoms and Lives as
Long as They Are in Harmony.
DEATH Is A SORT OF REBELLION.
A Novel View of the Great Problem Of Lifts
and Comments on 1t.
THE VITAL ENERGY OF ELECTRICITY
WRITTEN FOR THE DrsPArcH.,

WRITTEN FOR THE DfsPAroH.I
The remarkable views of Mr.. Thomas A.
Edison, printed below, are supplemented,
by way of illustration, with brief inter-
views from distinguished men whose special
studies have led them to look at life from
an individual standpoint Taken apart,
these opinions may seem to occasionally di.
verge; considered collectively, they present
a rema! kably consistent, if many sided,
view of great problem.
With regard to Mr.. Edison's contribution
to this remarkable symposium comment is
useless The wizard has his own peculiar
way of discussing any question, and in
doing so he seldom fails to turn food Of
light into many dark corner Of thought.
Although he picks his way through the
many pitfalls Of speculation with eharac-
teristic modesty and caution, who shall say
he makes his bow as philosopher in vain?
The leading question addressed to Mr.. Edi-
son was: "what is Life?" His reply tol-
lows:
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calculation that Atlantic is three-ouarters
OF mile down in the earth. The calcula-
tlon is based upon the Temperature of the
water, which is 114o to 117o Fahrenheit, the
natural law being that below certain depth
, heat augments at the rate of 10 for every 60
feet OF descent.
AK is handsome and is handsomely stu
ated, too, on its hill slope, with its stately
prospect OF mountain range and plain spread
out before it aud about it. The streets are
mainly marrow, and steep and crooked and
interesting, and offer considerable variety
In the way of names: Rue du Puts d'Elfer
pit of Hades street. Some of the sidewalks
are only Is inches wide; they are for the
cats, probably. There is a pleasant park,
and there are spacious and beautiful grounds
connected with the two great pleasure re-
sorts, the Cercle and the Villa des Fleurs.
The town consists of big hotels, little ho-
tells, and pensions. The season lasts about
SIX months, beginning with May. When it
is at its height there are thousands of Wis
Itors here, and In the course of the season
as many as 10000 in the aggregate come
and go.
The Gambling and tho Climate.
These are not all here for the baths; some
come for the gambling facilities and some
Tor the climate. 1t is a climate where the
neid strawberry hourishes through the
spring, summer and fall. 1t is hot in the
summer, and hot in earnest; but this is only
In the daytime; it is not hot at night. The
English season is May and June; they get a
good deal of rain then, and they like that.
The Americans take July, and the French
take August. BY the 1t of July the open
air music and the evening concerts and
operas and plays are fairly under way. and
from that time onward the rush of pleasure
has steadily increasing boom. 1t is said
that in August the great grounds and the
gambling rooms are crowded all the time
and no end of ostensible fun going on.
1t is a good place for rest and sleep and
general recuperation of forces. The book
of Dr. Wakefield says there is something
about this atmosphere which is the deadly
enemy of insomnia, and l think this must
be true. for if am any judge, this town is
at times the noisiest one in Europe, and vet
a body gets more sleep here than he could
at home, don't care where his home in
Now we are living at Q most comfortable
and satisfactory pension, with a garden of
shade trees and flowers and shrubs, and .
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lea and guess out the European bath best
fitted tor particular ailment or combine
tion Of ailments, it is not possible, and it
would not be a good idea to experiment in
that way, anyhow. There are great many
curative baths on the continent, and some
are good for one disease. but bad for an
other. So it is necessary to let physician
name your bath for you. AS rule, Amer
leans go to London to get this advice, and
South Americans 60 to Paris for it. Now
and then an economist chooses his bath him
self and does 1000 miles of railroading to
get to it, and then the local physicians tell
him he has come to the wrong place. He
sees that he has lost time and money and
strength, and almost the minute that he re-
alizes this he loses his temper. had the
rheumatism, and was advised to 60 to AK,
not so much because had that disease 70
because had the promise of certain others.
What they were was not explained to me.
but they are either in the following menu
or have been sent to the wrong place. Dr..
Wakeield's book says:
We know that the class OF maladies bene
htcd by the water and baths at AK are those
due to defect of nutrition, debility Of the
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TONERS fill all the chairs at the table, and
the rest of the crowd are massed at their
hacks and leaning over them to deposit
chips or gold coins. Constantly money and
chips are flung upon the table, and the
game seems to consist in the croupier's
reaching for those things with flexible
sculling oar, and raking them home. 1t
appeared to be rational enough game for
him, and if could have borrowed his oar
1 would have stayed, but didn't see where
the entertainment of the others came in.
This was because saw without perceiv.
ing and observed without understanding.
For the widow and the orphan and the
others do win money there. Once an old
gray mother in Israel or elsewhere pulled
out, and heard her say to her daughter or
her granddaughter as they passed me,
''There, I've won six louis, and I'm going
to quit while I'm ahead" Also there was
this statistic. A friend pointed to young
man with the dead stub of 3 cigar in his
mouth, which he kept munching nervously
all the time and pitching Sl0O chips on the
board. while two sweet young girls reached
down over his shonlder to deposit modest
little gold pieces, and said, "He's only fun
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nervous system, or to q gouty rheumatic,
herpetic or scrofulous diathesis-alI diseases
extremely debili iating and requiring tonic,
and not a depressing action of the remedv.
This it seems to find here, as recorded ex.
perience and dali, action can testify.
According to the line of treatment, followed
particularly with due regard to the temper.
ature, the action OF the AK waters can be
made sedative, exciting, derivative or alter
alive and tonic.
The Temple OF the Baths.
The Establishment" is the property of
France. and all the officers and servants are
employees of the French Government. The
bath house is a huge and massive pile of
white marble masonry, and looks more like
a temple than anything else. 1t has several
floors, and each is full of bath cabinets.
There is every kind of bath--for the nose,
the ears, the throat, vapor baths, tub baths,
swimming baths and all peoples favorite,
the douche. 1t is a good building to get
lost in, when you are not familiar with it.
From early morning until nearly noon peo-
pie are streaming in and streaming out with
out halt.
The majority come afoot, but great num-
bers are brought in sedan chairs, Q suf-
fciently ugly contrivance whose cover is q
steep little tent made of striped canvas.
You see nothing of the patient in this
diving bell as the bearers tramp along, e4-
cept glimpse of his ankles bound together
and swathed around with blankets or towels
to that generous degree that the result
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as thick as ones wrist playing upon me
while they kneaded me, stroked me, twisted
me, and applied all the other details of the
scientific massage to me for seven or eight
minutes Then they stood me up and
played powerful jet upon me all around
for another minute. The cool shower bath
came next, and the thing was over. I came
out of the bath house q few minutes later
feeling younger and fresher and finer than I
cheer and delight of this exaltation lasted
three hours, and the same uplifting effect
has followed the 20 douches which have
taken since
After my first douche went to the chem
lists on tie corner, as per instruct ms, and
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mainly to themselves, they are little or no
annoyance.
And then king makes the best advertise
ment there is, and the cheapest All he
costs is reception at the station by the
Mayor and the police in their Sunday uni
forms, shop front decorations along the
route from station to hotel. brass band at
the hotel, fireworks in the evening, free
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ERTAINYY Alx.les-
Bains is an enchant-
ing place. 1t is a
strong word. but L
think the facts justify
it. True, there is a
rabble of nobilities,
big and lit. lie, here
all the time, and often
q king or two, but as
these behave quite
nicely and also keep
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We leave natures noble cliffs and craps
uncefled and uniGsulted By the advertisers
paint brush. We use the hack of a king.
which is better and properer, and more
effective, too, for the cliff stays still and few
see It, but the king moves across the fields
Of the world, and 10 visible from all points
like o constellation.
Marks Compliments TO the Crxr.
We ere out of kings this week, but one
will be along soon-probably his Satanic
Majesty OF Russia There's colossus tor
you'll A mysterious and terrible form that
toWcrs up into unsearchable space and casts
a shadow across the universe like q planet
IN eclipse There will be but one absorbing
spectacle in this world when we stencil him
and start him out
This is .n old valley, this of AK, both
in the history of man and the geological
records Of its rocks. Its little lake of
Bourget carries the human history back to
the lake dwellers, furnishing seven groups
Of their hsbi ations, and DR.. William
Wakefield says in his interesting local guide
book that the mountains round about furn-
ish, ''geologicslly, a yeritable epitome of
the globe" The strati6ed chapters of the
earth's history are clearly and permanently
written on the sides OF the roaring bulk of
the Dent du Chat, but many Of the layers of
race, religion, and government, which in
turn have fourished and perished here be-
tween tie lake dweller of several thousand
years ago and the French Republican OF to-
day, are ill-defned and uninforming by COM
parison.
Changes With the FIeeting Years.
There were several varieties of pagans.
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Rheumatism routed at Aix-les-Bains,
. Gout admonisted, Nerves braced up,
All Diseases welcomed, and satisfac-
: tion given or the money returned at :
: the doori
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bath in the morning. This is the whole ex-
pense; and in return for it he goes away
from here with the broad of his back meta.
phorically stenciled over with display ads. =,
which shout to all the nations of the earth
INSISTED by the telegraph.
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Water OF Shady Reputation.

that way.
Water Of Shady Reputation.
Thev said that the reason that this was so
much ranker than the sulphur water Of the
bath was that this contained 80 times as
much sulphur as that. 1t may be true, but
in my opinion that water comes from cem-
etery, and not fresh cemetery, either.
History says that one of the early Roman
Generals lost an army down there some-
where. If he could come back now think
this water would help him find it again.
However, I drank the Challe, and have
drunk il once or twice every day since. I
suppose it is all right, but l wish 1 knew
what was the matter with those Romans.
Ny frst baths developed plenty of pain,
but the subsequent ones removed almost all
of it. have got back the use of my arm
these last few days, and I am going away
now.
There are many beautiful drives about
AK, many interesting places to visit, and
much pleasure to be found in padding
around the little Lake Bourget on the small
steamers, but the excursion which satisfied
me best was trip to Annecy and its neigh
borhood. You go to Annecy in an hour by
rail, through garden land that has not had
its equal for beauty, perhaps, since Eden;
and certainly not Eden was cultivated as
this garden is The charm and loveliness
of the whole region are bewildering.
Picturesque rocks, forest-clothed hills,
slopes richly bright in the cleanest and
greenest grass, fields of grain. without feck
or flaw, dainty of color and as shiny and
shimmery as silk, old gray mansions and
towers half buried in foliage and sunny
eminences, deep chasms with precipitous
walls, and swift stream of pale blue
water between, with now and thep tum-
bling cascade, and always noble mountains
in view, with vagrant white clouds curling
about their SUBMITS MARK TWAIN.
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A FIexible Oar I'm B.ccarat.

The baccarat table is covered with green
cloth and is marked off in divisions with
chalk or something. The banker sits in the
middle. the croupier opposite. The Gus.
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Letter M l.

Letter No. 1.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,
AGx-LEs-BAINs, FRANCE. Oct 25.
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asked for half glass of Challe water. 1t
comes from spring 16 miles from here. 1t
was furnished to me, but, perceiving that
there was something the matter with it,
offered to wait till they could get some that
was fresh, but they said it always smelt
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HERE'S MARK TWAIN.
TheFirstof His Series of Euro
pean Letters to The
Dispatch.
OBSERVATIONS AT AK.
Utility of the Crowned Heads of
the Continent as Adver-
tisiug Agencies.
PLENTY OF FULL-GROWN NOISES.
Disappointed With the Prince Of Wales
Favorite Game and the Happi-
ness of Gamblers.
EXPERIENCE IN TIE D0UCHE-BATH.
Prescription Of Drinking Water That Re.
called the Burial Place Of the krmyof
One Of the Casaa
TBB PLEASURES OF TRIP 10 LAKE AyyECy
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A milliQn gallons day-for how many
days? +. sures cannot set forth the number
The Z livery, in the aggregate, has amount
.tlantic down in there. By Dr.. Wakefeld's 3
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THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER.

The oldest newspaper in the Whole
wide world is Kiog Pau, or Capital sneet'
published at Pekin. 1t firss appeared a.
d. GIL. but came out at irregular inter
walls, since the year 1852. however, 1t has
been published weekly, and OF uniform
size. Now il appears 10 three editors
daily. The first issue early 70 'oe
morning, aod printed on yellow psper, Is
called Hsiog Pau. business Sheet ard
contains trade prices aud all manner OF
commercial intelligence. The second
edition which comes out in the forenoon,
also printed on yellow paper, 10 devoted
TO official announcements and general
news. The third edition appears late IN
the afternoon, is printed on red paper,
and. bears the name. Titsni Pau,
tcountry shest.) 1t consists OF extracts
from the earlier editions, aud is largely
subscribed for in the provinces. The
number of copies printed daily, varies
between l3, 900 and l4,000.-Ex.
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y.R.nsK AND spBMa CITY STAGE LINZ
Stage leaves winnemucca for Parealse ant 10
Spring City daily at A. arrive ~ i~"'' -
3p.s;a at Spring CT v at p !. :,
Leaves Spring City daily at ?. H.; arrive !"
Paradise ut P. NJ. a u;,ao
Leaves Paradise at 6 A. NJ, arrive st WINNIE
mucca at P. N.
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ARRIVE. | DEPART.
TRAINS.

Tickets sold and baggage checked through 70
all cas-. rn points Also steamship tickets 70
European points and travellers insurance tickeS'
r. JAcKMAs, Agent.
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TIME TABLES.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY
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Every tissue Of the body, every bone, muscle
and organ. is made stronger and more heaithf1i
by the use of Hoods Sarsapariila-
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s'psRxrr srAee LINZ.

nDgRxT srAGe HsR.
stage leaves Winnemucca for MoDsrrnit Mon
days wednesdays and fridays at 8 A. Nj ar
fiyes at SP. N.
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.cIidrGA CT OrP PitChGF's g2EaelS
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SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT.


SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT.
wIxSxnuoca srATos,
April %, 1891. y
Coodissans Of weather tor the "a hours ending
ar. a.. 18th meridian time, or b:0s p ~ local
lime.
Mean B.,ometer-25 80
Maximum temperature IA.
Minimum temperature, 80
Mean temperature, So.
wind--Prsys;iing direction, sW; msxiEnum
Velocity rs miles an hour
Precipitation for q hours, 90
Minimum temperature, April %, -
POSTOFFICE REGULATIONS.
WINNEMUCCA PoSToFFICE.
oFFICE HOURS:
From SA. NJ. TO I'm
From P. NJ. TO Pm,
~ a,tsy Order bldoe3s or registration after
SUNDAYS:
onoe open from 4 p. NJ. TO 6p. NJ.
A gibson. P. NJ.
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