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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ARRANGEMENT OF DECK BEAMS.

ARRANGEMENT OF DECK BEAMS.
the outside or center line of ship, but
run at an angle of ninety degrees with
center line Of the vessel
The ninety degree angle is preferable,
as it causes the thrust in cases of col
lision to be received equally throughout
the ship. The beams for the different
decks arc not secured to the same YER
tical cross section as in the present
mode of construction, thus distributing
the securing Of deck frame to a greater
area of surface. The sections of all
decks are the same, are easily fitted, and
can be transported to the point of con-
struction ready to be used with no
waste of material in their construction.
These vessels can be calhed more read
lily than those Of the present type, ow-
ing to the Tipped edge of the Dubbed in
ner edge of plate. Increase of capacity
is gained because the frame is dispensed
with, thus giving the extra space now
occupied by frames. The plates, being
adjusted and placed together as shown
in the different diagrams, permit easy
access for repairs both vertically and
horizontally, and the simplicity of con-
struction admits Of repairs being made
in any part where repairs can be made
to steel or iron vessels.
a transverse vertical section of the
hull shows the method of construction
for the sides and decks and indicates
clearly the theories Of the inventor.
The leelson, which extends from the
base Of the inside Of the hull to the un.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06

however, the famine is not yet at it's
height, for there are districts here and
there where slender harvest is posi-
BILE, which for few weeks will ameli-
crate the condition of the people who
live in these favored parts. When this
small supply of grain is exhausted, the
famine, which is already very serious,
will grip the whole nation in it's with
ering hand, and there is no hope or
help from within their borders until the
next rains, nearly a year hence.
No one who has not seen and felt the
awful desolation can realize into what
fearful condition country is plunged
by famine. No rain, crops scorched by
the intense heat; tanks, whose supply
IF water has been depended upon for
Irrigation, empty, and their beds baking
in the blazing sun; all vegetation
withered, and rivers and wells dry; the
scarcity of food increasing, the price of
grain rapidly rising; the people, with
their gaunt, emaciated bodies, focking
by the hundreds and thousands to the
relief camps established by the British
government. All this misery and sui.
fering because the blessed rain has
been withheld In many places fodder
for cattle is unattainable and the
people are tearing thatches from build.
ings to feed the furnishing animals. In
other localities cattle are being killed
in great numbers, as their owners are
unable to feed them. Also thousands
and thousands have died and are dying
of starvation. Every effort is made to
keep a certain number alive, which
must be done at all hazards. for pillow.
ing when the next seeding time comes.
How the people are to maintain them.
selves until the next annual rains is
most serious question, and will doubt
less be answered in the usual way-a
large part of the population will be
supported by the government at the
famine camps. There will be a bare ex-
istence of many others, and the death
Of thousands and even millions of peo-
pie. The better class will have enough
to eat, as they will import grain at
enormous prices from other countries.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06

sands. Thus 1892 will not be repre-
sented as eighteen hundred and ninety
two, but as one thousand, right leg ex-
tended at right angles to the body;
eight hundred, left leg drawn up to an
acute angle at the body and an
acute angle at the knee; ninety, right
arm from shoulder at an acute angle
to the body, right forearm horizontal;
and two, left arm at an acute angle to
the body. Eleven would be represented
by puppet ten, with the left arm ex-
tended as at puppet one.
Twelve would be expressed by puppet
ten with the left arm in the position of
puppet two; thirteen by puppet ten with
left arm as at puppet three; twenty
two is shown by puppet with right arm
as at twenty and left arm as at two;
one hundred and fifty-two with left leg
as at one hundred, right arm as at fifty,
and left arm as at two, etc.
A pasteboard puppet, as shown in the
accompanying Fig. 2, may be made and
joined with thread. 1t can be worked
to solve arithmetical problems, and &C
cording to certain fixed SUGGESTIONS of
movements Or postures of the jointed
parts may be made to add, subtract or
divide. In fact it may be taught to
dance according to arithmetical
measure and made to save vast amount
of ciphering, performing in this respect
the use of the abacus.
You may also, if you choose to do So,
make your puppet spell words. In
order to do this you have only to call
IA. 2=B, SC, etc., until you reach
the end of the alphabet, and put your
figure successfully into the attitudes
representing the numbers that stand
for the different letters forming the
word you wish to spell. This whole
scheme, although it has here comical
and amusing development, is a very sug-
gestive one, and opens the question
lately started in a popular scientific
journal as to whether the Arabic nu.
meration, which has for so many CEN
turtles been supposed the perfection OF
number expression, may not be greatly
improved upon. ......
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
First Wheat in America.

The firsv wheat raised in the new
world was sown on the island of Isa-
bella in January, 1904, and on March 80
the ears were gathered. The founda-
ton of the great wheat industry of
Mexico was said to have been three
grains carried into that country by one
of the slaves Of the Cortez company.
The first crop of wheat raised in South
America was grown by monk in the
garden of a convent at Quito. Garcilazo
affirms that up to 1868 wheaton bread
had never been used as an article of diet
by the people Of Peru.
4 Selfish Girl.
Nellie-That Clara De Note is JUS,
the meanest, most utterly selfish girl
ever saw. She never thinks Of anyone
but herself.
Dorado tell!
Nellie-Yes. ran in there the other
evening for few moments, and while
l was there Mr.. Nicefello called. Well,
it wasn't long before he requested her
to play. He's passionatcly fond of NIL.
sic, you know. Well, what do you think
that girl did? She asked him to come
to the piano and turn the music for her
just SO couldn't talk to HMM, Y.
Weekly.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
THOMAS n. CARTER.

Tho New Chairman of the Republi can
National Committee.
Thomas II. Carter, of Helena, Mont,
was born in Scioto county, o., in 1854.
He received a common school education
and afterward engaged in farming and
railroading, and for time taught
country school. He studied law and
was admitted to the bar, removing in
1882 to Helena, where he practiced his
profession continuously until his nat
ural qualifications and his high stand
ing in the community led to his being
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06

What State in the Union said, in petition for
the introduction of slavery, that the one thing
needful to its prosperity was Negroes? :. .
What Colored slave girl poetess became distin-
guished in England and America?
What Colored man slept with George Washing
ton?
What were the compliments Of Hamilton, JET.
ferson, Lee, Grant and Stanton on the Colored
soldiers? :
What Colored man during the Civil War, while
being carried into the hospital bleeding from one
Boys, the cid flag never touched the ground!'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
FAMINE in INDIA.

Thousands of Natives Slowly But Surely
Starving to Death.
DR.. Van Allen, medical missionary to
Madura, South India, writes a long let
ter to the Scientific American, from
which we quote:
The attention of the whole world is
directed to the terrible famine in Rus.
STA, consequently it is not generally
known that similar scourge is afiict-
ing India. In this country all of the
horrors which follow in the wake OF
starvation occur with fearful regularity
every fifteen years, or twice in every
generation. The last great famine was
in 1876, and it was estimated by the
government that 5,0O0,O 900 five million)
persons died of starvation and the two
diseases that go with it-dysentery and
famine fever: The cycle is completed
again. Owing to a partial failure OF
rains, the fearful calamity Of another
famine was threatened a year ago.
This year the rains have entirely failed;
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
(<UEST|0NS Every Coored Person Ought to Know Of.
All Answeein the SCHOOL HISTORY Of the NEGRO RACE

What Colored man published the first almanac?
What Colored mnn was the first martyr in the
Revolutionary War?
What Colored man has written series Of Greek
text books?
What Colored man owns two Parks, Race Course
and two Street Car Lines in the United States
sary to make American Greenbacks passable?
What Colored man was elected to fill the seat Of
Jefferson Davis in the United States Senate?
What Co!ored man shot and killed a British
officer during the battle of Bunker Hill?
How many Colored troops fought in the Revolu-
tiong How many fought in the Civil War.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
A Prosecuted Man.

An American mechanic living In
Mexico has been arrested for having
married thirteen times. This is four
more trips to the altar than curious
old statute of that republic allows, the
limit having been placed at nine. In
addition to his aggravated matrimonial
habit the mechanic managed to have
his successive wives die with sus.
picious regularity. Possibly he is only
the victim of misfortune, but his at.
tempt to make it appear that he is
being unrighteously prosecuted is con.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06

called into politics. He was elected q
republican delegate to the Fifty-frst
congress for the territory of Montana,
and on the admittance of the state was
nominated for congress by the first re-
publican convention. He was elected,
and was honored with position on the
republican congressional campaign CON-
mittee. Upon the incoming of the pres
ent administration he was selected for
the responsible and arduous post of
commissioner of the general land Office.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
ArteSian Wells in Alpiers.

About one-half the area of Algiers,
which comprises $50, 900 square miles in
the boundaries of Sahara, is being put
under successful cultivation by means
of artesian well irrigation. There are
now over $4,000 wells in active opera,
ton
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
A ROOueranr.

Young Van der Wouldn't it
be rare fun for us to become engaged
just for the summer, you know?
She-Just the thing! l never did be-
ieve in long engagements. Life.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
Tho Groves of BIarnoy.

Mary-Cover your head, Mr.. Costigan,
DR. it's sunstr,ck you'll be!
MIR. Cover those purity eyes Of
yours, darlint, or, it's worse n sun.
sthruck I'll kc!-Life.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
BabY'S Picture.

Wife-I'm tired to death. Been hav.
ing the baby's picture taken by the in.
Simultaneous process.
Husband-How long did it take?
Weekly
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
MARSHALL lELD6Co.
I OUR BASEMENT SALESR0OM

Sells the less extensive grades of Trustworthy
merchandise at prices as low or lower than are
usually paid for unreliable, unsatisfactory
makes. A complete store in itself. Everything
Of dependable quality and everything LOW
IN PRICE,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
An A.dcnt Adhcrart.

Miss Arma Vi.unque-Which is your
tavorite college, Mr.. Rahrah; Yale or
Harvard?
Charlie Rahrah (;'romptly) Neither;
Vassar!-Puclk.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
An Acute Sense,

The elephant can smell, in wild state,
an enemy at O distance of a thousand
yards.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
By e. A. JOHNSON, IL. b. Educator and Attorney at Law

Gives ntssdng kt the history Slavery in the different Colonies
yignoeus
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-06
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PLATES IN POSITION.

der side of the lower deck, makes the
structure partake of the life-saving
type, and the spaces between the keel
son may be used for cargo in bulk or in
liquids.
Whether the hopes of Mr.. Griffiths
will be realized cannot be prophesied
but he is pushing the work with will
and claims to have demonstrated that
the vessel is all he insists. In any
event, it is a characteristic product of
American inventive faculty.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25
Cakes Without Eggs.

Observing housekeepers quickly learn that Dr. Prices
Cream Baking Powder far superior to other brands in
the fact that they make the finest pastry and
if they wish economical they dispense entirely with
eggs less quantity of butter for shortening
purposes The advantage not alone in the saving effected
but in avoiding trouble and frequently the great difficulty
of securing eggs that fresh This often serious
trouble.
Cakes of various kinds from the informal Griddle
Cakes to the stately Bride Cake be made with Prices
Cream Baking Powder which nsures light sweet and hand
cakes or when Grdde Cakes to be eaten hot
enables their production the shortest space of time always
tender and delicious.
Dr. Prices is the only Baking Powder that contains the
white of eggs. None so pure None so wholesome
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder is re-
ported by all authorities as free from Ammonia
Alum, or any other adulterant In fact, the
purity of this ideal powder has never been cues
toned
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25

awe would suggest TO Gov. Prince
that hereafter, in appointing officials
he satisfies himself that they are COM
petent and willing to assist IN max
ing and maintaining creditable
territorial administration. Ration
Range.
"Tt very mean dog, certainly,
that bites the hand that feeds it. 1t
is a much meaner man who will ac-
cept benefit from or retain Office un.
der, another, and then labor against
that others interests. LAS Vegas
Optic.
"Look here, Mr.. Optic, you had
better look over the list of territorial
officials at the Silver City conven-
ton who were attempting to helittle
Gov. Prince, before you make such
sweeping assertion" - Ration
Range.
There is an air of mystery and I'M
certainty about the foregoing that
makes it difficult TO understand. The
principle stated IN the Optic is GER
tainly a correct one. Ingratltude is
among the worst qualities of weak
human nature. To accept benfits
and return, therefor, injuries, to re-
ceive good treatment and repay In
bad treatment, is evidence of a base
heart. The principle is all right
but who is the miserable whelp, in
this particular instance, guilty OF
such outrageous acts. Point him out
and write over his name in large let
tiers, migrate. Don't hit him a lick
in the dark. Do not cause suspicion
to rest on some innocent person. Tc
set the tongue of gossipers to wag
ging against innocent people, is al
most as bad as ingratitude. Let the
public have the name Of the offender
and if guilty the press of New Mex
leo will exhibit him to the world il
true colors.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25
RAILWAY ITEMS.

Up to April l6 5000 tons of new
steel rails have been distributed this
spring on the Big Four lines, which
is about one-fourth the tonnage of
steel rails, heavy weight, contracted
for, to be delivered 5000 tons a
month until the order is filled.
The Chicago &c Alton this week
placed an order for ten locomotives
of the ten wheel type with the Schen-
ectady Locomotive works. They
are much of the same pattern as
those built by the same works for
the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton.
On May I the Rock Island will
put on a fast train, running between
Kansas City and Chicago, which will
reduce the present schedule time one
and one-half hours. 1t will leave
Kansas City at $50 p. M, and arrive
in Chicago at $3.50 a. m. The run
ming time, including all stops, will
exceed forty miles an hour.
Official figures for the December
business of the Kansas City blind
pool show that the lines in the pool
handled during that month 425,53o
tons of competitive freight on which
the revenue was 81 ,237,752. Of this
the Santa Fee carried 1875 per cent
/ and secured 81 per cent of the reve-
nue., 1.-THE Burlington 1915 per cent and
only 2O.3 per cent of the revenue,
the Missouri Pacific 1876 per cent
and 1872 of the revenue, and the bal
ance was evenly divided among the
other FIVE lines.
Since January the Santa Fe has
placed orders for SO new passenger
coaches, the Lake Shore for 100, the
Big -Four for so, the Monon for 20,
the Illinois Central for 905, the Chi
cago & Grand Trunk for 90, the
Rock Island for 80, the Michigan
Central for 10, the Alton for 80, the
80" for lI5, tho Northwestern for
100, the st. Paul for 40, the Erie for
SO, the Pennsylvania for rs, the Lake
Erie g. Western for ~, making a
total of lilo coaches ord cred by the
roads named, which added TO their
present number makes a total of
5,4sl coaches. Other roads in the
northwest, the Central Traffic associ-
alton and Trunk Line association,
will make proporlionate additions to
accommodate the Worlds fair bust
neks.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25

capita is 10. Springer has 20S school
children and there is $l99.se now
available for that district.
DR.. Dorchester is making up his
report on the Navajos, having just
completed his study of this important
tribe. lie will remain in this city
till this work is done, then he has
special orders to go and examine into
the Mcscalero agency, about the
management of which so much has
been said of late. He will then visit
the Zuni Pueblo, then the Laguna,
Acoma, Isleta Pueblos, and reach
Santa Fe in June. He will make
Santa Fe his home for sometime,
while he is studying the Pueblos and
Jicarillas.-Citizen.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25

Since the Silver City convention
adjourned it has been found that
there were several forged proxies in
the convention and they were not
held on the side that cast the most
votes. We would suggest that the
subject should receive some atten-
ton as well as the kidnapping af-
fair, and see by what authority they
were made out.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25
TERRITORIAL.

Archbishop J. b. Salpointe has re-
turned home after a pleasant trip 10
Tucson.
Senator Dorsey is in it largely this
year. He has ordered $500 pounds
of sorghum seed for fodder.
NJ. S. Hart, of Las Vegas, was in
Socorro Tuesday in attendance upon
the meeting of the trustees of the
School of Mines.
r. II. Cowan has 1876 acres of oats
sown this year and will put in as
much more. lie will have so acres
of beans again this year on new
ground.
Over 10000 pounds of rich silver
ore from Mexico have been shipped
from this point during the week. In
a very short time Deming will receive
the benefit of these importations.-
Headlight.
The Madgalena mining district is
turning out three-fifths of all the
ore mined in New Mexico. Take
the tariff off of lead ore and not a
pound of ore would be mined
Chicftain.
Contracts to carry $500 carloads of
stock out of Texas, New Mexico and
Arizona, have been signed by Live
Stock Agent Tuttle, of the Santa Fe.
Of this amount 1000 are to be started
before the close of the month.
Messrs. Denig and Allaire, inter
ested in the construction of factory
for the extraction of the tannin from
the canaigre root, are continuing
their investigation of the resources
of this section. There is not the
least doubt that operations on the
construction will be begun within
the next few days.-Headlight
A petition is out calling upon Gov.
Prince, in view of the extent and
value of the wool industry of the
territory and of the manifest bene-
fit of free interchange of views, to
call convention of all those inter
ested in the wool clip of the south.
west to be held in Albuquerque,
July 5, G and 7. Th&wool men are
enthusiastic on the subject.
Hon. Il. B. Mills, of Las Vegas,
came down Tuesday, on his way to
Magdalena, with Gov. II. A. Stevens
of Rhode Island, Daniel b. Gillett,
of San Francisco, and B. S. Coffman.
of Tombstone. They go to Magda-
lena on mining matters. Mr.. Mills
is one of the men that is always
working for New Mexico and its
mines.-Chieftain.
The certainty of the early resump
ton of work on the Deming-Mexicc
Railway is having a stimulating eff
feet on the business of the town
Business men arc increasing theil
stocks in anticipation of increased
trade, and all others are in a more
hopeful mood in view of the certain
ty of better times in all branches Of
business.-Headlight.
Hon. Chas. f. Abreu, county su
perintendent of schools, gives the
number of school children in Cola,
county 1900, and that the amount O
money now apportioned to the sew
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25

A representative of the Silver City
Sentinel told us at Silver City that
he was going to give the Republican
convention scorching send off be-
cause there was some excited discus
sion among the members, but when
the members of his own county
Democratic convention got to calling
each other. liars, and other pet names,
he drops them down very easy. Such
is politics.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25

Many enemies of this place have
predicted the town never could raise
the amount required of her as a sub
scription to the Denver 81 Ell Paso
railroad, but when it came down to
business it was found that the sub
scriptionu were forthcoming. And
it always has been the case that when
the time came for anything Las We
gas did as she was expected to do,
and sometimes even better.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25

Open the insane asylum at Las We
gas for business. What's the hitch
anyway?-New Mexican.
The New Mexican seems very anx'
ious about the opening of the asylum
and, while not open to the general
public, if any one of the staff of that
paper needs treatment, ship him to
Geo. w. Ward, who now is in charge
out there, and he will receive the
best of care, and if he does not re-
cover it will not be Georges fault.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25
WANTED.

Everybody to know the East Las
Vegas Steam Laundry is in full ope7
ration and doing first class work at
reasonable prices. Having had sew
eral years experience, and having Sc
cured the services of an expert laun-
dress of Kansas City, We can give en-
tire satisfaction. Give us a trial.
Send orders and we will call for
goods. b. G. PETTENGER 81 co
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25

L. ii. Brown, cashier of the Com
mercial National bank of Sioux City
Iowa, will open the National bank
of Deming about June |, with cap
tai stock of $4,000. Jonathan w
Brown, president of the Com
mercial National bank, OF
Sioux City, and Hon. j. Sloat Fas
sett, of New York, and j. Wormser
ia. Lockhart,J. p. Byron, John Cor
bett and Fred M. Smith, of Deming
will be the directors.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25

Las Vegas will have the Denver d
Ell Paso road in here before a year
goes by, and long before that time
has passed will be growing fast. She
has the location for good sized
city, and if the right push and ener-
py are used will be a city as large as
Denver before many years are passed.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-25

of the governments limited, and A.
Huntingdon, chief of the division of
loans and currency, has gone to see
about starting another mill and to
prevent any of the burned paper
from getting into unauthorized
hands.