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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-11-29

Some of the common ideas concern
ing asbestos appear to have resulted
in mistakes of a serious practical ma
ture. Thus, the usual conception that
it is in no wise affected by heat is true
only to the extent that, though infusi-
BILE except at very high temperature.
it is fact that only a very moderate
degree OF heat-heating to low redness
in a platinum crucible, for instance
is required to entirely destroy the
fexibility of the fibre and render 1t SO
brittle that it may easily be crumbled
between the thumb and finger.
Another mistake is that relating to its
high ncn-conductivity or power of re-
sisting the action of heat-the assump-
ton being that because asbestos is in
fusible, it must, of necessity, be good
non-conductor. The contrary asser-
ton to this is made and proved on
good authority, namely, that by plac-
ing vessel of water on sheet of as
bestos cardboard, and applying heat
from below, or, more simple proof
still, by placing piece Of wood on a
sheet of asbestos millboard on hot
stove. If, however, asbestos is leased
out and worked into fluffy mass,
there is thus obtained a non conduct
ing material, but it is the air enclosed
by the fibres that is the real non-con-
ductor, the asbestos serving simply to
entangle the air.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-11-29

showered down.
Forget that graves are gaping
And soon shall swallow all
The thankless and the thankful,
The mighty and the small.
Thanksgiving! IT'S Thanksgiving!
Let merry bells declare
The Joy that dwells within us,
The exile Of despair.
Forget that graves are gaping,
That darkness stands beside
To cover each man over
And will not DO denied.
Thanksgiving IT'S Thanksgiving
Let maid and matron sing;
Let bass and tenor, chording,
Give thanks unto the King.
Forget that graves are gaping
And endless silence soon
Shall still boil choir and organ
And drown the joyful tune.
Thanksgiving! IT'S Thanksgiving
Back, care! But welcome, mirth
To-day to you is sacred,
And all the men on earth
Forget that graves are gaping,
That mirth with care shall be
Together, undistinguished
Throughout eternity.
Thanksgiving! IT'S Thanksgiving!
Give thanks, then, oh, give thanks!
This life has many prizes
And few of us draw blanks.
Forget that graves are gaping,
And they who win shall rest
Beside the luckless losers
In one oblivion drest
Thanksgiving IT'S Thanksgiving
Fill full the flowing bowl!
The past was good-be careless
or what may come, my soul.
Forget that graves are gaping;
This life is very sweet.
"Dum vivimus, vivamus"-
Come, friends, give thanks-and ea'
BARRETT EASTMAN
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-11-29
REss FOR PRINTING COPPER PLATE

ENGRAvINGs.
factory results. They were devised
by Mr.. Guy Since that epoch, how
ever. we have not as yet seen them
much employed. One of them is in
operation in Berlin and another at st.
Petersburg.
AS in all mechanical presses, the
machine consists of a table, upon
which is fixed the type to
be reproduced. This table has a
to and fro motion, during which
the type is linked in passing
under rollers prepared for the
purpose and then presents itself under
a cylinder, which carries sheet of
paper, and bears strongly against it
in order to give the impression. The
new and interesting part that consti-
tutes the copper plate press is found
toward the right of the illustration.
At the upper part are seen rollers, L,
each carrying woundup band of
cloth. The extremity of this band
passes under horizontal rod, f, and
afterward winds up under another
cylinder not visible in the figure. The
rod, E, receives by means of disks, G,
provided with cams, rapid to and fro
motion in various directions, so as to
produce the effecG of the hand wiping
with cloth.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-11-29
JOHNS THANKSGIVING.
by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.

N THE EVENING
o I Thanksgiving
d ay J 0 h n Ingle-
field, the b | a C k
smith, sat in his
elbow chair among
those who had been
keeping festival at
his board. Being
the central figure
OF the domestic cir
Gle, the fire threw
ifS strouuast 1iphf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05

did Sam Randall, but it has never
been the case in an agricultural or
grazing district and it will not be
now in the Twelfth. The only SAL
walton now is to elect to Congress
a man pledged by the consistency
of his own Protection principles ;
pledged by the consistency of
platforms; pledged in purse,
person and party to the protection
Of all industries, and not pledged
to make an exception of wool in
order to secure votes.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05

Any change that may be made
in the city charter by the incoming
legislature will not be complete
unless it contains a provision for
the separate election and main
tainanCe of a board of public in
s]truction, to whom all school mat
ters will be committed, the Munich
pal council having no authority of
any character over the board or its
funds. The time has come for this,
and it should be done.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05

es- All contracts or bills must be approved
by the Secretary or Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05

Everything in the Industrial
aud political situation in this Sec
ton OF the vineyard is promising.
The drouth of years is etfectually
broken and the incubus of Demo-
cratic hostillties to state industries
stand a fair chance of being re-
moved in the November election,
in so far at least as this section Of
the state is concerned. The day
of redemption draweth nigh.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05

Judge Noonan opens his cam
paign at Eagle Pass, Del Rio and
Bracket. His trumpet will give
no uncertain sound. The platform
on which he stands will not COM
pei him to stand upon it with one
foot while he kicks at it with the
other, neither will he be oblig-
ed to halt as a hungry ass between
two bundles of hay, while he
weighs the interests of his con-
stituents against the demands of
party. Judge Noonan finds that
his platform pledges and his con-
constituents interests are one and
the same requiring no betrayal of
either in order to meet the de-
mands OF both. There will be no
necessity Of his becoming politi-
cally crosseyed, looking both ways
for Sunday, in the vain attempt to
reconcile the antagonists of his
party conscience with the indus
trial de mands of his constituents.
There is before him the broad and
direct path Of political consist
ency, running parallel with the
highway Of industrial protec.
ton. His ingram and out
spoken ProteCtio nism fits into the
mold of the sheep and cattle in
terests of this Twelfth district as
a ducks foot into a stiff mortar
bed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05

The business situation is improv-
ing, not because Of anything that
the party in power has done to
bring about that result, but be.
cause they have exhausted all
their powers Of destruction and the
reaction has begun. Grover says,
however, that he will give the
screw another turn when Congress
is once more in session. Perhaps
the country will put a hook in
Growers nose and turn him about.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05

From fire and flood, Good
Lord deliver us!
II this campain is conducted on
its merits the Democratic wolf
will have little wool in his teeth in
November.
Blessed is the consistent politi-
clan. He has a pleasant row to
hoe.
Blessed is the candidate whose
policy, principles, platform and
pledges please the people.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05

San Antonio is growing very
rapidly into the leading education
al center of the state. Her public
schools are growing in efficiency
every year and are without a rival
in the state. Her private schools
are ranking up with the best insti-
buttons Of the older states, while
her more imposing academies and
colleges are multiplying more
rapidly than those of any other
southe rn city. TO these are being
added a kindergarten school of the
first class, to which is attached a
training school that in time will
turn out the teachers for a hun
dred kindergarten schools in this
and other southwestern states.
The value Of these educational in.
situations is being approved in the
location in this city Of hundreds OF
families, whose main object is the
education OF their growing boys
and girls. These additions are
very welcome to our population, as
they are citizens OF means and OF
culture as well, regarding the
proper education of their children
as of the first necessity. There is
no discount upon citizens Of this
class, and San Antonio has room
and a welcome for hundreds more.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
FOR CONGRESS,
18th Cong. District,
HON. GEO. III. NOONAN
Election, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 81.
NO FREETRADE PRoTECrIoN1sT

Send an honest Democrat to
Congress from this district and he
will not recognize either wool or
cotton as king. His only sovereign
ruler and accepted monarch will
be King Caucus. He may not so
believe and speak while on the
stump, but the forces of party CO.
erCion will prove too formidable
for successful resistance. He must
either stand on Democratic ground
or stand off it. If he stand upon it
he must go with his party as de-
termined in caucus. II he does
not stand on party ground he has
no claim either to party support
for his measures in Congress, or
his candidacy before the people.
In either case he is without any
claim upon the PrOtectionists of
his district. The present member
for this district took the only con-
sistent ground and the people
repudiated him. He fell a vic
tim to the logical necessities of
the situation, the attempt to
put Protection wine into the
free trade bottles, and he failed in
the attempt. 1t was not the man
that failed, but the policy. 1t is
inevitable destiny that any other
man will fail who makes the same
attempt. 1t will not avail a single
hair to preach wool and hide pro.
lection in the campaign, while
bound upon the altar Of a party
pledged to put both upon the free
list. The failure will be newt.
able. 1t will either be failure to
keep the. promises made to home
industries Or failure to keep the
promises made to the party. 1t il
not hard to fOresee where the fail.
ure must come in. The attempt to
stand out against the caucus decis.
ions of the Democratic members OF
the National House of Representa-,
tlves will OstraCise the Demo.
crat who attempts it from
all recognition by his party,
and it is not in the nature of the
case that a strong, lifelong, Ken.
lucky bred Democrat will thus
consent to commit political suicide
in che house of his friends. The
other thing thing will inevitably
occur, and the industries Of the
district will have to stand aside
GtG&s always been thus, save In
the cases Of one or two exception
ally strong men who represented
great manufacturing districts, a.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05

Fort Worth Gazette is anxiously
enquiring what the old town shall
do to be saved. If it depended on a
political flop of the Gazette it
would be easy to answer. What
has happened to the fellows of the
Gazette, that it's old time cry Of
"on to" is no longer echoed down
the corridors?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05
For Sale by ADOLpH DRESS.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Doctors, Lawyers, Etc

CHARLES L. BASS, Attorney,
and Consellor at Law. Does a general prac.
tice, Legal documents drawn on short notice
Spanish and German interpreter in office.
Office room No 9 Mackey building.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05
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F. H. Volrath, Scientific Horse
sheer. Treats al diseases of the feet ana
faulty gaits. All work guaranteed satisfsc-
tory or no pay. 2l7 South Flores Street.
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-05
T%ELEGRAPHIG BREVITIES.

i'll at his home in West Virginia.
Batesville, Bracket and Carlo
Springs all report very high water.
Treasury gold reserve is 55.467,-
47j.
Bailey is renominated at Sher-
man for Congress, by reclamation.
George Vanleer dangerously
whipped at Monroe, La, for as
saulting a colored girl.
Sayers meets Hutchinson at San
Marcos and makes it sultry for the
Populists.
Sayers think that there will be a
small majority for the Democrats
in the next Congress.
Hutchinson thinks that he has
an even chance with Sayers unless
a reaction sets in.
Sayers is in fine health and chal-
lenges Hutchinson to stump the
district with him Jointly.
The July and August surplus is
about $1,000, 600. Carlisle is happy,
as he expected a deficit.
Plants in the valley of the Citys.of
Mexico are greatly damaged by
heavy rains.
Mexican press pleads for the
dropping of all pref udices against
foreigners.
The Rio Grande at Laredo is
again rising; has climed up four
feet.
County Clerks association of
Texas is holding convention at
Galveston.
There will be a fight in the X. of
P. before any other language
than English is used in ritual.
Beach hotel at Galveston sold
under the hammer for $4,000. 1t
cost $780, DOC.
X. n. Bray arrested at Houston
for fraud goes back to Cleveland,
o., in charge of an officer.
Des Moines Kennel club offers
$1,000 in premiums at the Bench
show on the eth.
Plenty Of grass and water on the
western ranges, but cattle and
sheep are scarce.
Henry Rawarth, locomotive en-
gineer for more than fifty years,
dies at Augusta, Ga, aged 50.
President Willing, of the Column
bia university, City Of Washington,
is dead.
Early cotton is reported looking
well in Texas and suffering little
from boil worms.
Senator Jones, of Nevada has
cast his lost openly with the Popu-
lists.
The bungling manner in which
the alchOhOl schedule has been left
cannot be remedied.
Senator Harris comes to Texas
to rest until October then he will
campaign it in Tennessee.
Wilson has gone to Europe in
stead Of meeting Tom Reed in West
Virginia.
The Joe Savers clubs are very &C
tive and will fight to a finish for
the old congressman.
Irrigation congress at Denver is
on an excursion through Northern
Colorado.
Employees of five of the largest
sweat shops in New York join the
striking garment makers.
Mayor of Houston vetoes the paw
ing contract and there is blood
upo the moon.
Houston is overrun with bur-
glars, skin gamblers and bunco
steerers.
Houston talks of an indignation
meeting to condemn the City coun-
Gil and ask investigation.
The Republicans have carried
Vermont by a 10000 majority.
This is unprecedented.
The Congressional fight in the
Thirteenth sis stilll on convention
deadlocked.
Negotiations open at Madrid for
a new treaty with the United
States, under the new law.
Bismarck's wife is very sick and
anxiety is telling on the old Chan
Cellor.
The natives OF China say that it
is not their fight and are slow to
enlist.
United States recognizes the
claim of China over Japanese resi-
dents in China, and vice versa.
Gould comes to his senses and
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-14
SHOWS A DECLINE
STOCK MARKET ON THE WHOLE
THE WORSE FOR THE WEEK
Days Transactions Superlativeiy
Dull Except for Chicago Gas ana
sugar Stocks Gra1gerS Have
Only a Perceptible Movement,
Rock Island Alone Gaining.

NEW YORK, Oct. IS 1t was very dull
and nnint-Ie,ting two hours of business
on the stock exchange today, the only
semblance of activity being in Sugar aud
Chicago Gas Sugar was sold by brokers.
supposed 20 working for an inside interest
aud after decli0e of PR cent. rose i
per cent. only TO be promptly forced do = u
rs 70 s35s PER cent, with fnal recovery
of = per cent. Chicago Gas advanced. ;,
per cent, reacted = per cent, AID rallied
y Der cent The gran.ers mov-d within
fractional limits and ciosel at yesterdays
closing figures. except Il lck Island, which
Is = per Cent higher. The market closed
heavy
o. the week the marker, with but few
unImportaut exceptions. shows Z decline
Tie bond market was firm for the aci i've
Issues. but some OF their active mortgs .es
recorded slight decline Th,. result f tue
weeks trading IS the establishment OF "A
lower level Tor the greater part of the list
traded Ill. but in some half a dozen in-
stances material advances have been re-
corded. notably, per cent ia Peoria aud
P-kiu union seconds. and Minnesota aud
st. Louis ses onds. and PEI cent ia Mime
SOFA aud St. Louis firsts; Iowa extension,
81 per cent; in Chicago Gas firsrs aud
Knoxville and Ohio firsts and Ohio South
ern f"urs. Is per cent
Chief among he declines are Louisville
and Nashville, As per cent; Atchison fours.
"a Der cent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-14
UNApPRECIATED BANANAS,
some Saperstitions About Haddocks and
Fern Roots.

sonae Saperstitions About Haddocks and
Fern Roots.
The banana possesses wonderful sus-
tanning properties. and yet years ago.
in the warm countries where il flour
isles the banana was thought Of so
lightly that it was allowed to waste If
not eaten by the cattle.
The plant itself was valued simply as
a shade for coffee trees between rows
Of which it was planted
Some body once told me. says writer
In the Gentlewoman, that the Span
iards used to regard the banana as a
forbidden fruit, because they detected
in its heart the transverse section Of
the cross
remember. too, how one of my early
Rovernesses used 10 delight me By
showing me the cross and the apostles
in the center % the passion flower; and
the other day a friend told me Of some
curious synbolical marks TO be found
Ct the back Of the neck of the haddock.
indentatiors similar 10 those that
might be caused b. the finger and
thumb, the superstition being that the
paddock was one OF the fishes picked
out of The net on the occasion Of tbs
miraculous draft Of fishes
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-14

time, but at last the tail proved
too lively for him, and again
he was sent flying many feet into
the water. The battle had been going
on for some time when Capt. Mcneil
saw that the dog was getting the worst
of it, and armed with an AK he rowed
TO the scene. One round was fought
while he was on the way. and il is de-
scribed by the captain as follows:
"A swing of the tail and Prince picks
himself up several feet away. Prince
PUSHES An upper cut by the shark
lands Prince again. Prince feints and
the sharks tail fans the wind. Prince
clinches his teeth in the sharks tail,
and when they break loose Prince is in
the air. Several lively passes follow,
in which the fish loses much skin and
Prince makes several tours in the air.
The round ended with both combat
ants bleeding and badly winded-'
As soon as Capt. Mcneil reached the
shark he dispa tehed the shark with the
AK The shark was nearly six feet long
The water was stained with blood from
the effects of the struggle--N- Y. Sun
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-14
PETTY PILFER,HGS CEASED
Proprietor DoctOred Some Lozenges snc
Left Them on His Desk.

Proprietor Doctored Some Lozenges sue
| Left Them on His Desk.
| He was in the habit of keeping odd
cigars, chocolates and things of that
| sort lying around his cfice desk, and
the clerks, messengers and office bov
were in the habit of helping themselves
without so much as asking the priv
llege. 1t was sometime before he took
any official notice of it. But of late he
could scarcely turn around before every
thing was gone. When this freedom
finally extended to the disappearance
of little boxes of bon-bons purchased
for his wife he began to inquire into it.
Its that boy" suggested the clerk.
Indeed, l never tech EN-" said the
boy. Everybody what comes along
bites into everything
The next day the proprietor brought
home some doctored lozenges and went
out to lunch, leaving a box half full on
his desk in plain sight. About an hour
after his return to the Office one of the
clerks in the next room came in and
asked to be excused for the rest of the
day on account of illness. As soon as
the man had gone an investigation OF
the lozenge box betrayed the fact that
all had disappeared. He rang his bell
and the office boy appeared, pale and
trembling.
Look here, Billy" says he, 81 left
some loZenges on my desk at noon-I
hope you"
NO, sir didn't see EN-
I'm glad OF that" said the employer
"Of course, you wouldn't have touched
them. I was afraid that you might
have done SO. Not that they were of
any value particularly, but because
they were fixed up for cat medicine
You see"
But Billy suddenly bolted for the
door. His unceremonlous exit was i'm
mediately followed by the entrance of
another clerk. He was accompanied
by man friend. and both looked high
ly embarrassed and uneasy. Billy had
rushed in upon them and told them in
an awful whisper that they had all
been poisoned. They manfully faced
the music.
''I-we-that is
''Ah, / sect" interrupted the boss
You, too, have been eating my cat
medicine!" He tried to look serious.
but his is not serious nature, and he
laughed instead. The young men be-
gan to brace up.
Then they ain't-were not poisoned?
Billy says they We're fixed for rats, sir.
i know we oughtn't TO have eaten them,
but
Oh. they were not exactly poisoned.
bullets sec taking ont his watchl-if
you'll go down 10 the corner drug store
end take an emetic you'll be all right
in short time"
Both young men disappeared in a
twinkling, and the laughing old practi-
cal joker leaned back in his chair and
lighted fresh cigar. 1T is well
enough not TO let them of to easily"
he soliloquized. They'd have gotten !
over il In about another minute"
There are no more petty offerings /
around that Office But then that Of /!
fee boy has never come back-N. Y 1
herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-14
STARTS IN AFRESH
GAME OF WHIST Is READY FOR AN
OTHER YEAR IN SOCIETY.
Ladies Afternoon Club is the First in
the Field, Mrs. Cunningham En-
pertaining the Members The Past
Week-MP. Ford Gives a Dancing
Party-General News Of Society.

Wichita is great town for whist. Last
season it overshsdowed ali other forms OF
amusement, and it is assumed that it will
be equally popular during the coming
winter.
The whist season in fact has already be-
gun. The Ladies' Whist club is the first
In the field. Last Tuesday afternoon this
club was entertained by Mrs B. T.Church-
ward. The play was scientific and spir-
tied and after the close of the contest
Mrs. Stout and Mrs. Coen proved to be
The winners. The favors won two beauti-
Tul silver spoons. The guests were Mrs.
ID. II. Bentley, Mrs. ". w. Pearce, Mrs.
J. l.. Dyer, Mrs. 4 X SDangler, Mrs. b.
T.. hartman, Mrs. VIII Nash, Mrs. i. T.
Beech, Mrs. I. Coen, Mrs. o. d. Kirk,
Mrs. f. b. Jewett, Mrs. W, f. Stout and
Miss Lucia Drain.