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through. My brother, who has been
blind for 20 years, planned the whole
thing out in his darkness, and you will
aes ons OF thsae days. that it is feasible
and admirable invention, and one that
will eventually replace che surface roado,
both in the city and in the country.
Its extreme simplicity will COM
mend tho invention to every Shrinking
Usn, l am sure. The cheapness OF con-
Htruction and the high rate Of apssd at
tainsbls by such railway are, OF course.
ita main advantages. AZ fer as speed ia
concerned, it is now only question OF
atmospheric resistance. And this
natural factor can he greatly overcome
by constructing the cars either cone
sharsd or with pointed ends like the
prov of boat. But that. OF oourse,. ia
an sitter consideration, and no such de-
vise will be needed to attain. say, q
speed of 100 miles an hour. And such
rats can be maintained easily and
with entire comfort and safety to the
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its maintenance. No obstruction or
blookades can interfere with its running.
1t cannot jump the track. The wear and
tear on its mechanism and rolling stock
ia the minimum. II costs from one-
third to two-thirds less to construct and
maintain than any other kind of rail-
road. 1t almost solves the question of
the right of way. 1t is quickly con-
utructed and will be slightly when
finished. Heavy grades are no obstacle
to its operation. II is, in truth. the
perfection of railroads ii ell that ia
claimed for it is true.
CAN'T Run OFF THE TRACK.
And it looks to be true, if you examine
the drawings carefully. Four caveats
have just been filed on the invention at
the patent Office, and now Mr.. Thomas
is ready to construct his road. He rather
looks to see it built between this city
and Fresno, where a competing railroa d
ia 80 badly needed. If it is practicable,
it's chespness ought to recommend it.
The plan ia TO run the train on cables
that rest on iron supports placed 200
feet apart. The cables are four in num-
Der, and tho wheels at the top OF the
car--tbere are to be three of them on
truck end two trucks on each oar--are
80 adjusted on the cables that it will be
impossible for the train to run of the
track, as it were; or, rather, to jump
the oabls, for, in truth, there is no track
to this novel railroad.
ut is not my invention" SAYS Mr..
Thomas, Though | am financially in
terssted in it and intend to see ii
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cell and there sunk into drunken

cell and there sunk into drunken
sleep.
In the meantime Mrs. Watts littlo
son had been LETT 10 take care OF him.
self. He played around ste house for
O tims but finally began to cry for bis
mother. He also was taken TO the
station and the officers made him
happy. They bought hing 10 cents
worth OF crackers and nickePs worth
of candy, 80 In consequence he coneid.
ersd the station the BEST place he had
been In for q long time.
He wGs a loyal little fellow. He
readily admitted that "Brick" Daley
and Jack Dunn drank beer. but insisted
again and again that his mother never
took anything stronger than coffee.
''Shs is the best mother in the world"
said he. land I'll hit you If you say
anything against her."
The boys name 10 Willie and he is
about years old. He was we'll dressed
bat had a shoe on his right foot only.
The other one waa bare and Willie ourled
1t up under him In order to keep 1t
warm.
Brick Daley threw che other one
out of the window" wss the reason he
gave for having NO covering on his left
foot.
While the police we're deciding what
to do with the lad. one of the drunks
burst into song. In maudlin voice ne
sang:
Daisy. Daisy, give me your answer true.
I'm half crazy, all for the love of you.
"Thst's Brick Daley" remarked
Willie; "he's full of beer, because he
always sings that song when he's little
off,"
Gan you sing, Willie?" asked one OF
the police officers, and the answer came
at once:
"You bet can"
He was placed on bench and in
shrll treble sang:
Pour out the Rhine wine, let it flow
In a free and flowing measure,
Till sadness sinks and every woe
Lies drowned beneath its waves forever;
drear
Like deep deep draught
OF the good Rhine wine.
The boy had not completed his song
before his mother began to call him.
The little fellow went to her call. and
abe hiccoughed, Don't sing that drunk
en- song, Willie; sing hymn" and
then, perhaps, for the fret time in the
history Of the Southern police station,
were heard the sublime words, Nearer
Ny God, to Thee, sung by drunken
woman and an innocent 4-year-old
child.
Willie is we'll dressed and will be sent
to one OF the Protestant institutions.
His father, when he died, left so much
to the widow, and the remainder was
invested for the maintenance of the
child. The woman soon ran through
her money, and latterly has been living
upon the revenue derived from her little
sons estate. The other drunks have
made their headquarters at her room,
and Willie was alternately their pet and
their butt.
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IndIxldnal PaonliarItlna.

Even among very good whist plsyera
there are great varieties OF style. No
one who has had much experience with
large variety OF crack players can fail
to have noticed this, especially since
the game of duplicate what has become
80 popular. 1t may TO maHy seem highly
heretical, but it ia maintained by COM
pstent authority that man trained
under the old straight whist system ia
likely to be better player than one
whoae entire experience has been with
duplicate. The former game is unques.
tionabIy the better OF the two. 1t in
cludes all thas duplicate whist does,
and, in addition, the very important
feature OF playing to the score. When
man sees a player take O chance OF
winning shres tricks by risking loss of
one, he would be tolerably safe in
wagering that shs player was trained
under the straighs whist system.
Temperament plays no small part in
success. a player may make an excel
lent partner for one man and very
poor partner for g very superior artist
This is accounted for on the ground that
daring player ia likely TO do very well
with one more conservative, the faults
of one correcting those OF the other,
while with man of his own class ne
would be likely 80 lose trick after trick.
Then certain mon have . belief that
they cannot win with certain others,
and this belief is nearly always q pre-
cursor of defeat, ga it inhuenceG play,
and ths team il really defeated before
it site down to the table. This belief
is often akin to euperstition. Two
players who play their own hands
alone arc likely TO do better together
than with fsr better meu who play the
modern system. Then, there ia the
timid player, who, when hs ia opposed
to cracks, gives up the game bsfors a
single caro- lie led, and falls therefore
to do himself juatice One OF the gnost
trying partners is the medigm player
who, when with first-class man, gets 8
6t OF buck ague" and Roee to pieces.
Ii he would sinply play & natural game
and attempt 10 gymnauttce he would be
likely to do well; out ne ID seldom sat-
isied with natural play. end tries
strokes of original genies, che results be-
ing overwhelming disaster. The whist
player of the future will he the plsysr
who can play to the man as well as to
cards; who can. in addition to reading
the cards, read his partners mind,
actual or alleged. But only whis t
genius should attempt this. A conjurer
alone should NEEDLE With conjnrsr's
wand. 1t has been nearly the uniye fsal
experience that success Sith poor play
ere, gained by gauging shallows OF his
partners intellect, aeriously Injuries the
chancea OF Winning with coed nnsn.
lex,
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passengers in this mid-sir railway.
There can te no distractions on the
track, for ahere 10 no track, renaern Der.
And no SHOWS nor washouts can retsrd
the trains. There is ne dirt and dust
aud srooko aud SCOT to make travelling q
hardship; no jsrring and rum bling and
csr-Bplitting noises to make one deaf.
HE USES COMPRESSED AIR.
"An to the motive power, that can be
either elactricity, with which-ths peopla-
are already familiar, or compressed air.
a natural force the possibilities of which
srs but little known. Ny own prefer
encea are for compressed air. l have
Experimental with that force to some
extent snd have been successful
Aud this 10 true enough. Mr.. Thomas
caiue down here from San Francisco O
few weeks ago and visited the oil wells
OF Los Angeles Mr.. Thomas is an ex-
pert in oils, having operated extensively
with the Yves seYn Pennsylvania derricks.
He axperted SONS of the Los Angeles
product and found it to be much more
valuable article thar even the we'll
owners themselves had any knowledge
of. He calls the fluid biretta, and de-
clares that it 10 valuable for making
dyes and certain varnish preparations.
But all this is not spropos. The CHIEF
thing that Mr.. Thomas did down here
was to show the we'll owners how tn
bring their produos to the surface. Like
the borers in Pennsylvania and slse-
whore, the operators here were using
sucker pumps, that brought cupful Of
oil to the surface with each throb OF the
sucker.
Thomas showed them q trick worth
many times this. He brought his pat
ent air compressor into the field. 1t 10 O
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-23
ONE HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR
A Railway in Mid-Air Without
Track or Engine.
The Novel Transportation Invention
of a Blind Man. -.
Patents Secured on = New System That
Promises to RevoIutionizs Rail.
road Travel.

A railroad without rails Ia the latest
novelty being introduced by San Fran
cisco capitalist, who has BEEN O guest
at the Hollenbeck In this city FOR the
past month or more. His name is R. P.
Thomas. He originally came here to
give che oil norers pointers an how to
get she product from their wells. He
was successful in this. and has been
successful in great many enterprises
ia mis- day Bsing ia the hands OF such
a man there 10 hope for this railroad
withoua rails.
just to state thu ease badly and give
the claims made for 1t without any
other information 10 to make rather
sensational abatement. For instance.
no grading is necessary to the construc'
ton OF this railroad. no ties and no
rails, no bridgea and no fencing in OF the
track. No section gang ia required in
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A pottery Don, pauy in court.

New York, Jan. 22.-Oherlss H. Mur.
ray. John Morris apd Zse Simmons,
VINO compose the firm of Charles H.
Murray & Co., the Nav York agents Of
the Louiaisna lottery, have filed q de-
murrer in the United States circuit court
to the suit of Harry F. Watson, as trus-
toe OF his fathers estate. for az account
ing of the affairs Of the lottery company
for tho benefit of stockholders.
The defendants say that Watson's
claim is outlawed, tho subject OF 1t be-
ing the conduct and maintenance of o
lottery concern, which is not recognized
by the law and over which the courts
have no Jurisdiction.
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C0mDlgae Generals Ifansatlantiaus

Trench LINE TO HAvRE.
CtOMPANYS PIER fNEWl NO. AZ NORTH
I river foot of Morton St, New York ' \ NJ
Travellers by this line avoid bota travel hv
English railway aud the disCora fort OF croae
ing The channel in small boat III
Boursosne, January II.
La Champagne, Janusry TO- NJ n
La Normandie, January 70. F2
La Bfetagne, February ?. s
ia Gsscogne, February 8.
La Bourgogne, February 10. ss
New York 70 Alexandria. Egypt, via pAxia
irsi-class $l60, sscond-class 81 16. ( ri -
For freight or passage apply to
A. FORGET, Agent. Il
NO Bowling Green, New Yorh
]. FUGAz1 o. CO. agents, s. Monfoor~%1u
ave., san Francisco Branch office. - XSs<
goraefy st. Tickets are for sale b. an raiirS<<
and steamship Offices. 49, N 4
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"A STRANGE PRISON SCENE.
"Ponr Ont thu Rhine Winen Sung bv
Child.


"Ponr Ont thu Rhine Winep Sung nv
Child.
San Francisco Gall: "Delilah Watts,
age 38, drunk" was the brief entry on
the registry at the Southern police sta
tion yesterday The prisoner had Gre.
ated q disturbance at her home on
Nstoma street. near Third, and the
three men who were drinking with her
sent for the police. Half an hour after
her arrest they began quarreling among
themselves. and in consequence the
police had again to interfere. William
Daley. Jack Dunn and William Watkins
composed the trio, and they vera srrest.
ed and placed in cells opposite 30 Mra.
Watts. When the men began abusing
the woman she WAS placed In the dark
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PITTsBURa, Jan. 22.-The government
has taken a hand in the crusade against
bling dools. James W. Dudgeon of Pitts
burg. manager of the Traders syndicate
OF Chicago. and F. X. Dsvlyn, manager
of the American syndicate pool, have
been arrested on warrants charging
them with using the United States mails
to carry on scheme to defraud. There
has been a run on the American and
Traders syndicates, but the depositora
received no satisfaction.
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Women Of All Ages, Attention.

NINE. M. YALE, Queen of Beauty,
who has lectured IN all OF the promi-
nent cities of the world before vast
audiences, and has been pronounced
by all newspapers 20 be the most per-
feet woman In form aud feature now
living, speaks to the women Of the
world and confesses to them that the
secret of her beauty lies in perfect
health-and the secret Of her health
lies in the use of her own remedies.
Among m-Fruitcura-her great
and wonderful tonic for curing all
female ailments and building up the
system. Fruitcura restores all weak
organs to perfect health. 1t cures
the many complaints of women that
only women know of 1t restores the
vitality, makes the eyes bright, the
step elastic, and brings the bloom of
health to the faded cheek, 1t renews
the nerve tone, and makes the flesh
firm, hard and ve'vety. In fact, its
use is the royal road to perfect health
and beautiful w0msnhOOd. 1t cures
their complaints and nervous trou-
bles of any nature and revives the
vitality which is lacking in all such
cases for women of all ages. A dis
cOvery by woman to cure women.
Price 81 per bottle; 6 for So. At
druggists or by mail.
NINE NJ YALE Chicago health and beauty
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DG~ This timetable is published BY TIN
HERALD for the convenience Of its readers auo
the travelingpublic.
Other railroad companies pay for the pup
hcation OF their timetables.
The Southern Pacific Company refuses TO pay
Tor the publication Of Its timetable IN ThA
HERALD because this paper is criticising tho
corporations policy opposing harbor at San
Pedro its attitude toward the Nicaragua prop
osition: its attempt to Cypress and rob the
people fPa5adene; and It's tyrannous dtscrin1-
inatlon against the interests ef the people Of
rheiisr|lea7uin Ysiie5,
CoUTHRRN PACIFIC COMPANY.
TIME TABLE-DEcEMBER 20, 1894
Arcade Depot Los Angeles.
Leave for DxsrINA rInH IA rrlVe. n
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NINE. M. YALE, Chicago, health and beauty
specialist. Remington G. Co., San Francisco,
wholesale druggists, are supplying tho Pacific
Coast with all my remedies
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
GOLD STANDARD STRENGTHENED.
Attacks By Silvsritss Only Serve to Kstsb-
lish II More Firmly.

Attacks By Silvsritss Only Serve to Estsb-
lish 10 More Firmly.
The rabi6 stacks Of the silverites On
our present honest standard Of values
have had the effect Of establishing more
firmly than ever the use Of gold as the
single unit Of value. Previous to the
recent free coinage agitation q great
many people who had given the money
question no attention believed in the
possibility Of a double standard. And
as q convenient way Of escaping the
study Of the question they talked vague
~ of international bimetallism," or
the adoption Of silver as standard money
by all the nations Of the world.
The bold front assumed by the Is to
l advocates forced the issue Of gold
versus a silver standard upon every citi-
zen. The result has been that the ad-
vantages Of gold and the disadvantages
Of silver are now known everywhere.
To refute the silverite arguments for
cheap dollars it was necessary to show
the superiority of gold. This was done
SO thoroughly that there is no longer
any attempt to show that silver is the
better standard, and the only plea now
put forward by the free coinage leaders
is their appeal to the men who want so
cent dollars with which to pay off their
debts.
Every attack on the gold standard,
whether drawn from the experience Of
this or Of other countries, has complete
ly failed. The great majority Of the
people who previously held no decided
opinions on the question have become
convinced that gold is better than sill
yer, and they will vote down next year
any party or candidates who favor de-
basing the currency. The Boosted free
silver propaganda, which was started a
few years ago to convert the country,
has proved a great success. But it is a
success exactly the opposite of what the
silver mine owners expected, for it has
made all those who were formerly in
doubt or indifferent stanch defenders
Of a sound currency based on gold.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
DANGEROUS FiNAscleatNo.
Free CstnAEe Of Silver Would Bring Chaos
to the Commercial World.

Free CslnAEe Of Silver Would Bring Chaos
TO the Commercial World.
II Substantial advantages were certain
70 attend the establishment of the silver
standard in this country, the damage
inseparable from making the change
would deter all prudent men from a step
not unlike committing suicide as a
remedy for illness. A gradual financial
change might possibly be effected with
out damage, but a sudden and radical
change cannot be made without enor-
nous harm. The free coinage of silver
would Danish the gold standard almost
Immediately, and the dollar would drop
in a few weeks, or at the most a few
months, to about one-half of its present
value. So sudden a change would bring
the commercial world into a state of
chaos.
Yet that very change is sought as an
unspeakable blessing by the silver men,
to whom the commercial world is an ag-
gregate Of a multitude of debtors and a
small number of creditors. a reduction
of the money unit would scale down
debts, and according TO these theorists
would afford debtors a happy release
and only injure a small number of men,
who would remain rich after the sums
due them had been cut in two.
Every rejecting business man knows
what a caricature such a picture is. AL
most all business is done on a greater or
less basis of credit, and very much of it
could not survive anything more than a
momentary suspension of credit. Any
financial change, or even threat Of it,
which would draw deposits from the
banks would deprive them Of the ability
to extend credit and would bring ne
small amount of business to an absolute
stop. 1t is only 2ja years since we saw
this thing happen. But in addition to
this the certainty that the value Of the
dollar was to be at NICE reduced one
half would dry up every stream of credit.
Who would lend $1,000 to be repaid in
a thousand half dollars? Who would
lend 81, 900 on the gold standard to be
repaid in 81, 900 on the silver standard?
We're such a change in the money unit
imminent there would be a boarding Of
money in every quarter, and loans would
only be affected on suicidal terms, which
would protect the lender from loss by
the change.
We're there such advantages in the
silver standard as its devotees imagine
it is impossible for us to reach it with
ont causing a financial panic and a long
p%rostration Of business beyond anything
we have ever experienced, because the
business Of the modern world cannot be
done without assuming obligations for
the future. Credit is absolutely essen
tial, and it "a impossible without a con-
spicuous degree of steadiness in the
monetary unit, the common denomi-
nator Of values, the measure Of deferred
payments. Changes in prices al be es-
timated, though even these are some
times disastrous. A change in the value
Of money from decade to decade, or even
from year to year, within narrow limits
a be provided against, but a change
Of one.half or eyen one-fourth in the
value Of money within a few months,
or perhaps q few weeks, is more than
business can adapt itself TO. II means
ruin.-Iron Age.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
Facing Both WAYS,

When the Populist press is clamoring
for free silver, it claims that low priced
products are an injury to everybody but
the owners of gold, and that the 16 to l
swindle would help the people by dou-
bling the price of everything they buy.
But when the same papers come to de-
nounce trusts and monopolies, they do
SO on the ground that those combina-
tions of capital restrict trade and put
up prices. Thus the Coal trust has been
generally condemned by the Populists
because it raised the price of coal so
cents per ton. But free silver would
make a ton of coal cost Just double
what it is now. If higher prices in the
interest of trusts is such a bad thing,
why would they not be equally bad in
the interests of the silver barons?
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30

The idea has kesn assiduously cir
culated in this country that wero Cuba
to achieve independence it would be
another black republic like Santo
Domingo. But this is a Spanish
falsehood. The present population of
Cuba is 2,OO0,O 600, and not ovsr one
tenth is negro. About three-fourths
of the people are white, and the re-
naindcr Of mixed blood. But even if
all were black, that would be no reas-
on why they should not strike for in
dependence against Spanish oppres-
sion and misrule.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30

Next year Russia will coin 81 ,0GO,-
900 of gold and $1,000 900 of silver in
addition to the subsidiary coinage.
The Russian treasury will have to
purchase part Of the gold and nearly
all of the silver. The production of
gold in Russia in 1894 was 1924, 900, 600,
but the production of silver was
valued at only 1920, 800. Russia is try
ing to get on a gold basis. Her cur
rency is where ours IA previous to
resumption-an inflated paper cur-
rency is where ours was previous to
resumption-an inflated paper cur-
rency which is therefore deprecated.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30

There are two kinds of towns in
the country. One is where the hand of
welcome is extended to the stranger
and he is made to feel at home, and one
is where every stranger is looked upon
with suspicion and is made to feel that
his room is better than his company.
In one the new lady is called upon,
her religious denomination is enquired
into and the ladies of the place try to
make the place as agreeable as posi-
BILE to her. In the other she is ostra-
cized, talked about, slandered and
printed as black as the king of purga-
tory. In one the stranger is en-
couraged, the resources of the country
are pointed ont to him on their bright
est side, in the other ruin, and despair
are painted as the inevitable results if
he stays there. 1t is unnecessary to
dwell on which of these two places
prospers the most.