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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19
SUNLIGHT TO ORDER.
A Question of vibrations introduced by
Prof. Tesla.

Prof Tesla.
Tesla had two big undertakings on
hand when his laboratory caught FIRE
more important of these, from his point
of view, was the production of light by
the vibration of the atmosphere. Ac-
Cording to the inventor, the light of the
sun is the result Of vibrations in 94,000,-
900 miles of ether, which separates us
from the center of the solar system of
which we are a part. Teslas Idea is tC
produce here on earth vibrations similar
to those which cause sunlight, and thus
give us light as intense as that of the
sun, with no danger of obstruction from
the clouds The inventor had already
done something toward accomplishing
this end when the fire occurred. 1t is
understood that he has again taken the
subject up in way. To illustrate his
principle 1t is only necessary to take a
long bar of glass and note the brill
liancy of the light it produces through
vibration alone. 1t is a prismatic ex-
pertinent, in general terms, applied to
electricity. Tesla can compute vibra-
tons as readily as most people count
the wealth they would like to have. He
can tell you the number of vibrations
produced by fly in action and draw
interesting comparisons therefrom. For
example. this young man from Smiljan
will tell you that a certain kind of fly
peculiar to the swamps of Central
American moves his wings $4,000 times
to the second. You may doubt the ac-
curacy of this statement in your own
mind, but if you hunger for details
Tesla will sit down and convince you
with figures adduced from a scientific
contemplation Of the problem.
"All have to do" he said recently,
us to duplicate the number of vibra-
tions required to light up the SUM- and
the practicability of my theory will
have been demonstrated. 1t is difficult
for me to give you an idea that you
will readily grasp about this question
of vibration. In ordinary life our
minds do not deal with the figures that
come up in such Investigations have
come to the conclusion that the sun
light is produced by five hundred tril-
lion vibrations of the atmosphere per
second. In order to manufacture the
same kind of light 1t will be necessary
to produce an equal number of vibra-
lions by machinery. l have succeeded
up to certain point. but am still al
work on the task"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

BEEBEE, Ark, Sept. 14.-Thursday,s
tragedy near Nc Rae, was followed
yesterday morning by another killing.
Wilkes and McAfee were farmer boys
living five miles from this place.
Thursday Wilkes was in a wagon
with some men and women returning
from baptizing. McAfee and a
young man named Clayton were
walking along the road together
When the wagon passed them young
Clayton assaulted Wilkes, when the
latter drew revolver and fired, the
bail missing Clayton and striking
McAfee in the abdomen, killing him
almost instantly. Yesterday morn
ing Clayton went to McRae postoffice
with shotgun and proclaimed that
he would kill Wilkes on first sight.
Yesterday afternoon Clayton's dead
body was found in the public road
near McRse. There is much excite
ment and blood shed is expected.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-General
j. M. Schotield, lieutenant general OF
the United States army, accompanied
by his personal staff and a party OF
friends, will leave Washington on
Monday, September 16, for Cincinnati,
and from there will go direct to
Chattanooga to attend the dedication
ceremonies of the Chickamauga park
on September 1920, and thence to
Atlanta, Ga, to participate in the
reunion of the blue and the gray at
the exposition ON September 81.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

New YORK, Sept. 16.-The Ameri-
can liner Paris reached quarantine
about twenty-four hours later than
she was expected. The delay was
caused by the giving out of the feed
pump on last Monday morning, which
interfered with the proper feeding of
fresh water to the boilers. The conse-
quencc was that the boiler primed
badly-that is. that the water foamed
up in them and was carried with the
steam through the pipe to the
engines, thereby endangering the
cylinder heads. 1t was necessary to
slow down the big liner and her
speed had to be reduced until repairs
were affected. On Monday, Sept. 8,
while the ship was going through a
heavy gale, tremendous sea broke
over her starboal side, throwing the
passengers to the deck and severely
injuring the Rev. II. Howard Hale OF
Boston, breaking leg and two OF
his ribs. Ex-Mayor Hopkins OF
Chicago and j. Guy Hough were
also somewhat bruised, but are now
all right.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19
Cycling ss4 Mlles a Day.

1t seems almost incredible that a
man should be able to cover a distance
Of 524 miles in twenty-four consecutive
hours, furnishing all the motor power
himself, and yet that was what the
French bicyclist, Riviere, did at Bor-
deaux Tuesday. Applied in straight
line that days motion would have car
ried him from Chicago to the vicinity
of Cleveland. OF course, he made his
record on cement track, but it isn't
every one of us chat can do his twenty
two miles on a track in an hour, not I'd
mention keeping it up for twenty-four.
The French, by the way, while they
don't keep with us in short-distance
riding, seem to have everything their
own way in the long ones, the Ameri-
can twenty-four-hour record being some
100 miles lower than theirs.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

From New York to San Francisco
there is not a city of considerable size
which may not soon find itself in i'm
perative need of a vagrancy law
so altered as to include those
varlegated deadheads who, under guise
of wagers, are doing" the country
and the people-in their globe-trotting
evolutions. The first man who at
tempted to circumnavigate the earth in
a given time while spending other
peoples money was a picturesque
genius. Since that time there have
been whole host of lmitators, and the
fashion seems to be spreading. Not a
week has passed this season when some
frowsy, ambling, down-at-heel sport"
has failed to appear in every big city
to register" and incidentally to solicit
interviews and ham sandwiches. All
that the vagrant of the statute book ac-
complishes against society is to feed
off 1t without rendering an equivalent,
This the wager-bound tourist accom-
plishes and more. The law presumes
that a man shall not have something
for nothing, and when an individual
capable of earning or paying his way
starts out with the avowed intention of
getting a great deal for nothing he be-
comes at least {. nuisance. Thirty days
OF stone-pile might have very whole
some effect upon some of these peri
patetics.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, sept. 10.-A MUIR
der occurred in this city Friday night
AT 1890 o'clock Jacob Kiser, all ex-
policeman, in company with two COM
panions. was going home. Seeing a
man lying at the side of the side
walk in an apparently drunken con-
dition Kiser aroused him and informed
him that he had better get up or the
patrol wagon would take him. The
fellow jumped up and drawing a
revolver shot Kiser, who expired i'm.
nlediately. The fellow is a stranger
here and refused to talk or reveal his
IDENTIFY.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 19.-Wednes-
day was, with one exception, the
hottest day that this city has known
in September for twenty-five years.
The mercury showed 93 in the shade
at 8 O'Clock in the afternoon and the
heat was made harder to endure by
the great humidity prevailing. Only
one prostration was reported-that
of Policeman Schamberts, whose con-
dition is very serious.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept. l2.-At $3.50
yesterday morning while Battery A
of the Kentucky national guard was
passing ON Broadway between Third
and Fourth streets ON its way to
Phoenix hill to fire the morning salute
five of its members were hurled to my
slant death and two were terribl-
mangled by the explosion of of Gals
son. The dead are Corporal A. l..
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

DANvILLE, Va, Sept. ia terri
BILE tragedy occurred in Pottsboro
county Sunday morning. Wesley
Powell had been paying attentions to
Miss jamie Adkins, and the young
woman claimed that Powell had Sc
duced her under promise of marriage.
Sunday morning -four Adkins broth
ers went to the Powell residence and
in the row that ensued Powell's
mother was killed.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

If Japan wants to lick China again,
and will do it good and hard. the Amer
lean people will waive any little ques-
lions of search ana seizure for the nonce
and cheerfully hold her coat while she
does it.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

WEsTvILLE, Fla. Sept. 1.-Two
negroes were SHOT to death and several
wounded by band of masked men
in the northern portion of Holmes
county. The tragedy occurred near Il
large saw mill which is owned by
Graves s. Beatty. The firm employees
many negroes and operates small
railroad from the saw mill to the
Choctawatchie river. A freight car
had been fitted up with hunks and
within this about thirty negroes
sleep. The car in which the negroes
sleep was surrounded by masked men,
who Immediately opened fire with
Winchesters, The shots and the
screams of the negroes brought
Graves and Beatty and number
Of their white employees, who
live near the scene. and then the
masked men fled. Examination
showed that Hepry johnson and Sam
Evans, negroes had been killed and
and that dozen had been wounded,
some of whom will die. The attack
has SO terrorized the negroes that
they have refused to work for Graves
& Beatty longer and yesterday about
fifty of the saw mill hands reached
this place. 1t is thought that the
attack was instigated Ny white men
who had been discharged by the
owners of the plant.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

The portraits of the young woman to
whom Charles Dana Gibson, one OF
Life's artists. is engaged show that shs
is not Gibson girl This shows Mr.,
Gibson's good taste. The Gibson girl
though attractive, is capable of grow.
ing monotonous.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

NAvAsoTA, Tex, Sept. 12.-Jingle-
vitz, a Polish truck farmer, died nom
the effects OF a bottle of morphine
taken with suicidal intent. His
daughter was married few days ago
and a jollification was held jingle
vitz took his bottle or iorphine and
told the wedding guests oft,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

Some of the Chinese mandarins eX-
press establishment that Americans and
Englishmen should make such a fuss
because Cinnamon fling stones at them
in the street"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

In Kentucky town the other day
Mr. Hale asked Mr.. Bush to give him
chew of tobacco. Bush refused to do
so, whereupon Hale drew dirk and
stabbed him through the heart. Truly
a fine-cut performance!
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

1t is estimated that the American
people have already invested this year
S25, 900, 600 in bicycles, 100000 in arr
MICA, and S1,OOO.OOO in sticking plaster
1t has been little hard on the horses
and the savings banks.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

In those great and rival Newport en-
tertainments the question of superior.
ity should be settled by having each
guest wear a placard stating the num-
Der of millions represented by the wear
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

The Chicago Bicycle Club is forninst
Sunday races" and has suspended
some OF its members for indulging in
such pastimes. The club is right. The
six days of the week are enough for
"scorching."
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

Wait until Uncle Sam gets ready to
ship wheat and corn and cotton. Europe
will then have to shell out the yellow
m tal
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

Johnnie Walsh walked from Frisco
to Boston for $500, and is now ready to
walk back again-for cash. He says
he is trotting across the country for his
health
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19
ALABAMA TRAGEDY.
TWO YOUNG MEN ENGAGE IN A
FATAL FIGHT.

Sydney Blackburn and j. II. Catchings
Paid Attention to tho Same Young
Woman and Called ut Her House tho
Same NiEht-Catchings Killed.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

All those who have not been muir
dered by H. IL. Holmes will please rise
and remain standing until counted.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

The summer home of Prof. Bell, the
telephone inventor, is ON an estate of
$4,000 acres on Cape Rreton on the
Bras d'Orr. On one OF the neighbor-
ing lakes the professor has house
boat propelled by steam launch,
with n trap door cut in his dining
room, SO that he can fish, if the fancy
strikes him, whilc at the table.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
oas Year, postpaid. .................0 1 q

Entered at the Sinner, Tex, PostOnloo =
s''ond-clA5s matter.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

The Persians resort to curious rites
for tine purpose of averting the at
tacks of cholera. One OF the most
widely practiced of these is that of
passing under the Koran. Two elders
stand opposite each othcrr, holding
between them scroll Of the Koran,
wrapped in silken scarf. Under this
swinging scarti Under this swing
lag talisman the peasants pass one by
one and then go home, convinced that
the cholera will not be able to touch
them. The Persians stick to these
ancient ceremonials in spite of the
fact that the epidemic is working sad
havoc among them.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

c. ". WARD, Editor and PubIl'na,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19

~ story is told of young lady who
found a package of love letters that
had been written to her mother by
her father before they were married.
The daughter saw that she could have
a little sport and read TENN to her
mother, substituting her own name
for that of her mother and fine
young man for that of her father.
The mother jumped up and down in
her chair, shifted her feet and
seemed terribly Disguised and forbade
her daughter having anything to do
with the young man who would write
such sickening and nonsensical stuff
to girl. When the young lady
handed the letter to her mother to
read the house became so still that
one could hear the grass growing in
the back yard.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-09-19
THE GAZETTE.

Published Every Thursday by
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-19
Bost6n's- Unique Tailor.

Tho citv Of Roston Is about to receive !,
,oo.ao,, ~ sso ooo for tho ,,so of moor cbil-
Jren who deSire 70 oo into the country for
tho srnynor soason II comes from Mr.
Georoe 8 Rondidoe who died obildless in
tbot oit1, n foIy yeors aoo
Mr. RondidSe was the fashionable
.oiior t. was bo,,oved IN circIes yybere
neonle were narticular about the sat of
tbeir clothes that be oouid out them as no
sthor man. benca be had his own nr;ces
FOR bis work He did IL all himself He
haa swell chon ortSide tho businase
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-19
MARVELLOUS HELEN KELLER.
She IL Now Adding Singing TO Her Varied
Accomplishments


Helen Keller, the deaf and blind girl
who has been rendered famous by the trl-
umph Of special sense development over
her inflrmitieS, is now completing her ed
ucation In private school for the deaf In
New York city. had an interesting con-
versation with one Of the principals Of the
school day or two ago. He said that
since the girl had been under his care he
had been teaching her to sing, with great
success Placing her fingers on the throat
Of a singer, she is able to follow notes COW
erlng two octaves with her own voice. !
mean that she sings synchonously with
her instructor. The only difference be-
tween her voice and that Of a normal per-
son Is In its resonant qualities. So acutely
developed has her sense Of touch become
that by placing her hand upon the frame
Of a piano she can distinguish between
two notes not more than half tone apart.
The gentleman to whom have referred
above said that the mind of Helen Keller,
owing to the special efforts which had
been made to educate her, was far more
finely developed than that Of any girl OF
her age that he knew. He also spoke Of
the remarkable development of her senses
Of taste and smell. He said that she was
always conscious of the presence Of an
other person, no matter how noiseless his
entrance into the room in which she was
at the time being He explained this
knowledge by the acuteness Of her sense
Of smell. She is able to detect presence
by odor. He said her sense of taste was
very pronounced and that she could not be
persuaded to take food which she disliked.
He told me something else about her
sense of touch which seems miraculous to
me, well acquainted as am with all the
possible developments of special senses.
BY placing her hand on the face of a WIS.,
itor she is able to detect shades of emotion
which the normal human eye absolutely
fails to distinguish. In other words, her
sense Of touch is developed to such an ex-
quisite extent as to form better eye for
her than are yours or mine for us. And
what is more, she forms judgments of
character by this "touoh sight. New
York Herald,
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-19
He Had Dun Told 'Em.

As was talking with an old oolored
blacksmith In front of his cabin at Chick
amauga a couple Of small boys drove up
with mule and cart and began to dump
out at the blacksmith shop lot Of stuff
picked up on the battlefield. There were
bullets, buckles, stirrups, belt plates, mus
ket barrels, rusty swords and bayonets,
and in the lot was loaded shell which
had been fired from heavy fleldpiece.
When the old man saw the shell, he said;
"You git out wild dat yere foolishnessl
Didn't / dun tole you not to bring any
mo- Of 'em yereP"
One Of the boys threw the shell aside,
and then the old man went with me down
the road to point out some sights Of inter
est. We were gone about half an hour,
and were within 100 feet Of the shop, when
there was loud explosion. A great hole
was blown out Of one side, and q part Of
the roof was bulged up, and the two boys
came stumbling out through the smoke
and ran against us. The old man grabbed
one by the arm and whirled him around
and demanded:
Didn't dun tole ye to let dat foolish
ness alonef"
"Shes 'splodedI" gasped the boy.
"In co'se she 'sploded, an now Tze
gwine to 'splode you"
And he drew him to a shade tree, broke
off limb and tanned his jacket till the
boy yelled murder. Then we entered the
shop and found it almost wreck. The
boys had placed the she'll on an anvil and
struck it with the sledge, and the anvil had
been blown ten feet away. Miraculous as
1t may seem, neither boy was injured II
the slightest.
"Sich triflin can't be abeard," growlet
the old man as he hunted around for hi
scattered tools. "Didn't dun tole 'em tx
let dat nonsense be- Didn't know da
dem err Yankees didn't go an fill up deil
shells wild co o'nmeal an breeches buttons
OF co SO she 'sploded. 1t was her biznes
to 'splode. Now you sot down till fint
Moses an wollop him, an den I'll tell you
what part of dat fight seed wild my owl
s!"-Detroit Free Press.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-19
Poison Scatterers.

The idea is apparently widely enter
tanned that sidewalks and the floors of
public conveyances and buildings are a
sort of ever ready cuspldor. The habit of
ubiquitous ectoration-always disgust
ing and unnecessary in health-becomes
dangerous when practiced by consump-
tives. Sweeping trains catch surprising
amount of filth, and tubercle bacilli as
we'll as other germs have been found in
the skirts Of ladies' dresses, whence they
may be introduced into houses. How Of
ten do we see consumptive shivering
over register and dropping the scourings
of the cavities in his lungs down the hot
al, pipe, to be dried and disseminated
Throughout the building. An apparatus,
diff ering only in detail from the ordinary
register, is used in laboratories for the ex-
perimental incubation of guinea pigs with
tuberculosis.
On the other hand, the consumptive
must not swallow the infectious material
raised from tho lungs, for by SO doing he
might set up tubercular Inflammation OF
the stomach and intestine. The expectora-
tion should take place into cup that can
be readily disinfected, or into waterproof
paper receptacle that can be burned.-A.
L. Benedict, M. D., in Popular Science
| Monthly
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-19
A BootbIack to Be Remarked.

There is dignihed reserve in the con-
duct of shockingly shabby man of 35 or
40 who blacks boots down town in COM
petition with scores of nimble italian lads.
His long red hair, good features, tattered
garments and an air of having seen better
days make him O marked object among his
small competitors. He stands still in the
face of passing crowds in the City Hall
park, his kit beside him and says in low,
distinct, we'll bred tones, "Shine or pol
ish, shine or polish" repeating the three
words many times. His voice carries
we'll, and something in the incongruity OF
his occupation with his years brings him
custom. His polishing cloths are usually
clean and whole, though his personal gar
ments are certainly never the latter. He
battles inquiry by determined reticence
His speech is that of we'll brought up
man. He owns himself native Ameri-
can, and In answer to inquiries why he
finds himself thus employed his answer Is,
"Certainly not from choice" He has been
at 1t for more than year and looks as II
he was resigned to 1t for life.
One man, impressed by the odd boot
blacks appearance and manner, offered
him 25 cents for shine, but was forced
to receive the proper change, coupled with
indignant words of rejection. He accepted
double the usual down town street urchin' 6
rate for polish and thanked the customer.
When another offered to give him an over
coat, he rejected the offer with scornful
words of independence, the cold wind
meanwhile whistling through his rags.
New York Sun.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-19
The Girl Got the Roses.

Standing In florists store vainly
striving to come to some adjustment be-
tween capital and roses, one of Cincin-
MATHS bellies glanced out of the window to
see hack dashing up the street.
A young man looked out of the carriage
door, the coachman reined in his horses,
and two country fellows jumped out and
rushed into the store, one exclaiming to
the clerk:
II want to give you carte blanche Or
der for some flowers"
The clerk looked at him and continued
talking to the young woman.
"I am In desperate hurry-must catch
q train-no time to lose-and will give
you carte blanche" the youth inter-
rupted.
The young woman consented to walt,
and the clerk replied:
"What kind would you like?"
"No matter what they are, SO they are
handsome-some roses and other things
something pretty for her to wear, " he an
swered as the blood mounted to his face,
"and I give you carte blanche"
So much stress was laid on the carte
blanche that the salesman seemed encour'
aged and asked the address.
"No. - West Seventh street and have
them there by O'Clock. She Is going
out. Something handsome, carte blanche
and here Is $2." With these words he pu
down the cash, slammed the door and was
| off.
The clerk looked at the young woman
and said:
American beauties are $3.50 apiece
and roses 81 dozen"
"Never mind" she laughed, "make !
right for the girl and send the bill to me.
Doubtless that youth thinks that cit,
prices are not SO bad after all.-Cincinnat
Enquirer.