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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10
THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE.
The Perfect Vehicle Will Come Into Use
Slowly but Surely.

Slowly but Surely.
A lititlo reflection will convince any
one that the use Of motorcycles, or, i'll
other words, horseless carriages, will
improve the roads. General NORM of
France is authority for the statement
that the deterioration Of common roads,
except that which is caused by the
weather. is two-thirds due to the wear
of horses feet and one-third due to the
wheels of vehicles. This being the case,
if the same amount as usual continue
to be laid out upon the roads, and the
continual damage decrease two-thirds,
then the amount spent will go to in
creased and permanent improvement,
and the roads will be ''as smooth as a
Darn floor.
There are many questions to be
solved, many difficulties to be sur
mounted, before the unexceptionable
vehicle appears. 1t was long time be-
fore the difficulties Of making sewing
machines, revolvers, repeating rifles,
typewriters and typesetters were over
come Yet, examine them! 1t is all
plain and simple, and not at all marvel
GUS now. and we can hardly imagine
how any mechanic could spend years OF
time studying over such easy problems.
So it will be with the motorcycles. The
mountains of difficulty will sink into
molehills, and the ingenuity displayed
will be found to take the form of judi
cious application Of ordinary mechanic
al appliances, approved by the final
umpire, the common sense Of mankind.
Those who build automobiles must
not permit themselves to think that they
were born with all the carriage makers
lore inherent in them. A man may be
first class theoretical and practical
mechanic and not be able to make a
good vehicle to run on wheels. The per-
feet carriage, as we know it today, is
the aggregate Of the years of exhaustive
trial and experiment and the improve
ments on that experience made by ], 200
men Of genius
If the carriage builders bestow upon
the new carriage all the art acquired III
building the old, and the motorcycle
men learn the reasons of the convention
alities of the trade and adapt their i'm
provements to them with reference to
the opinions of those who are not preju-
diced against innovation, they will
both work together in harmony and
with one purpose, and, so united, they
will make rapid progress in the devel
opment Of the inevitable vehicle of the
future CASTER S Magazine.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10
Should Plays Be Printed?

Moliere objected to the printing of his
plays on the ground that they were
meant to be acted On the stage, with the
costumes, scenery and illusions per-
tanning thereto. and not to be read in
the closet. It was also inferred that
Shakespeare entertained the same notion
as Moliere, seeing how Indifferent he
was as to the fate Of his plays SO long as
they We're popular Oh the stage. There
is also the explicit declaration of Hey
wood in the following. t terms:
sit hath been no custom in me of ain
other men courteous readers 20 COM
NIT my plays to the press. The reason,
though some may attribute to my own
insuficiency, [ had rather subscribe in
that to their severe censure than by
seeking to avoid the imputation Of weak
ness to incur greater suspicion of hon
esty, for, though some have used dou-
BILE sale of their labors first to the stage
and after to the press, here proclaim
myself ever faithful to the first and
never guilty of the LAST
The author of the most successful
comedy Of modern times exhibited the
same Indifference to, or rather dislike
of, the printer. When ''The School For
Scandal" met with so brilliant a recep-
ton, from its first appearance on May
8, TIT, Ridgway, the publisher, agreed
with Sheridan as to its publication, but
he never succeeded in getting the manu-
script. He applied to the author in vain,
and at length got an answer. Sheridan
said that he had been 10 years endeavor-
ing to satisfy himself with the style of
the play, but had not yet succeeded.
The printing Of the play was done in
dependently Of the author. He presented
manuscript copy Of it to his married
sister, Mrs. Lefanu, at Dublin, to be
disposed Of for her own advantage to the
managers of the Dublin theater This
brought her 100 guineas and free admis-
sions to the theater, and it was from the
manuscript thus procured that the Dub
lin edition was printed. Notes and
Queries.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10
The Effects of Heat.

In The Nuovo Cimento, Signor Petit
nelli describes a new determination of
the lowest temperature at which a hot
body becomes visible He heated cast
iron cylinder 80 centimeters long and IA
broad, in wrought iron jacket over a
Bunsen burner to temperature Of AGO
degrees c., as indicated by an air Their
mometer, and then observed its flat end
in dark room from point 60 cent
meters above it. When it had cooled to
about 415 degrees, the red heat vanished
and gave way to an indefinite hazy glow,
the latter completely disappearing at
404 degrees, and repeated observations
giving an error Of only degrees High
emissive substances became visible at
the same temperature, but rejecting sur
faces had to be heated 20 degrees higher
before they appeared to the eye. and
glass still more. These low temperature
rays were found to traverse glass and
water like ordinary light rays, but suf-
fering comparatively greater ABSORB
ton. Different eyes differ slightly i'll
their capacity for seeing them, the max
mum divergence being about 6 degrees
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10
A Thorough Sport.

Farmer Oatcake Gin London and see
ing wayside knife grinder for the first
time)-Well, I'm agin racin in gen.
eral, and old Moll's got bad knee, but
I'll be hung if TIM goin to let one Of
them newfangled bicycles pass me-
Comic Cuts.
A COrral Durib.
In the Irish house Of commons of 1895
during debate on the leather tax the
chancellor of the exchequer, Sir John
Parnell, observed that ''in the prosecu-
ton of the peasant war every one ought
to be ready to give his last guinea to
save the remainder Of his fortune" Mr.
Vandeleur replied that 'a tax on leather
would press very heavily on the bare
footed peasantry of Ireland" The Post
in 1912 made the following statement:
"We congratulate ourselves most on
having torn off Cobbett's mask and re-
vealed his cloven foot. TWAS high time
that the hydra head of faction should be
soundly raped over the knuckles. "
The present Duke of Leeds is reported
to have accused the late government OF
making direct attack on the brewers
by means of a side wind. Only the other
day noticed, in The Standard, l believe,
that Sir Francis Scott, reviewing the
troops after the Ashanti expedition
said that they were no doubt disappolnt-
ed at having no fighting, but II there
had been "there would have been many
absent faces here today" 1t was during
the late administration that one OF the
Irish whips telegraphed to Dublin thst
"the silence of the Irish members would
be heard in the house Of commons no
longer.
TWAS the celebrated Sergeant Arabln
who. at the central criminal court, IN
formed the prisoner before him that II
there was clearer ease OF q ma4 fo9
bling his master, that case was fhls
CASE" and after passing sentence con-
cluded, II therefore give you the oppof-
tunity of redeeming a character lfIe'
trievably lost. '-Lond IN Spectator
Nerves and Skyscrapers.
A nervous condition bordering on
prostration, to which the docto ? have
not as yet given name, has aeely
been observed to affect persons WING
work many hours day high up ~ the
modern skyscrapcrs. The ailment re-
sembles nervous prostration. except m
the principal symptom, which is con-
dixon of intense rsatlessness and, as one
of the victims to the new complaint eff
pressed it, "a singular desire to scream
or to get down to the earth quickly.
A sensation of relief is noticeable
when the patient is taken to grass, so
to speak, which leads some physicians
to the belief that the change ~ the
rarity of the air, slight as it is, has |:
peculiar effect upon certain very sensl-
tive organizations. Others think thai
the constant trips in the elevators eaass
q slight aisarrangement of the nerve
centers, which brings on the condition
referred to- In any oasa. there Is no
doubt that a new ailment has cppa
among us with the advent of the sky
scraper. York journal.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10
Too Bad.
Fond Parent-That child is full OF
music.
Sarcastic Visitor-Yes. What pity
it's allowed to escape Collier Week
".
Declined With Thanks.

- The editor Of the Hillsboro ellis. J
News thus declines in advance an i'm
pending nomination to congress: 1.-THE
mission of the hireling who holds the
pillow handles Of this paper is to keep
the fires burning on the affairs of liberty
and beacon lights blazing on the shores
of t11He, at $1.50 a blaze, invariably III
advance. He does not hunger and thirst
after official life He did think ones tre
would like to go to the legislature, bur
he has grown in grace since then and
purged his system of that unholy desire
Since then he has not yearned a single
yearn Or hankered hank after polit-
ical distinction.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10
Making Them Go.

Hostess-oh, Mr.. Longwynd, I'm e.
glad I've found you. I've been search
ing for you all over the place. wan
you to do me favor,
He.==Delighted!
Hostess-Thanks SO much-er-ne
body seems inclined to 60 at all. Woult
you mind reciting something?-AllJ
Sloper.
Matchmaking Napoleon.
The first Napoleon was the greatest
matchmaker that ever lived. after 70.
peated refusals the doughty little soldier
himself finally won the hand of JOSE
phine, and devoted his matrimonial in
stincts to the affairs of others.
No excuse was admitted from bacA=
eior.
To him who urged that he could not
find a wife, "Be that my care, }" he
said, and the same evening the affair
would be arranged. The poor received
dowries and tronsseaux.
One day by decree the emperor mar
ried off 5000 soldiers at once. Another
day his great court dignitaries were
obliged en- masse to find partners fot
better or .for worse. $3.50 =
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10
A New Woman of Oregon.

A hustling woman hotel keeper Of
Burns, Or, who is credited with being
one of the best looking as we'll as most
successful hotel keepers in eastern Ore
gon, advertises in recent issue of the
local newspaper that she will not be re-
,ponsible hereafter for any debts con-
iracted by her husband or her son.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10
Interchangeable.

"You must have misunderstood me-
waiter. These are veal outlets, Dreaded,
aren't they?'' "Y-yes, sab. II ordered
pork tenderloin. - eyes, sab. Jes' take
off de Dreaded part Of it, sab, an dare
am de polk tendahline, sab. Chicago
Tribune.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10

The first water dams were constructed
by the beavers. and the engineers have
never been able to improve upon the
models presented by these industrious
workers. Their dams are wide at tho
bottom, narrow at the top. are we'll sup
ported and seldom give way.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10
Changed.

$50 Mr.. simpkins did not propose t9
you, Madge?''
mo. He found out thai j wanted CO
marry him. and it seemed to put NM lll
out of the notion, Chicago RECORD.
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SONNET

Ere bafled winter, at fair springs first nod,
His weakened forces northward home hath
led,
While remnant drifts about our path are
~. spread,
he crocus bursts the bondage Of the sod,
And, 10, where late among the snow we trod,
The blossom sunward lifts its dainty head,
White, purple, gold, along the garden bed,
To catch the first warm glances of its god.
Thus, in some gloomy season of the heart.
When sorrow all our joy hath overspread
And ev'ry voice seems but to make us sad,
New hopes arise ere pain can all depart;
We fling aside the discomfort and dread
And go our way with faces bright and glad.
Mortimer Mansell in Chambers journal.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10
NEW SKIRTS AND BoDIcEs.
Dark Cloth will Figure In Spring Cos
tumes-Empire Fashions.

tumes-Empire Fashions.
The question of walking costumes for
early spring is already being agitated, and
velvet, cloth and wool goods of close tex
ture are indicated as the preferred fabrics
for such gowns The style viii 6G relative
~ simple, the trimming being rich, but
not profuse Chestnut mordore, dark sap
phire, emerald green, bottle green, myrtle
green, pansy and violet are to be the favor
tie colors for cloth and velvet.
Cloth skirts will be trimmed with stitch
ing or with narrow cords and GALLONS put
on in many regular rows.
1t is the bodice which will display what
variations are to be seen. There is mark
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-10

because the weather happens
to be warm. If you have a
weak throat, a slight hacking
cough, or some trouble with
the bronchial tubes, summer is
the best time to get rid Of it.
If you are losing flesh there is
all the more need Of attention,
Weakness about the chest and
thinness should never go to-
gether. One greatly increases
the danger Of the other. Heal
the throat, cure the cough, and
strengthen the whole system
now. Keep taking SCOTS
Emulsion all summer.
For sale by all druggists at soc aud s..ss
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Definitions.

Jeanette-This is what you might
call sardine sandwich.
Harold-Oh, no! This is a tongue
sandwich with the tongue Oh the out
:sido.-Life.
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Farmer Oatcake Gin London and see
ing wayside knife grinder for the first
time)-Well, I'm agin racin in gen.
eral, and old Moll's got a bad knee, but
I'll be hung if TIM goin to let one Of
them newfangled bicycles pass me-
Comic Cuts.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-21

by resolution or otherwise whether Congress
is in favor of this Government being run by
departments according to the theories OF the
heads OF those departments, or whether we
shall have a Government under the law.
Had the law been followed out as it now ap-
pears on our statutes, no sale OF bonds would
have been necessary during the present ad-
ministration, for at no time during The years
when bonds have been issued under President
Cleveland's orders has the silver reserve in the
treasury alone been less than $3.50, ,000 900 in
coin and bullion: and no monometall1st
in Congress nor disciple of Blackstone who is
familiar with the law will pretend to claim
that any obligation IN the form OF treasury
notes is absolutely payable in gold, except
gold certificates. If greenbacks and silver GER
tifcates are equally reedeemable in gold with
gold certificates, why should there be diher-
ence in their form? Such proposition is not
worthy of consideration. Everybody who is
informed on this subject knows that the action
OF the present Secretary OF the treasury mas
been taken solely in the interest of bond-hold-
ers and those who deal in Government secur-
tiles.
The Senate of the United States on the 25th
day of January, 1873, and the House of Rep
resentajives on the 2Sth day of the same
month and year passed the following concur
rent resolution:
That all the bonds OF the United States issued
authorized to be issued under the said acts OF
Congress hereinbefore recited, payable, prnci-
pal and in nterest. at the option of the Government
of the United States in silver dollars, of the coin
age of the United States, containing 4121a grains
each OF standard silver; and that to restore its
coinage such silver coin as q legal tender in pay
ment OF said bonds, principal and interest, is not
in violation of the public faith nor in derogatio
of the rights of the public creditor.
This resolution was passed in the Senate by
over two-thirds vote, and it passed the House
of Representatives by vote of 1S9 ayes and
law simply provides that it is payable in coin.
The act of July IL, 1890, is in part as follows:
That the Secretary Of the Treasury is hereby di-
rected to purchase from time to time silver bullion
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-21

brough suit against the present owners of
the property, who bought from the sons
in-law.
Jeter & Mckinney and Charles e..
Younger, attorneys for defendants, and
Koscialowsk for the plaintiffs, have little
hope OF bringing the case to trial before
the fall months. The time since the filing
of the suit has been taken up with depo-
sitions as to the sanity and insanity of the
dead Martina. Both sides have been
assiduous in their efforts and volumin-
GUS array of testimony on that head has
been piled up for future reference.
The plaintiffs attorney claims that
abundant evidence is at hand showing the
aged Martina to have been unbalanced
mentally at the time she transferred her
A.o00 acres, and the defense asserts that
the prepondsrance of evidence is on its
side.
The present issue, however, is the prob
able tie-up of the two lumber companies
whose names head this article. In this
industry hundreds of thousands of dollars
are at stake.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-21
WAS MARTINA INSANE S?
Disposition of Thousands of Acres
in Santa Cruz Hinges
on That.
Numerous Dispositions Are Being
Taken In Preparation for
Sensational Suit.

Like a thunderbolt from a clear sky is
the new sensation to be developed in the
several million-doiIar Santa Cruz land
suit.
The Los Prieta Lumber Company and
the Pajaro Lumber Company of Santa Cruz
are to be enioined by plaintiffs from fur
ther cutting of timber on the Ogmentation
Rancho of 10000 acres, included in the
land claimed, and will also be pressed to
pay for the timber already cut.
The value of the timber cut by the two
companies will aggregate nearly $1OO, ,0O0
The pivotal point in this well-known suit
is the sanity or insanity of old Martina
Castro Depeaux. The ancient Spanish
dame decided the Sequel, Ogmentation So
quel and San Andreas ranchos, aggregat-
ing A, 900 acres. TO her eight sons-in-law a
| long time before her death. She obtained
! possession of the land by United States
grant in 1858, the same being duly con-
frmed.
On the old lady's fondness for her
several sons-in-law and her obvious
generosity hangs this tale.
Mrs. Nj. Eliza beth Peck, who was ap-
pointed executrix of the estate of her
mother, Martina Castro Depeaux, after
her death in December, 1890, claims that
the testatrix was of unsound mind; that
her beloved sons-in-law took advantage of
her mental condition and prevailed on the
old lady to deed them her extensive land
holdings.
Seventeen or eighteen other heirs
shared in this belief, and the aged Mar
tina having died intestate Mrs. Peck
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-21
.uryoRIzArIoSs


Broadway and Van Ness avenue. crossing, btu
men. City Street Improvement Company, 1919
cents: total $l746 80.
slss4. Fayor Pacific to broadway FspAvins OlDm'n
filling. basalt paving, granite curbs and plank
sidewalks
GRADES RAISED AND ESTABLISHED.
San Bruno. south of Mariposa street, ESQ feet
established 102.50
San Bruno $50 feet south, established 110.75
feet.
EXTENSIONS ON STREET WORK.
Scott Waller to Thirteenth; Market, Noe to Cas-
tro: Market. Noe to Sanchez: Market and Noe
Twenty-fourth and Chattanooga and Twenty
fourth and Dolores, crossing; thirty days
chez seventeenth to Eighteenth, thirty days.
Grove, Baker to Lyon thirty days.
street south, Tenth and Eleventh avenues,
Holly Park avenue thirty days.
Seventeenth, Potrero to York, thirty Gays.
Sixteenth and Vermont, crossing, thirty days.
Brannan, Ninth 10 Division fifteen days.
RESOLUTIONS.
San Francisco and San Mateo Railway Company
required to file statement of gross receipts and 10
pay per cent of same TO City Treasurer
Same, ins ructing City and County Attorney to
Returning check OF $500 involved in Norton
suit, deposited with +. w. Doyle's bid to remove
Appontfng William Mooser Jr. architect of the
Home for Dipsomaniacs and requiring him to file
plans in fifteen days.
BIDS RECOMMENDED BY STREET COMMITTEE
Prescott for 1875 from Valleio-V. Mariillio,
sewer 81 25; stormwater inlet, $50; manhoie, $40.
Bay and Iarkin crossngs-WH, A. STARK sewer
40, so and 60 cents; corners, $S2 and $4O; man
Point Lobos and Fifth avenues. northwest corner
w. C. Raisch, stormwater inlet $54.
Point L0bos and Fourth avenues, northeast cor
ner-w. q. Raisch, stormwater inlet, 500.
Seventh avenue, I to streeis-John Tutue'
York Twentieth and Twenty-frst streets-W. G.
Dore Harrison and Bryant streets-FIynn &
Tracey, curb, SO cents; bitumen, 20 cents.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-21
MAsONS OF HIGH DEGREE.
Annual Meeting of the Royal and Select
Masters-Of1cers Elected.

Annual Meeting of the Royal and Select
Masters-Oficers Elected.
The flag foated from the mast over the
Masonic Temple yesterday, the occasion
being the annual session OF the Grand
Council of the Royal and Select Masters
of Masonry.
There was but little business transacted
and the most important was the election
of officers for the ensuing term. Follow.
ing is list of the officers chosen:
Most illustrious master, William Hew-
son Davis of Sacramento.
Right illustrious deputy grand master,
Henry Ashcroft of San Francisco.
Right illustrious principal conductor OF
work, Robert Ashe of San Francisco
Right illustrious treasurer, Franklin n.
Day of San Francisco.
Right illustrious grand recorder, Thomas
H. Caswell OF San Francisco.
Right illustrlous grand captain of the
guard, August Wackenbarth of Los An
geles.
Right illustrious grand conductor, Alex
ander Gardiner of Sacramento.
Grand chaplain, Thomas Kyle.
Grand lecturer, George Pennington.
Grand organist, Samuel D. Mayer.
Grand Sentinel, James Oglesby.
In the afternoon the officers were in
stalled by retiring Most Illustrious Master
Gillet of Stockton, after which the council
adjourned.
On the 18th of May new council will
be instituted at Auburn, Placer County.
Jacob Il. Neff of that place extend ed a
cordial invitation to the officers to be pres
ent at the institution. and he promised
them true Placer County welcome.
The Grand Chapter of the State of Cali
fornia, Royal Arch Masons, will meet in
annual session this morning. 1t will also
be in session tomorrow.
On Thursday the Grand Commandery,
Knights Templar, will be i'll session in the
Temple.
will banquet the Grand Commandery in
Odd Fellows Hall.
On Saturday grand drill will be given in
the Mechanics Pavilion by Golden Gate
Commandery in aid OF the Masonic Or
phanage.