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lies beginning at the inception of the
aggregation become more and more
marked as the process progresses. the less
heterogeneous is transformed into the - ore
heterogeneous. Homogenelty has no ~aace
in the universe. The word is synonym
for annlhilation.
In life, as we know it, definite varieties
take their origin in minute differences of
conditions and surroundings. In each of
the various races, animal and vegetable,
the various genera become distinct.
in all particulars. Never were seen two
trees, one the duplicate of the other.
Never were seen two leaves exactly alike.
In the formation of nations from the va
rious races of men the characteristics
distlna ulshing the one nation from the
other grow with the nation. and we recog-
nlze the nationality of the individual with
greater or less readiness of perception as
the nation producing him is old or new.
Again, in the nation itself arise class dis
tinctions that become more prominent as
time progresses; each class becomes sub
divided into minor classes, each char
acteristically differing one from the
other. and extending to the family
group between the individual mem bers
OF which are marked distinctions. The
tendencies of all the subdivisions and
multiplications of diversities is toward
equilibrium of the forces of which all
parts OF an aggregation are exposed, and
the forces which these parts oppose to
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Neither has it beginning

ure or compass. Neither has it beginning
nor ending. 1t is the cyclic law.
II is apparent that all the phenomena of
life is obedienr to the operation OF cyclic
law. Yet how few people recognize such
fact. To the great majority the mention
of the word ..cycle" calls up host of
speculative fears. 1t is by the ignorant
associated with the foreshadow OF coming
Calamity, and is by them believed to be "a
cause originating outside Of the earth pro-
ducing effects in and upon the earth.
There can always be found some grains
of truth in the popular rumor. Generai
beliefs do not rest altogether upon raise
hood, no matter how fantastic tney may
be. The sunspots that mark the face OF
the sun increase and diminish in mum DerS
and size with periodical regularity, cover
ing period of eleven years. Magnetic
disturbances always occur upon he GLOBE
with greater force at the time OF the
maxima of sun spots. The giant planets,
Jupiter and Saturn, reach certain positions
with regard to the earth in periods OF
twelve and twenty-eight years. and so lar
back as the records extend it is shown
that earthquakes occur more frequently at
the times when these great planets attain
such positions The stream OF meteors
which the earth passes through every
Novem Der is ricner in one portion than in
another and the revolution OF the meteoric
ring brings the richer portion in the
earth's pathway every thirty-three years.
F. M. CLOSE, Disc.
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the keel ing of prose-writipg, while the
deeds and misdeeds of the raoes have
been preserved in verse. Herodotus
recordei the facts of Atlantis; Pliny wrote
of it; even Plutarch refers to it, and there
are many other so-caIled profane writers
who have helped to keep its memory
green. Even the night of the dark ages
was not sufficient to dim its Iuster. But
above all other writers, outside OF the
wisdom-religion records of the East, Plato
stands out conspicuously as the fountain
head, the source of information concern
ing the continent and its mighty people.
But even Plato has left US but fragment.
His story stops abruptly, over which
fact the whole literary world has mourned
from the time of the wise Greek to the
present day. Plato attributes his knowl-
edge of Atlantis to the Egy ptian priests
of Sais, who communities ed the facts to
Solon, relative of Plato, and from Scion.
the great law-giver, the knowledge de.
scended TO the sage Plato There is reason
TO believe, however, that this was simply
device resorted to by Plato to screen his
own knowledge and wisdom, as it was
dangerous TO give out too much in his
time, except under cloak of fable, allegory
or alleged tradition. 1t seems. too. that
Plato purposely confounded the island. or
the last so-called remnant of Atlantis.
with the great continent itself.
Plato was student or pupil of the wise
Egyptians, who doubtless obtained their
knowledge by direct succession from the
Atianteans, whose descendants they were,
and had not Diocletian burned the
esoterlc works OF the Egyptians in 296,
together wi their books on alchemy;
Cesar 100000 rolls at Alexandria, Leo
lsaurus 100000 ut Constantinople, and the
Mohammedans all they could lay their
sacrilegious hands upon, The world might
know more to-day of Atlantis than it
does.
The whole East firmly believes in the
existence and high civilization of the At
ianteans. which civilization was much
greater than that of the Egyptians. II is
the degenerate descendants of these A.
ianteans who built the first yram DIS in
the country. Concerning the pyramids,
1t is stated that there are subterranean
passages and winding retreats. W ich men
skillful in ancient mysteries, by means OF
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Of 500, or over $4,000 year. in itself a
comfortable dividend on a mine that is
not over-capitalized. In addition. there
is the saving in many other ways. There
are 10 fires TO be moukeyed with in shut
ting down or getting up steam. There
are no iremen's wages, and at small ex-
pense the interior workings of NINE can
be lighted as we'll as the streets of San
Francisco ought to be lit after dark.
The power by which the Mariposa Elec-
trio Power Company's plant at Benton
Mills will be operated is the water of the
Merced River, taken from a point about
eight miles higher up, and known as the
Broadhead old dam. Here the Merced
River Canyon narrows in and forms a sort
of natural dam. Thence the water will be
taken by ditch and fume eight miles 10
the power-h house. 1, is estimated that at
the dryest seasons there is at least 10000
miners inches of water available, and the
fall is clear 225 feet. This is sufficient to
generate 5000 horsepower in the dryest time
of the year, while at other times when
the snow-waters from the upper Sierras
are in the river, there is no limit TO the
capacity. The location of the Mariposa
Electric Power Company's operations is
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w.

The objects OF the com pany are to gen.
crate electric power by the waters of the
Merced River and to sell it out to mine-
owners and others. The power plant is to
be constructed at Benton Mills bridge,
where the new road from Bear Valley to
Mariposa crosses the Mesced River. The
situation is central and convenient and
the power supply will be easily available
for large number of operative mines. 1t
would be easy to make list of thirty or
forty mines within a radius of ten miles
from the new power-house which are all
at present heavily handicapped by the ex-
cessive cost of fuel for steam purposes and
to which the advent of cheap electrical
power will be almost as important as
doubling the value of the ore upon which
they are working. In Mariposa steam
costs at the present time about $l2 to SIS
per horsepower per month.
The Mariposa Electric Power Company
intimates its Willingness to supply con-
sumers at the rate OF SIS per horsepower
per month. Take a small mine, using
100 horsepower month and costing say,
$l2 per horsepower, or $1,000 month for
steam power. The new company will fur
nish the same for $500 month. saving
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such IS the death of every stellar system
With the inception of birth is com passed
the beginning of death.
The effect of motion upon matter is the
expression of cyclic law. 1t may be thusly
formulated: Matter proceeding along a
right line ii. e., direct Iine) is creative,
Matter departing from right line ii. e.,
curved, rotary, circular) is destructive.
To descend, so to speak, to phenomena
near to us-the events transpiring upon
our own globe and within the scope of our
own experience-the same cycling law of
unrest, of urceaslng change, is manifest.
In the development OF civilization is OBJ
served the formation of colonies by indi-
viduals coming from all portions of the
older countries TO people the new; the
groups thus formed at the port of departure
coalescing dpon the new continent. We
have thus a segregation of matter as
resulting from direct motion as regards
the old nation; and, an aggregation of
matter dissipating motion as regards the
new nation. There is with all this yet
another illustration of the universal cyclic
law. In addition to change of direction
there is also change Of form. In every
change from an inherent to coherent
s.ate-i. e., from a more or less scattered
condition of matter to mass forming
simple aggregate, the different portions of
dition in the mass formed. No absolutely
uniform process of aggregation has ever
been or ever can take place. The varie-
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The figure in the center foreground is

In Mariposa the age of the long tom,
rocker, sluice, pick, pan and shovel has
passed away forever. The easily won gold
from the beds, bars and banks CT the
streams and eulches has petered out, and
the more serious work of attacking the
parent sources from which that gold came
is now the order of the day. Quartz
mines are being opened up in every direc-
ton. and with the systematic work that is
necessary in gold quartz mining has arisen
the demand for cheap motive power.
A few days ago the Mariposa Electric
Power Company was incorporated under
the laws of the State OF California. Its
capital stock is $1.000,0o0, divided into
100000 shares of $40 each. The president
of the company is Captain A. II. Wari of
the Pinon Blanco mine, near Coulterville; ;
vice-president, Charles T. Lindner, elec.
trical engineer; and the treasurer and Sec
retary is George L. Ecker. The other d.
rectors are Wallace B Taylor and Harold
c. Ward of the Nevada Metallurgical
Works, San francisco.
In addition TO its capital stock the com.
pany is making an issue of bonds to the
amount of about $500,000 for construction.
and operations are now in progress.
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The romantic interest in all tales of the
submerged continent, Atlantis, is as Great
to-day as Ii ever was, and, curiously enough,
what was once regarded as pure romance
is now, in many quarters, regarded as
historical truth. Many have thought that
Plato's tales of Atlantis were fiction or at
least legendary. But now the tide has
turned and civilization itself seems TO be
turning back for light to the old masters,
and many things the western world used
to think it had grown past are now COM
ing back as truths. In view of all this it
Is interesting TO recount some of the
proofs that are now offered in support OF
the belief that Poseioon was reality and
that once wonderfully developed race of
human beings inhabited an enormous
continent in the Atlantic OCEAN, long since
submerged.
Ignatius Donnelly devotes much time
and care to the presentation of testimony
he has gathered respecting the location of
the frasment, If not the whole continent
Atlantis. First is the testimony of the
sea, based upon the soundings of the
United States ship Dolphin, the German
frigate GaZelle and the British ships
Hydra, Porcupine and Challenger, which
have mapped out the bottom of the At
lantic Ocean, showing a great elevation,
reaching from poinI on the coast of the
British Islands southerly to the coast OF
South America, at Cape Orange, thence
soulheasterly to the coast of Africa and
thence southerly to Tristan d'Acunha.
The various deluges are then taken up
and the civilization of the Old and New
worlds contrasted, together with the COM
plexion of the races. Evidence of Ameri-
can intercourse with Europe and Atlantis,
traces of Atlantis in Genesis, the origin OF
the alphabet in Atlantis, artificial de-
formation OF the skull, the pyramids, the
cross and other structures the product of
the Atlantean, all are dwelt upon and
handled in mastery manner, and all
proving Atlantis as the center from which
they radiated. Colonies from Atlantis
entered Central America and Mexico, the
Mississippi Valley, Egypt. Peru, Africa
and Ireland, along the banks of the ANA
zon and the Aryaa settlements. Many if
not all of our great inventions were de-
veloped in Atlantis, and we are merely
rediscoyering.
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A Mighty Nation
That Sank IN Mid-Ocean
Before the Deluge

translations of the inscriptions, throwing new
light on ali the past history of the human
race, and ell the great problems which now
perplex the thinkers OF to-day.
Until very recent years modern science
and Atlantis, but since the appearance of
Donnely's book there Is disposition to
be more accurate.
An empire which reached from the
Andes to Hindostan, if not to China, must
have been magnificent, indeed, and the
more we learn of this mighty drowned
nation the more is our prize in nineteenth
century achievement wounded.
Portions of Atlantis lie but few hun
dred fathons beneath the Atlantic Ocean;
'and if expeditions have been sent out
from time to time in the past to resurrect
from the depths of the sea sunken
treasure ships with few thousand doub-
looms Hidden in their cabins, why should
not an attempt be made to reach the
buried wonders OF Atlantis? A single
engraved tablet dredged from Plato
island would be worth more to science,
would more strike the Imagination OF
mankind, than ali the gold of Peru, all the
monuments OF Egypt and all the terra
Gotta fragments from the great Libraries of
Chaldea."
1t is millions of years since Atlantis
first rose from the sea. but it is only
IL 900 years since the island. opposite the
mouth OF the Mediterranean, of which
Homer sang and Plato taught, was
drowned.
Ancient classical literature is full of
reference to this great country. Its posi-
ton and its magnitude were committed to
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Mr.. Donnelly writes:

Mr.. Donnelly writes:
If our knowledge of Atlantis was more
thorough 1t would no doubt appear that In
every instance wherein the people OF Europe
accord with the people of America they were
both in accord with the people OF Atlantis 1t
VIII be seen in every case where Plato gives
us information in this respect as to Atlantis
We find this agreement to exist. 1t existed in
architecture, sculpture, navigation, engrav-
lng writing, an established priesthood, the
mode of worship, agricul sure, and the con-
struction OF reads and canals; and 1t is rea-
sonable to suppose that the same correspond
ence extended down to all the minor details.
Professor Huxley said in 1880:
There is nothing, so far as ! am aware, in the
biological or geological evidence at present
sible to render untenable the hypothesis
that an area OF the mid-Atantic or Pacific
seabed as big as Europe should have been up
lifted as high as Mount Blanc and have sub
sided again, any time since the palaezoic
epoch, If there were any grounds for enter
tanning it.
Donnelly writes:
We are buta beginning to understand the
past; one hundred years ago the world knew
nothing of Pompeii and Herculaneum; moth
Ing OF the lingual tie that bind, together the
lndo-European nations: nothing OF the sg-
nificance of the vast volumes of inscriptions
on the tombs and temples of Egypt; nothing
OF the meaning of the arrow headed inscrip-
tons of Babylon; nothing OF the marvellous
civilizations revealed in the remains OF Yucca
tan, Mexico and Peru. We are on the thresh-
Old Scientific investigation is advancing
with giant strides. Who shall say that one
hundred years from now the great museums
OF the world may not be adorned with gems,
statues, arms and implements from Atlantis.
while the Libraries Of the world shall contain
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The growth o. the nails on the left hand
requires elght or ten days more than those
on the right The growth is more rapid
in children than in adults, and goes on
faster in summer than in winter. It re-
auires an average of 132 days for the re-
newal of the nails in cold weather. and
but 116 in warm weather.
New-York tribune., 1896-04-02
SING SINGS ELECTION TROUBLE.

SING SINGS ELECTION TROUBLE
THE BALLOT MACHINE FIGURES WHICH WE'RE
ANNOUNCED ARE BELIEVED TO BE WRONG
The people Of this village very much dissatis-
fled with the result of the election in this town. oe-
ieving that the figures announced are the result Oh
errors The Myers ballot machines were used. ana,
as the first row Of pegs in the cabinet was not used
but left uncovered. contrary 10 law. 1t is CLAIMED
that many Democrats who were wrongly Instructed
by their party leaders that the first row Of pegs
represented their party cand lates, pushed them
Instead OF the next row. There IS difference be-
tween the tally sheets OF the clerks or the seVeia
polling places and the total vote indicated by the
machines OF 312. which can be accounted Tor IN no
other way than believing that many voters wasted
their efforts In pushing knobs OF a column That ala
rot count While this result was not from any
fault OF the machines they did not give satisfaction
In other ways. In the Second and Third districts
voters repeatedly protested that the machines "oud
not work and that they were being debarred from
voting for the candidates of Their choice. In the
Third Disrlc, voting continued more tnan an
accommodated who otherwise would have lost tneir
votes because OF the time consumed al repar"s
In the FRS, District time lost early in the
morning after the polls were opened because the
machine did not register The timing COCKS OF tne
machines were also out or order ana dii nor w0rh'
Tine Democrats Town Committee met Wednesday
night to take action upon the matter. ana IL Is
probable
lion win be made before the Board OF Town Ofcers
THURSDAY wnen the defeated Democratic candi-
dates will also file protests
The first OF April ia supposed TO BE- the only aiy
upon which Tarrytown falls TO maintain a sedate
ard dgnlied demsanOr. or late wears II mas pc
come the custom FOR the Fire Department oi that
ancient village TO observe April Foot's Day with a
parade Of fantasticallv atrcd iiremen 1he seNeiiI
companies of the Department. entering lnto the
spirit OF the thing with great enthusiasm ySstot-
day the usual parade took place. the line being
formed in upper Ma INST At o'ci0ch. headed by
the brass band OF a comedy company performing AT
no started
march through the principal streets. All wore masks
ami were dressed as MeXicans, Indians. jockeys,
devils and clowns There was an Uncle ; IN. neaIy
seven feet tall. and jiUriing-car ana al tae
other costumes and chdrac.ers that go 70 MAKE
up a fancy dress assemblage. The mtsqueI3iders
acted their several parts Win great spr / ana the
whole affair presented a novel appearance.
When Jailer William Johnson. OF the White Flains
County jail started TO release ,he prisoners for
breakfast Wednesday morning Ell T. Carpenter
colorei made a break fOr J berty. Knocking Jonn-
son down he dashed through the front door. sealed
a high board fence and has not since been he.irl
Of Johnson AT once gave the alarm ana parties
were sent in pursuit OF the prisoner Carpenter Is
under indictmen, FOR burglary In Paul Pincuss
clothing a. White Pa ni
New-York tribune., 1896-04-02

many Of the features Of the bil especially one pee'
yIdng for the appointment by the Mayor OF mem
bers Of the Board OF Education, as It would save
the trouble and expense of the special elections Tor
such members, which must nov, ge neid "a June.
1t protested against that part OF Section u whica
reads: Every person elected or appointed 10 any
Office under this act shall be an elector IN ana .
resident of the city wherein he is elected or ap.
pointed" ard declared that all municipal onciah
Should be taxpayers and property-owners
10 eacA Board Of Education the authority 70 mak9
it's regulations regarding the examination ana
licensing OF teachers believing that the system OF
uniform examinat tons. regulations promulgateo
by the State Superintendent OF Public Instruction az
at present Is the law is preferable. and that the
gage In the profession Of teaching and demorallzn9
to the present excellent educational system OF the
State. a..
Objection was also made to the provision that alI
appointments of teachers by the Board OF Education
shall be upon the nomination Of the Superintendent
of the Pubic Schools for several reasons, the prin"
cipal OF which that while the Board OF Educa.
ton represents the State and the taxpayers as Wen,
and Is held to be responsible for the admlnstraton
OF the schools and the system OF instruction. II
who shall and who shall not be teachers, regardless
OF their qualifications Another Of the objections to
the bill Is against that provision giving the Common
Council power TO revise the estimates OF the Board
OF Education
resolution was adopted authorizing President
Brakeman to appear before such committees as
may have a hearing at any time and protest Tor
such amendments as are suggested IN the report,
The Board also made final decision on the site
for the High School and Library: The Board, IN
the people to the May election for $4,000 for
a building TO be erected on the site at Fourth-ave,
near Fourth-st Plans for the building have been
drawn by Boring & Tilton.
New-York tribune., 1896-04-02
CANTAT4 CLTB INCORPORATED.

There was n.ed with the County Clerk yesterday
tho certificate OF Incorporation Of the Cantata CUP
rua,caI organ,zation which will direct It's efforts
nrlncinal.y 10 concerted singing by ladies' voices
-b. c'uh was organized last year and gave seVerai
successf,l concerts 4 number OF It's members are
soc,etv people The organization last year Included
women only but In the Incorporation gentlemen
have been brought in and made directors. ms -
n list OF the corporators: Add!e Louise bumhton'
Iaura Alice Chapman. Lydia Keller, Sarah Willis
Iatson Elsie Ray Eddy Isabel Vernon Marion
lNIImarth Morton Emily ST. Anna Webper. hAte
Augusta McCanrey. Edgar A. Buhinton. e. AUSTIN
Dsvton J. Valentine Koch. Albert Gerard Thiers'
Isaac P,ckford Horace B. Rawson. George IL.
TresdweI r. Morrison Gray Henry Carson. Jacoo
A Hamilton william l.. Chapman. John o. jenkins
Cecilia Burnett, Annie L. Covert. Emma hcharu-
sop Kuster. Ida May TreadweN. Jennie flgss'
Helen Robinson Paul Susie Church Holiday. Em'e
Rureer Frederick " Dare. John a: Eckert, Wiam
!, Il eu.ter William A. O. Paul. william A. foI,ssI
nndrew B Rogers Charles ). Whitney. H. Beck
Wsmrv T. Richar rdson. VI. Albert schi.. Aimet H.
Tho directors until tho hrst annual hev.hs a., a. e e
t,d.ar A Huhinton c. Austin Dayton, ) shi1h,ne
Eacch A.bert Gerard Theirs. Isaac Pickford Horace
7; Rawson George II. Treadwell r. Mot.is1n s n'"}f
rbanxan. John G. jenkins. Frederick v pare ion, 5onh
A }nkert. William f. Kuster, William A. ., paui'
W.lIsm 4 Porter. Andrew b. Rogers Ghares marie, p
Whitney H. Beekman De Lato9r, nHero .rasnr n
Weaver Dexter Swaney. Henry j. hicharoso"' W.
aihert Schlll Almet X. Latson