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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1896-10-16

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etnsetroffen lit, 9eb0rt 3u ben beroors
ra9enbiten Yolttitern ietnes Saterlanz
beS. Gin aril1olidler Senrer internatios
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1896-10-16
9apans irfuer 6f(anotfr.

Bonn acppfat nno Seitnnesmaan snra garta'
tnentarter uno SipIortatsn-Gfne edt MOS
Nerne Qoufbohu.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1896-10-16
Orr Alatahtlt- AuffanG.

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afrifa idafen una ole ibnen sn ibaHen
MAIDEN.
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floors should attempt to work the car
at one and the same time it might
prove fatal to human life. The car
door also is automatic and the car cam
not be moved until the door is shut
and locked. This elevator is lighted
by tiny but brilliant electric lamps,
and there is a flexible tube telephone
in the car which enables one to speak
to any part of the house.
Such thing as the ordinary opening
and shutting of a. door never occurs in
this house Near every door there is a
push button. Press this and the door
slides into the wall, or vice versa The
pressure of another button locks or UNI
locks the door. Sometimes it is not
necessary to be near the door in order
to open or close lit. Hanging down be-
side the beds are what is known in
electrical circles as flexible -bifurcat-
ed cords with wooden knobs or
handles on the ends. In each handle
are four buttons marked successfully
Asleep, Awake, Shut and Locked The
pressure of the first two buttons sends
a. signal to various parts of the house
that the master or mistress is asleep
or awake. The bedroom is approached
by a long hall or entry way. Lying
in bed the occupant of the house can
shut and lock or unlock and open the
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street. In this house it is almost i'm
possible to do stroke of work or per-
form a series of concerted actions.
Everything is done for you, apparent
~ by magic though really by electric
ity. 1t is probably the most elaborate
electrically equipped residence in the
country, if not in the world. Every
thing is done by the current and 1T is
only necessary to reach about your
finger to have it done. 1t would seem
as though the family Of the owner
must die of lassitude and the servants
grow so lazy as never to be fit for
work in another place. Most of the
servants are figure heads any how;
they have SO little to do.
The occupants OF the house seldom
or never walk up stairs. An electric
elevator carries them from floor to
floor, and even up to the private roof
garden fitted out with electrical de-
vices. No attendant is required to
work this elevator. It is the perfection
of automatic action. A single push
button on each landing controls it.
No matter if the car is above or below
your floor, pressure of the button
will call it to you. This is, of course,
possible because of the automatic ac-
ton Of the pole-changers and switches
which are placed at every floor and
are worked by the car itself. Once a.
certain push button has been pressed
the car passes under the control Of
the person who pressed the button,
and no matter how much the other
buttons are pressed they will not act
until the first one is released. This is
done by means of commutator which
throws all of the other buttons out of
circuit; for If two persons on different
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time. In the Kitchen all the copking
is done by the current and so much OF
lit is done according to new methods
that the cook would be practically use
less in an old-fashioned kitchen. When
a chicken has been prepared and
placed in am electric oven it is only
necessary to press a. button and watch
the clock. AS the heat is obtained
from oveTcharged wires, it is distribu-
ted evenly all around the bird. Bast-
ing is, therefore, not necessary and
the experiences of cooking becomes a
mere question of time allowance. A
leg of lamb, for instance, will require
just one hour and ten minutes 20 cook.
Left I'M the oven three minutes longer
than this and 1T would be overdone. 1t
is not necessary to look at it I'M the
meantime.
The dining room of this house is ex-
quisite in tone, the lights shedding
gentle radiance down from the ceiling
1t is said that the owner even con-
templated an electric table which
be taken by another after each course
had BEEN eaten, much after the Ro-
man fashion of table removal. The
nearest approach in this case, how
ever is an electric dumb waiter, large
enough to carry a whole dinner course.
It is but one remove from the other
idea. The dining table abounds in
call bells. The master of the house
can even give a private signal through
the floor by means of a foot push
button.
The current used in this plant is ell
generated on the premises. The house
is not situated along the line of a
street. current. The owner had there
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door at the end of the ffty-foot pas
sage by merely pressing the proper
buttons. Hanging near the bed is an
other flexible carrying buttons, which
mean all kinds of qualified summons
to the house servants.
There is NO such thing as cropping I'm
the dark in this house. Every room
can be lighted before entering by press
ing a button in the hail approaching it.
Furthermore you can at will light up
one or dozen or every light in the
room, and there is also one switch
which enables every lamp in the house
to be lighted at once. Dark closets
are unknown in the house. The very
act of opening a. closet door automat-
ically turns ON the current and the in
terror is lighted up. All of the table
lamps are electric and in several cases
they are marble statues holding in
candescent lamps-small patterns, as
lit were, of Edison's famous statue of
the Triumph of Electric Light. One
of them, which stands in the front
hallway, was on exhibition at the
Worlds fair.
The roof of the house with its cleo
trically lighted garden presents a beau
tiful sight from a distance, just as the
distance is beautiful when viewed
from the roof, for the Palisades lie off
to one side with the Hudson in be-
tween. Here the family spends its
evenings when home in the summer
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"NATIONAL DEMOCRATS"
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HELD A
MEETING YESTERDAY.
Indianapolis, Secretary-"Honest
Money League"

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Aug. S.-The
executive committee of the national
Democratic party held its first meet
ing today.
w. D. Bynum was chosen chairman
and John R. Wilson of Indianapolis,
secretary. This committee on trans
portation was appointed: Hopkins of
Illinois, chairman: Faulkner of Ala
bama and Holding of Ohio.
The committee on campaign litera-
ture is composed Of Cutcheon of Min
nesota and Usher of Wisconsin. In
asmuch as a demand for sound money
literature is simply tremendous, the
committee was ordered to at once go
about getting. documents together.
The demand, says Secretary Wilson, is
particularly great in Indiana. Messrs.
Bynum and Wilson were authorized to
select headquarters in Indianapolis TO
be used until the national convention
at least. They have not determined
where the permanent headquarters viii
be located. An address to the public
is being prepared by the executive
committee. Secretary Wilson says
thar it will be ready for publication
within a week.
John j. Rooney, secretary of the
Democratic Honest Money League of
America with headquarters in New
York, appeared before the committee
to offer the sound money party all the
aid that it can possibly give. This
league is a months old and was organic
ed for the single purpose of defeating
the Chicago ticket. Major John Byrne,
formerly of Detroit, now of New York,
is president, and Ex-Governor Flower
of New York is treasurer. The leagues
minor officers and its membership, Mr..
Rooney says. are filed with men promi
nently identified in the New York bust
ness world His offers of assistance to
the committee was accepted and he
was asked to forward all the literature
at his command at once. He notified
the committee that two days after Bry
an makes his speech in New York,
Bourke Cochran viii make reply. The
committee has not yet chosen its COM
mittee on finance. 1t Will meet again
in Chicago at the Palmer House ON
August II
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MISSED BY ACCIDENT.
Misadventures of Mr.. Denegre, Who
Came Near Wearing n Senatorial


No candidate has ever came nearer
the United States senatorsflip and lost
than Waiter Denegree of Louisiana,
who was defeated for that position the
other day by Ex-Governor S. D. Nc
Emery. Mr.. Denegree was an indepen-
dent Democratic candidate, supported
by those who demand a new and honest
election law, a. constitutional conven-
ton and a reform in existing abuses.
Starting with 80 votes for senator, he
reached 60 votes ON May 26. The cleo
tom of senator was expected ON the
next day, and it seemed certain that
Mr.. DenegTe would win, and three
times that day he was Within an inch
of election.
It required 81 votes to elect Mr..
Denegre got SIS votes. His 9th man,
Representative FauI'ia of st. Tam
many, who wanted to vote for him,
was a little late, but ought to have
reached the state house on time The
opposition, however, put every obstacle
in his way, INSTRUCTED the entrance to
the assembly hall, and Fauria got there
just too late to vote. Just before tine
vote was announced Representative
Trosclair of Lafourche changed to
Denegre, giving him a majority, but
the speaker failed to catch his eye or
to- hear him, and the result was an
nounced as only &c votes for Denegre.
A second ballot was demanded, when
Denegre was assured of Y votes, but
the lieutenant governor, who was hos
tile to him, Withdrew the senate, under
a. ruling which was afterward shown to
be erroneous The next day, when ex-
Governor McEnery had been tele-
grapted to and had consented to run
against Denegre, the latter's iH-Mck
continued The ballot was am exciting
one, the two candidates keeping NIP
and tuck with each other. In the
midst of this excitement what was the
surprise of everyone to hear Repre-
sentative Kleinpeter, Baton Rouge, an
ardent Denegre man, vote for Nc
Emery. 1t was a slip Of the tongue
made in the excitement of the moment.
TIE roll call was rushed on before
Kleinpeter discovered his error and
his vote elected McEnery. He changed
1T afterward, but it was too late Thus
four successive accidents-if accidents
they can. be called-robbed Mr.. Dene-
gre of the senatorsllip when it seemed
securely Within his grasp.-Hafper
Weekly.
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BLOOD WILL FLOW.
RACE WAR IN ARKANSAS IS ON IN
EARNEST.
Three Negroes Dead, Eight Wound
ed, and Many Run Out of the
Country By the whites

TEXARKANA, Ark, Aug. S.-The
race war in Polk county has broken
out in earnest and as a result Of the
first battle three negroes are dead,
eight wounded and many have been
run out of the country by the whites.
Several negroes have passed through
this place who were forced to leave the
country. and they bring news of a
pretty bad condition of affairs.
The trouble is between white and
black laiborers employed ON the grading
work of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf railroad near Horatio, Ark. The
white laborers are determined that the
negroes shall not work on the road, and
are being backed up by citizens of the
county, who have armed themselves for
the purpose of running the negroes out,
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and Elevator

fore to install his own plant. Storage
batteries supply the current to the
house. The cells themselves are
stored by dynamo which is worked in
its turn by a gas engine. This en-
tails no trouble, however, because the
switches on the elaborate switchboard
are worked automatically by side
current from the cells A colored man
servant keeps supervising eye over
the machinery and an experienced
electrical man pays the house visit
at intervals of one or two months.
This in a measure proves the feasibil-
lily of electric lighting for country resi-
dences.
In fact everything seems to be done
at touch of a button i'm this house,
and the inhabitants have become thor
oughly used to lit. The owner has
tried to enjoy some of the delights of
ordinary activity by becoming a photo
graph fiend, but here the modern des-
tiny of the mansion has pursued him
and his private studio is electric"
Arc concentrating lamps enable the
owner to take pictures day and night,
and there are electric developing pro-
cesses on which he experiments. He
has even had wires run underground
from his cellar plant to the houses of
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A little girl VINO had become heart
lily sick of the ordinary duties of life
once wished that she might go to fairy
land, where she could dream away ex-
istence and have nothing to do. The
gnomer heard her foolish desires and
one day while she was asleep conveyed
her to the land of perpetual sunshine
and installed her in a beautiful palace
surrounded by gardens full Of frag-
rant flowers. Here she found her
slightest wish always anticipated. If
she wanted to pluck a flower, it fore
stalled her by dropping into her hand.
If she wished 20 go to a distant spot,
it came to her before she could make
a movement. Even her food conveyed
itself to her mouth and saved her the
trouble of swallowing it. Everything,
in fact, was done at her slightest in
clfnation. She, however, soon tired Of
an enforced inactivity and was very
glad when at last she was allowed to
return to the workaday world.
OLD FABLE.
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the characteristics of the genuine an
tique.
The fact is, in no other class of art
is it so difficult TO distinguish the gen.
uine from the false, because age makes
no alteration on materials that resist
such acids as the tomb or burial world
brings them in contact with, giving no
patina or color to a hard-poliShed gem;
and secondly, because, owing to the
hardness of the material and the labor
ious methods of working it, there is nee
essarily something mechanical in the
process of engraving a gem which
makes less prominent the artists per-
sOnal peculiarities and touch. A highly
polished, fresh-looking surface is not
always a proof that the gem is modern.
Copies made by the most skiIlful en-
gravers of the last century, such as
Natter, Pichler and Burch, are often
quite indistinguishable from antiques.
The skilfuI forger is careful to use
only such tools as were n use among
the ancients, and there are often no
means of deciding whether a wheel
cut or drill cavity in hard gem was
made yesterday or 1000 years ago. The
more obvious signs of age, such as a
worn surface, covered with fine
scratches, can be given to modern gems
in many different ways. The deceptive
appearance OF long wear can De prOQQc-
ed by forcing the newly cut gem down
a turkeys throat, and leave it for a
few days to be shaken up with bits of
stone and gravel contained in the tur-
keys craw, or by putting 1T in box Of
gravel at the end of a pulley shaft.
Freshly cut canoes readily take on the
marks of age from ordinary rubbing
and scratching; or when mixed with
iron filings in acid, which rapidly gives
to the white layer of an onyx the dead,
glossless look frequently resulting from
great age.
In most cases. however, limitations Of
antique gems are not the work of forg-
ers who combine sufficient knowledge
with the requisite skill, and a careful
study of ancient gems will save the
student or collector from being deceiv-
ed in the majority of cases.
Among the difficult cases to distin-
guish are those gems which, though
originally antique, have been partially
or wholly recut by modern hands. In
the last century, and even more re-
Gently, this was a common trick of the
italian dealers, especially the recutting
of antique canoes and intaglios as fire.
quent as adding of a fine piece of chas-
ing or a plain piece of old armor. en-
HANGING its beauty many fold and de-
ceiving the buyer.
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VENETIAN BANDITS.
Titled Knaves Who Formerly In
tested Italy.

fe91Gd
According to GoZzadini, a conscientious
historian, in one single province of Italy,
Romagna, the number of bandits previous
to Sixtus VS. elevation to the papacy
varied from 1900 to 1900. These were
bandits in the literal sense; that is, men
who were eziled from their respective
communities owing to fractional disputes
And yet Machiavelli speaking Of Venice,
observes that no city, no commune OF
Italy had experienced so terribly the fury
of factional strife. In fact, among these
lagoons, from the seventh to the twelfth
century out of fifty doges five prudently
abdicated, nine were deposed or banished,
five had their eyes put out and five were
assassinated. And these misdeeds were
not the actions of single groups of agi-
tators who made i'll use of passive peo-
pie. but they were the passions of the
people themselves, violated their repeated
oaths and melting tumults of which the
doges were only too often the victims
Bandits, brigands boasting Of escutch-
cons. were the natural fruits OF the tree
of feudalism. And this is true, notw1th-
standing the objection, valid, indeed, that
out of a hundred or even q thousand
brigands there were no more than five
mobiles because to these five can be traced
the origin, the persistency, the immunity
and the audacity Of the others.-Raaio
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BEFORE DECENTRALIZATION.

Before decentralization both
metals constituted the redemp-
ton money of the world; and as
both metals existed in about
the same quantities, it gave us
twice as much money of re-
demption as gold alone win now
furnish US. There is in the world
now, according to the report of
the director of our mint, S3,727,-
018,S69 in gold, and $3.50, 571 ,346
in silver. The dislocation of the
parity of the two metals by the
decentralization of silver, and
the attempt to maintain our
credit in gold, has reduced the
redemption money Of the world
from S7,547, 590,215 to $3,727, 01S,-
500, or a little less than one
half the original amount
Coins Financial School
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his business partners and for his
fatFaer-in-lhiw on the next street. He
supplies them with lighting current.
1t is not apparent that there are any
electric hair curriers' or electric cigar
lighters in the house, but there is no
reason why they should not have
been concealed in some out-of -the-way
corner In short, If there is a. genii of
domestic electricity stalking abroad
it would probably select this house
for its city residence.
THEODORE WATERS.
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NEYAnA REPuBLIClANs.

CARSON, New, Aug. S.-The Nevada
Republican state central committee met
here today, with every county in the
state represented. After preliminary
work the resignation of T. Coffin, the for
mer chairman of the committee, and j.
B. Overton was accepted Both bodted
the Republican party. Vacancies in the
committee were filed by the appointment
Of William Mcmillan, A. Chon, H A.
Lennon and S. Patterson. Ex-Governor
Colcord was elected chairman. The state
convention will be held here on Sept. H.
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THE THIEVES OF TODAY.

1 may be in error, but in my
humble judgment he who would
rob a man of his necessary
food or po1iute the spring ait
which he quenches his thirst,
or steal away from him his
accustomed rest, or condemn
his mind to the gloomy night
of ignorance, is no more an
enemy of his race than the
man who, deaf to the entrea-
ties of the poor and blind to
the suffering he would cause,
seeks to destroy one of the
money metals given by the
Almighty to supply the needs
of commerce.-Willham Jen-
nings Bryan.
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In The POLITICAL ARENA
Republican County Central COM
mittee Met Yesterday.
NO ACTION WAS TAKEN.
MOO MUCH FRICTION FO1l THE
TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS.

Meeting Was Called to Fix the APP
portfonment of Delegates to the
County COnventiOn-Cf. w. Thomp-
son, National Committeeman of
the Silver Party for Washington,
Visits Salt Lake-RepubIicans
Confident of No Contest Over Dis
trict Judgeships-C. j. Pence n
Formidable Candidate Judge
Henderson Returns-Nick Robert
son Goes to ToOeIe-Populist Conn
mittee Meeting.
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Secret

Messrs A. Schilling &
Company Of San Francisco
have a secret to tell you
how you can make your tea
as good as Mrs. Blanks.
Takes one minute to learn
it-and you can apply it to
any good tea.
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FARMS VS.. CITIES.

You come to us and tell US
that the great cities are in
favor of the gold standard. I
tell you that the great cities
rest upon these broad and
fertile prairies. Burn down
your cities and leave our
farms, and your cities will
spring UP again as if by
magic. But destroy our farms,
and the grass will grow in the
streets of every city in this
country. - William Jennings
Bryan.
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fore large and enthusiastic crowd.
Larned was again successful winning
by a score of three sets to one. The
match was even more brilliant than
that of yesterday, and excitement ran
high throughout. This gives Larned
the Norwood cup to keep.
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rryITs ToT7RNA.IEyT

WEST END, Long Branch, N. j.,
Aug. S.--The tie between Wrenn and
Larned, which resulted in the Nor
wood park tennis tournament yester-
day, was played off this afternoon be-
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WEE BITS.

It is very bad form to be in such a
hurry that you must put your gloves on
in the street.
White sweet peas and white roses are
used at the all-white weddings now so
mulch in vogue.
Pink and white is an essentially sum-
merry combination for hall decoration in
country houses.
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ELECTRICITY IN THE HOME.



JUST
YoRKEVERYTHING DONE AT TOUCH OF BUT
ELEVATORS,
A r.
DEVICES
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The nearest actual approach to the
fairyland of the fable exists in New
York City. 1t is the home of the presi-
dent of one of the large exchanges and
it is situated on West Seventy-fifth