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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-06-21

.,,..,,,r ~ , ti.,.cro ,y,s oontont IN ride
iu his ordinary attire. but the modern
bicrcle ana the up-to-date suit are enc
tirely different from the above picture.
A THREE-WHEEL BIKE.
T. G. Hicks. of Chicago. IFS the inventor
and patoutee of rather unique idea fer
the more perfect absorption OF vibration
Do bicycles. The principal idea OF tno
construction is that the saddle Us mounted
upon "a plNoled pacN-"9ie' "Altn 81 s-P-
ported az it's rear end upon swinging
links mounted upon am auxiliary frame
which is supported Joy a mira wheel mat
trails behind the two wheels OF Tie picy-
Gle proper
The inventor saws It MAI D. seen
that WAeh' tne front NI''l s'IiN'9 o."
OBSTRUCTION th. ii"-l ]. il'i ol 'ila H.'l."
frame Is hi'en' "'l 'Io l'' '..l ,o'''''
uoh OF the cohN'..ilH IT." I'.F'i't9 '''
saddle from heii- i-1,l I'D any Hl"''' ''
extent. non l", llo"l "I,'' H"7
over inc ops'Iul'i""' ana '''. i.'' .. .
stfihe5 ihe same sue" rear "i,',' '' i'l
et OF Iiis,e "iil' D,ll.5 j.. lol.''i'
ed Win tne auAliItIy frame ana 90 "-
Meeting r0d. b. ia permitted io rise Win
out raising the aallie I"rlioh I'D amy
appreciate extent. 10 VIII mus De- seen
mat tho least amount ol All or sHo.h
is Impaired To the iuer.
BONES. FOR DOGS.
DOGS have troubled bicycle riders I'd.
eiich IAN extent that an iuvrutir. eenfu.
boa Ccroran,- falt that tho firno had conn.
f,r :, remedy So ha devised ONE which.
uvbiie il rna,, nrovo evooodinrfv effective
I'm remote country districts is calculated
~ moro than realize tho exnecfafions OF
tho Inventor If usaI i'm lusy thoror.h-
o. ,rr. i,,,n,i., g.. o. l.,,L which
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..,., t.,.,e. r,..,rt ,,,..r 3D.. o'r.,.fs
a. ,rac. 3D.. i,,nr,ss.on mar the ev-
plosirn was the result of a piot of the
ar.r,ff.ts o., d.sfrov fhr,,
Ricrofists have pushed their frozen way
~ eiberia have mooned t.rspfrine face.
undar the terfulos Of TLibef and have
dfscnsse9 tires and gearing beneath tho
shadow of the great pyramids. The
maidens of Norway have lald their nson
oei1o o,d tho ,natrons n Germany 1atya
tbei. Iel,ios b, Glide abroad an fhe pphlie
biehu.ys q,bo tinl,le ~ the Too familiar
mn stertf.e ,bo bronco on tbe tracks iu
The Argentino penublic.
Ia Ton1on ln New York and I'm Paris
vheeIir,- is the fashionable fad of the
hour. a fad extending 20 every class Of
society. But about the very last place
where one would ever cNpccf the bicycle
To become the rage IS Venice. where an
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-06-21
GOD RULES rBE SEAS.
Tho Vessel Bearing DIR. tose Has Calm
and Speedy Voyage

A letter from Rev. DIR. Moses ID. Hogc.
dated Liverpool. was received yesterday
by one OF his friends here. The mlssive
announces his arrival safe and sound at
that place after a prosperous Voyages
In describing the passage DIR. Hoge says:
1.-THE Lord so ruled the sea Chat. In
stead OF raging. its surface has been
dlmpled only by harmless rtpples. Il
is something to be thankful for TO crosse
the ocean without film OF fog on the
banks OF New Foundland or an hour of
stormy weather"
The news OF Or. Hoge's safe arrival In
the Old World will be hailed with Joy.
not only by hts congrssgtiop.. bue ~
evsry citizen q NchWond
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-06-21

hand-pump 10 initiate pneumatic tires. He
charges cents for imitation.
Four counties OF England are said TO
favor tax upon bicycles and fourteen
ere opposed to- it siA are not prepared 10
express am opinion. and six are unreser-
yediy lu favor of registration.
Bacon. It's funny you don't ride
Esbcrt. I'm waiting until they nave
bicycles built for two" You can get
tandems now 81 know; l mean a picy-
Gle Luilt Tor s2."-Noukers Statesman
The chain ON "A bicycle should be taken
OF every two months and washed thor
0uphly i'm Kerosene. then wiped dry and
fabricated with biacklead or graphite.
Care should Doe taken that no oil is left
on the chain. as IL collects dust and
prinds away the teeth OF the sprocket
wheel.
Paris never saw $50 many women hicy-
clists ont aa ON the recent AscenSion-day
holiday The Paris correspondent OF a
London journal says that what was more
remarkable was the great number of
v0unc women who wore cyciist dresses
without being on bikes" The bicycle
costume is now the correct thing in
France for country and seaside walks.
iu the Argentine Republic a law has
lem Tasscl declaring that women must
I.t side Tho wheel. ON the ground that ii
boy continued t0 do as they had been
Ioiar thf liverymen would bee compelled
lo give Un their business
4 ease has Just come 10 hand IN which
"a cycIcmeter was used hy a school super
intendeut IN this State In measuring the
distance between TWO school houses, tine
measurement thus taken being made the
basis of his official report and recommen
dalton on the suiect.
ALAS
Shes not ont hiking spruce and gay
To-day. and there are rum0rs
That from the clothes line yesterday
The goat eat Mamie's boomers.
Boston Courier
THE BLOOMERS POCKET.
Some observing mans discovered
Glow. I've never thought 10 ask
That the cycling maiien's boomers
Have a pocket for hask'
That the cycling rirl in Texas,
AS she rides IS not afraid.
She provides a pistol pocket
When she has her boomers made;
That the boomer girl of Boston,
Always cool and wisely frowning,
has n pocket in her boomers
Where she carries Robert Browning;
Thar the Daisy Bell Of Kansas
WHO las donned the cycling breeches.
Has a pocket I'm her boomers
Fun of women suffrage speeches.;
That ChicagO's wheeling woman,
When her cycle makes rotations,
Has a special blcomer pocket
Where she carries pork quotations:
That Milwaukee's cycling beauties,
As they pedal day By day.
Have a tiny secret pocket
Where a cOrkscrew's slowed away;
That the Gotham blO0mer damsel.
Whom Manhattan dudes admire,
Has a tntu-frutu pocket
Full OF gum TO mend her tire.
Town Topics
A WHEELER.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-06-21

Shes not ont hiking spruce and gay
To-day and there are rum0rs
That from the clothes line yesterday
The goat eat NAMES boomers.
Boston Courier.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-06-21
EXPERT OPINION

Mr.. vaughan has received from Mr.
II. T.. Raymond. ~ Chicago. ex-champion
Of The l. A. ~ Racing Board. an oplnion
on the race Mr. Raymond holds that SIR.
otmple Is technically the winner, though
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says of them: 81 doubt whether they
are the innocent. confiding, inoffensivc
Christians that the American people be-
lieve them to be. My experience with
them is that they are the sharpest.
shrewdest and trickiest of all the East
ern people They say in Turkey that it
takes ten Jews to equal one Armenian.
and five Armenians to equal one Persian
in sharp business dealings. They have
many able men among them. and I
doubt not that their leaders have to a
certain extent fermented this trouble.
hoping that the governments of Europe
would interfere. and that Armenia
would be entirely freed from Turkish
rule. would rather trade with a Turk
or a Jew in any part of the East than
with a Christian. / have the highest
respect for Christianity. but the Christ
ians of the East are not like us. The
businessmen among them are to a large
extent a set of sharpers, so much so
that the words Oriental Christian in the
minds of the Eastern travellers is al
most synonymous with that of thief"
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qualified statement Is that IL other facts
yet to be established happen to prove
conclusively that there is such thing
as telepathy, or OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
I shall be nearly willing to accept it
as an explanation of the faculty of
crystal-gazing. There may be many
other ways in which the existence of
the telepathic communication may be
demonstrated. AS say. crystal-gazing
is not sufficient in itself to do so, but
We may ascertain in the future that
thought-transference is responsible for
the visions seen in the crystal.
Remember. the scene in the crystal
is not a complete hallucination. In the
first place. the image is seldom, if ever,
the actual size Of the supposed scene.
II a gazer has a vision OF a man, the
figure seen in the crystal or water is
always much smaller than the man
himself. So the vision is not perfect il
fusion. In fact, the gazer is never de-
ceiyed by the vision, but always real
ICES, even while seeing it. that it is
only a Authorization.
Again, the vision can generally be
traced to the observations; unconscious
at the time of the object or objects
seen in the mirror. 1t is surprising
how many things We see without re-
aliZing that We are looking at them,
and still more astonishing how we re-
member sights that have never attract
ed our conscious attention. You may
be walking along the street and see a
woman with a red shawl. 1t is almost
certain that the garment, being I'M
usual under the prevailing fashions,
would attract your attention immedi-
ately. You might not notice, however,
that the woman wore black bonnet,
if there were nothing unusual about it;
but weeks afterward the unconscious
observation of the bonnet might crop
up in your memory. Possibly you could
not cecollect when you had seen 4
woman in a black bonnet: or, at any
rate, that particular black bonnet;
nevertheless, the image OF the black
bonnet might be almost indelibly i'm
pressed upon your mind and cause YOU
to Go not little guessing.
The most remarkable case of crystal
visions that has ever come within my
personal observation is that of the wife
of a Brooklyn clergyman. NEST es-
Unable lady, who would he greatly
panied to see her name in print. There
fore you must pardon me for keeping
her identity secret. l can assure you.
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into glass globes or goblets of water.
Il has obtained data of startling results
and is preparing to astonish the world
with a mass of learned literature which
it is collecting, says New York World.
Professor H. ]. Hyslop, of Columbia
the society in New York. Though he
is scientist of the most severely
practical type. he is convinced that the
illusions of crystal-gazers are well
worthy OF study, as having possible
bearing upon undiscovered scientific
truths. With clear, unbiased mind, he
gathers all the statistics he can find
and turns them over to his fellow
seekers after knowledge. During the
past few years he has studied carefully
several cases that have come under his
personal observation and has furnished
to the society much interesting in
formation concerning the strange
phenomenon.
1t should be promised that the society
is not an organization with hobby.
AS its name implies, its object is to
search for all stories, histories. auto
biographies and traditions that may
possibly have anything to do with
psychical phenomena. 1t is absolutely
unprecedented and makes no attempt to
shape facts. All it tries to do is TO
collect them. If the trend of the evil
dence it gathers leads to belief in
the supernatural, it is satisfied to &C
cept spiritualism or any other doctrine
that may be established by the facts:
if the mass of testimony leans toward
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materialism and denial of the exist
ence of everything spiritual, equally
good. 1t is simply a jury of scientists
and other thinkers prepared to try the
case of the Seen VS.. the Unseen upon
it's merits.
Professor Hyslop was quite willing
to talk of crystal-gazing when Jour
nal reporter saw him in the crowded
library of his residence, No. SO West
One Hundred and Forty-ninth street.
After having prefaced his remarks with
a reiteratiOn of his disinterested posi-
ton upon the question, he went on to
say:
Crystal visions are among the most
curious of unexplained phenomena.
Strictly speaking, they have little scien-
tific value, so far as l know. They
are simply Authorizations produced b.
gazing at a crystal globe or glsas of
water. and seem to have little if any
thing to do with the will of the in
diyidual. Often the illusions are mere
mosaics of previous incidents in the ex-
perience of the gazer; sometimes they
are visions of things which the gazer
has never actually seen, but which
like most so-called strange dreams.
may easily be imagined by anybody of
active fancy.
still, I have witnessed many start
ling condolences in connection with
those same Authorizations. 1t happens
not infrequently that the gazer sees in
the crystal or water scenes which have
actually happened, or possibly, are ac-
tually happening at the time. Then it
is that the phenomenon seems to en-
croach upon the realm of the super
natural. and is called by most un-
thinking persons second sight As a
matter Of fact, nothing has been adj
duced to show that the condolences
may be explained as an instance OF
claifvoyance. In fact, I am tempted to
throw the clairvoyant out Of the reckon
ing altogether, as almost unworthy Of
consideration in the question.
Telepathy, in my opinion, may
prove to be part Of the cause Of the
yhenomenon. What l mean by that
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the sincerity of her statements, and, in
fact, know her to be incapable of de-
ceiving either herself or me as to the
manifestations of the phenomenon. For
the purposes of this interview 1 shall
call her. with your permission, Mrs. d.
For many years this lady has had
crystal visions frequently. She can
produce Authorizations by gazing into
either the globe or the goblet. Most
of her visions are merely mosaics, as
in other instances. but some of them
have been, if nothing more, curious CO.
medicines
"One day, looking into the globe.
she saw woman, evidently i'll. lying
in bed. Alongside the woman was 4
little child-how old. she could not de-
termine She conceived the idea that
the woman was her sister-in-law, who
was in the West, but she could not
recognize the face A few minutes later
she saw vision of the graveyard in
her native town, and noted with in
terest that the gate and walls were
Just as she had last seen them in early
youth. The interior of the cemetery,
however, was strange to her. She
could not find single one of the doz
ems of monuments and headstones with
which she had been familiar, and tina:
fact led her to believe, for she is inter-
ested more or less in psychical research
and understands something of her own
phenomenon-thatt the vision was a
mosaic. Bear in mind. the memory re-
tains thousands of unimportant scenes
and bits of scenes, which it jumbles to-
gether just as you shake up the pieces
of colored glass in kaleidoscope, pro-
ducing an endless variety of combina-
lions.
Mrs. d. knew. however, that her
brother was down with typhoid fever at
the family home and that he was not
expected to live. She momentarily ex-
pected telegram summoning her to
his bedside, and all her baggage was
hacked, in preparation for a hasty start.
The visions, following SO closely the
latest letter she had received from her
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The old organ blower of Pinkelbur,
lay dying. The curate was visiting
him. Would you mind. sir. asking our
organist to play the Dead March over
me?" asked the sick man.
Certainly l will, Jones'" said the
curate
"Thankee. sir. None O. that ere
tweedle-dum Beethoven, you know. sir.
Only Handel's."
II am sure he will do it," responded
the curate.
The old man lay placidly for awhile.
then exclaimed with fervor: "How
thankful / be that shan't have to blow
for him when he plays the loud part at
the end"
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parents. worried her sadly, and she
was Just about to leave for her home.
when she got letter or telegram say
ing that the crisis OF the disease had
been passed and that her brother would
recover.
Three months later she went West
and, with great difficulty, drew from,
her father and mother. both of whom
were bitterly opposed to psychical re-
search, facts that completed the COIN
cidence. They told her that her broth
er. during the worst hours Of his III
ness. chung to the delus!on that his
wife had presented him with another
child and that he saw ii constantly ly-
ing on the bed beside its mother. Then.
too, at the time when he was most
dangerously i'll. his relatives were so
sure he would die that his other sister.
a young girl, was already discussing
with her father the ACCESSIBILITY OF pur-
chasing a plot in the new cemetery.
as the old graveyard was in such
hopelessly dilapidated condition.
Now, those facts may be taken as
explanations of the two visions seen iii
the crystal by Mrs. ID. The hallacina-
ton in regard to the mother and child
may have been transferred to her by
her brother. although he was delirious,
and the conjunction of ideas in her
sisters mind in regard to the old and
new graveyards may have caused Mrs.
D. to see the vision of the cemetery
with the familiar gate and wall, but
not the strange tombstoneS. Telepathy
may have been the process by which
those ideas were transferred from the
minds of her brother and sister to 1hat
Of Mrs. d. and thrown by her into the
crystal visions.
For the gazer appears TO have the
power of projecting ideas into the crys
tai. though Involuntary. and thus
forming the visions 4 thought occu-
pying the mind OF the gaZer may be
made external by process opposite To
that OF ordinary sight. When you see
anything in the ordinary way it is be-
cause rays of light travel from that OBJ
ject to the retina OF the eye. Similarly,
an image formed in the brain may
travel outward along the optic nerve
and the outer eye, and be projected into
the globe cr goblet. This is not specu-
lation. but fact we'll within the
knowledge of any oculist.
ArmenianS Shrrwd and Tricky
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Over three-fourths of the membership
Of the churches Of the United States are
composed Of the working classes.-Rev.
+. b. Nicely.
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STRANGE VISIONS.
HALLUCINATIONS HARD TO Ex-
PLAIN BY EXPERIMENTEaS.
Crystal Gazing . Fad-Psyc hical Re.
search Society Trying to Find Out Why
People Sec Queer Things In Goblets
and Globes.

2YSTAL visions are
the latest fad OF the
Society of Psychical
Research. That as
ISOLATION OF pro-
gressive Savants
has devoted much
OF its attention re-
Gently to the ability
of certain persons
to produce hallu-
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Armenians Shrrwd and Tricky.
F. Marion Crawford. the novelist. who
has met many Armenians in the East,
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SOetohNoOu AiCCS piohtSu UN Himself
that measure over nine feet around
and John proposes to take one OF
them to mill one OF these days. tina: he
can have lumber to use that he ha.
raised himself.
The farm house of Mrs. S. D. Smith.
on Tuay creek. east of Ottawa, was
totally destroyed by fire early Satur-
day morning. Mrs. Smith, who is an
aged lady: was alone at home. and
unaided was unable to subdue the
flames or save any considerable por-
ton of the contents of the house Be-
fore neighbors could arrive the house
and all it contained, together with a
well stocked ont building were de.
stroyed. BY hard exertion the barn
Was saved. An insurance of 5000 was
ON the house and contents. The orr.
gin of the fire is unknown.
Robberies of Kansas postoffices are
becoming altogether too numerous.
Horton will have to get along with
200 tons of ice this season, and as the
joints have been closed, it is believed
that nobody will suffer.
bingham has risen to the dignity OF
bath rooms. That is horse on old
ashioned MuseOtah that probably
never will be Offset. ard the long strug.
gle between the two towns may b<
counted as over.
The Union Pacific is storing ice
along its Kansas Central line and in
proving the roadbed
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in the arm.
The alcohol distillery enterprise is
assured at Leavenworth. The SIS. OOO
bonus will bc raised within few weeks.
The proposed distillery flor alcohol
Only) would consume 5000 bushels of
corn daily and give steady employment
to from $50 to 200 men. 1t would run
at full capacity for at least ten or elev-
en- months in the year. The promo
tiers of the big enterprise have entered
into an agreement that makes the
donors perfectly safe. The money sub
scribed to the fund to secure the plant
is not to be touched by the distlllery
company until the plant shall have
been in operation GO days, and then
only one-third of the $4,000 is to be
paid over. The other two thirds is to
be paid in one and two years.
Money covers a multitude of sins in
Fort Scott. A vicious prisoner confined
in Jail there was recently released be
cause he had fallen heir to a fortune
A Fort Scott school marin was ar
rested for disturbing a religious meet
ing aud her beau had to skip to Miss
ouri. That is worse than being ar.
rested.
Kansas expends annually nearly 81 :
600. 900 in other states for packing
house products. That is one most ad-
mirable way of not prospecting. AL
the packing houses should be in Kan
sas.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-05-09

The Board met last Monday and
transacted the following business:
The reports of the Sheriff and County
Physician were received and placed on
file.
The money in the county treasury
was counted, and $l9,302 ~ found to
be on hand, which amount cores
ponds with the books OF the Auditor.
Ordered, that 5000 be transferred
from the General TO the Salary Fund.
On motion, it was ordered that AS
SCISSOR ]. @. Powell be allowed a deputy
for the period Of sixty days, and to re-
ceive "a per day while SO employed.
Ordered, that Ii. A. Fisher be en-
ployed as janitor for the Courthouse.
and to care for the rooms Of the county
officers, at a salary Of SIG per month.
Ordered, that E. d. WALTZ be allowed
the sum Of $50, to be expended in max
ing a grade and road at McClosky
Creek.
Ordered, that Frank Il. Farrell be
allowed to spend the sum Of $50 on the
road between the White House and
Beowawe, and from Beowawe towards
Tuscarora by way OF Maggie Creek, in
this county; also, the sum Of $40 on q
bridge at or across Simon's Creek.
Ordered, that the county officers be
requested to see that their lights are
properly extinguished before they leave
their offices at night.
Commissioner Broy moved that $50
be allowed E. j. Butler, to enable him
to go San Francisco to have an opera
ton performed on his eyes. Commits
sioners Fletcher and Fraser voted No.