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ratus. The propeller on the front gas
body will be given motion to draw the
apparatus after it and the other two pro-
pellers will be used to generate driving
power. The sails above and below will be
set so as to take advantage of the wind.
The steering will be done by proper ma
nipulation of the propellers, sails and gas
bodies. There will be no special rudder,
as the whole machine will be made on
what is known as the cross rudder prin-
ciple.
when the sails are set they will be in
fated with gas. and when furled the gas
will be forced into the regular gas bodies,
so there will be no waste OF gas. Ascent
and des cent will be made by the DETECTION
of the front gas body. and consequently
there will be no need of carrying any bal
last. The propellers and, in fact, all the
workable parts CT the apparatus will be
controlled by the engineer, who will be
located in the engine-room. The connec-
tions with the propellers will run through
the hollow mast and the gas bodies"
Mr.. Paulv has already made application
for patent on his machine, and is now
endeavoring to enlist capital for the pur-
pose of constructing an experimental
''differential flying macnine" capable of
carry three people.
H e claims to have submitted his "0em-
onstration model to a numbe of scien-
tific gentlemen more or less familiar with
aeronautics, all of whom, he said, pro-
nounced the inven ton good thing.
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the earth, the heavens above or the waters
below. He has been mentally AT work on
his marvel for six years, but made no at
tempt to give his ideas concrete form until
the beginning of the present year. Then,
during period of enforced idleness caused
by a dull season with his employers, he
worked eight hours day for three weeks,
making the many parts and fittings of his
"differential flying machine" as he calls
it, and putting them together.
Mr.. Pauly is modest wlthai. He does
not claim any extraordinary speed for his
apparatus, nor does he attempt to make
any one believe that il will sail in the
teeth of wind. His invention, he says,
is com bination of balloon, aeroplane,
parachute. sailing vessel and steamship.
Ell do not expect my invention to carry
freight train nor passenger train be-
meath it," said the inventor. ITO talk of
doing that by any aerial continuance is
simply nonsense. Ali that / expect to do
is to carry from three to half dozen men
and to have the apparatus used for war
purposes, for pleasure cruises by people
rich enough to afford them, and for K
ploration purposes in such districts as the
interior OF Africa. Australia. portions of
Mexico and South America.
MY model Is not working model, but
is simply for demonstration purposes. l
have carefully and fundamentally figured
the whole plan out, and have no doubt it
will do as l claim. To construct a ma
chine that will carry three people will cost
from $4,000 to $4,000. have no idea what
speed ca be obtained. / do not propose
TO sail directly against the wind, but will
be able to travel in direction opposite to
the wind by lacking. just as a ship does
when met by head wind.
For motive power shall depend upon
worked by machinery by means of gaso-
line or naphtha engine. For sustaining
power hydrogen gas will be used. One
cubic yard of this gas will sustain two
pounds of weight, so that my gas bodies,
of which there are three, and the six hol-
low sails which propose 10 use will have
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-08
WHIST RUINED
GEORGE ", WADE
Played for Stakes at a
Well Known Local
Club.
Thousands Borrowed From
Friends Among the School.
teachers.
A Salary of SITS Per Month Was Not
Sufficient to Satisfy His Losses
at CARDS.

An overfondness for whist and the COM
Ipany of women other than his wife ap-
pear to have caused the downfall of George
Wade, the assistant secretary OF the Board
of Education. He was one of the most
devoted members of the San Francisco
Whist Club, at whose rooms playing for
stakes is permitted, and spent much OF
his time in the club-rooms.
The fact that his opponents were we'll
TODD men who could stand losses did not
deter Wade from playing, for he consid-
cred himself a strong hand at whist
Even his salary Of $175 per month could
not stand the strain, and he was always
in financial straits at the end of the
month.
"My husband was a member OF the San
Francisco Whist Club" said Mrs. Wade
yesterday. He was great devotee OF
the game and used to play there fire.
quently.
II blame the whist club for all of our
trouble. George used to go there at nights
and in hack room play whist for 20 cents
a trick. He used to think he was a pretty
good player, but 1 think there were others
who were better. In this way he lost con-
siderable money. and he was forced to
borrow and neglect paving his bills to
make his losses good at the whist table.
when he said he only played for 20
&c nts trick l thought that was nothing.
The men he played with were rich, and
Georges salary would not stand the drain
of many losses. l wanted him to give up
the whist club, but he was perfectly in
fatuated with the game"
The San Francisco Whist Club is the
only large organzat ton devoted 10 the
game in this City where playing for
stakes is permitted. 1t was originally in
tended to have a clause in the bylaws
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Auction AAfES
lnCpmber q,

BY MADTGAN & Co.-This day, December g.,
Wagons, etc, at 1922 Mission street
BY CHAs. LEVY d Co.-This day, December 8,
Furniture at salesroom, 1135 Market street. az 10
3 clock.
~ INDIANA AUCTION Co.--This day December
g. furniture, at 1857 Market ST.. at II O'Clock.
BY L II. EURD-This day, December g. Furni-
ture, at 203 Turk street. at II O'clock.
EY FRANK W. BUTTERFTELD-This day. Deem
her S, Agateware, at 422 Kearny street, at IL
O'clock.
Fly F. s. SPEAR d Ce.-wednesday. Deem
Der 9, Unclaimed Goods, at 31-S3 Suffer street, at
II clock.
EY KILLIP & Co.-Thursdsy, December 10,
II Horses, at Van Ness avenue and Market stsp at
II O. clock.
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Trunks Moved as Cents.

Commercial Transfer Company, 43 Suffer st.
Tel main 40. Furniture moved reasonably
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to contain about 500 cubic yards of hydro
gen gas to carry three men and the appa-
ratus with all its accessories.
'sThe whole structure will be constructed
about a central mast of drawn steel
tubing. This will be in three telescope
sections. From the center of the mast
three elongated gas bodies will project at
equal distance, but they will be attached
in such manner that they can be raised
or depressed, and also moved from side to
side. At the outer extremity of each will
be a propeller, and above and below will
be fastened hollow sail, giving the APP
paratus six sails. Between each gas
body will be stretched stout silken cloth.
In this way will be secured huge circu-
lar aeroplane. In case of accident to the
gas bodies and machinery the whole APP
paratus can be quickly converted into an
immense parachute.
.'All the dead weight, such as the water
and fuel supply. machinery, anchor, wind
lasses for controlling the sails and gas
bodies, and cabin for the captain of the
airship, will be at the lower end of the
mast, thus bringing the center of the
gravity so low as TO always maintain the
equilibrium of the contrivance.
lin starting the huge arm.like gas
bodies are DETECTED earthward, so as to
offer the least possible resistance to the
atmosphere as the apparatus rises and at
the same time the propellers are put in
operation, thus aiding the upward flight
OF the machine. When the one hundred
feet of rope, which is to be attached to
the anchor, is drawn taut the gas bodies
will be drawn to horizontal position and
the anchor will be then hauled aboard.
81 shall, of course. select the most favor
able kind OF weather for the first trial
After the machine has risen to the desired
altitude that one of the gas bodies which
points with the wind will become the
front of the apparatus The other two
will be drawn toward one another so as to
form a huge wedge of the whole apra-
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Blue-eyed cats are always dear. Physi-
ologists have in vain attempted 10 explain
this curious circumstance.
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Missionary Reception.

An interesting reception was rendered yes
terday by the Woman's Occidental Board OF
Foreign Missions to DR.. Fisher and Miss Greer
of North Carolina. DR.. Fisher gave an at.
tractive account of the Protestant college at
Beiroot, Syria, with which he was connected
for five years. Miss Greer, who leaves on
Thursday for the missionary field in Japan,
spoke about the growing interest felt in mis-
sionary work by the women OF North Carolina.
DR.. Surge made few remarks about medical
and missionary work in Siam.
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Mark Hopkins Institute Of Art.
Thirty-sixth exhibition. Concert this tues
/. q
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Kern Cnnntx Gama

At the suggestion of resident sportsmen the
Supervisors of Kern County passed an ordi-
nance which went into effect on the Ist inst.
prohibiting the shipment OF quail or wild duck
out OF the county. II is SAID that the profes-
sional hunters Will fight the ordinance in the
courts. II is, nevertheless, the right move in
the right direction and other counties will
doubtless follow suit.
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All the Known Principles
Of AeronauticS in
Combination.
Not Designed to Carry Either
Freight or Passenger
Trains.
The Inventor of the New Wonder
Assured by Scientists That He
Has a Good Thing.

This is different.
That is to say it is unlike the aerial
wonder whose legal destinies are presided
over by General Hart.
Max Pauly, mechanical engineer and
inventor. who resides at 50415 Minna
street, has constructed model OF flying
machine that differs most radically from
any thing ever before seen on the face of
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prohibiting play for money, but by some
means it was LETT out and a split in the
club Immediately occurred, those who
were opposed to gambling Withdrawing
at ouce and forming other clubs.
The heaviest losers by Wade's gambling
habits are a mum Der of schoolteachers
with whom he had become intimate dur
ing his eighteen years service i'll the
Office.
He was steady and persistent bor-
rover from these friends, and up to to-
day $4,000 in claims of this kind had
turned up against him. There are many
who lose small sums who will never tell
of them out of sympathy for Wade's wife.
The two brokers who purchased the
assistant secretary's November salary de-
mand have been satisfied and there will
be no proceedings against him.
Blue-eYed cats are ALWAYS dear PhYEi-
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ATT O'clock this afternoon there is to be a
debate in the Stanford University on charters
between DR.. Stallard of Menlo Park. who will
sneak in favor of large administrative bodies
TO govern municipality, and j. r. Freud of
the Merchants Association, VINO will speak IN
favor of an executive head OF a city govern
meQt.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

BALDWIN THEATER.--"M oliere" and Captain
Fob"
COLUMBIA THKATER-"The Cotton King"
. y oRosCo's oPERA-HoUsE The Promised
Land"
. ALcAzAR THEArER. Alabama"
1lVoLI OPERA HOUSE, The Brgands"
ORPHEUM-High- Glass Vaudeville.
HE CHUTEs AND SKATING R1NK-DaIIy at
GAlght street, one block of the Park.
seaRo kATHs-Bathlng and performance,
AclFIc COAST JOCKEY C1,r1s.-Races to-day
MECHANICS PAVILIoN-Annual Horse Show,
commencing Wednesday, December 8.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-08

to-. Then n hole is knocked into the en-
teHtc corlialc rs b;g rs the general deliy-
cry window in a country postoilice. Mrs.
Jones Indignantly returns all the parchel
coffee. baking powder. etc. She has Dor
rowCd. The Smiths cat comes over the
fence 10 be caresSed and COOS back howl
Ing with most of her hide off.
Tommy Smith has been holding Il con
vcrsation with the Jones boy. and he re
turns home with his chin piled up under
his ear and one eye trying to look like
the stopper Of an old ink bottle. and 50
To the end of the chapter.
No. it cannot be conceded that ST. Val
e%ntinc's Day is causing the spread of too
much peace on earth and good will toward
man.
In each and every neighborhood there
i ut least one Mr.. Mcanman. or Mrs.
Spitcful. who takes advantage of the OPP
p%ortunity 10 get even with everybody.
The unfortunate dude is sure to be re-
mcnbered. Everybody knows that he i
a sort of tailor's goose, Il fifiy-cent man
in Il iifty-dollar suit; but he has his mis-
sion i'll life. He is a danger sign. teach
ing men what to avoid. He usually gels
4 picture of a monkey. Very likely the
man who sends him the valentine puts
his soup plate up to his mouth at dinner
and makes Il sound like the exhaust of q
bath tub.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-08
She Would Know.

I r22 across old job Holloway. the
E.Eiiou- coach driver o. half q ccntary
ago, yesterday. He i not less than
eighty now. once l rode with him on
tie National turnpike through Virginia.
There YER eve pasSengers-Six men
and an old maid. TIE latter com
piailed of ore thrOGs one. morrlng,
and inquired of the mca now itcouz,l be
cared. Each said that he lI;;d been 4
ylsGsm at some time OF other. bur lad
forgotten how he had managed To get
rit Ok it. Finally, the eldest nan IN the
party said hat he hal arbadcase when
he was young. but nat lie cune he
used wouldn't do the old lazy any good.
~ FIRST she thought this vas Il reflec-
tom upon her age. but. being of Il senSi-
lie mind, she Determined 10 press him
Tor his prescription.
But there is no lso telling yoa, mad
an he protested. 1T won't 40 you
eny good"
I'm sure it Will she urged. 'eDo
pii ire. l will certainly ny itett once
Thus driven to il. hc said: Il lust Det
aRy beard grow ~andeg5r2y chil"-New-
York Press.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-08

ingtiiat cxcels it for feed aa..l nothing tlEt
St.ials the dry. hot Winds. and always
Keeps growing like it HIS experience
Shows that the kaifir corn IN his region,
should be put iato tla. ground as early
Is other corn. and the utaTe it is cElti-
vsted the bctt ar; thit it can be cu7 for
feed three tim ~, III early summer.
While there, seems. to hA a good deal to
be said in fi,Hor os the new corn. there
are. of cour~i,. two sides To the question
as applied IN Il region 80 far meth rs
South Oak TIA. a resident of Watfrtown,
who spent fiftees years in South Africa,
the regic,i from which the Cs,sn was
brought tO. this country. saw che corn
grow tn are time and again, and expressed
the OPT Mon that il will not praye Il sue
cess il the Dakota climatN He has
never. witnessed any experiments with it
here. however, therefore his opinion is
wholly superficial. but adds that he does
knew that ever in the warm climate OF
Africa the corn crop was II failure fol
three or four seasons.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-08
Lincoln a. = Poet

I. j. McMunn. of san Antonio. Tex.
says: An old friend of mine named
Cabaniss recently told me that Abraham
Lincoln worked for his father in ISL.
1t thai time Il great rise occurred i'm the
S~anganon river. ana q steamboat. taking
advantage of the high wafer, came up the
stream. My friend was then a child. ana
the WhistliEg of the boat frightened him.
Lincoln. then Il tall. angular young man.
took him in his arms and carried him
aboard the boat. After the departure Of
the craft Lincoln wrote some rhymes
about the incident. one verse of which the
Ca5aniSs family preserved. 1t runs thus:
The Illinois Suckers. green and raw,
Collected on he'Sangamaw
To see a boat come up the stream:
They surely thought il was a dream.
For this do,gerel he invented 4 melody.
and he and others sang it. The sons
never found its way into print. The elder
Cabaniss always told his children that
the amiablc. kindly LincoIn would de-
velop into n great man"
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-08
AnecdOte of Lincoln.

once during the argument IN Il lawsuit,
in which Lincoln represented one party.
the lawyer on the other SIDE was Il good
deal of i glib talker. but not reckoned rs
deeply profound or much Of 4 thinkec.
lie would say anything To Il jury which
happened Ia enter his head. Lincoln. in
his address TO the jury, referring To this,
said:
My friend on the other side IS all right.
or would be all right. were il not for the
popularity | am about 10 chronicle. His
habit-of which You have witnessed a very
painful specimen in his argument to yol
in his case-of reckless assertion and
statements without grounds, need not he
imputed to him as IL moral fault. or as
telling of a moral blemish. lie can't help
il. For REASONS which. gentlemen Of the
jury. you and | have not the time 80 study
here, as deplorabie as they are surprising.
the oratory of the gentleman completely
Suspends all action OF his mine The mo.
ment he begins 10 talk. his mental opera
tons cease.
Il never knew of but one thing which
compared with my friend in this p~articu-
lar. That was Il small steamboat. Back
in the days when | performed my part
rs a keel boatman. l made the acluaint-
ance of a triiling little steamboat which
used to hustle and puff and whecze about
the Sangamon river. 1t had Il tivc-foot
boiler and Il seven-fo0t whistle, and every
time it whistled it stopped"
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-08

Seurat. who WAS shown m a living
skeleton in England in Isl. Was p
years cid. lie was > fec - inches
high. ana his bones were merely cov-
cred with his dry parchment skin. The
upper joints Of the arms were / inche:
round. The distance from the chest
10 the backbone was but > inches. The
shoulder blade bones We're scarcely IN
inch aSunder. His appetite was good.
The %pulsation of the heart was visible
to Tie eye.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-08
Davs Of t.'nrrY-ninc.

The vast majority of Jhc SoarchcrS for
for The golden fleece" were in the
bloom Of early man1ood. Few had
reached middle age. and scarcely one in
Il thousand was beyond the meridian
Of life. Arriving here between the ages
Of twenty and thirty wears. they would.
according to natures inex0tible laws.
end their early pilgrimage ut or be
fore the three score and zen years al
IOtted TO mortalS.
OF 100 senior mcmi ers, Of the Pioneer
Society on the rosterToW living. thirty
six were born in 1919. tlairty-four in
1890. t%hirty-five in 1921. forty-onc in
1872. fifty-nine in 1928. fisty-two III
1874. fifty-five in 1923, and tifsy-four in
1876.
The three oldest a%rganauts GA 9he roll
of the survivors are Admiral Se!fridge.
Eorn i'll 1905; CaptaiEsJoh Snort, in
1s07; and Francis Roland, liz $500.
in the van of the pioneer 1eet was
THE Christoval Colon. she bei1ec 0ne OF
the first four vessels to sail from
Gotham. ON January {. 1S49. se start
ell on her voyage Of d~iscoyery." and,
by sn apt coincidence. The craft bore
the name Of the Genoa navigator. The
skipper had an ominous suTnaine1Cof-
fin. And when. three days ai3arward.
in tea Gulf stream. off Cape Eiatteras.
That graveyard of seameD, the gallant
craft was dismasted i'll Il hurricane, we
felC that the only Coffin aboard woald
30 down with the rest OF Us "a CSvy
.Tones' locker. But the stoIt snip C@n9e
sut OF her fight with old Neptune and
Doresss right side up after lying all
night on her beam ends. But she bad
. pat INTO Rio for repaiss@-tiE Iran
aihco AN.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-08
Following l-;asrucfinns.

Tie boy hung beck @lten the visitor
spoke of him. and lis agyther was nat-
uraiiy annoyed.
Won't you 20 70 Ms Brown, Will
iic:' She said.
No" replied fhe boy saortIy.
Don't YOU ike me:.' .rske,i Mrs.
Brown. good-n5rLredly.
NO. | don't" answered. rs boy.
why. Willie cSolaimeG his mother,
reproachfully.
Well. l guess 7 got licked for not
telling the truth Yesterday aand 1 amt
iakin' no chances today protested
the boy.-Chicago Evening Post.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-08
ST. VALENTINES DAY.
A Chapter on Some of Its Romantic
and Humorous Phases.

st. Valentines Day IS again in peri
hclioa. To use an astronomical expression
nvith the 18th day Of February. There
tire III wears in politics. but ~. Nalcr-
tine never fails To be OH deck ut the ap-
1pinted day.
For weeks previous The shop windows
are ali broken out with an epidemic of
CANDY pictures of utterly impossible men
and women. 80 srotcsque are these fresh
laid pictorial horrors and anatomical
shoulders, and hUrric~ past under the i'm
sressiom that ne has "'cm" again.
Once more the poor swaybackcd letter
yarrier >;aSgerS along with his bag 81 full
Shat il seems to need immediate treatment
Tor TAe dropsy. Usually the letter car
sier'> rag contains only three letters. b. Il
pnd :. Of course. hut on 81. Valentines
pay il holds MANI more. He certainly
-Fas not consulted when this custom was
Ftaried. However. the custom of sending
pictorial love letters full of Cupids and
comic valentines has fallen into compara-
tive neglect. 1t no longer has a majority
:5n the Senate. At present the only person
Who gets any large number of valentines
j. the peer letter carrier himself. lie gets
several hundred or more.
y. Valentine has generally been sus-
arc1cG o. being the guilty originator of the
."4~,olns peculiar 10 this day. but he can
establish an alihi. He didn't have any
thnng more to do with it than he had with
writing the Murchison letter. or pcrpc-
fratins tie W~hitcchapcl plcaSantrics.
Nobody by the name of Valentine had
lRythins - do with the prevailing GUS
IONS. An ignorant frontierSman. by the
nalae al Gazely. got into trouble by not
knowing this fact. He received Il valcn-
tine tina: made him mad. His cholcr. like
his collar. needed To be- but.oucd down
sivht "a keep it in It's place. lie knew that
1hcrc Vas a man named sam Valentine
kecriag Il livery stable in a ncishboring
1own. AMI supposed hc WAS the man 10 be
held responsible. He went To that town
and began making abrupt remarks TO
Sam Valentine with Il pistol. Sam. who
was not q saint. replied with Il double-bar-
f'elcfI musical instrument. and when the
due was over. tiaZcly went home in an
see box with more aDertures in him than