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The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

A number of prominent people have of late
interviewed Dr. Jameson and his comrades in
Holloway prison. Recently Lord Rosebery
and Sir F. Lockwood visited the jail, and
among other notable sympathizers have been
the Countess of Dudley and Lord Annaley.
Each of the prisoners has apartments specially
fitted up for him.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

The reports Of the celebration of Labor
day in all parts of the Union show
marked growth in the power and prestige
of organized labor and that is one of the
best evidences of coming prosperity that
the country can offer.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

A German physician says that Stanley owes
the fact that he alone of those who made up
his party has so long survived the most dan
gerous of his African trips to his having sub.
mitted five times to a transmission of African
blood into his veins, which Is believed in
Africa 30 be great aid to acclimatization.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

The official body that reduces the assess
ments of the Southern Pacific Railroad
and increases those of the people of San
Francisco would probably smell just as
sweet if it were called a Board of Un-
equalization.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

The most absurd thing in the Demo
cratic campaign is the attempt of the
fusionists TO get Kelly to come down in
the Fifth District, when everybody knows
that Kelly is running simply for vindica.
ton, and has got himself fixed so he can't
come down.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

The Pittsburg Dispatch has issued we'll
written and weIl-printed pamphlet bear
ing the title, "a Silver Symposium,
being an analysis of the money Issue and
containing vital facts on free coinage, or
iainaIly embodied in series of articles in
the Dispatch written by James F. Hudson.
The work furnishes answers to the silver
monometallists, and is an important con-
tribution to the sound money side of the
campaign.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

need of her services as heroine in the forth.
coming autumn drama.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09
NEWSPAPER PLEASANTLY.

my papa makes lots of money" said Wallie.
What out Off" asked Johnnie.
Soap said wallie.
"Poohp' said Johnnie. "You can't make
money out o. soap. Moneys made O. gold and
aper and silver."-Harper's Round Table.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

One good accomplished by the gold
Democrats in nominating ticket is the
saving of the Republican party from the
possibility of Cleveland hoodoo. Until
Palmer and Buckner were put up on a
straight gold platform, there was always
danger that Grover would say something
in favor of Mckinley.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

The fact that so able speaker as Ma
guire failed to draw an audience to hear
him speak at the State Fair on the silve-
question is proof that the people are
getting weary of the subject. 1t has be-
come a thrice-told tale in this State and
the campaign of education on that issue
is complete to- the satisfaction of the
masses.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

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The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09
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Business Ohace will receive prompt attention.
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The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION
and PROSPERITY.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09

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The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, Of Ohio

FOR vICE-PRESIDENT-
GARRET 4. HOBART, Of NeF Jersey
ELECTION NOVEMBER 3. 1896.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-25
KleptOmAnia.

To believe French writer, there are no fewer than four thousand women caught every year in stealing during their shopping expeditions, a habit eu- phoniously styled kleptomania. The number of titled ladies seized with this strange malady while examining the fashions of Paris, he tells us, is incred- ible. Among the most recent culprits were Russian duchess, a French countess, an English duchess and the daughter of reigning sovereign. As a rule, these distinguished offenders are let off on the payment of round sum for the relief of the poor; when the shoplifter is known to be rich, the sum extracted rises to as much as ten thousand francs. The police authori- ties consent to this sort of conformation.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-25
J. B. Early, J. A. Kdlroy, Jerry Millay

J. B. Early. J. A. Kilroy, Jerry Millay, I. N. Bell, Robert Hudson, c. w.. Grouse, c. M. Sturges. D. M. Purmar Wm. Freeze, Lincoln Fowler, Chas. W. Pugh, N. A. Morford, T. J. Wolfley, F. A. Hartwell, M. H. Calderwood. L. J. Wood, c. M. Frazier.
 Political meetings-Thomas Fitch, M. H. McCord, Jos. H. Kibbey.
 Correspondence T. J. Wolfey, J. B. Early, J. A. Kilroy.
 Primaries-Pierce Evans, T.. M. Purman, c. M. Frazier, T. J. Wolfey W. H. Stillwell, Lincoln Fowler, I. N. Bell.
 Reception-Jerry Millay, W. A. Han cock, c. W. Johnstone, c. W. Grouse, R. A. Lewis, J. D. Monihon, H. Good man.
 Printing-N. A. Morford, c. w. Pugh, c. M. Sturges.
 Naturalization-C. w. Grouse, J. L. Cant, Wm. Webster, Robert Black, Geo. A. Mintz. Order of business-F. A. Hartwell, J. M. Damron, H. Goodman, c. H. Knapp. A. B. Hinton.
 Celebration and transportation Scott Helm, c. Eschman, c. J. Dyer, W. s. Pickrell, G. H. Honshell. Ira P. Smith.
 Executive-Jos. H. Kibbey, G. H. Honshell, Frank B. Moss, H. B. Kemp, M. B. Collins. A. J. Sampson. Organization-Wabster Street, l.. H. Goodrich, J. B. Early, H. B. St. Claire, Jerry Millay. Registration-L. J. Wood, F. A. Hartwell, A. J. Porterie, Robert Hud- son, Wm. Widmer, T. A. Jobs, Wm. Buck, F. Prothero. Finance-J. M. Ford, Wm. Christy, Geo. Hoadley. T. w. Hine, Lincoln Fowler. Programme-C. M. Frazier, c. w. Pugh, J. A. Kilroy, c, w. Grouse, L. B. Hayes. Enrolment of membership-M. H. Calderwood, T. H. Molloy, L. J. Wood, w. H. Ward, M. A. Heissman.
 Political education-A. J. Sampson. Thos, Armstrong, Jr.. H. c. Magne, W. H. Rulings. Walter Bennett.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-25
HUNG IN MlDAIR.
The Perilous Plight of Soldier in Chi
 nese Thibet.

ne60 Tn1Oet.
 An amusing story is told of the Eng fish officer who determined to enter Chinese Thibet by stratagen. He man. aged to cross the frontier at night, and so escaped the guard.
 On the following day, however, while ne officer was journeying deeper into Thibet, the Thibetan soldiers overlook him, and informed him that as the country was unsafe because of rob- bers, they would go with him in order to protect him, to which arrangement the traveller was compelled to agree. In a few hours they came to river, which was crossed by a rope bridge.
 The Thibetans passed over first, in or der to show that the bridge was safe, and then the official got into the moose and was pulled along by the Thibetans, Suddenly, however, they ceased pull ing, and left the Englishman hanging in midair above the rushing torrent.
 In vain the officer shouted to the Thibetans to pull. They merely smoked and nodded their heads. The hours passed, and still the officer hung above the torrent. At last the Thibetans agreed to pull him back if he would leave Tibet immediately. This, of course, he was compelled to do, and took his departure from the forbidden land.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-25
APPLICATION OF A FABLE.
A Sheep's Skin Hides the Form of Hu-
 man Wolf.

Hfan W "O1I.
 The story of the ass who clothed him self in lions skin in order to pass himself off as the king of beasts is well known, but the tale of the thief who got inside sheep's skin to be better able to carry on his nefarious trade has yet to be told, says the London Telegraph. Early one morning two policemen, who were on duty at the slaughter houses of Paris, were aston ished to see a sheep endeavoring to effect an entrance into the inclosure where creatures of it's kind were dou- bled when mans hand protruded from beneath the stolen fleece. Their curi- osity became intensified and they care fully followed the sham animal, who stopped at the pen which inclosed the real article, and with great coolness chose the two largest and fattest of the flock.
 Still observed by the watchful guard ians of the law, this plagiarist of an ancient fable proceeded to kill and cut up his capture, and was on the point of making off with his booty when he found himself in turn the spoil of the law and was quickly marched off to the police station, where he gave his name as Eugene Lassot. From his ac- count he made good living out of his occupation by selling the meat to vari- ous butchers. For some time, at least, it is to be hoped, that the animals at the abattoirs will cease to be sent to an earlier death by the depredations of this latest wolf in sheep's clothing.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-25
ANOTHER ICE PERIOD.
A Predicted Result of Cutting the Isthmus
 of Panama.

A Predicted Result of Cutting the Isthmus
 of Panama.
 "The best scientific authorities pre- dict dire effects from the cutting of a canal through either the Isthmus of Panama or Tehuantepec. The late George R. Marsh said of this that a new ice period might be occasioned by the withdrawal of so important source of warmth from the northern zones, and Sir John Herschel wrote: Were the Isthmus of Panama broken through there is no doubt that the whole climate of our island Great Britain) would un dergo a most notable deterioation.' The sum of $9,0OOO00 has been voted by the legislature of the state of New York for improving the Erie canal sys- tenn; the Hennepin canal has had $1,- 200, ,000 spent on it, and work has stopped until new appropriations can be made. Matt Quay is using his influence for the construction of a ship canal from Pitts burgh to Lake Erie, to cost I6,C00,0 ,000, and ship canal from Philadelphia to New York, besides advocating the ex- penditure of $50,O0O, ,OOO in canalizing the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. One of the most stupendous of these engineering works is the Chicago drainage canal, now in progress, which is to cut the divide which bars the way between Chicago and the Mississippi river. The distance is only 30 miles between Lake Michigan and the Illinois river, and one can easily see the startling nature of union of the great lakes and the father of waters.'"
Arizona republican., 1896-09-25
HAD BEGUN TO PROSPER.

A Periodically Humorous Story Told or
 Cumberland Mountain Farmer.
 writer in the Detroit Free Press tells a pathetically humorous story of a friend of his, Jack Negly, Cumber. land farmer. The writer had lent Jack a few dollars, with which to buy pair of steers, and had received from him many visits of apology; for Jack was an honest man, and did not enjoy being in debt.
 He was a renter, and at least every other season he was occupying dif- ferent farm. By my advice, he had moved the year before into an entirely new field, a dozen miles from his usual baunts, and I had not seen him for several months. When did see him, at last, it was by accident as business called me into his neighborhood. As I rode past his place he hailed me from the corn-field and came cut to the fence
 "Rello," I exclaimed. "Is this your farm?"
 "Yes, and I jist come over to tell you, colonel, that I'll be ready to pay part of that claim uv your'n afore long"
 '''You must be doing well?"
 q think I'm doing fust-rate, and I'm powerful obleeged to you, colonel, fer headin' me this way"
 "I'm always glad to help, if l can."
 q knowed that, colonel, and that's why I come away over here so fer frum home. Hits kinder strange to me, but ez long ez I'm doin ez well ez am I'm a-goin' to stand hit"
 Are you making any money?"
 Jim's face brigbtened perceptibly.
 "No, ain't, colonel" he replied, hope fully; "but I'm losin' it slower'n ever done in my life afore."
 It struck me as rather odd at first, but upon reflection I concluded that Jim might have reason for his hopefulness.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-25
Red Mans Medicine.

The Indian pharmacopeia comprised thoroughwort, spurge and Indian hemp, used as emetics; the bark of the horse chestnut and butternut, used as caohartics. They were also acquainted with many poisons, most of which they used on their weapons. For asthma they employed tobacco and sassafras. for coughs, slippery elm; for dropsy, the wild gooseberry; for wounds, pow dered puff balls. They treated boils with onion .ponltices.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-25
A Barber's Formidable Sign.

Over the shop of barber in the Isle of Man, who supplies his customers with all kinds of fishing tackle, may be read: "Piscatorial Repository, Ton sorial Artist, Physiognomical Hair dresser, Cranium Manipulator, Capil- lary Abridger, Shaving and Haircutting with Ambidextrous Facility, Shampoo ing on Pathological Principles"
Arizona republican., 1896-09-25
REPUBLICAN, LEAGUE OFFICERS
 AND COMMITTEES.

Oficers-C. M. Frazier. president; Pierce Evans, vice-pr esident: Wade H. Hullngs, second vice-president; T. A. Jobs. secretary; T. W. Hine, treasurer.
 Board of directors-Pierce Evans. chairman, Thos. D. Molloy, secretary: ]. M. Ford, treasurer: A. J. Sampson.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-25

 Addition.

But, notwithstanding they are now in tn city itself, there are few lots for sale yet lat prices corresponding with the "Sound Money Doctrine" of President Cleveland and his cuckoos, which means that kind of a dollar which will buy two dollars worth of property. These lots are near the new elec- tric car line which is now in operation. The lots are in the city and their occupants do not need to ride into town, but the presence of electric street cars is popular and adds market value to the property. Inside of five years this will be business property. Buy lot now for residence and when business crowds you out the rents will SUD- port you in house outside in some addition where you can keep horse and drive into town and collect your rents. Terms, cash
 5 in one year, in two years at 10 per cent interest.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-25
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

The following Is the electoral vote of the states as based upon the apportion- ment act of Feb, T. 1891:
The morning times., 1896-06-07

AT first the pupil often fails because he
moves his limbs too quickly; but lie will
not attain his purpose, and thus wearies
himself in vain. He will be unsuccessful
at first If he strikes too far down with
his hands against the water for by so
doing he raises his shoulders and a por
tion of his chest above the surface of
the water, and thus throws a much greater
part of his weight on that portion of the
body which is under water.
Swimming viii be much easier if the
limbs are moved properly and the mouth
and nose are allowed To remain under
the water Il portion Of the time.
The order OF succession of the arms and
leg movements will be different in real
swimming While these instructions treat
the last as first, in actual swimming the
extending of the arms is the first of each
single stroke, ami the legs come into play,
so that the arms ana legs act alternately.
The invigorating exercise swimming
gives to those muscles which are used in eX-
tending the leg is such tina even those who
have developed these muscles some what
by the best athletic exercise find them much
more developed in learning TO swim. The
expansion of the chest is also great advan-
tagc. To derive the full benefit of this it
is recommended to swim on the back.
To rest easily on the back the head must
be held back ward, so that the ears are under
water, and the abdomen must be expanded
as much as possible. The arms, with the
palms flat on the water, must be held down
close to the sides of the body, so that only
the hands may be used to beat do wn against
the water To swim while on the back
strike with the legs as in ordinary swim
ming. Draw up the hands TO the shoulder
The morning times., 1896-06-07

DR.. Jacques provided 100 iron pots, each
> inches deep and one and one-halr inches
in diameter. These were set in ten rows
of ten each, and suspended over CRATE,
the whole being bricked in TO retain the
heat. In each of these suitable amount
of caustic soda was put, and this was
fused by fire beneath. Then on each
cylinder of carbon was suspended, and the
carbon in each pot was connected by wire
with the rim of the next adjoining pot.
POWER FROM THE DEVICE.
Wires leading from the first pot and the
last carbon constituted the terminals of the
generator. Reaching down into each pot
was an air tube, and these were all so
.anf.nc ted above asto take air from force
pump. The terminals being connected
through series OF incandesceDt lamps,
current was generated which caused them
to glow, the pump being driven by a
motor actuated by small portion of the
current.
At this point DR.. jacques invited Pro-
fessors Rowland and Cross and Stoue and
Webster to examine the apparatus ana
make tests Of its efficiency. In his report
Prof. Rowland said:
1T has long been known that, ir the
oxygen OF the air, or free oxygen, could
he made to combine with carbon in such
a way as to produce electrical energy,
instead of heat, an enormous economy
would be effected. DR.. Jacques has ac-
complished this and l believe he is the
first who has done so. Not only is DR..
Jacques the first to my knowledge to
The morning times., 1896-06-07

direction of Prof. Cross. DR.. Jacques had
operated thirty 16-candle incandescent
lamps at full bTlliaucy and it was de
sired that the amount OF carbon consumed
be ascertained and a comparison made
With the amount required to do the saIne
work by using present methods. 1t was
found that to maintain these lights for
eighteen and three-quarters hours required
the consumption in the pots, by oxidation,
of about eight pounds of coal. 1t was also
found that the average pressure was ninety
volts and that the average amount of
current was sixteen amperes. It was also
determined, by careful measurements, and
calculations based thereon, that the cleo
tricaI energy actually obtained from one
pound of carbon consumed in the pots was
50 per cent of the theoretical.
In connection with this, was stated that
III large plants, with boiler, engine and
dynamo, the average energy obtained from
d pound of coal is but 6 per cent of the
theoretical.
In these tests the amount OF coal con-
sumed in keeping the electrOlyte contained
in the pots at the required temperature was
not taken into account the reason given
would be much smaller in . generator of
larger size" In this connection the report
says: lit is. perhaps, fair to say that we
may expect the carbon electric generator to
yield ten time as much electricity per pound
of carbon as does good average steam
engine dynamoplaut." Inthis sestimate the
The morning times., 1896-06-07
of them how old they were, but nobody

of them how old they were, but nobody
knew.
Probably because so many of them are
native Africans, speaking TO this day the
Congo or Youraba language. They were
captured when young from slave ships. The
British cruiser Sappho landed 900 at
Nassau in S3S. They were apprenticed TO
reputable families and well brought up.
Many of them bear, tile names Of the best
Nassau citizens.
Some of them wear tattooed marks or
their African origin upon their faces. Their
chara cter averages better than that OF the
Bahama blacks, who were emancipated
The negroes constitute four-fifths or the
whole population. They take no undue ad-
vantage of the fact.
They are admitted to the ballot on the
same terms as the whites, encouraged to
make the best of themselves and all worthy
success is appreciated
At d HORTICULTURAL lawn party on the
government house spacious grounds | saw
the governor, Sir Frederick Haynes-Smith,
engaged in courteous conversation with
por;ly and MISUNDERSTANDING colored
man of the same name, who is a member
of the colonial parliament and has been
postmaster of Nassau.
MANY well-dreSSed and weil-mannered
colored people We're on the grounds. They
were politely treated; the excellent musi-
clans were all colored. When they played
God Save the Queen" all heads were un-
covered and the people forthwith dispersed.
Governor General Smith is "A courtly gentle
The morning times., 1896-06-07

show how the oxygen of the air, or free
oxygen, may be made 10 combine with
carbon To produce electrical energy. but
he is the first to show, SO far as | know,
any practically operative process by which
electricity may be produced through the
oxidation OF carbon
Prof. Cross, under whose supervision
the tests were made, has prepared au ex-
tenSiye report, in the course OF which he
says:
When Dr.. jacques firsj showed me his
electrical generator / recognized at once
tnat he had succeeded in Offering a con
tinuous Development OF electricity from
the oxidation of carbon, such as had pre-
viously been sought fo- in vain by lie many
persons vino has essayed To attain the
same results. This is not a process
in which there is ordinary combustion. in
vulving a conversion of the potential
chemical energy of carbon into heat with
an accompanying incidental and slight pro-
duction of electricity, bat one in which
the potential energy of the carbon is trans
formed into electral energy without the
development of heat to any material ex
tent. thus removing it entirely from de
vices in which ordinary combustion OF the
carbon and electrolyte takes place
TESTS PROVED SATISFACTORY.
The tests alluded to were conducted by
Stoue s. Webster of Boston, under the
The morning times., 1896-06-07
to perform its function of carrying air t

To perform its function of carrying air to
the carbon as long as the supply lasted.
Il was found the carbon and the pot being
connected by wire, that d curreDtof COnSid-
cradle volume flowed through il, and that,
within limits the amount OF that current
was proportioned to tue volume of air sup
piled. 1t was also shown that the cbulG
tion produced in the mass by the passage of
the air through it had the effect OF keeping
the surface or the carbon free from particles
of ash and other impurities. aud that it had
other advantages as well.
A gentleman who has followed DR.. JAG
ques experimental work closely aud IS aC
quainted with all the details of the inven-
tion has furnished the Western Electrician
a description of the process and 4 photo
graph, from which the accompanying pic
ture was made The illustration shows
corner in DR.. jacques experimental lab
oratory. An early form of the carbon eiec-
trio generator, which has now been in Op-
GRAFTON six months, is seen TO the left, the
tops of the 100 cells shO wing, with their
connections. To the right of this is the air
pump, driven by portion of the current
generated, apd above it, on the wall, De
electric lamps operated The two switches
on the small shelf are used, the Que for
switching that portion of the current used
for the pump, the other for cutting the
lamps in and out of the circuit.
For the construction of this generator