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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1896-03-13

Nuestro distinguido amigo ell sefior
= don Francisco Bast6n y Cort6n, ha
recibido la infausta nueva de haber
fallecido recientemente en- la Penfn.
= sula, su sefaor hermano don Severe,
persona que fu6 muy estimada en- esta Ca.
pital, donde reside largos ai1os. Crea
nuestro repetido y estimado amigo don
Francisco, que, de todo coraz6n, le acom.
pafamos en- su justfsimo pesar.-R. I. P.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1896-03-13
y servir de OCCASION de medro los rebel.
SEGUROS MARITIMOS Y CONTRA
IN1NENDI0S -Mullan hnff y K K0rhar

-Establecidos en- 1878.-Represen-
tan poderosas Compaffas y asegu-
ran 8 precios convencionales.-
l. A-demnizaci6n con prontitud y liberia.
lidad sin necesidad de recurrir las Of
cfnas principales.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1896-03-13

Completeness un apreciable amigo re-.
de nuestro estimado colega
SsEl Pafs," el siguiente suelto:
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Lopsided Arcnments.-

Silverites claim that a single stand ard of value is as unnatural as Q one legged man or q one-winged bird, and that the use of gold and silver to meas ure values would be consistent with mans use of two hands, two eyes and two ears. The attempt to rest an argu. ment on such a dimsy foundation is characteristic of free-coinage reason ing. Yet 1t is for whimsical notions like this that the voters are asked to favor revolution in the countrys financial system. There is no analogy between the illustrations given by the silYerites and the selection of a single form of wealth by which to measure all other property. Nature has not made all things in pairs, else the free-coinage advocates would have been supplied with two heads, two noses, and, worst of all, two tongues. In that case it would have been impossible to estab. fish parity between the volume of circulating cheap-money talk and the lung power of the average populist. When farmer mows with two scythes, chops with two axes, digs with two spades and measures with two rules. each of different material. size or length, it will be time enough to try and use two kinds of metal having different values as means of measuring the value of all commodities.
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done with his kites. The first is 10 take pictures with a camera suspended in midair by means of kites. The cam era Is inclosed in small case. and IS fastened to the kite string in such manner that it will point toward the earth. Of course, it is q difficult mat ter to take pictures in this way, as the shutter of the camera must be oper- ated by means of small string extend ing down to the ground. In the course of these experiments Mir. Eddy has spoiled many plates, but he has also obtained some excellent photographs. The second interesting thing which Mir. Eddy has accomplished is to draw a current of electricity from the upper air along a wire supported by his kite string. He is able to do this not only during the presence of thunderstorms but also on the clearest days, thus prov ing the constant presence of electricity in the upper atmosphere. The appar- atus by which this atmospheric clec- tricity is conveyed to the ground con- sists of an electric collector and fine copper wire extending down along the llite-string. The electric collector is simply q wooden frame about two by three feet with mosquito netting coat ed with tinfoil. At the lower end of the line brass rod is set upright in the earth. and the electric current is drawn off into that and grounded. The pos sibleresults in case this current of elec- tricity drawn from the upper air could be turned to mechanical uses. are dag zling indeed. This is the problem on which Mr. Eddy is now working, and in which others are likely to interest themselves. If they succeed it may mean revolution in the production of electricity. Then the "harnessing of the lightning" will at last have been ac- complished, and the problem pro- pounded and partly solved by Franklin will have been worked out to it's full solution. How near or how far dis tant the day is which shall witness this nobody can tell as yet.
 E. ". MAYO.
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titudes kites of various sizes are used
 and they are flown in tandems- that is, several kites are attached to one string. Tn sending out gang of kites small one is liberated first. When il has taken
 as much string as it can carry in line practically straight, kite number two is attached by small leader, or string of it's own. to the main line. This process is then repeated; and as many as ten kites have been sent up in one gang. The height reached by B tandem of kites seems almost incredible to one who has not seen their marvellous
 flight. The greatest altitude ever at tained by means of kites was reached by Mr. Eddy on November 7, 1893, with gang of nine, the highest of which ascended 5,595 considerably more than a mile. Many flights of over 5000
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TO MAKE A ROOM INVITING.
A Few Timely suggestioas for the House
 wife.

A Few Timely Suggestions for the House
 wife.
 have seen very ugly rooms on which people had spent heaps of money, and there are lovely ones which have cost their owners very little beyond good taste and the exercise of common sense and care. In the first place, cleanliness in room is in itself great beauty. Make war or every bit of dust, every cobweb, every spec4 and stain. X per fectly clean room,, although quite bare of ornament, is inviting and when it's owner puts in her little individual touches, her books on hanging shelf, which her brother can make fer her, or which she can buy for 40 or 50 cents, her fayorite engrayings, cut from illus trated papers if she chooses and simply taclSed on the wall, her pot of primroses on the windowsill her toilet table draped with white net over pink silesia. her plain scrim curtains at the window tied back with bits of ribbon, the room will be dainty and pretty enough to please the most fastidious. If you have not much to do with, manage with what you have, is good rule for girls to fol- low.
 A carpet is by no means a necessity in any sleeping-room. In fact, many people prefer a stained or painted floor. with a rug which may be easily lifted and shaken X small wooden rocking chair, table or stand for a candlestick, two-leayed screen, which you can make yourself, and a little rack over your washstand for your towels, and then, with a nicely made bed, the room will be complete.
 Ones own room is so dear to every girl that I do not wonder she prizes it. One must have hours when it is pleasure to be alone. One likes to be by herself at times, to think and read and plan. After little space of solitude we go back to others rested and cheered. Where sisters share the same apart ment, each should have her corner, divided from the other part of the room either by curtains of by screens, so that when they prefer to be alone they may be so. In some schools which have known there are 20 minutes or half-hour intervals during tho day, when every pupil is required to be by herself. and in home life girls who can should try to adopt similar rule -Harper's Round Table
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SCIENTIFIC KlTE-FLY1NG
Tailless Kites That Will Ascend
 Many Thousand Feet.
Flying Ten Kites in Tandem-Controlled by windIass-LIfe-saving Kites Scientific Notwithstanding
 the LightnIng.''
IcopYR1eHr. 1896. l


 Who flew the first kite?
 The question is one that cannot be answered. It may be that in the boy hood of Confucius, thousands of years ago, that great Chinese sage amused himself by trailing some bright-hued dragon across the sky. Certainly kite flying has been the national pastime in China for many centuries. The kite figures in history, too. Every school boy knows of Franl<lins kite with which he "snatched the lightning from the clouds, and of the lad whose kite carried over the chasm the first line used in building the great suspension bridge at Niagara Falls. The kite, you see, is something more than toy; and of late there has been great reviy- al of interest in kite flying. The scien lists, who are continually seeking for new instruments with which to pry into the secrets of nature, have taken it up as an aid in making important dis coyeries. The boy whose experience Tn kite flying has been limited to induc- Ing a pasteboard affair with a long tail to ride on brisk wind some 50 or 60 feet in air will be surprised to learn of the many interesting things that he can do with kites of the latest pattern.
 There are at least two men in this country who devote all their spare time to the flying of kites, and who have carried the art to an almost in- credible degree of perfection. They are MT. Gilbert T. Woglom, of New York, and Mir William A. Eddy, of Bayonne, N. J. Mir. Woglom has done all his kite flying in one of the public squares of the city, while Mir. Eddy was carried on experiments in different parts of the country; they have both sent up kites to the height of thousands of feet.
 The first requisite for scientific kite flying, according to MT, Eddy, is to abandon the old-fash;oned tail. This
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he learned by experience, and he tells of it as follows:
 T began my experiments with the ordinary coffin-shaped kite with long tail. Later I adopted the hexagonal kite, which differs from the others only in having it's sides of equal length. When I began sending the kites up in tandems. 1 found that the walls were apt to become entangled in the main string, causing the encountered kite to hang head downward, dead weight on all the others. In 1891 gentleman from Cape Town, Africa, told me that he had seen the natives flying square tailless kites, but he could give me no idea of their proportions. It then oc- cured to me that by doing away with the tails 1 could fly any number of kites together, and I began to work on the problem. The kite that l evolved has been named the Eddy kite; about the only thing it has in common with it's prototype, the Malay kite, is the bulg ing cross-piece.
 The advantages of the tailless kites over the ordinary kind are that they  will sail in a lighter breeze, will fly in tandems. and will rise to a much great CT height. The Eddy kite may be re- garded the most perfect form reached in kite construction. With the aid of the diagrams and the accompanying de- scription any bright boy can make either the Eddy or the Malay kite, and will find in them source of continual amusement and instruction.
 In large kite intended to make high ascensions, an important part is the string. It must be the stoutest obtain able, and of the lightest weight. 1t should have a breaking strength of from 25 to 75 pounds, according to the force of the winds it is used ir. In any case not more than one-third of the breaking strength should be used, two thirds being kept in reserve for an emergency. Irish flag eordage is a good material; but for very high fly ing silk cord Is the best, as it possesses the greatest strength for it's weight
 Both Mir. Eddy and MT. Woglom have in their kite "stabies" from 50 to 75 kites of all styles and all sizes, rang ing from a few inches up to nine feet in diameter. For attaining great sl-
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feet have been made, and both Mir. Woglom and Mir. Eddy are confident that they will yet send kites to height of two miles.
 It is no easy matter to manage a string of kites half B mile or more in the air. If one man attempted to con- trol them he would be quickly carried off his feet; and in fact such accidents have frequently happened. For high ascensions the line is paid out from a windIass, securely set in the ground and operated by means of crank. Some idea of the amount of labor in- volved in such an ascent as the one of 5.595 feet referred to above may be had from the fact that on that occasion the process of releasing the kites began at 7:30 a. m., and the greatest altitude was not reached until three p. m. 1t was ten o'clock at night before the last of the kites reached the ground. Some thing over 6,000 feet of twine was paid out in this trip.
 Of the practical and scientific uses to which the kite has been put, one of the most familiar is that of life-saving, The life-saving kite is the invention of Mr. J. Woodbridge Davis, and is designated to carry a line between stranded ves- sel and the shore. Its utility for this purpose has been proved by practical tests.
 Two interesting things Mir. Eddy has
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Why Ahuse Gnld2

The less courageous of the free coin age advocates pretend that they want to use both gold and silver as meas ures of value, and deny that they wish to drive out gold. They call thenl- selves "bimetallists," yet demand the coinage of silver at Q ratio so far abo1e its real value that gold would be at q. premium of nearly 30 per cent. At the same time they denounce gold as the money of monopolists and bank CTS, declare that it is the enemy of tho people, and protest against the govern ment keeping its various forms of currency on parity with gold. No reasonable man expects that gold would remain in this country if it was at q premium of 40 or 90 per cent, and it is therefore certain that free coinare would result in silver monometallis1n And that is the end toward which tbe
 heap metal agitators are really work. ing. But if they must pose as favorinc double standard, why do they always abuse gold2
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UNFORTUNATE MILLIONAIRE.
Hidden Sorrows of PIutocracy, for Which
 There Is No Sympathy.

Hidden Sorrows of PIutocracy. for Which
 There Is No sympathy.
 Tn reviewing the advertisements of the manufactures of the country l find that everything is produced for the mil. lion and nothing for the millionaire. Children. boys, youths, gents" ladies, artisans, professional men, even peers and kings, are catered for, but the mil' lionaire's custom is evidently not worth having-there are too few of him While the poorest have their rag fair, duly organized and busy market in Houndsditch, where you can buy boot for penny, you may search the world in vain for the market where the boot for { 50, the special cheap line of hats at 40 guineas, the eloth-of-gold b.. cycling suit and the Cleopatra elaret. four pearls to the bottle, can be pur, chased wholesale. Thus the unfortu- nate millionaire has the responsibility of prodigious wealth without the pos sibiIity of enjoying himself more than any ordinary rich man. Indeed, in many things he cannot enjoy himself more than many poor men dc, nor even so much; for a drum major is better dressed. trainers stable lad often rides better horse, the first-elass car. riage is shared by office boys taking their young ladies out for the evening, everybody who goes down 10 Brighton for Sunday rides in the Pullman car and of what use is it to be able to pay for a peacock 's-brain sandwich when there is nothing to be had but ham or beef?
 The injustice of this state of things has not been sufficiently considered. A man with an income of e25 q year can multiply his comfort beyond all calculation by doubling his income. A man with f 50 year can at least quadruple his comfort by doubling his income. Probably up to 925o year doubled income means doubled com- fort. After that the increment of com. fort grows less in proportion to the in. crement of income, until a point Is reached at which the victim is satiated and even surfeited with everything that money can procure. To give him another { 100000, under the impression that you are benefting him, on the general ground that men like money. is exactly as if you were to add two hours to the working day of con. ifeetioner's shopboy on the general ground that boys are fond of sweets. What can the wretched millionaire dc that needs million?
 Does ne want a fleet of yachts, Rot ten row full of carriages, an arnsy of servants, whole city of town houses or contingent for q game preserve Can he attend more than one theater in one evening, or wear more than one suit at a time, or digest more meals than his butler? Is it q luxury to have more money to take care of, more beg ging letters to read, and to be cut off from these delicious Alnaschar dreams in which the poor man, sitting down ito consider what he will do in the al- ways possible event of some unknown relative leaving him fortune, forgets his privation? And yet there is no sympathy for this hidden sorrow of plutocracy. The poor alone are pitied. London Contemporary Review.
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THE eARMER,s INTEREST.
How He wou1d Be Affected by Cheap
 DoIlars-Q Quantities and Values.

DoIlars-Ouantities and Values
 The effect of the free coinage of silver, which is desired by nine-tenths of the people who favor it. would be to sub- stitute for the present dollar dollar worth half as much. It is alleged that this would substantially double prices, wheat would be worth $1.44 instead of 72 cents. and on this ground the cheap money scheme has a good deal of fas- cination for farmers, who have been sui fering seriously from the low prices at which they have had to sell thelr prod ucts.
 Will the farmers take the trouble to ask themselves how they would be any better off if they got twice as many dol lars for their wheat and corn, but each dollar was. as it is proposed to make it, worth just half of the present dollar? If an act of congress made 16 quarts a Enshel the number of bushels of wheat in the country would be doubled, but the quantity of wheat would not be in creased by a single grain, nor the value of the wheati in the country be increased by d single cent. We take it that no farmer needs to have this explained to him. Two bushels of 16 quarts are ex- actlv equal to one bushel of 32 quarts Nothing is gained by changing the size of the measure of quantity. No more would the galae be changed by chang ing the measure of value.
 suppesing that the silver dollar were substituted forthegold dollar and prices had doubled. All prices would be af- fected. Tot alone the prices of agricuI ttsral products. All the money that the farmer receives he spends in one way or another, unless he hides it away in Il stocking which he rarely does. In every purchase he would have to spend two dollars where he now spends one dollar. Changing the value of the dol lars cannot possibly change the num- Der of bushels of wheat that must be paid for a suit of clothes or a moving machine, because the same dollar meas ures the value of each, and if wheat doubles in price other things double. Taxes might not double the first year, but as the town and county and state would have to pay two prices for every thing the tax levy would have to be doubled the next year.
 A change in the dollar affects taxes just as much as it affects corn. It can not double the value of one without doubling the burden of the other. Debts would not be immediately doubled, existing debts could not be changed in amount, and as they could be settled with dollars half as valuable as the present ones, those that were borrowed. the debtor would shave half his obligation. But with a reduction of one-half in the value of the dollar inn pending, or in process, there would be an energy in collecting old debts and q refusal to renew loans that would crush large portion of the debtors, wbo, if no change be made or threatened, will have plenty Of time to take up their ob- legations without sacrificing their prop erty. After the change vas effected the farmer would have, if he borrowed, to borrow twice as many dollars as now, because eaca dollar would buy only half as much.-N. !. Journal of Commerce.
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There are some political evils which are seen as socn as they are dangerous and which alarm at once as well the people as the government. Wars and invaslons, therefore, are not always the mostcertain destroyers of national prosperity. They come in no question. able shape. They announce their own approach and the general security is preserved by the general alarm. Not so With the evils of debased coin, a de- Preelated paper currency or de- pressed and falling public credit. These lnslnuate themselves in the shape of a,, laiiacles, accommodation and relief
 iney hold out the most fallacious hone ., ol any easy payment of debts and I, ngnter burden of taxation. . Daniel
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As Modernized.

'eDo you remember the stq good dog that was punished in bad company" asked the t'
 'As l recall the fable, sald Boston boy, retrospectiyely' hinged on the circumstance good influence of the animal was wholly neutralized on tha. py an objectionable enViro' Chicago Tribune.
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EIephants and Women AIlke.

A herd of 45 elephants in the Barnum menagerie was thrown into such terror by the appearance of rat that double chains had 10 be put upon them to keep them from breaking away. So. why blame women for their conduct with mice ?--B Brooklyn Eagle.
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By a strange coincidence the man who drafted Qldahoma's capital pun ;shment law has been the first man 10 receive a death sentence under it
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-11
SUICIDE At SAN JOSE.
James L. Reedy; Janitor of the City Hall
and Pioneer, Ends His Life
With StrychnIHe.

SAN JOSE, CAL, Dec. 10-James L.
Reedy, janitor of the City Hall, committed
suicide about s clock this morning in
room adjoining the Public Library by tax
ing strychnine. His groans attracted the
attention of people on the second floor.
The door of the room was locked, and in
order to enter the room it was necessary
to climb through window. Reedy was
lying on his back on the floor, and to OFF,
Ger Monroe lie stated he had taken strych-
nine. City Physician Harris was sum-
moned, but when he arrived life was ex-
tinct. Reedy said he did not want a
doctor and wanted to die.
Under q stationary washstand in the
room was found two-ounce vial of strych-
nine, and glass containing some of the
poison was standing near the drinking
tank in the library.
Reedy was pioneer of the State and
had resided in this valley for fortytwo
years. He was the father of fifteen chill
dren, twelve OF whom are still alive. He
also leaves a widow. For some time he
has been respondent, and few days ago
he told Constable Haley that he intended
to end his life. He was a native of Mlchi-
gan. aged 65 years.
An inquest was held this afternoon and
a verdict of suicide, caused by financial
troubles, was rendered.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-11
FIGHT WITH A Buffalo BULL.
Two Hunters Have Exciting Sport on
Antelope Island, in Great
SAT- Lake.

SALT LAKE, UTAH. Dec. 10.-One of
the last mem bers of the buffalo family was
killed on Antelope Island, in Great Salt
Lake. Tuesday, the hunting party killing
it'arriving in this city to-day. The animal
was an old bull, who has for some years
lived on the island undistGrbed, but re-
Gently on account of his becoming savage
it was decided TO shoot him. He showed
fight and Colonel Shaughressy and Man
ager Brown of the Western Unioh Tele-
graph Company who did the shooting
narrowly escaped injury.
The buffalo was found in one of the
canyons up the island, and when driven
out by horsemen became very belligerent,
going through barbed-w wire fences without
ceremony; attacking men and horses and
causing general CONSERVATION. Colonel
Sheughnessy fired the first shot, which
did not penetrate vital point, and for
time it looked as though some one would
be killed, but Brown got action with a
Winchester at 200 yards and fired bullet
through the bison's heart, killing him in
stantIy. He was brought to this city to-
day and is now on exhibition. He weighed
2345 pounds. This is one of the largest
buffaloes ever seen in the city.