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Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15

An interesting section in the Con-
gressional Library, at Washington,
and an innovation for that institution,
will DO section devoted entirely to
books for the blind. This is an idea
that Librarian Young has had for
some time, and he has set the wheels
in motion to bring about its early
achievement in fact There were
many volumes in the raised-letter type
in the old library, but, like many other
good things, they were not available
TO those they were intended for. These
volumes, together with others now be.
ing purchased, will soon be placed in
a separate section in the new library,
and every facility will be afforded to
the blind who would real. A cata-
logue is now in course of preparation,
also in the raised.letter alphabet.
This will contain the titles of nearly q
thousand books.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15
Newspaper Man HonOred.

The president has appointed W. W.
Ashby, of Norfolk, Va, to be United
States consul at Colon. Mr.. Ashby is
Washington correspondent of the Nor
folk Landmark.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15
EX-SENATOR MCPHERSON DIES.
Succumbs to Heart Failure After Lin
geriny Illness,

Ex-senator John Roderick McPher.
son, of New Jersey, died Friday night
at Taylor's hotel in Jersey City. He
had been sick for some time with in
festival trouble.
A few days ago he was obliged to
take to his bed. His condition was
not alarming until toward the last.
Finally heart trouble set in as COM
plication, and the former senator
wife and daughter, who had gone to
Washington some days ago, were tele-
graphed for.
Mr.. Mcpherson sank rapidly, and
death resulted from heart disease.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15
RAILROAD SHOPS BURN.
The Centrni's Buildings At Macon, Ca,
Go Up In smoke.

thu NeHtruiH BuINIIhEH Nt Macon, Ca,
Go Up In smoke.
The Contra! railroad shop buildings
at Macon, Ga, were completely de.
stroyed by fire Thursday morning.
The whole fire department. turned out,
but the flames had made such Roadway
that it was not possible to save much.
The loss will amount TO fully
$4,000. The company had no insur.
ance on the property, all the policies
having expired last August, and a
sinking fund for insurance having been
started by the railroad company.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
1t started in the carpenter shop. and
quickly spread through the building.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15

Present appearances indicate, OBJ
serves the Trenton IN. j. American,
that the pension expenditures this
year will be larger than for several
years past, but they probably will not
reach the total OF nearly 100000, 900,
which was attained in 1893.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15
FIRE LOSS WAS HEAVY.

Careful Estimates Place the Figures In
Detroit Blaze At 100000.
A special dispatch from Detroit,
Mich, says: Careful estimates of the
losses caused by Thursday mornings
great fire place the total figures at
1910, 900, with $685., 900 insurance.
MOTT of the burned structures will
be rebuilt.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15
GLORIED IN MURDER.
Muller Confesses To Making Way With
Eighteen People.

Advices from Rotterdam state that
a man named Gustave Muller has sur
rendered to the city police, confessing
the murder of his wife and child. As
proof of the truth of his confession he
produced from his pocket four human
ears.
The police, on searching his house,
found the two bodies. Subsequently
he confessed that he had also killed
his parents, mutilating their remains
in the same fashion.
He also male the astonishing state.
ment that he had similarly disposed
of fourteen other wives.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15
DATE FOR THORN,S TRIAL.

Mrs. Nack's Case Will Come Up Immedi-
ately Afterward.
Judge Wilmot M. Smith, at New
York Tuesday, set the trial of Martin
Thorn, accused of the murder of Will
liam Guldensuppe, for October IS in
the Queens county court, Long Island
City.
Mrs. Mack will be tried after Thorn s
case shall be settled.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15

Glasgow, Scotland, is a model city
to which people are pointed for an il
Illustration whenever municipal reforms
are mentioned.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
DYNAMlCS OF BASEBALL.
Problems In Batting Slow and Swift
Pitched Balls.

Problems In Batting Slow and Swift
Pitched Balls.
An interesting question in dynamics
is suggested in connection with the ma
tional game. The force of the stroke
and all other particulars being equal,
will slow pitched ball or ii swift ball
be batted to the greater distance? The
question suggests two rather contradict
Ory answers A portion of the force OF
the stroke must of course be lost on the
stoppage of the ball, and as the swift
ball must require more force to stop it
than the slow ball there will be less
surplus force remaining to lmpel the
ball i'll the opposite direction when the
swift ball has been stopped and con-
sequently the swift pitched ball will
not be batted as far as the slow ball
1t is further stated in argument that a
batter who tosses up his own ball and
then strikes it will knock it to greater
distance than is done in games with
regularly pitched ball
On the other hand, it is argued that
the elastic reaction of the ball itself is
the ultimate force which impels it, and
as the swift pitched ball must be more
compressed than the slow one by the
same blow it must also be impelled by
the greater force when the elasticity of
the ball reasserts itself, and the swift
pitched ball must therefore be knocked
farther than the slow ball The fact
that standing batter can knock ball
of his own tossing farther is, if true,
no argument i'll the case, as he, of
course. hits the ball more squarely and
favorably and under different conditions
The elasticity Of both ball and bat
seem to be important factors in the
case, and these i'll practice may be SO
different as III some cases to favor one
line OF argument and III some cases the
other American Machinist.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
A Reason.

The JOURNAL regrets that until al
most this very moment Il recent con-
tributed editorial in the Forum has ap-
parently received no attention-this
because so many inquiries here have
been made concerning the great
papers intentions.
Once clergyman of sensational
proclivitles volunteered to write anony-
mously for the New York SIN. In his
first article he made the amazing
blunder of trying to adapt himself to
what he supposed to be the worldly
and reckless tone proper to Sunday
newspaper. Mr.. Dana chuckled quiet
ly and sent the manuscript back after
lndorslng it in blue pencil
This is too id wicked,
The great Dana's reason has held
good here-only so far, however.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18

by the spots-is about ~. 25 days. From
the same phenomena the sun S rotation
at its equator has been determined to be
about 26 10 days This period corre-
spends almost exactly with that of the
forces detected within the earth 5 mag.
nctic ticld-26. 6S days. This agreement
Is in harmony with the supposition
that the true period of the suns rota-
tiOn is that at its equator and not at the
mean of the sun spot belts"
Although lew to the popular mmd
today, this interesting theory that the
sun and earth are magnets was dis
cussed by scientists 40 years ago, but
discreditcd and discarded on what Pro-
fessOr BiGelow says We're insufficient
grounds. 1t was argued that the sun, to
exert magnetism as far as the earth
93, 0O0 600 miles away-mpst be mag
net Of greater strength than could be ad-
mitted within the category of probabil-
ity. Recent observations, however, in
dictate that the sun s magnetic force at
the surface of the earth is normally one
half as intense as that of Il saturated
steel magnet and occasionally ten times
as great.
When asked as to the effect his inter
esting discoveries might have upon
weather forecasting i'll the future, Pro-
fessor Bigelow said that he had found
an interesting connection between mag
netic laws and weather conditions.
Temperatures and pressures in the north
western part of this country have been
found to possess the same period and
the same semiannual inversion of the
type curve-explained before-as those
estimated for the magnetic forces. The
magnetic period, which has been de-
duced with great care from data dating
back 80 years, will give to meteorolo-
gists a new method of classifying the
apparently lawless sequence of thighs"
and Flows of pressure which enter the
country III constant procession from
the northwest New York Herald
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18

IDEAL SKETCH ILLUSTRATING THE NEWLY
DISCOVERED MAGNETIC CURRENTS RE-
TWEEN EARTH AND SUN.
around the ball i'll such curves as corre-
spond to some extent with these mag
netic lines The outer shell OF the earth
seems to gather the magnetic rays into
itself, like il piece of soft iron, because
it Is a better conductor of the magnetic
force than Is the surrounding ether.
One system the DETECTING rays in the
northern hemisphere points toward the
sun, and Ill the southern hemisphere
away from the sun, as if trying to turn
the earth sn that the northern hemi-
sphere ShoCld point more directly to-
ward the sun Furthermore, the angles
at which these rays touch the surface
of the earth indicate that they are re-
fracted like rays of light entering sur
face of glass,
"AnOther system of forces shows that
the north pole OF the sun is, Ill all prob
ability, positive and the south pole neg
ative. These other rays, coming from
the sun. become concentrated in two
belts upon the earth, one on the north
ern and the other on the southern hemi-
sphere. The northcrnmOst forms rude
oval around the magnetic and geograph-
ic north poles of the earth and consti
tutcs the area within which the auroras
are observed.
"lt Is well known that the auroras
are less frequent near the north pole,
that they are most frequent at from lS
L,l nd
fall off to tn" minimum southwark. 1t
is also known that the years i'll which
the aurOras are most frequently seen
correspond exactly with those i'll which
are observed the greatest number OF sun
spots as well us with the years when
the greatest disturbances have been de-
tected i'll the magnetic field of the earth.
These three phenomena have persisted
so long i'll acting together as to leave no
doubt that they result from the same
fundamental force.
Now, when the variations of the
magnetic needle are examined minutely
through Il series of years, the data being
recorded from day to day, at as many
places as possible i'll both the northern
and southern hemispheres of the earth,
as has been done, 1t becomes evident to
even casual observer that these varia-
tions recur with n definite periodicity.
On comparing the dates of these periodic
repetitions 1t Is readily computed from
the tables that they occur once i'll 26. 6S
days Now, from the observations on
sun spots, ii Is known that the visible
surface of the sun rotates with different
velocities. AT ATTITUDES II degrees north
and south on the sun, which is the mid
die of the sun spot belt the average Pc
riod of the sun S rotation-as determined
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
UNITED WORkMEN.
Brilliant Past and Hopeful Future of the
Order-Lodge Notes.


The brilliant record which the order has
made in the years that have passed is the
best evidence it can offer as to the wisdom
that brought il into existence Founded
upon the enduring principle of fraternity,
it has extended its charity and protection
to thousands Of our fellow beings and its
star of hope is further frightened by the
prospects of much greater usefulness in
the coming years of its blessed existence.
Protector.
Members in good standing at last report,
$3.50, 1927.
Quaker City lodge, Philadelphia, had II
hot time recently, when 10 new members
We're initiated.
Mount Vernon lodge is one of the liycli-
est in Indiana. Ia two months 90 new
members have been added.
Arkansas has three deputies in tho field
two at home and one in Louisiana.
Prospects are very encouraging for tho
order in kentucky.
California in II short months has made
a most marvellous record under the new
plan, IL net gain of 3, lS7 in young men at
the highest rate under the new plan, or ono
assessment per month.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
Every Man Should Join Fraternal Order.
Lodge Briefs.

The attention OF young and middle aged
men is called to the fratcrnal benefit order
of Knights of Honor No man is too good
to join Il iraternal order like the Knights
of Honor, for it is composed of many of
the brightest minds in this country. 1t is
your duty to thus protect your family.
There are SO lodges in New York city,
2S in Brooklyn and 50 in the rest of New
York, making III i'll all in the grand ju-
risdiction.
Where is that candidate you promised
yourself and your lodge that you would
introduce this month?
Every man owes it to his family to make
provision for the support of his loved ones
after his demise. If he makes inquiry, he
will find how economically this can be an
ranged for in the knights of Honor
See that none but the ablcst and most
active men are placed in office The men
who are not locking for honors are the
ones who should be selected, and young
men should DO preferred when active work
Is required.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
MASONIC.
Lodges Should Be Self Supporting
From the Temple.

From the Temple.
Every lodge should be self supporting.
Accidents may happen, losses may be in
CURED which would Justify the grand
lodge in contributing to II lodge to replen-
ish its paraphernalia or assist it for
losses incurred by fire or otherwise, and
no grand lodge would refuse. Lodges are
to disseminate Masonic light, but Masonic
light can hardly be disseminated by q
darkcncd lodge, and we are inclined to be-
licvc that no lodge whose business is so
small and whose influence is so limited
that it cannot turn into the treasury of
the grand lodge sufficient to pay its dues
and the per diem of its representatives is
i'll a position to disseminate Masonic light.
w. j. Duncan.
There arc now 219 residents of the New
York Masonic home ut Utica.
In Massachusetts and Rhode Island
there are 46 subordinate communicates of
knights Templsr,, with II, 3l3 members.
The lodge from which negro Masonry
of the present day gets its authority to
organize lodges and initiate candidates is
one whose charter was issued by the grand
lodge of England, dated Sept. 90, 1874.
The most serious Masonic otfcnscs are
t)ICitClltS vi tllt lllNIltlt law IutSt GILL
only be discussed in tylcd lodge.
The grand lodge of Georgia decided not
to reduce the rate of mileage to delegates
from 10 to cents per mile. The reduc-
ton would have been a saving of $4,000
per annum to the grand lodge.
Lodges must ard should make Masons,
but let it be done in a digniticd, slow and
thorough manner and i'll keeping with the
high and solemn scntimcnt-Uhat of build
ing our spiritual temple.
In A. d. 1866 Jewish Masonry was intro
duccd into Britain, and as the island was
conquered by the Romans gradually spread
over the land
The grand lodge of Kentucky reduced
the mileage of delegates from s to cents,
thereby reducing expenses about 81 500 a
year.
Any brother who desires to visit Il lodge
in California is required to show Il receipt
for his last years dues.
The board of relief of San Francisco has
disburscd the past year for relief to sick
and needy brethren of other Jurisdictions
in the United States 81, ,l64.3 35, and has
been reimbursed therefor 81 ,5l2. 80, being
an excess of expenditure over reimburse
ment of 81, 65l.4 10
The operative apprentice is instructed to
wear his apron in Il particular way to pre-
vent his dress being soilcd. Hence the
speculative Mason should receive similar
instructions that he should not allow his
soul to be deiilcd by the untempercd NOR
tar of unruly passions.
1t is mistake to dimit from your lodge
because you can't always have things your
own way. Remember that the lodge can
do without you better than you can do
without the lodge.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
APoor Return for a Courtesy.

j. L.. Orrick evidently erred in send
ing a copy of his undergraduate
Fancies' to the over graduate re-
viewer of the Forum.
AT least, that genius seems to be
skeptical of the merits of the work.
What is worse, Mr. Orrick's courtesy
afforded him an opportunity to state u
characteristic untruth when he says
1.-The JOURNAL pronounces this book s
contents to be genuine poetry
The JOURNAL 'pronounced' no
such thing.
But why does this reviewer want
the JOURNAL to show by quotation
that the ''Fancies" are genuine
poetry after the Forum has let pass
several opportunities to show what 1t
thinks of "Jim's' verse?
Say, Forum, wasn't ".Jim" a good
deal too much for the old man in prose
and ''overpowering" in verse?
And what has become of the old
mans lookness?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
Heat Indicating Paint.

A heat indicating paint composed of
a double iodide of copper and mercury
was first discovered 20 years ago by a
German physicist. At ordinary temper
atures the paint is red, but when heat
ed to 2O6 degrees f it turns black Pa
per painted with this composition and
warmed at stove exhibits the change
III few seconds A yellow double 10
dide of silver and mercury is even more
sensitive to heat, changing from yellow
10 dark red Popular Science News
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
Sure Thing.

Sam Small, the lawyer lecturer, newspaper
man and preacher, in "A sermon last Sunday
committed himself to the theory that life is a
failure from every standpoint it may be
viewed,-Fairmont CIV. Va.) Lader.
Sam grossly errs in not making a
speciality of either law or divinity, for
these paths, taken separately do not
necessarily lead to infidelty.
But the man who divides his time
between the platform and tripod has
only tombstone yard between him
and hopeless pessimism.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
TWO GREAT MAGNETS
NEW THEORY OF THE RELATIONS OF
EARTH AND SUN.
discovery That Explains the Periodic Dis
tnrbance of the Magnetic Needle and
Will Help Weather Predictions Made by
Professor HigelOw.

Professor HiyelOw.
That the sun and earth are two spher-
ical magnets that the suns great mag
noti@m, issuing from a permanent mag
hctlc state i'll it's interior, reaches out to
the earth in rays, and there combines
with the earth 5 magnetism; that the
earth has an outer shell which is per-
ncated by these rays; that magnetic
changes shown i'll variations of the mag
nCtiC needle are III truth effects of the
sun action-such, i'll short, are the
propositions advanced by Professor
Frank H. Bigelow of the national
weather bureau.
For many years magnetic observers
have noticed that on certain days the
magnetic needle suffers great variation
and disturbance. For instance, if the
needles at Il given moment are pointing
i'll certain directions at the several sta
tions. they will all suddenly tilt upward
and stand more nearly perpendicular.
This is due to the strengthening of what
is called the external magnetic field sur
rounding the earth. Such changes come
at irregular intervals, and are spas
modic. Furthermore, there are other
impulses Which move the magnetic
needle lack and forth through certain
well defined periodic curves.
Al Of these effects, in Professor Bige-
lows opinion, depend upon sources
outside the earth In the observatories
cooperating with him instruments of
precision have measured and recorded
the directlCus and forces of these i'm
pulses, both horizontally and vertically.
The records of the Instruments have
been reduced to tables and diagrams,
from whjcls the new theory has been
deduced
Professor Eigclow believes that the
sun S tremendous magnetic force, flow
ing i'll upon us is turned out of its
course Oh reaching the earth's surface.
1t does not appear to penetrate the en-
tire body ot the earth, but to permeate
only u comparatively thin shell on the
outside, as suggested, 1t appears as
though the magnetic force, coming thus
from the outside, We're trying to avoid
Il largo nucleus inside the earth, but
readily penetrating the upper layers Of
the crust
'Suppose, said Professor Bigelow.
"that you have a ball fixed in stream
of water. The lines of flow will pass
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
A Remarkable Telegraph Line.

One OF the many remarkable things
in Australia is the overland telegraph
from Port Darwin to the south of the
continent, winch was completed i'll 1872
Almost the whole 1000 miles of it's
length We're through uninhabited coun-
try-nuch of it waterless desert The
wooden poles were prepared at the near
est available places, but some had to be
carried $50 miles, while the iron poles
were taken an average distance of 400
miles by land Over 2, 600 tons of mate
rial had to be carried into the interior,
and the total cost was 81, $50, 900
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18

leaner," but in all his painful recital of
the demagogue's constitutional pre-
disposition to deception and corrup.
ton, Casca never ventured out under
a false name!
By no restraints of courtesy controlled,
His words the rancor of a lifetime vent;
In the arts of speech frank, open and bold,
He ne'er conceard himself nor a sentiment.
To close this article three questions
are in order
|, Does Fair Play's'' profession
oblige concealment of his real identity ?
=, If so, is he not riding to fall ,"
3, If not, why does he value his
carcass in ambush higher than his
moral distemper in the open
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
The Same.
Old Sarsaparilla.

That's Ayers. The same old
sarsaparilla as it was made and
. sold by DR.. J. c. Aver so gears
ago. In the laboratory it is
different. There modern appli-
ances lend speed to skill and
experience. But the sarsapa-
rilla is the same old sarsaparilla
that made the record-5O gears
of cures. Why don't we better
it? Well, we're much in the
condition of the Bishop and the
raspberry: "Doubt1ess, " he
said, "God might have made
better berry. But doubtless,
also, He never did" Why
don't we better the sarsaparilla?
We can't. We are using the
same old plant that cured the
Indians and the Spaniards. 1t
has not been bettered. And
since ace make sarsaparilla COM
pound out of sarsaparilla plant,
we see no way of improvement.
Of course, if we were making
some secret chemical compound .
we might. -. But we're not.
We're making the same old sar-
saparil1a to cure the same old (
diseases. You can tell it's the
same old sarsaparill0 be-
cause it works the same old
cures. It's the sovereign blood
purifier, and-it's Ayers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18

AS is known, large fortunes have &C.
casionally been made out of patent
Sometimes devices seemingly simple
and lnconsequentlal have proved vely
valuable to the inventor or owner of
the patent, but these instances are, il5o
angels visits, very few and far between
American Machinist.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18

In addition No. leaves Piedmont S:45 IA. m. :;
arrives Frostburg 10:4i d. m, and No. s. leaving
Frostburg 2:00p. m, reaches Piedmont I:O2 p.
M, stopping at all intermediate stations.
son theatre nights, when admission tickets
are sold by Agents to performance at theatre,
leave Cumberland at close of performances
All trains stop at Hays street station. Cum
berland.
Nos. |, ?, 3, 4, I and Sdaily except Sunday.
Nos 3 and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days only.
l.. N. HAMILTON
Nov 20 superintendent