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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-11-04
Republicans Confident.

Everything about republican head
quarters at the capital indicates that
the leaders draw near the end Of the
campaign confident of success tor the
entire state ticket. The fight has been
hard one. At the opening the odds
were strong in favor of the fusion but
as the campaign h, progressed it has
become more aud more evident every
day that the fusion forces were losing
ground and now at The end Of the last
week of the campaign the republic rs
are assured of complete victory over
hhe forces of fusion and confusion.
Since the opening of the campaign
the drift Of sentiment has teen
strongly toward the republican party.
There is now every evidence of "A COM
pIete disintegra tion of the fusion forces.
Fusion has killed itself. In nearly
every county the local fusion has
worked at cross purposes with the state
issues and the local interests have pc
vailed. Honest voters have become
disguised with the sacrifice of princi-
pie and have signified their intention
of rebuking the fusion for spoils.
Several days ago the fusionists con-
ceded the loss of the northern counties
but banked their hopes on the counties
of the southeast, bu. there Ia now
every evidence that they vii. be routed
! 81 L. % str Nh fttoiII..
lists are already reducing their claims
in many of the southeastern counties
Republican speakers now campaigning
in that part Of the state report during
the last week rapid changes In favor o
the republicans. Several OF the sOut H.
eastern counties will be found in tine
republcan column with majorities
, that will assure success for the entire
ticket.
A vigorous fight has been made
The leaders are confident of a victory
Chairman Morrison will in his fina
circular urge upon the republicans thu
need of holding fast to the grount
vained. Let 10 misplaced confidence
destroy the due diligence that clinches
the victory. The voters of the stat'
are with us in the movement to rebuk
the leaders who forsook principle. lie
every republican in every precinct Sc
to it that the vote is registered aud tn
ballot voted on election day. The RI
suit will be complete overturning O
the fusion forces and fitting rebuk
to the political charletans who b,
: trayed the interests of the people In al
attempt to secure the spois o. office.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-11-04

The amounts above given are ex-
actly what Mr.. Mcconnell claimed
was expended from this fund. By
adding SIC, 900 the amount of the state
appropriation, and $500 received from
David Carney, it viii I've seen that
Governor S,eunenberg in h,s circular
has overlooked accounting for
$l4,273l9. The actual expenses OF the
home for q months from January lst,
1897, was over $23 1000, He knew It
when he scattered hls circular broad
cast.
BY this and similar misrerresenta-
tions Governor Stunenberg has sought
to deceive the voters In Idaho and Sc
cure their support to continue HIM In
Office for mother term. HIS methods
are those of "a catch-penpy politician
and 1t is little wonder that the best
element of his own party is arrayed tn
rebuke such charlatanism.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-11-04
Ex-Governor Mcconnell Saturday
Night.

Ex-Governor Mcconnell and other
republican canipaigners will address
the public ~ Lewiston next Saturday
evening a, The court house. This will
be tile OCCASION Of n grand rally snd =
torch light procession. The ex-00v-
ernor and his associates have been
drawing large audiences throughout
the stat. Their program 10 An inter
esting feature of the campaign. Every
voter should hear Mcconnell anslyse
Stunenberg economy.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-11-04

The Clearwater News and Cigar
store will receive and post special teie-
graph election returns from ali parts OF
the United States, beginning on the
evening Of election day ana continue
ing until all important results are de-
termlned.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22
HOW CYCLONES FORM.
Lieut.. EIIicott Throws Some Light on
a Subject with Which But
Few Are Familiar.

Lieut.. John NJ. Ellicott, O. s N, con-
tributes to St. Nicholas an article on
THE Cradle of Cyclones" Lieut.. Eli
colt says:
ITO get an idea of a cyclones forma-
ton, imagine a large circular pan or
tub with quite large hole in the mid
die of its bottom. With this hole
plugged, fill the vessel with water;
then draw out the plug and watch.
There is first a rush of water from
all directions toward the hole and a
turbulent effort to get through Then
the water surface above begins to sink
and swirl, the particles gradually
circling around and around and rush
ing, ever faster, toward the center. At
last there is actually hollow space
through the center, around which all
the water in the tub is whirling, slug
gishly near the rim. but with more and
more violent rapidity towards the mid
die, until it rushes downward through
the bottom. Now, if that water were
air, you would be watching little cy-
clone turned upside down, for the air
rushes upward instead of downward.
I'm the cradle of cyclones during the
summer months, when the land and
cause Of the longer days than nights.
layer of air, hot, light and full of
vapor, is for a time held down by a
denser air above it. Restless, expand
ing, tumul1uous, it moves about like a
beast at bay until thinner place in
the air bove is found. Then up it mad
| " rushes, and into the vacuum left be-
hind the lower atmosphere hastens
from all directions, pushing and twist
ing and pouring until it has fallen into
a regular spinning around common
center. The cyclone, once formed,
rushes away from the tropics toward
the pole and begins its career of de-
struction, bruising, wrecking and sink
ing the luckless ships which happen to
be in its path. More and more of the
surrounding atmosphere is drawn into
the whirl, until the storm often covers
an area nearly a thousand miles in di-
ameter. Sometimes it filings itself up
| on our Atlantic coast and tears fierce
ly through forests, fields and cities
Then again it sweeps away across the
| broad ocean and dashes itself upon the
coasts of Europe. Once in awhile it sc
adroitly avoids the land that we never
know it has passed until ships come il
torn and broken"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22
INFECTION BY BREATH.
A Simple Illustration Showing How
Easily Disease Germs May
De Disseminated.

In order to impress on us how east
ly infection may often be disseminated
by the breath, a writer in The Hospital
Gondon) bids us watch the course of
the smoke expelled from the mouth of
one who is enjoying a cigar. He says:
The fumes do but make visible what
is happening all the day whether we
smoke or not. Each of the tiny par
ticles of carbon or condensed vapor,
which in their millions make up a
wreath of smoke, does but indicate the
track taken by 4 corresponding par
ticle of expired air, which, if it can
carry the visible carbon, can still more
easily carry the invisible microbe.
Thus a whiff of smoke entering our
nostrils and penetrating our lungs
does but show the course which might
be taken just as easily by a swarm of
microbes, and serves to demonstrate
one at least OF the ways in which a
crowded life passed in close commune
ty with our fellows leads to mischief.
The passage of a Whit of smoke from
mouth to mouth does, in fact, but illus
trate the mode in which the well-rec-
ognized evils of rebreathing expired
air are produced. 1t is not the air, but
the harm. What is illustrated by to-
bacco smoke is sometimes proved in
another way. In the bright sunbeams
notes are said to dance, and by careful
watching one may see not only how
numerous these notes are, but of what
nasty stuff they are not infrequently
composed. The wkeezy flower seller
coughing over his tray of violets, the
loud-voiced hawker shouting over his
barrow of strawberries, the shifting
child sneezing at the street corner,
the painting person who viii shake out
his handkerchief in the bus before
using il, even polite people talking to
each other, are all doing things which
on a dull day seems innocuous enough.
Let the sun shine, however, and the
| tell-tale sunbeams soon display the
| showers of saliva and the crowds of
| dust which are thus scattered in the
air and can almost be traced from
mouth to mouth This is esthetically
| abominable, but in the vast majority
of cases probably does no harm Here
and there, however, these particles
come from people who are diseased.
and carry disease to those who are
healthy. The rebreathing of expired
air is certainly one cause of disease.
especially to those who live in towns
and in close dwellings,; and how real
is the risk, and how readily the passage
OF solid particles from man to man and
from mouth to mouth is accomplished.
is made manifest every time Whit Of
| tobacco makes us cough"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22
Glass as an InsuIator.

An experiment concluded recently at
Marysviile, Cal, by DIR. T. A c. Perrine,
of Leland Stanford university, utiliz-
ing the electrical power line of the
Yuba Power company, from its power
house to Browns valley, assistance OF
ten miles, demonstrated that $4,000
volts may be transmitted over cop
per wire, using glass insulation, against
16, 600, which has been the maximum
in power transmission heretofore.
The result of the experiment will be to
effect a saving OF half in the cost OF
wire in the construction of electrical
transmission plants IN the future As
it is now the cost of wire is about half
the entire cost of the plant
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22
HIS FRENCH MAID.
Albert Gets Her Into q Serious Row
with the HOusegirI.
ITo BE Continued

A youngster who is the only son of in
dulgent parents living in Avondale has
a French maid, whose business it is to
talk to him in French at all times. In
fact, she has to, as her knowledge is linn
tied when it comes TO speaking English
The boy, though only seven, is as full
of mischief as a young calf and he
knows enough to know that he can fool
the maid in more ways than one. He is
something Ola practical joker, too.
At lunchtime one day the maid was
up stump in regard to asking for salt.
She needed it in her soup. and to the
housegirl she couldn't make her wants
known. Turning to Albert, she said:
LIE sci, Affair, le SELL
Turning to the housemaid Albert
said in English: ''Oh, the old parley
VOC wants some sugar. Give it to her.
Shc got the sugar in one OF the silver
boxes or dredges used for that condi-
ment and dredged her soup in the ap-
proved French way and with decided
disregard for the quantity she was
using. Then when she tasted the
mawky mess she broke out in a French
TRADE and wanted to whip the house
girl. That is, it sounded like that, with
her 'Sacres" and "Mon Deus"
''Oh, but she's cussing YOU" said AL
bert to the housegirl. I'D tell mamma.
1 wouldn't let any old foreigner talk
that way to me-"
whats she saying?"
''Oh, dam and other cuss words that
are a heap worse
Then the housegirl got back coed
and strong and told her she'd slap her
in the mouth, and Albert had to do the
interpreting. OF course he got things
little worse than they really were and
poured oil on the flames. Both went to
his mother, but when Albert explained
his part in the row he was the one who
got the scolding.-Cincinnat CONNER
cial Tribune
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22

is one of his jokes, and no mistake.
Him and these six were alone here; he
killed 'em, every man; and this one he
hauled here and laid down by COM
pass, SILVER my timbersi They're long
bones, and the hairs been yellow Ay,
that would be A;lardyce. You mind
Allardyce, Tom Morgan?'
''Ay, ay," returned Morgan, Il mind
him; he owed me money, he did, and
took my knife ashore with him.
Speaking of knives said another,
''why don't we find his'n lying round ?
Flint warn't the man to pick a seaman's
pocket; and the birds, 1 guess, would
leave it be-
by the powers, and that's true!''
cried Silver.
There amt a thing left here said
Merry. still feeling around among the
bones, mot a copper doit nor a baccy
box. It don't look nat'ral to me-
NO, by gum, it DON'T" agreed Sill
YER; mot nat'ral, nor not nice, says
you. Great gunsi messmate, but if
Flint was living, this would be a hot
spot for you and me. Six they were,
and six are we; and bones is what they
are now"
Nv AlII OSdO Will Iu6Se mere 0eaO-
lights" said Morgan. BILLY took me
in. There he laid, with penny-pieces
on his eyes"
''Dead-ay, sure enough he's dead.
and gone below" said the fellow with
the bandage; 'but if ever speerit
walked, it would be Flint's. Dear heart,
but he died bad. did Flint"
cay, and that he did," observed an
| other; now he ragged, and now he hol-
Ter for the rum, and now he sung
Fifteen Men were his only song,
mates; and tell you true, I never right
| ~ liked to hear it since. 1t was main
| hot, and the windy was open, and ]
hear that old song comm out as clear
as clear-and the death-haul on the
| man already"
Come, come" said Silver, "stow this
| talk. He's dead, and he don't walk, that
| I know; 1eastways, he won't walk by
| day, and you may lay to that. Care
| killed the cat. Fetch ahead for the
| doubloons.'
We started, certainly; but in spite OF
the hot sun and the staring daylight
the pirates no longer ran separate
and shouting through the woods, but
kept side by side, and spoke with bated
breath. The terror of the dead buc
cancer had fallen on their spirits.
! [ro BE Continued
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22
WEIGHS AND REGISTERS.

of series of radially arranged receiv-
ers mounted on a suitably driven hori-
zontal shaft. While the material is
pouring into the uppermost receiver
the lowermost receiver is discharging.
Means are provided whereby differ
ences of weight per cubic inch are
compensated for. This is accomplished
by providing each compartment with
false elastic bottom bent so as to en-
able it to be introduced in the receiver,
which bottom, owing to its residence,
normally tends to rise and expand at
it's ends to reduce the size of the re-
ceiver. Each elastic bottom has fex-
IDLE strand or chain secured to its cen
ter and extending to a rotatably adj
justible sleeve on the shaft. a rotata-
bic movement of the sleeve thus adj
justs the positions of all the bottoms
simultaneously.
registering mechanism Is provided
whereby the amount of material
weighed may be quickly ascertained-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22

holds the tubes extended on one side,
while they rise on the other side, the
same mechanism allowing them to I'M
lock automatically and hang pendant,
Mr.. Falls idea being that the tubes
present less resistance when hanging
pendant than when extended.
As the tubes pass the apex of the
pulley the quicksilver flows quickly
down the inclining tubes, constantly
adding to their weight as they go. Mr.
Fall believes that if he can succeed in
governing the weight accurately he
will be able to overcome the dead-cen-
ter. The other idea that he describes
is what he terms double cross, the
arms imparting motion by means of
weights, the whole governed by the
central portion above the arms. This
he believes is certain to prove sue
cess as soon as he is able to overcome
the dead-center.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22
LIFE PATHS.

It's e. wonderful world we're In, my dear,
A wonderful world. they say,
And blest they be who may wander free
Wherever a wish might stray,
Who spread their sails to the arctic gales,
Or bask in the tropics bowers,
While we must keep to the footpath steep
In this workaday life of ours.
For smooth is the road for the few, my dear.
And wide are the ways they roam;
Our feet are led where the million tread,
In the worn, old lanes OF home.
And the years may flow for veal or woe,
And the frost may follow the flowers,
Our steps are bound to the selfsame round
In this workaday life OF ours.
But narrow our path may be. my dear.
And simple the scenes we view,
A heart like thine and a love like mine
Will carry US bravely through
With happy song we'll trudge along.
And smile in the shine or showers,
And we'll ease the pack on a brothers bach
By this workaday life of ours.
Joe Lincoln. in L. A. w. Bulletin
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22
AUTOMATIC MACHINE.
1t Weighs and Delivers of It's Own Ac-
cord All Kinds of Powdered
or Granular Material.

An ingenious machine, designed to
weigh and deliver automatically pow
dered, granular or similar material
such as flour, sugar, coffee and the
like, and at the same time to register
the amount thus weighed, has been de-
vised and patented by Prof. Shanker
Bhise, of Bombay, India, says the Sci
entific American.
The machine comprises a suitably
supported cylindrical casing, having
a feed hopper adapted to receive the
material TO be weighed. The measurer
is carried in the casing and consists
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22
NEVER STOPS RUNNING.
The Latest Creation OF the Perpetual
Motion Crank Described
and illustrated.

For % years Samuel P. Fall. of East
Lebanon, Me-, las lived the life of
hermit and for more than 10 years has
been most untiring in his efforts to
solve the problem of perpetual mo-
ton.
His latest device of perpetual mo-
ton has a large pulley set in a stand
ard. To the outer surface of the pull
lev are attached a number of tubes
containing quicksilver, which acts as a
floating weight in each tube. As the
pulley revolves a system osmechanisD
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22
Wren,s Vindicafion.

! When Sir Christopher Wren was
building the town hall of Windsor, a
fdgety member of the corporation-so
the story goes-insisted that the roof
required further support, and desired
the architect to add more pillars. In
vain did Sir Christopher assure him
that the danger was imaginary-he
knew better. The alarm spread, and
the great architect was worried into
adding the desired columns. Years
passed, and in later times, when archi-
tect and patron were dead, cleaning
operations in the roof revealed the fact
that the supposed additional supports
did not touch the roof by two inches,
though this was not perceptible to any
one below. By this ingenious expedient
did Sir Christopher pacify his critics.
while vindicating his own architectural
skill 10 future generations.-Leisur
Hours
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22

fro. About the center, and a good
way behind the rest, Silver and 1 fol-
lowed tethered by my rope, he plow-
ing, with deep pants, among the slid
ing gravel. From time to time, in
deed, had to lend him hand, or he
must have missed his footing and fallen
backward down the hill.
We had thus proceeded for about
half mile, and were approaching the
brow of the plateau, when the man
upon the furthest left began to cry
aloud, as if in terror. Shout after
shout came from him, and the others
began to run in his direction.
HE can't have found the treasure -
said old Morgan, hurrying past US
from the right, 'tfor that's clean atop"
Indeed, as we found when we also
reached the spot. it was something
very different At the foot of pretty
big pine, and involved in green
creeper, which had even partly lifted
some of the smaller bones, human
skeleton lay, with few shreds of cloth
ing, ON the ground. I believe a chill
struck for a moment to every heart
He was a seaman" said George
Merry, who, holder than the rest, had
gone up close, and was examining the
rags of clothing. "Leastways, this is
good sea-cloth."
"Ay, ay," said Silver, like enough;
you wouldn't look to find bishop here,
I reckon. But what sort of a way is
that for bones to lie? Tain't in
natur'.s
Indeed, on second glance, it seemed
impossible to fancy that the body was
in natural position. But for some
disarray (the work, perhaps of the
birds that had fed upon him, or of the
slow-growing creeper that had grad
ually enveloped his remains) the man
lay perfectly straight-his feet point
ing in one direction, his hands, raised
above his head like a divers, pointing
| directly in the opposite.
'Tve taken a notion into my old
| numskull,' observed Silver. Here's
the compass; there's the tip-top pint
of Skeleton island. stickin' out like a
| tooth. just take bearing. will you
along the line of them bones"
It was done. The body pointed
| straight in the direction OF the island
and the compass read duly E. S. E. by E.
81 thought so," cried the cook; ssthis
here is p'inter. Right up there is our
line for the pole star and the jolly dol
lars. But, by thunder, if it don't make
me cold inside to think OF Flint. This
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22

couldn't say more, I'm sure, sir, not
if you was my mother" he cried.
"We1l, that's my first concession"
added the doctor. My second is a piece
of advice: Keep the boy close beside
you. and when you need help, halloo.
I'm off to seek it for you, and that itself
will show you if 1 speak at random
Good-by, Jim.''
And DR.. Livesey shook hands with
me through the stockade, nodded to
Silver, and set off at brisk pace into
the wood.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22
some AntmaIs Never Drfnk

There are some animals which never
drink; for instance, the llamas of Pat
agonia and certain gazelles of the far
east A number of snakes, lizards and
other reptiles live in plains devoid of
water a bat of western America in
habits waterless plains Insparts OF
Lozere, France, there arc herds of
cows and goats which hardly ever
drink, and yet produce the milk for
RoQuefort cheese.