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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09

THE fact that fusion is dead is
is acknowledged by all parties to the
united forces, but the union of all the
silver forces under one head and one
party, without distinct division upon
any party principle, is the desire OF all.
There is much speculation, and not a
little quiet determination evinced, as
to which shall be the party. The
Democracy, upon the platform of
1896, is the only party that has na
tlonal claims upon the constituency
holding its own in every State of the
Union, and this claim will be recog-
nized in this State as elsewhere. The
contest of 1900 will demand united
movement in every State of the Un-
ion, upon our straight-out Demo-
cratic platform. The State of Wash
ington will fall in line in this manner,
and it is to the interest of every re-
former to join under the Democratic
banner. Victory will not come under
any other name or by any other
means than a clean-out Democratic
platfOrm.-RepieW.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09
HOW TO KNOW OUR WARSIIIPS.
4 Few Hints by Which 4 Lands.
man May Be Able to Recognize
at Il Glance the Ships of Which

Na 81 nIsthSS tiiS CiIlS ol w IilSil
/ We as 4 Nation Arc so Proud.
We are proud OF our navy, and just
ly so. We jointly and seve,ly believe
that, ship for ship, and man for man,
it is superior to that of any other ma
ton. We have become familiar with
pictures of the various ships but to
most people all look alike. Still to
the expert there are distinguishing
features so that as soon as seen he will
be able to tell the name of the vessel.
The most conspicuous feature OF L
ship is its smOkestack. These may be
from one to four in number, and can
be seen long before the hull appears
above the horison.
The Columbia is the only vessel in
the United States navy having four
stacks. This vessel was built for great
speed in order that it might overtake
the tleetest merchantmen. 1t was the
first war vessel in the world to be pro-
vided with screws.
The Minneapolis is considered sis
ter ship of the Columbia and like it
has three screws and unusually long
and narrow hull but it has oniy two
stacks.
OF the three stacked vessels there
are in the navy but two, the New
| York and the Brooklyn. These two
armored cruisers may be readily dis.
tinguished by the fact that the former
has its bow and stern turrets on the
same level while the Brooklyn carries
its forward turret one deck or story
higher than the other.
Our great battleships, the Oregon,
Massachusetts,, Indiana and Iowa,
have two stacks each and are readily
distinguished from all the other vessels
of the navy by their six turrets, for
ward and stern turret for the 12 or l3
inch guns each and four turrets for
two 8 inch guns each. The first three
are OF the same size and general ap-
pearance, all having been built at one
time from substantially the same
plans. The Iowa carries its forward
turret, as does the Brooklyn, one deck
higher than its stern turret and its
two stacks are unusually tall. Their
tops are one hundred feet above the
water line.
The first-class battleships Kearsage
and Kentucky which are now ap-
preaching completion are different
from any other warships in the world.
They have turrets two stories high,
the turrets for the S-inch guns resting
upon those for 13-inch guns.
The Alabama, Illinois and Wiscon-
sin, the first two Of which have al
ready been launched, will have two
stacks each but they will be arranged
side by side instead OF one in front of
the other. Our second-class battle
ship, the Texas, has two turrets ar
ranged diagonally one ON each side of
the ship. This was also the turret ar
rangement of its sister ship the Maine.
During the summer the four great
ships of the American transatlantic
line we're used as auxiliary cruisers.
They were distinguished from the reg
ular naval vessels by being left black
instead of painted gray. The Howard
and Yale have three stacks and the
St. Louis and St. Paul two each.
These few hints will enable the
reader to tell the principal ships of the
navy.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09

past without Offering to molest them.
There was a mystery about it that
made it bad medicine" to interfere
with them. Supclstitious as they
were, they seldom bothered with any
thing that they could not understand
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09
DOORS OF VENEER.
Few Doors. Not Even the Most
Costly, Made of Solid Wood.
New York Sun.

The very finest of doors are made
nowadays OF veneer on Il body of pine.
Even when made of mahogany or
some other costly wood, doors have to
to veneered. The body of the door is
made of plain straight-grained ma
hogany, while the surfaces are yencers
of fine wood.
In the finest doors the body is made
of selected white pine, free from SAP
and perfectly seasoned, which is cut
into narrow strips and then glued to
gether. The outer edges of this door
are faced with what is called veneer
but which is really y strip of the
fine wood half an inch or more in
thickness. The inner edges of the
frame by the panels are covered i'll the
same manner with thick strips in
which the ornamental holdings or
carvings are made and which are
grooved to receive the panels.
This built-up frame Of white pine,
with edges of the fine wood, is ther
vencered with the fine wood. Ir
some lighter doors the panels may bt
of solid mahogany, but in the finer
larger and heavier doors the panels
also are made of sheets of white pin,
with Il veneering OF the fine wood, s,
that the entire door is veneered.
1t would be difficult, if not impossi
Bile, to procure at any cost mohogany
lumber in fine and beautiful woods o
sufficient size for the larger doors
The built-up and veneered door o
pine wood, however, has every appear
ance of II solid door, and, made of Sc.
lected veneers, it may be more beauti
full than solid door would be. 1t i,
more serviceable and remains longer
perfect. It's cost is about half what {
solid door would cost.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09

AN attempt to elect officers in Re-
publican club at Chicago resulted in a
row and a couple of deaths. The
grand eld party will have its little
amusements.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09

In 1850 Spain offered to sell the
Philippines for $l,O0O,OO0. Later she
offered Cuba and the Philippines for
$2,5OO,OOO.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09

GREAT BRITAIN leads in per capita
beer drinking, consuming 100000
600 gallons year, or thirty gallons to
each person. Germany is second with
1,200, 100000 gallons, which is twenty
seven gallons to each inhabitant. We
average only fifteen gallons apiece.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09

IMPERIALISM will give to American
labor the privilege of paying increased
taxes. Only this and nothing more.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09

If there is any reorganization OF
the Democratic party in this State, il
will be by the Silver Democrats and
not the goldbugs. In fact there is nc
gold democracy. Why do we say
there is, for no man can vote the
whole Republican ticket and claim to
be anything else than Republican,
RepieW.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09

THE number of pupils in the schools
of the country is estimated at 1G,235,'
$50.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09

TWENTY million dollars for eight
million people is the price proposed in
the settlement of the Philippine
controversy, with the islands thrown
in. The United States can make
good use of the country but the in
habitants thereof are dear at any
price.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09

RUSSELL SAGE, the New York mil
lionaire, is connected with twenty
seven corporations, in which there are
forty three railroads. He is the only
living original director of the New
York Central Railroad and the only
living founder of the Fifth Avenue
Bank. He has stood o cash run on
himself in hard times of $9,00O,000 in
one day,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09

DON'T judge the contents of q mans
head by the size of his hat; don't inn
pair your happiness by borrowing
trouble or lending money; don't re-
fuse to let your wife have her own
way-she'll have it anyway; don't
blame the upright piano if it's down
right nuisance, blame the player
don't go without the things you need
in order to get things you don't want
don't ask woman questions; give
her time and she'll tell you all you
want to know don't marry girl who
isn't afraid of q mouse or you'll be
kept busy regretting it; don't get the
idea into your head that baby cuts
teeth it is the teeth that cut the
baby; don't think because a girl loves
you from the bottom of her heart that
there isn't plenty of room at the top.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-09
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-01
A DisseInbler.

CHE said he would kill himself if I
wouldn't marry him.
"Well?"
Gle didn't do it; the mean thing!'
Chicago News.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-01
1annnass Indoor Games.

The indoor sports and amusements
for evenings at home are mainly card
games and storytelling. The father
tells his sons the tales of the mighty
heroes of the past ages, relates Japan
ese history, and teaches reverence
and obedience to the Mikado, the
"heaven-appointed ruler" or the
grandmother gathering the little ones
in circle around the brazier filled
with hot Goals, tells them the wonder
full fox-stories, the stories Of demons
and gnomes, and the clever fables
about animals.
Their game of CONAN is like Our
checkers, but it requires three hun
dred and sixty pieces, instead of
twenty-four. It is played on raised
stand. In tho game of chess they
have forty pieces. There are several
ways of playing backgammon, and it
is very popular. Private theatricals
are very common form of amuse-
mont among both boys and girls, and,
like most of their sports, are frequent
ly shared by their elders. As the
children are often taken to the thea
tire, they readily initiate what they
have seen there. Nicholas.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-01
Bats.

DIR. Clifton +. Hodge, of Clark Uni
yersitv, has been conducting investi-
cations into the habits of toads and
other small creatures. One of his ex-
periments was with bats. DIR. Hodge
took half o dozen of the bats home with
him. and installed them in his parlor.
At first they greeted any friendly ad-
vances with cbattering anger. After a
little while, they became quite tame;
and, whenever their iailer entered the
room, they would fly to him for food.
They never reached the point of allow
ing themselves to be handled, but they
were friendly. Their home was in the
folds at the top Of the window draperles;
and, when night came, and sometimes
in the daytime, they would spend their
time flying about the room, regardless
of the presence of members OF the
family. DIR. Hodge would OCCASION
ally feed them with insects in the
evening, releasing netful after netful
of the night-fying varieties; and never
a bug remained in the morning. They
took everything, from q spider to o
polyphemus moth. One morning the
doctor counted while one bat devoured
sixty-eight house-hies. He believes
the bat would be almost as suscepti-
BILE 10 tanning as the monkey.-NeW
York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-01
Pearls.

AS yet the origin of pearls is mat
ter of mere speculation. The old
theory that they were "congealed dew
drops pierced by sunbeams" was sup
ported by naturalists as late Us 1854,
and is evidenced in a Venetian medal
bearing an open oystershell receiving
drops of rain, with the motto, 'By the
Divine Dew" Later conchologists,
however, contend that the pearl nue.
leus may be some minute particle, as
a grain of sand, or the frustule of a
diatom, or tiny parasite, or perhaps
one of the ova of the pearl oyster it
self. This particle of foreign body is
gradually surrounded by thin layers
of nacre until it is completely encysted
and the pearl formed. The consecu-
tive layers may vary in brightness and
color, and defect may be caused by
contactwith another foreign substance,
thus changing the value with each new
layer and sometimes causing 'sliyely
kernel" OF "seed" to be inclosed in an
apparently poor pearl.-Lippincott's. 8.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-01
A New Railway Fog Signal,

A curious railway danger or fog
signal has been invented in Chiswick,
England, which has been adopted by
the Southwestern Railway. It con-
sists of large wheel placed at the
side of the track near o station and
containing around its circumference
thirty-two barrels, each holding two
cartridges. A lever placed along the
rail is depressed by the passing train,
and it in turn pulls back and then re-
leases q hammer which explodes two
cartridges. After the train has passed
the hammer automatically returns into
position to fire the next barrel. 1t is
connected by electricity with the sig
nails, and the man in the box can set
OF disconnect it by pressing button.
The disconnection is worked by o
magnet, which draws down the ham,
mer and prevents firing. 1t is ex-
pected that the contrivance will
shortly do away with the clumsy de.
tonators now in use.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-01
A Coulurer's Story.

The Ceylon Independent, in some re-
marks in connectios with proposed
visit of Carl Hertz, the well known
conjurer, to Colombo, tells this story:
"It was at a quiet party, and Carl
Hertz, the famous conjurer, had been
delighting the company-especially the
ladies-with many of his finest tricks.
All this time one Of the parlor maids
had been passing in and out with cups,
cakes, glasses, and so On. She was
much interested and when the hostess
gave a sign that nothing more was
needed, the girl still fingered on to
see the completion Of the trick just
begun. will some one oblige me with
a heavy shawl or cloak?' he said. Now,
he went on, selecting a big cashmere
shawl, you observe the thickness OF
the shawl?" they all did, BREATH ;ssly,
including the maid at the door. Now,
will one of you be good enough to
write a number of three figures on a
piece of paper, being careful not to let
me see what is written With trem-
bling fingers one Of the girls did SO,
while the maid at the door leaned for
ward and began to breath hard. Now,
place the written paper, with the
figures on the upper side, under ths
shawl as I hold it, 1t was done, the
thickness of the shawl being between
Carl Hertz and the paper as he look
ed down toward 1t. There was breath
less silence. Then he said: Surely,
the number is 7G1' 1t was. He had
apparently seen right through the thick
shawl. Every one was dumfounded and
amazed. Then upon the silence broke
the shriek of the maid at the door.
With one final gaze at the shawl and
one at the handsome conjurer, she hid
her rosy face in her hands, yelling at
the top of her voice, What's the good
Of me clothes2, and fed..-London
Chronicle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-01
Calling Wild Fowl.

The difference between the notes of
invitation made by various shore fowl
-stints, gray plover, golden plover
ringed plover, knots and sandpipers
is so slight that no one but fowler
would notice them. Yet to these
the difference is as great as that be-
tween the sound of French and Eng
lish. a realty frst-class gunner will
sit in creek in August and call the
birds up, if within hearing and in
clined to move, in any order You like
to name. Even such closely nllied
birds as the curlew and the whimbrel
have different notes. We once saw q
large mixed flock of gray plover,
knots and stints flying past on the
muds, at o distance of some ninety
yards. a gunner noticed that there
were two or three golden plover
among them. The gunner whistled
the golden plover's note, and from the
big flock of some sixty birds the pair
instantly few out, wheeled and passed
within fifty yards, answering the call
in their own language. Perhaps the
best instance of the aptness of the
gunners in learning bird language
was recently recorded N the West
minister Gazette. It is credited to o
fowler who shot the only specimen of
the broad billed sandpiper ever killed
in Norfolk. When down on the muds
listening to the notes of the shore
birds he distinguished one which he
did not know. He initiated it, the
bird answered, flew up to him and
was shot. Starlings, which seem al
most to talk and certainly can imi-
tats other birds when engaged in their
curious song" which seems solike a
conversational variety entertainment,
are all the time enjoying o monoiosue.
Starlings, when they have anything
to say, as when nesting, or qualreling
for places when going to roost, use
quite different notes. Of oil bird
voices the song of the swallow is most
like human speech-not our speech,
but like the songs which the Lapp OF
such outlandish races sing. A Lapp
woman sings a song just like that of
6 swallow at dawn. Washington Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-01
Goliath and David.

Like Goliath and David it is to
witness Cyrus Adams Sulloway and
Frank Gay Clarke, the New Hamp-
shire representatives in'Congress, go
striding down the corridors of the
Capitol. Mr.. Sulloway is massive,
and is known among his constituents
as "The Tall Pine" About six feet
six inches in height, his large head is
surmounted with o crop of tangled
locks, that stream out from under his
broad slouch hat. His voice is heavy
and powerful, in perfect proportion
with his immense body and huge
limbs. His communications are out
spoken and abrupt. He swings along
the mosaic floor of the Capitol with
the natural gait Of a rural statesman,
and his "lons legged" boots of cow
hide clatter as he treads.
Representative Clarke is shorter in
stature. He could walk under Mr..
Sideways outstretched arm with
head erect. Both are native Yankees,
but Mr.. Clarke is polished man,
companionable, and possessed of the
rare gift of gracefully adapting him
self to his surroundings. His voice
is pleasing, but forceful enough to be
heard all over the House when he
makes a speech. In contrast with
the big slouch hat and huge black
Prince Albert Of Representative Sullo-
way, Mr.. Clarke's attire is neat
derby and well-made business suit.
The latter is probably the only mem
Der of the House who has presided
over as large Legislative body as
Speaker Reed. He was Speaker OF
the Granite State Legislature for the
term beginning in 1891, and the
little State OF New Hampshire, with
but two representatives in Congress-,
has q lower house of 357 memberss
the same number as the national
House.-Washington Post. 4
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-01
An Electrical yyatcr Forge.

Great as ore the possibilities OF
electricity their full scope is probably
only feebly comprehended. One OF
the latest devices is water forge.
The details are as yet the secret of
the inventor, but in effect the method
is as follows: A tank shaped some
what like an iron sink is filled with
water, which is highly charged with
electricity. The piece of iron to be
manipulated is held by pair of pin
GERS which are attached to on electric
wire. When all is ready the iron is
dipped into the water, of course caus-
ing the positive and negative poles to
come in contact. 1t takes from ten
to sixty seconds for the iron to become
hot enough to be bent or worked as
required. An interesting and impor-
tant fact is that the heat manifests it
self only upon that portion of the iron
that is covered by the water, thus
rendering it much more controllable
than forges of the ordinary pattern.
If one inch is under water, only one
inch will be red, and so on with any
submerged length.