El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-23


marked feelingly that he only had ter
employees and if he dismissed five per
cent, he didn't know what he'd do with
the remaining half man nor how he'd
fill the vacancy, created fractional PEG
pie being scarce in his town. Another
felt that it would not be good thing
to introduce vulgar fractions among
his employees. So betwixt them al
Tucker of Toledo was beaten.
| The congressman are coming tt
| ator Harris is recent arrival. He il
q rare combination, being an ex-rebe
not reconstructed at all, senator from
Kansas and democrat. He is quite
certain the democrats will win every
thing from Texas to Pennsylvania next
year and commemorate the event by
shedding all our new territorial &C.
QUESTIONS. He is in favor of retaining
Manila and Cavite and handing over
the residue of the Philippine Archi.
pelago to Aguinaldo, following the
natives to govern as best they can, u
which has the advantage of sweet sim
plicity. Senator Cullom is another
new conner. His Pacific policy is not
true to name at all. He advocates
dealing with Br'er Aguinaldo on a
basis of smash first and dicker last.
The navy department is having
trouble in it's dealings with the wire
less telegrsphy and its inventor, Mr..
Marconi. Pairs of instruments work
very we'll indeed, but when three or
more are in operation in the same
neigh borhood, the result is chaos.
Each receives impartially all the mes
sages sent by the others and the record
Ia a mere tumble of characters. No way
of preventing this has been disclosed,
Msrconi alleges that he has
one tucked away in his mental pigeon
holes. Then, the inventor refuses to
sell his machines, preferring a scheme
3 Ia Bell telephone, of charging SO
much down for each set and then a
heavy annual royalty, said to be up in
the thousands. The outside cost of
a set of small instruments being about
BIO, the navy feels aggrieved. But as the
department. people say naively: 1.-THE
ystem is known by all electricians
who have made study of it and plenty
If instruments have been made in
IMITATION of Marconi's, but still the
Marconi instruments do the best work,
Ind Why this is SO, none but Marconi
an say" Finally, certain Professors
)olbear, iup in Massachusetts,, who is
professional ''flrst. inventor" is full
nj n ating threats against Marconi and
IL who use his system, because of
LEGGED IL fin etnent Ci Iolfear' pa |
emit rights.
The poor old agricultural depart
,ent is in trouble again. 1t ia per-
etually stubbing its toe against the
inverse and complaining thereat, and
Is experience of the wickedness of
len ia comprehensive. Years ago,
nder man named Dodge, there was
effected system of crop forecasts.
. man was appointed in each township
trough the country to guess a. the
robable crops in his neighborhood
hen Dodge would collate these CUES
es and on some mysterious system of
is own, proceed to make forecast of
robable yields for the country at large
hese estimates generally proved won
erfully close to the actual crop. But
edges place was not under the civil
'rvice law and he lost
. His successors, none of
hom has been a seventh j
N of seventh son, q wizard, q war (
ok or even q dream book, have not s
zen 80 successful. But a sort of