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The times., 1899-11-26

shipments are made ia water-tight iron
cylinders. The question Of the safety of
acetyiene gas, as compared with petroleum.
electricity. and other illuminants is hard
ly settled II has attracted great attention.
particularly in Germany. where the police
regulations extend TO the minutest details
OF its use On the whole, however. e,port
opinion seems agreed that with proper
precautions to secure pure carbide
and adequate apparatus. the gas generated
from It may as safely be used as psJro-
Ieum lamps, steam boilers. and many 9TH
er things that are kept constantly in serv-
ice with scarcely a thought OF the dangers
they involve
The features OF the gas which commend
IL are that it burns with great intensity
and steadtneSs OF light. is cheap. and may
De generated for use in the rural districts
Where coal gas is nCt practicable It's pow
er as an hiuminant is very much greater
than that OF coal gas. and its cost is only
about one-half as great In other words. il
appears from the best Information yet at
tainable that an acetylene gas flame OF
thirty candle power consumes twenty Ii
ters OF gas and costs only three -fourths OF
a cent an hour. IL remains to be demon
stTated whether this illuminant is safely
adapted for all general purposes. II so.
Maissan's discovery of a method for cheap
ly producing calcium carbide will prove to
have made a valuabIesaddition to the COM
forts OF life
The times., 1899-11-26
CARE OF INVALID STUDENTS.
Women's Colleges Turn Attention in
n New Direction


This fall is marked by a definite effort
in two colleges to make better provisions
for students who are temporarily i'll. II
is a matter which requires attention. for
the state CT things in some of our women's
colleges is far from ideal. The normal girl
student is so busy that even regular exer-
else sometimes seems TO take more time
than she has TO spare. Her day is filed
from one end to the other Yet if her
roommate falls sick, it is she who must
bear the brunt Of caring for the patient IN
less the invalid is so seriously i'll as to
need 10 go to the hospital. II the siege lasts
four or five days, the well girl begins to
cCk tired and hollow-eyed She is not
strong enough TO take the extra care. and
her roommate, from fretting over the trou-
bic she is making, probably delays her own
recovery. There is no provision for nurs
ing in a college curriculum and what
ought TO be provided is either a visiting
nurse, who will go about where attention
is needed and relieve the students of care
allowing them only the ornamental duties
Of bringing flowers and good cheer; or an
nfirmary where a girl can 20 and have
what she needs, as a matter of course.
without feeling that she is imposing tasks
on some one already working to the limit
Of her strength
After next fall the Vaszar student WI
no longer have this bugbear to content
With. for Mrs. Edward Storrs Atwater.
Poughkeepsie, appreciating this need o.
he college. has given money for an infrm-
ry. 1t is to be memorial Of her IA, her
Charles W. Swift, for many years a trus ee
f the college. He was also a friend and
dviser Of Matthew Yassar, and was in
trumental in helping him decide to bai
college for women. II is expected that
sround viii be broken for the infrma-y IN
few days. Only the foundations VII be
aid now. The building viii be complete
uring the spring and summer and will he
eady for the students when they return
lext fall
Wellesley has been fortunate enough to
ave hospital ward, but il has been i'm -
Jroved this year by the addition OF di {
Sitchen, under the direction OF Mrs e +.
Sherrard. In this kitchen the special food
leeded by patient can be cooked easily
nd quickly. II has all the latest avpli-
inces for preserving food and preparina
L Electricity will be used for cooking
nd outside of its special use, the kitchen
5ill be OF interest TO the students, because
If the novelties it contains.
The times., 1899-11-26
SLAMS PRINCE IN ENGLAND.
His Application for IA Chance to
Fight Denied.
CFrOm the London Leader }

lrfom lue London Leader.
The Grown Prince of Siam, who was in
The House Of Lords during the Transyaal
debate on Tuesday, had special interest
in the discussion, for the regiment 10
which he has long been attached-the
Durham Light Infantry-has been ordered
to the front
a Leader representative was told at
the Siamese legation yesterday that the
Crown Prince was very keen on fighting
alongside his fellow officers, but that the
Government had no mind to take upon it.
self the responsibility for his safety. and
so "choked on his informal application
The heir to the Siamese throne is an en-
thusiasttc military student He has al
ready been some four or five years in the
country, part of which he spent at Sand
hurst. His infantry course, as well as his
instruction in the duties Of mountain ar
tlllery, having been concluded, he is now
taking mounted infantry lessons.
The paragraphs which have appeared in
the papers as to his approaching departure
for his home in the Far East are at least
somewhat premature. 1t was originally
proposed that he should return to the pa
ternal hearth for a couple OF months. and
then come back to England. But the pro-
Ject was regarded as such an undesirable
interference with his military studies that
halt was called in the preparations. and
teiegTams on the matter are still going
and coming between England and Bang
kok.
The Crown Prince, as was reported, also
paid visit to the L. c. c. on Tuesday,
being shown round by Mr.. Corbett The
latter found him a very reserved and intel
ligent young man. apparently not unin-
formed regarding English public life, for
he was quite familiar with the names OF
men like John Burns and Lord Darlington,
who were pointed out to him during the
sitting.
His Royal Highness, however unbent a
little under the stimulating influence of a
cup of tea and spoke little of his military
studies.
Altogether, the Leader representative
was told. the King of Siam, whose penchant
for everything English is well known, has
sent us some nine or ten of his sons TO be
educated after our manner. very little
ycungster arrived a week or two ago. An
other son is a sub-lieutenant in the navy
at Whale Island, two more are at Harrow.
while yet another has gone on to Germany.
The Crown Prince himself is a reticent
person with morbid dread OF the inter
viewer.
The times., 1899-11-26
A GERMAN BoER OFFICER.
Colonel SchieI Conspicuous Hater
of the English.
(Frcm the London Saetch.)


Colonel SchieI's name is probably mere
familiar to Engiishmen than that Of any
other officer of the Boer army. with the
possible exceptions Of JOubert and Crouje.
There is certain element OF mystery
about his career, but IL appears tnat after
serving in the Germany army be left il
with the rank of sergeant and emigratei
10 South Africa. Fer some reason CT
other. he. like so many other C0utinenta's.
has an intense hatred OF Eng and and Eng
hshmen, and has never missed an Oppor-
tunity Of doing us a bad turn. He servel
rs an instructor in tactics with the Zulu
army under CeteWEyO ia the waT OF 1879
which ended with Ulundi, and az the con
eluslon OF hostilities the British Govern
ment offered a reward for his capture
We next hear of him Ia the TrausvaaI as
IN artillery officer. and it is said the forts
tl Pretoria and Johannesburg We're con-
,ructed under his direction IEdeed he is
redifed in some quarters with TIE author
ship Of the Boer plan OF campaign in Natal
I0wtver that may be- he was wounded at
EIauGsla2gte. and. With Cthec B0er on
eers. fell into our hands. For safe Gus edy
1e has since been placed On tOard Her
Majesty's ship Penelope in SiGon's Bay.
ana his precise status as q prisoner of wa-
tt remains to be determined. At the be
;lnuing OF the war he asked the Eaiser's
blessing on his enterprise. and. being un-
=Uccessful in obtaining it. has become or
prisoner Whatever his fau.ts-from oar
ioiGt OF visW-may be. he Is undoubtedly
ciever and accomplished soldier and. a.
is portait shows, fine looking man.
The times., 1899-11-26

comes choked with vegetation. no water
enters the river from the lake and it part
" dries up as ii receives only the drain
age OF its valley. This was the coudi-
ion Of things when Stanley visited the
Lukuga in 1876
But the lake had been rising then for
number of years. The succeeding cycle
Vas in progress when the water receipts
were steadily greater than the evaporation.
Stanley said that if the lake continued to
rise, in two or three years more it would
burst through the vegetable barrier at the
head of the Lukuga and once more contri-
butte its water TO the Congo. This actually
happened as Missionary Hore and the ex-
plorer, Thomson, discovered and almost
simultaneously, the succeeding period of
deficient water supply came in and the lake
has been falling ever since. 1t seems 10
have reached the turning point again and
We may soon expect to hear that the level
Of Tanganyika is rising
The times., 1899-11-26
A MYSTERIOUS LAKE.
TanEanyiI1a's waters Twenty-six
Feet Lower Than They Were.


Father Dauii, a Roman Catholic mission
airy at Lake Tanganyika, one of the large
lakes of Central Africa, writes that since
1879 the level of the lake has fallen about
twenty-six feet. The natives are now cul-
tiyating banana patches for about a half
mile lakeward on land that twenty years
ago was covered by the lake. In other
words. the width of the lake has been di-
minished about mile throughout its
length of 400 miles. Fort KaTema was
built on hill whose base was Tapped by
the waves of Tanganyika, but now a gently
sloping, cultivated plain stretches between
the fort and the lake. Many of the native
villages in the ten tribes that inhabt the
thousand miles of coasts have been moved
forward along the new shore line At pres
mt the level of the lake appears 10 be sta
tionary for there has been no perceptible
change within a year or more.
Father Daun expresses his views on the
ause of this remarkable diminution in the
volume of Tanganyikas waters In his
opinion there was a time, quite number
Of years ago, when the head Of the Lukuga
River which carries the waters of the lake
% the Congo, was effectually damned by
IN accumulation OF tree trunks, herbage
and sand. so that finally none Of the waters
was able to escape and the level of the
AXE began abnormally 10 rise. This went
on for a uumbcr of years until at last the
barrier at the head of the Lukuga was
gradually broken down and since then the
waters have baen slowly falling, and the
AXE has been returning TO its natural level
Father Daulrs observation Of facts Is
accurate but he seems to have got the
cart before the horse and has mistaken the
effect OF the falling waters for the cause
that produced them 1t has been clearly
shown by explorers that the barriers that
sometimes form at the head OF the Lukuga
are not the cause of the lakes diminution
but the result of it. Like many a white
man in Africa Father Daull has not beer
able 70 keep pace with the geographical
literature relating to the very region
where he lives.
All the evidence tends to show that
Tanganyika is subject to periodical rise and
fall OF level due to meteorological causes
hat are not fully understood For period
Of years the water receipts of the lake are
steadily less than its outflow and the
evaporation from its surface, and then the
lake recedes, the head OF the Luliuga be-
The times., 1899-11-26
Poetic fire Quenched.
CFrom The Chicago Tdbune.J

tFrUm Tue NIIEas0 IIIUuIIt.J
The poet wss in his best clothes.
lie Was doing the society act.
In a corner Of the brilliantly y-lghted parlor ha
slt. with a look OF intense abstraction ON ms
face.
''Wliat occupies your miud?" banteringly asked
4 fair one. - Thoughts that breathe and words
that burn p
.'Alas bo!' he exclaimed. in agony of saul
Collar points that pierce and shoes that piuchT
Which seems to show that the poet. Vbtu at
his bgst is in negligee costume.
The times., 1899-11-26
THE WASHINGTON OF OLD
Characteristics Of the City Seventy
Seven Years Ago.

story Of the American Capital ns
Told ia judah DcIauo's Directory,
observation-disclosures OF the CcrpO-
ration Ancient Advertisements.
The times., 1899-11-26
INTEREST IN Bird talk
Washington 0rnithOlOgists Making
Special Study Of It.

Tribes said to Express All
shades of joy and sorrow In Their
Cries and TwitterinES-The Capt
tai City Considered Good Field
for Conducting an investigation.
The times., 1899-11-26

The first Washington Directory is a
curious little book 1t is warn, torn and
iuUsty, and is brown with age. It rests on
q dark little shelf in the Library Of Con
gress, lonely and deserted. Few people
ever call 10 see it, and few there are who
ever think Of it, Il is now more properly
a directory Of the dead. Probably every
person whose name it gives, is dust.
The directory in question is a book six
inches long. four inches wide, and one half
an inch thick, and contains one hundred
and fifty pages Il is bound with yellow
card board. and on the face Of the binding
and also on the title page, is the follow
ing.
The times., 1899-11-26

PRINTING OFFICE.
Twelfth Street West, Between Z and Streets
North
Where orders for printing will be thankfully re-
ceived and neatly executed by
WM. DUNCAN
The times., 1899-11-26

CLASSICAL AND SCIENTIFIC FOREIGN BOOKS.
Livres Francais, imprimes Paris-Libros Is
panoles-Deujsche Bucher.
HENRY GIEGAN
At His Foreign Bookstore.
Pennsylvania Avenue, between Strother's and San
fOrd's Hotels
The times., 1899-11-26

BENJAMIN CHAMBERS
Engraver, Die Sinker, and Copper plate Printer,
Between Tenth and Eleventh Streets,
Pennsylvania Avenue,
City OF Washington,
VIII execute maps. charts professional, and visit
ing cards historical and other engrayings,
Dies and seals OF cast steel and other metals
The times., 1899-11-26

JAMES s. GREGORY. Merchant.
Pennsylvania Avenue. two doors west Of Gunton's
Apothecary Store, Keeps Constantly
a Large Assortment OF Dry Goods
The times., 1899-11-26

PISHEY THOMPSON.
BOOKSELLER and S;ationer and Importer Of For
cign Books Optical Mathematical, and Surgical
instruments, Drawing Materials etc.
Pennsylvania Avenue, Between llth and 18th
Streets.
Has on sale books stationery, penknives, scissors,
gentlemen'S dressing cases, razor strops, sur
veyors' instruments. CompssSss, thermometers.
microscopes, telescopes, and drawing materials
from the first London manufacturers.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30
STRANGER.
Have You Just Arrived ?

Do you know you have struck the
most promising town for its population
in the United States? Well, you have
best place to buy your necessities. We
are the people in our lines. We sell
for cash and at Bottom Prices.
Cookstoves from IS to $3.50.
Lamp, from 25 cents up.
Topaz Toilet Soap, the best for this
water, cents cake.
Vaseline, cents bottle.
TeakettIes from 25c to $3.50.
Coffee and Teapots from 10c to 81.
Dishpans from 25c to 50.
Matches, 2,4OO for 25c
Cups and saucers from soc set to
$3.50 set.
Lamp Chimneys from sc to 35c.
Oil Lamp Stoves from 75c to $3.50.
Mop Sticks, zoe
Dovers Egg Beaten, 1Oc each.
Cake Turner's. SC.
To give a list of our bargains would
be an invoice of our entire stock, and
so we cannot tell you all about it. So
come around to our place, four doors
east of postofiice.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

DR.. r. E. HoIbrook, dentist, over the
pOStOffice.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30
For Rent !:

saw him the kid was taking to the
hills, leaving trail of blood behind
His Whereabouts are unknown and
some believe that Mr.. Clark is entitled
to the reward offered by the territory
for Kidding the country of the red
faced murderer.
McKelligon's where you can get the
finest handmade sour mash, bourbon
and and Pennsylvania rye WHISTLES.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

For excellent meals at reasonable
prices go to Coffee AIS restaurant.
Everything in season. Short orders a
speciality.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

Fresh oysters at the Grotto. Popu-
lar prices.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30
NEWS
OF THH
TOWN
PHOENIX WEATHER.

The following weather conditions pre-
vailing in Phoenix yesterday were re-
ported by the United States weather
bureau:
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

WOOL and HIDES bought at 14S
East Monroe Street. BEN BLOCK.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums, al
lays all pain, cures wind collie and is
the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twen-
ty-fiVe cents a bottle.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

Cards of thanks, notices pertaining
to organizations and societies, church
fairs or socials, will not be printed IN
the Republican except when paid for.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30
LOCAL BREVITIES.
ARIZONA VIOLETS.

Extra fine. strong plants now ready.
VIII bloom this winter if planted soon.
GATES FOWLER.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

The hot weather cuts no ice at Trib-
olets meat maj ket. In the big cooling
rooms are chops and steaks and roasts
and boiling pieces" fresh and tempt
ing Tribolet 80. makes specially
Of the best cuts.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

Phoenix Bottling Works is sole
agent for Ironbrew, a famous tonic.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

Chamberlain. Jeweler, IL n list Ave.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

Try broiled tenderloin steak at
Coffee AIS. Everything frst-class.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

Water for lawn and garden use will
be furnished only between the hours of
and p. m. where a nozzle is used on
hose Water will be cut off if not used
as above.
THE PHOENIX WATER co.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

Charles V. Williams, practical house
cleaner, can be relied upon. 1924 West
jefferson street.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-30

Prescription Pharmacy.
26 E. Washington ST
Cards of thanks, notices pertaining
to organizations and societies, church
fairs or socials, will not be printed IN
the Republican except when paid for.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
ARIZONA VIOLETS.
Extra fine. strong plants now ready.
VIII bloom this winter if planted soon.
GATES FOWLER.
For excellent meals at reasonable
prices go to Coffee AIS restaurant
EVERYTHING in season. Short orders a
speciality.
Fresh oysters at the Grotto. Popu-
lar prices.
Dr.. r. E. Holbrook, dentist, over the
p0stoffice.
WOOL and HIDES bought at 14S
East Monroe Street. BEN BLOCK.
Phoenix Bottling Works is sole
agent 1Or 1rOnDT6Ws d IdI1OUS
Chamberlain, Jeweler, II 1st Ave
The hot weather cuts no ice at IT'D
oIet's meat market. In the big cooling
rooms are chops and steaks and roasts
and boiling pieces" fresh and tempt
ing. Tribolet makes specially
of the best cuts.
ctr at
Coffee AIS. Everything frst-class.
NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS.
Water for lawn and garden use will
be furnished only between the hours of
and p. m. where a nozzle is used on
hose Water will be cut off if not used
as above.
THE PHOENIX WATER CO.
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has |
been used for children teetning- 1t |
soothes the child, softens the gums, al |
lays all pain, cures wind collie and is |
the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twen |
ty-five cents a bottle.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26

fact that some are deep and some shall
low. Inc strongest and best defined
vein on the surface may extend down.
ward but short distance, or although
the assure may go on down almost
indefinitely, the values may give out.
On the surface there is nothing to in
dictate whether the ledge narrows or
broadens with descent, or whether the
values are sustained or fail. If, how
ever, the ledge has been followed down
a considerable distance, it gives a bet
ter knowledge of it's character. If both
the size and the value have been main
tanned with something of regularity for
thousand feet, there is much better
ground for believing that they will con-
tinue for another thousand, than a mere
outcrop would furnish for belief as TO
the first thousand.
If ledge has been followed down
such distance. it demonstrates the
strike, the dip and the geological for
nation through which it passes. The
miner has just so much more data upon
which to base his Judgment than he had
at the surface. Moreover, when a ledge
has thus been explored to a great depth
with the result indicated, 1t shows that
the disturbance or CONFUSION by which
1t was formed was upon an extensive
scale, and hence it is not reasonable to
believe that anything like the bottom
has been reached.
If the ledge ,has narrowed, showing
disposition to pinch" or if the value
lessons, it is an unfavorable sign; if
1t has broadened or grown richer, it is
suggestive of the opposite. But the dis
eussion referred to proceeds upon the
theory of a uniformly sustained width
and value, and it is safe to say that
mining men will continue to attach
greater value to ledge fifty feet wide
at depth of thousand feet than to a
mere outcrop of the same dimensions.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26
Electricity as a Power.

The Mining Reporter of Denver calls
attention to the increased use of cleo
tricity as the motive power for heavy
machinery 1t is certain that marked
advances are being made along this
line.
In the first application of this mystic
rious agent, quite naturally it was en-
ployed for lighter work. 1t is Just as
true of steam that in it's first use as a
power it was applied to and through
machines that compared with those
now in use were mere child's play
things. Compare, for example, the
machinery of the first steamboat with
the thirty thousand horse power en-
gines of the monster Oceanic
Electricity is a much more subtle
force than steam. Its properties are
less understood, and it's mysteries not
so easily solved.
Steam Is a substance. Its compost
ton is identical with that of water.
1t is in fact water which has been sub
Water can be easily converted into
steam, and the steam back again into
water. There is no difficulty whatever
In understanding the phenomena of
steam. But the science of electricity
is still in its infancy. Whether it is a
substance-matter-or merely condi-
ton of matter has not yet been deter
mined. Under certain conditions it ap-
pears, works its marvels, and with the
slightest change of those conditions it
disappears as suddenly as it came
Where 1t goes, what it is in it's dormant
state or whether it is anything at all,
no one knows. 1t Is only known that
under certain conditions, it will be pro-
duced and do certain things
The difference between that which is
produced by friction, and that which
comes as the result of chemical action
is perhaps the greatest mystery con-
nected with it.
The machinery whereby it is utilized
as a power is both delicate and COM
pick. Still, there seems to be no prac-
tical limit to the power that can be
generated. 1t is only a question of get
ting suitable machinery for it's genera
ton. its transmission and it's control
To this, of course, must be added the
consideration of expense, which is al
ways a prime factor in business af-
fairs.
But it appears to be certain that cleo
tricity is encroachng rapidly upon
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26
steel Under the Microscope.

From the Mining Reporter.
The structure and microscopical exami-
nation of steel is a subject on which a
good deal has been said during the last
few years, and is now claiming the at
tention of manufacturers. In the discus
sion of a paper which was read by c. II.
Risdale before the Iron and Steel Insti-
tute at Manchester, England, Professor
Porter of Montreal stated that the inn
portance of the subject under discussion
was fully recognized in the United States
and that he was engaged in equipping an
expensive micro laboratory in his college
at Montreal.
Mr.. Risdale in his introduction of the
subject admitted that the only attention
which 1t had received in England has
been in the nature of communications
and discussions from a general or else a
finely scientific point of view He then
explained in detail how he had system
atized the microscopical study of steel
and rendered it available for everyday
Use in a busy laboratory, where CONNER
cial objects must ever predominant, so
that it might be carried on with minimum
demands on time, or of specially expen-
sive appliances, or other serious cost
while il should be of great practical ad-
vantage in determining essential points of
quality and special adaptation