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The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04
cxpIaInea.

Mrs Bliffers-Ye1r old friend has such a sad face. Why is it?
 Mir. Bliffers-Years ago he proposed to a very beautiful girl, and
 Mrs Bliffers-And she refused him? Mir. Bliffers-No She married him.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04

We never enJoy perfect happiness Orr most fortunate successes are min gled with sadness Some anxieties al. ways perplex the reality of our satisfac. tion -Corneille
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04
Royal Thieves.

4 princess, countess, duchess and the daughter of reigning prince were among the 4,0O0 thieves, professional and unprofessional, arrested in Paris during the last twelve months.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04

No household is complete without bottle of the famous Jesse Moore Whiskey. It is pure and wholesome stimulant receommened by all nhHsicians. Don't neglect this necessity.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04

When coming to San Francisco go to Brooklyn Hotel, 20S-2l2 Bush Street. Am erican or European plan. Room and board $l.00 to $1.50 per day; rooms 50 cents to $l.00 per day; single meals 9 cents. Free coach Chas MoutgomerV
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04
Sold by Druggist, 75c. Halls Family Pills are the best.

I believe Piso's Cure is the only medi- cine that will cure consumption.-Ann NJ. Ross, Williamsport. Pa., Nov. 12, %.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04

Mrs Creeue Lear that Sarah Jun son is going 10 get divorce from her husband
 Mrs Brownies, and don't blame her one mite He's a monster Would you believe it. he actually used one of her golf sticks for a poker the other AorringI-Boston Transcript
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04
.Scnf Eree.n

Scot is the equivalent of the Anglo Saxon word "sceat. meaning taxation. therefore ''scot free" originally meant free from the payment of taxes, " and now 1t has become general expression fos freedom from anything.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04

Even a dumb clock can make Hself anNsrstood with its hands.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04
To Cure a Cold In One Day.

Take Laxative Promo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if it fails to cure, 25c.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04

City of Mexico Herald: The dis covery of gold Smiles southwest of this city has caused a named town to spring up in a night, as it were. Half of the able-bodied men of the town have gone to the scene of the discov- cry and over 1000 claims have already been staked. The new camp has been named Dawson City, after B. X. Daw- son, who located a mineral vein from which he dug ore assaying over $16,- 900 in gold to the ton. The main vein has been traced fifteen miles. Some parties claim that it is an extension of the famous Bassick vein of Silver City.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04

CTTC Permanently Cured. No nts or nervous tiIS ness after first days use Of pr. Klines Great Nerve Restorer, Send for FREE 82.OO trial bottle and treatise. DR. K. H. KLINE Ltd eS0 Arch St., Philadelphia. Pa.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04
THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS


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 CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal
 LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK. NY.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-02-04
COULD NOT SLEEP.
Mrs. Pinkham Relieved Her Of All
 Her Troubles.

Mrs. MADGE BABcocK, 176 Second St., Grand Rapids, Mich, had ovarian trouble with its attendant aches and pains, now she is we'll. Here
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and four bulky hacks had conveyed
MIN to the madhouse. and that though
he might live on for the next hundred
wears he would never utter a furtner
word than: "Ha! ha! hal"
THE TITLED HUSBAND.
"Daughter, | wish to speak to you IN
the library"
"All right, father"
The above b~lood-eurdling converse
tion occurred between Philip Davis
hurg and his daughter Honora on the
18th day OF January, 1898, and exactly
Il minutes after 6 o'clock in the even
ing AS they reached the library
which contained exactly 1854 books
and 27 pamphlets, the father turned
and said:
"Honora. James Peters, foreman OF
nv sawmill, has asked your hand II
marriage"
put | shall turn him down" prompt
ly replied the girl.
81 had hoped you would not be IN
different to him. Mr.. Peters is o
earning 800 per month. and could
afford you every luxury. AS my SON
in-law I should pay his gas and coal
bills. and now and then send you over
a side Of bacon or a sack Of -four. what
have o against him."
Nothing in particular, but am de-
termined to marry a title. want to
he a duchess or a countess
Daughter, you must realize that such
a marriage is impossible!" exclaimed
the father.
81 don't see It that way. Within four
blocks of this mansion a count Is work
ing in a barber shop, and a duke Is
acting as waiter in a restaurant. be-
lieve / can capture either one OF them"
But / will not have it so. Mr..
Peters is in the kitchen waiting for
your reply"
"Then he may wait forever! You
have been a good father to me, and II
mains me to break your heart, but on
this question OF marriage ! shall do as
I please. Don't waste any more breath,
governor. 1t is either a title or death.
"You will live to regret it," said the
father, after a spell Of weeping.
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TALKING ACROSS THE
ATLANTIC WITHOUT WIRES.
By Next Spring Wireless biography Over the Ocean May Be
PossibIe--Afer That, T~eIephoning.
From 4 staff Correspondent Of Tn

From a Staff Correspondent of The
Register.
LONDON, September 7.-Marconi,
the 26-year-old wonder worker, has a
new marvel up his sleeve. 1t is tele-
phoning without wires. He is expert
nenting with it at odd times, and l
understand that he has the general
scheme of 1t well thought out, and that
there is little or no doubt in his mind
concerning the possibility-nay, prob
ability-of talking back and forth
across miles of wireless space-per-
haps even the Atlantic-as simply as
we talk back and forth across a table.
The secretary of the company that
is supplying the money for Marconi's
experiments in wireless telegraphy adj
united, when asked concerning the new
departure, that the inventor had been
nightly interested in the subject, and
had been conducting elaborate expert
ments with satisfactory results; but
just how far the experiments have gone
or how satisfactory the actual results
have been he didn't wish to say. The
reticence observed seemed somewhat
like that Of a popular novelist who has
a particularly good story almost ready
for publication, but is Withholding it
for fear it will crowd too closely on the
heels OF his last previous novel.
/ learn, however, that Marconi has
already succeeded in transmitting the
tiny sound made by an electric spark a
distance of thirty miles without wires,
and could, so to speak, telephone the
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could not bear to hold my job and I've
on and know that Henry Livingstone

could not bear to hold my job and live
OF and know that Henry Livingstone
was the husband OF another
AS she descended the steps and hur-
ried " the street she was offered a
Oxen bananas for 10 cents, an peanuts
at 5 cents a quart, but she gave no heed
In Chicago or st. Louis a gi1l with d
breaking heart may turn to fresh
roasted peanuts, but in New York and
Boston their appetite is gone. On
on-on and the river was finally reach
ed. Camille did not hesitate. She
took off her hat, that it might be given
to some girl working in a carpet fac
tory, and she removed her shoes and
left written directions that they be pre-
sented to some struggling typewriter,
and then sEe uttered a prayer to Heav-
en- and took the plunge. A second later
the waters had swallowed her up and
she had disappeared forever from NOR
tai eyes. Henry Livingstone read OF
her suicide in the papers, but not even
a sigh escaped him. She had concealed
her love for him so well that he never
suspected it. He simply looked upon
it as another case of a girl getting tired
of acting as cashier in a restaurant.
where almost every patron ordered
onions.
TO THE MAD HOUSE.
Even as Arthur Farrady sprang from
the carriage to ascend the steps a feel
ing came over him that some terrible
misfortune awaited him in the parlor
Of that brown-stone front. He hesitated
for a moment, chilled to the marrow,
and then Fate forced him onward.
While waiting for his ring to be an
swered he could hear the beatings Of
his heart, and and his heels grew cold
for the first time in years. AS the
door swung open he looked into the
face of the footman. 1t was cold and
stern. 1t represented frozen mutton at
IA cents per pound.
Miss Gladsell is waiting for you in
the sky-blue parlor," he said as he
backed away.
Catching his breath with painful eff
forts Arthur Farrady entered the room.
1t contained Marjoria Gladsell, an
ormulu clock and several other things.
The girl was standing by the fire place
with a poker in her right hand.
What is it, Marjorie-why do | have
shivers and ~shudders." exclaimed Ar
thur, as he stood before her.
She glared at him as a tigress glares
at the hunter, but spoke no word.
"TelI me, girl-tell me what has hap
pened since I pressed a good night kiss
uron your brow last night?"
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more to send a message than It does
now.
1t was also supposed that to send a
message across the Atlantic the current
would have to leave the wires from a
balloon anchored 1000 feet above the
sea level, and would have to be re-
ceived at a corresponding height. Mar
conf experimental upon that theory for
a while, and got the balloons down
from 1000 to LOO feet, but even that
sounded rather fantastic, for balloons
are hayward things, and experiments
were begun in another direction. We
shall know next winter how successful
the new idea is when put to the test.
Probably there is no man in the
United Kingdom harder to find than
this young Italian inventor. One day
he is over IN the French coast, at Wi
mereux, the next day he is across the
Channel at Dover, then you find him
on a French warship, and later on he is
StuuIHS MESSAGES UStWetu IlcI MdJCs-
tvs vessels. The station at which you
can most often find him Of late has been
at Poole Harbor, on the Dorsetshire
coast, where he has his pole and wires
in front of the hotel On the beach. His
movements are complicated by the fact
that he is in great demand socially.
The Prince of Wales invited him to
come aboard the royal yacht Osborne at
the time he was laid up with an in
jnred knee, and established commune
cation between the yacht and Cowes
Bay and the Queen at Osborne House,
which was out of sight behind the hills.
The success of that enterprise made
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have loved Henry with a great and I'M
selfish love, and now he has went and
married a girl who is simply after his
money. There is nothing more in life
for me-"
Five pairs of shoe strings for 10
cents!" shouted the fakir as he passed,
but Camille did not take advantage of
the cut in prices and lay in a summer
stock. 1t is doubtful if she even heard
his wild, weird, b~lood-curdling shout.
ITO the river" she whispered as a
shiver passed cSer her-"to the cold,
cruel. fast-fowing river and death! |
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Ing success OF that enterprise made
firm friends of the Prince of Wales and
the Duke of Connaught, who have kept
up their interest in wireless telegraphy
and in Marconi ever since.
MARCONrS HABITS.
The young Italian does not resemble
Edison in the least, so far as habits are
concerned. Although he rarely talks
or thinks about anything except his
work, he is regularly with his meals
and does not endorse Mr.. Edison's the
DRY that sleep is only a foolish little
weakness that we should learn to over
come.
1t may be a matter of some wonder
where the young man gets the thou
sands of dollars that are rNsuired for
his experiments. His father is a rich
land owner, whose estates are near
Bologna, and it was at Bologna Uni
yersity, studying under the clever Pro.
fessor Right, that the boy hit upon his
idea for wireless telegraphy. After the
idea assumed such definite shape that
there was no room for doubt about it
a company was organized to supply the
funds for his experiments, and also to
supply the system to any one who
wanted it when the instruments should
become marketable. They have reach
ed the stage now where various govern
'ments are taking an interest in them.
The British Admiralty has been so
well satisfied with the experiments on
the cruiser Juno that they have ordered
"a complete set of the apparatus to be
supplied to the torpedo schoolship De-
fance. The War Office has also been
using the system to send messages be-
tween the camps at EPSON Downs and
at Aldershot, twenty-seven miles apart.
The messages were sent back and
forth with surprising distinctness, and
it was made impossible for any inter-
vening station to intercept them. The
results were reported by experts to the
War Office, and it is said that the Mar
conf system is to be adopted officially
as a meal of conveying orders from
corps to corps, thus doing away with
the necessity of war balloons and max
ing it impossible for the enemy to in
terfere with communication by cutting
Oh tapping wires. The possibilities of
the system in war time are extended
by the demonstration Of the fact that
messages could be sent between such
places as the South Foreiand Light
ship and the Dover Town Hall. between
which are not only twelve miles of sea,
but four miles CT solid cliffs, through
Or over which the current had to pass.
The dots and dashes went through the
rock Is easily as they had travelled over
ga. CURTIS BsOWN.
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Morse code to-day. 1t is easy to see
that, as the principles and means of
telegraphy and telephony are so much
alike, the advance made in telegraph
ing without wires shows the way for a
similar advance in %telephoning, and
the young Italian who made the origi-
nal discovery has not been slow to fol-
low up its corollary.
The idea of telephoning without wires
is not new. Some weeks ago an item
was printed in London and telegraphed
to America that an eminent Russian
scientist, DR.. Peter Stems, had master
ed the secret, and was then in London
preparing to unfold the discovery to
an admiring world. Sir William Henry
Preece, who could be expected to know
of such discoveries if any one did,
never heard of the doctor, and the Rus
sian Embassy knew him not. The re-
porter who wrote the story yelled him
self in mystery. 1t seems he had been
misled into handing in an item that had
been printed two years ago. There
really was a DR.. Peter Stems in Lon
don at that time, and he really had
made some progress toward wireless
telephoning, but as he has not been
heard of since it must be supposed that
his discoveries didn't go far enough.
So far as known, no one else, except
Marconi. has done anything practical
in this line.
MAREONI'S FIRST VISIT TO THE
UNITED STATES.
The inventor starts for the United
States this week to conduct some ex-
periments and demonstrations in wire
less telegraphy. 1t may be set down as
certain that the United States Navy
Department and perhaps also the War
Department, will have a hand in some
of those experiments. The date of his
return has not been fixed, and even af-
ter he comes back the experiments in
telephoning without wires will have to
wait, for there are two more big steps
TO be made in wireless telegraphy be-
fore the inventor can be expectd to
switch OFF his attention to other mat
tiers.
II these two steps can be taken sue
cessfully, we actually shall have mes
sages sent across the Atlantic without
the aid of wires. and not only that, but
there is a possibility that they can be
sent in the next six months. and with
out any great expense. either.
The preliminary step in this direction
will be tried some time this winter, if
all goes well. 1t will be an attempt to
send wireless messages rel far greater
distances than have yet been tried
possibly from Lands End to the coast
of Spain.
Up to now the greatest distance over
which telegraphic dots and dashes have
been tossed without wires has been
~sixty-two miles, the messages having
been sent between H. NJ. S. Europa and
Il. NJ. s. Juno, when both were at sea
aad both in motion. instruments of
exceeding delicacy were required to
make the messages distinct, and it was
evident thA to send messages to much
greater distances without wires it would
be necssaly to ind some new develop
ment Of the original idea, tor the in
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the strength of the current used and
the height of the poles from which the
message was liberated and received.
but the further experiments indicate
that this was not the whole truth.
IMPORTANT NEW MODIFICATION.
In spite of the occasional interviews
purporting to come from Signor Mar
conf, he has talked little for publica-
ton, and doesn't like to be quoted, but
it can be said on the authority of one
of his assistants that the new modifca-
ton of his system practically is COM
plete, and has met every test except
that of actual practice over a long dis
lance. Theoretically it works all right,
and as Signor Marconi's theories seem
to have a habit of according with the
facts as afterward proved, it is not I'M
reasonable to suppose that some time
this winter wireless messages will be
sent a distance of several hundred
miles.
And if it proves that messages can
be sent without wire for a distance of,
say, 800 miles, what is to prevent their
being sent 5000 miles?" l asked.
The answer was rather surprising,
for it had generally been supposed that
the talk of wireless telegraphy back
and forth across the Atlantic was more
in the nature of a dream than a definite
reality-the sort of dream H. G.. Wells
coins in money. The answer was: IF
We find that We can send messages a
great distance-for example, from
Lands End to the coast of Spain-there
will be theoretically no reason why the
system should not apply to the whole
breadth of the Atlantic ocean"
And if the experiment with a few
hundred miles is successful, will the
very mex step be a stride across the
Atlantic?"
Undoubtedly it will"
And if the new modification of the
system works we'll for a few hundred
miles, would it take long to adapt it
to the distance of 5000 miles?"
"We can't tell until the actual test
is made, but according to theory the
instruments could send messages across
the Atlantic without any great change"
Gould you prepare them for the test
in two months?"
Il see no reason why it would take
longer than that"
And so it is actually within the
bounds of possibility that a wireless
message may be sent across the Allan
tic as early as next spring."
Even so, unless some different means
is required to find a message sent from
so great a distance"
WILL NOT COST MUCH.
1t used to be said when wireless tel
egraphy across the Atlantic was talked
of vaguely that the cost of generating
the prodigious power required to shoot
the current over in the right direction,
would be prohibitive. but if the new
modification of the system does what is
expected of it, it is estimated that the
cost of a transatlantic service would
be scarcely more than double the cost
of installation in tbs system as used
to-day, whose uttermost limit has been
sixty-two miles: and after the ~installa
| ton it is expected that Ii will cost no
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struments used in the sixty-two-mile
experiment were about as fine as in
struments we'll could be.
II can be announced here that after
many experiments Signor Marconi has
found the way to this required develop
ment. Just what the modification is
he will not tell for publication, but it
can be said in a general way that by
means OF it he can make an electric
current do more work than it has done
hitherto. 1t was thought at first that
the limit OF distance was set only by
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Il have learned to love another"
she quietly replied.
"You can't mean it,"
But l do"
"And the fend who has taken you
from me isis"
"Our family coachman. He gets $50
per month wages. His job is good for
the next ten years. l am a girl of
business. Mr.. Farrady, I will excuse
you. The hour is late, and your mother
will be expecting zou home.
"Hal ha! hal"
It was the laugh of a maniac. The
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The new Colt automatic gun is described by military enthusiasts IS a de-
lightfuny simple instrument, working easily and with a mecnancA ppS-
ion that is beautiful to behold. Its effects. however, are deadly IN the X
IRENE. for it al rain death and destruction on a foe at a rate hal is truly
naraIyzing. This new instrument of modern warfare is a machine gun, and
self operating after one shot has been fred by hand. continuing the action so
long a ammunition is supplied. The force required to perform n several
motions of firing, extracting and loading is derived from TN powder
gasses a portiono of these passing at each discharge through a small ven In
the bore near the muzzle, and actuating the mechanism OF tn III through
the medium of a lever or pendulum. A feed belt, accordingly, being placed
in positon. the u loaded and the first shot fired by hand, TIT energy d-
rived from the explosion sets in motion the mechanism which extracts n
elects the empty case moves the feed belt along the necessary distance
wthdraws a cartridge from the belt, closes the bolt on 1t and fires
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perhaps, but / am determined"
That closed the interview. Four
days later the pruud-hearted Honora
became the Countess OF Cnieagc-on-the-
Wabash and had her hair dyed four
shades lighter. For three weeks she
lived in a four-room fat and was CALI
ed By her title. Then she appeared at
her fathers house u evening and
said:
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THRILLS
Some Extracts from Forthcoming Nov
els-She Loved Him So.

The words had been spoken which
linked Henry Livingstone and Lucille
Tarbell for life, and scores OF their
friends crowded forward to congratu-
late them. Camille took advantage Of
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on the walls Of The casaubon tomb In
Westminster abbey. with the date. 1853,
attached. 1t has been clearly establish
ed that these Initials are those Of the
genial author Of The Compleas
Angler"
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FEATHER, the Count has founded me
black and blue" +
Eyes, daughter"
"And fed me on hash and colo tea"
Exactly"
"And this evening the gas is shut on,
the coal is out, and his highness is
away playing poker at 5 cents ante.
Father. may l have the use of the tubs
in the kitchen to drown myself?"
Certainly, Countess"
'eThen FAREWELL"
FAREWELL"
And the proud-hearted Honora de-
scended TO the kitchen and held her
head in a tub Of water until her titled
life was extinct.
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9 be a tne
innate passion TO
carve his name
or initials on a
clean surfac G
when he came
across one. This
is shown by the
finding Of MS in
itiaIs engraved