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The San Francisco call., 1899-02-05

RANCE has a new submarine
torpedo boat that is said to be a
wonder of her class. What she
has done is far in advance of
anv submarine boat ever built
and her inventor says he only wants a
fighting chance to show just what
there is in his craft.
The new boat is called the Gustave
Zede. after the name of her inventor,
and she has llany novel points in con-
struction of boats of this kind. She
differs from our own boat-the Hol-
land-principally in being much larger
and more tapering in the form of hull.
She is 131 feet long and has dis
placement of 266 tons.
After making due allowance for the
enthusiasm of Frenchmen at possess
ing a craft that cannot be duplicated
in the world there is I. denying that
the Gustave Zede is a wonderful YES
sci and even if she only does one-half
of what is claimed for her she will
make a most formidable enemy.
All the reports concerning the new
boat indicate that it is a step in ad
vance in submarine navigation. 1t
not only navigates the depths with
safety and discharges its torpedoeS
with accuracy, but it is provided with
an artificial electric EYE" whereby it
can produce light fo great distances
beneath the water.
Using dummy torpedoes this boat has
struck a battleship going at full speed
without giving her a chance to defend
herself This is the first time such
feat has been performed by sub
marine boat.
Gustave Zede, the inventor, was for
many years naval constructor and his
ideas are certainly worthy of the
greatest consideration. He, 1t is
claimed, was the first inventor to ap-
ply the electric motor to submarine
iocomotion. The L.otor undergoes no
loss of weight during its operation, re-
quires no oxygen, disengages no gas,
and is consequently well adapted to
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marvellous force latent in the vegetab
world We're conducted by Charles H.
Ames at the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College, Amherst. The attention
of the president of the college, w. S.
Clark, was directed. to the matter and
he,s together with other gentlemen in
terested in opening up new pathways
TO knowledge, made further expert
ments. A squash was procured and
harness constructed on such principles
as would enable the plant to exert to
the utmost its lifting powers. In de-
scriblng the preliminary experiments
ana the theories on which they based
their plans Mr.. Clark says:
The Following considerations sug-
gested the idea:
"First-lt is a well-known fact that
beans, acorns and other seeds often
lift comparatively heavy masses of
earth in forcing their way up to the
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FRANCES NEW TERR0R OF THE SEAS THE GU5TAVE zEDE.

OF these lenses may be judged from the
fact that If the sun were permitted to
shine straight through them it would
burn and melt up everything in the
lighthouse.
This powerful light has been placed
in a coming tower and is almost like
the illuminating power of the Holland.
How long this fierce light can be main
tanned has not been stated in the re-
ports received. but the chances are that
it is only to be used Immediately be-
fore an attack is made for the pur-
pose of accurately locating the foe.
For offensive purposes there are
two torpedo tubes in the Zede. These
are placed one on either side. This
seems an almost impossible armament,
but the inventors claim that below the
surface it Is just right and that it real
ly helps TO balance the boat.
The immersion of the boat is regu-
lated by the simple action of horizontal
rudders analogous to those of the
Whitehead torpedo. Everything is done
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A rich bed of compost from spent hot
bed was prepared, which was feet
wide, so feet long and about 6 inches in
depth Here, under the fostering care
Of Prof. Maynard, the seeds germinat-
ed, the vine grew vigorously, and the
squash lifted in a most satisfactory
manner
The experiment was watched day and
night by relays of the scientists in
terested. An ingeniously constructed
apparatus for testing the lifting power
of the plant consisted Of a frame of
seven-inch boards. In this framework
the harnessed squash was deposited,
the harness consisting of iron straps
completely encircling the squash. To
the harness was attached a lever, on
which were placed. the weights to meas
ure the lifting capacity of the vegeta-
BILE. AS the growing squash elevated
the weights, others were added. A care
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Way out into deep center the ball sailed
and struck the fence. Childs and the 9TH
er player came home, tying the score, but
Brodie got the ball back so quickly that
Tebeau was held at second base. The
crowd was wild The noise was deafen-
ing. I turned around as soon as | saw Te-
beau stop and there was Robbie of the
Orioles with his mask off shouting blue
murder. Imagine how Il felt. 1 knew
what I had to do, so with the easiest
manner and my most annoying smile l
called Tebeau out for stepping out OF the
box had offered up a silent prayer, FOR L
never expected to see mother again, when,
what to my eternal astonishment, snould
happen but Tebeau left the base without
kicking He had tried to turn trick ana
failed, but he was man enough to take
his medicine.
Well all of the Baltimore correspond
ents who were along with the team gave
me the glad hand, with the result that
when Cleveland went to Baltimore they
asked Nick Young to have me umpire the
series, so I was ordered to go there. L
shall never forget that first game. When
1 came on the field l was given rous1ng
reception as result of my work in Cleve-
land 1 did not pay any attention to the
bouquets, for long experience had taught
me how little it takes to make crowd
of rooters change their opinion of man.
The first game of that series justified my
mental conclusions, for all of the papers
roasted the life out of me the next MORN
ing.
Baltimore went to the bat first and
was quickly retired. Then the Spiders
took a turn with the willow Jesse Bur-
kett was the first man up. He sent red
hot one to Jennings at short. Hughey
tried for it on the short bound, but he
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light in the process of termination.
.'Secondly-We have all heard how
common mushrooms have displaced
faggingstones many years since in
Basingstoke, and more recently in Wor-
oester, England. In the latter case,
only a few weeks ago, gentleman,
noticing that stone in the walk near
his residence had been disturbed, went
for the police, under the impression
that burglars were preparing some plot
against him. Upon turning up the
stone. which weighed eighty pounds,
the rogues were discovered in the shape
of three giant mushrooms
"Thirdly-Bricks and stones are oft
en- displaced by the growth of the roots
of shade trees in streets. Cellar and
other walls are also frequently injured
in a similar way.
"Fourthly-There is a common belief
that the growing roots of trees fire.
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1t was in the eighth inning. The score
stood to in favor Of Baltimore. There
were two outs and Childs and one Of the
other Cleveland players were on first and
second. Tebeau was at the bat. Now you
can imagine the situation. The crowd was
simply wild. Like SO many thousands Of
Indians they were raising the dead. Or.
Pond and Robinson were in the points
for the Orioles. Well, Pond had just
fooled Tebeau on an out curve and Pat
was hot. saw by the expression Of his
face that he wanted to turn trick, so L
kept my blinkers open for 1 was certain
that something was going to happen.
Sure enough; Pond sent in a slow curve
that broke very quickly just in front of
the plate TebeauS had edged up as far
toward the front and end Of the. batters'
box as he could get, and just as the ball
broke he deliberately stepped out of the
box and kissed it. My, but it was a drive
such as you don't see once in lifetime.
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to Show That Immense Weights May

quently rend asunder rocks on which
they stand, by penetrating and expand
ing within their crevices.
Having never heard of any attempt
to measure the expansive force of a
growing plant, we determined to exper-
iment in this direction.
AT first we thought of trying the ex-
pansive force of some small, hard,
green fruit, such as hickory nut or a
near, but the expansion was so slow
and the attachment of the fruit to the
tree so fragile that the idea was aban-
doned. The squash, growing on the
ground, with great rapidity, and to an
best fruit for the experiment.
Accordingly, seeds of the mammoth
yellow Chile having been obtained, they
were planted in the propagating pits of
the plant house, where the temperature
and moisture could be easily controlled.
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War Goinao Fun nSpeedW q Torpedo

made a tumble. However, he quickly
recovered the ball and got it over to first.
1t was a close decision. but Burkett was
safe, which made it an error for Jen-
nings. When he saw that 1 called the
runner safe, he endeavored to work the
old gag that L have had tried so often
on me.
you professional robber, why don't you
get that sawlog out of your eye? Do
you want to give them the gamer"
He pranced around and puffed up like
some pouter pigeon, but was next to him
and told him that he need not stay out
in the sun and work, but to go to the
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nished by Commelin- n-Desmazures accu-
mulatorS.
The boat after many trials, has been
found to work with perfect ease and
safety. 1t has gone up and down q
dozen times in an hour. It has been
tried in heavy sea and proved itself
quite independent of that condition
So great is the interest Of Frenchmen
in this invention that it is now proposed
to build one boat by public subscrip-
ton. This action is intended to encour-
age and hasten the Government in
building submarine boats. The Matin
newspaper has started the subscrip-
ton with $1,000. The boat will be called
the Francois and will be modelled on
the Gustave Zede. The total cost will
be about $60 600.
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for what no one else ever sees. In the
ring 1 always stand within L rec feet of
my men. keep constantly circling around
them, watching every movement and
studying their temperaments. By being
so close I can at the very first semblance
of a clinch make the men break, and not
give one of them a chance to do any close
punching as is so often done when the
referee stands in the corner of the ring.
A referee, of course, knows the rules, and
he must also be perfectly familiar with
the articles of agreement under which the
men are fighting.
Now, in a ball game you have got to
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-05

7 T was three years ago in Cleveland
when Baltimore was playing there
that [ made a decision that took all
the nerve supply that / had at my
II command. I have never seen SINH
lar decision made under such circum-
stances, and in all my striped and check
cred career / was never as rudely called
on to do my duty and read the rules cor
rectly with no ''home grounds" translation
of them as 1 was on that occasion. Cleve-
land and Baltimore were racing neck and
neck for the pennant The Orioles had
had a very successful trip until they
struck Tebeau's pets. Somehow the Balti-
more players always had their hardest
luck in Cleveland, and they were about
the only club that could draw large
crowd there. Well, the two first games
went to Cleveland by score Of to 0
and to 0, if 1 remember correctly. The
third game Baltimore won and the two
teams were playing off postponed game.
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be removed. The illustrations show
the manner in which the harness was
made and the appearance of the frame
work used. The measuring of the
strength of the sap by means of a me-
chanical gauge was a minor feature
of the experiment that was watched
with interest, but the enormous force
developed by the squash itself was the
chief point.
The result proved that what have
been regarded as fairy tales were act
ual facts; that a growing plant can
lift tree, split asunder the solid gran
ite, and move masses in a manner that
prior to these experiments may we'll
have been deemed incredible.
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his eyes. leaving some slime. Besides a
smarting sensation he thought nothing
whatever of it, but after a few days the
eye began to hurt him and kept on get
sician. 1t was then thought a cataract
was growing on the eye, it having that
appearance, but later on it was learned
that such was not the case and that his
sight falling so fast was caused by the
poisonous slime from the eel.-Philadel-
phia Times.
Creston-Barnes doesn't look like an
actor, does he?
Clarke-No; doesn't act like one,
either-Town Topics.
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There are many who think that had
they but been born in higher sphere of
life they would have known what COM
plete happiness meant. That this would
not have been the case the following story
goes a good way toward showing. 1t was
against the strict etiquette of the Dutch
court for the young Queen Wilhelmina
to be allowed to play with any other lit
tie boys and girls, and so she grew up
practically alone.
Wilhelmina was only about or years
Of age when she was one day overheard
playing with her dolls. One wax baby
misconducted itself in some way, and the
small mother. holding up a warning
finger, said, sternly:
'If you are so naughty shall make you
into a Princess, and then you won't have
any other children to play with, and you'll
always have to throw kisses with your
hands whenever you go out driving
This she evidently considered the most
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full record kept shows that the lifting
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full record kept shows that the lifting
done was as follows:
Dates Pounds.
Twenty-first of the month";. go
Twenty-second of the month. SO
Twenty-third of the month";. 81
Twenty fourth of the month";. 162
Twenty-fifth of the month";. 225
Twenty-sixth of the month";. 277
Twenty-seventh of the month. 1856
Thirty-f1rst of the month. ...... 500
Eleventh of next month. .......1 100
Thirteenth of next month. .....1 200
Fourteenth of next month. .....1 300
Fifteenth of next month";. L 400
Twenty-seventh of next month. 100
Thirtieth of next month. ,015
Third of third month. ..........2 ,115
Twelfth of third month. $50. $500
Eighteenth of third month. l2O
Twenty-fourth of third month. APO
Thirty-first of third month. 5000
When the squash had lifted this
amazing weight the harness gave way
under the great pressure and it had to
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haveb o n
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General Guy V. Henry has been or
dered to report to Major-General Brooke
at San Juan and Porto Rico, and Colonel
John B. Castleman is now in charge of the
Ponce military district.
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-05

William Edgecomb, better known as
Sailor Jack. has entirely lost the sight of
one eve. Edgecomb is a fisherman and
lives at Bayside One day last September
he was skinning a large eel, when the
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-05
Special to The Sunday Call.

II EXPERIMENTS have just demon
strated that one of the most
II amazing things in nature is the
IL lifting power possessed by a
growing plant. Science, which
thought it knew a few things about
natures forces, has been startled to
find that such an insignificant, COM
mon-place vegetable as a squash is
capable Of elevating a 5000 pound
weight by the mere force of it's re-
sistless living power Of expansion.
Given the requisite number of these
products Of nature and the squash could
elevate a modern sky-scraper or rend
a rock.
The experiments that have shown the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-02
WRAPPING WHITE CLOTH HE WAS LOW
PART OF THE GRAVE

grave 10 a width of two feet, leaving
an even margin or ledge all around.
Below this they dug some two feet
further, making a total depth OF six
feet
"A slim, wiry-looking chap, with a
cast in his left eye, was selected as the
victim. The chief fakir, with the usual
lamentations and passes, soon had him
rigid in sort of hypnotic sleep; then
wrapping him loosely in white cloth.
he was lowered into the narrow part
of the grave. over him, resting upon
the sandy ledge described, was placed
a layer Of thin boards to prevent the
soil from coming in contact with his
body. This done. the others set to work
with a viii 10 shovel in, trampling down
the earth sOiidly every few minutes.
Il must confess that by this time I
felt trifie qualmish. The scene was
rather too realistic for my fancy.
Could it be deliberate murder. and an
accessory to the act. A siclxly feeling
crept over me. but the Hindoos, no.
ticing my uneasy looks, only ground
and shoveled and stamped the harder.
In about fifteen minutes they had
smoothed over a neat mound and
afterwards sodded it evenly down.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-02

SPECIAL STOCKHOLDERS MEET
ing. Little Chief Mining & Milling COM
pany. General office, Salt Lake City.
Utah.-Notice is hereby given that spe-
ciaI meeting of the stockholders of the
Little Chief Mining and Milling company
is hereby called to be held at the office
of the corporation, rooms 401-l. Atlas
block No "a TO IS W. 2nd South ST.. Salt
Lake City. Utah, on Tuesday, the 18th day
of July, 1899 at 10 o'clock a. m, for the
purpose of considering the adoption of the
following proposed amendments TO the ar
tfcles of incorporation of said corporation,
to-wit:
list. An amendment giving to the direct
ors authority to levy assessments upon
assessments may be levied and collected
before the treasury stock OF the corpora
ton shall have been disposed OF.
End. An amendment providing that the
officers of the corporation shall be board
of five directors, a president. vice presi-
dent secretary, and treasurer, and
that the president. vice president and
treasurer must be directors.
3rd An amendment providing that stock
held by the corporation in the treasury, or
nv any stockholder is trustee for the cor
poration may be sold or otherwise dis
posed of by the board of directors for its
benefit upon such terms as IL may consid-
Transfer books will close Monday, July
18th, 1899.
Dated Salt Lake City, Utah, June S0th,'
JACOB NORTH. President.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-02
4 SCHEME TO GUST SHvEY
SUPREME COURT DECIDES oG-
DEN POLICE CASE.
Says the Council Had No Right to
Legislate the Captain Out of Of
fce-No Salary Allowed.

Inc state supreme court delivered an
opinion yesterday which will no doubt
be of much interest to politicians. In
the case of Captain of Police William
ID. Silvey of Ogden it held that the
mayor and city council had no right to
leglslate him out of office because they
wanted his place for someone else But
the application for a writ of mandate
10 compel an appropriation for his sal
airy was denied, on the ground that an
appropriation having once been made
Tor police expenses, another one is not
required. Had the plaintiff brought
SUIT against the city auditor TO com
pei him to issue a warrant, the court
would not have denied the writ
Silvey was dismissed on Feb. 4. 1898,
by the passage of a city ordinance
which purported 10 abolish the office
But on Feb. IL T. T. Whitaker was
made a police captain through an or
dlnance passed on Feb. Z The court
holds that had the city council really
abolished the office of captain, the de-
PENDANT would have no cause of action,
but the passage of another ordinance
and the appointment of another man
within the time when the first ordi-
nance was to become effective was
proof that there was no intention to
abolish the office, but that the council
merely desired to get rid of Silvey. He
had sued for $3.50, and the denial of the
writ by the supreme court will compel
the plaintiff 10 institute a suit against
the Ogden City auditor to compel him
to issue warrant. Silvey was repre-
sented by Rogers d Johnson, and the
mayor and city council by Z. NJ. Ali
son, jr., and William II. Smith.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-02

Miss Mabel Eager, who formerly
taught in the schools of this city, but
who has been teaching in Springville,
Mass, the past year, will remain in
the schools of that city the coming
year.
Professor Roylance of the university
reports great interest in educational
matters in Emery county.
Miss Carrie l. Paine of the high
school, accompanied by Miss Dickson,
will leave for Germany July 10.
Uintah county is confronted with a
shortage of funds for the maintenance
of its schools the coming year.
Miss Edith RoWberry of the Forest
Dale schools and her sister Miss Hilla,
of the Webster school, are spending
their vacation in Idaho.
II. B. Folsom, principal of the River
side school, is attending the uniYer-
sity summer school.
Mrs. Anna Brunton of the Webster
school is teaching a summer school
with excellent success.
Miss Blanche Lawson of the Lincoln
school is attending the university sum-
mer school.
Messrs. w. J. Mccoy of the Oquirrh
school, F. ID. Keller of the Webster
school, w. w. Barton of the Sumner
school, J.. d. McCorkle and f. j. SEN
Tor left for the Uintah country on FRI
day, to be absent two weeks.
Superintendent John K. Park, Profess
sor Byron Cummings, Superintendent
Van Colt, superintendent A. c. Nelson
of Sanpete county, Superintendent
MolyneauX of Grand county, Superin-
tendent Maeleby of Sewer county, Ma
honri Spencer of Taylorsville. Franklin
Bell of Murray and p. C. Peterson and
brother and j. A. Ross will leave on
Tuesday for the purpose of attending
the n. E A. at Los Angeles, July IL
il. They will go from here to Port
land, thence by steamer to San Fran
cisco, and complete their trip by rail
President J. NJ. Tanner of the state
agricultural college was in the city
yesterday attending the meeting of the
state board of education. He will at
tend the meeting of college presidents
III San Francisco July 5, and will also
attend the n. e. A. at Los Angeles.
DIR. c. A. Whiting. formerly of the
is spending the summer
with his family at Pacific Grove. Cal.
r. A. Greene, formerly principal of
the Emerson school, is spending his va
cation in Dakota He will resume his