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, 1899-04-28

1t Is Being Put Into Operation by the
Geographical Society of PhiladeI-
phta-May Result In Discovery of n
Northeast Passage.
Arctic exploration has always been
considered somewhat hazardous. The
Geographical Society of Philadelphia,
however, has a scheme by which this
sort Of scientific investigation can be
carried on with the least possible hazard.
It Is almost as safe as taking boxing
lessons by mail.
The Philadelphia explorers, instead
of trusting themselves to the rigors of
the arctic seas, will send out inanimate
proxies in the shape of stout oaken
casks. Fifty of these wooden explorers
are to be deposited at various points on
the ice foes in Boring sea during the
coming season. The expectation is that
these casks will be carried northward
by the ice foes and that some time in
the future some of them will be picked
up and reported.
While the oaken casks will be forever
mute as to the details of their travels
much may be deduced from the facts
connected with their future reappear-
ance. If, for instance, a cask which
was put on the ice in Boring sea should
be picked up four or five years later off
the coast of Greenland or anywhere in
north Atlantic waters, it would prove
beyond question that a northeast pas
sage really does exist. Moreover, it
would show something about the trend
of ocean currents.
The present project for the deter
mination of polar drift was conceived
by Commodore George w. Melville, en-
gineer in chief of the United States
navy, who was an officer of the Jean
nette expedition. When the Jeanette
was imprisoned in an ice pack and drifted
about in the Arctic ocean for % months,
nearly a quarter of a century ago, Com
modore Melville was aboard her. The
experience gave him an idea which he
developed into a plan for ascertaining
the drift Of arctic currents, and he has
ever since been eager to have that plan
put to the test.
His desire is now. after all these
years. about to be gratified by the Geo.
, 1899-04-28
FROM WOMEN.

Wis. Daughter of the Coincidence.
The Daughters of the C%onfederacy
are to erect over the grave of Winnie
Davis, the original Daughter of the
Confederacy," a beautiful memorial
tribute in the shape of a symbolical
marble monument. 1t will be the first
tribute of the kind ever paid by the
women of the south to one of their sex.
The movement was started by the
Richmond chapter the very day after
Miss Davis was laid beside her father
in Hollyw cemetery. No general So
licitation for funds was made, but in a
short time 81, 600 was offered. Then
the New York camp of Confederate Vet
, 1899-04-28
GETTYSBURG, LURAY, AND WASH.
lNGTON.
Personally Conducted Tour via tn
Pennsylvania Railroad.


The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has arranged for a five-day Personally
Conducted Tour to Gettysburg, Luray,
and Washington on May 8. A full day
will be spent at Gettysburg, three hours
at Luray, affording ample time to make
the tour Of the wonderful caverns, and
two days at Washington.
The party VIII be under the guidance
OF one OF the company's experienced
tourist agents. A chaperon, whose es-
pecial charge will be ~unescorled ladies,
will also accompany the party through
out. Round-Lrlp tickets, including
transportation for the round trip, hotel
accommodations at Gettysburg aud
carriage drive owe the battlefield, lun-
cheon, transfer, and admission to the
Luray Caverns, luncheon, transfer, and
hotel accommodations at Washington,
and dinner going and supper returning,
at Broad Street Station III connection
with tickets from Trenton and points
east thereof, will be sold at the ex-
tremely low rate of $25 from New York,
$24 from Trenton, $22 from Philadel-
phia, and prop%ortionate rates from
other points.
For detailed itinerary apply to Ticket
Agents, or to Tourist Agent, 1876 Broad
way, New York, 7S9 Broad Street, New
ark, N. j., or address Geo. w. Boyd,
Assistant General Passenger Agent,
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.
, 1899-04-28
Explained.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells a
story to show that there is sometimes a
great deal in the way Of putting any
thing:
~ understand hat you said my cid
est daughter was az homely as a mud
fence, professor.
lyon are quite mistaken, my dear
madam. What | said was that your
esteemed child reminded me of a mix
ture Of terra frma and aqua pura COM
bined in a practical boundary line. J
"Ohl Is that all? Dine with US on
Sunday. professor.
, 1899-04-28
EXPLORING BY CASK.
COMMODORE MELvILLE'S PLAN FOR
TRACING ARCTIC CURRENTS.

1t IL Being Put Into Operation by the
Geographical Society of P~hiIadeI-
phia-May Result In Discovery of n
Northeast Passage.
, 1899-04-28
A FIVE FRANC PIECE.
ONE THAT is THE HOPE OF EVERY
CREOULOUS FRENcHMAN.

The Story of Nnpoleon's Famous Coin
md the Immense Fortune That Is
Popularity Believed to DE Conceal
ed Within 1t.
, 1899-04-28
OLD WHALER'S VENTURE.
VIII snii For Cuba In n Skin Only
Nine Feet Long.

Captain Thomas Grape, a new Bed
ford whaler, is going to Cuba in a nine
foot rowboat. His tiny craft weighs
only 60 pounds and is fitted with a set
of wheels, SO that when the weather is
too rough at sea the captain can land
and haul his boat along ON land, thus
losing no time and running no great
risks.
In general model the Volunteer is a
veritable skiff. Over the entire top,
, 1899-04-28

In the eighteenth century begging
was a frightfnl nuisance in the German
states. In Bavaria whole regiments had
to be sent out to arrest and punish the
professional bcggars, and Cologne, with
a population Of only 40. 900. had noarlx
10, 900 paupers,
, 1899-04-28
Hereford House,
ANGLESEA, Nj

Oldest Established hotel on Five Mile Beach.
Fine Inlet and Ocean View. Lo-
alton unsurpassed.
Hereford stage meets all trains.
ANDREW S. WEEKS
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05

The oil well workers are agitating
the formation of a national organiza-
ton.
During the first week OF May over
1000 new members were added to the
Tobacco Workers National union.
One Union tobacco firm in Brooklyn, N.
Y, used 100000 blue labels in April.
Mr.. ]. R Sovereign, ex-grand work
man of the Knights Of Labor, now pub
fishing paper in Idaho, was refused
a seat as delegate from a working
mems union" Of Gem, Ida, at the ses-
sion Of the Western Federation of La
Dor at Salt Lake City.
A correspondent Of the Winnipeg
(Canada) Voice writes: There is a
great deal of kicking over the impor-
tation Of Chinese labor into the coun-
try, but the average workman appears
to be blind to the fact that out Of his
own home goes forth his worst enemy.
If women and children can do the work
of men they should be paid the same
wages as men. Under the present sys-
tenn women and children are paid
apologies for wages, and consequently
the husbands and fathers suffer. These
latter are either entirely replaced by
women, or, If employed at all, have to
accept such wages that they can barely
keep themselves alive"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
Tells Time and Distance.

An invention for the wheelmen is
the combined cyclometer and watch,
recently invented by ]. Davidson Of
London. England. It is SO constructed
that time and distance are both indi-
Gated on the same dial. For this pur-
pose the cyclometer is secured to the
front Of the watch or Is made integral
Herewith, and the arbor of the mile
hand Of the cyclometer is made hollow
to receive the arbors of the hour and
minute hands of the watch, which lat
ter arbors are made sufficiently long
to extend through the arbor Of the
mile hand and to project from the face
or dial Of the cyclometer Thus when
the hour and minute hands are in
position they revolve in front of the
said face or dial, which, in addition to
having the cyclometer indications, is
marked with divisions like the dial of
an ordinary watch to indicate time.
The instrument may be attached to
any suitable part of the cycle, but
preferably to the handle-bar, so that
it can be always seen clearly by the
rider. The cyclometer is driven by
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
Story of Lewis Carroll.

The Rev. C. L. Dodgson, better
known by readers of "Alice in Wonder
land" as Lewis Carroll, was a lovable
man, who delighted to do good in a
quiet way. In his Life and Letters
the following story Is told by one of his
child-friends: my sister and 1 were
spending a day Of delightful sightsee-
ing in town with him. We were both
children, and were much interested
when he took us into and American
shop where the cakes for sale were
cooked by very rapid process before
your eyes, and handed to you straight
from the cooks hands. AS the prepa-
ration of them could easily be seen
from outside the window, a small
crowd of ragamuftins naturally assem-
bled there, and 1 we'll remember Mr.
Dodgson's piling up seven of the cakes
on one arm, taking them out and dol
ing them round to the seven hungry
little youngsters. The simple kindness
of the act impressed its charm on his
inside the shop as much
as on his little stranger friends out
side.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
A Japanese Sanitary Measure.

The Japanese have a unique way of
solving the sanitary problem. While
it may not be possible to follow their
methods, there Is no reason why they
should not be duly admired. They are
deporting in Formosa the entire popu-
lation of a city from one place to an
other on the ground that it is easier
to build an entire new city than to re-
construct the old one on healthful
principles, says the Criterion Forty
thousand inhabitants Of Teukcham.
one of the Formosan cities, are to be
removed according to this ingenious
plan to a new site several miles dis
tant. Here streets are 70 be laid out
according to the same plan, but wider
than the old ones; house plots to he
distributed similar to those given I'D
while all sanitary improvements are
to be made at the expense of the GOV
eminent 1t is estimated that in less
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
Antipathies of Celebrated Men.

Great men have suffered from strange
antipathies. King Henry III. could no:
remain alone in a room with a cat.
The Duke of Epernon tainted at the
sight of a leveret. Tycho Brahe was
all in tremor at the sight of a leyeret
or fox. Tbs Marshal of Albert was
made ill il young wild boar or a
sucking pig was served at the table
where he sat. The famous scholar.
Scaliger, shook all over at the sight of
watercress. Lord Bacon swooned awav
at an eclipse of the moon. Bayle went
into commissions at the sound of water
running out of a faucet. Lamothe lie
Wager had nervous commissions at hear
ing any musical instrument. But the
most extraordinary Of all was King
Ladislaw of Poland. who fled precipi-
lately at the sight of an apple Had he
only been in the place of Adam the
temptation Of Eve would have been of
no avail.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
Aspirations.


I waste no more in idle dreams
My life, my soul away;
I wake to know my better self
I wake to watch and pray.
Thought, feeling, time, idols vain,
I've lavished all too long;
HencefOrth to holier purposes
I pledge myself, my song!
Oh! still within the inner veil,
Upon the spirits shrine,
Still unprofaned by evil, burns
The one pure spark divine,
Which God has kindled in all,
And be it mine to tend
Henceforth, with vestai thought and care
The light that lamp may lend.
} shut mine eyes in grief and shame
Upon the dreary past
My heart, my soul poured recklessly
On dreams that could not last;
My bark was drifted down the stream,
At will of wind wave
An idle. light, and fragile thing,
That few had cared to save.
Henceforth the til1er Truth shall hold,
And steer as Conscience tells,
And will brave the storms of Fate,
Though wild the ocean swells.
know my soul is strong and high.
If once I give it sway;
I feel a glorious power within,
Though light I seem and gay.
oh, 1aggard Soul! uncIose thine eyes
No more in luxury soft
of joy ideal waste myself;
Awake, and soar alofti
fUnfurl this hour those falcon wings
Which thou dost fold too long;
.. Raise to the skies thy lightning gaze,
And sing thy loftiest songi
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
Proposed Labor Legisla ton.

> A cablegram from Germany today
states that a workhouse bill designed
to punish strikers excuses and to pro-
tect employers and non-union work.
men against labor union terrorism was
laid before the reichstag by the govern
, ment today. 1t is predicted that the
bill will create bitter parliamentary
struggle when it is brought to vote at
the next regular winter session. 1t is
which was defeated in the reichstag in
1890. 1t raises the maximum penalty
of the present law from three months
to five years Imprisonment on the
proven charge of lawless actions to
bring about strikes or lockouts that
>endanger public safety or life or affect
the empires defenses. 1t is regarded
as a reactionary measure which will
command the attention of all countries,
for the labor problem now exists every
where. Some Of the infractions of the
law to be punished are enumerated in
the bill as attempts by threats, COM
pulsion, insults, opprobrious epithets
to compel workmen or employees to en-
ter or refrain from enterting associa-
tons or agreements affecting labor
conditions or wages. 1t is mentioned
that mitigating circumstances will
change the penalty of five years i'm
prisonment to a fine of 1000 marks.
The same penalties apply to attempts
70 conapel workmen to strike or en-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
Let the People Control Trusts.

In a message to the legislature OF
Missouri requesting enactments pro-
hibiting trusts Gov. Stevens of that
state makes this statement:
The closing decades of this century
will go into history as the trust pc
riod. The massing Of capital
land of business organizations has Gre
-ated a revolution in the business of the
country. = One of the effects of
this change is large increase in the
productiveness of capital thus en-
ployed.
These assertions are true. And be-
cause they are true, and especially be-
cause of the truth expressed in the
third sentence, which is the milk OF
the cocoanut, it seems to me that eff
forts to smash trusts must inevitably
and dismally fail in the long run. What
we all want is two things: The great
est productiveness of capital, be that
capital Honey or muscle; and second,
just distribution Of the enhanced guam
tity of products. Trusts-not wildcat
paper operations for speculative or
fleeing purposes, but solid trusts, like
the Standard Oil, the Carnegie Steel
accomplish the first named end. They
increase the productiveness of capital.
They make a given amount Of money
and given amount of labor go further
than is otherwise possible. But they
don't fairly distribute the additional
product. In the town where 1 live cop
per costs % cents a pound, against IA
cents a year ago. Yet the copper trust
has not doubled wages. 1t has adj
vanced them 10 to Is per cent, prob
ably 10 per cent on an average. I cite
this instance, not because I think that
the price of copper is at all due to pro-
'ductiveness of capital invested in the
copper trust, but simply because it
\ forcibly illustrates the principle of the
private trust, which is to run almost
all the increased profit into a few
pockets.
What we want is, no. the destruction
of trusts, but an industrial and eco
nomic system that will equitably dis
tribute the increased results. If the
present system of employer and en-
ploye and private ownership of inter-
ests affecting the welfare of the peo-
pie at large, will permit of such amend
ment, well and good. If not, it will
have to give place to some other sys-
tenn that will. But it is impossible to
cast aside a labor-saving machine, and
the trust is the greatest labor-saving
machine ever devised. Don't try to
smash the other mans bike because he
rides while you walk, but figure how
to make tandem out of it, with your
self in one of the seats
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
A Fair ,Ju~.

In suit between father and son
before a Hoosier Justice of the peace
the sextet comprising the jury came in
after three hours elaboration with
the following impartial verdict: eve
the jury, agree to find Judgment for
neither plaintiff nor defendant, and
find that each pay half the costs" #
is said the verdict struck every one
Is being so unusually fair that even
the parties to the action were satisfied
Case and Comment.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05

ployers to yield to workmen's de-
mands. Heavier penalties are provid-
ed in all cases for the walking dele
gates patroling workshops, streets,
railway depots. Following workmen or
employers is classed as threatening &C
lions. The significance of this bill will
be apparent to all labor leaders and Its
parallel to attempts at legislation In
America will be recognized.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
Reproducing Autographs.

A plan to reproduce old Autographs
provides for bath consisting of sui
phurfc acid, three to five parts, &C
cording to the age of the picture.
thickness of the paper, ETC.; alcohol,
two to five parts; water, 100 parts
in which the picture is immersed for
Ave to fifteen minutes, and then it is
spread face downward on a glass or
ebonite plate, with a weak jet Of water
to run over it for time. If the paper
is thick, the sheet is turned over and
the water is permitted to run over the
face as well. The photographic print
is next placed on a piece Of blotting
paper and covered with another. The
print, still somewhat moist, is then,
with the picture upward, laid on
glass plate, well smoothed down, and
covered with layer Of weak gum
solution, using a soft sponge.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
Antiquity of the Saw.

Saws were used by the ancient
Egyptians One that was discovered,
with several other carpenters tools in
private tomb at Thebes, is now pre-
served in the British Museum. The
blade, which appears to be of brass, is
ten and a half inches long, and an inch
and a quarter broad at the widest part.
The teeth are irregular, and appear to
have been formed bNustriking blunt
edged instrument against the edge OF
the plate, the bur, or rough shoulder,
thus produced not being removed.
A painting copied in Rosellini's work
on Egyptian antiquities represents a
man using similar saw, the piece OF
wood that he is cutting being held be-
tween two upright posts. In other rep
reservations the timber is bound with
ropes to a single post, and in one, also
copied by Rosellini, the workman is
engaged in Tightening the rope, having
left the saw sticking in the cut.
In an engraving given in the third
volume Of Wilkinson's Manners and
Customs Of Ancient Egyptians" a saw
is represented of much larger dimen-
sions, its length being, by comparison
with the man, not less than three or
four feet. It does not appear that the
Egyptians used saws worked by two
men.
The inventions of saws was variously
attributed by the Greeks to two or
three individuals, who are supposed to
have taken the idea from the jawbone
of a snake or the backbone of fish.
There is a very curious picture among
the remains discovered in the ruins OF
Herculaneum, representing the inte-
rior Of a carpenters workshop, with
two genii cutting a piece of wood with
a frame-saw, and on an altar pre-
served in the Capitoline Museum at
Rome there is a perfect representa-
ton of a bow-saw, exactly resembling,
in the form of frame and the twisted
cord for Tightening it, those used by
modern carpenters. From these re-
mains it is evident that these forms OF
the instruments were known to the an
cients.-London Architect.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05


It has been determined that light is
an important factor in sugar produc-
ton, recent Investigations showing
that the sugar content of the plant is
dependent on the amount of direct
sunlight received.
The instruments now known as the
telephone and microphone are of COM
paratively recent invention, but the
origin of the names dates back many
years. In 1927 Wheatstone gave the
name of microphone to an apparatus
invented by him, to render weak
sounds audible, and in 1S45 a steam
whistle or trumpet giving roaring
signals in foggy weather was called
telephone by Capt. John Taylor, while
Sudre used the same name in 1854 for
a system Of musical telephony.
The Geographical society of Phila-
delphia has prevailed upon the gov
eminent to make experiments this
year with a view to determining the
currents in the Arctic ocean, north of
America. Fifty casks designed for the
purpose are being sent up to Bering
several points in the Arctic ocean.
Each of these casks will contain a rec
ord Of the time and place it is thrown
overheard, and it is hoped later that
a considerable number of them may
be picked up by other vessels, and thus
1t will be learned in what directions
they are carried by the currents.
The record of an experiment begun
sixteen years ago has just been pub
lished by the French savant, M.
Miguel. He took from a public park
sample Of earth, dried it for two
days at temperature Of 80 degrees
Centigrade, reduced it to powder and
placed it in sterilized glass vessels.
which were sealed and kept in a place
not reached by the light The freshly
dug out soil contained 100000 bacte-
ria per gramme, which were reduced to
3 100000 by the pulverizing and dry
ing. After sixteen years the glass
tubes were opened and there were still
found to be 3,5SO,0OO micro-organisms
in gramme Of earth. Inoculated on
a porpoise, they produced after two
days the characteristic symptoms of
tetanus attending wounds.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

Proposed Legisla ton In Interest of German
Producers-Plan by Which the People
Can Control the Trusts That Are Now
Absorbing Other Peoples Wealth.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05

than . year the new city will be in
working order at less expense OF life
and money than would have followed
an adherence to the usual sanitary
method