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, 1899-09-14
CAREER Of
rhe Man who Developed Wireless To-
Iegrnphy.


Mr.. Marconi is a very young man,
not yet thirty years of age. Born at
Bologna, but Of English ~parentage on
his mothers side. he speaks fluent and
perfect English. with a slightly foreign
gravity Of manner which bellies his
youth. He is. as he processes, an am
ateur electrician, and exceedingly mod
est as regards his accomplishments in
comparison with some of the no doubt
well meaning chroniclers who have
even unduly belauded them. He has
been. according to the Pail Mall Maya
Zine. about four years at work on the
particular subject Of wireless teleg-
raphy," carrying out many experiments
on his family estate near Bologna be-
fore he discovered the important fact
that electric waves generated by a
sparkling apparatus OF the kind used
by the lamented German physician,
Heinrich Hertz. would not only carry
to long distances. but were unaffected
by intervening hills and natural OBJ
stacles. At this date two miles was
the maximum distance reached, while
English observers had accomplished
one and three-quarters miles. With
his original apparatus for transmitting
and receiving Hertz waves much i'm
proved, Mr.. Marconi came owe to Eng
land In 1886 and succeeded in getting
the patronage OF the British postal off,
Gals. under whose auspices he carried
out signaling experiments on Salisbury
plain and at Penarth. Since then he
has gradually improved both his meth
DDS III his records, the distance trav-
ersed by his etheric signals being in
creased successfully from fourteen and
a half miles, between alum Bay and
Bournemouth, to eighteen miles (Alum
Bay to Poole), n thirty-two miles, the
present maximum. obtained between
two stations erected at the instance of
the French government on Dover cliff,
close to the South Foreland lighthouse.
and at Wimereux. near Boulogne. In
addition to this Mr.. Marconi has made
successful experiments in carrying or
signals between ships and the shore,
a permanent installation having been
at work for some time between the
South Foreland station and one OF the
Goodwin lightships.
, 1899-09-14

What Mr.. Havemeyer would like to
see is the free admission OF raw sugar
and a good-sized duty levied upon re-
fined sugar. thus giving his refineries
absolute control of the American mar
ket. After crushing the domestic pro-
duction. Mr.. Havemeyer and his asso-
ciates would certainly have a good
thing. The great injustice OF the pres
ent schedule lies in the fact hat it en-
ables the southern c~ane-growers and
the western beet sugar factories to
make a profit which really ought to go
into the pockets of the sugar trust.
Mr.. Havemeyer is a sadly abused man
and the best way to do him exact JUS
tice will be to carry his free-trade
ideas a step further Inc admit refined
sugar free.-Seattle CWash.) Post-In-
telligencer.
, 1899-09-14
ELECTRIC LIGHTS IN VATICAN.
the Machinery Was Furnished by Amer
lean Firms.

1t Is Interesting to know tina the Vati-
can has just been fitted up with an cleo
trio lighting plant from the United States
and its magnificent corridors and impos-
ing apartments can hereafter be seen IL
Illuminated In a modern manner Until
now there has been no way 81 lighting the
Vatican except by candles, Gas has never
been introduced INTO that venerable struc-
ture. There has always been n prejudice
against II among the cardinals. and many
of them were not favorable to IN innova-
ton like electric lights. but the Pope Is
progressive and believes in modern i'm
provements. The dynamos and other APP
paratus were ordered in the United States
last summer and delivered at the Vatican
In September. Since then Il number of
electricians have been engaged In setting
up the plant and wiring the different
rooms. II is needless to say that the
work has been conducted with the great
est care and skill by superior workren,
many of whom have been sent from
France.
The power Is furnished by the waterfall
OF the Aqua Poala within the Vatican
grounds. The water is brought to Rome
by an aqueduct. the fall Is forty-six feet
and the flow Is sixteen gallons a second.
A turbine wheel develops an energy Of
TO n dynamo. There will be 1900 sixteen
candle-power lamps in the Vatican when
the work is completed and about 800 In
the gardens.
The Quirinal. which is the palace of the
King of Italy. is also equipped with Amer
lean electric lighting apparatus. So rs the
House of Parliament in London and the
country palace OF the Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria.
, 1899-09-14

The Democratic press is trying to
make some capital out of the state
ment made by Sugar King Havemeyer,
that the tariff is the mother o!
trusts" The facts are Mr.. II. is sour
because he did not succeed In securing
a higher tarlf on sugar. so that his
trust could not be lnterfered with. The
policy Of the Republican tariff is t o give
the commodities of life at
the lowest possible price consistent
with the demands of revenues and the
protection of American labor. No one,
Democrat or Republican, wiz have any
sympathy with Mr.. IL. when the AMI
mus of his expression is understood
Waterloo und.) Press.
, 1899-09-14
THE TARIFF As AN ISSUE.
Answer to the Ouestion. "why Not
hhonsh Protection?

WY -
hnonsh Protcction?-
Postmaster General Smith. in an in
terview published in an Omaha paper,
is credited with having used this Ian
guage:
THE tariff is not an issue of the
same importance as in the past. The
policy Of protection aimed to build up
our industries to a point where they
could stand Independent On their own
feet. This object has been accom-
plished. Protection has established
the complete Industrial Independence
of this country. More than that, 1t
may fairly be said that it has substan-
tally established our industrial SUI
premacy. This truth has been demon
strated within the last two years. as
We are o beating the products OF the
Old World on their own grounds.
With this development of our home
industries to the point where they
completely possess the home market
and are able also to reach abroad, the
protective issue has not the same vital
force 1t had during the period of strug-
gle and development"
This prompts the Chicago Chronicle
to ask: Then why not abolish pro-
lection? ?"
The answer Is manifest. II is be-
cause, without protection, all that has
been accomplished would be destroyed.
While here and there some industry
has under its aegis so thriven and de-
veloped as to no longer require the
paternal assistance of the government
and should be placed upon the free
list. instead OF being an argument in
support of the abolition of the policy
under which the manufactures of
America are fast reaching the happy
stage of independence, this happy re-
suit rather stands as an object lesson
calculated to impress every lover OF
his country with the wisdom of that
policy which has brought wealth, hap
piness and prosperity to an entire peo-
pie.
The tariff can no longer be made the
all-absorbing issue of a political cam
paign because the benefits Of protec-
ton are so universally recognized that
its most persistent enemies have no
longer the courage to assail. it. Four
years of contrast under the operations
of each of the two opposing systems
have been fraught with an experience
which the people are unwilling to IN
learn. Suffering. beggary, starvation
and bankruptcy. which had settled on
the nation like a pail. have given a
to the most phenomenal era of uni
versal prosperity that ever glorifed
and uplifted an afflicted continent, and
the masses refuse absolutely to ex-
change the material benefits of a safe
and salutary policy for the promises of
an Elusive chimera which had brought
in its train but disaster nj ruin.
This is the truism that Postmaster
General Smith announced, and that his
declaration is to go unchallenged is
made evident by the solicitude with
which the leaders OF the democratic
party jealousy avoid all reference to
the tariff issue. Four years of a de-
velopment which has firmly establish
ed our industrial supremacy affords a
practical Illustration of the virtues Of
a protective tariff which even Mr..
Bryan is content to respect. In this
sense. not only is the tariff no longer
IN issue of the same Importance as in
the past, but it is in every essential a
dead issue.-New Orleans States.
, 1899-09-14
IRRIGATION FOR TEA.
GOVERNMENT TO EXPERIMENT


Professor Elwood Mead of Cheyenne,
expert in charge of the Irrigation in
y~estigations bureau of the Department
Of Agriculture, has been placed in
charge of the experiments being made
In tea culture in the United States.
Professor Mead has been advised by
the Department of Agriculture that
sufficient funds have been placed at his
disposal to purchase apparatus and
construct irrigation works necessary to
carrying on experiments in tea culture
by supplemental irrigation, and that
Mr.. Charles u. Shepard, who has been
experimenting in tea culture at Pine
hurst, South Carolina, during the
last ten years, will cooperate with him
in the experimental work Of irriga-
ton.
Mr.. Shepard advises Professor Mead
that his experiments in tea culture
have been confined to the cultivation
OF a little less than an acre. contain
ing about 900 plants in good bearing.
The output Of green tea from this gar
den has been as follows: In 1892,
80 pounds; 1898, 81 pounds; 1894. 151
pounds; 1895, 1893 pounds; 1896, coo
pounds; 1897, 54S pounds; 1893, 1900
pounds. Twelve hundred pounds of
green tea viii afford 300 pounds of
standard tea for commercial use. Con-
Quoted on the scale of Mr.. Shepard's
Experiments, the tea gardens net n
profit of ten cents per pound, or about
$40 per acre. 1t Is believed hat with
the aid of supplemental irrigation and
by conducting the gardens on a larger
Scale, n profit of % cents n pound or
800 an acre may be realized.
Mr.. Shepard has concluded that it
Will be possible to materially increase
the productiveness of the tea gardens
by irrigation. A comparison of a num-
Der OF prominent o~rienta tea-growing
districts shows that the latter receive
not only a very much larger annual
rainfall. but the proportion which falls
In the tea-growing period. from May
to September, inclusive, is decidedly
greater. A comparison of rainfall as
stated is as follows.
, 1899-09-14
The American Boy.

Perhaps about a year g you read
the plan of two American boys-Mas-
tiers w. Rankin Good and Harry Price
OF Cincinnati, Ohio-to build and eauip
a battleship from subscriptions to be
received from the children throughout
the United States. The plan was ac-
cepted by all. and the fund increased
rapidly, thus giving great
ment to the promoters. As many Others
besides school children have contrib
uted to the fund, 1t has been decided
to raise the remaining amount by BOD
ular subscription. 1t is hoped that the
necessary funds will be had within a
short time. in order hat the contract
may be let next spring. Meanwhile
plans aud specifications are being pre-
pared. The specifications call f,r a
arst-class battleship OF about $4,000
tons displacement and a speed OF at
least eighteen knots. The armament
will be very powerful. all pieces being
OF the latest type built for the use of
smokeless powder. The ship will be
called the American Boy.
, 1899-09-14

when a burglar wants to break into a
Peruvian house he takes a sponge and a
bucket of water and molstens the walls,
which are covered with only n hin coat
ing Of mud and easily dissolve upon the
application of moisture. Then when the
mud IL removed he takes a sharp knife
and cuts the strips OF split bamboo which
serve az a substitute for Hath. That easy
little operation produces n hole in the wall
laTgc enough for n man to crawl trough
pie sleeping in the house will not he
awakened. Not long ago the residence OF
the cable manage at BarranCa was en-
tered in this way. The thieves frightened
the family, but were discovered before
they had seized much booty.
, 1899-09-14
A Moral In the story,

The cook was leaving to get married.
The mistress paid her her wages and
her a little present for herself.
rhe tin box was On the cab. and
Bridget was on the point OF stepping
in, when Ffdo waddled out as II to bid
farewell. Good-by, old Fido," said
Bridget; here's a bob for you. am
sure you have earned it, seeing | have
not washed a plate since l have been
here."-Answers.
, 1899-09-14

The Union Pacific has added new, mod
ern equipment to Its service both east
and west from Denver and gives ever
better satisfaction to its patrons than in
the past. 1t stands without a rival as the
quickest and most elegant route. with
accommodations to accommodate all
classes OF passengers. Only one night to
Chicago. st. Louis and st. Paul, and over
ten hours saved between Denver and the
Pacific coast. Ticket Office 9il 18th street.
, 1899-09-14
Know Ills BusinesH.

A few years ago the logs in n certain
river In a northwestern lumber district
had damned into a nasty snarl. and no
one ~hankered for the job of going out
with IA cantdog and starting the key-log.
In the crew was an Indian who was not
ed for his GOODNESS and his keenness. The
'Lacoote," he said, you 20 out and
break that Jam, and IN see that you get
a nice pun in the paper.
The redskln looked at the logs and then
at the boss. Dead Injun look nice on
paper" he grunted, and walked away
The A%rgonaut.
, 1899-09-14

Distance of time and place generally
cure what they seem to a~ggravate. and
taking leave OF II friends resembles
taking leave OF the world. concerning
which it hath often been said that it is
not death, but dying, which is terri
ble.-Fielding.
, 1899-09-14

1t is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting, Burning. Sweating Feet.
Corns and Bunlons. Ask for Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress Allen s. Olmsted. Leroy. N. Y.
, 1899-09-14
Mrs. Barnard Thanks
MRS. PINKHAM FOR HEALTH


DEAR FRIEND-I feel it my duty to
express my gratitude and thanks to
you for what your medicine has done
for me. / was very miserable and los
ing flesh very fast, had bladder trouble,
fluttering pains about the heart and
would get so dizzy and suffered with
painful menstruation. I was reading
in a paper about Lydia e. Piakham's
Vegetable Compound, SO / wrote TO you
and after taking two bottles felt like n
newperson. Your Vegetable Compound
h entirely cured Ice and / cannot
praise it enough."-MRs. J.. o. BARNARD,
MILLTowg, WASHINGTON Co., Me.
An Iowa oma Convincing Statement
81 tried three doctors, and the last
one said nothing but an operation
would help me. My trouble was pro-
fuse flowing; sometimes / would think
/ would fow to death. l was so weak
hat the least work would tire me.
Reading of so many being cured by
your medicine, / made up my mind TO
write to you for advice, and 1 am sc
glad hat I did. took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and Liver
Pills and followed your directions, and
am now well and strong. Ishall recon-
mend your medicine to all, for it saved
my ife."-MIss A. p, Box 81 ABBOTT,
Iowa.
, 1899-09-14
Annual R'nf'l Pr ct.
E'n No.. 49,

BY supplying the natural rainfall
during the period from May to Sep
TENDER with water supplied by irriga-
ton, and thus bringing the conditions.
so far as water supply is concerned,
to those which obtain in oriental tea
growing districts, 1t is believed the
productiveness of the home gardens
may be materially increased and the
percentage of profit raised proportion
ately.
1t is proposed to supplant the rainfall
of the tea-plucking season (April to De-
tober) which amounts to about thirty
inches of water. by fifty inches of
water by irrigation-at the rate of
about two inches per week. Mr.. Shep-
ard proposes irrigating by pumping
from artesian wells, but Professor
Mend is of the opinion that it may he
possible to build storage reservoirs by
which the surplus surface water of the
rainy season may be impounded and
conducted by gravity bitches and ca
nails as in the West. If his is done it
Will be the first application of irriga-
ton methods for agricultural purposes
in the South, and the experiment will
be watched with great interest.
The annual importation of tea into
the United States is over 9O,OOO,OOO
pounds, valued at SIS, 900. 900. Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson Is OF the
opinion that tea culture may be made
a profitable industry by the farmers of
the South and West and the expert
ments to be made by Professor Mead
and Mr.. Shepard will have his personal
attention.
, 1899-09-14

lawfully stupid lot OF men at this re-
sort Don't deceive yourself. Smart
people don't try to be entertaining when
they take n vacation"
, 1899-09-14

81 heal the breaches in Zion" said
the religious tailor with the shop in
the basement OF the church.
, 1899-09-14

u you villagers hate the summer re-
sort.rsg' Yes, and the rcsort-rs hate
the excursionists.
, 1899-09-14

Did you see u sea serpent on your
yacht trip No. the hampagn gave
out before we were ten miles from land,
, 1899-09-14

DIcky?" ''Yes'm; tn cistern wuz dry'
and NAV couldn't be all tn time wasiiin'
, 1899-09-14

FITS Permanently Cured. .,onts or nervousness IS ate,
hrzt day use of DIR. kline's Great Nerve R.storsr.
send for FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise.
, 1899-09-14
Halls Catarrh Cure
Il taken internally. Price, 75c.

ut is dreadful how much slang is spo-
Ken and written nowadays You bet
that's no DREAM
, 1899-09-14

Even the devil was convinced when
he saw that Job served God for love
and not for a nving.
, 1899-09-14

It's hard TO settle down after a trip. '
ANY harder than to settle up2'
, 1899-09-14

Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing Syrup.
For children %teething, softens the gums, reduces IN
rannation. nllays pain. cures wind cole. &c q bottle
, 1899-09-14
THE QUEEN STOVE COMPANY

TDIIuVc TRUNKS. TRUNKS, The A r.
lnuNNO, Meek Trunk and Bag Co., Denver,
Colo. The largest and hest limo OF trunks In the
state Mt lowest prices, Write for catalogue and prices
, 1899-09-14
SADDLES AN0 HARNESS. G5EAs

Machinery & Supplies nss nnSPFia =
A SUPPLY co, 1871 18TH St cor waZae, Denver,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-14
HE Narrowly
ESCAPED DEATH
FjnuCane Wound Round Shaft
at Kendall Co.'s Plant.
HAULED FROM STEP LADDER.
The Prompt Stopping Of the Machinery BY
The Engineer Saved Hin.
YOUNG MAN SENT TO R. l. HOSPITAL
His Right Arm Was Fractured ard Forehead LAGER
aisd, but II is Believed That His Injuries
viii Not Prove Fatal
The Prompt Stopping Of the Machinery BY
The Engineer Saved Him.
YOUNG MAN SENT TO R. |. HOSPITAL

Edward Finucane, 16 years old, resid-
ing at 223 Transit street, and employed
by the Kendall Manufacturing Com
pany. at it's works on Friendship street,
had close call for a very serious ac-
cident, If not fatality, this morning.
The young man works in the machine
shop of that plant, and was standing
on a step-ladder while dumping waste
paper into a bag. BY some means un-
known his clothing became caught on a
shafting and he was nauled from the
ladder and carried over the shaftng
| several times.
Fortunately IL was not a swift revolt
wing shaft, and what was still further
favorable TO him, the foreman was close
BY and hearing his outcries. stopped the
machinery almost Instantly.
Finucane was sent 10 the Rhode ISL
and hospitol, where IL was fouIt that
his right arm was broken. his forehead
was lacerated and his body had been
considerably bruised.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-14
BODY Found On Road.

The search was unsuccessful usi'r
Samuel Y Merchant driver Oh
cranberry team. found the BODY on sno
,nr n south Yarmouth early Nnis
morning. The body was only a snort
distance from the railroad track. MI.
Merchant at first thought that II was wa
the body Of an intoxicated person put
on closer investigation he saw ina.
blood had trickled from hpte III vas
dead He at once drove to South var
mouth. where he notified the police. Tne
rews was telephoned TO West Dennis.
where several residents. including the
brother of the dead man. went TO the
scene and Identified the pooy' "A sea,tn ~ y
team which Whittemore had driven.
and Il was shortly afterwards found on
one of the streets in Yarmouth. Wnlt, /,
temore bore the best OF regulations ana
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-14
FOR SEWER TAXES.
Portions Of Several Estates Sold al
auction at City Hall.
Attendance Was Large and the Bidding u
One Case Was Spirited.

Twenty three parcels OF real estate
upon which the sewer assessments re-
mained unpaid were sold at auction un-
der the direction of Cay Treasurer
Granger this morning, the sale being
conducted by Auctioneer Edwin Dra-
per in the municipal court room at 10
o'clock. There was a number of gen.
tlemen interested In real estate trans
actions present. and in one instance the
bidding was quite spirited.
This was between Roger Capwell,
representing Charles Il. Giles. and At
torney Louis l.. Angel and the price
for 1-50l 900 pait Of the estate taxed To
Mary Ianders was run up until " was
Knocked down TO Mr.. Capwell for S9l.6S.
The other parcels were sold at prices
varying from $l2.56 to Sll6.62. The whoie
fee in IL parcels was sold. an undivid-
ed "a OF three parcels, an undivided 2.
of one parcel. and an undivided l-lO oil
one marcel making. with the parcel
sold to Mr.. Capwell. % parcels. Eight
parcels were sold 10 Amasa Spragut
I'd. and four to J. Wilson McCrillis.
There was also n postponed city ta'
sale. and a hot house building on th'
Stokes plat. in the annexed district
taxed To Randall Buker, was put VI
al auctle>n to satisfy the city's CLAIM
for taxes of 1898. which remain unpaid
| The building was sold to Abel q. TIL
llnghast for sS.'I
There was also auctioned off n por
| tian OF an estate taxed TO Mary Nc
Gale. widow OF David McGale. locate
at No. ~ G street. An undivided \ wa
bought by J. Wilson McCrillis 10
1 S4G gI
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-14
Another Mysterious Crime. /.

The mysterious death of Whittemore
is another of the series of crimes which
have occurred i'm the Cape Coz district
during the past few months. The shoot-
ing OF two officers at Bourne py pui
gIsrs the large number of robberies ana
bold-ups which have been reported ID
the authorities, have led the state po-
lice and county officials TO engage
large number OF watchmen and speclasI
men TO police the small towns. III ls Ii
course impossible at present 10 tei'
whether the shooting of WhlttemOrr
has any connection with the othS' .
crimes committed on the Cape or not,
but the townspeople are CONVINCED that
the crime was committed Wy the men
known az the Bourne burglars anu
a body OF fully 1000 men have organ
lied TO search the woods in this Vlcih-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-14
REAR END COLLISION.
Three Women Instantly Killed In a
Smashup al Formosa, CAL
Engineer and Fireman Also Injured and Are
In Critical Condition.

bakersfield. CAL, Sept. l4.-North-
bound passenger train No: on the
Southern Pacific railroad ran into the
rear end of the Porterville accommoda-
tion train at Formosa, about 20 miles
north of here last night. Mrs. Maggie
Majors of Los Angeles, Mrs. Roscoe.
her mother. and Mrs. Larue were killed.
Engineer Wright and Fireman Keller
were seriously injured, and their condi-
taon is precarious.A track-walker whose
name is not known was badly hurt and
is still unconscious. The cause of the
wreck is said to have been due to the
carelessness Of the Porterville train
crew which permitted the train to oc-
cupy the main line when the passenger
train from the south was due
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-14

West Dennis. Mass, Sept. 14-Jaines
f. Whittemore of South DENNIS
driver of one of the bakery teams oi
Gage & Rogers Of West Dennis "a'
found dead on the Old Town House
road. halfway between South Yarmouth
and Yarmouth. at an early hour TINS M
morning. He had been shot throush
the head. His bakery team Was al.e
wards found on the street in Yarmouth
Baskets i'm the team had been disturb
ed. aoo
Whfttemore, who was 10 years OF age.
had been employed o nthe team Tor tne
ing he started for Yarmouth on his reg
ular trip. He did not return at his usua,
time. hut nothing was Thought OF TINS
for some hours. as II was supposed nis
wagon might have broken doMnio hecame os
about 10 o'clock his mother pecains
alarmed at his prolonged absence anu
had a searching party organized.