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The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
DENIAL THAT
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example cited by NJ. Guillaume In
which inorganic matter shows sensi-
tiveness is this: II a bar OF steel De
submitted to a traction force suf1clent
to break it there will appear at the
point where rupture is going to take
place a construction. If the traction
force be stopped before the rupture Is
complete it car be shown that at TINS
point of impending rupture the metal
has become harder. From this 1t must
be concluded thai at the place where
the bar became too feeble the metal
hardened itself in order to resist Its
own destruction. This again, II 1t oe-
Cured in living matter, would De
classed by biologists as a case OF pro-
tective modification. Although none
but the boldest minds would conclude
from these examples and experiments
that a real continuity has been estab-
lished between the phenomena OF IN
organic matter and those of the iy-
ing cell. yet NJ. Gaillaume expresses a
hone that the bridge between the W.
may some day be crossed. Besides
these instances mentioned by NJ. Gull
laume. several Facts of physics known
to engineers have a bearing on the
theory. Lord Kelvin first called atten-
ton to the strange phenomenon of the
fatigue of the metals. In a paper on
the elasticity and Viscosity of Met
ais read t~D1rty-fve years age to the
ROYAL society of London, Lord Kelvin
remarked that when the students In
the physical laboratory Of the univer-
sity of Glasgow were performing ex-
periments on the elasticity of metals
some remarkable and interesting re-
suits were obtained which could only
be explained by supposing that the
elasticity of metals was subject 10 Ia
tigue. In the case of muscular fatigue
rest is required not only to enable the
wasted tissues to get fresh material
from the blood and have the waste
material carried away but also to af'
ford an opportunity for the strained
molecules to recover a state or re-
nose. In iron or steel which has beer
strained a more rapid restoration o.
the molecules to a state of repose Ii
effected by heating to redness and cool
ing slowly. This process Is termed
annealing, and is regularly adopted Il
take the. fatigue out of chains thu
strength of which has been taxed
Chicago Tribune.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
BEASTS IN INDIA.
VIVID Animals XIII Many Human Beings
In Tina Land.

II is sometimes remarked that death
due to snake bite forms a convenient
and not unusual description for num-
bers of deaths by foul means, but the
annual report on the measures for the
determination of wild beasts and ven
omous snakes adopted in the central
provinces does not support the sng-
gestion. No less than 1872 persons
came by death in this terrible tanner,
says the Bombay Gazette, but the num-
Der is not abnormal. In the m
district a post-mortem examination
was made on the bodies of all persons
reported to have died from snake bite,
but no case was detected in which
death was apparently due to some
other cause. Wild beasts killed 2S2
human beings, and the mortality
among cattle ascrlbed to injuries OF
a like nature amounted to II $50,
Sheonath river, in the Raipur district,
should become a popular resort for
shikaris. In addition to abundance
of sport with wolves, they would also
be assisting the officials to destroy
these animals, whose depredations on
the bank of the river are growing into
a serious evil. In Nimar district these
animals are steadily increasing in num-
Der, and they have done considerable
damage. There were 233 tigers and 593
panthers killed. the reward for STAY
ing which amounted to Rs.17,759.
There are many man-eating tigers in
Balaghat, and although several per-
sons each claim to have killed the
"Adegaon man eater" which has car
ried off eight men, 1t is not certain
whether it is still alive or dead. Golf
ers will learn with interest that. in
addition to the usual excitements and
difficulties of the game. players oe-
c~asionally have to encounter a tiger
on the Jubbulpore links. One was shot
in the golf links of that station during
the year. which was a successful one
so far as the destruction of wild beasts
is concerned. 1t is probable the I'M
usual dryness of the season contribute
ed something toward making them a
more easy prey than usual to their pur-
suers.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
moving villages 10 q Rallroad.

Village moving is an order OF things
In South Dakota now. Work v the
moving Of the villages of Old atte,
Old Selby. Castillo, Bloomington and
Edgerton to points on the line MOI be-
ing built by the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul company between Platte and
Napa, a distance of eighty-three miles,
Is being carried on. Two or three of
the villages are four or five miles from
the new line. The houses are placed
on skids and hauled over to the rail-
road by traction engines.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
The Lion of Lucerne.

Travellers who go to Lucerne are al
ways interested to see the Lion OF
Lucerne. a figure of a lion hewn out
OF a rock on the side of a high cliff
which borders a small park. Beneath
is a sheet of water in which the lion
is mirrored as in a glass. IL is of co
lossal size. a spear In its side showing
where 1t is wounded, yet with death
so near 1t strives to protect a shield,
bearing the fleur-de-lis of the Bour-
bons. which 1t holds In its paw.
Thorwaldsen was the sculptor and the
Lion of Lucerne" is a monument to
the brave Swiss guard which persisted
at Paris Aug. 10. 1892, in defense OF
the Tuilleries. Louis XVI. had for
hidden the Swiss guard to fire upon
the mob. but 900 men composing Il
dared to do so in defense of the pal
ace. The Infatuated mob massacred
every one of them. Upon the shield
which the lion holds are the names
of the brave men who we're officers
of the guard.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03

Color photography has led French
~fcientists to doubt that matter Is real
ly dead. The doubt would seem to De
at first sight an absurdity, when IL Is
considered that one of the most usual
definitions of inorganic matter states
It to be that which Is deprived OF lie.
dn a recent number of the Archives
des Sciences Physiques ct Naturei-
les M. Guillaume tries to show In an
article entitled ia Vie de Ia Ma
there" that what is usually regarded
as dead matter really possesses an
elementary form of life oil its
closely resembling that form OF lie
which is described by biologists ana
which is usually regarded as the only
form Of life possible TO matter. lie
shows hat certain physiological proc
esses have their close parallels in GER
tain physical and chemical facts. Inc
power of adapting itself to external
conditions Is usually regarded as pc
culiar to living beings, and yet M.
Gulllaume gives several instances In
which dead" matter shows a power
of adaptation to impressed forces. His
most striking instance is taken from
the Becquerel process of color photog-
,raphy. If the gray iodide or chloride
of silver is exposed for a short time,
lsay. to red light, it becomes red. II
st IS then exposed, say, to green light,
lit changes its tint, and passing through
several phases of dull colors, ends by
becoming uniformly green. What is
most remarkable about these chame-
lleonlike changes is that they take
place in order to prevent the silver salt
from being deeomposed by the light.
THE color of a body tells us the nature
of the light which it reflects, and which
consequently is not absorbed by the
body. The silver salt assume the col
or of the light which im7inges upon
it. and thus enables itself to reflect
1t. If 1t did not do that it would have
to absorb the light, and the energy
so absorbed would have the effect OF
reducing the silver salt. If this change
occurred in a living organism it would
be cited by biologists as a case oil
protective modification. The silver
chloride defends and transforms it.
self in order the better to protect it.
self. Light is the enemy which it has
constantly t 0 repulse, just as a living
organism repels it's enemies. Another
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
lSnecial Letter.)

Especial letter.
Upon a dark night the Atlantic coast
from Maine to North Carolina Is
marked with lights like a city street
Along the shore line of the southern
states and also up the Pacific coast,
the lights ale lot so numerous, put
every bar and reef has its waralhs
light. The 70 fornment maintains more
than LOO lighthouses and lighted pea
cons, So light vessels and lantern buoys
and nearly 1900 post lights, most OF
which mark the shores OF naVigapie
rivers. In addition to these, there are
siren signals, whistling buoys, bell
buoys and shoal buoys u warn the
men at sea of dangerous points along
the shore. The cost of maintenance
annually exceeds $1,000, 900.
Few persons nave any idea Of the
dangers encountered by the men who
build the cffshore lights which are rnt
I'D in the most difficult and danger
Gus places hat can be selected. Il
true s~ea-builder, says a writer IN Nc
Cures Magazine, speaks with come
ih'ng akin 4 contempt for the ordinary
shore lights. He must have tides,
breakers, ice-packs, wrecks. fierce cur
rents and wind storms to tess his met
81. Such a man was Capt. Alexander
who built the famous Minot's edge
light, near the entrance to Massaean-
sets bay, Is miles southeast OF Boston,
This was in 1855. A bold. black rock
lay out in the sea, which the waters at
high tide covered entirely, its place be-
ing indicated by a few restless break
ers. or, If the water was calm, by a
smooth, oily, trsacherous eddy. Al
the lowest tide a glistening head, laced
around with a collar of surf, pfotrud-
ed a few feet bow the surface oil the
water. 1t was so slippery with sea-
moss and the waves dashed over 1t SO
hercely that a IA could not rlaintalh
a footing on it. Before attempting 10
build, Capt. Alexander sent a crew OF
p,en to the rock to scrape 1t clear Oh
weeds and to cut level steps on which
they could maintain a footing. When
a great wave came rolling in the fole-
man shouted and the men fell on their
races, clinging together and holding
their breath until the roc, was bare
again. Wol king thus in instant peril
OF their lives and continually drenehed
and suffering from the smarting OF
salt water sores, the men cut only
four footholes in the roek during the
entire first season. The second year
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
Gardening as n Diversion.

One of the great advantages OF a
love of gardening is the break 1t makes
on the continuous strain of business
thought. No real lover and possessor
of a garden ever died Of insomnia. This
is a disease which follows those by
night who cannot throw off the
thoughts of daily life. They retire to
think, instead of to sleep, and the dark
ness and quietness of the night favor
the thought. To leave behind the busi-
ness of the city for the pleasures OF
the trees and flowers of the suburbs
has saved numerous lives that would
have otherwise been broken down.
This seems better understood In the
old world than with us. The famous
iurist. Lord Penzance, did not take
his law studies to his country homes.
There he thought only of his garden.
and the floral treasures it contained.
One of his hobbies in the garden was
the Improvement of the sweet briar.
and the man beautiful varieties he
raised obtained as much fame for
himself as did his legal opinions. to
say nothing of the pleasure the flow-
ers brought him.-Meehan's Month
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03

New York has been waging war on
awful noise for many months, and
with what result 1t is difficult to tell,
for ungodly sounds still prevail in that
metropolis. But now Boston seems
to be In the same plight, and 1t would
very much like TO know IL the nerves
of that larger city have been benefited
by those demands of the newspapers
for less noise in the conduct of affairs.
Where to begin. or what to do to miti-
gate the affection. Is a problem for In
dividnals to consider in all its aspects.
Whether the crash and below OF
steam locomotives, the clang of cleo
trio gongs, the shrieks of steam whis-
ties, and the shouts of hoodlums, are
responsible for the present condition
OF the nervous system, or whether
humanity in its superfine civilization,
has become ove~rsensitiYe, must be de-
termined by study and Investigation OF
cause and effect. A Cambridge man.
complaining of this increase of noise
the otner day, said he had observed a
difference between motormen in his
daily travel to town, for some rang the
gong necessarily, where there was
really no need 10 sound ii, while others
keenly on the alert, pressed the but
ton when some object appeared in
sight or a street was to be crossed.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
Straw Thrown on English Load.

BY the death of the duke of yelling
ton the English pension list will be
eased by 500, 900 a year. The sun in
cluded W separate pensions granted
to the Iron Duke. The first was In
1910, a pension Of $4,000 a year on ac-
count of "the brilliant and decisive VIC
tory obtained" by him at Talavera on
July 10, 1909, and was given to Lieut.
Gen. Lord viscount Wellington" by
George III. The second pension OF
$40. 900 also was granted in 1912 on
viscount Wellington's advancement to
an earldom.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
Wonderful Vein OF Fulter's Earth.

There was recently discovered near
the Ocklockonnee river, Florida, what
is believed by experts to be the most
wonderful pure vein OF fuller's earth
ever discovered. This vein is said to
yield immense quantities of this Pc
culiar earth, which stand the 100 test
that is to say, that 1t is absolutely
pure. Nearly all the mines of this
kind of earth contain, besides the valu-
able commodity, rock, flint, gravel.
sand, ETC., but this deposit is entirely
free of such substances.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03

of the most productive quality. and -
especially adapted to the cultivation OF
coffee and vanilla. neither OF which
has been grown to its fullest extent In
this group. The peculiar soil gives the
coffee a flavor unknown in America.
and | venture to say that the enter
prising American who takes Tahiti
coffee to a foreign market will reap a
bounteous reward. There Is a coffee
bean Of inferior quality that grows
wild. and ths ~listless native woul
rather use the poor wild berry than
work to cultivate a superior kind. Or.
give him a cheap American bean al
ready roasted, and he is infinitely more
happy. Anything that saves the native
Tahitian labor. that he will bless.
Vanilla fiourishes in the South Sea
island soil and climate. and spices
would thrive IL properly cultivated.
Here. also. grows the cocoanut, for
which a hundred uses have been
found.-Success.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03

Discretion and vigilance are virtues to
be cultivated by whoever fills the re-
sponsible position OF running an cleo
trio car. Newsboys burst like cyclones
into these same public c~onveyances.
shouting their papers" in tones hat
might startle the dead. when 1t is all
sufficient for the youngsters to show
themselves to be patronized. Yet these
are minor grievances to the rattle and
whirl of elevators, and the cries OF
those who have to run them. Good
ness knows the %monotonous fate OF
the elevator boy" is not to be enyied.
but all these conYeniences and modern
improvements have brought in their
train a heap OF woes for mankind. IL
something Is not lone to lessen the
storm and stress of this mechanical.
electrical age, the world Will be peo-
Piled with ~glbbering Idiots. For there
Is one painful fact staring us In the
face. With all our inventions and
marvels for labor saving, no n has
been equal to inventing a sound race
OF men. pathology has discovered how
to remove various organs not actually
required for living purposes, but 1t has
not yet arrived at the acme OF science
wnere nerves can be given protection
against the dire enemy OF cruclfying
noises.-Boston Herald.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03

About SO per cent of the West Indies
cyclones occur in August, September
and October. Fortunately most OF
them are not very destructive in char
acter. The records in the island OF st.
Thomas, for example. show that in the
century and a half preceding 1885, that
island suffered from devastating cy-
clones only seven times though 1t is
the northern and eastern islands, such
as st. Thomas. Porto Rico, Cuba and
the Bahamas, that are most frequently
in the pathway OF the severest cy-
clones.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
Mobility of Ascent.

II there be no nobility of descent, all
the more indispensable is 1t that there
should be nobility of ascent-a char
acter In them that bear rule SO fine
and high and pure, that as men come
within the circle Of its influence they
involuntarily pay homage to that
which is the one pre-eminent distinc-
tlon. the royalty of virtue.-John Stu
art Mill.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
nroads.t Street Of ar.at City.

Berlin boasts that "Unter den LIN
den" is the broadcast street Of any great
city. 1t is 215 feet wide. The Ring
strasse'' in Vienna is 1873 feet: the
Paris Grand Boulevards" 122 feet, and
the "A~ndrassy strasse" at Budapest 1b6
feet wide.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03

II the young man can escape the al
lurements of ~idleness, he IAN find In
Tahiti and her hundred sister islands
the foundation for a %stupendous for
tune. The soil of all the islands Is
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
Formulation of China.

The population of China used to be
estimated at 400, 000, 900 and upward.
Estimates made by careful travellers
in late years put it much lower-about
200, 900. 900.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
DASHING WAVES
eRAvE LIGHTHOUSE BUILDER
DOES HIS WORK.

1t Took Five Years of Dangerous Toll
to Erect Minot's Ledge light aro-
shiys of Men Who Built the Tillamook
Lighthouse.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-01-03
A SCCIABLE BODY
OF STOPYTELL>
INC, STRONG,
BRALNY STATES
MEN
Congress
is Amidble

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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-04
y PAGES TODAY.
LAUNCHED UPON A DANGEROUS oceANl

II the supreme court OF the United States had de
cided in accord with precedents that newly acquired
territory becomes at part Of the Union under
the constitution. and that the inhabitants of such
territory entitled the full rights American ct
Senship under that constitution, majority OF the i'm
perlalsts themselves would have wanted to abandon
our Asiatic possessions nstanter.
In fact, 1t has been minated by the imperalis
press that the Philippines could be held except as
crown colonies" and that they would be for sale To
the highest bidder II the decided that they must
be absorbed by the Union rather than held at arms
length.
Lamentable, therefore, as the decision may be in
other respects of its worst and most dangerous
effects is the inducemen II holds out for the further
prosecution OF conquests In any or all parts of the
world. II we had been given to understand by the
court that we must conquer buy people only to in
corporate them with full,hedged citizens the
conservative sentiment of the nation would have quick
ly taken the alarm and demanded halt or at least
nice discrimination in the matter of expansion We
would have wanted to avoid ASIA especially as wo
would the plague.
Now, however, there is no check on an unholy ma.
tonal ambition We at liberty acquire midas or
Cochin Chnas, East or West Afrlcas as our In.
chnations may dictate and hold them in the same sub.
lection that England, or France. Germany or Rus.
STA holds dependencies. The temptation to crafty
greed presents no internal dangers the states ex.
cept the burdens consequent upon conquest in the
maintenance of great army and powerful and often.
sye navy.
step such as we have taken is rarely the end of
the journey. The disposition to take another ad.
vanes-tndeed the necessities OF the new situation
demand further progress in the same direction None
OF the landgrabbing nations satlatod Like
the daughters of the horse leech they are continually
crying more, more"
The English press already these dangerous con.
sequences of our supreme court decision AS one of
them says, Colonies mean navy navy means naval
bases and coang stations and naval bases are nse.
cure unless they are backed up by the possession of
hinteriand," or surrounding territory.
Thus have we been embarked upon the fateful
career of conQuering coonizing nation with all
the constitutional objections dangers removed and
nothing left for guidance but the degree Of our greed
or ambition.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-04
SOME PosTscRlPTs.

Great Britain imports one-thrd OF her food
For climbing camels very inefficient and
seldom used in Abyssina and other mountain countries
The secretary bird the London Zoo been enems.
tographed while the seirng killing aud carrying OF
a rat
IL estimated that electric pneumatic for trans
hitting packages eight inches in diameter would
mile,
The largest eosl-tran engine in England has been con-
srueted by the Great Northern railway designed to
draw 500
In the last week reported British provincial hank
cearings decreased per Manchester ~ at Liv
erpool at 5S Al Birmingham.
German telephone companies charge only ~ cents for
hve-mnue talk their long dsanee wires their object
being 10 encourage the OF that branch.
The democratic State convention in Virginia vii,
perhaps beat the States record matter OF MEMBERSHIPS
as it will be composed OF ia4o delegates
Neaktish have made their appearance OF Sandy Hot
which is good for the epioures, rae weakhsh is
trout and Of the most delicious sea-water fishes
shortsshiedrsss Japanese students is aarminvl
the The latest Investigations show that on, !,
lyS6 university students in Toxic than half are r,yo
Strutng about Colorado Springs ostrich farm, i
big bird that valued stoo $500 himself and &c.
Tor his owners diamond stud which he swallowed the h
day,
Every deliberative civil body in England even do .
the town councils provided with mace which IS brosh
forth with solemn ceremony and placed on the tobe 49,
the deliberations begin IN city councils es,
stick Of silver is added the passed ~ M
absence OF these offsets supposed 70 be illegal
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-04

manifest The third rail, as it lies on the ground. is
therefore without electric current and may be touched
or stepped upon with safety.
The Improvement Of electric transportation in cities
through this discovery can easily be understood. The
saving in the erection of and In the breakage and re-
pair OF the trolley system at once be seen, while
the absence Of the obstruction and Of the over
mead wires be fully appreciated
BY the of this third rail under the new condi-
tions the power current be safely applied above
the surface on the surface in conduit between the
tracks beneath them II is also claimed that II will
result in great economy OF electric energy in other
words greater power through the noncharging Of any
rail except when is directly over It.
These discoveries but further limitations that
the of wonderful applications OF
electrical power to transportation Systems general
well as local The Twentieth century is opening
mp with OF wonderful things in the way OF
Improvement existing conditions in the world of
locomotion and business.