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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-26
MINE MULES ABOVE GROUND.
Immured for Years in underground
Passages They Are Dazzled
by Daylight.

At the time of the recent strike Of
the mine firemen in the anthracite coal
fields hundreds of mules from the Va
riOus mines were brought to the sur
face. Most of the animals had not
seen daylight for many years, and
some of them had quite forgotten all
they ever knew about pure air, green
grass, and blue sky, says the Phila
delphia Press.
1t was a pathetic as well as an
amusing sight to see these animals
turned loose 30 Craze in the fields. The
daylight dazed them, and it was with
difficulty that they could be forced
from the cage and driven to the fields,
and there their antics were pitifully
humorous. Crowds lined the fences
each day.
The mules, free from the driver and
the whip, stood for long time seem
ingly afraid to move. To them the soft
springy ground, so different from the
ties and rails and rocks of the mines,
was insecure. The air, the grass, the
space, the unbounded room to move,
bewildered them. They walked slow
ly and with boots tapping the ground
many times before a step was attempt
ed, and ii was hours and sometimes
days before they gained sufficient con-
tidence to run and tumble and roll.
But when they realized that the
strange surroundings were harmless
and actually enjoyable, they reveled
in their new-found freedom, hee-
hawed, kicked up their heels, and gam
boiled very much in the manner of the
schoolboy set free after a long and
ardUOus school term.
The grass was the greatest mystery
30 them. Instinct doubtless told them
it was good to eat. smelled inviting. but
it was so strange, so new that it was
long before they gained courage to
1ibble and to eat it.
Air and light made many of the
mules study for hours before they
knew that the novel world into which
they had been raised was not thing
of mystery, and that they felt better
by breathing and could see better
N''Ni tilS hONtllN Idu worn OH IMAM
they ever could see in the dark and
narrow passages of the mines.
The extent of the fields, too, was
source of great wonderment to them.
Here they did not knock their heads
against the roof, for there was no
roof; nor Craze their sides against the
rib, for there was no rib; only space
above and about them, unlimited, in
comprehensive space, a new, strange
thing, with which most of them had to
get acquainted by degrees.
Those who had enjoyed the freedom
for day, as they met the newcomers.
bumped into them, to see them lose
their balance on the yielding ground,
rolled under their noses, kicked up
their heels, and played with them
much as boy swimmer will play with
a younger one.
In the days which the strike lasted
most OF the mules experienced new
sensations which they may never re-
peat, for they We're hustled after their
brief freedom down into the dark
depths and narrow iron-paved pass
ages where their only light is the fa-int
flicker of the miners lamp. their air
the gas and smOke-stained heaviness
of the mine, their food the hay and
oats which taste little like the green.
fresh grass. and their gamboling con-
hned 10 the narrow space of a five-foot
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-26
Alleged Sercerers Burned

Hanan, a village on the borders OF
Anatolia, was the scene of horrible
tragedy recently. There had been
an epidemic in the district, and AS
it's ravages ever became greater the
villagers finally felt satisfied that it
was the work of sorcerers. After a
thorough investigation they arrested
a man named Asian and his sister.
and openly charged them with being
the direct cause of the disease. The
two prisoners avowed their inno-
cence, but the mob insisted that they
had been heard using lamentations
and other evil spells, and that their
sole object in doing so was to invoke
an epidemic. Without delay SEN
tence was pronounced. Asian was
burned alive on an improvised scat
fold and his sister was mercilessly
tortured with red-hot irons.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-26

Uncle Ephraim's rusty hat droons
humbly over his black and wrinklad
forehead; his coat pockets are sax-
ging away from his coat; one knee
is covered with a blue patch. the
other one with white one sewed on
with black thread; his shoes are fulI
of holes, and it would puzzle anyone
to declare the original color of a,v
article of his apparel. He pulls off
the dropping hat as he looks over NV
garden fence, and gives me a smile
that makes me feel better for an
hour. Miss Alice" he asks, c,.eer-
fully. you don't know nobody that
wautsteF hire nobpdy 20 do nothins
Ger EN- lis mawnin, does yoa?"-
Harper's Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-26

two-thirds heavier than those on the
upward grade in action-that a natur-
al falling of the weights on the former
grade insures perpetual motion.
A cessation of the driving force can
only be effected by preventing the
weights from falling, and this is done
by very simple contrivance in the
form of a spring which acts on all the
weights simultaneously. Taking
wheel 40 feet IN diameter and three
feet wide, it is estimated that it will
carry 1850 weights and that the driv-
ing power will be equal to ,443A tons
from the center of the wheel. The
cost of construction is about one
sixth the cost of machinery for steam
power, and it is also claimed that the
new motive POWER will reduce the
working expenses 93 per cent.
The working model, says the New
York Herald, has been subjected to
continuous tests, as it is apparently
capable, like the brook, of going on
forever" which, of course, is what is
expected of an invention claiming to
constitute solution of the secret of
perpetual motion
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-26
NEW GRAVITY WHEEL.
Its Inventor Thinks 1t Constitutes the
Solution of the Secret of Per-
petuaI Motion.

An improved automatic or self-act-
ing gravity wheel is the modest title
of an invention by Mr.. Herbert Rose,
of Australia, which has recently been
patented all over the world, and which,
if the claims of its inventor are real
lied, promises to supersede steam as a
motive power.
The invention relates to the con-
struction of a gravity wheel, with con-
centric rings, secured to arms radiat-
ing from the center. These arms or
weights act as balance and driving
levers and are so nicely arranged
those on the downward grade being
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-26

national affairs which are repugnant
c. Latimer, who is typical represen-
tative of radical Organism in politics,
Mr.. Hemphill would have more than
an ordinarily good chance just at this
time to appeal to large conservative
element in the party. He has taken
up his place in the quiet campaign
which is being waged from county
seat to county seat by the opponents
of Senator McLaurin, and it seems to
be now foregone conclusion that he
will be one of the chief features in the
senatorial race in South Carolina next
summer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-26

Prosperity is encouragingly pro-
gressive in South Carolina. Twenty
years ago that state had is cotton
mills, with $3.50 spindles-small
mills, most of them. To-day there
are within her borders 1876 mills, con-
tanning 2,240,7oo spindles and 63,61s
looms.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-26

1t has been decided by a court in
Maine that body belongs to the own
er of the lot in which it is inferred,
and not to parent, husband, wife or
other relative who may wish to have
it removed.-N. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-26

Sponger-What is that expression?
Between the what" of dilemma?
Kraft-No, you don't! You want me
to say HORNS" and you think that':l
remind me to AL: you to have ons.-
Philadelphia Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-26

First Office Boy-Wot's CHIMNEY
crying fer?
Second Office Boy-His grandmud-
der's dead and going ter be buried on
a holidayi-Puck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-26
ROSE GRAVITY WHEEL

apparently 1t Is Capable of Going On
Forever.'O
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-11
DECLARES HE SAW A SPIRIT.
A ID. & o. Engineers Reason for
Adopting Spirituaiism.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 10-Thomas
Grubbs, an engineer on the Baltimore and
OHIO Railroad, has been converted to
Spiritualism and last night appeared at
the Spiritualist camp at Chestertown and
related the remarkable story which led
to his conversion.
He said that he was taking out special
one night and was driving his engine
ahead at the rate of fifty miles an hour
While turning a sharp curve in the road
he saw figure standing upon the track
and distinctly recognized his mother, who
had been dead for twenty years. He
rubbed his eyes and looked again and the
features of the apparition were more dis
tinct than before. As he gazed at the
figure II waved a red light across the
track three or four times and then dis
appeared as suddenly as 1t came.
He called the attention of his brakeman
to the apparition as he reversed his en-
CINE, but the brakeman had seen nothing
and was greatly surprised when he saw
Grubbs apply the emergency brakes. A
few seconds later the train came to
standstill, and just ahead of his engine a
bridge had been swept away.
Grubbs says there can be no doubt but
that 1t was the spirit of his mother that
waved the danger signal and saved the
train and he is now "A confirmed believer
in Spirituaiisu
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-11
A VALUABLE ORNAMENT LOST
Sunburst Valued at 10000 Missing
av Atlantic City.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Aug 1O-Mrs.
w. ]. Walker, who gives her address as
Washington. d. c., has reported the loss
of a diamond sunburst which she lost
Wednesday evening either on Young S
Ocean Pier or on the Boardwalk. The
jewel is valued at $50 600, and contained
forty diamonds and twenty pearls. The
police do not think that it was removed
from her dress while in a dense crowd
but believe that it became lodse and was
lost.
According to the story she told the po-
lice she left the Traymore Hotel, where
she is staying, on Wednesday evening,
and went to Young's Ocean Pier to spend
the evening About II O'Clock she discov-
cred her loss and notified the ticket office
attendant. The people were leaving the
structure and most of the lights were
turned out at that time The employees of
the pier were quickly sent for and the
loss Of the brooch was explained to them.
Mrs. Walker, to the best of her ability,
told just where she had been on that
evening. The employees procured lanterns
and a diligent search was made. Nearly
everyone included in the hunt walked
back and forth about the pier all night
each one bent on winning the offered re-
waru OF $i,yyU.
Many people looked for the jewel on
the Boardwalk. and even on the beach,
but up TO tonight 1t had not been found
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-11
WEATHER PROPHETS TO MEET.
announcement iR the Promised At
tendance of Well known Men.

The National Weather Bureau Conven-
ton, which will be held in Milwaukee on
August q, IS, and 20, is attracting more
than usual attention from representa-
tives of various mercantile and CONNER
cial interests. Nothing furnishes more
fiattering commentary on the practical
utility of the work of the Bureau than
the fact that these industrial concerns
recognize the benefits derived from the
system.
Among the prominent guests to be en-
tertained by the convention during its
coming session are a. w. Cotton, Presi-
dent and General Manager of the Lake
Erie Transportation Company, Toledo.
Ohio; George W. Gardner, Cleveland,
Ohio: Harvey D. Gouder Cleveland.
Ohio; E. Stevens Henry, Rockville. Conn;
Senator William e Mason, Chicago, H.;
Charles B. Murray. editor Price Cur
President OF the Civic Federation, Chica-
go, Ill; Father +. L. Odenbach, st. lg-
natius College, Cleveland, Ohio; I. h.
Orr, editor of the Farmer and Stock
man." Pittsburg, Pa; Senator II. G.
Hansbrough, Devils Lake. N. D.; Samuel
T. Hubbard. President. and William King
Superintendent Cotton Exchange, New
York City; John Lamb, Richmond, Va,
George McCurdy, Marine Insurance Com
pany, Chicago, Ill; l.. r. Sherwood. Sec
rotary Maritime Exchange, Philadelphia,
Pa: James Seignious, President Cotton
Exchange, Charleston, ). C.; Andrew
Simonson, Wisconsin Agriculturist, RAJ
cine. Wis; Prof r. F.. Stupart, Director
Canadian Metropolitan Service. Toronto.
Canada; Representative James w. Wads
lace editor "WalIaceS Farmer" Des
MONIES, Iowa.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-11

| they were officially examined it was
| hard to say, even upon the same sheet
which was right and which was wrong
A most amusing case was one in
| which, out of compliment, the engraved
portrait of distinguished public officer
| had been placed upon the stamp. By
the time that this had its turn the
face of the honorable gentleman had
such a comical black smudge over it
1 that laughter was Irresistible, and the
| inventor who had wasted his ingenuity
upon it quietly accepted the joke and
never appeared TO claim the reward fer
his continuance.
There were ingeniously contrived ar
! rangements to produce marks To show
the least touch of water and thereby
reveal the attempt at fraud These,
however, were easily cleaned cut. and
the paper made ready FOR an indefinite
series of new Temperatures One meth
cd consisted OF an attempt to fix the ink
in the paper. The mere inspection Of
the paper was enough to show that this
was the old contrivance of a third Of
a century ago. But in one instance
there was captivating arrangement Of
fanciful colors, utterly useless for pur-
poses of recognition, since no one could
tell what they would be a day Or
month or year after, and over this
was great sprawling signature in
common ink. The contriver. who had
already shown himself fertile in repro
ducing old ideas, was boasting of the
wonderful properties of his invention.
the antiquity of which could be deter
mined very easily. While this device
was being discussed the paper was
neatly and cleanly cleared from the ink
signature
When a doubt was expressed as to
the possibility of the operation. a bit
was cut in two, one-half of it was ex-
posed to the same treatment, and, ex-
cept on actual juxtaposition of The two
halves, there could not be detected tie
slightest change.
The commission, however, arrived at
a plain plan, which, slightly varied. is
now universally adopted. This was TO
print upon the stamp a design in an
ink made mainly with the materials of
ordinary writing ink. Perhaps the SIM
plicity of this method prevented its ear
lier discovery Whatever destroys the
ink written upon the stamp will deface
the stamp itself, and in most cases de-
stroy II. Any agent which will restore
the one will restore the other. Album
dant and careful experiments proved
the entire success Of this system, and
hence its general adoption
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-11
SUIT AGAINST PATTEN HEIRS.
A Judgment Obtained in ST. Louis
the Basis of the Action.

Proceedings in equity were instituted in
! the Supreme Court of the District of CO.
/ lumbia yesterday by Edward White, OF
! New York. against Augusta Fatten Glow
err Mary Z. Patten, Josephine Z. Patten,
Edythe A. Patten. Helen Patten, and Au-
relius r. Shand, of this city, asking for
the appointment of a receiver. The COM
plainant states that he recovered a judg
ment against the defendant Augusta Pat
ten Glover for the sum of s14,Ssa 80, in the
Circuit Court of St. Louis, last May.
which Judgment has not been paid; that
he instituted suit against the defendant
Glover recently on the law side of the Su-
preme Court of the District, but cannot
find the defendant within the District. He
further says that all the defendants ex-
cept Aurelius R. Shand are the heirs at
law of the late Edmund and Anastasia
Patten, and that the defendant Augusta
Patten Glover has since the recovery of
the said judgment transferred all of her
interest in the real estate of which her
parents uIed seized. aggregating s25000e, to
her sisters. the remaining defendants. for
the purpose. it is alleged. of avoiding the
collection of the Judgment recorded
against her in st. Louis.
He further says that the said defendant
Glover on July Is, 1901, conveyed to the
defendant Aurelius r. Stands certain
property in Kalorama Heights.
Mr.. White further recites that the de-
fence to the suit at st. Louis interposed
by the defendant Glover was that she was
a married woman, and was not liable for
the debt but judgment was recovered not
withstanding the defence set IN
The bill prays for the appointment of a
receiver by the court, who shall take
charge of the property conveyed as above
mentioned while the suit is nending, and
thereafter sell the property and pay the
Judgment named in the bill of complaint.
Clayton f. Emig and Dudley & Michner
are named as counsel for the complainant
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-11
RURAL MAIL FACILITIES.
Extensions Ordered in Five Addi.
fiOnaI Stntes.

The following additional rural free de-
livery routes have been ordered, to go
into effect october 1, 1901:
Indiana-Ligonier, Noble County-Two
carriers. Length of routes, 53A miles;
area covered, 20 square miles; population
served, 1851: number of houses on routes.
$40. Carriers, w. s. Miner and A. C. Nor
row. Additional service-Scottsburg, Scott
County-One carrier. Length of route,
27Is miles; area covered, % square miles:
population served. LIE; number of houses
on route, go Carrier, J. S. Mounts POST
office at Leota to be discontinued. Star
route No. 332SS to be discontinued. Mail
to Scottsburg, Ind.
Iowa-Cedar Rapids, Linn County-Two
carriers. Length of routes, so miles; area
covered, so square miles; population
served, 1000; number of houses on routes,
200. Carriers. r. T. Lubbock and r.. A.
Houston. Henderson, Mills County-One
carrier. Length of route. % miles; area
covered 40 square miles; population
served. SIS: number of houses on route
103. Carrier, F. z. Carter.
MassachusStts-State Line. Berkshire
County-One carrier. Length of route,
% miles; area covered, u square miles;
population served. $50; number of houses
on route. 131. Carrier, ]. F. Bliss. Star
routes Nos. 1852 and 4lS3 to be discon-
tinued. Postofiices at North Stockbridge
Centre, and Afford to be discontinued.
Mail to State Line, Mass
Nebraska-Crete, Saline County-one
carrier; Length of route, 2612 miles; area
covered. 4S square miles; population
served, 500; number of houses on route,
$50. Carrier, J. II. Ireland. Postotfice at
Berks to be discontinued. Mail to Crete,
Neb.
Wisconsin additional service)-Rich-
land Centre. Riohland County-Two car
riers. Length of routes, 51A miles; area
e6 square miles; population
served LILO: number of houses on routes.
255. Carriers, j. w. Bennett and William
DOty
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-11
CANCELLATION OF STAMPS
The Method in Vogue Adopted by
France in 1880.
Troubles Experienced by Govern
ments in Devising Way to Pre-
vent Frauds Being Perpetrated by
Washing the Tiny Pieces of Paper.

ments in DevisinS a Way to Pre-
vent Frauds Being Perpetrated by
Washing the Tiny Pieces of Paper.
The method of canceling postage
stamps in voge throughout the world
was instituted by the French Govern
ment in 1880. but was not adopted by
this country until comparatively re-
cent years Before the adoption of this
system a multitude of suggestions were
made for means for preventing the ru-
mored practice of washing and refusing
old postage stamps, for some of which
secrets large sums of money were asked
by the parties claiming their posses
gian AS to the idea of washing and
reu.sing postage stamps, ii. was known
BIZ those acquainted with the matter
that the practice would. at the time at
which these proposals were made, not
have paid the poorest citizen. But the
introduction Of a higher stamp tax,
where not cents alone but dollars and
hundreds of dollars were represented
created an additional necessity for
safety paper.
attached to some Government stamps.
Some time ago there came a report that
such stamps were. after being Cancelled
In the required manner, washed and re-
used.
A possibly i'll advised proposal from
the Government led to an increase of
the mischief and host of proposed
remedies The consideration of the
subject by Government request led TO
an investigation, during the course of
which previous remedial measures en-
pIoyed in other countries We're brought
to hight.
II appeared that about the year 1880
the French Government, realizing the
need of such safeguards as would pre-
vent frauds in the matter of using al
ready used postage stamps, invited pro-
posals. ard commission Of the most
distinguished chemists and artists was
charged with the investigation of the
subject The results OF its labors are
matters of record.
The first plan proposed for a safety
paper for stamps was to use such
miserable and even purposely defaced
paper that the stamp could not be
transferred from one document to an
other. The projectors forgot that such
stamps must, in most cases, be carried
before they are used.
The next plan was to use mere
water-color ink, defaced by the slight
est touch of water, so as not to be re-
moved from its original place without
betraying fraud.
Colors prepared to show the action of
acids and alkalies have been proposed,
but in this climate few such, IL carried
in the pocket, would fail 10 be pooled
before being used.
A more dangerous mixture was pro-
posed. The composition of it seemed
TO be unknown TO the proposers them
selves, except under the doubtful title
of fugitive colors," which so well
maintained their character that before
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-11
MAY CONFER IN SARATOGA.
Baltimore Democrats Likely to Per.
feet Plans mt the Resort.

Iect FIRMS tne aeSOFt.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 1o-Matterc politi-
cal have simmered down since the two
| State conventions. and the luIl is expected
| to last until some time in September.
when both parties will hold primaries and
| make nominations for the Legislature
There is persistent rumor that the
Democratic managers will take this OPP
portunity to get together; perfect their
plans, and sketch out in detail the cam
paign which they hope will result in
Democratic victory. 1t is said that at
some time this month the managers of
| the party will all journey to Saratoga. N.
Y, where important conferences will be
held between ex-senator German, Gov
ernor Smith. Mr.. Vandiver, Thomas Lana
han, and Lloyd Wilkinson. 1t was also
said yesterday that /. Freeman Rasin
would in all proba biiity be at Saratoga at
the same time. He is in the habit of 60
ing there every year. So is Mr. German,
and the resort has before this been the
scene of Democratic conferences that
meant much to Maryland. 1t was also
suggested last night in certain political
circles that it would not be beyond the
limit of possibilities if Mayor Hayes
should cross over from Lake Chautauqua,
N Y. where he is now spending his va
cation.
With the city and State leaders both
present the personnel of ting city ticket
could be agreed upon and tle breach in
the party healed in time tie prevent its
affecting the registration. 1t is, however
a matter of grave doubt whether Mayor
Hayes would go to a conference OF the
kind, and some of his friends who had
heard the report asserted last night that
he most assuredly would not.
Mr.. Vandiver was at headquarters for
a short time yesterday, md among his
callers were State Comptroller Herring.
convention last week, and B. Frank
Grouse, of Carroll County. DIR. Herring
was exceedingly cheerful over the pros
poets. and believes the party generally TO
be in good shape.