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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
Observing the "InvisibIe."

Various objects usually invisible
may be seen under unusual condi-
tions. The fight of cannon ball
may be viewed by an observer favor
ably placed for sighting along its
course, and the sea bottom along
coasts can be studied by persons in
balloons. 1t was while trying to
learn whether submarine vessels can
be seen from captive balloon as far
away as a mile or two that French
officer lately fell into the sea and
was drowned, leaving his secret yet
to be revealed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
IN NDUS1!RY,&@a5 <
= 'asahECHkNSS
KITES WITHOUT TAILS.
The SO-CaIIed Eddy Model, which Is
Here Described, Is Popular
with Scientists.

There are two general styles of kite
used by scientific people who wish to
send cameras, thermometers and other
instruments up to great height.
Both of these are made to fly with
out tails, the latter having been found
to be great nuisance. Greater care
IN construction is needed to insure the
proper behavior of a kite not bal
lasted with a tail, but the feat has
been performed so often that it is
not at all remarkable. The two gen.
eral types of tailless kite most in ia
vor are the box, or cellular, kite, in
vented by an Australian, Hargrave,
and the Malay, or Eddy kite. The lat
ter is the easiest to construct and to
manage, and it is the one here de-
scribed.
The Eddy kite has a shape some
thing like the conventional diamond.
Two sticks are needed for it, one up
right and the other crossing it at
right angles, one-fifth of the way from
the top. The proportion is IS, not 20,
per cent, to be exact. Straight
grained white pine or spruce is the
best wood, and, for a kite three or
four feet high, should be half a inch
wide and one-quarter of an inch thick.
At the intersection the sticks should
be fastened together with Irvine or
brads. The ends being suitably
notched, Irvine or fine wire should be
tightly stretched around them.
Before this stage of construction is
reached measures should be taken to
give the cross stick slight bulge
in front. 1t should be bent like an
archer's bow, and the curvature be pre-
served by string from end to end.
This string, of course, will be on the
back side of the finished kite. To get
just the right amount of bend, have
the distance between the middle of
the bow and bowstring four or five
per cent. of the length of the stick.
The stick should be stiffened by the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
AIR RUNS THIS DYNAMO.

be of some value. In erecting the
apparatus it is necessary to provide
a tall stack or vertical tube of a sort
capable of inducing a strong current
of air through an opening at the
lower end. AS means of inducing
an initiatOry current a heating ap-
paratus is located at the bottom of
the stack, that shown in the present
instance being an electric heater,
though a fire may be used if more
convenient. The function of the
heater is to warm the air sufficiently
to cause it to rise, thus drawing
fresh air into the entrance and re-
volving the fan blades carried by the
shaft of the electric generator. By
limiting the size of the dynamo SO
as not to overload the fan blades a
constant generation can be main
tanned and in instances where the
power is needed during only a por-
ton of the time the storage bat
teries provide force of no small
dimensions. One use to which this
apparatus might be put is the charg-
ing of storage batteries for private
automobiles. E. C. Woodhell, of
Highpoint, N. c., is the INVENTOR
Chicago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
FRIEND OF FARMERS
Mr.. Newell, Chief photographer of
Geological Survey.
Author of the Great Scheme OF Arid
Land Reclamation in the West,
Recently Endorsed by the
Congress.

1t seems odd that the man who is
scheme of irrigation in the vast arid
regions of the west should have
learned his earliest lessons in irri-
cation in Massachusetts.
The man to whom, more than to
anyone else, is due the credit for
mapping out this great and eXpen-
sive plan of reclamation is Freder-
lex ii. Newell, chief photographer of
the United States geological survey,
who, though born in Bradford, Pa,
is descended from old New England
stock, and was himself brought up
on Bay state farm, after taking a
course of engineering instruction at
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
His father before him was a civil
engineer, and it is curious circum-
stance that his grandfather, Arte-
mus Newell, who once conducted a
farm about 10 miles from Boston,
was the first man north of Mexico
and California, to introduce a prac-
teal system of irrigation.
This sturdy New England son of
the soil during the early part of
President Buchanan's administration
had occasion to make trip to
southern France, and there had his
eyes opened to the value of irriga-
ton as a means of rendering fruit
full otherwise unproductive wastes
of sandy land.
Mr.. Newell's interest in this sys-
TEN appears to have been transmit
ted to his son and grandson, for the
latter, from the time he first set
eyes on the original irrigation plant
on the old Newell homestead, be-
came an enthusiast.
By the time he was six, as a re-
suit of his boyish studies of the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
THE SUN HARNESSED.
Glorious Orb of Day Does Mans Bid
ding in Many Directions on
California Farm

There have been many attempts to
harness old Sol, to make him work at
mans bidding so that his rays, trapped
and put to new uses, shall take the
place of coal or wood as a producer of
motive power. Clever minds in all
ages have been at work to devise the
necessary trap. Several more or less
practical machines have resulted, but
none so perfect, so full of promise as
the great sun motor now engaged in
storing up the suns heat at the WELL
known Pasadena ostrich farm in Cali
fornia.
By the suns heat water is boiled,
the steam working a powerful engine.
capable of pumping some l 400 gallons
of water in minute.
From a distance the California sun
motor looks like huge open umbrella
inverted and with piece sawn off it's
top. 1t is balanced on a high steel
framework and is set at such an angle
that it will catch the sunbeams on it's
17SS mirrors. Each of these mirrors
measures two feet in length and three
inches across and reflects the sunshine
on to a long cylinder corresponding to
the handle of the umbrella, which
holds about 100 gallons of water. The
boiler is made of steel, covered with
heat absorbing material.
The, hot, persistent California sun
that shines almost every day of the
wear when reflected from the mirrors
on the boiler, causes such heat that it
is possible to obtain $50 pounds of
steam pressure in one hour from cold
water. When the machine is made
ready for work-a task for boy, who
has merely to turn a crank until an
indicator shows that the sun is truly
focused on the mirrors-it will move
around so that its face is kept turned
to the sun all day without further
manipulate ton under the force of an
automatic engine. The boiler is auto
matically supplied with water, safe
ty valve releasing the steam if the
pressure should become too great
All day, every day, from an hour after
sunrise to half hour before shutdown,
this tireless heat concentrator keeps
its shining face turned to the sun,
storing up an energy which may be
put to almost any use. 1t works under
the powerful California sun as well in
winter as summer.-Pearson's Maya
zine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25

addition of a wooden brace behind it,
which should be half the length of the
stick, and ought to be carefully round
ed to fit the natural curve of the lat
ter. Brads will secure it properly to
the stick.
Thin manila paper or light silk or
muslin will make a suitable covering,
being tough yet not heavy. This
should fit a little loosely, so that on
each side of the upright stick the wind
will make shallow pockets. A bride
for flying is made by tying one string
to the bottom of the upright stick and
the other to the intersection of the
two, their lengths being such that the
upper one will go out at right angles
with the face of the kite. The bride
should terminate in loop. to facili-
tate attaching the main string for fly
ing.
When several kites are sent up tan
dem a greater elevation can be secured
than with a single one. especially if
the series is weighted with instru-
ments. One kite having been raised
sufficiently to take care of itself, a
second is sent up and connected by
400 or 500 feet of cord to the string of
the first, After little more line is
paid out third kite may be attached
in the same manner.
If a flag is to be sent up, it should be
tackled to a stick that is heavy enough
to hang. vertically, and the upper end
of the stick tied to the kite string
when the kite or team of kites has
gone up only short distance. If the
kites are large and several are sent
up together, the strain on the line is
so great that fine steel wire is better
than Irvine. A reel or windlass, an
chored firmly to the ground, will ia
cilitate handling team that might
otherwise become unmanageab le.-N.
Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
CROWN PRINCESS MARIE.
Young Matron Who May One Day BE
the Queen of ROumania s
Popular In London.

1t isn't every European country
with a queen so genuinely popular
as Carmen Sylvia" which is lucky
enough to possess as promising a
successor to her as Roumania does
in its crown princess.
Prince Ferdinand's handsome wife,
who was Princess Marie of Edin-
burgh, came to London with her hus-
band to represent Roumania at the
coronation, and her beauty, clever
ness and general "style" have con-
tirmed the belief of those who proph-
esied when the princess was a young
girl in England that she would one
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
Tobacco Made Harmless.

A German, NJ. Gerolid, has discovered
a means to render tobacco inoffensive.
His process consists in sleeping the
tobacco leaves in a solution of fannie
acid. which in combining with the MIC
otine makes the preparation harm
less. To render flavor and the taste
to the tanned tobacco, it is only to be
treated by sleeping in solution Of
the sweet herb origin. The taste thus
prepared differs in no way from ordi-
nary. With respect to its effects, the
experiments made by Messrs. Furst
and Cowl upon rabbits, frogs and man
himself showed that the preparation
exercised no action toxical upon the
organs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
A PROMISING IDEA.
North Carolina Man Thinks He Cas-
Generate Electricity at Merely
Nominal Expense,

II She inventor of the apparatus
illustrated in the accompanying cut
succeeds in accomplishing the results
he seeks to attain his invention will
come about as near as possible to
that will-O'-the-wisp of the inventor,
perpetual motion. The main object
of the seeker after perpetual motion
is to eliminate cost of operation, or,
in other words, to cut the expense
for fuel to generate the power. AS
this inventor utilities an air current
as a source of power, the cost is re-
duced to a minimum after the initial
expense of installing the plant, and
where no water power is at hand it
is possible this new generator may
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
S RNEiagR5lAarea
.San1Ea4{\p71o
HAPPIEsT WOMAN IN TOWN.
How She WnS Made So by Her Hus-
baud ManfuIIy Taking
the Pledge.

: Bob Marshall lived in a rough town
in Pennsylvania and was the hardest
drinl0er of the many hard drinkers of
the place. Not that he ever lay in the
gutter or ever neglected his business.
No, he was a very Industrious man,
had a good house, a good, quiet wife,
and family of bright, well-cared-fOr
children. He belonged to that class of
men who can drink heavily with little
perceptible effect.
During the last temperance move
ment a Jealous worker in the cause, a
little palefaced woman, went to T
(this was Bob Marshalrs home) for
she had heard it said that if any peo-
pie on earth needed to be warned
against drinking it was these. Many
persons had advised her against going
to this rough town. She would be de-
rided and insulted, they said.
When she applied for the use of the
town hall it was denied.
''We know all you can say" said the
man applied to. You can't tell the
drinking man half as much about the
evils of intemperance as he can tell
you. Almost every man in this town
drinks and folks amt going to turn
out to hear themselves abused by a
woman who ought to be at home mind
ing her house and children. You'll be
insulted and perhaps assaulted and
the law will have to interfere for your
protection"
The pastor of one of the two
churches of T was absent. In the
other there were nightly meetings of
prayer for revival. SO the little
woman could get neither church.
But that May evening, at $50, about
the time when people were leaving
their tea tables, the town bell began
to clang in a quick way, which startled
and alarmed everybody.
Some one said he guessed there was
n fire and some one else. half hearing
this, reported that there was fire,
and soon the word was running from
mouth to mouth and men and boys
and women were hurrying towards the
town hall from every one of the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25

crooked streets. When goodly crowd
was assembled in the yard and every
body was asking everybody else where
the fire was and why the bell was ring
ing and what was the matter, the pale
little woman appeared first on the hall
steps and then on dry goods box
near and began to speak.
"My friends" she said.
There was a lull in the talk all about
her, for her voice was clear as a bell
and surprisingly full for such a little
body.
"My friends" she repeated, and this
time the words penetrated farther
and those who had not heard her saw
her standing up there.
The people massed about her and be-
came silent.
"1ou ask what is the cause of this
alarm. | will tell you. There is grow
ing in this town tree against which
/ must warn you. Listen! When tell
you of the baleful influence it is eXhal-
ing and when I point it out to you will
you promise me to lay the ak to the
root and hew it down and cast it into
the fire?"
I wish I could reproduce that
speech entire for you. But could no
more do it than could paint the m owe
ment and the music of a river.
That assembly of men in their arti-
san clothes, of women in their kitchen
aprons, of children in their school
dresses, caught their in the lengthen-
ing shadows, seemed turned into stat
ues by the earnest, eloquent appeal of
a small woman.
The address was short and at it's
close Mrs. p said:
81 would like to speak to you again
tomorrow evening. Will you come to
hear me?"
Eyes! yes! yes!" was the response
from all parts of the crowd.
'"Then meet me here at $50 to-mor-
row"
The next morning the authorities
waited on the determined little woman
and offered her the use of the town
hall.
This was the initiation of one of the
most noticeable temperance move
ments which ever visited little town
Bob Marshall stood up against it and
behind Bob Marshall stood scores Of
men and behind these scores of men
stood scores of women.
Many of Bob's neighbors and friends
and cronies who haa signed the pledge
vent to him with the story of their
new liberty and their new hope and
begged him to covenant with them; to
promise them and their wives and their
children, as they had promised, to alb
stain from all traffic in drink.
ut is hurting Others" the temper
ancS people urged "Ynu're at the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25

Incandescent lamps emit more, heat
than is generally supposed, onl six
per cent. of the energy of the current
being converted into light. A 16-can-
dle-power lamp, fed by a current of
100 volts, has heated ten ounces of
water to boiling point in an hour, and
fires celluloid in FIVE minutes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
ALTON BROOKS PARKER.
Distinguished New York Jurist Who
Is Coming to the Front Press
idential Candidate.

Judge Alton Brooks Parker, whom
some of the leading democrats of New
York are quietly pushing to the front
as a candidate for the presidential
nomination in 1904, is the chief judge
of the New York court of appeals and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
Pillar of CIoud and Fire

The burning mountain" of Montet,
in Aveyron, France, which is often mis-
taken for an active volcano because
a pillar OF cloud arises from it by day
and pillar of fire by night, is in re-
atty coal mine which has been hurn-
ing for several years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25
The Cars Elaborate Kitchen.

The cars kitchen in St. Petersburg
is the finest in the world. Its walls are
of black marble, and are lavishly or
namented. Some of the kitchen pots
and pans are of solid gold, and origin
ally belonged to the Empress Cath
orina
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-25

one of the most eminent and influen-
tial jurists in the entire east. Judge
Parker is in the very fullness of his
mature manhood. He has just passed
the age of so, has served in the su-
preme court of the state and has taken
just sufficient interest in practical
politics to put him into touch with the
various strata of his party. A native
of Cortland, Judge Parker has lived
altogether in the state, although he is
well known in the city. He has been
chief judge of the court of appeals
since 1898,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-04-03
The NEW BABY

Opeus up a new world to the loving
mother. If II Is a strong, healthy baby
that new world is a world of happiness
II il is a weak, fretful child the new
world is full of anxiety. II has been
proven in thousands Of cases, that the
use Of DR. Pieyce's Favorite prescrip.
tion makes all the difference between
strength and weakness in children
Healthy, happy mothers have healthy.
happy children Favorite Prescrip
tion gives the mother strength to give
her child 1t makes the baby's advent
practically painless and promotes the
secretion Of the nourishment necessary
TO the beautiful feeding of the nursing
child
have been using Df. pierce's Favorite Pre-.
scription aud can say Il Is just what you adver.
tise Il 70 be,n writes Mrs, Victor Hadin Of
Leonardsville, Riley Co. Kansas. ~ began
taking il just two months before baby came
aud was greatly benefited by its use. The doc
tor who attended me said did about as well as
any one he had seen Gas was sick only about
three hours). and also that you4 Favorite Pre-.
scription was one patent medicine which he
did have faith in. We now have a darling baby
boy. strong and healthy, who weighed nine
pounds when born. During this month he has
gained three and one-half pounds. Have never
given him one dose Of medicine"
Or. Pierces Common Sense Medical
Adviser in paper covers, sent free on
receipt of II one-cent stamps TO pay
expense of mailing only. Address DR.
r. " Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-04-03

schedules Of the Dingley act has CON
vinced many Republicans that Il viii
be necessary TO nrlough their par;y
awhile in order that it may learn the
win OF the people and acquire the
wisdom to follow it, It can not be
denied that the people are being tax
ed without reason. or profit to them
selves or the government, through
certain rates granted to the trusts
They insist upon tho abolition OF these
taxes and they viii prefer Democracy
to trust robbery
Non-action on the isthmian canal
matter is sure to be used against the
Republican party with serious effects
upon their vote Those people bpcw
now that the contest is between a
go ernment waterway to the Pacific
and their old cuemies-the transcon-
unental railway s.-and they intend to
defeat the obstructive schemes Of the
latter at any cost.
just and libeisi treatment of Cuba
il also an issue on which many Re
lublicans are lmmovably resolved,
end they ase angr, at the way in
ohIch the national honor and Cub; are
beng brutally outraged by the present
proposed action OF congress.
Other patriotic Republicans find
themselves opposed from principle,
to the eNtra-constitutional and impe-
rial colonialism planted in the Philip
rires by their party They want an
honest, sauared-toed American adsG!n-
istration Of every foot Of land on
earth that is called American They
are prepared to vote with any party
that will guarantee that policy.
The above are issues sureharged
with political dynamite and it does
not seem possible that the Republi-
cans san carry them safely in the hold
Of ther ship through the coming cam
paign.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-04-03
PREPARING THEIR
OWN PETARps.

OffN v < ATAGos
The wisdom shown by the Demo
Gratis In congress in waiting for Re
publican action to develop the issues
Of the coming campaign is being vim
dicated The engineers Of the domi
nant party are making up some po-
htical petards that are likely. when
nred, 70 blow their own boat out Of
the swim
9 For inssance that ship Subsidy bill
is not Deing received in many strong
Republican localities with wecome on
thusiasm. The average Republican
editor and voter will stand for almost
any wen masqueraded measure that
promises a general distribution Of
loot, but when Il comes to taking up
the shipping combine and giving il an
unlimited letter OF credit with which
to draw incalculable millions from the
public treasury, many Of the Jes-
huruns wax wroth and kick Newspa
pers and local conventions in the
north and middle west are alSeady de-
nouncing the subsidy scheme. They
call it an sorts Of bad names, but most
Significantly they say il is party
wrecker,
Another issue on which there is Re
publican discomfort and may come
serions division is that Of tariff re-
vision. The bad treatment given 70
the Babcook proposition to revise GER
tain trustereating and enriching
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-04-03
INDIAN AGENT RAnDLEr1
Indignantly Denies Ridiculous Fake
indian Story.

Washington, d, G., April 3.-Col-
onel Jones, commissioner of Indian
affairs, has received from Colonel
Randlett, Indian agent at Anadarko,
Okla. a letter denying the reports in
Eastern newspapers that the Conan
che Indians hold annual auction sales
OF their daughters.
According to some weird stories
published in New York, this alleged
sale is called the pony smoke. A
good many inquiries from humane
people, distributed by these reports,
have received at the interior depart
ment. and Colonel Randlett some
time ago was requested to report the
facts.
Colonel Randle;t states that these
publications are entirely without
foundation They are fabrication
frem beginning to end he says The
Comanches have no ceremony known
ss pony smokes, am informed that
this scandalous article has been cop
led into many OF the leading papers
of the country. It is beyond the pow
er of MY imagination to conceive
what was the motive OF tho author of
this yillainous fabrication; and it is
equally strange to me that any one
interested in the welfare OF our In
dians should have a suspicion that
such barbarous custom as is de-
scribed would be tolerated by the de-
partment OF Indian affairs It, how
ever, is evident, By the letter of in
quiry, that the story has gained cred
ence among friends of the Indians.
and demands more than passing no
tioe.
81 hope that the department will di-
rect that proceedings be instituted at
Washington to hunt down the author
of the vile story and that he and the
newspaper that first published it be
legally proceeded against for libeling
the character Of Chief Quanah Park
er and the very respectable children
Of his family