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The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-06-18
Letter to Daughters.

Mrs. Lilly Mcdowell, of Holly
Springs, president Of the State Di-
vision of the United Daughters Of
the confederacy, has issued cir
cular letter to the State chapters Of
the organization asking them to con-
tribute literally to the fund that the
Daughters Of the Confederacy are
now attempting to raise to purchase
handsome oil portrait Of Jefferson
Davis, to be presented to the State
and hung in the Hall Of Fame.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-06-18
Hn.inenn Prnspecf. Good.

Mexico City, June 13.-Guatemalan
advices report business good and pros
poets excellent for good coffee crop
This crop is the mainstay OF business
in the republic. A
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-06-18
THE WONDERS OF THE
WORLD AT ST. LOUIS

They Are to Be Found in the Great Palaces and Along
"The Fike."
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

of the long, low, auto touring cars
than anything else, with a conical
boiler, on the apex of which, as it is
turned to cut the air, would be a mo-
bile headlight. One of the combina-
tion carriages and engines for single
car propulsion would be pointed like
a cowcatcher in front, and the roof
would shape backward and upward
to utilize the air pressure in holding
the car more steadily on the rail.
"Travel at the rate of one hundred
miles an hour would be just as safe
and practicable as an ordinary journey
to-day at forty-mile rate.
"a man in hurry can go from New
York to San Francisco in few hours
more than a day. There Is an 'unlim-
tied field for speculative thought in
this feature.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

! Invention Will Render Obsolete
s Present Day Type of Engines


For marine use complete revolu-
ton will occur in all steamers abaft
the bulkhead forward of the boilers.
The new construction will allow for
great economy of space in boiler room,
bunker room, engine room. In gen.
eral hull construction there can and
must be a new allowance in lines for
speed. The weight of steel intended
to resist vibration can be lessened to
meet the eXigencies of other strains,
for vibration will no longer be fea-
ture. When the screw flies out of
water the ship will not be shaken.
"a liner fitted with my engines
should cross the Atlantic in little
more than two days.
For stationary use slight founda-
tions are needed, and a five hundred
horse power engine could be put on
top of the Flat Iron building with abb
solute safety. There is no vibration
The transportation and installation of
a power plant for mines difficult of
access is nicely facilitated.
Power cost will be reduced 40 per
cent Electric currents will be cheap
ened so per cent. There will be a
great saving in gear for speed There
are dozens of other things l need not
point out. Boston Herald.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21
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have a fiywheel of great weight In
order to carry the crank over the dead
centers, and this fywheel causes in
creased friction on account of its
great weight, and requires the power
necessary to keep such weight in
motion.
"The eighth principle used in the
building of the tenth and eleventh en-
gines is simple in the extreme. The
steam is introduced through hollow
shaft, which is stationary and en-
closed in a steel jacket of elliptical
form, whose greatest diametrical d.
mension it a fraction less than the
diameter of the steel enclosing cylin-
der; so in repose the cylinder is sup
ported on the ellipse.
"The hollow steel shaft is not IN
the centAr of the elliptical jacket, but
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

/ in the geometrical center of the cylin-
der, ana the distance from the center
of the shaft to the dissection at right
angles of the line of the circumfer-
ence of the throw of the ellipse is
equal to the radius of the cylindrical
cavity, so that the ellipse on the
throw side is in flush contact with
the cylinder and on the other side
there is a space or chamber, into
which protrudes the first segmental
blade fitted to housing in the cylin-
der and guided by crank. Diamet-
rically opposite is duplicate blade,
but the throw of the ellipse presses
it back into its housing.
THE ellipse is practically the steam
chest Steam is admitted at the end
of the hollow shaft into the ellipse,
and by port into the part OF the
chamber on the convex face of the
segmented blade. The steam expands
against three faces of resistance, the
outer surface of the ellipse, the inner
surface of the cylinder, and the con-
vex surface of the blade. Two are I'M
responsive; the third and last, the
blade, recedes before the pressure
and pushes the cylinder into revolu-
tion.
"Now, the first segmental blade, ap-
preaching the greater dimension OF
the ellipse, is forced back into its
housing, and the second segmental
blade, relieved of the pressure of the
greater dimension of the ellipse, comes
out of it's housing and when protruded
steam. again issues from the part in
in the ellipse into the newly formed
now acting as an abutment, and the
cylinder is driven on until the first
blade comes out again, and so on the
alternating process goes.
"Steam. is admitted only during two
separate siXths of the revolution, and
the control is centered in device
which is also my invention and whose
purpose and effect only need be de-
scribed. No free steam engine is eco
nomical. The exhaust part of my
eLSlue Is COLotdHtly OpSu " tuC AZ
mosphere in an uncompounded type.
'In compounding | can get results
that are more marvellous to the en-
gineer than the engine itself will be
to the public.
"An engine must run according to
the work it has to do. l can auto
matically control my engine so that if
it makes one more revolution min
ute than given number steam will
be cut off until the engine drops to
it's desired pace. There are few re-
ciprocating engines but can do the
same thing, but there is none that by
the same. .device can cause an engine
overcoming friction load of one hun
dred horse power to drop almost in
stantly to one-half or less horse pow
er. My rotary engine will do it.
"In railway use the center of grav-
ity can be lowered One-half and the
long dreamed of single car propulsion
is within reach. A freight hauling en-
gine would be in shape more like one
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21
Then He Sat Down.

A lawyer was examining a witness
in a case where the question involved
was as to the mental condition of the
testatriX. The witness under examina-
tion, herself an aged woman, had testi-
fed to finding the testatrix failing,
childish, and that when she spoke to
her she looked as though she did not
understand.
The cross-examining attorney tried
to get her to describe this look, but
she didn't succeed very well in doing
so. At last, getting little impatient,
he asked:
"Well, how did she look? Did she
look at you as I am looking at you
now, for instance?'
well. yes" replied the witness,
softly; kind of vacant like"
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

ogy of the unmechanical the fasci-
mating story of his wrestle with the
archimedean problem and his victory.
Across the room sat two massive,
bearded men, glum and silent over
their coffee They were two Russian
naval officers who had that afternoon
received his refusal of dizzy figure
for five years complete and secret
control of his engine for their navy.
They wished to exclude the United
States, as well as all other nations,
from the benefit of that engine, and
William NJ. Hoffman, the man who has
given the best years of his life to
build it, told them they did not have
enough money in all Russia to induce
him to cripple his native country in
any way for one minute. That is the
sort of man he is.
Telling his own story over that ta.
Bile, Mr.. Hoffman said:
"The object of any engine or motor
which is used for the purpose of de-
veloping power is to secure the great
est power with the least consumption
of fuel and lowest possible cost for
maintenance, together with a mini
mum space occupied by the engine or
motor. Great progress has been made
in the past few years in the develop
ment of high speed reciprocating en-
gines. Invention has greatly reduced
the floor space occupied for given
horse power.
1.-THE reciprocating engine must
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

The man who has built steam en-
gine which will render obsolete all eX-
listing steam power plants, railway
and marine engines, sat on the other
side of table from me in the Hotel
Lafayette in Buffalo the other night.
Triumphant at the end of a thirty
years struggle with crushing defeats
and wretched failures, standing on the
threshold of millions in wealth and OF
such fame as is Stevenson's, Edison's
or Marconi's, yet he merely chatted
in an easy, commonplace way OF his
invention, putting into the terminol-
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21
Fairly Warned.

One of the inhabitants of the city OF
Posen found himself a few days ago
in delicate situation, as is shown by
the following signed advertisement,
which appeared in the columns of the
local paper: known! The name of
the gentleman who, on Tuesday even
ing, as l was walking with my bride
in the gardens in the Wilhelmsplatz,
gave me a box on the ears is known
to me. Unless before Sunday even
ing next he has called upon me and
apologized shall place the matter in
the hands of the police. He is well
aware of my address. My bride also
knows him, as he formerly annoyed
her with proposals of marriage and
met with a rebuff. That is why he
gave me the box on the ear. He is
knoWn!"
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21
Wind Favors the Methodists.

Recently the Methodists Of Issa.
quah, Washington state, found that
they had inadvertently built their
church on lot that did not belong to
them. The owners Of the lot insisted
on the removal of the building. The
Methodists could not afford the money
to move it. But windstorm moved
the church on it's own lot and all the
Methodists had to do was to put jack
screws under the building and con-
struct foundation.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21
A Creed.

A Greed.
I believe In human kindness
Large amid the sons OF men.
Nobler far In willing blindness
Than in censure's keenest ken.
I believe in Self-Denial,
And its secret throb of joy;
In the love that lives through trial
Dying not. though death destroy.
I believe in Love renewing
All that Sin hath swept away,
Leavenlke its work pursuing
Night by night and day by day,
In the power of its remOuldinS,
In the grace of its reprieve,
In the glory of beholding
Its perfectiOn-I believe.
/ believe in Love Eternal,
Fixed in Gods unchanging Will,
That beneath the deep Internal
Hath a depth that's deeper still!
In its patience-its endurance
To forbear and to retrieve.
In the large and full assurance
OF its tiiumph-l believe.
Norman Macleod.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21
As the schooIboy Understood Il.

Here is the exact answer of a New
York schoolboy to the questions,
What is the meaning of the word
hall, how many other words are
there that sound like hail. and what
are their meanings?"
Hall, where you open the dore and
go in; hawl, hawling along boy that
won't go to skool; aul, what the shoe
maker charges you % cents for to aul
Your shoe; an, all, Everybody in the
world.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

The house of an editor in Shelbina,
Mo-. was struck by lightning three
times in one night during recent
storm. But his house may have been
so large and palatial that the light
ming struck 1t in three different
,places.-Exchange.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21
Now Is the Time.

A new game has cropped out. 1t Is
called "Tickle the Editor" and is as
follows: Take a sheet of ordinary
writing paper. fold it nicely, enclose a
bank note sufficiently large to pay all
arrears and one year in advance and
hand 1t to the aditor. Keep an eye on
him and if smile adorns the face,
the trick works fine. Now is the time
to play the joke. 1t beats finch"
and "pit" tollow.-Logan Journal-Ga-
Eette.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

The Senate committee finds that the
Chickasaw and Creek Indians are SELL
ing their valuable lands for song.
The worst of it is that they immedi-
ately pass the bars of music over the
other kind.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

Surgeons lately relieved an Ohio
young woman of fifty-one needles mat
were scattered through various parts
of her anatomy. She must have been
a girl with many fine points about her.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

Experts are discussing the question
as to what shall be done with our
idiots. Really it isn't necessary to
do anything with them so long as
they do nothing worse han take
straw votes.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

President Butler wants S2,000,O00
for Columbia university. DR.. Harper
may be able to furnish him with a
prescription, but he will have to look
for his own apothecary.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

Mr.. Joseph Jefferson has. announced
his purpose to retire forever and en-
10y that long vacation to which he has
looked forward for so many years.
Everybody hopes that he will have
plenty of time and opportunity to act
the part.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

In his new novel entitled "Automo-
bolisme" it is thought that Jules
Verne will considerably lower his for
mer record of eighty days.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

An Asheville hen scratched up in
the poultry yard diamond worth 81
600 that had been lost two years. Be
kind and considerate to your hens; it
may be worth while.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

The small stockholders in the $2,-
100000 New Jersey corporation which
has been sold out for 5000 hereafter
will believe just one ten-thousandth
of what prospectuses say.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

Chicago teachers are going to make
a careful study of that city. Incident
ally the hospitals are preparing to in
crease their facilities for caring for
persons suffering from nervous pros
tration.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

The Radcliffe girls have been eau
toned not ''to look at the boys" in
their travels in Cambridge. It's slow
girl that can't see the boys without
looking.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

WI Ting-fang, who is to revisit the
United States, will be surprised on
his return to find out how well this
country has managed to worry along
without his counsel and advice.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

William Waldorf Astor is still able
to tolerate America as financial in
vestment, but nothing more than that,
mark you, must be expected of him.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

There is nothing to show, however,
that the Harry Lehr dogs try to un-
dog themselves, so to speak, when
they attend one of his parties.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

Those lamas who pray even for the
microbes they swallow might save
time by following our example and
boiling the water.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

The Parisians are now engaging in
falconry in automobiles. By my hall
dom, messieurs, mediaevalism up to
date Is really hot stuff.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

The loss sustained by the University
of Minnesota by reason of the recent
fire is not so great as at first report
ed. They saved the gridiron.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

Mr.. Harry Lehr, whose latest flash
of genius is the invention of tea par
ties for dogs, is said to object to
newspaper notoriety. We should think
he would.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

How would 1t do, for instance, to try
the recently discovered and much
talked of sour milk elixir of life on the
frequently slaughtered Kurds.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

DR.. Gunsaulus says that the day of
the boy orator is gone. Sure. The
boy orator has grown to a man and
quit the habit.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

The worlds fair air ship race was a
fizzle. Still, it is worthy Of praise for
one thing. 1t didn't result in the kill
ing of anybody.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

The college young man, IL desired,
will cheerfully look after the goods.
Chicago Tribune.
Rubber?
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

A blue book of the cat aristocrats
OF America has been published. All
cats LOOK alike from the bedroom
window.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

For wearing dress with a low
neck on the street Mrs. Pat Campbell
was annoyed by a lot of rubbernecks.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

Can ladies smoke in automobiles? p
queries an exchange. They can; but
they don't.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

Churches are uniting at great
rate. Is the religious world becoming
superdenominationalistically inclined? !?
Whew!
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

Hops have gone up, but they will
go down just as steadily as if nothing
4 had happened.
Kansas agitator., 1904-10-21

modern warfare forty years ago. Ten
Samurai, detailed for the purpose by
the government, got instruction from
the officers of British regiment then
stationed at Yokohama, and proceeded
to work out tactical problems with
little pieces of painted wood upon a
mat spread out on the floor
Newport daily independent., 1904-03-30
MUSIC NEWS.

In order to reduce my stock of music I will have clearance sale for this week only. All the late music at 15c. 1. D. PRICE. 78dtf
Newport daily independent., 1904-03-30
ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM.
WORLDS FAIR RATES.

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, April 30th to Decem- Der l, 1904. Rate for ten day excursion ticket will be one fare and one-ffth for the round trip. Tickets on sale daily April 27th to November 30, 1904. Rate for sixty day excursion ticket one fare and one-third for the round trip. Tickets on sale April 18th to Nov. 20th. Rate for season EXCURSION TICKETS eighty per cent. of double the standard one way fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale daily April 18th
Newport daily independent., 1904-03-30
CHEAP RATE
 TO CALIFORNIA.

Via the Iron Mountain route, one way colonist tickets, on sale March 1st to April 30th, only $50. For further information call at Iron Mountain ticket office.
 THos. H. REAMEY, Agt.
Newport daily independent., 1904-03-30
JAE INDEPENDENT
 PERCY H. vANDYKE,
 Publisher and Editor. NEWPORT. ARKANSAS
ANNOUNCEMENTS


 FOR MAYOR We are authorized to announce James w. Grubbs as a candidate for reelection to the office of Mayor of the city of Newport at the ensuing April election.
 We are authorized to announce Charles R. lite as a candidate for mayor of the city of Newport at the ensuing April election. ss ss~-Anz-a----
 FOR CITY MARSHALL We are authorized aIlnounce Abe 5aIiew as a andidate for Marshal of the city of Newport the ensuing April election. We are authorized to announce T. s. Stephens candidate for reelection to the office of Mar shal of the city of Newport at the coming April election.
 FOR CITY RECORDER. We are authorized to announce Riley May han as candidate for reelection to the office of Recorder of the city of Newport at the ensuing April election.
 We are authorized to announce Will Whit taker a candidate for Recorder of the city of Newport at the ensuing April election.
 FOR CITY TREASURER. We are authorized to announce Will Hurley as a candidate for treasurer of the city of Newport at tehensuing April election.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-01
Christmas Holidays.

Now that the holidays are over and you have abused your digestive organs until they are on the point of rebellion. the proper thing to do is to get back into working condition as speedily as possible. "A stitch in time saves nine," is an old saw. but it is great truth in homely dress and applies with greatest force to the human body. A little trifiing ailment which was not considered worthy of a second thought has in countless instances cost a life. A stitch in time" would have saved much suffering and distress to the victim and his family. Those who have to fight the battle of life. the wage-esrn- CTS, must at once get in shape for an- other years work. If they start out with an ailing body, be it ever so trihing, they cannot do their best and if no attention is paid to the trouble 1t soon becomes se- were, entailing loss of time and money, or worse Prudent persons will get rid Of the disorder as speedily as possible. A few doses of PRICKLY ASH BITTERs will do this work. It will cleanse and strengthen the digestive organs, empty and purify the bowels, regulate the whole system and impart feeling of strength and energy that will make work pleas ure. It Is good for the whole family. Chil- dren who are puny, sickly or who have eaten too freely of sweet stuff will imrne- diately improve under it's beneficial effect For ladies' particularly those subject tC headache, indigestion, constipation or the ailments peculiar to their sex, 1t is oi the greatest value as it purifies the sys' tenn thoroughly, tones up the vital or gans, clears the complexion and promotes good appetite, vigor and cheerfulness.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-01
Russian Christmas Comes Late.

T
 There are two Christmases at the Rus sian Embassy, but the real celebration comes on January 6. The fact that the joyous festival is, by reason of the use of the Russian calendar, somewhat oe- lated, does not, however, affect the en- thusiasm with which the celebration IS carried out At time when most of hci American friends are removing the Christmas greens from their homes, Coun- tess Marguerite Cassini. the mistress of the Russian Embassy, is experimenting the decoration of a monster Christmas tree, generously laden with presents, and the distribution of these remembrances is followed by a grand dinner, which is thoroughly Russian in it's menu and ap- pointments, and as protracted as some of the celebrated all-night feasts in the land of the Czar.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-01
HAD FAMILY REUNION
GATHERING AT OLD THOMAS
 HOMESTEAD IN CHAMBERS.
Brothers and Sisters, Sons and Daughters, Grandsons and Grand. daughters Meet Again
 Around Hearthstone.

Gold Hill, Dec. 31.-(Special)-At Gold
 Hill Tuesday there was a most happy and joyful reunion of one of the most success ful and leading families of East Alabama.
 That day the brothers and sisters. sons and daughters, grandsons and grand
 daughters Of MT. and Mrs. W. c. Thom-
 as, who have lived at the old homestead for many years and reared their children there, gathered to meet father and moth-
 CT and go over together their experiences in life and to enjoy the most agreeable sensation of being at the old home again and living over in memory the younger days. Those who were present of the im- mediate family were the parents, the fa- | Ither, W. c. Thomas. the mother, Emma J. Thomas, the children, Judge W. H. | Thomas, his wife Lula McCurdy Thomas and their only child. Georgia Thomas of Montgomery; c. E. Thomas his wife
 Gussie Pratt Thomas and their children, William Pratt, Emma Julia and Mary Au- gustus Thomas; Dr. M. D. Thomas of
 New York; Miss Caro Thomas of Gold
 Hill, J. Render Thomas of Prattville, Miss Annie May Thomas of Gold Hill. Miss
 EmGnie Lulu Thomas, who Is in school in this city and Edwin C. Thomas of Gold
 Hill. '"{ ''' aa'
 There were also a brother-in-law of MT. Thomas, C.. H. Davis of Manitee, Fla, i+WiO ID o hhOSN h5uAC III tAC building of the new branch of the At lantic Coast Line to Manitee and lower points, and he has projected the town of
 Wymanma on said road; and is a large owner of tiD,bered lands and Is interested in extensive naval store business. P. Avery of Auburn, another brother in-law and his family were also present and Miss Susie Thomas of Auburn. W. c. Thomas has spent the best time of his life in Chambers County, is one of her leading and most exemplary citizens and has raised large and most promi- nent family of children. He has always been a Democrat and has not failed, in thirty-six years, to vote at every election, County, State and national, and has never scratched his party ticket.
 His son, Judge W. H. Thomas, who was elected Judge of the city Court of Mont gomery' by the Senate of 1900. is making a name for himself on the bench as an abe and upright jurist, of which our people are all very proud. Another one of his sons, c. F. Thomas of Prattville, occu- pies a leading position in the mercantile world and is a safe and conservative, suc- cessful business man.
 Dr. M. D. Thomas of New York is clos ing his studies of a four-year course of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Columbian University of New York and will make a name in his chosen profession.