The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 33, Ed. 1, Saturday, April 29, 1882 Page: 1 of 4
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SAN SABA NEWS
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TEXAS TOlICS
Along lio Nechfis river a great
natiy horses and cattle huve been
tilled recently by buffalo glials
The Texas Wool Growers Asioci
ition will meet at tlio Merchants Ef
hunge Sin Antonio on or about tbe
tli of Juno next
Over 10000 bond of cattle ntul bo
wceii 1000 and 2 000 head of hordes
passed tbrough Yorktown De Witt
louuty iu one week rtcoutly on their
irny up the truil
Castruvillo j nil List Thursday
ttoruoon Mooters trail of soren Chili
luhti i wagons loa led with thirteen
sales of cotton each passed through
Oastrovillo en route for Mexico
Tweho thousand feet of piling wilt
bo used iu the construction of the
Palmer Hiillivun rulUuy brldgo aerons
Galveston Day Trains will run out of
Galveston for n distance 6f ten trifles
liy tho Ut of May
Texas Live Slot k Journal The
past winter was an unusually mild ono
Iho present Bpriug is exceptionally
Barly Grass is better and cattle futter
thuu was e cr known ut this season of
thu year The market is higher than
ever boforo Tukuu idtogetber this is
the most promising season over known
to the cuttle trado in the history of Tex-
as Mr Hob Houston has a hord of
cattle numbering about 2 200 head now
on tho trail for Dodge K tusus
Dallas and vicinity was visited by
a territlc rain and hail storm ou the tb
of April liuil ttonee or ruther balls
of ice nine inches in circnmfercnc <
and weighing over half a pound each
woro picked up after tho storm All
tho skylights iu tho city were broken
and Hourly nil tho windows fronting tb
north were riddled by the hall The
dumago is variously estimated at 10
000 to 15000 by tho hull and tin
heavy roiu that followed Iho fruit
and gram crops wero not materially in-
jured
Galveston Aeua April 14 Sen
ntor Llghtfoot jestorday made a clear
statement of tho matter of Greer
county or tbo land claimed by Texas
and tho Unttod States for tho Indian
Territory Thero is a tine point in tho
question at istuo It is not merely
whut is now the principal channel of
itid river but what was lutoudtd to be
ndlcutul as such in tho original stir
voy With tho uppotntmont of a com
peton commission the matter may be
sxpectedtobo settlo 1 iu favor of Texas
is reports from Washington so far as
hoy touoh on thu subject havo been
bservod to refloct at least a beuovolont
neutrality
rf Mormon llcqiullsm
TfSipJRSLi w > nl to v uh
i iTSKTyA few lirradrod
peoplurnotftlio church claims that it
rules some 100000 followers In tho
Territory Tbo Urst comers hnd
largo por contugo of Ameriouns win
woru drawn into tho toils beforo tin
nil enormities of the institution wen
Ihulgcd but of thoso who connected
hemsolvesaitli tbe Mormonchurthdur
ug the lust thirty years many uro fru a
ho very lowest classes of tho socict
if Europe The immigration has In
v reused from a fow hundred annuall
o a few thousand Last year more thau
1000 came uud this year u boav in
urease over that numbej is expected
Ihe children of school age as roturued
> y tbo Mormon authorities number
0100 Thuso too young to attend
ichool togethcrwith thosoabovo school
ge and still under tho ugo of 25 e i
oust number quite 110000 more It-
s clear that tho Mormon kingdom iu
Jtnh is composed o foreigners aud the
hildrun of foreigners It is neces
unlyeo It is uu inBtttutiou so uhso
iitefy nnAincricui In ull its require
acuta that it would die of its own in
amies within twenty years except for
he yearly infusion of froidt borf blood
rom abroad Few Ametleans could
ivor bo mado to bear thu unquestioned
nd unquestioning obedience which is
ixacted from this peopl i Tho Oov
irument is un absolute dospotlsm
C Every ward In tho city every small
ireciuct In the country is under tho
outrol of n bishop To him thu poo
lie huvo to submit all their ufUirs
emporal as well as spiritual Ills ud
rico amounts to a command which must
> e obeed Tlio bishops report to the
ilders the ciders to tho seventies tho
evcntles to tho High Priests tho High
Hosts to tlio Presidents of > takes
hey to tho patriarchs to the Twelve
tposlles and thov tothePresidentand
hey to the President and High Coun
ellors Down tho same scale the or
lers aro sent Thoso leaders are the
ame as God to he blinded thousands
it Utah At the last October confer
inco the burden of the harangues to
ha people waa to impress ujhiu them
hat tho chiefs being dully aud regit
aily inspired by God could m < ko uo
nhtaket and could do no wrong Thu
lisoourse ol Llder Orson Pratt is full
If this business and lis did not fall to
rarn all who doubted thot they would
> e damned At the s irae couforeuou
mother elder explained that tho poo
t jle must obey their leaders iu financial
u well us spiritual affairs eveu as Iho
people did In the day ol Moses
Through inch sjstem it Is easy to
lee how ait ignoruut and fansliual oeo
slo aro held under absoluto coutrol by
iio heads of the orHaulxallon 1 i Ilrig
iam oung time he was n ui in l >
K > lute ruler thart waa evJt tho ijir of
ft n < Wi a lh th Vrestdsnl
tlSfite Oiuuoo mako ho trol
iot
il sTjlS i nd gi aireettou to the
hi4
syslom ll th aro KnalUhmen
rTOojiult eJirea l0ii of llrlghant
tonuft usod ki tw Wo olow the
toraisof n Hvutiblio Unl this is King
Iu > II t Kingdom or rather
UUI
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ijirtm so all tiauraeiug that lulvlll
mi
Americans at idliUkou ttl i > uottM
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P fooduhi in lU > i s ny
UtttN Vanin How SsiHuiot tt
il < laatdi < tit littvrtiltiiK ttudy
h stttdj of iotas pwuixi i < h curl
> uiiuit w tttWrmtin Atbltrorv as
VOLUME VIII
thev seem U > day they all had thoir
sourco ew lently in some rlttinj fact
Many Lnglish suruRmcs express tho
county i itute or residence of th lrorig
inal beTors as llnr utile frnt Ilur
gntidy Oorncll or Uornwalhs from
UornwiU riemiug from Flanders
Oaski i aud Gascoyue from Gascon
llanw iv from Ilainai It Polack from
Polur Welsh Walsh d Wulluco from
Wales Coombs Comptou Olatou
Sutton Preston Washington from
towns lathetonutyof cusstit Kngland
Gumdon thu untctpian says e > cry vil-
lage iu Normsudv has surnamed some
Lnglisn family Dale 1orest Hill
Wood nud tho like aro derived from
the eliaructer or situation of those who
first bore the names Tho prefix atto
or at softt ued to u or an bus helped
to form a number of names Thus it a
mau lived on a huh ie he would call
himself Attemoor oi Atmoor if ueur
a gate Attegtto er Agate John at
the Ouks was in duojtimo shortened
into John Noaa s 7 FctSfat theSovon
Oaks into leter Snooks Ly field
lly ford Utiderhi I an 1 Uii > lcr ood in
dicuted resulcur < rigtuully Iu old
Hnglish applcgurth meant orchard
whence Applcgato and Appletou chase
t forest elite u ebll clou a raviuo
cobb u harbor whence th bo names
The root of the ubiquitous Smith is
the Anglo Saxou smilan to smlto It
was applied primarily to blacksmiths
wh < oW rights airpentcrs masons and
smiters or strikers in general liekcr
Tuylor Cowpe r cooper Outler Miller
and tho reht pluiuiy deuotu occupa
tinus Latiuter is from uliner a wrt
ter of Latin Lorimcr is u maker of
spurs und bridle bits Arkwright u
maker of chests Ltnder coutructed
from Inudndierii washerwoman Han
isttr tho keeper of a b th Kidder a
huakstcr Wait aminstiel Crocker a
potter Such names at Baxter and
Ltagster uro tho fomtniuo of baker
Wobstit of webbcr or tceoner which
shows that these trades wete first fol-
lowed by women and that when men
began to take them up they for somo
imo kept th feminine namesStew
urd Stewart or Stuart Abbot Kuijtht
Lord llishop Prior Chamberlain ial
touir Loggett legate either signified
what tuo persons so styled were or
they wero given them in Jest or deri-
sion liko the names King lrinco and
Pope Tho termination ttarrf indi-
cates a keeper as Durward doorkeeper
Hit ward koeper of the tuwu cattle
Woodward forestKoi per Head Ited
lteid is an old form of spelling red
mid was bostowed as White Urown and
Hlack weru to denote the color worn or
complexion had Uogurth from the
Dutch moans generous high uatured
liush is snbtilo llrowuC ready Hon
ner kind gracious Lldrulg wild
ghastly Many Welsh names natural
iad in Euglish are from personal
traits More great Duff black
V f 110 ttUitta slender Mole
bahf Gought rftod Surnames now
ai > puently meaningless had meaning
in old Duglish uud provincial diuleots
Ilrock for instauce signifies badger
rdbnt mastitl Tod 1 fox Culver pig-
eon lienshaw yo ing heron Coke
cook A 1 Ames
I JiiitrLut of liens
At Toooi riorida noar Mrs Harriet
IU colter Stowus i la o I came across a
queer lot of hens lhey aro educated
urns Two years ago tho statiou agent
found an old strty hru in the depot
He petted her gave her a chance to
roost in an old bairol aud tho old hen
ate tho kernels of gram which cover
the ground about all depots When
u ueu commenced to lay she came in-
to the station agoutt olhce aud otroful
ly laid her egg in a basket which sat
there ou tho tablo Tho next duy she
repeuted tho act aud continued
it daily until she got ready to
sit When s o sat sho hatched out 14
chickens and raised them all and now
these pullets huv j been taught by the
old heu tooomoiuto the house aud lay in
tho same basket Somotuues oue hou
will bo sitting in tho basket and two
others will stand outs de aud wait till
sho is through When thu basket gets
full the agent takos it to the store
riitsu fifttcu chickens alt roost in a
largo empty btrrel or tierce The bar-
rel has both heads iu it Iu oue end is
i hole largo onough for a heu to walk
in while in tho other end is a small
light of glass Tbe barrel is five feet
from th gronud ou legs out of the
way of the rats aud skunks It is the
uheapest and best littlu heu house I
over sw It cost 20 cents I believe
tho lightest driest aafest aud best hen-
house in the world wouti bo a tight
hogshead with a 7x9 psne ol glass in
uuo end and a 7x0 hnlo iu the othor
lioro holts into it for the legs or bang
it ou a treo by small wires A hogshead
or barrel bung in a tree will always be
safe against all thecneuieaof tho bens
iil Ierktm in Aetti York Sun
An Inland Sea
This was what John 0 Calhoun called
th Mississippi ltiver when ho was urg
ing that it ought to bo cared for in the
way of levees by the General Govern
taunt Uud Calhoun lived till the
snting of IHtU ho would have found tho
Mississippi lobe a real Inland sea iu
some places forty miles wide It is all
over now but such a disaster should
never bo permitted to occur again
Tbo General Government should see
to it that from the Gull to Cairo such
letees should bo built an would forever
eonIIno the Mississippi to it natural
liunks Au incalculable cast has fallen
upon tho country because of this ueg
ieet by tbo General Government Hun
dreda ut lives havo beeu lost property
to tho amount of thirty or forty millions
itvMtrojul and tbo land avallabla for
oollou or other crops reilrtctod by many
millions of acre We are a great tioh
country but wottU be all tho rloher fot
a gouerum ttptmlilmo for public
worts Vucla Ham ought not ouly to
build lotees but ho ought to couuect
thu Mississippi tilth Lata Michigan bv
water aud enlarg tie Kite tu the dl
wiatluns of ship puual Thu walsr
woj tu tho Gulf sud he AlUntie wuuU
thou bo elitiok tu the nlojllunt Zt ttiu
tailwuts JraiH I > mar n Uomhlu
jut Man
OIIIIVL IUU 111IIS MHU ItlltlH
tatmlou ttejllhof tb tiiiis Van Tomi tllnr
I tlorr UtUcltii Nt I
The importanco of tho question ns to
whero tho future supply of fuel must
j como from to meet tho wsnts of thu
I great State of Texas is tho only oxpla
nation to bo ofhrejl for burdening tho
columns of tho JNVmi with this lengthy
nrtielo It is a well known fact that the
mosquito wood is the principal fuel tisi d
by a largo portion of Northern aud
Western Texas but it is not so well
known howovt r but true iiovfvtholess
that the acids liberated iu tho combos
tion of this wood act most iujurioustv
on Iron rendering it worthless inn very
short tiino comparstitoly speaking
und tho unnual cost to lexns iu replac-
ing stotos uud steamboilers destroyed
us iuditated amounts to liundrodH tif
thousunds of dollars to suy nothing of
thu iucrousod liability of boiler explo-
sions by Its use Hcnco tbo develop
ment of coul beds iu Texts must solve
the problem as to this future supply pf
fuel and with the purposo of publish-
ing to thu world a truoBtatemeut of tho
coul supplies near Liredo your corns
pondont visitod tho section of the coun-
try wiiero the ooal bods are located und
spent some time iu it personal iuspec
turn of tho coil mines ulrrudv optntd
besides taking notleo of the evidences
which go to injioito thu extent of tho
coal veins
TIIF LOCATION
Iu traveling up the valley of tho ltio
Grande from Liredo at a point twelto
miles distant a ehuiu of hills is reached
which extend up tho river probtbly
twent livt or thirt mill s At a dis-
tance these hills present no peculiar
feature to ntttoct tho attention of tho
casual observer but whou ouco among
them there uremany peculiarities pro-
st ntod to the eo of tho closo observer
chiof amoug which aro tho numerous
depressions und oavilles in their sides
und along their summits which could
well bo oiplained by supposing that
tho earth had sunk ut theso spots iuto
great caverns beneath und this expla-
nation is supported by obsertations
ma lo further on whero tho road pusses
betwouu the foot of these hills and tho
ltio Qrando river Hero it Uuo viow of
tlio geological formations is presoiitod
in their almost perpendicular sldeit
Mauy of them rise to un ultlliulo of pos
sibly a thousand foel aud heio mauy
of thoBO depressions just spoken of
connect with gulches that run down to
the waters edge and in tho beds of
these a closo inspection will shuw great
m isses of coal allies and the conclusion
is readily reached that In long ages
pa t these cutl bods became ignited
and for no telling how loug
a hea of rim
raged among these gloomy hills until
nn opening was made through which
the ltio Grande poured its waters and
saved to Texas a woallh that can not be
estimated until we take into eonsidera
tion tho extent and quality breadth
and length uud thickness of the vein of
runnel coal that crops out nowall along
the face of those htlli for twenty five
miles up tho ltio Grundo river lor
many years reports havo oomo in that
specimens of coul had been fouud in
this region and tho untutored shepherd
has told tho wonderful story thit while
watching his llocks among those louel
hills he fed his camp fire with
1IOCK8 THAT UOnSTD
and yet but a passing thought was given
tho subject And lunds which contained
all this woulth hare until recently beeu
changiug owners at 25 cents per acre
aud but a few months ago 0 000 acres
of Wobb county school linds in the
very boirt of this coal deposit were
sold at 1 05 por acre to be invested
In United States 4 per cent bonds
But u change has como over the spirit
of our dreams A little moro than a
year ago steel bauds began to stretch
across tho unsettled frontier that sop
arated this ltio Grand valloy from the
wealthy and populous regions to the
north und iu udvunco of them camo a
little wiry mau in phsicul stature but
in brain ponor nervo aud energy u
very giant
Ux Governor A 0 Hunt of Colorado
soon after his arrival took in tho whole
situ ttiou und at once set to work pros-
pecting iu thoso regions to flud whoro
these rocks that burned bad tluir babi
tution and lust April ono your ag >
leased from two of our citizens Mrs
Hefugio Denarides and O M McDon-
nell all tbo coal bods that might be
found on tho San To mas tract of land
fronting ou tbo ltio Grande twenty
seven miles ubot o Laredo aud contain-
ing about fifty thousand acresfor fifty
years Ue is to give the lessors oue
third of the profits arising from work
ing tho mines In addition to this ho
has purchased twentysix thousand Acres
in his own right which with the Ban
Tomac tract virtually gives him con-
trol of all the ooal bods in this region
Having secured tho Ssa Toinas tract
nurk was ut ouoe commeuoed about
the ISth of April 1881 to open up tho
IIKKAT HAN IOMAS
mine and up to December last Gov
Hunt had spent about Jlfl 00 of his
private funds lu lta development A
personal inspectlou of this ruiue traa
tho mlu pnrposa of your correspond-
ent which was fully accomplished bo
foro returning Within less thau ono
hundrsd feet of tho ltio Grsude ant
just twontyseten miltxi above Laredo
it trailed oue section of the lllu Grande
and Icrot road and immediately over
the roadbed a coal chute Is couttructcd
that is intended to deliver lha ooal di-
rectly Into tho oars At thit lima It Is
etnptlol into wagons at the rate of
thirty tons per day Aacondlug a lad
tier to > height ol thirty feel the topol
this ehulo it reached aud front hero
tiny railroad stretch tf > lha mouth ot-
a tunn I euertug the lowering gray
hill to tho south at a distance cf D00
feel i ollowlug along its trauk we
< untied grv t itiiiutitiv ol coal ashes
caused us before stated bv oomhiistlou
iu ages past retching th mouth ol this
tuuuel Wenotlixil at Uoutrtuco a
suiuol coal thiee feet in thieltntu
over anl mnlerUtd tty t stratum nf
shale and slate o auavoraao Ihickunw
su vo ami hvluw o tome lireo or f > nr
vet rnl nug tbts tunnel ouo hour
1 waa twu n etpU ring lie < tu It
hat developed and hero fi loas whut
j was set n
I Iho maiu tuuuel which is seven feet
high nnd seven feet Vwidu > has bteu
opened to a iltstaiict Uy accurate
Imoasurimcut bfri feetalong which
every thirty feet tunnels i f tho same
I tuo have been opened both to tho right
I and 1 ft for n distance of lCKffoet many
rof whiuh hato been wldontdjuiorooms
j tw nty ftet wide lent ing thtf ciiBlomary
i pillars of ten foet to snpp rt tho roof
At a dlstulion of U00 ft t from the
mouth an uir shaft is opeut from one
I of these wide tunnels Uelvo feet
square to tho top of the 1 ill 800 feet
I wiiu h secutos a perfect ti ntilutiou of
tho lfline Along tho mail tunnel its
whole distance 050 feet a i well ss to
the end of till sido tunctl is laid uu
iron truck upon which th coal cars
ilruau by lnnlte enltr th mines und
carry out tho coal By ctml meus
uremout tho thickness of
TIIK VKTX
which at tho opening of tVio mine was
but ihreo feet has increased to four
feet ut the present terminus of the
tuuuel and tho coal scum which wui
hghtly mixed with foreign mattor at
the surfuce bus eontinuod to improve
until the vein ut it distance of less than
filty ftct from tho opening has become
it solid moss of cannel coal of tho finest
piulity 1 ho coal Is got out by digging
uwa tho sluto apd ehalo from beueutli
it and then blasting it down with
powder pieces weighing n half ton
frequently being blown down which
hute to be broken up to loa ou thu
coal tars
Tilt mi
of this vein as for as worked averages
six inches to tho 10J foet and tho vein
runs from northwest to southoast All
iudicatiuus go to show that tho vein is
cunipurativoly spcuking inexhaustible
lor insiuuoe its grudual dip downward
Is tin uvidencu that it will novor bo lost
by cropping out again on tho surfuco
Its outcroppiugs along tho banks of tho
ltio Grando dempnstruto that tho Vein
Is ut leust twenty miles wide and
throughout tho thousands of feet of side
tunnels opened iu tht mines tho vein
uotcr shows any wouk points Up to
tho prtsent time tho mine has been
worked moro with u view of preparing
it so that a largo number of miners
could work at one tinio rather thun to
take out uny grcut nmount of coal iu
adtance of its being connected with
railroads Tho roof throughout this
mhie is supported by mosquito timbers
which never rot nor decay Up to the
present time but 2000 tons of coul bus
been taken out all of which has found
a ttady sale at Laredo at from ten to
twclvo dollars per ton Three miles bo
low tho Sau Tomas mino Govornor
Hunt has nponed another mine situated
ou laud belonging to himst If known as
the School Lund mines and into which
he has drilled two tunnels for a distance
of 200 feet
and ororiMteaiion goos
to show that it is equal in all respects
to tho now famous Sun Toraas mine It
was from this mino the International
road took a carload of coal for an ex
penment and the test was so eatisftc
tory thut a contract was at once mado
to furnish the International with coal
to bo itBed iu its locomotives between
Laredo and 1alostito hot onl has
thu International road teile 1 tho coal
but tho Mexican National uud Texas
Mexican roads have been UBing the
0 m in thoir locomotives for six months
to tho extent of tho capacity of the
mine to supply it with wagon transpor
latiou besides it was used through the
muter in a number of stoves and has
proved itself in every inslsnce to be
cuunel coal of thu best quality This
coal will bo put upon the general mar-
ket as soon as tho llib Grando and Pe-
cos road is complotod to tho mines
which will bo msidoof sixty dus us
tho iron crosstlos aud rolling stock
uro uroady purchased and aro now ar-
riving und grading forces suilhient tu
complete thu grade 16 thirty dus are
ut work Three rails wdj bo luld on
tho ltio Grundo and Pecos as far ss
the ooal mines to enable the narrow
guago ears to connect with the mines
uud so soon as the narrowguago IB
completed from San Diego to Galveo
t n thut tity will have two competing
lint s to tho coal mines whore coal can
bo delivered into tho cars for 160 per
ton and handsome profit wilt be te
ourod even at thoso figures to the owner
or the mines I ship by Texas Hxpress
a lump of coal taken from both the
Hid Tumas and tho School Laud mlue
which wos taken ont of tho minus by
your correspondent from tho vein at
the extreme ond of each tunnel which
1 hope will bo found worthy to occupy
a place in tho geological collection of
the Galveston iNeics As regards the
estimated value of theso mines it is
only necessary to consider that
counting tho cool team at only
throo feet in tbickuess though the av-
erage is well up to four feet wn hsvo
in oue sqnaro acre approximately
4 W0cublo yards nf coal which weighs
by actual tot2lUipjnmlsto the cubic
yard which is cqnivalont to 4000x
2100 is equal to 10 481000 pounds
which is equivalent to 51112 tons
which if told at a low profit of ii per
tou at tbo minesrealises tho handsome
sum of 110181 for every acre worked
and when wo rontlder that thero are
thousands of acres of this ooal to be
worked we aro Dot astonished that
Governor Hunt should refute 100000
for his coal mlue ml crests uear Laredo
and the sum mAed IJ him tl000000
wsa sot uuifasquaUrt
I MatUlhM VboulthelnpecllcVtm
I tt 1U4 UtlfSa
lir 11 U Jenkins whet feetureil on I
I ullk iu Norta Hhf llsld 11111st I ereu
i lug defined it cow as wonderful ma
I chine lie said that a good cowweigh
lug from KM to luoo pounds will eon
ume from igh ami a half to ten tons
oi fvdder per Milium lud will produce
rom two to two and half lout of milk
iu the same period There are m Con
uectioul tout UuOoQ tu 11SIXX ww
The aggregate TatHS of of tUIry pro
duels In thlirnuntry liiouijiMqbelrom
1100 OttO ClHI to t < KaK CaU glvitifi euf
pi jmoi t to at Ithwt A OflOwil V Bt1 > f
Ailof thu will be iutere Uwtlt > ttifania
aud nmsuweit u ullk puucU
Storage or Hittrldlj
Iho reproach uguiiist electricity that
it oin not bo stored seems now to bo
iu it fair way of being removed by M
OuuiiHo ruiires rceuiit imprott ment of
tho Plautu secondary battery Iho
cells of this huttiry an is well known
consist simply SI Uo ltad platis im
mcrsed in luululuted wuter one of
which becomos oxidied by the passage
of u current through tho cell and is
reconverted Into tho metallic state when
the charging current ciuscb itlding a
currut while undergoing this latter
transformation Once charged the but
tcry may bo ktptacuusiderabloleugth
of time without loMug Its puwtr uud
gives out a current steudlly in a mau
ner similar toon ordinary voltuio cell
Thu Ilunto cell is howover not of
commeicial value as its cupcity is
small und it requires a considerable
time to charge it lhoso difiluiltlos
M fuuro appears to have largel
ovcrcoruu by simply ooutlng tho plates
with miuium or red leadwhereby their
chemical dissimilarity and consequent
ly tho electrical capacity of tho cell is
greatly increased When the charging
takes place the minium upon oue plate
is further oxidized to thu peroxide uud
thut upon tho other reduced to tho mo
tullio stito u current being given out
while these plutcs uro assuming their
original condition Tho cell is etuted
tu give eighty per cent of the current
nsevl to ehirgo it uud to retain its
churgu ftr u considerable period A
baltery containing lour tells aud of
tho bizo of i cubic foot was recently
sent from Pwis to Sir William Ihom
son at Glasgow which was found hj
him to contain electrical energy equal
to something over one million lott
pounds or one homo powtr for ono
It mr 1 hough tlio b tttory was seventy
two hours reaching him it was fouud to
havo lost but vcr littlu of its original
charge and ho has since been ublo to
delect but a slight loss iu a period of-
ten das The expectations regarding
tho usee to which this batter can be
put uro doubtless exsggoruted but it
seems eufo to predict for it a large
Held of usefulness It can prcbably bo
euiplcodto advantage if further ex
perimeut bears out present statements
regarding it wherever ordinary bat-
teries ure used asit possesses the con
vomonco of theso combined with the
t huupuess of the dyuumo machlno lu
the mutter of tho currents furnished
Iu tho electric light it will piobubly
find an important use in equalizing the
current of tho machluos and prevent
ing interruption of tho light in uaso of
n temporary failure of tho generating
upperatus II is moreover not impos-
sible that it may dispense with the
need of electrical distributions at all
as such batteries placed in houses oould
to cliurged ouoh day by small dynamo
machines driven by gasengines at but
small expeneo und with tho minimum
amount ot trouble Popular Science
Monthly
Montana Ttrritery
Tho Northern Pacific railroad is now
opened and running as far up the Yel-
lowstone valley as tho mouth of the
Little Rosebud aud tho company ex
ptcts to extend it two hundred miles
further west in tho coining summer
Iu addition to this tho Utah Northern
railroad a branch of tho Usion Pacific
will soon bo opened to Helena These
lines of transportation and travel will
lay open tho rich valloys nnd richer
mineral treasures of coal iron copper
silver aud gold which are known to bo
distributed through tho mountains of
Hut Immense territory ami whioh have
hitherto not nttracted much attention
ou account of the difficulty of trans-
porting tu them the mschiuer which
in thiB age is necessary In order tu
work mines profitably Montana
stretches along the lino of British
America nearly GOO miles und bus an
uvorage width of over 250 miles This
embraces a territory larger than all tho
New England states and though much
ot it is mbuutainous yet it is iutcrsect
ed by tho broad ifliil fertilo valleys of
the Missouri tho Yellowstone and their
tributaries as well as of the upper
branches of the Ooumbia river Ihosn
vullesaro represented asbeiugvery
productive of small grain crops anil
grass but tho summers aro too cool to
ripen mtize Tbete aud mnch of the
foot hill country abound In the native
bunch grass of tho nutritious quail
ties of which wonderful stories are told
Grazing has beeu the chief agricul-
tural pursuit of Montana as jot though
80 bushels of oats and 40 bushels of
wheat are spoken of as average crops
but the difficulty ot transportation for
bids tho raising of more grain than can
bo used at home But the railroads
will speedily change this
Kurths Cent uUIous
Great earthquakes are reported from
Co t a Ilica accompauiod by unusual loss
of life In one town many pcoplo have
been killed Tho greatest and uost tlo
structtve earthquake on record is that
of Llsbou the capital of Portugal iu
which it is estimated that 119000 per-
sons lost their Uvea It is nu open
question among physicists as to what
la the cause of earthquakes They are
knoa to occur most frequently in
countries where rolcanlo action Is most
active All who have oxperieueed an
osilhqnako ajietk of it as a most awe
iuspjiing visitation We aro uo accua
turned to regard the earth wo treat up
on aa solid aud unshakeu Hut it aeemi
as if chaos had come again when the
very ground under oar feet reels and
totters and becomes as apparently un
stable as water or quicksilver All
seuco of socutlty for thu time being Ii
lost llarlhquakea aud volcano are
frequent on tho isthmus which oau
ueeu North and South America Un-
doubtedly there is a steady upheaval of
land trout the sea and thmthtutu is
widening etery decode all became of
voluunto action fVi Dcuorsslf
VoitfAfyur Hay
tr > ivt Mtit
In tha war ol m our utltitw did
not ilUtioguUli tbomtolva tu ooutests
Mlthtuiuml lltuglith solillrrsiiu fact
W Inaslen nearly tt wwhilu VH
Und ami ullvret tbe humiliation of
the captuia am tht buiulu < ol owt
OiriaarrnuuTi lc > r > im I tiii s im lAf ttijrni T Tss I i m i itHnlni mnuvi u < M > iisn
> t J
SAN SABA TUXAS SATURDAY OlUltMNO A1MIIL KSS2
NUMIEH
capilol ay a mere handful of English
soldiers But tno navy of tho Uultcd
Slates proved superior to that of Groat
Britain Our ships wero shifter and
larger than tboiu of the enemy and
our fims wore heavier It is conceded
that in the nut natal war should out
happen tint nation willbeur oil tho
prize which has tho swlllest vessels
armed with the largest guus Tht
great steamships now building in Kug
land catily make ll > uud 17 knots an
hour but the now vestc s propustd in
Congress for our navy ure not expected
to make more thuu 14 or 1 > knots an
hour ihe Utile rcpubllo of Chill
however which Iiqb Bhowu such wis
doiu bratery aud skill in its war
with Peru hue just put a vessel into
commission called tho Arturo Prat
which on iti trial trip made 171 knots
uu hour while it carrkd guus which
have a rango of li 21 tuilcB or 10000
miters This Chilian vessel iu cuso ol
war with equal seamanship would
equally vanquish any of tho vessels
proposed lo bo built by this country
Tho Chilian ship is ull4machlneryand
guns Clearly if we hato a navy it
ought to bo ut leust equal to thut ul
tho Chilian Government Demurest
Monthly for May
A droit leuld Mansion
As to Gould by tho way there is a-
new rumor all oat which seems rather
oxtruvugant yet may bo worth mention
ing Iho gist of it is that J G modi
tates taking tho shtno off Mr Van
derbilt by building n mansion on Fifth
uvtiiuo that will make tho Vondorbilt
establishment an ordinary one by com
pansuu I do not credit the rumor
lint give it foi what it may bo worth
Goulds idi a is said to bo to buy a whole
block of grouud not simply a front
and build In the centre so that there
moy bo plenty of room around for gen-
eral effect The Vondorbilt building
has uo ground but fills up tbe avenue
trout just as half u dozen houses built
together might do uud though elabo-
rate uud handsome it makes but littlo
show A littlo furthor up the avenue
there is u whole block of vacant ground
thut belongs to Itobert Bonner Gould
is said to havo lus eye on it as the right
place for Biich n mansion us he thinks
of building ouo that would surpass ov-
er thing yet attempted in New York
The value of tho plot which runs back
to Madison avenue is About 2600000
and a situablo house the laying out of
irroiinds cto would probably cost 2
500000 moro Mr Vandcrbilt bought
four avonno lots iu tho sumo vicinity
a fow days ago fot 100000 each and it
is said that he intends to build on them
for his duughtcra Mr Bonner may
not bo willing to sell his valuable plot
In which case Gould would have to go
fnrther up the avenue if he really uas
the intention ascribed to him aa a plot
largo enough for his purposo could not
be found lower down It may be that
ho has nothing of tbe kind in view but
at any rate he likes a comfortable home
and is not averse even to n littlo show
His country seat back of tho Hudson
and just boyuud Yonkers is one of the
finest iu the country Ho does not
spend much of his timo thero but it is a
good place for a rest now and then and
a good investment besides ns he
bought it low Mr ltcld has a coun-
try scat in the eamo neighborhood and
Mr Tildetia is not very far from either
The Coming liar
It moy not come this year bnt Eu-
rope is clearly upon the eve of one ot
tho greatest wars known tojjuman his-
tory For the past quarter of a century
the efforts of overy European nation
have been directed toward adding to
the numbers of its soldiery and increas-
ing tho efficiency of its armies A
mercilesatouscription has been iu force
iu every country on tho continent and
should u general war take place all the
ublo bodied men will be withdrawn
from industry and pitted against each
other in the open field Tbe next war
will iuvolvu possibly nil Europe Should
Utissiu utUck Austra as It threatens to
do Germany aud Turkey will take
sides with the latter aud probably Ita-
ly while Franco Belgium and Holland
would be allios of tbe great Northern
power For the French people wish to
reconquer Alsace and Lorraine while
Holland and Belgium aro aware that
Germany covets their front on the
German Ocean for its dream is to bo-
a ttreat naval aa well aa military power
The speech of Scobeloff In Paris to the
Servian students proclaiming tbe hostil-
ity of llussia to Aitslriaand Germany
has resounded throughout the world
and Is regarded as the prelude to the
coming contest The bourses of En
ro > o hare been disturbed In conse
aud peaceful populations are lu
auence in view of the horrors whioh
war may bring upon them Demorestt
Monthly for May
Hells Comet
Prof Boss and his assistants having
obtained a third observation of the
Wells comet lisvu succeeded Iu cukiug
a preliminary calculation ot the Strang-
er s orbit At present It Is about 1C0
000000 miles from the earth and its
dlstanco from us will not probably be
less than 80000000 at any time It is
approaching tho earth at tho velocity ot
2000000 miles a day aud while it will
not come at ntar as other comets have
done It may be expected to make a flno
display for a few days In the early > art
ot June The present extraordinary
intensity ot its light which cornoa to us
from the enormous distance of 1110000
000 miles proves that it has pleuty of
material lor future display and it will
probably show a loug anil nearly
straight toil ot euormoua dimensions tu
our eutipodea After pasilug IU perl
belirn it will piobably become vitlblo
in the northern hemisphere It nan
appvara la the etmiteilsliou at the
Ityre near Vega It will pasatrtthe
westward ot that star aud about the 1st
ot AIllt will stand within four or 8
dajters from it wo we ka ot further
observation will serve taremure many
uactnlaiuUu which now exist as to tho
future ot this comet ami these oh orva >
iioua will uuquoitioosbly ho swatted
Yets
with the ere t4 > l lutenst VurA
SAN SABA NEWS
I Ml M
PCTIJ JUTO tTXSI S1TUBDAT IT
I T BiaUB
HAN SAIU
runes o eutsacTurnoxi
TaTU1rblrlas4TU
TEXAS
Onj ropy est jsar ii
alt montfca
tsraa m JDtOaH
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WIT ASH 1TISD0H
SiiuwrirnFir shortcake at a church
festivd is charming stuff to eat It Is
sntli exciting fun to seo who gets the
strawberry
Tuf Arubshavo It that too much sun-
shine raakcsn desert which is propably
the reason that London has never got
Its deserts
St s t B Anthony wants tho name of
the Pullman curs altered either to Pull
munand women or Pnll Irrospectlveof
sex curs
Tuf horse has only four feet but
when tho blacksmith has fitted tho
horses foro feet there aro two feet more
to bo fitted
Yon jubI tuko that bottle of medi
cine said a quack doctor to a consump
tive and youll never caugh again
Is it so fatal as that gasped the con-
sumptive
A NrtAUA man nnnonneeathat hehas
iMenlodjB lying machine If bethinks
Uo liaTetruekfSiiythlngTIBw htf Is mls <
taken Wore had gas meters for along
timo
Kate Fields believes In cremation
Yes but theu she never tried it herself
You tako uotico the pooplo wlio have
been cremated onco never want to try it
again
DriMi intoxicated three tlmos de
prives a mau ot the right to voto nnder
the Ircncb law If that wero the law
iu this conutry election day wouldnt
amount to much
Tint Sacramento 7tecorct7nfonpub
llshcs a weekly edition thst Appears
twice a week and now a San Francisco
newspaper liaa started a semiweekly
that is to oomo out bnt once a week
Ib your wifo a Democrat or Itepuh
llcuu asked a llocklajj citizen of an-
other in a Btoro this morning Shoe
neither was the prompt response and
then glancing cautiously around and
sinking his voice to a hoarse whisper
ho explained shes a Home ltnler
Hock land Uattner
A iiSAii wishing to rob a beehlvo
laid himself down in front J end
overturned it with his paw Now eaid
he I will lie perfectly still and let the
bees sting me until they are exhausted
and powerless thoir honey may then
be obtained without opposition And
it was so obtained but uy a freBh bear
the other being dead Detrolf Fter
Vrtll
A Wisconsin man was In the hands
ot lynchers and an oiler on his part to
tell where a bottle ot whiskey was con-
cealed In tha woods wouldnt induce
them to relioso him But when a friend
of bis circulated tho report that If he
was hanged tbe details of a first class
scaudle would never como ont they let
him offin a hnriy A friend in seed
is a friend indeed
Tuf Springfield Republican saya
the ugnosticism of lteterend Milne of
Chicago will not shake tho slirono of
God nor tho hope of man This is
blessed news Wo did not know but
Mr Milne was going to revolutionim
society paste or rent on tbe gates
on Gehenna and reorganize Ileavenfon
tho Oneida Commnmty plan You
net or can tell what a Chicago man will
do when he gets started
Turiir aro mean men in this world
Young Symonds got vaccinated with
virus from Gallaghers arm Hitherto
Symonds had boen known as a religious
youog man Since the vaccination took
he lias acted worso thau a dmmmor
Ue says its all the effect of Gallaghers
blood introduced into his system and
folkspretend to bolievo it and it drives
Gallagher almost to insanity Mean
trick of Symonds
Aftkh two western prize fighters had
fought they got together for on amica-
ble chut over tho affair and boforo they
got through they got mod aud sailed iu
und the man that got whipped in the
ring whipped the wiuner of the fight
all to pieces And it just diigustod his
friends to think that he did it after they
had paid their bets It makes a differ-
ence with a mans fighting whether he
is mad or not
Safb A Tnow > Sohomburg upon
returning to his store on Galveston ay
onue from dinner foend his clerk very
much excited Tho clerk said that a
stranger cuno in and after asking and
paying the price for a cravat which
was 1 picked up tho entire box con-
taining a dozen and went oil with
them Did he pay you do dollar
asked Mose Yes responded the
clerk Veil then vo makos anyhow
50 per cent on tie investment t7rtl
teuton Yeici a >
Axotusr problem is solved at last
A learned frofessor aays that he reason
we have trcnble to sleep in because
there is an accumulation mainly of
carbonic acid that accumulation being
favored and controlled by reflex action
of tlio nervous system which thus pro
tocta the organism from exceasive ox-
idation and allows the organism to mani-
fest its normal functional activity
throughout a succeeding rythmlo pe-
riod Now the world can turn its
phosphoric brain to the solution of
other conundrums
lnoOW Jiallonallikev
Whou GeneralTaeksonin 1829 Jour-
neyed from Nashville to Washington to
take hla seat aa Irtialdoutof tho Unite
Stales he traveled by stage coach over
the old national plko that led over the
AUeghanlca In the palmy daya ot
coaching no post road iu the country
did to large a business as thin spleudld
old highway which opeuett the Weat
unit the Southwest to the East The
wagoua wero so numerous that the lead
era of one I euro bad their noses in thu
trough at the eud oi tha next wtajon
ahead ot them aud the coaches dswn
by tour and > U hutse dtshod along at
a rata which would have tuatVe at mm
Htli coachman o tha day sa4 with >
vj Besides tha ooatoiw ua4 vatjaneuL
there weie gentlemen tM sdWau
on horseback with all WMflt
taenta ol their iottruay pMaMToi a4s
die bags m i there we t M M
drove at t Ve n aad k tb oi asMtUtsBbs
iotj qlantlti of ttuM aiojsf tMi pafe
Vl
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