San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 1882 Page: 7 of 8
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ELECTB1CITV ON TAP.
Jew York bun.
n hoard the steamship Labrador of
i several wooden cases of about the
is of oflP 1)0X08 ere 8tore1' Mr
AVilliaw Lockland an electrical- cugi-
" ' under whose caro the cases came
nnectcd on Edison lamp with a eeri-
ousof uein by means i of wires and
Jmturninga button tho lamp shono
?.:Mir. In tho boxes electricity is
kept to be drawn off as needed.
"The electricity was stored in thorn
. far back aa April 24" he said. "They
were then shipped from Paris to Havre
and taken aboard to Labrador. On
Saturday evening April 29 wo lighted
some electrio lamps from them. We
have been lighting eight lamps from
'them all the way across the ocean and
aave off only a email quantity of the
electricity stored in them. The lamps
ranged from five to fifteen candle
Xbe apparatns is known as tho Faure
accumulator. Its function is simply to
store up electricity for use when it is
wanted. The accumulator is placed in
circuit with an electrio "dynamo " and
the electricity transmitted to it is stored
np. The packed -up electricity can then
be sent anywhere kept any necessary
length of time and will bo gradually
and equably disohargod along any cirJ
cuit that may bo attached to the appa-
rattiB. Tho fact that tho storage of electric-
ity is possible has long been known.
The Leyden jar stores electricity but
gives it nearly all off in one discharge
as soon as a circuit is made. About
twenty years ago Gascon Flante found
thatleail plates frequently charged
with electricity under conditions ac-
quired the power of storing electricity
and parting with it gradually.. But he
could not get his discovery into tho
shape of a practical apparatus.
This was done by M. Camille Alphon-
bo Faure something over a year ago.
It did not attract public attention until
May 1881 when Sir William Thomp-
son published a description of it. The
apparatus is simple in construction.
A sheet of lead perforated with small
holes is coated with a layer of red lead
on both sides. Against each face of
red lead is laid a sheet of parchment.
The plate thus overlaid is sewn up in
a cloth jacket with the exception of a
small portion of one corner left bare
for the purpose of connecting plates
together in a metallic circuit. A wood-
en case such as one of those of the
Labrador contained fouiteen such
plates. They are arranged like voltaic
pieces seven of the plates being con-
nected by a metel Btrip at obo end of
the box to form the positive pole and
the seven alternate plates connected at
the other end of the box to form the
nagetive pole. There are several forms
of accumulators but all are constructed
upon this principle. Acidulated water
is poured over the plates so as to cover
them and the apparatus is ready for
use. There is no waste of substance
and the same cell may be charged and
recharged. A fourteen-plate cell like
those on the Labrador is charged with
300 amphores of two volts tension. A
sixty-cell battery would keep a fifteen-
candle power Edison light burning for
400 continuous hours. One of the
merits claimed for the invention is that
the current given off is a steady even
flow so the electric lights fed by it do
not fluctuate in intensity. The quanti-
ty of power stored can be multiplied
indefinitely by increasing the number
of cells.
A Faure company has been formed
for the United States with a capital
stock of $10000000 $250000 paid up.
Mr. Walter B. Whiting is. one of. the
promoters.
"What are you going to do?" he was
asked.
"We are going to sell force for
any purpose. We can drive loco-
motives steamboats or train cars and
light streets or buildings. We can
drive a locomative 200 miles an hour
with case and with smoothness for
there will be no piston rod to rack the
machinery. In Paris last July we ran
a tramway-car carrying fifty people with
the force supplied from forty Faure
accumulators nlaced under seats. We
lifted a wheel and got the car off the
track. Its motor was strong enoughjo
turn it around on the cobblestones and
put it back on the track again. Any
rate of speed can be obtained. Tho
power is self-regulating and can take
any gradient."
"What about the cost?"
"We will contract to run any number
of street-cars eighteen hours a day at
$4 a day each. We have submitted an
offer to light the Labrador at the rate
f $10 a day which is less than the oil
lamps cc6t. The uses to which porta-
ble electricity can be put are endless
from lighting a 6tand lamp rocking a
cradle or running a sewing machine
to driving a railway train or illumina-
ting a city. Tho systems of electric
rcpply which convert steam power into
j-jtric force require machinery of the
best construction as inequalities of
yioa cause corresponding fluctuations ;
"force. An arc light supplied from ;
a unsteady machine is in a constant i
ves. It does not matter how nn?tead-:
t-e supply comes to an accumulator .
water power may be utilized as
el as (teams txtwer. The force Mi
tored
and
. J t
given ca in a steady
tfre&ia.
A Xidalgbt Encounter.
Lite last tight a singular accident
crred at Bank and Lake streets.
High in mid-air a whirring crashing
Bound was heard; then there wa a sud-
den wavering of the great light at the
top of the mast near by and the sound
of falling glass was heard. 8ome meu
who were pausing by and happoued to
be gaziug at the cluster of light when
the noise occurred 6tated that the dU-
turbance had been occasioned by the
encounter of a passing flock of wild
ducks with the top of tho niast and
hurried to the foot of the tall pole to
hunt for trophies. Three ducks still
warm with tho life which had scarcely
become extinct were fouud on the
ground near by aud doubtless other
wounded birds passed on over the im-
mediate locality to die elsewhere or
live as cripples. Thoso who were for-
tunate enough to capture the killed
birds complacently carried their prizes
home congratulating themselves upon
tho novel and inexpensive method by
which they had Becured their game.
Tho unexpected extinguishing of the
lights demonstrated Beveral intonating
facts. Five of the lamps were perman-
ently blotted out the thick glass globus
being more or less shattered. The
other three jets quickly reappeared and
Bhono with a greatly increased inten-
sity. Thoso who were on the street
when the accident took place averred
that the illumination was fully as bril-
liant as before the five lamps were ex-
tinguished. Cleveland (O.) Jlerald.
True Penny Wisdom
The southern people used to bo too
proud to handle the penny but now
that they are all born free and equal
and have no special privilege on ac
count of race color or previous condi
tion it were wise for them to adopt the
economical methods that common sense
and exact honesty seem to suggest. Tho
penny would not only be a great oon
venienco but a saving in living ex
penses.
Discussing the penny question the
Londoa Standard remarks that "few
people are aware of the variety and ex-
cellence of the productions that can be
sold for a penny. The value of thai
despised coin is illustrated by the lea
ses of the Alexandra Palace who ex
Libit multitudinous articles at that
price. That which excites perhaps
least attention is a penny newspaper.
One of the stands has a varied assort-
ment of penny periodical literature of
tne age daily weekly and monthly.
The Revised New Testament at one
peuny is remarkable. The fine arts are
represented by penny paints colored
and plain some mounted in molded
carbon making tasteful frames. There
are penny packages of things useful
such as soaps pins seeds starch cos-
metics dyes in powder or liquids and
toys in endless profusion. ancy sta
tionery and specialties for the season
Easter and other cards knives and
scissors and other tools are a penny
apiece. At a beautiful floral stand
penny button-hole boquets and boquet
holders are dispensed. or a penny
apiece walking-sticks kites jewelry
lugs microscopes sweets sauces puo
tographs and a long list of other things
crowd the stands'. Here in Galveston
the despised penny is not given even
in change. A sum less than five cents
is not regarded and the odd cents al-
ways go to the seller never by any
chance to the buyer. The establish
ment of a one cent or two cent store
would be an experiment worth trying
and would bring patronage to the mer
chant many comforts to the poor and
a lesson of frugality to all. u-alveston
News.
Walked Off A Moving Train.
R. D. O. Moore. Esq. the clerk of
Warrick county who arrived in the
eitv vesterdav en route home from a
visit to Iowa related rather an extra
ordinary thing that happened to a boy
on the train the night beiore as tney
wflrfl pfmin!r over from St. Louis. The
boy who was about 15 years old was
traveling with his mother and while
the train was running at the usual
speed and he appareatly asleep got up
from his seat and went out of the car.
The brakeman who eat near the door
thought the boy's conduct was rather
strange and listened for him to enter
the other car and not hearing the door
onen or close the brakeman followed
on out but the boy had disappeared.
It occurred to the brakeman that the
boy had walked off or fallen off the
train in his sleep and he at once com-
municated with the conductor who or-
dered the train stopped.
By this time the train had run a mile
or two. As soon as the train had stop-
ped two men were sent back with lan-
terns in search of the missing boy.
The seekers did not doubt as they
trudged along that they would find the
boy dead and probably terribly man-
gled. Their surprise therefore was
great when they suddenly came upon
him about the distance expected sitting
on the end of a cross-tie holding a se
verely strained wrist but otherwise un
i burt ne wa8 haiy himself as yet
'though awake. When questioned ho
i couu BOt explain how he had come
there. He could only remember re -
ceiving a severe jolt and then picking
himself np off the ground. This then
Tcrjflcj the brakeman's suspicion that
tije boT was asleep when he walked out
cf tiie 'clTm
-i . n.i
AIC "-' " rmm- mm " - t
rescaerJ to the truu and was hand-
' ed in to his eit by Lis mother who be-
icg asleep all the time was cot aware
that he had left it. Evansville (Ind
Journal.
The ErUnfftr "judicata and the South
vmU
Fruiu Uo New Orlna Httyun.
The new rroiect of theErlancer irn
client which is known to the readers of
the Ficayuue to exteud its railroad
from Shreveport La. via Fearsall and
Prchidioou the llio Grande to Mazatlau
not only points to the completion of i
very important trunk line which work
ing in combination with either the
Vauderbilt system or any other lino
from Cincinnati to Eastern tidewater
will bo trnely entitled to be called
transcontinental but it suggests immi
gration and is full of promise to the en
tire region through Inch it runs. Bo
ginning at Cincinnati it already crobs
es tbo States of Keutucky Tennessee
Alabuma aud Mississippi to Vickabuig
and is partly built across Louisiana to
ward Shreveport to which point it is
in course of completion. It is not
likely that the ebtimato of $10000000
as the amount of money which tho Kr
langers have already invested in this
road is much too large. Nor is it at all
likely that tho investment is ono merely
of speculation. They havo no doubt
bought the property for tho purpose of
developing it aud if. that is the case
they aro not going to stop building
when they have roached New Orleans
from Meridian. A line from Cincinnati
to New Orleans and Shreveport would
bo important but too much at tho ser
vice of connections and an independ
eut outlet westward necomcs almost a
necessity in any well considered
plan of development. Tho cross line
from Brunswick Ga. to Memphis
Tenn will ultimately be composed
Indeed it is not improbable that that
portion of it between Memphis
and Holly Springs will be built this
year. The Erlanger line runs through
the cotton States in a northeast and
southwest course that is to say prac-
tically parallel with the coast which is
the best possible direction for such a
line uniting New Orleans tho great
cotton mart with Cincinnati and by
the designed branch from Harroduburg
with Louisville the two great grain and
meat markets of the Ohio valley. Sup-
plemented by the transverse line from
Brunswick to Cincinnati the line be-
comes a system which can be used in
any kind of combination. It occupies
the proper location for the importation
of a vast amount of suppplies required
by the cotton States and runs through
a territory offering every variety of at-
traction to immigration beginning with
cheap soil at every point. We may
with propriety anticipate that the for
eign capital which is perfecting the
great Erlanger system throughout the
cotton region will bring in its train
large numbers of immigrant more par-
ticularly of those staid and solid Teu-
tons a valuable acquisition to any region
who are now fleeing at the unprece-
dented rate of 200000 a year from
Bismarckian militarism.
The Farmer.
Is it not a living fact that the farmer
now feels something of the old inher-
ited dependent and servile spirit which
was so universal among the laboring
classes in the centuries past and gone?
If he did not feel and show this spirit
why should his rights be so often ig
nored his feelings hurt and himself
treated as though he belonged to an
inferior glass? The man who boldly
asserts his rights and feels his equality
with others may be hated but he will
never be looked down upon. It is the
manifest duty of a .farmer if he is con-
scious of feeling one partacle of servil-
ity or inferiority to other classes to
rise abovo it just as quick as he can.
He must educate himself and better
his circumstances and elevate his con-
dition till he can feel the assurance that
he stands on the full level with the
most prosperous and best educated
clashes. He must think and study and
learn and work till he is fully emanci-
pated from the thraldom of poverty
ignorance and mental inactivity wnicu
has heretofore characterized his condi-
tion. He must work out his own salva-
tion by patience and industry by ob
servation by experiment and by the
exercise of his indomitable will. He
must feel his nobility any respect him-
self as the' son of the Most High capa-
ble of doing great things and of achiev
ing a noble and high destiny. He must
build himself up in the stature of a per
fect man. Just to the extent that he
builds himself up in dignity self-re
spect strength of character knowledge
and power of will to that extent will
he gain a conquest over nature make
the earth yield her increase and attain
the ends of his earthly existence. There
is beyond peradventure a bright future
outlook for the farmer if he will shake
himself from sloth and bo up and do
ing with a cheertul heart ana deter-
mined will to do the work of the day.
Southexn Cultivator.
Cowboys.
"In Arizona Texas and Colorado I
learn from other sources several thous-
and people are engaged in herding
cattle. They are a distinct clats of
neople who from their peculiar asso
ciations become as a class intensely bud
1 aJj(i EO hardened as to join with each
!0ther in the commission of misdeeds
. xLey are employed to keep the cattle
lrom Jiyijiug or 6traying rom the
herds and for months at a time see no
' one but the person who supplies them
I '
But when they get their pay and go to
town there is no limit to their oatrage-
I Ana vtw1 n - TV Cft.k t m t r rrsmKla
fight and shoot recklessly at friend or
foe. A long plug of black tobacco a
couple of revolvers and a heavy knife
are sure accompauimeuts of a cowboy.
They are coarse and cowardly and ut-
tejly despised by every decent person.
Tohuve killed his man elevates the
cowboy in the estimation of his asao
ciatcs so that friendship or kindred
ties aro no barriers to tho cowardly
buret. J. hey meet iu saloons and i
word from au outsider may Le the big
uul for his death."
Tho abovo was written by a guileless
correspondent who probably never taw
ouo and don't know yet whether the
cowboy is a femala or not.
Evtry little whilo some white-livered
polieau from the EjJ'ete East strays out
into tho Kooky Mountains and after
getting Lis breakfast begins to write up
tho couutry. J. ho letters written by
some such fugitives from justico who
come here write up the wild West and
go buck on the next train are about us
reliable as perdition would bo in the
capacity of a powder-house.
Wo have no doubt in tho world that
men in Wyoming worth from $200000
to half a million dollars t-lothod how-
ever in brown canvas and leather chap-
parejos have been written up by these
James crow tourists by tho column as
deeporuto and daugcrous men. Thcro
are scores of college graduates hero in
the West whoso names aro as old and
respected as any iu America and whoso
record is as cl"ar as the mountain air
whose bronzed and bearded faces cou-
pled with their cowponios Mexican
spurs and so forth have no boubt fur-
nished material for tho hand-mo-down
journalist to write up tho bloody despe-
rado of this heathen lund.
We are beginning to become weary
of this thing. Not that we havo not
Bomo hard cases in the West. Of
course there aro too bad cowboys.
We havo seen several of them. So
also there are bad men in law and jour-
nalism and even in tho pulpit; but
when the cowboys are all lumped off as
a cross between a coyote and a road
agent we desire to enter our protest. :
We should like to see the man who
wrote the above having a picnio among
about twenty active Western cowboys.
They would make it interesting for
him. Laramie Boomerang.
Another Arkansas Affair.
Old bow-legged Jake a colored man
of high standing and extreme black-
ness entered the County Clerk's office
and said :
"Boss I wants a par ob marriage
license. I'se a ole man but I'se gwine
ter marry one ob de youngest gals in
dis community."
"Have the parents of the girl any
objections to the marriage?" asked the
Clerk hesitating as to whether or not
the license should be issued.
"Hit doan' seem so ter me" replied
Jake.
"Did you ask the old man's consent ?"
"No sah."
"How do you know then that he
does not object?"
"Well yer see I has been a callin on
de young lady for some time an' las'
night de ole man come in tuck down a
army gun an' said dut ho reckoned me
an'Liddy aughter git married. Dis
mornin' ho comes ober ter my houso
wid de gun an' said suthin' about my
goin' at once an' gettin' de liscense. I
tole him dat I had a wife somewhar in
de country but he cocked de ole gun
an' looked so sad like dat I struck a
trot fur dis office."
"If you have a living wife old man
I can't issue a license."
"But boss dis ia one ob dese he'ar
stringent cases. De fodder of de gal
is stadin' out at the corner ob de house
wid that army gun. It's better boss
for a man to hab two libin' wives den it
is fur a 'oman ter hab one dead hus-
band." Finally the old man with the gun
was induced to ' come into the office
and explain. "Well yer see boss" ho
said "ole Jake had been burnin' my
oil an' wearing' out de bottoms of my
chairs long enough. He's been eatin'
at my house mor'n a year courtin' my
gal an' now I want's him to board de
gal awhile. Ef he don't I'll hab to in-
jur him." After a whilo however tho
old man agreed that if Jake would pay
him $5 the affair would be settled with-
out marriage. Tho money was paid
over and tho two men contemplate es-
tablishing a catfish restaurant. Arkan-
sas Gazette.
Fishing in a Corn Field.
In Colorado is a ten-acre field which
is no more nor 16S than a subterranean
lake covered with soil about eighteen
inches deep. On the soil is cultivated
a field of corn which produces thirty
bushels to the acre. If any one will
take the troublo to dig a hole to the
depth of a spade handle he will find it
to fill with water and by using a hook
and line fish four or five inches long
may be caught. The fish have neither
scales nor eyes and are perch like in
shape. The ground i3 a black marl in
nature and in all probability was at
one time an open body of water on
which accumulated vegetable matter.
which has been increased from time to
time until now it has a crust sufficiently
strong and rich to produce fine corn
although it has to be cultivated by
hand as it is not strong enough to
bear the weight of a horse. While
harvesting the hands catch great strings
of fish by making a hole through the
earth. A person riang on his heel and
coming dawn Suddenly can see the
growing corn shake all around him.
Any one Laving sufficient strength to
drive a rail through the crust will find
upoH releasing it that it will disappear
altogether. Territorial Enterprise.
TTIT LSH WISDOM.
A lawyer is about the only man tha
ever made anything by opposing a
woman a win. i nnkert Siattuman.
Wnv do elderly spinsters Lave a pre-
dilection for purrotr f Well they have
no man about tiro house and they wank
something rouud that can swear.
"Why do you suppose Ilev Johnson
Heed is always driving over to Smith-
villo?" anked one gentleman of another.
"His wife Bays he goes over to admire
the beauty of tlm place" was the reply.
"Yes but does his wife know tho beau-
ty of the place is a youug widow?"
A MisisTEitJat Richmond Va recent-
ly swooned while marrying his old
Hweethenrt to another man. If his part
of tho ceremony made him swoon what
nerve the man who was married must
huvo had to stand up undcrit. JJoston
Post.
An Oregon man endeavored to put a
lariat arouiul his wife's neck intending
to tie her up and whip her. The under-
taker said he hud handled corpses fresh
from railway accidents und boiler ex-
plosions but ha never struck a mess of
remains that wero so hard to sort and
put in place aa that man's wero.
Evansville Argue.
Once upon a time n wcnian died
and as tho mourners were carrying her
to tho grave they tripped against n
stump and let tho coffin fall. She re-
vived having been only in a deep
trance. Two years after she really
died and aa they wero carrying her
down the same road and nenred tho
same stump the disconsolate widower
sobbed: "Steady boys steady there.
Bo very very careful.
"My first wife" said Mr. Marigold
running his anxious eyes over tne
dressmaker's bill which his second mat-
rimonial venture had just handed him
used to make a calico dress last longor
than you wear a silk one." "Yes" re-
Elied Mrs. Marigold and she made one
usband last a great deal longer than I
can too." And as she bent her gentle
glance upon his countenance he felt
all tho blood in his back turn to hail-
stones. Last Sunday evening a Boston di
vine suddenly paused somewhat near
the cIobo of his sermon and said : "We
would all be glad if that young man in
the vestibule would come inside and
satisfy himself whether she is or is
not here. That would be much better
than keeping a half-inch draft on the
occupants of the pew." And in the
solemn silence that followed the con-
gregation could here a sound outside as
ofa retreat of any army with banners.
Chriittam at Work.
A man in a sleeping-car on an Eastern
railroad kept people awake two
hours by propounding about bed-time
the query : "What is the best thing to
brush a hat with?" And the whole
crowd stayed awake and guessed and
one man who came to his station and
had to get off without hearing the ans-
wer felt awfully. And finally after
they had all given it up the questioner
thought the best thing to brush a hat
with was a hat brush. And it was pain-
ful in TOi'fi("sn flirt rlincmnt. nf t.ViA ptcvwA.
'Twas a sultry and muggy day but
the agent wiping the perspiration from
his low but somewhat manly brow and
throwing his linen duster back began :
"Madam is your husband about?
"Yes he's about; but I tend to all .
agents that show themselves about here.
What is it?" "I'm introducing a thresh
ing machine in this neighborhood
and " "Not in this neighborhood you
ain't if I know it. I'm competent to
do all the thrashing that's needed on
this farm. You ask my boys Bill and
Sam and if you don't believe them ask
my man just over in the lot there" and
a slight advance that she made in his
direction suggested to him that he had
better move on before she tried her
power on him.
An Edinburg solicitor was once
visited by an elderly respectable-
looking man who stated that he had
come to have his will drawn up. Seeing
the prospect of a good client the solic-
itor devoted much time in drawing up
the instrument in which property-
shares and funds to a considerable
amount were assigned to certain rela-
tives. When the client bad paid many
visits and was at length pleased with
the wording of the will the solicitor
asked where the property etc. was in-
vested. The client replied. "Oh I
haven't any 1 I only want my relatives
to Bee after I'm dead what I would have
done for them had I been able."
When the Legislature convened lost
winter a member of the "Third House"
who was anxious to make personal ac-
quaintance and to discover what sort cf
men ho had to handle was introduced
to a member from the wilderness dis-
trict and he straightway began to
throw out feelers.
"I presume you will take an active
I part in the present session 7 he que
ried.
"Well I tlnnno" was the reply. .
"Are yon pledged ?"
"Not to epeak of."
"Have yoi any particular policy
mapped out?
! "Y-e-s a sort o' policy. Darin the
j firet week I shall support all motiocs to
adjourn; Jurin' the next I shall cove
to amend and after that I shall be
guided by circumsUnces. Some of
our folks think Ita an orator and some
; of 'em say I'm a fool and I've got to
ma m tnjtt v miuujg course ana con-
vince both factions. Dttro it Free
Prett.
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