Weekly Chemawa American., May 02, 1902, Page 7, Image 7

CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
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It reported that the Chinese Court Is
cnnpi'ierlng the appointment of six emin
ent foreigners, expert specialists, as au
thorities, respectively, on international
law and finance, and on military, naval,
parlimentary, domestic, and governmental
affairs.
An Austrian has secured a patent for a
substiiute for gutta-percha, which, he
claim, ha all the property a of rubier,
mats one fourth as much, and Is especially
suitable for electrical insulation (ier
nnxyaiHl Unulnndare Investigating his
claim. Alfnd Nobel, before hi- death,
tried In make good artificial rubber,
In the harbor or Si. Peterburr, Russia,
sunken vessels have been raised by means
ofairbagsof a new pattern. The latest
experiment reported was made in the pres
ence of a minuter of naval experts, when
a hull weighing ten thousand pounds was
raised from a depth of twenty -seven feet,
by the aid of air bag. Id thlrty-9ve min-
E. E. Rines an Indianapolis electrician,
hat invested an incandescent bulb by
which the degree of electric lllumlnalion
may lw varied. He has taken an ordinary
sixteen-catidle-pnwer globe, and has ar
ranged it ho that it ray be turned on to 119
one half, one fourth, or one eighth of Its
power. Mr. Rine has been working for
years on his invention, which Is especially
designed for hotels dwellings, and hoB
pitals. A huge air ciiHhion eighty-three fret
high and made of steel Is a new safety de
vice being installed for 1 he elevator 111 the
tower of Philadelphia' city hall. It is in
tended to sustain enormous pressure, ao
instead of resting on a foundation, Is hung
from the tower walls. Next to that Id the
Washington Monument, this elevator is
the highest in the world. Wbeu the test of
tiie new air cushion is made, the elevator
will at Ai-st he dropped fifty feet, then one
hundred, and Anally from the top of tha
It is announced that the British admir
alty has ordered a submarine boat of a
new type, to be built by Hie Holland Tor
pedo B'at Company of New Yurk. The
latest Holland type of hoar, as represented
in the boats now being built for (Jreat
Britiun and the United Htatea, is sixty
three feel, four Indite long, whereas tht
new Ik ml to be but t for ihe British admir
alty Into he on hundred feet loop.
sideR being heavier, it Is designed to b
much faster than the present style of boat,
and it la believed that it will be the thirst,
submarine Teasel In the world. Sn.
The Tender Cecil Rhodes.
The Man of Empire Wepl at ll.e Mglit t,r
a Hying Soldier.
From tiie N-w York Times.
A gdmpwe of the late Cecil Rtm es I- bad
in a letter written from Kind.,., ey
after the British ttcuupatioi. of the cliy.
Kver a dreamer, his mind tilled with
visions of empire, Rhodes one day in Kim
be r ley was picturing the grandeur of Brit
ish South Africa when the rich laodssbould
be developed under the British flag and
by developed under the Hrltiah Hng and
the great colony should be tie I t Kngland
by lines of fast express steamers and by a
railroad to Cairo,
Just then a litter was borne by. Hhodes'a
lace was illumined by enthusiasm. He
had Juat Snhl: "The cost of the struggle Is
as nothing to the fruits that are to be
reaped." Tte litter hearers paused to
change their bold. The fair face of an
English soldier lad v. as turned toward
h nodes, and the wouuded hoy's pain
drawn lips moved.
Sympathy changed the expression of
Rhodes' face as he stepped dnwo lo (he
dying soldier.
"I am not alraid to die," gasped the
boy, bravely, "but there is no one to take
care of mother."
"I will provide for her," said Rhodes,
simply, as he made note of the mother's
name and address, and he t-trode quickly
into the bouse, with tears in his eyes, mut-
"Oh, the coit of it; the cost of it all,"