tTKANELATZDrORTHB DISPATCH.
On the mantel in Farmer Keller's parlor,
itood a large, old-fashioned clock, 'which
for many year? had told the hour and
warned the members ot the household to
improve the flying moments; hut at last it
crew tired of the constant ticking, ticking,
and became so weary that its voice was
hoarse and faint, and its strokes could
scarcely be heard in the next room.
"Time is so much swifter than I," it said,
"and why should I tire myself by running
after it?"
"With these words the clock stopped and
stood Eilent Then the clocfc-maker was
broucht, and when he had examined the
works with his glasses and instruments,
said:
"I can do nothing for it; it is entirely
worn out. It might go for a short time,
but its best days are past, and you had
better buy a new clock."
Then the farmer bought a handsome new
timepiece, Killed a regulator, which had so
loud a voice that it cnuld be heard in all
parts of the hons-e. Then, too, it was so
strong that it needed to be wound only once
in two weeks, while the old clock must be
wound every day. Little Henry was greatly
pleated with the regulator, and looked on
with interest while it was being huug in its
place on the wall.
, "But the old clock is very handsome,"
I AM THE GUAEDIAjr OF
said Henry's mother, "and although it is
now old and useless, we shall still keep it
on the mantel as an ornament."
"No," said the farmer, "we shall not
throw away the old clock; for it has be
longed both to my father and to my grand
father, and it has always been a faithful
servant- Let it keep its place in the parlor."
"When he had heard his father's words,
Henry looked carefully at the old clock,
and lor the first lime "noticed how really
beatititul it was. The upper part was ot
black ebony, and stood on four columns of
almost transparent onyx, which rested on a
black base. On the top of the clock was a
rilded eatrle. and on either side stood two
Email figure, holding in their hands tiny
trumpets Between the onyx columns was
a verv small hall, having mirrors for walls.
In this space stood a figure of the Grecian
goddess, Minerva, weiring a helmet, and
holdinc a spear and shield. The more
Henrv looked at the old clock, the more
sorry "he was that nothing could be done for
it and as he stood looking at it, suddenly
the reculator went "Tic-tac, zic-zac, schic-i-chae."
And then seemed to be laughing
to itself, and Henry was sure he heard a low
moaning sound proceed from the clock on
the mantel.
That nisht, Henry did not sleep as well
as usual, ior his room was next to the parlor,
and the loud ticking of the regulator kept
him awake. As the little hoy tossed rest
lessly about, he aiain heard the "tic-tac,
zic-zac, Echic-schac" of the regulator, and
this time it laughed quite heartily, and
more distinctly than beiore came the groan
irom th old clock. Then Henry fell asleep,
only to be awakened by tbe regulator strik
ing 12, and a moment later he was surprised
to hear the old clock, with its silvery voice,
also chime 12. At the same time the room
was filled with a bright light Could it be
the moon which cast such a glow over the
place? As he looked about for the cause of
the light, Henry saw the door of his room
open, and the Minerva lrom the old clock
entered; but she was no longer a small, silent
ficure. She had become tall and statelv,
anu advanced toward Henry with a quick,
hurried sep. In her right hand she car
ried the spear, and in her left, the shield.
"Come," she said, "the old clock begs for
a few moments' conversation with vou."
Henry leltthat he mnst obey, and rising
from his couch he followed his fair guide,
who led the way into the parlor. Heresuch
a wonderful change had taken place that
the little boy gave a crv of surprise; but
Minerva only smiled kindly, and said:
"We must be careful or we shall waken
your father and mother."
As Henry looked wonderingly about he
noticed that the room was so large that he
could scarcely see the other side, and at one
end of the parlor stood the old clock. But
how large it had become. It now resembled
a small palace and gleamed with many
lights. As Henry and the goddess ap
proached, the two figures on either side of
the clock, souti d their trumpets, and
the eagle, after flapping its wings,
turned around three times. Then Minerva,
still followed by the little boy, mounted the
marble steps, and passed down the long
hall, lined on both sides with large mirrors.
When the end of the hall was reached and
Henry was wondering what would happen
next, the goddess raised her spear, and the
mirrors, opening like folding doors, dis
closed a small room in which sat an old
man, with his head resting on a table which
stood in the middle of the room. As Henry
and his guide entered, the old man raised
his head, and in a weak, feeble voice said:
"I am clad that you have come, for I feel
that in you I have a kind, interested friend.
And vet what can you do to lighten my sor
row ?"
Henry did not know what reply to make
to this speech.
"I am the guardian of the clock," contin
ued the old man; "I have been with your
father and grandfather in times of sorrow
and of joy; but now that I am weary and
old, my laithful service is forgotten, and no
care istaken ot me. All the attention is
given to the fine new regulator, which
tpends its time mocking me and mating
tport of my feeble efforts."
Here the regulator's "Tic-tac, zic, zac,
ichic-schac" wat heard, and the old man
bowed his head and groaned aloud. Minerva
also began to weep bitterly, and in the
pretence of such sorrow Henry could
tcarcely restrain his own tears.
"If they would only put me away in the
attic, where I could be free from that hate
ful sound," sighed the old man. Then sud
denly his eyes brightened and in a less sor
row ul tone he said:
"I had one hope in Bending for you. If
you could persuade your father to have new
woiks put in the clock then I should serve
him m faithfully m before, Air old heart J
111, iV HMmMik I r x
J is mmmli
fjl j 'V fer m ,! WHS - ' BP
grows warm at the thought, and yet I hardly
hope for such happiness."
"When the old man had thus spoken he
again leaned his head on the table and
seemed to sleep. At once it all became
dark and still, and it was with difficulty
that Henry groped his way back to bed,
where he lay for a long time thinking over
his strange adventure. When Henry awoke
at the usual time the next morning he
hastened to his father and related his ex
perience of the night beforeand begged that
new works might be bought for the old
clock. At first the farmer laughed and
said:
"How came you to have such a wonderful
dream?"
But when the little boy insisted that it
was no dream, and that he had really seen
the old man in the clock, the father became
vexed, and said,
"If your head is full of such silly ideas,
we must try to get rid of them as soon as
possible."
And although it was vacation, he gave
Heurv three problems to solve, which were
so difficult that the hoy almost wished that
he had never seen the old clock.
One day an aunt of Henry's came from
the city to make a visit at the farm house,
and when she had been there several days
she said:
"Why do you keep that old clock in the
parlor? It is entirely out of style, and
should be put away in the attic"
So the old clock was stowed away in the
THE CLOCK, HE SAID.
attic, where it had rest and was free from
the mocking tones of the regulator.
Time passed on, until Henry grew to be a
man and went to live in a distant citv. One
time when on a visit to his parents by
chance he wandered into the attic and there
saw the old clock. How distinctly the re
membrance of the old man and his sorrow
came to him, and again he thought he heard
the low groans. Taking the old clock with
him to the city he had new works put in it.
And now the old-fashioned clock, which
bad been in the family so many years,
stands on the mantel in the farmer's parlor
and tells the time as merrily as in its
vountrer davs. while the reculator hangs in
the kitchen and it is sad to see how slow and
false it is. Patsie.
SOME ENIGMATICAL NUTS.
Puzzles for the Little Folks That Will Keep
Their lira Ins Busy for Most of the Week
If They Solve Them Correctly Homo
Amusements.
Address communications for this department
to E. B. CHADBOUKN, Lewiston, Maine,
1292 A FBOVEKB.
1293 TRANSPOSITIONS.
Where the Rio First goes sweeping,
Was a second, lax in keeping:
There a snow-white third went wandering,
Fou iftat will, serenely pondering;
Never dreamed that jfyftA was nigh him.
Or that enemy could spy him.
Till a sly coyote caught him.
Leaped the second wall and caught him.
It.
Amid a schoolroom's muffled clamor,
Recites a lawless class in crammar.
The teacher very well could first them.
If not acts had tmt dispersed them.
Threo slylv nibble second, one
Still ffttVd'hts nails, and ne'er has done;
T o fourth each other with a pin.
The teacher calls, above the din:
Define and Jlflh sixth. Master Brown."
"A kind of quartz." he says, "a noun-"
And Brown seventh all the honor due,
For having made an answer true.
A Judge, worn out withjtr.sj and courts.
Tries to renew his boyhood sports;
He runs, as once ho used to run,
Ana second o'er a fence for fun.
But thud it years has made him stout;
Hcnu3bes.ourCA,and, quite tired cut,
Exclaims, "Mv bloom of youth is past.
And e'en the fifths are falling fast,"
While sixth of laughter echo 'round.
From those who saw his mighty bound.
M.O. 8.
1294. POTENTATE AND PEASANT.
A ruler of the land one day
Weut out to take a ridel
Lured by the beauty of the bay
He neared the water's side.
And there a humble man he spied
Upon his work intent; .
Accosting him, he thus replied,
With some embarrassment,
"Were vou and I together tied
A bird we'd represent.
AlDTL.
1295. TEE DOCTOR'S PROPHECY.
I once knew a sailor's warning who was at
one time disinclined, and fancied that he was
nearing the sad, so a pnyslcian was called who
at once saw through the case, and in a coin
estate rang the warning that if he would stop
complaining, and stir aoout more iie wouiu
soon be a hole in the ground. Thereupon the
calm was highly indignant and ordered the
dnr.tnr from the hnnse. and cave him instruc
tions never to return. The doctor only
chuckled to himself, and ha chuckled still
more when, the following feeble, be saw his
former calm on the street, and saw at once
that he was a hole in the ground.
Ethtx.
1295 NTJMERICAI-
Ml Is the boon some mortals crave.
And hope to find it In the grave;
To die, and 1 to 6
Caro's lengthy reign. Joy's fleeting stay.
And to oblivion pass away.
Beneath the mystic Styx.
This is no 9, H, 12, 13
Than simple cowardice, I ween;
If 7, S and 10."
If happiness be not our share.
Let us endure our life of care
With courage or true men.
And. 01 1 could not lose the hope,
Of happy future, but to grope
With poor annihilists;
Life, life eternal is my trust;
I look above, not toward the dust
Of sad-eyed pessimists.
Bitter Bwbit.
1297 charade.
My name is ttro. I met my fate in Mats dlzxy
maze;
Our glances met, her eyelids fell beneath my
ardent gaze.
The music ceased. 1 sought her side.
While love came rushing like a tide.
Athwart my soul.
She lured mo on with blush and glance,
As candle flame the moth enchants;
Nor said me nay in coy alarm.
When rouud her slender waist my arm
I softly stole.
"Oh. love!" I cried. "1 cannot three.
Unless you say. -I love but thee.' "
Behind her first she drooped her head;
"I'm married, sir," was all she said.
Colossal fooli
Inos MASK.
1298. SECRET ORDERS.
(Anagrammatically expressed.)
Two old owls fed on my flock of chickens last
night and the night before. 1 am almost as
sorry onSam's acconnt as on my own, for I had
promised him a new sled from the money re
ceived from the chickens. If I find these o is
they will be in danger of my club. Tnp. hear
me, I don't blame you in the least, I have my
opinion of a man who scolds negro servants for
what the owls havf done. Spar told me go
in the daytime in search of tbem. He thinks if
Gyp At" to follow far he will be discouraged.
He once went with Gyp after owls, and the dog
led him to a neU of ravens, so he thinks as a
bird dog ho is not a success. We will have to
hunt cautiously, and when we And them, and
I give you the cue. Doc, grab feathers, feet, or
whatever is most convenient. Kthyl.
1299. REVERSAL.
He was a weak inebriate.
And wandered on the street.
He seemed fast nearing that sad state
From which there's no retreat;
Some Bought to rouse bis addled pate
And turn his waj ward f Set;
He only muttered "You're too late,
My ruin is complete."
And many shunned him, and some first
As wretched to behold;
He only answered, "I am cursed
With idleness and gold;
And so I have attained a thirst
That cannot be controlled;
And yet men say they take the worst
Into the Temperance fold.
"I wonder if 'twould second me
From this impending fate:
This downward course of infamy
Before it is too late.
I'll rouse my weak humanity
To 'Labor and to wait,'
And then, perhaps, X yet may be
une ot tne gooa ana great."
AIDYL.
1300 CURTAILMENT.
We went upon a pleasure cruise;
We went to sketch the river views;
We sailed away, at break of day
Our vessel total for the fray.
We took a one to two the boat
Which leaked a little, I must note;
And so he bailed, the while we sailed.
And his industry never failed.
Bitter sweet.
1301 numerical,
The 4, 8. 1, 2 is urgent.
The 8, 7, 8, S is a store.
The 12, 9, 10. 11 is a kind of guitar.
The whole is a good marksman.
H. C.
BtJKOrB.
ANSWERS.
12S1 An Indian raid on the frontier (rayed
on front ear).
1283. Met-a-physician.
1284. Hypnotism, pythonism.
1285. Hair, arms blind-man's-buff, tig. the
needle's eye, pears, oranges, lemonade (lemon
aid;, ice cream (I scream), homes (Holmes).
13S6. Rudyard Kinling.
1287. Tend. end.
1287. M
FED
DALES
DEVICES
FAVEOLATK
MELIORATING
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E89. Portloner,
1290. Cat-tail.
129L i'earls. pears, ears.
PAINTING IT BED.
A Riverman Says He Knows How This Ex
pression First Started.
Many stories have been told, each claim
lng to give the origin of the expression
"paintine it red," and to swell the list I
will tell another, says a river Captain in the
St. Louis G7o6e Democrat. I think mine is
the right one. Away back in the 60s racing
was the most exciting feature of river lite,
and whenever au opportunity was given for
the sport every man on the boats would pre
pare lor the contest as if their lives
deuended on the resuLt.
Upon entering the race the first order of
the Captain would be, "Paint her red,
boys!" to the firemen. Then the coal would
be heaped on till the furnaces glowed like
suns, and their crimson glare could be seen
tor miles ahead on the dark river. Then
"Paint it red" grew to mean simply a glori
ous good time, either on water or land, with
ns rivermen. The pat expression spread
quickly, until now you see what it is al
most universal.
WHAT VOTES COST BOTJLANGEB.
Figures Showing that the Ballots Come
Pretty High Sometimes in France.
Pall Mall Budeet.
The most interesting thing in the new and
concluding chapter of the Coulisses is the
statement of the sum spent on General
Boulanger's elections. We give these
amounts below, and add, in a second column,
the number of votes polled for the General
on each occasion:
Cost,
Franc..
a. C00,
2iX).O00.
50. WW.
170.000.
2X0,000.
270,000.
45a 000
Votes.
, 45.089
, 172.SS0
24.793
, 7.266
Nord (first election)....
Ardeche
Chirente Infaricure...,
Nord
14X792
Somme 76.094
Paris 244,070
The curious in such things will discover
for themselves that the cost of a Boulangist
Vote is, on the average ot the whole, two
francs! In the Aisne the votes were much
cheaper; not much more than 5d. a head. In
the Somme they were terribly dear; nearly
3s. a headl
Shipped Himself in a Box.
Here is a picture of the box in which the
little Paris tailor, Monsieur Zeitung
has been shipping himself over Europe
as so much freight. The directions on the
side shown In the cnt are in English, on the
other in French. Zeitung is a little fellow,
not over four feet high, nnd enjoys the
notoriety into which his novel performances
have bronght him.
A Poor Tenant.
B oi ton Herald.
Richards Your clothing is badly rented.
Hungry Higgins I know it. Z have been
the tenant for many week.
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16,
WE HAVE BUG IN US.
They Are Called Phagocytes and Ba
cilli and They Fight.
KOCH'S CURE FOR CUNS0MPTI05.
Wasps Were the First Paper Makers and
They Were Good Ones.
THE 80LAR BISTEH'S M0TE1IENT
rWBITTXX FOR TUB DIPPATCB.l
We call the familiar house fly a little ani
mal, but there are other animals, far more
intimately acquainted with us, which are so
small that 1,000,000 of them would not equal
the bulk of a house fly. These infinitesimal
creatures are our worst enemies. The sole ob
ject of their existence seems to be the destruc
tion of human life. In countless numbers
they are perpetually, attacking the life of
every person, and if they affect a lodgment
in the blood death is the inevitable result.
But just here we find another of the many
astonishing things in the economy of na
ture. Eight in the blood the citadel of
our life nature has provided an army of
defenders, which can always successfully
cope with the enemy if the blood be in
healthy condition. Our little defenders are
called phagocytes. They not only stand on
guard in the blood, but they make their
way outside of the tissue in pursuit of the
enemy the bacilli. But these brave little
defenders of our lives talie no prisoners.
They not only kill, bat eat and digest the
enemy.
DR. KOCH'S CONSUMPTION CURE.
This wonderful discovery was made by an
eminent Russian physician, and it has been
verified by many other distinguished mem
bers of the medical profession. Yon may
have read within the last few days of the
discovery by a famous German physician of
a cure for consumption. This dreadml dis
ease is caused by an attack of an army of
minute animals upon the lungs; and this
German physician is said to have found a
means of killing the invaders and saving
the file of the person. The study of diseases
caused by the inroads if these little animals
so small that they pan only be seen with a
powerful microscope has latelv become so
important that an institute is to be estab
lished in Berlin to further the interests oi
this branch of science.
But we need not worry because science has
discovered that in even a human being there
are probably more living creatures than the
population of the whole earth. On the con
trary, there is great hope that thediscoveries
now making will cause many of the worst
human ailments to be as easily cured as a
case of measles or mumps.
THE FIRST PAPER MAKERS.
So you know who were the first paper
makers? N o, not the Chinese the wasps.
These queer-looking insects, with their ap
parently tightly laced waists, made paper
before Adam's time, and made it, too, in
practically the same manner that paper is
made in our day, with the exception of the
use of machinery. The greater part of the
paper nsed for daily newspapers is made by
grinding wood into pulp and then reducing
it to thin layers. That is the way the wasp
makes the paper out of which he builds his
house. He takes bits of wood and bark,
grinds them to powder, moistens with sa
liva, spreads the pulp out in thin layers to
dry, and a good article of brown paper is
the result. The wasp is probably not par
tial to white, so he doesn't go to the trouble
of using bleaching chemicals, as do the
makers of the paper yon are now reading.
It isn't a very common thing in nature for
the female to be unable to "talk back;" but
there is at least one exception and you prob
ably know the little creature well. It is the
katydid. You have often heard the male
repeat his assertion that "Katy did," and
vou have fancied that you beard Katy's re
joinder that she "didn't." But Katy never
makes any response to the accusation of ber
husband. She is dnmb. In the first place,
the sound made by the katydid does not
proceed from the mouth. Xhe male katy
did has at the root of each wing a stout,
horny ridge surrounding a thin membrane.
This makes what we may call a pair of
drum-heads, and it is by rubbing these
drum-heads together that the katydid
makes the familiar sound. The female is
destitute of this strange appliance, and so
she is doomed to silence.
THE AGE OP THE MOON.
How can the moon be a burnt-out, water
less, airless and lifeless body, when, as the
earth's satellite, it must b younger than the
earth? Yes, it is younger in one sense but
older in another. For example, you would
call a male person 20 years old a young man,
but you would call a dog SO years old au old
dog. The earth is about 80 times larger than
the moon. It was a gaseous mass at one
time, "without form and void," as the Bible
tells us; then it began to condense, contract
and cool off. The moon was similarly
formed thousands, and probably millions, of
years later. But the moon, being so much
smaller than the earth, went through the
cooling process much faster, just as a cupful
of boiling water will cool more quickly than
a kettleful.
Thus the moon's fires were burnt out long
ago, while the earth is still "red hot" in
side, and just at the right condition to sus
taiu animal life on the surface. The time
will come, however, when the earth will be
a planetary ghost. Its internal fires will
gradually subside, animal and vegetable
life will cease to exnt, the water will disap
pear, then the atmosphere will follow, and
the earth will make its annual journey
aronnd the sun as lifeless as the moon in its
monthly tour around the earth. But we
need not trouble ourselves about that stage
of the earth's existence. The time is many
million years in the future
THE SUN DO MOTE.
You know that the earth turns around
every 21 hours, and that it makes a journey
around the sun in a year. But, do you
know that the sun is moving through space
at the rate of half a million miles a day,
taking with him his children and his grand
children the planets and their moons?
Yes, every star in the heavens is moving
nnd everv one of them that you can see with
the naked eye is a sun. It was at
one time thought the whole mystery of the
location of heaven was solved' by this dis
covery ot the movement of the stars. The
theory was advanced that all the stars are
moving around a common center, as the
nlanets move around our sun, and the con
clusion was drawn that this mighty center
was Heaven, the hub of the uuiverse, the
home of the Great Jehovah
It was a grand, beautiful, sublime theory,
but it failed to stand the test of scientific
examination. Astronomers began to trace
the individual motions of the stars, and
they soon discovered that instead of revolv
ing around a common center they ar; all
traveling through space in helter-skelter
fashion, with no two apparently moving in
the same general direction.
TWO LITTLE EXPERIMENTS.
One of the familiar old adages is "You
can't make water run np hill," and another
is "You can't make a stone swim." But
you can do both. Even adages are not
always infallible. Water is often carried
over hills in pipes, and no matter how high
the hill water will flow up it so long as the
reservoir from which it comes is higher
than the outlet of the pipe. This system is
very important in conveyine crude oil from
the wells to the refineries. You can readily
test this principle by making a simple
syphon, thus: Take two small tubes of any
kind straws if nothing better is at hand
and join them at an angle of about 45.
If you use straws yon 'will need a little
glue or similar substance to make the joint
air-tight, and one stem must be longer than
the other. Then .take a bowl or water, place
the shorter stem in the water with the long
one outside. Exhaust the air from the tube
by suction and the water following the
vacuum will flow until the bowl is empty.
Yon can make a stone swim in this way:
Take a thin, flat stone a piece of school
A.slate will do very well. Balance the slate
on the ends of your fingers, and slowly im
merse your band in a pail of water, taking
care that the surface of the water be quite
still. When the slate comes to the water it
will float just as if it were a chip. You see,
the buoyancy of the water depends upon the
superficial ares covered by the floating ob
ject. It is thus that a good swimmer can
float bv covering as much water surface as
possible. I. H. Webb.
tahobs against tkavel.
That Is, They Do Not Favor Travel Which
Leads to Foreign Purchases.
St. Louis OIobe-Democrat.J
Few people realize how much trade Amer
ican tailors lose through the increase in the
travel to Europe. Last year it is estimated
that 50,000 Americans visited Europe. Sup
pose a third of these to have been men, and
that the average cost of a foreign suit is $40.
It would be by no means a liberal estimate
to suppose that each man bought four suits
during his trip. This would amount to the
neat sum of $2,666,000 transferred from the
American to the European tailors. It really
amounts to much more, as our prices are
higher. Tailors do not view with pleasure
the increase in foreign travel.
A BOY'S QUESTION.
It Followed Some War Stories and Was
Rather Hard on the Narrator.
Youth's Companion.
An old army officer, according to Mrs.
Custer, had a 4-year-old boy who never tired
of war stories. Again and again they were
related to him till he knew them so well
that he would not permit the slightest varia
tion. "The story is a little rough on me," said
the officer, "but if you know a child, you
know that he wants a plentilul sprinkling
of I's, and nothing told in the third person.
So I kept on as he demanded, till one day
he looked up in my face and said:
" 'Father, couldn't yon get any one to
help you pnt down the rebellion?' "
ONE OF THE WOBLD'S BICH.
Baron Hlrsch, Whose Intimacy With Prince
Tummy Has Caused Talk.
Baron Hirsch, who has figured lately in
such close intimacy with the Prince of
Wales, is one of the wealthiest men in the
world. All sorts of stories are cflpent in
England about him, but it is admitted that
if his manners were not unexceptionable
the Prince would not have regarded
him with favor. His full name is
Morris de Hirsch de Gerenth, and he
Baron Hirsch.
is 59 years of age. Hi3 father was a weal thy
merchant in Bavaria, who, for services ren
dered to the State, was ennobled in 1869.
After his father's death the present Baron
associated himself with the European bank
ing house of Bischoffsheim & Goldsmidt,
and was the first to plan the systein of rail
ways leading from Buda Pesth, in Hun
gary, to Varna, on the Black Sea. By dint
of sheer will and financial abilities of the
highest order the Baron's plans were carried
out, and great wealth accrued to the origina
tor of the road. Having married Misa
BischofJsheim, the Baron some years ago re
tired from business.
The Baron and his wife are constantly
carrying forward good works. An office
has been established with a corps of clerks
for the management of the details of their
philanthropic plans. In Egypt and Euro
pean and Asiatic Turkey many schools,edu
cational and industrial, have been founded,
and are maintained by the Baron. For in
struction in Galliola he has given 82,000,
000. To Russia he made the munsficent of
fer of $10,000,000 for public instruction, with
this sole proviso that no distinction should
he made in the application of the funds as
to race or religion. The Russian Govern
ment declined.
Soon afterward the Baron's attention was
directed toward the United States in regard
to the actual condition of the Russian Jews
coming here, and plans were developed for
their relief. The Baron gave $240,000,
and monthly payments of $10,000 have been
made since March last. Russian emigra
tion is not to be encouraged, but every effort
is to be used to thoroughly Americanize the
new comers. Boys and girls are to be sent
to schools, model farms are to be provided
and co-operation is to be sought for. The
Baron's principal residence at present is in
Paris, but a great part of his time is spent
in England. His recent hunting trip with
the Prince of Wales was the subject of con
siderable unfavorable comment.
TWO POLITE MEN.
Talmage and Seth Tioxr Never Hide Sitting
Over Brooklyn Bridge.
Philadelphia frest.1
Seth Low, President of Columbia College,
for years shared with Dr. Talmage the gen
eral reputation of being the most polite man
who crossed the Brooklyn bridge regularly.
. "I believe," said a guard one day, "that
neither one of these gentlemen ever rode the
entire length of the bridge sitting. If there
was a woman on board who had no seat she
would be sure to catch the eye of either Mr.
Low or Dr. Talmage, and she always got a
seat. I mentioned it one day to Mr. Low,
who simply replied: 'Well, a little thing
like that will never shorten my life much.'
And I hope it won't."
A score and more of just such instances
might be enumerated of men, busy with big
affairs, who always find time to be polite.
SEAL OF THE C0NFEDEBAOY.
It Cost S600 and Never "Was Used Because
It Came Too Late.
St. Louts Globe-Democrat. 2
The Great Seal of the Confederate States
is now in the office of the South Carolina
Secretary of State. The seal and its press
are of silver, having been made of that
metal because it is not affected by climate
and moisture. The handle is ivory and the
seal itself bears a likeness of Washington,
modeled after the equestrian statue in Rich
mond, a wreath composed of leaves and
flowers of the staple crops of the South, an
inscription, "The Confederate States of
America, 22 February, 1862," and the motto,
"Deo Vindice."
The seal and press were made in England
at a cost of about $600. and reached Rich
mond just about the time of the evacua
tion in 1865, so that no official use was ever
made ot it.
Not Slaves to the Senate.
"One of the most gratifying resnlts of the
late election," said Mr. Calvin S. Brice yes
terday, "is the proof it affords that a verv
large majority in the United States Senate
could speedily be changed to a minority if
the people so willed."
The Tale Grows.
Atchison Globs. 3
Win a man's friendship by telling him
to-day that he is the smartest one in hit
family, and you will haTe to tell him to
morrow that he it the smartest man in town,
and the next day that he is the smartest
man in the State.
W JJ
1S90.
DEVELOPING PLATES.'
Second of tne Series of Papers Upon
Amateur Photography.
MYSTERIES OP THE DARK ROOM.
Solutions Used in Drawing Out the Picture
Upon the Glass.
THE PRECAUTIONS TO BE 0BSERTED
NO. 2.
rWBrmXTOB THE DISPATCH.
To the average beginner in the art of
photography the process of developing
plates, with the imagined difficulties of pre
paring a "dark room," is a sort of buzaboo.
But let him once overcome this impression
and get a fair idea of the attractive nature
of developing and he will forget that the
process ever seemed difficult. As a matter
of fact, it is so simple that young folks can
take it up and be fully as successful as their
parents. The only quality necessary is a
fair degree of patience, it being taken for
granted that the intending operator has yet
to attain the judgment which only experi
ence can bring out.
After the plate has been properly ex
posed in the camera it must not, under any
circumstances, be taken out of the plate
holder' except in the dark room and under
the influences of ruby or orange light It is
well, perhaps, to explain right here that the
plate is extremely sensitive to the least ray
of white light until after it has been fully
developed and submersed in the "fixing
bath," as described below. Therefore ut
most care should be taken that the slide of
the plate holder is not permitted to slip
even a little bit when being handled in
white light. The effect of white light on
the undeveloped plate is to "fog" it that is
to say, to destroy the very purpose it was
made for. If fogged before or after the
exposure is made the result is the same a
dirty-looking blank suriace, when the de
veloping fluid begins to act on it.
IDE DARK BOOM.
It is by no means necessary to fit up a
dark room on the exact plan in use with pro
fessional photographers, although it is well
to have such a room. You can use a large
closet, your bathroom, or even your bed
room, provided yon can so curtain your win
dows and doors as to exclude every particle
of white light. At night this is simple
enough, but during the day the light will
find its way through clinks and keyholes in
a most provoking manner. But the writer
has yet to find a house, or even a "flat," in
which some room or closet cannot be found
from which the light of heaven may be en
tirely shut out. A small window can be
turned to account by fitting into it a light
of ruby glass to serve in place of the dark
room lamp if the operator wishes to work in
the daytime.
The'ruby light should not be too strong,
where "quick" plates are being manipulated.
A screen made of orange paper, such as is
used in postoffices, will serve to soften the
light sufficiently. The light-tightness of the
room being assured, the next thing to look
after are your "tools." A table or fair-sized
shelf is the best thing to work on. Have it
large enough to hold your lamp, your vari
ous trays and the bottles containing your
solutions. If you have running water in the
room or closet selected so much the better; if
not. Its substitute can be found in a good
sized basin or foot tub filled with water, or
in one of the regulation water coolers with a
basin. Plenty of cleau water is a desidera
tum in developing.
THE PKOPEE LIGHTS.
Dark room lamps are now made in dozens
of different styles, and at prices ranging
from $1 to $5 and $6. If you have gas in
the rooin a specially prepared burner and
cylinder is now to be had at a cost of about
$3, which is the best for the purpose. A
good keroseue lamp will cost about $2.
These lamps are all arranged so that no
white light can leak out. Their manipula
tion in all cases is very simple. When
working at night it is an easy matter to
darken even the farcer rooms of a house.
Close your shutters, pull down the shades
and see to it that no light creeps in from ad
joining rooms. In this way the operator
can secure plenty of elbow room, and need
not confine himself to cramped quarters.
Better ventilation is another advantage of
wording by night.
It is now necessary to lay in your stock of
chemicals and trays. Any dealer in photo
graphic supplies can furnish them all.
There are many different kinds of develop
ing fluids to select from, but for all practical
purposes the writer advises that either
"Hydrotcinone" or "Eikonigen" be used.
Up to a year or so aso the old "Pvro and
Potash" developer was the standard among"
amateurs as well as professionals, but since
the two new ones have been introduced thev
have the call, and deservedly so. They are
much simpler, keep fresh longer and get
better results out of indifferent plates.
inE BEST SOLTJIIOJT.
These two developers are made up either
in one or two solutions. For the beginner it
is better to use the single solution, but if
that is not attainable the simple and explicit
directions on the bottles will inform him
how to proceed. The writer has used the
single solution Hydrnkinone developer for
almost two years, and has yet to find it
wanting.
In addition to the developer two other
baths are wanted. The first, a fixing bath,
is absolutely necessary, and the second, an
alum, both advisable. Buy a couple of
pounds of hypo-sulphite or soda and one
pound of alum to begin with. Then get a
t'our-ounce glass graduate to measure water
and a cheap letter scales to weigh your
solids. Three trays are necessary. Get
them of a size proportionate to the dimen
sions ot the plates used. Glass is best for
the developer and hard rubber for the "fix
ing" and alum baths. A word of cautiorf
here: Never use your hypo or fixing tray
for anything elsel
The fixing bath is prepared in a few hours.
Weigh out say four ounces of hypo-sulphite
of soda and dissolve in 16 ounces of water.
A quart fruit jar is the best thing for the
purpose. The solution can thus bekept lor
a long time. Pour out enough into the tray
to completely submerse a plate. This solu
tion should be thrown awjy after using tor
one batch of plates. The formula to re
member is: "Hypo-sulphite soda, one ounce;
water, four ounces."
TO HARDEN TnE PLATE.
The alum bath is simply a saturated solu
tion. Take another quart fruit jar aud dis
solve in it as much alum as the water will
take up. The alum dissolves slowly and
should be allowed 24 hours. The object of
this bath is to harden the gelatine film of the
plate so as to avoid scratches and tears.
Enongh of this bath should be poured into
the third tray and it, too, thrown away after
using.
When everything else is ready, pour a
sufficient quantity of the developer into the
first, or glass tray, to completely cover the
plate, shut your door, light the ruby lamp
and begin work. All these instructions
seem complicated, but a trial will prove how
simple the process really is.
Now takeau exposed plate out of its
holder and lay it, lace up, in the developer.
Rock-it gently until every particle of the
face is covered and no air bubbles remain.
It is well to continue the rocking from time
to time, although with the hydrokinone de
veloper it is not always necessary. When
the plate is put into the tray its surface is
perfectly blank, but under the influence ot
the developer the image will begin to ap
pear after a little while. At first little in
distinct streaks and spots, will be noticeable.
Gradually these will extend nntil the whole
image is brought out It is here that
written instructions must give way to ex
perience as a teacher. The only point that
can be added is that the plate may be con
sidered fully developed when the high
lights betrin to fade away and the imaee Ii
K visible on the back of the plate, Shi can
be found ont by lifting np the plate
the point ot a pentcnire blade.
IN THE FIXING BATH.
The plate is then rinsed in water and laid,
always face up, in the fixing batb. Here it
must remain until eveiy particle of the
white or milky appearance disappears'from
the back, leaving the plate transparent
This process takes from 12 to 20 minutes.
Another rinsing and then the plate is sub
mersed in the alum bath for five minutes.
It must then be thoroughly washed in clean
water to remove every trace of the hypo,
which if allowed to remain in the film, will
destroy it The best plan is to leave in a
base w'ith running water for an hour, or if
running water is not available, give it two
or three changes of water in a similar
length of time.
The operator can develope many plates in
a short space of time, because in the above
described manipulation one process does
not interfere witb another. As soon as one
plate is put in the fixing bath, a second can
be laid in the developing tray, and so on.
It is important, however, that whenever the
operator puts his fingers into the "hypo"
bath, he should immediately rinse them in
water so that no trace of hypo gets into the
developer or on the suriace of an
undeveloped plate. The final washing
can be done after the work of de
veloping is all throngh witb, as the
plates are not affected by white light after
once subjected to the "hypo" bath. When
they have been thoroughly washed stand
them ud to dry spontaneously. Do not ex
pose them to the hot air of a stove or other
heating apparatus, because that will melt
the gelatine and, goodby, negativel In
clear weather the plates should dry over
night Then they are ready for the
printing frame. A simple rack
can easily be made for drying
plates by nailing strips of wood together in
the shape of an old-fashioned saw-buck,
with little notches along the cross-bars to
hold the edges of the plates.
The developer may be used for another lot
of plates if filtered and kept in a bottle
other than that holding the nnused portion.
In the printing of pictures it is that the
inherent artistic qualities of the operator are
brought ont Printing, toning and mount
ing will be the subjects of next weed's in
stallment of this series.
W. O. EsCHWEOE.
LUNCH AND LUNCHEON.
The Early Vse and Derivation of These
Words and Their Present Application,
rail Mall Budget.
Lord Coleridge does not recognize the En
glish word "lunch." It is the word, not the
iustitution, which suffers from this judicial
severity. The Lord Chief Justice and all
the judges of the High Court recognize the
claims of the meal and punctually adjourn
for it. As to the word, "lunch" seems just
as worthy of recognition as luncheon. It
strictly means a lump of bread, and the
longer word strictly means the same.
Nor is luncheon a new-fanzled term. Its
history can show an indefeasible claim,
based on continuous use. "While you
stood staring like an oaf says one of the
characters in Dryden "I cut a luncheon
from the loaf." In fact, "the English word
lunch," if not current at home, enjoys a
large foreign circulation. It has become, in
the last few years, quite a French word,
and seems to be ousting the regular gouter
from its own tongue.
Etymologists might find curious illustra
tion of national character from the deriva
tion of both words, for "lunch" means a
lump of food, and gouter means to taste.
The one suited the solid eater, the other the
epicure. Lunch now ranks with "punch,
5 o'clock, skating, great attraction, and
meeting" in that singularly selected list of
phrases which the French have recently an
nexed and assimilated. Thackeray makes
one of his characters; forgetting the word
gouter, say "anres louche." It is quite clear
that in 1860 "iunch",was not a French word.
HEIGHT OF FL0WEE3.
A Description of the Growth of Familiar
Plants in Sunny California.
Philadelphia Times.
The Eastern visitor to San Francisco has
probably already heard that the heliotrope
and fuchsia grow very tall, sometimes up to
the second story of a house. But he is likely
to be a little surprised to see that they do
not quite take the form of trees, as he ex
pected. They climb and are trained against a
house like running roses. Some fuchsias,
however, form quite tall bushes three or four
times as high as they are ever seen in the
East One plant bears hundreds of flowers.
There are not, however, very many varie
ties of fuchsia not more than about 20 in
all. All of these may be seen in the East,
except, perhaps, two. One of these has a
long, red and yellow tnbe somewhat like
hat of the coral honeysuckle. The other
is called the "autumn fuchsia" on account
of its orange-tinted foliage.
Flowers with white calyx and crimson
center, or red calyx and white center, and
red calyx and purple center are quite com
mon. Perhaps the original species, or
"lady's eardrops," may be seen in a fuchsia
having a tiny red blossom. It is an old
story that geraniums here grow very tall.
They can be trained to form hedges, to
wreathe arbors or climb over the side of a
house.
HEALING B7 A STING.
Perhaps Some People Would Think the
Curo 'Worse Than the Disease.
From Chambers Journal. 1
A curious observation made by Dr. Terc,
an Austrian physician, formed the subject
of a paper read some time ago at a meeting
of the French Entomological Society. He
asserts that a person stung by bees is for a
time exempt from the effects of further
stinging, and is protected in the same sense
that vaccination gives immunity with re
gard to smallpox. This protection lasts for
six months, or less, according to the number
of stings received.
He also records that persons suffering
from acnte rheumatism require a large num
ber of bee stings before tbey feel much in
convenience from the poison received, but
that alter that tbey are not only inoculated
for six months against the effects of further
bee stings, but will also remain free for that
period from rheumatic attacks! We fancy
that if victims to (this painful remedy can
purchase immunity from its pains at the
expense of a few bee-stings, they will be
very glad to do so.
A THICK FOE THE BOYS.
Bow to Suspend a Ladle In IVhat Seems
Like Unstable Equilibrium.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Hang the ladle on the Olade of a pen
knife in Buch a manner that the blade and
handle of the knife form an angle of about
45 degrees. Yon may think that is an im
possible position.
Try It, howeTer, ana yon will be surprised
to see how easily it can be done. Yon will
find the center of gravity by laying the end
of the handle of the knife on the edge of a
table, or your thumb, or better still on the
edye or a gooiet miea wltn water,
Ay
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J. LadU Busptndea to thi Air.
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1110 illiilJJEiiN OXJiriUM. J
Mr. Depew Telfe the Story of Hi3
First After-Dinner Effort.
IT WAS IN HIS SCHOOLBOY DATS.
Kotr He Gives on an ATerage Three Post
Prandial Talks a Week.
M05EI SPENT IN tHYlXfJ BANQUKTS
"My first post-prandial speech? Ha! Hal
Ha! Well, well! That's funny. Why, it's
been 40 I mean 30 years since I thought
about it."
Chauncey M. Depew was sitting at his
dest, before a roaring grate fire, in his office
at the Grand Central depot, says the New
York Herald. He had just arrived from
Peekskill, thrown his overcoat aside and
settled himself for his day's labor.
"Now that I come to think about it," con
tinued Mr. Depew, "it was rather a funny
affair all ronnd. My first p03t-prandial
speech was made at the close of my sopho
more year at Yale College and came about
in a rather peculiar way. In fact, the
speech was made after the first banquet that
I ever attended in my life. I was a country
boy, you know, and we country boys knew
little or nothing about banquets and ban
queting. Ward McAllister hadn't then
told the world how he found societr, and
the youngster living away from New York
had no way of finding out the methods em
ployed in banquets and banqueting in the
great metropolis. There were several strong,
sterling, able men in my class at Yale, and
when we reached our sophomore year we
found we had fallen heirs to a class society.
Ostensibly the society was a literary society.
The class ahead of us contained a lot of fel
lows who were noted as frolicksome and
boisterous. As a result, when it came to us
it was very seriously burdened with debts,
and it had a reputation by no means compli
mentary. DECIDED ON A REFOBST.
"This condition of affairs was very un
pleasant to several of our best men, and wa
made up our minds that wo would devote
our energies during the year to a liquida
tion of the debts of the society. It wasn't
an easy thing for us to do. There was
none of us who had much money in those
days, and about all we had we needed for
our current expenses, and the debt ot this
society looked about as big to U3 as $10,000,-
000 would now, but we struggled along with
it and succeeded in getting the organization
a much more savory reputation and in
largely reducing its indebtedness. When
our sophomore year was about to be ended
we made up our mind that we would do
something for the society in transmitting it
to the next class that would reflect credit
upon it and also leave us in the proper
light
"After discussing the situation it was de
cided that the best thing to do was to give a
banquet. We knew it was necessary to con
sult a caterer and have him get up the
viands on which we were to feast This wa
did. I made up my mind that in order to
make this banquet as successful as possible
1 would make a thorough study of the art of
banqueting from the material at hand. Ac
cordingly I got down the encyclopaedia and
read all that was to be found 'there on the
subject
COMPLETING A L1BEKAL EDUCATION.
"The next place where I sought informa
tion was at the caterer's. I talked with him
about the manner in which the different
courses were to be eaten, and learned from
him that when we bad finished our small
cups of coffee and had lighted our cigars it
was time lor the speaking to begin. It was
easy enouzh to fix up the toast, but the ques
tion of getting the fellows who could make
good speeches in response to the toast was a
much more difficult matter. This task was
also assigned to me. I was very enthusias
tic over the dinner. I found three of our
best fellows, our best men, who were willing
to prepare and deliver speeches. This left
three to be secured. Ihunted high and low
for these three remaining speakers, but do
the best I could I couldn't find them. So I
did the next best thing. I louud three fel
lows who were willing to deliver the
speeches, but they couldn't prepare them.
Of the seven speeches, therefore, delivered
at the banquet four were mine and three be
longed to others.
'The speeches were rather sophomoric, X
admit We discussed scientific, economic
questions in the usual manner of under
graduates, and the banquet was a complete
success. We transmitted the society, still
not entirely free from debt, to the next class,
with a reputation greater than any it had
enjoyed for years. And we felt well paid
for our work" in getting up the banquet
"This was the first post-prandial speech I
ever delivered, and I didn't deliver another
until alter my graduation and while I was
a law student My secoud speech was de
livered at a dinner given at a Fourth of
July celebration in Peeicsfcill."
"How many alter dinner speeches do you
deliver, Mr. Depew, in the course of a
year?"
PEKALTT OF POPCLAEITT.
"Well, I delivera great many, and during
the course of the year a number of them are
speeches I had made no preparation for and
had no idea of makir.g. Oftentimes, when
lam at a private dinner where one wonld
not expect to be called on to make a speech
I do so. Ot course one cannot resist such an
appeal, and frequently the making of such
a speech is a real pleasure.
"Then again it often happens that while I
am sitting quietly at home, having no idea
of going out during the evening, a carriage
rolls up in front of my door and someone
conies in and informs me that I am wanted
to make a speech at a banquet at Del
monico's, the Hoffman House, the Bruns
wick or somewhere else. I had not expected
to be so called upon and bave no speech pre
pared, but usually, if I can conveniently do
so, I go. Calls of this kind are brought
about in this way:
"There will be an association or societr or
organization of some kind composed of peo
ple in whom I am interested, and fortha
furtherance of measures in which I am in
terested, which has been disappointed in
the speakers whom they expected to have at
their banquet Oftentimes when half a
dozen speakers are announced, fouroreven
five of them will notify the banqueters at
the last moment of their inability to attend,
and being thus lelt in the lurch and know
ing that I am willing to serve them if I can,
they send for me. As I bave said, I always
go if possible. Taking thee speeches, in
addition to those that I make at the dinner
of the Yale Alumni and the other societies
at which I speak every year, I should say
that I now, during the months intervening
between tbe first of November and the first
of May, make three alter dinner speeches a
week. These are devoted to all kinds of
subjects and in the interest of many differ
ent kind of organizations.
I3IP0BTAXCE OF THE STOMACH.
"The stomach of the average city man Is
the most expensive part of his anatomy.
During 30 or 40-year3 of bis life he devotes
a good portion oi his time to studying tha
question of giving his siomach new and de
ligbtfnl sensations. This costs him a vast
deal of money, and during the remainder of
bis years he spends almost as much more in
consulting physicians and trying to undo
the damage wrought by these delightful
sensations. A thorough knowledge of the
stomach is to the fiuancier often a source of
regular revenue.
"An inquiry there reveals the fact that
Delmonico 3 restaurant sets a banquet
table in one of its rooms upstairs on an
average once during every night of tha
year, sometimes giving three inside of 21
hours. The average number of plates set
for tbe different banqueters at this establish
ment is 100 and the averaze cost per plate
to the diners is stated to be about $12, so
that it can be seen that the amount of mosey
anent for bananets at Delmonieo'i during a
ijrear is nifih oa to l$W4QW,
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