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' THE HTTSBtTRG DISPATCH., SUNDAY; APEIL 19, 1S9L
ROSE FROM A FORGE,
Eobert Collyer as He Lives in the
Memories of Ilklcy Polk.
PICTURE OF HIS COTTAGE HOME.
His First Sermon and the Tillage CobWer'i
, Criticism Upon It
A T1SIT TO HIS OLD SCHOOLMASTER
ICOBBESrOKDKN'CE Or THE DISPATCH.
Ilkley, England, April 8. Where
the fierce winds of the German Ocean meet
the wild rind3 of the Irish Sea, and both,
in savaje convulsions, roll icy fog-banks
along the barren hills, lies a little vale, set
like a nest between the highest Yorkshire
moors. This is Wharfedale. All around
are dreariness or scenery and the griminess
aud hardness of countless mills. But within
this one dale, as if in blessed compensation,
arc numberless winsome spots and scenes,
Ilklcy, quaint and old in its characterful
Tillage li'e. shining and new from the inno
rations of rich loiterers drawn hither by the
hygienic wells, and from very love of the
Effect old sect, as Ruskm and Turner were,
is the Whar.edalers" tiny metropolis. It
was the Olicana of the Romans. All
Saints', its ancient church, stands on the
sue of a former Eoman fort and station.
The entire region roundabout is filled with
Tictish and Druidic remains. The
valley sides and cracgy moor-scars rising
above are exquisitely set ith hedge and
copse, lawn and bloom, with here and there
the walls of ancient manor-house, or of bat
tlcmcnted castle, showing statelily against
the outjuttings of the higher crags. In
numerable English antiquarians, naturalists
and tourists come to Wharfedale. All visit
the classic shades of Bolton Abbey, four
miles above Ilklcy. Few Americans have
seen it, because of its remoteness.
Story of the Anclcut Priory.
The ancient priory was founded in 1151,
and owed its origin to a pathetic tragedy,
best told in ltopcrs' ballad, "The Boy of
Twmnna." Ladv Alice, wife of William
Fi;z-Duncan, nephew to King David of
Scotland, was the founder. Just a mile
above the abbey, the river Wharfe is com
pressed within a deep, torrent-like rocky
ch-nn-l, called the Strid; because one can
stride, or leap, across it The son of Lady
Alice attempted to cross the Strid, leading
a hound in leash. The latter, suddenly
tlmnking back, precipitated "the boy of
Egremond" into the torrent. He was
drowned. In dolorous memory, Bolton
Abbey was built. Amonc all the abbey
rums of Great Britain, Bolton, blended
with its surroundings, is certainly he. most
attractively picturesque. Melrose is incom
parably more interesting as an ecclesiastic
art-relic; ivv-buried Dryburgh protects the
grave of Scott; Kirkstafl, as an impressive
ruin, is far superior; and Fountains is more
pertect, spacious and splendid; but Bolton
Abbey stands as both an impressive and
picturesque olden shrine in a perfect dream
o: natural beauty and repose.
In every direction the eye falls on match
less scenes of sweetness and rest. The very
air and sunlight of the little vale seem elo
quent of repose. The inner sense dream
lullv dwells upon the sacred and classic
memories of the ivy-hid ruins; the Wharfe
modulates its wimplings to the spirit of the
spot; and even the birds, loving the valley
ak a retreat from the ever crowding of the
prim and smoky mills, sing here in their
"VVharfeside sanctuary their softest and ten
derest snngi.
Good Blood Came From Hkley.
Outside i? all qnamt and pleasant things
about old aid new Ilkley, it is a delightful
place to visit from the human interest of
the town and its neighborhood. The ances
tors of that sweet singer, Bishop Heber,
lived and died here. It is the land of the
Fairfaxes, whose noble blood was trans
fused to our own Virginia. It was the passionately-loved
haunt of Turner, who never
spoke of sweet Wharfdale "without a quiv
ering of the voice;" while Buskin "dis
cerned little bits of Ilklcy scenery hanging
on to the Alpine heights when Turner came
to paint them." But the personality above
all others that links the American heart of
to-day to old Ilkley is one our country baa
held in loving regard, now these two-score
years; the great-hearted man, who, at Phila
delphia, Chicago and Uew York, has made
other men, Bomanist or Protestant, ortho
dox or heterodox, better and happier for his
ministry among them; grand, gray Robert
Collyer; who, when be pised from the iron
to the spiritual anvil, knew no change in
the real man that was in him, which made
ii great preacher and teacher oat of the
"Yorkshire Blacksmith" of Ilkley.
Of his lineage, there was a grandfather
who fought under Xelson, and went over
board one dark night in a storm. He was
on the father's side. On the mother's side
was another grandfather sailor who went
beneath the w?vcs with his ship. The two
widows fought the wolf while they were
able, and died presently of the fight. Then,
as the century was coming in, Yorkshire,
with its great mills and factories, came to be
the land of promise to all in the sonth of
England who wanted to better themselves.
So a bright lad in London, who knew the
songs of the anvil, and a lass from Norwich,
were caught by the same impulse of better
ment that took their bairn, Bobert, acrois
the sea, when crown to manhood, and the
then little collection of thatches known as
Ilkley soon became the humble couple's
home.
SIcctlns His Old Schoolmaster.
Collyer got all his "schooling" from an
odd character many of the Ilkley folk still
remember, by the name of Willie Hardie.
In those days, by favor, all cripples were
fiddlers or teachers. Willie Hardie was
both. He was about the worst cripple and
best fiddler and teacher the Ilkley district
ever knew. Ke bad a strange squint in bis
cyec, but for all that was a great marksman
with the ierule. There was no use of dodg
ing. If yon did, the ferule wonld find yon
out and thump you all the harder. Collyer
and his young companions swore solemnly
to thrash him when they grew to be men.
In 1871, Collyer came back here from
America with a friend "to thrash 'owd
Willie,' " and they fonnd him at Fewston,
teaching and thumping just as they had
left him. Crossing the worn threshold, they
verv sternlv inquired:
"Is this Willie Hardie?"
"And if it is?" he answered cannily.
"How are you getting along, sir?"
"I'se weel enough, but I doant know ye."
"We u&ed to be your scholars, sir. We've
come to give yon back your thrashings!"
"Noa, noa an' ye will notl" sbontcd
owd Willie' at the intruders, instinctively
grasping his ferule.
Then they made a rnsh at him, telling
him wno tLev were, and giving him a great
hustling, until be purchased freedom by a
promise to play for them a tune on the old
fiddle then and there; and he gave them
"Sweet Home," until there was not a dry
eye in the little, low schbolhouse.
A Trctty Steady Lad.
At 14, Collyer was "'prentlced" to "owd
Jackie" Bircb, the Ilkley village black
smith. The lad was pretty steady. "About
middling about middling!" he will him
self tell yon, with a twinkle of the old
Yorkshire light in his eyes. The old, old
women of Ilkley tell me tbey were pretty
sure of the orth'odoxy of any little village
fun he had a hand in.
But these were days of insatiate boot
hunger for the young Yorkshire blacksmith.
The only industries of Ilkley at that time
were "wool-combing and ludgcrs." Wool
combing is gone; but, now, in the summer
time, thousands come here as "lndgers," for
rest and health-getting at Ilkley's famous
hydropathic institutes and springs. One of
these wool-combers, John Dobson, a farmer's
boy named Tom Smith, another lad named
John Hobson and the 'prentice boy Collyer,
became friends, and formed a compact about
boots, reading and stndy. Morning, noon,
night and Sundays tber "took tarns"
leading alond, exchanging ideas and aspira
-in iiiiiiinrMfT nriMi -iHMtf
tions, and thus grew into the possession of
noble, self-reliant manhood.
How Ho Got to Preaching.
The wave of Wesleyanism was still strong
over the northern moors; a local preacher
named Bland, now in Canada, preached a
sermon one Sabbath which toot a wondrons
bold on the young blacksmith, though no
"revival" was in progress; and, "at last the
light came." The Methodists took him "on
probation" and pnt him in "old Jim
Delve's" class. A few nights after, Delve
was absent; and, as Collyer has often told
me, "up stoke Tom Smith from across the
room: VNaa, lad, thaa mun lead t'class
t'night; thaa can do it if thaa tries I" So
he took hold and led. In a little while
they made biau a local preacher. His first
sermon was a great event in the district It
was preached at Addingham, a little
hamlet three miles up the Wharfe from
Ilkley.
"Oh, I thought I had a capital sermon
though!" Mr. Collyer once said to me. "It
was in three parts, each.'of course, essential
to the others. They didn't allow a fellow
paper in those days, either. Their curious
eyes were all wide open; and I thought I
had done splendidly. But half way back to
Ilkley I suddenly remembered I had left
the 'secondly' out entirely. I was quite
overwhelmed about it. But the joke of it
all was that I had bodily stolen my 'sec
ondly' from a fine sermon preached by a
good Presbyterian brother named McChine.
I felt the weight of that judgment on me
so heavily that I have never stolen a sermon
aincel"
The Tillage Cobbler's Opinion.
Then they must hear him at Ilkley. All
the boys and girls were there; and the young
blacksmith thought he bad made a great
impression, vt hue this was glowing in his
mind on bis way to the forge the next morn
ing, the old village cobbler called outto him
from where he was hammering away under
neath his porch:
"I say, lad, come here; I ha' summat to
say to ye. I heard thaa preach last night."
There was a broad grin on his face.
"Did ye, though?" returned the black
smith proudly.
"I did; and I think thou'lt ne'er mak' a
preacher as long as thaa lives, Boab!"
He was stnnned by this, for the cobbler
was the village oracle. The latter saw hojv
sorely he had hurt him, and kind-heartedly
added: "2iow, doan't mistake me, Boab.
Thou wants to reason too much. Thou
raay'st lecture; bnt thaa can never be a
preacher!"
When you stand by the ancient church of
All Saints, and look in upon its mossy
graves and the Runic crosses, your hands
wm grasp tne Dars ot its huge iron gates.
They were forged on "owd Jackie's" anvil
by this same stout-hearted "Yorkshire
Blacksmith." And somehow as one turns
away from Ilkley, the feeling comes strongly
mat mere was wrought into these rods and
bars a hero-grit more impressive and imper
ishable than is revealed in all other monu
ments or tokens left in Wharfedale, since
the days when the Romans trod these pleas
ant ways. Edgak L. Wakejlat.
DOIKG UP THE CAPITALS.
A Descriptive Work From Sir Charles
Dilbe, Carmen Sylva and Others.
A happy thought has occurred to a Paris
publisher, which he has immediately pnt
into execution. It is a large and splendidly
illustrated book, containing descriptions of
the capitals of the world. A very common
place idea, yon may say, but the peculiarity
of the book will be that the descriptions
will not be written by mere hack writers,
bnt by anthors and politicians of repute.
A glance at some of the names will show
that the book will be out of the usual rnn of
works of this class. Sir Charles Dilke will
write on London; the French poet, Coppee,
on Paris; Madame Adam on Paris; Pierre
Loti on Constantinople: and Carmen -Sylv3,
the Queen of Boumania, on Bucharest.
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BILL NYE IN TEIAS.
Ho Talks of His- First Annual Fare
well Tcnr of the Lone Star.
POPULAR OPINION OF PR06KESS.
Lifa Upon an Ante-Bellam Plantation fen?
in the Congo Clan.
STILES OF SECRET SOCIETI GRIPS
1C0KRIBF0NDZ5CX or Till DIsrjLTCH.1
Is Texas Dowjt bt )
the tio Grande.
I am preparing at this time a large and
costly testimonial for the young man who
suggested the idea of making this spring
my first grand annual farewell tonr of
Texas. It has been a great success from a.
boioffice and social standpoint. Artisti
cally, of course, the earning critic might
see places where he could have done a great
deal better himself.
Texas, as we know already, is a mighty
empire itself.connecting the stern and sturdy
elements of the Farmers' Alliance of Kan
sas on the north with the romantio yet pep
pery Quixote of the south. Here the sad
and solemn lubricator, vulgarly called the
greaser, spends his patrimony on an 8-pound
hat, and with what be has left he buys a
horse. I never tire of looking at the de
lirious clothes of a prosperous greaser.
They arc wildly beautiful to one who loves,
as I do, to see a hand to hand contest to a
finish between strong colors.
The Mexican in His Church.
On Sunday I attended divine worship at
the Mexican Cathedral in San Antonio. It
afforded me a' grand opportunity to look at
the clothes of the congregation, as we do at
home, also to study the faces of the people
as they came ont. Religion docs not seem
Talking With a Drunkard.
to afford the Mexican much joy or comfort.
He goes through it, however, as one gets
his teeth repaired not for the delirious
thrill of joy he finds lurking in the job
itself, but as a precautionary measure and
as an evidence of his powers of endurance.
The ladies of the congregation, seemed
to me, showed better taste in proportion to
their means, than the gentlemen. They
dressed plainly and seemed to favor deep
mourning wherever there was an excuse for
it. Some of them, I judge, wore mourning
on very slight provocation that is, if they
were monrning the loss of such husbands as
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I was permitted to see samples of. The men
wore large hats, heavily' embroidered, and
whatever else they could get-in the way of
clothes. I never saw people run so much to
hats or seem so indifferent to outer clothes.
Some of the Popular Costumes.
I saw one man at church who wore a
massive Mexican bat with two or three
pounds of silver braid on it, and a leather
cincb, with two silver buckles, for a band.
He also wore a beautiful pair of lilac trou
sers. One man in the amen corner of the
cathedral wore no coat or rest, bnt had a
shirt made of buff calico, with grim figures
on it, and it was made with puffed sleeves
and a Stewart collar. He had also socked
h'is inheritance into a hat, and wore helio
trope trousers of the time of Queen Eliza
beth. Dallas Is probably the most prosperons of
Texas cities. Some well-known writer-up
of towns possibly Charles Dudley War
nerstates that if you draw a circle, using
a radius of 100 miles, with Dallas as the
center, you will hare therein 31 counties. I
was too'tired to try it while at Dallas, and
could not get a 100-mile radius at any ot the
places where I looked. Some of the stores
didn't seem to have any radins at all. These
34 counties produce nearly half the cotton
of Texas, also more than half the oats and
wheat. It is a very fertile district indeed.
The soil is rich and deep, and cotton jnst
naturally grows here with 'the very slightest
encouragement.
An Antl-Bellnm Plantation.
I never saw so much cottton anywhere be
fore as I hare seen on this trip. Down near
Waco pronounced Wayco there is an old
time cotton planter who runs his plantation
just as ihey used to before tbe war, onlr, of
course, he can't show as good an abstract
of title to his help, but he has tbe large
black negro with the white eye, and that
negro knows his place. He is fed, watered
and looked ont for every day. The mules
arc locked up, also, so that there is no
frolicking over the country at night with
the stock. Severe system is the rnle, and
$20,000 a year is the cotton crop, while the
negroes themselves are any of them fat
enough to kill, and their happy songs in tne
cottontiehis show that healthful discipline,
regular hours and regular meals agree with
them.
In this way they have also very little
temptation to monkey with the flowing
bowl. Bum is highly injurious to the negro.
While unquestionably beneficial to the white
man, making him bright and highly con-,
versational, it is not proper for the negro.
It dulls his sensibilities and makes him
almost coarse: I met one of them here in
Texas who had become somewhat addicted
to the use of liquor for medic.il purposes.
Not Successful in Drowning.
He said that he lost his wife several years
ago, and had been ever since trying to
drown his sorrows in the flowing bowl. He
admitted, though, that it was not a success.
He said he had drowned several of his more
sickly and feeble sorrows in that way, but
he said thev always swelled up and came to
the surface on the following day bigger and
more disagreeable, than ever.
I said that was a good simile.
He said he didn't know what it was, bnt
it was so.
I found that he was talkative, and so I
conversed with him. He said that he- had
got all his work done up ahead and got all
over the rush before I came, so that he could
have a real good visit with me when I got
here. I judged that it had been several
years since, he bad been busy,, however. He
said that Texas was advancing rapidly, he
thought, in tbe matter Of civilization. I
said "Yes?" with a rising inflection. He
said that she was now safely past the crisis,
he thought, between the customs of the cliff
dwellers and finger bowls.
Invited to Visit the Club.
"Some of ns, of c'ose, is raw yit, but we
are advancing. I would like to hare yon
the guest of onr club here this evenin', sah,
if you will come down the Upper Congo
clnb it is called, sab. We run it on econom
ical principles, sah, but it is a quiet, home
like place, whah you kin go for a hour or
two, check you old razor and injoin you
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yourself.
It was a qniet and rather unpretentious
place, the Upper Congo club, occupied dur
ing the day as a' laundry and Tuesdays and
Fridays as a club room. The franchise of
the club consisted of the inalienable right to
meet, meditate and adjourn. The club
properly consisted of a guests' register,mde
in imitation of n butcher's order book, with
a pine lead pencil tied to it by a string, a
gallon beer pail and a set of dominos. The
Upper Congo clnb alioTrs no .millionaires'
sons to join. Of course if a member should
become a millionaire's son .after he had
united with the club he cannot be expelled
without a two-thirds vote; but I was told
that "brains," and brains only, was the
qualification sell-made brains. Wealth
could not come iu and corrupt the pure
thought ganglia of the Upper Congo club.
A Trio of Big Personages.
Sam Jones preached in Texas and lectured
and licked tbe Mayor of Palestine last fall.
Evervwhere one goes he hears of Sam Jones
and the good work done by him. Also by
Dr. Talmage, who with Mr. Jones, another
well-known revivalist, and myself, fur
nished a star course of lectures the past sea
son for Texas with great success, people
coming iu some instances for hundreds of
miles, bringing their dinners and paying $1
apiece, looking upon us with awestruck
features for a few moments, and then retir
ing cheerfully to their distant homes.
Texas people say that Sam Jones reminds
them ot John tbe Forerunner in some ways,
only that John, so far as they know, did not
eat with his knife. Sam, however, is a
plain, off-hand man, and since he and I and
Dr. Talmage have worked together in Texas
I do not Jeel like hearing either one criti
cised, and I know that neither of them will
sit calmly by and allow me to be run down.
One of th: Gript.
Dallas is beautifully surrounded by the
State of Texas and Oak Cliff, a handsome
suburb with a thriving hotel and a vigorous
girl's college. Also a pavilion for speakers
and concerts dnring the summer, and a
menagerie.
An Inter-State Commerce Horror.
There is a train running between Oak
Cliff and Dallas which is called an accom
modation. It is owned by the hotel, and
goes alont with the "reading room, parlor
and washroom. You board at the hotel and
the proprietor throws in the railroad. I-sny
this so that the inter-State commerce outfit
may look into the matter and throttle this
giant evil.
Dallas did a business in 1889 of over
531,000,000. Since then trade has greatly
increased. While there I met a 'company
of Boston capitalists, headed by ex-Governor
Brackets They had just bought a
building for $250,000 that day. Fenr mill
ion dollars are (or is) invested in factories,
and the yearly product is over 53,000,000. I
was also in Dallas two days, and put quite
a little sum of money in circulation while
there. I Cannot help it The Western
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SMITHFIELD -ST:R,:E:E,I,.
spirit of freedom and reckless expenditure
comes over me, and I buy the morning pa
per sometimes and do not'read half of it
Mental Effort learning the Grips.
The Knights of Pythias held a conclave
at Dallas while I was there. I wore a
badge in order to be sociable, and by that
means learned of diflerent grips and signs
of distress. I think now that I conld work
my way into a lodge if I could have time
and a large corkscrew. In shaking hands
with many strangers during the past year or
two while traveling, and making a wide ac
quaintance, looking to any accidental tnrn
in affairs in 1802, 1 am struck by the large
and varied number of crips given me which
I am uot able to classify.
I would think that a man who belonged to
most all of the secret societies must have
very little time to devote to his business
alter successfully remembering all the grips,
signs, passwords, explanations, signals,
rituals, work of degress, constitutions, by
laws, reports of committees, initiations,
communications and new business, good cf
the order, violation of obligations, opening
odes, mannal of arms, laying of corner
stones, and funeral services. If I had all
these in my head I could jnst about remem
ber tbe combination of my safe, bnt I would
not be mentally adequate to anything fur
ther than that. If it rained, "some good
friend who had my best interests at heart
would probably have to take me bv the
hand and bring me in. Bill Nxk.
A PLEASTJBE TO BE FALSTAKF.
No Other Character Gives Comedian Crane
j Snch Satisfaction as That.
"Ihave received more keen intellectual
and artistic enjoyment from my endeavors
to give tangible expression to the humors
and corporeal evidence of the peculiarities
of the 'fat knight' than from any other por
tion of ray work on the stage," says W. H.
Crane, the comedian. -"When I first made
up my mind to essay the part, one with
which, in my humble opinion, there is only
one other in the whole range of the drama
to be compared, and that is Hamlet, I felt
the magnitude of my task. For months and
months I labored hard and earnestly, study
ing the many complexities and humors of1
the man, who was not only so witty in him
self, but was also the cause of si cinch wit
in others. I took, for instance, a long,
lonely crnise in my yacht, and for 12 hours
a day devoted myself entirely to conning the
lines, not only of my part, bnt of the entire
play, so ns to endeavor to form a proper idea
of the relation ot the parts to the whole.
"At last it seemed to me that 1 had learned
much, and though with not'a little appre
hension, it was still with a sense of some
satisfaction that I stepped on the stage for
the first time as Sir John.
"When the curtain fell on that perform
ance, I for the first time thoroughly realized
how little I really knew. From that time
onward I began to learn, and there was not a
single performance, whatever the surround
ing circumstances might have been, which
was not a source of unmixed enjoyment. I
think I should feel that same pleasure were
I ti play the part every night lor ten years.
So from a selfish point of view, I prefer I'aU
staff, while in view of tbe pleasure which I
evidently afford to others, no part has ever
pleased me more than that of Senator Han
nibal Riven."
HOESE'3 FIRST TEIXGBAM.
Why It Was Sent to the Toting Daughter of
Mr. Ellsworth.
It was the last night of the session of Con
gress in 1811 that tbe amount of f 30, 000
was appropriated to enable Morse to build
his telegraph line from Baltimore to Wash
ington. Morse bad been seven years en
deavoring to get aid from the Government.
Morse boarded in Washington nt the house
of a Mrs. Ellsworth. The daughter of this
lady was present in .the ladies' gallery of
the House of Representatives the night tbe
bill was passed, and immediately went home
aud informed Morse of his good fortune. As
a compliment to this, lady, and in recogni
tion ot ber interest in bringing the intelli
gence to him, Morse sent the first telegram
from Baltimore to her.
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pf Kerseys, Meltons, Whip
cords, Cheviots, Worsteds,
etc., silk faced, satin sleeve
linings, satin lined through
out; light and mediumweights,
full back, lap seams, plain and
fancy stitched, cut in
London Top,.
English Box
' and Chesterfield.
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$15
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KAUFMANNS
A CUBE FOE WATCHES
Regular Demagnetizing Is a Necessity
for Good Time Keeping.
TOO MUCH ELECTRICITY NOW.
Men Who Have Suddenly Become Famous
for Their Inventions.
P0WEE BI HIGH TENSION CURRENTS
imirARXD ros mm DisrATcn.1
One of the peculiar things noticed lately
by those engaged in the watch trade has
been the great increase in the number tff
watches that go'wrong because they have
never been magnetized. There is much
reason in attributing this to the increase in
tbe electrio generators and motors used for
lighting and power, bnt' the fact must be re
membered that the earth itself is a great
magnet, and that it affects everything that
moves or vibrates within its "field of lore,"
The'Brooklyn bridge, for instance, exhibits
some very interesting phenomena ot mag
netism. Bnt finj watches are peculiarly
susceptible to magnetic influences.
Varions remedies hare been proposed and
tried, and there are now several makes of
watches wiih "non-magnetic" works. In
these the rital points that are usually made
of steel, such as the balance wheel, balance
spring, lever, scapewheel, roller teble, etc.,
are made of substances that resist magnetiz
ing and yet stand wear such as an alloy or
palladium. Another method is to protect
tbe watch by a "non-magnetic" shield,
which is intended to shed the magnetism, so
to speak, jnst as an umbrella does tbe rain,
lint there are a good many million watches
without shields and without tbe new style of
'Inwards," and to meet tbe magnetic ailments
of these, a number of -demagnetizers" have
been invented. It is true that a watch can t9
restored to rectitude by simplv being placed on
the poles of one ot the modern alternating
current dynamos, bat It Is not every one who
has snch a machine bandy, and even then it is
always best to observe a respectful distance.
The same idea on a miniature scale bxs
just been ' worked ont by an In
genious American inventor. It consists
The Hew uemagnetizer.
merely of a demagnetizing chamber, aronnd
which is wound a coil of wire. The watch is
held In tbe chamber, and current is led into tbo
coil from a battery. At tbe front is a commu
tator or device which throws the current
through the coil first one way and then the
otber. Tbe faster the handle attached to ibe
commutator is turned, the faster the current
alternates and iu a few seconds tbe watcbes,on
being gradually withdrawn from the chamber,
will be found quite free of magnetism. A
simple way to test this is to lay ajittle compass
on tbe face ot the watch. If thewatch is mag
netized. Its every heartbeat will be repeated in
a quiver to and fro -of the needle. Very few
watches of the old style can enduro this test,and
watches on many of onr leadlnc railroads now
nndergo a regular magnetic inspection.
Japanese Electricity.
The enthusiasm with which the Japanese
have seized upon American inventions in
electricity is seen not only in the success of
the electric light and power in the land of
the chrysanthemum,- but in the formation of
a very large and strong electric society. It
FROM HEAD AND' FOOT.
The advance sale of our genuine
and Summer Underwear, imported
week. Among the many bargains
These 3 Wonders
Men's genuine French Balbriggan
Underwear, patent seams and
finish, sizes 34 to 44, regular $1
goods, at
ONLY 63c.
Men's guaranteed fast black Bal
briggan Underwear will be very
extensively worn this summer,
worth $1 25, at
ONLY 75c.
Men's Silk Lisle Underwear, silk'
finished neck and front, very fine
goods, actual price $1 75, at
ONLY $1.25.
ERCHANT
We have just paid the import
duty and taken out of the custom
house one case of Scotch Home
spuns, in various fashionable
shades, and, during this week, we
will make
SUITS.TO ORDER
From these fine
cloths for only
We will also show a line of fine
imported Spring Trouserings
from which we shall make
PANTS TO ORDER
FOR
ONLY
$7-
Don't fail to leave your measure.
LIGHT "II IMj f rPlSIC J'D"MED,UM "
weight yjj yLJiff Lf !!iHL
is further demonstrated in the electrical
literature or the country. A dainty
pamphlet just received in this country is
wholly devoted to a description of tbe in
tricate development of a new srstem of run
ning the circuits for electric Hunting, and ths
whole plan or distribution H shown ill a num
ber of beantiful little drawings characterized
by all the Japanese delicacy of finish. In some
way the little incandescent light seems to har
monize peculiarly with the brightness and
cleanliness of Japanese interiors, and it is very
popnlar already in the large cities. So. too, lbs
comnact little electric motor hits the fancy of
the deft and dapper Jan.
. Komnnco of Invention.
The recent centennial of the Americas
patent' system, in Washington, 3nd the
prominence therein of electrical inventors,
emphasizes the fact that for tbe first half of
the hundred rears, electricity made no
demands for the protection that a patent
gives. Then came Morse, but the great
period of growth dates from the Sunday
wbenthe Emperor of Brazil heard the feeble
voice of tbe telenhone at the Philadelphia
Exposition in 1S7GL Among these electrical
geniuses may be named such men as Prof.
Bell, who after securing a great fortune out
of bis telephone, invented while a starving
teacher in Iloston,-bas latterly devoted all his
time to the deif and dumb; Edison, once a
poor newsboy; Elihu Thomson, once a strug
gling teacher of physics in Philadelphia; Brush,
a stndent who began bis electric lighting work
with no funds at all and now has one of the
largest private fortunes in Cleveland, and Ed
ward Weston, a pioneer electro plater, who Is
now building electrical instruments of precision
of world-wide reputation.
In the wholly modern work of electric rail,
roading, we dnd Van Depoele, once a Belgian
woodcarver: Snragne, formerly a junior officer
In tbe United States navy; Leo Daft, at one
time a photographer; Stephen D. Field, an old
telegraph operator; Albert Schraid. a young
Swiss brought over by George Westiughouse;
Hae, once a telegraph messenger boy, and
many others. One of the most interesting and
astonishing of all these men is Nikola Tesla, a
young Montenegrin, wbo only a few years ago
left bis mountain fastnesses in Eastern Europe,
and wbo since bis arrival in America has at
tracted universal attention by his discoveries
in the use of the alternating current. JTor
must Emlle Berliner be forgotten, a German
immigrant, who after an exciting fight for foot
hold, dnring which he washed bottle", hired out
as a drygoods clerk and served as a "drummer"
up and down the Mississippi, made a vital in
vention in connection with the transmitter of
tbe telephone, so valuable that bis namn is to
be seen stamped with those of Bell and Edison
on every Instrument in use. And so one might
go on, for the list is long, and these careers art
full of romance.
High Tension Power Transmission.
Electricians are rapidly becoming fatnil
iar with currents of high potential, or, to
pnt it in popular language, currents thai
travel fast and that require almost as ranch
care in their handling as a lightning flash.
A very daring scheme is about to be tried in
Enrope at the approaching Frankfort elec
trical exhibition, in the transmission of not
less than 300-horse power from a turbine at
the Falls of the Necfcar, near Lauffen, a
distance of nearly 120 miles. The enrrent is to
be used at tbe exhibition for light and power,
and the potential is to be from 25.000 to SU.OuO
volts. The nearest approximation to this in
actual work has been the use of currents of
10,000 volts by Ferrantl in London, in a tenta
tive kind ot war. for lighting. A special re
hearsal showed that under the tension of 22.000
volts no spark jumped until tbe two ends of tba
circuit were brongbt within less than one Inch
of each other. It was also found that an ordi
nary lead fuse, or safety cutout, would protect
tbe apparatus in case of a short circuit. These
experiments bave a direct bearing on tbe pro
posed utilization of water power at Niagara.
Underground Railroading.
Tbe underground electric road is now be
ing seriously considered by other American
cities than New York, and a European,
representative of a prominent American
electrical company has sent in a petition to ths
chief magistrate of Berlin, asking for per
mission to construct and work an underground
electrio railway in Berlin. Tha proposed rail
way will, if consent is given, be built In Iron
tunnels.
Will call at your residence with sample
and furnish estimates on furniture reuphols
tery. Haugii & Keen an, 33 Water street.
su
French and Balbriggan Spring
by ourselves, will take place this
we point out
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