THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1896.
11
MEN ONCE NAMED
FOR SECOND PLACE
Citizens Who Have Received Votes for
thi Vice-Presidency.
GLIMPSES AT OUR EARLY HISTORY
Some of the Nominee Arc Yet Fam
ous and Sonic Arc Forgottcn-Thc
Scattering of the Iiallots of Electors
on the Second Ollicc-.Eurlicr nnd
Modern Politicul Systems Coin
pared.
From the New York Sun.
At Washington's first election he re
ceived the entire sixty-nine electoral
votes; but under the provision re
quiring the electors to "vote by ballot
for two persons," In order that one
.might be taken for vice president, no
fewer than eleven persons were thus
voted for. John Adams received thirty-four
votes and became vice-president;
but John Jay and George Clin
ton had received nine and three votes
respectively; John Rutledge of South
Carolina, and It. II. Harrison of Mary
land, six each; John Hancock four,
Huntingdon of Connecticut, und Milton
1.9 rn.irrl.i t,-rt l,.l-i n.l.l Al-niWlmni?
lnd Telfair, both also of Oeorgia, with
Benjamin Lincoln of Massachusetts,
one each.
There was less splitting up at Wash
ington's second term. He received the
whole '-Z electoral votes, while Adams
had 77 and Clinton for tint viec
preslelency, Jefferson rceeved four
votes nnd Aaron Burr one. Hut at the
third election there was again a multi
plicity of candidates. The number of
electors was l.'KI, and Adams received
71 votes, or one over the majority re
quired, while Jefferson, with US, became
Vict?- president.
The unsuccessful candidates Included
Thomas Plnckney of South Carolina,
with Ml votes; C. C. Pinoknry of the
same state, with 1; Burr. Clinton, and
Jay. nil of New York, with "0, 7. mid r.
lespeotively ; Samuel Adams of Mas
sachusetts, with 15 votes, thrown not
by his own state but by Virginia: Mils
worth of Connecticut, with 11 votes,
from three different state:, none of
them his own; two North Carolina
men, Iredell and Johnston, with II end 2
respectively: Henry, of Maryland, with
2; nnd, perhaps, most noteworthy of
nil. Course Washington, with 2 votes,
one from Vrginia and the other from
North Curolnn.Mn spite of his not being
n candidate. As in the previous el.c
tlon, the distinct classing of parties as
Federalist and Republican accounted
for the throwing of the votes of states
in some cases to others than their own
citizens.
NEW STYLE OP VOTINO.
The fourth presidential election, in
1SU0, led to a change In the mode of
voting. Jefferson and liurr, the Re
publican candidates, having concen
trated all their party votes, hail 7;l each,
while Adams and C. C. Pinekm-y. the
Federalists, received fl.'p for the former
and 64 for the latter, John Jay petting
the odd vote. Nevertheless, the elec
tion had to be carried Into the house
to determine whether Jefferson or liurr
should be president. The former won
with a vote of ten states to four, two
states voting In blank, and Hurr, of
course, became vice-president.
To avoid a repetition of such a result.
s Hie constitution was amended, and at
; the next presidential election the elec
tors voted for a president and vice
president, instead of for two persons
for president. The result was n walk
over for Jefferson and Uoorgo Clinton,
with lfi2 votes nch, since C. C. Iinekney
and Rufus King received but 14 each.
And this election, too it Is worth not
ing, yielded a rerult exactly like what
we are accustomed to In later days.
But for the following term, when
Madison won easily and George Clinton
was ngain elected vice-president, the
latter in addition had six votes from
New York, his own state, for president,
while the remaining thirteen were cast
for Madison. On the other hand Ver
mont's six votes, though thrown for
Madison, did not go to Clinton for vice
president, but to John Lnngdon, of New
Hampshire, while Ohio, which threw
three for Madison, voted a blank for
Vice-president. New York for vice
president gave three each to Madison
and Monroe. C. C. Plnckney nnd Rufus
King were the Federalist candidates,
and received forty-seven electoral votes
each.
At Madison's seeond term, In 1S12, Kl
brldge Gerry, of Massachusetts, was his
companion for vice-president, and re
ceived ini votes to Madison's 128. The
Federalist candidates were De Witt
Clinton, of New York, and Jared In
gersoll. of Pennsylvania, and Massa
chusetts and New Hampshire trans
ferred two votes and one respectively
from Ingersoll to Gerry, through vot
ing solidly for Clinton.
At Monroe's first election, in 1810,
Daniel D. Tompkins, of New York, re
ceived the full party electoral vote, S3,
for vice-president. But on the Feder
alist aide, while Rufus King received
all the thirty-four votes for president
the votes for vice-president were di
vided between John E. Howard and R.
u. narper. hoth of Maryland, James
Ross, of Pennsylvania, and John Mar
shaft of Virginia.
In 1820 Monroe was re-elected by the
tremendous majority of 201 electoral
votes, against one for John Q. Adams,
this solitary unit being cast by New
Hampshire. Tompkins' vote for vice
president was nearly as strung, 21x. but
Delaware gave her four votes to one of
her citizens. Daniel Rodney, while
Richard Stockton, of New Jersey, se
cured eight votes from Massachusetts,
nnd Harper, of Maryland, and Richard
Ruth, of Pennsylvania, had one vote
each.
ANOTHER NOVELTY.
The tenth term brought In another
novelty. The vice president, John C.
Calhoun, was elected by an overwhelm
ing majority, but there was no choice
by the electors of a president, Jackson
receiving 99 votes, John Q. Adams, 81;
Crawford, of Georgia, 41, and Henry
Clay, 37. Then Adams was chosen by
the house. Hut for vice president. Cal
houn had received, out of the 2(11 elec
toral votes, no fewer than 1S2. Nathan
fianford, of New York, got 30; Nathan
iel Macon, of North Carolina, 24, while
Jackson got 13 for vice president, and
Clay two, the remaining nine going
to Martin Van Ituren, of New York.
This singular vote for vice president
shows how the political system of that
day differed from ours. Calhoun got
all the votes of the electors who were
for Jackson, nnd. In addition, those of
Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and
Delaware, which were for Adams, and
also seven out of eight of the Adams
votea in New Hampshire,' and three
out of four in Rhode Island. New
York's eloetors cast only one vote for
Jackson, but 26 for Adams, five for
Crawford, and four for Clay, yet they
gave Calhoun 29 votes, while the other
seven went to San ford. Kentucky,
with her 14 votes for Clay for presi
dent, save seven to Calhoun and sev
en to Sanford for vice president. Ohio
gave 16 to Clay for president, and the
same number to Sanford for vice pres
ident. Macon's 24 votes came from Vir
ginia, which had voted for Crawford
for president. Van Buren's nine votes
came from Georgia, which had also
voted for Crawford. Finally, Connec
ticut's electors threw their eight votes
for Adams for president and for Jack
son for vice president, while Missouri
gave her three votes to Clay for presi
dent and to Jackson for vice president.
Such are some of the remarkable varia
tions and combinations which Illustrate
the former relations between the vice
presidency and the presidency, in elec
tions, as compared with those of our
day.
In 1828, Jackson and John Q. Adams,
on opposing tickets, received 178 and 83
electoral votes respectively, and Cal
houn and Rush, for vice president, re
ceived 171 and 83, Georgia givlrfg seven
of her votes for vice president to Wil
liam Smith, of South Carolina. But at
Jackson's re-election there were four
candidates for president and live for
vice president. The Clay and Ser
geant ticket received 40 votes from the
electors of six states. South Carolina
gave her II votes to Floyd and Lee, and
Vermont her seven to Wirt and Ell
maker. Pennsylvania's electors, which
which had furnished 30 votes for Jack
son, save the hame number, not to
Van l'.uren. who ran with him, but to
William Wilklns of their own state;
and thus It turned out that while Jack
son got 21!) for president, Van Ituren
received only 1K9 for vice president.
The vote of lSIIfi reversed these condi
tions, five candidates receiving elector
al votes for president nnd four for vice
president. The clearest party division
is Indicated by the votes of Van Huron
and H. M. Johnson, 170 and 147 respec
tively, against Harrison and Francis
Grander, 73 and 77 respectively. Vir
ginia, however, which had cast her 2:1
votes for Van Huron, gave them to WM1
lani Smith, of Alabama, for vice-president.
As to the minor candidates, the
ticket of Hugh L. White and John Ty
ler carried Georgia and Tennessee; Hie
electors of Massachusetts gave their
votes to Webster uiid Granger, thr.se of
South Carolina to .Mansion and Tyler,
and those of Maryland to Harrison nnd
Tyler, liere was another set of varia
tions and cross-vuiiatloiis that would
seem strange In our day. Hut the lend
ing clue i that the Democratic vote
hung together, except in the case of Vir
ginia's for Smith, while the Whig vote
was divided.
In the election of 1S10, Harrison nnd
Tyler were alike, with L'.Vi voles for their
respei tive cilices; but while Van Hun n
hr.d 0 votes for president, R. M. John
son got only 4S for vlce-pr?:i lent, South
Carolina, which had voted for the form
er, throwing her eleven votes to L. W.
Tazewell, of Virginia, for viee-ptvsi-d-ilt.
nnd Virginia giving one vole to
James K. Polk.
The fifteenth term, 1S44, was notable
for furnishing a straight electoral vote,
of tile kind familiar to the present day.
Polk and Pallas l eived 170 votes, nnd
Clay and Frolinghuyscn 101. Birnoy
and Morris got a small popular vote,
but nothing from tho electors.
IN LATER YEARS.
Ever since then, with one notable ex
ception, the same conditions oT uniform
votes for vice-president as for president
have prevailed. Taylor and Fillmore
beat Cass and Butler in IMS, the Free
Soil ticket of Van Ruren and Adams fig
uring In the popular but not In the elec
toral vote. Pierce nnd King beat Scolt
ami Graham In 1S52, nnd also Hale and
Julian. Then, in 1SJ6, J. C. Breckin
rldge, W. L. Dayton, nnd A. J. Donald
son were the respective running mates
of Buchanan. Fremont, nnd Fillmore,
Buchanan nnd Breckinridge being the
winners. In ISfio there were four tick
ets in the field. Lincoln nnd Hamlin,
with 1.866,3.12 popular votes, received ISO
electoral, while Douglass and Johnson,
with 1. 375,1 37 popular votes, had but
12 electoral; Breckinridge and Lane,
with 8'ir,7(i3 popular votes, had 72 elec
toral, and Bell and Everett's fiSn.r.Sl
popular votes yielded them 39 electoral.
Andrew Johnson was vice president
at Lincoln's second election, the de
feated candidates being McClellan nnd
Pendleton. Then came Grant and Col
fax, beating Seymour and Blair. But
1S72 showed a novelty, recalling th?
earlier daya already spoken of. The
successful ticket was Grant nnd Wil
son, they defeated Horace Greeley and
B. Gralz Brown. But the death of
Greeley before the electoral vote
caused his party to divide Its vote
among four candidates, Hendricks re
ceiving 42, Gratis Brown 18, Jenkins 2,
and David DnvH 1. Still great r. how
ever, was the division fnr vice presi
dent. Grata Brown received 47 votes,
Julian nnd Colquitt five vote each.
Palmer and P.rnmlette thre? votes and
Groesbeck, W. H. Machen, end N. I'.
Banks one vote each.
Since then there has been no peculiar
ity worth noting, und It will be enough
simply to give the names of those who
have received electoral votes for vice
president In order to make the record
complete. In 1876 Hendricks ran with
Tilden, and Wheeler with Hayes: in
1880. Arthur with Garfield nnd English
with Hancock; In 1S84, Hendricks with
Cleveland and Logan with Blaine; In
1?MS, Morton with Harrison nnd Thur
n:an with Cleveland; finally, In 1S9',
Stevenson with Cleveland, Reld with
Harrison, and James G. Field vvlt'u
Weaver, these last securing 22 electoral
votes.
It may be added that of the twenty
three persons who have filled the of
fice of vice president by election, Mor
ton and the present Incumbent, Steven
ton, urn alone living.
The names of minor candidates for
the vice presidency who received more
or fewer votes before the electoral peo
ple, but none In the electoral college,
would reveal also some familiar and
ether forgotten names. Thus may be
recalled In the Inst twenty years. S. F.
Cary, who ran with Peter Cooper on
the Greenback ticket in 1876, nnd H.
.T. Chnmbers, who ran with Weaver
on B. similar ticket in 1RS0; the Pro
hibitionist tickets of the last five terms,
consisting of Green CHy Smith nnd O.
Y. Stewart, Neal Dow and Thompson,
St. John and Daniel, Flske and Brooks,
and Bidwell and Cranfill. There were
the so-cnlled American tickets for som
cf these terms, in which D. Kirkpat
rlck ran for vice president with J. B.
Walker, S. C. Pomerov with Phelps,
and J. B. Greer with J. L. Curtis. A.
M. West was the candidate for vice
president on General Butler's ticket
twelve years ago. The Labor tickets
of Streeter and Cunningham, Cowelry
and Wakefield, and Wing and Matchett
must also be added to such n list, al
though they received very fer.v votes.
M nuirirnl Item.
From the Texas Sifter.
The minister. Parson Downycoueh, was
at dinner with the Chntlle family. Johnny
spoke up and said:
Van a church whistle?" .
"Why do you ask, Johnnie?" asked the
clergyman kindly.
"Because ja owes $12 back pew rent,
and lie says he Is gong to let the church
whistle."
After the clergymnn had taken his de
parture there was a vocal solo by Johnnie.
GREAT TRICKS OF
FAMOUS FAKIRS
The Alore Astounding Feats Now As
cribed to Hypnotic Influence.
THE AUDIENCE IS SIMPLY FOOLED
An Ancient Trick That t nn Not He
Explained in Any Other WnyA
Telltale f'nmcrn Reveals That the
Physical Features Had No Exist
tiicc Purely a Case of Eye Illu
sion. From tho Globe-Democrat.
Among the wondrous stories of the
East told us by travelers of past ages,
none have seemed less credible than
those they have left us of some of tho
feats of magic or jugglery witnessed
by them In this mysterious land cf mar
vels. In olden times the direct inter
vention of the evil one was sufficient to
explain these and every other seeming
ly supernatural performance. It was
the devil who enabled Simon Hagus to
ninltc statues walk, who helped him to
My, t;i puss through fire unscathed and
to change at will ills shape. Just as, at
the present day, he aids the Shamans
or Northern Asia and the medicine men
among our Indians. The savage crowd
is satisfied with the explanation
vouched pnd seeks no further. Not so
with us. While we have abandoned the
faith and scorn the superstitious ciedul
Ity of our forefathers, still we feel the
need of mine other form of belief in
which we can find plausible. If not satis
factory, explanation for the seemingly
uncanny ir suiu'rnaturnl manifesta
tions which oftentimes oeoor hifoi-o
I its. So. nt tho nivs,-iit .l'ii- li i-rtii. Oil
suggestion is offered as the explanation
of these wondrous tricks, ami were it
not that they are reported to have been
witnessed at one mid the same time by
large numbers of persons, all of whom
enil not be supposed to have hem Inllu-f-ncid.
or, at nil events. loMuoneed in a
like degree, by the hypnotic Inllueiu-es,
the mystery which hanga over some of
these performance were pi rhaps
solved; such, however, is not tile case,
and these trick;!, remain, so far as I am
ii ware, unexplained.
There Is in the narratives of several
of the oriental writers who have wit
nessed these tricks evidence that they
also, misbelieved the testimony of their
senses and sought an explanation In
the existence of what we now call hyp
notic suggestion. This Is especially the
case In the remarks made by the Mo
hammedan Judge to llm Batuta. and tn
the story of "The Planting of the Pear
Tree," by P'u Sung-Llng.
SHROt'DED IN MYSTERY.
The most wonderful of these tricks,
and that which remains to the present
day the most completely shrouded In
mystery, though of its actual pi rforni
ance, ut linst In times gone by, there
appears to be little doubt. Is that which
Is first mentioned by the Alab trav
eler, ibn Batuta, who visited China in
the fourteenth century. While In tho
present City of Hatig-ehoii, not far
from the great empoiluni of the east,
Shanghai, he was entertained at a ban
quet by the Viceroy of the provinc
nnd this Is how he describe what oc
curred: "At the banquet were present the
Khan's Jugglers, the chief of wh 'ni was)
ordered to shew some of his wonders.
Ho took a wooden ball. In which there
were hides, and in these long thongs,
and threw It up Into the air until it
was lost to sight, as I myself wit
nessed, while a thong remained In his
lia.nl. He then commanded one of 1i!j$
disciples to take hold of and to ascend
by tills thong, which he did, until he
nlso went out of i-hrht. The conjurer
then called to him thref times, but no
nnswer came; he then took a knife in
his hand, ns If In a great rage, laid hold
of the thong, and disappeared also. By
and by he thrrr.v down one of the boys
bauds, then a (not, then the other hand
arid the other foot, then tho trunk, and
finally the lead. He then came down
himself, panting for breadth, nnd hH
clothes stained with blood, and kissed
the giound before the Yieiroy, who
spoke to him in Chinese and gave him
pome order. The juggler then took th-s
limbs of the boy and put them one to
the other and gave them n kick, ivhn
the liny stood up complete nnd erect.
I was dumfounded, and was seined In
consequence with a palpitation of the
heart, but roiv.e curdlal was given mo
and I recovered. The Kanl (judge),
who was sitting beside me, swore 'Wal
lah, there was neither climbing up or
coming down, in r cutting of limbs,
'twas nothing more than jugglery!'
CURIOUS ILLUSIONS.
The great Mogol Jehnngulr, who suc
ceeded his father Akbar in 160.1, has left
In his autobiography a long and Inter
esting account of thp wonderful feats
once performed before him by seven
Jugglers from Bengal. The feats ho
witnessed were twenty-eight In number,
among them being two which, taken to
gether, constitute the one described
previously by Ibn Batuta.
urMiw v'-'v vr5-i
PROF. FREDERICK MAX MULLER, GERMAN-ENGLISHMAN.
From the Chicago Tinies-Herald. By tba Courtesy of H. H. Eohlaaat
"They produced a man," says the em
peror, "whom they divided limb from
limb, actually severing his head from
his body. They scattered these mutil
ated members along the ground, and
In this state they lay for some time.
They then extended a sheet or curtain
over the spot, and one of the men, put
ting himself under the sheet, in a few
minutes came from below followed by
the Individual supposed to have been
cut Into joints, in perfect health and
condition."
The other trick Is described by Je
hnngulr ns follows:
"They produced a chain of CO cublcs
in length, and In my presence threw
one end of it towards the sky, where it
remained as If fastened to something in
the air. A dog was brought forward,
and being placed at the lower end of the
chain, Immediately ran up and, reach
ing the other end, disappeared suddenly
in the air. In the same manner a hog,
a panther, a Hon and a tiger were one
nfter the other sent up the chain, and
all disappeared in the same way at the
end of it."
Though various European travelers
In Asia, among whom I may mention
Tavernier, Bcrnler, Fryer and Oving
ton, refer to tills piece of jugglery as
being performed In India In their time
(seventeenth centi'ry),only one of them,
Edward Melton, claims to have nctuully
seen It performed while nt.Batavia, in
Java, on which occasion be says: "It
was witnessed by thousands." He tells
of It nearly In the words. of Ibn Batuta,
ndding that so nstonished was he when
he beheld this wonderful performance
that he "doubted no longer that these
misguided men did It by help of the
devil."
ANOTHER VERSION.
Let us turn now to the Chinese ver
sion of this performance, which 1 find
in P'u Suiig-Ling's "Liaeo chai," writ
ten in the latter part of the seventeenth
century, and so admirably translated
by Herbert Giles under the title of
"Strange Tub a from a Chinese Studio."
The story ns told by the Chinese au
thor Is too long to reproduce In full
here, but luielly It Is ns follows:
When a little boy P'u went to the
ptefeetural city of his department for
tlie New Year's festival, and while
standing around the Judge's residence,
where all the otlieials were seated In
state, clothed In their robes of cere
mony, there came a man and a boy, who
nsked permission to perform some
tricks. This having been granted them,
the man vvns asked If he could pro
duce some peaches, and to this he ns
sented, saying: "There is snow on the
ground; vvu shall never get peaches
here, but I fancy thciv are some up In
heaven in the Royal Mother's gnrd"n.
and there we must try." With thl i he
took from tlie box be carried with him
a cord several tens of feet long, whlen,
having carefully arranged, be threw
one end of It high up into the air, where
It remained ns if caught by something.
He now paid out the rope, which kept
going up blcher nnd higher, until the
end he had thrown up disappeared Pi
the clouds and only a short piece was
left in hi:i bands. Calling his son, ho
bade him go up nt once, and he ran
up the rope like a spider on a thread
of Its web. nnd was soon lost to sight
In the clouds. By and by a huge peach
fell down nnd wns handed by the Jug
gler to the oliUinls. But just then
down camo the rope, nnd the affright
ed father shrieked out. "Alas! alas'
some one has cut the rope! what will
my boy do now?" and In another min
ute down fell something else, which was
found on examination to be tho boy's
bead. After that his arms, liia legs
and body came down In like manner,
and the father, gathering them up, put
them In the box and said: "This was
my only son, who accompanied me
everywhere, and now what a cruel fate
Is his! I must awny nnd bury him."
He then approached the dais on which
sat the officials and sold:
"Your peach, gentlemen, was ob
tained nt the cost of my boy's life; help
me to pay his funeral expenses, and I
will be very grateful to you." The
officials who hnd been watching th'.i
scene with horror nnd amazement,
forthwith collected a good purse for
him, and when he had received the
money, he rapped on the box and sal 1;
"Pa-parh, why don't you come out and
thnr.k the gentlemen?" Whereupon
there wua a thump on the box from
the Inside and out camo the boy and
bowed to the assembled company.
USED THE KODAK.
The only travelers who have, to my
knowledge, within our time, claimed to
hnve witnessed this trick, are two
gentlemen from Chicago, whose account
wan given In the Chicago' "Tribune
some time in 1SP0. It wns at Gaya, In
Bengal, that they witnessed the mango
trick, and the one I have described pre
viously, their account of the latter dif
fering only from It in that It ended with
the boy disappearing In space, after
having climbed the rope thrown Into
the air. Two travelers arranged that
one of them should make pencil sketch-
: cs of what he saw, while the other at
i the same moment would take a snap shot
of what was occuring with hi:) kodak;
the result was that in no case did the
camera record the marvelous features
of the performance. "Lesslng's sketch
of the boy- climbing the twine Is evi
dence that he saw It. but the camera
says there was no boy and no twine.
From which I am compelled to believe
that my theory is absolutely correct,
that Mr. Fakir had simply hypnotized
the entire crowd, but could not hypno
tize the camera."
HOW TO MAKE GOOD COFFEE.
Tho Various Steps in tho Trosrcss
Described by au Expcrt--Thc C'oli'ec
Should Be Freshly Uonxtcd und Kot
Too Finely Groimd--Thc 'Wntor
Should lio Not Duly Coiling iiul
Also Cooked.
An expet tells the Sun: "Of course,
the first thing Is good coffee. That, as
I have already told you, must be Java.
Pedang Java It Is known to tho import
ing trade. You do not have to know
that. Get your Java from a grocer who
knows his business, and it will be all
right, and don't have any inlxtuies.
The first Important thing In the pre
paration of coffee Is the roasting. Once
upon a time, and not eo very long ago,
particular persons had, to roast the
beans themnelves, but It Is better done
today by the groat houses which do
It for the trade. Your go.id grocer vvrtl
have hbi coffee fresh roantrd e very day
or two, and you should never buy more
than a week's suMdy at a time. If
your grocer has more" than one color of
roast, get the bright, or Boston roast.
"Gling the coffee nt home, and only
enough at a time to make one drawing.
Here Is where your true skill must be
gin to show itself. For the French cof
fee pot, or any other of the filtering
pots, the coffee has to be ground very
line, and this Is the tlrst clement in
their wasteful character. You know
what a delicious udirr arises from the
coffee mill wlitn the fresh roasted
beans are beln crushed In It. Every
appetising whiff which comes from tlie
mill Is just as much lost to your cup
of coffee, nnd a very material loss, too.
The essence of the coffee beun Im very
Volatile. It Is held ill minute cells, the
sides of which In the raw bean are able
to retain It for years. We roast the
bean to make these oell walls friable
and porus to water, and nt the same
time we make them somewhat porous
to the essence.
"Still, If .wo do not break the lie-an In
to line pieces we will neit nt once take
so much of the essence as we will If
we grind It finely. What we wont to
break It Into pieces Just as large as boil
ing water can thoroughly penetrate
and no larger or smaller. The proper
size, you will llnd, Is pieces about one
twelfth of an Inch square, or about ns
big ns cubes bioken from the lenel of an
ordinary lead pencil. Your wife will
think that very coarse and you will
get but little tluvor from the coffee mill
during the grinding. This, you will
readily understand, when you compare
tho small number of broken cells ex
posed to the surface of these e'onrse
grains and the far greater number cut
Into the line grinding.
"Everything should have been made
ready for the making- of the coffee be
fore the grinding was ileme but this Isn't
much. Now I will tell you the most
Important of trade se'erets. Most peo
ple, understand that In order to prop
erly draw a cup of tea or to make cof
fee, belling water Is necessary, but
there Is ro.m thine- moi". The water
rr unt be c.inii il. Water that has mere
ly been brought to a boil for some rea
so.i will not abaorbe the ersence freely.
For making both tea and coffee the
wntor must bo boiled for fifteen or
twenty minutes.
"Now for the pot. Let It be just an
ordinary plain coffee ?ot, either of tin
or granite ware, but, of course, be sure
that it is clean, and that the tinning
or granite enamel la perfect, so that
no Iron, is exposed. If the Iron Is ex
poprd It will be certain to make ink
with the tannin In the coffee, and your
coffee will be spoiled. Put your ground
cofiVe into the pot, and then pour In
tho cooked water whilf it Is boiling hot.
Put In all the water that will be needed
at once-, so as to have the greatest
quanlty nt hand to absorbe the coffee
essence. Then let the- jot staiul on the
stove until th water has again come
to n good hnrd boil. Remove It and the
coffee Is ready."
"If you want milk, have the milk
boiled and remember that milk Is bet
ter than cream to brlnff out ' le coffee
ilavor.
"There Is one other pood waj to make
coffee, but It Is not HO' good. That Is
the old-fashioned Yankee method of
putting the coffee In the pot with cold
water, nnd leaving the pot on the fire
until the water cornea to a brisk boll.
The Yankee coffee pot has a tin whistle:
on It which blows when the steam
comes out and gives notice that the
coffee Is ready."
"Now tell us how much coffee to use
for each cup."
"That no one can tell you truly. Cof
fee differs ns much in strength ns it
does In flavor. Of one sample you
might have to use twice ns much as of
another. But this I wish to Impress
upon you; thera Is a positive disadvan
tage In using too much coffee. Did you
ever try to test the odor of concentrated
perfumes In the form In which they are
sold by the wholesale trade to perfu
mers? If you open a bottle right under
you nose, you will find that instead of
getting a pleasing odor you will get n
fstink. On the other hand, If you hold
the bottle at nrm's length and wave It
gently to and fro, tho nostrils will be
delighted with tho disseminate el C3
sence. So with coffee. All you need Is
enough to fill the water with a full
bodied flavor, nnd more woulel be not
only a waste, but ivorsc When you
have once lenrmd te distinguish the
true Ilavor from the taste of th'j
loasted vegetable and rosary matter
which most per pie mistnhe for It. you
will soon learn how much coffee t
use."
am i(oiiiti(;u:i,: cash.
They say you are not In society's swim.
u!i. Hi ni. i ir.ln Frankl'si, lor shame!
That your family crest v.as a little too dim
To delight a Colonial ibmp.
You couldn't have rolled up those trousers
so .short
When Uomlon was spattered with elew.
And yon ke;t on your hat when present
id at court
Hence-, benjamin Franklin, go to!
And even If now yon are given a chance
Would you do the rifrht thing nnd array
Yourself as you should; send a monaelcd
Klanee
Over a mountainous mass of bouquet?
Nay, Nay! Such reform, 'twere too much
to expect.
We know ve-ry well what you'd do.
'Midst your hooKS you would smile, though
eotJJllons were wrec-ked
Hence, Benjamin Franklin, go to!
They say that in letters you did a great
wot k ;
That proverbs and such things you
penned;
That duty's command you were ne'er
known to shirk;
That you ranked as humanity's friend.
But never a writer of hltory quotes
You as author of fine billets doux.
And your paper contained no "Society
Notes"
Hence, Benjamin Franklin, go to!
Washington Star.
HIS TOUCH SEEMS
TO BE MAGICAL
Young Man Astonishes Hundreds by His
Supposed Cures.
HE IS LIKE A HUMAN BATTERY
V. Lloyd Kcycr,of .TIcrcerbnrg, Pa.,
Has Created a Furore in Cumber
laud Valley by His Strange Powers.
A Chambersburg, Pa., correspondent
of the Philadelphia Record writes: The
whole Cumberland valley has suddenly
awakened to the fact that It has In Its
midst what many believe to be a genu
ine healer. He docs not claim to be
glftoel with divine power to work mlr
ucles; nor to be a spiritual healer;
but an entirely new kind, who claims
that his touch hus cured or relieved over
100 people, of all kinds of ailments, from
rheumatism to diphtheria and salt
rheum. Although only 2.1 years of age,
5 feet 5 Inches tall and welRhlng 130
pounds, W. Lloyd Keyser, with nej edu
cation whatever beyond that gained
In nn Iron foundry, and without even
long hair or whiskers, has In one short
month jumped Into a notoriety which
pales into sigiiifler.noe tlmt sained here
by even Henry Rife, the Hooky Spring
'Povv-vvovv man," or Mrs. Wexidworth,
the trance medium. In fact. In a com
munity where college boys are nlmost
ns thl it ns bicycle riders, yet where ex
ists superstition In pome sections as
elenre as unliltered Schuylkill water,
this young man, who never saw the in
side of a col'.cg. has In 30 days become
the most-talked-of man In the valley
from Ilagerstown to Harlrsburir.
I'nlike Slatter or Mollenburg-, or Itlfe,
young Keyser does not profess to have
nny supernatural power, nnd he pe'r
lornis hl3 work In as simple nnd busi
nesslike munnrr us a doctor would feel
a patient's pulse.
METHOD OP HEALING.
There Is no Incantation; no murribllng,
and no public exhibition; but the healer
goes right up to the patient, c-lusps his
or her hands for a few minutes, then
touches the parts affected. After that
the patient claims to experience- a feel
ing of rest and relief from pain. Just
what it Is that cause," thlsj feeling
neither they nor the healer knows. The
healer thinks it Is electricity generated
in his body, which "lubricates the
Joints," and the pntlents say thnt at his
touch, which Is warm and ni"l9t, they
expeiiencea tingling sensation through
out the entire body, followed by a. pleas
ant and restful reaction.
FAITH N HIS TOUCH.
Whether or not Keyser is a human
battery that can shed electricity like
a trolley wire, or whether bis alleged
cures are simply the working: eif the
Imaginations of tbe patients, who, ns a
class, are not e-ducated people, he has
undoubtedly magnetized this valley.
While the intelligent hold aloof from
him. as a class, and the physicians
laugh at his claims, the lame, the halt,
the paralyzed and even the blind, are
seeking his touch with an abiding faith.
This is one of the Incongruities of this
famous county, which Historian John
M. Cooper claims hns preiduced more
great men who have held high office
than any other rural county in the
union.
Who and what is this young man
who has set the whole valley to talking
and tho doctors to laughing? The doc
tors claim that he Is simply one of the
periodical healers which this valley
lias become accustomcel to receive with
open arms that Is, the superstitious
part of the valley. They say that for a
long time Rife was the craze; that there
were thousands who believed in the
efficacy of his touch and Incantations,
which were always performed right af
ter sundown or immediately preceding
sunrise. They point, also, to the al
leged cures by Mrs. Woodvvorth, the
trance medium, nnd argue that Key-
ser's popularity will not last long after
tne novelty dies out.
Keyser, however, has many stanch
adherents, who discuss his merits even
with the doctors. One will known citi
zen of this borough, who will argue for
a week that tne Bible is not a Divine
Inspiration and who is a great admirer
of Bob Ingersoll, hus the greatest faith
In Keyser and Is a firm believer In the
efficacy of faith cures. He says he
knows of two permanent cures of her
nia right in this town through faith.
The victims, he says. In obedience to
the Instructions of a pow-wow man,
simply looked at the new moon and
placed their hands on the affecteel parts,
saying poftly three times: "What I see
increase?. What I feel decrease," and
the hernia was immediately and thor
oughly cured.
Against such faith as this the doctors
he-re have Indeed little Influence, but
the faith Is so far confined almost en
tirely to the superstitious, although
there nre some Intelligent men who ad
mit that there is something about
young Keyser that they do not under
stand, and It is claimed some of his al
leged cures have been remarkable.
It Is quietly whispered among some
of the doctors here thnt some one over
in Mercersburg played a Joke on Keyser
and made him beiieve he could cure.
with no Idea that the matter would as
sume such serious proportions. This,
however. Is laughed at by Keyser. who
says that he has had a feeling that ho
could cure people ever since he was 12
yenrs of age. Since then his life has
been epiite ordinary. At 14 years of nga
he was a mescener boy in Superin
tendent JlcClellnn's office In Harris
Ling, nnd since then tip to a year ago
lie worked in iron and brass foundries.
For the last year, he says, ho has been
"a gentleman of leisure."
STAP.TKI) ON HIS DHOTI I KB,
With this feeling of ability to cure
mowing on him, lie-, about n month ago,
concluded to practice on his brother,
who had n sick headache'. lie touched
his brother's heed, and the headache
Immediately dicappeaied. The Mere-era-burg
people beard of the cure, and the
young healer next essayed his powers
on the little daughter cf David Stauffor,
whom he claims to have Immediately
cured of neuralgia. Tinted with his suc
cess, he started In to cure by the whole
sale, and -tackled with oonfidene-e
rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica and
what he terms "big head." This latter
disease appears from Key:'ers state
ments to be quite prevalent at Mercers
burg. where Ke-yscr says two distiller
ies are located.
"I cured ten big heads In Mercers
burg on Deccratlon Day," raid the heal
er, proudly.and he Intimated that to
cure n Mercersburg big Imad is an ac
complishment to be proud of.
The gieat success he- met with at
Mciccrsburg extended his fame to
Chambersburg, to which place he came
last Monday In response to several
calls. The first case he tackled hero
was a bad case of chronic rheumatism.
Mrs. John Lochbaum, who lives in a
little cottage at the corner of Philadel
phia and Vine streets, has been a help
less victim of rheumatism for three
years. In fact, ever since It was thought
he was cured by Mrs. Woodworth, th
trance medium. When young Keyser '
tackled Mrs. Lochbaum's case she was
suffering great pain, and had been un
able to sleep on her right aide for three
years. Keyser pressed her hands in
his, then gently pressed her ribs and
other affected parts, and, she says, a
sensation like an electric thrill passed
through her body, her pain left her and
she turned, over on her right side and
In inhered for nver half nn tinur WhMl
she awoke she felt greatly rested, and
although she still has to use crutches,
she says she feels much better, and es
pecially when the sun 1b out and the
air Is dry and warm. She attributes her t
marked Improvement to Keyser'
touch.
PEOPLE HE HAS TOUCHED.
In a short time Keyser was run down
with applicants desirous of being
touched, and he now makes engage
ments with his patients, whom he
treats either at their homes or in some
place where a crowd cannot collect.
Unlike other healers, he does not glv
public exhibitions. Among those he
has Impressed with his power to cure
Is Prank Rollins, a brother of the well
known base ball catcher, Pat Rollins.
Frank Rclllns has been doubled up with
rheumatism for three months. La-t
Monday Keyser toucheel him on the
ribs and hips, and Rollins, It Is claimed
by those who witnessed the operation,
limbered up at once, straightened out
his limbs and joyously exclaimed:
"Well! I'll be dummed! I feel bully."
The next day Rollins was balancing
chairs and dancing jigs. He says he
feels first rate now, exe-ept when the
weather Is dump, then he thinks he
would enjoy Keyser's magnetic touch.
MADE ANOTHER CURE.
Mrs. Robert Coleman, colored, the
wife of the sexton of the Central Pres
byterian church, has suffered with a
rht-umatlc knee since last August. She
says that she hail no use of her leg
without a cane; that she had unsuc
eeesfully used Iodine, blisters and va
rious lotions, and that her physician
had told her that the muscle of her leg
was worn out. Healer Keyser Juist
touched her knee and pulled her leg,
nnd she says she got up and walked. She
says she ran now bear her whole weight
on her rheumatic leg.
Benjamin Purrott, an aged colored
neighbor of Mrs. Coleman, says he suf
fered from a complication of troubles,
beginning with a sunstroke and ending
with grip, from which he claims ha was
partially paralyzed in his arms and
right leg. Keyser touched him, for a
few minutes, and the old man Bays
he can now .walk without a cane, and
is anxiously waiting for Keyser to
touch him up ngain to get him In trim
to run foot races with his grandchil
dren. There Is another coloretl woman here
who had asthma, catarrh, nervousness,
lheumatlsma nd a crooked leg. Keyser
treated her and the patient said she
feels better. Her leg Is still crooked,
however, but Keyser says It won't
trouble her so much now, as he has
"lubricated her Joints" with his occult
pojwer.
Jucob Ault geit mixed up with a Cum
berland Valley railroad train about five
years ago, and has since dragged him
self through life on a pair of crutches.
He had rheumatism before he was
wrecked on the railroad, and his life
has since then been one of continual
suffering. Keyser pulled his legs and
arm, rubbed his neck and head, and
Ault said thnt he felt much better and
slept that night with more comfort than
he had enjoved for years. He now
thinks that If Keyser will rub his spine
mnvhe he enn she' his crutches. To $
all appearances, however, he Is as much .
of n wreck as he was when Keysor
touched him.
NEW CURE FOR A DISEASE.
A man named S. Haller had salt
rheum, which compelled him to use a
crutch. Keyser touched his leg on Mon
day, and on Wednesday Haller had
thrown away his crutcn and was push
ing a baby coach around town. It is
claimed that Mrs. Frank Rollins was
getting diphtheria, at least Keyser
nlnlmn Iknl u V, i, aa I." ai'UHP fmt,llAl1
her on the head, and he claims that he
chased the diphtheria clean out of her
system.
THE CHILD FELT BETTER.
William Scheers brought his 9-year-old
daughter Eva to Keyser. The child
was afflicted with St. Anthony's dance,
so her father said. Keyser grasped her
wrists held them for a while,
asked the child what she felt.
She replied that she felt a funny sensa
tion as though her "foot was asleep all
over her body." "Do you feel better?"
asked Keyser. "Yes, sir," replied the
child. "You feel rested, don't you?"
asked Keyser. "Yes, sir," she said.
Then turning to the awe-Inspired father
Keyser said In a brisk, business-like
way: "That's about all I can do for this
little girl at present. I think I've backed
her trouble a little, and In time I can
entirely cure her of It." As the father
left with his child, the healer carefully
accepted an Invitation to smoke a cigar.
As he puffed away at It he looked more
like a base ball player than a healer.
Representative D. Hunter Patterson,
of Fulton county. Is said to have been
cured of a sore foot by Keyser's touch,
and an old man who lives at this
place, who Is said to be 86 years of age,
and who had been unable to raise his
hand to his head for ten years, was
touched by by Keyser, and.lt is claimed.
Immediately raise-d his hand to his head,
pulled his whiskers nnd said: "Ah."
WILL "TOUCH" FOR A FEE.
These are only a few cf the many
manifestations of Keyser's alleged pow
er. He is receiving calls from all ove-r
the valley, and among those who have
written him for dates Is Dr. (. II. Mark
ley, the well known druggist of Harris
burg. who de-sires to be touched for
lumbago and sciatica, nnd who has e
pressi d his willingness to come to
Chambersburg for that purpose. In
fart, so great Is the call on the healer's
time that he Intends to locate here,
with his pretty little wife, for several
weeks, and begin "touching" his pa-tle-nts
financially ns well as physically.
Heretofore he has made no charge
for his service's. "Now," he says, "the
teopIo have seen what I can do, and I
Intend to charge a nominal fee. Other
wise I make no more touches."
It is the lmpressIon here that Ke-yser
will not lack patients on account of
charging a fee. A prominent physician
of this borough used to administer
medicine tn many of his patients with
the unvarying advice: "Now, take that,
and by the grace of Ood It will cure
you." There are plenty of people here
who still believe In pow-wow men, and
who attach significance to a dropped
knife, spilled salt, falling upstairs, and
other kindred things, supposed to be
ominous by the superstitious, and la
view of the apparent cures being
wrought by Keyser there Is no doubt
that his time will be fully occupied.
Wrong Diagnosis.
"What you need," said the doctor, "Is
rest."
"Rest!" echoed the tall, (faunt caller,
rising to his feet and glowering down at
him. "Rest! You miserable quack! I'm
a walking delegate I" Washington Star.
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