THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE- WEDNESD AY, JUNE 13, 1900.
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THE DYING CENTURY
PASSED IN REVIEW
INVENTIVE GENIUS MAKES A
GREAT RECORD.
Mechanisms for ITso in Households
Become Common Necessities and
in tho Indusorial Arts There Woro
Nover So Many in Any Ono Con
tury. From tho Chicago Times-Herald.
"Yankee Ingenuity" has been one of
the Intangible resources of the United
States, nnd so closely associated with
Us material welfare that the two are
not separable. Morse, Edison, Hell,
Gray, Howe and McCormack were of
this type. Exceptionally favorable pa
tent laws, and the disposition of tho
American people to avail themselves
of the small results of Inventive koii
lus In everyday life, to some extent
have served to expend inventive ener-
, rIcs In small accomplishments. At the
same time In the things that mark
the progress of the nineteenth century
tho American Inventor will yield his
place to none.
In tho domestic arts the American
' Inventor lias a wide field. Today there
Is scarcely a department of the mod
ern household that docs not bring ma
chinery to the aid of human hands.
The modern apartment building of the
city has an Immense Fleam plant at Its
foundation, dependent upon the direc
tion of it stationary engineer. The
walls are ribbed with pipes for steam,
hot water and gas, and electric wires
wind the whole struutute In their
meshes.
STEAM HEAT FOU THE MANY.
Of recent inventions few things have
had so much effect upon the home life
of the people as has tho system of
steam he? ting. It has overturned all
precedents In home-making, evolving
the giant apartment building which
houses sufficient peopto to make up a
small town,
In America one of the great prob
lems of tho home Is tho heating dur
ing tho late fall, winter and early
spring months. European peoples In
a naturally milder climate are satis
fled with a house temperaturo of 50
degrees Fahrenheit, while In the Uni
ted States the average for living rooms
Is above 70 degrees. Any heating sys
tem that falls below that winter ex
treme is considered a failure. Steam
has been perfected and cheapened and
elevator service has been extended un
til the modern flat building has no
limitation as to height, and with each
year the populations of the big cities
ore congesting more onil more miu
apartments, where the burdens of
housekeeping are i educed to a mini
mum. From heat to cold, tho lce-maklng
machine is a next step. In the north
temperate zones It Is scarcely a neces
sity, but in the equatorial bolts of the
world it is one of tho notable inven
tions of the age.
That ice could be manufactured ar
tificially was not new to this century,
but Its practlral value was not demon
stated until the 70's.
MEAT KEPT GOOD IN SHIPMENT.
Edmunde Carre, In Paris In 1S27, per
fected a machine, using sulphuric
acid, and made It servo small rcfrlgor
nflntr demands In a Paris cafe. Les
lie, In 1810, hud experimented with
such a machine, and Vallanco and
Klngsford were later brokers. Hut to
Franz Wlndhnuscn, In 187S, Is due the
credit of the first perfected plant, in
volving the use of a compound va
cuum pump. With slight improve
ments this plant was set up In Bays
water, London, In 18S1, having a ca
pacity of fifteen tons of ice each day.
The meaning of this invention was
emphasized In September, 18S1, when
the steamer Strathleven steamed into
Liverpool loaded with refrigerated
beef from the Argentine republic. Tho
Nonparlel, equipped with a refrigera
tor plant, took tho first load of West
Indian fruits In 1886, and In 188S that
port received a cargo of rpplcs from
Melbourne. These were the begin
nings of the great business of trans
portation In refrigerators, and today
Great Britain receives mill: and cream
In refrigerator ships. Itcfrigerotor
care are a necessity on all railroads,
and the cold otorago warehouses of tho
cities almost make the world forget
tho changes of tho seasons.
In the domestic world, Ellas Howe,
with the sowing machine, has revolu
tionized woman's work. He has not
been unquestioned In the honor of the
Invention. In 1755 Weiscnthal's crude
attempts at a machine that would sew
set the pattern for the sowing machine
needle, which ho made pointed at both
ends, with the eye In the middle.
Twenty-five years later Thomas Saint
patented In England a machine to sew
lenther. Welsenthal's needle had been
forgotten, however, and Saint's ma
chine was a failure because a forked
steel had to carry tho thread. Thl
monler, a French tailor, Invented the
first practical machine, and in 1S41 In
Paris he was using eighty of these ma
chines In the manufacture of army
uniforms. Iabor was Incited against
him and his place was wrecked and
the machines destroyed. Ho took out
other patents in 1813 and In 1S18, but
troublous times In tho country ruined
him.
Walter Hunt, of New York, made a
machine using an eye-pointed needle
nnd making a lock stitch, but, while
It was in use In 1834, no patent was
taken out on it.
Then at Spencer, Mass., In 1843,
Howe, nil unconscious of what had
been done by Hunt and others, set to
work on a machine that would Few.
His flrat rough model was completed
In IS 1-1 nnd was patented In March,
1SIG. The Invention, was sold to Wil
liam Cheapslde, of London, for $1,250,
and Cheapslde engaged Howe nt a sal
ary to work at perfecting the patent.
HOWE'S EARLY SETBACKS. .
Howe's work there was a failure.
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A31& the evidence of weight both go to
shtrw that the sick who gain in health
gain m flesh. The nly gain in weight
whi& is unhealthy is the gain which
comes from an accumulation of flabby
fa.t. Loss of flesh is one of the foremost
Y sigas tit failing health. If you have lost
weight, and are gaining health by medical
treatmasnfc, you will gain in flesh and the
scales will tell the tale.
THE EW&SHG& 0F W&m?fm
Ono of tho notable results of the use of Dr, Fferce's
Golden Medical Discovery :s a gmn of flecL evi
denced by an increaso in weight. Weight is propor
tioned to height, and every healthy person has a
normal weight which is in exact proportion to tho
stature. When tho weight falls below this normal
proportion to height it is a sign of failing health.
Insurance companies recognize this fact and they
refuse insurance whenever there is a marked disparity
between height and weight.
Tho reason for this refusal is based upon the fact
that when tho weight falls below the normal it shows
that tho body is not being adequately nourished.
Tho food eaten to sustain lifo is not being properly
digested and assimilated. And because the vital
powers of tho body depend upon the assimilation of
tho nutriment extracted from food, It follows that
whenever there is a failure in digestion and assimi
lation, thero is also a loss of vital force. For these
reasons a enro of diseases of the stomach and organs
of digestion and nutrition is marked by a gain in
weight.
GAINED TWENTY POUNDS IN TWO
MONTHS,
"I wish to say to the world that Dr. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery has proved a great blessing to me," writes
Ellen E. Bacon, of Shutesbury, Franklin Co., Mass., "as I
firmly believe I should be in a very bad state now if I had
not taken it. Prior to September, 1897, I had doctored for
my stomach trouble for several years, going through a
course of treatment without any real benefit. In Septem
ber, 1896, 1 had very sick spells and grew worse ; could eat
but little. I commenced in September, 1897, to take Dr.
Pierce's medicine and in a short time I could eat and work.
x aavegameu twenty faunas in two tnonins."
GAINED FIFTY-SEVEN POUNDS.
"I had been troubled with catarrh of the stomach and
heart trouble," writes Mr. W. D. Merchant, of Tylersburg,
Clarion County, Pa, "Had doctored for some1 time without
relief, then I began to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, I took seven bottles. Before I began to take it
weighed 119 pounds, and now I weigh 176T I am work
ing steadily ana feel like a well man, I send yon many
thanks." '
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures dis
eases of tho Btomach and other organs of digestion
and nutrition. It increases tho activity of tho blood
making glands, bo that tho body is eupplied with an
increased flow of puro blood, rich in tho red cor
puscles of health. Many diseases remote from tho
stomach are cured by tho use of "Golden Medical
Discovery," because such diseases have their origin
in a diseased condition of tho stomach and its allied
organs of digestion and nutrition. Tho whole body
(and each separato organ of it), depends for strength
on tho nourishment extracted from food. When tho
Btomach only partly extracts tho elements of nourish
ment from the food eaten, then tho body is only
partly fed. In as far as tho organs lack nourishment
they are starved, and starvation means weakness.
Hence "weak" heart, "weak" nerves, "weak" or
sluggish liver, and other " weak " organs aro cured
when the " weak " stomach is cured and made strong
again by tho use of " Golden Medical Discovery."
GAINED FIFTY POUNDS.
Mrs. Mary E. Lewis, of Tanner, Gilmer Co., V. Va.,
writes: "I will always recommend Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, 'Favorite Prescription' and 'Pleasant
Pellets, for they cured me when doctors and other medi
cines failed. For fifteen years I suffered untold misery.
When I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's medicines, I had
given up nil hope of ever getting well. I could not lie
down to sleep, and everything I ate .would almost cramp me
to death, was very nervous and could hardly walk across
the room. only weiglied ninety pounds when I com
menced taking these medicines six years ago ; now xveigh
one hundred and forty pounds, and am having better health
than ever before. My friends all say they can hardly
believe that I am the same person ; after being sick so long
have changed to be robust and rosy cheeked. I have taken
fifteen bottles of 'Discovery,' fifteen of the ' Prescription '
and fifteen of the ' Pellets.' I take great pleasure in recom
mending your medicine to the sick for I know that if it had
not been for them I would not have been living to-day."
Thero is no alcohol in " Golden Medical Discovery "
and it contains no opium, nor other narcotic. It is
not a stimulant, imparting a false strength, but a real
flesh-forming, body-building medicine. Of course,
tho medicine does not build tho body or make flesh,
no medioino can do that But tho " Discovery " cures
diseases of tho stomach' and digestive and nutritive
systems, and enables tho assimilation of food by
which alono flesh is formed and strength regained.
If you aro encouraged to try "Golden Medical
Discovery" do not bo put off with an imitation or
substitute medicine, such as some dealers will offer
for tho sako of a littlo more profit, claiming that it is
"just as good." Thero is nothing just as good as
Dr. Pierco's Golden Medical Discovery for tho euro
of diseases of tho stomach and other organs of diges
tion and nutrition.
THOSE WHO WEiJxH WELL iho at'o of medical
" arf hygienic linowlodgo for
iho protection of hoaltlt will bo eager to possess a copy of Dr. Pierco's
Common Sonso Medical Advisor. This great hook contains 3008 largo
pages and Is sent froo on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing
only. Send 31 ono-cont stamps (oxponso of mailing ONLY) for tho booh
In cloth binding, or 21 stamps for tho vofumo In paper covers.
Address: Dr. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y.
Ho pawned his United States patents
and returned penniless to tho United
States. Hero ho found that Singer
had perfected a machine which ho
held to Infringe his own patents. Ho
redeemed the papers pawned In Lon
don and brought suit against Singer.
Enormously costly litigation followed,
but Howe's claims were sustained, and
the muny maufaeturers of machines
then springing up were forced to pay
him royalties. These, at tho expira
tion of his patents In 1807, had brought
tho Inventor nearly $2,000,000. In Sep
tember of that year Howe died. Since
his first model many thousands of
patents have been taken out on sew
ing machine improvements. 'Modifi
cations of these machines to suit vari
ous lines of manufactures have given
the sewing machine place In the fac
tory more solidly than In the home.
Everywhere It Is driven by electric
power, and aside from textiles It has
embraced nearly every branch of
leather manufacture.
In the printing arts the nineteenth
century haa made an Indelible mark.
First of these, perhaps, Is the print
ing press. The first press In North
America, oddly enough, was set up in
the City of Mexico in 1EC0, from which
a large volume In Spanish was printed
In 1571. It was nearly 100 years later
that the first press was set up in Ply
mouth colony for the purpose of print
ing Bibles for the Indians. In 1772
Christopher Sower established the first
typo foundry at Clcnnnntown, Pa., and
soon afterward tho printing press in
America was a merchantable thing.
With the year 1800 the old world was
lntbrestcd in an Improved printing
preis. Nicholson in England had con
ceived of a cylindrical press, but could
not overcome the dlfllculty of a neces
sary curved type surface. Kpenlg, a
German, made an advancement ln a
cylinder which wrapped Itself In. tho
paper .:nd rolled with It across the
Hat typo surface. Tho London, Times,
using this device in 1811, could print
1,800 impressions an hour on one side
of the paper.
CYLINDRICAL PLATE AND PRESS
About this time Professor Wilson, of
Glasgow, perfected a plaster process
for stereotyped plates under the pa
tronageof Earl Stanhope, of England.
In 1815 Cowper made tho llrst curved
stereotype plates, but not till 1SC3, in
the office of the Loudon Times, were
the first cylindrical plates made for a
cylindrical press. The French papier
mache process was used, and then for
the first time the cylinder press was
an assured fact.
In 1873, in the United States, Hoe
perfected the first rotary press, and
from this the rapid newspaper press
has come a press that prints, cuts,
pastos, folds and counts Its tens of
thousands of papers In an hour.
The typewriter, as a pathfinder,
mado the woy for the type-casting
machine. But when tho world had
seen a perfected writing machine It
still assured the hand compositor that
no ingenuity of head or hand would
tack from his trained lingers -the lit
tle metal stick with Its lettered point.
But the penman and the printer are
both going. Within a decade tho type
writer and the type-sotting machines
have become almost universal In their
kindred fields.
Tho linotype machine of the Ottmar
Mergenthaler patent Is one of the most
wonderful perfecting machines ever
recorded In the patent office. In the
latter end of a century of unexam
pled Inventions It gained for Its de
feigner the title of "pioneer Inventor"
nnd also the Elliott Cresson gold medal
from the Franklin Institute in Phila
delphia. Mergenthaler, who died In October
last was a native of Wurtemburg,
Germany, where he was born in 1831.
At 11 yeaia of ago he was appren
ticed to a watchmaker, and four years
later emigrated to Baltimore, Md., to
escape mllltry service. Ho spent years
In the study of a possible type-casting
machine, and In 187G began building
the machines which finally became the
linotype machine of 1SS4.
OPERATION OF THE MACHINE.
By a system of keys similar to those
of a typewriter, the matrices of a
line aro assembled and automatically
"justilled" or spaced. ' It is then trans
ferred to a mold and a line of type
cast from a pot of molten metal. The
matrices are then withdrawn, tho mold
removed, thet metal line planed acioss
the bottom and finally deposited In its
oider in tho galley. Then, automatic
ally tho matrices are picked up and
distributed into their respective maga
zines, from which a flnger-touch will
drop them again Into the next line of
composition. As an llustratlon of the
admirable adjustment of this machine
it may be mentioned that type metal
Is very sensitive to a high degree of.
heat, and, becoming too hot, it may
be ruined. A gas Jet keeps this metal
molten, and, to avoid overheating, the
flame Is made to regulate itself, keep
ing tho metal for tho type line at a
uniform degree of heat. The first of
thet'e machines ever tried was In the
office of tho New York Tribune in
July, 1SSG. Eight thousand of them
nre in use at the present tino and the
name of Mergenthaler wll go down to
history with those of AVatt, Stephen
son, Fulton, Edison, iMorsa and Bell.
The art of Illustration has kept
abreast of the art of printing, until
here and! thero they have merged al
most Into the line arts. The wood cut
and the steel engraving are gone. In
their places are the zinc etching, tho
photogravure and the half-tone plate.
Color work Is done to a perfection that
requires an expert, almost, to say that
it is not from tho brush. Compari
son of a book or magazine of today
with ono of only twpnty-flve years
ago will accentuate the progress of
the Illustrator and of the printer.
GROWTH OF THE BICYCLE.
The bicycle, as ono of tho wonders
of the age, was slow In evolving. Not
till the geared wheel of tho safety pat
tern was perfected, did the machine
come Into general favor. Tho pneu
matic tiro and ball bearings have
mado It. Nolsoless.movlng without
friction and of phenomenal lightness
in proportion to its load and the dis
tance It may bo driven, tho principles
of tho bicycle aro promising to the
future" of transportation.
Since the close of thq Civil war, no
other period In tho world's history has
been to fertile of inventions, and no"
country has been so marked with their
influence us tho United States haa
been. From a buckle or nn eyelet In
Which fortunes have been made up
to the most Intricate mechanism do
signed to lift burdens from tho shoul
ders of man, tho Yankee Inventor has
met every emergency of the times,
even anticipating some of them. Ho
has worked havoo to trades and to
occupations, upsetting hero and build
ing up there, only to find a resource
ful peoplo ndjustlng themeselves read
ily to the now conditions. He has
made a hundred new occupations in
tho last quarter of a century, even
while ho has given to ono man tho
powers of ten In the world's work.
Much of th-' poHilhiiltlPS nf tho new
The Qualities in These 'u?
Ten and Twelve Dollar Suits
Are very important considerations for
you and the assortment is much larger than
any s,ore can show you at this price. Some
new cloth patterns arrived only last week,
See them in our Penn avenue show window
and mark the beautiful qualities of "Dudley"
Tweeds and Worsteds. The tailoring and
workmanship in these Ready-to-Wear Suits
is of the highest order, every piece of cloth has been tested for
its strength and color before being cut.
Fine Suits
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Neat effects in
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by all first
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chant tailors.
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such qualities again at this price.
Twelve Dollar ReadytoWear Suits.
Handsomely made and embracing all the new cloth patterns, either in fine
Worsteds or Tweeds. We selected the cloths. Some are from the Washington
Mills, others from the Etna Mills of Watertown. Mass. No custom tailor could
find any flaw in their make and fit. See these qualities in our ij y ff
show window marked P i3J
Our Straw
Hat Styles.
As usual our
straw hat
showing this year ih the largest and best
in town, every style of straw that is
made is here in the smooth " Milan " or
rough "Chip." Our prices always the
lowest for quality. See the styles in our
corner window at
50c, 75c, $1.00, up to $2.50.
All the newest shapes in stiff derby or
soft " Fedora." Any shade you fancy is
here at
$1.50, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00.
Shirts and
Underwear.
We have always been
noted for our shirt novelties,
and this season we are show
ing some of the most beauti
ful " Madras " designs with
or without silk fronts.
75c and $1.00.
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Underwear in natural color from the
famous " Bon Ton " mills. This under
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and regular made. Ah excellent quality
50c
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Scranton's Leading Outfitters.
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LADIES' SHOES.
Ladies' Vici Kid, Button nnd Lace, Kid and
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value $3.00 and $4.00, go at $1.98 and $2.29.
Ladies' Dongola Button, Goodyear and turn
shoes, worth $2.50 at $M9-
Ladies' Russia Calf, heavy sole S3.00 shoes, at
$1.79.
Ladies' $2.00 Russet Patent Tip shoes, at $1.29
Ladies' Oxfords, Russet and Black, at 75c, 98c,
$1.25 and $2.00.
Ladies' Russet $1.50 shoes, at 98c.
Misses' Shoes, Russet and Black, at 75c, 98c,
$1.25 and $1.50.
Hen's Shoes.
At $2.00, $3.00, $4.oo and $5.00. Made by
Hanan, H. S. & H. and other well-known makes,
in Russia Calf, Vici Kid and Patent Leather, all styl
ish and all widths, A to EE. Boys' Shoes at 98c
and $1.25.
The above are only a few of the many bargains. We invite you to call and examine
our goods before buying elsewhere. Remember, there is no trouble to shPv,-you?ga&cls
and you will surely save money by it. ' " - '-
MYER DAVIDOW
The Cheapest Shoe Store. 307 Lackawanna Avenue.
century Is In his hands. That his
"YnnlMo ingenuity" wllll rise to fu
ture ocaslons hla fellow countrymen
cannot doubt.
Would Not Suffer So Again For Fif
ty Times Its Price.
I awoko last night with sovero
pains In my stomach, r never felt s,o
badly In all my life. When I came
down to work this morning I felt so
weak I could harly work. I went to
Miller & McCurdy's drus store and
they recommended Chamberlain's
Collp, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
It worked like maglo and ono dose
fixed mo all right. It certainly Is the
I'.nest thing I over used for stomach
trouble. I shall not be without It In
my homo hereafter, for I should not
caro to enduro tho sufferings of Jast
night again for fifty times Its price.
O. If. Wilson, Liveryman, Rurgetts
town, Washington Co., Pa. This rem
edy is for sale by all druggists. Mat
thews Ilros., wholesale and retail agts.
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