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THE FIRST CLOCKS
Ono at Padua That Was a Wontier of
Mechanism
It was we are told in 1309 that the
first clock known to the world was
placed in the tower of San Eustorgio
in Milan
The greatest astonishment and ad
miration were manifested bj crowds
who flocked to see the timepiece In
1344 a clock was installed in the pal
ace of the nobles at Padua This was
a wonder of mechanism indeed for
besides indicating the hours it showed
the course of the sun the revolutions
of the planets the various phases of
the moon the months and the fetes
of the year
The period of the evolution from the
clock to the watch was seventy one
years not so very long all things con
sideredand the record of the Grst
watch is 13S0 A half century later
an alarm clock made its appearance
This we are told was looked upon
by the people of that age as un in
strument prodigieux
The fortunate possessor of this clock
was Andrea Alciato a councilor of
Milan The chroniclers have placed
on record that this clock sounded a
bell at a stated hour and at the same
time a little wax candle was lighted
automatically How this was done we
are not told but it must not be over
looked that until about seventy years
ago we bad no means of obtaining a
light other than the tinder box so
that the Milanese must have been cen
turies ahead of us in this respect
Not much progress was made with
the watch until 1740 when the sec
ond hand was added London Globe
TEMPTED HE ATE
A Story of Heinrich Heine and a
Toothsome Lyons Sausage
Returning from a journey to the
south of France Heinrich Heine met a
friend a German violinist in Lyons
who gave him a large sausage that
had been made in Lyons with the
request to deliver it to a mutual ac
quaintance a homeopathic physician
in Paris Heine promised to attend
to the commission and intrusted the
delicacy to the care of his wife who
was traveling with him But as the
postchaise was very slow and he
soon became very hungry on the ad
vice of his wife both tasted of the
sausage which dwindled with every
mile
Arriving at Earis Heine did not
dare to send the remainder to the
physician and yet he wished to keep
his promise So he cut off the thin
nest possible slice with his razor
wrapped it in a sheet of vellum paper
and inclosed it in an envelope with
the following note
Dear Doctor From your scientific inves
tigations we learn that the millionth part
of a certain substance brings about the
greatest results 1 beg therefore your
kind acceptance of the accompanying mil
lionth part of a Lyons sausage which our
friend gave me to deliver to you It
homeopathy is a truth then this little
piece will have the same effect on you as
the whole sausage Your
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TJghettis With Physicians and Cli
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The Curious Pair
Mrs Rubba 1 wonder why that wo
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why you are staring at her Philadel
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GREAT LOVE
STORIES
Quarrel of the
Royal Lovers
B
of HISTORY
By Albert Pay son Terhune
Theodora and Justinian
Copyright by tbe Author
The Roman capital of Constantino
ple in 525 A D was aghast at tho
news that the consul Justinian
nephew and heir to the Emperor Jus
tin I was to marry Theodora tho
farce comedy actress whose clever per
formances at the Circus had for
years set the city in a roar of laugh
ter
For an emperors heir to make an
actress his wife was not only scan
dalous but illegal as well People be
gan to inquire into Theodoras past
life Many of the facts they dug up
were of too unsavory a nature to bear
repetition But they learned also that
she was one of the three daughters of
a brutal fellow who had been keeper
of the wild bears in the menagerie
under the Circus building When
Theodora was only seven her father
had died The child was an impish
gay little creature with a genius for
mimicry So she had been put on the
stage She could not sing or dance
but she was a born comedian She
grew to womanhood small thin and
pale Scarcely the sort of girl to at
tract the attention of the emperors
nephew
Rome since the days of Nero had
grown so great in size and wealth that
it had at last split in two because of
its own unwieldy bulk and was divid
ed into the eastern and western em
pires The western empire with tho
city of Rome as its capital was soon
overrun by barbarian tribes But the
The Actress Who
Became Empress
eastern empire
flourished for
many centuries
Justin I a Dacian peasant had fought
his way up from the ranks to the com
mand of the army Then he had made
himself emperor and had proclaimed
Justinian his heir Justinian was a
wise man but lacking in firmness The
sort of a man that a clever woman
could manage to suit herself Theo
dora won his love and pointed out to
him a plan by which they two might
become emperor and empress His
uncles wife the Empress Euphemia
sternly forbade the match But this
did not long stand in Theodoras way
For Euphemia died rather suddenly
Justin was old and as much under
Justinians influence as the latter was
under Theodoras
The rest was plain sailing Justin
was persuaded to set aside the law
forbidding a prince to marry an ac
tress Theodora and Justinian thus
were married in 525 when the girl
was only 17 Two years later Justin
died Theodora made her husband
the new emperor crown her as em
press Then she proceeded to do the
lions share of the ruling interfering
and having her way in nearly all state
affairs The civilized world was thus
for a time swayed by an actress
whims Nor was she as bad an em
press as her early life would have
seemed to forecast She aided her hus
band to frame the celebrated Justin
ian Code of laws and in many ways
helped make his reign great
She attracted some notoriety by de
claring herself the champion of wives
whose husbands sought to divorce
them and she started besides a sort
of royal marriage bureau Match
making was her fad And certainly no
one could have set a brighter example
from her own success along that line
Justinians love for her did not cool as
the years went by And she probably
made him a fairly good wife
Once when revolutionists seized
Constantinople and clamored at the
palace gates Justinian was wild with
fear and decided to creep to the sea
shore unobserved and save his life by
flight Then it was that Theodora
threw away the diplomatic tactics by
which she had won and managed her
husband For once in her life she let
him feel the lash of her scorn and
couched her speech in the language of
the stage instead of that of the stately
court She bade him fly if he chose
but told him that death was nobler
for a monarch than exile and vowed
that she would not stir from her
throne preferring as she said to
make empire her
winding sheet
Justinian stung
into courage stuck to his post and
thereby saved his crown Once only
he is said to have taunted her in anger
with her humble parentage She is
reported to have answered that her J
father was quite as well born as her J
husbands grandfather who had been
a rude peasant
Indeed few dared to remind Theo- J
dora of her past She had a way of
putting to death persons who brought
up the subject For 23 years this
strange pair of lovers governed most
of the civilized world Then at the
age of 40 Theodora died The gen
erally accepted stoTy of her fate is
that she fell victim to cancer But j
some authorities hint that she tried to
manage her elderly husband once
too often and without her earlier tact
and that he in a fit of rage had her
beheaded
Austria to Build Airships
The first Austrian airship construc
tion company has just been formed
with a capital of 300000 kronen and
It is understood that the war office
is immediately placing an order for a
dirigible The constitution of the com
pany is largely due to the fact that
the efforts of the government to ob-
tain a dirigible from Germany during
the recent crisis failed I
ON THE OLD MGUl
REMINISCENCES OF EARLY DAYS
OF RAILROADING
Combination of Baggage and Passen
ger Coach Then Considered the
Acme of Luxury An Honor
to Know the Engineer
Way back in the fifties when tho
country still had wood to burn it
straight w a y
burned it as mer
cilessly and igno
rantly heedless of
our approaching
lumber hunger as
most of us now
are of the lumber
starvation we are
preparing for our
children
Those were the
days when in the
more primitive re
gions the fireman
was liable to
alight with an ax
from the expiring
locomotive chop
half a cord of fat
pine saplings from
the neighboring woods and complete
the run en that
Prior to the fifties the running time
between Chambersburg and Harris
burg a distance of 52 miles was four
hours as the Cumberland valley time
table for 1832 shows 13 miles an
hour The ancient and honorable Mo
gul was the wonder of the mid century
that reduced the run to the cannon
ball speed of two and one half hours
Seth Wilmarth of Boston designed
it in 1851 People then heard with
awe that together engine and tender
weighed 25000 pounds The immense
driving wheels were actually four and
one half feet high they would fit un
der a small mans armpit It had
half a dozen wheels in all the drivers
being located between front and back
pairs of pony wheels which would
make dainty ornaments for one of the
giants of to day The tank had a ca
pacity of 600 gallons enough to sup
ply the needs of a suburbanites
dwelling now
But the outward and visible sign of
that little choo choos might was the
vast funnel shaped smokestack Ev
erybody who saw that inverted pyra
mid of Cheops meandering down the
line belching smoke like a stogie
knew the great Mogul was thunder
ing along at the rate of 20 miles an
hour and hastened to drive the hogs
from their snooze between the old-fashioned
slab track rails that served
to let the nation wage the mightiest
war of modern history and were not
eliminated until 1868 from American
railroad construction by the advent
of the T rail
The Mogul burned wood and it was
equipped with a couple of cylinders
eight and one half by fourteen inches
with all the trimmings such as brass
bell pilot headlight whistle every
thing except those extremely useful
appurtenances brakes They used
the reverse bar for holding her down
in those Arcadian days
George Wentz was the Moguls en
gineer and that in the times when
being an engineer wqs next only to
being a modern king or a South
American dictator Mayors of towns
respectfully swapped high hat salutes
with such an engineer
When in 1855 the combination bag
gage and passenger coach was built
and put on the roads the acme of lux
ury was thought to be attained It
was 47 feet long over all it seated
40 passengers the seats ultimate
and royal splendor were covered
with red plush
That little old Mogul of the great
designer Wilmarth ran daily between
Chambersburg and Harrisburg from
1851 to 18S0 it ran occasionally un
til 1890 And it would probably run
yet the dead and cold Mogul would
still warm up with its old time ener
gy if haughty George Wentz in his
pyramid stovepipe were to arise from
the dead and heave a few chunks of
pine in near the neck of the stove
pipe
Cheap Fares in Belgium
Passenger tariffs on Belgian rail
roads are very low and the passenger
service is generally very good It is
not as rapid as the French service but
it is cheaper These rates show the
influence of the politicians
For instance tickets are on sale
which for a small price give the right
to ride anywhere as often as you like
for five days on any of the state lines
A third class ticket of that sort good
anywhere any time for five days costs
only 11 francs five centimes which is
just a fraction under 220 in Ameri
can money
Eighty eight per cent of all the pas
senger tickets issued are sold at one
sort or another of reduced rates
Among other curious instances show
ing the fine hand of the small politi
cian we find that tickets are sold to
electors to go to their voting places
at less than half price Moodys Maga
zine
New Chinese Railroad
The agreement for the American
loan of 50000000 for the construc
tion of the Chin-Chow-fu Tsitsihar
Aigun railroad has been imperially
ratified The new railroad will be a
serious rival of the South Manchurian
now being run under Japanese man
agement between Darien and Harbin
The new line will run parallel to it
but about 100 miles further west cut
ting the Russian line at Tsitsihar and
extending on to Aigun on the Amur
river 200 miles north of Harbin
GREAT LOVE
STORIES
of HISTORY
By Albert Pay son Terhune
BSSHHaBKagHBMBa
Nero and Poppaea
Copyright by tho Author
A long train of donkeys were driven
daily to the mansion of Romes most
beautiful woman Poppaea Sablna
There they were milked The milk
was poured into a huge marble tub
In this tub Poppaea took her morning
bath on the plea that washing in
donkeys milk added to her beauty
However true or false this theory may
have been it certainly had the effect
of advertising Poppaea It even
brought her to the notice of the em
peror Nero and led to a love affair
which was to cost thousands of inno
cent lives
Octavius Julius Caesars nephew
had turned Rome from a republic to
an empire with himself as emperor
His successors kept the title without
inheriting any of its originators
genius At last a weak foolish man
named Claudius came to the imperial
throne In 49 B C he married his
niece Agrippina a wicked clever wo
man who induced him to disinherit
his own son and to proclaim her young
son Nero as his heir Having accom
plished this Agrippina poisoned
Claudius and set Nero on the throne
The young emperor was at first a gen
tle and wise ruler meekly obeying his
ambitious mothers commands But
flatterers at court finally prompted
him to defy her and to run the empire
to suit himself and them Still Agrip
pinas influence was more or less pow
erful over the youth until he met
Poppaea
A Jealous
Husband
Poppaea Sabina
was wealthy and
of patrician fam
ily As a girl she had married a no
bleman who had divorced her Then
she had married a daring young sol
dier and profligate named Otho one of
Neros boon companions Otho loved
her jealeusly So when Nero falling
in love with the beautiful woman sug
gested that Otho give her up the hus
band flatly refused In this refusal
he was backed by Poppaea herself
Not that she cared for Otho but she
read Neros nature and knew that op
position would fan his fancy for her
into worship She was justified in this
belief for Nero before long found
means of separating her from the
heartbroken Otho
Poppaea had made up her mind to
be empress Agrippina hated her
Nero also had a wife Octavia But
these obstacles did not check Pop
paea One by one she cleared them
away She persuaded Nero that his
mother was conspiring against him
and worked him to such a frenzy of
rage and fear that he had Agrippina
murdered Next Poppaea induced him
to divorce Octavia and to consent to
her death Nothing now stood in the
fair adventuress way and she and
Nero were formally married Pop
paeas ambitien was gratified She
was empress of Rome Moreover
Nero loved her so madly that her light
est wish was his law She could
frighten or cajole him into doing any
thing she desired At her order one
after another of his saner advisers
were put to death
And now began a period of reckless
dissipation on the part of Nero and
Poppaea that nearly wrecked the em
pire Poppaea brought out all that
was worst and maddest in Nero and
spurred him on to terrible deeds
Among these which she is credited
by many authorities with suggesting
to her husband was the burning of
Rome in 64 A D While the city
burned the emperor composed - and
sang an ode in honor of the conflagra
tion
The plain people had been patient
under their rulers tyranny But the
burning of their city drove them to
fury Nero was frightened Advised
by Poppaea and his flatterers he de
clared the Christians had set fire to
Rome and put hundreds of them to
death in barbarous manner by way of
pretended punishment for the crime
This for the moment pacified the peo
ple But soon fresh iniquities on the
part of the imperial couple angered
them again At last in a fit of jealous
rage Nero one day struck Poppaea
She died from the effects of the blow
Nero mourned her loudly and long and
wrote poems to her memory But his
time of retri
Otho Takes Wfn
utln
Vengeance Awas
hand And the
man he had most wronged was to
punish him
Otho had joined with an old general
named Galba in stirring up the Roman
armies against Nero He marched to
Rome at the head of his legions to
avenge himself on the tyrant who had
robbed him of his wife In spite of his
haste Otho turned aside long enough
in the march to visit the grave of
Poppaea There weeping he piled her
last resting place with fresh flowers
and passed on to his work of ven
geance
But Nero did not await his enemies
coming Deserted by flatterers and
guards alike he killed himself to avoid
the fate he knew he must otherwise
expect at Othos hands
Y M C A in Germany and America
There are 1990 Young Mens Chris
tian associations in Germany only
1939 in America yet where the Ger
man associations heve but 117000
members the American have 446000
And German association property
holdings have a value of 2400000
contrasted with a value of 40000
000 in America
This contractor got results
He knew how to feed his men
Some years ago a contractor build
ing a railroad in a warm climate was
troubled a great deal by sickness
among the laborers
He turned his attention at once to
their food and found that they were
getting full rations of meat and were
drinking water from a stream near by
He issued orders to cut down the
amount of meat and to increase greatly
the quantity of Quaker Oats fed to the
men
He also boiled Quaker Oats and
mixed the tiiin oatmeal water with
their drinking water
Almost instantly all signs of stomach
disorders passed and his men showed
a decided improvement in strength
and spirits
This contractor had experience that
taught him the great value of good
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