THE OMAHA DAILY MJflJS: THURSDAY. OCTOJiEtt 2o. 1000,
PRISONERS
By "Q."
(Copyright, 1W0, by Arthur Qullier-Couch.)
You've heard tell, 1 daro say, about Land
lord Cummins and llllly Boslstow, and the
reat Jealousy thcro was between them.
Hot Why, It got Into the law courtsi
landlord Cummins ho that used to keep
tho Welcome Home married an aunt of
nine on my mother' aide. The boys used
to call him "Calvcs-lu-Front" becauso of
Ms legs being put on In nn unusual man
nr, which made him walk slow all his
days. And IJIIIy Hoststow w.'s my father's
father's stepson. You needn't take any
trouble to get thai clear In your mind, be
causo our family never owned him after he
time homo from the French war prisons
Knd took up with his drinking habits.
In the year '25 Landlord Cummins got
himself e,",'l tnnvor of tho borough,
friend gavo me that there coin. Ills heart's
in the right place, which h moro than can
be said for his calves. Two-pennyworth of
gin, please, your worship," And tho end
was that he'd to up beforo tho mayor on
Monday morning, charged with drunken
nrss. No use to fine hlra; he wouldn't pay
It, but went to Jail Instead. "Ten years was
I In prison," he'd say addressing the bench,
"nlong with his worship tbere. I don't
know what 'twould appear to him who came
back and got tho Welcome Home, but I
didn't and ten days don't frighten me,"
Now you'll be wanting to know- vhnt made
these two men hate each other, for friends
they had been, as two men ought to bo who
had born taken prlioncrs together and
epont ten years In captivity to the French
nnd came home nboanl the tamo ship like
brothers.
First of all, you must know, thnt tip to
the year '03 Abo Cummins nnd Hill IJoslstow
hadn't known what It Is to quarrel or miss
meeting each other every day. Abe, tho
eldor by a year, was a bit alow and heavy
on his pins, given to reading, too, though
bo seemed to take It for peaco nnd quiet
ness more than for any show he made of
his learning. 1111 wbh unarter altogether
nnd better looking; a bit boastful, after
the manner of young chaps. He could read,
too, but never mado much at It. You'd
hardly havo thought two young fellows so
dlfforcnt In every way could havo hit It off
together bb they did. Ilut these were like
two figures j a puzzle block; their very
differences seemed to make them fit. Thcso
two held off swcetheartlng right along until
Christmas of the year '03, when they came
homo from l'orthlovcu to spend a fortnight
at Ardevora nnd they both fell In love with
Bellna Johns.
Bollna Johns wasn't but Just husband
high; turned 1. and her hair only put up
a week before, she having begged her moth
er's leavo to twist It In plaits for the
Christmas cournnts. Abe uud Hilly each
knew tho other's secret almost before he
knew his own.
And what, thoy did was to havo It out
like good fellows, and agreo to wait a
couple of years, unless any third party
should Interfere, end then lot the best man
wlnl No bad blood afterward; they shook
hands upon that. That January, being
tired of the free trade, thoy shipped to
gether on board a coaster for the Thames
and reshlppcd for the voyage homeward
on board the brig Hand In Glove of Lon
don, bound for Devonport.
Hy reason of delay tho Hand In Glove
tartcd well astern of the convoying fleet
and couldn't make up her distance. That
ovonlng a French lugger crept up on her,
hovo a grapnel nboard and threw twenty
well-armed Johnnies Into tho old brig. Tho
cven Englishmen, taken unprepared, were
driven down below nnd shut down, while
the Johnnies altered tho brig's course and
sot away for France.
Carly noxt morning the two vessels were
close off Dloppo harbor, nnd thoro, when
the tldo suited, they wero taken Inside, and
tho prisoners put ashore at nightfall and
lodged tor three days In a filthy round
tower, unarming with vermin. On April 1
Easter Sunday, l'vo heard It was they
were told to got ready for marching, nnd
handed over, making twenty-five In all,
with tho crows of two other vessels, to a
lieutenant and n guard of foot Boldlers.
Not a man of them know whero thoy were
bound. They set out through a main prcV.y
country, whero tho wheat stood near about
kneo-hlgh, but tho roads wore heavy after
the spring ruins. Mostly they camo to a
town for their night's halt and as often na
not tho townsfolk drummed them to Jail
with what wo call tho "Itoguo's March,"
but lu Franco I believe It's "Honors of
War," or something that sounds politer
than 'tis. Hut there were times when they
had to put up at n farmhouse by the road
nnd then tho poor cbnps slept on straw for
n treat.
Well, on tho Inst day of tho fortnight
they reached their Journey's ond a great
fortress on a rock standlug right over tho
river, with a town lying around the foot
of the rock, and a smaller town, reached by
a bridge of boats, on the fur side of the
river. I can't call to mind tho name of the
river, but the towns were called Jlvvy
Great and little Jlvvy. The prison stood
at the very top of tho rock, on tho edge tf
a cliff that dropped a clean 300 fcot to the
river; not at all a pretty placo to get clear
of, and nono so cheerful to live In on n
day's allow nnco of ono pound of brown
bread, half a pound of bullock's offal,
three halfpence lu money (paid wceklr, nd
the most of It deducted for prison repairs),
and now and then n noggin of1' peas.
It was now that the dlffercnco In tho
two men enmo out. Abe took his downfall
rery quietly from tho first. Ho had mnnaged
to keep a book In his pocket a book of
voyages It was and carry It with hlra all
tho way from Dieppe, and It really didn't
seem formatter to hlu that he was shut
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up so long as he could sit In a cor.
nor and read about other folk travel
Ing. In the second year of their cap
tlvlty Abe would alt by tho hour, with his
roommates drunk and fighting round him,
nn,i rnnv out tables and work out sums
All his money went Into pens and Ink In- ,
stead of liquor which tho Jailers smuggled
In.
Hilly Uoslstow was a very different pair
of shoes. Although no drinker by habit, ho
fretted and worn himself down at times to
a lowneis of spirits In which nothing seemed
to servo him but drinking, and fierce, drink
ing. On his better days ho was everybody's
favorite, but when tho mood fell on him he
grow teasy nnd fit to set his right hand
quarreling with his left. Then came tho
drinking fit nnd he'd wako out of that llko
n man dazed, sitting In a corner and brood
ing for days together.
He had two things to brood upon cscapo
and Sellnn. Hut confinement Is the ruin
ation of somo natures and ns year after year
went by and his wits broke themselves on
a stono wall, be grow Into a very different
PUT THAT
FOOL IN THE STOCK." CRIED HIS WOHSHIP.
man from the handy lad tho Johnnies had i
taken prisoner. One thing he never gavo
up and that was his pluck, and be had pltnty
of use for it when, after seven years, his
chanco camo.
His first contrivance was to change names
with nn old American In the depot. It so
happened that tho captain of a French pri
vateer had applied to tho prison for a crow
of foreigners to man his ship, then lying
nt Morlalx. Tho trick, by oiling the Jailor's
palm, was managed easily enough and away
noststow was marched with twenty com
rades of all nations. Hut at tho first stage
somo recruiting officers, stopped them, In
sisting that they wero Irish and not Amer
icans and must be cnllstod to serve with
Uonnparto's army In S"aln. The prisoners
to a man refused to hear of It and the end
was they wero marched back to prison In
dlsgraco and, to can everything, had their
English allowance stopped on pretense that
(thoy had been In tho French service.
Yet this brought him a second chance,
for, being now dcclired an IrUhiuuu, ho
managed to get himself locked up with the
Irish, on the handler sldo of tho prison,
ami thnt same night broke out of a window
with two other fellows, got over tho prison
wall and hid In tho woods beyond. But
on the second day a party of wood rangers
attacked them with guns and captured them
nnd back they went nnd wero condemned
to six years In Irons.
This, ns It turned out, didn't amount to
much; for, whllo they wero watting to be
marched off to tho galleys their Jailer came
with news that a son was born to the em
peror and thoy wero pardoned In honor of
It. Uut Instead of putting them back In
their old quarters, he fixed them up for a
fortnight In a room by themselves, being
fearful thnt such bad characters would
contaminate, tho other prisoners. This
room was an upstairs one, in n building on
tho edgo of tho ramparts, and after a few
nights they broke through tho celling Into
an ompty chamber, which had a window
looking on tho roof, lowered themselves
on to the edgo of tho prcclplco and took
their way northward across the fields,
steering by tho pole star and a fine comet,
which thoy guessed to bo in the northwest
quarter.
You sco the dlfferenco between theso two
fellows'and how little Providence mado of
It. Back In Jlvvy Abo Cummins was Btar
(cg at this same comet out of his prison
windows, and doing his sums and thinking
of Scllna Johns. And hero was Boslstow
following It up for freedom with tho up
shot that ho made the coast and was taken
like a lamb In the attempt to hro a pas
sage, and marched from one Jail to another,
clean back tho wholo length of France,
pretty well to the Mediterranean sea. And
then ho was shut up in a prison on the
very top of tho Alps and twice as far from
home as ho had been, before. That's a
moral against folks in a hurry If ever thero
wub one.
Well, ho broke out of prison again and
wn3 brought back half Btarving, nnd
'twnsn't till Christmas of the year '13 that
ho, with a lot of other prisoners, was
marched away for Tours, on tho Loire
river, l'vo figured It out on tho map nud
even that is enough to make a man feel
t-oro in his feet. Uut what mado Boslstow
glad at the tlmo nnd vicious after, was that
on hla wny he fell In with a draft of pris
oners and amQng them was Abe Cum
mins, who, so to say, had reached tho same
nlaco by walking n tenth nart of tho dls
tance. The two friends trudged together
and on the first day Abo brought up the
subject nearest to thfclr hearts by saying
quietlike "Have you been happening to
think much about Scllna Johns this last
year or two."
"Most every day," answered Hilly.
"So havo I," said Abe, and seemed to bo
pondering to himself, "She'll be a woman
growed by this time," ho went on.
"Turnln' twenty-seven," Billy agreed.
"That's of It," said Abe. "I've been
thinking nbout rcr constant."
"Well, look'eo here," spoko up Billy,
"our little agreement holds, don't It? that
Is, If ever wo get out of tblsj hero mess
and Sellna hasn't gone and taken a hus
band. Play fair, leavo It to the maid, and
let tho best mau win, that's what wo shook
hands over."
"True, true," says Abe; but after a bit ho
asked rather shy-like: "And s'posln' you'ro
the lucky one, how do'eo reckon you'ro going
w maintain her?" i
"Why, on seamen's wages, I suppose, or
else at the shoe-uiendlug. I learnt a llttlo
of that trade In prison, as you'd know."
"Well," says Abe, "I was reckonln' to ret
up school and teach navigation. Back In
Ardevora I can make between 70 and S0
a year at that game easy,
Boslstow scratched his head. "You've been
making the most of your time. Now I've
been busy in my way, too, but secmln' to
mo the only trade l'vo learned Is prison
breakln'. Not much to keep a wife on, as
you say. sun, a bargain's a bargain."
"Oh, sutt'nly," says Abe; "that Is, If your
conscience allows it."
"I reckon I'll risk that," answered Billy,
ana no more passed.
to te snort, 'twasn't till the end of
April that tho news reached them that
Honaparty had gone scat, and they
marched to the river opposite Bordeaux
and were taken on to the Suffolk trans
port In chnrge of the British redcoats,
On Monday, May .', at 2.30 In the afternoon,
tho Suffolk sighted land, making out St.
Michael's mount, and fetching up to Mouse
hole island, tho captain hailed a mackerel
boat and camo alongsldo to take asboro
soma officers with dispatches.
Abo Cummins and Ullly Boslstow wore
both on deck, you may ba sure, watching
the boat as tho fishermen brought her
nlbcgsldc. Not a word had been said be
tween them on tho matter that lay closest
to their minds, but white they waited
Ullly fetched a look at tho boat and an
uthor at Abe. "Tho Best man wins," ho
saa " nimsoii, ou cu-u iu.u
Un ladder.
ine nrceze, as i saiu, was a iresa one,
with a sea In the bay that kept the Suf
folk rolling llko a porpoise. A hcavlor
lurch than ordinary sent her main chan
nels grinding down on the mackerel boat's
gunwale, smashing her upper strakes and
springing her mtzzenmast as she recovered
hertclf.
"Ho dashed," said ono of the officers, "If
I trust myself In n boat that'll go down
under us between this and land!"
Tho rest seemed to bo of his mind, too.
Hut Hilly, being quick ns well ns eager,
saw In a moment that tho damaged strakes
Would bo to windward on tho reach Into
Mousehole. and out of harm's way, and
also that 'tier mainsail nlono would do tho
Job easy. So Just as she fell off and her
crew ran aft to get the mlzzcn lug stowed
he took a run past the oinccr and Jumped
aboard, with two fellows closo on bis heels
ono a Penzanco fellow whose name I've
forgot, nnd tho t'other a chap from Ludg
van, Harry Cornish by name. I reckon the
sight of tho old shores Just mado them
mazed bb sheep, and like sheep they fol
lowed his dead. The officers ran to stop
any more from copying such foolishness,
and If they hadn't I believe tho boat would
havo been swamped thero nnd then. As
'twas sho reholstcd her big lug and away
to-go for Mousehole, tho thrco passengers
elttlng down to leeward with their sterns
In tho water to help keep her damaged
side above mischief.
So on Mouscholo quay thcso three stepped
ashore, and the first man to shako hands
with them was Captain Joslah Penny of the
Pcrsoveranco trading ketch, who had them
Into his cabin for glasess 'round of rum.
Tho Penzanco fellow went his way, but
Billy and Cornish stayed and had more
rum, and on tho .quay they found a crowd
waiting for them, and many with questions
to ask about absent friends, so that from
Mousehole quay to Penzanco it was a regu
lar procession. And then they had to go to
tho hotel nnd tell the wholo story over
again. And all this meant more rum, of
course.
It was 7 in tho evening and day closing
in before they took the road again, Billy
had fallen Into a boastful mood, and felt
his heart so warm toward Cornish lhat
nothing would do but they must tramp It
together as fur as Nancledrea, which was n
goodlsh bit out of Cornish's road to Lud
gvnn. By tho time they reached Nancle
drea Billy was shedding tears and bogging
.Cornish to como along to Ardevora. "I'll
mako a man of 'ee there," ho promised: "I
will sure "nough!" But Cornish weighed tho
offer and decided that his mother at Lud
gvan would be going to bed before long.
So coming to a houso with red blinds and
lights within they determined to havo a
drink beforo patting.
In tho taproom they found n dozen fel
lows or so drinking their beer and smoking
Bolcmn, and an upstanding woman in a
black gown attending on them. "Hullo!"
Bays one of the men, looking up. "What's
this? Geczy dancers?"
"I'll soon tell 'eo about geezy dancers,"
Bays Billy. "Here, missis a pot of alo all
'round nnd let 'em drink to two Cornish
boys home from festerln' in French war'
prisons while they'vo a" been dlggln' 'ta-
tles!"
There was no resisting a soclnblo offer
like this and In two two's, as you might
say, Billy was boasting ahead for all ho
was worth and the company with their
mouths open all but the landlady, who
was opening her eyes Instead, and wider
and wider.
"Thero Isn't none present that remembers
mo, I daresay. My namo's Boslstow Billy
Hoslstow from Ardevora parish. And back
Hipril I'm point? trilft vnrv nlt'lit nnil wliv?
you ask. I ben't ono of your 'taty-dlggln''
slowheads I ben't. l'vo broke out of prison
threo times, and now" Ho broke off and
nodded at tho company, whoso faces by this
time ho couldn't very well pick out of a
heap "do any of 'ee know a maid there
called Sellna Johns? Because If eo I warn
'eq of her. 'Why?' says you, Because that's
tho maid I'm goln' to marry and I'm oft to
Ardevora to do It straight. Another pot of
boer, please, missus."
"You'vo had a plenty, sir, secmln' to me,"
answered up the landlady.
"And Is this the way" Billy stood up ver
dignified "Is this the way to welcome
homo a man who bled for his country? Is
this your gratitude to a roan who's spent
ten o' tho best years of bis life In slavery
while you'vo been dlggln' 'tatles?" I can't
tell jou why potatoes ran so much In tho
poor fellow's bead, but they did, and be
Becmcd to see tho hoeing of them almost in
the light of a personal Injury. Ho spat on
tho floor. "And as for you, madam, those
hero boots of mine havo tramped thousands
of miles nnd I shako off their dust upon
you," ho says.
"I wish you'd confine yourself to that,
with your dirty habits!" tho landlady an
swered up ugaln, but Billy marched out with
great dignity, which was ouly spoiled by his
mistaking tho thadow across tho doorway
for a raised step. Ho didn't forget to slam
tho door after hlra, but ho did forget to
tako leavo of Harry CornUh. w' o hud walked
to fur out of his way lu pure friendliness.
For tho first nillo or so, what with bis
nnger and tho fresh air, Billy had all ho
could do to keep his pins nnd fix his mind
on tho road. But, by and by, his brain
cleared a bit and v.htnMie reached the hill
over Ardovora nnd saw the lights of the town
below him his mood changed and he sat
down on tho turf of the sloso with tears
In his ryes.
"Thoro you be," said he, talking to the
llBhts, "anil here be I, and somawherrs down
nraougst you Is the dear old maid l'vo come
to marry. Not much welcome for me In
Ardevora, I b'law, though I do lovo every
stono of her streets. But there's ono there
that didn't forget me In my captivity and
won't dcsplso me In these here rags. I wish
I'd seen Abo's fare when I Jumped aboard
tho boat. Poor old Abe! but all's fair lu
love and war, I reckon. He can't te here till
tomorrow at earliest, so let's have a pipe o'
baccy on It"
First of all he pictured Abe's chap.
fallen face, and chuckled, then he begnn
to wonder If Abo would call It fair play
When he woko up tho sun was shining,
And somehow", though he had dropped to
sleep In a puzzlo of mind, ho woke up
with not a doubt to trouble him. He
hunted out a crust from his knapsack
and mado his breakfast, and, then he lit
his pipe again nnd turned toward Pen
zance. He was going to play fair.
On ho went In this frame of mind, feel
ing like a mar. almost too virtuous to go
to church, until by-and-by he camo Jn
sight of Nancledrea and tho Inn he'd left
In such a hurry over ulght. And who
should be sitting In the porchway, and
looking Into tho bottom of a pint pot, but
Abo Cummlnsl
"Why, however on earth did you come
hero?" asked Billy.
"Cap'en landed us between 4 and S this
mornln'," tald Abe.
"Woll," said Billy, "I'm right glad to
meet you, anyway, for toll 'oe the truth
you'ro tho very man I was looking for."
"Itenlly?" says Abe, llko one Interested.
"You and no other. I don't mind tell
ing 'eo l'vo been through a fire of tempta
tion, You know why I Jumped Into that
boat; It vexed you p. bit, I daresay. And
strlckly sptakln', mind you" Dllly took
his friend by the buttonhole "strlckly
spcakln', I'd tho right on my sldo. 'Lot
tho best man win,' was our argument.
Uut you nccdn' to fret yourself; I ben't
tho man to take an advantngo of an old
friend, fair though It be. Man, I ha'n't
been to Ardevora I turned back. So fin
ish your btcr and como'st nlong with me,
and we'll walk down to Sellna Johns to
gether and ask her which of us she'll
choose, fair and square."
Abo set down his mug and looked up,
studying the signboard over tho door.
"Well," says ho, " 'tis a reat relief to
my mind to know you'v played so fair.
For man nnd boy, BUI, I alwayl thought
It of you."
"Yes, Indeed," says Billy, "man and boy,
It was always my motto."
"But as consarnln' Sollna Johns,". Abo
went on. "Thero ain't nd such woman."
"You don't tell mo she's dead?"
"No; 'tis her first husband that's dead.
She's Scllna Widlako now."
"How long havo 'eo knowed that?"
"Maybo ;in lour, maybe only three
quarters. .Icr name's Sellna Wldlake, and
sho owns this hero public. What's more,
her namo Isn't going to be Sellna Widlako,
but Sellna Cummins. Wo've fixed it up,
and she's to leave Nancledrea and tako
the Welcomo Home over to Ardevora,"
Billy Boslstow took a turn across the
road, and, coming back, stuck his hands
In his pockets and stared up at tho sign
ovorbcad.
"Weill And I that was too honorable
" ho began.
"So you was," agreed Abe, pulling out
his pipe. "You can't think what a com
fort that Is to mo. But, as It turns out,
'twouldn't havo mado no difference. For
sho see'd you last ecn and she was
tellln' mo Just now that prison hadn't Im
proved you. In fnct, she didn't llko either
your looks or your behavior."
l'vo heard that ho was. Just in tlmo to
pop lnsldo and bolt the, door after him.
And now you know why Hill Boslstow
and Abo Cummins could never bear the
sight of each other from that day. But
thcro! you can't be first and last, too,
as tho saying is.
Glvot, In tho Ardennes. The river, of
course. Is tho Mouse. Q.
It Is a fact thnt on Maivli 1. 1S12. this
unhappy man reached the prison of Hrlun
con, in the Hauto Alps, nnd was confined
there for closo on two years.
Performers In a Christmas play.
PRATTLE OF TUB Y.OUMSSTBIIS.
"No, Tommlc, dear, you don't get any
moro Jam. Next time, when you havo
been a very good chlld.i you get some
more." "Say, mother, 'do you think It
will keep so long?"
Willie Mamnla, I dreamed last night
that papa gave me a blcyclo for my birth
day and you gave mo a watch. Mamma
But, Willie, you know dreams go by con
traries. Willie Then you will give mo
tho bicycle and papa tho watch?
When 3-year-old Bessie saw some ne
groes and mulattoes tho first tlmo sho
gravely remarked on her return home:
"I saw- somo black people today and somo
that were Just turning black."
The teacher of the Juvenile, class hold
up a triangle made of wood and asked
what It was. "I know," said a bright
llttlo fellow, who had spent the summer
on a farm; "It's the frame of a chlckon
coop."
Ono evening when the mosquitoes were
very troublesome small Bobby cried out:
"Ob, dear; If tho mosquitoes don't stop
biting mo there will be nothing left of
mo!" "Yes, thero will," rejoined his
llttlo sister, "the bites will swell up and
mako you bigger than over."
In one of tho private schools here In
town, relates Youth's Companion, there Is
a small boy who Is always cheerfully miles
behind everybody clso. He is not a dull
boy, but learning does not appeal to him as
being a thing especially to be desired. Re
cently tho teacher told tho class in com
position that on the next day she would
expect each of them to bo ablo to wrlto a
short anecdote. She explained with great
care the meaning of the word anecdote, nnl
noxy day when sho called tho class up to
wrlto, all but tho laggard went at onco to
work.
"Why don't you write an anecdote,
nob?" asked tho teacher.
"I forget what an anecdote Is," said
Hob, undisturbed.
"I explained It yesterday, Hob, and you
ought to remember," said the teacher,
a bit out of patience, "An anecdote Is a
tale. Now write."
Bob bent over his slate and with much
twisting of brow nnd writhing of lip
ground out his task. When tho slates
were collected his was at the very top
of tho henp. Tho teacher picked it up
and this is what sho read!
"Yesterday wc hnd soup made from tho
anecdote of an ox,"
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One of tin Plnt-Nt PromMitiMl to (hp
Hero of -MiircUlnn,
One of tho finest swords oyer mndo has
recently been presented to General Haden
Poivcll. tho hern of Mafeklng. by tho cttl
55nV.r. ''i'l Kllziiboth, In South Africa,
llio hilt of tho fcwonl Is of flno gold und Is
surmounted by tho head of a lien. The
sunrrt. also of flno gold, is richly decorated
and lias tho monogram "n. P." on ono side
and the arms of Port Kllzabeth on thu re
verse, 'j ho scabbard Is of scarlet velvet,
richly adorned on the upper portion with
the arms of Cape Colony, enameled In
in finer i-olors, and an African Hon in fine
Kolil. Tho center hand on the scabbard 1ms
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Queer Prototypes of Contrivances Now in
Common Use.
SMALL BEGINNING OF GREAT THINGS
Inventor of the Telephone f-'allril to
llri'Oftnltr Ills Own llnnillTorU
Ycnrs Afterwirl Slioepegs
and Kolilliiff Beds.
On the shelves nt the patent offico aro
scores of modest models of Inventions the
world could sot now do without. A visit
to this great market houso for ideas Im
presses ono with the knowiedgo that tho
model is no Indication of the valuo of tho
Invention. The patent office. Is filled with
hundreds of finely formed and carefully fin
ished models of Inventions that havo not
brought tho Inventor enough return oven
to pay for the expenso of preparing tho
model. Tho greatest Inventions havo been
but the crudo beginning of somo Idea sub
sequently perfected. Tho models seem to
partake of the same crudity. As tho primary
Idea has been porfected other models
have been submitted In elaboration nnd
tho steps In tho perfecting of somo radical
Innovation are contemporaneously expressed
lu tho models filed with tho patent office.
Though tho rulo Is not without exceptions,
tho greatest Inventions wero first protected
by models of such crudity as to bo scarcely
recognlzablo as forerunners of tho finished
artlclo of today.
Prototype of the Telephone,
Tako tho telephone, for tustanco. In tho
patent office aro two cones of wood with
membranous ends and a confusing tangle
of metal and wire. Each of tho cones
could be hidden In one's hand. Yet they are
tho beginning of an idea that has been per
fected to tho elaborato instrument of to
day, out of which millions havo been mado
and by tho use of which continents nro
bridged.
No ono nt first glance, would associate
thcso insignificant bits of wood and metal
with the telephono of today. As n matter
of fact tho Inventor himself recently did
not. One day somo photographs of the
original telephono Instrument wero shown
to Alexander Graham Bell, tho inventor of
tho telephone, and ho was asked some
questions concerning tho Instrument.
"I don't know what this Is," said Mr.
Bell. "I have nover seen tho Instruments
hero represented."
It wub explained that tho pictures wero
an accurato representation of the models
of bis first telephone, tho crudo Idea on
which he had built his fame and fortune.
Aided by this explanation Mr. Bell recalled
tho principles of his first model. But as
sociation with tho perfected instrument of
today had so blurred recollection of tho
crudo model by which he first protected his
Invention that tho memory had for the mo
ment been obliterated. Mr. Bell manifested
tho greatest' Interest in tho models nnd
said he would tako tho first opportunity to
visit tho patent ofllco and renew acquaint
ance with the old creatures of his brain.
Though small and Insignificant, thcso two
crudo models of tho telephone wero suffi
cient to secure tho patents on tho prin
ciples, which, as set forth In tho patent
granted Mr. Bell, March 7, 187C, wero: "The
mothod of, and apparatus for, transmitting
vocal and other sounds telegraphically, by
causing electrical undulations, similar In
form to tho vibrations of tho air ac
companying tho vocal or other sounds."
From tho Illustrations the receiver and
transmitter are readily recognized.
Of scarcely less commercial Importance aro
the arc and Incandescent lights. The arc
light has undergone little chango In general
'form 'since It was patented by Coiner and
Baker on May IS, 1858. Thcro havo been
wonderful changes In Its mechanism, but tho
hour-glass form of tho first model la still
preserved.
With tho Incandescent light it is different.
Thcro is not the slightest resemblance be
tween tho first model and the bulb light of
today. Its Inventors had nn Idea that tho
light would be valuable as a signal light.
So they patented It as such. "Tho naturo of
our Invention," thoy said, "consists In tho
combination of a platinum coll or its ef
fective equivalent with a transparent signal
lantern, said combination being effected by
arranging tho coll within tho lantern upon
two conducting wires, which nro connected
with au eloctro-galvanlc battery. By our
Invention tho most intense and brilliant
light can bo constantly kept up, as tho elec
tric current Is concentrated by tho platinum
coll In such a manner that said coll will al
ways be heated to tho color of n brilliant
white flatno, which will bo seen at a great
distance through tho unshaded central part
of the lantern, and its reflected rays through
the colored portions of tho transparent
front."
The Folding; Ileil.
Thousands have used the folding bed with
varying emotions. Some havo boon inclined
to bless, others to curse, tho inventor, Ho,
poor soul, was wholly Innocent of any con
ception of tho Instrument of torture, that
has beeu evolved from his Invention. Ho
pictured himself as a benefactor and as a
student of economy. "It can bo thrown into
several convenient and accommodating po
sitions," ho said In his application for a
patent, "nnd can be foldod up Into a form
easily removablo In case of fire," etc. Ho
plcturod his collapsible bedstead, when pro
vided with a convenient mattress, adjustable
as a reclining chair for Invalids and In other
useful positions.
Tho washboard was patented by a man In
Manlius, N. Y back In 1833. Ho copied
the legs from tho old four-poster bedstead,
Between tho posts bo put a piece of fluted
sheet metal and got It patented. Tho
model isn't a thing of beauty and It isn't
much larger than ono's hnnd, But ho got
a patent on It, and hundreds of other In
ventors havo sought to lmprovo on IiIb
Invention.
Not everybody wears pegged soles, But
everybody can appreciato the value of such
an Invention. ' The Idea la nmong tho
earliest patents Issued by tho government.
The United States didn't begin Issulug
patents until 1700, and pegged shoes were
Invented and patented July 30, 1811. They
didn't number patents then. Tho patent was
lssuci to two men. who described them
selves as being "themselves masters of their
art and mystery of boot and shoo making."
Tnetr eystem lor roaKlng shoes was
practically the samo as today. Their pegs
wero the farao In size from eud to end, how
over. Instead of being pointed na now. From
this Idea were subsequently evolved tho
fcteel and Iron pegs so greatly In uso today.
The two-pegged shoes which they sent to
the patent otneo to explain their patent
would pass muster today. They aro well
mado and well finished. One shoo was made
on a pointed last and tho other on n squaro
one, and the shapes scarcely differ from the
shoes of today, Tho noticeable thing about
them is tho quality of leather. They aro
of finely tanned, undressed calfskin. They
could be put on and worn today without ex
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