PASSING OF CORK STOPPERS
Ttrion EibstitntM Ohtiiig the FTrit ef
Cwturiti frsra th Field.
PROFITABLE PATENTS, BUT SHORT-LIVED
Slabber, Mrtnl, (tin, I'nutelionrd nnd
Palp Anions the Merr Cnrrlnsi
Farlnnm .MsileyOnt of
Some nerlres,
Thsynsn who made the discovery many
long yesrs ago that a little tapered cylinder
.ef cork was the very best bottle stopper
has only been exceeded n a practical
Igenlue by those who, within the paft cen
itury, have set themaelvei to work to Im
prove, upon and undo this early Invention
and to get upon the market anything eliie
.than a "cork." On both hands, relates the
New York Times, there have been suc
cesses, the cork people having by Improve I
jnachlnery reduced their prlco so that there
tls atlll today nothing cheaper for the clos--ins:
of a bottle: the patent stopper men for
.their part, having shut off avenue after
venue for the use- of corks, coming to ab
solutely control certain lines of trade.
Yet the beginning of the end may almost
.certainly be seen "as though a glass,
darkly." After five centuries of use the cork
eloslag bottles are passing, slowly and with
jmany an effort to hold tbelr own, but pass
ing nevertheless. Rubber, metal, glare,
pasteboard and pulp are the new coverings
f tho day that here and there ari taking
the cork'a place. There are financial re
gards almost beyond the bounds of the
Imagination for the Inventor who hlta tho
popular taste for a cork aubstltutc, or If
not for the Inventor, at least for the lurky
manufacturer who manages to lease good
topper patent rights, lu down-town Now
1'ork la the case of one man who shrewdly
aw the value of one stopper patent, bought
'up the right to manufacture, and before
the patent had run out cleared In profits
tetween 14,000,000 and $6,000,000.
What gives the Inventor his hopes of mak
ing a "strike" on some stopper or other Is
the fickleness of the makers and purveyors
ef certain liquids, milk and beer, tor ex
ample, and the like uneasiness on the part
ef people who put up fruit, all of whom
lll gladly and speedily desert their old
favorite stoppers for any good new thing
that appears on the market, provided It Is
cheap and practicable. It Is the exception
,hn any bottle-closing device has the field
for any length of time. Unites It has un
usual strength and excellence It, Is elbowed
out very aulckly In favor of another patent.
Pntrnt Stopper.
But such Is the demand that even the
shortest leaso of life makes one of these
patents profitable and worth many hours of
study.
Thus bottle stoppers havo 'Come to bo ono
of the chief crlen at tho Patent Office In
Washington, an Incredible number of impli
cations having been received for these dc
vlces, a mighty number of patents having
been Issued In the last few years. The tlm
ple, Insignificant Uttlo fastenings seem to
have aroused the Inventive genius of the
sverage American more, almost, than any
other class of articles. What be Invents
In response to the demand Is frequently
curious, always Ingenious, seldom simple
enough to manufacture and to use for the
trade to take It up. Yet. undlscouraged,
be or someone else continues.
Interesting and strange novelties, caps,
fasteners, stoppers, crowd some table or
some closet shelf In the 6fllce of every big
hottle manufacturer. They nro the clever
devices that have gained patents, but are
'not quite practical successes. Probably the
business man, pitting down at bis desk and
figuring at the proposition, finds that they
Will cost too much to makethat their tak
ing up will prove a poor commercial risk
for him. Or, again. It may be that the cap
er stopper can be made quite reasonably,
tut that once made and put out It wcu'd
prove (oo complicated for the general
public. Borne of these devices, Indeed, are
to clever that It seems a pity thtfy must bs
lest to the world or wait for a problematical
simplifying. Yet this l what one sees In
theae "bottle graveyards."
It la when one gets a glance over the
patent records In one of those lofts that ho
comes to reallre fully what a remarkable
fisclnatlon devices for the closing of the
modern bottle have had over the American
Inventor. The list Is enormous, and In each
division thero are from ten to fifty piKents.
It would bo strange Indeed If some of
these hundreds or devices did not provo
formidable rivals for the simple little cork.
And this Is Just what has bcon the out
tome. Proportionately, aa the yeurs go on,
the cork of cork becomes less and less n
factor In the bottle trade. More or less
old-fashioned corks (In number) are, as a
natter of fact, sold, but the demand and
supply of patent fasteners, caps, aud tops
Increases at a far greater ratio. Krult
Jars have long alnce had patent tops, beer
Is seldom sold In any other way, and within
the past two or three years milk has come
to b put up In bottles that have little
covers of metal. Citrate or magnesia bot
tles have now a special "top" or stopper
of their own.
Nor do these vnd the Hat of the supplant
era of the cork. Rubber corkx are made In
quantities and have attained great popular
ity. Thr Pocket Flask.
While wine and liquor buttles are still
closed In the traditional fashion, It has
come to be the custom In the cafe trade,
where pint and half-pint bottles In the
form of flasks are filled for pocket use, to
bring into play those fitted with patent
Stoppers, most frequently screw tops of
Bietal. The pocket liquor bottle of tho
day has row another variation. There Is
fitted Into the neck a shell of cork, and
Into this a glass stopper goes. The liquid
swells the cork shell slightly, and the glass
stopper thus fits in tightly, needing several
twists when the contents are wanted.
Today where the old cork holds Ita favor
Is where the bottle whose contents It pro
tects la kept only until emptied. New cork
cutting machinery turns out corks of cork
so cheaply and speedily that nothing else Is
worth while. With patent medicines and
with th greater percentage of drugs this Is
the case, nut for bottlta of a better grade
the glass stopper has come Into vogue.
Something that Is not generally known Is
that with ground glass bottles nnd stop
per no stopper can ever fit the neck of any
other bottle than that one It waa originally
aade for. The tiny ridges and channels
in th neck and stopper face fit together
do the parta of a complicated lock.
The primitive hottle, made of glass Just at
' the dote of the middle agea, had at first
(In Germany) a stopper of wax. nut cork
took Us place very soon, almost Irnme
dlattly, Indeed, and there Is no record of
the wax stopper having been used any
where else than among the Germans.,
Unique among the specialties of bottle
closing of the day Is the "poison stopper,"
sorastlra wholly of glass, again with a
glass top surrounding an ordinary cork.
This stopper is mude of blue glass, as s
the bottle Into which it fits, and Its upper
section la covered oer with sharp points.
By day It sbowe plainly what the bottle
contains; at night the sharp points would
giro warning to anyone trying to open It.
Olats tops to ordinary works sre coming
sscr and mors into use, hut like every
other gists stopper, these are only for tho
nign-ciass rtrtig or perfume trade.
Annum III llronrr..
8lncf) the beer manufacturer usca Ills
bottles over and over again the question of
a patent stopper at once appealed to him,
and ttj many of the stopper ,patenls of
the past ten or fifteen years have been
directed toward the brewers, There arc
rapid changes of fashion In these, and n
curious phase of the stopper question, espe.
dally as applied to beer bottles, Is that
for tho past quarter of a century every
stopper that has been a succcsa In this
country has failed In Knglsnri, and every
English success has made no way here.
Why this has been so no one can say, but
It stands as n fact,
The manufacturer In New York who made
very nearly 15,000.000 In turning out a cer
tain famous beer bottle stopper, held almost
a monopoly of that field while the. patent
rights lasted, and after tho patent had run
out It was manufactured on every hand,
aad, with Its price run down, had a largo
sale for n long time thereafter. At the
height of Its success the man who had con
trol of It waa offered 'J25.0OO for the Eng
lish rltthts. Ho emphatically refused the
proposition and shortly afterward sailed to
England himself to manufacture It there.
To his surprise and chagrin the stopper
never Mild at nil lu British territory. The
English plant was a failure nnd was soon
closed out. England took so little to what
had for years been the greatest American
beer stopper that the manufacturer not
only lost the l'J5,000 he could havo secured,
but quite as much more, In trying to bulla
up the trade.
The beer and soda etoppcr patents have
been legion. Every sort of mechanical de.
vice and principle has been applied to them,
tho only practical reatrlctlou being that
whatever It U It shall bs simple to operate
nnd Inexpensive to make. To these another
might bo added that it shall bo of a mech
anism that shnll not get out of order easily.
The mechanism of 'the day, and this la not
alone for soda nnd beer bottles, but also
for milk and now coming Into use for fruit
Jars, la tho eccentric. In which a double
wire loosely clasping the neck of tho bot
tlo when pushed up, raises ,tbe stopper
cleanly and easily. Until recently this
stopper was made of metal and rubber. A
recent Improvement Is to havo Its top of
porcelain .and Us bottom, where the liquid
touches It, also a porcelain tip.
A stopper that was famous In Its day
and Its day, It may be said, Is by no mean's
over yet was a glass ball fitted firmly In
the bottle's neck, held tight aa a drum there
by the gas Inside. A sharp, quick poke or
punch with a stick or rod forced the glass
hall In with a report and tho bottlo was
open. Another etoppcr had a rubber disk
raised by a tinned wire twisted Into a
good spring. A newer one haa a slmplo tin
cap that fits tightly over the bottle's top
nnd can be readily pried off with a penknife
blade. An aluminum disk with a cork gas
ket over tho top Ii yet a further device,
very simple and effective.
Stoppers grow simpler, more easy to han
dle and more urtlstlc In design tach year.
In ISG1 the first patent fruit Jar with a
glass top was Invented. It wnn known ax
"atmospheric," and was a noted Jar In Us
time. Tho cooling off of tho hot fruit
scaled the top nnd made the Jar airtight.
A knife point Inserted under the top broke
tho seal and the Jar could then be easily
opened.
HKAIIT-I1KATS Of A l.ll'KTIMK.
At the Ar ii f 'Hirer Scon- They Hun
Into the nilllnna.
"Did you ever take Hip trniilil to flcura
out how micny times the normal Heart
wouiri muter in u lireltme?" tne yotmff
statistician Inuillrrri of a New Orleans
Times man. "Well, tho subject cannot be
ireaieu wim aDHOitue accuracy, but one
may make ii Rood eucsn at It. All lienrtn
do not beat nt the. same mto of speed, nnd
there ure lapses even In tho rate of speod
nt which the normal heart Mutter. Shocks
and undue excitement will frequently either
suppresa momentarily the heart's activities
or produce tne opposite erred in a quick
ened rate of micro. Hn excited, errntlo sort
of fluttering generally referred to ns palpl-
wuiuii. iiuffvvcr, ino wipe men wno nave
burnt much oil In studying this Important
organ In Its relation to the other organs of
tne nunian system nave aeciaeti mat lite
normal heart will beat seventv-two tlmp
every minute. Frequently the heart of an ap
parently well person will nutter 100 times it
minute, mid it nnmotimes happens that a
heart will fall below the normal. Hut spv.
enty-two Ih the normal agreed upon, and
we may iniui mils hh n iinsm ot computa
tion. If n heart bents acventv-two tlmon
every minute In tho courue of ono hour It
will bent 4,320 time. During one Uav. or
twenty-four hours, It will flutter .103.BS0
times. HSMinilue that there nrt no In tin
and no activities above the normal. At this
rate or speed tne heart will beat 723,760
times during one week, or FeVen dv. nr
nbout 2.90.1,040 during an average month. On
the same baaln of computation during a
year the human heart would Mutter 37.843,200
tunes, allowing .wo any tor a year. Taking
thirty-five yeara as nn average man's life,
nnd we will find that during thr.t period ot
time tnis mrcpiess. resuoss organ or the
huniHii body will beat nbout 1,321,512.000
lime. If n man should live to be Ml venr
of nge his heart would bout l.KW.ioo.OOO
times, it no uvea to ne tw years mil if
would bent 2,410,592.000 time. If he should
live to be a ccntennrlan tho heart wmilil
Mutter 3.784.32O.0OO times.
"Mind you. I havo been tn tine about llm
normal henrt, or the lienrt that la cnlled
normal by the men who ouuht to know.
Tho fact of the business Is Mint but few
normal henrts are found In this age. The
human heart la overworked for one rpnsnn
and another. A surplusage of poison In the
uioou, limine nxcncmcni resulting from tne
stress of modern business methods nnd
inings oi tnat sort nave tended to mcrcaie
tho rate of speed nt which tho average
heart must beat. Impurities of every kind
which find lodgement In the arteries must
be weeded out by this tireless engine nnd
thrown off Into tho lungs, nnd nn increase
in the quantity of Impure substances ncces
sarlly means Increased activity on tho pnrt
of the heart, Hearts never break. The ex-
prctsion is a poetic lllgnt. n mere
metaphor, but one which Is universally
understood, nut henrts do wear out. nml
In this age of rush and exciting clamor lh
numnp nenri is unquestinnnniy imposed
unou. as 111 cases, for Instiinro. nt the ev.
cesBlve use of alcohol ttud tobacco or other
stimulating Ingredients which find lodge
ment In the human stomach.
"The flttures I have given nre hosed on
the normal agreed upon by tho authorltlx,
but my own view Is that they nro much
below tho renl llgures when It conies to the
overage heart of this day."
AX KASTEItX NATIONAL I'AItK.
One In Xevr Kuirlnnd to Kiiilirnee
rnrts of Three State.
There Is tiilk of n national park In New
England, Including part of Maine, ns n
forest reservation, says the I.owlstnn
Journal. The entire area of forest reser
vation and parks approximates fiO.OOO.OOO
nrrea. The parks differ from the forest it
serves In that no lumbering can be carried
mi within them, und thrlr game animals rue
protected. The mining laws do not apply
within their territory, except in Mount
Itnlnler park, and they ure In rare of gov
ernment troops, The forest reservations,
on the other hand, are administered by the
secretary of the Interior, through the cn
eral land office, Maine nnd New Hamp
shire already have state and forestry toni
missions, and It might be practicable to se
euro their co-operation In the control nnd
direction of auch b reservation as Is nng.
geated.
While several states have acquired forest
reservation or have taken measures to
protect such nreaa, tho federal government
possesses the facilities for controlling such
reservations In a. broadway, unafrectcd I y
local or prlvnte Interests, upon plans that
will permit the use of private forests that
remain, directing with Intelligence such
cutting as Is proper, und promoting now
growth on the denuded areas. The subject
) exceedingly Important In Its relation to
the prosperity of the farmer, who Is largdy
dependent on climate nnd rainfall; to he
great manufacturing Interests, morn or lens
dependent on the water power turnlMied by
our rivers: to the rapidly growing cMs
nnd tov.ns whose water supply In drawn
from our northern lakes, nm t the health
ami pleasure of thousands who annually
visit the mountains ami uplands of north
"iV .P.0.".1, New "mphlre and Maine.
The hte mountain region of New
,,Vlnlpn,ro covers an area of ninro than
1,200 1 square miles, between the lake country
of New Hampshire on the south and the
THE OMAHA DAILY HKKs THURSDAY.
Lean Toward the Sun
It may tound fanciful, yet It Is literally
true, that the great arm of the Statue of
Liberty In New York harbor beckons a wel
come to Ihc steamers thai tome up tlii
bay every day. The tall office buildings
bend their heads and tho big llronklyn
bridge lifts llrclf up ii ml lets Itself down
every day, for all tall towers moe Hnd
great structures sway Just as surely as tin
earth turns onco In twenty-four hours. Tho
cause Is not far to seek, for It Is the action
of the sun Itself,
One thing which would have made tho
Tower of Ilabd Impossible Is tho tendency
of tho tall structures, whether built of
mctnl or stone, to move around In mld-alr
under the action of heat or cold. It ih
pointed out that the "tallest skyscraper"
the mlle-hlgh office building would, after
It had been erected u ccrtnln distance Into
the air, turn over like the lash eft a car
riage whip, duo partly to the Impossibility
of making It rigid enough. Hut aside from
this, even were the architect able to con
struct an Iton shaft or the quarry
n.nn able to erert a stone shaft In
ono solid place a mlic high, tho top
of that shaft would nod Us head
slightly at tho sun Just as Mirely ns the
more flexible sunflouer docs now each day.
Tor all tall structures move, skyscrapers,
church steeples, monuments and tall towers
bend over or follow the sun around In a
circle each day. All bridges slldo forward
and back on hot and cold days. The Hrook
lyn bridge has Indeed n buckling plato In
Us center, which Is Intended to take'up the
sliding motion that constantly goes on In
tho structure. This movement of brldgeu Is'
somewhat on the principle of tho creeping .
of railway tracks, which contract In cold
nnd expand In hot weather, sometimes to
tho extent of 120 millimeters to the. rail.
There Is on the bunks of the Mlssourrrlvor
vast quantities of sand which are con
stantly In motion. Of course, glaciers
move, and there Is a mountain In Franco
which tins moved Ita position perceptibly In
a century. St. Paul's cathedral, In London,
not only has a tower that moves back and
forth, but the building Itself Is thought to
be sliding slowly Into tho Thames.
The Washington monument on the bank
of the Potomac Is so noted for nodding Its
head at tho sun that the engineers have
erected apparatus In the structure to show
Is Gallantry Declining?
"VVby has the gallantry once shown by
men to women so greatly declined?" was
recently r.skcd by one well known man of
another, who made this answer: I am
satisfied that the main cause ot the falling
off of the old-time chivalrous treatment of
woman Is due to her having entered Into
nctlve competition with mnn In many lines
of business and sundry professions. Woman
aa n bread-winner can never cvoko that
tender consideration and courteous atten
tion that were hors In tho olden days, when
fche did not go forth Into the busy world
and hustle for a living.
From tho women's point of view thero Is
quite ns much gallantry ns there ever was
nnd It Is of a much more desirable quality.
They themselves would bo the first to see
and resent a decline In this respect, but
thoso of the present generation havo a
proud and happy consciousness that never
In all tho past ages did women possess In
so largo a degree the respect and admira
tion and helpfulness of men. It Is true that
men no longer Indulge In tho old-time,
nauseating compliments the ladles, God
bless them', their bright eyes, their sweet
smiles, redeem us from savagery and pre
vent us from dropping to the level of brutes
and all that sort of stuff. The women of
today would laugh In their faces nnd say:
"Oh, run along and be brutes, If this la
all that saves you."
The "gallantry" of tho present does not
consist, as It did In the past. In saying to
women: "Dear little delicate creatures,
don't bother your heads about getting an
education; we like you better without It;
we are your natural protectors; wo will
take all of your property because It would
be such n burden for you; we will assume
the full guardianship of the children and
valleys of the Ammonnosuc nnd Androscog
gin on the north. Connected with It east
erly nre the great forest areas of Maine,
extending to the ChiukIIhh frontier, and on
the west are the contiguous mountain dis
tricts of Vermont.
This whole section. Including parts of the
three states named. Is of tho highest scenic
Interest, comprising mountain, lako and
river. Dominated by Mount Washington
nnd the Presidential range, dunked by the
Frnnconla and Handwlch ranges, It Includes
also groups of lesser peaks covered hv
foresta, Inclosing mouutaln-wnlled lake's
of surpassing beauty, feeding tho Connectl
cut and Merrlmae rivers, the Saco. the
Androscoggin, the Kennebec, the Penobscot
nnd many tributary streams, the source of
the water power of hundreds of manufac
turing villages nnd cities, to which tho
growth and prosperity of New England are
so lurgely due.
It la a region of great historic Interest,
closely associated with the past and pres.
ent life of New Euglund, Interwoven with
Its romance, poetry, art and tradition. The
territory Is easily accessible from every
point, and available to n large percentage
of our urban population. The eastern sec
tion Is well stocked with fish nnd game, and
other parts might under proper conditions
be restocked. Huch yenr, however, mnrks
the cutting for commercial purposes of
many ncrcs of Its forest growth, and the
encroachment upon Its borders ot the ex
panding life of the towns Is constantly
moro obvious.
iior.-Rirr.NKn witisuv.
An Old-iinir Tavern Keeper Whn
Knew llnvr to Advertise.
There are hut few pedple w'ho can !
Induced to believe that there ever wax such
a drink ns "hog'rlpened whisky," relates
the Philadelphia Record, but among the
older generation It would bo no trouble nt
nil to secure affidavits that such u beverage
was well known In the Immediate vicinity
of Doylef town. Pn., where In days gone
by a man who kept n tavern that soon
became famous through Its proprietor's
unique Inventions and Ingenious contrlv
nneen to attract attention to his hostelrv.
Then, ii h now, to succeed meant tho nece
Blty of being well advertised. In his effort
to do something new "I'ucle Rllly," ns he
wns cnlled, conceived nn Invention that wne
potent lu making his tnvern the meat
talked nbout one for miles around. The
result, ns known to the patrons of tho Inn,
whs some good whisky, of some nge, tint
had been continuously agitated while
within the oaken casks within which the
drinks were kept for "ripening."
WhHt tho curious ons discovered about
the Invrntlon was this: When thev went
to see the ripening of the whlJkv they'
found rt hogpen with n plunk Moor, so bal
anced as to swing like a big barn scale.
There was an open side farthest from tho
feeding trough and the sides were fenced.
The way the thing opfrated was almp'e
enough. The hog were out In the vard
nosing around, when they heard the ?plorh
of the feed ns Jt was put In the trough.
Naturally, aa tho weight came first on the
side farthest from the trough that side of
the floor tilted down under tho swine's
weight. When they nil got over to the
trough that side. In turn, went down. And
so the plank Moor waa rocked back and
forth every time a hog went in or out.
Connected with thl swinging platform
was another one which rerelved equivalent
motion, of course, through the medium of
a long lever, On this second platform vrrc
set the casks of wh'sky which were to
undergo the ripening procea. Of course,
every tlmo the lower floor rocked so d'd
the upper llkewn nnd the whisky wns
shaken around with every motion.
Naturally. I'ncle Hllly's hujs weie fatter
than anybody eUe's, because they wre
fed so much oflener. Part of the ripening
depended on feedlnc the hogs, so as to
make tlxni rush In through the open door
and thus shake the platform,
Just how nnifh It may go out of plumb. The
monument, of course, l hollow, and 141
feet up the Inside In one of the corners ex
lends a wire, hung from a beam. On the
end of this wire hangs a twenty-fivc-pound
plumb-hob made of brase. It Just cleats
the floor. On a platform nearby Is affixed
a spyglaM, the objective of which has a
vertical lino scratched upon It, The glasn
la affixed to a graduated scale and may be
moved forward and back by means of a
thumb screw. Under normal conditions the
tpyglas Is adjusted so that If you look
through It the long wire with tho plumb
bob on the end will be directly opposite the
vertical lino scratched on tho objective.
On hot days the top of the monument leans
over and, of course, the plumb-bob swings
over with It like a pendulum. I)y adjusting
tho glass until the two lines nre directly
opposite again the graduated icale Im
mediately shows how great a movement has
taken place. It la calculated that this
leaning has been nt times as great ns forsr
Inches.
The dome of the capltol building In
Washington has nn elliptical movement,
and an experiment was tried to show Its
scope. A wire was hung from the middle
of tho dome Inside tho building, extending
down to the floor of the rotunda, and on
tho lower end of the wire was hung a
plumb-bob similar to the one In the Wash
ington monument. Ilut In the lower point
of tho weight was Inserted a lead pencil.
The point of the pencil Just touched the
Moor. A large sheet of paper was spread
.upon the floor. Every day as the dome
moved It dragged the pencil over the paper.
Tho mark made was In the form of an el
lipse six Inches long. Tho dome would
atart moving In the morning as soon an
the rays of the sun began to act upon It,
and slowly, ns the day advanced, the pencil
would bo dragged In a curve across the
paper until sundown, when a reaction would
take place and the pencil would move back
again to Its starting point, nut It would
not go hack over Its own penciled track, for
the cool air of night would cause the dome
to contract ns much on the ono side as
the sun had made It expand on the other,
and so tho pencil would form the other halt
of the ellipse, getting back to the start
ing point already to start out again at
aavo ycu the responsibility: wo will not
lot you work for wages, because that would
not bo chivalrous, but If you Insist on doing
It wo will collect and spend them In order
to spam you tho trouble. Don't slide down
from that pedestal where we have placed
you, well out of the way, Ro very careful
not to do anything which will brush the
bloom from the grape, the dojvn from tho
peach, ns that would bo hard on the poets."
All this might havo answered for our
grandmothers, although the dear old ladles
do tell us that It made them very weary,
but the modern chivalry Is of a different
stamp. It saya to woman: "We have been
tyrants nnd usurpers for ages; we are
nshamed of tho way our sex has wronged
you tn the past, but we will do all we can
In reparation. Come with us and reeelvo
tho highest education; control your own
property as we control ours; share with us
the guardianship of your children and ours;
if you must enrn your bread you shall have
a fair chance to do it, and when your day's
work Is, done, whether It haa been In the
school room, the nursery or the office, get
your bicycle nnd let us have a spin to
gether. Never mind the bloom on the
grape; we prefer to see the bloom on your
cheek."
And ao men and women study and toll
and take their recreation together, mark
you, for there never was a time tn all the
world's history when there was so much
companionship and sympathy between them.
It Is not that sentimental sympathy which
mado a man kind and forbearing toward a
woman because she was weak and Inferior,
or which caused her to be tolerant and
considerate toward him, because It waa
only thus that ho could be saved from his
own vicious tendencies, but It Is the sym
pathy ot a mutual understanding of the
I.OXt; IJIHTANCR WBKP1NO.
Costly Consolation for Foster Mister,
l.nnic Separated.
A very nffectlug Incident occurred, In this
city n few days ngo, relates the Portland
Oregonlun, which Incidentally proved ex
pensive to the man who brought It about.
A number of years ngo two little girls In
this city were left orphans, and though In
no way related, were by chance brought up
and kindly cared for by the same porson.
A strong affection grew up between tint
two girls, which wns wnrmer from tho fact
that neither hud any parents or brothorx
or sisters to lavish their affections upon,
und their love grew nnd strengthened as
they came to womanhood. Finally some
turn of tho wheel of fortune separated
them. One reninlned In Portland and In
due tlmo was happily married. The other
went away "up country" mid finally was
also happily married. An Intimate cor
respondence waa kept up between the two
for n few years, but was finally dropped
owing to chnngea of location, mid yeara
passed without cither seeing or hearing of
the other. A short time ngo the one living
In Portland heard that the other, with her
husband, bad taken up her residence In n
town only 100 miles or bo from this city. A
great desire to see tho old and dear iileud
enme over her, nnd she could not eat or
sleep on account of It. Circumstances ren
dering It Impracticable that she should go
on a Journey at the time her husband sug
gested that she huve a talk with her friend
over tho long-distance telephone.
He rang up the distant city nnd called for
his wife's friend, nnd after a reasonable
time was notified that she was at the
'phone. He thon called his wife to talk to
her. und tho following conversation took
place:
"Is that you, 8adlc7"
"Yes, Is that you, Susie?"
"Yes."
Then both begun crying for Joy and kept
It up for half nn hour or more, without
being able to say a word. The unfortunato
man who had arranged the Interview, see
ing that his bill wns mounting Into the
hundreds nnd hid fair to continue to mount
Indefinitely, called It off for the time and
the two friends continued to cry without
expense. A meeting between , the two
friends haa been arranged for. as neither
of their husbands Is willing to take the
chances of financial ruin by ullowlng them
to tuckle the long.dlhtar.ee telephone ngiln.
.tmomsii cmnr if sinrrm.
Hns niaen to the Conininiiri nf tho
Army of Mororrn hy III Ability,
Great honors were shown In England re.
cently to Knld Maclean, rnntmandf r-ln-uhlef
of the nrmy of Morocco, when he visited
that country to pay his respects to King
Kdwnrd. The general Is n native of Scot
land nnd n member of the ian Maclean,
which In times paat took part In many
fends and lowland forays Knterln3 the
Hrltlsh army some thirty years ago he n.w
lighting during the Red river expedition,
When Mulal Hnssun, the Multnn of Mor
occo, decided to reorganise his army he in.
piled to Kngland for a drll!manter and Knld
Maclean received tin appointment. Soon
after his arrival anions the Moors he won
the sultnn'n confidence nnd beoamo not onlv
the conimnnder-ln-chlef of Shoretlan army,
but the trusted adviser of the late ruler.
Ik' reorganised the nrmy and his dar'ng
deeds In battle Impressed the nntlvts e
much that he practically held th nomina
tion to the thrnno on the death of Mulal
llossau, although the grand vlier. Ahmtd
Hen .Mushb. Hlso ponressed much Influxes,
The sullan s brother was ready to sslse
the throne, but en Kald Maclenn nnd nm
Musra were tho only persons present when
the sultan died within two duvs inarch
from Mnntkrsh thev had the body con
veyed recretly to that city, where thev an
nounced tho death nd had Muln! I!a'en's
on. Abdel Ar.tx, proclaimed In his steid,
xNOVEMBER 21, 1001.
Variations Noted in
Lofty Structures.
eunrlse. Ono of the guides In the building
saya h was able within certain limits to
tell the time of day by the position of tho
pencil on the paper, nnd It Is easy to
Imagine a clock, the face of which would be
the ellipse with the figures drawn In their
places and the hand of which would be the
plumb-bob hanging on the wire and point
ing to the time of day.
The Philadelphia city hall, which .
higher than the Washington monument,
leans a trifle every day, and the Eiffel
tower, In Paris, Insisted on mevlng In
curves and leaning so much that It once
got upon the nerve of the excitable
Parisian public They thought It might
fall, Colonel Dassot of the French nrmy,
who made the teMs of the tower's move
ments, found that the expansion and con
traction of the Iron In tho tower causes
It to describe a torsion movement be
tween sunrise and sunset, which traverses
a curve ot ten centimeters. Of course, a
backward movement equally as great occurs
during the night.
So It Is with all the other domes and
towers aud statues and bridges, and even
slth the tall office buildings. No experi
ments have been made with sky-scrapers
as yet, but they move Just as surely as
do the other structures. The movement
of St. Paul's bodily toward the Thames
Is due to the subsidence of the sub-soil
on which the cathedral Is built. Even In
the days of Wren, who took every pre
caution, It was noticed that the great
weight of the building had disturbed the
ground a tittle. Ono hundred years ago
the building was braced with Iron ties.
Yet the drainage that has taken place
and the tappings of the underground rail
road have weakened the condition of the
neighboring ground. The south transept
has begun to slide southward nnd one great
wall nearly ten feet thick and 130 feet
wide has opened nnd started to slide
toward the river. In this, of course, there
Is danger, but there Is no danger In the
movoraents of towers, for tho expansion due
to heat and the contraction due to cold Is
a very natural condition aud one that must
always be taken Into account by the arcbl
tccts. No great tower could possibly be
absolutely rigid.
THEODORE WATERS.
Women Themselves
Declare It is Not.
conditions which shape the life of both,
such a one as can come only through close
comradeship.
If a woman must chooso between Justice
and chivalry she will prefer Justice, but
the man who Is great and good enough to be
Just may be trusted also to be chivalrous.
The form ot the chivalry may change, the
spirit Is Indestructible. Consider for a mo
meat another sentonce In this Interview,
which Is used for a text only because It Is
the common expression of thoso who are
opposed to the new regime ot womanhood:
''Woman as a bread-winner can never
evoke that tender consideration and courte
ous attention which were hers tn the olden
days, when she did not go forth Into the
busy world and huBtle for a living."
Does not every man tn America blush
wcon bo reads that sentence? When do
women most need "tender consideration and
courteous attention?" Is It when they are
safely sheltered In the home under the
protection, ot father, brothers or husband,
or Is it when they are compelled to "go
forth and hustlo for a living?" Ths vast,
majority of these women who are engaged
In bread-winning occupations are not work
Ins for their health or for the pleasure thoy
find In It, but for the dally necessities ot
themselves and those depending upon them.
The Btiuggle Is hard for men; It Is doubly
no for women, and the man who has a spark
ot genuine chivalry tn his breast will show
to these tolling wageearners even more
courtesy and consideration than he bestows
upon the favored women of his own social
circle, who are living tn ease by the sweat
ot somebody else's brow. Tho failure to do
thla does not make ths worklngwoman any
the less a lady, but it does render the man
unworthy to be called by the name of
gentleman. IDA HUSTED HARPER.
and a slight outbreak was quickly sup
pressed by Maclean's admirably disciplined
soldiers.
The new. sultan being only 13 years old,
a regent was necessary and Ben Mtissa waa
appointed, with Kald Maclean's' Influence,
fiower and hand behind him. Any luclp
ent opposition which broke out was sup
pressed with a strong hand, as all risings
of tribes have been, notably that of the
Mlsfiwa tribe n few years ago. To prevent
If possible the recurrence of such Incidents
the heads of fifty prominent Mlsfiwa tribes
men figure on aplkes over the city gates
of the port of Rabat and a similar number
adorn the gates at Fez. Maclean always
leads the punitive expedition himself and
has thus seen much tribal fighting. On
the death of Ben Mussa last year the sultan
took up the reins of government. Kald
Maclean stilt retaining his predominant
Influence.
The Moorish commander-in-chief, by long
residence in Morocco, has now become a
"Moor of the Moors." lie Is sun-darkened
and swarthy In complexion and wears the
picturesque costume of the native kald. Ills
protracted absence from his native country
has been broken by periodical visits tn
Scotland and the muslo of the barbaric war
slogan of the Gael, tho bagpipes, of which
hn is much enamored, Is appreciated quite
as much among the Moroccan mountains
ns among the bens of the Highlands, the
knld having succeeded In Introducing the
Instrument to his adopted country. The
young sultan, Indeed, enjoys the sklrllug of
the pipes as thoroughly as the Highland
clan stories which lib commander-in-chief
can tell with genuine Celtic fervor and
humor.
The kald, whose full name Is Harry Au
brey De Vere Maclean, la a (J. M. G. nnd
Is 51 years of ngo. He Is married nnd has
three daughters and one son living. At Fez
and Marakesh the family live In palaces nf
oriental magnificence. The army over which
thla Intrepid Scotsman Is the commander-In-chlaf
comprise about .20.000 men and U
equipped with European rifles.
HOUn OIiASNKK v DKMAM).
Many Tnrpoies for YYIilrli The Are
Superior to Wntolira.
"Most people think that hour glasses
went out of style years ago," alfl n clerk
In a Jewelry store to n New York Sun ic
porter, "along with perukes and knee
breeches, but as a matter of fact we have
moro calls for them today than we ha
had at any time within the last ten yt-ars,
That this renewed popularity of the hour
glass Htigura Ita universal acceptance asi h
timepiece by the coming generation 1 am
not prepared to say, but If such a renais
sance were to become assured It would be
nn more surprising thnn some of the other
recent fnds based on a revival of Inst cus
tom, Anyway, a brief study of the hour
uiasa win no nobody harm. There iue
thousands In this generation who have not
the slightest Idea what an hour glass looks
like, and It won't hurt them to broaden
their education it little along certain lines.
f ttie hour glasses old at present the
three-mlnute glass tt In the lead. This
glass is used almost exclusively to mtasure
time In boiling eggs and It usefulness
naturally places Its pales a little In ad
vance of the more sentimental varieties.
Next com the five, ten and fifteen-minute
and full-hour glasse. which nre bought
dilefly by musicians for piano practice and
by lodges and secret societies.
"The snnd uted In an hour glass Is tho
very finest that the world affords. The
western coast of Holy furnlnhes most of It.
as It has done for ages past. The cost ot
hour glasses Is regulated by the ornamenta
tion nf the frame3. A ffUss set In a plain
rosewood ense can be bought for $1. while
mohogany frame comes m Ji.&o or of
cpure, the prlcp cbh be brought up tin
higher by fancy carving and decoration.
Swell lodges sometimes go to this extra ex
pense. but most people nte satisfied with
the cheaper grades. '
Imi Htm Q91B BUST
Und for eue
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Golden Rules for
Housework."
II
No soap, mm mpmm, mo mormx, mo nmmnnlm
nothing mut wmtmr Is mmmM wHh
GOLD DUST
to clean anything pots, pans, furniture, clothes, wood
work. It requires only half the labor as soap or any
other cleanser, and .costs much loss. See that the
name "Fairbanks" and the "Gold Dust Twins" are on
the package. Refuse all imitations and substitutes.
int. w. n. rAiKpAWK COMPANY,
Began Publication Nov. 3, in
The Sunday Bee.
No Other Way
Sir Walter Besant
The Last Work of This Gifted Writer.
Powerful and
Unique
IT is founded on a most peculiar condition of the English penal
system and debtor's prison. The heroine, a beautiful young
widow, is in imminent danger of being thrown into a debtor's
cell when a crafty creditor shows her how, by marrying a con
demned criminal, she can escape her debts, nnd ns he will soon
be executed, bbe will also escape the iguoininy of fhis fuvrcpti
tiotm marriage. y 1
With this curious introduction into a plot uuique in fiction,
Sir Walter Besani. enlists the sympathy of the reader and arouses
the keenest curiosity in the final outcome of the strange al
liance. Contrary to expectations, the criminal tloes not Hip. nnd
the efforts of the heroine to escape her husband, together with
the crcumstances of a change of fortune which has come to her
gives a swing to the tale and a rapidity of action and develop
ment which end only with the last, chapter of the story.
Began Publication
runs 16 weeks.
HACH II A I) HIN
Lawyer I 1 c II jou, your honoi, ou en
Judge (facetlously)-Then I guess we'll
Prlonr (sotto-voce) -He's strluglng
City Rooiter Hows crop In your pu.i ef the country?
Coun'ry neosttr-Full cop, j'.r! full crojj
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twin do yvur warkt"
Ghleaf o, St Leuli, Now York. Bojten.
BY-
Dramatic Story.
in Plot.
November 3, and
Illustrated.
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