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MANY DANGERS OF WIRELESS
Operator's Exposure to Electrlo Cur
rentrof Great Power Regarded
a Menace to Health.
"Marconi," said a physician, "la at
present fighting an Infringement of
his wireless telegraphy patents in
London. My colleagues In Paris arc
also engaged In a wireless-telegraphy
" campaign, lQl UiC'rs Is sot a nierce
nary but a humanitarian campaign.
For It Is becoming apparont that tho
wireless telegraph operator's exposure
to electric curronts of great power
and frequency Is bo dangerous to his
health as to rcquiro Investigation by
the French Academy of Medicine.
"The violent action of tho eloctrlc
sparks en the eyes of persons receiv
ing wireless messages la often tho
cause of serious trouble eczema of
tho eyelids, nervous palpitation of tho
yes, etc Tho nervoud system of
wlroleBS operators Is also affected,
and tho French medical faculty, re
alising tho unfortunato accidents to
the pioneers of X-rays, wish to safe
guard the pioneers of wireless teleg
raphy. "Prompt medical action In tho wire
less operator's cause Is tho more ur
gent on account of the Increasing pop
ularity of tho wireless system. At
present no fewer than 20 countries
possess wireless stations, comprising
128 Installations on land and 1,053 on
steamships and crulsors.
"Thus far the health campaign for
the wireless operator's beneflt has
had, I regret to say, very slight suc
cess." FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT CORDS
May Be Shortened or Lengthened by
Device Invented by Maine Man-r
Doesn't Soil Hands.
Everybody Is familiar with tho lit
tle woodon device by means of
which electric light cords are
Handy Lamp Adjuster.
shortened or lengthened. Two men
In Maine havo designed another
method of regulating tho length of
the cord, which la here shown. De
pending from the ceiling Is a cord
which has an arm hlngod to It. Tho
arm Is made in two parts, and the
cord runs between them and passes
orcr a. wheel nt tho top. Whn the
arm Is pushed up parallel to tho
main support tho cord is at Its
greatest length. Whon tho arm is
arawn down It pulls up the cord to
outline the two sides of tho triangle
fprmed, as seen In the Illustration,
thus shortening tho cord and rais
ing tho globe at one stroke. With
tho devlco heretofore In use both
hands aro required, and If the cord
happened to bo dusty, as Is often
the case, especially In offices, the
hands are soiled In the operation.
Multiplex Telephony.
Aa a result of recent experiment
by the signal corps of the United
States army, multiplex telephony la
now practicable whereby several In
dependent conversations may be car
ried on simultaneously over tho same
wire .circuit Another Important dis
covery ( calculated to doublo at least
the capacity of tho existing telephone
lines, la that It Is no longer neces
sary to uso two wlroi. or what Is
known as the "return wlro" for effi
cient telephony, but that a single wire
with ""'silent earth" connections, can
be used for multiplex telophony.
The now system Is entirely prac
tical and has loug passed the ex
periment stage, aa a. single w,ro cr
'cult Is now being used by tho signal
corps ot tho United States urmy.
Watch Tells Time In Dark.
It will now no longer be necessary
for ono to fumble In tho dark for a
match In ordor to tell tho tlmo by his
watch. A Jeweler has Invented a
watch which will show tho tlmo, day
or night, without tho aid of artificial
llghto Placed around tho dial of the
watch, at every hour mark, Is a small
circular' spot ot a material which
glows In tho dark. A double spot Is
placed by tho flguro 12, so that tho
position of tho dial Is plain. Tho
hands carry tho sarao Illuminating ma
terial with a marked difference In do
sign to distinguish tho mlnuto from
tho hour. hand. Used nnywhero In tho
dark by tho sldo of the bed or out
of doors tho tlmo can bo seen nt a
glance.
A Voice From the Depths.
When tho German submarine V3
was sunk In Kiel harbor tho com
mander sent a telephone buoy to'tbo
surface, by which means tho rescu
ers were told that tho crow of tho
submarine had oxygen enough to last
them 48 hours, so that thcro was no
more hurry than was necessary. Un
fortunately, communication with tho
buoy was stopped afterward by water
getting into the submarine, ny this
time, however, the boat had been
raised so tar that communication
could be resumed by making Morse
signals on the cbnnlng tower by raps.
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CIGAR LIGHTER QUITE HANDY
Made Vv"th Substantial Bate and Heat
Ing Element Is Contained In Pro
jection on the Side.
No doubt the desk telephone, which
Is so indlBpensablo in all offices, sug
gested tho unique design of the cigar
lighter shown herewith. This lighter
Is mado with a substantial baBo and
tho heating element Is contained In a
Cigar Lighter.
projection on tho side which looks
very much like a telophono mouth
plcco. Tho wires from tho lamp sock
et lead into tho baso and being flexible
permit tho lighter to be moved around
readily over the counter or show
case. TELEPHONE AT SOUTH POLE
Captain 8cott, Searching for Earth's
Lower Extremity, Took With Him
Complete Equipment.
A telephone system Is to be Installed
at tho Bouth pole, or as near to it as
explorers can got. Captain Scott, who
In now In tho Antarctic regions on a
search for the earth's lower extrem
ity, took with him a complete tele
phono equipment, consisting of five
sending and receiving Instruments, a
number of light poles and six drums,
each containing 13 miles of aluminum
insulated wire. Tho drums aro so
mado that they can bo attached to the
rear of a sleigh and tho wire laid on
the snow as fast as tho sleigh moves
forward.
Uninsulated wire was selected be
cause of Its lightness. It Is believed
that the extreme dryness of tho at
mosphere will mako Insulated wire un
necessary and the Increased conduc
tivity duo to tho extremely low tem
perature will more than compensate
for any leakago of current. Tho tele
phone receivers and transinUtarA are
Snado of wood because It is feared
that ebonite would crack under the
effects of the extreme cold.
It Is planned to run several lines
from a central station, ono to an ob
servatory a mtlo away, another to a
post In the open air five miles dis
tant and another to the explorer's
headquarters 26 miles distant from
tho central station. This telephone
system will be of great assistance In
enabling simultaneous photographs to
be taken.
CORRECT TIME BY WIRELESS
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Apparatus Devised by French lnven
tors for Use In Offices, Stores
and Ships at Sea,
Wireless apparatus for transmitting
tho correct time direct from tho ob-
Receiving Correct Time by Wireless.
servatory to officos, stores and homos
on land, and ships at sea, has been
devised by two French inventors,
Bays tho Popular Mechanics. JuBt
ouch a method of correcting clocks
was predicted by James Arthur In his
Rories ot articles on "Timet and Its
Mwsuroments."
FrederlckrUpham Adams, tho novol
let, is tho Inventor of several electrlo
light devices.
An electrical drodgo on tno Yukon
rlvor has a capacity of 10,000 cubic
yards ot earth a day.
Telophonla service Is now open bo
twoon Moscow nnd Nijnl Novgorod, a
dlstonco ot 275 miles,
Tho prosent syBtem ot British teleg
raphy all ovor tho world oiubrnccs
1,111,360 miles of wlro.
Ono of tho newest electrical offlco
devices Is u machine which will seal,
Btamp nnd kcop a record ot 150 lottors
a mlnuto.
Electricity now does practically all
tho work In tho kltchons of tho United
States Military acadomy at West
Point, N. Y
A new electric pressing Iron Is
equipped with metal plates, which can
bo Inserted to Increase Its weight
when dcBlred.
Au electric searchlight to bo attach
cq to tho barrel of a gun to aid n
hunter to boo gamo nt night 1b a Ger
man invention.
Driven by nn electric motor, an In
genious machlno lins been Invented
to panto paper labels on bottles, no
matter what their shape,
A now insulator for use In electrical
work Is made by tho condensation of
phenol nnd formaldehyde nud much re
sembles JapancBo lacquer.
Tho average post of tolephono ox
clinngo malntonanco is said to bo
much greater under government own
ership than by prlvato corporation,
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lEUXMOLl
J! NOTES 1
LINEN Is perhaps moro used than
any other material, whon em
broidery is to be done for art,
pousehold purposes and wearing ap
parol. Much as we use Unon nowadays, for
our table, our bods and our bodies, it
fa not a now medium for embroidery,
(t Is ages old, as for conturles Unon
embroidery has been a domestic in
dustry in foreign lands.
This old work Is now being copied
widely and the special work belong
ing to different lands Is easily recog
nized. Thus tho old Spanish, Italian
and Oreek embroidery 6n the ltnon
was chiefly done In one color a pur
plo red. A great variety of colors
mixed with gold and silver thread is
characteristic of Oriental work.
A similar richness of coloring, but
genorally without tho gold and sliver
touches, marks tho Hungarian, Slav,
and Swedish peasant work. Old bluo
red and yellow are the predominating
tones.
Much of the Italian embroidery of
the sixteenth and seventeenth cen
turion was done on very fine linen
sometimes In colors, but more often In
white, with Intricate stltchery and
much cut and openwork.- The modern
girl, howovor, raroly has patience for
this exquisite stltchery of the olden
times. Her work Is more splashy and
less beauUfuL
For this reason the quality of the
linens-used today are changed, tho
threads being round and coarser, so
they can easily be counted to mako
easier the copying of the design. The
ojd embroideries, especially tho Ital
ian ones, were done on very fine linen.
In choosing a linen to embroider It
should be hand-bloached, and without
much drosslng. The threads should
be round, especially If any drawn-
work Is to be combined with the em
broidery. Thero are special art lin
ens for fancy work which are quite
distinct from tho linens used for
sheets and pillow cases.
TJnlesH you are sure you con dotcct
cotton threads and imperfect weaving,
It Is well .to leave tho selection of
your linen for au elaborate piece of
embroidery to a saleswoman In tho
art neodldwork department She will
gladly advise you the best grade for
your special purposes.
Linen embroidery may be classed
under two heads that where threads
aro counted, for the material accord
ing to a pattern done on cheokod pa
por, as In all cross-stitch work. Slav
mbroldorles and various kind of can
vas work; tho other where the pat
tern Is drawn on the material and the
embroidery worked without regard to It Is really astonishing what good re
the threads of the material, as In Eng- suits ono gets.
Dainty Costumes
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THE dainty frock at tho left Is ot
white voile mado up ovor pink
taffeta. It Is In empire stylo,
shirred at tho top and again at
tho bottom,vwhero It Is finished with a
ruffle edgvd with Irish laco. It la
trimmed with folds of tho pink taffeta
and Irish Inco Insertion.
The one on the largest girl Is of
whlto pique. Tho skirt is encircled
with a wldo band ot English embroi
dery and with tucks which are em
broldored with dots. Tho jacket Is
i- w -
iNfoquc
Whlto for all occasions Is to be
worn tills spring and summer.
All kinds of laces aro In uso heavy
ones and tho dalntlost nnd filmiest
High, small turbans ard trimmed
with cabochons of garden flowers on
the side.
Shorter alcoves aro looked for In tho
models that nro to be worn In tho com
ing summer.
Higher and higher mouut tho toques,
higher and higher soar tho fenthory
ndornmen.
Thoro is a combination of French
knots and colored beads soeu on tho
new waiatB that 1b attractive.
The Volatile Waist Line.
Though tho waist lino Is less ver
satile than It used to bo, and 1b more
and moro Inclined to assume tho con
ventional position, tho Empire offect
is still to be seen. For reception and
k-?jt rr.-s. .viiifc
-i.-w ! nni KfQWtA -s.-
llsh embroidery, satin stitch, Kensing
ton, Chlneso and Madoira embroi
deries. No linen embroidery covers the en
tire ground of tho material, but leaves
Hpaces of the linen for a background
to tho dosign.
There aro interesting imported lin
ens to be found In most establish
ments that aro adapted to both kinds
of linen embroidery. Besides tho
Irish linen there are Spanish, Silcslan
and Algerian linens for small stitches
anaVfino work, while the coarser lin
ens of Cuba, Ceylon and Batavia aro
used for bolder effects and coarser
stltchery, and Russian linens and tho
different kinds of canvas gives
stitches of any desired size.
Most of these can bo found In whtto
cream and ecru, and many of the bo
called art linens come in varied tones
of any given shade. -
Though tho old-time embroideries
wero rarely dono on cotton goodB wo
tblnk nothing of putting handsome
stltchory on cotton materials sheer
and opaque. It Is bottor, however,
to mako such embroidery sketchy, as
tho material is not worth fine work.
Unfrayed Scallops.
Some housekeepers object to the
buttonholed scallop on embroidery, be
cause It frays In washing. This can
be overcome In several ways. The
surest Is to buttonhole a second time
over tho purled edge, whon tho scal
lop has been worked and cut out.
Another method Is to run the out
line of the scallop with machine
stitching before buttonholing. Or In
cutting leave a narrow margin and
turn back under the Bcallop and bom
to the material.
If these are too much trouble, at
least wash the linen before cutting
out. The muterlal shrinks and Is much
less likely to fray. Where the entire
piece Is not washed, the embroidered
edge can be dipped In lukewarm wa
ter for a few minutes, then' Ironed dry
and later cut out close to the purled
edge.
Turkish Mats.
It you are tho fortunate possessor
of a Turkey rug or mat, don't allow It
to wear Into holes without trying to
romody matters. Go to an upholster
er and ask him to glvo you a small
bundle ot odd pieces of wool and a
suitable needle. Then, when you nnd
a weak spot, go down on your aes
and darn the placo ot courso match
ing the wools as closely as nossible.
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trimmed In tho same way and orna-
mentcd with pearl buttons. Tho col
lar Is ot English embroidery bordered
with the dotted bands. '
The charming llttlo coat is ot light
blue alpaca. One sldo of iho front is
turnod back to form a large revors
and tho coat is trimmed in front and
back with straps of the material fast
ened with gold buttons. Tho collar
and cuffs are of gulpuro finished, to
look their best, with llttlo pUiltlngs of
flno lace.
dancing gowns it Is very graceful, and
tho soft outline It gives to the flguro
Is delightfully picturesque. But for
tho street all this Is out ot placo: It
glvos tho wearer n silhouette that Is
. .i .,, i .. T
untidy, and suggests n looseness that
Is altogether objccttonublo. In rogard
also to evening gowns tho same fault
may bo found. So long as a tollotto
Is to bo worn chiefly while walking or
standing, tho short waist Is permls
Elulo oven desirablebut for n din
ner, concert or theater It Is no longer
so. Tho bust, uncoufinod, falls out of
Bhapo, and It Is tho realization of this
fact that has led to so many of tho
nowofit ovonlng bodices bolng mado
with swathed draperies and closo fit
ting linos.
New Trlmmlnn Features.
Massos of foliage In tho color ot
the hat, piled ovor tho crown.
Buckle, carbochons and other orna
ments mado ot laco Tuscan and
studdod with corals or turquoises.
Butterflies and fans formed by wide,
pleated satin ribbon.
Heavy cord-shtrred effects In ribbon
earnlturcs ot all kinds.
Neur Neura
Son Sponsor
How Paul Morton Helped His Embar
rassed Parent When Cleveland Of
fered the Latter a Portfolio In
HI Cabinet.
Early In the winter of 1893 J. Sterl
ing Morton of Nebraska, who founded
at Nebraska City the first newspaper
to bo published In the state, and who
was onoe acting governor of the ter
ritory of Nebraska, and Democratic
candidate for governor after the terri
tory had boon admlttod to the Union,
feceived from a close personal friend
of President-elect Orover Cleveland a
letter in which it was sald"that Mr.
Cleveland would be glad to see Mr.
Morton at tho temporary homo occu
pied by Mr. Cleveland at Lakewood,
N. J. There appeared to be no other
explanation for this Invitation than
that Mr. Cleveland had In mind tho of
fering of some office .to Mr. Morton.
Tho communication perplexed Mr.
Morton a little. He had not been num
bered among Mr." Cleveland's western
friends in 1884. Moreover, he had do
votod himself exclusively to agricul
ture for about thirtoen years. How
ever, Mr. Morton felt that It would be
courtesy for him to accept tho invita
tion and so notified his correspondent.
On his way east Mr. Morton met the
late Paul Morton, his son, then prom
inently known In the railroad and fuel
worlds.
"Paul," said tho father, "you know
I am very rusty about politics. I nevei
had much experience in it except the
little I gained when I was in Nebraska
legislature and a candidate for gover
nor. I fool that I would hardly know
how to bear myself If I should be
brought Into personal touch with the
eastorn politicians when I call upon
Mr. Cleveland. I would be much easier
in my mind If you would accompany
me east"
Paul Morton had an Intuitive belief
that Mr. Cleveland wanted to offer his
father the post of secretary of agri
culture, and because he was extreme
ly anxious that such an honor should
come to his father he consented to
drop business and accompany him
east.
Together father and son because
the former Insisted on the appointed
day went to tho oottago at Lakewood
which had become familiarly known nB
"the llttlo White House," so-called be
How Burnside
Collapse of William 8prague's Finan
cial Affairs Caused His Retirement
and Left Vacancy That the
General Flfled.
Of all the men of military renown
gained In tho Civil war who served
In the United States senate during the
two decades following Appomattox,
none attracted moro attention than did
Ambrose E. Burnside ot Rhode Is
land. Visitors to the galleries never
failed to ask that John A. Logan and
General Burnsldo be pointed out to
them. Both were spectacular figures
In the senate, but In a different way.
Logan, with bis swarthy complexion,
long black hair and drooping black
mustacho, his Indian cast ot counten
ance and his vivacity and enorgy, was
like a moving picture upon the floor of
the senate.
A few seats away from the one occu
pied by General Logan sat General
Burnside. He was easily recognised.
He continued to wear the familiar alde
whlskers which, In war time, cauBed
that form of beard to become univer
sally spoken of aB "Burnaldes." Ho
was very neat In his dress, being, In
fact one of the best dressed men of
the senate, while Logan always wore
the conventional black frock coat
Burnside sometimes sat through an en
tiro session of the senate without leav
ing his seat
It was In the winter of 1881, tho year
of his death, that I met General Burn
aide. I took occasion to congratulate
him upon his re-cloctlon as senator,
and I sold to him: "It 1b an Interest
ing fact that you, the great military
loader who came from Rhode Island in
J the Civil war, should have succeeded
Senator William Sprague, who was the
only govornor In tho east during the
war to assume command of state regi
ments and take thorn into the field."
"I have sometimes thought," said
Sonator Burnside, "that as dramatic an
Incident ot tho war as any that I be
came familiar with was the manner In
which Governor Spraguo mobilized the
Brst Rbodo Island regiments and de
parted 'from Provldenco at their head
only four days after President Lln-
Blblo for Chinese Emperor.
The Chinese Christians about a
dozen years ago presented tho dow
ager ompross with a magnificent copy
of tho Scriptures translated Into Chi-
" , ' n vn,n, , mni.
orn penmanship, the writing being on
silk nnd the covers ot the Bible being
ot silver. Tho gift was graciously
received and her mnjesty read tho
book. This excited the emperor's
curiosity and ho ordered ono of the
eunuchs to obtain for him n copy ot
tho Now Testament
Tho books formed part ot the loot
of tho Forbidden City In 1900. Tho
omporor was n closo student of the
Testament, which was freely an
notated oy mm. Tno uimo was
found in tho ompross' chambor nnd
tho Testament In the emperor's study.
Tho future ruler has been presented
wlti anothor and less pretentious
copy, but this has cost 800. The
regent In accepting tho gift at the
hands ot tho American minister prom.
Isod his excellency that as soon as
the emperor has mastered his rudi
ments bo shall study tho sacred writ-tncs.
for His Father
cause Mr. Cleveland was making
there all of his arrangements for his
return to the office of president Mr.
Cleveland was looking forward to
mooting the father alone, but when be
beheld the senior Morton's embarrass
ment at their exchange of greetings
he quickly understood the situation,
and as though everything was just aa
he had expected, bo began to speak
of Mr. Morton's high authority as a
farmer and of the valuable work be
had done In that field In Nebraska.
In the first pause, tno elder Morton,
not trusting himself to reply, looked
timidly towards his son, who instant
ly took up tho thread of tho conversa
tion, giving iho proper answer. After
that the president-elect, though speak
ing to tho father, looked steadily at
the son. He realized that the younger
man was standing sponsor ror the
older.
At last Mr. Clevoland tendered the
secretaryship of agriculture to Mr.
Morton substantially In these words:
"Mr. Morton, this Interview has de
termined me to ask you to accopt a
place in my cabinet as secretary of
agriculture, and I shall bo very glad
If you will accept It"
By this tlmo Mr. Morton's embar
rassment had well nigh overwhelmed
him, and ho felt himself In no condi
Refused to Become a Diplomat
Prescott Was Offered the Position of
Minister to Holland, but Declined
en Account of His Partial
Blindness.
Recently I told, of the half-fulfilled
prophecy made by the famous pub
lisher of Longfellow, Hawthorne,
Lowell, Emerson, Whlttler, Holmes
and other great writers of that "golden
age" period regarding the coming ot
the present-day school of writers on
tho life of the west Today I tell ot
Mr, Field's opinion of the historian
Prescott and a llttlo known fast re
lating to him, as they were told to me
by Mr. Fields. Of all tho great writers
In the English language with whom
Mr. Fields had Intimate personal as
sociation, It seemed to me from his
manner when he talked to mo of Pres-
Got His Toga
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coin's proclamation of April 14, 1861,
was Issued. You know, he became gov
ornor of Rhode Island when only 49
yea's of age; that was In 1860. He was
a Btandor young man ot medium height,
we're a faint black mustache and waa
of very fair complexion. I havo heard
It said that no young man in the
ttatted States had a greater public
career In the future than he. As you
know, he made a highly creditable
record at the front from the first
Bull Run through the Peninsular cam
paign, while still governor; he declined
a commlslon as brigadier general, and
was chosen United States senator In
1862, when In his thirty-first year. The
Noxt year ho was brought more close
ly, It possible, to the notice of such
men as Lincoln and his advisers by
his marriage with the brilliant Kato
Chase, daughter of the secretary of
the treasury. Moreover, ho was thought
to be one ot the richest of the manu
facturers ot the United States. Ho
and his brother Amasa were the own
ers of great cotton mills.
"But here I am In the seat that he
formerly occupied, and oil because
of an unexpected incident, the sud
den collapse of Senator Sprague's po
litical career.
"Thcro has always been a good deal
of astonishment expressed at the ab
rupt termination, ot Senator Sprague's
public career, and a good deal of spec
ulation, but the facts are simply these,
as all his old friends in Rhode Island
know well: With his brother he had
developed a great wator power over
tho lino in Connecticut, and built what
at the tlmo was the longest cotton
mill lu the world I think a llttlo over
1,000 feet In lsngth. It proved a most
unfortunato investment. It was a
heavier burden than even the great
Spraguo bouse could carry. Senator
Sprague felt keenly tho 'humiliation
occasioned by tho resultant bank
ruptcy. He determined to abandon all
thought ot a public career and de
vote himself to tho rebuilding of his
property. That and that alone was
tho reason why he gave up public
life, and how, In 1875,' I came to enter
tho United States senate."
(Copyright. 1911, by G. J. Edward. AU
Rights Reserved.)
Cardinals' Number Reduced
Membership at Catholic College Is
Now the Smallest Recorded
In Centuries.
The Catholic Colleg of Cardinals
has now the smallest membership re
corded In centuries, and tho smallest
proportion of Italians ever known.
The traditional membership Is sev
enty, nnd by tho recent death of Car
dinal Cavicchlojft It Is reduced to
forty-nlno. It Is .hreo and n half
years since any cardinals have beon
crcatod, and It Is'l.kely to bo a year
before a consistory Is called, where
at alone new cardinals are pro
claimed. A dozen of the forty-nine,
and especially of the Italians, are in
effective by reason ot advancod age,
Cardinal Oreglla, tho camerlcngo, be
ing eighty-three this coming July.
Twonty-elght cardinals are Italians,
twenty-one the non-Roman world.
Cardinals Moran ot Australia, Gib
bons of America and Loguo of Ire
land roprcsent the English-speaking
fyf E, jTtgjWflg
tion to trust to his own judgment,
Again he looked In tho direction or
his son. He caught an encouraging
anil affirmative expression on the
young man's face and, assured, he:
turned to the president-elect
"Mr. Cleveland," he said, In his sole'
speech of the interview, "I greatly ap-j
preciate the honor, and I shall be gladj
to accept tho offer you havo made me
of a place In your cabinet"
Mr. Cleveland oxtended his hand to
Mr. Morton and led him to the porch)
of the cottage. Paul Morton remained
behind, looking at tho chair in whlohj
Mr. Cleveland had sat After awhile
he hunted up Mr. Nathan Straus, own
er of the cottage.
"Mr. Straus," he said, "my father
has jUBt been offered a place In Mr.t
Cleveland's cabinet and he has accopti
ed the offer. It Is a very great honor;'
I appreciate It more than I can tell.!
I am very anxious' to secure somei
visible memento of this event, nnd l
am going to ask you If you will let
me buy tho choir In which Mr. Cleve
land sat when ho offered the cabinet1
appointment to my fathor. Our fam
ily will cherish it as an heirloom."
"N,o, you cannot buy that chair," re-i
piled Mr. Straus, "but I shall deem it
an honor if you will accept it for a
gift"
In that way Paul Morton secured
one of tho most treasured ot his
mementoes.
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cott that he held that well-nigh blind
portrayer ot American civilizations ot
other days in highest personal esteem.
"Ah, ho waa a grand character,"
said Mr. Fields, a day or two after he
had returned, In the late seventies,
from what was to be his last trip
abroad. "He was aa grand a charac
ter personally as he was Intellectual
ly, I once asked him If It were true,
aa I had heard, that when he learned
that Mr. Motley, the historian, was
writing a history of the rise of the
Dutch republic he at once abandoned1
the purpose, which he had long con
templated, to write a work of that'
character Ho told me In reply that
he had collected a great deal of ma
terial for and had outlined the plan
ot such a history; but he learned by
mere chance that Mr. Motley had al
ready begun a similar work, so fie.
abandoned his own plan and offered
to send all of the material he had col
lected to Mr. Motley. That was some
time before Motley set soil In 1851 for
Holland to continue his researches for
the history that haa given blm lasting
fame.
"I asked Mr. Prescott If he did not
think there was room enough for two
histories on the subject His reply
was characteristic: 'Mr. Motley was
first In tho field; he had the right ot
pre-eminence.'
"I have always thought that was as
noblo a thing as any man of letters
ever did. And I have sometimes re
gretted," continued Mr. Fields, whose
eyesight, peculiarly enough, was de
fective, as was both Prcscott's and
Parkman's, whose publisher he was,,
"that Mr. Prescott was not willing to
listen to the hint that It he were will
ing to accept the offer he could re-i
celve appointment as our minister to
some one of the European courts.
"When George Bancroft, who some
years previously had published his
great history of the United States, en
tered Polk's cabinet as secretary of
the navy in 1845, he was moat anx
ious that American literary achieve
ment should reoetve some official
recognition from the new administra
tion other than that conferred upon
him. To that end he talked with the
president, and waa authorized to con
vey a hint to Mr. Prescott that the
president would be glad to appoint him
to some personally satisfactory diplo
matic post In Europe. But when the
hint was taken to Mr. Prescott he
mado It clear that however greatly ho
would appreciate the compliment of
an appointment It would be Imprac
ticable for him to serve In any po
litical capacity.
"It was not so much his fear that a
position under the government would
Interfere with bis literary labors that
kept him from looking kindly upon
tho hint. Tho thing that stood In the
way In his mind was his partial blinds
ness he could see but dimly. I am
sure that ho was afraid that that af
fliction would prevont him from doing
his full duty by his country. And I
am also sure that nut for his afflic
tion, which ho boro with sublime pa
tience, he would havo been very glad
and happy to servo as United States
minister to Holland."
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Rights Reserved.)
race. Franco has three, Germany two,
Spaiu four, Aus'rla six and South
America, Belgium and Portugal ono
each. The late Patriarch of Lisbon,
put out by tho revolution some
months ago, now lives In strict re
tirement The curia, the cardinals
stationed In Roma "for work In tho
congregations and other general ad
ministration, Is crippled for lack of
numbers. Tho cardinal who has just
died, a member of curia, gave active
days at scvonty-flvo years of ago to
congregations if the conslRtorlal,
sacraments, councils, both branches
of propaganda, index, rites and
studies, and on the commission for
tho codification of canon law, the last
named exceedingly onerous nnd Important
Hero's a tip for you, young man:
"Be sure that tho old gentlomnn wfi
come across with the obeso veal be-j
fore you attempt the role ot prodlsal v
son."
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