MADE A NEW FASHION. Good Joke Played in Old Days on Would-Be Fashionable. Old Camden, In his “Remain^,” tells a good story of a trick played by a knight upon a would-be fashionable shoemaker. Sir Philip Calthrop purged John Drakes, the shoemaker of Norwich in the time of King Henry VIII., of the proud humor which our people have to be of the gentlemen’s cut. This knight bought as much fine French tawny cloth as should make him a gown, and sent it to the tailor’s to be made. John Drakes, a shoe maker, coming to this tailor’s and see ing the knight’s gown cloth lying there, bid the tailor buy cloth of the same price and pattern and make it of the same fashion as the knight’s. Not long after the knight, coming in to the tailor to be measured for his gown, and perceiving the like cloth lying there, asked whose it was. "John Drakes’, the shoemaker, who will have it made of the self-same fashion that yours is made of.” “Then make mine as full of cuts as the shears will make it!” John Drakes had no time to go for his gown till Christmas day, when he meant to wear it. Perceiving the same to be full of cuts, he began to swear at the tailor. "I have done naught but what you bid me,” t quoth the tailor, "for as Sir Philip Calthrop’s garment is, even so have I made yours.” “By my latehet!” quoth John Drakes, “I will never wear gentlemen's fashions again!”—London T. P.’s Weekly. ALCOHOL IN MEDICINES. Seventy-Five Per Cent of Doctors' Prescriptions Call for It. Now that the National Pure Food and Drugs law is in effect all “patent” medicines in liquid form bear on the label a statement of the percentage of alcohol contained in them. The average amount of alcohol is said to be about ten per cent, some have more and some less, but that is about the average. Alcohol is everywhere rec ognized as a chemical necessity for the preservation of organic substance from deterioration, and front freez ing and it is also required to dissolve substances not soluble in water. But for the use of a small quantity of alcohol in ^nost readv-to-use medi cines those preparations which most families keep constantly on hand would likely be decayed or frozen when their use became necessary. Alcohol is an indispensable requi site in the fluid extracts and tinctures which are exclusively used in filling prescriptions written by physicians, and these tinctures and extracts con tain from 20 to 90 per cent of alco hol. More than 75 per cent of all the liquid medicines prescribed by physicians contain alcohol in large proportions. Charles A. Rapelye, a leading phar macist of Hartford, Conn., some time ago examined 25 prescriptions repre senting a fair average of those writ ten by physicians to be compounded, and none being for specialties. The average amount of alcohol in the whole number was 35 per cent; but of the 25 prescriptions five contained no alcohol, so that the average per centage of the remaining 20 which did contain alcohol was nearly 45 per cent; or more than four times the probable average alcoholic strength of "patent” medicines. There is some difference of opinion as to whether, it is or is not desirable as a stimulant in case of sickness, but there is no difference of opinion as to the necessity for its use as a sol vent and preservative in most cases. The attention of the medical world has recently been called to a mani festo issued by prominent London physicians who, while deploring the evils from the use of alcoholic bev erages, are convinced “of the correct ness of the opinion so long and gener ally held, that in disease alcohol is a rapid and trustworthy restorative” and that in many cases it may be truly described as life-preserving, ow ing to its power to sustain cardiac and nervous energy, while protecting the nitrogenous tissues. This manifesto which was published in The Lancet, was issued and signed by T. J. Mc Call Anderson, M. D., Regius Profes sor of Medicine, University of Glas gow; Alfred B. Barrs, William H. Bennett, K. C. V. C., F. R. C. S.; James Crichton-Browne; W. E. Dixon, Dyce Duckworth, M. D., LLD.,; Thom as R. Fraser, M. D., F. R. S.; T. R. Glyn, W. R. Comers, M. C., F. R. S.; W. D. Halliburton, M. D. LLD., D. F. R. C. P., F. R. S., Professor of Physi ology, King’s College London; Jona tnan Hutchingson; Edmung Owen, LLD, F. R. C. S.; P. H. Pye-Smith, Fred T. Robert, M. D., B. Sc., F. R. C. S. ; Edgecombe Venning, F. R. C. S. The Dyce Duckworth who signed this manifesto was for many years president of the Royal College of Phy sicians, London. REHEARSAL IN A CAR, Professional Entertainer Was Almost Too Successful. “The other night, coining home in the car,” said the professional enter tainer, “I began to wonder if I could bring tears to my own eyes as I do to the eyes of the other people. I tried. I thought of all the wrongs I had committed, and felt sorry for peo ple I had wronged. I thought of all the mistakes I had made that other people had profited by and pretty soon the tears began to gather in my eyes and roll down my cheeks. "I forgot there were other people in the car who might notice me. Soon a woman got up from across the car and came to me. “ ‘I see, sir,’ said she, ‘that you are in some trouble. Can I do anything to help you?’ “ ‘Lord bless you, no, madam,’ I told her, hastily wiping away my tears, 1 am a professional entertainer and waa practicing on myself. That’s all.’" | Jumpers. "I want to look'at some of your , Jumpers,” Bald the workmah, entering the departnyent store. “Frog department, sixth floor, cen ter isle,” replied the floorwalker, tap ping his teeth with his pencil.— Yonkers Statesman. tic- • «... tv,. , T'/-V FULTON’S DREAM OF NAVAL WAR IS REALIZED HIS PLEA FOR TORPEDO BOATS WAS MADE MORE THAN CENTURY AGO. ANTIDOTE TO SEA POWER PLAN OF ATTACK IN EIGHT-OARED GALLEYS DIFFERS LITTLE FROM MODERN TACTICS. Before the Age of Steam, the Great Inventor Asked the President and National Legislature to Organize Defense with Great Flotilla of Tor pedo Boats—Asserted That Such Engines Would Mean “Liberty of the Seas”—Dcmonstartion of Their Power. New York.—Prophecy rests in every line of a book yellowed by a century in which are set forth the views of Robert Fulton on the submarine war fare of the future. Attention has been called to the old volume just at the time, when tests of under-sea craft are in progress, under the direction of the United States navy. Hardly an element exists of the art of at;ack and defense now used in that warfare beneath the waters but was recog nized by the genius to whom the achievements of steam navigation are due. Coincident with the celebration of the centenary of the day on which Robert Fulton's first steamship trav ersed the waters of New York harbor his almost clairvoyant insight is veri fied. The volume in which he out lines his plans is entitled “Toriiedo War and Submarine Explosions, by Robert Fulton, Fellow of the American Philosophical Society and of the Unit ed States Military and Philosophical Society.” It was printed in 1810 in this city by William Elliott, of No. 114 Water street. On the title page, serving as a text are the words “The Liberty of the Seas Will Be the Happiness oi the Earth.' Not only did the inventor foresee practically all that would come to pass in warfare, but by a hundred years he anticipated the arguments which are now being made by the advocates of peace against the use of the subma rine vessels. Were he here to-day face to face with the members of The Hague peace conference he would be in a position to meet every argument which they might make against employing craft which, by sending out torpedoes, deal out death unseen. To President Madison. His pamphlet is in the form of an unofficial report directed to James Madison, president of the United States, and “to the members of both houses of congress." In its opening pages Mr. Fulton invites them to fol low the origin and progress of torpedo warfare in order that they might “form a correct judgment of the propriety of adopting it as a means of our national defense.” He speaks frankly of the difficulties and embarrassments which he had undergone and gives the impression that he realizes that the campaign for the adoption of such a method of war fare will be beset with obstacles of every kind. Although he does not mention it in this work, he never was able to put into practice the far-reaching schemes for the building of submarine l>oats which he had in mind. His proto type of the craft which are now be ing tested was called the Nautilus. It was refused in turn by the govern ments of -the United States, of Great Britain and of France. “I believe that It is generally known that I endeavored for many yeais to get torpedoes introduced into practice in France and England,” he writes, “which, though unsuccessful, gave me the opportunity of making numerous very interesting experiments on a large scale, by which I discovered er rors in the combinations of the ma chinery and methods of fixing the tor pedoes to a ship, which errors in the machinery have been corrected, and I believe I have found means of attach ing the torpedoes to a vessel which will seldom fail of success. It is the result of my experience which I now submit to your consideration, and, hoping you will feel interest in my in vention, I beg for your deliberate! pe rusal and reflection.” Desultory efforts to use torpedoes in naval warfare had been made as early as the sixteenth century, but no mili tary or naval authorities even a hun dred years ago believed it would be possible to introclulfe so irregular a plan of sea fighting. His First Experiment. Robert Fulton was working in Eng land under the patronage of twe no blemen when, after much negotiation, he induced some of the authorities to witness his torpedo experiments. The first of these was made on October 15, 1805, upon the brig Dorothea, and It is described in full in this remarkable pamphlet. Its first illustration represents the brig being cut literally in two by the tremendous explosion which proceed ed from the torpedo which had been devised for the experiment. “To convince Mr. Pitt that a vessel could be destroyed by the explosion of a torpedo under her bottom,” writes Mr. Fulton, “a strong built Danish brig, the Dorothea, burthen 200 tons, was anchored in Walmer road, near Deal, and within a mile of Walmer castle, the then residence of Mr. Pitt. Two boats, each with eight men, commanded by Lieut. Robinson, were put under my direction. I prepared two empty torpedoes in such a man ner that each was only from two to three pounds specifically heavier than salt water and so suspended them that they hung 15 feet under water. “They were then tied one to each end of a small rope 80 feet long. Thus arranged and the brig drawing 12 feet of water, the 14th day of October was spent in practice. Each beat hav ing a torpedo in the stern, they started from the shore about a mile above the brig and rowed down to ward her; the uniting line of the tor pedoes being stretched to its full United States as a naval power, but be predicted with remarkable accuracy the growth of population. His figures could net of course take ihto account the development of railways, the exist ence of which he could not foretell, nor of the acquisition of thousands of square miles of additional terri tory. “The United States,” he writes, “is doubling her population in 25 years, or, with probable correctness, say 30 years.” His table of estimates is as follows: 1830, 10,429,602; 1860, 20,850,204; 1890, 40,718,408; 1920, 81,436,816. It happens, owing to exceptional growth, that the population is now as much as it should be 12 years from now. He quotes from Arnauld to show that in 1790 England was the great naval power and that France and Spain were holding their own. He quotes the increasing cost of arma ments in Europe as an argument for devising some means of destroying them and thus promoting peace. "I will also show,” he continues, "the increasing resources which, if science does not check it, will enable England hereafter to support a marine of 1,500 armored ships with as much | ease she now does the 760.” % In consequence of the invention of gunpowder. Mr. Fulton declared that extent, the two boats were distant from each other about 70 feet; thus they approached in such a manner that one boat kept the larboard, the other the starboard side of the 'firig in view. Directing the Torpedoes. “'So long as the connecting line of the torpedo passed the buoy of the brig they were thrown into the water and carried on by the tide until the connecting line showed the brig's cable; the tide then drove them un der her body. The experiment being repeated several times taught the men how to act, and proved to my sat isfaction that when properly placed on the tide the torpedoes would invaria bly go under the bottom of the vessel.” Annihilated Ship. “At 40 minutes past four the boats rode toward the brig and the torpedoes were thown into the water, the tide, carrying them, as before described, under the bottom of the brig, where, at the expiration of 18 minutes, the explosion appeared to raise her bodily about six feet. She separated in the middle, and the two ends went down. “In 20 seconds nothing was to be seen of her, except floating fragments; the pumps and foremast were blown out of her, the fore-topsail yard was thrown up to the cross trees, the four chain plates with their boats were torn front her sides, the mizzen chain plates and shrouds, being stronger than those of the foremast, or the shelf being more forward than aft, the mizzen mast was broken off in two places; these discoveries were made by means of the pieces which were found afloat.” This is the history of the first really successful torpedo experiment. De spite the researches which had been made in earlier centuries, few of the naval experts of that day believed that ships of war had increased to their enormous size. He concludes by say ing that not until science shall point out the way to destroy ships of war will it give to the seas the liberty which shall obtain perpetual peace be tween nations separated by the ocean. Use of Torpedoes Defended. “In numerous discussions,” con cludes Mr. Fulton, “which I have had on this subject and its consequences, instead of giving liberty to the seas, its tendency would be to encourage piracy and buccaneering, by enabling a few men in a boat to intimidate and plunder merchant vessels, thereby producing greater evil than the exist ing military marines. "This idea is similar to the one which might have arisen on the inven tion of muskets, which, giving to an individual the power of certain death gt a distance of 50 or 100 yards, rob bers might infest the highways, and from ambush shoot the traveler, and take his money. Yet there is not so much robbery now as before the in vention of guniAwder. Society is more civilized. All civilized society will in its own interest combine against the robber, who has no chance of escape. “But men without reflecting, or from attachment to established and familiar tyranny, exclaim that it is barbarous to blow' up a ship with all her crew. This I admit, and lament that it should be necessary; but all wars are barbarous, and particularly wars of of fense. It is barbarous for a ship of war to fire into a merchant vessel, kill part of her people, take her and the property and reduce the proprie tor from affluence to penury. “It was barbarous to bombard Co penhagen, set fire to the city and destroy innocent women and children. It would be barbarous for ships of powder could explode under water. The idea that the shock of such an ex plosion under the bottom of a vessel would have any effect upon it was looked upon as wild and chimerical. Predicted Nation’s Growth. Singularly enough, Mr. Fulton not only foresaw the extension of subma rine warfare and the growth of the ■■I ■■■' I war to enter the harbor of New York, Are on the city, destroy property and murder many of the peaceable inhab itants, yet we have great reason to expect such a scene of barbarism and distress unless means are taken to prevent it. Therefore, if torpedoes should prevent such acts of violence, the invention must be humane.” COINS THAT ARE SPURIOUS. How They Are Made and How They Can Be Detected. The most dangerous counter feUs are struck from a die and are usually imitations of gold coins. Molds of various kinds are extensively used, but counterfeits so made are inferior to those made wi th a die. The die-made counterfeits, accord ing to Dickerman’B United States Counterfeit Detector, have a fine ap pearance, lettering and milling being sharp and clear and the ring usually good, in some instances almost per fect facsimiles ol! genuine. They are usually a trifle short weight, howtiver, and thfe edges or reeding not no sharp and clear as In genuine. Many of these coins are full weight. Various metals are used by counter feiters, principally plan tinum, si (Ter, copper, brass, antimony, aluminum, sine, type metal, lead and their, nu merous compositions. Among the most dangerous counter feits of gold coin are those of a com position of gold, silver and copper/ They are a low grade gold, and the acid test shows they lack the fineness of standard gold used by the United States mint, which is 900 fine, or 21.19 carats. These counterfeits average from|400 to 800 fine. Platinum coun terfeits. are dangerous, as the metal used efts a i live es required weight, and they are heavily gold-plated. The most dangerous counterfeit of silver coin is made of a composition of antimony and lead, the former metal predominating. These counter feits are of the dollar; have a fine ap pearance, are heavily silver plated, with fair ring; some are only slightly below the standard weight ,v Some pieces among the smaller coins are made of brass, struck from a die. and when heavily plated are fair imitations. They lack required weight except In a few Instances. Counterfeits of type metal, lead mid other compositions are much lighter than genuine; those having1 required weight are much too thick. Genuine coins of all kinds, for the •*.: - J- - sake of gain, are tampered with In various ways. These operations are confined almost exclusively to gold coins, whicli are sweated, plugged and filled. Sweating is removing a portion of the gold from surface of coin. The probess does not interfere with the ring, and as the portion removed is generally slight the coin is left with a very fair appearance, weight only be ing defective. The principal methodB o( sweating are the acid bath, filing the edges or reeding, the operator finding a profit in the small quantities of gold removed from numerous pieces. The average reduction in value of coins subjected to these pro cesses is from one-twentieth to one tenth. For detecting counterfeit coin, com pare impress, site, weight, ring and general appearance .with genuine coin of game period and coinage. The three tests of weight, diameter and thick* nets should be applied, for It la almost impossible tor the counterfeiter to comply with these three tests without .WHERE DOCTORS FAILED. An I imprest! ng Case from Salem, the t Capital of Oregon. F. A. Sutton, R. F. D. No. 4, Salem, Oregon, says: “Acute attacks of kid ney disease ana rheumatism laid me up off and on for ten years. Awful pains started from the kidneys and i conrsed down through my limbs. I sought the best medical treatment ^but in vain, and when I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills I was walking with two canes and suf fering continual pains, headaches and sleepless nights. I improved quickly and after taking three boxes felt bet ter than I had for 15 years. The Ef fects have been lasting.” Sold by all dealeis. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. “Soap Bubble Hanging from a Reed.” Our life is but a soap bubble hang ing from a reed; It is formed, expands to its full size, clothes itself with the loveliest colors of the prism, and even escapes at moments from the law of gravitation; but scon the black speck appears in it and the globe of emeralij and gold vanishes into space, leaving behind it nothing but a simple drop of turbid water. All the poets have made this comparison, it is so strik ing and so true. To appear, to shine, to disappear; to be born, to suffer and to die; is it not the whole sum of life, for a butterfly, for a nation, for a star?—Henry Frederic Amiel. ALMOST A SOLID SORE. Skin Disease from Birth—Fortune Spent on Her Without Benefit— Cured Her with Cuticura. "I have a cousin in Rockingham Co. who once had a skin disease from her birth until she was six years of age. Her father had spent a fortune on her to get her cured and none of the treat ments did her any good. Old Dr. suggested that he try the Cuticura Remedies which he did. When he com menced to use it the child was almost a solid scab. He had used it about two months and the child was well. I could hardly believe she was the same child. Her skin was as soft as a baby’s without a scar on it. I have not seen her in seventeen years, but I have heard from her and the last time I heard she was well. Mrs. W. P. Ingle, Burlington, N. 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