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TIlL OMAHA DAILY BEE : TIIUIISIAY , .IUTY S , 1898.
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I ODD TELESCOPE li1LDER
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, c a a Preacher with Mechanical Talonth
Tending Skywara ,
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FIRST LENS MADE ENTIRELY IN AMERICA
Larger T1iu iic erkcs LIiJI 117
rveI1t7-Two ItCIIlI - I.flneit
, fur the AmirIcnn lint-
' verity ut Wuiiltngton.
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In the 1Itto town ot rcenvflle , l'n. , Itves
_ ft mnii who can n'w clatrn the boner of
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havIng ! flflO ( the 1arget
telescope 1en In the world. The man
k , Xrnne ts John l'eato. lie Is a retIre(1
. Methodist rcnchor and this lB hI first attempt -
tempt at telc8cope buDding. It. baa been
j unttrely a labor of love with him. for th
teat lens was built for the Uo of the new
Methodist university In WnBhlngton and Is
3OOfl to be mounted there.
Thu new telescope I Interesting , not only
becauBo Its lens Is the largest In the country -
try , hut lccause of the eccentrIc character
or Its builder and the fact that ho dovlsetl
ZnoBt of the machInery for iI delicate work
as he vent along. lie rettred front the
PUIPIL overat ycari ago and Is now 78
years of aze , IIIR erect , stalwart figure
and snow-white beard are familiar all
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through wentern Pennsylvania. In spite of
nearly four-itcoro yenra Dr. Peata Ia still
active as a boy and ho recently walked
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twenty-seven miles In a single afternoon
without inintling It at all. In the winter
ho may ho seen almost any flno day on the
hcnango river , swinging along on skates
with a swift , muscular stroke that Is the
etivy of the town boys. lie Is known nil
Over this iart of the state and his shrevd ,
common sense sayings are quoted all
through the Shenango valley.
John l'eato was born In County Cavan ,
Ireland , anti his conversation Is still flavored
by a fine quality of Irish brogue and marked
by Irish wit as keen as whoa a lad In his
teens ho sanded In America and sought
employment at the trade of bricklaying.
WhIle a young man he was converted at
a Methodist revival , left his trade , took to
preaching and became ono of the clergymen
and later on a presiding elder in the Erie
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conference , About fifteen or twenty years
ago ho became interested In the making of
lnscs , through Dr. Wytho , a fellow pastor ,
t and since then has devoted alL his spare
_ ) moments to that work ,
. From first to last , excepting such
little Information as ho got from Dr.
Wytho , anti some alight technical instruction -
tion from John A. llrashear , the Pittsburg
lens maker , Dr. Pente has relied upon his
own skill anti Inventive ability In the performance -
formanco of his delicate work.
Dr. l'ente'N 00cr.
Nearly four years ago , at the annual
meeting of the Methodist Episcopal confer-
once. to which Itcv. Peate bears a supernumerary -
numerary relation , flishop Hurst. presented
a pica for the support. of the 4merican
university and told in such glowing
phraseology of the hopes and prospects of
the school that the clergymen were deeply
Impressed. At the conclusion of the iIshOp'3
appeal flay. Peato arose and quietly offered
to make for the university the largest ro-
: fleeting telescope lens In the world. The
; bishop and clergymen present know that
' . Dr. i'eato had been successfuL in the mak-
lug of coveral small lenses and other opti-
cat glasses. hut the suddenness and magni-
ttido of his offer for a moment embarrassed
; , theni all. The offer was so remarkable
, that it took the hearers by surprise. The
bishop looked into the face of the erect and
t , 'p vcnerabie man. 1io knew hIm. ia what
. time viil you do It ? " ho asked , "In two
years , " propmptly responded Dr. Peate. ills
. offer was accepted soon afterwards and the
; : conditions fixed by the university authorities -
ties were that Dr. Peate should do the
work , the school to bear all expenses. No
limitations were sot to the latter. Dr.
Poato lost no time upon his return home.
ills first concern , of course , was to got the
glass in the rough. That was an cuormous
task and tIm dimeuittes encountered were
suflicient to liavo thoroughiy disheartened
any but the sturdiest spirit. 110 could
have ordered the glass from tue st. Gobin
works in France , where for centuries at-
most all large telescope euses have been
cast , and whose export workmen bavo been
-A- regarded as the only men In the world
- - competent to undertake any great piece of
casting. The expense would have been en-
'I. ormoua , and although given carte blanche
-'Wy ' by. the untersity authorities , Dr. Peate
has endeavored to keep tlown to a minimum
the coat of making his big lens.
. Getting the lug GlaNs.
Another consideration entered Into his
plans. Since the work being done for
a the American university it was a matter of
pride that no part of It should be done
outside of this country.
Acting upon this determination Dr.
Peato made proposals to several of the
largest glass manufacturers In the United
d b States , that they undertake the casting of his
big t1aas. Here ho met his first rebuff. Not
one of the concerns to whom he offered
the task WOtIll ( take it. Their overt reasons
for refusing were that it could not p05-
athly ho tione , but covertly they let It be
known through their trade Journals that
they regarded the whole undertaking of the
venerable clergyman as the visionary
scheme of a crank ,
1)r. I'cate then turned from the big concerns -
cerns to tue emaller manufacturers , who
had muq.h to gain it the cast should be sue-
cesaful , and nothing to lose In case of
failure. flu went to liutior , l's , , sixty
. miles train Greenville. and got a Plato glass
company to agree to make the attempt.
. Four times the molten glass was poured
Into the great mold unsuccessfully , but the
fifth cast was pronounced perfect.
itt the nieantitno lr. l'eato had butit ac-
cording to his sPecifications a workshop for
the accommodation of the glass when it
should be transported from Ilutlor. The
carpenters vlio built it were good Methodists -
odists and would take nothing for their
nbor. The bricks of the chimney were laid
by Dr. Peate himself , The only cost the
workbhlop entailed ition the university was
for the lot and material , anti It is worthy
of note that this small , unpretentious
structure was the first building erected by
the institution whose colleges are now beginning -
ginning to raise their stately roofs in the
natioutti capital.
The 51101) was completed by the time the
glasb WflB stzccessfuliy cost , anti as soon as
the casting was finished it. was brought up
from Butler a'i placed Ia Lao main workroom -
room on a big revolving table , that was
turned by a small four-horaa tower gas
engine , which also furnished the vower to
the crane that hoisted and lowered the massive
sivo metal grinders. These grinders were
an ingenious invention of the old clergy-
man's fertile brain. Up to the time he
began the making of telescope lenses titers
hiatt been In use for grinding and loiiBbiUg
them what was known as "local" polishers ;
that is , small grinding or polishing surfaces
manipulahd over the face of the glass.
These had many disadvantages , amcag
' which wore loss of time and the constant
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danger of reducing the surface of the glass
into irregularities.
1Iolie-igtle l'oiIi ,
; Thu grinder Dr. l'cate constructed is a
metal dise the size of the glass to be ground
t and in which the convexity corresponds
Inversely to the figure desIred on the glass.
The surface of this disc Is cut up Into bun-
dreds of small facets , no two of which are
exactly the same distance from the ceotcr ,
llnoa these facets is spread the mixture of
pitch and rouge or emery used to grind nd
Irnitshl ,
With this single tool , weighing OO pounds ,
Dr. reate In the late summer of 1891 began
the formidable task of reducing the rough
surface of his great glass. At first Mmply
hard work and no great skill was required ,
but as the glass wore down close to the
figure In which it was to be finished the
work became less covers physically , and
began to tax more closely the ability and
maniptilar skill of the maker. After the
rough grinding had reduced the glass to
that point shere great skill and technlca
knowledge began to be required , Dr. l'eath
ilispensed with the services of the man ho
had bad to help him and the remainder of
the work was dcne entirely with his own
hands ,
The glass gradually became so infinitely -
finitely delicate that the slightest change
itt the temperature affected it. During the
first winter after polishing was begun only
nineteen hours were devoted to actual work
upon the glass , and the succeeding winter
even less time titan that. The total nutn-
ber of hours work on the glass from the
start to the finish was something under 700.
And yet to complete it required nearly the
full two years which lt. l'ento pledged the
bishop at the conference , The lens. which
is 62 inches in diameter , 5 3-8 IncItes thick
and weighs l,00 pounds , is a perfectiy flawless -
less piece of glass , and when duly polished
looked more like a pool of limpid spring
anco to your eye in finding and keeping the
lOiIlt at which the light refiectqd from the
glass collects. It Is by this teat ( lint I know
whether my glass is too high or too low
in places. "
lie then pointed out a spot just a shade
darker than the rest of this surface , where
In polishing that afternoon ho bad left the
glass raised about one one hundred-thou-
eaudth of an inch.
The next test was one of strikine beauty
transportation of a "parcel" from Green-
yule , l'a. , ' to Washington , D. C. , and a letter -
ter from Illshop hurst , head of the school ,
directing Dr. Peate to ship the glass as
soon as convenient.
Trstsispnrt itig the Lcnu.
Accordingly the glass 'was packed with
infinite care and every safeguard to prevent
even to niuch as a pin scratch matring Its
perfect polish.
Dr. Peate had an iron band clamped about
the lens and outside of that he bent. two
other Iron bands , the ends of which pass
UI , throfigh the top edge of the case , where
they are securely riveted. Dy this means
the glass Is kept constantly vettienl and
literally hangs in its case , having enough
play on padded cuahiona to escape the
severest jar. The whole case is mounted on
a wheeled truck tiat allows of its being
handled with case.
However , a delay has occurred because of
the fact that the express company baa no
office in Greenville and the glass has not
yet been shipped.
After every known optical test has been
given a telescope lens while it is being
made there is one final and best one that
can only he made when it is completed.
That is to search the sky with it. Dr. Petite
has twice put his glass to that final test
and has twicd proved it optically perfect ,
It was while the great lens was resting in
its carrying case that he conceived the idea
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TI1 1MG LENS IN ITS ShIPPING CASE. ( DISC IN TIlE CENTER IS EXACT SIZfl
OF' THE YERKES LENS. ) ONE OF THE BIG METAL GRINDERS WITh
WHICH THE GLASS WAS I1EDUCED.
water than a great telescope lens , destined I
to search the heavens for new planetary
bodies.
No better Idea of the nicety with which
the glass had to bo handled can be laid than
by a description of some of the tests that
were applied to it in the course of its final
polishing.
By means of an ingenious mechanical
device , the table on which the lens lay was
turned up so that the glass rested perpendicularly -
dicularly on one edge facing into the testing -
ing room , a low-celled narrow gallery about
100 feet long , that projects from the rear
ot the primitive workshop. Preparatory
to making any of the tests , Dr. Petite
opened the big door at the far end of the
gallery , A flood of light poured in and
suffused itself over the polished surface of
the great mirror , which reflected back with
startling clearness and brilliancy every
blade of grass and passing cloud without.
TeMtIlI&t the lug Leitu.
All the tests to which the lensmaker subjected -
jected the glass were very simple ones , but
embodied the most exacting optical princi-
pies , whereby tim perfection of a speculuni
may be determined with infinitesimal accu-
racy. For the first one , Dr. Peale went up
to the lens , and placing his thumb upon it ,
requested the correspondent to note when
be had held it there fifteen seconds. The
time tip , he came hack about sixty-five feet.
to a small table on which was a common
oil lamp , a cylindrical tin tube and a small
stnntiard supporting vertically a brass fer-
rule. h1 lighted the lamp , placed the tin tube
over It , turning it so that only the light
from a hole In the side , smaller than a pin
point , shone on the glass. Ito then sat
down back of the table enti shifted the lamp
and ferrule about until their adjustment
seemed satisfactory. lie arose and tao-
tioned me to take the seat , directing me to
close one eye and look past the edge of the
ferrule with the other , After a moment of
searching for the optical point , my eye suddenly -
denly caught a gleam anti the whole surface
of the big lens appeared effulgent with a
niehlow light , hike the urtacc of the full
moon , Near one edge was a small dark
spot. "Do you see that spot ? " queried the
doctor. "That is a bump caused by the cx-
pansion of the glass under the beat of my
thumb , It Is less than one fifty-thousandth
of an Inch high and yet you see it. with the
little point of light that escapes through a
hole too small to aecotmnotlato a pin. It is
impossible to measure it or detect it in any
other way than by this simple light test ,
You are seated at the radius of curvature
and the straightedge is merely an assist.
and illustrated the wonderful sensitiveness
of the glass , Dr. Pests walked forward
and merely held his itand near it , Look.
lug along the ferrule the surface of the
glass was seen to be all disturbed and covered
with great billowy clouds of light. liluw.
ing his breath across it caused it to faIrly
boil with vaporous clouds and waves. "That
is the action of heat , " he explained. "The
presedco of even a moderately warni hotly
near IL affects it thus nd so does a differ.
encu in temperature between the air with.
out. and within the shop. Consequently I
must keep my glass at a uniform tesupeis-
ture with the atmosphere or its surface be.
comes so disturbed that I cannot give it an
accurate test. That is also one reason why
it takes so bog a time us two years to corn-
photo it and explains why I could not work
on it snore than a few itoura last wittier. "
For some months past the glass has mm
on its revolving bed in the little workshop
awaiting orders for its disposition from the
beads of the university at Washington. Dr.
I'cato untitled them of its completion , but
nothing was done to have the glass re-
moved. Finally lr , Peate , who is a man
of PromPt action , wrote to the chancellor of
the university and told him that ho did not
longer wish to have the responsibility of
caring for the delicate glass. A reply
came In the form of an order for this tree
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of turning it on the heavens. Accordingly
ho silvered its face. Then lie wheeled the
case out onto a small platform in the rear
of his workshop. Thirty-two feet out from
the platform Ito constructed rough scaffold-
ing. Thirty-two feet is the distance from
the face of the big mirror nt which its rays
of rcllected light are focused. hJ had next
constructed a thirty-two foot wooden arm
made like a huge crutch. The open ends
of this he placed on either side of the glass
and tlid other closed end was raised to the
top of tIle scaffolding. On it be placed the
eye-piece , through which the focused light
is admitted to the eye. Then , tilting the
glass back as far as he could one starry
night a few weeks ago , the venerable astron-
orner climbed up his rickety scaffold and
during four hours sat uncomfortably on the
topmost round of the ladder , studying tbe
heavens nnd searchingly noting the working -
ing of his Precious mirror.
During this year a gentleman who died
at Mons left a legacy of $3,000 to five friends ,
the money to be spent on dinners served in
different restaurants , and at each meal a
certain dish to be eaten , and a certain wine ,
of which ho was very fond , to he drunk.
Futhermore , his memory was to be toasted
at dessert , the five companions wore to dine
In black clothes and gloves antI enter the
room preceded by a flag and the music of
an accordion.
A wealthy gentleman recently heft his son
a large fortune ott the condition that ho
shall visit every country in the world , anti
write a book on what ho sees. This work is
to be submitted to professors of Bonn and
Heidelberg universities , anti if in their opinion -
ion it is ( lull anti stupid and badly written
the heir has either to write it over again or
lose the fortuno.
Some years ago in France a maiden lady
dietl who hiati been fo many years a habit-
nal snuff-taker. She heft directions in her
will that her coma was to be filled 'with tobacco -
bacco , that the mortuary chpmber was to
be carpeted with it , and that tobacco waste
to be scattered before the hearse that conveyed -
veyed her to the cemetery.
Th'ifllUS OP MA2fllA.
Coutuitses V0rlL 1y the Svells of
flO'IC51Iie.
The costume of the Manila dandy , according -
. cording to a correspondent of the mdc-
pendent , consists of a pair of white cotton
trousers and a shirt. The latter may ho
more or less of the cut familiar to us , 'when
made of white calico , but the front Is dab-
orately embroidered , tucked or frilled , and
the center of the back falls in full kilts ,
unconfined by the trousers. "Camhsa
uera" ( shirt outside ) Is the local term for
this native fashibn , which greatly scanda-
Iized an elderly English lady on her arrival
in the Philippines. "Emily , my dear , don't
look ! " she exclanied to her daughter in a
horrified vhhaper , when the costume first
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Dlt. I'EATFiT W'OliK ON 1115 CI1EAT LlNS ,
"it was the greatest optical pleasure I
have had since I begati the study of natron-
omy anti the making of lenses , " lie said.
"There I sat , perched on the top round of
my ladder for four long hours. I did not
feel the cold , nor thin ladder ttnder mc , I
forgot everything save tl , magnificent spec.
lade of the heavens which my big giass
revealed to my eyes , It was Impossible
for me to turn tue glass on any familiar
star or on tIle young moon. I couid only
gel it Ott a vacant spot lit the heavens near
the constellation of Corbus , beiow thto
dragon's tail of Ilytlra , but in that spaCe
empty to tile human eye and even to a fairly
pouerul glass , I saw numerous beautiful
stars. It was a sllentlid panorama , for not
being able to move toy glass , I had verforco
to be content with watching the heavens
slowly pass across the surface of the mirror ,
star after star. "
The Peato lens , for such it will undouht-
edly be called , vIll be mounted as an cqua-
tonal in a tube something over thirty-two
feet in length.
The cost of so mounting it will run up
into the thousands of dollars , Telescopes
to be mounted as this one are called Newtonian -
tonian telescopes. because of the principle
of interior arrangement.
Operation of tiit # 'I'CiCuUlle.
The mirror is perpendicular to the axis
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and the reflected rays falling on a small I
Inclined plane mirror at the focussing point
are turned out to one aide of the tube into
the eye pIece. The essential difference between -
tween the Petite antI the "ierkes lenses is
not. only one of size , the former having a
diameter greater by twenty-two inches than
the latter , but also of principle , the Pete
glass being a reilector anti the Yerkes a
refractor. In other words , the heavens are
seen in the Peale lens , and through the
Yerkes.
Iteflectors are superior to retractors In
ease of construction and cheapness , in possl-
bho size antI in perfect achromatism , but
they are inferior in the amount of light
that is available , in definition and in permanence -
manence or durability , lteflectors are superior -
perior in one most important branch of
modern astronomy , namely : spcctroscoplc
investigations of the sun , stars and nebulae ,
including photography , in which respects a
reflector , because of its absolute freedom
from color , is far superior to a retractor.
Dr. Peato's mammoth apeculum Is exceeded
in size only by the metallic one in Lord
Itosso's famous telescope at Ihirr Castle ,
Parsonstown. Ireland , which is six feet in
diameter. It is not in use , and Dr. Petite's
may be considered as tlio largest In the
world , insofar as service is concerned.
S03IL QUidiit I.ttAChhiS ,
l'ceui int' Cottil ii Ions titmit have Ileen
Attnehci C. , % % 'tIiu.
hero are some amusing particulars of
logacics with strange conditions attached ,
Early Inst year a noculiar probate suit , in-
voiving some 3500.000 , was imminent , the
dislnlieritctl relations vishmiug to upset nfl
old gentleman's will because ho had left
the sum named to found and endow a church
on the condition that every Sunday before
the service the i'hmole of time thirty-nine ar-
tides were to be read by the clergyman
outside time church ( leer.
A strange condition was attached to the
legacy time Into Sir Edward Bates , who
died last year , left to his married titiughter ,
lie stated that he hail seemi his son-in-law's
Scotch property , anti he considered it. would
ho a gross injury to lila daughter and her
children , considering "there are no neigh-
hors within miles. anti there is no medical
nina within six or seven miles , " If she lived
there any considerable time. So ho arranged -
ranged that , it his daughter stayed more
thnim six mouths in any year , 'and those six
months imot in winter , " at. that spot , the
income derived from time legacy for twelve
succeeding months ahould go to the resid-
unry legatco.
met her attacked gaze"Prnit. 1001(1 The
servant hitis forgotten to dress hmimselfi'
The "shirt outitle , " takes rather the form
of a blouse anti , COflselUOmttly ( , strikes ii
luropean less etidly when made of Pina
gauze , of the prettily striped silk gauze , or
of imottipen tissue ( nbaca ) , nil of which itro
of iljiti'e manufacture. With these the na.
tivo pure and simple wears a black much.
room'shuped , stln-pm'oof and water-proof
lint , often inpid round the brim with mdl-
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vol. In pretty patterns , called a salacote ,
This lieatigear of lila forefathers Is dis.
carded by the nntive in European employ
for a common white atraw hat , as ho dis.
cards slippers for patent leather
1)0018 , The children , boys and girls ,
.are , on gaha days , muado up
limb quaint little miniatures of
I their elticra. thmoughi ordinarily their eos-
turncs are mdthcr of time simplest kind , or
conspicuous by their absence ,
I'priii' Zulu of 1tii J'curflt iou ,
PAItIS , July 27.-The Courier do Sole says
that tite council of time Legion of Honor has
erased the umanue of Id , Emnilo ola , time
novelist now Under sentence of a year's ha-
lrisonment anti a heavy fine , after con-
victlon on the charge of an alleged libel on
the members of the Eterhazy court.rnartial ,
and , who is understood to be in Switzerland.
A CONFESSONa
C1IIc4Go , ILL. , Julie 3d , iSgS.
Messrs. 1-lirarn 'vVa1kcr & Sons , Limited.
Being under ihldiCtlflCL'lt by the grand jury of Cook County , Illinois ,
clmrgcd with havint 1)Ut up aiicl sold American vhiskyas yOtir
"Canadian Club'Vhisky , the bottles , labcls , capsules , etc. , being irni-
tations of yours , iiy wife hasapea1cd to you to take into consideration
her unhappy IOSitiOfl and that of our young children. I'his you have
conscntd to do upon the fo11o'in conditions :
i.-Thatin the publicinterest I shall not go wholly upnishcd.
2.-That I shall solemnly pledge myself never again to be a
party to the imitation of anyoods whatever , w'hether vouis or
those of othcrsand should I violate this promise the lrescnt indictment -
ment against me shall be revived and Prosecuted ,
I accept these conditions without any reservation. Tadmil that I
am guilty as chai-gccl under the Illinois Trade Mark Act of having
imitated your labels , capsules , etc. As soiie reparation I consent that
this document may be rublishcd in trade journals , ncwspacrs , etc. , as
may seem to you P1'OlCl in your own interest and for the ends of
justice ; I promise to forever abandon all connection with the production -
tion or sale of goods to my know1cde falsely labelled or described ;
and I agree that should I fail to keep this promise the above mentioned -
tioned indictment against mc may be reinstated.
.
( Signed ) CI-IARLES KLYMAN.
Witness : Russell Whitman.
[ NOTE-Mr. l'Zlyman until lately carried on business at 23a East , Kinzic Street ,
Chicago , in his own name and as time Dx. Anckcr Bitters Cq. ]
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HOW CERNNS ViEW OUR \VAR \
American Victories Produce a Marked Change
of Sentiment.
WANT A SLICE OF THE PHILIPPINES
Believe time War to lie One of Aggree-
slums simul 'IVoulit iiio to Share
ii time SnlIu-Attltumdc of
Emperor William.
BERLIN , July 14.-Had any well informed
American resident of Germany been asketi
six weeks ago how the Germans felt toward
the United States as regards the war with
Spain ho would have unhesitatingly said
they were against us from A to Z. That
statement would have been based not upon
the hundred little daily insults and pmtty
affronts to which Americans were subjected ,
hut upon certain vronounced and positive
facts. In the first place , the most intense
jealousy exists against us. because of the
rapid development of our trade , which is
crowding the German manufacturers even in
their home markets. American steel rails ,
machinery , agricultural implements , tools
of all kinds , bicycles , typewriting machines
and novelties sell cheaper in ilerhin today
than similar articles of German make.
Another very sore and tender subject is
the sugar question , the mention of which to
niost Germans is like waving the proverbial
red flag before an excited bull , There is
also a feeling against the United States
fostered by the agrarian party , composed of
the nobility and large land owners , whose
Sons , sons-tn-law and other male relatives
are omcers in the army or omcehoiders Ia
the civil service , who have to be largely
supported by their fathers. They are against
us because the importation of American
food stuffs deireClfltes the price of their
own products , lessens their incomes anti
makes it more difficult each year for them
to properly unaiatain their uniform-wearing
relatives. Stilt another ecouragernent tea
a hostile feeling is time fear generally BliaretI
throughout continental Europe that the
growth and greatness of the American republic -
public is a menace to all monarchies.
Although nothing has occurred to change
any of these facts , the question of Germnau
sympathy In the present war , it propounded
today , would require a different answer.
The Germans now want America to win , net
out. of synupath.y , but out of sel.interest.
l'ersonally the kaiser wants to see us win.
German sentiment is veering to time side of
the United States for another reason-he-
cause time United States is winning ; In a
big military nation , as in a big crowd or a
big school , there is very little sympathy
with the under dog. All considerations of
interest and of admiration for sturdy lIghting -
ing ( which are of the greatest weight in
Germany ) lead the kaiser's subjects to tnko
a more favorable vimv of American success
thmnim they wore disposed to hold some weeks
ago.
It Gt.rnmnn lllitr'a4 'Jeui' ,
To the question in writing : " \\'ill you
tell me about the German attitutlo toward
time United States In tlmla war , anti whmetlmer
it is true that the kaiser Is hostile to
American interests in the far east ? " a lead-
lag south German editor sends the following
reply ; "Your American press infers fronT
articles gathom'ed from English anti French
sources , so far as I can see , that the German
papers are one antI all on the side of Spain ,
This Is not correct. Certainly one maceta a
itr000tlnced sympathy for Spain , but only
in very narrow.minded , conservative circles ,
composed of those who see in time tmttack of
your great. republic upon time Slianish monarchy -
archy a direct offense against 'royalty by
time grace of Goti , ' Hut this is mm minority
sentiment. Generally npeaiting , we think
mnuclm more practlcaiiy imere , muir emperor
paid once in ammotlmer coimnectioti , 'Blood Is
tlmickor than water. ' and this scmmtimmtent ap.
lilies here , too , for bow many amid how
close are the ties of race and family and
cotnrntmnity how many time connections of a
personal nature that lead fromn us across
time i'ater to your country ? lspeciahly is
tlmis time case of vest and south ( Iermnamiy ,
for after time rovohtution of ' 18 a yagt percentage -
centage of tIme resitlents crossed the /it.
lantio to time United States. I t is a notable
tact that in these sections time sentiment
of sympathy for time United States is strong-
eat.
"In regard to the disposition of tIme Philippines -
ippines , there Is no very tlecidt'ti feeling for
or against time United States , limit we imavci
lately acquired a peculiar trait of becoming
bidders when any imart of the world is to be
divided. In time past we have lost many
opportunities. It is not likely that we will
do so in the future ,
"Allow sac , in closing , to call attention tea
a recent nrticio in time ofliciuhly-lnsrsireti
hiheniscimer Kurier on timla subject of
America anti time Philippinemu :
"iiy permanent settlement in flue Philippines -
pines the United States would come Into time
closest vicinity not only of Japan , but also
of the interested great powers of
Europe , namely , Eagland , Russia and
Cerrnnmmy. The United Staten wotmiti
thereby forfeit their boasted tradition -
tion of solitarhmmess. Whoever lms neigh-
hors immimat simoi' some commsideratlnn , uumahte
some concessions , amid canmmot always nmain-
lain the juvenile anti bold language with
whielm even today time American republic as-
tenishes Emmropean diplomacy and thmrouglm
wlmich hesitating Spain vns driven into Limo
var.
'There is one very important question to
be asked-whether the memmibers of the
iimropcnmm-East Asiatic concert 'Ill allow
admission into their own good society to
time Aummorican republic. For its Ciermmmnns , if
England and time United States really
bargain nbotmt time I'hihippiaes , the tirnu will
be most convenient for correcting our
colonial map.'bother it will be hy the
dismnlssnl of the Arnerlcan-Emmghish co-
govermmtncnt in Samoa ; wlmether by time giv-
lag back of Zanzibar , which was once cx-
chaugeti for hleligoland , like a suit of
clothes for a trouser's button , ve irlll soon
have Interests to bring forward , wimich will
bo Important In consideration of time Philip-
pities. It is tiotmbtful it the United States
vihl readily permit a European judgment
to he passed upon the aettlemnent of the
PhIlIppine question , anti nitimough time young
republic forced Spain into the war without
rlghmt , she has time absolute right. to be the
solo judge in the settlembut of her case
against Spaimm ! "
Not is Vnr for Ifimmimnum I ty.
Wlmon the same question of German scnti-
meat ti as submitted to a vromlncnt Berlin
manufacturer. wimo employs many hundred
workmen in imis factories , ime answered :
"Over imimme-temiths of our people share the
Itaisor's opinion in his policy of the strictest.
neutrality. There is no symnpatimy in Ger-
maim ) ' for poor vriest-ritlden ammtl degenerate
Spain , and our interests as ivell as our
sympathy naturally tend toward the United
States. We cannot , on the otlmor hand , abut.
our eyes to tim fact that. our American
friends are waging an unjust srar. We
laugh at time pretext of a war for time sake
of humanity.c know tlmat timere would
have been no rebellion in Cuba or tlmat it
would have been suppressed by Spain except
for American sympntlmy anti smmpport. It
may go hard witlm Spain in the end. lmmmt
that. is imo business of ours , and time emperor
t'ntierstaimds German interests too well to
rIsk a simmgie lfetmmmig for time sake of one
sitlo or time oilier. If Ito could Impose hIcaco
omm botlm combatants , no tiammht Ito would , for
peace In a nre-emimmcmmt German immtercst. "
My third informmmant wears time emperor's
uniform , is of ithglm rank and of time privileged -
leged entourage of tlmo inner lmof or court
circle. lie smid : "I do not timimmk I hero are
ten macn in Germany to whom time knisem'
has expressed a Personal or nohitical re-
muarl : ott this war between Spmin : and time
republic. All that you read mmd nil that
yomm Imear oil the subject immimat be believed
only after a very great deal of deduethoim
has beerm made , for yomm comm rest nositive
timat time eumperor has mmot mimatle a aimtgio Ut-
teraneevimero it commlti possibly flmmtl Its vay
immto publicity , Timts , however , is certain
anti almre , his majesty is very ( amid ofmrmeri -
cans , lie ttimows it 0mm every occasion , nuil lie
has never nmado any attemmupt to conceal it ,
I kitoit' thmimt at Kid Ito muatlo limo most
minute nnd tevlmmuirai exmmmniiitmtimun of your
, ,
iam ships , that lie ivms : entimimsimistic lii their
vraiso aimfi prodigal in lila lraiacs of your
marine oillccra ammti sailors. It is mm vuil
known fact that your Ammmcricamm mutmvy 1mm
Ito better friend tlmmn : our kaiser amid that
thuts ( riemudmihip dates front Chit visit of the
iiect to icich. Besides limo royal family , I
do not timimik lmia imiajesty knuis't : , or cares ,
for II ft y iteopi o I mm mml I Spa I mm , 1 nut mio ' 'pal I -
tiiter" and cannot tell you ammytbiimg about
the war or time I'lmliippiimen , "
FRITZ MORitIS.
It warms YtU 1mm time si'lrmterrocmlmm you In
the itmmmngmmcr and is gtmod at all timmmes , Cooi :
Itnperiui Cltamptmgmmc.
Jiom'i' 'I'm'csmhtmm't , fmmmim Iloimcil Le ,
SlATI'Ll. July 27.-'rlte Rosalie , time
fourtee'mmtlm treasure boat titirimmg Juiy , imas
arrived from Lynmm cmmmiul , 'L'imo City of
iclttgatou liroughit imm tIme imussemmgcra of the
Canatilan steamer /itimemiarm , which rnmmlcea
tIme fifteenth arrival. It is estitumated ( bunt
over $ OO,0O0 1mm lcloutiilmo valmmtmhics reaclmcd
Seattle tlmrnughm the two clmammuels. 'I'imis lit-
creases the total gold immmportutlomu thi nmommtim
to 9,8I1.000. 'L'lme htosalio'a passengers cameo
from Itink Itaimitis , over time Iinltomm trail.
Timey report that a stampede was being
Immullo to induttim river , owing 10 thu discovery
of rich diggings on time imrammctmcs. Time cican-
tip Ott Dominiomm and Suipimur creeks had
imeen completemi mmmmd was so favorable that
cialmmm were seiling at frommm $2,000 to $41.1-
000 eacim.
Jlreeivem I or it I'o itr tiiiIiigIii ) ' ,
,1)EN\'Eit , July 27.-Judge iliner of limo
United States court 1mm appointed Francis
T .M.mlI' ! nery recclv r of limo Demmvcr l'aper
company. Thu creditors agreed upon this
eclion Las fl Ineulls of lecoverilmi ; mtrnotllmts
due , The comumpany's assets uro womth moore
than $1,000,000 , its liabilities nrc $580,000.
Nearly all IteM 1mm New Emmgiammd and time
mnitidie states.
i'ouimig 1(11mg iiuu liii , 3It'tuies ,
LONION , July 27-A special tiispalhm
from Madrid says time ltimug of Spain Is
suffering from an attack of the measles.
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