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Pure Blunders Boost
IVB hundred dollars waa the price
brought by a Transvaal S-penny
blue error postage stamp at a re
cent sale In London, much to the
surprise of the majority of stamp
collectors. Thus one more rarity Is added
to the constantly growing list of errors.
The newcomer waa Issued with an In
verted surcharge. A surcharged stamp. It
may be explained for the benefit of those
not up In philately, la one on which a new
value or mm has been set by simply stamp
ing or printing another value or name than
that originally engraved upon the stamp In
black letters across Its face. In the case
of the Transvaal error the surcharge was
printed upside down
Stamp errors, or postage stamps defective
through mistakes In printing or a wrnnj
use of colors, are everywhere highly prized
by collectors, and the premium upon them
often exceeds that commanded by some of
the rarest specimens of the regular Issues.
The principal reason for their high value la
due to the scarcity of the errors, as In every
case the government issuing them
government issuing mem puts
forth every effort for their recall, and thus
Very few, as a rule, come Into the posses
sion of the general public.
There are many of these errors, all of
them commanding high premiums. In some
cases they have sold for as much as $-.5)0,
but it is not easy to set an exact valuation
upon all of them, as they are not on the
market, the known specimens being c'o-ely
held by their owners. It Is not improbable
that If some of the. rarest of the errors
were for sale they, would bring a higher
price 4han the one mentioned.
This stamp Is the South Australian 4-
penny blue. Issued In 1870, with the sur
charge omitted. It Is worth 12,500 ln un
used condition, while even the used copies
fetch 1750.
Rare and Costly.
The next In point of .arlty is the 4-penny
West Australia stamp with the center In
verted. This is worth 12,000. The perfect
issues of the same stamp bring only J.'.oO.
A Spanish 2-real stamp of 1851, printed in
blue instead of red, brings $1,500. There Is
a 8-real blue stamp, which is comparatively
common, being valued at 113 used, and the
very rare 2-real blue was evidently printed
In the color of this 6-real stamp by mtafike.
The normal color of the rarity is orange.
A 25-mlIe-lmas stamp with Inverted center.
Issued by Spain ln 1870, Is now valued at
$375. The same country also Issued three
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Recent Progress in
Courts Hit Phone Monopoly.
HE Chicago Telephone company
has at last reached the end of Its
rope aid must obey the law
which created It. For years post
It has been in constant turmoil
with the city authorities and its patrons,
exacting excessive tolls and doing about as
it pleased. Its plan of operation was to
add new Improvements and Increase the
tolls with each improvement. The maxi
mum rate fixed In Us charter was $125 per
arnum for unlimited. The company ran
the cost up to $175 per annum under various
pretexts, and charged extra for service ln
the various towns annexed to the city.
Suits were Instituted against the company
by the city two years ago to secure a 1u-'
dlclal Interpretation of the company's
rights. The lower courts sustained the
contentions of the plaintiff and this de-
clslon has been affirmed by the supreme
ccurt of the state. In effect the decision
abolishes toll rates within the city limits,
makes the maximum rate $126 a year and
requires the company to reimburse the city
to the amount of $500,000.
In addition to deciding these points, the
highest tribunal of the state declared in
substance according to the construction
placed upon Ha language by attorneys In
the case that the present franchise of the
telephone company had been nullified be-
cause of the corporation's abuse of the
powers granted to It by the terms of the
ordinance. The decision Is said by counsel
for the city to be one of the greatest vie-
torles that has been won by the public In
the supreme court In years, and is declared
to solve practically all of the knotty prob-
lems Involved In the prolonged controversy
that has been carried on between the tele-
phone company, the city and the Illinois
Manufacturers' association. Under the
terms of the decision, It is said, claims for
excessive telephone charges amounting to
$000,000 which now are pending In the
courts, can be collected from the company,
and the reduction in its rates. It Is esti
mated, will mean a loss in revenue amount
ing approximately to $4,000 a week.
Eleetrle Power In Germany.
In the Prussian department of publlo
works a monograph has been prepared
with reference to the utilisation of tne
water power created through the canalisa
tion of the rivers Moselle and Baar. It
states that at the dams of the Moselle In
Prussian territory about $6,000 horse-power
and In the territory of Lorraine about 4.UU0
horse-power, and at the dams of the Saar
about 10,000 horse-power will be available,
a total of about 60,000 horse-power. This
power will not at once be utilized at all
the dams, and if so not to the full extent.
For supplying larger amounts of power to
tlie existing Iron furnaces in Lorraine and
In the Suar district, It is unfavorable that
the furnace gases developed In the process
are already used for generating power. For
the larger cities, as Coblenz, Trier and
Mets, however, the power of the dams in
the vicinity could be profitably used and
the existing steam-electricity work could
be utilized as a reserve and supplement for
the water power created by the new dams.
This water power could also be mails usu
ful in running short railroad lines as for
Instance, the recently constructed Moselle
Valley railroad from Trier to Bulluy, for
the navigation of the canal In operating
the sluices and guards, and could be sup
plied to the villages Of the Kifel and Huns
rueck mountains, whereby home Industries
coMld be created in these poor districts.
The expenses for a water-power station
consist of the cost of the turbine plant and
that of the creation, sending and dis
tributing of the electric current. No ex
pense is Incurred by the construction of a
dam ln the river as it already exists ln
the Interest of navigation. It is evident
that the utilization of the water powers,
which in Germany has not received mut-u
consideration, will serve the public welfare
en the one hand and on the other help ma
terially to raise revenue for the purposes of
canalization.
Teat of the Wireless.
Tests of a transatlantic wireless telegraph
system have been In progress for several
weeks. It is aald. between stutlons on the
coasts of Scotland and Massachusetts.
While the results so far have not borne out
the success promised fur the system by its
projectors, sufficient encouragement has
been derived to have high hopes built upon
their outcome. In bis speech before the
Yale Law School Political club in New
Haven Melville B. Stone, general munager
of the Associated Press, made a reference
to the experiments when h auid: "As I
I
nioi value, with Inverted center. The
stamp with correct design are worth only,
25 cents each, while the errors bring about
JM.
In 18C7 Austria issued a S-kreuzer stamp,
printed In red Instead of green, and thla
curiosity Is now well up In the front rank
of stamp freaks, a specimen being worth
li.ao.
India has a rare error In the 154 4-anna
stamp, which was printed with the center
upside down. This stamp, cut to shape, Is
now valued at IT&n. Kven the regular and
perfect Issues of this stamp command $JS
premium.
The 0-krVuzcr stamp of the first issue of
linden, which was printed in the solid color
of green Instead of green and rose, now
fetches T50.
The Vnlted States furnishes one of thn
greatest of these rarities in the Inverted
center 30-cent stamp of This Indeed
Is the highest priced stamp ever Issued by
this government, being worth IGOO. Other
tamp3 ugo(i ln this country have fetched
i,r Kum. but they were either the post-
master or confederate stamps, and these ara
not Included among the regular United
States series.
Tliree Varieties of Errors.
Errors were made In three varieties of
the 18G9 Issue of stamps the 30, 24 and 15
cent denominations. The 30-cent was
printed in red and blue, the 24-cent In
green and violet and the 15-cent In brown
and blue.
The central part of the JO-cent design
consisted of a shield surmounted by an
eagle, on either side being two folded flags
in different colors. In a number of these
stamps tho flags were printed upside down,
and from this fact the stamps got the
name of Inverted flag stamps.
The 24-cent error, with the declaration
of independence Inverted, now brings $200.
wnne one 01 me samo msue wiwi ui uo-
sign ln Its proper position brings only
$12.50. The 15-cent Inverted stamp, with
the Landing of Columbus upside down,
also Is valued at $200, whllo the errorless
one brings only $1.60. The 1S69 30-cent er
rorless stamp brings only $15.
Several of these stamps were found not
long ago among the correspondence of an
old Parisian merchant, and this Is only
one of the many rich finds of rare United
States stamps made on the other side. It
Is the custom of foreign business houses
to keep all their letters entire, whereas
me average uusiness man nere, wmie no
speak, an Associated Press operator on
the coast of Scotland and another nt Ply-
...uuu " ic.n.is u new .iEiu ui
wireless telegraphy to see if it is available
for the transmission of European news,
and thus far the results have been amax
lng." When asked as to the significance
of the quoted passage of his address, Mr.
Stone said: "That is a matter on which
I am not at entire liberty to speak. I fear
I may have been more or less Indiscreet
In even referring to the subject In my
speech, but I hoped It would escape even
the thousand eara of the newspapere. It
would be distinctly unfair to talk of the
trials at this moment, for nothing decided
hua developed, and I want to give it every
chance before passing Judgment. As a
general proposition it is quite true that the
Associated Press is putting on thorough
trial a system which, its controllers assert,
Is capable of being used by our regular
service for sending and receiving press
dlsuatches by wireless."
It was not until their system had con-
vlnced them It could stand the severest
tests that the Inventor and owners ap-
proached Mr. Stone and placed before him
their proposition. The system is not new.
It has been before the public for some
time, undergoing change and Improvement,
When the manager of the Associated Press
became convinced that the offer was made
In good faith he accepted. It was agreed
that the company owning the system should
be allowed an extra porlod for suDDlcmen-
tary tests. For fifteen days these trials
continued, the stations being established
on the Scottish coust and ln Massachusetts,
near Plymouth. In ten of these days un-
"
Entertaining Little Stories for Little People
Keeping- a Contract.
T the "Old Cummins Jackson mill"
on the West Fork river, ln what
Is now West Virginia, was living
many years ago a healthy boy,
who had very definite Ideas of
honor and a strong sense of right. Little
Tom Jackson, like a good many other boys,
was fond of fishing and equally fond of
selling his fish.
In the village of Weston, three miles
above the mills, Conrad Kerster kept a
small store and market. He had agreed
with the boy to give him 60 cents for every
pike a foot or more in length that he
caught. The boy was only 10 years old,
but he made the contract ln good faith,
and, aa the sequtl showed, be knew how
to keep It.
As time went on a good many twelve-Inch
pike were delivered at the market with
mutual satisfaction to both parties to the
trade. One day the boy was seen tugging
through the village an enormous fish that
almost drugged on the ground. It was
two Inches over a yard long. Colonel Tal
bot, a gentleman who knew the young
fisherman very well, hulled him and com
plimented him on his success.
"A noble fish, Tom. Where are you
going with it? I want to buy it."
"It's sold to Mr. Kerster," said the boy,
without stopping.
"That can't be. He hasn't seen it. Say,
I'll give you a dullar fur It."
"I tell you It's sold. 'Tisn't mine."
"What's Kerster going to give you for
it?"
"Fifty cents!" shouted Tom.
The colonel called after him: "I'll give
you a dullar and a quarter!"
Tom turned a moment with an indignant
look and replied, "If you get any of this
piko you'll have to get it of Mr. Kerster."
Mr. Kerster was astonished. "Fifty cents.
Isn't enough for that fish," he said. "I
shall have to give you a dollar."
"No, sir, it's yours at fifty cents," in
sisted Tom. "I'll not take any more.
You've been kind enough to pay me for
some that were pretty short." And fifty
cents was the price paid for the pike. This
boy was the famous "'Stonewall Jackson."
Minneapolis Tribune.
Story of Dubby and Ileth.
"Girls don't have to do anything!
de-
clared Bobby, as he sat down with a thump
on the shoe box in grandmother's room.
"Girls don't have to ft id the hens or till
the wood box. I wish I was a girl, so
I do."
"Girls don't have to do anything!" ex
claimed Grandmother 6tone Jn surprise.
"Well, well, well! You come, with me a
minute, Bobby, and we'll see If you are
right."
Bobby followed grandmother Into the
sitting room. But when they got there
Stamp Collections
preserves the contents, throws away the
envelope
Saxony allowed a stamp error to get
at large In 18S1. In the one-half neugro-
schen blue stamp. These errors were
printed In pale blue Instead of gray, and
yellow and black Instead of gray and
black. This tuning difference means a
good deal to the collector, for the stamp
in the wrong color, now brings W. The
perfect stamp 1. quoted at M.
The Cape of Good Hope 1-penny blue
stamp is worth 10. An error of color
waa made here by the printer, for the au-
thorlzed color was red. The stamp In its
proper color Is not cheap, for it is valued
at ?8.
Another error of the Cape of Good Hope
was the 4-penny red stamp. This stamp
should have been printed In blue, the
colors In these two Issues having been re
Versed. The latter stamp is worth 1360.
The 8-kopeck stamp of Finland, Issued
In 1866, In black and yellow Instead , of
brown and lilao on gray, Is valued at
$300. Another Issue of Finland In 1891.
$H ruble, was printed In yellow and black
instead of gray and black. This Issue Is
worth $0. The errorless stamp brings $7.
ron-Ameriean Inverts.
Other raretles among the United States
error Issues are the Pan-American in
verts. In printing the stamps commemo
rating the exposition the same error was
made with some of the stamps that had
been made with the Issues of 1869.
The center of the design on a large num
ber of 1 and 2-cent stamps was .Inverted.
The mistake was brought to the attention
of the government authorities by a pur
chaser who had bought several hundred
stamps of the defective design at the
Brooklyn postofflce.
It seems that upon looking at his stamps
he SAW the central itpelim iinM Anwn
Thnklng. thI recuitar, he returned to the
rin.fnfflr- .,, (,.,. ,,. Mm
Every effort was made by the postal
officials to regain possession of the mis
prints, in which they were fairly success
ful, although many were beyond recall.
The man who first made the discovery
of the error went home with his stamps
and awaited developments. A short time
afterward he took a few of the stamps to
a dealer In this city and asked him what
they were worth.
Now, the dealer saw at once that the
error would make the stamp valuable, but
how much It was likely to bring In the
ruture was uncertain. It stems that a few
Field of
usually good results were attained; the
other five days were not so successful on
account or atmospheric and at times of
unavoidable mechanical difficulties.
I'se of Storage Batteries.
In a paper read before the British As-
sociatlon of Engtneers-in-Charge, F.
Crawter gave a series of useful hints on
storage batteries and their application to
publlo Institutions. Amongst other com-
mon practices to which he raises objae-
tion Is that of discharging batteries In
parallel. This, he says, whilst reprehensl-
ble at any time, on account of the dlffl-
culty of apportioning the load, becomes
markedly more so when the further error
Is committed of discharging an entirely
new battery ln parallel with one or more
sets; which have been . at work, may be,
for a period during which their capacity
has been appreciably reduced. Under such
circumstances the '"willing horse," In the
shape of the new battery, takes many times
more than Its fair share of the work. In
"Instance of this he cited a case in which
a new battery was Dlaced In narallel with
two others of the same make and slz.
which had been at work for several years.
Here, out of a total discharge of 200 am-
peres, the new set gave no loss than 180,
with the result that, being overworked, its
capacity soon fell off, and from the point
of work to be got out of It, It became a
bad Investment. Hence, he contends, that
the. hatterv to deal with a irlven load
should be considered as one unit that Is
to say, If the requirements of the plant
call for a I.ono-ampere battery, one set of
1,000 ampere-hour cells should be put down,
.
both were surprised, for sitting In the big
rocker was Both, her eyes full of tears.
"I wish I was a boy, some as Bobby,"
she said, sorrowfully. "I'm tired as any
thing dusting rooms. Boys don't have
to dust or mend stockings or do anything.
Oh, dear, dear, dear!" and Beth hid her
curly head ln the duster and sobbed.
"Well. I never did!'' exclaimed irrand-
mother. "Suppose you do Bobby's work ,Be of becoming a great boon to rural dls
to.iav and h will do vnnrs. I know that trlcts, and the day ts near at hand v.-hen
he will be delighted to exchange work with
you.
But would you believe It? Grandmother
was mistaken, for Bobby shook his head.
"I'm going to feed the hens myself," he
said decidedly.
Beth wiped her eyes In a hurry. "Girls
never flU wood boxes," sne murmured.
Then they both laughed and stopped
grumbling for that day. Our Sunday Aft
ernoon. An AbsIous Mother.
I'm worrlrd 'bout my dolly,
I'm afraid she Isn't well;
But exactly what the matter is
It's very hard to tell.
She seems to have a fever,
Tho' of pain Bhe never speaks;
And her symploms'e so peculiar,
For it's settled In her checks!
She hasn't any appetite.
She never eats a thing
No matter what a feast you spread
Or tempting dainty bring.
And then It's very curious
Why, day and night and all,
6ho sitd and stares before her.
And to sleep she'll never fall
Unless I take her In my arms,
Or lay her on her bed.
With her toes so hiijh she's nearly
Standing straight upon her headl
I think I'll call the doctor
Like my mamma does for me;
I'm getting very anxious.
And I'd like for htm to see
If he hasn't got a medicine
To make my dolly grow
As strong and plump and hearty
As her mother Is. you know.
Kansas City Star.
His First Trousers.
He watched his mother cut them out
Those trousers of his dreams,
Then sat right by fcer side to see
Her sew the tiny seams.
At nine and ten and twelve o'clock.
And then again at one.
With happy, anxious face he asked
If they were almust done.
And when at last he had them on.
His young heart swelled with pride,
"Just see that pocket in the back,"
the "-Omaha," was bought and in 18C9 an
Suld he, "and on each side.
"I wouldn't be an angel now.
Not If I had a chance,
I don't believe the boys up there
Hve pockets In their pants!"
Petrolt Free Press.
years before all the stamp' dealers had been
adljr takcn ln hy an err"r tAwp- nd
naturally this experience had taught him
caution.
In WW. l-cent revenue stamps becoming
scar,ce. the internal revenue department
surcharged quite a large number of regular
1-ccnt po-tage stamps with the letters L
R." In Mack Ink A number o these
stamp, were printed with the letter, up-
flwn- th pr:r" werp l onc
MR-rly snapped up by dealers, who paid
as high as J10 each for them,
$
Prices Tumble.
Hut a large number of the Inverted stamps
soon came to the surface, attracted by the
great premium, and the price gradually
fell away, until today a stamp of thla kind
can be bought for 15 cents.
However, the dealer took the chance,
notwithstanding, and bought several of the
Inverts, paying $5 each. Oolng to another
dealer, the owner of the errors sold him
some at $10 apiece. Worn still another
dealer he got as high as $26 apiece, with
the result that from his original purchase,
representing only a few dollars, he reaped
a small fortune.
Now the Pan-American l-cent stamp, ln
green and bjack, with the steamship In-
.verted, is worth $21, while the errorless
stamp Is worth Just exactly Its face value.
The 2-cent stamp, In carmine and black.
with locomotive Inverted, Is valued at $17S,
while the same stamp with proper design
la also worth but Its face value,
The scarcest variety of the Pan-American
Inverts Is the 4-cent denomination. This
stamp. In chocolate and black, bore an
automobile, which was printed upside down.
Only one sheet of 100 stamps escaped the
government authorities, and now each one
of these stamps is worth $300.
Another rarity among the United States
freak stamps Is a l-cent green Navy de-
partment stamp of 1873. Each of the de
partments had Its own stamps of a certain
color. The executive department stamps
were printed In. carmine, those of the War
department ln rose, Treasury In brown,
Interior in vermilion, Justice In purple,
Agriculture In yellow, State In green and
Navy in blue.
In printing the 2-cent Navy department
stamps the green Ink of the Str.te depart
ment Issues was used Instead of blue, and
it was some time afterward that the mis
take was discovered. It was fsmnd out ln
time, however, to prevent any of them
being used. Tet an unused specimen Is
now worth $50. New York Sun.
Electricity
and not three or four smaller sets of
which the aggregate capacity reaches" the
figure mentioned
In designing a battery
plant where early extensions are probable,
the load should. If possible, be- divided,
ao that when an Increase in battery power
la needed the new cells can be put on to
a load by themaelves; or If this cannot
ha ennvnniantiv arranv ,k. ,.t.i.i..
boxes should be In the first Instance of a
else sufficiently large to hold the probable
ultimate capacity, and when the time for
extension arrives It Is preferable that the
plates which have been at work should be
rearranged in larger groups at one end of
the battery, and the new plates connected
in a series with them, rather than that
the new plates be placed in parallel with
the only ones, with a consequent unequal
division of the load between the old and
the new sets.
Electrlo Photograph Printing;.
A novel electric apparatus has been
brought out in Belgium for producing pho
tographic prints. It applies to bromide
prints, which are made by artificial light,
and is especially useful for turning out
such prints ln the shape of postal cards,
producing the latter automatically and In
quantities. The operation of the apparatus
Is very simple. An automatlo device ap
plies the paper from a roll or magazine
agulnst the negative; then an Incandescent
lamp Is turned on for a time, which has
been previously adjusted once for all ln the
case of a given negative. After the ex
posure the lamp is turned off and the pa
per Is removed from the negative and goes
Into a dark box; then a fresh piece of paper
Is applied, and so on. Tho apparatus Is
set so as to give a certain number of
prints from a given negative, and each
printing operation causes a ratchet wheel
to advance one point. At the end of the
printing an electric bell is rung by the
ratchet device. By means of a rheostat
the time of the exposure can be adjusted
from one to 200 seconds. The whole ts
operated by a battery of four small ac
cumulators. Klectrlo Lights irom Windmill.
Wind-made electricity holds out the prom-
every farmer who has a windmill on his
B uu""'1 --
maW other services which electrlo power
18 capable of yielding. For many years
men nave oeen trying to uuuvmi wiuu
power Into electricity. H. W. Wilson of
Westflc-ld, Ind., has worked out a. practica
ble method of accomplishing It.
In producing wind-made electricity, says
the Technical World. Wilson calls upon
the windmill to perform its customary
function of pumping water. He leads tho
water Into a hydraulic regulator built on
the prlnclplo of a water lift, In which the
pressure Is controlled by weights, and from
which It Is released by means of automatlo
valves.
This regulator Is the means of maintain
ing an even pressure under all conditions,
whether the windmill is revolving fast or
slow.
Under the uniform pressure, the water Is
passed from the hydrnullc chamber
through a water motor to which a dynamo
Is attached.
Mr. Wilson demonstrates the success of
the Invention at his own shop ln West-
field, which Is brightly lighted with wind-
made electricity, and to all appearances
It equals the steam-made product that city
folk enjoy,
Traetlon Teat la Horwiy.
A test of the traction power of steam
and electric locomotives waa made In Nor
way recently. On the wide railway, which
runs from Sannesund up to Halfslund sta
tion, there are run both electric and steam
locomotives, and the company operating
the railway has had the following ex
perlence: A steam locomotive of ninety
tons weight pulls only with the greatest
difficulty two cars loaded with tin tons
up 'he hills. On the other hand, the elec
tric locomotive, of only twenty-two tons
weight, pulls six such loaded freight cars
easily up the hills, even when the rail
are wet, and on a side track with u rise of
1.24 mtrs the electric locomotive pulls
four tonuMl cars When the strain locomo
tive with its cars has come to a stoo. Its
ability to get a nw alart ceases, as tho
wheels slide on the rails; but the electrlo
locomotive, alter such a stop, has no
difficulty in getting a fresh start with Its
full-loaded freight cars. The experience ob
tained on this road confirms the superior
Ity of electric locomotives on steep grad
ients.
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Thousands gratefully tell of the benefit and relief derived from th
use of thit wonderful
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The Bradfleld Regulator Co., Attaoti, Ga,
The "EAR-BOOK
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Every woman coveti
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them deplore the)
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after marriage. The bearing
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H. Wilson
Wouldn't yoti want that man to tell
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Wouldn't you want to know some of
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Well, that Is Just what Oeorjre H.
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