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POPULAR SOJCS PICTURED
"Modern Art" Give the Eye the Best
of the Game.
SCENES FITTED TO THE MUSIC
tome of the Hnii Emplorfd to Pro-
dnro Nnappy Bltaatioaa for tho
Dime Clrcnlts of the
foontrr.
Hv you had a call from the Illustrated
ong man and his model yet?
If not, who are you and where do you
live?
If you have tt house with a porch or a
garden, have you never come home to find
a lovesick couple mooning In one another'
armi on the Harden seat or Just pushing off
In your private boat or posing In the mldet
of your favorite flower bed?
If you have any kind of a place of bual
neHi, a dairy, a dellcateaeen, or a chicken
(Idirm. haven't you been besieged by the
picture man, to allow him to come out
and take Just a few pictures to Illustrate
a song that Inadvertently mentions a cow,
a ham sandwich, or a cackle?
And even If you don't ownthe roof over
your head, do you mean to say that you
haven't met them In the parks, on the lake
front, on the streets. In crowded railway
statlons-anywhere at all enacting their
parts In their desired surroundings before
the camera of the ubiquitous picture man?
If you haven't you muBt be blind, for
with fall coming on and the muslo publish
ers all putting out new songs, with the
new copyright la w," which allows a pub
lisher royalty on eauh picture that is made
to Illustrate his song, and with this method
of popularising a song acknowledged to be
foremost. It naturally follows that the pic
ture man Is buay.
Every one has seen and heard the Il
lustrated song In the E and 10 cent theaters.
Sometimes the pictures have been better
than the sons., but more often tt has been
the other way.
One song that made quite a "hit" de
scribed a lover's dream of the girl he
loved. He dreamed that she was sitting
on his lap In their visionary little home.
Tho music was pretty and the sentiment
"hot bad at all, but the picture of a super
annuated youth being slowly squeesed to
death In a rocker by a heavyweight cham
pion of the opposite sex was about as pleas
ing and loving as would be the Image of a
baby hippo on a Illy pad. And that was
not all. A roaring fire In the fireplace was
ecreeued by a healthy, bright green rubber
plant Perhaps you will say that that was
the fault of the artist, who, when painting
the slide, put flames In the empty fire
place behind the plant, and no doubt that
4 Is true, but what of the man who selected
t and posed those models? The least said
probably the better.
Dream Pictures.
Has anyone escaped hearing a certain
"Moonlight" song whereof one Illustration
depicts the young man as he rows upon the
lake In the moonlight, dreaming of "her"?
It Is no uncommon thing to put these
dream pictures of the absent sweetheart
or home or mother, in the fireplace, or on
the mantle-piece, or In the clouds of one's
cigar or pipe, and as the nickel show
habitue Is usually liberal minded. It mat
ter not If these dream linage assume the
clearness and high colors of corporeal re
ality. Such appearance, however, had a start
ling effect In the case of the moon
light scene, wherein the amorous youth,
calmly resting on his oars, gased Insipidly
i at the real head and shoulders of bis
sweetheart emerging out of the water amid
a searchlight of niuoubeame happy though
drowning
I But such absurdities are becoming rare.
VAllde companies or transparency companies
as many of them call themselves, appear
to be doing a thriving business, and people
seem to like Illustrated songs, so It nat
urally follows that mora care . is being
taken fb secure artistic pictures, with good
scenic effects and somewhere near good
looking models.
That Is why you, Mr. Home Owner, and
you, , Mr. Shopkeeper, are likely to find
strangers encamped on your doorstep, for
the picture man argues that he Is taking
nothing from you when he takes the pic
ture of your belonging.
Let us take a trip with him long enough
to illustrate one song. That mean that
twelve pictures are needed four for each
of the two verses, and four for the chorus.
But some of these pictures may not b
good, so it Is safer to take some twenty
from which the twelve may be chosen.
First the picture man read over th song,
considering it carefully. If one wonders
why the picture man la Inclined to be
cynical, let him carefully consider the
lines of a few popular songs.
One thing In common they all must have
that Is, If they have any chance at all
to become popular. There must be plenty
of love therefore, a pair of lovers. So It
will be welt to engage permanently the
services of two good "spooning" models.
Next where ts It? Perhaps a country
scene Is required, so with the two models
and the picture man, loaded down with hi
heavy plates and large camera, we "hike"
for the railway station and take a train
out of the city say north, to the region
of exclusive summer homes. .
Pleasure Without Worry.
The picture man believe It 1 better to
appreciate the things you do not have than
to have things you do not appreciate. Many
of the wealthy people do not appreciate
the luxuries which surround them. But the
picture man does. He Is In a position actu
ally to enjoy those luxuries. He designs to
is them without paying for any of them.
It Is something like the automobile aw
fully nice, If the other fellow own it. So
the millionaire has the worry added to the
pleasure, while the picture man has the
pleasure with none of the worry.
The picture , man la a grouch always.
Jimmy, the young man who looks like an
ad for some smart tailor, nonchalant, as
suring the young woman that he la doing
this merely a pastime, while both of
them are planning how to spend the dollar
per hour they are engaged In earning.
Arrived at a suitable spot, the picture
man gets his camera ready, then takes out
the lines of the song, which are carefully
written on a scrap of paper. Perhaps the
line (If the song has any chance at all)
read something Ilk this:
A pair of lovers strolling
One moonlit eve alone.
He said, "My dear, 1 love you.
She answeied with a moau
"I cannot love you, Harry.
The reason give me pain."
Hut Harry took her to his heart
And murmured this refrain:
. CHOHU8.
. Parting, I can't live without you.
What is life without you. dear?
Darling, skies look sad and lonely,
When I know you are not near
Parting. I can't- live without you.
Won't ycu to mj your love give.
Let me hear you say, "I love you"
Without you, dear, I cannot live."
Let no cynlo scoff at the above lines.
Publishers' Incomes bear out the statement
that with a little muslo or other loud noise,
a singer, and the man behind the picture
machine, that song has every chance of
getting "a big hard."
no. with this song. Mr. Picture Man
goes to work to secure one picture to every
two lines.
"A pair of lovers strolling one moonlit
eve alone" Is the event now to be pic
tured. Art as tt shine.
The two lover are requested to take
their at and la the large flower bed of Mr.
Millionaire, who Is not at home and whose
gardner Is smoking one of Mr. Picture
Man' clgara
Picture No. I will show the same couple
seated on Mr. Mlllonaua's boalhouae steps,
or Just getting into his launch, or occupy-
! lug one of his porch chairs, and by this
j time Mr. Picture Man l probably tearing
his hair in the effort to get two wooden
Images to look loving. He takes a few of
those optical Illusion pictures, wherein th
couple appear to be kissing one another,
whereas we are solemnly assured that they
only seem to be. Then, after they have
been pushed, scolded, and enticed into some
twenty other tender altitudes, th only
change being In the background, unless,
perchance, the author has left one of them
alone long enough to dream of that other,
the work Is over for the models, at least.
Mr. Ploture Mn, after dismissing them
with the proper' compensation and perhaps
a luncheon at some nearby restaurant, be
takes himself, with his camera and plates,
to his studio in town, where he or his as
sistant develops the negatives, which are
then printed upon transparent slides of
glass.
Many sets of these elides are made, each
set containing fourteen slides, counting one
which shows the title page of the song
and another bearing the printed, chorus.
The artists In another room now get
these seta of slides and go to work to color
them.
In tho song Just quoted th scene was
moonlight. Therefore It Is up to the slide
artist to put In a nice round moon, color
ing the sky darkly and pricking In twink
ling stars with a pin. That Is hew moon
light scenes are made to order, so that the
next time you see one In an Illustrated
song you think how nice It would be to be
there yourself, Just stop and reflect that
when that picture was taken It was In
the garish light of day, that there was
ho moon, only a grouchy photographer
overlooking the spooning with such sar
castic remark as, "Aw, hold on to her as
if you meant It," or, "For heaven's sake,
Miss Blank, don't lean on htm as If hs was
a red hot stove," or perhaps under his
breath, "O, blankety blank, why didn't I
bring out Sviiieotie from the morgue?"
Thus is the moonlight difficulty solved
by the picture man. But there are others.
For Instance, it may be winter and the
song which demands Immediate illustration,
may likewise demand a summer scene of
flowers and tree.
The slide artist then paints In the green
foliage upon the bare tree photographed,
while artificial vines and flowers are used
to entwine garden seats or swings, and the
models stand about shivering In a cold
wind and leave their heavy winter over
coats Just long enough to pose In the sum
mer clothes they wear underneath.
The ploture looks like June, whereas It
was taken In February.
The picture man, like the comedian and
the "funny man", on the newspaper, is a
sad and sober minded Individual. He has
long since ceased to laugh at the things
which happen to him In his business, but
occasionally he tells some of these things,
and then wonders why his friends seem
so amused. Chicago Tribune.
BATTLES WITH BABOON,
MONKEYS SAVE HIS LIFE
Little Aalaaala Bet 1'at ftcreaua and
BrlB; Aid to t afortanate
Keeper.
PORTLAND, Ore.. Nov. 27. Struggling
for hi life with an Infuriated baboon, Fred
Wilson of Brasll, Ind., a trainer employed
by an animal show, fought desperately for
half an hour yesterday with a baboon that
attacked him in th cage.
Th beaut clutched Wilson's throat, but
so long as the trainer could keep on his
feet ha bad the best of the fight. At
length he fell, exhausted from loss of blood
and th strain, and th animal gnawed at
h'.a legs. A score of monkey in the gage
kept up a shrill screaming during the
progress of the fight and this finally at
tracted the attention of other employes,
who resoued Wilson. Wilson I In a serious
condition.
MULTITUDES OF STUDENTS
Twenty-Two German Universities
Have 50,000.
RELATIVE BANK OF BIO SCHOOLS
Ve tadv Active Volcano.
NAPLES, Nov. r.-Frank A. Perret. the
American volcanologlst. left here today for
the Island of Tenerlffe. where he will
study the eruptions which are taking place
and compare the phenomena with those of
Mount Vesuvius and Mount Etna.
University of Paris Leads Colleges of
Other Nations, bat Brery Land
Ha One or More in the
Front Rank.
Although twenty-two German universi
ties are reported as having an aggregate
of more than DO. 000 students, only two or
three of these universities exceed In slxe
a number of the other great continental
schools. In fact. Berlin and Munich are
the only German universities that outrank
In site the great schools of either Italy,
Spain, England, Austria-Hungary or Rus
sia, and the University of Paris has four
times as many students ns any German
university except those of Berlin, Munich,
Lelpslc and Bonn, while the University of
Lyons Is considerably larger than most
German universities. i
The University of Madrid ranks only Just
below Munich In numbers, and the Uni
versity of Naples Is of about the same
size as Madrid. Several Kugllsh universi
ties are above any but the largest four In
Germany. ,
The University of Vienna come next In
Blse after Munich, and the Cxech uni
versity at Prague Is larger than any but
four of the German universities. It has
long surpassed In slxe the ancient German
university of the same city.
Budapest has a university ranking only
just beiow the greatest German universi
ties. Even the University of Athens ranks
only Just below Bonn with Its 3,800 stu
dents, and the University of Rome, which
Is third In Italy, ranks between' Freiburg
and Breslau, the latter of which has nearly
:,S50 atudents.
Hcnndlnavla's Lender.
Denmark' one university, that of
Copenhagen, ranks along with Heidelberg,
which stands ninth In the lint of German
universities. Two other Scandinavian uni
versities, those of Upsala in Sweden and
Chrimlania In Norway, rank above the six
smaller German unlverttl les and the far
northern University of Helslngfors In Fin
land ranks with the first six.
Several of the HuHsian universities, when
they are not shut up for liberality of po
litical opinion, have as many students as
any but the four or five greatest German
Institutions.
Below the great University of Madrid
there are two or three ancient schools of
Spain with from 1,800 to more than J.0JO
students, and the single Portuguese uni
versity, that of Colmbra, one of the most
picturesque seats of learning In the worM
by reuse n of Its clinging to medlueval dress
and customs, ranks above seven or eight
of the German universities.
At least two of the provincial universities
of France rank with the first ten unl
vemltles of Germany, and the one great
Catholic university of Belgium, that of
Louvaln, Is of about the same rank. The
Italian University of Turin stands above
Freiburg In numbers.
Fcur or five universities of the United
States rank with the first three German
Institutions, but would hardly do so wer
the undergraduates counted out. In South
America the University of Buenos Ayrea
stands with the first four or five German
universities and Is growing. At least one
other South American university ranks
with the great schools.
Mediaeval Schools Were Large.
Even th greatest of German universities,
Berlin, with Its 7,11 students. Is small com
peted with some of the mediaeval universi
ties. Although communications were costly,
slow gnd difficult In those days, th ap
pearance t a great teacher at any uni
versity would quickly attract students from
other seats of learning, so that In Dumber
th mediaeval universities ebbed and flowed
from year to year.
Sometimes, too, a quarrel of some kind
with the government or with the teaching
force would bring a sudden secession of
hundreds of thousands of students along
with part of the teacher. When Abelard
lectured at the University of Paris th
number of student I said to have risen
to 30,000.
Francis I, visiting the Spanish University
of Alcala d Henares in the sixteenth cen
tury, found 11,000 students. Bologna univer
sity bad 10,000 students at the early height
of Its prosperity. It Is now flourishing with
1,600.
Padua, which owed its first aucoea to a
schism at Bologna, was threatened with
extinction almost Immediately afterward,
tri the year 1228, because dissatisfied atu
dents received a proposal from Vercelll to
give them 600 houses and other, privilege
and convenience if they would remove to
that place,
Bologna In the early part of the sixteenth
century felt Itself In the depth because It
had only 1,400 students. Half a century be
fore It numbered 200 students' from Ger
many alone.
Salerno, which had bad a famous school
of medicine, took on the character of a
university for a time when the faculty of
Naples came over to it and was a great
school. Naples had brief revival, a tre
Bienduous reputation, and a great roster
for two or three year after 171 because
Thomas Aquinas was on of the lecturers.
The University of Salamanca had 6,000 stu
dents in part of the sixteenth century.
The German mediaeval universities did
not rival the greatest of Italy, France and
Spain In the number of their students and
their great growth In that respect has come
with thf recent material prosperity of Ger
many and the world-wide reputation of
German scholarship. The Gottingeq, which
la not mediaeval In origin, had mora stu
dents In 1823 than It had eighty year later.
The Dutch universities, though not so fa
mous as they were 300 or 400 years ago,
piob&hly hav about as many student a
they had In their greatest days.
TREATING FEVER IN DISEASES
When Temperature Should Be Re
dnced Valne of Cold Bath
and Fresh Air.
The normsl temperature of the human
body la about 98.6 degrees, a temperature
which the Internal force of the body are
able to maintain at a constant figure al
most entirely without regard to the tem
perature of the surrounding atmosphere.
Any elevation of the body temperature
above 9H.6 degrees or f degrees Is called
fever, and Is an Indication of something
wrong. So also Is a fall of the tempera
ture below the normal point; but this Is a
rater condition than fever and is due
usually to special cause which It is not
necessary to consider here.
Since fever Is the most evident symptom
of a number of different disease and .th
one that gives character, as It were, to
many acute Infectious diseases. It has come
to be synonymous with disease Itself, and
it Is common to speak of some one being
sick of a fever. But fever Is so far from
being the disease that it is often the cura
tive and life-saving condition.
Many Infections, such as pneumonia and
typhoid fever, would be more often fatal
If It were not for the high body tempera
ture that characterise them. In pneumonia,
for example, it ha been noted that th
higher th temperature under certain
limits, of course th more favorable 1 th
course of the disease. It Is therefore not
a wise thing to give remedies to reduce
fever unless the elevation of temperature
ha continued a very long time or 1 so high
104 degrees a to threaten in Itself
th normal performance of the vital func
tlona Sometimes, of course, the fever may get
out of control, and from being Inimical
only to the germs of the disease actually
endanger th life of the patient. In such
case treatment to reduce the temperature
is cenea tor.
This Is best dun by means of qool water
In the form of a tub bath. The patient
should be put Into a bath at 80 or M de
gree, the water then being gradually re
duced to 70 degrees, or he may be wrapped
In a sheet wet with cold water or sponged
with cold water.
Water la a safer and better fever remedy
than the so-called antltlc drugs, the use of
which 1 bad for the already weakened
heart.
This cool water treatment should always
be supplemented by the freest possible use
of fresh air, even In very cold weather.
The old fashioned belief that a person with
a fever I going to "take cold" easily hs
no foundation whatever. Youth's Companion.
WINTER FATAL, TO. MINERS
Cold Weather Responsible
Many of the Terrible
Disaster.
for
If It did not get cold In winter. 2.000 of
those who meet death In the mines each
year might live.
Expert now state that the vaBt majority
of explosions are from coal dust, not from
gas. They say that coal dust fills the mine
when It Is exceedingly dry. , The mine gets
exceedingly dry In cold weather, and for
thl there la an explanation that Is the
point In the whole matter.
Ventilation is the prime necessity In all
mining operatlona. Air contains 'vast quan
tities of moisture, but warm air carries
more cold air. In the summer time the
warm air which Is forced Into the mines
Is abundantly laden with moisture. It be
comes cooler underground and Is more
likely .to deposit moisture than to take
It up. Then the mine retains at least a
normal amount of moisture.
But when cold weather comes the pro
cess I reversed. Th cold air with a tein
peratur of thirty degrees or mor con
tain little water. As It advances through
the mine It grows warmer, demand h always
more moisture and extracts this from th
side and top and bottom of th mine.
When at last this air comes out of the
mine It Is from twenty to forty degrees
warmer than when It entered, and carries
great quantities of moisture which It has
drunk while under ground. The mine Is
Just so much the drier for Its having passed
through. At a single mine where the tilr
entering and leaving was careful ana
lyred It was found that this air was dally
sapping the mine to the amount of fifty
tons of water. The same is true of every
mine of its sire, and tho amount la greater
or less according to the alze of the mine.
When the greet fans have driven this
current of air through the mine for a
few weeks It become a parched as Sa
hara. H might be aupposed that If thtr was
water on th floor of this mine It would
be drunk up and that the balance of the
mine would remain moist. This Is not true
for but a small portion of the air can come
In contact with the surface of the water,
whll every atom of It i calling for moi.
tur and 1 exacting It from whatever It
come In contact with.
Th actlvltle In th dried and parched
mln naturally pulverise th coal and
fan It Into the air. Finally the danger
point Is reached, for the mine is full of
this dust.
Then a blast la set off and the coal dust
is Ignited. If it is a busy mine It Is filled
wltl dust and every part of It suffers from
th explosion. The greatest danger Is In
tti flrt few weeks of cold weatht.-.
Sprinkling Is of little avail. Th expert
hav devised a better scheme, which la
through th Introduction of team. This
steam can be led along and released at
point where th mln 1 becoming warmer
and drier. It can be released In any
quantity necessary to keep down the dust
and keep the air tn the desired condition
and the expense 1 amall. Technical World
Magaxlne,
Novelue-'KEN'ZEB-iith aud Podg.
CALDERA LETTER KEPT DARK
Believed State Department Hai Heard
from Consul in Nicaragua.
MESSAGE SENT TO MEXICO f
Reported Two Countries Are Now
Conferring; Over Sltaatlon In Cen
tral America and Proaram
Will Be Decided oon. fllj
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 There I reaaon
to believe that the State department at
last ha received a communication from
Mr. Caldera. the American vice consul at
Managua, but the contenta of his message
o far have been kept a profound aecret
and if the department ha received any
thing from Nicaragua recently of an Im
portant character it is likewise being with
held. ;
The report that the United SUtes la In
communication with President Plas of
Mexico with reference to some Joint ac
tion in the Nlcaraguan situation I dis
credited In naval quartera, but It Is be
lieved telegrams relating to Nicaragua are
passing between the two countries. It
was stated at the department that It wa
extremely unlikely that any official an
nouncement of Importance consrnlng
Nicaragua would be made earlier than Bun-
day night or Monday morning. Thl I
assumed to Indicate that matters of con
sequence are under consideration which
may be expected to culminate about that
time.
if secret orders have been Issued to the
army traisports Logan, Crook and Bu
ford at Ran Francisco, to prepare for Im
mediate departure for Nicaragua, aa ha
been reported, the action was taken with
out the knowledge or authority of the sec
retary of war.
Such was the statement made at the War
department today.
The navy I waiting on the Stat depart
ment. That account for the Indecision
over the date of sailing of th Prairie
from Philadelphia with the 400 marine for
the Isthmus of Panama and possibly for
service in Nicaragua.
Th Albany and Yorktown ar still held
In Magdalene bay, awaiting development
in Central America. The Tacoraa, Marietta
and Des Moines are In the vlotnlty of Port
Union, Costa Rica, Just waiting. The
Vlcksburg Is at Corlnto, Nicaragua.
Aa long as there I a posslblrlty of
marine being needed In Nicaragua, tho
Prairie will remain at League Island.
The Navy department ha adopted this
course so as to be able to send (TO marine
or more' to Nicaragua from the United
States proper In event they are needed In
Nicaragua. The battalion of marine to
be lent to Panama number about 400.
The arrival today or tomorrow of th
Missouri at Hampton Roads from New
York will be watched closely because of
the rumor that It was to be sent to Cen
tral America. Intention of sending It on
such a cruise Is denied at the Navy de
partment, however.
Off-Hand Remarks. '
Any man can succeed In being a failure.
A woman's crowning glory la her puff.
The man who pays dearly for hi eg
pirlence is willing to aell It cheap.
If Ood made the country and man made
the town, the devil must have mad the
suburbs.
Why is it thst a girl Is almost as much
afraid of caterpillars as a boy Is of getting
hi ears washed?
Love Is what prompts a woman to b
miserable with one man rather than b
l.appy with nother.
When a small boy says he likes to go
to school, take him aav. He ts surelv
developing brain trouble. New York Tlnr s.
A Totnl Urllpe
of th function of stomach, liver, kidney
and bowels ta quickly disposed of wlt'i
Electric Bitter. Wc. For sal by Boaloa
Drug Co.
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