The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, February 20, 1896, Image 3
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TTTEVWEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY,TS. C., FEBRUARY 20, 1890.
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OUR PUBLIC MEN.
Sam Jones OlafSiflos Thom Ac-
cordiug to Their Mot.vos.
Tl.ev Arc Kltl.cr Statesmen, Polltlcland,
nem iiro<'ms, or JSUthcr liUos-Jloiv the
tUstcs Arc I)itT^cntiatc«l-Xakiu B
a Onc-hUed View.
Statesmen, politicians, tlomaffogncs
m al Ualhrr^ius! It «oi»- 'hat nil
nubile men t c ' <la f “™ «'«-
iomlnntcdhy one oMbrnm four titles.
1 havelicnnl itsaul thataslatcMnan is
•i dead politician- 1‘ tliutbetruo, 1 have
(iiM ositionto P>' amoni' the tomb-
Jim l write about the dead; and
a statesman maj be di!Ve;--
;; n t!y .It ;;. ( 1, a s follow : A "ell-in
formed, bioatf-minded, pat tie, un-
«"(liish man, n lio iives and labors for the
itnod of others, using his position sim-
p ly for the public goo*]. With tins
deVm'dion I am candid when I say 1 dt 't
1»l ie\ e there are one dozen statesmen n
the United States congress, both uppe
lad lev er houses. It is a wonder to n:e
th it the nnusses have any respect at all
tor our public men, for they are
inaliirned and slandered and gossipped
about by pres-, pulpit ai d parlor. Their
im) tives and conduct are alike de
nounced, and there is very little incen-
tiu> these days for broad-minded, nr-
K'itish statesmanship. Many men fco
intooflicc po d men. 'out how long tliev
i a i remain in olliee and come out good
men I am not in a position to answer,
('lay, Calhoun and Webster are held up
as the three models, with Washington
and Jefferson heading the procession.
]t is true (hat in their day they were
maligned and slandered just as the
best men are to-day in public life. Ilov-
ever much England may honor her liv
ing men. America seems only to honor
her dead. Insults and ignominy forthe
living; dowers and fulsome praise for
the dead, seein« to be our method of
dealing with our best men.
We have another class in public life,
hnmvn as politicians. They are dif
ferentiated from statesmen in that
they are ignorant and selfish and un
reliable. An empty wagon makes much
more noise than a, loaded one. A bark
ing dog seldom bites. A steamship’s
whistle makes more noise than her pro
pelier.
Politicians are always partisans,
championing party interest and party
ends, with no reference to patriotism
or the rules of right. I’cing the tools
| of other parties, it is easy for them to
[become fools for monopolies—tools for
I anybody to handle where t he hope of
[reward or the fear of punishment stands
out—a weather cock turned in any ili-
[reetion by any gust of wind.
Then wo have in public life the dem-
I'Sgogue, a kind of demijohn-ngogue.
wlio is nobody's dog—everybody’s dog.
flic will euss and drink with the gang,
pile will talk in the meeting, lb- carries
^ a llibio in one pocket and a bottle of
vhisky in the other. He is a saint or a
devil, a fool or a knave, a jackass or a
skunk, a keg of beer or a bottle of
cliainpaign, anything from a game of
craps up to the leading a prayer meet-
ii,.r. On every ship he can he either a
cabin passenger or go on as a steerage.
We have many in public life like this.
'Plica we have what the newspapers
call blatherskites. 1 do not know Ike
meaning of the word, literally. 1 know
some men to whom it is applied; ami a
fellow who can out-IIcrod Herod and go
bevoml the lines where sense and
thought will go, who talks with the
] icaningless bray of an ass and fires
tnipty cartridges in every direction,
searing women and children but never
wounding a man—fic is my ideal of a
blatherskite.
It is true we have iu public life to
day hundreds of men who are neither
f statesmen fir politicians or demagogues
or blatherskites. They are litt le fellows
who stand for nothting.donothingand
amount to nothing. Nature seems to
have put them into the world on the
same idea that the girl ate the lettuce- -
’’just to fill up on.” I had rather be a
blatherskite, than nothing. A blather
skite is something and somebody and
may be converted and made into some
thing better. But the God of nature
has made everything of something else
ience the evening and morning w ere the
first day in this world’s history.
It would be a some of infinite satis
faction to the public if they could
analyze the motives and discern the
characters of public men. The hardest
task we undertake is to analyze and pn-
derstaud the motive of others; v/hen
it is periiaps always essential in thiC un
derstanding of the actions of another
to know his motive. Why sonnj men
are for the free and unlimited coinage
of silver; why some men arc tjor the
single gold standard; why some men
are for the revision of the tariff; why
some men idolize Mr. Cleveland as a
patriot ami a si.iYi.'v . ;. <h>.
nouncc him as a "besotted tyrant;” why
some believe lie lias sold out to Wall
street, and others believe he is only
break-water between the nation and
universal bankruptcy; why .•ionic men
believe and say Carlisle ip tlm brainiest
and brightest man in tlic nation’s
service to day, and others denounce
him as the "Judas from Kentucky,” we
cannot tell. We would love to know
Hie motive of men who say and do these
things, if their motive be patriotic
ami what they say is true, this nation
stands disgpagcd to-day. If what they
say of me a and measures is true, then
the nation ought to consign all of them
to iufnu^r and disgrace. If all men are
defamecMthen none are defamed. It
nil are^^ffaised then none are praised.
If all are statesmen then none are
Btates^P^n. |f an are blatherskites
none are blatherskites. Just ns
iit Is true in the church, if ell the church
I ore liypnrritcu then none are hypo
crites; if all are good then none are good.
1 here is a diiTereneo; but what Is said
of one is sail) of all our public men to-
.■hiy, by some. If we pick and cull the
newspnpeis for one month, we will sec
that here and yonder, now and then,
f> here a little and there a little, wu cuu
get enough, if it were nil true, to con
sign the whole national congress from
the white house to the page in congress
to infamy and the penitentiary.
Who can distinguish I’m irut!! from a
lie when spoken of • u’ollc i a? There
ought to be some means I y which ;!.e
public could know whether these say
ings are true or fnl-e. 1';. . tyism is the
fond parent of Hie riolitie: •n, duu:;-
gogue and blatherskite. Tins blind ad
herence to party politics \.-l! not only
min a man hut damn 1 !:■. ration. Win n
a t hing is simply "(b-mr -rr. t it; il; . •
or "republic u:;!y right" vr ‘y. uu! Miy
right,” and wrong from every otin-r
\ i: w, then it is alt< (her g. A
thing is right or wroi .ri; !.. . tber
championed by party ..r i an or
angel. 1 have no pa;b : ■ v ;i demo
cratic policy or rcptiM: an pe.liey or
populist policy. 1 like patriotic prin
ciples, unselfish devotion to humanity
and undying loyalty to r-gl’.t. We need a
living, vigorous conscience, not only in
the national congress, but in the every
day walks of 1 ife. 1 was talking with a
banker a few days ago w ho wn lending
his money at 1” per cent, in violation ot
the laws of his .state and against tie;
best interest of his constituency. Jlis
highest reason for such bu: i:n trans
actions was that his sic.-:, holders de
manded their dividends, and lie had to
make the dividends, which was all right
from the stockholders’ standpoint; bul.
how mercilessly it grind, (he liiVout of
Hie borrower. 1 don’t.b. li vi!t::at any
business in America to-day. not. even
Wall street speculation, as. in‘am usas
that is, can pay suck, ini cn stand live,
A one-sided view, and every fellow in
his line reminds me of the fellow who
was bragging on his father :. a d iet ir.
I he said an illu. I i '.' on of i;:.- skiil a.-t
a surgeon as when a n- igl;i nr i :ir eto
his- father one moi ni. g. v. ho, while cut
ting a stick of wood, inn 1 n ch d cut
one of his eyes, li'•• fatl er 1 ■ •:....
saw that the eyeball was a ue. Ti.cn
his at her turned to him and said:
“Son, catch me the big .'! 1 a ea\”
He said he caught.theca' * i ! s ;V.:h r.
and he took one of 1 he i a; 's < \ •
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THE POPE’S DAILY LIFE.
OMAHA’S BIG FAIR.
It Is Full of Occupation from Morn-
in** Till Night.
Ills IlaDIl« Are tllncli tin- Sa’.rio as When
llo Was ;i Cimllnal—Daily A'ass In
His Private tlimpel—Itvery-
Day Kctilii • V. or:..
Z’.larion Crawford, in an interesting
article rn the Century, says that in
spite of his greet age, the holy father
enjoys excellent health, and leads a
life full of occupations from morning
till night, lie has in no respect
changed his habits since the time
when he lived aL Ucru; a as cardinal.
He risies very caily, ami when at about
six o’clock in the morning, his valet.
Uio Centra, enters Ids J-'.tie bedroom,
he more often finds him risen than
asleep. Bo is accustomed t > sleep
little—not more than four or five
hours at night, though he rests awhile
after dinner. We are told that, some
times he has been found asleep in hik
chair by his writing-table at dawn,
not having been to bed at all. Of late
he frequently says mass in a chapel
in his private apartments, and the.
mass is served by I’io Centra. On
Sundays and feast days he says it
in another chapel preceding the
throneroom. The iittie chapel is of
small dimensions, but by opening the
door into the neighbor;:;g room a,
Work IJcglaH for tho Trana-MiHslMlppI
Imposition of 1S98.
The trans-Mississippi congress, which
met in Omaha November 25.last,adopted
resolutions unanimously concurredin by
delegates present from the trans-Mis
sissippi states, locating the proposed
trans-Mississippi exposition in 1898 at
Omaha.
From that day leading men in Omaha
and the congressional delegation from
Nebraska have been busily engaged in
pushing preliminary work incident to
a full organization of working forces.
The exposition will not be, strictly
speaking, an Omaha enterprise. The
articles which were adopted at an en
thusiastic mass meeting of Omaha citi
zens recently contemplate an exposi
tion of all the products, industries and
civilization of the states and territories
DUE TO CHANCE.
Dr. Rontgon’s Wondorful Photo
graphic Discovery Explained.
Vienna Professor’s Lecture—The Subject
Discuriseil at tho Chicago University—
Experiments Conducted by Prof.
Wright, of Tale.
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uiiber of
ass. The
persons can
permission.
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t the
ten given,
to the
■Derail v
lied
is obtained on applieation
“maestro di camera," and is
conceded only to ciistin.gui
eigu persons,
self, the holy father immidiate
hears a sect nd one,
the private chaplak::
v eek, whose imsim
or-
ter saying mass hini-
of the
ar ami lo a s.
put it into the man's !u:.d,
lit.
“Well.” said the friend tc
was telling the story, "how
Could he see out of il Y”
“Oh, yes,” he replied, “in
out of it just as well as in
out of his own eye; and U
foroncc was that when his i
asleep at night the eat’
watching for rats.”
If gain and position e n
in a fellow’s car in; re \. oil
sands of men like ike ,
a preacher once is! 1 i -.
Ite rode np to e!.;..■ , < m
he saw a group of keel! ! ■
front of the church, a:.;!
nearer he met a man r.
from the church, whoso
terribly dimigured. !l v:.>
iittie hole on tin- side of is
way between the front of k
his ear. He said \.! :i be
the brethren, he ask :! Ik
was t hat 1 met dov, n s V' i. .
said it, was I!;!I Jr*:!!:: n.
1 hem how came Is ; i : . si
on Hie side of his J'.;e \\
that way?
“No,” they replied, "it ! .
in that shape for two ; .'
“What in tho -world tiki
jircaeher asked.
One of the company replk
-s o-llt ale.I
m.l it ju-
one of
for the
to take
t. Fre-
fpu ntly be gives Hie cemmuni n with
ids own hands to :loose v.l.o a.ie pres
ent at. his r-nss. After ’. ass k. ■ break-
fa As upon cot:'.' ■ am! goat's milk, and
lid., milk is supplied free.! gnats kept,
in the Vatican garden', -a rennnis-
cune of Carpineto and of the r.icun-
lainccr's early life.
ec.uli
Every day at a!-'at ten be receive
the secretary of state. Carcir.nl Ban
polla, and convcrs: s v. ith i'.im for
good hour rrmore 11 j a - urrent atTairs. oyt
(m j'li'sdavs and hkmla.vs t!:e secre
tary of state receives, the <!'
corps in his ow n apart: s
tho i the in d r- t er. ta
liinalijini, confers with the
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Mocei.ni, net mg p: rfe; I of tho "holy
apostolic pulaci.s," is reeelv.d !y the
poj e when lie has ht:: incss to e.\[ • und.
On the first and t’.dr ! Fri k ys of each
month tlie inaggiord-.ano, .iyr. della
Volpe, is iecei\f<l, a . I so cn, in order,
the cardinal prefects of the several
, Homan c-o. - negations, the ur.dcr-s e-
retaries, am! ail others in charge of the
various cilices. In the papal ante
chamber t!i re is a lo t of them, with
t he days of t heir audiences.
During the morning he receives the
• ■nrdinnls, the bisk u.s "ad limina.’’am-
UOi’K I.ltO.
Mi
it
Hie
two years ago, or a litik
the worst drunkard in
and he quit all at on o. :
none since. But shortly
drinking, he took car a-
and flu’ doctor j-our-’d n
in his ear to relieve !.'
mouth just got to reach!
the brandy, and lias nev
since. Sa
: “About
i • re, ho was
thi ci uni ry,
i d ha - tin i !;
after lie <ji:iI
: ■ one nigk.t,
little 1.randy
s; ami Id's
around for
•got si might
iff. Jones.
Tho Xortlmruborl.’o. 1 Man.
The “Hodge” of, say, Essex or Cam
bridgeshire,' with his comparatively
poor physique, due to generations of
low wages and had feeding, his lack of
ambition and loye of slops and l.eer,
is not comparable to the intelligent
and robust binds of Northumberland
or Boxburghshire or the Lot hians.
Anyone accustomed to make long walk
ing fours in both countries will admit
the truth of the following observation:
In any purely agricultural district of
Scotland you may travel from ten to
fourteen miles without passing a single,
public house (and indeed tlie disap
pearance of many ancient hostel lies
is a conspicuous feature of the last dec
ade); but tho poorest and most de
pressed portions of Essex and SulTolk
arc still liberally supplied with beer
houses. Grumble as Hodge will about
being starved on nine or ten shillings
a week, lie lays himself open to the re
tort that ho subsists and lias a surplus
for ale. It is cheap, vile and heady and
one would think doubly hurtful ’o
those who are ill-nourished. Again,
surroundings.ave \ . ’ 1 ' T’ha
squire and parson, excellently as they
may fulfill their duties, in some re
spects have a pauperizing inlluence.
Ycrycharactcristiowasthe comment, of
the rustic, after listening to a fiery
orator, who had promised the abolition
of landlords and clergy: "Then who
will there be to gi’ me my Christinas
coals and blankets?” Against the min
ister and the laird no such charge can be
fairly brought.—Chambers’ Journal.
“Had Them Yet.”
Elwood, who was five years old, was
something of an adept at draw ing. One
day he was visiting with bis mamma in
the home of a neighbor wlmse Iittie son
Vcrnie was making a very crude picture
of a house. Becoming discouraged lie
asked Elwood to.show him how.
While Hie two boys were thus en
gaged, Yernie’s father said to him;
“Now, if you would take pains like
Elwood does you could draw nicely
too.”
On their return home, Elwood, with
his hands pressing upon his : Uimach,
exclaimed: “.Mamma, 1 did take pains
v/hen I was drawing that picture for
Vernie, and I’ve got them yet!”—Ham’s
Horn.
ba.- sadors w ho are ;.,oii : • aw
or who have just returned, ;
■ members of t!:t
iv on leave
i’iuses und
omen nobility and
distinguished foreigners.
At ten o'clock be takes a eupof broth
brought by Centra. At two in the aft
ernoon, or a little ca lier. he dines.
He is most, abstemious, alt bough lie
lias an excellent digestion. it is pri-
•..ite physician. Dr. Giuseppe l.apponi,
lias been heard to say that he himself
eats more at one men! titan the holy
father eats in ;i week.
Every day, unless indisposed, some
one is received in private audience.
These audiences are usually for the
cardinal prefects of the congregations,
the patriarchs, archbishops and bishops
, w ho are in Borne at the time, and dis
tinguished personages.
When the weather is line, the pope
gene rally walks or dr'r. i s in t be garden,
j He is carried out of his apartments to
I the gate* in a sedan-chair by the liveried
“sediarii,” or chair-porters; or, if he
goes out Uy the sm II door known as
: thatof Haul V., the carriage awaits him
there, and Ite gets in with the Cam-
| criere Kcgieto I’arlvr'paute, who is al
ways a luonsignor. II is well to say
1 here, for the benelit of non-Catholics,
that “iiionsignori” are not necessarily
bishops, nor even consecrated priests,
the title being really a. secular one.
Two noble guards of Hie corps of 50
gentlemen l.nown under that name ride
beside the carriage doors.
During the great heat of summer the
pope after saying mass, goes into the
garden about nine in the morning, and
spends the whole day there, receiving
every one in the garden pavilion ns he
would in the Vatican, lie dines there,
too, and rests afterwards guarded by
the gendarmes on duty, to whom lie
generally sends a measure of good wine
—anoii. -survival of ncountry custom;
and in the * ol of the day he again gets
into his carriage, and often does not
return to the Vatican till after sunset,
toward the hour of Ave Maria.
In the evening, about an hour later
al. "one of the night,” according to old
Homan: computation of time—he at
tends at the recitation of the rosary,
or evening prayers, by Mgr. Mii/zo'ini,
bis private chaplain, and he. requires
his immediate attendants to nssi t also,
lie then retires to his loom, where he
read::, studie; or writes verses, aqd at
about ten o’clock lit cul.. a lip,hi supper.
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HON. CIEOntiE I.
. WELLINGTON,
LAND.
MAHY-
F'
GOnDON \V. WATTLES, PRESIDENT.
of the Fnitcd States west of the Missis
sippi river, and also such exhibits ns
may he provided in the United States,
in any state of the union or any foreign
country, for Hie purpose particularly
of exhibiting to the world the products
and capabilities of said states and terri
tories. The articles provide that the
i exposition shall be opened in June and
closed in November, 1898. The re
sponsibility for the success of the enter
prise must therefore devolve upon the
vast empire embracing t he western and
Boeky mountain states.
The people of Omaha and Nebraska,
however, are determined that the proj-
shall be pushed to a successful
| issue. It was left to them to take the
initiative and to put the machinery in
motion. To this task the citizens of
Omaha have addressed themselves with
encigy aid enthusiasm. The corpora
tion is organized with a capital stock of
$1,Ono.(i)t), with shares at ten dollars,
there being a proviso that when $10,000
of the stock shall have been subscribed
business shall be commenced. At a re
cent meeting nearly $11,000 was sub
scribed by those present within a few
mYnutos and strong - committees were
named to secure furt her subscriptions.
A board of eleven directors, as provided
was named, among them being the
active a ml influential business men of
tin’ city. This board elected as their
] resident G. \Y. Wattles, and as secre
tary John A. Wakefield.
The Yienna 1‘resse of recent date re
ports a lecture on Bontgen’s discovery
delivered before the Imperial Medical
society by I’rof. Exncr, of that city.
Tho speaker said no photographic ap
paratus Is used in making the Bout gen
pictures. The stream of light from the
Crookes tube does not pass through
any lens. It falls directly upon the ob
ject which is to be photographed. An
ordinary photographic plate covered
by the usual wooden shutter is placed
behind the object and the shutter
must not be removed. The reason that
a photographic apparatus canuot be
used is the rays from the Crookes tube
are not refracted when passing through
a lens. Unlike all other rajs, such
as in light, sound, and electrieitj-, these
rtij’s do not form waves, but in absolute-
lj' straight lines.
The Bontgen rays arc not visible to
the eje, although they can penetrate
wood; neither do they develop heat,
nor have they anj f iiiduciice on mag
netic instruments. Interesting as are
Boutgeu’s pictures and wonderful as
are his feats, they are held to be of
minor importance compared with the
discovery of the existence of straight
rays.
Bontgen owes his discovery to sim
ple chance, lie had on his laboratory
table a Crookes tube covered with a
cloth. In the course of his work he
passed a stream of electricity through
it. A piece of prepared paper such as
photographers use for taking impres
sions chanced to lie near bj'. The
scientist suddenly observed straight
lines formed on the paper while the cur
rent was passing, llis curiositj' was
excited and he began experimenting
and .stmlj’ing the eiTectof the Crookes
electric current.
I’rof. Exner exhibited a number of
photographs, and prophesied great
benefits to medicine and to science gen
erally from the new diseoverj*.
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sickness and suffering. Remember
WILL S’JCCCiZD GIBSON.
Geovge I,. Vv'« - ;;ii»gto , i Mlcctc! Senator by
the .I'aryLituI I.eglHlaturc.
Georg/ L. Wellington, who has just
keen ciceied to succeed Senator Gib
son in the United States senate, is
known t hroughout Maryland as one of
the most eloquent orators of anj' party.
He was 1 ot n in Cumberland in 1852,
and from the age of 12 has had to relj'
upon his own resources. He first found
employment in a Chesapeake and Ohio
canal store. When IS years old he se
cured a position in the Seeouc; national
bank of Cumberland. This proved to
l o a stepping stone to bis success, for
be ruse stead ily until he became paying
teller. Hie position which he resigned
iu 1SS2 when appointed to a position
in the United States sublreusury. Sub
sequently retwvnh.g lo Cumberland, he
became county treasurer for six years.
In 1887 he was the republican candi
date for state comptrolier against Col.
Yietor H. Baughman, whose majority
he reduced to about 5,009. lie was a
delegate to the national conventions of
1S81 and 188S. President Harrison ap
pointed him United States subtreasur-
cr in 1890, a position from which he
retired a few months ago with a most
admirable record. He ran for congress
in 1892, but was defeated by Gen. Wil
liam M. McKaig, who in 1S90 had de
feated Judge McCouias. Last year he
was again lie: candidate for congress,
i nd this time was successful, lie. has
taken but little part in the proceedings
of the present session. Mr. Wellington
is a protectionist and an anti-free-sil
ver man.
He Forgot Ills Nerlctlc.
United States Minister Mr. Pile, of
Virginia, once ventured to present him
self to the president of Venezuela on
one occasion minus a necktie. Presi
dent Blanco very sharply reminded
him of his forget fulness of etiquette
and shortly afterward sent him about
his business.
Sarsaparilla
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Prof. A. W. Wright, who occupies
the chair of experimental phj’sics at
Yale universitj*, and is in charge of the
Sloanc physical laboratory*, has, accord
ing to the New York Evening Post’s
New Haven correspondent, made suc
cessful experiments recently in photo
graphing objects behind opaque bodies
by the agency of cathode rays, in which
Prof. W. C. Bontgen, of Germany, has
been reported to have achieved remark
able results.
Prof. Wright used in his experiments
a tube in which the exhaustion is car
ried to so high a point that the tension
of the gas left iu the tube is measured
by a few millionths of ordinary at
mospheric pressure—the so-called
Crookes tube—and eon nee ted to the
pole of an induction coil in action. The
discharge from the. negative electrode
of such a tube gives the cathode rays
which, it must be emphasized, are al
most nonhnninous.
Prof. Wright’s experiments were
made vv ith a great v ariety of substances,
and it was found that strong impres
sions were obtained upon a photo
graphic plate even when it w as inclosed
in an opaque wrapping of black paper
and covered with a pine board half an
inch thick.
It was evident, at the outset that the
order of transparency of ditVerent. sub
jects for the light, rays was very"' dif
ferent from that which is found w ith
Hie cathode rays. Thus pieces of glass
were more opaque to these rays than
some of the metals or than ebonite,
which is perfectly’ opaque to luminous
rays, but transmits the cathode rays
with great freedom.
Journal Uni In Clvrninny.
Journalism has now become a univer
sity subject in Germany.
Prof. A. A. Michelson, head of the de
partment of physics at the University
of Chicago, addressed the Physics club
of the university the other afternoon
on the “Dark Bight of Bontgen.”
lie took up the details of the recent
discovery of the. Vienna chemist as re
ported, explaining the 17 exjicrimcnts
which Dr. Bontgen performed in the
course of his work, lie said the prill
cipal quality which interferes with the
operation of Bontgen’s method is den
sity and not opaqueness. An object
may be exceedingly opaque, and yet its
molecules be so arranged as to permit
the penetration of the cathodic rays.
CARRIES OUT A BOYISH VOW.
Slicliiffua Man Ttiru»licH Another Who
Slapped Him When a Child,
Herman Van Wormer was arraigned
in the police court at Grand Bapids,
Mich., the other morning for assault
ing Alonzo Market, whose face looked
like a map of a war district. “Gentle
men,” ho said, when asked to plead,
‘’when I was a kid that man slapped me,
und he slapped me good and hard. 1
took a solemn oath that 1 would lick
him when the day came, and I am will
ing to leave it to you if I have not done
a good job of it.” He was fined ten dol
lars and costs, paid the line and ex
pressed himself us having had his
money’s worth.
Moths In an Organ.
The organ in a church at Fall River
suddenly grew wheezy during the mu
sical serv ices Sunday*, and shortly gave
out altogether. The organist naturally
thought of eels in the water pipe, but
it was moths this time. Investigation
showed that moths had destroyed much
of the feltpaekingand wrought general
havoc in the instrument.
Women In I’.rliisli CoIlcgcH.
Eight of the ten universities of Great
Britain now admit women to degrees,
and it is likely that Cambridge will
soon l»e Hie ninth. The growth of the
women’s colleges at this university—
Girton and Ncvvnham—is a remarka
ble example of woman's progress in
academic education.
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