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MAGIC COAL TAR. Onco Despised, It Is Now a Source of Limitless Products. SPANS THE WORLD OF COLOR. It Yields Almott Evary Shad or Hus and It Ussil In Praotlcally Evary In duttry In Medietas nnd 8urory. Alio, It Has Worked Wondtrt. Among tiio almost limitless number of natural products of this country coal tar stands well lu tlio load in Uie variety of usea to which It may bo ap plied. Evil smelling. It Is tlio rough material from which ninny vnlunblo Htibstniiccs tinvo been obtained after yearn of persistence by science und In d us try. Thono substances Include a wide ruiiRo of colors, various burning and lubricating oils, asphalt for pavements, photographic developers nnd a great number of medicines, llavora and per fumes. Coal tar Is used In practically ovory manufacturing process whore dyes aro needed, In making cloths, silks, dress materials, colored papers nnd oven colored articles of food. About a century ago coal tar was considered almost n wnsto product, and no ono had thought It worth whllo to axpcrlmont with It. At that Umo gas was being Introduced an n new light, nnd Frederick Acctim, who wroto ono of tlio first books on gas lighting, sug gestcd tlio boiling of tho Uir In a still and tho condensation nnd collection of thu volntllu product. Tho ozporlmcnt was made, nnd tho procosu yielded two oils. Ono was heavy nnd tho other light. It wns soon found that tho heavy could bo satisfactorily used as a prescrvatlvo for wood that had to bo ' fixed underground or submerged In water and was used extensively In pre serving piers nnd whnrfs. Further experiments with tho lighter oil wero rnado by n Hcotcb chemist. Macintosh, who used It In waterproof' lug tho clothing which still bears his niiinc. It nlso Is used ns n solvent In vnrulsh making nnd ns coal naphtha for lighting. experiment with tinph tint disclosed n rich treasury of colors which for cuiiturlcM had boon locked up In roal and Its refusu tar. Honxlue was vxtracted from naphtha and this In turn produced the different shndes of violet, green, blue nnd yellow, I-ntor another chemist tundo tho comtmirclal inauufacturo of beuxtnu possible. Ho wns experimenting on tho artificial pro duction of quinine, nnd, using n baso known ns nnlllno, obtnlned tho coloring mutter called miiuro. This laid the foundation for the cost tar color Industry which tins develop ed until toiluy almost every color nnd shmlo of color Is derived from nnlllno, Aulllno had been obtained previously from tho Indigo plant "anil." Thu dis covery of mnuvo created a largo de mand for tho artificial aniline baso and gnvo unexpected value to benztuo. It yvldcd nnlllno by Mug treated with nitric acid und wltlt tho iKirlugs of enst Iron powdered Into dust. Having done Its work In tho aniline still, tho dust was used by tho gas maker to cleanse his coal gas from sulphur, nnd then It passed to tho manufacturing chomtst, who burned tlio sulphur out of It and produced sulphuric acid n cycle of op erations whoso beginning nnd end was the ullllcatlou of wnsto. This method of producing color was responsible for tho desolate mndder Holds of Km nee and Holland nnd for tho loss to tho Hindus of their long cherished Indigo cultivation, Anttim erne, ono of tho heavier oil of coal tar, caused the full of tho mndder growing industry. Tho madder pro duced violets, reds, blacks, purples nnd dark browns. Anthracene was sold very cheaply for lubricating purposes until certain chomlsts heated It with zinc filings nnd produced nlUiirlu, and then tho secret of tho mndder plnut wus discovered. In this way chemistry displaced agrl culture, ono Muud of alizarin having the colorlug power of ninety pound of madder, and tho lubricating oil sold at n trltlo ns wnsto became n valuable coloring matter worth 1500 a ton, thereby creating a vast industry. In tnedlcluo aud surgery coal tar has worked wonders. Hacchurln, many bun drcd tliuos tho sweetening power of sugar. Is used by diabetic patients. Carbolic acid U separated from tho oil of coal tar by successive dUtlllHttous, and lu surgical ujHTutlons a spruy of germ killing carbolic acid Is used. Qulnollna, autlpyiino und other fover nu lingers arv made- from coal tur, and various antiseptics aud food preserve Uvea also nro ob tabled from It Vanilla flavoring for cooking, which formerly wns prepared from a bean, can now bo obtained from the vanillin of tho gns works, and even this vault tin cau bo tundo Into a heliotrope per fumo by adding oil of almonds, whllo the latter can bo produced by trotting botizJuo with an acid. Hugo qunntl tes of this oil aro used In tho making of scented soup. As a mutter of fact there is scimvly n department of life into which tho products of coul tur do not enter. Now York Times. Always on ths Qo, "That mau never seems to stay long at any ono place. What U be doing. anywuyr "He Is helping to take a census of tho birds." "Oh, that accounta for his being con stantly on the wing " Pittsburgh Press. We rau'. make our election between economy and liberty or profuslou and rvtiidi ' Thomas Jefferson. sBBTR223iAuij Sat a can today from jffitKrYffl your harelwaro or tto. jMljlillU POWER OF ELOQUENCE. A Scotch Preacher Who Provsd Him If a Real Spsllblndsr. The magic power of eloquence to bold an audience bound as by a spell is commonly credited to tho political stump speaker. Hut that some of this gift of fascination Is to be found In the pulpit tho Hot. Dr. Currier makes clear In his book, "Nino Great Preach ers." To show tho Importance of the volco and manner In delivering the message he tells the following story of tho preaching of tho Rov. Dr. Outh rlo of Scotland: Guthrie possessed to an eminent do- greo tho power of opt. Impressive 11 lustration. Joined to tho witchery of bis volco, It sometimes amounted to a power of enchnntment His auditors wero then spellbound by It. An amusing Instance Is presented In tho conduct of a Highland cattle drover one day In Guthrie's congregn Lion in Free St. John's. The man stood throughout tho servlco In ono of tho crowded ulsles within a few yards of tho pulpit. From the Drat he was rlvotcd. u pinch of snuff every now and then evincing hi satisfaction. To ward tho and of the sermon nnd Just as Iho preacher was commencing a prolonged Illustration, the stranger np piled to his horn muIL Arrested, however, he stood motion less, his hand raised with the snuff between his fingers, his head thrown back, his eyes and mouth wldo open. Tho instant tho passago was finished, and before tho audience hnd time to recover their breath, the drover ap plied tho snuff with gusto to his nos trils, and, forgetting In his excitement alike the placo and tho occasion he turned hla head to tho crowd behind and exclaimed, "No. sirs, I never heard tho llko of that!" THE HUMA FOOT. In Its Primitive 8UU It Was Lsrgsr Thsn It Is Today. Artists say that nd Greek sculptor would hnvo ever dreamed of putting n nine Inch foot on a nvo nnd ouv half foot woman. Tho types for the clnsslo mnrblo figures wero taken from tho most tierfect .forms of living per sons, untiutsiuonnuiy tno human root, as represented by tho anclont sculptors, wns larger than tho modern one, and, lit fact, tho prlmltlvo foot of nil peoples whereof wo have any record, either of statuary or othorwlso, wns consider- nbly larger than the restricted foot of modern times. The mnscullno foot, forming an ap proximate average of four different countries, was about twelve Inches long. This would require at least a No. 10 shoe to cover It comfortably, Tho average masculine foot today la easily fitted with a No, HVt shoo and Is, theroforo, not above ten and aven sixteenths Inches. Now, by the old sculptural rulo of proportion a man five feet nine Inches In height should have a foot cloven and one-half Inches long, or onc slxth his height. It was of no great cousequouco what size sandal bo woro, but he would have required n modern shoe of at tonst a No. 1014 for a minimum at or a No, 11 for real comfort. For women, allowing for the differ enco In tho rolntlvo size of the sexes. which wns about tho same then as now, a woman of flvo feet three Inches In height would hare had n foot ten Inches long, requiring a modem shoe of tho size No. 0 ns tho most com form bio or n No, 6ft as tho limit of comfort. Washington Htnr. (Jhakeepeere and Cervantes. April S3, besides being the festival of Cnglnnd s national saint, says the Pall Mall Gnzotto. U also tho anniversary of the denth of both Shakespeare nnd Corvnntes. Hut, though both Hhnko pouro and Cervantes died on April 23, 1(110, there was actually an Interval of ten days between tbo two deaths. Tho explanation Is that In 1010 Eng land was still using the Julian calen dar, which In Iloman Catholic couu tries had been superseded by the Gre gorian calendar In 1083. Cervantea died on a Saturday; Shakespeare died on the Tuesday falling ten days later Our Oldsit Wooden Hoots. What la said to be the oldest wooden house uow standluu In this country Is to bo seen at Dedhani, Mass. It U known as the Fairbanks bouse and was erected IfTu years ago of white pliie, tho walla being of log. It has been continuously occupied and Is still In good condition aud quite comfort- ablo, a testimonial to tho durability of whlto pine as a building materials Argonaut Strangers to Her, "l'aruon me, put cau you tell roe who won tbo half mile" Inquired the lute arrival. "I don't know, Pin sure," smiled the sweet young thing, "but I heard aome one any It was Nip and Tuck at the anUb, so I suppose It was either oue of tbejn," Iluffalo Kxpress. How He Lost ths Cook. Well. Where's that cook!" demand. cd bis wife, "Don't tell mo that aba wasn't ou the train," Bho waa on the train," timidly ex plained tho commuter, "but I got to I playing cards and a I.onclyvllle man won her at whltt" Atlanta Journal. Chlrvtte Father. A Chinese father has tha supreme right of life and death over his chil dren and is not amenable to any law In this respect Although the world b full of suffer ing. It full of tha overcoming of It- Keller. Btau cf Ohio. City of Toledo, 1 Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ha Is senior partner of I he Hrm of P. J, Cheney A Co.. doing- builnrss In the City of To llo. County and Htate aforeMld. and ....v.W.'ft.a;1" " ray i sum or onb lll'NDHEn DOLLARS for each and r fry ee of Catarrh that cannot be cured oy me ue Ol IIAI.I.'N CATARRH CURB. ... tKANK J. ClIENKT, Hworn to befora ma and auhiirlbd In ray preience, tlili Itn day of December, ian a. IV. QuEROn, Hall's Catarrh Cr. 1. and OCta directly urvon th ttlnn.1 an.t nui. coua surfaces, of the system. Send for testimonial, free. D 1 V- uAl'ifK. Toledo, O, Bold by all llrurri.t. Tit.. Take lull's Paatllx niia rr ceasUpatios. MARS AND MARRIAGE. Wadded LIU In the. Unltsd States Army and Navy. "Cupid doean't let the fortune of the Newport girl or the lack of rortune of tho Cheyenne girl Interfere with his arrangements when ho gets his strotcZ' Ic dispositions planned and his forces mobilized," writes Judsou 0. Weill ver In Munsey's Magazine. The subject of tho article t marriage in tho Amer ican army unu navy, und ho argues that as n rulo tho olllcera of theso serv ices marry young und happily: "lie It Dar Harbor or Long llcacb, Portland or Panama, cast or west, north or south, your young man in tho bluo and gold Is uccoutcred to take care of himself socially. Tho uniform un dcnlably helps. Hut It docs moro than add a touch of color to tho social land scapo whereon It disports. It Is a prima facie guarantee that a young man with n well trained brain, u sound body, a disciplined mind, clean, whdlc- souio nnd ambitious, Is Inside. "Tho uniform wouldn't be there If it were not a testimonial about that ta bio of contents. The drawing room arts, the soclul refinements, the ball room nccomnllshmcntji aro added unto all this becauso they havo been a part of tho atmosphere, tho training, the bringing up In thoso two splendid In Ututlons that prepare young men to wear Uncle Ham's livery. "Tho navy men may not tako their wives with them to sea under any pos sible pretext. If tboro is enough of family Incomo to permit tho wife may, and not Infrequently does, parallel tho voyagtngs of her husband. To tho Philippines tho government permits wives of nnvy officers to travel on tho transports at cost of subsistence. which Is very modest. "At each nnny post houses aro pro vided for tho mnrrled otucoin, and Un cle 8am also furnishes light nnd fuel. In theso respects tho nnny officer has tho bettor of his brother In the nnvy. On tlio other hand, he must pay for household supplies and service of all kinds, while tho naval officer Is a member of Ills moss and gets tho best of living on shipboard at mnrvclously cheap rates. 'Army and navy ofllccra ns a rule marry young, and as n rulo tho mar rlnges aro happy. The reasons aro ob vious. At least tho economic rensons arc. Tlio -others lie In tunt trndlllonni fascination which uniforms nnd gold trappings havo for tho feminine heart" IT WAS VERY CURIOUS. When ths Whittle Tott Falltd All tht Surotont Wtrt) Puultd. A Parisian Journal tells a little story of a young Parisian wlro lu civil life had long worn a moiioclo In hla loft eyo aud had continued tho habit as an officer. He had been wounded, was cured and asked to be returned to tho front He wns to bo examined nnd concealed the monocle, thinking he might be charged with myopia in ono eye. When tho chief surgeon vxntu- Incd hi m. after looking well over his fuce, ho said sharply, "Whlstlol" Tho soldier whistled llko a blackbird. "Tilts U curious," said the surgeon, and, calling a young assistant, he suld again to tbo soldier, "Whistle!" Ho blatlcd again. "That Is curious." uld tho young assistant Another surgeon entered, and tbo pa tient was called upon for the third time to whittle. "Ah, said the aurgeon, "this Is cu rl out P Hut," expostulated the soldier, "1 don't see why there is o much of this. I'm not to serve a n locomotive," It Is all right," natd tho chief sur geon. "You may return to the front" When the soldier arrived at his regi ment bo gnve to tho itglraontnl aur geon tho note thnt hnd been given him by the examiner. This surgeon said lu his turn, "Will you please whistler He whistled. "This Is curious," said tho surgeon. it seems that when a mnn wears a monocle It gives to the fnc the appear ance of facial paralysis. The opera Hon of whistling Is a test The fnclnl paralytic cannot whistle. Hathlth. There was a terrible secret society In the east which waa organized for wholesale and systematic murder. Its members called themselves "Hnshlia- sin" whence, by the way, camo our word "assassin" and used to get up courage for their deeds of atrocity by doses of the drug called bathUb, This Is obtalnod from Indian hemp, and It la from the seed vessels that the sub stance is taken which yields the poison so famed In history aud romance. It Is a vivid green and when taken pro duces the moat extraordinary visions lud hallucinations. Ytt, It Could Be Dons. Pat Wbelan, the new lodger, waa en gaged lacing his boots tu tho kitchen. Hla landlady, standing near, remarked: 'Pat would yon like an egg for break. faatr Faith, rsa'am." replied Pat grimly. "I heard of a man who ate two and ha la allvn yet' Kansas City 8tar. Tha Pinnacle of Saorlflcs. 'I lovo you so much, my darling," cooed the clinging young thing, "that for your sake 1 would even forego a church wedding and consent to be married by a Justice of the peaceP And greater love than this hath no woman. Judge. Not In Hit Class. 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