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8 THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1908. If you are not quite satisfied with the FLOUR you are using, try our CUPID Brand IT is sure to give satisfaction. $1.40 sack; $5.25 bbl. A. V. ALLEN A FAMOUS 0L0 MART Christie's of London, Most Noted v of All Sales Rooms. SOLE AGENT FOR BAKER'S BARRINGTON HALL STEEL CUT COFFEE, 40c PER CAN. 83 ,: PHONES-711 AND 3871 BRANCH PHONE 713 KNOWN ALL OVER THE WORLD A Place Rich In Memories of Reynold uarricK, Gainsborough and Lord CtmUrfitld Fake Art Treasures Romanes of tho Auotion Room. THE GOLF BALL .How Gravity It Foiltd In Its Flight Through tho Air. rrofessor Petrle Guthrie Talt had lit , t skill at golf, but a vast deal at sci ence. Among the many problems to which he applied bis genius were some concerning that apparently simple tMng, the flight of a coif ball. And fcere he found difficulties so baffling that, though he worked over them for years and called on other scientists for assistance, many mysteries still re- mined. One question that be solved, kwever, is of curiouV Interest Tbe force of gravity Is the one force we know as most coustant aud inevita ble. To defeat gravity Is almost to tospend one of nature's laws. In bis Investigations Professor Talt suddenly became aware that gravity was de feated by the golf ball. The fact ad mitted no doubt On timing the flizht f the ball he discovered that It re-j wfned In the air almost twice as Ions as it should have under the influence of gravity. Thus, with gravity acting nsj teaal on other things, a drive of 200 1 yards would be completed In three and a half seconds. A thrown ball. tor example, describing tbe same tra Jertory, would remain in the air only that length of time. The golf ball in passing over that 200 yards floated se . lenely through tbe air for six and a ialf seconds. It was clear, then, that in some man r the gravity was thwarted. Pro fessor Talt attacked the problem of the means, and in tbe end be solved it. After searching long be found tbe cause of the prolonged flight In the ro tation given to the ball by the club's impact The secret lay in the manner f tbe stroke from the tee. The first principle of the explanation h in the simple fact that an object poised in the air has an equal atmos j&erlc pressure on it at all points. The awcond principle is that when a sphere rotates in a current of air the side of the sphere which is advancing to meet the torrent Is subjected to greater pressure tban Is that side which Is juoving in the direction of the current. To illustrate, when the golfer slices his tII It Is made to spin in such fashion tfait Its front side is constantly in aiovement to tbe right Therefore the pressure of tbe air is greater on tbe fcft side than on the right, and the ball mrxes to the right. When the ball is pulled, the operation Is reversed, and the flight bends away to the left. So If tfee ball is topped the spinning direc tion of the front is downward. Thus the pair of gravity Is aided and the flight Is swiftly checked. But every properly driven ball receives an undercut By the underspin thus Imparted the front awe or the ball Is made to SDin un wrd: the added pressure is from he ttrw and is in consequence directly op posed to gravity. The resu t Is a flight astained. but little less than twice as g as it would be without this under pin.. Moreover. Professor Tait demon strated that without this undercut when driving the. ball would travel afy about half its usual distance The ordinary golfer is quite unaware that be gives any underspin to his best frfves. but he does. Without tbe un dercut his driving would be a continu es rallure.-Chieago Record-Herald. THE RACCOON.- In Its Habits This Animal Grtatly Ro. stmblts tho Bear, A coon seems to be a composite ani mal, made up of parts of bear. Usher and monkey, with considerable devil thrown in for luck, says a writer in Forest and Stream. He can use his fore paws as handily as a monkey, and what be cannot undo with his hands be can gnaw off with his teeth. As Miss Murfree-Charles Egbert Craddock -eays In one of her stories, he has "a great deal of head stuffing." Any one who disbelieves in original sin had bet ter keep a raccoon for a pet or try trapping one. In captivity raccoons are very clean ly, often washing their hands and al ways washing every kind of food ex- cept eggs before eating. They know all about esrgs without any teach ing. One will take a hen's egg aud, lying on bis back, will toss it up and catch It as if it were a ball until, be coming tired bf this amusement he wiu hold it In the left hand and by tapping It lightly with one nail will drill a small hole In one end and then suck the contents. Its holding ca pacity Is considerable, as I have known a tame one which got loose to kill a sitting hen aud suck thireen eggs. In this case thirteen was an unlucky number for the owner of the hen. Raccoons love the vicinity of water, ' where they catch frogs and Dick un some dead fish. In their habits they greatly resemble bears, and, like bears, they eat any kind of flesh or fish and most sorts of berries, nuts and grain; but unlike bears, they do not remain steadily in their dens, but often, at any time in winter when there is a warm spell or a thaw, they will come out and travel for miles, sometimes go ing Into open water to dig for frogs. A number of times when there were several feet of snow I have caught them in traps set for otter both in springs and In water too swift to freeze. Although 1 never trapped coons purposely, because they are not worth it I have caught them in traps set for nearly everything else. One of tbe most comical sijrhts I ever saw was a large coon caught by both fore feet in a beaver trap. He was standinz on bis hind feet turning tbe trap first one way and then another, seemlns to be studying what it was that had caueht him A Chaotic Child. Surely the mystery of life was treat tr than the mystery of death in the ease or a flve-months-old child which las been the subject of an Inquest at Battereea. It had what the doctor calls "drumstick'! fingers and toes. Its art was on the right side instead of toe left the position of the lungs was Jeversed, the aorta curved down the Bgnt side instead of the left, there was o spleen, the liver was on the wrong He. and there was no division be tween the two chambers of the heart while the artery which should have applied the lungs with blood was ci ed, the blood passing through a com- zxmicauon Between the aorta and the femalnlng portion of the Dalmonnrtr .r. tery. With all this Jumbled anatomy nr child lived, and the medical evl ience proved that its death was not urectlr due to tbe disarranged anmnn but to an attack of bronchitis. Still! stn came mercifully, for the nn,ifrui few was that If the little' one had lived until it could stand it would bae Ja of heart disease. That it breathe i at all proves tbe tenacity of life and rms a comment on the vast sacrifice t healthily constituted children which anonally results from negllgence.-Pa l Mall Gazette. . The Young Idea. The following are specimens of soma absurd and amusing answers made by schoolboys and schoolgirls In examina tion papers: Iron is grown in larze auautlties for manufacturing purposes In southern France. Q. Define the first person. A. Adam. A parallel straight line is one thnt when produced to meet itself must not meet Blood consists of two sorts of cork- screws, red corkscrews and white corkscrews. Asked to explain what a buttress is. one boy replied. "A woman who makes butter." Teacher's dictation: "Ills cbolor rose to such a height that passion well niirh choked him." Pupil's reproduction! "His collar rose to such a height that fashion well nigh choked him." Gravity was discovered bv Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable In the autumn. 'when the apples are falling from the trees. Tbe diet of Worms Is the erub that blackbirds and thrushes feed on. Harper's Weekly. Transvaal Termination. In perusiiiL' the names of South At. rlcan towns in the dally newsnanprs many must have noted the word "fon- lem, which appears so often. This word Is the English fountain, and towns with this termination have been named after Dutch farms, whloh oro always built beside fountains of spring water. Thus P.loemfontefn means "flow. ery fountain:" Modderfonteln. "muddv fountain; - wienronte n. "small fnnn. rain, and LHandsfontefn. "deer fonn tain." Another town termination which hngllsh readers must have notlcpd in that of "laagte." which is nroimunrorl "laugbty." It means "shelter for ani mals, and hence when we talk of tha battle of Ellnmlslaagte we m av know ;hat it was fought on a snot frpmintn !)y deer. London Globe. Study at Home. "Maud graduated from your cookinv School last tpring. didn't she?" 'Yes. but she's going to take a Dost- ?raduate course next fall." "Going back to the same school again?" "Oh. no: She's to be married to a poor young mnn."Catholic Standard and Times. ' Since James Christie and bis friends Sir Joshua Reyuolds, David Gnrrlek aud Thomas Ualusborouch received Lord Chesterfield In Pall Mall as he de scended from his coach and six tho most precious things that money cau buy have changed bands in the famous rooms that bear Christie a name in those days Christie took great pains to attract only the "elect." aud the cards of visitors were cnrefullv scrutinized by liveried flunkies at th floor, for here was an exclusive club where men of rank and fashion often gathered to exchange courtesies aud the gossip of court and camn milt apart from mere bidding for great es tates and palaces of manv nation Jewels of princes aud plate of great families, pictures aud porcelain statu- ary and curios. Who does not rmm. ber the sale of Gainsborough's "Duch ess of Devonshire" when Lord Dudley wired a bid of I50.0UO from Paris hut was beaten by Agnew. the dealer? And theu came the dramatic theft and tb equally dramatic recovery of the por trait years nfterward In this country. it is a place of beautiful thlnir of discreet hush, of subdued mystery. Al most every great work of art in the world that conies Into the market finds Its way there. Loug before 1760 Chris tie's was a going concern, noue too flourishing, be It said, for has not James Christie himself left It on rec ord that his good friend David GarrUk tided him over a bankruptcy with a loan of WiUiOO? The priced catalogues of the house have been and are the Rtandard record of values In works of art for the lust . 200 years. They show extraordinary fluctuations. Thus In 1735 a copy of tbe : Rembrandt etching "Christ Healing i ne hick" sold for only ?3o. whereas i in 1887, at t!it Duke of Buccleuch's fcaie. an lurenor example brought no j less than $0,500. Art collections worth : $10,000,000 and upward have frequent- ly been offered for sale In these classic rooms. On such occasions emperors , aud kings, with men of wealth from every nation, commission the greatest j of experts to go to criticise and bid for treasures which may not come tinder : the hammer again In generations. ; The value of property knocked down under the old cracked Ivory hammer I that Dr. Johnson and Goldsmith must , have bandied ba tiles all calculation. A ; curious record was the $75,000 paid in 1S85 for tbe Dudley Raphael "The Three Graces," which measures only j . seven incurs square, or course this i was extraordinary, yet enormous prices ; have been nald at Christie's for ni. i tures, as everybody knows. I Another record In Its day was the $73,700 paid for Hoppucr's three-quarter length portrait of Louisa, Lady Manners, afterward Countess of Dy j sart And then there was the famous I Jeweled cup of rock crystal, which I brought the enormous sum of $81,375 ! at tbe Gabbltas sale. Amazing prices I have also been recorded for porcelain. In a recent season the art worlds of L,onuon and Paris were startled by a Sevres vase bringing $21,000-proof positive that tbe pate tendre, the play thing of Louis tbe Well Beloved, the Pompadour and Du Barry, retains all its fascination for the collector. Rarely indeed have fakes been offer ed at Christie's, yet a few classic cases are on record. Some years ago art lov ing capitals were startled by tbe an nouncement that four superb gallery pictures by Constable and two by Tur ner were to be offered for sale in Chris tie's rooms, "the property of a private gentleman and never before exhibited." It was certainly an event The vender's name was withheld, but this is a com mou occurrence, seeing that verv ex alted personages, Indeed, not to say the occupants of thrones, frequently send works of art to these famous galleries Pressed on the subject however, Chris tie's gave out that the seller was "well known connoisseur of high social rank." On the day of the sale all th art critics, collectors and dealers of note from London to Moscow and from Stockholm to Madrid assembled before the pictures, chattering excitedly in many tongues. Truly they were Imposing, these sror geous canvases, five feet wide and high in proportion. The four Constables formed a series of superb English land scapes, while the two Turners were classical subjects, said to be of the "middle period" of the master. But about them all there was a certain "I know not what." as the French say. that baffled tho keen crlllcs. Round nil six appeared to hover n curious kinship, certain peculiarities of tuicb and coloring, "as If." In tin. wnu of a Paris dealr. "Turner tin d worked on Constable's pictures and Cmist.-ilil,. on Turner's." The faces of the e.nerN w ere n I'roli study as their first r.il:!tl!-t!:l;n tnve place to helpless bewilderment dim or two they might have swallowed, bin six! Before Ions made himself beard above the liimWuii y pointing ont that the nrHn largely painted with very modern ulir- ments - fashionable, newlv, Irrvpntort colors unknown In tbe days of Turner and Constable. The nc fclVIl greater. This was surely nn unlucky nn ir tho collection were forirorloa. There was yet another test, however. A cuuulng Venetian dealer yean pre. vlonsly hid given the art world a hint in test l nit an authentic exntnn nf I final-ill IT n-nnl.l tuln . i. to stick it Into the fattest and most unctuously pasted part of the picture '-if It sticks In," tbe dealer said, "it Is new Paint but trv It on a rem tluardl, and yon might as well try to torce a pin into a china plate." The moment that hint was remembered it was acted upon. One of the Consta dies was tested and proved to be a veritable pincushion. The authorities of Christie's at once closed their doors and posted a notice abandonee the sale. . The history of the forgeries' Jeaked out afterward. They had helonired to a rich and eccentric collector, Joseph i. molt millionaire manufacturer of steel pens of Birmingham, who after ward left the London. National gallery magwncont sorlca of rea treasures. In his latter years, however, the old man had fallen luto the clutches of an unscrupulous dealer whose exploits had long bcou notorious. Both tho Turner and the Constables had been manufactured under this man's direc tion by a needy but exceedingly clever artist and tbeu sold to tho aired ami sredulous amateur for $500,000. When later some doubts were cast unon their genuineness Glllott was greatly trou bled aud resolved to give them the pub lic test of miction at Christie's. After the dramatic fiasco their owner con temptuously packed them off Into a warehouse, which three months later was burned to the ground, and then. strangely euoush. It turned out that Glllott had Insured his "masterpieces" for the entire sum he had nald for tiiein. so by a curious turn of the wheel of fortune ho was not a penny the loser. But there have not been half a doxen such enses at Christie's during a cen tury of sales. And. by the way. Just Inside the su perb pillared portico on King street. St. James', one will see a picture of the courtly old dandy. Christie himself, (a!! and distinguished. In silk knee breeches, with low shoes and buckles, blue silk coat and delicate lace ruffles, with full wig and horn spectacle a befitted his association with arlsto-1 cratlc cognoscenti. Chesterfield was his patron then, as he had been Dr. Johnson's. Tbe great arbiter of elegance, althouch retired from public life, was renowned all over Europe as a connoisseur, and wheu old Christie pleaded with him to lend his aegis to a great sale the stately coach and six emblazoned with the Chester field arms would soon be at tbe door. The rooms were then In Pall Mull Liveried servants cleared a way for Chesterfield and escorted him to a throncllke sent on a dais, where a nud of commendntion might be seen of all and have Its due effect on the bids The French revolution was the III wind that blew fortune toward Chris tie's. In 1702 many fugitives from France. Italy and Holland made their way to Loudon and on arrival found their flight bad been so precipitate that they were actually embarrassed for ready money. And that meant a sale of pictures and curios, furniture. Jew els and plate. It was In this way that the British aristocracy became pos sessed of some of tho loveliest works of art tbe world holds. During the London season, from April to the end of June, Christie's palatial staircase and salons are thronged with men and women of rank and fashion from half a dozen nations. In 1,803 the old place was practically rebuilt both Inside and out. The prin cipal sales room, a lofty and elegant oc- iiiruiiui apartment is a copy of one built In the Adelphl by Adam. And tbe auctioneer's rostrum is ono he used over a century and a half ago in tbe old rooms. In itself a work of art of great value. It Is a superb specimen of Chippendale's own work. The old Christie family has quite died out of the house, which at present Is run by men of high social rank and vast experience. Sales are held three or four times a week. Prom the earli est days Saturday has been reserved for great pictures. Viewing the gal leries before a sale begins one will see leading men In statecraft and society, princes and princesses of royal blood, merchants of great wealth and influ ence and visiting Americans as well as agents acting for cultured countrymen. jsacn sale furnishes some little ro mance of the art world. Every picture seems to nave a history. Here, hung in a grand light in the hie salon in the "Family of Darius," which Paul Veronese painted during his convales cence from an illness In an Italian villa and left behind as a graceful token of favors and kindnesses received fmm his host More tban $08,000 was paid for this picture in Christie's rooms one Saturday afternoon as it hung in the midst of other paintings from ancient country houses and faded palaces of many lands. One wonders whether the shades of the artists hang about this abode of romance. Did George Morland see his little "Dancing Dogs," which ho was glad to paint for $75 in hard times, find a buyer at $27.0007 Did grim Sir Henry Raeburn hear J. Pler- pont Morgan bidding $45,075 for that charming portrait of his wife in white and Drown? Or did starving John Hoppnor, born to grinding novertv In sordid Whlfecbapel. see a nair of his portraits go for $49,935? These things are part of the romance bf Christie's. - W. G. Fltz-Gerald in New York Tribune. 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