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Well, It's all over for four year»—
thank goodness.
Comparatively few people at the age
of GO have as good a start In life as
President Roosevelt.
A woman has disappeared after buy
ing several new bats and gowns. This
is Indeed a mysterious ease.
When It comes to aeronautics most
men will prefer to learn the trick
through a correspondence school.
Comfortable on $30,000 a year? Per-
ha¡<s not; but the average man would
be entirely content to be uncomfortable
on it
A former federal ink expert has
been fined $10,000. It would seem that
an Ink expert should lie able to keep
bls record clear of blots.
It Is wonderful to think that surgi
cal science is making it iMisaible for a
man with an unsatisfactory liver to
trade it off for a lietter one.
It Is estimated that the apple crop
this year is enough to make 0,000,000,-
000 pies. But for the sake of variety
let*» have an occasional dumpling.
Mr. Rockefeller says he despises the
man whose only deeire is to get money,
money, money and more money. But
he doesn't go so far as to kick him
self.
Our English cousins don't know
what a “fruzzle” is, don't they? Let
their, look at the southern extremities
of a hobo’s trousers—If they know
wbat a hobo 1 b .
Counterfeit $5 bills are In circula
tion. The prudent man will scrutinize
bls $5 bills before he takes them In,
and the truly honest man will look
carefully at his before he pays them
out
A father has recognized In an art
ist's drawing the likeness of bls long-
lost daughter. He never would have
noted the resemblance if it had been a
stage photograpb which fell into bis
bands.
The latest simplified spelling reforms
Include "doubt" and "debt" without a
“b” and “island" without an "a.” If
those learned gentlemen keep on they
w'lll soon lie trying to write “society"
without a $.
A man In St. I xiu I b I s seeking a di
vorce from bls wife tiecause, among
other things, when he remonstrated
with her on her style of dress, she told
him to mind his own business. The
St Ixiuls man Is not alone In taking
this admonition as a serious Insult.
Word conies from Elkins, W. Va.,
that the duke Is to receive $1,000,000
in cash on the day the marriage tnkes
place. Why doesn't King Peter wake
up? He might, by offering the crown
prince, get some patriotic American to
pay off the national debt of Servia.
It is a very foolish convention which
lays down that we are grown ip when
we have reached our 21st birthday.
The real majority is reached when we
begin to earn our own bread and but
ter and to bring forth the light which
has been fostered In us by the care of
others for the last ten or fifteen years.
Se'f-dependence and self-reliance—
tlut is the real manhood.
Persons who do not wish to cross the
ocean in the steerage may soon secure
accommodations a little less comfort
able than those offered to second-cabin
Iiassengers and much better than the
steerage, as the George Washington, a
new steamer of a German line, has
first, second and third cabins, besides
the steerage. Third-cabin jwssengers
may have staterooms, and there will lie
a dining room, a saloon for the women,
and a smoking room for the men.
Organized lawlessness is to-day the
natloual shame of the United States.
It is a disgrace in the eyes of the peo
pie of every other country that pro
fesses civilization. We hold up our
hands in horror at an outrage In Rus
sia or a fanatical mob attack lu China.
If an American citizen Is the victim of
a mob attack In a foreign country we
bristle with an Indignation that brings
quick apology and reprisals and the
punishment of the guilty as a general
rule. We can force a Ralsuli to free
an American citizen from a brigand's
stronghold in Morocco, but we cannot
—or do not—protect the citizen from
the organized mob at home. Personal,
physical and political fear has oper
ated to some extent In preventing the
punishment of organized lawlessness.
The technicalities of law have been a
handicap In other cases, but it Is time
that energetic action was taken to dls-
'*ourage mob and lynch law.
it la to smash ths china. A mother
full of the new theory forbids any one
to speak to her baby, much less to play
with him. Ruch a mother explained to
a witty friend that she wished her
small son to be “a perfect animal.”
"That la all very well, my dear lady,”
replied the friend; “but you are at
present contriving for him to become I
a perfect vegetable!” Somewhere be
tween the overexcitement of an emo
tional devotion and the overrepresslon
of such pseudo-science there lies the
happy middle ground of loving welcome
for the newcomers to the world. They
will find ft cool and silent soon enough.
Let them find it warm and tender at
first. One who watches an Italian
mother knows where the great paluters
found their models for "Madonna and
Child." Devotion, rejiose. comprehen
sion, needing no translation in word
or gesture—these one sees in lovely liv
ing pictures all over sunny Ualy. Per
haps the nervous American mothers
may learn from the languorous South
ern women. At any rate, they must
preserve the world-old fashion of hug
ging the baby!
Women need to remind themselves
that the standards of conduct are ever
shiftfug. Babylon and Japan have
strange moral codes written in their
history. New England record» show
punishments more brutal than crini<*s,
and college endowments gained from
the proceeds of lotteries held with tlie
approval of the strictest of Puritan
ministers. Public opinion in regard to
conduct is so largely made by women
that they ought to be well informed in
the history of ethics. The discussion
of race-track gnmbling in New’ York
doubtless rings strangely on the ears
of spectators nt the great English
races. At Ascot, for example, the
course is thronged not only by the
wealth and fashion, but by the stern
virtue of English society. Men and
women bet on the races with perfect
frankness. The bookmakers |«ss about
among the siiectators as freely ns if
they were selling programs or photo
graphs, instead of “odds.” A grave, el
derly lady lays her wager of a sover
eign : a young girl takes her mother's
advice nbout her bet of half a crown:
mid an exalted personage announces
his winnings as he would record his
crop of potatoes. Although Americans
notice the moderation with which this
gambling Is conducted, they are never
theless amazed at it. American moral
sense does not approve it. This vary
ing standard of morals among goal folk
teaches two simple lessons. The first
is that of an inclusive chnrfty to be
practiced by every student of human
history. Saint Paul keenly discerned
that as a man thlnketh in his heart so
is he. The aphorism must not, how
ever, be enlarged to Implj- that “as I
think so are you." The verdict of the
individual conscience is final for its
owner—and for no other. Further, in
a Christian civilization, the standards
of conduct are continually being raised.
Now one Christian nation and now an
other leads the forward movement. The
moral demands of the twentieth century
are far higher thnn those of earlier
times, and our children's children are
bound to carry them forward until mil
lennium's dawn.
To
Father
Time.
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in thy
flight !
Give us an autoless day and a night.
Give us a “yellow" satis headlines to scan,
A rustleless skirt, and a hustleless man,
A liabe teddy-bearless, a microbeless kiss,
A fistic fight fakeless, a straight-frontless
miss,
A giggleless schoolgirl, and—better than
that!—
A summer-clad college man wearing a hat!
I know. Father Time, that I'm asking too
much.
But turn to a day ere a dinner was lunch.
Swing back to an age peroxideless for
hair—
An «eon ere “rats'* made their rendezvous
there—
An old-fashioned breakfast without Shred
ded Hay,
A season when farmers went whineless a
day,
A burg moving-pictureless—ah, what a
treat!
A gumless-girl town and a trolleyless
street;
I'm asking too much, but I pray, Daddy
Time,
For days when a song bad both substance
and rhyme!
—The Bohemian.
Closing Ills Mouth.
A very sensible bit of advice ex
pressed in homely language was given
by a man not long ago to an excitable
and quarrelsome friend. It was In a
brickyard, and two of the workmen had
engaged in an angry dispute which cul
minated in a fierce encounter. In the
skirmish one of the combatants was
nastily hurt on the head, and the em
ployer, who happened to come on the
scene of action when the fight was fin
ishing and was a man of more temper
than discretion, advised the Injured one
to get a warrant for the other's arrest.
While the matter was being discussed
by a numlter of workmen who had gath
ered round a big. burly fellow who had
heard everything and seen the whole
affair made his way to the man with
the damaged cranium and said :
“You don't want to get no warrant.
Bill. You Just go to the chemist's shop
and get yerself two pieces of planter—
Rome years ago a physician wrote a
good big ones—and put one piece on yer
pamphlet entitle«!. “Emotional Prodi
head an' the other on yer mouth, a*’
gality," in which he enumerated the
you'll be all right”—Ixtndon Mull
ills of mind and body likely to follow
the demonstrative affection bestowed
Wclesms.
While sin contest
on babies, and entreated a calm repres
We deem unsightly.
sion of the mother's love and the fath
All love the guest
er’s joy where the infant was con
Who lies politely.
cerned. The waruing of the doctor
has been repeated and emphasized, —Birmingham Age-IIerald.
If a man has a wife he always know»
until to-day, In some homes. It Is aa
bad form to hug or kiss the babv.as- what to do with his money.
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THE REFORMED BRONCHO.
May Be Seen Any Day in the Bridle
Pat ba ut Central Park.
To the general public the word bron
cho suggests everything wild and vi
cious In horse tiesh. One associates the
usefulness of the broncho almost en-
tlrely with the rugged West. That this
wiry little animal could ever develop
the pointe of a good park horse would
be received with much reservation by
most persons.
Yet some ten years or more of cross
breeding, says Country Life In America,
has accomplished this somewhat amaz
ing result. To-day oue cau see ou the
bridle paths of Central Park the well-
groomed broncho fraternizing as an
equal with the blue gruss thoroughbred
and his number Is co a.antly growing.
To be sure, he Is no longer the ham
merhead with a pronounced ewe neck,
almost as devoid of flesh as a skeleton.
He has developed a flue crest in this up-
breeding and can show as fine a neck
as any Kentucky-bred horse.
His middle piece is no longer distend
ed from much eating of grass food,
nor is he so loosely Joined to bls quar
ters as his prototype. Higher living
has rounded him into a strikingly well-
proportioned saddle horse. In his new
estate be subsists less on the fresh,
Juicy grasses, and the new order grows
quite a different animal.
But through all this transformation
he still retains the leg characteristics
of his broncho ancestry, perfect in sym
metry, rather light in muscle and slen
der in bone, but the muscles of strong
quality and the sinews very firm.
His power of endurance has dimin
ished somewhat, but even so, he lias few
equals and no superiors. His toughness
and grit have changed little in the
croM-breeding, and doubtless If turned
out to the freedom of range he would
give as good an account of himself as
did his ancestors in the early days of
the West.
MYSTERY of ffOVING PICTURES
In America maintain thotr own
How theimposriblt is made era
theater and company of actors, and
possible and* fairyland made some of the best picture dramas and
real by the
ofthe
farces now shown have been produced
photographic filmsfor Klnef- here. The French manufacturers pro
all the kinds of films made tn En-
oseopeJ. A wonderful bust- ! duce
gland aud America, but they make
uess which has fyrowufrom the colored pictures an<l the trick-pic
nothing to huge proportions tures lu addition, and on that account
their work is more interesting to the
in ajewjrears.
uninitiated than that of either En
glish or American manufacturers.
Did you ever come out of a moving
fditure show with the feeling that you
had been "dreaming dreams?”
There is nothing that so thoroughly
combines absolute mathematical exact
ness with fantastic unreality as the
modern entertainment known as a
moving picture show. There is noth
ing that requires more scientific and
artistic skill in the making or more
rare and dexterity in the reproducing
than the pictures shown by the klne
toscope, and there is nothing more
mystifying to the tieholder than these
game pictures, when they are thrown
on the screen in the theater. In the
wine afternoon, perhaps, you will see
a thrilling train robbery, a prize fight,
a dainty little domestic comedy, a
scene during a trip of
the pres
idential candidates, a t^ry - tale of
your childhood, and some of the magi
cal pictures in which stones roll rap
idly up hill, saws and hammers work
without human assistance, or a skele
ton gradually develops flesh and cloth
ing. The commonplace is so mixed
with the impossible ttiat while you
ure looking at the pictures you find
yourself believing it Is uli perfectly
real and natural, and it is only after
you have left tlie theater that you
realize it Is a trick,' an optical illu
sion, and you wonder bow it is done.
The effect upon your mind is much
like that produced by a'dream you
have had, only in the case of the cine
matograph you try to analyze the
process.
Behind
Some people act ridiculous and then
become Indignant because people tell it.
No matter how loud a woman dress
es, she imagines she is dressed artisti
cally.
No, a woman doesn't necessarily han
dle a broom when she makes sweeping
assertions.
A duty to be done is a stern remin
der, but a duty well done is a pleasant
remembrance.
He who reads will run against many
clever sayings, but be who runs will
never read them.
A parasol, though invented to keep
the sun off, generally manages to in
duce some son to come nearer.
And it sometimes happens that a man
is not fully appreciated by his wife un
til she collects his life insurance.
Honesty Is a boomerang and Its pol
icy never looks better to us than when
it comes back again to our own feet.
Dress Is said to be woman's strong
est weapon. Does that mean there is
a dagger bidden in every sheath gown?
The recollection of a good act may
give us a swollen head, but the knowl
edge of a mean one is as a shoe that
pinches.
About the first thing a woman does
after moving into a flat is to look in
all the closets to see If the last tenants
left any family skeletons.
The young man who presents a girl
with a pound box of bonbons is her
Ideal—until another young man comes
along with a two-pound box.
The man in the motor car would
have mora respect for the pedestrian
if he stopped to think how the airship
man, in turn, looks down on him.
A Text tor a Sermoa.
A member of the faculty of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania has had fre
quent occasion to reprove his eight
year-old daughter for playing with
matches.
Recently the youngster in the exer
cise of her favorite diversion succeed
ed in burning her hands.
Immediately she was summoned to
Judgment. “Clara.” said the father,
sternly, "I should punish you for your
disobedience.
There Is. however, no
need to in this case, for God has al
ready punished you."
“Yes. sir,” meekly responded the
child; "but. papa. He let me play with
the matches an awfully long time first”
—Harper's. Weekly.
Deaicnatioaa.
Some foreigners and even certain
Americans are disposed to stand aloof
from what they haughtily term the
working classes of the country. It is
to be regretted that they could not
have overheard the conversation which
took place on an East river ferryboat
not long ago between a recently Intro
duced—shall we hazard it?—wheel
wright and shopgirl.
“Do you attend In Rarglner's estab
lishment?" he asked.
“Yes; I am one of the emporium la
dles," she replied, with becoming dig
nity. “Where are yon engaged?"
"I am one of Banks A Co.'s repository
for carriages gentlemen." he Informed
her.—Philadelphia ledger
<Ve have noticed that If you think
before you speak, the other fellow guts
lu b|y Idke first.
«
the
Scenes.
But the process Is unanalysable, un
less you are permitted a [step behind
the scenes of the business of film mak
ing. Once in the film maker's studio,
however, you find the making of the
pictures far more interesting than the
pictures themselves. One moment you
laugh at your own stupidity in not
guessing "how it worked." The nqxt
you are lost in admiration of the clev
erness of the film makers In being able
to arrange the natural and ordinary
means about them to produce such ex
traordinary results. And you never
see a moving picture afterwards with
out remembering how ft, or one like It,
was made.
Art, the drama, nature, mechanical
forces, all have a part in the produc
tion of tile pictures that are repro
duced all over the civilized world, for
the moving picture show has liecotne
the most universal of all amusements.
Every manufacturer of motion picture
films maintains a large company of
actors, a theater of bis own with an
Immense stage fitted with traps, tanks,
lift and other usual scenic accessories,
and a larger corps of stage carpenters,
scene painters, scene shifters and
property men than is thought neces
sary in any of the first-class theaters
in Europe or America. All sorts of
Ingenious methods of producing un
usual effects, all the devices for cre
ating realistic illusions known to the
stage and many that are impossible on
the real stage, are employed. Every
kind of scenery and stage setting are
used. People of uli ages, sizes and con
ditions, “the lame, the halt and the
blind." as well as tfie physically per
fect, take part In the various Beetles
Sometimes the actors play their parts
on a real stage, sometimes they act in
the fields or woods or even on the
streets of a city, and sometimes they
go partly through a performance in
the midst of natural surroundings and
complete the play on the stage of a the-
nter, or vice versa. It all depends on
the subject of the picture and the way
the idea Is worked out.
Dramatic ability of a high order is
necessary in the actors who pose be
fore the sjieedlng klnetoscope, for act
ing alone must tell the story of the
play they are presenting, and many of
the subjects are too artistic to admit
of mere pantomime as an exposition
of their meaning.
Trick
Picture«
from
France,
The klnetoscope is not a French in
vention, but its development along ar
tistic lines is due almost entirely to
French Ingenuity. In England, and In
America till quite recently, it was
used merely to record events as they
occurred, such as the unveiling of a
monument, the inauguration of a pres
ident of the United States, a boat
race, a prize flglit, a championship
baseball game, or a great parade. No
attempt was made to create subjects
for the machine to photograph, and all
fanciful pictures, color pictures, or
ottiers that were out of the ordinary
were left for the French film makers
tc produce, and the result has been
throe distinctively characteristic class
es of motion pictures.
England
produces
the "current
events" films. She sends her klneto-
sccpc operators wherever great things
arc hap|»ening. She had one in the
trenches nt Casablanca, another in
Constantinople when the Sultan pro
claimed the constitution, another in
Australia when the American fleet vis
ited that colony. When King Edward
ojienu an exposition the entire perfonn-
fti:<e is recorded by the klnetoscope,
f, d reproduced somewhere else later.
V. erica nnk:-s "current events" films.
he also makes others. Film mak
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A b
Exainpla of
the
Method.
Everybody knows bow a moving pic
ture enmera photographs a ball game
or a prize fight. The film, which is
Just like any other photograph film ex
cept In size, passes over the aperture
through which the exjiosure is made
ut the rate of about 105U pictures to
the minute, recording every motion of
every object within range of the cam
era, while it is passing, and sometimes
consuming half a mile of film in a sin
gle record. But everybody does not
know how the picture of a man who
is run over by an automobile and l>oth
legs cut off, and who afterward re
places his legs and walks away on
them is made, nor how the siren who
calmly swims about under water dur
ing a twenty mluute picture could have
remained below the surface long enough
for the photographs to be taken.
In the case of the man the picture
was made by the “arret," or stop. In
that of the siren tlie "fundu,” or blend.
Is employed. Both of these are French
discoveries, and both are uli impor
tant in the making of any moving pic
ture films that are not strictly record
Aims. In the "arret" the machine is
stop|>ed at some definite point during
the exposure of the film and the shut
ter closed so that registration is im
possible. A change in some portion of
the object being photographed is then
made, after which the operation of the
machine resumed. The "fundu” is pro
duced by a double exposure of one film,
or by doubling the film by superimpos
ing one film u]>on another for repro
duction.
The first Is exemplified by the well-
known picture, the “Happy Accident."
A man falls asleep on the roadside and
while he sleeps a motor car runs over
him and cuts off both legs at the knee.
The motorist discovers his carelessness
too late, but stops his machine at once
and. hurrying back to the injured man.
picks up the severed legs and hands
them to him. The victim of the acci
dent replaces his legs and after shak
ing hands with the motorist walks off
up the road.
Photograph« of the Inipoaaible.
Of course the thing Is lnqiossible.
ridiculously so, but the pictures shown
on the screen are the reproductions of
actual photographs, and the puzzle to
every one who sees the film is how enn
there lie a photograph of a physical
impossibility? The trick is not a diffi
cult one nfter the rigid man is found
to pose for the photograph. A man
who has both legs off nt the knee and
uses artificial legs in their place was
made up to look like unotiier man
with two good legs, aud these two men
changed places in tlie photograph. The
actor comes on the stage first and goes
to sleep by the roadside. The regis
tration of tlie film is then stoped and
tlie man with tlie artificial legs tak<*s
the actor's place, being careful to as
sume exactly the same position as the
actor. Then the machine Is started
again and the picture is made of the
nutomobile coming down the road, run
ning over the sleeping man. the motor
ist getting out and going back and
giving the Injured man nis legs. At
this point the machine Is again stop
ped, the legless man gets out of tlie
wny and the actor takes bls place.
When registration on the film Is re
sumed there is apparently no break in
the scene, and the little tragedy is fin
ished without difficulty. But the ef
fect produced by the two stops is thor
oughly startling to the beholder of the
reproduction.
Fair, Picture«.
One way of producing the blend Is
doubling the filmland this is the meth
od most often adopted when supernat
ural appearances or dlsap[>earances
are depicted. For example, a fairy ap
pears to a child, talks a moment, and
then disappears. First, a film of the
scene, with the child in the foreground.
Is taken, the object being gradually
thrown out of focus as the registration
proceeds. Next, a film of the scene
and the child with the fairy is taken,
out of focus at first and gradually
brought into focus. Then the two films
are placed one upon the other so that
they register exactly, and the result is
the apparent gradual materialization
of the fairy out of nothing. The fairy
is, of course, much smaller than the
child In the picture. In reality they
are about the same size, the apparent
difference being due to their respective
distances from tlrt* camera.
In the cases of apparent defiance of
natifral laws, such as stones running
up hill and Jumping Into open win
dows, or people walking upon the ceil
ings, the effect is produced In a dif
ferent maimer. The exposures are
taken in the usual wny. The stones
fall out of the window and roll down
the hill, and the people walk on tlie
floor like civilized creatures while they
are being photographed. But when the
reproductions nre made the films are
carefully reversed, run backward, as
It were, and the result Is the reversal
of the action part of the picture. Thia
is a simple trick enough, but is hard
to understand unless you have seen It
done, and is one of the most puzzling
e
of all the many illusions of motion pic
tures.
A Girl*« VI s I ob .
"The Errand Girl's Dream" shows
another way of working a little trick
on the audience. In tlie first scene th«
girl is shown leaving her home to gu
to the «hop where she is employed. In
the second scene she is shown at work
in the shop aud afterward starting out
with a big box to deliver some goods
to customers. These two scenes ars
shown with their natural backgrounds,
having been taken without preparatior
in typical sections of Paris. But after
the girl starts on her errands the o;>er-
a tor of the klnetoscope leaves her aud
returns to the theater, where lie Audi
an actress made up to look like her
and a scene painted to represent ths
street through which the girl 1 b likely
to pass.
In tills scene the actress is saunter
ing along the street. 8eeing a bench,
she sits down, places her box beside
her, and is soon lost in day dreams.
Suddenly the box opens aud out of it
conn's a party of fairy creatures who
bow prettily to the girl, and then Jump
ing down, go through a merry dance.
There is more to the story, but this
shows the trick.
When the girl sits down on the
bench tlie film Is stopped while the real
txix Is removed mid a piece of scenery
painted to look like it is uncovered.
This Is opened from within in such a
way that It seems to be o;>ened by the
fairies. The apparently diminutive
size of the fairies Is products] by plac
ing them 30 or 40 feet farther away
from the camera than Is tlie girl, and
as they are seen through the opening
which the spectators regard us the lid
of the box the illusion is complete.
Most of thi'se tricks are accomplish
ed much as similar illusions on the real
stage are produced except that the il
lusion is the more perfect In the mov
ing picture because of the possibilities
of a change of properties which the
“arret” provides, but the ability to set
the scene and produce tlie effect Is
based upon tlie same sort of knowledge
and skill that is required in properly
staging any theatrical iierformance.
MechnnleHl Marvel».
Mechanically, the klnetos ■ope Is be
coming rather well known. The pic
tures nre taken on a sensitized film,
IM» inches wide, and varying In length
from 100 to 1.200 feet. The Alin pass
es in front of an aperture 1 inch by
three-quarters of an Inch In size, stops
dead still for the fractional part of a
second, and passes on, the process be
ing so rapid that at the normal rate of
speed of operating the machine, sixteen
exposures ure made every second of
time.
When these pictures arc reproduced
and passed through tlie machine which
projects then upon tlie screen, they are
usually shown at exactly the same rate
of s|Hi'd at which they were taken, and
thus the natural effect is produced.
In showing tlie pictures the film,
which for reproduction lias been
ebunged from a negative to a positive
and probably colored In the same way
that ordinary lantern slides ure color
ed Is passed from one reel to another
over an aperture of the same size and
shape us that through which the pic
ture wus originally taken, and the en
largement of the projected picture is
accomplished by means of lenses in
front of the picture. Light Is furnish
ed by electricity and. us In nil stereop
ticons, passes through tlie picture Into
the lens, where It Is refracted to form
the great s|sit of light upon the screen.
It is the manipulation of this light
that Is the dangerous feature of mov
ing pictures. The film Is celluloid and
highly explosive, and tlie point of light
that falls upon It Is so intense that if
Iierinltted to rest for a single instant
upon the film, the heat produced will
cause an explosion. While the film le
moving there is no danger, but ft can
not be stopped without danger, unless
the machine is fitted with an auto
matic shutter, which falls over the
nperture as «Min ns tlie crank stops
turning.
Artistically the cinematograph Is de
veloping with amazing rapidity. When
moving picture shows were first ojien-
ed in the cities of this country they
were regarded as a rather low order of
amusement resorts. Already they have
cllmlied several classes, and the char
acter of pictures the best ones are
showing now brings them almost on a
plane with the first-class playhouses.
World*» Output of Metnla.
A German metal company bus com
piled the following facts and figures
nliout the world production of meta's
In 1907:
The production of copper showed a
decrease for the first time In fifteen
years, the total tieing 713,000 tons, of
which the United States produced 421,-
400.
Lead production was about 992.800
tons, of which the United Stutes pro
dm ed 340.700.
Tin mines yielded 98.700 tons; the
consumption was 101,100, of which the
United States used 30.700.
The production of zinc was 738.400
tons—220.838 from the United States
and 208,700 from Germany. The United
States also led In the consumption of
220,838 tons. Germany using 174.900
and Great Britain 140,300.
The nickel production wns 14.100
tons and that of aluminum 19.800 tons.
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