September
BAZAARS OF CAIRO
Mere Time Is Without Value
and Sales Wait on Patience.
2.5, 1013.
FACTS ABOUT BABIES
|8.m. That Surpnaad and On. That
Pleaaed th* Prof.aaor.
I never knew before I bad one."
Mid the professor of phy8|,.s to ti'u
| bachelor assistant, "Just how close’y
I
ARMORER'S TOOLS.
early railroads
,n the Days When
ord
Quite
a
FIRST MILE A
TRAIN.
Very few people are aware that tn
the heart of modern New Y’ork is a
complete armorer's shop, writes E. A.
Stiverkrop lu the American Machinist
It is tn the basement of the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art and is equipped
with a complete outfit of over GOO ar
morer s tools. Many of these are very
old, having descended from uiaster to
man or from fathe* to son through
many generations. Their workman
ship is excellent Where steel faces
have been welded to isou bodies the
welds are clean aud perfect, and the
junction of iron aud steel ts distin
guishable only by the difference ta Ius-
ter of the two metals.
The tempering of the steel faces
seems to be good aud uniform, as nei
ther cracks nor dents are apparent A
cursory glance at these tools will at
once apprise us of the origin of many
of our modern sheet metal workers’
implements. The working faces of all
the tools are highly polished, so that
they do not "grip” the metal being
worked, which it Is free to '‘slide” to
the shape desired by the armorer.
Every collection of ancient armor re
quires technical care for its upkeep.
The objects must be kept free from
rust, occasionally remounted, und from
time to time restorations must be made
to preserve these priceless speclmeus
Iu order to carry out this work the mu-
suetn has arranged the shop referred
to so that these necessary operations
may be curried on. The armorer's
tools ouie belonged to Daniel Tacbaux.
but are now the property of the mu
seum.
Mr. Tachaux brought them
to this country when be came from
Paris Is 1909 to make some repairs iu
the museum's collection of urmor.
The outfit consists of over GOO tools
aud includes nearly 100 kinds of stakes
and it great variety of hammers.
swages, etc.
Making Rec
our science could be applied to a baby
have been astounded at the following
Was
an Event.
true conclusions:
b
BARGAINING
a fine
i “As two similar bodies vary in weight
as the cubes of tbeir dimensions, I BlI1j
MINUTE
relit» *nd t-o«luaci<,u*’ the Ori,nt*1
hat a baby two feet long shoilld we| h
"shopkeeper Will H*ggl* Over th* ! “ “ T‘ «ue ‘"at«enth of a man five
This Honor Wa. Claimed by Two
price of •" Articl* From Dawn Until ! ua ( g n
i0 th’lt’ “* tUe
Road», the Boston and Maine, With
' r »h <“* ur b°dies vary M the *>U8r«
pork—A Sampl* Transaction.
the Locomotive Antelope, and the
of their dimensions, a baby ils t.eforv
Be 1* the selfsame fellow still, the would have about one-sixth the sur
Mohawk and Hudson, With th* Davy
foirene merchant, as in the days of face of the man. So tbe extent of sur
Crockett.
B»roun-al-Rascbld. He squats in cross face proportional to weight lu tbe baby
The first achievements of American
legged contentment ns of yore, amen Is vastly greater than |u the udu)t
able only to the loquacious system of fact, a square foot of tbe baby's skin railroading are, lu the greater number
bargaining dear to the heart of the would shield Just one-third the sub of cases, lost in the obscurity of tradi
oriental- The western tourist, foolish- stance or what a square foot would on tion, and there has sprung up a host
of Interesting stories that go the
U regarding time as of value, will lose an adult
“Arguing from this and knowing rounds like Homeric tales. Tbe honor
di equanimity long before be has com
that tbe rate of cooling of a solid de of having created a record or a custom
pleted the smallest transaction. If his
pends on tbe extent of surface, I found that Is now commonplace has had
knowledge of the east and bis patience
that a baby got cold quicker or wariu many claimants In nearly every In
,office aud he begins negotiations early
quicker when exposed to a fire than a stance.
enough In the day not to be driven
man; also, as any living body Is high
Take the first train to run a mile a
forth as the merchant sets up his shut
er iu temperature than tbe surrounding minute. The Antelope, an engine on
ters nt nightfall be may obtain the ar
air and has to lose heat continually—
ticle he seeks nt a just and equitable
the Boston and Maine railroad, accord
tbe rate of loss depending on the sur
price. If be gains possession of It in
face—It Is readily seen that a baby, In ing to one of the most cherished of
less than the accustomed time be will
these legends, [lulled the first train
certainly have paid more than its mar order to keep up normal temperature, that made this record. Her run was
has to furnish more beat in proportion
ket value.
between Boston and Lawrence, a dis
Vagamundo, the western traveler ex to Its weight thun man. and therefore
tance of twenty-six miles, and one
perienced In the ways of the enst, has to eat more lu proportion 4o Its
citebes sight during a stroll through weight than man. To prove that a day In 1848 she Is said to have made
the bazaars of an Arabic blade that baby gives out an enormous amount her last fourteen miles In thirteen min
takes his fancy. It bangs high at the of heat, keep tbe heat from escaping utes.
But ft Is just aS earnestly upheld
top of the open booth, on the raised by wrapping a heavy blanket around
floor of which serenely squuts the pro it. In a half an iiour the temperature that the Davy Crockett of tbe Mohawk
prietor, with folded legs. Vagamundo, under the corer will be almost unbear and nudson railroad has this distinc
is from the merest curiosity, pauses able to the band, and the baby will be tion. The Davy Crockett was tbe
to run his eye over the countless ar found covered with sweat
pride of the road in her day. It is said
“Tbe same knotty problem comes up
ticles. suggests with n half stifled
that her engineer, David Matthew,
yawn that the scimitar looks like what when tbe baby is bathed. You know loved her better than he did Ills fam
might be a convincing weapon in the yourself now cool you feel when you ily. But she reached the pinnacle of
binds of an enemy, ventures to hope bathe in a cold room In warm water, her fame locally when In 1832, six
that the merchant is enjoying flue but in very little of it. so that most of teen years before the Antelo[>e wus
weather aud strolls leisurely on. The your wet body is out of tbe water on heard of, according to tills other story,
ihopkeepcr continues to puff drowsily account of the boat of your body being she covered n fourteen mile straight
RECESSION
GLACIERS.
it his water bottle until the western taken to evaporate the water? Tbe away level stretch between Albnny
Northern Ice Fields That Once Met the
er!* all but out of earshot. Then be ap baby suffers much worse ou account and Schenectady in thirteen minutes
Sea Are Now Inland.
pears suddenly to awuke and driffies of that same big proportion of surface. nnd mnde oue stop for water besides.
“But I find oue encouraging thing In A letter written by Matthew In that
Some attention is being directed to
out a languid Invitation to return.
Vigamundo pays no heed to the sum this peculiar geometrical problem of year mentions having done better than the fact that the Muir glacier is disin
mons for some moments, gazes ab- tbe human form. I find that If a dress a mile a minute with her on several tegrating along Its face, and there Is
some speculation ns to how long it will
stractedly upon the wares displayed Is made for my little daughter two occasions.
In another booth, then wanders slowly feet high und one for her mother five
Running an engine at a mile a min continue to present a great nttrnctlon
back. The merchant hopes that the feet high. It takes only one-sixth the ute in those days was mnny times to tourists. No oue can answer this,
traveler is enjoying the best of health, cloth to do it. although the dresses more dangerous than it Is now. Three- of course, for the causes of the unusu
invites him to squat in the bit of were made in exactly the same style." quarters of a century ago the rails al movement nre not known. Neither
apace not already occupied by himself —Lawrence Hodges lu Chicago Rec- were light strips of Iron spiked down Is It known with any certainty for bow
or his wares, offers a cigarette and ord-Herald.
to all sorts of ties. There were no tie long a time this great ice mass has pre
falls to discussing the state of the cot
or fish plates then, and in hot weather seated his appearance, which made it
ton crop in the delta. By the time the
especially the sleepers and the rails famous.
Big and Little Ships.
Assuming that the earliest charts of
lecond cigarette Is lighted he turns the
Speaking of the problem of unsinka would warp in the torrid sun and pull
the coast are correct—and there is
conversation deftly to the scimitar and ble ships, the New York Commercial apart
remarks that though It is bung among says:
Not infrequently the ends of the light every reason to suppose they are—
bls wares rather for ornament than
rails
would curve upward from the there have been very remarkable re
“Few people outside of practical
for sale It is possible be may some shipbuilders and navigators understand track, forming the much dreaded cessions of glaciers along the Atlantic
day tire of beholding it and part with the difference between a large vessel “snake heads” which were the horror coast during the last century, so that
It for-perhaps 1,000 plnsters. Vaga and a small one In point of structural of engineers and passengers alike. Ice fields that formerly came down to
mundo, puffing reminiscently for a strength. The strongest vessel that Many tales are told of “snake heads" the sea are now a considerable dis
time, recalls having heard a friend ex floats in the water Is a common row springing up under the jolting train, tance from it As. we understand, the
press a desire to obtain such a weap boat. One can take an ordinary row p.erclng the flimsy car floors and Im earlier charts do not indicate the post
on for, say, 75 plasters or so and boat and carry It by the ends or It can paling passengers in their seats. L’ntll tlon of Muir glacier, so there are no
wonders, after all, why that friend rest on cleats under each end without a remedy was found for these “snake means of telling if it has receded.
The cause of the recession of glaciers
should care for so useless an article. breaking in the middle. But the heads" by using better fastenings and
The shopkeeper regrets that the two strongest man-of-war or ocean liner more seasoned ties a large force of Is not fully understood, but It seems to
Imply an average amelioration of the
prices named do not more nearly coin that floats today would break In two men was continually employed to walk
climate. Glaciers are fed from snow
cide, trusts that the inundations will if subjected to a similar strain. The the tracks aud nail them down.
fields, and If they become smaller only
Broken
car
wheels
were
uuotber
ever
not he so late this year as last and larger a vessel the weaker it becomes
one of two explanations seems possl
reaches again for the tube of hfs nar in this respect, and for this reason present danger In those remote days.
lile. Either the snowfall in the higher
ghile. Vagamundo expresses his de many apparently good Ideas which The present standard gauge ts said to
levels must have diminished or ttie
light that the kbedive has recovered work out well in model form have fail have been originally established by
temperature In the lower levels has
from his recent attack, thanks the ed utterly when applied to large ves taking the distance between the
wheels of the carts used on English grown higher. 1 here are several ren
merchant for his disinterested hospital sels.”
highways.
For the snme reason, ap sons for supposing that the climate of
ity nnd saunters away.
parently. the first rolling stock was the north Pacific lone Is becoming
The shortest Instant before he Is
Billions of Beans.
gradually warmer, although the change
finally lost from view In the surging
“Beans —what do you know about equipped not with solid wheels, but Is very gradual. Sir Charles Lyell, the
itream of bazaar loungers he is called beans, even In New England?" writes with cast iron models of the wooden famous geologist. In one of Ids Iss.ks
back to learn that the merchant is of an American from Manchuria. “Come wagon wheel, though of smaller di speaks of the breaking away of a great
the opinion that the new land tax will to Dairen and see the beau mills which ameter. These were not submitted to Ice barrier near Greenland, which oc
vork more effectively than the old. turn out G3.090.000 pounds of bean otl tbe drop test that Is now universal curred. If we are not mistaken. In 184C>,
ttat the scimitar is probably worth only In a year and over 10.000.000 t>e:in and were of a dangerously light pat and says it was one of the most sig
piasters and that some of the cakes, weighing about sixty five pound* tern. Tbe result was that often Inte nificaut events In the modern history
rior defects in the casting would pas*
rucnlyptus trees In the Esbekleh gnr- each
Some beans! The benn cake,
of the world.—Victoria Colonist
J»ns are to be removed. With all from which the oil has been extracted, unnoticed until the wheel broke and
the
train
was
ditched.
It
took
a
bad
1«e respect to Cromer Pasha Vaga- goes for the most part to Japan, which
Kan*** City Star.
■undo doubts the practicability of bis country received last year about nine- accident, in which a number of peo
A man once arrived at Kansas City
lest scheme of taxation and hopes tenths of the product Japan also took ple were killed, so runs the tradition, with a terrible pain under his belt
I
at bls friend may somewhere run over 100.000 tons of beaus In natural to bring about tbe testing of car
"Go for n doctor,” »aid the sufferer,
*wsa such a scimitar at 100 plasters.
form. Sume
Some beans!
beaus!"
”—New York Trib-
Trib wheels by tapping them.
Real time saving In running train* "and go quickly.”
'‘:ls the transaction continues; a une.
"What kind of a doctor do you
____ _
did not begin until 1851. Charles Mi
“lrd. a fourth, even a fifth time Vaga-
want?" Inquired the messenger. "We
not, superintendent of the Erie railroad,
“nndo returns. By the sixth visit be
Champion Mean Man.
was one of those given credit for in have all kinds — allopath, homeopath,
8 dropped tbe fiction of a friend and
"My busbaud is a very mean man augurating telegraph signal* for the bydropath. osteopath”—
’P»niy offers 225 plasters for the blade, ____ some things.” complained the
"Ob,” cried the traveler in bl* agony,
about
handling of trains.
8hoPkeeP®r arouses himself wife to the woman around the corner.
He was in the cab of a passenger "any path will do! All path* lead to
clently to take the weapon down "He has a deaf ear, and every time
train one day. so the story goe*. There the grave.’’—Kansas City Star.
w aspection and expresses a willing- try to call him down he acta as ir be
were no double track railroads In those
to P“tt with it for 275.
A Mixed Quartet
didn’t hear me."
days, and train* had to lie out on rid
“That's certainly provoking, said tne ings and wait for the train bound in
newly rolled cigarettes the ne-
Among other curious thing* 1 have
•h»aU°n Procee(f*> now touching upon neighbor "But one of his ears 1» good. the opposite direction to come along. heard was a quartet sung slmulta
rt¡Ll*CTllleu<'e of ophthalmln, «non Why don’t you talk Into that?
However long tbe delay, tbe train on neously in four languages, writes a
“He won't tell me which it ts, wall
m
tPe matter of scimitars, tbeir
reminiscent contributor to the New
the siding waited.
Hm?>,Ctnre Rnd Pr'ce- 8peaklng of ed the wife.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
On this particular occasion Minot* York Sun. It was Clara Louise Kel
fur»/™' tt>e merchant suspects that
train took it* siding. The operator at logg's company in "Martha." Miss
t* one in hand be would be satls-
Honest Child.
the little country station .trolled over, Kellogg sang in English. Brtgnoll in
“Since you worked your example* SO remarking that the train In the oppo Italian, a German woman In German
at 250 Plasters. Vaga-
lays that aum—which both nicely,” said the pretty teacher, "I site direction bad got .tailed on the and a Frenchman in French. The au
from the beginning as the shall give you a kiss”
grade some fifty miles down the line dience never noticed the confusion of
ira 1 c5~on ,he
between them,
•Teacher, I didn't know there was to Ld that It would be two or three tongues.
’Ps hl* newly acquired property be a reward."
I," responded
the honest lwurs p^re she could patch up her
t
It's only fair to tell you that leaky flue* and get power enough to
frien^iu1^ Protestations of lifelong urchin. “
Just th* Reverse.
“It's
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„ „. ,
"Resting the sword into a plow
Ikk-. ‘Ip ,rum tbe mercbnnt, take* my big brother did them sum*. -I Rt> climb tbe hill
. .
“"«Parture.
Minot wa* In a hurry, and be derided share T' Inquired the tourist pleasantly
fI^achester business men and Cbl- burgb Post.
to telegraph down the line that the as be baited at the door.
"Beating a plowshare into a sword,"
train he wa* on would not wait at the
5T,ptaln8 oi industry, scorning
Took Her Time.
“Thought you were going a»a? »• dding but would proceed—for station responded the energetic blacksmith
the mlll| 11 metbods, have dived Into
igents to w«tcb out for the other train "1 manufacture war relics.” — I-oul*
Mtb
roD1 of ibe bazaar* of Cairo
•Wouldn't buy a ticket"
;ind have It wait on tbe riding neareri rille Courier Journal.
«vowed intention of "doing
•ad th
af,er <he manner of today
“Nonsense The ticket office 1» ner -he R[>ot where they would meet The
inrineer refused point blank to take
Successful Opening.
We,t: but all in vain. The er closed "
h wla_ (nr sorb risk, wylng that It wa.
Reas—Jack said last night that call
tTtnr*.’h'’pll<*Per Will hurry In bls
“No; but there was
'ahead of me.' -Washlngtoo Her i«|n.t all railroad law «nd custom. Ing on me was Ilk* witnessing a beau
th* ao] °n’ fur no mot tai man. Let
Wtaot finally discharged bUn. P«t bim Hful drama Teas- What did yon aay?
'■»oarr ’atlDK "esterner press his mer- dow
J lbe engine »n<l ran tbe train b n>- Bess-1 gave him a season pass and
t»,., ‘ *ult ,0° forcibly and he dis- aid.
.elf to the end of the division, keeping told him I hoped the play would end
h, hl" 8nrprlM' ,nd Perhaps
“ uMTapb at «eb *tatk,n
Ha» • Or««* F'*’A
happily.—Chicago Record Herald
,f th*
* ’lismny. that th* merchant
nigglna-Our old classmate. Whls- iTervtblng worked oot Ju»t as t>. bad
JSow
is
he
retting
Hirns
n
liter.
.**8t Splays his wares and
Loned n„d wa. so «tl.faetory that
Urwvdded.
• twr—Z
among them merely as tllrej He should he do.ng pretty
£ at once Ina .rotated . sy^em of
Teacher fln grammar cfaasl— Wbat 1»
H.badsonv-lvanln.ug.nsttam
4, tu*, ° ,D<I amusement and that
.11 train, on tel*<r,ph
I m ."n of **Hing anything Is far- -„-Oh he's doing
nmtr -Thadden* 8. Dayton in CWca<o Bee- a singular pmnoun. Johnny?
Johnny—One that Isn't married yet-
ISn-k, m hl’ thoughts.—Harry A. He'* spc bi izing m *««-
Herald.
Judge.
* *n Century.
rlesi men -Chicago New.
as
art .
FREAKISH PHOTOS
Fin* Relic* of Ancient Time* In N*w
York’* Art Muitum.
I
OF
* 7,nI* *n another Is more
‘to be fanltless oneself
8and
The true way to confi -,’r
/net,
to
A
yuurwlf
Old S»)!“i
w-KM* «n«elf
** ,b*.
< .tre: gth the basis of conaulatiori.-
Marcus Allied ^a-
I
Ne. renine la not inspiration. Genius
la perspiration TLvtiias Edison
GRASS LINED BOOTS.
Th*y Ar* Worn by th* Nomadio Lappa.
Who Navor Get Cold Foot.
While civilized utan suffers Intensely
from cold feet every winter, the Lap
lander, living in the far north of Eu
rope. has no such trouble. A traveler
writes: “Their boots are made of rein-
leer skin and are worn very large, and
TRICK OF
GHOST FAKE. tbe
toes are pointed and curve upward
io as to be easily slipped Into their skis.
“Spook” and “Vision” Pictures Only The Lapp usually tills bis boots halt
Requir* a Little Care and Simple full with a peculiar green grass, into
Apparatus, and It I* Easy to Photo which be thrusts bls naked feet. He
theu packs the boots full with more
graph a Man Insida a Pint Bottl*.
grass, tucks the ends of his trousers
Moonlight effects in photography are inside and bluds them tightly round
generally gained by trickery.
Of with many turns of a brightly woven
course It Is possible to take photo braid. With these precautions they
graphs by moonlight, the exposure va never suffer from cold feet, and chil-
rying from thirty minutes to two ' blalns, corus or such like civilized com
plaints are an unknown horror to
hours. The results, however, are rare
them.”
ly satisfactory, owing to the move
Concerning other customs the same
ment of the shadows producing a writer say*: "The Lappa are essen
blurred effect In the finished print To tially a nomadic race and spend most
obtaiu a moonlight picture of the ap of tbeir lives wandering fancy free
proved sort—a tiue cloud effect with among the wild and glorious scenery
tile moon casting a long Hue of bril of tbeir northern home. However, at
liant light ujioii water—special prepara times no doubt the stillness of the
tions must be made.
frozen mountains becomes too still,
A rather cloudy sunset must lie aud they turn their herds and start
chosen. Then when the sun drops low toward tbeir nearest meeting place.
on the horizon and is partly obscured Twice a year they hold these general
by the cloud bank one seizes the op gatherings—at Easter nnd midsummer
portunity to secure a snapshot (tlie —when they congregate and hold a
leus being well “stopped down”) right general fair. It ts on these occasions
into the eye of the light. The plate that they celebrate their weddings and
thus obtained should be slightly un funerals. The revelries Inst only about
derdeveloped. If nil has gone well the ten days, but many marriages take
resulting uegntlve will supply a picture place between couples who perhaps
exactly resembling a moonlight effect have never met previously.
nnd by carefully gumming u small cir
“As soon ns a Lapp enn afford to buy
cle of opaque paper upon the film one enough reindeer for himself he leaves
is able to print out the “moon” Into the parental tent takes n wife and
the bargain.
roams away wherever bls heart or
Photographs In which the snow ap reindeer dictates. There nre no social
pears to be falling are usually produc distinctions In Lapland. Should a man
ed by artificial means, if the subject
have no reindeer or possibly have lost
Is to be a portrait the sitter should be
what he had he travels with a rich
garbed appropriately aud placed be
man and helps him tend the herd, but
fore a wintry background. « When the
be Ilves and feeds with them In tbe
negative is obtained It should be dried
satno tent and ts quite on a social
nnd well varnished, then placed flat
e<inallty until lie cau afford to start off
upon a table with the film sldo upper
with his own herd.”—Chicago News,"
most. Take a soft toothbrush charged
with rather thick India ink nnd car
mine mixed up with water nnd draw
VENGEANCE.
It over the teeth of the comb, which
should be held some little distance It's a Perlloua Mattar to Endangsr th*
from the negative. If this operation
Lif* of a Sultan,
is carefully managed the result will be
Within two weeks after the assas
an irregular spattering of the pigment sination of Mnhmud Rhefket I'nsha,
upon the vnrulshed film, nnd when this the grand vizier of Turkey, thlrty-two
Is dry n print will be produced which men were put to death for taking part
looks just ns though the negative had In tlie conspiracy. According to Tur
been taken In a snowstorm.
kish custom handed down from tho
Photographs of the class In which time of Mohammed, thero la no limit
ghosts or visions appear mny be “ink as to the number of lives that may be
ed” in several wnys. The first of these taken as a penalty for the murder of
may be described in the duplicate ex one man. Even those Interested In
posure method. Suppose, for example, tho remotest degree are liable to the
we wish to photograph a man lUBide a sultan's vengeance It Is not so much
bottle which will hold no more than a the number the ruler of Turkey ts au
pint of liquid. To accomplish this ap thorized to put out of the way, but
parently impossible feat proceed as rather where the line is to be drawn.
follows: First photograph the bottle
Tbe Turks have a story of one of
standing upon a dull black support and the earlier successors of Mohammed
with similar background. While fo whose life was only endangered be
cusing take enre to mark out what will cause of a rock tailing down a decliv
be the bottle’s boundaries on the plnte ity near which the sultan was riding
Half n dozen of
by fixing little pieces of gummed paper with Ills retinue.
to the ground glass screen of the cam those In charge of tho trip were put to
era. Then get your man to stand or death a* an ordinary matter of course,
sit In a chair upon a black cloth with then half a dozen more who might
a smooth black curtain behind him have remotely known something about
Focus upon him so that he falls within the facilities afforded by tho road for
the boundaries of the bottle, this be killing the sultan Finally all the mem
Ing easily managed by means of the bers of a secret club or lodge were or
gummed pnper guides. Finally expose dered executed because It was ascer
the plate which has already been used tained that one of the responses to a
to photograph the bottle, nnd wlieu password was “YY'lll you roll down tbe
ibis Is developed your friend will duly stone?"
Despite tho protestations of the club
appen r—Inside.
Tlds method will be found In prac members that the words had no signifi
tice to explain many pictures which at cance at nil nllh respect to the sultan
first seem very astonishing. To make or the sultan's trip along the road, they
a “vision fake” urrange a little scene, were ordered to the scaffold. They
such as a bare room with an empty numbered I1H In all and died bravely,
hearth, with your model sitting list assuring tln lr executioner» to the very
lessly tn the foreground. Make your last that they were InnocenL Later a
first exposure on this scene, being care eunuch who told how the falling of the
ful to mark out on the ground glass r<s k was merely an accident wa* also
screen the space Into which the vision put to death for daring to say so.—New.
must fall. A dark curtain or dark York Run.
Moonlight Effects Obtained by
Taking the Sun.
THE
TURKISH
I
woodwork should occupy tills space
In the first picture, Now procure n
sheet of dead black pnper. mount It
evenly upon stiff card and with a little
Chinese white sketch out an. appropri-
ate vision.
If you cannot do this yourself get
an artist friend to bejp you, but see
that the sketch is placed in the correct
spot—i. *., the spot which you have
arranged for it to occupy In the finish
ed picture. When the sketch ts finish
ed set it up before the camera, focus
and see that it falls within the requir
ed boundary upon the screen. Then
expose again the plate which ha* al
ready done duty and-if no miscalcula
tions have been made—an interesting
“vision" picture will result ,
The ghost "fake" may be made in
exactly the same way, only in this
case an appropriate scene would be a
deserted churchyard, with your model
[losing In an aweatruck attitude be-
side a tomb. In all photographs of
tills kind the render should bear tn
mind that a dead black background
does not appreciably affect the sensl
tiled plate, but a show plate should be
used whenever this is possible, as by
this means any slight tendency to
"fog" will be obviated. — Bcleritific
American.
Killad by Light.
Those who have studied the strange
Inhabitants of tbe Mammoth cave lu
Kentucky say that the celebrated
blind fish from that cavern when
placed In Illuminated aquaria seek out
tbe darkest places, aud ft la believed
that light is directly fatal to them, for
they soon die If kept in a brightly
lighted tank. Tlie avoldanco of light
seems to be a general characteristic of
the sightless creatures dwelling in the
great cave.
Starting Something.
"While you are tn asking papa for
my band In marriage, Philip, I'll be
playing something lively on tbe piano,"
said the sweet young thing.
“No. I wouldn't do that, Jessica,” re
plied the young man.
“You know
some people can't keep their feet still
when they hear lively music.”—Yon
kers Statesman.
gom*tlm*s Th*y Ar* Wrong.
”A woman never admits that she
wsa wrong.”
“I don't know about that" replied
Mr. Mcekton
“A number of them
leern [>artl<'Ularly anxious to prove that
they showed pretty poor judgment In
•electing husband*."—Washington Star.
Plain Talk From Homs.
"I ought to l>e supremely happy,” the
youth wrote to the home people. “1
don't see much business abend, but I
have my diploma nnd my books.”
Whereupon the "old tnuu" wrote
him:
"Put the dlplomy In a frame, make s
pillow of tbs books, then rise up early
and hit some good hard licks for three
square meals a day.”—Atlanta Coustl
tutton.
Great rntnd* ar* wills, others only
■ Labes.-German Proverb.
i
Enough to Make Him Ravo.
“What I* the editor of the health
hint* department raring about?”
“A rich woman writ« that she gives
private moving picture show* In her
tiome. and ahe want* to know If they
will Injur* her poudle's eyes.”—Ulr-
mtngliam Age Herald.
Ito Limitation*.
A sweet dlapoeltton la « great Insti
tution a* a general thing, although of
little ao<l*tance In driving mules.—
AlchUvu Giube.