Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1894, Page 19

{HE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1894—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES, 19 MASK AND WIG CLUB An Organization Among the Students of Columbian University. THE OPERA DOROTHY TO BE PRODUCED Something About the Club and Its Energetic Officers. MUSICAL YOUNG MEN Pens aan ee cree AST WINTER ONE of the favorite topics of conversation among a fev of the students’ at the Co- lumbian University was the proposed formation of a glee lab. These conversations gave place during t following summer to definite p A temporary organiza- tin was eifected with Mr. Frank H. Hitchcock as president, Mr. S. Hazen Bond as secretary, and Mr. Walter R. Hensey as treasurer. Upon these three mea fell the brunt of the work pre- -Uminary to organization, and to their tire- less efforts and untounded enthusiasm the success of the project is largely attribut- able. Prof. N. Du Share Cloward was consulted, and many of the students of the university were approached with a view to securing their support of the organization should it e fermed. On xccount of the absence of many of the students from the city during the summer mofths it was not possible to make a great deai of progress in securing new rembers. During all this time, however,the promoters were busily et gaged in pianning out the de- tails of the organization and preparing for a vigorous campaign upon the resump- tion of work at the university. It was decided to breaden the scope of jon by making it a “mask and wig club” instead of the cidinary glee clud. About the time the coulegiate year at the university opened a meeting of all those who were in any way interested in the or- ganization was called, and a permanent er- ~— Frank H. Hitehcock. &anizaticn effected, by means of the adop- tion of a constitution and the election of the following officers: President. Frank H Hitchcock; vice president, Alan O. Cle- bhane; corresponding secretary, S. Hazen Bond; recording secretary, Ed.’ H. Parry; treasurer, Walter R. Hensey. It was decided to defer the election of a board of tors until two weeks later. At that time the club met_and elected the following, who, with the officers of the-club, constitute its ruling body: Messrs. M. D. Hensey, R. R. Upton, John B. Sleman, jr. H. H. Westcott, Dr. N. Willis Pomeroy, Dr. F. P. Morgan, Dr. Chas. J. Hopkins, A. V. Gana, W. 8. Woodford and W. W. Grier. The bourd of dirttors met and decided at once to secure the services of Prof. Cloward as director and to instruct him to proceed immediately to put the organization in train- ing for the public ‘production of the opera ‘Dorothy.”* The instructions have been carried out, and rehearsals are now being held at stated intervals, marked progress being made by the club. The opera “Dorothy,” which has been se- lected for the first performance, {s especially adapted for the purpose. It has, in addition to a great deal of well-written music, four different dances. To use a stage term, the opera will be played “straight”—that 1s, the female parts assigned to men will be as sincerely rendered as thoush they were being sung by female voices. ‘I'he dances will be under the diree- tion of Prof. Vermilya, and satisfactory progress has already been made. Every de- tail been carefully thought out, and everyt peints to the successful rendition of the club's first effort. A number of ladies prominent in social circles have become in- terested in the organization, and their names will appear upon the list of patronesses. The house for the first performance will be iption. The faculty and trus- university have extefled every [oon by sul sof th Alan 0. Clephane. facility to the new organization and have evinced a lively Interest in its welfare. Mr. Robert H. Martin, secretary and treasurer of the wniversity, has been especially helpful to the promoters of this exemplification of college spirit. The business management of an organiza- tion of the size of the Columbian University Mask a ‘ig Club entails no small amount . but it Is the universal opinion of vs of the club that the “right in the right places.” Mr. Frank H. Hitehcock, who has been honored with the presidency of the organi- zation, rhaps the’ best-known student in Columbian University. Mr. Hitchcock was bora at Amherst, Ohio, October 5, 1867. The greater portion of his life, how- ever, has been spent at Boston, Mass. He is of Puritan ancestry, one of his great ndfathers being the eminent scholar, r. Charles Chauncy, the second president of Harvard College. Mr. Hitchcock was graduated from Harvard in the class of 1801, receiving the degree of A. B. with honors. He came to this city the same year, and im the fall of "¥2 entered the junior class of Columbian University Law School. After the usual! course he graduated with the class of “Jt last June, receiving the degree of Li... with honorable mention. He ts the studies of the post grad- the law school. senior year Mr. Hitchcock to represent the students of rtment on the st of speakers anual banquet of the Columbian Alumni Association, the first or has been accorded to an He was also chairman of amittee representing all the classes of the law schools, to arrange for the par- his ticipation of the students in the joint de- bates with Georgetown Law School, and fm this connection he devised the Colum- Dian ch Li has since been adopted by commen conscat. He is a prominent member of the Marshall Chapter of the Pht Delta Phi Fraternity, Baving served In the offices of tribune and ‘cri 1 holding at the present time the Position of consul, the presiding officer of the chapter. Mr. Hi was admitted to the bar of the Suneome Court of the District of Co- Bumbia June 30, 1894. He ts employed at Present in the division of statistics, Agri- eultural I artment. Mr. Hitchcock's ex- eeptional executive abtlity and hearty inter- @st insure the best possible fulfliment of the duties devolving upon him as the eaecutive officer of the new organization. The vice president, Mr. Alan O. Clephane, is a Washingtonian. He is a son of Mr. Lewis Clephane and was born Occober 26, 1874. His early education was secured at S. Hazen Bond. the Friends’ Select Schocl, but in the fall of 1889 he entered the second year of the Washington High School, graduating from that institution in the class of "DL. In October, 1803, he registered at the Co- lumbian Law School and is now pursuing his studies in that institution as a grave and end senior. He finds time between the sessions of the law school to spend about eight hours a day in the law office of his brother, Mr. Walter C, Clephane. His inter- Ed. 4. Parry. est in the welfare of the Mask and Wig Club is very evident to any one who en gages in conversation with him. ’ It is due to the corresponding secretary of the club, Mr. S. Hazen Bond, to say ghat he is to be credited with many of the de- tails of the plans for the organization. Mr. Bond received his early education in the public schools of this city, and since that time has been engaged mm scientific re- search in the department of conchology of the Smithsonian Institution. He received the degree of LL.B, at the law school last June and is now pursuing the post gradu- ate coyrse of study. Mr. Bond has figured: prominently for several years in amateur musical ynd éra- matic circles, having been one of the char- ter members of the Capital Glee Club and the old Washington Mask and Wig Club. He has thus had more experience in mat- ters pertaining to organizations of this character than any other member of the board of directors. Mr. Ed. H. Parry, the recording secre- tary, was born at Hartford, Conn. He at- tended school in his native city, also in the southern part of Canada, in Philadelphia and in Washington. About four years ago, after leaving the Washington High ScMool, he entered the offices of Gen. R. G. Dyrenforth as stenog- rapher, and there commenced to read lew. In 1892 he entered the Columbian Univer- sity law school and graduated with the class of "M4. He was admitted to the tar last June. While living in Philadelphia, he sang in the choir of Grace Episcopal Churct. of that city, and has also sung in St. John’s Church of this city. As a student of Co- W. R. Hensey. lumbian University he has taken an ac- tive part in all movements toward the pro- motion of college enthusiasm, and has striven ardently for the succeas of the Mask and Wiz Club. Mr. Walter R. Hensey, who will carry the checkbook of the club, is a native of Washington, and well known in its social and business circ Graduating from the High School in 1891, he entered the Columbian University Law School in the fall of '92, graduating last June as LL. B., and was admitted toethe Washington bar in June of this year. He !s pro consul of the Marsha!l Chapter of the Phi Delta Phi Fraternity. Mr. Hensey alsu cccupies the hororable position of president ef the class of "D1, Washington High School. As treasurer of the organization, Mr. Hensey has rendered much valuabie service His legal preferences are in the line of the study of the law relating to real property. He is conrected with the firm of Thos. G. Hensey & Co., real estate brokets. a STRANGE SPIDER. Lives in a White Web an His Colo; From the St. Loais Globe-Democrat. “Tt has always been a hobby of mine, said T. L. Grimshaw of Raleigh, N. C., “to collect strange bugs and insects during my travels, and I think I have succeeded in getting together a pretty choice collection. Of the whole assortment I think the cham- eleon spider, which I got last summer on the coast of Africa, is the most valuable. The capture of this insect was highly in- teresting to me. One afternoon, while tramping along a dusty road, I noticed in the bushes which grew along the side what appeared to be a singuiar looking white flower with a blue center. Stopping to ex- amine it, I found, to my astonishment, that it was not a flower at all, but a spider's web, and that the suppored light blue heart of the flower was the spider itself, lying in wait for its prey. “The mottled brown legs of the spider were extended In such a Way as to resem- ble the divisions between the petals of a flower. The web itself, very delicately woven into a pattern, was white, and the threads that suspended it from the bushes were so fine as to be almost Invisible. The whole thing had the appearance of being suspended in the air upon a stem concealed beneath. Upon knocking the spider from His perch into the white gauze net which I carried, my surprise was greatly increased upon seeing my captive instantly turn in color from blue to white. I shook the net and again the spider changed color, this time its body becoming a dull greenish brown. As often as I would shake the net just so often would the spider change its color, and I kept it up until {t had assumed about every hue of the rainbow.” pulbizuit cath sarin She Had Heard Enough. From the Chicago Daily Tribune. “Alfred, where have you been?” sharply asked Mrs. Billiwink, putting her night- capped head out of an upper window. “Been down to battery D,” answered Mr. Billiwink on the porch below, speaking slowly and with care. “Just so. What's going on at battery D?” Why—why, you know, m'dear.” I know. What's going on at bat- same thing, y’ know, that th’ was “What's going on at battery D7?” “The Poor Feud Exposish—I mean the Fure Pude—no, the Pood Fure expo——" “I knew it,” exclaimed Mrs. Billiwink, drawing her head tn again. “You can go out to the woodshed and sleep It off.” PERILS OF THE SEA Inventive Genius to the Aid’ of Distressed Mariners, SOME OF THE ABSURD DEVICES All Are Considered by the Life- Saving Service Board. THEY ARE NOT PRACTICAL SALE ETRES seed Written for The Evening Star. N ORDER THAT e I the surfmen who pa- trol our beaches, ready to lend their assistance to dis- tressed mariners,may bave at their com- mand the most effi- cient apparatus in- ventive genius can suggest, a board on life-saving appli- ances, appointed by the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, 1s con- nected with @he life-saving Service, and sonvenes, upon the call of the president, about once a year to consider the merits of all boats, ayparatus or methods which may be presented to them with a view to adoption in that service if found practi- cable. This board makes public tests of the apparatus presented for adoption, and their report is embodied in the annual report of the ‘ife-saving service for the year in which the investigations were made. Many valuable suggestions are brought to the attention of the board which se- cure for the use of the service strong lines and effective gear. But some of the schemes ard apparatus offered in good faith are so ridiculously absurd as to re- quire but a very short report, and the de- cision 1s “found impracticable,” the board being good enough to “cut his throat with a feather,” in order that timid genli, with meritorious apparatus, may not be unduly discouraged or frightened at the decision made upon these devices, and thereby de- terred from presenting something which might be of incalculable value to human- ity. bi ‘One of the peculiar facts ascertained by the investigations of the board is that those who are probably most apt to submit mod- els’ and descriptions are those who know least about the real dangers and conse- quent needs of a stranded or stranding ves- sel. Some of the conceptions of the inland residents are truly marvelous. Some Ingenious Schemes. The subject easily divides itself into three heads: Boats for going out through the surf, apparatus for effecting communica- tion between the shore and stranded ves- sels, and means for preventifg strandings. The devices to be considered as coming first are, most naturally, those to prevent strandings, and only recently a scheme was presented in which the government was urged to stretch a very large cable the entire length of the coast, some distance from the shore) anchored ‘with mushroom enchors. Thus, if a vessel were dragging her anchor she would float over this cable toward the rocks, until the flukes of her anchor engaged with the cable, where she would be held safe and sound. No provision is made for preventing the parting of her chains, however. But. the scheme of stretching a large cable from Maine to Mexico, and stringing thereon mushroom anchors, like bangles on a neck- lace, will hardly meet the approval of Con- gress, Another dangercus friend of the mariner is the man who advocates a somewhat dif- ferent arrangement for helping drifting ves- sels. He propores that the government shall locate scme of its la2yest rifles In ad- vantageous yositions upon dangerous por- tions of the ecast. These guns are to be loaded, not with shells, but with folded an- chors and anchor chains. At the discharge of the rifle the anchor unfolds and drops into the sea beyond the vessel with the chain crossing her bows. The crew are now supposed to make the chain fast and so ride out the storm safely by the aid of these additional anchors thrown her from shore. k Some Curious Boats. Another amateur submits sketches and drawings, minus the pretty painted model, however, of a boat intended to run simply by opening a gate valve in two large longi- tudinal tubes which open fore and aft be low the water line. The valves are op when the beat is launched, and the water rushes into the forward intake, and passes cut at the stern, The water, passing out, pushes the boat forward, and the intake helps relieve the resistance on the bows so that the boat, of course, is propelled by the water passing through these tubes. The boat thus goes on forever, through the surf most speedily, becavse the water is driven out through the stern most forcibly in a boisterous sea. T) stop the boat the valves closed. “TXnothe: bright man with a less cumber- some contrivance, although the action is as hard, or harder, to understand, suggests a lifebcat or liferaft built upon the exact model of a window shutter or blind, arguing that the water, operating upon the slats, will set them vibrating, and that this vibra- tion, by its action upon its own motive force, will cause the boat to work forward against wind and tide. Bathers at Atlantic City a couple of summers ago will, no doubt, remember this inventor and his er. A heart swelling with pity—it ought to be a woman's—for the poor drenched captain’s wife, rescued through the mountainous surf from a vessel fast breaking up, has suggested a canvas cover, similar to a wagon cover, tightly fastened down to the gunwale, as a protection from the wet. The dear soul, however, never stopped to con- sider the tremendous force with which the breakers, which at times curn a thirty-four- foot lifeboat end over, would ride down that fragile protection, burying in its folds every one underneath. And those members of the hoard who had served at sea silvered when they read the description of this “‘pro- tection” and pictured to themselves their exciting endeavors to extricate themselves from the rula of the death-dealing con- trivance suggested in love and kindness by an ignorant friend. A Reniarkable Device. But of all the remarkable schcmes—prin- cipally remarkable, possibly, for the per- sistence with which its inventor advocated its adoption—the vacuum gun should head the list. The “gun” is a cylinder seme forty-six vo fifty inches in diameter, in which an air-tight piston travels with @ two-foot stroke In the rear of the cylinder a rack and pinion are so arranged as to draw this piston back, forming a vacuum in-the cylinder, and in this position is caught by a trigger. The cylinder is se- cured to a foundation or bed plate, upon which, in line with the piston, a carriage is free to travel. This carriage supports a short beat of peculiar construction. Into this boat a single surfman places himself. Naturally one would think this a rather perilous position in which to receive the shock of a discharge powerful enough to cause a boat to travel a thousand yards over the water by momentum alone, but ft is all nicely explained by its flustrious in- ventor in the following quotation: “But the gentle reader must know that the sailor does not leave the gun in a seated position, He Hes down at the bottom of his canoe, with his feet toward the stern, en- veloped in an elastic air sack, so that he re- ceives no injury when the gun ts dischatged. Around him is a tarpaulin cover, which fastens to his waist, thus making him, as it were, a part of his canoe, much resembling a Greenland fisherman. The vacuum in the cylinder, which gives the boat its mo- mentum, 1s caused by the pulling back of the piston by one turn of a rack and pinion. At a certain moment the gun is fired and the little boat leaps from crest to crest of the angry billows, just as if conscious of its actual power to brave the dangers of the deep and to carry the glad tidings of help and hope to the ill-fated passengers and cre “¢ © © So every one (‘ill-fated pas- sergers’) is waiting for the gun to come along to the shore, and as it Mp into the sea in tion o} ety. There is a brave sallor In that, boat who will soon put cut his head tp logk for the struggling, help- less crew. He in the boat a long cord, to which is attaghel a bundle of rubber bags containing Gompressed air, each hav- ing a tube pper, and these he cuts off rapidly with, his ready jack-knife as soon as they are pulled uut of the hatch- way; he then throws them quickly about to the drowning, pegple. By placing the ends of these tubes-in their mouths, many pas- sengers are gnabled to breathe, and are thus kept aliye until they reach the escape line which fasteng, the boat to the shore. By this line the little boat is hauled in, when the sailor hoists his flag, the signal to ‘pull the passengers to shore.’ fires ae” ui CAPTURING SONS-IN-LAW. How a French Mother Married Off Her Six Delightful Daughters. From Pearson's Weekly. A fond mother tells how she married her six daughters. “JT did it,” she says, “with the frying pan, a cozy fire and cushioned chair. There, 1 now, you have the whole story,” confessed the lady. “I would have every one of those girls on my hands this minute if I hadn’t found them husbands ovt of my cookery book. Despising an old maid as I do a smoky chimney, when my ellest girl was full grown, I turned right and left for some means of marrying her. Mary was n*ither very handsome mor very lively, so I knew better than to trust to luck. So I just set to work and determined upon a plan that has never miscarried with any one of then “All my life [ have made close observa- tions of men’s ways, and have heard great stories of the happy results of feeding the sex. So I looked carefully over the field and picked out a pleasant, thriving young fellow. whose habits were good and his heart whole. I began by asking him im a friendly manner to calt. Then I led the conversation around to his mother the way he had been nurtured, and what he most cared to eat in general. I never missed a word, and aftor the first visit we got nim to drop in to tea on Sunday even- ing. Then, you may be sure, I did my best; and when the second meal was over I knew the yearnings of that man’s appetite bet- ter than he did himself. “My calculations seemed to believe it best to start toward the close of the year. Spring is no good. A man loves all wo- mankind at that season;. his appetite is slight. In my experience, courtships start- ed in November lead, as a ruie, to a wed- ding in May. Of course, my chief reliance is in tempting food, but I would always advise supporting the liberal table with a big, comfortable rocking chair, drawn facing a cheerful fire. Speak of it as ‘his chair,’ and you won't make any take. “Aaother thing, don't be too pressing. A steady eye and a light hand count for more than nagging. I was always careful not to gush, but if I had apple fritters on Tuesday I apologized for their poorness, and begged him to drop in on Thursday and let Mary rede; her mother’s reputa- tion with some particularly appetizing dish. In the evenings I had her trained to sit in a low sewing chair, under the big lamp, and either darn socks or hem dusters. When we spoke of her I said I trembled at the awful blow it would be for us if she should marry and go away. This kind of thing was kept ap till Febrvary 1, when my gentleman(began to feel easy and snug, like one of the family. “Then camesthe delicate moment, for just at this petnt’ T would introduce ‘some silly dandy that heither I nor Mary would have looked ati But I coddied the young- d him to tea on the same night as regv'or, and waRed to see what would happea. ‘he puBe always succeeded. He and Mary wotid come blushing to ask if they might havé gach other,-and while they le love in parior I looked up my pokery ook #6 ee my way to another son-in-law.” off sees FE NEVER pits. From Prof. Weis- tikation of Death. OP “ProfAveismann have done migre Ive the problem “How death came,into the world” than those of ny. other livifi@-man. It is generally as- sumed that “death 18 associated with all forms of life, but this is not really the case. The lowét forms of life, for example, may be said to have a perpetual existence, and not to be subject to death; for in unicellu- lar reproduction Ife is practically endless. In the case of higher forms of life death is universal, and for a very natural reason. The aim of nature ts the perpetuation of the species, not of the individual, and when creatures have, as in the case of certain in- sects, reproduced themselves once for all, they have no further need of existence. Creatures that nurse their young, like mammals, and produce them slowly, have need of longer life, or the species ‘would quickly be exterminated; but there is no reason why the individual, having — per- | formed is dtity in relation to the species, should continue to exist, since its existence then becomes d superfluity. Between mul- ticellular and unicellular existence there is, therefore, the marked difference that, whereas the former dies when it has repro- duced itself and so perpetuated its species, the latter goes on perpetually reproducing itself—one cell growing out of another with- | out cessation. To Weismann we owe the knowieljge of how it is that death inter- venes when multicellular existence develops from uniceliular. The change is effected by a differentiation of the Individual—or so- matic—and the reproductive celis. The former have lost the power of multiplica- tion and reproduction, and consequently died, while the latter have preserved it. sr TOOK HIM FOR A BURGLAR. Nice Fix of a Young Man Who Used His Old Latch Key to Look Up a Friend. an the New York Heratd. The bestowal of a latckkey is a sacred trust not always appreciated by tenants. It is the commonest ghing in the world for a boarder to walk off with his dcor key, thus retaining to bimself the power to en- ter a former dwelling at any hour of day or night he pleases. Of course, very few tenants hold on to their keys with any such possibility in view, but for the safety of herself and future tenants the landlady should be more particular than she aver- ages at present.in redeeming the meuns of entry to her hevsehold. A couple of rights ago a young man ar- rived from the west about 11 p.m., and promptly betook. himself to look up an old friend, whose reom his cwn had adioined in a house onb4s¥n street. The house was closed up for the;right, so the young man took out his erSiwhile latchkey, and letting himself in, mated to his chum's roo He was out, the gas was lowered,and wi out waiting go.gurn it up the traveller stretched. himselfron the sofa to wait, and in doing so fed agleep. When he woke i was to find himeeif face to fac2 with the basilisk stare of a strange man, and withea/revciver. The room" had. changed tenants, that was pretty plain, but it wasn’t equally plain how he was tm make clear that h® was neother a burglar nor an assassin. “If you'll lay dgwn that thing,” he said, after a‘hurri¢d oexplanation to the man with the revolyerg “I'll call up the landlady and prove my \ease.”” With man hind revolver in pursuit he did find the landigdy's door, only to be con- fronted by a strange woman, who immedi- ately went into hysterics. Then every other woman in the house raised her voice in hysterics, and more men with revolvers gathered in the passage- ways, until things began to look pretty blue for the young man. At last the final man, armed to the teeth, joine! the boarders, and as he did so. the F. poor exeited traveller gave a cry of relief. ic down your firearms,” called the last come ‘and stop your shrieks. You were looking for Dick, weren’t you? He's gone to Europe. The whole house here changed hands. I’m the only one of the old crowd left. Good Lord, it’s well I'm here! You'd have spent one night in jail, at least, if I'd pot been.” “There,” shouted the besieged man, fling- ing the key atrthe scantily robed landlady, “there’s the k this blank, blank,blank- ety blanked sh , and may I never again see the key of tnis or. any other boarding Place shanty as long as I live.” has FOR DEBILITY AND WAKEFULNESS Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. G. G. Brewer, Baltimore, Md., says: “The best’ results I have ‘scen from it, was in a young man debilitated from malarial fever. I am my- self taking It at night to get sleep. | from stones too streams having a rapid fall. STONE IMPLEMENTS An Interesting Investigaticn Into Indian Methods of Manufacture. THE WORK AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM The Red Men Adopted the Easiest Way of Working Stone. ARROW HEADS AND AXES Written Exclusively for The Evening Sta \ SERIES OF INTER- esting experiments are being made at the National Museum, the results of whieh, up to this time, the public has not been allowed to share, The conductor of these is Mr. J. D. MeGuire of Ellicott City, Md., who has, all his life, been interested in In- dian relics, being one of the few individual collectors who has ever put his discoveries to any practical use. His purpose is to ce- termine bcw long the Indian was engaged in waking his stone implements, what methods he employed in their manufacture, the nature of thé tools he used, and every detail cf the ancient pre-Columbian Ameri- can stonemake-'s mechanical knowledge. He has copied almost every tool or utensil that the red man was ever known to make, and the beauty of his experiments is that all these various arrow points, spear hea: battle axes, hammers, hatchets, grinders, mortars, and the scores of ether things which he has turned out, have been prepar- ed only with the tools found in the ancient Indian habitations throughout the land. When the Indian wanted to make a battle ax he did not try to work a round cubble stone into a wedge-shaped form, nor did he split pieces of the solid rock, usally, for that purpose. It has always been one of his characteristics to make his head save his heels as much as possible. When he was hunting on the prairies or walking 'n the forest he was taught from childhood to gather all the stones which appeared point- ed, and which could easily be flattened to a blade on one side. Under the microscope the rough stone hammers, which were be- Mevel to be grinders or weapons, are found to bear the same indications of battezing which appear on the surfaces of so:ne of the axes themselves. This leads to the con- | viction that some of the manufacturing | strokes put upon these larger weapons were done by pounding with hammers of stone harder than that in the weapon itself. The finishing touches could easily have been done by rubbing or grinding on other stones, and thus, it would seem, only a day would be employed, at the utmost, for com- pleting the best ax head to be found. Making Arrow Head ‘The work employed in making the arrow head is much simpler than that expended | on the tomahawk. It is thought that very | much the same methods were used in cut- ting flint ara other hard stone as the glass cutter row employs in nibbling the edges of window panes. Hard stones pressed egainst the sharp edges of scfter ones will work them into shape—after pieces of the proper siz> have been split from the solid rock or | large in bulk to be ent down. Horn and bone are probably the | best implements for nibbling stones of high | degrees of hardness. The brittle fint and quartzite are the easiest worked with a hern or bone. The various results which have been ob- tained from working different kinds of | stones have led Mr. McGuire to regard all doctrines establishing a division of the stone age into epochs representing different | degrees of finish on surfaces as erroneous | and unfounded. There is no great differ- ence in the work of battering, grinding or chippirg 4 rough pebble stone or piece of boulder into an implement. No higher stan- dar 1 of intellect is believed to be required frcm a savage who grinds a tomahawk than from one who chips an arrow head. Outline forms, which could easily be ground | into most any implements, as well as ax | heads, before referred to in this connection, are to be found each day in the rivers or | Hammering | or battering one stone against the other is | one of the first steps in stone working | which a savage would be likely to dis- | cover. If he cracked nuts or crushed roots | regularly between two rocks he soon learn- | ed tha: such action wore a cavity in one or | smoothed the surface of the other. But | chipping stone, which process has generally | been supposed to be the first means of shaping implements used in the early days | of the stone age, is the most difficult task | of all to perform. Even in reasonably mod- ern times the art of chipping gun flints w considered to be a proud accomplishmen’, | and it was confined, for a long time, to En- | glish citizens, although suitable material | “bounded in all parts of the civilized world, Workmen were even sent to England dur- | ing the time the flint-lock musket was in vogue to learn this ert. Perforating Stones. Most of the axes made at the museum are pecked with hammers of gritty quartzite; a whetstone is afterward rubbed over the sur- face while it is damp. The Mexicans and some other nations brought their imple- ments of stone to 2 higher state of polish than did the other .nerican Indians. This finish has been obtained by the free use of pumice stone or emery, The stone hammer "pears to have been used also on the ulpture, not only of Central and Sovth America, but of Egypt also, T'h2baa paint- ings of the earliest Egyptian dynasties sug- gest that man then worked with hammers almost precisely like those found among cur American aborigines. This indicates some connection between the continents in re- gard to the use of this implement. The discovery adds to the list of arguments to the effect that the earliest mechanical and artistic knowledge of pre-Calumbian Ameri- ca was borrowed from the old world. Together with these investigations cf weapons and implement making by grind- ing, pecking and chipping, experiments have been made with the drills used for perforating stones, used in the manufacture of pipes and other relics, found with rezu- lar cylindrical holes, indicating a skillful knowledge of boring such hard substances. ‘The bow! of the Indian pipe appears to ha been drilled out of stone, almost invariably, since the red man did not dream in former days of the convenient use of clay cr of wood for this purpose. These appear to have been hollowed out by a continual grinding, and indicate the use of several kinds of drills, some of which have been found in ruins, while others have been dis- covered among the races of long standing in the north and west. ‘These drills are themselves interesting links in the evolu- tionary chain of mechanical enzineering. They are surprisingly complete as time- savers and almost set the beholder to won- dering how the unprogressive savages could have understood their use, centuries ego, without making any more complicated im- provements. Methods of Boring. ‘The fiddle bow drill may be more minute- ly described, since {t still appears to per- form the greater part of the Indian’s stone boring in many localities. The bow is gen- erally of bone, although sometimes of wood, the cord being about double the required length. The main stem of the drill resem- bles the plain stick of the straight drill, ex- cept that it is usually spiked at the lower end by points of hard-stone bound on in a manner similar to the rigging of an arrow head to a shaft. A mouthpiece, resembling the arm of a crutch, serves the same pur- pose as the arm on a carpenter’s brace. When the contrivance is in the proper working position the point is placed vertical- ly over the portion of the surface to be bored, the crutch arm rests on the chin of the operator; the bowstring Is wrapped sey- eral times about the drill stem. A very rapid velocity is acquired by rubbing the bow backward and forward, with a fiddling motion. Sand {s also used with this in cases where the stone acted upon is ex- | tremely bod. | The pump drill, found today espectally | tint PASKOLA VINDICATED Gross Ignorance Exposed Its Value ad Healthfulness Fully Established. ained by certain professed chemists pt to analyze Paskola are so far from the that we have every reason to believ, ors to We in the employ of rival man ; turers (possibly peopl tid in prepara- iver oil), 28 been merited of Paskola, kola was nothing but 5 and 1 ther: ness of Which ass Will be made ci the following experi- ment: Take two pint bot- tles and in one place a tablespoouful of glu- cose and in the other a like quantity of Pas- kola; fll them with water, shake thorough- ly and add to ty drops of liydi w lean en, the whi boiled exes or sit foods; put inte bottie one 0: merse the ba ler and carefally maintain the of 100 to 105 degrees Fahrenheit, ler to thoroughly expose the sol Tn the course of a of the bottle containing dergo a change, and in tw will have become entirely dissolved or digested whereas the contents of the other Lottle containing the glucose and acid will show no change beyond a slight difference in appear: If you have neither the facilities nor the inclina- tien to make the tert for ye self, we have douvt that your dragzist will be glad to try th experiment. The tabes herewith show the resal of a test made in our own laboratory, the cuts be- ing from a photograph, No, 1 contained glucose and No. 2 Vaskola, What are we lo couclade? One of two things; either that the sv-called “chem- pties, a truth att pour in uj ferments in Pas! be determined by chemical test. seen digestive ferments only way to determine t the ef is a fact rec be found stat ard works. thing which these ignorant and je e said about Paskola is that inasmu rested starch, It is calculated to er this charge than by mm a report © to Mayor y Dr. Cyrus Edson, commis- Ith for the city of New York and for the state of New York: “Pre-digested starch is starch in the exaet + ondl- that we find it prepared by the dizestiy ton. it is p eminently fat- wenn producing food. Un diet of pre- digested starch or glucose a inan can perform more | tmuseular Work than under any other single a of food. TL digested starch not only is not ii jurious, bat it is an essential article of food, with. out which tn some form wan cannot enjoy life.”” This letter from Dr. Edson was written to an inquiry from the mayor as to or ot prealigested starch vas healthful. cola contains ferments, is not alone a fatten: food, but it aids the @isestion of other foods in the stomach, just as you may see’ in the above experiment. The tired, feeble stemach of the dyspeptic is too Weak to do its duty It needs ‘a little hel ‘iis help Paskol Its use is at lowed by a well - being, vigor and courage. strength, The appetite improves and the sufferer can eat with comfort where be- distress followed every meal. Paskola corrects emzeiation and the pale, thin sufferers iy rience a thousand tines more benefit’ from it than from the use of disagreeab = ing cod liver ofl, whi often does more harm than good. — Consump: tion need not prove f- tal, if we can arrest the loss of flesh, for its victims virtually die of for our interesting | pamphlet bout this wonderful preparation. We wil a copy. free, New je street, the whole stem the resemblance of a tall spinning top. The end is also spiked with or other hard stone. Two cords of hide attached to the top of the stick sus- pend a horizontal rod hanging against it. If the top-like stem be revolved slowly un- tl the ends of the two cords slowly wind around the upper rod the motion is made by pushing the herizontal stick down and then allowing it to come up of itself, when the ccrd becomes again twisted. A contin- uous pumping motion produces alternate revolutions from side to side, which can be increased to a great velocity. The favora- ble recults obtained from these instruments have led to the belief that the cylindrical borings in the stonework of Egypt, hitherto thought to have been done by a diamond drill, were performed by means of a bam- boo stick revolved in quartz sand. > THE OUT-TO-DINNER-MAN. He Knows Why He ig Invited and Thinks He Pays Hie Way. From the New York ‘Uritune, No,” said the slightly cynical bachelor, “it's not because I am tremendousiy popu- lar that I get invitations, and I don’t con- sider it such an henor to be invited to dine somewhere every night in the week with half a dozen or more invitations a week to spare. Why in the world do you suppose they invite me? Well, I'm a good deal like the fellow who is taken on a ship and made to work his passage. He pays for his voy- age with work. I work my passage at the dinners. Oh, yes, I do. There’s no use in being vain about these things. You see, I'm not married, and there's always some young woman, or old woman for that mat- ter, who has to be taken care of. Now, a married man is at a discount at a dinner. Of course, he takes a woman out to din- ner, but some man has to be provided for his’ wife. “I'm just useful at a dinner, and that’s why I get invited. I’m not good looking and I never said a bright thing in my life, but I can talk a streak of stuff and non- sense that fs necessary to keep a dinner going. I'm good natured and amiable. I like everybody, and so I get along comfort- ably with my neighbors. In a mild sort of a way, I suppose, I am amusing. And then I'm a good laugher. I laugh at ali the good things that are said, and at many of them that are not so good. i get in my own little jokes when the time comes, and so we row along through the dinner, I working my Passage and my hostess smiling approval on me. “Oh, no; it’s not a bit damaging to my vanity. T simply know it’s so and accept it cheerfully. I can’t dance for shucks, so I'm of no earthly use at a dance. If I were a good dancer I'd probably come in for all that, too. My strong point is a dinner, and 20 I'm wanted there, and not at a dance. It doesn’t wound my vanity a bit. I enjoy the dinner. Having a lt of pretty women around the table and listening to them and talking to them is lots more fun than sit- ting .alone in a club, with only a lot of ghosilike waiters to amuse you. It’s a perfectly fair bargain. I talk and am sweet- | tempered for my ferrilage, and [ get on the ferry a good dinner and enjoyable sur- roundings. That's all there is to It, and as far es the honor of the thing and all that, there’s no more honor in my being in- vited to dine out every evening than there would be in going out to fiddie for a party at a regular price. I talk and get my din- ner and pleasant company. The other man among the Iroquois,is the most complicated. The main rod supports a wheel which gives gets his five or ten dollars, or whatever the price is, and fiddles.” RAILROADS, SOUTHERN RAILWAY, (PHEDMONT AUR LINE). AML tram arrive ant leave at’ Permapirenta, Bee: arrive scager ‘Station, Washington, Dee ee mgt itlty Laced “Coe “Danelle and inter wliate stations, and connects at Lynchburg the Norfolk aud ‘Western railroad westward, ‘any. and at Manassos for Strasburg, daily, except Sui day. .. THE GREAT SOUTHERN FAS 11 -Dally, operates Pullman Buffet rR Xew York aud Wasninzton vin Charlotte and Co- lumbla tu Savannah and Jacksouville, uniting at Caarlotte with Sleeper for Augusta, ‘also carries through Lollman Butiet Sleeper New York to Mont gomery, with connections for New Orleans. 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Canandaigua, Rochester and a except Sunday. 10.30 a.m. for Elinira and Renovo, daily, except Sunday. For Williamsport daily, 3:15 p.m. 0 for Williamsport, “Rochester, uftale wi Falls daily, except Saturday, ef Washington to? Rochester. p.m. Eris, Canandatgas. Sochestey ant a Falls dilly, ex = Washington to Plmaira, Washington to daily, urday, with 's w York and the Fa: NAL LIMITED,” and Saturdays For Philade 18, New York daily 735 ul 1:09 and 11:35 p.m. Apress, 7:30 am. Week days. Express, and 5.40 pom. daily, For Toston withoat change, 7:50 a.m, week days and 3:15 p.m. daily. For Baltimore, #25, 11:00 aed -m., 12:15, 2:01, ted), y 5:40, 6:14, 7:10, 11:13 and 14 pm, On, Sundar. iE et 00 a.m. . Aca, Bodo, 6:14, "s Creck Line, except. Sun Annipoll pom. dil mi. and 4 ‘oust Line Express for Richmond, Jack e aad Tampa, 4:30 a.m., 3:80 p.m.” dail Jiand Atlanta S.80 p.ad. daily. mond m. week days. Alexandria for Washington, 10, 10; 10:28 . 00, 3:30, 6:13, 7:00, 7:20, 9:15 and 11:08’ p, .) 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