Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1895, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY '23, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. 13 AS TO TRADE MARKS Uncle Sam Has Registered Twenty- six Thousand of Them, SOME OF THEM ARE VERY QUEER INDEED Designs Which Find Favor Among a Large Number of Persons. ss SOME COINED —_> WORDS Written for The Evening Star < NCLE SAM REGIS- Ny Ue trade mark No. => 26,000 the other day. The fee paid was, as usual, $25. This is a very profitable part of the business of the patent office. It is governed by regu- lations which in many respects are both odd and inter- esting. The trade marks themselves , are curiosities, and not a few of them freaks, for a device of this kind is more valuable if absurd than if sensible. The newer an invention the more valu- able it is. If it has been in public use for so short a time as two years, it cannot be patented. With a trade mark the case Is exactly opposite; its worth grows steadily with age. It represents a business or a marketable article, with the growth or sale of which it obtains value progressively. It is the symbol of a trade. When one buys a cigar, he looks on the box not for the name of the manufacturer, but for the trade mark. If the cigar does not corres- pond to the trade mark, you are annoyed, and the maker of the cigar to which that trade-mark properly belongs is injured. It fs the same way with any other sort of goods. You pick up a newspaper, and you find the advertising columns full of trade marks. Here is the “Diana” flour, pure as the virgin snow. Your wife never buys any other brand. She doesn’t even ¢ the name of the manufacturer. The rk applies to “Hygeia’’ hams. »mark is the business; an in- fringement is robbery. Accordingly, “the jaw protects it. Great fortunes are fre- quently at stake in suits that have to do with these trade emblems. Anybody may get a trade mark for noth- ing. He has only to adopt it, and it be- comes his exciusive property, so long as nobody has taken it previously for desig- nating goods of the same sort. Further- more, the law will defend him in this right. But, if he is a prudent man, he has the trade mark registered—that is to say, put on record at the patent office. The $25 paid for this is money well spent. He thus ob- tains the privilege of suing In the United States courts In case of infringement. The practice of those courts in such matters is settled, so that justice is pretty sure to be done. Otherwise, he would be obliged to go to the state courts, where the outcome of lezal proceedings on these grounds is more doubtful. Rease for Rejection. There is another good reason for register- {ng a trade mark. The word “regist2red” appears to signify that the owner Is dis- pesed to defend his property, and thus it is apt to scare off persons who might be tempted to infringe. A registration is good for thirty years and may be renewed in- definitely. But even an unregistered trade mark is a legal right in perpetuity and can never die unless the business which it represents goes out of existence. It is common law property and passes from hand to hand with the business. Another odd thing about a trade mark is that ft may possess considerable value, though the article for which it stands be utterly worthies ‘The purpose of a trade mark is to Identify origin and ownership. It ought to denote nothing else. Under the regulations it must not be de- ptive of the in- ents of which rticle {# com- an posed or in any other way. On that ground the patent office has fused to register name “fruit but- ter” as a trade mark. It has likewise ruled against “egz maca- roni” as being de- scriptive or calcu- lated to deceive. Here was a case where the name sig- nified that certain materials were used in making the food. If those materi were not so used people would be misled. If they were actually employed the term was objectionable on the ground already mentioned. Similar rulings have been made against “snow white” for flour, “thin back” for saws and “tasteless.” cld prize” has been ruled out as either descriptive or deceptive. If no gold prize was given to the article the purchaser might be decetved. A similar instance was that of the legend “There’s money in it” on soap boxes, Registration for this also was refused. It was decided by a recent commissioner of patents that the word “stylographi being generic for pens, could not be used as a trade mark for an ink especially adapted for stylographic pens. Other adverse rulings have been made respecting “shake,"" blown into bot- tles, and “burglar alarm.” “Alf and ‘alt’ was shut out because the trade mark “1-2 and 1-2” had been previously registered in the class"of drinkables. On the descriptive ground “Chile colorow” was not allowed as trade mark for pickles because it 1s pro- vincial Spanish for red pepper.” Religious Devices. People often try to secure the registra- tion of trade marks that embody figures or emblems associated with religion. This is severely frowned upon by the patent office. For example, not long ago a design of this sort submitted Included a represen- tation of the Virgin Mary. It was prompt- ly rejected as offensive. Acting in a spirit of broad catholicity, this ruling is not ap- plied merely to matters having to do with Christianity. On one occasion it shut out @ picture of a Chinese god. The red Greek cross Is objected to also, though on other grounds. It will not do as a trade mark for any article that might serve to supply invalid soldiers. The reason for this is quite obvious. It is the emblem of the Red Cross Soclety, an international organ- ization. Its use as a trade mark on cer- tain classes of goods might lead people to imagine that those goods were indorsed or actually manufactured by the society. Favorite designs for trade marks are representing Hercules, Atlas supporting the world, an Indian, an alchemist, a saint and a good Samaritan. The star and cres- cent frequently occur, separate or together. The owl ts found in a variety of classes of marketable conspicuous in pills, > dyes and leather / dressings. An odd emblem is a railway train for “express ointment.” Another is a bottle shaped like a watch and containing pills. Yet another for pills Is a conventionalized Roman candle shooting fts balls, the latter being termed “rheu- matic bullets.” The more odd and even nonsensical a 4 ign the better it serves for a trade mark. ‘Any man's signature will do for a trade mark. A word from the dictionary will serve the same purpose, likewise the name of a god or goddess of mythology. “Eu- Teka” or “excelstor” will pass, but not so {f anybody has previously registered the same word or name in the same class of goods. For example, !f Jones has adopted and registered the name “Hygeia” for his pills, Smith must select some other designation for his pellets of health. Ob- jection {3 raised against geographical ames, but on this point rulings have been somewhat contradictory. A while ago the a articles, being very %, s old in the tobacco b, a, trade. ‘The crow Is Za was submitted and the On appeal to the word “Concord” application was refused. commissioner of patents it was success- fully argued that “concord” was recog- nized in the English language as having a meaning entirely apart from its geograph- ical significance, so it went through. On the strength of this precedent “Atlanta” was admitted, the contention being that the word was historically derived from a period far more remote than the founding of the capital city of Georgia. Coining Words. However, it is not necessary that a word should be accepted by lexicographers in or- der that it may serve for a trade-mark. People engaged in introducing new articles to the market commonly coin words to fit their purposes. ‘his they do very often by adding the terminations “in,” “ine” and “tine’—as “‘Lintine,” “Absorbtine,”” “Epi- dermaline” and “Vulnerine.” Other ex- amples of coined words are “‘Ledox” and ‘Debelator.”” One purpose of the trade- mark, and a very important purpose inci- dental to advertisement, is to attract at- tention. “Society Polish” is a first-rate name for a leather Gressing, for instance. It has a double meaning, you see. The same idea is illustrated by such trade- marks as “Skin-Success,” “Bile Beans’ and “Chill and Fever Breakers.” From what has been said already, it will appear that the same trade-mark may be used over and over again in_ different classes of marketable articles. The prohi- bition is against its employment in any way that may lead to mistake on the part of the purchaser. On this ground many applications for rights in the name “Lie- big” have been rejected. But obviously “Ow!” pills could not be mixed up in any- body's mind with “Owl” sheetings. The cross is no trade-mark—that {s to say, no- body is permitted to monopolize it in all of its patterns in any class of goods. Hav- ing numerous typical shapes—the Greek, Roman, &c.—it may only be made proprie- tory in a specific pat- tern. An opposite rule applies to the eagle. There are several species of eagles in the world, but only one type is recog- nized by the patent office, simply for the reason that the pub- lic at large does not differentiate the bald eagle from the golden eagle, and so forth. Rebuses and monograms are popular as trade-marks. In many classes one finds the famillar “I-X-L.” Geographical names are admissible {f printed in some distinctive manner. For example, ‘Baltimore’ would not be registerable if printed in ordinary type, but in red script it would go. Arbi- trary arrangements of words and letters will serve as trade-marks, inasmuch as in a manner they represent new designs. Rep- resentations of the United States flag or coat-of-arms are not allowed, because the proprietor must have exclusive ownership of the design. An arrangement of colors will not do for a trade-mark unless asso- ciated with some emblem or other design. In other words, form as well as color is re- quired. ANGEL GIRDLE, Use of Portraits. A portrait may be a. trade-mark. Manu- facturers of patent medicines commonly use their likenesses for this purpose. The portrait of a public man, or of any other living person, may be employed lawfully, with the consent of the individual. But when the person ts dead his portrait ceases to be his private property, and may be utilized for advertising purposes by any- body. Thus, Washington and Franklin are most frequently made use of to give a post- mortem Indorsement to articles which in many cases they would doubtless disap- prove of most highly. One of the oddest of registered trade- marks is the “Angel Belt”—a medicinal belt —that is represented in the design as hung upon a ladder. This ladder, of course, !s the one that ts supposed to lead to heaven. Labels, it should be said, cannot be regis- tered as a rule. Either they contain de- ecriptive matter or they include trade- marks registerable as such. There is a journal in this country called the ‘rade- mark Record, which 1s published chiefly for the purpose of recording proceedings insti- tuted in the courts in behalf of rights se- cured by trade-marks. RENE BACHE. soo A Cure for Hores. From Aftonbladet. Of the Hungarian statesman Francis Deak it is related that he used to rid him- self of troublesome visitors by telling them the following story: ‘Once, when in Paris, Napoleon I paid a visit to a hospital for the old soldiers. Here he perceived, among the rest, a man who had lost one of his arms, and he entered into conversation with him. “Where did you lose your arm?’ asked the emperor. ‘At Waterloo, your majesty.” ‘Then, no doubt, you curse the emperor and your country every time you look at your mutilated limb?” “‘No, indeed,’ protested the veteran, ‘for the emperor and my native land I would readily sacrifice my other arm if need be." “TI can hardly believe that,’ the emperor quietly remarked, and passed on. “But the soldier, anxlous to prove that he was in earnest, immediately drew a saber from its sheath and lopped off his other arm.” Here Deak would pause and fix a pene- trating look on his visitor. “Well, what have you to say of such a man and such an action?” “A most sublime act of self-sacrifice! A truly noble character!” This was the style of reply invariably given. “But the story has one flaw,” he would gravely add. “What is that, pray?” “It is simply impracticable. How could a one-armed man contrive to cut off his only remaining arm?” Mr. Woodard’s Iucky Day. From the Watertown Standard. While out hunting near Salmon river re- cently, Sidney Woodard fired at and kiil- ed a partridge, and on crossing the river where the bird fell he stouped to pick it up, when something warm and of a mucilagi- nous consistency fell upon his head. This he soon found was honey, and upon exara- ination discovered that the bullet from his gun hag penetrated a bee tree, after pass- ing through the partridge. He returned to the house and secured three large tubs and two milk cans and some pails, all of which he filled with honey. While securing the honey he noticed a peculiar movement of the tree, which seem- ed to expand and subside at intervals. Passing to the other side a wide stream was apparent, and he learned that the tree was hollow. From this he succeeded in extracting thirty-two coons which had taken up winter quarters therein, the pe- culiar movement of the tree having been caused by the united breathing of the coons. Nor was this all of his remarkable adven- ture, for on attempting to cross the river the Ice gave way, and he was obliged to swim for a short distance. When he ar- rived at his home he had about forty-five speckled trout in his coat pockets and a few had found lodgment in his boots. soo ‘Travels of the Elevator Man. From the Chicago Record. “Guess how far I travel up and down every day,” said one of the elevator men in the Monadnock building yesterday, as he stopped on the sixteenth floor. The real estate man’s clerk thought a moment and answered, “Oh, about two or three miles. “You're way off,” said the elevator man, and he began to figure up. “On an aver- age,” he said, “I make two trips every five minutes. That makes twenty-four round trips, or forty-eight single trips, every hour of the day. The building is 200 feet high. Now, in ten hours I make 480 single trips, each one 200 feet long. That makes in a day 96,40) feet. When you come to divide this by , the number of feet in a mile, I think a little more than eighteen miles six days out of every week.” soe Beth Probably Right. From the Chicago Tribune. “You are always talking about how chil- dren ought to be trained, Maria,” satd Mr. Billus, “but I can’t see that Johnny im- proves a particle in his behavior at the table.”” “And you are always telling how easy it would be to put business on its feet again and make everybody prosperous, but I can’t see that you leave any more pin money lying about the house than you ever did,” retorted Mrs. Billus. POST OFFICE BONDS Precautions Adopted by the Govern- ment Against Loss. A LARGE MOON OF MONEY INVOLVED Now, Even the Letter Carriers Must Give Bonds. THE DIFFERENT CLASSES —————— Written for The Evening Star OCKED UP SE- curely in the Post Office Department at Washington are bonds whose face value is as great as the cost of the entire postal service for a year, and the sure- ties on these bonds have qualified in double the amount. Bo if the Post Office Department had all “of the money which is represented by these bonds it could car- ry mail for two years without charge, and be none the worse off at the end of that pertod. : ‘These bonds are of four kinds. They are given by postmasters, inspectors and, final- ly, by contractors who haul the govern- ment mail. The contractors give bond for the faithful performance of their con- tracts; and out of this bond, if they fail to perform the service, some one else is pald for the work. The bonds given by the other three classes are to protect the gov- ernment from possible theft. The post- master would have a very easy time steal- ing a month's receipts if he wished. The letter carrier could easily enrich himself at the expense of the patrons of the pos- tal service, while the Inspectors have the authority to go into a post office and take possession, and they are constantly subject to temptation. But if the postmasters of the country were to rise and steal sixty- five millions of dollars the government would not lose a cent of the amount. And if the 10,000 letter carriers were to purloin ten millions no one but their sureties would be any worse off financially. The inspec- tors could steal half a million between them, and the government could recover it all. In Large Cities. When the Dockery commission undertook recently to investigate the bonds given by people in the public service they .reported to the Post Office Department people that the bonds exacted from postmasters met the requirements of security more nearly than any other bonds taken in the depart- ments. There are seventy thousand of these postmasters, and the security they give varies with the importance of the of- fice. Of course, a postmaster who handles little money gives a small bond, and a postmaster who handles a great deal of money gives bond proportionately. The postmaster at a money order office gives a bond for the security of the postal reve- nues and another bond for the security of money in transit. The lowest bond taken is for $500, and that is for an office whose revenue is not more than $175. The New York postmaster gives a postal bond for $250,000 and a money order bond for a like amount, and his sureties, Ithe all others, must qualify in double the amount for which they become Ilable. So the sureties of the New York postmaster are undoubt- edly worth a million dollars. Some of the other bonds are: Postal. Money Order. Chicago...... $200,000 $200,000 Cincinnati . «225,000 100,000 San Franoisco. 150,000 150,000 Boston + 150,000 100,04 St. Loufs + 100,600 Milwaukee . 100,000 Baltimore.... 150,000 50,000 St. Paul. 100,000 100,000 New Orleans. 80,000 100,000, Philadelphia . 110,000 Washington. 70,000 80,000 The postal penalty is fixed by the finance division of the Post Office Department, and it depends on a number of conditions. Of course, the amount of money handled is a chief factor. But in the case of the New York post office, the fact that the sub- treasury at New York reports daily the deposits made by the postmaster, and that the report made to the money order divis- fon ig in within forty-eight hours, makes a decided difference. If the New York post- master reported only once in a month, like some of the backwoods postmasters, he would have to give a bond that would cost him more than his salary. Investigating the Surcties. The bond of a postmaster does not have to be made by people residing in the city in which he is to hold office. A postmas- ter in Maine can find his sureties in San Francisco, if he chooses. But it is pretty safe to say that under ordinary conditions a postmaster who goes away from home for his bondsmen ts & man who Is not to be trusted. The department instantly investi- gates the bond of a man who does this. Of course, there are conditions which rei der this necessary sometimes. For exam- ple, just after the war the “carpet bag- gers” who were appointed to take charge of post offices in the south had no stand- ing in the communities where they had recently gone to live and almost all of the southern postmasters during the recon- struction period filed bonds made out in the north. The poverty of the southern people at that time was another reason why bonds were hard to get locally. In tho case of a presidential postmaster the bond, even if it is not under suspicion, 1g investigated by one of the department inspectors. A copy of the bond is given to the inspector and he reports whether he has found that the sureties on it are really worth the amounts for which they have qualified. Often the bond division re- ceives letters, saying that some one who has gone on a postmasier’s bond is not worth what he claims. In this case there is an immediate investigation. If the names of a postmaster’s bondsmen are made public it is his fault and not that of the department. The names of bonds- men are kept carefully concealed because the fact that a man was on a bond with a large penalty might affect his credit in business transactions. Usually, though, when a postmaster is appointed he makes a great show of his bondsmen to demon- strate what friends he has in the com- munity. And a bondsman who can qualify for $100,000 is usually not ashamed of it. A surety in the sum of $100,000 is not unique. The rules of the bond division say that there. must be two sureties on each bond; that a woman will be accepted as surety if she 1s certified by competent authority as unmarried and possessing the requisite amount of property, and that firms and corporations are not accepted as sureties. None of the 70,000 postmasters can be in- sured by the surety companies which do such a thriving business furnishing bonds to clerks. Mr. Wanamaker when he was Postmaster General expressed the belief that the government should accept only surety companies as security for postmas- ters. He said that in hundreds of cases the best men could not accept appoint- ments because they could not furnish bonds, and that the man who received the appointment might have the ability to give a bond and no other qualification for the lace. It has happened in some cases— ut they are few—that a postmaster has been obliged to give up his office because he could not get bondsmen. Disappointed candidates have gone through a community asking people not to give bond for their successful opponents and s0 have forced them out of office. These cases, though, are not many and they are not of great im- portance. Letter Carriers’ Bonds. - The bonding of the 10,000 letter carriers is comparatively recent. The carriers were required to give bond in some of the offices before, but the general bonding of the car- riers was begun under this administration. Each carrier gives a bond of $1,000, which makes the total of the carriers’ bonds $10,- 000,000. These bonds are given to the Post Office Department, for under existing regu- lations it 1s the department and not the postmaster that appoints the carriers. The postmaster merely certifles them to the department for appointment. The post- master, however, is responsible for the hon- esty of the clerks uncer him, and in all large offices the postmaster makes his sub- ordinates give him bondé, which secure him from loss by their dishghesty. The assist- ant postmaster, the ¢hiéfs of the different divisions and even thé men who sell stamps are usually under bond. "But this is a mat- ter of local usage sttictly. Each postmas- ter does in this mattek ag he pleases. These tonds are made for Yh¢ term of a clerk's office. The bonds of pogtmasters are good for only five years, au fi is proposed to re- duce this limit to four years. At the end of the ‘period named, the postmaster has to give a new bond. The bonds given b; tractors will ag- gregate about $12,080). ‘These bonds run cnly four years, for the contracts are relet at the end of that period. The country is divided into four sections, and in one of these sections the contracts are advertised and relet to the lowest bidder each year. The amount of the bond is usually equal to twice the cost of the service for one year. The lowest bond is $100. The con- tractor who hauls the mail to and from trains and between substations and_the main station of the post office in New York receives $192,000 a year for the ser- vice, and gives a bond for $300,000. The Philadelphia contractor receives $53,900 a year, and gives bond for $1 La One: Ecston contractor gives $100, bond; the Washington contractor, $25,000; the St. Louis contractor, $30,000, and the Chicago contractor, $100,000. These sums do not guarantee the honesty of the contractor in the sense that postmasters’ bonds do. They gvarantee the service for the four years of the contract. If a contractor does not fulfill its terms, the Postmaster General calls on his bondsmen for their guarantee and pays some other man the difference be- tween the confract and the price at which he Is willing to do the work out of the funds furnished by the bondsmen. E —_—> WORKING IN DEEP WATER. Ditticulty Getting More Than Eighty Feet Below the Surface. From the Marine Engineer. The subject of raising submerged wrecks is a most interesting one, though the prac- ticability of such operations seems as yet to be limited to depths of about 150 to 2 feet.and even at that limit there are few div- ers who can stand the heavy pressure. About 60 to 80 feet seems -to be the limit at which divers can work for any length of time without an undue risk of Afe. H. M. S. Victoria Hes, it 1s said, in about seventy- fcur fathoms of water, so there appecrs to be but little probability that any at- tempts will be made to raise her, her gigantic mass being also a serious draw- back to such salving operations. Thomas W. Wailes has communicated a good deal of interesting information on the subject in a paper read before the Institute of Marine Engineers at Cardiff. He gives de- tails of experience of lifting vessels with lighters and pontoons. The pontoons or lighters must have sufficient buoyancy to exceed the weight of the submerged vj sel, and the pontoons and lighters are brought to the submerged vessel at low water, and large chain or wire cables of sufficient number and strength are passed under the wreck and adjusted into position with the aid of tugs and stea Generally divers are nece: in passing the cables under the shi on Mr. Aisbitt’s authority, it seems that s¢metimes considerable damage is done to the salved vessels by the cutting into her plating of the chains and cables, unles: their strain is carefully distributed ov the surface of the plating and over the bull of the vessel. As the tide rises and the wreck is thus lifted:it is towed toward the shore until it is beached high and dry, when any holes can he conveniently closed and the wreck floated and docked. This, however, describes am operation of salvage where the position, size and condition of the wreck are easily dealt with. Where a vessel is wrecked upon a rock with extensive damagt to’lts bottom, which cannot be closed by divers, platforming is often used as a method of rafsing. This method in particulan requires the closest calculation, not only, as to the buoyancy given to raise the wreck, but also that she shall float upright afid with sufficient free board to be towed into safety when raised, or all the labor may, be thrown away by an accident when she oats. Platforms have to be destgned and placed td suit the circumstances of the particular cases. Sometimes they are taid diagonally within four feet of the deek beams atiione end of and a. dip of twelve,fegt at the. other. Sometimes they myst be laid higher at one ide tha® the other, ‘and uhless theinternal weight or cargo 1s adjusted accdrdingly, this may cause the vessel to turn turtle when she floats. The support of the plat- form to the hull or deck of the vessel must be carefully thought out, for if a wreck be a large single-decked vessel the whole of the platform strain must not be taken on this deck. Diagonal chains‘may be used to tle the hatch coamings and beams to the ship’s frames to strengthen such a deck. Each division of the platform should have a scuttling hatch to allow the reced- ing tide to escape, or the air from the under side of the platform with a rising tide. An air pipe should be fitted to each division and carried higher up above deck, ard iron bulkheads are not reétiable for water-tight platform ends, as they are apt to spring away from the platform end and admit water. The closing of holes in the bottom or sides of a sunken wreck is often a most difficult job, and Mr. Wailes gives a most interesting case of a hole successfully closed where it could not be got at in the ordinary way. The steamer, coal laden, had sunk on a soft bed of mud reaching to within eighteen inches of her deck, and so soft that it'appeared impossible to cut through it or to ke2p it out even with timbering and pumping, nor could the hole be got at from the inside, as the mud would flow in. Large steel plates, well added with canvas and hair felt and well uilted, were driven down throvgh the mud close to the hull,the plates overlapping one another to make joint, and chains from ring bolts at each end of the plates were brought through the hull to winches to draw the plates up tight as the water was pumped out from the hold. Above the plates on the hole the space was planked over to the top of the bulwarks and caulk- ed tight. As the tide rose about three feet above deck level the vessel suddenly floated, and the patching was found per- fectly water-tight. SO Ie OS ana A Troubled One. From Tid-Bits. It is said that the expression, ‘There 1s a skeleton in every closet,’ arose from the following incident: A young Italian student, finding he was dying, fearing to break the news to his mother, adopted the following device. He informed her that he was ill, and that it kad been foretold he would not recover until he had worn a shirt made by a woman who had no trouble. The widow soon discovered it was no easy task to find such a person, but at length was referred to a iady who seemed surrounded with every comfort and happiness and possessed _a hushand who scemed devoted to her. The widow made known her request, and for an answer was shown a closet, where a_skeleton hung suspended from a beam. She was told it was the remains of a lady’s former lover, who, from motives of jealousy, had been glain’by her husband, and that he com- pelled her to visit it every day. The widow concluded that no one was without trouble, that ‘there is a skeleton 'in every closet,” and became reconciled tothe approaching loss of her son. -—~—— see. The Smart Children. From the New York Times. At a boys’ school, a private school this was, at a recent examination, some of the answers taken from the ‘General Informa- tion"” paper were: Q.—What is a sanitorium? A.—A hos- pital for catching diseases. Q.—What is a solicitor? A.A man who swears. - * Q.—What 1s a creditor? -A.—A believer. Q.—What is the meaning of the word ditto? A.—So are you. A small uptown boy who accompanied his mother to church on a recent Sunday, grew pretty restless before the sermon was over. He finally crept up close to her and whispered, “Mamma, mamma, I feel sick.” “Do you?” asked his mother, rather anx- fously. “Why, where or how do you feel sick?” “Well,” replied the youngster, “I feel homesick.” +e She Wanted to Know. From the Tammany Times. The new servant girl came to her mis- tress crying and holding on to her finger. “What's the matter?” asked the lady of the house. “I stuck one of the forks into my hand, and if it’s plated ware I'll get lockjaw.' “Don't be alarmed,” said the lady, “all my silver is genuine. I don’t keep any plated ware.” Next morning the servant girl and the silver were both missing. HELP OF THE STARS Pauline Pry Looks Into the Myste- ries of Astrology. SHE FINDS OUT HOW If IS DONE Something Very Like Physical Cul- ture Exercises. PROGRESSIVE STAGES Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. : F FROM THIS time on you see me clothed in a blue flame, walking arm in arm with Mr. Mephistopheles, it’s no more than is to be expected. A\\; L have learned how >: tobe an occultist. I have located my sixth sense. I have obtained the meas- ure of the fourth di- mension. I know the potentialities of the Illuminati’s breath, and I have a magnetic eye right with me— not perfectly developed, to be sure, but still not so bad for a beginning. Do evil spirits molest you, I know the fire and the incantation that will disperse them. Are the currents of your being disordered, with- in me I possess the power to harmonize you through and through. Some Examples. Have you ever heard doctors of the old, plue-mass, castoi-oil, quinine school of medicine accused of being anything but grossly inaterial in their beliefs and abso- lutely practical in their methods? I guess not. You can fancy, then, that when I late- ly witnessed two of the most conservative, best-known ¢octors in town hobnobbing with an astrolcger on terms of perfect in- tellectual equality it occurred to me that 1 might also approach the astrologers re- spectfully without prejud.ce to a reputation for horse sense and a sound mind. Then,. besides this, 1 want to recall to your Lotice how current events at the apital are day after day producing testi- mony that there are stranger things in astrology than Herbert Spencer, Felix Adler or any rationalist, perhaps, has dreamed of. As you may know, three weeks after the inauguration of President Cleveland an astrologer registered at the Congressional Library a horcscope he had cast of the forthcoming administration. This horo- scope, diametrically opposed to the prom- ise of glory with which the administration opened, was as follows: “At the moment when Grover Cleveland took the oath of office the celestial solsti- tial sign ‘Cancer,’ which the moon rules, was rising in the eastern horizon, and the four cardinal points occupied by movable signs. What the Stars Tell. “This is an evi! testimony for the stabil- ity and endurance: of the democratic party, and is an equally bad testimony for the policy of the adininistration. Hence, the course of events will be singularly marked with serious and conflicting elements‘of un- certainty with regard to the methods which will be observed in a great many instances. The President's judgment in many cases will be decidedly at variance with the pol- icy which the public will expect to emanate from the head cf the democratic party, which will be the cause of producing some extremely unpleasant conditions and sharp criticisms, aud he will have a far more trcublesome, annoying, disappointing and anxiously vexaticus time of it than any President has had since Lincoln. This is owing to the moon, his ruling planet, being in close conjunction with the malignant Saturn in the lower quadrant of the horo- gcope. “The sign Leo, which the sun rules, de- notes thé wealth of the nation. What are the prospects? Not favorable; for the sun is cadent, out of all dignities, and in no aspect with either Jupiter or Venus to promise wealth. The moon also is in evil aspect with Saturn. During Cleveland’s incumbency there will be discovered some startling mischief or some fearful calamity, something en- tirely out of the general run of affairs in connection with some of our public build- ings, in which the general government is interested. This prediction is based on the position of Uranus in the fourth house, Uranus having ever beer held to signify odd end entirely unexpected calamitie. “The navy will be increased by decided measures. Jupiter, the ruler of the sixth house, placed so powerfully in Aries, the house of Mars, and Jupiter, ruler of the fiery triplicity, being ruled in turn by Mars, who is deified as the god of war, promises the best and most powerful navy afloat. “As for Cleveland personally, the House of Congress will not be very kindly dis- posed toward him on account of the posi- tion of Mars on the cusp of the eleventh house, and just when he thinks he can fully rely on his friends therein for sup- pert there is an extreme liability of their failing him and sc creating unlooked-for disaster to the ad:ninistration. However, in spite of all these evil indications, he will scmehow carry an element of success with him and this will pull him through until near the close. What Was Predicted. “But In 1895 the clouds begin to lower. This will be an extremely disastrous period; affairs go wrong, persoral friends prove false, treachery and disappointment show their gaunt and haggard features in every corner, and trouble boils the kettle. But the most disastrous time of the whole will eventuate in 1896, and the close of lis term will witness the most startling changes in the political histcry of the United States. ‘he indications point to an_ entirely new party; the formation of new prin- ciples, new men and new ideas, which will lead to the relegation of the democratic party to the black forest of oblivion. The Cleveland administration enters with a blare of trumpets and blaze of glory, but will depart under a cloud of sinister con- ditions, and at that eventful time the fol- lowing prediction will be verified—‘The democratic party will fail to elect its ca didate in 1806 If it places one in the field. The verification of this prophecy is doubt- less too familiar to every one for me to need to recount history to sustain it. How- ever, let us see. For the “fearful calamity” foretold con- cerning a public building we have had the Ford's Theater disaster. The prediction of an increase of the navy is made reason- able by the decision of the House last Wednesday to provide for three new battle ships. The lack of harmony foreseen be- tween President Cleveland and the public and Congress is written down an estab- lished fact in the reception of the Presi- dent’s Hawaiian policy. The passage of an anti-administration tariff bill, the de- feat of the Carlisle currency bill, of the revised Carlisle currency bill, and of the gold-paying bond bill; while in support of the prediction concerning the nation’s wealth and the forecast of clouds for 1895, we have a bankrupt treasury and three successive issues of bonds. Whe Modern Astrologer. Thus, impelled not by a woman’s consti- tutional veneration of the superstitious, but by the masculine force of cold political history in relation to horoscopes, I took off my theater hat before the astrologer, who has further enlightened me concerning the future of political events. At first sight I confess to a disappoint- ment in this r-r-real astrologer. Hung cn the walls of my mind is an Egyptian chromo of an astrologer who sits forever on a roof, grand; gloomy and peculiar, his deep, mysterious eyes blind as an owl's by day, seeing by night straight through space and stormy nebulae to the place that a famous and religicus astrorio- mer suggests is the center around which all solar systems revolve. But I found the American counterpart of my ideal astrologer not only located just like anybody else under a roof instead of on top of one, but small, sandy, twinkling- eyed, and—think of it—a man who used to be my tailor. This last fact, however, did not in itself enter into my disappointment, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov’t Report Royal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE for the reason that Annie Besant one time gave me elementary instructions on how to become an occultist. Her whole lesson was “Serve humanity and gain humility.” Knowing, then, that humility is the first condition of occult practices, I knew, too, no service of humanity so well calculated to develop this divine quality as tailoring for women. Moreover, between discussions as to whether a street was or was not a bit shorter on one side than the other, this tailor had frequently puzzled me with re- marks that sounded like paragrapns from the ancient Vedas, so that it seemed alto- gether in line with the survival of the fit- test that he should have passed from tail- oring to mysticism as a profession. Some Practical Results. When I entered, an all-around nice wo- man was sincerely thanking the astrologer for the help her horoscope had been to her, and she then went on to arrange to take private lessons in astrology. “How do you teach astrology?” I esked. “As any other science is taught—by means of text books.” “But,” I said, “a person studies any other science for some practical purpose; what is the use of astrology?” “This—that knowing the limitations of your life, you will not te your energy and destroy your peace of mind kicking against the pricks. It is very valuable, too, in guiding you in the selection of your associates. lor instance, it is suicide to marry a person whese birthday 1s six months from yours. Your suns then are in opposition, and eternal, hopeless an- tagonism must exist between you. If per- sons with opposing suns become united through chance ignorance it is best for them to separate for a time frequently. Otherwise one or both may go crazy. it sometimes happens that similar antago- nisms exist between parents and child or between brother and brother. Where and whenever they do exist, separation 1s the only way to peace. Then, according to astrology, persons are one of four dilfer- ent natures—tiery, airy, earthy or watery, and certain combinations of these natures are fatal. For instance, to seek to unite fire and water is no more impossible than to render happy the union of a person born under control of the fiery triplicity with one born under control of the watery triplic- it; There will be much spluttering be- tween them, until finally one is sacrificea— e water puts out the fire or the fire con- sumes the water, as either one is the stronger. A knowledge of these inevitable relations consequent upon certain well- established conditions enables a person to direct every act of his life intelligently. Napoleon recognized this truth, as you know, and there are today many persons who retain an astrologer, as others do an attorney, by the year.” “Stull,” I urged, “I don’t see how you are ye cf all these things. You say it is so. do you know it?” Practical Application Wanted. “By acquiring a knowledge of planetary influence upon life in general, and learn- ing how to reckon what this influence will be upon the life of an individual born at any given time. The last is a purely mathematical calculation, and like demon- strating a theorem in geometry it is a pro- cess to be understood only by following a prescribed course of study.” es, but in geometry one knows that lines have certain well-established rela- tions to one another. How do you know that there is any relation existing between as- tronomical and human bodies “Because experlence has proved it to be so. I dare say you know that the geometry taught in schovuls is based on experience, which, in the first place, proceeded from a knowledge of sacred members divinely manifested to an illuminated human un- derstanding?” As it happened, I did know this, having only the night before been wrestling with Balzac’s “Seraphita.” But there was so much headache in the khowledge, I didn’t care to extend the parallel between the science of numbers and astrology any further, Besides, it occurred to me that I missing a good thing in not having this man of the heavens train his powers on my own private, particular difficulties, which, up to date, had bafiled the genius of my unilluminated understanding, so I said quite honestly: ‘“f sometimes believe { am_ possessed of b . Now the past three days, I have been giving a brisk imitation of the Wandering Jew. No rest for me anywhere. Something within seem- ed to be driving me to destruction, al- ways and forever just ahead. I couldn't think, couldn’t work, couldn’t sit still, and I've walked miles and miles trying to get easy. What do you suppose it is—a devil or my liver? The Fourth Measure. “You ask that partly in jest. I will an- swer you wholly in earnest. Everything in the universe to the most infinitesimal atom is an individuality, animated by a will of its own. A point in space is the universe in ovo. Therefcre, if you care to use the word, devils, personal devils, are every- where at work. God’s will harmonizes them and peace abounds. Man’s will re- sists them, and so long as man’s will is not subordinated to God's will there is in man perpetual or constantly recurring dis- cord. Enduring rest is only to be attained by complete annihilation of self—denial of desires; denial of thought as ruthless as of action or of eppetite. You may, however, gain temporary peace thus: “Take a eaucer filled with alcohol. Set fire to it and throw salt into the flame, utter- ing as you do a pious prayer and saying: ‘I command you, depart in peace.’ Salt stains an evil spirit, and you will find that troublesome spirits thus exorcised will de- part and leave black spots on the salt, which brand them as the stripes of his clothes brand a convict.” It goes without saying that I have ached to try this cure, but, as luck will have it, I haven't been able to attract a single blue devil since I have learned what to do with him. So much for the preventive power of knowledge in dealing with wickedness. This promise of a taste of the experience of Faust had advanced my mind so glori- ously in the realms of the mysterious that I boldly asked: “Can you give me a meas- vre of the fourth dimension?” “Certainly,” the astrologer answered, and placed on the table a compass. Then un- derneath the board of the table he placed a magnet, and directly the needle of the ccmpass wobbled. “That,” said he, “is the measure of the fourth dimension, which is the dimension of the astral sphere, apd inheres in all substance. Scientists inform us that matter is made up of atoms, and that the form of the atom is a sphere. Now, if you pile up cannon balls in any shape, you have always interstices of space among them. Likewise among the atoms that enter into every material shape, there are infinitesimal spaces, of which the fourth dimension is the measure.” Progressive Stages. “And what is the sixth sense?” “It is the first sense of the soul, and re- sides in the solar plexis, which is the point of contact between the soul and body. It ts this sense,the solar plexis—the ‘king brain’— that above the plane of our undeveloped consciousness directs the operations of those functions we are wont to regard as automatic—the heart, brain, etc. In the man, whose nature is near to the animal, there is no cognizance whatever of this sixth sense. But when the crude forces of life no longer furnish him an incentive to action—when a man has penetrated nature to the point where he pauses to ask, ‘Is life worth living?’ he is just ready to begin the development of the higher life. “If he strives for the higher without hav- ing fulfilled the law of the lower he is like the man who builds his house in a tree-top. MY hen the wind blows the structure will “all.” “Well,” I sald, “I have been asking whether life is worth living ever since I was born, How do you account for that?” “That this is not your first time on earth, Let me see your hand.” Then scrutinizing my palm under a magnifying glass, he went on. “Oh, you are a very, very old soul. This is not your second nor your third incarnation. I think your whole life has been worked to a finish in previous in- carnations, and that you have been sent to earth this time on a mission, which will be revealed to you when the hour arrives. ‘There are troublous times ahead. The earth is about to enter upon a new cycle, and when that cycle ends there will be—no; not a cataclysm, if you can think of a word expressing more complete destruction of the existing order. Not a jot or tittle will re- main. Old things will have passed away, and the universe will bathe itself anew in the eternal fountain of the uncreate crea- tion. As this cycle rolls on, there will be @ constantly increasing general illumina- tion, »nd, conterding against this empire of the spirit, the lower world will give awful battle. We see evidence of it now. Coxey’s army last year—the tramps and beggars that every creases and preys upon society—all these are either souls of animals progressed to the first strata of human experience, or the souls of human beings who in previous lives have used their powers solely serving their urholy love of money. They are Dives from hell, begging from door to door a drink of water. The government, in self- defense, wilt have ultimately to provide these creatures work, and thus, once more securing a proper channel to spend their tore they will advance to their next judg- ment.” The Hindu Breath. I can’t say I felt altogether easy before this picture of the future, and, with a desperate lunge in the dark to get hold of scmething extraordinary in preparation for the fate to come, I said, “Can you teach me the Hindu breath?’ “It can be taught to any one, but oczult knowledge obtained by one unprepared for its reception or used for a selfish purpose means for the offender death and damna- ion.”” I nevertheless said I would chance It, and the astrologer went on. “Breath is the principle of universal life. All things are pessible with it. It is the pulse of God, the heart throb of creation. Man is ignorant of its use, save among the Iilumanati, who constantly employ it for the good of hu- man kind. When the last war between France and Germany seemed imminent it was averted by twelve of the Illumanatl cf Europe, assembling and grieving together until the vibrations from their bodies restor- ed international harmony. Now, I will show yeu. Thus, first place your feet squarely cn the floor; the palms of your hands on your knees; elevate your chin a trifle; fix your eyes on a point just above their level. Now, draw in a deep breath through the top of your nose. Then say—suppose you want love—say ‘Love.’ Then, ‘More love.’ Then, ‘Universal lo Then, ‘I can, must and will have love.’ Then, as you exhale ay breatiy, say, ‘All opposed to love must he breathing exercises taught in physi- cal culture give no power such as results from this exercise, for the reason that they lack the logos. It is the word behind the will; that is, the medium of power. Here is another exercise: Stand erect, 80; your chin and eyes as before. Now breathe in through the upper part of the nose, and as you ejaculate ‘love’ bring your hands up extended before you on a level with your shoulders. Now, as you ejaculate ‘more love,’ simultaneously rise on the balls of your feet, extending your hands forty-five degrees higher. Now, ejaculating ‘Universa? love; I can, must and will have love,’ rise on your toes, and extend your arms straight up from the shoulder, your hands spread out, the fingers stretched to their utmost. Remain fixed in that post- tion, holding the breath as long as it is possible; as your power increases the time will grow longer and longer. Socrates was accustomed to remain in that position breathless eighteen hours. It is through the practice of these exercises that the cases of suspended animation and feats of levitation performed by high caste fakirs of India are accomplished. Now, when you can no longer retain this position, change the thought, saying ‘All opposed to love must go,’ and with the same effort bend forward to the fioor, the knees remainin; unbent and the knuckles of your clench fist pressing the floor The Magnetic Eye. “If you will stop to think,” the astrologer continued, “‘every crisis in your life is met with the power of the breath. Does any- thing offer you resistance, you catch a quick, deep breath and meet the enemy with ‘bated breath,’ as the saying goes. Or does anything make demand upon your sympathy, your breath goes forth and re- mains where your anxious thought is, 50 long as uneducated nature can endure. By educating the breath you thus become able to conquer every foe and raise your fallen friends.” “And how about asked. “That, like all the organs of sense, be- comes magnetic when acting under con- trol of the word and the will. The magnet- ic eye is acquired by fixing the eye om a given point and retaining it there unmoved, till the act becomes painful and unendura- ble. THen rolling it to the side—first one, then the other, then up, then down—in each instance keeping the gaze fixed for the longest possible time.” “You have spoken of the Illumanate, “How does one become illuminated?” “By meditation, which, however, must be accompanied by proper physical conditions, a beef-eating man, with sodden senses, may reflect; he is unable to meditate. The man who meditates must triumph over his ap- petite both for food and for sleep. Other- wise he may succeed in hypnotizing him- self, and he may destroy himself by sud- denly causing vibrations of a higher life to enter his unprepared, weak tenement of clay. He who seeks to meditate, therefore, will, with his senses controlled, be seated with his right foot over his left and with his right hand over his left, gaze at noth- ing, and, carrying in his mind some word, he will think of nothirg. He must not think and he must not go to sleep. Victo- rious over these temptations, his mind ts illumined.” PAULINE PRY. ——= The Judge and the Cyclist. Fiom Handelstidningen. The other day a jocular cyclist, well known in the Copenhagen sporting world, had to answer a summons for riding on the footpath leading to Lyngby Church. The judge thundered out the words, “You have been cycling on the Lyngby Church foot- path.” ‘The cyclist nodded assent. “You will have to pay a@ fine of four krone 2 The accused took four coins out of his pocket and laid them on the bar. “But tell me, your worship, have Prince Waldemar and Princess Marie permission to cycle on the path in question?” The judge rubbed his nose. “Um! No, certainly not. Is this your first offense?” “Yes,your worship, and my last,” answer- ed the culprit. “Well, then, I will let you off with a caution this time.” Our cyclist gathered up his money, made his bow, and walked off. But when he got to the door, the judge called out to him: “Halloa, you there, did you actually see Prince Waldemar and Princess Marie rid- ing on that path?” I? No, your worship!” replied the cy- clist, with a twinkle in his eye, and was gone. a magnetic eye?” I —_——_+ e+ —__—_ si Finical, From Clothier and Furnisher. ‘Tramp—“Thanks for the clothes, mum, but never mind the tie.” Kird Lady—“But you said you wanted to Icok like a gentleman!” Tramp—“That's jest it, lady; but this “ere tie would queer the hul bis! Yer see, they tie their own ties in the saciety 1 moves in, mum.”