Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1896, Page 23

‘DON CAMERON TALKS The Inside History. of. the Grant Third Term Movement. HOW BLAINE LOST AT CINCINNATI Views as to the Monroe Doctrine and the Country’s Future. fO ENCOURAGE COMMERCE (Copyrighted, 1896, by Frank G. Carpenter.) ENATOR CAMERON has announced his in- tention of retiring permanently from the United States Senate. This will take another famous name from the rolls of that body. The Camerons have been prominent in congres- sional matters for the past fifty years Simon Cameron was first elected to the Senate, in 1845, when James Buchanan was called into Polk's cabinet. Buchanan had a senatorial candidate of his own and, as the story goes, when he was appointed Secre- tary of State he came to Simon Cameron and said: “Mr. Cameron, the President has tendered me the position of Secretary of State. What had I better do about it?” “Why do you ask me,” was the reply, “when you have already made up your min to accept it?” . “But I am anxious to know who will suc- eed me as Senator,” said Mr. Buchanan. “I don’t like to leave the Senate until I Imow. “IT rather think that Simon Cameron will,” ‘was the reply. Simon Cameron did succeed Buchanan, and I have heard that the two were never: very close friends after that. Simon Cam- eron served his term in the Senate. He was again re-elected for the six years beginning 1857 and served throughout Buchanan’s ad- ministration. After he left the Senate he became Lincoln’s Secretary of War, then minister to Russia and then again United States Senator, which position he had until when he resigned in favor of his son. Fere or James Donald Cameron has held @ position from that time to this, and when his present term clases he will have been in the Senate twenty years. He has, I understand, several times thought of retir- ing, but has continued his senatorial career im order to show the people that he is something more than the son of his father and that he has an intellectual force and power of his own. When he first entered e Senate he was spoken of as Simon Cam- eron’s son, and his enemies said that he could not be re-elected. After he was again yeturned tothe Senate they prophesied that he would surely go out-when Simon Cam- eron died, and they were not satisfied to give him the credit of being one ofgthe best ; managers in the United States until @ Showed it by his last election, in 1891. A Successful Man. It is hard to see where Senator Cameron’s ferce les. ‘There is nothirg of the slap- cee ee hail-fellow-well-met pol!- clan about him. He ts very reserved, and he has, as a rule, it seems, courted frowns rather than emiles. He has mapped out his own lines and followed them, and has been a success both as a financier and litician. He made a fortune independent- E of his father, and he is said to be gne of the shrewdest businese men in the United States. He began his business life very young. After graduating at Prince- ton he vent into a bank at Middletown, Pa., as clerk, rose to be cashier and finally became president. He then got possession of the Northern Central road, and man- @ged it for many years, including the Period of the late war. This road was cut @ number of times by the confederates, but Seuator Cameron rapidly repaired all damages, and made it of great value to Uncle Sam in carrying our government trcops. It may be that he got his ac- quaintance with Gen. Grant through his position as president of this road, but how- ever that was, he and Gen. Grant became great friends, and during Grant's presi- dency he chose Mr. Cameron as his Secre- tury of War. This appointment was sup- posed to have been made at the instance of Mr. Cameron’s father. It was not. Gen. Grant seldom asked advice as to his ap- pointments, and the nomination of Mr. Cameron to the War Department was a surprise to every one in the Senate. It was Presented when Simon Cameron was in One of the committee rooms, and was promptly confirmed. The old Senator did not want his son to accept it, and the first knowledge Senator Cameron had of his appointment was a telegram from his father announcing his confirmation and ad- vising him to decline to serve. Mr. Cam- ron, however, thought differently. He con- cluded that he would like the position of cabinet minister, and he held the office urtil the close of the Grant administra- tion. During this time his friendship with General Grant became still stronger, and he remained one of Grant's closest friends up to the time of the general's death. Grant’s Third Term and the Three Hundred and Six. The movement for Grant's election toa third term was largely engineered by Mr. Cameron, John A. Logan and Roscoe Conk- Ying. They were the leaders who held_the ous together at Chicago. Just now, when President Cleveland is a pos- sible third-term candidate, the inside his- tory of this movement is of especial in- terest. According to Senator Cameron,the plan to nominate Grant for a third term was not based on the desires of the Grant forces to secure office or power. It was upon much higher grounds, and was, in fact, a patriotic movement, which, had it succeeded, would have tended to the break- ing up of the solid south and %o an entire change in the history of this country. I had a talk with Senator Cameron some days ago concerning this matter. He toid me that Grant was at first averse to hav- ing his name proposed to the convention, but that he afterward left-the matter in the hands of his friends. Said he: “The south was favorably inclined to Grant. The southerners appreciated his generosity + Retepslp rs They had read_with pride & <tory of his trip around the world and reception everywhere by the great men of ali pations. They looked upon him as a — national hero, and when upon his re- from the tour, he made a journey through the southern states, he was re- ceived with enthusiasm everywhere. We it that if he was the candidate he would the democratic po in ‘the south, that the ‘ties there would be & —_ on lines. It was this that urited the 806 at Chicago. It was THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 189¢—-TWENTY-FOUR the feeling that the war was over, = yy had arg. when gga a si ould pei ite by which Gould be only apie col ottwas th time qurt Yt con. “Was there any e e vention, Senator,”. I anbed an neral “Yes, I think so,” was the reply. “Had certain® events: occurred just five minutes | . Sconer nothing could have prevented it. What those things were, I do not wish to Say, as the men most closely connected with them are still living, and it’would not be fair to them. “How about Blaine’s chances of nomina- tion, Senator? You were at the Cincinnati convention of 187@, where he came so near getting the nomination that afterward went to Hayes.” Why Blaine Was Not Nominated. “Blaine would have been the ohoice of that convention,” said Senator Cameron, “had his friends trusted the Pennsylvania delegation. When we met in state conven- tion the unit rule was adopted and the dele- gation was instruct#@ to vote for Hartrantft. When we got to Cincinnati, however, through the influence of Mr. McPherson and Blaine’s friends, this instruction was set aside and the different delegates were per- mitted to vote as they pleased. Blaine had a majority of the members of the delega- tion and had this not been done the vote of the state as a whole would have gone to him after the first few ballots. As it was, however, the unit rule was set aside and the friends of Blaine rather offensively gave the Pennsylvania delegation to understand that they could nominate their candidate without its aid. This angered some of the delegates and it was on this account that, in announcing the change of vote, I gave out the number of the Hayes votes first. The announcement was made at a tims when it required only a hair to turn the tide in the favor of Blaine or Hayes. A rush followed the announcement and Hayes be- camo the candidate. There were more Blaine delegates than Hayes in our delega- tion, and had I announced the Blaine votes first I have not much doubt but that the rush would have been for him and he would have been the candidate. . ‘Have you ever had any ambition to be President, Senator?” I asked. “No,” was the reply, “I have not. It is @ great office, but the duties are arduous and the responsibilities are great. Business Brains in Congress. “Senator Cameron, you have been in the Senate nearly twenty years. You have had @ good chance to judge of tts efficiency. Do you think Congress is a good medium of legislation? Do thy people get what they want out of it?” “I think so,” replied Senator Cameron. “It is a little slow, perhaps, but it gets there after a time. Congress is better than people suppose it to be. Some of the best work done by the body does not get into the news- papers. The business’ of Congress is not done on the floor of the House and Senate, but in the committee rooms. We are more and more nearing the day when the best of our government work must be done by bus- iness brains—by thinking rather than by speechmaking. The great men of Congress, in the eyes of the people, are those who can ebly discuss points of order, who can spend heurs in telling why a bill should be brought in through the right wing of the Capitol, rather than through the left wing, and not as to the value of the bill itself. The ques- tions of the day are practical questions and they requre thought rather than speech- es. We want to know how our commerce may be ir creased and how our financial and material condition may be bettered rather than to shagy how loud the American eagle screams or to boast of the vast extent of country covered by his pinions.” American Ships and How to Get Them “Speaking of -Amertcan commerce, Sen- ator, what do you think would be the best way to increase it?” “I favor the French system," replied Sen- ator Cameron. “I would have the covern- ment pay a bounty, both for the ¢ ilding and the running of American vessels, so much a ton for their construction and so much a mile for every ton transported. All vessels so favored would have to be built in America and manned by American sea- men. They avould be subject to the control of the navy in time of war, and they would be built after such plans that they would be of great assistance to our naval forces.” “But would this plan largely increase our shipping?” “Certainly, it would,” was the reply. “It would cause the investment of millions of dollars worth of capital in American ships. Our ships so favored could underbid the ships of Great Britain and other countries as to our carrying trade, and the result would be a fleet of American merchant ships equal to that possessed by any na- tion of the world. Such ships would fur- nish cheaper transportation for all parts of the country. Ships would be built on the Pacific coast to engage in trade with Asia. There would be cotton ships built on the Gulf of Mexico, and the millions of dol- lars which we pay in freight charges to the English would go into the pockets of the American people.” i “How much do we pay England: in freight charges?” I asked. “T.think the amount ‘fs nearly ’$200,000,000 @ year.” “Do the English pay much in subsidies to their ships?” “Yes, England was paying some time nearly $4,000,000 a year in bounties-to { merchant marine. Italy pays about $3,000,- 000-a_year. France has been paying more than $7,000,000 a year to French ships sail- ing under the French flag, and according to figures which I made when I investigat- ed the subject not long ago, the nations of Europe pay the enormous sum of $25,000,000 every year in subsidies to their shipping.” How Our First Fast Cruisers Were Built. “Speaking of the navy, Senator, it was through your bill that the first fast cruisers were built? “Yes,” replied Senator Cameron, “TI in- troduced that bill during the first term of President Cleveland. I saw that the only way to get the people to take an interest in the navy was to show them we could have the fastest and the best warships in the world. We are, you know, naturally very proud. We want the fastest horses, the fastest yachts and the biggest things of ail kinds in the world. I was talking one day with Mr. Cramp, the owner of the ship yards at Philadelphia, and I asked him if he could build a faster cruiser than any yet constructed. He replied that he could. He said he had just built for Jay Gould of New York and Mr. Harkness of Cleveland the two fastest steam yachts of the world. These were the Atalanta and the Peerless. He had done this because Gould and Hark- ness were willing to pay for them, and he seid that if our government would offer the proper inducements he could make war- ships which would outsteam anything afloat. The fastest warship then was the Esmeralda. It had been built in England for the Spaniards and it could make eigh- teen knots an hour. I asked him if he could beat this. He replied that he could and that he would contract to make a ship — would go at least twenty knots an jour. “Mr. Whitney was then Secretary of the Navy. The matter was presented to him, and a bill was gotten up with the advice of the Navy Department, through which the first fast cruisers were built. The naval authorities thought that twenty knots an hour was an impossibility, and they made the minimum only nineteen knots, and gave the builders a bonus of from one to two hun- red thousand dollars for each knot above this. The first cruiser built made twenty and one-half knots an hour. We have today the fastest warships of the world, and we can build as good ships as any other nation.” A Big Navy and Coast Defenses. “Will not the navy be steadily increased from now on?” I asked. “Yes,” replied Senator Cameron. “TI think so. I believe that we will at once begin to spend a large amount of money for a navy and coast defenses. The people see the necessity of them, and they will not be con- es jwith their present means of protec- tion.”* “Do you think we will have war?” “Not now, and it may not be for a k time in the future. We are a People of in- dependent spirit and are quick to resent in- juries. With this increase of the navy and the increase in our military forces, this spirit will grow, and out of It, through some little thing, may come one of the great wars of the future. This is, however, only conjecture. I do not believe in borrowing trcuble. Still I think we ought to be pre- pared for trouble if it should come upon us unawares.” “What do you think of our relations with South America? Will we ever control the South American trade?” “I think we ought to,” replied Senator Cameron. ‘We ought to do the largest part of the business of this continent.” Te you believe in the Monroe doc- trine?” “Most assuredly -I doy” was the reply. “That doctrine sprang up with our inde- pendence, and it should be sacred to us. The {Grant could hava been nominated?” nation of Burope which had roperty on this contipereee ete ‘time should be permitted to Kold it, but there should be no further Concessions of territory.” © you believe, Senator, in the increase of ee be jes?” “_“Not at present,” replied Senatér Cam- eron, Aon think it Soult be wise. Our coun| not yet one-tenth avelopen: Few of us realize how big the pouty Hee We could support population froi mn to twen' es the size of that which we have now. The United States has some of the richest lands of the globe, and our people will grow in wealth and power as time goes on. I do not believe in spread eagleism, but Iam wonderfully impressed with the great- ness of the United States and of the Ameri- can people. There is nothing like to com- pare with them on the face of the globe, and we are only at the beginning of our pros- perity. I don’t mean to say that there will not be a temporary financial trouble, such as we are having now. These will come and go, but above them, and with them, the na- tion will move onward with giant strides. . FRANK G. CARPENTER. es ‘CREMATION IN NEW ENGLAND. Spray of Petroleum Produces a Tem- perature of 3,000 Degrees hrenheit. From the Boston Hvening ranscript. ‘When the stockholders of the Massachu- setts Cremation Society meet to hear the reports of officers and to review the second year of the society’s existence, they will find that, contrary to the experience of most cremation societies, the second year of this one has been more successful than the first. In most societies the second year shows a falling off in the number of cre- mations, due to a flagging interest. After that the number of cremations has shown a ‘steady increase. The Massachusetts socie- ty began the cremation of bodies January 4, 1894, and in the first year eighty-seven bodies were thus disposed of, some of them having been held for cremation from the last months of the preceding year. This year eighty-five bodies have been cremated, an actual increase in number over last year of about ten. Perhaps no more forcible argument has been made in favor of cremation as a mode of disposing of the bodies of the dead than the experiencd of the contractors who were engaged in the construction of the subway, who found it necessary to remove two or threg hundred bodies along the Boylston street mall, and bury most of them together in trenches. The members of the society point to this fact as one of the most strik- ing illustrations of the advantages of cre- mation. The growth of cremation has been slow, but it has been sure. The first cre- matory in this country was erected by Dr. Julius Le Moyne in Washington, Pa., in 1875. In the first decade only thirty-six bedies were cremated; in the second decade 264 bodies. The Boston system differs from that of most other incinerators in that a spray of superheated petroleum is used, and a heat of 3,000 degrees can be secured. Under this system expensive coffins are unnecessary, and the body is not removed from the co! fin. even if it is of lead, but goes directly into the retort. —_—+-e+—___ T00 FAT To s: A Woman Who Found One Method of Suicide Impracticable. From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. F At Anns Mills, a little hamlet near New- ville, Pa., lives Alexander Geese, a well- known farmer and respected citizen. His wife, Sarah Jane Geese, has a reputation as being one of the heaviest women, if not the heaviest, in the county. Of recent years her weight has been steadily in- creasing, until now she weighs over 300 pounds. She and her husband have twelve ehildren, and their domestic life has been happy, but her size has evidently preyed upon her mind, making her despondent. Yesterday morning she left her home and proceeded to the banks of the Conodoguinet creek, a stream about 100 feet in width, which runs near her home. She took her position on Gallows bridge, and jumped into the deep stream, swollen and muddy from the recent rains, proposing to end her troubles. She had neglected to consider a subject which has an important bearing on a pro- ject such as hers, that of specific gravity. She was too fat, and despite her most des- perate efforts her body would not sink, and although she tried to hold her head under long enough to drown herself, she did not succeed. Her heavy body turned over and over, and finally righting itself, floated peacefully down the stream, with the head on top. By this time the woman’was near- ly frozen, ard made no further efforts to end her life. For three hours her body fioated calmly on the stream, unobserved, gradually floating downward with the cu rent. She was finally discovered and res- cued. She will recover. —+e+—____ Written for The Evening Star. Goa’s Gift. ‘When heaven designed ‘To bles mankind, A voice epratg forth from world to world, And every sphere Was thrilled to hear: Eternal Peace unfurled!" Stars gemmed our Banner's azure hue, E ‘And lines of joyous light ran through! “Behold! “War nations saw With hope, hate, awe, ‘The consecrated Banner waves ‘The forest round ‘Was Holy Ground: “We come! For Man is not » lave!” dom’s Stars!’ “And from their deeps, With gisnt leaps, ‘The ocean billows ’reee to see ‘The wondrous Sign, ‘The Gift Divine, And shouted to their shores: “Be Free!” ‘The mountains echoing everywhere, Answered the universal air! ~ “And still that Light Disperses Night, Electrifies the brain, the heart; It may not cerse: And Truth, Love, Peace, Shall strike all links of wrong apartt America’s grand Banner, hall! By God bestowed, thou can’st not fail. SEATON DONOHO. Ivywall, Dec., 1895. —_—__ He Drew a Revolver. From Harper's Bazar. “It is a great thing to be ap artist. You know Cadberry?” “Yes,” “He was attacked by footpads the other night and was wholly unarmed, but he drew a revolver—" “You said he was unarmed.” “I know it. He drew his revolver on the sidewalk with a piece of chalk, and—' At this point the police intervened. ———_+ e+ —____. High Love Below Stairs. From London Purch. Tho Venps of the Servants’ Hall—“Me get- ting fond of Richard? I should think I was! Why, he’s only got to look at me, and I tremble all over like an aspen jelly!” SOME CURIOUS KITES ont Which Are Being Exporimented With by theWeather Bureau. WOULD ASTON THE SMALL BOY They Go Up With a Rush and No Tails. Have seus 1¢ TWO MILES" IN HEIGHT : T HERE SURELY never was anything quite so remarkable in its way as the new kite, which is about to be employed by the weather bureau for studying the almost unknown regions of the upper air. This is an entirely new field of. exploration, and the scientific ex- Perts of the govern- Ment propose to in- vade it and record observations with in- struments of precision, The facts thus gathered are expected to simplify the busi- ness of making weather forecas:s, and to render the latter much more accurate than heretofore, Much may be accomplished eventually in this way by ascents in bal- loons, but, pending hoped-for improvements in such flying apparatus, kites are to be em- ployed. Experiments are now being made with a species of kite which would astonish the best-informed small boy. Nobody unac- quainted with the higher principles of aerostation would imagine that such a thing could possibly fly. It looks more like a series of dry goods boxes strung together than like akite. The boxes, however, are of silk, and they have no tops or bottoms. A string of five of them weighs only twenty-five ounces, the framework being of very light sticks of wood. But you ought to see the machine go up. It doesn’t fly like an ordinary kite; it goes up into the air with a rush, and soars far aloft like’a hovering bird, almost with- out perceptible motion. The inventor of this strange flying ma- chine is Mr. 8. A. Potter of the weather bureau's staff. Recently he invited your correspondent to go out to his country place near Washington and see his kites go up. There were a number of them, all con- structed on the same principle, but having @ varying number of boxes or “cells,” as they are termed. The most servicable pat- tern thus far seems to be that which con- sists of only two boxes. Stood on end, It {s three and a half feet high, and its weight is exactly thirteen ounces. It has fifteen square feet of silk or muslin, the fdea being that the weight shall not exceed one ounce for each square foot of lifting surface. Mus- lin is used for every-day experiments, but silk is lighter, and, therefore, better. A Strong Puller. On the crest of @ hill was a huge reel, wound Itke a spool, with 2.000 feet of strong cord. The reel was belted to a table, the legs of the latter being ‘driven deep into the ground, and otherwise secured. This ar- rangement was necessary because of the tremendous pull of! the kites, which other- wise would run away with table, reel and all. Mr. Potter tied one of his two-story kites to the end of the string, tossed it into the air, and up it shot as naturally as a bird would rise on the:wing. Out ran the cord from the reel, and up and up soared the kite Into the blue empyrean, where it hung almost motionless at @ height of 800 feet, perhaps. “The wind is light today,” said Potter. “With a good breeze I have sent my kites as high as 2,000 feet. We are only at the beginning of our.experiments, and we shall do ever so much ‘better before long. In the first place, this cord i¢ very heavy, and a few hundred feet of it weigh a good deal, 80 as to pull down the:kite. At the weath- er bureau we are getting ready a lot of very fine but strong steel wire, and that is to be substituted for the cord. It will weigh not nearly as much, and will be bet- ter for the purpose altogether. With this improvement in the apparatus, I expect to be able to raise kites to an altitude of at least .a mile. Whe we can do that, we shall be in a position to ascertain import- ant facts about the upper regions of the atmosphere. Eventually we hope to attain an elevation of two miles or more. “It is of the utmost importance that the kite shall hang in the air as nearly without motion as possible, because it is intended to carry various self-registering instru- ments. Under such circumstances it would not do to have the machine diving and plunging about. One of the instruments which we propose to use is for determining temperatures in the upper levels of the air. It weighs about two pounds, being made chiefly of aluminum, and contains a clock- work mechanism, by means of whjch a thermometer record is inscribed on a sheet of white paper. Other apparatus is now being devised by Prof. Marvin of the weather bureau, for automatically register- ing wind velocity, humidity and barometric Ppressure—the last being a measure of height, of course. Perhaps, also, we shall make note of the amount of electricity present in the atmosphere at different levels. When Balloons Will Be Used. “Knowledge of all these conditions has much to do with the science of forecasting tke weather. It may fairly be said that the key of successful forecasting is to be found in acquaintance with the conditions of the upper air. When we are able to make ac- curate observations at heights from one mile to two miles above the surface of the earth, we shall have made a great step ahead. But, while we hope to accomplish much by this exploration of elevated regions of the atmosphere,respecting which almost nothing is known at present, it is too early to speak with confidence. As yet we have scarcely begun our work. Prof. Moore, chief of the weather bureau, to whom all the credit of this idea is due, proposes to send Prof. Hazen up in a bal- Joon in the midst of a storm,some day be- fore long, for the purpose of securing ob- servations. “That has nothing to do with kite flying, hewever. Our new reel for the latter pur- pese will be wound with 10,000 feet, or near- ly two miles, of steel wire. An important advantage of the wire is that it offers com- paratively ttle resistance to wind. If you have 2,000 feet of cord a thirty-second of an inch thick, upheld by a kite, the surface presented by it to the wind is very consid- erable, and the resistance to the alr cur- rent thus offered tends to pull the kite down. Accordingly, the kite on a wire is able to rise much higher, and the higher it gces the greater tHe velocity of wind which it finds to the higher ‘or wind velocity in- creases as the higher ‘levels of the atmos- phere are reached) ater wind velocity means increased lifting power for the kite, so that it can sustain ore wire. It is by figuring on these data'that we arrive at a reasonable expectation’ of being able to fly cur kites at an ele¥ation of two miles when our arrangements dre completed.” While he talked'Mr. Potter had not been idle. The two-story kite still floating in the ‘ir, he attached 3 separate piece of cord 100 feet in lengti’ to another kite of the same pattern. The ey of this string he tied to the main ‘ford’ near the reel, and then he tossed kite No. 2 into the air. It rose rapidly, and a moment later there were two artificial birds of muslin and sticks soaring aloft, one far above the other. This Process was repeated With a third kite, and that-was.sent up if Ike manner. The strain on the cord had become by this time very considerable, and Mr. Potter explained that in a high wind it was the hardest kind of work to fetch a flock of his birds to earth again, the pull being sometimes forty pounds or more, In a severe gale it might PERFECTION IN AROMA, FLAVOR RICHNESS AND DIGESTIBILITY. ron to 100 pounds, with half a kites thus strung in tandem fashion. A Kite’s Lifting Power. surface and making allowance for the s} we can calculate pretty closely the el tion of each kite. A two-cell kite in a fair breeze will lift three pounds; in a gale it will carry eight pounds.” “What is the cause of that peculiar, pur- ring noise which the kites make all the time?” asked your correspondent. “It is the vibration of the muslin, due to the wind,” replied Mr. Potter. “I could show you something “moro interesting than that If we were using wire instead of cord. I have flown my kites repeatedly with wire, and always an electric curnent along the wire has been noticeable. Some- times it is very slight, while at other times it been so strong as to give severe shocks and send out sparks half an inch in length. To avoid the shocks I have been obliged repeatedly to ground the wire by hanging another piece of wire over it. This electrical action is due to differences “You see,” eaid Mr. Potter, “by arrang- ing them in this way we ecati get any amount of lifting power that we want, and heavy Instruments may be carried to a great height. In order to make simulta- neous observations at different levela, we have only to arrai the si kites along the mals cord at Sctermined intervals. We know just how much wire has run off the reel, and by taking into ac- count the angie cf the wire to the earth’ a pontneen ot sticks an ‘of rags. Such a toy bears the same rela- to the Chinese kite as is borne by the fiint hatchet to the modern In the collection spoken of are kites in the shape of frogs, lizards, cranes, owls, gigantic files and enormous grasshoppers. But by far the most extraordinary is a kite thirty feet long, in the shape of a like dragon. No one but a Chinaman or a Japanese would suppose that such a thing could be flown. It is composed of a number each e@ foot in diame- ter, fastened together with spaces between by a éord running the length of the dragon, which has a ferocious-looking paper head. The string held by the manipulator of this interesting plaything is attached at three tion of pasteboard disks, _PAGES. ax. to soar a simple paper, with a tail nake- or more points in the length of the dragon, 80 that the latter may be controlled in t! air. While afloat the long teil has an un. dulating and serpentine motion, thus pro- ducing a very realistic effect. ing ————_—_ Story of a Dog. From the London Spectator. May I give another instance of the power which dogs seem to possess of understand- We have a black-and-tan terrier called Jack, who has a rooted objection of spending a night alone, and is therefore allowed to sleep with one of my brothers. A short time ago they were all from ho-ne, and an order was given early in the evening (Jack being present) that he was to sleep with the groom away from the house. Ways remains in the room until the rest of what is said in their presence? RENE BACHE. Jack, who al- the household retire, disappeared this par- ticular evening very soon afte: the order was given, and was not seen again. When we went upstairs, however, there he was curled up in an arm-chair in my younge: sister's bed room, evidently settled for the night, ond as we entered he looked up and wageed his tail as if he were begging to be allowed to stay. @ had never been known to go to bed early by himself, or in that particular room, we all felt sure he haa understood the order, and hoped these means to escape. don’ in the amounts of electricity present at vi rious atmospheric levels. It is very odd, by the way, to notice the way in which crows behave with regard to kites. Close by here, in the neighborhood of the National cem- etery at Arlington, is one of the greatest crow roosts in the country, and often the birds fly around the kites in flocks, squawk- ing and exhibiting every symptom of cu- riosity.”” Though the new kite is Mr. Potter’s own invention, the idea from which it is derived was original with an Australian experi- menter named Hargrave. The Hargrave kite, however, is heavy and very difficult to start a-flying. Like the Potter kite, it consists in its simplest form of two boxes, topless and bottomless, joined together by a frame of wood. But the boxes are re tangular, whereas those of Mr. Potter’ kite are diamond-shaped. By this modifi- cation of form Mr. Potter is enabled to make his frame ever so much lighter, so that the whole affair weighs scarcely more than a pound. Any boy can make such kite and fly it far more easily than one of the ordinary sort. It files itself, one might » Tequiring only to be tossed into the air when there is a fair breeze blowin The Potter kite has several times the lif ing power of the common kite, possessing four plane surfaces instead of one. Kites Without Tails. The scientific kite, like man in his descent from the apes, has lost its tail. Before the new Potter kite was invented the weather bureau experimented with Malay kites five feet high, of muslin. The Malay kite is built on the same plan as an ordinary boy's kite, though somewhat simpler, having only two sticks instead of three. As many as a dozen kites of this kind were flown on one cord, tandem fashion, like the Potter kites. They were constructed on mathematical principles, and thus got along without tails; but they dived and plunged a great deal, and were by no means satis- factory for purposes of meteorological ob- servation. Recently experiments have been made with serding up kites of the Potter type with cameras, by which photographs were taken from considerable elevations. A noticeable point about these photographs was a pecullar distortion of the perspec- tive. By means of kite observations it is in- tended to make a sort of profile map of the atmosphere, in which curves of tempera- ture and barometer will be located for dif- ferent seasons of the year. Such data may be valuable to engineers of flying machines when practically perfected, just as charts are useful to sailors. By means of them it will be easy to determiue what currents of air are likely to be met with at various heights. It is imagined that kite flying on scientific principles may be serviceable in future wars. A camera sent up on a line of kites may be utilized to take photo- graphs of the enemy’s forces and fortifica- tions. Kites may even carry bombs filled with high explosives and drop the latter where they will do the most zood. The signal corps could be easily and cheaply equipped with kites which would weigh little and might be folded up in small space. In the National Museum is a remarkable Doctors’ i Mistakes. TREATING THE WRONG DISEASE. How large bills are run up without benefit to the sufferer. 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