Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1896, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1896-28 PAGES. “ELECTRICITY IN WAR Some of the Important Inventions Revolutionizing Warfare. FIELD TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Balloon and Kite Photogrametry and Electric Gun Firing. DEVIC w SPEAKING OF) the great advances in milftary, science, a Govern and rmy officer recently aid: “If ele-tricity had been reduced to ts present practical bi during Napo- leon’s time, or even more of I ng she ogos Paris or the bis- ~ world ichmend. Sebastopol. tid have been greatly change fistinctive mark of fa ed by the government > have been on of prac e. The re- tive competition, and useful methods hav been Lalloon litera is es- ly_ the. first rapid and done the at Practic balloon with which can 1 sik affair now ing gan, Col. It has bee is arge ed oper y. 7 which has te 14,000 “et, a balloon ho gaso- with a cubical capacity of 1,000 feet. s3 of the balloon as tried zhove has led to the remodeling cf the nce Wagon, which is now a balloon wagon & suce > gas is pounds t minutes make ! inflate, pac! n. This, in hods of to the old way fiftye hours moderr ast quired The Alien Telegraph and Telephone Kit—Drawn From Photograph. which the only way of communica by me the on was ns of weighted letters dropped from ket. Signals from captive balloons are and cam be transmitted in a variety of ways Sending Messages. If the balloon is to be used for r neitering purp thé result of th ions may be telegrapked or telephon- ed down the cable to the wagon, from whence it can be relayed or retelephoned to any further point of destination. The flag waving code or the ineliographigy sys- tem as was used at Fort Logan might be employed also. At night, if messages are to be transmitted to a distant point, incan- Geseent lamps operated by storage bat- teries would be used. Following the sug- ion of a Governor's Island officer lamps id be suspended from the cable of a nd flashed in and out ac- agreel-upon code. This is, a variation of the Ardois system signaling. Balloon photogrametry or the surveying and photographing of distant fie has improved of late. The invention telescople photographic lenses has a artment of military In fact, the balloon Bicycle Field Telegraph phone Reel, Showing Side View. » in warfare ts one that Is capable tefinite development. The pos- laimed for the balloon of the fu- | dazzling. For instance. army of- hat there is nothing improbable supposition of a general of fu- ing a balloon as a point of observa- i orders by wire to An officer with his eye could be ia tion with every gun on commander of a man- his conning tower is able to per- scnally operate every gun on his ship. Flying Field 1 modern United States gccouterment, fing the flying field telegraph and tele- s superseded thé heavy telegraph h his feet under ommunic electric the field, just as th lial of other days. The size of the kit is so small that it can be ‘gar with ease. t not weigh over thirteen pounds. There is a diminutive Morse key and buz- ze ! one wire over which messages from eth instruments can be sent simultaneous- ly. The delicacy of the telephone is so ex- quisite that the faintest whisper can be transmiited a very great distai small battery carried on the back supplying th. necessary current. The usefulness of t rument is not Imited to flying fleld Its inventor is Capt. James Allen of United States signai corps, and he has some experiments with it that prove ) possess wonderful efficiency. he bicycle fleld reei for paying owt tele- graph wire has simplified the equipment of the flying lines toa minimum. The form of the is such that one man can trans- pert two miles of insulated double con- ¢uctor wire with as much rapidity as 4 column of cavalry can move. graph equipment conststing of several gors and a lot of paraphernalia already exists in Fort Sheridan in the department of Missouri. Undoubtedly, quick work can be done with it. but the far better method of communica- tion, by telephone, is preferred by many en- gineers. By means of a bimetallic wire, having a steel core covered with copper, it 4s possible to telephone between two point: through one strand of wire, even though the wire be non-insulated and lying on wet ground. The peculiar properties of this A complete | tain Charollois has devisefl a means of using it for army purposes. His system embraces a reel and trarsmitters, which can, with enough wire to cover a very appreciable distance, be carried by one man. The reel, ete., are. carried like a heversack and take up no more room. The earth is used as a return circuit and the “ground” is generally made by attach- ing one end of the wire to a sword or bayo- net stuck in the earth. In the experiments 10,000 feet of wire were used. It was weund and unwound. . A regiment of cav- alry passed over it. It was sunk in mud, passed through trees, bushes, over rocks and finally up the cable of a captive bal- lccn, and yet signaling went on between each end of the line without interruption. Reels attached to bicycles and to cavalry- men were tried, and lines of communication were very quickly opened and operated at a distance of a mile. The phonograph particularly hax been suggested as a better means of dispatcn sending than anything heretofore tried. The microphone is now being experiment- ed upon with a view to making it avails ble for detecting the approach of a hostile ferce while the latter Is yet some distance away and far beyond ordinary hearing. ‘The microphone as now used will magnify the sound of the footsieps of a fly until it is almost as loud as the noise made by a hoof: - ery great change has taken place in the sapping and mining department of the army since electricity was introduced on @ practical basis. Mines are now laid by the engineer corps and expléded with a) than wh far greater degree of nicety slow burning fuses were used, Rivers can now be svarded almost by one man, st tioned where he can operate a circuit in which a number of submarine torpedoes are included. The torpedoes used im t army differ from those used in the .navy. The Gen, Myer Military Balloon and Crew. The latter include a propelliaz spoaratus which carries them through the water; these used In the army are generally archored at the bottom of a strea Given a number of torpedoes, judiciously placed, a single officer could make the passage across a river py en army a decidedly hazardous undertaking. Saving of Time. The value of electric firing as far as the guns themselves are concerned is admitted particularly on shipboard or for coast de- fense. There Is no Icst interval of time be- tween the command of the gun captain and the actual exploding of the piece. The instant the gun fs to be fired, the officer connects the circuit and the ball is on its way to its destination. If the object almed at be a distant vessel, rising and falling with the waves, or a moving body of cav- alry on land, the value of an instant dis- charge can be easily recognized. Another electrical invention connected with gun firing is the range finder. ‘Tae journal of the military service insti- tution which is published ‘cn Governor's island describes several of these instru- ments, both for army and navy use. They are all, however, built on one principle. ‘That of Licut. Fiske {fs very simple in con- struction. Although generally used on ship- board, it can be used just as well on land, ‘Two telescopes mounted on standards are placed at a given number of feet apart. They are connected to each other by an electric circuit, which also includes a dif- ferentiating apparatus on which are record- ed the various angles at which the teles- cope are placed. The mechanism of the ap- peratus is so perfect that the moment both telescopes are pointed at a distant object, the number of miles or feet from the vessel er fort at which the object is stationed is at once automatically pointed out on a scale. This fact being known, the proper elevation fer the gun can be easily ascer- tained. Electric kite signaling ts being experl- menged with on Governor's Island. At- teched to one of the kites recently sent up was a lamp on which a shutier or blind was placed. The shutter was operated from the ground, so that flashes long or short were obtained and a system of signals in- troduced. One of the objects sought for ts a means of controlling and directing the flight of a kite. Another is the intelligent manipulation of a camera attached to the kite string. Electrical apparatus will effect the latter object. The shutter of the camera at- tached to the string has heretofore been drawn by means of an extra cord running parallel to the kite string. It would not be possible to operate this in military practice. Kites are now flown at the extreme altitude of one mile. The mechanical stress in op- erating a shutter with a cord at this height would be very great, even supposing the effort to operate it did not pull the kite out of the desired plane. A magnetic contriv- ance operated through these wires attached to or laid inside the kite string is to be tried and it is expected will work satisfac- torily. 2 ed Biack and Died. tford Courant. A peculiar case from a medical standpoint was that of Luther W. Thrasher, a young man who died suddenly last Monday morn- ing. His death was due immediately to heart failure, with liver complication. The peculiar part of the case and the feature which proved so interesting to the physicians consulted was that about three months ago the boy began to turn black. The nigrescence continued, and at the time of his death he was as dark as or darker than most negroes. His case was very puz- aling, as the liver rarely affects the skin except to turn it a pale yellow in cases of jaundice, and his heart had never given him any trouble at all up to last Sunday, and was censidered in good conditioi About noon on that day he was taken with a fit of vomiting. Dr. Howard of Wethers- field was called and discovered that ‘Thrasher’s pulse could not be felt at all at his wrist, and at once recognized the heart trouble, but as the pattent was young the doctor thought he might rally A little brandy was administered. It did not seem to answer, however, and about midnight the young man died. Dr. Howard was seen at his office last night. He accounted for the change of color through the improper secretion of the bile, but how this could af- feet the pigment in that manner he could not explain. He admitted that it was only a theory, and that he had never known of another case of the kind. coo Tired of It. the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Hurry, hurry, my dear, the house is on ! Quick, this way to the fire escape! ‘To the fire escape! Oh, dear, what a nuisance!” > ‘A nuisance?” Ser Yes. This will make the fourth time to- day that I've put on my bicycle skirt. and laced up those horrid boots! There, there, don’t you hurry me.” ——— --+00 With the From the New York Herald. Fro wire have been known for some time, and when it first appeared there was much taiic of the possibility of being able to talk over 4t across the ocean. A Practical Test. It will, however, perform very creditable featg on land, and in France at least Cap- Tom—“I made an expensive call last night. Dick—“How so?” ‘ae m—“Called on three kings—cost me ———---+ e+ . Expected a © From Tid-Bits. “Johnny,” called his mother, “stop using that bad language.” “Why? replied the boy. “Shakespeare said what I just did.” “Well,” replied the mother, growing in- furiated, “you should stop going with him. He's no fit companion for you.” CHRISTMAS TREES Some Novel Features This Year for Their Decoration. DESIGNED © T0 PLEASE CHILDREN Where Those Used in Washington Homes Are Obtained. INSTEAD OF TREES ening Star. ASHINGTONIS about the southern limit of the Christ- mas tree custom,” said an observant marketman to a Star reporter yesterday. “The Christmas tree is rarely seen nowa- days in distinctly southern cities, for the reason that in the. south the ‘green Christmas” happens in elght cases out of teu. The full effectiveness of the Chirist- mas tree can only be obtained when the Christmas trec season, which properiy lasts from Christmas day until ‘little Christmas dey,’ on January 8, is cold, and, preferably snowy. The whole idea of the Christmas tree is to have something cheer- fully green in the house as a contrast to the cheerlessness and deadness of the out- side, snow-mantled world. Snowy and de- cidedly cold Christmas seasons are far from common in Washington, yet, owing to the great numbers of people from north- ern states who live here, the Christmas tree is an exceedingly prevalent national capital institution. To the majority of northern folks residing here Christmas would be no Christmas at all without the tree. é “I should say that at least 30,000 Christ- mas trees are sold in Washington every year. They vary greatly in price. Tne cheapest can be bought for a quarter. and the most expensive costs as much as $30. On one of the Christmas days during tne first administration of President Cleveland the late Mrs. Whitney decorated a Christ- mas tree for the children from an or- Phanage. It was about a_ twenty-foot spruce, and cost $50. It was decorated with several hundred dollars’ worth of toys and ether stuff. Rich people living in Wash- ington sometimes pay $20 for Christmas trees varying from ten to twenty feet in height. “The cheapest grades of Christmas trees are brought to the Washington markets by colored men, who gather them in the near- by counties of Maryland and Virginia. They get from half a dollar to $2 for them. ‘They are the common cedars that abound in most woodlands. The.expensive Christ- mas trees are shipped here from Maine and Wisconsin. These are generally high-class pines, covered with cones. The nursery- men in the New England states make a reguler business of growing and training Christmas trees, and a Christmas tree nursery was recently started out at Bright- wood. It will probably be a long time, however, before we sell any of the trained Brightwood Christmas trees, for it tak at least ten years to grow them from the seed. Prepared for the Market. “The pine and sprue Christmas trees are, of course, the best, and the greater number ef cones on them the more they cost. The trees are ordinarily sawed off about a foot from the ground, but the custom of dig- ging them up, reots and all, transplanting them in tubs filed with sofl and selling them thus is growing. This is a good scheme, for the best of sawed-off Christ- mas trees loses its fresh appearance within a week, owing to the withering’ effect of the heat from the lanterns and candles ornamenting it. When the trees are sawed or dug up they present a rough, uneven appearance, and the Maine and Wisconsin Gealers employ men to prune them into the proper Christmas tree shape with shears. “There will be numerous novel features in the decoration of Christmas trees this year,” said a leading dealer in toys and holiday gear. ‘‘There has always hereto- fore been a good deal of danger in the light- ing of Christmas trees, and fatal accidents from the sudden igniting of the trees and their inflammable decorations have been numerous. Small vari-colored mica-sided lanterns will be used in large measure this yeat for the lighting of the trees. These little lanterns aave in their bottoms a tiny, tin cup, in which is placed a sponge saturated with kerosene oil. A miniature wick rises from the sponge, and this is lighted before the lantern is hung on the tree. The danger from Christmas tree fires is thus practically eliminated. “The Eskimo Christmas tree is going to be seea in a good many Washington homes this year. The tree’s boughs are loaded with artificial snow and hung with cun- ningly wrought glass icicles, and a lot of tiny kimo doil people are tied in life- like attitudes to the branches. This makes a sufficiently wintry tree, and the effect is quite beautiful. Some Novelties in Trees. “The fairy tree is a new one this year that will delight children living the blissful Hans Andersen period of their existence. All of the boughs of the tree are filled in with fine cobweb tinsel, through which peep diminutive will-o’-the-wisp lights. Set amid the tiasel little fairies with wands and wings are gleaming in silver drapery, the fairy queen enthroned in state the top of the tree. “A Christmas tree hung with several dozen or scores of tiny Japanese lanterns, under which walk as many dozen or scores ot petite Japanese children with parasols, has a pretty-effect. A tree being climbed all over by a whole village of Palmer Cox brownies is another novelty of this season. “The ‘Swiss Family Robinson’ tree is not exactly an inexpensive affair, but the Washington children of the wealthy will dance around these quaint trees this year. It requires a special kind of a tree, but the ingenious head of a family can tinker up a good ‘Swiss Family Robinson’ tree in a few hours. He must cut out some of the tree’s branches half way up the trunk. The tree must be set on the floor and not on a table. On the floor, at the base of the tree, a platform is made, and then a little stair- case is built up from the platform to where the tree's branches begin to spread. A small house, cheaply painted, is erected around the trunk at the top of the stair- case. Partitions of wood or pasteboard are put in this little house, the walls of which should be papered. The house ts open at all sides except the rear, and is furnished with tiny chairs, upon which sit dolls rep- resenting the various members of the hap- py Robinson family. ‘The tree is hung with lanterns. Lookouts are placed here and there, like the fighting tops of men-of-war, and a little bit of bg) ang pulley is ar- ranged for raising and lowering things from the ground. I think the ‘Swiss Fam- ily Robinson’ tree is-calculated to please children many years past the tinsel and lollipop age. x In Place of Trees. “I got an, orter y@terday for the con- struction of a peculiar and novel kind of a tree at the home of’a Chicago gentleman with a large family gf children, living up in the northwest sect! It is to be an in- genious sort of substitute for a Christmas tree. fo fill the order I'll first have to have built the skeleton of. an Indian wigwam. This is to be five feet’from the floor to the peak, and almost as much in diameter. It is to be covered with, white muslin, and set up in the corner of *4'room covered with white canvas. The top of the wigwam of muslin is to be sprinted with spangles un- til it shines like snow gleaming in the sun- light or the moonlight. The three poles protruding from the wigwam are to cross at the top, and icicles and tiny lanterns are to hang from them. Down one of the sides of the tent a little Indian will be seen to- bogganing. All of the Christmas presents for the Chicago man’s children are to be put inside the tent. There will be plenty of room within the tent for several children to play inside. People not so wealthy could get one of these wigwams up at compara- tively small cost. “Another odd substitute for a tree will be set up in a western Congressman’s Washington home. It is to be an exact du- plicate in miniature of his suburban home in the west. The estate will be shown on a platform about three feet high and six feet by six on the surface. The Queen Anne house, the barn, the stables, the smoke house and implement house are to be ex- actly represented, as are the clothes il the vegetable afd flower gardens, the walks, shrubbery, trees, and little iron fence. A doll nurse will be shown wheel- ing a doll baby carriage on the front carriage walk; the coachman wili be seen driving a span of horses hitched to a tittle carriage out of the barn; the do! maid will be exhibited hanging ‘out the clothes. If this is not something that will surprise the Congressman’s children, they must be very self-contained indeed. Some Odd Ideas. “A somewhat expensive but exceedingly beautiful tree that the head of a Washing- ton electrical institution is to have for his children will be lighted by tiny incandes- cent electric lights of many colors. They are to be strung through the tree, and a simple twist of the screw will turn them on and off. “A unique tree that one of the taxider- mists of the National Museum is to fix up for his children will be tenanted by ani- mals alone. This gen n has put in his odd moments for ncariy an entire 3ear in dressing up little furry animals in’ minia- ture for the decoration of his Christmas tree for this season. I suppose ne has as many as twenty different specimens of animals, and several of each variety. Lit- tle huntsmen are to be represented alm- ing toy guns from their vantage points on little knolls underneath the tree at the animals. The tree is to be elaborately sil- ver spangled, to give the proper wintry. effect. “A German custom which is to be intro- duced in at least ore Washington home that I know of this year is rather beauti- ful. This is a realistic representation of the staole in which Christ was born. ‘The infant Christ is shown lying in the man- ger, over which the Virgin leans. Joseph reclines at a short distance. Kaesling be- fore the manger are the wise men of the east, bearing in their hands small censors of frankincense, whic is fragrantly burn- Ing, and from whteivirenl smoke arises. The presents for the children of the house in which tnis is to becpictured sre to be put in the stable.” yo: 1 are ee Poor Hawkins, From the New York Heyalil.,, Nothing is more agreeable to the man who likes to tell a story, and who knows that he can tell it weil, “than to have for a wife a lady who is great on absolute cor- rectness ‘of detail, and who is willing to See that this accuracy of detail marks your story telling. deed Hawkins is thus blest in the partner of his chotce. He and his wife were at a din- net the other eyening, “étid Hawkins hada capital little ‘story to. tell, and this is the way, he told it: ge “It was last Wednésdat* hé began, whet Mrs. Hawkins ‘said; gently: , ee are mistaken, my dear, it was Tues- day." a “Oh, well, the day Won't matter.” "It is just as well to be accurate,” said Mrs. Hawkins, calmly. * “Well, it was on Wednesday, and Jones | ahd I were and——" “My dear, you said that it was Mooney's cafe when you told the story to me.” “Oh, $0 it was Mooney’s. I forgot. It was the day before that we lunched to- gether at Hoover’ “Why, Mr. Hawkins, how forgetful you are. I lunched with you the day before, and we went to the Albion restaurant.” “Oh, so we did. Well, {t don’t matter. Well, Jones and I had just taken our seats and given our orders when an old man and his wife came in and—" “You're not sure that she wa my dear.” “Oh, she must have been. He called her Marla, and she called him Aaron, and—" “That is no proof that they were husband and wife. She might have been his sister, you know.” “Well, I know that they were husband wife, and he~—" ‘ou can’t be sure of it.” “It don’t make the stightest difference whether they were man and wife or not Anyhow, they were the queerest-looking pair I ever saw. She was fully seventy, 2 i lunching “ at Hoover's cafe, his wife. Why, Mr. Hawkins, you told me that she was about sixty.” “Well, maybe she wasn’t more than sixty. It don’t matter. She had on the wildest, giddiest hat and a——" » “You told me that she wore a bonnet, Mr. Hawkins.” ‘Well, I don’t know but it was a bonnet. It was the wildest-looking bit of headgea 1 ever saw, and the bitte dress she wore—' “Blue dress? Why’ you told me that it was a red dress.”’ ‘No, I didn't.’ quite sure that you did, Mr. Haw- kins. This goes on until Hawkins becomes so muddled that the point of the story, when it is finally reached, falls perfectly flat, and the scene that occurs when Mr. and. Mrs. Hawkins are alone together would not look nor sound well if printed. ees seatat Knew Whereof She Spnrke. From the New York Heald. She was tall and graceful. Her carriage, which was imperious, had a coat Gf arms on it. It stood at the door. She entered the china store and looked in- quiringly, about her. “I desire some eggshell ware.” she sai “Very sorry, madam, rejoined the accom- modating salesman, “but we are just out, light I venture to suggest Limoges, Sevres or Dresden “Impossible,” she said, with a frown which corrugated hep. delicately chiscled forehead, “{ desire tp give an incubator tem Pa And she swept outof#tne store with a noticeable frou frou of her brocaded skirt A CONCAVE EARTH Theory of <ihtegs Scientist as Un- folded by Pauline Pry. AUTHOR OF THE KORESHAN SYSTEM What Dr. Teed Claims to Have Learned of the Earth's Form. a ooo O-G@PERATIVE PLAN Written for The Evening Star. F ANYBODY really wants to know the truth about a cannon ball falling to the center of the earth I am not with- out information to offer that at least has the merit of be- ing entirely new. If a cannon ball fell to the center of the earth it would hit the sun, for the sun {is the center of the earth, which is not a solid sphere, as Copernicus and others have led you to imagine. The earth is a hollow ball, in the inside of which we live, and its circum- ference embraces the universe, sun, moon, stars. ‘That may stagger you a bit on first hear- ing it, but, believe me, as a surprise it isn't a circumstance to what I have in store for you. I spent the afternoon Thursday with a man—Dr. ‘rus R. Teed of Chicago—who claims to have disproved the Copernican theory and to have upset every science based thereon, who claims, furthermore, to be the power and personality from which the millennium is to come at no far-distant day. Dr. Teed is in the ci McGee, the ethnologist. I met him at the home of a woman whose purse is deep, whose charity is broad and whose intel lectual standard is high. An introduction from her would recommend any one to your most respectful consideration, and equally potent in recommending Dr. Teed to even a Philistine is the fact that his theo- ries have made money. Co-Operative Colonies. He has established co-operative colonies in a dozen towns throughout the country, with a central colony at Chicago, an‘ he is row on his way to Florida, where he has purchased a large tract of land on Estero bay and the Gulf of Mexico, for the pur- pose of pursuing his investigations of the form of the earth. In the personality of his knowledge and power to effect the millennium, Dr. Teed is known as Koresh, and his doctrine is called the Koreshan system of truth. The vas ness of this truth appals the most earnest or the most curious soul that seeks to pos- scss it, and it was with humility, not un- mixed with fear, that I asked Dr. Teed to tell me how his discoveries have been made. “i was born in a Baptist family, and destined by my parents from early child- hood to be a Baptist minister. When I was ten years old L became convinced that I was not called to preach, and I began studying medicine, which seemed to me to be a profession offering, next to the minis- try, a means of serving humanity. nineteen I began the practice of :nedicine, and continued in it until J was thirty, when I became skeptical not only of the Bible, but of science. One seemed io me to have as little authority to uphold its claims as the others, and I abandoned my profession to study nature, with a view to finding if I could find a positive, indisputable truth on which to base. knowledge in place cf the theories generally accepted by men. After years of hardship and hard work I discov- ered this in the truth concerning the earth’s form and its relation to the uni- verse. What is Generally Believed. “You know that according to the notion of Copernicus, the world has been taught for centuries that the earth is convex; that ft is a large globe filled with molten matter, surrounded by a erust inciosing the great mass of fire, and that we live on the out- that the earth, compared with the universe, is but a mere speck in the vast ocean of infinite space; that the sun is the center of a system of planets among which the earth revolves at a given rate of speed. The universe is held to be limitless, with- out center and without ¢:rcumference, occu- pying infinite space—one vast ocean filled with numberless worlds. e} “From this notion various deductions have been made, but at the end of cen- turies how much exact knowledge rewards all the efforts of mankind? What do we know of all the worlds said to exist about us? What do we know to meet all the ne- cessities and exigencies we experience in our own world, and of the cause, purpose and design of the whole, does any man de- ciare that he knows positively anything at all? 5 ‘Now, the Koreshan system maintains and demonstrates that the universe is a unit; it is an alchemico and organic struc- ture, limited to the dimensions of 8,000 miles diameter. According to the great law of analogy, we hold that its form is cellu- hat all life is generated in a cellovine vivim ex ovo! The earth's shell, composed of metal and minerals, is about 100 miles In thickness, constituting a gigantic voltaic pile, the basis of the great galvano-mag- netic battery furnishing the negative ele- ments of the cell for the generation and supply of the sun’s fuel. The concave sur- face of the earth alone is habitable. Super- imposed upon the strata of the shell and emplaced in their static planes, are the three atmospheres. At the center we find the positive pole of the great battery—the central sun around and with which the heavens revolve in twenty-four hours. All of the energies of the physical universe are engendered through the relation of the posi- tve center to the negative circumference; a great complex battery of physical unity is thus maintained and perpetuated. Not the Real Sun. “The sun we see is not the sun proper, but a projection upon our atmosphere. The planets are spheres of energy reflected from metallic discs in the earth’s circumference, and the stars are focal points of light. The moon is a sphere of energy derived from the planets and from the magneto-electric energies generated in the earth's concave crust. The whole is eternal; it is God's footstool, and is essential to His existence; it is the ultimate and outermost limit of expression of the Divine mind. The earth is the only physical world; it has no orbital motion; it is fixed and relatively stationary, while the sun, moon, planets and stars move in orbits in the heavens above us; they are inseparably connected with the universe.’ “How do you know all this?” I hastened to ask the doctor the instant I got the chance. “By various means. Among others, by the use of a mechanical device, which I call the rectilineator, I have takeu meas- urements of the earth, which demonstrate its surface to be concave instead of con- vex. For the elemental fact of my knowl- edge, therefore, I have experience of my own upon which to depend, and from this starting point the further facts and deduc- tions I have developed reconcile the two heretofore conflicting sources of knowl- edge, and revelation and science, the Bible and nature, declare the one same truth. Ans Stated tn the Bible. “Proctor ridiculed Moses’ conception of astronomy, because he wrote of a solid shell inclosing the untyerse. In the Bible the word firmament is repeatedly used, and the Hebrew of this word, vakayia, means hammered-out plates or strata of metal. +-pplied to the universal environ; it"means me’ “> shells or strata surrounding and in @ ¢ the world, which is the view of the oreshan system, while the conclu- sions of modern astronomy, that we are livin> on the exterior surface of the earth, with” an infinity of an inclosed ‘space ex: tending in every direction, are diametrical- ly opposed to the scriptural: representation. of cosmography. A great many more instances of the cor- , a guest of Prof. 25 respondences of the Bible and Koreshan science Dr. Teed recited to me, but I am free to admit that my little head is capable of receiving but an atom of all he seems to know. To be suddenly whisked off the outside of the earth and set down inside of it, with all creation to keep me compatiy —it made me very dizzy, and it was with difficulty 1 retained sufficient hold on my reason and sufficient knowledge of where I onec stood or thought ¥ stood in the uni- verse to ask the new prophet “If all crea- tion is inside: the shell of the earth, what is outside?” “Nothing,” was the prompt reply, pro- nounced with so much assurance and satis- faction. that my brain reeled again and I could only ask feebly once more, “How do you know it?” Within the Earth's Shell. “One of the two expugnable factors of science is form. aad a necessary factor of form is timitation. The universe, by vir- tue of these essential properties, is neces- sarily limited, and its dimensions cannot be measured—they cannot extend beyond the boundary of its existence. The uni- verse occupies space: t is, it possesses space. Within the of the earth is all the space there i This hardly seemed to me enough space for my individual uses, let alone all ere- ation, and I made a further attempt to get a little something outside oy asking: “What holds up the earth? “It is not held up,” said the doctor. Really, you know, such an idea as that, to come out of Chicago, where everybody and everything is held up, held up in broad daylight, too. I coulin’t understand it. However, Dr. Teed went on to ex- pia! % “The earth is not ‘held up; it is down; everything is ‘under the sun.’ The mean- ing of the word substance is ‘to stand un- der,” and everything. in its static balance, that is in its position in the established or- der determined by its gravity, is beneath the center: hence everything depends from the central point, which is the point of limitation of space interiorily, che exterior limit being the circumference. The cencral point is not a thing. It ts the absolute. It is the ‘nothing that was made, without the word of God. Job has declared this truth, saying, ‘He stretcheth the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing. To Revolutionize Society. I could hardly understand how, the truth of Koreshan science being established, there would ne sarily be a revolution in text books and possibly an upheaval of the Geographical Society, attended by some- thing like an earthquake in the Cosmos Club. But why everything else should not ignore the matter and continue doing iness at the old stand, in spite of the con- cavity of the earth, I could not see, and I told Dr. Teed so. “Suppose you prove to the world all you believe, what difference would it make to the average person?” This was the answer: “Exact knowledge of the form and function of the physical universe will revolutionize society on a linc with the principles we embody in our Ko- reshan communities. These communities work on a co-operative plan. The amount of human labor necessary to produce a bushel of wheat is our unit of value, and the wealth of the community is ap) tioned on this labor basis, not on a basis gold or silver, having an arbitrary vaiue fixed without reference to the man-power invol in its producticn. . “Our social system is divided into two distinet general orders, the prime and su- perior order being celibate, the inferior being marital. The object of the celi- bate order is the conservation of the sex energies for the higher spiritual, men- tal and physical regeneration. Kores ans maintain that the dissipation of the sex forces is the cause of mortality, and that immortality will come only through the purification of the mind and body, in obedience to the principles of celibacy and chastity embodied in Christ and reincar- nated in Koresh.” In appearance Dr. Teed, or Koresh, is not unlike President-elect McKinley, yet more than anything else he suggests a body re- volving upon its own axis and pursuing an orbit entirely its own. His concave earth is a world apart from my convex sphere and yours, and concerning nis truth and the form it takes I have no opinion to offer. I only know that Dr. Teed comes from Chi cago, and—well, will you tell me, can any good come out of Chicago? PAULINE PRY. — He Had a Full House. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Parrot stories are always good so long as they are true. And, of course, none but true parrot stories ever find their way in- to print. A well-known resident of Tioga is telling one which he declares be is willing to stake a hard-earned reputation for veracity upon, This particular parrot is the property of a Tioga household, the head of which is in- ordinately fond of a quiet little game of poker. For years it has been his custom to get three or four of his friends together at least twice a week in the snug library of his house and while away four or five hours of an evening by means of five-cent ante, with a quarter limit. The parrot’s cage hangs in the same libra: except on state occasions, when {t is taken into the dining room. The man's wife is as devoted to her church as he is to his favorite game. She never misses ia meeting, and as often as the good man will come, has her pastor to her home for Sunday dinner. He was there two or three weeks ago. So were a number of other friends of the fam- ily. The minister of the household presided over the dinner, and the conversation was as lively and vivacious as the sanctity of the day would admit. The clergyman is one of the liberal-mind- ed class of men who are bringing religion in closer touch with the masses. His utter- ances when out of the pulpit are frequently punctuated with every-day expressions, the use of which by a preacher would have been thought strange a decade ago. It was he who was talking at the table, and all the others were interested listeners. The subject was the morning service at his church, the attendance upon which had been very large. “Yes,” he said, “I couldn't help remark- ing to myself as I entered the pulpit: “Well, this is one time I've got a full house. “That is pretty d— good,” quickly came in all too distinct tones from the parrot’s cage. “Take the money, Dick.” The presence of the preacher, the parrot’s profanity, and the fact that “Dick” is her husband's name, sent the mistress of the house into a fit of hysterics, which nearly broke up the dinner. tee - The Flagpole Industry. From the New York Times. New York does a flourishing business in flagpoles. They are sent froin here all over the country, and outside to Japan and Cuba, though none have gone to Cuba re- cently. “There are ten times more poles than there were in New York city four years ago,” says C. H. Lilly, who has known all there was to know about the flagpole business for twenty-eight years. “There is not a business building put up now: days,” he says, “that does not have a flagpole. Four years ago you could not have counted a dozen flags above the Har- lem to Fordham, and now there are at least 240, In one piece the poles run up all the way to 98 and 100 feet. The pole on the produce exchange is 100 feet, and the old Mutual Life Insuraace building had a™100- foot pole. These are exceptional. The ma- jority of the tall poles do not exceed nine- ty-eight feet. The village pole is usually or always the liberty or topmast pole, in two pieces.” The shorter poles are made of spruce cr ash, but the tallest ones of the tougher white or Norway pine. The gilt tops to flagpoles are more or less or- ramental. A salamander figures on the poles topping some of. the big fireproof buildings. Occasionally a flagpole 1s artis- tcally built iuto the corner of a building. +00 Schools for From the Chicago Tribune, Following the lead of Chicago, a-New .York dry goods house fs about to start a little school in its own premises where the cash girls can obtain instruction one or two hours every day, as also those older ones whose early schooling has been ne- glected. In one of the large dry goods stores of Chicago a day and night school is maintained, with competent teachers and all the modern accessories of a first-class school room, where the employes of the store are given free education. In Milwau- kee one of the breweries conducis a school, brary and reading room fay its employes, who are over 10,000 in number, All three were established despite the pro- tests of those who said the advantaces would never be utilized, and all triumphed from the outset. The school compares fav- crably with the best public schools in the city, the reading Girls, UNIVERSITY NOTES Catholic University. The students of the various departments have organiged a Mterary and social club, to be known as the University Club, The officers elected for the first time are: Presi- deat, Rev. Father Dutty; vice president, J. J. Mott; secretary, Francis Gilfoti; treas- urer, James Igo; advisory board, Fathers Tettermer and O'Neil of the divinity school, Messrs. McTighe and Murra: the philessophical school, and Cashman and Scott from the law school. Meetings will be held twice each month Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, head of the department of English literature, leciured Thursday afternoon on “S<. Francis of 4 sisi as a Poet.” The examinatio were held Th Arrangements for t in elementary nd Friday installation of law Dr. y, the new rector, which will occur early in January, are being Howard University, A special. song service will be held in Miner Hall tomorrow evening, and all the musical numbers the program, wh fellows, will be compositions by Har Overtury siah,” Miss Kate song, “Joy to the Wort full chorus Scripture recitals, young ot Mi Hall; recitative, “Comfort Ye," Professor \ Stephen: clos (a), “He Shall Fee M. B. Quan- 5 * Miss Lucy pastoral symphony MY Wright and Hunter, Nutter, Father Staiford delivered a leciure to classes Wednesday afternoon on Hamlet.” The Brotherhood of St. Andrew met Thursday evening in the chapel of King Hall, The Livingstone Missionary Si met evening, om tress, ission . E. Stewart is pre: y, and J. H. Hughes ts th » Theological Literary and Debating ty will debate the question, “Resolved, @ preacher show! YS accept to a lar field. Affirmatiy art; negative, J. West. Examinations in all departments are progress and will conclude Wednesd: When the Christmas vacation begins The ‘varsity eleven will play the Coloref High School eleven Christmas day on tit rollege campus. Colambian Un Last evening the Enosinian Societ cussed the question: “Resolved, That the United States should immediately compel Turkey to cease her atrocities in Armen'a.” The speakers were Messrs, Hays, Hobson, Broadus and Q. Harlan on the affirmative and Messrs. Jones, Hoover, Rogers and Beatty on the negative. The Class News, edited by Mr. Hoover, was read at conclusion ef the debate. The Law School Debating Society to- night will discuss “Resolved, That women in ersity. aie should have the right of suffrage.” For the affirmative the speakers will be F. M. Chereh, A. B. Sethold and F. P. Warfiei negative. JH. De Witt, J P. Moore. Wednesday evening livered a lecture on Browning,” at the r. students, The Pi Beta Phi Soci afternoon and transacted routine business. Maj. J. W. Powell, chief of the bureau of ethnology, lectured to the students of the collegiate department on “The Science of Anthropology Defined and Characterized This is the first lecture in a special course of six which Maj. Powell will deliver on Mondays and Wednesdays. The second lec- ture, “The Science of Demonomy Defined and Characterized,” will be given Monday afternoon. A novelty in undergr: inaugurated. after the holidays in the Co jentific Scheol. A course of lei “hemical Biography to be a students of this department their fellow students, each delivering one The course will be confined to the contributions of American chemists to the science. Prot. Finch and | Dr. Whitman de- An Evening With quest of the cuilege y met Wednesday duate work will be rorge P. Merrill of the Corcoran Scientific School has just published in the Journal of Geology an interesting paper for students on the “Principles of Rock Weath- ering.” Prof. Wiley of the graduate school read a paper entitled “The Mechanical Analysis of Phosphatic Slags’’ Thursday afternoon, at the meeting of ihe Chemical Society, sho ing the use of phosphatic slags as a fe: tilizer. Tuesday afternoon, before the Society for Philosophical Inquiry, Mr. Howard deliv ed a lecture on the “Philosophy of Relig- ion.” At the next meeting of the soctety, January Mr. Harris will lecture on “Philosophy of Education in Its Subjective Aspects.” Georgetown University. quet tendered Monday evening to the class of “#8 eleven, winners of the championship in the interclass foot ball series, was an enjoyable affair. Toastmas- ter Thomas M. Pierce opened the program with a neat speech and the following toasts, interspersed with Songs and sketches, were responded to: “C "97," Joseph Col- ‘The b tins: “Ciass of "9." William O'Leary; song, “Hugh McCune,” Chas. A. Greene; “Cla: of Robert Walsh lass of 1KK),”” William Fleming: “The Yard Association and Athletic Outlook.” Richard Watkins; character sketch, Chas. McLoughlin; “Class Spirit of "#8," W. W. Dixon; Found It,” “Society as I “The Con- “larke Wag- Bob Ridle; Francis McAnerney “Class Song of “Day Scholars,” Ed. Brad on Stady,” James Wels °98," Harry R. Gower; Life,” Keane; “Christmas and Home,” Me- Aleer. Fathers Ennis, Deck, Richly, Beck- er atd Kavanaugh represented the facult ‘The Philosophers held their annual ban- quet Monday ev Mr. Charles Shea, president of the class, presided. There Were no toasts. The faculty was repre- sented by Fathers Shandell, Brett and Deck and Mr. Doulin, 8.3: ‘The question for debate at Thursday evening's meeting of the Philademic Society s, “Resolved, That an income tax is the mos: equitable mode of taxation.” M. Aleer and McMahon spoke on the affir tive and Curley and Gower on the negat The question fer the Merrick Medal De- bate has been announced, but is subject to change at the discretion of the president of the society or the rector of the university: “Resolved, That the United States shoud grant belligerent rights to Cuba.” Sid have not yet been assigned to the debate J. O'Leary, capiain of the "98 foot bali eleven, has been compelled to give up his studies on account of his eyesight and has gone home. Examinations of the fall term are in pro- gress and the school will close on the 224 tant until January 3. The Morris Literary and Debating Soci- discussed at their last meeting “Re- , That romanticism is preferable to affirmative, Harry Riley; negative, Murtin Monohan. J. F. P. Des Garennes was appointed chairman of the executive comgaittee, vice James Ryan, resigned. An essay on “Lowell's Criticism of Dante” was read by Michael J. Karls. At the next meeting of the society the question for debate fs “Resolved, That suf- trage should be extended to citizens of the District of Columbia.” The speakers will be Ed. Tobin on the affirmative and Frank Smith on the negativ: pasar teers Am Excess of Fatth, From Harper's Bazar. Presiding Elder (examining applicant for church nembership)—“Does yo’ beleebe dat Jonah swaliered de whale?” Applicant (devoutly)—“I suttingly does, deacon.” Presiding Elder—“Does yo" Goliah killed David?” Applicant—“Oh, I's positive shuah ob it, dencon.” Elder—“Does yo’ beleebe dat de lions et Daniel and dat an ass slew Samp- son wif de jaw bone ob a Philistine?” = eas “Yais, deacon—dat’s gospil trufe.” Presiding Elder—Oof! Yo" mus’ beleebe jais opposite to ev'yt'ing de Bible sais, den —yo's wuss dan a hertic, an’ yo’ kain’t jine dis yar chu'ch nohow.” ——se0. ‘The Hand of Fortune. From the New York Commercial Advertiser. Freddy—“What is the hand of fortune, papa - : * Papa—“Four aces, my son—that don't bother me. Go to your mother.” ~ et solv realism in literature:”" beleebe dat