Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 25, 1900, Page 9

o — —— } A ‘!‘ f T——T B PRISONERS By Q. e D s | L e e g (Copyright, 190, by Arthur Quiller-Couch.) You've heard tell, I dare say, about Land- Yord Cummins and Billy Bosistow, and the great Jealousy there was between them No? Why, It got Into the law courts! Landlord Cummins—he that used to keep the Welcome Home -married an aunt of mine on my mother's side. The boys used 1o call him “Calves-in-Front” becauss of his legs being put on in an unusual man- mer, which made him walk slow all his days. And Billy Bosistow wss my father's father's stepson You needn’t take any trouble to get that clear in your mind, be- ! cause our family never owned him after he came home from the French war prisops wnd took up with his drinking habit | In the year ‘25 Landlord Cummins got| himself elastad mavor of the b igh. | friend gave me that there coin. His heart's in the right place, which s more than can| be sald for his calves. Two-pennyworth of | &in, please, your worship the end was that he'd be up before the mayor on Monday morning, charged with drunken- mess. No use to fine him; he wouldn't pay 1t, but went to jail instead. “Ten years was 1 in prison,’ he'd say addressing the bench “along with his worship there. 1 don't know what ‘twould appear to him who came back and got the Welcome Home, but 1 @idn't and ten days don't frighten me.” Now you'll be wanting to kno® what made | these two men hate each other, for friends they had been, as two men ought to be who had been taken prisoners together and spent ten years in captivity to the French and came home aboard the same ship like brothers. First of all know, that up to the year '03 Abe Cummins and Bill Bosistow hadn't known what it Is to quarrel or miss meeting each other every Abe, the eldor by a year, was a bit siow and heavy on his pins, glven to reading, too, though Be seemed to take It for peace and quiet mess more thun for any show he made of Bis learning. B'll was smarter altogether and better looking; a bit boastful, afte the manner of young chaps. He could read, | 0o, but never n much at it. You'd bardly have thought two young fellows so @ifferent in every way could have hit it off | togother as they did. But these were llke two figures g a puzzle block; their very differences seemed to make them fit. These two held off sweethearting right along until Christmas of the year '03, when they came home from Porthleven to spend a fortnight at Ardevora and they both fell in love with Belina Johns Selina Johns wasn't but just husband high; turned 18, and her hair only put up | & week before, she having begged her moth- | the er's leave to twist it in plaits for Christmas courants. Abe and Billy each Xnew the other's secret almost hefore he knew his own. And what they did was to bave it out ke good fellows, and agree to wait a couple of years, unless any third party ahould Interfere, ond then lot the best man win! No bad blood afterward: they shook hands upons that. That January, being| tired of the free trade, they shipped to- gether on board a coaster for the Thames and reshipped for the voyage homeward | on board the brig Hand in Glove of Lon- | don, bound for Devonport By reason of delay the Hand in Glove started well astern of the convoying fleet and couldn’t make up her distance. That evening a French lugger crept up on her, hove a grapnel aboard and threw twen well-armed Johnnies into the old brig. The seven Englishmen, taken unprepared, were driven down below and shut down, while the Johnnies altered the brig's course and set away for France Early next morning the t{wo vessels were | close off Dieppe harbor, aud there, when | the tide suited, they were taken inside, and the prisoners put ashore at nightfall and lodged for three days in a filthy round tower, swarming with vermin. On April 1 —Enster Sunday, I've heard it was—they were told to get ready for marching, and banded over, making twenty-five in ull, with the crews of two other vessels, to & lleutenant and a guard of foot soldiers. Not a man of them knew where they were bound. They set out through a main préty country, where the wheat stood near about knee-high, but the roads were heavy after the spring rains. Mostly they came to a town for their night's halt and as often as not tho townsfolk drummed them fo jail with what we call the “Rogue's March," but in Fratce I believe it's ‘‘Honors of War," or something that sounds politer than ‘tis. But there were times when they had to put up at a farmhouse by the road and then the poor chaps slept on straw for a treat Well, on the last day of the fortnight they reached their journey's end-—a great fortress on a rock standing right over the river, with a town lylng around the foot of the rock, and a smaller town, reached by A bridge of boats, on the far side of the river. 1 can't call to mind the name of the river, but the towns were called Jivyy Great and Iittle Jivvy.* The prison stood at the very top of the rock, on the edge cf & cliff that dropped a clean 300 feet to the river; not at all a pretty place to get clear of, and none so cheerful to live fn on a day's allowance of one pound of brown bread, half a pound of bullock's offal three halfpence in money (paid weekl?, and the mopt of it deducted for prison repairs), and now and then a uoggin of 'peas. 1t was now that the difference in the two men came out. Abe took his downfall very quletly from the first. He had managed to keep a book in his pocket-—a book of voyages It was—and carry it with him all the way from Dieppe, and it really didn't seem to matter to him taat he was shut ABSOLUTE SECURITY, Carter’s Little Liver Pills. | QURE 810K HEARACHE. . | favorite, but when the mood fell on X | taken prisoner | managed to get himself locked up with the OF WAR, up s long as he could eit in a cor- ner and read about other folk travel- ing. In the second year of their cap- tivity Abe would sit by the hour, with his roommates drunk and fighting round him, and copy out tables and work out sums All his money went into pens and ink fno- stead of liquor which the jallers smuggled in Billy of shoes. Although no drinker by habit, he tretted and wore bimself down at times to a lowness of spirits {o which nothing seemed to serve him but drinking, and flerce drink- ing. On his better days he was everybody's he | his right hand | grew teasy and fit to set H quarreling with his left. Then came the drinking fit and he'd wake out of that like o man dazed, sitting in a corn ing for days together. r and brood- | He had two things to brood upon—escape | and But confinement {8 the ruin- ation of some natures and as year after year went by and his wits broke themselves on the Suffolk sighted land, making out Michael's mount, and fetching up to Mouse- hole island, the captain bailed a mackerel | boat and came alongside to take ashore | both on Bosistow was a very different pair | On Monday, May 9, at 2.30 in the afternoon, some officers with dispatches Abe Cummins and Billy Boslstow were deck, you may be eure, watching the boat as the fishermen brought her aiczgside. Not a word had been said be- tween them on the matter that lay closest to thelr minds, but while they waited Billy fetched a look at the boat and an- othor at Abe. “The Best man wins,” he sald to himself, and edged away toward the ladder. The breeze, as 1 said, was a fresh one, with a sea in the bay that kept the Suf- | felk rolling like a porpoise. A heavier lurch than ordinary sent her main chan- | nele grinding down on the mackerel boat's | grnwale, smashing her upper strakes and springing her mizzenmast as she recovered hergelf. “Be dashed,” said one of the officers, “If I trust myselt in a boat that'll go down under us between this and land!"” The rest seemed to be of his mind, too. But Billy, being quick as well as eager, saw in a moment that the damaged strakes would be to windward on the reach into Mousehole, and out of harm's way, and also that fer mainsall alone would do the a stone wall, he grew into a very different Job ea 80 just she fell off and her “PUT THAT D— man from the handy lad the Johnnies had One thing he never gave up and that was his pluck, and he bad plenty of use for it when, after seven years, his chance came His first contrivance was to change names with an old American in the depot. It so bappened that the captain of a French pri- vateer had applied to the prison for a crew of forelgners to man his ship, then lying | at Morlaix. The trick, by olling the jailer's | palm, was managed easlly enough and away Bosistow was marched with twenty com- ades of all nations. But at the first stage | some recruiting officers stopped them, in- sisting that they were Irish and not Amer- | lcans and must be enlisted to werve with | Bonaparte’s army in Srain. The prisoners | to a man refused to hear of it and the end | was they were marched back to prison in disgrace and, to cap everything, had their English allowance stopped on pretense that they had been in the French service. Yet this brought him a second chance, for, being now declired an Irishumun, he Irtsh, on the handicr side of the prison, | aud that same night broke out of a window | with two other fellows, got over the prison wall and h!d In the woods beyond. But on the second day a party of wood rangers attacked them with guns and captured them and back they went and were condemned to six years in frons. This, as it turned out, didn’t amount to much; for, while they were walting to be marched off to the galleys their jailer came with news that a son was bern to the em- peror and they were pardoned in honor of it. But instead of putting them back in their old quarters, he fixed them up for a fortnight in a room by themselves, being fearful that such bad characters would contaminate the other prisoners. This room was an upstairs one, in a building on tho edge of the ramparts, and after a few nights they broke through the ceiling into an empty chamber, which had & window looking on the roof, lowered themselves on to the edge of the precipice aud took their way northward across the flelds, stecring by the pole star and a fine comel, | which they guessed to be in the northwest quarter. You gee the difference between these two tellows @nd how little Providence made of it. Back in Jivvy Abe Cummins was star- ing at this same comet out of his prison | windows, and doing his sums and thinking of Selina Johns. And here was Bosistow tollowing it up for freedom—with the up- shot that he made the coast and was taken like a lamb in the attempt to hire a pas- sage, and marched from one jail to another, clean back the whole length of France, pretty well to the Mediterranean sea. And then he was shut up in a prison on the very top of the Alps and twice as far from home as he had been before. That's & moral against folks in & hurry if ever there was one Well, he broke out of prison again and was brought back half starving, and twasn't till Christmas of the year '13 that e, with a lot of other prisoners, Wwas marched away for Tours, on the Loire | river. even that sore in his feet. But what made Bosistow ad at the time and vicious after, was that on his way he fell in with a draft of pris- oners and among them was Abe Cum- mius, who, 50 to say, had reached the same place by walking a tenth part of the dis- tance. The two friends trudged together and on the first day Abe brought up the | subject ncarcst to their hearts by saying | quietlike: “Have you been happening to think much about Selina Johns this last FOOL IN THE 8TOCK."” I've figured it out on the map and | is enough to make a man fecl | CRIED HIS WORSHIP. crew ran aft to get the mizzen lug stowed he took a run past the officer and jumped aboard, with two fellows close on his heels —one a Penzance fellow whose name I've forgot, and the t'other a chap from Ludg- van, Harry Cornish by name. I reckon the sight of the old shores just made them mazed as sheep, and like sheep they fol- lowed his dead. The officers ran to stop any more from copying such foollshness, and 1t they hadn't I belleve the boat would have been swamped there and then. As ‘twas she rehoisted her big lug and away. to-go for Mousehole, the three passengers eltting down to leeward with their sterns in the water to help keep her damaged side above mischiet. 80 on Mousehole quay these three stepped ashore, and the first man to shake hands with them was Captain Josiah Penny of the Perseverance trading ketch, who had them into his cabin for glasess 'round of rum. The Penzance fellow went his way, but Billy and Cornish stayed and had more rum, and on the quay they found a crowd waiting for them, and many with questions to ask about absent friends, so that from Mousehole quay to Penzance it was a regu- | 1ar procession. And then they had to go to | the ‘hotel and tell the whole story over again. And all this meant more rum, of course. It was 7 in the eveniug and day closing in before they took the road again, Billy had fallen into & boastful mood, and felt his heart so warm toward Cornish that nothing would do but they must tramp it together as far as Nancledrea, which was a goodish bit out of Cornish’s road to Lud- gvan. By the time they reached Nancle- drea Billy was shedding tears and begging 1 Cornish to come along to Ardevora, make & man of ‘ee there,” he promised: will sure 'nough!" But Cornish weighed the offer and decided that his mother at Lud- gvan would be going to bed before long So coming to a house with red blinds and lights within they determined to have a drink before patting. In the taproom they found a dozen fel- lows or so drinking their beer and smoking solemn, and an upstanding woman In a black gown attending on them. ‘“Hullo!" says one of the men, looking up. “What's this? Geezy dancers?'*® “I'll soon tell 'ee about geezy dancers,” says Billy. “Here, missis—a pot of ale all | ‘round and let ‘em drink to two Cornish boys home from festerin' in French war prisons while they've a’ been diggin’ ‘ta- ties! There was no resisting a soclable offer | like this and in two two's, as you might say, Billy was boasting ahead for all he | was worth and the company with their mouths open—all but the landlady, who was opening her eyes instead, and wider and wider. ““There isn't none present that remembers me, I daresay. My name's Bosistow—Billy Bosistow—{rom Ardevora parish. And back there I'm going this very night, and why? you ask. 1 ben't one of your 'taty-diggin’ slowheads—I ben't. I've broke out of prison three times, and mow—" He broke off and nodded at the company, whose faces by this time be couldn't very well pick out of a heap—"do any of 'ee know a mald there | called Selina Johns? Because if o [ warn ‘e of her. ‘Why?' says you. Because that's the maid I'm goln' to marry and I'm off to | Ardovora to do it stralght. Another pot of beer, please, missus.’ “You've had a plenty, sir, seemin’ to me," answered up tbe landlady “And is this the way"—Billy stood up very dignified this the way to welcome home a man who bled for his country? Is s year or two." Most every day,” answered Billy. “So have 1" said Abe, and seemed to be pondering to himself. *“She’ll be a woman growed by this time,"” he went on “Turnin twenty-seven,” Billy agreed. “That's of it sald Abe. “I've been thinking about ter constant “Well, look'ee here spoke up Billy our little agreement holds, don't it?—that is, it ever we get out of thiy here mess ond Selina hasnt gone and taken a hus- band. Play fair, leave it to the maid, and let the best man win, that's what we shook hands over." of that trade in prison, as you'd know “Well," says Abe, “I was reckonin’ to set up school and teach navigation. Back in Ardevora 1 can make between £70 and £80 & year at that game easy,' Bosistow scrate making the most of your time. been busy in my way, too, me the only ow I've but seemin’ to trade I've learned breakin'. Not much to keep & wife on, a3 you say. Still, a bargain's a bargain." Oh, sutt'nly,” says Abe; “that is, if your consclence allows it." “I reckon I'll risk that and no more passed answered Biily, To be short, ‘twasn't till the end of | April that the news reached them that Bonaparty had gone scat, and they marched to the and were taken | port in charge river opposite Bordeaux on to the Suffolk trans. of the British redcoats “True, true,” says Abe; but after a bit he | for o raiscd step. He didn't forget to slam | asked rather shy-like: “And s'posin’ you're | {hg door after him, but he did -forget to ! the lucky one, how do'ee Teckon you're K0Ing | take leave of Harry Corni-h, ' 0 hud walked | 10 maintain her?’ \ | g0 far out of bis way fn nu ndliness “Why, on seamen's wages, I suppose, or | For the first mile or so, what with Bis else at the shoe-mending. 1 learnt a littlo | anger and the fresh air, Billy hed all he ed his head. “You've been | is prison | this your gratitude to & man who's spent | ten o' the best years of his life in slavery | | while you've been diggin’ ‘taties?” I can't tell you why potatoes ran so much in the | poor” fellow's head, but they did, and he | Beemed to see the hoeing of them almost in | | the light of a personal injury. He spat on | the floor. And as for you, madam, these | here boots of mine have tramped thousands | {of miles and I shake off their dust upon " he says. “I wish you'd confine yourselt to that, | | with your dirty habits!" the landlady an- | | swered up again, but Billy marched out with | | great dignity, which was spolled by his | mistaking the shadow across the doorway | could do to keep his pins and fix his mind on the road. But, by and by, his brain cleared a bit and when reached the hill | over Ardevora and saw the lights of the town [ below him his mood changed and he sat down on the turf of the slope with tears THE OMAHA DAIL “‘Ob, dear; if the mosquitoes don't stop | biting me there will be nothing left of me!" “Yes, there will' rejoined his Y BEE: THURSDAY. fallen face, and chuckled; then ha began » wonder if Abe would call it fair play When he woke up th was shiniog And somehow, ugh he had dropped to sleep in & puzzie of mind, he woke ur with not a doubt to trouble hin He hunted out a crust from his knapsack | and made his breakfast, and, thea he it | his pipe again and turned toward Pen zance. He was going to play fair On he went ing like a mar to churel in this frame of mind, feel- almost 100 virtuous to go until by-and-by he came in sight of ncledrea and the inn he'd left in such a hurry over night. And who should be sitting in the porchway, and looking into the bottom of a piat pot, but Abe Cummins! “Why, however on earth here? asked Billy. “Cap'en landed us between 4 and 5 this mornin’,” sald Abe. “Well,” sald Billy, “I'm right glad to meet you, anyway, for—tell ‘ee the truth ou're the very man I was looking for.' Really?" says Abe, like one interested “You and no other. 1 don't mind tell ing ‘ee I've been through a fire of tempta did you come tlon, You know why I jumped into that | boat; it vexed you # bit, I daresay. And strickly spcakin’, mind you'—Billy took his friend by the buttonhole—'strickly speakin’, I'd the right on my side. ‘Lot the best man win,’ Was our argument But you meedn’ to fret yourself; I ben't the man to take an advantage of an old triend, fair though it be. Man, I ha'n't| been to Ardevora—I furned back. So fin ish your beer and come'st along with me, and we'll walk down to Selina Johns to- gether and ask her which of us she'll choose, fair and square.” Abe set down his mug and looked up, studyiug the signboard over the door. ‘Well,” says he, “’tls a real relet to my mind to know you've played so fair. For man and boy, Bill, I alway® thought it of you." “Yes, indeed,” says Billy, “man and boy, it was always my motto." “But as consarnin’ Selina Johns,” Abe went on. “There aln't no such woman.” ‘ou don't tell me he's dead? “No; ‘tis her first husband that's dead She's Selina Widlake now.” “How long have 'ee knowed that?" “Mayhe an tour, maybe only three- quarters. ler name's Selina Widlake, and she owns this here public. What's more, | her name {sn’t going to be Selina Widlake, but Selina Cummins. We've fixed it up, and she's to leave Nancledrea and take the Welcome Home over to Ardevora." Billy Bosistow took & turn across the road, and, coming back, stuck his hands in his pockets and stared up at the sign overhead. “Well! And I that was too houorable he began. 0 you was,” agreed Abe, pulling out his pipe. “You can't think what a com- fort that is to me. But, as it turns out, ‘twouldn’'t have made no difference. For she see'd you last even', anod she was tellin’ me just now that prison hadn't im- proved you. In fact, she didn't like either your looks or your behavior." I've heard that he was just fn time to pop Inside and bolt the door after him And now you kmow why Bill Bosistow and Abe Cummins could never bear the ight of each other from that day. But there! you can’t be first and last, too, as the saying is. *Givet, In the Ardennes. The river, of urse, is the Meuse.—Q. —It {s a fact that on Mamh 1, 1812, this unhappy man reached the prison of Hrian- con, in the Haute Alps, and was confined there for close on {wo years **Performers in a Christmas play PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS, “No, Tommie, dear, you don't get any more jam. Next time, when you have been a very good child, you get some more.”” “Say, mother, do you thimk it will keep so long?" Willie—Mamma, 1 dreamed last night that papa gave me & bicycle for my birth- day and you gave me a watch. Mamma— But, Willie, you know dreams go by con- traries. Willie—Then you will give me the bicycle and papa the watch? When 3-year-old Bessie saw some ne- groes and mulattoes the first time she gravely remarked on bLer return home “1 saw some black people today and some that were just turning black.” The teacher of the juvenile class held up a triangle made of wood and asked whbat it was. “I know,” sald a bright little fellow, who had spent the summer on a farm; “it's the frame of a chicken coop.” One evening when the mosquitoes were very troublesome small Bobby cried out: Iittle sister, “the bites will swell up and make you bigger than ever." | In one of the private schools here In town, rclates Youth's Companion, there is & small boy who s always cheerfully miles behind everybody eise. He is not a dull boy, but learning does not appeal to him as being a thing especially to be desired. Ra- cently the teacher told the class in com- position tlat on the next day she would expect each of them to be able to write a | short anecdote. She explained with great care the meaning of the word anccdote, an nexy day when she called the class up to | write, all but the laggard went at once to work. “Why don't you write an anecdote, Rob?" asked the teacher “I forget what an auecdote Rob, undisturbed. 1 explained it yesterday, Rob, and you | ought to rememb said the i a bit out of patience. “An anecdote is a tale. Now write." Rob bent over his slate and with much twisting of brow and writhing of lip ground out his task. When the slates were collected his was at the very top of the heap. The teacher picked it up and this is what she read “Yesterday we had soup made from the arecdote of an ox.” BADEN-POWELL'S SWOF in bis eyes. | “There you be,” said he, talking to the | I wish | jumped aboard 1I'd seen Abe's face when [ the boat. Poor old Abe!—but all's fair fu | | love and war, I reckon. He can't be here till | tomorrow at earliest, so let's have a pipe o' baccy on it." First of all be pictured Abe's chap- lights, “and here be I, and somewheres down | amongst you i3 the dear old maid I've come | to marry. Not much welcome for me fn | ) Ardevora, 1 b'law, though 1 do love every | stone of her streets. But there's one there | that didn’'t forget me In my captivity and | won't despise me in these here rags | One of 1k Finest ¥ sented to the Hero of Mafeking, ( e of the fine sworlds ever made has recently been presented. 10 Ge Powell, the hero of Mafcking .I]-’ n'{' l}'l'y ¥ Ll)n"lh |{l¥ it e hilt of t sword is of fl d an L surm nted by the head of a licn, 'lg'lv\e r also of fine gold, is richly orated and has the monogram B, P." ‘on one side nd the arms of Port Elizabeth on the re- Orse he scabbard s of scarlet velvet richly adorned on. the unber porton with the arms of Cape Colony, enameled in dlors, and an Afrtean Hon In fine The center band on the scabbard hus the words “Mafeking, 159190, {nclosed in voctors' wreaths, he hoe I8 also com. sed of fine gold and has a medallion on e slde with the re entation in the upper part of the colonel's well known campalgning hat, rifle and emblems of it~ art and sl Below these are of cannon Ime. with the “Pa'‘mam qui erult ferat The biade is of fine stael, HCHIY etched 1 elabo sivle WIth 4 of wymbols, 11+ of the life of the gallant gen ind bears the following esented by the cfti 1o, Major anera n-Po 1l In memoration the gallunt defense of Mafeking, 1 iumpert (mavor), W P. Pinn (town ¢ whole work la ciocited fn the best p tastc and is . £ ind mith s art Fesema; No Cn Nu Fay, r druggist will refund your money ¢ | PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure ringworm, | tetter, old ulcers and sores, pimples and | blackheads on the face and all skis dis- eancs, 50 cents. OCTOBE | hundreds of finely for; | as a reclining chair for invalids and in other everybody can appreciate the value of such selves as being “themselves masters of their | art and mystery of boot and shoe making. ever, instead of being pointed as now. From this Idea were subsequently evolved the steel and iron pegs so greatly in use today The two-pegged shoes which they seut to the patent office to explain their patent would pass muster today. They are well | ot finely 25, 1900, R RELICSINTHE PATENT l)FFI(H Quesr Prototypes of Contrivances Now in Common Use, SMALL BEGINNING OF GREAT THINGS Inventor of the Telephone Falled Recognize H Own Handiwork Y Afterward—Shoepegs and Folding Beds. o On the shelves at the patent office are | scores of modest models of inventlons the world could ot mow do without. A visit to this great market house for ideas im- presses oue with the knowledge that the model is no indication of the value of the {nvention. The patent office is filled with d and carefully fin- ished models of invertions that have not brought the fnventor emough return even to pay for the expense of preparing the model. The greatest fnventions have been but the crude beginning of some idea sub- sequently perfec The models seem (o partake of the same crudity. As the primary | idea has been perfected other models have been submitted in elaboration the steps in the perfecting of some radi innovation are contemporaneously expressed in the models filed with the patent office. Though the rule is not without exceptions, the greatest inventions were first protected by models of such crudity as to be scarcely recognizable as forerunners of the finlshed | article of today. Prototype of the Telephone, | Take the telephone, for instance. In the patent office are two cones of wood with mewbranous ends and a confusing tangle of metal and wire. Each of the could be hidden in one's hand. Yet they are the beginning of an idea that has been per- fected to the elaborate instrument of to- day, out of which millions have been made and by the use of which coutinents are bridged No one at first glance would associa these insignificant bits of wood and metal with the telephone of today. As a matte of fact the inventor himselt recently did not. One day some photographs of the original telephone instrument were shown to Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of cones the telephone, and he was asked some | gy questions concerning the instrument A\ “I don't know what this s, said Mr Bell. I have never scen the Instruments here represented.” | It was explained that the pictures were | AL an accurato representation of the models | g\ of his first telephone, the crude idea on | o which he had bullt his fame and fortune. | Alded by this explaation Mr. Bell recalled | gy the principles of his first model. But as- | : soclation with the perfected tnstrument of | A\ today bad so blurred recollection of the | gy crude model by which he first protected his | & invention that the memory had for the mo- | M\ ment been obliterated. Mr. Bell manitested | fiy the greatest interest in the models and | 20 sald he would take the first opportunity to | AN visit the patent ofico and renew acquaint- | A ance with the old creatures of his brain. | 2 | 33 Though small and insignificant, these two crude models of the telephone were suffi- | clent to secure the patents on the prin- | clples, which, as set forth in the patent | 13 granted Mr. Bell, March 7, 1876, were: “The i method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal and other sounds telegraphically, by | causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air Ac- companylng the vocal or other sounds.’ From the illustrations the recelver and transmitter are readlly recognized. Of scarcely less commercial importance are the arc and incandescent lights. The arc light has undergone little change in general form eluce it was patented by Colner und Baker on May 18, 18%8. There have been wonderful changes in its mechanism, but the hour-glass form of the first model is still | preserved. With the incandescent light it is different There Is not the slightest resemblance be- tween the first model and the buib light of today. Its inventors had an idea that the light would be valuable as a signal light So they patented it as such. ‘““The nature of our Invention,” they said, “consists in the combination of a platinum coil or its ef- | fective equivalent with a transparent signal | -\ lantern, sald combination being effected by arranging the coll within the lantern upon | two conducting wires, which are connected | with an elactro-galvanic battery. By our invention the most intense and brilliant light can be constantly kept up, as the elec- tric current Is concentrated by the platinum coll in such & manner that said coll will al- | ways be heated to the color of a brilllant white flame, which will be scen at a great distance through the unshaded central part of the lantern, and its reflected rays through the colored portions of the transparent front.’ 23 333 = | 3 The Folding Bed. Thousands have used the folding bed with varyiug emotions. Some have been inclined to bless, others to curse, the inventor, He, poor soul, was wholly {nnocent of any con- | ception of the fustrument of torture that has been evolved from his invention. He pictured himselt as a benefactor and as a student of economy. “It can be thrown into several convenient and accommodating po- sitions,” he said In his application for a patent, “and can be folded up into & form easily removable in case of fire,” etc. He pictured his collapsible bedstead, when pro- vided with 4 convenient mattress, adjustable useful positions The washboard was patented by a man in Manlius, N. Y., back in 18 He copled the legs from the old four-poster bedstead. | Between the posts he put a piece of fluted sheet metal and got it patented. The model isn't a thing of beauty and it fsn't much” larger than one's hand, But he got a patent on it, and hundreds of other in- ventors have sought to improve on his invention Not cverybody wears pegged soles. But an invention. " The idea is among the |\ 0 | W, earliest pateuts issued by the government. | The United States didn't begin issuing | patents until 1790, and pegged shoes wer invented and patented July 90, 1811, They dldn’t number patents then. The patent was {ssued to two men, who deseribed them- | Their eystem for making shoes Was practically the same as today. Their pegs were the ¥ame in size from eud to end, how made and well finished. One shoe was made on a polnted last and the other on a square one, and the shapes scarcely differ from Vlu“ shoes of today. The noticeable thing about them 1s the quality of leather. They are tanned, undressed calfskin. They 1 be put on and worn today without ex citing comment Horsford's Acid Phosphate| Good Digestion. || i:;"'a'&;..m;- (ot IR GEMEOV 5 Taken regularly after meals, removes the sense of d.stress, oppression and “all gone" feeling of the stomach. 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