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F RANCISCO CALL, 1896 25 SUNDAY, JANUARY V2 THE “I saw by the papers the other day | ¢ three of the famous ‘Sprinkle’ dol- | hown up,” said F. L. Strow- | ridge of Peora, Ill. “Do what the ‘Sprinkle dol. | were? o? Well, Josiah Sprinkle, an in question, lived in one of the | roughest sections of Lewis County, Ken. | k Washington, the county seat of | as then a thriving town. One e, then an old man, appeared on with a buckskin pouch full ars of his own make. every respect they appeared the of the National coin. The weight s more than at present, and the quality d were all that could be asked for. He spent them freely and everybody accepted them upon the assura: i r le that they were all right, except that they were not made by the United tes M Upon being asked where he . he replied: ‘Oh, it don't The idely out- and in no wi ttempt made ating the Na; On one of the coin w 1 on the s own make. i the infor- nine in the d of the matter e. Sprinkle was into court, but the be T silver, fact, a_trifle more r an excited trial he i came on to i ested and 1 : time of his and carried th LINCOLN AS A PILOT. He Steered a Steamboat Before He Gained the Ship of State. the moment (when Lincoln an- a candidate for tie whole population state of wild expec- At 1 183; amon was i a i Some six weeks before Lincoln’s zen of Springfield tas soon as the ice went | would b n- e, from Beards- | Talisman lly came up the| of men went to Beardstown them Lincoln, of en the honor of h made him re- n who saw him | The trip was | demonstrations | e first steamboat. | ccompanied the sns and volleys of musketry ttlements were passed. At hes were made, congratu- asts drunk, flowers pre- was one long hurrah from to Springfield, and foremost ion was Lincoln, the pilot. b s near Springfield as | tied up for a week. Lincoln again had a as pilot. The no-| bim was quite valuable | cay , probat HER SAILORS. She Had a Woman's Love for the Ad- venturer. Queen Elizabeth sailors and their way woman’s love of th aturer. They brought her money, finery and flattery, and she dearly loved all three. But they suited not only her taste, but her policy. There was a mutual tanding be- tween them. If, for reasons of state, it was necessary to disown their privateer- ats, even when they were triumph- liged her she had all a i antly successful, they must reckon on her hard words and black Jlooks. 1f it was safe to acknowledge them, | they were rewarded with open smeiles and favors. Thoroughly aracteristic for example, was her of Francis Drake when the ev Pelican came home, leaving a her which went right round th He had laughed at Spanish protests, plun. dered Spanish treasure, towns and ships, with the light-hearted nuducitf of the | gentleman bandit, and anc ored st Piy- mouth with an El Dorado in his hold and th shouts of admiring England in his endoza, the Spanish Embassador, furi. | v demanded that the dragon should | d to disgorge his plunder. But it the Queen to teach the Spaniard a that if his master encouraged Irish he would encourage English priva- | Drake was the lion of her court; tatiously walked about with him blic gardens; the Pelican was the a royal banquet and Glorian: ie rough Francis one of her knights, jood Words. els sh A Kangaroo on Board Ship. He was presented by a lady in Hobart 1o one of our lieutenants. He never became quiet on board, aud ina few months took @ passage overboard, when nobody was looking, through a gun port, and was seen and heard of no more. He was addicted to keeping late and irregular hours. He would hide himself away and sleep all day, and then ke up and become ag- gressively active about 11 _P. ., when everybody had turned in. Kangaroos are extensively hunied in the country parts of | Ausiralia and give excelient sport. Our friend did so to the sentry and quarter- master of the watch at mght. He bad a .particular fancy for the navi- | gat officer’s cabin, which is on thel u deck. For various reasons the owner of the cabin did not appreciate this flattering preference, and he left strict orders with the men ‘on night duty in the neighbornood not to allow his highness to | disturb him in his rest. The kangaroo used to “lay off” very quietly behind the bits at the other end o1 the quarter-deck and wait his opportunity. When he thought he had make a rush, and he succeeded i mies’ lines an 4 good chance be would in nine cases out of ten n brezking through his ene- d reaching his favorite cor- d, was laid off in town | f ner, only, however, to be at once captured and ignominiously evicted. His hop, hop, hop on deck was curious to watch, but tue sound of it overhead at night was ridicu- lously irritating, and no one mourned very much when he took his voluntary depar- ture.—Chambers’ Journal, STOPPING GREAT SHIP, The Tremendous Momentum That Has to Be Arrested. The motion of a steamship on the At- lantic, when the sea is calm, is so smooth and steady that the passenger hardly realizes the tremendous momentum of the vessel under his feet. A collision, even after the engines have been slowed down, gives a startling revelation of the energy of motion. This energy can also be ac- curately calculated with the aid of mathe- matical formulas, and the time and dis- tance within which the motion can be totally arrested and the ship be brought to a stand, may be ascertamed in a similar manner. This calculation has recent been made for several well-known sh To stop the Etru: ment” is 9630 tons, horsepower 14,321, and speed 20.18 knots an hour, 2 min’ 47 seconds are required, and au process of stopping the ship wi 1 forge ahead 2464 feet, which 13 only 176 feet less | than Lall a mile; the United States cruiser Columbia, with a displacement of 7350 tons, 17,991 horsepower and a speed of 22.8 knots, can be stopped in 2 minutesand 15 seconds, and within a space of 2147 ieet; the little flier Cushing, also of tne United States navy, whose displacement is only 105 tons and” horsepower 1754, while 1ts S within a distauce of 103 feet. in 18.4 se onds. In each case the vessel is supposed to be going at full speed, and the stoppage is produced by reversing the action of the propelling machinery. — Youth’s Com- panion. The Thermophone. The thermophone is a new electrical in- ment for determining temperatures especially those of some distant or inacces- sible place, as the bottom of a pond or the S Sounds are produced by the changes in an electric circuit, due to variations in temperature. The electrical resistance of metals increases with a rise in tempera- ture and the rate of increase is different for each metal. Two coils, therefore, having the same re: nce at a particular temper- ature, wiil vary widely at any other temperature, so that should they be co: nected with an electric measuring balance or bridge their results could be compared. The introduction of a tele- phone enables small changes to be noted. The instrument is located at any pointand nay have a number of coils connected ith it, the same being placed in the rooms of large office buildings orin cold | storage warehouses, etc., and the tempera- ture registered on a dial. The thermo- phone will be a great aid to determining the fluctuations perature of the soil and the difference in temperature between the water at the sur- face and at the bottom of a pond or lake. he instrument is extremely sensitive and accurate, is inaependent of pressure, quick setting and quickly read, is portable and ntains no mercurial thermometers.— echnology Quarterly. the tem- The Sun’s Heat. There is no known metal, and perhaps no substance whatever, which demands so high a temperature to fuse it as does the clement carbon. A filament of carbon, land a filament of carbon alone, will re- main unfused and unbroken when heated by the electric current to the.aazzling brilliance necessary for effective illumina tion. This is the reason why this particu- lar element is so indispensable for our in- candescent electric lamps. Modern re- search has now taught us that, just as the electrician has to employ carton as the immediate agent in producing the brigat- est of artificial lights down here, so the sun in heaven uses precisely the same ele- ment as the immediate agent in the pro- duction of its transcendent light and heat. Owing to the extraordinary fervor which prevails in the interior parts of the sun, all substances there present, no matter how difficult we may find their fusion, would have to submit to be melted, nay, even to be driven off into vapor. 1f sub- mitted to the,heat of th »palling solar furnace, an iron poker, for instance, would vanish into invisible vapor.—McClure's Magazine. Sprinkled by a Trolley. A trolley street sprinkler with many excellent features has besn patented by a Phiiadelphia man. Itlsa combined track and street sprinkler. Its operation is wholly under the control oi the operato It wili sprinkle a single or double track alone, omitting the sides, or it will sprinkle one or both sides, incinding the track, if desired, or it will sprinkie a street 100 feet whose ““displace- | eed is 22.48 knots, can be stopped hysicists in | AND goal so soon as he who only looks straight ahead and follows the nose of his purpose unthinkingly. A demonstration o} this is contained in'the written play of “Hamlet,’” which the brief three hours’ traffic of the stage prevents being shown in action. I refer to the character of Fortinbras. He sees only one side of things, and knows vrecisely what he wants. And what is the result? © Well, the result is that when Hamlet is dead, this essentialiy practical unimaginative young man comes in and, in the language of our modern slang, “takes the cake.”—Beerbohm Tree in The Fortnightly Review. EXPRESS OF THE FUTURE. | How It Will Seemn to Travel Through a | Pneumatic Tube. ‘‘Take care!” cried my conductor, ‘“there’s a step!” cated to me I entered a vast room, illumi- nated by blinding electric reflectors, the | sound of our feet alone breaking the soli- | tude and sitence of the place. Where was 1? What had I come there | to do? Who wes my m | Questions unanswered. long walk in the night, iron doors opened and reciosed | with a clang, stairs descending, it seemed | to me, deep into the earth—that is all I | could remember. I had, however, no time | for thinking. Int teristic | January. “No doubt you are aski Jules Verne ovens a charac- tch in the Strand Magazine for yourself who | | An Express of the Future. America, at Boston—in a station.” | ‘A station?” *‘Yes, the st: cylinders, about a meter and a half in diameter, Iying upon the ground a few paces off. Ilooked at these two cylinders, ending on the right in a mass of masonry, and »d_on~ the left with heavy metallic caps, from which a ciuster of tubes were carried up to the roof; and suddenly [ comprehended the purpose of all this. Had I not a short time before read in an American newspaper an article describing this extraordinary project for linking Eurcpe with the New World by means of two gigantic submarine tubes? ~An inven- tor had claimed to have accomplished the ta d that inventor, Colonel Pierce, I had befere me. In thought J realized the newspaper article. Complaisanily the journalist entered into the details of the enterprise. He stated that more than 3000 miles of iron tubes, weighing over 13,000,000 tons, were required, with the number of ships neces- sary for the transport of this material— 200 ships of 2000 tons, each making thirty- three voyages. He descrined this Armada of science bearing the steel to two special vessels, on board of which the ends of the tubes were joined to each other and in- cased in a triple netting of iron, the whole | covered with a resinouns preparation to pre- serve it from the action of the sea water. | . Coming at ouce to the question of work- | ing, hefilled the tubes—transformed into a sort of pea-shoeter of interminable length—with a series of carriages, to be carried with their travelers by powerful currents of air, in the same way that dis- | patches are conveyed preumatically round | Paris. A Y:xra]lel with the railways closed the | article, and the author enumerated with | siasm the advantages of the new and audaclous system. According to him, | there would be, in passing through these bes, a suppression of all nervous trepida- tion, thanks to the interior surface being of finely polished steel; equality of temp- erature secured by means of currents of air, by which the beat could be moditied according to the sons; incredibly low owing to cheapness of construction orking expsnses—waving aside all questions of gravitation and wear and tear. As to the possibility of obtaining a cur- { rent of air from one end of the tube to the A TROLLEY SPRINKLER. wide, without any change in the struciure of the machine. “What a Piece of Work Ts Man." In this scene occurs a passage which seems to me the keynote of Hamlet's character. It is a phrase in which the whole tragedv of his life is bounded as in a nutshell. Hamlet exclaims: ~There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it s0.” In these words we find the clew to the failure of many a potentially great man. The man who most succeeds in life is he who only sees one side. The man whose mental horizon is wide, who is capable of seeing the good and evil on both sides, who wanders from the high road of a fixed purpose into the bylanes of philo- sophicai contemplation, will not reach his other—Boston to England—Colonel Pierce smilingly assured me that all we required to those used in blast-furnaces. was driven by them witha force practically without limit, the speed attainable being 1800 kilometers—almost that of a cannon- | ball. Taking into account the aifference | in time, th« traveler from Liverpocl would | reach Boston earlier than he started. The speed could be checked en route by turn- ing a handle and letting in the opposing jcurrent of air from the parallel tube | wherein & train speeds in the opposite direction. The colonel pulled sharply a bright brass knob projecting from the side of ote of the tubes; a gnnel slid smoothly in its grooves, and in the opening left by its removal T perceived a row of seats, on each of which | Safely descending the step thus indi- | erious guide? | | Tam?” said my guide: *Colonel Pierce, ! freshness | at your service. Where are you? In arting-point of the ‘Boston | to Liverpool Pneumatic Tubes Company.’ "’ | And, with an explanatory gesture, the | colonel pointed out to me two long iron | was a great number of steam fans similar ' The air | were renewed, but the choras of praise was two persons might sit comfortably side by side. ‘‘The carriage!” excaimed “Come in and try the things, By the light of an electric famp in the rooi I carefully examined the carriage I had entered. Nothing could be more simple. A long der, comfortably upholstered, along which seme fifty armchairs, in pairs, were ranged in twenty-five parallel ranks. At either end a valve regulated theatmos- hleric pressure, that at the further end breathable air to enter the car- that in front allowing for the dis- charge of any excess beyond a normal pressure. Aiter spending a few moments on this examination [ became impatient. “Well,” I said, “‘are we not going to start?”’ “'Going to start?” cried the colonel, **We have started !” Started—like that — without the least jerk, was it possibie? T listened atten- vely, trying to detect a sound of some ind that might have guided me. 1f we bad really started—if the colonel bad not deceived me in talking of a speed of eighteen hundred kilometers an hour— we must already be far from any land, under the sea; above our heads the huge, foam-crested waves; even at that moment, haps—taking it for a monstrous sea- serpent of an unknown kind—whales were hattering with their powerful tails our long iron prison! : Piunged in boundless astonishment, un- able t» believe in the reality of all that had happened to me, I sat silently, allowing the time to pass. At the end of about an hour a sense of unon my forehead , the colonel. Traveling by Pneumatic Tube. [Reproduced from the Strand Magazine.] aroused me from the torpor into which I had sunk by degrees. I raised my hand to my brow; it was moist. Moist! Why was that? Haa the tube burst under pressure of the waters—a pressure that could not but be formidable, since it increases at the rate of *“an atmos. phere’”’ every ten meters of depth? Had the ocean broken in upon us? Fear scized me. Terrified, I tried to call out—and—and I found myself in my gar- den, generously sprinkled by a driving rain, the big drops of which awakened me. T had simply fallen asleep while reading the article ‘devoted by an Ameri- can journalist to the fantastic projects of Colonel Pierce, who also, I'much fear, has only dreamed. Sound of the Voice. An inquiry was recently made in London as to the greatest distance at which a man’s voice could be heard, leaving of course, the telephone out of consideration. The reply was most interesting, and was as follows: Eighteen miles is the longest distance on record at waich a man’s voice has been heard. This occurred in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, where one man shouting the name “Bob™ at one end. his voice was plainly heard at the other end, which is eighteen miles away, Lieu- tenant Foster, on Parry’s th Arctic expedition, found that he could converse h 2 man across the harbor of Port Bowen, a distance of 669G feet, or about one and a quarter miles; and 'Sir John Franklin said that he conversed with ease at a distance of more than a mile. Dr. Young records that at Gibraltar the human voice has been heard ata distance of ten miles. To this we may add that the celc- brated preacher, Rowland Hill' relates that once, while walking along a country road, he saw a gravel bank cave m upon { some workmen. He shonted for help, and was heard a full mile. This, being across an ordinary English country region, is perhaps as raordinary as any of those mentioned. Byron and tho Critics. Byron is probably the ouly instance in literary history of a critic-made poet. His “Hours of Idleness” was strictly what it claimed to be, the production of a youth who had nothing svecial to do and turned i his attention to poetry as a-means of pass- {ing the time. Had the critics suffered it to pass unnoticed, it 1s quite probable that the poet would never bave been heard of again in the world of letiers. But the edi- tor of the Edinburgh Review could not miss an opportunity of ‘‘roasting’”’ some- body, and so attacked the modest little voiume with all the virulence of which he was able. The criticism, most of which was very unjust, made Byron very anzry, and he turned on the critic with “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,” and showed in this powerful satire a degree of manly force and vigor of which no one supposed him capable. It was kis only utterance of any consequence azainst the critics. When it was tollowed by the opening cantos of “‘Childe Harold" the criticisms so loud that the dissonant notes were lost. Boston Herald. Mice That Waltz., In Japan there is 2 breed of mice, white- speckled with black about the head, neck and tail, which have a strange habit of whirling, or as it is called, “‘waltzing,” for hours at a time with only brief stoppages. T he desire to waltz seizes the mice at the most unexpected moments, especially at night, for they senerally sleep during the day. Frequently they whirl in couples, but so rapidly that they appear like spin- ningrings of white and black. Like Giant Despair’s fits, the walizing paroxysms of these mice often secize them while they are running, and if they attempt to escape from imprisonment, they do not go far before thep are arrested by the irresistible desire to whirl. The tendency is heredi- itary, and exhibits itself as soon as the young mice begin to run about.—Youths’ Companion. SALI“BURY AS HE IS, Interesting Facts About the English Prime Minister. The present Prime Minister is a man who would have succeeded in most any walk of ife he had chosen to follow. The cead of an historical family, and possessed of great wealth, bisopportunities have no doubt been great; but for all that it is to his great natural abilities that he mainly owes his success. It must be remembered that he had made a figure in the world when be was plain Lord Robert Cecil, and before there was any likelihood of his com- ing into the family title and estates. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyner-Cecil was born 1u 1850 and was educated at Eton and Christ Chureh, Oxford. At the uni- versity he was a frequent and effective speaker at the Union Debating Society, and in 1853 he was elected member of Parlia- ment for the family borough of Btam- ford. Feur years later he married Miss Alderson, daughter of the Judge of that name. Her parents were opposed to tbe union, not constdering Lord Robert Cecil a sufficiently good match. Lora Robert was then a younger son, and with very little money at his disposs Indeed, in the year of his marriage he took to jour- nalism 1n order to supply the deficiency of a somewhat inadequate allowance. In that year the Saturday Review was started, and soon bécame famous by the cleverness, wit and daring of its articles. Lord Rebert Cecil was one of the earliest and most valued contributors. It was be- tween 1859 and 1865 that he made his mark in the Commons. This was in Lord Palm- erston’s second administratien. 1t was in 1865 that his elder brother died and he be- e Lord Cranborne and heir to the Mar- quirate. In the following year, on the jormation of Lord Derby’s third adnfinis- tration, he was appointed Secretary of ite for Indla. Iis father died in 186 and he came into the title and entered the House of L He soon’ established a reputation as foremost debater in the up- ver house. In 1874 he took office, under Mr. Disrdeli, and in 1876 was sent to Con- tantinople to try and help to settle the pute between Russia and Turkey. He also went with Lord Beaconsfield to the Berlin Congress, and rendered great assist- ance m that affair, On the death of Lord Beaconsfield in 18 80 Lord Salisbury became the recoinized der of the Conservative party. He be- me Premier in June, 1885, on the resig- nation of Mr. Gladstone, and again after the general election of 1886. The present is, therefore, Lord S bury’s third ad- ministration. The Marquis of Balisbury has perhaps won more laurels by his m agement of foreign aif domestic pol Rightly is c elited w rs than by hi or wrongiy, he Inside the Car. When not in London or abroad, Lord Salisbury spends most of his time at his magrificent and historical country seat at Hatfield. Hatfield House is one of the finest of the ancestral hcemes of the English nobility, It was built in the reign of James 1, and the date of its completion, 1611, stands over the principal entrance. It isa noble mansion, and ils superb park, intersected | by avenues of oaks and beeches, zimost unequaled in their magnitude and’ beauty, is one of the most beautiful skenes in the country. Hatfield is crowded with objects of his- torical interest, not the least remarkable of which are those connected with Queen Elizabeth, of whom there are four or five portraits in the collection. the Queen’s silk stockings, elabora broidered, the first of their k broucht to this country; her garden hat of plaited straw or cane work, which she is said to have worn while siuin% under an oak (the remains of which still stand h great diplomatic skill, | Here we see | and they still keep up their mutual affec- tion and intimate acquaintance. The bond of having belonged to ** Mrs. Pierce’s class” is like that of a close society.—Boston Post. Artificial Thunder. Take a piece of twine and tie a number of knots into it at short intervals. If this knotty twine is laid around somebody’s Artificial Thunder. head so that it will turn the ears forward, and then the forefinger and thumb of each hand allowed to slide along the string, as shown in our illustration, it will cause a noise very similar to thunder to be heard by those who are undergoing the experi- | ment.—Philadelphia Record. THE TINTOMETER. A Contrivance for Measuring Colors Recently Invented in England. The tintometer, as its name implies, is a tint or color measure. It is the invention of J. W. Lovibond, who has devoted some twenty years of work and thought to the perfection of the contrivance, which, hay- ing been in use more or less privately for seven or eight years past in many tech- nical industries, and for various special purposes, has now been taken over by a | company and placed on the market. To the man in the street probably the uses of a contrivance of this nature seem scarcely verv obvious at first sight. This only shows how little the man i the street knows about the mat- ter. For the uses of the tintometer are believed to be nearly endless. This will be realized when it is borne in mina that in the case of practically every substance, | natural or manufactureéd, known to man color is an absclute index of its quality. Consequently you have only to ascertain | its color exactly in order to know at once the quality of the substance you are deal- ing with. | enables you to do. Takeflour. The quality | of flour can be told to a nicety by its color. Hence you have only to ascertain the posi- | | tion of any given specimen of flour in the color scale to know its value. “But how about adulteration ?” some one will ask at once: ‘‘cannot an inferior flour be colored by the addition of some foreign substance | to match the shade desired ?”” Certainly it can be, but the tintometer would detect the fraud at once. What, then, is the tintometer? Briefly, it consists of a carefully graded series of colored glasses—about the s1ze and shape of small microscope slides—by means of which, used singly or superimposed one on top of the other, any desired shade or color ean be matched with absolute ex- actitude. And when it is realized that | there are just 60,000,000 shades which can be obtained 1in this fashion it will be | understood that the color which cannot be matched by the tintometer must be very hard to find, indeed. In point of fact, there is no color or tint perceptible to the ordinary human eye which cannot be obtained. These slips of glass are | placed on a slide at the end of a double }»aral]el-sided woodea tube, something ike an elongated stereoscope to look at, i with two small apertures at the lower end | and eyepieces to look through at the | upper. The substance to be matched is | placed under the one aperture, and then, | by changing the slips of glass to the re- | quired extent beneath the other, the de- sired tint is readily obtained.—West- minster Budget. A NEW STYL OF CRAFT. Sidewheel Pleasure Yacht Propelled by 1 Gasoline. A small pleasure craft, constructed on a new system of propulsion, and intended | for navigation in unusually shallow wa- | ters, has just been built for Dr. J. Cutler | of Boston by the Daimler Motor Company, says the New York Herald. She is a flat- bottomed boat with a wooden hull, built with a keel so that she may be the more easily steered. Her length is 30 feet, beam 8 feet, and draught 16 inches. Sh-is a side-wheeler, the wheeis beinz made of ‘l wrought iron and her paddles of wood. seven horse power, weizhs 840 pounds, and is capable of making 540 revolutions per minute, producing a speed of between nine and ten miles per hour. This_little boat is named the Priscilla, and is intended to be used by Dr. Cutler in the vicinity of Key West, I"la., where he frequently passes the winter months. An awning can be erected in the forward part | of the craft, while there is a cabin aft, where passengers can find refuge in wet or stormy weather. The Priscilla was shipped to Key West |on Saturday by steamer. STORY OF A FIRE-HORSE. Kansas City’s Dead Veteran of the De- partment Ts Mounted. Not a great many years ago a team of milk-white horses drew a packing-house wagon through the streets of Kansas City. They were the pride of the driver, a i brawny Irishman, who had a Kentuck: ian’s regard for the horse, and they at- tracted the admiration of all who saw them. Fire Chief Hale was attracted to the horses, and purchased them in 1887 for $500. The Lorses were installed at fire headquarters and named Joe and Dan for DR, CUTLER’S GASOLINE YACHT PRISCILLA. in the park carefully preserved and sur- rounded by a railing) when the news was brought her that she had succeeded to the | throne; her pedigree from Adam, a long roll of parchment richly illuminated; her jewel cases, iniaid with motner-of-pearl; er cradle, as an infant, made of oak and carved and other relics.—Spare Moments. Longfellow’s Sister. A sister of the poet Longfellow, Mrs. Pierce, is still living, although at an advanced age, in Portland, Me. Mrs. Pierce’s wasa unique experience in Sun- day-schicol teaching. She toek a class of tiny girls on the occasion of their first ap- pearance at church. Thei never left her class through the years which elapsed, but grew up nnder her influence until one b one they quitted the school to be married. The friendship existing between these girls and their teacher was phenomenally strong, as was_that of the members for each other. Now, as grav-haired grand- mothers, on returning to Portland dor vis- its, each one pays her court to Mrs. Pierce, | Joseph McGuire and Daniel Donovan. | They were intellizent animals, and_took to the fire service with remarkable aptitude. In a comparatively short time they were by far the swiftest horses in the depart- ment. It was common for them in re- sponding to an alarm to be in their places, hitcned and away before any of the other teams had been hitched. ‘When Chief Hale attended the Interna- tional Firemen's Convention in London in 1893 he took Joe and Dar along to sei the ace for all the competing companies. Elow nobly these animals performed their task has been written in a dozen lan- guages and their incredible time 1 1-5 sec- onds for hitching, made at this conven- | tion, has not been overcome. . All Londou was astounded over the achievement of Joe and Danand Chief Hale's firemen. Many flattering offers for the team were received by the Chief from wealthy British- ers, but he rejected all offers and would listen to no overtures for their purchase. Joe and Dan’s London achievement e deared them to the hearts of the people of Kansas City. Among the objects of inter- And this1s what the tintometer | [ Placed in the center of tne boat isa | motor, operated by gasoline, which is of | est shown to visiting strangers was this team of horses. J There was an alarm of fire on June 6, 1893, and in a jiffy Joe and Dan were clat- tering over the streets in front of hose company No. 2. They dashed down Eleventh street and coliided at a dead run with a cable train at Main street. They struck a gripear and their momentum forced them into the car, breaking the side supports into splinters. The horses were extricated from the car and returned to the station. Three d later it was discovered that in the collision a splinter bad penetrated Joe's right hind hoof. Lockjaw resulted and he had to be shor. A fund was taken up for the purpose of mounting his hide. And notw Joe is at fire headquarters again. As natural as life, he stands 1n an upper haliway, wearing the same harness he wore when, with Dan, the world’s record was made in Londo Joe mounted by Professor E. . E: idermist, of Lawrence, Kas. brought to the city as a Christmas sur- prise to the firemén. All forenoon and afternoon people called at the department i eadquarters to see Joe. Many placed flowers on him and stroked his sleek hide. i i it i it to realize that Joe i3 not the noble horse of old, waiting for the firebell tap to dart beneath the swinging harness.—Chicago Record. A Red Cross Knight. The crimson glow of sunlight falls Along the monumental walls, Where still In faded pomp are read The name and vir.ues of the dead. Yet from yon efiigy of knight The graven name has vanished No word remains; but stories tell That he who sleeps fought true and well§ In kindness swit, in vengeance slow— A constant iriend. a courieous foe; Who partly fought for love of fight, Tut chiedy far the love of right. To Holy Land he rode away Seek thou a holy land to-da; With sword and beitle ax Le strove; Seek thou tne armory of lovi He won on earth & poor renown; Win thou on earth Love's fadeless crown. —The Gentlemen’s Magazine. quite; 1 NEW TO-DAY. ABSOLUTELY FREE A Practical Test of the Matchless Chronie Disease Treatment. Free to All Who Call in Person at the Offices of the Copeland Medical In- stitute, 916 Market Street. To enable all to obtain some definite under- standing of their new system of chronic dis- | ease treatment and to test its great practical advantages over all other methods Drs. Cope. land, Neal and Winn offer to all sufferers from Catarrh or other curable chronic maladiesa trial treatment free. Remember, that all who apply in person will now be cordially welcome to a careful examination, advice and treat- ment, upon their first visit, absolutely free of charge. Chronic diseases are diseases that have been allowed to become old or of long standing be- cause of carclessness and negligence on the part of the patient, or insbility of ihe family ian to cure in the acute or early stage ronic diseases in themselves, as a gene: rule, are not speedily fatal, but they are more or less insidious, and if allowed to run on un- dermine the general health and strength of the patient and produce & liability to take on more dangerous diseases by exposure to such weather now experiencing. A diseases require treatment diréctly opposite to that of acute diseases, and the at- tention of doctors specially trained and spe- cially equipped for that purpose. Drs. Cop land 1 and Winn have devoted years of ex clusive attention to the treatment of this of diseases, and feel that they have attained a scientific mastery over them. Four years in one location, during which time they nave treated over 15,000 patients, is a record to be proud of. POLYPI PAINL LY REMOVED, The Experience of Mrs. A. M. Rudolph of Oakland. Mrs. A. M. Rudolph, whose portrait is given beiow, and who lives 2t 1471 F t, Opk- land, is a lady who is well and iavorably kpown in that city. She says: Mzs. A. M. RUDOLPH, 1471 FIFTH ST., CAKLAND. iy trouble commenced some twelve years ago. It began with catarrh, the resuit of neg- lected cold; this brought of: a p in my nostri up, and for them, compelling me to keep my mouth open all the time. I lost my appetite; could not sleep; ran down in flesh and strength, and was thoroughly miserable. 1 went to many doc- tors, but could not obtain relief. Iwas afraid of their barbarous methods of removing tha tumors. Ihad read so much of the Copeland Meaieal Institute, and one day read of a case exactiy like mine. I then went to them and placed my case in their{care. They removed the tum painlessly and without loss of blood; the relief at orice was worth a hundred times \what it cost. 1 can now brenthe through nostrils freely and feel betier in every way, ntevery one to know the great good Dr. Copeland, Neal and Winn have done for me, and am only too glad to add my testimony in their favor. Parties desiring to test the excellence of the new treatment for chronic d enses are welcome to a trial treatment without charge on applying in person. A CARD TO PHYSICIANS. Drs, Copeland, Neal and Winn desire to ex- press their sincere thanks to the many family hysieians of San Francisco who are in the lem of turning over to_their care such of their patients as may be suffering from mala- dies of a chronic cheracter. Deeply sensible of such manifestation of continued confidence in their system, they take this means to convey te them, in return, theirassurance of unabated and untiring effort on behalf of every suffering invalid committed to their charge, the fee, in all cases, to continue strictly nominal as here- tofore. THE FREE TEST. The free trial test of treatment offered by Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn is offered to every one on their first visit. Then if the treat~ ment is not satisfactory it can be abandoned, We do not oifer “iree treatment” of a ““month’ at the end of six or seven months’ experimentas tion, but at once, on the first visit. THE MAIL TREATMENT. The following letter proves the mail treate ment & success: an Luis Obispo, Nov. 14, 1895. Dear Doctors—I will need no more tréatment, asITam now satisfied that I am cured. You can publish my statement to that effect. I thank you very much 0r the interest you have taken in my case. THEODORE THORP. $5 A MONTH. No fee larger than $5 a month asked for en; disease. Our motto 1s: “A Low Fee. Quic! Cure. Mild and Painless Treatment.” The Copeland Medical Institats, PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN THE COLUMBIAN BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR, 916 Market St, Next to Baldwin Hota) eamish’s. D, M.D. SPECIALTIES—Catarrh and all diseases of the Eve, Ear, Throat axd Lungs. Nervous Dise eases, Skin Diseases, Chronic Diseases. Office hours-94. M. t0o 1 P. M,2t05P. M, 7t08:30 P. M. Sunday—10 A. M. 10 2 P. M. Cetarrh troubles and kindred diseases treated successfully by mail. Send 4 centsin stamps for question circulars.