The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1906, Page 8

Same Old Story. y By J- Campbell Cory. Publishing Company, No. 2 to 6 Park Row, New York. Published by Office at New York as Second-Class Ma!l Matter. ‘Entered ‘at the } — WIOLUME 47., NEW YEAR'S DAY.. world w NO, 16,563, nor fraction of the population of th Evening World’s Daily Magazine, Monday; Décember 31, 19067 TWENTY-FIVE ROMANCES « PROGRESS By Albert Payson Terhune No. 22,_DAGUERRE~The Man Who Made Sunlight Work for Him, LITTLE French boy lay sick in his darkened bedroom one summer day {n 1775. Outside was a glare of sunlight, but heavy shutters rendered the sick-room gloomy and dark. The whitewashed cell- ing alone reflected patches of light from holes and cracks in the wooden blinds. frow be New Year's Da In only Catholic and Protestant countries dc the new year begin to-morrow. In Russia New Year's Day will not come “for almost a fortnight, and the C the Mahometans and the S Hebrews everywhere, like the Greek C! haye a New Year's Day of their own. Neither is it so.many centuries New Year's Day, come a week after the cc INot until the reign of George Il. did the | | agreed to have n of the winter solstice. | h Parliament adopt the} endar for Great B From the time w SWEARN. OFF TMORR FOR-. H1C — WHOLE YEAR - a year of 365 4: every fourth year, until P: ory XII; #881582, made J rections .which have New Year's Day come when it does, | there was an increasing There are two w: WHOOP-EE | nes It is a ques é was the earlier. T Greeks“kept time by the moon and early Egyptians by iThe early Roman year was lunar. The Hebrew year, w oldest, is lunar. The exact, length of the solar year is 365 days S hours 48 minutes} and 46 seconds, which is the exact interval of time between the verml equinoxes. The lunar year is the length of time required to complete |- twelve or thirteen’ lunar months, which as workedvout in the Hebrew | is one of the} hi ¢alendar gives a year varying from 353 to 385 days, the Hebrew mont! being aliemately twenty-nine and thirty days long, and in a-period of mineteen years seven years have thirteen months and twelve years havé} twelve months. The great variation ee ays the earth to in N Year's days comes from the fa he moon to re lure of} € on it olve around the earth and the, earth to revolve around the sun so that each revolution shall be} an exact multiple of every other revolution. If the revolutions annually ; coincided the earth, moon and sun would be in exactly the same relative Position to each other every vernal equinox, which is not the fa Hence every people w calendar is arranged on the basis fthe-revolution of the earth on its own axis or of the moon earth makes an annual error which, if uncorrected, ca Year's Day. \ There is no particular reason for having Jan. 1 come when it does,| except the desire of Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII. to adjust accumulated errors with the least inconvenience to the public. bout the Sa shifting New Love Affairs of Great Men = The Duke of Marlborough and Sarah Jennings. OHN CHURCHILL, D of Ma te rot ne family, When they ing from her at 2 the 1 several memb y-fiue\ yeara be had rone to days of f The vernal, equinox is the natural time to start the year! ssohtas? wwakening of the earth comes in the spri {winter is over; the blossomi i The holidays are no reasons for their coming terest than of present importance. It is better a —to make a 7 conscience as the asse I . for I ould have expovet while with a perspéctive glass look of you." demroyed her ' to one’: an t day ted to his son, ai of smallpox at Cai to hear hk ces More regret than rej Such a season always prc Letters from the People. = wilich ts ‘the greatest I propose with you, erred by tales of Sarsh's devoted to John, Duke of Boarding-louse Humoriats Mo the Ei The boarding-hous pent that comes in f condemnatic ing-houses “the life has a merry Nofie of these r than forty 6 Evening W w ByF.G.Long WHy Don'r YOUsGE MoRE) SOC/NELE? WHY DON'T. YOUS— TAKE, (1E Our Te HEAR 1 tx THE NEW YEAR CHIMES fj oe | I tHink./7 wourn GE A} / a eae I, NES GREAT LARK { and pores | | Wother sutter | A Rush-Huur Iden, [Syou weercHen BRUTE! YOU OUGHT lio HAVE kMowN BETTER THAN To \C DRAG. LITTLE W/FE OUT INTO iz = THAT DISGRACE FUL. DRUNKEN MOB! You DID IT ON PUR- Pose To MAKE my) (1 UNHAPPLY, 2, V7 f eee ee Sanna ORUARNRE Nepminn |of employment. Fenise | 4 a there # ==. been Induced to speak into a recorer bout the h Wwagen ahege 34. * how! « Leash get? carn and the other attractions of lif¢.on ths plantations. ‘Thise records bawe onest Bcales” ML F., Staten Island, been reproduded! to wondering crowds of islanders with hizhly e{ccesyul reaulteh The Uttle tnvalld was Joseph Nicephore Niepce. As be lay staring upward, very lonely und very sick, he saw a cart and horses drive slowly across the ceiling. Then a drove of-cattle, and after a while his father’s figure and that-of his pet dog. As the sun went.under a cloud these wonderful tmages faded. The child’s mother came in and he told her of the procession that had crossed his.ceiling. “The good woman, thinking her son was raving in delirium, sent post-haste for a doctor, When it was discovered he was quite sane the family came to the conclusion he had been lying. But he had not How the First Photograph Was Made. He had merely been inside the first camera fn existence. A chink in the blinds hag served as lens and the ceiling had been the plate or “findar,” reflecting objects passing in the road outside. The boy did not forget As he grew up his memory often returned to the strange phenomenon, and he began to figure out fn hiy ownomilild the cause of it. At last, in the course of time, he hit upon ‘very fair sojution of the mystery. This decided, he, set to work trying to reproduce the process in real life and to obtain some permanent image of objects thus photographed, ry @ After many faflures, Niepce found, in 1527, that by coating the surface of a metal plate with a | mixture of lavender of] and asphalt, putting tus plate in a primitive camera and exposing it a ‘~® jong time, a very faint tmage of the object or landscape in front/OfIt would be cast upon the metal. He developed such plates by washing them with a combination of petroleum and lavender oll This mixture dissolved the parts unaffected by the light. For a photograph (or “hellographic picture,” as it was called) of a landscape an: exposure of from seven to eight hours was needed. Any especially bright object, however, or one flooded with sunlight required an exposure of only three hours) Perhaps nothing else so clearly illustrates the strides made by photography since that time as the fact that a picture which then needed eight hours’ exposure now 7alls for an exposure of barely 1-250 of a second. Great ds was Niepce’s- discovery !t remained ‘for another man to put It to practical use. This collaborator was Jacques Daguerre, who had begun life as a soldier and had later won fame in Paris as a scene painter abd: maker of the first Diorama, A sheatre fire made Daguerre poor and out He “met.Niepee and went into partnership with htm. Soon afterward Niepce died, and -Daguerre carried on the work to completion. The ideas were, practically, all Niepce’s. But {t was Daguerre who got the credit for them and who had the honor of making the first successful phctograph. He, too, {t was after whom such early photographs were named. For the term “hellographie picture’ was shortened to “Daguerreo- type ures was absolutely’ hea and freed from The process whereby Daguerre made these first, crudé, A sheet of silver-plated copper was highly p every particle of dust, (Then it was hung: f containing fodine. The fumé¢s of the jsdine formed, on the surface of the plate, a substance known as silver /fodide, which is sensitive to light pay When enough of this had collected td turn the surface to an orangé color =~" the plate was ready for exposure and) was put Into the dark slide of a camera. ‘The exposure Itself, which had formerly taken several hours, was now cut down to between three minutes and half an hour, according to the light! So brief a sitting was regarded as miraculous, and all Europe fidcked to honor the inventor. i j But another difficulty confronted Daguerre He could not hit upon the right chemical for developing his pictures. One day atter taking a photograph he was Called away. - Before going he stuak the plate into a closet near hig stove. Taking {t out on his return he found. to his amaze- y. ment, a picture perfec’ developed. He was utterly mystified until he 1 | the cupboard, ; Seed cine found a Jar of mercary. ‘The warmth of the closet had vola ‘4 tilized the mercury, and the vapor thus formed had developed the plate by condensing on auch ‘A Dincovery That} vyaces as had been acted! on by the Hght in nearly Was Made by Accident.{ tn¢ same ratio as the intensity of the light’ a ction. Next the print was “fixed” by dippin, phite gf! sodd. In 1839 phe fir ‘ | ft into a solution of bypast was exhibited. : Other men took up the {dea and Improved on it. In 1849 Draper, of the University of, New York, invented an tmpro {t made the first “sunlight pic ahuman face. Th! photography. From that time furt. improvement was a easy matter, oy Though an American did so much for photography. yet, France rightly Prot. John W. i lens, and by revolutionized comparatively e first photo~ ‘But the little Invalid boy -room ceiling prisoning such graph appeared and who later discoveréd the means of | elusive {mages, died poor and withont honors.or reward. 7+ The Girl at the Candy Counter. indi. Thin § eo" beautiful His love & Tho girl waa w She knew how ple in the ut Bam of without a pe Papa was {n the cone King. I call Sam the Candy the fimily Fible, what did Sam dot tence and promisea? Not a bit! A fed and filled agen winter time. P fectionery b KM. When Papa ¢rased, Did he sond in a specidi it, He just got our he reminders of his iwh §am's mothor has made the ngs are #0 loud ynit ca feel aympathetic with Id Ike to marry him, ‘What becomes of “Sam was clearl and ‘The only thma X about men ike Sain, homor-thy-fa Inyunetion disobedient to his parent.” “rt “wan meant in @ Pickwicklan sense,” said the Gia at the Candy Counter. “Hontr begine at home, and a man's home ts his wife’ “WwW ith Apologies.’ By Walter’A. Sinclair. The Indictment: without hate or fury, now find Cause for tndictinent. It may cause excitement Don’t min@ Really, we shouldn't, We wish that -ve couldn't. But ett, Though our cheeks burn a large scorch, we return a true bill. Sed (« our lot and each conscience burns hot, We are sad. Pray be fongiving. We're sorry we're Stving. Too bad! B The Prosecution: tHe asked the Regular ne Grecd Jury, IST to the yearny, nad District-attorney, Accused! We know your fury when by the Grand Jury abused. Sure. You weren't In It No, Not for a minute. Woe's me! Still T must Go ft, although I will me i, you see. en now: Naughty! (In that tone too haughty? I'lt use Ob, I hate to try tt The Verdict: WELVF men and true, #4 were forced to try x We must do a0, though we would, (it muat Ah, surely! Still, you acted purely, Thia verdict. so elfish can’t bind. more yard on for fur ning more quiet. Excuse?) it ny were unselfish. Begging we add : £ Guilty vat But wicked? Oh, nover! We're sicne. semen Queer Way of Hiring Workers. EXPE ) use tas been found, for t talcing shown a r falands, ‘The natives have pelves for the Australian labor market