The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 13

SECTION 2 THE LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MOENING, JUNE 16, 1901. FADS TARIFF FOLLY. barrels of powdered sugar and gallons on gallons of ice cream." "WTxat People Call Tor. A NEW YORK REFORMER'S HOME FOR YOUNG MEN HOW LOUISVILLE'S FAME HAS BEEN SPREAD ABROAD What David A. Willard, the "Tombs Is Doing For the Youth of the a pride in it and learns before long to keen it clean.

Thus, almost without itlhksir knowing it, these children of the street come to adopt the habits of re-spectaJble citizens. They lose their old horror of steady work, and are led to take positions and to keep them. Besides the young criminals there are many honest boys who make Mr. Wil-lard's houjie their home when out of work. Then there are dozens of boys in tihe neighborhood who come In to his clubs and classes, in all of whom he is inltere'siecl, and, a.iwve all, there are about one hundred and thirty boys out on probation, who live in their own lionx'S and report to him regularly To David A.

'Willard, of New York, the "Tom'os Schoolmaster," is due the credot for transforming miany criminals into useful citizens. This young and energetic reformer has founded a. home on Chrystle street, in the metropolis. whure youthful wrong-doers are recelv- ed and given an Insight into genuine lamiiy 1:10. This home 13, in reality, Mr.

U'itlard's private lionse, whkih he shares with twelve to fifteen boys and young men who have started out wrong, but are wiliing and anxious to do better; young men who have been convicted of minor crimes and served their sentences or been relieved from punishment for their deeds by Mr. Willard's influence. There are no rules and regulations Other thb.n one would find in any household. The 'boys :ha.ve no hard and fast routine of duties laid down for them. They are not prayed over, lectured or exhorted 'to mend their ways.

But each newcomer, -whoso existence hitherto has been chaotic, who, most likely, has never known What it is to have a real bed to sleep upon, finds out, gradually, that 'there is a certain time at night for rest and a proper 'hour to rise in the morning. He beconncs aoeustonred to three meals a day and learns to be promptly In time for them. He sees that he Is expected to appear at table with clean face and har-ds and his hair brushed. After a while he grows to consider this a matter of course, instead of a hardship. Each Boy Has His Own.

Boom. Then each boy has his own room. It is not a bare walled room, savoring of Che institution, but one cozy and attractive, tastefully papered, with white muslin curtains in the windo-ws and dainty coverings for the bed and bureau. To the homeless boy such a room seems like a bit of fairyland. He takes I CROWNING A How strange, after all.

Is truth! The old proverb has been made emphatic again and again by pages from history, and the ghastly tale of Inez de Castro and her crowning is not the least remarkable. She was the second wife of Prince Pedro of Portugal, who fell in love with her rare beauty, and secretly made her his own. Great joy was theirs, but when the King bad news of their marriage, he grew exceeding angry. Nor did time soften his rage, for he feared that bis older grandchildren might be thrust from the throne by those -of Inez de Oastro. But nothing disturbed the love of ths young couple until one dark day, twhen Don Pedro came home from the hunt, he found his wife a bleeding corpse slain by the creatures of Alphonso, the King.

POOR GIRL'S AMBITION GRATIFIED BY MR, If Annie Dobble, an eighteen-year-old girl, of Brooklyn whose mother' is a poor widow, ever becomes a famous singer she will have Andrew Carnegie to thank. Without hearing the little singer's voice, without ever having seen the child, the kindlly Scottish-American philanthropist has made it possible for her to develop her talents. Toung Miss Dobble is said to have a remarkable voice, and the aid of Mr. Carnegie was secured by the child's mother. She wrote a personal appeal to the former steel magnate, who agreed to pay for the girl's music lessons, provided she should study In America.

that he read at the rate of 5,000 words each hour. And the man who trie3 it will find his Christmas holidays cut woefully short if he also decides to peruse the expected accumulation between now and the last week In August. Had all the matter appearing tn the scrap-books ale.ne set by hand, as was done in newp.iper offices before the invention of the typesetting machines, it would have required over 11,000,000 letters and spaces to put the copy in shape for the newspaper readers. Placed end to end this type would have made a strip of metal 173 2-3 miles long, the length of a line drawn from Ohillicothe, to Indianapolis, one-half the distance to Chicago or to St. Louis; more than a third of the way -to Washington, and one-fifth of the distance to Havana, Cuba, Over 90 per cent, of the matter, however, was probably "set up" In offices where machines are used.

For sake of another comparison, it may be assumed that ail was cast from these type-setting devices. This would make over 500,000 lines of type of "brevier body." Stood end on end, these lines would reach eighteen miles Into the air, or 1.655 times the height of Washington Monument. Placed on the ground, the lines would make a metal strand one-eighth of an inch thick, reaching from the Jefferson county courthouse to the post-office at Shep-herdsviUe. Could an alchemist convert the same metal Into silver, there would be enough dollars to pay the President's salary for a term of four years and then leave him a sufficient: amount to buy a summer home at Newport. Enough Illustrations have! been used with the articles to stock an art gallery with sixteen canvasses 2x4 each.

Wide Territory Covered. The student of the scrap book will be impressed with the wide territory covered. There are Knights Templars everywhere in America. Messrs. Hughes and Owsley have reached every one of them, provided the Sir Knights read the newspapers, and the Templars are recruited from the thrift and intelligence of every community.

There is not a State east of the Mississippi that is not represented in the books by clippings from one or more of its largest newspapers. The newspapers of five or eix of the States and Territories of the far West are missing from the scrap book, but this does not indicate that nothing concerning Louisville and the conclave has appeared in those States, for the advertising has been too thorough and the "news matter" rurnished the press of the country of too vital interest to all readers of newspapers to have been overlooked by the editors of those progressive and prominent dailies. The clippings in the books vary in length from a few lines to a full page of nine columns. Several full pages of great eight-column Eastern and Western Sunday papers are to be found in the covers of these interesting volumes, while half-pages, where the name "Louisville" stands forth In great "scare" heads, are to be found by the How the "Work Is Bone. It cannot fail to meet the notice of "Men drink at soda, fountains now that used- to drink beer and liquors," went on the Fourth -avenue man.

"they like orange and lemon egg phosphates and other mineral water compounds. Women stick to ice cream soda. Occasionally a woman will ask fcr liquor at the fountain. It isn't sold any more. Yes, it was once upon a time.

It was sokl and it gave Louisville a reputation that clings round her still. "Hereby hang9 a tale of a druggist in what is known as a first-class neighborhood. He had a liquor license, of course, and began to sell it at his soda fountain. Talk about popularity! Well, he was exceedingly pcpuSar with a growing bank account. The women began to demand it of other druggists and got it.

AH the svxla iountains did a good business selling drinks to women. The thing got abroad and the preachers and moral gumdiar.s of vh? city became alarmed. They besieged and petitioned the Sinking Fund Commissioners to revoke the license of the Louisville druggists In one wholesale revoke. The Sinking Fund finally sent for the druggists and had them all agree not to sell liquor at the s.da-fountains. But the fame of that thing had reached uttermost parts and Louisville soda fountains are still supposed to be flowing with every kind of wine and whisky known to the skillful mixologists Instead of the harmless Ice cream sodas and egg phosphates that they do set forth." While the girls are perhaps the backbone of the Louisville Ice cream soda trade, the country people who come Into the city are crazy about it, and newly arrived foreigners have a mania for it.

Children are also greatly addicted to it, and their nickels are divided between the druggist and the hokey-pokey man as he passes. Known By His Ice Cream Soda. A local druggist who prides himself on filling more prescriptions in a year than any other went visiting in several small towns and cities in Kentucky. Wherever he went and met people they would prick up their ears at the sound of his name and assume an expression which may be well called "ruminating." "Smith, Smith? Um urn um ah! Oh, you are the man who sells such good Ice cream sodal" In telling of this the druggist smiled. "I spent a great deal of money on learning my business, more in my business, and lo! I am known only by what tickles people's palates." The Insinuating Clerk.

The most successful clerk at the soda-water fountain must have an eye to the wishes and peculiarities of his customers and be more than a white coated automaton. Because the girls are his best customers is fitting that he be young and somewhat of a fliriatloug turn. A good clerk can put a great deal of art and meaning Into a twist of the wrist, into the care and tenderness with which he compounds a drink and hands it over 'the counter. Some of these' 'clerks in Louisville have traveled- East and West, North and South. discourse wisely on "good towns for soda-water," that "the West is picklngp," that "Louisville is a fair show" and that "Jackson, 'bea-is the world for drinking soda-water." One of experience will tell you about standing one of ten clerks' behind the long counter In a Chicago department store and taking in 1,410 checks on a real busy diy.

Another will tell that he can, in a pinch, serve a thousand people a day. But hese are ripples on the surface. Usually the clerks are serene and not overworked. Everybody likes thrim and the country folk do not hesitate to ask for a little more syrup to thicken it up and then a little more water to use up the syrup. Ice 'ream Soda Is Queen.

In the East the drinks mixed with lime juice, seltzer and carbonated waters are going to the wall. The doctors have been dead against them becauee they said lime juice and the acids burned out the stomach. But as there has been no outcry against the ice cream soda, snd it retains its prestige as queen of the summer drinks. In spite of all the money that 13 made In the business, and a good Louisville fountain takes in from 540 to $50 per daj the druggist merely regards the soda-water business as a ringer-in, an advertisement that goes far ahead of any other. To tills end he buys marble and bevel-glass mirrors and silver plate and cut glass.

To this end he securrs the services of artists who fairly bring the women In from the pavement by their pleasant ways. To that end they mnke fruit syrups and lock anxiously for new recipes. To that end they provide seats for the weary and encourage meetings there. Once the people are within the doors, they are apt to buy from the legitimate stock. To the druggist an ad vert to the young man of small means a blessing not to be overlooked, to the thirsty solace, to the child a delight ice cream soda has Its mission, has it not? The Bed cf the Pacific Ocean.

Many discoveries of Interest were made during the purvey ri the bed of the Pacific by the Nero, a vessel belonging to the United States navy. The object of the survey was to locate a route for a cable, and a map was made of the ocean bed from California to Japan. The discovery that will attract most attention. perhap3. Is the greatest known ocean deptii fifty-two hundred and sixty-nine fathoms, nerly eix miles.

This was found a short distance eaut of the island of Guam. All the way from Hawaii to the Midway Tslands the soundings showed that the bottom 13 a level pi in of soft mud, at an average depth of twenty-se-en hundred fathoms. Between the Midway Islands and Guam another level pUln, broken here and-there by lew mountain rar.es. and between Guam and Yrkahoma is a great peak that rises almost to rhe purface. He Sew the Error of His Way.

"To think." paid the missionary, earnestly, "that you should believe in polvgamy!" "Well, between you and me." said the hen-pecked Mohammedan, "I don't." Puck, United States Export Trade To Russia. PRACTICALLY WIPED OUT. EIGHTEEN MILLIONS A YEAS THE SACBIFICE MADE BY THE SUGAR TAX WAR. Whole Amount of Sugar Shipped To This Country Yearly Was Insignificant. TOTAL TTVTPOBTS ONLY New York.

June 15. A St. Petersburg cable to the Herald says: A small notice published in the papers here chrorrlcles the result of one cf the greatest 'pieces of commercial folly on the part of the United States which it is possible to imagine. That notice tell3 of an order of the Minister of Finance raising the tax on several articles of American production. Including bicycles, for example, from 20 to 30 per which means virtually that they are excluded.

Eighteen millions of dollars worth of American trade per annum is. for the same reason, brought to an end. And this Is all done upon a pure tech-ntcahty. upon what most people here believe to be a misunderstanding. It is all over the matter of Russian sugar, and whether it is what Is known in trade as "bounty fed." Mr.

Kolkrway, United States Consul here, took upon himself the responsibility of reporting to the Treasury De- partment that Russian exported sugar was indirectly bounty fed. I do not know how deep Mr. Holloway's knowledge of Russian law may be, but hla decision is, I find, generally controvert-' ed. In the meantime the harm ha.3 been done. Tax Eemission, Not Bounty.

To put the matter so simply that alt can understand it, the case is this: Russia guarantees to take from her sugar producers as much sugar at a certain sum, upon which she places an internal tax. At the same time she taxes all sugar produced. When manufacturers 'have a surplus for exportation that internal tax is refunded to them. How such a condition can lossibly be tortured Into bounty is what people here cannot understand, bountj being a sum paid to stimulate production. Bounty is paid by Germany to some manufacturers.

For so much exported much cash is given per ton to exporters. Here the Internal revenue tax la merely remitted. The department at Washington has evidently made a blunder, tint, as soma one said to-day, in talking over the latest commercial impasse: "A Government never admits a blunder." A Sacrifice of Millions. Here are a few Interesting details: The export of Russian sugar to the United States, over which the dispute amso, amounted to HO.OOOf. (S22.000).

The imports of American machinery amount to 90.000.000f. To exact duty on the former unjustly, as M. de Witte strongly asserts, this immense trade, the result of years of enterprise and persistent pushing, has been thrown Had Mr. Holloway's report been written by a German Consul it could not have been better suited for Germany's ends. "Germany should give Mr.

Hol-loway the Iron Cross," said one large impcrter to-day. Germans have long looked with jealousy at the success of American steel, American machinery, American locomotives and bicycles, and other imports, but the United States, by the finer finish of her workmanship, could have always held the market. But now all that Is changed by this miserable sugar squabble. From the time when M. de Witte retaliated American firms have been unable to do any business, and the Germans, seeing their long wished for opportunity, have rushed in just at the moment when everything seemed propitious for the United States.

Germany is flooding the market here with just the things which America supplied. mm Amount of the Since March last, when the Minister of Finance Informed the country that, owing to America's attitude, he had been compelled to tax American imports, conditions have come to be as follows: Germany, France and England now pay 14.55 francs per 100 pounds. This the United States also did until March 1. Since the tax has been advanced, the others pay as before, and the United States goods have to pay 23.10 francs. Thus, ihe United States pays 53 per cent, more than Germany, France or England.

That means that the United States cannot trade at all. and thus American importers are sitting still, doing no business and watching the Germans snatching away from them what had been theirs, all on account of a huge blunder and misunderstanding (this term Is the one M. de Witte. Minister of- Finance, uses). As a result of this unhappy customs war many Moscow business firms and private persons, who had been in the habit of purchasing American agricultural and other machinery, are left without their usual supplies, and many are the calls made at the Consulate to know why no more American machinery Is being imported.

The Consul, in reply, say3 that at the next session of Congress a very powerful petition is to be brought before the House asking for a return to the status quo, which made trade possible, while the new Russian tax In retaliation for the United States duty on sugar haa rendered it temporarily impossible. I know personally or one large Iron producer whose new works have been stopped owing to the Impossibility of delivering the American machinery which Is needed, and there are many more in a similar situation. Bicycle Skirts For 1901. Bicycle skirts must, of course, be shorter than those for golf need be; bo, as a rule, says Harper's Bazar, it is necessary to have separate and distinct' outfit? for the two A bicycle skirt will be found much more comfortable If lined with silk, that lining being ccoler and more slippery than the plaid woolen reverse side of the golfing cloths. Under the skirt, knickerbockers are.

of course. Indispensable. These in all are better made of silk, lined with thin flannel for winter, if neceroary. for warmth. Pongee or wash silk Is best for summer.

A less expensive material used, however, and almost as Is gras3 linen. Bicycle skirts of pique and duck are quite practical. In Ice Cream Soda As Well As Anything Else. MYSTERIES OF THE TRADE. LOUISVILLE PEOPLE H.VE SOME WELL DEVELOPED LIKES AND DISLIKES OIT THE STJSJECT.

WHO WAS THE INVENTOR? "Fizz, bang, bump!" With an entrancing smile, which Is worth far more to the girl out shopping than the drink, the artist in passing out Ice cream soda sets the glass in a sliver frame and turns to the next customer with an obsequious attention that means volumes. Louisville is a pretty good soda water town. She has about 200 drug stores, and most of them sell soda water, good, bad and Indifferent. She has confectioners and bakeries that do considerable neighborhood trade. A druggist, clever at mathematical computation, figured a while on an estimate and concluded that about 10,000 of Louisville's people drank soda water or mineral drinks every day.

That would make about 1.200 gallons, a pretty respectable pond to wade through, wouldn't it? The Ice cream soda Is a pretty thing to look at as it comes from the fountain. It is pink or lemon or chocolate in color, foamy as the waves of the sea on a choppy day, cold as Arctic midnights and cheap. Who misses a nickel for at least fifteen minutes after a drink and a dally with the long-handled, obstreperous spoon that is thrown In? But if anyone thinks soda water looks or tastes like simplicity, he or she should substitute for an ice cream soda artist for a few hours. Handing out ice cream soda is an art In itself. Ice Cream Soda a Discovery.

The ice cream soda business, like many another, was discovered by mistake. There are few of us but can remember when soda water, pure and I simple, was served to us with a thinness that we now wonder we endured. The chief charm of it In those days, of yore was its tendency to mount into tfre bridge of the nose and tweak it in -a sudden fashion. Milwaukee, the home of beer, Is credited with being the home of ice cream soda. A confectioner of an economical turn of mind used to make a good rich soda water, using pure cream.

His trade increased and he one night ran out of cream, when he had to serve a gay crowd. In desperation he used a small quantity of ice-cream to give the drink the proper rich consistency. From this on he became still more popular, and found he had invented a new drink, one so delicious that he respected himself more than ever before. The traveling public carried the good news from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and there were variations Innumerable. Ice cream soda has long since cess 2d to be a novelty, but retains its hold with women to the exclusion of every other drink that has been invented.

Haking the Drink. The small drug stores and bakeries of Louisville that do not have a rushing business in early hours cf the day charge their own soda fountains. The large fountains cannot do this. Early in the morning the dealer in carbonated waters presents himself at the rear dcor of the store with several block tin containers or fountains. These are placed in the cellar beneath the soda fountain and connected with It by block tin pipes.

These pipes run through ice and the largest fountain in the city 1,000 pounds of ice on a hot daj The carbonated waters are thus cooled and ready to deliver at the Somewhere in the roar of the prescription counter where the druggist keeps a watchful eye upon them these days, there sits great stone ten-g-illon jars, two or three of them. They are just now filled to ihe top with the choicest strawberries money can buy. Between the layers of these berries are thick layers of granulated sugar. This was our grandmorher's old way of preserving strawberries. She would lift them out after a time, heat up the juice and pour it over the berries in cans.

The druggist extracts all the juice he can by the cold process, and has the finest of syrups. Next month tie will have raspberries, or cherries, in these great jars. Such a druggist will give you a good glass of. Ice-cream sc-di, for It will be of carbonated water, ice cream and a pure fruit syrup. He only makes a cent and a quarter on a glass.

That isn't a big profit, is It would hardly pay to keep those artists In mixtures that stand behind the counter for that. He must make it up on the mineral-water drinks, the egg phosphates, chocolates, etc. There has been a great demand in Louisville for a certain patented drink during the past year. One principal dealer has to keep five barrels In stock at once, and, in spite of rumors as to its injurious qualities, it has taken a great hold on Louisville citizens. The United States Government is at present investigating it, so that all rumors concerning it will soon be at rest.

This drink had a great run all winter along with hot chocolate and beef tea. "Why, I used 900 pcunds of chocolate hist winter," said a Fourth-avenue dealer; "never saw the way hot chocolate took in this town." "Good flavors catch the Ice cream poda drinkers," declared another drug, gist; "a flavor mixed with ether leaves a ba3 taste in the mouth that people don't like. Now take pineapple juice. I can't get any that my customers like only from the Bahama Islands. I use five to ten cases of it per month, ac cording to the season.

I use ten barrels of granulated sugar per month three liAin 'Hi. The City Gets Valuable Advertising THROUGH THE CONCLAVE. WOSK OF MESSRS. HUGHES ANT) OUSLEY, OF FEZ-SS BTTKEAU. ABOUT THE SCRAP BOOKS.

ZrulsxV.W tvrenfy thousand times! If a patriotic citizen, anxious to show trls adoration of tire metropolis by the falls of the Ohio, should repeat the r.ame even- second it would require, him over five and or.e-halt hours to tell It as often as It appeared In the r.ewspapers of the United States and Car.a:!a in the last -eight months In connection with the twenty-eighth triennial ccr.clave of the Knights Templars, to be held in this city August 27-30. With tire possible exception of Buffalo, N. wher-i the Pan-American Expo-ei'ilnn is now in progress, it Is not believed that any city in the country has had its name so prominently brought before the newspaper reader during the same time. One of the arguments advanced by the promoters of the conclave when they carted a canvass for funds for the entertainment of the visitors In August was that Louisville would profit by the advertisement the celebration would Give it. Possibly the Sir Knights tbemtrelves did not realize how completely their prophecy would be realized.

There's a great deal In a name. The manufacturers of a well-known proprietary article whose name Is a household word are said to value that copyrighted name at a cool nrllhon. Therefore, business men will readily comprehend that It means something in the coin of the realm to have the name "Louisville" favorably heralded from one end of the land to the other. Indeed, it begins to look ilke Louisville i-s becoming such a common used word that people will soon commence to "cry for it." Iiouisville Made Famous. The man who is deeply Interested in the welfare of the Falls City and who finds entertainment In reading nice things said about It can find an hour of dowrlght joy and profit by dropping in at Triennial headquarters.

Fourth and Jefferson, and takirg a lock at the scrap books of the Press Bureau. The Executive Committee of the conclave decided the first thing last winter that the conclave should be properly advertised, mindful of the fact that its advertisement meant Louisville's advertisement. Naturally the members of the committee assigned the task to newspapermen. Messrs. FL E.

Hughes and C. C. Ousley were selected by the committee. Both Mr. Hughes and Mr.

Ousley are experienced newspaper men and have occupied nearly all positions in the re-portorial and editorial departments of a modern newspaper. They professed to know nothing about Templarlsm from the view point of members of this great body, but each did feel certain of his knowledge of the metropolitan newspaper and of the needs of its rural cousin, the county seat weekly. The scrap books on file at Triennial headquarters are the monuments these young gentlemen are building to their ability and energies. It is none too great an honor to describe them as the men who are making Lculsvilie famous. Some Instructive Scrapbooks.

Newspapers in every State and Territory In the Union have been told something about the August celebration and the city in which it is to be held. Half a dozen large scrap books of clippings from daily and weekly newspapers and trade journals, magazines and newspaper almanacs, tell the story to date, and there Is more to come, for the dale of the conclave is yet almost thrc? months away, and as it draws nearer the advertisement of it increases in exieiu and volume. Along the side of the page clipped from some big metropolitan daily, giving in text and picture a story of r-ome feature calculated to arouse Interest In the celebration and in Louisville appears a column or so from some town or village, where the Templars and their friends are now planning a visit to the gateway of the Sou tli. It's a "pile of stuff." newspapermen would say. that has been printed about the Triennial and Louisville.

No one can ever expect to estimate the exact amount. To tell it in newspaper columns to the very line, one would be compelled to have access to every publication that has corr.o from every newspaper press in the country within the last eight months. But the pcrap books of the Press Bureau contain enough to satisfy the srpe.tlti of the greediest seeker after statistics. These hooks contain distinct and separate clippings, representing in round numbers the publication of 2.000 columns of matter the length of the columns in the Courier-Journal marked 1.994 columns, the actual figures up to last Monday. Heading For a Summer.

If a man were seized with the ambition to rciad every word In the it would require elxty working days of eisat hours each, assuming ever- day or so. Over each individual of these he beeps the strictest watch, and once every' three weeks he visits the 'boy's family and his tmptoyer or school to see chat the young fellow is giving a truthful account of himself. DEAD QUEEN Bitter was the Prince's pain, and fierce Me rege against his father, but the Queen mother and the Bishop of Braga kept him from doing violence. A few years later, Alphonso died, and Pedro grasped the scepter. Then did his wrath burst out anew, and he caught two of his wife's assassins, and after they received fearful torture, their living he-arts were torn from them, their bodies burned, their ashes scattered to the winds.

Then did King Pedro take from the tomb the body of Inez, and he placed it on a magnificent throne. With a crown on her grinning skull, and a scepter in her bony hand, she sat in royal robes, to receive the homage of a Queen. All the dignitaries of the kingdrm came in greatest state to kiss the hem of her gorgeous robe, and she was honored as the wife of a King. After that, she was borne by twenty black mules to Alcobaca. sixty miles away, and the whole court followed in solemn grandeur.

At last she was laid to rest, and a superb monument was set up to mark the tomb of the Queen Inez, consort of Pedro, "the Just." MAY CARNEGIE'S KINDNESS IN THE UNITED STATES. the most dangerous places In a thunder storm is near a wire or other me-tsl conductor. A number of women were killed while taking in clothes from wire clothes lines. A line of this kind should not be stretched within thirty feet of a house. Another rule Is to keep away from chimneys and windows during thunder storms.

xVvoid wire fences, and never take shelter under a tree. The safest place Is the middle of a room as near the center of the house as possible. Tet almost any place is fairly, safe. Five hi'n'lrt-d deaths in a year among millions are not very many. "it the investigator, however, that no at-empt has been made to "work" the newspapers.

Such an effort would have signally failed, even had there been a mind either on the part of Knights Templars or the managers of the Pres3 Bureau to do it. These hundreds of columns that have carried forth the name and fame of Louisville 20.000 times to the entire country have been along lines of fair and square news service, and therefore alt the more effective as advertisements for the Falls City. With the keen foresight of practical newspaper men, Mr. Hughes and Mr. Ousley saw an opportunity and improved it.

Rentucklans knew that their I v-ommonweann as a garaen spat, due their knowledge had been In a way ex-J elusive. No national celebration at-j tracts such widespread interest as a Triennial Conclave of the Knights Tem-j plars. There are 125,000 members of tho order in the United States, and the gathering to be held In August is of much consequence to each of them. In a lesser measure this celebration is of Interest to every one of the 800,000 Ma-j sons of the country who are not I Knights Templars. The managers of the Press Bureau therefore resolved to make the articles they have sent and are sending- to the newspapers of the country of individual interest to the clientele of the respective publications.

The coming of each committee in search of quarters for its com-mandery's party is heralded to the committee's home papers, the writers never failing to say a good word in the articles about the conclave which will be the greatest In the order's history and at the same time something of Interest about the city that will entertain these hosts. The "news value" of these articles has Insured their publication. At the same time that this campaign of publicity has been carried on the Press Bureau managers have not failed to keep the country posted on matters of general Interest connected with the celebration. Subjects that may appeal to all newspaper readers as the invitation to the President, Admiral Schley's announcement that he would attend the conclave and similar topics, have been submitted to the Associated Press, which has carried mention of the celebration and city Into every newspaper office of consequence In the Union. Simultaneously features and illustrations on the sponsors, the competitive drill and kindred subjects have been submitted to and used by the larger dailies everywhere.

Every detail in connection with the triennial has been closely covered in the newspapers of Louisville and Kentucky, so that never befGre has the public been so conversant with every feature connected with a celebration in advance of the event. In a proportionate measure this campaign of publicity has been carried by Messrs. Hughes and Ousley throughout the United States and through the lower section of Canada for clippings from Dominion papers will be found by the s'crap lxok reader. The result of this work Is already in evidence. Never before so long in advance of a triennial have contracts for so many quarters for the accommodation of visitors leen closed.

The conclusion is that the attendance on the approaching conclave will break all records. The people of the country have been given and will be given a clear a exa ggerated tin dcrst a nd i of what they will find when they journey to Kentucky in August. The beneficent results from the coming of nurh nn. hon orable and considerable a host remain to be told In the future, immediate and remote. JOHN D.

WAKEFIELD. such an Infinitesimal amount of heat is called a radiometer. It resembles somewhat the bolometer and radioml-crometer. which have been so successful' used in measuring heat rays. The sensitive portion Is suspended in-s-ide a small Mock of bronze which was bored out to receive It, the block being about two inches square and four inches long.

A whip of fine-drawn glass, hanging by an almost invisible fiber of quartz, suspended a very small plane mirror. About two-thirds of the way to the top a delicate cross-arm of drawn glass was fastsned, bearing at its extremities the radiometer vanes, which were coated with lampblack. These vanes were small circles stamped out of thin mica. The distance between them was four and one-half millimeters or nearly two-tenths of an inch. The black was sealed so as to be as nearly airtight as practicable.

A window of the. very transparent substance fluorlte was made to admit the rays of light upon the instrument, while a glass window was used to permit the deflections of the vanes upon a scale to be read with a tekscope. The work was performed at the Terkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. Prof. Nichols has spent two of his summer vacations at the Terkes Observatory, having all the advantages of the equipment of that Institution.

Prof. Nichols' experiments are considered as marking a distinct advance in modern astronomical science. SMALLER EVERY YEAR. younger members of his audience might icn iii.iuu itsi. iiie aun snouia not last their time.

Such anxiety, however, was groundless; he was S60.000 miles in diameter, so it would take 40.000 years for him to be reduced by i.OOO miles to S5S.OO0, and the lecturer was sure that If there were two suns in the sky, one 860,000 miles in diameter, and the other 858,000, no one would be able to tell by looking at them which of the two was the smaller. But as the sun Is shrinking nine inches every day, and had been doing so for ages. It follows that In the past it was very much greater than It is now. London's "Four Swords." There are four swords belonging to the city of London, and during the next twelve months the "Sword of State" will give place to the "Black Sword," which is used at the death of any of the royal family, in Lent, and on fast days. THE EARTH PARTLY HEATED BY THE STARS.

ONE OPTICAL ILLUSION WHICH HAS NOT BEEN EXPLAINED Do the stars send heat to the earth? Can thse faintly twinkling bodies, millions of miles away, transmit to our remote planet a heatwave of perceptible strength? On the authority of Prof. B. F. Nichols, of Dartmouth College, this question may now be answered In the The results of the professor's recent work are of startling interest. After his experiments, by comparison and mathematical rrfuitions, Prof.

Niohols ascertained that the heat coming to any point of 'the earth's surface from Arcturus. one of the nearest fixed stars, it; something greater than the hen.t which would received at a given pint from a candle six nriles distant, if none of the candle's heat were aibsorbed by the atmosphere. Observations on Vega, another fixed star, showed about 'one-half the quantity of heat received from Arcturus. The planet Jupiter sends us about twice as much hfat as Arcturus. and from Saturn we receive only heat enough to equal 'the unan-sorbed radiation of a candle ten miles away.

The apparatus used in these experiments was so sensitive that the heat of a candle sixteen miles away could be detected if no air intervened to absorb the heat. rays. The instrument which can record THE SUN GROWING Sir Robert Ball, the eminent English scientist, says that the sun Is shrinking. It Is a well-known fact, he explains, that most things in cooling become smaller: a poker, for example, was shorter when it was cold than when It was hot. The sun, too, must obey this fundamental law, and must, therefore, be getting smaller.

If we could measure its diameter on two successive days we should find it had decreased by nine Inches that was to say, it was shrinking at the rate of. roughly, five feet a week, or a mile In every twenty years. In view of this shrinkage some of the The Masculine View. "I had Intended." said Mrs. Reuben Necks at the supper table, "to go down town to-day to look at some stockings, but it rained so all afternoon." "Why," remarked ilr.

Heiiben Necks, absent-mindedly, "thi't'a ttie best time to ee them." Chicago Record. None of the theories hitherto advanced to explain tho optical illusions printed on this pnge seems to completely fit this one. recently worked out in one of the Government departments at Washington. As you look upon these circles they chance apparently into hexagons. The black spaces between them likewise Beem to change their shape as you gaze at the entire mass.

It would be interesting to know the scientific explanation of this phenomenon. New York Herald. LIGHTNING STATISTICS About 500 people are killed by lightning every year in the United States. Twice this number are more or less seriously injured. The number of deaths from lightning has Increased considerably during the past few years.

The greatest number of fatalities usually occurs in the open. Some 45 per cent, of all such deaths take place out of doors. Thirty-four per cent, occur ir. private houses. Eleven per cent, of all the deaths occurred under trees and 9 per cent, in barns.

According to these statistics one of.