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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-12-22

Jssvihg the INK only IN the Hnes, except-
ing where certain effects of light and
shade may be desired, not represented by
the lines. These can be obtained by the
ekill Of the printer, who can produce
beautiful effects by his manipulation Of
the ink ON the plate. There is great
difference In plates In this respect, some
requiring much more skill to print than
others. After tho plate Is ready the
paper, having first been dampened, IL
placed on IL and then covered with felt.
Tho press consists of an iron bed, per-
fectly true and level, for tho plato to
rest on, and an iron roller which passes
over tho plate, exerting great pressure,
60 TINT the paper Is forced into tho lines
of tho plate. After each impression tho
plate is cleaned and linked again, and tho
same process gone through with, 30 that
the printing OF ctchings cannot DO hur-
ried. To insure uniformity, a sample
print is before the printer to look Mt.
This Is either printed by the etcher or
superintended by him. 80 great is the
skin required to properly print ctchings
that less than half q dozen printers In
tho country have won q reputation rs
being first class.
Etchings arc quite expensive, and often
bring as high az Sl,000.-New York
Evening Sun.
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How Etchings Arc Made.

No branch Of art within the past few
years has attracted such universal atten-
ton as etching. Tho art Of etching is
not, as La popularity supposed, q new in
yention, but the revival Of an art ip which
Rembrandt and Albert Durer eYcelled.
The process by which an etching Is made
is both delicate and difficult. 1t is ac-
complished by coating q copper plato
with preparation Of wax, upon which
the artist traces with sharp instrument,
called the needle or point the lines Of
his picture. The plate is then immersed
In acid, which eats into the lines laid
bare by the needle, and the acid bath is
repeated. The lines when sufficiently
bitten are stopped up with fine French
varnish.
This process has been repeated more
than fifty times in some plates before
the proper effect Of light aud shade was
obtained. Etching Is really drawing
on plate, thus giving the genuine work
of the artist as much effect as in an oil
painting. 1t Is this absolute quality OF
art possessed by etchings, as distinguished
from the purely mechanical methods Of
engraving, which gives to them their
value. The ink used in printing Is thick;
tho plate is warmed by placing II on o
heated marble slab, so that the ink will
flow freely enough 10 fill up all the lines.
After mixing tha nlate Ia rubbed clean
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One of the most lovely of Alpine
health resorts Is Bad-Kreuth, a hamlet
Of some half dozen houses built by the
side Of spring Of mineral water. The
charm of tho resort Is not, however, duo
to its loveliness, nor to its healing
waters, but 70 tho fact that Its landlord
Is Prince l. Hdwig Of Bavaria, q courteous
host, wfo In his management of the
place CONT mes lucrative business with
d most generous charity.
The prince, the eldest son Of Duke
Maximilian and thobrother Of the cm-
press Of Austria, surrendered to his
younger brother, Karl Theodor, oil his
rights as the head of the family, because
he wished to marry lady OF inferior
social position, with whom he had fallen
in love.
Tho marriage proved to be o happy
one, and to this day, though more than
thirty years have passed since they wero
united, tho princes manner to his wife
Is more that Of lover than middle
aged married man. They havo no chill
drcn, and live for the greater part of the
year in a simple suite Of apartments Mt
Bad-Kreuth, where, according to q
writer in Tho Cornhill Magazine, she diff
fuses brightness and happiness around
her, and he shows how prince may
earn an honest livelihood, and be tho
first not to receive, but to render aid.
The whole Of tho health resort belongs
to the ducal family. Tho servants are
theirs, and the entire management Of
the place is under Prince Ludwig's su-
perintcndence. He is his own butcher,
brewer, dairyman and baker.
During June, July and August Kreuth
Is filed with southern Germans, who
pay literally for their rooms and board,
and make these months the prince's
harvest time. During May and Septem-
Der the prince receives no paying guests,
but fills tho house with those he calls his
friends" Thoy ore those who are foo
proud TO ask for charity, but need littlo
help-ofiicers depending upon their pay,
university students, poor professors,
struggling literary men and artists.
Two OF three hundred of these
"friends" are housed, fed and tended at
the hotel during May and September rs
carefully as the wealthiest guests, and
that, too, without its costing them one
penny. II at the height Of tho paying
season room is left vacant, some poor
invalid Is invited to occupy 1t, and no
one can tell from tho manner of the host
or his servants that tho new arrival Is
not millionaire.
Prince Ludwig never forgets face or
a name, and has q pleasant word for
every one, whether a paying guest or q
"friend." His manner is tho same TO all,
tho sympathetic greeting Of courteous
host and the kindly greeting Of well
bred man.
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A Dog That .niinHed. !"

It Is a queer psychological fact that
highly bred setters and pointers, with
their instincts well developed, often be-
como frightened ut the first real opera
tion Of the pointing instinct and never
recover from IL. A local sportsman had
q well bred, fancy pedigreed setter which
no raised with due regard for his future
usefulness in the Geld, and at maturity
started out to give him trial on game.
True TO his nature the dog galloped over
the fields In the merry style Of his trained
ancestors, and coming suddenly upon q
large covey Of birds ho stopped at the
scent of the birds In obedience to his
pointing instinct.
The dog had never seen game bird,
and the odor Of tho cover rosc 30 thickly
about him that he was fairly intoxicated
with tho delightful sensation of the
point" He shivered In his excitement,
pnd 30 pronounced was tho effect upon
him that his hair rose with his seiisa-
tions. Presently tho birds began to rise
with q noisy whir, and the unexpected
sight of Quails and tho noise they made
getting away so alarmed the dog that he
turned tail and ran of to hide In tho
bushes. Since that timo the dogs fear
Of birds has been so great that he always
runs away from them. He will hunt
diligently to find birds, and he will make
his point after they arc found, but the
moment he stops to point he recollects
his first birds, and with the most abject
expression he steals away from the
object he has worked 30 hard to find.
This peculiarity is by no means uncom.
mon, and sportsmen have named the act
blinking. Chicago Tribune.
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Canrongof tho aunn,.on.

Beyond Gunnison City tho railway
runs through tho valley Of the same
name, closely following the river. Soon
tho well worn channel grows narrower,
tho cliffs mount higher; vegetation Ii
less abundant, and suddenly the sun
light = entirely shut out by broken sum-
mits, and the black canyon of tho Gun
nison holds vs. fpst In itS embrace. This
gorge Is grapdef, deeper, darker and
more beautiful than tho Royal which wc
passed through earlier In tho day. II is
thrice as long and Wuchi more verdant,
and although its walls are Of red sand
stone they are sufficiently dark hued to
give the place its name. AT times tho
canyon nnrrows and Is full Of sharp
curves, but again IL hns long, wide
stretches, which enable one to study tho
steep crags that tower heaven ward two
observation chr Is attached to the train,
charms Of this wonderful locality.
Currecapu Needle, tho most abrupt Of
the towering pinnAcles, stands Ike o
grim sentinel, watching tho canyons
solitudes. II Is rod hued from point to
base, and has oil the grace and symmetry
Of o Clcopatrnn obelisk. Tho sunlight
which bathes the pine tops In golden halo
never reaches down tho dark rcd walls.
Hugo powders lic scattered about and
project out many feet above tho travel
ers' heads, AZ though about to fail.
Sombcr shades prevail; atful winds sweep
down tho deep clefts; the rushing green
hued river f1lls the space with s,illen roar.
Everything is on scale Of grand proper.
tions; detail is supplanted by magnifl-
cence, and ones feelings arc stirred to
their very depths. - Cor. New York
World.
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Eject Of the Copyright Law.

The effect upon the book trade of tho
proposed copyright law IL not as yet
clearly understood. The law Is demanded
not to protect foreign but native authors.
struggling to get place In buyers mar.
kct, where he has had TO compete with
tho work not Of men who were his equals
or his superiors, but Of men whose works,
whatever their value, could DO got for
nothing. That American authors havo
gained the place they hold In the fall Of
tho flood - English books which has
deluged this market is enormously to
their credit. They have forced people to
buy by the real excellence OF their work
In the face Of the most cruel kipd Of OPP
position, The immediate effect Of tho
law will be TO stimulate American
writers. 1t will also put an end 70 what
are called cheap libraries, as every book
worth reprinting will be protected by
copyright.-Current Lteratnra
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reports that the phenomenal memory
does not leave the possessor deficient in
any other respects. His judgment is
about that Of an average 4-year-old
child, and he is quick spoken and rather
witty.
At the public exhibition in Chicago
printed cards containing 1000 questions,
with the correct answers, were distrib..
uted among the audience; they read
questions at random, and the boy
promptly gave the correct answer. He
told the population of China, Siberia and
many other distant regions, recited many
facts in history, repeated the alphabet
backward and rendered a poem with all
the tone and correctness Of O rhetorician,
but, of course, with no idea Of its mean
ing. He counted up to twenty in Latin,
Welsh, Chinese, Danish and Polish, and
then, with all the comicalities Of the
burlesque stage, delivered this speech on
tho tariff:
MIR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GrYTIENEs-I am
free trader among the cattle men. vote for tho
protective tariff when hear tho sheep bah-h.h-h
and feel OF their wool tell the farmers who buy
their cotton and woolen goods their nails and
coffee, sugar and salt, pepper and SwedSh punch,
to vote for Cleveland and FREQ trade. But when
they want to build cities at home, where they can
sell their wheat and cotton, cabbages and sweet
potttotSp uuNiSc tucih W Noto iof ihc
protective tariff brought manufacturers here from
all the world, They built New York, Phila-
dclphia, Chicago Brooklyn, Boston and oil tho
other big towns. Free trade will bring us English
goods, but no Englshmen; plenty Of sauerkraut,
but no Dutchmen; wines and silks, but no French
men, Spaniards and Italians. ] stamp with my
free shoes. feel warm and comfortable with my
taxed coat, pantaloons, socks and cap. My butter,
bread, potatoes and beef aro free; my tea, beer,
molasses and ginger snaps are taxed. believe In
a new party that will give us FREQ trade In all
things we buy ana protective tariff for all that
we SELL shall vote next time for Oscar Moore rs
president
Some of the audience thought he had
got grip on the subject quite equal to
the average politician.
His first language was the plantation
lingo" then he learnt English with q
Danish accent of Mr.. Gammel, and Is
now picking UP words from the recita-
tions taught him, so his mixture is very
amusing. One Of the audience read, "How
many square feet in an acrep Oscar
thought he said "in nigger," laughed
loudly and held up his own feet as an
answer. He never forgets an acquaint-
ance after hearing his voice. The physi-
clans Of Rush Medical college arc making
very careful tests of the child, which
will be compared with tests made in sub
sequent years, If he lives, and when their
examination is complete the boys guar
dian, Mr.. Gammel, will exhibit him In
various cities.
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Something About New South Wales.

Now little about the colony of New
South Wales. This Is the Oldest and
richest of all the colonies and tho parent
Of them all. In 1924 Tasmania, then
known as Van Diemen's Land, was sep
arated from New South Wales and be-
came an independent colony. Four years
afterward the colony Of Western Austria
liza was founded, 1886 South Australia
was founded, 1910 New Zealand became
independent, 1851 Victoria was separated,
and the last founded was Queensland in
1850. The northern territ5yy belongs to
South Australia, with Port Darwin as It's
capital. New South Wales lies between
2S and 81 degs. of south lat. and 141 and
1853 meridian east long. 1t has.soo miles
Of seacoast, with number Of good har-
bors. Its general shape is trapezoid, con-
tanning 310,938 miles, four times as large
as Great Britain or Victoria, or twice as
large as Calit, rnia. As regards tho dis
tance from the equator 1t can be COM
pared to Cape Colony, Chile and tho
lower basin OF the Ia Plata In the South
ern Hemisphere, and with Texas, Louisi-
ann, Mississippi, the south Of Spain, Italy
and Greece, which occupy similar posi-
tions north Of the tine. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
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and vigor which have always character
lied him. Notwithstanding the fact that
he was then nearly 10 years old, he un-
dertook Q journey to Panama In order
personally to explore the proposed route,
and to negotiate with the local govern
ments. He also undertook to counteract
the hostile public opinion in the United
States.
Active surveys of the Isthmus were be-
gun under his direction in January, 1880,
and late In February he arrived in New
York. and began tour which extended
from Boston to San Francisco, and EN-
braced a trip to Washington, where he
had personal interview with President
Hayes and O hearing before a congress
sional committee. His first estimate Of
the cost of the canal was 250, ,OOO, ,OOOf.
On his return to France he declared that
his American tour had been successful,
and that opinion concerning tho scheme
had been considerably modified. A pre-
paratory force of engineers and skilled
mechanics was sent out from Havre in
January, 1881, and work upon the canal
was begun soon after its arrival at the
Isthmus. This work has been prosecuted
at intervals, with greater or less vigor,
ever since, although the estimates of cost
have been greatly increased, and the
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-12-22

Csrpesters VINO WORK In Crude way. but
Achieve Superior Rcsults.
The Japanese artisan has four hands
and twelve fingers. He uses his feet as
an extra pair OF hands, and his two great
toes can wrap themselves around tho
articles with which he works like an
Americans thumb. I saw, cooper at
work mending bucket. He held the
bucket between his feet while mo sat
down TO his work and put ON tho hoops
with q hammer and wedge. Ills legs
werc bare and his cue WINS tied in tho
old Japanese fashion, while his almond
eyes closely watched tho work he had
before him. After ten minutes of pound
ing he laid down HIS tools and took q
smoke, and during the hour that sat
near him he smoked four times. The
Japanese pipe only holds pinch Of
tobacco, and he could do this chcaply,
but tho time consumed wns at leest
twenty minutes. This perpetual siesta
Is one Of the features Of Japanese labor.
o Japanese workman will not do one
third as much day as an American
workman, and In every case they seem
to do their work In the hardest Of ways.
The methods Of labor In Japan are tho
direct opposite Of those in America. The
carpenters, for instance, pull their planes
the other way, and when they use the
drawing knife they push II from them
instead Of pulling II towards them. They
do most Of their work sitting and they
do all the work on the pull stroke in
stead Of the push stroke, and they stand
tho board rs rule ut an agile of As dcgs
against something rather than lay it on
bench or sawhorse rs we do. They do
their marking, not with chalk, but with
q reel and an linked string when they
wish to saw In a straight line, and tho
whole Of the work Of turning the rough
logs into tho finest Of cabinet work ia
done BY hand.
There are no planning mills In Japan,
and the sawmills can be counted on the
fingers Of one hand. Tho usual method
of saving logs into boards is to stand tho
log at an angle against the support and
saw IL by hand. The saw used Is not the
powerful cross cut saw Of America, but
q wide short Japanese instrument, which
has q handle about two feet long, and
which looks like n butchers cleaver filed
into saw.
The human sawmill stands on top of
the log OF under it, and pulls away for
ten hours day for about thirty cents.
Skilled carpenters in cities get about
forty American cents day, and the best
pen in the business do not get over forty
five. Still, you will find no better work
men in the world than here. Their work
is done with the use of very few nails,
and they have to BIO cabinetmakers as
well as carpenters. Every Japanese house
has walls which must move in grooves
In and out every day, and the ordinary
home is as finely put together as a bureau.
Tho joining Of everything Is by dovetail.
ing, and tho Japanese could teach our
American workmen much In the polish
Ing ana olnlgg ds Of fine s;S;ns WSSds tho
ESQ begin their work at the top. The
roof goes ON first, and then they begin "a
build the walls and to construct the into.
rior.-Frank q. Carpenter.
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II GODS sARsAPARlLLA. q
THE PLAIN TRUTH

10 that Hoods sarsAparilla has ouro0 o1&~
sanos OF people Who suffered oovugo1Y N
rneumausm. IL neutralixeo the IoGlSo oG101
the blood which causes thoss toff1oao un@
ana aches, ana also vitaiises ana eus1sna r
blood, thus preventing the recuvrepoo e 1
disease These fncts warrant NJ IN uewfne = 1
II you suffer with rheumatism. 10 ave 49,
tarsaparilia trial. 60 s, 1'- Ell
"For 70 years 4 have suffered Win oaaa
Rheumstism. Last November wao -
worse than ever, and was unable % ~ 0uo1 :
the house. 1 was almost
HkLPLKss FOR - DAY0
suneripg great agony. In Decombef ocmr
menced taking Hoods SarsapariilA. Ato<f -
second bottle was abba 70 be out ard ofou03
and attend To business. I took nvo ooo1u
ana Am now so FREQ from rheumaaAo0 49,
only OCCASIONALLY feel II slightly On 40 &
den change OF weAthsr. I have great oo00E
dcnce in HOODS earsspsrilla. CnAMW uAx4
NAHs Christie, Clarke Co.. Wis. z
lNFLAMMATORY RHkU MA1laM 81
Shaving been troubled with imnamua11
rheumatism for many gears, my lnvoGoN1
attention was called TO Hoods aarsapafllA -
An advertisement of cures it he'd e1ootoo. Z
have now used three bottles Of HooA1 ool11r
pstilla and can already testify 20 bono0Goz1
results. highly recommend IL - bloe1 -
riner." j. o. AynAs. west BlcomAelo, n u S
Hoods 6arsapAfillA
SOLD By all druggists. q Sir Sor =. PyspenoG
only ~ Q. l. HOOD . co. IOWo1
100 Doses One Dollar,
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How to Dignity the Mechanical ARTS.

We have seen how tho literary educa-
ton which VIC now consider so essential
was regarded in England--as ungentle-
manly. 1t is not 30 long since tho ply
siclan or leech was, as Hallam says, "an
inexhaustible theme Of popular ridicule,"
Tho BARRIERS pole, 80 common in our
streets, recalls time, not 90 long past,
when the barber practiced bloodletting
and other medical arts. II is within our
own memory that tho dentist stood on @
level with the barber; indeed, thotwower
often the same person. How Is 1t thnt all
this 10 changed; that literature, medicine
and dentistry have become gentlemanly
occupations? Simply, think, because
they are now taught scientifically and
institutions have been established for
that purpose. 1t may be laid down as q
general rule that whatever Is taught In
school will soon become respectable and
gentlemanly, while that which Is pltSced
up In the homo or tho workshop will al
ways be regarded rs menial.-Professof
Thomas Davidson in Tho Forum.
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try at large and devoted his time to
calling upon or corresponding with the
leading Republicans of the nation.
In July the Harrison leaders found
that Gresham was making serious in
roads into the delegations OF the eastern
and middle states. The movement was
go pronounced as to excite alarm, and
they called O council Of war. The up
shot Of the consultation was the dispatch
ing Of Michener to the east. He made
flying trip, using the Fifth Avenue hotel
in New York city as his headquarters
and leaving no stone unturned to help
along Harrison on the one side and to
block Gresham on tho other. His sue
cess In both regards was remarkable.
The eastern press began to echo the
praise Of Harrison and the Gresham
boom was nipped in the bud. While he
made but few friends during his brief
stay in New York he impressed all he
met with a keen sense Of his ability and
power.
A New York politician, who is of
more than local fame, said:
Kitchener will make mark in
national affairs. He has the executive
quality Of Quay and he possesses what
the latter does snot--considerable forensic
and literary talent. lie Is one Oh tnoso
rare men who without seeming busy are
forever hard at work. When on here
last summer in behalf of Harrison, he
must have seen and conversed with more
than q hundred Republican leaders.
Those of us who met him and saw the
results he accomplished would not be
surprised II he were made one OF the
incoming cabinet. 1t would be hard to
match him for legal and political ability.
He has been very successful lawyer
and enjoys both a very large practice
and fair sized fortune. He gained dis
tinction quite early In his profession as
railroad and real estate lawyer and has
grown steadily ever since. He bears the
same relation to Gen. Harrison in In,
diana that the late Daniel Manning did
to President Cleveland in New Yorh
stAtNn
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There lately died at Nashua, N. H., q
journalist whose life and associations
united the extremes and completely IL
Illustrated the political revolutions Of the
last forty years. This was Mr.. Frederic
A. Moore; and tho extremes of his life
may be judged from two facts: He was
once an intimate friend Of Abraham Lin
coin and once q business partner Of the
noted "Brick" Pomeroy. To old and mid
die aged readers who remember the n. NJ.
Pomeroy, commonly called Brick" OF
the last two years Of the war, this will
seem startling combination indeed.
Frederic A. Moore was GO years old at
an ans,ienia sdmeafian IL -sanaiAi ia.--