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spirit Of freedom and reckless expenditure
comes over me, and buy the morning pa
per sometimes and do not read half of it.
Mental Effort Learning the Grips.
The knights of Pythias held conclave
at Dallas while was there. 1 wore a
badge in order to be sociable, and by that
means learned of different grips and signs
of distress. I think now that could work
my way into a lodge if could have time
and large corkscrew. In shaking hands
with many strangers during the past year or
two while travelling. and making wide &C.
quaintance, looking to any accidental turn
in affairs in 1892, I am struck BY the large
and varied number of grips given me which
I am not able to classify.
would think that man who belonged to
most all of the secret societies must have
very little time to cevote to h4s business
after successfully remem bering all the grips,
signs, passwords, explanations, signals,
rituals, work of degrees, constitutions, by
laws, reports of committees, limitations,
communications and new business, good Of
the order, violation of obligations, opening
odes, manual OF arms, laying of corner
stones, and funeral services. If I had all
these in my head I could just about remem-
Der the combination of my safe, but would
not be mentally adequate to anything fur
ther than that. If it rained, some good
friend who had my best interests at heart
would probably have to take me bv the
hand and bring me in. BILL NYE.
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1t was quiet and rather unpretentious
place, the Upper Congo club, occupied dur
ing the day as a Laundry and Tuesdays and
Fridays as a club room. The franchise of
the club consisted Of the inalienable right to
meet, mediate and adjourn. The club
properly consisted OF guests register, made
in imitation of butchers order book, with
pine lead pencil tied to it bv a string, a
gallon beer pail and set Of dominos. The
Upper Congo club allows no .millionaires'
sons to join. Of course if member should
become a miilionaire's son after he had
united with the club he cannot be expelled
without a two-thirds vote; but was told
that "brains," and brains only, was the
qualifcation-selfmad brains. Wealth
could not come in and corrupt the pure
thought ganglia of the Upper Congo club.
A Trio of Big Personages.
Sam Jones preached in Texas and lectured
and licked the Mayor of Palestine last fall.
Everywhere one goes he hears of Sam Jones
and the good work done by him. Also by
Dr. Talmage, who with Mr.. Jones, another
well-known revivalist, and myself, fur
nished star course of lectures the past sea-
son for Texas with great success, people
coming in some instances for hundreds Of
miles, bringing their dinners and paying 81
apiece. looking upon US with awestruck
features for few moments, and then retir-
ing cheerfully to their distant homes.
Texas people say that Sam Jones reminds
them Of John the Forerunner in some ways,
only that John, so far as they know, did not
eat with his knife. Sam, however, is
plain. of-haud man, and since he and L and
DR.. Talmage have worked together In Texas
do not ieel like hearing either one criti-
cised, aud know that neither of them will
sit calmly by and allow me to be run down.
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A PLEASURE TO BE FALsTAFF,
No Other Character Gives Comedian Gran
Such Satisfaction as That.

No Other Character Gives Comedian Crane
Such Satisfaction as That
"I.have received more keen intellectual
and artistic enjoyment from my endeavors
to give tangible expression to the humors
and corporeal evidence of the peculiaritie S
of the 'fat knight than from any other por-
tion of my work on the stage" says w. H.
Crane, the comedian. ."When first made
up my mind to essay the part, one with
which, in my humble opinion, there is only
one other in the whole range OF the drama
to be compared, and that is Hamlet, felt
the magnitude of nv task. For months and
months l labored hard and earnestly, study
ing the many complexities and humors of
the man, who was not only SO witty in him
self, but was also the cause of SO much wit
in others. I took, for instance, a long,
lonely cruise in my yacht, and for II hours
a day devoted myself entirely to coming the
lines, not only of my part, but of the entire
play, SO as to endeavor to form proper idea
of the relation of the parts to the whole.
cat last it seemed to me that had learned
much, and though with not a little appre-
hehsion, it was still with sense of some
satisfaction that l stepped on the stage for
the first time as Sir John.
"When the curtain fell on that perform
ance, I for the first time thoroughly realized
how little I really knew. From that time
onward l began to learn, and there was not
single performance, whatever the surround
ing circumstances might have been, which
was not source of unmixed enjoyment.
think I should feel that same pleasure were
l t. play the part every night for ten years.
So from asel6sh point of view, 1 prefer Fal-
staff, while in view of the pleasure which 1
evidently afford to others, no part has ever
pleased me more than that of Senator Han
nibdE Rivers"
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CURE FOR WATCHES
Regular Demagnetizing Is Necessity
for Good Time Keeping.
TOO MUCH ELECTRICITY NOW.
Men Who Have Suddenly Become Famous
for Their Inventions.
POWER BY HIGH TENSION CURRENTS
iPREPARED FOR THE DISPATCH,

iPREPARED FOB THE DIsrArcH.t 81.
One of the peculiar things noticed lately
by those engaged In the watch trade has
been the great increase in the number Of
watches that 60 wrong because they have
never been magnetized. There is much
reason in attributing this to the increase in
the electric generators and motors used for
lighting and power, but the fact must be re-
membered that the earth itself is great
moves or vibrates within its "feld of force. "
The Brooklyn bridge, for instance, exhibits
some very interesting phenomena OF mag
netism. But fine watches are peculiarly
susceptible to magnetic influences.
Various remedies have been proposed and
tried, and there are now several makes of
watches with "non-magnetic" works. In
these the vital points that are usually made
of steel, such as the balance wheel, balance
spring, lever, scapewheel, roller teble, etc.,
are made of substances that resist magnetic
ing and yet stand wear-such as an alloy or
palladium. Another method is to protect
the watch by "nou-magnetic" shield,
which is intended to shed the magnetism, SO
10 speak, just as an umbrella does the rain.
But there are good many million watches
without shields and without the new style of
''inwards," and to meet the magnetic ailments
of these, a number of "demagnetlzers" have
been invented. 1t is true that a watch can be
restored TO rectitude by simply being placed on
the poles of one of the modern alternating
current dynamos. but ig is not every one who
has such a machine handy, and even then it IS
always best to observe respectful distance.
The same idea on a miniature scale has
just been worked out by an in
genious American inventor 1t consists
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BILL NYE In TEXAS.
lie Talks of His First Annual Fare
we'll Tour of the Lone Star.
POPULAR OPINION OF PROGRESS.
Life Upon an Ante -Bellum Plantation and
in the Congo Club.
STILES OF SECRET SOCIETY GRIPS
,coxnnsroxDEScr OF TUE DISPATCH,

tcoRnKsPoNDENCR OF TUE DISPATCH
In TEXAS Down BY)
THE RIO GRANDE.
am preparing at this time large and
costly testimonial for the young man who
suggested the idea of making this spring
my first grand annual farewell tour of
Texas. 1t has been a great success from a
bo1ofice and social standpoint. Artisti-
cally, of course, the carping critic might
see places where he could have done great
deal better himself
Texas. as we know already, is mighty
empire itself, connecting the stern and sturdy
elements of the Farmers Alliance of Kan
sas on the north with the romantic yet pep
perry Qui1ote of the south. Here the sad
and solemn lubricator. vulgarly called the
greaser, spends his patrimony on an 8-pound
hat, and with what he has left he buys a
horse. 1 never tire of looking at the de-
lirious clothes OF prosperous greaser.
They are wildly beautiful to one who loves,
as do, to see hand to hand contest to .
finish between strong colors.
The Mexican in His Church.
On Sunday 1 attended divine worship at
the Mexican Cathedral in San Antonio. 1t
afforded me grand opportunity to look at
the clothes OF the congregation, as we do at
home, also to study the faces of the people
as they came out. Religion does not seem
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tions, and thus grew into the possession OF
noble, self-reliant manhood.
How Ha 60 praac,,;np

tions, and thus grew into the possession OF
noble, self-reliant manhood.
How He Got to Preaching.
The wave of Wesleyanism was still strong
over the northern moors; local preacher
named Bland, now in Canada, preached a
sermon one Sabbath which took wondrous
hold on the young blacksmith, though no
''revivaT" was in progress; and, sat last the
light came" The Methodists took him ''on
probation" and put him in "old Jim
Delve's" class. A few nights after, Delve
was absent; and, as Collyer has often told
me, "up spoke Tom Smith from across the
room: 'Naa, lad, thaa nun lead t'class
t'night; thaa can do it if thaa tries r. So
he took hold and led. In a little while
they made him local preacher. His first
sermon was great event in the district 1t
was preached at Addingham, a little
hamlet three miles up the Wharfe from
Ilkley.
"Oh, thought had capital sermon
thought Mr.. Collyer once said to me. cit
was in thres parts, each, of course, essential
to the others. They didn't allow a fellow
paper in those days, either. Their curious
eyes were all wide open; and ] thought I
had done splendidly. But half wav back to
Ilkley l suddenly remembered 1 had left
overwhelmed about it, But the Joke of it
all was that 1 had bodily stolen my Sec
ondly' from a fine sermon preached by
good Presbyterian brother named McChine.
l felt the weight of that Judgment on me
so heavily that L have never stoleu q sermon
sinceP'
The Village CobbIer's Opinion.
Then they must hear him at Ilkley. All
the boys and girls were there; and the young
blacksmith thought he had made 4 great
impression. While this was glowing in his
mind on his way to the forge the next morn
ing, the old village cobbler called Quito him
from where he was hammeriEg away under
meath his porch:
II say, lad, come here; ha' summat to
say to We. 1 heard thaa preach last night"
There was broad grin on his face.
did We, thought" returned the black
smith proudly.
81 did; and think thou'lt 'er max q
preacher as long as thaa lives, Boabr"
He was stunned by this, for the cobbler
was the village oracle. The latter saw how
sorely he had hurt him, and Fundamentally
added: Now, doan't mistake me, Boab.
Thou wants to reason too much. Thou /
may'st lecture; but thaa can never be a
preacher"
w nen you STAND py the ancient church OF
All Saints, and look In upon its messy
graves and the Runic crosses, your hands
will grasp the bars of its huge iron gates.
They were forged on "owd Jackie's" anvil
by this same stout-hearted "Yorkshire
Blacksmith. And somehow as one turns
away from Ilkley, the feeling comes strongly
that there was wrought into these rods and
bars hero-grit more impressive and imper-
ishable than is revealed in all other monu-
ments or tokens left in Wharfedale, since
the days when the Romans trod these pleas
ant ways. EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN,
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Romance of Invention.

The recent centennial of the American
patent system, in Washington, and the
prominence therein of electrical inventors,
emphasizes the fact that for the first half Of
the hundred years, electricity made no
demands for the protection that patent
gives. Then came Morse, but the great
period Of growth dates from the Sunday
whenthe Emperor of Brazil heard the feeble
voice of the telephone at the Philadel phia
Exposition in 1876. Among these electrical
geniUses may be named such men as Prof
Bell, who after securing great fortune ouS
OF his telephone, invented while a starving
teacher in Boston, has latterly devoted all his
time to the deaf and dumb; Edison, once .
poor newsboy; Elihu Thomson. once q strug-
Cling teacher Of physics in Philadelphia; Brush.
student who began his electric lighting work
with no funds at all and now has one of the
largest private fortunes in Cleveland, and Ed
ward Weston, pioneer electro platter. who 10
now building electrical instruments of precision
OF worldwide reputation.
In the wholly modern work of electric rail.
roading, we find Van Depoele, once a Belgian
Woodcarver; SDrague, formerly junior officer
in the United States navy; Leo Daft, at one
time photographer; Stephen d. Field, an old
telegraph operator; Albert Schmid a young
Swiss brought over by George Westinghouse
Rae, once telegraph messenger boy, and
many others. One Of the most interesting and
astonishing Of all these men is Nikola Tesla. a
young Montenegrin, who only few years ago
left his mountain fastnesses IN Eastern Europe
and who since his arrival in America has at.
tracted universal attention by his discoveries
in the use of the alternating current. Nor
must Emile Berliner be forgotten, German
immigrant, who after an exciting fight for foot.
hold. during which he washed bottles, hired OUT
as a drygoods clerk and served as drummer"
up and down the Mississippi. made a vital in
venuion in connection with the transmitter Of
the telephone. so valuable that his name is to
be seen stamped with those of Bell and Edison
on every instrument in use. And so one might
go on for the list is long. and these careers are
full of romance
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High Tension Power Transmission.

Electricians are rapidly becoming famil.
lar with currents Of high potential, OF, to
put it in popular language, currents that
travel fast and that require almost as much
care in their handling as lightning flash.
A very daring scheme is about to be tried in
Europe at the approaching Frankfort cleo
trical exhibition, in the transmission of not
less than 300-horse power from a turbine at
the Falls of the Neckar, near Lauffen, q
distance of nearly 120 miles. The current is to
be used at the exhibition for light and power,
and the potential is TO be from Is. 900 to 3U,0U0
volts. The nearest approximation to this In
actual work has been the use Of currents Of
10000 volts by Ferranti in London, in a tenta-
tive kind OF way. for lighting. A special re-
hearsal showed that under the tension of q 600
volts no spark jumped until the two ends of the
circuit were brought within less than one inch
of each other. 1t was also found that an ordi-
nary lead fuse, or safety cutout, would protect
the apparatus in case of a short circuit. These
experiments have a direct bearing on the pro.
posed utilization of water power at Niagara.
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merely of demagnetizing chamber. around
which Is wound coil of wire. The watch is
held in the chamber, and current is led into the
coil from battery. At the front is a commu-
tator or device which throws the current
through the coil first one way and then the
other. The faster the handle attached to the
commutator is turned, the faster the current
alternates and in few seconds the watches on
being gradually Withdrawn from the chamber
will be found quite free of magnetism. A
simple way to test this is to lay little compass
on the face of the watch. If the4watch is mag
Detized, Its every heartbeat will be repeated in
culver to and fro of the needle. Very few
watches OF the old style can endure this test and
watches on many of our leading railroads now
undergo regular magnetic inspection.
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to afford the Mexican much joy or comfort.
He goes through it, however, as one gets
his teeth repaired-not for the delirious
thrill of joy he fuds lurking in the job
itself, but as preca utionary measure and
as an evidence of his powers Of endurance.
The ladies of the congregation, it seemed
to me, showed better taste in proper tion to
their means, than the gentlemen. They
dressed plainly and seemed to favor deep
mourning wherever there was an excuse for
it. Some of them, I judge, wore mourning
on very slight provocation-that is, if they
were mourning the loss of such husbands as
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An Interstate Commerce Horror.

There is train running between Oak
Cliff and Dallas which is called an accom-
modation. 1t is owned by the hotel, and
goes along with the reading room, parlor
and washroom. You board at the hotel and
the proprietor throws in the railroad. I-say
this so that the interstate commerce outfit
may look into the matter and throttle this
giant evil.
Dallas did business in 1889 of over
$31. 100000. Since then trade has greatly
increased. While there I met a company
of Boston capitalists, headed by e1-Gov-
ernor Bracket. They had just bought
building for $3.50, 900 that day. -Four mill
ion dollars are Cor is) invested in factories,
and the yearly product is over $4,000, 900. 1
was also in Dallas two days. and put quite
little sum of money iu circulation while
there. I cannot help it. The Western
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MORsE'S FIRST TELEGRAM.

Why 1t Was Sent to the Young Daughter of
Mrs. Ellsworth.
1t was the last night of the session of Con-
gress in 1874 that the amount of $50, 900
was appropriated to enable Morse to build
his telegraph line from Baltimore to Wash
ington. Morse had been seven years en-
deavoring to get aid from the Government.
Morse boarded in Wash ington at the house
of Mrs. Ellsworth. The daughter of this
lady was present in the ladies' gallery of
the House of Representatives the night the
bill was passed, and Immediately went home
and informed Morse of his good fortune. As
a compliment to this lady, and in recogni-
ton of her interest in bringing the intelli-
gence to him, Morse sent the first telegram
from Baltimore to her.
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is further demonstrated in the electrical
literature of the country. A dainty
pamphlet just received in this country is
wholly devoted to description OF the in
trlcate development of a new system of rum
ming the circuits for electric lighting and the
whole plan of distribution is shown in a num-
Der OF beautiful little drawings, characterized
by all the Japanese delicacy of finish. In some
way the little incandescent light seems to har.
monize peculiarly with the brightness and
cleanliness OF Japanese interiors, and it is very
popular already in the large cities. So. too, the
comDact little electric motor hits the fancy Of
the deft and dapper Jap.
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DOING UP THE CAPITALS

A Descriptive Work From Sir Charles
Dixie, Carmen sylvia and Others.
A happy thought has occurred to Paris
publisher, which he has Immediately put
into execution. 1t is large and splendidly
illustrated book, containing descriptions of
the capitals OF the world. A very common
place idea, you may say, but the peculiarity
of the book will be that the descriptions
will not be written BY mere hack writers,
but by authors and politicians OF repute.
A glance at some OF the names will show
that the hook will be out of the usual run of
works ofthis class Sir Charles Dixie will
write on London; the French poet, Coppee,
on Paris; Madame Adam on Paris; Pierre
Lott on Constantinople: and Carmen Sylvia,
the Queen oil Roumania, on Bucharest.
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Underground Railroading.

The underground electric road is now Be.
ing seriously considered by other American
cities than New York, and a European
representative of a prominent American
electrical company has sent in petition TO tho
chief magistrate of Berlin, asking for per-
mission to construct and work an underground
electric railway in Berlin. The proposed rail.
way will, if consent is given, be built in iron
tunnels.
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Japanese Electricifx

The enthusiasm with which the Japanese
have seized upon American inventions in
electricity is seen not only in the success of
the electric light and power in the land of
the chrysanthemum, but in the formation of
very large and strong electric society. 1t
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WILL call at your residence with samples
and furnish estimates on furniture reuphols.
terry. HAUGH & KEENAN,, 80 Water street.
Su
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Dallas is beautifully surrQunded BY the
State of Texas and Oak Cliff, handsome
suburb with a thriving hotel and vigorous
girls college. Also a pavilion for speakers
and concerts during the summer, and
menagerie.
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HOUSEHOLD goods packed and shipped.
HAUGH & KEENAN,. 1894 Water street. su
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A Pretty steady Lad.

At IA, Collyer was "prenticed" to "owd
Jackie" Birch, the Ilkley village black
smith. The lad was pretty steady. about
middling-about middlingr' he will him
self tell you, with a twinkle of the old
Yorkshire light in his eyes. The old, old
women of Ilkley tell me they were pretty
sure OF the orthodoxy of any little village
fun he had hand in.
But these were DAYS of iusatiate book
hunger for the young Yorkshire blacksmith.
The only industries of Ilkley at that time
were "wool-combing and ludgers." Wool
combing is gone; but, now, in the summer
time, thousands come here as "ludgers," for
rest and heaIth-getting at Ilkley's famous
hvdropathic institutes and springs. One of
these wool-comberI, John Dobson, farmers
boy named Tom Smith, another lad named
John Hobson and the prentice boy Collyer.
became friends, and formed a compact about
books, reading and study. Morning, noon.
night and Sundays thew took turns"
reading aloud, exchanging ideas and aspira-
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Invited to Visit the Club.

"Some of US, Of c'ose, is raw yit, but we
are advancing. would like to have you
the guest of our club here this evenin', sab,
if you will come down-the Upper Congo
club it is called, sab. We run it on econom-
ical principles, sab, but 1t is quiet, home
like place, whah you kin 60 for hour or
two, check you old razor aud injoin you