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sists of various humors, vitreous, aque-
Gus, etc.. through which the waves of light
pass. After being collected by a lens
aqueous humor) which focuses them, they
pass through the vitfeous humor and i'm
pinge upon the finely distributed mesh of
optic nerve fibers (retina). The action of
these light waves upon this optic nerve dis
tribution generates what we call electricity,
or in other words, continuous wave of
motion from cell to cell of the optic nerve,
throughout its entire length until these
original waves of light, or their effect,
affect the very sight center itself in the
brain.
Mr.. Reardon's apparatus furnishes lens
in the shape of the glass in front of the
selenium and between it and the object to
be seen. This glass converges the rays
upon the reacting surface of the metal.
Their dissipation into posterior space is
prevented by the vulcaniZed rubber. And
a circuit being established by the dry pile
their ight-energy is converted into cleo
trio force and carried along the wire
through the sight center in the brain. 1t
is in just this way that the physician slim
ulates the sight center with the battery for
deficient action of that center causing fail
ure of sight.
If this selenium and this wire are capa-
BILE of the same correlation of forces as are
the retina and the optic nerve the substitu-
ton is perfect. The inventor claims that
his device does afford an exact substitute.
Another step has been taken by M. G..
Furnel, master at the same institution,
who informs me that in the spring of the
present year he invented an apparatus by
means of which blind person can read
ordinary ink print.
The device is about six inches high by
five in diameter. The lines to be read are
covered by the instrument, the close-ftting
lower edge of which does not exclude light
from without. There is, however, an cleo
trio lamp within the case of the instru-
ment which throws parallel rays of light
beneath. The image of these characters is
reflected upward, and by another lens
magnified, and appears upon selenium re-
ceiyer.
By rather complicated arrangement
above this receiver or plate, groups of metal
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How Science Aids Those Who
Cannot See.
SIGHT CENTER IN THE BRAIN.
An Ingenious Invention Which Converts
Printed Letters Into Raised
Letters OF Points.

New YORK, Jan. IA, 1895. = Two very
remarkable instruments have been in
vented of late by gentlemen connected
with the Perkins School for the Blind
IN Boston. D. A. Reardon, the super
intendent of the printing-ofice in that
school, has almost perfected an apparatus
by whose use the blind can actually see.
This device consists first of layer of non
conducting material, such as vulcanlzed
rubber. In front of this is an oval OF selen-
ium, with rim of metal. The selenlum
is covered by glass. This whole arrange
ment is not more than an eighth OF an inch
in thickness.
A current of electricity is generated by a
small dry pile which is carried In the vest
pocket. This current is carried to the head
of the person using the instrument, and
passing through the brain to the opposite
side of the head, is then led by means OF
metallic bow or some other conducting
medium through the artificial eye before
described and back to the dry, pile, thus
completing the circuit. The idea OF the
use of selenium a rare metal -
was first suggested by the resem-
blance of its color to the color
of the retina of the eye; and the suggestion
was quickened by knowledge OF the TACT
that the condGctivity of selenIum is read
lily affected by the action of light.
The object of this device is to furnish an
artificial eye, and to connect 1t electrically
with the center of sight in the brain. AS
is well known, the human eye itself con-
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points or wires are made to project above
the surface of the top of the instrument,
which form true copies of the characters
on the page below. Thus the printed
characters are reproduced in tangible
raised characters.
With this device properly adjusted, Mr..
Furnel claims that any blind person who
can read the embossed books OF the blind
can, by the use of his invention, read any
ordinary newspaper, book or piece of music
printed in plain black on white paper.
Mr.. Furnel's apparatus is founded upon
a somewhat similar principle to that of
the piano or typewriting machine Instead
of the pressure of the finger, the points
which designate by their number and ar,
rangement the various letters of a printed
page are raised by the chemical reaction
of the selenium
The principle of both these apparatus is
undoubtedly correct. 1t is only question
of the intimate knowledge of chemical re-
action and correlation of force and OF the
proper selection of such materials as are
best adapted to perform the functions re-
quired.
The deaf hear by reading the movements
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The shutters of the chemists shop were
down. Inside one light burned behind the
counter, and close to it stood the chemists
assistant, making up the second OF two
prescriptions. A boy was waiting to de-
liver them as soon as they were ready. On
the other side of the counter stood a young
man, tapping impatiently with his foot;
he and the assistant were to go for walk
together, and the delay was irksome.
'iBlest if we've got one of the blue-ribbed
bottles left" said the assistant. "Well, 1t
don't matter; can put it in plain one.
This'n make it all right He held up
large label with the words, "Poison-not
to be TAKEN" printed on it in red.
eyes, there's no mistaking that said
the other young man rather rrltaoly'
"Do come along. I've stood here half an
hour if I've stood a minute.
The assistant attached the labels to the
bottles hurriedly.
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drank off the liquid. He took the glass,
and she sank back on the pillows without
a word, her eyes closing again.
Andrew Thirdly hurried back into the
sitting-room and shut the door. He had
seen the two prescriptions, and he knew
what would happen if any one drank the
wrong one. Very soon there would be yio-
lent CONFUSION, perhaps some screaming.
He did not want to see or hear. lie took
out his watch, put it on the table where he
could see it, and covered his ears with his
hands. His nerves were all unstrung now;
his knees shook. 1t was just 3 minutes
past II; he made up his mind to wait five
minutes; then all would be over. He was
in an agony of excitement, and every min
ute seemed to be an hour. He tried to
look away from the watch, but he could
not. The secondhand crept slowly on,
round and round; sometimes for second
he had the illusion that it had stopped, but
on it went, until at last the minute-hand
marked ten minutes past the hour. He
sprang up and stepped to the bedroom
door. Then he paused and felt unable to
open it, He went back and sat down again,
trembling all over. 1t was half-past IL
before he could steady himself sufficiently
to enter the bedroom.
He had left the candle there, burning.
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genius for clay modelling, which some of
his pupils possess, until he had graduated
a Karl Bitter from his school 1t is en-
tirely conceivable that there is as extensive
a field for the practical education of the
blind in clay modelling as in music. So
touch is the first eye which kind nature
supplies to the blind man in place of his
sightless orbs.
And then there is another thing helps
him, and which can almost be called an
eye. We all know how unmistakable is
the feeling when we enter an old room,
even in the dark-the feeling that that
room has been lived in, that human beings
have made that room their social sanctuary
and home for years. The more habitated
the room has been the stronger is the fra
GRANGE of human life when we enter.
Shall I call this feeling an instinct of en-
vironment2 Well, the blind have this in
stinct phenomenally developed. 1t helps
them to walk along a crowded street with
out humping into people, it carries them
up and down stairs and along intricate
passageways and around corners with an
unfailing sense of destination. They feel
where they want to go, and they know
when they get there without the help OF
their poor blind eyes.
S. WELLINGTON MILLER, I'D.
Copyright 1895 by S. S. Mcclure, limited
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taught, and there are classes in antique,
model and composition. Water-color
painting also has special course.
Tuition in this school is $50 year or $40
a quarter Besides the regular term there
is an elementary drawing course for the
summer months, beginning in June and
ending in August, which can be had for
$40. Special care is taken in the placing
of young girls who come from distance
The management has list of boarding
places where a girl may live with respect
able family for from So to 81 per week.
Every facility is offered for the sale Of de-
signs, and last year over $500 was made
by the pupils upon orders from manufac-
turers direct. This is very encouraging to
proud-spirited but poor girl. She can
soon earn enough to pay her way through
the school, and many of them do. In ad-
dition to this there are free scholarships
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gradually opening to such as are well
trained. Students in this course must have
natural taste for drawing and mathe-
mates.
The object of this school is to furnish
such instruction as will qualify women for
the work described, and to lay thorough
foundation upon which to- base instruction
of the most practical character. The in
structors are all practical men and women,
actually employed in manufactures or
architects offices.
The course of instruction consists of a
thorough course in elementary drawing,
including object drawing, perspective,
geometrical design, construction of curves,
conventionaization of natural forms,
course in colors and drawing from casts.
After this comes two years course in his
torical ornament. In the advance depart
ment there is applied design to the manu-
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What Mrs. Dunlap-HepkinS Is
Doing in New York.
MORE HELP TOR AMBITIOUS GIRLS.
Success Of the New York School Of Applied
Design for WOmen-Practical
Results Achieved.

While Mr.. Parkhurst is the most-talked-
of man in New York, Mrs. Dunlap-Hop-
kins-pretty Ellen Dunlap of Chicago-is
the most-talked-of woman. 1t is not so
many years ago since there was great
coming-out party in the Dunlap palace on
Wabash avenue, and all Chicago gave
social recognition to the beautiful daugh-
ter of one of their most favored bankers.
Like all the girls of her set Miss Dunlap
danced and flirted until she met Amos
Lawrence Hopkins, Russell Sage's conf
Dental man, who transplanted her into
the innermost circles of New York society.
The young husband was rich, handsome
and well born, and people congratulated
both on their good fortune. Everything
went well for a time, and then the proud
Chicago beauty rebelled at her husband
indifference and neglect. One fine summer
morning the society of both cities was
startled by the announcement that Mrs.
Hopkins had gone to San Francisco Tor the
purpose of securing a divorce upon STATUE
tory grounds. She divided her time be-
tween the Palace Hotel and Del Monte
during her residence here.
After securing her divorce Mrs. Hop
kins returned to New York and for time
kept up an ultra-fashionable establish
ment on Fifth avenue. But her maSterful
mind could never be content with the
empty nOthingness of society life She
was an acknowledged leader, rich, beautl-
full and accomplished, but an extremist
with all the energy of native Chicagoan.
Early in 1892 she turned her back upon So
ciety, closed her house, and opened a
school of applied design on the corner OF
Seventh avenue and Twenty-third street.
She associated with her such men as Eli
sha Root, Rev. John Wesley Brown, rector
of st. Thomas Church; George L. 1ngra-
ham, Justice of the Supreme Court (;
Thomas B. Clark and J. Carroll Beckwith,
one of the professors of the Metropolitan
Museum and Art Students League.
Associated in the directorate with Mrs.
Hopkins is Mrs. James Hartman and
Mrs. George Kemp but it is Mrs. Dunlap
Hopkins personality dominates the whole
place. 1t is she who sits at her desk from
9 o'clock in the morning until 5 in the
afternoon answering the thousand and one
demands of the day as if she needed to earn
a living. No one knows from her that her
money and time have built up a school
with 600 students and an income Cf over
$4,000 year, all of which is earned by the
school itself.
1t is pointed out in the literature of the
school that an extensive field lies open for
the employment of women who qualify
themselves to enter upon it in making de-
signs for carpets, wallpaper, oilcloth,
silks, cretonnes, chintzes, furniture, book
covers, illustrations, and for many other
branches of manufacture involving the use
of ornamental designs. This gives the
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manufactures what they have long de-
sired, greater opportunity for good
designs from a training school, thereby
widening the variety of their lines.
Manufacturing establishments engaged
in work of this description, which formerly
obtained their designs from abroad are
now anxious to get them here. Trade de-
mands a constant succession of novelties,
and the occupation of a capable designer is
continuous and permanent, and it is work
for which women are especially adapted.
Akin to this, and requiring somewhat
similar training, is the work of an archi-
tect's draughtsman, which position women
can fill, with practical training, fully as
well as men, and architects Offices are
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SWEETHEARTS.

Where are my sweethearts. fond and fair
None of the graceful group ] see;
Fitting fairies, they clip the air,
Or peep from the woods aud laugh at me,
Laugh at the oil man moving slow,
In q circle OF dreams OF long ago
Thus in memory's mystic room
supreme their ehangeless forms appear,
Rose and lily in breathing bloom,
Aud loye-lit smiles that thrill and cheer,
wherever affection has touched the past
Is Immortality DER it cast.
Seems IL only q vision yet
One little month since her met:
May fadeless flowers enwreath the night?
lady beautiful aglow
With kindness. stranger Her hair Is white,
Her cheeks are sunset-tinted snow;
Her eyes have that religious light
Cathedrals In their dimness know.
NV queen OF fairiesl Not alone
/ stood by her exalted throne;
For he was there, her gracious king,
The royal family around;
All what an uasubstantiaI thing
Ny room of old delight foundi
Each image false took instant wing,
Reality resumed the ground.
Washington Star
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facture of wallpaper. In applied design
for the manufacture of carpets there are
departments for rugs, carpets, linoleum
and chenille curtains The carpet depart
ment is under the management OF a repre-
sentative of one of the great carpet fac
tories, and there is loom provided upon
which the design accepted can be woven.
The same is true of rugs. The same gen
tleman also has charge of the designs for
silk, chintz and calico. These are also
woven, and there are many pretty samples
in scrapbooks and hung upon the walls for
also manufactured in the school on a suf-
fcient scale for samples, and the teachers
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| are designers from the leading wallpaper

are designers from the leading wallpaper
houses.
In architecture there is no difficulty in
having practical work and thorough in
struction. So well hns this department
succeeded that the plan for the hospital in
which Mrs. Dr. Saltonstall is interested
was won in open competition by two young
ladies who have graduated from this school
In book-covers there is special course in
the illustrating department There is an
instructor in glass decorating. The first
prize offered for this work in this country
was won by a pupil of the school. The
subject was the Light of Asia, y and was
strikingly original and appropriate.
Etching and photography are thoroughly
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no Instruct switchmen.

In Chicago there are several schools for
the instruction of switchmen, and if an APP
plicant for employment on railroad can
not pass the examinations of these schools,
his chances of being engaged are very
slight. Some of the men highest in rail-
road councils to-day began as switchmen.
Hughitt, president of the Northwestern.
ga man OF ordinary intelligence never
learns to be good switchman,' said one
of the fraternity; che has got to have a
head made for it"
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A comparatively recent report gave the
number of cotton-mills in Spain as 1889,
containing %, III looms; 1858 woolen-mills,
with 30,940 hand looms, 1884 Jacquards and
1889 power looms.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-01-18

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, as collector of the rev.
enues of Miller county, will be at
the following places on the dates
mentioned, for the purpose Of col
lectiug the poll tax and the taxes
on the personal and real property
assessed for the year 1894, as charg-
ed on the tax books;
Homan, Homan township, Jauu-
ary 81, 1895,
Garland City, Red River town
ship, February II, 1895,
West Track, Cut OF township,
February u, 1895,
Mt, Zion, Lost Prairie township,
February l3, 1895,
Independence, Beech township,
February ID, 1895.
Boggy, Beech township, February
Is, 1895,
Liberty Hall, Beech township,
February 16, 1895
Genoa, Cleveland township, Feb.
ruary 18, 1896,
Collins Mill, Cleveland township,
February 10, 1896
Shiloh, Garland township, Febru'
ary 20, 1895
Sand Hill, Sulphur township, Feb.
ruary 25, 1895,
Era, Sulphur township, February
26 and n, 1895,
Bright Star Sulphur township,
February 28, and March | and 2,
1895,
Mt, Pleasant, Garland township,
March 4, 1896
Pleasant Hill, Garland township,
March B. 1895.
Te1arkana, Garland township,
March 6 to April 10, 1895,
All persons are requested to bring
with them a correct description OF
their real estate and meet me
promptly at the times and places
named above, as the tax books will
positively be closed after April 10,
1895. JANIS 7, DILLARD,
Uouector Miller County,
Texarkana, Jan l. 1885
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A BOOMING YOUNG CITY.

Eot everybody knows that a
booming young city is coming to
the froAt out forty miles north of
Texarkana, on the Texarkana & TT.
Smith railroad, but it is a fact new
SCthless.
Winthrop is the name of this city,
and, in view of its fine location, at
the soon-to-be terminus of one rail-
road, and the principal inland town
on another, its fame is not surpris-
ing The Texarkana & Fort Smith
road will soon be completed to it,
and a branch railroad will be built
out to Rocky Comfort, This will
give it two railroads,
Winthrop is located on beauti.
full, high plateau, midway between
the Red and Little rivers, with no
city of consequence nearer than
Texarkana, and being only six
miles FROM the Indian Territory,
may hope for big trade from this
fertile region,
A splendid opportunity is now
afforded investors. as well as per-
sons seeking a desirable location for
for new home. The following
persons have bought lots, within
the past few days; N, h, Bales
Of Ohio, S, r. Andrews, M, D, Til
son, W, L. Stout, A, L, Burk, w.
B. Weeks, ], W, Gardner, j, Fl. Big
ger, ]. Bilbrey, George Mcdaniel,
], W, Davis, J. A. Patching, Mary
j. Wright, j. H, Chcatham, A. Fl
Willingham, J. E. Smith and G.. W.
Dawson.
Now is the time to invest, as
choice business lots can be had for
$75 and best resident lots for $25
Those who wish to buy before the
railroad reaches the town should
call on or address O. H. Pennock
town site agent, Benefited Hotel,
Texarkana Tex.
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