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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-01-16

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you are like man catching at with
cred leaves blown down the wind, and
trampling Gods flowers under your
feet the WHILE"
Mr.. Maitland Kearsley was stag
gcred. He paused in his restless walk
ing to and fro, and faced the soldier
somewhat sullenly.
II have yet to learn that you have the
right to teach me my duty, sir" he
said. "What do you want?"
With q sudden resolve in his heart,
Capt. John Walker faced the other.
II want you to let me take that boy
with me-now, at once-for a holiday.
A house of death is no place for him;
let him 60 away with me, and forget.
He's q dear little chap like him
and"-this with something of an eff
fortt"I suppose he is rather trouble
some to you at times. We live different
lives, Kearsley; forgive my momentary
anger of a few moments since. Let
let me take the child" Perhaps in his
heart the captain thought-"He is his
mothers boy; he has the eyes that will
be with me till I die"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
ROBBED OF IFS TERRoRs.
Cholera Declared to Be No Longer
Formid able.

Cholera Declared to Be No Longer
Formidable.
A report which is printed in a recent
numberSof a German medical journal is
calculated to rob cholera of it's terrors. 1t
presents statistics of the progress of the
plague in Germany for the year 1894, from
which it appears that there were 1904 cases
from May % to December Is, 400 of which
resulted fatally. The population of the
empire in that year being 49, 429, 40, it fol-
lows that the percentage of cases per 10000
inhabitants was or, and of mortalitv 0.
per 10000. The plague was its worst on
the Russian and Galican border, and
very few cases were recorded in the dis
tricts contiguous to Holland, Belgium and
France. In 1894. as in most other periods
of contagion, the cholera entered Germany
from Russia by way of the Vistula. IN
deed, all the medical reports agree that
water traffic is much more to be feared as
a medium for spreading the plague than
railway or wagon traffic. The German
health authorities had some trouble at
first in convincing the men engaged in
river transportation that they must Submit
TO surveillance for the public good, but
now they recognize the policy OF cooper
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The cut of the house on this page shows a
result obtained by NJ. Batut at an altitude
of 127 meters. 1t represents plain view
of farmhouse, with its outbuildings.
The kite employed is about ~ feet in
height; the camera weighed 1900 grams
(2% pounds).
Another curious form of aerial photo
graphic apparatus was developed by a
French inventor, Nj. Denesse. 1t consists
of a Photographic camera attached to a
rocket. An umbrella-like parachute is also
fixed to the rocket-stick. When fired into
the air this is closed, but as soon as the
rocket begins to descend it opens out and
the whole returns gracefully to the earth
In this the camera is cylindrical in form,
and has round its circumference twelve
lenses-a sensitive plate is in the center
The lenses are provided with a shutter
which opens and closes instantly OH the
camera commencing to descend. tits then
drawn back to the operator by cord at
tached before the firing of the rocket. The
principal advantages of this form of appa-
ratus are cheapness of operating and free
dom from ri
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
SULTAN MURAD,s FATE.
He Is Said to Be Prisoner of His
Brother. Abdul Hamid.

He Is Said to Be a Prisoner of His
Brother, Abdul Hamid.
The fate of Sultan Murad Y, the brother
of ''that wretched Sultan" vino nowreigns
in his place, has for years been one of the
unexplored mysteries of Constantinople.
When the world knows, or supposes, is
that after a few months of power he was
suddenly deposed by the men who had
forced him to the throne on the plea that
his reason had failed; that he was put
into seclusion, and there either died or be-
came completely insane.
In volume Just published from the pen
OF Djemaleddin Bey, who was intimately
associated with the rise of Murad, and an
eyewitness of his deposition, we have
what purports to be full and true his
tory of this Turkish dynastic mystery. 1t
is now asserted that Murad is not only
alive but perfectly sane, though kept a
close prisoner by his brother in the pavil-
ion of Malta Kiosk in the middle of YildiZ
Park. 1t follows If this statement is true,
that Abdul Hamid is usurper, and that
Murad ought now to be Sultan. The wri-
ter refrains from suggesting that Murao
should be restored, but he is apparently of
the opinion that he would make as near
an approach to reforming Sultan as is
possible under the circumstances.
me Story OF MuraU' rise ana Idll Is LOlQ
in highly dramatic style-perhaps lit
tie too dramatic, if it is intended to i'm
press the Western reader with its absolute
accuracy. II opens with the last days of
Abdul Aziz, of whose ferocity, under the
influence OF his even more ferocious
mother, the writer gives most sensational
account. Scenes in the palace between the
Sultan and his mother, of which no one
could have been eyewitness. are described
with great spirit, but necessarily, as we
suppose, from Imagination. Murad who
was the nephew of Aziz, was also sus-
pected of being reformer in sympathies,
half Giaour in character, and generally
dangerous person.
AS a matter of fact he seems to have
been an amiable lad, with many good
sympa3hies and aspirations, but weakened
even then by an unfortunate tendency to
drink. The mother of Abdul Aziz wanted
him put out of the way, and repeatedly
pressed her son either to force him to abb
jure the succession, or, falling that, to
have him assassinated. To this point,
however. Abdul Aziz could never quite
screw up his courage. He was super
stltious, and the astrologers invariably re-
piled that the stars were unfavorable. In
the end he was suddenly deposed through
an instruction organized by his own Min
lister OF War, Hussein Avni, who, with the
aid of Midhat Pasna, hurried Murad to
the palace and forced him to become Sui
tan.
The ex-Sultan shortly after committed
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ating actively with the sanitary boards at
the first outbreak of the plague.
loo much cannot be said in praise of the
splendid work accomplished by the Ger
man Cholera Commission in 1894 The reg
ulatlons for checking the plague were at
nrst regarded as unduly restrictive, and
the health officers charged with enforcing
them met with considerable opposition.
The end justified the means, however.
In Hamburg not a single case of cholera
occurred, and there were only six
IN the whole Elbe district. A table made
by Professor Flugge illustrates the i'm
provement IN German methods of combat
ing cholera, for it shows that in the dis
trlct OF Oberschlesien there were but 346
cases IN 1894, as compared with 1869 in 1866.
5903 in 1848, 5498 in 1855, 4438 in 1867 and
1924 IN 1886. The lowest record in any
previous year of general infection was 89S
IN 1901. Professor Flugge gives Koch the
cre9lt OF teaching his contemporaries how
to deal effectively with the plague.
That cholera is no longer formidable if
precautionary measures are taken is proved
conciusiyely by the exemption of the Ger
man soldiers during the period of mobiliZa-
ton IN the Vlstula district last year. At
the time, in spite of the prevalence of the
plague in East and West Prussia, an army
OF many thousands of men was engaged in
maneuvers, but not a single case of cholera
occurred among them. 1t is interesting to
note the instructions issued to protect
them against contagion. They were al
lowed to drink only water that had been
boiled; whenever their clothing came in
contact with Vistula water it was taken off
at once and sent to the barracks for disin-
lection; and after every drill each man
was compelled to wash his hands with
soap in pure spring water. The general
health of the troops was never better.-New
York Evening Sun.
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ENGLISH NOT TAUGHT.
A Writer Who Thinks the Language Is
Degenerating.

A Writer Who Thinks the Language Is
Degenerating.
There is reason to fear that the language
is degenerating; that the art of writing,
except in few hands, is suffering change
for the worse. True, it is practiced more
widely and freely than ever before, but
excess of quantity may easily step with
loss of quality. Of old our boys studied
grammar, or some apology for it (since tAe
English tongue is but obviously provided
in that respecD. Now their minds are
fixed on football. Our best colleges COM
plain that their entering students do
not understand the vernacular, or can
not express themselves in it. They may
know Greek and Latin, but their transla-
tons into our common speech are fear
fully and wonderfully made. By way of
mending the matter our universities are
giving great and increasing attention to
the history and construction of the Ian
guage, especially in its early stages:
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interest for the curious collector. are of
great value in topography and will doubt
less figure extensively in military opera
tons during the next great war.
In the Photographic Times for January
are some interesting particulars of what
has been already accomplished in this
direction. NJ. Batut, a French amateur,
has invented kite camera. The kite is
diamond-shaped, with long tail, assuring
stability when it has assembled into the
regions of the clouds. The cord holding it
to the earth is attached to the frame by a
sort OF trapeze, so arranged that the
camera A, which is also fastened to the
frame by the triangular support D, shall
have an unobstructed range of whatever is
below. The shutter, which is OF the drop
variety, working horizontally, being actu-
ated by two rubber bands, is liberated by
the burning OF fuse, C, which burns
through thread holding the shutter on
tension; the thread being burned releases
the shutter, which, in its fight across the
opening of the lens, also iberates scrap
Of paper, which, floating down, shows the
manipulation that the exposure has taken
place. A self-registering barometer, B, is
attached, to show the altitude attained.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26
THE HIPPOCYCLE.
Pecu1 lar Vehicle Designed by an Eng
lish Scientist.

Pecuf lar Vehicle Designed by an Eng
1ish Scientist.
The statement of Professor A. G. Bell,
an English scientist, predicting machine
that will be to the horse what the bicycle
is to the man, has attracted much atten-
ton. On the subject a correspondent of
the English paper, Cycling, states that he
designed such machine in theory which
he never put into actual practice. He
says:
The vehicle, or cycle, or as I chose to
christen it, the hippocycle, was designed
with four 40-inch wheels, the two rear
wheels drivers and the two front
steerers. The horse was to propel him
self, the vehicle, and say two riders,
who would steer and govern the
machine. The methods of trans
hitting the power from the horse was bv
a revolving endless platform built up on
two chains supported by rollers; the plat
form OF oak battens, about 48 inches by
three inches by two inches, placed across
the width of the machine and bolted to
the chains. Upon this platform the horse
would run, beng harnessed with collar
and traces in the usual way; but, of course.
the traces would have hooks for attach
ment inside the machine, placed in the
relative position to the horse as are the
roller bolts of a carriage. In running, the
horse would pull all the traces, and the
ground, or platform, would recede beneath
him, while he. with the machine, would
advance. Motion from the platform and
chain would be communicated to a toothed
and ratcheted drum on the dividing axle.
over which the platform would run, and
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the other end of the platform and chains
would simply run over free drum. But
it was manifest that in this way the ma
chine would have been propelled back
ward. To obviate this difficulty, one of
two courses seemed compulsory. Either
the platform would have to be fitted below
the driving axle, and communicate its mo-
ton by outside teeth, engaging IN similar
teeth on the driving axle as in the rough
sketch, or by allowing the horse to travel
tail first
The gearing of the platform with the
axle would, as in the cycle, decide the
speed OF the machine as against given
speed OF motion per sc of the horse. But
whereas in the cycle a two-speed gear is
not necessity in the hippocycle it would
be indispensable. When the cyclist en-
counters hill be cannot drive up he can
Immediately dismount and push. To in
like manner detach the horse and harness
him in front OF the bippocycle would be
out OF the question. So that with low
gear, applicable at will, all hills could be
mounted, and for such a purpose the
cryptic dynamic two speed gear would
have no doubt answered admirably.
Now, 1t seems difficult to believe that
while the cyclist aided by his mechanism
(although he propels also its weight) can
outstrip nature, as it were, that tie horse,
placed under similar conditions, would
not do the same proportionately. At
least consider the immense gain to the
horse, say in tour of fifty miles I'D
and down hill, in his being able to rest
absolutely on every appreciate decline
1t is a truism that there is no uphill with
out downhill. With a phaeton the horse
is in almost as violent and exhaustine ac-
ton. whether the gradient be for or
against. But with the hippocycle it would
be different for on every decline sufficient
for it to run with its own impetus it would
allow the horse to be as much at rest-al-
though temperatures IN his STALL Other
advantages to the horse would be protec-
ton from the weather (for he could be
covered in), coupled with perfect ventila-
ton. A level road on which to
run; and a road of perfect and
uniform surface always and with
efficient foothold at all times. In
the event of sudden application of the
brake. if travelling at high rate of speed
and tail-frst fashion, he would be thrown
back OH his launches; but q suitable
"breeching," or padded back, could receive
his weight. If the plan of fitting the plat
form, as shown in the sketch, were
adopted, which would allow him to travel
normally. e., head first he would, on
the application of the brake, be thrown
forward in the collar just as is the case
now in ordinary vehicles, and especially
so In the tramway carts, fitted as they are
with powerful brakes.
As to steering, we have now the testi-
mony of the French road m otors as to the
possibility OF efficient steering to Justify us
in the assumption that there would be no
difficulty in steering horse-motor.
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TO CUT DIAMONDS.
A Composition Made Possible by
Electric Furnace.

Composition Made Possible by the
Electric Furnace.
The hardest body known to science is
the diamond which has been used for a
long time for cutting, grinding and drill
ing other hard substances. Diamond
powder is of great Importance in many
trades, and glass-cutting. engraving and
kindred trades could not possibly set along
without the diamond and diamond dust.
The general use of diamonds for these pur-
poses has made them costly, and the
scarcity of the material has set the sci
entlsts upon the search for a suitable SUBJ
stitute. Such a one has now been found
by the French physician Moisson, who has
recently succeeded in producing artificial
diamonds with the b clip of a high-tension
electric current.
He has found combination of borio
acid and carbonlZed sugar, which results
in new stone quite superior to the dia-
mond in hardness. 1t cuts the diamond
without difficulty, and can be made in any
size or shape. The com bination of borium
with carbon occurs when the mixture of
boric acid and carbonized sugar is heated
IN electric furnaces to temperature of
about 5000 degrees. The result is black
mass similar in appearance to graphite.
The new stone will certainly be of consid-
cradle Importance in the qUarrying of
stone, in mining, in the boring of wells.
and In many other trades where hereto
fore the expensive and much softer black
diamond has been used.
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suicide in the palace where he was con-
lined, cutting open his veins, as all the
world remembers. with pair of scissors.
But Murad quickly found himself, accord
ing TO this account, at the mercy of the
ruffiaD Hussein Avni, and the other Mn
| listers, Midhat included. who intended that
they should be the real rulers under the
nominal sultanate of this weak young man.
Murad himself, meanwhile, was distracted
at his own powerlessness, and filled with
remorse at the suicide of his uncle, whom
he imagined to have been murdered by his
Ministers. The next step in the tragedy
was that Hussein Avni and Rachid, two OF
these Ministers, was assassinated by Cir
casslan in vengeance for his supposed
murder.
The other chief Minister, Midhat,
hitherto supposed to be the chief of the
reforming party and the special friend of
Murad, now found himself in very diff
cult place with the young Sultan. He also
was suspected of having had hand in the
murder of Abdul AziZ, and if Murad had
continued to reign he would have been ban
ished, or suffered worse than Punishment,
in consequence of the Princes Quixotic re-
morse. Midhat therefore sought to save
himself in true Oriental manner by depos-
ing his master. Murad by this time was
exceedingly weak and i'll. and the writer
alleges that quack was set to attend on
him, whose business it was practically to
aggravate the supposed symptoms OF in
sanity and not to check his facilities for
drinking.
An eminent specialist from Vienna was
brought in and reported the disease per-
fectly durable, but his report was stihed
and the quack retained. It was officially
announced that the Sultan was mad. his
deposition was carried out swiftly and
quickly, and his half brother, Abdul
Hamid, took his place. 1.-The people sui
lenly aequiesced, though the disappoint-
ment of the reforming party, who had
hoped everything from Murad, was bitter.
Murad, according to this writer, was never
mad; he quickly recovered from his illness
and is now perfectly sane in his prison at
Yildiz, though Abdul Hamid takes super
human precautions to prevent him from
holding communications with the outside
world.
We will not dispute the truth of all this.
but the picture of Murad here given-that
of a weak, amiable, visionary, highly
musical and rather drunken man-does not
impress US with his suitability to ride the
whirlwind at Constantinople. Neverthe-
less, if it be that he is still alive and sane
we hope that the upheaval, when it
comes, will bring his release.-W Westminster
Budget.
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Anglo-Saxon. Middle English, the Gothic
element, and what not, are pursued "down
to the, ground; but English ''as she is
SPOKE or as she ought to be, is deemed
unworthy of attention. That is, the in
struction in this primary subject, in our
densely practical age, is theoretic and
scholastic-not practical. The subject is
primary-that is the difficulty: the prepa-
tory schools ought to attend to it. though
as a rule they don't. You may learn
Gaelic, or Assyrian. or Assiniboian; these
have to be taught, for they are not preva-
lently spoken among US; but as to our
own tongue, Dogberry's idea is IN effect
accepted, that reading ana writing come
by nature" Alas, they do not; and the
learner, being thus left to his own devices,
is in this respect often like the self-made
man whom his friends pronounced to have
been made but indifferently. The conse-
quence is that we have scientific experts
whose construction of sentences leaves
much TO be desired, ana popular authors
who leave their punctuation to the printer
which is perhaps wise on their part,
since he. knows something about it, and
they apparently do not.-Frederick NJ.
Bird, III February Lippincott's S.
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A New Railroad Signal.

The Boston and Albany Railroad has
adopted device that other railroads will
not be slow to accept Whenever train
for any reason is forced to stop at an un-
usual spot brakeman is sent back with a
flag by day or a lantern by night. The
lantern is not at all times conspicuous,
and many rear end collisions have oc-
Cured in consequence of the inability of
fagman to get far enough back on the
track to sufficiently warn the oncoming
train.
A fusee has been invented to meet this
emergency. 1t is attached to a pointed
rod, which is stuck into crosstie between
the tracks. 1t is ignited by the simple
process of unscrewIng a friction cap,
whereupon bright red light, which
neither wind nor rain can extinguish,
burns for fifteen minutes, making an
illumination visible for full mile.-New
York World
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Napoleon and Els ya1et

had been up for several nights together
and I was tired. The Emperor went out
toward IL o'clock in the evening and was
absent three or four hours. I sat down to
wait for him in his armchair, near his
writing table intending to rise and with
draw when 1 heard him coming in. But
was so worn out with fatigue that slumber
surprised me unawares and I fell into a
profound sleep with my head on my arm
and my arm on his Majesty's table. The
Emperor at last came in. accompanied by
Marshal Berthier and followed by Rous-
tan. [ heard nothing. Prince de Neuf-
chatel started toward me, intending to
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awake me and have me restore his
chair and table to his Majesty; but the
Emperor detained him, saying: "Let the
poor fellow alone; he has passed l don't
know how many sleepless nights" And
then as there was no other chair in the
apartment his Majesty sat down on the
side of his bed, made the marshal take
seat there also and talked with him long
time while | slept on. But requiring one
of the maps which were on the table and
upon which my elbow was resting, his
Majesty although he tried to draw it away
with precaution, walked me up. and l rose
myself for the liberty [ had involuntarily
taken. monsieur Constant" said the
Emperor, with smile full of benevoence,
sit distresses me to have disturbed YOU;
kindly excuse me."-Memoirs of Constant.
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A Magnetic BIowpipe.

One of the latest developments in cleo
trio welding, according to Engineering,
is an adoption of the well-known phenom-
enon that the electric arc is DETECTED when
q magnet is brought near it. On placing a
powerful electric magnet beside the arc
the latter is driven onward, and tongue
of flame is formed which resembles an or
binary blowpipe flame, only of much
greater intensity. The system is known
as the zerener system, and the electric
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view, even with the most powerful reflect
ors, they have so far proved futile. Hence,
to the minds of men, the universe must
seem forever to be and to remain immeas-
urable, incalculable and incomprehensible.
And while we may be able to weigh and
measure suns and systems within range
of our telescopes there are others so far
away and so far beyond our powers of
vision, and our power of calculation, that
even our present supposed great knowl-
edge of the sidereal heavens would OWN
die into the thinnest of ment al yapories.-
POpular A stronomy
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furnace consists of two carbons, which
form the arc, and which can be fed by
electromagnetic, which can be adjusted in
any position. The fact that the arc NAV
be DETECTED in any required direction en-
ables welding and brazing TO be carried
out in positions which would be practi-
cally impossible in ordinary welding fur
naces,