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quirenents.

Mr. Wolcott was started on his po-
litical career in 1877, when he was sent
to the Common Council, where he re-
manned until 1879.
In 1882 he was elected to the lower
branch of the Legislature, and he was
reelected in 1883 and 1884. While in
the Common Council and the Legisla-
ture Mr.. Wolcott was regarded as a
hard working, conscientious man. He
was not conspicuous in politics from
1884 to 1890, but he gave his friends a
tremendous surprise when President
Cleveland came INTO the field. For a
time he was Mugwump. He spoke
and voted against james G.. Blaine, and
with Richard II. Dana practically defied
the old. line Republicans.
In 1885 Mr.. Wolcott and Richard H.
Dana were sent to Springfield as dele
gates to the State I.epublican Conven.
ton. In 1891 he was chosen President
of the Republican Club, and in 1892 he
was elected Lieutenant Governor of the
State. The Hon. William E, Russell
was Governor.
Mr.. Wolcott held second place from
that time until Gov. Greenhalge's
death. Four years ago, when there
was talk of running him for Governor,
he wrote:
my attitude tow ord the nomination
is this That in WI 1T seems to me the
wholly improbable event of the Repub-
licans of the State wishing to place me
in nomination, l should consider it a
wholly uudeserved compliment and
honor, and should not decline, but l do
not seek the nomina ion, and if it should
go elsewhere, as think it will it would
be to me personally relief rather than
disappointment"
Mr.. Wolcott will be the logical can
didate of the Repub leans next fall, but
; the American Prote| live Society, headed
| by Congressman Rising sun Morse,
want his political scalp, and will try to
) get it,
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Caught a Whale in His Net.

The sharks drove hump backed
whale into the nets set by w. ID. Gori,
of Capitola, recently, after giving him
a merry chase for his life. When they
got the whale tied up they left him and
went off to seek 9th prey.
Gori came down to his nets in the
morning and found, instead of the bass
Tor which he had set hisnets, the whale,
for which he had no particular use. 1t
was question of saving his nets. He
and his men found the hump. back a
tough fellow to deal with, and finally
had to resort to dynamite, which was
driven into him with a pointed gas
pipe
The huge fish, which was over forty
feet long, dropped Immediately to the
bottom of the bay as soon as the explo-
sion occurred, carrying the net with
him. The seine was worth about one
hundred dollars, and the oil to be Sc
cured will not cover half the COST
San Francisco Examiner.
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A Dramatic Incident.

The coming of Robert Hilliard to tn /;
city, where he fills an engagement tine
coming week, recalls very amusing in
cident which occurred several years age
at the Park Theatre where Mr.. Hilliagd
was filing a professional date.
His little son, then about three years
old, was in box viewing the perform
ance. During the play Mr.. Hilliard was
required to make daring jump from
the second story window to the (stage)
street below. The dark faced, sIouch
hat man in the play had SPOKEN his
threatening line:
Jump, say, or by the 'tarnal, III
brain We as | would a dog"
The hero VS. about to go when tn,
excitement became too great for the lIt
til fellow in the box. Jumping up amt
running to the front rail of the box, he
shouted, so that his shrill little voice
could be heard throughout the auditor,
ium:-
Don't do it, papa. oo'll hurt oo'
self"
Mr.. Hilliard was broken up for the en-
tire act.-Boston Transcript.
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She sits at the piano with tightly
closed eyeltds, strangely white, in
tense, rapt expression on her face, while
her hands seem to be stiffened and to
fall without being in the least under the
control of the player. The singer wan
ders from Gounod to Meyerbeer, from
Verdi to Wagner, then to simpler melo-
dies, and finally to Home, Sweet
Home"
Mrs. Gage positively asserts that it is
not her own voice; she declares that It
is the spirit of great actress and n
singer, long since dead, who seeks as.
trail embodiment, and gives vent to its
pent-up being, through the medium of
her person and throat. Some thirty
years ago Mrs. Addie Belden Gage was
born in Rochester, N. Y. of fine old
aristocratic family.-New York Journal.
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ado more clearly visible than the

made more clearly visible than the
flesh.
If an envelope containing several fat
substances like n key. ring or coin be
placed over a sensitive plato and expos
ed to the X rays for twonty minutes, the
image of the invisible articles will be
very distinct. Key and coin will be
sharply outlined. Paper appears to Of
fer the least resistance TO Che rays.
As soon as Boentgen's communication
to the Wurzburg Society was given to
the world, experimenting began every
where. The new radient energy became
the subject of discussion among the an
atomists and surgeons all over the
world. 1t was coutended that if the y
rays could picture the bones in part ct
tho human organism, they could dis
close a malformation or lesion Of those
bones.
If the rays could p.pctrate the flesh
of tho hand they might penetrate tde
flesh of the chest and discover the cx-
act location and extent Of diseased lung
cells; they might find tumor in the
stomach where none was expected they
might determine the certain existence
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THE ROENTGEN RAY.
THE GREATEST OF ALL MODERN
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES.

A Full Exposition of the Wonderful Light
THAT Renders all Material Things Wis
iblo to the Camera. Photographing
Through Wood.
Unprecedented is the history of an
cient or modern science is the swiftness
with which the discovery of William
Konrad Roentgen, comparatively OBJ.
scuro German professor of physics, has
spread to the four corners of the earth.
Unprecedented, also, is the unanimity
with which It has been taken up
throughout the civilized world and the
extraordinary interest it has awakened.
It is now little more than three
months since Roentgen announced and
demonstrated that he had found q new
and wonderful property in certain rays
Of light, and in that time experiments
have been inaugurated by hundreds of
scientific bodies and by thousands of in
dividuals.
The lay as well as the scientific press
has teemed with voluminous descrip-
ton. and a popular interest has been
created that has never been hitherto OBJ
served in the announcement of any i'm
portant step forward in the realm of
scientific search and endeavor.
And this is in the very infancy of the
discovery; in its germ condition; at a
point where the human mind is just be-
ginning to grasp the multiplicity of its
great possibilities. No such specula.
ton as to future accomplishment attend
ed Watts discovery of the power of the
vapor from boiling water; nor the birth
Of modern photography, fathered by
Daguerre; nor the invention of the mag.
netic telegraph by Morse; nor the re-
cording of the human voice on the phon
ographic cylinder by Edison. All these
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and used for convenience sake. 1t has
a singularly penetr tive power and is
invisible in the daylight, In darken-
ed room it can be seen to shine through
book of thousand pages, to light up
two packs of cards held together and to
penetrate an inch of solid wood. All
these substances lose their opacity un.
der the X rays.
When picture is to be taken of in
visible objects, say the bone of a hand,
Crookes tube is suspended about six
inches over the hand. Beneath the
tube is lead diagram with hole nit,
through which the rays shoot. Under
the diaphragm the hand of the subject
is placed ON a sensitive Photographic
plate, the plate being first wrapped in
heavy paper to keep out the ordinary
light. Both it and the hand are then
covered with black cloth. The current
is turned on and kept ON from 30 min
utes to an hour and half, The long
er the exposure the better the result will
be.
After it is believed that sufficient ex-
posure has been made the plate is taken
to the dark room and developed in the
regular way. The print is then made,
and il everything has been properly
done it will be found that the image of
the hand, in slightly dim shadow, has
been projected on the plate, through the
cloth, the paper, and the black card
board plate cover, which may be used
II desired. The hand is outlined in
shadow, but the bones within it are
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-16
NEW GOVERNOR.
THE LATE GOV. cREENHALGE'S SUC-
CESSoR IN THE BAY STATE.

No Handsomer and No Better Dressed
Man in Massachusetts,. Not an orator
or HandshalSer but IL Clear Dcbater
and a Good Campaigner.
Roger Wolcott, the acting Governor
Of Massachusetts,, is Boston man, the
son of the late Lieut.. j. Huntington
Wolcott. He comes from a family rs
old as New England itself, closely iden
tilted with the early history Of the colo
MES, and conspicuous in the colonial
and revolutionary wars.
Mr.. Wolcott is the fourth Governor
in his family, the other three having
achieved success in Connecticut. He
was born on July IS, 1S47. His hair is
prematurely slvered, but in constitu-
ton and department he is n much
younger man than the date of his birth
would indicate. Six feet in height and
Of athletic frame, he y pointed out on
the streets of Boston many times week
as a person of striking appearance by
men who do not know him. Always a
student and close reader he was
known among the Students of Harvard
as q young man of considerable literary
attainments. He was orator of his
class, which was graduated in 1870.
After leaving Harvard Mr.. Wolcott
bent all his energies to the study of
law. He was admitted to the bar, but
like his close friend, Henry Cabot
Lodge, never practiced, all his time be-
ing occupied by his many affairs and
his duties as trustee Of several large es
tates. His Office is on the sixth floor of
the Exchange Building in State street.
He has occupied there one large room,
rather bare and lonely looking. His in
clinations pointed toward politics, but
his extreme modesty long kept him in
the background.
Nature seemed to have fitted him for
high place, but politicians hereabout
always maintained that he required
somebody behind him to do the push
ing. He was not aggressive enough,
but everybody admitted that he pos
sessed most of the other essential re.
quirements.
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GETTING READY FOR SUMNER.


Published by special arrangement with the
New York Sun.
The variety in washing materials
must be seen to be appreciated, for it
surpasses anything ever shown here be.
fore. The new piques are much finer
and more pliable than the old.fashioned
fabric of this kind, and they come in
tiny stripes and figures of satin finish
in all the light and dark shades of every
fashionable color, and with open work
embroidered patterns scattered here
and there. The fancy cotton crepes
and crepons are very pretty. Wash
ing poplin" is mentioned in the foreign
fashion notes as ole of our new mate
rials. White lawns with narrow stripe
of black, dainty flowers between, and
tiny pinhead dots of black all over them,
make pretty summer gowns, and they
are very cheap. Chusau taffets, which
is cotton material with a printed warp,
looks much like fine gingham comes in
patterns which resemble silk, and costs
about twenty cents yard.
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They were discussing politics, and
there had been a noticeable lack of log
10 in any of her remarks and argu-
meats. At last he said with little
laugh:
Il don't believe you can give me a
single good reason for your being a
Democrat"
''Are you willing to make bet on it?'
she asked
81 am" was the reply, IF you can
do it you have two pounds of marrow
glaces tomorrow"
"Well, then," she said, with merry
twinkle in her eye. II am Democrat
because my father is.
She got the bonbons. New York
Journal.
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A REAL AMERICAN TRlLeY.
Mrs Gage Can Sing Only Under Hypnotic
Influence, but Needs No svengaIi.

Mrs. Gage Can Sing Only Under Hypnotic
Influence, but Needs No svengali.
There is q real Trilby in New York
City-a woman of wealth and promi-
nence, who like Du Maurier's heroine,
cannot ordinarily sing at all, but whose
pure vocal notes and marvellous per-
formances on the piano charm all who
hear them when she is under the infu-
ence of hypnotic spell. She is Mrs.
Addie Belden Gage, who lives with her
husband at the fashionable Hotel EN-
pire, Fifty-fourth Street and Columbus
Avenue. Her strange case has been
the marvel of her friends, as, indeed, it
has been of herself, for years. 1t diff
fers from that of Trilby in that Mrs.
Gage has no Svengali-the influence
comes on, apparently, of itself. No one
suggests it. Mrs. Gage feels no i'll
fleets. OF what occurs during the
presence of the influence she is ignor-
ant. She has never heard herself sing.
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were of slow propagation.

were of slow propagation.
What they might eventually become
was conservatively discussed and rea-
soned out as they progressed and i'm
proved, but Roentgen has in short
time flashed new ray of light around
the earth, and has Ii GIFTED up a pathway
so far ahead that its termination cannot
be conceived by the present generation.
Nevertheless the speculation as to pos
sibilities even at this early day is start
ling.
What Prof. Roentgen has found to
be possible-to begin at the beginning
lis the "photograp' of the invisible, -
and it isn't so much how he does it or
how he tells others to do it as it is what
may be accomplished in the future from
this discovery.
The operation itself is not at all com
plicated. The principal is the employ
ment of current of electricity dis
charged through highly rarefied at
mosphere, so highly rarefed indeed that
it is the nearest approach that can be
made to perfect vacuum.
This is secured in what are known as
Crookes tubes-glass bulbs in which
the atmospheric air has been exhausted,
and containing the positive and mega
tive poles of battery. The current is
obtained from large induction coil.
The discharge creates certain rays OF
light in the tube, one of which is called
the cathode or X rays-the algebraic
appellation of an unknown quantity,
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THREE MINUTES EXPOSURE.
or absence Of appendicitis the location
of bullet in muscular tissue or in the
osseous structure, the determination of
dislocation, the precise seat of adhe-
sion in pleurisy, the discovery of brain
lesion-in fact, it is hoped and expected
from the present outlook that the ca.
thode ray will some day become the
great search light in surgery, the great
diagnostician, as eXlct and as irrefuta-
ole as a mathematical axiom.
If the penetrative quality of this mys-
terious property be still further devel-
oped the possibilities in other directions
are well nigh limitless. The internal
secrets of all structural work will be
laid bare with its employment as a de-
tector of faults.
Nothing invisible in the concrete
world can escape after it has been
brought to the zenith of perfection.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-16
The Largest Ever Built.

The largest schooner ever built on
the Atlantic coast has been constructed
at Bath, Me. She is four master and
has been named the William B. Palmer.
Her dimensions are; Length, 257 feet
breadth, AZ feet; depth, 20 feet, and
gross tonnage, 1,SO5.73. The largest
schooner previously built is the Gov.
Ames, which is of only 81 tons less than
the new vessel, Each of Palmer's lower
masts is l16 feet long, or one foot longer
than those of the Gov. Ames.
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The colors which seem to head the
list this season are blue in all its vary
ing shades, especially turquoise, green,
and brown, but there is such medley
of color in the chameleon silks and rib
bons which shades so differently in diff
ferent lights that all the colors of the
rainbow seem to be blended together in
one indescribable changing tint.
The close coat sleeve is still promised
for the near future, but all styles and
sizes of puffs are offered as sort of
compromise between the large and the
small, to win the way for the one which
is not contemplated with any pleasure
by the majority of women.
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a c INNER CABIN.
ruilt of Lovs aud a jolly Remindcf II
Primitive Times.
Copyright b. Co-Operators Building Plan
As1cintlon, N. Y.

Copyright b. Co-Operators Building Plan
socintion, n. Y.
A club Of mon camping in the woods
might easily diversity their sport ~
building with their own hands cabin
like that Illustrating this article. About
all that would need to be purchased in
the way of materials would be wagon
load of flooring few sashes, keg Of
nails, pair Of strap hinges. one pound
of rope, small pulley. canvas for doors,
q stovepipe and a barrel of cement. The
cement may be omitted if good. stiff
clay is available A few axes, saw, u
hammer, trowel and a shovel would
be all the tools required.
If the clubs resort be far from the
haunts Of men, thcy may put in prac-
tice squatter sovereignty, but it would
be wiser to get permission to use the
land.
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Saw the Chesapeake and shannon Fight

William Endicott, of Beverly, Mass,
who has just celebrated his 97th birth
day, and is in enjoy nent of good health
is the nearest direct descendent of Gov
ernor John Endicott.
He was an eye witness of the battle
between the Chesapeake and the Shan
non during the War of 1912, and after
the fight he attended the funeral of
Lawrence and Ludlow, who were killed
in that conflict.
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THE SEWING SCREEN.
4 Useful and Decorative Addition to
Household Impediments.

Household Impediments.
A delightfully."- decorative and useful
note in my lady's morning room, or
cozy setting for the corner of her bed
room, is the sewing screen, a gracious
little affair combining all the comforts
Of thread basket, pincushion, needle
case, work bag, catch-all, and table.
One such screen, which graces the bed
room corner of the home of busy little
housewife, is fashioned of yellow denim
and a delicately fowered yellow silk,
and can be very easily carried out in
any color by pair of clever hands
The framework, which consists of two
leaves eighteen inches wide, is about
three feet high and is covered from the
outside and fastened on the inside cor
ners with fancy gilt nails. Each leaf
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An Instance.

moral courage" said the teacher, ''is
the courage that makes boy do what
he thinks is right regardless of the jeers
Of his companions.
"Then," said Willie, 'if feller has
candy and eats it all hisself and isn't
afraid of the other fellers calm him
stingy, is that moral courager-Cin.
cinnati Enquirer.
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curely. Sleeping room to have four
hunks at end, as shown on plans. In
case ladies are in the party they could
sleep in this room, the men sleeping in
tho attic, or reversing the arrange
ment, give the ladies the attic, where
they would probably feel more secure.
Access to the attic room from open din
ing room by cutie and steps. Steps
arranged with rope and pulley to swing
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The shirt waist is made with mar
row pointed yoke in the back, and with
or without yoke in front, and the col
lar and cuffs may be of the same ma
terial or of white linen. Dimities,
lawns, and batistes, plain, striped, and
patterned all over in Persian designs,
make the daintiest shirt waists, and
these usually have soft turn back cuff
of the same, and either white linen
collar or a colored satin stock with a
white piping set in the edges and mar
row satin tie to match is tied around
the neck over this. Sleeves of these
thin waists sometimes are tuckediin one
cluster at the top, or in two, one being
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-16

Interior Finish-Rooms and verauda
foored with spruce. Interior walls left
with logs showing. Stone fireplace and
chimney laid in clay.
Accommodatjons-All rooms and their
sizes shown by Hoor plans. Attic hoored
and well ventilated. Large openings
from sleeping room and living room to
have canvas curtains hung at top and
arranged with hlp strings to shut Sc
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Died at I2o Years.

Hiram Lester, who died at the poor
farm in Henry County, Ga, not long
ago, was said to be 129 years old, Ason
of his living in the same poorhouse is 80
years old, and daughter, who lives in
Heard County, is 95 years old.
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well down toward the waist. Swivel
silks, ginghams, and the heavier cotton
cheviots are also made up into these
waists, but the batistes seem to be the
favorites this season. The light colors
look pretty with white muslin collars
and cuffs trimmed with lace. and ecru
batiste waists are trimmed up and down
or across with innumerable frills of
narrow Valenciennes lace. Another
style has yoke of ecru embroidery,
with frill of embroidery around the
edge. Very handsome are the dotted
Swiss muslin waists, lined with silk
and trimmed elaborately with lace and
ribbon. These usually have elbow
sleeves and wide collar of muslin with,
yellow lace ON the edge.
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Following will be found a brief de-

scription;
General Dimensions-W Width, not in
Guiding projections of chimney, AZ feet
depth, including veranda and not in
cluding cook shed, 81 feet inches.
Heights of Stories-First story, feet
inches; second story to ridge, II feet
at side walls, feet.
Exterior Observation-Disclosures large
stones and logs; all walls and gables,
logs. Joints to be filed with clay,
Roofs made of bark, laid like Spanish
tiling and nailed with one nail to each
piece under lap.
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is divided into three parts, the upper
and lower given over to pockets made
of the silk. A needle case covered with
silk and pincushion of yellow plush
hang from the top of each leaf, re-
spectively. Two fiat pieces of paste
board covered with the silk fall against
the middle division of each leaf, one
being held by ribbons to form a wide
pocket, the other standing for small
shelf or table when caught by ribbons
to two fancy. headed nails on either side
of the screen above. Nothing so con-
venient was ever put into so small
space before, according to the owner of
this housewifely joy. For it is a joy,
she will tell you. Here is always the
very thread and needle one wants at
her very hand. Here is room for ones
work of various kinds. The table, pin
cushion, scrapbasket, and scissors, which
hang at the side, are ever ready, and all
practical things considered, this home
keeping attachment has the merit be-
side of being thing of beauty.
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Mark Twain has become so used 70
Eastern customs that he says Inc cannot
avoid slamming door at present
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up against ceiling Of first story when
not in use. In case window frames
cannot be procured conveniently, the
window openings may be covered with
canvas. Passage between open dining
room and cook shed to be uncovered.
Stovepipe hole and pipe at rear of cool;
shed as shown on plan. When cabin is
not tenanted all openings to be boarded
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