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The evening times., 1899-07-03
Looking Backward.
From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER. J


'Hindsight" is better than foresight in some
contingencies and who appreciates that
fact has laid the foundation of modest fortune
in securing a patent upon a novel little device
which supplies 'hindsight'' to the people who
need it most.
"a post-visual reflector is what the inventor
calls his new invention. 1t is an arrangement Of
adjusted mirrors, which enables the wearer to
see everything occurring within certain range
behind his back without turning his head.
The post-visual reflector will be useful to jock
eys, drivers, rowers, and cyclists.
For jockeys this appliance is fastened to the
bows of pair of big spectacles. fitted with clear
glasses of magnifying power. The glasses
are intended as mud guards, to protect the eyes
from the dirt thrown up by the horses flying
feet. The little refectors are fastened above the
glasses. and set at angle which brings the
full width OF a race track for a distance of one
hundred yards within clear range of vision.
For rowers and bicyclists the postvisual re-
fector is as valuable as it is to horsemen.
Rowers and cyclists do not need the mud
guards and for them second patent provides
for the adjustment Of the refiectors to a light
head band, which holds them in exact relative
position to the eye, no matter at what angle the
head of the wearer may be turned.
The evening times., 1899-07-03
American Atmosnhere.

A recent magazine writer, in taking up
the characteristics of American literature.
makes the statement-elaborately dec
GRATED with arguments and Illustrations,
that we have floods of light, but no at
mosphere." This is rather a happy way
of stating a fact which may be verified by
reference to American writer's. 1t is per-
fectly true that atmosphere is the char
acteristic in which many of our authors
are conspicuously lacking
The loyal American may retort that he
would rather not have atmosphere than 10
have so much of 1t as England and Italy
have; that he prefers the unclouded light
of Western prairie TO English fog. and the
fresh mountain breeze to the smells of an
Italian town. In this he is quite right. A
great national literature must be based
on healthy and wholesome national life
strong physically, mentally, and mcra ly
and though it may be somewhat slow in
growth it will be all the grander in ma
turity. Those who sneer at the cruleness
OF some phases of American life will 60
well to remember that it takes a consider
able time for a human being to deve'op,
but that human boy, while he may make
some mistakes. and be somewhat too cock
sure in his language. has greater possibiI-
titles in him than the most perfect game
cock that ever strutted under the foster
ing roof Of chicken coop.
1t is curious, however, to note the un-
consciousness which many OF our authors
have of the possibilities OF color contrasts
and atmosphere effects in general; and that
is the matter to which this magazine
writer gives especial attention. There are
no more beautiful colcr effects anywhere
The evening times., 1899-07-03
PICTURES OF PLANTS GROWING.
Interesting Experiments Made by the
Agricultural Depnr r rtmcnt.


The Agricultural Department has pressed
the moving picture machine into the SER
vice of science The division of vegetable
pathology now has a device of this sort in
operation in one of its greenhouses pho
tographing the growth of a small oak tree.
The machine works automatically, taking
a picture each hour. At night an electric
light is thrown into circuit as the expos
ure is made.
The machine has been running about two
weeks, and will be kept going about two
weeks longer on its present subject. When
the series OF pictures is completed it will
be possible to reproduced with the stereop
ticon the growth of the plant from the time
the first shoot appeared above ground till
the tree is in full leaf and foot or more
high.
While the oak tree pictures are purely
experimental to develop the capacity of
the machine, it is intended to use the Sc
rial photographs in watching the progress
of plant diseases. blights, insect parasites.
and the like. The department hopes in
the near future to be able to loan to the
agricultural colleges and experiment sta
tions rolls of lantern slides film TO Illus
trate certain of the departments bulletins
on these subjects.
In addition to the straight Photographic
work expected of the new machine its de-
signer intends to adapt 1t to use with the
x-ray SO as to take pictures Of certain
objects that otherwise would be invisible
The evening times., 1899-07-03
PROSPEROUS PENNSYLVANIA.
Enormous Output of Steel md Tin
plate Last Year.

Harrisburg, Pa, July 3.-The annual
report of the Bureau of Industrial Stat s.
tics for 1898, the advance sheets of which
have just been issued devotes consider
able space, to the growth OF the silk indus
try in Pennsylvania. The report skoAs
that there were SS six plants in operation
last year, with total of 699. .30S spindles;
III hand looms, 9.23S power looms and
3401 machines. The average number OF
weeks in operation was 81, and the num-
ber of employees, skilled and unskil-e ed,
was 5,441 males, 10,999 females, and 3,s26
children. The average yearly wages of
the males was $371.73; females, $215.61;
children, s120.4s.
The production in broad goods was 49,
$40, ,G96 yards, with a corresponding valCe
Of 0,S89, ,455. The most remarkable IN
crease in production was that OF rfbbSns.
In round numbers, 70.Go0,000 yards OF rio-
bons were turned out by Pennsylvania
silk plants in 1898, as against pIoduct-o on
of 35.00G.00O yards in 1895. The value Of
the entire production for 1898 was S32,-
334 $40, as against $24, 1S4, ,5S3 in 1895.
The report also shows that In 1898 the
production of pig iron in Pennsylvania
was 5,367, ,979 gross tons, the value o.
which was $50, ,331. .22S- The number OF
working people employed in the pig iron
industry was 1871, and the average
daily wages s1.32. There were profuce1
during the year in this State 1881, ,IS4
gross tons of Bessemer steel. while the
total steel production was 5.215.9c4 gross
tons. The total production Of stee. bill cts
and puddle bar was 5,537, ,249 net tons. and
its value s136. .s20.44 The number OF
working people employed in this industry
in this State was sc. .230. and their average
yearly earnings was s496.S1. Eighteen OF
the twenty tinplate works in Pennsylva-
mia engaged in the manufacture of black
plate were in operation during the year,
and produced 344 064 900 pounds CT black
plate, or about IA per cent OF the entire
production OF the United States OF this
production 222 ,52s 900 pounds were tiLnSd.
The number of people employed in this in
dustry was $685. and their average yearly
earnings was S5S4.5S. Pennsylvania to-
tai production of tin and tinp!ate in 1898
was 261, ,934, eco pounds. In 1892 there were
produced in the United States 4O.4IS,sl6
pounds of black plate for timing. while
in 1898 there were produced 7s2.414.OSO
pounds. M
The evening times., 1899-07-03
Waking-Up Theories.

(From the New Orleans Times Democrat)
-"The' ability to wake at a given hour by
forming resolution to do so before going to
sleep, .ssaid physician at an after-dinner dis
cussion "a few days ago, involves a problem
that scientists do not pretend to have definitely
solved. Their theory, however, is certainly paus-
ible A great many acts OF life, as we all
know, are only halfvoluntary. A man will be-
gin whiting stick and continue while his
mind, is engrossed upon something else. 1t is
the same with walking. In other words, the ac-
tion is started by volition, and then keeps on
going like engine. It is known also that
the will persists to Il certain extent in what we
call Inconsistencies, both from anesthetics and
during sleep. How far that persistence extends
is an open question, but it is reasonable to as
sumo that most Of US can set an impulse on
the principle than alarm clock is set and
the half-voluntary mechanism OF the brain carries
it along without further attention. But,
said before, it is only theory. To tell the
truth. our real knowledge of such things is start
lingly slight
The evening times., 1899-07-03
YOUNG EDISON REBELS.
Resents Parental Objections to Hi
Marriage to an Actress.

Resents Parental Objections to His
Marriage to an Actress.
Chicago. July 3.-Thomas A. Edison,
jr.. and his bride. formerly Miss Marie
Louise Twoohey. of Chicago, the actress
whom the son of the inventor married in
New York on February Is against the
wishes of his father, are living in Chicago
at the residence Of the brides mother.
a55 North Clark Street.
This fact was first learned yesterday By
others than the young couples intimate
friends Mr.. and Mrs. Edison, jr., have
been living with the brides mother for
four weeks, during which time. it said.
an intimate friend Of the Edisons has en-
deayored to pacify the elder Edison.
Until taking up their residence in Chi
cago the couple have been touring tie
country. soiourning in Pittsburg. d nyer.
and San Francisco, and little was known
Of their whereabouts by the elder Ed so1
from the time Of their departure from
New York until they came to Chicago.
Mr.. Edison, jr.. said yesterday he had
severed bis connection with his father and
will launch himself as an independent
electrical inventor. He said when he mar
ried against his fathers wishes he had
prepared to establish himself as his faith
Si
Reared in my fathers own laboratory"
he said, "and educated by my father him
self, think l am capable of continuing
work which he. perhaps, will not live to
finish, and in my judgment the man who
invents must be an originator and not an
imitator
My father was always opposed to ac-
tresses as wives, but think he is too wise
man to bother over the inevitable. At
any rate, ! think. since his bosom friend.
Samuel insult took unto himself one he is
perhaps -Feconciied."
Miss Marie Louise Twoohey made her
debut on the stage In Chicago during the
Worlds Fair. In that season she played
in America" The following season she
toured with Eddie Foy in Robinson Cru
soe'' She was playing with Lillian Rus
sell In La Belle Helene when the young
er Edison first met and soon afterward
married her. Mrs. Edison, jr., was born in
Chicago in 1879.
Mr.. Edison. jr.. Is twenty-three years
old. He Is president of a number of cleo
trfcal companies, and the discoverer of
what is known as the Ionic force of elec-
tricity, now claimed by him to be in its
infancy. This discovery is that electricity
has weight, and is, therefore, subject to
gravitation, and By the application of this,
young Mr.. Edison claims to be able TO in
crease the power of the electricity by ele-
waiting its source above the place Of its
utilization.
He is also the inventor of the chlorina-
ton process for the reduction of ore. With
the exception of the last eighteen months
he had spent his life in his fathers labora-
tory.
The evening times., 1899-07-03
INSECT PLAQUES IN ALGERIA.
Standing Crops Seriously Menaced
by Clouds of Grnsshoppers.


Consul Skinner, of Marseilles. transmits
the following information relative to crop
plaques in Algeria: Reports from Aige-
ria indicate that standing crops will be
seriously damaged and in some cases de-
stroyed by the clouds OF grasshoppers now
moving in a northerly direction. Ten
thousand francs (s1 .930) have already been
placed at the disposal of the general of
the division for the first expenses incur
red in fighting against the invasion, and
steps have been taken TO secure S3S, 600
additional for the same purpose Near
Biskra $500 camels are being emp Dyed in
the transportation of inflammable mate
rial, which is being burned where d posits
of eggs are found. In ali parts of the
colony men are at work plowing up eggs
and destroying them. 1t is hoped that the
energetic measures being taken Will pre-
vent a now menaced catastrophe.
The Algerian wheat crop Of 1898 was
estimated at 24,11S,000 bushels. The ex-
ports of cereals from the colony during
1897 were as follows, in tons: Wheat, a.
IFS; corn, 9I1; barley. S3.492; oats. 81, Isl;
flour, 2S26.
The evening times., 1899-07-03
Gods Temples.
(From the Toledo Rec \

: beautiful. well-wooded park with the 'scanopy
of heaven for roof is Gods own temple That
temple should be free as the air and if anyone
should prefer to listen to the birds rather than
the choir. or to the silent sermons in the trees,
streams-everyth thing, rather than those or the
preacher, it should be his privilege. There is
this to be said in favor of the idea. Plenty of
good music in the parks on Sunday cannot help
but be beneficial. The parks should not be pre-
served simply as beauty spots something to be
looked at from a distance. There should be no
signs of keep of the grass" park full Of
bright-faced. romping children beats the product
Of the hot house all to pieces Let the parks be
wide open on Sunday. Give the children carte
blanche. Have ,uuMc and plenty Of it, and have
preaching, If you will.
The evening times., 1899-07-03
Export Horse. From Turkey.

Minister Straus writes from Constanti-
nople to the State Department that, ac-
cording to a note verbaIe from the Min
istry of Foreign Affairs in Turkey, the
regulations prohibiting the expectation of
horses from that country have been remov-
ed and duty of 5 Turkish liras (s24)
will be charged upon each horse exported.
AS enquiries are made from time to time
regarding the export of Arab horses from
Turkey. adds Mr. Straus, this information
may be Of interest.
The evening times., 1899-07-03
LeopoId,s UnhapDx Plight.

1t begins TO look serious for the fiIprant
old King of the Belgians. Unless the most
adroit methods of repression are wisely
and effectually employed the present wild
political agitation will turn things topsy
turvy in the little kingdom. The spirit of
revolution seems to be rifer now than at
any time since Belgium was separated from
the Netherlands. The Socialist party ap-
pears to be representing all of the ele-
ments Of discomfort in its stern, cIamorous
demand for universal suffrage, and refuses
to accept the halfway measure reluctantly
offered by the government. If the demand
is not acceded TO il is not impossible that
determined and bloody revolt will break
out. And if the demands are conceded it is
possible that the final result will be the
overthrow of the monarchy and the substi-
tuition for it of some form of elective gov
ernment, probably a military republic
save the mark!-patterned after that of
France. 1t is not probable that the Bel
gians could Immediately sweep from mon
archy to the free. democratic government
enjoyed by the Swiss, after whom, for
many years, their political agitators have
been striving TO shape their thoughts.
But whatever be the result of the fierce
strife now raging in Belgium no alarm
need be felt of its direct effect on the rest
of Europe. The Belgian monarchy does
not WELD sufficiently potent influence in
Continental politics to embroil the whole
or any considerable part of the Old World
in trouble over the misfortunes Of Leopold
This was conclusively demonstrated by the
failure of that monarchs efforts to enlist
active sympathy for Spain in the late war,
when he iourneyed from Brussels to Mad
rid to personally assure the unhappy Queen
Regent of mis- interest in her welfare
The evening times., 1899-07-03
Some Omissions

From the chicago Iimes-HeraId.)
There is man in Chicago who is suing a lady
who used to be his sweetheart for $1O2, which
he claims he spent in buying presents for her.
Among the articles which he says he laid at her
feet are ''hydrox water, sealing wax, hose con-
densed milk, groceries, gas stove, egg cocoa,
bath brush, medicines, and hair nets" He claims
also to have paid her laundry bills, but there is
evidence to show that he built the fire in
the mornings, moved the lawn, or carried out
the ashes.
The evening times., 1899-07-03
Companions in9Distress.
(From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

VIUtII tIt VfcVtIdiIu FiaIn DeaIer.D
The Car can sympathize with that ancient
Indian who is credited with giving its name to
the city of Cheboygan He had just returned
from long hunting trip through the northern
wilds of the Michigan peninsula, when the native
nurse hurried forward and dashed his hopes by
telling him he the father of third little
daughter. The noble red man Strengthened up
and with look of deepest disgust on his coppery
face gutterally exclaimed: ..She-boy- gain!''
The evening times., 1899-07-03

We trust that poor General Lawton has
not fallen victim TO the wiles of Tn
carrion DENLY and Schoolmaster Worces-
ter. They were reported the other day
doddering around linus. Today it is an
ncunced that Lawton has made peace
overtures to the rebel leader Trias. This
is a sinister announcement. Our business
is to whip rebels, not to encourage them
in their wickedness by begging them TO
come in and be good. One would think
the DENLY spring campaign against OF $
ought to have settled that matter once for
all. If Mr.. Mckinley does not get his
civilian meddiers out of Luzon without
further delay he will live to b-tter.y re-
gret his mistake.
The evening times., 1899-07-03
The ReaI Trutb

From the Detroit Free Press.)
''Do you believe the theory that brain fag
comes from eating too much?
mo; it comes from hustling too hard to get
enough to eat"
The evening times., 1899-07-03
Responsible for 1t.

(From the indianapolis Journal.)
81 don't care what you say about his business
methods he has done 4 lot for the poorer
classes
'.You bet he has; il it weren't for him the
poorer class would be whole lot smaller
The evening times., 1899-07-03
CURRENT HUM0R.
Real Dramatic Eject.

(From the Philadelphia North American.)
Funston" said Caesar, has shown me where
made my great mistake
.'Where was it?'' asked Alexander.
Il should have swan the Rubcon," replied
the shade of Julius.
The evening times., 1899-07-03

Great Britain is leading in peace prop
ositions at The Hague Conference, and at
the same time is forw ardiag heaps of war
material to South Africa \ wonderfully
versatile people are these, our British cou-
The evening times., 1899-07-03
A Hopeless Case.

(From the New York Journal.)
The Tramp-Say, mister, call of yer dorg.
He's chawin' me all up
The Proiessor-I sorry for you, my poor
man, but I can do nothing for you. / have
forgotten the dogs name.
The evening times., 1899-07-03

The Marquis Ito need not feel alarmed.
Japan is in no danger from the PARTITION
of China, which is now actually in prog
ress instead of being under contcmpla
.tion. as the Marquis seems to think. 1t is
true that in the pres 1t condition of ORR
ental politics Russi., holds the whip hand
over the Marquis beloved country, but
your Uncle Samuel is getting pretty well
fixed in that part of the world, and he will
see that Japan is not imposed upon.
The evening times., 1899-07-03
Lancunge FniIed.
Trom the Indianapolis Joul

Trom the indianapolis Journal.)
'.The greatest evil, perhaps" said the lean pass
engrr, ..of profanity-
rs its inadeGuacy." interrupted the Fat pass
enSer, who had discovered his pass was at home
i'm his other vest.
The evening times., 1899-07-03

Possibly Candidate Goebel's anti-corpora-
ton campaign in Kentucky will save to
him some of the votes which would other
wise have been lost by his fool anti-ex-
mansion platform
The evening times., 1899-07-03
Hi. wits Went Alter 1t.

(From the Chicago Post)
81 shall never speak to him again.'' she said.
''why notY'
..weil, we were alone in the parior last night
when the gas suddenly went out"
'.And what did he doY'
s.Nothinc"
The evening times., 1899-07-03
a Grexxsome surre.tjou-
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.1

lrfoh tHe tlefeiahu RAIN DedIerJ
''Biuffer is getting rich, they tell me-
''Yes; he's running big toilet article factory
The evening times., 1899-07-03

OF course Pingree denies everything. He
has done this before. That Is the only de-
fence of persons of his calibre who get
caught in the green goods trick he and
Aleer are trying to work.
The evening times., 1899-07-03
atmospheric Reflections.
From the Indianapolis Journal)

(From the Indianapolis Journal-)
Summers in general" said Mrs. Jason, ''is
dryer than they used TO be- And ! shouldn't
wonder eff it come from much of the wotter
being used up in these here artificial ice ma
chimes"
The evening times., 1899-07-03

We congratulate Charles P. Eagan
upon the conversion into cash OF his large
sugar estates in Hawaii. With this added
to his income from San Francisco real es-
tate and the full pay of his former rank in
the army which he is permitted to draw
while under suspension by this beneicent
Government, he ought not to suffer from
the pangs of hunger. which his defenders
set up as an excuse for the anomalous
course his remarkable case has taken
The evening times., 1899-07-03
Making Him Match.
(From Harlem Life.l

tFrom Harlem Life.)
EtheI-How harmonious the color OF everything
in this church is.
Nargaret-Yes, excepting the sexton. Why
doesn't he stained glasses?
The evening times., 1899-07-03

Mr.. Joseph ]. Willett. President OF the
State Bar Association of Alabama. is re-
ported as asserting that probably three
out of four Southern Democrats are op-
posed to keeping the Philippines. OF
course, this is but an individual opinion.
and it's accuracy is subject to much doubt;
the more so since it alleges uncomfortable
Democratic baeksliding from the faith.
doctrine, precedents, and practices of the
party from Thomas Jefferson to the pres
ent time. But, if we could accept Mr.. VIII
let's view of Southern political sentiment
as true, the conclusion would go a long
way to eliminate the factor of doubt from
the next Presidential campaign. Whatever
may be the feeling of voters in Alabama
and neighboring States on the subject of
expansion, there is not the slightest loom
for doubt that the American people gen.
orally, and by vast majority, without re-
gard to party affiliations, are heart and
soul for it. If it is to be made a political
issue it will overshadow and practically
extinguish every other, and the party op-
posing it will come out of the fight rather
worse of than the Palmer -Buckner side
show did in 1896.
The evening times., 1899-07-03

We can expand the blessed Monroe Doc
trine as broadly as we are, expanding other
fixed principles of our Government.
The evening times., 1899-07-03

than can be found in this country, If one
is looking for them; but they are. different
from those of European and As.atic coun--
tries. They are not in our raw, new, ad-
vertisement- covered railway towns, nor in
our factory villages, which have none of
the picturesqueness of Swiss or French
town. They are to be found in regions re-
mote from the cities. or permeated with
the history of the wilderness and its cen
querors. So sometimes they are too sub
tie for ordinary eyes to- observe, and the
casual traveller feels the charm and tries
in vain to reason out its cause Some
times they are evanescent only 10 be
found at certain seasons Of the year.
There is nothing much more prosac, for
example, than the ordinary fiat stretch Of
ground which, in some of the Eastern
States, is given over to low blueberries;
it is dotted with unsightly stumps of burnt
trees-for the ground is burned over now
and then to improve the fruit; the bushes
are dusty gray-green, and there are few
flowers. But come upon that field on an
August day, near sunset, when the bushes
are all dull purple-blue with ripe fruit, and
the orange lilies-legacy from Irish immi-
grants-dot the field like scattered live
Goals; look at the scene in the light of a
sunset made fiery by an August mist, and
you will find no more gorgeous or tropi-
cal color anywhere 1t is the moment in
the year when the field puts on its court
robes and greets the artist. Again, the
charm of the marshy Maryland Eastern
Shore is hard to define; the lap OF the
indolent waves, the grooming of the rin 4.
the indefinable melancholy, haunting fasci-
nation of the place cannot be described
except by a skilled word painter. But it
is there. Some day we shall develop ar
lists, poets and romance writers who will
put all this into words, but there are on.y
seventy-three millions of people in this
country, and less than hundred years OF
literature, and there is so much to describe
that the weather has been left out.