Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-13
ATLAS CLUB.

I, is probable that the time of meeting
viii be changed next year back to Fri
days. The dues will also be Increased
instead of having assessments as they
did this year.
The club has decided to take up Ger
.aan history and literature next year.
The membership committee for next year
was appointed by President Gilbert:
Mrs. j. NJ. Hinkle, Mrs. Blanche Holmes
and Mrs. w. w. Wishon. The members
were delighted to learn that Mrs. Blu
chanan would soon be with them again.
In the current topics discussion Mrs.
Green Majors spoke of the recent dis
.:overy by scientists that the wonderful
mirage seen on Muir glacier was really
reflection of st. Petersburg and its
n.yriads of mianerets Mrs Slater told
OF the way she had read green tea was
| C lOred. 1t has always been stated that
| it was cOlored by firing on copper pate
| o.: by the use of copperas. That at least
was the old method. This new way Mrs.
Slater said was by means of a powder.
| -Four parts Prussian blue, reduced to
tine powder, mixed and triturated with
| three parts pure gypsum, which has been
burned in the charcoal fire until soft.
This gives a light blue powder Five
minutes after the tea leaves begin to
| crackle and again five minutes before
r moving them from the final roasting.
G quantity of this powder is sprinkled
upon them, the workman mixing it in
with his hands. His hands are dyed
J blue but the tea comes out green. One
FOUND is used to 200 pounds of tea.
| Gypsum is harmless and eaten much by
hinese and the other ingredient remains
! in an almost infintesimal amount in
the tea.
Mrs Kicker spoke of the work of light
ring in the field of art. She told of many
weird pictures drawn by the electric
| fluid. One as far back at 800 A. d. when
during a thunder storm crosses were i'm
p'inted upon the bodies of WOrkmen in
| the temple at Jerusalem. A few years
| ago some sheep We're killed by lightning
in England. When skinned a portion of
! the surrounding scenery was found
printed on their skins. One unlucky man
had a horse shoe photographed by the
Lis btnng which killed him upon his
neck, one being fastened above door
| back Of him. Many queer incidents were
| related.
Mrs. Passmore told of Mark Twai,.'s
daughter, Miss Clements. and hol beau
! titul voice, and how she finally Won her
family over to her way of thinking re-
{
Discussions on Mark Twain ensued
Mrs Majors told of how he derived his
home de plume and said she had often
ht en- on the river when the pilot called
out. quarter twain, half twain. mark
| twain mark twain being ten feet. Mrs.
| Rocker said she had lived next door TO
An cd lady who hsd known Twain we'll
am. who said she had often spanked him
when he was little. So anyone in the
club shaking her hand. could shake the
hand that had shaken the hand which
SPANKED Twain. Another case of Let
me shake the hand which grasped Sul.i-
vans" Mrs. Passmore spoke Of the no
he way in which Twain had paid all his
debts when he need not have.
Mrs. Knight was not there to read her
paper on Humorous Poets" Mrs. Wi
shon read a bright little paper on
prominent Prose Writers of the Day
as follows:
PROMINENT PROSE WRITER'S OF
THE DAY.
Judging from the number of copies OF
the works of authors sold there are
many prominent writer's today. notably
among them being Winston Churchill,
who was graduated from the Naval
Academy at Annapolis in 1884. Mr..
ChurchilFs first book before the public
was THE Celebrity" and was read by
u,uny. but his Richard Carvel has been
rar re popular.
1t is a fascinating novel and covers
til. period between 100 and 1850 and
Fart of the events take place in this
country in Maryland, and part in Lon
don. Some notable men of the anti
revolutionary period are characters in
This book.
Mr.. Edward Noyes Wescott the author
Of David Harum is an equally prominent
w"iter though his pen was lai1 aside
forever when the story of David Harun
Nas finished and death claimed him be-
fore he knew of the success of his work
The hero, David Harum. is a humorous
character peculiar to Central New York
Six we'll known firms had rejected the
book before Appleton & Co. accepted II
i'll 1897. The author was then lying or
) his death-bed. and the work was moi
D lblished until six months after his
death.
The experience of Charles Majors Will
| publishers is quite different. The manu-
. script of his book When Knishthoof
Was in Flower" was first sent to lead
ing New York publishing house, the!
accepted it on condition that he cut on
f a scene in the story which he refused tt
: do. and he submitted it to another com
pany who Immediately published it. It,
+ success in point of number of volumes
2 sold is equal to that of David Harun
3 and Richard Carvel. Mr.. F. P. Dunn
l who wrote Mr.. Dooley in Peace am
: War met with instant success as tn
i. American people are always appreciativ
: o. humor. A similar book to Mr.. Doole.
!. in Peace and War" is "Chimmie Fadden
2 | nv Edward w. Townsend.
r Paul L. Ford, author of THE Honour
able Peter Sterling and Janice Mere
t dith," story of the revolution. is de
: scrvedly popular author. Thomas Mel
e son PAGE who wrote Red Rock a stor
n o. the civil war, was before known onl
= as short story writer.
e William Dean Howells has been