Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-09-07

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than sitting in the stern of the boat Is
exercise for the body. and to confuse
such reading with what Is called intel.
lectuaity Is one Of the most absurd
mistakes imaginable. Flowing
straight furrow is much more intellec-
tual employment and one quite beyond
the capacity of the habitual and onniv-
orous novel reader. The confusion does |
the greatest harm in childhood, when |
the time should be improved to produce |
intellectual as well as physical athletes.
a training is then needed which should
be felt as the training of the gymnnsi
INN or of outdoor sports is felt upon the
muscles. Stories should he admitted
as an occasional luxury. and only the
best at that. Indiscriminate browsing
around among books that are neither
literature nor science is infinitely worse
than an exclusive devotion to the play
ground. 1t is to he hoped, most earnest.
~. that the change of taste Is reaching
the juveniles.
%eSA
'"What time is IT." Few questions are
more common than this, and yet each
day the United States Government
goes 10 a great expense in giving 1t an
| official answer. To ascertain the in.
slant when 1t Is noon on the seventy
| fifth meridian. and to send that infor.
nation all over the country. Is great
| and costly task. The Astronomical
| Observatory In Washington computes
| the true time. which Is thence transmit
ted by electricity to every important
city and town. About five minutes be-
fore the Washington noon the telegraph
companies cut of all their regular bust
ness. except on lines where they have
more than one wire. They then connect
| all important points. from which there
may he numberless qualifications. with
an electric wire going into the great
clock In the observatory. SO that all over
the country its tickings may be heard.
For the ten seconds just before IL
o'clock there is silence. which Is broken
by the moon beat" Regular business
IL then resumed. In some cities the
wires connect with a time-ball which
drops with the noon beat. The time.
ball In Washington over the State. War
and Navy Department building is three
feet In diameter. and can be seen from
all parts of the city. Crowds frequently
gather about to see II fall, a distance of
twcnty-one feet. high In the air. The
man whom some of the spectators sup.
pose to he dropping the ball Is merely
there to hoist 1t again to its place. In
the building beneath are twenty-three
clocks which are each day automat teal
ly corrected by 1t. An electrical device
"scts" them, placing hour. minute ana
second hands exactly vertical at the
instant the ball drops. The hands that
are too fast are pushed back. and those
that are slow are thrust forward. Al.
though Washington Is on the seventy.
seventh meridian, the noon hour Is for
| convenience computed for the seventy.
nth. the time standard for the eastern
part of the United States. In the cen.
trail belt. which Is governed by the nine
ticth meridian. the signal from Wash
lngtOn means II o'clock. In the Rocky
| Mountain belt It Ii 10 o'clock, ana Oh
the Pacific coast II Is D.
Historian Maclay Indignantly denies
the charge that any part Of his immor
tai work was stolen from the Edin
: burgh Review. "'rhe Idea that have
committed any act OF plagiarism In IN!
, history" he cxclaims, "ls simply pre-
I postcrous." or course It II. Compare
. these two passages, as the New YOrl
!. Journal has done, and the nbsurdity 81
the notion hat one rnn have been stOlel
: from the other becomes manifest:
EDINBURGH REVIEW.
Taking Mr.. James at his word We tur
U to Vol. H., PIP. 35i-5. and there we Tin
d the French privateer Bordelais. ian g,
J. traordinary fine ship" Of twenty-fou
o guns. striking her colors to BIRTHS
O frgate Of forty.six guns, "without. as
|. appears, making any resistance'--ccl
|. tainly without provoking. any commel
n from Mr. James.
- MACLAY'S HISTORY.
n Taking James mt his word. we turn
Volume H., pages 35i, 355, and find hi
70 referring to the French privatecr Bord'
" lais as an extraordinarily fine ship {
y twenty-four guns striking her colors to
'r British 46-gun frigate, 'without, as 1t al
y pears, making any resistance" certain
I. without provoking any comment fro
10 James.
IF The differences are obvious. Til
" Edinburgh Review spoke of "Mr.
It James. Maclay leaves out the Mr.. III
% Edinburgh Review had no comma afta
10 word" Mr.. Maclay puts one In. TIL
ID Edinburgh Review referred to "No
II H." Mr.. Mnclay speaks of "Volun
10 H." The Edinburgh Review abbr'
rs Waited pages" to PIP" Mr. Macla
h. spells out the word In full. The Edil
or burgh Review put In the figures 30
Of B." Mr.. Maclay makes them 1854, Boo
H. The clause about the French prlvatet
no Bordclais has several new words In III
he Maclay version. Finally Mr.. Macla
K. ends as lie began by leaving out Il
n. Mr." from before the names of Jane
h. This critical comparison makes 1t ey
nj dens that Mr. Maclay owes nothing
tv anybody. The construction of his hi
nd tory Is as original as Its facts.
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