The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-11-05

globe glassware OF every Description
clear as crystal or most perfectly col
ored. and annealed by a wonderful
process, which renders it so tough
that an ordinary blow has no ehect
upon it.
1t is the Allglass Company which
has revolutionized the art and Which
came into existence through strange
chance.
For years glassware had been John
Temples hobby His house was
filed with the choicest gleanings OF
many lands His uncle, whose name
he bore, had left him enough OF a LOT
tune to devote his time to such things,
and he followed his bent with zeaE
sufficiently below mania to be termed
genuine enthusiasm. During MS
days of collecting, two points were
brought forcibly to his attention. lie
could procure glasses of the most
beautiful tints, but at a price when
made them beyond the reach of people
in ordinary circumstances. Again,
when he had procured a treasure, 1t
must be kept in case or handled
with care lest some chance slip might
prove its destruction.
To overcome these two thinGs-to
make a glass of perfect coloring and
at the same time one which would be
tough enough to be serviceable-Tem-
pie bent all his energies. That it could
be done he was positive, but ten good
years of his life, spent for the most
part in an ill-smelling laboratory. net
ted but scant results. He had, how
ever, made some advancement, and his
determination to accomplish his end
was no whit lessened.
One afternoon in March, after weeks
Of disheartening work, he had discov-
cred process by which perfect amber
tints could be obtained at nominal
sum. 1t was three o'clock when he
| finished work and locked the labora
tory. 1t was Temples custom after
hours of concentration to walk down
town, pausing now and then to peer
into shop windows, that the trifing
interest he found there might relieve
the strain of the preceding hours,
1t was windy afternoon and heavy
clouds hung the sky. He walked
briskly, for the air was chilly, and it
was not until he was well down town
| that he paused before the windows of
! a secondhand bookshop. Within was
a miscellaneous collection of books in
| more or less battered condition-voE
umes of encyclopedias, Dickens,
| Thackeray AID textbooks-and, strewn
gestive titles, and more suggestive
sub-titles. In the center of the win
dow was a huge family Bible, opened,
he text of Matthew on the right-hand
page, and on the left blank page of
the Family Record
AS he stood there. the sun broke
through the clouds A moment later
ne was staring through the window
with wondering eyes. On the page OF
The Family Record" indistinct at the
beginning, but growing clearer as he
! cead down the page, were these words
written in cramped, but painstaking
hand:
q
'oughness which will resist any ordinary
! shock. 1t is. moreover, if practiced on a
large scale, cheaper than any known
method. and for
The remaining words were quite illegi
BILE The rest of the page was seem
ingly blank. He read and re-reat
the words and then rushed into the
shop.
Let me see the Bible in the win
dow" he said to the clerk. with a.
much nonchalance as he could mus
ter.
When the book was handed to him
Temple turned at once to the las
page Of the Family Record" 1t wa,
perfectly blank. He scanned the pre-
ceding pages and searched through
those headed Marriages" an,
Births" He found merely a few con
ventional entries in faded ink. over
work. he thought to himself as h
went up the street, yet when he re
membered every detail of the writini
the explanation was far from satisfac
tory.
Two days later he stood again be
fore the window. 1t was, perhaps. a
hour later in the day than his pre
Vious visit. The sun shone from
cloudless sky. There were the bat
tered books and the novels. and Their
was the Bible. 1t was with a ouee
thrill that he turned his eyes to tn
record page, He could scarcely b,
heye his sight. In the same crampe
hand he read these words:
-practiced on a large scale, cheaper tina
any known method, and for years
sought to put this knowledge in the pror
er hands. l distrust d. C, which make
it
The words began a little lower on tn
page than before. There was tn
same indistinctness at the beginnin
and end. Again Temple sought III
shop and asked to see the Bible an
again the page was blank. He wer
outside and waited until the Bible wa
replaced in the window. The writin
was the same, save that the word
impossible for me to- appeared 6
the end. He walked up the stres
and back again. When he stood ono
} more before the window the sun ha
set. The page was again blank.
Far into the night Temple sat befo,
his ire trying to solve the mvster
Had he called up. in his concentrate,
II some psychic force? 1t would ma,
. seemed plausible, had he been no