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therefore ceasing, the elasticity of the
blade makes il spring back to the adjust
ing screw, renewing the contact and the
current.
This action continues as long as the
timer keeps the circuit closed, and a.
secondary current is set up in the second
ary winding each time the make and break
occurs The adjusting screw gives control
Of the speed of the vibrations and their
extent. This affects the secondary current
The object of the system is to produce
81 ark that will secure rapid ignition of
the mixture. and the adjustment OF the
screw should be made accordingly II is
advisable also. however, TO secure the
spark with the least possible expenditure
OF current, and little on the parts as
possible.
1t is the passing of the current from the
generator through the primary winding
that establishes the condition that exists
In the make and break ignition system
The demagnetization Of the core will set
Up an induced current productive OF q
spark at points where the circuit is broken
that is, at the vibrator and timer contact
points THIS spark can be overcome to n
great extent In the timer by packing II
win Vaseline, non-conductor, which
breaks down the spark in nowing between
'he contacts of stationary and moving
parts as they separate
ne secondary circuit includes the sec
ondary winding of the coil and the shark
pug. This plug is the device In the COM
bnstion space at which the spark occurs.
1hls plug provides two points of metal.
separated by fixed interval. These points
are so connected into the circuit that the
current must leap between them to com
plete the circuit. Hence the required
strength of the secondary current
The secondary current, as we'll as tho
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primary, may use the metal of the engine
as grained return. One of the points
or the spark plug, therefore, is in contact
with the metal of the englnne, being sup
ported on a metal sleeve screwed into the
cylinder. The other point must be in
sulated. to prevent passage of the current
from one point to the other without
bridging the interval with this highly es-
sentlal, laboriously produced spark The
insulation is obtained by a tube of non
conducting material set in the sleeve the
lower end of a metal rod that passes
through II being the necessary distance
from the wire or projection on the sleeve
This device must have the strength re-
quired TO resist the pressure deveIoped In
the combustion space in the power and
compression strokes of the engine More
over 1t must be of such a character as
not TO be affected by the intense heat
The flow OF the current In the urinary
circuit is from the generator to the
switch. thence to the vibrator. which is
built into the coil. through the urinary
winding and the timer contacts, and nv
the metal of the engine and the ground
wire back to the generator. The second
airy circuit consists of a wire from, IN.
secondary winding of the coil to the
spark plug. and back to the winding OF the
metal OF the engine and the grounAswire
The ground may be common 10 both pri
mary and secondary windings
The contact OF the timers production is
made while the half-time shaft revolyes
The vibrator operates as long as the cir
cult is closed, getting up the secondary cur
rent and causing the passing of the spark.
Into the base of the coil, and included I'm
the primary circuit. is built a condenser
When circuit is broken the current ac-
cumulates At the break. It's momentum
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brought him rapid returns after he moved
into Chicago There he invested in grow
Ing concerns. At one time ne held large
block Of stock in the Chicago City Railway
Meantime his wife had established a col
lege in Turkey and had become Interested
in missions. The couple had no children
and began to discuss: What shall we do
with all this money!" Neither had near
relative. SO. together, they decided to In
vest the money in small Christian colleges
which were already established In local
tiles where they were convenient to the
children of the poor" On his SEVENTEEN
birthday the doctor gave up his business,
quit making money. and began systemau-
cally to give away his fortune.
I've given away more than 100000 he
told The Tribune correspondent. 'but
won't say whether it's s50oo.ooO or IS. 100000:
people might think the old man was blow
in" and he laughed heartily again. No
body ever accused d. x. Pearsons OF brag-
ginE; his work has been done without the
least show Of ostentation.
Mrs Pearsons died three years ago She
had been the doctors boon companion nifty
nine years. and her passing was severe
blow TO him. but he found renewed f,p-
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Growing Popularity of the
Game Brings New
Problems.
By p. c. PuIver.
VI.

CHAPTER VI.
AS the golf game rolls along and, like
the SNOWFALL, gathers size with each an
nual revolution il becomes more difficult
to handle. In fact, il is because of this
ever increasing popularity that we have
been confronted with problems that were
never dreamed of ten years ago. There
are upward of a million golfers in the
United States to-day, and that is saying
a good deal when it is remembered that
a quarter of century ago golf in Amer
lea was practically unknown, whereas in
Great Britain it has had certain follow
ing for more than two hundred years
1t is, however, not so difficult after all
to explain why golf has fiourished so on
this side of the Atlantic when we con-
slider the conditions of modern life Despite
its antiquity and the possibility of it's
having provided recreation for prehistoric
men golf is unquestionably the ideal all
round pastime Of to-day. In other words,
it is adaptable to modern life, which for
the most part is sedentary.
This inactivity of the life of the aver
age business or professional man makes
participation in the more violent games
out of the question, but the amount of
strength and exertion required for golf
can be regulated to a large degree accord
ing to the strength and inclination of the
player. Our vigorous youngster can have
his ifty-four holes and indulge, in as much
long driving and other exceptional effort
as he likes, while the sober merchant can
indulge in a friendly round with some dig
nified partner to the benefit of his health
and, incidentally, derive as much pleas
ure as the irrepressible youth previously
mentioned.
Variety of play and interesting holes are
appreciated by both young and old, and
TO afford an adequate test of good play
fair length is necessary, but actual length
counts for little compared with varied
and interesting golf A good course in its
normal condition should be negotiated by
the average player without WEAKNESS and
vexation of spirit There are those who
maintain that the assertions to the effect
that the long two-shot hole is the most
truly testing one, because any error en-
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THE TRIP WESTWARD.

The strapping young mountain white" Of
Vermont. as he calls himself, was able to
remain in Dartmouth only one year He
taught school and resolved to become a
physician. Before he completed the course
he had used up all his savings. a ply
sician, who was also professor in the col
lege. helped him TO remain until he got the
degree of N. D. He began practising at
Chicopee, Mass. In 1S47 he married Mari
eta Chaplin. In 1851 he and his wife went
by strap rail- to Elgin, H.. and then took
a wagon for GAINESVILLE, Wis On the way
a big plainsman asked for ride and got it.
They reached Beloit. Wis. where build
ing going up.
What they doing over there?" asked
the doctor. "Oh. some Yankee cranks from
the East are building a college," replied the
Westerner as he prepared to leave the
wagon.
Now, it happened that the head of the
college that was going up was President
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TEST HER LOVE BY MACHINE.
If Girl s Heart Beats for You Plethys-
mograph Will Tell You.

Young man. If you would know Just how
you stand in the regard of the girl you
love, find some way to get her interested
I'm a new scientific machine that is called by
the unlovely name of plethy ysmograph. Ac-
corting to Dr. Arthur Holiness instructor
in psychology at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, this machine indicates unerringly
what thoughts are hidden behind the mask
of maidenly reserve that the girl wears TO
hide from you her real feelings.
The machine consists merely OF a rub
ber bag and a series of rubber tubes con-
Meeting with a needle point on An indi-
Gator. The person whose emotions are be-
ing tested puts her arm into the rubber bag.
which is then drawn tight and filed with
water. Then the names OF various young
men of the girls acquaintance are intro
duced into the conversation and the indi-
Gator begins to do tricks If the name
of the young man mentioned stirs the heart
of the girl to fond feelings the indicator
mounts up. II the name prompts none but
Indifferent thoughts, the indicator travels
down.
The chief trouble. of course will be to get
the girl of your choice TO submit TO this re-
nlarkable test. The trouble will not be
made lighter by the printing of this descrip-
tion of the use TO which the machine can
be put. But the object in writing the above
is to describe unique machine. not to help
or hinder anxious lovers. Love. which pro-
verbally finds way can be relied upon 20
overcome the difficulties involved IN getting
the girl to insert her arm in the rubber bag.
The secret of the movement of the indicator
is that the machine registers the play of
the emotions through the almost imper-
ceptible acceleration or retardation of the
pulse when Influenced by the thoughts OF
the person who is undergoing the test.
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ATTRACTIVE MENUS.

NV breakfast-frag grant coffee, fresh,
sweet butter and those rich rolls called
croissants-meat breakfasts are almost
never eaten in France-was brought TO ma
in my room on a silver tray. Luncheon.
served at small tables. consisted OF hors
d'oeuvre. eggs or fish. an entree. chops,
cheese fruit For dinner there would per-
haps be soup, fish. sweetbreads. pheasant
with chicory salad. souffiee. dessert
In a word. for seven francs day. AT this
hotel. I obtained modest luxury in the
most delightful climate TO be found on the
Mediterranean coast I hasten TO add that
my landlord charged brief sojourners much
more than seven francs. Some paid dur
ing the season Il and even Is and Is francs
1t was. of course. on account OF my long
stay that 1 got the low rate I did
I passed winter in Nice with two friends
in a furnished apartment 1t was delight-
full. and in an apartment. unlike hotel.
ones expenses can run high or low. as ons
pleases. Ours usually came TO under 70
francs a week a person. though, when
hard up, we often reduced them 10 Is
francs. The average was S5 francs-a dol
lar day.
The apartment was on the eastern ex-
tension of the Promenade des Anglais II
had gas and water laid on. bath and a
gas cooking stove The largest three OF its
six rooms faced the south. and their win
dows stood open all day long TO sun and
sea. The fire of gnarled olive wood that
made our sitting room so cosey in the even
ing cost by actual average. only three
cents a night. The apartment itself. IN
every respect a charming one. cost thou
sand francs for the season. Our stay began
with November and lasted TO the end ot
April. so this rental worked out 10 about
40 francs a weeks francs. or g 50. for
each person.
We were more than comfortable. House
keeping in a small way is easy at Nice.
where. all the winter long. fresh peas. new
potatoes. tomatoes. beans. in the way OF
fruit, are TO be obtained at the low prices
that only prevail in New York in the sum-
mer time. And then there are the Char
cuteries'' for the sale OF ready cooked
dishes. such as chicken. ham. beef. veal,
pork. partridges. quail. etc The quality OK
the wares at the most modest of thess
shops is amazingly good. and the prices are
reasonable. save for English ham. 'jambOn
de York" which is one OF the national
delicacies of France
We had a good maid who went horls
every night 10 sleep. We paid her by the
the customary rate among the NicOis. And
our average weekly expenditure OF IS
francs a person itemized itself thus:
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Chaplin, OF Beloit College. fourteenth
cousin Of DR.. Pearsons's wife. The nonage-
marian actually lived through the expert
ence a second time as he recounted the in
cidents
II shook my fist in his face" said the doc
tor. his whole frame shaking with right
eous Indignation. Just like this. and said to
him: Old fellow, I've come out West and
I'm going to get rich, and when i do I'm
going to help lift up the colleges that these
Yankees are building"
Altogether DR.. Pearsons has given to that
Institution. Beloit College, s536o00.
How did you get your start. doctor?"
was asked.
by saving. sir. That's the way to make
money. Save It, / never spent $40 foolishly
In ali my life."
How did you make your first big
money!
Put my savings into Michigan timber
lands.''
From further conversation it appeared
that after visit DR.. and Mrs. Pearsons
left Janesville, Wis, and began farming in
Illinois. About that time the great forests
of Michigan were attracting lumbermen.
DR.. Pearsons had $1,000. and this was in
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vested in pine land A friend in the East
asked him to sell parcel of Illinois soil
commission. He sold it SO quickly that his
wife advised him to quit practising medicine
and farming and go into the real estate
business.
MY wife told me had talent for making
money. he said. land she wanted me to
make it,"
Why did she wish you to make money!"
TO give II away" answered the doctor,
laughing heartily.
His lumber lands and real estate business
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made him chucke. And those were the
best meals ] ever had he added, after
moment Whenever | could afford meat
it pork, and l cooked it in a sheet iron
stove by thrusting it over the Goals on a
poker
Il live now on the 9lainest of food, and
haven't tasted meat in four years. I sleep
mind you. sleep. not lie in bed-twelve
hours in every twenty-four, from to Z
O'Clock. L never take a nap in the after
noon.
People laughed at me because l sold all
my horses and carriages the other day.
Why. 1 got rid of them on purpose, so that
I'd have to walk TO keep my old legs under
me- I'm in training now, and I'm going to
walk five miles every day pretty soon, sum-
uer and winter"
New-York tribune., 1910-01-30
AT THE DOCK.

What are your impressions OF Amer
cag" asked the enterprisIng interviewer a.
the gangplank. 40
1T is So superb-splendid- kind y
bospitabIe." said the enthusiastic foreishe'
..t;ood, I'm glad asked YOU now ins'9s
ot waiting tin YOU we're through the hahus
of the customs Inspectors. =" aSn'D,
Star.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-30
ENDoWING COLLEGES FUN

Just the other day DR.. Pearsons gave out
the following statement for publication
Il am having more fun than any other
millionaire alive. Let other rich men go
in for automobiles and steam yachts I
have discovered, after endowing forty
seven colleges in twenty-four states. that
giving is the most exquisite of all mum
dane delights.
'On my ninetieth birthday, on April Il, I
am going to have a squaring up with all
small colleges have promised money
Il intend to die peDniless. If there are
any other miIlionaires who want to have
lot OF fun, let them follow my example
] am going 10 live ten years longer. and
during that time ] expect to do nothing but
give away money
I have given money TO twelve colleges
in the South. I don't think any of my
other gifts have given me the same salts
faction that these have
1t is fine TO sit here and think that the
South knows II is made a better South by
a blamed old abolitionst like me-
There is no sidewalk or fence in front
of the five acres whereon the Pearsons
house is situated. From Grant street a
walk OF rough stone blocks cuts diagonally
Inward at one corner OF the grounds and
runs up the slope TO the level of the base
Str2ignr
past the front door and porch. goes down
the opposite hillside and shoots diagonally
out 10 the highway again But for the side
walk and formally set trees and the houses
etanding on lots Of equal size across the
street-typcsl OF the city-Dr Pearsons's
place would look like manor in a superb
1y improved forest. as II was when he and
his wife moved into il twenty-three years
ago. Ito get away from the lake winds"
He is a vigorous man in his ninetieth
year, this dispenser of money. Come and
have a drink" he said suddenly, while
showing the correspondent OF The Tribune
through his grounds q couple OF days ago
Then he turned, his eyes twinkiing and
finished the invitation with "of the best
water you ever drank He led the way
around 70 the back OF a settee alongside
the stone walk. pumped few strokes and
profered q glass Of clear, cold water
It's the best you ever drank he re-
peated; thirty foot deep and stoned up:
had it dug twenty-three years ago, and
II has never gone dry"
DR.. Pearsons is little more than six
feet tall His limbs straight, but there
Is the slightest discernible stoop to his
head and shoulders. He has not the slight
est trace of a bald spot Instead, his hair
is thick and well combed back from a
high forehead. His sideburns are OF
little lighter gray than his hair, though
neither looks like the growth of white
expected on q nonagenarian. OF rather
dark complexion, he has unusually strong
lineaments. He has a Roman nose, large,
lustrous eyes, smooth-shaven chin lips
that shut with a snap when he tells YOU
that he's as close fisted as anybody can
be" There are few wrinkles in his face,
and none that is deep.
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A GIVER BY TRADE
MILLIONS BESTOWED
By DIR. PE4RSONS.
Began Tscenty Years n go, and
Is Noao Ninety-Intends
to Die PennileSs.

II you were ninety years old. would
you sell all your horses and carriages that
you might force yourself to go into train
ing and walk FIVE miles day so as to
keep your old legs under you ten or fif-
teen years longer?
II YOU had s5.0ea0o0 or s6.o0ooo0 would you
invest 1t in such q way that you could
never get either interest or principal. all
that on yo1r ninetieth birthday you might
be free, although comparatively nearly pen
niless. 20 live in peace and quietness the
rest OF your days7
If you had actually given away s5eoo.ooO
or 100000, and your ninetieth birthday
1880 young men and young women We're
nlomentarily sharing in your beneyolences.
while uncounted thousands around the
world were sounding your praises because
Of what you had done for them. would you
coolly and deliberately say: ut was not
philanthropy not hit OF It: IT was husi-
ness / am merely my own executor?
Then if you began TO dissipate. TO go
Joy riding" and II attend parties in your
eighty-ninth year, and thereby contracted
your first Illness, could you keep a New
Year resolution henceforth 10 taboo all
Fayety and frivolity2
DO you believe those and similar striking
things are possible? If not. The Tribune
refers you 10 a stalwart man of almost
ninety years, whose hair and beard are
only slightly gray. whose voice is as firm
as al thirty, whose fingers do not quiver,
whose eyes are bright and penetrating,
whose mind is as keen as ever, who lives
alone in 2 great house that towers above
flower beds and evergreens and other trees
on the brow OF a hill in the pretty little
town of Hinsdale, Ill. seventeen miles west
of Chicago.
You have known him well for twenty
years or more, but probably have never
seen him. They call him the Sage of
Hinsdale" To use his own expression. he
was once '-as poor as Jobs turkey" In
The last twenty years lie has done moth
ing except give away money, travelling
across the United States from lands end
10 lands end and from the Gulf to Cam
ada In search Of places in which to plant
Fl where it would grow forever for some
body else's benefit. Forty-seven colleges in
twenty-four states are already reaping the
fruits The number is TO be increased; the
fortunate ones are chosen. April A. 1910
a Western college having twelve hundred
students will receive a large gift
Then DR. Daniel K. Pearsons whose mu-
nifcence is spread around the earth from
his beloved native mountains of Vermont
10 Turkey. by way of the Pacific and China,
will retire TO his Hinsdale homestead,
where he will remain till he joins the de-
parted helpmeet who first inspired him TO
make money and later TO give il all away
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Here are the main gifts he has made
since he was seventy:
Beloit College. Beloit, Wis s5S6.Ooo: Chi
cago Theological Seminary, Chicago, $780,
600; Whitman College, Walla Walla. Wash,
$500. .o00 Colorado College, Colorado
Springs, 100000: Berea College. Kentucky
s150.ooO; Mount Holyoke College. Massa-
chusetts. s150,000; Lake Forest College,
Lake Forest, ILL.,, s125.0OO; Knox College.
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life." he continued II have selected the
wilderness in which to plant my money
because it is in the wilderness that educa-
ton is most needed and yields the richest
.returns on small investment
II am the closest fisted man you ever
saw. l said long ago that ] would not be
advised by any man on earth, and by only
one woman. That woman was my wife.
have always intended to die a poor man.
l want TO dispose of my remaining holdings
while my brain is still vigorous and un-
clouded
Chicago has been very kind to me. Be
fore my ninetieth birthday / shall round
out s1,ooo,ooo in gifts to Chicago. I've given
ii around 100000. and have selected the
places TO put the rest
DR.. Pearsons gave the Chicago Theologi-
cal Seminary $4,000 on July 10 last and
the next day he gave $4,000 to the Chicago
City Missionary Society. A few days ago
he gave the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation OF Chicago 10000 to help il ralsv
sl.eoocoo
Talk about heggars" he went on.
why. / wish YOU could see some of the
mendicantS who follow me out here to my
home. But. by Godfrey! ] generally man
age to make them heartily ashamed of
themselves. One was here four times in a
few weeks from Central Ohio. Think of
it. the grand. rich State OF Ohio. He was
begging aid for a we'll known college there.
i said to him, Go among the wealthy of
your own locality and he went
Heaven save me from suave beggars. |
went TO Colorado once and thought | could
escape them. Not bit of it,
THE FLIES GATHERED.
AS soon as my name was on the hotel
register the flies f1ocked round me- See
him? That's the chap. go for him. they
said, and so they did. Every old woman
with missionary or sewing circle craze
tackled me till life became burden
81 want to be let alone, ! want peace:
that's why I'm closing up everything this
year. | shall make my last gift on April
II next TO a college that has twelve hun
dred students. I'll be there TO do it, and
then I'm coming back home to rest and
have a good time. I'll have $4,000 year
and this house and five acres. and can
live on that"
The old man heaved A sigh and began
musing with gentle, pleasant expression.
as if he had already passed his ninetieth
birthday and was enjoying the rest and
peace he longed fo-
How did YOU earn your first dollar?" was
a question that awoke the nonagenarian
from his reverie
Shovelling snow in the mountains of
Vermont he replied, rising and illustrat-
ing how he swung a shovel
1t developed, as has often been told that
DR.. Pearsons was born on April H. 1920 at
Bradford, Vt. of extremely poor parents
of Scotch-Irish extraction.
They call me a Yankee he said. 4
take off my hat and bow. They call me
an old Puritan; l take off my hat and bow
twice"
He entered Dartmouth as a freshman in
1872
Il rented a room in an attic and chopped
wood TO pay the rent" he continued. Il
cooked my own potatoes and johnny cake
He glanced around the big room in which
he sat, with its rugs and comfortable fur
nishings. and the recollection of the past
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foothaii souns man is one of the greatest
'o"".nrna,i ".nn players in the country
person ogheVe II, said the contradictory
orutches Washington Star. A'ns Oh
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GIFTS IN DETAIL.

piness in the joy of bestowing his bounty
as he knew she would have II done.