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las BE.ENENDOMED WiTI
VALUABLE. COTTRELI.
INVENTION :

Joseph J.. Harley an employe OF the
turcal Of engravirg and printing, IL the
pate ntee OF a ,so-called press register.
This device when attached TO press
records every impression, that lis mace
from il. = In. the bureau ~ ,engraviur
and printing there are. 80 presses thet
are used in printing the money and the
postage and internal revenue atampe 81
the government This registering OF the
number Of Impressions that are made
from a given press serves as n chrck
and preciudes any possibility or ppintinc
money or stamps that arc not accosntei
ment for many years ard Mr.. Harley has
never received any compensation for IL.
{. II. McBlair. an einp.oye OF the su-
pervising architects Office, is the pafentee
or a Photographic process which H. used
in duplicating designs made in that Office.
The supervising architect and Mr.. Nc
Blair have both signed STA .en.ent To
the effect that from 5000 10 ss.mJ i
year IL saved the government through
the use of this invention Yet no royal
ties are paid to the inventor.
Such are some of the examples OF nicu
Iho have been giving their patents In
the government Such are the classes of
men who will in the future prcbaoiy
turn them to the Smithsonian Institution,
for that institution Is semi-government3l
and sem-scientific. Tron side IL u
aided by the government and i'm Turn aid
the government. while OH tho other sioe
ii Is partly supported by endowment and
may perform such service as the govern
ment may not. So the Smithsonian may
handle the patents OF scientists for the
good of the government and for the good
of science. In this respect il believes
that il has found new usefulness and
expects to accomplish great results.
Copyright. 1912. by W. A. On Puy.l
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very many subjects, but the visitor does
not think Mr. Hardy revealed himself
more thoroughly than he did in his an
Swer to the question. 1t was a happy
question because it was one that thou
sands of his readers would wish to ask
him. 1t seemed that in his answer the
mans apparent cynicism was swept
away-"of course it was pa 'nful to have
to do it." 1t suggested the answer to
the riddle Of Mr.. Hardy's scared and
careworn face.
x <
Here was one Of the most successful of
all men, and at ripe old age still hale
and even vigorous. In all his works there
is not note of morbidness-only that
singing reminder of fate's cruelty. and it
was painful to have to do it. 1t is this
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it seem thing more beautiful than he
has.
He is man with whom humanity comes
first, and humanity's true setttng-tne
wide fields of nature-comes next HIS
love of the country is his love of men
and women To him the most enthralling
picture of human life is man Under the
broad heavens-childhood. courtship. old
age and the final passing. 1t Is always
the clean earth that he writes OF. ana
his amphitheater always the wfnd-swept
places where nature Is mother.
The writer has met Mr.. Hardy many
times since that first interview. but II -
only very slowly that his character APP.
pears to become revealed. Perhaps one
might sum up IDS outlook on life In Just
three words-"the pity of it,
Copyright. 1872. by Curtis Brown
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mans room. On a polished table under
the window was spread a copy OF an Illus
trated weekly magazine, and the sun
touched and emblazoned a bowl of wild
poppies Then he heard footsteps coming
across the hall outside and waited ex-
pectantly.
He had somehow expected to see a tall
and even a burly figure enter the room
scent, but now there entered a little, tim
Unlocking man, very pale. and with an
embarrassing look that might have been
irritation on his scared face.
nervously offering his hand. Wont you
sit down?
The visitor> sat down and then Mr.. Har-
dy seemed to wait. In an agony of nerv-
BUSINESS the visitor began to wish that he
had not come But the picture he pre-
scented was, for the moment, at least, all
satisfying, there was more than nervous
ness in the strangely harassed looking
face with the most sensitive features that
he had ever seen. The deep-set eyes were
troubled, but there was no mistaktng their
fearless courage. The visitor knew that
he was looking at a man whose soul was
more rayaged than ever his carewOrn
features were with the riddle Of life and
the tragedy Of 1t, and yet soul utterly
self-rel ant, for all the shyness Of the out
ward man. And whatever there seemed
itor believed then that Hardy was only
wondering IL he had come on a complete
fools errand, to stammer out a few Ill
chosen compliments and go his own USE
less way It put him on his mettle, he at
tempted no compliments, and asked Hardy
instead why he was so pesSimisdc q writ
err why he wrote at once the most beautl-
full and most dreadful stories, and why he
-t.<~ q orr FOR
had done picture Of requited love. or Of
requited love that was not victimized at
once by some pitiless act Of fate.
Mr. Hardy had not sat down himself
but had stood by the fireplace with his
white hands holding the lapels OF his
o,d-fashioned and even iH-fitting tweed
coat.
The two were on better terms in q mo-
cur.ously hating. but not as IL he was In
any doubt of his sentiments. 1t seemed
mixture of irony and dimdence.
"You are a young man." he said. THE
cruelty of fate becomes apparent to peo-
ple as they grow older. At first one may
perhaps escape contact with 1t, but IL one
lives long enough one realizes that nap
piness is very ephemeral"
But is not optimism useful and sane
philosophy" was asked him.
There's too much sham optimism.
Mr.. Hardy retorted. Sham optimism Is
really a more heartless doctrine to preach
than even an exaggerated pessimism-the
latter leaves one at least on the safe side.
There is too much sentiment IN most ne
ton. 1t is necessary for somebody to
write . little Observation-Disclosures. OF
course it's painful to have to do it,
The two talked for a long while on
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TN the Sleepy Old Town Of
! Dorchester-It Is Neces-
sary, Hardy Says, for Some
One to Deal With the Merci-
lessness of Fate and With
Sham Optimism, Although
He Admits It Is Painful to
Have to Do It-Pen Picture
of the Great English Novelist.
Special Correspondence OF The Star.
LONDON, January Is. 1872
At this moment Thomas Hardy is prob
ably the most famous and the least per-
sonally known man in English letters. He
Is at once one OF the wealthiest and per.
haps the most humble living of all well
known writer's.
Max Gate, his home, stands, very like
any other respectable suburban villa, just
outside Dorchester, where the town has
been left behind and wooded hills and
naked coombs begin to stretch away into
The distance. 1t is little red brick
aouse covered over with ivies and creep
.rs and only two stories high. IL one does
,ot count the square towers which rise on
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cause Mr.. Hardy chooses to live simply
with a household staff Of only two serv-
ants his home is not the home that one
would expect of q man of letters.
The house is comparatively modern-Mr,
Hardy built it not very many years ago
and though it has no resemblance what
ever to the farmstead homes that It's own
err has loved to write about and nothing
Of the proportions of a mansion, yet II
presents the maximum degree OF refine-
ment with the minimum degree OF size. A
little white hall is just within the door,
and one turns from that to larger hall
Then right and left, are two almost spa
cious rooms-the dining room and the
drawing room. Upstairs Mr.. Hardy has
his study, and into that sanctum few of
even his most personal friends have ever
entered.
And yet Mr.. Hardy is not exactly the
recluse that some might imagine. He is
rather the man who is so modest, so
utterly retiring and lives buried, as 1t
were, In SO remote a spot that few peo-
pie ever attempt to beard him in his den.
1t is well known, however, that many
young American lady has marched bold
ly through the white gates of Max Gate,
pulled the bell chain at the front door,
asked to see Mr.. Hardy and has been
rewarded with a brief but altogether de-
lightful interview. Many other people
have handed Il Hardy book to the
servant at the door and asked II the
author would be so kind as to sign 1T.
they have never been refused. The
story that Mr. Hardy is a recluse and
even a sour one is thus easily disposed
Of But the fact remains that ne cannon
be termed sociable- Even his oldest
friends need some excuse when they
cali upon him, and quit his presence as
soon as the excuse has panned out. He
has not, in fact, many personal friends
although his unknown ones must be num-
bered in tens Of thousands.
y
Here was the writer's own experience
when he first ventured to wait in person
upon the great man: At that time the
writer knew nothing of Mr.. Hardy him
of him. The writer knew that then
Hardy was just past seventy. ana that.
no matter what sort OF an inofViouai
he might prove in the flesh, nothing could
despoil uttermost admiration for him.
His books had brought the smell OF the
country into nostri,s within dank city
walls; with Tess and Jude and Bethsheba
and Joseph Poorgrass the writer had
walked the wide Wessex downs which he
had never seen. Thomas Hardy had been
endless country vacations.
A bold letter said that the writer was
cycling through Dorsetshire and would
give much for the honor personally OF
meeting one who had been a constant
friend, although a stranger. A small let
ter card came back: Il will be at nome
il you care to call at o'clock on the
afternoon of Friday The visitor took
train from London to Salisbury with his
bicycle, and Friday morning found him
pedaling through the hilly. narrow, leafy
lanes which divide the good old town OF
Salisbury from the better old town OF
Dorchester. And what sight Is the
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monument but the noyelist's. 1t will be
useless to argue to the contrary
..
1t was close on the hour for the ap-
pointment, and here in the town the visi-
tor found that certainly everybody SEEM
ed to know Max Gate and its occupant,
SO it was easy to find the way to the
white gates. When one has passed the
shrubbery in the drive and stands under
the front door, there is glimpse to be
caught Of q lawn where the grass grows
unshorn. amid the trees and one notices.
too. how carefully the latter have been
planted to shield the house from any
outside view.
The door was opened by a young serv-
ant girl who seemed the very embodiment
of Mr. Hartiy's peasant heroines; q short
well formed young woman with the fresh
est of color and the pleasantest of smiles
who said that Mr.. Hardy was expecting
the writer and took him into q bright
room where he had time enough to look
about him. He saw that the furniture
was all the handsomest of old English
and that the few pictures on the walls
were by the younger. modern artists. such
as exhibit at the famous New England
Art Club 1t did not at all seem an old
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filters remove it from water. DIR. Dorset
having isolated the bacteria, invented 8
serum with which to combat it. The
serum and the processes of manufacture
ing it were protected by patents. The
inventor derived no profit from these
patents. as they were freely turned over
to the public. and whoever chooses is al
liberty to manufacture the serum.
Yet hog cholera was causing the loss
of $15.OO0.OOO year in the United States.
When the disease broke out in any 10
cality 1t went on and on with no power
to oppose it. But the serum which DIR.
Dorset invented is an absolute antitoxin.
He has repeatedly proven its effects. He
has time after time taken a given number
of pigs, innOculated half the number and
put them all in a pen with infected
pigs. All those not innoculated have in
variably died, and not one that was In
of the most absolute antitoxins known to
science.
+
When the hog cholera now breaks out
in given locality all the animals there
about are innoculated.. The outbreak soon
exhausts itself for lack of material upon
which to feed. An application for the
cure with moderate degree of efficiency
results in the saving to the nation of
$4,000 900 a year in foodstuffs. and food
stuffs are very important these days
The great problem of grain standard
iZation is one upon which the govern
ment has spent much time and
thought. J. w. 7. Duvel is an expert
upon the subject. In his work he dis
covered that there was a variation IN
the weight of grain of from to 20
per cent, which was due to the amount
Of moisture which the grain contained.
Obviously this moisture content should
be reckoned In selling grain. If not,
grain growing in damp country
would have 20 per cent advantage
over grain grown on the desert. DR..
Duvel invented a moisture tester that
is now in use in most of the elevators
Of the nation. but for which he has
never received a cent in royalties.
His plan for ascertaining the amount
of moisture q given sample of grain
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service and made an invention and were
offered 100000 for it and job on the
side that paid four times as much as the
one you held would you adhere to the
unwritten law move over onto Easy
street?
If you were an assistant professor of
chemistry in a college and worked out
the solution Of some great industrial
question like supplying potash to enrich
the farms of the nation would you release
your patents so all the world might pro-
duce fertilizer, or would you sell them to
a great corporation for money enough to
make you a Millionaire?
Well, men have been making inventions
under just such conditions and many of
them have been following the unselfish
course. There are scores of self-abne-
eating scientists i'm the government
service who have freely given away their
patents. Just now the man who seems
to be the Napoleon of these scientist in
ventors has appeared, and, while forget
ting himself, has sought, through the
money that his invention is expected to
bring, to extend aid to others OF his kind.
He Is F. G. Cottrell, young scientist
of the bureau Of mines, who has just be-
queathed to the Smithsonian Institution a
patent that promises to bring to 1t many
millions of dollars. The institution be-
lieves the patent is experimenting and,
while handling 1t in such way as to get
the greatest possible public good out of
ii, will derive certain profits which will
be devoted to other struggling scientists
and inventors. So is the foundation laid
for series of such requests that but
await such an opportunity, and so may
the efforts of patriotic inventors be ap-
piled toward helping their kind and the
general public, and 50 may they also
assure themselves that the greatest pos
sible results will be gotten from their
labors.
For half a century the idea has been
growing among scientists in the govern
ment service that their findings belong to
the public and should not be privately
sold or exploited. So when these men
have made inventions they have very
carefully patented those inventions and
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F you were a poor
man working on a
salary of two
thousand a year
and in " e n I e d
something worth
ten million dollars
would you give it
away because of a
principle? There is
a vague. unwritten
law to the effect
that a man in the
government service
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that there are huge possibilities of profit
and public benefit in it.

that there are huge possibilities of profit
and public benefit in it.
The principle upon which these various
matters which are escaping through the
7ilimneys of industry are precipitated is
that of electrical polarization. The con-
..ensing appliance consists of sheets of
iron or other metal some four inches
apart. with electrical wires bearing heavy
currents half way between them. Posi-
tives and negatives are set up as between
these plates and the particles Of matter
that may be passing through the flue.
AS the pith ball suspended by a thread
is attracted and repealed by the switch
ing of electrical currents in the most
primary OF electrical experiments, so are
these particles of matter passing through
the flue attracted to the iron sheets. The
escape matter from the given plant is
conducted through one portion OF the ap-
all the precipitate that they will carry
and then the current is switched through
different channel, while the first plates
are shaken down and cleaned.
4
At Selby just out Of San Francisco, the
patent has been In operation for five
years upon a plant which had previously
been giving of sulphuric acid fumes
much to the inconvenience Of the people
living thereabout. The operation Of the
condenser costs so a month and has re-
suited In the saving of sulphuric acid to
the amount Of $40 a month. aside from
abating the nuisance. At q cement plant
at Riverside. Cal, an injunction has been
taken out by orange growers to prevent
its operation. The dust 1t emitted was
running the orange crop. The condenser
was installed, the nuisance abated. much
material was recovered and the discovery
made that the precipitated matter was
very. rich in potash and now 1t is planned
to repeat the precipitation and SO. refine
this material as to manufacture much
needed fertilizer. Lead and arsenic are
emitted by great numbers of the big
smelters Of the west and result in whole
sale poisoning Of live stock and even of
human beings in the country round about.
The abatement of this rather terrible
nuisance has long been a problem which
has defied the operators. The goveHn-
ment scientists believe that the present
invention solves this problem and scores
of others that go hand In hand with it.
There is in the Department of Agricul-
ture a young scientist whose inventions
have resulted in vast public good, but
who has personally never received any
profit from them. This inventor is Dr.
Marion Dorset, biochemist of the bureau
of animal industry. He 1t was who first
isolated the germ that it responsible for
cholera in hogs. This germ is so small
that the most powerful microscopes can
not detect it nor can the most delicate
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given the patents to the department by
which they were employed. The patents
were taken out that private individuals
on the outside might not secure them and
bar the public from their use. Being
once secured, however, the public was
informed that 1t was at perfect liberty
to use these patents. Many OF them have
come into very general use and have done
with great merit have been little ex-
plotted because Of the fact that they
were nobody's property. The present
plan is to form q nucleus around which
all such patents may gather. In the fu-
ture scientists making inventions which
they would prefer exploited for the ben
eft of the public rather than for 1ndi-
vidual profit may give those patents to
the Smithsonian Institution and that In
stttution may exploit them with the double
idea of benefit to the public and accumu-
lating a fund for the announcement OF
science and invention.
y
The Cottrell invention is one OF very
great promise. 1t fills, according to the
scientists, want that has long existed
in many great industries. 1t is nothing
less than a condenser that may be at
tached to the stack of any industrial
plant and that will take from the gases
or fumes or smoke of that plant whatever
matter may be escaping through them.
If it is> attached to the chimney OF one
of the New York skyscrapers 1t VIII do
away with the smoke from that chimney:
If it is attached to the smokestack OF
a battleship it will condense the escaping
smoke and be a great aid to invistbihty
in time of war. If it is attached to the
stacks of the cement plants of the nation
it viii precipitate the dust that Is now
escaping through them and powdertng
the country round about. II 1t is attached
to a smelter in which copper and lead
ore is being treated. but in which process
the lead is escaping up the stack. this
lead may be recovered and the ore be
made correspondingly more profitable.
From ocean to ocean, wherever industry
is found, there are opportunities for the
application of this patent. The govern
ment scientists back Of it. therefore. hold
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courage that is alays demanded of those
who dare to write tragedy. And the
price he has paid for his courage is writ
ten on his brow.
The visitor knew the tenderness or MS
nature hest perhaps when he spoke OF
the passion that we call love" Love
n tragic he said, but IL is very beau
tiful." And few writer's have ever made
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xho makes an invention must bequeath
to the public. II you were in that
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DORSET
zWHoSE MvENTIONS ARE.
Z WORTH MILLIONSAE,AR
Eno The PUBLIC But He
DERIVES No PROFIT
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WORKINGGIRLS
KEEP A SECRET
THEIR EDEN
GUESTS OF MISS HELEN CLAY
FRIck BOUND NOT TO REVEAL
LOCATION OF RETREAT-FEW
MEN ARE ALLOWED.
Special to The Journal.

New York, July 20.-In an almost
Adamless Eden, somewhere on the
north shore Of Massachusetts, scores
of working girls from Boston and
nearby cities are passing their vaca-
tons as guests of Miss Helen Clay
Prick, daughter Of Henry Clay Frick.
the wealthy steel man of New York
and Pittsburg.
Men are permitted in this Eden only
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the wood. Although the establishment
has been maintained for four years
its existence has been kept a secret un-
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known to others than Miss Frick. her
friends and the girls who have been
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sachusetts bay.
Every girl who enjoys the hospitality
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Its rules prescribe all flirts and fibs
Rats, unnecessary frilIs and Mobile
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No girl may bring her brother or
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permitted. it IS said. to wear more
than two different dresses in one day.