Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-28
THE ALI.G1.AsS PURITY
COMPANY.

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1t is the Allglass company which has
revolutiorized the art. and which came
into existence through a serange
chance
For years glass had been John Tenn
pies hobby. His house was filled With
the choicest sleanings OF many lands.
His uncle. whose name he bore. had
left him enough OF q fortune to devote
his time to such things. and he fol-
lowed his bent with a zeal sufficiently
below mania TO De termed genuine en-
thusiasm. During his days If collect
ing, two points were brought forcibly
to his attention. He could procure
glasses of the most beautiful tints. but
at q price which made them beyond
the reach of people in ordinary cir
cumstances. Again. when he had pro-
cured a treasure. it must be kept in a
case or handled with care lest some
chance slip might prove its destruction.
To overcome these two things-:o
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 10 good
years of his life spent for the most
part in an evil smelling laboratory,
Melted 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 a process by which perfect amber
tlnts could be obtained at a nominal
sum. 1t was 5 O'Clock when he finished
work and locked the laboratory. 1t wls
Temples custom after hours of con.
centration to wolk down town. pausing
no" and then TO peer into shop Win
dows. that the trifling interest he found
there might relieve the strain of the
preceding hours.
1t was "a windy afternoon and heavy
clouds hung the sky. He walked brisk
~, for the air was chilly. and it was
not until he was well down town that
he paused before the windows of a
second hand book shop. Within was a
miscellaneous collection of books i'm a
more or less battered c~ondition-vol-
uimes of e"ncyclOpaediaS, Dickens.
~Ihackeray, N test books-and, strewn
about. paper covered novels with sug-
gestive titles and more suggestive sub
titles. In the center of the window
was a huge family bible, opened, the
text OF Matthew on the right hand page
and on the left a blank page of the
family record"
AS he stood there, the SUI, broke
through he clouds. A moment later
he was staring through the window
With wondering eyes. On the page of
the family record" indistinct at the
beginning. but growing clearer as he
read down the page, were these words.
written in a cramped but pairstaking
hand:
this method OF anneaiing gives q
toughness which will resist any
ordinary shock. 1t is. moreover, if
practised on a large scale. cheaper
tina any known method, and for
The remaining words were quite ill.,
lGg1OlS The rest of tho p.~, r.o.
seemingly a blank. He read and re-
read the words and Their rushed into
the shop.
Let me see the bible in the window"
ne said to the clerk. with as much non !
chalance as he could muster.
When the book was handed to him
Temple turned at once to the last page
of the family record 1t was ner-
fectly blank. He scanned the precea-
ing pages and searched through those
headed Marriages n Births" He
found merely a few conventional en-
tries in fading ink. GOVERNORS" he
though to himself. as he went up the |
street. yet when he remembered every
detail of the writing the explanation
was far from satisfactory.
TWO lays later he stood again before |
the window. 1t was. perhaps. an horr
later in the day thar his previous visit |
The sun shone from a cloud]ess sky
There We're the battered books and the
novels. and there was the bible. 1t
was with a queer thrill that he turned
his eyes to the record page. He could
scarcely believe his sight. In the same
mn hand he read these words:
-practised on a large scale
cheaper than any known method
ana Tor years l sought to put this
knowledge in the proper hands.
distrust D. c., which a if
The words began a little lower ON
the page than before. There was the
same indistinctness at the beginning
and end. Again Temple sought the
shop and asked to see the bible. and
again the page was blank. He vent
outside and waited until the bible Was
replaced in the window. The writing
was the same. save that the words .im-
possible for me to" appeared at tho
end. He walked up the street and back |
again. When he stood once more be-
fore the window the sun had set. The |
page was again blank.
Far into the night Temple sat hefore
his fire trying to solve the mystery.
Had he called up. in his concentration
sOme> psychic force? It would have
seemed plausible. had he been nos
sessed of. any faith in such things.
Yet. no better explanation presenting
itself to his mind, he Went % bed more
disturbed than he had ever been in his
life.
Many times after that he went TO-
the book shop. Always. when the sun
shone. he read portions of that
cramped hand writing. Sometimes It
hes same text-sometimes new ana
once words appeared on the mariin
II the first chapter OF Matthew. he
oOttced that h position Of the sun
beemed to determine the portions ne