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Photography

EXPERIMENTS with positive
IT. photography" have produced
some very interesting results.
The plates may be separately wrapped
in black paper at night, or in dark
room, and all the remaining work
can be done in the light. A plate is
taken from its wrapper in the light
and placed in the slide holder, and
an exposure, a long one, is made.
After exposure the plate is taken out
in the light again and placed in the
developing bath, and the picture is
developed, and may be fixed, In --17
light. The result is a positive. Fine
pictures are thus obtained.
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part-and then would turn back to
me to say that the medalIons con-
sisted largely of marvelously exc
cuted heads and busts-that practi-
cally @every Pope was represented,
that the heads of all the great rulers
of the world and all the great gem
fuses We're iii the collection. In fact,
they played it up SO wonderfully that
no regular Collector could have re-
fused.
I played my part, naturally begin
ming to show interest after. alls this
description. But the interpreter
went on; he had me going and he
was determined to have me gasping
with eagerness before ne was done
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day. And so they finally agreed that
/ was to be shown the collection upon
depositing that amount with the in
terpreter, for which he would give
me a temporary contract. The money
was to be returned and the contract
destroyed if I did not buy, but they
We're certain that I would buy. If
did, I was to pay an additional
$4,000 marks. l was to make the
initial deposit and receive the con-
tract the next noon.
I agreed, with reservations. Since
I was to give the interpreter $4,000
marks as~ evidence Of good faith L
insisted that, as long as the deal was
hanging fire and the interpreter had
my money, l should hold him as a
age-that he stay with me until
we should reach a final agreement.
l didn't propose to have him run
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Sound Vibrations

T I is reported that certain expert
ments have shown that a VII
bration Of sound having an am
plitude of less than one-twelve-mil-
lionth of a centimeter could still af-
feet the sense Of hearing. Such a
vibration would be so short that it
would have to be enlarged one hun
dred times before the most powerful
microscope could render it visible,
supposing that it were capable OF
being seen at all. Old persons, 1t is
said, do not hear high notes which
are audible to young persons, and
there is reason to believe that babies
hear notes that are inaudible to their
elders.
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away with my money. The inter-
prefer said that was satisfactory to
him and all agreed.
I figured l would be watched until
the meeting the next day at noon,
but T. succeeded in communicating
secretly with Trettin to tell him of
all that had passed and to warn him
that whatever Amen were assigned to
follow US were not to be boneheads.
1 suggested that the detectives who
were to be at the hotel at noon the
next day be instructed to keep out
of the corridors, that they wait in
come out; then they were to follow
the entire party at cautious dis
lance wherever we should go. 1t
was necessary, of course, that he
assign a man or two who knew me
by sight. He assigned himself.
On the Way to Loot.
I got the $4,000 marks on the dot
the following day. The interpreter
appeared a minute or two ahead of
time and I gave him the money. He
passed me the temporary contract.
The transfer was made in my sitting
room and he told me he had a car
waiting downstairs. We walked down
the stairway to the side entrance and
got into the waiting machine. let
him get in first, for I didn't want
him to slam the door on me and run
away with my money.
The chauffeur of that automobile
drove for miles and miles in sub
urban sections of Berlin that / had
never seen. Then, after he had
twisted about maze of very short
streets he brought the machine to a
halt. He got out and made quite an
extensive and lengthy survey to see
if we were being followed. I asked
the interpreter outright: why should
we be followed?" And he replied as
a crook does Enthusiastically "You
can never tell about these things.
The Government might arrest me
for selling them-and you for buying
them"
1 tried to turn pale. I pretended
as best could to be alarmed
That was what he expected me to be.
The chauffeur got back into the
car and drove few circuitous blocks
to a handsome apartment house.
The interpreter and I got out and
entered the high vaulted doorway.
We went up three flights of stairs
and then came to a door. The inter
prefer raped sharply on the panel
ing of the door three times with a
lead pencil We were admitted by
comedy middle aged woman with
beautiful brown hair. In the we'll
furnished living room were the two
men who had come to the hotel with
the interpreter the day before. There
were other persons in other rooms of
the apartment. 1 could hear them
talking. Two red checked, blue eyed
little girls appeared on the scene
They were nice and healthy and
middle class looking; I figured one
about fourteen years old and the
other sixteen. Lying quietly but
alertly near the couch upon which
the man with the monocle was sit
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Earth's Energy

n N eminent physician has esti-
~ mated that the power devel-
oped by a million Niagaras
in, a million years would not equal
the energy expended by the earth in
a single second as it circles around
the sun. And yet so perfect is the
mechanism that, flying around its
axis at an equatorial speed of more
than a thousand miles an hour, and
around it's orbit at more than 100
miles minute, all the mundane in
fiuences of which astronomers know
could not change the length Of its
day as much as a second in huns
IN thousand years.
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The Deal Is Made.

IEE DsaI IS IVlauS'
Would deposit. 100, coo marks as
evidence of good faith if they would
take me to the home of the seam
stress in the family of the owners of
the collection, in whose temporary
possession the treasure was kept so
that the Government might not find
it and seize it. The interpreter set
forth the proposition.
replied that could not raise so
much money, although 1 believed l
could raise $4,000 by noon of the next
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terpreter rejoined, "becuse this col
lection is SO rare and so valuable"
Then he repeated that the mdals had
been for many years in possession Of
a relative of the Hohenzollerns-in-
timating that the citizen with the
mohocle was in some way connected
with this wonderful house and was
pressed for funds, since his great
estates did not yield enough to pay
the, high income taxes.
A Remarkable Bargain.
1 protested that was not going
to buy anything I could not see, and
the interpreter insisted that it was a
remarkable bargain. But he said
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were with themselves. They thought
I would buy those medallions at-any
price,
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BY H. S. GILLESPIE.

w HEN it seemed as if the
wv gamut had been run in the
ornamentation of the for
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IVY HEN set out last year for
M a pleasure tour Of Europe
/ carried letters of intro
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the Art and Archaeology League,
which had sent by him q special
invitation for affiliation.
They asked him when the Freer
Gallery would open, but Flam-
beau merely looked wise.
The president Of the Common
veal Club, which numbers nearly
a thousand members Of the most
progressive Syracuse women, from
all professions, occupations, and
social activities, is Miss Marjorie
j. Wilson. a professor Of econoIa-
les in Syracuse University and
one Of Flambeau's fellow passen-
gers Of the steamship last sum-
mer. A few Of the active mem
bers whom Flambeau met were
Miss Mary H. Wilson, also an Of
ficer and head Of the reference
department in the Syracuse Ii
brary, which is excellent; Miss
Rilla Evelyn Jackman, director OF
the art department Of Teachers
College ct Syracuse University:
Mrs. Lyman A. Cheney, Miss
Anna e. Thompson, Miss Matte
Johnston, Mrs. Cornell N. Smith,
Miss Mary e. Albee, Mrs. e. e.
Tyrrell, Miss D. M. Greene. Miss
Lesley West, Miss N. n. Hyde,
Mrs. Baxter, and q charming local
artist, whose paintings Flambeau
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lNcE HAD ROMANCE WITH PRINCESS

Then only win he be satisfied
and cease to work, IL & man
such as he can rest Otherwise.
ne win never relax his activity or
his efforts to resuscitate the
mighty Germany which, according
to bismarck, was created with
blood and iron. z
There have been many esti-
mates Cf the amount Of Stinnes
fortune. bnt IL Il almost impos-
sibie To gauge the exact fig
ure, owing to his numerous en-
terpr1ses. cf which the follow
Ing are = few:
Hamburger Eof Hotel. Hamburg,
valued at $500, 900; Atlantic Ho-
tel, Hamburg. $4,000. 900; build
ings and plots ii Hamburg. S5.-
0O0s00O: Rheimisch estfaIiechenI
Electric Works at Essen. $780,.
100000: properties IN Luxemr
burg. 10000. 900: shares in &C
CURED properties, so. 200, 900; dye
factories ct Elberfeld, $50. 900. 900.
LIST INCOMPLETE.
This list does not include his
printing plants IN Germany, nor
the property which he has bought
since the war In Austria. Dem
mark and Sweden, his interests
in Britain. the United States
and the profits earned on the
cargoes Of goods always being
sent In large numbers to Aus
tralia and the teeming bazaars
Of Calcutta and Bombay.
The ex-Kaiser's marriage
to Princess Hermine Of Reuss
has, however. destroyed any
chance which tho former mon
arch may have had Of regain
ing his throne, and for dhe Sec
one time IA hia life Shines am
bition to play q part at the Ho-
Shenzcllern court = likely to be
frustrated.
SHINES has seven children. His
oldest son is twenty-five, and
betrothed to the daughter of .
wealthy rival. He AFFECTS the
Same simplicity OF dress AZ his
father. and often suggests
schemes more gigantic than his
parent han ever conceived. Doubt.
less the manifold interests which
the elder SHINES has built up
will not deteriorGte under the
younger mans energetic influ-
ence.
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meaT' at $1.25, since q dollar II
nothing today in America.
ALI-NIGHT RIDES.
And then he compared the all
night ride he once made by fast
express through Germany from
the Polish border, for only IS
cents American, though he trav-
eled first class, a tour as long
and as comfortable. perhaps, since
he had an. entire compartment to
himself, ana he found that the
cost Of his present journey was
$14.S4 for ticket and 1915 for
sleeper mot counting a few tips),
or $1S.0s versus $0.75 in Ger
many. But who wants to live
there! And he had spent $61.S6
for q mere glimpse Of America.
only eight States, including be-
sides New England and New
York. Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey. Maryland, and the District
Of Columbia, while In Europe he
might have travelled through near
~ as many different countries for
much less than half. Stupen-
dous America!
And once more Flambe&u ap-
preciated the, vastnesa Of Amer
ica,, and was almost tempted to
continue his Journey when they
rolled into Union Station, and
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wanna Railroad, the through
train from Syracuse to Philadel.
phia, he couldn't help wondering
who might be occupying the
coaches out in front. He knew
pretty well the crowd Of the
sleeper before he saw them the
next morning. His car Travelled
via Binghamton, where they
switched to the Central Railroad
OF New Jersey, via Wilkes-Bar
and Allentown, when they
touched the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway, via Bethlehem,
and arrived at Wayne Junction,
where he changed for Washing
ton. two hours late, though no.
body seemed able to explain the
reason. And there he boarded
the "B. & o." for Washington,
and began to enjoy the scenery
once more, which IL so charming
coming down that way. And since
he was 50 late he was able to pat,
ronize the dining car, where he
found q luncheon for Is cents,
called tho commercial travellers
club meal" offering meat or.
fish. vegetables, salad, bread. DIES.
sert, and coffee, tea or milk. but,
Of course, most Americans would
no doubt have preferred the
table d'hote B. q o. special
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is hopeful will be shown In Wash
ington. All these ladies are very
active club members, and most
Of them are pursuing some daily
vocation besides, though their in.
terests are often very different.
CLUB INCLUSIVE.
The Commonweal Club takes in
one and ali, without any social
distinctions, and therein lies its
great power. IAN organization Of
business women who are making
q business Of living, rather than
a living of business that Is
their manifesto. Community GEN.
ter work has been an important
feature in the foreign quarters OF
the city, and they have succeeded
so well that now they are look
Ing for new fields, and SO are
turning their attention to art.
''The Revival of the Arts in
Europe and America" that was
Flambeau's theme. He showed
them pictures and souvenirs from
many countries, and copies OF
''The Washington Times-Herald,"
besides telling them Of the new
art activities Of the National Capt.
tai, and then It was time to 90.
A. Flambeau slipped into . luz
urious lower berth on The
Phtladelphian," Of tho Lacka.
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Elect richly Urged
In Schools as Aid
TO Dull Stud ents
LONDON, jan. IS.

1SA11NAA94Ne - h To-
nR. BERNARD HoI1LArsDER.
the mental specialist tod tn
British chronological Society at
its annual mesting that electric
currents passed through school
rooms helped baclkard indolent
students 70 pass examinations Fl
which they had previously failed.
DR.. Hollander pictured new
world ii which the respective
merits Of battery and magnetic
ignition for the brain would be
holly debated Ia the clubs. He
did not develop the idea. however.
but went on to speak of the sCien-
tific phrenology which II would
be possible to institute, II mental
hospitals could Be established for
the study Of mind changes 6olIOw-
ing brain disorders.
EFT il acknowledged BY leading
ANTAGONISTS. said DR.. HoIlander,
THAT the skull Is nodded on the
brain. and grows with Il. % that
the size and shape Of the head
conform practically to the size and
shape Of the brain.
s'Size of head, however. Is not y
measure Of intellect. Under the
biggest poll one need not neces-
sarily look for the best brains"
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Enrope's Largest
Hotel Will Occupy
Residential island
LONDON. Jan. IS.

LONDON. Jan. -.
EURoPE'G largest hotel will
occupy the famous Adelphf
Terrace, one Of the showsplaces
Of London. n negotiations now
being carried on are consuHn-
mated.
This famous residential ''isl-
and" situated in the heart or
London's business district. just
off the Strand, was built BY the
Adam Brothers, and houses the
Savage Club. one Of the oldest,
and best known clubs n the
world.
American capital. Universal
Service understands. Ii largely IN.
terested in acquiring the site and
q conference In London recent
" between three Of the most
prominent New York hotel pro-
prietors IL said to have dealt
with the proposition. The stte
adjoins the famous CecIl and
Savoy hotels. largely patroni2ed
by American visitors TO London.
George Bernard Shaw. famous
satirist: Sir James Barrie and
other prominent writer's and art
lists have houses on Ade1phi Ter
5000 1aphAONN rANaA,.N<N<NHra A. VS1aav,aoo
River. Nearly . square milo Of
houses were built IN the -
tinctive Adam style Of archi-
lecture. and they contain ceilings.
0taircases. panelings and hire
places. which are. virtually price
less. The properly. owned by 9
London banking syndicate. Is val
ued at more than s5,O00,0OO.
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ment, and that win not surrender
the control of German industry.
and German business to the peo-
pie Of q foreign country"
For you, gentlemen. can hardly
fail to be aware Of this: War in
IDENTITIES are being extracted indi-
rect from German business every
day-through compulsory meas
ures forced upon us by outsiders
and through conditions that pre-.
vail at home which are literally
beyond reckoning. / know that
enterprises have recently been or
ganized abroad whose sole object
is to take advantage of the pres
ent inflationl of the mark, to buy
up buildings. land apd other prop
critics in our country, and that
in this manner many billions OF
gold marks are being taken from
US in ways that have nothing to
do with the peace treaty.
believe that the men who have
it in their power to defend Ger.
tain key positions in German in.
dustry are only doing their duty
in hanging on to those key posi-.
tons and not letting any foreigner
have them. For, II these key po-
sitions do get into the hands Of
foreigners, as has already hap
pened, for instance in Austria, the
reconstruction and revival Of our
country win be sttil more diff
cult, and we may never be able TO
recover our economic independence
on account Of political dlress.
GERMAN DEFICIT.
Coming now to stabilizing the
currency, we must first OF ali, I
think, get q clear idea Of the eco
nomic condition Of the German
commonwealth, both abroad and
at home. Germany IL running up
a heavy deficit because she is not
producing enough. I estimate
Germany's misrepresentation as at
least two hundred million gold
marks. Germany not only must
produce two hundred million gold
marks more. but must produce
them over and above the cost Of
production. IL she is merely. to pay
her own cost Of living. Not until
we have done this can we begin
to produce an excess to apply on
our reparations debts to other
countries.
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production. and We are sending
landerpriced goods abroad that
represent an actual subtraction
from our national wealth. 50 long
90 va buy our raw materials on
credit, such exports may afford .
nnOmentary. reIief. But they are
. charge against our future pros
perity. ana win eventually force
our manufacturers 70 shut down
completely.
TRADE NEDs.
we can not restore economic
prosperity home until We enjoy
the most.f alton treatment
aboard we can not expect most
favored-nation, treatment abroad
until We Greats conditions &C home
that cOnvtnce foreign e6yefnrnents
that We are paying our costs of
production on souhd-Enoney.
schedule: 81 other words, we CO
not dump ccd, over and above
what Ii hcEalihl ana reasonab le.
upon their markets
IN = word. ! taIke the position,
ana ! believe that an increasing
number 81 other business man
familiar with world conditions
take the same position. that the
first reouirennent tor the recov-
cry of Germany 8 70. work
harder indeed u work % excess.
I 40 not hesitate t. assert that
! ii my opinion the German people
Will Be obliged. Tor ten or fifteen
years to come. to work at least
two hours 4 day more, II order
70 raise production to point
where they can live and have
something left over to pay for
PREPARATIONS. urtI1eFmore, 81 Il
my conviction that We must have
! general usecieaning ana set
rid 81 . LOT of things that have
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suit winter and summer, with
stout, country, hobnaiIed boots,
and black tie. He possesses
no evening clothes at least,
nobody has ever seen him wear
them.
SIMPLE HOME LIFE.
He spends good deal Of his
time. frueally. at Mulheim-on-
the-Ruhr. where his house is fur
nished with just the necessary
tables, and chairs to accommo-
date an occasional guest. There
are no works Of art or pictures
Of any kind, no flowers OF. photo
graphs scattered about. ana hardly
any signs Of feminine influence.
a piano stands in one corner
OF the living-room but it Is never
opened or played upon. There
is a -gramophone, however, to
which SHINES listens sometimes
after dinner. The food served
at his table is good. but very
plain. while the table linen is
frankly ugly.
The wife Of this remarkable
man II about his own age and
still good-looIring. with slightly
fading hair. she dresses in
keeping with her surroundings;
her marriage and betrothal rings
are the only jewelry she wears.
Undoubtedly SHINES il one OF
the most picturesque and interest
. ing figures In modern Germany,
and a man with whom the Brit
ish and French governments viii
soon be compelled to reckon, be-
cause the question Of the payment
Of reparations is largely in his
hands. All the resources Of Ger.
many are at his command. and he
has an interest In most Of the in
dustrial concerns in that country.
To keep these concerns going he
can use his own coal, his own
steel, and his own timber.
INTERESTS ABROAD.
At present he is engaged in ship
building operations in Sweden,
where he has erected huge wharves
for a mercantile fleet which viii
soon be twice the size of the Ham.
"A -
be entirely outside the control Of
the allies: He has agents, official
and secret, all over the world.
Some of the foreign neighboring
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By ONE WHO KNOWS HIM
(copyright 1898, BY the World-Wide
News Service, Inc, Boston, Mass)
w mo is the cleverest man
in Europe today? He IS
probably Hugo SHINES,
Hun. known to his friends as
the German Phoenix who has
arisen immense and all-powerful
from the wreck Of the Hohen-
zollerns.
SHINES WIS born in the Rhine
land about fifty years ago. He
is Of medium height, heavily
built, with close.cropped hair,
small Vandyke beard, d Spanish
cast Of countenance. thick, bhshy
eyebrows and dark. penetrating
eyes. Unlike most miIlionaires,
he is not entirely self-naade. his
father having left him D for
tune of 100000 marks when
he was not more than twenty
three.
RUNNING GOVERNMENT.
At that time SHINES fortune
was considered very large, and
with 1t he tried to gain . foot
ing in the exclusive world which
surrounded the former Kaiser
and his court at Potsdam. De-
spite his wealth, however, he
was not taken up" % he re-
tired to his country home to
nurse q badly bruised heart, for
he had, fallen in love with none
other than a princess Of the Inn
perial family.
Shortly afterWard he married
q daughter Of one Of Germany's
industrial kings. and he applied
all his energies to increase his
wealth. He has succeeded be-
yorld his widest dreams, and
although he was unknown out
side his own country before the
war, today he runs" the Ger
man government, an unlimited
number OF financial enterprises
and is the sole owner or princi-
pal shareholder Of seventy news
papers. The only man he has
ever feared was the late Lord
Northcliffe.
SHINES is quiet in manner
until anyone dares to challenge
his opinions, when his eyes flash,
and he becomes almost insolent.
He lives very simply, dresses
shabbily, and wears the same