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Yet the Busy Brain of Man Cannot
8uoosed In Reasoning Out Why This
Is So—-Ths Mysterious Propertiaa
Exhibited by Water, Tin and Glass.
Here is a fact, known to-everybody,
which la us mysterious as would be
the actual appeuruuce of a ghost. by
Which 1 mean that the fundamental ex
Rjuputlou of the phenoujetww is about
as far beyond our reach In the one
case as In the other.
The fact to which I refer Is the pro
duction of tempered steel by quenching
in cold water. If hot steel Is cooled
very slowly It becomes soft and cannot
take a cutting edge, but if It is cooled
middenly It becomes very hard and can
be ground into keen swords, knives
and cutting tools.
Now. why the difference? Have you
ever thought about that question? If
you have not. many a man of science
has, and has been puzzled over it.
Here is another related mystery. If
you heat an old Japanese sword, which
for centuries has retained its capacity
to slice off a head at a blow, or to
open a swift passage for the soul of
the victim of the harakiri mania, to
the temperature of boiling water it
gradually softens and loses the keen
ness that once made it so formidable.
BAFFLES SCIENCE
su
SLOW COOLING KEEPS IT SOF?
It Is the same steel, but it. too. seems
to have lost its soul. At a tempera
ture of 150 degrees centigrade the
hardened steel commits harakiri in a
few minutes. Surely there Is some
thing strange in that.
Then consider this: At zero tempera
ture water changes from a liquid and
suddenly becomes solid. Bnt if you put
the water In a vase and carefully pro
tect It frcfu dust you may cool It as
much as 20 degrees below zero and yet
It will not freeze! But now shake the
•ase or drop In a bit of ice, and the
•water immediately solidifies!
I owe the collection of these facts to
paper by Professor James EL. Wal
ton, Jr., of Wisconsin university. The
explanation which he gives is that sub
stances like the hardened steel and the
Unfreezing water are In a state of
"suspended change." That accounts
for the phenomena, but In a certain
sense they remain mysterious. Just as
life Is mysterious.
WHY HOT STEHL IS TEMPBREU BY A SUDDEN COOLINO
ULany substances possess the same
curious characteristics. Professor Wal
ton says that if a flask containing so
dlum acetate, whlr-h has been cooled
below Its natural freezing point with
out solidifying. Is opened In a room
containing dust of the solid acetate the
fine particles of the latter dropping Into
the flask will cause the whole contents
to solidify.
Tin Is a very strange metal with re
gard to this state of suspended change
or "metn stability." A severe winter cold
will sometimes cause it to lose its
hardness and crumble.
Objects made of tin sometimes un
dergo such change and are then said
to be suffering from "the tin disease."
The contact of "diseased" tin with
bright, hard tin is capable of setting
up the transformation.
Glass. Professor Walton informs us,
is "an undercooled substance"—that is,
it Is in a metastable condition. If old
glass tubes through which water has
frequently passed are heated the glass
crystallizes and loses its transparency.
All substances In this state are liable
to change, and the change, under prop
er conditions, may be sudden. Hard
ened steel Is In a similar category. If
it were as perishable as tin it could not
be safely used for many purposes for
which it Is habitually employed. For
tunately steel exhibits great resistance
to change of state after it has been
tempered. Transformation is retarded
or arrested.
"Does steel slowly return to the sta
ble form and thus grow softer?" asks
Professor Walton, and then answers:
"That w«i do not know: we can only
say that If such a change does take
place, hundreds of years are necessary
to bring It about."
The same ancient Japanese swords,
which, when heated, as before deserth
ed, become soft, retain all their hard
ness if carefully preserved.
It Is evidently of the highest im
portance to the practical world that
science la investigating these things
and discovering the way and the cir
cumstances In which the changes come
sbout, ev«n if It has not unveiled the
underlying mystery of their cause.—
Garrett P. Servlss in New York Jour
nal
Correot Interpretation Essential.
Many of the most beautiful pieces
of poetry in literature would seem un
interstlng and flat If read by a bad
reciter. In the same way a good re
citer will make attractive a poem
Whose beauties are not so apparent
A flne painter will light up each little
beauty in his pictures uutil the small
est detail Is attractive and strikes the
eye. It Is only the mediocrity whose
work Is characterized by sameness and
lack of Interest.—Strand Magazine.
Commercial Valuation.
tPyUteoeas costs nothing."
"Yes." replied the gentleman of the
old school. "Perhaps that's why people
bave so little rgaptfct for It"—Washing
t«f Mm.
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SNUBBED BY EUGENIE.
Carpeaux and a Bust of the Empress
He Had Modeled.
Onejday Carpeaux. the painter, asked
Napoleon III., who had always ex
pressed great friendship for him, to
permit him to model the bust of the
Empress Kugeuie. Her gracious maj
esty admitted that Carpeaux painted,
but denied that he was a sculptor aud
modestly pretended that her beauty
was not sculptural.
Napoleon 111. promised to speak in
his favor and Invited hit* to Cam
plegne. Oarpeaux went. Eight days
passed The empress did not wish to
pose. The invitation to the chateau
was for only a week, and Curpeaux
was notified to yield his place. "No,"
he declared, "not before I have made
the bust of the empress."
This response was repeated to the
emperor, who made another attempt.
He ended by obtaining her consent to
five a pose of two hours to Carpeaux.
The sculptor asked no more He
made a masterpiece, baked the clay
aud proudly showed it to the sover
eign. She looked at it a moment, made
a little mouth, said. "Oh, yes. it is
pretty," and turned her back.
Carpeaux was furious. He returned
to his workshop with the bust and
threw It upon the floor. It was scratch
ed. but not broken. A workman pick
ed It up. It then went into the posses
sion of Dr. Pournler. Today it Is
owned by his son, who blesses the Em
press Eugenie for not having desired
it—Ori de Paris.
GOT GAY ON THE STAGE.
Irving Spoiled the Scene the Only Time
He Broke His Ruls.
The note about actors who try to
"queer" other actors on the stage,
writes a correspondent, reminds me of
a story of the only time when Henry
Irving was guilty of such a thing. He
was acting Othello, to the Desdemona
of the late Miss Bateman. and every
Saturday night the performance was
followed by a very pleasant little syp
per party.
Desdemona was strangled on a bed
at the back of the stage, and part of
irvlng's "business" was to leave the
bed and then, going back to it, to draw
the curtains slightly aside and peep in
at the body, afterward turning a face
of inexpressible anguish toward the
audience. Ills face, his shudder and
the deep drawn sigh which he gave
were among the most impressive parts
of one of his greatest creations.
As a rule, he sternly suppressed any
levity on the stage, but one Saturday
night, as he drew back the curtain, he
said, in a sepulchral whisper, "What
bave we for supper, Desdemona?"
Alas! Miss fritemnn was unequal to
the strain. aud a merry laugh from the
corpse rang through the house.
Never again. 1 believe, did Irving
break his own rule of seriousness on
the stage. It was told me (adds our
correspondent* by my father, who was
at the supper party on the night it oc
curred.—Manchester Guardian.
Th rived on Poor Writing.
Illegible handwriting ma.v prove an
aid to prosperity. The late Lord Go
schen said of his father. "He has told
me half in joke and half in earnest
that when he came to London he was
obliged to found a Arm because he
wrote such a bad hand that no one
would take him for a clerk." Of Lord
Goscheu himself his biographer re
marks: "in his latter years he might
have spelled as he chose, for no one
could have affirmed with certainty
how many Ts' he might have put In
'although.' At length his script be
came undecipherable even by Gosrben
himself. He could not when speaking
in parliament make out what It was
that be bad put on paper, and he thus
came in later years to abandon almost
entirely his old practice of making
notes."
8ong of the East Indian Laborer.
When drawing water from the wells,
the man in charge of the operation in
variably encourages the bullocks with
a cheery sing-song, at the critical
moment when they are raising the
heavy leather pouch of water from the
well, and If he was to remain t'lent
the Indian bullock, who is a strong
conservative. Would certainly refuse to
Btart. 1 once listened to the song
which the men sang when they were
making mortar, it was something like
this: "Oh, bullocks! what a work you
are doing, going round and round mak
ing mortar for the masons. Oh, bul
locks I go faster, go faster! The masons
will cry out, oh. bullocks, for more
mortar—more tnortar. So go faster,
§o faster!"—From "India and the In
dians,?
Her Substitute For Oil of Btroh.
Instead of yanking them into the
bouse and giving them the "lamming"
they deserve, an Atchison woman who
was a schoolteacher for many years
is trying the following method with
her obstreperous children: She calls
them to her and says, solemnly and
precisely, "My sons, i am surprised at,
disgusted with, disappointed In and
ashtmed ut yuu." JJiiwaa Cltf Jour
Ml.
GOATS FLAYED ALIVE.
Cruel
The practice of branding domestic
animal* for ornamental purposes and
slitting the ears and nostrils of donkeys
is prevalent In many parts of India.
These cruelties result in much suffer
ing. though they are erroneously sup
posed by the poorer clases of the popu
lation to convey some benefit to the
animal.
Bullocks with one side of the face
almost burnt away are to be seen
everywhere throughout the east, and
but little comment is aroused by the
plight of these unfortunate creatures,
which toll yoked to a heavy, ill bal
anced cart. These poor animals are
Insufficiently fed. habitually overladen
and overdriven, and their shrinking
necks show tumors and ulcerated sores
caused by the incessant working of
the clumsy yoke in daily use.
In Delhi aud elsewhere secret places
exist where bullocks are turned Into
mousters for exhibition in religious
processions. "I myself." says Mrs.
Charlton, "saw one of these poor man
made monsters at Hard war, a sacred
place in the Dun (United provinces),
and secured a photograph. It was be
ing led about in harge of a fakir, who
showed me with pride several legB
which had been engrafted on its back,
and the process must have been most
painful." In performing this cruel op
eration more than one animal is killed
in the greatest agony.
KING OF WILD BULLS.
India's Gaur Combines Courage and
Audaoity With Great Strength.
The gaur is often wrougly termed
"bison." The name is not correct the
bisou is the bos bonassus of Lithuania
and the Caucasus. The gaur. found in
indo-China, is cet taiuly the finest of all
the wild bulls he overawes all op
ponents by his courage, audacity and
great strength.
Lie is a huge beast and sometimes
measures six feet to tho root of the
tail. He is distinguished from all
other wild cattle by the prominent
hump between the two horns. The lat
ter are massive, flat at the base, and
ringed, and they describe a very wide
curve from the root upward.
The coat is of an olive brown tint,
shading In black, with very short, fine
hair.
The gaur is found both in the forest
and on the mountains, for, lu spite of
his great size, be is extremely agile, so
that he can run up the mountain slopes
and climb the rocks with ease.
Like the elephant, he feeds on grass
and plants, and when he cannot get
these he falls back on bamboo shoots
and the buds aud branches of trees.
The gaurs feed until about 9 o'clock
In the morning then they return to the
bamboo forests and»clearings to sleep.
Later in the afternoon they come out
to graze and drink. They are not timid,
and several shots can be flred among
a herd before they become alarmed.
Duke of Montpelier In Wide World
Magazine.
Seacoast Defenses.
It seems rather odd, come to think
about it. that all of our big coast de
fense rifles are only available to shoot
at an enemy coming in from sea. In
their rear they are without protection
and would require an army to protect
them against invaders who might climb
over the back fence after us. These
big guns have a horizontal swing of
only about ten degrees azimuth.
Wouldn't It be wise to so make these
big shooting Irons that they could be
swung clear around the circle, so that
they could defend themselves, so to
speak? We could then load 'em with
broken up stove plate, bolts, newspaper
Jokes, family portraits and various junk
aud slay everything for miles around
Oakland (Cal.) Enquirer.
French Officers Are III Paid.
The poorest men in Prance are the
army officers, in fact, they would
starve to death if they had a family
unless they can double their official re
sources by private means. A captain
has an income of $820 a year. The
average captain, according to statistics
has a wife and three children and can
not live on less than $1.G95 No won
der the places of army officers go beg
ging In France.—Boston Post.
He Dodged.
'So Burroughs owes you money?
Well, I think he'll pay you back some
day, but you can't make blm hurry.'
"Don't you believe It. The mere
sight of me walking along the street
has made him hurry several times
lately."—Philadelphia Press.
Catching Her.
She (pouting)—Before we were mar*
rled you often used to catch me la
your arms He- Yes. and now I catch
you Is my pockets.—London Telegraph.
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Tortures Inflicted on Animals.
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BUTLER COUNTS
In
Many Parts of India.
In an illustrated pamphlet issued by
the Animals' Friend society of Eng
land attention Is drawn to tbo Indian
practice of flaying live goats. This
commercial barbarity is prevalent
throughout Bengal and is done in or
der to obtain longer measurements for
the market, so called long necks com
manding a higher price on account of
the extra length. The dreadful process
is carried out by beginning the flaying
at the eyes and mouth of the living
goat and working down the neck, aft
er which the throat is cut. In one
of these cases, which came under the
notice of the Hon. Mrs. Charlton, the
flaying had been partially carried out,
*ud the animal, though rescued from
bis tormentors, finally succumbed in
misery to the agouy he had endured.
The initial act of torture was perform
ed under the eye in the shape of a cut
In the form of a St. Andrew's cross,
and the skin, torn away in flaps, fell
down the animal's neck.
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THE BALL PLAYER.
He Faces Many Trying Ordeals
In His E?rly Experience.
MAKING
A
BIG LEAGUE CLUB.
Tribulationa of a Veteran Star Who
Started In With a "Swelled Head"
and Got Fired and Then Worked His
Way Back Into Fast Company.
In the American Magazine Hugh S.
Fullerton writes an article entitled
"The Making of a Big Leaguer." It Is
a true story of the development of one
of the greatest ball players in the
Dnlted States as told by himself to
Mr. Fullerton. This player, of course,
began the game as a boy and passed
through all the stages from amateur to
minor league teams and then Into the
big league. In this early experience he
became a great victim of the "swelled
head," hit the first ball pitched when
he went to bat after being told to wait
for two strikes and finally lost his posi
tion on the big league team. After
many vicissitudes he lost his "swelled
head" and got into the big league
again, where today, at thirty-four
years of age. he is one of the great
veterans of the game. Of his final en
trance into the big league be says:
"in June I was purchased for a
large sum by the club which then was
the strongest in the country. I didn't
say a word about inouey, although the
club paid over $4,000 for me. The new
manager sat down with me in the
hotel the night I Joined his team.
'A1I I want,' he said, 'is for you to
get out there and hustle and behave
yourself. I've heard you're hard to
handle, but I'll take a chance.'
"You won't have any trouble with
me,' 1 assured him. 'Ail 1 want is a
chance to show that I can play.'
•You'll get all the chance you want,'
he said quietly. 'You're In the lineup
tomorrow.'
"Stage fright! Did you ever suffer
it? I did that night. My nerves were
jumping, aud a thousand times I fig
ured out plays—yes. and made them—
In planning what I would do the next
day.
"We were playing a game against a
team which we figured we would have
to beat out to win the championship.
pictured myself hitting home runs
and making triple plays, and when
awoke in the morning I was nervous, a
shaky, uncertain and scared ball play
er. In practice before the game every
thing hit my way 1 either fumbled or
threw wild, as my nerves were rags.
The crowd seemed to be sorry for me
when they weren't mocking. It was a
relief when the game started.
"I was second at bat in the lineup,
on a foreign field and with a hostile
crowd roaring. The first man filed
out. 'Wait him out. Take two.' said
the manager as I picked up a bat. The
first pitched ball cut the heart of the
plate. I saw it all the way up and
knew It would have been easy to hit it
hard, yet I let it go. "Strike one.' the
umpire yelled, and the crowd howled.
I was cool as a Boston east wind. The
second ball came whizzing up straight
over the plate with nothing on It, and
I Itched to hit It. yet let It go for the
second strike.
"Then I settled to hit. expecting a
curve ball. The urve went wide. A
fast one went high and wide. I figured
that the pitcher thought he bad a suck
er at bat and would curve one over.
He came with a fast ball a foot high,
and I swung at it aud struck out. My
heart nearly got spiked as it sank into
my toes going back to the bench.
'That's the boy.' said the manager.
'Walt him out. Make him pitch.'
"I could have kissed him for those
words. 1 went to short with my nerves
steady and my system full of confl
deuce. The first ball hit was a slzzler
over second. 1 got the ball with one
hand, and there wasn't a chance to
throw the runner out if I stopped to
straighten up. so 1 threw without look
lng and without waiting and plunged
forward onto my face. The yell from
the crowd told me the first baseman
had caught It, and as I scraped the
dust out of my eyes and trotted back
to position I felt at home.
"I wasn't excited nor elated, but the
confidence that had carried me through
the minor leagues came back with a
rush and all fear was gone 1 wits a
big leaguer—and knew It. The next
time at bat I crowded the plate. Jock
eyed with the pitcher and watched He
whipped a curve Inside the plate,
pretended to dodge and let the ball hit
me. It hit hard and I squirmed, but as
the manager bent over me 1 winked at
him and, letting him lift me. I limped
down te first—nr.d stole second on the
first ball pitched, sliding clear around
the basemau. On my third trip to the
plate I cracked a clean hit over second
base and. after being sacrificed to sec
©nd. stole third because 1 figured no
•ne would expect a recruit to do that
"In the clubhouse that night the
manager said, 'You'll do, kid. if you
don't get swelled.' And I replied, I've
gone through that.'"
One to Five Meals a Day.
Id England people are sometimes ad
dicted to five meals a day—breakfast
lunch, tea. dinner and supper. The
continental fashion Is a snack for
morning coffee, a midday meal and an
evening meal. But when the great army
of Xerxes w#s marching through Asia
Minor, and city by city had to provide
food for the day. the people thanked
God that Xerxes and hlB army ate but
once a day.
Tl|s path of success in business
Invariably the path of common sensa.
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LONDON B00TBLACK8.
In
Street Corners Knew Them Early
the Eighteenth Century.
Liquid blacking, such as Is now used,
was invented early in the nineteenth
century. Previously various mixtures
were used.
There are many allusions in eight
eenth century literature to shoeblacks
and blacking. In the London World of
Jan. 31, 1754, Edward Moore, describ
ing the miseries of an author, says that
he would rather have started in life as
a shoeblack had he but had the money
to buy or credit to procure "a stool,
brush and blackball."
An old kind of blacking consisted of
ivory black, very coarse moist sugar
and water, with a little vinegar. A
mixture of whale oil and soot was used
In Gray's time. The author of "Tri
via" has several allusions to the "black
youth" who stood at street corners
then as now:
Hark! The boy oalls thee to his destla'd
stand.
And the shoe shines beneath bis oily hand.
Defoe makes his Colonel Jack de
scribe himself when a boy as a dirty
vagabond, "like a 'Black your shoes,
your honu-?' a beggar boy. a black
guard boy or .iut you please, despica
ble and miserable to the last degree."
Here Is another quotation from "Tri
via" (1715?):
His treble voice resounds alone the mews,
And Whitehall echoes. "Clean your hon
or's Bhoee!"
—London Notes aud Queries.
FIRST SLOT MACHINE.
It W*s Invented by Hero of Alexandra
About 125 B. C.
Hero of Alexandria (about 125 B.
was an ingenious inventor of mecha
leal toys. In his works. •Pneumatic:
aud "Automata." he describes sou
hundred small machines that he pro
ably never carried beyond the "mode
stage.
These Included a steam engine and
double forcing pump to be used as
fire engine.
Hero was also the inventor of tl
automatic delivery, or penny lu thesis
machine. He describes "a sacrlfici*
vessel which flows only when rnont}
is Introduced."
When the coin Is dropped through
the slit it falls on one end of a ba
anced horizontal lever, which bela*
depressed opens a valve suspended
from a chain at the other end, and tho
water begins to flow.
When the lever has been depressed
to a certain angle the coin falls off and
the valve, being weighted, returns to
its seat and cuts off the supply. The
mechanism is practically identica
with the present system Baltimore
Sun.
A Peer and His Patent,
After It is once Issued the patent for
the creation of a new peerage cannot
be altered. Otherwise Lord Glerawiy
would be written Lord Glenawley. as
Qerawly was written by a clerk !u
mistake for this word. Another in
teresting case of a similar nature Is
that of Charles Pawlet. afterward
third Duke of Bolton, who died In
1754. In 1717. while his father, the
second duke, was still alive, Pawlet
was made a peer as Lord Pawlet of
Basing, although the Intention of the
king and his advisers was to summon
him to the house of lords under one ui
his father's Juulor titles—that of Baroi
St John of Basing. However, the
writ of summons had been made out
to Lord Pawlet of Basing, and Pawlet
bore this title until he became Duke of
Bolton in 1722. Westminster Gazette
Maiden Insurance.
The Maiden Insurance company is
singular Denmark institution. It Is
comined to the nobility, and the noble
man. as soon as a female child is born
to him, enrolls her name on the com
pany's books and pays in a certain
sum and thereafter a fixed annua
amount to the treasury. When tiie
youug girl has reached the age
twenty-one she Is entitled to a fixed
Income and to an elegant suit of apart
rnents, and this income aud this resl
dence. both almost princely, are her*
until she either marries or dies. Tb
society has existed for generations, it
has always prospered. Thanks to it
poverty stricken old maids are un
known among the Denmark nobility
but every maiden lady Is rich aud
happy.
Nicely Arranged.
It Is related that the uegroes were
once greatly excited lu Johannesburg
over a rumor of a Kaffir uprising. One
white woman said to her black boy:
"You wouldn't kill your missus,
would you?"
"Oh. no," the boy replied "boy next
door kill you, and I kill his missus."
The affair, it seemed, had all been
arranged, and very delicately at that
This boy's name was "Machinery.'
The blacks take any name they hear
used among the whites, and "Machln
ery" Is a very common name In Johaa
nesburg.—E. W. Howe's Monthly.
8ound Advice.
"These shoes you sold me last w
squeak so that they actually keep
awake nights." said the customer,
terlng the shoe store.
"My dear sir," replied the shoe de'
er reassuringly, "you shouldn't »1«
In them."- Yonkers Statesman.
Human Nature.
Tall
a man that there are 2T0,189,BS
481 stars and he will believe you. £t
If a sign says Fresh Paint, he has
make a personal investigation*—QJiu
clnnatl Enquirer.
Oh, how hard It Is to die and not
abla to leave the world any bettor ur
one's little life In it!—Abraham
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