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: t j i i i i There are moments when Phylli ■da’s thirst for Information would not be satisfied with the entire contents ■of an encyclopedia. It has sometimes occurred to me, during a cross-exam ination at her hands, that nature in tended her for a K. C. At the Chan cery bar she would have been in her. element. It was half-past 3 when I reached the Curzon street house, and I had shamefully prolonged my call until a quarter to 6. As, however, I had not seen Phyllida for nearly two weeks, we naturally had a great deal to talk about. “You ihustn’t dream of going yet,” she said, when at last I arose. . . “I’m afraid my train will, though.” “Never mind,” she returned, with generous impartiality. “You can take the next. I want you to tell me all about your visit to Trouville." “All!” “Yes, all. Begin at the beginning, please. What did you do when you arrived?” “Before or after I had got ovei; the first shock of leaving you?” Phyllida sighed plaintively. “You seem to be fond of silly re marks; so please listen to me.” I put my watch back in my pocket, and metaphorically entered the wit ness box. A leading question came at ^---_once. • •“Did you have a good time?” ; “Yes.” A triumphant gleam illuminated my inquisitor’s face. “Then you must have got into mis chief. What was she like? Was she fair or dark?” “That question requires notice,” I returned, diplomatically. The protest was waved aside. “No, it doesn’t. It only requires a plain answer.”'' “I’ll try and think of one, then.” “Please don’t. I shall have to tell you what it was myself. Still, I don’t suppose I shall get the truth out of you.” The Insinuation seemed unworthy. Besides it wounded what the best novelists unanimously call amour pro pre. “This is not the best way to invite confidence,” I returned with, I hope, gentle dignity. “A moment ago and I was more than ready to reveal the inmost workings of my soul. As it is, however, well”— Phyllida seated herself on the arm of my chair, and our eyes met. Re garded from the standpoint of strict ■propriety, I do not defend the next step she took. Still, it was distinctly ■—soothing—and, then, we were alone. “Now you’re nice again,” she ex claimed. “You can’t think what an alteration it makes in your appear ance. You’re quite a different man when you smile.” “Flatterer! ” Phyllida shook her head. “Of course, I don’t really mean it. That is, what I do mean is, you’re just ^"*fej,same stupid, annoying, old dear whatever expression you put on.” "You have removed a weight from my mind.” “I think,” went on my companion, eyeing me critically, “there are mo ments when I like you nearly as much as—well, George Henderson.” “But he doesn’t like me at all.” “Don’t be stupid! Yousknow per fectly well that what I mean is that I like you nearly as much as I like George Henderson. You needn’t sneer at him just because he’s a Colo nial. Some of the best people have gone to the colonies. ” “Certainly, and some of the best judges have sent them there. ” Phyllida looked at me sharply. “Judges of what?” Before I could think of r. suitable reply, however, she had remembered the original matter under discussion. “I wish you wouldn’t stray from the subject, like this,” she observed plaintively. “What I want to know is how you behaved yourself in Trou ville. You can begin by describing all the girls you fell in love with while you were away from me.” “All of them?” “Certainly.” “I’m afraid I shall have to go in ten minutes.” Phyllida went through the process known as “bridling.” “So it would take longer than tl^at to exhaust the list, would it?” she exclaimed. “I’m disappointed in you, especially after all your solemn prom ises. Still, I’m glad to have found you out, though.” “Far be it from me to deprive you of any innocent pleasure,” I returned, “but, really, you wrong me in thlnk * ing”— Phyllida’s face changed swiftly. “TJien you didn;t—er—oh, you know—with anybody?” “Certainly not.” “Oh, I am so glad! You didn’t mind my asking, though, did you?” “Not a bit.” “Some men are so stupid. They’ll -—---i -1 never be candid with a woman. Now, I’ve only one more question. You must answer it truthfully. Open con fession is good for the—er—soul, you know. ” Phylllda generally misquoted plati tudes. Still, she seldom damages the sentiments. “What is the question, please?" “It’s this: Did you see any girl you liked very much? Please be perfectly candid.” “Only one.” Phylllda raised her eyebrows. “Oh, Indeed. So you liked her very much, did you?” “Very much, Indeed.” An ominous expression swept across my companion’s brow. “You seem to be perfectly callous.” “Let us, rather, call it candid.” “Let us call things by their proper name,” she retoroted stiffly. “Upon my word, you can’t be trusted out of my sight for a moment. By the way, you didn’t go the length of proposing matrimony to this minx, did you?” “Certainly not. Besides, I fancy her mother had other designs for her future. ” But Phyllida refused to be placated so easily. “Was there anything at all between you?" she demanded. “Nothing more than a hasty kiss or two. You see, I only saw her once.” • “What!” she gasped. “You—you —kissed her?” “Yes, but only in a brotherly way.” “Brotherly fiddlesticks! Oh, how could you?” “It was quite easy.” Phyllida sprang up at the reply. “What! You actually boast of it! Why^pou must be brazen! ” It was high time to assert myself. “Do you condemn me unheard? You don’t know all the circumstances yet!” “What other things are there, pray?” “The extenuating ones.” “I don’t want to hear them. I don’t believe there were any. What were they?” “Well, to begin with, the lady didn’t object.” “Then she was brazen, too. I knew it!” In the Interest of common justice I felt bound to protest. “Pray do not asperse the character of a lady who is not present to defend herself. I am prepared to accept the entire responsibility for what hap pened. ” Phyllida softened obviously. “I expected you to say that. But, then, it’s because you’re a man.” “It is merely the truth. However, even apart from this consideration, I could not permit myself to stand by and hear a woman’s character as sailed—especially in her absence— without a word of protest.” Phyllida laughs scornfully. “Heroics don’t suit you. As for this girl, she’s a designing minx—a cat, : too. So there! I dare say, though, if the truth were only known, she j found out how weak you were and led you on.” “Well,” I admitted reflectively, “her behavior might certainly have been considered as—er—encourag ing.” A new light crept into Phyllida’s eyes. “It’s just what I expected,” she de clared, “only worse. Tell me all that happened. I’ll try to bear it.” “I don’t think I ought to betray a confidence. ” Phyllida sighed. Then she made another attempt. “Did she put her arms around your neck and kiss you like this?” “Perhaps a little more warmly. But don’t condemn her unheard. Remem ber, she was really very young.” Phyllida shook her head with deci sion. “Quite old enough to know better, I’m sure.” “Not in my opinion.” “Well, how old was she?” “I didn’t ask her. It’s not consid ered polite to do so—at any rate, in the best circles.” “Considering the intimate terms on which you appear to have got, it’s cu- j rious that you let a little formality like that stand in your way. ” “But I didn’t ask hefr mother.” “That was something, then,” ad mitted Phyllida. “And did she tell you?” “Yes.” “Well, what did she say?” “I don’t think youought to inquire. Consider, how would you like it it”— Phyllida's hand touched mine. “But I want to know, please.” “How much?” “Very much, indeed.” “And it’s not out of a spirit of mere I curiosity?” “Of course not. Don’t be so ag gravating. If you still care for me at all, and want me to try and forgive you, just tell me at once how old that horrid girl was when she made you kiss her.” “Put your head a little nearer, then. ” A little pink ear was inclined to a suitable proximity. “Now.” "Just two years. ”—New York Jour nal. THE MEANING OF “MERCERIZED” Process For Making This Kind of Cloth In vented in 1840. Mercerized cotton was first Intro duced as a substitute for silk some ten or twelve years ago, although the process for making it was invent ed about 1840 by the celebrated Eng lish dyer, John Mercer, says the Craftsman. He discovered that when cotton, either in cloth or in yarn, was subjected for a short time to the ac tion of strong caustic alkali, and then thoroughly washed, the resulting ma terial was much stronger than before, had shrunk very considerably, and had a much greater affinity for dye stuffs. Mercer patented his discov ery and made use of it in calico printing, but the process was nearly forgotten until, in 1889, it was dis covered that by proper treatment cotton could, by this means, be made so lustrous as to compare not un favorably with silk. To make the cotton lustrous, the goods after dipping into the strong alkali, are kept firmly stretched, and their strong tendency to shrink resist ed, until the alkali has been thor oughly rinsed off and the last traces neutralized with a little acid. If this is done carefully, when finally dried the cotton fabrics will be found drawn out smooth and lustrous, while still retaining their new qualities of strength and increased dyeing power. To get good results in this process the materials treated, whether yarn or cloth, must be made of the very best and longest stapled cotton, pre ferably Egyptian, and when well done the results are extremely satisfactory. The luster is not as good as the very best silk, but it is quite well marked, and for replacing the cheap grades of heavily weighted silks, as, for in stance, for underwear, linings, etc., the mercerized goods are of very great value, owing to their strength and durability, as well as their cheap ness. - POULTRY CULTURE HOW TO MAKE POULTRY PAY. By. W. M. Kelly. To start right we must have some good hens and let us make a close study of the various breeds and see which one would be the best adapted to the purposes that we desire to use them for. In the first place there are some breeds that are adapted to but one purpose, and that is laying eggs; among these breeds we find that the poultry-men call the Mediterranean breeds, such as the Leghorns, Minor cas, Hamburgs and others. Now, these are very good breeds, but what we are after is a hen that will sit and hatch us some nice young chickens and take care of them in the best shape. We also want to select a breed that will be ideal for market, one that will mature early, have a nice clean color; they must be good layers; lay good sized eggs; active enough to be good rustlers after grasshoppers and worms; be good sitters and mothers; easily tamed and .handled, and a breed that will bear confinement well. There are many excellent breeds for this class found among what the poultrymen call the American breeds. These breeds are what we call a general-purpose fowl, that is, they are adapted to the farm or to the poultryman who does not make a specialty of any one branch of the business. The Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Isl and Reds, the Wyandottes, and other breeds belong to this class. The Brahmas, Cochins, Langshans and others of the large breeds of the Asiatic class are not as good layers as the smaller breeds; they are more Inclined to be broody, and, as a rule, are not as good rustlers as the Amer ican breeds, and for that reason I would not advise you to select your foundation stock from that kind of breeding. When we look the field all over, there is no breed that stands pre eminently at the head of the utility class like the Plymouth Rocks, and I do hot believe that we would go wrong if we selected our stock from some good flock of that breed. Some will say, why not try Wyar dottes? They are good fowls, but they are somewhat lighter than the Plymouth Rocks, and that is against them competing with the Rocks; they iay smaller eggs, which is also against them. Some will say eggs sell by the dozen, so what’s the difference? But let me tell you when you sell your aggs to your customers they like good, big, fresh eggs, and you will get more money for that kind than you can for little, under-sized eggs. I have learned that large eggs are the best to suit the private customer avery time, and they are the ones for you to sell your eggs to. The Plymouth Rocks lay good-sized eggs that are of a nice shape and color. Of the various breeds of Rocks, 1 would choose the White Rocks, as it is easier to breed them true to color; they dress very clean and white when killed for market. A flock of this breed when care fully bred and handled are a credit to any poultry-man, no matter how young or how old he may be. The Buff Rocks and the Barred Kncks are excellent fowls and are fully as good in many respects as the White Rocks, but you will find it much easier to breed birds of a solid color and keep them true to type and markings than to breed the colored breeds. We must have a chicken that will grow fast and mature early and for this purpose I know of no breed su perior to the White Rocks. They have a plump body and are attrac tive in the market and when full grown it has the weight that makes it bring home the money that it cost to grow it. The cockerels that are to be sold In the fall make quite an Important Item for us to consider, and the White Rocks cannot he excelled In this point. When the hens are too old to keep for egg-producing purposes, It Is quite an Important Item to have them weigh six to eight pounds and sell for ten cents a pound. There Is an increasing demand for dressed fowls, and If you have egg customers, you should be able to make arrangements to supply them with dressed poultry whenever or dered, and get the top price for your surplus stock. The Rocks are good sitters, kind mothers and will raise more chickens than any other breed that we have ever experimented with. We should select our hens from some good flock that Is well bred, and where the hens have a uniform Poultry Notes. Do not feed the pullets until they will have no ambition to forage. Turning the soil of the poultry yard once a year destroys the gape worm, and guards against the germ* of other diseases which often find lodgment on the surface. One objection to feeding mash to the hens at night is that it is so read ily assimilated that the digestive or gans are emptied before morning, and bodily heat is not maintained. Wagner to the Musicians. His little admonition to the mu sicians was moat characteristic and worthy to bo noted by many an or cheatra of the day. ‘‘Gentlemen,’ he said, “I beg of you not to take mj fortissimo too seriously! Wher< you see ‘ft’ make a ‘fp’ of it, and foi piano play pianissimo. Remembei how many of you there are dowi there against the one poor single hu man throat up here alone on th« stage.”—From Neumann’s ‘‘Persona! Recollections.” _ appearance, and then buy & flrst* /Class rooster from some breeder who has a different strain of the same breed, so as to avoid inbreeding. The best rooster that can be found for what you can afford to pay should be selected. It is easy to grade up a flock to good hens, by using the best roosters every year and selling all of the pullets that are not up to the breed standard. After you get started, subscribe for some good farm or poultry paper and keep up with the times. There is much pleasure and profit in studying the business and in excelling in some special line, when others have failed. —Farm World. Convenient Hencoops. As poultry houses on farms have to be repaired often as a general rule, would it not be better to build more subsantial ones at flrst and save the trouble and expense of continually improving them? Let us consider this matter. The carpenter usually thinks that any kind of wood will do for a henhouse, and in that he is much mistaken. Only the well sea soned wood should be used, for when the damp days arrive, the house having no heat in it, the boards will shrink and expand until they are out of shape more or less, and then there are cracks to contend with. Use the best wood in the flrst place. Another point worth considering is that of planing the boards that are Coop With Sliding Doors. to be used on the inside of the house. It will take very little more time, and they are then easily cleaned and do not harbor dust as much as if they were rough. If they are smooth they can be easily whitewashed or painted. The main point to consider in build ing a henhouse is that of removable roosts, nests and even the floor boards if there is to be a board floor. Make all these appliances of smooth board or wood, and when they are dirty or the farmer wishes to clean his poultry house they can be taken out into the yard and sprayed, washed or even burned over with a torch. Consider all these things now, and in the end they will be much more economical. The first sketch shows a conven ient way to make a coop for the poul try" yard, of which a special feature is its door. Procure a box of the right dimensions and saw a hole, d, in one end. Then strengthen the box A Box Coop. with narrow strips of wood, b c on each side of the hole b c. This acts as a groove for the door a to slide in. Thus you have a sliding door, which opens and shuts with the great est ease. The front of the coop is inclosed with lath or narrow strips, placed two and a half to three inches apart. The top should be covered with a good grade of roofing paper to make it waterproof. A coop of this sort should be two to two and a half feet long, sixteen inches deep and not less than twenty inches high, while two feet would be better. The simplest coop is the common A-shaped coop. It is quickly and easily made. This coop may be con structed either with or without a floor. A floor is desirable, except dur ing warm weather and where the soli drains quickly. The box coop shown In the second sketch in some respects is preferable to the A-shaped coop, for In the lat ter the hen can stand upright only near the middle of the coop, while \ with the box coop the entire floor space is available for her and the chickens. The box coop is also more easily cleaned. If desired a small covered run can be made for each coop. This is es pecially desirable if there is danger j of losses from cats, hawks, etc. Fresh air is essential for the health of the , fowls. A successful j poultry raiser says: "One of my poultry houses is lathed and plastered, while another is single boarded with paper lining on two sides. It has four half win dows on south side and a frame fitted over each window with cloth stretched and tacked on. In this house I have been getting the most eggs and no j frozen combs, although the drinking water freezes. The plastered house drew dampness until I had an old screen door hung and tacked cotton cloth over it. Soon after the hens began to lay.”—Weekly Witness. The tiny mite becomes a mighty factor in reducing the egg supply un less it is constantly kept down. Half way measures will not do. A sprayer that will force kerosene into all the cracks of the poultry house is better than a brush. Cottonseed meal sin uld not he fed to the chickens in larger quantities, as it has a tendency to constipate the j fowls. Texas is credited with having more turkeys than any other State in the Union. If you allow eggs for setting to stand around for two weeks before putting them under file hen, do not j blame the dealer If they do not hatch Husband Owns Wife’s Dresses. The queston of who owns the; dresses of a wife came ,up in the Brompton county court of Maryland recently and the Judge decided that the husband Is the owner. The man held that he had given the wife the money to buy the dresses In dispute.; and, although they were not paid for, It was decided that they belonged to him. The population of Dublin, Ireland. In 1901 was 447,266, and the popula tion of Belfast 348,965. IA CATHOLIC BROADSIDE AGAINST RACE SUICIDE. Clergy of Baltimore Put Their Strong Views Before Public in Form of Advertisement. The following advertisement ap peared recently in the Baltimore pa pers: "At the quarterly conference of the Catholic Clergy of Baltimore, as sembled at St. Mary’s Seminary, Feb ruary 23, 1909, the following resolu tion was presented and adopted: "We, the Catholic priests of Balti more assembled in conference, view with alarm and indignation the atti tude of certain influential publica tions, which circulate largely in the homes of our Catholic people, in re gard to the dangerous and immoral practice of limiting families by the arbitary restriction of childbirth. "When the daily newspapers begin to spread such theories, we feel that the time has come for plain speech on our part, and that it is our duty to protect the interests of the people and to prevent them from being inoc ulated with such dangerous doc trines. We pledge ourselves to ac complish this end, not only by teach ing the truth on these subjects, but. also, when necessary, by denouncing such publications as dangerous and Immoral. "(Signed) O. B. CORRIGAN, “Bishop of Macra, Chairman." Bishop Corrigan stated that the resolution grew out of a series of ar ticles in a Baltimore newspaper. — SECRET OF UNIVERSE. French Astronomer Predicts Its Dis covery—The Germ of Life. The international congress, which is engaged in making a photographic map of the skies, is devoting much attention to the planet, or asteroid, Eros, which plays an important part in the measurement of stellar dis tances. The map is expected even tually to show between thirty million and forty million stars. The French astronomer M. Renau dat, says that the results already at tained prove that great activity reigns in the stellar world; that ev erything is movement. "Ultimately,” he continues, “we have the right to believe that we gradually will reach an exact knowledge of the mystery of the constitution of the universe." Antoine Henri Becquerel, the phys icist, has reported before the Acade my of Sciences a most interesting demonstration of the life of seeds. Submitted to powerful life-destroy ing tests—drying in a vacuum at a temperature of 253 below zero—they retain their germinating force. The conclusion drawn by M. Becquerel is that life is not a mysterious princi ple, but a simple physical and chemi cal function of an organism produced by the substances and the forces of its cosmic environment. — Paris Cor respondence of New York Tribune. WISE WORDS. Many a woman puts everything on her back to make a good front. The value of experience is only demonstrated by the after effects. It's no fun for a woman to tell a secret to any one she thinks will keep it. The trouble with the family skele ton that it is never as dead as it seems. Look pleasant, even though you may not be going to have your pic ture taken. It doesn’t do much good to try to dodge the collector when there’s the devil to pay. There isn’t a great deal of differ ence between being called down and being shown up. The man who minds his own busi ness isn’t so apt. to have other people doing it for him. If we could read the future as we can the past, it would probably be just as unsatisfactory. The only man who can afford to live up to his ideals is the one who is satisfied to remain poor. It’s all right to whisper sweet nothings, but if a fellow really wants to marry he must make a noise like real money. * I saw a fellow arrested the other day for swiping a handful of peanuts from an Italian's stand. Although I didn’t attend the hearing, it’s a safe bet that he was charged with imper sonating a policeman. — From the “Gentle Cynic,” in the New York Times. Sandy's Delicatq Hint. Sandy A"nd his lass had been sitting together about half an hour in si lence. “Maggie,” he said, at length, “wasna 1 here on the Sawbath nicht?” “Aye, Sandy, I daur say you were.” “An' wasna I here on Monday nicht?” “Aye, so ye were.” “An’ I was here on Tuesday nicht, an’ Wednesday nicht, and’ Thursday nicht, an’ Friday nicht?” “Aye, I’nj thinkin' that’s so.” "An’ this is Saturday nicht, nr.' I’m here again?” "Weel, what for, no? I’m sure ye’re very welcome.” Sandy (desperately) — “Maggie, woman! D’e no begin to smell a rat?”—Success Magazine. Fodder for the Newlyweds. The newly married couple had just moved into their new home. On the morning after their arrival a baker called to solicit their fade. He found the young wife in the kitchen. 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