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IIETHGDS OF THE MINE CAMP TRAMPS. llow They Were Altected l>y the Discoy cries tit Ciipe Nome and Elsewhere in the North. mt.re.tln* Stn.ly of a Curio,,, Cluss-Xot %II Pro .,, ee(or . , |e , but Mnn, Do and Their Way, Are Devlou._Tl.ev Arc E„,eeinl- I, Xumeron, iu the De.ert, and Are He.pon.lble for Mom of the Xo.t Mine Stoiies-'l'he Land of the Mirage Seattle, Aug. 10.—While the majority of the people in the Rocky Mountain mine camps are reading with steadily growing regret about the enormous wealth of the Cate Rome gold diggings, the mine camp u mps Hoik to the saloons, and, with un concealed interest and delight, search each n cw issue of the newspapers for confirma tion of the earlier dispatches from the north. A right interesting condition of affairs has been developed in the home mine comps by the Alaska finds. With public ti,ought centered, in the Arctic zone, the home camp promoters and speculators have found their sales of ‘'properties" growing fighter and lighter. The trans portation men, who were wont to race from range to range in order to be the first to establish stage and freight lines to newly made camps, have been obliged to rut their stock out to pasture. Dust gatheis over stocks of hardware and gro oerfiv-. The footlights are turned out in it.e mine camp theater, and the mine camp soubtetle smekes cigarettes in soli tude. The click of the ball In the roulette wheel is heard but faintly, if at all. Since Th* Tramp Th<sn Explained That He Had Exhibited the “Specimen” for a Joke. Alaska was boomfd the Witwalersrand of the Mojave desert is forgotten in the unil ev£fr such famous camps as Creeds and Cripple Creek are boomed there no more than are the coal mine towns of Pennsylvania. Nevertheless, though hard hit when the Alaskan news first came, the mine camp tramps have risen superior to the situa tion. When and where they first develop ed has r ever been recorded and cannot row be learned, but what they are and how they flourish—especially how they flourish—ls something known to every ob servant person who has lived in a mine camp in recent years. How Mine Comp Tromps Live. When Nat C. Creede struck his pick into the Colorado mountain 6ide and discovered the mine he called the Holy Moses—the With Unconcealed Interest and Delight They Searched for a Confirmation of the Earlier Dispatches From the Arctic Regions. _____ mine that, with other properties In the neighborhood, made him rich and famous, he was known among the mining men of the Rocky mountains as a grub-stake prospector. Three capitalists of Denver had cinbbcd together to supply him with a prospector's outfit—burroe. food, tools, *te -and had sent him searching for "sur fa.ro indication," “croppings," “true fis sure veins"—in short, for a paying mine. It was a right good speculation for these capitalists. A little later in the same Veer a number of drug clerks in Colorado Ci y clubbed together ami sent a pros pe or like Creeds—u man with it grub stake—to explore the then unknown re gion of Cripple Creek. Their man found W'hait hus since become famous as the Pharmacist mine—famous because there was paying ora from the grass roots down. The stories of these strikes ran over the whole mining region of the notion as n drop of oil spreads over wind-swept waters. For every man who made nwincv ■ tit of the wmrk of these two prospectors h Is likely that a thousand were Inspired to try the ame method. And there is t o form of speculation more common In •te mining region to-day than that of ‘ s’tiklng" a prospector. A a mailer of fact, where a man like Creeds Is employed—an honest man who lies trained himself lor the work by long study and experience—the speculation is gurt tp succeed in the long run. And It ( ** is this Interesting state of affair* that the mine camp tramp has originated. Among oil the sights in anew mine camp, file nost of prospectors with smalibutfits is most likeiy to astonish the tourist and tenderfoot. The wonder is where these prospectors all come from and how they all got there. They swarm in the streets and they ore scattered over the gulches and mountain sides. Every one of them has staked out at least one claim, and many of them have staked claims in num bers, but are still wandering about to stake more. Here and there a few are sinking shafts. If the tourist stops to talk with any of them he finds them learned in the lore of the camp and of other camps. If the ac quaintance be pushed (and the tender foot is never rebuffed by them) they are found living in all sorts of queer homes— dugouts in the hillside, brush-and-log shacks, tents—anything to give shelter. By following them still further their “workings”—shafts—may be examined, and it is here if at all that the tourist must learn the real character of his new friends. In the first place, the locations will be found most remarkable. I have seen claims staked out on the slide rock near the foot of a mountain—the mass rf debris that had been thrown down by avalanches and lesser powers of snow and rain. There was no guessing how far away was the solid rock of the mountain side—the “rock in place.” But in each case the prospector had found a piece of ore (or, at least, he said he had) at the place where he drove his stake, and ore was produced together with an assay, to prove the statement. Of course, there was not even the ghost of a chance of de veloping a mine there, but the prospectors had received the usual grub stake from some confiding speculator and were mak ing their usual return. Taking the grub-stake—a quantity of food to last, say, sixty days—together with means of transportation and the necessary tools for working a claim, they had gone away to tlie newly discovered claim which some honest prospector had located. Then they hod built little shelters, and had en tered upon the life of the camp with zest. To while away the time in pleasant weath er they wandered around the region until some stray bit of ore was found. That this ore was dropped by a miner from the vein thaf gave the camp its existence was nothing to these prospectors. "Alines are where you find them,’ is a common proverb of the camp. That the chunk was a piece of "floating ’ ore —a piece split by the frost and water from some ledge far up the side of the moun tain, and carried by an avalanche down to the gulch, did not suggest to them that they*make a serious examination of the mountain side to find the ledge. The stak ed out the claim where they found the "float"—the odd of ore—cracked open the chunk to get a piece of It with no moss on, and then took that piece to an assayer, who would run it through his retort and ask no questions. The assayer’s report was sent to the confiding capital ist, who furnished the grub-stake to en courage him. Prospectors of this sort are the mine cump tramps. Their sole ambition in life is to keep themselves supplied with grub stakes that they may live in idleness about the mine camps in bad weather, and In (he summer sunshine wander over moun tains where fisn and game abound. The most remarkable of these rascals is the deaert tramp—the one vho haunts the desert region between and Including the Staked Plain* of New Mexico and the Mojave in California. The barren ness of the region helps him. "There THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. AUGUST 12, 1000. ought to be mineral here: if there ain't there ain't nothing else worth anything.” is a common expression. And then the colors of the rocks suggest mineral. Iron in various combinations is generally re sponsible for the colors, but copper is found in quantities sufficient to stain a mountain side, and yet not yield a dol lur a ton in an assay. Then, too, the people who go to the region, with rare exceptions, go there expressly to get rich out of mining, and for no other reason. They are not there for their health, and they are willing to listen to the tale of even a known liar. Wondrous 'l'ale, of 1.0,t Aline,. Marvelous are the stories told and re lated In the desert camps. They get into print at frequent intervals and the tramp prospector knows them all. Who has not heard of the Gun- Sight Lead lying some where in the Panamint Mountains, just west of Death Valley? One of the old emigrants who crossed that fearsome gorge got separated from his companions, but managed at last to reach civilization in California. He had picked up a piece oi white metal beside a spring and car ried it with him. though he had no idea what the metal was. Then, having lost the front sight of his trusty rifle, he car ried the white metal chunk to a gunsmith to have anew sight made of il. There was a striking tableau when the gunsmith saw the chunk, for he recognized it us native silver! In strict confidence, the tramp prospec tor tells his victims that he has picked floating rock from the toot of the very' mountain in the Panamint range where Gun Sight Lead was found, and he pro duces a piece of ore showing native silver to prove his words. But when he thus had a fortune within his grasp, his sup ply of food gave out and he had to re turn to the railroad. Now, If the listen ers would fit him out for sixty days he could go there, stake everything in sight and sink the ten-foot shafts required by the law where claims are to be held. Or the prospector has seen those mar velous litrle buttes—the “Twin Buttes," that rise through the messa somewhere between Amagossa valley and that of the Colorado. Those buttes were discovered by a man who was lost on the desert, so the tale runs, and he cracked off a piece of the chocolate-colored rock because it was studded with gold as thickly as a miner's shoe with hobnails, and event A Prospector Driving Her Stake. ually got to a civilized locality. He never could find the place again, but the tramp can if you will believe him. He says he found it by accident Just as his food gave out. He has a piece of chocolate-colored rock with tiny specks of gold in it to prove his words. Now. if the listeners would fit him out for sixty days he could go there and stake everything in sight. I heard that story told in a hotel in Magdalena, N. M., one day. There were half a dozen listeners, including a com mercial traveler. When the tramp pro duced his chocolale colored ore with gold nuggets visible on opposite sides, the com mercial traveler asked to see it. After some hesitation, the tramp let him take it. It certainly was heavy enough and it looked quite like half rotten breccia with gold showing on two sides, but the com mercial man dropped it accidentally and it struck on a nail that projected an eight of an inch above the floor. The shock broke the specimen, and then It was seen to be a piece of broken brass around which the tramp had cemented some chocolate colored earth. The tramp then explained that he had exhibited the “specimen" for a Joke on the tenderfoot present, but a citizen told me the fellow had "worked” one man al ready for a grub stake. 'Ti, the Land of tlie Mirage. That tenderfeet should be caught by the mine camp tramps is a matter of course, but the surprising fact is that the idle guild shooild be steadily supported by the old-time residents of these camps—the merchants and sober citizens. It costs, say SIOO to stake a prospector. If four men divide the risk it Is only twenty-five each, and that is like betting a nickel against a hundred on a horse race or the turn of a card. The sober citizen will try It once for luck. "Who knows but what anew camp like Creede may grow out of a similar venture, ns Creede grew out of a similar venture? If the fellow Is telling the truth, and his story cer tainly is plausible, why, then " So says the mine camp capitalist and what he thinks about following his "why. then," is of the wondrous Joy of life when the shipments of ore from this to-be-lo cated mine yield a thousand dollars a day. For it is the region of the mirage. When the Alaskan developments first roused the country, the trump prospec tors found their occupation badly hurt. Some got grub stakes for an Alaskan trip, remarkable as that may seem, but the speculative capitalists In so many cases joined the rush for the North that the tramp prospectors were often left stranded. The business men who did not leave the home camps had far less money to risk on ventures. The number of men who were found picking for food among the refuse of the mine camp restaurants was never so large. But the tramp prospector's genius has risen superior to this, as it has always risen superior to every ill. He knows there is but one remedy for the stagna tion in the deserted Rocky Mountain camps, end that remedy Is anew strike. Ho is now going to the mine camp capi talists and Is saying that this Is the very time to venture. It Is in the nature of the capitaliet—especially the desert capitalist— to listen. More Ingenious still, the tramp prospector has been known to announce his woundrous discoveries through the newspapers. When he has tried to beguile ihe speculative capitalists In vain, this tramp, In these last days, announces through the press that he has made a dis covery of wondroua riches. Through the mine camp news gatherers he is even able to reach the papers of the whole country. Only a day or two ago the day's New York papers contained a paragraph tele graphed from Arizona announcing a strike "of what Is reputed to be very rich white goid-bearing quartz.” It admit* that "the ground has been prospected for many years, and heavy cuts were made through il" when the railroad was grnded. "No one suspected the presence of the precious metals." of course, but "a whole four feet deep has been mada and a sample assay shows $23,000 worth'of gold to the ton." It Is possible, of couise, that this dis patch t* founded on fact. There may have been a strike of one assaying *23? or $23 a lon, In a place where "the ground has been prospected for many years," hut the tar-marks of the trump prospector are In the dbpatch. The ore In their <lo'ms either yields thousands of dollars per ton, or else there are millions of tons of low grade ore lying where It can bo worked at a cost not to exceed *2. per ar( , Other tramp* of th* desert, broken down specimen* of humanity , who ara b'ggar* only. They can te found even on the inhospitable trail that irom Mojave, California, to the settle ments in Southern I’tah. Hov they live is more than I know, but I have sten a natural formation of water* lying over the range to the east of Drath Valley that is known as Resting Springs, und t got its name because it was a favoritu with the tramps of both kinds that fre quent the desert. The hvg;-nm, however, ore very little, if any, different from these found in the East. They are bj no means To be compared with the picturesque ‘trumps whose ability as story tell rs of tales about lost mines an 1 1 ads enables them to wahder at idle will among the fascinating semes of the American wilderness. CHI*BSC* rOlvKEMfc*. There Are Nearly of Them in I*eklu. Washington, Aug. 10.—In costume a Chi nese policeman is something between a circus clown and a football player. His breeches are always baggy, and very well wadded—so clumsy you wonder how he gets around in them—particularly when, as is often the case, he wears a coat, also thick and clumsy, coming well below the knees. Dark blue is the prevailing color, set off and accented with bands and facings of lighter blue, red, green, maroon and brown, but never yellow. That is the sacred or royal hue, permu ted to nobody below the rank of viceroy. In the treaty ports—that is to say. those open to foreign influence and -onimercc, the police force Is largely made up of Sikhs from Northern India. The reason, perhaps, is that the Chinese themselves are so essentially un warlike; they have a proverb to the effect that “no good man is ever a soldier.” As men in the pay of the Chinese government, whether natives or not, they have taken an active part in the present troubles in China. The police rank officially as gendar merie. In Fekin the head of them is al ways a Manchu. Poiioemen mu t be plen tier than blackberries in the Chinese cap ital. The sacred or imperial walled city keeps between 16,000 and 20,000 of them. This walled city is two miles square, with two great gates in each wall face, half a mile from the corners, and a mile from each other. Broad streets tdretch straight from one to another, thus cutting the ' '/■ ■ Switch^ - - J 4 — is. SwuchPosition^ t ' <t, 6 e\ :fJ H >Vd *B.* ..♦* (gsiNC Recouping Repeat ing^ Transverse Section of the Telephonograph showing Operation. space inside Into a big nine-block. Po lice stations are scattered ail along the nine squares, especially around their outer edge, which face upon the passway Inside the wall. The head of the police has charge of the city gates. They are nine In number—since the side next the palace proper hus on extra gate in the exact middle of the two-mile wall. Po licemen in this the Tartar city belong to what is known as the Eight Banner Corps. They do not carry arms, not even so much as the baton of a civilized officer, but keep swords, spears, guns and cut lasses in racks at the stations, and make a rush for them when they hear the sig nal gun. This is fired by an officer whose special charge it is, either upon orders, or if in his own Judgment it is necessary. The penalty for firing it at the wrong time is severe—it may be degradation and banishment, or simple strangulation. Upon parades and reviews the police men are always armed, especially If for eign devils are to witness the review, or the parade. The weapons are curious look ing, but wicked In the extreme—the three hooked spears they ell carry in particu lar make jagged and ghastly wounds. Be s'des the tw<nty thousind within the wall Pekin maintains a force of fourteen thou sand with which to regulate affairs In the outer city. They are under command of the same general officer, and governed by the same regulations, though there are variations arising from the differences of situation. Men and officers alike furnish their own uniforms, but are armed by the state, and receive a monthly rice al lowance in addition to their pay. The chief gets a fair salary, but the men and subordinate officers are nvagerly paid. Notwithstanding, thty make and save money enough to retire after moderate terms of service. "Influence" in the shape of cold cash stands the prisoner's friend in China even more than anywhere else in the world. In fact, but for the "pres ents" the force is allowed to squpeze out of natives and foreigners a ike, there might be difficulty In getting men for the service, even though hurfianlty Is cheaper than dirt-cheap al lover the Ce lestial empire. How to Recover Your Umbrella. From the London Globe. There are many tales ab-ut stolen um brellas, and the list is Increased this morning by the Dally Chronicle. A man alighting at the station in a shower of rain ran up to an acquaintance, tapped him on the shoulder, "as one who should say; How are you? Lend me a bit of your brolly." The umbrella carrier, with deletion writ large upon bis face, turned and said without preliminary parl< y, as he banded the umbrella ovrr: "Here It is. I didn't know it was >ourj.” There i* a tale of a preacher who set htmself up in umbrellas by a similar ac cident. His own umbrella had been taken from the porch of the chapel On the next rainy day he gave ou‘, after a sermon on honesty, that the person who had taken away the wrong umbrella should leave It behlrd In th church pooh. When se vi e ♦as owr. he found not cnly his own, but twenty-five othtr umbrellas. Dyspepsia cured Free Indigestion Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy 1* made af ter the prescription of an eminent physi cian and Is the latest discovered digeetant and tonic. No other preparation can ap proach It. In efficacy. It Instantly relieves and permanently cures dyspepsia, indi gestion, heartburn, flatulence, sour stom ach. nausea, sick headache, gastrulgla, cramps, and all other result* of Imperfect digestion. A LADY CURED. Mis* Kate Garner of the Union Hou*e, Gainesville. Ga., ays: "I have been great ly troubled with stomach troubles. Indi gestion and dyspepsia, with the resulting dletr#**. No other remedy seemed to do me any good. I was Induced to try Tyn er's Dyspepsia Remedy, and Its effect w* marvelous—lt cured me completely,” Price 50 cents per large bottle. For snle by druggists. Hlx bottles for *2.60, or sent by express on receipt of price by TYNER'S DYSPEPSIA REMEDY CO., lffltk S. Forsyth *t., Atlanta, Ga. Send 5c to pay pontage for a sample bottle. THE TELEPHONOGRAPH, THE LATEST THING IN SCIENCE. WONDER El L INVENTION BY WHICH THE TELEPHONE l l\ BE L9BD WITH NO ONE I.bTEMWI. I’lionogrn pti lo Attachment Which Preserves the Voire Records \ Simple Contrivance That Ha* Been Invented in Europe nml In I.iki'ly to Have an Iniportunt Place in Our Commercial World—Record* Made on Wire by Mn*;neti*n—■ Mb y lie Kept Indefinitely or Destroyed In stantly—No Need of \Vni Imirc •lon—lion It \\ ork*. By R. Noil Williams. Copyright. 1900. by R. N. Williams. New York. Aug. 10.—The title might lead the uninitiated to expect some strange combination of telephone and phonograph enabling the Bounds of the one to be re corded by the other, and preserved for use at some liter period; and, impracticable as such a combination may strike the reader to Lie for the first moment, that Is Just what a telephonograph is. At the close of this century, however, thanks to the ingenuity of the Danes, Poulsen and Pedersen, the parents of this marvelous invention, we may say there are phonographs and phonographs and they have provided a construction of pho nograph which simplifies and makes prac ticable the above combination. It is ibo old. old story. “Why, how ab surdly simple it all it! I might have in vented that myself,'* we exclaim on being once agnin confronted by so simple an application of nature’s magnificent laws. Bv merely inserting in the circuit of a telephone consisting: only of a magnet, surrounded by a few loops of wire, and a piece of s*eel wire wound .on a barrel, with a clockwork to make that barrel turn around, we are able to gel the tenfold value out of our telephone for the same money. OngM to lie Popular. Jones gete thirsty and go es for a drink. Hardly has he turned his back on the door, when his lawyer calls him up on the 'phone to say, that damage case o( his Is going to >lO tried- on Thursday at 10:30, and he had better put in an appear ance. Mrs. Jones is waiting at her end of the wire "for that horrid person who has been talking lo her husband for the last half hour to get through, as she Is In a dreadful hurry to go out, and wants to let him know that she’s coming down to the office first to get some money, and will be there at 3:30.” Then Bangs the broker wants a lot of figures, so that he can go ahead And fix up that little busi ness of which they were speaking. And Smith wants something, etc., etc., etc. Jones, all this while, is calmly enjoying his drink, sweetly uneonselou* of the press of business at his office. When he gets back, all he has to do, is to press the proper button, or switch the proper switch, and the lawyer redelivers his message, Mr*. Jones gives warning of her approaching visit, Bangs again requests his data, and Smith states bis wants. After attending to all these va rious matters, Jones turns another switch end, figuratively speaking, the state is wiped off, and ready for another record If Jones should happen to get thirs ty again. Or. again, Jones is deeply en gaged making a rough mental calculation, of the essential Items of some specula lion. when, ting-u-llng goes the call-hell, and Mrs. J. wants to remind Mr. J. that he must stop for that umbrella-handle on the way home, and must no* forget to step In at Green’s and tell them to send up live pounds of sugar, ten pounds of oatmeal and four pounds of roffee, Java and Mocha, mixed, while lie's alwmt It ho might order the flowers for Mary's wedding, and, whatevtr he does, lie’s not to forgot to change those books at the library, and if "Richard Carvel" is In, get that, but If It Isn't, why then, etc. Now, Jones, Instead of getting excited, and saying those things which ho ought not to say. quietly lets Mrs. J. gel through her little list, nnd then sends the bell-hoy to the ‘phone, to have what Mrs. J. said repeated and written down, and If the boy doesn't get It right the first time, he can have It again and ugniri Ju3t as often as his more or less flighty faculties may require. The re cording and repeating of sounds, once made by the telephone, Is not, however, the masterpiece of the telephonograph. The possibilities II opens up are matvel ous. A news agency can telephone -to an unlimited number of subscribers simul taneously, and, If necessary, eaeh and every participant can keep a perfect rec ord of the material sent him. The action of the telephonograph Is such, that the repeated sounds ore stronger than the or iginal. a feature which adapts 14 to use as a relay. It Is rather premature ai present to discuss thl* possibility of the invention, but the prospect of telephon ing over unlimited distances la too entic ing for us to oinlt mention of its feasi bility. Instead of being the outcome of some great original dls-overy, such as the many wireless telegraphs, the Innumer able varieties of Invisible rays. etc., with which the market of invention* ha* been flooded for the past two years, the tele phonograph, or lelegrjphophone, a* it Is also called. 1* In Itself thoroughly origi nal, Independent alike in conception, con struction and application. It* Importance has been fully recognized by the highest authorities of the German postal service. They have been closely followlng the experiment* made by the Inventors with apparatus, constructed hy the best manufacturers of telegraphic ap paratus In Germany, to-wlt: Mix and Oe nesl In Berlin, to whom we are Indebted for the accompanying Illustrations. Val denuir Poulsen, a Dane by birth, 1* the originator of the Invention, but he was materially uailited by bis collaborator, P. O. Pedersen. How It WnrltM. The underlying principle of the Inven tion i* as simple as the apparatus result ing therefiom. The residual magnetlrm contained to some degree In nil Iron I* correspondingly affeeltd by Ihe proxim ity of the magnet. On scattering some iron filing*, equally over the surface of the metal, the line that could not be seen before will become distinctly visible. Cor responding to the polarity of the residua! magnetism in the plate o 1 lion and that MuLSummer Inducements. Tlie “stay at home’* and the “golnf array customer** want tome ex tra inducements these mld-MUininer day*. The season Is not over by any means, and thin grand* will have the call for many days yet. Wo have a very attractive stock and you can shop here with so little ex ertion. Our store is COOL, and the cars lirlsg yoa right to the door— without the least fatigue. Ho with comfortable transportation from ev ery section of the city, n cool Inviting store ,tlie best thing:* to seleot from and remarkably low prices, we muke shopping a pleasure and a profit to yoa besides. HERE ARE IRE ITEMS FOR TOUR CONSIDERHTION: 42-inch Serge , 75c quality, for 50c. 45-inch French Black Serge, 86c quality, for 69c. 52-inch Black Cheviot Serge, $1 quality, for 85c. 45-inch Block Mohair 79c; regular *I.OO quality. 51-Inch Gray and Tan Homespuns 75c; regular Ji.Cfl quality. Colored Taffeta Silk 75c; former price'll. Black Penn de Sole and Satin Duchesse Silks reduced from $1 25 to 85c the yard. 30c and 35c Imported Ginghams at 19c. Ladies’ 26-inch Umbrellas, $1 quality, now to 69c. Ladles' 26-inch Umbrella*, $1.25 quality, this week 9Sc. WHITE GOODS. 10c quality India Linen Bc. 12'ac quality 10c. 15c quality 12c. 20c quality 15e, 250 quality 20c. A 16x34 Huck Towel a 10c; worth 15c. Huok Towels, 20x40, $1.75 dozen; worth $2.25. Extra full site $2.00 dozen; worth *2.50 A line Damask Towel* at 25c each; ac tual value 35c. A full line Fringed Doylies at 50c. 76c and SI.OO dozen; wotth 75c, SI.OO and $1.25 dozen. 72-inch White French Nainsook 29c a yard; worth 45c. 72-inch French Nainsook reduced from 65c a yard (o 48c. 72-inch Nainsook reduced from $1 per ynrd to 73c yard. , DANIEL HOGAN: The corner Broughton and Barnard Sts. of the magnet, the density along the line drawn by the magnet will be distinctly greater or less than anywhere els*'. Poulsen’s invention is based on this mu tability of residual magnetism. A steel wire, wound in grooves on a cylindrical drum or barrel, is under the influence ol a small electro-magnel, which can be made lo glide along the entile length of the wire by turning the barrel and causing the magnet to move sideways correspondingly. The core of thl* electro-magnet is an iron wire one-twenty-iflfth of an inch In diam eter, arranged so that the steel wire on the barrel glides between Its two end*. When tne electro-magnet Is exteted by n constant current, and the barrel set in mo tion by the clockwork, as shown in dia gram. switch position (a), the wire will lie equally magnetized from one end to the other, I. e , every section will ron4*ln the snme amount of residual magnetism. When, however, as Is the case with an electro-magnet which is excited by the current of a telephone, the polarity of the inscrlber, ns the magnet is sometimes called. Is continually changing, the resid ual magnetism of the recorder (Ihe steel wire on the barrel) also varies, being eith er weakened or strengthened. The result is (hat the steel wire contains continually varying degrees of magnetism along Its entire length Now It Is one of the first laws of Induction that any change In mag netism near a loop of wire will Induce an electric cuirent in the latter, provided It he a close! ciicuit. To make a long (yet very simple) story short, the steel wire is now able to Induce In Ihe coll* of the magnet a cuirent exactly corresponding inalernation to the original current, ant when therefore the switch Is given the third position (e), and Ihe clockwork set in motion, the sounds telephoned In the first place are repeated, A message was re peated 1,200 times without showing ihe slightest traces of weakening, so that we may Justly say there is almost no limit to the number of repetitions. Moreover, the repeated sound la stronger than the original, which Is quite natural, when we consider thnt currents In one direction strengthen the magnetism In the recording wire, while opposite currents weaken l. The effect Is thus doubled. When the wire Is filled, nil traces of the conversa tion are obliterated by setting the switch In position (tt) again and remagnetizing wire. In practice the construction of the apparatus differs considerably from thnt shown In the diagram, which merely serves to explain the principle of the In vention. gome Application*. There arc three representative type*. In the first a steel wire one-twenty-fifth of an Inch 1 in diameter is wound on a bar rel ten inches long by Ave-one-thalf Inch's in diameter. This apparatus Is good for conversations lasting one minute. The second type will take down conversations laetlng ten to fifteen minutes. The re corder in this ease is n steel band one sixth of an inch wide and one four hun dredth of an inch thick which la wound from one reel to another like the paper of a Morse apparatus. The third form is intended os sender for telephonic news agencies. A short steel band one and one-half inches broad is stretched over two rollers. After parsing under the Inscribing magnet a practically unlimited number of electro-magnet* are influenced by the variations In the magnetism of the bund, each of these receiving magnet* transmits the same meksage to the sub scriber attached, who can either take down the message In shorthand, or keep a record. Finally the band posses an erasing magnet, where the message Is obliterated and the band prepared for n new message, or a continuation of the same one. The Importance of this form of the invention consist* In transmitting news too bulky to telegraph, nnd yet Im portant to many such as commercial In telligence, stock reports, war news—in fact all the matter with which our dally papers are filled. By using this Inven tion, offices could be established from which all the leading business houses In a city could he kept continuously supplied at very small cost with the state of mar kets. stocks and affairs In general. In a country. ueh as Ihe United States, the uze of the multiplying telephonogruph would be valuable at election times, spreading billot news tef the many hun dred-thousands anxiously awaiting re sults. In all branches of civil and mili tary service the Invention In all Its form* will be of much Importance, The most rapid transmission of general order* o a number of men, scattered over a large complex of buildings and In msny offices, can undoubtedly be obtained by the mul tiplying lelephcnograph end when Ihe re corder 4* also used, mistake* are prac tically Impossible. Abbott's Eon India Corn Paint cure.) svsrjr time. It takt* off thacoin; no pain; cure# warts and bunions and 1* conceded to be a wonderful worn eur*. Bold by all druggists.—ad. EXTRA VALVES IX TABLE DAMASKS THIS WEEK. 60-Inch Bleached Linen Table Damask at 49c; actual value 65c. 72-Inch Table Damask reduced tram 85a the yard to 69c. 72-inch Bleached Damask reduced from $1 to 79c. High novelties In the same line of goods at *l, $1.25, sl.so—a snving of fully 25 per cent. A yard-wide Shirting at 7c this week; former price 10c. A better grade at SVjc; former price 100 and 121*0. LADIES' AX'D GF.XTS' HANDKER CHIEFS. I.adiea' Embroidered Handkerchiefs re duced from 12V,c to 9c each. The 15c quality at 11c. A finer line reduced from 25c to 19c. Still a better grade reduced from S6o to 25c. HOSIERY. Ladies’ Openwork 13c; worth 20c. Indies' Black Lisle Drop-siltch at 25c; worth 35c. Ladle*' Black Lisle Woven Colored Silk Dot 'his week set actual value 65c the pr. Ladies' Black Lisle Lace Hosa 69c; worth SI.OO. Men's Drop-slltch Hose 25c; worth 35c. Infants' Lisle Lace Bocks 28c; worth 35c. SPECIALTIES IX DEBITS' HALF HOSE 30c grade at 25c; that sold at 26c thl* week 19c, Clearance za'e this week of Allover La, es and Embroideries at half price. 100 pieces Canton Matting Just leceived; prices 15c to 50c per yard. 150 Smyrna Rugs at reduced price*. THE SINGING INSECTS OF JAPAN. They Ire railed unil Highly Prised for Tlicftr Musical Notes. Singing birds are esteemed In all coun* tries, but It Is on'y In Japan that tlw musical sounds emit ed by certain Insects are appreciated. I.lstcning to these minute singers Is. and has been for many centuries, a favorite pastime of thn Japanese, and has given blrlh to an original commerce. At Toklo, toward the end of May and the beginning of June, one sees suspended under the verandahs of houses, beautiful little cages of bamb.o, from which break upon the el erne of the fresh twilight, strange little whistlings, of metaltc mod ulations. of light trills which dll the air with a de.icate music. It Is habitually in the evening, after the hour of the bath, that the people of Tuklo seat tig mselves aid listen with delight to the shrill con cort. The most pr zi and of these singing Insect* Is the suzumushl. its name means "ineect fce'l." and the sound which It emits re sembba that of a tiny silver bell. It Is a tiny black bettte, of a flat body and very vulgar appearance. The kuteuwa-mushl is so named be cause Us cry resembles the sound mad* by a horse In champing his bit. Thera are two species of It, the one a light yel low and the other a pale green. Really, this Insect Is none other than a kind of winged giasshopper. of fat body, and common In many countries. Another singing Insect much esteemed fa* the klrlglrlsu, which Is but a very large grasshopper, producing varied, strident sounds. Then there Is the enamkorogl, which la a kind of cricket; the kusa-hibarl, a minute grasshopper, which has a sound of remarkable clearness. The kantan, originally from China, and which sings only at midnight; the kooetataki. whole song resembles the far-away sound of a clock. In Toklo alone there are over for ty merchants dealing In singing insects. This commerce Is of relatively recent ori gin, though for centuries the Japanese have been fond of the music of these In sects. Formerly they would go In parties to places where the little musicians abounded, pass the night there extended upon mats, drinking tea or saki and list ening to the harmony of the suzumushl and kutsuwa-mushl. It Is only about a hundred years ago that an amateur named Choeo had tha Idea of capturing one of these Insects for his own particular diversion. Then the singing season over, he forgot a certain number In a closed vase. Great was hla surprise, on opening It the following year, to find It tilled with newly hatched young. After that he gave himself up to the rais ing of various species of singing Insects, and so founded a trade which has become flourishing. Actually the greater number of singing Insects are artificially raised by certain proceedings. ao that their hatching corresponds lo the seasons when their ad mirer* love to listen to them and to com bine their sounds. Off the Track. This means disaster and death when ap plied to a fast express train. It Is equal ly serious when It refers to people whose blood la disordered and who consequent ly have pimples and sores, bsd stomachs, deranged kidneys, weak nerves and that tired feeling. Hood's Sarsaparilla puts the wheels back on the track by making pure, rich blood and curing these trou bles. Constipation Is cured by Hood's Pills. 25c.—ad. A Dellelons Smoke. 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