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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-8-12, Page 3• SIR IN LIQTJID FORM.. UNQUESTIONABLY IT IS THE COLD- EST THING KNOWN TO SCIENCE.. Now It Is Produced by Its Inventor. Charles E- eaipier of New T ork— woneerful eixpertments, Conducted bY, the Cothanr Investigator, Scientist and Capitalist—It Is Now a "Real Dive Force." (Special Correspondence.) New York, -Tidy, 1898.. -=-Liquid Mr; Which is the air sve breathe reduced to liquid form under high pressure, is;about the .coldest thing known to science, 1Xc e t for a faint bluish tnthecoMing Iuore pronounced as the liquid evaporates, it loops like pure water. Each cubic foot of liquefied air represents about 74S cubic feet of ordinary air. A11 heat origivally derived from the sun having been practically expelled during compres- sion, in returning to its gaseous state immense power lies in its expansion. This Tower, of highest efl cieney. is easily controlled and utilized. Two distinct fluids are present, liquefied nitrogen and liquefied oxygen. The normal temperotom Qf 11quld air is ale degrees below zele Fabrenheit, or about 269 degrees eolan than the perpetually frozen. Arretic regions. During the past ten years DIr. Charles Tripler of New York has devoted his time to improving and cheapening the process of liquefying air, and experiment= ing with the Mild. Ills machines now liquefy ;air at the rates cif Oa ..Baan per day and the eget is lees than 24 cents per gallon. Dir. Tripler eeptet: to produce it at a touch lower prise. It will thus beeoine of inestimable commercial wine, and promises to revolutionize Itreaent agencies for reirit>,.=ration :anal power pr.slut•tiau. Irs t~en+•rel Wt.. would disean- tfntie the don;tnei for coal its this produe. Bali of power. Tito new farce is mush more powerful than „scans an farther reaching in it; po eit:iiitiee than elaetri- city, proposals front capitalists to develop his inventions have been showered upon vire Triple; blit his own large fortune will enable hint to get forward without their aid. lits apparatus, taking the beat from the air, creates a cold so intense that incoming air lique• gee at attnespheri+.' pressure. At the beginning steam power and a strong eompressot: forced air into a series of coils, sapper pipes and leaathor valve. In 16 CHARLES et TRIPLE& Minutes from the beginning of the process liquid air pours from a faucet at the end of the route traversed. It is then lsassod in°o another apparatus producing a more intone() cold, and the external ,air, driven by natural pressure through the inlet tube to fife the vacuum caused by condensation, beeolm'a liquefied. It has been found difileult to confine the liquid tor transportation. Mr. 'Irinler has succeeded in transporting it Tram New Fork to Borten anti Wriehiugtou, keeping it from evaporation for :id hours, end now claims that it can be handled without danger if the „uses are not con- fined, If by chance the tops of the cans were entirely Closed the fluid would explode with terrific force, a gallon being suflieiont to wrier': a building of the strongest construction. Yet it snag be dipped with an ordinary cup and poured from one vessel into another as one pours water; ,but if a tin dipper which bud been immersed in liquid air for a few seconds should bo dropped it would ,^•hatter like glass. A few weeks ago a number of scioutifio anon were invitees to witness 11Ir. Tripler's experiments. Among them were Dr. Cyrus Edson, Mr. James J. Pearson, an authority on explosives, formerly with the Armstrongs, warship builders; lir. Herbert Tweddlo, one of the constructors of the pipe line built by Great Britain across Sahara desert; Lieut. George Stenzel, inventor of airships, and Mr. V4. E . Munn, editor of the Scientific American. During two hours a bewildering series of experiments were performed before these witnesses. A tumblerful of liquid air was poured into a test tube about a foot long and a little more than an inch sn diameter. Tbo top was closed with a cork through which three slender glass tubes two feet long passed. These worn open at both ends and dipped beneath the surface of the fluid. This prepared tube was ;taken into the street and there immersed in a tumbler partly filled with water. ;The pressure of the "air steam" was so great that the cork- could hardly be held in place and the liquid was forced :through the small tubes in snowy jets rising amid clouds of vapor to a height of about 15 feet, and falling in a storm ,of snow and rain. If tho test tube bad ,been held in the hand the result would have been the same, but in a few seconds the haled would have been frozen. 'There 1s bonce no doubt ,that liquid air would be of incalculable value in cooling rooms lin summer. In tleo next experiment fire was frozen. A. tea kettle partly filled with liquid air ;was planed over the intense heat of six •.Bunsen gas burners. It began instantly Ito boil. Near the first kettle a second, :'.also partly filled with liquid air, was ;placed upon a cake of ice. This liquid pair began to boil harder than that which :was over the fire. On lifting the kettle ;from the fire a sheet of ice was found over • the bottom, thickest where the ifiames bad been hottest. Dropping ice In the kettle made It boil harder, and a few ;ounces of water caused it to gurgle, 'spout an spit and the lid could be held on only with groat ditieulty. At the folose of the experiment the kettle was linverted and lumps of ice were found inside, as dry as chalk. Scientists }estimated that .power enough bad been ;,generated to run an engine. The "steam" was ice Bold, .A tin lemonade shaker half filled with ;liquid air was slowly revolved in a pan ief water. The casing of toe which Immediately formed around it, cracked with the intense celd, After repeated immersions; au ice oup was formed, thick enough to handle after the tin oup had been removed. The ice cup was partly filled with liquid air into which Mr. Tripler dropped a lighted cigaret. With a single puff it was consumed, the ice cup remaining uninjured. A white-hot carbon rod was plunged into the liquid air in the cup. It burned with intense bright- ness. Heat carne through the lee whieh was not melted or eraekefi.. A steel wire h the cup. lighted with a match, burned le 1:X;'El:tdliMS WITH LIgrgaiF.p Alit. llkts a fuse, the bolt= of the cup being eoverctt with pellets of steel, .During title time the iee cult had been held on a linen handkerchief, which was found to be frozen so stlilly that it could be broken ie the fingers. After :reinuiniteg in the liquefied :fir for a few secends an egg could he pounded into hits as flu% as flour. Ben' beefete;ilt yielded the same results. non taken from the liquid It v;as so hard that it rang like silver, ltttbher after liming been i itnel ed a (OW seconds "became as friable as glass. Leather. strange to say, was not afieoted by the Auld. If into crease, sweetened and flavored, a spoonful of liquefied air be dropped six Seconds of stirring will produce excellent Ice cream. A nail they be driven into wood with a bar at mercury, frolic* by haring, the liquid air poured over is The great explosive power of the fluid WAS shown by pouring a teaspoonful into a copper cube a Scot long, and seater. at the bottom, A closely -fitting wooden plug was driven in the ton. Within four seconds, with a loud report, the plug shot up 200 feat above the surrounding buildings. Itspossiblo use as an exploitive in war can hardly be imagined. It tray also be of great value in cooling guns In notion. It may also be used as motive power in ships and may bo safely handled. In an ordinary ougino, The vessel would bo freed from the weight of coal, and the necessity for coaling statioua would no longer exist. In subtslaring boats the motor would furnish all the air needed for breathing, pure and cold, and used in engines or aluw.leum and boilers of paper it may perchance solve rho air- ship problem. The surrounding atmos- phere would furnish all the heat needed, When liquefied air is delivered to our houses in cans and bottles', coal and lea trusts may become things of the past. As a gornalolde it will prove of immense value, as clothing may bo disinfected readily by its use. It is said that the molecules of oxygen aro brought nearer moohanieaily in liquid air, hence any carbon body ignited in close contact to it will undergo expiation instantly, resolving itself into its original gases, with explosive energy. It is expected to open up a new livid in the lino of safe explosives, and is likely to be utilized as a pulverizer of roiraotory substances, as by its ovaporatiou they are made exces- sively brittle in low temperatures, prob- ably from the shrinking apart of their molecules. ,Ir. Tripier says that he resolved 25 years ago to devote his life to produce some power to supplant steam and electricity. After experimenting with many different substances and agencies he becamo satisfied that in liquid air could be found the power which would revolutionize the world. As a motive power, ho now thinks, it is no longer a theory, but a "real lice force which requires no conditional experiments." LORD FARRAR HERSCHELL. Head of the Quebec Conference on V. 8. Friction 'With Canada. Lord Farrar Herschell, who is now on his way to this country as head of the LORD FARRAR REESOn' LL. British commission to adjust the differ. enous between the United States and Canada, was formerly Lord High Chan- cellor of England, and is one of the load- ing legal minds in the United Kingdom. Baron Herschell is the first lord of his name, His father was Rev. B. H. Hers- chell, a country clergyman. The distin- guished jurist was educated at Univers- ity College, London, and at the University of Bonn. He was called to the bar in 1860, and in 1872 became a Q.C. and a benoher of Lincoln's Inn. In 1874 he was elected to a seat in Parlia- ment by Durham City, and represented that'town, as a Liberal, until 1885. He was Solicitor -General under Gladstone. In 1866 ho was raised to the peerage as Lord Herschell, He was unanimously appointed president of the Itoyal Com- mission which inquired into the working of the metropolitan board of works.. A second time he was made Lord High Chancellor under Gladstone. He is a G.C.B., with honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge .As a jurist Lord &eesobell . bas no superior in. Europe. The oommisaioners for the United States are John W. Foster, Reciprocity Com- missioner Hasson, . Senators Gray and Fairbanks, and ' Congressman Dingley. !Lhe Canadian commissioners are Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Louis . Davies, Sir Richard Cartwright and Mr. Charlton, M.P. REIGN OF MAMMON. AN ENSLAVED. PEOPLE HELD IN BOND- AGE BY DEBT. Our Country Appears to "Be on the Wink of Kinin Watch It Cannot Escape, but Dad Is on the Side of Jastlee, and the Forces of Reform Must Triumph. The More any man analyzes this ques- tion of mammon worship the clearer he will see that "the love of money is the root of all ovil," bear in. mind that interest is the sac- rifice awrifice demanded: by this money god. The worship of the true God teaches "owe ito Iran anything," "Giro to hila that asketh of thee, and from him thatwonld borrow tuna thou not away," "no 804 and lend, hoping for nothing,,, Mammon worship itt emeenee le puke debts, By every possible device, in ev- ery conceivable way, make debt., Debt is slavery. When everybody is ilt debt, then everybody is enslaved. This is the result of natural debts. Everybody in that nation is bound, bonded, enslaved. The Lesson why it was stated that Mee diseased state of the world had reached the last stage is this: National debts are never to be paid. They are to be pernntnent. They come to stay. It is the capstone, stone, the climax of MIIMMOn worship. (god's love of liberty, of free- dom, is completely set aside. Every - hotly lsi the bonded uatiets is forced to liar interest, to sacrifice to this golden trance. Ware have been shade to 'bond nations and are wed now toincrease their debts. Our country is completely under the reign c:f mammon. worship. ".Elsie 'war with Spain will be made to produce an- other crop of bends. irY3sllcs wo pow as a nation of free Hien, who levo huruau- ity so well that we make war to free Cuba, wo propose to inereaso the bond- age of our own citizens and posterity at the sante time. Every war increases national debts, Every debt is another link in the chain that binds the race in slavery. And as this system of bandage is permanent the doaru of the .race is slavery. That is the culmination et our mammon idolatry: The debts of the railroads and corpors,- times are to be permanent too. The policy of civil gavernntontevery- where defeats the worship of God. No nation on earth worships God. He de. signs the race to be free and happy. Tbe ,policy now is to shake men ttlaves and miserable. Dobbs will accomplish this tend. Where is the agency to defeat this? If any party opposes bonds, debts and in- terest, it is opposed by the government with all its power and by the church too. Why? Because both believe in in- terest. Interest, usury, or this por cent sacrifice to ourmium:eon god, is the tap- root ovil of the world politically. So if the church and governments of earth are left to free the world slavery is to be its eternal doom. God's pur- poses will be forever defeated, Old sa- tan will bo master of tho world for all time. But the "Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice." If God had not revealed in the Bible by prophecy that saten's kingdom would be overthrown on earth, we 'would be left in Hopeless despair. But wo have "a more sure 'word of prophecy." We are tot kept in the dark. "The kingtloms of this world are to become the kingdoms of our God and his Christ, and bo is to reign for- ever" (Revelation xi, 15). The devil bas held a mortgage on the governments of the world for near 0,000 years, and the time is hero for tbo great God to lift it. The prophet Daniel saw a great image with a head of gold (chapter 2), and four great beasts calve up out of the sea (chap- ter 7). These represented four great em- pires that would arise in the world in succession. Standing on this high pro- phetic eminence, the prophet saw the Persian empire which overspread the earth at that time go down, and the Meda -Persian come up and go down, and the Grecian empire come np and spread over the world and then go down, followed by the Roman empire that was symbolized by a beast diverse from all others, having "great iron teeth," signifying the cruelty of its reign. Then be saw a stone, out ont of the mountain without hands, smite the great beast and become a great moun- tain and filled the whole earth. In another place this stone kingdom or government is called the "ancient of days," or a return of the true republic which God instituted in Israel. That was the first republic on earth. Their God told them to choose men to rule over them "who feared God and hated covetousness." In another place this last and final form of government for the world, this stone kingdom, is described as the "peo- ple of the saints of the Most High tak- ing the kingdom and possessing it for- ever, even forever and ever." Old Daniel saw what we now witness --viz, the people coming to the front to take the civil governments and con- trol them. Old satan's kind of government has always been kingdoms or monarchies. The king claimed to rule by divine right, but it was by devilish wrong. God's form of government was repub- lican..Israel clansoreO for a king to rule over them, to be in fashion with other nations, and God gave them Saul for a king under protest. Our republic is the Israel restored, the nation "born in a day,'.' and the only government that ever was born in a day. Mammon idol- atry has perverted our republic lentil it is only a republic in name. Instead of choosing men "who fear God and hate covetousness" we elect men who seek office in order to make money regard- less of God or man. The man who cones out of office without being rich has missedhis opportunity. Mammon idolatry rules everything now, politically and religiously. No man can succeed now in church or state rimess be has the mark of this beast in s forehead and in his hands. _ T.he oalr way JP. teonre refora any - HIGH DIVING, ELK, Mae Camera Catches One of Its Dios$ wonderful Feats,. In conversation the other day, Will J. Barnes of Sioux City, Iowa, said: Some people have an eccentrio hobby, others have a hobby that appeals to the general run of beings as sensible and proper. Whatever you may call my booby, it is one Om has taken complete possession of me, and I am proud of the. ie if. es it Kroll DIVING EI 11. sensation it rats ye. bZy hcbloy is, nay divine vll:s, whiceh 1 shim to to the roost wonderful tutilnals in the world. Dui then lmrhaps I am prejudiced in their � favor, as I educate.f thein and taught theta the trick, that are a constant source of wonder and admiration to my Wends. I was prompted to train the elk because I beard it so frequently stated that it was the dullest animal li •inn. The feet that the undertaking seesteu to be one almost Impossible to carry through successfully gave addiitioual zest to the task X set for myself, which was to train a tease of elks to do the most. remarkable thing I could think of that was compatible with the nature of the animal. I procured two young elks and began experimenting with there at once. I soon discovered that the elks were smart enough to outwit me on several oreasions, My first step was to break them to drive in harness. This tool- nearly a year to do, as I had to gain the animals' con- fidence and friendship before I could do anything with them. I succeeded finally, however, in getting them thoroughly broken into a very pleasant driving team. I got my idea or teaching them to dive by their seeming utter indifference as to wbat height they jumped from while in training. In fact, the firs; dive they ever made was from a high bank into the Sioux River, on which occasion I went with tltutb. I fired a t:h:trt claire on tho river bank at first and mixed teem to go into it up about five feee, high and jump into the water from that height. After u few months of eatia: t tank I got thorn to run no the chute eft tater own free wilI and jump off into the water. As it was the only plat•o from v iee they could get into the water they ' ., n to think it great sport to jump Peeni that heiebt. Then I began to rale„ size platform, and as the weather wtts g;a:ti!'g too cold in Iowa for comfortable training in the river I took ray elks south to New Orleans and kept them in conwt'tnt training all winter, jumping frain a higher elevation each week after I had got them to leap from a height of about twenty feet. "Binglstte" seemed by instinct to get the true diving idea of making his plunges headfirst, with front feet extend od, and now be always goes head fors most and strikes exactly in the center of the tank, which is sixteen feet square and twelve feet deep. The buck elk "Rang" Ls beginning to dive almost as expertly as bis brother, and I am sure before the summer is past he will dive head foremost, with feet ex- tended, as does "Ringlette.," TWO LITTLE REPUBLICS. One Is the Oldest, the Other the smallest in Existence. Goust is the smallest republic as to area, but Tavolara is the smallest repub- lic as to population. Louse is only one mile in area. It is located an the fiat top of a mountain in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, and is recognized by both of those countries. Is is governed by a President and a Council of 12. It was established in 164S and bas 130 inhabit- ants. The President is Tax Collector, Assessor and Judge. Goust has no church, clergyman or cemetery. The people worship in a church outside of their own territory, and the dead bodies are slid down to a cemetery in the valley below. In that valley all the baptisms and marriages are performed. Tavolara is twelve miles northeast of Sardinia. It is an island five miles long by a half mile wide. Its total population consists of 55 mon, women and children. The women go to the polis with the men and elect every year a President and Council of six, all serving without pay. The inhabitants support themselves by fishing and raising fruit and vegetables. The republic has no army and no navy. The Nerves Never Grow Old. Commenting on the common causes of nervous disorders, Professor W. H. Thompson says: Tho message of modern soien co about the nervous system is more hopeful than ever. It tells us that the nervous systera has a greater store of reserve vitality than all the .other bodily systems put together. It is the only tex tura that is found nut to have lost weight after .death by starvation, as well as after death by any cause. It is the last to grow old; and as to the mind, it need not grow old at all, provided it lar steadily applied with that mighty spiritual element in us which we cal) interest. Even the muscular system oan be wonderfully sustained by interest; for should a man attempt the same muscular work on a tread:11111- which lse,light)� endures along the mountain brook aftet a trout, he would faint dead away. But the mind will by interest grow steadily, even while bone and :sinew ere wasting through -age. • • A CRIPPLE FOR LIFE. H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES MAY ALWAYS WALK WITH A LIMP. With a i'ractured Knee Cap, the Chance,: Ams !bat at I3i,:Age lie 11,111 Moser Totally 1teeeeer—The, lteaeeos Wha the Injury is ltegarded With Serious- ne83. If the Prince of Wales ever ascoods the throne of ,England he may bave to go there on a crutch, From the magnificent country house: of Baron Rothschild at lei addesdon conies the ewes t that h the i e going e I' rnca , w hile down to breakfast by the west stairway, slipped and fell on bis knee cap, severely fracturing that pars of his person to the, extent that he may be obliged to compose himself for a time and give tis all the pleasures which have been mopped out for him during the next three months. It was a great nvistortuue to elis Royal Highness, who up to the present accident bas gone through a life of pleasure with- out suffering many of its discomforts. In the midst of the excitement that followed. Dr. Shaw, the village physi- cian, was sumtnonei, *eel 'with tee at. of a professional nurse, the Yrine yeses given, all possible attention and relief, But the injured patella persisted in develspin an iudsammation thatinduced':. a considerable swelling. Dr. Shaw gave positive iusrruetions than the I'rinoe' should tato a lone, res:, at any cost, and give up the fulfilment of his sesany actual engagements. It is hoped that nature will .accomplish the work before her with success. BM Tt3R ROTU:CIIit.DS ST ifteaegg. there are grave fears that never ,gal; will he walk without a perceptible limp, and perbaps a crutch may be part of Isis poesesstons. An injury to the patello, or knee rap, notwithstanding the skill of the beet surgeons of the world, often leaves its imprint during life, so that fres use of the limb is not infrequently ant of the question. And then again, the Prince of Wales, notwithstanding his vigorous constitu• tion and robust health, is nearing three score years, and an injury that he could have overcome twenty years ago may cling t0 him to -day with a distressing persistency. To be sure, the beet medical attention in all England and Iurope will bo given blsn. But even the skill of man cannot always successfully combat the influences et ago. A fraoture of the knee cap, while net necessarily dangerous, requires immediate attention and tho most careful nursing, and oseeeially so in tho ease of the Prince, owing to his advanced gears and u �'r3�r; t!'I W teat Vit tedf Wallet efeastfinallealf CRIPIC[•OhitA somewhat energetic disposition. The great difficulty will be to keep him under sufficient restraint to permit the fracture to mend. The bone of an elderly person does not knit as readily as in a young person, and the affected parts seldom mend readily. It will also make a great difference if the fracture is compound, as in that case it will require an operation, which is always attended with more or less danger. Ten Fantotts Wrecks. The Princess Alice, 650 lives lost. Sep. tember 2, 1878. The Royal George. 600 lives lost. Au- gust 29, 1782. Utopia, 564 lives lost, March 1891. Tho White Star Liner Atlantic, 560 lives lost. April 18, 1873. The Namohow, 509 lives lost. January 2, 1802. Tao Birkenhead transport, 454 lives lost, February 26, lee% Tho ,Austria, ont eeent vessel, 417 lives lost, September 13, 1858. Prince George, 40u lives lost. April 13, 1768. Lady Nugent, 400, lives lost May, 1854. Roeai Adelaide, 400 lives lost. March 80, 1850. Row to Use Corn Plasters. Dr. Alsnel, writing on the treatment. of oorns, mentions a tip communicated to him by a layman oonoerning corn plasters. Instead of applying them whole, as purchased, the advice is to out the piaster in two across the centro, and ile m to apply the two sections around the base of the corn. ''his method afforded relief at once, and in six months the corns were got rid of. The two sections can be fitted around the base of the corn accurately and tightly in a way that is impossible' when dealing with a ring. uncut. Sleeps on a Dynamo. London has a oat whose partiality for a nap in a warm, spot is somarked that she has selected the top of a dynamo in a power station. She .sleeps there calmly and peacefully, while the machinery around and 'within six inolios of her is running et the rate of 2.000 'revolution per minute. EDWARD BELLAMY, Nr. 1r. 1 owell's. Writes of the Dead .Socials. ist'a Life and Works. Mr. W. D. Howells has written an. estimate of Edwurd Bellamy which i4 printed in the current issue of than Atlantic. Mr. Bowelis write as a friend and admL er. but considers the dead socialist's life and works from a literary standpoint only. He discusses Edward Bolialny, literary artist. "Somehow," . writes Mr.Howells, "whether he knew or not, he unerringly felt how the average mass would feel: and all the webs of fanny that he wove were essentially of one texture through this sympathy. His invagination Was intensely democratic, it was inalienably Ple..e an, eevie —that isto say, noma n o, It did not seolt distinction at expression; 15 never put the simplest and plainest reader to shame by the assumption of those line -gentleman airs which abaik and dishearten more than the mei* literary swell can think. Be would uM a phrase or a word that was common tei vulgarity, if ie aaid whae he meant; sometimes ho sere toners merit w edge, in his earlier stories, by nis public school diction. But the .nobility of the heart if, never absent from his work; and he has always the distinction es self.forgetfui- Item in bis art. "I have beets. interested, In recurring to bis earlier work, to note how almost entirely the action passes be the Ameri- can village atmosphere Ii is like the; greater ars of his own life in this. He was not a Iran ignorant of other keeping. Ile was parriy educated abroad, and bs knew eities 'both ltd J trope and America. Iia was it lawyer by profession, and bi was sumo ulna eLlttar of a daily news. paper in a largo town. But I remember how, in one of our meetings, be spoke svith dietruse end dislike of the environ- ment of cities as unwbolesame and dis- tracting, if not detn'sralizing ivory emelt to the effect of I'oletoi's pbilosopby itt the matter), And in hie short stories iszs types are village typ?s, ' liey are came suet) when he finds theca In the city, bus for muck the greater part be finds thein, in the village; and they are always, therefore, disttnetly American; for we ;era village people far more than we are country people or pity people. In this aa in overytbing else we are a medium race, and it was its his souse, if not in hi. knowledge of this fact, that Bellamy wrote so that there is never a word or look to the reader implying that be and the writer are of a different sort of folk. from the people in the story. " ;hooking Backward.' with its material delights, its communized facili- ties and luxuries, could not eppeta tR people on lonely farms who scarcely knew of there, or to people le cities who were, tired of them, so much as to that imsuens411 average of villagers, of small-town dwellers, who had read much and seen something of them, and doalred to bave them. Tide average, whose intelligence forms the prosperity of our literature, ane whose virtue forms the strength of our nation, is the environment which Bel- laray rarely travels out of in his airiest romance, Ile bas its curiosity, its prin. oiplos, its aspirations. He ran tell what It wishes to know, what problem will hold It, what situation it can enter into, what mystery will fascinate it, aid what Pablo pain It will bear, It is by far the widest field of American Action; most of our finest artists work preferably in it, but he works in It to different effect from any other. He takes that life on its mystical sido, and hexyls with types rather than with characters; for it Is one of the prime conditions of the romancer that he shall do thee His people are less objectively than subjectively present their import is greater In wbat happens to them than In what they are. But be never falsifies them or their circum- stance. Ile ascertains them with a fidelity that seems almost helpless, almost ignorant of different people, different circumstance; you would think at times that he bail never known, never seen, any others; but et course this is only the effect of bis are "Our average Is practical as well as mystical; it is first the dust of the earth, and then it is a living soul; it likes great questions simply and familiarly presented before it puts its faith in them and makes its faith a life. It likes to start to heaven from home, and in all this Bellamy was of it, voluntarily and in- voluntarily. I recall how, when we first met, he told mo that ho had come to think of our hopeless conditions suddenly, one day, in looking at his own children, and reflecting that be could not place them beyond the chance of want by any industry or forecast or providence; and that the status meant the same impossi- bility for others which it meant for him. I understood then that I was in the presence of a man too single, too sincere, to pretend that he bad begun by think- ing of others, and I trusted him the more for his confession of a selfish premise. He never went bank to himself in his endeavor, but when he had once felt his power in the world be dedicated its life to his work. Ile worn himself ont in thinking and foaling about it, with a belief in the good time to come that penetrated his Nebelo purpose. but appar- ently with no manner of fanatioism. In fact, no one could see him, or look into his quiet, gentle face, so full of goodness, so full of common sense, without per- ceiving that he had reasoned to his ]cope for justice in the frame of things. He was indeed a most practical, a most American man, without a touch of senti- mentalism in his humanity. He believed that some now living should see his dream—the dream of Plato, the dream of the first Christians, the dream of Bacon, the dream of More—oome true in a really civilized society; but he had the patience and courage which could support any delay. "I am glad that he lived to die at borne in Obioopee—in the village envion- ment by which he interpreted the heart of the American nation, and knew how to move it more than any other Ameri- can author who has lived. The theory of those who think differently is that he. simply moved the popularfancy; and this may suffice to explain the state of some people, but it will not account for the love and honor in which his nameis passionately held by the vast average, east and west. His fame is safe with thein, and his faith is an animating force concerning whose effect at this time or some other time it would not be wise to phophesy. Whether his ethics will keep his aesthetics in xesnembrance I do not know; but I am sure that one cannot acquaint one's self with his merely artistic work and not be sensible that ba Edward Bellamy we were rich in a romantic imagination surpassed only by that of Hawthorne." No person in .Norway may spend more than threepence at one Tisit to a puisi