Show SECRETS AT ONE HUNDRED POUNDS APIECE london feb IC A few weeks ago there was nil auction in the city attended bv crowds of eager buyers die bidding was most keen and eventually the auctioneer knocked down t 11 1 I fc biad for sale for a sum exceeding al that the purchaser received was a small scaled envelope contained the recipe for a certain patent pill which if the i din cr keeps the secret ot well as his h predecessors in the manufacture should T bring him an income of a year i i such transactions are not inh h in the world of commerce and f is comparatively a trifling sum to spend t i jn alie purchase of such a secret V v ahe Cart husun monks who have late f like the kotlier religious orders cupel led from france have sold i recipe for the production of their famous liqueur chartreuse to a firm of french gi i and austrian capitalists tho order has received no ass eliat for this long treasured secret for nearly ten f centuries ho outsider has succeeded in 1 learning the making chartreuse i indeed of the monks themselves the whole process lias never been entrusted i tit to more than at s time 60 i important is chis manufacture commer 3 bially the french govern anent off creda pardon to itha car thu but they haye refused to ac copt it and are i altogether and will move to austria i tho formulae sor the making of ab eintha proved very valuable to its origin f al manufacturers the original dincov berer of absinthe was a french chemist named who was living as a refugee at colvet in switzerland nearly I 1 years ago his absinthe was a very different thing from the deadly drug into ja which it has since degenerated it had t 1 tery little alcohol in it and great medic j virtue at his he bequeathed the formula to his housekeeper choso whoso name was grandpierre Grand pierrc she sold it for a i of 20 to an army lieutenant lien i boid by name and ho and his daughter grew the necessary herbs and making 5 decoction sent it around by ped adlers soon a nourishing business grew lip absinthe became famous and about the same year that waterloo waa fought a wealthy distiller bid li for the formula it is said that ho made over that amount yearly for nearly a quarter of a century afterwards just across the river from old fash in essex is a tall mod wi factory where work goes on day and 8 right under conditions of most absolute i sc erMy alie factory is the gi works and there arc produced 1 ti cally all the ping pong balls used in t this country the value of this secret i to its owners may be calculated from 1 the fact that the output is six tons of j balls per week it takes nearby i ping pong balls to weigh a pound eo tha j number manufactured every six days A must amoun tto w about a quarter of a century ago sir ati lawson johnston invented a means of 1 I j adding the nourishing elements of al fa blumn and abrino to beef extract he tl I 1 called it johnstons fluid beef this jl waa in canada A few years later he Y brou glit his new beverage to london and i it to alie public alie bitle of the value of thia recipe can 1 i only be estimated the y profits from its sale aro eno pious 1 all the iron used ift our kinei 1 from the great works owned by the the metal made there ii purer than that produced elsewhere but j the secret of this purity has never been I 1 K disclosed though enormous prices have h been offered for it it remains in the j j family to whom it must bo some A L millions v speaking of secrets which have to 1 do feitli krupp was the possessor i of one was responsible for a great vh part of the enormous fortune of nearly 1 i 1 forty millions sterling which he left be i r annd him it was a method of liar dening y 1 steel winch made the knipp armor im H densely superior to anything else of the kind that had been then made superior f i to tlc alc steel which was d in our navy herr krupp having obtained a unique reputation for his ar i A mor by means of liis process was i clever enough to make still more money out of lie invention by selling the right tr use it to a number of other firms many of them engliski sli 1 mr westinghouse head of trie great li railway works which bear liis name is t one of the wealthiest men in the world all this he owes to the fact that when tl i as a lal lie discovered the secret of the automatic brake now used on per hapa every train in tha world he i 1 had sense enough to keep lii discovery it absolutely t himself until lie managed to get the ear of the great railway mag t nate cornelius vanderbilt at tho laughed at alie idea f of stopping a train with air then ho S waa persuaded to fit the apparatus on a few coaches as a trial the train had no sooner pott up aced than it ran upon t a lozan in iho middio of a J culm g with the ald brakes 1 would haie awen the certain 1 I threw on d patent brako train pulled un p a few kuo wang the or mareta 1 s at pack of a new process for electricity ko detail is known at present the works where the experiments are tarried on is guarded like a treasure vault tho present standard edition of Dickens works takes up fifty nine inches i on a shelf and weighs sixty pounds the new edition being prepared by the ox F 1 ford university press takei up ten inches i only and weighs ten pounds this i is due to alie possession 1 hy ilia great pi inting of the i secret of making ludia paper tin thin nest and toughest ever used for pi inting 1 1 tin secret coat tile aford thirty acara and neaily to discover but in spite of hundreds of attempts to penetrate the mystery it rei a ie 1 i eret mill and is certainly worth to alx what it originally t at thin bines kioh hajn t din crent works and editions arc sta on hi paper the process ii aver known to more than three per ti in BOOB at a time i i A STORY ABOUT HEWITT boston pot t v A brait sn the character ot abram S 1 ii was iiii in common with many another of the great men ot tle i y coun tryst was bj regard for attla a kollai bi A mater lu vt knowd wa t i 6 N cajio 6 to mr a nefer pt siMa pach A t bh card gnp dar when lie had inu i barly announced liine jf mr L fi lan w stairs holi liny a little anck IT ae lf ia alfr Il fr imrij il 1 here are he cards youre sent in to me luring the lust month or tor aid he of no use tome but I 1 thought voil might be able to to work again and I 1 them up boston post little favor is shown hi abyssinia to missionaries henclik lik the ruler of tire that the orthodox faith is good enough for his subjects therefore choso who go thither irilli the object of spreading the doctrines of alic roman catholic or protestant church think it advisable to say that their sole object is to convert hebrews and pagans this is what a swedish missionary recently said when henclik lik before whom lie was summoned inquired as to the object of his visit when he heard it the ruler as bcd what countries were you obliged to cross when you come hero germany egypt and soudan replied the missionary and were you not able to find in germany any hebrews whom you might have converted asked ik the was obliged to admit that he had seen many hebrews in germany well paid first convert the hebrews and pagans in germany and then come here and convert us an hour later the disappointed missionary was being conducted to the frontier by abyssinian soldiers WICKEDEST TOWN IX THE WORLD bew york world if you fisli to bring all ruputo on any member of the italian colony in new york say of him he comes from artena that is sufficient that means that he is a thief robber perhaps a murderer that lie has criminal blood in his veins and that the seal of outlawry is upon him for artena is the wickedest wick edest place in the world a placa where more murders thefts and highway robberies arc committed to the square foot than anywhere else on earth artena is only a small district in italy but its entire population is made up practically of hereditary criminals fio infamous is it that professor tho eminent scientist has written a book about it he calls it A land of born criminals since 1155 it has had a remarkable record for criminality in 1557 pope paul IV proclaimed an edict of banishment against the whole people they were branded as outlaws anyone who so desired was authorized to kill them but even such an extreme measure as this had no effect on the nest of evil despite the most cruel and persistent legislation tha laws of heredity were not annulled and the people of artena generation after generation continued in their lawless course A remarkable feature is that it is situated in the of a highly civilized people it is perched on a beautiful hill which looks down on the fertile fields that toward the mountains of labium latium to a stranger it seems a land of never ending delights and strange to eay tha people there are by the last census of bliem are all farmers the district is exceedingly fer tile no one at arkenar need know what poverty i yet in spite of such conditions no stranger is at this day safe at artena throughout alie rest of the world crime lias become less ferocious but in artena statistics prove that afis increasing in its flagrancy scientists say that heredity is responsible jor this it has been noticed that alie same names generation after generation have been reappearing as tho perpetrators of the most atrocious crimes the record of criminal statistics for artena begins in 1853 for all italy in 1875 the following table presents an impressive comparison annual number of crimes and misdemeanors mea nors per inhabitants italy artena artena 1875 87 1832 72 1872 88 homicides assent and battery highway robbery theft such criminal figure for homicide at least bays protester have never been reached by any civilized country here is a table for comparison alie homicides per inhabitants in various nations are as follows italy spain belgium austria france germany ireland england scotland OCO Artenas record for people is 1050 to reduce alic criminal statistics of artena the only method that promises results is to scatter the inhabitants to alie four quarters of the globe |