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RIDING ON BUBBLES OF AIR.
Motoring Would Ce Ideal If Tires Could
Be Made Thinner.
In the whole mechanism of modern
transportation there is nothing so par-
adoxical, nothing so daring in concep-
tion as these bubbles of air which we
call tires. They are at once strangely
nonsensical and strangely practical—
nonsensical because they must endure
great strains and yet are necessarily
made of unendurable material ; practi-
cal because nothing can match air as a
shock absorber. From all the tales that
we hear of tire costs and tire repairs,
let it not be forgotten that motoring as
we know it became possible because of
the art of riding on babbles of air had
been discovered.
What happens when the old fashion
ed iron tircd, wooden buggy wheel
strikes a smal] stone in the road? It
simply rises and the entire load rest-
ing on the wheel is lifted. There is
loss of power—more work for the horse,
for whenever you or a horse lifts a
weight energy must be expended.
What happens when an air tube strikes
a stone? The tube is simply punched
in, as it were, momentarily! The wheel
need not be lifted over the obstruction.
In order to secure this extraordinary
result the air must have a chance to
compress. If it were possible to build
a tire with a wall as thin as a soap
bubble’s and yet so tough and elastic
that it would both yield to blows and
resist punctures and blowouts the ideal
would be attained. One of the hardest
technical tasks ever set was that of de-
manding from the rubber industry a
tube which would hold air and which
would also be resilient.
Air tires serve not only to make mo
toring luxuriously comfortable, but to
protect the car itself. Were it not for
them engines would not perform their
work so efficiently ; gasoline would not
be so economically consumed; high
speed would be unttainable; steeries
would not be so easy ; shock would neg
be completely abserbed.—Waldemas
Kaempfrert in MeClure's Maguasine.
HE KNEW THE TURK.
89 He Boldly Preceeded te Tale the
Law Inte His Own Hands.
In his book, “Forty Years Im Cea-
stantinop! Sir Edwin Pears tells the
following story to illustrate the Turk’s
attitude toward foreigners:
I knew the Engtishman of whom the
story was pla, and 1 perenaded him
we Ar * s10n.
de sued « i.un ih the cuser Jurkish
court that Luis jurisdiction over cases
between Ti Geesssx wod Lorkish sub
jects. Wkenr the Turkish defem@ier’ |
came to teli his tale ke spoke of the
Englishmen ag a gleem GF | |
Engliss=an Ofioveme. mile BR |
luc perrectly well that it Iv
contrary to Turkish law to use s ich
an @pithet, they did not interfere,
whereupon the Englishman said, “I*
you call me a giaour again I shall take
the law into my own hands.”
The Turk at once replied, “Well, you
are a giaour.” .
The Englishman stepped across the
floor three or four paces and gave the
Turk a blow on the nose that startled
him and the court. As the blood flow-
ed freely, there was a great hubbub,
and orders were given to arrest the
Englishman. He was a big, powerful
fellow, and instantly he smashed the
stool on which he was seated and
cried out that he would brain the first
man who laid hands upon him.
Alischan, the dragoman who first
told me the story, said that every one
hesitated to attack the Englishman,
and he, Alischan, was asked by the
president to tell the aggressor that if
he would apologize there would be an
end of the matter.
“Apologize!” said the Englishman.
“Not a bit of it. He insulted me, and
I let him have it.”
Alischan went back to the president
and said, “This is the kind of an Eng-
lishman who won't stand an insult,
and I can do nothing with him.”
"Thereupon the court ordered the pro-
ceedings to go on as if nothing had |
happened.
A Rousing Welcome.
“Anyhow,” said the small man with
the big set of books, over which he
figured from early morn till late at
night, “anyhow, there is one faithful
friend at home that never fails to give
me a rousing welcome.”
“What friend is that?’ asked the
billing clerk, pausing to eat a sand-
wich while the boss wasn’t looking.
“My old alarm clock,” replied the
small man B dreamily. — Jacksonville
Times-Union.
Shadows of History.
“William the Conqueror,” read the
small boy from his history, “landed
in England in 1066 A. D.”
“What does ‘A. D.’ stand for?” in-
quired the teacher.
The small boy pondered.
“I don’t exactly know,” he said
“Maybe it's after dark.”—New York
Times.
Insert Letter “E.”
“So you were invited to participate
in a profit sharing scheme?”
“Yes.”
“How did you come out?”
“I discovered that the purpose of the
scheme was not sharing, but shearing.”
—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Irresponsible Spirit.
“Has you: husband told you you
must economize?’
“Yes,” replied Mrs. Flimgilt, “but
I'm not lettine him bother ma Wa's
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| great nations live on respective islands | Ponte Sisto.
| the ground that they were “too beau-
| hour the inventor was absent.
| phone call to his home in Orange, N. J.,
one of those people who sist on tak-
ing up every fad that comes along.”—
Washington Star.
It isn’t a good plan to allow your re-
grets for yesterday to overshadow your
hopes for tomorrow.
ALASKA’S LONG SPUR.
The Aleutian Islands Chain Over a
Thousand Miles In Length.
Few persons are aware that the
shortest route from San Francisco to
Japan is by way of Alaska. Nearly
a thousand miles are saved to vessels
trading with the orient by coasting
along the Aleutian islands rather than
following the Hawaiian route.
The Aleutian islands, more than 150
in number, which extend in a chain
east and west for more than a thou-
sand miles, are inhabited by the rem-
nant of the Aleuts. Their war of the
revolution closed just as the Ameri-
can Revolutionary war began. So pa-
triotic were the Aleuts, so brave in
their struggle for independence, that
they succumbed to the Russians only
after a conflict of nearly fifty years,
and then simply because the race was
almost exterminated in the struggle.
While the Aleutian islands must
eventually form an important link in
| the commerce between the United
| States and the orient, other islands
| ink our country with the vast empire
to the north.
ed States, so that citizens of the two
within a few miles of each other.
Evening Schools.
Hvening schools owe their existence
to the Rev. Thomas Charles, who about
1811 set up one at Bala, Wales, which
proved to be quite successful.
poor adults, who, on account of en-
forced labor, had no chance to secure
an education. The idea was taken in
hand by the British privy council in
1861, and from that date evening
schools began to be considered seri-
ously. At the present time they are
numerous throughout Great Britain, :
America and many other leading na- |
tions.
Had No Time to Spare.
The stage was all set in the Ritz-
to Thomas A. Edison. It was a copy
France, which Mr, Edison had admired
while in France. At the appointed
elicited the laconic reply: “I’m too bueg.
Ship it over here.”—New York Post
In the narrow Bering !
strait lie two little islands, one occu- |
pled by Russia, the other by the Unit- !
In 1839 :
or 1840 the English Bishop Hinds i
strongly recommended such schools for |
Carlton hotel for the presentation of a :
magnificent sixteenth century cabinet !
of a piece carved for Louis XIL of :
A tele-
lan epoch making upheaval of human
WHERE MANKIND WAS REBORN
The Story of Florence Epitomizes the
Story of Humanity.
The story of Florence is the story of
humanity; the broad, deep, moving
epic of the awakening of r.an to his
own divine power; the story of wea-
derful self made men who had bug one
idea in common—the thirst for free ac-
tivity of soul.
So the tale of the new birth, the
renaissance, is the record of individ-
ual spirit so free, so subtle and elastic,
se profoundly penetrating
springs of human purpose, that it has
furnished the motive power of the |
to the |
. Historic -Roumanian City. ai
ve, in Roumania, was the Cas-
Ga Nova of the Romans during their
occupation of Dacia; and in the middle |
ages the place played an important
role. :It-'was here that the Wallachian |
prince Mircea the Old defeated the
Turkish suitan Bayezid I. in 1397. Two
hundred years later the most famous
of Wallachia’s- chieftains, Michael] the '
. Brave, held sway here as “ban,” or
governor, afterward becoming prince
not only ef Wallachia, but of Moldavia
and Transylvania as well, thus for a
brief period uniting under one ruler
the whole Roumanian people.
The leu, which is the standard of
as its value in ‘Roumania, was first coined
world ever since, and Florence, as i
con- In Craiova. It derives its name from
| ditions then obtaining in the city and ' the figure of a lion stamped on the
source and focus, because of the con
throughout Italy, was the one spot in
the world capable of producing such
ecousciousness.
And all this astonishing genius grew:
directly out of—business! The city was
peopled by men who manufactured the '
necessaries of life, by merchants, spec-
ulators, bankers, tradesmen, artisans,
handicraftsmen of every type. Busi-
ness, work, was a condition of active
participation in the life of the state,
and because they did not work the
nobles were debarred from this.
It was the burghers, the people, who
ruled, and even when evil ehance laid '
the state under the heav§ hand of a
despot he was forced to develop his
own character to the uttermost, be-
cause his rule depended entirely upon
his capacity as a man. The aristoc-
racy accordingly was that of intelll-
gence, of men who became eminent be-
cause, first of all, they were the best
in their own individual work.
Under the practical inspiration of
these mental giants Florence was re-
created and learned to view life from
within instéad of superficially. She
learned that the individual is the soul
of the state and that the state can
succeed only when it is true to the best
interests of its individuals.—A. 8. Riggs
in National Gecgraphic Magazine.
VINDICATED TH THE MULE.
A Legal Case Where Nrioce the Honor of the /
Animal Was Involved.
One of the most famous cases re-'
ported in the Missouri Law Reports is
that of Lyman versus Dale, known as
the “celebrated mule case.”
It seems that Dale's hired hand,
Parker, after a day's work supplying
water to a clover huller, was passing
through the city of Springfield, riding
one mule and leading another. - He
met Lyman just opposite a pile of
bricks in the street, capped by a red
lantern. The mule being led became
frightened at the bricks and lantern.
and, jumping aside, broke a wheel out
of Lyman’s buggy.
This laid the foundation of the case.
Lyman sued Dale for a damage of $5.
| charging him ‘with “negligence in han-
dling a wild and unruly mule.”
The case was first tried in a justice
of the peace court at Springfield, Mo.,
and was appealed to the circuit court.
From there it was taken to the court
of appeals, which court, failing to
agree, sent it to the supreme court of
the state.
This court held that Lyman could
not recover damages unless he proved
that the muie was “wild and unruly.”
Judge Henry Lamm said that, while
the amount involved in the case was
small, the value of the case was great
for the sake of the doctrine and also
because it involved the “honor of the
Missouri mule.”—Exchange.
Who Owns the Falkland Islands? |
Few people are aware to this day
that the Falkland islands are marked i
in all Argentine maps and geographies
as “unlawfully retained by Great Brit-
ain.” The origin of the dispute was
that England after abandoning the |
islands in 1774 resumed possession in |
1829. The Argentine government pro- |
tested and, as A. Stuart Pennington |
points out in his book on the country, |
is even today “careful to do nothing |
which could even apparently recognize
the rights of the present possessors.’
| Tt was for that reason that it declined |
! mother?’ sobbed his wife,
a proposal a few years ago to run a
line of Argentine ships to the islands.
Beautiful! Bridges.
Popular love of art may be carried
too far. The author of “Charles Bour- |
bon, Constable of France,” tells us that
on the occasion of the sack of Rome
the citizens refused to secure their
safety by taking the advice of their
captain, Reuzo da Ceri, and cutting
the bridges Ponte Quattro Capi and |
The people declined on
tiful.”
An Ox Hide.
“Thomas,” said the professor to a
pupil in the junior class in chemistry,
“mention an oxide.”
“Leather,” replied Thomas.
“What is leather an oxide of?’ asked
. the professor.
“An oxide of beef,” answered the
bright youngster.—Chicago News.
Was Coming Back.
“Seemed to sadden old Geldbox when
his new son-in-law said goodby after
: the wedding. Is he so fond of him?”
* «Well, not exactly. You see, the new
son-in-law didn’t say goodby; he said
sAu revoir.’ ”—Browning’s Magazine.
Foiled.
“Dearest, I ordered to be sent home
today a most bgautiful hat for only
$30.. It's a perfect love!”
“My darling, your love will be re
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‘ early coins. Its value is equal to that
of the French franc (19 cents and a
, fraction);
Craiova was for centuries the capi-
tal of Little Wallachia, that division
of the country lying between the Alt
| (Aluta) river and the Hungarian and
+ Berbian boundaries to the west.—Bul-
letin of the National Geographic So-
ciety.
Soap an Antiseptic.
Some medical authorities, explaining
the abatement of epidemic ' diseases
| in modern years, are sufficlently free
! from professional ties to attribute this
' betterment of conditions net to med-
‘ ical science, but to the increased use
of soap and water., The Homeopathic '
Envoy 4s of the opinion that with a
clean house and a clean person no one
need have much fear of infection. A
: writer in the New York Medical Rec-
ord says: “Soap is now recognized to
be antiseptic and to be efficacious must
produce a lather. Bacteria rubbed into
soap or diojped on its surface are in- °
capable of multiplication. The typhoid
bacillus is very sensitive to soap, being
killed by a 5 per cent solution in a
short time. More than half the total
number will die in one minute. . The
thorough use of a pure patash soap is
not only a mechanical method of cleans-"
ing, but is an active factor in cutting’
| down germ life.”
: The Arabic Language. :
Though the Arabs number less than
| the population of London, their lan:
guage is one'of the mest widely spoken |!
and influential in the world, for it is"
the language of the Koran. Seventy
millions of .people. in Asia and north
Africa speak sone form of Arabic as
their vernacular, and quite as many |
more knew something of the language |
from the Koran, which, in the original, |
is a textbook in the day schools of the
Mohammedans from Turkey to Afghan- |
istan and New Guinea. Nor is Arabic
unworthy of this extensive use. Renan,
after expressing his surprise that such
a language should spring from the des-
ert regions of Arabia and reach perfec-
tion in nomadic camps, declares that it
surpasses all its sister Semitic lan-
guages in richness of vocabulary, deli-
cacy of expression and the logic of
its grammatical construction.—London
Chronicle.
Sacred Scarabs.
The sacred scarab, or beetle, of
Egypt was the “tumble insect,” which
forms bits of manure into a ball for
laying its eggs in. Two individuals,
male or female, always roll the ball
' together, and they do this merely for
the purpose of conveying it to a safe
place and hiding it. This insect was
regarded as a symbol of the Creator
among the Hindus, from whom the
idea passed into Egypt. The ball was
: imagined to represent the world be-
. cause it was round and was supposed
to be rolled all day frem sunrise to
sunset.
The Other Fellow.
“Mother doesn’t think she’ll go to
the theater with us tonight, Albert.”
“Is that so? I have three tickets.
What shall I do with the third one?”
“Give it to the man you always go
out to see between the acts. He can
sit with us, and you won't have to go
out to see him. "'—Exchange.
He Told Her.
“Why did I ever leave home and
“Chiefly because your family was too
stingy to take us in,” he answered bit
terly.—Life.
An Oid Master, Anyway.
Miss Manyears—Yes, that was paint-
ed of me when I was a little girl. Colo-
nel Bunt—Is it a Rubens or a Rem-
' brandt?—London Opinion.
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feet may be chafed and sore from
walking over long distances.
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small piece of absorbent cotton of:
or clean linen soaked in castor <
oil about the toe or heel or other
abraded part entirely removes
the pain and enables the sufferer
to resume his walk with com-
fort.
For the prevention of sore feet
soak the uppers of shoes or boots
with castor oil and pour a little
of this oil unon the feet, espe-
cially 1e toes, and then
put on the and soaked
boots. This treatment is simple
and inexpensive and proves ben-
eficial in nee.
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INTERNATIONAL PEACE.
Plans to Secure it Have Been Tried
For Three Centuries.
Admirable and farsighted plans for
' securing a peaceful international order
have been before the world for 800
years. M. Emeric Cruce submitted his
plan, which included liberty of com-
merce throughout all the world, as
' early as 1623. Following the peace of
| Utrecht, the Abbe de St. Plerre devel-
oped his plan, which included media-
tion, arbitration and an interesting ad-
dition to the effect that any sovereign
who took up arms before the union ef
pations had declared war or who re«
fused to execute a regulation of the
union or a judgment of the senate was
to, be declared an enemy of European
society. The union was then to make
war upon him until he should be dis-
grmed or until the regulation or judg-
ment should be executed.
‘Some twenty years earlier Willlam
Penn had produced his quaint and real-
ly extradrdinary plan for the peace of
Europe, in which he, too, proposed to
proceed by military power against any
‘sovereign who refused to submit his
claims to a proposed diet, or parlia-
ment, of Europe or ‘who. refused to
abide by and to perform any judgment
‘of such a body. i
JAH these plans, like those of Rous-
seau, Bentham and Kant, which came
later, as well as William Ladd’s elab-
orate and carefully considercd essay
‘6m a congress of nations, publislied in
1840. were brought into the world ‘too
soon.’ They were the fine and noble
dreams of seers which it is taking civ.
lized men thiree centuries and more té
begin effectively to realize.—New Yorl
Times.
‘SAVED BY A CAMERA MAN.
How He Won a Lease of Life For Some
w of Villa’s Victims.
During one of his earlier campaigns
Francisco Villa ‘had an American
movie photographer, Burrud by name,
attached to his staff, who spent a
| good deal of his time taking pjctures
i! of the excessively vain. “general” him-
' gelf.” Sometimes, however, Burrud was
called upon to ‘undertake more stren-
[ uous operations. The following story,
' for instance, is told in Francis A. Col-
ling’ “The Camera Man:” .
“Burrud was called outdoors unex-
pectedly at sunrise one morning and
directed to report, with his camera, at
! once to headquarters. When he arriv-
‘ ed, coatless and breakfastless, before
' Villa’s tent he was told that the gen-
eral had decided to have some twenty
prisoners shot and wanted a moving
| picture taken of the execution. The
prisoners, most of them political mere-
ly, were to be butchered to make a
‘moving picture scene.
“Burrud feigned to examine his cam-
era closely and then explained to the
general that his films were bad and
that it would be impossible to take the
picture until a new supply had arrived.
Villa was disgusted to miss the enter-
tainment, but the camera man insisted
that there was no use in making the
exposure, and the picture and the ex-
ecution were put off several days.
“By the time the next supply of films
arrived the general had fortunately
changed his mind and the men were
sav
Electricity and Coal Waste.
From coal we chiefly draw the sun's
stored energy, which is required to
meet our industrial and commercial
' needs. According to statistical records,
! the output in the United States during
an average year is 480,000,000 tons. In
perfect engines this fuel would be suf-
ficient to develop 500,000,000 horsepow-
er steadily for one year, but the squan-
dering is so reckless that we do not get
more than 5 per cent of its heating
value on the average. A comprehen-
sive electrical plan for mining, trans-
porting and using coal could much re-
duce this appalling waste. What is
more, inferior grades, billiens of tons
of which are being thrown away, might
be turned to profitable use.—Nikola
Tesla in Collier's Weekly.
The Color Cure.
To cure smallpox was apparently a
very simple matter in the good old
times. John of Gaddeston, court doc-
tor to Edward IL, has recorded that
he got rid of the disease by the simple
expedient of wrapping his patients in
red cloth, “Let scarlet red be taken,”
he says, “and let him who is suffering
} from smallpox be entirely wrapped in
{it or in some other red cloth. I did
thus when the son of the ‘illustrious
king of England suffered from small-
pox. I took care that all about his bed
i should be red, and that cure succeeded
very well.”—London Tatler.
Raising Geese.
The raising of geese was a profitable
occupation of farming in England
l years ago, and some farmers had flocks
Tio 8000 or 10,000. Each goose pro-
+ | duced a shilling’s’ worth of feathers
; every year and quills to the value of
; threepence. The quills were used for
; pens.
Easy.
Bill-He always said he’d never mar-
ry until the right girl came along.”
Jill—Well, how does he know that the
one he is about to marry is the right
one?
“Oh, she told him she was.”—Yon-
kers Statesman.
| Neighbors.
“Wha sort of neighbors have you?”
| “The usuail-sort. Cost us just a lit-
tle more than I earn to keep up with
| 'em.”—Detroit Free Press.
{| What a happy world this would be
if every man spoke as well of his live
| 2eighbors as he does of his dead ones!
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