LIFE SAME DEVICE, Trigger That Launches Lifeboat From a Dirigible "W£y." SIMPLE IN ITS MECHANISM. Invention of Albert T. Brock Success fully Tested From Lighter In the Ocean —If a Ship Sinks Suddenly the Boat Is Automatically Released and Floated. In the upper New York, bay off Owl's Head the other day there was tested a new life saving boat, the invention of Albert Theodore Brock. Although the apparatus was not In perfect con dition and the vessel from which the test was made was not entirely adapt ed to the purpose, the trial was suc cessful In tiie extreme, the boat taking the water within three seconds after the command "Let go!" The apiiaratus used was, except in point of size, identical with the per fected device. It consists of a boat supplied with air tight compartments which make it unslnkable and an ex aggerated keel Into which are sunk small copper rollers, the purpose of which is to reduce friction as the ves sel is launched from a dirigible "way. ' It Is this latter feature which makes the device unique among life saving apparatus. The boat rests upon this way, held in place by hooks, which release it when a trigger is sprung. At the -will of the person directing the Hunching the portion of the way im mediately beneath the boat can be swung overside from the sliip at any angle. When adjusted to meet the con ditions and upon the release of the trigger the movable part of the way tilts at an angle of -15 degrees, and the boat fairly leaps Into the water, says the New York Ilerald. In event of the vessel sinking suddenly the boat is au tomatically released and floated. The entire mechanism Is simple in the ex treme. In its perfected state the boat will be of ample size to carry fifty passengers, each having a seat on a settle or tran som running around the cockpit, with partition rails for each person. In the bottom, resting upon the keel, are two fresh water tanks., and in lockers un der the seats is storage room for food and other necessaries sufficient to sup ply fifty persons for several days. The boats have a waterproof canvas cover that drops from the ridge of the awn ing supports by pressure on a lever to admit passengers and Is closed in sim ilar manner when the weather Is bad or high seas are running. It Is asserted by Mr. Brock that this feature of Ills decice will permit the loading of the boat to its full capacity In a minute at most. The boats are provided with a metal tube for thu ingress of air when the cover is on and which may l>e used as & mast If desired. For the purpose of the test the way -vas attached to the after upper deck of the Daniel McElroy, a big lighter. On board were several shipping men and Captain William C. Cannon, assist ant dej>ot quartermaster, U. S. A. Sir. Brock stood In the cockpit of his boat, and when all was ready he signaled to an assistant, who pulled the trigger and caused the way to drop toward the water. Simultaneously the boat started on Its journey. At the time the McElroy was making about six knots, and the little craft hit the wake with a great splash, rising on a wave like a cork. Not a drop of water was ship ped. and the decks were hardly damp ened by the spray, though the vessel had taken a sheer drop of fifteen feet after leaving the fixed part of the ap paratus. All those who witnessed the trial were enthusiastic over its success, and Captain Cannon, who has paid much attention to life saving devices, ex pressed himself as being satisfied with the feasibility of Mr, Brock's invention. Mr. Brock afterward explained that several of his ways could le perma nently attached to the dcclcs of a liner, with several of his boat?; stowed near by, without un.luly taking the avail able space. lie declared boats could be launched at intervals of a few sec onds and that, all persons able to reach the deck could be saved, provided, of course, a sufficient number of boats was carried. Cauliflower Luncheon the Latest. It is not new to have a certain fruit served in many forms at a luncheon and bestow the name of that fruit upon the meal. Thus the strawberry lunch eon and the cantaloupe luncheon are old friends. But to use that idea in connection with vegetables seems uew. Has anybody heard of a spinach lunch eon? Miss Newberry, daughter of the assistant secretary of the navy, struck out along that path recently when she gave a cauliflower luncheon. Cauli flower was used even as a center piece, white and dainty looking and surrounded by noddUg clusters of white sweet peas. Ewry course Intro duced the same vegetable, and the cakes and ices were miniature heads of the patrician cabbage. Miss New berry wore white organdie, much l>e frilled and suggestive of cauliflower. The idea does not seem poetic, but is novel. Sweetnote's Vocation. "J. A. Sweetnote, Chicago." That In scription on the register at the Coates House iu Kansas City excited the curi osity of one man the other morning, and when he suggested to the owner of the name that it was a euphonious one Mr. Sweetnote grinned. "But there's a funny connection between my name and my business," he said. "I'm a traveling salesman for a boiler fac tory." Three Great Rivere, The three rivers which tflay be re garded from a commei'clal pofnt fcf view as the most important in the af fairs of the world are those on which the three greatest cities are situated. The Thames, on which London, with its 6,000,000 of people, is located, has a length of 215 miles. The Hudson, at the mouth of which is New York, with 4,000,000 of people, is about 350 miles l°ng, while the Seine, on which Paris Miuids, with her 2,000,000 Inhabitants, Is 41)7 miles long.—New York Tribune. Silence and blushing are the elo quence of women.—Chinese. fiULLER,THEFIGHTER How Sir Redvers Won the Vic toria Cross. AN EPISODE OF ZULU WAR. British General's Brilliant Record of Bravery on One Busy Day In South Africa—A Sample of His Persuasive Powers and His Congeniality. General the Itlght Hon. Sir Bed vers rienry Buller, the famous British warrior, who recently died In London, England, was called by the Zulus the "devil's brother." To read the story of how he won bis Victoria cross is like reading of the deeds of some enchanted prince In a fairy romance. The story entrances one, yet to those who knew the man the astonishing details seem to lose much of their marvelous quality. It was on March 28, 1579, at which time ho was in command of the mount ed troops—strictly they were not cav alry—of Sir Evelyn Wood's column In the Zulu war. lie had been dispatch ed by his commander to clear the Inhlobane mountains, In South Africa. The task had been accomplished iu the face of stupendous difficulties and some opposition, when enormous Zulu re enforcements were observed coming up and threatening to cut them off. He was by sheer force of circumstances compelled to retreat by making a de scent by the precipitous sides of the mountain. His force lost heavily, but his calmness and magnificent self de votion saved it from the absolute de struction which seemed Imminent. The much prized decoration was won not by a headlong rush against a foe nor yet by a sudden impulse of gallantry, but by three unaffected acts of unself ish devotion, involving almost certain death. First, when the pursuit was hottest he saw Captain D'Arcy of the frontier light horse dismounted, his horse hav ing been killed under him, and retiring on foot. Colonel (as Sir Redvers then was) Buller, though he himself was a big, heavy man, quite a load for a horse, especially after a fatiguing morn ing, promptly took Captain D'Arcy up behind him and carried him out of I reach of the foe. A little later on the 1 same day under similar circumstances j and In the same manner he rescued j another officer of the frontier light i horse. Lieutenant Everett. He finished, i also on tho same day, by carrying out j of danger a trooper whose horse was ; completely exhausted. When he took | this man up behind him the Zulus | were within eighty yards of them. ] Three separate and distinct actions in one day, each of which would have sained the famous bronze cross for any man! Finally he led into camp seven other troopers who, flying from the mountnin, had lost their way. General liuller was undoubtedly a strong man, with a will of iron rigid ity, but he also possessed and occasion ally used liis characteristic powers of I>ersuuslon and generally to good ef fect, as the following anecdote will show: When serving in the Canadian Rod river expedition under Colonel Woise ley, some years ago, Buller, then a lieutenant, arrived at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, where their further ail vance was hampered by. dense fogs. Presently their provisions threatened to run scanty, and n galley was (lis patched to an island in the vicinity on which was erected a station t'< i I the aid of the shipwrecked sailor - I Lieutenant liuller accompanied tl.e I boatmen and discovered a woman !: charge of the station provisions. lie asked for a supply of food, but was r fused. "No." averred the woman. "Our provisions l.e only for those vvho'i shipwrecked, not for foil; like you." "I!ut." reiterated r.ullor. "we arv sorviiM - of the government, am! this is a government store." "But I can't let veil take the pro visions; you'r.i not shipwrecked." was the rigid response. Duller observed the odd sngg- » ; of dialect In the gpea! er's voice anil words, and he nddiessed her per suasively In the Cornish Uialei-t: "What! Not for dear .old 'One and All." and I a Buller?" "What!" came the surprised re sponse. "lie „vew from Cornwall, on' n Buller? Take anything you'ri lilu in the store. Von'm hearty welcome!" Many years ago. during the lied river expedition, a soldier in the King's royal rifles was much In need of a pipeful of tobacco. He approach ed his brother Tommies for what li • required, but without success. A :!<; ure that seemed familiar mar el steadily ahead, and the soldier, in des peration, slapped the individual oa th • back, saying. "Got a pipeful of barcv. j mate?" The ilgure turned, revealing lieia-rt 1 Bulior, then a captain in the same re:, iment. The soldier w:is overwlieln with confuniou. "Very sorry 1 can'! i" l ' "'.e you." said liuller. "but I haven t ul for myself," showing at the '•ne an empty pipe. lateil of General Buller tliar one ! had a very narrow escape froia having to abandon his military career. Shortly before he joined the regiment to which lie had been gazet ted as a subaltern lie cut his knee very j badly with an ax. The wound was so severe that the surgeon said the limb must lie amputated. Buller, however, said that If he could not have two legs he would have none at all, and the re sult was that which usually happens in such stories—the doctor was nil wrong and Buller was soon able to Join his regiment. ice Water Poem. Lieutenant Governor Henry 15. Gray, the best judge of whisky and the strongest supporter of the prohibition law in Alabama, has composed a poem dedicated to the cause of temperance in the south. At an ice water banquet in the Country club of Birmingham, Ala., the other night he recited part of 1 it. The first stanza is as follows: The mint bed makes a pasture. The corkscrew hangeth high. All ts still along the stiU side, Tha south is going dry. I The Professor's Wife—You haven't kissed tue for a week. The Professor I (absently)— Are you sure? Then who is It I have been kissing?— Life, AIATIMAL DANGER, Dr. Darlington's Warning as to Cause of Heart Disease. MENTAL AND BODILY UNREST. Equanimity Need of the Times, Says Health Commissioner —Cardiac Dis ease Mortality Increases, While Thnt From Other Maladies Declines That the effect produced by high strung nervous tension induced by j modern methods of social and business | competition must be regarded as a | causative factor in the production of | functional and ultimately organic car diac disease was the point made the I other day by Dr. Thomas Darlington,; commissioner of health of New York city, at the twenty-tlftli annual meet ing of the American Cllmatologlcal as- ' sociation, which assembled at Boston under the presidency of Dr. Thomas D. j Coleman of Augusta. Ga. "During the early years of our na- j tional life," said Dr. Darlington, "phys-: leal labor was the rule and essential in the upbuilding of the country, but with It, hand lu band, went the normal anil wholesome conditions of living im-j posed by- the limitations of a young country and the virile qualifications inherent in the hardy settler. "Then, with the advent of what we j are pleased to call the concomitant attributes of civilization, came the age of social and mental unrest, vast com-! merclal opportunities and competition. We are paying our prices for our so cial and material advancement. "Out of 275,000 children examined in the public schools of New York city more than 70 per cent were found to be suffering from some physical abnor mality—all handicapped at the very beginning of their life struggle—and of these children nearly 3,500 had heart disease in some form. There is a wide gulf between the three 'lt's' which were taught in the country school fifty years ago and the extensive and overbur dening system of education now placed before the children. Economic condi tions today are also bearing bard upon their physical well being. "Children acquire by subtle inference the thought that the ultimate measure of gain is the acquisition of the 'al mighty dollar.' With such a goal the race starts early in life and competi tion is the relentless pacemaker. "In this connection we must take nr count of the modern tendency to over ' indulgence in athletic sports. It is well j known that overactivity In this direc tion, with the physical strain resulting ■ from keenly contested games, leaves j its Imprint on the physical status <>f the Immature or under developed youth. Insurance companies consider athletes, 'poor risks,' and this attitude is well grounded. It would seem that the med ical profession might well take cogni- j zance of this matter to ascertain what bearing it has, if any, upon this ques tion of the increase in the prevalence; of and death rate from heart disease. "Osier, the master mind in medicine, has given to Ids profession Its master word, and in It is held, if not entirely at least partially, the solution of our difficulties. " 'Equanimity' Is the need of the times and the need of the people. Lot us teach it; let us live according to its law. In calmness of mind and evenness of purpose we may And the panacea the world is seeking to combat, the ills arising from mental and physical un rest." THE CAPTAIN'S PLAN. | His Rule For Fighting Seasicknesa Didn't \Vork Both Ways. A young woman who recently made a trip to Europe decided to consult the captain of the ship as to the best preventive for seasickness. Having armed herself with a letter of Intro duction to the officer, slip waited until the ship had cleared Randy Ilook, says a writer in the Bohemian, and then approached him She described her fears and begged for a remedy. "My dear lady,'' replied the captain, with an amused smile, "you will not be troubled with any Illness if you will do what 1 tell you. Most ladies coo fine themselves to their staterooms and thereby incur the very thing they fear Now. if you will stay on deck, get all the fresh air you can, walk up and down, take good physical care of your self and try not to think of trouble you will never be seasick." The lady thanked him. She followed the directions faithfully, and when the ship ran luto the tall end of a heavy northwest gale she never felt a qualm. She appeared regularly at meals and enjoyed herself thoroughly. As the gale was abating she be thought her that It was due the cap tain that she should thank him for his good advice and, approaching the deck steward, intrusted him with a message asking for an interview. Indue time the steward returned, saying that the captain was unable to grant her an Interview. "Why not?" she questioned. "Why won't lie see me?" "Captain's compliments, miss," said the steward, "but he's suffering with a bit of seasickness which 'as lasted two days now. an' he ain't in shape to talk to you." Saluting the Quarter Deck. One of the oldest customs in tin navy ami one that is often puzzling to the landsman is that of "saluting the quarter deck." Many have the hazy Idea that the national colors are its object and that it is merely a naval fad. While to a certain extent It Is a fad. It Is one of hoary antiquity, be Itig a survival of the days when a cru cliix was placed on the stern of a ship and was always saluted as a matter of course. When the crucifix was taken away the old feeling still remained and men continued to salute the place where it had been. The younger gen eration imitated their elders, and the saiute became a habit and continues until this day.—Los Angeles Times. A Vast Difference. "Don't I give you all the money you need?'' her husband complained. "Yes," she replied, "but you told me ! before we were married that you would | cive me all I wanted." "*"*— 1 Others Whenever. Some people make happiness wher- i ever they go.—Success. HOPE FORTHE BLIND. Patients Tell of Relief Gained; From New X Ray Method. INTERMITTENT RAYS ARE USED Discovery Made by Dr. Finley R. Cook While Treating a Cancer —Cataract Films Even Pierced by the Powerful Light—Thirty Persons Benefited. That blindness can be overcome and the eyes regenerated by a new method of utilizing X rays is the discovery claimed to have been made by a prom inent New York physician and sur geon, Dr. Fin ley B. Cook. Though ho has made no formal an nouncement concerning his discovery to the medical fraternity, Dr. Cook has had the advice and assistance of sev eral general practitioners and eye spe cialists in using It upon some thirty persons suffering from loss of sight in varying degrees. And when the Acad emy of Medicine resumes its meetings in the fall he will make a full report 1 to that body on the success he has at tained in these cases. Despite Dr. Cook's desire to keep his work a secret until the time arrives for making it known through medical chan nels, several of those who declare lie> has benefited them are enthusiastic in their wish to tell of what it has done i for them. Remarkable statements regarding the | manner in which the X rays had re- [ stored their sight were made recently to a New York American reporter by j several of these patients. T. J. Byrne of New Y'ork city said: "I was going blind when 1 liegan to take the Roentgen ray treatment anil could not recognize a friend who passed me on the street. Now 1 can distin guish f;K'es for a distance of half a block and can read the finest print." Mrs. Hose Bopf of New York city said: "The sight of my left eye was dim med, and the right was totally blind Though 1 had worn glasses for more than fifteen years, my sight was rapid ly falling when I started the X ray treatment. At the present time I can see with the eye that formerly was useless, and tho left one has Improved so much that I have stopped wearing glasses." Kven more striking than these two cases is that of Frank Comstock of Meriden, Conn., which is vouched for by Mr. Byrne. Comstock was totally without vision when he was first treat ed with the rays, the retina of one eye being detached, while the other had been badly affected by degeneration of the nerves. He was then unable tc make Ids way through the streets with out assistance. He is now able to rend and can find his way easily from place to place without any help. Dr. Cook's discovery of the method which ho uses la applying the X rays to the eyes was made while treating cancer with the powerful light While trying to iiit on a plan for preventins his patient from being burned he de elded the only way to do this was to make the exposures of the light upoi) the subject intermittently. When In tried this he found the rays were Just as effective, while they did not leave any harmful effects. lie concluded, therefore, that the fault lay in the fact that the rays were used for a continuous period, whlct resulted in Irritatioji |ollowjt)g quick ly upon the stimulation which was sought. After that he modified tho treatment to "flashes," these l>elng foi just a second, but of great power. Shortly after this step had been tak en a young woman who hiul been blind for twenty-seven years applied to him Tho result in this case was not rei.v promising, as the young woman suf fered very severely from cf'tract, but it was sufficient to show that the rays had a regenerative effect upon the eye Through discussion with Dr. David Webster, a well known eye specialist of New York city, and others familial with diseases of the optics be was en abled t<» obtain patients fur further experiment. Where the weakness of the vision was caused by degeneration of the nerves or detachment of the retina uni formly good results have been attained, it is said. Where the patient has been the victim of cataract the improve ment has been less marked. This is explained by the fact that the cat aract covers the eye with a film which must first be removed before the eye can be regenerated. In some cases the rays have even caused the piercing of this cataract film. In the case of a Mrs. Watson of New lioehelle, N. Y., this was accom plished. Mrs. Watson, who had been totally blind for a great many years, was enabled to see the lights four minutes after tho X rays had been used upon her. Later she declared she was able to see slightly. While Dr. Cook admitted that he had been carrying on this work, lie refused to discuss the cases, saying that In the fall he purposed making an exposition of his findings before a scientific body Dr. Cook Is a leading member of the Academy of Medicine and is also a member of the New York state and county medical societies aud the Amer ican Medical association. He is an as sistant surgeon at the Vanderbilt clinic and physician of the Virginia Day nursery. Ptomaine Poisoning Cure. Professor Wassernmuu of Berlin has succeeded in finding a serum which he claims brings about the curs of pto maine poisoning. The Good Old Day*. The richest man in King Charles ll.'s England could not get so good a dinner as tens of thousands will ait down to today. Cattle were of a far poorer breed, vegetables were few and bad nnd the commonest conveniences of the table were unknown. Fish j knives, for Instance, are hardly con sidered an extravagant luxury, but Mr. I Gladstone could remember when they 1 were not to he found on any table.— ; lx>n<lon Telegraph. i Possibly the idea has got abroad | among poets that the sea waves are ! sad because the ocean. Is so very blue at times. COAL SfflK SCHEME St. Louis Man Burns it With Limestone. HIS FUEL BILLS CUT IN HALF Alexander Marshall Obtains Intense Heat by Mixing Limestone With Coal Clinkers Eliminated Smoke Reduced to Minimum. Alexander Marshall of St. Ix>uls toUl the other day how he.has solved an Important problem that may great ly reduce the world's consumption of coal. lie claims to have discovered a meth od whereby the cost of coal, by the use of limestone, In furnaces of any kind may be reduced to one-half. The limestone exists In sufficient quanti ties in the l'iasa bluffs along the Mississippi river to supply Alton with fuel for centuries to come. Marshall's scheme proved generally successful. "You see, I throw In plenty of coal to get a redhot fire In the furnace," said Sir. Marshall to a reporter of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Then I throw in equal parts in bulk of coal and limestone. In a few minutes a white heat is generated which Ims ab solutely no smoke." A strong limelight blaze at once flared up in the furnace. The former dark black smoke from the stacks be gan to be transformed into a light airy gas—carbonic acid gas released from the carbonate of lime. The heat was intense, and in a few minutes it seemed as if the seams of the boilers would melt. "Coal alone never gave sucli a heat," remarked Mr. Marshall. "In a few weeks I shall have a testing appara -1 tus here for the purpose of finding out exactly the amount of heat units in a given quantity of coal and then the number of units in coal and lime stone." After the test the residue left was exhibited In the gratis. There were no clinkers. The coal had evidently all been consumed. "The residue makes a good fertili zer," Mr. Marshall said. "Of course the ashes are not so good as the lime stone before burning, for that con tains 40 per cent more of carbon. The advantage lies In the fact that use has already been made of the coal. Loft In the ground for a longer length of time the burned limestono will bring about exactly the same effect as the pure limestone—that is. In correcting the acidity of the soil." Mr. Marshall then explained that the coal he formerly used up to the eve of his limestone fuel discovery a short time ago cost $2.40 per ton. The actual cost of limestone is 00 cents a ton. As the limestone and coal are used half and half the actual cost of a ton of the Marshall heating material Is $1.50. "The use of my discovery," said Mr. Marshall, "would insure smokeless heat which I'm sure would do away with the big city smoke annoyance. Then there are no heavy clinkers to deal with, and, besides, wo havo an al most perfect fertilizer in the ashes, to say nothing of the prime consideration, the reduction iu fuel cost. "My explanation of limestone's value as fuel Is that It contains 811.73 per cent of pure carbonate of Jlme. This Is not combustible unless heated, but whei heated in a redhot blaze becomes com bustible, sending off carbonic acid gas, giving a limelight fire In the furnace which Is many times hotter than the ordinary coal fire. In order to make it smokeless we must shut off as much oxygen as possible, which is partly done by closing up the furnaces. "I intend to build what is called a 'Dutch ovv'i),' a class of furnace into Which coal is dumped at the top by a sort of mechanical contrivance which prevents any air from escaping when the furnace, which is otherwise closed, is being fired. "I have been studying this matter ever since I read of the experiments of Mr. Bidder of the waterworks plant at Baden. lie made gas for lighting by beating limestone red hot iu retorts over the fire. 1 wondered at once If the gas could not be made right in the furnace and retained there to increase the heat of the fire under the boilers. By a se ries of experiments lasting over a month I learned that It could be done, and I have been doing it successfully ever since in our plant at Elsah." Mr. Marshall resides In Carondelet He is fifty-three years of age and is o Scotch descent. lie wears a large red dish beard, which reaches below his coat lapel. P. X. Bl.xby of St. Louis is president and one of the principal stockholders In the Whiting plant, where the Mar shall demonstration is being made. First Electric Furnace For Steel. What is claimed to be the first elec trical furnace for the production of Iteel in Belgium is approaching com- | fietlon at the works of the Societe des \cleries Liegeoisez at Brussels. It is >f the Kjellin-Roechling type. Spring Dog-gerel. Oh. listen closo fur the voice of spring! Though faint and fine, 'tis tho fairest thing That ever assailed the ear. Chilly winter may do for firs. But wait till tho pussy willow purs A.nd tho cows' lips lap tho sap as It stirs— A delicate thins to hear. But. truest tone of them all to me. I love the bark of the dog-wood tree. With marshes flaunting a hundred flags While every delicate cat-tail wags, What care I for city mews? Each blossom blows like a farott flute. And the wilder flowers their pistils shoot. While all the trumpet vines tendrllly toot, Kamlng their honest dews. ! From a litter oC leaves comes a sound— Ah. me— ' rh« shrill bough-wow of tho dog-wood : tree. • -Burgess Johnson In Good Housekeeping For April. I Bielovitoka Forest, Lithuania. i In the great park Bielovitoka forest, In Lithuania, which is about 150 miles . in circumference, the primeval forest • still stands, and all the wild animals native to central European forests are found there except bears aud wolves, which were exterminated some years ago. Except for the roads which pass [ through It, the forest is unchanged. It Is visited by few people except the for esters.—Forest and Stream. THRILLING SPORT. Rafting Down the Canyons of an Un mapped Glacial River. With provisions for only ten days a party of explorers in Alaska found one September that they must build rafts and take their chances of letting the swift river carry them to settlements where food could be obtained; other wise Ice and snow would shut them in from all hope of rescue. In"The Shameless Diary of an Explorer" Rob ert Dunn tells of the Journey on the roughly made rafts. "At 11 o'clock today began the most thrilling sport I know, rafting down the snaky canyons of an unmapped glacial river. "Fred and I captained the Mary Ann 11., the other three the Ethel May. We rasped and hauled them over the gravel shadows of our tributary, shot out between the tnaln walls of the stream and seized upon that boiling current. "We reached silently from cliff to cliff, Jammed pike poles into the slate shelf overhead, twirled out of eddies. We bumped and grounded. We dashed overboard and on the run cased her across shallows. We tugged half an hour to make an inch at each shove through the gravel, suddenly plunged into our necks, and she leaped free as we scrambled on. "Bowlders rose through white ruffs of water in mldchannel. We might or might not hang on them for a perpen dicular minute. "You must be very handy with a jiole. You must have a hair fine eye for moving angles, the strength of an eddy, the depth of foam ruffling over a stump. You must be surer of the length of your pole than a polo player of the reach of his mallet. You must l>e quicker than a Slwash dog. You must know the different weight of each log down to ounces, the balance of the duffel piled high like a dais, covered with the tent and the bean pot, the niackinaws and the ax lashed to ull the lashings. It's a pretty game." SIGN OF A BEATEN MAN. Runner Who Looks Behind Almost Sure to Lose the Race. "There are many more good distance runners now than in my days," said an old time champion after watching a three mile scratch race at the New York Athletic club games. "But the habits of the runners have not changed any, for I noticed one little trick in the race that bore the significance that used to attach to it "To tlie casual onlooker there was nothing to choose between the two leaders when they were beginning the last quarter of n mile. Bight from the crack of the pistol they were running almost stride for stride with the low, graceful, easy action of the real long distance runner. "Neither had called Into use there serve power which must be utilized In the final sprint for victory when they turned Into the stretch for the final lap. Then one of them slightly turned his head to see where the third man was. " 'That man Is beaten,' was the thought •which occurred to me at once, and it proved true, as always, for when the dash for tho finish began he allow ed his rival to get a lead of five yards before going nft'er him In earnest pur suit "From that point to the finish then.' was no perceptible difference In the speed of the men, but the man who had turned his head to make sure that ho would get second place, instead of bending every energy to win, of course landed where his thoughts placed him."—New York Sun. The Gun Barrels Grew. In the early days in the northwest, when the Hudson Bay company laid thi> foundations of great fortunes by trade with the savages and a gun paid for as ' many beaver skins as would reach to the muzzle of it, the skins packed flat , and the gun held upright, it was alios 1 ed that the barrel of the weapon grew | and grew with each successive year 1 until the Indian, after he had bought S it with the peltry, had to borrow a tile \ and cut otf a foot of useless metal Need and Needs. Ferhaps many persons have wonder j ed why we are taught to say "lie need ! not do that" instead of"He needs not , do that," as tho singular pronoun, he | requires under ordinary conditions the singular form of the verb. The reasoc \ is that in a sentence of that kind, a i negative sentence, expressing require | ment or obligation, "need" becomes ar j auxiliary and takes no change of terml J nation in the third person singular { This exception is laid down in the grammars.—Chicago News. The Iron Crown. The iron crown of Lombardy, sc called from the narrow iron band with j In it supposed to have been beaten out : of one of the nails used at tho cruel flxion, was probably first worn bj ; Aglluph at ills coronation in 501. The historic crown after gracing the brows i of such sovereigns as Charlemagne Henry of Luxemburg, Frederick IV. i Charles V.the great Napoleon was in iw • .a up to Victor Emmanue j -ow preserved with great care I > ~>nza, near Milan. Extravagance. "This is your little sister, Tommy,' said the father, showing him tho baby "You will love her dearly, "will yor not?" "Yes, of course," replied Tommy, in specting the latest arrival, "but Ifl! cost a great deal to keep her, won't it?" "I presume so." "Yes," said Tommy, with a long drawn breath, "and when I asked you tho other day to buy me a white ral> bit you said you couldn't afford It." One State Short. "Jedge," said the old darky, "you been a married man a King time?" "Yes." "An' you' experience is Jest an' Wise?" "I hope so. Why?" "Weil, suh, I got a 'oman ter say she'll marry me, one dat's willln' ter rise airly an' make a llvin' fer de oP man, dat's why." "But—you are a very old mau. "Were you never married?" "Oh, yes, suh." was the reply, "in Tennessee an' Alabama, but both er 'urn tried to rule me, an' so 1 left' 'urn fo' 1 got experienced good. But I'll say dis much, I hez never yit tried de mar ried state In Georgy!"—Atlanta Consti tution. PDTO'TO BUILD NEW ALPS. Miniature Switzerland to Be Con structed of Cement. A young Alsatian engineer, M. Weiss, suggests that ati artificial range ot mountains should be built some fifteen miles north and northeast of Paris, in France. According to the scheme, which he explained, be would create a sort of miniature Switzerland within easy reach of the French co r " by taking a strip of territory p e by five miles in length n artifi cial range .rom 3.000 to s,o^' _aserts, be quite possi .oese mountains from huge L cement, which would be cast on „ i spot. Landscape gardeners would arrange valleys and precipices. Streams would be artificially diverted and caused to fall lti cascades. Cog wheel railways would carry the visit ors up to picturesque looking villages. He estimates the scheme would cost $25,000,000, providing labor for 20,000 workmen for ten years, and that it would be of national utility, placing Swiss scenery almost at the gates of Paris. Moreover, it would form a sort of summer pleasure resort, in which thousands of people would build coun try houses to enjoy tbe>alr of the arti ficial mountains, while being able togo Into the city to business every day. OBJECT LESSON FOR FARMERS Secretary Wilson's Plan For Showing How to Make Denatured Alcohol. Secretary Wilson has decided to give the farmers of the country a practical demonstration of how to make dena tured alcohol. Ho will establish at Washington, in one of the buildings of the department o" agriculture, a model station, or plant, where farmers and others inter ested in the subject will be shown how to make alcohol out of the various waste products of the farm, such as decayed fruit, com, potatoes and the like, which cannot be used for any oth cr purpose. The farmers have been slow to take up this matter, anil Secretary Wilson wants to instruct and encourage them. The management of the corn exposi tion which is to be held at Omaha next fall wants Secretary Wilson to establish a station there and give dem onstrations. The s»;retary would like to do so, but won't unless congress makes the necessary appropriation. UPSET BOAT A SOUND BELL Woman's Voice Carried Half a Mile to Man In Motor Boat. By a most peculiar means were two women and two men rescued from drowning In the Susquehanna river at Mlllersbnrg, Pa., the other day. Miss Maude ITamaker accompanied by her guest. Miss Nellie Lehman of Benovo, and two men from Lykens, was up set at a rowing party. Miss Ilamalter and the two men Jumped and held to the keel, but Miss Lehman's dress caught on a nail, and she came up with her head in the air chamber form ed between the upturned bottom of the boat and the surface of the water. In this supposed death trap she frau tlcally screamed for help. Although 6he thought the resounding echo of her voice In the small chamber was only a mocking death, her voice was carried by the water and heard by Mark John son in his motor boat half a mile away. Hastening to the rescue, he could not account for the strange female | voice heard so distinctly amid the screams of Miss Ilamaker. Not until she appealed to him to right her boat j did he realize the strangely heroic rote I Miss Lehman played. Caring For the Nose. ! "It's a funny thing," said a doctor, "that the average man pays less at tention to the most prominent feature I of his face than to any other part of | his countenance. Yes, it's the nose I'm | speaking of. We clamp it with eye glasses that pinch too much or impose i upon it spectacles that are altogether too Jieavy. Then we wonder why it in ! creases in size or perhaps in redness. "But this lack of care for the nose is not restricted to those whose vision is defective. 1 venture to say that not i one man out of ten washes his nose in the way that he should. Every other part of the face comes in for a vigor ous scrubbing, but the nose, which needs it most of nil, is apt to be pass j ed over gently—probably because It Is | being used to breathe through during | the ablutions. The result is that the nose gives more and more evidence of I being neglected. The tissues become I flabby, and the pores are filled up. A \ little massaee would work wonders In such cases, but It is rarely given. "Notice tlie men you see In half an hour's time, and then tell me If my comments are not justified. Then see { what you can do for your own nose."— New York Presa. "Say, pa!" | "What is it?" "Can a man who Is rounded oft at ' the corners be called a square man?" "What kind of a man Is one who Is j rounded off at the corners?" "A bow legged one." "JT HS ra! A. Reliable TIN SHOP for all kind of Tin Roofing* Spouting nnd General Job Work. Stoves, Heatera, Nan«*a, Furnacea. eto. PRICEB TUB LOWEST! QUALITY TOE BEST! : JOHN HIXSON 1 SO. 11# E. FBONT ST.
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