WEDGE LIKE AIRSHIP.
New York Inventor's Arrowplane
Resembles Paper Dart.
'CAN SAIL IN HEAVY WIND.
"lanes Operated to "Spill" the Wind if
It la Too Strong—Has Keel Like a
Yacht to Keep Her Right Side Up.
Automatic Rudders.
Do you remember the paper darts
that the boys used to make in school
and how gracefully they sailed on the
air when the wind was not too strong?
Well, that Is the principle on which
the latest airship has been planned,
coupled with additional ideas caught
from the flight of the arrow and the
sailing of racing yachts. "Arrow
plane," the inventor calls it, and, as he
frequently addresses the members of
the Aero club on the subject dearest
to their hearts and was formerly sec
retary of the Aeronautical society and
still an enthusiastic member of that
organization, his efforts 10 solve the
problem of aerial navigation are re
ceiving the serious atteution of the
members of both organizations.
L. G. W. Schroeder is the inventor
of the latest airship, which Is unlike
anything else of Its kind. It consists
of two planes forty feet long and
wedge shaped. At the forward end
the machine is only six inches wide.
At the stern it is fourteen feet wide.
There is a keel, seven inches deep,
just like the fin keel on the English
cutters that came over here to "lift
the cup," says the New York Globe.
The keel runs the entire length of the
machine. There Is a seven foot pro
peller forward, and provision is made
for a larger propeller behind. These
will be driven at the rate of 800 revo
lutions a minute by a forty horse
power, four cylinder, four cycle ex
plosion engine.
The engine and other machinery are
fastened to the bottom of the keel and
close up to the front of the Arrow
plane. That idea is taken from the
boats that have lead on the bottom of
the fin keel to keep them from turning
turtle. Mr. Schroeder contends that
there is little or no difference in prin
ciple between sailing on the water and
in the air. By having all the weight at
the bottom of the keel, he says, it will
be impossible for Ills airship to turn
turtle under any circumstances.
Sticking up out of the forward end
of the Arrowplane is the steering rud
der. At the rear of the horizontal
planes are what might properly be call
ed the equilibrium rudders. They are
a couple of squares working up and
down on hinges. These regulate the
rising and dropping of the airship. By
means of an Invention which Mr.
Schroeder Is having patented the equi
librium rudders work automatically in
an emergency such as resulted in the
accident to Orville Wright. Mr. Schroe
der is certain that under no circum
stances. not excepting the breaking
down of the engine, will his airship
descend in any way but right side up.
No heavy wind or sudden gust of wind
can bother him.
The inventor's reasons for this confi
dence are twofold. There is nothing
above the two planes, which consist
of a frame of hollow steel tubing into
which are set frames covered with can
vas or other material strong enough
l'or the purpose. These squares are
worked by levers much as the ventilat
ing windows in a greenhouse ;:rc ma
nipulated. In a heavy blow t!:ese
• juures that comprise the planes will
be tilted at an angle sufficient t > " 'ill
the wind" out of the planes, ju t n; is
done on a sailboat when a sq'iall
ones up. Then there is the fit t ir.t
the Arrowplane is ilesigue 1 l • travel
i-n an even keel and that both C./c-. ' lon
snd height are under control. If Mue
•t of rudders give s out there a • « th
to do the work.
The machine rests ou four automo
bile wheels, two feet in diameter,
which are used in starting. To rise
in the air the sections of the plane,
are raised sufficiently to get the great-
t'Bt pressure from the nir against tliem.
The propellers are started; I lie ma
chlne runs forward and sails from the
ground. When the desired height is
reiiolied the sections of the planes are
flattened and automatically locked in
their places. After that the operator
goes where he pleases. There are n dial
and a pendulum to tell when the air
ship gets off an even keel or tilts to
one side or the other. It Is the pres
ent purpose of the inventor to make
machines that will be a success in a
commercial way to the extent of build
ing them to carry two or three pas
sengers. Mr. Schroedcr is sure he can
•do It.
This latest addition to the flotilla of
airships is now being assembled. The
inventor is confident that he has the
right idea and is enthusiastic about
the future of his airship. lie sent out
a lot of miniatures made of paper from
the 'windows of his offices in New
York city the other day. They went
where he said they -would.
"We naturally think our own chil
dren are finer than any other children."
he said, "but that is not the reason I
consider my aeroplane superior to oth
er airships. My objection to the Wright
brothers' machine is that it is forty
feet wide and only eight feet long.
See how little air pressure they get in
the long way of their aeroplane. My
machine gets the pressure for all its
u>ugth. There Is practically no dif
ference between sailing In the air and
in the water. If the principle of the
wide aeroplane Is right, why are not
boats built in the same way? Boats
are constructed long and narrow.
"Too many of the airships are built
■on the bird mode!, which Is what makes
the trouble for them. The wings are
all right until a wind comes up. A
bird will make Its wings smaller, offer
ing less resistance In a high wind. The
wings on the airships cannot be re
duced that way.
"Most of the machines with which
•>re are familiar do best when there is
little or no air. A heavy wind will not
bother us at all. We can always go
up when the others would not dare to.
All the models with which we have
experimented have behaved lieautifully,
and I have no doubt the machine will
do the same. ? 'Si * <■*#«
Actions are the raiment of the man.
MAGIC GLASS.
A Curtou* Mirror That May Be Mad*
Transparent.
One of the most carious inventions
of this aye U what is called platinized
glass. A piece of giacs is coated with
an exceedingly thin layer of a liquid
charged with pLatiixin) and then raised
to a red heat. The platinum becomes
united to the glass in such a way as
to form an odd kind of mirror.
The glass has not really lost its
transparency, and yet if one places It
against a wall and looks at it he sees
his Image as In an ordinary looking
glass. But when light is allowed to
come through the glass from the other
side, as when It Is placed in a window,
it appears perfectly transparent, like
ordinary glass.
By constructing a window of plati
nized glass one could stand close be
hind the panes In nn unlllumlnated
room and behold clearly everything
going on outside, while passersby look
ing at the window would behold only
a fine mirror or set of mirrors in which
their own figures would be reflected,
while the person inside remained in
visible.
In France various tricks have been
contrived with the aid of this glass.
In one a person, seeing what appears
to be an ordinary mirror, approaches
It to gaze upon himself. A sudden
change In the mechanism sends light
through the glass from the back,
whereupon It instantly becomes trans
parent. and the startled spectator finds
himself confronted by some grotesque
figure that had been hidden behind the
magic glass. -New York Tribune.
SPEED LAWS OF 1816.
Coaches Going Nine Miles an Hour
Frightened the English.
The outcry daily growing louder in
England against the excessive speed of
motor cars lends interest to the fol
lowing passage from the Annual Regls
ter for 1810:
A new coach was started In th>
spring to run to Brighton, a distance
irf fifty-two miles. In six hours. * * *
This, however, became alarming, par
ticularly In the populous neighborhood
of Newlnvrton. through which it passed,
and the parish officers there caused in
formation to be laid against the driv
ers for driving furiously on the public
road so as to endanger the lives of his
majesty's subjects.
The result of this is to be read in
Mansard's "Parliamentary Reports,"
June 10, 1810.
The attorney general moved for
leave to bring In a bill the object of
which was the protection of the lives
and limbs of his majesty's subjects by
correcting the enormous abuses of
stagecoach drivers. Within these few
days it would lie hardly credible what
a number of applications he had re
ceived on this subject.
Some accounts were enough to freeze
one with horror. A gentleman of ve
racity had informed him that on Tues
day, May 21, at 5:30, the Trafalgar
and Regulator coaches set off from
Manchester and got to Liverpool at
8:20, doing this jouruay in two hours
fifty minutes, at the rate of twelve
miles nn hour.—New York Sun.
Fiji Islanders' Sugar Cane Dance.
A very curious and exceedingly clev
er dance may be witnessed in Fiji call
ed by the natives "the sugar cane
meke." or sugar cane dance. It rep
resents the growth of the sugar cane.
In the first figure the dancers squat
low on the ground, shake their heads,
shut their eyes and murmur slowly
and softly nn unintelligible sentence.
Gradually they all stand up together,
growing taller anil taller, and as they
"grow" they wave their arms and
tremble all over from ankle to head,
like the tall, tasseied cane waving in
the wind, and still they keep on chant
ing louder and louder. The last fig
ure represents a series of combats
meant to symbolize the exactions < 112
tin' chiefs, who compel the "killsi."
willing and unwilling, to come and cut
• heir crops. London Standard.
The Eyes of the Camel.
One of the camels—the seven were
lying just beyond the circle of fire
light— rose complaining. Mustafa's
Ahmed slipped away upon his duty.
Presently 1 heard his guttural cawing
to get the camel again to rest, but the
beast would not down and must be
beaten, the boy meanwhile mouthing
great curses. I wondered that a being
so small should without peril to him
self strike n creature like this with his
fist, continuing all the time within
reach of teeth and hoofs.
"I will tell the khawnja," replied
Mustafa, "a most curious and interest
ing thing about this."
Ahmed had mastered the camel and
now came to his place.
"The khawaja lias observed," Musta
fa continued, "that a child may beat
nnd command a camel. It is not be
cause the camel is stupid nor yet be
cause he is timid; it is because of a
wise provision whereby God suited
him to the weakness of men. The
camel's eyes are like magnifying
glasses and Increase the stature of his
master sevcu times, wherefore he is
obedient to the gigantic appearing
creature."
In 1 am.iseus, too, I heard this super
stition. Norman Duncan In Harper's
Maga. iue.
The Telltale Hand.
A writer In an English weekly de
clares that If we want to know what
the other person Is thinking we must
look at his or her hands. Even un
practlced lips can lie, as every one
knows. Long practice In self control
will enable one to keep one's voice
sweetly cordial when there is nothing
but Indifference or cold dislike behind
it. The eyes can be made to shoot
glances which are not at all a register
for the emotions. But the hands, it Is
asserted, are utterly beyond the con
trol of those to whom they belong.
Even people who hardly gesticulate at
all—and to keep the hands still Is con
sidered by the Anglo-Saxon a most es
sential part of good breeding—even
these people are, it seems, constantly
revealing themselves in little move
ments of the hands. The Immortal Mui
vaney has put it on record that a wo
man's truth or untruth can be dis
cerned by the action of her hands. Of
course it takes a practiced reader to
Interpret what the hands are saying.
It Is not a case of"he who runs may
read."
A LINGUISTIC ESCAPADE.
Whan Henry W. Longfellow Shocked
Intellectual Boston.
In the original impression at I.long
fellow's poem of "Hiawatha" there
were found In the seventh book the
three lines following:
Straight Into the river Kwafrtnd
Plunged aa If he were an otter.
Dove as If he were a beaver.
How this offending preterit, passed
the proofreader without protest 1h one
of those mysteries which have never
been revealed. But the form certainly
made Its appearance and can still be
found In copies of the poem which
were regularly published and Bold.
Boston never received such a shock
since the days when Fenimore Cooper
Insisted that It was only in the middle
states that the English language was
spoken In its purity. But that attack
came from an outsider. Here the of
fender was of her own household, was,
in fact, her favorite son. What means
of suppression were resorted to will
probably never be disclosed. A myste
rious retlcettfe has always been pre
serv ed in regard to this linguistic esca
pade. The biographers of Longfellow
appear to be silent upon the subject.
Measures of some sort must, however,
have been taken at once. "Dove" was
expunged, and the decorous "dived"
assumed its place, and the whole trans
action was so completely hushed up
that no public scandal was created.
Let him who possesses a copy of that
first impression continue to cherish it.
Whatever may be its worth now, the
time will come when It will reach the
value of the virtuous woman of Scrip
ture, and its price will be far above
rubies.—Professor Thomas R. Louns
bur.v In Harper's Magazine.
THE PALACE WAITED.
A Suggestion That Changed the Plans
of a Pope.
At a time when there was great suf
fering among the people from lack of
food and when famine in its worst
form was threatened Pope Alexander
VI. hail made arrangements for the
erection of a magnificent palace. The
best architects had been employed, and
the plans had been submitted and ac
cepted, and an accomplished builder
had been sent for to come from Venice,
a man whose work had won for him
renown and who was known to be a
just and upright man.
The builder had arrived, and at an
appointed time he waited upon his
holiness to receive the plans ami make
his estimates. "There is one thing yet
to be done," said the pope. "There
has been no proper inscription or leg
end thought of to be placed over the
main entrance of the palace. It should
be put above the great gate. You have
had experience. Do you think of an in
scription that would be appropriate
"If your holiness would pardon me
for the liberty, I might suggest one
most appropriate at this time."
"You are pardoned in advance." said
the pope, smiling. "Now, what shall
it be?"
"Sovereign pontiff, let it be thu
•Command that these stones be made
bread!'"
The pope was visibly and deeply af
fected. He paid the builder munifi
cently for his expenses of coming an 1
going, and instead of building his pal
ace lie fed the hungry ones of his
children.
Queer Furs.
"This Is cat fur," said a furrier.
"We use it for linings. An excellent
lining cat fur makes too. I>ogs, calves,
colts, coons, opossums, bats, rats any
animal that wears fur, in fact, is sala
ble in the fur market. Bat hair is
felted up with other stuff into an imi
tation skin. It is also nsed, I believe,
in rope plaiting. The dog, the coon
and the opossum yield a fur that, prop
erly treated, makes a very handsome
lining, ltat skins are employed In cer
tain delicate repairs, and they also
serve to form the thumbs of cheap
gloves. A i|iieer thing about the fur
business is that the furs must be taken
in the dead of winter. The trapper
must work under the crudest climatic
conditions. Only thus is the fur at Its
best. The dresser, on the other hand,
who could work best In cold weather,
must do all his work in the heat of
summer or otherwise he would not be
able to keep up with the changing
fashions."—Exchange.
The Magical Mirror.
An ordinary mirror of any size or
shape, a piece of French chalk pointed
so that it can be used to write and a
silk handkerchief are the requisites.
Draw upon the mirror with the chalk
any design or words you choose. With
the handkerchief wipe the glass light
ly until it is perfectly clear and no
writing or design is apparent. Having
all this prepared beforehand, show to
some one and request that he breathe
gently on the face of the glass, when
he will see a picturo of his future wife,
for the design drawn will show very
distinctly. This can again be wiped
off. and if breathed upon the design
wfll be again visible.
An Odorless Disinfectant.
If one objects t» the odor of carbolic
acid, he may use for the plumbing an
odorless disinfectant prepared as fol
lows: Dissolve half a pound of per
manganate of potash in four gallons
of water and pour this carefully down
the pipes. This solution, If allowed to
stuud In bowls or basins, will stain
them purple. The stains may be re
moved with a weak solution of oxalic
acid. The acid must be rinsed off im
mediately after It has been used.
A Hindrance.
Suburbanite—You are half an hour
late this morning. Letter Carrier—Yes,
ma'nm. The sections of stovepipe 1
have to wear inside my trousers legs
on account of the dogs you keep along
this street hamper my movements,
ma'am."—Chicago Tribune.
Why She Held onto It.
Mrs. Willful—My husband told me If
I didn't like the brooch you'd exchange
it for me. Jeweler—Certainly, mndam.
I'll be only too c' id. as four different
ladies of vour set wn:it It
Genius.
As diamond cuts diamond and one
hone smooths a second, all parts of
Intellect are whetstones to each other,
and genius, which is bnt the result
of their mutual sharpening, Is char
acter too.—Alfred Tennyson.
THECOMINGMARVELS
Marconi Predicts Ships Will Be
Run by Electricity.
AIRSHIPS FOR COMMON USE.
Inventor Also Sees a Better World
With Fewer Children, but of Higher
Quality—Operas to Be Heard and
Seen From a Distance.
That steamships will be run by sun
shine Is the opinion of Guglielino Mar
coni, who recently discussed the mar
vels of the future.
The inventor of wireless telegraphy
has come to America to Increase Ills
transatlantic service from a capacity
of 5,000 words a day to 20,000. After
predicting a groat future for wireless
telegraphy lie said to a reporter of the
New York World:
"There seems to be a happy fate in
the coincidence of scientific discover
ies, which on first thought are quite
unrelated to each other. The develop
ment of the airship, as shown in the
astouudiug performance of Orville
Wright's machine in Washington,
would seem to have nothing in com
mon with the perfection of wireless
communication, and yet, If one looks
into the future, the great airships
which are to come, sailing at incredi
ble speed and at unforeseen and vary
ing altitudes, could never without the
wireless 'speak' each other as ships do
at sea and so remain in touch with
those safely at home.
"And the airship is certain to come
into general use, and that within the
lifetime of our generation, not for
freight perhaps, but for people sure
ly. In fifty years Unpeople of New
York will be freed of the vexing prob
lem of rapid transit. There will be no
need for surface cars, elevated roads,
subways, tunnels and fer» es.
"In fact, as I look Into the years to
come I am convinced that life will be
an easier problem, a more gonial func
tion In the scheme of things, than it is
today.
"Aside from the economy of labor
which follows the conquest of nature's
forces, there will be fewer people
among whom to divide the benefits.
The birth rat'» will continue to de
crease, as I believe it. should, at least
for the present. With the growth of
intelligence among the mass of people
there will come a realization of tho
folly of rearing more children than
can be properly fitted to be efficient
members of society. Quality, not num
bers, will come to be the standard of
racial excellence, and the present
anomalous condition wherein the num
ber of childreu in a family is in inverse
ratio to the earning capacity of the
parents will have disappeared.
"The condition today Is not ouo of
'race suicide." but of social common
sense. And if the present enlighten
ment of the average men and women
continues to its righteous turning
point there will come an end of con
gested cities, with their wretched and
starving children of the tenements,
their crimes, their killing competition
and their discouragement of the gen
tler aspirations of men.
"In all ways science is more and
more studying to perfect the practical
comfort and well being of the world.
Of course there will always tie ships
upon the sen. The mysterious primevnl
voice of the ocean will continue Its
spell over the human imagination. Rut
there will not always Ik> steamships.
They will pass the way of their prede
cessors, and ere long we shall cross
the ocean in ships run by electric pow
er. There will be no grime of coal
smoke, no slcklsh odor of stale steam,
no blazing caverns in the hold, where
human beings with starting eyes and
blackened faces sweat their lives away
that the pulse of the engines may not
stop. The storage battery will take
the place of conl and fire and water.
Instead of coaling the great ship will
quietly and cleanly renew her batter
ies at her Journey's end. nnd if coal is
used it will be far from the linen and
the noses of men.
"Furthermore, I look for tlie time
when coal will cease to bo our only
source of energy. In every laud men
of science ere patiently studying the
problem of utilizing the energy of the
sun—storing it, In fact—so that the
generation of electric force may be
cheapened by its use to a point where
the storage battery on a large scale
will be au economic as well as an aca
demic possibility. The wasted energy
In coal as now used may In the inter
val be brought to do Its work and so
bring about the monster storage bat
tery sooner than we now expect. Rut
sooner or later we shall enslave the
sun's rays to our uses as we have the
other products of his being.
"Ah, yes, life Is going to he a better
experience for our children than it is
for most of us now. In many little
ways It will be so. I)o you know that
in many laboratories they are coming
close to letting us see the person who
is talking to us at the other end of the
telephone connection? And If they can
do this, if they can transmit the light
waves of images at a distance—and It
looks as if science Is bound to accom
plish it—l am voicing no extravagance
in saying that we may yet. sit iu our
homes on a cold winter's night, turn a
switch and not only bear, but see, the
opera in progress in a faro?" building.
"And, going back to my own hobby
of wireless communication, I want to
say that we shall not Imve to wait
long for the wireless telephone. De
Forest and Ills colleagues are doing
freat things in that direction."
An Interesting Railway.
An interesting railway will be open
ed In Moscow, Russia, in the near fu
ture. The line forms an Irregular
oval around Moscow at various dis
tances from the city barriers. It in
tersects all nine of the Moscow rail
way lines und will be used for trans
ferring goods from one line to another,
thereby saving cartage and also con
siderably relieving the congested state
of the streets of Moscow. It will also
tap a whole series of factories which
have hitherto been off any line.
The only serious and formidable
thing In nature la will.—Emerson.
A MEMORY OF THE PAST.
The Unalloyed Joy That Came With
the Little Red Scarf.
"I was wondering the otber day
what one tiling had given me the most
pleasure In the world," said the village
deacon. "I had togo back a long
ways—clear back into the blessed San
ta Claus days—but I recalled it. It
was a scarf 1 found In my stocking
one bright Christmas morning. I got
a red one, and my brother got a blue
one. X was a mighty proud boy thai
morning as 1 trudged downtown with
that red scarf around my neck. I
wore It every day until the birds be
gan to sing in the springtime and the
kids were hunting up their marbles.
I don't now remember who gave it to
me nor what became of It, but I do
know that the memory of it still clings
like a benediction.
"Since the days of that little red
scarf I have had things of far more
intrinsic value. I have worn lodge
emblems of high degree; I have had a
gold watch and chain; I ouce had a
pair of shoes that cost $5 and a neck
tie that cost twice as much as the lit
tie red scarf. Nay. more, I once tackled
a plug hat. Itut among these things
do I recall none that gave me such
genuine and unalloyed pleasure, such
a swelled up feeling, as did that little
red scarf way back In the days when
the wolf sat out In the road and
howled. 'Tis the little red scarf days
that stir the memory with 'lt might
have been.' "—Osborn (Kan.) Farmer.
PLAIN JOHN SMITH.
How His Name Changes In Various
Parts of the World.
John Smith—plain John Smith—is not
very high sounding; it does not sug
pest aristocracy; it is not the name of
any hero in die away novels, and yet
it is good, strong and honest. Trans
ferred to other languages, it seems to
climb the ladder of respectability
Thus in Ijitin it is Johannes Smithus;
the Italian smooths it off into Giovan
ni Rmithi; the Spaniards render it
Juan Smithus; the Dutchman adopts it
as Hans Schmidt; the French flatten
it out into Jean Smeet, and the Rus
sian sneezes and barks Jonloff Smit
towski. When John Smith gets into
the tea trade In Canton he becomes
Jovan Shiminit; if he clambers abont
Mount ilecla, the Icelanders say he Is
Jahne Smithson; if he trades among
the Tuscaniras he becomes Ton Q:t
Smittia; in Poland he is known as
Ivan Schmittlweiskl; should he wan
der among the Welsh mountains they
talk of .Tihon Schmidd; when he goes
to Mexico he Is booked as Jontil
F*Smittl; if of classic turn and he lin
gers among Greek rnins he turns to
lon Smlkton. and In Turkey he Is ut
terly disguised as Yoe Seef.—Phreno
logical Journal.
Mystery of a Cookbook.
Somebody mentioned cookbooks.
"It takes a good deal to make tue
wonder," said the publisher, "but 1
received a Jolt In the culinary line the
other day that set me thinking. In
looking over the manuscript of a cook
book that had been submitted for our
approval I was struck by this Intro
duction to many of the recipes, 'Good
for boarding house table.'
"Now, why that discrimination':
isn't anything that is good enough for
a boarding bouse table good enough
for any other table, and isn't anything
that Is good enough for any other ta
ble good enough for a boarding house
table? Judging by the way those pel
licular recipes read, they may result
in some rather tasty dishes. Then
why limit them to boarding houses?"
—New York Globe.
The Waist Buttoner,
Oh, sing. all ye husbands and overworked
maids
Who button up waists In the back.
No matter what may bo your ages and
grades.
Who button up waists in the back.
For now a device there is coming to town
Which will chaso from your faces the
scowl and the l'rown
And the shirt waisted problem do up very
brown.
For it buttons up waists in the back.
With one sweeping touch it will ge at Its
work
An.l button up waists in the back.
Its labor tt never will shuffle nor shirk
In buttoning up waists in the back.
But 'twill go at s!im damsel or corpulent
dame
As though It were playing a lightning
skin game
And have la a jiffy neat fastened the
same.
Their waists buttoned up in the back.
No raoro shall hiatus of widening space
In waists buttoned up in tho back
The haste of the dresser in cruel plain
ness trace
When buttoning their waists In the
back.
And no more need stray pins a lover
alarm
When feeling entranced with a fair one's
sweet charm
He puts with misgiving an embracing
arm
Round the waist buttoned up 1n the
back.
—Josh Wink in Baltimore American.
In Africa.
A shadow clouds the endless sky
In Africa.
The jungle echoes with a sigh
In Africa.
The poor, benighted Hottentot
No longer roams the sandy plot.
But lurketh in his bamboo cot
In Africa.
The lion skulks with trembling tread
In Africa.
The tiger wishes ho were dead
In Africa.
And, chattering, with grinning faces,
From bough to bough in each oasts.
The monks no longer run the bases
In Afrtca.
Loud walls the hippopotamus
In Africa,
"Oh, why did they discover us
In Africa?"
The pallid boa constrictor skips
Unto the gum tree's tallest tips
And hisses through his whitened Hps
In Africa.
Within the deep depths of the Nile
In Africa
A pang assails the crocodile
In Afrten.
No more he sunneth on the sand,
Unterrtfled, blase and bland.
A-snapping flics to beat the band
In Africa.
What means, you ask, this boding hush
In Africa?
This ducking to the uncut bush
In Africa?
Quite soon upon that blighted shore.
Toting hla faithful "forty-four,"
I.andeth the good King Theodore
In Africa.
►Grantland Rice In Nashville Tennessean.
Nor "The Long Green."
Hicks—They say that the blind can
distinguish colors by the sense of
touch. Wicks—That's nothing. One
doesn't hare to be blind to feel blue.—
Boston Transcript.
UNION OF BALL PLAYERS. :
Samuel Gompers Sees No Objection to
Their Organizing.
Ball players of the future may form
b part of the American Federation of
Labor. President Samuel Ootnpers ap
proves it, seeing no reason why, like [
other labor, it should not organize and 1
tote union cards and work on a union j
schedule.
President Gompers saw the Browns j
wallop the Tigers at St. Louis the J
other afternoon. While he has nev- j
er gained particular note ns an en
thusiastic fan, he is Interested in the
national game. After returning from
the game Gompers was asked as to the
possibility of organizing baseball play- j
ers into a union.
"I can see no reason why they
should not organize if they wish to."
he said. "Baseball playing has be
come a skilled profession, and the
thousands who assembled to see the
game in which the Browns won the
victory prove it has become a utility.
As skill is required to play the game,
I see no objection to those of the craft
Joining for mutual advantage."
If the ball players decide to form a
union the fans may be furnished the
delightful spectacle of a "strike" dif
ferent from those common In baseball
parks; also there may be "walkouts"
when some south paw shows up for
work without a card. The question of
the future for applicants on major
league teams may be "Do you belong
to the union?" rather than "What is
your batting average?"
WAR ON JACK RABBITS.
Southern California Farmers Planning
a Big Drive.
A great rabbit drive on Oct. 6 is
being arranged by the farmers and
ranches of Delano, Cal., in Kern coun
ty, and it is expected that anywhere
from 20,000 to 100.000 of the long
eared pests will lie slain.
The drive will be made a big holiday
occasion. There -will be a barbecue,
with all sorts of merrymaking. A
great inclosure will be prepared, and
the hunters will spread out so as to
form a line across the country for
ten miles or more, and the animals
will be forced to head into the trap,
where they will be slaughtered. They
will then be skinned and shipped to
San Francisco and Los Angeles mar
kets, where they bring a few cents
apiece.
There ore hundreds of thousands of
Jack rabbits in Kern county, and crops
have suffered heavily from them. Ef- ]
forts to establish vineyards this year
failed because of their depredations.
TO TEACH POSTAL WISDOM.
School Children to Learn How to Mail
Letters and Study Postal Laws.
Postmaster General Meyer issued an
order the other day directing all post
masters to unite with their local school
authorities with the view of adopting
the most effective method of instruct
ing school children us to the organiza
tion and operations of the postal serv
ice, particularly the proper address
ing of letters and the importance of
placing return cards 011 envelopes.
Postmasters are also directed to ar
range if possible to deliver personal
talks to the pupils and give teachers
access to the Postal Guide and the
postal laws and render them every as
sistance in securing necessary Infor
in at lon.
A STRANGE LAKE.
Sulphur Island's Acid Waters Will
Eat Up Boats.
A strange lake exists in the center
of Sulphur island, off New Zealand.
It is fifty acres in extent, about twelve
feet In depth and fifteen feet above the
level of the sea.
The most remarkable characteristic
of this lake is that the water contains
vast quantities of hydrochloric and sul
phuric acids hissing and bubbling at a
temperature of 110 degrees I'".
The dark greeu colored water looks
particularly uninviting. Dense clouds
of sulphuric fumes constantly roll off
this boiling caldron, and care hns to be
exercised in approaching this lake to
avoid the risk of suffocation. On the
opposite side of the lake may be seen
the tremendous blowholes, which when
in fnll blast present an awe Inspiring
sight.
The roar of the steam as it rushes
forth into the air is deafening, and
often huge bowlders and stones are
hurled out to a height of several hun
dred feet by the various Internal forces
of nature.
A boat can be launched on the lake
and If proper care be observed the very
edges of the blowholes may be safely
explored.
Some Idea of the strength of the ncid
saturated water of this lake may be
gathered from the fact that a boat al
most dropped to pieces after all the
passengers had been landed, as the
rivets had corroded under the Influence
of the acids.
The Ceotury Plant.
The century plant, so named because
of the popular idea that it blooms but
once in a hundred years, in one sense
makes good its name, for it blooms
only once, then dies. In the genial
climate of southern California it reach
es maturity and blooms in fifteen or
twenty yeurs, while in colder climates
the period may range from forty to
fifty years. There are many species of
the agave family native to northern
Mexico, where it is called the maguey.
The plant furnishes "pulque," the na
tional drink of Mexico. At the time of
blooming the plant throws up a single
stock of rapid growth to the height of
twelve to twenty feet, from which the
tassel-like flowers sprout forth. This
great flower stalk draws all the sap
and vigor from the body of tho plant,
which soon withers and dies.
Tricks of the Trade.
Buyers of patent leather should look
out for skins in which holes have been
neatly covered with a piece of thin
paper which Is varnished over, the un
finished side being puttied up with a
mixture of glue and leather dust.—
Shoe Manufacturers' Monthly.
Painful Memories.
Mr. Jorkins—l wish he wouldn't sing
that song about "Falling Dew." Mrs.
Jorkins-Why uot? Mr. Jorkins—lt re
minds roe too much of the bouse rent
—Baltimore American.
MAXIM'S NEWESTIDEA
Smokeless Powder Inventor Now
Plans to Lengthen Life.
TO USE CHLORINE SOLUTION.
Believes He Can Force It by fclectricity
i Through All Parts of Body—Death
Dealing Ability Will Be Turned to
Killing Disease Germs—Features oi
His Device.
i Hudson Maxim, inventor of the max
imite smokeless powder, high explo
sives atul torpedoes which ure the most
powerful life destroying agents in the
history of the world, has suddenly
turned his line of effort from the tield
of death and Is working assiduously
along lines entirely opposite. liis pres
ent efforts are being devoted to tho
perfection of a device that will cure all
disease with a solution of chlorine
passed through the human body by the
aid of electricity.
Already drawings of the cabinet in
which tho treatment is to be adminis
tered have been filed in tho patent of
fice at Washington, and the great in
ventor expects soon to be granted his
patent. All that ho is now looking for
is the proper electric current—one that
has a higher potential than any hereto
fore used safely on human body.
Tho great inventor was seen at his
villa, situated picturesquely 011 tho
shore of Lake Ilopatcong, Now Jersey.
"I can hardly explain," he said to a
! reporter of the New York American,
"how I turned from the manufacture
of instruments of death to the inven
tion of something that will prolong hu
man life. I've seen the success of one,
and perhaps I am tired of that and de
sire something new. I have great faiU»
in my newest idea and hope that it
will become a practical part of life,
and before long too. X wish to say
frankly, however, that at the present
time it is in embryo, but it Is none the
less, to my mind, perfectly practical.
"A good deal of experimenting has
already been done by different medical
men with high potential electric cur
rents, both for the direct germicidal in
fluence of the electricity itself and also
for the purpose of passing remedial
agents into the tissues, but no great
success has yet been attained.
"My idea is to use electric currents
of very much higher potential than
I heretofore. Of course the amperage
of the current need not be great.
"A well known process of making
chlorate of sodium and chlorate of poN
ash is by passing chlorine out of solu
tion through a partition impervious to
the flow of a liquid, but previous to
the passage of the molecules of chlo
rine under the influence of the electric
current, so that the potash solution on
receiving the chlorine through the im-
I pervious partition is converted into
chlorate of potash.
"My idea is to interpose the human
body as a portion of such partition and
to pass chlorine, or an equivalent rem
edial agent, through the human body
by means of a very high potential
electric current of low amperage."
"Then do you claim prolonged life
for mankind?" was asked.
"By killing the disease germs in a
man's body you naturally lengthen his.
life," responded the inventor.
"Rut do you claim or expect that you
can prolong life indefinitely?" persist
ed the interviewer.
"No," quickly answered Mr. Maxim,
I "because death Is as much a part of
life as is birth. Life can only be pro
longed In the human body to a certain
point. If my device proves successful
, we shall be able to do what Bob In
, gersoll said lie would do If 110 was God
Almighty—'make good health catch
ing.' "
At the request of the reporter Mr.
Maxim made a diagram of his new
device. It will be a cabinet of con
siderable size and will be divided into
, three parts. On either side will be
tanks. One will hold an alkaline so
. lution, while the other will contain a
, solution of chlorine. In the eompart
t ment between these two, wherein will
, sit the patient under treatment, will
be another solution, which is the se
cret of the whole thing. Its uature
the inventor refused to make known.
In the two outer compartments are
, powerful electrodes, and by the elec
tricity as the agent the chemicals from
the various solutions will bo passed
through the body.
The main idea is to interpose the
human body as a part of the dia
phragm. in electro osmosis, or eatapho
resis, and in this way force the germ
killing chemicals Into and through the
human I issues lymph and blood.
Unmasked.
"I was Introduced to your wife to
day, and she glared at me."
"I can't account for that."
"I can. I s'pose I'm your scapegoat,
you old fraud."—Kansas City Journal.
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