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ARCTIC MOTOR CYCLE SLED.
George W. Wells, an automobile
expert and a man of much originality
of thought, has built the machine
which Walter Wellman, the Arctic
explorer, will use as a motor bicycle
sled.
The motor and tri-car frame used
were secured from a metor bicycle
maker, but everything else was con-
structed by hand under Mr. Wells.
The motor is 41% horse-power. It
not for sped and therefore is geared
low.” The machine can, travel from
iwo- to thirty miles an hour over
smooth ice.
The runners used are of two pairs
of Norwegian ‘‘ski,”” both having
seen actual service in the north on
Wellman's two former trips and
having been worn by Wellman him-
self. The wood is therefore seca-
soned and can be relied upon. They
are reinforced, however, with sheet-
which are steel
iron, underneath
Germany's Colonizing Business.
In the last two years Germany's
Southwest Africa has cost the Ger-
man Government $150,000,000 and
some thousands of lives lost by mas-
sacres ard in course of operations ta
subdue the natives. It seems a good
1 deal to pay for imperfect pacification
of a territory which contains no more
than 5000 European residents and of
which the combined exports amount
to no more than $2,500,000 a year.
If the nations of the world ever be-
come sane enough to consider modern
colonization as a businzass proposition
there will be an international auction
at which there will be bargains for
buyers.—Harper’'s Weekly.
Terra Incognita.
To begin with, sald Professor H.
R. Mill, in his St. Louis address on
the “Problems of Geozraphy,’”’ the
ground should he cleared’by wiping
off the globe the words terra incog-
nita. Such unknown parts of. the
WELLMAN'S MOTOR BICYCLE SLED.
runners or skates. The front “ski”
are the guides; the rear ones are
used to take some of the weight
from the tractive or driving wheel
when soft snow is encountered.
Quick Way to Add Figures.
An invention of recent date is an
adding device, which was designed to
assist a person in adding one or more
columns of figures. It consists of a
disk, which registers the tens in the
columns, the latter being quickly
and accurately added, without un-
necessarily burdening or taxing the
memory with a multiplicity of figures.
Printed on the face of the disk is a
series of numerals representing tens
in consecutive order from one to
twenty-six, the’ disk being held "in
the hand and rotated. In use the
disk is held in the left hand, with
the forefinger resting in the notch
or depression represented by the
higher numeral “twenty-six” in the
present instance. In adding a col-
umn of figures thz tens are regis-
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tered on the disk by moving the fin- |
ger from one notch to the next as
they appe¢ in the proeess of adding,
the units only being carried from one
figure or group of figures to the next.
For instance, if it is desired to add
“‘eighty-nine,” ‘‘ninety-seven,”’ ‘‘six-|
ty-eight”’ and ‘forty-six’ one would
proceed as follows for the first col-
umn: Six and eight are fourteen;
the ten is registered on the disk by
moving the finger in the first notch
and the four units carried. Four and
seven are eleven; move the finger to
the ceccad notch and carry one. One
and nine are ten; move the finger to
the third notch and. put down ‘‘ci-
pher.”” Now, by looking at the reg-
istered three tens, so we have three
to carry to the nex‘ column, and so
on. Any number of columns of any
length may be added in like manner,
not more than eighteen units being
sarried in the minds at one time.
earth now cling about the poles
alone, and that they should do even
this is something of a disgrace.
Many explorers would have reached
the poles long ago had it not been for
want of money. Most of the leaders,
if they had had more powerful ships,
more coal, more stores, more dogs—
and sometimes if they had had fewer
men—could have solved the polar
problems. A million dollars judi-
ciously spent would open the way to
the North Pole; a few millions would
reach the South Pole. The map of
the world ought to be completed.
Unsurveved and unmapped territory
is a danger as well as a disgrace to
the country nos:sessing it. When a
map of the whole surface of the earth
on the scale of one one-millionth is
completed we may consider the re-
sidual problems as solved. — New
York Globe. 5
IN PURSUIT OF PULAJANES.
Filipino Constabulary Type.
‘ VACATIONAL:
Fron: breakfast bell to supper belly
From supper bell to nine o’clock}
This is the part of Mrs. Pell—
To rock and talk, and talk and rock.
The other boarders gad about,
In primrose paths that please them best,
But a Pell, who's rather stout,
She came up here, she says, to rest.
She dogsn’t boat, she doesn’t climb,
She never drives, she never walks.
From rising bell to bunking time
She talks and rocks, and rocks and talks.
The other boarders drift away—
She talks them east, she talks them west
She talks and talks the livelong day.
She came up here, she says, to rest.
Holding the best verandah chair,
She circles daily with the sun.
She's traveled—has been everywhere—
Seen everything—knows everyone.
She talks the new moon up the sky,
She talks the song bird to his nest.
She never stops. You wonder why.
She came up here, she says, to rest.
The housefly buzzes on the glass,
i The brooklet chatters in the dell,
The bumblebee drones in the grass—
So drones and chatters Mrs. Pell.
When she will stop, if stop at all,
' The dear Lord knows who knoweth best.
She means to stay ‘clear through to fall.”
She came up here, she says, to rest.
—B. T., in Puck.
RIPPLES ES:
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Enthusiasm is never misplaced
except in a bore.—Life. :
Beggar (piteously) — “Ah, sir, I
am very hungry.” Dyspeptic (sav-
agely)—‘Then have the decency to
keep your good fortune to yourself.
I haven't had an appetite for years.”
—London Paper.
Stubb—What kind of shoes are
thbse you are wearing?” Cogger—
“Walking shoes.” Stubb—‘ “Walking
shoes for automobile riding?” Cog-
ger— Yes, I know my machine.” —
Chicago Daily News.
“Ah understan’ dat Deacon Jones
has bin charged wid chicken-stealin’
an’ he wuz a pillah ob de chu’ch,
wuzn’t he?” . “No, he wuzn't a pil-
lah. He turned out ter be wot dey
call de nave.”’—Judge.
“Of course,” said , the architect,
“you will want a porte cochere.”
“Sure,” replied Mrs. Nurich; ‘‘we’ll
want a big one with glass dingle-dan-
gles on it hangin’ from the parlor
ceilin’.”’—Philadelphia’ Press.
“Where did you get that song?” said she;
“I got it out of my head,” said he,
“I got it out of my own small head!”
“What a lucky thing for your head!” she
said.
—C(Cleveland Leader.
“I don’t object to hearing a man
brag about his ancestors,” observed
Uncle Allen Sparks, ‘‘if that’s all he
has to brag about. It comforts him
and doesn’t hurt the ancestors any.
They're dead.”’—Chicago Tribune.
“Do you think that wealth brings
happiness?” ‘“‘No,”” answered Mr.
Dustin Stax. “It doesn’t bring hap-
piness. But it gives a man a little
bit of option ahout the kind of worry
he will take on.””—Washington Star.
Suburban Patient—‘ Doctor, I am
sorry you have had to come so far
from your regular practice.” Doctor
—*“Oh, it's all right. I have another
patient in the neighborhood, so I can
kill two birds with one stone.”—
Judge.
“Why don’t you tell your views?’ | .
“I'm afraid to,” answered Senator
Sorghum. “Whenever I tell my
views on ‘any subject I run the risk
of stirring up an unanswerable argu-
ment on the other side.””—Washing-
ton Star.
"Twixt beggar man and man of wealth,
he difference is not immense;
The former lives upon his rags,
The latter on his rents.
—Boston Transcript.
“] tell yo’, Eben,” said Aunt Mi-
randy, as she looked lovingly at the
twins who were gathering handfuls
of wool from eachother’'skinky heads
on the sanded floor of the cabin. “I
heerd Miss ’Liza a’readin’ in the
g’ogfry yistiddy an’ I's ’bout ’cided
waht I's gwine ter name dem two
young uns. I's gwine call ’em ‘Flo-
ra’ and ‘Fauna.’” — Macon Tele-
graph.
The Government's Timber Mine.
When the new battleships Tennes-
see and Washington — now in the
shipyards of the Cramps and the New
York Shipbuilding Company in Cam-
den — are launched they will be
equipped with a complement of ship's
boats unequalled by those of any bat-
tleship on earth.
The reason for this exceptional
equipment lies in the material used
on the boats—-white oak, which has
been lying at the bottom of the Dela-
ware for more than forty years, now
one of the rarest and most valuable
of timbers.
In 1865, in keeping with the needs
of the Civil War the Government
bought an immense quantity of white
0ak-—500,000 cubic feet—to be used
in ship and boat construction. The
contract had been made when the
end of the war was not yet in sight.
Hence the great quantity was pur-
chased.
This lumber was shipped to the
old navy yard located at the foot of
Federal street. When the war closed
James Speed, one of the ship inspect-
ors, to whom the care of the lumber
had been intrusted, buried all of it in
the Delaware, awaiting the time when
it could be used, acting on a well-
known principle among ship and lum-
ber men that timber stored at the
bottom of a stream keeps better than
anywhere else. The water forms a
cushion, which keeps out the air and
prevents decay. The timber is worth
$500,000.—Philadelphia North Amer-
ican.
Certain thoughts are prayers
There are moments when, what:
be the attitude of the body, th
is on its knees.—Victer Hug:
For Washing Silk.
An old recipe for washing silk of
any kind or color is as follows: Put
the silk, one piece at a time, into a
basin containing alcohol, soft soap
and common black molasses, in equal
parts. Work the silk up and down
in this mixture, avoiding creasing the
silk if any rubbing has to be done.
When clean, hold the silk in one
hand, and after drawing the liquid
into the basin with-the other, lay in
clear, cold water. Rinse in this and
keep changing the water until it is
clear. Do not wring the silk at any
time during the process. Hang, drip-
ping,” on the line, until partially
dried, then press on the wrong side.
—Good Housekeeping. \
A Home-Invented Clothes-Closet.
i As my sleepin® room had no
clothes - closet, I obtained a board
twelve inches wide and four feet
long. This was fastened securely to
the wall by means of brackets, just
high enough for me to reach conven-
iently. Into the board I screwed
about two dozen hooks—the kind
made to fasten into the under side
of shelves. This made ample room
for the clothes that were needed:
most, and has an. advantage over
hooks put up against the wall, in
that the clothes do not crush nearly
so badly. Some pretty curtains
reaching from the shelf to the floor
were used todrape the closet.—“Wom-
an’s Home Companion.
The Kitchen Sink.
The ideal sink is of porcelain with
rolled edge, round corners, porcelain
back and open plumbing without a
crack or crevice for dirt or the ever
ready water bug. He is ready still,
but he must live in the open and not
lie concealed.. A white enamel sink
is almost as'good as the porcelain and
much less expensive. Soapstone and
slate are very good, and so, too, is
the copper-lined sink. The great
danger in the.porcelain and enameled
sinks is the breaking of delicate
china’ and glass. The copper lining
is * much the best for that. The
wooden drain boards tipping slightly
toward the sink are a great conven-
ience. Frequently ¥ubber mats with
toughened surfaces are placed on
these to keep the dishes from slip-
ping. There are, besides, wire and
nickel-plated = dish-drainers, which
will keep the plates separated one
from another while draining.—Ilar-
per’s Bazar.
Why It Doesn't Save.
Do you find your gas-stove a real
economizer? If not, may not these
be some of the reasons:
Lighting burners before ready to
use them.
Baking but one thing at a time.
Heating water or cooking in un-
covered vessels.
Placing small vessels upon large
burners.
Using large burners when a small
one would do.
Not turning out the flame before
removing food.
Not lowering the
food is already boiling.
Heating flatirons with
flame when
nothing
‘over them.
And would it not be worth while
to make use of these suggestions?
For the gas-stove can be, and should
be, an economizer:
Matches are cheaper than gas.
Learn to read the metre—a simple
little clock.
Soak dried foods before cooking
them.
Heat water in the oven after the
baking is over. .
When baking biscuits broil beef-
steak below the same blaze. Both
require quick heat, and both done
at the same moment.
Try the expert’s rule: of putting
loaf cake into an almost cold oven
and baking with only one burner.
Use a steam-cooker if possible, as
a whole dinner, from roast to pud-
ding, may be perfectly cooked in it
upon a simmering burner in three
hours.—Philadelphia Evening Bul-
letin, ’
Iced Currants—Heat ike white c
two eggs until light, but not stiff.
Add one-quarter cup of water and
beat together., Dip large currants,
one bunch at a time, ints the egg and
water, draig for a minute, then roll
in powdered sugar. Let the bunches
lie on paper until dry.
Hard Gingerbread—Half a cupfu!
of sugar, half a cupful of molasses,
half a cupful of hot water, heaping
teaspoonful of ginger, one heaping
teaspoonful of body, two tablespoon-
fuls of shortening. Flour enough to
make it stiff. Don’t roll, but put in a
shallow tin with the hand.
Steam Peach Pudding—Add twa
teaspoonfuls of baking.powder and
a hali-teaspoonful of salt to two cup-
fuls of flour; sift twice and add
enough milk to make a thick batter.
Beat thoroughly and put a teaspoon-
ful of butter in each of six buttered
cups; add a thick layer of thinly
sliced, sweetened peaches; fill the
cups with batter, set in a stecmer
over boiling water for half an hour;
serve hot with peach syrup.
New York City.—The coat that
suggests Hmpire lines is a very gen-
eral and well deserved favorite, for
while that style is not always desir-
able when pushed to an extreme, fit
makes exceedingly attractive outer
garments and is highly to be com-
mended. This one shows certain
modifications that render it adapted
to modern needs and is suited to a
great variety of materials. As illus-
trated it is made of black taffeta, the
yoke and cuffs being embroidered
with black silk, while the little vest
is of black and white material, but
plain material can be used through-
out, the yoke can be trimmed in any
way that may be liked or it can be
of heavy lace over silk while the
skirt portion is of silk only, in fact
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Pumps Not Popular.
Pumps are not, however, so unre-
servedly popular as they were last
season, women having found that
they were not so comfortable for gen-
eral wear as might be desired.
Semi-Precious Stones.
Coral has had a great vogue and
all of the semi-precious stones, such
as topaz, amethyst, etc., have been
pressed into service and have been
imitated with considerable success in
buckles of good design though of
cheap materials.
Golden Chain Bracelet.
The latest thing in jewelry is a
golden chain bracelet, having an in-
visible continuous spring running
through the centre, which can be
worn either as a bracelet on the
wrist, or higher up the arm, to keep
the gloves in place.
Autumn Colors.
Autumn dresses will be built of
very thin cloth and their colors will
| be the new greens, the new blues, the
‘new reds and the new tans.
They say that green, which has
‘had such a phenomenal success, will
be seen this fall in leaf green, goose-
berry green and prairie green. It
will also be noticed in emerald, grass,
geranium and deep leaf green.
While speaking of the new fall col-
ors one must not forget the leather
shades, which are always much liked.
There is tan which is the most pep-
ular shade of leather ever invented,
and there is a pale suede leather.
Misses’ Skirt.
The skirt that is plaited or tucked
in various ways is constantly growing
in favor and may fairly be said to
be the most fashionable at the pres-
ent time. This one is designed for
young girls and is treated after a
quite novel manner while it can be
worn either with or without the
smoothly fitted girdle. In the illus-
tration it is made of plaid mohair
stitched with belding silk but is ap-
propriate for all skirting materials,
washable ones as well as those of
cotton and silk, while it can .be fifi-
can be treated in any way that the in-
dividual may like. The ribbons that
are threaded in and out of slashes,
cut and finished for the purpose,
make an exceedingly attractive feat-
ure but are not obligatory as any
other form of closing that may be
preferred can be employed without
changing the essential characteris-
tics of the coat.
The coat is made with the yoke,
the front edges of which are faced
to give the vest effect, and with the
fronts and backs of the full portions.
The lower edge of the yoke is fin-
ished with a band of the material
stitched with belding silk. The
sleeves are of moderate size, closely
shirred at the shoulders, and finished
with roll-over cuffs that are by far
the most becoming of any known.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is eight yards
twenty-seven, five and three-fourth
yards forty-four or five and one-half
Yards fifty-two inches wide for full
length; six and one-half yards twen-
ty-seven, four and seven-eight yards
forty-four or four and one-half vards
fifty-two inches wide for three-quar-
ter length with one-half yard any
width for the vest, two yards of band-
ing and three and one-half yards of
ribbon to make as illustrated.
Handsome Corset Cover.
One corset cover in a very hand-
some trousseau has its entire front
hand embroidered.
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of ways. If the applied folds illus-
trated are not liked banding of any
sort can be substituted or the hem
can be stitched with belding silk.
The skirt is cut in seven gores and
is laid in plaits at front, back and
sides, these plaits forming groups
that are turned toward the centres
and being stitched flat for a portion
of their length. The girdle is cut ir
four sections which allow of perfect
fit.
The quantity of material required
for the sixteen vear size is seven and
three-fourth yards twenty-seven, four
and one-half yards forty-four or
three and’ three-fourth yards. fifty-
two Inches wide.