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Show r A YANKEE DEVICE. BY ITS USC FUEL IS SAVED IN MAKINC STEAM. Tha Frorna la l'rarnfcla;ly Nap! lib Watar trmm lha ('audauaar Mai by aa Air Blaat ud Iaulad bjr l.aapuntlaa Clrcalar alaal Tawar. IMIron electrie lighting station Uraoklyn, in ronneciion with a hundred horse power engine. Il must not be Imagined, however, that the usefulness of a cooling tower stops with Its employment aa described above. Ae lie name Implies, It may be used everywhere where water la to U deprived of superfluous heat. For Instance, in the manufacture of ice where water Is frozen by the erapora tlon of liquefied ammonia. The ammonia, which has been healed in the process of liquefaction by compression, la cooled by means of water, and with the aid of a cooling tower this water can be made ready for use a second time. Like nearly all really serviceable devices, the cooling tower Is provokingly simple. Any one might think of it only nobody did, until Yankee Ingenuity took a hint from the crude devices of yesterday and put hundreds of thousands actually or potentially into the pockets of American manufacturers. miners and othem who bavn occasion to use the steam engine. In live T some of the Urge power plant in and near New York the eye of the vlaitor or the passerby is attracted by a new unusual feature a circular steel tower, looking like the tall atand pipe of ome high level water system, aaj :i the Philadelphia Press. It is however, no tank. There is water In it, but indeed this is perpetually leaking out in fact, the percolation of the water downward from top to bottom la what gives the device its unique value. SEA BATHING. It is the cooling tower of a condenser one of thoae numerous labor and power saving Yankee inven- Mat Always Healthful, Kirapt Whia Cartala (andltluns Ara tlbaartraa. tions that have placed us where we now stand as a nation of inventors and It la the moat unwise thing in the world to conclude that because we may engineers Every one knows that there are two be at the seaside it is the correct and principal types of steam engines the proper thing to take salt water bailin. in which the eihaust For some robust persona this ia all very steam escapes into the air, making the well. They rush down to the sea nt hoarse, pulling sound so familiar In unearthly hours In the morning, piling' the locomotive and the steam tug, and Into the cold water and come out gloa-in- g with health and spirits. They arc the condensing, In which it Is delivered Into a condenser, where it is made strong and vigorous for the year cooled down and turned back Into wat- by their aummer hatha, and are rather er. In the former type the piston has apt to scorn the weaker portion of manto work against the pressure of the at- kind because they can't do the same. This fa all very well for the robust, mosphere about fifteen pounds to the square Inch. In the latter It has only but sea bathing, like moat other things, to overcome the pressure of the vapor baa its drawbacks, and unless certain in the condenser, which ie much less, rules aud precautions ere observed.laat-Inhurm, and not good, will be the as the condensation of the steam causes a partial vacuum; hence tho portion of some persons who indulge condensing engine Is much the more in it. Indeed, some should never bathe economical of the two, saving fully 25 In the open sea at all. Any one with per rent of the steam and hence of heart trouble or any chronic malady should not try It; the tepid salt water the fuel required for the other. Why, then, are not rondensing en- baths may be taken at home with great benefit. It la also very foolish to go gines universally employed? Somed times because the use of the condensing Into the sea when overtired or from any great exertion or device Is not practicable, as on a locomotive, Still oftener because it re- when In an excited frame of mind; afquires an unlimited supply of water. ter a sleepless night, too, the bath must Cold water is the means employed to be given up culiroly, or it will only condense the steam and aa It becomes further exhaust and not Invigorate the warmer In the process It cunnot be body. Another thing that must be borne In used over again; hence engines that are not situated near a large water supply mind ia that you must never bathe unon a river bank, for Instance can- -' til quite three hours have elapsed after not avail themselves of the condensing your last meal. On the other hand, if bathe before breakfast you must principle and profit by Its fuel saving you a glass of inilk or a cup of tea have And even where a river la power. near, land on ila bank la go often so and a biscuit when you wake, and bemuch more eipenelve that the manu- fore running down to the shore. It ia facturer prefera to go farther away, a good plan always to take a few biswhere he can buy at a lower price, even cuits In your pocket nnd eat them after your bath, while dressing, as sometimes If be has to use a enyou feel hungry when coming out of gine. But why not cool the heated con- the water.11 If yon13bathe after breakfast and ia the licst time to denser water and use it again? This between -- noni(i always sec that H , mure or 'less clumsily and Ineffectively and It the tide la nearly high. The water ia Is exactly what la done aucccsefully much fresher than when It is low, far In the cooling towers already men- more free from seaweed or driftwood tioned. Methods previously In use em- and more Invigorating. ploy shallow ponds to cool the water . The lluraalraa by surface evaporation but these are la In so it fact, out of the question In a thoroughly accepted city or pans on the roof, which are awk- that tho horseless carrlugo has come ward and take up room. The cooling to stay that scores of manufacturers tower, which has satisfactorily solved are already engaged in turning out the problem and offers to the manu- these machines of many and varied facturer the welcome chance of saving types. Their first use will, of course, a large proportion of his fuel, has Keen come In the cities, where there are In use for some time In a primitive and good roads, and for such purposes as crude form In the southern states, light expressing. The great value of where the condenser water was allowthe horseless carriage, as compared ed to cool by trickling through a mass with the old style, ia ita far greater of brush. cheapness. The use of horses in our j Later, in Germany, the same result cities, for instance, is practically forwas effected by allowing It to blow bidden to all except the very rich. Hut ever a neat of pipes. In the perfected a team fed with oil or naphtha, at a form the steel tower Is packed with cost of a few cent a day. will perhaps layer on layer of vltrlfled tiles, set eventually place a barouche for afterup on end. Through these, from the noon rides in Central park within the top to the bottom of the tower, the reach of any bookkeeper or clerk. heated condenser water trickles, while When a man earning S2.000 a year in ta blown upwurd New York city can maintain an equipa powerful through it from a rotary fan at the age which will trundle him twerty base. When the water has reached miles away from his flat in an hour, the bottom. It ta cool enough to use whole new clues of citizens will beagain in the condenser. A little of It come victims to the tennis, baseball or from 21k to 5 per cent has evapor- golf habit, from which thry are row ated In the process, but this loss la sheltered by the mere inertia of time more than made up by the condensed and apace to be overcome. And with exhaust steam that Is added ae it docs each advance in the art of moving rapIta work In the rondenaer. idly there will ke a corresponding inIn passing through the tower the crease in sports, and a water Is cooled from about 120 degrees hotter opportunity to reach the fields to at least the temperature of the out- and the woods in the short vacation side air, chiefly by the exaporatlon In- allowed by the hurrying buxines duced by the that passes struggles of today. Review of Rethrough the tiling. The principle ie views. exactly the same aa when cne cools his moist hand by blowing on it FLASHES OF FUN. Strangely enough, the cooling is greater in summer than in winter, for, Mary Oh, 1 Just live In Reggy't though In winter the air ie colder. It heart. Alice Mow do you like living is much nearer the point of saturation in u flat? Times. Washington end will take up very littlte evaporaF'at-Sh- nre the air itsilf la Sict tion. and evaporation Is the chief thing enough, let alone stirrin' It up wid thim In the cooling. Direct escape of the heal by contact durnmed olleetrlc fans. Life. Kilty Hurry won't take no for uu nnd by radiation with the answer. Kate How do you knaw? tfc.ough the steel aides of the tower I helps, but It ia relatively unimportant. Kitty Because shan't give it to him. Odds and End. o, with the aid of this device, the conParke I don't suppose, old man, you densing engine, with Its great econocan Is reully appreciate how bright my within reach of the my, every today manufacturer in the land. Instead of children are. Lane No; I have never perhaps, half of them. The operation met your wife. New York Herald. Shaw What would you recommend of the tower Is inexpensive, aa thu coat of working la only that of pumping the fur lusomnln. doctor? Doctor Do water to the top and operating the fan something to tire you. Shaw Rut I and this la alight compared with the can't afford to take u vacation. Tru.h. saving that results from using condensWhy. Mr. Pertly, you are all done ation. up. What's the matter? ''Bicycle. The towers take up little room. "But you don't ride a wheel No. They vary In else from 25 feet In but the other fllow does." Filcgrndr height by 5 feet In diameter, which Ie Blatter. suitable for a powr- - engine, 'I knew a ft How that could tame a to one 30 feet in height by 0 b i t in ilgcr with a glance of h!a eye." What diameter for an engine of 1.500 hone became t.f him? He's dead, lie tried power. One of the towers has for some It on a blcyelo scorcher. Chicago ttme been In use at the Grand avenue ilccord. irl l self-cooli- WOULD END TORMENT STARTLING PROPOSITION OP A SAN FRANCISCOAN. T Kill Clm I'arMB Aflilrtsd with aa IllaaaaB Is ha I riui. Ila hiju Kama V arjr Kaaiarkabla Caoaa as Exparlwaat. has always assumed the right to put to death his fellow-ma- n in the interest 1V1LIZEI) man of law and order. Why, then, should he not, In the cause -- L of humanity? Such was the ser 5? ious question pro-pounded by the Rev. Dr. Wendte of San Francisco, when asked for a further explanation of bla startling views concerning the killing of sufferers from dlacases that have passed beyond the possibilities of either remedy or relief. I have not arrived at my conclusions in the matter hastily, said Dr.Wendte. For years I have made a study of disease and pain, in its bearings on the mind as well u he body. 1 have stood ( very many hopeless by the bedsidt sufferers. I ha noticed, day by day, the frightful ra Yt of incurable disI eases, ending In agonizing death. have satisfied my sell of the cause and air-bla- st air-bla- st think he HIS ARM SHORTENED. Kaaiarkalila llptnllu l'arfor In St. Loals. ovef-heate- air-blu- nt He sermed to would, but two day later, before arrangements could be completed, he had entered into rest by his own hand. Would It not, said Dr. Wendte, have been an act of humanity to have caved him the torture that led to suicide?" "And In raae a law could be passed permitting the death remedy," asked Dr. Wendte'a Interlocutor, to whom would you Intrust the responsibility of determining the Issue? The moat feasible plan to my mind," replied the doctor, would be to have a commission of eight persons of high character and unassailable position appointed by the governor of the state. Four members of the commission should be physicians of the highest landing In the profession. The district attorney and the chairman of the board of health should also be memcitizens of bers, and two public-spirite- d pronounced humane tendencies, To this commission the sufferer should appeal and bla petition must be indorsed and approved by hla family. Then the raae should be thoroughly investigated by the commission. It must be proven to the satisfaction of the phyalciana that every known remedy had been tried; that the disease Is absolutely Incurable. It should also be demonstrated that the petitioner suffers Intolerable pain. The relatives must be able to prove conclusively that they have none but humane motives In desiring the decease of the Invalid. All thru points having been established, the commission should be empowered to gently and humanely put an end to the misery of the sufferer." A g Cari-lagr- there alone. REV. I)R. WENDTE. fatal character of the tortures endured by being present at many autopsies. As a result of my study and close observation I am convinced that the unhappy beings whose ailments are beyond the rea h of medical acidic have a right to demand the relief that death alone can afford. When a murder Is committed we leuve no atone unturned to bring the criminal to punishment. That ho may do no further harm, :,nd nlso to deter others from following in his footsteps, we deem It our duty to take his life. Society Is thus protected; Justice ie setisfled. Is Justice more mercy? Often, Impelled by far less worthy motives, nations engage in warfare. In a spirit of aggression or revenge men maim and kill each other. Those whose hands are dyed deepest in blood are called heroes. Is it more heroic to cause misery than to end it? "'To my mind the step from the legal execution of a criminal, from the valorous slaying of men in battle, to the humane rrlcare of a human being racked by hopeless pain, ought not to he an Impossible one. Since be hnu publicly given voice to his views Dr. Wendte finds that they are not, after all. so very unusual. Almost everyone he lias met has had something to say on the subject. Very many arc wholly in sympathy with him. One man who felt deeply the reasonableness of the doctor's argument, quoted an instance in his own family. His father was afflicted with a disease that had bafllcd the physicians' skill. Remedies were exhausted and recourse was had to narcotics. W'th time they failed to relieve. The pain was unceasing, agonising. The patient begged the doctors nnd his friends 10 help him to end his torment. He was no longer the fond pnrent. The subtle poisons of the opiates no longer soothed they maddened. His mind had given way. The nervous tension was having a damaging effect upon the helplcca friends. They had completely exhausted their resources. Then they joined their supplications to his appeals, and the doctors increased the strength of the drugr. Tho end brought the peace that he had struggled in vain to win for three years. Doctor Wendte to'.d of a poor leper who was a patient nt the county hosWhen the napital in San Frauci.-co- . ture of his disease w:n .IDc.ivcrrd he was immediately Drilled. A hut at tome distance from the hvp'tnl was prepared for his reception and there he was left, absolutely alone, to awn!', the I e lease of death. His foul was deposited at a distance from his miserable nbode and the attendants made good their escape lforo Ha approach, Wt from his breath thry should contract the loathsome disease. The doctors, knowing they rould do nothing for his physical welfare, did not go to him, fearing they would carry contagion to patients, who, boing ill and debilitated, would be doubly susceptible. And there the poor wretch had been for weeks when Dr. Wendte heard of and in company of same humane friends visited him. They found him in a state cf depression clo?cly bordering on mania. The awful solitude was worse than tho disease. He longed most pitiably for the bleep that knows no waking. Ills visitors had come laden with dainties and such things as they could leu'e. to help him kill the leaden hours. Dr. Wendte asked him If ks would prefer to go to tha pssthouse to remaining COnn"dbiiB Dr. Sutter performed a difficult surgical operation at the city hospital yesterday. Jaa. Hayes, a barber, was In his shop on Park avenue when the building was destroyed by the tornado of May 27th, and besides other injuries had hla right arm broken between the shoulder and the elbow. Hla arm was set by a surgeon, but for some reason the bone did not grow together, and lie has suffered great pain and been unable to uee hla arm since. A few days ago be applied to Dr. Sutter and explained the nature of hla injuries. He was told the only way to relieve him would be to Join the bone together by artificial means, so yesterday was decided upon for the operation. He was placed on the operating table and chloroform admlnlRtered to him. Dr. Sutter then made a long Incision In the flesh, and bending the arm at the broken place, raused both ends of the broken bone to protrude clear of the flesh to enable him to operate on them without interference. He then sawed off the rough end of ench fractured part, and a smooth, even surface was thus secured. He then sawed each end of the bone half way through, about an inch from lh and, m betas asireil on IBS top and the other on the under aide, and then cut each end lengthwise to meet the cut previously made, thus taking out a piece of the bone an inch long and half .Its thickness. Both ends were then placed together and the broken bone was mortised evenly and smoothly. To hold the ends firmly together a hole was drilled through the bones at the point where they were mortised and an Ivory peg driven into the hole, binding the ends securely together. The Incision was then sewed up and the inMr. jured arm placed in splints. Hayes was then revived and later In the day went to his home. Dr. Sutter rays the arm will be about an lnob shorter than It originally was, but otherwise it will give Hayes no Inconvenience after It knits firmly together, which will take about four weeks. The muscles. Dr. Sutter says, will accommodate themselves to the shortened length of the arm. St Louis In IS WOMANS COIiXEH. FOR READING INTERESTING DAMES AND DAMSELS. As Carrrat Motr of Ilia Mudrs Wlial L'p-tHals Waulu (Iowa Wlalr Hal Will Ila l.lks Lunchsaa UslBtlM FaaelM and lada o- 2 HIFFON and moue-scllde sole are now made with ue much more stlff-ne- ss than when the material was first brought over, and It is quite possible entire to have made of gowns these, even for seaside wear, provided the linings used are of good enough quality. By good enough is meant heavy enough. The most brilliant colorings ore used in tbia material, but, aa has before been said, are toned down One by the linings and trimmings. noticeably pretty gown made of the brightest apple green is an equisitely delicate shade when made up over white silk snd trimmed with black, wbile a yellow, so brilliant that it la dazzling to the eyes, assumes an odd, oft, warm shade lined with heliotrope and trimmed with white lace and the inevitable touches of black, which are gain seen on every smart gown. The grass green over white was a noticeable gown at a dance. It waa made with a niching of the material separated and also headed by bands of very narrow black velvet ribbon, the walet finished around the shoulders also with a ruche and the narrow black velvet, saya a writer in Harper's Bazar. A black Telvet belt and bow of ribbon velvet two Inches wide, and very odd leeves in big puffs, separated by tbc its dimensions, aa heavily berib-bon- ed and buckled and feathcrad, will acta make the highest bid for favor. It it face, thin the for as a background are is a balance for the fat one. There sugcertain ruffled, fluffy costumes Just not are that Hie picturesque gestive of complete wiihout It. The winter leghorn, so called from Its unatlffened, unwired soft brim that is allowed to flop at will, ia perhaps the chief novelty of this year's picture hat. One of the most tasteful of these lias a briu of black moire silk, with a crown of black velvet and half ar-a dozen black feathers grouped with tistic carelessness at one side. The chic of It," said the young woman who wna balancing It on her head at a private view, la In the wearing of it. New York Journal. A Wiolra Sow. The Illustration shows a costume of navy blue woolen goods with a small. white design scattered over it. The skirt Is plain. The bodice is fitted at the back and laid in plaits in front, the middle plait being of while satin. White lace forms tlsc trimming of the corsage. ' Globe-Democr- MRS. MAYBRICK LIKELY TO DIE. it Koqura Fnnnl Har la tha I'rHoa Intlrmarjr Vary IIL Baroness de Roques, the mother o( Mrs. Maybrick, bad an interview with the prisoner last week at Waking prison. Sbe saya that she found her daughter very ill in the infirmary and thinks her condition hopeless. Thu baroness adds that Mrs. Maybrick la nut likely to survive the winter. Mrs. Maybrick, according to her mother, la absolutely crushed with despair, and THE POPULAR FALL SLEEVE. Huron black velvet, completed tbia extremely The bright yellow gown, which waa made up over heliotrope, had each seam of the skirt outlined with a band of lace Insertion, and ruffles of lace were put on in scallops around the skirt Ex. odd design. Wlatar If Hat. As to winter bats, you may wear, you desire to be In style, anything and small epaulets of lace are placed at the top of the sleeves. The collarette Is of white gauze, the belt of white satin. Two Lonrhaon Dalntla- -. Sago souffle with currants Pick from the stem of a pound of nice large currants, weigh the ame quantity of sugar and three ounces of cleaned sago. Put there three ingredients in a pot In alternate layers and cook it, without stirring, for twenty minutes. Shake the pot now and then to prevent burning. Beat the whites of six eggs very stiff and when the mixture Is cooled mix the whites. Serve in a glass compotlcre with a fresh currant sauce around IL Swiss cream served In glasses Take a pint of thick, sweet cream; mix into It half a pound of sugar, the rind of one lemon and the ;.o of two. three wine glasses of whi.e wire (("allfornln hock): stir all togetlur anJ jvi: in for a few hours. Also put v. ual glasves In which the crovn is :n be served on ic. that they. too. may Irn cold. When nearly ready to erve, beat the mixture with an egg beater until foam arises. Take off the foam and fill a glass. Continue to do so until the mixture is exhausted. Serve nt once with oponge cake or lady fingers. Any kind of berries can bo placed on this cream, or n small macaroon. This ia u most refrc-dilntidbit. three-quarte- rs tl-.- FLORENCE MAYBRICK. she says it would wring a person's heart to see her. Tha Ptnpllffl Kimkit There Is said to be a snake In Oregon called the stupefied snake, which, is one of the most interesting specie of the family. This snake hns a head on each end and runs eithrr way. One head is about aa large as th other. It is of a yellowish color. It generally l.cs in a loop, and is frequently olwerved running in an apparently stupefied condition on a rock or log. one-four- th In 1212 the central districts of London were totally destroyed by fire. ou please, ricture h:ita will be as fashionable ns toque: small bonnets will be as much in demand as either. You may trim them anyway your taste suggests, high or low. broad or narrow. A visit to tbe millinery lio;w Impresses one first and foremost wltn a r.ense of latitude rare in the domain of fashion. A field eo wide Is presented that msny a woman might fancy she could pass off Inst yrar's hat. Just iouclied up with the least bit In the world, fer this year's latest importation. In spite of man's vituperations, poshly tbe picture hat, as huge as ever tainr-f- i mnl min. The more f.ipnts you can ;it the better, only teapots you must have, if you pos ns a connoisseur of bric-a- r brae. You fit ay have them of any sort of material i opper. silver, glaze, in any color, and In any sort of pottery, only make (liclr number plentiful and place them consplmously In yorr a-- 9 A 1 A I 4 - |