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Show TIGES WATERLOO PERILS OF CARRIERS An Improvement in Book Marker. Some readers have the faculty of remembering exactly the page and line of a book they had reached when they were compelled to pause In their read- Indicate Both the Page and Line, ing to perform Home oilier duty, but find occathe majorlly of sion to use some sort of a marking device to aid them In finding the place when the reading !h resumed again. Numerous. curious and handsome novelties have been produced for this purpose, Jmt very few, If any, of these wilt perform the double duty of marking the line and page at which the reader paused and closed the book. This is the object attained by the marker which we show In the picture and It should be the means of saving no small amount of time to the reader who la compelled to lay down and take up a hook many times before the book-lover- s Few Pet of Maine Man Learned a fie to Have Inconceivable Hardships and Dangers Almost Bitter Experience The m Mall the Tote Surmounted by Those Who Alaska Frequent Loss of Life. want and Theres one thing you dont take the party near the had This will north pole. J. J. Thomson, professor of experimental physics at Cambridge, England, said the other day at Columbia university, after having received Its degree of doctor of science, that teachers of science In the United States receive smaller salaries than In any other country. Pneumonia has now given way to consumption as the leading cause of Pneumonia Is essentially a insease of vitiated, germ polluted, and overheated atmosphere. Consumption, while also a communicable germ disease, has all seasons for its own. Animal foods, Judged by hulk and weight, are more expensive, pound for" pound, than vegetable foods. But as a whole vegetable foods are not more economical. Animal foods furnish s more than of the protein and of the fat of the total food consumed. d.-a-th, nine-tenth- Is completed. This little la preferably of celluloid, though inctal or cardboard may answer the purpose, and has a substana tially T shaped body, ou which sliding member, having a straight 1 edge. By lapping the bent portion of the head over the edge of the leaves and sliding the marker along the stem It can ho made to Indicate fny line on the page, showing the reader at a glance where to begin. This Is the idea of August U. Bauer, of Columbus, Ohio. Railway Motor Coach. motor coach is sonu to rim between Fratton and Southsea. It will certainly surprise those who see this strange little combined engine and coach for the first lime. It runs on two four-whebogles, and Is divided, as regards Its passenger acInto two compartcommodations, ments, first and third, these being seps arated by a sliding door. The compartment, whoro tlio seats are plaecd longitudinally, Is Intended to seat ten persons. The third-claswhere scats are the compartment, in pairR transversely eo either tide of a central gangway, holds thirty-two in person- s- a total of forty-twThe motor the two compartments. coaeh wlll.be used during the middle of the day, when the tralTte is very light, heavy trains of the usual pattern being only run In the morning and evening. The possibilities of this Invention are great when one considers how sultnble such motor coaches would be for the midday, and. indeed, much of the light traffic of all aubnrhan lines. The King. A A railway Pneumatic Life Preserver, The steamship company which did not provide life preservers In number or exceeding Its passenger equaling carrying capacity would he summarily dealt wlfh by the government, ejid yet every one knows that when the time arrives for their use the passengers and crew may he too much excited to profit by tho provision thus made for first-clas- s Attachment for Handcuff. pair of handcuffs w take an the fight out of some men the instant they are put on them, while in others It rouses all the antagonism In their natures, the latter class often proving ugly customers even when their hands are manacled. The pair of fetters whlrh we have illustrated Room to have been designed especially for the fighting class, and yet it will be seen that for weight and strength they do not compare with those ordinarily A No Dis- 111 Prevent the Fingers From Closing. carried by officers of the law. The wristlets are only a pair of leather traps buckled on tightly, but the wire kxgis w lilch are attached to them have serve! g usually provided on shipboard all the time, but here Is an apparatus whlrh will answer the same purpose, and yet without discomfort when the tube is given enabh-sshrd- l when constantly worn. The spiral form which tho tube Is given enable the wearer to suspend It around his lmdy by means of the supporting Jacket, beneath the outer clothing, and It takes but a short time to Inflate the reservoir through tho mouthpiece, which Is provided with a valve to chook the outward flow of the air. The spiral rolls lie flat when deflated, and are scarcely perceptible to the wearer, who, even If the device rendered him slightly uncomportahlc, would have the feeling of safety to countenance the annoyance. Wiley P. TlhheU, of Toledo. Ohio, Is the inventor. Double Telephone Connection. bceu designed to more than make up have recently been Experiments the difference between tho two kinds made- - on the between Farit telephone of manacles. When these have been tml Tours to a new system by tri over the fingers and put jdr.ee of which two separate converthumbs the prisoner Is unable to close sation cru he carried on simultanhis hands, and can, therefore, obtain on the same line. The pro. eously no grip on either the straps or any limit are' staled to ary experiment article with which to fight. Tho loops have proved and the adare of sled. josscsslng great strength, ministration satisfactory, of the French Departand yet of such light weight that ment of Dost a and Is now the whole outfit doe not weigh as seriously considering the of question much as a pair of steel wristlets of the putting the aystem Into actual operause. common in The officer pattern tion throughout tlie country. The Inmay need assistance to plan.' these ventor In M. Inspector of they handcuffs on his man. hut when they electric service at Tenirs, In o have aro oik little plnce he need fear of his ability to control the Graphits Prevents Boiler Scale. wearer. It l said that a small quantity of John W. IVitlJohn. of Montesano. graphite mixed with wuter used In Wish., la the Inventor, holler will prevent scale forming, and If scale Is already , In the boiler, Learned by Scientists. the gtaphlve will penetrate the old IiCiigth of tho rays does not afTect scale and decompose It. so that It will the chemical activity of light, al- drop to the Nil tom. 3 lie dh'Covery that graphite Is a wter softener was though It determines their color lrof. l.odgo surmises that the roe-w- i mn- by a mlnit-- company In Mexico, of disintegration of atoms Into Whlrh Used WatT slightly colored by electrons, of which they are made up, grnpl.ie, and tto'b-lnthat their hollfrom mu!-- . rums to the may constitute the evolution of the er - pt much--iochemical elements. that the giuphlt.- - acted a The GJoa. v It h the mnnietle potn the p" enthe, for (li'eelilnlid, OX p's) it toll, has sailed rv. n n- - awl ward der-and will attempt In pass north of the he'ter It.: strait. than a safer tie w ord I American cortitint to of a flea. At such times to remember the aster of his puppy days, when that looked like a cat put allhim. to fair middling a same he was came When it dog. every-daTige knew skunks, and aft round, first with onem he seemed to have made up hia that the only safe way to fight was to maneuver beyond the di line and bark out a lot of 8ass' abuse. He had been bitten by an woodchucks, and being an apt he learned to run around his qus. feint for a drawout and when 0f tunity blossomed jump in and strangle hold. But porcupines new to Tige. They are no good game and until the enactment 2f.c bounty law there was n0 centive to hunt them, but a lot of It to let them alone, blamed quills are like a bad h Once they get fleshed into mat beast they work deeper. Being bar they pull out like fishhooks. The of porcupines we have in this the country are greedy bark etc and it is the inside of the bark they prefer. Their front teeth like those of the heaver, and they 'mo strip the big limbs of a tree in a iiuff time. Stripping the bark from will kill it, and It Is to save the spr. and hemlock of Maine that the ; Gazed Mournfully at the House. to woodchucks or coons he was a tive to exterminate the animal been made. howling blizzard and he would tree for no use but he had Porcupines are fool animals. T. partridges, skunks. Once in his younger days, w!ts are about as sharp as the L before he had become wise to many end of an ax, and like the skunk, t things which puppies learn by ex- either don't know enough or 1 care a fig, to look out for the eng perience, he descried in the moonP'r'aps It's; light of a June evening a sleek little, when the hell rings. plump little black and white object cause, like the skunk, they aresox armed. Meet one in the road, and. that looked like a cat. Skunks never run from impend- stead of taking to the weeds and t ing danger. Neither do porcupines. grass, he'll just drop his snout Both are well armed, and they seem tween his forelegs, lay his tail flat to know that anything alive with the dust, httnen his back, bring at sense enough t get from under when his quills to charge bayonets, t it rains ought to find it convenient to await your pleasure. He cannot si let them alone. Tige was a frolicsome, callow pop. Having had lots of fun racing the farm cats up an old butternut tree that stood in the yard, he seemed to think 'twould he a high old jubilee to make the strange pussy in the moonlight take to the timber. lie iiiumrniured, and away he went. I yelled a call off after him, hut 'twas no use. He was in to get all that was coming to him, and he "Now, Tige wasn't what you might all a likely candidate for bench show bird purposes, nor would he stand a In a woodcock cover, but all the Rampart House, Near Camp Coluna. tabllshed the loneliest and most dan- business, and really enjoys Its hazards. gerous mall route in tho world. Two mall carriers on the short run The mail carriers travel on foot over sixteon hundred miles of the to Atlin did not arrive last winter, route, and one stretch of nearly eight and a soarrh party was sent opt. They hundred miles through a desolate, un- found the tracks of the sled leading to inhabited country lias to be covered what had been a hole In the Ice. That by a single postman. The Yukon mail was all. In the same district tho frozen body carrier must travel with his dog sledge along a river piled up with of a mail carrier was found and Identiblocks of Ice like the boulders on a fied by his watch. He had been lost threo years previously. hillside. Harry Frayne, a mail carrier from The river is several miles wide in to Kacle, started out last JanuValdes is the surface and sometimes places, with the expectation of meeting ary snowso broken by hillocks of ice and drifts that Its winding course cannot the carrier on the next stage. He he distinguished from the land. The found the dogs and tho sled. The carrier then lias to don his snowshoes carrier, Tallin, had abandoned them and break a new trail for the dogs when the dogs were exhausted, and had started off with the idea of carryover the trackless waste. mail on his back for the rest Theodore Blum started to do tills ing the of the distance. one morning. It was on the Yukon Some Indians found his frozen body flats, just Inside the Aretic circle, six miles from the summit of Men-tas- a where the river is nearly fifteen miles Pass. 11c had plodded with the wide. mail until he fell in the snow, frozen He carried a long f.r pole with him. to death. his dog team following him. and when From the lower end of this lonely he felt the lee giving way lie threw trail of 2.o"o miles to Nome there Is down the pole and rested his weight often in the local brief newspapers on It. But even though his weight mention of the disappearance of a mall was thus distributed It did no' always carrier. It Is an episode of daily life, save him from a duckii g lie broke exciting no more comment than a runthrough no fewer than six times in away hor-- does in a big city. his endeavor "o on ss the river, and I. caving all danger and adventure narrowly escaped helm; frozen bffore out of cut the railing of the he could reach one of the shelters. Arete matt carrier is rough and hard. Ben Ikiwring. the- most fatuous of Do not imagine the carrier reclining the mail carriers, narrowly esc aped at Ills ease, covered with warm robes, death at the close of last season. It while the- - dogs lope along over a was spring time-- , and the Run an hour smooth surface-- . before and after noon softened the He has to guide the sled from one snow and made travel difficult, so side of tie- river to the other to miss most of his traveling was done In (be- the heaped up lee, the soft places and night. the snowbanks. He left Ills station at In a tempe ratuie of 00 degrees beo'eloct, In the morning, putting laced moccasin-- t low zen . which is common, he has to on the fee-- t of Ills ell gs to ptvve-n- t kee-t .le- warm, and yet he must not perIce fnuii crystals sharp will immediate-H- e rutting them, spin-- , or the- - niol-tuhail made twenty miles uml was I.v ficcc His greatest Is as to going along at a clipping his his footwear. He has two or three hands cm the hats of the sled, when pair of woollen socks and over them he heard the lee under Ids dogs. a pair of moccasins made of doer hide. He- - halted them with a word I l and get wet his freeze planted Ids feet rigidly to break the ami lit- - Is little than a dead momentum of the sled. This sudden man Afte-throwing of his weight In erne place he has made his distance for broke- - the- - lee-- , and down he went. the day he arrives at a lonely cabin The which nines to the under some fee-- t of snow. He has to dogs from dully going through sm h put on his snow slioeg to break a trail to experiences enabled the-drag to it for the- - dogs. him on to the so.id Ice, and away they The eahln contain a rusty store 1 - rc j p.it-e-- , ' Sh-ni- i r stiL-ailt- Ba-r-ro- did. Jehus netty, but that was a surprise for the pup! He let loose a Mart like a scared calf. Yes, twas a Mart. There was no suggestion of hark or howl In Tiges voice when the little black and white thing In the moonlight checked his rush. It was a Mart pure and simple, a blart all aqulver with dire dread. Guess Tige thought his time had sure come, and he looked to me for sueeor. With tail tucked between his legs he shaped a course for master, and very naturally I took to my heels to get away from the overpowering stench. 'Twas no use. Tige was a sprinter, and fearing hed get close and contaminate me I began Jerking stones and yelling for him to get out and Keep away.' The poor cuss seemed to think me ungrateful, and when later on the Whole household, including the family cats, flagged him he looked like he felt meaner than watered milk. He was for a time the sickest pup ever saw. When the perfume got good and next to him hed slide his bend along the grass, first ono side and then the other. This skating oa wwm te-- nie-an- s i at Forty Postofflc attain, faster than before, hr cause Beit had his wet ami knew they were fteelng A few mlh-tnoie and he kn-they had a!r ady frozen Then they began to hleed, ami for ten tulles the blood s"iitt-- i out of the laee hole of hi nun i nfn with rverv , and left a red tin on the fro.-.-s Rti-n- I fr-s- .. v Mila. and some provision for himself an the dogs. He has to eltop wood after his dsv work ami must first cook the st.tper for his dogs Then be e.sik ami at Ms lonely meal ami lies down In hi ehithe He Murmured, o and Away Tlu-- i e ts no sl..p, ftirniiuro,. In a He Went "ittitrv w her- - fuel si areo tha h! car failing to hanl-d. tho evil ... mptnMoti to i hep it up f,,r stove he'd hu wins! vvould h- - too r. at, ot-ln of tioran stand ' 4 "" !!.- - I n'i'sb'ps of ..n:, a ! Tha fance J, di !,f. b r Ul. are w . !. d o,( t two or f'cr n,n ' i N.-Vork Sun. Dip ram.D l1"'1 i At bed on. Iit! thll r t h s loln-- T! of his g I e d t- ( n to st n off I he w tapped a nreiitid h,s t,(. f d body and In a t. mt . tatuie of c,; w a ; 1 tt-- i - Sir,"? ' I U'r He em, Tige!" I Soflie of the fellewa near when live had collected sufficient evldei in tho way of tnouta and claws to c vlnre the proper authorities that th been a considerable falling In the porcupine population of oountry. They had gathered In enm coin to make something of a Jingle their pockets, and their succet-- sot what excltoil the neighborhood. cry body nil at once took a no1 Ion go porcupine hunting. My pup Tl a friend with whom I have him1 coons, and myself went out one mo light night and bagged three lick Tige met his Waterloo, We had a big ono up a tre-- , and had quite I gotten Tige In our excitement, friend gave old porky a load of nk and down ho came kerthump. 1 Instant ho struck Tige was at hi ami I, forqettlng 'twu porrtipit.?i stead of coons, yelled: Shake hoy!' Poor Tige tho moment typl( the fellow In the old song, Tlu-r- W a Man In Our Town. The mni t how tho man puked a red hot U right up ami laid it right down ago J? ' ll 11 something like that Tige. Ho got a mouthful of porrupl before he illsensored what an un Rlriihk- - it ,,f (hewing he'd Blinked agiiltiHt, Hi mouth and throat "s full of quill a r dressmaker' p , f ,)(1V pi,,,, m nf.-.- j , finiti, lip i W,., mind then nnd th.-rf tint Imutln? P for r, a ,,.N kindly worth the , n'.ud." s ,u' went Shake hla quills, as some vivid luiaglnatlc would have the children believe, but hare touch Is sufficient to fasten o of them In a bodys flesh. With tall, which will flow like a steel spr1. when be is touched, he can drt quills homo as a shlugler drives n! and that's oue of the things T learned about these thorny animals his last hunt had Pe-tl- - ,' y - their safety. The passenger crossing the ocean would certainly feel no small degree of added security were he provided with the apparatus shown In the No one would think of Illustration. wearing ono of the bulky life pre- & eagerness - Wear Occasion comfort. and am-th- e side-ratio- Constant drooled and whined 18' An Air Ship That Sails. On the 23d ult., tho King Edward VII, a new departure In steerable contents marker Sku Fretful Porcupine, terms with himself and to do when you hunt porcupines. three for been days. hi6 was who has man Maine wood said a sic a green dog ashamed of his predicament is Another mall carriers been frozen degrees below zero hunted up that and rhere, weeks after he had no confid!' and made a fire. to death, hoys. alter one of em. Did it once myself traveled look any of us Square jn he and night excitement The following Yes? Thats had luck! Why, it during a period of incident tJ Twas this way: An That was only three weeks ago that Ben nearly fifty miles until he readied lost. rny dog. Dawson City. He handed over his other fellow and I, after the enact- wise to strange black and whit Downing lost his toes. This is the kind of talk the traveler mail, went limping about his business ment of the law fixing a bounty f turnal animals, and therea'i hears in tne trappers huts and rest as if nothing had happened, and then 25 cents each on dead porcupines, was mighty careful about in a few. Tige, put stray cats up a handy houses on the frozen Yukon river and went home and had a fever. for two started out to gather there was some- what he took to be a cat He Was in the hospital in the Behring coast up to Nome. Along the dog I lost, knew tht his toes saw me load- refused to run when he growler he 2,000 miles of this Icebound region months, and had to have when air in the thing same in still Is his rushed, hed sidestep the the United States government has es- putated. Yet he ing shells, and he whimpered quicker than he could snap th' to be away. s balloons, the invention of Capt. Small-honeof Kensington, made Its maiden ascent from Stamford Bridge Grounds, says an English exchange. There is no molivo power in the balloon, so that it cannot go against the wind, but by the aid of two triangular sails attached to the sides its course can be directed. Capt. Smallbonos, accompanied by Capt. Williams and Mr. Cove, aseended shortly after 2 ocloek, traveling over Putney, Hammersmith and Barnes and Moulsey. At Hampton Court the balloon was steered round the park and aeross the At Guildford tho balloon Thames. was navigated round tho town before a course was set for Godaiming, the objective of tho trip. Things About fiiuitu-i- l fr e mt-lil- |
