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Show v m Services no longer needed. WOMEN Patient Now Take Position by Right Instead of by Favor, of Young Physician Found Relief. Had Ah, nurse, said the flippant young doctor, to the old GREAT WOOD MTFRESTWG - r 15 ! I. . v PRESERVATIVE HA6 history VI ' x? 5 -- BIG COKE AND GAS PlANTfiPRODUCEd COKE AND GAS AW MANY VAIUWEC BYPRODUCTS i rf , En AMONG THEM CREOSOTE OIL, ' v nurse, at the patient's door, "has the patient's fever dropped since I was here yesterday? If BATTERY OT GAS RETORTS FROM CREOSOTE OT . COAL' LAP. BEE HIVE COKE PROCESS, AS ALL ARE LOST HALLS. The ladies have done well at Glasgow, at the last graduation ceremony, 50 women and 59 men being admitted to the degree of M. A. Twenty years ago women in the classroom were a rara avis, and we have some recollection of their first appearance at Edinburgh late in the 'eighties. - There were eight young ladies in Frof. Taits class lie was exof natural philosophy, the octahedron, parentheticplaining ally remarking that it had eight plain faces. One of the sporting contingent in the back row interjected the rethe ungallant ntal k, "Front bench, reference being to the eight stalwait of the young ladies the pioneers woman graduate who occupied seats in. the front row. Yes; decidedly. H'm! that's encouraging! Hows the pain? She hasnt any. Come! that's great! And the cough? She doesn't cough at al now." Well, you and I are to be congratulated, nurse! My medicine has taken effect, then? No doubt, sir." Well, concluded the young doctor, Inwardly calling down malediction on the heads of all grim old nurses such as she, "there's hardly any need of Hunters Strange Trophy. my calling here again, then? The skull of a deer with its horns None whatever. The patient's dead! Illustrated Sunday Magazine. fastened in the fork of an alder tyee not more than six inches in diameter Strenuous Spanish King. and three feet from the ground, parOf all the crowned heads of Europe tially covered with bark that has who are sportsmen, and most of them grown over it in the years since the do indulge in recreation in one form unfortunate animal met its death, was or another, there is none more in- found by C. F. Oldenburg in the foren- ests of Fidalgo island while 'hunting defatigable or a better thusiast than King Al"onso, who has seve-- al days ago. been so much in the public eye in the From the position of the bare skull last few weeks through the threat- and the horns It Is presumed that the ened assassination of the Spanish king deer was trying to scratch the back of on the occasion of his recent visit to its head against the young tree when Barcelona. This visit he did not post- - one of its horns became fastened under SOUGHT MONEY FROM iTifiifi IN UNIVERSITY PURELY FEMININE! CARE OF THE HAND POSSIBILITY EVERY GIRL. A FOR Simple Precautions That Will Preserve Delicacy and Beauty Consistent Use of Glove an Absolute Necessity. EASY BOSS" OvENtWASTZEUl 15 MADE One of the significant signs of the times is the awakening of the American people to the dangerous destruct- ly machines where the lighting gas is cleansed from its impurities, and the different are separated from each are great ether. First and the ion of their forest wealth, in which the gases are condensers, rewhat of use wise necessity of a cooled. The cooling condenses the mains of it. Undoubtedly, in the fu- heavier compounds into thick liquids, ture the nation must utilize its forest which are then left behind. One of the substances later rerop less wastefully, both In the woods ind In the mill, and must make provi-lio- n moved from the gas is ammonia, and for future crops; but that Is not from this product is made the amthe only way to prolong the timber monia water which is used in every If the Bervice of the wood household. supply. It which Is used can be lengthened, The heavy, strong smelling, black will largely decrease the amount of liquid which is collected in the cooling Umber that must be cut. of the gas is what we know as coal can be done by treating tar. This is an exceedingly complex And this From It are the wood with chemicals which will mixture of substances. poison the low forms of plant life obtained not only creosote oil, but which attack It and cause It to decay. most of the dyes which are used now-a- . The growth of timber is slow, and days, perfumes, and even flavoring when the dearth of It becomes pressi- extracts. Gas, coal tar and coke are also made ng, a new crop cannot be grown julckly enough to prevent a time of in what is known as the levere shortage. Preservative treat- coke oven, which is adapted to differ ment of timber has the advantage, as ent objects, but Is operated on the i remedy, that it can be applied Im- same principle. Its coal tar Is equally Its Importance Is, theref- as good as the gas works tar for makmediately. ore, attracting Increasing attention. ing creosote oil. In recent years have been used for great amount of gas has been made in . Many chemicals trie preservation of timber, among the United States by another process, them blue vitriol, corrosive sublimate and Is known as water gas. This proc ind chloride of zinc. The most effec- ess also produces a tar, which looks tive preservative Is the substance much like coal tar and Is often difficult called creosote oil, creosote. or to tell from it. But this tar is really On account of the similarity of the derived from petroleum, and does not names, many people suppose this to make a good oil for preserving wood be the creosote obtained from wood, from decay. Wood creosote, with such as can be obtained, refined for which so many people are familiar. Is medicinal purposes, at the drug stores. likewise obtained from a wood tar But the two are quite different, and which Is produced by distilling wood should not be confused. The creo- But like water gas tar creosote, wood sote used in wood preservation is ob- creosote is not so good for wood tained from coal, by a most Interestipreservation as Is the coal tar creong process. sote. When creosote is bought for that Nearly every city now uses gas for purpose, therefore, it should be cerlight and fuel, and many people know tain that it is coal tar creosote. that this illuminating gas is often To obtain creosote oil from col tar But made from coal. But the many things the tar is, in its turn, distilled. besides gas which are obtained in this distillation is like that used for this process are not so well known. It other liquids instead of that employed is one of these other products from for the coal. The still is heated, and which is obtained the creosote oil used as the heat Increases the "light oils for wood preservation. first pass over. Among these is the To understand how all these things familiar carbolic acid. This is a poware produced, it is necessary to know erful antiseptic, but it is not desirable something which the chemists can tell in a wood preservative, for it evapous Coal, they say, is composed part- rates so readily that it soon becomes lost from the wood. When a temperaly of the substance called carbon, partly of compounds of this carbon with the ture of about 400 degrees has been gas hydrogen, which they have named reached, the distillate is turned Into When the coal is another receiver, and from this point hydrocarbons. heated sufficiently, away from air, the on to 600 or 700 degrees creosote hydrocarbons are driven off in the oil is produced. One of the substances form of gas. Illuminating gas is made which is contained in this mixture is from which common napthalene, by subjecting coal of the proper kind to this process, which is known as moth balls are made. Coal tar creoThe coal is put sote, thus produced, is the great wood "dry distillation. into a long, oven, or "retort," preservative. The residue remaining in the still shaped much like a giant model of the little cakes which the bakers call after the distillation is pitch, which the retorts being is chiefly used together with coal tar lady fingers, about 13 feet long, two feet wide and saturated felt in the preparation of In America 16 Inches deep. A number of these gravel or slag roofing. retorts are built side by side, In three roofing pitch is the chief end for which In Europe .this is rows, one above the other, the ends of tar is distilled. the retorts being supported in a not so true. Now pitch for roofing brick wall which also extends around must be rather soft. Therefore tar the ends of the rows and over the to)), distillation is not carried so far in this For creore- country as it is in Europe. and thus entirely Incloses the torts. Fire, from furnaces below, m sote oil it would be better if it were carried by flues into this lnclosure, so carried farther, since (he substances hat the retoits are entirely enveloped which distill at the higher tempera'.n flame and can he heated to a very tures in most cases neither evaporate in the air nor dissolve in water as high temperature. whleh distill more The retorts are partly tilled with readily as those they stay In the Consequently easily. coal, after which they are sealed, so a longer time, and protect It for wood .hat no air can get Into them. They are then heated to a tem; eratnre of correspondingly from decay. Much study is being devoted by the abqw, 2.100 degrees Fahrenheit. Under lids intense heat almost all the United States forest service to creowhat its compohydrocarbons of the coal mss off, leav- sote oil, to determine to the best be bhonld give ing behind only the "fixed carbon, sition under diftimber, in preserving coke. as which, conies out of the retort how and the most Many of the lighter compounds dis- ferent conditions, be creosotes obtained may desirable in tilled off by the heat will remain the form of gas when they are cooled The reports of these studies, together to ordinary temperatures, and It is with detailed description of the more some of these which make the gas economical processes of applying the to wood, have been finally ued for lighting and fuel. But preservatives as It comes from the retoits, the gas woiked into circulars which the gov a like a thick, yellowish-greesmoke eminent has placed nt the disposal of which will be and could not he used at all for such all users of timber and make who the request all to furnished , purposes. This ;ga$ escapes from the revolts Into a sejli s cf large and cost of the forester at Washington. IS IDEAL The ugliest of hands may be vastly improved, if not actually beautified. First of all, girls should learn to hold the hands so that they will somewhat resemble the ideal one, which is slightly wedge shaped, the broader end at the wrist and the narrower at the tapering finger tips. And be careful never to clinch the fist, for that not and parsionly denotes meanness mony, but tends to broaden the and another cream delude before draw-o- n a air of new, loose, white hamois gloves. Do not endeavor to economize with pair of ileansed party gloves, which ill probably be tight in spots and certainly soiled Inside. Stains, freckles and tan lend coarseness to the appearance of the skin. Iernon treatment will usually vanquish the eff cts of the sun's rays, raw tomato juice is excellent for fruit stains and pumice stone will rub away Ink marks no longer excusable on ine plea that they suggest literary par-suitmembers of tbs as craft dictate to typewriters. During chilly weather the hands ara apt to chap If exposed to the on'er air directly after being bathed, unleis thoroughly rinsed In cold, running ater and kept warm and moist In loose fitting gloves, which, by the way, 111 make tie hands appear smaller. Moreover, palpably tight gloves lend their wearer an air of vulgarity, and If habitually worn nature will evidence disapproval In the form of enlarged joints. knuckles. The hand should be kept open, whether hanging at the sides or lying flat in the lap. In the latter case the palms look prettiest turned upward, and If they are kept soft as the soles of a baby'8 SIMPLE feet and rosy as the inside of a shell, so much the better, for, in addition to expressing youth and healtji, such delicacy dumbly appeals to the sterner FOR YOUNG GIRU It Is not the hard palmed woman who secures the subway seat during the rush hours, however richly she may deserve such consideration. Not that man is unchlvalrous, but because he believes that the owner of Bquare fingered, broad, brown hands Is as well able as himself to cling to strap. pone, despite the threats against him and the advice of his counsellors advocating a postponement of the same. He showed In that determination to go to Barcelona and carry through the plans the same spirit he has displayed In his sports. He is an ardent motorist, and before his marriage was one of the most reckless speeders in all Spain. Where They Were at Home. The story goes that a Galilean bishop was dining a good many years ago at Rome with a great prince of the church, who Inquired about the I am Bishop situation of his diocese. said the Frenchman; of Angouleme, "Bishop of the department of the he added, seeing that the Charente, Ultramontane eminence, whose strong point- was not modern geography, made At last a bright thought no sign. struck him. Im Bishop of Cognac, - said he. Ah, Cognac! Cognac! Cognac! cried all the guests in chorus, "thats something like a bishopric! Every girl should realize this and bear in mind that any man who pretends to admire palpably ugly hands Is not to be trusted. The hand of the feminine golf en thuslast may be readily recognized by its flat fingers and massive joints, but if its shape must be wantonly sacri ficed, its cuticle at least should be kept white by regular washings in warm water mixed with cornmeal and the purest soap obtainable, for money so spent is well laid out. After washing the hands should always he thoroughly rinsed in cold water, and if one is not immediately a limb. It la considered probable that going out of doors, slipped into loose the animals neck was broken in its gloves. efforts to extricate Itself. Mr. Olden In fact, to keep the hands In good burg estimates that the skull has been condition, tin golfing girl should wear suspended from the tree where he gloves at every possible waking mofound it for at least two years. Seat ment commensurate with domestic ob tie Times. ligations, and invariably from night for until morning, paste lined beauty gloves, which accomplish Alaska Using Many Dredgers. The greatest demand for gold miracles with hard palms, work while owner sleeps. dredgers in the world now comes their Dark hued, thin and hard hands may from Alaska, and a manager of a big soak New York company that manufactures be made white, plump and soft by in hot water until the pores them inn into Tacoma in has arrived dredgers then rubbing cold cream are vestigate the siuation. He says more into opened, their backs, palms, finger lips Alaska this to be will shippd dredgers soak int summer than are now being operated and Joints and letting it one reads and mentally dl in the northern camps. Inquiries for them while the morning paper's telegraph! dredgers are coming from sections of gests Alaska never before heard of. The news. have been wiped with When largest orders naturally are coming coarse they one will be surprised and towel, which in dredgfrom districts heavy certainly shocked at the amount of ing machinery is already being used. grime removed and impelled to treat Chronicle. San Francisco them to a second hot water soaking A Just Rebuke. In the flat above wa maiden The World Were Mine All the If Andersen. Hans of singing Story Hans Andersen, the great Danish for the tenth time that evening. The man below could stand it nc writer, was an excessively nervous man, and he had a very great fear of longer. Say," he shouted at the top of his being buried alive. So great was this dread that every night when he went voice, you evidently realize that yoi to to bed he would place by his bedside dont own all the world, but a large piece of paper, on which was heavens sake where did you get you were the only one In thli written; I am only apparently dead. Detroit Free Press. flat? Home Notes. ULTRA BUT PRETTY. Soft cloth of a rich chestnut color Is used tor tills gown. The sides of the three-goreskirt are stitched over the front breadth and ornamented with gilt butons. Over the i nlted blouse is worn a deep pointed collar of embroidered net, bordered with a band of Irish guipure, and a ruffle of fine lace, and the little loops and long ends are of cream liberty silk, finished with gilt tassels and slides. The sleeves are of the raglan style, trimmed with stitching The bejt Is soft leather, and buttons. fastened with a gilt buckle. CRIB FROM CLOTHES BASKET. Useful Contrivance That Can Easily Be Made at Home. . The materials required for this crib are a clothes basket with a wooden bottom, four legs of pine two inches square and 12 inches long, two pieces inch thick, of pino boaid three indies wide, and as long as the bottom of the basket, two pieceB off same board as width of basket bottom, and four ball bearing furniture casters, the kind put on with four one-quarte- r SCENE OF TROUBLE IN INDIA screws. r Wilh a gimlet and screw drive- os woman easily can make the eti inch by follows: Fasten the qua'-b-three Inch boaids to the dutside of the four legs, about two Inches from tbs bottom, with one Inch screws, two screws at each end of each boaid; now fasten basket to top of legs wilh two inch sriews, one screw In each comer of basket; turn basket upside down and seic-- casteis to bottom of One of t Be ultra novelties of the millinery world is pictured In above cut, which gives one a good il a of the shape. It is built of white lace, with a shirred bund o. black velvet forming a narrow biini. On the left side of dark-reUgh crown is a bunch of fein. maidenhair rores and s I GOWN Bex. fire-cla- Ml s, Attar of Roses. rose leaves to make enough pick ono quait when well pressed down Put a layer of leavi s In a two quail fruit jar, sprinkle lightly with g!i-.- s cover with a thin layer of tb-salt, cbsoibent cotton wet wi'h olive oil. te layeis, put Fill (lie jar with ou the rubber, and cover and set In the sun for two weeks, or longer if there be many cloudy days. Now unthe and press the oil from coand cotton, pnd It will bo well wcuth the trouble of making. alt-ma- c-- of North India, the scene of the present and past locution of Khjbcr pais. A map of the border uprisings, showing h s h gs. Tliis brings the crib to the level of the mother's bed. It Is easily moved about by the basket handle without stooping, and, by placing one or two sadirons in bottom of basket to offer the necessary resistance, hero. iis an excellent contrivance for baby to ding to and push about while learning to walk. Smoothing Finger Tips. The only way of making the skin smooth under the nails is by- - consianl applications of cold rioam ami by using only a soft thing, such 83 a bit of orange wood, for cleansing. The latter should ie done only after washing the batidi, when the gtlme Is soft and Is lemoved without sciaping. If you Jo any liousewoik or dusting have the nails filled with cream to preveut di y dust going underneath. ; t |