| Show poi table steam neater elliott lee the municipal inspector of insurance of anderson ind Is the inventor of a hew rew steam heater which can be circled from room to room and will give out as much heat as a stove twice the size the heater Is a small rad r aisa ator for nith a bo ler under it and ti this is s heated by a gas flame supplied by i t tube flom some convenient com eilent blick wick t the whole outfit w ephs only about eighty lourds pour i e 4 tf t rural etee delivery will te be greatly appreciated in a thousands of country homes this winter while in some cases arrangements need modification yet on the whole this is a great stride in the advancement in civilized coun try life its influence cannot fall fail of I 1 leaving baving its mark as time goes on among the people thus privileged 77 john gilmer speed has whitten for success about the romance of the savings banks according to sta statis ties tics he finds that there aie ale 67 men women and chialdi children chil dien en in the united states who own deposits in these banks amounting to the av belon belonging prig to each de depositor po aitor Is 23 3 VI omen it appears are better savers than men george who was credited with having invented the safety bley cle recently died a pauper in the pub lie workhouse of gloucester england at the a age ae e of seventy five years it would s seem eem that of the millions upon millions of dollars that have been made mide out of this useful invention the man who first thought it out ought to have bad had enough at least to make his de dining years comfortable tee th e irony of fate sometimes performs stran strange strang G antics philosophizes the los angeles times college food all Is strenuous but not necessarily dangerous an In la tion ton made at the end of the last toot foot ball season by professor dexter of the university of illinois showed that in the last ten years there were as tar far as could be ascertained only thres three men who had died from the effects of the game of football la in the colleges of these one was a man who had been forbidden to play he flie game because of a weak heart and another was a man who played without training less than three per cent of the men who played on regular college teams were serf serl ousby injured chicago record herald says the announcement of new discoveries re garding the cause and infectious na ture of tuberculosis Is naturally fol lowed by new theories of prevention and cure the world wide prevalence of the white scourge invests these an noun cements of the doctors and fists with more than ordinary public interest while tuberculosis Is robbed of much of its terror through the dis covely that the infected lung tissue Is curable at the same time the public Is impressed with a new sense of its dangerous character through the very discovery that it Is communicable and that no one is immune from it rew new york city now contains more people than there were in the k merl tic tie piquancy they are busy little can colonies when they achieved the r independence it has a million more inhabitants than the kingdom of greece oer a trillion more than the ingdon L of servia Is nearly equal in population to the ring kingdom dom of gal and alo alco lacks not much of equal ing the kingdom of holland it has a larger population than any of the central american republics and more than any south american nation bra zil and the argentine republic except ed it has about twice the populate on of D and more th than an twice that of norway lack ot of work turns men into tramps but it does not keep them tramps de dares clares the chicago inter ocean man and the job cannot always keep apart unless the man so wishes the proof Is the tact fact that thousands of men have been tramps and are so no long er and these men did not owe their escape from to anything that anybody did for them they owed it entirely to themselves taking bis his life through the average tramp Is such because be he wishes to be because be he falls into the delusion that it Is easier to beg and steal than to work one of 0 those economic lulls known as hard times may have set him to tramping but when this lull was over he d d not re remain main a tramp unless he wished to ten years ago the american feder reder atlon of labor the most powerful rep body in the united states comp comprising from two thirds to three quarters of the forces of organized la bor had perhaps members Pres dent gompers compers at the last annual convention in new orleans announced that the organization in eleven months to october 1902 had added to its membership a figure greater than its total enrollment in 1898 and equal to its membership in 1899 the present t membership in 1903 of the american federation of labor being let us say 1 COO GOO and assuming as that the independent organizations have at least held their own since 1900 we have a total for the united states at the present time of about two in dillong as gal list about 1000 tor 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