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Show DEFY COLD IN MANY WAYS Men Compelled to Submit to Exposure Have Devised a Number of Ingenious Methods. Rural mall carriers need never suffer from winter rigors or cold days generally gen-erally if they follow the example of Homer Slider of Oldtown, Md. Slider makes his dally trip in a buggy mounted on runners in winter, with a complete little stove Inside, a small pipe carrying the smoke and gas out at the rear. A bushel of coal carries him through one rural delivery trip nicely. The stove is kept going away Into spring on stormy or chilly days. But this contrivance has been paralleled in the past. According to a Dakota story a tenderfoot Inventor sojourning In that region several years ago had a saddle especially made with an asbestos lining. In the pockets of the saddle he was accustomed to place hot bricks when starting on long horseback Journeys. The cowboys laughed a great deal at him, asking what was the benefit of toasting at the calves and freezing at the throat. But there were those who would have tried it had the innovation been easily attached. There is a story of a Minneapolis policeman who puttered a great deal with electricity in his days off. and who was said to have arranged an electric heater In the shape of a belt or strap along the tail of his coat. Scoffers declared that ho had a way of throwing a piece of wire over an elec- ; trie wire In the street and attaching it for a minute to his patent belt and patent transformers. This he denied at a police trial, admitting, ad-mitting, however, that he had been working on a battery heater that could be carried In the coat and produce a very comfortable amount, of warmth. Part of his scheme was to construct a heater ciat |