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Show 1 t A Three Days Where Wealth Is Lavished On Sulphuric Add. Ex Representative lloruan f : -m ii tout 1, at me only thing eourl tells a good etorj about an mil to do to opt u the doors Just as If toper in the state o the nmudt waur tioilu: g had happened and to await When he first settled down to praitue dev eiopim ms the town boasted of a tiros stole run Bmii uumitntanlv expected word of by one of his ft tern's Tie stole hat I nt b B.l'v s death Three dajs a soda fountain and bark of this, wtth and no word came. FlnaHy the bottles of lijuils other. so tnet'i tbe wre about to tonclude that he inal, was pia d a boitle of ni-- k bad dropped dead from his dose of In the town was an o toei ai ian, tt e poison in home obscure spot known as I tic le Bill It was Uncle w here m one had yet come along to s habit to step into the drug Uitover him when Unde Itilly look store every mornirg, pass behind the Itiff a little the worse for Bill, wear, but counter and help luinself to a tum- smiling all over, walked In rather bler of whisky Tne druggist was beside him "Good morn In he alwavs said, and self for Joy "Good morniu , L ncle Billy, everyGlad to see you, Uncle Billy, he body said to him That was about all exclaimed, and repeated. "I am certhat passed in a conversational way as tainly glad to see you this morning. .he made his regular morning call I've got a bottle of the finest brand One morning Uncle Billy had made of whisky I want you to try. his regular visit to the habitat of the "Sorry," answered Uncle Billy, but whisky bottle, and was Just disappearthe fact Is the last time I was here I ing through the door when the drug- got some that was a leetle bit differ gist discovered that Uncle Billy had erj from anything I ever had before. drunk out of the wrong bottle. He But it was the finest 1 ever tasted, had taken his potion from a bottle of and I think I will stick to that. VTell, the druggist was sulphuric acid And the old man, who. Instead of almost Uncle Billy being killed by the poison had got had gotten out of sight, meantime, ten a three days' Jag on it, insisted on and the druggist closed the door of his being allowed to sample the sulphuric shop, and in fear and trembling sent acid again. for his friend, the struggling young A practical Joke ia a fool's cowardly lawyer who later represented the state in congress When told the situation insult. Wondrous Splendor of Hotel Tables Every Nighty ", 1 j pR'-se- ner-vousl- v panic-stricke- Lifes Plans Seem Sadly Out of Joint. If, Indeed, the intention was that happiness are not put In the way of life should mean happiness, how sad achieving it? For instance, is the fate has been the blundering For consid- which is supposed to dispense happier, for one thing, the pitiful ignorance ness asleep, or gone on a Journey, which haa resulted in such tragic suf- that it permit8 northern capitalistic fering to humanity. As a matter of unholy love of money to combine with fact, man has been cheated of his southern parental greed for the torbirthright, supposing him entitled to ture of children, in the process of mill happiness, for has he not been money getting? If happiness be the deunaided, to wrestle with the signed portion for humanity, then are problem of fitting himself to his en- life's plans sadly out o L Joint, for the vironment? Through long ages, by most cunning of malevolent spirits sweat of brow, travail of spirit and could not possibly devise greater varionerous physical toll, he has struggled ety or more lacerating kinds of misery to adjust himself to conditions into than those which human beings in 11 which he was thrust. He found no grades of society are made to experiparadise of happiness free to all. Life ence. Apart from the inevitable peris a perpetual struggle, not elyslum, sonal sorrows which affect all, how is Not only have millions it possible for any but the very young aays Vogue been the victims of hideous slavery, or the very selfish to be happy in a but the whole race, from all time, baa world where the majority are misersuffered cruelly because of Ignorance, able because of disease, little health, the most pathetic phase of this suffer- dire poverty, incapacity, onerous laing being the unpremeditated cruelty bor or cruel anxiety? Life as disciIs an inand injustice which results from ig- pline for character-buildinnorant parentage. Can those who spiring conception. Life as an aborclaim happiness as a birthright explain tive happy hunting ground is an appalwhy sentient beings predestined for ling theory. com-cpelle- d, g Some of- - the Dinner , FOR THE FRONT. Mistake Made Embarrassing Visitor to Haytf. That the character of the frequent revolutions in Hayti tends decidedly toward opera bouffe is attested by a story which has gained currency in the navy department during the last a man who ,wenk.Jt emanated from held, under one of the mushroom governments of Hayti, the post of admiral of the Haytian navy, the same office held by Admiral Kllllck, who Ia reported to have gone to the bottom t, with his ship, the when it was sunk by the German gunCrete-a-Plerro- boat Panther. the left hand is a curejnf&llible. But of all these notions the most interesting and probably the most popular in England is that known by the naine, of the potato cure, as the London Globe says. It Is said that if a person suffering from rheumatism will carry a potato about with him he will find himself free from pain and distress. It is asserted that a potato carried in the pocket of a rheumatic person will speedily become as hard as a rock, while In the keeping of a person free from the complaint It remains in its ordinary condition. Therefore it would appear as if the explanation of faith" in this ease does not Apply as it would perhaps in the matter of charms, oo far as we know, science has no pronounced judgment on the potato cure, but it would certainly be interesting to obtain a scientific explanation of the hardening of the po- -- (Special Correspondence J If you would see high life and yet much i bp. On New ears night 3,000 peopi sit down to supper, the lack the funds to p.unge If you would kno v how millionaires tables r8owlng the diningroom torridors. This means that and mulU millionaire spend their-weal- into v at leat 28,&0o is spent on eatables, If you would actually behold the drinkablm4 eights between 7 p. m. frocks and frills which the average and t wery day Money tffl buy almost anything person Knows only through the columns of the fashion pages. here. A tue may telephone to any If you woulcTrub elbows with the shop and goods sent on approval boj jtmploye in attendance. most highly exploited actors, artists with Without iteppmg irom the house a and writers of the hour. summon a valet who will If you would study the sharpest con- - man clean, pres ind tailor his garments, a barber will come to his room to administer a rtave. Stationery, cigars and ibett tickets will he sent up.to fit main him floor, and a maid will go dow ind select the flowers he would sent to his lady fair. There 1 oae room, formerly a public restaunat, now known as the directors rwa. it Is fitted up with Stan massive --f wait ufw, Bd here in secret conclave suay railway and trust magnates havi gathered to put through deals that kter have astonished the world. TiE MOORISH Nowber4 the world can one see MANTLE trasts between penury and wealth, the a mm striking exposition of the underpaid hireling outlined against modem commercial system, the specialization in work, the executive the overfed financlet. If you are willing to sacrifice one mind of tie hour at work. Behind the scene ia this great hostelry are by One your lifelong illusions concerning the world of w'ealth, fashion and scores of men and women who do art to a belief that mediocrity Is the only pathway to happiness. If you would accomplish all these things In one short year and be paid for doing it get some kind of a situation in the largest and most widely known hotel in New York city a dice box where human dice of many grades are shaken up together. They all visit the place in time the man who has tolled for years to amass wealth and the man who hat achieved his thousands in one sudden turn on the street the man who haa been lucky on the nearest racetrack and the man who has struck gold in west he who the mountain-locke- d has saved for months that he may enjoy a brief week or so in the meCMUfcrMrvW tropolis, and the confirmed traveler, the cosmopolitan to whom this mammoth pile in New York and Shepardi but "one tkng unremittingly, every in Cairo alike are home the man day in the year. There ia one man who makes money for the pleasure he who cuts k into blocks as it comes can Huy with it, and the man who from the la plant and tosses it into a spends money for what appearances pulverizer. There are half a dozen are worth to him in advancing his ca- who polish mirrors from morning unreer. til night. There are women who peel And to these add the men and wompotatoes tet hounr a day. There Is en indigenous to the metropolis, the one man.wlo does nothing hut make th i multi-storie- d forget WHAT MOST IMPRESSED HIM. How Young Moody Came to Admire Fortitude of Stephen. Paul D. Moody, son of the evangelist was a class deacon and a power of righteousness in his class at Yale 1901. To his strejgth of character were added companionable qualities that made him very popular with his fel lows. One day Paul was induced to get Into the exhilarating game of "nigger Through a conspiracy it devolved baby a favorite campus pastime, upon him to pay the rigorous penalty of the game, which consisted in crouching against Alumni ball while the other participants, fifty feet away took three shots each at him with a tennis ball. Great was the hope of the Philistines that a worldly, , cry would burst from the target at some stinging hit, but none came. I guess you swore under your breath once or twice, anyway; now, a fellow player didnt you, Paul? asked, when the ordeal was over. No, I didnt," replied Moody frankly. But, I tell you when 'Bob Robertson (the 'Varsity pitcher) was throwing, I appreciated as never before the magnificent fortitude of Stephen, the stoned martyr. 'v The admlfal was standing in the doorway of a hotel in Port au Prince in company with another American, who was familiar with Haytian customs. Down the main street came a band of negroes. They were Ignorant looking and seemed little inclined to march ahead, but were forced along against their wills by the persuasive powers of long bl,c2 whips in the hands of brilliantly - ufilfpnned persons, evidently officers of the Haytian army. aked Who are thoe" the admiral, turning to his friend. The friend appeared surprised, for Newfoundland Sparsely Settled. he had just finished talking of the revThe island of Newfoundland a terolution reported to be raging outside of New "Why, no indeed, ritory as large as be-state Port an Prince. they're not convicts," he replied. York has only about 250,000 inbab; "They are volunteers going to the Hants, and these Are sprinkled along the coast line. front - nlt? 4- - Induces Destruction by Consumer. Increased sales of tbe genuine commodity. The object of the Invention here Illustrated is to provide a bottle which the consumers will be ieduced to destroy when empty, the small extra charge to the consume being returned upon the breakage of the receptacle. The invention cOhslsta In arranging a coin in the fhcess of the bottle, the value of the in being sufficient to tempt the customer to fulfill the purpose of the mamtfacturer. Tbe coin is placed in a pockst during the process of manufacture, the edges overlapping tbe outer face ot the' coin, to that to remove it a large portion of the bottle must be taken away. The patent on this bottle has been granted to Reginald W. Pokrop of New Haven, Conn. Safety Drees for Electrical Workers. An electrician! safety dress haa been Invented by Prof. Artemleff, and n It waa lately tested in the Tbe Malske. of Siemens laboratory dress is composed wholly ot fine but thickly woven wire gauze, completely inclosjng the wearer. Including hands, feet and head. It weighs 1.3 pounds, but its cooling surface Is so great that a current of (00 amperes can pass through the dress from hand to hand for some seconds without perceptible heating effect Standing on the ground Prof. Artemleff drew uninsulated, sparks from the secondary terminals of a transformer which was giving tension of 75,000 volts, with a period of 60 cycles per second. The inventor concluded his experiments by a generator of capacity by clutching hold of the terminals, the potential difference between the two being 1,000 volts, and the current passed 201 amperes, Throughout the experiments 1W. declared Uiat he did not fcT the slightest sensation of a current passing through the body. high-tensio- short-circuitin- Unicycle fiullqf, and closed by hand. A catch is located on the wall back of each shutter to hold tbe latter open when thrown back, and to close the shutters by band it is only necessary to pul the cord which hangs beneath the left shutter, when the spring hinge Yill perform its part. At the same Gibe the connecting rod over the window releases the opposite catch and allows the second blind to close over the first To accomplish this result automatically under the heat of the flames, a fusible link or ring is used in connection with the fastening ot the first or left shutter, and the melting of this ring permits the spring hinges to close the blinds In turn before the heat has reached the point ot danger to the contents of the building. America Railway Bridges. The address of the chairman of the Section of Mechanical Engineering at ths July meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science gives statistics of Americas bridge construction. Prom it the following particulars are taken. A d Often years ago few plate girder bridges were built whose span exceeded 100 feet The span of tbe large plate girders of the viaduct on the Riverside Drive in New York city is 121 feet Tbe channel span of the cantilever bridge over the Mississippi at Memphis measures 704 feet between supports and la the longest ot its rises in America. The Wabash system is now building such a bridge at Pitta-burwhose spau is to be 812 feet Tbe channel span of tbe cantilever bridge over the St Lawrence at Quebec ly to have the unprecedented length of 1,800 feet This ia 100 feet longer than the span of the Firth of Forth cantilever bridge and 200' feet longer than the span of the Brooklyn susper slon bridge. Tbe towers are to be 360 feet above high tide. It win accommodate a doubt-tracrailway, two electric railroad tracks and high ways. g, k v ( two-minut- e and on curves be reduced to one-halcentrifugal force will help to decrease rather than to increase friction. The unicycle racing machine Is the Compressed Ale Drlvee out the Pose invention of J. S. Scarborough, the der, pf the Jupiter steel process of In operation the the puff la powder Detroit Co. States Steel United the is pressed against surface perforated Free Press. , the skin, when the compression of tbe air inside and consequent discharge Dark Light." drive the Some five year ago M. La Bon an- through the perforations to out also, causing it adhere nounced that when light fell on one powder a thin metal. to the surface against which tho pnff wide of certain-bodi- es is placed. d the instance for other, place, out of side the plate gave Eye (train and Nervousness. radiations, which were eye strain is at the root later shown to be identical with cath- of Simple of tbe ills of nervona par many believed ode rays and which are now In of Dr. George 8. Uents the opinion to be made ulKof elements of atoms Hull. Tbe brightness of California's raeleclHc The an charge. carrying sunshine sends many visitors to the diations, says PopulaivScience News, to the oculists, who, In relieving tbe eyes, are analogous to the relieve also the stomach troable, rays headache. Insomnia, depression, spin-plate ai exhaustion, and even tuberculosis, electrified bodies in their path. - Si long health trips are takes. In a great ilar effluvia are produced number of cbemic&l reactions, and the ith Foreign Scientists. pfi 6h om enorr: hrriw fact, -- one of the It was Recently demonstrated by M, most common in nature- George Clauioxln s a lecture in Paris that liquid air cab Te need to extract Fire Protecting (butters. It Is not 6ften that a Japanese In- hydrogen from ordinary Illuminating ventor enters an application for a pat- g- A French scientist has examined ent in the United States patent office, 3,697 Culex mosquitoes from Jt! and vicinity and finds no evident that this genus propagates the malarial microbe. t Jeaa Haumu recently ligatured the end of tbe vermiform appendix of monkeys. Dissection after 22 days showed that nature, was defending the menaced organ by circumscribing adherences and encystment Herr Bachaus, of the Agricultural Institute of Koenlgsburg University, after experiments in feeding cows on different foods, concludes that tbe flavor of milk depends more oa the Product ofi Japanese Inventor. peculiarities of the animal than on the and the automatic firoprotecting shut-te- r vegetables eaten. shoirn in the' pietui Tfiem de erable interest for that reason, as well Psychiatre, finds that of the transas for its merit as an invention. The verse markings on finger nails normal double shutter Is Intended to be persons have only 10 per cent, whereon spring hinges, which as degenerates of all sorts have from mounted adapt It to self closure the instant four to seven times that amount tbe restraining device Is withdrawn Critics of these statistics point cut tinder the leat of fire, and at the same that the markings vary with the pbiaL time the sb itteri can be, easily opened cat condition of the subject f, Where (30,000 re present generation of families to whom the most fashionable hotel is bound to be more or less a meeting place. From morning until night and from night until morning the kaleidoscope w hlrls unceaalngly. for the one thing lacked by this huge abiding placeforLOQftAQu s JiLperma: nency. Its life is like the restless surf, ever rolling in and out, ever .varying in, form, color and motion and always topped with foam. One can burn money her without appearing vulgar, if he so desires, or he can be stamped as an easy one from his first interview with the room clerk, his first appearance in oee of the dining rooms. The most liberal with tips are said to be the western men of our own country; the least generous In proportion to their importance, the foreign dignitaries, ambassadors, etc whose itinerary is arranged"!)? th eir Wa government ' or that of the United States. The policing of a house like this with its 980 guest chambers, its acfor 1,300 gnesta, its commodation force of 1,200 servants, its great corridors and stately apartments open to all, is a problem equal in seriousness to the protection of a small city. All classes foregather here the man who indulges in excesses and is willing to pay any price to have Ale indiscretions overlooked and the man who believes that because he has paid a good round sum for his own accommodations the entire house should be run under the blue lrws of old New England. To screen the' one and propitiate the other demands tact To bar suspicious characters and to guard Th Innocent victim of circumstances from false accusations would require a Sherlock Holmes. While each ho-tof this sort has Its detective force, more or less detective instinct develops with time in every employe about tha establishment. There is everj thing to invite crooks. Money I spent with prodigal hand and Jewels dazzle. The average check for a meal Is JI1, and Walters who receive a regular rrlary of f 25 a month carry away thhe times as Dlnlng-Roo- el d at die Tables In an Evening, A man is hired to do and on& thk? and do it welt, ft is tone (pent fit keys. of his affairs what the man on his right at hls''h is doing. His employer refers thaUe does not notice his neither or aspfrwto his neigh bora position. There lsNittle or no TiLjefrltepromotIonjpo6slble mammoth hotel, and employes ble to become One mere In arej ta- machines wearying of the monotony they break loose lnty other lines of work. Cupid as a Joker. The supposedly most confirmed old bachelor of a Colorado town has just struck hi colors and surrendered to a grass widow with a pug nose and a chin that seems to shrink cross-eye- d back fro public gaxe. When Cupid fails with his trump cards he usually plays the joker with success. Denver Post , Friday Is Lucky. There k luck in odd numbers. There is double luck In two odd numbers. FriJay is the sixth day of the week. Six is the double of three, which Is sot only an odd number but one which proverbially possesses a charm. Therefore, Friday is a doubly charm lug i j iucny uaj. (Id Theory Upset. v company containing "a made balet up of Mormons has been compelled to disband, owing to poor business. This seems to upset the theory that anything will go I the A theatrical ballet. unlllu-mlnate- ly of me I Womans Invention. The ordinary manner of applying powder to the skin is by the aid of a fluffy brush or puff, which is inserted la a receptacle containing the powder, to take up a quantity of the latter and transfer it to the face. This, of necessity, occasions more or less sprinkling of the powder upon the dresser, while the majority of powder receptacles are not at all convenient to carry around when the owner is A substitute for the old traveling. powder puff has recently been patented by Marie I Gumaer of New York city. This new device consists of a perforated face plate of any soft fabric stretched on a frame and connected ylth the metallic disk at ;ho rear by a band ot , chamois . leather, inside which is a coiled spring jerving normally to bold the disks apart The handle screws Into tho center of the base, and Is removed to insert the A little,, cramped up room at the corner of Michigan and Stneca streets contains a few pounds tf! steel, wood and rubber which have been so cunningly devised and combined that they bid fair to revolutionize horse racing, and, perhaps lower tbe trotting record to a point under the mark. The new sulky, which has but one wheel, will weigh from twelve to sixteen pounds less than the lightest bicycle sulky. Road friction will A 1 Revenge may be sweet if one could The Bottle and the Dime. is well known, many bottles, particularly liquor and proprietary medi-cit- e bottUs, when emptied of ttetr original contents ale refilled with apurlous liquids and to overcome this fraud a latge number of devlcee add greatly to the od of the bolt 10. with no means of repa) incut except In -- the A the Popular Cures forRheumatism. American men of science have returned to an old cure for rheumatism. In the shape of bee stings. The scientific explanation Is that a bee when atinglng Injects formic acid which Is a cure for rheumatism. What probably happens is that the patient, after having sat for some time on the beehive, forgets all about therheumatlsm. It is probably the long continuance of damp weather which has inspired o many newspaper correspondents to give the world Just now their notions on cures for rheumatism. We referred briefly the other day to the American revival of cure by bee stings a measure Heroic enough to please every Simon Stylites in the world; and now we are told in the press of a cure by means of a mole's foot worn next to the skin, suspended from the neck by a silken cord so that it hangs a little below the chest. In many jewelers rheumshops OBe,ay&ee!irlnga-for- atism," it being a common faith among even educated people that a metal ring worn on the little finget of VOLUNTEERS New York S30,0CO Spent ft . |