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10 I BfICE TRfIDK TIPSTERS m THEIR WILD SCHEIIIES THERE ain't nothin' doiir* in the toutin' line any more, said a sad-faced young man who was lounging in the ro tunda of the Saratoga ho lel the other day. "Time was when I ,used to clean up $50 to $75 a day steer- Ing fellows at the tracks. But now it s different. They have guards v.iio chase the touts out of the betting ring, and If you try to get hold of a 'live one fcome husky officer comes up and boots Srou out into the street. "Of course, the only thing left for me to do is to go and bet my own money on the races —and what hap pens? I go broke. I blew in my last cent at the track today, and I've got to telegraph my folks in the East to tend me some coin." While the officials of Washington park have kept the sad-faced young man and dozens of others like him from earning a living by imparting "stable Information" to credulous race-goers, they have at the same time unwitting ly encouraged a new form of touting. The flashly-dressed men who formerly haunted the betting-ring have now es tablished headquarters in downtown buildings, where' they issue circulars containing the same "tips' that they formerly gave out verbally. In other Words, they have invaded the field oc cupied by reputable handicappers. There are half dozen men in Chicago Who figure out the probable winners ©f races in accordance with the form of horses. They issue letters contain ing these calculations and send them to anywhere from 100 to 500 regular patrons. These men do not pretend to say definitely just what horses will win. They simply figure out the horse that ought to win, provided it has a Bood mount, and give their patrons the benefit of nothing but their keen know ledge of racing. But the "sure-thing" tipster is an entirely different individual. He tells you that he gets inside information from jockeys and stable boys, and even from owners. For all of this lie says he must pay large sums of money. In consequence he makes you pay liber ally for what he gives you. "Money Back If You Lose." Most of the "sure-thing" tipsters have agents stationed outside Wash ington park. Their "tips" are in sealed envelopes. Some of these are sold at 25 cents each, while others cost from $2 to $5. "Come and back the 'water-carrier.' He carries water to the horses and knows just what ones are slated to win!" "Play your coin on the 'Old Jockey's' tips. He gets inside infor mation from the boys that ride the horses. If you follow him you can't lose, and if you do the 'Old Jockey' will refund your money. We've got a nica 6© to 1 shot in the third race that will Just walk in!" These alluring induce ments are offered every afternoon by the agents of the tipsters. That the men make money out of their scheme is self-evident, for if the public ignored them they would soon go out of busi ness. "A tipster who has an office on Dear born street told me that he cleared $2,000 from his game in one season," said a tobacco merchant who attends the races every day. "He got me to playing his tips last year and we be came quite friendly, for a number of his 'good things' panned out, and I thought he was all right. "One day while the races were run ning at Hawthorne this tipster came running into my store all out of breath and said he had hit on a scheme that would bring us a barrel of money. '"We can't possibly lose out,' he Bald, 'for we'll bet on the races after they've been run and we'll know who the winners are. Now, this game was told to me by a bartender who was drunk at the time and he didn't no more know what he was talking about than a rabbit. He had a handful of GRANITE FLOWS LIKE WATER; STEEL, RAILS WELDED IN A TWINKLING ELTING iron and stone ln *€ V Btantly is the power claim \£K M ed for a new heating force m#\# Just discovered. Under its M. X awful lightning blaze gran ite flows like water and big steel rails are welded in the twinkling of an eye. It can be made to explode with tre mendous power or to work almost sil ently with appalling result. With this invention a burglar puts a cigarette light to a handful of metal filings with a primer and lo! bank vaults melt and combination locks van ish. According to high authority it is the most startling discovery in chem istry. Thermite is its name. Dis tinguished chemists say that it needs only the touch of a match to this new compound to produce a temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit. "The human mind," says a New York scientist, 'Van form no appreciative conception of what such a tempera ture means. It would melt the most refractory rocks and cause them to flow like water." The interior of Mont Pelee, whose fiery blast destroyed St. Pierre in a moment and crumbled its buildings into dust, would be cool compared with this Jemperature of 5,400 degrees. It would melt the White Mountains into rivers of liquid fire. Nothing could Withstand its consuming power. Can Be Controlled and Regulated. "Yet this heat can not only be pro duced at a few moments' notice," said the scientist yesterday, "but it can be controlled —regulated for use in com mercial work, in factories, foundries and machine shops, for melting, shap ing and welding masses of iron andl steel. It is equally valuable for pro ducing hitherto rare and costly metals In a state of almost absolute purity." And what makes this stupendous force? The answer seems incredible as the claims for the force itself. It is produced by simply putting a match to a mixture of albuminum filings and ox ide of chromium, both metallic, and yet, as by magic, a mighty force is in- Btantly created. Here is the story of how the won- * . : ■ ; • ".'■* . ■ . y -, ■ . .-. . . ..•■-- . y .-. .. .-..----• -xx^.x-^,. a^y^yy, : y.;.y.-.: One of the most striking 1 and In structive points of interest in St Paul Is one that is rarely visited, notwith etanding its accessibility. We refer to the School of Agriculture and State Experim< ntal Station at gt Anthony l'uik, reached by. the Como Interurban I bills that he had won by working the .scheme, and he was buyin* bucketfula of wine while he was explaining the dodge to me. " 'Wei, hurry up and spiel out your Bcheme,' I said, for I was beginning to get excited and was afraid we might -not get at the thing fast enough. The Tipster's Scheme. " 'It's a dead easy one,' answered the tipster, 'and It won't take me Very long to explain things. Now, the thing is this: They send in the re sults of the races at Hawthorne by telephone, and a fellow has got to walk a quarter of a mile from the racetrack to reach the nearest 'phone. This fel low is employed by the down-town poolrooms—you know what I mean— the guys that run handbooks. " 'Well, when this fellow 'phones that the horses have started the hand book men close up the race, and won't take any more bets on it. That's where the easy part of the game comes in for us. While the telephone Is a long distance from the track, there is a telegrapn office a heap nearer. For the life of me I can't understand why these handbook fellows have never had the starts of the race telegraphed instead of telephoned, but it's a fact that they haven't. " 'Now, what does this wise bartend er do? He gets onto the fact that the telegraph can be worked quicker than the telephone out at the track, and so he first gets a confederate. This con federate is stationed down town in a hotel telegraph office, which is near a handbook joint on State street. " 'As soon as the first race is lun the bartender rushes out to the teiegraph office and sends a message to the con federate, telling him just what horses come in first, second and third. Then the confederate runs to the poolroom and puts up his money on the winner to win, the place horse to come In sec ond, and the third horse to show. " 'Well, it really was a shame to rob those handbook people that way. And, besides, the bartender told me they were friends of his. What do you think of that for turning a friend down? On the six races at Hawthorne that day the bartender and his pal cleared $500 apiece. Then the bartender gets drunk and comes and tells me all about it. Why, it's the chance of your life to come into this game with me.' "I could tell from the way this tipster was talking that he was in dead earn est all right, and besides I couldn't figure out where I stood the slightest ghost of a show to lose my money. So I told him I would go into the scheme and begin that very afternoon. " 'We can only work this for one day,' I said, 'and so we might as well make a big killing. I'll go out to the track and telegraph in the races, and you can play them,' Then I gave him $600, telling him to lay on every cent that the handbook men would take. "All right. What happens? I go) out to the track and the horse that wins the first race is a 2 to 1 shot. I was so nervous over it that I almost broke my neck getting to the telegraph office. While I was running out of the racing grounds a copper took me for a thief and held me about a minute until he satisfied himself that I was all right. That broke me all up. but I managed to get to the telegraph office within a few minutes after the race had been run, and then I sent a mes sage to the tipster. The message wag somewhat guarded, for we were afraid the telegraph man might balk. It was something like this: " "Silurian is a first-time wonder and I have a second-spot for Gaheris, while Grandon is third choice.' "Of course I was trying to make It appear like an innocent mesage. Silu rian had won the race at 2 to 1; Ga heris was second at 25 to 1, and Gran don was third at some price I can't remember. Anyhow, I figured it out that if my tipster played $200 on Silu rian, $200 on Gaheris, and $200 on derful invention was discovered, ac cording to the scientist seen yester day: "The first demonstration of this new agent in America was made early in May, when certain processes were exhibited before the Columbia Univer sity Chemical society. The invention, like many others for which we are in debted to the chemist, originated in Germany. Some time ago the Messrs Krupp, the celebrated gun and armor plate manufacturers, of Essen, requir ed a considerable quantity of p_ure me tallic chromium, the metal much em ployed to give extra hardness to steel How It Was Discovered. "It is comparatively easy to pro duce this metal, but it is not usuall: pure, and it contains a considerable quantity of carbon. To obtain it per fectly pure was difficult, and it was once thought impossible to manufac ture it on a large scale. The task of filling Krupp's orders fortunately fell to a skilled chemist—Dr. Hans Gold schmidt. He saw the necessity of in venting a process of production to fit this particular case. "Now, it had been known for many years that if an intimate (complete) mixture of aluminum filings and the oxide of chromium were heated in a furnace a violent explosion /would fol low, owing to the great intensity of the chemical action brought about, but precisely how no one knew, as the ex plosion was so violent as to empty the crucibles, and scatter their contents far and wide. "Dr. Goldschmidt was ingenious and peristed. He argued that, in such cases metallic chromium must be found; also that the explosion was due to the too sudden heating of the furnace. He was sure that if the 'reaction* could be made more regular the chromium would be saved. "Could he but start the chemical re action at one litle point in the mass, it would proceed more gently and itself produce heat sufficient for Its comple tion. It was, In fact, the case of a loaded railway car at rest on an in cline. . A little push would send It BIRCVS-EYE VIEW OF THE MINNESOTA STATE EXPERIMENTAL FARM. lino. There are no less than twenty buildings,-all spacious and impressive, us they should be to represent a great state. The grounds are handsomely ornamented by well selected shrub bery, that by foliage, habit of growth or flower adds beauty to a naturally attractive pface. The farm consists THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1902. -, Grandon we Would have a nice starter." : "In the next race a horse named Our Nellie won at 7 to 1. The rest of the winners were at good prices, and while I was coming back down town I felt so Jubilant that I couldn't sit still in the train. I had it figured out that my tipster ought to have at least $5,000. Dan's "Bum Finish." "We had agreed to meet in a hotel on State street at 7 o'clock that even ing. I was there right at the drop of the second, but the tipster wasn't anywhere in sight. I waited around for two hours, but no Mr. Tipster came. Then I got it into my head that he had skinned out of town. This thought made me so wobbly that I went into the barroom to get a bracer. The drink mixer was a loud-mouthed fellcw, and as I lined up at the bar the first words that he shot at a man he was talking with made me feel like collapsing. " 'Dan, the tipster had a bum finish in the poolroom across the street to day,' said the bartender. 'You see, Dan wanted to get rich all in a hurry. While I was pretty full the other night I told him how I had cleaned out the handbook fellows by working a game at Hawthorne, and he got it into his head that he would do likewise. " 'But when I woke up that day and remembered that I'd blurted out too much, I hiked over to the owner of the handbook place, who's my friend, and tells him the whole business, at the same time apologizing for my clean up. He was so tickled at getting onto the scheme that he didn't put no blame on me. " 'All this is leading up to show Dan got his bum finish. It seems that he gets some moneyed guy to stake him, and then he tries my scheme. Well, when he goes into the handbook place to make the first bet three bookmak ers jump on him and beat him almost to death, for the boss was sore and wanted to get back at someone, con sequently he had told his pals about this Dan arid what I had told him. " 'When Dan landed out in the middle of the street he picked himself to gether and proceeded to drown his troubles with liquor. He was here a while ago waving three $100 bills, and declaring that he was a millionaire.'' "You can imagine the way I felt when I heard this. Here was Dan, my tipster, blowing in the $600 I had given him. And it was every cent of money I had. I just naturally called myself all kinds of a chump for having parted with the $600. But there wa3 one thing left for me to do —I might find Dan and recover some of the coin. So I approached the bartender, told him I was a friend of Dan's and asked where he could be found. Found Him Playing Poker. "'The last I heard of him,' said the bartender, 'he was playin' in a poker game over on Dearborn street, and los ing like a long shot in a mile and a half race.' "That was enough for me. I dug out for the gambling joint where the bartender had told me Dan was play ing, and when I got there Dan was sitting at a table with two solitary blue chips in front of him. I was so mad I could have killed that tipster. I started to call him down, and he gave me a stony stare. Then I began abus ing him. At this he called to the own ers of the joint and asked him to have me ejected. What do you think of that? And he sitting mere ana blow ing in the last of my $600. "I was almost bughouse by this time and began fighting. Of course I was thrown down three flights of stairs, and finally got home with my coat ripped up the back, and the seat of my trousers looking like a bull dog had made a meal off them. I never saw Dan the tipster again. I got out a war rant for him, but he ducked town. I hope he's in some other business by this time, for he is certainly a failure as a 'sure thing' tipster." down without the aid of motive power. The Mystery Solved at Last. "After a series of careful experi ments, the problem was solved. When the aluminum filings were thoroughly mixed in a crucible with oxide of chro mium a teaspoonful of ordinary flash light powder and peroxide of sodium was placed on the mass. This acted as a 'primer.' A match was applied. There was a bright flash, followed by a glow and gentle flame from the crucible, and all was over. When cold, the cru cible was broken open. At the bottom was found metallic chromium at least 90 per cent pure. Above it and easily separated was a slag of aluminum ox ide, or artificial corundum. Herr Krupp could have his precious metal at reasonable cost for hardening steel for guns and armor plates. "This was the open door to one of the greatest inventions of the age. Dr. Goldschmidt resolved to experiment further. He soon discovered that very pure manganese, also a valuable but almost unknown product in commer cial quantities, could be equally well obtained in this way—merely substi tuting oxide of manganese for oxide of chromium." "Next came experiments with oxide of iron and then the discovery of 'ther mite.' Dr. Goldschmidt found that if oxide of iron (a pure haematite ore, such as is mined in Northern Michi gan) were substituted for oxide of chromium and touched off by the flash light primer, its action would be far more violent, though it could still be controlled. Made Iron Run Like Water. "In his remarkable experiments the slag of the corundum spurted out liquid and naming. It was a blinding spectacle. Bubbling like water, it ran pure metallic iron and sank to the bot tom in a dazzling molten mass, so elec trically brilliant, so intense, that the operator was forced to arm himself with blue glasses. As it was, he found himself temporarily blinded. The heat generated was enormous. "It may be stated that this method of 256 acres, not as much land as is common in most of Minnesota, but in telligent effort has made it wonderful ly productive and an object' lesson to evfci-yoije inteiested in farm work. The view presented above gives a fair idea of the grounds and position of the most Imposing buildings. It Is to be hoped of producing iron in small quantities could not, commercially speaking, com pete with the blast furnace; but as a source of heat it«coi*jins vast possi bilities, and practical ways of using it were at once sought. M "Experiments of thf welding of rails at once demonstrate® its possibilities, me clean cut ei«s & be welded are clamped together^ JFkind of portable vise. Around theloiat to be welded is arranged the mol& cSnposed of highly refractory material, ft. plugged pipe of the same mat&lal, communicating from above with tfce bottom of the cru cible, is adjusted. Iti the crucible is placed a charge of thermite; on this a small quantity of the priming material (flashlight powder). The operator, wearing blue spectacles, drops a light ed match on the primer (thermite it self will not take fire from a match) and retires to a safe distance. "The Pelee in miniature goes off. The operator returns, opens the pjug, and the contents of the crucible flows quickly into the mould and on the tightly clamped rails. The liquid iron sinks to the bottom and fuses the low er flange, strengthening the joint. The hot slag strikes the upper part of the rail and heats it to such a degree that the union is instant and perfect. Later the mould is opened. A blow or two with a hammer separates the slag from the upper part of the now solid rail, and the operation is complete. Other Mysteries of Thermite. "It is remarkable that, though the contents of the crucible flows out at a temperature little below 4,504, Fahrenheit, the outside of the crucible may be held in the bare hand almost Immediately, because the development of the heat is too rapid to affect sur rounding bodies unless kept in contact with the molten mass longer than it remains in the crucible. "So great is the heat that the rail would be still hot to the hand at the end of eight or ten hours if the mould were allowed to remain unopened so long. The. practical utility of the in vention is shown by the fact that steel rails are now welded by this process in Berlin, Munich. Hamburg, Cassel and other German cities. "It is also a success in welding pipes Into continuous lengths, miles long, if necessary. For pipes only the slag (not the molten metal) is allowed in contact with the pipe joint. Many other uses have been 'suggested for ther mite, and it will work a revolution in the great industries of iron, steel and other metals. "In conclusion .it may be remark ed," says the scientist, "that the ther mite mixture is * safe to handle and safe to store —as safe as sawdust. Only a very high Surrounding tempera ture or the ignjjjtLo^ of the priming material will maffe It burn. Of course it is never added* to the mixture until a demonstration is tp be made. The constituents of thjeranite may be trans ported separately^ ttr^be mixed on the spot. Until they'are mixed they are as harmless as sand." Ideas That Make Men Free. Such are the wonders of chemistry, suggesting Emerson's claim, "Thought sets men free." By a simple process— flame applied to metal filings—prison bars melt and vaulted dungeons flow like water. What is the secret hidden in these cold metals? Only the Creator knows. Everybody has seen aluminum. It is a cheap, silvery metal, as Jight as cardboard, yet, in its various forms, it composes about one-twelfth of the earth's crust. Marvelous to relate, many metals are of the aluminum form. Mixed with copper every day, aluminum becomes the cheap gold of commerce, as used for cheap watch cases, jewelry and settings for artifi cial stones, now widely displayed in show windows. These stones, almost as hard as those of nature, art of corundum, an oxide of aluminum. This corundum, referred to above, is the famous sub stance recently manufactured by elec tricity at high temperature. It is a kind of precious substance itself, near ly as hard as the diamond, and among the gems of its various firms are sap phires, amethysts, rubies.and topazes. Another wondrous element is chro mium. In its pure state it is cf a tin white color, like aluminum. After fusion It is even harder than corun dum. It oxidizes slowly and in oxygen burns vividly. It does not occur "na tive," but is found in chrome iron stone, lead chromate and meteoric iron. One of its forms is supposed to be the green that gives resplendent luster to the emerald. When artifi cially made this kind of chromium is of a dull green color and is popular with manufacturers for imparting a green tint to porcelain. The most im portant use of pure chromium is to harden steel. With it Krupp tempers armor plates for- battle ships. By chemistry the pale faced mod ern Faust, working in his laboratory, makes metals out of clay and many marvelous combinations. What they will do when Skillfully proportioned and exposed to "heat the story above gives a hint —accounting, as it were, for the forces at work in space, creat ing heat and electricity, making suns burn with indescribable fury, collid ing with peaceful pmnets, mixing their metals in a second of time—and new worlds seem to jeap into vision, balls of molten fire sleeping through space; vast cyclones of flame, making Pelee a cold storage vault by comparison. All this seems iiraple enough as ex plained by modern ; chemistry, giving men unlimited power, making them gods, as it were, to first master them- Belves and then the universe. Republican Club Meeting. CHICAGO, Sept. 20. —The programme of the meeting of the National League of Republican Clubs in this city, Oct. 1-3, was completed today. Business sessions will be held on the 2d and 3d. Gov. 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The post-mortem examination re vealed, piercing the outer envelope of the heart, a steel hat pin, four and one fourth inches long, without a head, and in the stomach another headless hat pin, one, one and one-half inches long. Miss Jodoin never gave any explana tion of how the needle got in her stom ach, and Dr. C. E. Chagnon, the family physician, expressed the opinion that while in a fit of hysteria Miss Jodoin forced the hat pins into her body. By Dr. Howard Childs Carpenter. Hysterical persons as a rule do not injure themselves purposely. When they^do huft themselves, it is generally to secure sympathy and excite com passion. When they throw themselves about and fall they choose a soft spot, such as a sofa or a bed or a pile of rugs. Even in their hysteria they do not deliberately plan personal dam age of any kind. So, in the case of Miss Jodoin hysteria may be eliminated as a cause for the self-inflicted wounds. Her using pins in the way that she did has the appearance of dementia rather than anything else. Demented persons might stab themselves in the manner described and then keep secret the cause of their suffering. Regard ing the pin which pierced the outer covering of the heart, I am inclined to believe that it was the immediate cause of her death. Bullets have been known to penetrate the heart, and the wounded person to recover. But it is different where a rigid instrument pierces the sack of the heart. In that case the muscular movements of the organ would tear the wound larger and larger, and would set up inflammation which would soon cause death. SINGLE RfllL TROLLEY ROfIDS AS A commercial success the single rail electric passen ger line is not with us yet; but Howard Hensel Tunis, an Inventor, of Bal timore, Md., promises that it will be soon. He says that experiments in the suburbs of Baltimore have proved so satisfactory to the group of capital ists interested that his system will be exploited for all It Is worth, and, in the minds of many careful investors, that is a great deal. There are other mono-rail or single rail inventions, notably in Germany, but none he says, save his system, where the one rail is laid upon the ground. In the land of the Kaiser the car is suspended. In the land of Uncle Sam the car will stand upright, its equilibrium being maintained by sim ple and effective devices. For his system the inventor claims these important things: Cheapness of construction. Exceedingly low cost of maintenance and operation. Minimum of friction and almost total absence of noise or sense of motion. No "bumping" or swaying of the car. Hi-h rate of speed, sixty miles per hour being easily maintained. As is well understood by transporta tion" experts one great drawback to A6K P/kTARRH ; Druggist. 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The rain poured down, but the crowd stood about the grave, praying. Half an hour later Dr. E. M. Davis reached the place and found the child conscious and suffering very little. It was taken to the hospital and is likely to recover. The theory of the Russians Is that the earth absorbs the electricity from th* body. By Dr. J. Soils Cohen. Earth treatment has entered into a very large number of diseases from time immemorial. It is certain that some earths have peculiar curative properties. Hence the mud baths, mar ble baths and sand baths for various ills of the flesh. But regarding the particular case In point, I do not think that the earth burial had anything to do with the re covery of the child. In the first place, the electric spark having struck and passed through Its body did not leave that body charged with electricity. The child lost consciousness from shock and when buried was probably in a trance condition. Its Return to con sciousness was due to other causes than the burial. But the use of earth for reducing swellings in cancer cases, in securing equable pressure around wounds and for poulticing Is now common in medi cine. The original earth poultice man in this city was Dr. Hewson, who some twenty or thirty years ago was very successful in his applications of earth poultices. To be sure, he was a "crank" about some of his treatment, for he in sisted that his poultices should be cov ered with blue paper. But to this day earth poultices are used after his form ula with great success. the Installation of rapid transit facili ties between small towns or In the country is the great cost of the power house to generate and distribute Xhe electricity, the laying of a double track and the cost of maintenance. Mr. Tunis declares that by his system he can lay two tracks —so that if one be comes obstructed the car can be switched over to the other —and the trusses or bents which guide his car for just one-half of the cost of a trolley line. As each car is propelled with its own motor power the great expense of a power house is not only eliminated, but the system is not in danger of being paralyzed by a breakdown in the cen tral station. Each car with its trailer is absolutely Independent of every thing save itself. The single rail is laid just like the tracks of the ordinary steam rail. Over it, at fixed distances are bents or truss es supporting the guides which keep the car always in an upright position. The car can be built of any length re quired. In the forward end is the en gine, supplied by gasoline oil or steam power. The experfmental road which Mr; Tunis has built and over which he is now sending a rudely constructed car at frequent intervals is two thousand feet long. Here the trusses are of timber, but steel or iron will be used in actual equipment. The car is nice ly balanced on the single rail, the wheels being of the grooved pattern. The centrifugal motion of the car on curves is provided for in the slant of the trusses. A compact four-horse power engine in the car, with coal oil fuel that costs ten cents an hour, is sufficient to drive the big car at a fifteen-mile per hour rate. A sixteen horse-power engine will give, Mr. Tunis declares, a speed of sixty miles an hour on a forty-foot car and trailer filled with people, and at a cost of forty centa per hour. The baseball season is over, so go and see Bardsley & Co.. 308 Endicott, about a good, improved farm in Lac gui Parle county. NEW YORK —Able Seaman Thomas Preston, of the Plctou, N. S. ( schooner Sirdar, has been "moon struck" ever since last Christmas. He is a sufferer from paralysis of the face and almost total blindness of the left eye, due to the effect of the full moon. This af fliction, peculiar to sailors and the na ture of which is but little understood, is known among seafaring men as "moon blink." The Sirdar, commanded by Captain Rafuse, has arrived from Montevideo at the West Shore docks, Weehawkpn. "When three days out the Sirdar sprang aleak," says Seaman Preston. "After the pumps began to work I climbed to the top of the deck load and dropped exhausted to sleep in the moonlight. It was a fine Christmas morning, the sea shone like burnished silver, and I thought sleep would be more refreshing on deck than In the fo'c'sle. "When I was called to help man the pumps for the forenoon watch I found that I had been 'moon blinked.' I pre sented such an unnatural and gro tesque appearance that my shipmates scarcely recognized in my distortpd features the man whom they had known on the night before as Tom Preston." By Dr. S. D. Risley. The only case of moon blindness, or "moon blink" that has ever come un der my immediate attention was dur ing one of my clinics at the University of Pennsylvania. A woman was brought to me by two hucksters. She said that a few nights before she had been sitting on her doorstep In the moonlight and that she had fallen into a doze. When she awakened she paid that she found that she was blind. "Moon blink" she claimed had set In and she had to be led around like a child. I examined her eyes and found that the Iris and pupil reacted to the light, but to my repeated questions she said that she could not see or detect the presence of light. Accordingly I put a pair of speculums on her eyes, which prevented her closing the lids and turned her face full into the glare of the western sun. A blind person would not have been at all Inconvenienced by this treatment. But the moment the sun's rays attacked this woman's eyes she became restless. Finally she burst into a scream of profanity the like of which I never heard, and tear- Ing off the speculums she bolted for the door and out into the street a com pletely cured woman. I judged from this and from other observations that "moon blink" is a myth, a figment of the imagination. LOST IN FOREST AND FREED BY FOUR BEARS Nevertheless, Two Deep Were Bagged by This Sportsman of Energetic Disposition. WATERTOWN, N. V., Sept. 20.—While deer hunting near Oswegatchle village, up the Carthage and Adirondack railroad, John Briscoe got lost in the wilderness. When found by a party after a day's search he was nearly exhausted. His fet-t were raw and bleeding from his long tramp of miles through the woods. During his wanderings he met a large bear and ran for a tree, which he climbed. From his perch he could see four other bears prowling around In the woods. Ho remained in his hiding place several hours before the bears disappeared ana allowed him to resume his tramp. Before he became separated frpm his guide, Dan Shatraw, Briscoe shot two deer, whim were brought out of the woods by wagon. A NEW MAN. George S. 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