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0 OF SECONDHANI STORES S fORES
Ho Cuts Pictures PictuI 5 and Chapters
co From flare Rsr lare Volumes Destroying
Their Value
Dtt you oii see that man with the
glasses and the anxious nervous
movement molem molemnt nt of o f his hands as he
Beaic sel se hes s among the books asked
the proprietor ot a New ew York street
book store as he e glanced at the curl
ouscrowd ous > crowd of book lovers fumbling
the secondhand books on the coun ¬
ter outside
Every craft has Its criminals He
Is the criminal of the secondhand
book trade No he is not a thief
He is a murderer That term is a
definite exact one
I can tell a murderer as soon as
he stops in front of my stand He
makes a hurried glance along the
tables picks out a certain kind of a
I j i book 1 generally gen crallY an encyclopaedia or
a book of famous men or a compila ¬
i f tion and buys it Sometimes he will
h pay paYe exorbitant X orblta nt prices P rlces You Yo 1 can tell
what to charge by the glance of his
i eye ey i iaslnLrlump1i as aslnLrlump1i asin n triumph It lights on the book
he hev hecdvets v cdvets
JV murderer is a man or woman
whq w Qis is 1 interested tntor3sted In a certain sort
of O Oi OPIc i picture PIc t ture ure or 01 c clippings from books
about certain p pebple 6ple The mo mot t com
nlon monDlur nionmurderer murderer erel ol the old days was the
Njifloleon N l1oleon Bonaparte murderer The
i cqllectOr colt tor of pictures of Napoleon
would w uJd teearc > eRrc earch h the secondhand hook
stores storesflllh till he found a book with a
pict p Icture ure of ofNapoleon Na Napoleon poleon and buy It care ¬
fully fuIl gut 11 nt out tjie the picture thus mur ¬
I dering 1 the book as a perfect specimen
of a special edition and then sell the
book to some other store Jn n time
that book boo k might prove prov to be the th val ¬
uable only copy of a first edition It
m mfghtbequotedat n iightbe ight be quoted at J500 OO The book ¬
J seller sellerotrers offers it for sale The expert
I looks it itover over and says But the pic ¬
lure turepf p pf Napoleon Nl1po Je on made by the famous
J etcher et er Spookums Spoak ms is missing It is
practically worthless Then it is that
the thqboolcdealer th book dealer curses the murderer
j jNowad ENOWgy Nowadays Nowad ys in America the thomur mur ¬
derer is apt to be a man interested in
the Battle Ba ttle of Gettysburg Getty burg or of the
I Wilderness WUdern ss or In the exodus of the
k Mormons Mor xpous or ori3ome 6ome other 0th othr I special ob ¬
i ject I have seen men pick up books
I on outhe Jhe bE fifteen fltteencellt cent stand look through
II them th m find some picture plctulemlsslng missing and
i urge urge me to find them a copy co PY with the
I picture intact intnctThCY They have offered ma m
1 iitihdreds hllhdrellsof hllhdretS of dollars romctlmesfnr sometimes for or a
i book I Jiave bnvemalked iave marked at fifteen 1 cents
if I cati c tin replace rep lace a picture Or chapter
that has been cut out by bya a murderer
Anotlier not Anolii i fatter K i tfer
I tell you youniY iny fl dear boy I I stand on
rsy i rights l Believe believeD a man should
k be the master masterln in his own ownllOuse house
Of cOurse j urse thatti thntall all aI right But
what wl tt I fvaflt Ia arAt to tuknoW knowls Is It If you are arllal al ¬
Ibwedto lowed to IJJI snloka okein In the he parlor J MIQ11Dal Bal
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LIFE lIF OF OFTHEMOL THE MOLE A
One of the Most Common But Ob ¬
scurest of Animals
One would think thut the life his ¬
tory of such a common creature us IU
the mole would be accurately lccuratel known
to naturalists The commonest con111 onest of an
animal however often protects prot cts It
from expert study stud It is more excit OX ¬
ing and wins more fame to Investigate
the habits of a denizen t of central
Africa or Borneo than to watch the
doings of a familiar creature from
ones own doorstep So It conies
about bout as we arc assured by b Lionel E
Adams In Nature that the life stories
of some common animals remain to
be written and that of the mole Is
yet et rather obscure He sayc
The difficulties of observing ohselvlu oscrviji the
habits of a subterranean dweller of a
most retiring disposition are patent
but not altogether insuperable Insuperll lie and
the wonder is that field naturalists
have been content 1o read mid ant 1 take ti1tc
for granted the information handed
down for the last century ce ntury without
any attempt to confirm it
During the winter months one
cannot help noticing in the open
fields here and there a moleheap
conspicuously larger than the rest r st
This is a male moles winter habita ¬
tion but at present we do not know
whether he lives alone or with his
wife or If the female ever constructs
these fortresses as they are called
Probably he lives alone and probably
females make fortresses slightly
more simple in construction and
smaller in size than those of the
males If we take a spade and care ¬
fully slice away the top of a fortress
we shall find several hollow tunnels
or runs which may be opened up and
followed to the base of the fortress
whence they lead away In the field
Slicing further under these into the
fortress and just below the ground
level we come upon a large circular
lavlty tiled with a bundle of grass
> r dead leaves this Is the moles
nest In which he sleeps
If he has lately quitted It the in ¬
terior will be quite warm to the hand
the mole himself however will wtllnever never
be caught in the nest When the
nest Is removed and the cavity exam ¬
ined It will be found about a foot in
diameter diameter and worn smooth by the
mole m le wriggling about as he wraps his
nest round him for that is his meth ¬
od of arranging himself within it
Two or more tunnels will lie found
leading away from the nest cavity
Into the field One of these is par ¬
ticularly noteworthy as It is found
In nearly every fortress this exit
leads from the bottom of ofthe the nest per ¬
pendicularly downward for about nboutn a
toot then turning upward It Joins
another run Its origin and use are
uncertain but It Is usually regarded
as a sort of sallyport and Is known
a the boltrun 1
It is extremely unlikely that the
mole deliberately selects the site of
hisifprtress blstortress as he Is practically blind
probably pr obablyhesetsto ho hosets > sets to work henever
the impulse impulse seizes selz selzs s him and proceeds pr oceeds I
lnthe In th lOTtffwlng 11itowlilgmanner fl1e1wthg manner He com ¬
mences mencesto to enlarge a nestcavity eject
Ing the earth which he has loosened lo osened I
with his powerful claws out of a hole I
In the roof this he does with the top
of his head in little jerks The quiet
observer may see a sausageshaped
mass of earth issue from below with
tour or five sudden jerks then after
one or two minutes interval when
the mole is collecting more loose
earth another sausage will 111 appear
as before mel nd so on until the work
Is complete After the nestcavity
comes the ojcavation c cavatlon of the boltrun
and finally finall to make all safe and
waterproof the mole piles up a mass
of earth often amounting to a large
barrow load by means of o f tunnels I
around the base of the existing heap
These tunnels sometimes break into
one another and sometimes some times Into the
nestcavity and so so o cause a labyrinth
which imich has given rise to much errone ¬
ous 0 ous 1s speculation in the past
A fortress is often completed in
a single night The young oung are not I
born In the winter fortress but In a
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separate habitation made by the fe ¬
male alone It Is built on the same
plan as the fortress but usually sim ¬
pler In construction and without the
boltrun The female produces only
one litter a year yea I and the young
which are born from the end of April
to the end of May vary hi number
from two to six Naked blind and
pink they turn leadcolor in ten days
after a fortnight a gray velvet pelage
Is visible which becomes black at the
end of three weeks when the eyes
open The ears are opened op ned on the
seventeenth day Attempts to rear
the young Olmg by hand have hitherto
proved futile for though they will
suck freely from flannel annel or cotton
wool soaked In warm milk mllkthey they pine
and die on the third or fourth day
There has always alwa S been much dis ¬ I
cussion as to the moles power of
sight Dissection has shown that the
size of the eye Is greater In the em ¬
bryo than in the adults indicating
that the sight of the race lias deteri ¬
orated From numerous experiments
the writer Is convinced that the adult
mole is practically blind Moles en ¬
countered in the daytime have taken
no notice of a human hu man being waving a
hand close In front nor at night do
they show signs of consciousness of
a light waved before their noses but
if the slightest sligh test sound is I made the he
greatest excitement is instantly
shown
The writer tolls us further that he me
has often thrown down worms be ¬
fore a captive mole The animal
shows at once that ho knows the
Worm Is there but the haphazard
way In which he pokes about Indi ¬
cates that he Is guided by scent or by
hearing not by sight Excitement
causes the fur to radiate around aro und the
minute eye and it has lu s been suggested
that the animal thus clears his eye to
see most lJIostprobahly probably however this is
only an Inherited relic of a lost func ¬
tion To quote again
When after n hurried and blun ¬
dering searc search h the vorm has been lo ¬
cated the tlleino mo le lehold holds it down with
his forepaws and eats It from end to
end endwfthqulclt with quick jerky Jerkybltes bites When Wh n
the th9nnimalalmmense theanimala animals Immense appetite is at
length lengthtlatls1le satisfie d c1and 1 and worms wormsrestiU are still
bolhs bofuluppllel otig supplie d th the thmole mole will often
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II 1 Ie e the tllewo worm rmseverrilbltest several soveraibltesto bites to disable dls bYe
it and I id will then ciam c rim it Into the
earth presumably to bury If or fu ¬
ture use usealter after the manner Illnnner of the
dog with bones and an the thesqnlrltl squirrel with
acorns
The sense of smell and hearing
m ml1st st be very acute to enable the nole nob
to locatq Iocat a pheasants or partridges
nest above his hi run That this is the
case is testified to to by two twogamelmtp gamekeep ¬
ers In different parts of the country
both of whom state that the nests are
often entered from below and the
eggs eaten entenLltarnry Literary Digest
WAIl CV THE MISTLETOE USlU TOE
Hint Emblem of Christmas C ujstnms a Danger
to Tree TIe Life
The Department of Agriculture has
declared war upon the mistletoe
bough declaring it a serious danger anger
to tree tmeegrowth growth A special Investiga ¬
tion into the depredations of the
mistletoe in this country has been
conducted by William L r Bray forest
pathologist and tho conclusions are
said o warrant n general effort upon
the part of those interested in national
arboriculture to exterminate the pest
The American mistletoe said Mr
Bray Is a leafy leaf green parasitic I
shrub commonly found growing upon
various species of broad broad leaved trees
throughout the Southern States and
extending In more or less modified
forms across Texas Southern New
Mexico and Arizona to Southern Cali ¬
fornia and thence northward In the
coast region to Oregon and an df dfWashing y Washing ¬
ton Eastward Its northern limit is
in New Jersey Jerse Southern Pennsyl ¬
vania Southern Ohio Indana Illi ¬
nois Missouri and Eastern Oklahoma
Among people who see it rarely
and especially among those living In
Northern cities who purchase small
sprigs or bunches of it for Christmas
decoration the idea of mistletoe being
a harmful parasite upon trees is quite
lost sight sig ht of Nevertheless there are
localities in which mistletoe becomes
so abundant upon trees and so harm ¬
ful to them as to make the control
of it or its extermination a serious
practical question
Mr Bray has found foun a that the mistle ¬
toe Is a parasite which is invariably
destructive to Its host The habit of
the plant Is of course to draw suste ¬
nance from the branch and in in ¬
creasing quantity as the parasite in ¬
creases in size The immediate re
suK sul is to starve that portion of the
branch lying beyond the point of in
fection and while this part may per ¬
sist for a few years alive without w Ithout
noticeable growth In the end it dies
and tho mistletoe mIst letoe thus comes to oc ¬
cupy the end endof of the branch Some
peculiar effects have been noted
Mr Bray in regard to the action
of the mistletoe upon its host For
example at the point of attachment
the branch of the host Is stimulated
excessive growth growtimwhich which whlchgves gives rise
grotesque deformities these vary ¬
ing IngIn in shape on different dltrerenthost host species
In the case of the water wat r oak which wMchls is
pecullnrlysusce susceptible tible totheaUacksi to the attacks
the mistletoe both branch and a d
are areenlargedsoas enlarged so as to re reo ¬
a clumsy CiUms Yplece piece of ofweldlng welding i
as asl in inthioOsage t ttieOsage tl Osage orange
hebranch branch Is n ni i B stimulated to an exces ¬
formation of shoots forming a
of witches broom bro om so socalledt called
branches and not n otlnfreql1el infrequently tly
main trunks of trees may be
deformed by the mistletoe
Vacation Schools
Vacation schools offer not a task ta sk
a privilege to those pupils who wh
and that it Is so regarded ap ¬
and waiting lists show
wquldbe pupils apply than can
be accommodated Book
is not the mode at the vaca ¬
school where the more social
of oral instruction Instructl n with w ith dem ¬
takes its place since en ¬
as well as Instruction is
aim and pupils are introduced to
form of knowledge which will give
new resources for their leisure
Instead of memorizing or por ¬
over figures the eager classes are
manual training cooking
sewing gymnastics and best
all are taken to the parks or the
qnce a aweJk week for nature study
am to vacant lots to learn something
flower and vegetable garden ¬
tnglIU1waukee Milwaukee Free Press
Don Juan
About Byrons purpose in writing
Don Juan nothing better can be
than to give the words of the
R Q Stoddard Says Stoddard
We should read It as we read Oil
not as we rend The Scarlet Sc irlet
1 It is the story stor y yof of the life of
young man of a passionate race
blood was tumultuous whose
were alive and whose manners
In keeping with those of the
of Europe and with men not
unknown in the England
the Prince Regent It is not the
of Sir SlrOalahad Galahad but the he story of
But what a story what
poem what an Odyssey it Is
with humor sparkling with
it will be remembered as long as
Romeo and Juliet New York
Census Taking III Clilnu CImIn
Two magistrates of Soochow
China saw trouble tro uble two weeks ago in
the towns to the south of Soochow
The disturbances were cause caused d by the
census takers
The country countrypeopie people people say that their
names are being taken for the build
Ing of the new railways that eac each h
crosstle requires that a name be
placed beneath It and the person person
whoBe name namelsthus is 1 thus Used dies atohce at once
In lil one town five persons are a re said
to have died immediately after their
names were taken The mob forced
one unfortunate magistrate to Issue a
guarantee guara ntee s tamped with his official
seal that no one onoln In this village would wo ld
die die within Ithtn ten years yearsNorth North China Chln
Herald
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Mrs wIrs UpToDate in Inillfllnts Inillfllntsw infants wear w ar
departmentYou You mayseud me methls this
cap please
Clerk ClerkYe Yos madam Do you wish
the ribbons pink or blue blue7
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WILD MENS MN9 S WEAPONS
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Among the thewcapons weapons which the wit w it
of primitive man mail devised to aid him him
In the struggle for existence with ani an i ¬
mals far more formidably endowed
by nature than himself the way in
which some were w wOre r suggested to him
by the objects which he saw sawtro around nd
him is obvious enough but of others
we are amazed by his ingenuity in
their design and his skill skillin in their use se
The most strikin striking g Instance of both
thu this skill in use us e eand and cleverness In de < Ie ¬
sign Is perhaps the boomerang The
perfection of ofbalnnce balance curve curv and
weight in all its parts is so exact that
modern dynamics have been quite un ¬
able to find a formula according to
whIch wlmclm a workable boomerang can an be
turned out by bya a carpenter and the
skill needed for the use of even the
most perfect weapon Is such that the
untutored efforts of the most stal ¬
wart thrower of ofa a cricketball are arerl ri ¬
diculously dlculoUlyfutllewben futile when he begins to
make trIal trial of it It is scarcely too
much to say that In spite of years ot
practice no white man has ever suc ¬
ceeded d in In becoming effective with it
We are told that there Is lain In in Australia
a tree whose seed pod Is so formed
that when detached by the process of
natural growth from the branch bran ch It
whirls through throu gh the air with a curve
analogous nnnlo gous ous to that of the boomerang
we see a faint suggestion of a alma ¬
liar Ilnrmovementln movement in the gyrations oUhe of the
seedpods of ofour our own ash ashan ashanft and dlt it has
been con conJectured jectured that the observant t
black fellow fe fellow9tmay ll llW W may have receive rec lye d
from this the first flrsthlnt hint hintot of the weapon
Which he eyentually 1 fashioned tas hionedlnto into
the wonderful wonderfulboomerangIUs4con boomerang Itis Itiaa A con ¬
jecture w whic hic hl h Will ever eve verremal r re remain mnln con ¬
jectural eeturalOthers Others of fmans mans early
weapons weap weaponstime nsthe the club the spear spe arthe the
hatchet originally we may ma yi4ppose s stppose uppose
a stone cleft c1eftbyaccldentto by accident to a cutting
edge edgeare are easy to understand under stnnd Nai Na
ture gave them almost readymade
into his hand The almost universal
use of the boWi bow a weapon of mucn much
more elaboration does not suggest a
puzzle nearly so s so baffling as the boom ¬
erang The force of elasticity In the
sapling would be bcapt apt almost literally
to Jump to the eyes yes of the savage
as he made his way waythrough through the bush
and his friend friendln in front released a
bough from fro m its 1 tension to fly back
and whip him across the face To
cut such a sapling to fasten to either
end of it a sinew or a stretch of a
touch creeping plant to fit an arrow
on the string a and rid discharge it by the
relaxed tension t nslonof of the released string
are no doubt a series serlesoC of operations l
demanding much mucldngennlty Ingenuity and prob ¬
ably much time for their develop ¬
ment but we can imagine the steps
We are not left wondering Even
the throwlngstlck throwlngstIClcthat that very effec ¬
tive application of the principle of the
lever by which the wild man added so
very greatly to the force find nd distance
of his throw of his missile missilespear missil spear
may be supposed to have been dis ¬
covered by accidental means which
we can reconstruct leconstr ct The boomerang
still remains the biggest b iggest puzzle
There is another adaptation of a
very simple instrument which we do
not no t know to have such antiquity as
some of these yet must always seem
very marve marvelous lous iyhen we first witness
the variety of uses and the perfection
to which It has been brought broughtthe the
use of ofa a bit of frope rope which hlch we call
lassoing The value offbe of ofhe he noose we
can ca easily imagine to have been
brought very early e arly to the notice of
man man In his more or less natural na tural state
Its efficacy in arresting his his progress
through a forest thickly hung with
lianas must soon have struck him as i
one of the Inconveniences of f his ex ¬
istence but we db not seem to find
record at a very early stage of any
practical use to which he might have
put the hint so given him The
greatest wonder in the history ot the
noose second se ond on only iy to the marvelous
skill exhibited by the experts in its
use is that certain ce rt ln nations should
have acquired the the skill that they did
acquire in it with witliJo so few generations 8
of practice We may probably take
it It for granted that tlmatthe the American Red
Indian did not begin to use it until
after the Spaniards had made madetht their > fr
way to America The origin of the
word is Latin laqueus Iaqueusi i 1 there is
Portuguese laco we lasso or
lace our boots every morning
presuming that tllatI we i e do not spend the
day in slipers sllpelsD But t apart apnr t from that
it is not noteasytp noteasytpseC easy to tp tpsee see that the lasso
could have had valuewitlJOut value without the
I horse It is the Instrument of riders
on horseback horse bllcltThere There were nO horses
In America ac nc acordImmg cording oldlllg to all who
claim to speak spea k with authority until
tlie Spaniards arrived the there e The ap
narltion of their their cavalry was so
strange as to strike terror into tho
hearts of the natives who deemed
horse and man some fearful compo comlo ¬
site slt animal The most skilful artist
In n the world w with ith the lasso is that
compound compoundwho who s hall say what Is the
exact mixture of the ingre ingredients dients
of Spaniard and Indian that Is known
as Mexican especially the the1l1exican Mexican ot
the Southwestern States Statesof > of the Union
but we read of various tribes of the
Red Indians probably quite free
from any infusion of otEuropean European blood
to whom the lasso had become so o fa ¬
millar a weapon so trusted in i cases
of emergency that they not only I
used It on the galloping bison an and d
overthrew him on the t e prairie but ac ¬
tually lassoed the funnels of the
steam engines when the trains began
to Invade their land It is possible
that the result may have been to give
a little shake to their confidence but
their skill in the use of the noose
has abundant witness
The Mexicans dexterity has to be
seen to be believed At full gallop
he will send the theloop loop to encircle at his
Will the neck the horn the leg of the
steer steerblundellng blundering along beside him
His little horse horse knows mows the game as
perfectly as he hedoes does throw throwIng ing fnglilmselt himself
back on his haunc haunches hes into the best
possible position to stand the shock
and ndthe the strain str ain which he knows will
arrive wilen when the rope is drawn tight
of which one end Is isabou abou t t the steer
and the other Is fastened to the horn
of lbeblgSpanlsbsllddleTbehorse the big Spanish saddle The horse
stands firm and the the steer tumbles
Sometimes Sometimes the Mexicans 1I1exlcanswmi 1I1exlcanswmiride will ride
down and Inss lasso the thecoyoto coyote or Or rtb the wild 1
turkey tur ey y for the theturk tur turkey key ilIkeshls likes his legs
better than his wings as means of
lo locomotion omotlon and a nci nciwill will seldom fly fiyaga aga again in
after atterle he has h is once been flushed fiuahedand and
marked lIl arke ddown down The actual actu nlevolutloll evolution
of the the lasso may may be belmngined Imag imagined ined easily easllY
at first a 11 big loop of rope thrown
about the head hendof head of an animal beside
which the rider galloped then the
freerunning freerunnlngnoos noose at the end of a
single rope Bu t t t the accuracy of
aim with the loop is the wonder
After all It cannot be nearly so sub ¬
tle an affair as the boomerang throw
for though perhaps the Mexican ex
eels the white whlt cowboy cow oy is nearly it
not qu quite ite his matc h Bu t the things
that a Mexican can do with arope a rope or
bit of rawhide are marvelous He
will fit a fresh rawhide riata
around the nut of a screw that has
stuck and unscrew it when the hide
has hardened though the white me ¬
chanic with his spec speciallymade iallymade
wrench has failed You may maybe be told
that tale taleand and it is ji credible one
by many who have worked on ho
railways In the Mexican Republic
The best noose story is a British
one Like many of thb best stories
it is a busdrivers story and like
all the best stories it Is an old story
Bus A and bus B were together In a
block The driver of bus A had the
end of his whip hitched up into a
little noose and kept playing with it
putting his finger through it and
drag dragging ging it tight then t en loosening it
again He also kept saying noth ¬
ing and looking nowhere in partic ¬
ular nevertheless the driver of bus
B began glaring at him and his face fIlcE
grew more and more crimson crlmsonuntll until
finally the winged fords broke broleeforth forth
Homerlcally Hom ericallY and he cursed the player
with the noo nOObe e as asonly only one busdriver bus dr1vel
can curse another Still Still the driver
of bus A kept saying nothing and as a s
innocently Innocentl as ever kept playing will
his noose Then the fare who sat
beside beside the driver of bus A leaned
forward and asked hfm h1m Whats the
matter with that man indicating
the driver of bus B whats he so
angry with you about Youre not
doing him any harm
Matter with im said the noose
player scornfully Why e ealnt aint got
no sense o humor thats whats the
matter with 1m Is father was
ung u ngWestmlnster Westminster Gazette
Hes Always Right
Lord Northcliffe who began life
as a poor reporter report l now owns the
London Times the Dally Mall the
Daily Mirror the Evening News Newsnnd and
a score or two twoaf of British weeklies and
magazines
Lord Northcllfte Nortbc llff on his lost Illstylslt visit
to New Ne w York was reproached because
two of of his hi newspapers advocated dia ¬
metrically opposite views
But the young younginUlIonalre millionaire Jour ¬
nalist na nalist l lst st was quite ready with witim his his de ¬
fense
Are there not no t ho said two
sides a right and anda a wrong to every
question Well how wlthput two
impors JII1 ors can be always right
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Mr Hubb lIubbThe The Intelligence office
manager told me that our new new girl
was once an actress
Mrs Hubb HubbI I believe It It She
dusts the furniture exactly as the
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Ill tellthe tell the public that everybody
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are those they theyought oughtnt 1t to toWash Wash ¬
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On Her Her Dignity
I should like a drink of water
said the young man politely
Youll have to wait until mother
comes c omCs downstairs said the young
lady iadY haughtily I want you to un tin n ¬
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kitchen kitchenDetrolt Detroit Free Press
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Did Bligglns enjoy enjoyhlmselt himself at the
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evening at the possibility of being
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was over ver resented the fact that he
was overlooked Washington WashlngtonStal Star
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Charitable Person Personr I thought you
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In an experiment exper iment to ascertain the
resisting power of a 1 r mass of solid i
concrete the shot shbtfrom from a twelveInch
gun penetrated the cement block to
the extent of twentyonefeet twentyone feet Thi
Is equivalent to pene penctratlnga penetrating trating a nine 1
teenInch armor belt
The Senate has appropriated 15Q 6 50 p
000 for the purpose of establishing a
biological station to tostudy study the conta co nta ¬
gious diseases at of fish fis h Cancer is one
of these diseases A Acareful careful study of
these diseases in fish may result In
Assisting the medical profession in
alleviating one of the most drea dreadful dful
of human afflictions Sc S Scientific ientific
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Six new elements have been bcendlsoi dlsr dis
covered ov red1lY by Dri Dr Auer von We Weisbach isbach i bn ll
Last year yearDrvonWelsbl1 Dr von Velsbach hellXulta sinulta
neously Jeol slywlth with the French scientist Ur
bain discovered dlscov reiI that ytterbium ytter bium for
thirty years years believed d to be an plo e1 e1oi oi
meat mentr menvasdlvielble r was div divisible isible Since SIn < 1S78 1878 the
Viennese Vlennes Viennesesayftnt savant sn v nt has asnddedtenele added ten ele ¬
merits to those known knhwnSclen Sclen tlflby
American ne ic n
Cold tinned d dmea mea ts for troops trol71Jsi troms in
warfare wn will soon oon disappear from frpmtho the
list of the har hardships dships of active service I
rhe use of otthe the motor vehicle vehicleand and the
Invention of a means of cooking
tinned or fresh meat while moving mo ving
rapidly have received the approval ot
the he authorities An Irlshqunrter Irish quarter ¬ t
master has invented inve nted a atravellng traveling
kitchen fixed In an ordinary wagon
which can cook for 800 men as It it
moves with them and at ntthe the first firs t
halt in a forced march mar Ch ha a hotmeal hot meal
can be served at once
Amongthe Among the most useful otthemanj ot the theman many
ways in which science Is teaching teachingull ua
to o transform the world Is the choice
I jf f vegetable forms which are arecapable capable
of resisting diseases that thatpractlcaUy practically
sweep some varieties out of existence exis tenc e
At present hope is entertained in
France 1ranceof of replacing the native chest ¬
nut which has been beendestrdyed destrdyed Jn in1
many parts of the country by a dis dis ¬
ease of the roots with a Japanese
variety varlet Exper Experime Experiments Experiments iments nts were first made madet t
with American Americ an chestnuts but they the y J
soon oon fell victims to the disease The Th
Japanese trees on the other hand
give Ive promise of proving Immune i mmune
In one of Chicagos giant hotels a
device has recently been installed inst lled
which will liberate IIbernt6 IIbernt6stearn steam into Intothera the ra ¬
diators during time win winter ter iind nd cold
anne or liquid air durin during g the sum 1
mer thus heating the rooms through
the cold months and cooling them
luring the hot This thermostat Is
so o constructed that for each variation
lit n the degree of o f temperature a a cor ¬
responding change is made in In the thO
quantity quantity of ot cold or hot material l in
troducted into the he radiators thus
maintaining malntnlnlngnn an even temperature temp rature
throughout the year yea r Many Manyadvan advan
tages it is Isbeleved believed will be had from
this arrangement probably greatest
at which will bo the diminution of
the number Dum ber of colds suffered by the
lodgers throat troubles of this na ma a ¬
ture being believed due mainly malnlyto to
sudden suddenc suddenchanges changes hang sJnj inj in room temperature 1
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