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A HOME-MADE NOVELTY. 1
Tunny Little Man Who Will Coma to
. . ' Ufa Over Oaa Jet or Hot
Air Register..
- Have you ever heard of a convection
current? It is the current-of heated
air that Is bound to rise from any
heated place or object To prove the
existence of a convection current, take
a gas flame, for Instance, or a hot air
grating In a sidewalk.
Tou may see the hot air simmering
np from the grating, which makes the
objects Just beyonti It lose the exact
outlines of their shapes and look
wabbly.
First cut out a circle of tin; then cut
almost to the center on the dotted
lines, as shown In Fig. 1. Bend each
cut section to an angle of 45 degrees.
Now secure a length of strong, tough
wire that won't bend with heat, and
form with it the angle shown at A
(Fig. 2). Twist a small round loop
eye at the end of the upper horizontal
piece which is marked B, C, and fasten
that wire to the- gas pipe, or to a wall
If the gas pipe Is not convenient
Run a second lower horizontal wire
at D, E, terminating it in a loop Just
too small for the vertical wire to allp
through. This loop Is to act as a
socket for it to turn In. Now fix the
tin wheel to the top of the vertical
wire, aa shown, after having inserted
ricJt
THE ANIMATED TOT.
the wire Into the position in the socket
and loop.
Now we are ready for Jack.
- Draw his head and body, In one
piece, on a sheet of hard paper. Now,
on another sheet draw his legs and
hips, in the position shown in the pic
ture. On a third Bheet draw one arm,
for Jack needs only one. Place your
drawings on a thin sheet of tin, and
cut around tha edges of the paper till
you have the outline of the drawings
reproduced in tin.
Now lay Jack's tin body on a block
of wood, and Join his tin legs to it so
that the edges overlap. Drive a nail
through both pieces of tin at this
point, and Join the pieces together by
passing a wire through the nail-hole
' and then twisting the ends together be
hind Jack's back. Put on his arm' in
the same manner, and in the same way
fasten his feet to the horizontal wire.
Next connect Jack's outstretched arm
by a Wire loop with the point of the
angle. of the vertical wire.
. Turn on the gas; the convection cur
rent arises; it strikes the tin wheel,
sending the wheel round at a great
rate, which In turn sets Jack in mo
tion. " r
A Waste of Time.
Here Is a little story of the uncon
scious humor of children, relates the
New York Tribune. A little boy of
four asked: "Mamma,, who made the
lions and elephants?" "God, my dear,"
she answered. "And did he make the
files, XooV , asked the little . fellow.
"Yes, my dear," replied his mother.
The little chap paused awhile, as if
to ponder the matter over, then said:
"Fiddlln' work making flies."
The Draughtsman's Maze.
IScjtiu at l'suJ return to 1, paw
than see over any tine, i'uUadwnu
z "
OUR BOY3
AND GlRLn5
GIRL AWARDED RICH PRIZE.
Mis Maude Titus Who 8a vM Eer
Teacher's Life Given Money
' for Education.
The Carnegie hero fund commission
has awarded the sum of $2,500 to Miss
Maude Titus, of Newark, N. J., who had
previously received the Carnegie medal
for saving from drowning her teacher,
Miss Laura V. Relfsnyder in Casco bay,
MISS MAUD TITUS.
Maine, last July. Miss Titus Is the 18-
year-old daughter of Dr. William Titus,
of Newark.. She was granted the medal
October 16 last and 12 days later her
father died, leaving the 'family in but
moderate circumstances. Miss Relf
snyder went personally before the
hero commission and pleaded for the
girl, asking that she be sent through
school. This was decided on and the
money awarded to her to finish her
education.
JUVENILE FIRE-FIGHTERS.
Boys of St Paul, Minn., Organize a
Company for Fun, But Get
, Good Training.
Of some "boy firemen," a St Paul
(Minn.) exchange once had this: Over
in the Sixth, ward there is growing up
a company of Juvenile firemen that
will know all about fire-fighting by
the time they are old enough, to en
ter the service. The day of the re
cent inspection they had made prep
arations to receive the visitors at
engine house No. 6. A pile of brush,
shavings and . kindling wood was
stacked up on a vacant lot A bar
rel of water stood close by, and when
the visitors had alighted, the boys
came around the corner with a small
brake 'engine, drawn by a pair ol
dogs, a hose-cart and a hook-and-lad
der truck. The fire had been start
ed, and was under good headway when
the youngsters got on the ground.
They laid their hose, coupled on to tha
engine, and. went to work bard, and
soon had the fire out They were
highly complimented for their efB
clency. A SEA-SAW.
Under the sea a sight I saw
Such as you seldom see.
A ea see-Baw I saw. In truth,
(Now please don't laugh at me!)
1 WcJ- Q?.,;lg?:
mm.:
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I saw a see-saw In the sea!
Don't you wish you'd been me,
To ftoo the nee-saw that I saw
Beneath the deep blue sea?
Cincinnati Enquirer.
lag over all tha llnca, but not mora
rrm, .
POLICY OF SPECIAL RATE.
Reductions to Meet Commercial Con
ditions Develop Railway
Trafllc.
The settled policy of railroads to de
velop additional traffic by making spe
cial reductions In rates when neces
sary to meet commercial conditions
and to extend the markets for the par
ticular product has a most salutary
effect upon the welfare of the people
generally, writes Samuel Spencer, in
"Railway Rates and Industrial Prog
ress," tn Century. Whenever a rail
road, by means of a new rate, puts
the commodities produced on' Its line
into a new market previously aup-
plled from some other source, a bene
fit 1s wrought to the producers on that
line by' extending their selling mar
kets, and to the consumers In the lo
cality to which the product is thus in
troduced. If rates were made on the
theory, so often advocated, of giving
each place the full value of Its geo
graphic situation (assuming that the
value could ever be authoritatively
ascertained), the result would be that
markets, both of production and con
sumption, would be narrowed; the pro
ducer would have fewer markets in
which to sell, and the consumer would
have a more restricted field to pur
chase. For example: Numerous cot
ton mills are located In Georgia and
the Carollnas, which of course com
pete with the older cotton mills lo
cated in New England. Rates on cot
ton from the southern states to thesa
mills are so adjusted as to enable all
of them to obtain raw material. This,
of course, enhances the competition
for the purchase of cotton. If rates
on cotton were so adjusted as to be
very much higher to the more distant
mills than to the nearer mills, it would
perhaps result that the growers of
cotton would be virtually confined to
the nearest mills for their market,
Rates are likewise adjusted from these
mills to the markets for cotton goods,
in order that the mills may dispose
of their product If these rates were
adjusted primarily with regard to di3
tance, each set of cotton mills would
have a large territory In which It
could sell cotton goods virtually with
out competition from mills In other
parts of the country.
It Is apparent that In many Instances
conditions suddenly arise and must
be. very promptly met. No rate ad
justment can be established which can
guard against the necessity for sudden
changes In the future. Any serious ob
stacle to quick action by the trafllc
officers immediately in touch with' the
local commercial situation will prove
In many cases an unfortunate embar
rassment to the wholesqme develop
ment of commerce. One example may
be added to those already given. About
a year ago numerous blast furnaces In
Virginia were temporarily without an
adequate supply of Virginia Iron ore.
having been prevented from accumu
lating a sufficient stock by the uausu
allv severe winter. If the furnaces
were to be kept in blast they would
Mave to be supplied with ore from the
upper lake mines; this would of neces
sity be carried by rail from the lake
port, and at the ordinary rate It woul'l
have been out of the question, lnt
case demanded and received prompt
action, and thereby a large manufacr
luring concern was enabled to bridge
over a period of local ore famine due
to unusual weather conditions.
INVENTED BY A WOMAN.
Beveled Kail Joint That Prevents
tha Jolting of Railway
Cais.
Mrs. I. J. Crawford of St. Joseph,
Mo., has just Invented a rail Jolut that
promises to entirely eliminate a great
annoyance to travelers on railways
and, what Is more, reduces tho possl
bility of danger from train wrecking.
The device Is called the "Crawrora
Joint' but it might be very aptiy
styled the joint without a jolt, wra
Crawford claims for her Invention
that It will overcome the everlasting
clicking and jolting which is one of
the unpleasant features of travel over
the rails now in use on all lines. It
consists merely In beveling tho ends of
the rails. Instead of chopping the
rails square at the ends, as Is now
done, and fastening thorn together by
means of plates to a shank, Mrs
Crawford would have the rails cut off
obliquely, with a very gradual taper
toward a point, and would men place
the' tapering ends together, one over
lannlni the other, and would hold
them In place by means of bolts.
The Crawford Joint will probably pe
six or seven feet in length, long
enough to give space for three or more
ties to aupport It This is cheaper
than the old way, since no plates ara
necessary.
Fortune Mada Miser.
Father Aeby, a noted miser, has died
at Berne, age 70. When he was 22 a
fortune was bequeathed hlni, and from
being a spendthrift he at once became
a miser. He lived on bread and wa
ter at a cost of three cents a day. and
left 1750,000. The sum of $100,000 In
gold and silver was found under his
tedroftoi floor.
Allowed to. Wear Men'sClothes.
There Is one woman In France Mine.
Dleulafoy who has official permission
-to dress always as a man. She accom
panies her husband on his famous.trav-
els of exploration In the east and in th
dim placc3 where the two discovered
the palaces of Darius I. and Artaxerxoa
II. It la safer to be a man tlmn a woman,
Hard ' ikMoWe.-.'.
"Yes; I know Mr, Untinrlong."
"TVy tell uio he U very easy-soinjt."
"Not when ho calls on wo." Chl-
ujio Sun.
RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
In the Western States They Ara
Being Introduced Very
Rapidly.
That the cost of operation of one
of the big western limited trains Is an
enormous item may bo ' conjectured
from the fact that In the 2,309 mile run
from Lake Michigan to the Pacific
coast these heavy trains must Bur
mount an altitude of nearly 7,200 feet
from a height of 586 feet above sea
level at Chicago, the initial point This
climb, says the Pittsburg Post, may ba
realized when it Is learned that tha
Pennsylvania railroad in crossing the
Allegbanles has to ascent not mora
than 2,000 feet from an altitude of 700
feet at Pittsburg, and almost every
one knows what the grade Is on the fa
mous Horseshoe curve. When the trans
continental train reaches Los Angeles
it has descended to a bare 266 feet
above the level of the Pacific. Small
wonder It Is then that the eye of the
connoisseur In mechanics gazes in ad
miration upon the monster locomotives
of the latest Pacific type turned out
by the Baldwin shops for the draught
of these heavy trains across the Rock
ies and the Sierras; and even the ama
teur in railroading can see from tho
observation car as the train speeds
along that the roadbed Is perfect, the
grades and curves as easy as t&ey
could possibly be made, the ballasting
all that could be desired and the loco
motion as even as though the train
were propelled along a glassy surfaco
as smooth as that of a tranquil pond.
Yet the 2,309 miles from Chicago to
Los Angeles are covered with an aver
age of about 35 miles to the hour. Of
course this comparison suffers witn
the 60 miles per hour maintained by
the 18-hour trains of the Pennsylvania
and Lake Shore railroads between
New York and Chicago, but it must
be remembered that these roads have
reached the utmost perfection In rail
road development; that much of the
rlghtjOf way Is occupied by four tracks
and none of It by less than two; that
the distance on which the speed Is
maintained Is approximately but 900
miles, against the 2,300 miles cf trans
continental roadway under discussion,
and of these 2,300 miles by this route
only 488 of It la double track.
But they are learning fast how to
railroad in the west.
RAILWAYS IN SOUTHWEST.
Far
More Than Half the Activity
Said to Exist West of the
Missouri.
During the year 1905 about 5,000
miles of railway has been built in tho
United States, of which the south
western states are credited with l,lu6
mileB, or more than any other group,
Texas is second In the list, with 337
miles, and Louisiana, of which a large
portion Is west of the Mississippi rlv
er. Is third with 243 miles. Missouri
which was at the head of the list in
1904 with 364 miles. Is about the mid
die this year, its new construction
standing at 82 miles. Nearly half the
new mileage completed is in the state3
and territories with which Missouri is
closely In touch. Illinois Is sixth, with
19D miles. Arkansas, Oklahoma aud
Mississippi are not far below. New
Mexico and Indian Territory have each
added more than 100 miles to their ag
gregate.
Far more than half the activity lu
railway building la west of the Missis
slppi. More construction Is going for
ward in the northwest than for sev
eral years past, a fact due to new en
terprises reaching . toward the Pacific
const. North Dakota leads all the
states this year, with Its C25 miles o
new railway. Tha six New England
states are down to 78 miles, antLth
middle Atlantic states to 252 miles. In
the south Atlantic and gulf states the
total Is over 1,300 miles. Less than
fifth of the railway building of 1905
was in the territory of the original
colonies. The southwest makes a con
tinued fine showing, without including
Mexico, where railway development Is
at a high mark.
Damages Enough.
There had been a railway collision
rear a country town, and a shrewd
lawyer bad hurried to the scene of
disaster. He noticed an old man with
a badly Injured head, and hurried up
to him where he lay moaning on th
ground.
"How about damages?" he began.
But the sufferer waved him off.
"G'way, boss, g'way," he said. "Ah
nebber hit de train. Ah nebber done
such a t ing In all nian life! Yo
cyaln't git no damages out ob me."
- Another Wireless Record.
Wireless telegraphy broke Its own
record again when the operators at
Colon "overheard" the conversation
that took place one evening last month
between the stations at Manhattan
Deach and Fensacola, tba total distance
covered In the circuit being mora than
2,000 miles. This record is all tha
more remarkable when It Is remem
bered that the distance covered by tha
first transatlantic cable was only 1,080
miles. .
All 'for Himself.
"Of ccurse, ' said tha injlitleaJ ra
forms?,, "you believe In" tha greatest
good to the greatest "number."
"Oh,-. sure," replied, the politician,
"and with me the .'greatest number la
always number one." Philadelphia
Press.
Shos Drops; Dies '6f '-Flight.
,. A vlauulj woman .lu Cantou, O.,
was awakened ly a slioa dropped by
some one la tho room nlove, and so
startled Hint bUo CleJ of fright. Sis
al ia shoe. ibar.
WASHIHGTOII GOSSIP
UENATOR TILLMAN'S OPPOR
TUNITY FOR SPEECHMAKING.
A RECALCITRANT MEMBER
Mr, Bailey of Texas Beau Ideal of
Public Speaker Our Commerce
Carried Under Our Own
Flag.
. mm a a niHuiun.
r V If there Is one
member of the
f United States sen-
V ate who is having
l' 1 id. tlmn nf hln
life at this session
It is that Cyclo-
p e a n statesman
from South Caro
Una, Benjamin
Ryan Tillman.
Moresubjects
have come up in
the senate this session- that have af
forded him an opportunity of making
characteristic speeches than there
have been for several years. He Is
opposed to the tendency of corpora
tions to monopolize trade and destroy
competition, and in the railroad rate
legislation and the propositions to in
vestigate combl(Wtlon3 of railroads
Mr. Tillman has had his greatest op
portunities to attack corporations in
his inimitable manner of speech.
Tillman Is nothing if not original
and picturesque. He can say things
on the floor of the senate that no
other man would dare utter.' He ex-,
cuses it on the ground that he is "a
plain, blunt man." When he first
came to the senate the sticklers for
senatorial propriety, like the late
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts and
Senator Piatt of Connecticut, would
take Tillman to task for his almost
brutal form of speech when referring
to his colleagues or government offi
cials. The senator would promise to
be good, but on the next occasion his
temper would get the best of him and
he Wbuld spit out words that were pa
tently unparliamentary. The mentors
of the senate got. tired finally of try
ing to reform the one-eyed iconoclast
from South Carolina and he Is now
allowed his own sweet way, unless he
gets absolutely insulting.
Mr. Tillman Is now at home in his
Mate patching up a few breaches in
his political fences. He is a candidate
for reelection next year, and already
considerable opposition has developed.
The old regime In South Carolina, the
eilk stocking arls'ocracy, do not relish
being represented in the United States
tenate by a farmer like Mr. Tillman.
The latter secured his election by an
appeal to the common people, and he
Is still catering to that element.
Attaining Notoriety.
NOTH ER Demo
cratic senator has
attained consider
able notoriety this
winter and Is now
an object of curi
osity to strangers
who visit the cap
itol. The latter
want to Bee a man
who has had the
hardihood in
these days of par
ty discipline to
take an independent course and defy
the orders of his party caucus. This
man Is Thomas MacDonald Patterson,
an Irishman by birth, with all the
fighting proclivities of his nationality.
Mr. Patterson refused to be bound by
the Democratic caucus on the question
of the ratification of the San Domin
gan treaty and ha received one of the
(severest lectures and castlgations on
the floor of the senate that has been !
administered for many years. This
parliamentary trouncing was adminis
tered by Senator Bailey, of Texas, who
lias jumped into the leadership on the
Democratic side.
Mr. Patterson took his dose of medi
cine without even making a wry face
and he says it will take more than the
dictum of two-thirds of the Democrats
in the United States senate to read
him out pf the party. Somewhat like
Cataline of old, he defied them and de
clared that If he went he would return
and at the next national Democratic
convention he would be there to gTeet
his Democratic friends and to do busi
ness as a delegate from Colorado. Mr.
Patterson was no match for Mr.
Bailey in the colloquy that arose over
the former's recalcitrancy. He has not
the voice nor the presence that belong
to the young statesman from Texas.
Mr. Bailey is the perfection of man
hood in appearance, being six feet tall,
splendidly proportioned and without
euperfluous flesh. His face is as
round, full and as highly colored as
that of a boy of 16. His dark eyes are
clear and his hair as black as a ra
ven's wing. He is an unusually hand
some man and that, coupled with ora
torical ability and brains, make him
tho beau Ideal of a public speaker and
Statesman.
Ship Subsidy Bill.
FTER many years
there la good pros
. I -r-tli -- . o. -
A
7: ' - ' '1 . subsidy bill. This
old subject has
beon before con
gress . lor many
many years aud
has been fought
'over la bqtli
houijes of con
greet! by earnest.
houust aavcc:ito3 aud opponents, and
at l.ut It touiiu ixi though the pilud-
wm
KMT
l - -n . at . (.ill "
pie of Hiding .ho . American m7Thftr,,
marine by giving a bounty to abtp
constructed in this country and sail !
tinder the American flag Is to ba -Ignlzed.
The bill that In likely to be
come law, it having already paaiP S
the senate, does not make any groat
drsft upon the public runds. In fact for
several years none of tha pwwnt
revenues of the treasury will have to
be touched, as tha subsidy will be fur
nished by an additional tongage tax
levied upon the vessels. The present
proposition only contemplates tha
granting of a bounty or subsidy for
ten years. .
The one fact that appealed to con
gress more than any other In favor
of subsidizing the American merchant
marine Is that less than ten per cent,
o our foreign commerce is carried
tinder the American flag. The old
homely illustration of a merchant
hiring the delivery wagons of a com
peting firm to deliver his goods haa
been used with good effect In pressing
the necessity of this country furnish
ing the ships that carry our commerce
to the world.
This bill has been fought through
for years by Senators Frye of Main
and Gallinger of New Hampshire, and
to them belongs much of the credit if
it becomes a law. They found it dif
ficult to arouse a sentiment In tha
country outside the districts that are
Interested in shipbuilding, but by their
persistent efforts they have finally
convinced the western wheat and cat
tle grower that It would be to his ad
antage to ship his products through
out the world under the Amerl an
ling.
"Uncle Joe's" Gifts.
F Speaker Cannon
were to accept all
the gifts that ar
offered him hf
would have
enough to furnish
his person and
house for years to
come. He Is
averse to receiv
ing presents and
turns down ttny
that arouses sus
picion that their tender has been made
for some ulterior motive. In contrast
tc most of tho offers of presents' the
gifts of some southern friends' have
been accepted gratefully and apprecia
tively by "Uncle Joe." Down In North
Carolina, where he was born, there Is
an old lady who never saw him, but
who has watched his public career
and believes that he has brought hon
or to his native state, although he left
It when but a chll 1.
This old lady has not forgotten the
frontier art of spinning yarn and
weaving cloth. ...Last fall she wove
with her own hands, on an old-fashioned
loom, a web of homespun cloth
that is a marvel of fine texture and
workmanship. She sent to Speaker
Cannon enough of the cloth to make
him a suit of clothes. He had his
tailor manufacture the garments, an-J
all winter he has proudly worn that
dark gray suit of homespun while pre
siding over the house. It is a becom
ing suit and has excited the admira
tion of all his friends.
Another North Carolina lady knit
the speaker a pair of white wool socks,
fcuch as kept our ancestors' feet warm
when deer skin moccasins were more
plentiful than fine leather shoes. Still
another gift came from the same state
in the shape of a pair of knit suspend
ers or "galluses" as they were known
In "Uncle Joe's" boyhood. He has put
these away In his cabinet to preserve
for his grandchildren, so they may
know what sort of clothing was worn
in their grandfather's early days. To
make his outfit complete. Col. Hemp
hill, of Charleston, S. C. sent the
rpeaker a genuine "wool hat."
The Whipping Post.
ONGRESS, which
acts as select and
common council
for the District of
Columbia, has de
cided that it will
not authorize a
return to barbari
ty 'by establishing
a whipping post
1 n Wa s h i ngton.
Mr. Adams, of
Philadelphia, bet- '
ter known In eo
his colleagues as
clety and among
"Bertie" Adams, has been advocating
for two or three years the establish
ment of a whipping post In the Dis
trict for the punishment of husband
who beat their wives. On several oc-
raslons he has advocated his bill oa.
the floor of the bouse, and It has al
ways led to an uproarious time. Mr.
Adams is an old bachelor, wealthy and
a good deal of a society man, and tha
picture of his espousing the cause ul
abused wives ha always provoked
amusement.
The last time the bill was up a few
days ago it was defeated by a three
fourths vote, but not before the house '
had had an hour':: rare entertainment.
All sorts of amendments were offered
to the bill. Including . propositions to
revive the thumbscrew,' the boot, the
stake, tha ducking 6tool and other
forms of torture and punishment tli.it
teloug to the dark ages. There were
propositions to exempt from the op
erations of the law relative to the
shipping post tht president of tha
United States and members of t.ia
gtess. -V."
When the vote was taken a shout ttf
luughter waa canted by Mr. Nicholas
Longworth, then jutt ou the eve ol
Ms marriage to Mws Koosevelt, lotlti?
against the bi!l. Mr" 'Longwonfc
laughed when he cast his vote mv.
this led the hoii io to see the huii!o,!-,.oi
polut. Ills -friend U l l hira that h,i
was wl.se not to t;lva up any picio;
, live he uil:;M Lave tJ beat liia-!
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