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TEST VOTE OF WHEELMEN A NOVEL SCHEME TO BE TRIED IS BEHALF OF C. F. SMITH. Associated Cycling Club Evanesce*— Mr. Van Sicklen Im the bust of the Mohicans. - It Is reported that there is a movement on foot to concentrate the wheelmen’s vote on C. F. Smith at the municipal election next week, not with any hope or desire of electing Mr. Smith, but for the purpose of showing the strength of this element to the winning candidate. The movement bears no relation whatever to that of the Associated Cycling Clubs. That movement does not move. In fact the Associated Cycling Clubs is a dead letter, as would be apparent to all were the minutes of the last meeting read. That meeting was called to order by Frank Erdelmeyer, the vice president. President A. C. Newby was not there and his resignation was accepted, though it was not formally tendered in writing. There was only one other member of the organization present. He was F. W. Van Sickien. Both men represented defunct clubs, and really were not entitled to act as delegates to the Associated Cycling Clubs if there was such an organization. Mr. Van Sicklen moved that the resignation of Mr. Newby be accepted, and in voting he declared that he had six proxies and named the men who had verbally constituted him to represent them. There was no objection to this and Mr. Van Sicklen, for one of his proxies, nominated himself as a candidate for president, and, for another proxy, moved that the nominations close. It was so ordered and he was elected. The newly elected president then tried to force upon the ’‘meeting” a resolution indorsing the administration and the candidacy of Mayor Taggart, and expressing the opinion that it would be to the interest of all wheel riders, regardless of politics, to vote for him. Chairman Erdelmeyer declared the resolution out of order and there followed a hot “debate,” Mr. Van Sicklen tried to show the reasons for his resolution and Mr. Erdelmeyer tried to make it clear that two men could not thus commit the several wheeling organizations of this city, to say nothing of the thousands of unattached riders. Then Mr. Van Sicklen attempted to force it to a vote on the strength of his six proxies, but Mr. Erdelmeyer declared that, while verbal proxies might do to elect a president of the defunct organization, proxies must be in waiting to commit that organization to a political declaration. The “meeting" adjourned without the passage of the resolution. In the new movement the promoters propose that wheel riders, without regard to politics, support Mr. Smith for mayor. It is claimed that if this is done it will not affect either of the leading candidates, for the reason that the wheelmen are about equally divided politically. It is said that the leading bicycle dealers are at the head of the movement and that they will call a meeting within the next few days to take some steps toward bringing the matter before the wheelmen. A plan ’which is suggested and for which, it is ■Claimed, there can be no objection from partisans, is for Democratic and Republican wheelmen to pair off and vote for Smith. The object is to demonstrate to the public and the successful candidates the strength of the wheeling vote, so that the demands of the wheel-riders of the city Will receive more respectful attention. The Wheel of ’9B. New York Evening Sun. There are many rumors going the rounds about the wheel of 1898. That it will be chainless nobody doubts. This being the case, tho recent slump in the price of bicycles is partially explained. It is easy to see why ihe big hrms should be anxious to clearput their stocks in view of a comin model. Next year’s bicycle wul be a SIOO article, and will continue to be such for a considerable time. It will be Interesting to see how long it will take to make the use of the chainless wheel tolerably general If the new one differs in appearance, in shape of frame, etc., frem that used at present, the rate of adoption will be faster, for the present model will bo more readily identified as out of date, m wheels, as in clothes, It is not pleasant to be behind the times. But if it is impossible to improve on the present frame in a hurry the adoption of the chainless wheel will be comparatively slow. So long as appearances are all right many persons will be content to use the present article rather than go to the expense of anew one. It is said that a number of trials of the new wheel have been made in secret, and that they have been very successful in the matter of speed. Os course, the present wheel is rapid enough for the ordinary rider. But it appears that without the chain the friction Is decreased enormously, and thus ease is promoted. In bicycles, as in battle ships, the finished product of to-day will be obsolete to-morrow. All this makes for progress.

Nice Snake Story. Binghamton (N. Y.) Special. Alfred Allen, who canvassed for subscribers for weekly newspapers here, had a queer experience last Tuesday. He travels through the country on a bicycle, and was riding dowm a hill on the read between and Great Bend, Pa., when he ran Into a lot of rattlesnakes. He saw the reptiles In the road ahead, but was going so fast that he could not stop. He realized that he stood a pretty good chance of being 6tung while going past them, as a rattlesnake is as quick as lightning to strike. The noise of the wheel had put then, on the defensive and the rattles were giving that well-known warning to keep away. Allen saw that he was In for it. so, taking his feet from the pedals and putting them up as far as possible, he went coasting down the hill at a lively rate. As the bieyclo passed the snakes twenty heads darted out, and Allen soon felt them whipping him about the back and legs at every turn of the wheels. He became so excited that he paid little attention to the handle bars. The wheel soon shied to one side of the road, dumping him over an embankment. When he got his equilibrium he picked up the wheel and found entwined about the spokes and sprocket chain a mass of dead rattlesnakes, crushed and [torn Into ribbons. He did not attempt to ’dislodge them, but waited until a farmer \cama along and took him and the wheel to Great Bend. Guarantees of *9B Wheel. Li. A. W. Bulletin. Very careful consideration is just nowbeing given by tire-makers and bicycle manufacturers to the subject of guarantees for 1898. There Is a possibility that both bodies may entirely remove them, though there is a feeling that this may be too radical a step, and the general disposition seems to be rather to reduce them a little, if anything is done. There are three principal reasons for the possible action. It is claimed that there is no rational ground for such a guarantee as has been given with bicycles and tires; that It La unheard of In other similar lines, and is an absurdity. It is alleged that prices have come down so much that the makers cannot longer afford it. and that any further reduction will make it necessary for them to do away with the expenses they •ntali. And It Is asserted that guarantees have been so abused by riders that selfjirotecAion demands their reduction, or complete removal. That there is considerable truth in these (tatcmenU cannot be denied. The retail dealers, too, expect to benefit by the change, because the "thank you” w-ork that they have done under the guarantees lias oftentimes eaten up all the profits of tiieir repair shops. Nor can it be denied that the sweeping guarantee that has existed has been a great temptation to human nature to work in everything possible under its provisions And it tias sometimes been grossly abused JProbably every one would be just as well Off if there were no guarantee, prices for gturitt and repairs were madu reasonable.

the cost of wheels reduced—and each maker’s output forced to sell on his reputation. Under these circumstances it would not necessarily follow that nothing would be replaced by a maker. When a year’s guarantee was given, there were those who were ready to replace any part actually defective at any time. It Is reasonable to suppose that those who manufactured the best goods and received the highest prices for them might maintuin a similar policy. If there were no guarantee there would then be a greater incentive for riders to take more personal interest in their wheels, learn how to care for and adjust them, and keep them in better running order than is now commonly the case. The little information required could easily be obtained; the time needed to care for them is not great, and each one would have the satisfaction of knowing all about his mount. Makers, too, would have an incentive to surpass one another and establish a reputation for building so good a wheel that it would bring them trade. Bicycles would come to sell more on their merits, and the manufacturer’s name would become his guarantee. Bicycle .Notes. The Brooklyn man who has invented a bicycle that will run a mile a minute ought to be dragged at its wheels.—St. Paul Pio-neer-Press. As France taxes bicycles and tricycles, the number of machines used in the country is known exactly. On Jan. 1, 1897, there were 329,814 taxed, an increase of 53.000 over the preceding year. The revenue obtained in 1896 was .3.272,339 francs. Paris’s department, the Seine, heads the list, with 02,892 bicycles, paying a tax of 626,916 francs. The Portland (Me.) Express tells the following yarn: A man in that town recently hung his bicycle from the ceiling of his cellar, and not far from a swinging shelf on which food w’as kept. A mouse jumped from the shelf upon the tire of the front wheel, evidently thereby hoping to reach the floor. The wheel started, and mousie naturally ran to the highest part of it. It w r as unable to stay on top of the tire, but couldn’t get enough foothold to jump to the wall. When found next morning the mouse w'as very much exhausted, though still running. The cyclometer showed that he had run ninety-three miles.

SHAKSPEARE’S AMERICANISMS. Good Authority for the Use of Certain American Forms of Speech. From Review of Henry Cabot Lodge’s Book. We are specially attracted to the essay on “Shakspeare’9 Americanisms.” Mr. Lodge begins by referring to the proneness of our British cousins to criticize both in our speech and writing what they are pleased to call “Americanisms,” and he justly remarks that it is futile to try to shut out from tho language and literature, as it is used in America, certain words and phrases merely because they are not used in the British isles, whence the people and their speech originally came. It does not in the least follow, because a word is not used to-day in England that it is either new or bad. The mere fact that the w'ord exists in one place and not in another of itself proves nothing. Some time ago an English reviewer condemned some of the letters of James Russell Lowell, stigmatizing them as “provincial.” But, as Mr. Lodge remarks, they were provincial simply because they were not in the language or spirit of the critic’s own parish. The explanation of many peculiarities in the American speech is found in the fact that the people of this country have retained tho original English speech. For, as the writer noints out, it is necessary to bear in mind that for the most part the early emigrants who settled in Virginia and New England were educated men. It was so in Virginia, and it was specially so in New England. Among the early Puritans the average education was high, and they showed their love of learning by their immediate foundation of the College of Harvard and of a public school system. The Puritan clergy were almost without exception graduates of Oxford and Cambridge. England, and not a few of them had been eminent in these colleges before they migrated to the new world. And the language which these people brought w T ith them to Virginia and Massachusetts was the language of Shakspeare, who lived and wrote, and died, just before the Puritans migrated to America. The author is merely discussing Shakspeare’s Americanisms, or it would have been much more to the point to have said that they brought over the language of King James’s Bible. It was the English Bible, in its successive translations, which formed the language of Shakspeare. Mr. Bartlett, in his “Dictionary of Americanisms,” says that one of the most marked peculiarities of American speech is the constant use of the word "well,” as an interjection, especially at the beginning of sentences. Here Mr. Lodge finds a Shakspearean idiom. The Danish soldiers, with Italian names and idiomatic English speech, use it in the first scene of Hamlet. For example: Bernardo—Have you had quiet guard? Francisco—Not a mouse stirring. Bernardo—Well, good night. This is a precise example of the American use of the word “well.” And it was a most common interjection, as a reference to a Shakspearean concordance will show. But the writer does not surely mean to Imply that it is not used in England even at the present day. If he has, as he says, “more than once found patronizing criticisms of this peculiarity of American speech,” they must have been made by soma one thoroughly unacquainted with the general speech of the English people; or, as Mr. la>dge would say, of those who knew nothing of their sp ech “beyond that of their own parish.” The use of the wo - 1 “sick” for “ill.” as an Englishman wc jld say, is probably more to the mark. This is a distinct Americanism in the present day. But Shakspeare rarely uses the word “ill,” but frequently the word ‘ “sick” in the general sense. In the Bible the word is always so used, and also in the book of Common Prayer. It also conforms to the usage of Chaucer, Milton. Dryden and Cowper. Englishmen commonly use the word “luggage,” when the Americans would say “baggage.” In this we agree with Touchstone, who says: “Though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.” Leontes, in the “Winter’s Tale,” employs the same phrase. Shakspeare uses the word “luggage” twice, but solely with regard to the effects of an army, as “the luggage of our camp.” Among characteristic American words, none is more common than “to guess” in the sense of “to think.” But Shakspeare uses the word constantly. For example, in “Measure for Measure,” where Esealus replies to Angelo, in American fashion. “I guess not.” In this connection it may bo of interest to remark that in the South the people usually say “I reckon.” instead of ”1 guess,” an expression which is clearly Biblical (see Romans, viii, IS.) “Mad,” in the sense of angry, is usually regarded in England as peculiarly American, and as a very improper use of the word. Shakspeare has it. In “Romeo and Juliet,” Lady Capulet says to her husband, “You are too hot,” and he replies, “God’s braed. it makes me mad.” And from Pepys’s Diary we find that the word “mad,” in the sense of angry, was a common colloquial usage. Mr. Lodge also selects the word “fleet,” as a verb in the sense of “to pass” or to move, which he says is still in use on the island of Nantucket, in the State of Massachusetts. It has doubtless lingered there among American fishermen and farmers as an echo of the Elizabethan period. The word is used in Shakspeare by Charles the Wrestler in “As You Like It.” Thus: “They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.” It ought, however, to be stated that this old word fleet, “to moved’ is still retained in the provincial use of the word “flit” or “flitting” in all parts of England. In this essay Mr. Lodge has chosen a very interesting subject, and one which, if taken up in connection with the speech of the English Bible, the language of Milton, as well as of Shakspeare. would show that in the Southern States of this country as well as in the New England States a Very pure form of English has been retained. In many cases the proper as well as the original pronunciation of English words has been retained, while in England a more frequent intercourse with the London cockney has vitiated the pronunciation of many an educated Englishman, who is but too prone to criticise American speech, while the Yankee is unconsciously speaking not only the language of Shakspeare. hut of those learned divines who formulated that language in the English translations of the Scriptures. A Correction. Washington Post. , We notice that several reckless Indiana newspapers refer to him as Col. Perry S. Heath. Indiana should do better by ’ her illustrious citizen, Gen. Perry S. Heath. Ah to Buiytbe. Chicago Tribune. “Isn’t he a good deal of a trimmer?” “Yes. He lacks the courage of his convictions. He spells his name Smyibe and 1 pronounces it Smith.'-* .....—, —-

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1897.

PLAY BILLS THIS WEEK JOSEPH HOLLAND AT THE GRAND IN “THE MYSTERIOUS MR. BUGLE.” Murray and Muck Opr 4 Their Annual Engagement at the Par It— Vaudeville at Empire. Madeleine Lucette Ryley, the author of “The Mysterious Mr. Bugle,” has devised a whimsical but convincing scene in that clever play, In which she makes Betty Fondacre, the charming heroine, played by Gretchen Lyons, smoke a big cigar without the faintest suggestion of vulgarity. The incident develops so.naturally that the audience takes it good-naturedly as the only way out of the predicament in which Betty finds herself. The scene is in the first act. Allan Fondacre, after a visit to his cousin Betty, makes a hurried exit, and leaves behind him a half-smoked cigar. Tom Pollinger, played by Joseph Holland, Betty’s affianced, comes in with suspicious mind. He taxes Betty wfith having had a visitor. She denies it. Cigar stump is found. Tableau! Betty says: “You must have left it the last time you were here.” Tom answers sarcastically, as he shows the smoking weed: “It has kept pretty warm.” Betty calls woman’s proverbial wdt to her aid and confesses she has a terrible vice, and that the cigar is hers. Tom is skeptical, and offers her a fresh cigar. The test is a hard one, but woman’s courage is on top. Betty grimaces, sighs and lights the weed with some difficulty. Betty puffs dejectedly. Tom’s suspicions are lulled. She grows pale and weak; collapse is imminent, when Tom leaves the room. Betty drops the cigar and rushes for a goblet of water. It is to the groat credit of Miss Lyons that she plays this difficult scene with such exquisite tact and delicacy that it holds its place as one of the most charming bits of comedy in “The Mysterious Mi*. Bugle.” The plot of “The Mysterious Mr. Bugle” is ingenious and full of situations that are funny. As the hero, Tom Pollinger, Joseph Holland has a most congenial part. He brings out all the absurdities of a mildly jealous lover with artistic capability. Gretchen Lyons, who plays the part of Betty Fondacre, the leading female role, is an exceptionally beautiful and talented young actress. The play is in three acts, and the scenes are laid in and about a fashionable hotel at Lakewood, N. J. The period is the present time. The story centers about Tom Pollinger, a handsome, sixfoot young man of twenty-five, to whom his eccentric grandmother is to leave her fortune on the understanding that he forms no matrimonial plans until he arrives at the age of discretion—forty years. With- - usual weakness of mankind, how’ever, Tom falls a victim to the charms of Betty Fondacre. In quite the ordinary course of events, too, he is insanely jealous of her, and in order that she may be protected from the attentions of other men he prevails on her to pose as Mrs. Bugle, a grass widow, until such time as the secret of their engagement may be broken to the public. Miss Betty takes up her residence in a summer hotel, where such an unfortunate chain of circumstances occurs as in the eyes of the jealous Tom seems to point to the existence of an actual Mr. Bugle. Most amusing situations result, situations which the author artistically handles. She has so worked up her material as to keep up the interest throughout thw entire piece. The engagement opens to-morrow night, and continues until Thursday. Walker Whiteside Coming* Xext "Week A dramatic event of unusual interest is to be the engagement of Walker Whiteside at the Grand next week. In addition to the classic repertoire that has made Mr. Whiteside famous, he is to play anew romantic drama, which, while calling into play his best resources, will yet have a fresh and lively interest from its novelty and picturesqueness. His new play is a dramatization of “The Man in Black,” Stanley Weyman’s novel. Tho book has been transformed into a play of even more interest and fascination. The dramatist has kept the most available portions of the book and added on entirely new conception, one that makes a dual role out of the character of the old magician. Mr. Whiteside goes out this year under the management of Mason Mitchell, who has engaged a particularly fine company, including Frederick Paulding for leading man. The engagement here is for the first half of next week. The advance sale opens next Thursday at the Pembroke Arcade. In addition to “The Man in Black” Mr. Whiteside will appear in “Hamlet” and “Richelieu.”

Park—Murray and Mack. Murray and Mack, tho well-known and popular Irish comedians, whose visits to the Park each year are among the most popular events of the entire season, will be there all this week, opening with tomorrow’s matinee in “Finn* gan’s Courtship,” the best of the Finnigan series thus far. It is from the pen of George H. Emerick, the author of two of their former successes. “Irish Neighbors” and “Finnigail’s Ball.” All the scenery, mechanical effects and costumes will be new. Among the many in the large company are Chas. Morgan, Andrew’ Bode, Henry Elliott, Chris Bruno. John Hull, Herbert Dillea, Chas. Hilliard, Sadie Connelly. Annie Lloyi, Grade Tyson, Lola Marisse, Lonnie Deane, Dolly Delroy, Bessie Varse, Grade Wolle, Lillian Gale and the Trumbull sisters, Fannie and Mae. Murray and Mack always play to “standing room” houses, and are great favorites. “Finnigan’s Courtship” will be giv?n all week, with the usual daily matinees. Victor Herbert as a Composer. Victor Herbert, director of the famous Twenty-second Regiment Band of New York (formerly Gilmore’s), which will give a concert at Tomlinson Hall, on the evening of Oct. 29, is not only noted as a band master, but has achieved a wider reputation as a -violoncellist and operatic composer. There are nowv five comic operas being performed throughout the country of which he composed the music. They are “The Serenade” and “Prince Ananias.’’ which the Bostonians are presenting; ’ The Wizard of the Nile” and “The Idol’s Eye,” the new w ork in which Frank Daniels appears, and “The Prima Donna,” in which Camille D’Arville is to star. “The Wizard of the Nile” has recently scored a great success in London and in Vienna. Herbert’s Band, which w ill play here, has made a great hit elsewhere. The Seidl Orchestra Coining. It looks as if the first big musical event of the season, the matinee and evening concerts of the Seidl Orchestra, at Tomlinson Hall, Thursday, Oct. 21, would attract people from many of the surrounding tow’ns as well as the large musical public of Indianapolis. Anton rieidl’s reputation, couph and with that of his great orchestra, is sufficient to insure a rare treat for Indianapolis. Mme. Julia Rive King is the piano soloist. WONDERS OF SURGERY. Fifteen Yards of Silver YVire Colled in a Californian’s Aorta. San Francisco Dispatch. Adrian Dehertoghe is walking about the streets without much apparent consciousness that lie represents one of the signal achievements in medical science. Forty-five feet of fine silver wire were colled in the great artery which leads directly from his heart. Dehertoghe, who is a machinist, received the Injury which made this operation necessary a year and a half ago w hile at work on the metal gates in the Parrott building. He put his whole weight against a number of the heavy metal structures, which, in some way, lost their equilibrium, and were about to fall on his young son, who was working with him at the time. The movement strained and almost ruptured his aorta. A violent swelling of the whole left side, accompanied by insupportable pains, followed. Dehertoghe became an X-ray subject. Through a friend Dr. Carlson heard ot him and offered to undertake the case. The operation had failed so often that the chances were many against Its success in this instance. But as the patient could not live in any case more than a few months longer, he determined to take the risk. His condition was such that he was unable to take any anaesthetic, and bore the twenty minutes' operation, tho incision over

his hdart and the skillful insertion of the silver wire, in full consciousness. The operation was performed at St. Luke's Hospital, Dr. Carlson doing the main work, and five other physicians assisting him. A saculated tumor had been formed in the wall of the great artery. This would have in time most certain.y led to a rupture of the artery and the patient’s death. These fifteen yards of silver wire, not larger around than an ordinary hypodermic needle, have been placed in this sac. In time they will form a clot there, which will contract and be absorbed. Then the artery itself will gradually contract to its normal size. This wonderful operation was performed twelve weeks ago. The patient recovered as rapidly as is usual after operations of any description. He still wears adhesive plasters otter the hole that was made in his chest, but he goes about ameng his friends as usual and expects, after a brief vacation in the country, to be able to continue ids work. OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

In St. Louis there is enough vacant and unused land to make a strip 125 feet wide and nearly 900 miles tong. Most of the shoes worn in Japan are made of straw or wood. In the entire country there is but one factory where leather shoes are made. The eye of the vulture is so constructed that it is a high-power telescope, enabling the bird to see objects at an almost incredible distance. In Germany, to prevent poison being obtained for evil purposes, none is allowed to be sold without a written order or certificate from a physician. Pitcairn island now contains 120 inhabitants. the descendants of the well-known English mutineers and Tahitian women. Only forty of the inhabitants are men. Holy Hill, in Wisconsin, is a Roman Catholic shrine, which is visited by about 25.000 pilgrims every year, many of whom say that they are cured of their ailments. The Christian Endeavorers of Alameda county, California, have started a crusade against the riding of bicycles on Sunday und are circulating pledges, throughout the country. The London Echo gives a list of large landowners in Australia. One of them has 620,000 acres, another 1,200.00 U, a third 3,600,000, while the Union Bank owns no fewer than 7,8i)0,000 acres. The Japanese are now getting used to glass. At first the glass railway carriage windows had to be smeared with streaks of white paint to keep passengers from poking their heads through it. A German paper calls attention to the extraordinary fact that at Aachen alone 800 tons of steel wire are used up annually in the manufacture of needles—4,soo,ooo,ooo in number, valued at $1,500,000. An ordinance being enforced in Newbern, N. C., prohibits any one, proprietors and employes included, from going in or out of a place of business between Saturday midnight and Sunday midnight. License fees on 1,436 occupations amount to $1,350,000 a year in St. Louis. This enables light taxation on the land, and vacant land is assessed H per cent, lower than the occupied land, thus helping the real estate speculators. Paper threatens to supersede rubber in the making of telegraph wire. The interior cabie is lead-covered, and thin spirals of paper are wound around each interior wdre. The cost is said to be one-fiftenth of rubber insulated cable. It is a remarkable fact that Burmah differs from almost all other Oriental countries in the freedom accorded to its women. They stand in every way almost on an equality with men. Girls share equally with boys in all inheritance. The traveler in China will notice that the women do not w’ear their hair in queues. The reason for this is that it is a general belief that the women will not go to paradise. The yellow’ men declare that their wives and daughters have no souls. The French used the bicycle' in 1871, during the siege of Belfort, for carrying dispatches. Tho wheel adopted at that time was, of course, the “ordinary,” or high wheel. This was the earliest introduction of the cycle in the army. The Arabic used in the Koran differs as much from the Arabic used in ordinary conversation in the east as the Latin differs from the Italian. The Koran Arabic is that of the literary classes; the colloquial Arabic that of the common people. A physician has declared that if only twenty minutes a day was spent in physical exercise as an adjunct to mental education, most people might live to seventy without a day’s illness, and perhaps prolong their lives to one hundred years. An East End of London clergyman, who sent out invitations to a. jubilee banquet among the poor of his parish and received seventy acceptances, on announcing that he would have no beer lost fifty-three of his guests and was besides guyed by the newspapers. The supposed grave of Eve is visited by over forty thousand pilgrims in each year. It is to be seen at Jeddah, in a cemetery outside the city wails. The tomb is fifty Cubits long and twelve wide. The Arabs entertain a belief that Eve was the tallest woman who ever lived. Bathrooms in public schools are a novelty that Boston will introduce in its new buildings. The latest structure of an educational nature in that city is to cost $350,000, and will be fitted with toilet, dressing and bath rooms for both sexes, with eleven shower baths and foot baths as well. One of the Duke of Aumale’s executors says, in a letter to the French institute, that the collections of Chantilly, which the duke bequeathed to the nation, are appraised at $3,000,000; the library contains thirteen thousand rare volumes and 45,000 of less value, and is worth SIOO,OOO. Heat holidays have been established by law in the public schools of Switzerland. Recognizing the well-know r n fact that the brain cannot work properly when the heat is excessive, the children are dismissed from their tasks whenever the thermometer goes above a certain point. The moon revolves from one point in the heavens to the same point in twenty-seven days, seven hours and forty-three minutes. It does not describe a circle, but an ellipsis; and its distaned from the earth is 240,000 miles. The point of its most remote distance is termed apogeum, and its nearest perigeum. The Rhind manuscript, deciphered some thirty years ago, a hieratic papyrus now in the British Museum, w ritten by an Egyptian priest, Abmes, about 1700 B. C., is the oldest intelligible mathematical work extant. Another and older roll, on a mathematical subject exists, but has not yet been deciphered. Charles Moore, seventy-eight years old, and his wife have arrived at Annapolis, Md„ after a drive of two thousand miles from Denver, which they left on May 18. Mr. Moore desired to show’ his children that he was not too old to enjoy such a trip. He and his wife camped out along the way and prepared their own meals. In the sixteenth century there w’as a curious law in England whereby street haw’kers were forbidden to sell plums and apples, for the reason that servants and apprentices were unable to resist the sisrht of them, and were consequently tempted to steal their employers' money in order to enjoy the costly delicacies. An Alabama farmer discovered recently that one of his cows was not giving as much milk as formerly, and he set out to watch her. After she had lain down in her stall he discovered four pigs out of a litter of six sitting under her enjoying an evening meal. The porkers are getting fat and sleek, while the cow has fallen off considerably.

TRAINING THE NOSE. By Manipulation Its Shape May Be Greatly Cbunged. New York Sun. A woman’s eyebrow’s; and nose come in for their share of attention nowadays. In these enlightened times careful mothers begin in babyhood to set their children aright, and in no particular are they more uniformly successful than in training and shaping the eyebrows and nose. A woman who makes a specialty of these features says: “Mothers are largely responsible for the numberless misshapen noses and scraggy, irregular eyebrow’s seen in growm-up people to-day. If they had done their duty during the infancy and early childhood of their children I would have much less trouble in my profession, and my clients, their neglected children, would not be mortified by such blemishes. “When a child’s nose is too thick at the end or the nostrils have a tendency to stand open it may easily be shaped by simply pressing with the fingers. This should be done at least three times a day and for ten minutes each time. If the child is past infancy and has healthy lungs, beside pressing with the fingers a little instrument especially prepared for such cases should be worn at night. It gives no pain and interferes very little with the breathing. When the nose is too thin and gives promise of being insignificant in size massage three times a day or as often as convenient is the only treatment necessary. If the nose is deficient at the end then only that part should be massaged and the movement be circular, but if the whole nose is undersized it should be rubbed from the very roots. The tips of the fingers should be used and the pressure should be firm, though not sufficient to cause the slightest inconvenience. il uiu nose is turned up it should be rubbed down. Take the first three lingers, with the middle finger on top and the first and third finger on either side, and. beginning at the bridge of the nose, rub down, increasing the pressure at the end. This simple treatment, if persisted in, will fatten and reshgjja-the most .pronounced turned-

The New Fall Styles That we are show ing in every department all bear Dame Fashion’s critical approval. We are crowded into one corner of the building that we hope to have finished soon, but that’s no bar to our showing complete and well-assorted stocks of the newest FaJ Goods, and then the crowded condition of affairs helps you along, as we must sell large quantities of goods quickly, and in order to do so are offering many and very substantial good values—Rebuilding Bargains we call them. t3jTPresei<t Entrance one door west of Former Etrauce.*!£j)

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up nose. Os course, it is best to begin in infancy; but, when an adult wishes to work a change in her tip-tilted organ, the process may be hastened by the use of a harmless instrument, to be worn at night, or during the day, when possible. If the nose is naturally crooked, that is, twisted on one side or the other, it needs only to be rubbed in the right direction, if the person is still young. But after a person has reached maturity, such a deformity can only be remedied by the use of a knite. The operation is sure and by no means painful. Os course, where crookedness is caused by an accident, the effect is more serious, and a change of shape should only be attempted by a skilled surgeon. “Women often bring their children to me for the purpose of having their noses trained in a certain shape. Not long ago an old customer brought in a pretty baby boy of six months and informed me that she wi3hed his nose treated, and one of decided Roman shape insured. lhe child had just the face to which a Roman nose would be the most unbecoming imaginable, and I told her so. But she insisted, saying that the baby’s mother, who was her own sis* 2r, had faith in the success of persons with Roman noses, and had determined that her child should have one. Now the child comes for daily massage of the joint in the nose. lam sometimes tempted to make an effort to change the whole shape of the child's face, for ,} , am . con : vinced that the effect of a well-developed Roman organ on a chubby, *f usl ]mg face will be decidedly startling when the child grows up. And think how grateful he will be w’hen he learns that he owes it to a whim of his mother! “Oh yes; I often receive orders for different shaped noses. Quite frequently ba.bies aro brought in by their nurses with 01ders for a straight, a Greek, a Roman, or even a turned up nose. Jay old patrons nearly always leave the shape to me. for they know that 1 will study produce a becoming feature. 1 cannot say 1 am a great believer in the judging of character by the nose. It may be because I know how easily the shapes are changed or modified. I have seen many weak people with identically the same shaped nasa organs as people whose strength of charac ter has become a household word. “The shaping of a child s brows is a much simpler undertaking than changing the nose It needs attention but once a day, and then after the bath The necessary implements are quite simple, and may he used by anyone. They are a tiny comb and brush, a scentless salve and a little steel implement for removing superfluous hairs. Every morning the brows should be brushed freely. Then, by deft strokes the ci mb brings the brows into tne desired proportions. Then gently but firmly each needless hair should be extracted with the pincers. Lastly, with the tips of the fingers apply the salve, which will give luster and increase the growth. This salve may be had colored and used to darken the brows, but where the training and care of the brows are begun in childhood, additional color is hardly ever necessary, since the growth is generally sufficiently and well outlined to obviate a lack of color. . “When it is necessary to darken the brows never use a pencil. This is a mistake that many women make. A pencil colors the skin"and not, the hair. It does not impart gloss and is always easily visible. If your biows absolutely need an addition of color, use a sort of paste made for the purpose, it I’omts in hard cakes, resembling India ink with a tiny but stiff little bristle brush. This brush should be moistened and rubbed on the cake, then delicately, very delicately, rubbed over the brows, w'hich have previously been well brushed. The greatest care should be taken to prevent any of the stuff from getting on the skin, for, while it is perfectly harmless, it is plainly visible, and spoils the effect of the brow.’’ Tle Grape lore. New York Tribune. A celebrated French physician, Dr. Dupour.v. divides fruit Into five classes, each of which possesses a special hygienic value —the acid the sweet, the astringent, the oily and the mealy. To the first, including cherries, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, peaches. apples, lemons and ©ranges, ho accords great merit* Cherries*

THE NEW FALL SHOES | I .... | FINEST FRENCH Kill SHOESt£-> gQ Ladles’ newest fall styies. and we will match them against any $4 line shown anywhere; made of All-Kid stock or with Silk vesting tops. Ol R LINE OF LADIES’ LEAD- d? 4 QC ER SHOES AT Are without an equal. W r e have gone on each season improving this Shoe in style and quality, and this fall’s production can be recommended to the most fastidious—a stylish and good wearing Shoe at a moderate price. Every pair warranted to give satisfaction. MEN’S CUSTOM-MADE HON- QQ CALF SHOES Lace Shoes, coin and bulldog toes, extension soles—a new line and a bargain line at $1.98. MEN’S TANNERY CALF Newest fall shapes, all solid leather, and very good value. MISSES’ WATER - PROOF SCHOOL SHOES Made of Dongola and Kangaroo Calf,' with heavy soles, spring heels, button or lace, all solid leather. Sizes 8% to 11 at SI.OO Sizes 11% to 2 at $1.25 BOYS’ AND YOUTHS’ TAN-^4 NERY CALF SHOES qjI.AtJ Made with double soles, a Shoe that will last a full school term; all sizes. MISSES’ ALL SOLID LEATHER QQ r SHOES AT Spring heel, button or lace, patent leather or kid trimming; sizes 11% to 2. BOVS’ AND VOITIIS’ SOLID QQ. LEATHER SHOES Lace, all sizes, warranted to wear, fall styles. Fall Hosiery and Underwear CHILDREN’S Union Suits, white and gray, fleeced, ribbed, drop backs, 25c grade; our IQ. price LADIES’ Heavy Fleeced Ribbed Vests and Pants, Vests button across chest, dS. a 39c value at Ladies’ Natural W r ool Gray 75c Un- EQ , derwear at Ladies’ All-Wool Scarlet Underwear, &Q r a bargain, at MEN’S Regular $t All-W T ool Scarlet, Gray and Camel’s-hadr Underwear, ;i big bargain, at Men’s regular 5Qc heavy Fleece-lined dQ. Underwear at Closing out our medium-weight White and Gray Men’s Merino Underwear at BOVS’ Fltece-iined heavy W'inter Underwear at Tliree SquTCa West of Illinois Street. Sew Nos. 300 to 370 W. Wash.

however, he prohibits entirely to those affected with neuralgia of the stomach. Strawberries and raspberries he recommends warmly to those of bilious, plethoric and gouty temperament, and denies them to those on whom diabetes is present or suspected. Os the sweet fruits he considers that plums are of special hygienic value, and even a preventive in gout and articular rheumatism. To the grape he accords the very first place. As this is the season for that fruit his remarks thereon a.re particularly applicable. He is an ardent advocate of what in Europe is called the grape cure. In this cure grapes for several days form the exclusive ailment. The patient commences with the consumption of from one to two pounds daily, with a gradual increase to eight or ten pounds. After a few days of this diet a marked Improvement in the general health is noticeable. The appetite Improves, the digestion becomes easy and rapid, and increased capacity to withstand the fatigue of outdoor exercise is noticeable. The grape cure is particularly recommended to the anemic, dyspeptic and consumptive, in diseases of the liver and gout. WATER TUWEII. It Promised an Industrial Revolution —Electricity Its Tool. London Spectator, The closing years of the nineteenth century—a ceniury which lias been so full of change and marked by progress in so many directions—are ushering in a change perhaps more important in its significance for our own country than any mat has preceded it, even in this century of progress. This change is foreshadowed by the striking developments of water power for industrial purposes that have been witnessed in both Europe and America during the last six years—developments winch would appear to point to the substitution of water power for steam power in industry at some future date, and to the transfer of the chief manufacturing industries trom those countries rich In the possession of coal to those rich in the possession of this modern rival of coal, namely, water. The j recent development has been chiefly due to the progress of electrical science; and the successful application of water power on a large scale to industrial purposes adds one more to the large number ot triumphs with which the electrical engineers of the present age must be credited. The water wheel has been replaced by the turbine, which can be adapted to any head of water, and by means of which water powers of the greatest magnitude may be successfully developed for industrial purposes. The head of water- under w'hich the old mill wheels were worked rarely exceeded twenty feet, and was generally much below that limit; to-day heads of water of 140 feet and 210 feet are being used at the two power plants at Niagara Falls, and at Fresno, Cal., there is a water power plant working under a head of 1,400 feet. When it is remembered that the height or head of water is one of the factors which determine the amount of energy developed, the significance of these figures is apparent. As regards the amount of pewer developed under the old system, 100 horse power might be regarded as a maximum; to-day there are at Niagara single turbines which produce 5,000 horse power, and there is no proof that e\*en these enormous wheels represent the limit in size which may not be safely exceeded. Even more important than the results w’hich have come from the substitution of the turbine for the older water wheel are those which have been produced by the introduction of electric transmission. In the older system the machinery In the mill had to be coupled directly to the water wheel by shafting and gearing, and thence these old mills were necessarily built r.pon the banks of the rivers and streams which provided them with power. In the modern system of transmission by alternating electric currents, the mechanical energy developed by the turbine is converted on the spot into electrical energy by means of the dynamo, and this electrical energy is then carried by air lines to the locality where it is to be used. Thus the modern factory or mill driven by water power need not necessarily be situated in mountainlocked valleys, miles worn the nearest rail-

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way and remote from the Industrial centers of the district. It may be built wherever the natural and economic conditions aro most favorable to the manufacture, and the electrical energy developed miles away can be delivered at the factory by an air cable as easily as water may be delivered through pipes from a distant reservoir in the hills. The greatest activity In the application of these modern methods for the utilization of water power is now being displayed in both Europe and America, add the following figures, which represent tho aggregate horse power already developed, or in course of development, will give some Idea of the wonderfully rapid advance that has occurred in recent years in this branch of engineering science. In America the total of the larger Installations is 72,000 horse power, with the prospect of this total being increased to 150.000 when the Niagara scheme is completed. In addition to this, there are a very large number of smaller pants in operation in the mining districts of Colorado and Nevada- Switzerland occupies the second place, with 32,1)00 horse power. This will he Increased to 48.000 when the second water power plant on the Rhone, near Geneva, is completed. France follows with 18,000 horse power, which will be increased to 30,000 by the completion of the power plant near Lyons. Germany has only one water power or any magnitude, that at Rluinfelderu This will yield 10,000 horse power when completed. Italy has 18,000 horse power; Sweden and Norway between 10,000 and 20.000 horse power each, with almost limitless possibilities for further development, while England and Scotland come at th® end of the list with only 4.000 horse power. The purposes for which this power is being utilized are exceedingly varied. It is used directly as electrical energy for lighting purposes and for chemical and metallurgical operations. Transformed again into mechanical energy by means of the electric motor, it is used for working tramway Bystems and for driving machinery of all kinds at the mines or in engineering and other workshops. The significance of this new step forward in the application of water power to Industrial purposes is startling. On the one hand It signifies that man huß at last learned how to effectually master and utilize one of the mightiest natural forces of tho earth. Coal is an exhaustible possession, and the day must come w-hen the coal fields of the earth will be worked out. Our rivers and falls offer, on the other hand, an inexhaustible supply of energy, for so long as the heat of the sun evaporates the water of the sea and causes it to fall again as rain upon the hills or as snow upon the mountains, this source will l>e available for the supply of man’s wants, and the arrival of the time when the earth's coal fields will be exhausted need no longer be awaited with misgivings. There is another aspect of this development which is less cheerful for contemplation by three of the nations of Europe. The position which England. Germany and Belgium occupy to-day as th® leading manufacturing countries of Europe has resulted chiefly from the possession o| extensive coal fields capable of cheap development, coal having been In the past the chief factor in determining the industrial progress of any country. Tho progress of electrical science has, how’ever, apparently changed the conditions of industrial supremacy, and it appears as though the possession, not of coal fields, but of water power, will be the determining factor In the future. Whether the check to tho natural growth and expansion of industry in the older manufacturing countries of Europe. which may already be observed as one result of the Increased use of water power in countries hitherto of little or no account in the Industrial struggle, will be followed by the gradual migration of the staple industries io the cheaper center* of power, remains for the future to disclose, but it is a question of tremendous significance for the prosperity of the countries concerned. It would Involve a rearrangement of tho relative position of the nations of Europe, and however pleasant the period of transition and change might be for the nations which would thereby rise Into Industrial importance, it would most certainly be very much the reverse for the of thus* throe countries of Europe which to-day stand foremost In the extent and nurnbar of their manufacturing industries.