Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 June 1897 — Page 3

DEVIL JACK WILSON.

"HOW HE SHOWED HIS CONTEMPT O N IT O E IN

B«ld Up Can and Let a Drunken Mali Throw Rocks at It—Used It Himself to Felt a Nevada Ljnx That Followed Hint.

Thta Last Act Cost Him His Position.

S "I have been in nearly every mining camp in the United States west of the Mississippi river and in all mining sections In Mexioo and have, of course, seen some of the toughest frontier life anywhere," eaid J. M. Howard, an old time .miner from Tombstone, A. T., at the hotel the other evening. Such characters as Wild Bill, Yellowstone Jack and the dozens of others who have been famous in flash literature for an apparent recklessness of human life and daredevil deeds have been known to me personally. But the most ultra reckless of them all and the most Indifferent man, to his own safety lever came across was a little, squeaky voiced, bashful teamster named John Wilson. I never can forget that fellow, and neither will the hundreds of men who wero compelled to work about him. "Wilson was .at work for a mining company in Alpi-ie county, in central California, in 1877. Nitroglycerin was used to loosen the gold quartz in the hard, rocky tides of the mountain. There were a lot

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men in camp who passed for bold, reckless and fearless fellows, and each would have made a good character for a sanguinary dime novel. But when any of them was offered $50 or $00 a week and found,' just to drive the nitroglycerin wagon from the railroad station, five miles away, io the mining camp every other day, it 9ras amusing to hear the excuses he would make for preferring to work like a Trojan ken hours a day down in the quartz mine lor $5 a day. "John Wilson happened to hear that a toan was wanted at bang up good pay and easy work to haul the explosive, and he came 40 miles post haste to the superintendent of th» mine to get the job. He was told all about the awful risk he took and was informed it was possible that an Imperceptible jar of his wagon on that road at any time might blow him and lus horses into eternity, but that made no difference with Wilson. He wanted the job. "He soon became known among all the miners in that part of California as Devil Jack, and it was a fit name for him. He had & chum named Bill Soggs, who was almost as reckless as Jack. I have seen him and Bill play catch with cans of glycerin they were unloading, the dropping of one of which to the ground would more than Ukely have wiped out of existence every person around the diggings. "It got so that whenever Jaok Wilson had a load of nitroglycerin to unload at the camp everybody else except Bill Soggs took to the woods or hid behind the camp buildings and staid there until the stuff was out of their custody. Once Devil Jack held a great can of glycerin above his head and let a drunken miner named Paterson throw ten stones at it from a distance of BO feet on a bet of $20 that lie couldn't hit the can once out of the ten times. This Was at Smith's diggings, and the whole tamp watched the Insane proceeding from ft safe distance on the hill. One of the

Ptones hit Jack on the arm, not two inches below the can and knocked it out of his hand. He caught the can, though, before »lt reached the ground, or the throwing match would have ended there and then, with the burial of such bits of Jack and the miner as oould be found, and they would have been exceedingly few and small. The latter came close to the can several times during the trial, but failed to hit it, and Jack won his bet. '•In those days the woods all through the mining regions were full of wild animals, and it was not an uncommon sight to see a bear or a Nevada lynx or a catamount prowling around the camps or isolated villages. The lynx was frequently very aggressive and bold, and it was greatly feared by the minora and workers on the outside of the camps. More than once men had been attacked by lynxes, and James Carter was so badly hurt in fighting one off that had jumped from a tree upon him as he was driving through a piece of woods that he died of his injuries. One day Devil Jaok was on his way to a well with a load of nitroglycerin cartridges, and he picked the road through what wns known as Conway's wooda Bill discovered a Nevada lynx stealing along through the branches of the trees at one side of the road and keeping even with the wngon. He called Jack's attention to t'io animal, and Jack said it was watching {or a chanco to attack them, but declared tliao if it followed them as far as Rodney's gulch he would get rid of the dangerous beast. "Rodney's gulch was a gap in the woods, a ravine 20 feet wide and as inaLy dean. The lynx did follow the men as far as the opening, and Jack stopped his wagon. The lynx crouched a few feet away from the edge of the nearest wall of the ravine, and before Soggs surmised how

Jack intonded to get rid of the animal Jnck grabbed up a small tin can or cartridge of nitroglycerin and hurled it with all his strength at the lynx, which was not. over 20 fee* away. The cartridge struck the soft body of the lynx square on one ride and knocked the animal over on its back. The flesh and fur of the animal did not offer resistance to the little can sufficient to cause concussion enough to explode it, but the can rolled to the ground and slowly down a gradual decline that led from where the lynx lay to the edge of the ravine wall "That was probably the first and last time a wild animal was over hunted with pint nitroglycerin cartridges, and that was ihe last trip*Devil Jack ever drove for the company he was working for. He wasn discharged because he

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gered lifo and property by thowing cans of nitroglycerin at a wildcat, but because he drove on from the ravine without getting back the can ho threw, and the company would not stand such a waste of their property."—St Louis Globe-Democrat.

growl

plentifully on the Mohave desert. Thi trees are cut down and trimmed into logs about 10 or 1$ feet long and from 10 inches upward in diameter and shipped to the factory, where they are stripped of bark and carefully inspected. About half oi more of the logs contain what might be balled 'flaws or kidney colored masses, sc hard that the machinery used cannot cut them. Nobody seems able to explain how these formations are caused, but they make the men at the factory a great idiial of trouble and spoil much timbor.

The logs are sawed up into suitable lengths, a length put into a lathe, and a long knife is pressed against it, taking off a shaving about an eighth of an inch thick, "more or less, according to the us to be made of it This long shaving, or board, is t-hea out into smaller pieces and put away in racks to dry, for the trees are cut up when green, it being impossible to •often them after they are dried. Although they grow in the desert and look parched to the eye. they are full of water and weigh so much when green that they sink in the water. The poorer quality of the jSrtM..Hhiek

fastened around yonng fruit trees to protect them' from sunburn and the attacks of rabbits, for tvhfch purpose they are found to answer admirably, and a great many of them are used. But the use of this material, upon which the greatest hope of ultimate profit is baaed, is for splints, for which it is much better adapted than any other material used, as well as being cheaper.—Los Angeles JoumaL

HARD TO, BUY DIAMONDS.

In South Africa a Permit as Well as Money Is Neoeisarj. The laws pertaining to diamonds in the fields of South Africa have become very stringent. It is illegal to own a diamond unless one is a claim holder or a licensed buyer. If a private individual wishes to purchase a stone or two for himself, he must first obtain a permit from the authorities.

These precautions will be seen to be necessary, because the value of the diamond, its portability, the faculty with which it can' be concealed and the uncertainty regarding its existence make it a source of tempation to dishonesty among all classes. It is therefore against the law for any one, even if a licensed buyer, to purchase a diamond from any one not a claim holder unless he can produce a permit.

The law has become so stringent and the detective force so activo that terror has stricken the illicit diamond buyers, for it is a matter of 15 years in prison to be convicted of buying a stolen diamond. Before this stringent law was passed many went away from the fields rich in a few years who could not possibly have made their fortune in any legitimate business in that length of time. Men who have been suspected for years, but have managed to evade detection, have been pounced upon by detectives at most unexpected moments, but the temptation is so strong that, despite the penalty, the practice still goes on, but to a smaller extent than before.—New York Advertiser.

Theory and Practice.

"Have you read that book on the training of children?" he asked. "I have," she replied. "I have read it through carefully, as you requested." "And you will be guided by it?" "That is for you to 6ay," she answered. "Forme!" he exclaimed. "I am not the one who looks after the children.'' "But you, are the one who furnishes what is necessary in the nursery to carry out your theories in regard to bringing up children."

He looked a little dubious, but be finally asked what it was necessary to have in order to carry out all the provisions of the latest book of instructions for mothers. "A maid or nurse for each child," she repliod. "Great mackerel!" he cried. "Three servants for the children!" "It would bo impossible to live up to the rules laid down by this book with any less," sh© answered, "and, in addition to that we must have a governess and a dancing master."' "Throve it away," he said gloomily. "It's like all the rest of them—'Written to tell people who don't have to take care of their children how it should be done."— Chicago Post.

Women In Men's Part8»

On June 06, 1705, Congreve's "Love For Love'' was represented at the Haymarket entirely by women. Prominent among a motley troop of players acting at Windsor in the following year was one Susanna Carroll, who tore a passion to tatters as Alexander the Great. By a marriage with the queen's head cook this lady subsequently became Mrs. Centlivre, under which name, as authoress of several lively comedies, she is best identified now. It was written of her, on her death in 172-3, that, having a greater inclination to wear the breeches than the petticoat, she struck into the men's parts," one of her qualifications for which was that she "had a small wen on her left eyelid, which gave her a masculine air.''

Possibly the adaptability to male roles shown by the women at the Haymarket in 1705 suggested to Vanbrugh the ingenious plot of his comedy, "The Mistake," brought out at the same house a year later. In this Mrs. Harcourt appeared as Camillo, "suppos'd eon of Alvarez," a girl who, from lack of a male heir, had been reared from her cradle as one of the opposite sex to preserve an estate. Naturally there is much playing at cross purposes, with adroit love complications, and the whole, not to oome tardy off, must have needed deft handling on the part of the actress.— Gentleman's Magazine.

The Lady's Name.

A New Orleans man who was a fond papa was telling his friends yesterday of the hard time he had trying to teach his youngster to say Mississippi.'' The word seemed more than the little one could master. Finally the father hit on the plan of teaching the child the word by syllables. "Now, say after me," said he to the boy, "Missis." "Missis," said the infanfphenomenon. "Sippi." "Sippi," echoed the boy. "Now »y the whole thing," commanded the father. '•Missis," began the child, and then he thought awhile. Papa,'' said he, ''what did you say the lady's name "was?"—Now Orleans Time6-Democrat.

He Was Warned.

Sir Michael Costa, who was a rigid disciplinarian of his orchestra, on one occaI sion was compelled to wait half an hour for the second oboe, and finally to begin without him. A quarter of an hour later, when the orchestra was at work, the absentee appeared, breathless, panting and sheepish. His explanation was that "a domestic event had just occurred in his home and that he did not like to leave un-

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SURGICAL SPLINTS.

factory Where They Are Made to SupplJ Sargrcons of the Coantry. Down below the Santa Fe roundhouse, near the railroad tracks, is a factory unlike any other in the United States, or, for that- matter, anywhere else. It. makes •plints for the use of surgeons in bandaging broken limbs from a peculiar fibroui material that possesses especial adaptability for the purpose. This material is th wood of the yucca palm, which

til he was assured that everything had passed off satisfactorily." There was some laughing and chaffing, but Sir Michael did not ioin in the merriment. However, on hearing the explanation his features reI laxed somewhat, and turning to the late I oboe player he said: "That is a different thing. You may take your place. But mind don't let it occur again."—San

Francisco Argonaut.

For lonr Bird.

Cage birds, especially parrots, often injure thoin.selves by biting and pulling at their tail feathers. A correspondent of a foreign paper offors the information that this habit may lie overcome by suspending an old rihbon or necktie in the cage close to the perch. She says that a string of old spools will give the bird much pleasure, I observation leading her to believe that the I biting comes from what would be called in human beings nervousness arising from lack of something to do.

Signs.

—Do you believe ftt signrf

Ferry—Some. When you see a woman driving south and looking east, it is a pretty sure sign that she means to turn to the west, at the first corner.—Cincinnati

Enquirer.

A Geaeroas Cardinal.

The late Cardinal Bonaparte was a grandson of Bonaparte. He was a very charitable man. During ene hi* illutases a servant came to hiaa and said that a poor person at the door begged for alms. "Give hiui what money yon will find in my purse," said the cardinal. "There is no mosey, eminence." "The silver spoons are all given away. We have nothing left bat pewter spoons." "Well, bring him in and gwe-him A|sed meaL"

TERRE HATiTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 22,1897.

COOLING TOWERS.

A CLEVER, SIMPLE, BUT VERY VALUABLE YANKEE DEVICE.

By Its Use Fuel In Steammakfnr Is Saved. Hot Water From the Condenser Met by an Air Blast and Cooled hy Evaporation on a Very Simple Principle.

At some of the large power plants in wad near New York the eye of the visitor or the passerby is attracted by a new and unusual feature—a circular 6teel tower, looking like the tall stand pipe' of some high level water system. It is, however, no tank. There is water in it, but indeed this is perpetually leaking oat—in fact, the percolation of the water downward from top to bottom is what gives the device its unique value. It is the cooling tower of a self cooling condenser—-one of those numerous labor and power saving Yankee inventions that have placed us where we now stand as a nation of inventors and engineers.

Every one knows that there are two principal types of steam engines—the noncondensing, in which the exhaust steam escapes into the air, making the hoarse, puffing sound so familiar in the locomotive and the steam tug, and the condensing, in which it is delivered into a condenser, where it is cooled down and turned back into water. In the former type the piston has to work against the pressure of the atmosphere—about 15 pounds to the square inch. In the latter it has only to overcome the pressure of the vapor in the condenser, which is much less, as the condensation of the steam causes a partial vacuum hence the condensing engine is much the more economical of the two, saving fully 25 per cen»sof the steam —and hence of the fuel—required for the other.

Why, then, are not condensing engines universally employed? Sometimes because the use of the condensing device is not practicable, as on a locomotive. Still oftener because it requires an unlimited supply of water. Cold water is the means employed to condense the steam and as it becomes warmer in the process it cannot be used over again hence engines that are not situated near a large water supply—on a river bank, for instance—cannot avail themselves of the condensing principle and profit by its fuel saving power. And even whore a river is near, land on its bank is so often so much more expensive that the manufacturer prefers to go farther away where he can buy at a lower price, even if he has to use a noncondensing engine.

But why not cool the heated condenser water and use it again? This has been tried over and over, more or less clumsily and ineffectively, and it is exactly what is done Successfully in the cooling towers already mentioned. Methods previously in use employ shallow ponds to cool the water by surface evaporation, but these are out of the question in a large city—or pans on the roof, which are awkward and take up room. The cooling towor, which has satisfactorily solved the problem and offers to the manufacturer the welcome chance of saving a large proportion of his fuel, has been in use for some time in a primitive and crude form in the southern states, where the condenser water was allowed to cool by trickling through amass of brush.

Later, in Germany, the same result was effected by allowing it to blow over a nest of pipes. In the perfected form the steel tower is packed with lajgr on layer of vitrified tiles, set up 03l td. Through these, from the top to the bottom of the tower, the heated condenser water trickles, while a powerful air blast is blown upward through it from a rotary fan at the base. When the water has reached the bottom, it is cool enough to use again in the condenser. A little of it—from 2 to 6 per cent—has evs (grated in the process, but this loss is more than made up by the condensed exhaust steam that is added as it does its work in the condenser.

In passing through the tower the water is cooled from about 120 degrees to at least the temperature of the outside air, chiefly by the evaporation induced by the air blast that passes through the tiling. The principle is exactly the same as when one cools his moist hand by blowing on it. Strangely enough, the cooling is greater in summer than in winter, for, though in winter the air is colder, it is much nearer the point of saturation and will take up very little evaporation, and evaporation is the chief thing in the cooling.

Direct escape of the heat by contact with the air blast and by radiation through the steel sides of the tower helps, but it is relatively unimportant. So, with the aid of this device, the condensing engine, with its great economy, is today within the reach of every manufacturer in the laud, instead of perhaps half of them. The operation of the tower is inexpensive, as the cost of working is only that of pumping the water to the top and operating the fan, and this is slight compared with the saving that results from using condensation.

The towers take up little room.. They vary in size from 25 feet in height by 5 feet in diameter, which is suitable for a 40 horsepower engine, to one 30 feet in height by 26 feet in diameter, for an engine of 1,500 horsepower. One of the towers has for some time been in use at the

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enue Edison electric lighting station in Brooklyn, in connection with a 600 horsepower engine.

It must not be imagined, however, that the usefulness of a cooling tower stops with its employment as described above. As its namo implies, it may be used anywhei% where water is to be deprived of superfluous heat. For instanoe, in the manufacture of ice, where water is frozen by the evaporation of liquefied ammonia. The ammonia, which has been heated in the process of liquefaction by compression, is cooled by means of water, and with the aid of a cooling tower this water can be made ready for use a second time.

Like nearly all really serviceable devices, the cooling tower is provokingly simple. Any one might think of it—only nobody did, until Yankee ingenuity took a hint from the crude devices of yesterday and put hundreds of thousands—actually or potentially—into the pockets of American manufacturers, miners and others who have occasion to use the steam engine.— Philadelphia Press.

PERSIA'S PUPPET SHOW.

Punch a Very Different Character From That of the Knglish Shows. The puppet show, or Karaghyaz, or Black Eye, as It is literally translated oat of the language of the Tories, from whom this spectacle is derived, Is a sort of marionette play or Chinese shadow show which is repredBnted in Turkey before the common people as our Punch in England is to an audience of children, nnnwgirls and batcher bops. It is the Punchinello of Naples, the ifoo-Pataoca of Borne. In its native land Black Rye, like Punch, is the principal personage in the drama and gives his nn.ro a, like him, to the whols entertainment. In Persia, Black Eye, at a very early period, became PaWawan Kachal «r bald (liberally magpie) hero. The baldness of this popular perron LB bis distinctive attribute, the mark by which he is known, as Punch Is recognized by his hump. To attempt to draw popular diameter from popular dnuootte amoaemant, as mM bsTt done, would be no compliment to oazsetves.

The here of oaiSStreets Isalowrattan of uncoS&rated,taste and an atrocious moral

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HWnaidera recur wtth aiekeo-

ing frequency on tfae slightest provocation. He •pares arfthnf ags ner sex. He knocks his wife on the head far remonstrating with h*m 1st tte gentlest manner, on his j.—y harhnrifj, and he pays not the

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ifcountry earn their own living.

thodox divine The Persian Punch Is altogether of a different kidney. He is of a polished exterior, and his ways are suave and gentlemanly. He is a literary man and a poet, a« indeed the Persian generally is. But he is a thorough humbug. He is a hypocrite of the deepest dye. Profoundly religious and walking about clothed in the garment of devotion, he is really destitute of every sentiment of piety. His sole object in life seems to be by an mrtArnal appearance of sanctity to deceive the inullas with a view to his own profit or to insinuate himself, with the base ends of a Lothario or an Abu Newas, into the graces of the ladies.—Fortnightly Review.

tHE REWARDS OF LITERATURE

Constance Fenimore Wool son's Advice an Aspirins Writer. gflfs Constance Fenimore Woolson, in a letter to an inquiring friend, written after she had won recognition as an author, tells of hea literary work, its remuneration and how to bring articles to the attention of editors and publishers. In the letter, published in The Ladies' Home Journal, Miss Woolson says that in some years her writingB have brought her $2,000. "But I have been particularly fortunate,'' she adds. "As I have property enough to live in a quiet way without the writing you see I can afford to let things take their course and not press my manuscripts on the editors. But there is another side! You cannot achieve success in literature, even of a small kind, without being bitterly attacked by the malicious and envious. And I have had my share of biting criticism. I don't mind it now and you must not either when you begin, as I am sure you will. All you say of your education is very well. But it is not knowledge which will give you success so much as ease, humor and originality of style. If •it were ypu, I should not give up my position as teacher, but I would take my leisure time for writing and commence to send out manuscripts. At first, don't send out long ones—about five magazine pages is a tempting length to the editors, who are overburdened with long manuscripts. Don't be discouraged if one comes back declined send it right out to some one else. And keep doing it.

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FROM THE RUBBISH HEAP."

What Becomes of Old Bass, Cinders, Bones and Tins. We all know the rubbish heap, says a writer in the London Mail. Old tins, old shoes, dirty paper, bottles, bones—everything, in fact,' that has served abetter purpose, and is how deemed done with, is thrown there. When we see all this refuse carted away, the most of us have an idea it will be pitched into some ditch or some place rarely visited. But for that to be done is the exception and not the rule. The old rubbish heap—so great an eyesore in our garden—performs some very important functions.

The clearing away of this rubbish is generally done by rontract, but those who undertake the work often make a good profit out of it. Every heap undergoes a thorough sifting, and all the various things which compose it are pub by themselves. The cinders are carted off to brickyards, where thoy are ground up, and in a few days are oonverted into good, substantial bricks.

Then all the bones, after they have left our tables, are taken to a boiling house, where the fat and gelatin they possess are extracted, the fat being iSsed in the manufacture of soap and the gelatin being put to a number of purposes, chiefly, however, being made into those brilliantly colored wrappings which enfold Christmas or,skers.

The bones themselves are cut up into nil sorts of cheap ornaments, or arc often ground into powder and after chemical treatment make a very good tooth cleaning preparation. Torn'and soiled paper returns to the mills, and, as a rule, becomes papier mache.

Every piece of old rag is eagerly pounced upon. Although much of it ultimately becomes paper, by far the larger proportion goes to the shoddy mill* Here the filthy, objectionable garments are reduced to a pulp by a mechanical process and in the future will again do service as clothea There are, indeed, very few articles of apparel worn which have not some of this shoddy in their composition. It is said that by its introduction the price of clothing has been reduced 25 per cent.

Thon what becomes of all our old saucepans, salmon tins and the like? First, the lead by which they are soldered is taken from them, and after this they are remelted. All pieces of glass find a destination in the melting pot, whereas bottles, if they are not damaged, are cleaned and 60 put into active use again* Gutta percha articles, which obtain a good price, ara remelted. Cabbage leaves afcd the like find their way to the pigs. So you see that there is very little of the rubbish heap that is not put to some purpose.

On English Canals.

Tho navigation- of the canals, as most of us are aware, is almost entirely dependent upon horse power, and many are the wonderful stories told of the sagacity of these tow horses, who very soon learn their work as well as do their drivers, and are frequently left for long distances completely to themselves. In some districts the canal paths run on one side for a time and then stop, being continued opposite. Where this is the case the horses, if no bridge exists, must cross over in the boat itself, and on ong river where this changing of sides is very frequent the writer has repeatedly seen a horse without rider or driver near him, and witli only one man in the boat, increase his speed as he approaches the termination of the path, so as to give the barge sufficient velocity to carry him across, awa£ its arrival at the bank, and as it comes up »nd goes about take a leap aboard over a space of from five to six feet.

Here he waits patiently until he reaches tho other side, when as coolly and deliberately he leaps ashore, feels his towllne and lays himself quietly to his work again. But there is live stock more directly associated with the "boat than even the horse, which, after all, is but hired for a time. A oat and a dog are nearly always to bo seen aboard, and sometimes there are rabbits and a little poultry, though whenco that comes it may not always do to inquire too curiously. A monkey, too, is an occasional addition to the househo^J, while even a goat has been seen running backward and forward on the deck as much at home as though on his native heath.— Good Words.,

Indian, Bear and Rattlesnake. Very generally among the Indians the

bear

has the first rank among beasts and Is supposed to possess supernatural powers.

Itissajd that the Navajo would only attack a bear when it had killed a Navajo. Then he would apologize at the cave by chanting the praises of the king of beasts.

The bear is prayed to and sacrificed. The same people will not touch a snake and ha*p punished a person for imitating the rattlesnake in making a bracelet.

The Hupi Indians say the rattler was one of their earliest' ancestors.—Carlisle (Pa.) Red Man.

The "dollar of our daddies" was authorized by aot of wrogreas April 2, 1793, and tta coinage was begun ia 1794.

The Egyptians used pencils of colored several of these ancient crayon* have-been found in their tomb*.

A eompetentauthority declares that over

million and a half of the women of this

CLOSE FOLLOWING SUCCESS

Walks the Judas

•WAKE SHOALS,'

Would you stand, a mountain peak among the foot hills? Would you win fame, love, gold?

He who will not strip for the race, who yields to tha kiss of Judas, and prefers the soft deceits of habit to the stern iron hand of wisdom, must drop back, must stand one side for' the great ones who rule themselves.

In training athletes, oarsmen, cycle riders, prize fighters, etc., where it is necessary to conserve ail the energies, coffee is prohibit ed. Why,? Because its alkaloids produce over stimulation of the heart and an after depression, cutting short "the wind." In addition, coffee retards the natural digestion and assimilation of food, and while a healthy man can get on with a little "shortness of •wind,"" a little unnatural action of the heart and a little and harcjjy noticeable failure in digestion, the one who needs all his powers cannot.

If it is wise to throw off the little habits that gnaw holes, for the oarsman, the wheelman, the fighter, is it not the part of wisdom for the man who uses his energy to gain gold and fame?

Yqu can turn health, strength and vitality into success. If crippled or overweighted you must stand one side.

In place of coffee for the warm beverage, a food drink made from cereals and having the exact color of choice Mocha, with the taste of the milder grades of Java, has been devised and is prescribed by tetters of athletes and prominent physicians. It contains the albumen and phosphates of the cereals in such combination as to furnish the needs of nature for rebuilding the gray matter in the nerve centers.

Its gre»c success has twarraed into growth some hundreds of counterfeits sold as "just as good as Postum," but made without knowledge of hygenic value. The genuine packages have red seals and United States trade mark.

Postum Cereal Co., Limited, Battle Creek, Mich.

SHE WAS MAYOR.

Ceotury A to a Woman Occupied the Office In Belgium. Tba partisans of woman's rights will find much to interest them in a paipphlet recently pubflshed by Mr. Alphonse Goovaerts, the royal librarian at Antwerp, says a correspondent of the Providence Journal. Many will be surprised to hear that more than a" century ago a woman for some time performed tho duties of mayor of the Impost town of Namur.

On the death of Mayor Malotfeau, in 1734, his wife succeeded to his functions in the simplest manner possible and without any interference on the part of tho government. According to the archives of the privy oouncil there can be no doubt on the subject. Mme. Malotteau took her seat in the municipal chair, not only by permission, but very probably at the request, of her late husband's colleagues.

The town clerk, who some years later, by order of the Empress Maria Theresa, drew up the list of changes in the personnel of the town's officers from 1400, merely added for the year 1734, Bourguemaitre" —'"the widow performs the duties." The offiolal reports of the time state that the Widow Malotteau accomplished her task to the general satisfaction. Moreover, a report from the bishop reveals that even during her husband's life she did most of the mayor's work. "As for the office of mayor," wrote the bish«p to his serene highness, the governor of the lowlands, "it would seem that there is some irregularity in permitting the functions to remain in the hands of a woman. Nevertheless, as this woman is the widow of the last mayor, and as she performed almost exclusively all the duties of the position even during her husband's life as since his death she has acquitted herself to the general satisfaction, and as, moreover, in order that the city might pay the interest on its debt she had herself lent money to the town which has not yet been entirely paid back, it is on this account, in the interest of the town that she should continue in her present office at least for some time."

In 1738, when the mayoress had held her position for four years, the Duke d'Ursel, governor of the province, petitioned the empress to have the office filled hy a man. But Lambillou, president of the provincial council, was in favor of the lady mayor and suggested to his fellow councilors that if the government insisted upon a man for the office the Widow Malottoau's young son should bo appointed, in which case tho young mau's mother could continue as executive during her son's minority. The town council's motion prevailed, and Mme. Malotteau continued as chief executive of Namurs.

It was o^ly in 1769, when the ^governorship of the lowlands had passed to Prince Charles of Lorraine, that the privy council won their case. They presented as a candidate a certain Pierre Kasquin, and at the same time issued a long statement in tho course of which they said it wai nardly to the best*intcrcct of Namur and the public, that the office should continue a« hereditary in the same family and, moreover, transferred from husband to wife. This ended the reign of the lady mayor.

RENTING MOUNTED ANIMALS.

Almost Any Animal May Be Hired, From a Squirrel to an Elephant*' Mounted animals and birds are rented for a great variety of purposes, and almost any animal or bird may be hired. Tho fur learing animals are rented principally to furriers for use as show pieces. Many furriers buy show pieces, but there are others who prefer to rent thorn, thus, getting a new or different show piece every Reason. Sometimes a large number of animals, from the smallest squirrel to the largest tiger and lion, are rented together for the deooration of a showroom, and birds in large numbers and in great variety, from humming birds to peacocks, are sometimes rented for similar purposes.

Animals and birds both are rented for threatrical uses. A stuffed dog was needed in a play. Just the dog required was found at the taxidermist's. There may be a play with a scene in it in which a hunter comes in with a fawn over his shoulder. The fawn can be hired at the taxidermist's. It may be that in sam# play an eagle alights upon the stage. An eagle may be hired. In plays depicting circus life, if a parade forms part of tl^p representation, the wagons can be filled with Jifelike stuffed tigers, bears and other animals, guch as might be found in a r«»l circus. Ajld bears, elephants and -various other mounted animals are at one time or another used on the stage.

Mounted animals are rented for various civic displays and parades and for ballroom decorations and other uses. Tigers can be hired for political processions. For a presentation of Little Red Killing Hood a wolf can be hired. Swans are rented and all sorts of birds. Sometimes a dining room, as on the occasion of a game supper, is deoerated with all kinds of game birds.

Lecturers litre mounted animals. Lecturing on natural history to a school, for example the lecturer might have upon the stage a caribou, an elk and a deer to show the difference between them. Mounted animals and birds are rented for various photographic purposes—a bear, or an eagle perhaps, to be photographed for a trademark, ar a ivarrot, to be held by a child. The live bird would not keep still a stuffed bird will. Birds are rented to artists to draw or paint from.

For fish store openings, big nejpoises/

sharks and sturgeon are rented, and orooodiles and alligators are rented'to ls»tltr and shoe stores.

The cost of renting mounted arimals and birds is much leas proportionately for a longer than for a shorter period. The charge for show pieces Is. a ofertain p*# cantage of the Talue, graduated according to the length of time for which they are taken. For a single day a big tiger could be hlrd for $10 and a small tiger for $5, a middling size elephant ftar $25 a day, a big grizzly bear for $10 and a snail grizzly for $5. An eagle, for a single occasion, one or two days, would coat $8 to $4. A squirrel oould be hired far a day for 80 cents, a wolf for $8, a parrot for 60 cents, a humming bird or a robin for 26 cents and an ostrich for $8 a day.—New Sun.

WIND AND WEATHER.

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Th» SlffM Should Be Tancht In th« Amerf^ earn Public Schools. •'The direction of the wind has nothing whatever to do with the course of a thunderstorm, or, for that matter, any other storm neither has the direotion of tho low scud clouds, which generally travel from north'to south ut right angles to the.,.course of the raiucloud. Look up above these small clouds (*t the groat moving mass, and you will learn the direction oft V: the storm. With a little study any observer can quicklydctermine the direction, velocity and charaoter of a coming storm. In the smoky down town district this Is a more difficult matter, boe in theparlzsand on the boulevards no mistake need be ,:/ made. In the average thunderstorm the upper clouds are cumidous, or rolling, with curved edges. These are very blaok,

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Wonders of Jewish Longevity. The vital statistics of London are th% authority for the statement that on an averago tho lifo of a Jow in that city is t\vic« that of a gentile. Dr. B. W. Richardson says that the Jews of that city ore exceptionally free from disease, and Virchot* says tliat the rac8"hasat all times been distinguished by great tenacity of life. Consumption is scarcely known nmong th« Jews, and suicide is three-fourths less froquent among them than it is among gen*

Mothers, Save the Babies.

.Summer complaint, dysentery and diarrhoea carry many babies to the grave. Mothers, take warning and use in timeDr. John W. Bull's Baby Syrup to regulate the bowels and allay inflammation. "We have used Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup for thirteen years with the best result. We would as/soon be without flour or sugar in the house as this remedy. A. N. Burgess, Grove, Ohio." Ask your dealer for Dr. John W. Bull's Baby Syrup. Price 25 cts.

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Wm. Jennings Neukom. 648 Lafayette avenue. Geo. Reiss. Second street and Wabash avenue..

Thou*anli» Are Trying It.

In order to prove the great merit of Ely's-, Cream Balm, the most effective cure for* Catarrh and Cold in Head, we hwe pre-. pared a generous trial size for 10 cents.* Get it of your druggist or send 10c to

ELY BUOS., 56 Warren St., N. Y. City. Rev. John Reld, Jr., of Great Falls, Moat/ recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. J„ can emphasize his statement, "It is a posi-. tive cure for catarrh if used as directed. Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres.. Church, Helena, Mont.

Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no cocaine," mercury nor any iniurious drug. Trice, 50 cents. All druggists or by mail.

Wheel Slang.

A studanfcrf'jtbe vsbeel has collated tha following*£%D&: faraway New Zealand the awful" has been coined as a s»i*rtifcut»ft)r wbeelwoman. In many wesbe«*t»w«sitia£air rider is called a "bloomer,5"-without regard to her costame.

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one can mark their outlines. Look a little farther down and you will see a clearly marked line where the cloud curves ceaso and the whole is merged into an even~:. shade, generally lighter than the nesscr clouds. This is the falling rain, which forms a solid sheet through which tho eye cannot penetrate. When this nun line' reaches the zenith, the shower begins. "Thunderstorms are almost invariably preceded by a calm lasting from two to ten minutes. It seems as if nature designed to give her subjects warning. As the storiticloud mounts into the heavens the wind dies away and a hush comes over everything. The storm is from one to fiv«. miles wide. This is the time when the cheer- •. ful idiot in the park predicts that the storm is going to blow over. It does. It blows over houses and fences and drenches th foolish ones who disregard the plain warn' ing given. "That is why," continued the weather crank, "that weather signs should b« taught in our publicyjnhools. I will volun* toer to start a night "School for tho school* marms."—Chicago Times-Herald. ....

Why the Black Man Is Black. Why the black man should be so black is a question which, from early childhood, has exercised the minds of many of us. Our nurses used to tell us that it was be cause he was born so, "which sounds a( first hearing a fairly clinching answer. Modern soience likes to go a little mart, deeply into things, and many ingenious and conflicting theories have been put for* ward by scientists to account for the peculiarity. Somo-wofiltl, have it that certain*, varieties of primixf^e man spent too much of their time exposed to the sun—the moisture of the air preven±ing«hem from being baked instead of basted—and grew more and more tanned by slow degroes until they turned at lastrinto the perfect negro. The latest inquirer into-the subject, Mr. A. H. Keane, adds a new otemont to those of 'solar heat audiiaoistiwj'. His theory is that "an excess of ve^jff-ble food, yielding more carbon than can be assimilated,'', is largely responsible. Once betrayed into vegetarianism, our "colored brethren" grew, through processes of heredity, ever,, darker and darker, and the black work' has probably by this time gone so far that even a changed diet, persisted in through' countless generations, would notnow avail* to change the Ethiopian's skin.—London Graphic.

wwrd"seencher," as indicating

a spe«^U2jeUst, is fairly ingrafted upon -the If ^e. In Chicago, howeVer, the "scoi1 •i-'' ia called a The t-eeh'1 nicali .JOS ®f' the-maahine have led to at: .tempts upon the pajt cf yonng mcnto, coin expressions. "Your tire is pictured" vindicatesthat ..the story you Are telling Laaks,ti)e jrroJb&blc clement of truth.

Reckless statements aro called'' coasting." A very anote&t yam is not a "chestnut," but a cenm*y." A young couple showing a mutual fondness are "riding tandem." A "Mt" leading a fast life Is "geared too high.*' An old fogy is referred to as a "high wheeL" A chaperon is known aa.a "pacemaker." A cheap bicycle is called a "gas pipe" machine. A professional raoeris a pro. —JSew Yo^k Tribune. _'

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