HIDES TO' FBISCO
At an age when aiost men are content to sit In the easy chair and watch
the youngsters, James P. Foley, 05 years old, captain of the police force of
Logansport, Ind., will ride horseback to San Francisco on a $500 wager that
he can complete the trip In ninety 'days.
This will not be the first time that Capt Foley has ridden over the West
ern country. He has fought Indians In the Black Hills and was In Utah dur
ing the exciting times when the Mormons sought to exclude the Gentiles. He
has ridden over the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona, climbed the Colorado
mountain peaks and knows every mile of the great Panhandle range in West
ern Texas. The rugged life of his younger days has left the captain a strong
constitution. He is straight as an arrow, agile as a panther, and there are
few fleeter runners In Indiana. Prisoners who fall Into his clutches and show
flght, Invariably get the worst of It. He keeps in training all the time. Each
morning, winter or summer, no matter how severe the weather, he takes a
gallop Into the country, astride his wiry Indian mustang.
Capt Foley has figured that he will be able to make forty-five miles a day
through Indiana, Illinois and Nebraska. Through the mountains he Is only
counting on averaging from ten to fifteen miles.
ignvent.on
At the International Conference on
Scientific Aeronautics, held recently in
Milan, Mons. Telsserenc de Bort pre
sented some interesting results of the
expedition to the equatorial regions of
the Atlantic organized by himself and
Lawrence Botch. Contrary to expec
tation, he said, they hnd found far
lower temperatures In the upper air
above the equator than at correspond
ing elevations in temperate latitudes.
At the equator the temperature goes on
decreasing up to the greatest elevations
attained by kites and balloons. At the
height of eight to eight and one-half
miles temperatures were recorded as
low as minus 80 degrees Centigrade, or
112 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.
The Heroult electric process for the
production of steel' Is now In practical
operation at Kemscheld Huston in Ger
many, and it Is reported that the steel
produced Is much superior In many
ways to that made by older methods.
Steel of great purity and homogeneous
quality Is made from ordinary scrap
iron rubbish, melted, and then subject
vd to the action of an electric oven, In
which the necessary carbon, manga
nese, nickel and other substances re
quired to produce steel of various qual
ities are added to the liquid metal. The
oven has a capacity of from one and
one-half to two tons, and is heated by
a curreut of 100 volts. . The new steel
is said to be stronger and more re
sistant to wear and tear than the old
fashioned crucible steel.
The Petit Parlslen states that M.
Itoudy, a French engineer, has made
n sensational discovery In the direction
of aerial navigation. The inventor calls
tits discovery an aerial torpedo boat,
and It Is proposed to make use of.lt In
warfare. M. Boudy claims that with
the aid of the new machine he will be
able to remain for several days In the
air and to rise to such a height that
nhelter will be afforded from projee
tiles. It will be possible, he declares,
to rise or descend at the will of the
aeronaut, to travel against the wind, to
navigate perfectly, and, In addition,
to carry shells or grenades for use in
war time. The minister of war Is glr
lng his attention to the claims of M
Boudy, and experiments will shortly
be made in connection with the lnven
tlon.
Examination of a photograph of the
spectrum of the brilliant star Arcturus,
made by Professor Hale and Mr. Ad
ams at the Carnegie Solar Observatory
oa Mount Wilson. California, shows
IN NINETY days,
a very striking correspondence between
many of the spectral lines In the light
of that star and those observed in spots
on the sun. The conclusion seems to
be unavoidable, says Mr. Adams, that
the physical conditions existing In sun
spots and In the atmosphere of .Arc
turus are nearly Identical. A similar
study of the spectrum of the bright
star Betelgeuse, or Alpha Orionis,
shows that sun-spot lines are also
present there, but even more intense
than in Arcturus. It Is Inferred that
Arcturus is probably cooler than the
sun, and Betelgeuse cooler than Arc
turus.
An explanation of a curious optical
phenomenon sometimes witnessed on
frosty nights, which Is called the "psett
do-aurora," Is offered by an official of
the weather bureau. The phenomenon
takes the form of beautiful columns of
silvery light standing over electric arc
lamps and other bright lights and
sometimes appearing almost to reach
the zenith. It Is said that sometimes
he evening star has a bright shaft be
low as well as above, while the rising
moon stands In a broad column of light
These appearances are due to floating
frost crystals, which keep their reflect
ing faces horizontal. On examination
It has been found that the crystals con
cerned In the exhibition were thin, slx-
slded plates of ice, never more than
one millimeter in diameter. When the
wind blows these little plates were up
set, and the columns of light caused by
the reflection from their surfaces dis
appear. Good EnoDgh for Lout.
The officials of the Privy Chamber,
It appears, showed plainly that It an
noyed them to be obliged to eat at the
same table with Mollere; so Louis,
hearing of their rudeness, said to the
actor during the petit-lever:
"I hear you are badly entertained,
M. de Mollere, and that my people
don't find you good enough to ent with
them. Perhaps you are hungry.) Sit
down here and try my en cob de nult"
(a provision made In the evening In
case the royal appetite should suddenly
require satisfaction during the night)
Then, cutting a chicken and ordering
Mollere to be seated, the King helped
him to a wing, took one himself, and
gave orders that the most favored per
sonages of the court be admitted.
"You see, I am making Mollere eat
something," said Louis, "for my valets
de chambre don't find him good enough
company for them." II. Cbatfleld-Tay
lor's Mollere.
Not a "Thank Yon."
"I never knew a woman who wasn't
bound to have the last word with you."
"Unless It was in a street car and you
were to say, Take my seat madam.'"
Philadelphia Ledger.
AST OF COEIT-CAXE MAX Ufa.
Meal Shonld Be Ground In Old-Fash-lotted
War
ThS best cornmeal In the world Is
made In Tennessee though the output
U limited and not much of It reaches
the market where urbanltes dwell, says
the Nashville American. The steam
buhr-stone has driven the water mill
almost Into desuetude, only to be In
turn crowded out by the modern roller
mill. The ancient water mill still lin
gers in remote sections and mountain
fastnesses where clear waters flow
through pebbly channels In sylvan
shades. More than one of these Ideal
mills may be found on Fighting creek,
in Sevier County, under the shadows of
the Big Smoky, and near unto Sugar
land region, where the untaxed Juice of
the corn flows from modest and retir
ing stills. There are many such mills
In the Unaka region and In various
sections of middle Tennessee, where
the withering blight of modern civiliza
tion, with Its canned goods and packing-house
meats, has not yet penetrat
ed, and where one may
Listen to the water mill
Through the livelong day,
While the clicking of its wheel
Wears the weary hours away.
But they don't bring the meal to
town. The town-raised person's taste
Is too vitiated to appreciate It When
he eats corn bread at all with his oleo
margarine or canned soup he wants
the roller-mill product, which suggest
ed the idea of, sawdust breakfast food
to a Battle Creek Yankee. The right
sort cf corn bread 13 made from meal
ground on a slow-running water mill
from corn that has been well dried, the
little end of the ear shelled off for the
chickens or pigs, the rotten grains care
fully eliminated and the corn run
through a fanmill. Before being made
into bread the meal Is sifted through
a wire sieve or sifter, the meshes of
which are not too fine. Then If good
bread Is not produced It is the fault of
the cook. The use of sugar in making
any form of corn bread should be made
a felony. There is as much difference
between bread from properly ground
meal and the common meal and the
common meal of commerce as there is
between a Smithflcld ham and a packing-house
ham.
TRUST IN TIMBER LANDS.
One Hundred. Corporation Control
Three-quarters of It at Present.
A writer who claims to , be an attor
ney has expressed his belief that "100
Individuals and corporations own or
control 75 per cent of the timber land
not still held by the government or at-
tached to farms." He declares that
this body is subdivided on a basis of
species, as the White Pine Association
and the like, and that these associa
tions are "the claws of the Invisible
trust" This Is as It may be and Mr.
KIttredge purposes to find out about it.
Trust or no trust, the price of lum
ber has Increased enormously within
the last few years. There are two,whlch prosphorus had been dissolved.
known factors in the Increase. Mr,
Xlttredge suspects a third and unknown
Influence. One of the known factors
appears In the sweeping devastation of
our forest areas without renewal of
forest growth by new plantings. Here
we find the simple proposition of in
creasing demand, reduced supply and
consequent enhancement of value. Tim
ber areas regarded as almost valueless
a decade ago are bringing farm land
prices to-day strictly on a basis of mar
ket values. This accounts for a part
of the present cost of lumber In com
parison with Its cost a few years ago.-
The other known factor Is labor. A
tree In the forest may be said to have
no money value. It represents dollars
with the first stroke of the woodman's
ax, that being the first step In Its con
version into a commercial commodity.
Behind that first ax there stand other
axes, saws, peaveys, cant books, trans
portation and many and various forms
of handling. Each of these represents
human labor and a pay roll which Is
bigger now than It used to be in dally
wage rate as well as in total volume.
From tree to log, from log to board or
Joist or plank and from them to bridge
or floor or sash or toothpick, Increased
wage increases the cost to the final
owner. New York Sun.
Getting- the Good.
"Do you always leave your piano up
so that the keys will show?" asked the
visitor of the Southern woman.
ies, returned sue, 1 make it a
point to use everything In the house
every day of my life, to hide away
nothing trying to keep it nice for com
pany. It Is I who am living here, not
the company. I had enough of that
sort of thing In the old colonial man
sions of the South. The company sli
ver, the company linen, the polishing
of the steel knives for company, the
parlor with closed shutters, the sun
shine never allowed to come In, dim,
musty, unwholesome, ' the piano down,
the keys turning yellow with disuse,
and the doors opened only upon the oc
casion of a family funeral or of com'
pany for dinner.
"It was hard to tell which was the
most funereal," she finished, "the fu
neral or the dinner." Chicago Inter
Ocean,
Pure
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pimples and boils that appear at all seasons;
cures scrofula sores, salt rheum or eczema;
adapts itself equally well to, and also cures, dys
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debility and that tired feeling.
Sarsatabs For those who prefer medicine In tab
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A Singer's Langs.
The singer at the end of the practice
aria panted heavily. "I sang one hun
dred and ninety-six notes that time,"
he said, "without once taking breath."
"Indeed! That must be a record."
"No. The record Is held by Cour
tlce Pounds. Pounds sang three hun
dred and sixteen notes without respir
ation In 180S. The record previous to
that was held by Farlnelli, with three
hundred notes. Norman Salmond has
sung two hundred and eighty-seven
notes in this way. The average man
could hardly sing fifty notes without
breathing; to the singer two hundred
would be nothing. Philadelphia Bulle
tin. Refused
Miss Ascum
to Wither Away.
Jack Hanson Isn't fat,
Is he?
Miss Newltt Not at all; he'i quite
graceful and muscular. Why?
Miss Ascum I happened to mention
him to Miss Jllter, and she said : "Oh !
Isn't he disgustingly stout?"
Miss Newltt Ah, yes. She rejected
him some weeks ago and she's mad be
cause he didn't pine away. Philadel
phia Press.
How Colore Affect Mentality.
There are good and evil effects even
In color, not only in the inartistic ar-
rangement of them to the trained eye
of an artist but In plain every-day red
and blue and green, to say nothing of
others.
According to Medical Talk for the
Home, if a nerson were confined In a
room with purple walls, with no color
but purple around him, by the end of a
month be would be a raving madman.
Scarlet has even worse effects. Blue is
very depressing; hence "the blues."
Green Is quite soothing, and yellow
also has good effects on the vision and
. plrlts of most people.
A Kiss that Broaght Death.
Courtship In Spain Is regulated by
the strictest etiquette. As Is well
known, a young man is never left
alone with his fiancee. Near Malaga
a beautiful young girl of 20 committed
suicide by drinking a cup of coffee in
It appears that the girl had been driv
en to the deed by the adverse com
ments of neighbors who became aware
that she had given her sweetheart a
kiss. London Mall.
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Mrs. C. K. Tyler. Burlington, Vt..
Bays : " Th cares of a large farm, so
much to do and so little health to do it
with, caused almost a complete ores,
down: blood poor and thin: no strength,
little sleep. Hood's Sarsaparilla gave
appetite, natural sleep, perfect health,
strength to do all mj work.
Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. No. 324.
Poor Christmas Fare.
A delegation of fellow townusmen re
cently called on Rufus K. Combs, of
Midway, Ky., to congratulate him on
the receipt of a Carnegie medal.
As his friends were taking leave
Mr. Combs wished them all a merry
Christmas.
"And I hope," he ended, "that you'll
have a more bountiful dinner than fell
to the lot of a young friend of mine
lnsf year.
"He, the poor chap, was stopping at a
cheap New York boarding ho,use, and
on Christmas day, after he had eaten
a turkey neck, a potato and a splinter
of sodden mince pie, the landlady said
to him, ns h roe jntst as the weak
coffee was brought on :
" 'Oh, don't leave thme table, Mr.
Smith.'
" 'I must, madam,' said Smith, grim
ly. 'It's bard wood, and my eeth are
not what they used to be.'"
Hla Constancy.
A story Is told of General Sir Alfred
Horsford, who believed In a celibate
army. A soldier once sought his per
mission to marry, saying he had two
good conduct badges and $25 In the
savings bank. "Well, go away," said
Sir Alfred, "and If you come back this
,day year In the same mind you sbaU
! marry. I'll keep the vacancy." On the
j annlverasry the soldier repeated his
request "But do you really, after a
year, want to marry?" "Yes, sir, very
; much." "Sergeant major, take his
! name down. Yes, you may marry. I
I never believed there was so much con-
stancy in man or woman. Right face.
Quick march!" As the man left the
room, turning his head, he said : "Tank
you, sir. It isn't the same woman."
An Effective Illddle.
On one occasion when he was busy
President Lincoln received a delega
tion of men who were endeavoring to
hurry the passing of some petty bill
When they entered Lincoln looked up
gravely, and said:
"If you call the tall of a sheep a
leg, how many legs will the sheep
' have?"
"Five," said the spokesman.
"No," replied Lincoln, "it
only hnve four. Calling the
would
tall a
leg wouldn't make It one."
The delegation departed In dlsconv
fiture, Sunday Magazine.
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