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Nan The trouble with Billy is that he's awkward when he's in company. He doesn't know what to do with his hands. Fan Oh, yes, he does ; he told me once that you wore too many pins in your belt. Chicago Tribune. TYPEWRITERS. "New VlBible Yost," All makes rebuilt like new. at second-hand prices. Two Smith-Dcns.-R Winston from S25 to M. Supplies for nil makes. Mnchlnes rented. S2 to 3.50 monthly. The Typewriter Exchnnre. 2T5 J! ontromery. San Francisco Looked Suspicion. Captain (of baseball nine) You think Stumpy is getting sort o weak in his mind? Why? Manager He renewed his contract for this season without making a kick for a higher salary. Chicago Tribune. Mothers wllL find Mrs. Wlnslows Soothing Byrup the bi ef remedy to Use for their childrea during tne teething period. Sure. "What was it Triscllla said to John AMen?" "You mean, 'Speak - for yourself, John?": "Yes; what did she mean?" "I don't know what she meant, but 1 know It must have been before she and John were married that she said it" Houston Post. III C. Gee Wo The Chinese Doctor This wondeful man has made a life study of the properties of Roots. Herbs and Barks, and is Kivinsr the world the . benefit of his services. A No Mercury, Poisons Y-S.iV or uruES used, no Operations or Cutting Guarantees to cure Catarrh, Asthma, Lunur, Stomach and Kidney troubles, and all Private Diseases of M n and Women. . x A SURE CANCER CURE Just received from Pekin, China safe, sure and reliable. U-failing in its works. If you cannot call, write for symptom blank and circular. Inclose 4 cents in stamps, CONSULTATION FREE The C. Gee Wo Medicine Co. v J The Reason I Hake and Sell More Men's $3.00 & $3.50 Shoes Than Any Other Manufacturer Is because I give the wearer the benefit of the most complete organization of trained experts and skilled shoemakers in the country. the selection of the leathers for each psrt of the shoo, and every detail of the making in every department, is looked after by the best shoemakers In the shoe industry. If 1 coold show you how carefully W. L. Douglas shoes are made, you would then understand why they hold their haps, fit better, and wear longer than any other make. Iltf Method of Tanning the Soles mores them Mori Flexible and Longer Wearing than any others. Rhoes for Every Member of the Fiimlly, Afteu. lloyn, Women, AI fuses and ('hiluren. For sale by shoe dealers everywhere. PAllTintJ I Noue genuine itliont W. L. Douglas vnUIIUIl 1 name and price stamped on bottom. Fait Color Evelets Used Exclusively. Catalog mailed free. W. L. DOUGLAS. 167 Spark St.. Brockton. Mass. First Jnpnnese Stowaway. The first Japanese stowaway ever brought to Boston arrived on a steamer from London the other day. He gave his name as Tasujo Nakamura, aged SO, and claimed to have been a mem ber of the crew of an American "ailing vessel. . It was learned that he was a sallon on board the ship Johanna, which ar rived at Falmouth, Eng., some months ago. He was starving In London when he determined to come to this country, lie wandered about the docks In the Thames and stole on board the Thlla delphian and hid In the coal bunkers. Nakamura said he was all through the Russian-Japanese war, having been one of the crew of a cruiser In the Jap anese fleet. Inspector Root examined the man and ordered that he be sent back on the Philadelphian when sh leaves on her return trip. Those who keep Hamlins Wizard Oil in the house do not have to buy any other remedy for sore throat. No other remedy "Will cure this trouble so quick ly or so surely. Remember this. v Declined the Part. Percy Esmeralda, will you marry me? Esmeralda No ; Gwendolen refused you last night, and I'm not acting as first aid to the injured. Usually They Are. "Professor, what is the meaning of th word 'monologue'?" "My dear sir, consider the derivation of it 'Mon' is slang for 'money,' and 'logos' means 'a word.' 'Monologue, words for money." Good for Sore Eyes, for over 100 years PETTIT'S EYE SALVE has positively cured eye dis eases everywhere. All druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. The chimney swift is truly a bird of the air, for it never alights on a fence or building. It drops into the top of some mide-mouthed chimney and clings to its rough sides with tiny feet. ' The Luckiest Man. Eben So Miss Antique is going to get married at last. Who is the lucky man? Flo The clergyman. He's going to get paid for it and assumes no re sponsibility. Shake Into Tour Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting, sweating feet. Makes new shoes easy. 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More than 1,000 Exclusive Sample Get Into the Wrong- Hands A piece of cardboard covered with square samples of woolen cloths for men's and women's suitings might not seem to the average man a valuable article, yet elaborate schemes to get bold of such sample cards are planned and sometimes carried through, accord ing to the New York Sun. A couple arrived recently at the best of the Philadelphia hotels and set out to visit all the leading tailors. The man wanted a winter outfit of a com prehensive character, while the woman was Just as Interested in accumulatiog a winter wardrobe of the tailor-made variety. Occupying large rooms in tue hotel, there was .no reason to believe that the two were anything other than they represented themselves. So when they gave the number of their suite in the hotel the samples wre forthcoming. After several days had passed with out the expected orders the tailors be gan to send to the hotel for informa tion. The answer returned was that the two had given up their rooms and left the day before. No samples were to be found. The number of Inquiries became so large that they were referred by the hotelfl there was no reason to believe More than 1,000 samples of cloth had been sent by the tailors to the couple. Investigation showed their purpose when In the Broad street station were found two wooden packages they had checked there, filled with sample cards from which the cloth had been torn away. The couple had succeeded ra acquir ing possession of the best samples of the firms that deal In the high-class ex clusive patterns. Of course, they will sell their patterns to the cheaper firms that endeavor to reproduce them. Even a bolder effort to get the ex clusive samples is reported from Chi cago. There two men rented a storS In which to open a tailoring business of a high-priced character and sent to the manufacturers for their samples. The samples were sent, but no orders ever came. Later inquiry from the manufactur ers showed that the firm had got no further in Its career than taking the store for a month. Its object was plain when some of the best designs were turned out by the cheap mills. WONDERFUL CANYON IN WEST. A, Black Mystery, Which Man Uaa Not Yet Solved. At the earliest possible moment Lieut. Robertson and I took his camera and tripod and silently stole away to the mouth of the canyon (In the Sho shone mountains, Wyoming). The two oranches of the river came together a few. rods above a great wall of bare brown rock, a hundred feet high, which really is a part of the southern side of Rattlesnake mountain. Through a crack in the mountain about as wide as Nassau street, between perpendicu lar walls of bare rock, the river swirls and roars down eight miles of black mystery never penetrated by living man. It is said that logs which enter the mouth of the canyon unscarred come out kindling below. It is idle to believe or to say that the water has cut that canyon, for it bas done nothing of the kind. An earthquake did it; my word for It Had It been left for the river to erode, on its own hook, long before the pent- up waters had started a cutting through that flinty carboniferous lime stone, the river would blithely have gone southward around the mountain. where the wagon trail runs, and found easy flowing, with no rock to exca vate. We went into the dark and gloomy mouth of the canyon, as far as any man may go, and soon were stopped by the lack of footing. Fifty feet far ther on, the rift turned sharply to the left, taking the foaming waters along with it, and the view ended against a blank walL Quite near the ultimate point we smelled a strong odor of sul phureted hydrogen and other disagree able gases, and looked about. Close at hand, under the foot of the overhang ing wall of smooth rock, lay a little, Innocent-looking pool in a basin no larger than a bathtub, which was the cause of the bad odors. Close besldo it lay a dead porcupine and a dead magpie, both poisoned by these noxious gases. Elsewhere they would have been eaten long &gn by coyote or fox; but there beside that deadly spring they lay, untouched. Scribner's Magazine. Why Jap Talk Little. "Do you know why the Japanese talk so little?" aslced a navy officer, Just back from a foreign station. Answer ing his own query, he continued "Si lence is bred In the bone. For ages spies, or cross-eyed persons, have been everywhere and over everything. They always go In pairs, so as to be spies over each otheT, and, as the violation of the lnw Is death death to the high est and lowest alike we can well un derstand how the Japanese have been so obstinate in their conversatism, un der a system of espionage which noth ing can escape, coupled with a rigidity of law and a ferocity of punishment whl:h no one can bend and few dare to hraTe." The Supreme Test. "Yon are all right," said the doqtor after he bad gone through with the regulation thumping and listening with . his patient "Not a trace of heart disease. Fifteen dollars, pleas!" The patient drew a long breath and remarked; "I am sure now I have no heart disease. If I had. I should have dropped dead when you mentioned your fee." "HbLLOl" PARIS. Unitt ig France and America by Wire less Phone. "Hello, Pa.is! This is New York." To start a conversation like this across the universe seems like an achievement beyond the dream of a Jules Verne or the imaginative picture of a Bellamy Storer, yet in the busiest city of the world, New York, such an experiment will take place shortly, with every assurance of success. On this occasion, when science announces its triumph to the world, society of the nations will offer its congratulations in a unique and unrivaled n amer, and will teature on its social calendar a luncheon at which-Frederick Townsend Martin will preside, that for interest and charm will make all past society events seem commonp'ace, when the first wireless luncheon will take place in the salon of the Hotel Plaza. While this luncheon is being served a voice will speak uniting two of the greatest nations of history. It will be the voice of America's most prominent society man reading a message of Pres ident Taft to President Fallieres of France. It will be transmitted to Mrs. Nora Blatch DeForest in the Metropol itan tower, the talented pioneer of her sex in this field and foremost woman civil engineer in the world, who will receive this message from the Plaza and send it over a radio wireless telephone at the rate of 186,000 miles a second, to a fair daughter of France in the Eiffel tower. The salon will be decorated to re semble a forest. Trees will be in full bloom and birds singing from their branches. Presiding at this table will be Mr. - Frederick Townsend Martin who will be the guest of the American Wireless association of which Dr. De Forest is president. The guests will be leading society people and scientific men of note. Mons. Etienne Lianel, consul general of France, representing the French government and one of its guests of honor, has said that if wire less telephony is brought to a state of perfection it will become a political and diplomatic time saver. The table will represent the Atlantic ocean. At one end will be the Metro politan tower, architecturally raised in candy ; at the other end will be the Eiffel tower. On this miniature ocean will be small ships of various nations sailing back and forth. The shore landings of both France and America will be appropriately represented. The menus will be small telephone directories, and the dishes will be list ed as telephone numbers. The place cards will be wireless, messages sent from the Ritz Carleton in France to the guests assempled at the Plaza in America. These messages will be re ceived through wireless table phones permitting the guests at both tables to converse with each other, although separated by half a world. The waiters will be summoned by wireless telephone and at the end car riages will be called by this means. The favors will be small radio spark less wireless telephone outfits of very light weight and will be utilized by the guests in the ceremonies attending the luncheon and carried away to commem orate the latest gigantic feat of mod ern science. It will take just one-fortieth of a second for the message to travel across the Atlantic and about one seventh of a second to go around the world. Fol lowing this, mutual toasts will be given by the guests of this wireless luncheon who will be separated by an ocean, yet able to converse as if face to face. The value of this marvelous scien tific and mechanical feat, can hardly be estimated, and will stand among the first half dozen scientific wonders of all time. Its effect upon the trans mission of commercial business will be revolutionary, and will mean that we can communicate with Europe at the cost now prevailing for a domestic tel egram. The great station in the Metropoli tan tower is now being rushed to a stage of completion. This will be ab solutely the finest wireless station in the world. Its cost is not comparable to that of other equipments, as the sta tion comprises all sorts of experiment ing apparatus. It is thought that $300,000 would not cover the outlay if a structure as high as the Metropolitan tower had to be erected especially for th ! work. As long as the tower has already been constructed, the cost, out side of the apparatus, will be neglig ible. The workings of the radio wireless peone are wonderfully simple when the complex problems involved and overcome in its creation are consid ered. In telephoning, the operator talks into the mouthpiece exactly as with the wire telephone and listens for a reply through a head phone instead of a receiver. In order to get into com munication with a wireless telephone station, it becomes necessary to get the instrument to the known tune of the other station and then press the buzzer key which calls the person to the phone at the other end. The con versation is then carried on as if the two operators were face to face. The mechanical principles upon which the radio wireless telephone de pend are simple enough, although there is a great difference of opinion upon the actual explanation of the phenome non of wireless telephony. Speech is the forming of very rapid and every varying serif s of vibrations in the air, and their measurement by the nerves of the ear. Owing to the resistance of the atmosphere, these vibrations grow weaker and at last disappear as we get farther from the source of disturbance. Telephony is the art of translating these vibrations into vibrations of ether whose lesser resistance enables them to be carried to great distances fcr the translation into air vibrations affiin, as only the air vibrations can be meas ured by the ear. In the wireleai tele- .Jiii'aiifk, "I sw sww sssv. k.t f D n i I xiie lYimi xoii jiuvo Aiwnys nought lias homo the signa ture ot Chas. II. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision for over 0 years. Allow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as.grood' are but Experiments, and endanger the health of Children lixperienco against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goiic, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms nnd allays Eeverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation nnd Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, Regulates the Stomach and IJoavcIs, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. The KM You Hare Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. THC OCNTAUH iJMPHNV, TT MUMM .TRCtT, NCWVOKK OITV. z MM 1 'J- MIIHI1I..I.I phone the air waves are translated into the vibrations of an electrical discharge which oscillates the ether. The ether waves, sent out by trans mitting station, having been there modified by the human voice, are changed back at the receiving station into such form as to effect the receiver and cause the exact air vibrations which were made to modulate the transmitting current, and therefore, the words of the speaker are heard ex actly as spoken. Dr. DeForest bases his claims for success on his past experiments with the wireless telephone at the sugges tion of Admiral Evans, who conducted the experiments on board his flagship, the Connecticut, and another vessel. Every battleship, cruiser or torpedo boat of the great Pacific fleet was equipped with radio wireless tele phones before setting out on the mem orable cruise. These instruments were given a thorough trial in inter-ship communication and in' conversation with several wireless stations cn the Pacific coast In the meantime, the young inventor has not been content to rest on the laurels obtained from his successful work in the navy and has carried on many experiments, both at home and abroad. In May, 1908, from the Eiffel tower, wireless messages were Bent by the radio telephone to every wireless station in France. A warship off Marseilles, nearly 600 miles away, heard the transmitted messages just as distinctly as did the stations near Paris. While doing this, Dr. DeForest had equipped several of the vessels of the Italian navy and the instruments met with Euch decided success that an arrangement has been practically con cluded for the equipment of the entire navy. Mrs. DeForest is quite as interesting as her inventor husband. She grad uated from Cornell university in the difficult science of civil engineering. She was the first and only woman to graduate from an Eastern college in this profession. After her graduation honors were heaped upon her until she stood before the world as its foremost woman hydraulic engineer, and a re markable example of woman's intel lectual equality with man. She was the first woman ever elect ed to membership in the American So ciety of Civil Engineers. She helped to build the greatest water works sys tem in the world's history, being on the engineering staff charged with the building of the $161,000,000 Catskill system. In June, 1907, she was elect ed fellow of Cornell university, an honor rarely conferred upon women. While at Cornell she proved herself to ' be the peer of any of the male athletes. She is a leader in the equal rights movement and various movements de signed to improve the social condition of all women. And now she further distinguishes herself by being the first woman to engage in wireless telephony. DR. T. P. 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