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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-10-11, Page 346 STRAND RAD HE WAS CAUGHT, But Detective Thinks That Few Absconders are Really Glad They are Caught, "Tbat remark of Stenelandde "Ian glad; "Wben ats came to the next morning: i Taueso got mee made when City Attor• .evith the Peak' and things defend in Ids ray Olsen of Chicago nailed the ()Weep : eystem, and after a wakeful night, in bank wearer at the Britiali poet Mee ; which heel done a powerful lo e of think- , in Tangier the other day, had a familiar ing about the ornerinesa of working in ring to it," eaikt a former Headquarters the Sing Sing laundry and such like, the elatedly°, who Was sent on SnanY long Whole esituation was changed, lbs wasn't, guests after fugitives during the Byrnes glad at all. regime. "A good many of the far jump- " '$ay,' he said to me when I walked era my that they're glad or something in upon lam, 'to blazes with this go back of that. sort at the lament of captuae, easy thing. The New York clirnate'e but I never met us) with one who really hard on my weak throat, anyhow. I've meant it. switched. The Island Empire for mine "Out of some thirty runaways that it uowl Sorry to put you to all this fell to me to round up la various quitr. bother but ameesee term of the world while I was in the'lielaire, son,' I said to him. If you Headauarters harnesa I put the band on 're not ping to be nice and come only oue of them who didn't get off that along without the papers, why, I'll have 'I'm glad? observation et the roundup to get the papers and carry you away, minute. This fellow was a Coffee Ea. tow., change man who mailn eircultom and "'How are you going to carry me pretty baffling jump of it after digging away,' he asked me, pretty perky, 'when deep holes ii . the ferule of a large num- Jaaan hasn't; got any extradition treaty ber of persons svlio let him have money for speculative investment. with the United States?' "You meet have read the•baek num - "I mooched: around all over Europe after that no for nearly three months, la" Net performance when you clewed mo ; over the ettredition treaties in the blue following smoky trails that over led, further and further into the haze, until book hefore you made your jump,' I at told hun. 'Japan's extradition treaty entirely by accident I caught sight with he United States was signed and . Nice of a woman with whom I knew my man hail Leen in intimate terms in New ratified last year, and you're coming York. All 1 had to do then was to i along with me for ono of those real sure trail her. * things.' 'She made a leisurely progress of it, "No, I ain't,' the boy who had been ()Sten retracine her steps, ant when 1 so mighty glad the day before told me, caught sight of her doing that I knew and blamed. if he didn't hire a couple .if that she was on her way to join the Coe. clever legal chaps, one an American and fee Exchange, man. It was more than the other a German, in Tokio, and. fight 1 t tle town of Ramleh in Egypt, and I aim and brought lane over after a long LIFE AT MARIENBAD. wasn't much more than ten steps behind delay. her when she ot the "A tl monthbefore she pul ed up at the li • meright down to-tho tape, though I got MO, BAD KN EE (BRED By zAm.BDK, A footballer's Voluble Experience. 4 1i • 4. Sizes of Clothin M au, example of the value of Yam- •,,+++++++*++++++++++++f +++1 link in eases of abrasions Ana injuries to muscles and tendons, as well to the skin, the recent experience of Alr. E. Leslie, of Ilarriet street, Winnipeg, I Ile clothing dealers in New York city 'who have reduced elle manufacturing of clothing to a faience, have tabulated statistics of the sizes of elohing worn by the inhabitant,: of every State and ear- ritory in the country, so that they aro enabled, readily to supply clothing for tbe popeld r mw bk za nada° binbutza tbe people of any section, aml not only of the particular kinds required hest in julit the required sizes. By the courteey of manufacturers who have gathered such statistics the naval clothing factory has access to information that would quite naturally be deniecl to other pee - pre in the trade, and it now a guar. ter of a century's experience of its own, It produces trousers in about as many verettions ne are found in men's forms, and so is able to fit out ships readily, no matter where the members of the erewm come from. Overcoats and, overshirts and other articles of clothing nre not made in nearly eo great variety, but they are macla in sizes enough to fill all normal requirements, and some unusual ones, BO that from the clothing regularly rende aud. carried in stock the tactory ean supply 05 per cent. of all (le - mends. Some clothing, of extraordivary sizes or of very unueual proportions, is made for the individual users. If such should be required after a viand has started on her cruise, it can be made abroad by the ship's tailors, enlisted men who are permitted, outside of their regular duty chao:triya,, to do such work, for which they e e• sailor. ships besides their clothiug stock, sup- plies of all Sorts of cloths and nutterials, which can be issued as required, It used to be that many sailors made their own clothes, and there aro still some sailors who do this, but the De- partment discourages this as far as it can, for the sake of securing uniformity. The sailor making his own clothes may get the collar af a jacket a little too narrow or too wide, or in some other garment depart from the standard meas- urements, and the Department likes to have its Bailors' apparel uniform in ap- pearance, as it turned out at the naval clothing factory. Among the odd things turned out by the factory are baseball suits and prison suits. The Navy Department gives an athletic equipment to every ship. There are made here also the rating badges, the various insignia of rank worn on sail- ors' utiiforms. The naval clothing factory is modern in its equipment. It has all the various appliances and apparatus required for the inspection and testing of cloths and other materials used, and the cutting of all garments is done with an electric: knife, an implement that does its work with certainty and despatch. The electric knife has a thin, slender blade, set vertically in the implement and working up and down like a sewing machine needle, but much faster, making 2,00 . s a an e at the back, which can be2grasped as eas- ily as a pair of shears could be held, and by it the lcnife blade can be guided in any direction. 1 They lay down on a cutting table a large number of thicknesses of cloth, one upon another, with We pattern in which they are all to be out marked on he top layer, and then the cutter goes t them with the electric cutting knife, may eb amentioned. He says; " playing football reeeived kick ou the knee. 1 had bad prawns trouble with that knee, said expected that I would. be laid. off, unable to wale, next/ day. 1 rubbed on some Zaneliuk how. ever, and, to my surprise and pleasure, it preveutea all serivue consequences. Before I had used- the seeona box tne knee was quite cured! Now, I always carry a box when travelling, for I think Zartal3uk a blessing to humanity. Suck it has proem', on many occa- sions. Made epth•ely from herbal es- sences, it is a purely natural balm. Ec- zema, ulcer, abscesses, some on the back er loins, piles, sealing sores, itch- ing or chafed surfaces, sore feet, blis• terea or chapped hands, sore nipples for all these, as well as for cuts, burns, bruises, scalds and. everyday elan injur- ies, it is a veritable boon. For house- hold use, nurs-es, doctors and. mothers eveiywheee give it a good word. Of its value to athletes the above case is but one example. Sherring, the winner of the Marathon race, used Zam-I3uk while training, and uses it for bruises sore feet, nail as an embrocation. The lead- ing athletes of the world have expressed thoir appreciation of its value. AU druggists, at 50c per box, or post free from the Zam-Bulc Company, Toronto, upon receipt of price: boxes for $2.50. Send one cent stamp and full name and address, and free sample box will be mail- ed you. • alai:A. 4 -O. re. no ier rummiferous glad one was an "I needed a whole lot of sleep, and 1 absconding assistant cashier of an East knew that I had a cinch, and so I didn't Side bank, I got. him in Havana, and walk iu on my man till the next ' day af. I didn't zephyr along there any too soon er my arrival Ranaleh, for he had it all fixed to take the Spanish "When I trudged up to his neat little steamer for Bill -MOB& that evening, and bungalow about 10 o'clock in the fore- his route from Barcelona was goino to bo noon he was sitting on the downstairs straight for Morocco, with whiche'coun- g4/i, porthelooking real cute and comfy in his 'try we didn't have any treaty at that pongee colthes and white shoes. There time. was ,a B. and S. on the little table be- I me was at a je; doe game when I side his rattan rocker, and a smoke -col- I nudged up hebind him. He had a suds ored house boy was dusting things na- thing on that had; been growing by ound the carpeted porch. ; accretion ever since his jump from New He was reading a bunch of American • York till it looked like something stand - newspapers and listening to some °rimy in waiting in the ante -room of the bug piano mega that was being manufactur- ward, and he was betting handfuls of ed in the parlor by the young woman yellow money on the jai alai game. who had joined him the day before. It vow I said, tapping him on the looked pretty soft for him, the whole right shoulder pad from behind before layout as it was rigged, and he had a he'd leen me, 'this jai alai thing isn't big bundle of the loot with him to keep such a bad kind; of a. game, but the base - it going, too, if it hadn't been for •those ball season around New York is just other arrangements in which I had a about beginning, and you'll like that part better, won't you?" 'Morning,' I said to bins, calling him "He wheeled, around rummily, and by name, as I walked up the steps mop - when he saw me he rushed into my arms ping my forehead. 'That tall thing in t as if I'd. been his elder fat brother that he glue sure looks good to me. Warm he hadn't seen for fourteen years. part of the earth, isn't it?' " 'Deng it all, but I'm glad to see yea, "Be didn't know for a sure thing at once that 1 was after him, though of coppyl' lie gurgled, mauling me afound course lie suspected it. But my affable in his enthusiasm, and me struggling to way of tackline him probably. caused brush him away. 'Blow me, but I'm glad him to think, after I'd spoken the first you found me. And so here you are, hey, few words, that perhaps, after all. I was all ready to take me away from this a fugitive in the same ease he was, come to get acquainted. "It don't look half as good as it kastes: lie replied ,taking a sip of the 33. and S. 'Come on up, and try one.' "All right,' said. I, 'but I won't abuse your hospitality by lapping up your liq- uor before I tell you that I'm here to get you for the New Ydrk authorities." "The devil you are!' an exclaimed, his fate taking on a whole lotof color changes. "Yes, I am,' I said, giving him a peek at the suspender badge, and pulling the New York papers on. him. 'You were expecting to be caught up with sooner or later, weren't you? And I suppose you're kind of glad to be nailed for the ride back home at that, aren't you?' "1 am like thunder!' he chopped back at me without the least hesitation. 'What would I be glad for?' "As a matter of fact I couldn't see any particular reason why he .should feel glad, but Lwas so used to having 'em all say that they were glad. that this one's frank denial of that glad feeling surpris. ad me. "I had all kinds of a job getting him. The extradition treaty had: only recent- ly been negotiated, and the Egyptian au- thorities didn't quite understand its pro- visions, nor did they like the idea of giving up spendere with bank 'wads to foreign fly cops. I got him finally though, and when the steamer was pull- ing past the Bartholdi statue I thought 1'd just try him out again on that glad thing. "Must feel bully to you to see your alati ve landagain, eh?' I said to him. "'Native chicken Heel' he came back at me ,disgustedly. 'Yen know blamed • well that 4 felt better and gladder on that little front porch in liamleh than . liable to feel for a good many years tb conic. Just forget those glad pgs, won't you ?" "But a good many of them get off that glad remark without meaning it ex- cept at the instant of saying it. The sight of the American clothes and tho sound of the American language,, of the fly cop who gives them the shoulder touch makes 'em sort of emotional for the time being, and they exude the glad crack that Etensland made ,but when they fall to thinking it over all of the joyousness .soon fades. "I tagged a Broad street bank menet.- ger to Japan; in 1890 ,and When I got hitn he made over me like a Newfound- land pup in Hie momentary gladness. found him in Tokio in the Yoshiwara, which is the Tenderloin of Tokio and then eorne. "The geisha. girls were playing tinkly inusie on their kotos and samisens bu the young fellow looked dismal and un- happy. When I entered the room and he caught sight of me he recognized me as an American right 'away, and he eante rushing over to me with the biggest kina of a mitt, "Sh-h!" 1 had to say to him. 'You dorab have to look delighted. I'm hero Lor you, you know.' "'Well, don't you epos° / know that?' Ile gurgled sloppily, for he Wad a :rood ways gone with the saki and things. aleve Omen you around New York, and I 'know yott're a bedgernan, and /at just ;tickled foolish, old man, that you've got ette; honed, 1 am! Ian eiek of this kit- ing around, and little old Now York ie good enough for me, and—say, 'when ean we get the steamer back for Isriseo "Oh, you're going to lie good and come sight along Without any papers, then, alit year said X. "'Am XV he said, mobbing 1116 again • to get hold of my paw to hake. 'Why, say, I'd moss Over in a balloon if X could get one. I'd rather be walled up there on the Hudson River than be the Mikado her% I Mire would. Let's 'dig right out tarty awl find out about the steamer.' "But he wasn't in shape for ntvigat. Pam, and au I had him rielothet to Wr30 infernal place—here, lemme shake with you again!' and I and to all but upper- cut him to keep him off of me in his sousy joy. . "'Your being glad. that I'mhere, though,' I had to say to him, Shasn't got -anything to do with your little arrange- ment to start for Bercelona to -night, has it?' "He didn't make any reply to that, but went on, tellina me how glad he was that he'd been herded up before he'd got any further-. At the Hotel Inglaterra that night, all the same, he had half clinehed out of a second 'storey window to do the vamoose thing before I discovered his move and dragged him back, and then he gave me a 'belt on the head with a gun ho had concealed on him that same nigh putting my light out, and Iliad to get the help of a Hae-ana cop to stand welch 'and watch evita me over him till I got him on board the -steamer for New York. That's how glad that one was. "I went niter a good many of them after that, and every time one of them professed to be so powerfully glad he was nailed that he wanted to stake me to a Kaiser Bill hug I always saw to it that my half length of locust ws.s stick- ing out where I could get at it, and I never slept till the gladdest kind, were safe on board .the steamer behind a locked cabin door and 'a porthole that serewea down from the outside as well as in," Frequented in•Summer and Early An- ti= by Austrians and Poles. The town of Barle.nbati is chiefly composed of hotels and lodging -houses. The building that =tains the main spring is not an im- posing edifice nor is the colonade where LeroDeilladwe,a ikan'divb:tuit r et inrga Bolore othill(2 it. there is a terrace, where the band plays in fine weather, and the water -drinkers prom- enade. On high ground close ,by is a sort of square, where the Hotel Weimar is sit- uated, and there the King resides duriug hI May. It used to be a somwhat second rate hotel. But It has been improved, and a large suite of apartments has been arranged tor the King. Tho newspapers say that his Maj- esty was mobbed on his arrival when taking the waters. In London a crowd collects whenever he is expeoted, and country folk bang about Buckingham Palace on the chance of seeing him. The people in Marienbad and from the neighboring villages are equally curious. But, having once sad:sired their our- • iosity, they have ceased to interfere with his privacr. Marienbad has or long boom frequented in summer and early autumn by A.ustralus and Poles, but there used to be few of the cosmopolitan herd. The visitors almost all took the waters, some of various coax - plaints with which they imagined that they were afflicted, most because they were fat, and wanted to beccme thin. They got up early and went to bed early. There wore no fashionable toilettes no dinner and no amusements, withhe texception oe a pretty little theatre where operas and Plays were very fairly performed, and where the performance was always over by about half -past nine. Occasionally a foreign roy- efts,, generally rather a secondhand royalty, or the member of the family of an ex -Sov- ereign house, turned up, but no one paid the slightest attention to them, The neigh.. boring watering -place of Carlsbad was far fffrotttird:r ofantdh tar more fashionable. The t analytically aebouwto tligacseasmeneiut Iat b8lairelvs! a bad they are hot and at Marienbad they aim ' c Id. 01 courso, the waters are said to work wonders in regard to many maladies. Th0Y t f may, or they may not. Their chief repute 1 _ has always been due to their thinning pro- . perties, but this, I take it, is rather due to t and 11 a opte by a fat person anywhere ;vould have the same result. The literature in the booksellers' shop windows consists largely of pamphlets dealing with " adipose matter on the human frame. I have road some of them. They are all based upon the experiences at the immortal Bantiag. ' 4. But they insist that abstention from fat it- self does not conduce to getting rid of it. the at man, it appears, May eat fat as buttor, or In any other form without adding a pound 1 4. to his weight, provided that he limits Min- self to a reasonable amount. Beyond this a amount it fattens him. I have seen many e very fat people about who do not seen to diminish their bulk. I asked a local doctor ' how this was. He Geld that they could not resist beer in the evening. The hotels and apartments are fairly cheap, o if caloulated on the ordinary water -placing t tariff. No one is expected to dine at his hotel / if he prefers to do so elsewhere. At all hotels in the Austrian Empire, the restaur21 - ant, although attached to an hotel, is run • as a separate o utting all at once, and exactly alike. They cut eighty thicknesses of deninm, rom which working trousers and jack- ts, or jumpers are made, or eighty hicknesses of white duck; and the knife will out all at once sixty thicknesses of overshirt, flannel, forty thicknesses of 4. rousers cloth, or twenty thicknesses of overcoat cloth. When tne garments have been cut out hey are done up in bundles of uniform numbers, according to the kind of gar- ment or the thickness of the material, ogether with the buttons and buckles nd thread and silk and whatever oth- r trimmings may be required in the making of them, and then given out to G made; for the garments are not made p in the factory, but by operatives utside the department who come for he work and take•it home and finish he garments there. The factory does ot seek to have the work at cheapest ossible rate, but to have it well done y good workers. It gives the work as far as possible to he families of veterans. There are on he pay -roll of the factory about 100 e pays in oash for what he consumes there. This is convenient; but there ie one t cus om C011- nected with tho system which is somewhat of t a bore. A tip is expected by the head waiter, t to whom the order for the dinner is given, by the waiter who serves, and by the lad who brings the liquor ordered. The tips aro vary fiance. Thor some reason best known to the WOMENS' NEGLECT Sinai!, but this division of tipping is a =- subjects of the Em r f ------------,- pe or o Austria and King of Hungers', the little refreshments—coffee eto.—taken in tho cafes within an easy walk are urually crowded in the afternoon, for a g Captain Spencer, eenior prison mission - Burglar's Five Seasons, taxecnafecuilnnertheantclowsnupge.reTtbseregloonoot slight refreshment is permitted after a walk Of the town there are many and arde or of the Church Army, tells a story of a certain convict's philosophic view of his existence. "Well, my man," asked Oitp- tain Spencer, "what deyou do when you aro out of prison?" "Well," said the convict, "in spring I does a bit of pee picking and in the sum- mer 1 does a bit of fruit picking and in ;the autumn I does a bit of hop pick - ing." "Ohl" said:the captain, "what happens after that?" "Well, now, mister," replied the COIL. viet, "I may as well be honest and tell you that in tho winter time I does a bit of pocket picking." The missioner furrowed his brow in nmezpment asking finally, "And what happens, then?" The convict answered laconioally, "Why, here I WV doing a. bit of oakum picking!"—London Mail. It must not be supposed that the world stands still in the Silly Season. Great changes are always taking place in eons° quarter of the globe and it has just been announced that Sir John Bam- ford Sleek bus added a hyphen to his tame and will in future be known as Sir John Bamford-Slack.—Puneh. Good Fellows to be Fauna. (Philadelphia Record.) The girl who marries -to�- form him seems to lose' sight of the fad that there aro Iota who don't need re. forming. lotto, faramgionatz 1nan nurseries, is played ina given for it in tho sli:nev apoorinarfi.rloloPoosfesomaare 11 vraolue, which aro selected by the winur f m a long table in which they aro u - played. A game lasts about an hour, and Is shared in by several hundred players, and the excitement amongst them for tho prizes is wonderful. I recomend this gain° to those who cater for the amusement of irisitore at English watering -place& There is a good deal of motoring at Barienbad, and the roads are by no Means bad. The general opinion seems to be gaining ground that the beet motor for a tour is one of comparatively small horse-Dowel—and very lightly made. These light motor t do not go so fast as the more powerful ones up mountains. But where the road is eig-siggy the: heavy motor, with Its long chassis, is apt to develop sea -sick- ness, and is far more dangerous where there are many eharp turnings with a precipice on ens side. The King does a good deal of motoring, and does his boot by example to make tho rest cure what it is intended ot or Mtbohe. d ose Who wish to get well of maladies, baths are affected by' a good many real or imaginary. I once tried one out of curiosity. The patient is introduced into a room in which there are two baths. In one there Is a thickish black mud, which is obtained fret:a a neighboring morass; in the other clean water. After tho patient has sat or some tiMe in tho mud bath, an at- tendant enters. The patient stands Up In the bath, and clean water is poured otter him, after which ho gets into tho water bath. Thirl effeetuany cleans hilt. Ladies, however, generally have indiaruther gloves Ott their hands and feet, to pretreat the mud lodging under their nails, What ever may be happoiting in ItUssian Poland, the Jews in Galicia aro not suffer- ing from peraecution. They come to Ma- rienheat In largo numbers. The nien aro dressed in eaftane, and have king curls ail Oath WO of their cheeks. Many are red- haired, and title celor doenot suit their cast et features. The women Wear wigs, and are very Mainly dressed, They are enorMOusly fat all over, and look like ant. Mated bolter, The Jetta have their own reetaurants, where only Kosher food is to bo obtained, and they nearly all live In one oftrucuar street. Passing through it on Friday evenings, every room is seen lighted up with four candles pideed upon the centre table.—Coe. London Truth. aarrodwo.....411.11111................. Why Ile Stays at Home. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) "Mr. 13igsbee seems like a model hue. band," "Yes, lately. Xle's home every evening now. You ace his wife got the burglar 1 scare, and bought one of those pretty little pearl -handled revolvers." "Well 1" "'Well, as Mrs. Big:thee wakes up at the slightest noise and is ver3• near Sighted Iflgebee doesn't take any ehattees en prowling round the house etc dark." SUFFERING THE SURE PENALTY Health Thus Lost Is Restored by Lydia E. Pinitham's Vegetable Compound. How many women do you know who aro perfectly well and strong? We hear every day the same story over and over again. "1 do not feel well; I am so tired all the tittle!" More than likely you speak the same words youreelf, and no doubt you feel far from well. The cause may be easily traced to some derangement of the fe- male brow; which manifests itself in depreeslon of Vials, reluctance to go anywhere Or do anything, backache, bearing -down paina flatulency, nervous- ness, sleeplessness or other female weakness. These symptoms are but warnings that there is danger ahead, and unless heeded a life of suffering or a serious operation Is the inevitable result. The riever.failing remedy for all these symnteme is Lydia E. Pinkhatn's Neg. I et -able Compound. 1 Miss Clara Ileaubien, of Beauport, 5 Quebe, writes: Dear kra. Pinkham : • "For several years I }lave sufrered with e. afoul:de weaknesA which 'iroveel a serious &sin on my vitality, anginas my strength ' and causing severe headaches, bearing-a:am 1. ains and ft general worn-out feelin , until I really lunt no desire to hvo 1 trid mana medicines, ant did not net permaitent relief tint 11 I took Lvsliit E. Phil:nut's Vcc.:etable compound. 111 two months 1 was much better mei istrongee, and le four months 1 ‘‘.418 well; ho mom diotbtreettbk 00 more pain. $0 I have every reason to ItraisO the Vegetable Compound, and I con- ailer it with:intl.:pull for the ills 011.011100 s Per twentt -five 3.-etrre Mrs. Pinkbarn, t tiatighter-in-law of Lvdie E. Pinkliarn, a Ime under her tinvetton and entice her decease, been advising del: women frets e of charge. ITer advice is free and islwayi heipfL addreei, Lynn, MaNu. SECRETS OF FAMOUS TOMS. ••••••••••••••••••110.••••••• 111 A Luxury for the Bath. "Royal Crown". Nob -Hazel Toilet Soap 0.17 loc. a cake, 3 cakes for 25c. AT IMUOGISTS easels tVOIVVOILRX. o operatives, many of whont engage in the work other members of their families. It is probable that the number of persons 1 ; actually engaged in the work of making th Peeps Into the Occult at a Little New York Shop. New York Sun.) deelare that De Kalta's neatest tribk There is a modest little shop on Sixth was a little one 1/4 which he took a avenue, with playing. cards: goblet*, laws handkerchief out of a canal% The surd other innocent looking objectit in the beauty of this was that he ehowed both window, In is manufactured most 444 C:1 atia ha4hgl' wit/14°th of the 1111181eiallS' apparetua wad ill it with thumb and finger, alti maid in them. be 1ft the candle sztufn North and South America end a good gravely to the audience: deal of that used in Europe ami the Ora 'The hastakerehief is here, In the bit ent. Pereons interested in the occult of ash have taken from the eandleP die itself for apparatus to be wed in of the establielunent the orders from In no larger than a man's thumb, in whieb Instantly the handkerchief •appearstL would be ;surprised to see on the book* . For this De Kola invented a tiny bag, cialjuring tricks by native Indians. the hanakerebief was compressed. It The little shop is •the headquarters of hung over his thumb by an invisible magic in, America. The walls are covered thz•ead, and hie dexterity consisted in with ea:areas of famous performers, the keeping it out of eight as he dieplayed piece Is full of Souvenirs of them and the his hands, proprietor ean tell many stories of them There are 200 members of the Society and their art. of American Magiciane, but there are He has, for instance, the vanislied cage thousands in the country at large. They of Buatier de Kolas, which Mrs. do Kolta range all the way from Harry Kellar to presented te him after tbe death of the the poor clerk who learns a few tricks. oonjurer. Sleight of hand men declare and does them of an evening to add a few dollars to his income. Seven -eighths of the whole profession are of the latter variety. This kind of entertainment is peren- Wally popular for dwelt :socials, chil- dren s parties and all manner of private, or semi-public functions. A man 'who can fill twenty minutes or half an hour acceptably in this way can often increase his income by a third by one evening's work a week through the winter. The amateurs who never work for money, but like to amaze their friends, are izummerable. There are a number of 'men in New York who although they never appear upon tbe stage, make very. good money at entertainments. A. Ger- man much in demand to amuse guests after dinner manipulates cards, watches, handkerchiefs and such things in a way to mystify even professionals, A cer- tain mechanical engineer is an expert at electrical tricks. that De h.olta was the greatest prestiaa gitator that ever lived. He never used a trick invented by any other person, and le is said to have invented more tricks which have been copied by other perform- ers than any other man. This vanishing cage was a favorite. It was simply it bird *cage containing a we canaty, which he held out in plain view of the audience. Then the whole hing disappeared. That was all there was to it, but it was most mysterious. The cage was col- apsible ami disappeared up De Kolta's leeve. The art consisted in making it isappear invisibly a.nd without hurting he canary. De Kolta made his cage with his own ands. Most prestfdigitators have been xpert me:amid:aims. Many of them have lave originally been watchmakers or op - feel instrument manufacturers. Tins next most prolific sourees of supply have been the professions of themistry and medi- inAe. souvenir of "Alexander the Great" Herrmann shows the pleasure which that rince of the art took in his own boats outs. This was too small a trick to use n the stage, and he invented it merely o amuse his friends in his own home. It is a little cabinet of ebony, inlaid with mother of pearl, containing thirty- two small drawers, just the size of a playing card, all numbered. The observer was asked to choose one of thirty-two crude and to name the drawer in which he would have it appear. The card al- ways appeared in the right drawer. The conjurer's art lay in compelling the selection of the right card. The draw- ers had Wee bottoms and springs, and a card like that selected had been previ- ously concealed in all of them, waiting for it deft pressure to bring it to light in the drawer selected. Visitors to the proprietor of this little shop of magic sometimes sit down un- awares upon a plain, old fashioned sofa. which they are surprised to learn was once the throne of a high priestess of the occult, Miss Haulm Heller, in her famous second sight net with Robert Heller. This trick awakened wide interest thirty years ago. It seemed most mysterious and inexplicable and puzzled even those whs.) knew that it was a trick, Miss Heller sat upon the sofa blind - i folded and with her back to the audience. Heller, in tbe audience, borrowed objects from spectators, and Miss Heller -describ- ed them sometimes. Not a, -word was spoken by aleller, nor could she see him to get her cue by his gestures. The aparatus did it all. The sofa was wired for an electric battery. A confeder- ate sat in the audience, his chair connect- ed with the battery, the electric push button under the seat. A code was ar- ranged by which Miss Heller knew ex- actly what to say. . The performance was rendered more mysterious by Heller's talking to her in part of the tests. Some people supposed, of course, that he was giving her the cue with his questions. But when the same results were obtained in silence the 811S- pielons were also mystified. Apparatus of an electric term when used fn connection with legerdemain. Some pieces or apparatus can be conceal- ed between two fingers. Others fill boxes ten feet long. The earlier magieinns used cumber- some apparatus. Frikell. Finn, born in 1818, who was knigntect by the King of Denmark, and received diamond rings and the like from most of the sovereips of Europe, revolutionized the art. He used no apparatus at all. This tendency prevailed for many years, but at the present time the ten. deney toward big, showy effect % and gorgeous stage settings is bringing in the use of more complieed apparatus than ever. A firet class magician now travels with a railroad ear full of apparatus. Fifteen thoueand dollars is not an un- usual sum to pay for stagiug a first-class magician's elney ilowadays. It is a ineebanieal age. Present day prestidigitators in no way excel the old fellows in pure legeraenia'n, but a flood of mechanical inveneitins has come to belp them, and ell the ;simperers have to do is to manipulate these skillfully and gracefuly. Their task is no easier, how- ever, for it is sharper and more skepti- ea age than the earlier man playca to, and oue need to mechanism of all winds. The little shop tarries a thousand dif- ferent kimle of apparatus in stock. Then there are tholisands of others which it is callea upon to make, some of them very nld. Every day Male book or leaf nut of a book will arrive from Kala- mazoo or talent:la, with a letter stating that the writer wante to do the trick described, and wants the apparatus for it construetea. Some of these triela were invented centuries ago. The great present day inventions in Lite art twe and Teelation, both of Which require elaborate devices. Larry Kellar's levitation. net, 111 Which lie body of a man roee slowly Jute mid- air and remained. suspended there while he aypnotizer fanuea him, required a oinplicateit machine behind the stones 1 'When the finished clothing comes it is inspected and then packed in boxes for shipment, the number of garments to a bale depending again on their char- ' acter and the thickness of their meter- t ial, while some bales are packed with solid sizes of whatever the article may be and. some are packed assorted; but 1 the bales are all made small, and so s packed that they will go to any dis- , d tance in safety. t 1 The bales are all compressed somewhat i in a hydraulic press, to save space, and h each bale is wrapped in a waterproof e covering, over 'which is sewed on a coy- j , ering of burlap. ; t 1 The naval clothing factory is managed by Paymaster William J. Littell 0121(1 Paymaster J. R. Sanford, under the dir. c ' ection of the General Storekeeper of the navy yard. Pay Director John N. Speel. Its output for the last fiscal ID year averaged 30,000 garments a month, a a total of 360,000 garments for the year, ; with a cost valuation of $717,360.75.—N. t W. Sun. SAVED BABY'S M. There are thousands of mothers throughout Canada who have no hesi- tation in saying that the good health enjoyed by their little ones re entirely due to the judicious use of Baby's Own i Tablets. And there are many mothers who do not hesitate to say that at criti- cal periods the Tablets have saved a baby's life. Mrs. Wm. Fortin, St. Gene- vieve Que says: I feel sure Baby's Own Tablets saved my baby's life. When I first began giving them to him he was so ladle; constipated that the bowels could only e moved by injection, and he suffered terribly. After the first day I saw a marked change, and in less than a week the trouble was entirely removed, and he has since enjoyed the best of health." You can get Baby's Own Tab- lets from your druggist or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Med- icine Co., Brockvill4e.Oont. SECRETS OF THE AIR. Some Interesting Discoveries Made by Scientists, I Among the most fascinating and elus- ive of scientific studies is that of the ' movement of our terrestrial atmosphere. Ever since men began to go down to the ' sea in ships the needs of the navigator ; must have led him to note for his own ' future guidance, and for the benefit ot other adventurers, the general direction of the wind at various seasons in differ- ent seas. Gradually as the world widen- ed the prevailing winds of the globe be- came accurately known and the common. knowledge systematized, so that now for probably every part of the ocean ;outside the polar circles there are offi- cial and published records of the winds that may be looked. for at any season of the ear. Then too the student of physical geography has noted how large O part the prevailing winds of any re- gion play in determining the climatic characteristics of /different countries'. In recent years, however, wience has not been content with studying only evhat are, after all, movements merely in the lower strata of the great ocean of air on the floor of which we live n.nd move, but has sought to penetrate the mysteries of the upper air and to find out its secrets. Both Roteh and De Bort have devot- ed considerable private resources and talents of no mean order to meteorolog- ical research, and when, in the summer of 1905, these two scientists united in a joint expedition for the exploration of the upper air currents in the trade wind region of the North Atlantic, the results of their observations. were awaited. with great intereet. The trade winds are the most Important of what witty be called tho "permanent" winds of the globe. Thus in the North Atlantic the north- east trades are in summer found in full force about the Canary Islands, and serve until within about 12 degrees of the equator. In winter the belt shifts rather further south, but at all seasons a wind from at least 25 degrees north latitude for ftilly 1,000 miles southward. The expedition of 'Retch and De Bort ap- pears to have differed in its methods from that of the Prince of Monaco in the more general use of "balking son- des," which rose to great heights, and by their line of drift indicated the direc- tion of the atmospheric current nt .dif- ferent altitudes. Kites also were used, but in the tracle-whia region no great beieht can be reachea by their agency. The northwesterly current wns found to be drier :ma more repia thnn the main northeasterly curreut, and there WAR always a quick rise of temperature as soon as the level of the :10i -trade was reached. This phenomenon of "tem - venture inversion" is rine of the most interesting to be met with in atmospher. e exploration. To eive a single min - at.: Ott one occasion, with a temper:t- itre if 70 degrees jug!. above the sea lie ttia at nn clameihn of flai00 feet, sae found to linve a temperature as MO e S3 degreee latlirenheit. Tor tem nowledce of the mmer currents outside lie region explorea by Rotel' nua De lore We are 0111 eltieflv indebted to hultes of the tbrectinn of movement of la eirren eloude,—.E.+ilinburelt 'Review. Sure Proof ef Sincerity. (Philadelphia Press.) Iliter—Yes. Kloseman admired my tory very much. Ire said he was sure lie editor of eribber's would give me 't least tia0 for it. :Wont-- But do you think he was sin- eliTiter--Positive. Why he loaned me the emits to pay postage. to weak it. De Kolta's illusion, in which every object on the step appeared and dis- appeared in a seemlegly unisecountable manner. enaing with the aeormitation of O woman waose head tbereepon danced uncannily through the air without any Visible meaner of support, requirea 1111 eladoratelv set saw. Everything was drapea in black velvet, ana. the Arrange- ment of light was sueh that nothing that was not light in color could be dis- thignishea against this mass of Meek. A. black bag thrust over the bend of a wo- men in a wbite dress decapitated her, while a black bag pulled off the head of it woman in a blttek dress at the same instant, revealed 0 head without any support. Some of the imps:ea/us is amazingly dimple, eonsidering the thousands whom It US held spellbound. reestidigitaiori BIRTH ANNIVERSARY. 'The Question, "When is a Man Twenty. one Years Old?" "The question appears ridiculous: to some and rnakee them laugh, while others set their alleged common, sense at work and never wibh correct result: "When is a man, 21 years old?" "One student says: 'On hie 21st birth- day' but of course he does not mean it Lor he is about a year out of the -way. Another ventures: On the 21st anniver- eery of his birthday,' This sounds bet- ter, but even if correct is not specific enough. 'When he has completed hie 21st an.niversarya 'at the beginning of that day'; on his 21st anniversary, at the preelee hour of his birth,' are ether answers. And then 1 surprise the guess- ers by saying that they are all wrong. "In computing time it is a general rule that the law disregards part of a day. In applying this rule, suppose it man was :born one minute before mid- night on January 2, 1880. "At midnight he had lived but one minute, yet the day on which he was born was ended, and tbe law considered; him one day old. So in computing the 21 years which a man must live in order to reach his majority, we do not begin with the moment of hie birth, but with the commencement of the day ef hie birth. "Now, since we must start with the first moment of January 2, 1880, it is perhaps natural to say that this man did not become 21 years old until the close of January 1, 1901. Mathematige aley speaking, this is true. "Twenty-one years in that sense re- quires that the lest moment of January t, 1001, should bay° arrived in order to make the man of age and, obviously, !ie was of :age at that point of time. But =a again the rule is applied. "As the man was of age the last mo- ment of January 1, the law disregards the entire part of the day intervening between tbe first moment and the last, and cansequently lie became in law 21 years old on the first moment of Janu- ary 1, 1901, the day preceding the 21st anniversary of ills birthday. "This rule is a part of what is known as the common law, and is applied In this country in all States where the com- mon law of England has been adopted, ard remaine unchanged by statute. A man may vote or make a valid. will on the day preceding the 21st anniversary of Ids firtbday, though the night in the one case and the capacity in the other is eiren only to persene who have reached 1 -'the age of 21 yeare."—Prot Wurts in New York Sun. 4 - 0 Two Great Cricket Records of tgo6. 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