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TRANsFEReNcE OF THOUGHT.
relepathy Opens Il Great Field For Inves
tig%tion by Metaphysicians.

Eelepathy Opens Great Field For Inves
tigsttion by AIetaphysicians.
No field of investigation so pregnant
with interest has been as timidly aban-
doned to charlatans as tho domain of
telepathy. Until very recent times it
has been almost entirely in the custody
of mountebanks, empirics of the worst
type, whose claims to consideration
rested Oh cunning, shrewdness and lack
Of scruple. If we pause to consider that
the phenomenon Of thought transference
both i'll the waking and sleeping condi-
tion was the initial inspiration that
evolved the science Of metaphysics, we
may moro nearly appreciate how fool
ishly workers i'll the higher spheres of
thought have relinquished the keystone
of psychology to the most blatant types
of quackery.
Telepathy means the transference Of
thought, feelings, sensations, etc, from
one person to another by some means
other than the recognized sense percep-
tions Of the recipient. 1t is the commu-
nlcation between mind and mind other
wise than through the known channels
of the senses
The first notable fact in conjunction
with this class of cases is that we inva
riably find a keen, sympathetic bond be-
tween the 'agent" and "percipient'
| that is either tho result of blood ties, as
in the case Of relatives and between hus-
| band and wife, or it is cultivated inter
! course, as between friends, or is the
! outcome of Il joint aspiration found
among those who seek a common goal
That this thought transference has
taken place between persons in close
/ sympathy with each other is an admit
ted fact. The following case is selected
from the researches Of the Society For
! Psychical Research they having verified
the embodied facts:
Mrs. Kenon Bruce started from Eng
land to America to join her husband in
| Nebraska. On board ship shortly after
1T left Queenstown she fell i'll and be-
came delirous She saw her husband
| lying dead in the middle of field, and
her agony was excessive. On arriving
! in New York she received Il telegram
stating that Mr.. Bruce was thrown from
a horse and had broken his neck, and
this occurred at the very hour when she,
thousands of miles away Oh board ship,
said she saw him lying dead in the field,
as, in fact, he was ut the time. -
IL this case the elements of collusion
and muscle reading are certainly elimi-
mated. - Travels of Thought in Eos
ton Herald
An Incomplete Affair.
st is plain, f" said the justice, that
you stole the hog, and | shall send you
up for II months. %
"Jedge, kin you gimme bout one
hour 'fo' | goes?'
"What for?'
"Well. sub, wants ter go home en-
salt dat hog down!'-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
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tile death rate among the blacks Is very
high; the race itself is shorter lived
than the white; it is less liable than the
white to malaria, yellow fever and can
Ger, but succumbs more readily to tu-
berculosis and pneumonia. Irish chill
dren survive infantile diseases, but the
adult death rate is high; tuberculosis,
pneumonia and alcoholism cut them
down Germans a"e especially liable
to digestive disorders and cancer. Jews
have low death rate; they live long;
their diseases are diabetes, locomotC1
ataXia and kindred nervous ailmer ts.-
TiOu'S Herald BoStOn
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A CHICAGO TRICK.
But Somehow the Drummer Couldn't Seem
to Make 1t Work.

to Make 1t Work.
81 saw queer trick in Chicago the
other day" said the drummer as he
lighted a fresh cigar and pared his nails
with his pocketllnife.
OF course two or three of the group
wanted to know all about it, and he
continued:
Gone of you let me have clean ST
bill for a moment. All, that's daisy
of bill-just off the press last week.
Now, then, | lay the bill face down
ward on the tloor-thus. The chap who
did the trick was not a professional jug
gler, but he did it with neatness and
dispatch. l don't say l can do it myself,
but III try"
But what is the trick?"
"Why, take my knife and cut the
bill lengthwise-so Then cut it cross
wise-so That divides the bill into four
equal portions, doesn t it?'
Every one in the group answered that
it did, and the drummer gazed at the
pieces awhile and said:
1.-The trick is to blow the pieces to-
gether SO that the edges will unite. The
Chicago man did it, but just how 1
couldn't find out. Let's see l will now
blow. All, they do not unite. will
blow again.
"What in the Old Harry are you try.
ing to do?" demanded the owner of the
bill.
"Why, I'm trying to blow the pieces
together, " innocently replied the drum
mer.
But you can't do it. y
'No, see can't. The Chicago man
did it, but Pm not on to the trick. Here
are the four pieces, and guess you II
have to get a bottle of mucilage and a
sheet of paper and paste them together
Awfully cute trick, but | can't do it,
Wish | could, but can't ~
And, strangely enough, the owner of
the bill looked at the pieces. and from
the pieces to the drummer and back,
and then called the drummer a double
dyed idiot and walked off with the decla-
ration that he'd like to punch some.
body'S head. Detroit Free Press.
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Scain Of
gia in twenty minutes
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Use Scalin>s Sarsaparilla it is the best Cures rh
and all diseases of the Llnod. Price 81 90
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Economy In Rochester.

"a strange thing happened to me a
day or two ago. said butcher "a
swell sleigh, coachman in furs, and that
sort of thing, drove up to my place, and
we'll dressed woman came in. She
bought chicken costing 40 cents. I'm
agino my surprise when she gave mo in
payment . cents and a 20 cent ticket
from the county poor office. She LETT
rather hurriedly noticed. Rochester
Union and Advertiser.
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CTri6HiS Facts.

The medical statistics of this country
have been studied by DR.. John T. Bill
lings from the racial standpoint. He de
duces many curious facts: The infan-
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GoCu Wishes OF NO Avail.

Conan Doyle came to America Oh the
Elbe. During the voyage he wrote these
verses in Captain Won Goessel's auto
graph album:
Luck to the Elbe in every weather.
May her fortune never fail her;
Boat and master matched together
Gallant ship and gallant sailor.
Now the ship, the sailor and the al
bum are all deep in the North sea-. The
verses were written Sept. 27. 1904
Philadelphia Times
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skirt supporters, and nearly all the patents
granted her have been connected with the
wearing apparel OF women.
In fact nearly all of the early patents by
women were for improvements on articles
connected with her surroundings, such as
cooking utensils, picture frames, articles
of dress and things useful and orname ntal
about the house.
HERE'S A MOUSTACHE SPOON.
Philadelphia lady, however, started
the ball rolling in the other direction by
patenting an improvement in bee-hives,
and about the same time another lady from
the same city invented mode of preventing
the heating of journals or aXles on cars
and still another, from the Quaker City
also, patented a railroad car heater.
Not to be outdone in the race, Califor-
MIA woman invented a dumping wagon and
an Improvements i'll desuIphuriZng ores.
A Georgia woma n patented piOw, and was
followed in this move by a sister in Illinois.
More watehful over the comforts of man,
however, was some fair Philadelphia who
made application for patent on ''mous-
tache spocn," aud she received her pat
eut, too.
In Ohio a lady patented a car coupler.
About this time the tide seems TO have
reached Europe, and from among the snowy
Alps in far off switzerland came an appli-
cation for au American patent on improve
meut in stem winding watches.
The women of the Quaker City, however,
still continued to lead the van, and one OF
them patented a life raft aud another fire
escape, while from Pittsburg came an appli-
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she is very handsome woman, with hair
of the reddish-brown tint now so fash
ionable and which is known as the I'll
tian' shade. Her eyes are large and very
blue, while her complexion is clear and
rosy. Her figure is plump and we'll
rounded into graceful curves, while her
dress, which is always rich, is in excel
lent taste and most becoming.
The GuZmans have no children, but the
home is sweet and happy one. Dr. Guz-
man is hard worker and his wife is not
merely social ornament, but genuine
woman, who knows how TO make her
house bright and attractive Her dOnes-
but twice a week she makes her tr1p to
market in person, and the whole OF each
morning she devotes to her home duties
In manner she is pleasant and cordial. and
it i S no wonder that she is always over
burdened with invitations to some swell
affair in gay society, for hers is a dispO-
sition that enjoys pleasure and loves To see
others enjoy it,
The legation is brick, one of a Tow on
fashionable Massachusetts avenue. In the
neiGhboThood are most o ofthe paIattal homes
OF the rich Senators, while the residences
of the Attorney General and the house in
whic-. Mrs. Gen. Sheridan lives are seen
out of the front window There are two
parlors, and they are furnished in ex-
QUisite taste with pictures, vases full OF
blooming roses on dainty golden tables rare
cabinets full of costly ornaments, rich
hangiugs, and photographs of many of the
most famous people who have visited the
capital. The light falls through soft lace
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WAS AfwoMAN's IDEA.

Jewel Studded Electric Globes Supply
a Long Felt Want.
In the incandescent electric light there
has always been something lacking. 1t
has always been desired to secure shield
or shade which would protect the eyes,
and yet rob the light OF but little of its
power. This has been at last obtained,
it is said, in the beaded globes, n few Of
which are now being used in this city.
The manner of their discovery makes an
interesting story. One of the best Known
society ladies in Paris, attracted by the
effect produced by the suns rays play
ing on q Japanese cloth made of glass
beads which hung at one OF her windows,
solved the difficulty at once by taking the
beaded cloth and wrapping it around an
incandescent lamp; the effect was most
pleasing She called her electrician and
ordered him to make a shade of glass beads
in the shape of the lamp bulb, and fasten it
as best he could.
The electrician, E. VedoveIli, succeeded
in making the desired shade and completed
it by the introduction of clasp made of a
circular ring OF the lazy tong type. The
shades thus finished Were placed On the
lamps, and the effect produced was Teeog
niZed to be all that could lie Gesired.
Several days after the lady conquered Paris
by the surprise she gave her guests with
the new Illumination of her salons, and the
result was that orders came from all over
to the electrician who, to fill these orders,
had to give up his professional engage
nents to become the manufacturer OF the
glass s-beaded shade for lncandescent lamps.
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While electricity and gas are used in light
Ing We have also telephones, and in
modern progress Nicaragua is fully up 70
date. OF course, among the lower classes
the matter OF education is neglected, bat
there are no better educated people in the
wOTldthant those OF the highercIasses. Most
all of the ladies and gentlemen speak
several languages. and all are as fluent
Ii French as in their own tongue.
''Iu manv customs however. the DeouIs
down in Nicaragua differ fICm Us, and
one is in their rest rictiOns they place
upon the women. We do rot find there
the woman IN business. the lady writer on
the paper, or the new woman in her
multiple forms, forms that have long
ago grown familiar to our eyes IN the
states No single lady ever goes on the
street alone, and even the married ladies
90 n company with another lady. Such
freedom as is permitted to the girls EeTs
Ia the matter OF going about without a
chaperone and receiving company alone is
out Of the question. but the women have
very pleasant and easy existence -
Nine. GuZman is q thorough American in
her feelings, and lover OF her adopted land
aud its people Some time ago a paragraph
appeared N some Journal stating that Eer
family had been opposed TO the match-a
story that NaS an entire fabrication, as
nley are al atCaas admirers OF the minister
and his warmest friends. Her father
knew the Young man for years and was
aware OF the fact that a person OF such
distinguished family and high attainmentS
would be a worthy match for his beautiful
Alughter, and the married life. which
8 gun so auspiCiously, has turned out 10
We an ideally happy one-
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OLIVE GUNBY.
The Trouhlesome kheaire.

The Khedive is not a wise ruler, per-
haps not even an endurable one, but still
it is i'll his name that we English govern,
and to have to be perpetually limiting that
he must be deposed, OF even his house
superseded, is not pleasant, not process
which, however necessary-and we are
not denying its necessity-tends to dimin-
ish the English civilians drawback in
governing their Observation-Disclosures to the
upper classes of the governed. They get
along with the proletariat well enough,
for the latterlike justice and light taxation.
but the gentry, who feel throttled by our
infle xibility and ''priggish" desire for
European Justice, cannot reconcile them
selves to our authority.
They fret and their titular ruler frets
and those whom they influence fret, till +,
whenever there is a jar, rurnors are circu-
lated of approaching revolt and alarmists
talk or massacre, and half Europe looks
on, thinking that though the English govern
successfully they govern without amia-
bility or consideration for feelings which
the continent holds to be exceedingly i'm
portant. The Khedive is, we do not doubt,
q forward person, but we do not know q
European prince who in his position would
not be boiling over, or who, if a weak
man, would not be tempted to give little
pin -pricks TO his aggressive tutor when
ever he saw that that was safe.-The
Spectator.
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Inventions Galore r
From Perninine Minds
The American Woman Is Greatly kin Evidence on
Patent Office Files-A Sleep Inducer and an
Artificial Dimple Among Her Novelties,

The question of advanced woman" agi-
tates the public mind to a great extent of
late, and well it may. Not that woman
will ever pick up the work of man in the
sense and to the extent that a few would
like to believe, but there are many ways in
which woman can and will excel, and in
these ways she is rapidly progressing.
1t is, perhaps, not embarrassing to know
that woman is rapidly coming to the front
as an inventor, not only filing thousands Of
applications for patents on improvements in
articles especially adapted and intended for
her sex, but approaching the broader fields
and exercising her brains in the direction of
improving many of the implements with
which men ouly, as rule, are supposed to
deal.
The model room of the Patent Office bears
witness to the fact that the inventive genius
of the fair sex, while perhaps not so pro-
life of results, is certainly equal to the
efforts which many men have put forth to
better the condition of their fellow men in
the way of perfection of the various articles
of trade.
The first invention in this country by
woman was in 1909 and perfected on the
9th day of May of that year. 1t was de-
vice for straw weaving with silk or thread,
and the name ofthe inventor was Mary Kies
The next Invention by one of the fair sex
was not until the 21st of July, 1915,
seven years after the first patent. This
was corset and was perfected by Mary
Brush.
Then comes number OF years with only
an occasional invention. Layina III. Foy,
of Worcester, Mass, was one of the early
woman patentees, and she has applied for
patents on q great many improvements.
Her first patent was issued on the 22d OF
July, 1862, for an improvement in corset
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so without fear OF Infringement. Her
claims were as follows:
1. Smear a small spot on the cheek or
chin with colorless she1lac varnsh mixed
with glue.
2. With a pencil or pen-holder press the
flesh with the paint, holding it there until
the substance on the face becomes dry and
hard.
@-3. The stiffened indentation thus re-
tains the exact shape of dimple, and a
little face powder busted carefully over
the "artificial dinple" will completely
conceal the varnish glue compound
4. Some care must be observed in smil-
ing too suddenly, or the dimple may be
broken.
8. But with ordinary, gentle usage it
will retain its pretty shape a whole even
ing ifnot longer. While the dimpie process
is applicable to those whose faces comprise
q soft, velvety or pulp surface, as then q
very deceptive dimple can be produced, it
is not so available for thin or bony faces,
nor where the skin is very thick and un-
yielding.
Another interesting and anu sing in
| Yention by q RPms1 was p cumping pin.
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GLASS MosAICs.

The workers in Venice Produce Marvel
GUS Effects in Blended CoIors.
The glass mosaics are brought from Mu-
rano into the workshops at Venice in the
form of thin plates and are cut up into
little cubes or squares in the latter place,
says Home and Country. They are put
away and classified according TO color, and
this working stock fills several large
rooms. Against all four walls of these
apartments stand huge cabinets, div ided
up into what seem to be innumeraDle little
drawers and compartments, all numbered
and catalogued like a veritable museum.
Each of the little compartments con-
tains possibly a thousand of these little
glass disks OF particular shade.
My guide told me, and from what saw
myself / am ready to accept the statement
is unqueStioDably true that over 5000
different shades and colors for the glass
mosaics are made in Murano and that
there are from twelve TO fifteen tints to
each color and shade. Think Of i'll And
thenthink ofhaving thisenorTnousco collection
so Systematically arranged that any one
tint of any shade can be found without q
moments delay.
This statement may seem start ling,
but when it is considered that Salviati's
artists are able 10 reproduce III exact
shadings, colorings, and tone any paint
ing il win be appreciated that this vast
number is hardly more than adequate.
An artist in oils or water colors can put
one color or wash over the other, depend
mg upon the opacity of one or the trans
parency OF another, until the exact shade
required has been obtained. Then, by
blending several shades, he can soften
and tone then down by almost imper-
ceptible degrees until actually, pclhaps,
several hundred or more tints have been
produced in one bit of the painting-say
that of a hand or face
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prongs or forks. The head was 10 be
attached to the teeth and by placing the
prongs inside the mouth so that they would
press outward against each cheek caused
tie cheeks, in time, to look plump and full.
The other was a finger compressor made
oil two longitudinal coucave plates hinged
together at one end by spring hinges and
thus adapted to fit the tips OF the fingers
while the constant pressure reduces the
size.
One of the inventions by the fair sex
that is supposed to be conducive OF beauty
is nose improyer. 1t consists or a metal
shaped shell of the exact size OF the nose
desired The nose is well bathed before
going to bed, and then creased with olive
Oil or giycerine until perfectly soft. The
improver is then attached and well fastened.
In the morning the mproyer is to be taken
off and the nose batbed in warm water.
1t will probably cause some soreness, but
few applications is said TO relieve the
pain
III this way, it is claimed by the inventor,
any shaped nose may be changed TO suit,
the theory being that the nose is only a
piece OF cartilage and easy TO change its
shape.
There is no record in the office OF the
Commissioner, however, showing that any
patent was ever granted on this particular
application, hence it is probably not in
very general use.
OF the pateuts granted TO women since
1889 no index has ever been made by the
patent officials, but the humber of applica-
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curtains, dances on the rugs, f1iekers on the
queer vases and reflects in the mirrors th0
cosy luxury Of the room.
DIR. GUZMAN AND THE CANAL
DR.. Guzman is a man OF fine literary
attainments aud stands at the head OK
the scholars of his native land As an
ambassador, he is always on the alert
to further the progress OF his country and
for some time he has been making great
efforts towards a completion or the big
canal Knowing what an advantage such
a channel to the sea would be, he is most
anxious that it should be finished during
his term OF office.
When Times reporter called at the
legation, Madame GuZman came down in
a most becoming toilet and was kind enough
to tell something about her adopted country.
''of course, i cannot say anything in
regard to such matters as relate to diplo-
matte affairs" she remarked, for such
would not be IN place, seeiug that my bus
band has charge Of all thoss matters
But / can tell about what concerns the
life in the South. / have lived IN Nicara-
qua for four years and found the country
and the climate simply delightful. TX
istence down there is like a dream, for
the vegetation is Iu1Unant, all kinds OF
delicious fruits grow in abundance, tho
climate for the greater part OF the year
is pleasant and everybody passes the whole
day in the open air.
social life at the capital is very much
as it is here in Washington, only we have
no big opera houses. But there is plenty
of gayety, not for a short season, as it
is in cities IN the States, but all the year
around Balls and receptions are con-
dnual, and the society is as highly culti-
Fated as you would find in any European
capital. Everything in the line or cloth
ing for ladies is imported, aud the FASH
enable women dress in gowns from the
Partisan makers hands.
ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS.
''In the cities the houses are built OF adobe,
which is a kind of brick made OF yellow
mud, but much larger than the brick used
in the Union. Their edifices are large,
the chambers being simply immense, with
high ceilings, and they are all ranged about
a big, open courtyard, which makes n
lovely garden.
The streets have electric and cable cars,
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Fittings Our Forte.
Our Window Is
Full of Them.

The choicest line Of
SI8 SUITINGS manufac-
turers ever produced-or
tailors ever handled. We're
making sort of specials of
them now-and the times
just right for such specials.
Think of that Spring Suit
of yours.
If you're a Judge of cloth. and
a man of taste, you'll appre-
ciate the offer doubly. See If
you don't.
Our own tailors will
make the cloths up into
suits for you-put the finest
tailoring in them that's pos
sible. All work will be done
right here IN town.
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5H 81
49,
BEING STOLEN.

cation for a car wheel. lady in England
about this time made application for pat
ent in this country for an improved method
OF constructing screw propellers. A Chi
cagolady patented a process demonstrating
ores, and another one from the same city
invented a tug for harness, while a damsel
OF Buffalo, n. Y, patented an ozonemachine.
A New York woman invented dice
box and a Washington womana pyrotechnic
night signal, and another from the capital
patented n street car awning.
Some years ago the wife of Western
man who was general in the Union Army
during the civil war, dreamed OF a lock
somewhat different from any in use at
that time. She awoke in the night, got
up, and taking cake OF toilet soap and a
paper cutter, fashioned the lock Us she had
dreamed it was constructed.
The uextday shetookittoa machinist, who
formed model from the one she had made
of the cake of soap, and it was such an
improvement on the locks of that time that
a large firm offered her a good royalty,
from which she derives a lair income to
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