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Peruetual Motion.

A Reader makes these inquiries:
what gain would perpetual motion
machine be to the world? What would
the consequences of such an invention
be to the workingmen? Would the
army of the unemployed be increased!
Answer: A experimentation machine
would be gain in that 1t would ADMIT
of the use of machinery at less cost. as
the items of fuel and water add greatly
to the expense of any works. Light
machinery could be operated at dis-
lance from coal-fields or water. and
much could be accomplished that is
now impossible. AS to the effect OF
such inventions upon the workingmen,
there is much to be said. 1t is within
the memory of man when laborers de-
stroyed what was called labor-saving
machinery, because they fancied that
1t would take the bread out OF their
children's mouths. Instead OF this.
labor-saving machinery has made COM
forts and luxuries possible for indus
trious working people of all classes.
Workingmen live better, have more OF
the good things of life and are more in
telligent with every succeeding gen
Grafton. It is fondly to be hoped that
they will at no distant day realize that
every improvement in machinery,
every labor-saving device and every
new method makes it possible for them
and their children to have better food,
better clothes, better house to live In
and more of the necessities and luxur-
les of life. The great army of the un-
employed is not likely to be Increased
by the invention of any new machines
or labor-saving appliances. Indeed, in
this great and glorious country of ours
there is work enough and pay enough
for every man, woman and child. The
great trouble is that people will not
take what they can get until they can
hotter themselves, and many refuse to
work at all if they can live upon the
products of the labor of others.
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William r. O'Neill of the Pacific vim
egar factory noticed yellow-hammer
industriously at work one day recently
ON the siding of the factory building.
Mr.. O'Neill watched the bird for some
time, and inside of an hour it had cut
q round hole two or three inches in
diameter through the inch planking.
Mr. O'Neill is not a mean man, and If
the bird cared to make its home in the
vinegar factory, why, it was all right.
Next day, however, he noticed that the
yellow-hammer was engaged on an
other hole. Its for a back door"
thought the owner of the building. But
after it had finished the back door it
cheerfully went to work on other holes.
probably for windows. BY the time
there were fifteen holes in the side of
the factory Mr.. O'Neill concluded that
the yellow-hammer was taking liber-
ties with his property. So he obtained
spermission from the chief of police to
shoot it. For whole day the ONCE
boy and Mr.. O'Neill's brother banged
away without feazing the little bird.
and it was finally necessary to employ
AN expert marksman to bring it down.
The marksman charged 50 cents for his
services, and Mr.. O'Neill also lost the
best part of . day mailing boards over
Ethe holes In the planking.-Portland
|Oregonian. =
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Spider Catches Birds.


w. ]. Rainbow, an Australian natur-
alist, gives a description Of the large
bird-entrapping spiders of his country.
Representatives of this genus abound
in tropical and subtropical regions.
Their webs are composed of two kinds
of silk; one yellow, exceedingly viscid
and elastic; the other white. dry, and
somewhat brittle. The latter is used
for the framework of the web, the guys
and radii, and the former for the con-
centric rings. These snares are at
varying heights, sometimes within
reach, again 10 to II feet from the
ground. but always in a position ex-
posed to the rays of the sun. The
diameter is also variable, from three
feet upward. One seen by Giraffe in the
Fiji islands constructs a web 30 feet in
diameter. These snares are strong
enough to entrap small birds. I'm the
authors opinion the web is not set for
such game, and the spider does not feed
on her pathological victim. In the
cases where she has been observed with
her fangs in the body of the ensnared
bird it is probable that it is for the
purpose of Fastening the death of the
bird in order to prevent its injuring the
web in its struggles to escape. Spiders
Of the genus Nephila are easily tanned.
Although exceedingly voracious, they
can exist for many days without food
or water.-American Naturalist.
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WE HAD A JOLLY TIME.

WE HAD A JOLLY TIME.
ma was up too. an will you believe it.
she wouldn't let me go out the door,
an all the boys were . hootin' an
yellin' an firm off amemition like
sixty!
I thought sure she'd let me go after
breakfast, but she looked at me stern
like. an said: Johnny, you must stay
in doors fur your father said fur me to
keep you right to home. an I'm goin'
to do my duty by you an keep you right
under my eye"
Perhaps you don't know my gran'na
is one O. them sort tibet never remem-
bers bein' young! Yes, she forgot long
ago that Fourth o. July was made for
picnics an good times. She's also one
o the kind tibet never goes back on
their word, SO cryin', kickin' nor moth
in would do no good. an make her
change her mind one bit, but I sot
down and cried, first an orful mad sort
of a cry, then an orful sorry cry, an
then l got to sleep an woke up most
starved, an gran'ma give me a big
bowl O. bread an milk. fur the girl was
gone Well, when night come l was
the gladdest boy; fur twas the very
longest day I'd ever 'sperienced!
When ma come home, the next week.
I jest told her all about it, an she felt
SO bad fur me tibet she almost cried,
then she went right to the buttery IN
brought me big lot O. fire crackers an
things she got a'fOre she went away
you know mothers never f0rgit a fell
ler's wants. She told gran'ma all about
'em; but she forgot-she's got such a
good forgettery.
OF course, 'twa'nt best to let me
know bout 'em fur I'd likely used 'em
up 'afore time But I went an got the
neighbor boys over, il twas the 18th of
July, an we he'd jolly time: fur
mother made lemonade an cake an
ice cream-tell you 'preciate mothers
now!
You see father wrote fur her to
keep me to home. meanin' l mustn't
60 OF to no celebration. an he would
MT cared. but 'spected I'd go out In
the alley 18th the boys. an mother told
him to jog gran'ma's memory bout the
Fourth Of July amemition up in the
buttery! but he forgot to say anything
about it.
Huh! guess those old forefathers
knew what they was about when they
'pinted a day fur boys to make . big
noise! 'Spect we boys couldn't stand it
II we couldn't yell all we wanted to one
day in the year, an Fourth Of July Is
Young Americas day, fur fact. So
q havin' my Fourth on the thirteenth,
was like eatin' ice cream 'thout no ice
in it or drinkin' soda water when the
foam an fizzle is gone. Sof live to
be a hundred. I'll not forget tibet
Fourth O. July tibet / was cheated
clum out off, JOHNNY.
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A GENTLEMAN OF TO.

He cut gallant figure
In bonnie bun and blue:
A goodly sight his buckles bright,
And primly powdered queue!
A more courageous Quester
Meier served Sultan nor Shah
Than he, my brave ancestor,
My great-great-grandpapa!
And then in his citation
Did my forefather gay
Speak out the word he'd long deferred
For fear she'd say him May"
And when he saw how tender
Within her eyes the light,
He cried:-"In your surrender
I read-we win the fight"
And when the freedom-paean
Swept, surgelike. through the dells-e
A mighty clang whose echoes rang
From Philadelphia bells
Loud from stern old steeple
He hurled the proud hurrah.
The joy-peal to the people,
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Concealine the Fir.ul.c..

Concealins the Fireplace.
For the lamp shade nothing is better
for the purpose, nor more economical,
than the charming crinkled paper, but
how to fill up in an artistic manner
the yawning cavity left by the vanished
fire and yet keep the fire ready laid for
the chilly days that will inevitably ar
rive is always a vexatious difficulty
A lovely little screen will solve the
difficulty to perfection. 1t is one that
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FI7EcRACKERS.

To the patriotic small boy the Fourth
Of July Is game that is always worth
the Roman candle.-Puck.
Some leave the city on the Fourth for
quiet. while others. following the fire.
works example, 60 on for lively time.
-Philadelphia Times.
The cheapness Of fireworks n likely
to give young America an exaggerated
idea Of the value Of democratic reform,
-Kansas CITY Times
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the June rose-adorn her hats, and are
massed upon it in that profusion and
conglomeration which we all know so
well in the country garden Of some
dear old lady that the fashionable
world has passed by.
What prettier object can one think
OF than a sprightly American girl. with
all the bright ways that make her
British cousins so envious, having on
her head a hat of green straw, traced
about the front with green tulle and
almost covered with sprays Of mignon-
cite and heliotrope; then turned up in
the back to make room for a mass Of
the same flowers, so realistic that one
can almost catch the breath of their
perfume? And one really does catch
that breath, for the American girl per-
fumes the blossoms Of her hat with the
extracts from their live sisters.
In quite different style is garden
party hat, to be worn by a brunette.
OF yellow silk null, it is made over a
wire frame. Wings of lace, and bow
of silk null are used in its adorn-
ment, combined with primroses, with
out foliage, but of a deeper shade of
yellow than the null. 1t is a charming
hat, and will look particularly we'll
worn with a boa of the mull-The Lat
st.
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The Restoration Of Organs of the BODY
A surgeon had occasion to operate
upon a dog that had its spleen injured,
and the greater portion of the organ
was removed. Six or eight months
later the dog died of other causes, and
the doctor had the curiosity to look
over his bit of surgery. He found the
spleen almost entirely reproduced.
During the several months succeeding
the operation, however, the animal suf-
fered severely from Indigestion and
lack of nutrition, and the utmost care
was necessary to keep it alive. As the
spleen grew toward it's natural size,
the animal improved in health, and
would probably have lived for some
time except for the accident that ter
minated its career. Medical authorities
have never been able to decide what is
the special Office of the spleen. That
it has something to do with assimila-
ton and nutrition is evident, but just
what or how no one is able to say.
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One G: the most successful Fourth of
July evening entertainments l ever
witnessed was given by young people
In an ordinary back yard. and con-
sisted of tableaux interpreted with
music and Rotations. A platform had
been erected at the end of a grape
arbor. The fence. prettily draped.
formed the background. and foot-lights
were arranged in front Of the stage. as
was also a sliding curtain. On each
side an ordinary clothes-line covered
with shawls served as dressing-room.
and the audience was seated down the
entire length of the arbor. Awnings
and tents could be utilized for these
purposes, however. Colored lights.
which are 90 effective in .ableaux, were
here used. and being In open air did not
prove % disagreeable to those present
- II the case when employed indoors.
-EX.
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A Now Cnicycle.

An empioye in bicycle repair SHOP
in Brooklyn is working on a new uni
cycle that he claims will revolutionize
cycling. 1t is easier to balance than a
two-wheeled machine. according to his
story. The tire is of the ordinary
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o the pintles, a narrow coupling plate
with series of coupling fingers adapt
ed to enter the holes in the main plates
from the under side, and which are
adapted to be struck down over the
pintles, thus forming secure fasten-
ing and at the same time maintaining
dexibility. This device was patented
recently
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Are there not times" said . man
entering the ONCE Of q busy editor
when you can write better than q
other times?"
yes"
"Ah, I thought 90. That men who
write are affected BY their environ
ment I have no doubt. Now. tell me
when can you write best?"
when I an alone" the editor -.
plied.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
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Mechanical engineers lay great stress
upon that feature of their work known
as the factor of safety. This point
ranges from what seems a very wide
margin down to the narrowest limit
consistent with avoidance of positive
danger. For example. while In high
pressure guns the factor may be as
great as twenty or twenty-five, in the
racing bicycle it may be as low as 1.20,
and even this il sometimes shaded q
little. This means that while guns and
such appliances are twenty-five times
as strong as is considered necessary to
bear the strain 70 which they arc sub
jected, the wheel IL often brought down
to a trifle more than double its power
of resistance. All metals and mechan-
ic9l appliances have their average of
tensile strength, and to bring q ma
chine down to such fine point neces-
states great care in construction and
q very fine quality Of material. Boilers
are built with six times their factor Of
safety. bridges with i've or six, and in
ordinary machines the allowance is
at least four or five. From all Of which
the necessity for careful inspection is
apparent.
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pneumatic order, made twice the usual
weight, to make it twice as strong.
The running gear of the model is eight
inches, but can be made to suit the
rider. The weight of the machine is
% pounds. 1t is the patentees belief
that a man or woman can get greater
speed out of one of his new machines
than those in use. from the fact that
there is less friction in single wheel.
-EY
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appearance, a mingling of sorrow be-
cause her daughter is leaving and of
Joy for the happiness Of her child.
Again we turn to the wedding Of the
young woman we have in mind. For
her mother a very handsome gown is
being designed in gray satin, brocaded
with purple thistles. The skirt is very
full, falling in many godets about the
back. It is severely plain, not single
ornament marring its graceful sweep.
The bodice is cut somewhat in Louis
fashion and is constructed of plain gray
satin. Falling in graceful godets each
side the front is a large collar, edged
with narrow steel trimming. The
basque skirts are slashed and edged
with the same steel trimmings and
turn in front to form elongated revers.
Large steel buttons adorn each side, a
long steel fringe falling from the lower
ones. A narrow belt fastens the jacket
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Grandpa docking up)NWhat is 1t, my
boy? Freddie lat window@Stand Out
little farther on the sidewalk. have
package of torpedoes, and I want t.
drop them down on your bald head
Judge
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is quite novel in pattern, yet most
easily made by any carpenter, Of plain
deal, to be enameled afterward. A lit
tie curtain serves the purpose of hid
ing the crate, shelves form a pretty
resting place for vases holding flowers,
and the whole arrangement is so easily
portable that it can be moved at will
and fulflls its decorative function in
any part of the room. A still simpler
method is to hang a curtain of Gre
tonne or silk on a wooden blind pole.
cut to fit the fireplace and wedge the
bar behind the projecting part of the
crate above the bars. This is an easily
removable ornament also. The screen,
too, might be less elaborate il the top
part were simply straight instead Of
in an arabesque design.
High Collars and Yellow Nscks.
The long period Of favor which the
high collar has enjoyed is responsible
for the yellow condition of most wo-
mems necks. The fashionable linen
collars are also adding their disfigur-
ing touches, leaving red lines and
wrinkles in their wake. To counter.
act this and to keep the neck white and
beautiful that one may not be ashamed
of its appearance when a decollete
bodice is worn the neck should be
bathed each night with warm water
and soap and while still warm and
moist thoroughly massaged with a tea
spoonful of pure olive Oil. In the morn
ing 1t should be thoroughly washed
with cold water and rubbed gently with
a soft towel for a few minutes. This
course whitens the skin, makes it firm
and fills out ungainly hollows. Some
complexion specialists recommend
bleaching fluids. but they are COM
pounded Of dangerous drugs in most
instances and must be used with the
greatest care or the skin will only be
additionally irritated.
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about the waist. The brocaded satin
IL introduced to form the sleeves, and
purple chiffon the vest and collar Not
the least attractive feature about this
costume Is the tiny toque Of violets
and silver aigrettes, fastened under the
chin with purple velvet ribbon. It sits
eharmingly above the silver hair and
blooming cheeks Of the well-preserved
woman who will don 1.-THE Latest.
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Stranger-Your orator has a loud
voice. but he is numbering the Queens
English in the most horrible manner.
Native-Why shouldn't he on thu
Fourth Of Julv.-Puck.
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Thy whole long life Of love and strife
Thou saint in bun and blue!
Beyond all touch Of travail,
With observation-disclosures,
Now flooding time, slips by in rhyme
For great-great-grandpapa!
CLINTON SCOLLARD.
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Dangerous JOko2O
Jokes which include the exploding
near people of the largest-size cannon
crackers are of the kind that It IL bet.
ter not to dwell upOn.-Philadelphi
News.
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SCIENTIFIC CORNER.
RECENT PROGRESS IN THE IN
DUSTRIAL WORLD.
Some New lnventions In the way OF
Blcycles-Ths Restorative Organs OF
the Body-About Perpetual Motion
TO Join Belts.

n improved meth
cd of joining belts
has been patented
by Henry S. Amt
field, of Canada,
which consists of a
pair of metal
plates, the Joining
edges of which are
pintle-shaped and
have q series OF
openings adjacent
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The romance Of the east Is to re-
ceive a shock In the new iron bridge
over the Tigris at BAgdad.
A Russian medical man has noticed
that the human eye naturally winks
three or four times less often when
reading by electric light than when q
candle u used.
When water freezes It expands with
. force estimated at thirty thousand
pounds per square inch. No material
has been found which can withstand
this pressure.
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ma went up there too, for Uncle Ben's
her only brother. She took along the
baby, the sweetest little sister that ever
lived-an' father, who'd been away a
spell. was agoin' to meet her, an visit
to Uncle Ben's. So you see there
wasn't anybody to home but me. gran
ma an the hired girl. An ma told her
'afore she left. tibet she might 90 to
the Fourth o July, an she got her an
alfred purity dress, sky blue, twas. to
wear, an it he'd beads sewed all over
It; my, it was a sumner! don't see
why mother can't wear sech dresses
stead Of the gray an black ones she
allus wears!
Well. the boys, on our street. lotted
on a splendiferous time. We didn't
care bout the doin's at the center; our
celebration was goin' to be held in the
back alley. But what should come the
night fore the Fourth, but letter to
gran'ma from father an o, my! didn't
she feel big over it. she wouldn't let
me tech it, an hedn't Use good a right
to read letter from my own father an
he nothin but a boy O. hern!
Well, got Up purity early an gran
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THE HEROES OF TO.

What true Ameri.
can to-day
Feels not the
blood leap in
his veins .
As stirring scenes
of &c :
Are brought to
mind, though
pc q c o n o v
reigns
Where DER q hun.
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For . Wedding

The gown for the brides mother
should portray dignity and be very ele-
CANT. Yet it should be very quiet in
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dAead Of tandem fashion, says q New
SyGk paper. The apparatus may be
N11usted so that persons Of different
lgAt can keep the machine in bal
1Dce. That is, heavy man may ride
- one side. and a small boy on the
othef - easily N two persons q equal
yelGht An ordinary bicycle for one
IN b turned into ''sociable" wheel
a0lxing iron arms to the frame Of
70 machine. These iron arms have
ddles and pedals attached.-Ex.
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Doa't imagine that to become intoxi-
Gated Odds to our national dignity.
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Woman 10 learning the beauties Of
many old-fashioned materials, which
explains. perhaps. Why dimity has such
. hold upon her now. That most Of her
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Latest bicycle for TwA
. new bicycle is arranged SO that
persons may ride side by side in
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sway
But surely twas not thus to be:
A higher Power ruled over all:
And out Of wars grim, wrinkled iron,
We merged, despite its gloomy pail
AS gallant freemen fought for right.
And VISIONS all far-seeing eye
Beheld future for our land
For which the patriot dared to die.
Their precious blood was freely given,
Upon their country's altar shed:
And now We glory in the deeds
Of our departed. honored dead.
TO Washington, the great and true.
And all his brave. victorious host,
We homage pay with glad acclaim.
And in their memory make our boast
Thus on this day Of all the year
COlumbia's brightest stars may shine
To tell Of Independence won,
While low We bow at Freedoms
shrine.
And as the rolling years 60 by,
And added glory crowns our land,
Still brighter may their memory grow
Who first led Freedoms holy band.
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summer underwear is made Of th3t
material does not seem sufficient: sne
must needs have house gowns Of It.
II not Of dimity, house gowns are
made Of organdie or batiste. This
means that they are very inexpensive
and no woman is debarred for econom-
ical reasons from being very comforta-
BILE In her own room.
It takes about ten yards of material
to make a house gown, and very suita-
BILE batistes and dimities may be
bought for from 10 to 10 cents q yard.
Or, if one prefers to buy the garment
ready made, she may do so at any price
from IS cents to the double numbers.
The favorite colors for house gowns
are, first sea green, then lavender, then
yellow. The gowns are mainly
trimmed with soft cream lace; indeed.
its use is quite indispensable to the
proper, fluffy effect of the garment.
Bishops sleeves, gathered above the
wrist under a small turnover cuff. Or
long, flowing sleeves, are best adapted
to these gowns, while the collars may
be shaped merely Of fall of lace or
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ureu years ago
The Briton came in fierce array,
And strOve this land of ours to hold
Meath England's hard, relentless
sway.
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My great-great-grandpapa.
He held the brutal Briton
A thing" beneath his scorn:
A tory he conceived to be
The basest caitiff born;
And not a neighbor wondered
He looked upon them So
F0rsOoth, that was one hundred
And twenty years ago!
How true the happy presage.
In faith, how leal and true
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Of a rod every 60 seconds. He makes
an average of 1-6 curves Of the pen for
every word w5ss:sAcn. Writing 80 words
per minute he Eakes eight pen-curves
each second OF q, 800 per hour. II ne
works only five hours q day he must
daily give his pen 1000 twists and
fourishes, and If he puts in 800 days a
year he makes not less than 43, 200. 900
curves and turns of the pen in that
time.
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Il r. known fact that rapid writer
writes - words per minute. It has
49, estimated that in doing % he
0nDt draW his pen through the space
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FILIVE TO BE A
hundred years old.
I'll never forget
that Fourth Of
July! You sec it
happened like this:
My big brother ALI.
went on to Uncle
Ben's to spend his
summer vacation
an bout two weeks
fore tho Fourth,