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the open work ornamental lacing on
the more elaborate snow shoes worn by
the Canadian voyageurs, which are
really made in the same manner,
namely. by emitting the fllaments that
pass straight across in a triangle long
er than it is wide.
What g contrast is the modern netted
snow-shoe. Its frame is of one piece OF
squared and tapered wood, cut in
curve like an elongated letter 81 on the
inside of the toe. 1t is bent almost
square in front and Joined together at
the heel with short trailer: fiat, some
what broad and having two cross bars
set well front and back.
The front and rear netting is very
light, and is. attached to the knotted
selvedge thong in the usual way. The
ingenuity of the maker has exhausted
itself on the long central space. The
most noteworthy features are the six
sided weaving in stout thong, the
double loop knots above the frame, the
single loops above the cross pieces, en-
closing at the same time the selvedge
thong of the front and rear nettings,
and the long twisted ends that form
these groups. Then there are the
quadruple cross thongs of the footing,
the neat sings holding the footings to
the front crossbar, and the absence OF
holes in the wood anywhere about the
middle space. The ornamentation on
the outside is formed by tufts of differ
ent colored yarns, caught under the
knots in the selvedge thong where 1t is
tied TO the frame.
In these snow shoes one can almost
trace the history of the development of
North America.
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SOME. REAL ODD AND INTERESTING FACTS FROM EVE
cylinders may be used either separately

cylinders may be used either separately
or together.
LAS a master and owner of steam-
boats. having had experiences with the
various powers in use, | cannot see any
reason why these cars cannot be placed
in general use on all frozen waterways
or frozen soil, where the surface Will adj
NIT of the use of any kind of sled.
don't wished to be classed as visionary
or crank although most inventors are),
but in referring to the north pole propo-
sition / am firmly of the opinion that it
can be reached more readily by this
means than by any other-not only to be
reached but a safe return made.
1T is possible to demonstrate this fact
this winter, and IL had 10 per cent. OF
the amount subscribed for Lieutenant
Peary I would try it. / have theory.
and If il is correct. / could reach the
pole br get very near it. / think that
outside the strong ocean currents the
ice pack will be found inconsideraoie
that the surface of the Arctic ocean Is
much like the land, mountains and val
leys, the mountains being burgs and
packs caused by wind and currents
while freezing: and that in midwinter
all is frozen so that little or no changes
could occur until spring. The valleys lie
between the mountains of ice, and
through them the cars could go"
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nYPnorisM FOR INrEMPERAhcE
81. Louis Woman Physician Who Thinks
She Can Guido keeley.

DIR. Many Van Horne Goessling of
North Grand avenue. st. Louis, says
she can cure the liquor. tobacco and
morphine habits by hypnotism, and 10
DAYS ago she gave a demonstration of
her powers before a number of her
friends and scientific men. While her
claims are not yet fully established, she
has attained considerable success in her
new field of study.
IT don't have to work" she said.
laughing. but / am ambitious and it
is the desire of my life to make
name for myself in the medical pro-
fession."
Suggestive therapeutics is recognized
to-day by surgeons and that the In
fuence of mind over mind can alleviate
great bodily distress is told both in the
pages of the scientific journal and in
the columns of the press.
That a person under hypnotic spell
can be made to believe water is wine
has long been admitted. From this as
basis DIR. Goessling announces her
discoVeries-that a person addicted to
the use of drugs can be hypnotized and
led to believe that the drug must never
be touched again, and that this per-
son will bear with him always the i'm
preston received concerning such drug.
| At her recent public demonstration a
! Young man was made to believe that a
/ glass of water was whiskey which he
! could not drink, and after coming out
! of his trance he was unable TO swallow
\ the liquid.
/ The conquering of tobacco was along
/ the same lines At first the subject
smoked easily. with evident enjoyment.
! At the physicians suggestion he be-
came III and finally tossed the weed
away. When awake ne could not be in
duced to accept cigar.
DR.. Goessling asked him IL he wished
to retain the suggestions against drink
! and tobacco The young man replied
candidly that he did not and was put
to sleep again. When aroused he relit
his cigar and quaffed glas of ale with
! laan reIfsh
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ICE LOCOMOTIVE.
The Inventor Believes That lie Gan
Reach Not Only Kiondike, but
North Pole With IL.

. One of the most curious of the many
ideas with which the Klondike has in
spired inventive genius is the ice loco
motive and train designed by j. Is.
Mulkey of Pasadena. Cal. Mr. Mulkey
believes his plan 10 be entirely feasible
so much so, in tact, tnat ne IS lfyInS
to get patent.
Mr. Mulkey sees no reason why the
KIondike traveller should leave all lux
ury behind, and in response TO request
to explain his idea. writes as follows:
The original plans contemplated a
complete palace car equipment. Owing
to diversity of reports concerning the
conditions of ice on the Yukon-many
claiming it is very rough and that such
a train could not be successfully operat-
ed have been forced to go slow IN
preparing for the enterprise In the
meantime I opened up extensive CORE
spondence on the subject, and am now
fully satisfied the cars would overcome
any difficulty to met with on the YUKON
below Dawson.
4 find that the rough ice is mainly
above Dawson. In the meantime, the
great scarcity of provisions at Dawson
proves that freight and not passenger
trains are most needed. My full size To-
comotive is designed to be 46 feet long
and 10 feet wide, constructed as shown
In the illustration. This engine alone
would be capable of carrying quite a
number of passengers and several tons
of freight My idea now Is to build only
one or two small locomotives. % feet
long and nine feet wide purely to dem
cnstrate the system: and as the summer
IS very short we can build as many cars
as may be needed for the following win
ter and have them ready for the closing
of the river.
THE small engines I refer TO are tc
| be very light, but very stauch and pow
| erful. With them almost any obstacle
can be overcome. The engine operating
| a winch can draw themselves up any
| grade of less than 90 degrees. They vii
| be fast, and they will run on froZer
| ground as well as ice. The power will b
| gasoline, and the engines will be of spe
cial design with triple cylinders. Th'
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A few years later experiments were
made by the British admiralty on this
question of coaling. They did not at
tempt to take coal from a trailing yes
sci, but from one alongside at dis
lance of from 20 to 80 feet. OF course
it was necessary for such coaling
operations to be carried on in compare
lively smooth water. In the first eX-
pertinent the appliance was fitted to
the collier and the coal transferred
from the collier to the deck of the bat
tleship. The device in question is
known as the Temperley transporter,
and consists of a suspended / beam,
with a novel form of hosting and con-
veying carriage travelling along it. 1t
is operated by a simple winch and
forms a sort of crane, first lifting the
coal from the matches of the Golfers
vertically. then carrying it along an
incline of about Is degrees until the
load reaches it's destination. The car
riage is a self-locking affair, which
travels on the lower fiange of the beam
and is capable of travelling it's entire
length The beam is pitched at suffi-
cient angle to allow the carriage to
run in one direction by means of grav-
ity, and the single hosting rope on the
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winch, the load rises to the full speed
of the rope until it strikes the carriage,
when fastening of the rope is auto
matically hooked to the carriage; at
the same instant the carriage is de-
tached from the beam stop. The car
rage with the load firmly locked, then
travels up the inclined beam. At every
five feet stop is located, at any one
of which, by playing out the hoist
rope. the carriage may be stopped and
locked. The load is at the same in
slant released and falls vertically to
the deck of the boat. Simply paying
out and hauling in the line under the
direction of the signal man is all that
is required to operate the machine sue
cessfully.
If the boat happens to be rolling, al
tering the incline to 80 degrees, the
machine works just as well. Vessels
coaling in the harbor. or while on
duty in a blockade. could have coal
boats towed to them from which the
coal could be rapidly transferred. For
ty tons per hour has actually been
handled by this machine, and with two
or three of them working at the same
time the capacity would be multiplied
in proportion.
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other, that most of the men-of-war are
faulty in the matter of coal capacity,
or of facilities for coaling. Among the
early experiments looking towards i'm
provements in coaling at sea are those
made with the L. S. S. San Francisco
and the L. S. S. Kearsage. These TWO
vessels, While steaming, 200 feet apart,
at speed of four knots per hour,
transferred coal from one to the other.
The appliance employed consisted of a
cable stretched from a high point IN
the towing vessel An elevator was
employed to raise sacks of coal on the
Kearsage, which was the trailing boat,
and they were allowed to run by gray
ity on a light trolley along the sus-
pended cable untol they reached the
san Francisco. The record made at
that time showed a possibility of thus
transferring Is tons of coal per nour,
although no such amount was ever
actually delivered, One record pub
hshed showed that the time of travel
from the pole head of the kearsage
to the San Francisco was Ia seconds,
and the full time of hosting and send
ing over 10 bags was about q minutes,
giving rate of delivery of only about
two and two-thirds tons per hour. or
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WINS THE ALBERT MEDAL.
Heroic Conduct of Il Stoker in Rescuing
n Comrade.

Heroic Sonuuct oil q Stnkef IN
Comrade.
The queen has conferred the decora-
ton of the Albert medal of the first
class on Edward Lynch, stoker of her
majesty's ship Thrasher. The following
is the account of the services in re-
spect of which the decoration has been
conferred:
At a. m. on Sept. 80. 1897, the torpedo
destroyer Thrasher With the Lynx and
Sunfish in company, left st. Ives on
passage to Falmouth. In the thick and
foggy weather which was subsequently
met the Thrasher. followed by the
Lynx, grounded at Dodman's point,
causing serious injury to the boilers
and the bursting of the main feed pipe.
A falling tide caused the Thrasher to
heel quickly over to about go degrees.
The ships company was therefore land
ed on the rocks. a few men being kept
on board, with boats ready to land
them. There were six petty officers and
men in the stokehold. OF these the
chief stoker happened to be coming on
deck by the starboard hatchway at the
moment of striking, and escaped This
hatchway became distorted by the
doubling up of the deck, preventing
further egress. Suckers Edward Lynch
and James ~. Paul We're compelled to
escape by the port hatchway. close to
a break in the steam pipe. The hatch
way through which they passed was
partially closed up, and Paul was un-
able to follow Lynch, who then, kneel-
ing or lying on the deck, reached down
into the estaping steam and drew Paul.
who was on the ladder. up on TO the
upper deck
Lynch was shortly afterward OBJ
served to be badly scalded about the
head, arms and upper portion of the
body in this rescue, the skin hanging
off his hands and arms. oil and wool
were applied to alleviate the pain, but
Lynch called attention to Paul, whom
he wished attended to first, saying that
he was not much hurt, but Paul was
very bad Neither man had said any
thing or called any attention to his in
juries until this time. although quite
five minutes had elapsed since the aeci-
dent The surgeon who attended Lynch
and Paul reports that the former
though very badly scalded and in
great pain, would not allow his assist
ant or himself for considerable TIM
to do anything for him, saying:
II am all right: look after my chum.
The manly conduct of Lynch induced
| the surgeon to make Inquiries concern
| ing the rescue of Paul from the stoke
hold. and he found that Lynch will
| difficulty released himself from tn
hatchway (much narrowed by the ac
eident). lay down. and, leaning int
sealding steam, caught Paul AM
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The horse pictured belongs to George
+. Neeves of Cromer Lodge, Birdhurst
road, South Croydon, England. and the
picture was taken at what is called the
New Quay, Cornwall. So far as human
eye could observe, the horse had four
legs-but. 10, when the picture was de-
eeloped the fourth leg had completely
disappeared.
The camera was an ordinary one, and
the circumstances were such as would
Justify the belief that a perfect and
complete picture would be taken. There
was plenty of sunlight. the photograph
er's back was to the sun. and there was
nothing to disturb the camera during
the Photographic process. The exposure
was of two seconds duration.
Mr.. Neeves declares that the horse did
not move a sixteenth of an inch. for he
watched him every second. In answer
to a letter of inquiry regarding this
strange freak, Mr.. Neeves says: Il can
not explain this seeming mystery, al
though | have tried to get some light
thrown on the subject by expert photo
graphers ! am photographer myself.
and am free TO say it is too much for
me. The loss of the leg cannot have
been the fault of the plate. because all
the details of the wheel are given.
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do you think that girl improves? MOI
she. In a fortnight she trails into my
office, pallid and melancholy. I haven's
the heart to scoid her. but I anticipate
her answers to my questions. Has she ia
ken the tonic? oh, yes. she hasn't missed
a dose. Has she eaten pastry or lob
sters or drank ice water or ice cream
soda? Weii-er-once or twice. Has she
eaten the oatmeal and raw beef and
drunk the hot water and beef tear Yes.
She doesn't add once or twice but her
pale face adds it. And has she gone to bed
early? Got up early and slept after lunch
Well. not every day. And yet this girl %
intelligence and apparent common sens >
wonders why she. doesn't get well. T
am going TO try once more Ii she does
not obey me then I shall positively re-
fuse to attend her further"
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Her Little Playmate.

She is very grown-up little maiden.
considering the fact that she Is only 10
years of age and her mother will not
allow her to have company except on
Friday night. Her brother. who is or
a domestic turn, does not even approve
of the one-night rule. Last Friday
night he was comfortably resting on
the sofa in the parlor, where there was
a roaring fire. The door bell rang and
he answered it, At the door was q
youth of some IS winters. who wanted
to pay his devoirs to the 15-year-old
sister The brother didn't relish giving
up the sofa and planned his revenge
To the foot of the stairs he went and
called up for his sister, whose room was
in easy hailing distance.
"Oh. Anne!" he called.
Yes came the expectant reply Oh
the young lady in miniature.
There's a little playmate of yours
downstairs who wants to see you
Then there was trouble. The caller
didn't like the title. and the society
giri-to-be thought her brother was just
horrid. There hasn't been any peace in
the family since, but the playmate
hasn't attempted to call again
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vAcclNAToR PARTED LOVERS.
Health Officer Drives Away Holyoke
GirI's Best Young Man.

Few young women have been more
singularly interrupted while entertain
ing evening callers than was pretty
HoIyoke, Mass, girl, who is now
mourning the absence of an angry and
embarrassed young man. He had just
begun call upon his sweetheart, who
lived in the third floor OF a four story
fat building, when there was loud
rap at the hall door
The young woman opened the door
and was confronted by stout. burly
man, who explained that he was the
health officer, and that. in view of the
fact that case of smallpox had just
been discovered on the fourth floor of
the block, ii would be necessary to
quarantine the place. No one, he said
would be permitted to leave the build
ing without first being vaceinated.
This was dreadful news to the young
woman. She didn't mind being vacci-
mated herself. but she knew Charlie
would be opposed to any such proceed
ure. The health officer lost no time in
acquainting Charlie with the require
ments Of the law. AT first the young
man took it as a good joke. thinking
! the officer only in fun. But when he
saw that the bluecoat was in earnest
f he became indignant.
This is a pretty state of affairs he
said haughtiiy. It's pity if man
can't call upon a young lady without
health department and forced to submit
TO vaccination. I'll make somebody suf-
I fer for this.
But the irate youth cooled down in
/ time, and then off came his coat. The
| young lady fed to an adjoining room
| When she returned Charlie had gone
/ and he has not been around to call
| since. The physician was folding 81
| bill for services rendered. Now tfZ
| young woman threatens TO bring civil
| action against the health department
for alternating her lovers affections.
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Floating Printing once.

From the Nashville Banner.
There is a unique craft on the Ala
bama river tied up at the foot of Com
merce street, in Montgomery. Ala IL
has no name and its tonnage Is not
known. It does not carry freight or
passengers for hire but contains we'll
equipped job printing office. with full
stock OF printers supplies. The proprl-
etor. his wife and five children occupy
the front part of the craft, and the
presses, chases and cases 1.-THE rear.
When the gang plank Is hauled in II
is understood that the business IS closed
for the day. and he is not disturbed by
company except by an occasional visit
from a fisherman at night. IL Is said he
does a good business. Having no taxes
or license TO pay. and no house rent &c
bother him, he can do work cheaper
than his competitors in business.
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THTE. PRIMITIVE SNOMSE0ES
COMP AIRED WITH LATE STYLE

elongated and irregular hoop of pole.
spliced and wrapped at the heel. There
are no cross bars. but three turns of
the rawhide netting are sewed together.
and answer precisely to the rest under
the ball of the foot in the modern spec
linen.
In the old snow-shoe may be seen a
rude and primitive form of what is
known as the Renfrew foot netting,
set in a series of sings made of twined
babiche, flor strips of rawhide, and
caught around the frame with half
hitch and single turn knot. In the
irregular and artistic spacings of the
sings are seen the foreshadowing of
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barrel of the winch serves to operate
the carriage and hoist the load. The
rope from the drum is led about
sheave- wheel to the point of suspen-
sion of the beam, from there to pull
ley at the higher end of the beam, pass
ing around a sheave at that point,
through the carriage and down to
the load; at this end is fastened a
hook to which the bags of coal are at
tached.
In operation, supposing the carriage
is at the lower end of the beam, where
it is locked automatically to one of the
stops on the other side of the beam.
the locking gear of the carriage will
be in the position shown in Fig l.
After the hoist rope is drawn in by the
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There have been placed side by side
in the Smithsonian institution at
Washington, two snowshoes which rep
resent as fairly as anything in exist
ence the progress of civilization on TINS
continent One of them is most prim-
tive affair and was originally secured
by the Wilkes exploring expedition. 1t
represents the Oldest type of snowshoe
known. The other is a snoWshoe of
the sort that one sees in the shops
where articles of that sort are sold,
the modern type.
The first of these was found at the
mouth of the Columbia river in the
state of Washington. The frame is an
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dragged him up through the hatehway.
and in this way received his own In
juries which are such as to show that
in rescuing his comrade he must have
plunged the forepart of his own body
into what was practically boiling
caldron. 1t appeared also that Lynch
in most heroic manner had previously
sacrificed his own opportunity of quit
ting the stokehold in order to aid his
comrade Paul in escaping. Paul subse-
ouently suceumbed to his injuries. and
Lynch for a long time was not expected
TO recover.
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WON'T MIND THE DOCTOR.
Physicians Declare Women viii Not Diet
or Live strictly.

prominent physician, who has what Is
termed fashionable practice recently
told some of his troubles to friend in
n burst of wrath over case of a society
woman. when anaemic girls. sleepless
women and dyspeptic children are brought
10 me | feel like going out of business,
ne declared. II have one patient, girl
of IS. who might as we'll go to fortune
teller for advice for all the benefit she
will ever get from a doctor | give her II
scolding and draw up a set of rules for
her TO live by, prescribing certain things
To eat, certain times to sleep, certain
hours for exercise, give her a tonic and
dismiss her.
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Millions Wasted Annually.

From the Pttsburg Dispatch.
The government is now losing in the
neighborhood of 5000 900 per year by
carrying as second class postal matter
publications of cheap novels masquerad-
ing as periodicals. for the benefit of few
firms in the East. The matter is of the
class which should be shipped as freight.
At present the government is engaged in
cutting down the carriers in the larger
cities, thus Gripping the service where
il is most profitable i'm order to make up
the shortage produced by rank job.
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Arc Worse Than Hot,ento,s.

The Bosjesmans in South Central Afri-
ca are exceedingly ugly, and exist almost
in Il state of anmalism. They dwell in
holes, live on roots and reptiles and have
very much the appearance of the ape,
The Calmucks of the great Tartar fam
lily are. although more civilized, extreme
ly ugly. They have short, fat noses small
eyes high cheek bones and a protrud-
ing chin.
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QUEER FREAKS OFF A CAMERA
THAT PUZZLES [PHIOTOGRA P1ERS

1T IL equally true that the missing
leg could not have disappeared because
Of some movement on the part of the
animal, for no matter how slight that
movement might have been, IT. would
have caused the whole to blur There
were no cross rays. neither was there
anything the matter with the apparatus.
1t is altogether the most curious photo
graphic mystery that have ever known
in all my experience with the camera.