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GAVE UP THE PISTOL.
GIRLS DECIDE TO DISPENSE WITH
THAT PROTECTION.
Their Fear of Burglars Has In Great
Measure Passed Away Since
Incident Which Proved Somewhat
Costly.

mo, we don't keep pistol in our
apartment any more" said the girl who
draws for the magazines, and shares
a small fiat with young woman who
teaches in one of the private schools
Not since an experience we had last
winter. Before that we did, and we
had perfect beauty of pistol, too"
she added, in tone of regretful reml-
niscence. Silver mounted. and handle
inlaid with pearl We spent a good
deal more than we could afford for it,,
but we didn't like those plain steel
things. Now it's gone, though. l had
to give it away, and | don't suppose
Marian will ever consent to our having
another
You see, this is what happened |
was the one who knew mN.e about
handling a pistol, so | used to sleep
with it under my pillow. We were both
awfully afraid of burglars, and after
there had been a series of robberies in
our nelShborhoo6 were so terror
stricken that we were ready to take
alarm at the slightest sound. One
night, to our horror. we were both
aroused by a creaking noise, and then
a light bump, just as if some one, tip
toeing around, had stumbled against
something. For an instant we were
simply paralyzed with fright. Then,
looking tremblingly about the room, l
made out, over in one corner, tall,
dark figure. perfectly motionless. l
reached cautiously for the pistol, aimed
it and fired twice. The figure did not
fall and the horribly strange thing was
that it did not move nor make sound.
Vet 7 faft c1,ra bod hit
although we were frightened half
to DEATH we felt we must get up and
light the gas to investigate. BY that
time people from the other apartments
in the building were rushing to our
door to find out what the shots meant.
Well, the light revealed matters. l
had simply ruined Marian's new $40
automobile coat, which hung on hook
in that corner. The noise we heard?
Oh. that was some one on the floor
below who had come in late and STUN
bled against Il chair. New York Trib-
une.
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at the kings banquet in Westminster
hall, and he has been visiting Mr.
George Clinton of Providence, who met
Dighton when in England four years
ego. The latter has been in Canada for
nearly year and is now en- route for
home in order to make his prepare
tions for the coronation commotion.
He tells of plans and purposes better
than anyone could tell them for him,
and this is his story:
THE people of England are taxed
annually to pay for a lot of feudai
fol-de-roIs that answered a purpose a
thousand years ago. but which are
now only appropriate for comic operas
of the Gilbert and Sullivan type. 1t is
my ambition to relieve the taxpayers
from some of these useless burdens if
/ can. and l am going to begin with
the kings champion because the com
ing coronation will afford the best
opportunity for showing the people
the absurditv OF the custom. The oc-
casion also fits my humor for making
public my own convictions as to who
is the rightful sovereign of England.
81 am Jacobite, or believer in the
claims of the Stuarts to the English
throne. TO me tee Guelphs are more
or less WORTHY people, but they are
usurpers, every one of them. What l
am going to do is not by any authori
ty or sanction of the legitimist party
Or of the order of the White Rose.
81 am acting on my own responsible
ty solely. and if | succeed i'll abolishing
a costly and farcical custom as we'll
as calling the attention of the people
of England to their rightful king, l
shall have accomplished something to
be proud of.
"Of course | cannot be expected to
tell how [ purpose to get into West
minister hall on coronation day. The
kings chamberlain would take care to
exclude me if | did. l ought to be
able to enter freely on announcing my
business, for the asking of anyone to
come forward and contest the right
of King Edward implies the right of
answering the challenge. but my lord
hamberfain would not be influenced
by anv such thought.
You understand that my purpose
will be IN the main to make the cere-
mony appear SO ridiculous that no
future king will want to repeat it. Not
from any desire to take away the
kings appetite, or spoil good dinner
which, being paid for by the people,
will doubtless be unusually good, shall
I interrupt the ceremony. God forbid!
Nor can / say that love for the duke
of Parma will animate me. He will
probably curse me for meddling fool,
and hasten to assure the king that he
cherishes no thought of dispossessing
him.
"I am not afraid of being charged
with treason, for if the challenge were
to be taken seriously or a hair of my
head were harmed all England would
laugh the Hanoverian dynasty out of
existence"
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sketch of NInrAhh SOult.

Marshal Soult was one of Napoleons
ablest generals. He was with the en-
peror through most of his European
campaigns. but it was in Spain that he
first came into conflict with yelling
ton. Soult and the French forces were
finally driven from the peninsula. Aft
er the defeat of Waterloo he rallied the
ruins of the French army at Laon.
Upon the restoration of King Louis
XVIII. Soult was banished and was not
recalled until 1919. In 1888 he was sent
to England as the ambassador of
France. and was present at the corona
ton of Queen Victoria. He was re-
ceived by the Duke of Wellington with
warmth and by the British public with
enthusiasm. In 1915 he retired from
active duty and was honored with the
appointment of Marshal-General of
France He then retired to his chat
eau. Soultberg. near his birthplace
where he died in 1851.
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blacksmith shop. He also said that he
believed he owed his good health and
strong moral fiber to the blacksmith
strain in his blood. for his grand
father blacksmith was a preacher and
a good man.
Furthermore, he explained that in
these days of snobs and much social
foolishness he liked to make acknowl-
edgment of the fact that he had a
blacksmith grandfather and was proud
of him. If you notice." added the jew
e1er, "a horseshoe nail does make a
fine nutpick. The man who ordered
these silver-plated said that his child
dren wouldn't use anything else. He
lamented that fact that he couldn't
get some old-fashioned, hand-wrought
horseshoe nails-the kind his grand
father used to make."-Detroit Free
Press
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Always Ready for n Fire.

While the small chemical fire extin-
guishcTs usually found in factories and
public buildings may render valuable
assistance in eXtinguishing an incipi-
eut blaze, yet their practical value de-
ponds largely on whether the person
who happens to be at hand knows how
to manipulate the valves or can learn
in time TO quench the flames before
their Roadway is too great. A chemi-
cal engine which would automatically
combine the elements contained in the
tank as the latter was removed from
its bracket would not only save time
but would be simple in comparison to
the hand-operated valve. The idea has
been carried out in practical manner,
according to the designs of George G.
Hutchings and Oscar c. Wiesner Of
Kansas City, Mo. The Improvement
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woman's Place in Nature.

A DR.. Mobius has made some extern
sive anatomical and psychological in
vestigations, in his endeavor to find
the place which women occupy in life
He concludes that woman is interme-
diate between child and man, both
mentally and physically, Mentally, as
we'll as physically. he AYERS that wo-
men are undeveloped: that they are
not so quick in perception that they do
not suffer pain as men do, etc, showing
a lower-toned nervous mechanism. He
also calls attention to the fact that
while woman. on account of her physi-
cal inaptitude, cannot fill mans place
in life, man is invariably the superior
to woman when he enters the field,
which is usually assigned to her. DIR.
Mobius may possibly be correct, but
all the same we should not like to be
in his skin at a meeting of the average
woman's club.
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tacle in convenient position to extract
the books for use. A small ring on the
face of the lock is lifted by the finger
to throw the bolt and allow the holder
to be opened for the insertion or re-
moval or the book, and a spring in the
hinge shuts the receptacle as soon as
released by the hand. In order to pre-
vent the device closing with an I'M
pleasant sound, the edges Of the sides
are provided with cushion strip of
rubber. AS this arrangement closes
tightly it will prevent the entrance OF
dust, which so often accumulates on
books in open racks during the week.
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EiEht-Year-D st. Louis Heroine.

Mamie Gleason, aged eight years, of
St. Louis, lost her life in an attempt
to save her mother. Mrs. Lille Glea-
soA. whose clothing was in flames. Mrs.
Gleason's dress caught fire from blaz-
ing CRATE. She has been i'll for several
days. Her husband left her in bed
when he went to work. She probably
became delirious after he left and got
too near the fire. When her screams
aroused the neighbors her little child
was pulling at her skirts. obvious to
the fact that her own little dress was
blazing and her own flesh being scared.
Mamma, mamma, I'll help you" she
cried. Charles Gleason, the woman s
brother-in-law, put out the flames
which enveIoped her, but the little girl
was fatally burned. The child died soon
afterward.
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EAT A BED TIME MEAL.
Aut Avoid Partakins or Heavy and
Almost Indig estlble Food.

ana
Almost IndiEestible Food.
What is one mans meat is another
mans poison; some people sleep better
on full stomach and some better on
an empty one, and there probably al
ways Will be two parties in the world,
the advocates of supper and those
who condemn it, just as there are peo-
PIE who recommend hearty breakfast
and those who advocate a morning
meal consisting of coffee and roll.
But the advocates of going to bed on
q full stomach are increasing, and
many physicians now recommend a
bed time meal for weak, nervous and
emaciated persons. While rich and
hearty food is undoubtedly inappro-
pirate at bed time, light nourishing
repast at night often conduces to sound
sleep by drawing the blood away from
the brain. The long hours of sleep
consume about one-third of our ex-
istence. Although there is naturally
much less demand upon the system
during sleep than during our waking
hours, there is still a wasting away
of tissue consequent upon the SuSpen-
sion of nutriment for SO many hours.
If the food taken at dinner is digested
by bed time the body feeds upon it
self during the sleeping hours. Often
one is wakeful and restless at night
because the stomach is empty.
One physician says: Man is the
only animal l know of who does not
deem it proper to sleep on a good
meal. The infant instinctively cries
to be fed at night, showing that food
is necessary at that time, as well as
during the day, and that being left
too long without it causes the child
discomfort" So, if you crave it, the
supper advocates say, eat a light, east
ly digested supper at bed time and the
long hours of sleep will work out for
you a problem in addition, instead of
satisfaction in adipose tissue. But in
your eating at bed time be careful
what you eat, always having in mind
the sad fate Of little Mary:
Mary had little lamb,
Some steak and mushroom stew;
And ere the sunlit morning broke
She had the nightmare, too.
New York Press
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CURIOUS cH,mNEys.
D~signsrs and Builder. Who Had Vivid
lamentations.

1mogfnat1OnS.
In the neighborhood of Stamford
street, in the southeast of London,
there is chimney shaped after the
likeness of a huge coffin. 1t is made up
of dark-colored bricks, and presents
an appearance which is gloomy to the
point of depression. This quaint cree
ton, curiously enough, is we'll nigh
unnoticed by the inhabitants of the
district, many of whom are quite
unaware of its presence in their midst.
A small music hall in southern city
of France is decorated with chimney
shaped to resemble man. The figure
is attired in frock coat and silk hat,
while huge metal tube, painted
brown and representing a cigar, re-
poses in the lips of the queer appa-
ratus. From this "cigar" the smoke
issues in great black clouds, and so
realistic is the whole contrivance when
regarded from the street below that at
first sight the spectator is led to believe
that a fashionably attired gentleman.
is enjoying weed on the theater roof.
Curious chimneys abound in all quar-
tiers Of the globe. In several American
cities it is no uncommon occurrence to
encounter wine TASKS. the base of the
erections being swathed in straw-col
ored woodwork to resemble the baskets
wherein such TASKS usually recline.
Perhaps, however. one of the most pc
culiar chimneys in the world is that
which is to be seen in Roumanian
township. and which is known by the
name Death Funnel" 1t represents
skeleton some fifty feet in height, and
is built throughout of gun metal. The
shaft is conveyed upward through the
spine of the figure and the smoke is
sues from the apex of the skull. Veri-
tably, CHASTITY chimney, and one
would have imagined that the eccen-
trio millionaire who thus adorned his
roof top might have hit upon some less
grucsome means of enhancing his repu.
tation for extravagant whimsicality.
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Bed and Wardrobe.

Where no closet is at hand for hang
ing away the clothing when not in use
it soon becomes covered with dust from
being suspended in the open room from
the bedposts and chairs. It is to pro-
vide suitable place to hang this
clothing that the combined wardrobe
and bedstead here illustrated has been
designed by Edwin L. Bowring OF
Grand Rapids, Mich. The device con-
sists essentially of large, open-faced
box, mounted on castors and arranged
to slide back OF the headboard of the
bed when not in use, the latter form
ing the face of the closet when it is
closed, and thus excluding the dirt
from the garments suspended within.
BY attaching the closet to the head OF
the bed after this manner both room
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Regulating the Greenwich Clock.

The clock at the Greenwich observa-
tory is the most important enc in Eu-
rope, for it furnishes correct time all
over that part of the globe, says the
Jewelers. Review. 1t is, therefore,
looked after and regulated with the
greatest care, and is never allowed to
get more than one-tenth of a second
fast or slow.
OF course, it is impossible to correct
SO small an error by moving the
hands. but an electromagnetic serves
the purpose. The magnet is near the
pendulum, which it attracts the least
bit when the electrical current is
turned on.
The current is so timed that it delays
the pendulum if the clock is fast, or
uuickens it if the clock is slow. In
this way a few thousand swings of the
pendulum will correct the error eS
tenth of o second
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Will Challenge Kings Champion

There is trouble ahead for the Kings
hereditary champion at the coronation
Of Edward VII, to take place next
June. If. following the custom of ages.
the champion, clad in mail and ac-
coutered with sword and buckler, rides
into Westminster hall, where the new
ly crowned king will be dining with
officers of state. and throws down his
steel gauntlet to be picked up by any
one disputing the right of Edward to
Sit on the throne of his ancestors, the
young man whose portrait is given in
this sketch will step out and pick up
the gage and by that act announce his
Willingness to give battle to the cham
pion in the interest of another heir to
the crown.
The heir is Robert duke of Parma, a
descendant OF King James H., the Stuart
who absconded with the great seal and
considerable of the crown jewels in
1888. leaving England to be taken by
William of Orange. The man who is
to defy King Edwards champion and
to proclaim the Stuart right does not
care picayune for Parma, individual
1y, believing him to be far inferior to
Edward, but he does care for the
sacred rights of succession" and he
wants to make a beginning in the
abolition OF a lot of ancient customs
that are a tax upon the people and a
laughing stock to all men and women
OF sense.
Walter Dighton is the name of the
youth who proposes to be the specter
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FRIENDS OF ROOSEVELT.
Ways in Which They Make Life Pleas
ant for the President.

Ways in Which They Make Life Pleas
ant for the President.
We have never had a President like
Roosevelt. This is said often, and is
true in several respects. 1t is espec-
tally true socially. He knows so many
people in other than a political way.
There is almost no part of the coun-
try where he cannot go and find
friends other than political ones If
he goes on a hunting expedition in
the far west he finds college mates
to entertain him. If he goes to Farm
ington he finds relatives If he stops
at New Haven he falls into group
which includes a rough rider or two.
When he goes over to New York he
puts up with his own people and after
dinner goes to the Century Club and
spends an evening, as any member
might.
What other President have we had
who was at home everywhere in such
associations as these? Mr.. Mckinley,
as the results of public experience of
twenty-five years. knew men in all
parts of the country, but they were
mostly politicians and statesmen. If
he went anywhere he was entertained
with more or less stiffness and had
little of the freedom of the private citi-
zen. There is no President we have
ever had, says the Waterbury Ameri-
can. who everywhere could find the
hospitality which is extended to the
man. and not the president, who,
therefore. could enjoy more or less
social privacy and could conceal him
self from the exposure to which
President is subjected as President
Roosevelt can.
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ORIGIN OF TALK TURKEY.
Retort of Indian Whom White
Man Was Trying to Overreach.

Retort of an Indian Whom White
Man Was Trying to Overreach.
A man who listened to some spell
binder" every evening for three weeks
during the recent municipal campaign.
according to the New York Times, said
the other day:
Campaign orators do not always
have time or occasion to explain eX
prcssions used in driving home argu-
guments. They must necessarily de-
pend upon their audiences to see the
point through apt applications of such
expressions. | have in mind one-.to
talk turkey peatedly used. The
story of it's origin is as follows:
1.-TWO men, an Indian and a white
man, agreed to hunt together for day
and to divide the spells. When the
time came there was no difficulty in ap-
portioning the smaller birds and ami
mafs-one of a kind to each. At last
they reached the last pair, crow and
a turkey.
Now, says the white man, with a
great show Of fairness, You may have
the crow and I'll take the turkey, or I'll
take the turkey and you may have the
crow.
Huh says the Indian. why you
no talk turkey to me?'
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! Solves Dimou,t Prob,. u,..

Senior Torres. an ingenious engineer
of Madrid. has invented little ma
chine which is described as the most
curious of it's kind that has ever been
fashioned. 1t is mechanical device
for the solution of mathematical ques-
lions. Those who have tested it say
thar within thirty seconds it can solve
the most difficult equation that can be
framed.
The apparatus looks like an ordinary
mill for grinding coffee, its component
parts being crank and a number of
copper wheels. When an equation is
to be solved the crank is turned, and
in eight or ten revolutions the solution
is arrived at.
Senior Torres has sent a model Of tho
machine to the Academy of Sciences at
Paris, and the French scientists who
have examined it say that it is one
of the wonders of the age.
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Oueen Victoria 1t Hnme

Even in the royal household the
post of housemafd is apparently no
sinecure. and l remember long ago
hearing the story of lady who, while
engaging a servant. naturally made
the inquiry as to why she had left
her last place" 1t came out then that
she had been last employed at Buck
ingham palace, and that she had left
because really, her majesty (the late
Queen) was that particular that after
you had been busting everything quite
as much as necessary. she would pass
her lace handkerchief across table
or chair and notice even the tiniest
speck." Even Buckingham palace is
not good enough for servants nova
days, it seems 1t was told of the late
Queen that she was SO dif1icile as to
the making of her bed that it took
the chambermaids two hours daily
to make it, as the undersheet had to
be most carefully and smoothly
stitched to the lower mattress, so that
there never was the slightest wrinkle,
which story recalls the fairy tale of
the Princess and the crumpled rose
leaf.-London Onlooker.
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There are funny incidents in the life
of a photographer. man came in
the other day and looked over all the
samples. asking the price of each.
do you want sitting?" l asked.
II don't see nothin' like what /
want" he replied.
told him i he would indicate what
he wanted, that l might arrange it.
81 don't know as you can" he said,
''for l don't see nothin' at all like
what 1 want
l repeated what / had already said.
He asked me to sit while he told me.
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.Book-Holaer for Church pews.

With the idea of insuring that the
occupant of church pew shall always
find his hymnal and prayer book in
their places when he comes to church.
Levi E. Umstead and John G. Dick1e,
of Allegheny, Pa, have designed the
book-holder shown herewith. The de-
vice comprises back plate to be at
tached to the pew by screws, with
hinged front section provided with
either d lock and key or spring catch.
as the owner may desire. The bottom
of the holder slants downward toward
the front side, to act as stop to limit
the opening which supports the recep-
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An Attractive ROYAL Residence.

Loo, where the young Queen of Hol-
land was overtaken by illness, is the
most attractive of the Dutch royal res
licences. 1t is a omfortable, though
grand, country house. The living
rooms were delightfully."- arranged and
furnished by the late king, who had
excellent taste in such matters. At
the end of one of the fine avenues
which are the pride of the park stands
out the old castle, rugged feudaI
pile. built for a hunting lodge early in
the sixteenth century by an ancestor of
the Duke of Portland. During the
first republic in France, Loo, being re-
garded as private palace of the
Prince of Orange, was confiScated and
converted into barracks. The gardens
are exceptionally beautiful.
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and lumber are saved, and the convent
enec of having the clothing always
handy and ready to put on need not
be emphasized The connection with
the bed is made by thin metal strips
at the top and bottom, which enter
slots in the horizontal boards and serve
to prevent the closet from tipping over
or separating from the head-board.
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uniaue Nnf-RiclSa.

1--WE get an odd order now and then, 3"
said a local jeweler. Look at these
silver nutpicks-just ordinary horse
shoe nails. A gentleman brought two
dozen of them in the other day to have
them silver plated. He said that one
of his grandfathers was a country
blacksmith, and that some of the hap
MES. days of his life, as a child, had
been spent playing around in his