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The National tribune., 1906-03-01
THE HELICOPTERE.
Santos-Dumont's Latest Device for Aerial
Navigation.

Santos-Dumont, who stands at the
head of the aeronauts of the world, is
building an entirely new machine TO
compete and win the $4,000 prize for
machines heavier than the air." He
calls this an helicoptere. or "screw
flyer" He means by this the applica-
ton of the screw principle in such
way that the machine will lift itself
from the ground and propel itself
through the air. In his trial machines
he has succeeded in doing something
far beyond the achievements of any of
his predecessors He has constructed
propellers of the diameter of six meters
G9.6S feeD with a weight of only nine
Kilograms 19.S4 pounds). These were
made entirely of silk and bamboo and
withstood a tractive strain of 80 kilo-
grams G9S.41 poundS) when driven by
n nine-horse-power motor. He, there
fore, assumes that the same propellers
when driven by an 1S-horse-power
motor will support weight OF 1So
Kilograms (396.S2 pounds). His new
machine will weigh only I60 Kilograms,
(352& pounds) and will be driven by
IA 24-horse-power motor weighing 80
Kilograms (77.16 pounds. BY means
of this he expects to gain lifting pow
er of $50 Kilograms 1886 pounds), or
A pounds more than the total weight
of machine and operator. The weight
of every detail has been carefully cal
culated and reduced to the minimum.
The operator will sit OIL an ordinary
bicycle saddle. The lifting propellers
are not driven by the motion of the
shaft, but by means of wires which
connect various points of their blades
to the bicycle wheels. which transmit
the power of the motor. The Scientific
American gives the following diagram
and description of the machine:
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ICE MOTOR.
A New Machine Which Promises Great
Things for the Development of Alaska.

Charles E. S. Burch, Minneapolis,
Mimi. who has extensive mining prop
critics in Alaska, and who is entirely
dissatisfied with the present means of
transportation by means of dog teams
and sleds, has devised an ice locomotive
of extremely novel design. If it does
what it now promises it will simply
revolutionize the means of transporta-
ton in Alaska. At present the amount
that can be carried by means of dog
sleds is so limited that freight charges
run all the way from 800 to $1,000 a
ton. This is prohibitive for many arti-
cies, and immensely enhances the cost
of the most necessary things. Mr.
Burch's machine. which he has been
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does not show up at once, jump on the
Postmaster.
18th. When you fail to get any mail
always be sure to say, well, it ought
to be here"
18Th. When mailing letters that
haven't been stamped, just hand the
Postmaster the pay and letters, and ask
him to stick 'em on for you.
I'm short, be as much of a nuisance
as possible. as it insures you to be met
with a smile and cheerful word
(To be continued.)
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SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
Work OF the Worlds Busy Brains in Discovering, Invenng and
Creating
Work OF the Patent Office.

For the week ended Feb. 20, 1906.
the Patent Office issued 592 patents, 10
designs, 141 trademarks. 16 labels.
nine prints, six reissues; making II
total of 7S3, of which Sal patents and
1872 trademarks went to citizens of the
Cnjted States and 20 patents and four
trademarks to citizens of foreign coun-
tries.
The National tribune., 1906-03-01

Strasburg started the movement in 1902
and Darmstadt, Muhlhausen and other
cities have followed suit The third an
nual report from Strasburg says that
there were 1851 visits to the clinic
last year, and that the children are i'm
proving In the care they give their
teeth.
The largest grasshoppers are found
In South America. where some speci-
mems reach a length Of five inches. with
a spread of wings of 10 inches.
The National tribune., 1906-03-01
Heart Trouble

The heart itself has power-no selfcontroI 1t is
made to beat by tender nerve so tiny that It is
scarcely visible to the naked eye Yet ten thousand
times day this delicate must assist the hear,
TO expand and contract.
This nerve Is only of the branches OF the great
sympathetic, or INSIDE, system. Each branch
of this system Is closely allied with the others that
weakness or irresuary at any point is apt to spread
Heart trouble frequently arises from stomach trouble
through sympathy, and Kidney trouble may also fol.
low For each of these Is operated by branch
OF these same sympathetic nerves-the INSIDE
NERVES.
IN Heart, Kidney or Stomach troubles Il Is of but
little use TO attempt % doctor the organ tseIEthe
permanent relief lies in restoring the Isstnr
NERVES DR.. Shoop regards these nerves to be The
real cause of such troubles. The remedy-knovn bv
physicians and druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's
estoratvels the result Of years of endeayor along
this very line II does not dose the organ TO dsade
the pain-but II aims TO go at the nerve-tb,.
inside nerve-the power nerve-rnd builds 1t up and
strengthens II and makes IL we'll
Every heart sufferer may have Dr. Shoop,s boo,, mn
the Heart IL will be sent free aud with IL you will
receive the Health Token" an Intended nassnor, n,
good health
For the free book and Book on Dyspepsia
the "Health Token you Book OH the Heart
must ADDRESS Dr Shoop. Book on the Kidneys
BOX sS3i Racine. Wis. Book for Women
State which book you BOOK for Men
want. Book ON Rbe,nans,,
DIR. Sioop's Restorative Tablets-gIye fuiI tir.e
weeks treatment. Eacn form-liqud OF tablet-have
equal merit Druggists everywhere
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DR.. Ephraim Cutter is an advocate of
q new process of cooking by intense
cold, which he says viii produce as sat
isfactory results as heat The frozen
potato is familiar Illustration. and un-
der the microscope it shows the starch
grains shrunkeu, cracked and fissured
with the starch changed into the same
relations as by heat. Similar results
have been obtained with cranberries,
onions and squashes.
The National tribune., 1906-03-01

The British have begun a system to
prevent interruption of teIegraphic
communication by means of storms and
have already installed an underground
telegraph cable between London and
Glasgow, 400 miles apart. The work
has cost $2,S00,0 900, OF $1,000 a mile,
and it will be followed by other SUBJ
terranean cables to the principal cities
IL the three Kingdoms.
The National tribune., 1906-03-01

They have discovered that even the
minute mosquito is as badly infested
with destructive parasites as other ami
mails and the question arises whether a
cultivation of these parasites may not
be useful in mitigating the pest.
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GETTING OUT A PATENT.

Editor National Tribune: Please state
In The National Tribune the surest way
of getting out a patent on an invention,
and dispOsing of G1e, which is a nee
essary article in all schools. business
houses, etc.-F. Z. Davis, Washington,
Ind.
The best and quickest way to get
out a patent is to employ some reputa-
bic attorney, who knows the methods
OF procedure, and will be ready TO COM
ply with them. AS to selling the arti-
Gle, the best way probably is to come
into communication with house deal
ing in school supplies and stationery
and offer it the article.-Editor Nations
al Tribune.
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The British Admiralty is about to
test wireless telegraphy on an unpre-
cedented scale in communication be-
tween the battleships and fleets in the
forthcoming maneuvers. In these
maneuvers one feet viii start from the
coast of Spain and the other from the
West African coast and seek TO keep
in constant touch with one another.
The National tribune., 1906-03-01

1t is reported that white bIackberries
grow rather plentifully in LIE FIore Co..
Miss. and have been known to the peo-
pie there for a number of years.
The National tribune., 1906-03-01

The report to the Massachusetts, Leg
islature is rather hopeless as to check
ing the ravages of the gypsy moth,
which is now extended over 2,224
square miles of that State. The auto
mobile is accused of being factor in
the spread of the pest, as the moths are
most prevalent around the roadhouses
where the vehicles make stops.
The National tribune., 1906-03-01

Experiments conducted by Italian
professors give hope that radium may
be useful in the cure of hydrophobia
So far experiments with cancer have
given little encouragement
The National tribune., 1906-03-01

False teeth will not be in demand in
Germany If the free care of children's
teeth continues to grow in popularity.
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at the desired distance apart and filling
in the interval with a material brought
up by a centrifugal pump.
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Combination Tool.

Herman E. E. Molkenthin, Coeur
dAlene. Idaho, has patented a hammer
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I.eyee.

Frank V. Wright, San Francisco. Cal,
has patented method of building
levees by laying rows of willow bundles
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We could go on and point Il
who have gained large sum.
but only give a few names.
out by an alert and clever person.
AND SPELL OUT THESE CITI
are winning many golden prizes.
see il you are clever and smart
would rather take this way OF adv
spending many thousands Of dollars i
cheerfully give the money away. Y
gets the money. TO PLEASE OUR
question Is, Can you get the correct s
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put very abrupt end to our corre-
The Postmaster's Social Position.

put very abrupt end to our corre-
spondence."
The POstmaster's Social Position.
The Postmaster in the small town or
village enjoys a social position that is
more honored than the position of the
Government official in the city. The
Village Postmaster has become a hero
| in dramatic art. while the city Post
master pays his good money to see the
character portrayed 1t Is true that in
the small community the post Office is
common meeting place, and oppor-
tunity Is there given for discussions and
exchange of opinion that help to iHfiu-
ence the life of the community. This
| is not the case in the larger offices
where free delivery prevails, and the
Postmaster there has not the chance of
making his influence felt In the neigh
| borhood that his village colleague has.
A petition from Texas to the Post
| Office Department last Winter, which
was signed by 30 of the leading citi-
zens, complained that owing to a feud
between the Postmaster and his only
| assistant, a mail carrier, who trans
| ports the mail to the post office from
| the railroad station. 10 miles away, they
had not received any mail for the last
10 days. The writer asserted that the
relations between the Postmaster and
| his assistant had never been very cor
| dial, but that recently they had fight.
| in which the Postmaster was worsted
Since that time both the Postmaster
and the mail carrier were prepared to
shoot on sight.
The mail carrier got the mail every
day at the railroad. but could not get
near enough to the post Office to deliver
1t. He could not open the mail bags,
because the Postmaster had the key and
would not give it up, and the mail car
rier would not consent TO the leading
citizens rifiing the bags.
The petition closed with the state
ment that the business of the town was
suspended, and that the citizens sat
around watching the Postmaster and
his assistant take an occasional shot at
The National tribune., 1906-03-01

One of the remarkable features of
telegTaphy is the supremacy which the
Morse alphabet has maintained all over
the world in spite of the numberless
inventions intended to supersede or
greatly modify it. Notwithstanding the
advantages claimed by other inventors,
the Morse remains superior in SIM
plicity, in freedom from trouble, in
adaptability to many uses, and in the
ease and certainty with which its alpha
bet is learned and used
The National tribune., 1906-03-01

The disposal of the worn-out or OBJ
solete plates upon which the United
States notes, bonds and stamps are
printed is obviously a matter of the
highest Importance. So long as those
plates are in use they are kept securely
locked in a vault and watched with
much more care than a man does his
cash. When the plates are delivered to
the printers they are receipted for, and
the printers obtain a receipt when they
return the plates Every impression
from them must be accounted for and
every sheet of paper issued to the print
ers. Every year, naturally, a great
many ot these plates pass out of use,
and the practice is to melt them up in
the blaStfurnaces of the gunshops at
the Navy Yard and use the fine steel of
which they are composed in making
guns. The melting is attended with a
great deal of formality. Trusted clerks
of the Treasury Department, one com
ing from the office of the Secretary, one
from the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue and one from the office of the
Comptroller of the Currency, receive
the plates from the Superintendent of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
and give him receipt, which clears
his books. The plates are then care
fully guarded to the Navy Yard and
checked off as they are thrown in the
furnace. This year there were $4,000
pounds, OF % tons, and they were melt
ed down at the rate of two tons a day.
This is a somewhat smaller amount
than last year, when there were $4,000
pounds. or "a tons, destroyed, and the
operation takes nearly two weeks. The
counterfeit money and counterfeiting
apparatus seized by the Secret Service
men also go into the melting furnace,
and are worked over into carriage
mountings and other parts of the big
guns.
The National tribune., 1906-03-01
Indelible Blue Ink.

The French scientific papers give
these directions for blue ink that will
resist not only water and Oil, but aIco-
mol, oxalic acid. alkalies, and chlorides
II is prepared by means of four parts of
shellac, two parts of borax, two parts
gum arabic, and sufficient indigo to
give the desired color. The whole is
dissolved in 40 parts of pure water.
Commence by putting the sheIlac and
the borax in 36 parts only of the water
i'm a closed receptacle and boiling until
completely dissolved Filter. and then
dissolve the gum arabic in the re-
mainder of the water. Mix the two
solutions and heat for five minutes.
stirring from time to time. Add the
indigo after the liquid is cool When
the preparation has settled for a few
hours, decant in order to separate the
ink from the sediment.
The National tribune., 1906-03-01
Reports Under Difficulties.

Popular opinion is disposed to look
upon the Government official as run
ming always in ruts, the slave of rou-
tine and insanely welded to the wor-
ship of technicalities. But even routine
has its terrors. The complicated re-
ports required of the head of small
post office are perennial tribulation.
Many officials, being encountered with
their merchandise affairs during busi-
ness hours, seek the seclusion of the
domestic fireside in the evening for
making their reports. One of them
says: He goes home at night, worn
out with the ceaselesS struggle to do his
business rivals as they would do him,
and with the thought of the hated re-
ports hanging over him like dark
cloud. He surrounds himself with
books. blanks, syphon and a quart of
the fount of inspiration. His family
gathers around him and plays on piano.
las, monographs, conversation and 9TH
er wind instruments; his wife relates
her days adventures with the cook, his
youngest son seeks information concern
ing cube root and kindred horrors, the
baby INDUCES in cholera infantum in
the adjoining apartment, and in the
midst of this beautiful domestic scene
the Postmaster composes his mind for
the compilation and tabulation of a
mass of figures relating to stamps,
wrappers, money orders, rent, fuel and
cancellations that would drive Wall
Street bank teller into Mysteries. But
out of this miscellaneous medley must
come a well-balanced account that will
pass the Auditors scrutiny, or your
humble servant will lose his job
Some of the asperities of official tenn
per occasionally displayed by Postmas-
ters are undoubtedly attributable to the
unreasonableness and insolence of many
patrons, who assume that public ser
wants" may be treated as interiors and
abused or imposed on at pleasure. They
have all kinds of people to deal with.
Instructions for Patrons.
A Postmaster advises that persons
wishing their letters to go through the
mails in a hurry should always write
''in haste" on the lower left-hand cor
ner of the envelope. Then everybody
connected with the service win jump
around lively. The mail sack contain
ing it is delivered to the route clerk on
the run. The route clerk rushes ahead
and notifies the engineer to pull the
throttle wide open and the rural car
rier whips his horse into a swift gallop,
all in order that the instructions may
be obeyed. Nitl
Another Postmaster, made irritable
by the unending monotony of unreason-
lated the following schedule of Instruc-
tions to Patrons of his office:
list Ask if there is any mail for me.
we or US, because the Postmaster should
know you whether he ever saw you be-
fore or not.
"2d. Be sure to ask, is this all %
when the Postmaster gives you your
mail; it shows your sense, and sounds
musical.
I'D. Remember that when you expect
4 letter it must be there, SO if you do
not get it make some sighting remark.
as it will help produce the letter at
once.
18th. As you are the only poverty
stricken patron of your Office. let the
Postmaster furnish you envelopes and
paper free.
18th. When you mail letter, tell |
he Postmaster when to send it off
18th. If the paper you subscribe for |
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There is an increasing sentiment
throughout the country in favor of ex-
tending some form of Civil Service
regulations to the $500 Postmasters
of fourth-class offices.
This sentiment has been greatly en-
couraGed by the recent action of the
President in ordering that they shall
be removed only for good cause shown.
Heretofore the Office of rural Postmas-
ter mas been as much the personal per-
quisite of the Congressman in political
accord with the Administration as is his
mileage or allowance for stationery.
Whenever the Solon's political fortunes
have demanded a change he had but to
recommend it, and his advice was tan
tamount to an order; but under the new
departure the incumbent is protected
by the merit rule, and is no longer
subject to removal on the advice" of
the Congressman, though his advice
is as potential as in the elder days of
"spoils' where there is vacancy due
to death, resignation or removal.
Thus one feature of genuine Civil
Service reform has, at least during the
term of the present Administration,
been extended to these officials. 1t is,
however, merely a Departmental regu-
lation, which may at any time be re-
voked. 1t could and should be made
more permanent and binding. by in
its provisions among the hxed
rules of the Civil Service Commission.
Moreover. another step should be
taken. A simple but sufficient scheme
IF examination should be devised to
demonstrate the qualifications of the
candidate to properly perform the nee
essary clerical duties of the office, and
no Postmaster should be appointed who
failed to creditably pass this examina-
ton. The proportion of ignorant Off
cials is not large, but it is too large for
the convenience of the Department or
the patrons.
Ignorance is the twin sister of care
essness, the mother of curiosity and
he grandmother of self-importance.
These four defects constitute the chief
elements of the inefficiency now occa-
,iOnally seem
The National tribune., 1906-03-01

Wire fencing is now made In CON.
tinuous rolls instead of in sections. as
Galvanized wires at the in
tersections. fed automatically from
reels, are welded by means of small
The National tribune., 1906-03-01
A WOuId-Be Humorist.

SAYING you bet I'd read every word on
it?"
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Hadn't His Bag Filled Yet.

new Postmaster in the South
thought he knew his business. Fo: sew
eral days after he took charge of the
Office there was no mail sent out from
that point. This was reported to the
Superintendent of the Railway Mall
Service, who telegraphed the delinquent
Postmaster. and was very much sur
prised to receive reply, also by tele-
graph. saying. Il amt got one sack
near full yet"
A Frencliman has invented phono-
graph postal care. A thin wax sheet
the size of 4 postal card is put into the
machine, and the sender speaks his
message intorit; The wax sheet is then
attached To the postal card and mailed.
The recipient detacheS it, places it in
his own phonOgraph, and, paradoxically
speaking, receives recorded message
orally. This scheme will certainly en-
tail a hardship upon those Postmasters
who read their patrons postal cards.
Settling Accounts.
The difficulty of getting postal ac-
counts finally settled is one of the hor-
rors of the service. An eX-Postmaster
in Oregon.IbNrI Haffenden, was short
one cent. and his two bondsmen were
notified to remit at once or suit would
be commenced. The ex-Postmaster was
also notified. and three bulky docu-
ments were required for the portentous
transaction The exp. NJ hustled
around lively until he got cent and
forwarded irit, ~. Now the incident is
closed.
A farmer had son away at school,"
The son had the postal card habit. He
wrote even the little things of the most
private nature on postais. His father
went to the post office for his mail. The |
postal that the assistant, who was the
daughter of the Postmaster, had seen
could not be found. She searched in |
every nook and corner, but finally gave
up the search in despair, and said: /
We'll, WELL where could have put that |
card? But perhaps 1 had better tell
you that John said he needed new SUIT
of clothes"
Sometimes the aggrieved official re-
sents insinuations and seeks revenge. |
For example:
Bill Axletree: Il can't understand
why there amt any mail for me. /
never done anything to YOU
Rural Postm aster: You hain't hey?
Didn't you mail postal card last week
The National tribune., 1906-03-01
THE POSTMASTERS.
Need Of the Protection of Civil Servce-Justce Faithful But
Office.
BY Capt. HENRY A. CASTLE,

of the Treasury for the Post Office Department