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SENSATION FOR CHILDREN.
Jumping Boards, Which Are Worn
on Shoes. Similar to Skates.

The children will be glad to hear of
an ingenious device recently patented
by Texas man and shown in the i'll
1ustration below. 1t is destined to be-
come as popular as the roller skates in
the near future. and once introduced its
use will no doubt be universal 1t con-
sists of miniature springing boards.
which are strapped to the shoes.
Slight depression of the feet causes the
Wearer to spring forward; the harder
the depression the longer the jump.
The inventor claims that a person
equipped with the spring boards can
travel faster than another person run
ming. and but little effort or exertion is
required to cause momentum. They are
in every way safe for young children.
as there is no danger of the child fall
ing or of the device becoming unman-
ageable. with roller skates. They
will undoubtedly prove to be a great
amusement for youngsters both boys
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York expended S6.O0O.O0O for opening parks
in the downtown section
1t will doubtless be as astonishing as it
is f1attering for americans to hear their
cities cited models for the City Of
Light to follow to deserve its name
Does Paris lack light and air? Yes
much so. The splendid capital. famous
for its public places. tree-llned boulevards
and Haussmann avenues that forty years
ago were unique in the world has rested
its laurels. Growing. crowdng. Paris
has fallen behind the very movement that
she started,
What part of your own city is in open
spaces for free light and air? The pro-
portion will be also the proportion of it's
healthfulness. Councillor Turot repre-
sents the crowded wOrkingmens ward
of the Grandes-Carrieres. In 1904 he
noted that it's death rate had risen to
twenty-five per 1.O0O-while that of the
park-like Champs Elysees was less than
eight per 1000.
He began studying the proportions of
cities Bordeaux had only sixth Of it's
area in parks and places; ROuen, sew
enth. Well, their death rate is the high
est of French cities, % and o6 per 1000.
has only per LOCO annual death rate.
Why? Because full half Of it's surface
is in parks the size Of small city block.
wide avenues, tree lined, and tennis
courts for young and old.
If you want to see a pretty city. look
in at GrenOble. 1t lies in noble valley,
watered by two mOuntain-torrent rivers.
Blue peaks lighting red and amethyst
surround 1t. Broad white roads in curves
and zigZags climb through greenery of
vines chestnuts and walnuts, up to
laughing villas, all advantages of situa-
ton. yes; but the hustling city itself, a
center of great industries, does all its
business in the shade Of the green parks
whose flowers and fountains make the
tourist lose himself II know where I
am nowhere is that park you say.
But no. it is another
Grenoble business men go down town
with their tennis sracquetS and golf bags
in hand. 1t is so easy to take hour
off for health! The links are ten min
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"The American mii.Ic pciities don't stop
at any price, say the Partisan philan-
thropists. Expense don't figure" is the
motto of Chicago. Boston, in 1903 had
of open air space by parkways and ave
nues and to acquire reserves outside the
city. That splendid cost has not pre-
vented Boston voting annually s3.OOo,oO
more. So today Boston possesses
10000 acres of free spaces. fifteen
miles of parkway, and space for tracing
ten more miles Of parkway. The cost, in
land and improvements, has already
mounted to 32,OO0OOO.
In detail the Parisians must, of course
look to Vienna for their model. In d
word. Paris Is now exactly where Vienna
was before Vienna sacrificed her ancient
fortif1cation walls to make the now IA
nous Ring.
towns had not the free space of new
growing America. Vienna wanted wide
and shady boulevards that should be al
most parks. whereon to raise up palaces
and monuments.
why not tear down the old walls?''
they asked. The Notifications. as origl-
nally built, surrounded the city. But the
city had already grown so far beyond
them that they formed a ring inside 1t.
And moreover. modern fOrtiflcationS dot
heights we'll outside the cities they pro-
tect
Vienna's walls were useless for protec-
tomas is the circle of high, broad dirt
and-masonry ramparts completed around
Paris about 1S45 at this moment. But
their space would make splendid cir
cling boulevard inside Vienna, splashed
with gay gardens. decorated with monu-
ments marbles and bTonZes.
They turned their, ancient walls into the
famous Ring. Then they went further
The dirt-and-masonry fosse built by
Prince Eugene around the already grown
suburbs of his time would make second
circle further out. They turned 1t into the
Gurtel eighty yards wide and nine miles
around a parkway you may call it, unit
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ing Ring. Angarten and Prater reserve.
I say "Prater reserve but it is vast
cultivated park, all bat inside Vienna.
Calculating that in fifty years her popula-
habitants. whose houses will have over
flown the second ring. they began the
acquisition of Eiennas real reSerVe-oWo
acres of forest-covered slopes to the north
and northwest outside Vienna. And the
boulevard uniting it to the capital will
mount those heights by a corniche-road
like the Via del Coli of Florence and the
Passeggiata Margherita of Rome.
When. Vienna shall have realized her
plan of free spaces-which will be to-
morrow--she will have 12.315, acres of
parks and places for population actual
ly under 2.OW,OO0-twO and three-quarterS
acres of open spaces for every 400 in
habitants. This beats even Philadel-
phia.
Ten other European cities have already
copied the work of Vienna. Cologne and
Frankfort-on- Main have transformed their
old Notifications into circular promenades
of light and air. The same fate is re-
served for the walls of Barcelona. Copen-
hagen and Edinburgh. Chester. in Eng
land. while preserving her antique walls
out of historical considerations, has in
geniously transformed them into delicious
gardens.
All this is a scandal TO Paris, the beau
tiful capital that even today-by reason
of its endless little architectural places
arranged with such subtle art-gives the
impression of an airy city.
And the scandal is the greater from
the fact that Paris is in unique situ-
alton to catch up with American and Eu-
rOpean cities that so shame her.
AS l have said. Paris has her useless
fortifying ramparts built by Louis Phil
ippe. Already, in 1870, they were no pro-
lection against the GermanS-the capitula-
ton of Paris having been decided by far
off cannon. Today. on every side. from
Neuilly to Nincennes, the suburbs have
grown up beyond them. suburbs that are
Paris.
The destruction of the Paris ramparts
is decided.
They form a band of greenery 10 yards
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wide. holding inner faris in circle
twenty-four miles round The state who
is owner. wants to sell the whole. The
city wants to buy.
Now the great news-half true already.
Since yesterday the contract to buy the
first lot has been signed. II extends
from the Auteuil gate to the st. Denis
canal Ten years ago the government
asked SiS.OOOOOO for il.
Today Paris buys the space for ST.
100000
What for?
To sell i'm building lots,
Or make a ring?
Strong influences are at work to force
the ring. In the municipal council there
are Turot, dAndigne and CheriouX. At
the Musee Sociale Risler and his band OF
phflanthropists work ceaselessly. Tine
French Society of Cheap Habitations has
thrown itself into the movement. The
Touring Club is using it's vast influence.
And at the last municipal elections thirty
councillors We're elected as pledged to the
project.
In 1904 Boston paper-battling SO sue
cessfully for Boston parks and places
asked:
What is the value OF healthy boy"
What Is the capital-worth of a young
fellow. vigorous and intelligent, growing
up to manhood? Calculating what he
earns above his keep as interest-profit.'
the Boston newspaper put the capital
value Of each boy-child snatched from
physical and moral faint by the hygienio
magic of free and greenery In cities at
$4,000
Well. the Boston paper shot an arrow
into the air. 1t fell to earth. we know
pretty well where Gin Boston,; and the
heart Of a friend reached by the song n
the heart of Turot. Paris municipal coun-
cilor, who says:
Il get my argument from Boston Save
an annual thousand boys who today Wilt
and perish for lack of green spaces and
Paris will earn annually $4,000 OOO''
What about the gfrls?" they asked
him.
They will he all pure profft-soo 0o0..
600 more" says Turot
STERLING HELLO
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pervious to moisture and dampness. in
which to store the grain until wanted.
Even with this protection. dampness
still attacks the grain. More recently.
grain merchants are attacking the
problem from an entirely different
standpoint They are now working on
the idea of thoroughly drying the grain
before it is stored in the grain eleva
tors. the theory being that the grain
contains too much moisture when re-
ceived from the field. Inventors have
accordingly been designing machines
for drying the grain many of which
are now in use. The latest apparatus
of this nature patented is shown here.
This machine consists of tank contain
ing II treating fluid with drum mount
ed TO rotate above the tank and through
the fluid. The grain is automatically
delivered to the drum. treated TO the
fluid and afterward elected into chute
In addition there is a scraper which
skins the grain after being washed. The
fluid contains ingredients which eventual
ly cause it to evaporate. at the same
time carrying away all moisture in the
grain.
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"A EREMCE XDUNczEES..

its open spaces for building lots. London
follows the American municipalities in
buying up building lots for parks and
places
Whenever in London free space is met
the municipality acquires it. Fairgrounds
have been multiplied. especially in the
poor quarters. Today London has 377
cricket grounds and III foot ball grounds.
In 1906 they voted an annual $1.5oU,ooU
for such spaces, and they are now &C
quiring for the future all the great sub
urban region of Burnham BeecheS.
While it is probable the Vienna rings
that suggested the American idea of park
ways and reserves. Parisians give us
credit for the scheme.
The Chicago reserves, near Lake Mich
igan and around Lake Calumet, are said
to be enormous.
Baltimore and Providence have taken UP
whole valleys.
Boston acquired lands on the ocean
front, and to trace the splendid park
way leading to them, did not hesitate to
buy up and demolish recently constructed
quarters.
ing it's celebrated Riverside avenue out
side the city as far Manhattan Island
goes. Why? In order that an uninter-
rupted series of gardens. shall unite
all Manhattan Island with the city S
heart in Central Park.
Brooklyn. it is affirmed. holds the record
In uniting. by such garden ways, the city 8
center with it's "greenery reserve" around
the suburbs. Its Bay Ridge parkway is
300 yards wide-as wide AS the Eifel
Tower is high. It's Ocean parkway runs
FIVE miles to Coney Island. And another
parkway will soon shoot out to the ocean
front reserve at yet another point.
Paris real estate is too expensive. is
the argument of those who wish to sell
the great ring of the now-useless forti-
ficatiOns off in building lots-and put Paris
municipal finances in a state Of unique
splendOr.
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utes away. The ~. .., j JUS
around the corner.
Tourists in Paris only the best part
of the capital. the spacious boulevard
lined with its trees, the avenues that
lead to the Tuilleries Gardens. Pare Mon
ceau and Champs Elysees
Paris also is full of delightful archi-
tectural places, hubs from which streets
radiate. corners of intersecting streets
enlarged to give some handsome building
its effect. or where a church. museum.
post Office or mayors office blocks street
to form a vista. Tourists, charmed with
SO much architectural artfulness in street
disposition, will be surprised to learn
that Paris, as whole. gives but an
eighth part of its area to open spaces.
Vienna has a quarter of it's surface in
free open spaces. the worlds record.
Brussels and Leipzig have fifth.
London has a sixth.
Berlin has seventh.
Vienna has two and three-quarters
acres park space for every 400 inhabi-
tants.
Philadelphia. coming next. has the same
for every 800 of Its Inhabitants. New
York for every $50. London for every
1000. And Paris. airy. fiowery Paris,
makes its green hectare' suffice for ev-
cry 1850 inha btants
And as to tennis courts. there never
has been question. Two big spaces in
the Luxembourg Gardens, two more at
the Tuilleries, that Is all. Only the
immensely rich, with century-Old gardens
behind jealous walls, can dream Of play
ing tennis in Paris. At the old exposi-
ton grounds in the Champ de Mars there
were 80 acres free. 1t was hoped they
would be laid out in tennis court. unique
in the world. a recreation paradise for
thousands, interspersed with greenery
and fountains, cafe terraces beneath gay
awnings-a free show for thousands more
to see the happy players. But the Champ
de Mars is being sold for building lots
1t is different from the American pro-
ceeding, says Thurots enthusiastic col
league, d Andigne. Even supposedly cruel
London shows lberaity in parks that
is a shame to Paris. Instead of selling
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camping station in this country of hunt
ers and fishermen had to be deserted to
escape loss Of life.
Down through the picturesque Cats
kills Of New York came the fire king.
and the fierce fires took place along the
Blue Ridge, the Alleghenies and the Po-
como.
The south did not escape unscathed in
the midst of this general destruction,
over the part where local application of
heat IS desired. AS no heat can es-
cape, the interior of the reflector soon
becomes as hot can comfortably be
borne. The apparatus is always ready
for instant application. being much SUI
perior to hot-Water bottle. as 1t
never leaks.
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West Virginia and the Carolinas being
especial sufferers.
In examining into the causes il is not
to be denied that some OF the factors
which bring about these fires are beyond
the control of mankind. Lightning some
times igniteS the dead wood of the old
trees. This is the time OF the year when
the bee hunters start fires in the bottom
of old trees to smoke the bees out. Fish
and girls. and we may soon look for
streets full of live jumping jacks. They
will also be used by acrobats instead
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To cut down q line Of trees. so as to limit
far possible the inffammable ma
terial. and then take wife and children
and rush to a place of safety.
The present year has seen the worst
forest fires in the last half century, and
before this twelvemonth shall have come
TO an end no less than twenty-five million
dollars will have gone up in smoke.
In the present series of fires the big
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VIRTUALLY Every State
v in the Union Suffered
This Year From Forest Fires
I'm the Settled and Tricky
Populated East, in the Open
Tracts of the Middle West,
From Maine to Oregon, From
California to Florida, Millions
on Millions in Priceless Tim
Der Land Was Wasted -
Lightning That Struck Dead
Wood Caused Some Fires;
the Carelessness of Hunters
and Campers Out With Their
Camp Fires, Matches, Etc,
Was Also a Factor - The
Greatest of All the Trouble
makers Is the Railroad En-
CINE - In Great Britain a
Commission Protects the For
ests to Prevent Fires, and 1t
Is Possible That When Con-
gress Convenes Some Similar
Plan Will Be Worked Out
Here.
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Darts Lacking Parks and
/ Fairgrounds - Sees Its
Youthful Population Perish
Famous for Its Beautiful
Public Places-The City of
Light" Has Fallen Behind the
Modern HYGIENE Movement
With Only an Eighth of
Its Surface Given to the Open
Air -Councilor Turot Cites
Grenoble, Vienna and an
Astonishing American Calcu-
lation to Earn 100000 a
Year.
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MEDICINAL HEATING LAMP.
Far Superior to Hot-Water Bottle,
as It Never Leaks

Electricity now plays an important
part in the practice of medicine, one of
its most useful applications being the
concentration of powerful heat and
light rays upon the affected parts. \
new heating device of this nature has
been patented by an Iowa man, two
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views of which are shown in the ac
companying illustration.
The heater consists of hemisphere
cal reflector containing an electric in
candescent lamp. the edges of the re
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sacrificed on the pyre of forest
fires. and nobody can be found
to pay the damages
This wanton waste of millions incalcu-
liable results from the loss of the for
ests, for the passing of woodlands is a
blow to agriculture: 1t aids the droughts;
II converts into waste stretches of cOun-
try that which ought to be productive.
The present year has seen more OF
these fires than ever before. The long
period of drought resulted in rnatchless
opportunities for the fire king to get III
lis work
For weeks cities and countryside have
cloudy or unusually foggy day Yet
ell tie time the sun was shining Only
:he smoke from the forest fires obscured
the sun and made daylight semi rk-
ness.
and investigation is being made To de-
fernllne The cause for these costly con-
fagrstions Y" excepting for the fact
that It Is generally admitted that sparks
escaping from the srnokestaCks of loco
motives do the damage. no one has been
made responsible. and for all the wealth
destroyed there II no 90 pay
Pennsylvania has been one Of the great
est sufferers through there sweeping for
est fires, and may be used As II sample
of the conditions that develop from lack
OF redress.
1t is estimated by ore well known tim
Der expert I'm the Keystone state that
in half a century upward of one hundred
millions OF property has been drst 70, cd
by the forest fires and. generally speak
ing. this destruction has been nrnriy II
not wholly. absolute loEF.
Pennsylvania experience IL only "ue
of many In the states Of the west .witieh
are less thiCkiy settled and where the
dist ances are greater, there II even less
chance 10 deal successfully with tho IA -
ages OF the fires once they gel fairy
under way. Then the only thing to do Is
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redwood trees of California We're threat
ened in fires that devastated the neigh
borhood. The most noted of the giants
We're providentially saved
Then the flames got among the tower
ing cork pines of Oregon, smooth and
FREQ from knots, with tops waving from
two to three hundred feet above the
ground. Following these the fires swept
through the great lumber districts OF
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The cinematograph can be used for
recording every step in surgical opera
tions. and fer showing the whole process
to a large class of students.
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Devastation in Fires Wake.

The dense Rangeley woodlands of
Maine. over on the eastern side of the
country were the next sacrifices to the
w4liriing flames, and many summer
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Hector being covered by soft pad
which protects the body from the hot
metal shell the lamp being protected
ny wire mesh. In the application of
the heater the reflector shell is pressed
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TREATMENT OF GRAIN.
Washes and Dries Grain, Eventually
Eliminating All Moisture.

It would almost be impossible to even
approximate the amount of money lost
yearly grain which has become
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of the springing board now usually
employed.
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Wisconsin,. Michigan and Minnesota
where lumber is the king OF wealth. Then
the disaster spread over British Column
bian and Canadian forests
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PARIS. October l. 1908
HAT is the value of a
healthy boy?-$1O 600 say
KAx the Americans. There
wv FORE should Paris open
enough parks and play
grounds TO save annually a thousand such
from physical and moral faint, the yearly
gain would be S10,OOOOOr'
So argues Municipal Councillor Iurot
against the objection that Partisan real
estate is too expensive to bring Paris up
to-date in the hygienic movement to give
light and air to cities.
I'm New Yor.- land is fabulousfy Vaiu-
able says Turot. But no matter! Inc
municipality has paid up to 500 square
yard. Mulberry Park. which contains
only two and half acres, cost S1.6oo,ooo
and Seward Park, of the same surface,
cost 81, 400 600. In the one year 1902 New
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special Correspondence of The Star.
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TWENTY million dollars every
year in direct money loss is
sacrificed on the pyre of forest
fires. and nobody can be found
to paN the damages.
The avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 190?-1909, 1908-10-16

night riding Is one of the effort.
Of an organized body To break on
the Farmers Union
There's an organization that
reaches from New York 10 New
Orleans declared Mr. Neil It's
branches and its tentacle, cover
the entire cotton raising district
Its members are the cotton gam
blers whom the Farmers onion
Is fighting and who IN many places
have been put out of business by
the Union.
The night riders, firmly be-
lieve, are organized and urged on
AZ this organization The night
riders are the little cotton gam
blers of the small towns who have
been put out of business by the law
which the Farmers Union got the
legislature 10 pass. These are the
men who are doing the night rid
ing, not with the purpose OF rais-
Ing the price Of cotton. but OF dis
crediting the Farmers union ana
It's members.
The president OF the state union
vehement ia his denunclation OF
the organization which he SAYS. is
trying 10 ruin the Farmers union.
he was equally vehement IN his
ienunciatlon Of the night riders.
WILL MOI PROSECUTE
The Farmeas' union has never
advocated or tolerated any move .
nent or any action IN violation of /
he law. he declared emphatically. +.
1T is a law -abiding law-fearing
'ody Of honest farmes Ii would
lot descend 10 any action not IN
.luded In the pale Of the law II
viii the Farmer Inion help
The avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 190?-1909, 1908-10-16
AS TO THE
TEXTBOOKS
Cost q Patrons Not Nearly
80 Great A. Generally
Supposed In The Lone
Star State

Austin, Oct s.-Captaiu W X.
Davie, secretary Of state aud a
member Of the state board oi ecu
cation, 10 discussing recent state
ments made by Colonel john \.
simpson Of Dallas. the Reputl ican
nominee for governor. as 81 the
cost OF text books saws
The Republican candidate for
governor IS making erroneous
statements concerning the cost OF
text books to the patrons Of the
public schools. To has speech al
Sat Antonio he says that ne cost
Of exchange will be something
over 100000, TINS based On a.
enrolment Of 100000. An ex-
animation Of the prices OF the
adopted books shows that child
can start TO school with an outlay
Of Is cents for books, The books
Of tbs eighth grade, allowing the
pupil 10 have five new bOoks. cost
s3s2. The average cost per child
in the schools, allowing every
child in the fourth grade and
above Eve books. cost new aud
without exchA.ge sl79. The ex-
change price is about 80 per cent
Of the price Of the pew books.
Therefore. the books for every