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George Westinghouse.

shop; when he wasn't m~asticating his
books, he was monkeying with the
buzz-saw. At fifteen he had invented
and made a rotary engine. One day
the notion struck him that he'd like
to help Uncle Sam out in the navy.
So he took a shot at the examinations
and scored a hit, landing a job as as
sistant engineer. Before he reported
for duty the Civil war had broken out.
He enlisted in the Twelfth New York
National Guard, re-enlisted later in
the cavalry, and finally turned up on
the high seas as an engineer on the
gunboats Muscoota and the Stars and
Stripes.
After Gettysburg was fought and
won, his thirst for more education
landed him in Union college. Two
years there were enough for him. The
magic Of machinery called him away
from the academic life, and he found
happiness again by taking up his old
work in his fathers factory. It was
while working there that he invented
the air brake. Railroad managers who
first jeered at his idea of stopping a
train with wind" had to eat humble
crow. In a short time the invention
was in universal use and had revo-
lutionized ~railroading, as locomotives
could be constructed that would travel
at a high rate of speed, SO long as
they had that little lever in the cab,
which by a single turn of the en-
gineer's wrists would bring the train
to a standstill in half its length. In
the United States all railroads are
compelled by law to use the device,
and this was adopted by congress
and everywhere around the great
curve of the world the whistle of
Westinghouse" air brake is heard.
His first prominence in electricity
came with his purchase from Gaulard
G Gibbs of alternating electric cur
rent patents. This was in 1885, and
he met great opposition from public
sentiment in trying to perfect and in
troduce this system for lighting and
power making. At the time of the
Chicago worlds fair in 1893 he re-
ceived the contract for lighting by
making a bid of $1,OOO,O0O under
others. His shop in Pittsburg soon
became the place where electrical ex-
perts of the world gathered. Tesla
went there and received Westing-
houses financial and practical help In
developing the induction motor.
Westinghouse built the first ten
great dynamos for Niagara, He also
constructed the dynamos for the ele-
waited and subway lines in New York.
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On Some Ministers.

The worst O. these here shepherds
Is, my boy, that they reg'larly turns
the heads of all the young ladies
about here. Lord bless their little
hearts, they think it's all right, and
don't know no better; but they're the
victims o. CANNON, Samivel, they're
the victims o. CANNON. Nothin else,
and wot aggregates me, Samivel, Is
to see 'em awagtin' all their time and
labor in making clothes for copper-col-
ored people as don't want 'em and TAX
ing no notice of fesh-colored Chris
tians as do. If I'd my way, Samtvel,
I'd Just stick some of these here lazy
shepherds behind a heavy wheelbar-
row, and run 'em up and down a
14-inch plank all day. That nd shake
the-nonsense out of 'em, if anythin'
vould.-Mr. Weller, Quoted by Charles
Dickens.
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Sim of Recovery.

"If when the devil is sick a monk
he will be-" said Rose Stahl sagely,
'then the devil gets well in double
quick time. Witness that young 'divil
with the ladies' my kid cousin. Last
winter he was i'll, SO i'll he didn't have
any sense of humor left nor any
either. l was staying at the same no.
tel, and when l went in to look after
him he virtuously remarked that his
room was no place for a Chorus Lady
and promptly shooed me out. "a few
years age I spanked that kidd Then
he got scared and sent for a doctor
and the doctor sent for a trained
nurse. For several days l got bulle-
tins of his progress from the cham
bermaid. The fourth morning she set
my mind completely at rest.
"tSure, ma'am,' said Maggie, an
think he do be gettin' along very well.
The nurse was sittin' on his lap this
mornin'!'"
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provoked a revolt on the part of many
women during the past year.
The Merry Widow" and the Peach
Basket" (alluring names for hats),
called down the wrath of our male
relatives, made us the sport Of the
caricaturist in the daily press, and
ever provoked a revolt on u part.
How did we come by such atrocious
millinery? Mr.. Bob tells US it was
foisted on us by the French, in WhoA
we have had such faith for so long
a time. All this commotion served as
advertising, and thousands of us went
on our way-not serenely-gett1ng IN
e%verybody's else way with our "mer-
ry Widows" and resembling toad
stools under our peach baskets" de-
feating our own efforts to look attract
i've and meriting the settled convic-
ton in many minds that women are
hopelessly foolish when it comes to
following the fashion.
Our conglomeration Of models
comes to us through many channels
and ut is the STYLE" or "They are
wearing this" are bound to to
be a big stick. We are destined to
become more Independent in u
choice of styles and to millinery
of which even our male kin will be
compelled to admit ut is beautiful"
and 1T is suited to you" We will not
cart a fig about who is wearing it or
whether somebody else made it the
style or not. 1t will be in the trend
of fashion, otherwise our menfolk
would pronounce 1t too conspicuous,
and everybody will be happy when "
erybody Is suited.
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DICTOGRAPH HELPS
STANDARD OIL Save
THOUSANDS A YEAR
By Means of Sensitive Little fnstru-
ment Worlds Richest Corporation
Conserves Time and Foot
steps OF Employees.

In popular fancy no office building
in the world is associated with SO
much mystery and speculative inter-
est as the big grey stone pile at rs
Broadway, New York City, from
which the vast business of the Stand
ard Oil Company is directed. In the
intelligence and industry with which
Its worldwide interests are admins
tered no corporation on earth has de-
veloped such an efficient business or
ganization. Here wasted steps mean
dissipated energy. Misspent efforts
clog the carburater of a great indus
trial machine and, in an institution OF
the size of Standard Oil, represent an
aggregate annual loss of many thou
sands Of dollars when time paid for
by the corporation is not put to profit
able use.
OF none of it's assets is Standard
Oil more jealously solicitous than Of
time. To husband it every room Is
equipped with photographs, a wonder
courage economy In steps and obviate
delay In intercourse between depart
ment heads.
Without leaving his desk any en-
ployee can discuss every r~amif1cation
of a business transaction with a fell
low employee in another part Of the
building as easily as II both were
seated alongside of each other. For
a whole day a bureau chief can re-
main clustered in his Office without
seeing a single soul and keep in touch
with every development of his depart
ment. All the while he can be ten or
twenty feet away from the sensitive
instrument which picks up the faint
est whisper and makes it plainly audi
Bile in any distant room with which it
Is connected. On the principle that
what is good for Standard Oil is good
for them, most of the large banking
houses, railroad Offices and business
institutions of the country are now
equipping their Offices with dicto-
graphs.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh and Attorney General Wicker
sham have installed 1t in their Offices
at Washington, D. G. So have Gov
ernors of the States Of Illinois and
Minnesota and municipal governments
in all parts of the country.
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KEEP BABY's SKIN CLEAR

Few parents realize how many es-
Unable lives have been embittered
and social and business C pre-
vented by serious skin affections
which so often result from the neglect
of minor eruptions in infancy and
childhood. With but a little care and
the use Of the proper emollients, baby's
skin and hair may be preserved, puri-
fed and beautiied, minor eruptions
prevented from becoming chronic and
torturing, disfguring rashes, itchings,
irritations and chafings dispelled.
To this end, nothing is SO pure, SO
sweet, SO speedily effective as the con-
slant use of Cuticura Soap, assisted,
when necessary, by Cuticura Ointment.
Send to Potter Drug & Chem. Corp,
sole p~roprietors, Boston, for their free
S2.page Cuticura Book, telling all about
the care and treatment Of the skin.
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Selfish Youth.

youth is apt to be selfish" said
Mrs. Mary e. Wilkins-Freeman, the
distinguished novelist, at a Matuchen
picnic.
woman In her youth" she went on,
'is especially apt to be selfish. I'll
never forget the story of the young
man from Boston who stood in the
center Of Boston common in a down
pour of t%orrential rain.
"As he stood there, soaked to the
skin, a little boy in a macintosh &C
costed him.
Excuse me, SIR said the boy, but
are you the gentleman who is waiting
for Miss E~ndicott?'
ayes the young man answered
well said the boy, she asked me
to tell you she'd be here just as soon
as 1t clears up"
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others detracts from the whole. Sure
~, the immense discs should be made
to contribute to the headgear.
In dress the details are extremely
important. Little pleatings that are
for the most part hidden, applications
of tiny buttons or narrow braid, hid
den bands of color under lace and the
wonderful attention to hooks, loops
and buttons at all ~fastenings are the
factors that produce a successful
whole.
Motifs not applied by the machine.
but by hand, and buttonholed In such
a way that the material melts into the
edging are extremely effective. Pip
ings of two or three colors form tiny
lines of contrast on unexpected places,
while a piece Of embroidery or chintz
that many of us would consign to the
scrap bag can be made important as
a decorative agent.
Last of all, let there be paid a care
full attention to the accessories with
which woman adorns herself. With a
red dress use the jewelry that best
harmonizes with the shade. Black and
white are more friendly to the Jewel
casket, but the rule of n color
scheme is the best to be observed.
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War Against Hail.

Notwithstanding scientific demon
STATIONS of its inutility, the practice
of bombarding thunder clouds with
"hail cannon" continues in many OF
the vinegrowing regions of France
and Northern Italy. The theory I'M
DERIVING this practice is that the dis,
charges disrupt the clouds and pre-
vent the formation of hail. Much
money has been spent on the needful
apparatus, and many vinegrowers
have an enthusiastic confidence in it.
A new effort to convince the advo-
Gates of the system that they are
wasting their time and money has
Just been reported to the Paris Acad-
envy of Sciences. 1t is based upon a
comparison of records of losses in
the Department of the Rhone for
twenty years before and for ten years
since the cannon was introduced, and
it shows that the losses have slightly
increased instead of diminishing
since the war on hail was begun
Youths Companion.
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VARIATIONS OF DEEP HENS
How the Upper Line Can Be Modified
Materials of Contrasting Color
Favored.

The deep hem varies from eight
inches to a depth that extends from
the knee to the ground.
The upper line can be modified in
numerous ways. 1t is effective when
dropped at the front or sides in square
lines, Then, again, it a be crossed
in a point at the front, which gives the
effect of a pointed tunic of the upper
material.
Materials of contrasting colors are
most favored, although a deeper shade
of the predominant color is always
rood. Charmeuse, or any supple silk, is
most successfully combined with voiles,
Eilks or mulls.
When edging the top line of the deep
hem, a cording is easily adjusted when
the upper part of the skirt is attached.
The method is the same as that en-
ployed in piping. A stitched strap or
bias band is another Easy finish to the
top.
When there is any variation Of the
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JUST A NATURAL MISTAKE
GussIe, In Fancy Costume, Astonlshee
the Doorkeeper for a
Moment.

Gussie was knock-kneed, angular
and round-shouldered. He had a ter
rible squint, and a mouth like a steam
roller. All the same, he reckoned on
making something of a hit at the
fancy dress ball. and his costume was
as elegant as his figure was IN
lovely.
With fast beating heart he stepped
jauntily from his automobile outside
the town hall, where the ball was be-
ing held. The hall porter stepped back
ward at the unsightly apparition.
Great Christopher Columbus!" he
gasped, as he regarded Gussie.
NO, no, my good mani" chirped
Gussie, as he tripped through the por-
tails. "Chawles the First, my dear fel-
low-Chawles the First!"-London An
swers.
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Great Butter Markets.

According to local creamery men,
st. Paul is the second largest butter
making city in the world. Omaha
alone surpasses St. Paul In the
amount of butter made each twelve
months within the confines of the city.
Nearly ten million pounds a year is
made here by creameries from cream
/, shipped to the city from all over the
State, also portions of Iowa and
South Dakota. The industry is on
the increase, and there are possibili-
ties that this year the production will
amount to twelve million pounds
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
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storm Toys with a Woman.

Denver.--The recent tornado near
Fort Morgan, Col, which among other
things destroyed the residence of w.
r. Randolph, ranchman, lifting his
wife from the bed in which she was
sleeping, and carrying her a distance
of rs feet, deposited her in a wagon
that stood in tho yard behind the
house. Beyond a few minor bruises
and the v shock resulting from
her experience the woman apparently
has Suffered no injuries. Two small,
children who were in the bed with
AIRS, Randolph were unframed.
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NEAT, PRETTY HOUSE DRESS
One-Piece Gowns Are in Great Demand
and Never Before Were So At
tractlve.

Manufacturers have never before
paid SO much attention to house dresses
as they have this year. The demand
for the one-piece dresses for wear In
the house and on the veranda Is great
er than ever before. The present
styles for houses dresses are so neat
and trim that the garments are suit
able for street veal For years many
women have protested against wrap
pers and kimonos as work dresses, and
yet women who bought work dresses
ready made usually accepted these
styles because few stores carried any
thing else. But now manufacturers
are giving more heed to the work
gown, and women who want to appear
neat and trim while at homework may
find many ready made dresses which
will answer their needs. The prett1est
designs are those which have the
Dutch neck, three-quarters sleeves and
buttons at the side. Many garments
button in the front and a few at the
back, although the latter are not In
great favor as work dresses. One OF
the neatest dresses is made of blue
linen with bias bands of red and
white plaid around the neck and on
the short sleeves. Some new house
gowns have plain shirt waist sleeves
with short cuffs fastened with fancy
pearl buttons. The rundown collars
and Peter Pan collars are used a good
deal. There is little variation in the
skirt. No matter how the waist may
vary, the skirts are usually the circu-
lar gored effect and should be short
enough to permit the wearer to go up
stairs without having to lift her dress.
Percales, ginghams and lawns are IA
vorite materials.
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Tuberculosis In the Prisons.

The fact that 100, 900 prisoners are
discharged from the jails and prisons
of the country annually, and that from
10 to Is per cent. of them have tuber-
c%ulosis, makes the problem of provid-
ing special places for their treatment
while they are confined a serious one.
So important is the problem that the
Prison association Of New York in CO.
operation with the State Charities Aid
association, is preparing to tn~augurate
a special campaign for the prevention
of tuberculosis in the penal institu-
lions of the state, and will seek to en-
list the cooperation o. all prison phys
icians and antituberculosis societies
In this work.
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Why Dresses Fade.

Fading is often caused by too hot
irons. The fading Of colored articles
is due often not to the washing. but
the ironing.
Too hot irons are used directly on
the material, and this will fade deli
cate colors more than any amount OF
washing. The effect is eve worse
than strong sunlight.
Be sure that the article Is evenly
dampened and that the iron is only
hot enough to smooth the wrinkles
properly by firm, even pressure and
Won will have no more trouble from
fading.
skirts must never be froned across
the cores. but up and down; other.
wise the ft of the garment is ruined.
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top line, the additional braid to simu
late buttonholes and buttons Of silk
or soutache, gives a change. Place
these SO that the effect of the deep
hem being buttoned owe the upper
part will be obtained.
Deep hens must not be extremely
scant. for, although the freedom of
movement has been decidedly cur.
talked In France, we are in America
and should "cut our cloth" accordingly.
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A Costly Sneeze.

New York.-The secret signals of
brokers on the New York stock ex-
change to their offices are very com
pick and puzzling. A certain broker
when signaling in regard to selling
Nipissing stock always sneezed to in
dictate that he meant to sell.
One day he caught a severe cold
and when signaling from the market
to his office window he was forced to
sneeze in spite of himself. The result
was that some of his best stock was
sold at a great sacrifice. The brokers'
sneeze at the wrong time cost him a
loss of several thousand dollars.
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Excellent Definition.

"Bjornstjerne Biornson, in his hotel
fronting the Tuileries gardens, re-
ceived a few friends up to the last IN
Paris" said the continental agent OF a
typewriter firm.
81 had the honor to be among those
friends and l never wearied OF the
great Norseman's wit and wisdom.
1.-THE last thing he said to me, IN
cautioning me not to give an import
ant ~provencal agency to an easy-going
man of the world, was this:
"'Beware the easy-going man. An
e~asy-going man, you know, Is one VINO
makes the path of life very rough and
difficult for somebody else"
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RECKONING DAY AND HOUR
Workman's Thoughts Not Altogether
Fixed on What Might Be Called
Higher Things.

Mayor William s. Jordan, at a Dem
ocratic banquet in Jacksonville, said
of optimism:
LET us cultivate optimism and hope
fitness. There is nothing like 1t. Inc
optimistic man can see a bright side
to eyerything-everything
"a missionary in a slum once laid
his hand on a mans shoulder and
said:
"rFriend, do you hear the solemn
ticking of that clock? Tick-tack; tick
tack. And oh, my friend, do you know
what day it inexorably and relentlessly
brings nearer?'
Eyes, pay day. the other, an hon.
est, optimistic workingman, replied"
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He Had Mo- Eve for COLOR.

There came to the home of q Negro
In Tennessee an addition to the am
lily in the shape of triplets. The proud
father hailed the first man who came
along the road and asked him in to
see them. The man, who was an Irish
man, seemed greatly interested In the
infants as he looked them over, lying
in a row before him.
What does yo' Think" asked the
parent.
"Waul"-pointing to the in the
middle-'I think I'd ave that one" p
EYerybody's Magazine.
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Flower ErIezes.

A pretty English idea lately come
to America is the application Of a
frieze, consisting of a canvas or pa
e border of flowers with the back
ground cut away with a sharp pair of
embroidery scissors, to the white or
green painted walls of a bungalow.
The dado or ceiling border thus
formed is very effective and may be
applied to every room in the cottage
with a differently tinted wall and a
different choice of flowers appropriate
" distributed for each. Try it on your
summer bungalow.
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ulustrated Time Tables.

Ingenious descriptive time tables
have been issued by a Western rail-
road in which the traveller finds, just
opposite the figures showing the time
of arrival and leaving Of Grains, a de-
s~cription of the place and the inter-
esting scenes along the route. Be-
tween the figures are scenic photo
graphs. At the top of each page is a
diagram giving the altitude Of the
line at the various points.-Popular
Mechanics.
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Straight Shooting Now.

In the days of the Spanish war
C~orregidor Island was associated
with ineffective Workmanship. The
War Department is determined to
have that strong position in Manila
harbor held more efficiently than
when Dewey sailed into the bay, and
has sent twenty companies of coast
artillery, now stationed at Fort Schulz
Ter which have a notable record for
artillery practice. = Springfield Re
publican.
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Sky pIue zephyr is used for this sim
pie little dress, which has a plastron
front put on with a wrapped seam;
the material which is set to this Is
pleated; a band draws the pleats in at
the waist; the collar and cuffs are just
stitched at the edge.
Hat of soft straw trimmed with rib
bon.
Material required: 81 yards S6
inches wide.
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The Music Was Fatal.

A New York politician once ound 1t
necessary to attend an entertainment
at an orphans home. and be was hav.
ing a bad time of it. The selection by
the boys band vas particularly dis
tressing. Turning to a friend the
politician said with a shudder: No
wonder they are orphans Success
Magazine.
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The Interview.

AS used nowadays by the newspa-
pers the word interview is said to
have been the invention of Joseph
McCullagh, of st. Louis, and. accord
ing to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1t
became popular in England in the
early nineties. But it was known be-
fore that. A writer on the subject
in the Nation of 1859 was possibly
the first to use the word in its pres
emit sense of a talk with a representa-
tive of the press.-From the Chicago
News.
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ORIGIN OF STYLES
AMERICANS TAKE THEIR IDEAS
FROM PARIS.
Fashion Must Be Followed Even
Though the Styles of Gowns n
Millinery Cannot Be Made
to Look Attractive.
az FRANCES eRosvENoR.

All at once, from the quarters of
the compass, comes an inquiry into
the origin of the styles with which
American women are blessed-or af-
aicted-in the ~fashioning Of their
clothes. 1t seems that our apparel,
especially in the matter of millinery,
has not only failed to please our men
folks (who fain would worship at the
shrine of beauty ~adorned). but has
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L etter Than a Drug.

1.-THE late Senator Platt," said an
Albany legislator, chad a cynical wit.
Talking about a politician who had
changed his party, he once said to
me:
circumstances alter everything
political views, religion, even health.
"'Why, I've got a friend who is af-
ficted with insomnia in its worst
form, and yet every morning that
mar sleeps as sweet and sound as a
newborn babe when his wife crawls
over him to start the fire."
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Bores Barred.

A reporter asked Mr.. Roosevelt at
the Outlook Office how he got through
SO much work and at the same time
saw so many people. 81 shun bores,"
was the reply. Il don't waste a min
ute of my time on bores. Do you per-
ceive that 1 have only just n chair
in this room? You see, my hunting
experiences have shown me that great
bores are always of small caliber."
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was perfectly helpless and wished for
death. Rapid improvement took
place after l began using Doan's Kid
ney Pills, and in six weeks | was
cured.
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. so cents a box
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. NY
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RockefeIIer's Hard shot.

John D. Rockefeller tried a game Of
golf on the links near Augusta. On a
rather difficult shot Mr.. Rockefeller
struck too low with his iron, and as
the dust flew up he asked his caddy:
What have l hit?"
The boy laughed and answered:
"Jaw-jah, boss"