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locomOtion on diseases. Medical men declare that there is nothing specific about the motion of automibiling, for It is merely a matter of petty shocks or vibrations, such as occur in rail- way trains, and, if automobile jour- neys appear to produce certain ef- Iects, it is quite safe to assume that railway travel will be followed by the same or similar consequences.
 At . recent meeting of the Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases, Professor Oppenheimer read paper on habitual vertigo from which it appeared that this condition Is less apparent to the patient when riding in automobiles or railway trains. Professor Kron then stated that he had seen the same sequence, but attributed 1t to psychic causes distraction of the attention. He cited the case of a rope dancer who suf- fered from vertigo when on the ground, but was never bothered while In the air. The psychic factor, he said, is naturally in evidence here. and the state of affairs is paraIleled by the actor who always shutters while of the stage, but never while speaking his lines in play.
 Professor Bernhardt stated that the patient with habitual vertigo feels in better spirits on an automobile or railway journey, and this Is also true of patients with paralysis agitans. He attributed the favorable result to the fact that the involuntary motion i'm parted by the vehicle antagonizes the sensations of vertigo and tremor. One "of his patients with paralysis agitans takes several rides daily on an auto omnibus with beneficial results.
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The eest Position.

Prior to the commencement of a boys cricket match there were sev- eral candidates on the fielding side for the position of long-feld.
 Harris had it last week and the week before." complained two or three of the boys to their captain. Its about time someone else had a turn"
 The discussion seemed likely to end in free fight. when the local curate came Ca the scene and endeavored to pour. oil on the troubled waters.
 You surprise me. boys, he said. Harris has done especially well in that position, hasn't her"
 He has so." agreed the malcon- tents. If he's had to climb Bliggins' wall after the ball once. he's had to a dozen times"
 "Wen?" queried the reverend gen tleman.
 That's why we want a chance" 1" snapped a podgy youngster; "old Blig- gins gooseberries are ripe and his bulldogs deadi"-London Tit-Bits.
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times lately?" said the superintendent to the conductor after the latter had nervously placed his cap on the edge of the glass topped table.
 Hayes trembled and his heart sank To be turned in," in railroad patois. means to be the object of complaints by passengers.
 What have I done. sir?" he mur- mured anxiously.
 You have disturbed the sleep of large number of passengers on this line," said the superintendent Let ters have come to me from travelling men who ride on your train, and they say that when you announce station at night your voice not only wakes them, but scares them and knocks them out of a proper frame of mind to do business the next day. Here after, MT Hayes, when calling out sta tions l wish you would not try to dis place the window panes or experiment with sound vibrations on the bell rope.
 But it seems that MT. Hayes is a walking library for volumes and vol umes of stentorian noise. It couldn't De 6uDDT6SSGQ, anu d6 AC A1Q AO lAAIO to attend a ball game and let out steam on the bleachers, he had to re- sume his old habit of standing at one end of a yellow car and closing the floor at the opposite end by sheer force of his low register. Also he would cough when impelled by the platform draft, and the stovepipe would col lapse with dangling noise. For a time the gentle batter of cinders would be stilled and the volatile dents in the water cooler would take up the echoes. At least, that was the descrip- ton given by the sleep-eager passen- gers who signed a petition which was sent to the big chief at Omaha ere another month had passed.
 The railroad officials were deeply puzzled by the case of Conductor Hayes, who had proved himself relia- ble and efficient in every other way Some one suggested putting him on day run, where people sleep at their own risk. or at the mercy of the train butcher.
 In the meantime the hilarious story of Conductor Hayes and the sleepy drummers found it's way to Chicago and Conductor Hayes was ordered to report here He came wondering and promptly he was set to work learn ing the list of train departures. Then when the new station was opened. like an admiral on the porch of bat tleship, he stood in his high balcony and began his interminable recita- tions in earnest. For day or so he wrestled with echoes and acoustic snares, but now he has mastered the problem of resonance in the great sta tion-
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orIqin of Uncut.

The seashore book shop was crowd ed. Best sellers at $1.15. SIPS and even $1.50 were going like hot cakes. The proprietor. pushing through e throng of pretty girls in white. said joyously:
 We don't need to handle uncuts in this glorious country of ours. Why actually. I've just had to wire to New York for two extra salesmen"
 But what has that got to do with the uncuts?" the reporter inquired.
 "Uncuts." said the dealer, "are books with uncut edges. They orig. mated in Scotland. In Scotland. in the past. a man would enter your shop today. read a chapter of some book or other and saunter out with out buying anything. Tomorrow he would read another chapter gratis, and by the end of the month he would Lave finished the volume and be well into another.
 Hence the Scottish publishers and booksellers hit on the uncut, which you can't read without buying"
 The dealer helped a pretty girl to stow in her limousine a stack of best sellers.
 But thank fortune" he said. we don't need uncuts here"
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MAN ISA MEGAPHONE
Railroad Caruso With a Cyclone
 in Either Lung.
Clyde Hayes, Who Calls the Trains in chicago's Big Northwestern Sta tion, Has a Voice Like
 Foghorn.

Chicago.-CIyde B. Hayes is the rail road Caruso. Every day from 3:3O D. m to Il he proclaims the departure of more trains than any other station caller. His concert platform is of all steel construction and it is located way up near the splendid ceiling of the new Northwestern railroad sta ton.
 Thirty thousand people each day lend appreciative ears as he skylarks the suburban schedule on the Milwau kee and Galena divisions, plus enough overland trains to keep Chicago and the Pacific coast bound in close fel- lowship Presidents of the United States, boy orators, world famous evangelists, divinities of grand opera, baseball umpires-none of these ever had the constant opportunities of Train Announcer Hayes to enlighten and electrify a listening multitude.
 Passing swiftly over the poor boy and burning ambition section of his life, we find Hayes in full charge of a night accommodation train in Nebras- ka. Yes, until recently he was a rail- road conductor, and was treading the threadbare aisle of a Nebraska ac- .commodation, occasionally unlocking a brightly nickled lantern from his left elbow and dropping of into the night to wigwag the engineer.
 One day the division superintendent of the Northwestern line at Omaha summoned young Conductor Hayes in to his grim presence.
 Are you aware, MT. Hayes, that YOU have been turned in number of
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There are many marvc us stories of the indestructibility I Luz, and the bone has been located by rival claim ants to the honor of discovering it in various parts of the human skeleton.
 The most careful searching in the last published and amplest treatise on osteoIogy will not result in the dis covery of the bone called Luz," says a writer in the Lancet. "It will be necessary to go to the Frankfort edi- tion of the 'Theatrum Anatomicum' of Caspar Bauhinus (1621) for descrip- ton: Tt is stated by Hebrew writers to be a bone which cannot be de- stroyed by fire, water or any other element, nor be broken or bruised by any force. It's site Is in the spine from the eighteenth vertebra to the femur.
 We read that the Emperor Had rian once asked Rabbi Joshua, the son of Channi, how God would resur- rect man in the world to come. He made answer: Prom the bone Luz in the spinal column" When Had rian asked him how he came by this knowledge and how he could prove it, the Rabbi Joshua produced the bone so that the emperor could see it. When placed in water it could not be softened: it was not destroyed by fire, nor could 1t be ground by any weight; when placed on an anvil and struck with a hammer the anvil was broken in sunder, but the bone re- mained intact Hieronymus Magius represents that, according to the Talmudists, the real bone is near the base of the skull, whether 1t be in the base itself or in the spine. Vesalius writes that this ossicle is described by the Arabs as resembling chick pea in size and shape, and Cornelius Agrippa describes 1t as magnitudine ciceris mundati (the size of sheIled peal. Different anatomists have held 1t variously to be the sacrum, the coccyx, the twelfth dorsal vertebra. one of the Wormian bones in the skull. and one of the sesamoids of the great toe"
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is a stream thirty-five feet wide, and in the spring and early summer when the snow Is melting upon the high Sierra its roar can be heard all over the valley, and the shock of the de- scent rattles the windows a mile away.
 This fall is conceded by all critics to be one of the most wonderful and beautiful cascades in the world. Its first fall is about 1,600 feet sheer drop, then come a series of cascades partly hidden in which the fall is over 600 feet, and finally a vertical drop of 400 feet.
 From the cliffs surrounding the val ley the scene is one of remarkable O fthe traveller lies the valley floor the green trees and meadows and the winding river giving the effect of a rich velvet carpet over which a line of silver has been drawn; here and there one gets glimpses of the foam ing white waters hurling themselves to the valley below; on both sides of the valley rise the great walls of rock, sculptured by the elements into val AOuo AdAldSSAS oAopCS anu A6OA CS-
 Trees Twenty Centuries Old.
 In the Yosemite the Sequoia and the General Grant National parks are found the groves of big trees the like of which are seen nowhere else in the world. These trees grow to height of $40 feet and have circumference of over 100 feet at the base, the bark sometimes exceeding 40 inches in thickness.
 The rings in the trunks of these trees show that many of them are over 2,000 years old. Cathedrals and castles have been built and fallen into
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decay, empires have come and gone but these grizzly giants of the western slopes still raise their hoary heads and spread their grateful shade as they did in the days of the Caesars.
 The largest glacial system in the world radiating from any single peak is situated on Mount Rainier in west ern Washington. The Mount Rainier National Park includes the mass of this great mountain and all the ap- brooches to it.
 The Crater Lake National Park in Oregon has within its borders a lake that is unique among the natural wonders of the world. This lake, into which no streams flow and which has no visible outlet, lies in what is left to the caldera of a great mountain that rose to an elevation of over 14,- 900 feet above the sea
 It is almost forty years since con gress laid the beginning of the great national park system by passing the act creating the Yellowstone National Park. approved March 1, 1872. Other parks have been created since. until at present the area embraced in these pleasure grounds of the people amounts to over 100000 acres.
 The policy of establishing national parks has resulted in preserving from private exploitation and gain great areas which are characterized by mag nificent scenery and which are used as vacation resorts by thousands of people.
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EARLY CAREER OF NoRDIcA Gilmore Told Her She Would 5s Crowned Queen of Song
 In America.

In the first series of articles de scribing the girlhood of great singers, the Woman's Home Companion tells of Mime. Nor6ica's experience with Mime. Tietjens, the dramatic soprano. It was in Boston, where Lillian Norton (that being Nordica's real name) was tben studying.
 Mme. Tiejens, who had come to the city to sing in opera, sent message to the conservatory asking to hear any student with unusual voice and talent Nordica was sent in responseI her mother going with her. The visit was made on a matinee day and the prima donna to spare herself deputed her sister to receive them.
 Though regretting lost opportunity the aspirant started to sing. Before she had got very far a door opened softly, then was thrown wide and Tietjens entered In her enthusiasm she took the accompanies place at the piano.
 Work ahead and you will be great" she said simply. Being warm hearted, she added: When you come to Lon don I will help you" That friendly offer was unfortunately never real ized, for Mme Tietjens died not long after.
 While they were talking a. little old lady came in, harpist at that time in the orchestra Mme. Maret- zek, widow of the impresario. She had been a prima donna Her interest took a practical turn. Come to me on Staten Island next summer she gen. erously offered. and I will coach you in your roles
 That summer Nordica studied 20 roles In the autumn she came out in concert in New York with Brignoli and in the early spring following was fairly launched on her career as solo fist with Gilmore's band, an organiza- ton ranking with Sousa's The test was strenuous for one so young often two concerts a day and arduous travel. for they toured the whole country.
 Gilmore, with his warm, Irish heart. recognizing her gifts as well as her pluck. once exclaimed: You will yet be crowned Queen of Song in your own country. Years later Mime. Nor dica recalled his words when a dia- mond tiara from American admirers was passed over the footlights to her at the Metropolitan Opera house in New York"
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Human Endurance.

No test of human endurance from the physical standpoint can compare in severity with that imposed upon the workers in the steel and iron mills of the Pittsburg district, de- clares a writer in Current Literature. By a singular paradox an idea prevails among the workers themselves that these labors of theirs are healthful. The whole subject has just been in- vestigated with pains and thorough ness by the expert of the New York state department of labor, John A. Fitch, who finds the workers for the most part healthy, but he suspects that this excellent physical condition is due to the precautions taken by the men, and not to the capacity they possess for withstanding the terrific strain to which they are subjected daily. The severity of the strain It. self is due to the incredible heat, i'm posing, as 1t does, the most tremen- dous of all physical tests to which the human organism is subjected in any form of recognized human activ- fly. What MT. Fitch has to say on the subject is confirmed by the best medical opinion he was enabled to consult in the course of the long study of conditions made for the Rus sell Sage foundation. The heat has effects so marked that on a street car the men employed where the high temperature strikes their faces can be singled out because of their pc culiar complexion Sometimes their faces are red.
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meager, and 1t is only through oc- casional notes in medical and scien- tifc journals that one becomes ac- quainted with the effects of relative ly new methods of
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out from the pack of 52, the total possible nr lber of diff rent hands which may thus be dealt is greater than six hundred thousand million The exact number ie 635,O13, ,559 500.
 This number, however, large as 1t may appear, becomes not merely small but practically invisible when compared with the total number of arrangements in which the 52 cards may be placed after the shufle To quote the whole of this number would take too much space, but it may be mentioned that it begins with 80, fol- lowed by 66 other figures It would be quite a hopeless task to attempt to grasp the conception of the real meaning of such a number; but some idea Cat least of its inconceivability) may be presented by means of the following calculations.
 Let us suppose that two thousand millions of human beings leach sup piled with a pack of cards) were to attempt actually to produce every possible arrangement of the 52 cards
 It is further to be supposed that they work ceaselessly, without rest day or night. from years end to years end, at the rate of one new ar rangement per second for each per son during a period of 100000 years. It should be noted that the entire population of the earth today is esti- mated to be in the neighborhood of 1,600,000.000 The hypothesis from which we start Is therefore that a population of one-quarter more than that which now exists has spent its whole time during an interval more than 50 times the duration of the Christian era in shuffiing cards at the rate of one shuttle per second. or more than thirty-one million shufles In each year per head. In view of such figures, the reader may well ask how many times the total number of arrangements will have been pro duced by this vast amount of sus- tained human effort The answer Is not once.
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Book of Ceremonial Magic" and re- veal amazing credulity on the part of some of our forefathers and foremoth- CTS, who took more stock in witch craft than we are supposed to do in this enlightened age
 For instance, here is a recipe for making yourself invisible. Just imagine how valuable the gift of in- visibility would be today if this recipe was any good and could be made use of
 Begin this operation on a Wednes- day before the sun rises, being fur nished with seven black beans. Take next the head of a dead man; place one of the beans in his mouth, two in his eyes and two in his ears Then make upon the head the character of the figure which here follows (omit- ted.) This done, inter the head with the face toward Heaven, and every day before sunrise, for the space of nine days. water it with excellent brandy.
 "On the eighth day you will find the cited spirit. who will say unto you: What doest thoT?' You shall reply. I am watering my plant He will then say, Give me that bottle; will water 1t myself You will an- swer by refusing, and he will again ask you; but you will persist in de- clining, until he shall stretch forth his hand and show you the same fig ure which you have traced upon the head suspended from the tips of his fingers.
 Tn this case you may be assured that 1t is really the spirit of the head. because another might take you un- awares. which would bring you evil, and, further, your operation would be unfruitful. When you have given him your phial he will water the head and depart. On the morrow, which is the ninth day. you shall return and shall find your beans ripe. Take them, place one in your mouth, anl then look at yourself in a glass If you cannot see yourself it is good Do the same with the rest, or they may be tested in the mouth of child''
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time to time in ef- forts to identify the bone Luz, said by ancient He brew writers to be the nucleus from which the body is
 reconstructed at the resurrection.
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Prompt Restitution.

Timid Young Thing-What would you do if a man stole kiss from you?
 Experienced Flirt-Make him give 1t back.
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Juvenile Activities.

Father" said the small boy. what is a prodigy7"
 "A prodigy, my son, is a boy who can be persuaded to get his mind on the third dimension instead of trying to ret his feet on third hasa"
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At an Afternoon Tea.

That fellow is evidently a poet" I've sen him at a good many teas, but I never heard him recite any poetry"
 Maybe not; but look at him eat"
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LOCATING THE BONE "LUz"
ossleIe From Which Body Is Recon structed, According to the Ancient
 Hebrew Writers.

Much scholarship and anatomical knowledge has been employed from
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binations it is possible to make ith the 52 cards
 of the pack. In a game like whist
 or bridge, where each player re- ceives a hand of 1S cards, dealt
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AUTOMOBILE AS A REMEDY
Physicians Say It's Vibrations May Help In Cure of Vertigo and
 Paralysis.

The literature of automobiling in Itg relationship to disease is still very
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Ing IOrmuldS or ancient witch craft, charms,
 spells and mag ical cures from all kinds of rare old books and pa pers. These are being published uOdor tha tifla 0f
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MATHEMATICS 0F 52 CARDS Combinations That Are Possible With the Pack Run Into Figures of
 Astonishing Size.

Every card player probably has wondered at times how many com
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HOW lO ---~~.s INVISIBLE Ancient Recipe Tells the Method, but 1t Will Be Found Rather
 Complicated.

A. B. Haite, a compiler of liter ary curiosities. has been collect
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1911-09-08
AN AaTIoUATED GUN.
'El .camiIo," At West Po:a:, a R.lie of
sha f9av;r., Ala.

"El camilo," At West Point. R.lic Of
the Mexican War.
Among the old guns from past wars
on Trophy p0ini there is one that is
fondly remembered BY every graduate
Of the West Point Military aegd my.
! 1t is "El CamiIo" literally 'thecamei."
relic Of the Mexican war. but dating
far back Of that
This nntiquated piece Of erdnaree.
which is three parts silver and painted
a light green. bears it's uarse and the
royal coat Of arms cf s.min over an
inscription relatlng that 4 was the
property Of the regiment of the Go.den
Fleece. commissioned naeer Ferdinand
and Isabella at the time when colun
hns set ont on his famous. vogaHe TO
discover. a new world. II would be
interesting TO knew what the-span'ah
Grandees would have thought II they
could have foreseen that the very can
non which probably thundared god
speed to the explorer would one day be
captured by the raaoin milton Of the
undiscovered continent 30 which Co
lumhus was logad Tile ancient gun
was probably carried to Mexico as
part Of the armament Of Spanish
ship and many years later was pressed
into service IN the Mesican army,
where the "Sinevs Of war" were al
ways at premium It was taken
at Monterey by the Americans and
sent to West Point as the most appro.
pirate place for such an interesting
relic New York Press.