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•CLF-HELP FOR WOMtHb SOME, NEW INVENTIONS A^djus table t-art am Support. Two views are shown In the illus­ tration of a neat curtain support re­ cently pat entsd. Thr ft* "&ry IDocft Jfieded. The expense of docking ships in or* d«r to remove foreign growths from the hails is considerable, besides tie time necessary to go from a station to Hie4 dock and back again, and to re­ move the barnacles and other sub- •Unccfi without the necessity of dock- rtng Is the purpose of the scraping ap­ paratus illustrated in the cut. It has >een patented by Major A. and Asa L. Stump, of Normantown, W. Va. The apparatus consists of several scrapers of the pattern shown, suspended on cables fiom the rail of the vessel by means of rolling hangers. Provision is made for taking up the slack of the suspension cable as the leaners are pulled lengthwise of the hull by the m&in cable, which Is wound ap on a drum located on the deck of the ves­ sel. The scrapers comprise heavy EEf: fMhk F m B EEf: 1 Y . -sr.'X EEf: !|P§P ife'i APPARATUS FOR CLEANING HULLS OF VESSELS, wooden blocks, with steel abrading biades at the rear, and the inventors claim that these blades will remove the barnacles as well when the ship is afloat as can be done in dry dock, without the loss of time necessary by the latter method, the ship maintain­ ing her course throughout the opera­ tion. Co Find Lort Ships* ' finding lost ships at sea is a tedious piece of work, even when the position of the vessel is partially known, and our illustration shows a device intend­ ed to facilitate the search as much as possible. With its aid the search can be thoroughly made over the ocean bed, either one ship or two being used for the work. If oily one ship is at hand the cable is anchored at one end and the ship sweeps around the buoy above the anchor with the free end of the cable; or if two ships are in uss the cable Is swept across the ocean bed In parallel lines.» Near the wreck in the picture the cable is shown divided for the insertion of a reel, on which a portion of the cable is wound. The tension of the cable is not sufficient to unwind the portion on the reel when dragging freely along, hut as soon as an obstruction Is met the un­ winding of the cable from the reel pre- APPARATUS FOR LOCATING SUNK­ EN VESSELS. vents the sudden alteration of the ves­ sel's course until the source of the obstruction can be determined. If it ib other than the lost ship the ves­ sels can continue. In their line of search without neglecting any of the ground, as might be the case if the aonroe \pas suddenly altered by the tightening of a single length of cable. <^#000 o r d l n a r j manner oj a 11 a c hin? the lace cur t2ln do;s no permit then to be adjust ed rezdil when it bt comes nec e s s a r y t< c l e a n t h • window or to push the curtains back to al­ low more light to enter the room. Then, too. they soon be­ come soiled from frequent handling while being adjusted, which also tends to wear them out more, rapidly. All these objections seem to be overcome by the lazy-tongs arrangement in this invention, the frame being shown in the upper portion of the cut and the mounted curtain below. The disc car­ rying each frame is mounted on the verticle shank of a bracket, which Is screwed to the window frame, allow­ ing the curtain to be swung out from the window or around against the wall when desired. A pull on one of the cords concealed behind the curtain opens or closes the frame to adjust the curtain across the window or fpld it back against the side, it being necessary to touch the curtain wil the hand to move it in either dij tion. . JEJectrtc Ftarming. The up-to-date farmers with a large acreage finds it slow\work to plow his fields with the old single plows of the past, and so he utilizes the electric current and multiplies the number of plowshares to suit himself. In the West this is practically a necessity, on account of the large size of the fields and the cost Oi labor and teams. Our I ELECTRICALLY OPERATED PLOW, illustration shows a convenient form of motor plow which has been de­ signed by an inventor in Friedrichs- burg, Germany. It consists of two electric motors operating winding drums on separate carriages, which may be placed at any required distance apart, only one motor being connect- ea with the main feed wire. To sup­ ply power to the second motor a feed cable lying parallel with the traction cable is readjusted at every trip of the plow to follow the latter down the field. The mechanism is so adjusted that when once set in motion the ap­ paratus practically operates itse'f, moving the carriages forward at the beginning of each trip to bring the plowshares in position for the next row of farrows. ir f . Lift Sax)in# 'Buoy. novel and extremely simple life- saving device has been invented by IL George Broussel. It is a sort of automatic folding buoy, and is Conned merely of two boards of wood, which are joined together in the cen­ ter. In ordinary weather it can be used as a seat on board a vessel, and when there is danger of shipwreck it can be instantaneously turned into a Ufe-saving buoy. Many experiments have already been made with it and they show that it can do effective work • veil in a storm as in a calm sea. Improved Fruit Jar. This Invention is intended to pro­ vide a fruit Jar which can be sealed so tightly that the danger of fermenta­ tion is re­ duced to a m 1 n i m urn and at the same time make it a c o , m p a r a - tively easy -ask to open tbe Jar when the contents are wanted. It is a woman's inven­ tion, the patent having lately been granted. The Jar proper Is similar to those now in use, except that it has a series of studs -or projections ar­ ranged around the edge of the top, and the outer edge of the fastening ring is provided with a similar row «f studs. Two wrenches of band steel, of small cost, are also pro­ vided. WlM An X*r-v»wr feliupt* Mmtm. When you are aBleep, It is to be hoped that you are still. Few people are when they are awake. If one ob­ serves the crowd In the streets, it is curious and most disagreeable to aes how Bmall the number is who are not constantly making gt lmaces and work­ ing their faces or jaws in 6ome man­ ner. I have heard it said it was bash- fulness that caused this, but it has not been my observation that bashfulnesd was so widedly distributed an Ameri­ can trait; besides, how does twisting the face help to beep one in counte­ nance? No, It.is not bashfulness; it la misdirected nervous energy, which ought u> be aiding the movementa of their legs or getting stored up some­ where in the central nervous reser­ voirs for future use. Learn to keep still when you rest; when you move, move with the part of the body need­ ed; do not waste your force by walk­ ing with your arms and face as well, as with your legs. If circumstances force an unusual and fatiguing amount of exertion upon you, break it now and then by periods of absolute rest. No matter how brief they are, they will be useful if you maae them com­ plete and perfect in the way described. This is true of mental as well as bod­ ily exertion. A minute or two minutes of quiet, with closed eyes if possible, with your tension relaxed and the gearing of the machinery thrown off for the moment, will help and refresh you greatly. Here, again, more may be gained If the ability to relax mentally can be secured, in a fashion similar to the withdrawing of muscular tension. Learn to empty your mind when not$ using it--Dr. John Mitchell in Ha** per'a Bazar. DS MORSS WIRE FENC*. Ibrvdt TalU We* ten or H«*ll Sboot ItMl M 8rcond Ollwiti When the Marquis de Mores took possession of his 20,000 acres in the Bad Lands he proceeded to put up barbed wire fences says O. W. Ogden in Everybody's Magazine. One of the first to meet this innovation in the Bad Lands was a hunter named Frank O'Donnell. He was heading in for the river one day and almost fell from his horse in astonishment when he saw the new fence. So great was his sur­ prise he could not call to his mind ap­ propriate oaths. He cut the wire and rode on toward Medora in silence. They told him there who was respon­ sible for the breach of Bad Lands eti­ quette and he called on the marquis. "Say, pardner, what in the do you mean by putting up that fence?" he demanded, with an injured air. De Mores replied that he was merely fenc­ ing his own property, as was custom­ ary In civilized lands. "Well, I Just cut a gap in the blankety-blank thing up yonder on the hill," said the hun­ ter defiantly; "that's the way I'll treat your fence whenever it comes in my way." "The next time you cut my fence," De Mores said, without chang­ ing color or showing the least sign of an?er, "I'll shoot you on sight" O'Don- nell'B jaw fell, and he looked in amaze­ ment from one to another of the men who stood around. Then he mounted hla horse and rode away. , New South Wales has 15,000 miles of w V* W?, , Combined Belt and Brctc*** From far-off New Zealand comes the combination shown in the illustra­ tion, that a pair of suspenders which can be quickly altered to a belt when the wearer desires to change from one to the other. The Inventors state that the device is particular 1 j adapted fo use by ath­ letes,' crick­ eters, boat­ ing men and football play­ ers, and also for wo. king- m e n w h o uss a belt w h i l e a t work. Any of these per­ s o n s w h o p refer the suspe ndei for ordinary wear and the belt for spv cial work will appreciate the merits o.' a combination which will supply both at a cost of little more than that of either article alone. A glance at the Illustration shows the manner of mak­ ing the change, the braces being pivot­ ed at the back to allow alignment. Success After 'Death. Edouard' Lalo, whose opera, "Le Roi d'Ys," was produced recently Lp don, long experi­ enced "the hope deferred" that is often fatal to the continuance of ar­ tistic effort The score was complet­ ed fifteen years before the initial performance, not at the grand opera in Par's, for which originally it had been commis­ sioned, but at the Opera Comlque on May 7, 1S88, when Mdlle. Deschamps, Mdlle. Simonnet, M. Talazac and M. Bouvet were the principals. Less than four years later Lalo died, cheered by the knowledge that the work from which midway in life he had hoped so much had been favorably received. Hitherto Laio's best known work been the "Rhapsodic Espagnoie" he composed for Sarasate. Express trains in Russia do noi run over 22 miles an hour. •tarty Whtt Von Mo<t ^ Scientists now acknowledge that education has moat effect upon medl? ocre minds. It can do a great deal with them, less for those who are de­ fective, and still less for those highly endowed; for talented persons, even though they may receive all the usual courses of Intellectual training, usually educate themselves, says the Woman's •Home Companion. They gain their most valuable education through the exercise of their strongest faculties. Work is their tutor and solf-directlon their co'lege. Parents and tutors need to have a care that their efforts to be helpful to children do not Interfere with the nat­ ural development of their faculties. This Is sometimes done through not recognizing their spec'al.abiliti-s, quite frequently from a wish to fix their des­ tinies In accordance with some conven­ tional standard. We should study the individuality of our child from his birth, so that we may avoid a waste­ ful employment of his energies in pur­ suits that are a1 ten to hia disposition and foreign to his needs. Unasphan* Ama«M Tn'kt«h T>«4lt% 1 he gramophone is a great source of pleasure to Turkish ladles. For some years It was strictly forbidden; now nearly every house Is provided witih one, and the tadies sit around and roar with laughter every night at Its pro­ ductions. Nearly all are fitted with cylinders giving Turkish songs and stories. If the ladies w.*h their gramophones would only stop at home no one would object; but what they delight in la to get into a boat with their friends and float slowly down the Bosporus, with the gramophone shrieking In the middle. The Bos­ porus on a moonlignt night ii the most romantic place imaginable. Sitting oA a balcony overhanging the water, with no sounds but the soft lapplnlg of the waves and the unceasing songs of the nightingales which swarm all along the shore, one gets lost in all sorts of Imagination^, and lt Is too bad when a boat suddenly t̂rifts close by with a gramophone sqireaking out "Daiiy" something equal lytncongruousfc . Evelyn B. Baldwin; m American explorer, has sailed from Christiana and hopes to plant the flag of our country at the north pole before this time next year. The explorer expressed confidence that the American energy and money enlisted in the enterprise and the novel methods brought to its aid would bring success to the efforts of himself and his associates. Three ves­ sels, well provisioned, a large com­ pany of scientists and everything in the way of equipment that experience could suggest make up the expedition, and all are now on the seas bound northward. Mr. Baldwin, on the steamer Amer­ ica, the flagship, will go first to Arch­ angel, where he will take on 425 dogs, fifteen Siberian ponies and six Siberian dog trainers. Forty-two men in all accompany him on the America. This EVELVM BALDWIN is the first time that Siberian ponies have been used in arctic exploration. and the voyagers expect Important re- suits from the experiment. The America was preceded north- waitf by the two other vessels of the expedition, the Btfthjof and the Bel- •Je*. The America and Frithjof, which sailed together from Christiana, parted company at Honingsvaag, the Frithjof sailing direct for Frans Jo­ seph Land. The Belgica sailed for the east coast of Greenland to establish supply stations. From Archangel Mr. Baldwin «x- pects to skirt the northern coast of Norway to Vardoe, from where he will start within a few days to begin tn earnest hia dash for a new north. Chekib Bey, the new Turkish min­ ister to this country, is a keen-going sportsman and extensive breeder of thoroughbred horses, la 'which be takes a great interest. K California'^ JValtiral Sphinjc. * V* V. 1 -as One of the greatest freaks of nature has recently been discovered close to the Immense tunnel that Is nearing completion on the line of the South­ ern Pacific running along the bound­ ary line of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, says the San Francisco Call. Some workmen employed by the com­ pany discovered an Immense rock that Is a perfect image of a man's head. A photograph was taken of this freak of nature by one of the workmen who had a camera in his possession, and it was sent to Chief Engineer Hood, of the Southern Pacific. A reproduc­ tion of the picture accompanies this article. The photograph has been shown to numbers of scientists and globe-trotters, and they all claim that there la no other rock in existence that is such a perfect representation of a man's head. The rock will no doubt be looked upon in the future as one of the points of interest in California. Americans can now proudly claim that California has a sphinx that la just as imposing as that in far-away Egypt, and that the sphinx of California took a long time to be discovered, but that it is older than the Egyptian ! and was not made by man. ffaxJal Cadets LeaxJe 'Russia. The United States schoolghip Enter prise has sailed from St. Petersburg for Kiel. All hands were on deck waving good-by and cheering at the Russians on shore as the ship passed out of the harbor.. The officers, wil their boy charges from New Yori Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, ha) had a glorious time taking in the sights of the Russian capital. The En­ terprise, which is an old wooden ves­ sel, caused a sensation among the na­ tives who viewed it. They are accus­ tomed to the magnificent ironclads of the American navy and they could not comprehend what such an old-fash­ ioned vessel was doing In foreign waters. The schoolship after reach­ ing Kiel touches at Antwerp, Graves- end and Maderia. It will return to Boston, about the middle of October. A Russian admiral in speaking of the cruise ol the school said: "The rea­ son the Americans are great in peace as well as war is because they seeV en­ lightenment all over the world." The oldest person in Lehigh county, Pa., and the oldest practicing, physi­ cian in the state and probably in the United States, is Dr. Henry Helfrich, who celebrated his ninety-eighth birth­ day recently. He prescribed for several patients on that day who called at his office. He no longer makes profes­ sional calls, but has considerable prac­ tice. End of the *GZ)orld May "Result from Heat. This summer's excessive heat is ex­ plained by a Chicago scientist in a way calculated to give both chills and fever to that part of humanity which accepts his explanation. He asserts that the earth in its annual revolution about the sun is approaching nearer and nearer to that orb every summer and getting farther and farther away every winter. The ultimate result, he avers, will be that the inhabitants of this sphere will be alternately baked and frozen until no living being Is left Professor Ludwlg J. Marienburger, Ph. D., a graduate of the University of Berlin, who speaks ten languages, is the exponent of this startling theory. Some scientists have argued that eventually this earth would become a frozen mass; others that it would in the course of a few thousand years, be transformed Into an orbicular fur­ nace, which aln time would consume itself. Professor Marienburger says both of these contingencies are quite probable. The professor's Idea la that this globe, in its orbital revolutions, has "slipped a cog," and that it will con­ tinue to slip into ever changing orbita m m -- -- -- -- c a f c f c - n j ' _ "" 1 T~'"" L' V '. ' - He is of the opinion that the earth is approaching old age, becoming some­ what decrepit and "wobbly," and has not the amount of inherent magnetism to maintain itself in its proper chan­ nel. Solstices and the other demonstra­ tions showing that nearness to the sun does not make this mundane sphere hotter or colder do not bother Profes­ sor Marienburger. Sun spots and sim­ ilar phenomena are only incidental and can have little effect A Chicago University professor ridi­ cules the theory of Prof. Marienburger v*? .a- , »*"' ') <C Va SOLID LINE SHOWS THE PLANET'S PATH AND DOTS REPUTED VARIATIONS. • Wtoer* Oar EtiglUh Ii Faulty. A sound that is heard only to a lim­ ited extent in American speech is the sound of e in person, at I in girl, of o in word, of u in ^murder and of y in myrtle. Previous y to about fifteen years ago the sound was seldom beard from the lips of American actors. Now there are few of them that do-not make It properly. Five vowels, e, I, o, u and y In certain word3 have preciss- ly the same sound. This sound is easily learned, but it must be learned orally; It cannot be described to any practical purpose. The making of it is a very important matter if one would have one's utterance conform to refinv ed usage. The sound commonly heard trenches closely to the borderland Of ' the vulgar.--Harper's Magaslne. JCansas' Hot Spell. "Although the asphalt pavements of Washington are Inclined to get mellow*; and make frantic efforts to turn theS heat of the sun back into the air, they ' are at least safe from eruptions," re­ marked a Washington gentleman who* has been basking In the sunlight of Kansas City during the past heated spell. "The brick pavements of the Kansas town have done something un­ heard of. The continued terrific heat expanded the bricks, ad as the curb­ ing would not give, and the pressure became greater, the middle ot the street would suddenly spout up bricks like a volcano. This was an actual hap­ pening in several sections of the city. Bricks were thrown as high as ten feet in the air, and some went sideways with great force. That no one was hurt is probably due more to good for­ tune than 'to the heat that threw the brick.'" A Baby's Byes, The famous eagles which need to haunt the lakes of Killarney. making their home tn the Eagle's Nest moun­ tain. have been exterminated within the l**t three yearf. * v All eyes of gray are shrewd, they say. And eyes of green are always mean;$ While eyes of black cool judgment lack, Though eyes ot brown will #in re­ nown. . But give me-*for 1 tartr : they're true-- * * v. A baby's eyes of heavenly blue. * xj Ttmo Huge Ships. When the two enormous ships now being built for the Great Northern Railroad company are turned over to that company it will possess the two largest freight carrying steamships now afloat. Each of them is, nearly two and a half blocks long. If placed in the average city street one of these big ships would fill it so that there would barely be room for men to pass by, while the officers on the bridge of the ship would be able to look into the sixth or seventh story Windows of a skyscraper. For the first time a reigning sov­ ereign in England has become the pat­ ron of a Jewish institution. King Ed­ ward is the sovereign and the Jews' Hospital and Orphan asylum, Nor­ wood, of which Sir George Faudel Phillips Is the president, is the Insti­ tution. ' - . - The five largest cities of England, exclusive of London, are as follows: Liverpool, 684.947; Manchester. 64S,- 969; Birmingham. *** 1BOii Vt1h_488- 9M; Sheffield, 380,717. ' ^ Colombo ASfair. T*m the German government will way tbf «w*t Of Ah* . ^° on boarS tbe German steamer Allegheny at Cartagena, Colombia, la extremely improbable. The Colom­ bians may have erred in refusing tike Alleghany clearance merely because her captain refused voluntarily to de­ liver Murillo to them. Bat their r'ght to remove Murillo from the ehip is un­ questionable. The German consul's reported protest against hia removal fahd no legal basis. 'Murillo's theat­ rical performance in wrapping the German flag abotift hla body in no way altered the situation. The Alleghany was In a Colombian- port and while there was subject to that country's laws. A merchant ves­ sel so situated cannot afford a refuge to persons of her own nationality, much less to subjects of the country In whose waters she is. Great Britain has sometimes attempted to establish the principle that British ships are British territory wherever they are, but the United States settled that point with her in the war ot 1812. The United States has always maintained the right to do precisely what the Co­ lombians did. AmeHean police have often searched English and other for­ eign ships in our ports and arrested persons thereon, and have always be&ft- sustained by Washington. The uproar about Murillo's arrest proceeds from his fellow passengers. One of these, and apparently the wri­ ter of the statement they gave to the press is an Englishman. His animus Is disclosed by the last sentence of the statement, declaring it "safer to take' a steamship covered by the ever-re­ spected union jack." Anxiety to make a point against Germany^ and in favor of England appears to have inspired this Briton's effort to convince the public that the German flag was 'in­ sulted" by Murillo's arrest The Murillo incident would probably have attracted no special attention were not the impression somewhat general that Germany greatly desires to obtain some political foothold-la South America, and hence is likely to seize upon almost any small pretext to make such an attempt Whatever may be the German government's desires In that direction is not material. The Monroe doctrine is a barrier to any such aims, and both the interests and the safety of the United States demand that the Monroe doctrine be strictly enforced. It will be enforced, against Germany or any other power attempt- ins ft* violate it . -v • ' 'j- " " Ejeiled L.adybu$s. " ,/ hugland Is up in arms ovgrffat ncoment that 20,000 ladybugs are captured in the Berkshire hills, in cases, and given first-class to Cape Colony, where they will d'* patrol duty in driving out some other bugs and Insects which are not so desirable. William Beutenmuller of llie Museum of Natural History de­ clared that it was a shame to take tho ladybugs away, because we cannot spare 20,000 of them. Besides, he thinks the trip will prove too long tor them, and that before they arrive there the greater part will have died. The Boers have great faith in the lady- bugs, dbd think if they once get start­ ed th<fe they will end the boer war* oust Cecil Rhodes, and probably deter­ mine who struck Billy Patterson. Mr. Beutenmuller says the United States borrowed a bunch of them from Ans> tralia a few years ago, which were turned loose in California, and were largeiy responsible for the develop­ ment of that gloriqus state.--Chicago Journal. I I t'tt' * i fit C: \fnton of Christendom. & t Prof. Charles A. Briggs of UnfWS :« ̂ Seminary, one of the American dele- J ; gates at the ninth jubilee "of the Unl- ̂ versity of Glasgow, preached "in Bel­ mont Established church in Scotland on a recent Sunday afternoon to a fairly large congregation. His sub­ ject was "The Unity of the Christian ./$ Church." Dr. Briggs said that he had ? " worshiped recently at St. Peter's In Rome, and more recently still in Dur- ham cathedral, and that aay he wor- " shlped in a Scotch Presbyterian > church. In all three the worship was /> whole-hearted and sincere. All tho types of the church presupposed unity. M The wonderful thing to an American was that the Scottish churches could keep from rusning into each other's •••'•• arms. • ' B*b»are of Ptoonligk§. Doctors have provided the women with another source of worry. A phy« sician claims to have discovered that $the sun, in all .his glory, is not as fatal to complexions as bright moon­ light As might have been expected, it was a Frenchman who made the dis­ covery. Haroly had he announced tt before shopkeepers had on exhibition cute little moonshades of double t̂hickness of mousseline de sole, which in Paris are now considered indis­ pensable at moonlight parties. ^ & »» 'Siht. A queer will case has just been iP cided by the courts in Minnesota. Tho witnesses stepped through a doorway Into the adjoining room and affixed their signatures at a table about ten feet from the testator, just out of his sight, but while he was seated on the side of his bed and could have seen them by stepping forward two or three feet. The attestation and subscrip­ tion of the will under these circum­ stances are sustained. - Among the ceremonies which likely be abolished at the coronation of King Edward Is the kissing of the king by each peer. William IV. wished to get rid of this ceremonial Is 1831, but ultimately he was obliged to submit, and was even kissed by the archl is' ops and bishops, a part of the affair to which he had strongly and .specially objected. The average distance traveled hf British locomotive engine drivers Is from 30,000 to 50,COO miles every year. There are about 2#,0M drivers jbk^o United Kingdom. ^1. ' '3sv. t..L,Jsift . *. . .±L.jdT.. • - 'ICSx' .j- - : ' J •» t . • A ,',v ,t Wi A J S ^ -f V! p..-. Vv, V. .Jfit 1.1 v*. Mi i tw, . ijU \ & . tt A ; M-'aw i-fcs ;< •