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Pfjt' & '" 41 % ii 31 "? * .Ylf* « >VV."' C - '- * ' f- *J "f??: %:,.: *&u:.< :RUNA Christmas Presents. MADE OF NUTSHELLS APPROPRIATE FOR A MAN. « *' tlTTLf GIFTS THAT WILL BE \ CONSIDERED REAL NOV- L V 1 ELTIE8. f\ Hard to Mlkl\* fc»y 9,, Would Seem--Unique Chinese \ Figures for Calendars--An i#!?! American Indian. jH • Hidden away In a nutshell are end- "' less possibilities for pleasing Christ­ mas remembrances, and those- en- * dowed with the fairy gift of imagina- ; ' i tlon may spend a pleasant hour in dis- i covering what cunning little contri- , Winces may be fashioned with the •3d of a handful of nuts of different Species. - One of the newest calendars for 1907 is decorated^ with a pair of Chi- fcese figures. It Is one of the"tear- J off" variety, and the bulky little pack* •t of days is fastened In the right-hand top corner of a narrow, upright card;, measuring 12 inches by five Inches, neatly covered with art paper of a dark shade. This represents a box- kite, and is ornamented, with silver tis- ° :*sne and devices cut out of tinsel. A gold cord depends from it, to which clings a terrified boy, who Is evidently being borne rapidly aloft, in spite of. Laundry Bag That May' Be Eaeily Made from a Handkerchief. A gift that almost every man will appreciate is a laundry bag for soiled handkerchiefs is suitably made from a large handkerchief, men's size being preferable. Select one with a pretty design in color, and fold it wrong side out, so opposite hems meet Along this edge overhand for a length of about eight inches, to make the* lower part of the bag* Then leave five inches 4. R. GARFIELD WILL SUCCEED AS SECRETARY OF INTERIOR. MOODY WILL BE JUSTICE £ A Chinese Calendar. strenuous efforts of his companion to recall him to earth by tugging at bis long black silk queue. The heads of these small people are formed of Half walnuts, with the features care-; tally painted. Their attire is cut out? at satin and brocade, and gummed on.- It is a good plan to paste white paper oia to the back of the scraps of ma­ terial made use of, sketch the shape Of the tunic and trousers on this, and then cut them out with sharp scissors, Allowing a little margin for the over­ lapping of the various parts. Tiny Sands can be cut Out of yellow brown paper, and shoes look best made of black velvet A strip of green paper represents ground on which the lower! figure is standing. The words "Cal~ endar for 1907" are painted in gold down one side. A Red Indian is a new and effective design. Seated before his wigwam, smoking the "pipe of peace," he ap­ pears a very picturesque personage indeed, in his scarlet blanket, edged 'With white borders, painted with In­ dian devices, over which fall his heavy plaits of black hair, interwoven with strands of silk and chains of colored beads. The hand grasping the quill Laundry Bag. unsewed to form an opening, and over­ hand the rest of the edge. Now ad­ just the handkerchief so this seam will be In center of the folded oblong, which will appear bag-shaped. Over­ hand the bottom edges. Turn the bag right side out. Two and a half inches from the top make a runway, and in­ sert a dress-bone seven inches long, shirring the bag slightly on this. Place ribbon for hanging the bows according to cut. President Announces Appointment of Attorney General to.the Supreme Bench te Succeed Justice Henry Billings Brown* Washington. -- Secretary ̂ df l the Interibr Ethan Allen Hitchcock will retire from President Roosevelt's cabinet on the 4th of next March, and James R. Garfield, of Ohio, at present commissioner of corporations, Tjrill succeed him. Herbert Knox Smith, now assistant commissioner of cor­ porations, will be appointed to Mr. Garfield's place. 'These changes and that of^he retirement of Commission­ er Richards of the general land office on March 4 were announced in the following statement from the White House Wednesday: v-: \ The secretary of the interior, Mt. Hitchcock, has informed the president that he would be unable to stay after March 4. Mr. Hitchcock has for some time felt that the very exhausting work he has been engaged in for over eight years in the Interior department was wearing on him so as to make it impossible for him much longer to remain. At the president's earnest request he consented to accept a re­ appointment oh March 4, 1905, at the time of the president's inauguration. CONVENIENT NEEDLE BOOK. lit Is Suitable for a Christmas Prsf- • ent snd Is Easily Made. v < it nice needle book can be made by taking two circles of stiff cardboard. Put on an inner ring and cut out the center, leaving a margin about an inch or an inch and a quarter all , Wrap this with bright .$(% \ . >1 >«f An Indian Memoran lum Tablet. ' #pe, and also the mocassins peeping' / beneath his fringed leather leggings, •re foamed of monkey nuts. His in­ scrutable countenance is composed of ft walnut shell, behind which is a head dress of feathers and melon seeds. A brown paper foundation must be cut out for a draped figure of this descrip­ tion, to which the cqstume is secured ; by a few stitches, the feather? being fummed in place. The little model oan then be mounted bodily on any background. He looks uncommonly Well on a large card, covered with brown paper, to which is secured a memorandum tablet and pencil. If .this is suspended by narrow strips of leather with beaded tassels, and a few touches added in water colors to sug- ^ftpxopriate background. A. M. NADIN. "p* v. Needle Book. £ 'V ored raffia and in the opening fasten four strips of raffia across one an­ other and weave in and out like a cobweb to fill up about a quarter of the opening. Do both circles alike, and sew them together at the top, first putting between them several layers of nicely pinked white "flannel to bold the needles. SHAVING CASE FOR PATH Id. The Bmall Son Can Maks Ittor • Christmas Present. Pretty shaving cases for father can be made in the same way. Tie a num­ ber of sheets of the shaving paper to a stiff outer cover made of colored cardboard. Gut two boles witter# V;'l ¥6R SOUVENIR POSTAJ-8. Dainty Novelty a Friend Will Appre­ ciate for s Christmas Present. The gradually Increasing number of ^postcards of all descriptions is b^ coming so great that there Is a con­ stant demand for a holder. A pretty V , A Shaving Tab. punch about an inch from the top and fasten it to thfr paper with a ribbon bow and hangers. Decorate the cover with an illustration and put under­ neath in neat letters: "A clean shave for father," or "When your razor cleaned must X*>, Simply pull a leaf from me." "1 HAN DY BAG FOR WJ^ONti A bag for buttons can bWmade from the top of a long black kid glove (the shiny glace kid is best). Cut two pieces the shape of the picture, and little holder is made of gray linen "shaped like a bag, the edges all being joined except the upper ones. To the edges are sewed two pieces of are brought together two ribbon, which and bowed. A spray of holly and the words "Souvenir Postals" are embroidered ^fl^Oase^^- • ABBA MAY. mm* (S NIKE WORKMEN ARE DEM *] -- FLOORS OF NEW HO^EL STRUC­ TURE GIVE WAV. Disaster Due to Insecure Footing on Oessn front Which Weakpns^ , the Whole Mass. Long Beach, Cal.--With no warn­ ing, save the cries of the workmen who first felt the floors sag beneath their feet, five stories of the central wing of the new $750,000 Bixby hotel collapsed at 9:35 Friday morning, car­ rying nine men to death In the tons of tangled wreckage. About 160 ar­ tisans and laborers werd scattered through the structure at the moment it fell, and of these nearly 100 were carried down in the ruins. Five bodies have been taken from the mass of debris in the basement 'and one of the Injured died at the Long Beach hospital. Three other bodies have been lo­ cated in the ruins, making nine the total known dead. Thirteen men on the contractor's rolls are unaccounted for and nine injured are being cared for at the hospitals. None of the in­ jured will die. Following is a list of the dead: R. M. Perkins, concrete worker. Long Beach. Charlton Brashear, signal hill, near Long Beach. • . ; Bensenso, laborer. vrf Albeit Hartle, carpenter, ' gjipng Beach. « ' - • One unidentified body. .: J- .v- L. M. Phillips, No. 659 Maple ave­ nue, Los Angles, died of injuries. The missing: M. Johnson, E. Paz, P. Wanders, -- Jansen, A. D. Deshaser, L. Lopez, M. J. Wilson, S. M. Norton, all labor­ ers; A. Long, Louis Zelker, C. John­ son, G. Butoch, carpenters; R. E. Cun­ ningham, plumber. The new hotel is built on the beach and stands facing the ocean. To this fact Contractor A. F. Spauldlng at­ tributes the disaster, claiming that the footings were insecure and weak­ ened the structure. John Austin, of the firm of Austin & Brown, architects for the b Ml fling, ascribes the disaster to the prema­ ture removal of the supports of the concrete work on the fifth floor, al­ leging that the cement had been given but three Instead of six weeks to "set." e Almost without exception, the men contend that the building fell from the top, carrying the lower floor with it. A MECHANICAL ICE HOU8B. J. R. Garfield. But he then stated lhat be could not say how long he could stay, and he feels now he must &slst on being re­ lieved after March 4. Declines Foreign Post. The president urged him to accept the ambassadorship to France, but Mr. Hitchcock feels that he Is entitled to absolute rest and was obliged to re­ fuse the offer. The president went carefully over with Mr. Hitchcock the choice of a successor who could be depended upon to carry on with ab­ solute fidelity the present policies of the department, and agreed with Mr. Hitchcock that the best man to carry on the exceedingly onerous, difficult and responsible work of the depart­ ment was Mr. James R. Garfield, at present commissioner of corporations. Mr. Garfield has accordingly been no­ tified that he will be appointed on March 4, when Mr. Hitchcock retires. Land Commissioner Resigns. Commissioner Richards has informed the president that in accordance with his intention, expressed to Secretary Hitchcock last May, he will resign, his resignation to be eeffctive March 4. This will complete eight years of service in the land office, four years as assistant commissioner, and four years as commissioner. His succes­ sor has not yet been determined upon. The assistant commissioner of cor­ porations, Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, will succeed Mr. Garfield as commis­ sioner of corporations. Mr. Smith has filled the position of assistant commissioner of corpora­ tions since August 15, 1903. He was appointed from Connecticut. Moody to Be 8upreme Justice. The president Wednesday an­ nounced the appointment of Attorney General William Henry Moody of Massachusetts as justice of the su­ preme court of the United States, to succeed Justice Henry Billings Brown, who retired some time ago.. Mr. Moody has filled the office of attorney general since July 1, 1904. Previous to that time he had served for more than two years as secretary of the navy. He had also represented his state in the fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fif­ ty-sixth and flfty-fteventh congresses. It is generally expected that Mr. Moody will retire from the depart­ ment of justice the latter part of De­ cember. Former Governor's Wife Dead. ^ St. Louis. -- Mrs. Esther A. St&n- ard, wife of former Gov. E. O. Stanard, died of neuralgia of the heart at her home here Wednesday. Mrs. Stanard was 73 years of age and although she had been ill for some time, bar death came unexpectedly* London Has a New Lord Mayor. London.--Sir William Treloar's term of office as lord mayor of Lon­ don was inaugurated Friday with the time-honored pageant, but the usual gaudy, symbolical cars were- eliminat­ ed from the procession. Prince Albert to* Rule Congo. Brussels.--Prince Albert of Fland­ ers, nephew of King Leopold, was Fri­ day officially declared the successor of the king as sovereign of the Congo Independent state. This puts^aa end to the "controversy. A Bag for Buttons. buttonhole them together with red silk. Put in a red ribbon for a draw­ string and you have a very pretty and useful present for mother or grand- Robbers Commit Murdift' Louisville.--Mrs. John Etley, wife of a factory employe and the mother of six children, was found in bed Thursday with her throat cut and skull fractured. Coroner Kelly believes the motive for .murder was robbery. Two Die in Train Wreck. Greenville, O.--Conductor James Wilson and Orin Risen, a trainman, were killed and three others Injured as a result of a collision between a freight and a wreck train on the Cin- Northern railroad at Rossburg. ,,A > ALLEGE FRAUD IN BOILER TUBES Federal Grand Jury Indicts Employes of Shelby Company. Pittsburg, Pa. -- Indictments Were returned by the federal grand jury in' this city Friday against J. Jay Dunn, Charles T. Close and Frank T. Emmett, officials and em­ ployes of the Shelby Steel Tube com­ pany, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the government in connec­ tion with the boiler tubes furnished for a number of battleships. There are 30 specific counts against the men and it is alleged the con­ spiracy was In operation over a period from 1892 to January 1, 1905. The In­ dictments »further assert that the de­ fective tubes were placed in boilers that were used on 12 war vessels, among them being the Louisiana, up­ on which President Roosevelt is now making his trip to Panama. MOTHER AND BABE3SUFFOCATE Firs In New York Tenement Proves j Fatal to Five. New York.--In a fire In an East Side five-story tenement house on Madison street Thursday night a wo­ man and her four children were suffo­ cated. The family, named Ginsberg, occup- pied apartments on an upper floor and their escape was cut off by the smoke and flames in the lower part of the building. More than 50 women were taken down the fire escapes by firemen. The fire in the lower floors had Allied the halls and stairways with smoke and cut off the means of escape. All of them "were taken down flre escapes and ladders by the firemen, who then searched the halls and upper apart­ ments: Mexicans Fire on RangsM* 1 Mexl Xaredo, gers sent to Rio Grande City to quiet turbulent political conditions there and investigate the assassina­ tion of District Judge Welch, which oocurred the night before the elec­ tion, were ambushed by a body of armed Mexicans between Fordyce and Rio Grande City late Thursday night. The rangers were asleep In camp when awakened by a volley of shots from the darkness. A pitched battle ensued and four of the attack­ ing party were killed, one fatally wounded and two captured.* The rangers escaped unscathed. Gov. Lanthan ordered a company of cavalry to Starr county, and a spe­ cial train is now carrying tlif txpops on a fast run. Banker Killed In Auto Wreck. Des Moines, la.--Henry Dewltt, as­ sistant cashier of the Bank of Sully, a small town east of here, was In­ stantly killed, and Frank Sherman, cashier, will probably die as the re­ sult of an automobile accident. King Edward 65 Years Old. London.--King Edward Friday cele­ brated his sixty-fifth birthday quietly at Sandrlngham Friday, surrounded by his family. He Is in excellent health. Many congratulatory mea- reached his majesty. Prohibit Gambling In Panama. Panama.--The national assembly Thursday unanimously approved a bill prohibiting gambling in the repub­ lic. It will now be signed by Presi­ dent Amador, and gambling on the Isthmus wUl become a thing of the past. ' American Voicsno Active.# Trinidad, Col. -- Mount Calebra, which is located 40 miles west of Trinidad, is reported in a state of eruption, smoke and vapor can bt seen issuing from the mountain. ^ 1 In Which One Solid Cake Pills the Building--Freezing by Natural Cold. The most remarkable ice house event was the freezing in the house itself of a single solid cake of ice the full size of the building. The only tools employed were some pieces of string and a garden hose. Cold weather and a water supply with at least moderate pressure are also es­ sential, but all out-door cutting, haul­ ing, and storing are avoided, and, as no sawdust is used, the Ice comes out clear and clean. Some three years ago a mechanical Ice house was patented, In which the water was frozen Inside the ice house by a very rapid process, which will be described later. In this process the labor of cutting and hauling is ob­ viated without the use of powerful Or expensive machinery. Pbpulair Me­ chanics suggests that this process has never bee^ carried further than the experimental stage, probably owing to the tact that the winter following its invention was the severest In 40 years, Lake Michigan being frozen from shore to shore at that time. The experiment, so far as conducted, n«.i • fit 3 Fi«.5 Fig. 2 fis'4 Pit 6 StacM ol fwHlw seems to have been successful, a large barn being filled with practically one solid cake of ice. The process of freezing ice in this way is as follows: A large ice/house is built with two of the opposite walls hinged, allowing them to be opened by folding up during cold weather, and closed during mildfr weather, thus preventing the ice frbm melting. To begin operations a number of strings are suspended from the raft­ ers at distances of two or three feet apart. The strings hang down and touch the floor, as shown in Fig. 1, and the first cold night they are sprayed with water, which forms large Icicles reaching from the floor • to the top, as shown in Fig. 2. A quantity of water is then flowed into the ice bouse, as shown in Fig. 3, and allowed to freeze. When the ice Is one inch thick the water is pumped from underneath it and flowed on top, as shown in Fig. 4. When the upper layer of water has frozen one inch the remaining water is again pumped above the ica, leav­ ing an Inch as before and adding enough extra water to compensate for the inch that is left each time. This makes three surfaces exposed to the weather, as shown in Fig. 5. This process Is continued until tbo Ice house is full, the lower part being soon filled, as shown in Fig. 6. To prevent the water from running off the edges, a wall of ice is formed by first stretching cheesecloth all around the edge and then spraying with water. The object of making the Icicles Is to support the large sheets of ice, which would be unable to hold the weight of the water withoqt the use of the ice columns. When the ice house is full, the walls are closed up tight until the Ice is wanted. A small door is then opened and the i$e Is mined out as wanted, the cracks between the layers greatly facilitating the operation of splitting it up into symmetrical pieces of uni­ form size. Electric Execution for Mosquitoes. An electric lamp inclosed in a pretty little cage formed of fine metallic chains almost touching each other, and held rigid by metallic rings above and below, is the very latest thing in lethal chambers. Its destined victim is the mosquito, says the London News. By this invention--recently explained to the savants of the Paris Academy by Mr. Chaulin--the insect is pleasant­ ly attracted to Its doom. An unseen alternating electric current passing through the chains does its business as it endeavors to Investigate j.hf tractive luminous object insidei, • : Experiments with Ties. An interesting experiment on a large scale is about to be made by the Pennsylvania lines, using screw spikes with the Thiollier special steel lining or sleeve. The purpose of the experiment is to determine the addi­ tional life which may be obtained Jrom ties of inferior wood, bar the use $f improved fastenings. , ^ PECULIAR RUPTURE,1 Probebie /Reason for Singular Holss In a Boiler's Flue. The accompanying photograph is of a short section of a flue taken from an old boiler, and shows two small boles which appear to have been made by some pressure from the in-; side of the flue, f. e., a pressure froml the direction opposite to that of the? normal steam pressure. Though the direction <Sf the rup­ ture is more distinctly apparent in this place than in any other, it is- only one of several similar holes in the same set of flues. The boiler was . . , .. A Peculiar Rupture. used-in connection with a two horse-, power engine, under a pressure of 60" to 80 pounds, and this set of flues has been in only a year. The pho­ tograph is of a part near the center of one of the latter. The only explanation of the pe- i culiar rupture which seems appli­ cable, says Scientific American, is that it must have occurred from the inward pressure of the air when the boiler had cooled sufficiently to form! a vacuum. The appearance would in­ dicate that the scale ha^l served to help withstand the steam pressure, while against that from the outside it offered little or no .resistance. ' The circumstances support this I theory as to the cause, in that the! boiler was last fired on a very cold evening, cooled off rather more quickly than usual, and was found the next morning, to leak freely. BED-TABLE FROM PfPE FITTINGS. A Convenient Article of Furniture for I the Sick Room. A bod-table will be found, a most convenient article for the sick room, or for those who wish to read in bed. The table may be made to hold the books or dishes, as the case may he, in any desired position without the slightest effort on the part of the patient or reader. In the sketch, which shows the as­ sembled table, A and H are one-half inch tees; B is a one-half inch pipe; C is a three-fourths by three-eighths inch cross; D is a three-eights inch tee used as a handle to tighten the '1 | _ Is" Adjustable Bed Table Bhort nipple, L, which acts like a set screw; E 1b a three-eighths inch tee; F is a three-eighths inch elbow, and K knob of hard wood driven into the fittings, as shown. HOW TO LEVEL OILSTONE. Method by Which the Prime Condition of 8tone Can Be Restored.' For use in properly truing up oil-* stones a block of cast' iron one and one-half inches thick,, nine ifaches wide and 12 inches long, with a pro­ jecting ledge one-half Inch wide and one-half inch high on one side, this to keep the block from slipping when on the bench. Plane the block up true on both sides and the three edges, says the Patternmaker, and place on, the bench convenient to sink water; also provide coarse and fine emery powder. To true up*> an oilstone or slip, place a small quantity of the coarse emery powder in the middle of the block, pour on a little water and rub the oilstone back and forth until its surface i* level; then repeat the oper­ ation, using fine emery powder with water. To true the round side pf a stone, and preserve its original radius, turn the stone while rubbing. This method will entirely remove all the glaze, so objectionable in oil­ stones, and leave a nice surface simi­ lar to that obtained by grinding. Single-Phase Electric Railway. A series single-phase electric rail­ way system between Atlanta and Marietta, Ga.--the first alternating- current line in the southern states-- was recently put into service. The line, which is of standard gage, is about 15 miles long, and is supplied with power from the hydraulic station of the Atlanta Water and Electric Power company, 18 miles from Atlan­ ta, transmission along the feeders be­ ing at 22,000 volts, with three-phase current. Each of the two sections of the line is served by two transformer sub-stations, these stations being a little more than three miles apaftr"7'" Tantalum Pens. "A new pen has recently come " upon the market in Europe for which con­ siderable success is predicted. These pens are made of tantalum in substi­ tution for steel. They are more flexi­ ble than gold pens and more durable than those of steel, sinco they resist corrosion, and can with difficulty be spotted with ink. At the same time their points are exceedingly hard. TOR CATARRH j OF THE' HEAD.THRQAT UJNGS: STOMACH 1'DNEKS.BLAODER AND PELVIC .ORGANS \t READERS of thispaperd8-sirinjf to buy any­ thing advertised in its colurpns should insist upon having what they a$k for, refusing all substi­ tutes or imitations. Attendance at Liepsic Fair. At the Leipsic fall fair of 1906, tho number of firms represented as buyers was 9,886, as against 9,105 in 1905 and 7,534 in 1903; an increase of over 31 per cent during the last three years. The United States and Canada were represented by 114 buyers, while Latin America, Asia and Europe were also well represented. The official list of sellers this year shows that 3,275 firms had exhibits, as against 3,101 In 1905. The countries represented, aiyl the number of firms from each, were as follows: German empire, 2,961; Aus­ tria-Hungary, 228; France, 40; Great Britain, 13; Netherlands, 13; Switzer­ land, 6; Italy, 5; Belgium, 4; Den­ mark, 2; Sweden, 2, and th$ United) S t a t e s . ! . V t ' S ' Esrnlngs of Novelist* i- - Authors earn much less in Franco than in England. The late Sir Walter Besant ten years ago estimated that there were 60 novelists in England who earned upward of a thousand a year. There are now probably nearer a hundred and fifty; while in France there are almost certainly not more than 50 who make a living at all. An English novelist of standing will re* ceive eighteenpence on every copy of a book sold. Some novelists receive two shillings. Emlle Zola, who touched high water mark in France, got a franc, which is rather less than ten- pence. Seven pence halfpenny is considered excellent pay, and fo&P> pence and fivepence are common. Not Complimentary. "X stockdealer, buying hordes In Colorado, had been directed to the ranch of Old Bill Sands. Wishing to learn something of Old Bill's business methods before entering into negotiar tlons, he made some inquiries at ft near-by ranch. "What sort of business man is Bill Sands?" he asked. "Wall, stranger," replied the ranch­ er, "I don't think Old Bill would go plumb to hell for a nickel; but he'd keep fishing around the edges until be fell in."--Lipplncott's. * ^ IT'S THE FOOD. T* - Nervous troubles arer mate often caused by Improper food and indiges­ tion than most people imagine. Even doctors sometimes overlook this fact. A man says: "Until two years ago waffles and butter with meat and gravy were the main features of my breakfast. Final­ ly dyspepsia came on and I found my­ self in a bad condition, worse in the morning than any other time. I would have a full, sick feeling In my stom­ ach, with pains In my heart, sides and head. "At times I would have no appetite for days, then I would feel ravenous, never satisfied when I did eat and so nervous I felt like shrieking at the top of my voice. I lost flesh badly and hardly knew which way to turn until one day I bought a box of Grape- Nuts food to see if I could eat that I tried it without telling the doctor, and liked it fine; made me feel as if t had something to eat that was satis­ fying and still I didn't have that heaviness that I bad felt after eating any other food. "I hadn't drank any coffee then In five weeks. I kept on with the Grape- Nuts and In a month and a half I had gained 15 pounds, could eat almost anything I wanted, didn't feel bfcdly after eating and my nervousness was all gone. It's a pleasure to be well again." 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