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London Museum Places Old Vehi
cle on Exhibition.
Thousands of Modern Cars Now In
Service and Few of the Horse-
Drawn Fare Carriers—Big
Change in Last 7 Years.
London.—The new London museum
has shown, its enterprise by adding a
hansom cab to its collection, although
there are at least four hundred of
these vehicles still in use on the Lon
don streets. But the last maker of
hansoms closed his doors three years
ago, and the museum authorities are
no doubt anticipating its rapid extinc
tion.
In 1905 motor taxicabs first ap-_
peared on the streets under the hum
ble title of “Clarences-Mechanical
Power," there being 19 of them as
compared with about 7,000 hansoms.
In 1910 the hansoms had declined to
2,003, while the taxicabs had risen to
d. 397.
The exact figures for today have not
been compiled, but it is safe to esti
mate that there are at least 11,000 tax
icabs to 400 hansoms, intermittently
employed. The refusal of the han
som drivers to accept the taximeter
accelerated their end, for if they had
accepted it they might have made a
longer fight, as the Paris fiacres are
doing.
Decoratively, the London streets
have lo?t by the passing of the han
som, for' the tall, delicately poised
carriage, shiny black, with the driver
commanding cab and horse from his
lofty seat and with the slender whip
rising above all, was an outstanding
picture of London traffic.
Buckinghamshire is planning to
raise, on June 27, in the Vale of Ayles
bury, a memorial to her favorite son,
John Hampden, who, according to Ma
caulay, would have been the George
Washington of his country if he had
survived the terrible 'wounds which
he received in a fight with Prince
Rupert’s cavalry in Chaigrove.
Posterity has placed Hampden first
among the parliamentary party which
■opposed Charles 1., and he began the
FINDS OPHIR LAND
Region That Supplied Solomon
With Jewels.
Relics of an Ancient Civilization on
the Edge of the Sahara, in Wert
Africa, Are Brought Back by
Dr. Leo .Frobenius.
Berlin. —“Ophir,” the land of gold
and precious stones of Queen Sheba
of King Solomon’s time is believed to
have been discovered by Dr. Leo Fro
benius, the German explorer and
scholar, who has returned to Berlin
from a two years’ exploration trip in
West Africa. “Ophir,” according to
Doctor Frobenius, is, or rather, was,
not located in Rhodesia in South
Africa, where explorers heretofore
have placed it, but in West Africa at
the lower edge of the Sahara desert
and in the vicinity of the Niger river.
As proof of his belief that he has dis
covered the land from which King
Solomon obtained the vast amount of
gold and jewels for his palaces for
himself and his 500 wives, the German
explorer brought 300 boxes filled with
ceramics, bronzes, articles of gold
and silvfer, all of which he dug from
ruins of cities whose history is lost
in the maze of time.
Doctor Frobenius says his explora
tions and his many “finds” show that
the country and its people at one time
TO ABOLISH STRAIT-JACKETS
California Prison Warden Also Indi
cates Light Will Be Put
X Into the Cells.
Sacramento, Cal—“ The strait-jacket
will be abolished, though the unruly
will be punished,” announced James
A. Johnston, the new warden of Fol
som prison. His advent into office
was greeted with a riotous demonstra
tion by about 400 of the 1,200 con
victs. When Warden Johnston was
making an inspection of the prison
yards he received word that “Jake
Qppxnheimer, twice a murderer,
wished to speak to him and stipulat
ed that the conversation should
be held in his cell, “with the door
closed.” Without hesitation the new
warden entered the cell.
“Do you see anything?” Oppen
heimer asked.
The warden’s eyes tried to pefietrate
the gloom.
“No, Jake,” he said, "I don’t see any
thing."
“Well,” the convict cried, “that’s why
I wanted you here. When they close
the doors on us fellows in the con
demned cells we’re In the dark. Is
that a square deal?”
The warden told him that when his
reform plans went into effect the con
demned men would not be overlooked.
More Bow-Legged Men.
Dos Angeles, Cal.—“ There are more
bow-legged and knock-kneed men than
women, despite all the attempts to
tear the bobble skirt to pieces meta
phorically as a ^garment causing
knock-knees,” declared Dr. William A.
Weldon, United States quarantine of
ficer here.
GOV. AND MRS. WOODROW WILSON
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New photograph of Governor and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey
fight in parliament as a representative
of Buckinghamshire.
Some curious old documents offered
for sale recently by a London dealer
prove clearly that the wild fowl which
occupy the lakes in the London parks
were in occupancy there in the reign
of James I.
One document is Lord Rochester’s
bill of charges “for keeping the fowle
enjoyed the very highest degree of
civilization of its time. Bronzes,
ceramics and utensils show that a
high degree of art and skill abounded.
The country, said Doctor Frobenius,
is exceedingly rich in gold and other
valuable minerals. The natives,
tribes of negroes, have made no at
tempt to mine, said the explorer, be
cause of their religion, which forbids
it, but fond as they are Os gold orna
ments, have been deterred by the su
perstitious fear of “evil spirits” of an
cient times, which they believe guard
the treasures. Doctor Frpbenius is
now engaged in giving the details of
his discoveries in a book /which he is
writing.
ONCE NOTED BEAUTY IS ILL
Jean Duff, Tubercular, Sent Back to
Native Honolulu by People of
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia.—The three Hawaiian
children of Jean Duff, once world fa
mous as an artist’s model, will give a
Honolulu yard party and many of the
most fashionable people in Philadel
phia will be present to hear the music
of the guitars and the Ukolele and buy
beads which the children will sell to
help take their father and mother back
to Honolulu and into the sunshine of
the Pacific isles.
Jean Duff has contracted consump
tion from her Kanaka husband and
Child Rescued From Well
Woman and Three California Children
Who Kept Their Heads Were
Heroes.
Anaheim, Cal. —The three-year-old
girl who clung to a board in the well
without fuss, coolly awaiting rescue;
the mother who leaped unhesitatingly
into the well, without knowledge of its
depth, to aid her child; the little five
year-old girl who ran three-quarters of
a mile for aid; the boy who promptly
rode to the well, worked his wits and
quickly improvised away for the res
cue of the mother and child —each of
the four are entitled to awards for
heroism.
This was enacted at the Shannon
Kincaid ranch on the Santiago Canyon
road., M. S. Ingram took his family to
the ranch for the afternoon.
Answering the appeals of the chil
dren for a romp on the hillside, Mrs.
Ingram after a short visit with her
friend, Mrs. Kincaid, went out with the
little ones. Gathering around an old
. well covered with boards, the children
were busily engaged in playing when
one of them worked loose a timber on
the well. Little Leona Ingram, aged
three years, was standing on one end
of the timber and her weight was suffi
cient to up-end it into the well. The
child went down with it.
Mrs. Ingram, some distance away,
witnessed the accident, ran to the well
and leaped in after the child. She
landed in the water fourteen feet be
low the surface of the ground and found
the little girl clinging to the timber,
which had become lodged between the
walls of the well at the top of the
and beasts at the St. James Parke
and Gardens for April, May and June,
1611.”
It is signed by the earl of Salisbury.
Another document is for the “charges
layed out on St. James parke and the
springe garden for keepinge and feed
ing his Majesties forrayne bestes and
fowle there 1611-12,” and this is signed
by Sir Julius Caesar.
doctors say that the only hope of sav
ing their lives rests in an immediate
return to the Hawaiian islands. In
her youth in Philadelphia, Jean Duff,
child model and the idol of the artists,
was ‘Little Mother” to ten other chil
dren. They grew up and passed from
her charge and all forgot the good
hearted little girl who had cherished
them. Society lost track of Jean Duff
when she went to the west and trav
eled on the stage.
After her marriage in Hawaii she
returned here with her husband, Klah
lili, and a baby. Two children were
born later and the family earned their
livelihood by giving Hawaiian music.
Jean suppressed her identity, which
was only learned when a physician,
who was called to attend her, found a
weak, emaciated shadow of the fa
mous young beauty. The doctor re
membered her face at a glance and
Philadelphia society resolved to help
Jean and her little ones by the yard
party, which will be typically Ha
waiian.
Asks Dog as Wet Nurse.
Milwaukee, Wis. —To save the lives
of two baby tigers just arrived, Keep
er Bean, Washington park zoo, ap
peals for a mother dog to nurse them.
Mamma Tiger refuses to nurse her
offsprings.
To Be Wedded on Chimney.
Racine, Wis. —Joseph Kuchera and
Miss Agnes Petriz plan to be married ,
on top of a brick chimney 200 feet I
high, being erected by a local manu- |
facturing firm.
water. The mother put one arm
around the child and the other arm
around the timber and in this manner
held on until rescued.
SHE’S HANDY WITH “MITTS” ।
Woman Constable Keeps in Trim by
Daily Bout With Her
Husband.
San Jose, Cal. —Mrs. William F. Cur
ry, wife of William F. Curry, clerk of
the justice court of San Jose town
ship, has been sworn in as a deputy
constable to serve without pay. The
appointment tvas made by Constable
M. F. Marshall.
Interesting stories are told of Mrs.
Curry’s physical prowess, and al
though she has not yet made her first
arrest, it is expected she will give a
good account of herself should she
have occasion. Every morning she
dons the padded mitts with her hus
band and they start the day with a
lively three-round go.
That she has a punch in either fist
>as demonstrated recently when she
took a hand tn a domestic quarrel in
her neighborhood and administered a
beating to a husband who was abusing
his wife.
Woman Bound on Flaming Bed.
Chicago.—Bound hand and foot and
then gagged and left to meet her
death on a blazing bed, Mrs. W. H.
Starr was rescued by her husband.
Robbers had tried to Intimidate her,
and when they failed determined she
must die.
ELECTRICAL
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IRON ANb STOVE COMBINED
Water May Be Boiled and Food Cook
ed In Small Way—Heat Is Sup
plied by Electricity.
Not so very long ago a combination
sad iron and cook apparatus was pat
ented, and now comes an Illinois
man with an elaboration on this idea.
In this new apparatus, as in the first
one, an electric fan forms a stove by
being inverted, resting upon the
handle and two legs that at other
times fold along tie top. In the new
cooker, however, the inventor has de
signed a cooking vessel of substantial
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Iron and Stove.
ly the same shape as the iron and
with handles for lifting it on or off
the “stove.” In this vessel water may
be boiled and food cooked as well —in
a small way—as on a regular stove,
electricity supplying the heat. Owing
to the shape of the vessel the entire
bottom is heated and food in it cooks
better and quicker than if it was an
ordinary pan.
PROGRESS OF RACE IS GIVEN
Position of Speeding Automobile*
Shown by Electrical Score Board
at Santa Monica.
An electrically operated score board
was used for the first time in the his
story of auto road racing at Santa
Monica. By means of this device, the
grand stand was kept informed as to
the position of the racers all along
the eight-mile course, as each car
number was painted on a sheet of
metal which was moved along the
score board upon divisions that repre
sented miles and half miles.
The operator of the board was In
formed as to the position of the
cars by means of telephones, tempo
rary stations having been erected at
half-mile Intervals. An operator was
placed at each station, and in addi
tion to reports on progress of cars he
sent in notification of tire or engine
trouble, of cars that dropped out of
the race, and, most important of all,
of accidents.
USEFUL AS DUST COLLECTOR
Electric Motor Affords Means of
Operating Machine and Gathering
Up Little Particles.
More attention is being given to
providing safeguards for workmen in
shops and factories where dust parti
cles are thrown into the air by grind
ing, polishing and buffing machines.
The electric motor as shown in the
i illustration affords a means of operat-
I ing a suction dust collector on such
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Dust Collector.
machines as well as of operating the
machine itself, says the Popular Elec
tricity. The grinding and buffing
wheels are partially surorunded by a
metal hood, while a fan and recep
tacle below complete the suction out
fit.
Heat for Bears.
During a cold snap last winter it
was found necessary to furnish heat
for the bears at the New York zoo.
As the laying of steam pipes would
entail a large expense, it was decided
to use electricity. Consequently elec
tric radiators were installed, much to
the comfort and surprise of bruin.
Safety Lantern.
Electric watchmen’s lanterns are
used by many of the largest gas and
oil companies. A battery is con
tained in the lantern, while a minia
ture Mazda bulb supplies the light.
There is absolutely no danger of fire
or explosion from this means of light
ing.
AID SUNKEN TORPEDO BOATS
Telephonic Communication Establish
ed With Submerged Naval Ves
sel* in German Harbor.
German torpedo boats are all
equiped with newly designed subma
rine telephone attachments. This ap
paratus is attached to the outside of
the boat just forward of the tower.
If the boat is siyik, an officer releases
the apparatus, which floats to the sur
face of the water by means of the
buoy, which is an essential part of
the equipment. This can be picked
up by’any other boat In tbe vicinity
and telephonic communication be
thus established with the sunken
craft.
During some recent naval manoeu
vers in the harbor of Kiel, the Ger
man submarine "U” was sunk, with
a crew of 25 men on board. Tele
phonic communication was at once es
tablished with the rescuers, to whom
the commander of the disabled vessel
reported that the crew was in no Im
mediate danger, as oxygen for 48
hours was available.
For three hours the crew lay pris
oners at the bottom of the harbor. All
this time a running fire of talk was
kept up with the rescuers, whose
work was directed much more effec
tively than if they had been compelled
to work blindly and without advice
from below.
IDEAL FOR WINDOW LIGHTING'
Long Lamp Particularly Advantageous I
for Illumination in All Kinds
of Show Cases.
“It is just like an ordinary incan
descent lamp, except the current goes
in one end and comes out the other,”
said Ben J. Ballard, of Cleveland. 0., I
in telling about the electric light
shown in the illustration.
The light is cylindrical in shape,
about I^4 inches in diameter and 12
inches long. The current passes in
one end, through the filament and out
the other.
"The lights are peculiarly advan
tageous for window or showcase light
ing,” said Mr. Ballard. "Suitable re
flectors are provided and the lamps in-
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Show Case Illuminator.
serted, thus forming a complete Une
of light across the window, as well as
down the sides, if desired.”
Whether in the window or showcase
the reflector may be so arranged that
the bare light is not visible to the eye
of a passerby, thus bringing out the
display of goods.
Solves Water Problem.
Santa Monica, Cal., is considering a ;
unique plan for solving a serious wa- I
ter problem. The supply is already in
adequate and an application for a part
of the Owens river from Los Angeles
has not been granted. Now it is pro- '
posed to distill ocean water for domes- ;
tic purposes, and the municipality may ■
purchase the Burning Mountain, sev
eral miles up the coast in the Santa
Monica range, for use as a heating
plant. It Is believed the sea water :
could be carried through a “U” pipe
deep to the hot interior of the smoking
hill and distilled at practically no cost
Pow-er might be produced, some engin
eers think, that would enable the mun- i
icipality ta maintain an electric light,
ing plant.
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There are sixteen cables across the
North Atlantic ocean.
The British postotfice controls 800,-
000 miles of telephone wires.
Electricity is being successfully
used in France to ripen cheese.
In all European Russia there are
only 62 electrical distributing stations.
The automatic telephone service is
a success in Havana, where there are
7,000 subscribers.
Ships on the Atlantic ocean are .
supplied with weather information
from the station on top of Eiffel
tower.
The latest lightning conductor is
a braid of fine copper wires. It is said
to be more efficient than the older
forms.
Linemen working in the wilds of
Washington wear red coats to prevent
their being mistaken for wild animals
by hunters.
Roller skates propelled by two-cylin
der motors of one-quarter horsepower
are a French Invention, the fuel tank
being worn on a belt
An electrically heated tray for
keeping food warm while it is being
served is one of the newest ideas in
the Une of electric heaters.
Tourist trains on one of the Pacific
railroads are equipped with electrical
cooking appliances and travelers are
encouraged to make use of them.
In one of the newest electric fix
tures the amount of illumination shed
by a lamp is controlled by merely
turning the shade to one side or an
other.
One always thinks there Is a Ibt of
money to be made in any kind of busi
ness that he Isn’t in.
Your working power depends upon your
health. Garfield Tea helps toward keeping it.
A girl expects a man to think her
hair naturally curly even when sho
knows that he knows it isn’t.
To keep artificial teeth and bridge
work antiseptically clean and free
from odors and disease germs, Paxtine
Antiseptic is unequaled. At drug
gists, 25c a box or sent postpaid on re
ceipt of price by The Paxton Toilet
Co., Boston. Mass.
Ruling Spirit Still Strong.
Mrs. J. L. Story, who has just pub
lished a volume of reminiscences, tells
of a lady relative who had all her life
been afraid of damp sheets. When
she was dying Mrs. Story entered the
room, to find the fireplace barricaded
with a large assortment of bed linen.
She was having her winding sheet
warmed.
"I never have lain in damp bed
clothes while I was alive,” said the
old lady in a feeble whisper, "and I’m
not going to do it when I’m dead."
Willing to Oblige.
A story comes from a town where
firms advertise to sell fish direct to
small purchasers. The glowing ad
vertisements asked for the sending of
half a dollar with a list of the
varieties of fish preferred. One letter
I read:
“I want two salmon, a dozen whit
ing, a dozen fresh herring, some floun
ders, and if you have them you can
add a lobster.”
The next day the lady received a
letter, which ran:
"Dear Madam: Please send another
■ dime and we will forward the fisher
man.” —Dallas News.
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Dangerous Name.
The residents of a certain suburb
of Chicago were for a time governed
by a passion for giving sweet, poetical
names to their “estates." There was
one such man who built a handsome
villa, calling it “The Nutshell.” Thus
was the home introduced to his
friends, and it became widely known.
To the surprise of all, therefore, the
name was one day suddenly changed
to "Sylvan Nook*' and a flood of in
quiries soon began to pour in.
“Why have your given your home a
new name?” a friend asked. “What
was the matter with ‘The Nutshell’?”
“I sickened of being joshed about
it,” said the owner with a sigh. “There
isn’t a boy within two miles here
abouts who hasn’t stopped and rung
the doorbell to ask if the colonel waa
in.” —Lippincott’s.
NOW THEY'RE ENEMIES.
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Miss UgHmug—l always have to
j stand up in a crowded street car.
Miss Pert —Why don’t you wear a
veil and fool ’em?
GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP
No Medicine So Beneficial to Brain
and Nerves.
Lying awake nights makes it hard
to keep awake and do things in day
time. To take “tonics and stimulants"
under such circumstances is like set
: ting the house on. fire to see if you
' can put it out.
The right kind of food promotes re
freshing sleep at night and a wide
awake individual during the day.
A lady changed from her old way of
eating Grape-Nuts, and says:
“For about three'years I had been
a great sufferer from indigestion.
After trying several kinds of medicine,
the doctor would ask me to drop off
potatoes, then meat, and so on, but in
i a few days that craving, gnawing feel
. ing would start up, and I would vomit
everything I ate and drank.
"When I started on Grape-Nuts, vom
iting stopped, and the bloated feeling
which was so distressing disappeared
entirely.
“My mother was very much bothered
with diarrhoea before commeneing the
Grape-Nuts, because her stomach was
so weak she could not digest her food.
Since using Grape-Nuts food she is
well, and says she don’t think she
could do without it.
“It is a great brain restorer and
nerve builder, for I can sleep as sound
and undisturbed after a supper of
Grape-Nuts as in the old days when I
could not realize what they meant by
a ‘bad stomach.’ There Is no medi
cine so beneficial to nerves and brain
as a good night's sleep, such as you
can enjoy after eating Grape-Nuts.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
CTeek. Mich.
Look in pkgs, for the famous little
book, “The Road to Wellville.”
Ever read tke above letter T A new
one appear* from time to time. They
are Pennine, .trae, and fall of human
Intereat.