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HARD FOR THE |
HOUSEWIFE
It’s hard enough to keep house if
in perfect health, but a woman who
is weak, tired and suffering all of
th* time with an aching back has a
heavy burden to carry. Any woman
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A MARYLAND CASE.
“DwrS jCA Mill Lucinda
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_ IK 5 BL. Laurel, Md.,
MbW 4 V to have dropsy.
■H -J My feet and
^■u M bands were
swollen and
there were ter-
— rlble pains In
< Hx^EL^ r m y back. I
1 couldn't sleep
1 and for one
I whole winter,
f •la eould not get
out. I doctored
<4a-- but nothing
""“SSHBSSK > helped me until
K'S I used Doan's
Dh ~Kidney Pills.
Bight boxes
made me well."
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FOSTER-MILBURN CO.. Buffalo, N. Y.
A fool and her money frequently
marry Into the nobility.
For the Sake of Variety.
Customer —This, I suppose is a fold
ing-bed.
Merchant —No, sir; we call this an
unfolding bed. I’ll show you . (Un
folds it).
A great majority of summer ills ar«?
due to Malaria in suppressed form. Las
situde and headaches are but two symp
toms. OXIDINE eradicates the Malaria
germ and tonea up the entire system. Adv.
Easy Road In Music.
"My boy Louis Is indolent,” said the
musician, "but I must say he is
smart."
“Is he going to follow in your foot
steps?"
“No. I learned to play the clarinet
and I’ve got to march at least eight
miles every time there is a parade.
Louie is learning the harp, so that
they will have to let him sit down.”
Knew a Poet’s Troubles.
“Had a queer experience recently,”
said the Billville poet. "Robber held
me up on the highway. Didn’t have a
cent in my pocket—only a poem which
I was takin’ to the editor.”
“Didn’t take the poem, did he?”
“No. Read three lines of it, handed
it back to me and said: ‘Friend, here’s
|2. You need it worse than I do.’"
—Atlanta Constitution.
Steamboat Memories.
London Opinion, commenting on
the recent celebration of the centen
ary of the steamboat, remarks that
it is interesting to note that the Brit
ish admiralty of that period rejected
the invention with the declaration
that "a paddle wheel steamboat could
be of no use in navigation,” and that
a Dr. Lardner, a pundit of that day
who proved that "no steam vessel
could ever cross the Atlantic, lived
long enough to bolt to America In a
steamer along with another man’s
•wife!"
Accelerated Brain Activity.
In the early days of Wisconsin, two
of the most prominent lawyers of the
state were George B. Smith and I. S.
Sloan, the latter of whom had a habit
es injecting into his remarks to the
court the expression, "Your honor, I
have an idea." A certain case had
been dragging along through a hot
summer day when Sloan sprang to his
feet, with his remark, "Your honor, I
have an idea.”
Smith immediately bounded up, as
sumed an Impressive attitude, and in
great solemnity said:
"May it please the court, I move
that a writ of habeas corpus be Is
sued by this court immediately to take
the learned gentleman’s Idea out of
solitary confinement.” —Popular Maga
zine.
A Million
Persons
Breakfast every morn
ing on
Post
Toasties
Suppose you try the
food with cream and
sugar, as part of break
fast or supper.
You may be sure it
will be a delicious part.
“The Memory Lingers”
Foatnm Cereal Company, Ltd.
Battle Creek, Mich.
4
N THE early part of last June a
|| group of United States army ofll
-9 - cers stood watching an aeroplane
H as It soared aloft from the Army
■ Aviation school at College Park,
9= Md. The machine carried two
■ / men, Capt. Charles De Forest
B.- Chandler, commandant of the
school, and Lieut. Thomas De Witt
Milling, one of the army aviators,
■MMBMnsßnas who acted as pilot. Between the
knees of Captain Chandler was
strapped a queer-looking object, resembling some
what a large inverted telescope with a disk-like
attachment at the near end.
When the aeroplane had reached a height of 600
feet and was skimming along at a speed of fifty
miles an hour, suddenly above the roar of the en
gine there came to the watchers below a quick rip
ping sound. At the same Instant a score of little
dust clouds spurted up from the ground a few hun
dred feet away. This was repeated twice. Then
as the aeroplane glided to earth, at the spot where
the dust had arisen, the officers ran forward to
meet it.
On the ground lay a piece of cheese cloth, three
yards by fifteen, punctured with numerous small
holes. And then the secret was out. The curious
looking object carried by the passenger was an
aeroplane gun and the piece of cheese cloth was the
target at which he had aimed while flying above
at almost a mile a minute.
Careful examination of the target showed that
out of the full magazine of fifty cartridges dis
charged by the gun operator, forty-five shots had
hit the mark. The other five shots, the gunner
explained, had been sent into a nearby fish-pond
in order that he might get, by the splash of the
water, an instantaneous report of the accuracy
of his aim. The fact that this was the first time
the gun had been taken aloft, together with the
trueness of the aim as shown by the examina
tion of the target, spoke emphatically then and
there of the great possibilities of fleets of aero
planes loaded with these rapid-fire guns, soaring
over a column of the enemy’s troops.
The potential result of swooping air-craft, arm
„ed to the teeth with death-dealing bullets, is stag
gering to ordnance officers of the army and navy
who discuss it. “Where will this lead?” they ask.
It is possible that the air is to harbor the greatest
destructive forces in modern warfare? There
seems nothing to prevent it.
This remarkable aeroplane gun is the invention
of Lieu’t.-Col. Isaac N. Lewis of the United States
army coast artillery corps. Curiously enough,
the gun was designed primarily for infantry and
cavalry use. Later, however, Colonel Lewis was
Impressed with its possibilities for use in aero
planes.
Heretofore the difficulties which have stood in
the way of serviceable guns for aeroplanes have
been difficulty in manipulation, too great weight,
terrific recoil which would knock the frail craft
out of gear, and flame from the rifle which would
endanger the machine.
In the Lewis gun these difficulties are elimi
nated. There is no smoke —no flame —only the
sound of the explosion tells that the gun has been
fired. There Is no recoil and the gun is so bal
anced by the magazine that the aim Is not even
Interrupted while the gun Is being fired. It can
be fired at as high a rate as 750 shots a minute,
but the rate may be reduced to 350 shots per
minute, or to arfV number between these limits,
by a simple adjustment of the gasport valve con
trolling the admission of the gas to the piston
cylinder. When firing at full speed it takes ap
proximately four seconds to discharge a maga
zine of fifty cartridges, and the empty magazine
may be replaced by a full one within two seconds.
It might naturally be supposed that such rapid
ity of firing would soon overheat the barrel of
the gun and render It temporarily useless. One
of the distinguishing features of the gun, how
ever, is a device whereby the barrel is kept con
tinually cool by automatically produced blasts of
air. The barrel of the gun Is surrounded by a
close-fitting aluminum jacket, cylindrical In form
and having some twenty deeply-cut longitudinal
grooves extending from breech to muzzle. Out
side of this jacket is a light steel tube, three and
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fected by either direct or transmitted heat, no
matter of rapid and long-continued firing.
The development tests of the gun, which have
been in progress for two years, show that the
barrel does not become overheated under con
tinuous fire at full speed, and that it will not
therefore be necessary to carry along an extra
barrel when on the firing line. Since no cooling
water Is necessary, and no special mount except
a small stake or “cowboy” mount weighing about
eight pounds, the field equipment of the Lewis
gun is reduced to a minimum. The gun may be
fired from any natural support found in the field,
such as a rock, log, stump, tree or mount of
earth. It Is even possible to empty a magazine
while holding the gun to the shoulder or from the
hip, as the recoil effect is scarcely noticeable.
It is a matter of note that one of the most
conspicuous things on the battlefield in South
Africa was the jet’ of steam from the boiling
water which was being used on the barrels of
the rapid fire guns for cooling purposes.
The gun is simplicity Itself. It has only forty
seven parts, as compared with twice that number
for other rapid fire guns. On the battlefield or
in the air where tools are necessarily scarce, and
where they are needed more than anywhere else
when they are wanted, the Lewis gun would cer
tainly cause no worry, should some piece of the
mechanism be broken or otherwise get out of
working order, since the only tool required to
dissemble or assemble the gun is the point of a
bullet.
The sustained rapidity of fire of which the gun
is capable makes it a far more dangerous* and
effective weapon than any bomb-dropping device
as yet devised.
The accuracy of the firing of the Lewis aero
plane gun on its first test was not only surpris
ing in itself, but has aroused attention on the part
of our army and navy experts to the fact that
our battleships and the disappearing gun bat
teries of our coast defenses are completely un
prepared for attack from the air. In the opinion
of many, including Colonel Lewis, who is also
the inventor of the Lewis depression position
finder now employed In the coast artillery serv
ice, it marks the beginning of a development
that is destined to produce radical changes In
our land defense and coast armaments, both for
offense and defense.
According to Colonel Lewis, an aeroplane cost
ing not more than $5,000 will easily be able to
carry the gun, 2,000 rounds of ammunition, the
gun operator and the pilot. At a height of one
mile or greater, and while moving at a speed of
fifty miles per hour, it will be possible with this
gun to pour in the most destructive fire upon the
deck and fire control masts of battleships, and
three-quarters inches in diameter
at the breech and two and seven
eighths inches at the muzzle end
of the gun. The grooves in the
steel jacket have full access to the
atmosphere at the breech, thus
forming a series of inclosed air
ducts running the entire length of
the barrel. Each time the gun is
fired the ejector action of the dis
charge blast sucks through these
ducts, from the rear, a draft of air
which serves to carry off the heat
transmitted to the jacket from the
barrel. The cooling Is automatic
in action, without the use of water
or other cooling liquid and without
mechanism or moving parts. As
aluminum has six times the heat
conductivity of steel and but one
third its weight, this very effective
method of cooling the gun adds
but a few pounds to the total
weight carried.
Another novel feature which dif
ferentiates the Lewis gun from all
I other gas-operated guns Is the
small Inclosed operating spring
which is locatetd near the trigger
piece at the breech far removed
from all Injurious heat effects. The
temper of this spring cannot be as-
TELEPATHY AMONG ANIMALS
Birds and beasts receive information through
the medium of earth vibrations, John D. Quack
enbos, M. D., writes in the North American Re
view. Certain game birds and animals are sensi
tive to the faintest earth tremor, and are ap
proached only by the hunter who steps slowly
and carefully, Without jarring the surface of the
ground. The nature of the vibrations also con
veys a notion of the direction from which the
danger is coming, and wild game depend as much
on their apprehension of this as upon detection
by the ear. When it comes to cosmic vibrations,
the subtle movements communicated to the
earth’s crust by the tides or the pull of heavenly
bodies, animals are mysteriously affected as to
appetite, sleep, nervous poise and possibly pro
creation and migration.
Recent experiments have proved moths and
other Insects to be capable of thought transfer
ence so far-reaching as to Impress their fellows
miles away with a knowledge of their where
abouts.
It is well known to whalers that a cetacean
struck by a harpoon has power instantly to con
vey Intelligence of the presence of an enemy to
a spouting school a half mile distant, so that the
individuals composing it immediately disappear
below the surface. Every angler is aware that
if one trout in a pool has caught a glimpse of
him all are instantly apprised of his presence,
so that his most attractive lures are offered in
vain. What one knows all know at the same
moment through an interchange of subconscious
states. Aristotle noticed that the female par
tridge is affected by a distant male bird through
what he described as a breeze from the male’s
direction.
• Some twenty years ago the late Austin Corbin
purchased 25,000 acres of farm and wood land in
New Hampshire and stocked the estate known
as Blue Mountain park with elk and deer. In
1897 is was predicted that the extinct carnivores,
whose natural food is venison, would return to
the region. Not long afterward the presence of
pumas, or mountain lions, was reported in tho
park and vicinity, and the black bear lynx and
wildcat are conspicuously in evidence today.
PAYING FOR THE SPOONS
If it were not for the souvenir thief no hotel
manager would be gray-headed or bald Their
lives would be one long dream of bliss, broken
three times daily by a spasm of happiness when
they sell 35 cents’ worth of food for $1.25. But
the memento grabber ages him. “We tried to
make the waiter protect the silver,” said one the
। other day. ■ “And we found that after the waiter
, worked for us a month he owed us money, be-
cause of fines for stolen silver. That wouldn’t
do. That same waiter would do his waiting else
where —first trying to break even with the estab
lishment before leaving. And it is very unpleas
ant to lock the doors of a private dining room
until we audit the teaspoons.”
So all hotel managers have adopted a new
plan. The cost of stealing silver is included in
the bill for the meal you take in the public din
ing room. That is a matter of average. When
you dine with a merry little party—or several
merry little parties, as it sometimes happens—in
a private room. It is also included in the bill. Not
1 long ago the man who entertains out-of-town buy
-1 ers in b certain wholesale line ordered a private
1 dining room and a special dinner for a half dozen
guests. The hotel manager gave him a figure.
“Tell your cook to spread himself on this d!»-
1 ner/’ said the prospective host, laughingly. "My
guests are all from the west.”
“Pardon me,” said the manager, hurriedly. “1
forgot an item. Your bill will be $2 more.”
i The host looked at the memorandum and found
s an item marked “spoons.”
i "Much better to charge for the spoons In ad
! vance,” said the hotel man, without a blush. "The
i ladies from out of town all take ’em. So do the
> ladies from in town. This way we’re safe and
I they’re saved a sin.”
upon unprotected person
nel of land defenses, with
out endangering the aero
plane or its crew, it being
practically impossible to
attack successfully the
rapidly-moving aeroplane
from below. The gun also
opens a new field of at*
tack and defense in that
it will be used as an ef
fective weapon against
other aeroplanes similarly
armed. It means that
hereafter unarmed aero
planes will no longer be
used in war, even for
scouting purposes.
A new 75-milllme.tre
gun, designed for the de
struction of aeroplanes,
has just been tested at
Toulon, France and proved
satisfactory.
SOMETHING AKIN TO GENIUS
Young Man With Financial Ability
80 Well Developed Should Make
Mark In World.
“Do you think there is any such
thing as financial genius?"
"I am sure there Is. I know a young
man who has It in a marked degree.
After he had persuaded a beautiful
daughter of one of our most prominent
jewelers to become his Wife he went
around and induced the old man to let
him hhve an engagement ring at the
cost price."
"I don’t see any Indication of re
markable financial genius about that"
“Walt When he and the girl broke
their engagement he took the ring
back to her dad and got him to pay
eight per cent. Interest on the money
that had been invested."
The more justice some people get
the less they are inclined to boast ot
it- ,
WOMAN SICK
TWELVEYEARS
Wants Other Women to Know
How She Was Finally
Restored to Health.
Louisiana, Mo.“I think a woman
naturally dislikes to make her troubles
known to the public,
but complete restor
ation tohealth means
so much to me that
I cannot keep from
telling mine for the
sake of other suffer
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“I had been sick
about twelve years,
and had eleven doc
tors. I had drag
ging down pains,
pains at monthly periods, bilious spells,
and was getting worse all the time. I
would hardly get over one spell when I
would be sick again. No tongue can tell
what I suffered from cramps, and at
times I could hardly walk. The doctors
said I might die at one of those times,
but I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta
ble Compound and got better right away.
Your valuable medicine is worth more
than mountains of gold to suffering wo
men.”—Mrs. Bertha Muff, 503 N. 4th
Street, Louisiana, Mo.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
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contains no narcotic or harmful drugs,
and to-day holds the record of being the
most successful remedy for female ills we
know of, and thousands of voluntary
testimonials on file in the Pinkham
laboratory at Lynn,Mass., seem to prove
this fact.
If you want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi
dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
woman and held in strict confidence-
Stiff Joints
Sprains, Bruises
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*■ Sloan’, Liniment has done more
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the busiest time of the year. I thought
at first that 1 would have to have my ,
hand taken off, but I got a bottle of
Sloan’s Liniment and cured my hand."
Wilton Whkklkb, Morris, Ala.
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