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foci short and long combined in a
single pair of glasses
Benjamin Franklin made and used
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two half lenses of different foci mount
ed in one frame the distance focus
lense mounted in the upper half of
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WHEN THE DUNES WALK
Sand Storm Experience In the
Dexert of Sahara
To flee from a sand storm iu the
midst of a drenching rain scams an ab
surd performance The Aral however
experienced in the ways of Sahara
knows that when the rain stops the
dunes are apt to begin their most ter
rible walkim
lie seeks shelter
while there is yet time
Our worst experience of the desert in
one of its mad fits says the author of
In the Desert was on a morning
when luckily for us perhaps we were
nearing the large oasis of Nefta near
the Tunisian frontier The Happing of
i the tent and the drumming of rain
drops upon it awoke us and Ahmeda
iu some excitement hurried our depar
ture He explained that so long as the
rain lasted it would keep the sand
quiet and that this was our opportuni
ty Accordingly in a very short time
we had struck tent loaded camels sad
dled ponies and were under way
It seemed1 to us a somewhat purpose
less proceeding The rain was and had
been heavy The ground was saturat
ed There seemed no prospect of its
drying in a hurry As Nefta was only
half a days inarch away it seemed
unnecessary to start in frantic haste in
the middle of the night in a pouring
rain Ahmeda however made no an
swer to our protests The other Arabs
seconded his efforts with all their en
ergy
Morning broke wan and sickly As
the light grew the rain slackened The
big warm drops became less frequent
and at last ceased The dull opaque
sky was pasty white and the air hot
and oppressive but the wind still blew
as hard as or harder than ever
Ilardly had the rain stopped when I
tasted between lips and teeth the fa
miliar gritty texture of sand Ilardly
had the light increased sufficiently to
disclose to view the drifts when all
their edges and crests could be seen
crawling and flickering in the gale Al
ready there was the droning sound in
the air which meant that the dunes
were walking We saw at last the rea
son for the hurry The rain cannot hold
the sand for more than the instant it
is falling As soon as it strikes the
earth it sinks in One moment you may
be streaming with water like a drown
ed rat the next you are choking in
clouds of sand
The air grew darker and darker and
the roar of the sand as it rushed along
the desert made speech except by
shouting impossible I could just dis
tinguish our tall camels in the gloom
their ungainly action giving them
something the look of ships pitching
and tossing in a gale
Ahmeda led the way by some mys
terious instinct to us totally incompre
hensible We followed -as best we
might breathing sand as we went our
The Bloodstone
Almost every jewel 1ms superstition
of some sort attaching to it and the
bloodstone is not wanting in this par
ticular The story is told of it that at
the time of the crucifixion some drops
of blood fell on a piece of dark green
jasper that lay at the foot of the cross
The crimson crept through the struc
ture of the stone and this was the
parent of this beautiful jewel The
dark red spots and veins were sup
posed to represent the blood of Christ
and many wonderful properties were
attributed to the stone It was
thought to preserve its wearer from
dangers to bring good fortune and to
heal many diseases
Great Men Have Deen Erect
The first object of physical methods
should be to straighten and expand the
body The world may in a broad gen
eral way be divided into two great
classes the erect and the inerect the
strong and the weak The epoch mak
ersthe Cromwells Luthers Napole
ons Wellingtons Washingtons and
Websters bave been men marked by
a straight spine and a broad high
deep chest The mastered millions the
defeated ones have been the inerect
Outing
ExtenuutliiBT CircmuHtnncefi
A woman was charged with stealing
a dozen cases of silver She appeared
before the second judicial chamber
Said the judge Come tell us the
truth Said the woman The truth
my good judge is that I have not been
able to resist the temptation Consid
er your honor they all bore my ini
tials LIndependance Roumaine Bu
charest
Ao Wonder
What makes Archie Feathertop
have such a strange preoccupied look
about him lately
Preoccupied is the right word for it
Hes engaged to a girl but he has
found another girl that he likes bet
ter Chicago Tribune
Accomplished a Good Deal
Mrs Hoyle What do you think of
my dressmaker Mrs Doyle Shes
great 45he has almost given you n
figure New York Press
Let thy speech be better than si
lence or be silent Dlonyslus
heads bent to protect our faces My
recollection of the next two hours is no
more definite than would be the recolj
lection of being rolled over and over
by a huge breaker A singing and
roaring in the ears almost total blind-
ness a sense of suffocation and the
feeling that I was in the hands of
elements more powerful than myself
are the vague impressions that remain
When we at last got to Nefta we
could not have been more saturated
with sand had we been buried in it
and dug up again Ilair ears clothes
were full of it Our cheeks were scar
let and sore with the ceaseless batter
ing and on tliem Had tormed hard
crusts of sand cemented by the wa
ter that had streamed from our eye
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Mount Dajo arid
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inhabit the is
lands of the
Sulu archipelago
where the battle of
Mount Dajo was
recently fought are
a very peculiar
race Nowhere iu
the w o r 1 d aro
stranger custom1
to be found than
prevail among
these wards of
Uncle Sam in the
far east It is
something over 500
miles from Manila
to the island of
Sulu or Jolo
where the Ameri
can troops battled
with a band of
Moros who had
fortified themselves in the crater of a
volcanic mountain winch rises over
2000 feet above sea level The 100 or
more islands of the Sulu group are in
habited chiefly by the Mohammedaa
Moros The beliefs of these people
account in part for the fact that al
most all of the band which resisted the
American troops at Mount Dajo met
death in so doing The Moro warrior
gives no quarter and expects none and
when he dies fighting a Christian he
expects to go straight to the Moham
medan paradise there to be minis
tered to by houris and enjoy the de
lights pictured by the panditas or
priests who exhort the warriors until
they are ready to fall upon their ene
mies and slay them even though their
own death is sure to follow This idea
is carried to a terrible extreme in the
case of the jurameutados They are
Mohammedans who take an inviolable
oath to shed the blood of as many
Christians as possible By the laws
which have prevailed in the past
among the Moros of Sulu and Minda
nao but whicli the American regime
has sought to modify or abolish the
bankrupt debtor was the slave of his
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ZINTKA COLBY INDIAN I1AI5Y FOUND ON
WOUNDED KNEE BATTLEFIELD
creditor His wife and children were
likewise slaves whom he could free
only bj the sacrifice of his life that is
by enrolling himself in the ranks of
the jurameutados Lashed by the pan
ditas into a frenzy of enthusiasm the
jurameutados would rush into a vil
lage with their weapons concealed in
their clothing and cut and slash right
and left until overpowered A story is
told of a band of eleven juramentados
who concealed themselves in a load of
fodder they pretended to have for sale
and thus entered a town Jumping
from their places of concealment they
drew their creeses stabbed the guards
and rushed up the street stabbing at
all whom they met They thus suc
ceeded in hacking fifteen soldiers to
death and wounding many others
The Moro women often fight with the
men as they did in the battle of Mount
Dajo and in such cases they usually
assume a dress which makes it diffi
cult to distinguish them from the men
Boys fight with their sires sometimes
The slaughter at Mount Dajo recalls
the circumstances of the battle of
Wounded Knee in South Dakota in the
year 1S90 In this battle the Indians
made a treacherous attack upon the
soldiers and in the confusion of close
fighting many squaws and boys as
well as men were shot down by the
troops Speaking of the fight an offi
cer said In an In
dian fight you can
not stop firing long
enough to find out
just what kind of
an Indian you are
firing at The wo
men and the men
look very much
alike iu their blan
ket costume and
the former are quite
as fierce fighters as
the men He add
A MORO WOMAN
ed that if a soldier found a ten-year-old
boy pointing a gun at him with as
good aim as the best marksman in the
army he could not very well stop to in
quire the young mans age The re
ports say that the wounded Moros
stabbed American soldiers who tried to
minister to them After the battle of
Wounded Knee the Sioux fired at those
who tried to succor their wounded It
Tvas on one of these occasions that the
soldiers found among the dead a little
baby girl less than one year old She
was brought up by whites and given
the name ZIntka Lannin Colby
NATURE IN THE OCEAN
CrcnturcM DwourlnR Each Other to
Ircveitt Overproduction
It is estimated that the cyelops will
beget 4 12000 young In the course of
the year and if these were all permit
ted to mature and reproduce them
selves the seas would in a short time
be a simple lnass of living organisms
But the ectochilus or whale food
constitutes almost the exclusive food
of the vast shoals of herrings and the
sea living salmon and salmon front
Their existence is one of the greatest
economic triumphs of nature for these
minute creatures scour the sea of Us
refuse and keep it sweet while they
form the food of fishes which in turn
furnish wholesome food for millions of
human beings
Feeding on dead vegetable and ani
mal matter these entomostraca are
converted into the food fishes of the
world by one remove being first assim
ilated by the herrings then absorbed
by the tunny cod mackerel anil other
fishes which follow herring shoals and
prey upon the latter They mainly
swim on the surface of the water and
it is the search of them in this position
which brings the shoals of herrings to
the surface Their countless number-
are also augmented by the microscopic
larvae of fixed shells such as the bar
nacle which begins life in this form
first as a one eyed swimming crusta
cean then growing a pair of eyes and
finally affixing itselS
In rivers these larvae are the sole
food of all young fish and often also of
older fish In early spring the crea
tures in every stage eggs larvae and
perfect though miscroscopic entomos
traca swarm in the water on the mud
and on the water plants and were it
not for natures provision for keeping
them in check so rapid would be their
rate of multiplication that the whole
character of the water would speedily
be entirely changed
AIR IN HIGH ALTITUDES
The Same as la Other Place hut It
Contains Xo Microbes
It is an error to think that the chem
ical composition of the air differs es
sentially wherever the sample may be
taken The relation of oxygen to nitro
gen and other constituents is the same
whether it is on the heights of the Alps
or at the surface of the sea The fa
vorable effects therefore of a change
of air are not to be explained by any
difference in the proportions of its
gaseous constituents The important
difference is the bacteriological one
The air of high altitudes contains no
microbes and is in fact sterile while
near the ground and some hundred
feet about it microbes are abundant
In the air of towns and crowded places
not only does the microbe imparity in
crease but other impurities such as
the products of combustion cf coal ac
crue also
Several investigators have found
troops of livilrnjrnn and certain
carbons in tle air especial in pino j
oak ana uircn lorests it is to tnese i
bodies doubtless consisting of traces J
of essential oils that the curative
fets of certain health resorts are
ed Thus the locality of a fir forest is
said to give relief in diseases of the
respiratory tracts But those traces of
essential oils and aromatic product
must be counted strictly speaking as
impurities since thoy are apparently
not necessary constituents of the air
Recent analysis has shown that these
bodies tend to disappoar in the air as
a higher altitude is reached until they
disappear altogether It would seem
therefore that microbes hydrocarbons
and entities other than oxygen and
nitrogen and perhaps also argon are
only incidental to the neighborhood of
human industry animal life and damp
vegetation Chicago Chronicle
Ancient Remedies For IHcconh
The hiccough seems to be a modern
and dangerous disease but the an
cients knew it and prescribed reme
dies that might now be tried advan
tageously Galen recommended sneez
ing Aetius approved of a cupping in
strument with great heat to the
breast Alexander believed in an oxy
mel of squills Alsaharavius made use
of refrigerant drafts Rhazes put his
trust in calefacients such as cumin
pepper rue and the like in vinegar
Rogerius looked kindly on calefacient
attenuant and carminative medicines
Xot lust AVhat He Meant
Lloyd George was addressing a meet
ing in Wales and his chairman said
I haff to introduce you to the member
of the Carnarvon boroughs lie bass
come here to reply to what bishop
of St Asaph said the other night about
Welsh disestablishment In my opin
ion gentlemen the bishop of St Asaph
is one of the biggest liars in creashon
But he bass his match in Lloyd
George
Savored of the Truth
Thats no lie remarked the man
with the newspaper
Whats no lie queried the other
party to the dialogue
This paragraph to the effect that
wise men are more often wrong than
fools are right answered the other
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jVhy Bodies Were EnilmlmeJ
TJk Egyptians believed that the soul
lived only as long as the body endured
hence their reason for embalming the
body to make it last as long as possi
ble It is estimated that altogether
there are 400000000 mummies In
Egypt
Bad men live that they may eat and
drink whereas good men eat and drink
that they may live Socrates
It is some compensation for great
evll3 that they enforce great lessons
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