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IENDE ItLBMNU FEET. Many persons sulfur from a peculiar ensitlvencg of the feet shown by dis tressing burning, smarting or Itching, or sometimes by increased perspira tion or throbbing, especially at night after any unusual amount of standing or walking. Toward evening the suf ferer begins to be disagreeably or even painfully conscious of his feet, which feel hot and tired, and seem to have grown too large for the shoes. Inspec tion of the bare feet may reveal noth ing particularly noticeable, beyond perhaps a :ight redness of the skin; or it may show a more or less general eruption, either moist or dry and scaly, resembling salt-rheum. But this eruption Is another affection altogeth er from the ono now under considera tion; It Is true eczema, and the dis tress caused by. It la continuous and only moderately increased at night In the cases of which we are speaking the sufferer is usually fairly comfortable in the morning, and it is only as the day wears on that his torment ba Calue of tba Trooble. comes unendurable. The cause of the trouble may be external or Internal; It may be found In a lack of proper at tention to the feet, or In the wearing of unsuitable shoes, or It may be the result of a constitutional trouble the so-called uric acid diathesis. When the trouble Is constitutional, appropriate dietetic and hygienic measures must be carefully followed; but usually re lief is to be sought in local measures. To some persons with sensitive skin dyed stockings are very Irritating, others are tormented by woolen socks. In uch cases the remedy Is obvious. The shoes should be roomy and not mad of patent or enameled leather, and rubbers should be worn as little as possible and always removed In the house, even If one stays there but five minutes. Bow to oet Relief. In the evening the sufferer should immerse his feet in cold water for a few minutes, and then after drying with a soft towel without friction, put on clean stockings and a different pair of shoes from those worn during the day. This will always give more or less relief, and usually will bring com fort for the rest of the evening. Chang ing the shoes Is better than putting on slippers, and has the advantage of not exposing one to catch cold when the floor Is drafty. There will be little danger of that, however, after thp dally cold foot-bath has become an estab lished habit, for this will not only relieve the local discomfort, but will also tend to strengthen the entire sys tem and render It more resistant to noxious Influences of all kinds. NEW J.IFE-SAVINU CRAFT, The queer-looking craft shown Is an Ingenious Idea, to say the least, as It combines a number of original feat ures in the commendable purpose of life-saving at sea. The complete craft, with lis mast, sail and life lines, is contained on Bhlpboard within the two metallic caps seeil at the bow and Btcrn, and as the inventor makes ar- 1NFLATED LIFEBOAT WITH TEL ESCOPING MAST. rangement for the 'storage of these life-savers in pockets along the sides of the ship they will not ta'.ia up as much room as would seem likely at a first glance. In storing the apparatus the mast Is telescoped Into Its socket and the hollow platforms at the sides shut up within eacb other, making the whole outfit of a size to be readily con tained in the pockets formed around the ship for the purpose. As soon as the ship is wrecked or becomes un sea worthy the opening of a valve forces a powerful gas Into the body of the craft, Inflating It rapidly and at the same time, extending It outward from the side of the ship, where the life lines may be grasped by the passengers. Provision Is made for carrying food and drink to sustain life for some time, and for the retaliation of the gas chamber If the gas deteriorates In expansive power. TK KCI.IFMK lyCI.OXK. The remarkable discovery that a total eclipse of the sun develops a cold-air cyclone as the shadow sweeps across the earth has been made by Mr. H. C. Clayton through a study of the tieterologleal phenomena observed luring the eclipse of May, 1900.' Dur ,ng fhe eclipse the winds were pract Vally reversed In direction, as the nmhra moved from one side of the ontlnent to the other, and there was in outflow of air from the shadow to I distance of 1,600 miles. As the shad 3W progressed sloiit 2,000 miles an lour, "the eclipse cyclone, to keep pare with It, must have continuously 'ormed within the shadow and must are dissipated to the rear almost In itaiitly." Mr. CUrto believes that this discovery indicates that the fall of temperature at night must tend to pro duce a cold-air cyclone, while the heat of day tends to the production of a varm-alr one, and thus the puzzling phenomenon of the double diurnal per. lod in air pressure receives an explan ation. I. Alio EST PHOTO CAMERA. A camera capable of making a pho tograph eight by ten feet in area is owned by the Chicago & Alton Rail way Company, and was constructed to take a picture for the Paris Exhibition of one of the company's express trains. The camera weighs 900 pounds, and the plate-holder, when loaded, 500 pounds, making 1,400 pounds in all. A RAILROAD CAMERA. Two sets of Zeiss lenses were made for this camera, one being wide-angled with an equivalent focus of five and one-half feet, and the other a telesco pic rectilinear lens of ten feet equival ent focus. AM AIK TORPKOO. Mr. Ouenther, the United States con sul at Frankfort, reports that Major Unge of the 8wedlsh army has recent ly received a subsidy from his govern ment for experimenting with a new form of torpedo, which Is propelled through the air by the pressure of a gas generated within the torpedo by a slowly burning material. The pres sure of the gag gradually increases, and the speed of the torpedo gains in proportion, the Impulse being devel oped by the pushing of the gas against the air as It escapes from the bottom of the torpedo. Whan the torpedo is started Its velocity is slight, but at the trials already made the projectiles have traversed a distance of 16,001) feet. The charge carried by the tor pedo may consist of any explosive capable of being ignited by a shock. TOADS IN HKKMIDA. Bermuda la remarkable for the scarcity of land vertebrate animals. H possesses only one species of reptile, a lizard, and until 15 or 20 years ago there were no amphibians. At that time some of the huge Guiana toads were Imported from Demarara by the owner of a Bermudan garden, who thought these animalB would clear bla plants of insects. The toads thrive on the Insects and spread over the Island and now they are regarded with dis favor because they get Into the els terns which hold the rain water that is universally used for drinking purposes In Bermuda. ELECTRICITY OS RAILROADS. The substitution of electricity for steam on the trunk line railways of Great Britain Is advocated by Superin tendent Langdou of the Midland Rail road. According to his estimates, the roads could be worked much mora economically ith electric traction. Taklug the line between London and Bedford, a distance of 50 miles, as a basis of eomp.iHuon, he avers that a saving of nearly two cents per train mile-would be effected by the use of electricity. There would also, he says, be a great saving of coal, amounting to 3.000,000 tor.s per annum if all the British roaus were run by electricity. HF.l.TS OS NF.rTCNE. Neptune, the most distant known planet of the Solar system, presents to the telescope only a small, greenish disk on w hich no distinct markings are visible. But during the past year the great telescope of the Naval Observa tory at Washington has revealed In dications of the existence of streaks on Neptune bearing a resemblance to the bells of Jupiter. A few years ago sim ilar streaks were seen on Uranus. Sat urn also possesses them, so that It may be said that cloud-like belts are a feature common to all of the four great outer planets. SCIENTIFIC MOTE ITIiu Earthquake Are Frequent. An analysis of the records obtained by earthquake-recorders In various countries since the Invention of seis mometers and seismographs Indicates that there Is a distinct periodicity In the occurence of earthquakes, the maximum for the hours of the day coming about noon. A Telephoae from lloiaa to Pari. For some months Italian and French engineers have been carrying a tele phono line up their respective slopes of the Alps, and they expect soon to form a Junction, thus opening direct com munication between Rome and Paris. The most difficult part of the work has naturally been to cross the Alps, "Certainly noltody can deny that giving a smaller piece of Ice than Is Just at times Is a fault of the Icemen." "Unquestionably." "And doesn't It make the fault greater when they lay It at Other people's doori?" Philadel phia Times. ON HONOR'S FIELD. DUELING IN THIS COUNTRY AND GREAT BRITAIN Came rtoa-n to Onile Reci-nt Tlmii LaU Dool In England Foug-lit la 1X45, la tba I'nltoit Mate la lHS.'l-l'lht from Hallootia. It Is the fashion today bath in Amer ica and England to ridicule that pecu liar code of honor which finds its ex pression in dueling; but perhaps we would be a little more saving In our ridicule and censure if we remembered that until quite late In the 19th cen tury both Americans and Englishmen were enthusiastic patrons of the field of honor. When the last century was young it was not an uncommon thing for 20 duels to take place in a day In the British Islands. During the reign of George III there were 172 duels In England alone, and there were several trials of peers for murder by the House of Lords growing out of them. There are men sdll alive who can re call the sensation that was made by the Duke of Wellington, then premier of Great Britain, In fighting a duel with the Earl of Winchelsea. That was in 1829. The last duel in England between British subjects was fought at Southsea in 1845, when Lieut. Haw key killed Lieut, Seton, of the Elev enth Hussars. Until 60 years ago duel ing flourished in Ireland as much as it ever did In France. All the noted Irishmen of the early part of the cen tury were duelists. Even the great O'Connell, religious as he was and averse to shedding of blood, figured on the field of honor. As for our own American record, dueling was quite a conventional thing with us down to the time of the civil war, and as late as 1883 it may be recalled that Mr. Knox and Mr. Sheehan, the last-named gentleman being a direct descendant of the famous duelist, Richard Brlnsley Sheridan, met at Far Rockaway, near New York, and exchangedshots. Knox being wounded on the second fire. In the same year R. R. Belrne and W. C. Elam, two Richmond editors, met on the field of honor at Waynesboro, after a most exciting race to escape the pur suing sheriffs, and Mr. Elam was wounded In the hip. These, we be lieve, were the last two duels conduct ed according to the code in this coun try. Our ante-bellum record may well restrain our contemptuous comments on dueling In Europe. There are many places In this country which have trag ic memories as dueling grounds. On the fighting grounds of Bladensburg, named after Gov. Bladen of Maryland many distinguished Americans have met. The first duel was fought there In 180S when two congressmen J. W. Campbell from Kentucky and .11. B. Gardlnler from New York, the latter being severely wounded. In 1814 En sign Edward Hopkins of the navy, was killed there by a brother officer, whose name is still In doubt. There Armlstead Thomson Mason, one of the most brilliant and popular Virginians of the period, was killed 'by his cousin John Mason McCarty, on a February morning in 1819. They fought with muskets only 10 paces apart. The great name of Stephen Decatur, of Maryland, naval hero of 1812, Is also on the list of Bladcnslmrg's victims. He was killed there In 1820 In a duel with James Barron, a brother ofllcer. Later came the Graves (Ky.) and Cll ley (Me.) duel, In which Clllcy was killed. The last fatal encounter on that celebrated fighting ground was fought as late as 1846, when Daniel Johnson, a physician, und Thomas F. Jones, a lawyer, boLh of North Caro lina, met there. Johnson was instant ly killed by his adversary's first fire. A notable duel between Virginians took place near Weldon, N. C, about 1840, In which Daniel Dugger, a Whig, was killed by George C. Dromgoole, Democratic member of Congress for the Petersburg district. In France there are about 4.000 duels yearly' and In Germany, In the army and In col leges.duels are daily occurrences. There Is a growing tendency to discredit the practice, however, and It is probable that before the present century has run half Its course dueling will be as obsolete In Germany and France as In America. Probably the most sensa tional duel ever fought was In France. In 1808 M. De Grandpre and M. De Bis que, who had quarreled about an opera dancer, agreed to fight a duel from balloons In a field near the Tulleries, armed with blunderbuses. The balloons kept about 80 yards apart and when they were 800 feet high, on a signal being given, M. De Bisque fired. He missed aim, whereupon Grandpre fired Into Bisque's balloon and he and his seconds were dashed to pieces on a housetop. Utlca Globe. Traa aa a Land Owner, A magnificent oak tree t Athens, Ga., not only owns Itself, bi possesses other property. It was owned many years ago by Colonel W. II. Jackson, who, In his childhood, played around Its massive trunk and in later years grow to love It almost as he would his own child. Fearing that after his death the old oak would fall Into the hands of persons who would destroy It, he recorded a deed conveying to the tree "entire possession of itself and of all land within eight feet of it on all sides." To lliaora tiline Stopper. It Is a good thing to remember how to remove and loosen glass stoppers. Wrap around the neck of the bottle a thick rag, wet with hot water. Re move the stopper before the heat ex pands It. If sticky, drop a little camphene between the nock and stopper. USING INSECTS FOR FOOD. fffucU KntoinolosUt Ilai Tailed Be, eral llunrtr.-tli at Sptrln. A French entomologist, M. Dagin, recommends Insects as an article of food. He speaks with authority, hav ing cot only read through the whole literature of Insect eating, but having himself tasted several hundreds of specif s raw, boiled, fried, broiled, roasti'd and hashed. He has even eaten spiders prepared according to the following recipe. "Take a plump spider, r move the legs and skin. Rub over with butter and swallow." How ever, he doea not recommend them, but this may be prejudice on his part. He states two objections to spiders. They are. not insects and they feed on animal food. Cockroaches are a foun dation for a delicious soup. M. Dagln follows the recipe given by Sentor Tetelin in a speech delivered In the senate on February 12, 1878: "Pound your cockroaches Into a mortar; put In a sieve, and pour In boiling water or beef stock." Connoisseurs prefer this to the real bisque. M. Wilfrid de Fon vielle, the French scientist, prefers the cockroaches In the larval elate. The perfect insect may be shelled and eaten like a shrimp; that way Dr. Gaitier, mtmber of the National assembly of 1848, used to eat them. Caterpllls are a light food of easy digestion. Not only African and American native races, but Frenchmen appreciate them. M. de Lalande, astronomer, had dinner every Saturday with the zoologist. Qnatremere d'Isjonvalle. Madame d'lsjonvalle, who knew his taste, col lected in the afternoon all the cater pillars she could find in her garden and served them on a plate to her guest. The most popular Insect food Is the locust. It is eaten fried, dried In the sun, ground In flour, broiled (among the Bedum). boiled in milk (a Morocco recipe), or fried and served with rice as in Madagascar. The Jesuit Father Cambou thinks that lo cust flour might become popular In Europe as a condiment. Travelers' opinion on locusts differ. Amlcis finds they taste like shrimps, Nlebuhr like sardines, Livingstone like caviare. London Daily News. FRUIT AS A FOOD. Seasonable Clianf" In Food Supply Nee canary for 2ood Health. Taken in the morning, fruit is as helpful to digestion as It is refreshing. The newly awakened function finds in it an object of such light labor as will exercise without seriously taxing its energies, and tissues of the stomach acquire at little cost a gain of nourish ment which will sustain those energies in later and most serious operations. It l.i an excellent plan with this object In view, to add a little bread to the fruit eaten. While admitting its pos session of these valuable qualities, however, and while also agreeing with those who maintain that in summer when the body la, at all events, in many cases, leas actively employed than usually meat may be less, and fruit and vegetables more freely used as a food, we are not prepared to al low that even then exclusively vege tarian regimen Is that most generally advisable. Meat provides us with a means of obtaining albuminoid ma terial, which is Indispensable, In Its most easily assimilable form. It af fords us In this material not only an Important constituent of tissue growth, but a potent excitant of the whole pro cess of nutrition. It has, therefore, a real definite and great value In the ordinary diet of a man, and the wbole someness of fruit combined with fari naceous food as an alternative dietary Is not so much an argument In favor of the vegetarian principle, as a proof that seasonable changes In food supply are helpful to the digestive processes and to nutritive changes In the tissues generally. She Wh Too Kind-Hearted. There Is one young woman living at L'Anse, Mich., whose benevolent dis position received a severe shock last Sunday evening. She was at church and sat directly behind a tall, well dresed stranger, with a raveling hang ing to his collar. Being one of those generous-hearted, whole-souled girls who grow up to be motherly old ladies, a friend to everybody In town, she thought how glad she would be If some kind-hearted girl would do as much for her father were he to go to church with a raveling hanging down his back, so when the audience rose for the first hymn she concluded to pick it off. Carefully raising her hand, she gave a little twitch, but it was longer than she supposed, and a foot or more ap peared. Setting her teeth, she gave a pull and about a yard of that horrible thread hung down his back. This was getting embarrassing, but determined, she gave It another yank and discov ered that she was unraveling his un dershirt. Her discomfiture was so painful that ' chloroform would not have alleviated her sufferings nor a pint of powder hidden her blushes when the gentleman turned with an Inquiring look to see what wis tickling his neck. Improvised Fnrnlinre. The era of the rocking chair made out of a barrel is happily over, but many pieces of furniture, which are the outgrowth of special needs are often satisfactorily developed from small beginnings. A set of book shelves, for example, with a drawer at the bottom, was recently made by a clever woman from an old fashioned walnut dresser. The marble top she had removed, and the fine oval top swing glass was taken out of Its frame to serve another purpose. Shelves wpre fitted In the drawer slides of the upper three drawers, the wood of these being utilized In the process. A partition was fitted up from the bot tom drawer nt half the depth of the bureau. SENATOR VEST'S PET ANECDOTE. From the St. Louis Republic: Sena tor Vent's most famous anecdote Is that of Miss Bertie Allendale. It was told when the two chambers were ar rayed against each other on the tariff of 1894 and the house was insisting fhat the country would go without any tariff act unless the senate were prepared to forego its own schedules and adopt those of .the house. "In my younger days out west," said Mr. Vest, "I went into a variety thea ter one night. "It was one of those primitive shows where the stage manager comes be fore the footlights without a coat and waistcoat, and with his shirtsleeves rolled up to the elbows, to announce the next number on the program. " 'Miss Bertie Allendale,' remarked the stage manager, apearing in one of the interludes, 'who has entranced two hemispheres with her wonderful vocal powers, will now render, In her own inimitable style, that exquisite vocal sel'Jtlon entitled "Down in the Vai led" ' "A gentleman in a red flannel shirt rose In the midst of the audience and exclaimed in an impressive bass voice: 'Oh, thunder! Miss Allendale can't sing for green apples. "The manager, who had started to leave the stage, halted and turned. An ugly light flashed from the eye which swept the audience and finally rested on the face of the interrupter. Raising one shoulder higher than the other, letting one hand drift significantly to ward his hip pocket, and thrusting his nether jaw forward in a savage way, he observed with a deliberateness which emphasized every syllable, 'Nevertheless and notwithstanding, Miss Bertie Allendale will sing "Down in the Valley." ' "And she did so. So, likewise, nev ertheless and notwithstanding, the senate schedules will stand." A KOI I.I.ESH COMMUNITY. ' From the Boston Courier: A young clergyman, just arrived at the locality of his first call, met at the railway sta tion a boyhood acquaintance whom he had not met since they were play mates together in a remote town. After a handshake and mutual expres sions of pleasure at the unexpected meeting the newly found friend ex claimed: "But, say! What on earth are you doing In this part of the world?" "Me?" enthusiastically replied the ecclesiast, "I have come here to save souls." "You have, eh?" was the response. "Well, let me tell you I've been long enough In this town to know that you've struck a sinecure." SWEET CONCEIT. From the Denver Times: There was moonlight and the waters of the lake glimmered like molten diamonds. A thrush sang sleepily and from a boat rocking on the bosom of the placid waters came the faint tinkle of a gui tar. "What would you say," he cried in low, husky tones, leaning toward the dainty vision occupying the other end of the boat, "if I were to tell you that I think of you day and night and even dream cf you?" "Well," she replied,' with a soft-stop gurgle, "I would say you were cap able of most beautiful thoughts." After that he rowed viciously. THE WORST OF IT- Bride (who had eloped) "Here is a telegram from papa." 1 Bridegroom (anxiously) "What does he say?"' . Bride "All is forgiven, but don't come back." LAl'UH OK THE TEACHER. From the Milwaukee Sentinel: It was at the Normal school that this happened, and the class laughed. It was a laugh on the teacher, too, but he didn't get angry, although It did break Into the serious contemplation of seri ous studies with which he was trying to Interest the students. It was In the study of psychology, and they were discussing what Ideas first entered the human mind when certain words were spoken or written whether the mind thought of one certain object designat ed by the word of the whole general clurt which Is embodied In that word. To experiment on this mental phe nomena, in order to bring it more clearly to the attention of the students, the professor said he would write a word on the board, and then let one of them tell instantly what Impression was made upon her mind. He called upon ono of the pupils to be ready to think quickly and tell exactly what her first thought was, after she saw tho word which he was about to write. He itood close to the board, to that the word was hidden by his shoulders until he turned. He wrote the word "pig" and all of the class saw It ex cept the girl who was standing ready to make reply. When be turned, he didn't get out of her way and she couldn't see the word. In repiy to his sharp question: "Now, what do you see?" she replied naively, "I see you." And the class laughed. FEMININE AMENITIES. Jealous Little Girl "What, call that a spring hat? Why, the very signs on the walls are laughing at you!" ARMS AND HEN. From Detroit Journal: Once upon a time there lived two kings, by name Ethelstane and Ethelward. Now both of these kings, simultane ously, as it chanced, dreamed of uni versal peace, and proposed as with one voice the disarmament of nations. Hereupon each of the kings, Ethel stane equally with Ethelward, fell . to felicitating himself upon having been the first to conceive of this excellent project. "It is my idea!" quoth Ethelsane. "Pardon me.lt is my idea!" protested Ethelward. At first the kings were courteous, though insistent, but presently their blood warmed, neither being at all given to yielding, until they were An ally quite beside themselves with an ger. "We shall see . whose idea It is!" thundered Ethelstane, placing himself at the head of his army and marching boldly into the domains of Ethelward. "Weshall indeed see!" roared Ethel ward, gathering his forces to meet the Invader. During ten long years the war pro ceeded, with varying fortunes, until notn Kingdoms were devastated a depopulated. At JastmCTwarF fell by the sword of his foe. "It was my Idea!" exclaimed Ethel stane, not forgetting to fall on his knees and humbly thank the God of Battles. This story of Ethelstane and Ethel ward makes it very plain Indeed that there are some things which cannot be settled save by an appeal to arms. THEY WERE ALL TIRED. From the New York Mail and Ex press: The parlor entertainer haa some amusing experiences, although be is not always good natured enough to tell them against himself. One who appreciates a Joke, however, relates that on a certain occasion he had been performing at an "at home," and re sponding to so many encores that tho program became unusually long. After it was over his hostess and her young daughter came up to him, and, after congratulating him on the success of the afternoon, said, most cordially: "Oh, Mr. Blank, come and have some punch and sit down for a while. I know you must be awful tired." "Yes," chimed In the sweet young daughter, with the best intentions In the world, "I'm sure we are." THE LONGEST LINE. ' From Answers: He was a Jolly sail or lad and had come to spend a few days in his native city of York. "Yes," he remarked proudly, as his steamship company was being referred to In complimentary terms, "ours is the longest line In the world, stretch ing as It does, from America to China." There was a moment's silence and then the hostess a hard-working Scot chimed In: "Weel, I dinna ken. If ye've cause tae bounce sae much, for does not my claes (clothes) line no' stretch frae pole to pole?" And Jack good humoredly took a back scat. LITTLE LAUGHS. Clanlng- Him. Yachtsman "Say, that pilot you recommended couldn't steer a little bit. Ho was a regular bunko." landsman "Ah, a bunko steerer." la Hoath Carolina. Col. Stllle "I Just heard a man say, sun, that the Ideal hammock was one made from the staves of a barrel." Col. Rlpp "He was right, sub, If he meant a bourbon barrel." A Trade Secret. Ida "You have heard the expres sion: 'Oh, sugar!' Well, Emmaline always says: 'Oh, glucose!' " May "That Is easily explained. Her father manufactures, French candy." Corner In La Valla Street, "Say how does Penwlck's son stand In La Sallo street?" asked the Junior banker. "Same as ever!" responded the bro-' knr. "Both feet wedge-shaped and ft cane head In his mouth."