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X I adian plain for a couple of day
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rr.ifcs of the Rocky mountain
ehirt dlstirce west of Calgary.
vc i-i up the Bow river. rising rapidly and
I" in-m i t; vg Ueeicr nnd deeper Into outly.
tut? f,;"t hilU We s;udy fit, contorted
s run which are here of gigantic propor
ie3!iflnB to the tremendous force
W.:. Ii oi.ro i.lajed with these mountain
.s i. child pk ys with fnigl.e toy. foiling
mid b mling them at will. Now wo find
tr e:, !ut the fi. rests , Hre not dense, a
ho r:tii.full is not heavy m the easterly
"fx? of S tie mountains. Kprure find tapen
are the p.tr.'lpiil rpeee, occurring in th
valley uni running up Its strep sides.
We soon bi gin to se? snow-rapped peak,""
nnd as the tr.iln pass, s wo strain our neck
In the pfTrrt to see th-'.r lofty summit!. W
pow Hanf.", one of the f.in:ou.s renc.-fa of
ti ls p.irt of tnc Itorky mountains. Here are
hot spring repined to possess medicinal
properties, and near here aie mountain
peaks which Invite the climber, and beau
tiful valleys and lakes to attract the lover
of the beautiful. Not far away are mine
of anthracite coal, and what la of equal In
terest to the Fclentirto man, great bed of
fossil remains of prehistoric animals. Up
the grade we continue past the bases of
giant mountain, until we reach Laggan,
where some of the party leave the train
In order to see the "Lake In the Clouds."
These three lake Louise, Mlrro and Ag
ue are Justly ranked as among the pret
tiest bodies of water In the world. Here
are mountain without number, and manr
of them bearing glacier on their rugged
ides and summits.
We soon leave the Bow river and wlr 1
up to the source of a little tributary. Herd
I a small tract of nearly level land at
elevation of exactly one mile above sa
level, from which the water on one Bide
run Into Hudson bay and or. the oti.er
Into the Pacific ocean. We follow the lat
ter and go down the valley of the Kicking
Horse river, which soon become a roaring,
tumbling toricnt, fed every few rods by
othe. torrent from the glacier far up
the mountain side. We pas the bae of
Cathedral peak, fitly so named, and under
th shadow of the somber giant. Mount
Stephen, on whose almost vertical front
are seen the cabins of a silver mine more
than 2.000 feet from Its base, while sev
eral thousand feet higher there hang a
giant glacier on the very shoulder of the
great mountain.
Beautiful Mountain Scenery.
A few miles farther down we stop at
Field for luncheon, and afterward feast
our eyes on the beautiful mountain. T e
valley side are covered with a forest ot
pine and spruce, although here and there
It ha been burned away by forest fires.
Now and then we pass a sawmill whose
Nikola Tesla's New
(Copyright, 1904, by Frank O Carpenter.)
iV.W YORK. Ben. IS I Mnerlnl CTor-
Nl Vrespondenoe of The Bee.) I give
I vou todav the substance of two
remarkable talk with Nikola
Tesla. The first I had In his
laboratory on Ernst Houston street nine
year ago last September. The' second
wa held In the Waldorf tonight
The first Interview was most Interesting,,
giving a wonderful Insight Into Teala the
Inventor and Tesla the man, but It was
never published, for Mr. Tesla at It close,
on the ground of business reasons, begged
that I say nothing about him for months
to come. I wrote out the notes, however,
and laid them away, and when I met Mr.
Tesla tonight I told him I now Intended to
use them. At the same time w had the ex
traordinary conversation about his recent
discoveries and Invention a to th trans
mission of force, which I reproduce In th
latter part of this article.
Teala the Man.
First take a glance at Teala the man. He
looked more like an Italian savant than a
hard working Inventor when I saw him In
the Waldorf tonight. He was In evening
drets and waa the most striking figure of
the score of public men who stood about
the lobby. Mr. Teala 1 now 47 year of
fife and I In hi physical' and Intellectual
prime. He Is tall and slender, his head Is
long, thin and Intellectual, with a fore
head high and full. He wa born In
Hungary and educated there, but he speaks
English perfectly and 1 on of the mout
charming conversationalist I have ever
met.
During my chat of aom year ago h
talked of hi boyhood. HI father waa a
clergyman of the Greek church, and Ni
kola was Intended for the priesthood. H
had a brother older than himself, whom th
rest of the family considered much brighter.
That brother died young, and this so erased
hLi father and mother that It took them
long to realize the genius of Nikola. If he
stood well In his studies his father's eye
would fill as he thought how much better,
perhaps, the other son might have done,
and whatever Nikola did was always com
pared with the possible work of the boy
who had passed away. His firrt education
was in the public schools 'of Gosplch, and
after that he went to the Real Schule ut
Kai Istadt. As lie went on with his studio
ho liked mathematics BO much that he In
tended to lit himself to be a professor of
WS.itliemaiics und physic, and with that
view studied at the Polytechnic school ut
G.-ali. Ho ohunged to the engineering
course, and later on studied philosophy and
languages In the colleges at Prague and
Buua IYbL He has since been made a doc
tor of laws by Yule and Colombia.
Shortly after completing .his studies Mr.
Tesla was ussoclutcd with the government
of A isirla-Hungary In the telegraph engl
nrerliig depaitment, where he Invented sev
eral .ni rovenienta. From there he went to
I'niii io he enfineer of a large llghMng
coinpiny, and thence to tho United States,
v I, civ lu w m employed by Thomas Edinn
In II: luhorati ry. His next position was
::at of electrician to the Ttsli III. 'trio
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Icsl Hie Inventor.
' .4 my c! at with Mr. Tesla I asked
Inn t'.r.it roallsoil that hn had
vi nt. iv faculty,, ai d he toll 1119 he
liu.i;. Iten liiventi.ig aoiiii'lhin or
When ha wus .juin a small boy
11 i.1e lo- guns, which would clyit
. 1 mil a.i he was the only one who
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1 ;.i r.e:hb ihood. lit Mule cioik.4 at I
ir yon ami began to dabble in elie
trl ity bcfi re lie was 'n hi tffin His
hrrt deltrn.ination to '-le vote hi lif,- to -invcmli.n
cam shortly utter he went to
Ijoiidun to deliver a lecture before a rieo
llfto society there. At tola lecl'jrj he 0,1 1
Ixird KayleUh, th great pliysicii, nd
howtd lil m sum of hi experlnx uia Kuy
lelgh said that he had undoubtedly Hi
faculty of discovery nd that would
ucceed as an Inventor.
"Shortly flr UO my DJ'.kar died," ta'd
Mountains and Glaciers Seen Through Scientific Eyes
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big pile of lumber attest their efficiency
a lumber producer. On the steep valley
side we se many narrow strenki marking
the paths of avalanches which swept down
every tree and bush Into a crushed and
confused mass at the bottom. With the
narrowing of the valley the river becomes
more tumultuous, until It resembl -a the
rapids In the great gorge teliw Niagara
Falls, but at last we emerge from this
valley Into a broad valley of th stately
Columbia, upon whose bosom steamboat
safely ply as far as the bustling mining
town of Golden. The river's course here Is
almos" due north, and we follow It for a
time and then turn up the Beaver river. In
order to shorten our course.
On looking at a map one sees that the
Columbia river runs far north in this
part of Its courso, and thn bends west
ward, and then southward, making an
Immense loop. Between the two sides of
this loop are the Selkirk mountains and
those we now enter. We follow the Beaver,
climbing high upon the slope of the vol ey,
at last entering Bear creek valley, with Iti
long line of massive pnowsheds. Here and
there the destructive path of an avalanche
crossing an unprotected stretch of track
shows how necessary these sheds are.
The Great Selkirk Glacier.
We round a sharp curve and up the val
ley of the Illocillewaet we catch a glim; se
of the Great Glacier of the Selklrks. We
leave our train here In order to stop over
Mr. Tesla, "and I conrludsd to cxett this
faculty. Lord Raylelgh had said I pes
sesed It and, upon examining myself, I be
lieved him correct. I did nit want i- wobte
my powers on small things and I decided
to strive toward something that ruld
benefit humanity. I am wo.-king m an In
vention for the transmlsal-m of force. 1 his
Invention will, I believe, levolutl imxe the
world of labor. I un al -o wor!:lng tn
electricity and I cannot remember when 1
was not working more or less In the tl.rto
tlon of a successful fiyin? machini. ily
Idea as to that Is along different Vnts
than any yet proposed and I expect to rea
It reallred. Indeed, we shall evntuallv
have flying machines that will be large
enough to carry crowds through the an.
They must be large In order to eucctnl."
These words wer utmred by Mr. Tesla
nine years ago. Todjy he rays he I'b
completed his force transmission Invention,
as will be seen )y my Waldorf convert a
tlon, which follows. He has also done
other things which he proposed In that
Interview. Remember 1 was nefrre the
time of the wireless telegraph, but he then
said to me the following:
"I tell you, we are on the threshold of a
new era. We have only begun to master
the great forces of nature, and the inven
tions of the next few decades will be far
uperlor to ny of th past. What would
you think of standing on the shore and
telephoning to your friends In mid-octant
What of being In the center of a room
and making your whole body bias with
llghtT What of sending powr to and fro
over the earth at will and makiJg It do lt
work anywhere nd almost anyhow T
How It Fel 10 Invent.
Mr. Tesla told me that hi greatest pleas
ur waa In hi work, aud UuU U mu!4
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twenty-four hours at the Glacier house,
right In sight of the glacier. The valley
Ides are very steep, but they tire densely
wooded from bottom to top. At one point
a torrent dashes down from the top of
the wall, looking like a white thread
against the dark green background of
spruces, firs and cedars. Looking up the
canyon to the glat ler, one sees Mount Sir
Donald on the left, bearing aloft near Its
snowclad summit a hanging glacier. Whit
glorious sport It would be to climb this
groat peak I In the morning we walk over
the easy trail of a couple of miles to th
foot of the glacier.
We note as we approach the Ice front
that since the first records In 1887 the
point of the glacier has receded 600 to 70
feet. This appears to be at an average
rate of from thirty-five to forty leet per
year, but a close examination of the re
corded marks Indicates thnt in the eleven
years from 18S7 to 1SDS the recession rvna
at an average of about fifty ieet p r year,
while In the years from 163S to the pros nt
the average is but sixteen foeL In Tatt
there Is evidence that It Is now advancing
slowly. At one point It Is plainly pushing
a heap of boulders before It.
While making these observations and cal
culations we took In some of the prlnclpa'
features of the great Ice mass and felt of
It, patted It, and knocked off a little piece
and ate It. Then we stood off and peere.1
Into Its great cracks, showing green-blue
Ice. We looked up the great slope of ice,
Discoveries Which
conceive no moment so exolttng and rap-,
turous as that connected with the dis
covery of a new principle which, when put
Into use, would revolutlonlzo the wcrk of
the world. Take, for Instance, the mvtn
tlon which brought forth the apparatus'
used in the transmission of power at Ni
agara Falls. Said he, as he tooK me to a
great coll of wire wound about a stationary
magnet, which was connected with the
dynamo, and held above U a little g'.iis
globe In which was a steel whee' moving
on a pivot: "I had been working upon
that experiment for a long time, and This
was the test. I knew that If I wire
correct that the wheel In this globe would
revolve as soon as I turned on the fee
triclty. It did revolve, and I knew I had
discovered what would revolutionize I he
labor of the world. You rat run all i-cita
of power by that principle. Tou can take
power from Niagara and bring It to New
York. The cars can be pull 3d by It, fac
tories run, houses heated and dinners
cooked. I cannot describe my sensation
when I saw the wheel revolve. I thought
I should go craiy, and I went to my lab
oratory and took some bromide of po
tassium to quiet me.
"It has been the same In some of my
experiments with electric lights and other
things. No! the grentest rapture one can
have Is to discover a new force or series
of forces, which will reduce man's work
ing necessities to the minimum. I do not
believe In laziness, and X should like to
see the loafer wiped from the face of the
earth; but I want that those who are will
ing to work should accomplish their re
sults with th least labor and In the best
way."
How Tesla Works.
A ta Mr. Tesla himself, thsr 1 a
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and tried to realize that this Is a gigantlo
waterfall, whose height and breadth so
far exceed those of Niagara as to dwarf
the latter to Insignificant proportion.
Think of a cascade 2.000 to 3,000 feet high
and half a mil or more wldel
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What a Ularler Look I.Ike.
"What doe a glacier look like?" some
reader asks. Well, at first It looks some
thing like a bank of old snow on a hill
side. A closer Inspection shows that It Is
solid clear Ice. all except a few Inches on
the surface, where It ha melted and be
come loose and crumbling. Then In many
places dust has gathered upon It and made
Its surface dirty. When this dirt mass Is
considerable, and especially when It Is com
posed of stones nnd gravel, It Is called a
"moraine." By the more rapid movement
of the centr of the glaelpr than Its mar
gins this moraine material comes to form
a line down the center. In this Selkirk
glacier there Is no distinct central moraine,
for the very good reason that there are no
nearby rocky heights from which such ma
terial could fall upon It. At the extreras
lower end the Ice thins down to an edg
which Is usually a foot or two above th
ground and more or less hollowed out un
derneath. Ice cold water run from be
neath the ence and dashes down over th
rock and gravel
But we must not tarry longer at the fort
of the glacier. Back we go down the pretty
harder worker known. He told me that he poo you are traveling In the wilds of th means of Individualization and isolation transmission of Intelligence. It will con
seldom "slept more than four hours of a Andes and make your camp on the shore that such energy may be sent lri any vert the entire earth into a huge brain,
night, and during some periods not more of Lako Tltlcaca. By the outcome of thl amotirit to any fixed place without danger capable of responding In every one of It
than three. When In the thick of a new principle you may have tlegraphed to you of Its going elsewhere or affecting others, parts. By the employment of a number of
Invention it Is hard to sleep. His work is there Instantaneous reports of the new and I believe the Individualization can be plants, each of which can transmit signal
always with him and he says that his mind of the world as it happens from time to carried out to almosT any degree." to all parts of tho world, th new of th
sometimes works In his sleep. He awakes time, You may cook your dinner over an 4 globe, will be flashed to all point. A cheap
In the morning to find that the problem electrlo Are thus transmitted, and you may Ktagara for tn 'World. mpi, receiving device, which might
which had worried him when he went to have the same at will on any part of th "Will thl enable the power of Niagara be carried In one pocket, can be set up
bed has been practically solved over night.
He has always been a light sleeper. His
mother died at 70 and she never took more
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than four hours' sleep,
light sleeper.
Tesla Is a peculiar worker Failure do
not trouble him After he undertake a thing
and decides that It should come out a
certain way, he keeps on experimenting
and experimenting, believing , his sucoes,
He says that If he doubted wa ability 11
would make him crazy. He seems to hav
a dual mind. He told me that he often
found himself carrying on two trains of
thought at the same time, and said that
while he wa talking to me he could see
the figures of some of his calculations be
hind me and could carry them on at the
same time. He Is always figuring. His
scrap ba.sket is filled with the calculations
which he has torn up and thrown away.
He keeps a record of his experiments, and
when his laboratory burned some years
ago he lost the work of years In Ideas and
suggestion which had been thus recorded.
Testa's New Inventions.
And now to Mr. Tesla's latest discoveries.
If he ha what he thinks he ha he will
revolutionize labor and give man greater
benefit than have come from any Inventor
since the world began. Indeed, the state
ments made me tonight In the mouth of any
other man would be a fair test of insanity.
But many of Teslu's wild statements of th
nl hnva hn vorifliut hv rl nnrUlnr
Invention. He said he could harness Ni
agara, and through his experiment In th
rotary magnetic fields Niagara la now fur
nishing a power equal to that of tens of
thousands of horses, and electrical works
are being run by the same principle all over
the globe. The New York subway, for In
stance, Is founded upon It. Tesla demon
strated that wireless telegraphy could be
done In 1893, and It Is a question whether
his inventions In that field are not prior to
those of Marconi or De Forrest.
Tonignt he told 'me that he hnd almost
completed Inventions by which he could
send electrical power to any distance with
out wires, and that in any luuntliy, small
or great. Bald he:
"I have proved that power can be thus
transmitted. Let us suppose I have my
plant at Niagara and you are running a
sugar factory In Australia: by my discov
eries It will be possible to send you 100, 600
or 1,000 horsepower for your factory, and
to supply the Fame regularly by the
force furnished from Niagara Falls. Sup-
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OP THJ3 SELKIRK MOUNTAINS, ZM
trail a It wind In and out among th
trees and rocks. We note the profusion of
ferns and mosses, and th lichens on th
trunk of the tree, or hanging from their
branches In beautlfyful gray-green pen
dents. Here and there we stop to admire
some patch of wild flowers or some rar
shrub or tree and at last we reach th
hotel and Its cheerful fireplace and crack
ling fir.
Down Grade to the Colombia River.
On the train again and down the grade
we go around the sharp curves of the loop
a few miles below. We follow the stream
which Issued from the glacier ur.til It be
comes a roaring river, the Illeoillewaet. It
la fed by countless streams from other gla
ciers on the encircling mountain. At
Revelstoke we reach the Columbia river
again, here running south. We cross It,
and now find ourselves In the outlying foot
hills of the Selklrks From here we pas
downward by easy grades out of the beau
tiful mountains to the lower and richer
agricultural country of the west coavt.
Looking back we recall the scarcity of
trees on the east side of the great mountain
country, the Rocky Mountains proper, In
creasing here and there, but never forming
very dense forests, and contrast this con
dition with that of the Selklrks. which are
covered with a heavy forest growth. In
the former we find distinctly smaller spe
cies representative of the eastern flora or
May Revolutionize
sT'ODe, we snail Da able to send power
from P11" to place at will, and that at
"uch a ma11 cost that It will b Industrially
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Profitable.
Transmitting Energy WltS.t Wires.
"How did you dlaoover that this might
be done, Mr. Tesla?" I asked.
1 nave ior years been working on the
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Spring. My laboratory ther was over
6,000 feet high, higher than the top of
Mount Washington, and I had extraordl-
nary condition for my experiments. Colo-
rado Is famous for It natural displays
of electrical force. The earth at times Is
alive with- electrical vibrations and the
air Is full of electricity. I have seen
12,000 lightning dischargee within two hours
and all within a radius of thirty miles of
my laboratory. These discharges were of
great violence, some of them looking like
trees of fire on the heaven. It was among
uch discharges that I had my electrical
Instruments and studied the principles of
electrical transmission through the earth
and air. One day whll watching th
lightning I noticed that the discharges
afar off often affected the Instruments In
my laboratory more than those near by.
Upon examination I found that this could
not be caused by the dlffereno of Intensity
,n the Individual discharge.
Wnat COU1Q It DOT
"Through Instruments made for th pur
pose I tested the matter from time to time
and finally came to the conclusion that the
vibrations caused by the lightning moved
around the world and that there were sta
tionary waves. I could gauge the dis
charges near the laboratory and see them
fade away and after a certain fixed period
find them returning with almost no loss"
of power. In short, this planet, as big as
It Is, was acting as a conductor, and I be-
came convinced tliut upon It not only tele- ,0 produce energy to be transmitted to vast
graphic mi'twuges, but also the modula- distances, and every place on earth can
tlons of the human voice nnd electrical have power at small coat. One of th
power In unlimited amounts could be car- minor uses might be the Illumination of
rted around the entire globe and sent to Isolated homo We could light houses all
any part of it with hardly any perceptible over the country by means of vacuum
loss. With my transmitter I actually sent tubes operated by high frequency currents,
electrical vlbrutlons around the world and w could keep the clocks of the United
receive.! them again, and I then went on States going and give every one exact time;
to develop my machinery. I had, as I have we could turn factories, machine shops and
told you, been studying and inventing mills, small or large anywhere, and I be
along the llnfl of electrical transmission Ueve could also navigate the air.
and was ready to take advantage of my
discovery
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at most of the Rocky mountain flora. In
the Selklrks on the other hand we find
larger species, all characteristically far
western, and forming forests which are
capable under rational management of fur
nishing lumber to the west coast for all
time. If the Canadian government Is wise
enough to adopt a far-reaching system of
b. Mnt anywhere over the world?"
"yea. I have been experimenting at my
laboratory on Long Island. 1 hav ma-
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chlr.ery and buildings there which hav
cost in the neighborhood of S350.000. and
tha reguu, Bh0w mo that a plant could be
erected at Niagara which con transmit It
toTca to any pIace desired. 1 am designing
BUcn a plant now ftt my laboratory, and
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ueen ior umwesrea uomyn, nmoi no-vo
nothing to do with Its technical feature.
The design which I have adopted will have
a transmitter which will emit a wave com-
plex of a total maximum activity of 10,-
000,000 horse power, 1 per cent of which 1
enough to girdle the globe. This enormous
rate of energy delivery It Is twice as much,
as the force of Niagara Falls Is obtainable
only by tho use of certain artifices which I
shall make known some time In the fu
ture. 1
"We have been offered 10,000 horse power
from the Canadian Power company. What
I want to do Is to build machinery there
and transmit this power to different parts
f the globe. The value of that amount of
horse power would be about 1200,000 per
V"1- nd a P,luit rcted to take advanUg
11 wUl P8 dividends."
"ow mucn woula wo Plan cosl?
"It might cost In the neighborhood of
$2,000,000, but Its value would be enormous,
and Its success would revolutionize the
working force of the globe. It would re
sult In other plant being erected other
where and In the utilization of all the
great water fall for the work of man."
Mother Earth I'nt to Work.
"By thl Invention every live part of
Mother Earth' body would be brought Into
action. Energy will be collected all over
,n t'Obo In amounts small or large, as It
ma-Y exist, ranging from a fraction of one
to a few horse power or more. Every water
aI cn be utilized, every coal field made
One of the most lmiortaiit feature of
thl Invention," said Mr. Tesla, "will be the
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forestry for this country It will never find
these mountains denuded of their covering
of tree, nor will It have to face the prob
lem of adequate lumber supply. Let the
Canadians take warning from our folly In
dealing with our great forests, and enact
protective laws before It Is too late.
CHARLES E. BESSET.
the World
anywhere on sea or land, and It will record
the world's news a It occurs, or take such
apedai messages a are Intended for It. If
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you are In the heart of the Sahara, your
wife can telegraph to you from Washing
ton, and If the Instrument Is properly mad
you alone will get the message. A single
plant of a few horse power could operate
hundreds of such I'lStruments, so that th
n ta." working capacUy
and will cheapen the transmission of al
kinds of intelligence."
FRANK Q. CARPENTER,
Quaint Features of Life
Profitable Treatment.
An Idaho judge announces that he Is bet
ter prepared than ever to tie the hymeneal
knot with neatness and dispatch. Th
prices have been arranged as follows:
Plain ceremony, 60 cents; plain, with oscu
lation on the side, 4. It might be well to
state that the Judge prefers giving the M
treatment.
Coming; to th Front.
The Tombstone Epitaph Is confident that
Arizona Is bound to hav a front scat In
all the world competition "Last Friday,"
it says, "Clay McQonugll, at the steer
tying tournament at El Paso, roped and
tied his steer In twenty-eight seconds flat.
Our Arizona cowboys, like all other Ari
zona institutions, are strictly In the lead.
They may not have that quality of stov
polish on them that distinguishes eastern
society, but they simply hav th 'stuff' in
them to 'get there.' "
Value of Good Teeth.
Thomas Q ill n lan of Waterbury, Conn.,
has reasons to be thankful that nature
endowed him with a set of sound teeth. He
and a friend wore skating on a big pond
when both went 'through th Ice. Th
other man got out immediately, buj; Quin
tan floundered about until he was becom
ing dangerously weak. Someone threw him
the end of a long tourist coat, but hi
hand were so cold he could not hold It,
In desperation h caught a good mouthful
of cloth between M teeth and hung on
until he waa hauled to safety.
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Roomer of Matrimony.
Justice Harry Barnes, recently elorted In
Asbury Park, announce that for two
months he will marry alt couple free. He
a'0 promises, In addition to remitting th
usual fen, to give a pair of baby shoes to
every child born to every couple he unite
In marriage In the two month. He doe
not draw the line at twin or triplets, but
generously provides for whatever may come
along and without reference to roc op
color. The only requisite in that when th
time comes the happy mother shall dlnplay
a certificate proving she waa married by
the Justice In the period named. It doean't
matter how many year hence the prom
ise has to be fullUled, baby will get the
tootules.
Why He Made Signs. V
In Outhrle, Okl., every man belongs to
some secret society. Recently a new man
came to Guthrie and located Jut across
the street from If. T. Hwearcngln, a prom
inent Scottish Rite Miuion. One day, about
a week later, BweannKln saw a 6-year-o!d
boy of the new neighbor, as the hul wa
passing, and after a few preliminaries,
asked If hUi father wa a Mason. "No,
sir," answered the boy. "Prolmbly, then,
he Is an Odd Fellpw." suggested Fweuren
gln. but the boy again denied it. "Then he
mum bo a Pythian," ald the Gcotth h Rite
man. but the boy said "No." "In't your
father a member of uny lodge?" asked
Swearengln. Incredulously. "Not a one,"
answered the lad. "Then why doe he
make all of thote sign when he comes
out In front each morning?" asked Swear
rgtn. "V'hy, that' easy." Mid th boy,
"'' (ot tt. yitug daoV
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