Freeborn County Standard from Albert Lea, Minnesota • 7

SOME BICYCLE ACTS KILLED BI DISEASE SCANDINAVIAN NEWS HAPPEMJCS IS THE ATHERUSD rhsrlp! Erat tbit i constructed along her wet: and ta that ease it mqv take While the pa THE ANARCHISTIC CRANK be used by one to Be CONVERTIBLE WHEEL SCENE IN A TENT HOSPITAL STATION ng a para nt of natural science has made King js THE ft gives way to the money upon whether you ask he besmeared bankers instead of to the I Chicago Post In dysentery should be I was told by an eye night in a rainstorm tents were blown Onlff Letters irom Mental reaks AiytVeiaed to ths Department ot the Interior Canlnda The Trade Is as Completely Dleorw sanised in Englund as in the United State I Account of the Condition Ex ltln in the Various Tent Hospital Stations ziers in the South complain ext to impossible to obtain iclp for work because the young CARRYING A WOUNDED SOLDIER press has been mainly directed The lack of accommodations of medical supplies ignorance and al leged criminal negligence of attendants' have been the subject of the most se vere criticisms No doubt there have been some gross exaggeration and yet the criticisms of the so called have been by no means base 4 less To day the Montauk hospital is no less than exemplary butpvhenthe transports brought the thousands' of soldiers there was considerable con fusion and much suffering Many deaths might perhaps have been pre vented by more systematic methods at the outset Medical supplies were fre quently wanting while at' other times so physicians tell me the patients were gorged with medicines Typhoid patients for Instance who as modern medical practice teaches require al most toothing but careful diet and cold baths have been fed on limitless quan tities of quinine and other alleged cura tives Proper treatment meanwhile was neglected I found a striking il lustration at Camp Alger Va where I was informed that a charitable lady had obtained a large number of ther mometers the division hospital had The employe at the Gothenhurg team quit work because they failed io their attempt to have a fore removed The demand for cash heavy Peculiar Machine Whose Inventor Ha But Recently Been Granted 1 A new uniforrq has been devised for the employes of the government rail roads It is plainer than the old oneand does not differ greatly from that worn in the navy The liberal party club in Karlstad is doing such thorough work that every man in the city will be personally re quested to sign the petition to the king for an extension of the right Jto vote At Knared Ilalland is a 90 vear old man who works regularly in the fields He has never been sick Dr Hedlund of Kristianstad removed a 40 poiind tumor from thejabdomen of an old woman The king has granted concession to private parties to build a railway from Kristianstad to Efverod The roadexclusive of rolling stock tvill and it must be completed be fore the close of the year 1901 A little surprise awaited two wom en who recently met iu the office of a Chicago lawyer They had never seen each other before but ere they left the office the discovery was made that each had called to begin proceedings to obtain a divorce' from the same man The 'explosion of gasoline stove tanks is prevented by a new device consisting of a movable vessel located in the top of the lank which is filled with air and rises as the oil flows out this keeping the air space surrounded by the oil and preventing the forma tion of gas The laborers who built the pyramids did not work under such disadvantage as have long been attributed to them Recent research shows that they bad solid and tubular drill and lathe tools The drills were set with jewel and cut into the rocks with keenness and accuracy Oxe of the severest punishments a refractory soldier can experience is to be in a tent It is said that a Turkish bath is a frigid affair as compared with a perfect! yylose tent under a hot sun and after an hour or two of that sort of sweating the most rebellious soldier will readily promise to be good letter He evidently had little regard for "Hon jHoke Smith ex secretary of tle interior for he addressed his com munication to Hokey He dells that he believes that the sec retary otthe inferior intends to cheat him out of his money but he hopes that it may be paid within a month otherwise he will the case over to two lawyers who will institute civil prosecution against While examining the at the interior department recently an other communication was discovered from Mr rederick in which he re ferred to his message was written on a large square piece of manilia paper which apparently had been picked up in the street for it was badly marred with'dirt and tobacco stains He renews his threats of andsays he hopes the secretary of the interior will answer him by return mail The letter has been placed on the files with tKe other which have been received from Eim It is not likely that his claim for mil lions will be paid inasmuch as he does not accompany hi communication with any proof of his title lo the motoey "Some amusement is found in the let ter which was sent about a year ago by a Philadelphian hnd addressed to "Mrs Hoke Smith Interior Depart The message is written on a pierce of newspaper cut into shape about six inches long and four Inches wide It read as follows: Miss Passee Yes this is my twenty third birthday Miss How history re peats itself! Town Topics to the abixlo of civilized men Stockholm has about '100 bolag sa loons restaurants and 47 wine Make a DIBereaee she li the answer to that depend upon whether you ask her or her Ir Kristiiustad' a company has been omaized with a capital tor the gu and luu hroom: person third iin providing improved means for propelling the bicycle afad fourth in the several details of con? struction for accomplishing these ob jects I By lifting the saddle post so that the notch in its lower end (hears the bolt it can be (turned to the position when the rider desires Ito ride face rearward and place hiss feet on the pedals to assist inf propelling the bi cycle Cycling Gazette War Victims Whose ame Will Not Live in History Special Camp Meade (Pa) Letter The war' is over Spanish bullets hare spent their force but the patriot dead of this war have not yet been numbered The enormous volunteer army is still in the service and though many have been fur loughed over 100000 men are still in the camps awaiting further orders Ln every one of these camps fevers pre vail It is true that the spread of dis ease has been checked but the germs are sown too deeply to prevent the death of many another young sufferer Only last night 1 was at the home of a member of company irst District of Columbia'volunteers who had died that morning His was the first fatali ty in the company and his corporal told me that the young man had hard ly been ill throughout the Cuban cam paign He came back in the trium phant procession "of his regiment marching firmly in the ranks The' same evening he was attacked with the too familiar Cuban fever Every day similar reports are re ceived from many regiments What Spanish bullets did not accomplish Spanish disease has and is still doing among the returning heroes 'while over camps of those who'waited in vain for an opportunity to advance to Cuba and win fame and glory on the battle field the ominous specter of typhoid still hovers It may be said however that condi tions are greatly improving for the deaths now occurring are mainly the results of the epidemic that raged dur ing the past months At Montauk the convalescent typhoids are being fed on champagne and ice cream and as recommend this diet the supply is to be kept up There is one epicurean lieutenant at Camp Wikoff who has been making a practice of messing with convalescent typhoids The so called field hospitals are still in general use A soldier may be re NORWAY No less than 36 copper mines are oper ated in Hatf jelddalen A Norwegian Belgian syndicate has bought the rights to the copper de posits in Bottenvandfjeld for $25000 Bishop Bang of Kristiania attended the confirmation of Prince Gustaf Adolf in Stockholm after which he proceeded to Italy where he joined a party of clergymen who accompanied Kaiser Wilhelm on his trip to the Orient A Smith the proprietor of Hotel Scandinarie Kristjania died at the age of years He was at the head of this hotel since it xvas started 5'j years Interesting Notes rom Across the Ocean DETAILS THE INVENTION i I threaded and at the base of the threaded interior' a valve seat is formed A valve carrier having an ex terior screw thread is received within the casing and carries an inner flex ible tube having an integral flap valve which normally inclined takes a firm seat against the valve carrier The plug or cap for closing the valve cas I ing" is threaded and longitudinally slotted Pivoted near its end in the slot is a tongue which may be caused to open the valve for deflating the I tires" When it isdesired to permit the I air to escape the tongue is allowed to I fall from its normal position so that the smaller end of the tongue will I pass through the valve carrier by I screwing the plug or cap inward to un seat the valve The essential features municated to the interior department I of the invention are the improved flap and given his views upon the question I valve the upper flange on the casing of American missiontry in I which prevents the inner end of the China His letter was no doubt in casing rota coming into contact with spired by the Chinese outrages during tbe opposite side of the tire and the accidents have been verv fre quent in the Hogana coat mine dur ing the pa few months Al present half a dozen vij jn are receiving med the road tered ail through the country from lampa to New York tients at regimental hospitals were generally able to move with their regiments some of those at thedivision hospitals had to remain behind Thus at Camp Alger where 10000 troops went away to various places 29 pa tients in charge of a few surgeons and attendants had to be left way out in the woods between (alls Church and Wedderburn Va At Bristoe and other places a few sick men remained behipd in a desolate country has been suggested that all 1 1 hospitals be consolidated at the eral hospitals sucLi as those at iri This invention" relate to improve ments in bicycles Its object is first to carry an additional person or heavy package if desired second to adapt a bicycle so as to be simultaneously operated by two persons and readily convertible as to ive cradles pre xcked injhe same house in a suburb of Tha lady ot house "hac twin last year and triplets this year These Se have no tbact nine older brothers and isover 5000 horsepower' A railroad will be built from the to the falls a'distance of 25 miles It is seriously proposed to make the Randsfjord a long narrow lake in southern Norway a reservoir for man ufacturing purposes by building an eight foot dam at the outlet The dam itself would not cost so very much but the overflow of the country around the lake would entail damages running up into hundreds of thousands of dollarst ilLit is claimed that the enterprise would pay because it would add 50000 horsepower to the present capacity of the river below the lake A commit tee is engaged in estimating the dam ages which such a dam would cause around Randsfjord Henrik Ibsen has been induced to speak on the subject of the czar peace manifesto and this is what the sphinx said: "We must of course sympathize with such a proposition The idea is beautiful and good But there are so many sides to it If war were abolished the human race would have to be cupped in some other way Cupping of some kind" is necessary at the pres ent stage of' the development of the race and without blood letting its hjood would lecome thick Besides military drill is a splendid About twenty five journalists held a meeting at Tonsberg and organized Conservative Provincial IVess as Special Washington Letter Although it is not generally known It nevertheless a fact that the de partment at the interior possesses a separate official file for the re ception of all communications' which arit received do not ment matters to the secretary oi the Interior which are either inspired by the sentiments of an anarchist or else the absurd ideas of a crazy person In short it is a file" and in it are recorded all letters coming from cranks fools lu natics or anarchists as the case may be' No other of the executive depart ments maintain a distinct file for such communications and 'whenevera pa per of this sort is received at the treas ury war state or any of the depart ments other than theinterioritiscom plefely'ignoreo unless it is obvious that a reply is needed At the interior de partment however the communica tions are acknowledged in every case where an answer be sent and in itSjdue'course the paper is placed on the for future reference if any such contingency a would de paanditae existence of the communica tion' should arise The file is kept in the miscellaneous division of the department where all communications are sent which do not 'directly relate to one or the other divisions of the office as the 'appointments the lands and rail roads or theTndian divisions' Scarce ly a day passes that some communica tion which must be referred to the does not come in The letters ail of which are peculiar and many of which are ridiculous are generally received from land have claims before the interior and desire to have them They are sent by aged pensioners or else they i some poor western land who believe that they have ed by the department and for the alleged wrongs it is often found that when lant or settler' writes toh asking for informa he status of his case or upon his corporates personal mes secretary of the interior nt: the president of the s' many cases in which the 'i sees his communications i il personally putting it: or Dear thus disregard official communication pendents have a habit of department certain er communicating some ridiculous purport or ii statements or claimsas if department owes them i js the officials are threat wiin t'ngef but no attention is tan of that character as irv i sg irded as coming from or oi it most ludicrous communi is i has received for i cime'in on December' 26 Ti (from a German living in and is devoted to a state tns which toe desires the settle His name is and he avers in his Dn and in those which ceived before that the awes him $4404000 on 3 the in ridiculous and ige but the climax comes which he has put on the Thomaei While a Iregimental vision hospital may receive only patients ofits own i which rgeons are selected1 era hospitals are for the useoi troops in the United States set The general hospitals are excel: ort Myer has now about 35 pati many of xvhoni on Ireturning to regimental mess have told me they wished themselves back to flesh pots of Egypt) The general pitals are regularly established 'd stitutions pertaining to the reg army and that islthe secret of t''e superiority for though the volun officers hare meant well it has a problem almost beyond human er to prcperly systematize the mous volunteer organizations in anj of its branches in so short a period At the ort Myer hospital every room has been utilized for the patients and even the riding school was converted into a ward the largest hospital ward ever used injthis country Much has Already been done bj way of transporting the patients tc the general hospitals A special hos pital train of ten tourist sleepers hat been commissioned as a transport and is running constantly from camp to camp The patients in the isolated hospital tents are being taken awaj just as soon as they are strong enough to endure the tripj On a recent Tues day 181 regulars were received at ort Myer The next day the same train took a large number to ort Mc Pherson Many of the states have been and are still making strenuous efforts to carry their own sick away from the division quarters to private hospitals Train after train of Pullman sleepers has taken Missourians New Yorkers Philadelphians Ohioans Yankees and others from hospitals at Loring Chick amauga and 'elsewhere to theirhome states Thanks to the charitable Phil adelphians their inedico chirurgical hospital clone haSi quartered almost two hundred soldiers In speaking of private charity one must not forget the good Samaritans of the geutler sex What woman has done to alleviate the suffering of thou sands and thousands of soldiers no his tory can ever record but those who have suffered and have seen the suf fering know of their great and noble work The funds that bought the ice cream and champagne at Montauk were secured by and through the ef forts of women the transportation of patients to better quarters was large ly the work organizations Whet? it was learned that the soldiers were eent from camp to camp with half sick qien among them crowded into day coaches atjd fed at half ra tions and 21 cents coffee money for 24 kind hearted women met the trains at every station with refresh ments for the hungry and pillows and cushions for the sick This method of comforting soldieri on transport has been organized Into a regular praci tice at every station from ernandina la to New York city A great work has beet: accomplished also by Sisters of Charity acd otherrained nurses who volunteered their service at the division and branch hospital Sol dier rcat homes 'have been proridefl by the Legion of Loyal Women and other organizations where soldiers on sick furloughs and other are re freshed comforted and entertained IVEDEN Ins as cover a or general of in land At a dinnev to him be aid that bis new ofliee was difficult one and that he would be required to do a great deal was eceotlv caught in the found This kicd ct tosh is exceed ingly tare in tnv Scandinavian coun been for months almost entirely or al together without these invaluable in strument At this hospital almost all the patients were typhoids? Think of treating that disease which perhaps more than any other demands a con tant gauging of the temperature of the tIood without the aid of a ther mometer! When I was at this same camp one of the surgeon admitted to me that hos pital private had been mustered into the service Irom an Kind oi trade on satisfactorily passing a physicalex amination These men were then sup posed to attend to the wants of the sick The surgeon also admitted that cut of the six nienjthat came under his immediate command five were so ignorant that they had to be taught how to read a thermometer or that matter the surgeons in charge are frequently none too com petent It is claimed that veterinaiy surgeons have been assigned to take' charge of hundreds of typhoid pa tients and just now a great outcry ba arisen over the appointment of a head physician at one of thd large camps a man wh ise card as a veterinary sur geon some oner is sjjid to have discov ered In fact a brief many of the physieiaesnow at the Hos pital will convinceianyone of their limited qualifications although on the other Irtind some of the best men in the profession huve'accepted minor positions and are bard at work in de tached branch hospitals A source of criticism at the present time is the fact th'atiby the movement of troop from camp to camp it was found necessary toileave many (who became tco sick tol move at branch hospitals' hastily There are such tents scat from person who write concerning depart but send letters Mrs Eiicehe Dickson of Gothenburg hgs donated 61S5CO to' the children's of the ree Masons Mis Elm Hikan' on of Karlaby has In of the upland towns a new party uhe people's party) has put up separate tickets for the local elections It is reported that Bishop Jacob Sverdrup is convalescent But he is verv weak is bound to have a new bank Capital stock $135000 Bergen capitalists are investing large amounts of monej in new freight The Norwegians feel considerably slighted because Prince Gustaf Adolf the oldest sou of the crown prince has received no instrveticn in Norwegian Says Verdens Gang on this subject: constitutidn'of Norway says that it shall be 'an inexorable 'rule that the king while a minor is given sufficient instruction in the Norwegian lan But so far Prince' Gustaf Adplf Ims had no teacher from Norway though he has had the benefit of the best Swedish German English and rench teachers And he is 16 years old The young 'prince has scarcely seen Norway But this shows the re lation of the royal family to Norway It feels itself to be thoroughly and ex dusively Swedish GERMAN CRANK ROM NEW JERSEY The state of transition of the bicycle trade 1 not confined to this country A London correspondent who has been examining the English cyclist share list Bay that out of the 192 cycle com panies tabulated about 100 are recorded a having no buyer which means aa regard the great majority that thtir share are practically worthless The share of most of the companies are of the nominal value of or five dollars and oh of them that amount has been paid but they are now offered at all sort oPprice be tween three pence or six cents and par" value A more absolute slump wa prooaoiy never recoraea in connection with any important industry inherent at any rate in causes that were capa ble of being controlled formidable rival of the bicycle is looming up in the automobile carriage and it is believed that if the manufacturers of horseless vehicles are discreet enough to avoid the fatal mistake of the early bicycle makers and will be content td produce their machines at a price which give them a fair profit the rapidly increas ing vogue of their wares will abundant ly repay them As compared with the expense of buying and maintaining a horse in a city a motor driven car is far cheaper and an 'immense demand for it is in sight The exact extent to which this will affect the bicycle trade in this country it is hard to de termine but there is some significance in the fact that as formerly some liv ery firms started the business of hir ing and selling bicycles some bicycle companies are now preparing to launch into the horseless vehicle industry An English invention for the conveyance of vehicles by train) is well spoken of for its convenience and simplicity The invention consists Qf a cane frame and an inner shield stuffed with wool whereby machines may be stacked al ternately front to back or even slung from the roof without danger I CONVERTIBLE WHEEL NyborgTDoeu is the northernmost military drilling grouqd in world ioO'English miles north of the polar circle two recruits spent 42 days there last summer and there was rain every day but one But the en thusiasm of the men as as great as at any drilling ground in the country The city of Drammen has bought a waterfall called Gravfoss for S6000Q The first prize of the Nansen fund amounting to 500 has been offered for the best essay on embryology Gpnmaker idjeland has invented a new rifle which according to an Eng lish expert is superior to the Krag Jorgenson in several points Siemens Halske the famous manu facturers of electric appliapces in Ber lin hare bought Kviddingen a water fall in jotland the capacity of which OICIAL CEANK ILE be has been eared for at twelve different tinges at the Lund insane asvlum and again dis missed as temporarily eured She is now serving" her thirteenth term in that in titutiou An unfortunate love affair is aid to the cause of' hermental aberration A statue of Olau Petri the church reformer was unveiled Sept 30 io Stockholm by the kine The new waterwork of Ornskolds vik are said tobe the most efficient in Sweden Al Romeleklint about 900 acres of younc treeshave been practically laid It Contains va Rare Collection of iPeculiar Correspondence of the national back rose voo ii Dr AVilbrtm Meyer who au au thority oa Arctic" explorations takes a rather hopeful view fateof expedition It is most likely says he that Andree has landed in An unaccountable of $2 000 wa recently li coverel in a bank in Orebnx and the anxiety Sf' the actin? officials was After th bank was closed for the dav however a man I came and wanted to see the cashier and his message wa? that he had re ceived S2U0v too much The man had the money with him and asked for 27 cents for his trouble in returuie? it The doek laborers' strike in Malmo resulted in a rather humiliating defeat tor the strikers The torpedo cruiser jOrnen carriedthe kinc across the his trip to the funeral of Queen Louise of Den i About 20 (English) miles of rails will iv laid this fall on the utoten railway ii'orth of Gvllivare About SCO men are employed along ttje linetrom the place mentioned io the Ladnivara settle DENMARK Detailed accounts of the last days and hours of Queen Louise show that her death was a quiet painless ebbing away of her strength The profits of the national bank for the past year were $549000 which is nearly $0000 in excess of the profits fog the preceding year Duke Ernst Gunther of Slesvig IIol stein has bought Augustenborg castle in the island of Ad A monument has been raised inmem ory of the battle of Lyrskov which was fought in the year 1043 It is an oblong granite boulder resting on the thick end on which a battle scene is chiseled ic high relief The German authorities would not permit the erec tion of the stone on ths battleirround so it was placed at the second best point namel on a north of the Kontreart (river) ob Danish soil where the Danes on the south side of the river also may have a view of it It is the work of NtelsSkovgaard a talented young painter and it is said to be a perfect masterpiece of its kind The expenses of the makicgand putting up of the monument were defraved by Thor Lange a Danish merchant in I Moscow Russia The remain Queen Louise of Den mark were laid to rest in the Roskilde cathedral Jcl 15 in the afternoon In the funeral cortege the king of Den mark followed the coffin Then came King George of Greece the crown prince of Denmark King Oscar of Swe den and Norway and others in full uniform the contrasting colors of their uniforms presentins a striking picture Danish and German representatives are conferring about the proposed line of steam ferries between Gedser and YVarnemunde Twenty thousand persons attendedthe funeral of Holm and about 150 banners were counted in the procession The government pays out about $20 000 a year in the form of prizes to per sons who distinguish themselves in farming and gardening Queen Louise shortly before her took the hand of her oldest daughter the princess of Wales into her own add asked her to convey her last greeting and thanks to all those who had been friendly "to Denmark and beg them to guard her country in the 'future them that this is my jast she concluded A mem ber of the royal house who thus hasthe welfare of the people and the coun try at heart is necessarily "esteemed and loved by thcpeople An insurance company in Copenhagen sells accident insurance policies at the railway stations against accident for such ana such a distance traveled by rail 4 The names of those who sent floral decorations to be placed on the coffin would fill three columns of a newspaper Experiment with Tire English manufacturers exertin themselves with a view to a tire that will circumvent tacks sharpt stones splinters etc They have par! tially succeeded inso far as there are: now on exhibition in England tires on I which some mysteyious compound is! placed that seizes a puncture almost! as quickly as it happens Others arel supported by rubber disks instead oij compressed airf and still another tire on which there are several chambers three of which must be punctured be fore the inner tubejwill succumb We have been through jail that last year and it' is all vanity and vexation of spirit The only May is5to use pure rubber in the tires aadwhen they get punctured have them repaired Mean while worry crease in! bp number riders and at all under any consideration Now I vn i nnnnrfse that nnr reiic inn seems tust maDy insurance companies are ported in that is he McPherson end remains his tent and for the time be ing is relieved from his military duties If becomes more serious he is transferred either to the regi mental or to the division hospital or perhaps he remains behind in one of the branch hospitals left by an army on the march Allof these regimental division and branch hospitals aremerely an ag gregation of tents with cots for the pa tients and sometimes 'not even con venient cots are had Such hospitals have beenconstructed at Dunn Loring East alls Church Camp Mead Wash ington barracks and at many other places When the hospitals became crowded flies were spread between the tents and more pa tients were put there practical ly in the open air ora wounded sol dier such tent hospitals are often quite feasible but it may well be doubted whether men suffering with typhoid rheumatism and quartered there witness that one several hospital down and patients lay for almost atii hour exposed to the storm and drenched by the rain It is against these division tent hos pitals (that the outcry of the public people's wishes and two thlrd of the party When he falls out of the white house he will see the day and feel the I weight of his mistake Not one poor democrat of 61 62 63 or 65 has got I an office from him in Pennsylvania 1 1 Another crank who has contributed 1 1 abundantly to the is A I Moore of Greeley CoL He apparently a A 1 A 1 A A 9 A WA A WA I A HUS UU ViflllU UCIUIG ILG UCjJUl lUJCUh I His hobby seem to be a religious one AN IMPROVED VALVE or an irreligious one for he declare that be want tovprohibit Christians lit I' So Constructed That Ml the from observing the Sabbath day The art May Be Readily Replaced following isa sample of his writings: i When Kecesury the ruler of thegreat republic 1 once more appeals Will the old eagle sit tlll A valve for pneumattp tires has re and suffer blmself to be torn to piece In Ijentlv been patented say the Scien thlt dlwn Hhc American which is so constructed on him like hurricane or will he arise that all the parts may be readily re and execute true judgment and show placed when necessary The valve cas mercy to the down trodden and oPPjewefl degigned to be inserted through and release the? widows and orphans 44 the! distress and glv employment untd the rubber nipple extending from the th poor' and brake every yoke that these Ire and is provided with exterior ribs four winds Heathenism Judiclsm Cath Lo i efajn jt in place An outwardly ex oticism and Protestantism have put upon I a th neck of the people in Sunday laws i tendmg flange on the upper portion of beg of you to cause every state law In the the casing obviates the danger 'of United States of America to be repealed I forcing the casing ton far into the rvis on a tiAippie proclamation of our forefathers' or with supporting and strengthening tnim tbe words of the heavenly ble is fitted The casing is interiorily The nfHninlt wtrr rprpntiv nilTTlpfl I by the receipt of a letter beautifully written in shorthand After several expert stenographers had endeavored to translate it the task was given up and the letter laid aside Another let ter was received written in German but this communication was inter peted without difficulty by one of the triftislators of the patent office to whom it was referred by the interior department Another writer has com 4 Speed Recording Apparatna I An electrical speed recorder is being used on some German railways While simple design it shows not only the speed at any particular moment but the time in which stops are made speed around curves up grades etc By means' of electrical connections with the axle of the car a dash and a space are marked off at each revolution on a paper strip moved by clockwork By taking a minute of the rib bon and counting the number of dashes contained therein the number of revo lutions is given and the speed is com puted from the diameter of the Wheels Good' Road la Antwerp About $1000000 is about to be spent by the Antwerp province for the crea tion of new and improvement of old roads The municipality has invited cycling clubs to send delegates to a meeting where they will be consulted a to the road wherever possible be ing made suitable for cycling A correspondent in discussing the keen competition and prospects of the wool trade says that manufac turer who wishes "to stay in the race in these times must equip hi mill with the best machinery that5 money can buy and the best overseers and help he can hire If he should try to com pete in the markets while using old worn out machinery andinferior help his time in he woolen business will be short unless he is possessed of great wealth and wishes to manufacture for pleasure only This is simply a con firmation of the experience of mill owners in other branches of trade Everything else being equal it is the mill or factory with the most modern machinery that pays the best St Louis Globe Democrat Consumption Leads the List Consumption kills nearly 12 per cent of the people of the United States sooner or later Pneumonia is the complaint next most fatal carryingoft nearly 9 per cent Diarrhoeal disease destroy 85 per cent and diphtheria and croup account for 5 per cent more of the deaths Enteric fever is responsible for 3 per cent and can cers and tumors for 24 per cent Ma larial fever wipes out 22 per cent of the inhabitants of the country and child birth 13 per cent Measles is ac countable for 12 per cent of the deathswhooping cough 1 per cent and scarlet fever for three fourths of 1 per cent 1 High Grade the Cheapen Recent efficient tests have shown that the loss of power from the bear ings of a good bicycle is small and that the loss due to the chain i exceedingly small when the best chain is used while with the poorer sort the loss from bearing and chain is con in other words nearly ail the energy applied to a thoroughly I good bicycle is actually used in pro pelling it the friction of bearings and chain being too small to consider in the best machineslt A Dutch mother is careful that gar lic salt bread and steak are put in iha crfir of her new born infant the last summer and early fall Ad novel deflating device dressed to the secretary of the in PASTIME tenor the letter read in part as fol lows: British Insurance Companies dear sir: I beg leave to ask you! coming Rather Anxious About honor the most highly esteemed considers i 1 tion to the Importance of this letter While Ttlr Blcyclc am not joyed to take interest in affairs such national importance 1 feel it my duty jThe enormous increase in the num a an american citizen to aid In Bringing her of fatal cycling accidents is caus about the proper relation necessary to re I jug the leading insurance companies store peace and progress with foreign na uneasines6 1 10 ILS I I 9 Jjotio'pe the subject of my letter may have I 'In conversation with an official of the good fortune oi coming before the I an accident insurance company whose president and his worth cabinet remem duty lies more directly with the cy ber i have looked this matter over from a I 7 moral atsadpoint as well az a matter oil cling department of the company a commercial interest Between this coun 1 London Daily Mail representative en try and 4 I aeavored to ascertain why' the death urther on the writer says he be 1 roll was growing so fast lieves the American missionaries have I far as our experience he made a mistake in trying to evangelize I paid has been a steady increase the Chinese country and in explana 1 jn the number of cycling accidents tion he states: during the last two years but this reference to the killing of the hom I year they have gone up a bound missionarys of it looks bad in th face of the matter Eut after properly con course you I may say that such a sldering you will se that'' we have made I state of affairs is the Datura! outcome tae mistake of muddling with the Chinese of the vast increase in the number of religion Now for example if the Chinese recruits to the cycling army But the should send missionarys over to this coun xv i try to teach us the Chinese religion why I increase the number of cycling ac vc kill them fast enough to git cidents isar far in excess of the in cur revenge We simply wouldn have It at all under any consideration you suppose tnai our religion seems jusi as foolish to them as theirs would be I on the point of greatly increasing the to us?" premiums for cyclists Hill of Cairo Kan sends a suppose it can mainly be account postal card on which is the following: ed for by the fact that so many ladies have reton a letter which was ad I cycle nowadays I do not mean to in dressed to Marget Jones which has bln sinuate that the fair wheelwomen are dead for some time I think soem where more" reckless than their male rela near a year and do not know anything of the family I think girl In Ills tlves but by nature most women are Some place and do not know any partie more nervous and less decisive than that know where they are and if men and in a tight' corner which you can find out I will notify you if you cooiness lDd promptness would will send two or three envelopes to reply nuum hoping I done right in riting the letter 11 carry him through a woman inde speak of I A I cisioi and timidity fail One poor individual who lives in find too that the actual nnm Crosses: Ark' says that he has her of accidents that occur on country been able to have his letters to govern I roads is greater than the number ment officials considered and that he which happen in city thoroughfares is oppressed1 on this account He1 is but 1 take it this is due to the fact evidently a religious crank for he more people cycle oh country writes about a number of Scriptural I highway than in the streets of large characters and has considerable to say cities I should say that the most about the Apostle Paul In conclusion I prolific caufe of cycling accidents is he says: Scripture is profitable the slipping of the machine on grassy and to be wise men must become fools I roads and it is a curious fact that in Why is my writing barred? I have a the majority of cases injury is in good conshiencein nay A' I flicted on the left side showing that in These are only a few of the letters most cases the riders fall to the left stored away in the of the cause is the tendency for department letters which are all I mere novice to ride brakeless bi onminal nnd lausdiable in suite of the cycles Nearly all the fatalities on fact that many of them are solemn I dangerous hills In the holiday season and serious Nearly all of the letters have been due to this I notice that are answered and acknowledged but in I a well known cyclist remarked recent many cases it is impossible on account I ly that in his opinion the safest place 'of the meager facts given to send a I in the world was in the saddle of a bi reply and in these cases the letter cycle i are placed on file for future develop 1 experience I should entirely ment Even 1 the letters which are I disagree with him for in myopinion known to have been written by habit safest place in the world is in a ual cranks are acknowledged when the I railway carriage According to sta name and address are given and it is tistics there is a far greater chance of usually stated ini the communication accident on a bicycle than in a rail that been placed upon way tratai pastime has such a fear xivnv il fllz infariAr I U1 TOIa ment SMITH RY? amiliar with' the Cause Master Late again Sandy 1 you manage to get here in tjme? 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