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) ANCIENT DOLL-LIKE IDOLS,
W«r« Found Xmbeddod in Walla i
▲noiont OlMt Dwelling* Near
■ant* Fa
' | While exploring the Puye an
! Shuflnne eliff dwellings near Sai
1 j ta Fe recently Dr. R. W. Scheun
ler discovered some antiques o
a kind not previously catalogue
by students of that region. Nt
ticing upon the wail of an ancien
dwelling some spots of an unr
snal color, he dug into the sof
stone with his pocketkni/e am
discovered a hole 5 inches in diam
eter and 12 inches deep, parti,
filled with mud. Inside was ini
| bedded a stick on which wa
i mounted a doll’s head. In tin
same hole was a small, highly pol
j ished turquoise.
| Dr. Schuessler investigated far
i ther. He found three more of th<
sealed openings, each of then
containing a doll and a turquoise
One of the holes contained a pie«
of petrified resin, in which tootl
marks indicated that it had bee*
need as the chewing gum of tin
day. The probability is that tin
doll heads were idols, but the sig
■ificance of burying them in th«
mesa walls and the presence of
Vie turquoise are not explained
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In Bunny Florida.
j Never shall I forget, write*
Julia Daniels Moseley, in the
Four-Track News, the magic of a
certain garden in the south, io
sunny Florida. . . . The stars
down there have a way of seem
ing to hang out of the sky, like a
jewel placed high in the setting.
The moon was full and the magic
of her yellow beauty bewitched
everything, enhancing the very
shadows. There is an abandon
about that spot that takes away
the stiffness so often found in
large, formal grounds, and, as you
walk on and on, there seems to be
no end to it, but it is as though all
the world was a sumptuous gar
den; and when you lift your eyes
to the matchless night blues, K
seems as if the very dome of Heav
en had opened to charm jmi
Tlf’oa.
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A FIBERS' SHOP DISEASES.
atroiis AdvUad to Hat* Their Ova
Brush and Comb—Carbolic Acid
for ths Bast .
The transference t» his cut*
jmers, by means of his hands and
ktruments, of many parasit
\\kin diseases has long been rea
lized as one of the unnecessary
ac'mplishments of the necessary
^atr. Among these affections,
8a3\ American Medicine, are
Byc]p, impetigo, seborrheic alo
Peci and furunculosis that is
mol'^r less chronic in type. Dr.
Gra-hj chambers states thet
durin^he past flve years impeti
go^eiiQati has been very prev
alent Toronto, scarcely a month
passinwjthout an outbreak of
from t, t0 thirty cases, gener*
ally ^eable to a common
source. ,e barber shop is so com
monly tlsource that he desig
nates fhijggase afi “barbers' im
petigo.’’ ,j|te recently Dr. W
A. Harda y has called attention
to a polnthioh he believes, and
we minx ritly, has been but lit
tle realized, the medical profes
sion. That,the frequency with
which carbujea are acquired in
barber shopige haa seen many
eases of cart,cje jn which the
evidence of means of trans
mission was indisputable.
The relative in^t^ce of this se
rious affection^ compared with
the other dii^ea mentioned
needs scarcely impressed.
For the prevent^ of contagion
in barber shops, Hardaway be
lieves that we wHite forced to
rely upon an e^ted pnblit
opinion rather thaHppn Compnl
sory laws directed ^inst the
barber. He records that
each patron of a batb^hop pro
vide himself with ab*. contain.
ing his own brush Aomb, a
small package of abicMtat cot
ton and a five per cent, arbolis
acid solution. The barber win
then wipe his shears or clippers
with the eolation, and cicthe pa
tron's comb and brush, the
man who shaves his owntca* cup
and brash are necessitiei. thes«
suggestions are sensible. To car
ry them out properly meaniawe
inconvenience, bat it is worth
while, especially to the aged and
debilitated, or to those suffering
from diabetes or similar diathe
sis. Physicians atending snehpa
tlents should extend them a warn
Ing In this retfard.
GREAT INVENTOR AT HOWE.
A Visit to Thomas A. Edison—Hoass
and Surroundings Not a Bit
Liki the Kan.
To one who knows anything at
nil of Edison, the first glimpse of
his house and its surroundings
comes with a shock of surprise,
says Woman’s Home Companion.
Who would have suspected
that this most democratic of men
would have chosen for himself en
vironments so essentially aristo
cratic? He lives in the heart ef
a splendid park, patterned after
the English idea of vigorous er
elusiveness, its gates jealously
guarded by a lodgekeeper.
The interior of the house is in
keeping with the atmosphere of
the park without, qnite unlike
Edison. The reception-room was
utterly different from what I ex
pected. The admirably draped
curtains, the tables and chairs ar
ranged wih an eye to artistic ef
fect, were not of Edison’s choos
ing. He cares too little for the
luxuries of life. This was his
wife’s work; it was all so wom
anly.
I heard quick footsteps behind
me, and Edison appeared, greet
ing me cordially and unaffectedly.
He was dressed in the queerest
of costumes—a long blouse that
reached to his heels, evidently of
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MAmO V TT U BVft IIVVHWIV »*»*%•
work-worn.
“Come along into the labora
tory,” he said.
So I followed him through the
dining-room and the “den” into
the laboratory that he has fitted
np for himself in his home.
There I found his little boy, his
shirt-sleeves rolled np, his face
and hands smeared like hi*
father’s. They had been making
various compounds of which lamjp
black was the chief constituent.
“So you work on Sunday, too?”
Edison winked confidentially.
“You see, Mrs. Edison is cway. I
ean do as I like.”
That brought back to me a story
that I had once heard from a friend
of his—a story of how he works
night after night in his labora
tory, utterly absorbed in his ex
periments. Midnight comes and
goes, the gray dawn creeps in, and
still finds him bending over his
test-tubes and retorts, until at
last Mrs. Edison appears and
fondly leads him away to sleep.
I looked around the laboratory.
This at least was his room. There
were Bunsen burners, mortars
and pestles, glass rods, watch
crystals, bottles of chemicals
mattered abont in bewildering
profusion. I watched him and his
1 boy while they worked, the boy
i- listening with rapt attention to
i. the teachings of his father.
\ A FORTUNE IN A POTATO.
■ taber Raised by Scotchman and Sold
t »t High Price—Well-Named
the “Eldorado.”
i | Ns potato ever gained so mneb
notoriety as Eldorado, raised by
p the famous Scottish raiser Mr. A.
.' Findlay, of Mark inch. The very
i name of the variety, says the Gar
i dener’a Magazine, was a stroke of
genius, for it is hardly possible
| that the raiser, or those who had
i i the good fortune to secure some
i of the first tubers distributed,
, eould have imagined that in so
,1 ahort a time it would change
> j hands at such enormously high
i! prices.
i Mr. George Massey, of Spalding,
• was one of the very first to obtain
, the stock, and from him Mr. Zach
ariah Gray, a well-known grower
i Everton, Sandy, purchased a
1 atone weight for £20. This set the
i ball rolling, and as Mr. Findlay
: resolved not to further distribute
Eldorado until the autumn of
1904, the demand for the small
atock available was doubled and
trebled, and so the prices rose.
Messrs. Dennis, the Covent Gar
de n salesmen, and Messrs. I. Poad
1 A Sons, of York, possessed sup
plies, and the latter firm found a
purchase? of four pounds at £150
per pound. This determined them
to obtain further stock, and so at
the Smithfield club show a mem
ber of his firm found that Mr. Mas
sev had a limited stock for dispos
al and made him an offer of £1,000
for a stone. Mr. Massey refused,
as he wanted £1,500, but eventn
ally the bargain was struck at
£1,400, to the satisfaction of both
parties. Subsequently Mr. Man
sey sold a relatively small quan
tity for £2,000, so that his original
transaction brought him a very
handsome return.
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