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Speaker Champ Clark is shown posing for the moving picture operators on the floor of the House of Representatives. This is the first time that anything of this kind has been done. The Speaker went through his paces for nearly a half hour while the picture men turned the crank and recorded his various poses. These pictures will be supplied to hundreds of motion picture houses throughout the country and will be used with phonograph speeches by Mr. Clark.

SHOE FOR MOUNTING STAIRS

THE mounting of stairs frequently is a

great inconvenience for convalescents and invalids, especially those suffering from heart trouble. In order to facilitate this task, a Dr. Schurig has designed a folding attachment fixed to the shoe which, when unfolded, just has half the height of a step of the staircase. Only one such attachment is used, which, if the banisters be on the right, is fixed to the left foot, and inversely, the shoe being equally adaptable.

If the person at first infolds the attachment, his body will be lifted to half the height of a step, and in order to reach the next step of the staircase, only

has to be lifted another half-step by the other foot. The foot fitted with the attachment having then been drawn after, the same process may be again repeated, and so on.

HOW THE STAIR MOUNTING SHOE IS USED.

Various devices have been invented for every imaginable physical deformity or weakness. The men who devote themselves to this sort of work are doing a great boon to mankind. Every little aid in ameliorating suffering is a step in humanity's advance. The shoe for aiding the invalid or the convalescent in mounting steps is one of those things perhaps not one in a million would think of. The millionth does think of it however, and so becomes a great benefactor to society.

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A WIRELESS DIRECTORY THE United

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The Navy Department has fortyfive shore stations in operation, with two more under construction. The War Department has under its control fifty-one stations. The largest shore commercial stations in this country are located at the following places and have the ranges, in nautical miles, indicated by the figures: Eastport, Maine, 400 to 1,000; Quincy, Mass., 400 to 1,000; Atlantic City, N. J., 300 to 600: Cape Hatteras, N. C., 400 to 1,000; Tampa, Fla., 500 to 1,000; Grand Island, La., 450 to 1,000; New Orleans, La., 300 to 500.

CHIEF KENLON OF NEW YORK CITY WITH HIS NEW MOTOR FIRE ENGINE.

States Navy Department has just issued a publication of great value and much interest to all persons interested in wireless telegraphy. This book gives the location of every wireless station on the globe, the call letters of each, the distance, in nautical miles, a message can be flashed, the wave-lengths in meters, and the character of stations, whether commercial, private, or the property of some government. All merchant vessels and government craft equipped with wireless outfits are similarly listed. It appears from the compilation that the United States is far in advance of any other country in the number of stations. Already it is possible to send a wireless message between almost any two points,

One of the most powerful stations in existence is a private one located at Nauen, Germany, it having a range of 2,000 nautical miles.

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This shows the last run of the last of New York City's fire horses. It was a still alarm. The horses were decorated

with ribbons. The illustration above shows what has superseded them.

weighing twenty-eight pounds is with the champion to keep him company. These two deep sea marvels have just been mounted in a large glass case, at the Museum of Natural History, New York. They were caught by fishermen off Sandy Hook. For several months during the regular lobster season, the pots, according to custom, would be hauled up every other day for the precious cargo destined to delight the palate of the diners in the palatial cafes. To the great disappointment and amazement however, of the fishermen on each haul up of the pot it would be empty, besides there would be a great hole in the side and all the bait gone. This was attributed at first to the ravages of the storms, tide and the various

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A CACTUS GARDEN-A NOVELTY OF THE ARIZONA DESERT.

The mistress and daughters of the ranch in the Southwest are not to be deprived of the gratification of their gardening instincts because they can not make a choice of plants. Hence, occasionally, these cacti gardens are created.

damages incidental to the bottom. After the loss of several dozen of traps, having holes the size of a man's head, gnawed through, the alert fishermen suspecting this to be the work of a possible. shark or some other large denizen of the deep, sunk a huge trap the size of a Saratoga trunk having an opening a foot in diameter. Inside was placed an extra amount of tempting bait. After leaving this on the bottom for two days. it. was hauled up, requiring two men to handle the line. Clinging to the pot, the half frightened fishermen saw the body of a lobster with enormous proportions, the like of which they had never seen before in all of their twenty-five years of lobstering. The huge lobster had only half of his immense frame inside the pot. He could not extract or withdraw his entangled form.

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SALVATION ARMY RESCUE CORPS

BEGINNING with the postulate that no

one loves a helpless inebriate and that his sole hope when he falls by the wayside is the policeman on the beat, the

HELPS THE FALLEN AND. INCIDENTALLY, RELIEVES THE POLICE.

less liked than the helpless drunkard. He is usually powerless to help himself, he is more likely than not a muddy scarecrow and frequently he is more fit for a bed. in the hospital than a cell at the police station. There is no glory at all in arresting him. He is simply an all-around nuisance to the police and they will gladly shift the responsibility for his care to other shoulders. So that the rescuing brigade will have the active and enthusiastic co-operation of the police in their work.

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SAID TO BE THE LARGEST HAT IN THE WORLD-A NEW PARIS CREATION.

Salvation Army inaugurated as a part of the Lenten campaign the rescuing of the inebriate.

The Salvation Army Drunkards' Brigade is under the leadership of Major W. W. Winchell and its starting point was Jersey City. From here the members of this peculiar corps will extend the field of their operations until every large town in the United States has its own corps for rescuing inebriates who may be in need of assistance.

The workers will have as their aids the police of the district in which they work. No one will welcome the advent of these rescuers more warmly than the police. Of all the fish that fall into the net of the guardians of the peace none is

THE LITTLE CHURCH THAT LEADS TO HEAVEN.

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