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Bellefonte. Pa., March 6, 1908.
THE WORLD GROWS BETTER.
Oh, the esrth is full of sinuing
And of trouble and of woe,
But the devil makes an inning
Every time we say it's so.
And the way to «et him scowling,
And to put him back a pace,
Is to stop this stupid growling,
And look things in the face,
If you glance at history's pages,
In all lands a1 4 er known,
You will find the buried ages
Far more wicked than our own,
Asx you scan each word and letter,
You will realize it more
That the world today is better
Than it ever was before,
There is much that needs amending
In the present time, no doubt ;
There is right that neads defending,
There is wrong needs erushing out,
And we hear the groans and enrses
Of the poor who starve and die,
While the men with swollen purses
In the place of hearts go by.
But, in spite of all the trouble
That obscures the «un today,
Just remember it was double
In the ages passed anay
And those wrongs shall all be righted,
Good shall dominate the land,
For the darkness now is lighted
By the torch in Science's hand,
Forth from little motes in chaos
We have come to what we are,
And no evil force can stay us,
We shall mount from star to star,
We shall break each bond and fetter
That has bound us heretofore,
And the earth is surely better
Than it ever was before,
A COWTOWN EPISODE.
[By Thomas B. Montfort.]
“ EE them two old plugs over
S there?" the landlord of the
Maverick hotel asked. pointing
across the street. The grocery
drummer, who had been caught over
Snnday In the little Kansas cowtown,
looked up and saw two grizzled, gray
old men sitting peacefully side by side
on a dry goods box In the shade of a
building.
“As mild and quiet as a pair of little
innocent lambs,” the landlord added.
with a chuckle, “and dwellin’ together
jest like they was own twin brothers!”
The grocery drummer yawned and
took up a paper and began to read.
The old men did not interest him in|
the least. It was no uncommon thing
in his experience to see a couple of old
feilows loafing on a village street.
“But that's jest the way they always
are,” the landlord went on. “You hard-
ly ever see ‘em when they ain't to-
gether. Wherever one goes the other
goes, and whatever one does the other
does. Ever since a feller come along
here and put us on to it we been callin’
‘em Damon and Pythias. You've heard
tell of them chaps, | reckon?”
The drummer nodded. |
“Well, these two old cubs is jest like!
that so far as their friendship goes—
stand by each other through thick and
thin, and either of ‘em would fight to
the last breath for the other. And
quiet and peaceable! You would natu-
rally think they'd been raised up in a
Sunday school and hadn't never heard
tell of nothin’ but the Bible all their
lives.”
AB'S HEAD.”
The drummer made no reply, and a
long silence followed. At last, how-
the landlord emitted a soft
Shuekle and, pointing across the street,
“You wouldn't ever guess, now,
a-lookin’ at them settin’
cusses that ever run the
range and that for two years they
tried their very best to kill each oth-
“Yit it's even so. I
has got a pound of 1
that the other put there, and as for
scars—well, I reckon they've branded
each other up about as complete as
they could without puttin’ the scars
on double.”
The drummer began to show interest.
He laid aside his paper and asked for
the particulars.
“Well, it's like this,” the landlord be-
gan. “Joe Kern—that's the one on the
right there—he used to be a cowboy
and worked on the Triple X ranch,
"bout twenty miles south of town. And
he was shore a holy terror. There was
lots of mighty tough cowboys round
here in them days, but the toughest
of em was as mild and harmless as
bables compared with Joe. Their little
serappin’ and shootin’ wa'n’'t much
more than Sunday school work when
looked at alongside of what he done.
“among the eccentric notions Joe
got into his head was one to the effect
that this town didn’t need no marshal
and shouldn't have none. Accordin’ly.
as soon as that idea hit him he sent in
word to the marshal invitin® him to
resign or move away and sayin’ that
he would be up In a few days and
would be under the painful necessity
of vaecatin' the office with his six
shooter if the marshal disregarded his
well meant invitation.
“The marshal was a young feller,
and he hadn't never felt any special
longing to quit this world for another
tnat he didn’t know anything about, so
he suddenly decided that he'd give up
his job and go away to some place
that was more conducive to iongevity.
Accordin'ly, he tendered his resigno-
tion and without waitin’ for it to be ac.
cepted lit out,
“After that there were other mar
shals, but none of them held the office
very long. As fast as they were elect-
ed Joe invited them to resign, and they
showed respect for his wishes. Some
of them were a little slow, though, and
he had to come in and press his invi-
tation by firin' a few shots just close
enough about their heads to make them
nervous and loosen up the muscles of |
their legs.
“Well, things went along that way |
for ‘bout a year. Then one day a long
ganglin’ feller with a mild eye, a soft
voice and a solemn lookin’ face hap-
pened into town. [is name was Ab
Case, and that's him a-sittin’ over
there on the left. ;
“Ab he was lookin’ for a job, and
the town it was lookin’ for a marshal
jest then, so the two gits together and
strikes up a deal. Ab says he ain't
never been a marshal, but "lows he can
manage it all right, and the town Is
findin' it difficult to get anybody to
take the job with Joe Kern and shore
death hangin’ over it, so to speak.
“Well, Ab Is sworn in and puts on the
star, and then here comes a invite to
him from Joe, askin’ him to resign. Ab
listened to Joe's message, which was
delivered by another cowboy, then
shrugs his shoulders and replies that he
don't never accept invitations second-
hand.
“+f Mr. Kern wants me to consider
any proposition he has got to offer
along that line,’ he says, ‘he will have
to come In and see me pussonally.’
“About three days later Mr. Kern
did come in. Down at the saloon he
told them why he had come. It was
to convince the new marshal that he
ought to resign and go away.
“«And | have brought my very best
arguments with me, he finished, ‘ar-
guments that ain't never falled as a
last resort.’
“He shore had them, too--a Win-
chester and a brace of six shooters.
And he knowed how to handle them
arguments ‘hout as eloquently as any
man that ever lived.
“He irrigated his system at the bar,
coolly lighted a cigar and then went
out to look up the marshal and pay his
respects to him. And he didn’t have to
go far, either, for he was scarcely out
of the saloon when somebody pointed
out Ab standin’ on a corner 'bout half
a block away.
“Are you shore that's him? Joe
asked. ‘I'd rather not make any mis-
take and kill an innocent man if it can
be helped.’
“ “That's shore him.” they answered.
“Joe smiled and raised his gun.
“ll sorter wake him up.’ he sald.
‘1 won't hurt him at first, but jest call
his attention that I'm here.
“He fired, and the ball cut a lock of
hair from Ab's head. Ab looked
around sort of casual to see what it
meant and ‘the next instant sent back
an answer to Joe's shot. That answer
plowed a furrow along the side of Joe's
head.
“From that they went at it ir dead
earnest. Everybody else got out of the
way and give 'em a clear fleid. There
wa'n't no backin’ down and no runnin’
on the part of neither of ‘em. They
jest stood up there and pumped lead at
and into each other as carelessly and
cheerfully as you please.
“After 'bout ten minutes the firin’
ceased, and then we all cautiously
peered out to see how it had ended.
They was both down on the ground
helpless, but still tryin’ to shoot.
“When we come to examine, we
found 'em pretty badly riddled up, but
with no wounds that promised to be
fatal. We carried ‘em off, and the
doctors patched ‘em up, and for a long
time they remained quiet in bed.
thought different. One of ‘em said:
“It won't ever end while they both
live. Kern will never give up, and it's
pretty evident Case won't either. When
they get out, they'll be at it again, and
’ ’
“And it proved that he was partly
right. The very first time they met
£
time Joe came up to town there
a shootin’ bout. They fought to
too, and, both of 'em bein’ good
we reckoned every time one of
would be shore to git it. But,
strange to say, neither of "em ever did.
riddled each other all up, but
they was never able to git in a finish-
FIeEE]
| the wagon.
in’ shot,
“I'll git him yit, though, Joe de-
clared. ‘I'm jest bound to do it before
I quit’
“Ab made the same declaration, and
we was all shore one of "em would be
killed before the thing come to an end.
Didn't seem like it could wind up any
other way.
“But it transpired that we was all
entirely mistaken, as you can see for
yourself,
“One day, 'bout three months after
the last shootin’ scrape and jest when
we was expectin’ Joe to make another
appearance, a covered wagon drove
into town aud stopped in front of the
mayor's office. The wagon was from
the Triple X, and we couldn't under-
stand its bein’ covered that way, so
we all gathered round to see what it
meant.
“In the bottom of the wagon was
some straw, and lyin’ stretched out on
the straw was Joe Kern. We see at a
glance that Joe was mighty sick, for
he jest lay there and moaned and
didn’t take no notice of nobody nor
nothin’,
“While we was standin’ there gapin’
Ifke a passul of idiots Ab come up and
pushed his way through the crowd to
We "lowed shore as soon
as Ab got his eves on Joe he'd pling
him, but right there we was mistaken
some more.
“Ab looks at Joe a minute,
turns to the driver and says:
“What's the matter of the cuss?
“ ‘Smallpox,’ the driver replies.
“In about half a minute that iden-
tical part of town became rather
scarce of population. All of nspexcept
Ab, Joe and the driver hippened to
simultaneously remember that we had
more pressin’ business other places.
and we hurried off to tend to it.
“It seemed, as we learned afterward,
that Joe had been exposed to the small-
pox somewhere “nd that the first thing
they knowed he took down with it. The
ranch wa'n’t no fit place for a sick man
to stay, so they loaded him up and sent
him into town, expectin’ the mayor to
take him in hand and do somethin’ with
then
“IP THERE'S ANY MORE SHOOTIN’ DONE, |
YOU LL HAVE TO DO IT!"
him. But it happened that the mayor
was away from home and wouldn't be
back for a week.
“Ab studied a little while. Then he
said to the driver:
“ “Take him down to my house. [I'll
keep him and do the best | can for
him. That seems to be all there is for
it.’
“S80 the driver went on down to Ab's
house, and he and Ab took Joe from
the wagon and carried him in and put
him in Ab's bed. Ab turned nuss and
stayed right there with Joe, sleepin’ on
a blanket on the floor.
“Of course we was all surprised at
Ab doin’ that way, seein’ that he and
Joe were such bitter enemies, and we
talked about it and wondered at it.
Joe couldn't understand it, either, so
one day when he was gittin’ better he
says to Ab:
“ “There's one thing I want to know,
Mr. Case. I've puzzled about it a good
bit lyin’ here, and J can’t seem to git
the hang of it. I would like to know
why you took me in and nussed me
this way?
“I hope,’ Ab replied, ‘that you ain't
got no notion that I done it for love?
“ ‘Hardly,’ Joe answered, ‘But that
is what makes it harder to understand.’
“ “Then I'll explain,’ Ab said. ‘First,
1 wouldn't be brute enough to let a
sick dog suffer for attention if I could
help it, and, second, I didn't want you
to die a natural death and cheat me out
of the pleasure of shootin’ you.’
“Joe's face broke into a smile, and he
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up the fight, and we'll keep it up
git you.
““Till 1 git you, you mean,’ Ab
rected.
“Do I? Well, you'll see.’
“It went on till at last Joe was a
!
g
to be up and around; then I'm blamed
if Ab didn’t turn in and take down
with the smallpox. Then them two
Jest reversed things. Ab took the bed,
and Joe nussed him and slept on the
floor. Ab was mighty bad off for
awhile, but finally he begun to git bet-
ter.
“One day when Joe was sittin’ by
the bed Ab broke a long silence by
saying:
“I'll be out soon now, and then I
reckon we'll be done with this cussed
smallpox.’
“ “Yep, I reckon so.” Joe replied.
“And it won't be long either,” AD
went on, ‘till we can resume our little
pastime of shootin’ each other up.’
“Joe turns around and looks Ab
straight in the eyes and says:
“‘You may think me a coward If
you want to, but [ say right now that
if there's any more shootin’ done you'll
have to do it. I'm through for my part,
Before I'll shoot a man who took me
in and cared for me like you did I'll
pull up stakes and leave the country.’
“Ab looked surprised for a woment;
then he stretched out his hand and
| sald:
| “‘Put 'er thar, pard. Them's my sen-
timents exactly.’
“And from that day them two fel-
lers has been jest like yon see ‘em
now. quiet and peaceful as lambs, the
very best of friends and always hang.
in’ around together.”
A Well Mannered Bus.
Riding in an omnibus up Regent
gtreet recently, an old lady was an-
noying the other passengers by her re-
marks. The con’nector remonstrated
with her, saying, “Ma'am. remember
you are in a public vehicle, and behave
as such "—London Spectator,
In a Nitroglycerin “Hill”
In the “danger area” the severest
discipline is maintained. All entrances
are carefully guarded by searchers,
who rigorously examine every indi
vidual that desires to enter, relieving
him of any metallic objects that may
be carried upon his person, together
with matches and other suspicious ob-
jects which upon coming into contact
with the dangerous chemicals used in
this zone might provoke serious trou-
ble. No matter how often an employee
engaged within the hill may pass in
and out, every time he enters he must
submit to this preliminary and essen-
tial operation. There are also some
500 girls employed, and these are un-
der the charge of matrons. Halirpins,
ordinary pins, shoe buttons, metai pegs
within the soles of the shoes, knitting
and other needles are all religiously
barred. Their hair is tied with braid
or ribbon, and, as with the male em-
ployees, every time they enter the
| “danger area” they are similarly
| searched by the matrons. — Scientific
| American,
|
A Hard Knock.
Rairoad claim agents have little
| faith in their fellow creatures. One
| sald recently: “Every time I settle a
| claim with one of these hard headed
{ rural residents who wants the railroad
to pay twice what he would charge the
butcher if he gets a sheep killed, 1
| think of this story. illustrative of the
| way some people want to held the rail-
road responsible for every accident, of
whatever kind, that happens. Two
Irishmen were driving home from
| town one night when their buggy rau
| into a ditch, overturned, and they were
| both stunned. When a rescuer came
along and revived them the first thing
one of them said was, ‘Where's the
train? ‘Why. there's no train around.’
he was told. ‘Then where's the rail
road?” “The nearest railroad Is three
miles away.’ he learned. ‘Well, well,
| he commented. ‘I knew it hit us pret-
ty hard, but I didn’t suppose it knock-
ed us three miles from the track! "—
| Argonaut.
The Page Between.
A New Orleans woman, well known
for her work for charity, recently ac-
cepted an invitation to speak at an
anti-tuberculosis meeting. On the plat-
form she found herself seated between
a bishop and a rabbi, and the tone of
the meeting seemed to be rendered ex-
tremely solemn by the combination.
In order to lighten the solemnity, she
eaid. turning to the rabbi, “Do you
know, I feel as if 1 were a leaf be
tween the Old and the New Testa-
ments.”
The rabbi turned a sad eyed gaze
upon her.
“Yes, madam.” he said, “and, if you
will recall, that page is usually a blank
one.”
She Was a Bit Bashful.
Mr. Peet, a very diffident man, was
unable to prevent himself being intro-
duced one evening to a fascinating
young lady. who, misunderstanding his
name, constantly addressed him as Mr.
Peters, much to the gentleman's dis-
tress. Finally summoning up the cour-
age. he earnestly remonstrated: “Oh.
don’t call me Peters. Call me Peet!”
“Ah, but I don’t know you well
enough, Mr. Peters,” said the young
lady, blushing, as she withdrew be-
hind her fan.—London Telegraph.
The Onion In Cooking.
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that
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the up to dste creations.
Helpless.
Ella—What a helpless girl she is!
Stella—Yes. If somebody should pro-
vide the mistletoe and furnish the man
she couldn't do the rest. — Canadian
Courier.
A
DAVIS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL BILL.
Congressman C. R Davis, of Minnesota,
feels greatly encouraged concerning the
age in the aear futare of his industrial
The numerous epndorse-
ments from the leading educational men of
the United States, including favorable reso-
igh school hill.
lations from many eduneational organiza
zations, farmers’ associations, State ool
leges of agriculture and mechanic arts, com
mercial organizations, beards of trade,
manufacturers’ organizatiou= and indostrial
the
country have inspired the hope that Con-
gress will be induced to consider favorably
organizations geuerally throughout
the measure daring the present session.
By appointment Mr. Dasis had an inter
view with the President recently in
which the provisions of the hill were con-
sidered. He was very moch gratified to
receive from the President his hearty and
In this
interview allusion was made to the Presi.
dent’s speech at Keokuk in October lass,
and the President was gratified to know
that his ideas then expressed concerning
this measure were receiving such favorable
consideration thronghont the entire coun-
fall endorsement of the measure.
try. [Io this speech the President said :
“We should strive in every w. y to aid in
the eduestion of the farmer for the farm,
and should shape onr school system with
thi<end in view ; and so vitally import.
ant ix this that, in my opinion the federal
government should co-operate with the
state governments to secure the needed
change and improvement in onr schools.
At present there is a gap between our
primary schools in country and eity
which must be closed and if necessary
the nation must help the state to close it.
Too often our present schools tend to put
altogether too great a preminm upon
mere literary education, and therefore
to train away from the farm and shop.
We should reverse this process,”
Among the hundreds of indorsements
Mr. Davis has received and to which the
President's attention was called, a letter
written hy Judge Peter J. Shields, of the
Snpreme court of California,especially at-
He not
only approved of its contents hut urged
that great publicity be given to it as em-
bodying briefly the desirability and veces.
sity of developing education along indas-
tracted the Presidents’ attention.
trial linvs as embodied in this bill,
The President was much gratified at the
equitable manner in which this bill dis-
tributes technical and industrial education
amoug the masses. He was especially
pleased to know that this bill divides the
money about equally as between agricul-
tore, the mechanic industries and home
making.
Judge Shields’ letter,
California, is as follows :
November 20d, 1907.
My Dear Mr. Weinstock :
[ received your lester enclosing a copy of
the ‘Davis Bill’’ which I now re inolose
I wae familiar with the bill from
conversation with interested parties but
to you.
written to his
friend, Col. Weinstock, of Sacramento,
-_ oy TT a - coi
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ENDORSES | These figures Mr. Davis contends are al-
| together encouraging as showing that
pational appropriations bave not tended to
relieve the States of the sense of responsi-
bility but bave in fact quickened the sense
of responsibility in the States which are
benefiteed. The schools provided for in
this measure are of exactly the same class
as those inangurated under the Morrill Act
of 1862, and like them will strengthen the
States directly and the Federal Govern-
ment indirectly. Asthese State colleges
have remained under the State control so
will the schools of agricultare and the
schools of mechanic arte provided for in
this bill remain under State control, hence
no cause for alarm from centralization.
Instead of destroying the unity of our
schocl system, this measure bridges the gap
between the education of the school house
and the education of the home, the farm
and the shop. Heretofore our education
bas lacked unity, it bas heen too much
centered about the literary, the non-indus-
trial ; ite forms and substance bave been
too little co-ordinated with the training of
the home, of the shop, of the farm and of
the great outdoors. Through technical
training it will keep our youth out of a
peasant or submerged class ; and by en-
couraging the States to expend more
money for eduoation it will greatly in-
crease general as well as technical educa-
tion.
A Hundred Million Ties a Year,
In the construction of new track and for
renewals, the steam and street railroads
used in 1906 over 100,000,000 cross-ties.
The average price paid was 48 cents per
tie,
Oak, the chief wood used for ties, fur-
| nishes more than 44 per cent, nearly one-
| bait of the whole number, while the South-
ern pines, which rank second, contribute
ahout one-sixth. Douglas fir and cedar,
the next two, with approximately equal
quantities, supply less than ove fifteenth
apiece. Chestnus, cypress, Western pine,
tamarack, hemlock and redwood are all of
importance, but uo one of them furnishes
more than a emall proportion.
Oak and Southern pine stand highest in
both total and average valne ; the average
value of each is 51 cents. Chestous ranks
next, followed by cedar. Hemlock, at 28
cents, is the cheapest tie reported.
More than three-fourths of all ties are
hewed; and with every wood from which
ties are made, except Douglas fir and West-
ern pine, the nomber of hewed ties is
greatern than the number sawed. Ibn gen-
erai, when lumber has a relatively low
value the proportion of sawed ties increases,
because the mai ket for ties is always active,
while that fr lumber is frequertly slog-
gish. All Western species are affected by
this condition, for stumpage is abundant
and its value relatively low.
Ten per cent of the ties purchased were
treated with preservatives either before
they were purchased or at the treating
bad never seen it and was glad to ges it! plant of the railroad company. At least
through you.
for it.
This to some extent has been true of the
endowment, although
t has worked its way
ont and proved a really great success. The
danger which I bave pointed out however
i= very well guarded against in the ‘Davis
Bill”? by requiring the several States to first
the farm and the
school buildings and making the payment
of the semi-annual amounts dependent up-
on the right use of prooveding saws, and
placing the Secretary of Agriculture in con-
agrionltural colle
in the long ron t
provide the grounds,
trol of all disbursements.
Rightly enforced the bill is admirable,
Firsts it provides for technical, industrial
and practical education as distinguished
fiom the old theory of educating all alike
regardless of hie type or the life he was to
lead ; of teaching the boy or girl books
alone thas they might thereby acquire the
strength and fiber of mind to later learn
men and things. The character of educa-
tion proposed by this bill will teach the
realities of life direct and in the
ounltivate the mind as well as the ol
roience within its purposes.
will do incaloulable good.
of the peopie to know plants and animals
through domestio science to feed the ba
with wholesome fond and the soul with all
of the finer things which are comprehended
within the limita of the real home, or
throngh the mechanic arts whioh train
men’s bodies to their highest usefulness
on to the mind's best
am pot afraid of the fate of
a country whose people are given over to
breeding perfect animals, rearing crops of
best excellence, building good roads, labor
saving machinery, antomobiles, and rail-
houses,
furnishing them perfectly and making real
homes of them, to the building of hath tubs,
arranging plambing, weaving fine cloths
i gh Jie iu Paris cand et tue iniirems iv
and to give ex
conceptions.
roads, constructing convenient
them into right form.
It the
doing of such things does not make
whole.
and union, for moral industry ani
some
lessly at fault. .
Nor can I doubs that out of such condi-
tions will surely spring the soundest moral
and intellectual onltaure and impulse. This
general and
aud I have vo hesitation ic pro-
purpose
nouncing it sound and wise.
When I see you I will enjoy
talking it
hud un BE be oan, 1. om. Sy
My own are even more favorable to it than
I bave been able to state.
Very truly yours
PETER J. SHIELDS.
some
suggested the
Wat] aa aha to ie eo
ons
to national ownership of the contemplated
Po Davie has been invest!
objections
bill, and particular
claimed Federal
schools, and aleo that these
would relieve the States re pproptiatios
responeibility. In answer thereto he
from a letter written by she Hon. E. E.
Brown, U. 8. Commissioner of Education,
as follows :
“The recent effect of the national
priation i. tnder the ac (1802) haw bess
mu reat © su
land-grant colleges by the States in which
they are situated. Ten years ago, the
amount which these institutions received
from their several States was Shale 00,
while in 1906 this amount was
+ showing an increase of about 240 per cent.
In 1806 these ahsttions Teed Shed, the
coun aver, r cent © su port
Re ty vores Ten y
Inter, in 1906, owing to the increase of
State appropriations, the grant« from the
national treasury covered only 15.4 per
cent of their total support.”
I regard it as a very good
bill; if it works ont well it will prove a
great bill. The only wrong ahout it would
have to come in its administration, it is
perfectly sound in its purpose. You know
that when a Federal fund is provided for
State distribation whats scramble there is
plan,
One of the most fraitfal fields of the edu-
cation of the future will be nasure, the
wondrous world we live in, and of this
field agiiculture comprehends its best fea-
tores. This hill is broader than that how-
ever including mechanics and domestio
I am sure
that a vigorous distribution of learning in
these arts and sciences can do no harm and
I am not alraid
of vulgarizing the world or making it
what is called ‘‘utilitarian’’ by teaching all
ten railroad companies are operating their
own plants for the preservation of their
construction material.
Of the many forms in which wood is
used, ties are fonrth in cost, sawed lomber
being first, firewood second and shingles
and lathe third. It has been calculated
that the amount of wocd used each vear in
ties is tquivalent to the product of 600,000
acres of forest, and that to maintain every
tie in the track 6wo trees must he growing.
With neatly 300,000 miles of railroad
trackage and approximately 2.800 ties to
the mile, there are over B00 000,000 ties
constantly sntjeot to wear and decay. The
railroads report that in the form of ties ce-
dar lasts 11 years, cypress 10 years and
redwood 9 years. These woods, however,
lack the desired weight and hardness, and,
what is more important, they are not avail-
able in the region of the trank lines of the
cential and eastern States. When it is
considered, then, that the service of the
longest-lived tie timher in general use—
chestnut, white oak, tamarack, spruce and
Douglas fir—is but seven year+, while with
some, as the black cake, it i= but four
years, whereas a treated tie with equip-
ment to lessen wear will last fifteen years,
it is apparent how much the railroads can
save if preservative treatment of ties is oni-
versally adopted. The saving in the drain
upon the forests ie of even greater moment.
Details of the consumption of ties in 1906
are contained in circular 124, just issued
by the forest service in co-operation with
the bureau of the census. This phamphlet
can be secured by application to the forest-
er at Washington, D. C
Mme. Paderewskl.
It bas usually been the task of the muesi-
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health and in a measure after bis business,
. {and to play in fact the part that falls so
i | often to the hushand of the Prima donna.
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mens of expenses on the private oar of the
pianist is taken, and she sees to it that the
naturally extravagant tendencies of her
bushand are held in check.
Mme. Paderewski in dark baired, pale-
faced and the typical Pole in looks.
Much of Mme. Paderewski's life was
more Gallic than Polieh.
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in bg plu. ie
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