To be one of an army of 10,000; to) travel by -qpailronl 23,000 miles every | year; to stand in a car forming part of a swaying, rushing train, surround ed by open-mouthed sacks and pigeon holes, shuffling letters ¢ and papers at the rate of 2,600 per hour knowing that every error goes against your record; to work sometimes sixteen to twenty-four hours at a stretch, often gleepy and hungry-—these are some of the daily experiences of the railway mall clerks. Then add to these the constant possibility of being knocked foto eternity or crippled for life in a wreck. Yet they are a contented lot, these railway mail clerks, happy only | when “on the road.” But it is not the environment for a .omestic man, por for him who has passed the 3p of the hill of life and is Jogging dow foto the dark valley beyond. Thus a majority of the clerks are young men; these are preferred by the Post Office Department, for they have fewer cares, are more active, and can work faster and with greater accuracy. Uncle Sam is proud of the person. nel of this expert force and takes every precaution for ther ately and comfort. Their hours are fixed, and overtime is required only in cases of tle wide. The comparatively tender and mall car responded instant. ly, while the heavy baggage and passenger coaches constituted a drag that broke the eoupling. Relieved of this burden the engin t nder an mail car shot ahead a nd leaped the twenty-foot draw, Jand ng on the oth- er side in safety. “he engine ca ened and side-wiped the iron bridge wo, tearing its jacket ro tatters and knocking the cab into the riv- Th rest of the train, with brakes set au- tomatically, came 0 a stop without a foot to spare. Tight a Natural Spendthrifls, York Times reprinted from paper—which doubtless Bees The New a Montreal lifted it amiablg story to the effect that when bees are taken to Australia they learn in a single year the uselessness of stor- ing honey for a winter that never comes and that they thereafter aban- from one in London-—a most | OUR SUGAR CONSUMPTION. Beet Sugar Now Meese Than Half the World's Total Production, Of the more than 1,200 million dol lar's worth of merchandise brought 4n- to the United States during the last year more than 150 million dollar's worth was sugar, Sugar formed by far the largest single item in this larg. est Importation whien the United States has ever made any single year, The 1 ste adily in 8 Is increasing its consumption of su , Th gar produ at home are increasing their both cane and { sugar, but their rapid increase i od not keeping pace ] he | home dem: and, an 10 quantity of ito the country increases fron ar to year. It has doubled in The enty years, while population 1 fnereased but 50 per cer nt. The annual average | importa fon d tring tho five ir period ending with 1885 was 1,021,149 tons, and dr~ing the five-year period ending with 1505 the annual average was 2 106, 043 tons, 8 the fact that the gugar production at home had j n from 176,036 tons In 1885 to approximately 600,000 tons in 1905. The United States cis ction is quence despit roy the Is largest | though the per capita consumption in! this country Is not as great as in the United Kingdom, The total consump- | absolute necessity. A Traveling PostofTice. A raflway mu. car is technleafly an “R. P. 0.” or Rallway Post Office. It runs between stated points, receiving and distributing mail through post offices along the line. It is 4 govern. ment post office on wheels, and is United States territory, though owned by the railroad. It is as well built and as completely equipped for Its purpose as a Pullman. Iron racks for mall sacks extend along each side, Above are tlers of open boxes and big eon holes. “Work tables” sl" = on the racks. here is neither plush nor mahogany. It is built for work and is the abode of workers. Let us imagine that th “R. P. 0." leaving P Cleveland, Ohlo, over the t'er Hsyh a- nia road. The P'ittsburg city post office delivers to the car mail for pol: ts east of Cleveland (called “local mall”) and “through mail” for Cleveland and points west. The train rushes ont of Pittsburg. The whistle blows for a station. No stop here. opens a side door, swings “catcher” and picks up a rom a crane by the track. work begins. This sack c¢ from the station just passed. it is for the next {I Cleveland, some is car is the Pa., for ittsburg, ntalr QLice, for the ‘he mail is dumped on a tavlé and a) clerk pounces on it like a wolf on a! lamb. He tosses letters in all diree-| tions. He throws papers and pack- ages hither and yon, this way and that, as fast as an expert ¢ard player| can distribute a deck, But every plece| of mall finds *s mark In a particular] | sack or box. The eacke and boxes are!’ labeled: but the labels ard unneces-| sary; his quick eye calches only the) ; ¢ office-ignoring that of the addressee. Though ile work oq pears mechanical it calle for a high degree of training. Note the marvel lous accuracy—Iless than two per cent. of errors In the work of the wlole force for a given year. The whistle blows for another way station. The door is opened, a sack 19 tirown off, and the catcher yanks an- other sack about for distribution, And so It goes without cessation. The whoie scheme 18 so arranged that there 1s just time, working wi.s the utmost speed and accuracy, 10 make connections. Skill Needed to Throw Sacks. Throwing off sacks calls for anoth- er kind of skill, The expert knows from the weight of sack, speed of train and pressure of w'~d just when and how to let the sack go. He can Crop it on a mark. If » platform be crowded or littered with baggage he must pick a clear spot lest his cannon ball of leather and mall Iwta agninst some unsuspecting Gaveler, have seen a mall clerk drop a sixty pond sack “from a train going a mile a minute, landing it light ty on a truck twenty feet from the track. Of course there are accidents, and danger is always present. Yet in ten ears past but 90 clerks have been filled on the road--an average of ten a year, with n force numbering up to 11,000. The legal representative f each clerk so killed receives $1,000 from the government. Arrangements | 11 intelligence, are contemplated for payment of an annuity to every clerk permanently |! disabled In line of duty. The mall car is usualy next tender and runs a greater risk in ac ecidents than a passenger car But! the position Is sometimes advanta.| grous. An instance is clted of a peco- Mar wreck near Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The train was crossing a bridge when | INTERIOR OF lon the ir dear-bought fan 2 try and hilariou ! y ! 3} all of thelr ept Just end 1 in each day that day's hunger. No doubt will ¢ k and griey of estimable people, part, says the Times ably increases such littl we previously had for the virtuous fowl and ther do our best to | OIRO aim ult} oa that. Bees, desp are stupidest thing animated acquisitiveness, jeed work- ing as hard as an American million- | aire to pile up wealth fa beyond any possible needs, without & single taal except to get, get, get As fehters, while bees are brave enough, they are unable to strike more than a single blow against any of their more dangerous foes, dying themselves a8 a result of it, while the foes, alter owling with pain for a bit, calm down nd hunt more honey. It is alm {neredible, therefore, that a creature incapable of ses e futility of work carried to an al ne only for j@ profit of human robbers should be able so quickly to draw an inference from the fallure of winter to appear when expected. “Almost™ is not quite,” however, and we, too, can be lieve what we want to belleve. So we will question the story from Aus eve in ost ng t} urd ext: A MAIL CAR ty | 76 pound 0iof ™ ithe tralia—w here everything le arvyhow will take trious only because they have to be that they are not a bit fonder of Indus try than are the butterflies or any of the sluggards who have always had the gense to see that between toll today and hunger to-morrow there is so little to choose that differences of opinion on the subject are entirely permissible Wn mn A Famous for Artificial Noses. The city of Indore is modern and ugly and uninteresting. Apart from being the prosperous eapital of a rich tive state, its chief claim to notor y rests upon its hospital, which has n universal fame by the manufac ure of artificial noses That may seem a very limited Industry on which to build a name. But in India there | are several ways of promoting this in. dustry. When a woman comes to the hospital earrying her nose in a napkin you may fairly assume that her hus band suspects a breach of the Seventh Commandment. When a map appears A—— — is possible, and we hope that somebody | a few of our ants down there | and prove that they, also, are Indus | mn ma each individua During the half century prior to 1850 beet # r formed mall portion, the rid's a y ion, perce } ipplied of the worll's war product being In 1840 but Pa } 14.3 pi cent n 1 : 1 : ’ while 1% showed for beets the 3 ighest propor tion in th fon of sugar, Ghostly Ashes. They had moved In the house and, as is um ally the case, the former! tenants had left mush rubbish waning! fost them. 18041 ‘ My ) JN a) a Z ‘ ‘ ho Vashington Pu SENATOR IN IRONI Senator Lodge's bill providing for the reorganization of the consular ser vice has been shorn by the Committee | on Foreign Relations of its most to- | condiary and de ures—the | provision for eo candidates for appointment, and this still more objectionable section “That whenever a va¢ shall occur In the office of consul general. or consul above the sixth ($4,000) class members of the two classes next below that In which the vacancy occurred shall be deemed eligible to be selectr! to fill such vacancy ™ This was a paloable attempt to en graft the merit and promotion system wnon the sonaular service, and thereby to deprive national a~makers of thelr ancient sacred right to assist the Pres! ‘ent In selecting consuls general and Sehaalaried sonenle A malority of the committee regard It as the sordid Injection of commerecialiem Into a pure Iv politieal matter, on the flimsy pre tonce that the consular sorvics 18 a business institution. If the Committees on Foreign Nels tions had pemitted this section to stand, It would have been an B Shject cap ftniation to the Jor hat oti tiously pre” rrong The idea a that have made testable feat aminiog ancy output of |’ even | sugarconsuming country in the world, | “100 MUCH LAW-MAKING.” REPRESEN TA Ti Iv i BO WERSOCK, OF KANSAS CITY, CRITICISES BILL MAKERS, Says Sclfishness and Ambition Leaa them through a Wilderness of Folly ond Buncomb and Valuable Time is Wasted. “lI have long criticised and seriously objected to the making of so many laws, and I have long contended that | men are not made good and honest by | statute,” remarked Hepresentative {Justin D. Bower: of Kan re cently. ock, “The comparative enactment of le ly Indiscriminate glslation on all subjects general, special and personal--is a great evil and ¢ iter folly, I have insisted that selfishness and prejudice are at the basis of too many enact ments, and that human nature and the settled principles of business and commerce, 1 orable competition, and the results of supply and demand ean hardly be changed by law to any ben- | eficial extent. “Corporate greed, cupidity, and cor | ruption can be, ought to be, be modified, curtailed, {within decent limits, to say the least. No man desires this ore earnestly | than I do; no man will along any YOU SAVE FROM $75 to $200 gale, only our wholesal 8 plar retail Ze Y of the agents or galesmer on ton the manuf is fro SENT ON TRIAL ANYWHERE Un or wi hen it is fac ft back ent! ing. the plano than if you were exar fa wy, Th per 8s we say. without any trou town in any part of the: UU) E {| easily as we can in New York c 7, and Wit a Wiha Ve and will | and brought go further! eges gitimate and practicable effort bring this about, whether it be in con- neect lon with railroad rates, Oll re beef trust, bination, watered ates stocks, or whatever | or whoever may burden the consumer or producer, unduly for extortionate gain “Equal rights to none’ impracticable, drewn on the theory reached the millennium “The ordinary legislator, name is legion every {1 If he had a : i ran , Lhe Lilie or unjustly, to all will non+« special privil come through nforceabls not and of his reasonable lines In any le-| to Standard | unlawful com- | laws | that we have! his | has a legal panacea for | much honesty | bills | do business) the off¢ met and the hariolr . WOTIELDS cn Two«Fo — ot Rat. n t of the | Oriental | sh Back geampered, and when ——p t his assallant, hind a coll of rope ove he dashed nt and cornered Once he hid be rhead, and then man's head. The latter dodred the rodent's sharp teeth gra 1 his face, At last the rat and measurey the bat ents seen in 1 5 fa supposed to 1 In South America ved he eame here in a 8} CArTY Many n a anima a spe and It p, all of es fond LODGE DOES NOT RECOGNIZE HIS AMENDED BILL AlL VEIN, prominent eftizens recommended by legislators should accept paltry places at the foot of the list was intensely repugnant to the Senatorial sense. AS statesmen representing watchful and ex- poctant constituents, many of whom ex: ercise valuable influence in behalf of their party, they could not consent to losing the door of hope. Every Con gressional di~trict has its share of elderly and highminded students of the world's affairs, men who may have been rudely buffeted by fortune and who cherish the hope of dodging further cruel strokes by landing in a pleasant consulate. They are men who have Aone yeoman service for their party, and often they retaln connections that ean not be ignored, Are these to be superseded and thrust aside by pop infays? Are the oxen that tread out the corn to be muzzled? Is the aceurs od thirst for gold to commercialize the honoMable office of consul, so long the tmven of ancient mariners tempest. political seas, the promoted and proved | | tone, ation with every Wing Piano. IVIORPHINE. Free Treatment > Intil \ wi Cured WING PIANOS|S Are Sold Direct From Factory and in No Other Way When you buy a Wing Plano, you buy at whois ou pay the actual cost of makin git wi th When ye ube 0, A3 man u pay his profit and the of what the de acturer., 3200. 1 870 10 ¢ WE PAY FREIGHT. . . . 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