GOT THE TRAIN STOPPED.
Two Attempts Were Dismal Failures,
but the Third Won.
When the late Robert Bonner pur
chased Maud S. he sent her to Charter
Oak park to be trained. Due day a
friend of Mr. Bonner left New York
to visit him at the park, but found
tbat the train did not stop at that sta
tion. The conductor was polite, but
said that he could not go against or
ders.
At New naven a halt was made and
Mr. Bonner's friend tried to bribe the
engineer with a ten dollar bill, bir
In vain. He was then told that Charle.
P. Clark, the president of the road,
was on the train, and he went to him
and politely requested that the stop
be made.
"Why don't you see the conductor?"
asked Mr. Clark.
"I have, but he will not disobey or
- ders."
"Why not then go forward and bribe
the engineer?"
"I tried bribery at New Haven, but
it would not work."
The absence of evasion was the best
policy. Mr. Clark not only gave orders
to have the train stopped at Charter
Oak. but promised some day to see
MaudS. He had wituessed the attempt
at bribery, and the frank confession
of the offense seemed to please him.
BIG NAVAL GUNS.
Death at Times Comes From Merely
Serving Them In Battle.
Modern naval engagements demon
strate that the gunners sometimes die
after the battle, even when they have
not been wounded or injured in any
way Death is caused by disturbance
of the circulation due to the strain
placed upon the nervous system by the
excitement and the tremendous vibra
tions of modern guns.
Curiously enough, this collapse Is
quite as likely to affect the most ro
bust members of the gun crew as the
ones with poorer physiques and bears
no relation to the individual's courage.
It is due to a lack of sufficient reserve
power of the heart which is dependent
upon the quality of the heart muscles,
and there is no known means of esti
mating this inherent quality exactly.
it is possible, of course, to determine
the force and strength of the heart in
an individual, but only some test such
as that of actual battle, will determine
the quality of the heart muscles.
Thus the veteran gunner who has |
proved his heart quality In actual bat
tle has become a peculiarly valuable
factor in modern naval warfare.—Los !
Angeles Times.
They Like Fat Girls In Tunis.
A Tunisian girl has no chance of j
marriage unless she tips the scale at
200 pounds, and to that end she com
mences to fatten when she is fifteen
years old. She takes medicine and
eats a great, deal of sweet stuff and
leads a sedentary life to hasten the
process. Up to fifteen she is very
handsome, but at twenty what an iin
mense, unwieldy mass of fat she be
comes! She waddles, or, rather, undu
lates, along the street. Her costume is
very picturesque, especially if she be
of the richer class. She is clothed in
fine silks of resplendent hues of a
bright red. yellow or green and wears
a sort of conical shaped headdress,
from which depends a loose white
drapery. Turkish trousers and dainty
slippers, the heels -of which barely
reach the middle of the feet, complete
the costume.
OUR FIRST ELECTION.
Methods In the Days When Washing
ton Was Chosen President.
At the first national election at which
General Washington was chosen presi
dent only eleven of the thirteen states
voted. North Carolina and Rhode Is
land not yet having entered the Union,
and in only three —Pennsylvania, Mary
land and Virginia—were popular elec
tions held. In the other eight states
the legislatures chose the electors. New
York did not choose electors because
of a feud between the anti-Federalist
house and the Federalist senate.
One exciting incident was caused by
the fear on the part of Alexander Ham
ilton that John Adams, who was on
the ticket for vice president with
.Washington, was plotting to tie the
vote, and thus by throwing the elec
tion into the national house of repre
sentatives defeat the Father of His
Country for president. So real wae
this fear in Hamilton that he dis
patched messengers on horses to Vir
ginia, Connecticut and New Jersey to
stampede the legislatures of the latter
two states to Washington.
So long did it take to gather news
that Washington was actually inaugu
rated president before some of the
remote counties in Virginia had sent
in their returns. In this first election
there was only one ticket and there
was no campaigning. There were only
about 3,000,000 inhabitants in the coun
try a* that time, and the whole cost
of gating up the machinery of this
pitstdental election is estimated at less
than sloo,ooo.—Pittsburgh Dispatch.
After the Assay.
"I understand you got several hun
dred wedding gifts."
"We did. At first I thought I'd have
to hire a safe deposit vault, but after
going over the stuff we simply stored
'em In a barrel in the cellar."—Louis
ville Courier-JournaL
FESTIVAL OF GERMAN SINGERS OF NATION.
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National singing festival of Northeastern Saengerbund of America will be held in the Thirteenth regiment ar
mory. Brooklyn. N. Y., (shown here) May 29 to June 2. No. 1 is Carl Fique, musical conductor; No. 2, Dr. Felix Jae
srer. assistant chorus director; No. 3, August 11. Tiemann. chairman of national committee of Northeastern music
committee.
THE MAN ROOSEVELT CALLED "BOSS."
Photo by American Press Association.
William Barnes, Jr., Republican leader of New York (in center), with his
son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Thurlow Weed Barnes.
RIGGS BANK AN D FEDERAL OFFICIALS CLASH.
Photos by American Press Association.
A misunderstanding developed between the Riggs bank, Washington, and William G. McAdoo, secretary of
the treasury (at left), and John S. Williams, comptroller of currency (on right), the suit being advanced to May 12.
Raindrops.
Drops of rain vary in their size per
haps from a twenty-fifth to a quarter
of an inch in diameter. In parting
from the clouds they precipitate their
descent till the increasing resistance
opposed by the air becomes equal to
their weight, when they continue to
Tall with uniform velocity. This ve
locity is therefore in a certain ratio
to the diameter of the drops; hence
thunder and other showers in which
the drops are large pour down faster
than a drizzling rain. A drop of the
twenty-fifth part of an inch in falling
through the air would, when it had ar
rived at its uniform velocity, acquire a
celerity of only eleven and a half feet
per second, while one of a quarter of
an inch would have a velocity of thii*
ty-three and a half feet
Fair Warning.
A farmer engaged Pat to mow a
small field of hay, and on giving him a
new scythe told him it was such a good
one that he need only put the point of
it in the hay and it would cut by itself.
Pat set off to his work, and about mid
day, when the farmer came to see how
Pat was getting on, he found him sit
ting in a corner of the field with one
end of the scythe in the hay. This so
enraged the farmer that he went for
Pat, who, cii seeing him, immediately
shouted:
"Keep back, keep back! Ye don't
know the minute she's going to start!"
—Exchange.
United States Laws.
An act when passed by both houses
of congress and signed by the presi
dent becomes a law. If at any time
thereafter questions of its constitution
ality arise the matter is settled by the
supreme court. The court has more
than once declared acts of congress
unconstitutional, as, for instance, the
"civil rights" bill.—New York Ameri
can.
THE PATRIOT
Real Joy of Farm Owning.
I am not a gentleman farmer, with
a great estate over which I riurr ortr a
in awhile and leave all the real work
to my underlings. I cannot think there
would be great fun in this. No: I like
to take hold with my Portuguese man
ind plant and spray and trim and
prune. To be sure, he does morr than
his share of the rough work, and luct
of the year I must be cultivating other
kinds of fields than those that grow
cabbages and turnips, but the fun of
farming comes from being a real farm
er while you are one, getting close to
the soil, becoming intimate with everj
living thing, whether it be a plant oi
animal: loving your tomato vines and
raspberry bushes, taking a real pride
In your eggplants and your brussels
sprouts, whether you get a prize for
them at the county fair or not.—Rev
Dr. Francis E. Clark in Countryside
Magazine and Suburban Life.
A Recipe For Ghosts.
It is generally understood that "see
ing ghosts" is the result of indigestion
The following notes may be useful t(
amateurs anxious to investigate psy
chological phenomena:
Lobster salad eaten after midnight
one ordinary ghost with chains.
Two Welsh rabbits and a mince pie
one mysterious gray lady emitting
groans.
Cold roast pork, mixed pickles and
strong tea taken immediately before
retiring, a genuine family specter car
rying his head under bis arm.
A portion of cake, result of daugh
ter's first lesson at cookery school, a
froup of fearsome blood stained hob
goblins with blue lights shining out oi
empty eye sockets.—New York Jour
nal.
Trapping Baboons.
Hagenbeck in his book says that bab
oons are caught in traps made much
like the huts of savages. Food is put
into the huts, and once the baboons go
Inside a trapdoor closes behind them.
Outside baboons make a great to do
and urge the prisoners to escape.
When the trappers come the captured
baboons are terror stricken and try to
force their heads through the walls
of the huts. One baboon was caught
three times in the same trap, and sev
eral when turned loose got back into
the same trap a second time. When
the baboons are carried away all their
comrades thereabout climb into trees
and scream out to the prisoners, who
answer in sad. mournful voices. On
one occasion some big Arabian baboons
were trapped, when 2,000 or 3,000 bab
oons hurled themselves upon the trap
pers, who had hard work to save them
selves with firearms and clubs. As the
trappers were forced back the victori
ous baboons tore up the trap and turn
ed loose the captured baboons.
SPAIN'S WOMAN WARRIOR.
The Maid of Saragossa and How She
Saved Her City.
The Spaniards have erected a raonu
meut to ihe memory of Augostiua
j Zaragoza. whose bravery during tin
peninsular war saved her city.
In July. ISOS, the French were press
ing hard upon Saragossa. The hardes
fighting occurred at Portillo gate
where the assaulting batteries mor
than once reached the dilapidate**
earthworks. The gunners of the Span
i ish battery were shot down one afte
another, the survivors falling befoi.
they could discharge the last loader
gun.
The infantry flinched, and the FrenC
were closing in when a young womai
betrothed to a young sergeant of arti.
lery who had just fallen rushed in
snatched the lighted match from bet
dying lover's hand and fired the undis
charged twenty-four pounder into the
head of the advancing column.
The enemy was thrown back. Th>
citizens with a cheer rushed forward
reoccupied the batterv and the assault
was checked.
Angostina Zaragoza received from
her government a commission as sub
lieutenant of the artillery and a life
pension. A few years later she was
seen by an English traveler serving
with her battery in Andalusia. She
wore a blue artillery tunic, on the
sleeve of which was a shield of honor
—Washington Star.
How to Know Hemlock.
The occasional reports in the papers
of children or animals being poisoned
by eating some umbelliferous plant
emphasizes the importance of being
able to distinguish the dangerous ones
In the case of hemlock itself, the most
poisonous of all, this is not difficult.
Notice first the dark green, much cut
and divided leaves and the peculiar
odor which botanists call fetid. But
perhaps the most obvious thing and
that which most easily distinguishes
the hemlock from all other umbellif
erous plants is the stem. This is
smooth, polished, slightly furrowed
and of a green color blotched and spot- |
ted with purple. No other membei
of the order has a stem in the leas*
like it—London Globe.
His Own Medicine.
A certain barrister named Jones who j
practiced in Lord Brougham's time
was in the habit of commencing the j
examination of a witness with these
words. "Now, sir, 1 am going to put (
a question to you, and I don't care
which way you answer it"
Brougham, like many others, was
growing tired of the monotonous
formula, and one morning, meeting
Jones near the temple, he addressed
hiia thus: "Now, Jones. I am going to
put a question to you, and I don't care
which way you answer it How are
you?"— London Express.
But Do They?
Mrs. Bacon—l see it is stated that
the average length of life rose from
twenty and one-quarter years in the j
sixteenth century to forty and one-half
years in the nineteenth century.
Mr. Bacon—l suppose the latter time
was when the women began telling
the truth about their ages.—Yonkers
Statesman.
Use In Beauty.
Strike out all the beautiful from tht
world, leave us only the useful—the
manifestly useful—and we should lose
all elasticity out of our lives, all
strength out of our purpose, all energy
out of our arms. It is the thousand
fold beauty, meeting our eyes at every
turn, that eaves us.—Charles Force
Deems.
HOUDON, THE SCULPTOR.
Known In This Country Mainly by Hi
Statue of Washington.
Since the days of the cathedral build
ers France has never been without
great masters of the chisel. Traditions
and an ever accumulating skill have
been passed on as from father to son
through generations immemorial. With
all that "apostolic succession" of genius
we of another race are strangely un
familiar. One name, however, we as
sociate with that of our first president,
and for this reason, and not because
Jean Antoine Houdon was the leading
sculptor of his time, is he sometimes
mentioned in the United States.
As the "first sculptor of his day"
Houdon was invited in 1784 by Thomas
Jefferson, representing the state of
Virginia, to make a statue of General
Washington. On July 28, 1785, the
sculptor with three assistants sailed in
the company of Benjamin Franklin
from Southampton, bound for Phila
delphia. The journey required nearly
two months and Houdon did not ar
rive at Mount Vernon until Oct. 2.
Two weeks were occupied in model
ing the bust, making a life mask, and*
taking many measurements, with all of
which the artist departed rejoicing,
and, thanks to the rapid ocean service
of the time, was home again on Christ
mas day.
Wily Talleyrand.
Louis XVIII., complimenting Talley
rand one day upon his abilities, asked
him how he had contrived first to over- I
turn the directory and finally Bona
parte.
The wily diplomat replied, with
charming simplicity: "Really, sire. I
have had nothing to do with this.
There is something Inexplicable about
me which brings ill luck on the govern
ments that neglect me."
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Trial by Jury.
The New York Law Journal says on
the subject of trial by jury:
"While we do not think that trial by
Jury ought to be abolished or that there
is any Increasing sentiment in that di
rection, we do believe that the system
should be modified by dispensing with
the requirement for unanimous verdicts.
This would obviate the element of in
dividual eccentricity as an impediment
to the administration of justice. Men
tal idiosyncrasy on the part of judges
Is constantly exhibited and scarcely
excites comment An eminent and
i very able judge will dissent from the
ruling of his associates when it is ex
tremely difficult to understand how so
gifted a mind could have gone off on
that particular tangent. By permitting
affirmances or reversals, notwithstand
ing dissent, the personal equation is
eliminated."
Modeled After an Ancient Tomb.
The temple of the Scottish rite in
Washington is a handsome white mar
ble structure about 150 feet square and
rises to a height of 150 feet above the
street level. At either side of the main
entrance is an Immense marble sphinx.
A row of tall ionic columns surrounds
the second story. The architects fol
lowed closely the design of the ancient
tomb of King Mausolus, which stood
in Halicarnassus and was one of the
seven wonders of the world. It was
built by the wife of the king and was
decorated with hundreds of wonderful
statues. ThLs old tomb became so fa
mous that many buildings were model
ed after it, but this is the only struc
ture in America in which the design
has been used.
In Biology.
Teacher--John, how can you tell the
dogwood tree?
John—By its bark.
And his answer was correct, even if
it did cause a laugh.
Another bright answer captured In
biology:
Teacher What animal supplies us
with ham?
John—The butcher.—Chicago Herald.
Two Models.
Mrs. Toggerblossom—Vain man! Did
you never observe that designers take
a woman's head to adorn many of
your coins? Mr. Toggerblossom—No,
bat I have observed that designerr
take many of my coins to adorn a wo
man's head.—National Monthly.
Easy Money.
"I give my wife half my salary ev
ery week to spend on the housekeeping
and herself."
"And what do you do with the other
half of your salary?"
"Oh, my wife borrows that"—Hous
ton PoaL