AN EIGHT-TRACK ROLLER-LIFT BRIDGE.
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The Marine Review prints a descrip
tion of an eight-track roller-lift bridge
to be erected over the Chicago drain
age canal near its junction with the
Chicago Riverr It provides a clear
waterway for navigation of 120 feet
between the piers, at right angles to
the centre Wo'i of the canal. On each
side of the waterway provided for nav
igation is placed a main supporting
pier. These piers are each forty-eight
feet wide. They rest on bed rock,
forty-four feet below city datum. The
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| A School of Farming I
§ It Will Rin\ to Raise tt\e Standard cl
"V" ~T" G~~r IIEN the promoters of the
\ A / School of Practical Agri-
V culture and Horticulture
looked about for a spot
wherein to establish the institution
various places were suggested, but it
was finally agreed that Briarcliff Man
or, one of the most beautiful parts of
Westchester County, N. Y., would be
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THE MODEL DAIRY.
the most suitable. It will be on a pla
teau overlooking the sixty-six acres
which nave been acquired, and also
much of the land and many of the
buildings on the Briarcliff Farms,
which will serve not oi?l" as a beauti
ful picture, but as an inspiration for
the students.
The object of the school is "to train
men and women iu the methods of hor
ticulture, Horticulture, gardening, poul
try raising and allied branches, that
they may become proficient iu the man
laid from the main line to the farm,
<ind by means of these the shipment of
farm products is facilitated. Near the
railroad are the neat homes of some
of the farm hands, and a short dis
tance beyond these, toward the ridge,
are several large granaries; further
away, on the main road, is the model
dairy building. Of the 875 head of
cattle on the place, about 400 are regis
tered Jerseys. No other breed Is al
lowed in the herd.
There are several milking stations,
and from these the milk is taken to the
dairy as soon as the cans are filled.
All known safeguards against Impurity
are employed, and no milker Is allowed
to milk a cow until he has thoroughly
agement of farms, estates, greenhouses
and gardens, and may be able by thor
ough knowledge of the science of the
soil to make the field, through intelli
gent and skilful work, bring forth
abundantly of Its great wealth of
beauty and usefulness."
The school will aim to raise the
standard of agricultural methods.
Practical instruction will be given in
the orchard, garden, greenhouse, poul
try yard and dairy, and students will
he taught "how to overcome and not
be overcome by the many difficulties
beauty and usefulness."
Ilriarcliffe Farms occupy a tract ex
tending about four miles north and
THE BUTTEB BOOM.
south and about three miles east and
•west. The railroad tracks have been
washed his hands, and this must be
done again before he begins with the
second cow The attendants wear
piers are not solid; In each pier there
are four cavities, which materially re
duce the amount of the required con
crete and masonry. The bridge con
sists of four independent double track
Seherzer rolling-lift bridges, placed
side by side, with a clearance of six
inches between the adjacent trusses.
The spans may be operated either
jointly or singly, as desired, by two
operators, one on each side of the ca
nal. When It Is desired to open the
bridge the centre pins are unlocked by
white duck suits while on duty, and
those who are employed as milkers are
not allowed togo near the barns.
When the milk reaches the dairy it is
emptied into a sterilized copper tank
on the ground floor.
There is a large butter room on the
second floor of the dairy, which is
tinished In white enamelled wood,
marble and glass, and has an inlaid
marble floor. The milk is forced into
this room from below by means of
compressed air, and is converted into
butter, which is placed in a large glass
and marble fitted cold storage room.
Near the dairy is the largest of five
barns. This is occupied by 150 regis
tered Jersey cows, and although
there are no elaborate decorations in
the place, the building has been de
signed with the health and comfort of
the cows In view. Over each stall in
a neat frame is the name and pedigree
of the occupant. A salt brick is fast
ened to the side of the stall, where
the cow may reach it with ease, and a
water trough, into which the water
runs automatically, is a convenient
fixture. There are no mangers, but the
food is placed on the floor, and the
manager of the barns thinks that the
danger from impurities getting into
the animals' food Is minimized by the
arrangement.
The offices of the farms are only a
short distance from the barn, and in
an opposite direction, on one of the
broad roads which traverse the estate,
is the pretty boarding house which has
been erected for the bachelor hands
on the estate. On the ground floor of
this building are a reception room, a
large apartment In which the men
meet after work hours *o read, play
games or lounge: a dining room and a
well appointed kitchen.
There are about 400 breeding pigs on
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THE POULTRY IIOUSE.
the place, including fine specimens of
Berkshires, Yorkshires and Chester
Whites.
The poultry department has a large
incubator building, with a capacity of
4500 eggs, and a perfectly equipped
brooder house. There are about 5000
chickens on the place, and the house
where the little ones are kept, which
now contains about 1000 pretty chicks,
is one of the sights of the place.
In speaking of the objects of the
school which will be established near
this model farm, George T. Towell,
the director, said:
"Its purpose is to give a thorough
training In the art of agriculture in all
of its details. It Is proposed to pro
duce the finest qunllty in fruits, vege
tables and flowers, and, in addition to
the production cf a high quality, also
to give special instruction in the es
sential part, that of marketing them.
"We already havj trees growing and
small fruits for the use of students.
Landscape gardening Is a feature, as
It may be applied to the beautifying of
' country homes In an Inexpensive mad
means of electrical devices, the spans
arc then rolled upward and backward
upon the track girders. The movable
spans are counter weighted so as to be
at rest at an angle of about forty de
grees. This greatly facilitates the
opening of the spans, and also aids In
closing them. The bridge is to be
opened or closed In thirty seconds, by
means of four forty-horse-power elec
tric motors on each side of the channel.
The electric motors are controlled by a
controller In an operator's house.
ner. There Is In contemplation a sys
tem of branch schools, where Instruc
tion may bo carried to the farmers of
the State. One (lay will be devoted to
lectures on specific topics and one day
AH
to practical work In the field, where
applications of the principles glvqn
during the first day will be made."—
New York Tribune.
LIKE A CORN POPPER.,
Automatic Collection Uniket Is tlie New*
est Thine For Church Use.
An automatic collection basket is
one of the newest things for church
use, and a trial was made of its merits
upon a fashionable congregation at
New York on a recent Sunday. Ac
cording to the New York Evening
Journal the device Is remindful of a
corn popper. In fact, it might well be
called a "coin popper.'
It has a long handle, hollowed, n
wire box or pocket, with a trap-door
arrangement, marked "AA," which
opens when the collector pulls on the
ring marked "E," which connects with
the cord marked "CC," which runs in
the hollow of a handle, and sets again
when lie loosens the cord. "DD" shows
the depth of the shallow tray at the
top of the basket.
The contribution when taken up, ac-
AUTOMATIC COLLECTION BASSET.
cording to the Inventor of the popper,
remains on the trap uoor until the col
lector has a chance to Inspect It before
It is dropped into the basket.
Willie's Thirst For Knowledge.
It was on a steam railroad going
from Washington to Philadelphia that
I overheard the following conversa
tion between a little boy, just at the
interesting age, anxious to know, and
his aunt, whose patience was severely
tested by little Willie's questions. The
first to attract his attention was a
buzzard Hying high in the al»
"Oh, auntie!" he exclaimed, ""look at
that chicken way up there."
"That's no chicken, Willie: that's a
blizzard."
"But, auntie, I don't hear him buzz."
"Auntie, look nt the man pumping
the cow; is she punctured?"
"He is milking the cow, Willie. Do
be still for a while."
After a short pause, he spied several
pumpkins in a field and asked:
"Auntie, Is a pumpkin a grown up
orange?"
"Auntie, look at the moon. Whera
did all the stars come from?"
"I don't know, Willie. Don't nsk
so many questions."
"Did the moon lay 'em, auntie?"
And as darkness drew on little Wil
lie began to nod and auntie gave a
sigh of relief.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Austrian crown jewels contain
n splendid emerald necklace and the
largest single emerald in the world.
SURVcYINC BY MACHINE.
The Oromph, Which Hue Ileen Adopted
by the Aruiy.
Mention was made somj time ago of
the "Orogrnph," a new Instrument
which hnit been adopted in the United
States Army, and 's intended to take
the place of the engineers' chain and
level in the important work of making
a profile of any road or stretch of
country over which a surveying or rec
onnoltering party is passing.
This machine is shown in the ac
companying cut from the Scientific
American. It consists of two substan
tial carriage wheels, one following the
other in a single track, supporting be
tween them, and on one side, a box
of mechanism, and on the other a sort
of cistern. This cistern is twenty-four
inches in diameter and one-half inch
deep. It is placed vertically and con
tains mercury. When in operation the
"Orograpli" must be held upright, and
not allowed to careen to either side.
As stated, the object of the machine
is to draw upon paper an accurate pro
file of the ground over which It
rolled, thus furnishing the army engi
neers with all the results of a survey
excepting the courses and general topo
graphy. The principles upon which
the machine is constructed are those of
the perambulator, operating in con
junction with a lever maintained con
tinually In a horizontal position by
floating upon a cistern of mercury.
Tills lever Is twenty-four Inches In
length and one-half of an inch thick,
with floats nttached to each end, and
has free motion in a vertical plane on
a horizontal axis.
Know Not Whence "Yankee" Came.
At the monthly meeting of file Mary
land Historical Society, Dr. William
Hand Brown read an Interesting ar
ticle on"The Origin of "Yankee Doo
dle.' " The doctor's manuscript con
sisted of two letters relative to the
subject in question, which were writ
ten to him by Mr. Albert Matthews,
the eminent archaeologist, of Boston.
The letters discussed all the theories
which have been brought forward on
the subject, treating It very fully in
all the fifteen different solutions which
are suggested, but failed to make any
satisfactory answer to the question,
which, as he said in the introduction,
had never been solved. The great
stumbling block on which the ques
tion generally brought up was the
fact that the word "Yankee" had been
applied primarily only to the New Eng
enders and did not originate in the
South. Several of the solutions seemed
plausible, as. for Instance, the fact
that the Algonquin Indians pronounced
a word "Engree" which they applied
to the English.—Baltimore American.
The "Boxer Organization."
The "Boxers" are the scum oft lit
Chinese population. They have no uni
form organization, nor any official
leaders. Formerly they carried broad
swords, but now they have well man
aged modern weapons, undoubtedly
supplied by the Imperial family.
Before drilling they throw them
selves on the ground, work themselves
into a frenzy, and then believe them
selves invulnerable. The Empress
Dowager has fostered an otherwise
unimportant movement because of the
wholesale desertions from her army
under General Tung.
A BOXER, CAUGHT AND COLI.AI'-ED.
—Harper's Weekly.
The Empress Dowager, who becomes
more intensely anti-foreign as time
passes, has been greatly annoyed by
the work of the Germans in Klao-
Chau. She desires to use force to stop
the reform movement, and is ready to
defy the European powers.
DB. TALMAGE3 SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: The Miracle at Cane—Lesson of
Changing the Water Into Wine—Clirlst
Teaches That Wa Should Not Shadow
Joy# of Other* With Our Own Oriels
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WASHINGTON, D. C. A remarkable
illustration of the übiquity of English
speaking people is furnished by the re
quests that have reached Dr. Talmage in
Northern Europe for a sermon in out-of
the-way places, where he did not expect to
find a single person who could understand
him. There, as here, he presents religion
:is a festivity and invites ail the world to
come as guests und join in its holy merri
ment; text, John ii, 10, "Thou hast kept
the good wine until now."
This chapter invites us to a marriage
celebration. It is a wedding in common
life, two plain people having pledged each
■ other, hand aud heart, ana their friends
having come in for congratulation. Ihe
joy is not the less because there is no pre
'-ensioa. In each other they find all the
future they want. The daisy in the cup
qa the table may mean as much as a score
of artistic garlands fresh from the hot
house. When a daughter goes off from
home with nothing but a plain father's
blessing and a plain mother's love, she is
missed as much as though she were a prin
cess. It seems hard, after the parents
have sheltered her for eighteen years that
in a few short months her affections
should have been carried off by another,
but her mother remembers how it was in
her own case when she was young, and so
she braces up until the wedding has passed
and the banqueters are gone, and she has
a cry all alone.
Well, we aro to-day at the wedding in
Cana of Galilee. Jesus and His mother
have been invited. It is evident that there
are more people there than were expected.
Either some people have come who were
not invited or more invitations have been
sent out than it was supposed would be ac
cepted. Of course there is not a sufficient
supply of wine. You know that there is
nothing more embarrassing to a house
keeper than a scant supply- Jesus sees
the embarrassment, and He comes up im
mediately to relieve it. He sees standing
six water pots. He orders the servants to
till them with water; then He waves His
hand over the water, and immediately it
is wine—real wine. Taste of it and see for
yourselves; no logwood in it, no strychnine
in it, but first rate wine. I will not now
be diverted to the question so often dis
cussed in my own country whether it is
light to drink wine. I am describing the
scene as it was. When God makes wine
He makes the very best wine, and 1.10 gal
lons of it standing around in these water
pots —wine so good that the ruler of the
feast tastes it and says: "Why, this is
really better than anything we have had!
Thou hast kept the good wine until now."
Heautiful miracle! A prize was offered to
the person who should write the best es
say about the miracle in Cana. Long man
uscripts were presented in the competition,
but a poet won the prize by just this one
I line descriptive of the miracle: "The con
| scious water saw its God and blushed."
We learn from the miracle, in the first
I place, that Christ has sympathy with
housekeepers. _ You might have thought
that JesUs would have said: "I cannot be
bothered with this household deficiency of
wine. It is not for Me, Lord of heaven
and of earth, to become caterer to this
feast. I have vaster things than .this to
attend to." Not so said Jesus. The wine
gave out, aud Jesus, by miraculous power,
came to the rescue. Does there ever come
a scant supply in your household? Have
you to make a very close calculation? Is it
I hard work for you to carry on things de
cently and respectably? If so, don't sit
down and cry. Don't go out and fret, but
goto Him who stood in the house in Cana
of Galilee. Pray in the parlor! Pray in
the kitchen! Let there be no room in all
your house unconsecrated by the voice of
prayer. If you have a microscope, put
under it one drop of water find see the in
sects floating about, and when you see
that God makes them and cares for them
»nd feeds them come to the conclusion thai
i He will take care of you and feed you.
A boy asked if he might sweep the snow
from the steps of a house. The lady oi
the household said, "Yes; you seem very
poor." Ho says."l am very poor.'' She
, tays, "Don't you sometimes get discouraged
| and fed that God is going to let you
i starve?" The lad looked up in the wom
an's face and said, "Do you think God
will let me starve when I trust Him and
then do the beat 1 can?" Enough theo
logy for older people! Trust in God and
do the best you can. Amid all the worri
nicnts of housekeeping goto Him. He
will help you control your temper and su
pervise your domestics aud entertain your
jfiiests and manage your homo economies,
i'here are hundreds of women weak and
nervous and exhausted with the care of
housekeeping. I commend you to the Lord
Jesus Christ as the best adviser and the
most efficient aid—the Lord Jesus who
performed His first miracle to relieve a
housekeeper.
I learn also from this miracle that Christ
docs things in abundance. I think a
small supply of wine would have made up
for the deficiency. I think certainly they
must have had enough for half the |piests.
One gallon of wine will do; certainly five
gallons will be enough; certainly ten. But
Jesus goes on, and He gives them thirty
gallons and forty gallons and fifty gallons
and seventy gallons and 100 gallons and
130 gallons ot th# jrery beat wine. It is
just like Him—doing everything on the
largest and -most generous scale. Does
Christ, onr Creator, go forth to make
leaves? He makes them by the whole for
est full—notched like the fern or silvered
like the aspen or broad like the palm,
thickets in the tropics, Oregon forests.
Does He go forth to make flowers? He
makes plentv of them. They flame from
the hedge, they hang from the top of the
grapevine in blossoms, they roll in the
blue wave of the violets, they toss their
white surf _ in the spiraea—enough for
every child's hand a flower, enough to
make for every brow a chaplet, enough
with beauty to cover up the ghastliness of
*ll the grave. Does He go forth to create
water? He pours it out not by the cup
tul, but by a river full, u lake full, an
icean full, pouring it out until all the
-arth has enough to drink and enough with
which to wash.
Does Jesus provide redemption? It is
not a little salvation for this one, a little
for that and a little for the other, but
enough for all. "Whosoever will, let him
come." Each man an ocean full for him
self; promises for the young, promises for
the old, promises for the lowly, promises
for the blind, for the halt, for the outcast,
for the abandoned; pardon for all, com
fort for all, mercy for all, heaven for ail
not merely a cupful of gospel supply, but
130 gallons. Aye, the tears of godlv re
pentance are all gathered up into God's
bottle, and some day, standing before the
throne, we will lift our cup of delight and
ask that it be filled with the wine of
heaven, and Jesns, from that bottle of
tears, will begin to pour in the cup, and
«ve will cry: ' Stop, Jesus; we do not want
..o drink our own tears!" And Jesus will
say, "Know ye not that the tears of
earth are the wine of heaven?" Sorrow
may endure for a night, but joy cometh
in the morning.
I remark, further, Jesus does not
shadow the joys of others with His own
griefs. He might have sat down in that
wedding and said: "I have so much
trouble, so much poverty, so much persecu
tion, and the cross is comins. I shall not !
rejoice, and the gloom of My face and of
My sorrows shall be cast over all this
group." 80 said not Jeaua. He said to
Himself: "Here are two persons starting
out in married life. Let it be a joyful oc
casion. I will hide My own griets. I will
kindle their joy." 'lhere are many not so
wise as that. I know a household where
there are many little children, where for
two years the musical instrument has been
kepi shut because there has been trouble
in the house. Alas for the folly! Parents
saying: "We will have no Christmas tree
this coming holiday because there has
been trouble in the house! llusb that
laughing up stairs! How can there he
any joy when there has been so much trou
ble?" And so they make everything con
sistently doleful and send their sons and
daughters to ruin with the gloom they
throw around them.
Oh, my dear friends, do you not kno-.v
those children will have trouble enough
of their own after awhile? Be g':ad they
cannot appreciate all yours. Keep back
the cup of bitterness from your daughter's
lips. When your head is down in the
grass of the tomb poverty may come to
her, betrayal to her, bereavement to her.
Keep back the sorrows as long as yoi! can.
Do you not know that that son maty, after
awhile, have his heart broken? .Stand
between him and all harm. You may not
tight his battles long. Fight them while
you may. Throw not the chill of your own
despondency over his soul. RaUier be like
Jesus, who came to the wedding hiding
His own grief and kindling the joys of
others. So 1 have seen the sun on a dar'/
day struggling amid clouds, black, ragged
and portentous, but after awhile the sun,
with golden pry, heaved back the black
ness, and the sun laughed to the lake, and
the lake laughed to the sun, and from hori
zon to horizon, under the saffron sky, the
water was all turned into wine.
I learn from this miracle that Christ is
not impatient with the luxuries of life. It
was not necessary that they should have
that wine. Hundreds of people have been
married without any wine. We do not read
that aTiy of the other provisions fell short.
When Christ made the wine it was not a
necessity, but a positive luxury. I do not
believe that He wants us to eat hard bread
and sleep on hard mattresses unless we
like them the best. I think, if circum
stances will allow, we have a right to the
luxuries of dress, the luxuries ot diet and
the luxuries of residence. There is no
more religion in an old coat than in a new
one. We can serve God drawn by golden
harness as certainly as when we go afoot.
Jesus Christ will dwell with us under a
tine ceiling as well as under a thatched
roof.
What is the difference between a Chi
nese mud hovel and an American home?
What is the difference between the rou~h
bearskins of the Russian boor and the
outfit of an American gentleman? No
difference except that which the gospel of
Christ, directly or indirectly, has caused.
When Christ shall have vanquished all the
world, 1 suppose every house will be a
mansion, and every garment a robe, and
every horse an arch necked courser, and
every carriage a glittering vehicle, and
every man a king, and every woman a
queen, and the whole earth a paradise, the
glories of the natural world hurmouizin;;
with the glories of the material world un
til the very bells oi the horses shall jingle
the praises of the Lord.
I learn, further, from this miracle that
Christ has no impatience with festal joy ;
otherwise He would not have accepted the
invitation to that wedding. He certainly
would not have done that which increased
the hilarity. There may have been many
in that room who were happy, but there
was not one of them that did so much lur
the joy ot' the wedding party as Christ
Himseif. He was the chief of the ban
queters. When the wine gave out. He sup
plied it, and so, 1 take it. He will not deny
us the joys that are positively festal.
Who was it that sent the raven tapping
on the window? The same Cod that sent
the raven to feed Elijah by the brook
Cherith. Christ in the hour extremity!
You mourned over your sins. You could
not find the way out. You sat down and
said: "Hod will not be merciful, lie has
cast me off." But in that the darkest hour
of your history light broke from the throne
anil Jesus said: "Oh. wanderer, come
homo! I have seen all thy sorrows, lit
this the hour of thy extremity I offer thee
pardon and everlasting life!"
Trouble came. You were ilmost torn
to pieces by that trouble. You hruced
yourself up against it. You said, "I will
be a stoic and will not care." But before
you had got through making the resolution
it broke down under you. You felt that
all your resources were gone, and tnen
Jesus came.
"In the fourth watch of the night," the
Bible says, "Jesus came walking on '.ln:
sea." Why did He not come in the first
watch or in the second watch or in the
third watch? 1 do not know. He came
in the fourth and gave deliverance to Ili.«
disciples. Jesus in the last extremity!
1 wonder if it will be so in our very
last extremity. We shall fall suddenly
sick, and the doctors will eonie, but in vain
We will try the anodynes and the stimu
lants and the bathings, but all in vain
Something will say, "You must go." Nc
one to hold us back, but the hands of eter
nity stretched out to pull us on. \\ hat
then? JeHUS will come to us, and as we
say, "Lord Jesus, I 11111 afraid of that wa
ter; 1 cannot wade through to the othej
side," He will say, "Take hold of My arm.'
and we will take hold of His arm, and then
He will put His foot in the surf of the
wave, taking us on down, deeper, deeper
deeper, and our soul will cry, "All Thy
waves and billows have gone over me.'
They cover the feet, come to the knee and
pass the girdle and come to the head, and
our soul cries out, Jesus Christ, 1
cannot hold Thine arm any longer." Then
Jesus will turn around, throw both His
arms about us and set us on the beach far
beyond the. tossing of the billows. Jesu?
in the last extremity!
That wedding scene is gone now. The
wedding ring has been lost, the tankard:)
have been broken, the house is down, bui
Jesus invites us to a grander wedding
You know the Bible savs that the church
is the Lamb's wife, and the Lord will af
ter awhile come to fetch her home. I here
will be gleaming of torches in the sky, and
the trumpets of Cod will ravish the air
with their music, and Jesus will stretch out
His hand, and the church, robed in white,
will put aside her veil and look up into the
face of her l.orit the King, and the Bride
groom will say to the bride: "Thou hasl
been faithful through all these years. The
mansion is ready. Come home. Ihou are
fair, my lovo!" and then He shall put upon
her brow the crown of dominion, and the
table will be spread, and it will reach
across the skies, and the mighty ones of
lieaven will come in garlanded with beauty
and striking their cympals, and the Bride
groom and bride will stand at the head of
the table, and the banqueters, looking up,
will wonder and admire and say: "That is
Jesus, the Bridegroom. But the scar on
His brow is covered with the coronet, and
the stab in His side is covered with a
robe," and "That is the bride! The weari
ness of her earthly woe lost in the flush
of this wedding triumph!"
There will be wine enough at that wed
ding, not coming up from the poisoned
vats of earth, but the vineyards of God
will press their ripest clusters, ami the
cups and the tankards will blush to the
brim with the heavenly vintage, and then
all the banqueters will drink standing.
Esther, having come up from the bac
chanalian revelry of Ahasuerus, where a
thousand lords feasted, will be there. And
the Queen of Sheba, from the banquet of
Solomon, will be there. Anil the mother
of Jesus, from the wedding in Cana, will
lie there. And they all will agree that the
earthly feasting was poor compared with
that. ' Then, lifting their chalices in that
light, thoy shall cry to the Lord of the
feast. "Thou hast kept the good wine until
now "