GOAL OFTffiUDOOS
Students Look to f'/iited States
For Practical l.Aucation.
WANT TO LEARN OUR ARTS.
American Colleges a"'® Universities the
Aim of a Growing (> iss of Ambitious
Young Men—Wish o Develop Their
Country's Resour< eir Dislike
of English Rule In 1 ndia.
J. C. Gossaln, Mi U. Hashid, Bash
Behari Day and Jalmes Marcos, all
natives of British India, recently ar
rived in New York city at India House,
1142 Park avenue, to take up various
courses of study at American univer
sities. They form the advance guard
of the Hindoo students who are com
ing to America under the auspices of
the Society For tlicJ Advancement of
India.
Coal black though ffliey are, every one
speaks English with painstaking ac
curacy and an accent better than
many Anglo-Saxons. All wear west
ern clothes.
"Not that we do not like our own,"
explained one, "but our clothes would
be strange to American eyes and we
should be stared at in the streets,
which would be distasteful to us. At
home, on the other hand, these clothes
we are now wearing would be con
spicuous and even, on account of the
antiforeign agitation prevailing at
present, somewhat dangerous. So when
we return to India we discard jackets
and trousers and again wear our robes
and turbans."
A striking peculiarity of the group
and one perhaps best illustrative of the
advancement of knowledge in India is
that the four students belong to three
different religions and live and work
together happily, says the New York
Post. Two are Hindoos in faith, one
a Mohammedan and one, Marcos, a
baptized Christian, who. while he
doesn't call himself so, is really a Uni
tarian. Religious antagonism is a
thing of the past in India, according to
these young men.
Another Interesting point in their
characters is their dislike of the Eng
lish and the English rule in India.
"Tuey treat us like dogs," said Gos
saln. "An Indian Is never considered.
We have been kept down and our in
tellects stunted. Instead of giving our
people trade schools, where they might
learn industrial arts and so in time be
come able to build up their own man
ufactures, they have taught us to be
come clerks and accountants. If India
could take care of her own raw prod
ucts, you see, that would mean so
many pounds out of England's profits
and so many more In our pockets. The
English know that.
"Yes," chimed in Marcos, "that is
why we are here. That is what we
have come to America for—to learn
your arts so that we may be able to
tp- ->' i our people. There Is plenty of
1 in India in native hands,
to do almost anything. But
n it has been idle because it
"•<* to provide means for
and fact that In every
j.'i of railroad in India
is owned by natives. 11.11
_ ~rt»ple a knowledge of engineering
and kindred sciences they could utilize
the idle capital, and then we should
have real Indian railroads and street
car lines.
"We,must inaugurate the policy the
Japanese employed at first before they
were clever enough to do things by
themselves. They secured the best for
eign talent to direct their enterprises,
but always the head man was a native.
He might not have known enough to
manage the undertaking alone, but It
was he who signed the papers and
gave the orders, and the effect of the
system was to build up the I.'.tent ex
ecutive capacity of the Japanese until
they were a ile to do things for them
selves. Executive capacity is a tiling
we Indians lack as yet. We must
build it up."
Marcos, by the way, is proud that he
is not what he calls a "rice Christian."
"Rice Christians," it seeius, are tho.-e
who are baptized in times of famine
in order that they may receive addi
tional assistance from the missionaries.
Marcos does not think much of the at
tempts of the English missionaries to
convert his countrymen.
"Yes, I am a Christian, but I am not
what you would call orthodox, I think.'
he said.
Marcos is twenty-two .years old and
comes from Madras Presidency, where
he received the usual secondary educa
tion. lie is not sure yet just what
university he will enter. Uashld is the
oldest of the four and is twenty-six.
He was born in Surat, but has lived
most of his life at Chittagong, in As
sam. For several years he has served
in the office of his father's importing
and exporting firm, learning the busi
ness. Now he expects to study elec
trical engineering, probably at Michi
gan.
Oossain has had a more advanced
education than the others. While but
twenty-three, he had studied for a time
in Calcutta university and also in Vic
toria Jubilee Technical Institute of
Bombay. He will take the student's
course in the works of the General
Electrical company at Schenectady.
The fourth mau, Day, has not picked
out the school he will attend. In the
meantime he Is spending his time at
India house, increasing his knowledge
on various topics.
All four will aim to assimilate Amer
ican college atmosphere as much as
possible. Of course they will have
more work to do than American
youths in the same classes, but they
will do their best to mix with the spirit
of things.
Domestic Bliss.
Wife —I have about made up my
mind, John, that when I married you
I married a fool. Husband—That* re
minds me of a remark you made just
before we were married. Vou remem
ber that you uald it would be hard to
find two people more alike than you
and I.
His Glassy Eye.
Doctor —I diagnose all sickness from
the patient's eyes. Now, your right
eye tells me that your kidneys are af
fected. Patient—Excuse me, doctor,
but my right is a glass eye.—Moody's
Magazine.
LEGEND OE OLD JAPAN
The Story of Chobei, the Leader
of the Duelists.
A MAN WHO KNEW NOT FEAR.
Bather Than Tarnish His Reputation
For Bravery He Accepted the Prince's
Invitation and Went Voluntarily to
Assassination,
The following legend of Cbobei has
been handed down in Japan as Indica
tive of the courage of the "bravis," or
duelists, who flourished in Yeddo dur
ing the sixteenth century, forming a
sort of Japanese St. Ilermlndad. Cho
bei, the leader of this clique, was a re
doubtable swordsman, whose constant
ly recurring duels forced his master to
expel him from his retinue. Unwilling
to enlist with another of the feudal
lords, he assembled all the IVArtagnans
of Yeddo about him until liis power in
cited even the princes to envy, al
though they declined to recognize the
outlawed duelist.
On this pretense he was excluded
from a popular tea house one day at an
hour when was expected Julrozaye
mon, the leader of the Ilatamotos, then
the most influential political party in
Japan, who had arrogated the city of
Yeddo for the official residence. But
Chobei, with n shrug of his shoulders,
forced lils way past the attendants intc
the apartments reserved for the prince,
where he removed his garments and
cast himself on a couch in feigned
slumber.
"Who is that brute?" demanded the
prince on his arrival. "The leader of
the swordsmen," they answered liim.
Julrozayemou seated himself in silence
and began to smoke. Having smoked
his pipe, he emptied the glowing cin
ders into the pretended sleeper's nos
trils, repeating this live times, when he
paused, astounded by such courageous
endurance. Cliobel, noting this, yawn
ed, n:l bed his eyes like one awakening
from profound slumber and exclaimed:
"You, oh, most noble master! And I,
having drunk too much, should have
slept uncovered before your eyes! How
shall 1 excuse my vulgarity?"
"I have so long sought your acquaint
ance that you ure forgiven. Be seated
and accept this cup of wine, I beg you."
Politeness forbade Chobei to refuse a
drop of the proffered cup, a huge
beaker of powerful wine, offered liim
In the. hopes of overpowering him. But
Chobei drained it easily and, replenish
ing It, presented it to his host, who ac
complished this feat with the utmost
difficulty.
"Will your highness permit me to
offer you some gift of value?" Chobei
asked liumbly.
"Surely."
"What do you most desire?"
Thinking to render the brave ridicu
lous before the whole city, the prince
said promptly:
"A plate of macaroni."
"Ah, Chobei," thought he,"the whole
town will soon be telling how the grea.
duelist was permitted only to offer t>
plate of macaroni to the president oi
the Ilatamotos."
After a whispered colloquy the at |
lerulant disappeared, leaviUff -t'.ie t \\ 112
enemies slon sniiTingTbut impassive
Itut soon a great noise penetrated the !
npartment, and the prince discovered » j
crowd of workmen busily construct ir.:; '
an immense wall of macaroni around j
the tea house. All Yeddo was assem- i
bled to view this unique and royr.l g!:'i. !
Discomfited that the "bravo" should j
have outwitted his ruse, the prince < : e- j
parted to plan revenge. The follow!;:-; I
day brought with it an i vitatlon fro::i I
Juirozayemon to brenkf.s. I), spi; •
his comrade's remonstrance Cliobe ]
Insisted on accepting It. As h • enter, d !
the prince's dwelling the -auuirals j
threw themselves upon hlt.i with j
drawn swords. Chobel's immense mus
cular strength enabled him to disar i
them, when he proceeded unannounced
to the rear apartment.
"Pardon u;e, your lordship," said he, I
"for announcing myself. Your attend- I
ants have forgotten to do so."
"Surely. Perhaps they have sought j
quarrel with you. 'Twas but a joke,
for I wagered that nil six could not
disarm you. Perhaps you would like
a bath to refresh yourself."
Who shall say that Chobei \ ;. wise"?
Alone In his enemy's house,l. ■ dis
carded his weapons, removed his gar
ments and crouched in the bath. The
water that was at first hot was soon
boiling. Chobei dashed from the bath,
but ton spears held by Invisible hands
forced him back. Suffocated by steam,
exhausted by blood. Chobei fell dying
to the ground.
The samurais were still congratu
lating themselves on their success
when a loud knocking was heard. In
quiry revealed the dueling confeder
ates who were come to seek their
leader.
"lie is drunk and cannot t • you."
"Our leader is dead. V.'e have j
brought his bier."
The samurais were dumb with as
tonishment. Chobei had divine 1 t'ie ;
t "",. yet, preferring to sustain his iv;>- j
n of daring untarnished by any ;
tion <>f fear, had voluntarily j
g •i i his assassination.
Hawaiian Girls.
The Hawaiian girls are almost uni- j
versally handsome. They are brown in !
color (not black); their eyes and teeth
are magnificent; their hair straight, jet
black and often falling below their
knees. Their heads are handsomely
formed and their expression alert. In
telligent and amiable; their forms In
youth voluptuous, but heavy and over
stout after youth; their features full
and nose and upper lip slightly tilted;
their voices extremely sweet.
True to the Adage.
"My son, my son!" exclaimed Hie dls
mayed mother as she saw all her boy's
belongings stacked In a corner of the
closet. "Haven't I tried over and over
to teach you that you should have a
place for everything?" .
"Yep," said the son cheerfully, "and
this is the place."—Chicago News.
Fam*.
"Who was James Bos well?" asked
the teacher of the class in English lit
erature.
"He was Dr. Samuel Johnson's press
6gent," answered the young man with
♦he bad eye.—Chicago Tribune.
MAXIM'S NEW WEAPON
Inventor's Almost Silent Gun
Tested In His Home.
SLIGHT FLASH OF FIRE SEEN
Thirty two Caliber Bullet Made Hole
In Three Magazines About Size of
Mr.n's Hand—Would Double War'*
Terrors, Says General W. F. Duvall.
Hiram ivr«y Maxim, inventor of the
noiseless gun, recently gave a private
exhibition of the powers of this won
derful weapon at Ills home in Ilart
ford. Conn. The Inventor entered his
den and produced the "Maxim humane
slaughterer," the name chosen for the
gun that he proposes to use in the
slaughter of cattle in stockyards.
"Very frequently the blow which is
dealt to the animals in the stockyards
does not kill them," said Mr. Maxim
to a New York American reporter, I
"but merely stuns. Now, it sometimes
happens that the man with the iron
maul lilts an ox in the eye and simply
maddens the creature, or It is only
stunned when it Is dumped bodily into
the slaughter room, and the butchers
have to run for their lives. This gun
Is intended to slaughter them pain
lessly and end all this trouble. Oth
er guns will not do this because the
noise maddens the other animals.
"It Is not the type of the noiseless
piin that I expect to see used in the!
army."
The gun which Mr. Maxim held ap
pea red like an ordinary army rltle, ex
cept that It was sheathed with an out
er barrel of aluminium. In this outer
sheathing was concealed the silencer. ;
The Inventor loaded the gu"i with a
."2 calilier bullet and fired it at a pile
of a dozen magazines resting on edge
against the wall. The only noise heard
was the click of the trigger and a
swishing sound as the soft nosed lead
en bullet tore its way through three of
the magazines and embedded itself In
the fourth. The hole made was large
enough almost to put one's hand
through. A slight flash of fire was
seen at the muzzle of the gun at the
moment of the firing. This would
probably l>e obviated by the use of
smokeless powder, though the inventor
did not say.
"The outside barrel of this gun is in
three parts," said Mr. Maxim. "There!
are three cells for use in killing sound.
I do not know how silent the New
York S. P. C. A. wants the gun to be
used by it to be, but 1 gave them
enough silence to satisfy them.
"This gun will not be used or even;
receive any public test until my pat
ents in Europe have been granted.
That will be in about two months, and
at that time the T'nited States govern
ment test will take place. To describe
the Invention or give drawings of it lie
fore the time would invalidate my pat
ents In the European countries.
"The gun that is to bo used in the
army, however, will differ very mate
rially from this The silencer will be
only about three Inches long. It will
not encircle the barrel, because that
would Interfere with the sighting of
ihe gun. It will he underneath the
barf") iuul probably near thp.DU-zzle."
General William P. Duvall of the
Military Staff nud War college at
Washington, discussing Mr. Maxim's
latest invention, said:
"I have read the account of the per
formances of the Maxim noiseless gun.
Certainly they pre Interesting and a*:
tonlshing. The matter has not been
brought officially, however, to our at
tention yet.
'•Assuming the accounts are authen
tic, and I bellove they are, it would
lie reasonable to suppose this diseoverj
would produce just as much of a revo
lution in the art of war as did the in
vention of smokeless powder. Psycho
logically, this new gun would double
the terror that would be inspired by
the enemy possessing it. When smoke
less powder was discovered there was,
of course, the absence of smoke—an
important means of determining the
location of an enemy. Add to that,
then, a weapon in the band of your foe
which neither emits smoke nor makes
a noise, and the fear of the enemy
would be at least doubled."
Rearrangement of Old Glory's Stars.
It may be Interesting •<> know that a
Maine man suggested the new arrange
ment for the stars In the T'nlted States
flag which will become effective on
July 4. With the admission of Okla
homa It became necessary to place a
new star in the blue field of the flag.
This necessitated a rearrangement of
the stars. Charles A. Tallman, U. S.
X., retired, of ltichmond. made a six
teen inch tlag iu which he made the
arrangement and forwarded it to the
state department as a suggestion. The
state department referred the matter
to the navy department, for that de
partment has charge of the tlag. A
few days later Mr. Tallman received
a letter from the department Inform
ing him that his arrangement was the
one which the department had had
under consideration. Since then it has
been officially announced as the ar
rangement of the stars.
Pearl Farming.
E. 1!. Jefferson of l>uluth. Mich., has
devised a scheme for treating clams
so each may prove a pearl bearer. lie
made a study of the pearl question as
applied to bivalves and ascertained the
scientific theory of the origin of the
pearl iu shellfish Then he figured the
cultivation of the gems was possibly
a practical venture. Mr. Jefferson ac
tually has grown some pearls, although
they are small. It remains to be seen
with lapse of time if large ones cannot
be cn'.'lvated.
Fresh Z'ater Fish In Germany.
German law does not permit of fresh
water flsh being sold except when alive.
Therefore It Is common to see tanks of
such fish in the restaurant windows,
and they are hauled in this way con
siderable distances over Prussian rail
ways, and shipments are made to Ber- j
lin from Lyons, In France, and from as •
far south as Roumania.
The Wrong Word.
Mrs. A.—l can remember the day
when you begged me to say the word
iliat would' make you happy for life.
Mr. A.—l know, but you said the i
wrong word.—Life.
10 FIGHT DISEASE,
School of Preventive Medicine
Plan of Columbia University.
MANY DYING UNNECESSARILY
Dr. Ditman, Urging Establishment of
Sanitary Science School, Declares
United States Loses $600,000,000
Yearly by Preventable Deaths.
Pasteur has said tliat "it is within
the power of man to make all infec
tious diseases to disappear from the
world," and statisticians estimate that
400,000 of every 1,000,000 deaths occur
In spite of the fact that they are pre
ventable. But every year sees some
advance in the science of preventive
medicine. One scene of work in that
direction is Columbia university, in
New York city. Plans for a school of
preventive medicine, a school of sani
tary science and public health, are
printed in the June supplement of the
Columbia Quarterly. Dr. Ditman has
developed the plans, and there are
hopes that the money will be forth
coming to establish the school.
"One-third of the human beings born
alive die before the age of five years
has been attained largely from pre
ventable causes," says Dr. Ditman.
"The death rate of children In some
tenement house districts In New York
is as high as 204 per 1,000. The num
ber of deaths occurring in the world
from epidemics of plague, smallpox,
yellow fever and cholera Is still enor
mous In *nite of the fact that methods
for prevention of these diseases are
known."
Dr. Ditman continues:
Each year the world yields up 1,095.000
our own country 100,000— of its inhabitants
as a sacrifice to tuberculosis, idthough
this loss is not necessary. Pneumonia
kills 100.000 people in the United States
annually, and the number Is increasing
rapidly, yet the cause of this disease is
known, and it should be in our power to
stamp It out.
Twenty-five thousand people in tho
United States who are needlessly Mind
could have had their vision saved had tho
causes of blindness and methods for its
prevention been widely enough appreci
ated. Five hundred thousand people are
killed or crippled every year in this coun
try as a result of preventable accidents.
While tho annual loss to this country
from preventable deaths is $£00,000,000 an
nually, England by tho employment of
preventive measures during: nin« years
(1880-9) saved $1,2.53,20f»,000 as the result
of an expenditure of $378,000,000. By a re
duction of its death rate during the past
twenty-five years the city of New York
has saved $150,240,000.
New York city's annual loss from tu
berculosis Is 123,000,000, that of the United
States $300.000,000—a wholly needless loss.
The annual cost to the state of New
York for the maintenance of public in
stitutions for the pauper, the insane,
the blind, the epileptic and the tubercular
is $11,500,000. From an economic point of
view, then, it is seen that rarely can in
vestment be made more profitably than
through action by which sickness, pover
ty, accident and crime are obviated.
The lost decade has been marked in this
country by two notable efforts conceived
for the determination of the cause of
physical and social evils, by tho establish
ment of the fiasre foundation and the
Rockefeller institute. Both institutions
ait of fundamental and extreme impor
tance- and necessary for the next great
advance in the field of prevention—edu
cation.
In order, then, to complete the tfllelen-
SX Q( Jn the accomplish
ment of practical ends it is essential that
means shall be found to transmit the
knowledge thus acquired regarding the
causative factors of disease, crime, pov
erty, etc., to the ultimate desired swal
lndivlduals, homes and administrative de
partments having jurisdiction over these
fields.
The scope of a school of sanitary sci
ence and preventive medicine is a bror.d
one. The complete attainment of its en la
can only be accomplished by enlisting the
aid of all associated fields of effort. Fur
this reason the benefits to be derived
from Influence of teacher on pupil, physi
cian on patient, charity worker on de
pendent, woman on social conditions and
legislator on legal enforcement can best
bo attained by amalgamation of the pro
posed school with such an Institution as
Columbia university, by which means are
made available for its use the school of
law, (he school of philanthropy. Barnard
college, the Teachers' college and th>
College of Physicians and Surgeons, with
Its numerous cllrrlc and hospital connec
tions. The situation of theso department:
In the heart of a city of the type- of New
York would also operate effectively In
providing opportunity for the study oi
sjclal and industrial conditions.
Anions (lie subjects of study sta
ges tort for Hit- school are tenement
houses, sweatshops, slaughterhouses
dairies, markets and watersheds, of
fensive trades and dangerous occupa
tions, child labor and factories, ant!
toxins, vaccines, filtration and disin
fection methods.
I>r. I)itman also advises teaching o!
the relations between varieties of food
and disease, utilization of sewage lor
commercial purposes, methods of g:tr
bage disposal, modes of transmission
of contagious diseases, epidemics and
modern conditions of life In general.
More Daylight In Canada.
Something like a realization of Mr
WUlett's "more daylight" scheme has
been achieved by the citizens of Fort
William and Port Arthur, twin Cana
dlan towns on the western shore o!
Lake Superior. For purposes of time
Canada is divided into five sections,
each section having a time one hour In
advance of Its western or one hour be
hind its eastern neighbor. These t\v>
towns have hitherto formed the ex
treme eastern limit of the section
known as "central," bnt in response to
a largely signed petition the city coun
cils have agreed to become the extreme
western limit of the "eastern" section.
This means that the inhabitants will
rise—assuming that they continue to
rise at the same hour of the clock—one
hour nearer dawn. They will also (In
isli their tasks one hour further away
from the sunset and thus obtain an
extra hour of daylight leisure. The
change comes Into effect on May 1 and
will hold unti! Dec. 5.
Civil War Check For 67 Cents
A eurioslty in the form of a "war
settlement warrant" was issued recent
ly to John I. Curtin of Bellefonte, Pa.,
for the sum of 67 cents, says the Phila
delphia llecord. It Is now about forty
four years since General Curtin was
mustered out of the service, and In all
these years he never dreamed that ho
had any such claim against the United
States government. It appears that In
calculating the time of his enlistment
an error was made, and this was just
recently discovered. The number of
the order Is 1C.021, which Indicates that
there were a few claims paid before
this one.
RIFLED OIL PIPE LIME
Device to Revolutionize Carriage
of Heavy Crude Petroleum.
WATER USED AS A LUBRICANT
E. H. Harriman Spending Huge Sum
to Benefit by the Novel Invention.
Transportation Now Rendered Easy.
Production of Oil Affected.
Without auy "fuss or feathers" and
without taking any public credit to
himself J. D. Isaacs, consulting en
gineer for Harriman railway lines,
lias perfected and put into operation
an invention that will revolutionize the
transportation of heavy crude oil. Tho
demonstration which he has made of
his new appliance, known as a "rilled
pipe line," lias convinced Edward H.
Harriman that it is one of the most
wonderful inventions of the age. Be
lieving this, the "Napoleon" of the
railway world is spending between $4,-
000,000 and $5,000,000 in the construc
tion of an entirely new and unique
pipe line from Oil City, Cal., to I'orta
Costa, a distance of 285 miles, says a
San Francisco special dispatch to the
Chicago Becord-Hernld. When the
new line is completed Ilnrrlnuin will
be able to supply his locomotives with
oil at a transportation cost which will
be almost infinitesimal when compared
with the old way of carrying It in cars.
The proved fact that the heavier
oils can now be transported through a
pipe line successfully will also have an
important bearing upon the production
and transportation of crude oils and
upon the products which are manufac
tured therefrom. Up to the time that
Mr. Isaacs made his new discovery the
railroads west of the Rocky mountains
were facing a threatened oil famine.
In fact, many of the engines which
had t>een converted into oil burners
had been reconverted, owing to the cost
of transporting the oil to the points
where it would lie available.
The oil which is being transported
by means of the new device comes
from the Kern oil fields, near Bakers
tield, Cal., and has a density of 14 de
grees Baurne. Owing to the cost of
freightage, various attempts were
made to send it through pipe lines.
It was found that the pumping pres
sure demanded was too great
Then the company tried various ex
periments to get the oil to the points
of consumption. The first expedient
was heating the oils, which facilitated
Its conveyance for short distances. It
was found, however, that the degree
of heat necessary for the transporta
tion of the oil for a long distance was
so great as to cause disintegration of
the oil, which resulted In a deposit
of asphaltine, clogging the pipe line.
The Harriman engineers then tried
the injection of wetter into the pipe
lines, but it was found that the quan
tity of water necessary was so great
that the expense of ultimately sepa
rating the oil and the water was pro
hibitive. Loath to abandon the use of
the Bakersfield product, the company
then tried the mixing of lighter oils
with the heavier oil. This was found
to make its transportation through
pipe lines feasible, but the expense of
transporting the lighter oils to tho
Bakersfield district and the expense
of mixing it again brought the cost
up to a prohibitive point.
Mr. Ilarrimau was about to order the
abandonment of the project when En- 1
gineer Isaacs asked him to wait for a I
time and give him an opportunity to
study the matter carefully with a view !
to Bee ins if he could not tind some way !
out of the difficulty. Mr. Isaacs is j
something of a hunter, and while en
joying this sport he chanced to look j
through the barrel of his gun. lie ;
noted the rilled bore, and the reason i
for its being rilled flashed through his j
mind. Why not make the rifle bore j
do for the pipe line what it does for
the gun?
The next step was easy, lie knew j
intuitively that when the water was j
pumped Into such a bore it would pro
duce a whirling motion which would i
cause the water to be thrown against !
the outside of the pipe line and would j
keep it there. This accomplished, the !
effect would lie constantly to maintain |
n thin lilni of water between the pipe I
and the oil, enveloping the latter. This
use of water as a lubricant would
make it impossible for the crude oil to
stick to the pipe and impede its prog
ress.
When the plant was shown to Mr.
Ilarriman Its simplicity appealed to
him, and he ordered an appropriation
sufficient to carry on a series of ex
periments. A lead pipe was used to
determine the amount of friction
caused by the passage of the oil. Then
the same pipe was twisted by hand,
and it was found that the water had a
whirling motion when forced into it.
This proved the soundness of the prin- i
ciple and led to larger experiments. A |
standard pipe line one and one-half
miles long was then built at < lakland.
und the bore was rifled by the inser- ]
tlon of helical wires. The first experi
ments through this pipe showed that
it was possible to transport many
times the amount that could be sent
through the plain tube. Other experi
ments showed that the best results
were obtained when 10 per cent of wa
ter was Injected.
Finally a rifled pipe line was con
structed between Delano and Volcano,
a distance of thirty-one miles. Tlie pipe
is eight inches in diameter, weighs
22.8 pounds to the foot and Is tested
for a pressure of 1,200 pounds to the
square Inch. With an Initial pressure
of 800 pounds to the square Inch the
line Is capable of transporting 14,000
barrels of oil net every twenty-four
hours.
How to Test a Restaurant.
The man was enthusiastic about H
restaurant he had discovered.
"Best place I've eaten at in months,"
he said. "Everything first class. You'd
better try It."
"Were yon very hungry when you
went In?" asked his friend.
"As a boar." said the man.
"Go back some time when you art
not so ravenous," his friend advised,
"and see how you like it then. I make
It a point never to experiment with a
restaurant recommended by a person
who was very hungry when he ate
there. To a person who is half starved
anything tastes good."—New York
Press.
EAGER FOR NEXT HUNT
President Roosevelt's Plans For
His African Trip.
NOT TO STOP IN EUROPE.
Will Sail For the Mediterranean and
Proceed Direct to Cairo Littls
Equipment to Be Taken From Ameri
ca—Kermit to Accompany Him.
President Roosevelt, who will goto
Africa next April on a hunt big
game, accompanied by his son Kermit.
has had this expedition in contempla
tlon for some time. The president has
hunted all sorts of game, big and lit
tie, in the United States, audit has
been his nrdent wish that he might at
some time hunt the bigger wild ani
inals in the African jungles. lie con
siders himself entirely out of the
presidential race and has determined
that he will gratify his ambition next
year, starting for the east almost im
mediately after his successor has bee
installed.
President ltoosevelt plans to be gone
a year and perhaps a year and a half
On his return to the United States tin
president will devote six months, a year
or such time us may be necessary to
writing a book describing his African
hunt, says a Washington special dis
patch to the Philadelphia Press. The
president for the post few weeks has
been in active eorresiiondence with
men In the United States, Germany
and England who have made a spe
cialty of hunting big game in Africa.
He wants to get suggestions from
them as to itinerary, commissary and
general equipment. Half a dozen let
tors by way of reply have already been
received, and others are expected daily.
Before he sails from New York the
president will have all his plans laid
out. He will arrange to have equip
ment meet him at various stages of the
trip, all the way from Cairo, where he
will enter Africa, to the points along
the upper Nile and Lakes Albert and
Victoria Nyanza, across to Mombaso,
a port of entry In British East Africa.
It is a part of his plan to make a
thorough inspection of the Cape to
Cairo railway.
Very little of the president's equip
ment will be taken from tlie United
States. He will have expert guides
meet him at Cairo with such equip
ment as will be necessary for the ear
lier stages of the trip. After this he
will be met by other guides, with
equipment, at points along the route to
be hereafter agreed upon. No photog
raphers or newspaper men will lie with
the party. ——
One or two stenographers will be in
attendance to take down notes while
the subject matter to which they relate
is fresh in the president's mind. There
is just a possibility that one or two dis
tinguished hunters from the United
States or Europe will be iu the party,
but this is still an open question.
It is announced that the preside:,
will not ou this trip make any stops i;.
Europe, lie will sail from New York
in a vessel for the Mediterranean and
proeoou direct to Cairo, who t.he will
re-embark for a trip up the Nile. At
some convenient point up that river lie
will take the Cape to Cairo railway for
the Interior, and, leaving that railway
at some point to lie agreed upon, he
will then plunge into the heart of the
continent, it being bis aim to be away
from civilization perhaps for months at
a time, going north and south, as the
season may dictate.
This will be the greatest hunting trip
ever taken by the president and the
longest in duration. He Is very enthu
siastic in talking to his friends about
it and is planning to bring home with
him enough lion skins to make all
kinds of rugs for the floors of- Saga
more Hill. There will likewise be nu
merous elephant tusks among the tro
phies—if the president gets the game
he is figuring on.
No Tears Nor Hills.
In the V 3 when Rowley Hill was
bishop of ule Isle of Man one of his
clergymen bearing the name of Tears
came to say adieu to his bishop on
getting preferment. The parson said:
"Goodby, my lord. I hope we may
meet again, but if not here in some
better place."
The bishop replied. "I fear the latter
is unlikely, as there are no Tears in
heaveu."
"No doubt," wittily answered the par
son, "you are right that our chance of
meeting is small, as one reads of the
plains of paradise, but never of any
Hills there."—London Queen.
Australian Bushmen.
Although the bushmen of Australia
are very lowest In the scale of ig
norance, they possess a rare instinct
that equals that of many animals and
Is ill its way as wonderful as man's
reason. It is almost impossible for
them to be lost Even if they be led
away from their home blindfolded for
miles, when released they will unerr
ingly turn iu the right direction and
make their way to their nest homes,
and, though these are all very similar,
they never make a mistake
A Good Point.
The critic Is often hard put as he
stands between the work he is asked
to pass judgment upon aud Its com
plaisant creator. He cannot always get
off so well us did the critic mentioned
in the Baltimore American.
"There are some consistent features
of nature in this rural landscape," he
said as he scrutinized the picture.
"What are they?" asked the anxious
artist.
"The brow of the hill, which, I see,
is placed above the mouth of the
stream," was the illuminating answer
The Actress—ln this new play I'm
Bupposed to die from a broken heart.
Now, how am I to know how a person
with a broken heart behaves? The
Manager—l'll tell you what to do. You
Just study the author of this play
after he sees the first rehearsal.—Lon
don Illustrated lilts.
Howell—l heard of a case of Greek
meeting Greek the other day. Powell
—What's the story? Howell—A min
ister was married, and when he came
to pay the wedding fee he asked If
there was auv reduction to clergymen.
SNUFFBOXES.
Once Hold an Important Part In the
Councils of Nations.
No longer applicable Is an old dlplo
mat's advice to "take snuff often and
slowly," yet according to the lion.
John \V. Foster, author of"The Prac
tice of Diplomacy." the time was when
snuffboxes held an important part ID
the councils of nations. The present
which the Spanish government ten
dered to General I'inckney in 1705 and
Which congress withheld from him was
a gold snuffbox.
The British plenipotentiary who at
tended the conferences at the close of
the Napoleonic wars received as pres
ents twenty-four snuffboxes of the
value of £I,OOO each. Itichly Jeweled
boxes were the diplomatic fashion a
century and more ago, but the fashion
has changed.
As a reminder of the olden time, Sir
Charles Russell, afterward lord chief
justice of England, the British senior
counsel is the Bering sea arbitration
at I'arls in 1593, a great collector of
historic snuffboxes, carvied a precious
one and was constantly offering its
contents to his colleagues.
After the treaty of 1850 was conclud
ed with Persia the American minister
to Turkey, who signed it, wrote to the
secretary of state:
"1 would suggest the following pres
ent: A diamond snuffbox of the value
of $4,000 for the shah; to Mlrza Agbra
Klian, the grand vizier, a diamond
snuffbox to the value of $3,000; to
Farrukh Khan, with whom the treaty
was negotiated, another of the same
value; to Mirza Ahmed Khan, the
Persian charge at Constantinople, a
diamond snuffbox to the value o£
$2,000."
YPSILANTI.
Nearly Four Hundred Ways of Spell
ing the Name.
Curious postal officers in Michigan
and Washington have been keeping
for years past a record of the different
ways Ypsllanti has been spelled on.
mail matters, and by comparing the
notes they have preserved a list of
veritable orthographic wonders has.
been compiled. This list easily estab
lishes the claim that more different
ways for spelling Ypsllanti have been
devised than for spelling any other
geographical name In America.
In ail no less than 372 distinct way»
of spelling the name have been count
ed, and it is probable that the greater
number, perhaps all, have been used
in good faith by persons who actually
believed that the orthographic combi
nations reproduced we're the correct
combinations for representing Ypsl
lanti on the written or printed page.
Every letter in the alphabet except
"R" has been used as the initial letter
of the name, though why so obvious
a combination as Rypsllanti Ehould b»
neglected when others much less ob
vious have been employed is difficult
to explain. As a matter of fact the
variations in the spelling are chiefly
confined to the first syllable, "Y" be
ing a letter lacking or having only au
indifferent standing in many foreign
laugunges.
Tipsy Lantl and Zyp Sllantl are met
with, and among the spellings farthest
away from the accepted and official
standard are WliVDSorlnnter and lllp
aaalanddor. -Chicago Inter Ocean.
SOAP BUBBLES.
How Some Pretty and Marvelous Ef-i
fects May Be Produced.
There are degrees of skill in all pas
times, but one would hardly th!nlc that
there were specialists in the art of
blowing soap bubbles. An article in
the Windsor Magazine by Meredith Nu
gent, however, shows that some very
pretty and marvelous effects may be
obtained by the exercise of care and
patience with soap and water.
The first step is to make a solution
by rubbing pure white castile soap Into
a bowl partly filled with water until a
lather has been formed. Then remove
every particle of lather, dip a clay pipe
into the cleared solution aud start to
blow a bubble
If you can blow one six inches in di
ameter so that it will hang suspended
from the pipe and will allow your fore
finger covered with the solution to bet
pushed through into the bubble with
out breaking, then the mixture is ready
for use.
Six bubbles may be blown, oue insMe
the other. This is performed by dip
ping the end of a straw In the soapy
water and after resting the wet end
upon an inverted plate or sheet oC
glass, which should have been previ
ously wet with the solution, blow a
bubble six inches in diameter.
Then dip the straw into the solution
again, carefully thrust it through into
the center of this first bubble and blow
another. Continue in tills manner until
all the bubbles are in position. Groat
care must be taken that the straw Is
thoroughly wet with solution for fully
? jlf its length before each bubble is
blown. With practice ten or twelve
bubbles may be placed inside of one
another.
Nothing preaches better than t:ie
ant, aud she says nothing.—Franklin.
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