* + ♦♦++♦•»♦♦♦*♦**♦♦+♦ : Uncle Sam : : And the ; ! Sugar Trust\ people let Jvl their general housec leaning go until spring, but L'ucle Sam Is not HO particular In this re spect. Here It Is cold weather, ami yet he's got one of the biggest house cleaning Jobs 011 Ills hands ever under- W. B.TBOMAS, PREs- taken by him be inENT OF HUOAIT fore, lu fact, from TKU6T. a jl reports, before tie gets through with the American Sugar Helming company, otherwise known as the sugar trust, and the cus toms service you won't know the places. The present cleanup began recently with the arrest of James F. Bendemagle, superintendent of the sugar company's refinery in Williams burg. on an indictment charging him with conspiracy to defraud the govern ment by means of false weighing of sugar importations. This arrest, however, was only n slip 1 in the government's plan to pre»ecuic the frauds In which it has las, mil lions in duties, and the work is ; niug ahead until the men "higher ;i;»" are | called to account. It is estirn.-, lid that through tlie connivance of cost lus of- ; licials the trust lias stolen mop- thin j $30,000,000 from t'lo goverumc: i'i duty on false weights of sugar. tiif>ll.v I taken in at the Williamsburg refill ries. in the last twenty year.-. Bcndi-magic had been superintendent there for the past thirty-live y.-.-iiv. and ttie indict tuent charges the c«nry of 27. tings of raw sugar from Cuba <lll 1 lie steam- j ship Eva 011 Aiu- 24. 1907. the true weight of v.hich • 0,15i).4i»-l pounds gross. It is alleged t hat the importation was falsely w;:;l,ed at only i.VJ.Ii'JS UIC'HAHII I i KB. < I KTriMS AIiKNT WHO HAHKI) tCIUH rast'US. pound"; gross. According H> the imliet inent. • lie government lu this imp case was cheated eut of Sl.tKM.tr.' in duties. I It was in INST that the »n**i trust ! ivu» organized. sixiMii concerns. head , cd by llaveuii-yer a Elder, making up the combination. In exchange, how ever, for the Jti.'-tKUIOO worth of s» I rarities that the concerns represented stock for $.'>0,000,000 was issued. Ou this capitalliuition a return of 10 per j •■cut was steadily paid. Owing to the popular sgirstioti j against the trust in New Tork In IS'JI | It wnfj dissolved, but immediately re 1 organized under the name of the American Sugar Company of New Jersey, with a capital atock of $50,000,000. As Is well known, this Isn't the first time the sugar trust has been In diffi culties. It is one of the oldest of all trusts and for years was more bitterly assailed both in and out of the courts than Standard OH. During fbo nine- j lies Haveroeyer was a veritable "bogy" J man." He was sued In courts, de nounced on the stump and investigated ! by Lexow committees and legislature*. The Pennsylvania Sugar Itetlning com pany brought suit against the trust last June nnder the Sherman anti-trust art and forced a settlement on the basis of a payment of $2/(00,000 In cash, the return of $7,000,000 par value of securities as collateral and the cancellation of n loan of $1,250,000. in ; Roosevelt's term n judgment for $135.- 000 smart money was obtained against the sugar trust, and In Tuft's term $2.- 000.000 back duties were paid up. X' s'"* 5 '"* 'lT^k In the Investiga- j tlon of the su.-nr 112? I inist as It has de- kt \ I veloped ill the la-1 o '<*"• « j live yea is 110 one 112? • man appears to have j&i ' done more than Richard Parr. who. A in his former capac- <JR. ■ . ity of special treas- £& W' ury ngent and later 112 as chief of the weighers'divislon of the treasury depart- *' AMES REYNOLDS. inent. has kept his eyes open every minute, and he lias made some star tling revelations. Among others who he accuses of being under the influence of the trust is James Reynolds, for mer assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of customs, and now a mem ber of the tariff board. All the Difference. •"My wife Is very bad." said a man at '.he Rloomsbury county court. "You mean she Is very ill. I hope she is not bad." replied the magistrate Bympathetically.—l.ondon Telegraph. A Dreaded Contingency. A young girl of fourteen was taking a trip on I.uke Michigan in a small steamer. The lake was somewhat rough, and many were seasick. The girl sat in the bow and was unusually quiet for her. "Are you feeling sick. (Vilighter?" inquired her father. "No; 1 don't think I am sick, but I should bate to yawn." -I.lfe. FOOTBALL TANGLES. Outer Situatiana That Have Deveieped on the Gridiron. In the fall of IKOU Young, the Cor nell quarterlutck. received a had bump en the head during the tlrst half of one of tlie early gaiuea and was ao daaed that be gave the signal for the same play eight times In succession. The rVr«t eleveu. unable lo compre hend sin-b generalship, or, rather, lack of it. became Just as bewildered as the injured quarterback and hi the ef fort to understand the unintelligible let the Cornell backs through for a quick touchdown. The calling out of numbers while the opposing quarterback Is trying to give his team the signal for the next play has resulted in numerous tangles, in one of the Army and Navy contests the quarterback of the latter eleven be came so confused in one lnsrsnce when the Army players were shouting out various numbers while he was trying to direct the next play that he actual ly gave his men one of the series of numliers the Army men were suggest ing The Incomprehensible signal and the subsequent uiixup may be better imagined than explained. Ou the Yale squad in 11)00 theie was a man who was not only a good play cr, but au excellent comedian. It was told of him that more than once In put this gift to good account In a game An amusing remark here, a bit of a story there, then a touch of burlesque | and his rival in the line would torget j ■the moment that lootbnll is too se- | rUnis a matter lor laughter. It is uti j necessary to add that the comedian 1 ] was never so interested In his own j dramatic effort® as to fail to take ad j vantage of their effect on the other j man.— Outing. A LITERARY SIN. The Fabrication of Qjotat ans Is a Ccnsurabla Practice. Plagiarism is baldly so great a crime 1 i. ; 1 lie fabrication of quoi.'lions a I ! practice wlii- ti has caused many an ! earnest student to waste hours In ;> I j fruitless endeavor to trine the passage ! 1 cited. Among the guilty Samuel War len deserves special mention. On one occasion he look part 111 ;i debate dui 1 ing which Hncluick t>"i >tcd that In was not a party man. whereupon War ! leu rose and said thai 'tuy learned [ | friend's boast reminds me painfully ' of the words of Cicero. 'He who b longs to no party is presumably toe vi:, ■ for any.'" At the conclusion of th ■ «!■ bate Roebuck came over to couipli ! inent his adversary on having made - j I successful hit. adding. "I am 11 iri* : well up In Cicero, but 1 liave no ate where 1 ciin tilid the passage you qti.ir ed " "Neither have 1." suid Warren ; 1 "Good night" That literary sin. the fabrication «»t 1 quotations, leaves its legacy of troub •• ; ; behind it loug after it has been com witted. Only the other day to a ween ' ly Journal's correspondence column i j came the venerable question as le ' where In the Scriptures Is to be fount! 1 ' a reference to "oil 011 the troubled j ! waters," u quotation countless preacii j , ers and writers have used fur ceu | j turles, but neither Cruden's "Concor-l J j auce of the Bible" refers to It nor hi. J j Notes and Queries or its industrious j correspondents ever been able to throw | a light upon Its origin.—lxindou Cbroi | ! WHAT TO DO. Hint# on First Aid to Everybody on All Occasions. When a man rushes Into your ofilee hurriedly and says: "By Jingo, Dawson, 1 hate to speak j 1 of it, but 1 need S2OO Ilka tbs very old j dickens today!" Answer.—"Wtia 1 a singular cotnei dene*. Blnks' I do too!" When *J)s lovely young maiden si the seaside to whom you have beeu paying court all summer shakes her head violently and says: "No, Mr. Blithers; i cannot Imagine any circumstances under which 1 could be induced to marry you." Answer.—'Thanks, Miss Jones. This Is a great relief. 1 was afraid you had misconstrued my attentions and. of course, desired to live up to my tui plied obligations." Wheu you run faca to faee with your tailor upon the street sad he turns a cold, beady eye upon you and says: "Excuse me. Mr. Bump, but wbst hare you to say about my little bill?" Answer.—"! don't think I have met your little Bill, Mr. Snlpperton. In deed. 1 didn't know you had any clili j dren at all." While lie Is recovering from this j jump Into a taxi and proceed to break j the speed laws.—Carlyle Smith lu liar-1 per's Weekly. How to Hit. With one swift, straight right to the jaw the little man had knocked the j big. fat bully out completely. Now he ! was boasting modestly about the mat ter. "I learned how to hit," he said, ! "from Gentleman Jim Corbett. Gen- j tleman Jim claims that in street fight- j ing if you land one clean right you 1 Win. But few men know how to hit out straight and clean. They swing. And a swing is 110 good because it can so easily be dodged. "To hit out with the right straight and swift—this is how Jim taught trie to do it. You step forward with your left foot toward the enemy. You hit straight out with your right arm as hard as you can. at the same time shoving your body forward and push ing off with the ball of your right foo as though you were going to shove tin whole earth from under you. "That Is how to land a straight right. It is easy, and it wins every time." The Amateur. "Yes." said the person who bad at tended the party, "Miss Keepounder was there, and we had to beg and beg her to play." "And did she play?" Oh, yes. I thought for a time that vo would have to beg and beg her to stop."—Exchange. No Fun. Peter and John (seeing a large plate glass pane being put in»—We may as well go home. They are not going to let It fall -Fllegendo Bin tor THEODORE N. VAIL Prmaident of the Big Compcny That Hae Becurerf Westarn Union. The deal recently made in which th« American Telephone and telegraph company gained control of the Western 1 Union means the biggest merger since the formation of the steel trust, with a capital slock amounting to more than $1,000,000,000. The deal is re garded as marking a long stride to ward complete control by one corpora tion of all wire communication In the United States and the |N>ssible exten sion of the telephone service to the far corners of the land without duplica tion or extra construction. Theodore N. Vail, president of the American Telephone nnd Telegraph _J- ' |'"_v . . THEODOUK N. VAIL. 1 company, is a self made man and /or- | ty years ago was a sun tanned farm er's boy working upon his father's fill-in in lowa. Today he receives a . salary of SIOO,OOO a year 11s head of 1 the big company. Successively he ! taught school, was a telegraph opera- i I tor and when twenty-three years of 1 J age entered the railway mail service, j | In 1N74 he was general manager of the I I service, but a year later resigned and 1 attached himself with the telephone j ; interests of which he is today the : i president. FRAUD ORDERS. The Way Our Postoffice Inspectors Protect the Public. When a person or firm that Is un- i ! known to the postotliee Inspectors lie- j gins to receive large quantities of let- 1 ters the inspectors begin to Invest! 1 gate They visit the otiice of the con j ccru and leurn what they can If it is j I a legitimate and honest business It is j not Interfered with. But If It looks ; i "shady." If It happens to be a mining j ; or land scheme that offers large re ! turns upon the Investment of money. ! the Inspectors abstract a dozen or :n> of the Incoming letters from the mail i get the names and addresses of the j writers and then reseal the letters and | permit them to be delivered. The next move for the Inspectors Is 1 I to visit the persons whose names «nd i I nddresses were taken from the letters i ! nnd to get from them the correspond- j 1 once of the supposed fraudulent con ! 1 fern. Wltb 'his the Inspectors "make a nnd either eanse the arrest of j ths illstiooeai person* er cause « i "fraud order" 10 l<e issued against If A Traur! order" u (Imply an order 1 made by ihe [»e»iA( authorities u' ! Washington declaring thai such • I business Is fraudulent and war-nliiK j th* public against sending money to 1 It After that each tetter coming *<i dressed to that concern la stamped ! "fraud" In red Ink acmaa It* face and j returned to the sender Thousands of schemes for defraud j Ing the public has beeu stopped by the 1 postal authorities, and they are alwny* on tha ware* for rtieui. Kansas City Star ROQUEFORT CHEESE. THa Oiaaavary Mad* by a Poor Fi-ane* Peasant Boy. A shepherd boy with a poor appe J lita dlacorered tha secret of making Roqeafort vheewe. True as gospe> They swear by (bat story tooay lt> Roquefort. I/Vance, aud If they only knew tha lad's uama they'd raise 1 monument to him. Us waa out tend j lug sheep, and. tha sun smiting down j bard, he weut Into a eureni to eat his S cheese and rye bread Ha failed to rei | away wltb all of It and threw a hunk' i of the cbeeMe off to one side. It Imp | peued to drop ou a natural shelf, and J a few months later the boy found the cheese still there. lie saw that 11 j had undergone 11 constitutional change, > for Instead of tielng dry and hard it was moist and creamy Besides, there were veins ut greenish mold running through It. The boy took 11 nip. ain the taste was so pleasing be carried a ! crumb home to his mother. She must I have been a woman ot Intelligence, 1 i for no sooner had she tasted than she | ! took one of the largest rolls of cheese j i from her dairy, tiad her sou guide her ) | to ttie cavern and placed it on the] j shell, indue time the same change 1 j was wrought, and Roquefort cheese | had arrived as an article ot com* i uier< e. All the natural caverns around ! the quilint old town now are used for | ' ripening cbeese. aiul the women work | In tliem with small oil lamps strapped ' around their chests —New York Press. I : ... j I World's Largest Leather Belt. What is declared 1 11 be the largest I and inost expensive leather belt ever I made for power drive was recently ' shipped to the south from New York • ' city. The belt Is 210 feet long. Rlx feet 1 j wide, three ply thick and was con- 1 . structcd at a cost of $5,800 by a com- ; pany In New York city, into the belt went the hides of 540 Texas steers. The belt was built for a great lumber company of Bognlusa, I.a Young America on Thanksgiving Day. Of course Thanksgiving doesn't mean Just sports tor every one. Our parson has to preach that day. And that can't be much fun And mother has to sup'rlntend The ronstlnc of the turl:. Willie fail.er I irpens carving kntves- Thls all mean- lots of work. But. then, lor lis a dandy lime. 1 simply i.i c my seat A; li<Lie i-noi tiv dinner's 0.- •S eat. n mi. w EAT! HILL'S T h A.. 'Oil Why Rfcli .a:!i h u. ~ uur National fcii^.aiice. RATE WE LIVE AT DANGEROUS Bolieves It Will Destroy Whole Moral Fabric of the Nation—Too Many Consumers. Wants More Producers. Says Money Should Be Spent on Farms, Not Guns. James J. 11111. Ihe i oueer of tlx ; northwest and one of tin* most con | spicuous railroad men of the world, believes that the United States must recede from Its extravagance, the Lu cullian way of living, and set back to | the old way of hog, hominy and milk or else goto destruction. "Not only America, but Europe." lit' j said recently to an interviewer at his j otlice in New York. "Is alllicted with ! the germ of recklessness. Our na | tional legislature sets the pace. "We are spending millioiis on top ol ! millions for the army, for the navy, j when we need neither Kor congress jto appropriate ic several hundred j millions annually, as it does, for the ! guns of I lie shi| i> encouragement lot • the individual to talk about warfare i when there isn't any war cloud appar ■ cut an\ \\ here. Commercial War Needed. "Grant said. 'l.et us have peace.' Hut. as Napoleon desired forijiis time ! and his reign, this country Teems tc | wish war. Atul why and f«.«r what'/ What reason have we to combat, ex cept commercially, any foreign powei j And yet. speaking soberly. I will say that we must do something quickly toward regaining our trade with other | countries. | "Germany. England and I-'rauce arc advancing and pre-empting territory that naturally belongs to us. We can j recover that trade only by encourag ing shipping industries, by more mark cd methods of inviting trade, by sys tenia of reciprocity, by competition - i the latter, after all. being the real key ; note of commerce. "Were I in control of the finances ot I this government I should spend more j for the development of the farm and less for the t.neiiess of tirearuis. I should have agricultural statious sit uated in ail parts of the nation where ! one might come to be taught how to grow two blades of grass where but one grew before. Have Too Few Producers. "Think of the congestion iu the cities How long can this nation survive uti del present conditions? We have few producers, a multitude of consumers. 1 have forgotten the tigures, but some where I have read that 70 per cent ol I the people live iu city houses, steaia I heated flats, in homes uusuited foi j health, unequipped for the sturdlncs* I necessary for the development of out j manhood. 1 should like to see the gov I erumeut spend millions in tIJ W-IK our ! ageuient o* men and women J?uiig i> the country, there to live as Gu»i in tended they should live—to raise hi! ilreii, produce graiu, meat and milk "We must get out of the notiou that we are living for the present. It is a bad system of society that prompts tlie well being of today, caring nothing foi tomprrow, for those who come after People Should Goto Farms. "Millions upon millions of acres lie nndisturbed in the west, in the south and even iu the east. You have po» erty stricken people iu your great cit i les. children who are denied the privi legi'j of education, mothers who must ! jo through life with tear stained eyes husbands and fathers with btirdent they can ill afford to carry. And why: i Because of their nonproductiveness. "This country as u government ulti i raately must go backward unless we > I induce the people togo to the farms out in the country where health IUKT be obtained, where a man may make a living, where the boys and girls may j go hopfootlng it over bill and valley, ' gaining strength with every step "The desire seems to be for the young to get to the city. That desire j must be circumvented, dissipated by j ■ome sort of method We must make j the country life as attractive to the ! young ns the city is. We tniwt teach them that where the city afTottls a ; iar the rural communities will contrib ute $2. And that is true unless one is a genius. "You ask about the prosperity of the nation. It was never better. Crops j have been good, mortgages have been j wiped away by the millions, new fields j have been opened, new cities built, new railroads constructed, others planned. Peace reigns. I can see no black spot anywhere. There will be no central bank. The country will not stand for it. "Let congress and the various state legislatures take a more catholic view i of the railroad situation. Let them re member that tlie railroad investor has | Ills money at stake, that lie has con tributed something toward the devel- ; opulent of the country, that lie is nei ther a thief nor a robber, as some 1 would have his countrymen believe. j and then we will have a more homo- 1 geneous nation, less trouble, more flour | and bacon sides in our pantries, fewer j suicides, greater bank accounts i i our savings institutions, better nii.r "We must learn to be les* gant. We must l>e taught stand that at the rate our |. . re living destruction to the whole moral I fabric of the natiou is Inevitable." j He Who Laughs Last, Etc. The old colored man had climbed Into the dentist's chair of torture. "Shall I give you laughing gas. un cle?" queried the tooth carpenter. "Not till after de tcof am out, boss." replied the old man. "Reckon mebby Ah'll feel mo' lake laftin' den."—Chi cago News. The Man of the Hour. Little Charles was sent to Miss R.'s to return a basket. He was received very cordially and invited to cornt "some time and stay to dinner." "Thank ~ou." said Charles very solemnly, "1 will. I'll stay today."—Delineator. RAIL CAR. t t £>ennan's Novel Gyroscope In tion Being Shown In Fngland. Worldwide interest is being taken in the public demonstration m England of Louis llreiinan'B gyroscope oar, which runs on a single rail, and some of the foremost railway engineers de- MODKL OK lIHKNNAN GYROSCOPE, clare that the invention will revolu- ! tlonize land transportation all over the earth. The car weighs *wenty-two tons, is forty feet long, thirteen high and ten wide and is mounted not on regular trucks, but on one single line of four wheels, in this manner it car ries forty passengers during the dem onstrations with perfect safety, run ning freely about curves of all sorts of nugles It was in May, 1907. that Mr. Itren nan made his invention i ulilic. suc cessfully demonstrating a model a few feet in length. Later lie built a fall sized car capable of carrying passen gers and freight, which is now I cing shown. A subsidy from the Indian government made the work possible. I'pon its completion the experimental I car WHS given the most rigorous tests for over six months, and now the re sults of these trials are given to the world. The principle of the gyres ope is that of a spinning top. and the car runs smoothly and without vibration. Some thirty years ago Mr. ISrontian. who was then in Australia, became beset with the idea that this principle could be applied to railroad construction and operation in a way which would revolutionize lain! transportation all over the eatth. and be has been work ing o.'i il ever since Brennan was tho inventor of the Lrernaii torpedo, con trolled by the British war department A CHANGE OF HEADS. The Trick a Dusky Ruler Wanted a Magician to Perform. Thurston, the magician, had many Interesting experiences during ills pro fessional tour of the globe several years ago. He went to all sorts of outlandish places and appeared before rulers of many strange lands and com ' munltles. On one occasion his man ; ager hud arranged that Thurston j should give an exhibition before thu ruler of a province called l'agopago. In the Fiji islands In the crowd that saw the exhibition were ra iy of the black and yellow slaves of the chief tain. All the spectators were nma/.ed at the many strange manifestations of ; the black art that Thurston offered, ; but no trick appealed so strongly to the assembled retinue and to the chief tain as that In which a white duck was made to appear with a black head and a black duck, after a moment's manipulation, with the bead of the white duck The trick had to be re peated. and then the chieftain engaged In a long whispered conversation with the Interpreter "What Is desired?" queried the oblig ing trick player. The Interpreter coughed apologetic ally and then responded: "Respected sir. our honored sire wishes you to tnke two of his slaves and put a yel low head on a black man and the black head on the body of a yellow servitor. Our honored sire thinks It would be very funny." "Tell his royal bigness," Thurston replied, "that I could give a yellow man a black eye. but I would not like i to attempt to make his entire head black."—Philadelphia Record. MONEY IN JUNK. The Stuff Is Always In Demand, and the Profits Are Large. Up and down the dirty hack alleys : drives the .lunkmun. singing his mourn ; ful. nasal cry, loading his rickety : wagon with broken scraps anj pieces j of eld Iron, an obje<*t of pity or of rldl i cnle to most of the uninformed public. | Let him be admired or envied, rather, i for If not he himself, at least his em- j ployer. is probably making more money than nine o ,t of ten professional men ' th'ii:*-- :irr* more depressing and | nnslghtfy : . *■ utile ;ii'e of junk as i ; high :ii ■ • imp ;ng One may j j see mieb , . every i Ity. and, so fat t |as the . . nor an determine. : nolle ol i!., is ever moved. The I piles in.:, e , ; • i,i.'» i "oin month tc I j month Mid gtow instier iniii rustier, j > but tile men in the business keep o:i buying. liow are tlie.v able to keep so mud; | money tied up? Where do they get the large amount of "Upital which seems tc be necessary? i They borrow from the bauks, likf any other business man, oti the sect! rity of their stock in trade. "No better security," the president ol | almost any bank will declare. "It cai I neither burn nor blow away. It can'i i be damaged by water or smoke. Whert! is there a collateral like that? It i i absolutely safe. The foundries and tin I nut and bolt works and the stove fac i ; tories can't get along without iL li, | pays the largest profits of any busines ' to which we lend money, and tbes< ! profits fluctuate very little. Junk is al j I ways in demand. The men In thai ] business are excellent customersl i Technical World Magazine Blocking Him. "Say, old man." began llorrougUs. "lend me your ear for awhile, will ! you ?" "My friend." replied Wise, shrewdly i suspecting a touch. I'd gladly leon you both of them; then I wouldn't be able to hear you ask me to lend you j anything else."—Catholic Standard and . Times. It was an Irish philosopher who. said the strangest things in some newspapers ore the oues that are left ( □uf. PLAN TO PREVENT MINE DISASTERS Coal Operator Would Imprison Violators ot Mining Laws. LAXITY IS TOO PREVALENT. Colonel W. P. Rend Believe* More I Drastio Law* Are the Only Remedy. | Favors Courts Imposing Severe Pun ishment For Least Violation of Rulet | Colonel YV. P. Rend, president of the j Rend Coal company and one of tbe j largest coal operators In Illinois, re ?eutly declared In spenttlng of the catastrophe In the St I'aul coal mine at Cherry. 111., that In order to pre vent future disasters the courts should he called upon to send to prison for a long term of years any one who in the slightest way neglects or violates (he coal mining laws. "It makes DO difference whether It Is the operator, the mine boss or a miner." said Colonel itend. "If he vio lates the law in the least respect, thereby endangering the lives of other men. he should be sent to prison. As tilings are now conducted. II a mine boss or anybody else violates the law he Is takeu before a Justice of the peace and given a small tine. This must be done away with. If an in spector finds the law being violated, he should be able to have the violator i brought before the criminal court and I sent to prison for a long period. Pennsylvania has stringent laws of this character, which were brought Into after the last big mine hor ror, and one 111..,. "'»s sent to prison." In addition to advocating prison sen tences for violators of the mining iaws. Colonel I (end declared that every mine should be compelled to equip its tun nels and shafts with asbestus car ta' is. so that In event of a tire they c Jld be quickly placed In a corridor .ml the tire held back until all of the 1 men had escaped. "Not only should they be compelled 1 to have asbestos curtains." he said, ' "but the mines should be equipped with sandbags and cement, with which _ 1 walls could be thrown up In the work ings to stop the flames. I Prison For Lighting Pipe. [ "Another thing which should be In , sisted upon is that all powder and hay should be lowered to the workings at night and not In the daytime. Then ( every miner should be compelled to , use sal. ty lamps In place of the naked "ties now prevalent in Illinois These t lamps :ton lil I.e carefully lnrke.l by , a fore;, in befc re the miner enters the pit, timl any man seen trying to .-j I pose his lamp or light a pipe or cigar j while In the mine should be at once arrested and sent to prison " i Colonel Kend also was emphatic In saving that smokeless explosives only should be used in the mines, and he u is mure 1 hau emphatic 111 declaring that the miners must be forced 1• > use the explosive* It. such a way Cut no "blowout" shots can occur "Nine out of ten explosions arc caused by blowout allots," he said "Very few are caused by gni or pow der, uti i blowout shots are simply the result of shiftlessness and laziness Hew Explosions Occur. "In h vein of coal eight feet high the miner should undercut it before putting In the explosive and tben put In three or four small shots to bring down the coal Well, he won't do It. j lie simply bores a hole iu the solid I coal, puts In a big charge of powder tamps It with coal dost instead of clay which Is usually Just under hi* ( feet, and lets It gn The result is ; that the charge is unable to break tbi coal, and it blows out of the hole And when it comes out it comes as flame I The flame coming Into contact with ! coal dust In suspension causes s ter j ! rill.- explosion, and there you are Fatal Mistake I* Made In speaking of the receiit disaster at j Cherry, 111.. Colonel Keud said thsr it j seemed to him the fatal mistake was ' made la reversing the fans after the j explosion bad occurred. "Now, It is evident," he said, "that | j the tire was caused by some one In some way igniting a bale of hay which was lieing sent down into the ! pit At the time the funs were forcing , i air down into the mine, and when thei were reversed they began to draw the j air out of the mine, and naturally ! 1 drew the flames with the air down the ! i elevating shaft, through the main cor- 1 rldors and up the air shaft. Why the i fans were reversed Is a mystery t>> iue. "And speaking of the fans brings me j to another much mooted question. I which is simply this: Haven't we gom too far in the matter of putting in fans': Wt have always thought that the more fans the better ventilation. 1 but it Is 11 question whether all this air I we are sending into the initio doesn't keep the coal dust suspended too much. ! thus very highly increasing the dan ger of explosions in nil my mines 1 have installed sprinkling systems in j order to keep the dust settled, and that | should be required by law in every dry i mine. 1 don't mean these automatic I sprinkling systems: just a hose and 1 | | couple of carts are all that is necessary, j The keeping of the dust on the ground and not In the air Is necessary in order to minimize the danger of explosions | In conclusion Mr Itend said that ) in all of his mines the shot tirers had j explicit Instructions not to fire auy shots which were uot properly laid ! ' Successful. "I started out on the theory that the 1 world hnd au opening for me, and I 1 went to find it." "Did you find it?' "Oh. yes; I'm inn hole."—Baltimore j American. Curing Ham by Electricity. Ham may lie cured by electricity, ae cording ton report inflde at the prick crs' convention at Chicago, and lasts several years. The meat is put ir.tj ,1 vat of brine and an electric current I passed through tbe vat- ' CLASHING STARS. ft Greeriroem Quarrel In Wfciek MtA Rore Triumphed. Minnie Hanck and Marie Rue had quarreled over "Carmen." One night •The Marriage of Figaro" was a»- Bounced, with Hose as Stwnrma an 4 Ilauck an Chernblno. "At a o'clock that afternoon." write* Mr. Dpton, "Hauck went Into the the ater and pre-empted the prima donna's room by depositing her things ther*. In. An hour Inter Roze's maid reached the theater and proceeded to the same room, only to tlnd it tilled with tbe hated rival's traps. Roze notified the colonel (Henry Mapleson). He was promptly on the scene and began mov ing Hauck's belongings to tbe opposite room and instructing his wife to be at the theater precisely at 6. "\t half past fi, however, Ilnuck; sent the chevalier (her husband) to the theater to see that everything was right. The chevalier found that every thing was not right and ordered Iloze'B belongings to be removed, replaced his wife's and had everything, including the door, stoutly locked. "At 6 Roze arrived, prepared to 'hold the fort,' but as she couldn't get into the fort to hold It she sent for thfr. colonel, who sent for a locksmith, wh# opened the door. Hauck's things were unceremoniously bundled out. At half past 6 Ilauck came to the room to dress, and, much to her surprise and to the chevalier's chagrin, Roze was in there calmly dressing. What pass ed between them probably 110 one will ever know, but Ilauck went back to» her hotel and notified the manager that she would not sing that eveair>y. And she didn't."—Pears.>n's Weekly, THE BOROBOEDOER. A Hindoo Temple Quilt In Java In the Eighth Century. The Boroboedoer unearthed by Sir Stamford Rallies when the English ruled in .lava was built by the Hin doos in the eighth century and is by far the finest example of their work in tbe Island. Standing 011 a hill in the middle of the valley, this impos ing edifice, covering nearly ten acres, rises to a height of upward of a hun dred feet above the summit of the hill. It consists of a series of stono ter races built on top of each other in di minishing magnitude so as to leave circumscribing galleries and crowned by a vast cupola. Entrance to the gal leries is gained by four stairways north. south, east and west—which run from the ground straight up to the big top terraces. In the middle of which stands the crowning cupola, surrounded by numerous smaller lat ticework cupolas, from which one may step aside into any of the intermediate galleries. The whole is built of stone, showing au Immense amount of carving, anil, though there Is no genuine inside to the temple, many of the galleries arc covered In, innumerable images of Buddha occupying niches or promi nent positions on th" wa11... and the sides of the galleries were paved with bas-reliefs. Indicating the glorification of this god and other Incidents In his history. When one considers thai there are several miles <;f bi s-reliefa alone the work expended on 'he pyra mids of Egypt pales Into insignifi cance before tills stupet;<h>n» uudee ; taking —Shanghai >!*mir» Toting Mother (proua. rerybodv I »*ye the baby looks like . • Rrchelor | Brother (atnaiedi—T?>e spit* * thing*. ' Aoo't My that to your fa. e d>. r> Secrets. ; "Dwu't sutupiain of people tetlin' yoh I secrets." said Uncle Eben "De;. : eonldn't «J» It If you taiin't cuMwl tt J - Washington Star. i Relative Strength ef Arms, i A* a result of some very interesting 1 experiments uiatle at Washington with 1 a view to determlue tbe relative I strength of right and left limbs it bus. ; beeu ascertained that over 50 per e-n; 1 of the men exuminrd bad the rit-li" ' arm stronger than the left. Hs.4<> per ceut had the arms of equal length ! and strength, and 32.70 per cent bad j the left arm (Stronger than the righ, j Of women 40.90 per cent hnd the right j arm stronger than the left, and 24.51* | per cent bad the left stronger than the ' right la order to arrive at the aver | age length of liuilie fifty skeletons 1 were measured, twenty-five of each | sex Of these 1 weuty-three bad the right arm and left leg longer, six the left arm and right leg, while in seven teen case* all tbe members were mote or lees equal In length.-- Exchange Disadvantages of Poverty. "We're KOin' to move again in a ' month or two.' said the little girt on | the back porch. "We move into a new '< house every year." "We don't " said the little girl in the I adjoining yawl. "My papa owns this I house." "And yon don t never move into ati.v other ouoV" "No." I "My, my 1 It must be awful to be as j poor as that!"— Chicago Tribune. 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