THE H0N0RLE8S PROPHIT.
Jed Hawkins knowed a bank as well a
i any man or men
J ever see, although he wasn't workln'
i at It than;
Ho dlil nil kimls o' tlnkerln' but any
Hummer ilay
He used to slnn' nn' talk nuance In 111
eonvlniin' way:
He noweil liat s wrong with currenry,
an' what wo otto ilo
T' mnkn It mole cluatlu lor til' needs o'
me an' you.
But when they not a new cashier, thoy
lnlil one round an' IiIkIi
1" ccme on frntn B-nne eity bank an'
li;i.sed Jed lltivtklns by.
Jed Ilnwklns knowed a dry uoods store, 1
I Klli'HH from A to '.,
An' kimwed de;i;it't'nent stores, whleh
was Ills spei-liilly.
He'd I n nil tlirmmh tit' Hrnnilwny
stot-es an' Intd th' system ilown
80 fine he thniiKht with Im.kln' ho uould
vtin on" here In town.
lie used f lift en stand In trout on sunny
; dnys no' line
'An' tell how I"' knowe l dry goods stores
I from 1. idles' suits t' f.vlne;
'But wlien they unt a nianiiKer lor our
one ptnro lnte, why
They not one from outside somewhere
i and .issed Jed llnwkins by.
fled Hawkins knowed newspaper work, I
. Kliess llhmit as Well
'As any elltor that wnlks, an' I hate
I llPered him tell
About 'l'h' Tine-s :tu' Trlhbyonn, them
1 days when bin men run
.Th' impels iih they orto be, an' Dana
I bud Th' Sun.
ilWhy, all th:! t ki.pt Jed off en them was
I belli' here, nn' so
Th' papers 1 r red o' him, an' so
I ho had 1:0 shew,
Bui when 1 :i' 1 Courier was short
a v. t !: r. v. !.
They lib. J :on- smoothfaced eo. )?ed
j kid. an, 1 i..-;i,e.l Jed Hawkins by.
Jed Jl.iwWiH i- Id a (rood, live man sueh
. as lie had hi vi"w
.Would inn 'I:, mt half eur business men
; litiht o.itea town he knew;
An' fell a lank as he : ml. I run, right
Iroin th' lal's Inst drop
.Would make tir eld ( '01 nplaiitors Hank
vo ieiue or shut up shop.
An J.-d I." ain't niia-h dialmijed because.
, they pass him ,y,
An" taicl it s plain to any one to Fee til"
reason wliv:
"A prophet," Jed siys, lo.ikln' wise up
at til' tnwn hall ilome.
"A prophet nils no honor j!st as Ions
ns lie Mays home:"
J. V. Kdcy, in the New York Times.
t : .j. $ .j. ij. 4, ... 4
! FAMEUA'J PRINCE.
Ey l.mMi ff, GerntsQ.
il. V
' Pamella snubbed me unmercifully
When she returned from Philadelphia.
That's where fIio met the prince. AIfo
Bhe gave me nn earache on the sub
ject of that worthy's charni3 and vir
tues. Impressed by Pamelia's elo
quence I wan beginning to admire the
chap myself. But Pamella overdid V..
Jin her enthusiasm she ndowed his
jroyal highness with mote good quail
(ties than any one man could piBsrss,
end Bti'.l retain a residence, on this
Hmundane sphere. So I doubted.
I "How do you know he's a prince?"
I scoffed.
j Pamella eyed me pityingly. "Of
course, Billy, ' this sweetly, "you
.would not know. But one accustomed
to royally could tell at once."
; I took no notice of Pamelia's sar
casm; I had frown Immune by now.
1 "Royally!" sneered I. "Whore's all
,the fuss and unroar the advent of roy
alty would cause? What's muzzled the
!Iress? no you think it would remain
dumb If a member of Italy's royal
family were loose among us without
a keeper?"
"Oh ,of course, he Isn't cne of the
reigning family," Pamella hastened to
explain. "His family, though, by
rights ought to be in possession of the
throne."
I "Ah! I see; a pretender." I remark
ed. 1 "No o; that Is, not a real pretend
er," corrected Pamella ambiguously.
j"He rays ho could not bring himself
(to the point of making a public de
inland for his rights. Tile quarrel
jthat would ensue would be distasteful
to him."
I "Afraid to fight?" I ventured.
I "Not he," defended Pamella. "He'a
as brave as as anything. And by the
way, Billy, why do you and Jim al
ways go smooth shaven? Now the
prince has the darllngest mustache
pointed at the ends and turned up.
And he has those beautiful melting
black eyes. But wait till you see hlrn.
He Is to be with the Lathams the
20th. We are to have him here on .the
22d. Mamma Is going to ask a few
people to meet him and Jim Is com
ing home."
i Jim is Pamelia's brother. He and I
graduated together and are chums.
That explains my footing In the fam
ily. Pamella lapsed into silence, and
was smiling In anticipation of the
event she had Just mentioned. As I
looked at her I thought this had gone
about far enough. Why wouldn't It be
a good Idea to get down to cold facts
with Pamella, before the prince got
another Inning? I thought it would,
60 I made a beginning'.
"Do you know, Pamella," I said criti
cally, "that you are getting to be a
stunning looker."
Pamella shuddered and looked at me
coldly. "It you intended that for a
compliment, you should have labelled
it as such,' she said scathingly. "It
(was clumsy very clumsy. Now the
prince is an adept at complimenting,
lie does It so artistically."
I "Daubs it on with a brush?" I asked
Innocently, but was ignored. '
i "He says,' went on Pamella, smiling
reminiscently, "that my hair is like
epun gold; that my eyes are blue as
he 6ky above Caprl."; ,
1 "Isn't Indigo where you get the real
thing in blue?" I interrupted. Again I
fWas ignored.
1 "And he says," Pamella dimpled de
Hciously, and turned rosy, "that my
iteeth are whiter than the ivory of
Jndia, and that my lips rival the red
ot the ruby."
"That's no compliment," I Jeered.
("That's an alliteration."
j "And when he speaks of love,' re
lumed Pamella, not even smiling at
r
my remark, "h speaks In the Ian
ug of the poet"
"Which poet?" I said cuttingly.
"His sayings are original," informed
Pamella airily.
"I'll bet he call it 'lofe' and dif
fuses the delicate odor of garllo with
every breath," I flung out.
"Really, Billy," reproved Pamella,
"you're grow ins spiteful."
A bunch of involeraites arrived Just
then for quantities of afternoon tea,
fo I bolted for the club, anathematiz
ing that prince roundly.
On the night of the 22d the prince
and the Lathams were a llttlo late. Pal
ntella was at one end of the room
surrounded by a cordon of admirers,
and surrounded by a few protty girls
ready to pick up any stray admiration
that Pamella did not want Being
lwrred as an admirer, I stood out
side the pale talking1 to Jim, when
the butler pompously announced the
prince. Afterwards ho mentioned the
Iathams apologetically.
Tho prince spotted Pamella and
went toward her mulling. I was facing
him nnd got a good chance to size
him up. There was something fam
iliar the upturned pointed mustache,
the melting black eyes.
Jim turned and then looked at him
looked and then smiled blandly.
"Good evening, Tony," he eald, and
then turned carelessly away.
I knew him now. He had been bar
ber .bootblack and general servant to
some of us fellows at Weld. He quit
when he hit tho lottery for $10,000, and
none of us had seen him since. Evi
dently society had appealed to him. I
expected to see him wilt at once, but
Instead he puffed himself out like a
peacock and glared at Jim.
Jim turned on him again. "I said
good evening, Tony," he repeated
pointedly and there was a hard gleam
in his eye that Tony probably had
seen brfore. At any rate he cowered.
He face went pasty white, and after
one last languishing look at Pamella,
ho faded away.
"Good barber, that Tony," laughed
Jim. "As a prince he's a Joke."
Pamella turned giddy and was as
sisted to her room by the supporting
party of pretty girls. Mrs. Latham
Tainted outright, and was carded for
by a bevy of overjoyed matrons.
When Khe was able Bhe went home.
Pamella came down again shortly, and
it was about midnight, I guess, when
I cornered her In a conservatory.
"Well, anyhow," she replied to my
taunts, "he had tho loveliest eyes!"
"I'll concede him that,' I said, "his
eyes were certainly all right. They
were not blind to your cnarms."
"Huh!" said Pamella scornfully,
"rank flattery." But all the same she
looked mightily pleased.
"And now that this distressing af
fair Is over," said I, edging a little
closer, "wo aro going to announce our
engagement"
"O oh, are we?" said Pamella, nnd
although she sat up stiffly and elevated
her chin several degrees, I noticed
that her voice was a trifle subdued.
Encouraged by this fact, I plunged
on boldly. "Yes. I've waited long
enough. I've . seen Tom, Dick and
Harry come and go, to say nothing of
the prince."
And then, 1 don't know how In the
world I ever mustered up the courage,
but tho next minute I was holding
Pamelia In my arms, Kissing those
adorable lips. Boston Post.
QUEER ENGLISH VILLAGES.
One Which Has No Public Building
Excet a Letter Box.
The English village is very dear to
the hearts of poets and palnterp, and
thousands of them are certainly
charming. A few, however, are more
amusing than anything else, as, for
Instance, one which consists entirely
of old railway carriages, even the
chapel being composed of four horse
trucsk.
Another village, with a population
of 1,100 and taxed at the valuation of
$8,000, has neither school, church nor
other public building, the only thing
cf the sort being a letter box on a pil
lar. Villages with but a single inhabi
tant are not unknown, one of them
being Sklddaw in Cumberland, ac
cordng to Harper's Weekly. The sin
gle villager complains bitterly be
cause he cannot vote there being no,
overseer to prepare a voters' list,
and no church or other public build
ing on which to publish one, as the
law requires.
The lonely ratepayer la a Northum
berland village has declined to con
tribute money to maintain the roads,
remarking that the one he has is quite
good enough for its use. In the Isle
of Ely is a little parish with about a
dozen inhabitants that has no rates,
as there are no roads or public insti
tutions of any kind and consequently
no expenses.
Kempton, near Bradford, can prob
ably lay successful claim to the dis
tinction of being the longest village
In the world, as It straggles along the
road for a distance of seven miles.
Sometimes a village will entirely dis
appear, having been built either on
the edge of the crumbling cliffs that
make part of the coastline, or over
nn ancient mine. One of the latter
class is in Shropshire, and each year
ona or more of the cottages tumble
as the earth sinks beneath it
Gobble, Gobble, Git.
"I wonder what the ladles . do at
those afternoon teas?" -
"Oh, they Just sip and gos-slp."
Boston Transcript
It is said that a growth of Ivy ab
sorbs the moisture from a stone wall
rather than imparting it, as Is popu
larly supposed,
New York To Prink Catskill Water.
ONE CF THE GREATEST ENGINEERING ENTERPRISES
EVER UNDERTAKEN.
AT A COST Or
Present Croton Supply Gives New York 336,000,000 Gallons
Daily The New Catskill Supply Means 500,000,000
a Day.
(From Alfred Danglni Flint's "The World's Urea tost Aqueduct" In the Century.)
Catskill Mountain water, gathered
from biooks that have fteen fed by
melting snows and copious tains, and
have tumbled over rocky slopes Into
the streams of the mountain valleys,
will In a few years he served to the
Inhabitants of New Yorjc city. Tho
project ranks as the greatest munici
pal wetter supply enterprise over un
dertaken, and as an engineering work
I probably second only to the Panama
Canal. Tho need of the water Is much
gTeater than is realized by a major
ity of the citizens or by the guard
ians of their Interests.
Nothing1 can so quickly and com
pletely disorganize and complex activ
ities of a modern community as a
shortage of suitable water; no single
ngency can so rapidly spread dlseasu
and death as a polluted water supply.
For several years New York has been
using more water than Its sources of
supply can safely be depended upon
to furnish In a series of (':; years,
such as have occurred wi'.al: : mem
ory of men who have scarce . reached
middle age. Continuing years of
abundant rainfall have masked the
danger to which engineers have re
peated called attention.
In 1905, as the result of a move
ment promoted by civic bodies In the
days of Mayor Van Wyck and Mayor
Low, a bill was introduced Into tho
legislature, on the Initiative of Mayor
McClollan whleh, becoming a law, en
able the city to start new systems of
water supply that, with the already
exiting permanent works should ulti
mately give New York the best and
largest water supply ever known.
As thoufando of water-wise Ameri
cans know, Now York city ("old New
York") has used Croton River water
for more than two genet atlons. SJml
larly from the Uldgnwood system of
wells?, streams and reservoirs,. Brook
lyn has drawn Its supply, often scan
ty. Approximately flve hundred mil
lion gallons of water are consumed In
the metropolis every day, a Btream
that would (low hip deep betweeu the
buildings In Fifth avenue's fashion
able shopping district at a comfortable
walking pace. For every man, woman
and child this allows a dally average
or 125 gallons. Or, to put It still an
other way, for all domestic, manufact
uring and public purposes New York
uses every . day water which weighs
almiit eight times as much ns Its pop
ulation. Compared with tho 130, 110, 200, 220,
and 320 gallons used every day for
every person In several largo Ameri
can cities, New York's allowance is
moderate, especially when one recalls
the character of business aud the
methods of living1 which prevail In the
metropolis. Liberal, even lavish, do
mestic U8Q of water Is not waste. The
very necessities of life demand that
there should be a maximum supply,
In order to provide for tho ave a?c
demand for the Individual. Tha
word "waste" should be properly In
terpreted. Its use In writing about
watrr supply has been unfortunate,
for it lias been employed both techni
cally and ropubrly to characterize
quite different conditions in the econ
omy of water. To let a dozen glass
fills flow from a faucet In order to get
one cool draft is not waste fo long as
this is the least expensive way to get
cool water. In a broad sense, to per
mit water to flow from the faucct3
through tho cold winter nights Is
not waste so long as this Is the least
expensive way to protect one's plumb
ing fixtures.
To allow even large volumes of
water to spill over the lowest dam of
a watershed is in no sense waste when
the city has already taken from the
stream all that It can use, or when the
saving! of occasional discharges of this
sort would cost more than to get the
same quantity of wator, of equal cr
better quality, from another stream.
Doubtless, some water Is carelessly cr
wantonly wasted In New York ctly,
but not nearly so much as some per
sons assume. Waste should be dis
couraged and curtailed, but waste of
water can no moro bo wholly pre
vented than the waste of enfcrgy and
time. But if all the waste which it
would be reasonably practicable to
stop ceased, New York would still re
quire more wator works to provide be
yond poradvonture for present needs
and future growth.
Croton IUver drains into New York's
reservoirs the wator of 300 square
miles of forest and farm, and can safe
ly furnish about 330,000,000 gallons
dally. Two aqueducts, one thirty
four miles long, built In 1842, and
having a dally capacity of 80,000,000
gallons, and the other tlllrty-two mllos
long, built in 1891, and hiving a ca
pacity of 300,000,000 gallons, . bring
this water to the city. To procure 500,
000,000 gallons of Catskill Mountain
water dally, over GOO square miles of
mountain and meadow will be brought
under tribute, several larfc'3 reservoirs
created, and an aqueduct ninety-two
miles long built, with many mllos of
conduits within the city limits.
The extent of these existing and pro
posed works 1b not readily to be com
prehended, even when reduced to the
common money measure. For tho por
tion of the Catskill works needed to
$102,000,000.
bring Into .the city every year unfail
ingly 500,000,000 gallons an expendi
ture of ?102,OOO,0OO Is estimated. But
those disbursements will be spread
over niany years, and the burden will
not fall heavily, except for possible
temporary difllcultlcs In raising ready
money for construction payments. In
deed the cost of water for every per
son will be on the average lorn than
one ceut por day. Furthermore,
those waterworks, well managed, will
not only pay Interest on the invest
ment and cost of operation but in a
relatively few years will pay the cap
ital cost It is reasonable to believe
that the works will be as pormanent
as those of ltomc.
GREAT STONE WHEEL.
Indian Shrine Discovered by Prospec
tors In Wyoming Mountains.
One of the most remarkable monu
ments left by a prehistoric people has
just been discovered In the Big Horn
Mountains, nenr this place, by mining
prospectors. The monument, which
Is known as tho "Medicine Wheel," Is
looked upon by the Indians as sacred
and Is held In tho utmost awe and
veneration by all the tribes of the
central mountainous country.
The "Medicine Wheel" Is a giant
stone wheel built on the flat top of
Medicine Mountain. It Is laid, out
symmetrically and Is built of great
granite boulders so placed as to form
a perfect wheel with spokes 150 feot
long. At the centre Is a great rocky
hub.
For years the whites have known
that somewhere on Medicine Moun
tain the Indians had a sacred altar or
monument of some kind, but so zeal
ously has tho subject been guarded
that no white man ever know the char
acter or the location of the Indians'
holy plnce. The red men always re
fused to talk to the whiten on the
subject and It was only by ohancethat
tho prospectors came upon the great
stone wheel nnd mado a snapshot pic
ture of the object.
The Identity of the builders of the
"Medicine Wheel" Is as unknown to
the Indians as to the whites. The
only tradition possessed by the In
dians concerning the wheel Is that It
was built by the gods themselves and
13 to remain as a sacred object to the
end of tho world. Medicine Mountain,
so named by the Indians for the rea
son that It was to Its rocky slopes
that the Indians went for the "medi
cine" or charm which was to protect
them through life, hns long been
known among the Indians aa the
home of tho Oreat Spirit, and for
generations those Indian have camp
ed around the great wheel whllo en
gaged In the mystic rites and cere
monies of making Indian "medicine."
No Indlnn would pilot a white man to
the mystery nnd only chance brought
the two prospectors to the place of
the "Medicine Wheel." Basin corre
spondence Cincinnati Enquirer.
Kettle of Fish.
Tho slang phrase "a kettle of fish"
really mean before It acquired Its
present sense?
Colloquial, of course, but Is ft slang?
Without presuming to establish a hard
and fast line of the Masons and the
Dlxoiis in our speech It does seem
that 1800 might be a convenient divi
sion, and to hold that any expression
now in use which can establish itself
in the eighteenth or earlier century
might bo spared the slur that slang
generally implies. This locution cer
tainly clears the limit thus proposed,
for It was first printed in 1742 In
Fielding's "Joseph Andrews," "Here's
a pretty kettle of fish," cries Mrs.
Tow-wouse. Though most kettles of
fish are pretty, this Is by no means
the only adjective admitted. In "Tom
Jones" there Is "a rare kettle of fish,"
the Duke of Wellington in 1800 wrote
of "a fine kettle of fish" and in 1820
Lady Granville called her kettle of
fish nice. It has been suggested that
this kettle of fish Is really the kid
dle or weir in which fish are taken,
in effect the shad nets of the North
River may be kiddles of fish. The
suggestion Is plausible, but there Is
no evidence to prove the passage from
the weir to the pot. These kiddles
are a part of the history of the Tower
of London, for St. Thomas's tower,
the water gate. Traitors' Gate of
bloody fume, was largely built from
the license tax which the Bishop of
Rochester levied on the kiddles In th
Lea, the Medway and the Thames.
There were riots over those ancient
bargemen have possessed a fine flow
of language ever since. New York
Sun.
A Hundred and Fifteen Miles An
Hour.
An electric railway la to be con
structed between Liverpool and Man
chester, Intended especially for the
swift transportation of passengers,
It Is said that the system adopted will
be that of the single elevated rail, the
cars being suspended from the rail.
Thd projector talk of sending trains
from one city to the other, a distance
of about 29 miles, in 15 minutes, or at
the rate of 115 miles an hour.
VMibcMrei
VThen voiuo Buwt te sm jM iM
At pnaiii ttlMiM 'laotMn tmw
BsqIi riq JL tw vui lata,
lo buy a butlurtJUl buuqust.
The chui to oomt will make thine
bum,
For hood th solllnir plana will b
A plc to go to luk sbuw
Of rrl iuwdi mid llii,arle.
Luraria W. Sheldon In Nw York Times.
felOMM
"laogA and
Drlghtpupll The change in price.
Rod Hen.
Teacher When water becomes Ice,
what Is the great change that takes
place?
"What Is your son doing now, Mr.
Smart?" "Oh, everybody he can."
Baltimore American.
"Public servants can be relied on
more than private ones." How?'"
I'They never quit." Clovtland leader.
Youngwed "I always crack up my
wife's biscuits." Mr. Bachelor
"Heavens! Are thoy as hard as that?"
Boston Transcript
"Havo a plenmnt trip east?"
"Yep." "How did you find New York?"
"Why, you can't miss It If you take
tho right train." Cleveland Leader.
She 'There Is really an art In put
ting on one's gloves, you know." He
"True; you have to get your hand In
before you can do It properly." Los
ton Transcript.
To Mendicant "You are an explor
er? What Instruments did you have
with you?" "A sextant, a theodolite, a
" "Well; what you needed was a
safety razor." Life.
Man differs from the beasts in that
he can piece out what he knows with
guesswork, and thus possess himself
of llluskme sufficient on which to build
philosophies. Puck.
"I want to see the president" "Have
you an appointment?" "Not yet, but I
have ray eye on something. That's
what I want to see hlra about." Lou
isville Courier-Journal.
"I am afraid Dtilby is putting an en
emy Into his mouth to steal away his
brains." "Yes," answered Miss Cay
enne; 'and It's a case of petty larceny
at that." Washington Star.
Elslo "So Madge married that old
millionaire. I suppose there was a
good deal of throwing at the wedding."
Ethel -"Oh, yes; rice, old shoes and
Insinuations." Boston Transcript.
Little Willie "What Is logic, pa?"
Pa "Logic, my son, is your line of
argument In a controversy." Little
Willie "And what Is Bophlstry?" Pa
"The othor fellow's." Chicago Daily
News.
"Pop." "What Is it, son?" "Is an
osteopath an end man In a minstrel
show?" 'Gracious, no, child! What put
such an idea Into your head?" "Well,
they told us at school he was a spe
cialist in bones." Baltimore Ameri
can. t
Komutter (enthusiastically) "Do
you know that this place is nearer
the city hall than Harlem Is, as the
crow flies? You ought to move out
here, Knickerbocker." Knickerbocker
(with feeling) "I will when I get to
be a crow." Judge.
"Whativcr made thee marry, John
and thee 70?" "Because I thowt lad',
H 'ud be nice to think there'd be some
un to close my eyes when time
corned." "Close thee eyes! Why, mon,
I'se bad three wives and they's all on
'em opened mine!" Punch.
"Couple of fine girls, ain't they?
One of 'em is a fine singer, and the
other one can cook." 'Yes, old man.
But there's a tragedy In your home.
The one who slugs thinks she can
cook, and the one who cooks thinks
she can sing." Cleveland Leader.
Auto Salesman "Business Is boom
Ins. In fact, we are so rushed that
we have filled our orders only up to
last April." Auto Owner "I can ap
preciate that At the present time I
have had repairs made on my car only
to the smash-ups of "May, 1908." Puck.
"I am sorry to have to Inform you,"
said the bead of the firm, "that we are
compelled to dispense with your ser
vices." "Are you?" replied the office
boy. "But I 'spose you're goin' to let
me keep on workln' here, just de
same, alnt you?" Chicago Record
Herald. Breaking the News.
Patrick arrived much the worse for
wear. One eye was closed, his nose
was broken and his face looked as
though it had been stung by bees.
"Glory be!" exclaimed his wife.
"Thot Dutchman Schwartzhelraer
'twas him," explained Patrick.
"Shame on ye," exploded his wife
without sympathy. "A big shpalpeen
the lolkes of you to get bate up by a
little omadhaun of a Dootchman the
slue of him! Why"
"Whist, Nora," said Patrick, "don't
pake disrespectfully of the dead!"
Everybody's Magazine.
A Very Queer Man.
"He has a queer way of celebrating
a holiday."
What ! It?"
"Instead of blowing all his money In
foolishness) he goes around paying his
W'Ua." Louisville Courier-Journal.
--Mask,
IUngllsh astronomers have advamoed
the UwNtry tbatt Mars has turned yel
lww. That statement Is evidence that
l&iffland, In chagrin over losing the
North Pole, Is trying to steal a planet
whioh we have always regarded as aa
Amor lean possession.
Ieon Gulllot's and Ch. Grlmth's ex
periments on the cementation of Iron
by pure carbon show there Is no ce
mentation If precautions are taken to
prevent the presence of gases, but it
tukes pluce If contact is Insured.
Moreover, It Increases with the pres
sure, but always occurs extremely
slowly.
For two years past the Pittsburg
& Lake Erie Railroad has been test
ing a car wheel that was designed
by the chief engineer of the Carnegie
Steel company. Although the Pitts
burg & Lake Brie railroad carries an
unusually heavy freight traffic, the
wheel lias stood tip so well under the
trying service that the company has
announced that It will build a 3,000,
000 plant at Homestead for the ex
clusive manufacture of the new wheel.
A circular has juBt been Issued by
the Bureau of Standards discussing
electrical measuring Instruments in
general, describing tne various types
of Instruments, pointing to tho
sources of error and explaining meth
ods of checking them. The bureau un
dertakes to test any Instruments sent
to It for this purpose, making a small
charge for the work Involved. The cir
cular contains tho regulations gov
erning these tests, and a schedule of
the fees charged.
An Interesting discovery haa been
made at Reze, a little place near
Nantes, formerly under the Romans,
the flourishing capital of Pagus Ratla
tensls. The discovery consisted of
molds for coins bearing the heads of
sevwal Roman emperors. The Archae
ological society of Loire Inferleure
has met In informal session to con
sider the find, which was made by ex
cavators, but no decision has been
reached. M. Soullard supposes that
the molds, which are very clearly cut,
are the work of modern coiners, and
were most probably made after a dis
covery In 1859 at Bernard, In Venee.
M. Maltre, archivist of Loire-Infer-leure,
put forward the theory that
they may be. ancient, and extempor
ized at the time of the occupation to
pay the troops. Among the heads rep
resented are Diocletian, Maximianus,
Constantlus I., Probus and Marcus
Aurellus.
BIG ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES
Which Help a Western River to Oper
ate a Railroad Tunnel.
Electric locomotives ere now shut
tling trains back and1 forth through
the two mile tunnel of the Great
Northern Railroad which pierces tihe
Cascade Mountains about a hundred
miles east of Seattle. The locomo
tives were built by the General Elec
tric Company at Schenectady, N. Y.,
weigh 230,000 pounds each, develop
more than 2,000 continuous horse
power, and are capable of delivering
a traction effort of 80,000 pounds.
The use of electric locomotives eli
minates the smoke and gasea which
frequently overpowered engineers
and trainmen, Imperilled the lives of
passengers and delayed traffic. The
bis electrics are capable of haulmg
tho heaviest trains, steam locomotives
and all, up the steep grades, which
was Impossible for steam locomotives
except those of the greatest kind.
The electrical equipment represents
the best practice and the latest devel
opment of electrical engineering. The
Wenatchee River has been harnessed
about thirty miles south of the tunnel,
where 12,000 electrical horse-power is
generated by the falling water. The
largest pipe line in the Northwest
carries the water from the dam to
the power house two miles below and
210 feet nearer sea level, where the
turbines change the energy Into elec
tricity, which Is transmitted at 33,000
volts to the tunnel.
On the descending grade the motors
will become generator and return
electrical energy to the line to assist
other trains climbing the hill on the
other side of the tunnel. This is the
first time this feature has ever been
successfully applied to railroad work
In America
Fans As Bacteria Breeders.
Revolving fan3 are frequently used,
especially In hot weather, simply to
produce a cooling effect by setting up
a current of air inside. Mrs. A. Sar
tory and A. Fllasier have examined
the bacteriological effect of these fang .
and ventilators upon the atmosphere
within and have communicated results
to a recent meeting' of the Societe de
Biologle.
They find that these appliances enor
mously Increase the bacteriological
content of the air. Their experiments
were numerous and varied. In a res
taurant of 400 cubic yards analysis of
the air before the fan was working
showed 12,500 bacteria per cubic yard.
After working the fan for one hour
23,000 bacteria and after two hours
45,000 bacteria.
In another cafe of 600 cubic yards
the number of bacteria rose from 12,
000 to 39,000 after the fan was working
for one hour. In every instance, in
fact, the number of bacteria to the
cublo yard was doubled or even quad
rupled. Chicago Tribune.