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By a cnrlotis coincidence Czoigo&'fl |
name is a Polish noun meaning "a
creeping, crawling thing, such as a
snake."
Lombroso's cure for Anarchy is
/symbiosis." Dr. Holmes wittily ex
pressed the same idea long ago when
/.e recommended people to "choose
their parents carefully."
Jules Verne, who was at one time
Regarded as the most fantastic of
novelists, lived to see many of his
impressions realized. Let the weather
prophets take heart and persevere.
Professor Zimmer, of Berlin, a spe
cialist in mental diseases, has been in
vestigating the cause of insanity
among women, and has concluded that
if women were admitted into competi
tion with men the result would be a
tremendous increase of insanity among
the women.
President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark
University, describes in the Forum
"The Ideal School as Based on Child
Study." Incidentally he condemns
the present inefficiency of the high
school, and criticises the secondary
teachers of America as prone to all
the narrowness and affectation of the
specialist, without his redeeming vir
tue of productiveness in research.
Tiny insect enemies cause in the
United States an average annual loss
to agriculture of about $300,000,000,
according to the entomologist of the
Department of Agriculture. This av
erage of destruction is kept up not
only by the occasional widespread
plague 3 of locust, cliinch bugs, etc.,
but by what might be called a scat
tered guerrilla warfare which is going
on nearly all the time.
It appears amazing that within a
period of less than forty years three
Presidents of the United States should
Lave been shot down. But that fact
Is no indictment of our institutions.
The natural guarantees of a beneficent
civilization may at any moment prove
a. weak a defence against the stealthy
assault of an individual Intlamed with
a lust for blood as are the artificial re
sources of a despotism, exclaims the
New York Tribune.
The Macon Telegraph recommends
the substitution of rice and hominy
for the dear potato. They are palata
ble and very nutritious. The scarcity
of potatoes appears to have deve' #ped
n new fraud. It is said that by dip
ping old potatoes into water to which
enough lye has been added to make
the skins curl they are made to take
du the appearance of new ones. The
Iraud may be detected by cutting the
tubers open, as the lyc turns the inside
fellow.
It is an interesting fact that the
Wireless message can be flashed
through fogs and storms, and seems
only to be affected by electrical dis
turbances of the atmosphere, and not
yeriously even by those. The effect of
the earth's curvature ic also said not
to materially interfere with its use.
That we shall at some not far dis
tant date communicate through the
air with Europe from ship-to-ship sta
tions, so that the breaking of cable
connection will be of no account, is
by no means a wild dream. Tlie great
ccean liners are already being equipped
With the necessary apparatus.
Godlike Giving.
Cod fo loved that He gave. That is the
expression, as it is the lest of love. Giv*
ing—not receiving, not withholding, not
condemning. We sinners can receive and
withhold and condemn. Can we love?
That is to he Godlike. God is love, and
whosoever loveth is born of God and
lenoweth God. God loved, and just he
cause lie loved lie gave. Can we measure
that love? Only by His gift. Can we
measure that gift? Only by His love.
Both are measureless. —ls ortu western
Christian Advocate.
A WOMAN'S WISH.
Would 1 were lying in a field of clover, Just to lit* there, filled with the deeper
Of clover cool and soft, and soft and breathing
sweet, That comes of listening to a free bird s
With dusky clouds in deep skies hanging song!
over, Our souls require at times this full un-
And scented silence at my head and sheathing—
feet. All swords will rust if scabbard-kept too
long.
Just for one hour to slip the leash of
worry And lam tired!—so tired of rigid duty,
In eagcr haste from thought's impatient So tired of all my tired hands find to do!
neck, I yearn, I faint, for some of life's free
And watch it coursing—in its heedless beauty, ...
hurry Its loose bends with no straight strings
Disdaining wisdom's whistles, duty's running through.
Ay, laugh, if laugh you will, at my crude
Ah, it were sweet where clover clumps speech,
nre meeting. # Cut women sometimes die of such a
And daisies hiding, so to hide and rest; greed,— ....
No sound except my own heart's steady Die for the small joys lield beyond their
beating, reach,
Rocking itself to sleep within my And the assurance they have all they
breast. need.
—Mary A. Townsend, in the Argonaut.
A DANGEROUS RIDE
BY WILL LISENBEE.
I HAD come from the East to seek
my fortune in Colorado. After
spending nearly two years in pros
pecting in different parts of tlie
State, I resolved to go to Los Vegas,
New Mexico, and try to get a position
on the railroad, as I always liad a
liking for that sort of work.
Well, I only got as far as Trinidad,
when I found myself without a dollar
In (he world, and of course I had to
stop over and see if X could not get
something to do.
I went to the Santo Fe railroad sta
tion and applied for work, but failed
to get any encouragement. Then I
went to tho different trainmen and
made diligent inquiries, but none of
them know of any job that was open.
A conductor, who was then running
local freight on tills line, promised
to give me a position as brakoman, if
I would remain in Trinidad two
weeks. His head brakemnn was go
ing to quit him, he informed me, and
I could have the place if I chose to
remain there till the vacancy oc
curred; but two days later he was re
moved to anither division of ilie road,
and I was left without any prospect of
employment in Trinidad.
I then resolved to go to Los Vcgrs
at once, but, having no money to pay
my fare, I was at a loss to know what
to do. At last, however, I decided to
go to the railroad station and endeav
or to get some of the lirakemen on
the freights to let me vide.
When I arrived nt the station 1
found that a long freight train had
just pulled up and was standing 011
tlie side track to wait the coming
of the eastern-bound express.
I first approached tho conductor,
and, explaining my condition, asked
him to carry me over his division, but
lie dismissed me with the curt reply
that his train was a freight train
and he was forbidden to carry jiasscu
gers.
Discouraged but not despairing, I
went to the head brakoman and
sought to induce him to allow mo to
ride on oue of the box cars.
"Got nuy money?" lie asked.
"Not a ceut," I replied, "but "
"You'll have lo walk then," lie said,
and passed on.
I tried tho other brakoman with
like result; then I began to feel pret
ty blue. I walked up tho track along
the side of the train, wishing that I
had never seen the State of Colorado.
Presently I stopped to admire a new
locomotive that was in the train near
it; centre. It was a beautiful piece
of workmanship, fresh from the
shops, and was being taken south for
the Mexican Central.
While X was standing there tho
train was uncoupled just back of tho
locomotive, and the lower section
bucked down to another switch.
A few minutes later the express
went by and then the section that
imil been run back was brought on to
the main track and went thundering
on its way to Itaton. You see the
trains had to be pulled up this long
grade in sections, then, and an engine
wus kept at the point to do the work.
As soon as the train had disappeared
up the slope, I heard the hell ring,
and then the other section began lo
move forward. Not until that mo
ment, when the disagreeable sensa
tion of being loft behind took posses
sion of me, did I have the remotest
idea of attempting to steal a ride.
Then it occurred to mo that I might
easily ride on the engine at the rear
end of the train, and 110 one he the
wiser; but I hesitated to do such a
tying, aud should have given up tho
Idea lind not tho brakemnn pointed to
tlie engine and hinted that If I didn't
have backbone enough to got aboard
: 1 ride, 1 ought to walk.
Thus eucouriged, I ran forward and
leaped aboai & the moving engine.
Then I crept into the tender and seat
ed myself where I would be hid from
the observation of any oue who might
pnss along the train. I knew that the
brakemnn v ould shield me if he
could, but I fuust not allow the con
ductor to discover my presence.
The train was lioiv moving faster
and faster, and the clatter of the,
w. els ove; a joint ill tho rails told
mo that wo were passing over tho
switch and on to the main track.
We soo:i struck the long, stoi. •
grade, aud moved very slowly. There
is ale.el space, a quarter of a mile
long, peri aps, just below the last
grade of t ivo miles. We had reached
this, and were starting up the last
grade, when the engine stuck.
I heard the loud, rapid puffing of the
locomotive as the wheels slipped on
the track, and then the train gradu
ally came to a standstill. Then we
began to move backward, and I knew
we were hacking on to the level space
to get a new start.
The train moved pretty fast down
the grade, and I rightly guessed that
tho engineer was out of humor.
We had crossed the level space and
reached the down gade below it, when
we were brought almost to a stand
still. Tho engine gave a loud snort,
then there came a rattling of cars as
it began to move forward again. Tben
I felt a violent jerk, I heard some
thing break, and the engine 011 which
I was rhling stopped, while the train
moved on up the track.
The violent pull given by tho exas
perated engineer had broken the coup
ling, and I was being left behind.
I knew that the break would soon
be discovered, and when tho conductor
should come back to Investigate the
accident, I would be found and put
off the train.
As soon as I realized this, I began
to look hastily about mo for some
place in which to conceal myself.
Happening to glance downward, I
discovered the door leading down to
the furnace standing open, and in a
moment I had concealed myself in the
fire box, closing the door behind me.
Scarcely had I gained the shelter of
that rather unusual hiding place when
I felt the engine begin to slowly
move down the track. For a short
time I thought nothing of this, and
momentarily expected to hear the
train hack against it, but as the mo
ments went by and the sound of the
train grew fainter and fainter, I came
to the conclusion that tho breaking
loose of the engine had not been dis
covered.
I now resolved to crawl from my
place, of concealment, but as I at
tempted to open the door I found that
it was latched on the outside, and I
was as securely fastened in as if I
had been locked in the strongest pris
on.
The engine was now gaining speed at
every turn of Ihe wheels, and would
soon be rushing with frightful rapid
ity down (he steep incline.
With a feeling of horror I realized
my awful peril, for X knew that in
descending the ten-mile grade there
was little hope that the engine would
stay upon the rails. I shouted at the
top of my voice, hoping that some of
the train men had returned to the en
gine, hut only tho sound of the swift
ly rolling wheels came in answer to
my call. There were several sharp
curves along the route, and some of
these were on the very verge of deep
abysses, making tho peril of my de
scent so great that I was almost be
side myself with terror.
Glancing downward through the
grate I could see the road running like
a great belt beneath me, while faster
and faster rolled tho engine, sending
up a cloud of dust that almost stifled
me.
Tho engine now rocked violently
from side to side, and every moment
I expected it to leave the track. If I
catild oniy escape from my prison
there might yet bo time for me to
jump and save myself. Once more I
took hold of the iron door and shook
it with all my might, but It remained
as solid as the walls of iron about me.
I uow despaired of escape, and, al
most stupefied with the terror of my
situation, I sat there and waited for
whatever might happen. The speed
I was growing frightful, and every in
j slant I expected tho engine to leap
j from the rails and go crashing down
■ into one of the deep ravines that skirt
ed the road.
Suddenly I felt the enginn lurch vio
lently from side to side as it rounded
a curve, then, to my joy, I saw that
the furnace door had been thrown
open by the shock. With a cry of do
1-glit I sprang through the opening
and was soon standing in the cab.
A single glance told me that it would
be worse than madness to leap from
that fast flying engine, which was
now moving at a speed of fifty miles
an hour. The high cliffs and patches
of cedars that skirted tho road shot by
me in a mingled streak of gray and
green.
Far doivn the track ahead I saw a
gang of section men at work. The
next minute the engine, which semcd
to have leaped the Intervening spare,
Bhot by them like a flash. I only
caught a brief glance of their aston
ished faces as they hurried back from
the track, then they faded from view
f-.r behind.
So bewildered and stupefied was I
by the penis of the situation in which
I found myself that it was several mo
ments before I recovered my presence
of mind sufficiently to realize the ne
cessity of some immediate action.
I glanced hurriedly about me, my
eyes falling on the polished levers, use
less without steam. Then I caught
sight of the brake on the tender, nnd.
leaping forward, I grasped the lever
and gave it a vigorous turn. There
was a sharp, hissing sound ns the tron
brakes came in contact with the swtft
ly rolling wheels, and sparks of tiro
shot from each side of the tender, but
there was no visible slackening of the'
speed of the engine. Using all the
force I couid command I set the
brakes, nnd then stood helplessly there
in the tender while I was swiftly
whirled down the mountain road.
Full four miles ahead I could now
see the city of Trinidad. I knew that
it would lie impossible for mo to stop
the engine before I reachcil that place,
but I still hoped to check its speed
sufficiently to keep It .Tom flying the
track.
This was my only hope. I could see
lone lines of cars on the side tracks
and a number of engines switching
about the yards near the station, and
I shuddered as I thought of what
would happen should tlio main track
not be clear when I reached the place.
Only a few seconds now and I would
be at Trinidad. As one in a dream X
again set the brakes a noteli tighter,
and then, grasping the bell cord, I rang
the bell furiously. The engine seemed,
to be fairly lifted from the track as it
Rwept round a curve and went thun
dering on its way. I cast a fleeting
glance at the station close ahead. I
only saw a confused mass of buildings
and cars; then I dashed by like a me
teor. Then, as I gained a level stretch
of track the engine began to slacken
its speed, and presently came to a
standstill nearly a mile below the sta
tion.
I was saved! A mist gathered before
my eyes, ntid I sank down unconscious
in the bottom of the eab.
When I regained my senses I found
quite a crowd of people collected
about me, nmong whom was tho con
ductor, who had returned with his
train for the missing engine. When
he asked me how I had come to he on
the engine I told him that I was in
tending to ride to Los Vegas, but did
not mention the part the brakeman
had played in the matter.
To my surprise he did not seem dis
pleased at me for my attempt to steal
a ride, but complimented me on my
nerve in staying with the engine at
tho risk of my life, and putting on the
brake as I did. I had saved the com
pany the loss of several thousand dol
lars, he explained, for which he him
self might have been blamed.
"You give me more credit than I
deserve," I replied. And then I ex
plained how X had been shut up in
the fire-box till it was too late to leave
the engine.
lie east a surprised glance at me,
and then said;
"Well, you certainly possess frank
ness and truthfulness, which is, after
all, more to your credit than the per
formance of a brave deed would have
been. Come with me to Los Vegas and
I'll see wlint I can do for yon."
He took me with liim to Los Vegas,
where he obtained for me work as a
brakeman, and six months ago I was
promoted to the position I now hold.—
Waverley Magazine.
Fair at Forty.
It was Balzac who discovered that
the woman of thirty is more fascin
ating than the girl of twenty. Now
the Lady's Pictorial puts the zenith of
feminine charm a deeado later, de
claring that the apple of discord Is due
to the woman of forty. It is an inter
esting profession of faith and one
wonders whether the general accept
ance of it by mankind has anything
to do with that Increasing tendency
to defer marriage till late in life which
modern philosophers have often no
ticed and sometimes deplored. If the
woman of forty is really the most
charming woman It is only natural
that bachelors should wish to remain
bachelors until they are tit helpmates
for lier. There is, however, one re
flection that should give them pause.
However much more charming than
the girl of twenty the woman of for
ty may be, there remains a strong
probability that she muy not keep her
charms so long. That fact, also should
certnluly be borne in mind by Coelcbs
In search of a wife.—London Daily
Graphic.
lie Married HOOO Couples.
For more than twenty years John
Hause, of Jeffcrsonville, Ind., has been
connected with the business of mar
rying eloping couples from Kentucky
and Illinois, an industry of which he
Is practically the creator. Long before
he was elected a "squire,' with power
to tie matrimonial knots and collect
wedding fees, he was a "runner" for
another justice. He met all incoming
trains and steamboats, and was said
never to make a mistake in picking
out a couple which was looking for a
bnrgain in the matrimonlul lino.
Finally, nine years ago, he became
a justice of the peace, and since that
time he has performed more than 8000
marriages. It is said that lii 3 Income
from wedding fees is more than S3OOO
a year. Now "Squire" Hause and the
Industry he lias built are threatened
with extinction by Attorney-General
Taylor, of the State, who is said to
have found that the marriage laws of
the State have been viola ted.-rtChlcago
Tribune,
SCENTS OF THE ANCIENT.
Perfumery ns I'ir'l by the Nations ol
Antiquity.
Among the steadily augmenting rea
sons for alarm at Germany's commer
cial aggressiveness, says the Balti
more Sun, there was recently men
tioned in English and Continental pa
pers the fact that German manufac
turers are even attempting to control
the trade In perfumes. Their
produce from heretofore untbought
of sources almost any sort of scent
and essence for toilet and table, which
are exported to all parts of the globe.
As specially noteworthy are reported
large shipments of perfumery to the
Orient from German ports. The ladies
of the harems of Constantinople,
Cairo, indeed of the whole Mohamme
dan world, are said to have been won
for these perfumes "made In Ger
many," and the Levant, the native
land of fragrant extracts, is being
inundated with can de cologne and
numberless other scents of flowers or
who can tell what substances.
It t difficult to realize how univer
sal was the knowledge and use of
scent in ancient time, says Invention.
Greek tradition avers that perfume
came direct from Venus' toilet, and re
cipes for essences were inscribed on
marble tablets all about tlie temples
of the goddess of love. Egypt was a
great mart for all kinds of perfumes.
Women made themselves beautiful
through the use of essences, and guests
were received in chambers strewn
with flowers. Even the dead were not
forgotten, for the embalmed mummy
was saturated with perfumes and
spices and sweet scents were burned
before their statues.
The ancients thought certain per
fume had medicinal value. Pliny men
tions eight remedies derived from rue,
thirty-two from rose, four from mint,
twenty-one from the lily and seven
teen from the violet. Thyme has a
tonic quality, and lavender Is sooth
ing. Patchouli is stimulating, jas
mine is cheering, while heliotrope is
an irritant. There are those in our
day who think sandal a tonic, and its
virtues were known to the Greeks,
who anointed themselves with it for
the Olympian games.
The Jews' love of perfume was so
great that morning and night they
burned sweet incense of myrrh, and
beds were perfumed with aloes and
cinnamon. So indispensable were
scents considered for the bridal toilet
that one-twelfth of the bridal dowry
was set apart for their purchase. The
famous balm of Gilead was distilled
from a bush which formerly covered
the mountains of Gilead, but this of
late has become so scarce that only the
Sultan can be supplied.
The trade in perfumes was enorm
ous in Greece. Like the Egyptians,
they understood the fascination of
flowers, and an Athenian not only per
fumed his house but scented his drink
ing vessels with myrrh, the gum of a
tree which grows In Arabia. To such
an extent was the love of perfume
carried that each part of the body had
its peculiar ungent; the hair required
sweet marjoram, the neck and knees
wild thyme, the arms balsam, the
cheeks-and breast palm oil, and the
feet and legs sweet ointment. Indeed,
the perfumers' Bhops in Athens were
the rendezvous for the discussion of
politics and Intrigues, The love of
perfumery among the Greeks spread
into Home, and soon the Roman per
fumers became so famous that 9
bunch of sago indicated their shops.
A Roman lady frequently kept one
slave to sprinkle her hair.
The rulers of the earth have, like
many of their subjects, favorite per
fumes. Kaiser AVilhelm 11. writes a
Vienna contemporary, prefers "Gar
den of the Parish Priest," but occa
sionally uses Ylang-Ylang, corylopsis
nud Iris. The Empress Augusta Vic
toria's favorite is haysceut, and for
her private room eau de cologne. Both
she and the children use spermaceti
soap. The Czar has a weakness for
scents, but his especial favorite is un
known. He uses peau d'Espagne
powder. The Czarina prefers violet
perfume for the handkerchief; her
rooms and corridors are sprinkled with
jonquil and jasmine. Savon ala peau
d'Espagne is her Majesty's favorite
soap, although she uses occasionally
creine duehesse. Tile Queen Dowager
of Italy, Margherita, prefers Cologne
water and uses Palermo soap. King
Victor Emmanuel's favorite scent is
heliotrope. The Crown Prince of
Roumania Is fond of rosewnter. King
Oscar 11. of Sweden makes use of
chypre, and for his beard brilliantine
powder. Sultan Abdul Ilatnid in
dulges in a mixture of lilacs and viol
ets.
Weak On Its Foot.
Jlmson in a rash moment undertook
to plant a new clothes post in the gar
den, and after much labor he delved
out a hole into which he managed at
length to coax the post to a perpen
dicular position, and he went indoors
a proud and happy man.
Ten minutes afterward, however,
he went out to feast his eyes again
upon the spectacle of the family
clothes post pointing skyward like a
miniature telegraph pole, when to his
consternation he found the late erec
tion lying prone across the onion bed.
"You pushed it down, did you?" said
Jimson, wrathfully seizing his youth
ful son and heir, who was playing
about near.
"That I never, dad," replied the boy.
earnestly; "a sparrow perched on the
top an' overbalanced it. I seed bin
do it."—London Spare Moments.
Countries With Fev7 Houiwi,
Italy and Spain have fewer bcii"c9
In proportion to population than ury
other country. Tho Argentine Repub
lic has most.
Street Hallways vs. Good Heads.
-ir NEW factor that must soon
/\ he taken into consideration in
connection with the good
roads problem is the rapid ex
tension of the electric traction sys
tems into the rural districts. Not
content with the immense volume and
earnings of the intramural systems,
the street railway interests have in
vaded the couutry with long interur
ban lines that are already projected ' \
all the way across large States.
These street railways or electric
traction roads are not to he ignored
by the good roads workers. They
must he studied lor the purpose of
determining the effect they will have
upon highway travel, whether toward
increasing or decreasing its volume,
or as reducing the length of haul by
horse and wagon, and changing its ,
direction.
Practically all of these railways par
allel important public highways be
tween tlie principal cities and towns.
Many of them have franchises from
the State, granting the right of con
struction and operation directly on the
public highways, while others own
part of them in the shape of purchased
rights of way. The cars on these
lines transport passengers from town
to town, or between the points on the
roads, as comfortably, more cheaply,
and almost as quickly as the steam
cars between stations, and fnr more
quickly and agreeable titan the trip,
long or short, can he made by horse
and buggy cr wagon. It seems obvi
ous, therefore, that the electric roads
will tend to reduce the light passenger
travel along the wagon roads which
they parallel.
But the traction companies are not,
by any means, content with passen
ger business alone. Tliey have al
ready embarked in the express and
light freighting traffic, despite the le
gal obstacles whieh are being thrown
in their way by the steam railroad
companies, whose contentions have
heen defeated in the Supreme Court
of Ohio. This freighting or express
business promises In the near future
to become more profitable to the roads
than the transporting of passengers,
and to grow more rapidly in volume.
It cannot be doubted that this draws
wagon traffic from the parallel high
ways.
As yet, few, if any, of the electric
roads have attempted to embark in
the heavy freighting business in this
country, though it has been done in
Europe.
We may safely predict, however, L.
that in time the traction companies
will attempt to secure much of this
business also, unless legal restrictions
debar them, for they can operate as
cheaply as the steam roads, and in
many cases they have advantages over
the latter in facilities for handling
such freight.
However, if the interurban roads re
duce the travel between towns 011 the
highways which they parallel, they
will surely increase the travel 011 tho
cross roads leading from the farms
to the railways, and which act as
feeders' to the steel ways. This will
also undoubtedly increase the volume
of travel on the roads reaching from
the villages off the lines of the electric
and steam roads to those through
which these lines extend.
Good road advocates have no reason
for becoming apprehensive that tho
extension of the interurban electric
railways will cause auy of the wagon
roads to be abandoned and to fall into .J
decay. While they seem likely to
reduce traffic on some of the main
thoroughfares connecting towns, their
effect will be to increase the number
of short hauls in the aggregate ou
others. It is, at any rate, a factor in
the highway improvement movement
that may be studied to advantage.
The progress being made here and
abroad in the manufacture of practi
cal and economical steam and gaso
line trucks and "lorries," as well as
passenger coaches, for the transporta
tion of freight and passengers on the
public highways offers the good roads
enthusiast sufficient guarantee for a
counteracting iutluence tending to
give the Intel-urban wagon way a new
importance. It will probably then
come to a struggle between the opera
tor of the motor stage and the elec
tric traction companies to decide
whieh of them can reduce the cost
of operation to the lowest point.—ll. L
W. Perry, in the Good Bonds Maga- *"
zine.
Opposed at First.
When the New Jersey hard read law
was passed there It was .bitterly op
posed by tlie farmers, and to put in
operation in some cares where farm
ers were the officials to tho initiatory
steps, it was necessary to compel
them to act by mandamus proceedings.
During the lirst year only thirty
miles of hard roads were built; lust
yeur 114 miles were constructed, and
the present year over five hundred
miles are petitioned for by the farm
ers of New Jersey.
The Greatest Drawback.
It must then be admitted that from
end to end of our beautiful progres
sive country the greatest drawback
to thorough education, the greatest
drag on spiritual, mental and moral
development is tlie hindrance of free
social intercourne between the city \
and tho couutry through had uud, at
times, impassable roaus.