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Pa ns Second-Class Matter. kfake aV money orders, c\eck. etc. jp ty ibit to the Tribune I'r.nting Company, Limited. , A New Jersey mnn who stole a sec tion of railroad bed hns been held for court. Iu matters of this kind th only safe plan Is to take all or none. Trofessor Edward Suess calls Eu rope's attention sharply to the fact that she has been weighed In the 'American balance of trade and found .wanting. Ccorge F. McGrndy, n Chicago mnn, nothing daunted by the perpetual mo tion "discoverer's" fate, says lie has Invented a device for producing per petual light. Ills scheme Is Irlefly a combination of chemicals in a vacuum. He has not elucidated it further. The submarine craft Is in effect a prominent factor In French naval construction and do.elopinent; and if an efficient submarine battleship de stroyer shall one day be perfected, there can be little doubt that France tvill own the first vessel of tho now type. British medical journals of high au thority luslst that ozone can be arti ficially produced at reasonable ex pense to purify the nir in tunnels, sewers and other places In London In Which the atmosphere Is too often stagnant and foul. These journals assert that the liberation of ozone in Considerable quantities would be bene ficial to public health. Jeffersonville, a little Indiana city on the Ohio opposite Louisville, does a great business In marriages. Thither many enamored Keutuekians betake themselves whose love is frowned upon by stern parents. There were 1500 marriages In Jeffersonville In the year ending June 30, and about 1200 of these were marriages of non residents. The population of Jeffer sonville is' afcjfft Yen jffiousJudT In ten years 13,000 marriage licenses have been issued there. Naturally ilie Kentucky towns are envious ol' this prosperous rival. " Probably the most distressing calam ity of the year has been anuouueed in the failure of the crops of Rus sia throughout such an extensive part of that great empire as to make the task of preventing starvation prac tically insuperable. Five hundred thousand square miles of territory are involved, and 43,000,000 people. 'lf_ the necessary food supplies to feed ihe hungry people were laid down at Russian outposts the difficulties aris ing from lack of suitable facilities of transportation would still bailie tho effort for general relief. Professor Mosso, of Turin, In a rc ceut lecture delivered in tho United States, said that physical education and gymnastics develop tho brain as Well as the muscles. As much time should he devoted to muscular exer cise as to intellectual exercise. Chil dren, he thinks, Ehould not he taught to read and write till they are at least nine years old. Following up his comparison of muscular with intel lectual fatigue exhibits phenomena identical with those of intellectual fatigue. It Is probable that the vari ous parts of the brain relieve each other; that only one part Is active at a time. He states, as a principle, that the more mobile any animal's ex tremities are, the more intelligent the animal is, other thlng3 being equal. Graphophones fcr the Orient. Tl'.e graphopliono is beginning to figure as a considerable American ex port, and certainly it is one of the most curious and interesting. While its commercial uses are beyond tho com prehension or needs ot the Persian, the Hindoo or tho South Sea Islander, each of them is fascinated by an In vention which reproduces the familiar sounds of the human voice and enter tains him with grand and light opera and orchestral muc Iq, ? A REAL TEST OF NERVE. J 2 * BY EDGAR WHITE. A Some years ago an eminent railroad man said: "They will build engines that will heat a mile a minute dash with a heavy train, but to operate them successfully you'll have to in vent something besides flesh and blood." And the tenderfoot who has clung to a fireman's "seatbox" while the machine under him was spinning out the miles at that rate will vigorously second the statement. But that assertion was made baclc yonder in the 19th century. This is the 20th. The Burlington had completed Its eastern cut off to the Mississippi riv er, and one locomotive was covering the division between Brookfleld and St. Louis, 175 miles. The Northern Pacific express reached the mid-Missouri division 50 minutes late. The engine hauling it was sending aloft a geyser of steam from the safety valve and quivering all over as if enraged that in spite of its best exertions this dishonor had attached to it. And the engine driver was mean enough to slander i„ by say ing, "She just wouldn't make steam." If the machine could have talked it would have said something about "nerve." A helper leaped into the cab as the engineer stepped off, and ran the en gine down to the tracks leading to the round house. Then there was slowly backed up to the long line of vesti buled coaches that had come in from the Coast, a double compound, a type recently adopted by the road. The coupling was made so gently that the most sensitive passenger could not have told when the tender struck the front express car. The engineer, "Aus tralian Jack," as the boys called him, walked over to the fireman's side and looked down the depot platform, where trucks of baggage and express were being noisily wheeled about. A tall man with an iron gray mustache emerged from the crowd and walked up to No. 850—Jack's engine. He was superintendent of the lines in Mis souri. "Jack." he said, "wo'ro nearly an hour late. The president and two of the directors arc along, and they want to catch the Iron Mountain at Union station in the morning. There's a big consolidation meeting of the Southern at Momphis tomorrow, and they have to be there. They won't wait for them if they're late. Blossom lost time out of the junction because he was afraid of the .new track work, and,the 'big una' are 'most wild. Yoii understand wHat this means to me." Australian Jack touched his hat and Inclined his head a little, but said nothing. As the superintendent tu-ned away a messenger boy rushed up tow ard 850. The official stopped him and took the message from his hand. He said: "Never mind; Jack don't want that now. I'll give it to him at the station." When 850 started there was no slip ping of the drivers, no sudden jerk and shutting off of the steam. The engineer clasped the lever with a vel vet touch and the wheels began to move. The start was so gradual that the great men, who were smoking their cigars in the rear compartment of the president's car frowned and wondered if the man at the throttle was of the sort that could gather up that 50 min utes out of a schedule that called for nearly 00 miles an hour. "I think Jack will make it all right," said the superintendent; "hut I'm afraid I played him a scurvy trick to night, and one for which he will nev er forgive me when he learns the truth." "What was that?" said the presi- Cent "Well, his mother, who lived down the road a piece, had been unwell for several days, and just before starting the telegraph boy went toward the en gine with a telegram. I knew it wasn't a train order because they were all In. It struck me that Jack had better not get the message just then, and 1 took it. It was from his sister and Eimply said, 'Mother is dead.'" concluded the superintendent, with a sigh. "It was too late to get another man, and I didn't 'ell him." "And he is ignorant of his misfor tune?" said one of the directors. "Of course," answered the superin tendent "It might be dangerous to' let him know while making the sort of run he has to make tonight." The cpeaker judged from sharp experience. The men smoked their cigars in si lence. The smooth rolling cars bo gan to gather momentum, but there was no jerking, no swinging of the. solid train —just an easy slipping along as a pneumatic tired buggy might run over a velvet carpet. The superintendent explained the distances between the stations and the men who had thousands at stake on the success of the run got out pa per and figured the rate at which the miles were being thrown behind. The 24 miles to Macon were made in 39 minutes —the numerous coal switches In Macon coun'.y being responsible for the loss of fivo minutes. This made 55 minutes behind, and the railway mag nates gloomily shook their heads. "Boys," said the president, "I'm afraid the jig is up. He'll never make it. It's queer they refused to postpone that mooting; guess they don't want us there." The superintendent locked at the floor and said nothing. It scented to impatient men in the rear car that the express and baggage men at Macon would never get through. At last the signal was given, and the train started out on the now St. Louis cut off. After creeping through the yards, it came into the open and plunged through the rich farming lands, where the early pioneers of the middle west had fought Indians, lev eled the great forests, and made his tory. The rock ballast road bed was as level as a billard table, and Austra lian Jack had struck the schedule gait before the officers realized it At a tiny station, 10 miles northwest ol Paris, the superintendent noted his watch. Within 10 minutes the roar of the rushing express train started the echoes in the drowsy county seat of Missouri's Democratic Gibraltar, Monroe county, and a minute after wards the red lights oa the rear car were disappearing in the direction of the Mississippi. There was hut one more stop until the Missouri river was leached, and the superintendent knew Jack would make the run of his life to Old Monroe. The next 10 miles was made in eight and one-half minutes. Then the en gine settled down to work. Tho rate was increased to 10 in eight minutes; then in seven; then in six, which was tho limit and which was held without deviation. The president dropped back ir. his chair. He knew tho man in front was doing everything humanity could accomplish. Out of every 10 miles traversed he was placing four minutes against the 55 on tho debit side, and if the gait was kept up to the city limits the train would back into Union station exactly on time. A3 the early dawn of the Juno morn ing crept over the Mississippi, the lim ited crossed the lino of Audrain and invaded the soil of old Pike, tho start ing point of so many of Missouri's worthy sons. Some of the passengers, scenting the approach to the river, walked out into the vestibules to look at tho scenery in the twilight. Then they noticed something of which they had been unaware while lying in their chairs—that the miieposts and other objects were whizzing past them at a rate they had never before experi enced in all their lives. It was hard to believe that gently rocking train was annihilating distance at the rate of SO miles an hour, but that is the story the miieposts told. At Old Monroe there was a wait. The dispatcher had calculated on a run of only GO miles an hour out of Macon, and had permitted a north bound train to leave West Alton on the iimited's supposed lost time. The president and directors frowned and began to look anxious again. Ten min utes were placed on the wrong side of the ledger. Tho officials from their observatory glared at the innocent freight engineer, and tho president said something the Sundays schools books don't approve of. It seemed to long this time before 850 struck the maximum that the pres ident thought the engineer must have abandoned the task. He suggested that the superintendent go forward and see what the matter was, but that gentleman said: "We are on a gradual grade, and have an unusually heavy train. He's doing the best ho can. I think ho'll make it." Along the river before striking the bridge is a level stretch of road, about the best on the system. When 830 reached it she "jumped" like a race horse. it was the ilvst jar felt by the passengers during the trip from the central Missouri division. Along hero (he speed of the train was little short of a hurricane. The section was cov ered before the passengei'3 hardly re alized they were on it, and the traiii leaped over the bridge without dimin ution of speed. Then a smooth road, a few turns, and the heavy fog of tho city obliterated the appearances of day. The officials looked at their watches. "There's only one way he can make it," said tho president. "Will there lie much travel over tho streets this early do you think?" ho asked the su perintendent. "There'll be some," that officer re plied, "but they'll open the bell valve and take the chances, if we don't strike anything you'il reach the sta tion to the second." Along the winding, wriggling track p.round the lumber yards, warehouses, glue works and factories the nerve racking rate was held with death-like tenacity. At one crossing a team es caped annihilation by' hardly a hair's breadth, and the men who looked out of the glass windows in (ho rear could see the driver and several people ges ticulating and shaking the fists in their direction. A policeman standing ill a-saloon door scowled and wrote something in his note book. With a roar and a rush the train shot up on the elevated, flew past the ancient levee warehouses, around the tene ments in the southern district, and then took one strand of the web south of Union station and followed it to a given point; then stopped and slowly backed into the sheds. "Gentlemen." said tho superintend ent. "the Iron Mountain Is over on tho 10th track. Y'ou have three minutes to roach it." He then hurried to the front of the train. Australian Jack leaped from his cab and waited. His face Was as pale as death and his lips twitched. Soldiers tell us the bravest men lose their nerve after the battle. "Jack, my boy," told the superin tendent. "you've dono me a good turn tonight and I fear I've done you an ill one. I got this message for you at Brookfield. and wouldn't deliver it then because—because—because—" "For fear I'd flunk," said Jack. He took the paper mechanically. He didn't start, as the superintendent ex pected, but folded it and put it in his pocket "I saw tho boy hand you the mes sage," said the engineer, "and you road it and looked at me. That told me the Btory. I knew then my poor old moth er was dead, because she had been very ill and my sister had agreed to tell me how she was just before wo started. I knew the worst had hap pened when you did not give the mes sage to me." And Jack sat down on the step of the tender and buried his face in his arms. The superintendent reverentially took off his hat and looked across at the network of tracks and moving switch engines. He appreciated his subordinate's devotion to duty because lie himself had risen through efforts of a kindred nature. —The Criterion. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Tho Saxons, whoso original settle ment is determined by the little king dom of Saxony, derived their name from the seax, or short, crooked knife with which they armed themselves. An old dining table at which Prince Charlie dined when he marched into England was exposed at a sale of household furniture at Moffat, Dum friesshire, recently and was knocked down at 30 shillings. The word rival at first meant a brook, then was applied to the per sons who lived on opposite sides and quarrelled about the water, and still later it was understood as applying to contestants for any desired object. When the King of England goes a-traveling he does not jump an ordi nary train and take any vacant seat ho can find. Instead of that he has his own business car, which has the right of way over almost any railroad in Europe. This car which is just be ing finished, has been under spasmod ic construction for over two years. It is said to run very smoothly, and, as soon as the necessary trial trips have been hold, it will be turned over to His Majesty. A phenomenon attended an earth quake that visited a little town in Mexico recently. Having wrecked several houses in the town the tremor passed on to a lake in the neighbor hood, the waters of which it put into violent agitation. Tho agitation ceased after a few minutes, and then the water gradually disappeared, leav ing the bottom of the lake exposed, < when it was seen that the earthquake had opened a fissure in the bottom, and thus drained it. Among the various proofs of the relies brought to London from Toul ouse being the relics of St. Edmund is the fact that when the shrine at Bury was defaced in A. D„ 1539, no 1 mention was made of anything hav- j ing been then disc vered inside it. Another important piece of evidence is that upon a verification of the rel ics at Toulouse in A. D. 16-.-t, no bones j were missing save the radius of the j forearm, which was the identical relic alone mentioned in later records of Bury Abbey. One of the moßt curious perquisites ; in connection with King Edward's coronation is the right of one of the peers to claim the bed and bedding j used by tho Heir-Apparent on the ] night preceding the coronation! In olden times this was a perquisite of considerable value, a3 the "bedding" | usually consisted ol'richly embroidered \ coverlids of velvot or silk, with price- \ less hangings of cloth of silver and ; gold. Nowadays it is, of course, of less value, excepting from tho point | of view of the quaintness of the privi lege. Tn the village of Hirzbach, near As- j bach, Germany, there is a peculiar gar-1 den gate. In tho year 1820 Lttdwig j Marenbach, a farmer, planted at the [ entrance of his garden two beech | trees, which he united In one arch, j Over this arch the cultivator made sev- j eral more small arches with all kinds of figures with some small branches. ; Today the whole In its blooming green dress seems like a living trium-1 phal arch. The many years it has existed makes it look more like a work of nature than the work of a hu man hand. A Truck Farmer'* FurndUe. How great are the possibilities of Hawaii as a fruit and vegetable grow ing country will be understood when It becomes known that four crops of potatoes have been produced in suc cession on the same piece of land within 12 months. Radishes become edible 10 days after sowing. Straw berries are of the finest flavor. Cabbage grows all the year and It apparently makes no difference wheth er it Is planted In the spring, summer, autumn or winter. Parsley once sown grows forever, apparently. Lima beans continue to grow and bear for over a year, and they have to be gathered every week after starting to boar. Cucumbers bear the entire year and so do tomatoes, viiich, with proper attention, hear for years. Raspberries bear for six months. Pineapples come into bearing when the plants are four months old and bear in abundance for years. Lettuce j ran lie planted at any time and it de j velops quickly. The same is true of I eelery.—Fruit Trade and Produce Reo , ord. PEARLS OF THOUCHT. So-called honest poverty is often honest laziness. ! Assininity and affinity are words badly misplaced. A little pride is desirable, but arro gance iB hateful. To b light-hearted is often another manner of being light-headed. There never was a truly wise per son gloomy. Philosophy tends to cheerfulness. The beauty who will permit age to fall prostrate at her feet has a flaw upon her soul. Vanity is often the source of feats of heroism which may be proven by a keen observer. Verbosity is the hall mark of ill iteracy; yet to be taciturn is no proof of great wisdom. Children are chided for faults pos sessed and displayed by both parents, and so embittered. The truly cultured are never slow to express admiration; the vulgar only are afraid to be natural. The woman who declares she hates j flattery is the one who repeats every : morsel of it vouchsafed her "If" and "but" are tiny words, but they can change the color of the sky and make the world seem a wilder- I ness. I 'Tie the petty worries, not great sorrows or joys, that criss-cross the face. Joy shows in the eyes. Sorrow whitens the head. —Philadelphia Rec ord. SNAKES BY THE POUND. Tho Origin of the Industry in an Oregon Town. "I'll take two pounds of snake, please." That is what one may hear at cer tain stores in Klamath Falls, Or., where there is quite an extensive in dustry in snakes. Children gather their aprons full of snakes as they would of wild flowers, and little boys gather them in their pockets for pets. The snake industry of Klamath Falls came about in this fashion; Postmaster Castil some time ago re ceived a letter from a concern in Minnesota asking the price of reptiles and inquiring if they could be shipped to Minnesota Thinking it a joke the postmaster replied that he would fur nish all the snakes desired at 25 cents a pound. Imagine his surprise when, by return mail, an order was received for 400 pounds of snakes. The Minne sota firm then informed him that next season they would place an order for 800 pounds. That set the people of Klamath Falls to thinking, and the present snake in dustry of the town is th# result of their cogitations. The spenjps of wa ter snake so plentiful at Klamath Falls is of a dark color and when full grown about three feet long. So great is the supply that tons of the reptiles could be shipped annually if there were orders for them. The snakes are used for medicinal pur poses, as a superior quality of oil can be manufactured from the variety found at Klamath Falls.—Denver h.mes. Her Ecsr* H'oro All "Whiten.** At a little family picnic over in New Jersey a few days ago the hostess noticed that the one guest, a city bred woman, who was spending a few days on the old farm, instead of eating the whole of the hard-boiled eggs, care fully separated tile yolk from the whites. She ate the whites with a lib eral addition of pepper and salt, but the golden globes remaining she fed to tho children or the terriers who ac companied the party. Asked about it, the company replied that she was en joying her meal very much. "But no you know, dear," she con tinued, "I never could bear the yolk of eggs, and I could just livo on tho whites. I wish I could get egg 3 that were all whites." The next morning at breakfast the company found three hard-boiled eggs at her plate. Whor she sliced them through, they wee just what she wanted, for they were all white and hard, and there was not even the faint est trace of yellow in one of them. She was very much surprised, but was in formed that it was just a little matter of feeding the hens. It was not, though, for tho hostess had carefully selected tho eggs for her tnend and then "blown" the shells through needle pricks in both ends. Then she had cracked more eggs, carefully separat ing the raw whites from the yolks, and by a simple reversal of the blowing process obtained eggs filled only with white. The ho'es vert so minute that no one would orv notice them when the eggs were brought to the table.-j- New York T'mcs. The Cni-vlng; of Africa. The partition of Africa, which has been in progress for 20 years, more or less, and In which most of the more Important European powers have engaged, is not yet complete, fcut it has gone far enough to give in terest to a brief summary of the re sults to date. Including the great island of Mad agascar, the continent of Africa has an area of eleven and a half million square miles. Of this great total about one and one-half million square miles is comprised within separate states, which have not been definitely dealt with. Tho largest of these, the Con go Free State, with an area of 900,- 000 square miles, sustains relations to Belgium which mako its formal annexation only a question of time. The next largest state, Abyssinia, is the hardest nut of all to crack, as Italy can testify, and it Is likely that It will be let alone, or perhaps coaxed Into a treaty of amity with Prussia.— Boston Journal. ti/NTS "When P irch < Are Dusy. It does not take long for the wicker and rattan chairs on the porch to have the crevices filled with dust un less they receive frequent attention. If tinted the willow furniture should be washed only in clear water, using a brush in the crevices and drying in the shade; but willow or rattan fur niture in natural color may be thor oughly scrubbed with a stiff brush, warm water and white soap. f Daring Efleets in Furnishing. "In my country cottage." said a woman to a New York Evening Post .. writer, "I try all sorts of daring effects in furnishings. Those that are pleas ing after use I often transplant with success to my city home. For ex ample, two or three summers ago we rented a cottage in which the dining 1 room was dull and dark. I got a pot of white paint together with the own er's consent, and painted the wood work, the chairs and table white, with the effect that the room became per ceptibly brighter. If I could have changed the wall It would have been lighter still. My city dining room had long distressed me because of its want of light, and that autumn I boldly transformed It. The walls I had papered In a striped white paper, painted the woodwork white, and put a white linoleum on the floor. The furniture was too hadnsome to tam per with, for it is mahogany, in a, simple colonial design, but the whito background efficiently did the worlt of brightening the room to the most de lightfully cheerful point." To Make Fur* Took I.lkfl New. When furs become worn or soiled at the neck they may be renovated by gently rubbing with cotton batting saturated with gasoline, which should not be used in a room that has arti ficial heat or light. Axle grease, tar, paint and pitch may bo removed by rubbing first with oil of turpentine and then with ether. Dark furs may be cleaned with fine cedar or mahog any sawdust which has been heated in an oven. Alaska sable, seal, elec tric seal, fox, etc., should ho beaten with a switch until free from dust, then laid with the fur side up, and the hot sawdust rubbed in. Be lavish with the sawdust and vigorous with the nibbing. After this place the garment upon feather pillows with tho furry side down, and beat well un til all traces of the saw dust have dis appeared. Then hang out in a shady place. White furs may he cleaned . in the same way, using white corn- ) meal instead of the sawdust, or if only slightly soiled, by rubbing well with magnesia in cakes. Wet furs should never be dried near the fire, but shaken and hung away in a cold room, then brushed.—Ladies' Homo Journal. LB Beeksteak with broiled green peppers —Beefsteak as a dinner course is deli cious served with broiled green pep pers. Half a dozen young green pep pers should be cut into quarters, and the seeds removed. Broil over a very hot fire until the edges curl. Put a tiny bit of butter and a dash of salt on each piece, and serve on the steak. Brazil pepper balls—To one cup 4 white bread crumbs add half cup Bra zil nuts chopped fine, scant half tea- I spoon of cinnamon and snltspoon nut meg. Mix well and add one egg well beaten, saltspoon of salt and table spoon orange juice. Take up by tea spoonfuls, form into balls and cook to delicate brown in hot fat. lioll in granulated sugar and sprinkle with chopped Brazil nuts and serve hot or cold. Corn creams—Crate the corn from the ears, and for each cupful mix in the unbeaten whites of three eggs, one small teaspoonful of salt, one saltspoonful of white pepper and half a cup of sweet cream whipped slight ly. Dust buttered gem pans very thickly with chopped parsley, fill with the corn mixture and cook in the oven 25 minutes. On a round platter place a nest of parsley, and around It lay the corn creams. Conbi nation of fruit and savory salad —A satisfactory combination of fruit, and savory salad is made with pineapple, celery and a bit of sweet rod popper. A small ripe pineapple Is peeled and shredded, and a cup of finely chopped celery and diced red pepper mixed with it. Marinate this with a little French dressing, and set on ice for 15 minutes; then toss through It with a silver fork a little mayonnaise first, and afterward a cup of stiffiy whipped cream. Arrange on lettuce hearts. Cheese custard—Cut crust from half a loaf of bread, cut into very thin Slices, and then into inch squares. Cut half pound cheese as thin as wafer. Put. layer on bread In buttered baking dish, then layer of cheese sprinkled with salt and very little paprika. Use one-half teaspoon of salt in all. When. j dish is full of alternate layers of bread j and cheese beat two eggs slightly, add pint of milk and pour over all. V Bake half hour In moderate oven. Tjl When done tho cheese will look deli- | rate and wavy between the spongy i bread. t P°v%
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