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The tests made on the German mili tary electric railroad between Berlin and Zozzen have already produced speeds exceeding 100 miles an hour, and j that within the limit of apparent abso lute safety in the opinion of railway engineers. Because a pert telephone girl in Seattle, Wash., refused to connect a subscriber with the lire department j when he wanted to give notice of a i fire a loss of SOO,OOO was incurred, and ; now the telephone (ornpany is being ; sued for damages by tho person thus | served and by the insurance company j which suffered the loss. Carefully compare statistics of the population of the British Empire, pub lished by a trade paper, bring out the rather startling fact that out of a pop lation of nearly 400,000,000 about 48,- 880,000, or less than one-eighth, are of British birth or descent, nearly 4,000,- OCO are non-British white men, and tho colored races number 343,000,000. In ISBO there were seven pulp and 12 paper mills in Maine, having a cap ital invested of about $2,500,000. At the present there are 30 pulp mills and 28 paper mills, with a daily capac ity of about 2105 lons of pulp and paper. The amount of capital invested , in tho businc: s is not far from $30,000,- 000. These mills consume about 850,- 000,000 feet of lumber each year. Statistics issued by the British In dian department of revenue show that the mineral production of the British Indian empire is not very promising, j Of salt about 1,000,000 tons is annually j produced; of saltpetre, about 20,000 ; tons, and coal to the extent of 0,000,000 j tons, while the gold was valued at j about $10,000,000, mostly from Mysore. Burma and Assam have yielded 38.- 000,000 gallons of petroleum. In the competition for coronation honors in England it has been decided that no knight in armor shall throw down the gage of battle as champion of the king against his enemies, that the ancient office of herb strewer shall be allowed to fall into innocuous desue tude, and the bearing of the royal bows and arrows in solemn state may be pretermitted. But even with these old time features of display lacking it can not la.il to be a memorable and won derful pageant The St. Louis Republic remarks that Emperor William of Germany will un questionably be amply repaid in prac tical knowledge for the close and searching study of American naval de velopments to which he is now devot ing so much of his time and august attention. In all probability the Ger man kaiser is witnessing the building of the greatest navy yet known in the world's history. The supreme teach ing of world politics is that the pres tige of a nation depends upon that nation's sea power. An ingenious time-saving appliance for trans-shipping mails and baggage in connection with the cross-channel service has been brought into opera tion at Dover, England. The appliance is in the form of an endless traveling platform and is worked by electricity. It brings packages # of any weight ashore at the rate of one in 15 seconds. Home of the packages unloaded recent ly weighed seven hundredweight, ar.d required four m >n to life them, but ihey were brought arboro as easily as a handbag The trans-shipment was performed in less than half the usua! time. It is planned to gather all the good portraits and photographs obtainable of Wend el Phillips and place them in an album at the Boston Public library. Nearly all the royal personage® ol Europe arc cousins. -FAREWELL." (Provoked by Caverley'a "Forever.") "Farewell!" Another gloomy word As ever into language crept, 'Tis often written, never heard Except In playhouse. Ere the hero flits— Jn handcuffs—from our pitying view, "Farewell!" he murmurs, then exits R. U. "Farewell!" It is tocr sighful for An age that has no time to sigh. We say, "I'll see you later," or "Good-by!" When, warned by chanticleer, you go From her to whom you owe devoir, "Say not 'Good-by,'" she laughs, "but Au Revoir!" Thus from the garden are you sped; And Juliet were the first to tell You. you were silly if you said "Farewell!" y ~r ELF.X MARTIN lived with her widowed mother iu a llt ) I tie Lake View cottage. Helen C t tapped tile fender before the crackling wood tiro a hit nervously with her tiny foot. 'Then she turned to her mother and said: "Well, dearie, I've answered it." "Oh, Helen, you ought not to have done it. There must he something sin ister, perhaps a crime, behind an ad vertisement like that." Helen laughed. "Criminals don't have first-class references, dearie, and then you know we need the money." "Head it to me again." The girl took up a morning paper and read this: "Wanted—by a man thirty years old, comfortable room in subur ban residence, where there are 110 vis itors; absolute seclusion the first con sideration. Applicant will refer to poo pie of standing; highest price paid. Se-' elusion, box 83, Breeze office." There was a step ou the veranda. Helen exclaimed: "Dearie, there's the answer." A moment afterward a man with a tall, well-knit figure stood in the little parlor. One side of his face was shrouded in the folds of a scarf. This side he kept away from the lamplight. The voice had iu it a ring suggesting that at times its keynote was com mand. "Is this Mrs. Martin? I have called in response to an answer to my adver- Mr Jli BUT IIE SAVED HIS FELLOW. tisement. My name is George Sid ney. I know, Mrs. Martin," lie con tinued, "that my advertisement may have seemed strange. I do desire ab solute seclusion and freedom from call ers. My reference is General Nelson, army headquarters, Pullman Building. I should like to see the room, and if you find my credentials satisfactory, I think other details may he arranged readily." Helen led the way up a winding stair to a well-appointed room. Lighting the gas she turned to look at her fol lower. He was in tile act of drawing still more closely the folds of the scarf about the right side of his face. What she couhl see of his countenance was strikingly handsome. "Mother and I live here alone," she said. "After my father's failure and death we came here from a distant city. We have few friends and no visitors." "I like the room," said the stranger; "kindly look me up and let me know if I shall make n satisfactory lodger." Then lie said good night, and left the house. "Well, mother, what do you think of him?" asked Helen, "and why does he cover up half id' his face like the tal ent that was buried in a napkin?" "What I saw of his face, Helen, had something of nobility in it. As for his hiding one side of it, I suppose that lins something to do with his seeking se clusion." Helen called on General Nelson in the Pullman Building. Did he know Mr. George Sidney? "Yes, well. He is an officer in the army, retired for disability received iu line of duty. Mr. Sidney is now work ing on some ordnance plans, and for "Faro well," meant long a*<- ore It crept, tear-spattered, i.to song, "Safe voyage!" "Pleasant journey! ' or "So long!" But gone its cheery, old-time ring; The poets made it rhyme with knell. Joined, it became a. dismal thing— "Farewell!" "Farewell 1" the lover's soul You see fate plunge the cruel iron. All poets use it. It a the whole Of Byron. "I only feel —farewell!" said he; A;ul always tearful was the telling* Lord Byron was eternally Fa re welling. "Farewell!" A dismal word, 'tis true (And why not tell the truth about it?) But what on earth should poets do Without it? —Chicago Tribune. reasons of liis own he works only at night. Ho is a soldier and a gentle man." For two months the members of the little Lake View household saw George Sidney infrequently. He left for his work after nightfall and returned just before daybreak. At 1 o'clock every day a closed cab was driven to the doorstep. The recluse drove away in it, presumably to his breakfast. When ever Helen caught a glimpse of their mysterious lodger she saw the ever present scarf concealing the greater part of his features. One morning her surprise almost overcame her when she heard his voice calling from the upper floor. Lieutenant Sidney was standing in file doorway of his room with his head averted. "I am sorry to trouble you, .Miss Martin," he said, "but I wish you would ask the cabman when he comes to go for Dr. Girard, the head quarters surgeon, at once." The surgeon came. He saw the Mar lins' lodger, and then going to the Ut ile parlor said to Helen: "Mr. Sidney is suffering intensely. 1 have expected this trouble and have urged rest. Now he must take it. lie must keep his room and on no account is he to use his eyes." Thus it was that Lieutenant Sidney became the patient as well as the lod ger of the Martins. For weeks lie sat in a darkened corner of his room while Helen read to hint from where the light l'otiml its way through a half opeueil shutter. Hotv she had come to do this she did uot just know, hut it came about naturally. The girl's life had been a lonely one, and it needs hut. to say that there slowly stole into her heart something deeper than it mere Interest in her charge. As for George Sidney, he knew, and the thought was like a knil'e to him that something was once more creeping into his breast which he thought was forever barred. The day for the patient's release from the dark room had come. Helen heard his voice calling her. The girl went to the doorway. Sidney had thrown wide the shutters and the room was bright with sunlight. Ho was standing with folded arms at the win dow where she had sat when reading. The strong light was full on his face and the scarf which he had ever worn was gone. The girl gave one search ing look at the face so long concealed. Sidney's eyes were on her. A cry came from her lips, and she recoiled with a feeling half fear, half horror. Sidney saw the action and heard the cry. In an instant he had closed the door quiet ly. Helen with a white face tied to her mother's room. "Child, what Is It?" exclaimed Mrs. Martin. "Mother, I saw his face. He showed It purposely. Mother, it is the face of a fiend." The mother led the girl to a sofa and took her in her arms. They heard him pass on to the veranda, and both moth er and daughter felt that George would not return. A month passed. Helen went übuut her duties us usual, striv- !ng to bo cheerful, but the mother knew. At the end of the mouth General Nel son called. Mr. Sidney had not re turned to his work as expected after his recovery. Did Mrs. Martin know of his whereabouts? No. Well, for years Sidney had been a man of moods. "You see," said the general, "when Sidney was in active service he risked liis life to save a brother officer. It's an old army story. It's enough to say that Sidney jumped between his friend and a shell the fuse of which had become accidentally ignited. The shell exploded. Sidney received a fear ful wound and was marked for life, but he saved his follow. Marked for life, did I say? Yes, marked worse than Hugo's 'Man Who Laughs.' That shell fragment gave to the handsomest man in the service the half-face of a liend. He was to be married, poor chap, but the girl saw his face and fled. She was the sister of the man whose life he saved. What a world it is! The face of a devil and his life a hell. That is George Sidney's fate." It was the anniversary of the day that George Sidney left the Martin cot tage. Helen was standing at the gate looking down the moonlit road. A bush partly hid her. She heard footsteps. Leaning forward she saw a iigure ap proaching. Her heart gave a sudden throb, and she muttered the half smothered cry, "Mr. Sidney!" The man heard and turned as if to hurry away, but there was something in the tone of the cry that held him. lie saw the girl's face in the moonlight, and in a moment he was at her side. "Helen," he said, "I left because I loved you." She looked up. "Then stay because you love me," she said, and saying it she drew the scarf from the side of his face, and, kissing him gently, said: "It is God's mark of manhood."—Ed ward B. Clark, in the Chicago liecoril- Herald. LI WROTE TO BOTH MEN. But Tlicy Compared Notes anil Spoiled Hit Effect. Many tales are told ot tlip dealings oC Li lluug Cliam,' wilh Ills diplomatic subordinates, and there Is a character istic story afloat with regard to Ids re lations with tlio present Minister to England, Sir Chih-clien 1.0 Feng I.uli. The time was that of the siege of the legations in Pekin, when all the civil ized world was in fear as to the fate of the beleaguered, and when Cliiua, with her emissaries and all pertaining to her, was looked on with no very friendly eye. Li lluug Chang was tlio virtual ruler of China, and It was from him that the various ministers and ambassadors received their instruc tions. There had, apparently, been some fresh manifestation of European displeasure, when one day the minister in England received from 1.1 a mes sage, ilie purport of which was as fol- lows: "We arc not satisfied with your ef forts in London. The English are hos tile, and you must do something to al ter matters. You are not energetic enough. Ton are neglecting to influ ence the Government. The man who is doing all the work is your colleague in Washington, Wu-Ting-fang. lie is the man you should Imitate." Unfortunately for l.i's little game, Sir Chili-ehen and Wu-Ting-fang hap pened lo he close friends, and the Min ister here confided what had hap pened to his friend in Washington. Wu-Ting-fang was, to say tlio least of it, surprised. "Tills is very extraordinary," lie re plied. "I also have had a message from Li Hung Chang. This is what he says to me: " "Your efforts are not giving satis faction. We feel you should he more energetic, and that you should try to influence (lie American Government to take our side in this affair. You are not doing half enough, and. if you want an example, you should turn to Sir Cliih-chen Lo Feng Lull, tile minis ter in London, lie is (lie man who is doing all the work.' "—Tile Candid Friend. Yoiinjr Cannon ami the Old Jintce. Representative Cannon began Ills po litical career by running for State's attorney in his town. Ills opponent was another young lawyer, who, like Cannon, had not made much headway in tlio practice of law. hut both can didates went upon the stump and promised to do great tilings if elected. One day as the rival candidates went down the street together they were joined by the judge of the court, lie stepped ill between them taking each young man by the arm. "What are you hoys making all this fuss about!" he queried. "We want to be State's attorney," they replied in unison. "Well," said the judge laughing, "I ought to take some interest in the mat ter, hut I don't. No matter which one of you is elected.there will he no crim inals sent to jail." Cannon, telling the story, says that lie was elected, lint whether it was be cause he was the best or the poorest lawyer, lie lias never been able to tell. —Washington Post. "Coronation" Clubs. It Is a sign of the times to find "cor onation" clubs are being Instituted throughout the busiest of Loudon dis tricts. The cue has been taken up by the clothiers and linen drapers of the poorer parts. By entering at once and punctually paying sixpence or so a week, either a man or woman can In sure new garments for wear on the eventful day of the approaching cere monial. Some one or two have a pro visional rule to I lie effect that, should a member desire to withdraw from tlio club he is at liberty to do so, and have the privilege of securing goods to the amouut he has already subscribed, but no cash will be returned. Loudon Chronicle. Steel Tracks. WE wonder that more notice has nor. been taken of the system of steel tracks as devised by Martin Dodge, the State Highway Commissioner of Ohio, first advocated by him in 1891, and of which lie built a section near Cleveland, Ohio, in 1898, also small sections on the Exposition Grounds at Omaha, and other sections have been built by the road expert of the ofiice of road inquiry at the agricultural ex periment stations at St. Anthony's Park, Minn., and at Ames, lowa. We take his description of them from the Year Book of the Department of Agriculture: ' The road thus laid consists of two parallel lines of steel plates, eight inches wide, laid at a sufficient dis tance apart to receive the wheels of vehicles of standard gauge. These plates have a slightly projecting flange upward on the inner edge, to prevent the wheels of the ordinary vehicles which have no flanges, from easily leaving the track. At the same time, these flanges, being only about one half inch high, are not of a height to prevent the vehicles from leaving the track for the purpose of passing other vehicles when so desired. These plates are not supported by wooden cross ties or by longitudinal stringers of any kind, but are provided with flanges projecting both downward and outward. These flanges are imbedded in the concrete of the roadbed, so as to form a substantial part of it, and the steel plates are supported by a super structure of cement or other enduring material." The claims made for it are that it can be built without greater cost in many cases, and probably less cost, in many cases, than any other hard and dura bio road: that it will lust many times as long as any other known material for road purposes and with much less repair, and that the power required to move a vehicle over the steel track is only a small fraction of that required to move the same over any other kind of road. The last point was shown by a load of eleven tons which required twenty horses to draw it over a common road. A load of the same weight was easily drawn by one horse with light harness over the steel track, though twenty two times the weight of the horse, and if it had been lifty times the weight of the horse, or twenty-live tons, he could still have started and moved it without difficulty. In wet and clayey soils there should be a substructure of broken stone a foot deep under the rails, and ma cadam between them and a foot on each side of them and the joints should be connected by cross ties. The cavity in which the plates lie .should be tilled with cement to give a continuous bear ing at every point. For a grade of tflree l'eet in one hundred, special rails would be needed, corrugated or ribbed transversely. The experimental sections which have been laid have cost about §1 a foot, but wlieu rolling mills are equipped for making suitable plates of, say, oue-flftli of an inch thick and weighing thirty pounds to the yard, the steel would cost about §ISOO a mile, and perhaps it might cost as much more to prepare the roadbed and lay the track, including bringing the sur face of the roadbed even with the sur face of the rails. Mr. Dodge thinks the adoption of this method would lead to the use of ve hicles much lighter in proportion to the load carried than those now in use, thus reducing the power needed, and the lowering of the wheels, now made high to overcome tlie inequalities of the road. The development of the bicycle since they were made with low wheels, so that each now carries several times its own weight, is instanced as what can possibly be done. Now vehicles for the purpose of strength are made about as heavy as the load they arc to carry, and some of the older ones often exceed that, and the power re quired to move them was thus doubled. For distances over live miles some other power could be substituted for the horse, increasing the speed and lessening the cost of the power, saving much time and expense in travel and transportation.—Boston Budget. Good Country lloadn. A report of tlie recent International Good ltoads Congress, published by (he Department of Agriculture, covers a subject of such vital interest to all rural regions that its valuable sug gestions should be carefully studied. The fundamental principles of their construction, elucidated in the proceed ings of the late Congress, include first of all laying a solid and stable road bed of ample width, not less than twen ty-four feet, and this should he ma cadamized and graded so as to give a fall of one inch to the foot from the centre to the ditch on either side. But it is of paramount importance to its preservation that the road should he thoroughly drained by tiles on botb sides. Good roads are obviously indispensa ble conditions of prosperity In every agricultural district, and the taxpay ers will do well to see that they are laid out ami maintained by the best available engineering talent. New York Herald. There are eight edible and twelve poisonous varieties of mushrooms in the United States, PEEPS INTO PERSIA. Some oT file Strange Sights Seen by s Traveler. Sir Clements It. Marklaam presided over a largely attended meeting of members of the Royal Geographical So ciety at Burlington Gardens, when an interesting paper, describing his fourth journey in Persia, and illustrated by lantern Views, was read by Major P. llolesworth Sykes. As the journey lasted three years and three months, and the paper was practically a diary of the whole period, with notes 011 the people and their country, nothing like a complete summary can be given. Major Sykes was in the Government service, and was employed chiefly about the frontier of Tersia, and our own sphere of influence in Baluchistan. Now he was engaged in pursuing the bandit murderers and helping to spread the "pax Britannlca;" now in survey ing new trade routes anil giving them a send-off by organizing caravans of Oriental carpets and silks; now in im proving the postal and telegraph ser- \ vices. Much of the ground he covered was 011 the route taken by Alexander the Great, and Major Sykes had been able to identify many of the spots vis- - ited by that monarch. He also found frequent relies ol' Uustuin, the legend ary hero of Persian romance, who was so strong that when Ills enemies started an avalanche down the moun tain against him, he turned it aa'.fle with his foot. Many strange and weird sights were encountered by Major Sykes in Iris travels in this little-known Eastern land. Once he saw on the barren const of the Persian Gulf a place where some subterranean sulphurous eruption hail so poisoned the water that the iisli had flung themselves out on the shore, and a pathway linil to be made over them or it would have been impossible to land. He sealed a great mountain - 12,000 feet liigb, where all was ice till near the summit, when the ground _ grew so hot as to burn the boots, and j was full of holes blowing off steaui and sulphur with a noise like a huge locomotive. He surveyed valleys full of the ruins of ancient civilizations, which had vanished because some giant river hail waywarilly changed its course. In another mountain, named Chinishk, he entered a winding cave miles in length, guarded by a deformed dwarf, and with skeletons in perfect preservation ranged along gallery after gallery, lie passed through waterless deserts of unbearable heat, where the wind will obliterate the tracks in a few minutes. The lecture and lantern views showed in striking fashion what Important work is now being done to render trade anil travel safe and to foster the production and exchange of wealth where formerly all was given, up to robber bands and the pitiless desert.—London News. The "Wedding Kcditceil to Fignren. A statistician in New Jersey, with tile lack of delicate feeling common to his kind, lias gone into tlie question * of tlie marriage process from a purely economic standpoint. He lluds that tlie J3,873 Jersey weddings celebrated dur ing the year have cost about 52,08.~>,000 in outflts, social functions, honeymoon trips, presents, etc. This is an average of ?ISS and a few odd cents iter wedding. The expenses of the court ship period are classed as incidentals, anil they range from S2O - courting up into the thousands, making an average of something like 522. It is doubtful whether the marital cause is benefited by such tabulations as litis Jerscyman lias made. One likes to l'eel a differentatlon of cents from sentiment. The bringing of cold fig ures into the nuptial field seems to car ry a suggested argument that marriage may be more than a failure—even a bankruptcy. "For," the financially timid bachelor may reason, "if it cost almost $3,000,000 to get lliese events , past the altar, what will it not cost afterward when there will lie roast beef to buy, the rent to pay and per haps several janitors to fee at Christ mas time'/"—New York World. A Dettil Disappointment. Even into a Coroner's duties there are times when gleams of humor pene trate the gloom, although they be as sepulchral and as grewsomc as the wit indulged in by the two gravedig gers in "Hamlet." Coroner Behind tells the following story which oc curred at the morgue a/few weeks ago. The body of a wontau had been found in a lodging house, where she had com mitted suicide by inhaling gas. The only thing that pointed to the identity of the woman was that her name was .Tones. This was made public by the newspapers. The next day two styl ishly dressed wonteu came to the morgue and asked that they he al- A lowed to see the body, one of the ladies further stating that her sister-in-law was named Jones, and that for certain reasons she ilid not care to make known feared the suicide was her rel ative. They looked at the body, but they could not identify it. As the la ilics were going away the one wlto proffered the last hit of information At id: "Git, I am so disappointed. I was so sure it was Mary." San Francisco Wave. Their Lore Fternally Buried. Before the Empress Frederick's roffin was finally closed, all tlie love letters she received from her late husband, the Emperor Frederick, together with his last written messages, Inscribed after lie had lost his power of speech, were placed in the coftin over her heart. Washington hotels are said to be the only ones in tlie United States that C serve four regular meals every twenty- 4 four hours— breakfast, luncheon, din- j nor and supper—the latest beiug served in some cases as late as midnight, , ' Ti
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