Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — Page 2

ON THE PRESIDENTIAL TRAIN

When a presidential train like that Which is now journeying throughout the South and West starts on a long Journey across the continent, much more Is involved than appears on the surface. In the load which such a train carries Is involved the possible safety and the welfare of the nation, and it is literally the chief business of thousands of men, while the train is on the road, to see that it passes'in safety and without delays or inconveniences of any kind. In the first place, every division su-

A PILOT ENGINE TRAVELS AHEAD.

perlntendent, and practically every employe over which the presidential train :passes is notified days in advance of itts coming. The exact minute of its departure and a carefully arranged schedule of its arrival at and departure from every station on the line was sent out to every station agent and' section [hand. Beginning several hours before 'the train was due every foot of the track was.carefully patrolled by keen•yed men, who felt the responsibility which rested upon them. 4f President McKinley had sat up in the observation car attached to the train he might hava seen at intervals of a few minutes and all night along the yellow lights of the lanterns of the sleepless [sentinels who were to guard his safety land assure his convenience. Practiloally, it might almost be said that the [train passed between two lines of i watchmen, so close are they together |and so careful is their watch. Nor does railroad vigilance stop (there. That, in fact, is only the beginning. All day and all night long a I pilot engine runs a little in advance of the Presidential train to make sure that nothing has been overlooked

WAITING FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL TRAIN.

■which could by any human possibility endanger its safety. Close behind the presidential train is usually seen a second engine, so that it is closely guarded before, behind and on both sides. .Still other precautions are taken. Every station agent is notified that on the night or day when the train bearing the President is to pass his station 'he must be continuously on duty. He <nay not leave the responsibility to his subordinates. He must personally attend to the arrangement of the proper signals and see to it with his own eyes that everything possible is done to forward the train with speed and safety. It may pass his little backwoods station at sixty miles an hour, but he must stay on duty and watch and wait until it flashes by in the night, and, with a sigh of relief he can call up the next station on.the wire and announce that the President’s train has gone by and the weight has been lifted from his shoulders. Even weeks before the date of the journey’s start the roadbed has been carefully inspected by the higher officials of the several roads over which the presidential train Is to pass, and Improvements and alterations ordered. A little later a second trip of inspection Is made to see that the orders previously given have been carefully and properly carried out. There are three instead of two men In the cab. One of them Is the en-

glneer. He is as carefully selected as the best man on the division. The second man is the fireman. The third is the master of transportation. He sits in the cab alongside the engineer, and the eyes of both are centered on the twin lines of rail before them. They watch to make sure that none of their subordinates make a mistake and to be certain that nothing is in the way of the presidential train. When the train passes from one division to the next the transportation manager leaves the train to make way for the man who Is responsible over the next division. Whoever covers the entire 15,000 miles of the Journey might observe at least thirty different men, sitting perhaps in a seat in the smoking car, with slouch hats pulled over their eyes, keeping careful track of every incident of the trip. They are the division superintendents, each of them with the entire burden and responsibility of the presidential train on his shoulders until it passes safely beyond the limits of his territory. When such connecting points are reached the observer, if he walked out on the platform,?’ would be likely to hear a conversation like this: “Hello. Ed.” “Hello. Bill.” “Everything 0. K.?” “Yes, thank God.” “How’s 26?” “Waiting at Cedarville.” “Wish me the same luck. Goodnight.” Then the train would pull out at forty miles an hour and another man would take the place-in the smoking

car just vacated by the sleepy-eyed man who has left the train at the division terminus. When a train carrying a king or emperor leaves one of the great capitals of Europe it is always possible to stop every other wheel on the line and leave the track perfectly free for the passage of the imperial special. But in the United States the railroad manager has also the problem of running the regular passenger trains and keeping freight trains moving with as little delay as possible. This greatly complicates the problem. As a matter of fact few freight trains run on the regular schedules when the presidential train is moving its wheels, and the traffic manager has troubles of his own for a day or two after It has passed. Every train dispatcher on each division knows that the special has passed for several days by the complaints which come in from shippers of perishable goods, even if official notice were lacking. It is his hard task to see that everybody is kept satisfied, even while the demands i of the presidential train are complied with. It is safe to say that traffic will be entirely upset on every road which is traversed by the train for at least forty-eight hours.

These same train dispatchers and their assistants have in charge the difficult task of keeping the president and his movable cabinet in constant communication with Washington. Telegrams in the obscure presidential cipher may "be thrown from the train at the most out-of-the-way station and there must always be on duty there a man capable of handling the work in an intelligent way. A mistake made by a night operator at Spodunk might possibly result in an international difficulty. The responsibility which every man connected with one of the roads over which the train passes may therefore be Imagined. After all is said and done the man who is chiefly responsible for the comfort, and in a large degree for the welfare, of the presidential party, rides in the last car of the train. He is a colored man, and he is in charge of the culinary department of the presidential train. Before he is selected the whole force of the road is carefully scrutinized. He is chosen as one among a hundred, and as a rule he feels not only the responsibility but the honor of his appointment. It is told of the chief cook on a previous presidential journey that after an especially fine breakfast the president

THE SCOTT RESIDENCE, WHERE THE PRESIDENT WILL STAY WHILE IN SAN FRANCISCO.

expressed a desire to see and congratulate the chef on his triumph. Word was taken to the magnate in his special car and he sent back word that if the president desired to see him he could be found in the kitchen.

Russian State in Business.

“The Russian state, which is the most socialistic one on earth and the one that the world’s money power is almost forever fighting, is by far the greatest economic unit on the face of the globe.” To ninety-nine readers

THE AUTOCRAT OF THE PARTY.

out of a hundred this statement will doubtless be startling. The Russian state draws an annual net profit of 45,000,000 rubles from its forests, mines, and agricultural property. It receives annually 80,000,000 rubles from its communities of ex-serfs for the use of land it ceded to or purchased for them. It is building by far the longest and most costly railway in the world, and it owns and works over 20,000 miles of railways, the net revenue on which is equal to one-seventh of the net revenue of all the railways in the United States. In 1898 it received $800,000,000 into its coffers, nearly one-half of which- sum was not produced by taxation. Its budget is greater than that of France by more than $200,000,000. In 1890, when one of the banks of London was unable to meet its obligations, the Russian government had with it on current account a balance of so many millions of pounds that when the bank of England came to the rescue a request was immediately made to Russia not to dispose of her balance before a certain date, since to do so would be to precipitate a financial crisis of the utmost

ONE OF A THOUSAND SLEEPLESS SENTINELS.

gravity. Finally, be'sides being a capitalist and a banker of this magnitude, the Russian state is also a metallurgist and a spirit merchant. In a word the proud claim is made for it that it is the greatest landowner, the greatest capitalist, the greatest constructor of railways and carries on the largest business in the world.

SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Cultivating ordinary honey bees to a modern apartment house has been accomplished in Chicago. One enterprising individual has found that the bee keeps just as busy storing away nectar in a home on the third floor as in a hollow tree in the woods.

A human body contains some of the small things of nature. The blood, for example, Is a colorless liquid, in which little red globules are floating. Every drop of It contains about a million of the globules, and they are susceptible of division into smaller globules still.

Cholera and yellow fever have been robbed of their terror In cities where sanitation is duly regarded; the poison of typhoid and diphtheria has been conquered, aijd the bacillus of consumption Is being hunted to its lair. All this has modern medical science accomplished, and scientific men are now predicting that in the not-dlstant future all disease-breeding germs will be wholly exterminated 1' all civilized lands.

Grover Hashman, a poultry raiser in Ohio, claims to have made a discovery which may revolutionize the present inconvenient method of shipping eggs. He has invented an egg shell which is elastic and unbreakable. He has done away with lime as a diet for hens, and instead feeds them with pulverized rubber mixed with cornmeal. This forms a rubber film around each egg, and the sulphur contained in the egg vulcanizes the soft rubber Into hardness

It has been no easy task to keep the great Suez Canal from being choked by the shifting sands, blown Into its waters by the tropic winds. The management of the canal, however, after long experiments with different plants, believes that It has found In the Casuarina tree an effective remedy against the sands. The Casuarina grows to a considerable height, while Its roots penetrate the soil to water sources deeply hidden; moreover, It thrives in both dry and humid climates.

Included In the vessels under construction for the British Navy are two rather shallow draught twin-screw gunboats, each of which is to have a length of 160 feet, a beam of twenty and a half feet and a draught of two and a quarter feet. They are to have a speed of thirteen knots each when completely equipped, and it is reported that they are intended for service on the Chinese rivers. They are to be sent out in flotable sections, the same as was done with the steamer built for the Belgian Congo expedition, in which Stanley took the lead. This avoids the difficulties and delays incidental to riveting and launching in foreign waters, as they are simply put into the water and bolted together.

The largest switchboard In the world Is for the new United States Mint at Philadelphia. Electricity describes it as follows: “The switchboard is entirely constructed of marble, copper and steel and is six feet high and thirty-six feet long. There are eighteen slabs of pink Tennessee marble, each one and a half inches thick. There are forty-two double and triple pole switches, which range from 100 to 1600 amperes. There are seventy-eight circuit breakers and many meters, all of which combine to make.the board an example of mechanical construction. The copper required to connect the generators or dynamos with different switches and current breakers weighs over two tons and the board complete as it will stand weighs ten tons. The board will carry 5000 amperes at 110 volts, equal to 10,000 sixteen candle power lights. The switches have been arranged so that each will turn on either light or power, as may be desired. This was necessary, as there will be no other power aside from electricity used in the new mint building.”

Only a Woman.

The good man, weighing a hundred stone, knocked timidly at the portal of the culinary department, and as the door swung heavily back upon its hinges doffed his tattered hat and piteously whispered: “Kind lady ” “I’m not kind,” she interrupted rudely. “Excuse me, lady ” “Don’t lady me!” was her quick response. “Yer don’t mean ter say yer only f. woman?” he asked scarely. “That’s what I am!” she shouted. And as the heavy bolts shot back into their places the vagrant took another reef in the clothesline about his waist and sighed. “Oh, my, why didn’t I take notice of dat bicycle on de stoop before I spoke?”—Leslie’s Weekly.

Royalty and Golf Links.

There are twenty-seven golf clubs which prefix the title “Royal.” Doubtless they can all adduce reasonable grounds for claiming the privilege. Blackheath, the “Royal and Ancient,” Musselburgh, the Albert (Montrose), Perth and North Devon are the six oldest golf clubs which bear the designation “Royal,” and at least two of them —St. Andrews and Perth —received the direct sanction of Queen Victoria. The title Royal and Ancient was conferred on the St. Andrew’s Club by King William IV. in January, 1834. Blackheath claims to have been founded by King James I. of England. It would be interesting to know the grounds for this contention, also the origin of the prefix “Royal” in regard to other dubs.—London Telegraph.

A Bit of Advice.

If yon are sure you are right let the other fellow do the worrying.

WHITE ELEPHANTS’ DECLINE.

They Remse No Enthusiasm Among Siam* ese Except When Advertised. Time flies and customs change, even In the most conservative countries, of the conservative East, and the glory of the white elephant Is fast waning. Before the Influence of another white animal, the European, he is passing slowly, but surely, into limbo. The greater part of Indo-China is now possessed by England and France, whose rulers lay no claim to Seyka Waday descent, and who can usually find sufficient exercise for their diplomacy and their armies without recourse to zoological freaks, while in Siam long years of uninterrupted accumulation produced a collection unrivaled in extent. Forty-five years ago His Majesty King Mongkut of Siam was the possessor of one white elephant, which was his chief delight and pride. As the greatest compliment he could think of paying to the Queen of England he sent her, by the hands of her envoys, a few hairs culled expressly for her from the tail of his beloved animal, and when, a little later, the arbiter of his destiny departed this life, he sent as a present to his friend Sir John Browning, accompanied by a touching letter in English, a small piece of “its beautiful white skin.** How changed are the present conditions of existence of the white elephants in Bangkok! The recent addition of a young specimen to the collection afforded an opportunity of noting the miserable parody which is all that survives of the ancient ceremonies connected with the capture and installation of the white elephant. The animal in question was captured in the forests near Lop buri, a place once famous as the summer palace and hunting lodge of the kings of Slam. No patent of nobility or alliance with royalty rewarded the finder of the animal; a small pecuniary recompense was thought quite sufficient to meet the case. When it was announced that the animal was sufficiently tame his transfer to Bangkok was ordered. Thereupon he was marched down to Ayuthia, where a specially constructed railway truck was in readiness to receive him.

But where were the gilded pillars, the silk and satin hangings of the pavilion which should receive the august creature? Where the reverent multitudes to do homage to the mascot of their king and country? Alas! these things have departed, and are no more seen, a little red calico and a group of stolid railway porters and Chinese coolies alone representing the gorgeous decorations and adoring populace of the past. In Bangkok, however, some preparation had been made for the reception. The fact of the impending arrival had been published in the papers some days before. Consequently, a considerable crowd assembled at the terminus to witness the disembarkation. The streets were decorated here and there with bunting, and a procession, headed by the four white elephants resident at the capital, escorted the newcomer to the palace. The trappings of the white elephants were most pitiful to view. Tawdry, threadbare red cloth now takes the place of jewel-studded velvet and silk, diamond and ruby rings no longer ornament the precious tusks, nor are gold bangles to be seen upon the august limbs.—lmperial Asiatic Quarterly Review.

Facts About the Rabbit Pest.

New Zealand’s rabbit pest can be appreciated only by inspection of the figures submitted by the Secretary of Agriculture of that colony for the year ended July, 1900, and recently published in his annual report. He states that during the year ended July 1, 1900, 5,152,877 rabbits and 7,744,638 rabbit skins were exported, as against 4,214,962 rabbits and 6,504,189 skins shipped the preceding year. This increase in the number of rabbits killed is, in his opinion, not an encouraging sign, but rather the reverse. The Inspectors of stock for the various districts report that phosphorized pollard, when carefully laid, is the most effective means of stamping out the animals without injury to stock. It appears, however, that careful supers vision is necessary in the use of this poison to produce good results. Other methods of dealing with the problem, which are not so effectual as the use of poison, but which have the advantage of leaving the dead rabbits in such condition as to be salable, are trapping, shooting and hunting with ferrets or dogs. For comparatively small enclosures wire netting is without doubt the best means of dealing with rabbits, and every year sees an increasing quantity of it being erected. Its great expense, however, prevents its being applied to large farms or ranges.

Oil in Strange Places.

Oil wells are sometimes struck in strange places. Possibly the would-be funny man who once remarked that if you stuck a cane in the soil of California it would sprout and blossom in a season, would now assert that they are growing derricks in their y«.rds. At any rate, the derricks are there. Oil was recently struck at Los Angeles, and now the people are drilling wells and erecting derricks in their yards. A derrick can hardly be said to be an ornamental structure, but a good oil well is a profitable thing, and the people are willing to endure the unsightly derricks for the possible financial results.—New York Commercial Advertiser.

One thousand pounds of dough for biscuits is rolled, cut and prepared for baking in three hours and fifty-four minutes by machinery, as against fiftyfour hours by hand.

A UNITED STATES MARSHAL

Thanks Parana For His Rapid Recovery From Catarrh.

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EX-UNITED STATES MARSHAL MATTHEWS, OF MISSISSIPPI.

Hon. S. S. Matthews, ex-United States Marshal of Mississippi, in. a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Company of Columbus, Ohio, written from Hazelhurst, Miss., says: «</ am happy to say that lam cured of catarrh and need no more attention from you. It is a great satisfaction that lam able to write you that Peruna has in my case done all that you claim, and that I will need no more medicine.”

“ “.OilStove I I ii ° I \ JfiF does aot hive i them— writc J J the nearest 1 agency of STANDARD oil co.

Are You Interested in the Northwest?

Cut out this advertisement, mention paper in which it appeared,enclose with 10c in silver to address given and Home and Garden, illustrated, monthly, will be sent you free for one year. Regular price, 50c. Address Home and Garden, Newspaper Row, St Paul, Minn. ’

Moose for Buffalo.

The Dominion of Canada Department of Crown Lands has received from Mr. D. O’Connor of Sudbury, Ont, a magnificently mounted bull moose for exhibition in connection with the Dominion government display at the PanAmerican exposition at Buffalo next summer. The gift has been accepted by the commission.

Are You Using Allen’s Foot-Ease?

It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.

Before you can know a man by the company he keeps you must learn his company’s opinion of him.

Hamlin’s Blood and Liver Pills cure constipation and all the ills du* to it; 25c at your druggists.

Anxiety never yet successfully bridged over any chasm.—Ruffini.

X am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbiks. Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y.. Feb. 17,1900.

The first thing necessary to enable a girl to marry is an opportunity,

Hall's Catarrh Cure

Is taken internally. Price, 75c.

The word which has once escaped can never be recalled.—Horace.

DOUGLAS FACTORY

To Be Enlarged Before the First of July. Will Make 6.000 Fairs Daily. Advertising pays. W. L. Douglas is going to increase the capacity of his factory to 6,000 pairs of shoes per day. The addition will add 16,000 square feet of space for manufacturing purposes. At the same time a new 400 horse-power engine and an additional 150 horse-power boiler will be installed, which will afford adequate power for the present and another addition to the factory, which will no doubt be necessary later op. When the factory starts up the first of July it will be on an output of 500 dozen or 6,000 pairs of shoes per day, and the weekly pay roll, exclusive of office help, superintendent, foremen, etc., will be $22,000 per week. The Douglas salesmen on the road are selling 25 per cent more goods than last season. The increased sales is the direct result of good shoemaking and extensive advertising. The advertising expenditure of Mr. Douglas is now larger than at any period of his business, and this is to be still further increased. Beginning this week halfpage advertisements of the Douglas shoe will appear in all the principal newspapers of the large cities, as well as such papers as the Youth’s Companion.—Brockton, Mass., Times.

Preservation of Eyesight.

An Ontario oculist thinks that the eyesight of one-fourth of the blind patients he has had might have been saved by prompt precautions taken in Infancy.

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The great multitude take thia renteedy without any other advice than the directions to be found upon the bottle and in the pamphlets. There are those who prefer, however, to correspond with Dr. Hartman during their sickness. To all such he will make prompt and careful answer without charge. Hon. J. F. Crooker of Buffalo, N. Y. who was for years Superintendent of Schools at Buffalo, in a letter dated October 16, writes: “I have been a sufferer from ca-

tarrh six or i seven years, and after trying many remedies was induced by a friend to take Peruna. The results have been highly satisfactory. 1 take pleasure in recommending Peruna to

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Hon. J. F. Crooker, Supt. BuSalo, N. Y. Public Schools.

any one suffering with catarrh, as my case is complete.”

Hon. B. B. Doviner, Congressman from West Virginia, in a letter from Washington, D. C., to The Peruna Medicine Co., says the following of their catarrh remedy, Peruna: “I join with my colleagues in the House of Representatives in recommending your excellent remedy, Peruna, as a good tonic and also an effective cure for catarrh.” Mrs. Mary C. Fentress writes from Paradise, Tex., the following: “I think I can say that your good advice and medicine has cured me of chronic catarrh. I have had no pains in my head since I have taken Peruna. I have been in bad health ever since ’59, and have taken a good many medicines which were only of temporary relief. Peruna is the catarrh cure. The Peruna stopped my catarrh of the head so that it did not become chronic, and I am very thankful for Dr. Hartman’s advice and medicine.” Peruna is a specific for all catarrhal diseases. It acts quickly and beneficially upon the inflamed mucous membrane, thus removing the cause of catarrh. Catarrh is catarrh wherever located. Catarrh is essentially the same everywhere. The remedy that will cure catarrh in one situation will cure it in all situations. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.

Career and Character of Abraham Lincoln. An address by Joseph Choate, Ambassador to Great Britain, on the career and character of Abraham Lincoln —his early life —his early struggles with the world—his character as developed in the later years of his life and his administration, which placed his name so high on the world's roll of honor and fame, has been published by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and may be had by sending six (6) cents in postage to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111.

Chief of Dramatic Critics.

William Archer, the Scot who forsook the bar for journalism, is now the acknowledged chief of English critic* of the drama. He made a reputation as dramatic critic of the London Figaro and is scholarly, urbane and fair in his criticisms.

Garfield Tea is the most used, the best liked, and is the original herb tea for the cure of constipation and sick headache. It strengthens the digestive organs.

The Vicksburg national park will soon be complete as far as the acquisition of land is concerned. It will comprise in all 1.231 acres.

WANTED—Men or women permanently tn every county of the United States. Big money for hustlers. Write for particulars. W. LOU TANDY, Chicago Heights, DL

Happiness is increased, not by the enlargehent of the possessions, but of the heart. —Ruskin.

Mr*. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. For children teething, soften* the gum*, reduce* to. flammaUon, allay* pain, cure* wind colic. Jsc a boule.

The first English steel pens were sold at 30 shillings each.

Coe’s Cough Balaam b the oldest and best. It will break up * cold qtxlcte than anything else. It 1* always reliable. A widely-known quartette—the four corners of the earth.