Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 September 1897 — Page 3

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TO WORK TEN HOURS

riKDALU SHilP MEN WII.L GO TO WORK FULL, TIME tODAI.

Have Been Banning Short Boars 8lnco k-b, 1893—Engineer Brennan Makes a Baa On the West End.

'Perhaps the happiest eet of workmen in Terre Haute yesterday were the employee ol the Vandalia shops. As they filed out of the gates in the evening every one of them wore bread smiles.' This display of incisors was due to' the fact that this morning these men wili go back to the shops at 7 o'clock there to remain at-Work until 6 in the evening. The officiate 'decided yesterday morning, after a conference with Superintendent of Motive Power Arp and General Foreman McKeen that beginning today the men in the entire shops would be put to work on full time—ten hours.

There is no better evidence that prosperity Is returning than the order to put the men on the ten hour run again. It was in June, 1893, that the times became so hard that a reduction of the hours was ordered and there has not been a day since that time when any one man in theshops has worked more than 8 hours a day. Now, however, after four years, the shops are to be opened out with a hum. Heretofore the men have also been given a half day off on Saturday, for which they received no pay. With the introduction of the new order the men will not be forced to leave their work at noon on Saturdays. It will be a case of •working 60 hours a week instead of 44 as heretofore.

"BILL" CAN RUN SOME.

Engineer Brennan Makes a Record on the Vandalia.

Engineer William Brennan of the Vandalia hag set up a new record to be shot et by the other runners on the west end. Brennan, It is pretty well 'known, Is one of the best runners in the employ of the Vandalia. There is no engineer on the system who can get more speed out of an engine than he. Tuesday he made the record oE which the employes and officers of the road are still talking. Brennan ran his engine out of the round house Tuesday aftternoon. He was to pull the fast No. 21 from this city to St. Louis. As the old eight wheeler stood puffing at the end of the sheds Superintendent Miller received a dispatch that the train would be 15 minutes late and asked Brennan if he could make up the time.

The delay to the tran was on the Pittsburg division, but Brennan said he thought he Could make it up. A few minutes later the train was reported 25 minutes late and' finally was announced to be 40 minutes behind time. lAt last she came in and tha old No. 5, which had been overhauled in thd shops here, was coupled on. Brennan lifted her out and that evening word came over the wire from St. Louis that the engineer had made up 33 minutes between here and East St. Louis, something that has nevei4 been done before. The train is a fast one and to make up this much time is considered something out of the ordinary.

The run was made possible by the equipment of the engine, the handiwork of General Foreman McKeen. The cylinders of the engine are set with the latest ideas in the matter of valves. The inside laps have been cut out and the inside given a clearance of one-eighth inch. When in full stroke there is no lead and in running there Is a cut off of three- sixteeth of an inch. Until remodeled in the shops Superintendent' •Miller would not allow this eight-wheeler to go .out on a fast passenger run, he preferring the big ten-wheelers. The performance of the engine Tuesday, however, insures its maintenance in the fast passenger service.

Before the ComtnisHlon.

The freight representatives of most all the roads entering Louisville have been summoned to appear before the Interstate Commerce Commission otday to testify iiA the cases brought by the American Warehousemen's Association against the Illinoirf Central, Pennsylvania, Louisville and Nashville, Big Four, Morion, and Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern roads. The charge against all the roads is storing intenstata freight in large quantities in cars and warehouses belonging to the roads free of charge and delivering lots at different periods on the order of the shippers. The roads are also charged with acting as forwarding agents and dividing shipments without charge. Mr. Yeomans, of the Interstate Commerce Commission# will hear the case at Louisville.

Missouri Pacific's Lung Ran. The Missouri Pacific on Tuesday inaugurated a long run for engines pulling the west-bound fast mail. One engine in the future will pull the train from St. Louis to Kansas City, a distance of 284 miles. The initial trip was made Tuesday with the company's new engine, No. 263, with Charles D. Clawson as engineer. No. 263 Is an exact duplicate of the New York Central and Hudson River's celebrated engine No. 999, and was built in the company's shops at St. Louis. The fast mail was speeded between California and Sedalia, and a mile a minute was recorded for the entire distance. The train arrived there 40 minutes late and pulled into the Union Depot In Kansas City only 20 minutes behind schedule time.

Bwlnc Steps Down and Ota.. W. D. Ewing yesterday stepped down and out of the general superintendency of the Fitchburg roed. Mr. Ewing served notice on his superior officers some time ago thaS

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he wished to retire and his request was reluctantly acceded to. Mr. Ewing has been with the Fitchburg road for many years and was recently mentioned as a very formidable candidate for the presidency of that system of roads. Colonel Bwing is well known by the 'buisness men of Terre Haute and Evansville through his connection with tha E. & T. H.

Crawford Fairbanks a Monon Director. Nine million dollars of the stock of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company, was represented at the annual meeting of -stockholders at Indianapolis yesterday. New directors were elected and classified as follows:

For iho term of four years—Samuel Thomas, Calvin S. Brice, and John G. Moore, of New Xork WE H. McDoel, of Chicago.

For two years—Gilbert Shaw, of Chicago James Murdock, of Lafayette, Yolney T. Malott, of Indianapolis.

For one year—Crawford Fairbanks, of Terre Haute, and John Hilton, of New York. Wm. H. Lewis was authorized to sell $1,115,000 of stock on the best possible terms.

Slashing Bites to Texas Points. At Kansas City, yesterday, tickets were sold from alveston, Houston, Ft. Worth, and other Texas points to Kansas City and St. ILouis for $5 or $10 for the round trip, good to return until September 20th. The return ends of the tickets will be handled by brokers with the result that rates from Kansas City to Texas points will be ridiculously low within the next few days.

Railroad Notes.

The C. & E. I. is putting down a new switch to the Geneva mines near Clinton. The Big Four earned in the first week of September ?271,548.21, an increase over the corresponding week of 1896 of 512,335.35.

O. I.. Kidd, a C. & E. I. conductor, was injured at Kensington Tuesday night by being thrown against a "pot signal." Three of his ribs were broken.

The Clover (Leaf road is to be reorganized, and the probabilities are that the present receiver, R. B. F. Pierce, will be made president. The road has prospered under Mr. Pierce's receivership.

The Pennsylvania road is having 1,500 cross ties hauled by wagons from Freetown to Seymour, a distance of sixteen miles. The ties will be used in making repairs on the Evansville & Richmond railway between Seymour and White River.

The Pennsylvania company has notified trainmen on the passenger trains that they must hereafter not only call the names of the stations distinctly, 'but when a train leaves a terminal or division point announce in which direction the train is going.

Train 20, on the Vandalia, consisting of eight cars, including three Pullman sleepers, was Tuesday hauled from a start at Greencastle to the Union Station, Indianapolis, thirty-three miles, in thirty-nine minutes, stopping at the Belt road crossing. The train was hauled by engine 158.

The Grand Trunk announces an excursion to Niagara Falls at a round trip rate of 9 for the opening of the new bridge acrosa the Niagara gorge, September 22. The celebrations will cover the three days following. The Wabash, Erie, Nickel Plate, Michigan Central, and Lake Shore have applied to the Joint Traffic association for authority to make the same rate.

Eleven hundred employes of the Louisville & Nashville railway, at its Howell shops, will go to Nashville Saturday to see the exposition. Their families will accompany them and in all there will be 2,000 people from Evansville and Howell at Nashville on the Howell shops day. They go on special trains out of Evansville and Howell early Saturday morning. There will be three sections with eleven coaches in each, section.

ABOUT PEOPLE.

It is said In Georgia that the cherished hope of General Clement A. Evans is to write a complete history of the state. He has long ibeen gathering materials for it.

Kaiser Wittwlm keeps up medieval traditions. He has made General Count Ca« privi, this dismissed chancellor, a canon of Brandenburg- cath€*drjf:. His only duty will be to draw hie pay, which is $750 a year.

Johannes Penzier has begun the formidable tisk of bringing into book form all the dispatches, letters and interviews of Prince Bismarck since his dismissal, together with the more important newspaper articles supposed to be inspired by him. Tine first volume of liis work--384 pageshas already appeared, under the title of "Fuerst Bismarck nach seiner Entlassung."

It is not generally known that Mr. Salfour's surname is a .philological puzzle. It is usually explained as from the Gaelic words "bai'.e faur," meaning "cold town." But that explanation is a mere guess, and has been brushed aside by German scholars. The only explanation of "Balfour" to which there is no serious objection is that it represents "ba:le pawr," meaning "the town of the pasture."

Hard by Oom Paul's presidential mansion at Pastoria, South Africa, is the church where Mr. Kreuger is wont to pray on Sundays. No member of the congregation is more regular than he, and at times he leads the service himself, and will even preach when in the mood. He himself draws large audiences, 'but when not actively engaged in the conduct of the service he usually sits beneath the pulpit, being, it is said, somewhat deaf at times.

William Bache, who died the other day in Bristol, (Pa., was the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin. He was 86 years old and was the .pioneer newspaper publisher in Bucks county, having founded the Bristol Gazette in 18i9. In 1854 he began the publication at a know-nothing paper called the Bucks County American. He was the author of a numiber of historical works. He served in the war of the rebellion and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

STAR POINTER

MAKING A BIG KICK

METHODIST LAYMEN HAVING A WARM HUB OF IT AT INDIANAFOLiS.

Efforts to Sec are Equal Representation With the Ministers In the General Conference, p?r,

The Methodist laymen of Indiana are in session at Indianapolis with I. H. C. Royse representing Terre Haute. The convention was called to perfect a state organization, to appoint a state executive committee and to select thirty delegates to & national convention of Methodist laymen. The movement has as its object the securing to laymen of equal representation with the preachers in the general conferences of the church. Other states, following Indiana, have taken up the movement and conventions have been fhus far called in Ohio, Pennsylvania,Maryland, Colorado, California and Nebraska.

The movement, if successful, will give to each state a largely increased representation in the general body. Indiana now has two laymen in that body from each conference, as against more than twice as many clerical members. The movement against this inequality began Immediately after the action taken in April of this year, by the Kokomo conference, where a proposition to submit this demand for equal representation to the annual conference was voted down.

It is understood that while this is the sole proposition that the laymen will now* insist upon, It is only a beginning and when they get a voice in the general conference other reforms will be asked for and insisted upon. .The laymen are free in expressing themselves against the bishops of the church, who, they say, stand as obstructions to any reformation and control the conferences and the sentiments of the preachers, whose appointments they control and whose bread and butter they hold in their hands.

William E. Cumback of Greensburg is chairman of the convention and made a stirring speech yesterday. He said in part: "Certainly the chutch can trust her membership, composed of the purest and best, to administer all our affairs. To doubt it would be to concede that Christianity is a failure. "To withhold the government of the church from the many, and retain it in the hands of the few, is an implication ofa lack of honesty and sincerity of the laymen and is putting a dangerous weapon in the hands of the unbeliever and the skeptic, that they have not failed to use. It is also a reflection on the clergy, that after more than one hundred years of teaching in America, the membership have not attained sufficient intelligence to take good care of what belongs to them. AUTOCRATIC POLITY OiF THE CHURCH. "While the very spirit "of' Methodism is bold, radical and aggressive, no bishop or preacher can be found with sufficient courage to stand up in the broad sunlight of American liberty and defend the existing autocratic policy of the curch. "The truth is, it is indefensible. "Since the call for this convention' has been issued and published, the challenge has been made in the public prints, asking the friends of the present mode of church government to come to the front and defend it, tout none are found willing to accept it. "The timid conservatives will say: 'The church has prospered, and it perhaps would be good policy to let well enough alone.' We concede most cheerfully that the church has prospered. We glory in her triumphs in all the past. But if she has made such a great success, hampered as she has been •by this narrow policy, what might she have done had she broadened her plans and made every layman of the church feel, as every American feels, that he is the equal of every other man-made to feel that his voice can toe heard in the councils of the church, and that he has the right to give direction in the disbursement of the money that the laymen have contributed.

THE BISHOP'S COMMISSIONS "On several occasions the bishops have constituted commissions of their own choosing to formulate a constitution for the church, and report it to the general conference for their adoption. But in each case their work has been so repugnant to the American ideal of democratic governmentsuch an ignoring of t!he rights of laymen— that the general conference has rejected their work without hesitation. There is now existing another commission, composed of three bishops, six preachers and six laymen, chosen by the episcopacy to create the organic law of the church. I presume, coming from the same source, it will be of the same character, and doubtless it will receive, as it ought, the same kind of reception. In the making up of all these commissions, while one-third of the delegates in the general conference are laymen, they are not consulted or permitted to select the laymen who are to sit on these commissions, and determine the constitutional rights of the great body of the church. "It -is their oft-repeated and continued acts of distrust of the laymen that creates this unrest. The agitation will go on with increased power and force until the millions who constitute this great church of ours will have at least an equal voice in her management. WANTING EJPfISOOPA.il INTERFERENCE "If the laymen at an annual conference choose to select one of the earnest and devoted women of the conference to represent them, we want no episcopal interference to keep her name off the roll of delegates, or

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no obstacles placed In her way to the full and complete exercise of her rights as a representative. I do not hesitate to say tha£ there is as much intelligence and devotion to tbis great church of ours in the pew as in the pulpit. We are £ere as representatives of the many, and not of the few. This convention, I believe to he the first convention for the purpose expressed iii the call that has ever assembled. Indiana leads in this great reform. Others will quickly follow, and the good work will go on until the great Methodist Church in her polity will be thoroughly American. Then qhe will have an increased zeal and devotion, and will take on a life and power that yill give her greater victory and power in the time to come. Ours 'being the initial movement in this reformation, the world is looking on to see what we do, and read what •we say. -V-"--'While we are imbued with the true American spirit, let the dominating force of this great convention toe the spirit of the Master, so that we may help and not hinder the great cause in which we are engaged."

I. H. C. Royse read a letter from Colonel Thompson, of this city, in which he expressed his sympathy with the cause of the Methodist laymen and regretting that the hot weather prevented Ills 'being present. A committee was appointed to select thirty delegates to the national convention of laymen.

MAX O'RELL'S SNAKE.

The Author's Experience With the Terrible Death Adder In Australia. Max O'Roll confesses to an unoontrol labia foal1 of snakes, and when, in Aus tralia, he slept one night in a region which the landlord confessed was infested with them he lay down to rest in a very unhappy frame of mind. Heat and mosquitoes kept him awake for some time, but finally he dropped off to sleep and awoke so hot that it seemed preferable to give his hands and arms over to the mosquitoes r&thcr than to remain wrapped up in the bedolotlies. So, keeping the sheet still over his face, he put his arms outside and laid bi3 hands on the quilt. He writes:

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mo on the bed. Yes, a snake—a real, long, round snake—cold and motionless as death. A oold perspiration broke out all over me. I was glued to the bed, paralyzed with fright.

The snake stirred not a muscle, nor did By mwans of an imperceptible nidve ment of my knees I came to the conoluslon that it must be about S feet long. That is the length of the terrible death addor It made my poor brain reel to think tl horrid bruto was there ready to give me mjr death when it should awake.

I was going crazy, and I felt that a light was the only thing that could bring back my wits. I would have no more suspenso. I would strike a match and have the enemy face to face. I put out my right hand and reached the matchbox that stood on is table by the bed.

This was a little maneuver which took quite ten minutes to execute. Without rubying, and after frantic precautions, I succeeded in lighting the candle.

The 6nake did not stir. I was embold ened and went so far as to uncover half niy-head and steal a glance down the bed. There it was, sure enough, motionless still and straight as a line. I took cour age, and after ten minutes spent in imper ceptible efforts I arrived at the edge of the bed and stealthily vaoated it.

I was going to look for my trusty walk ing stick, resolved to sell my life as dearly as possible. I looked on the mantelpiece, on the chest of drawers, in every corner of the room. Where on earth could that stick be?

I took up the light, and feeling now once more in possession of my faculties drew near and looked at the snake.

Well, well! Is It possible for a man to be eniohr a fool?

Thirty Thousand Robbers.

The late Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, a player muoh above the average, once told Cavendish that he had been studying his (Cavendish's) book on whist. "And hope your highness found it a profitable investment," said the gratified author. "Oh, no, quite the contrary," was the reply. Since I studied the game I have lost thousands."

Cavendish supposes this to have been a piece of humorous exaggeration on the mahaift job's part, but there was probably a residuum of truth in the remark. When a good player gives up a bold and natural style a*nd binds himself down to the rigid system1 of conventional rules advocated by Dri Polo and Cavendish, he is not likely to'be winner at the year's end—not, at least, on any large scale.

Cavendish is himself an instance in pd}i?t,ffor he tells us that in 18 years' play, out) of 80,0CI0 rubbers, there was only a balance of 038 in his favor. In other words, be was one rubber to the good in 49—about 2 per cent—or one-seventh of a point per rubber. This seems a small percentage for a first class player, unritttled in his knowledge of the game, even if he played, always against first class oppo-notits|r-Blnokwood's Magazine.

Alleged Trick In the Art Trade. "It is a curious thing," remarked an artist, screwing up his eyelids until they looked like slits, as be scrutinized a small painting, "that people in this country profer foreign subjects to those taken from their midst. This gives rise to a peculiar industry, very harmful to native talent. Agents of American dealers collect in Europe students' sketches from all parts, costume sketches, I mean, showing a toreador smoking in the sunlight or a fisherman mending his nets. They buy these sketches for a mere song and then turn them over to some one else to paint in a fake baokgronnd. If you are a connoisseur, you can tell them at a glance, but there is a market for them nevertheless." •—Philadelphia Press.'

Mythology tells us that Mercury had wings on his feet, by the aid of which he was enabled to cover great distances rapidly in his capacity of messenger to the gods. The distance-annihilator of modern times is the wonderful "Pinter hoss,",

On the Second Day oS the Great Races of the TERRE HAUTE TROTTING ASSOCIATION,

Two hundred car loads of clay, every ounce of it filled with speed, are being put on the greatest track in the world, and when Star Pointer gets the word on that eventful afternoon, his feet will press the fastest track that man ever"constructed, The most beautiful grounds in the world, the fastest track in the world, the fastest horse in the world isn't this a combination strong enough^ to attract on

that day? i#ay aside your cares and worries and witness the fastest mile of the nineteenth century. EJvery day's programme a ^geioi in itself. ^$^0,000 in purses and the best stables in the country. Reduce^,rates

the^railroads the entire week, special low rates on "Star Pointer Day.

TO SAVE OUR TREES.

TIMBER CUTTING MUST BE SPEEDILY REGULATED.

Arid Soil and Frequent Drmight* Consequent Upon the Destruction of Our Forests—There Is Toe Much Waste.

How a Remedy May Be Applied.

The American lumber trade Is now growing at a rate which threatens in the near future* its own self exhaustion and the reduction of this country to the deplorable and ruinous state of trcelessness. The faots cannot be concealed and should not be ignored. Throughout all the older states of the Union forests have long sinoe practically disappeared. Only a few Btraggling and 6tunted remnants remain of the superb sylvan growth that onoe olothed every hillside. The effect Is apparent. Streams that onoe flowed constantly the year around are now overflowing torrents for a few weeks and dry for months. Springs have dried up. Soil has baconie arid and sterile. Droughts are more frequent. Agriculture is less profitable.

The evils that afflict the treeloss countries of the old world are beginning to be felt. Nor are the newer states of the far west exempt. Their abundant forests are disappearing like snow in springtime, and in their plaoe are coming change* of climate, disturbances of tha water supply and the whole train of evils that forest destruction inevitably entails.

It is idle to point to the vast expaners of untouched woodland that still remain and boast that they are inexhaustible. They ore not inexhaustible. On the contrary, the time when they will all have been destroyed is now within measurable distance. It is easily within the lifotiine of men now living.

This year, as already stated, our exports of lumber are about 25 per cent greater than last year and 100 per cent greater than ten years ago. Even at the present rate of cutting the forests would not la~t long, but at such an increasing rate their disappearance is startlingly close at band. Nor is that all. Iho figures citcd are only those of exports. Domestic consumption is increasing still more rapidly. The single item of wood pulp for paper manufB'!ture means an enormous destruction of timber never dreamed of a generation ago.

The lumber industry cannot, of course, be abolished. Tree outtlng must continue, but it is high time such regulations were adopted and rigidly enforced as will prevent the utter destruction of forests. That is entirely 'possiblo. Not the mere amount of lumber cut, but the amount destroyed, wasted by careless and injudicious methods, is what mosr. counts.

Every one who has visited a great lumber camp knows that more material is destroyed than is sent to market. The smnller trees, not large enough for marketable timber, are regarded as mere incumbrances, to be slashed and burned and got out of the way in whatever fashion maj be readiest. The ground la thus entirely cleared. The great beds of moss and leaf mold, hitherto perennial reservoirs of moisture, are dried up. The soil and rocks are exposed, and the country transformed into a desert.

What should be done is evident. The small trees should be carefully preserved, so that they may in turn grow to full size and meantime shade vhe ground and preserve the forest conditions. Lumbering should in brief mean a judicious thinning out, qot a wholesale destruction, of the forest. Tree planting should also be practiced on an extensive scale, forest fires be more scrupulously guarded against, and the woodland area of the country be systematically cultivated instead of ruthlessly raided.

Other nations neglected the lesson long, but have learned it at last, and now enforce it with a strictness that here might seem despotic. .But this nation is bound to come sooner or later to some- suoh system of forest conservation, and it will be fortunate if it does not reach it through the ruinous experience of treelessness.— New York Tribune.

TARANTULAS, SCORPIONS AND SUCH.

Reassuring Facts Vouched For by Eminent Bug Sharps. The bureau of entomology has been colleoting spme interesting information lately about scorpions, oentipeds .and tarantulas. Respecting these creatures all sorts of upasensioal beliefs are prevalent, and travelers who have visited tropical regions disagree as to the effects of their bites. That the poison of any one of the three is apt to be deadly has often been asserted. The question derives particular importance from the faot that the animals are constantly imported into this oountry in bunches of bananas and among othor fruits from lower latitudes.

Tarantulas are simply big spideis of the kind that build houses with trapdoors. Thoir blto is very severe and, painful, the 6car lasting for a long time Trut, though it produoes a violent inflammation for a short time, it is not dangerous to life. Suob, at ail events, is the belief of Professor C. V. Riley. In regard t« the centiped Professor Riloy says that its bite in warm climates Is sometimes excessively virulent and painful, though at other times, oddly enough, the poison causes little inconvenience. That it is ever fatal is not believed.

Scorpion stings are very painful indeed. They are dangerous in proportion to the size of the animal, its age and the state of Irritation in which it may be. Temperature r.lso has an influence upon the venom. It may be that tho sting is occasionally followed by deatb, but such cases must be very rare. There is no doubt that the sting of certain species commonly found in South America causes fever, numbness in various parts of the body, tumors on the tongue and dimness of sight. These 6ymptoms last from 24 to 48 hours. The effcct3 produced diminish in violence with

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proof against the poison. Some scorpions are uaaoh worse than other*. Tho rather small, slender, pale wlored kinds have the worst reputation. In warm latitudes certain places are nearly free from scorpions, while others are overran by them, for reasons not well understood. They are extraordinarily numerous in a valley in the Tierra Tencplada sf Mexico. There it hardly possible to turn over a stone without finding tbreoor four small and wicked scorpions of a polo oolor beneath it.

It is a common belief that tho legs of the centiped are poisonous, and that tliey .will leave a trail that burns liko fire if the animal runs over the bare flesh. This is wholly a mistake. The creaturo is naturally timid and v»ill net even try to bite If it can get away. The poison causes a "good dealof pain, with fever and distress of the head. Centipeds are fond of vermin infostcd beds, and in tropical conntries beds are very apt to be so infested.—

Washington Star.

Phase of Fame.

The stained glass window on the street side of Senator Brice's house is nn yp objcct of great curiosity to passersby, and numerous and odd are the explanations of its presence made by strangers in tho city, who, without the services of a guide, have determined to see the exterior of as many fine homes as possible, even if they don't succcod In getting past the portals. "I never knew Senator Brice was a religious man," says the visitor from Ohio, gazing pensively at the window with its little row of evergreen trees at its base, "but that window must surely be in a private chapel. Do you suppose he reads the family prayers there every mornlngP" "Wall," replies her companion, who, having been appointed to a clerkship in one of the departments six months previously, is competent to give all information required on Washington topics, "you see, this house used to belong to Mr. W. W. Corcoran, a great philanthropist, and thoy say that when Senator Brice bought the house from bis heirs it was with a distinct understanding that a memorial window should be put In place in honor of tho original owner, and this is it." "Indeed? Woll, I certainly should love to see the other side of it," and the pair moved on, marveling at the curious way some people have of perpetuating their fame.—Washington Pest.

The Ocean Storehouse.

"Did you evor hear of the ocean storeLouse In Taums straits?" asked an old seaman. "It's called Deliverance island, tiiough it is sometimes marked on the charts as Booby island. It is like a mound rising out of the ocean, the highest point being about 50 feet. It is well nigh barren, having only a few bushes and shrubs. On one side is a sandy beach, on the other a fissure forming a sort of cave in which stores are left by men-of-war ships passing through for the relief of distressed and shipwrecked sailors. I went In there once from the Epsom, an English sailing vessel. "During a calm we lowered a boat and pulled in. In this cave we found tins of preserved meat, biscuit, tobacco and a wooden box marked 'Postoffioe.' Cur skipper, Captain Vaux, wrote a letter to his friends in London and posted it in there. It reached them too. Deliverance island that day belonged to the Dutch. But we took down their flag and hoisted the union jack. That Is the custom—the last ship through the straits hoists its flag on this ocean storehouse and postoffice. —New York Sun.

The Anarchist's Utopia.

Under the anarchist regime the man who works five hours a day will be quits with society. He will defray the entire cost of the support of himself, his wife and three children. The iest of his time, therefore —19 hours a day—will be his own absolutely, to employ or waste as he chooses. When once his task is done, be x&ay lio on the grass and bask in the tun by the hoar together, and no cne will have the right even to glance at him askance.

If he have a fancy for luxuries—fur lined coats, silks, velvets, pate de gras, costly wines—he will be able to gratify it by joining in his leisure time Bome group which either produces such things, or things for which they can be had in exchange. In tho same way he will be able to procure books, pictures, a piano, scientific instruments and beautiful furniture. If he have a ta9te for art or literature, he will have ample time to cultivato it when his daily task is done.—Temple Bar.

The Thaw Hose.

Frozen fire plugs are the terror of the firemon on cold days and nights. They constitute a serious obstacle right at the time when all are anxious to get to work on the burning building, and in oase of a bad fire are often responsible for great loss. The moment a fire engine reaches its position at a fire during zero weather what is known as a thawing hoso is immediately attached to a valve connected with the boiler and turned on the frozen plug. If it is found to be frozen a considerable distance down, the long brass nozzle of the hose is jammed into the hard ground. The powerful steam jet soon accomplishes the desired purpose. The thaw hose, which Is part of tho outfit of every fire engine, is often used to thaw the engine pipes as well as frozen plugs.—Philadelphia Record.

Sterilized Butter.

Popp and Becker, German cnemietft, recommend steriliaiog the materials used In butter making. They find that butter from pasteurized and sterilized cream keeps much longer than that from unsterilized cream.

TO CCJtE A COLD IN ONE DA* Take Laxative Bromo Quinine TalV.ets^ All druggists refund the money if it fail* to cure.

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