THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1S01. 9 The Honeymoon Ship (Copyright, 1300, by Morgan Robertson.) A trick at the. wheel on the Great Lake steamers lasts six hours that Is, tho whole watch hence you steer the same trick each day and night, under the same watch of ficer. You tre allowed to smoke at the wheel and also (this Is truth) allowed a stool to sit upon when your legs arc tired. Yet the time passes slowly In the pilot bouse and It Is fair to presume that It passes as slowly out on the bridge, wbero the officer In charge Is sUDDOscd to paco up and down, Intent only upon his duty. But on fine nlghtt duty Is easy of performance There may be a word through the pilot house window from the officer, a tenta tively Jocular answer, a Joke or good humored comment In return, and demo cratic relations pro tern are established. Thus it was that old Dutch Pete (officially Mr. Decker, chief mate of the Sunderland,) first bcrrowlDg my chewing tobacco, began talking with me as we steamed up Lake Erie and reeled off the yarn which follows. He was an old, wise man, who had seen all lands and all men, and he was a seaman and an officer whom l esteemed and ro spected, while 1 was a wheelman" whose steering he tolerated. Wc had so assured each other. Yet there was ono subject on which we could not agree the place aud value of womcnklnd. While not being a woman hater, the old man was certainly unjust to the sex in some of his allegations and I was young, with a warm recollection of a brown-eyed, dimpled, plnk-cbeektd young woman, with fluffy hair and a sweet smile, who 1-but never mind her. "Joost think of the poor fellers." re marked t'cte, as he handed In my plug, "married men, who can't chew, nor smoke, nor drink, nor have any fun, Just 'cauee a wooman says they moosn't. Why. terbaccy Is one of life's blessings and It weemen folks only knew it they'd use It same as men, but they hacn't sense cnoof." "Yes, sir," I answered, "but It s a dirty habit after all. It's all right for men. but not for women." "What?" he said In scornful surprise. "Why? Are weemen any better than men? Aro they any more p'tlcular about w-hat they do? Does a wooman wash her face any more than a man? Hey? Sho don t. She puts vaseline on it or sirnuv w. that cold cream stuff, and then she swabs it off with a towel ana cans u ju". don't chew terbaccy. No, It makes bad breath, she says, but she cats candy and cake and sweet things till her teeth nrc bad and her stomach's out of plumb and her mouth smells like a slaver's main anrt if vnu offer her a chew of good navy plug to freshen It oop she's Insoolted. " i n.. v. ' Tho nlil man' yan weemen ium " stamped down the bridge, peered ahead and astern, sang out something to the lookout and returned to tho window. "Docs a woman know anything, any how," he continued. "She thinks she knows It all, and banks on It. and when things don't go right she blames some mn who didn't do what she told him. And she's always ready to tell him what to do. and how to do It. and when to do It Joost as If she knew. Did jou ever noticn . wtln irl. ioost old noughito go.jut and play-how sho tells her Iqetle kojhfcr Uiat he" moost do this, and he moost not do that, and this was wrong, andithat'waw not right? S,he don't know arptblagrnbout It nv mnre than the lectio boy! It's an In- tlnct-joost' h0 am:.;M;:rrfkea. kitten growl and It' ovcrf bonelNow, nobody wants that bono but me Kitten but It takes her back to the -wilderness h thinks the whole wide world Is con- sDlrlnsr-toT ob her of It.1 amV'she thjnks h. . 'rnrlnr other anlmalB away. Same wv with the leotle lrl.iiShe"''gets at from the Mine 'way back. when hweemio, .wjre bosses', and men sawed wood I mean they said uothluB. And-soihe beulns.pceacblos, when sho .learns to speak, and she never stops no' never. She 'never stops. Young man. ;dmYt yolKgel married. Wben a man gets married ' ho 'not only binds himself to support .another ' person, -but to-, consult that person about everything as to what he does, what ho wears, where he goes. Whom he knows, and what money he spends. Yah men aro d m fools to get married." I thought of brown-oyes-and-dlmples, and smiled pityingly. He saw the smile In the light from tho blnnaclo anu I naateneu to speak. "Must have had a hard time, sir, In your married life." "My married life? Oh, no. I've had most kinds of hard luck, but pot' that. Still, I came near it 'bput yqur4 age. too, or a lcetle older." I was Interested and expressed my inter est. He visited 'both ends of the' bridge, looked at the com pa as amidships to see that I was on my course, and leaned-hls elbow on the sash. "About your age I went to sea with n full crew" of married men and' their wives alone with them. That cured mo. I had, a girl at the time daughter of n Liverpool grocer good girl, too, as girls go and sho was to wait Joost one voyage, till I bad saved enough to stock a lectle homo for her. I had a master's certificate, but had never commanded a ship, all I hoped for was a chief mate's berth and I was goln' to save- my money and marry that girl nnd bo a happy man. I did not knqw. nut I learned that the ship Hyderabad, loading "for Singapore, wanted a skipper and I struck for tho Job. Then r knew why she wanted a skipper wanted him bad and couldn't get him, Liverpool was full of skippers lookln' for ships to sail and I was the only man who was willing to try that ship. That's because I was young and goln' to be married. You see. her owner was a young man. too. nnd religious and he read his biblo steady find that bible told him that It wb not good for man to bo alone and he figured that It meant that he ought to have a woman 'long with him. so what docs he do but put a new forrad houses In the first of his ships that come homo and sink it down to tho 'tween deck. That made two stories, with a winding stairway. Down below was a dining room with a table, and chairs, and a pantry and a laundry room, where the weemen could wash clothes and dishes. He knew some thing about weemen folks, or ho wouldn't have thought of tho laundry. Above was the fo'castle proper Just two strings o' two-bunk rooms with a door and a window to each. Oh that was a tine fo'castle. Then that man gave out that only mar ried sailors could sign In his ships and their wives must go to sea with them. I thought that was all right for roe, too. and after I'd got the berth I wanted to splice my girl and take her along, but her old dad wouldn't hear of It. He said to wait until the floating asylum got back and if I was still alive and not crazy I could have her. So. my girl stayed home. Now, I wasn't so far gone that I didn't have sense to ship two Yankee mates buckos of the "vorst kind Know what a Yankee bucko Is? No? Sign out'o' New York this fall and you'll know. He's a cross between a prlicftghter and a loco motive. I got those two mates aboard In the dock 'fore the crew came. One was Illack Dunkherst o' Cape Cod. I shipped him chief mate. T'other was "Mister" Johnson o' noston, Mister was his first nsrao, he said, and he never had any other. Both had bad records and reputa- tlons and neither had a conscience, as far as I cvuld bee. Hut they were the men I needed In that ship and I didn't care. They both said they had wives ashore nnd wanted to bring 'em along, but I knew better and wouldn't have It. Wasn't a specially moral man myself, but I didn't want to stand alone, the only bachelor In the ship. Must have been 3,000 people on the quay to see us haul out Into the stream. All Liverpool was talkln' about the honeymoon ship and while I tallied off the crew six teen couples at the capstan that lunatic of an owner stood on the poop, proud as Qllly-bc-dam, bowing and scraping to the crowd ashore Now. I said I wasn't a specially moral man, as men go, but I was too moral to countenance that crowd of brides at the capstan. Three or four old girls, who looked like ex-barmalds, might have been lawfully married to the men beside them, but the rest were cruisers from Waterloo road and the dance halls of I'aradlse street. I hadn't nlcksd the crew the crimps did that for the owner. And, on the whole, they'd given us a pretty good crowd o' men, but the wocmcn Oh, Lord! After all, I was glad my girl wasn't along. Well, we cast off and began warping down through the docks with the big hydraulic capstans they have there, and, as tho two mates were competent, I went be low with tho owner to settle up affairs and tho crowd nsborc followed along the eea nail. Down below, I knew by the sounds that we had got to a broken-down capstan and would have to use our own amidships. We were warping stern first and I heard Mr. Johnson sing out to some one ashore to make fast tho stern line and to the men for'ard to heave away the capstan lively; then I heard the biggest hullabaloo I ever hcard-a wooman screamln' and 3.000 peo ple ashore yellin' and that second mate o mine shouting as loud as he could to "heave away, my bullies, and clear this wooman. We ran on deck. Now, this Is what had happened. She was a Nova Scotia built ship, with a low poop and a cabin trunk with alleys. The poop rail wae about as high as your middle and thPr was a chock for tho stern line on the taffrall and a pair of small timber- heads like our lake schooners nave on mc poop rail Just at the forrard corner of the house. You see, the stern line would not lead from the chock on the taffrall to the canstan amidships without chafing the house, so Mr. Johnson had thrown the bight over the timber-heads on the rail anti tnat would make the line lead etantlngly through the alley from the Inboard corner aft to the outboard corner forrard. Now, there was a woman standing In that alley swappln bllllngsijate with somo one ashore and' as' Mr. Johnson sang out to "heave away" he kicked the line close to her heels nnd up. It came, taut, to a level with the rail and ll lifted that wooman's clothes' with It and squeezed her tight. Then ns tho men hove It In it began to saw and saw and saw, till it's a wonder that wooman wasn't cut In two. Oh, how she yelled, while that wet, six-Inch hawser ground past her and dragged her tighter Into tho angle, and all this tlmo Mr. Dunkherst on the forecastle deck was lookln' every way but aft. pretendln' not to see, and Mr. Johnson was slngln' out to "heave away and clear this wooman." He was grlnnln' like a Cheshire cat when I got on dejek and made em surge-") the line. Then she got clear of It, still yellin', and ran down tho cabin stairs; -Sba-wss a shocking spectacle. That line had carried away all 'midship fasten Ings and everything came down by the run iwhr.ntthxj pressure, (was off. I sent some .Wet Wen' down&iith her duds and they fixed her up. That 'was the first trouble, but in two minutes Mr. Johnson had to lick the woo ninn's man, who had been Torrard with the mate and had Joost got? aft.. Now an English, 'nbld seaman". Is handy with his flsts bit.a-'Yankeo second mate la a bad proposition and mighty handy with a be layln,"P"lrf, so about' the time tho wooman got rigged out ber man was ready for the ihosplinrimd I sent 'cm both to their state- roolli torrccuperate. Then I thought I d better apt' reprimand Mr. Johnson, At the dock head I got rid of the owner, then we fdok a tug and towed to sea and were well outside the three-mile line before tho watches were set for the night. Now, you know- that under English law a ship cap tain is a magistrate on the high seas, with power to perform the marriage ceremony, I had never seen anyono married, but I ranged 'cm along the deck after the mates had picked tho watches and had each man tako hold of his woman's hand, so thrre'd be no mistake; then I read 'em the ship's articles, then I swore 'em on the bible, then I" read off tbe men's names the whole slx-teen-;-and said 'Do you take this "woman for your wife?" and they answered "Yes, sir," one after the other. Then-1 said, "Do you weemen I don't know your names takes the man who has hold of your hand for your.husbandj" And they all answered "Yes," fo I called 'em man and wife and sent tho watch below. I have since learned that -the marriage was legal. Dut all I wanted at tho- tlmo was to make them think ho. t ' I had a notion that with all hands mar rled. and one man licked at the start things might go along smooth for n while, but In the. morning a woman a good-loklng young woman, sho ,was came aft and wanted a divorce said she wouldn't bide with a man that went to bed with a pipe In his mouth: said that as far 'as she could Judge, the only, difference 'tween a sailor and a hog was that one made up his bed with his nqse and t'other with his fcot. I reasoned with her told her that sailors made up their beds after they turned In, and smoked themselves to sleep, but she wouldn't be ljeve mo. 1 sent for her man, a husky young fellow named Jim something . and Jim came gTtnnln'. He Baid a divorce would please him very much, as he was goln' through the world for the last time. and. although he expeoted , he wanted It after death. I Jawed 'em both a little and sent 'em forrard. nut next watch Jim came on deck with his eyes nearly scratched out, and bis wife's were closed tight and black as your hat, and sho seemed proud of 'cm so proud that I hoped she'd stick to the man that gave em; and ho she might, for that's their nature, young man, "but the rest got to takln' sides, and. for a whllo there was to pay and no pitch hot forrard. A big Liverpool Irishman got too sympathetic for the woman, and Jim slugged him; then Mr. Johnson took a hand and licked 'em both, but Jim's wife and her woman friends did him up, and he came aft Joost able to see. So I had to separate this couple. I called all hands for witnesses, put 'em through somo mummery, swore m clear o' one another, and pronounced them two, Then I entered the Job In tho log, and as the wooman was a grass widow now with no husband to protect her, I gave her a state room aft, with the run o' the forrard cabin and poop, Jim was much obliged to me and would go 'round the deck smiling, he was so happy, and he and the young wooman would pass without speaktn'. nut after a few days I noticed her watchin him more than I thought he deserved, and concluded she was coming 'round. Jim paid no Attention, and that seemed to worry her. She sneaked aft next time he took tbe wheel,- and sat down behind him on the grating, and I moved 'round where could see them and not be seen myself. "Fine day." she said; but Jim dldn' hear. "How fast be we goln' now, Jim?" sh said next, and Jim looked aloft and said nothing-.' "Jim!" sua said. cln. and still Jim By A organ Robertson dldnt hear Then she got a pin out of her dress ind reached softly toward Jim and Jabbed him In the leg. He let a horrible yell out o' him that woke the watch below for they 11 turned out. He let go the wheel, and, till yelling, rolled 'round the deck with his hand on the sore spot. "Oh, my good Lord Ood," he howled. "Oh. I'll die, I'll die!" I ran aft in fact, all hands were comln', and tbe young wootsan, very white in the face and scared, ran forrard t'other side. 1 was mad clean through, and I lifted Jim on the toe o' my boot and made him take the wheel and shut up; then I caught the young wooman and told her It she ever talked to the man at the wheel again I'd put her 'fore the mast. So she let Jim alone after that. Dut that was only one thing. There was a scrap or a halr-pullln' most every meal time forrard, and I could only pre tend not to hear it, and wish that damn fool owner was along to regulate 'em. But I wouldn't have a row on deck, to break up the w-atch on duty, and I told my two bucko mates to stop tho first signs o' trouble, even though they had to use force. Now, that was dangerous license to give such fellows, for they'd hit a wooman as quick as a man. The steward was a mild-mannered old codgor, who stuttered badly, and as he was aft most o' the time ho didn't set well acquainted forrard. One evening, at supper time, a big, strapping woman met him near the main hatch aud sold: I say, cheward, cau ye gimme some He?' Now, she may have wanted coal oil for the lamp down forrard. but tho steward didn't know but what she wanted some of tho olive oil he had In his basket, so ne saia: "Wha-what-wha-what k-k-k-klnd do you want : u-d-d-d-on't ye m-m-m-ml-ml-mlke gyme o me, ye f-t-f-four-lced old b-h b-bumble bee," she said, squarln' up to mm. "itrm a lydy. hi ham "J-J-J-Just tell me wh-wh-wha-what you want," said the old man, backing off, but sho followed and smashed him on tho nose, ana tne cabin supper went Into the scud pcrs. You see, the woman stuttered, too, wnen sne got worked up. and she thoucht me steward Knew it and was mockln' her. well, along came Mr. Dunkherst from forrard, Joost as the big wooman's husband came from the wheel, and the mate cot between the wojman and tho steward, but sho wa3 encouraged by the sight of her man and she soaked the mate 'tween the eyes. Tnen he knocked her down and she lay klckln' on the deck, squallln' bloody murder, and her husband went for the mate. Then all hands came out o' the fore castle and the second mate and I ran forrard ,and pretty soon there was n gen eral, all-round, catch-as-catch-can cotillion on that deck. Every one was In It but the man at tho wheel, and while the men, to the last one, went for the mates, the weemen sailed Into me. The mates got belayln' pine, but they were free for all and the men got 'em, too. Now, fifteen able seamen can take the tar out of any two buckoes alive and sixteen weemen can takf tho good intentions out of any skipper, though I don't know to this day what they hid against me. I thought I was flghtln' for my life and when I got clear o' them and aft to the cabin I was scratched and bitten and bleedln' and had hardly a rag o' clothes left on me. I saw the two mates layln quiet on the deck and the men stand- in' over 'em waltln for one to move, so I went below and got my pistol. Tho weemen saw me rome out with It and charged aft, but I covered 'em and swore I'd shoot the first one that made a break an'd they stopped, but I got a tongue lashln' that I'll never forget. They called me all the names that a mad wooman can .think of nnd de manded to be put ashore. Well. I considered that It was the only thing to do. Even though the mates were not dead, they'd have no more Influence or authority over tho crew, and there was likely to bo worse trouble ahead If I went on. So I made a condition of it. I sato that if they'd promise to behave and keep off the deck I'd run back and land 'em. And I did. I put Into Cardiff and hanaeu the whole lot over to the police and sent the mates to the hospital. Then I wired to the owner to send another, skipper or permission to go on without weemen. He did the first nnd I went back to Liverpool. "And what did they do to the crew, .Mr. Decker?" I asked, after a moment's si lence. Let 'em eo. weemen and all. me mates got well. Yon can lick a bucko, but he's hard to kill." "But that voyage couldn't have made you sour so on womankind, sir." "Partly." he answered, siowiy, yes, u was that voyage." But your girl didn't she show up diner- ent from that crowd?" "Mv clrl." he answered. looking away Into the night. "My girl had eloped with another man before I got Into Cardiff." I said no more, for I could think or nothing to say. but I knew now what had embittered him. Ho began pacing the bridge, and so continued until midnight, while I. dcenly sorry for him. and glad that I knew a brown-eyed, dimpled girl so different from those he had met. spent tho time thinking of her and wondering what she was doing that eventng. I have since learned; she' was getting married. IIB.VT Sl'IM'LlUn UY THE CITY. Colli Weather Toim1 for SlliUnniiu-jr nenilliiK. An innovation In municipal ownership is soon to bo launched at Goshen, Ind. Tho city council proposes to furnish heat to Its citizens n addition to water ana ngms. The plan is to furnish hot water heat from the municipal water works plant. This system has been tested and found success ful In London, England, and also to somo extent by private companies in the United states, but never before has a municipality undertaken such a rlan. It was In 1S"4 that ha oucstion nroae of either increasing tne size of Goshen's flro department or else constructing a municipal water works plant on a small scale for flro protection only. There had been a number of big losses from fires and In those days the fire depaUmcnt facilities of the smaller towns and cities were usually Inadequate. The outfit here consisted of a hand-pumplas engine, two hose carts and a hook and ladder device. A public meeting was held, It was largely attended and the enthuslnsm was marked. It was decided that the city should put In a water works system as suggested, and a resolution to that effect was sent to the council, and soon the work was begun. Tho system Installed would now, twenty-five years later, be considered very crude, but It answered the purposes of that day. The main pipes which were laid were of wocd. They were mado to connect with a canal, and to force the supply of water through them the city purchased pumps and a largs wheel for water power. The system, when completed, cost tho city $9,000 and It was found that bcaldes filling the needs for which It was particularly constructed that it would admit of still furthor extension with but little extra cost. Following Its completion a public test of the system was made to the satisfaction of the citizens. From this beginning later developed the Installing of steam power so as to allow the supply of water for private consumption. Next came the addition of artesian wells, and U UU ft (wr ftouae with a complete plant w-as erected. Today the system In cludes nearly twenty-one mllce of street mains, 160 fire hydrants and twelve public watering troughs. The power station equip ment comprises a standplpe of 265,000 gal lons capacity, one pump with a capacity of 2,000,000 gallons for every twenty-four hours and two pumps of 1,000,000 gallons capacity each and four boilers of 400-horse power. From the plant there Is an annual Income of nearly 7,500 from private con sumers. The Installing of a municipal hot-water plant Is now In the hands of the water and lighting committee, which Is so success fully managing the municipal plauts al ready In operation. In their first report to tho city council they stated that they had Information to tho effect that the ex haust from the city power station would supply, without cost, all the heat required for heating the water for from 40,000 to 50,000 squaic feet of radiation. One esti mate Is that It will hat from 70,000 to SO.000 feet. In order to be safely conserva tive, they go on to assume that the ex haust will supply heat for only 25,000 square feet. The cost of furnishing the heat for 125,000 square feet would be, an nually, $7,600 for heat and JS76 for power to circulate the water. It Is figured that fifty pounds of coal will supply heat for one squa.e foot of radiation surface for one year. Computing coal at $3 a ton, this amounts to 7V4 cents per square foot of radiation per year. The figures, J7.60O per annum, represents this amount as applied to 100,000 square feet, the other 25,000 feet, It will be remembered, coming from the exhaust pipe of tho plant which the city now owns. Thus a waste product Is made a source of profit. For circulating the water for 125.000 square feet twenty-horse power Is required, which will consumo five pounds of coal per hour, which, for 160 days, which Is the average number of days that heat Is required in a year, makes the cost In this regard 1576. The total cost, therefore, of operating this system for a year in Goshen would be 18,076. At the rate of 15 cents per square foot to consumers the Income from 125,000 square feet would be $18,760. This, It will be seen, Is $10,674 in excess of the operating expenses. It Is assumed that the full 125,000 feet would be taken by consumers annually after the fifth year, at least. Forty thousand feet should be taken the first year, tho commit tee estimates. The cost of putting In a system which will furnish 125,000 square feet of radia tion would be n little less than $10,000. This Includes the cost of laying all the maius. Assuming that 30,000 feet of radia tion would be taken the first year. 50.000 the second year, 75.000 the third year, 100,- vuu tne rourtn year and 125,000 the fifth year by consumers, the revenue over ex penses for the first live years would be $20,024. In the expenses Is Included the cost of Interest at $3,000 annually. If no payment Is made on the principal of the debt for the first five years. Goshen also proposes to heat Its public buildings with cot water. A l'OI.LOWEIl OF TOLSTOI. Yonnc .Irrnryitimi I'refcru Povcrtr to Ills Father's Minimis. The eccentricities of a young millionaire follower of the teachings of Count Tolstoi are vastly puzzling the good people of the village of Woodbrldge. N. J. With practically unlimited means at his command, George Ruddy, Jr.. son of one of the. richest men in the state of New Jersey and a college graduato who has enjoyed the advantages of foreign travel, prefers the life of the humblest toller. Clad In blue Jeans and cowhide boots he literally wrests his livelihood from tbe unwilling soli of a tiny farm, the smallest and most, worthless corner of his father's, vast estate. What makes the case the more remark able la that Ruddy's wife, a young and beautiful woman, delicately nurtured and highly accomplished Is fully In accord with his sociological vlows and enthusiastically shares the hardships of the life to which he has devoted himself. Ruddy and bis young wife believe that tbelr stony little farm Is nil that they are morally entitled to, and that to take more would be to rob some less fortunato individuals of what Is their rightful due. Ruddy, who Is now 30 years old, is the only son of George Ruddy, the owner of vast clay beds from which he has drawn a great fortune. As a lad George showed a disinclination to associate with boys of his own social rank and preferred to spend his time among the children of the poor, with whom ho shared his pocket money. From college the young man graduated with high honors, having particularly distinguished himself In G.-cek and music. On his return homo his father wished him to enter his office and gather experience to take entire charge of his business. This the young man refused to dp, declaring that he believed the whole property should be dl vlded among his employes. In spite of his father's protest ho Insisted on driving one of the clay wagons for a common laborer's wages. Soon after attaining his majority Ruddy married Mildred Barnard, the daughter of one of the richest men In Woodbrldge, and his father had for a time hopes that his marriage might change his social theories. His .bride was fond of gaiety, and the hUB band politely refused to take part In any of the festivities of the neighborhood. As a result of this he became estranged from his father. One day the young man appeared as driver of the village watering cart as an employe of the township. This was more than tho prld of his young wife could bear and she obtained a separation, which was followed by a divorce. Ruddy continued his mode of life until two years ago, when he met a highly cul tured young woman who shared his views They were married and went to llvo In New York. Recently Ruddy's father made, over turcs for conciliation and used ovcry pur suasion to Induce his son and his wife to come and share with him the big house In Woodbrldge. The son refused. All he would accept at his father's hands was the tiny farm, on which he and t'.i wife now llvr. There he tolls all day, only coming oceaslrnally Into the village to get his mall and trade his farm produce. According to nls philosophical creed pov erty Is the only Incentive to Intellectual effort. IIAimiMA.V. COUNTUY C.BNTLEMAN Mnntcr of One of the Flnrst Landed Estate In America. Edward H. Harriman is" now the proprle tor of on of the largest 'and most magnlfi cont landed estates In America. "Within llttlo more than one hour's ride from New York City, says the New ork Herald, thl busy, bustling man of affairs has acquired In tho heart of Orange and Rockland coun ties a demesne worthy of an old world dukedom. Deeds w-ere signed yesterday for 2,300 acres, for which Mr. Harriman paid In cash $115,000. This was only a single parcel cf land and a comparatively small one, but It was the transaction which assures to Mr. Harriman a continuous stretch of property aggregating 20.000 acres and extending from the village of Central Valley right down to tho northern boundaries of the Tuxedo res ervation. This vast acreage represents the railroad magnate's holdings In Orange county only. In Rockland county he owns already almost up to tho Havorstraw line. A single owner now remains, with whom Mr. Harriman Is negotiating for k small parcel In the Tuzedo direction. Once he has acquired that tract he will be the un disputed owner of practically all the prop erty east and west of Tuxedo park for seven miles and extending back over the mountains Into Rockland county, nearly twelve miles further. It Is not Improbable that the famous es tates of John D. and William Rockefeller, on the Hudson, have cost more money, but In their actual .acreage they would both be swallowed up In Mr. Harrlman's wooded kingdom, and the great Havemeyer estate at Mahwah, N. J., and several others might be thrown In for good measure. Mr. Harriman has long entertained the ambition to become one of tbe largest land owners In the east. Toward that end he has been steadily working since 1S96, when he paid to tho Parrott Iron Works company $52,500 for 2.S30 acres of land near Arden station, on the Erie railroad. This was his first ex tensive purchase of Orange county real estate. On that tract he established Arden Farms, his present country seat. His comfortable, but thoroughly unos tentatious house stands on the summit of one of his loftiest hills, commanding a superb view of the Ramapo valley. The stables and all the buildings are in keeping with tho dwelling spacious, airy and com fortable, but by no means luxurious. Mr. Harrlman's tastes are simple. He shrinks from anything savoring of lavish display. He sincerely loves the untamed grandeur of Nature, as It Is soen In the mountain fastnesses that guard his rural retreat, and whatever he may propose for the future of his princely domain It Is safe to predict that the beauties with which Nature has stamped Its every mile will not be sacrificed to any utilitarian or sordid purpose. At Arden Farms Mr. Harriman finds rest from the cares of his stupendous business Interests nnd curccase from tho brain fag of stock corners and other Wall street snares. Ho and Mrs. Harriman are gen erous entertainers. Last summer they built a perfectly equipped camp on one of the most pictur esque spots of their little empire of rocks and rills and there, closo to nature's heart, many of their friends passed the most de lightful weeks of a rare vacation, hunting, fishing and lolling at their ease. For, be It known, Mr. Harriman need not go off his own preserves for all the sport be and his friends may c.-arf,. Game fish dart through the waters of his brooks and lakes and big game prowls In the timber of bis broad acres. For contiguous lands since purchased ths Dodson file In the Orange county clerk's office shows that Mr. Harriman has paid a consideration of $375,000. This does not even approximate tho actual cost, however, as manv deeds have been filed wherein tbe only consideration stated Is "one dollar." In many other cases Mr. Harriman. pur suing the same tactics as those employed by Mr. Rockefeller near Irvlngton and Tarry- town, has bought out small business es tabllshments at liberal figures In and around Southflelds In order to secure title to the land. At such times he has won the good will of his less favored neighbors by dUtrlbut lng among them gratuitously the stock In trade of such small stores as he has pur chased because he wanted the ground on which they stood. Tuxedo lake Is beautiful. It Is the pride or tne aristocratic cottagers and club mem bcrs, who build their summer eyries on the cliffs high above Its placid surface. On Mr. Harrlman's estate are no less than three such mountain lakes, each of them larger and not a whit less bountifully en dowed by nature. It may well be doubted whether the en ergetlc chairman of the Union Pacific direc torate himself knows the exact acreage of his Orange and Rockland county holdings, but careful estimates place his contiguous Orange county territory at nearly 20,000 acres, or about thirty square miles. Gauged by area alone. In comparison with these figures, the Westchester estates of the Rockefellers, the New Jersey estate of the Havemeyers and. Indeed, many of the great landed estates of tbe old world sink almost Into insignificance. WAKING UP AN OPKn.VTOn. MenNage Sent Ela;)t Tkouannd Mllea to Rouse the Sleeper. Out among the beautiful green groves of Northampton lives Dr. C. H. Crosby, who once was the champion telegraph operator of America, relates the Boston Globe. He Is an M. D., with a large practice, a mem ber of two or three clubs and a prominent secret society man, who has, quite out lived the days when the "key" was his constant companion. Once In a while, however, of an evening when cigars are lit and the company is of tho right order, he can be induced to tell a good story. Perhaps tbe rarest of the lot, one that has never been printed, al though lots of them have found their way about, is about the time when tho French cable people telegraphed 8,000 miles to have him waked up when he was asleep In the next room, not twenty feet away from the operator who received the message. Tho French line from this country to France was tho second of the transatlantic cables. The line stretched from Duxbury by way of Newfoundland to Brest, In France. Dr. Crosby was tho responsible night man in the lookout at Duxbury, It was a night In October and the future disciple of Galen had taken his usual sta tion at his key. Betweeu the hours of & and 1, when tbe foreign news known In those days at Rcuter's cablegrams, used to come over the wires, there was usually very little doing. To sleep at his post was death or equivalent to It and this he welt knew, but the winds of autumn howling around the lonely little house crooned a melody that reminded blm .of his mother's lullabies and he fell forward on the table and was soon past two continents In his dreams. This happened, on his own recol lection, and he Is the only witness, about S;30. At 0 o'clock the New York office called him. They had a private message for transmission. "Tick," went the little tormentor under bis nose, but the operator heard It cot After hammcrlns away In vain for several minutes the New York operator gave It up and thought a minute. There was hut one way out of it. The receiving end of the line was in the next room to that of the missing operator, and there was a man In charge who could undoubtedly tell what wa wrong. To reach him an inquiry would have to be sent tbe whole length of the company's circuit, a matter of 8,000 miles or so. So calling up North Sydney at Cap Breton be began his task. From Cape Breton the inquiry was flashed to Heart's Content, on the bleak coast of Newfoundland, thence across the Atlantic ocean to Valentla on the southwest coast of Ireland, and so across the English Channel to Brest. From the end of the route It was doubled back to St. Pierre et Mlqurlon. and so slanted down to Duxbury. The whole matter took only about fifteen minutes. At about twenty minutes past 9 the man In charge of the French end of the wire, whose table was not more than twenty feet from the sleeping operator In tbe next room, began to get Intelligence. He In a few seconds had recorded this somewhat sur prising message- "Go Into the next room and wake the man there," Crosby was aroused at once and the po sition explained to him, when he picked up his key and the business of two hemispheres was resumed again. Keep your system In perfect order And ycu will have health, even In the mist sickly seasons. The occasional use of Prickly Ash Bitters will insure vigor aid regularity in all tbe vltul organs. HERE ARE A. FEW OF THE Timely Articles By Eminent Writers that have appeared in The Twentieth Century farmer during the first six months of 1901. "What the Government Has Done for the Farmer," 8ec retar.v of Agriculture, JAMES WILtiOii. "The Atlvauee Made in the Study of Insects," Prof. LAW KENCE 1MU'EK, State Entomologist of Nebraska, 'Some Leading Features of Kansas Agriculture," F. D. CUBUItX, Secretary of the Kansas State Board of Ag riculture. "Why Lire Stock Men Oppose the Grout Bill," J. W. SPIUNGER, President of the National Live Stock A sociation. "Arguments in Favor of the Grout Bill," J. B. RU8HTON, Ex-President of the Nebraska Dairymen's Association. "New Department of Agriculture in Iowa," G. H. VAN HOUTEN, Secretary of the Iowa State Board of Ag riculture. 'Review of the Last Century in Dairying," Prof. D. H. OTIS of the Kansas Experiment Station. "Redeeming the Semi-Arid Plains," C. S. HARRISON, President of the Nebraska Park and Forest Association. "Pertinent Facts About Seed Corn," N. J. HARRIS, Sec retary of the Iowa Seed Corn Breeders' Assocaition. "Question of Feeds for the Dairy Farmer," E. A. BUR NETT, Animal Husbandman of the Nebraska Experi ment Station. "Proper Care and Treatment of the Soil." R. W. THATCH ER, Assistant Chemist of the Nebraska Experiment Sta tion. ' , "History of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture," Ex Gov. ROBERT W. FURNAS, Present Secretary and First President 6f the Board. "Irrigation and Farming," GEORGE H. MAXWELL, E ecutivve Chairman of the National Irrigation Associa tion. "Making Winter Wheat Hardy," T. L. LYON, Assistant Director of Nebraska Experiment Station. Articles on Soil Culture and Conserving the Moisture in the Semi-Arid West, H. W. CAMBEL.L Special Articles each week, JAMES ATKINSON, of the Iowa Experiment Station at Ames. Letters of Travel FRANK G. CARPENTER. Other writers contributing to The Twentieth Century Farmer, are:, Chancellor E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS, of the University of Nebraska. Prof. CHARLES E. BESSEY, State Botanist of the Uni versity of Nebraska. R. M. ALLEN, President Standard Cattle Company. C. R. THOMAS, Secretary American Hereford Breeders1 Association. B. O. COWAN, Assistant Secretary American Shorthorm Breeders' Association. Prof. II. M. COTTjfeLL, Kansas Experiment Station. Dr. A. T. PETERS, Nebraska Experiment Station. Hon. J. STERLING MORTON, Former Secretary of Agrf. culture Father of Arbor Day. Prof. A. L. HAECKER, Nebraska Experiment Station. E. F. STEPHENS. President Nebraska Horticultural So ciety for Ave years. E. WniTCOMB, Friend, Nebraska, Supt. Bee Exhibit at Nebraska State Fair. O. II . BARNHILL, Shenandoah, Iowa, Secretary South western Iowa Horticultural Society. Women's Department conducted by Mrs. NELLIE HAWKS, of Friend, Neb. Veterinary Department in charge of one of the best veteri narians in the west. What other Agricultural papir can match this? Every week in the year for one dollar. Send you name on a postal for sample copy and club bing list. Twentieth Century farmer OMAHA. i i