TEACH PUBLIC TO FIGHT DISEASE.
By President Eliot ot Hsrverd.
llecent events have brought Into
strong lljtM.a new function of the
medical profession which In sur to
be amplified and. made more effective
In the near future. I mean the func
tion of teaching the whole popula
tion how dlseoses are caused and
communicated, and what nre the cor
rosjiondlng means of prevention.
The recent campaign against tuber
culosis In a good illustration of this
new function of the profession. To
discharge It well requires. In medical
PBOF. ELIOV.
men. the power of Interesting exposition, with
Illustration and moving exhortation. Obviously, the
function calls for disinterestedness and public spirit on
the part of the profession; but to this call It Is cer
tain that the profession will respond. It also calls
for some new adjustments and new functions In medical
schools, which should hereafter be careful to provide
means of popular exposition concerning water supplies,
foods, drinks, drugs, the parasitic causes or consequences
of disease In men, plants and animals, and the modes of
communication of all communicable diseases.
Many of the great discoveries of the future will come
through the co-operation of sympathetic groups of med
ical scientists representing different modes of attacking
the same problem. There will be a like necessity for
oo-operatlon between the clinician, the pathological an
atomist, the physiological chemist, and the bacteriologist.
The world has observed and will not forget that some
of the greatest contributors to the progress of medlclue
and surgery during the past thirty years have been not
physicians but naturalists and chemists.
THE SINS OF MEN.
By Mr.
Perhaps there never was a time when wom
an, the true woman, was so little under
stood. Men have a growing contempt for
women In these days, for their littleness, their
petty deceits, their unreliability, overlooking
the fact that they themselves are, In the main,
responsible for these defects In women of
which they so loudly complain.
The great, the natural aim of woman Is to
be pleasing to man; what man demands she gives. The
attributes he admires she cultivates. Women most
women respond readily to the best. They admire and
respect a man whose Ideal Is above pleasing them at
the expense of truth. That Is why 1 hold men to be,. In
a great measure, responsible for the shallowness and un
reliability of women.
Marriage means more than a housewife's thrift and
the rearing of children. It Is, or ought to be, a mar
riage of souls. If the Ideals of the husband be high, so
surely will his wife climb. There are no lovers like mar
ried lovers and no heaven upon earth like theirs.
If I were a man I think that, however 111 equipped I
might find myself In Intelligence and education, I should
FOREVER AND A DAY.
Little know or care .
If the blackbird on the bough
Is filling all the air
With his soft crescendo now ;
For she is gone away.
And when she went she took
The springtime in her look,
The pearhblow on her cheek.
The laughter from the brook,
The blue from out the May
And what she calls a week
Is forever and a day!
It's little thnt I mind
. How the blossoms, pink or white.
At every touch of wind
Fall a-trenibling with delight;
For in the leafy lnne.
Beneath the garden bough.
And through the silent house
One thing alone I seek.
Until she come again.
The May is not the Miy,
And what she calls a wee's
la forever and a day !
-T. 15. Aliirieh, in Atlantic.
GERSON'S VICTORY
S the two slowly climbed the
hill Gerson drew nearer to Miss
Graham's side. Their shoulders
jtouched, the man's breath warmed the
r jglw ciioek and again he asked her the
, j question.
1 1 "No," was the reply the one he ex
Ipected. Gerson stopped, turned about and
looked down upon the ocean and seat-
AMI SHE ANSWEHKD "VES."
ed himself on the grass. The girl re
mained standing, her white sunshade
poised a'ove her head, dividing her
glances lift ween the emerald ls!e In the
uzure sea ami the forlorn-looking buy
at her feet. I
"l'aul," s'ie said filially, "I'm taxing
your patience heartlessly, am I not?" .
"No, Kdith, you've been a most gra
cious, benevolent angel to me," Gerson
replied, gushingly. "Is mine not a great
lllierty to be ever near you? You have
shared your Joys with me you have
allowed me to serve you the best I
can. What more could a fellow want?"
I They were both silent again. Then
the man, his lips trembling, turned to
tbe girl.
MtfltV be began, "left put every-
la
Itflitf It
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not rest till I hod found what wns my own Individual
bit of work for .my country. 1 ask myself sometimes, Is
love of country dying out? Certainly it looks like It.
One hears young men sneering openly at the land that
gave them birth; (lml 1 113 actual amusement out of this
or that muddle that this or that government 1ms made.
I would ask those scoffers what they personally have
done for our brave country. If I were a man, and a
man In a position to make laws, every man should be a
soldier, and be trained In cuse of ne.-d to tight. Kvery
boys' school should have a rifle range. If this were done
we should have fewer men playing the fool lu ladies'
drawing rooms.
INNOCENT MEN
telling
guilty beyond all reasonable doubt ; and that under pres
sure either of threats of punishment on suggestions of
favor, the human mind often Is prone to falsely admit
guilt, or a supposed means of obtaining leniency. Yet
the ordinary sheriff, constable, police officer, or detective
ever Is ready to Ignore the wisdom of master minds, or
to regard each cuse as an exception to the general rule;
and to accept slight suspicions as convincing proof. The
less color to the suspicion the greater the otlkial activity
to develop It Into Irrefutable proof of guilt. This blind
and unwarranted zeal prompts Judicial suspicion on all
confessions not affirmatively shown to be free and vol
untary. The methods used to obtain confessions vary with
the circumstances of each ease, the means at hand, the
Ingenuity of the officers, and the mental and moral char
acter of the prisoners. Although physical violence has
often been used as a persuading Influence, that feature
will not be considered at this time.
Coulson Keraahan.
THE NOVEL AND
He ought not to be given credit for all the excellencies
which may accompany its presentation, and he ought not
to suffer all of the humilities of its failure, for he Is
apt not to be fully responsible for either. But In a book
a man Is responsible for whot he puts Into it and for
thot which he leoves out.
thing else aside for the time and have
a complete understanding. Let's know
ourselves and each other. You care a
little for me, don't you?"
"I can't say that there are any se
crets," the girl answered. "I believe
your danger Is past."
"I know the habit you mean," Ger
son answered. His vyos shone with n
great light they were filled with fires
of love, with fearlessness, with man
hood. "I have suspected that It was this
that has kept us from each other."
Gerson went on. "Hut. Kdith dear, the
old serpent Is quite dead. I have taken
lihu by the throat and strangled him.
It has been a mighty tight for me, but
I uiu ou top and the serpent is dead.
Edith, will you have me now?"
The girl's eyes were bright and shin
tng and her lips. were quivering, but
(die shook her head hut ever so gently.
"I know," Gerson breathed softly.
"I know what you meau. I'll bo pa
tient, but something seems to tell me
that it will all be revealed to you and
you will know the truth."
Miss Graham's eyes suddenly became
filled with abject terror. Her little
body trembled and her cheeks turned
ashen.
'T-aul! T'aul !" she gasped faintly.
"I feel I feel that something terrible
is about to happen. It's it's you!"
Swaying back and forth, his eyes
glittering and an odd, silly smile on his
lips, the man gazed steadfastly nt
something In the grass, just at his feet.
The girl, too, watched In fascinating
horror the thing In the grass.
Suddenly tfie uian, with a tremen
dous effort, shook his shoulders and in
a paroxysm of rage flung himself upon
the glittering, writhing serpent.. Like
a flash he had the thing wriggling and
squirming around his right arm and
his hand locked like steel beneath the
reptile's fangs. With one mighty fling
the w riggling ceased and Gerson let fall
the Inanimate body and pressed his heel
upon Its head.
A moment Inter the girl, sobbing pas
sionately, lay limp In the man's arms,
her head on his breast.
"Is It proven, dear?" he asked.
And she answered "Yes." Indian
apolis Sun.
Ilnril on a llrotvnlntc .linn.
Vleuxtemps, the famous violinist.
"used to tell the following story: When
crossing London bridge one day he was
suddenly brimhed aside by a wretched
tatterdemalion, who cliinlied th; p-ir-apet
and plungedout Into the river. The
foot passengers crowded a:vn; i I im
mediate!' to wntcli t!i u:ifi:-;un:iti
man as he rose to the surface, and lu
a trice some one shouted. "I'll bet he
drowns!"
"Two to one he'll swim its'ioiv," was
the answer. The rot of the p lies
liians joined in the betting.
Meantime Ylei:xt;':i:p : rush I c'o-.vii
to thy river haul;. ec:;re.l a v. a! eraian
and roved out to the re-rue. Just ;n
the boatman was about to ii-arh forth
to grasp the poor fellow, who by (his
time was floundering nb.uit in the wa
ter, having lost bis dclr i'or death,
the spectators above cried oat: "Leave
him alone! There' a bet 011 it!"
The oarsman drew hack Into the
boat, and the unfortunate wretch sunk
before their eyes.
There alwuys seems more excuse for
a man to beat a mule thun to w hip a
borse.
Any woman wbo stoops to marry sel
dom sts time to straighten up again
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FORCED TO ADMIT GUILT.
By John F. Qeetlng.
The application of th? term "sweat box" Is
not limited to any peculiar prison, apartment,
or cell, but that term, together lth that of
"sweating," when applied to police practices,
Indicates methods used illegally to obtain con
fessions from prisoners.
The judicial oxiierleuee of ages has demon
strated that each person . accused of crime
shoufd be presumed Innocent until proven
THE PLAY.
By Hall Calne, Author.
A novelist ought, first and foremost, to be
a man who can tell a story. Hut this Is per
haps the easiest qualification. If there Is
not some ethical vnlije to his works I fear Ills
force and power are not likely to become very
great. I am not now speaking of plays. In
a play a writer's work is so much what others
make it. Its charms lie so much In the repre
sentation of It that It Is not wholly his own.
CORN BREAD OF OLD TIMEt .
True Article C'nn Ho Made Only of
Meal Croanil In Old Wo).
The best corn meal In the world Is
made In Tennessee though the output
Is limited and not much of It reaches
the market where urbanltes dwell. The
pteam huhrstono has driven the water
mill almost Into desuetude only to be
la turn crowded out by the 'modern
roller mill. The ancient water mill
still lingers in remote sections and
mountain fastnesses where clear waters
flow through pebbly channels in sylvan
shades.
More than one of the Idenl mills mny
he found on Fighting creek, In Sevier
county; under the shadows of the liig
Smoky and near unto Sugnrland region,
where the untaxed juice of the corn
flows from modest and retiring stills.
There are many such mills In the
Fnaka region and in various sections
of middle Tennessee, where the with
ering blight of modern civilization, with
its canned goods and packing-house
meats, has not yet penetrated and
where one may
Listen to the wa term ill
Through the livelong day,
While the clicking of lis wheel
W cars the weary hours nway.
ISut they don't bring the meal to
town. The town-raised person's taste
Is too vitiated to appreciate It. When
he eats coruhrcatl at all with his oleo
margarine or canned soup he wants the
roller mill product, which suggested tin
Idea of s:ivdust breakfast food to i
liattle Creek Yankee. The right sort 01
cornbread Is made from nicaL groani!
on n slow running water mill from corn
that has been well dried, the little end
of the ear shelled off for the chickens
or pigs, the rotten grains carefully
eliminated and the corn run through a
fan mill.
Before being made Into brend the
meal Is sifted through a wire sieve 01
sifter, the meshes of which nre not to,
line. Then If good bread Is not pro
duced It Is the fault of the cook. The
use of sugar In making any form of
cornbread should be made a felony
There Is as much difference between
bread form properly ground meal and
the common meal of commerce us there
Is between a Smlthfleld Imin and a
packing-house ham. Nashville Ameri
can. Utile t.-.r 'liirUt.li i.lrlt.
I'p to the nge of V2 Turkish girls nr
as free nnd untramuieled as Kuropeni.
children, hut with her twelfth birth
d"y the f.ii'1 becomes a woman.' S!
n!o:s th "tchnrrhaff" and Joins that
silent Ki-tcrh'iod win nr. cond-'mmM t
!-.! the vi.vld darkly through a vcl
v i'.hoi.t h.ivl::;.' lost any of 1 1 1 - 1 1- nafn
11' le:l:vs t pari kdpate l:i I n gave
vft s.
'!: ;( U .! :n ."Siiy.
"lie's a re .-ul 1 r j : ':'- tra hit
'.Vhv. h ! a,! t 1 ! 1 vn ;.."
i,; ' !:' '.' I wa;-. i': a .vi: re that U
OWTMNl l i-..r."
"lie doisa'f. The only car fiat he'd
(:!, to buy Is Just a foot too long for
tin- ;-ar:;:;e l.-, built." (.'ieveland l'lalr
Healer.
-But," said Brlgii. !;;,. "If you were
mre the fellow who bent you lu the
saloon wa u pdlceman, why didn't
ou take his number?"
"Well," replied Luschman, "ler
hud had a number too many already,"
Philadelphia I 'reus.
Naturally a mau would rather part
bis hair tliaa part with It,
WOODEN 8HOE AN OUTLAW.
It. Iala Court Deride a (
ffnrpnaalnsr Intereat.
lai ancient and honorable rrocftn
stioe wcclvcd an unexpected blow Is
the ticlslon ef a St Louis magistrate
that a German reshlent of this city
trust cease wearing shoes made of tim
ber because a dweller In the same flat
con hi not sleep on account of the noise.
The law lu the caso seems se,mewhat
strained, whatever the equity and the
ethics may be. Wooden shoes are not
IllogHl and at ene time In the history
of St. Ixmls they beat n tattoo on the
city's pavements as their owners has
tened to their dally toll In the dim
morning hours. It was not the ryir of
the street cars that waked the later
Mumbcrer In those days, but a clatter
equally Insistent nnd penetrating.
The wooden shoe has n history. Mod
em civilization took Its first steps In
them. They encouraged and stood for
honesty c.f purpose. Nothing much
could be done on the sly In the days of
wooden shoes. Everything was above
!oiird. The eavesdropper and the n)ld
nlght highwayman were practically un
known. There could be 110 secret gath
erings to ple.t and conspire. Where two
men were gathered together or attempt
ed to gather evefylxnly In the block
knew It. Hid they nseend or descend
the stairs or rise from their chairs to
appropriate another pinch of snuff, the
entire household nnd the neighbors
were conscle.us of the fact.
Wooden shoes secured that publicity
so needful to the leading of bbuneles
lives thnt we now depend upon th
newspapers Tor. The outs)oken wood
en shoe thwarted those Intrigues thiv
break up families and made Impossl
ble expeditions that break up lien
roosts. It belonged with old-fnshlone
honesty and virtue, now much les
marked In these gumshoe days. It b
gone, never to return, but where It stll
survives here nnd there os a relic o'
the past It deserves the respect even 01
the magistracy. St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrn t.
LEGAL INFORMATION.
The effect of an official certificate of
approval of fire escapes Is held, In Bon
blight vs. Schoettler (C. C. A. 3d C), 1
L. It. A. (N. S. ) 1001, to lie conclusive
lu favor of the property owner, as
ngalnst civil liability to a person In
jnred on account of ulieged defects In
them.
t'tterlng n letter with a forged sig
nature for the purimse of falsely repre
senting the bearer to be n friend of the
writer, and giving him standing with
persons to whom it may be presented.
Is held In People vs. Aboel (N. Y.), 1
L. It. A. (N. S.) 730, to be forgery un
der the New York statute.
The owner of a tlneshlng machine
engine is held, in Martin vs. McCrary
(Tenn.), 1 L. It. A. (N. S.) 530, not to
have fulfilled his duty to guard against
tires by merely adopt lug a spark ar
rester In general use, where bo had
been In the habit of using an additional
upark arrester which he had allowed to
become out of order at the time the tire
occurred.
A railroad company is held, in I'ln
clnnatl. N. (). & T. I. It. Co. vs. South
Fork Coal Company (C. C. A. (1th C),
1 L. It. It. (N. S.) 533, to be llnblo for
sitting fire to lumber stacked with Its
-oiHent on Its right of way at the place
usually occupied hy lumber awaiting
transportation, although the lumber !n
question hud not been delivered to it
for that purpose.
The right to cancel a voluntary con
veyance of real estate, made to place It
beyond the reach of n judgment In an
anticipated action, is denied In Carson
vs. Bellies (Ky.), 1 L. It. A. (N. S.)
K!0", as against the heirs of the
grantee, although the threatened action
had no foundation In law, and the
grantee, upon being notified of the con
veyance, promised to reconvey on do.
uvind.
LIKES TALK OF AMERICANS.
HiiKllnli I'mier, Hcmnrr, Not AI1
to IllMlluKnlali What la Slanur.
Henry Arthur Jones has our support
In his eulogy of the American lan
guage. "American colloquial langnge,"
he says, "is racier than ours, has more
bite and sting and swarms with lusty
young Idioms struck off red hot with
vitality."
That Is the secret of the beauty of
American. It Is, to employ It for the
moment, a real, live tongue, hitting you
where you live, and all wool light
through. F.ngllsh sounds insipid and
tame after it, though to do us Justice,
we are gradually assimilating Ameri
can Idioms and working them Into the
fiibrlc of our speech. It Is becoming
quite common to hear eop!e say they
can not "stand for" n thing, when a
few years buck they would have said
simply "stand." One hears, too, of a
thing iM'lng a "soft proposition" or a
"tough proposition."
It seems to us that there Is more
minor In American colloquialisms. One
somehow feels that the man who In
vented them must have been a pleasant
fellow. The Ihigllsh colloquialism too
often suggests the public house. Ouo
should distinguish, however, between
the colloquialisms of America and Its
slung. The slang may lie a shade too
racy even for those who like the -ol-liiqulallsms.
We have known men wlto
liked to afreet the American Idiom la
their conversation' being as bullied hy
th: works of George Ade lis was An
drew Lang when reviewing that wrlt
r's "1'al.lcs in Shing." IhhIoii Globe,
Tin- lull Sal-u.
"How do you keep your husband
from going to the club?" Inquired the
bride who was Just emerging from the
honeymoon.
"Easy, replied the seasoned matron.
"I keep a (dub for liiiu ut home."
Cleveland Plain Healer.
I'.xpert.
Mrs. Willcy Hoes she know any
thing about bringing up children?
Mrs. Walley Sure. She's a club
wt.asn and uever bad any. Somes
vllle Journal
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Probably the most picturesque phase
f American railroad operations Is
found In the manner In which the
steam roads of the West battle with
the giant snowdrifts of th; mountain
itglons. This novel activity Is seen hi
Its most spectacular form or the higher
levels of the Hocky mountains. The
targest rotary suow plow hi the world
Is in service on thnt englnecrln;; mar
vel, the Moffat railroad In Colorado.
ud the manner In which It bores
through the great white bank that
block the steel-tracked highway has
solved one of the most perplexing prob
lems of oiieratlug a railroad more than
11,000 feet above the level of the sea.
In the early days of railroading In
the region beyond the Mississippi river
the familiar band shovel was the main
dependence for clearing the trucks, nnd
after every heavy Tall or "the beauti
ful" an army of men that Included ev
ery available employe of the road was
hurried to points where blockades
might bo expected. locomotives. In
sitings of two, three or four were also
burled against the drirts lu an effort
to dislodge tho troublesome masses of
icy crystals.
As a solution for this last-mentioned
makeshift some genius Invented the
push plow, a huge wedge-shaped struc
ture on wheels, which "bucks" the
drifts, impelled by the force of several
powerful locomotives behind It. and If
the snow barriers be not too heavy, can
force a pathway through the mass.
However, the fact that even the heavi
est suow plows ore ofttlmes baffled
by the drifts In tho mountains indi
cated thi necessity for a yet more pow
erful type of suow fighter, and thus In
time there was evolved the snow plow
known as the rotary, which has revolu
tionized the methods of fighting snow
find Is represented In the rolling stock
of every railroad that Is liable to feel
the grip of the western blizzard.
In the principle of Its operation the
rotary Is radically different from all
other designs of snow plows, for In
stead of being anything In the nature
of a scoop or shovel that shoves the
snow aside, Its chief .working mechan
ism consists of a monster wheel which
burrows through the snow, tossing the
more or less fleecy material In every
direction. The wheel or snow screw
IN OLD "LYCEUM" DAYS.
The golden days of the lecture plat
form are past. and. the lecture bnrenu
Is no longer tho nctlve feature of the
Intellectual life that It was fifty c.r
even twenty-five years ago. At one time
almost every town, Fast and West,
bad Its lecture course each winter.
Many were the adventures experienced
by the lecturers as they cnetrated the
provincial parts of the country to de
liver their messages of wisdom or
amusement. Sometimes a concert by the
Mendelssohn Quintet Club, or some
other musical organization, was sand
wiched lu between two lectures.
Thomas Ityan a member of the fam
ous quintet dull In "The Recollections
of nil Old Museum." tells of the recep
tion of a young woman lecturer In a
6mnll Wisconsin town.:
It wns n young men's society which
had summoned her, made up" ej" very
youthful inemliers. When she reached
tho station the entire association wns
lined up to meet her, and she was cere
moniously Introduced, then and there,
to each one. As the weather was ex
tremely cold, the process was an ordeal.
This over, the leader wiped his brow
and looked alsMit as If asking what to
do next. Miss Andrews suggested the
hotel. A one-horse sleigh was produc
ed ; the leader handed the lecturer In,
got In himself and offered her the reins.
She declined, saying he knew the horse
and way better than she. The young
man seemed relieved, nnd quite satis
fled that he had shown the guest of the
society every courtesy possible.
That evening the whole assoclniipi
again met nnd escorted tho lecturer to
the hall. The room wns packed.
On tho stage was an old-fashioned
settee with legs In the middle and at
each end. When Miss Andrews sat
down the affair tilted with her. A
large, heavily built clergyman came In
and seated himself on the other end.
L'p went the settee, and up went Miss
Andrews until her feet no longer touch
ed the floor. The audience giggled und
Miss Andrews laughed; there was noth
lug else to do.
The lecturer scanned the lions,?.
Foremost, leaning with folded arms
on the edge of the stage, sat a, young
man In a red flannel shirt who neve"
took his eyes off the lady on the plat
form. Finally tho reverend giant rose to In
troduce tho lecturer. This suddenly let
Miss Andrews' end of the settee do.wu
with a thud.
The clergyman was long-winded, and
the red-tihlrted young man became rest
less. At last he called out In Impatient
tones :
"Hry up, old mnnl Give the young
gal a chance!"
8 he Overillil It.
"My daughter bought that latest pop
ular piece o' music to-day," uid Mrs.
Nexdoro, "and she tiled It on our
piano."
"Yes," replied Mrs. Kne,x, "und It
was a wretched fit, waoa't it?" Phil
adelphia Ledger.
The only reason some men care to
succeed Is to be able to show their su
periority to tbelr enemies.
at the forward end of a rotary rescnv
bits the proiH'ller of a steamship or a
giant electric fan, although, of course,
It has many more blades than cither of
these.
The wheel of tho overago rotary
suow fighter Is from 8 to 1U feet In
diameter and consists of a scries of
hollow, cone-shaped steel scoops, each
equlpiH'd with a knlfe-llko piece of
metal. As tho wheel revolves nt high
speed, these blades Btrlke the snow
nnd Ice loosening It and throwing It
Into the scoops. The wheel proper Is
Inclosed in a metal hood, at the top of
which lit a square opening or funnel.
Hy the revolution of the wheel, the
snow caught up by tho scoops Is thrown
through this opening with great force,
and the funnel Is so shaped that the
spow Is hurled In an oblique direction
nnd caused to fall at a distance of from
r,0 to 100 feet from tho side of tho
track, according to the speed at which
the wheel Is being operated. Moreover,
tho hood Is Inclined luward, so that the
fulling snow docs not descend uon the
top of the rotary and bury the machine
lu a drift of Its own making,
The rotary plow, like the old-fashioned
tyie of push plow. Is propelled
by a couple of , powerful locomotives,
but the power for operating the great
propeller Is contained within tho plow
iNolf. This is supplied by on engine
somewhat resembling a marine engine,
but capable of developing almost as
much jHiwer os 11 locomotive. The ro
tary must withstand the force of push
ing engines behind, os well as counter
act the side motion of the great whir
ling wheel, and consequently the roof
nnd sides, as well its tho framework,
nre of metal, and the machinery is set
as near the ground as possible. In or
der to help "steady" this energetic me
chanical toiler. The weight of tho av
erage rotary, complete with tender for
fuel and water, Is more than 100 tons.
At the forward part of the plow Is tho
pilot house, wherein Is stationed tho
pilot who directs the operation of the
rotary and communicates the necessary
Instructions to tho engineers of the lo
c.miotlvcK In the rear.
A giant rotary can force Its way
through olmost any snow barriers at 0
speed of from four to six miles per
hour, as n minimum. The ponderous,
knlfe-nrnied wheel spins around at a
siwed of from 150 to 300 revolutions
HARRY K. THAW. MILLIONAIRE TRIED FOR MURDER.
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Types of pretty faces that flitted through the brain of the man whom
Jealousy finally drove to murder.
The question of Harry Kendull Thaw's mental condition and his conse
quent legal responsibility for some of Ills nets Is one that 1ms agitated the
minds of many persons since the news first flashed over the world that the
headstrong young mllloniilro had shot down Stanford White, the New York
architect. Was It anger or Insanity that governed Thaw's act on thut fatal
night when the gay throng of patrons at a New York roof garden were
Martled by the murder committed In their midst? This question was for
court and Jury to decide.
Kmeralil Dutlnif Hack to Solrmon.
In 1111 ancient cathedral of Genoa a
vase of Immense value has been pre
served for lido years. It Is cut from a
single emerald. Its principal diameter
U l'J'j Inches and its height Is
Inches. It Is kept under several locks,
the keys of which are lu different
hands; It Is rarely exhibited in public,
nnd then only by an order of iho 'sen
ate. When exhibited It Is suspended
u.'ound the neck of a priest by 11 cord,
and no one cist- Is allowed to touch It.
It Is asserted that this vnse Is one of
tho gifts which were inudu to Solomon
by the Queen of Shcba.
Willi Thank.
Notices to tho public are usually
modo with llttlo regard to politeness.
Tho wuyfarer Is likely to meet with
a warning or a caution couched In
strong but curt terms. "A Wanderer
is' r.
per minute, occordlng to the weight
and character of the snow and Ice en
countered. Close and continual watch-!
fulness Is necessary on the part of the:
pilot, for- the character of the snowj
mass encountered may change with
scarcely a moment's warning fromj
loosely drifted flakes to densely packed i
snow Intrusted with Ice, end mayhap
with Ice formations four or Ave Inches'
thick scattered through It Into somoi
IKUtlons of the vast snow coverlet the
rotary may plunge with Impunity at a
Ajieed of only 400 or at most UOO Teet
Iicr minute, while banks of sort suow
furmit a speed of say twelve miles per
hour. However, an Indicator In the
pilot bouse records every fluctuation In
the resistance offered by the snow bar
riers ami a pneumatic whistle enables
the pilot to quickly signal for any de
sired change of speed.
The snow depths at some of the high
er altitudes of the American Alps are
almost Incredible, but a big rotary,
working; like a herculean augur and
torsi 11 g asldo Its snow borings ilk
chips driven out of a fan blower In
a planing mill, could actually" burrow
to any depth If there were any way
to get rid of tho snow thus excavated.
The whole principle of the armored car;
with tho big wheel churning the snowi
lHfore It Is no simple that once It hadi
been devised railroad men wondered
that they had not hit upon the scheme
lor.g ago.
There are places where the work ot
the rotary plows In keeping; open the
trail for the Iron horses Is ably aug
mented, on tho principle of prevention,
by great suowshods stout fences or
wooden tunnels designed, to keep the
snow from drifting over the tracks
but it Is probable thnt had the effi
ciency of the modern rotary marvels
been ontlclpated. many railroads would
net have expended as much money as
they did some years ogo In construct
ing snowsheds. Thirty-two miles of,
snowsheds, costing $4 a foot, or nearly
$11,000,000 lu tho aggregate, represents
the price one transcontinental railroad
had to pay before It could successfully
operate its trains over the Kocky moun
tain division.
Nowadays tho rotarles cost something
like $10,000 each, but even at that price
they represent a great saving over
snowsheds which, aside from their first
cost, eat up thousands of dollars In re
pairs every year. Moreover, the ro
torles have been Instrumental In saving
countless lives not merely by carrying
aid and food to snow-bound trains and
snow-bound villages, but also by reduo
lug the number of casualties among
railroad men engaged In fighting the
snow. .Wnldon Fawcett In St Loulf
Globe-Heiuocrat
i
in Loudon," however, reiiorts one In
stance where tho regard of the passer
by Is taken for granted and Is sc.
knowiedged.
At the hospital Just opposite the en
trance to tho Fust India docks and the
Hlackwull Tunnel under the Thames
notice boards nre set up asking the
drivers, for the sake of tuoso who or
111 within, to walk their horses past the
building.
That U a common enough request,
but what gives it a peculiar Interest
hero Is that the carter, having com
piled or not with tho modest demand,
is confronted at the other corner of the
building by another board, saying,
"Thank you, driver."
It often happens that a man prides
himself on not being a hypocrite as an
excuse for saying disagreeable things
to his friends' faces.
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