i
Forty Pies a Minute Baked by Machine
Over Fifty-six Hundred Turned Out in a Day
Fifty thousand, six hundred pies In
each tweuty-four hours, or forty every
minute, is the astounding record of a
Pittsburg baker. Tho feat Is accom
plished with tho aid of a machine. It
'will bo advantageous to both the man-!
ufacturer and the consumer to tho
former becauso It will lessen the num
ber of operatives and the expenses of
conducting the business, and to the
latter becauso tho pies can bo bought
tar blow their cost at the present day.
Another claim Is that cleanliness Is j
assumed in tho manufacture and that
tho product Is an wholesome ns the
best "that mother used to make."
Two machines aro used by Mr. Lou
Is, the Inventor, in his process. In tho
The Machine by Which the Pies are Filled and Receive a Top Dressing of
Meringue.
ilrst tho crust la formed and baked
and in tho second tho filling is put In
and covered by a tempting layer of
meringue. Tho first machine is the
raoro interesting of tho two. Instead
of pio tins molds like waffle Irons aro
rused to form tho crust. They are
firmly attached to an endless chain
'stretched out horizontally tho full
length of tho machine. In tho lower
WONDERFUL SUN DIAL
MECHANISM SHOWS TIME AT FIF
TEEN PLACES.
Aiming to Reproduce Famous Time
piece at Glami8 Castle, Scotland,
Peter Hamilton of Baltimore Has
Far Outdone the Model He Selected.
Tho romantic and picturesque sun
dial Is coming to its own once more.
Dial making Is again an Industry re
veled In by members of the arts and
rafts cycle, says tho Los Angeles
Times.
It was In days when Interest ia sun
dials was lowest that Peter Hamilton
of Baltlmoro conceived and executed
the design for a dial unllko any other
of which wo have any knowledge and
"which is now ono of the attractions
. of the celebrated Druid Hill park in
that city.
This dial, beautiful from an archl-
v ivuiurm hiuuuihjiui, is uisu u iuiuuu-
"4t matlcal wonder, for it registers the
4.11UU ui iuiut;ii i-uuuua, uutu mr mu
tant from one another. From its fif
teen faces can bo read tho hours at
Itlo Janeiro, Sitka, Jeddo, Jerusalem,
Fernando Po, Capo Cod, Baltlmoro,
Pitcalrn's Island, Honolulu, Ipndon,
Cape Town and San Francisco. Tho
equatorial and polar planes, the latter
with the motto "Sine umbra nihil,"
make up the fifteen faces of this pe
culiar dial.
That he had constructed a wholly
original sun dial of which there is no
duplicate. Is a fact which surprised
Mr. Hamilton, for he believed while
constructing it that he was repro
ducing in essential points the famous
dial at Glamls castle, in Scotland,
which Is undoubtedly the finest in the
world.
There are over eight dials In all
on this famed timepiece, each of its
twenty-four facets having from three
to four dials each. This dial Is cer
tainly three centuries old, as It ap
pears In a print of the castle, behind
which It stands, previous to tho year
1600, and was named In Earl Patrick's
book of record of a date previous to
1695.
It was from a description of tho
Glamls sun dial, which Is over twen
tyone feet high and handsomely
carved that Mr. Hamilton drew the
plans for tho dial which now stands
in Druid Hill park. Never having seen
oven a photograph of tho Glamls dial,
Mr. Hamilton had only verbal descrip
tions to work upon and he concluded
that tho many faces of the Glamls dial
must speak the time at various points.
"But the Glamls dial tells only Scotland
time. Thus Mr. Hamilton's work Is
not a copy In any sense, but 'Is origi
nal with him.
It was In 1875 that Mr. Hamilton
-constructed his unique dial of sand--stone,
It stood In his yard for a num
ber of years. In 189? ho presented
It to the city of Baltimore. It was
first placed In one of tho smaller parks
and afterward removed to Druid Hill
park, near the Eutaw place entrance.
As time had begun to wear away some
of the Inscriptions, the park commis
sion recently spent $500 to cover the
Surface with bronzo plates and en
gravo them. This has been done un
der Mr. Hamilton's supervision and
tho dial now bids fair to stand for cen
turies, a picturesque monument to its
maker.
Tarklngton'a Boomerang.
Booth Tarklngton has among his
curios in his New York city apartment
a boomerang. A magazine editor said
of tho odd weapon the other day: "I
do not believe that a native can
handle a boomerang bo that It will re-
part of their course they pnss between
two sets of burners, which take tho
place of tho oven.
As tho moulds pass upward they aro
opened automatically by a small lever
at one end of tho mnchlno to permit
tho pie dough to enter, after which
they aro closed automatically by
another levor to allow tho dough, to
bako and form the crust This opera
tion is but tho work of,' a second, as
tho irons aro heated to tho proper
temperature before tho dough is per
mitted to enter tho moulds.
Tho dough itself is contained In a
largo tank abovo tho machine, A
feed plpo runs down and by means of
a piston which Is connected with the
Z
machinery that operates tho whole
affair enough dough is forced down
tho plpo with each stroke of the piston
to fill one of tho moulds as it passes
under tho pipe. By tho tlmo another
mould passes under tho pipe another
stroko of tho piston forces down
enough dough to fill that mould, and
so on.
As tho crust Is baked an. attendant
turn to the precise spot It started
from." "I bellevo it," said Tarklng
ton. "Why, a magazine writer can
do tho very same thing with his man
uscript if ho incloses a stamped en
velope." Russia 1905.
A red hazo hung over tho mountain,
The Hall In tho valley was still,
A lone woman wept o'er a baby that
slept.
And tho grain lay ungTound at tho mill.
A plow In the half-cloven furrow,
A forgo that was smokeless and dead,
Whllo over It all hung the stillness, a pall.
And tho haze o'er the mountain, blood
red.
And over and over and over.
By village and farmhouse and hill,
A naze, bloody red, all tho landscape
o'ersprend.
And the valleys deserted and still.
Tho earth at the seedtime unbroken.
The field at tho harvest ungleaned,
And lono vigil kept by a woman who
wept.
With a babe at her bosom unweaned.
Then down from tho mountain a horse
man Dashed, plumed and sworded and mail
ed: Nor heard ho tho moan of tho woman
alone,
Nor saw ho tho grain all unflalled;
"To arms!" for the battle was bloody:
"To arms!" for tho columns were thin
ned; And over tho land rang his brazen com
mand. For his horso woro the wings of tho
wind.
Then fatherless lads from their hovels
Went shouldering ponderous guns,
And old men and gray tottered weakly
away
To nnd tho rude graves of their sons;
For country Is higher than kindred,
And what Is tho glory of sod
Unvvet by the flood of its yeomen's red
blood?
And war Is It not more than God?
So women with babes at their bosoms
Gazed out o'er the furrows unfilled.
Through the haze resting red llko the
blood that was shed
In a far away strugele unwilled.
And eyes that aro swollen and anguished
Uplifted In silent appeal;
"Oh, God of tho Poor, does thy mercy en
dure When thy monarclis know naught but
of steel?" ,
And over nnd over nnd over.
By vlllago nnd hamlet nnd hill.
Tho hazo resting red, llko the blood that
Is shed.
But tho flail In the valley Is still.
The earth nt tho seedtime unbroken.
The fields nt the harvest ungleaned.
And a lono vigil kept by a woman who
wept
With a babe nt her bosom unweaned.
J. W. Foley In New York Times.
How Tommy Reckoned.
Teacher Now, Tommy, If I glvo
you five apples and you eat two, how
many will you have left?
Tommy (aged C) Five.
Teacher No; if you eat two, you
would have only three left, wouldn't
you?
Tommy No, ma'am; I'd have five
thrco outside and two inside.
General Plays Santa Claus and Lives
Slides Down Chimney Into Bou
doir of French Woman Who
Saves Him from Soldiers Who
Are in Pursuit.
Tho husband came In and told his
story. He had held high command In
the French army, was a man of char
acter and ability, with extraordinary
linguistic acquirements. Ho had
thrown himself Into tho outbreak of
the Communo as a soldier, had been
given an Important point to defend on
a barricade. The fight was long and
terrible, and when nearly all tho de
fenders were killed or wounded, nnd
tho ammunition was exhausted, tho
few survivors escaped as best they
could. The "General" managed to get
on to somo roofs and to escape down
a chimney into a private apartment.
There he found hlmseJf In the bed
room of a, ludy who was dressing.
"Sauvez-vol, madamel" he cried. She,
poor soul, terrified at this Btrange ap
parition, who with torn clothes, cov
ered with soot, and with darker stains
upon him, stood suppliant before her.
stands nt ono end of tho mnchlno
ready to removo it from tho mould.
This worker arranges tho baked crusts
on a largo pan within easy reach of
another attendant, who feeds them to
tho second machine. This mnchlno is
somewhat similar to tho first, As it
also has an endless chain to keep tho
crusts in motion. It has two largo
reservoirs, ono containing the filling
and tho other tho moringuo. By a
ratchet arrangement enough of tho
filling and meringue is released from
tho tanks as tho plo passes under
them successively. When filled thoy
pass onward undor an overhead' bakor,
which gives tho top of tho merlnguo
a rich -rown tint. Tho plo is com
pleted then, nnd as It passes out from
under tho .baker it is received by
another attendant and set aside, ready
for sale.
Besides the threo attendants men
tioned but threo more aro required
for the complete operation of tho ma
chines. Ono regulates tho speed and
temperatures of tho machines and
keeps them in working order; ono
makes tho dough and feeds it to tho
first machine, and tho third feeds tho
filling and merlnguo to tho second ma
chine. By the methods used at the
present tlmo In largo bakeries It would
roqulro about 100 employes to do tho
same work.
Tho Inventor Is a practical baker
with fifteen years' experlcnco In many
of tho largo plants of tho country. Ho
has invented several other devices, all
of which have proved successful. Ho
got his Idea for tho pie making ma
chine by watching a street waffle man
at work. Seeing how easily tho waf
fles wcro made, Louis asked himself If
plo dough could not bo used just ns
well. That night when ho went homo
ho borrowed his wife's waffle Irons
and began his oxporlmcnts. It re
quired years of study and labor to
bring tho machinery to perfection.
WOULDN'T TEND THE DOORS.
Railroad Was Run Through Barn, but
There the Line Was Drawn.
Last spring while tho survey for tho
Northern Seaport railroad from La
Grange, Mo., to Searsport, Mo., was
being mado somo of tho youths In
Stockton Springs, a small town in
Waldo county, thought thoy would
Jolly somo of tho farmers. Thoy
equipped themselves with a camera
tripod and an old telfscopo and start
ed out.
They reached Prospect and hunted
up a good old man and inquired if
they could survey his ground. Ho
was excited at onco, and asked num
berless questions and wanted them to
tell him "for sure" if tho road would
go over his land.
Tho mock surveyors assured him
they could tell lilm with cortalnty,
after a few moments) work, and then
thoy erected the tripod and apparent
ly became absorbed in work of mark
ing off a lino of stakes, the farmer
watching them with interest, -n a
Bhort tlmo they pretended to discov
er that tho road would go right
through tho barn, so tho old man was
told. Ho considered a moment and
then said slowly:
"But there's only ono door In It."
"Well," they replied, "couldn't you
knock off tho planking on tho other
side and put in another door?"
Tho man brightened up at once, antf
replied: "Yes, I suppose I could, but
I'll tell you right now you'll have to
keep a man to shut them doors after
the trains, for I can't bo bothered all
tho tlmo with them."
Sheriff Holt's Afterthought.
Tho late Ralph T. Holt of Keene,
N. H., who served many terms as sher
iff of the county, had a habit of usic
the words "By the way" beforo ad
dressing a person or commencing a
conversation.
One morning in tho sixties, in open
ing a session of the court, the sheriff
arose from his seat and in his usual
dignified manner proceeded according
to tho custom by repeating the fdllow
lng. "Hear, ye. Hear, ye. All ye
who have anything to do with the
court of common pleas, come forward
and you shall be heard according to
law."
At this point he sat down and re
mained seated for nearly a minute,
then suddenly springing to his feet
and looking fixedly at the judge, ho
exclaimed: "By tho way, God savo
tho state."
-
had but an Instant to decide, for tho
tramp of soldiers rang up tho stairs,
and a thundering knock at the outer
door summoned her to open. Sho bado
him go Into tho bed, and taking the
skirt of her dress, a Jacket, and some
other feminine garments, covered him
with these. And then followed along
parley between tho soldiers- outside
and tho quick-witted Frenchwoman
Inside the door. "Sho was not dressed;
what did they want; what an abomin
able thing that In these evil days tho
very bedrooms of women were not to
be respected." Of course, the soldiers
had their way, and entered the room,
the lady, scolding, fuming, protesting.
The men looked In tho cupboards and
wardrobe and under the bed; into tho
bed they did not look; and after many
apologies, with a military salute, they
departed. The poor woman sank In
to a chair, and slowly the general
raised himself. "Look, madame."
said he, as he took from a little table
beside the bed his tobacco pouch,
which unconsciously ho had laid dowa.
"If they had found this!"
SCENE OF RECENT
EARTHQUAKE
V " V JS"".
THE EARTHQUAKE IN CALABRIA.
Region Long Noted for Frequent and
Destructive Shocks.
Tho latest news regarding tho earth
quako in Calabria shows it to havo
been moro disastrous than was at
first supposed. It appears to havo
extended throughout all tho threo
Italian provinces which aro now call
ed by thnt namo. Hardly a town or
vlllago but suffered to somo extent. A
shock of equal vlolenco If experienced
by a great city prohnbly would causo
a vast destruction of llfo and property.
Calabria Is mainly an agricultural re
gion, but loss of llfo seoms, neverthe
less, to havo run far up Into tho hun
dreds, and that of tho property to
havo been on a proportionate scale.
Calabria has long boen a region of
frequent and destructive earthquakes.
In ono year, 1783, thero were D49 dis
tinct shocks. Thoy continued to take
placo throughout tho last century as
during preceding ones, shocks In 1835,
In 185G, In 1870 and In 1881 devastat
ing largo sections and causing thou
sands of deaths. It might bo thought
that a country In which llfo and
proporty were hold upon bo Insecure a
tenure would como to bo regarded as
unfit for human habitation, and
would, therefore, bo depopulated.
Probably, howover, thero cannot bo
pointed out a Blnglo extonsivo re
gion on earth which, after onco being
well populated, has lost its inhabi
tants becauso It was subject to great
natural calamities, Thoro nro regions
whero torriblo floods and storms aro
of frequent occurrence but thoy aro
not lees thickly settled on that ac
count. Vesuvius has repeatedly belch
ed forth oceans of liquid flro and
mountains of rock and ashes, and laid
waste all tho surrounding country,
yet theroiieveg has been a tlmo when
villages did not nestlo nt Its foot
and when tho shepherd did not tend
his flocks, and tho husbandman train
his vines almost up to Its crater. Men
will llvo anywhere thoy can get a
.subsistence, hoping thnt tho natural
calamities of the past will not bo re
peated, and if they nro, that they, at
least, will not bo among tho sufferers.
As long as human nature remains
what it is, and southern Italy con
tinues to bo ono of tho most' fertile
spots in Europe, Calabria will not
want Inhabitants.
Calabria is by no means tho only
region in which earthquakes aro fre
quent and deadly. Japan is specially
subject to thorn. In 1888 630 shocks
took place thero. During tho succeed
ing six months 3,000. minor shocks
almost completely suspended business
in a largo section and caused 1,000
deaths. A great earthquako bolt ox
tends through tho lands along tho
Mediterranean, the Azores, tho West
Indies, Central America, the Ha
waiian islands, Japan, China, India,
Persia and Asia Minor. What causes
earthquakes to take placo in tbeso
regions moro frequently than in other
paTts of tho earth and what causes
them to tako placo at all, aro equally
mattors of conjecture. In tho present
state of scientific knowledge thero
nro perhaps no other destructive nat
ural phenomena whoso approach is
so wholly impossible to predict or
whose effects aro so hard to escape.
AFTER THE REAL WRONGDOER.
Gratifying Efforts to Reach the "Big
Fellows" In Crime.
It is gratifying to hear that investi
gators havo at last turned their at
tention to tho men "higher up." Tho
tendency has too often been to devoto
inquiries to tho small fry sinners and
to rest satisfied with the punishment
of these for crimes against society.
Traced to a definite conclusion, it
will generally be found thnt the llttlo
fellows who prove such convenient
scapegoats aro really only tho tools
In tho hands of men of higher stand
ing and "unassailable respectability,"
who have actually profited most by
the wrongdoing. Tho big fellow plans
the crookedness and turns It over to
tho less conspicuous Individual to ex
ecute, reaping tho lion's share of tho
pecuniary benefits and escaping tho
taini of actual participation. Tho
more of this crew dragged into the
limelight and punished tho less we
shall hear of extensive frauds and
wholesale grafting. Baltimore Herald.
DISASTROUS
SHOCKS IN ITALY
HISTORIC EARTHQUAKE8 AND
VOLCANIC ERUPTION8.
Year. Victims.
79 Pompeii nnd Horculan-
eum destroyed Thousands
11G Anlloch destroyed Thousands
GST Constantinople Thousands
742 Syria and Palestine,
GOO towns ruined..,. Thousands
1137 Cntnnla, Sicily 16.000
1450 Naples , 40,000
1531 Lisbon 30,000
1626 Naples 70.000
1C38 Calabria Thousands
1687 Schamnkl (lasted throe
montluO 80,000
1693 Sicily (tlfty-four cities
nnd tonus nnd 300
villages) 100,000
1703 Jeddo, Japan 200,000
1731 Peking 100,000
1740 Lima nnd Callao 18.000
1755 Lisbon 60,000
1 7G9 Baalboc, Syria 20,000
1797 Cuzco, Quito and other
towns 40,000
1812 Cnracas .Thousands
1822 Aleppo 20,000
1851 Molfl, Italy ,.. 14,000
1857 Kingdom of Naples... 10,000
1859 Quito 5,000
18C3 Manila , 1,000
1869 Several towns In Poru
nnd Ecuador ....... 25,000
1872 Inyo Vnlloy. Calif 30
1875 Towns nenr Santander,
on tho border of Co
lombia 74,000
1878 Cua, Venesucla ....... 800
1880 lllapel, Chllo 200
1881 Solo nnd several vil
lages 4,000
1883 Island of taenia, Italy 2.000
1883 Krnkatoa and other
Java volcanoes Thousands
1884 Sovero shock In Eng
land G
1884 Andalusia and other
parts of Bnaln 1,170
1885 Provinco of Granada,
Spain C90
188C Charleston, S. C 41
1887 RIvIora and southern i
Europo 2,000
1891 Japan 4,000
1902 St. Plerro, Martinique,
eruption of Mont
Polce , 40,000
SETTING. THEM AT EACH OTHER.
Country Editor Rid Himself of Two
Bores at Once.
Henry Wattorson has been an edi
tor long enough to havo at his com
mand all ways of getting rid of tho
bores who infest newspaper offices.
Ho tolls this story of a country Jour
nalist, a friend of his: Tho latter was
in his sanctum sawing out weighty
utterances from pretentious contempo
raries when tho offlco bo announced
that two gentlemen were waiting to
seo him in an adjoining room. "Who
aro thoy?" asked tho editor, dropping
his shears. "What do thoy want?"
"I don't know who thoy aro, sir,' 're
plied tho lad,, "but ono is a poet and
tho other is Btono deaf."' "Oh, that's
all right," responded tho editor as
ho picked up tho pasto brush; "you
just go out and toll the poet that tho
deaf man is tho editor."
Protection for Public Land.
Progress mado recontly in tho utili
zation of arid and seemingly sterilo
lands promises great things for tho
future. It Is too soon to say that any
lands which private individuals or
companies desire, on any terms, aro
hopeless or of so llttlo value that
thoy need not bo carefully watched
and guarded. With tho population of
tho United States increasing at tho
rato of 1,500,000 annually, thero will
soon bo such pressure upon tho landed
domain of the fedoral government as
has never yet been oxperlencod. Then
uso will bo found for great areas now
considered of llttlo or no importance.
Land frauds involving a United States
eonator and other public men in high
station aro warning enough, or ought
to bo, to Insuro tho general revision
of the land laws of tho United States.
Tho public domain needs far more
offectlvo protection. Cleveland
Leader.
George D. Herron to Found Colony.
George D, Herron, tho former pro
fessor at Iowa college, Grlnnell, Iowa,
whoso peculiar conduct and theories
havo been church nnd social sensa
tions for several years, is now found
ing a colony near Matuchen, N. J
where ho and his followers will ex
emplify his revolutionary doctrines on
tho marriage relation. Herron and
his present wife, formerly Miss Carrie
Rand of Burlington, Iowa, havo be
como heirs to a fortune by tho death
of Mrs. Herron's mother, who was
a widow of a mlllionairo lumberman.
Four or five years ago Herron left his
wife and four young children and
went abroad with Mrs. Rand and her
daughter. On his return his wife se
cured a divorce, and the ex-college
professor shortly after married his
present wife.
AMERICAN MINISTER IN DANGER
S. R. Gummere at Tanalers, Forced
to Take Refugo In City.
Samuel It. Gummoro, Amorican mln
lstcr to Morocco,, who was compelled,
to abandon tho logation in tho sub
urbs of Tangiors and tako refuge In
tho city by reason of a battle be
tween Ralsull, tho bandit, and insur
gent tribes, is a mombor of an o41
and prominent family of Trentoe,
N J. Ho-is a brother of Justice Wtl'
Ham S. Qummoroof tho state supreme
court. Ho was appointed to the co
sular servlco in 1895 and was promot-
JMXZJT J?. XZ7ZZj3?-
od to his presont placo for his efforts
in soourUig tho releaso of Ion Pordl
carls, who was kidnaped by Bandit
Italsull.
SEPARATED FOR FIFTY YEARS.
Long-Parted Brothers Meet at G. A. R.
National Encampment.
Thrco brothers, Itov. S. D. Taggart,
M. R, Taggart and David Taggart, had
not met for fifty years until tho O. A.
It. encampment in Denvor. David
Taggart nnd M. It. Taggart aro veter
ans of tho civil war. At tho begin
ning of tho war they enlisted in dif
ferent Pennsylvania regiments. They
went through tho war, fighting battlo
after battle, but nover meeting each
other. During that tlmo Itev. 8. B.
Taggart waB attending Prlncoton The
ological seminary. At tho closo ot
tho war tho brothers became widely
separated. Tho theological student re
turned to tho old homo, M. It. Tag
gart remained in the south and David
Taggart drifted to Kansas and lo
cated near Olatho, Thoy met at the
Union depot in Denver and after fifty
years recognized each other at sight.
David Taggart is 72, M. R. Taggart 67
and S. B. Taggart 74 years old M.
R. Taggart is a merchant at Pitts
burg, Pa. David Taggart is a retired
farmer living near Olatho, Kan., and
Rev. S. B. Tnggart's homo is at Alton,
111. Tho other two aro now visiting
David.
AT HEAD OF POSTAL CLERKS.
Arthur Donoghue of Chicago Again
Elected President.
Arthur Donoghuo, who has been re
elected president of tho National As
sociation of Postal Clerks, has been
j4P7WP X2VO&2ZE1-
employed In tho registry division at
tho Chicago postofflco for more than
twelvo years. Ho is 35 years old.
To Publish Old-time Wills.
North Carolina's secretary of sfata
is preparing abstracts of tho 4,000
wills in his offlco, and tho work Is
very heavy. Up to 1773 the law re
quired wills to bo filed there, though
nearly all aro for the years between
1700 and 1750, vory few being found
dated slnco the last-named year. These
wills cover vast areas of land, not only
In North Carolina, but what is now
Tennessee. Tho abstracts are on
cards, and will be printed. They will
show tho location of the lands, and
also tho names of the persons who de
vised them and thoso to whom they
were devised. Tho decision to make
this extensive publication is a recent,
one. Washington Post.
East Indians to Enter Cornell.
Word has been received at the Cor
nell college of agriculture from the.
director of tho department of land
records, Bengal, India, that tho Indian
government would send four students
this fall to Cornell to take special
work In agriculture. These students;
are graduates of tho University of Cal
cutta and havo also taken postgradu-
ate work in the Sibpur Engineering?
college, bo they will bo graduate stu
dents at Cornell. It is believed they
are the first to bo sent to any col
lege In the United States by the gov
ernment of India. i
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