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?lattsmonth Journal.
C. V. SIIICIOIAN, l'ublltlicr.
PLATTSMOUTII.
: NEBRASKA.
SEE," said
the Jericho
station mas
ter, "that a
trainon the
Denver road
has just been held up and the safe
robbed of over three hundred thou
sand dollars. Well, these things
have to happen so long- as the
present style of burglar-proof safes is
In fashion. Any robber that has been
properly educated to the business can
Open a safe inuide of half an hour, and
can do it without any dynamite or
ruch violent ways. Now, a safe can
he made that nobody can open except
with the proper combination, for I've
Been such a safe myself. Saw it on
this very road, too, and it was buried
onl3 about fifty miles from here."
What in the wdrld was the reason
lor burying the safe?" I asked.
"Because jou can't have a funeral
without burying the corpse," replied
the station master. "I've just about
time enough to tell you the story be
fore the Athensville express comes in,
bo sit down and you shall hear all
about it.
"About ten years ago, or mebbe
eleven I ain't any sort of a hand for
dates there was a baggatre master on
this road by the name of Hopkins, lie
and I were on the same train, which
was on the regular day express, and
carried the gold dust that had to be
6ent down once a week to Custerville,
where the mines were panning out
at that time pretty middling well.
Thtshyer Hopkins Jim was his name
besides being baggage master, also
acted as agent for the express com
pany and took charge of the safe. As
a ru'a the train was held up once a
month, and the safe was either
opened by Jim, with a pistol to his
ear, or else, if the robbers had plenty
of time before them and took pride in
their profession, they would open it
themselves.
"Jim got tired of this sort of thing,
and, being an ingenious sort of chap
who had invented quite a lot of things,
he undertook to invent a safe that no
body could open except with the com
bination. Moreover, he cal'lated to
make it so strong that dynamite
wouldn't have no effect upon it. so that
it would really be a burglar-proof safe
in good earnest. Well, Jim he worked
at the safe a good part of the winter
until he had got it planned out in a
way to suit him, and then he took
come of his saviDgs, for he had a good
lot of money in the bank, and he built
his new patent burglar-proof safe and
put it in his baggage-ear.
"The new safe was about twice the
size of an ordinary express company's
cafe. Outside it looked like any other
safe, but, besides being twice as strong
as anything of the kind ever built be
fore, it had a good many special fea
tures which I don't pretend to remem
ber, cot being a mechanical sharp my
self. I do recall, however, that it had
a spring lock, which Jim explained
was for convenience in case the train
should be held up very suddenly and
there should not be time to close the
safe and lock it in the usual way.
" 'Seems to me,' said the conductor,
whose name was Sampson, though we
always called him Gates, after that
friend of Sampson that he carried
away somewhere on his back, I don't
exactly remember the name of the
town. 'Seems to me, says he, 'that
when you get a pistol to your ear that
safe will come open as easy as any
other safe.'
"So it will,' said Jim, 'provided I
ever find that pistol alongside my ear.
But I cal'ate that I've got through
with that style of amusement. The
next time this hyer train is held up
the robbers won't find me, unless they
can open that safe, which is just what
I moan they shan't be able to do.
"Why, where are you going to be?"
asked Gates. 'Are you cal'lating to
"WHERE ARK TCU OOISO TO
BE?"
hide yourself in the fire box, ot under
the water in the tank?'
"See here," says Jim, "I ftin't no
blame fool, if I look like one. So, sir,
I don't cal'late to try any sscK games
as those vou're a referring to, but do
expect to get inside that safe when
the train is held up and to stay there
until the robbers get tired of trying
to open it."
'That's a big scheme, Jim," says the
conductor, "but I'd like to know how
you expect to open the safe again
when you want to come out?"
"'j;""t,ays Jim, "that part ol thfcufcV
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unto him unto wlm honor is due,
and Mr. Travis' reconl is ofe that the
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by
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Bess I leave with yen. I'll give you
the combination, and after the rob
bers have got tired and gor.e homo yon
can open the safe and let me out."
All right!" says Gates, ' I II let you
out fast enough provided I can re
member the combination, but you
know my memory isn't what you might
call first-class, and I might forget the
combination, and never be able to
open the safe. Of course, you wouldn't
mind a little thing like that, for you'd
be snug and comfortable, though per
haps a little bit hungry after awhile.
"Well, the conductor kept on chaffing
Jim about his new invention, but the
two were good friends, though it was
afterwaad thought by people who
didn't know all the facts that Gates
was partly to blame for what hap
pened. Jim gave Gates tho combina
tion of the safe, and the very next day
after the thing was put up in the bag
gage car the train was held up just this
side of Athensville.
"Tho robbers climbed into the bag
gage car and when they couldn't find
Jim they brought out the conductor
and told him to open the safe. The
conductor swore that nobody knew the
combination except Jim, and he wasn't
aboard the train that night, but had
laid over at Jones Misery, owing to
not feeling very welL The robbers,
seeing as Jim was not to be found,
believed what the conductor said,
and they went to work to pick the
lock of the safe. Of course they
couldn't do it. Then they tried their
center bits, but they couldn't make any
impression on the safe. The bits
would just slide around and scratch
the surface here and there, but they
had hardly made a dent in the steel.
By this time tho robbers had got pret
ty mad, and they slid the safe out
into the open and tried what they
could do with dynamite. They must
have put a lot of stuff under the safe,
for when it went ofE the safe sailed
more than thirty feet in the air and
came down so solid that she made a
big hole in the ground. But when
they came to examine her she wasn't
hurt a bit. Not a joint nor a bolt was
started, and except for a little black
ening of the outside she was as good
as new.
'This 113-ar is a low-down outrage,
says the robber captain. 'The man
that made that safe deserves hanging,
if ever a man did, for the thing, is
going to put an end to train robbing,
and will throw hundreds of men out
of emDloyment. I hate a man what
hasn't any feeling for his fellow men
"Well, the rest of the robbers they
stood around the safe and cussed till
they were tired, but they admitted
that they couldn't open it, and after
awhile they told the conductor that
he might take his safe back again, and
start his train down the road. Accord
ingly, we got the safe in the baggage
car again, and after the train was a
mile or two down the road, the con
ductor he opens her, and there was
Jim, as gay as a jaybird, and laughing
himself sick, over the failure of the
robbers. '
"There wasn't any doubt that Jim's
scheme had worked well, and the ez
press company gave him fifty dollars
as a testimonial of their gratitude for
having prevented the robbers from
seizing two hundred thousand dollars'
worth of gold dust. Hi me by a new
idea occurred to Jim. You see at that
time there wasn't any telegraoh on
this line, and there being only a
single track, and that a pretty rough
one, accidents were frequent. One
day when there was a drove of cattle
on the line, and Jim, looking out of
the car, saw that there was certain to
be a smash-up, he just opens his safe
and gets into it to wait for better
times. That train went off the track,
and the baggage car broke loose and
went down an embankment, turning
over half a dozen times and going
clean to kindling wood. When we
began to clear things up and missed
Jim we all supposed that he had been
smashed, but when the conductor
opened the safe to see if things were
all right, there was Jim, as smiling as
a basket of chips, and inquired in a
careless way if there was anything
the matter with the train. After that
Jim regularly climbed into his safe
whenever he heard the danger signal,
and he never once got the least scratch
or bruise.
"Jim was a careful man and never
neglected any precaution that would
make the valuables in his charge as
safe as possible. This was why he
made it a rule to change the combina
tion of the safe every month. About
the 3d day of August I remember the
month because I always suffer from
the liver complaint in August and I
was off duty at the time and reading
in the smoking car, being too sick to
work as brakeman when we came
near running into a wagon that was
crossing the track. When Jim heard
the braUes blown down he crawled
into his rafe and shut the door, expect
ing there would be an accident. It so
happened that the wagon got clear of
the track just in time, and we went on
our way rejoicing. After awhile we
missed Jim, and knowing that he must
be in his safe, the conductor started to
open ik lie found that the combina
tion wouldn't work, and then remem
bering that it was just after the 1st of
the month, he knew that Jim mast
have changed it, and forgotten to give
him the new combination. So the con
ductor got close to the keyhole and
calls to Jim to give him the combina
tion, but Jim answers that he had
changed it that very morning, but
couldn't for the life of him remember
what it was.
"Here was a pretty go. The only
man who knew the combination had
forgot it, and he was shut up in the
safe. W told Jim that wo would
leave h:u quiet for an hour, and that
there wasn'itiny doubt that lie would
be able to remember in that time the
combination, but somehow when he
agreed to this his voice didn't sound
very sanguine. At the end of the hour
he hadn't made any progress. All he
could say was that the word had some
thing to do with robbery or politics,
and that it must be a word of fiv
letters, that being the war the lock
i made.
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"Well, we set to work to think of ev
cry word in the language relating to
robbery and containing five letters. It
was like working out some of those
puzzles that you see in the Sunday pa
pers, but we couldn't hit on the right
answer. Seeing as "robbery" didn't
furnish us with the word we tried
words connected with politics, and if we
had only known it we were on the right
track, but we never got there.
'We worked at the combination for
a good twenty-four hours, taking it
altogether, and then we had to give it
up. Then we sent for the best safe
burglar in the whole northwest, ami
offered him one hundred dollars to
open the safe, giving him leave to try
any plan he might prefer, u he man
had heard of Jim's patent burglar
proof safe, and being an ambitious
chap, who took a genuine pride in his
profession, he was glad of the job. But
he didn't succeed any better than we
had done. Ticking at the lock, guess
ing at the combination and working
with the jimmy were all failures, and,
having heard about the experiment
that the first gang of train robbers
had made on the safe with dynamite,
he didn't think It worth while to try
that sort of thing for the second time.
"For all that we kept tinkering at
the combination for a fortnight or
more afterward. Jim had been quiet
after the end of the first eight daj-a
and we couldn't get any answer from
him. So, seeing as the time had come
to bid farewell to him, we decided
that we would take the safe down to
the Athensville cemetery and bury it
as it stood. Which, accordingly, was
done on the following Sundaj-, and
seeing as it was known that safe be
longed to Jim and was empty at the
"THERE WAS JIM AS OAT AS A JAYBIRD."
time so far as Jim was concerned
there was nobody who had the right
to make any objection. The minister
who conducted the funeral did say
something about the extraordinary
nature of the coffin that we had chosen
for the deceased, but we told him that
the coffin didn't con cern him and that
all he had to do was to heave ahead
and give it Christian burial without
passing any of his remarks.
"It must have been a year after the
funeral when a passenger got to talk
ing with the conductor of the express
in the smoking car about Jim and his
safe, and he accidentally mentioned
that the night before Jim shut himself
up for the last time the-, too, had
been talking politics, and Jim, who
was a democrat, was slingiDg language
about President Haj-es and saying
that he had stolen the presidency from
Tilden, and was no better than a train
robber. When the conductor heard
this he swore awhile in a tiioughtful
sort of way, and then he says: 'We've
got that combination at last.'
" 'How so?' says the man.
" 'Why,' says the conductor, 'Jim al-
lowed.that the combination was a word
of five letters that had something to
do either with robbery or politics.
Now 'Hayes' would be exactly that
sort of word, and I can't think now it
happened that we didn't try it. I
haven't the least manner of doubt
that if we was to dig that safe up and
try it with 'llaj-es' it would open with
out the least trouble.'
" 'What's the good of opening it after
Jim has been occup3"ing it for more
than a year? says the man.
" 'Why, just this,' says the conductor.
"That there safe is the only burglar
proof safe ever built and if the com
bination was known the relatives of
the remains could sell it for two thou
sand dollars easy. I'll see them about
it to-morrow, and we'll have one more
try at opening it.'
"Well, to make a long story short,
the relatives dug the safe up and found
sure enough that 'Haves' was the word
that unlocked it. It was a little rusty
on the outside, but otherwise it was
just as good as ever. There wasn't
very much left of Jim by that time, but
what there was received a second
funeral, for there wasn't anything
mean about Jim's family, and then the
express company bought the safe for
eighteen hundred dollars and it was
used on this road for upwards of two
years."
"What became of it finally?" I
asked.
"What always becomes of anything
or anybody that sticks to railroading
too long? The train went off of Three
Mile bridge about seventy-five miles
north of Josephusville, and, there be
ing a quicksand at the bottom of the
creek that no man could ever find the
bottom of the whole train, including
Jim's safe, sank out of fight, and no
body ever found the least trace of it
afterward. You ought to have heard
of that accident, for about three hun
dred passengers went down with the
train and the company never paid a
cent of damages, because there were
no remains found and nobody could
prove that anybody in particular had
been killed. I say it didn't cost the
company anj-thing for damages,
though they do say that th-s jurymen
cost altogether not far from five thou
sand dollars apiece. However, th
company got out of it very cheap, and
the directors were more disgusted
about losing that safe than they were
about losing the whole train. Com
into my office and I'll show you Jim's
photograph standing by his nesv safe
and making believe to pronounce an
oration on its merits. He was a rood
fellow was Jim, but he put his confi
dence in that safe once too often,"!
SU Paul Pioneer Pre as.
atTeh cenTs per"ITea'd7If Hthos
liose"!!
will t
ar&e
wisn 10 nave such work done
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Prince Bismarck, it is said, has ths
peculiar habit of drinking champagne
from the bottle, not from the glass of
course, only in his own house. He de
clares that only in that way can he get
its good effects. He drinks it by ordei
of his physician.
Miss Marietta Holies, or as sh
better known "Josiah Allen's Wife,"
talks into a phonograph and her words
ere then copied by her tj'pewriter, who
prepares her copy for the humorous
books and articles which are the de
light of womanhood.
These are the names of the little
daughter of Archduke Stephen of Aus
tria: Maria Immaculata Caroline Mar
garethe Blanea Lieopoldine Beatrix
Ann Josefine Rafaela Michela Stan
islaus Ignatz llicronymous Camiro
Katharina Petra Ca jcilia.
Sig. Leoncavallo is said to be an
untiring worker. In thirty-two days
he wrote syphonic poem, "Leraph ita"
and he is still working on the lyric
opra, "La Vie de Boheme," and on
"Roland Berlin," which he is writing
for the Berlin opera at the request of
the emperor. At the same time he is
writing the music to a ballad "Reynard
the Fox," of which Dr. S. Arkel has
written the libretto from the well
known of Goethe.
There died in Glasgow the other
day James Gilchrist, who was known
as '"the Scottish Stradivarius." Gil
christ, who was sixty-two years old,
was a mechanical genius. He made
the most difficult and delicate instru
ments and was the chief aid of Prof.
Pettigrew in making his models for
investigating the laws governing the
flight of birds. He died a poor man,
his wife often saying: "He can make
everything but money."
Sir Charles Russell, the new lord
chief justice of England, is an Irish
man and a Roman Catholic. He breaks
a long line of precedent in being the
first member of the church of Rome to
attain his present exalted place since
the da3-s of the English reformation.
Sir Charles is just sixty-one years old.
lie was made a queen's counsel in 1372,
a member of parliament in 1S30 and attorney-general
in 1SS0. His salary as
lord chief justice is SG0.O0O a year.
The catalogue of Ouida's effects
just sold at Florence indicates not only
the prosperity of her form of literature
but her personal fondness for gorgeous
and dainty belongings, including,
among other things, a number of un
used gravestone u for her as yet vital
and yelping lapf.ogs. These, of course,
went for a song, leaving the animals,
which alone of I he collection remain
with the authoress, small chance of
posthumous commemoration. It is said
that the novelist has never recovered
from the shock of her mother's death,
and she is in far from robust health.
Miss Wheeler, who presides over
the training-school for nursery-maids
connected with the New York babies
hospital on Lexirgton avenue, teaches
her pupils all that is necessary in the
care of infants, but she wisely refuses
to instruct them in medical lore, hold
ing that in that a little knowledge is a
dangerous thing. The nursery-maids
are taught to make poultices, oil-skin
jackets, plasters, etc., to use the
clinical thermometer, to give hot and
cold and mustard baths, to care for the
fckin, mouth, eyes and ears of the
babies, and when, how, and how much
to feed them.
HUMOROUS.
"Do you find your new maid very
trying?"' Mrs. Nuwife "No; the trou
ble is she won't do anything." Inter-
j Ociean.
Stranger "Do you belong to this
city?'' Denizen "Nor, Oi don't; the
city belongs to me. Oi'm a member of
the foorce." Boston Transcript.
As the express dasher, through the
station. "Oh. porter, doesn't that
train stop here?"' Porter "No. mum;
it doesn't even hesitate." Tit-Bits.
Mrs. Nucook '"Now I'll read the
recipe over and you see if I have every
thing that this pie calls for." Mr. Nu
cook "Everything, dearest, except the
doctor.'" Inter-Ocean.
"Didn't it feel funny the fust time
ye had the bracelets on?"' said one jail
bird to another. "Yes, but I soon got
me hand in," was the reply. Pitts
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Heart whole.
The summer pirl from day to day
Acts cheerily her part:
Though she 1-s very oft engaged
She never loses heart.
Puck.
Tourist "Can you tell me if there
is any danger and difficulty in crossing
that peak?"' Shepherd '"Oh no! Just
follow those piles of stones you see up
there; they mark the places where
tourists have fallen down." Fliegende
Blatter.
"And father has forbidden you the
house." she said. "Yes," he replied:
"this is the last I can see of you."
"Harold! You must go and see him."
It's no use. The last time I met him
he made it clear that he had decided on
a lockout and wouldn't arbitrate."
Washington Star.
The Wife "How do you like the
parlor. John?" The Husband "It is
beautiful. Those chairs are very in
viting." (Sits down). The Wife "Get
out of that chair immedialelj". After
all my trouble in fixing up the room
you go and sit down in it the first
thing. Just like a man!" N. ". Press.
Taking the Chances. Mrs. Cash
"What did you pay for that bonnet?'
Mrs. Chargeit "I don't know. I just
told the milliner to send the bill to my
husband." Mrs. Cash "Aren't you
afraid to do that?" Mrs. Chargeit
"Oh, no. I'm perfectly willing to take
the chances if .he milliner is." Detroit
Free Press.
He Didn't Lfke It. ''Did you ever
ee a play, Aunt Martha?" asked a lady
rf an elderly aunt fron the country,
who ws spending a week in the city.
"Yes. Anni, I did," was the reply.
"When ycir uncle and me" was mar
ried, we come to the city on our bridal
tower, and we went to see one of iir.
Shakespeare's pieces called 'How Dc
-You Like It?"' and I didn't like it a bit,
and I ain't been since." Exchange.
number of
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thefcro8sing t fS
f. . 'jV
'kb or ite acci
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
TROUBLED.
If It were not for fairies, this world would torn
drear:
(I'm sure they are true heigh-ho!)
The grass would net tangle.
The bluebells would JanGle, .
And things would be stupid and qneer, yea
know. 1
And everything dull If the fairies should go.
(I'm sure they are true heigh-ho!)
t love to believe In the godmother's mice.
And Hop-o'-my-Thumb, heigh-ho!
And it s cruel In Willy
To call me a silly.
If brothers would only be nice, yon know.
Not tease and mako fun. all ny troubles would
go
I'd beliovo In the fairies fcrever neigh-ho!
Mrs. Mary JJapes DoQge. In St. Nicholas.
A BOY LIFE SAVER.
II Began Ills Gallant Record When But
Eight Years Old.
Tommy Milligan, one of the bright
est boys in Fitchburg, Mass., made his
third rescue from drowning the
other day. ne made his first
when but eight years old. He
is now twelve. Tommy is small for his
years. He is a Scotchman, having been
born in Ayreshire January 2, 1332, and
was three years old when he crossed
'"the big salt pond" with his parents.
They landed in East Boston and lived
there seven years. Tommy was five
years old when he went in swimming
the first time. From that time Tommy
improved every opportunity to go in
swimming, to the great consternation
of his mother and father. He could
stay under water longer than any of
tho other boys, and often when his
mother was watching him he would re
main under so long that she was fright
ened, thinking he was drowned. He
was not quite eight years old when he
saved the life of a companion. They
were bathing under a bridge on the
narrow-gauge railroad in Kast Boston,
and the latter in diving struck his leg
against a rock, the blow stunning him.
He said nothing about the incident at
home until several days after, when, as
the boy he rescued was passing his
home, he remarked to his mother:
"That fellow came pretty near drown
ing the other day. I guess he would if
I hadn't seen him in time." Angus Mc
Farland, another East Boston play
mate of Tommy's, is indebted to him
for similar service rendered. While in
bathing one day Angus walked off into
a deep hole. It was high tide and he
was going down for the third time
when Tommy reached him and got him
ashore. The latest to owe his life to
Tommy's skill and bravery was a play
mate named Carl Romans. The Ro
mans boy dived from a boat, but was
taken with a cramp and when he came
up screamed for help. Tommy, who
was on shore with his clothes on,
quickly undressed and swam out. Be
fore he could reach the drowning boy
he had gone down for tho third time.
Then Tommy plunged under the water
and brought him to the surface. He
was taken ashore and after a quarter
of an hour's hard work recovered. He
is now running about as well as ever.
AND DANIEL CAME.
How a BIjr Dog Amused a Congregation
of Worshipers.
Willie was asleep, and Dan was lone
ly. Willie is the minister's son; Dan is
his dog. It was Sunday morning, and
everyone was at church but these t
friends. It was warm and sunny and
they could hoar the preaching, for
their house was next door to the
church. In some way while Willie was
listening he fell asleep. Now, the
minister had for his subject "Daniel."
That was the name he always gave
Dan when he was teaching him to sit
up and beg and other tricks. While
the dog sat thinking tho name "Dan
iel" fell on his ready ear. Dan at once
ran into the church through tho vestry
door. lie stood on his hind legs, with
his forepaws close beside tho minister,
who did not see him, but the congrega
tion did. When the minister shouted
"Daniel!" again the sharp bark said
"Yes, sir!" as plainly as Dan could an
swer. Tho minister started back,
looked around and saw the funny pic
ture. Then he wondered what he
should do next; but just then through
the vestry came Willie. His face was
rosy from sleep, and he looked a little
frightened. He walked straight to
ward his father and took Dan in his
arms and said:
"Please 'scuse Dan, papa. I went
asleep, and he runned away."
Then ho walked out, with Dan look
ing back on the smiling congregation.
The preacher ended his sermon on Dan
iel as best ho could, but he made a
resolve if he ever preached again on
the prophet Daniel he would tie up
that dog.
Scotch Ides of a Broad Hint.
Sir Andrew Agnew, of Lucknow, a
well-known Scotch baronet, was long
pestered by an impudent sort of per
son, who insisted on being constantly
"underfoot." Finally, however, he
dropped off, and Sir Andrew was asked
how he got rid of him.
"Oh," said he, "I gave him a broad
hint."
"A broad hint?" repeated the in
quirer. "I thought ho was one of
those who never could be induced to
take one."
"Ua ma saul," said Sir Andrew, "he
was oblecged to tak' it! For as the
chiel wadna gang oot at tho door I
fu tUrew him out of the window!"
TOMMT MILL1GAX.
The Joubjjl needs all
that is its due on
the moDey
subscrio-
(ITM
FABLES OF THE PHCENlX.
How Jla Ballds Ills Own Funeral Pjrr
and Lights It.
Tho paragon of all fabulous creatures
was the bird described by the ancient
writers under the title of the "Arabian
phcenix." Ovid says: "Although most
beings and things have their origin in
other individuals of their own species,
there is one remarkable exception to
this general law the miraculous bird
called the 'phosnix, which reproduces
itself." According to a belief which
Herodotus heard expressed at Heliopo
lis, the famous Eg3ptian "city of the
Bun," this "miraculous" bird visited
that place once every five hundred
years alwaj's coming from the direc
tion of Arabia on the occasion of it3
father's death, and always buried him
with peculiar ceremonies.
According to the best evidences
which can be gathered from the
writings of Ovid, Pliny, Herodotus and
Dion Cassius, after the phoenix had,
lived his alotted lifetime of five hun
dred years he selected a spot and pre
pared his own deathbed, which con
sisted of a sort of nest, or funeral pyre,
made of leaves and branches of tha
oak, ears of sweet spikenard, cinna
mon bark, yellow myrrh, etc. Seating
himself upon this he flapped his wings
with such velocity as to cause the nest
to take fire. After bird and nest had
been consumed a little worm appeared
in the ashes and rapidly developed into
a full-fledged phcenix. The first care
of the new bird was to arrange for the
sepulcher of his father's ashes, which
Herodotus describes as follows:
"With the myrrh and other gums it
has amassed the phoenix fashions a ball
as large as it can carry. This ball it
hollows out, and in the hollow places
puts the ashes of its dead parent. Tha
ball is deposited in the nest, and tha
young phcenix carries the whole from
Arabia to Egypt for the purpose of in
terring its father's ashes at the 'city of
the sun. Having reached its destina
tion it lays its burden down upon tha
altar of Uelois and disappears as mys
teriously as it had come." The legends
connected with this fabulous bird vary
In some of their details, but all agree
in the statement that only a single bird
of the species xrasi living at any one
time.
ARCHIE'S RAILWAY.
A Minnesota Youngster Who Had an Elee-
trlo Road of Ills Own.
Little Archie Cowley, of Deiiwood,
Minn., is probably the youngest rail
way manager in the world. Archie is
but seven years old, yet he controls an
entire electrical railroad. It is true
that the road is but one-tenth of a mile
in length, nevertheless It is fitted out
just as completely as any road that is
run by grown persons. Archie is pres
ident, secretary, conductor, brakeman
and motorman, while his sisters and
playmates ore the passengers. Tha
road was built for Archie by his father,
who is a St. Paul banker.
There are three cars on the road-
one motor car ana two passenger
cars. Each car is five feet long and
h i -r
abchie's railway.
two feet wide. Instead of a trolley
wire there is a long strip of iron which
lies between the tracks and supplies
the electricity which makes the cars
move along. On the motor car is tho
rlfeostat, which is an arrangement for
ccntrolling the electric current. By
using it Archie can make his cars move
a? fast or as slow as he pleases. On this
ca r also are the motor and the brake,
an-1 also tho reversing switch which
makes tho car move backward.
At one end of the road is the power
house, where the electricity is pro
duced. The electric current comes
from a small dynamo, which is driven
by a petroleum engine. There is also
a shed where tho cars are stored at
night and in winter time. In the
power-house everything is arranged
just the same as if it was a large sta
tion run by a regular company.
But Archie is the company in this
case. His road is on the hill by the
side of White Bear lake, and he is tha
only boy in that region who ia able to
go coasting in summer time. He him
self will tell you, the best of all is, that
in this kind of coasting you do not have
to walk back up the hill. Tho electric
ity pulls you up. Archie is very proud
of his road, and spends the days carry
ing his sisters and their dolls along the
road. He can stop any place on tho
way, so he pretends there are several
stations, and his sisters get out. Then
he takes them on again when he comes
back, and collects make-believe money
from them. They all have a very good
time riding on the cars, and Archie is
learning a great deal about electricity.
Six-Months' Old lawyer.
The youngest member of the Georgia
bar is Edward Harrison Bleckley, who
is not yet six months old. He was
unanimously elected a member of tho
bar association recently. He is a son
of Chief Justice Bleckley's old age.
Judge Bleckley is not far from eighty,
and his wedding two years ago attract
ed much attention in Georgia and
throughout the south.
Preferable.
Mrs. Messer Now, Tommy, go and
kiss your auntie or mamma will whip
you hard.
Tommy (after a long look at the
auntie) Whip me, ma. Chicago Reo
ord.
' Machinery 'br theTest manufacture
In the world. Their
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