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..A Close Call.* •all |Hart* ^ ®milpr.” as the men ■ •ailed him, for his mirth-loving nature, itood in ,he door-aay of the engine • »m lounging ta.sily against the frame set m the heavy brick wails and sur veying the scene about the iron mine. Behind Smiler were three vertical blowing engines, which ran continu ously all the year to make the blast. Ihey were gigantic, old-fashioned walking-beam engines, with the steam cylinder at one end of the beam, and the air-cylinder on the other, each vehicle and twelve feet in length. laking an oil ran he began the rounds, when an unusual noise caught his attention. There was a snap - Men a crash. At the crash he sprang forward to the throttle valve on No One engine; and before she had turned over to make another com plete stroke he had stopped her He thought he knew what had hap pened, and before investigating he put the other two engines to thrir maximum speed, that the air pressure might be maintained, if possible. To keep the air pressure or blast steadily on the furnaces was the most impor tant work the engines had to do. Smiler then seized a lamp and a wrench and ran through the arch into the compressor-room, where the three air-cylinders stood in a row, fifteen feet apart. He ran up the stairway to the upper floor, There he looked down at the cylinder attached to the mo tionless engine. It was as ho had supposed. The yoke holding the manhole plate and gasket in position had broken, and the whole arrangement had dropped into the cylinder. Smiler sprang to the v. alklng beam, slid down the connect ing-rod to the cross head, and down the piston-rod to the cylinder-head, standing there a moment on the im mense casting, which was five feet In diameter. Without a thought of danger ho squatted down, stuck his feet througn the small oblong; opening and wriggled through to his shoulders. Holding up his arms, with the wrench and lamp in his hands, he reached out with his toes and touched the air-piston. The engine being at less than middle stroke. this was a third of the way up in the cylinder. Drawing his arms through, he crouched down, and so gained the in terior of the cylinder. It was like an oven. The gleaming, polished walls reflected his light. He could not touch any part; it was all too hot, and he moved his lamp over the top of the .piston, looking for the broken yoke and plate. A moment after Smiler had dropped out of sight, Dennison, the boss fur naeeman, entered the engine room ex citedly. He had missed the familiar beat of one machine, and feared a diminution cf the blast. “Smiler!” he shouted, looking round. “O Smiler! Smiler!” Then he went to the throttle valve and took up the starting bar. Meanwhile Smiler gathered up the broken yoke and reached up to lay it on top of the head, shovijeg bis hands throng the narrow opening. The plate was a heavier piece, and he shouldered it first. It was a severe strain In the close, hot cylinder to push It through at arm's length. As he laid It beside the broken yoke he felt the piston beneath his feet move. Por an instant his heart stopped beat ing. The piston went down slowly with a hesitating motion. It would go down about four feet more, if the en gine had been started, and then rush up twelve feet, and flatten him against the iron head! This he realized. But when the piston had moved down two feet it stopped. The manhole by which he had entered was now almost five feet above his head. He gave a hearse i ry of terror, but it only reverberated in bis ears. Above the jar, pound and scream of the other engines he could hardly hope to make himself heard. Hoping to attract attention he threw (he wrench out of the manhole. It disappeared. The piston continued to descend. Smiler, in an agony of apprehension, cast the lamp after the wrench. Meanwhile the polished, hot walls radiant with heat, and the piston huri.cd his feet. If he could only jump and catch the manhole! But in the narrow space he was unable to spring more than a few inches. Tak ing off his jumper, he tried to throw it through, but it fell back on him. Then Smiler threw his keys, his knife and his hat through the hole. At last out flew his beloved watch. It sailed in a high curve and dis appeared. Outside something fell on the stone floor near Dennison and broke with a crash. He looked down. A watch! Smiler's watch! Dennison looked round for the young fellow and saw the other things—Smiler’s keys, knife, lamp, hat and wrench. But where v.as Smiler? Dennison deciding that something was wrong, shut off the steam. Then, running up the steps, which Smiler had ascended but a tew minutes before, he looked and called for the young engineer. Seeing the open manhole, he went to the top of the head. “Smiler!” he called, bending over the hollow’, echoing cylinder. “Yes, I’m here!” Smiler answered. Dennison lying out full length on the head, reached down his hand and Smiler grasped it. As Dennison slow ly rose to his knees with his burden, Smiler ascended inside until he was able to grasp the edge of the head, and with the furnaceman’s assistance he emerged, streaming with perspira tion, ami so weak with fright that he could hardly stand. “Close call, young fellow!” Denni sor observed, grimly. “Close enough,” Smiler returned. “Help me get this manhole head in position so I can start up. If you had known how you’d have had me flattened out long ago.”—Phil More in Youth’s Companion. NEWS TELEPHONE THE LATEST. Electricity Supplants the Daily Paper in Hungary. Notwithstanding the many uses to which electricity has been put in late years, many people will be surprised to learn that there is actually in oper ation in Budapest. Hungary, a lively town of some 700,000 inhabitants, a telephone newspaper. The copy is spoken into transmitters in the editor s office, and each subscriber has an in strument in his house. “One of the most praiseworthy fea tures of the •Telephone Newspaper' is its extraordinary cheapness," reports a writer for Pearson’s. Each subscrib er pays but two cents a day for its many advantages, and therei are> no fees for having a receiver fitted to a house. No one need continue sub scribing to the speaking newspaper for longer than four months. On these favorable terms each station is pro vided with the receiving appliance, having two car tubes, so that two peo pie can listen at the same time. The apparatus can be fixed wherever the subscriber pleases—at a bed or sofa at a writing desk or in a special room. ••At present the telephone newspa per is confined to Budapest, but for some time past preparations have been going on for extending it to the whole country. The manager of a great French daily paper intends to in troduce the invention into Paris, hav S bin «™<* by ft. when the apparatus was exhibited at The Paris exhibition, in Vienna the introduction of this unique invention will soon be effected, all the plans be ing in readiness.”__ HE WANTED PLAIN ENGLISH. Young Physician's Amusing Pica fc Enlightenment. ••There’s a physician in my town. .. Cincinnati drummer, who has a fa;' horo ho is instructing in the nidi son « of the profession, but just at m nt th. young follow is thinking of r“r: Iny ihW n... do., in th i KL He has a lot of rapid young b°°. ianlon8 of the slangy sort, and he K IdS£ om« .nh *»e »» potu,” said the doctor after a brief ex amination. ‘•'What was that?’ inquired the son, with an evident effort to catch the meaning. “ ‘Mania a potu—delirium tremens," repeated the doctor. “ ‘Oh,’ commented the youngster, you mean the jim jams, the d. t.’s, the delirius trimmings, the gortmagins, do you? I suppose I'll get next to this medical racket before the finish, but until I do 1 wish you would talk plain English for my benefit, dad.*" CANDLES IN NEW ORLEANS. More Consumed In That City Than in Any Other Place. “The candle never goes out in New Orleans,” said a man who is connected with a big candle manufacturing con cern, “and I suppose the consumption of candles in New Orleans is greater than at any other place in the world, proportionately, and where gas, elec tricity and oil are also used for light ing purposes. It will only require a few moments' reflection to explain why this is. Take All Saints’ day, for instance. Did you ever think about the large number of candles that are used on this day in the pretty observ ances which mark this day of flowers and sentiment? The use of candles is by no means confined to any one re ligious denomination on All Saints’ day, but, of course, in the Catholic cemeteries they are used more exten sively than elsewhere. And, of course, the extensive use of candles in other observances of a religious nature has a great deal to do with swelling the enormous number of candles used here. They are of all kinds, too, and all sizes. Candles of the finest pos sible make are sold in the New Or leans market, and play a part in the pretty ceremonials which mark the life in this quaint old place. And can dles of the cheaper grades are used, too. In price they range from three for five cents up to almost any price you want to pay.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. French Railway Freight Rate. The average rate of freight in France is nearly a cent and a half a ton per mile. Obstacles to love are what lemon juice is to a salad. We don’t want too much of It. When the heart Is young who cares for wrinkles? CONVINCING PROOF. Case No. 41,206.—Capt. Alfred O. Rlgler of Hose Company No. 4, Can ton, Ohio, says: “I had a weak back ever since I was a boy. and about six years ago the cause developed into rather a bad case of kidney com plaint. It was not a little backache now and then, but backache which raused actual suffering day and night, and the harder 1 tried to get rid of it the worse it became. When the attacks were in the acute stage it was difficult to sit down, and jvhen down it was Just as hard to re gain an erect position, on account of pie twinges of pain in the kidneys. I pan only describe some of the pangs as similar to that received from a knife thrust. In time, distressing and terribly Inconvenient urinary weakness result ed, causing annoying embarrassment during the day and loss of sleep dur ing the night. I took everything which came to my notice from reading, from observa tion, and which my friends and ac quaintances advised. I consulted physicians, but none of them were able to relieve the trouble, let alone stop it. It became so well known that I had a pronounced case of kidney com plaint that I often received circulars from medical companies offering to cure me, and one day eighteen letters were handed to me by the mail car rier. When Doan's Kidney Pills attracted | my attention I wanted to try them. Just as I had tried everything else, and Mrs. Rigler went to Durban & Wright Co.’s drug store for a box. Relief followed. 1 knew' after a dose or two that the medicine was acting directly on the kidneys from the altered condi tion of the kidney secretions, and, encouraged, I continued the treat ment. Finally, the backache and other complications stopped. Let me sum up my opinion about Doan's Kidney Pills by saying, I would willingly pay one month’s wages for a box of them if I could not buy them for less. You can refer any one to mo about Doan’s Kidney Pills and I will convince them that they act just as represented." Four Years After. "Lapse of time has strengthened my appreciation of Doan’s Kidney Pills. I gave this remedy my unquali fied endorsement in the summer of 1896, because of the results 1 obtained from a course of the treatment. I can now add to my original endorse ment the experience of a number of others who are just as enthusiastic, when they express their opinion of Doan’s Kidney Pills, as I.” A FREE TRIAL of this great kid ney medicine which cured Mr. Rig ler, will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Ad dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 60 cents per box. Out of a male population of les3 than 600 the Wiltshire (England) vil lage of Box sent thirty-six men to the war. Erafiie«i Cannot He Cared by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by consti tutional remedies. Deafness is caused bv an inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the Pustachlan Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hear ing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will lie destroyed forever: nine cases out of ten are caused' by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the muons surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any ease of Deafness (caused by calarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for Slrculars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, a Sold oy Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are tho best. Japanese national flags are alleged to be practically unobtainable just now In I.ondon. Don’t you know that Defiance Starch, besides being absolutely su perior to any other, Is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price aa lz-ounce packages of other kinds? "Distinction” for Prussian Teachers. The Prussian ministry of education has resolved on conferring a special mark of distinction upon lay teachers in the municipal schools when they retire from service. It lias been felt that years of faithful and exception ally valuable service In the cause of education call for recognition on the part of the government, and the min istry. convinced that the thing should be done handsomely, therefore decid ed that each teacher who lias display ed marked ability in the perfQrnjance of her duties shall on rct'remeiit, re ceive a colored po; trait of the empress in a gilt frame. Middb aged teach ers who fail to attain flie prize njji}' console themselves with the reflection that an article of this kind is to be obtained for a shilling or so in most art shops in Berlin. Queen Alexandra's Dainty Fad. Queen Alexandra s especial fad has a daintiness well in keeping with her personality. It Is that of having her pocket money made perfectly clean and bright before she fingers it. When ever a check is turned into hard cash for her use the coins are scrubbed in a lather of spirits of wine, water and soap before being placed in her purse, and any change that may be tendered her when making purchases is taken charge of by the lady-in-wait ing until it has been subjected to a like process of purification. How Advertising Grows. N. W. Ayer & Son, the “Keeping Everlastingly at It’’ advertising agents of Philadelphia, have found it necessary to move into new and larger quarters at 300-308 Chestnut Street in that city. This announcement will interest many publishers, because Ayer & Son are so widely known as promoters of newspaper publicity. They began business thirty-three years ago. with two people and an annual business of 816,000. They now have one hundred and ninety employes, and have for years done the largest advertising business in the world. 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