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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. The difference
between then and now Is, they say,
simply the result of making news
paper and magazine advertising pay
their customers.
Britain last year imported no less
than £1.362,000 worth of musical in
struments— £750,000 worth from Ger
many alone.
The sermon mapes the pulpit; a
pure heart makes the altar.
DO TOUR CLOTHE8 LOOK YELLOW*
If so. use Red Cross Ball Blue. It willni&ko
them white as snow. 2 os. package 5 conte.
In the union of limburger and beer
there is strength.
If you don’t get the biggest and best
it’s your own fault. Defiance Starch
is for sale everywhere and there is
positively nothing to equal it in quality
or quantity.
There are boards made of wood and
wooden boards.
Defiance Starch is put up IC ounces
in a package, 10 cents. One-third
more starch for same money.
You can view life through either
stained glass windows or an old piece
of smoked glass.
Valuable Pointers About Texas.
A 144 page book, profusely illustrat
ed, of present day conditions and
prospects in the Lone Star State. It
is worth your while to get a copy;
free on request.—James Barker. Gen’l
Pass. Agent. M. K. & T. Ry., 501 \Yain
wright Bldg., St. Louis.
Every old bank where the wild
thyme grows pays interest on depos
its.
Fruit acids will not stain goods
dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES.
There is wonderful material be
tween the lines of the youthful essay.
Plso'e Cun is the best medicine we ever used
tor all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wa
O. Endslbt, Vanburen. Ind., Feb. 10. 190&
Self-preservation is the first law of
politics.
Many Foods Are Adulterated.
The Stewards’ club of Cleveland,
representing the leading clubs and
hotels of that city, has just completed
an Investigation of the character of
food products sold there with surpris
ing results. Of 175 samples of oleo
margarine examined, 170 were found
to contain impurities; of 400 milk
samples, 132 were impure; 27 per
cent of the mustards tested were adul
terated and 32 per cent of the flavor
ing extracts were doctored. Many
other food products fell far short of
the standard.
It’s Worth the While
To know of the prosperity and un
cqualed inducements in the South
west. Illustrated pamphlets, “Indian
Territory,” ’Texas,” "Old Mexico,”
“Winter Tours,” "Trade Follows the
Flag,” etc., will be sent free by writ
ing. James Ilarker, Geu'l Pass. &
Tkt. Agt., M., K. & T. Ry., 520 Wain
wright Bldg., St. Louis.
The German emnerior’s present to
the United States bears a striking re
semblance to Simon Tappertlt.
The modern theatrical hit must
have a blush In every line.
Clear white clothes nro a sign that tho
hotiKokeeiK-r mes Red Cross Bail Blue.
Large - oz. package, 5 cents.'
Marrried women who are reformers
generally get the fever after the wed
ding.
FITC Perwmnrm,y » «rm. No fluor nervotifme** after
■ lid first du v '• mb® of l>r. k line'* flrwvt Nenre Reefor*
it. Send for I'KKK #‘2.00 trial bottle and treatise.
L)u. ft 11 Kline, Ltd.. 881 Arch Street. I'nlladeliAla-***'
A man of resources isn't always a
man of means.
Mm. Wlnilo*-! iwnottung Syrup.
For children teething. .often, the gtirn., reduce, Ire
fiaiumaiU'U.alluy. pain. cure, wind colic. 23c abutt la
THE BEST HESL'l.TS IS STAKCIIINO
can be obtained only by using Defiance
Starch, besides getting 4 o*. mn", »lor
•ante money—r.o cooking requires.
Henpeck thinks the Mormons are al
ready sufficiently punished.
HALF RATES ,
TO
CANADIAN POINTS.
The Wabash will sell tickets from Ghl
cai?o to many points In Canada 1'eo. 18,
19. 20, 21st, good returning until Jan. lf*th,
1903. For rates and all Information call
at the Wabash oftlca. 1601 Farnum St., or
address Harry E. Moores, G. A. P. D.,
Omaha, Neb.
It needs but a slight scratch of the
pen to turn pathos into bathos.
DKKIANUK STARCH
should be In eve-v household, non# so
good, besides 4 or. more for 10 cents than
any other brand of cold water starch.
Wisdom is silent. You’ll know Fol
ly by the bells.
Rlops the rough anti
Works Off the Cold
Laxative Brouio Quinine Tablets. Price25c.
It is only after love is dead that
people dissect it.
THE ST. PAUL CALENDAR
FOR 1903
six ghee is 10x15 inches, of beautiful
reproductions, in colors, of pastel
drawings by Bryson, is now ready for
distribution and will be mailed on re
ceipt of twenty-five (25) cents—coin
or stamps. Address F. A. Miller, Gen
eral Passenger Agent, Chicago.
Adversity is the sauce of life, but a
lot of us don't care for sauce.
ANUARY BUYING
There Is no time like January for
holiday
Spring
ou al
satis factory buying. _,
ruah is over aud the early Spring
Th«
trade has not yet begun. _„
ways got flrnt pick of all tho earliest
In.January y<
H| w__ _ ho earliest Spring
goods and there is ample time to 011 anu
ahip your ordera with greater promptness.
Send 15 cents TODAY for our large General
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Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound lias secured this tome."’
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