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GIANT TASK IN RAILROAD BUILDING Two Carloads of Powder in a Single Blast—$250. 000 Paid for One Mile of Track—2,629 Men Employed on a Piece of Track Being Built for the abash System. \i 0mm n-i—wn Cumberland. Md„ May 2.—"Look out! Look out! It’s going off!” was the wild cry heard a few days ago in Paw Paw. a small mountain encircled West Virginia town, on the new line of the Wabash, twenty miles east of Cumberland, when the ringing of bells and blowing of whistles gave the warning that In a few minutes the button would he pressed that would explode 8,COO pounds of giant powder in the rocky mountain side directly opposite and close to the town. For three days the people of Paw Paw had watched men carrying can after can of powder into the tunnels dug into the face of rocks. As the number of cans disappearing in the mourtain side increased the alarm of the people grew, and some in terror left the town, while those remaining filled their ears with cotton and wait ed for—they knew not what. At last, when 325 cans of powder, 8.125 pounds, had been emptied in the arms extending right and left from the inrer ends of the two 45-foot tunnels, wires laid and the tunnel closed, the electric button was press ed. There was a deep, rumbling re port, the whole earth seemed to rock as though shaken by an earthquake and tons of rock plunged forward and toppled over into the canal and river. uarioaas or Powder in One Blast. Not a stone had been thrown a hun dred feet toward the frenzied town, but 20,000 yards of rock had been torn from the mountain side and many precious days saved the contractors who are building the “link" connect ing the Western Maryland railroad at Cherry Run with the West Virginia Central railroad at Cumberland, and thus bringing nearer realization Georce Gould’s dream of making the Wabash railroad an ocean to ocean line. It was only the proximity of this blast to a town that made it particu larly prominent on this railroad con struction that is requiring a blast for almost every foot of the roadbed, In fact it was a small one in compari son to some that have been fired. In one blast, in Sidling Hill mountain, the charge consisted of 1,400 cans of powder, just two carloads, and when it was put off rocks weighing half a ton were hurled through the air hundreds of yards, across the Po tomac river and striking telegraph poles along the Baltimore & Ohio rail road broke them off close to the ground. It is this necessity for almost con tinuous blasting that has done much toward making this sixtv-five mile strip of railroad construction the most expensive of any built in recent years, with the single exception of the line over which the Wabash en ters Pittsburg. The cost of building the first five miles from Cumberland averaged $250,000 a mile and the average cost for the sixty-five miles fs $100,000 a mile. In budding this connecting link, the Wabash has had to contend with an unusually larsre number of obstacles of a surprising variety, some placed in the way by rature, others by man. Tunneling Through Solid Rock. Until the advent of the Wabash it was supposed there was no feasible route through the narrow gaps in the mountains between Cumberland and Hancock, forty miles, save those fol lowed by the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and the Paltimore & Ohio rail road. It was this belief that has kept life in the old waterway, life sus tained by the Baltimore & Ohio Rail road company to bar out any possible rival. Some years ago the Hon. Henry G. Davis, then owner of the West Virginia Central railroad, had a route surveyed through the country follow ed by the Wabash, but it was given tip as impracticable. As a result. It is not surprising that the construction of this road is proving one of the greatest undertakings of years, re quirirg application of almost every method known in railroad building and the ingenuity of contractors, who have built railroads in almost every state in the union, has been taxed to the utmost. Upon forty miles of this line there ere engaged to-day 2.C29 men. 300 animals, rine locomotives and nine steam shovels. For eighteen months there has been no cessation of labor and it is hoped that in eight more the work will be completed. Obstacles to Be Met. An idea of the difficulties encoun tered can be formed from the fact that this line in forty miles crosses the Potomac river nine times, the Chesapeake & Ohio canal seven times, the Baltimore & Ohio railroad three times, passes through moun tain ranges and spurs by five tunnels, varying in length from 790 feet to 4,400 feet, through ridges and hills by innumerable cuts, many of them over fifty feet deep through solid rock and some almost a mile in length, and that a great portion of the road is being cut out of the rocky sides of mountain ranges, directly above the canal. One of the most unusual dif ficulties in railroad construction, and yet the most troublesome on this line has been a disposition of the earth and rock removed in making the road bed, a difficulty arising from the fact that the Wabash follows closely the canal route. While waiting for legal right to bridge the old waterway it was necessary to push the construc tion work and to do this the contrac tors employed some striking methods. At Welton tunnel, a mile south of Cumberland, a large wheel was placed on top of the mountain above the tunnel entrance, cables were run from this across the river and canal to the low land, where filling was neces sary, and the rock from the tunnel was carried over in a large iron buck et suspended from the cables. The laborers’ camp was located on top of the mountain and the men construct ed a 150-foot ladder leading up the precipitous face of rocks from the mouth of the tunnel, and this ladder they ascended and descended many times a day. In the construction of the Indigo tunnel, a method never before employ ed in the East, and rarely elsewhere, is being employed. This is the great est tunnel on the line, being 4.400 feet in length. It passes through a Sidling Hill mountain range and makes the Wabash a straighter line and almost a mile in three shorter than the Baltimore & Ohio. It is being made by drilling the heading (the full width of the tunnel, twenty-four feet, and nine feet high) through from the bottom or at a grade level, and the rock will be blown down until the required height is reached. Old con tractors, accustomed to driving the beading through from the top, shake their heads and pronounce this meth od a “costly experiment,” but Mc Arthur Bros, say the strata. Indigo shale, is just right at this tunnel for this method and are confident it will be a success. The heading is being driven from both ends at the same time and the men are within 100 feet of each other, nine feet a day being the progress made from each end. The men working from the eastern end have penetrated only eleven inches further than those coming from the western side. The “Stick Pile" Tunnel. In order to cut a roadbed through the masses of rock that rise straight up from the bed of the canal it was necessary to wait until navigation closed for the year. In the meantime the holes for the blasts were all pre pared and when the water was with drawn. about a month later than ever before, thousands of pounds of pow der and dynamite were exploded in these holes and the canal bed was fiiled with earth and rock for many miles which must be removed within the next two months. The only place where the Wabash leaves the canal and river for any considerable distance Is at Bayard, thirty-five miles east of Cumberland. After crossing the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the river and caral, at a diz j zy height on a 1.370-foot bridge, five j 150-foot channel spans with viaduct approach, it strikes boldly into the mountains. After running through tremendous cuts, over deep ravines and through the Stick Pile tunnel 1.600 feet in length, it emerges from its five-mile run through the heart of the mountain at Orleans, W. Va. This is considered one of the heaviest pieces of work on the line, but here as at many other places, a compara tively straight line is secured with moderate grades and with a saving of almost a mile over the Baltimore & Ohio route. The first work was done on this connecting link on July 21, 1903, and the contract called for its completion in eighteen months. The d^lav and extra work occasioned by trouble with the canal rendered its comple tion within contract time an Impossi bility. Now. October 1. is the date set for the opening of the road, but it is claimed January 1, 1906, would be a nearer date. From Cherry Run to Hancock, ten j miles, the road is completed and trains are running on it. For ten miles east of Cumberland the roadbed is ready for the rails and the three bridges are in course of erection. At numer ous other places there are four and j five niile stretches completed, but i there remains a great amount of difficult work to be done. It is only the fact that work is being rushed day and night, regardless of weather conditions and without regard to ex pense, that makes safe the prediction that not later than January 1, 1906, the Wabash will have this line open for traffic. Parent Stock of Europe's Kings. It is quite true, although it is little known, that nearly every sovereign in Europe i;i not only kinsman to King Edward, but is descended from our English Kings. In fact, eleven of them are direct descendants of James I. The kings of Spain and Portugal spring lineally from King Janies thiough his son. the first Charles; while the sovereigns of England. Ger many, Russia, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Greece and Holland all come from James I.’s daughter Elizabeth, who married Frederick V., Elector Palatine. .A future King of Sweden and Norway will soon join the throng through his wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught, and some day the only European ruler who will not.be in a sense British will be the Sultan of Turkey.—English Exchange. Admires Washerwomen’s Tribute. Among the things most admired by Que<va Alexandra on her recent visit to Gibraltar were two wonderful tri umphal arches of clothes baskets erected by the washerwomen of the town. Industrious American Consuls. They are always investigating, in quiring and wanting to know. They are not content merely to send to the department perfunctory reports of of ficial returns of imports and exports or i mere tables of figures (although these i as matters of routine are not ignored). but they delve into obscure places, j they oompare and contrast, they of i fer their advice and suggestions free-' I ly and the department allows T^iem , full scope. How much the consul's re j Porf is "edited” before it is made pub lic, or how often it never is given pub licity, no one, of course, outside the department has any means of knowing, but the daily bulletin issued contain ing these reports, which is given wide and gratuitous distribution, shows that the American consular corps is industrious and intelligent.—London Post. Canal Lessens Distance. By Cape Horn the distance between I New York and San Francisco is about 14 800 miles. The Panama canui will reduce this to something less than 6.000. \ ' The daring, reckless flirting with death for the purpose of amusing the public, which hat gone to such ex treme lengths u iring the past three or four years, will this coming season reach a limit almost inconceivable to the average mind. The “thrillers” which will thrill the public during the summer have been perfected by those “human freaks” during the past winter, and some of them have already been “put on” in New York. They are real “thrillers.” In the past few years ingenious, wild, incredible schemes have pressed on without a break, so that there has hardly been a year when the freak of one season was good enough to be the freak of the next. The circus people themselves won der where the nerve of the freaks is going to stop. They really thought, or rather, feared, that it had reached the limit when Fitzgerald, the one-legged man, rode down an almost vertical the building is a painted canvas moon. Opposite it is the up-tilted end of one of these loop-the-loop contrivances. The woman flies along on her wheel, darts off the very end of the dizzy road and goes spinning clean across the arena, high over head, till she strikes the moon, which opens and takes in her and her wheel. Scarcely had the people of Europe had time to gasp at this before a Pa rasian woman came out with some thing that was indeed worthy of being called “the biggest thing yet.” So big was it that the American cir cus promptly went “down into its clothes” for $5,000 a week for her and brought her over as its star attraction for the season of 1905. This new thrilling freak is a pretty woman. Mauricia de Tiers is her name. She seats herself in an automobile high in the air on the top of a skele ton structure as tall as a five-story course. At the same instant the other rider shoots into space from the tippedup end of his runway, and the two whiz by each other in mid-air. Bang Bang! They hit the upward pointing end of the second loop at the same moment. But they do not anni hilate each other as one expects those hurtling bodies to do; one strikes the loop underneath and the other above. The one who has been upside down whirls around below, and even as his wheel rights, he is hurled off again, once more reversing his course, to leap through the air a second time and bounce with a shock onto a plat form whence he rides off onto the ground. The other in the meantime has reached the end of his runway and is also shot off and upward to a platform at the opposite side. What next? The circus people can’t imagine. But the chances are that somewhere somebody is trying to beat these two feats already with some the DOUBLE ^J.OOpTHEOAe.'* flight of stairs from the top of Mad ison Square Garden to the arena on a bicycle. But if they wondered what could be found to follow that thriller, they had their pains for nothing. Be fore the season was ended, a dozen plans were on foot to beat the act. Fitzgerald himself beat it by going down the same terrible declivity in the next season on an automobile. His bicycle had been improved on by two men who flew the staircase on a single wheel, one standing on the other’s shoulders and firing off a pis tol as they sped. Along came another man who rode in an enormous cage made of slats set widely apart. Gradually, as his veloc ity increased, his wheel climbed the side of the apparatus till he rode at right angles to the slats. Before long, three men were riding around in the cage. Then others found that the act would look more thrilling if the cage were lifted high in the air and had no bottom to it. so that any accident would certainly hurl the performers outward and downward like a cannon ball. Then came the loop-the-loop freak, building. Pefore her the runway points almost straight down till it reaches a point about midway from the ground. There it turns inward— underneath itself, like a vast hook. It looks as if. once started fr«<i its giddy resting place, the heavy automo bile must surely flash down the in cline and drop wildly off into space the moment it reaches the dip where the roadway disappears. The machine, with the little whit clad figure in it. rips downward with a roar. It dips down like lightning, still clinging to the roadway, but upside down, shoots off into the air with its occupant head down, and the next mo ment strikes the up-tilted segment of a wooden roadway more than thirty feet away, with a crash. Still upside down it dftrts down the under side of this, till, completing the circle, the thing is right side up again and goes careering along the incline to the ground. Auto bolide, they call it. The ride lasts four seconds. It is to be done twice a day in this country. That makes eight seconds a day or forty eight a week, which makes her salary “The Death Dip” in an automobile as performed by Mile. De Tiers. and the public said that this surely was the limit. So thought the circus people themselves. They figured that there might be some modification of the thing, but that the limit of daring mortal injury and death for wages had probably been reached at last. Yet within two years the loop-the loop ride was lost before the loop-the gap ride, and in the same arena an other rider was thundering nightly down an incline so sheer that no man could climb it, dishing up another and leaping from the end of it over more than twenty-five feet of space to the up-tilted end of still another. These things looked pretty hard to beat, and they were. But they have been beaten again. In Europe to-day a woman is mak ing what the program calls “A Flight to the Moon." High up in the top of $5,000 for less than a minutes work a week. But how many persons would take the ride one single time for the whole week’s salary or for the whole sea son’s earnings? The bicycle Loop-the Gap has been out-freaked and out-thrilled, too. The circus crowds of the season will see two inclines facing each other and each ending in the familiar loop with the break or gap in it. The gap has been vastly extended so that there are more than 30 feet of open space now for the riders to leap. A rider starts at each summit. The two wheels dash down, apparently bound helplessly toward each other. One. arriving at the end of his loop, which inclines backward over itself, is hurled violently upside down and i catapults in a direction reverse to his f thing even more wildly spectacular and deadly. WHY RACES WERE DELAYED. — Incident Showed Folly of Present Automobile Driving. A. F. MacDonald, who recently made at Ormond, with a 90 H. P. car, five I miles in a little over three minutes, is j a prudent, no less than a skilled chauf ; fer. MacDonald has no patience with reckless .motoring. He believes that, with ordinary care and caution, acci dents might be altogether eliminated. He said the other day: “It is a shame that horrible fatali ties so often occur in automobiling. It is a shame that, at motor races, it is possible to hear what I heard not long since. “An important race was to be run, but at the hour of starting there was some delay. The people became im patient over this delay. A man in a brown ponyskin coat accosted one of the officials, and I heard him say: “ ‘The race was scheduled for 2. and here it is almost 3. What is the trouble? Why all this waiting?’ “The official answered politely: “ ‘The ambulance surgeons, sir, have not yet arrived.’ ” ." ~ r Great Pagoda at Rangoon. Rangoon, the principal city of Bur ma, grew up around the sacred spot on which is built the great Shoay Da gon pagoda, one of its principal won ders. “Rising to a height of 360 feet, its size is greatly enhanced by the fact that it stands on an eminence that is itself 166 feet above the level of the city.” says a writer. “It is covered with pure gold from base to summit; and once in every generation this gold is completely renewed by public sub scription. Yet throughout the inter val the process of regilding goes on perpetually. Pious people w'ho seek in this way to express their venera tion and to add to their store of spir itual merit climb up daily with little fluttering packets of gold leaf, which they fasten on some friction of its great surface. There is no more pic turesque sight offered by it than that of a group of these silken worshipers outlined against its gold, in the act of contributing their small quota to its splendor. The pagoda itself has no in terior. It is a solid stupa of brick raised over a relic chamber.” — Suit Rolls. Suit rolls, which are something like j enlarged music rolls, come as a new wrinkle to athletes, especially base ball, lawn tennis and golfing men, this season. Really they are intended to keep out wrinkles in the clothing. Be j sides a place for a pair of shoes, an. outing suit and shirt may be laid flat hi the roll and the strapped into a neat bundle. They come of canvas or leather, with handles like those on a shawl strap. Remarkable Menagerie. Paula Edwardes recently received the following letter, which is evidently the work of some polite lunatic: •‘Dear Miss Edwardes: Knowing you to be interested in anything novel in theatrical entertainment. I should like to make an appointment to show you my collection «f trained geuns They have the well known flea circus stunned to death. The star of the com pany is a typhoid fever bacillus, named Mike, who can stand on all sev en of his hands and whistle ‘Home, Sweet Home’ through his teeth. I have also two young measles microbes wto do a sister act and a family of diphtheria bacilli, the youngest of which can tuck his limbs under his neck and sit on both ears at once. The performance can be given on a stage two inches square. Kindly let me know when and where you will see me.”—Minneapolis Times. Telephoning to a Phonograph. The disadvantages inevitable In telephoning have been partially over come by an Intstrument of foreign make—though the general service i ability of the device has not been demonstrated by usage in this coun try, according to the World’s Work. It may be described as an ordinary tele phone with a phonographic attach ment. While Mr. Jones is in his office the attachment is not in use, but on going out he connects it with the tele phone. When someone calls for Mr. Jones over the telephone, the phono graphic attachment responds some thing after this fashion: “Mr. Jones is not in. This is a phonographic re ceiver speaking. Kindly give me your message and I will give it to him on his return.” On coming in air. Jones , sees from a signal that a message is waiting him. He takes the receiver and the phonograph delivers the mes sages (perhaps there are many) that have been confided to it. University Faculty Colony. A Stanford university faculty col ony is to be started at Carmel-by-the Sea, southern California. Among those who build summer homes there are President Jordan. Professor* Gilbert, , Stillman, Fish, Pierce, Merito. Elmore , Cannon and Mrs. W. A. KimbcJJ. Shakespearean Subterfuge. Mrs. Maybrick, who has returned to America after fifteen years of impris onment in England, tells an amusing anecdote of her life there. In the Eng lish prison the convicts are not al lowed to use profane language, and the restriction becomes extremely irksome for many of them. One of the keepers, says Mrs. Maybrick, was once passing a cell when he overheard the convict w'ithin talking loudly to him self. The keeper stopped to listen. “Out, damn spot!” he heard, repeat ed over and over with intense empha sis. “Here, you!'' ,alled the keeper. “No swearing—stoj that!” The man drew himself up and re plied, with dignity, “Do you mean to tell me,” he inquired, “that one cant, even quote Shakespeare in this place?” —Harper’s Weekly. Children Keep City Clean. The children of San Rafael, Cal., have been formed into a junior section of the local improvement club. Their duty will be to preserve the street trees and to keep paper off the streets. There are many popular but un founded prejudices against the dietic use ot fruits. It is generally sup posed, for example, that fruits are zonducive to bowel disorders, and lhat they are especially prone to pro duce indigestion if taken at the last meal. The truth is the very opposite af these notions. An exclusive diet af fruit is one of the best-known rem edies for chronic bowel disorders. During the late war, large numbers af the soldiers suffering from chronic dysentery were in several instances rapidly cured when abundantly sup plied with ripe peaches. Fruit juice i may be advantageously used in both acute and chronic bowel disorders. Care must be taken, however, to avoid fruit juices which contain a large amount of cane sugar. Juices at sweet fruits should be employed, or a mixture of sour and sweet fruit juices, or acid fruit juice may be sw’eetened with malt honey or mel tose, a natural sweet produced from cereals. Raisins, Mgs, prunes, sweet apples and pears may be mixed with sour fruits. Indigestion sometimes results from the use of fruits in combination with a variety of other food substances; but fruits taken alone constitute the best possible menu for the last meal of the day. The combination of fruit, sugar, cream, bread, butter, cake and pie may well produce bad dreams and a bad taste in the mouth in the morn ing. The use of fresh or stewed fruit alone without any addition whatever will produce no disturbance, and will leave no unpleasant effects behind to be regretted in the morning. Very acid fruits sometimes disagree with persons wrho have an excess of acid and those who are suffering from chronic inflammation of the stomach; but with these exceptions, there is al most no case in which fruit may not be advantageously used. The notion that acid fruits must be avoided by rheumatics is another er ror which is based on inaccurate ob servations. The fact is, rheumatics are greatly benefited by the use cf fruit. At the same time they should abstain from the use of flesh foods of all sorts, beef tea and animal broths, and all meat preparations, also tea and coffee, as well as alcohol and to bacco. It is, of course, possible for one to take an excess of acids, as one may take an excess of starch or any other food substances. Vegetable acids differ from mineral acids in the fact that they do not accumulate in the body, but are assimilated or util ized in the same way as sugar and al lied substances. Very Dissipated. There are a good many persons who might be said to be dissipated and “all broke up” according to the Japanese use of the word, illustrated in the following anecdote: “T^iey are telling in Boston of two or three Japanese students of rank who have been in the habit of dining each Sunday at the residence of one of the prominent citizens of the Hub. | On a recent Sunday one was absent, and when the host asked why, one of the guests said solemnly: *Oh. he cannot come. He very, very dissi pated!’ The host thought it best not to make any further inquiry at the time, but after the meal he ventured to ask the same young man in pri vate. ‘You say Mr. Nim Shi is not well?’ “ ‘No, he not very well—he very dis sipated.’ “ ‘He hasn’t been drinking?’ “ 'Oh, no, no! he no drunk.’ “ ‘Not gambling?’ “ ‘No, no gamble.’ “ ‘May I ask what he has been do ing, then?’ “ ‘Oh, he very dissipated. He eat sponge cake allee time—he all broke up now.’ ” Frances Willard and Fashionable Dress. Said Frances Willard in one of her last addresses, speaking of the ad vancement and present status of women: “But be it remembered that until woman comes to her kingdom physi cally she will never really come at all. Created to be well and strong and beautiful, she long ago ‘sacrificed her constitution, and has ever since been living on her by-laws.’ She has made of herself an hourglass, whose sands of life passed quickly by. She has walked when she should have run. sat when she should have walked, re clined when she should have sat. She has allowed herself to become a mere lay figure upon which could be fastened any hump or hoop or far thingale that fashion-mongers show; and ofttimes her head is a mere ro tary ball upon which milliners may rerch whatever they please—be it a bird of paradise, or bea«t or creeping thing. She has bedraggled her sense less long skirts in whatever combina tion of filth the street presented, sub mitting to a motion the most awk ward and degrading known to the en tire animal kingdom, for Nature has endowed all others that carry trains and trails with the power of lifting them without turning in their tracks, but a fashionable woman pays lowli est obeisance to what follows in her f own wake; and, as she does so, cuts the most grotesque figure outside a jumping jack. She is a creature born to the beauty and freedom of Diana, but she is swathed by her skirts, splintered by her stays, bandaged by her tight waist, and pinioned by her sleeves until—alas, that I should live to say it!—a trussed turkey or a spit ted goose are her most appropriate emblems.” A Substitute for Leather. An English inventor has devised a perfect substitute for leather which can be used for boots, shoes and for every other purpose for which leather is employed. The newr tissue is called wolft. It is being extensively used in England, having been adopted by the London Shoe Company especially for walking shoes on account of its coolness and its lightness. Wolft is more durable than leather and is much more waterproof, while at the same time more porous, which makes it a nonconductor, and to a large de gree obviates the necessity for wear ing rubbers which are needed by one whose feet are clad with leather only when the slush and mud is so deep that the feet are half buried at every step. Fcod Value of Eggs. Eggs are a very nourishing food and represent two important ele ments. fats and proteids, in an easily assimilated form. A single egg weighs about one and one-half ounces, of which one ounce is white, or pure albumin, and one-half ounce yolk. The nutritive value of the yolk is greater than that of the white, though its bulk and weight are small er. Its solid constituents are about one half of its fat. Fresh eggs, prop erly prepared, are readily digestible. The best mode of preparation is whipped raw, or cooked for twenty cr thirty minutes at a temperature of about 160’ (curdled!. The yolks are more easily digested when boiled hard, and the whites are also easily digested when hard boiled, providing care is used to reduce the coagulated white to minute particles which may readily be dissolved by the gastric juice. A single egg is equal in value to a dozen oysters. RECIPES. Mashed Peas With Nuts.—Soak a pint of Scotch peas overnight in cold water. In the morning drain and put them to cook in warm water. Cook slowly until perfectly tender, allowing them to simmer very gently toward the last until they become as dry as possible. Put through a colander to remove the skins. Cook the peanuts separately, drain from the juice, rub through a colander, and add to the peas. Beat well together, season with salt, turn into an earthen or granite ware pudding dish, smooth the top. and bake in a moderate oven until dry and mealy. If preferred, one third toasted bread crumbs may be used with the peas and a less propor tion of nuts. Serve hot like mashed potato. Graham Gems.—Place one pint of cold water in a crock, add one egg; beat water, egg and a pinch of salt together. Then add lai cups of white flour and ai cup of graham flour, beat thoroughly, and bake in a quick oven. Irish Corn Soup.—Take one pint of slice potato cooked until tender, a Id one pint of corn pulp obtained by rubbing cooked dried corn through a colander. Season with salt, add wa ter to make a proper consistency, re heat. and serve. Split-Pea Soup.—For each quart of soup desired, simmer one cup of split peas very slowly in three pints of boiling water for six hours or until thoroughly dissolved. When done, rub through a colander, add salt and a slice of onion to flavor. Reheat and season with one-half cup of thin cream or a spoonful of nut meal pre pared as directed below. Remove the slice of onion with a fork. Serve hot with croutons. Baked Parsnips.—Wash, scrape and divide; drop into boiling water, a lit tle more than sufficient to cook them, and boil gently till thoroughly tender. There should remain about one-half pint of the liquor when the parsnips are done. Arrange on an earthen plate or shallow pudding-dish, not more than one layer deep; cover with the juice and bake, basting frequent ly until the juice is all absorbed and the parsnips delicately browned. Serve at once. Unappreciative. Hon. R. G. Cousins, of Iowa, who is proudly known throughout his na tive State as "Our Bob," recently strolled into a barber shop for his customery shave. While the barber wielded the razor over the face of the eloquent Congressman, he hummed, plaintively and pathetically, "That Little Old Red Shawl My Mother Wore.” When he had finished his work, Mr. Cousins slowly arose from the chair and handed him a quarter, saying in his characteristic lazy drawl: “Just keep the change and go and bus your mother a new shawl.”—Phil adelphia Ledger. No “Soft” Snaps in Life. Whenever I see a youth looking for “a s >ft snap,” I pity him. There can be no doubt where he will end. if he does not change his tactics. If he does not brace up, take stock of himself, and put vim and purpose and energy into his life, he will surely join the great army of the “might-have-beens.” —O. S. Marden, in “Success Maga zine.” ■ *n Spite of the Academy. While that body of sirupy literary sentimentalists known as the French academy refused to gild the declin ing years of Jules Verne with an elec j tion to the coveted hall os' immortals, this rarely gifted writer will survive in worldwide appreciation long after j the puling poets and itching love anal ; ysts who rejected him have been for gotten. Jules Verne was great beyond I the line posts of a single country. The author of “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” “Around tie World in Eighty Days” and half a hundred ^ other delightful books may not meas- ® ure up to the standard of emasculated drivel required by the academy, but it must have been a satisfaction to the stricken author to know that the world had placed upon his brow the laurel of success.—Kansas City Journal. Japanese Generals Are Christians. Gen. Ncgi and Gen. Kurokl are mem bers of the Presbyterian church, and Field Marshal Oyama’s wife is also a member In good standing of that de nomination. Admiral Togo is a Ro man Catholi*.