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Btrehucras Life of the Modern Locomotive
Kikes Its Teeurt Few ia Number.
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; EFFECT OF SPEED AND HEAVY PULL
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Becomes o( Dltrtritl Ports
Eaaiae'a Fofn Pile t Big It pair
Bill Freight Cara short
j ."What becomes of all the pins?" aad
, "What bappna after death to tha splendid
piece of mechantam called locomotive?"
I ar by no mean similar question. Indeed,
tha theory of metempacychoala may well
v' ba applied td all railroad rolling- stock.
'' Nearly -every 'piece la aaved and put to
f some uae: has assurance of a future exlst
v enee even aa "scrap' for tha furnace from
iwhloh It cornea forth aa new parte. "Re
InTerfatlon" the proceea may ba termed, to
coin a word for tuch railroad phenomena.
The modern locomotive costs $13,000 or
lA,0Oft, according to slse and equipment.
Tha passenger locomotives In former days
,' were embellished with extra braaa work
. and trimmings, the bright parte wera kept
' by the fireman In a state of glittering efful
' gence. and the passenger engjne coat mora
t than tha freight engine. Nowadays ttia
trimmings are not put on and the passenger
engine, being lighter, costs less than the
mammoth freighter.
When the engine goes Into commission
it Is a line piece of machinery, with power
to pull long trains over miles' of track, day
after day; but with tho strenuous work
M . cornea the certainty of deterioration and
I"" tha necessity of constant repairs. When
y work was lighter, trains not ao heavy, and
mileage In lower figures, an angina could
he expected to live thirty years! but In
locomotives tho tendency Is toward a de
t crease of longevity, for the management
f strives to get all the service possible out of
' them. The age of expectancy Is only ap
i proximate. Bad water that Is, water bad
t for the Internal economy of boilers and
! which causea scale 1 perhaps the greatest
foe to an engine's hope for an honorable
old age. A bad water division uses up Its
-' ' motive power far more rapidly than hard
if. vork eleewhera. Local conditions on the
1;m largely affect the motive power. A hilly
country causes more strain. Then, too,
? housing facilities have much to do with
the life of the engine. If it Is possible to
keep up with neede In repairs, the power
stands a better chance of giving long; rr
ice. The demand for engines, however, may
he so pressing that tha least possible repair
Ing that will answer Is given, with the re
eult that tha locomotives constantly de
teriorate and lose In efficiency, until com
plete overhauling become a positive neces
sity. "A stitch In time saves nine." in rail
road as well aa in garment repairs.
Freighter Oets the Worst ef It.
At one time it waa popularly supposed
mac ino passenger engin was duuji iw
P tk. tiiBpcit train tint tfeat was hfnrwi
I the days of long trains and 100,000-pound
cars, . me rreignter gees ins worst 01 n
' under, existing conditions. The passenger
engine, fairly treated, stands a chance of a
'. one-third to one-half longer life, and then
prolong Ha daya on a branch line or In
some special service.
, Repairs .begin almost with the engine'!
first trip. If theee could be eliminated rail
roading would be simpler for the manage
ment. Ordinarily repairs are divided Into
five classes, aa follows:.
Class 1 means overhauling costing 13.800
or more, Including a fire box and boiler
ranewal, i ,
Claes t, repair costing $3,500, but no new
-firebox. r large parts. -. -f
. Class t, repalra costing from ISOO to 11,500.
Class 4. repairs, costing less than $100.
Tn first time ' an ' engine goes' -Into the
sf Shop It may have run two or three years
without much repair charge beyond Inol-
dentate, or It may be 4 "hoodoo" and gat
Into trouble every trip. Under normal eon
dltlons the first repairing would cost
about $1,000 and tha seoondand third over
hauling about $1,500 each. In the twenty
yeara estimated life of an engine the ex
penditure for repairs will reach In all prob
ability $30,000, or about, twice the original
cost
Tha repalra Include every Imaginable
TVteeUnar, W. V., May a8, xqoj. '
Soma years ago while at work, I fell over
truck and severely Injured both o! my
bins. My blood boowto poisoued as a re
suit, and the doctw told mo I would harro
running sores for life, and that if they w-ro
healed up tho result would be fatal. Under
tuia discouraHg report I left off their
treatment and resorted to Uie use of 8. S. 8.
Its effects were prompt and irratifyir.v It
took only a short while for the medicine to
entirely euro up the sores, end I am hm
dead aa the doctors intimated 1 would be,
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scratch, bruise or boil, sad while salves,
washes and pewdersare beneficial, the un
healthy matter in tht blood must be driven
out or the sore will continue to cat and
spread. ' "
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patch or replacement, from renewing a
broken glass to providing a new boiler or
fire box. Be ale forms Inside and gradually
wears the boiler plates thinner, reducing
them to a frail ahell; or. if soda ash la used
to prevent scale, all the brass taps that can
be reached by the soda ash deteriorate rap
;dly and have to ba renewed. Thus It will
be seen that the maintenance of power In
volves many questions. Everything possi
ble la don to keep the engine In commis
sion until at last a stage of decrepitude
I reached that seems to preclude further
repairs. At this point It Is a question ef
crapping tha locomotive or selling It for
about $2,500 to dealers In second hand
equipment, who will repair It for about a
much more and sell It to a logging or simi
lar road where It may do service for sev
eral more years.
Talae tha Sera rile.
An old locomotive I worth a scrap from
$500 to $2,600, as the case may be. the differ
enc being due to the availability of the
various parts for further us ss such parts.
When tha engine Is tamed over to the
scrappers It presents a disreputable appear
anoe, far removed from that of the days
when Its first engineer looked It over.
Once dignified as "she," "old kettle" or
"mess of Junk" are tha most respectful
epithets applied by thoee who have to do
with Its operation. Even In the daya of
scrapping careful management guards
against wastefulness. BtecU braaa and
Iron ara taken off separately; everything
usable Is saved out, and frames, axles and
good parts are set aside for further use.
What Is left goes to the scrap bins and
ventually to the foundry or Junk dealer.
Changing railroad conditions - make It
difficult to estimate tha life of a locomotive
and tha same is true of passenger and
freight cars. There are many passenger
coaches In us today which were built
thirty or more year ago and are still In
good condition If not modern In appearance.
The old coaches with solid white oak sills
were good ones. Of necessity there have
been change In style In passenger eoachea.
Tha ears that were lightly built twenty-five
years ago have no business In the modern
heavy trains, and If placed there soon get
knocked out. On short branch roads they
serve their purpose. The custom now Is
to build with steel underframlng like the
Pullmans, so that it almost Impossible to
smash them In a wrack.
The box car's life 1 shortest of all rolling
stock, and this Is owing largely to tha
changes In construction. The capacity of
oar has Increased from 40,000 to M.ooo or
100,000 pounds each, and usuge Is rougher.
The use of the air brake has helped to pre
serve them, but It Is hard service at the
beat In the present day long, heavy trains.
War aae Tear ( Car.
There are many box ears running, how
sver, which hsv seen more than twenty
five year of service, and their life might
be averaged at twenty year. There Is no
reason why the steel gondolas should not
last thirty years or more, ss there Is less
llkllhood of their wesrlng out. ,Wbn a
box, freight or passenger ear has served Its
timet there I little to ba scrapped. Th
trucks and rods are taken out and the
wooden portion Is burned or uaed for some
purpose, such ss tool houses along the
line, station, sometimes Improvised dwell-.
Ing In fact, for almoat anything from an
office to a chapel. The trucks under a box
freight oar are worth $7t to $100, and these,
with the side rods, sre taken out. The
box, which Is considered to have no scrap
value ( burned, and whatever small piece
of Iron remain ara gathered up afterward.
Car equipment I not always discarded
because worn out. but It may ba out of
style or too small capacity. On of the
results constantly sought by railroad man
agement is the reduction of hauling ex
pense par ton per mile, and no road thinks
nowadays of a box oar of less capacity
than'flO.000 pound, and SO.OOO or 100.000 I
preferred. Monster locomotives and long
trains of mammoth ears nowadays carry an
immensely larger quantity of freight over
tli road In lees time than formerly. Gen
erally speaking, ' railroads prefer to sell
their old engines and cars, It possible, and
save tho expense of scrapping, which nat
urally Is considerable. That Is why a num
ber of concerns do a profitable business In
old rolling stock and there Is a demand
from small railroads or self-contained ltnea
for engines and ears which the trunk lines
do not think It profitable to keep tn stock.
In I1 railroad center a constant watch
ful warfare Is waged agalnat thelve who,
many time In organised gangs, plan the
removal of all detachable pleoes of loco
motives or ears. These thieves carry
wrenches with them, and If great care Is
not exercised they will steal bras and
other fittings from locomotives in broad
daylight where they stand. Tha boldness
of some of the attempts I remarkable,
and tha arrest and convictions which oo
eur from time to time do not suffice to
deter these criminals, some of whom are
aald to be actually In the employ ef rail
road companies as silent partners of those
who carry away the spoil.
The life of a passenger locomotive may
be approximated at twenty-two years; a
freight locomotive at fifteen years; a box
freight ear at twenty year, and a passen
ger coach at twenty-five year. The are
tha estimate furntehed by several railroad-departments
and 'superintendent, al
though In every case they wished the fig
ures considered as only approximately cor
rctA,' Wy McCoy In Chautauquan.
F00LKILLER NEGLECTING DUTY
Witless Jakes ( the Practical Jaker
.. Wl Manages to Escape -Padded
Call.
The distinguishing trait of the average
practical ' Joker, so-called, are hi utter
failure to recognise wit, his complete and
hopeless lack of a sens of humor, and,
one Is often tempted to add, hla deficiency
In ordinary intelligence. On the meat and
poison principle. What i on man' Joke
may be another man's ruin.
Two newspaper dispatches" printed the
earns day ara worth reading. In Chicago
a medical student so arranged and dis
played a skeleton that by working wires
the limbs could be made to move aa de
sired. The destined victim of the prsnk
was the Joker's sister, who, being lured
Into the room where the skeleton was kept,
found Its bony arms outstretched to her.
Rssult, collapse from fear and a severe
case of brain fever from which shs may
recover, m Fluehln. I, I., a young man
mad a hoi In an apple, filled th cavity
with cayenne pepper, gave the fruit to a
l-year-old boy. who bolted It .and felt Into
convulsions, hla nervous system being so
deranged that for years he may not grt
over the effect of hi experience.
Cases which doubtless are. duplicated
every day in aay town of any slse, though
the public rarely hears of them, and thu
ons more Incitement to mob vlolanoo is
absent. Nor are those "ptActloal Jokes"
attended with bodily pain th most numer
ous or serious. The mental suffering they
frequently entail la even more to be de
plored. , The happlneas of Individual and
whole families Is too often disturbed or
destroyed by th same pernicious activity
of a "Joker" whoa pranks bespeak at one
tha callous heart and th empty head. Th
existence, In short, of th practical Joker,
as th term Is generally employed, 1 most
convincing vTdeno of th fool killer neg.
lect of duty. Cleveland plain Dealer.-
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ORGAN GRINDING PAYS WELL
Good Money and Lota of it Coaxed by the
Turning Oraak.
MUSIC BY THE BARREL YIELDS FORTUNE
Ta.r I ft of a Teteraa Shows la Laa
Parekases Earnlaga fe Day'
and t'p Soaa Weoeca
Do Tarau
Th hand organ drswn by a hors Is. for
th first time this summer, perambulating
over the Orange mountains snd poking Into
remote corners of Long Island and JS'ew
England. Thers ars comparatively few of
them, for such an organ Is expensive, and
the maintenance of the horse argues a do
gree of .affluence not alwaya existent among
organ grinders, although they are a class
of people usually in easy circumstance.
A building near tha corner of Park and
Mulberry streets. New Tork. changed hand
six or seven yeara ago for $SS,000. The man
who bought It had ground a hand organ
In the streets of New Tork for twenty-five
years.
Ha waa an Italian and had lived In Bax
ter street all that time. The building he
purchased is a tenement hone and ha goes
out with the organ no more, devoting him
self to the more congenial task of collecting
of the hand organ grinders In New
Tork live In .Baxter street, and they are
largely Genoese, particularly th women.
There are generally two persons to each
organ, occasionally one or three.
Every organ, big or little, coats $1 a day
to rent. Tha smallest organs, those carried
on tho back, coat not lea than. $200; the
larger ones, which are far mora numerous',
cost more ' In proportion. Therefore, one
may set It down that every organ he sees
is earning $2 a day, or the Interest on an
Invested capital of $200, sometimes $400 or
$309.
In addition It la supporting from one to
three persons, a pretty good Job for one
little hand organ. As a matter of fact, In
good weather the earnings of a hand organ
sre $6 a day,- running up to $6 or $7.' Rainy
days ara nearly a dead lfss; but there are
not many days when It rains all dsy. On
rainy days, also, the organ man I ' out
nothing, ss he does not take out tha organ,
and consequently does not pay for It.
The owner keeps them In repair without
extra charge. There are about a dosen
men In New York who make a business
of renting organs, all Italians. "
Bearlaalasr at the Crank.
One man who has sn organ ehop on
Elizabeth street waa originally a workman
In . a piano factory. He learned In the
courae of hla trade how to make and re
pair hand organs. He decided that tha ac
cumulation of capital waa more to him than
his pride, and began to turn the crank on
the street himself.
Aa loorl aa he had aaved enough he
opened shop and began to rent organ.
He has twenty-flv or thirty now, which
net him $ or $40 a day through the sum
mer months.
two In Baxter street,, one on Second street.
There Is another shop In Roosevelt street,
one on One hundred and' fifth street and
various others scattered sbout th city.
The only shops outside of New Tork In
this region sr two In Newark. One of
theae belong to a woman whose organs
perambulate the length and breadth of the
Oranges.
Thar I a man In Mulberry street" who
has ground tha hand organ ' for twenty
yeara In New York. Twenty yeara ago he
lost an arm working on a railroad) . He
took to the organ and haa raised a family
in comfort, and none of them playa the
hand organ. '
. . The two who go out with the organ are
In the. majority of eases husband and wife.
It is considered that women are more suc
cessful as collectors than men. In -many
cases two men go out together, and lately
organs hsva been run by two women.
Two good-looking glr'a In Marlon street
conceived th idea a season or two ago of
dressing themselves In Carmen styls. In
short bright red skirt, blsck velvet bod
ice, white chemisette and a fancy head
dress. One of them carried a tambourine
to shake while the other girl played, and
to serve ss collection box afterward.
Instead of going to the factory for $8 a
reek theae enterprising young women
ere soon making their $4 or $5 a day.
Genius alwaya has Its Imitators, snd there
are now six or seven similar couple
dressed tn the same way perambulating the
city. Most of them are Genoese. The cus
tom Is not likely to- become general, for
not many Italian women have the nerve
to go out without a male relative.
Tha Day's Grind.
Th organ grinder start In tha morning
from their homea in tha extreme lower end
of the Italian colony. Not many ef them
live In Little Italy, en the upper East
Side, . (
They begin to play Immediately and
walk aa far as their feet will carry them,
sometimes as far as Tremont and other
station In th Bronx. Then they must
walk home.
Bom hsvs regular beats, turning up
very day or every few days at places
where they know they will get money.
Some hie them straight to tha seats ef
tbs mighty. Others confine themselves to
the foreign quarters.
The latter are generally those who have
some attraction other than straight music
calculated to appeal to the populace. The
fortune telling birds and mlos appeal much
more generally to the foreign quarters than
to the precinct further uptown. ,
On hand organ firm of three Is composed
of young Neapolitans. One of them has a
fine vote and sing all the Italian operatic
air played by tha organ In a manner ex
tremely pleaaing to hi Italian andlences. ,
Another of th trio ia considered th moat
accomplished collector In th craft HI
ragged cap, outheld with an ingratiating
mile, hi ready tongue, equipped with a
Joke for each one appealed to, bring In
such a. shower of cent that the pocketa
of the trio ar weighted down when finally,
St bedtime, they go Into some saloon to
change their harvest Into bill.
Occasionai:y a man who rents an organ
will go out into tha country for a day or
two, or even for a week's trip. But gen
erally they stay In th city, ao aa not to
lose tha rent on atormy day. Those who
travel far afield own Instruments, Ther
ar not many of these, however.
Hlttlsigr the Road.
Every spring there is an exodus from
ths New York Italian colony of 'men Who
do not return till fall. Sometimes the wife
goes along, .when there are relatives to
oare for the children.
But generally tha men goes slone, mak
ing ths tour of some New England sUts,
New York or Pennsylvania, end sometimes
even pushing sa fsr aa Canada. One such
man made $700 last year by a tour, of Con
necticut. Usually such a season clears up between
$300 and $400. There is a man on Mulberry
treet who ha mad aa much as thst for
twenty eesaon past. Thl Is th first sum
mar he haa been In the city for twenty
years. He la too old to go abroad again.
People a miliar with eastern country
towns twenty-five or thirty years ago ran
remember th wild Juvenile excitement
which used to prevail when, once or twice
a summer, an Italian organ man came
with a monkey. Jocko haa almoat vanished
from the business, for It haa been found
that he I not profitable In thla climate.
He Is, indeed an excellent collector,
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gleaning crops ot cents from balconies and
second-story windows. But he Is almost
sure to tske cold and die In tha winter, and
then all the time and bother spent In
training him Is lost
The hand organ men would like much to
take cur children as collectors, especially
little girls.. They make Ideal collector.. But
municipal regulation now Interfere with
what waa once a profitable ourc ot in
come. The hand organ buslnea is not what It
was once, say the old timer, sadly.
Twenty-flv years ago the collector earn
back with nickels and dimes and quarter
In' his hat, and tha firm went home at
night with tit or 190 In Its pockets, Instead
of $4 or IB.
Now only cents are given, and within the
last ten year, since the big Immigration
began, the number of street musicians has
Increased until It la not likely that any
more 186,000 tenement houses will be pur
chased In the craft.-New York Sun.
STORIES TOLD BY FLOWERS
I'atqae History of .Westers De
velopment Wrltt mt the
, . World's Fair.
On two strips of ground on th hillside
leadl.ig to tha Palace of Agriculture, Just
west of th four-acre rose garden, the
tory of th sal of the territory of Louisi
ana by ' Franc to the United State la
uniquely tolLOne of these 210x25 feet strips
contains tho French emblem,' the fleur de
Us, and th figure '1803" in red flower
on a green ground. The other contain the
Stars snd Stripe snd th figure "1WH."
The first shows French ownership, the sec
ond, American ownership.
The story Is made more complete by the
name "McKlnley," under whose adminis
tration the great Louisiana Purchase ex
position was projected and successfully
embarked, and the union ahleld snd name
of Roosevelt," under whose administra
tion the- exposition exists.
In circles with floral scrolls surround
ing th names of "Napoleon." who sold the
LouUlana territory, and "Jefferson," under
whose . administration It was purchased,
appear "L. P." (Louisiana purchase), white
In aimllar scrolls surrounding the names
of McKlnley and Roosevelt, are "L. P. E."
(Louisiana. Purchase exposition).
Another story Is told in flowers In an
other part of the. ground. The word "Hen
derson" I seen In giant floral letters, em
blematic of th great work accomplished
by Peter Henderson, the seedsman. The
word "Meehsn" Is commemorative of th
work of Thomas Meehan, whose life wss
devoted to plant Industry and whose work
on landscape gardening ar famous. Be
tween th two name la tha banner of th
Louisiana Purchase exposition In Its iol
or, red. white, blue and yellow. Next
In th mammoth picture appears the nam
''Shaw" In large letters, surrounded by a
graceful scroll ef living flowers. This Il
lustrates the good work dona In ths In
terest of horticulture by Henry Shaw, th
philanthropist who founded th Missouri
botanical garden, and who gsv St. Lou I
th famous Shaw's garden and Tower
Irov park.
A mammoth fleur d II. bearing th let
ters "U P. E." and the figures "1104" and
hs word "Morton," la another feature ef
the wonderful allegory. This la In recog
nition of the eervicea of J. Sterling Morton,
who, when secretary of agriculture, was
responsible for th establishment of Arbor
day.
Foliage plant, bulbs and summer blooM
Ing plants go to make up th detail of
these triumphs In embroidery gardening.
Flowers that make up th exposition colors
of red, whit, blue and yellow ar em
ployed and all necessary colors ara ued
to make th pictures historically correct
World's Fair Bulletin. ' '
Moamaaewf in Speaker Head.
A granite monument haa been erected
in Evergreen cemetery, Portland. Me., ever
th grave ot ex-Rpeaker Thomas Bracket)
Reed. The monument Is cut from white
Hallowell granlt and rest n a broad
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base stone of the same material In ths form
of a parallelogram. The monument itaeir,
which Is about ten feet high, tapers slightly
aa' it rises, and Its rugged simplicity Is re
lieved only on the side bearing the Inscrip
tion There is carved In relief a laurel
wreath after a design of St. Oaudens, a
seen upon the Bhaw memorial in Beaton.
Beneath th wreath Is this Inscription:
"Thomas Brackett - Reed. 18S9-1902. His
Record I with the Faithful, the Brave and
the True of All Nation and All Age.".
SPIES ON ; PULLMAN , CARS
Ther Make the Life of the Conductor
Anything bat Ronsid
of Joy.
Th Pullman car conductor gets a salary
of 175 a month. On each train the conduc
tor Is held responsible for the Pullman cars
and th porters under him. If the porters
divide their "tips" with th conductor, ss
some of the waiter In th Chicago hotels
do with th head waiter, the company is
presumed to know nothing of It. His salary
Is supposed to be sufficient for all his per
sonal needs and hie expense In the service
of the company. Allowing 120 a month for
meals bought on the road, and 14 a month
for hi uniform, a conductor does well If
he get $t0 a month for bis family out ot
bis sslary.
But owing to th system of Inspection
and fines to which the Pullman men must
submit the chances sre the conductor will
not clear that sum. The conductors and
porters sre under the constant surveillance
of "spotters," ss th train hand call them,
"special agents," aa they call themselves,
and are called on the company's pay roll,
who report at division headquarters the
slightest Infringement of the rules of the
company, as a general thing a Pullman
conductor can no more tell a "spotter"
from an ordinary passenger than a street
car conductor In the city can single out
the company's spies that are sent around
to see thst they do not knock down any
fares. If a, spotter sees any Indication of
untidiness about the Pullman cars, dust
on the window sills, scraps of paper on the
floor thrown her and there by some heed
less pasaenger, untidy looking berths or
seats, soiled wash bowls or towels, he re
ports to ths division superintendent, and
the conductor has to pay for It. It make
no difference that the fault may have been
the porter's or the passengers', he con
ductor Is held responsible,
The usual fine for misdemeanor of all
kinds a 12, A conductor constdera himself
lucky If ha gets off with Is In fines In ten
months out of th twelve. This makes a
big hoi In hi salary. He ha no chanoe to
explain or contradict the charge. The
spotter I believed, and the conductor must
submit to It or leavs the service. If th
porters sre not promptly on the railway
station platforms with stools to assist pas
sengers on and off ths conductor gets fined
for not looking after them.
But th greatest bone of contention and
the most frequent source of complaint I
with th magazines and newspaper. It a
spotUr finds a pile of reading matter turn,
bled loosely on an unoccupied seat he re
Port It. If th passenger happens to be
temporarily chatting with some one In an
other seat, or smoking a cigar, snd sees
the conductor order the porter to etrslghten
out or remove the newspapers, he le likely
to make a row about It. Ignorant of the
rules, he looks upon It as a place of un
warranted offlclousnaaa. Then th spotter
reports th conductor for Incivility to pas
sengers. This system of espionage hits the porters
In a little different wsy. Unless the com
plaint against them Is a serious one, In
which they are suspended st the pleasure
of th company, hla wages ara docked for
the articles that sre loat or stolen from the
cars. It Is not at all uncommon for a pas
senger to walk off with a comb or brush
or towels, or carelesaly smash a tumbler.
For all this th porter has to pay. If he
loses a berth check he also has a fin if
pay. If he happen te have a keen appe
tite aad ar unfortunate month the porter
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frequently finds that, aside from his "tips,"
he is actually paying the company for the
privilege of working.
On nearly every trunk line out of Chicago
a special detective la employed to watch
for graver mistakes or misdemeanors on th
part of the conductor which may be con
sidered outside the bailiwick of spotter.'
Necessarily a Pullman conductor must han
dle more or leas money fo'r berths not' pur
chased In the ticket office. Usually, a cheok
Is. kept on this by a diagram, which must
correspond with the reports of tickets col.
lected and received from tha regular con
ductor on the railway. If ha makes an
error In the diagram, a thing likely tu
occur at any time when the passengers
are dissatisfied with the berths selected
and desire transfers, he Is fined for It, and
If the offense becomes too frequent he la
liable to suspension. Chicago Tribune,
HORSES GRAZINGJJNDER WATER
The Way In Which Animal Adopt
Themselves to Their Sur
roundings.
While on a cattle station In Western Aus
tralia, Henry Taunton had an opportunity
ot seeing a remarkable Instance of tba way
in which animals can adapt themselves to
their surroundings.
"On the upper reaches of the river there
was a large pool just fordable at most
time,, but in a dry season very low," he
says. "Among the horses making their run
In the vicinity of this pool an old mars and
a number of foal and yearling used to
come down every day in the long, dry sum
mer, when the herbage was scant and
corched into dryness. They waded Into
the pool until the water nearly reached
their heads and stood there for hours, div
ing to the bottom for a mouthful of succu
lent weeds, which they chewed at lelmir
with their dripping head raised above the
water.
"The first time I witnessed thl strange
sight was during a dry season, when I wa
riding with th overseer In search of some
strayed atock. A we approached th pool
my companion bade me keep quiet if I de
sired to see something well worth looking
at. As w rode quietly. up to the pool I
sw a group of horses standing In the
water and disappearing from time to time
ns then ducked their heads below the sur
face, My wonder was soon at in end, whrfn
I saw one of their heads suddenly come out
with a. mouthful of dripping weeds. No
sooner wa thl mouthful disposed of thnn
the head disappeared In search of another,
"The overseer told me that during a long
drouth some Ave or six years previous when
hardly a vestige of food waa left on the
run, and bush (Ires had laid bore the nnd
plains, th old mare had discovered that
there was plenty of luscious feed at th
bottom of th pools, which could be pro
cured by diving for It; snd, having once
put her discovery Into prsotice, she contln-
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ucd to do out of preference what h had
been driven to do by necessity.
"The several generations of foals which
she had reared had all followed her ex
ample, although none of the full grown
horses had joined the amphibtoufr ' group.
Here, than, seemed to be a new variety of
horse In evolution, which. If left undis
turbed, might breed and separate from the
run, perhaps to survive through drouths
severe enough to exterminate all others."
Australind. ...
THERE ARE OTHER NATIONS
The Vnlted States BetaoUsj to
Realise that It la Not tbo
Ooly Country. ,
Up to a few year ago we, the people ot
the United States, thought we had the
greatest country on earth (which w have),
but we were ao swollen by a vain and un
justifiable overesttnvatlon of ourselves that
we did not give proper credit -and consid
eration to other people. ' We looked upon
Ourselve as great beyond comparison in
the exploits of war and the pursuit of
peace, and nothing quite ao much tlcklel
our vanity and conceit as to sit snd llstm
by .tbs hour to polltlclsns making the eagl
scream and extolling cur achievements as
ueh ss never had bees and never could
be rivaled in the world. ,. .
But a very meritorlou change has com
ever ns. w hav begun to examine and
compare ourselves with other people and
we take no offense when we find that what
we have done haa been equaled and some
times surpassed by the deeds of Quieter
and less boastful nations. ' : -
Japan ha done In fifty years many thing
which it took us tec years to do. Russia
has constructed rallroafls through a etretch
of territory far more extensive than th
old Great American desert,' opened It to set
tlement and built big cities th k. But Rue
sta did not claim to be t!t greatest nailjn
en earth on that account. England is build
ing a railroad through th entire length of
Africa arid It has developed - mil Hons of
seres in the wilderness of that continent
but it fs not going Into spasms 1 of self
praise over the matter. ' -
These Instances mentioned ara only a few
of the mighty things accomplished by na
tlons other than the Vnlted States. Cur
rent history ahow that w hav not much
more then shared In the general progress
of mankind. Our material ' progress - and
prosperity have been rivaled tn almoat
every particular elsewhere, while we hav
contributed-' only a small portion of the
learned and entertaining boohs which hare
been written and of tha engines, snd de
vices which have been Invented for ths
comfort snd hecesslty of the human, race
during the last fifty yeara.-Kansa City
Journal. '
Bee Wart Ads ars the Best Business
Boosters. . ; .
Evtry worn in cants
hs pely. pretty figure snd
many of them deplore) ths
Ion of - heir rlrlieh forma
after marriage. The bearing
, of children ia often destructive
. to tbs mother ahapelmen.
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