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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1905)
TOE OMAIIA DAILY nr.E: PATmnAY. MAY IS. l!Mfs. A GREAT SHIRT SALE SATURDAY Men's Shirt in Mohair and Fancy .Silk TV, omi, Percales, Madras and Oxford, f worth up to l.o0, special Sntur- TP?C day at, choice Men's Hoaa In Imported Lisle Thread, Marks, tact, fancy silk embroidered and 4 f fancy colored, worth upti'iOc. extra I Iff special value Sat. 19o, 15o. 12C & From 9 till 10 m. in. we will sell Men's Shirt, 11.00 values, limit of 3 to a customer, each . . . . flen's French Balbrlsran Shirts and Drawers an exceptionally complete line, bet barf aint in the city at 39c 25c and Hen's Ribbed 5hlrts and Drawers, worth up up to 1 5c, special 49o and in all sizes and newest spring patterns, jJQ 19c srorth up 39c i mnamnntawiatis ii THE RELIABLE STORE. Always Shows Best Values stupendous Bargains in Ladies' Furnishings Ladles' 5klrts with deep knee flounce of fin $1.50 Ladlt' downs in fine Cambric and Naln- iacn and embroidery, underlay with dust sook, trimmed with fine laces and en.brot- ruffle, these oarraonis are worth up f Q derie, very latent designs, f0 to W.00, divided into three lots for "! f f 1 60, great snup Saturday at, fflP Saturday, at tl. 98. 11.50 and.. ..r J' choice . aSKIX Ladles' Vests, silk taped, In plain and f Mioses" and Children's Fine Cambric f f fancy colors, worth up to 2..c, I I IP Drawers, in nil sIa-s, exceptional BIlP at 19oand values at aVVV From 10 till 11 a. m. -Ladies' Mack f From II a. m. till 12 m. Ladles' f Hoje with double sole and high spliced Vests, silic tape, good values at 15o, TP heel, 15c quality st, pair social for this hour, at '. in i in inwiif i iii nip in. i iiiiiih inniaiw iiiiiii i. i.i ... mi ,- , ii.,.. mi mi. ha k Itin inifwrti 'iitum Stupendous Bargains in Ladies9 Garments Our New York buyer has simply flooded our Ladles' Suit department with rare bargains in Ladles' Suits, Walsta, Skirls and Jackets. Those who have waited will now have an opportunity of securing their spring and summer garments at less price than the same quality hint ever before been offered in Omaha. TWO MANUFACTURER'S STOCKS OF WAISTS. ONE MANUFACTUK ERS SKIRT 8TOOK, ONE MANUFACTURER'S STOCK OF SILK SHIRT WAISTS AND WASH SUITS. A MANUFACTURER'S STOCK OF SPRING JACKETS. Are all recent additions to our alrendy Itnmenxe showing. Do not 'All to ace these new bar fains. Beautiful Waists at Less Than Half Regular Price 75 dozen Waists In linens, lawns, madras, eto. nicely trimmed and good value at $2 00 and $2.50; choice ' Qr Saturday Very special Waist values In all kinds of hlfh class materials all beautiful new designs, at IIS. 60, 110 00, $7.60, O f, $&., 13.86 and tJiJ WOMEN'S SKIRTS In cravenettes. brll lianllne. lJaruiinas and accordion pleated in reds, blacks, blues. (Teens, tans, white, brown and Bray worth 'f iiu up to 17 60; choice Ai.O WOMEN'S SKIRTS In silks, vol's, Pana mas and Sicilians prettily trimmed, pleated and tucked worth up K fill to $9.00; choice iJ.UVJ Beautiful voile, taffeta and Sicilian Skirts very special values at $18.50, U Oil 115.00, $12.50, 110.00 and O.U 515.00 and 515.50 Silk Suits at $8.88 Don't fall to see these Suits they coma In blues, browns ani eseua green, witn very full skirts; waists with box pleats, tucked or shirred unequaled bargains while they last at; 4J choice O.OO $8.50 WASH SUITS In newest designs wonderful value g JO WOMEN'S $5.00 SILK COATS- 2.Q8 $7.00 to $12.00 WAISTS--In lace, taffeta, peau de sole and crape de chine 't (1U In two lotM at 498 and . . FROM 8 TILL 9 A. M. $1.25 Farmer's Satin Underskirts at FROM 8:30 TILL 9:.T0 A. M. Dreslns; Sacques In light and dark colors FROM 9 TILL 10 A. M. One lot of Women's Waists at, choice FROM 7 TILL 9 P. M. Women's Wrappers worth up to CXQn LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S HOSE LADIES' SILK EMUKUIDEK ED HOSE In all the latest colors, best values ever shown in Omaha, at 25c, 19c, 12c, 7Jc. CHILDREN'S IIEAVY RIB BED HOSE In all sizes, just the thing for general wear, values without a dupli cate, at 15c, 12$c and 10c. LADIES' VESTS AND PANTS Ribbed with long sleeves, regular 39c quality, choice 19c Our Drug Department Always has a comp, lent registered phar macist in attendance and Is prepared to fill nil prescriptions promptly and at lowest prices, Give us a trial SPECIALS Kurt 8ATURDAT. ' Mdloated Chamois Skin, large ( Florida Water, per bottle Almond Skin Food, at Packer's Tar Soap, cake Fine Toilet Soaps, per box Bradley's Woodland Violet Talcum Eastman's Talcum for Colgate's Talcum for... Corn Plasters, per box .. 5c .. 15c .L..5C 15c .12 Mq 15c "".5c 50c Veitings at yd. 5c Saturday, beginning ar 10 a. m. and continuing until t p. m., we will sell BLACK SILK Veiling, Tlnln Mesh Veiling, Fancy Spot Veiling, Sewing Silk Veilings, etc., worth 2fc, 35c and 50c per yard nil at one C price per yard JC Limit of 5 yards to each customer. None sold before 10 a. m. Buster Brown Collars 5c An Immense lot 'of Children's Buster Brown Collars. In white nud colors. on sale Saturday, each .. 5c 75c Fancy Ribbon at yd. 25c AH the new patterns in fancy Ribbons, worth from fiOc to 75c per yard go on sale Saturday special at, "JC yard . DG Other Special Values 25c Rnchlngs, per yard. . . . 15c 75c Satin Belts. 'JQ each ........... i ? C 25c new Neckwear, C choice ......... J C 25c Iedles Collars, each. The very latest Embroidered Linen Collars, only . ... 1 12k Ladies' Fabric Gloves 100 dozen Ladies' (lloves just received, made of Italian silks and the finest Lisle with rein forced finger tips, come in all the new shades and worth up to f 1.00 Saturday special choice &Jr SAMPLE PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS An immense line of new style Umbrellas and Parasols of the finest wear ing materials, (silk and linen mixed) with fancy borders great snap at, J QO choice 4tP Don't Suffer from Bad Sight Your Eyes Properly Cared For In Our Optical Department Gold Filled Frames, 10-yer f KQ guarantee, worth $5.00, at a.--r Gold Plated Frameless Eyeglasses, f Q usual price $2.60, at HANSOMB SUITS In Olvernaud's taffeta, all new and popular stylne and colors garments made to sell at $20.00; f O fl your choice I &i.U t'NM ATCHABLE SUIT value at $30.00, $26.00 and 20.00 Grand Clearance of Covert Coats All our stock of covert coats Is Included In this great sal newest and nnbblnst garments, wortn $i.'i., $11:. anil $lp oo and 120.00 dlvirifld Into two lots for Sat E (( urday's sale; at choice, $6.60 and. . . O W KOHBI WASH SUITS-In cheeks and plain colors a new lot just recnlvwd regular $2.u0 values; choice f Q Saturday PRETTY WASH SUITS In dainty pat terns and designs, i rimmed with touohes of embroidery; good value at '"i OH ITtd chnlcA KtmfO 59c 39c 15c $1.00 at, choice.. HOME-MADE WRAPPERS A new lot Juet received best values in the Ofi city at 6.00, $.W, $3.60, $2.26, $2.u0, $1.75, $1.50 and rnrc CITIIDnAV To every purchaser of one of our $7.80 VOILE SKIRTS rrttC aniUKUHY. Saturdav we will give absolutely free a SILK UNDER SKIRT WORTH Jo.00. This offer' Is for Saturday only. Furniture. This handsome plnte rack Is mnde of oak finish weathered, mission style. It Is 19 inches high and 40 Inches lorrg Is grooved for plates and fitted with brass hooks for cups. Price $1.75 We are now showing BOOK RACKS, BOOK SHELVES, JARDINIERE STANDS and PEDESTALS, in weathered and golden oak. There ta little in the furniture line you cannot get her and always remember IT COSTS YOU NOTHING TO LOOK AND LITTLE MORE TO BUY. yT'H r m i ""frfii iliaiga Speca Oxford Sale Saturday All the New Shapes and Styles in 1,500 pairs Women's $2.50 Hand-Turn and Ooodyear Welt Oxfords In Black 1 Qt or Chocolate Vlcl Kid 300 pairs Women's Black Vict ark $2 00 Shoes lOU 600 pairs Boys,' Youths' and Little Gents' SI 50 Satin Calf Lace QUP Shoes VOW 400 pairs Women's, Misses' and Chllds" tl.R0 V'lci Kid Lace Shoes and QQ. Oxfords VOW Oxfords to Please the Most Exacting and at Prices That Will be Enticing BAREFOOT SANDALS for all sized feet. Agents for the STETSON and 1,500 pairs Men's and Women's $2.50, $3.00 and $3.60 fine Vlcl Kid Lace Shoes, also Patent Calf. In this lot we have put about 300 pairs of the celebrated $3.50 Ultra Shoes choice of the entire J QU lot, while they last lVO Chllds $1.00 Hand-Turn Sample Shoe Infants' 89-cent Soft Sola Shoes all colors 69c 19c CROSSETT Shoes for Men, and the OROVER Shoes for Women. Twenty-nine styles of the GROVER SOFT SHOES FOR TENDER FEET in stock. Grocery Prices That Are Money Savers The Highest Quality and Freshest Goods on the Market IB-ounce can Condensed Cream 7V4c 1-pound package Imported Macaroni.... 74c Wuart can Uolden lable Syrup 7Vfcc The beet Corn Starch, package 4c 1-pound Jar Pure Fruit Preserves 7c Large bottle Farcy Mixed, Sweet, Sour, Gherkin, Chow-Chow, Onion or Celery Relish Pickles, bottle 7Hc Bromangelon, Jellycon, Fruit Puddine or Jell-O, package 7c 3-pound can Boston Baked Beans, with or witnoiit sauce : ic The best Cold Water Starch, package.. 7Hc i "4-pound can Breakfast Cocoa 7"o , Xcelo Breakfast Food, package 7Vi 2- pound package Nudavlne Oatmeal oc 10 bars Swift's Pride, Beat 'Em All or White Paris Laundry Soap 28c 4-pound package Pyramid Washing Pow der mc 3- nnnnri rnn moIM nnrkpri TnmiitnM 7U 2-pound can Early June Sifted Peas.... 7Vfcc 2-pound can fancy pack Wax, String or Lima Beans 7Vfcc TEA AND COFFEE SPECIALS. Choice Santos Coffee, lb 120 Fancy Marrlcabo Blend Coffee, lb 16c Porto Rico Blt-nd, a tine drink, lb 20o Choice B. F. Japan, Sundrled or Englleli Breakfast Tea, lb 25c Fancy Gunpowder, Oolong or Ceylon Pea, lb 36c FRUIT AND CANDY SPECIALS. Large Highland Navel Oranges, doz.... 20c Large Juicy Leinns, dos lc Quart boxes fresh ripe Strawberries... 7'c Large ripe Florida Pineapples, each... 8ijn Regular 30c Chocolate Creams, lb 16c Regular 80c Bon Rons, lb 15c Regular 80c Mixed, lb 16c Fresh Salted Peanuts, lb lSVc TRADE WINNERS IN HARDWARE. 4-tle Parlor Broom 15e A good Rice Scrub Brush 5c Shoe Brushes, each Be Combination Ice Pick and Hntchet 6c The best Serpen Door or Window Wire, per square foot IVjc The best Galvanized Poultry Wire, per square foot c 10-quart Galvanized Pall loe 12-quart Gulvanlzed Pall 12c 14-quart Galvanized Pall 16c No. 1 Galvanized Wash Tub 3c No. 2 Galvanized Wash Tub 4Sc No. 8 Galvanized Wash Tub 5Wc 14-lnch Lawn Mower $2.49 Solid Steel Garden Hoe 16c Solid Steel Garden Spade 3?c 2-bole Burner Gasoline Stove $2.40 Russian Iron OaHollne Oven $1.49 New line Table Mats, per set 2oc Double block tin Sprinkling Can 16c Solid Steel Frying Pan 10c Feather Dusters, each 10c Connecticut Meat Chopper 79c Solid Steel Grass Hook 15c Solid Steel Grass Shears 15c Fancy Decorated Bird Care 49c See our full line of White Enameled and plain Refrigerators. ASpecial Advantage To derive solid comfort from any garment it should be properly fitted. You will insist on Uils point In shoos, gloves, stilts, etc., why not demand the same In buying your corset? Miss Hoffner, an export corsetler, Is now with us demonstrating the advantage of tho celebrated La Marguerite corset and during her stay will fit any one who wishes It, In our corset department, ninln floor. OUR STOCK OF CORSETS Is the most complete shown In the west. We show styles to fit anjj figure at from 69c to $10.00 COME NOW, LET MISS HOFFNER FIT YOU folk fcSfV HiTPw $6.00 COW HIDE SUIT CASF-S-IJnen lined on special sale Saturday, 75 SPECIAL TRUNK SALE-Canvas covered, metal bound trunks, 3G, 8S and 40 Inch with two straps and two trays, 43 fifi worth $11.00, at "iUU Clearing Sale of Hats In order to nuike room for our im mense stock of Strnw Hats, we are of fering except lonnl bargains In both stiff and soft Felt Hnts Saturday. $2.r0 Hats on sale Saturday J $2.00 lints on sale Saturday QQ METAL COVERED TRUNKS With good look and strong side bolts, four hard wood slats on top and three on bottom. size 32, 34 and 36; good value at $5.00, $550 and $6.00 special at $4.50, f mm $4.00 and .,l-, O SHEET MUSIC SPECIALS Saturday and Monday in our MUSIC DEPARTMENT and bargain counter on the FIRST FLOOR the followlug hits will be sold at 84c, any three for 20c. Come in and henr them played. INSTRUMENTAL. Captain Cupid Trlxy Dat's It Vals Bleue Josephine Arabola Dance of the Daisies Maiden's Prayer Cava lieria Rusticana Flower Song Butter cups atia uaisie a Message from Dreamland Waltzes Iola Blue Grass Echoa Louisnna raltzes St. Ixiuis Exposition 3r March, Field Day Fighting the lor tOj Flames Dixie Doodle Yosau VOCAL. Alwavs In the 'way Genevlevev-Hollyhock Billy Good Bye, Little Girl, Good Bye In After 'Years, When I Am Old Abraham Where the Sweet Ar butus Grows You'll Wish Me Back Some Dny Lulu's Dream Arabella Brown Sandy Beach for Me Foolish Dreams Ave Maria Dream of Paradise Jerusalem Afterwards Little TLn-o fmm tinoimin Htreft In Old I Monastery Bells Moon Winks St. Louis ; r .w- t- Tickle Satisfied Topsy Chicken Charley unauui .'in i. ... . ,v, . -. -' . .- Cll 8c 5 Old Delaware and Blue Bells. Simple Confession Waltzes. and Memories Dream Meat Department Round Steak, pound Sirloin Steak, pound., , 8c 8c 8!c Pork Ixrins, pound. "4 8, 5 or 10-pound Tail Lard, per pound , Premium Bacon, pound Itex Bacon, pound. Regular Flams extra jTo. 1 Fancy, pound... 15c lie ..9c MAN BEHIND THE THROTTLE Mighty Little Romance in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer. JOB SIZED Uj BY ONE OF THEM Too Marh Fiction Written About a Responsible Vocntton Simply a Wane Burner and Hard Worker. There has been Just a little too much hero'- with - his - ha.id-on-the-throttle stuff written about the railway locomotive en gineer, lie has been called the "nruttocrax of labor," which he comes near to being, but he should not be called It, and the Clamour of romance has been thrown over his work until he comes near to being a constant hero In the eyes of the reading public The writing men who have ridden with engineers on fast trains have done their work well, so now the people who read newspapers and magaclnes know how tho trusty engineer sits' ever with his hand on the throttle, his eye glued on the track, alert, watchful, ready for Instant and serloug dangi-r, ready to tell his fire man to Jump, ready to shut off the steam, throw on the air and stay by his engine through tho crash and death of a wreck It Is a pretty picture that the pedal writer builds out ol words about the heroic engineer. It is too bnd that It is not true, Rut the fact Is, the engineer "Jumps." He Jumps Just as quick, fast and far as cir cumstances will permit, and if he does not do it his comrades reckon him a fool. When you spoak to old engine runners about "staying with the engine" when a wreck occurs you are greeted with hoots. i As one grizzled fellow, who has had throe or four engines under his charge reduced to twisted Iron and steel, puts It: "The man who doosn't Jump when he's got n show Is a fool, and there aren't many fools In this business." Men of Scnue and Family Jump. Considering the matter calmly, there Is little reason and little basis for the many stories that have been circulated concern ing engineers who had died In their cabs or who stayed on their engines through wrecks and escaped with their lives, and the romance that Is In tho engineer's life. The engineer Is generally a man of sense. I'sually he is a man of family, and the family Is always dependent upon his work for support. He looks at the matter In a sensible light. If he can stuy In the cab long enough to shut off the steam and put on the air (and In Justice to him It must be said that he generally docs this) before he Jumps, he does so. But he Jumps every time unless the accident comes too suddenly for him and leaves him no chance. He Is no hero glorying In the prospect of sticking to the post of duty and dying when he might es cape. He Is a nrst-clas, high-type work ing man, and working men do not throw their lives away In useless heroics. I.lttle Itomanre ta the Job. When the engineer Is called a working man It describes him In short. He Is not an CM 50 (g Tl CLOSE acquaintance with the sterling character of CrosseU shoes proves, that like good friends they wear well. I' your dealer iiytt nrt lp trm, r nil lini ai UK" &k "" m iVr" " ttrt.pt cr priet ml itt. s44i(iomI f pay forviint chat int. Writt tor llluilrttt fialag LEWIS A. CROSSETT, Ino North Abington. Mass. MAKES LIFE'S WALK EASY lllUOI MARK) - -1! .' - 1 aristocrat of any clnss, he Is a worker, and there Is little enough romance In his career. He Is paid for running an engine over a given number of miles of steel rails. This is the prime consideration with him. The wrecks, the accidents, the change of scenes and places that he experiences and sees, are only Incidents, part of the day's work, and there Is nothing romantic about them to the working engineer. According to the men who run' engine and they surely should know there Is no particular Joy In the feel of a monster locomotive throbbing under one's hands after a man has been mnklng his living experiencing the throb for a few year. There Is nothing so en trancing In the vista of country, town and city, flying past one In the dally work; and, last of all Illusions, to be shattered, there Is nothing particularly romantic or ex hilarating -In the constant prospect of serious danger. There is even nothing ex citing In knowing that you may be killed around the next curve, after you have ridden with the sensation on your shoulders for a while. "You get Into the cab and pull to the end of your run, that's all there Is to It," said an engineer who last week scraped away three cars and a caboose of a local freight which had neglected to drag Its full length on to the siding. "If you get Into the ditch you don't get there, that's all. Worry about getting wrecked? Never think of It. O, yes, there's danger, all right, but not If you Jump quick enough. As to the romance of the business, you'll have to see some one who knows more about that than I do. I only run an engine." "We Jumped i That Was All." The wreck In which this man was con cerned was one of the peculiar accidents tht happen In railroading, and which pre vent the life from becoming monotonous at least. The westbound freight. In going on to a siding which was run at a slightly down grade, "buckled up" In the center. One car left the trucks, and In some mysterious fashion, at the sudden stopping of the en gine, snapped up Into the air against the forward car. This premature stop left the caboose and three cars projecting slightly over the right-of-way of a fast stock train eastbound. It was a scraping blow, the worst kind In railroading, that the engine of the stock train struck, and locomotive, tender and fourteen stock cars went ram bling oft into the neighboring fields. But the engineer and firemen were picking the gravel out of their eyes on the safe aide of the track. "We Jumped, that's all." said the engi neer, getting ready to take the same train out again. . "Would you have Jumped If you had had a passenger train behind you?" was asked him. "Yes, sir." was the emphatic reply. "You bet. I shut off the steam and got the air on. A man was of no use In the cab after that." "Would you have Jumped If you hadn't the time to get the steam shut off and the air on, with pussenger coaches behind you?" fienerally llavo Ttine to Jump, The engineer squirmed. "We generally have the time," he said, and beyond that there was do questioning. Bo U would seem that there Is a suggestion of heroism in this man's professional reticence. But other locomotive engineers are not so averse to speaking out on this subject. There Is the Inevitable preface of: "I've always had time to slow her up, so far," but there is also the flat statement that no man In the cab will give up his own life that those behind him may live. AH of them avow that they pray that they'll have enough time, If It comes that they are to be wrecked, hut If they do not have time they will Jump first. "Engineers have jumped without shut ting her off and throwing on the air, and the people behind them have lived," Is a doctrine with many old engineers. "Be sides, there are the wife and family." A dead engineer can earn little to sup port and attend to the bringing up of a family, and most engineers are family men. Therefore they "Jump." However, It must not he supposed that the engineer goes to his work with this resolve firmly fixed in his mind. The chances are that he never thinks of the possibility of a wreck. If he does it Is probably only be cause he has been In one recently and the experience has borne hard upon him usually In the way of lost time or mileage. When the time comes for him to decide upon a course of conduct for a few stren uous seconds he acts nearly subconsciously but the point Is that he does act. and In the way before mentioned. While the element of danger In the work may bring a tinge of romance to It this soon wears off. It Is the day's work, and while It Is lens monotonous than many a worker's round of daily labor, It is still 'working for wages." There are regular hours to be worked, most of them on the run, and the average engineer Is usually glad when "the whistle blows." Perhaps he works a little longer hours than the average worker and he makes a little more money. But he Is not a figure In the midbt of romance. KothlnsT In "Strained Ragle Rye." He does not sit, "strained, watching the track with eagle eye," as some men would have the reading public believe. He watchos the track, but he watches as a press feeder watches the sheets that fly from his hand Into the press. There la nothing strained In the watching, nothing to suggest that a moment's relaxation may cause catas trophe. He knows the track; there are so many slow places, so many stretches where he can "hit It up." He runs accordingly, and goea from one end of his run to the other, unless the untoward flgurea The "engineer's magic, which somehow man ages to make the wheels stick to the rails," exists only In the imagination of the man who wrote it. Kvery engine has Its eccentlrlcttles, and the engineer knows how to humor them by running fast or slow. That Is all. Thst the truck before a rushing locomo tive la not always under the scrutiny of a pair of sharp eyes is shown by a wreck which happeneil some time Bgo in western. Kansas, and which helped to further spread the htro-at-hls-post sort of stories relative to engineers. A thin l-year-old steer wandered care lessly In front of a fas mall. It was In broad daylight, la the opea country, hut the engineer and firemen both had their eyes off tho track for a moment. A tough steer carcas makes excellent msterlal for throwing a faBt train off the track. Before the men in the cab ever saw the cause of the trouble their engine was headed down the bank, towards the wire fences along the right-of-way. Neither of theso men Jumped. Here are the reasons: The fireman was stooping over to throw coal Into the firebox when tho wheels left the track. The shock threw him head first against the cab side, laying open his head and skinning his face. The engi neer was up on his seat, legs .crossed, lever nt his side, penned In as completely us if a barricade had been built around him. Afterwards he admitted that he could' not have got out if he had tried. He sat right there at the throttle, the noble fellow, while his engine went down the bank and lay on its side. When the pas sengers rushed forth he was sitting tight there at the window, with his wad of "fine cut" In Its proper place. The fire man was also In the cab, a properly wounded hero. The engineer got $200 out of the purse that was made up and the fireman got 50, but both of them also got the reputation among their fellow work men of "being mighty careless." Jnst Work. The "strained watching," which Is popu larly supposed to bring fast engineers to nervous prostration in a hurry, must also be labeled a fallacy. The writer once rode In the cab with the man who pulled one of the fasteat trains running from Chicago to St. Paul. He had gone with the Idea that he would see the fast engineer of the fic tion writer at his beet, and he did. But it was not what he expected. The run to the north was made in daylight, and in many stretches the milea ran backward at the rate of one a minute. The engineer did not sit and "watch tensely." He turned In his seat occasionally and even chatted a little, and never was there the sugges tion of a strain In his expression. Down a Wisconsin grade ten mllea long he "let her out." Here the wheels actu ally seemed to be running on air, so great was the speed, but during this run the en gineer had time to ask two trivial ques tions regarding the price of farms In another part o.' the state. When the grade ran Into the level he looked inquiringly at his fireman. "Eight," said he with his watch In his hand. The ten miles had been run In eight minutes, yet It was impossible to conjure the commonplace worker on the seat into a romantic hero of any sort. He was simply a wage-earner, and circum stances only had made him a railroad man. He admitted that he would do his best to Jump If trouble loomed up before him, but ha would try to "shut her off" first. He also Intimated that he would like to quit working on the road. "First, there was a year as call boy In the roundhouse, then one as wiper and hostler, three as a fireman, then the switch engine, and finally this big compound. "1 want to get out of It now Just as soon as I ran, but there'll have to be a couple of years more before I can do It." "Then what?" "Then the little farm for me; no more of your railroading ta mine. J'o no, sir I don't think. I'll miss the 'romance' that's in the life of the railroader." Chicago Tri bune. ' CLOCK THAT NEEDS NO WINDING Expansion and Contraction of Metal In Atmospheric Changes Affords Power. Many are the efforts which have been made recently to Improve on the old spring clock, with Its twelve-hour face, which has been In use for a good many years. There have been clocks without hands and clocks without dials and clocks with springs of such gignntlc proportions that they re quired winding but once a year. The newest thing In this line Is a clock which will run forever and never needs winding or any other nttention. except, perhaps, occasional regulation, for It is possible that the timepiece might run a trifle fast or slow. It will never be In need, of winding, and, as a matter of fact, there Is no provision whatever made for winding the clock. This clock Is operated by a motor driven by the changes of temperature which are constantly going on In the air. A large factory is about to be put Into operation at Knoxvllle, Tenn., where these clocks will be made under patents which were granted to Prof. Weston M. Fulton, who Is tho local forecaster In charge of the I'nlted Btates weather bureau and observatory at that place and also Instructor of meteor ology at the University of Virginia. The essential feature of the professor's Invention Is a vessel for containing tho liquids and gases which are acted upon by the nlr. Tho remarkable thing about this vessel Is that It is mnde of metal and yet has the capacity of compression and expan sion to a great degree without Impairing Its usefulness. The materials with which this has been heretofore done In the construction of bellows und like devices have all had the disadvantage that tl)ey were short-lived when any attempt was mnde to mnke them hold certain chemlcols which Prof. Fulton makes use of, nnd heretofore It wus never thought that metal was available for the purpose. But this Is what the professor hss suc ceeded In doing, and the vessel he has designed Is of thin sheet metal, with deeply corrugated sides. The chemicals are sealed within the walls of this container and as the expansion and compression take place the movement Is transformed Into power, stored up by means of a spring and made to operate the cluck. Say Plainly to Your Grocer That you want LION COFFEE always, and te, being a square man, will not try to Bt ll you any thing else. You may not car for our opinion, but What About the United Judgment of Millions of housekeepers who have used LION COFFEE for over a quarter of a century ? Is there any ttronger proof of merit, than the Confidence of the People and ever Increasing popularity? LION COFFEE la carefully se lected at the plantation shipped direct to oar various factories, where It is skillfully roasted and carefully packed In sealed pack ages unlike loose coffee, which is exposed to germs, dust. In sects, etc. LION COFFEE reaches you as pure and clean as when ft left the factory. Sold only In 1 lb. packages. Uon-head on every package. Bare these Lion-heuda for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE W00LB0N BPICK CO., Tolede, Ohio. i