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Xotable El la History of SrottUli
la Atrtrmrnt of Churches
on tew Caterhlam Jut Or
aered Pabllahed.
GLASGOW. May 25 (SpeclaL) The pe?
Ulatlon that ha arlaen over the aufgosted
Conference of the three leading railway
boards of Scotland and their offlcera on
the auliject vt ir.orf harmonious traffic
working has been all out of proportion to
the facts of the case. At the recent meet
ings of the proprietors In Glasgow and
M Edinburgh the points of criticism which
were promised remedy resolve themselves
after all Into purely administrative matters.
Buch a large question a railway amalga
mation Is. of course, more difficult of
necutlon than of comprehension. The ne
j Cfsslty of holding the conference on the
' lines proposed, and promised at least by
v tha chairman of the North British com
pany, does not seem very real to some at
all. At any rate, the railway boards have
been In no hurry about meeting. Neither
la the' date nor place fixed, and many ques
tions have been raised as to whether a
conference will be held. Borne of the di
rectors are at present abroad, and a diffi
culty has arisen on this account. Com
munications have passed, but with no defi
nite result. The sugKes'lon however, that
the officials of the three great railway
comiianlt-s are on anything but friendly
relations la, of course, absurd, and It Is
Just probable that all of the features of
railway working complained of may be
amlratily adjusted In the ordinary course
of managerial administration.
Oae ef the Tow Ilaroaeta.
There can be few. If any, younger baro
nets than Sir Windham Frederick Car-mlchael-Anstruther.
who Is Just i years
Of age. This little fellow Is honorary
raner to the royal household of Scotland
and one of the hereditary masters of the
household for Scotland, honors plainly
rather obsolete today which were conferred
on one of his ancestors by James VI of
Bcotland before ihnt monarch became
M l.mua f . XT .... I .... .4 T f.mlu t An.
truthe.r descends from William de CandaU.
" who as far bark as the year 1100 was lord
of the Isles and barony of Anstruther. In
Flffshlre. The css-.ie of Preel. a grim
fortress close to the sea, was In Charles
11' time the seat of the family. The
Mt'Try Monarch stayrd thert soon after
lis coronation. At the conclusion of the
banquet, the king Jokingly aald to the
owner: "Eh! What a fine sufper I've
gotten In your craw's n.'- This remark
greatly offended the head of the An
St ru triers, more especially as It mas punctu
ated by the loud laughter of the courtiers,
so that he built a new house and allowed
1.1s "craw's nest" to disappear.
The general officer commandir.g-ln-chiet
Is authorized to convey to all ranks the
entire satisfaction of his rojal hlghiiru,
tha prince of Wales, with all military ar
rangements In eoiinevOnn with the visit of
i the princess of Walei and himself to Glss
fow. His roal highness wss much pl-asej
with the smart appearance and steadl:vas
under trmi of the troops that formed
escorts and guards of honor that lined the
at-reets. Ills royal highness u glsd to
see ao many cadet corps taking part la
ILla last named doty and a as struck a iia
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their sturdy appearance and aoldler-like
bearing, and also appe related the manner
in which the duties of all ranks were per
formed. Pabliah Sew Catechtsss.
A notable event has Just occurred In the
history of the Scottish cn-irch. Representa
tlvea of the Episcopal, Established, Vnlted
Free Congregational, Baptist and Wesleyan
churches In Scotland have Just held a
meeting In Edinburgh and have approved
the draft of the catechism- and have ordered
It to be published forthwith. This waa the
! third gathering In connection with a move-
t ment initiated In 1901, which resulted early
' the following year In the Church of Scot
land Issuing an Invitation to representatives
of the reformed churches In Scotland to at
tend a conference "to consider the whole
question of religious instruction in public
schools." Till then no sach meetings had
ever taken place In Scotland since the sec
ond reformation Sn-ATIi. Bd 1 Is rec-arded
as a happy sIrti of tha times that ecclesi
astics can sink their differences and as
semble together to discuss, as they have
done at epoch-making conferences, purely
religious and moral questions. The Impor
tance of these conferences, the labors of
which have Just been completed, cannot be
overestimated and throughout the country
nothing but eatlsfactlon will be felt that
representatives of the reformed churches
In Scotland should have been able to meet
and co-operate In performing a piece of
work, the practical benefit of which will
tell on the present and future generations
of the Scottish people.
At the first conference In 1904 a small
committee was aprwinted with the late
Principal Rainey as Its convenor to pre
pare a simple catechism embracing such
teachings In the facts and doctrines of
Christianity as mlRht be acceptable to all
branches of tha reformed church. Since
the death of Principal Rainey Pr. Mair has
acted as the convenor of tha committee.
Another amsller but no less Important com
mittee was appointed to prepare a syllabus
of or scheme of lessons In religious Instruc
tions for the schools. This committee ali
expects to be able to submit the result
of Its completed labors to the conference
at an early date. In the number of ques-
j tlons and answers the new catechism is
J very nearly the ssme as the old. but tha
' text haa been made very plain.
I Aet a 1'rlsa Passle.
Tha nlthean cuidreamacu agam rl allhrls
dhuion ai an am so.
M ILXJC L.'T Sl'THERLASI).
Ceann suidn Cumuiui - cuiueuciiaiuiia
Uum-niaouiair nan UaidoaL
The above la not a prise puxzle or the
ork of an amateur practicing on a type
writer or a lln-o-u pu. It is part of a cir
cular letter signed by Uie duchess of Suth
ciiaud on behalf of the Scottish Home In
dustries association. There are larger dis
tricts of the United Kingdom where the
circular of written in Enslis-h would be as
rtran-e to the Gaelic rpeak:ng Britons who
receive It, as the present cirvular Is to
Ent'lith reaJcra.
Provost Eadlo recently paid a high trib
ute to Journalism at the Institute of Jour
nalists which met recently at Paisley. Pro
vost Eadlo said be had noll.lng but ad
miration for tha ar--d and facility with
J which they epitomiie, condense and seise
i the texic9 of that which is going on
sroune lht-m. He said the world had
I passed through a grest transformation even
during his lifetime adn no ap ncy has con
tributed more towards this than the print
ing press. It was a greater teaching
agency than church or school and con
sequently a "nUh standard of principle was
required. The Information the Journalists
furnished comes over mountain ranges.
i through ocean depths, and lately the' i id
saddled, and bridled the very ethti' of
heaven, outstripping In tha race the chariot
of tha aun, as a 'motor car would outstrip
a coatertaocgar'a donkeM
Sanitary
AT THE AUDITORIUM
N.-W. CORNER 12th AND JONES STS.
FREAK IDEAS IN RAILROADS
7 he Gjroscrpe Wonder and Thoie Which
Hate Gone Eeftret
EARLY PROMISES AND PRACTICAL TESTS
Experiments with Moaorall Devices
at Hone and Abroad Germany's
upended Method is a
Sarcesa.
Considerable Interest has been aroused
among railroad men and mechanics In this
country by accounts of the Inventions of
a gryoscope railroad, a working model of
which was on exhibition In London re-i-enily.
The Inventor, Louis Rrennnn
noted as a builder of submarine torpedoes,
explained to wondering spectators as his
miniature car and locomotive sped around
the single rail, with apparently nothing to
balance It, that the vehicle maintained Its
balance automatically. "The characteristic
feature of this system of transportation,"
he sid. "Is that each vehicle Is capable
of maintaining Its balance upon an ordi
nary rail laid upon ties on the around,
whether It be standing still or moving in
I either direction at any rate of speed, not-
withstanding the center of gravity if
! several feet above the rail and the wind
! pressure, a shifting load, centrifugal action,
I or any combination of these forces may
! lend to upset It.
"Automatic stablity mechanism of ex
treme simplicity, carried by the .vehicle fl-
I self, endows It with this power. The mech
anism consists essentially of two flywheels
.rotated directly by electric motors In op
posite directions at a iiigh velocity,
mounted so that by their gyrostattc action
their stored up energy can be utillxed.
These flywheels mounted on high-class
i bearings are placed In air exhausted cases.
J so both air and Journal friction Is reduced
; to a minimum, consequently the power re-
quired to keen them In ranld motion Is
I extremely small.
"The wheels are placed In a strgle row
beneath tne center of the car and are car
ried on bogles or con pound bogles, w1ch
sre not only pivoted to provide for horl
aontal curves in the track, but for vertical
ones also By this means the cars can
run upon curves ev.-n of less radius that:
the length of the vehicle Itself, or on
crooked rails, or on rails laid over uneven
ground without danger of derailment.
"The motive power msy be cither steam
petrol, oil. gas. or electricity, as considered
I most suitable for local conditions. In the
first Instance, however, It had been decided
I to use petrol and an electric generating
I set carried by the vehicle itself to supply
j the current to the motor's stablity mech
anism.
A mechanical export. reviewing the
Brehnan idea In the Boston Transcript, as
serts thst It is without novelty or prac
ticability. Continuing, the writer says:
j inert iias never Deen Dut a single type
t of monorailway that was entirely satis
factory. That is the Decsavllle system. It
, consists of a sirgle rail on which is bal
'anced a two-wheeled car with a wide plat
! form and an outrigger. The load Is bal
j anced on the car, the coolie or mule is
I fastened to the outrigger to complete the
j balancing as well as to furnish power, and
. the whele, whtthtr for a street car or a
truck, is exactly suited to North Africa,
Persia, India and other slow places where
i It la used. It costs almost nothing and
' does Just about twice that much work.
j An Irish Llae.
I It waa the Decauvllle, however, which
I led M. Lartlgua to devise bis system of
peC-lS4 railway, wUcb la atlU la Chela
Plan! ii
by the Ladies of the
Memorial Church at
FOR
DEI
MANUFACTURED BY
tion In Ireland. There from Llstowel'l to
B&Uybunnlon runs as peculiar a style of
transportation facility as the world can
ahow. It la a train upon a fence, with Its
legs hanging over to balance It. Every one
In America is familiar with the gams of
straddling the fence. The conception of
the Lartigue railway might have come from
a political campaign In Massachusetts. The
track consists of a single rail set upn a
top board and upheld by A frames st at
short Intervals. Along these near the
ground are other rails for the cars to put
their feet on. The engine Is double and
hangs with a boiler on each side of the
driving wheels, which run on the top rail.
Each car Is also double and hangs over
the fence. Each haa a set of horizontal
steadying, wheels pressing against the
lower raila This little hump-backed affair,
which cost but $15,000 per mile, has Iteen
running with eminent satisfaction (to the
Irish) for twenty years. It Is useful for
mora purposes than transit. It keeps the
cows out and cannoi ie uoti ty the pie m
a sleeping chamber. To be sure, a switch
on this road is a whole section of fence,,
but It has the proud record that In Its
twenty years no train has fallen through
or Jumped the track. The little cars, which
obviously cannot mount up over the fence,
whirl around sudden corners at dlxzy
speed, and the engineer In charge dreams
'of what it might be If he had money to
build a bigger and a better one.
This engineer In charge, in fact, Mr.
Behr. ha been for several years badgcr-
i Ing Parliament to build him an experl
I mental line from Manchester to Liverpool,
J on which he will startle the world. Par
I llament is Impressed with the speed he
promises, but so far has not been con
' vlnced that he can stop the cars without
. banging Into Liverpool. Mr. Behr built a
' little line In Paris In 1S3S which waa a
great success, and then put up another In
Brussels, at the expense of the BelrUn
government. In 1W7. It was this Belgian
I track which first convinced Europe that
! there was a good deal to be said In fsvor
i of a single-rail road. Mr. Behr had an
elliptical track three mile- long, nf which
75 per cent was curved, and the govern
ment furnished him only one-fourth the
promised power. Nevertheless he attained
on it a steed of seventy miles an hour
I with his animated saddlebags hi a sixty,
I foot car which weighed seventy Ions and
; had 300-horse-power motors. Later, with
j a car of fifty-nine tons he attained a speed
. of eighty-three miles on hour on curvea
of bi- ard radius.
I These figures he presented to his own
' government In the endeaeor to establish
j an experimental track, but the project has
i apparently fallen through. He expected
1 to go the thirty-five miles between 'the
two cities in twenty minute.
Moody Bayaton'a Coney Island Rand.
Mr. Behr'a Lartigue system Is not, of
course, rroperly a monorail system. Neither
Is any other except the Decauvllle and the
Brennan. All the others have supplemen-
: tary rails which preserve the balance and
! prevent derailing. Of these the first to be
j developed In America, was Moody Boyn
1 ton's little line at Coney Island about
, twenty years ago. There his motor ran
t upon a single rail, and. balanced by an
other rail overhead, drew Its train of cars
at gratifying spd. Mr. Hoynton's tram
: at once drew the attention of two other
'men who look up the study of monorslls.
' Mr. Brott and Mf. Beecher. Brctfa Idea
i was an eletrlc road with cars running on
' big drive wheels on a central rail, and
J auxiliary wheels held down under inverted
, rails at either side, the whole upon an
1 elevated structure. The cars of this line
'were, for tha first time, to be pointed lik
I projectile.
I Tha projectile Idea also appealed to Cap
tain Una Beecher, who had exhibited the
rst cerartugai rail say at Coney Island
1 at4 so led. Ute wsjr tut all tba "iooti-iha-
lie
ICIA
CREAMERY
wV'Tr'J
loop" contrivances which have made mur
der among us these many summers. As
far as the general public could see. there
waa little to choose between Brott and
Beocher, nor any great fault to find with
either, except the cost of installing an
elevated structure of great strength where
a simple surface line was giving pretty fair
satisfaction. In 1SC3 Prof. A. C. Albertson
was ready to go both of them, and Boyn
ton, too, at least one better, by putting
magnets under the rails Instead of safety
wheels, and on them lifting the weight of
the train until it skimmed along tha steel
as lightly aa a swallow In air. It was mys
teriously announced that the heavier the
train the more swiftly and easily It would
move, but somehow this simple solution for
freight congestion was allowed to drop
from right without getting a test in daily
practice.
The Snspended Railroad.
"The orly power-driven, high-speed "mon
orail" wl Ich has attained success In com
mercial -ueitiori, and, tht one so simple
and easy of construction that It has ex
cited admiration In many countries, Is tha
suspended railway which runs from Bar
men to Elberfeld, in Germany. This line,
which has often been described in print,
operates upon a different principle from
Boynton's or Brennan'a. In it the center
of gravity Is below the rail. The car, of
light construction, is hung by a big steel
"hook" which curves over the track
closely to a guard on the inside, thus pre
venting the train from Jumping the track
or flying out on a curve. The motors arc
carried on this hook and the whole ap
paratus is light, easily attains Us highest
velocity in a short distance, and Is oper
ated with a minimum of power. This J
Parnien-Elberfleld line is almost noiseless '
and free from vibration and it haa so many !
other udvantages that It has renewed the ',
atrugglea of all mono-experimenters. j
The Aniline Hslford tiradlent. t
Of course, all seekers after Vmll-an-Ijour
speeds have not trifled with the
monorail. Of all tha widely heralded ln
rentlona of twenty years none haa been
more loudly exploited than the so-called
"Halford gradient," which waa patented
In England eight or nine yeara ago. Mr.
Halford, the Inventor of thia. designed a
road which was supported on hydraulic
rams. Trie whole road was In sections.
The train hung suspended from a moveable
track. When the engineer wished to start
ha caused water to enter the ram back of
the train, which began to rise, tilting the
track up and shooting the train forward.
Thence on the train automatically regu
lated the rama, causing them to rise ss it
pasaed, keeping the cars continually slid-
! ing on a down grade. It was evident that
enormous speeds could easily be obtained
and there appeared to be no difficulty
about controlling the trains by reversing
the process. But the cost of constructing
a road which must be more heavily framed
than an ordinary elevated arid must In ad
dition be equipped with powerful hydraulic
rama every few feet and with pumping
power to lift entire tralna continuously
prevented H aver oomlrig to a practical
test.
How the Gyrwseone.
No auch fate as that awalta Mr. Bren
nan'a new mode. The gyroscope is v-
known. Every top follows Its principles
or those of Its cousin, the gyrostat. Tha
Whitehead torpedo is steered by one, and
(only a couple of weeks ago a Germs n tor
pedo boat was filled out with two small
gyroscopes set horizontally to counteract
tha effect of the waves at aea. Yeara ago
a hopeful Englishman constructed a ship
with its cabins all hung on pivots si that
1 gyroeoopee might keep them horizontal,
but without avail. In brief, the gyroscope
OOjecis, w.ieu revolving, 10 i.avn.g lis piuna
of rotation altered. Once It has assented
Ui that alteration, hoaa-rsr, tt mt longer
Uffllei
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ountze
o oo
tutx-p'"
struggles. Thus the Inventor rightly says
that a cyclone could not blow his train
over. But Sir Hiram Maxim as truly adds
that It seems likely to a careless observer
that a persistent and gentle breeze would
do so. The gyroscope yields a little at a
time. It gives before steady pressure. And
while It might for a few mjmrnts resist
the pull of the weight of a few extra pas
aengers on one side we will have to see
many more and lonper experiments before
we are convinced that It will not in a long
run gradually yield to the soft persuasion
of gravity and sag off to the side on which i
the extra weight is placed. (
SAFETY ON RAILROAD TRAINS
Invention of a, Utorelan Will He
dace Railroad Wrecks to a
Mlnimam. .
Out at the Withers Foundry and Machine
works, at AUanU, Ga.. J. T. Andrews, an
old railroad man, whuno homo is at Mont
gomery, Ala., has Just constructed his
first workhig model of a patented attach
ment for railroad cars which every railroad
expert who has soen it declares will prevent
wrecks from any cause resulting in a de
railment of tars.
Mr. Andrews' patent is an attachment
which Is fitted to the trucks of the freight
car, the passenger coach or to the engine
and his model is now pi actu ally, complete
Nothing now remains but to put the trucks
under a regulation box car and secure a
track in or near Atlanta, when the inventor
will demonstrate how his patent will save
millions of dollars every year to the rail
roads of this country.
Mr. Andrews' attachment consists of a
hciivy steel case encompassing the axle en
tirely. Sus4-nded to a heavy frame on the
lniside of the wheels are quarter wheela.
0erative on Journal with eccentric propor
tions. In its periphery a cable cord is at
tached to the quarter wheel, running over a
roller at each end of the truck, thence be
ing carried to the air valve of the car. The
quarter wheels are carried three Indies
above the rail and are hel in normal posi
tion by coil springs to tlie front and rear.
On the outer side of the regular car
wheels are tw o 'other quarter wheels, sus
pended by Journal from a frame which is
strapped securely to the Journal boxing and
the equalizer beam, and connected by tie
brace one with the other and made integral
wl;h the equulixer beam.
Wrecks resulting In a dcr&llnient are gen
erally due to one of seven causes: 1, from
bmken axle; I. from broken Journal; 1.
from loose wheel; 4, broken flange; S,
spread track; C Irregular track, and 7, a
sr'lt switch, and Mr. An.lrewe claims that
his Invention will prevent a wreck from
any of these causes.
If the axle cf a truck should break, there
would be no wrc-k where his attachment
was used, as the axis being In a case, the
rasing and the Journal larings would keep
the wheel In allfinnient. If the Journal
should break, the Inner Journal boxing of
the Inner wheels, frame bracln?, etc.,
would taka the place of tha rt f ilar car
Journal.
If tha wheel of a tru-k should expand
to the point of forcing flanges to mount
the rails, or should contrnrt or wobble
enough In ordinary cases to cause derail
ment, with Mr. Andrews attachment the
truck would be taken care of by tha one
Inner and outer quarter of the pair of
wheels In trouble, putting the lnoee wheel
out of commission. Operative by the fric
tion of the track and the momentum cf tha
train, the quarter wheel when coming in
contact with the rail ll'ts the regular wheel
of the car and all parts of the truck above
the cross rails, frogs and switches, the
cable cord pulls open the sir vulve and the
air brakes are applied sutomsf'-ally to th
remotest part of the train. In the same
manner It operate In caae of a broken
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ass npm
flange, or in the event of an irregular
track. '
A rpread track usually occurs on a right
or left an.tle curve and a wheel wii!-h has
Its bearings upon the upper rail of curve,
usually follows the sircad rlaco in tha
track, which allows the inner wln-el on
lower side of the rack to drop In toward
the crosattcs. In rii-b. a cast as this the
outer quarter wheel fcr the protection of
this wheel in trouble woulJ tcke the plucj
of the regular wheel, lifting it and plowing
It back upon the track after the spread
place Is passed, and allow:.. t; any num'.-cT
of cars to pass the spread place In thy
track, yet not permitting u single wheel to
hit a crcsstie. ,
In case of a split switch the ' quarte r
wheels would convey the train s-afely over
the trouble, at the same time applying tha
air brakes and stopping the train auto
matically. In going into a split switch,
when the truck strikes the x''n' of th
curve leading to the side track, one rcirular
car wheel is on the main track, while the
other tnkes the side track rail. Now- when
the reguktr car wheel drops between the
side track rail and the main line rail Mr.
Andrews claims that the nniln line rill will
be causht by the Inner quarter wheel and
outer quarter wheel, on other main lino
of track, the quarter wheel will lift the
regular car wheels above the cmon-ovcr
rails and through the frogs, and the- truck
is kept on the main lino, at the samp tlmo
the air brake being automatically applied
and tho train brought to a standstill.
Mr. Andrews estimates that the cost of
fitting his attachment to engines will bo
about H ''. about JlTeO for fittinp to pas
senger coachc-s and about iie(j for titt'nir
to freight cars. Whew' is seen that freight
cars usually cost from SSjO to f'-.C'-J. pas
senger coaches from Vn to JK'.'1'1" nr.J
engines all the way fioni fir, (KK t ''. 9
the cost of his attachment will aod little
to the cost of the cars, but If it ih s w h-t
be ch-.lms for it and what expi rts who have
een it are confident it will do. Mr. An
drew's fortune is made and the riironels
of the country will annually be s.f. eel mil
lions of dollars and the less of hundred
of lives will.be prevented every j.r.
Atlanta Journal.
How J P. sobscrlbr.l.
One Easter not long ago a Methodist min
ister in trie south wiote to Mr. Murg in
and asked Mm to subscribe! to tho ercctioa
of a new church.
"Since I am an Episcopalian," ilr. Mor
gan wrote bick, "1 can't cona'uentlojsly
Join the Easter subscription tu inc baled
Ing of a Methcedist church. Bef re er -ct-Ing
your new church, thotiKh, you rtr
polng, I understand, to tar the- old cli nch
eiown. For that purpose I glHdly 1m los
my check for 12a0." Cleveland leader.
HIS TEETH WERE LOOSE
HI T AHE NOW TIGHT IX HIS JAW
OWING TO GOOD WORK OF
LOCAL DENTIST.
Dr. Fiekles. a dentist of 3 11 is Bea
Building believes that oftttmea oneg
own teeth are better than any that can
be put In. By the aid of a clever and
original method he has tightened aid
kept In their mouths the natural teeth
of fcoiue of Omaha's woti prornluent
meij, men. Who have a great! deal of
talking to do find the nikelve greatly
handicapped by loeise teeth. Aa they
dare not wear plates it ii a great boon
to them to be once more ablo to eat
comfortably aud ttu wtleV
