CLEARING THE TRACK SNOW PLOW A NECESSITY IN THE WINTER. Sometimes Even That Powerful Machine is Unable to Cope With the Tremendous Drifts on the Rails. In the middle states, where Inches is a heavy snowfall, getting off railroad tracks is about as for an engine as cleaning it off sidewalk is for the small boy. A snow plow, which is more than a gigantic scraper, perhaps an enormous horn or share in front, is pushed down track by an engine and scrapes pushes the accumulated clogging white mass off the track to side. But in the northern, and particularly the northwestern states--where, when it makes up its mind to every one knows it; where the are feet in depth and in the east inches; where the railrothrough open plains ord drifts sistless sweep pie hills and valleys, white cha collows so large that byes large even to a steam cardiething more effective than pasting faust be employed.
This "something," says a writer St. Nicholas, "is the rotary snow plow, an invention which is in use every railroad on which large drifts collect in the winter and where snowsheds and snow guards--fences built in exposed places to keep the snow from drifting on the track--are effective. Plow Does the Work. The snow plow is a buge machine, big as a freight car and built steel. On the forward end is a monster wheel with powerful blades steel, looking like an overgrown electric fan, so arranged that their angles can be changed.
This wheel, which is perpendicular the track and revolves at right gles to it, is inclosed in a casing drum also of steel and with sharp steel edges. The top of the drum supplied with a pipe or chute. Inside the snow plow is a steam engine, which drives this huge fan wheel from 100 to 250 revolutions every minute. Behind the snow plow are-coupled from one to three or even more powerful engines, and behind these a car. the car are many men with shovels, for despite its enormous powever the rotary gets stuck at times and has to be ignominiously dug out.
When the Snow Triumphs. Perhaps the snow is but four or five feet deep and the plow as soon as strikes the snow bores through it great rate. Wonderful to see, the snow eaten away from the bank by whirling blades is tossed out chute at the top of the drum or casing to a solid stream, to fall in curving arch and what a thunderous roar from 100 to 200 feet away. This arch is frequently 30 and even more high. Billows of snowdust fill air and the most beautiful rainbows surround the falling cascade of snow.
When the plow gets stalled the men tumble off the car and shovel it out its prison. Then the whole train backs off 8 couple of hundred yards takes a new start. Down the track it sweeps, gathering speed and momentum with every puff-puff of the exhaust, and smash! it goes headlong the drift, mighty fan-wheel whirlengines pushing, men yelling, snow scruching, and over all the roar the falling stream of snow and the blinding, cutting clouds of ice partieles it sets free. The drift may yield to one bucking, which case the men congratulate themselves at having an easy time of But more often even the mighty of the train, engines, plow and is stopped by the drift, which looks so soft, but is in reality 80 tough. Then it is shoveled out again backs off for another rush.
New Railroad Experiment, An interesting experiment is to be tried by the Swedish railroads administration of running -class sleepIng cars. The first of the cars will be run between Stockholm and Malmoe. At each end of the saloon are dressing tables, with hot and cold water. There will be nine compartments, seven of these will have six beds. By day sitting each compartment tarnishes eight places.
The other cca-partments are for four persons by day and three by night. These are reserved for ladies. The cost of this sleeping accommodation will be only 75 cents above the ordinary ticket. If the experiment is well received the plan will be extended. The experiment is not new, for we believe third class sleeping cars have been run on the state railways in Finland for at least twenty years.
A Great Difference. Prof. Brander Matthews, in one of his brilliant lectures at Columbia, let fall an epigram on the drama. "The difference between a good and bad playwright," said the famons old critic, "Is easily expressed. good playwright knows more than be tells.
A bad one tells more than he knows." His Methods. His Methods. "It a bandmaster were called on to organize an orchestra for the Ananias club, what would be his first step?" "Sure enough; what would?" "Naturally, to drum up all the lyrea." MUST ALL REMAIN ON DUTY Trainmen on Big Western Road Not to Be Allowed to Wash Up En Route. An order having for its purpose the minimizing of wrecks at terminals has been issued by Assistant General Manager Ware of the Union Pacific Rail. way company, and in effect it reads as follows: "He who wishes to hold his job with the Union Pacific, be he engineer, fire- it man, conductor, flagman or brakeman, must enter terminal stations garbed in working clothes, with unwashed faces and hands." According to the report of the interstate commerce commission the Union Pacific is one of the roads that has few By issuing the foregoing orwrecks.
der and compelling its enforcement, Assistant General Manager Ware Swill and the other officials believe that Show that caljority of railpany's good record better. in the Investigatinly on the Union road wet other lines, have occuron peat or near terminal stations. The assistant general manager of the Union Pacific finds that in the majority of cases when there have been such wrecks the engineer, fireman or flagman, instead of being on duty, carefully watching for signals of warning or for obstructions on the track, have been washing their faces and hands, so as to save their individual Mr. Ware even cites instances where every member of the train crew, from engineer to rear flagman, in duty hours have been "sprucing" up for entrance into a terminal, leaving the train absolutely unprotected, a thing they would not think of doing if away out on the line. The Ware order intimates that in the future the appearance of an incoming employe of the Union Pacific wearing clean white shirt, spotless collar and cuffs, shined shoes, will not do, providing, of course, that that particular trainman is on actual duty.
the convenience of the men, at For all terminal stations in the depots rooms will at once be provided where the employes may go and change their clothing, thus presenting a neat appearance before going out on the streets. These rooms will be equipped with baths, both hot and cold, soap and clean towels, combs and brushes and the facilities for brushing their clothing and polishing their shoes. Extraordinarily Close Call. One of the most close calls that an engineer ever had extraordinarily occurred on a western railroad last year, says a writer in an exchange. "A heavily-loaded 'flier' was sailing along one night at between sixty and seventy miles an hour, approaching broad river that was spanned by drawbridge, which was sometimes open and sometimes closed.
The train was supposed to come to a halt and the engineer to find out. If all was well be would sound the whistle and proceed slowly. On this night. bow. ever, the long train rushed on the bridge with undiminished speed.
Fortunately, the draw bad Just been closed and nothing happened. "The engineer's failure to stop at the bridge was the first intimation that the fireman had of anything wrong. He ran around to the engineer's side of the cab, shut off steam, and applied the brakes. He found the engineer fallen forward, senseless, with an ugly gash in his head. Beside him lay the stone which had inflicted the wound.
It was afterwards established beyond question that in some inexplicable way this stone had been picked up by the engine itself while moving at Its great speed and hurled Into the cab. If the draw had not been closed that night when the 'flier' rushed across the bridge there would have been another accident which would have added to the story of railroading a mystery almost as deep as any connected with the navigation of the sea." Such things as these make the engineers fatalists. According to the writer, all of them believe that they will die when their time comes, and there isn't much use of worrying about It. The Broken Driving Red. Occasionally a fastening of one of the great driving rods of a locomotive will break.
Then at every revolution of the wheel to which the other end is attached, the great steel bar, weighing several thousand pounds, will come, "swinging like a Titan's flail," beating 300 strokes a minute. No disaster comes so unexpectedly and is so much dreaded as this. Almost invariably it happens when the engine is running at high speed. When a driver breaks it is a miracle if the men in the cab escape with their lives. If they do survive, and by their heroism succeed in stopping the train and avoiding a wreck, despite the rain of blows from this huge flail of steel, their act brings forth a greater measure of praise than almost any other form of bravery that the railroad knows.
Economy. "Where shall I send these now? asked the humorist of his wife, as he separated a sad bunch of jokes from the thirty seventh rejection slip. "Don't you really think, dear," inquired his wife, gently, "that it would be cheaper for us to start a magazine and print them ourselves?" -Will Electrify Tunnel, The famous Hoosac tunnel will be electrified. A locomotive enigneer in France eras from $800 to $1,000 a year. One From the Cashier.
The harmless customer leaned Across the cigar counter and smiled engagingly at the new cashier. As he handed across the amount his dinner check called for he ventured a bit of aimless converge, for he was of that sort. "Funny," said he, "how easy it is to spend money." "Well," snapped the cashier as she ted his fare to the register, "If money was intended for you to hold on to the mint would be turning out coins with handles on 'em." Had Money in Lumps. Charles H. Rosenberg of Bavaria had lumps on his shoulders, el and hips when he VicHamburg on the series of arriyed toria.
In ung his spine, smaller, parain range, as it is map. The lumps were about the size of good Oregon apples, and as Rosenberg passed before the immigration doctor for observation, the doctor said softly to himself, "See that lump." Then he asked Mr. Rosenberg to step aside. "You seem like a healthy man," said the doctor, "but I cannot pass you until I know the origin of those lumps on your body." "Ah, it is not a sickness," laughed the man from Bavaria. "Those swellings is money." Taking 011 his coat sample lump and tained $500 in He informed the $11,000 in all, with ing to purchase an Oregon.
He was admitted New York Tribune. he broke open a showed that it conAmerican bank notes. doctor that he had which he was goapple orchard in to the Why He Laughed. Miss Mattie belonged to the old south, and she was entertaining a guest of distinction. On the morning following his arrival she told Tillie, the little colored maid, to take a pitcher of fresh water to Mr.
Firman's room, and to say that Miss Mattie sent him her compliments, and that if he wanted a bath, the bathroom was at his service. When Tillie returned she said: "I tol' him, Miss Mattie, en' he laughed fit to bus' hisself." "Why he laugh, Tillie?" "I dunno." "What did you tell him?" "Jus' what you tol' me to." "Tillie, tell me exactly what you said." "I banged de doah, and I said, 'Mr. Firman, Miss Mattie sends you her lub, and and she says, 'Now you can get up wash -Lippincott's Magazine. Where He Was Queer. The negro, on occasions, displays fine discrimination in the choice words.
"Who's the best white-washer town?" inquired the new resident. "Ale Hall am a bo'nd a'tist with whitewash brush, answered celered patriarch "Well, tell him to come and whitewash my chicken house tomorrow." Uncle Jacob shook his head dubiously. "Ah don' believe, sah, ah'd engage Ale Hall to whitewash a chicken bouse, sah." "Why, didn't you say he was a good whitewasher?" "Yes, sah, 8 powe'ful good whitewasher, sah; but mighty queer about a chicken house, sah, mighty queer!" -Mack's National Monthly. MAKE UP YOUR MIND. If you'll make up your mind to be Contented with your lot And with the optimists agree That trouble's soon forgot, You'll be surprised to find, I guess, Despite misfortune's darts, What constant springs of happiness Lie hid in human hearts: What sunny gleams and golden dreams The passing years unfold, How soft and warm the lovelight beams When you are growing old.
Acted Like the Genuine. "The landlady says that new boarder is a foreign nobleman." "Bogus, I'll bet." "Oh, I don't know. He may be the real thing. He hasn't paid her a cent as yet." More Human Nature. Grouchly-By denying myself three ten-cent cigars dally for the past 20 years I figure that I have saved $2,190.
Moxley-Is that so?" a Grouchly--Yes. Say, let you? chew of your tobacco LO Burnt Cork. But the colored race is a- to the front fast!" innocent Uncle Hiram, at the whispered vaudeville show, as the black-face comedian was boisterously applauded. "Yes, indeed," smiled the city man; "anyone can see that that fellow is a self-made negro." Lo, the Rich Indian. The per capita wealth of the Indian is approximately $2,130, that for other Americans is only a little more than $1,300.
The lands owned by the Indians are rich in ofl, timber and other natural resources of all kinds. Some of the best timber land in the United States is owned by Indians. The valte of their agricultural lands runs up it the millions. which The ranges the; ex possess support abort 500- 000 sheep and cattle, owner by lessees, bringing in a revenue of more than $272.000 to the various tribes besides providing feed for more than 1,500,000 head of horses, cattle, sheep and goats belonging to the Indians themselves. Practically the only asphalt deposits in the United States are on Indian Man.
How She Learned. The mother of a family of three small children was discussing their comparative precocity with a friend. "John was very slow at everything," she said, referring to her oldest. "Tom little better, and Edita, the was a baby, is the smartest of She picks as can be." up everything had been listenMaster Untributed his share of the ing, ersation. "Humph!" he exclaimed.
"I know why her learns so quick. It's 'cause her has us and we didn't have us." Economy. The late former Governor Allen D. Candler of Georgia was famous in the south for his quaint humor. "Governor Candler," said a Gainesville man, "once abandoned cigars for a pipe at the beginning of the year.
He stuck to his resolve till the year's end. Then he was heard to say: actual calculation, I have saved by smoking a pipe instead of cigars this year $208. But where is Mosiem Traditions. Ramadan is the month exalted by Moslems above all others. In that month the Koran--according to Moslem was brought down by Gabriel from heaven and delivered to men in small sections.
In that month, Mohammed a 9 retro from Mecca to the cave of Hira, for prayer and meditation. In that month Abraham, Moses and other prophets received their divine revelations. In that month the "doors of heaven are always open, the passages to hell are shut, and the devils are chained." So run the Christian Herald. No Slang for Her. "Slip me a brace A Medical Compromise.
of cackles!" ordered the chesty-looking "You had two doctors in consultabored man with a tion last air, as he perched on the first night, didn't you?" "Yes." stool in the lunchroom. "A what?" "What did they say?" asked the waitress, as "Well. she placed a glass of water one recommended one thing him. before and the other recommended something else." "Adam and Eve flat on their backs! "A deadlock, eh?" A pair of sunnysiders!" said the man in young "No. they finally told me to mix an exasperated tone.
'em!" "You got me, kid," returned the waitress. "Watcha want?" "Eggs up," said the young man. the kind that come before the hen or after, I never knew which." "Why didn't you say so in the first place?" asked the waitress. "You'd a had 'em by this time." "Well, of all things-" said the young man. "I knew what he was drivin' at all the time," began the waitress as the young man departed.
"But he's one of them fellers that thinks they can get by with anything. He don't know that they're using plain English now in restaurants." The League of Politeness. The League of Politeness has been formed in Berlin. It aims at inculcating better manners among the people of Berlin. It was founded upon the initiative of Fraulein Cecelie Meyer, who was inspired by an existing organization in Rome.
In deference to the parent organization the Berlin league has chosen the Italian motto, "Pro gentilezza." This will 1 be emblazoned upon an attractive little medal worn where Germans are accustomed to wear the insignia of orders. The idea is that a glance at the "talisman" will annihilate any inclination to indulge in bad temper or discourteous language. "Any polite person" is eligible for membership. The "Country Churchyard." Those who recall Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" will remember that the peaceful spot where "the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep" is identified with St. Giles'.
Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. In the prosaic pages of a recent issue of the Gazette there appears an order in council providing that ordinary interments are henceforth forbidden in the churchyard. Blissful "Were you Ignorance. posed nervous when to your wife?" asked you mental person. the "No," replied Mr.
I could have Meekton; years I would have foreseen the next been." A Retraction. "You shouldn't have a pig," said the conciliatory that "That's right," replied mat person. "There is no the rinds ing that he's worth 40 sense in to anybody." cents a Economy in Art. "Of course," said "I Mr. Sirius want my daughter Ban sort of an artistic to have I'll have her I education.
study singing." "Why not art or "Art spoils canvas literature?" literature and paint wastes reams of Singing merely produces disturbance of the a tempore atmosphere. Home Thought. "It must have Mrs. Bossim to her been frightful," in the earthquake. husband, who "Tell me was your first awakened thought when in your room and at the heard the alarm." "My first thought was swered Mr.
of you," Bossim. "How noble!" "Yer OD. First thing, anew, Tased the mantel caught me then a chair on the ea whirled in my direct and when I jumped to the middle the room four or five books and framed picture struck me all at once Even after saying that, he to wonder what made her the remainder of the so angry evening National Monthly. New Process of Staining Glass. The art of coloring glass has lost and, refound, jealously be Targen guarded in the history of civilization and maliciously stolen 60 many time Nation that ceived seems almost impossible to thing new on glass staining.
Yet ant g. an say process has been discovered for ma -T king the stained glass used in which is a departure from anything day window, known at the present time. What tapurpo Venetians and the Phoenicians of it we cannot tell. kerand The glass first receives its nance design mineral colors and the whole is then the pi fired in a heat so intense that the cola oring matter and the glass are indis -J feature solubly fused. The most attractive was a of this method is that the sue face acquires a peculiar pebbled cha noon acter in the, heat, so that when the Fuller glass is in place the lights are delight ville fully soft and mellow.
In making a large window in Leing many a shades each panel is separately mould leace ed and bent and the sections are as sembled in a metal frame. -I Our Volces. I think our conversational soprano, as sometimes overheard in the cars arising from: a group of young persons who have taken the train at one our great industrial centers, for stance, young persons of the female sex, we will say, who have bustled hi full dressed, engaged in loud, strident! speech, and who, after free discussion, have fixed on two or more double seats, which having secured, they pro ceed to eat apples and hand round daguerreotypes--I say, I think the conversational soprano, heard under these circumstances, would not be among the allurements the old enemy would put in requisition were he getting up a new temptation of St. Anthony. There are sweet voices among us we all know, and voices not musical, it may be, to those who hear them for the first time, yet sweeter to us than any we shall hear until we listen to some warbling angel in the over ture to that eternity of blissful har monies we hope to enjoy.
But why should I tell lies? If my friends love me, it is because I try to tell the truth. I never heard but two voices in my life that frightened me by their What About Brain Food? This Question Came Up in the Recent Trial for Libel. A "Weekly" printed some criticisms claims made for our foods. It of the law of affinity, evidently did all things needed to not fancy our reply printed in various news- ture the elixir of life." manufac- This trial has demonstrated: some papers, and brought suit for libel. At the trial the Further matter on he says: "The interesting facts came out.
is to supply the lacking and end That Brain is made of Phosphate of Potash beginning ple, and in molecular form, as princiSome of the chemical and medical experts furnishes it exactly nature as the differed widely. vegetables, fruits and grain. principal Mineral Salt, added to albuThe following To supply deficiencies--this facts, however, were cure." is the only law of men and water. clearly established: quite Analysis of brain The natural conclusion is by an unquestionable 811- of Potash is the that if Phosphate That Grape-Nuts contains that element as thority, Geoghegan, shows of Mineral Salts, brain and you use food needed mineral element in Phosphoric Acid and Potash combined (Phos- it, you have which does not contain more than one-half of all its mineral salts. phate of Potash), 2.91 per cent of the total, not supplied.
its daily loss is brain fag because 5.33 of all Mineral Salts. A healthy brain is On the contrary, if "do things" important, if one would This is over one-half. be rich you eat food known to in this world. Beaunis, another authority, shows "Phos- life forces that which nature before the A man who in this element, you place phoric Acid combined" demands for best sneers at "Mind" sneers at the cent from a total of Potash 73.44 per That understood part of himself. and brain-building.
and least 101.07. In the trial a sneer was uttered part which some folks Considerable more than one-half Post announced because Mr. the Infinite. believe links us to phate of Potash. of Phos- search that he had made in this country and some clinics of Mind years of reAnalysis of Grape-Nuts shows: Europe, regarding the effect asks for a healthy brain upon which to and Phosphorus, (which Potassium digestion of food.
of the mind on act, and Nature has defined a way to make a phate of Potash), is considerable make Phos- But we must healthy brain and join and more than be patient with is used renew it day by day as it one of all the mineral salts in the food. sneer at facts they know nothing about. those who up from work of the previous day. Dr. Geo.
W. Carey, an authority on the con- broken Mind does not work well on a brain that 1s Nature's stituent elements of down by lack which way to rebuild is by the use of food by gray the matter of the brain is controlled entirely sary A to peaceful and evenly poised mind the body, says: "The of nourishment. supplies the things required. inorganic good digestion. is necesalbumen (Phosphate and of by the Potash)." addition This salt unites with interfere Worry, with anxiety, or stop fear, the hate, flow directly "There's Potassium Phosphate of oxygen creates of Ptyalin, the a Reason" Of nerve course, fluid or there the gray matter of the brain.
fere digestive with the juice of flow the mouth, is and also interother organic matter in of other salts and stomach and digestive Juices of a trace of the nerve fluid, but Potas- pancreas. sium Phosphate is the chief factor, and has has the mental state Therefore, of the power within itself to attract, by its own digestion, much to do (more than suspected) individual with Postum Cereal the Battle Creek, Mich. L01 athere Fell main -It i 1911, papione. -Af Solida: opened nab-eut his The WI Blosed succ mI hi of the as to On er 8 the the feet the of and at ing, of in it. rush car.
and Hard on the Mare. Twice, as the bus slowly wended its way up the steep Cumberland Gap, the door at the rear opened and slammed. At first those inside paid little heed; but the third time demanded to know why they should be disturbed in this fashion. "Whist," cautioned the driver, don't spake so loud; she'll overhear us." "Who?" "The mare. Spake low! Shure, 01'm desavin th' crayture.
Everry toime she 'ears th' door close, she thinks won o' yez! is gettin' down ter walk up th' hill, an' that sort o' raises her -Success Magazine. Exaggeration. On her arrival in New York Mme. Sara Bernhardt, replying to a compli. ment on her youthful appearance, said: "The secret of my youth? It is the good God -and I then, you know, work all the time.
But I am a great-grandmother," she continued, thoughtfully, "so how can these many compliments be true? I am afraid my friends are exaggerating." Mme. Bernhardt's laugh, spontaneous as a girl's, prompted a chorus of "No, no!" "Yes," said the actress, "unconscious exaggeration, like the French nurse on the boulevard. Our boulevards are much more crowded than your streets, you know, and, although we have numerous accidents, things aren't quite as bad as the nurse suggested. "Her little charge, a boy of six, begged her to stop a while in a crowd, surrounding an automobile accident. 'Please the little boy said, 'Want to see the man who was run 'No; his nurse answered.
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