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0 0 . Truth w & & r . 11 I - • A is They came with their dusty tomes. Scholar and priest uud sage They searched from dawn to dawn In the writings of e\erj age If haply by pain and toil They mifeht limit man s faith define The bound between dark and light. Might fix it by rule and line. Came by a dreamet* of dreams Hand In hand with a ihlld, A paper fluttered and fell. And the dreamer stooped and smiled. And. smiling fashioned a ball From the scroll of the doctors gray, And tossed It down to the ehild- VVho lost it. they sa>. at play —Jesnette Bliss Gillespy. - The Eastward Road.\ i > / i w - - A - p j 4 r r ((\qi\ riit'it 1'iot t)y II,lily Stoiy I’nli C o ) They sat on tlie forward deck of a | write, when he big Ohio river steamboat. He was a distinguished-looking man of the world .She was a pretty little thing in the full bloom of womanhood, with fluffy golden hair, deep blue eyes and a pearl and-ruby combination of teeth and lips. The deck about them was deserted save for a tall, bronzed, bearded man, who sat several yards away, smoking absently and gazing thoughtfully out across the water The man was watching her with his heart in his eyes. Presently he'spoke. \Millie he said, wistfully, \are you going to keep me waiting much long er?” The eyes she turned upon him were filled with compassion. “ I know y'ou have been good and kind and patient with mo, Ned.\ she said. “But I cannot say what you would like—just yet ” i “ I have everything that you could desire, and 1 could make you as hap py as the day is long if only you would let me try, dear,” he said, pleadingly \Tell mo, what is it— what mystery stands between us and happiness? I think you owe me that much.” She was silent for a time \I supposo 1 should tell you,” she said at last, with a shadow of pain on her face “ It is right that you should know ll is a long story, but I could condense it into three words ‘T’here is another'\ The man’s face went white, hut when he answered liis voice was firm. “ Go on,\ he said, simply \It was a long time ago.” she be gan, reminiscently \He was a ool lege man, home on vacation. 1 was a school girl, and full of romance We met at a lawn fete. Our meeting was quite conventional, hut he was so big and strong and manly that I grew to — to care for him as much as lie said must have known what I suffered. Then I learned, quite by accident, that his father, heartbroken and lacking cotr-age to face the world a beggar, had taken his own life, and I understood. He wa* too pruud, too sensitive to seek me out again until he had redeemed himself from the disgrace of his father’s ignominious death. I learned, too. that ho had gone West to win his fortune in thp gold fields There was little else for him to do. His father’s death had left him dependent upon his own exertions, but. happily, with no one <h pendent upon him. Three Sr®? v She obeyed, and then- years ago I met you. and—I tried to lorget Hut I could not We can he cared for me, and I promised to be \ never bo more to each other than the his wife some day Wo were toge’ h- er a''great deal, and when he went away something seemed to have passed out of my life- you under stand?” The man nodded, silently “ We corresponded regularly, and built up a grand mansion of hope for a happy future together Hut. you understand all that, too Wo were to he married when ho had graduated and been admitted into partnership with his father Then, on\ day. there came a letter—the last I ever re ceived from him I have it \ ot ’’ Her voice broke a little \His fniher. he said, had met with disastrous finan cial reverses, and would have to be gin all over again It would be hard, too—he was so old. But ho was brave. He said fie would never give me up. He would win for himself a name and a place in the world that 1 rr B y Earl M. Pratt, OBR Park, Illinois. T H E T E L E P H O N E G IR L . * ' mm m ■ j g j t f 1* ; 5 - V i. Remember I am thy telephone girl— Not \Flossie” or \Lizzie” or \M a d g e ” or “ P e a rl”. II. Thou shalt speak plainly and loud’ and clea r. And call the number so I may hear. III. Thou shalt hang up thy receiver when Thou hearest: “ Busy— please call again.” rv. Thou shalt bo patient, thy temper halt; Remember buzzing is not my fault. Thou shalt not doubt what I tell to thee— '1 will only double the work for me. VI Th«,j shalt be gentle and kind in speech Nor swear nor mutter, nor rudel> sc rooch. VII Thou shalt not flirt, nor request a date. Nor show thyself such an addlepate VIII Thou shall not If on a party line (live heed to sign iD that are not thine Thou shalt when told to put In a dime. Drop it in quickly, and not lose time X Thou shalt not murmur, nor make com plaint. Rut ui t as if thou wort all a saint. T H E SUBSCRIBER. The telephone subscriber, at the ending of the year. Took down his 'phbne receiver, and put It to his ear. “Hello.” he saidq\t) Central Girl, connec tions do not break. I have some resolutions I am just about to make. \Hereafter when I'm calling for a num ber I shall not Fly Into bitter tantrums If the number can’t be got. “ Hereafter, when you signal, ’Line Is busy, call again.’ I shall not be so foottsh as to blame it on you then. \Hereafter when the telephone begins to ring full strong. I shall answer in a hurry, lest I keep you waiting long • Hereafter when I make a call and am delayed a bit I si all not flash like fury, nor act as in a til. \ I I m - i ifter. when I’m angry when the talking is not clear, I shill not yelp piufancly till I blister up \our ear. i I ten ifter. when another on my party- line is called. I shall rot rubber, eithir, till the line of talk Is stalled “ Hi'••after— O. hereafter Central Girl, 111 liy to he un-t as mild and calm and pleasant as jou always are wuh me \ F e d o n M o n s t e r D u m p l i n g * An aged citizen of North Carolina tells the story of the greatest apple dumpling ever made His home is in Halifax county, where, prior to 1840. there was a voting precinct known by the odd name of “ Dumpling Town.” In 1840, when William Henry Harrison was elected president, after a most ex citing campaign. Dumpling Town had exactly 114 voters, and every man of them cast his ballet for Harrison. The people of the small but prosper ous town of Scotland Neck, In the county, also showed their appreciation of the unanimous vote of Dumpling Town by a generous and whimsical gift. Two days and a night were con sumed in building a big dumpling, which weighed 114 pounds, one pound for each vote cast at Dumpling Town. This monster of a dumpling was put In a sack, supported by a tripod, and lowered into an immense iron kettle. It required two days and a night to cook it properly. Then it was lifted out and placed in a specially made howl cut from the trunk of an enor mous cypress tree, and round it were placed 114 dumplings of the usual size. A hand of music and fifty wagons were sent to Dumpling Town, and in these wagons were taken to Scotland Neck the 114 true blue Harrison men and their families. There was great cheering when they arrived at Scotland Neck, and the guests cheered themselves when they saw the feast prepared for them, for besides the dumplings no end of good things filled many tables In the spa cious warehouse, and the feasting and fun lasted the rest of the day rind nearly all night. A barrel of the best molasses was used as sauce for the big dumpling and the hungry people ate it all — Youth’s Companion. W a s T h e r e f o r B u s i n e s s y t i m e s ' . '] ., “ Go on,” he said, simply, j^roul. ,,Jtbeg£ed- me; to be true to him, and sbfc*‘— .iw • ____ _ .i-.. tr dean st of friends until I know that lie is—Is dead - or— false'” When she turned her eyes to the water again the man saw that a tear gleamed upon lit r cheek A rotent silence fell between them. The dusk fell softly and the peace of the Sabbath night descended like a benediction They could hear, with softened distinctness, the merry voices and happy laughter of children enjoy ing the cool of the waterside, the atr was so dry and clear—and hear the barking of faithful watchdogs In dooryards near and far Bright lights started into twinkling life on either shore The incense from fields of growing grain floated to them across the water. The chug, chug of the paddle v heels, the Insistent tinkle of the pilot bell and the asthmatic wheeze from the exhaust pipes were about the only sounds on board that rose above tne drowsy voice murmur as tlie boat throbbed on. The woman was weeping softly r.cvv The man leaned toward her. \Millie he said, pityingly, \give up this—this memory If he is not dead, he is—lie wishes to forget yon” His voice caught some of the subtle spell of the night. \Come little one, let mo lead you Into happiness?\ She controlled herself with an ef fort '*'1 cannot — I cannot” ’ she sobbed. \Leave me. please I cannot bear to listen to you—now!\ He regarded her compassionately for a moment, thdfftwalked away with bowed head. ' The big, bearded man camo to her out of the shadows near the port rail, and laid his hand tenderly upon her bowed head. \Millie.\ he said, and his voice was vibrant with happiness, ’’look up.\ Like a startled, wondering child she obeyed, and then ----- The other man, returning, saw and heard, and turned away with the gray shadow of despair in liis eyes. A member of the Washington bar who recently returned from a trip to the Ozark mountains of Arkansas re lates an amusing experience he had with a tall, gaunt native in one of the most desolate passes of that range \W e were riding in a springless vvegon over the roughest road it had ever been my misfortune to encounter in all my travels.” said the lawyer according to the Washington Star, \and the desolation about us was almost appalling For more than an hour we had not seen a human being Suddenly a member of our party spied a figure of a man again- i the skyline ahead of us As we approach ed the man we observed that he had a basket on his arm. He greeted us with the salutation ” Hello, you uns. Be you strang ers?” Wo assured him (hat we were visit ors and remarked about the utter desolation of the place, to which he re plied; \Yes this Is a lonely kentry up hyar in dese mountains. Thar’ ain’t much hyarahouts but rattlers an' big stones an' the like” A member of our party informed the native that we were as hungry as hawks and asked him if he knew where we could purchase food. Un covering his basket he exposed about six of the toughest looking pies I had ever seen the likes of and informed us blandly that they were for salo at fifty 'cents apiece \Whew' Fifty cents apiece?” I queried “ Why. at Little Rock you can buy fine pies at from ten to twen ty cents each \ “ Huh.” rejoined the native, disdain fully. “ I reckon you kin at Little Rock, but yer In the Ozark mountains now, nn’ say, stranger, duz yer think I'm up hyar In this dodblasted pizen kentry fer the good of my health?\ PERILOUS. WORK OF RAILROAD PIONEERS -f > V-> <4 0* 4 f f U 1 / w y t. !'L / i s m M Jf. & The difficulties and dangers of build ing a transcontinental railroad such as those crossing Canada are not ap preciated by the layman, unfamiliar with the obstacles encountered. In many places the roadbed has to be blasted out of the face of a sheer cliff, possibly overhanging a mountain stream hundreds of feet below. In or der to mark the way it is necessary for the surveyors to hang logs from the top of the cliff, to enable them to obtain a foothold. Moving cautiously along this perilous path, where the slightest slip would send them to death, they work their way, examining the geological formation and making notes of the cutting that will be re quired. The ax men go first, then fol low the transit men to ascertain the distance and angles, the levelers, rod men and topographers, each with their work to perform before the ac tual construction of the road begins. MEANS VAST OUTLAY COST O F E L E C T R IF IC A T IO N A L L R A ILR O A D S . OF Estimates Made Show T h a t a Billion and a H a lf Dollars W o u ld Be Needed to Make the Change Desired. H o w A n c i e n t s K e p t T i m e Before an audience of London child- | The system which the Greeks fol- rrn a scientist delivered a lecture the i lowed of dividing the day Into twelve Wages Only Object. “Lots of men are hunting easy berths.” says a representative from Tennessee, \but multitudes of labor ing men who are compelled to earn their bread by the perspiration of the frontal sinus ought to he able to ap-. predate, the simple beauty of this ad- I^yertlsemeut, vrhi$h appeared in a .‘New Orleans paper.: other day on the methods of measur ing time as on’ jrloyod by the ancients. The lecturer began with the Chal deans, who. like the Chinese, observ ed tli\ n overeats of the moon and stars, and belli ved that an eclipse vvas due to the devouring of the moon hv a dr.\ en Then tlie* !«''■;urer came to the Egyp t's* s who erected obelisks to serve as the gnomons or pointers or san- I i'll:-. To tin* relight of the juvenile audi- *nco tin* lecture room was darkered and the sun (an electric glow lamp) was manipulated at the end of a fish ing rod to make a model obelisk cast the shadow. The Grieks. always artist'e. placed a huoj ant figure of a magician In a long das jar. and water dripped in. and as the figure rose it pointed to the hour on a marked sun dial. equal “hours\ from the rising to the setting of the sun w*as irregular. It behooved the Greek schoolboy to be goo?l In summer and work off his superfluous boyishness In winter, be cause an hour's ‘ 'imposition” In sum mer was twenty minutes longer than in winter. A description of the hour-glass led to the exhibition of a new adaptation of it A breakfast egg was suspended from the beam of a pair of scales, and dipped lrto a saucepan of boiling water. The sand from an hour-glass trickled into the scale which hung from the other end of the beam until the egg was cooked. Then the weight of the sand lifted the egg out of the saucepan and rang an electric hell. The advisability of wholesale elec trification of all the railroads in the country has been* formally considered in abstract before the electrical en gineering associations, and the ques tion has been found so great that the meetings were marked more by con tention and argument than by definite results. Figures presented show the estimated expenditure involved should every mile of railroad in the United States be reconstructed for operation by electricity and the rolling equip ment changed to correspond. The to tal cost of such a change is given at about $1,600,000,000. Electrical pow erhouses to give a total of 2,100,000 kilowatts or 2,800,000 horsepower would be required. Fifteen hundred millions of dollars is a sum so vast that It means nothing to the average person, and yet it represents an invest ment so stupendous that only an ex tremely small portion of it can be con sidered to have any relation to the im mediate future The economy of such a change has been estimated, in prospect, as con siderable. Present operating costs for the movement of every car and en gine in the country total $1,400,000,000 in one year. By electrification this would be reduced by about $250,000,- 000, representing that much actual and net saving. This last sum is Indeed enormous, but it only emphasizes the magnitude of the project of universal electrification: for the most radical advocates of the new power have not yet -dared to olaim that the saving, large as it seems, would warrant the change in its entirety. Under certain special conditions, however, the new power will stand su preme, and it is by the extension and more general application under these peculiar circumstances that electricity will one day, in due time, come into its own on the railroads.—Clyde Fenni- more Burns, in The World To-Day. CAR BRO KE FROM T R A IN . Solution of Mystery T h a t for a Tim e Puzzled Railroad Men. S a i d F i n n i ^ i n t o F l a n n i g a n Superlntindjnt wuz Flannigan; Boss ilv the siction wuz rinnlgln. Whlnlver the kyars got often the thraclt An muddled up thing* F th dlvll an hack. Flnntgln writ it to Flannigan Afiher the wrlclt wuz all on again; That is this Flnnigin Uepoorted to Flannigan. Whin Flnnigin first went to Flannigan JIo wrlted tin pages, did Flnnigin: An’ he tould Jist how the smash oc- Full many a tajus. blunderin’ wurrd Did Flnnigin write to Flannigan Afthor the cars had gone on agin. That wuz how^Flnnigin Repoorted to Flannigan. Now, Flannigan knowed more than Fin- nlgln— , . , __ I-Ie’d more- idjucation, had Flannigan— An* it wore ’m clane an’ complatply out To tell what Flnnigin writ about In his wrltln’ to Mister Flannigan; So he wrlted back to Flnnigin: “Don’Wdo.'sIch a sin agin: M a k e ’?emcbrlef, 'Flnniglp! An’ he said: \I'll gamble a whole month a pa-ay That It will be mlnny an* minny a da-ay Befooro Sup'rlntlndlnt ------ that’s Flanni gan— » Gits a whack at this very same sin agin; From Flnnigin. to Flannigan Repoorts won’t be long agin.” W a n da-ay on -the slctlon of Flnnigin. On the road sup'rlntlndid by Flannigan. A rail gave way on a bit av the curve. A n ’ some kyars went off as they made ’tliQ swervs* “ There's noobody hurted,” sez Flnnigin, “ But repoorts must be made to Flanni gan.\ An’ he winked at McGorrlgan, A s married a ’FInnlgin. H e was shantyin' thin, wuz Flnnigin, As mlnny a railroader's been agin. An* th e . shmoky ol’ lamp wuz burnln* - bright •' * In Flnnlgln’s shanty all that night— BUInVdown his. report wais Flnnigin; . ■An’ .he \wrlted-.this-’here: \'M ister Flanni- *gan;cl.vv *t« Stopped T rain to Help Girl. The gallantry of an engineer and members of a crew of a passenger train on the Milwaukee railroad re sulted in the rescue of a blushing schoolma’am from a curious predica ment, according to a dispatch from Scotland, S. D. The incident occurred at Kaylor, a new town about midway between Scotland and Tripp. The young woman was* hurrying to catch thp early train, and in order to reach the station platform had to crawl through a barb wire fence. Her skirts became entangled, and the more she struggled the tighter grew the clasp of the fence upon her. The engineer saw her predicament and promptly applied the brake, so some one could go to her rescue. The rescuers were the conductor and the members of his crew, and after some little time they succeeded in separat ing the clothing of the young woman from the sharp barbs on the wire. Naturally the young woman did not volunteer to give her name, and the engineer and others who ■ had gone to her rescue were too-gallant to ask 1L One night a long freight train broke in two as it was coming around a sharp curve on the Erie road between Buffalo and Corning, N Y. The en gineer put on all speed and ran away from the hind section in order to give the conductor and brakeman on the rear end a chance to stop their sec tion This they succeeded in doing a quarter of a mile or so, and then the engineer backed the forward section, coupled on to the rear section and pro ceeded to Corning, the end of the di vision. The conductor who was to take the train over the next division discovered in looking over liis train that he had a way bill for a car which was not among those delivered to him The other conductor was certain that he had the car when he started for Corn ing, and showed its number checked off in his report. No solution of the mystery came for a long time Then some boys came across the missing car at the bottom of a ravine below the curve on which the freight train had broken in two. It Is supposed that when the rear section of the broken train started to round the curve this car had jumped the rails, broken tthe coupling holding it to the car behind, and cleared 20 or 30 feet down the bank before strik ing the ground, which at this point was co\ered with underbrush, and that this undergrowth, after the car had rolled past, had righted itself and given no Indication of having been dis turbed. B R IT IS H ROADS IN BAD SH A P E . Over-Capitalized, They Have Hard W o rk to Earn Dividends. Automatic Umbrella. Delivery. The railroad stations of,: Berlin are shortly to be provided with automatic machines which, 'on. th*e insertion of 60 cents, will .deliver1 an umbrella. A. ticket will .also- drop out^'anS^ on pre senting it'wl^n^wp7S^aHo.ihn'-office A# 4l*A*orifATv<oH/»\ OrtoiofV' 'KA- According to P. W. Wilson, M. P., British railroads are capitalized at $6,430,000,000. This is less than half the American total, but four times as much per mile. The railroads, ex pensively built, with renewals being added to capital at the rate of $75,000tl- 000 a year, with receipts increasing only twd-per cent, a year and the divi dend rate steadily falling, are loaded with $300,000 a mile of capital. Practically all the stock of English railroads is held not for control, as here, but for investment, and the own ers demand dividends. But capital in creasing faster than business has gradually forced dividends lower. Nondividend stocks are fewer than with us, but the great mass of sQdfuri- ties pay between two and four per cent., and the general average for a generation has been: . Period. Dividend. Period. Dividend 1S71-1S75 ................4.50 1S91-1895 ................ 3.80 187G-1SS0 .................4.29 1896-1900 ................ 3.64 18S1-JS85 ................. 4.22 1901-1905 ................ 3.38 18SG-1S90 ................. 4.07 The owners of British railroads, by years of “after us the deluge\ in sistence upon dividends at the cost of watering capital, have got into as bad a condition as American frenzied finance reaches .in its most pyrotech nic flights. The service is unpro- gressive, improvement’ is delayed and the demands of laboring men go un heard. It is at base a disquieting sit uation. Dog Understands Signals. The New York, Susquehanna & , Western railroad has a cur dog that understands the. block signal'system as yreilas mpsttmgineers. His\ name is Boscpe?,. This quaint mongrel, rides > in the.tcab. 'of ;a locomotive' and watches -the semaphores, if an arm ^\np,\meahingVthat the blocfe ahead id'iiibt\Cle& %rowls ominously. -aad'jtthVCengiheer:-’ takes* warning. If l L
