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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-04-25
ENGINES SWEPT INTO CHASM
BY A MONSTER SNOWSLIDE.
Two Engines on Colorado q Northwestern
Dashed to Pieces and Attend
ants X Had

1hts htucus
terrible accident is reported from
Boulder, Colo, on the Colorado &
Northwestern railroad. Two big en-.
gines attached to passenger train
coming from Ward to Boulder Thurs.
day afternoon, were struck by huge
snowslide and hurled into the chasm
below Four trainmen were killed.
They are: Engineer Harmon, Engi.
neer Fitzgerald, Fireman Miller, Con.
ductor Bair.
The second fireman has not yet been
accounted for, and it is believed he,
too, is buried und ,r his engine, dead.
None of the bodies have been recov-
cred.
The passenger left'Ward for Boulder
drawn by two engines. When the
train reached bonneville the engines
were uncoupled and started up the hill
to buck the snow which was deep upon
the tracks.
A sharp curve occurs near the apex
OF the mountain, and just as the en-
gines started to plow through huge
snowdrift, vast avalanche of snow
and earth was loosened FROM above.
IL came down with terrible force and
caught the locomotives and crew and
carried them to the chasm below.
The train, which was quite heavily
loaded with passengers, was not
touched by the slide.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18
One on the Teacher.

II was at the Normal school that this
happened, and the class laughed. IL was
a laugh on the teacher, too. but he didn't
get angry. although IL did break into the
serious contemplation OF serious studies
with which he was trying 10 interest the
students. II was I'm the study OF psychol-
ogy. and they were discussing what ideas
first entered the human mind when GER
tain words were spoken or written
whether the mind thought OF one GER
tain object designated by the word or the
whole general class which Is embodied
I'm that word. To experiment on this
mental phenomena. in order 20 bring IL
more clearly 20 the attention OF the stu
dents, the professor said he would write
n word on the board. and then let one OF
them tell instantly what impression was
made upon her mind. lie called upon
one OF the pupils to be ready TO think
quickly and tell exactly what her first
thought was. after she saw the word
which he was about 10 write. lie stood
close to the board, so that the word was
hidden by his shoulders until he turned.
He wrote the word pig" and all the
class saw il except the girl who was
standing ready 10 make reply When
he turned, ne didn't get out Of her way
and she couldn't see the word. In reply
20 his sharp, sssick question, Now, what
do you see?' she replied, naively, ~
see you" And the class laughed mil
waukee Sentinel.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18
Charcoal Burning.

Charcoal burning in the United States.
so far as the product concerns the cities,
gives promise OF becoming a lost art.
says the Chicago Tribune. Gas and goso-
line have almost displaced IL as reat-
producing substance. With the thinning
OF the forests. too. the source of supply
is cut. Chicago cooks long ago aban-
doned the charcoal stove. The brazier,
the tinsmith and the plumber gave up the
use of the charcoal heater years ago As
a lining for refrigerators II has been de
clareG TO be redundant for the reason
that an air space Is better. IL has been
displaced i'm filters. IL is no longer used
in the making OF gunpowder
Yet I'm the woods of Michigan, especial
ly in the vicinity of Trsvers City, the
charcoal burner is figure In population
estimates. In Wisconsin, Ohio and In
Pennsylvania a comparatively few Of
them still follow the lonely life that Is
theirs because OF circumstances. They are
gypsies with a purpose.
Charcoal in it's perfect state IL baked.
not "A burnt. wood. Here is the distinc-
ton that keeps the charcoal burner awake
sometimes from forty-eight TO sixty
hours at stretch, especially IL he be
alone.
For the baking of charcoal the wood is
piled I'm a circle about central pit ,leav-
ing interstices through which the heat
from the fire burning In the centre may
circulate 10 the outer edge OF the pile.
Turf is piled over all until the pile re-
sembles a volcano. IL Is the object TO
keep this wood covered until IL cannot
break into a blaze. High winds are trou-
blesome. The sign of trouble I'm a kiln
is a thin. blue smoke that points 10 fire
in the wood. This fire Is put out by
smothering from the outside.
Only experience teaches when the char
coal is sufficiently baked When that pc
riod is reached il has lost about three
fourths OF its weight. An old observation
is TO the effect that ten horses will
draw the wood and three horses draw
the charcoal away" The slower the
wood has baked the more substance and
weight there will be In the Goals.
When the pyre has burned sufficiently,
the fire is put out by drenching the heap
with water. Even after hundreds OF gal
Ions have been poured through the heap.
1t may take three days for IL 20 cool suf-
ficiently for the charcoal TO be removed
A good-sized kiln viii produce 200 or 2S0
bushels OF the Goals.
The charcoal burner leads a gypsy life.
His cabin is near by the kilns and in II
is the picturesque disorder that 1t nat
ural TO man in the woods. His kitchen
utensils are most I'm evidence His bed is
wholly secondary. He eats to live and
lives 10 work. with only an occasional
spree" in some nearby town. In the
woods sobriety is everything TO his
craft.
He Is a wonder to the visitor. as he
plunges into thick smoke and heat and
works I'm the choking fumes with the
fortitude OF a salamander. When the kiln
is working est the smoke and fumes are
worst. and TO keep the kiln so necessi-
tates the constant attention OF the burn
er These fumes are considered detri-
mental 10 health under ordinary circum-
stances, but the compensating life I'm
the woods seems 10 make the charcoal
burner a hardy specimen of his race.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18
Great Paris Telescope.

What Is the great Paris telescope do
ing?' is question that must soon be
answered II the instrument ia TO Justify
its existence. says the Saturday Review
Its promoters had I'm view a higher pur-
pose than TO provide a gazing stock for
the visitor TO the exhibition; they were
without doubt genuinely anxious that
their enterprise should add TO the equip
ment OF science an instrument OF extreme
value. And yet there have been no indi-
cations OF any attempt to use the tele-
scope seriously for serious astronomical
work.
IL has produced some photographs of
the moon, which were published not long
ago In a magazine, and they are probably
the worst examples of lunar photography
that have ever seen the light immeas-
urably inferior TO De la Rues S great pho
tograph made forty years ago. and not
TO be compared with the work which
dozens OF smaller. instruments could pro-
duce today. Yet in all seriousness NJ.
Deloncle brings them forward as ex-
amples of the work OF his instrument.
and speaks of the poor things as epoch
marking photographs"
In truth. when M. Deloncle proposed TO
build for himself a TELESCOPES OF fifty
inches aperture. ten Inches larger than
the largest existing refractor he seems
u have had vastly exaggerated notion
OF the extra light-gathering power which
that increase would give him. II was not
long before the most glaring fallacies In
his scheme were pointed out. but such
warnings were swept aside I'm the wave
OF newspaper enthusiasm which the
catchword generated. The prospect OF
La lune un metre" fired the imagina-
tion, and a syndicate was promoted TO
find the money and build the telescope.
Who IL was that planned the instrument
In the form In which II was constructed
does not appear. IL was a fixed horizon
tai telescope, fed with light by heliostat
mirror. and II is important 10 note that,
In the opinion OF a great builder OF tele-
scopes, this will be OF the form OF the
large telescopes OF the future.
The first very large instrument fash
Toned in this manner is built and stands
waiting to be tried. 1t can certainly
never realize the exaggerated anticipa-
suitable climate and properly handled be
or immense value. IL would be a matter
OF the highest interest TO test II seriously
against the best work OF other instru-
ments. But its builders seem 10 have no
conception OF any standard OF excellence
Within stones throw OF the observat tory
which is publishing lunar atlas of mar
grotesquSly inferior results and shout: II
have won the day"
So long as the new telescope Is run on
these lines 10 Will be doing no good at all
and viii have wasted "A vast amount of
money and skilled labor 10 no better pur-
pose than 10 provide nine minutes won
der for the newspapers. NJ. Deloncle and
service 10 science.
The greater Is the pity that they should
seem so little TO recognize the true tests
OF scientific progress that thev are con-
tent 20 start with n journalistic hutter
ana achieve magazine celebrity.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18
Blind Student of Bees.

The world owes not a little OF Its
knowledge to men and women who have
been totally blind. Francis Huber, the
Swiss naturalist born at Geneva. in 1850.
is noteworthy example OF what may be
done by a person without eyes. Through
study and IN health he lost his sight In
his 18th year. and being possessed of
enough means 10 live comfortably, he re-
tired 10 a small town In his native land
and set to work 10 fathom bee life.
There were many hive mysteries which
naturalists had been unable TO solve up
10 that time-mysteries so deep and elu-
sive that there seemed but slight chance
OF a blind man unraveling them. But
Huber had two assistants who used their
eyes for him-his wife and servant
named Francis Burnens With their In
telligent help he conducted long series
of experiments that unfolded a wonderful
community and system among the little
honey-gatherers.
His discovery Of the means by which
they ventilated their hives was especially
ingenious IL stood to reason that
multitude of insects living In a dwelling
with one small door must have some way
OF renewing the air which they breathed.
He first proved that bees would suffocate
In a corked bottle Then, casting about
for a solution Of the ventilation problem.
he found that a number of insects were
always busly vibrating their wings at
the hive entrance. Frequently there
were as many as twenty posted there al
once, and they seemed to change guard
regularly and keep up the work night and
day. Some stood outside facing the door,
and more inside, facing outward. BY
studying the mechanism of their wings.
he found that they were so formed as TO
maintain a constant circulation bad air
being forced into every Granny of their
dwelling
The origin OF the wax was another
mooted point among the bee students.
Some naturalists thought that the insects
gathered their wax from plants, while
from the pollen which they ate, being
disgorged from the bees mouth as fast
as needed in its building.
Huber first found that bees setting In
new hives went to making comb at
once. though they brought home no poll
len, while the bees I'm old hives gathered
pollen abundantly. though they built no
cells. So he put a swarm into "A new
hive. made them prisoners with a netting
over the entrance and fed them honey
alone with drinking water. Within a
day they begun making comb and whea
the comb was removed they quickly re.
placed IT, This experiment was kept
MP lorg enough TO exhaust any supply
Of wax that the insects may have carried
from Their old home. When fed upon
fruit aud farns they made no comb at
ALL though the food kept them healthy
and happy for more than a week Fut-
ther experiments and close watching by
Mrs Huber and Burnens proved that
the wax came from between the rings vf
tie bee's abdomen n-ENchnnge.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18
BANK THIEF
SECURES
$500.
Asked the Cashier TO Pick Up
a Penny and Then Looted
The Money Drawer.

Newark. July 1s-"Pardon my careless
ness. but would you mind picking up that
penny for me?"
This apology and request was addressed
TO Augustine Baldi. a clerk In Ceasar
Conti's bank, al No. 10 Market street.
Newark, by a well-dressed man yesterday.
Mr. Cont also runs one or more banks
in New York
The stranger entered the bank at noon.
The clerk, Baldi, who Is sixty years old.
was alone. The customer laid down FIVE
pennies and asked for hve-cent stamp.
One OF the pennies rolled from the
counter behind partition that divided
the front from the rear Of the office
When Baldi was hunting for the miss
ing coin the stranger quietly stole out OF
the office without waiting for the stamp.
When Scepitoni Cont, manager OF the
bank, returned from luncheon Bald told
him about his queer visitor.
Cont fastened TO examine the money
drawer under the counter. IL was empty
save for a few small silver coins. A
chisel lay on the floor near by
More than $500 In bills had been stolen
Ihe absence OF the money was the ex-
planation OF the strangers act
The Newark Detective department was
at once notified. The police believe that
TWO men were concerned I'm the theft
one robbing the drawer. while the other
Kept the clerks attention engaged No
trace of the thieves was obtained.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18
jolly Kaiser Wilhelm,

although the most faithful OF hus-
bands" says the Candid Friend "the
Kaiser much appreciates beauty and
charm in the fair sex. lie has a most
profound admiration. by the way. for the
young Queen Of Holland. and for her re-
serves his brightest smiles and most gall
liant speeches. No one. Il is certain. can
kiss o woman's hand with nicer grace
than he Although. as BELTS man who
believes In the divine right OF Kings. the
Kaiser shows a stern front TO the public
when he drives about the streets In pri-
vate there Is no monarch so easy. so
frank and fun OF fun. when he met Lord
Salisbury during his first visit 20 Cowes
some time ago, he told that august man
some stories which made him split his
sides He even dug the Premier I'm the
ribs when his grandmother was not by
and then apologized for the indiscre-
tion."Exchange.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18
Europe CopiessAmerioa.

The German Central Association for
Mercantile and Technical Education now
In convention at Magdenburg is attended
by about 400 delegates from all parts OF
Germany and few visiting delegates
from Austria. The convention unani-
mously adopted a resolution to petition
the chancellor OF the German empire 10
direct the efforts OF the imperial govern
ment for the establishment of "a national
federaD department OF education. like
the bureau OF education at Washington,
FOR the purpose OF gathering all infor-
nation and new developments I'm the edu-
cational systems Of all civilized countries
and disseminate this knowledge 90 the
German people" Deputy Consul-General
Hanauer. at Frankfort. says the coun-
tries OF the old world not only copy our
inventions. but also follow our modes OF
instruction, training. etc. America AL
ways Ahead" he says. is the significant
mark OF twentieth century progress.-Ex-
change.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18
MUST PAY
COST OF
DIVORCE.
Rich BoardsT Aamsd as Co.
respondent is MuIctsd by
The Court.

Rochester July is.--Warren M. Billings
brought suit for divorce from Ella II.
Billings. naming his neighbor. Frank Al
bright, correspondent
All the parties are well known I'm the
town of Webster suburb OF Rochester,
Albright being wealthy farmer. While
boarding In the Billings home the alleged
friendliness between him and his hosts
wife sprang up, Billings first sued the
exboarder for alienation OF the affections
of his wife and was awarded 5000 ver-
diet by the supreme court jury. The
case has been appealed.
Then the divorce action was placed on
trial and was bitterly fought by both
sides Albright made the unusual request
that he be impleaded as codefendant
in the divorce suit. as he considered his
reputation at stake and desired 10 secure
a refutation of the charges against him
by a legal victory for Mrs. Billings.
The outcome OF the suit was a deci-
sion granting Billings his divorce and
taxing the costs on Albright. The ruling
is the first OF its character that has
ever been made by the local bench. but
Is said 10 be not without precedent In
the legal history OF the state
The evidence in the divorce trial was
not out OF the ordinary. except for the
determined effort Of the defence 10 estab-
lish an alfbi for Mrs. Billings at the time
when Albright was said by plaintiffs
witnesses 10 have gone TO Seneca Falls
with her
An apparently respectable young wom-
an resembling Mrs. Billings swore that IL
was she and not the defendant who ac-
ha IA
i'm question.
Witnesses testified that Mrs. Billings.
after Albright's expulsion from her
home. would place notes in hollow
gate-post whence they would be soon
after collected by Albright.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18
Measures for Saving Life.

The department OF state has received a
note from the Belgian legation requesting
the participation by the government and
the people OF the United States IN the in
ternational exposition OF hygiene, mari
time security and fishery TO be held at
Ostende, Belgium. during August and
September next. An international con-
gress will be organized I'm connection
with the exposition for the discussion OF
questions of maritime hygiene and mari
time and colonial security. The object Of
the exposition is 10 make known the
measures adopted by different royern-
ments ftrohe GKKQCMFCMCMAR
ments for the organization and working
OF services OF succor on battlehelds and
I'm cases Of great catastrophies on sea
and land-as the use and working Of
life-ssving apparatus. etc.-washington
Star.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18
JUDGE HOLLIS. UNCLE SANS Representative AT THE
HAGUE COURT OF ARBITRATION.


universal The
republics Independent The United
by Judge Frederick w Hollis of New
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18
Consumption of Sugar.

Sugar syndicates who manipulate the
European market predict that the United
States will produce all the sugar IL needs
according 10 United States Consul Donzel-
mann at Prague, I'm a communication TO
the department OF state. IL Is shown
that Russia. Germany. France and Eng
land materially increased their consump-
tion Of sugar last year, while Spain, italy
and the Balkan states have produced not
are exporting TO a small extent. Even
Egypt, which recently was obliged TO inn
port about $4,000 tons annually from Aus
tralia- now exports large quantities to the
United States and India. With reference
20 beet sugar the consul says that Il is
a surprising fact that the United States.
with millions Of acres OF virgin soil and
improved machinery, has such a COM
paratively small acreage planted in sugar.
beets. and so few sugar factories.--Ex
change
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-18

pledges his honor and reputation for
it's truth. Whatever happens in Mr..
Maskeyne's case, therefore, the testi-
mony OF Sir William Crookes has 10 be
countervailer ere "materializations' are
pronounced unreal This, OF course, is
putting the thing at it's very lowest. be-
cause there are other scientific witnesses.
British, Continental and American, that
could supplement what Sir William has
described. Journal OF Dundee.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-09
WHAT'S The USE.

What's the use of making trouble
when it's with you every day
What the use?
What's the use of doing things in the
most inconvenient way
What the use?
What the use of hunting worry9
What's the use of fret and stew
When there's not ghost Of reason
What's the use of lamentation when a
good thing passes by
What the use?
What's the use, when you may laugh
and shout, to turn it to a cry
What the use?
What's the use of breeding frenzy
And indulging in howl
When the world is not disposed to
Listen to your peevish growl?
What the use?
What's the use of blaming others for
the fault that is your OWL
What the use?
What's the use Of shifting burdens
you should carry. all alone
What's the use?
i Will it make your burden lighter
If the world refuses to
Weep about the homemade troubles
That have made their home with
you?
Denver Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-09
Fortify the Body.

Conditions such as bad food, bad
air, excess in foods and drinks, defec-
tive drains and the like, are all parts
of disease. They weaken us and lay
us open to germ attack. They may
not cause disease in themselves, but
they cause our bodies to be favorable
soils wherein disease may flourish
and grow. We say that house with
defective drains is liable to cause
headaches, sore threats, diphtheria,
typhoid fever and other ailments.
What we really mean is that breath
ing sewage gases and living over filthy
foundations weaken our general health
and bring about a state of body fav-
orable to the successful attack Of
whatever germs we may swallow or
inhale We weaken the resisting
power of our frames, and we fall be-
fore the attack Of the microbes, which
otherwise, if in good health, we are
capable of resisting. Nobody sup
poses that child is born with con-
sumption developed in it's lungs, even
if it's parents are consumptive. But it
is born with weaker lungs than the
child Of healthy folks; that is, it's
lungs are more liable to harbor the
microbe of the disease than are the
lungs of healthy-born chila. Again,
q man with strong lungs, while he
must inhale the germs of consump-
ton very frequently, as we all do
from the air, does not acquire the dis
ease. But let him suffer from a Sc
we're cold, he is then laid open to at
tack The cold weakens the lining
membrane of his bronchial tubes, and
the germs inhaled, not resisted and
killed by the body's cells, settle down
and develop the disease. The lesson
to be learned is the duty of fortifying
our bodies, of scrupulously attending
to our general health, and Of thus re-
sisting disease attack. Once acquired,
disease will run it's course, and the
doctors services are then requisite to
favor in every way the body's battle
against its invading foes.-The Scots
man.