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" rs queer how some Of these bright
est, best college fellows fail to
land" when the real struggle be-
gins. Take Ingham. for instance:
he was the star Of every year from
freshman to graduating. football hero
and a man among the many men of his
year. And yet when he left college
and started in ION his own hook" so
to speak. he didn't seem to be appre-
ciated. His mother said he was too
modest: his father said he was a
dreamer, and Marie Franz. who had
worshiped him at school, said: Give
him time; he's q bit slow. but he'll get
there"
She went to Chicago to study music
the same week that saw Ingham in
stalled as a clerk in the Bank of Cres-
ton. A clerkship in a country bank
isn't calculated to emblazon the genius
of any man, but the job looked aliuring
to Ingham, who was poor, and he took
it because he loved his mother and
wanted to nurture her old age. He
wrote queer, rambling letters to Marie
every week and in answer got words
of cheer, praise and encouragement
She told him that Chicago was "the
place." and that half the successful
men might so to school TO him with
profit.
When Ingham's mother died he had
q few hundred dollars saved up and
the funeral expenses left him enough
to pay his way to the city. 1t took him
three weeks to find employment, and
then be was bit ashamed Of his posi-
ton. Bill clerk in soap factory is
not the situation calculated to thrill
the vanity of a college graduate, but
Ingham could have borne his humilia-
tion better if visit to Marie had not
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As q rule these ex-Congressmen re-
ppA~'So cs II coulTLUs

As rule these eX-Congressmen re-
gard themselves simply as attorneys
acting for clients and would be indig-
nant if classed with the ordinary lob
byists who are supposed to be ever
ready to accomplish things by 81y
possible hook or crook.
A number of representatives Of cor
porations are paid large salaries and
live in elegant style, year in and year
out, in the most fashionable section
Of the National capital. Even the "free
lance" promoters sometimes make fab
ulous sums, as, for instance, Major
Stahlman, of Nashville, Tenn, who Is
understood to have received some time
since the sum of $1OO,S00 for getting
through Congress a claim for $2SS, 600.
Women do not play as important a
part in lobbying operations as they
did before Speaker Reed ordered the
closing of a reception room Of which
they held almost sole possession, and
where it was always convenient for
lueu W meel COuSl SlCoslASa' 1Ao"S S'NA'
n number Of attractive women who
have an acquaintance with many Con-
gressmen are regularly employed by
the professional lobbyists, the usual
ruse employed being to have them
call at the Capitol and each send in
O card requesting n brief interview
with some one Representative just at
the time when an important bill Is
to be voted on, and when the absence
of one or two members may change
the result.
New members are the particular prey
of the unscrupulous lobbyists. They
analyze newcomer with the skill born
of long experience and govern them
selves accordingly. Very seldom does
one of these adroit manipulators Of
men risk alarming his quarry with the
suggestion Of a downright bribe.-
Walden Fawcett, in Golfers Weekly.
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iron hammered very thin. A few old
horseshoes were often used for this
purpose. The proper form Of the mold
board was the subject Of much thought
among the advanced farmers Of those
and later times. President Jefferson
wrote on the subject, and said it should
be lifting and upsetting wedge, with
an easy connecting curve. This theory
has been acted on in all the plows that
have been made since.
In the early settlement Of this coun-
try the wooden plow was used, and
even to late date plows were made
that had no iron except the share.
The steel plow is now making it's
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provement being shown herewith. In
carrying out the invention the sails en-
ployed are made up in sections, which
when spread occupy the same general
dimensions as an ordinary sail. but
which, by arranging the sections to
overlap each other, presents a greater
effective area of canvas to the wind.
The method of attaching the sail to
the lower boom is such that q
pull Oh certain ropes turns the pocket
wrong side out when the ship takes
new tack, allowing the wind to fill out
the loose canvas in the pockets long
before the boom could be swung across
the boat and presented broadside to the
wind. In reefng the sail 1t Is only
necessary to take in one or more of the
sections by hauling on the ropes. which
draw it toward the mast.
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FoREIGN.

The Great Britain Railways Devels
opment Corporation, New Jersey con-,
Germ, will buy and build electric lines
| in London. a.
Onslow Ford's memorial tablet to-
| Ruskin was unveiled in the Poets Cori
ner. Westminster Abbey.
Charters will be sought at the forth
coming session Of the Dominion Par;
lament for a number Of railways Int
the Yukon region.
A concession was granted by Peru to-
group of American capitalists, who
may spend millions in developing thel
mining resources Of that country.
An accident in the Church of Horen-,,
citos, in Chiriqul, Colombia, resulted
In the death of thirteen persons and the
severe wounding Of thirty others.
The Chinese Government dismissed
all the European professors from the
Imperial University.
During q debate in the lower house
Of the Prussian Diet on the estimates
of the Mining Department, DR.. Moller
announced that the bill would prob
ably be submitted authorizing liberaI
credit for the purchase Of the West
phalian coal fields. !.
The Berlin Kreuz-Zeitung said Lord
Pauncefote proposed that the Powers
declare American intervention in Cuba
unjustifable. The German Foreign
Office confirmed, but British authorities
denied the report. '....
Royalist women in Paris called upon
their friends to save money for the
monarchistic cause by stopping balls
and entertainments. Fl,
An attempt by Liberals to capture
the city of Barranquilla. on the Magda-
lena River, Colombia, failed.
For killing his common law wife
Frederick Shultz was hanged at Sault
Ste. Marie. Ontario.
President Charles 81. Cramp fatty de-
MED story published in the Berlin
Lokalanzeiger to the effect that the
Cramps were about to establish ship
yards at Kiel and Stettin.
Cecil Rhodes reached Cape Town
to fight the case against him involving
notes for $115,O00 drawn In favor Of
Princess Catharine kadzlWill.
The British Chamber of Shipping
advocated changes in maritime regu-
lations in the United States.
Spain's instructions to its Ministers
abroad In effort to avert war with
United States in 1898 and their replies
were made public.
The Sultan's brother-in-law, Damad
Mahmud Pacha, who Is a fugitive in
Paris, was condemned to death by q
tribunal in Constantinople for conspir-
acy against the Sultan.
The Unionist candidate for Parlia-
ment in the County Down, East DE-
vision, Ireland, was defeated by the
Land Purchase candidate. losing the
Government seat
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his nattock" Evidently these were
iron tools which were made by the
Philistines. and which they alone could
repair. An old picture of q wheeled
plow dates back 2000 years. and to the
Greek nation.
The modern plow had its origin in
Holland and Flanders. Two hundred
and fifty years ago England imported
plows from those countries. and fifty
years before that an English work OH
agriculture alluded to the improved
plows of Holland. In the latter part
Of the eighteenth century cast iron
mold boards and wrought iron shares
were made in England. and soon after
the cast iron share was made. From
that time until the present there has
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THE GREAT DISSATISFIED.

The men who are not satisfied
Are they who set the pace
The men who do not meet defeat
With calm, contented face;
The men who labor on and on.
With minds and fingers skilled
They are the great unsatiShed
Who plan, and fight, and bu.d.
The men who are not satisfied i
They are the cnes who lead;
They force humanity ahead
BY strident word and deed;
They bring us out OF bygone ways;
They guide us through the dark
To where some man. unsatlshed,
Has set shining mark.
The men who are not satisfied
They grid the world with wires:
They belt the land with rails of steel,
And pierce the air with spires;
They loose the leash Of sweet content
With which mankind is tied.
Wen never pay the debt We owe
The men unsatisiied.
w. D. Nesbit, in Baltimore American.
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been a necessity to his life. He con-
cealed from her the fact of his pres
encc until he had found work. and
then, with swelling heart and a sense
of his degradation he called at her ad-
dress in Woodlawr.
He found her a woman and remem-
bered her as a coed. She was glad to
see him. and therefore he was sorry he
had come. He intended to bare his
confidence to the girl who had been
his chum at college. but to the radiant
woman whom he saw and who called
him Joe with an odd mixture of ia.
miliarity and reserve, he could say
nothing at all. So he sat dull and hec-
tic while she chattcred away about
her successes, her hopes, her friends,
memories. Then:
What are you going to do-Joe?'
she asked.
Il don't know exactly" he said,
flushing with the memory of his soap
factory. 'You know. Miss Franz
l.
Miss Franz she calculated: "sincc
when pray? Hero I am calling you
Joe and YOU come back with Miss
Franz Now. don't do that. joe"
well, then. Marie" he resumed
the pal!or Of hope whitening his good
face: well, you know 1 haven't much
choice. It's 4 case Of work with me
I haven't sou. you know. and what.
ever l do-at first. anyway-must be
for tho money there is in it. I've got
q place"
Good for you" she laughed. Good
boy. And you just came. 1 told you il
was only question of nerve"
Il think have that" he was say.
ing, bat she ratified ahead:
Look at Charley Hughes. He's
here. already rising-some say a bril-
liant-young lawyer. Why. you al
ways excelled him at college, didn',
you. Joe? OF course. he's a lovely fel
low Bingham WINGED again and
like him ever so much. but the point is
he's no smarter than you. is he"
why, I didn't know Hughes was
here" said the diffident Joe. his gorge
rising at the thought that perhaps Ma
rie had already seen so much Of his
old classmate that her interest in him
self was secondary; ''do you see muci
of him."
Yes; we're great friends, you know
that iS-well. he calls about twice 6
week. and her big blue eyes studied
the carpet till she felt that Joe wa!
looking at the clock. Then she re
sumed:
"By the way, can't you come out tt
our Browning Club meet Thursday
Char-Mr. Hughes is to be there. ant
you ought to begin to mix little, a:
they call it. Hes going to give read
ing of some sort. You and 1 can 60
"Will you go with me-" Joe wa!
alert now.
You may be sure 1 will"
So they agreed to go to the Browning
symposium, and Ingham went home
with a new hope and aI indomitahlt
determination in his guilelcss heart.
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Got His Wheel on Time.

"It does not always follow that O
man Is able to detect because he Is
officially known as a detective" was
the remark made at the headquarters
of the police department the other day.
"There are many people, however,
who think that such should be the case.
A man who had evidently had no ex-
perience in detective matters, called
one day and reported the theft Of a
bicycle. His manner of making the
report amused those who heard what
he had to say.
"'I want to get my wheel by next
Thursday he said, because I'm going
away on the $40 train
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Wind Pockets in the Sail.

In the construction of sails for boats
it is desirable to provide for q given
space q maximum amount of canvas
area to be presented to the action Of
the wind, whereby in .tacking or wear
ing the dead wind may be easily and
quickly spilled from the sail, to effect
the change with the least possible de-
lay. The accomplishment Of these OBJ
jects is among the important features
of the sail recently designed by George
A. Lowry, an illustration of the i'm
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Observation-Disclosures oscoce
8 STORY OF THE PLOW. s
x The Origin of the Familiar Farm Z
s. Implement is q Mystery.
occo ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Who used the first plow cannot be
known. At all events, there was but
little difference in the shape Of the
plow and the hoe in early times, save
in size. Cut off the handle from the
plow and there was the hoe.
After a time some mechanical genius
saw that the plow would operate more
easily if the point that runs in the
ground were f1attened and the beam
were more nearly parallel with the
bottom of the share, and so he became
more particular about the shape Of
the forked stick than his ancestors
had been. By degrees the cutting sur
face was fattened. and it took such
various forms as the makers thought
best adapted to their needs, or as the
forked stick would allow cutting. Soon
two sticks were fastened together with
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Force of q Cyclone.

Careful estimates Of the force OF a
cyclone and the energy required to
keep the full-fedged hurricane in ac-
tive operation reveal the presence of
a power that makes the mightiest ef-
forts Of man appear as nothing in COM
parison. A force fully equal to over
400, 100000 horse power was estimated
as developed in West Indian cyclone.
This is about fifteen times the power
that can be developed by all the means
within the range Of mans capabilities
during the same time.
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Golfers Weekly.

."Can't give a guarantee in sucl
Matters he was told.
"'Don't forget said the owner OF tht
wheel, as he started to leave the office
I'm going away Thursday, and I'd lik'
to take the wheel with me-
His complaint was given the usua
attention, and, strange as it may seem
his wheel was recovered the day ht
wanted and in time for him to take y
away on the train.
"'Who said Sherlock inquired ths
detective, after the wheel had beeI
turned over to its owner."-Washinc
ton Star
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MINOR EV[NIs0F THE EEt
.wAsnINara,N IrEns.

~
President Roosevelt abando doned hie;
proposed trip to Charleston on aeeount.
Of his sons illness. ssSs1 q
Two hundred and eighty clerks sin the
Census Bureau were dismissed on gae!s
count Of the gradual completion Of thu
work. .%sssGt;
The Navy Department accepted the
torpedo boat destroyers Stockton and
Shubrick. " 5ss
New members National Republicans
Committee: Montana, p. L BonnersI
New Hampshire, Senator GaIlinger. gs
The Senate passed the bill approprt
ating s2,500,o00 for new posteffce tl
New York City. ~ y
Mrs. Shaw. wife Of the Secretary o1s
the Treasury, gave her first reception
and won friendship Of her 1900 callers
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been constant improvement in plows.
One of the great improvements of the
last century was the use of steel by
John Deere. He beat his first share
into shape over block of wood in his
shop in Grand Detour Even in Amer
lea the wooden p!ow has been used at
a much later date than most would
think.
During the colonial period It was
made of wood, the mold-board being
covered with shee. iron Or wrought
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way all over the world. There is
scarcely a country where the plows
made in America are not known, and
they are taking the place of the primi-
tive instruments.
Fully one-half the wheat raised in
the world is raised on land plowed with
these primitive instruments. The great
possibilities of the plow industry can
be seen when it is known that in the
not far distant future all these plows
will be supplanted by the steel plow.
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Yoks famous pohua
under the generic name OF IAN
his retirement
Mr. Nixon was born at
He United States Naval Acad-
in later given responsible
construction department of the Navy The Un
operated his account SIX years ago
His New jersey
shipyad vessels them the
submarine torpedo beat "Holand' the monitor FLORIDA"
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

General Chaffee is drawing up eIabs:
crate plans for the blishment OF q;
permanent military post in Manila.
Women are active managers OF Fit.
pino affairs and every Filipino q mIisi-'
clan, Governor Taft said. n
The police closed the gambling houses
In San Juan, Porto Rico.
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Borneo's New Stamps.
Two new stamps have been issued
by North Borneo. The stamps are Of
ten cents and sixteen cents value. The

ten-cent stamp, which is here -repros
duced, bears a representation of a
honey bear, while on the sixteen-cent
q picture of a train illustrates the
march of civilization in that corner Of
tha world
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There is as much real nourishment in
one bushel Of beans as in five bushels
of potatoes.
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In Italy there are more theatres 81
proportion to the population than IL
any other country.
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Marriage is often the result of I
maiden effort.
The Washington times., 1902-09-29
PHILADELPHIA IS NOW
FULL OF PICkPOCKETS
Rube waddell, the Crack Athletic
Twirler, Goes Up Against the Visit
ing Light Fingered Gentry.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Sept 2s-City
Hall detectives are highly concerned
over the presence in Philadelphia of a
gang of, professional pickpockets. who
have been operating extensively during
the past few days. Some Of the light
fingered gentry turned up in Camden
yesterday. and were in evidence at the
grounds of the Camden Baseball Club,
which played with the Gloucester club
Rube Waddell. the famous Athletic
pitcher. was relieved of 500 gold
watch. which was presented to him a
week ago ~ coter!e OF his admirers.
Just how or when the timepiece was
taken is not known. The robbery. which
is believed to have been committed by
pickpockets from Philadelphia. was i'm
mediately reported 70 the police OF this
city and Camden. who are engaged In a
systematic hunt for the watch and the
thieves.
Detectives were scattered throughout
the central part Of. the city last night.
and entrances toAlaces OF amusement,
were given special attention by the
sleuths. At cne of the play houses four
people were robbed of valuable watches
1t was stated a: police headquarters
last night that y,he pickpockets have
iocked here after having enjoyed n
prosperous season at country fairs UP
the State.
The Washington times., 1902-09-29
SUPPOSED SUICIDE
ONLY CASE OF EPILEPSY
Imaginary Pistol Shot and Fall of Negro
at the Capitol Causes Some Little
Excitement.

There was little excitement at the
east front of the Capitol yesterday af-
ternoon when negro was seen to fail
from the steps to the center portico,
while about the same time a sound re-
sembling pistol shot was heard.
Passersby hurried toward the man and a
telephone message was sent to the Sixth
precinct station. stating that man had
committed suicide.
Driver Fitzgerald made q quick run
TO the scene. and 1t was found neces-
sary for the officers TO force their way
through hundred or more people to
reach the man. He was hastened to
the Casualty Hospital. a short distance
away. where the physicians discovered
that he was suffering only from epilepsy.
After he had recovered sufficiently he
said he was Charles Pinckney. of 403
Seventh Street northeast. aged twenty
three years. He left the hospital during
the evening.
The police were unable to secure any
explanation OF The supposed pistol shot,
The Washington times., 1902-09-29
ROGUE TOURNAMENT
BEGINS THIS AFTERNOON
Games on Local Courts for
Southern Championship.

The annual tournament to decide the
Southern championship in rogue will be-
gin today and will continue day and
evening through the week. The tourney
IS held under the auspices OF the Asso-
ciated Rogue Clubs of the District.
The games will be played on the courts
located at Ninth Street and Rhode ISL
and Avenue, on Ninth Street near R. and
on Twelfth between o and P. The
courts are we'll equipped with rubber
borders and electric lights. and the
players will find every convenience.
Entries may be allowed as late as We'd
nesday noon. October l, provided ar
rangements are made with the execu-
tive committee.
Mr.. W. H. Wahly. 1881 Street north
west is the secretary-treasurer of the
District association.
Contests will be governed by the rules
of the National Rogue Association of
America, and all clubs in good standing
with that organization will be eligible to
representation in the games. The fec
is 81 for each entry. Suitable prize
trophies will be awarded the first and
second best players in each division.
The Washington times., 1902-09-29
JOE GRANT TO WRESTLE
WILLIAM HART OF CANTON
Popular Local Middleweight Will Take
Mat With the Baltimorean Next
Thursday Night

The managers q Joe Grant. champion
middleweight wrestler of the South. and
William Hart. of Canton. Baltimore.
announce that these clever athletes will
wrestle next Thursday night at Kernan's s
Lyceum. in conjunction with the show.
taking the mat Immediately after the
performance.
Hart was thrown In Baltimore by Her
rick OF the New York Athletic Club,
in forty minutes. and Grant wrestled Her
rick to a draw here two weeks ago, and
the contest should be an interesting one,
1t will be one-hour bout. catch-as-
catch can. strangle barred. and only
pin falls 10 count, best two in three. and
If only one fall in the hour that TO de-
eide the winner.
Hart has wrestled with Harvey Parker
and has defeated Fred Packham and
Lenhart. all clever professionals. Grant
has frequently demonstrated his clever
ness, and should. on form, make win
ming in this match with the Baltimorean..