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mans throat, but Francis head rose
again out Of the dust; he raised again
on his hands and dragging after him one
leg like a dead thing. crawlcd heavily
toward the switch. He reached the stand
and caught at It. He pulled himself up
on one leg and fumbled an instant at the
lock. then he Jerked the target As it
fell. clutched in both his hands, the
caboose OF the tea train leaped on the
tongue rail. The fore truck shot into
the switch. The heels. caught for a
hundredth of second In the slot. flew
out, and like the head OF a foaming cur
the caboose doubled franticallv on its
trailers. The tea cars tripped. jumped the
main rail like cannon balls. one. two,
three, four. flve-out and into the open
gulf.
The crash rolled up the gorge and down.
1t drove eagles from their nests and
wolves from their hollows. Startled birds
wheeling above the headlong cars
shrieked a chorus; a cloud like smoke
followed the wreck down the mountain
side. And the good people Of No. 3 the
pIeasure-seekers that Pat Francis was
taking care of-s125 a month-saw 1t all
and tried to keep cool and think.
He lay PROSTATE across the road. q
bruised and dirty and bloody thing. John
Parker. stumbling on rickesv knees,
reached him first, but he spoke again and
again before the bloodshot eyes reluct-
antly opened. And then Pat Francis.
-T,r
John Parkers bony arm. raised his head
It fell back into the einders. But he
doggedly raised it again-and shook the
broken teeth from between his lips-and
lived. HIS face was like a section OF
beefsteak, and the iron leg that struck
the ballast last had snapped twice under
him. A few minutes afterward he lay in
the stateroom Of the forward sleeper and
tried with his burning, swollen tongue to
talk to Brooklyn men who feelingly stared
at him, and to Brooklyn women who pret-
tily cried at him. and to old John Parker
who unsteadily swore at him as he famed
his own whiskers and Pat Francis head
with the baggage clip.
When No. rolled into Medicine Bend
next morning Bucks climbed aboard. and
without ceremony elbowed his way
through the excursionists dressing IN the
aisles to the injured conductors state
room. He was in there good bit
When he came out the chief priests OF
Brooklyn crowded around to say fast
things to the superintendent about his
conductor and their conductor. As they
talked Bucks looked in a minute over
their heads: he did that way when think
ing. Then he singled out the Depew Of
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Oldest House in the World.

Not since humanity began delving into
the mysteries Of the existence OF primi-
tive man has a discovery been made. so
rich in it's suggestiveness OF the home life
of prehistoric races as that made by the
United States Revenue cutter Bear on
her recent cruise to the Arctic Ocean. A
house built by human beings at least 5000
years ago. and probably Of an antiquity
far greater, was discovered by Alaskan
natives near Point Barrow. and many OF
the utensils used by the people who made
it a habitatiOn were secured. Stone
hatchets, stone knives, and other stone
and bone implements belonging to races
that fiourished before the dawn OF his
tory, have frequently been found, but
never before has a house in which they
lived been found preserved through the
wrecks OF time and all the elemental
catastrophes that have strewn the sur
face OF the earth with ruin and death
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-20
Child Life IN Siam.

When the siamsse girl gets up IN the
morning she does not 90 to the wash
stand to wash her face. for the simple
reason that siamese houses can boast no
such article Of furniture. So she just
runs down to the foot Of the ladder-for
the house is built on posts-to a large Jar
of water with a cocoanut shell dipper-
There she washes her face by throwing
the water over her hands and rubbing
them over her face She needs no towel
FOR tha water Is left to dry. She does not
t,r,,sb her teeth. for they are stained black
h1r chewing the beteI nut Her hair does
not require combing. either, for II Is al
shaved except little tuft on the top on
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-20

At Toitec. on the day run, we take a
mans breadth and give him large value
for his money in a bit OF the prettiest
engineering anywhere on earth.
Toltec lies in the Powder Range. near
the foot OF a great curve called the
Moose. because every time an engineer
slips the head OF his train into 1t he is
glad to hold his breath till he gets IT out
The Toltec Moose is engineering mag
nihcent; but II is railroading without
words-unless one counts the wicked
words. Eagle Pass station, the head of
the Moose, looks across an unspeakable
gulf directly down into Toltec. 500 feet
below and barely a mile away. But by
the rail we count seven miles around that
curve. and without any land grant per-
Quisites, either.
Every train that runs the Moose is dou-
ble-headed both ways. and now-this was
before-they add, to keep trainmen on the
relief scrap, a pusher
That day there was no pusher behind
the Overland Freight, and No. rs crew.
as they pulled out OF Toltec to climb the
loop, could plainly see above and across
the storming, struggling. choking engines
OF the tea train as they neared with their
load the summit Of Eagle Pass.
The wind bore down to them in break
ing waves the sucking roaring cut oi
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Tise thiH passenger all the way 20 Benton
kindly eject hA oischarEe. Let Il be dis
tnotiy understood that al delinquencies Of
this nature viii be sunmsrily dealt with.
n ". BANNERMAN. General Manager.
70 want letter TO go to the stove
not that kind OF q letter; but Bucks
nnEsTsd Il much as Pat Francis ought TO
have fingered the clever detective who
turned from the chair car TO the
smoker" on him and from a cattleman
20 q -daEo."
Bucks called the trainmaster. Francis
WGS vest, but 10 leave Benton that after
noon On q and as luck would have II,
90 bring back the Brooklyn party from
the Yellowstone And the passenger de-
pa-tnent IN Chicago was again heating
the wires with injunctions to take care
of them. and good care OF them, because
the excursion business on a new line is
not only profitable, but It is hard to
work I'D. and trouble with an excursion
in the beginning means q hoodoo for
months and may be for years to come.
Bucks felt especially gratihed 10 know
that Pat Francis had the precious load,
but what about the cash fare from Medi-
NA--1 -@N--- - ANEA -ANAAE BUCKS knew
these things couldn't be trined with
not On his une-and he faced the pleas
ant prospect OF next morning greeting
his right bower In the passenger service
with an accusation OF THEFT and a sum
mary discharge II he had only asked
ne for three dollars and a haIc, thought
Bucks, Eorely. Re would rather have
given his own pay check than TO have
had Pat Francis hold up one dollar.
And Pat Francis. .tacitur1. sphinx-uke.
was punching transportation at that par
ticular moment on No. . On he run east
from Benton. Checking passenger. keep
ing one eye on the ventil-torI and the
other on the date Limits, working both
pencils. both hands, both eGrn. both ends
Of the punch, and both sides Of the car
al the same time.
There wasn't q cinder 70 break the
even enjoyment OF the run up to the
clouds Everybody was going home, and
going home happy. From the Pullmans
1t was warm and sunny IN the noun
tains-came nothing but ragtirne and
Brooklyn yeIls. To describe our scenery
might be invidious. but the grade where
10. was then climbing would alone
make the fortune OF an ordinary eastern
scenic line.
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away from impending disaster. The
trainmen huddled again IN the baggage
car door, with their eyes glued on the
runaways; the Moose is so perfect curve
that every foot of their fight could be
seen. 1t was a race backward to save
the passenger train; but for every mile
they could crowd Into It's wheels the run
aways were making two. Pat Francis
saw 1t first-saw 1t before they had COW
cred half the distance back to Toltec.
They could never make the hill west OF
the Moose; 1t wasn't in steam to beat
gravity. Moreover, If they crowded No. 2
too hard she might fly an elevation and
go into the gulf. 1t is one thing to run
down hill and another thing to fall down
hill. The tea train was falling down hill
Francis turned to bare-headed John
Parker and handed him his watch and
his money.
What do you mean?" John Parker
choked the words out because he knew
what he meant
Turn this stuff in to Bucks, John. If
l don't make IT. It's all company money"
The brakeman, greenish aad dazed,
steadied himself with hand on the
jamb; the baggagenqan stared wild-eyed
through his rusty lenses. Pat he fall
tered, what do you mean7'
IN drop OF at the Toltec switch and
maybe can open it to catch that string
we'll never make it this way, John,
In Gods world"
You might Almost as well jump out
into the canyon: you'll never live to use
a switch key. Pat-were crowding a mile
a minute"
Francis looked at him steadily as he
pulled his ring and took switch key
off the bunch.
They're crowding 2. John
The car slued under them. John Parker
tore off his spectacles.
Pat, I'm a lighter man than you
give me the switch-key!" he cried, grip
ping the conductors shoulder as he fol-
lowed him out Of the door to the plat
form.
mo-"
Your children are younger than mine.
Pat Give me the key
This is my train, John. Ask Bucks
to look after my insurance"
With these words Francis tore the old
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-20
The Telegraph Plant.

Professor J. c. Bose recently presented
to the Linnean Society IN London the re-
suits Of experiments which will show that
the peculiar movements OF the leaflets OF
the so-caIled "telegraph-plant" are due
to an electrical disturbances travelling as
a current OF action" in the plant. Each
leaf consists Of a large terminal leafist
and two smaller lateral ones The later
al leaflets spontaneously rise and fall like
the arms Of a semaphOre, the period OF a
complete movement being about three
and a half minutes. Hence the name OF
the plant which is a species OF "desmo-
dunn" or tick-trefoil. native to the East
Indies, but easily cultivable in conserva-
tories.
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the party and put his hand on his shoul-
der.
Look here" said Bucks, and his words
snapped like frecrackers, II want you
gentlemen to do something for your con-
ductor'
We've made uD a purse of $500 for
him, my friend announced the spokes-
man, gladly.
II don't mean that. not that He's in
trouble. You needn't waste any breath
on me- 1 know that man as well as II
I'd made him. I'll tell you what 1 want
I want you to come upstairs and die
tate your account Of the accident to my
stneographer. While you're eating break
fast he'll copy it, and you can all sign 1t
afterward. VIII you?''
"Will We? Get your SLAYER
"Pll tell you why" continued Bucks,
addressing the Brooklyn man impressive
ly. You look like man who, may be.
knows what trouble is.'
II do
II thought so.'' exclaimed Bucks, warm
ing. "If that's so. We belong to the same
lodge-same degree. You see, there's
charges against him. They've had spot
ters after him." added Bucks, lowering
his voice to the few gentlemen who
crowded about.
There's plenty of Brooklyn men here
for a lynchingi"
Bucks smiled a far-on smile The
boys wouldn't trouble you to help II they
could catch them. want your statement
to send in to headquarters with Francis
answer to the charges They tried to
make him out a thief, but I've just
found out they haven't touched him. His
explanation is perfectly straight"
The men of Brooklyn tumbled up the
Wickiup stairs. At breakfast the news
Travelled faster than hot rolls When the
paper was drawn the signing began, but
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the head, and that is tied In a little
knot and not often combed-
After breakfast is over the children go
of and find some pleasant place In which
TO play. The girls play at keeping house.
and make dishes of clay dried in the SUM-
Little images Of clay washed with lime
are their only dolls
The boys in Siam are very fond OF pitch
ing coins. and spend much time In this
game They play leapfrog, very often
Jump the rope and pay marbles
In the month OF March, though usually
dry and hot winds are blowing At this
time the Siamese, young and old. are
fitted with whistles and the air resounds
With the noise produced by them and the
shouts of the multitudes Of people engaged
in the sport
AS the streets in Siam are almost all
rivers and canals, the Siamese boys and
girls early learn to row and paddle boats
almost as soon as they learn to swim,
which they do when they are only or
wears old.
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mans hand roughly away. When a min
ute Is mile, action is quick Sixty,
reventy seconds more meant the Tortec
switch, and the conductor already hung
from the bottom step of the baggage car.
Fat Francis was built like gorilla.
He swung with his long arms in and
out from the reeling train into a rhythm.
one foot dangling in the suck of dust
and cinders, the other bracing lightly
against the steptread Then, with the
switch key in his mouth, with Parker's
whiriwind sucking to the wheels under
him, with No. rs drivers racing aoove
A'm and a hundred passengers staring
below him. Pat Francis let go.
Men in the sleepers, only half under
standing, saw as he disappeared a burst
OF alkan along the track. Only old John
Parker's gray eye could see that his con-
ductor, though losing his feet, had rolled
clear of the trucks and drivers and was
tumbling in the storm center like a por-
cupine. Above him the tea cars were
lurching down the grade. Old john
straining, saw Francis stagger to his feet
and double back like iaokkhife on the
ballast. A lump jumped into the baggage
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above Toltec.
A volley of danger signals curled white
from the freight engine across the gulf.
Pat Francis sprang for the bell cord, but
Il was needless; his engineers at the very
moment threw double chambers Of air on
the wheels.
1t caught cards off the whist tables,
and swept baked potatoes into the bosoms
Of astonishd diners; it spoiled the point
of pretty jokes and broke the tedium of
stupid stories; it upset roysterers and
staggered sober men; it basted the cooks
with gravy and the walters with fruit; it
sent the blood to the hearts and chill
to the brains; 1t was an emergency STOP
and q severe one-No. was against it.
Before the frightened porters could open
the yestibules the passenger engines were
working in the back motion, and No. 2
was scuttling down the Moose to get
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-29

The newly elected president of Wash
inglon College, James w. Cain. L. L.
D.. will leave here this week with his
family for Chestertown. DIR. Cain takes
with him the best wishes of this COM
munity for his future success in his new
home and among new friends.
For seventeen years DIR. Cain has
been a member of the faculty OF St.
Johns College. having been elected
in 1886. In 1887 he was appointed to
the chair of English and three years
later was made the treasurer OF the
college. During his professorship at
venerable St. Johns DR.. Cain has in
s,ituted many important features which
have greatly aided in advancing the
standard OF St. Johns in the college
world. He was largely instrumental in
extending the course in English in which
he was deeply interested. introducing
courses in history. logic and economics
as well. He has ever been interested in
athletics aud taught the students football
and other sports as played at Yale, DR..
Cams alma mater. He organized the
first gIee club at ST.. Johns and assisted
in establishing the "Collegisn," the
college monthly.
Recognizing his ability and worth to
the institution he had materially aided,
and the standard OF which he hai en-
deavored to raise. the faculty recently
honored him by comforting upon him the
degree of IL. ID. Ii was a graceful
compliment worthily bestowed.
In DIR. Cain, the scholar and gen le-
man, the man of culture and marked
educational ability. the disciplinarian
and digsihed educator, St. Johns Col
Iege loses one whose position it will Be
difficult to fill. What is ST. Johns loss
is the gain OF Washington College. for
in DIR. Cain. its newly elected president,
it has as lis governing power an educa-
tor OF recognized ability and scholarly
attainment. as well as a gentleman
whose calm dignity commands respect
from the student body under his con-
troll. The success of Washington Col.
leee with DIR. Cain as its president Is
already assured.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-29
Notice to Creditors.

,Not,ce Is hereby given, That the subscriber, OF
Anna Arundel county, has obtained from the
ornhans' Court OF Anne Arundel county, IN
Maryland letters of administration on the
,,ersyy,nai estate OF JOSEPH ANDERSON, late
"a Anne Arundel county, deceased. All per-
sons having claims against the said deceased,
= re hereby warned to exhibit the same, with
the vouchers thereof, 70 the sunScrlpef' on OF
before Che
18th DAY OF DECEMBER. 1908,
1,h.v may otherwise, by laws be excluded
from ali benefit OF the said estate All persons
indebted TO said estate are requested 70 make
Immediate payment. :.
Given under my band this 10Th day OF
'uno i'0' T. ARLINGTON THOMPSON,
Administrator.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-29
Notice to Creditors.

1rnTlcF ia HEREBY GIVEN, That the
IN snbscriber. of Anne Arundel county, has
ATTAINED from the Orphans Court OF Anne
Arundel county in Maryland, letters OF ad :
EIsANCES A. NICHOLS, late of Anne
Arundel county, deceased All persons having
claims against the deceased, are hereby warned
70 exhibit the same, with the vouchers thefeoi'
10 the subscriber, on or before the
Gath DAY OF DECEMBER, l@S
-rhav NAV otherwise, by law, be excluded
from IN benefit OF the said estate All persons
indehted to said estate are requested 10 make
immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 2Srd day OF june
i'O'' MAMIE Is. NICHOLS,
eoa Administrative, C. I. a.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-29
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

NorroE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That the subscrib-
she 0rnhans' Court of Anne Arundel county. in
MARYLAND, letters of administration on the per-
soual estate of LLOYD STEWART. late OF Anne
Arundel County deceased. All person having
claims against the deceased, are hereby warn :
,ad To exhibit the same with the vouchers
thereof. TO the subscriber. on or before
THE LIST DAY OF NOVEMBER. 1908.
They may otherwise, by law, be excluded
from an bcneft of the said estate. All persons
Immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 2Sth day OF
apps HARRIETT STEWART,
aOs Administrative.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-29
Notice to Creditors.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that the sub
~ scriber. of Anne Arundel county, has OBJ
tanned from the Orphans Court OF Anne
arundel county, in Maryland. Letters of Ad.
ministration on the personal estate of
NOZZLE WATKINS. late of Anne Arundel
County, deceased. All persons having Chains
AGAINST the deceased, are hereby warned TO
exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereon.
10 the subscriber. on or before the
s4th DAY OF JANUARY, 1904.
They may otherwise, by law, be excluded
from all beneht of the said estate. All per
sons indebted to said estate are requested TO
make Immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 2lst day OF July
MARIA E. WILLIAMS, =
Administrative, C. Z. a.
ans N KntaM St baltimore, Md. Jy2l
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-29
Western Maryland Railroad.

Taxing effect juno u, 1908
Trains leave Hillen station, BALTIC. az follows
DAILY:
4 30 a m-Fast mail for n q W. south ann south
west, Glyndon. Westminster New Windao
Union Bridge, Mechsniestown, Blue RidSe
HagerstoWn, and except Sunday, WiIliauis-
port. p VRR.
9.l5 m-PeD Mar Express. (Pen-Mar onlyl
1885 a. m.--Accom. for Union Bridge.
DAILY HxoHPT SUNDAY
- a. m.-Accom. for Gettysburg n a
division, main line east of Kmory Grove
smNMain Line. shippensburp Preas,.
lex. kmm1tsburg and N &W RR sbenandoah
10 Il . 3 im.A &C for Gettysburg
1870 p. m-Accom. for Emory Grove
70 n -Aceo umod stron Tor EmoryYGrove
Frederick. -" "iso
332D m-Expressf York and q n Div.
w m-Exprees for DOintson main line wesa
70 Cnerry Kun, Q and N & w Foscs
5.0OR m-Exp; 10 Glyndon Accom- beyond OF
Union Bridge. 1 "
5.25 p m-Accom. for Alesia
BIO m-Aecom or Union Bridge
SUNDAYS:
- m-Accom for Union bridge A Hans var
2 g m-Aecnm for U,'9n BridTe.
4.z3 m-Acc0m. for Alesia
Ticket and baggage Office us K. Ratio stra.t
All trt i7s stop at Union. PenneYlvanfa ave
Fulton Welbrcnk North avenuel efatiore
S. NJ. MANIFOLD, Gen. Supt.
+. NJ. HOWELL. O. p Al
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-29
Welcome As Sunshine

after long storm is a feeling OF relief
when an obstinate, piti!ess cold has been
driven away by Aliens Lung Balsam.
Only people who have been cured OF
throat-ache and sore lungs by this reme-
dy can quite realize what the feeling is.
There is no opium in the Balsam; its coed
effect is radical and lasting. Take a
bottle home today. For sale by Field
never Bros. City Drug Store. *d4
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-29

BY virtue Of an order passed on the
Goth day of June. 1908, by the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel County IN
EQUITY, Notice is hereby given to the
creditors of MARGARET A. MILLER
10 file their claims duly authenticated
with their vouchers thereof with the
Clerk Of the Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County on or before August the
10th, 1903. else they may be debaTred
from participating in the trust fund.
A. t. BRADY.
July 9th, 1898. Trustee.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-29
MOONS PHASES.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

The legally called Democratic County
Convention met here yesterday at the
Court House and nominated their ticket
which was published in the proceedings
of the convention in the EVENING CAPT.
TAI Of yesterday. The course which
the proceedings took, resulting in di-
vided convention, is to be regretted by
every good Democrat and cannot but
result in injury to the ticket. That
differences of opinion between the war
ring factions had existed for some time,
was well known, but il was hoped they
would come together and adjust matters
before the nominations were made-but
the result OF yesterdays convention
shows different.
DIR. Wells. the leader on one side, It is
said, was willing and offered to make
concessions. but was not willing to ac-
cept some OF the unreasonable demands
made by the other faction. and at the
same time act honorably towards his
friends. Both factions went into the
primaries and contested their right of
supremacy. and as good Democrats. OF
parry men they should abide by the re-
suit. But it is the same old fight of the
ms and the outs. and SO long as this
spirit prevails there can be no unity of
party and no success at the polls.
The nominees are all men worthy OF
the support OF the party, and have re-
ceived their nominations honorably and
through the proper channel. and have a
right to expect their support.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-29
Notice to Creditors.

NToTtCR is HEREBY GIVEN. That the sub
IN scriber, OF Anne Arundel county. has OBJ
tanned from the Orphans Court OF Anne Arun-
del county in Maryland, letters testamen nnI
late of Anne Arundel county, deoeased--
All persons having claims against the deceased,
are hereby warned TO exhibit the same, with the
vouchers thereof, to the subscriber ON OF before
THE 9Th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1903.
Thev NAV otherwise, by law, be excluded
fpom All benefits OF the said estate. All persons
indebted to said estate are requested TO make
Immediate payment
Given under my hand this oth oayaot May
i"O"' MAGDALiNA Is. PARoDI, Executrix.