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The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29

Ice and making the work of rescue al
most impossible. After-damp is col
iecting in quantities.
Ihe explosion occurred at $50 o.
clock yesterday morning and the first
warnalg was the sudden rumble under
ground, and then a sheet of fame fol-
lowed up the deep shaft. Both mine
cages were hurled through the tipple,
twenty feet above the landing stage,
and the three men on the tipple we're
hurled to the ground.
AS soon as the rumble of the eXplo-
sion and the crash at the pit mouth
startled the little village, the wives
and children of the men below rushed
to the scene of the disaster but to gain
no announcement. There was no way
to get into the deep workings. The
cages that let the men into the mines
and brought them out again when the
days work was done, were both demol-
iShed
There were calls for assistance and
surgical aid from the men in charge of
the mine, but 1t was not until o'clock
in the afternoon that the first attempt
at rescue was made
Shortly after o'clock. Selwyn NJ
Taylor and one of his assistants sig
nailed for the engineer to lower them
into the shaft, from which Taylor was
later brought out dead.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29
WONDERFUL MOTOR.
VIII Save Coal and Perform Greater
Amount of Work

Particulars have been published of a
wonderful new motor invented by Peter
Thorley, a Burton-on-Trent engineer
The invention is considered of such
Importance that its development may
result in express railway engines run
ming at twice their present speed at
only half the cost, and of Atlantic lin
ers crossing from Liverpool to New
York in three days.
1t is almost small enough to be ear
ried in typewriter case, and so com
pact that everything is enclosed except
the driving wheels
The new motor is capable of develop
ing 1880 revolutions minute. giving
horse power under a boiler pressure OF
200 pounds to the square inch.
In even the best railroad locomotive,
the steam is admitted after the piston
has moved from five to eight inches
along the cylinder, thus forming
vacuum of several hndred cubic inches
in extent. to be filed before an ounce
of power is cXerted
Mr. ThoTley has devised a valve
which will admit a given quantity of
steam at every commencement of the
stroke. and so nicely adjusted that the
expansive force of the steam admitted
is just sufficient to drive the piston at
the end of the journey.
BY the most modest estimate the saw
ing in coal is twenty-five per cent.
while the simplicity of the motor is
such that the initial cost is much
cheaper than existing types.
1t is actually claimed that one ton of
coal will produce as much power as
eight tons with existing types. 1t Can
be worked just as well with compressed
air as with steam.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29

president and general manager he was
primarily responsible for the obsery-
ance of the laws and was bound 10 see
that. his employees were properly in
structed as to their duties in case O.
fire"
In relation to Mayor Harrison the
verdict read as follows.
we hold Carter H. Harrison as
mayor of Chicago, responsible as he
has shown lamentable lack of force
and for efforts to escape resnonsibiI,
ity, as evidenced by the testimony
BUILDING Commissioner Williams ard
FIRE Marshal Musham, as heads of de-
partments under said Carter II. Har-
rlson, following his weak course, have
given Chicago inefficient service. which
makes such calamities as the lroauois
theatef horror menace until the pub
Tic service is purged of Incompetence. "
Building Commissioner Williams was
held for gross neglect of his duty
in allowing the ,heater to open its
doors to the public when the said the
ater was incomplete and did not com
ply with the building ordinances of the
city of Chicago" 'rf
Fire Marshal Musham was held re-
sponsible for grocs neglect of duty in
not enforcing the city ordinances and
| failure to have his subordinate. Will
| liam Sallers, fireman at the theater, re-
port to him the lack of fire apparatus
in the theater'
Sallers was held for not reporting the
| lack OF fire apparatus; McMullen for
careiessness in handling the light that
caused the fire; Cummings as stage
| carpenter for not providing the stage
with proper fire protection.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29

The animals" Eve sighed and said.
II haven't counted since we've had en-.
The cunning serpent bent his head
And smiled. Let Adam add EN-
madam"
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29
ANNOUNCEMENT BY.
STATE UNIVERSITY

Denver, Jan. 26.-An important pub
lication consisting of some twenty-five
pages has just been issued from the
University OF Colorado containing a
complete statement of the revised ad-
mission requirements which have been
adopted as the outcome of the Uni
yersity and High School conferences
which took place in Boulder last
month. The new requirements are in
conformity with the recommendations
of the North Central Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools The
statement contains a complete resume
of the high school curriculum and en-
bodies comprehensive outline of all
of the high school subjects of study
The State University, as did the State
School Of Mines adopted as it's stand
ard of requirements, sixteen units, ex-
ceptionally exacting, the average num-
ber of units in preparatory study re-
quired by the leading universities be-
ing fifteen.
another step of great Importance re-
Gently taken by the university is i'm
piled in the decision to confer only the
one degree, the standard Bachelor of
HlIs, anu " op the ueSieeS VI bdcH-
elor OF Science and Bachelor of Philos-
ophy. Hitherto the university has re-
quired Greek for the A. B. degree, but
this requirement has been given up by
many of the older institutions and it
seemed advisable for the University of
Colorado to align itself with the gen.
eral movement. Henceforth English
will be the only subject absolutely re-
quired from student, but in his 9TH
er work he must include two years of
consistent work in chosen depart
ment.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29
NEARLY TWO HUNDRED KILLED
in PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINE

Pittsburg, Jan. 2G.-From all that
can be gathered at this hour, between
$50 and 100 men are lying dead in the
headings ana passageways of the Har-
wick mine OF the Allegheny Coal Com
paDy at Cheswick. the result of a terri
tic explosion yesterday.
Cage after cage has gone down into
the mine and come up again, but only
one miner of all those that went down
10 work yesterday morning has been
brought to the surface. The rescued
man is Adolph Gunia, and he still is
in 'semi-conscious condition at the
temporary hospital at the rude school
house on the hillside above the mine
Pittsburg, Jan 2G-2:3O a. ma re-
port by rescuers an hour ago was to
the effect that many were alive was
rudely shattered at 2:25 a. III. when
the body of Selwyn Taylor was brought
to the surface. He had evidently been
dead for several hours and now hopes
for the other imprisoned men have
been abandoned.
The rescuers are being brought out
coated with ice, drenched to the skin
and unable to walk.
They report that dead are scattered
one above the other as thick as pine
needles.
Water is fast pouring into the mine,
covering the corpses with a shroud of
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29
VERDICT OF C0RONER'S JURY
IMPLICATES CHICAGO OFFICIAL s

Chicago, Jan. 2G.-The coroner's Jury
Shich for three weeks has been listen
ing to evidence relating to the fire in
the Iroquois theater, last night re-
turned a verdict by which the follow
ing persons are held to await the ac-
ton of the grand jury:
Carter H. Harrison. rnavor of Chica-
Will J. Davis, proprietor in part, and
manager of the theater
George Williams, building commits
sioner of the city.
William II. Musham, fire marshal.
Ed. Laughlin, building inspector un-
der Williams.
William Sallers, fireman in the thea
ter.
James e. Cummings. stage carpenter
William McMullen, who had charge
of the lights that caused the fire.
The findings were as follows:
The cause Of the fire was drapery
coming In contact with Il food or arc
light. City laws were not complied
with relating to building ordinances,
regulating fire alarm boxes, fire appa-
ratus, dampers or tlues on and over the
stage and fly galleries, requiring fire
proofing scenery and all wood work on
and about the stage. The asbestos cur
tain, which was wholly inadequate was
entirely destroyed.
The building ordinances were violat-
ed in that aisles were enclosed ON each
side of the lower boxes, that fire apDa-
ratus was absent from the orchestra
floor; and that there was no fire appa-
ratus in the gallery or first balcony.
WIN. Davis was held responsible As
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29

The man who is on the road to success
doesn't need a return ticket.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29
THIRTEEN KILLED
IN VICTOR TIME

Victor, Colo, Jan. 26.-The worst ac-
cident that ever occurred in the Grip
pie Creek district happened this morn
ing. The disaster occurred at 2:45 a.
N. at Stratton's Independence mine, To-
Gated about thousand feet from the
business center of this city. Fifteen
miners were killed outright. In the
main shaft of the mine sixteen men
were being hoisted on the cage from
the sixth. seventh and eighth levels
When the cage got to the surface in
the shaft house, Engineer Frank Gel
lese in charge of the big hoisting en-
gine in some way that is yet to be ex-
planned was unable to stop the engine
which drew the cage with its human
load up into the gallows frame up into
the sheaves. The cable parted, releas-
Ing the cage, which went down the
shaft with fourteen OF the men at a ter
rife momentum.
Two of the men who went up with
the cage to the top of the gallows
frame were caught in the timber rods
there.
One of them. l.. E. Jackson, a man
about fifty-five years of age, was in
stantly killed by the sheave wheel fall
ing upon him. His body was pinned in
the timber.
The other man, James Bullock, had
a marvellous escape. He received some
severe bruises and some scalp wounds,
but was rescued from the top timbers
without being fatally injured.
AS soon as the fact of the disaster
was learned by the men in the shaft
house, score Of miners was sent down
on the donkey hoisting cage through
another compartment of the shaft for
the purpose Of determining where the
fallen cage and its occupants had
gone to.
Their bodies were found scattered at
the stations at different points.
The following is full list of the
killed:
w. r. Frazier, John Sebeck, Joe
Smitherum, Edward Twiggen, l.. A.
Wagner, II. A. Yeoman, Edward
Smith, Joe Overy. H. F. Brown. w. B.
Collins, J. l.. Steward, Frank Coch-
Caue. l.. P. Jackson, Harry Cogene.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29
A Chance for Good Farmers.

We are settling a tract of 10000 acres Of
land in the San Luis valley. whore there
are good water rights. good land. no al
kali good markets all the luud on q
broad gauge railway, We want a few
good farmers to show what the land Will
10. 10 meu who have tools, stock and
cash enough to make a start. We Will sell
land on especially easy terms. provided
they Will go down and begin work this
spring. Write to-day and tell US what
payment YOU can make down on 50 to 100
acres. Prices range from $25 to $40 per
acre. The Colorado Bureau of ImnIigra- =
ton. Zeph Chas. Felt. president Gl5 Ma
jestic building. Denver. Colo
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29
War Statistics.

The number of Union soldiers cap
tured in the Civil War was 212,60S;
Confederates, 476, 169. The number of
Union soldiers paroled on the field
was 1G.f31; Confederates PAS 500. The
number of Union soldiers who died
while prisoners was 29,725; Confedor-
atcS, 26,77i.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29
Negro Specially Invited.

Rochester, N. Y, Jan. 26.-John w
Thompson, negro and leader Of his
race in Monroe county. has received a
personal invitation from Governor
Odell to attend the Thursday reception
at the executive mansion, in Albany.
Thompson is said to, be the first negro
to receive such an honor. He is popu-
lar with both races and he is said to be
friend OF both the governor and Pres
ident Roosevelt
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29

You never hear any one complain
about Defiance Starch There is
tity, lG ounces, 10 cents. Try 1t now
and save your money.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29

There should be no difficulty in eleyat-
ing the stage when IL has wings and flies
DO you like going TO school. John
N.Y." asked the visitor, Yes. sir" an
swered the truthful urchin, and / like
coming home, too, but don't like stay
ing there between times"
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29

"It beats all' how good cigar you cnn
buy for cents II you buy the right
bIand. Try 'Bullhead.'
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-29

The man who brags th0t his wife is not
a club woman may find that she can DO
quite q < wen with "a flatrun.
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The Camera in the Woods.
From Leslie's Weekly.


Next to the reality of an ideal summer
in the Adirondack woods is the memory OF
it, After we have returned to town our
minds frequently revert to the scenes OF
summer outdoor life, and to make the pic
ture more vivid the camera comes to our
rescue. 1t is much better than diary and
not half as much trouble.
There is no need to search for picture
material in this magnificent territory. A
panoramic view of the lakes or the noun
tains about your camp, interesting people
with whom one may come in contact an
opportune snap" of some eccentric guide
or native, views of camp and campfire the
fish one catches, the canoe, the launch,
wagon. domestic animals. some particular
rock or moss-coyered log, with pitcher
plants and BURBERRY bushes on top of it
these and a hundred other things prove
vastly more interesting than would diary.
can personally recommend hunting with
a camera. OF course, it is not as easy as
the "kodaking'' / have just suggested In
fact, 1t Is quite difficult to get the photo
graph of a live deer in its native haunts,
but one picture, well TAKEN will more than
repay one for the perseverance invested.
The camera does hold possibilities of secur-
ing pictures of wild deer and other game
peculiar to the mountains and the lakes,
but great patience is often exercised be-
fore one Is afforded a good opportunity of
securing them. l would not for anything
exchange the pleasure of obtaining these
charming mementoes of delightful times
with which my summer and autumn abound
while In the Adirondacks. This is health
full and fascinating outdoor diversion for
cally able to take active part In more Wig
orous pastfmes. Not few visitors to the
north woods find their enjoyment on this
line.
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FAMOUS FOR BEAUTY
What They Would Do if They
Were Plain.
VIEWS OF TWO WOMEN
ARE AS ATTRACTIVE OFF THE
STAGE AS ON.
And if They Were Not They Would
Soon Know the Reasons
Why.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

special Correspondence of The Evening Star
PARIS, October IL, 1904.
nave asked two pretty women what
they would do If they were plain.
They were two of the acknowledged beau
ties of Paris, Marcelle Lender and Marcelle
Yrven, both as attractive off the stage as
on 1t. AS both possess the habit of being
beautiful and have for some time enjoyed
the emoluments of beauty, it ought 10 be
interesting to learn what they would do If
they should suddenly fall to the average
of feminine looks, which is neither pretty
nor ugly.
Il would not stand it," said fair Lender
II would not rest until had made myself
pretty"
Il would revolt against it." said the 1--we
~ frven. THE average plain woman is
not ugly; she is only negligent, or, rather.
lnattentive and ignorant. l would surely
make myself attractive"
Now, as there. are even pretty women
who are not attractive, this seemed strong
Then something happened that surprised
ME. There was present a young lady who
has often complained of her nose.
You complain of your nose?" exclaimed
Marcelle Yrven. what an error! Your
nose is all right. Look, you have only to
touch your hair with the comb, here, to
give it more symmetry. Lift this curly
part that hides the forehead. Puff the
other one more. Now your nose is just
saucy,
1t was so. The girl was Modified and
my eyes she said, they are Insignificant"
The professional beauty of Paris laughed.
We were in her dressing room. She took
up a stomp and deftly darkened he lines
of the girls eyelashes The effect was re-
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powder. be careful to leave not grain on
your eyebrows. To darken them the wo-
men of the orient universally use kohl. In
ancient Rome they used mixture of
beaten egg and burned ants. Here is a good
modern recipe:
Crush fifteen grammes of gall nuts in
100 grammes of olive oil with four grammes
of sal-ammoniac. Mix the whole I'm a little
vinegar. Apply at night with a very soft
brush and wash off in the morning very
gently with tep,d water.
To prevent the eyebrows from falling:
Apply every night with a soft brush a To-
ton of equal parts of quinquina and gly-
cerine."
There were three women present, not
counting the girl who did not fancy her
nose. All four wrote down these recipes.
1t was at this moment l asked Mile Mar
celle Lender what she would do If she
should suddenly find herself of average
feminine plainness.
Il would begin with my eyes. As Yrven
says, there are women who enjoy the pre-
negatives of beauty, thanks more to their
eyes than anything else. Then / would
continue with my mouth"
You couldn't change your mouth" l eX-
claimed.
The voice comes from the mouth. does
IL not?' she answered LET me inform
you that nothing is more attractive to
men-more permanently attractive-than a
sweet, gentle voice that has a character of
its own. We were speaking OF unattractive
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MOVE N Der HEAVENS
Rapidly Approaching the
Brilliancy of Midwinter.
STARS AND PLANETS
FINE TIME TO MAKE A STUDY OF
SATURN.
Most Important Meteoric Shower of the
Year - Eclipses of
Satellites.

Written for The Evening Star by Prof Eric Doc
little
In November the face of the sky will adj
vance far toward presenting the brilliant
appearance which it shows only in mid
winter. The summer consultations, Virgin
Scorpion and Aquarius, have now sunk in
the west, to be seen no more until next
year. while to take their places the far more
brilliant consultations, Taurus, Orion and
Gemini, have appeared In the east The
little group of the Pleiades which last
month was low down in the east has now
risen more than half way to the zenith.
while Orion, the most beautiful constelIa-
ton of the entire heavens, is rising just
below. In Two months more Orion will DE
due south in the early evening, with the
two Dogs, the Twins and the Crab a little
TO the east of south and Taurus to the
west This will be the most brilliant sky
OF the year, the mid-winter sky
If the observer will face south he will
have little difficulty in tracing out from
the map the constellation CapricOrnus
which is now rather low down IN the south
west. The star A is n wide double and a
tine object in an opera glass. The two
stars of this pair were not always separate
ly visible, for they are moving slowly fur
Their and further apart. The star B is also
a beautiful double, when examined with an
opera glass. the fainter star being of a
light blue color In the eastern end Of the
constellation at NJ, there will be seen a
faint point of light which, if examined with
a telescope, Will be found 10 be an i'm
mense aggregation of very faint stars, APP
parently crowded closely together
The Planet Saturn.
But the most interesting object in the con-
stellation this month is the plane. Saturn.
which appears bright star in the posi-
ton marked s. The observer should not fail
10 examine this object with a small tele-
scope. for soon 1t will follow me summer
consultations and be lost to view until
next year.
His first sight of this great world will
be very striking. He will see n round ball
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The November Meteors.

The November shooting stars should be
looked for in the northeast. between mid
night and sunrise, on November 13, IA and
10. This is the most important shower of
the year. 1t is probable that altogether
several hundred of the stars will be seen to
fall during these three nights. In 1893 the
sky was filled with these falling stars
more thickly than the air is filed with
snow flakes in heavy storm. Unfortu-
nately, nothing like this is again looked for.
1t is altogether probable that such extra
ordinary displays of the November meteors
have ceased, never to recur again.
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Imported Weather.
From Golfers Weekly.

From Golfers Weekly
American literature reflects English lit
erature in various ways among them In
its treatment of the seasons. Reading has
interfered with the truth of observation.
April, for instance, is in England month
in which showers and sunshine succeed
each other with such rapidity that Lon
doners carry umbrellas in the brightest
sun. We. therefore, speak of April show
ers and April weather although the near
est we have to this climatic nckieness
comes in May, just as May howers
come in June. Now welcome summer
with thy sunne softe," sings Chaucer IN
the season of st. Valentine, because he
felt the cold weathers approaching END
and the beginning of the warm. Much
also. that has been written of the sum-
mer by the English poets would never
have been written In our much hotter
climate. Autumn has suffered more than
any other season from this reflected poet
ry 1t is with us less GRIM less wintry,
less melancholy than in our ancestral isle
The raw weather which in England marks
the early fall, in most parts of America
is unknown until November, and most or
the autumn would naturally seem as calm
and beautiful a season as exists. Ener-
son looks at nature truly, and sometimes
our other poets do also. Thus Bryant IN
November:
Glorious the woods in their latesr gold and
Yet our ful-leayed willows are in their freshest
green
And thus Longfellow:
1t WAS autumn, and neessant
Piped the quail from shock and sheaves
And, like living Goals. the apples
Burned among the whitening leaves
Were they not trained by English poetic
genius to see melancholy in the fan, our
poets would never have made gloom the
autumn mood. 1t Is like the impresslonist
training which our painters receive under
the very different skies of France They
come back here and paint lights which no
unwarped eve can see.
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surrounded by two rings. as shown In Fig.
1, near which the largest moon of Saturn
shines out a faint star-like object. If he
has access to a very large telescope. he VIII
see that instead of two rings thera are
really three the inner being very faint;
seven moons beside the large one will also
be detected some of which are at great
distances from the planet.
The little ball Is 1900 miles through,
nearly nine times as thick as the earth:
the distance across the rings is 16S.0oO
miles and their width about 1900 miles.
This great world is very different from our
own-ln fact. II is almost certainly very hot
and probably in a gaseous or vaporiZed con-
d!tlon. This is believed to be so, partly be-
cause the material of which Saturn is COM
posed Is very light; cubic foot of Saturn
would only weigh one-eighth as much as a
cubic foot of the earth. The slight mark
ings on the planet. too. are continually
changing. A few months ago the ball was
covered with numerous white areas; at
present there is dark brand across Ii on
the lower side and numerous other fainter
bands and markings. but these change their
position and shape from day to day, and
even from hour to hour.
So we conclude that this world is an Inn
mense hot globe. which undoubtedly is
slowly cooling and shrinking together Just
as the earth has done. Whether ultimately
it Will become the abode of life. we can
only conjecture but some time in the re-
mote future it will certainly be solid. and
for ages its temperature and condition will
remain not unlike those of our earth
The Ring System.
The rings Of Saturn are made up of an
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Naturally.
From Puck

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS do you suppose
Jonah did when he first arrived in the
whales anatomy?'
Codlington-"well, under the circum-
stances. should suppose that he sat down
to blubber."