The San Francisco call., 1905-08-13
REFUSES MONEY
FOR BRAVE ACT
little Girl in Southern
Mountains Saves Train
and Gets Free Education
BARS ARE TAKEN DOWN
Department of Agriculture
viii Now Admit Foreign
Goats to This Country
By JAMES :. TYLER.
tStafi Correspondent OF The Cail.)

CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING,
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12-That all rail-
road companies are not flint-hearted
is evidenced by an incident that hap
pened only short time ago and in
which the Southern Railroad, which has
IT'S offices in Washington, figured A
little mountain girl, living on the line
between Spartansburg, S. c., and Ashe-
vile, n g, discovered a serious wash
out on the railroad track near her
nome. A heavy rain had so washed
away the roadbed that the track could
not possibly have held up a train of
cars.
This little girl without hesitation ran
TO the track and listened. She knew
that train was due from one direction
IN a short time, but she feared that
there might be one coming from an
other direction. She soon caught the
sound OF an approaching train and ran
as fast as her little feet could carry
her in the direction. She succeeded in
hagging the train-a passenger train
| as II neared the washout.
The train crew and passengers Of
fered her anything and everything. AL
though poor. she declined their gifts.
The railroad officials were informed of
the incident by one Of the passengers.
A letter was written to her and in it
was check from the company. 1t
was not a measly check, either, but one
of such amount as to make the heart
or almost any one glad.
The check was declined and returned
10 the company. President Spencer
then wrote her again, asking what she
would permit the company to do for
her. She wrote back that she greatly
desired an education, but that her
parents were too poor to do any more
for her than send her to the country
school.
President Spencer imm ediately ar
ranged TO have her placed in a high
class female college in Asheville, with
I a guarantee that every expense would
be met during the period of her educa-
tion- The letter of thanks that came
from the little girl is filed away as one
of the precious archives of the South
ern Railroad.
The comparatively new State, War
and Navy departments building is al
ready showing signs of wear. BY this
is not meant that there is need of
painting and decorationg and that sort
Of thing, but actually wearing out in.
spots.
Almost every one who goes upstairs
instinctively uses the rail side of the
stairs. When they get to the top they
also swing around close to the end of
the railing before starting off down the
corridor. There is a decided cup
shaped depression worn at the head of
each Of the several flights Of stairs just
where the wear of thousands Of feet
have converged on the one spot In
the course of time it will be necessary
to take up the tile that receives this
extra friction and replace it, though
the rest of the floor remains perfectly
good.
The United States will within a few
years be producing Camembert, ROGUE
fort, Erie and Limburger cheese in great
quantities. The Department of Agricul-
ture is about TO let down the bars so that
milk giving sheep and goats needed in
the production of cheese of those kinds
may be imported. Heretofore Swiss goats
lin fact goats from all parts of the
world have been rigidly excluded on ac-
count OF foot and mouth disease.
The Harlem goat will be eclipsed as
! soon as the Swiss goat arrives His
/ glory will depart as soon as those inter-
ested in goats discover that the depart
ment has located an island between Sta
! ten Island and the Jersey coast that can
/ be used as a quarantine station for in
( coming goats. It is believed they will be
/ imported by thousands.
Ground on the island has been leased
and in a very short time regulations will
! be promulgated that the importation can
/ be commenced.
The Department Of Agriculture is also
! experimenting with germs to ripen cheese
of the pungent order. It has been dis
/ covered that a certain microbe ripens Ca
membert better than the European germ
The American insect is fastidious, too.
| It does not associate with the putrefac-
tive germs, which spoil the cheese and
make it so much more disagreeable to
the smell than IT ought to be.
But probably as soon as the Americans
begin making these highly favored
cheeses DR.. Wiley, the chief of the bu-
reau Of chemistry, will get after the
makers for trying to sell their product as
imported stuff. One maker in New York
State is in trouble because he is trying
to do that. He is following directions
from the Bureau of Animal Industry
only TO get into difficulty with Dr.