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BERLIN POSTAL TUBES.
Connect the Central once With the Prtnci.
pal Stations.


The Berlin postal authorities are revolu-
tionizing the conveyance Of letters and
parcels.
The idea ON which they are experimenting,
says the Chicago Tribune, is to have an
underground tube with a large enough
circumference TO admit a man in a STOPPING
posture. These tubes are to onneo the
central post office with the principal sta
tons and with the district offices.
Two sets Of rails are built in this tube
or tunnel, one over the other, not side
by side. The upper set Of rails IL sup
ported on the sides Of the tube, thus prac-
tically dividing IL in We Small carriages.
running on two wheels. are automatically
driven by electricity along these rails.
No locomotive is used nor Is there any
attendant with the carriage. AS many
as six Of these carriages can be run together
for conveying letters and parcels from the
arrival station to the central post ONCE
and thence to the various districts, or vice
versa.
BY this means letters can be delivered
in any part Of the city in less than a fourth
Of the time formerly required. So far the
scheme is not beyond the experimental
stages. but IL promises 90 be a success and
10 Danish from the streets the mail van,
with al its poetry and
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g. W. JTLTED FOUR TIMES,
But He Came ThrOugh With Flying C0iors
On the Firth Attempt q.

But He Came TfhrOugh With Flying COlOrs
On the Firth Attempt
When Col. George Washington hrpt met
Martha Gusts she was q dashing widow. yet
in her twenties. beautiful, charming and
wealthy, The Father Of His Country
promptly fell in love with the lady and as
promptly laid Siege to her heart. A chance
meeting al the house Of Major Chamber
layne, an afternoon and an evening with
her and he was almost an accepted sutton.
But, says the Neso Bro0dpdy Mdodzine,
the gallant Colonel was not exactly an
amateur in the art Of love making. he at
least had the experience Of great mistakes
to profit by. for history records the fact
that four ladies declined TO share the heart,
the home and the glory OF the man who
became tho greatest American.
Handsome. well dressed, skilled In the
elegant accomplishments Of the day, and
above all q soldier. apparently Col. George
Washington ought to have been q lover for
whose only right any woman would have
huttered to his arms. But they didn't.
The ladies who thus failed Of the lustrous
niche in history that they might have had
were, in turn. 9 miss Of 4 years, whom her
sutton Of soulful II indited az the -Loveland
Beauty; a Miss Fontleroy. a Miss Cary and
a coquettish Miss Mary Philippe, Whoee
ancestral manor house at Yoniere, N. T.,
is to this day reckoned as a sort Of romantic
shrine. -
But from this train Of experience the col
der, who later was able 90 brilliantly to plan
a campaign, doubtless learned wisdom.
He must at least have found out how not 10
do it, for when he laid Siege to the heart
Of he widow Gusts It was done with a
master hand that found the right way as
easily as IL II had never Tailed atthe trick.
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IOWA FARMS
Have Proud Recon or Not One Crop
Failure In 30 Years.

Within the borders Of Iowa Ia an area OF
more than thirty-fve million acres. fully
as per oent. of which is arabic land which
may be made to produce something OF
value. No other state in the Union. says
Farming. has 80 large a percentage Of its
domain available for agriculture.
This great body Of fertile soil is divided
into approximately 10000 farms with an
average Of 1881 acres. OF the total
number of farms IS per cent. are occupied
by the owners and S5 per cent. by renters.
Practically without exception all Of these
farms are devoted TO the Joint production
of crops and live stock. This system Of
farm management tends to maintain the
fertility Of the soil. and IL is a we'll known
fact that the live stock farms OF Iowa have
apparently not as yet been reduced In
productive capacity. even IN the smallest
found a market in Iowa n not farmer
In a thousand here knows anything about
the nature of these products.
From an agricultural point OF view the
most important feature OF the climate OF
Iowa Ii that its maximum Of rainfall comes
In the. crop season, April to September,
inclusive. In the six crop months the
average rainfall is 22.4s inches, or II per
cent. Of the annual total, and in the four
most critical months, May / to September
1. the average for the state is 1873 inches,
or 81 per oent.
Although there are fluctuations In the
amount Of rainfall in the crop season
the records Of the past half century show
that there has never been q crop fatlule
and fairly good crops have been produced
in the driegt or wettest seasons.
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~ ths tsno Pro-. oops got hold
q tie bones. which was Ghortly after the
O~snbennial Exposition, thero wa q plan
ca foot 70 have his fossils form part Of q
great public museum In Fairmount Park.
Philadelphia, and tho city was to undertake
the cost Of preparing and exhibiting the
specimens. When the plan fell through the
larger part Of the splendid collection was
put In storage In the basement Of Memorial
Hall In Paramount Park.
This dinosaur. which Dr.. Matthew looks
upon az ons Of the finest In the boneyard,
remained In the cellar for twenty years,
the boxes that contained the various parts
still intact as they had arrived from Wyom-
ing. DR.. Matthew say that Prof. Cope
did not seem to realize the value Of his
specimen.
Mr.. JeSup got this dinosaur when out
marketing for such things In 1899, and then
Prof. Osborn sent Or. Matthew 10 Phila-
delphiA to look after the packing n ship
ping of the fossils from Philadelphia to
this city. One Of Prof. Cope's assistants
named Geismar told DR.. Matthew at the
time that the Hubbell part Of the collection
was f~ragmentary and Of little value. Mr..
Hubbell. IL seems. had gather ed many
fraRmentary specimens during the first
part Of his rambles in the West, and V he
did not 60 into great details about his
later finds 1t was taken for granted thGs he
had had luck just as bad with the lat or
specimens he came ACROSS.
When the boxes came over 20 the mugeUm
here from Philadelphia those that oOn-
tanned the HubbelI collection were not
unpaoked until the last. as the museum au-
thorities o 1t for granted that they
contained nothing o. very much interest.
Il was. not until 1908 that the dinoeaur
plaoed4Bn exhibition this week was pulled
from Its various cases and then there was
10y all over the works.
Notwithstanding that ithad been collected
by the more or less crude methods OF a dec
ade or more ago, Prof. osborn was delighted
to find that the museum had a treasure,
inasmuoh as 1t was the skeleton Of a single
individual with the bones remarkably pre-
served after eight million years OF burial.
They we're hard, u~norushed n OF a dense
black and ever more complete than the
two fine skeletons OF ~allosaurus from Bone
Cabin Quarry.
Additional interest lies in the fact that
the carnivorous dinosaurs are much rarer
than the ~herbivorous kind, and these three
skeletons are the most complete specimens
ever found.
Up at the museum they began at once
in 1908 to reconstruct the dinosaurs and
the labor has just been finished. Com
parsons were made Of the three allosaurus
skeletons n the reconstructionists got
assistance also by comparisons with smaller
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~oaEnivorous ~dinosaurs In, the National
Museum and the Museum Of the UniveFgity
OF Kansas. The result Of this work, says
DR., Matthew, II that tho big skeleton has
been put together with very little possibility
OF serious error.
skeleton has been modslled p an out IN
dentures. missing ends Of RIBS and here
and thefe entire yertebr0. Prof. Osborn,
DR.. Matthew and Walter Granger did most
OF this preparatory study end comparison
and then the missing parts we're modelled
in by Otto Falkenbaoh. .
The museum authorities first decided
TO mount the specimen In the act OF biting
into It's free lunch and DR.. Matthew made
a drawing Of b skeleton In this pose as
a first step in setting up the specimen;
evidence OF the kind OF grub the big oar
nivore Just dotted on Or, Workman and Prof.
knight had learned some OF the food habits
OF the ~allosaiIrus, and they confirmed this
data by many other ffagmentRry specimens
found later in the Bone Cabin Quarry.
They got hold Of & brontosaurus skeleton
parts OF n rather-that had been bitten
on the tail several million years ago by
a c%arnivorous din osaur. How did they
know. A cinch for dinosaur fsnciers;
The ~allosaurus jaws found right by fitted
exactly into the chunk bitten out OF Mr..
B~rontosaurus, who was a vegetarian. Then
the ~alloeaurls person had died right on
the job. probably of indigestion. There
were a lot OF alosaurus teeth lying beside
the brontosaIrlls tail bites.
Whereupon the original idea OF mounting
the dinosaur feeding on IN imaginary hogs
head OF chocolate ice cream or q Gov OF
hamburger steak wa intensified In realism
by mounting a part of the larger but herb
chewing brontosaurus under the cannibaii
allosaurus. This is the first attempt, said
DR.. Matthew. TO indicate any Of the habits
OF the critters in museum mountings. AS
the photograph shows. the br~ontosaurus
is being ohewed to a FRAGILE.
The ~forefeet Of the feeder are raised In an
attitude of supreme contempt, 1t will be
noted. The ailosaurus used his feet only
to tear one portion of b~rontoeaurus into
two or three and not Tor support, although
he could Use them, when he got the notion,
to give a side wallop to intruders that caused
them to take the count forthwith.
Adam Herman prepared n mounted
the specimen, aided by Mr.. Falkenbach
and Mr.. Lang. One or more men have
four years, and as DR.. Matthew says. as we
pass on to the next platform:
THE mounting as now exhibited In Dino
saur Hall gives to the imaginative observer
a most vivid picture Of a characteristic scene
of that bygone age. millions OF years ago,
when reptiles were the lords Of creation,
when Nature, red in tooth n claw. had
lost none Of her primitive savagery and the
era of brute force and ferocity showed little
sign of its gradual amelioration which was
TO come TO pass in future ages through the
pr~edominance OF superior intelligence
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SAILORS LAUGH AT SUPERSTITION
Many OF the Romanccs OF The Sea Have
Vanished.

Many OF the HOmanccs OF The Sea Have
Vanished.
Sailors are no longer superstitious. At
any rate, il is difficult TO find one who has
any regard for the old sea lore about which
a thousand and one fascinating stories
AVE been told. Whether the modern
steamship has made sailors feel a little
less fearful and more independent OF the
forces OF nature, says a writer in T.-B. | an
scarcely prepared TO say; but an old sea cap
tain at R~otherhithe actually laughed when
l asked him il he was afraid OF carrying a
cat on board or sneezing on the left side
Of the ship.
They are good old yarns he said. but
not even during my days as an A., B.
and mate on a sailing ship did ever hear
a man object 10 having a cat on board the
ship. We preferred pussy's company to
that Of the rats, who gnawed our toys
and made holes in the grub. And as for
not sneezing on the left side OF the ship,
why"-and here the captain shook with
laughter as he pictured the spectacle of
men holding a sneeze and running from
one side Of the vessel to the other, so that
thew should not arouse the elements and
bring on bad weather. don't believe
he said, "one sailor in a hundred ever heard
OF the superstition,
what about Mother Carey's chickens;
Very nice birds. Harbingers Of bad
weather, you say. Landsmen say we think
so, hut we don't. II that were 40 we should
always be fearful OF bad weather; for petrels
are TO be seen every day whom on a long
voyage We like TO see them about the
ship when no other life is visible.
Other sad disillusionR awaited the
T.-R. man when he picked up a o Of the
Nautical Magazine, in which a writer, talk
ing OF lost sea romance, says that crossing
the line IL remembered only or passenger
ships. where it's observance is expected;
while whistling for a wind IL gone. for the
simple reason that few ships want any
wind nowadays, and a whistle won't mend
a propeller shaft.
At one time when England was master
and mistress OF the seas too, no Dutchman
dared 70 help himself out Of a mess kit
before the English and Yankees had had
their whack." Now II is first come first
served. and the EnglishmGn Is lucky IL he
is there al AL
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BIRDS OF AUSTRALIAN bush.
Sport Where There Is Nothing TO Fear EN-.
cept Snakes.

An apparent stroke Of i'll luck on my
arrival at a sheep station on the Barwon
River, in Queensland. turned out to be the
very reverse, inasmuch as it led to my
taking a most interesting and unique trip,
bringing me. writes a correspondent of the
London Field, some OF the finest sport l
nave ever enjoyed.
On a beautiful spring morning | started
OF with my two dogs for sole companions
Lady, a sheepdog, who had for many
months proved herself a faithful friend,
and Punch, a tiny little creature of obscure
origin and antecedents-and 1 was o O
leisurely dropping down the stream. Both
banks were shaded by tall gum trees, which
we're absolutely alive with all kinds OF
Understanding cockatoos and parrots
of every shade and variety. Waterfowl
OF all descriptions were abundant, and so
tame that they scarcely seemed conscious
OF my intrusion. | daily encountered
hocks Of the beautiful silver gray wood
ducks feeding among certain OF their
About 0 or 10 P. NJ. would stop for sup
per and after getting my camp ready
usually set q springer line TO catch
something for breakfast:
While knocking the ashes out OF my last
pipe and getting ready to turn in on the
frst evening OF my trip the bell rang
Violently, and, behold my breakfast,
securely hooked-being a nice four pound
Murray trout Having hung the fish
on the limb of a tree out Of harms way, |
was soon sleeping soundly A pair OF
laughing jackasses sitting in the branches
overhead and kicking up an unearthly
noise woke me at daybreak, and i soon
urooeedsd 10 prepare the breakfast, adopt
inQ the aboriginal way OF cooking the
trout by simply putting the fish into hot
wood ashes. This Is. in my humble opinion.
the best method for retaining the full and
original favor OF the fish. MY two COM
panions assisted me in making a hearty
breakfast, after which they left me 10 enjoy
a solitary smoke, while they started of
in chase OF an iguano. Isoon recalled them,
and taking our respective places, we Started
of once more. q,
Around every river bend encountered
wild ducks. cranes. herons, ibis, pelicans,
epoonbills, or black swans. all letsurely
intent on their own business, and SEEM
inrlv neither interested nor alarmed at my
nnnroach, Here and there on a limb OF a
dad tree iutting nm out OF the water might
be seen richly tinted kinRfshers patiently
gazing into the water for passing. prey,
4 few DAYS later / had the misfortune TO
lose one Of my companions, Always on
,he lookout for something TO chase my little
punch lad discovered a tiger snake. and
sterted %furiously barking at IL while / was
al supper. Know ing his danger ! at once
tried 10 call him of, and picking up a stick
went forward 10 kill the brute. But In a
rooment II made of into q hollow log, with
Punch after it. There was no egrees at the
far end Of the log and he was doomed.
Paok i ran 10 the boat 10 fetch an axe, and,
rfter a considerable time. managed 10 split
open the log, finding the dog with the
NJ I'd 70und him, both dead.
,6AoMe8niosSaa : simply perfect but for the
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A NEW ALLOSAURUS IN TOWN
IT'S % FEET LONG. WITH NOTE.
ING on BUT ITS BONES.

Row on Exhibition at the Natural History
Museum Game From wyoming, Where
2. p. HubbeH Found IL In '50-AC Oar
niyorous Litter, and . Fine Specimen.
Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn Of the
American Museum OF Natural History and
his associate curator, DR.. William D. Mat
thew, have flashed a new dinosaur on the
town. It's the allosaurus and it's cArpivo-
rous critter and is feeding every day up
ct S57snty-seventh street and Columbus
avenue on a b~rontosaurus. Feeding on a
brontosaurus is going some even for a
carnivorous dinosauR, because as Jim
Grant, the elevator boy, says ~learnedfy,
THE brunt-sore-us is the biggest thing
as is"
DR.. Matthew has the new varmint In
charge and he sprung IL on a waiting public
simultaneously with the first big opening
at Luna Park, thereby avoiding all jealousy
between the boroughs Of Brooklyn and
Manhattan. In fact, DR.. Matthew beat out
Prof. Fred Thompson Of Luna by twenty
four hours, because the dinosaur was on
view Friday afternoon whereas the Dragons
Gorge at Coney didn't open until the next
day. Besides, dragons are old.
The ~dinosaur, to drop into scientific
description, looks Xix a subway entrance
Kiosk with all the windows smashed from
its Stats. This great carnivorous dinosaur
OF the Jurassic Period, just placed in Dino
@ur Hall is absolutely harmless. 1t is q
dead one. Not only that, it has been dead
for eight million y~ears-oount EN-.
Eight feet three inches high it stands in
it's bone feet and 1t is "a feet 2 inches long.
As for beam a perfect specimen Of the sub
way kiosk has it beaten perhaps, but 1t
must be remembered that the dinosaur
hasn't lunched on actual food for all those
eight million years.
This particular excellent specimen was
collected by F. F. Hubbell in October,
1879. DR.. Matthew said, in the Como Bluffs
near Medicine Bow. Wyo. Dead dinosaur
skeletons and live heas are two OF the chief
crops Of that neighborhood. The dino
eaur forms e part of the big collection of
fossil reptiles. amphibians and fishes gath
cred by the late Prof. e. D. Cope and pre-
scented to the museum in 1899 by the presi-
dent, Morris K. Jesup.
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mosquitoes and the various bush noises,
which would have proved annoying, and
even alarming, to any one less accustomed
to travelling IN the Australian bush; but
there is absolutely nothing TO be feared.
except the snakes, and although the still
ness Of the nights was broken by the mourn-
full CRY of the curlews. the bowling OF the
distant dingo. the croak of the nighthawk,
the chattering Of the 'possums, the splash
ing of the water rats, or the monotonous
cry of the "mopoke," | was able TO sleep
as soundly as a seafaring man in a gale.
Once or twice | came to rather close
quarters with snakes. and carried one in
my boat for some miles as a stowaway
passenger before ! discovered its presence.
II then got away unframed into the river,
having nearly been the cause Of capsizing
the boat in my efforts to kill it.
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will have Olive Fremstad as the heroine.
Lucienne Breval gave up the role Of the
daughter Of HSTrdids because OF Its great
musical difficulties, Although she was born
IN Berlin iInI the b popular F sSo 5. sSP n 2 sb afS
TO Geneva and became thoroughly French.
! Aino AcltA 10 the latest Of the SALINAS.
She recently sang tho part In 1@ipsic with
great success. Nine. AcltH, who was not
able TO make a name in New York. is the
most popular Of the stars now travelling in
Germany. She receives everywhere the
highest Zee paid to any primA ~donna--only
! Mines. Sembrich and Melba are similarly
compensated in the German capitals
and has already three years OF great suc-
Viliiers Stanford's 'shamus o'Bnen' has
recently boon put into the repertoire. OF
several comic opera houses. sTosca' has
already been sung In Berlin, Dresden and
Breslau. This month will be devoted TO o
Wagner cycle at Prague, which is to include
Die Feen.' Felix Wdngartuer is to com-
pose the incidental music for the two parts
Of Goethe's Faust" and tho work will be
produced in Weimar. Richard Strauss has
The amiable Tito Rioordi IL credited
with having raised here the funds for an
opera season TO be given every year be-
ginning next fall at the Fenioe In Venice.
There it is proposed to give model perform
ances on the plan Of Bayreuth Of operas by
Verdi, Donizettl and Rossini. How many
prima donna roles will be assigned to Nine:
Cavalier as the typical woman singer OF
Italy has not been settled. 1t Ia decided,
however, that Arturo Toscanini will have
the artistic direction Of the enterprise.
The first performances will be given a year
from October and IL they are successful
there will be forthcoming enough moro
American capital TO build an opera house:
Formerly Americans were only expected
to support Italian opera singers when they
came to this country. Collecting money
to take back to Europe and give to artists for
appearing In their own countries Is a novelty
in American good nature.
Mancinelli's opera, Francesca da RI
MIMI, on which he has been at work for
several years, turns out to be in one act.
Ciiea's newest opera Is called "Gloria,' and
was announced for the present season at
La Scala.
Desiree d'Artot, who died In Berlin the
other day at the age OF n, had q remark
able range Of voice. S h began as a con-
tralto, but through her studies in Italy
acquired her upper tones. 1t was one OF
her ~favorite tour de force to sing Gidd on
one night and Addddlend the next. She
became engaged 10 Tschaikowsky in 1865,
but it did not last long, as the singer ac-
cepted q more ardent sutton In the Spanish
barytone, Padilla. Tsohaikowsky's opera,
4Pique Dame has just been revived at the
success than falls usually to his stage works
nowadays.
Giordano's siberia which In 70 be
given at the Metropolitan next year, has
just been sung in L@ipsio and met with
great success.
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DOGS AS WATCHMENs HELPERS.
Easily Trained and Often show Considerable
gagactty,
From DE 81. Louie Globe Dsneerat.

From he 81. Louie Globe Democrat.
Training dogs to assist the vatchraen
and police Is q very simple matter, . said an
old private Waterman Of the city, who for
merly walked a beat In the South End.
Dogs like the work. They enjoy prowi-
Ing around through alleys and back yards
and nosing into corners and behind barrels
and piles Of boxes. and their wonderful sense
OF smell often enables them TO locate an in
truder 20 securely hidden that his presence
would never be suspected by a wstchman,
When ! was walking a beat q large New
foundland dog began following me of his own
accord, / didn't encourage him at first, but
let him go along on my rounds az muah for
company as anything else. mat dog watched
me like a detective and seemed TO understand
everything I did; followed me into eyery
yard. and In less han q week knew every
house that | was employed to watdn.
In ten days he was doing 4 large part Of
my work. OF course he could not try thu
doors. but after the lrst round, when I triad
all the doors and saw that everything was
right, all ] had TO do was TO send him In 20
search the yard. and he did IL thofouRhlv
II anything vas wrong he barked and / ran
in TO see what was the matter. Once a back
door was open. The gentleman Of the houne
had come in late, left the door Unattached and
the wind pew It open. The dog knew 1t was
wrong and barked for me to come.
Another time ! heard him barking IN /.
back yard. and running in, found he had
cornered a man hiding behind a pile OF boards
The dog worked with me for nearly three
years. Every evening, no matter what the
weather. that dog was on hand at the patrol
box where 1 reported. On cold niEhts We
would go into an engine house 70 warm and
while the dog enjoyed the warming hour az
much az did he wes no skulker, but Wheneyes
] was ready to 60 he was ready, too,
Il lost hin because his owner nsoxeA on,
OF the city. but as soon As II became Known
among the dog population h he Wasn't WORK.
Otter no. bed folioelnE uG In Q fuFTlve fs1SNtt
es though he would 1AM4hnEhumannsna
but didn't want TO .intrude. and the new a.
seemed from the fret 60 understfnd evsry.
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nj 20 intrude. and the new a.
the nrst to understand evefT.
az 20 be done and did q as ven
'on4ofss