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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-26

Client is to have women policemen.
1t would be an Interesting II not in
structiye sight 10 see them UNDER
take 10 queli mob of London saffra-
gaUeS.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-26
But Not 80 Many Tongues

"A miss is rs good as mile they say,
But IN one way it's aot true.
a mile has more than FIVE thousand feet
And a miss has only two
Boston Transcript.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-26

Thomas f. Ryan, ,he capitalist. says
that the railroads are really owned by
the people and not by Wall street brol1-
ers Really, this is news indeed
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-26

Nine hundred veterans at the naIIon.
al soldiers home at Leaveuworth have
been poisoned by eating hash Whoever
eats hash takes his life in his mouth,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-26
Folly TO be Wise

But Why should keep books9''
Well, YOU would kn0w just where
You stood at the end Of he MONTH"
But my dear fellow, why rub II in p
Life
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-26

So Jealous aud watchful are the game
wardens that If q man draws the color
line near a trout stream, he Is arrested
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-26

Now YOU see it and now you DON'T
Thaw's insanity
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-26

Nicaragua has won and Bonilla is
aying, Aud he feels that some one pur-
sueth
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-26

Abe Ruef is between ETeney and the
Golden Gate
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
N TRAIN A YEAR.

No Danger Of Collisions on This
Pennsylvania Railroad.
In Pennsylvania there Is a railway
branch over which but one train a
year is run.
Think of missing that train,
Imagine yourself starting out from
home when you hear the engine
whistle on the west hill. Think OF
Logging it down the incline and pelt-
ing across the meadow, and bursting
onto the station platform with your
heart pounding holes in your side and
your breath coming in frightful gulps
only to see the rear end of the last
car Of that annual train 100 yards
away and gathering speed Mt every
yard!
And then think Of the anxious par.
ents who begin to feel worried about
the time the yearly train is due, and
who say to their children: you
mustn't play around the railway track
tomorrow, dears--the big, black en-.
CINE and the bumpety cars might run
-
over mammals darlings and cut ums
all to little tiddleybits!"
And think of the strain on the pa
thence OF that careful old lady who al.
ways sat down In the station and wait.
ed until the next train went by-for
fanr sha might ntharwisa as~snnnn-A"-
gerous chances by crossing the track
in the face of the coming express.
Yes, indeed, 1t must be a pretty
serious strain on the people who have
to live along the trail of the annual
train, and serious, too, for the moth
er-in-law and the poor relations who
design visiting you, and still more
serious when you come to consider
the means for getting them back home
again.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
WORTH MORE THAN THE COAT.
Statistician Figures Out the Tips for
Caring for His overcoat.

The statistician, as a rule, Is not a
popular person. He makes a display
of figures, and they rarely or ever
teach us a lesson.
For once, however, the statistician
has appeared in the altogether new
character Of a funny man" and what
he tells us is worth recording.
The man In question is a bachelor,
who spends most of his evenings in
theaters and restaurants, and in a
doleful voice he tells US that, owing
to the tip system, his overcoat costs
him on the average SO cents a day
from the tip In the restaurant where
he lunches; in the restaurant where
he dimes, in the theater and in the -es-
taurant where he has supper. And In
this he does not reckon the tip he
gives the servants in friends houses
who help him on with his overcoat.
This garment, for which he original
ly paid $40, therefore costs him $50
in tips in the course, of the year.
And then his hat and umbrella!
they, too. 1t appears, prove expensive.
and necessitate a yearly outlay of $40
in grat.ities, although he does not tell
us how he works this out. 1t certain
ly sounds NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
sToRv WITHOUT 4 FLAW.
prummef's Narrative Was Deceptive.
But All Right.

A half dosen travelling men were
waiting in a Connecticut town station
the other evening for a train for New
York. A fierce storm was raging.
This is a sorry night to be on the
road" remarked the shoe drummer.
yes" said the cigar man. land Il
was just such a night as this last sum-
me- when a train on the road struck a
Dad place four miles east OF here and
the next instant ran OFF the bridge. |
was the only passenger on the train
to escape with his life"
What month was that in" he was
asked.
Latter part of July"
Il fail to recall that wreck" said
one of the crowd,
so do l." said another.
How nlany did you say were kill.
cdr asked the shoe drummer.
Didn't say any one was killed" re-
piled the cigar man.
You didn't, Ell? You said you we're
the only passenger who escaped with
his life"
Certainly. That's easily accounted
for" explained the cigar man., looking
innocent, II was the only passenger
or the train"
AHA! That's your game, Is it?"
said the shoe drummer.
Hold OF there!" said the only one
in the party who had not spoken up
to this time, as he hustled up in front
of the cigar man. You said the train
struck a bad place In the road
so 1t did, but 1t got over 1t all
right"
1T did, Ell? But how about 1t rum
ming off the bridge?"
That's all right, boys. We ran of
1t after we had crossed It. The story
is all right. boys. You can't find any
flaw in it,"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
a SPIDERS Wonderful Ewes.

The Attus family OF spiders,
aboundisg in Java, have, In addition
to smaller eyes, a pair of
large ones, which writer's have called
''giglamp" eyes. A specimen Of the
spider, captured recently near Bulten-
zorg, exhibited a remarkable power
Of changing the color OF Its gig
laYps," says Youths Companion.
When 1t was captured the eyes we're
dark brown, like the body. But sud.
denly they changed to bright grass
green. Soon afterward they turned
back again from green to brown, and
this change Of color was repeated sew
eral times In succession apparently at
the will of the creature. Whether 1t
was an effort Of the spider TO inspire
terror in its enemy or an effect Of It's
own terror 10 uncertain. Another
singular fact is that the color Of eth.
er one or both eyes could thus be
changed.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
Stole a Whole Railroad.

The wholesale theft of a railway
sounds like a large order, but 1t has
been accomplished in Ireland, accord
ing to a story told before the vice
regal commission on Irish railways.
A line was built between Birr and
Portumna in 1868. The Great South
ern & Western worked the line until
1876, when it failed to renew the
lease.
The neighboring population then
stole the railway. The telegraph wires
went first and the rails followed in
short order. Then the gates, buildings.
in fact the total equipment, were car
ried off.
In the words Of Deputy Lieut.,
Trench, at present the bed Of the rail-
way alone survives.
This testimony was corrected, how.
ever, as a bridge spanning the river
Brosna has up to the present escaped.
A man, however, did come down
with cranes and other appliances, in
tending to carry off the girders Of this
bridge, but the police station hap.
pened to be close by and the sergeant
Of police took it upon himself to pre-
e n the man from taking the bridge
away.--N. Y. Sun.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
POWER OF ELECTRICITY.
Ralfways Of the World TO Be Operated
BY This Irresistible Force.

Electricity now completely domi-
mates the urban railway systems OF
America and Europe, and Is invading
with irresistible force that of subur-
ban and interurban railroads to such
an extent that It would be difficult to
enumerate them wen in the United
States.
The systems which reach out from
Boston, with connections which ex,
tend 40, so and even 100 miles. are
only a sample OF the wonderful devel.
opment Of the last 10 years, while the
projects for future ean Of transpor.
tation In New England are so compre,
hensiee as 10 exclude the use of steam
by all the companies which operate
transportation lines for passengers
and freight within a radii OF so miles
at least from all large centers Of pop
ulation.
A single line. from Indianapolis 10
Cincinnati, a distance OF 100 miles, al.
ready enjoys a large trafie IN both
freight and passengers, and the New
York Central railroad company pro
poses to at once install electricity in
place of steam to a distance of 40
miles in all its vast system radiating
from New York city.
In Europe one of the longest cleo.
trio lines is from Liverpool to South
port, although many projects Of even
more gigantic proportions are under
way throughout England.
Most Of these lines are In regions
where there are not sufficient water.
falls from which TO generate power.
But where there are waterfalls--the
%surest, easiest and most economical
source OF energy In the world-there
is no reason why the electric engine
may not supersede steam entirely
while IL seems positive that a great re.
gion which has no railroads would, II
lines were to be built, adopt the cleo
trio system, even though there were
no water power. and having that,
would not hesitate in the choice.
The Italian government. In commune.
ton with the railroads, has been car.
rying on successful experiments and
extending the use Of electricity for
nearly ten years, and now a line is be.
ing fitted up from Rome to Civlta.Cas-
tellana.
The governments of Norway and
Sweden are already occupied with the
application of electricity to the larger
lines; France is equipping roads with
1t as fast as possible, and being out.
done by Germany; Switzerland is
adopting II as rapidly as possible;
Spain has awakened to the import.
ance of electric railways. and Is about
to build one nearly 100 miles long;
Mexico has Just equipped one OF owe
100 miles, and the United States has
many which are still larger. Even In
Colombia, where there are practically
no railroads. the most prominent en-.
gineers, In consultation with Pres
Reyes, are contemplating the utiliza-
ton Of the vast torrents now plunging
to waste from the PERCEPTIONS noun.
tains, TO operate new railroads which
they declare will be the wonder of
tbu uyopId y H
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
Feminine Diplomacy.

when / say a thing / know is go
ing to make a friend mad" said one
OF the girls. II go up to her and ask
her for a hairpin. 1t puts her in q
good humor right away"
THAT sort Of thing does work" 40
serted her friend, who is an artist
MY elevator boy, for instance. He
has some sort of a grudge against
me. I don't know why, because ! often
tip him. He made 1t as hard az pos.
sible for me to enter or lsave the ele-
vator. He would stop II two feet
above the landing sometimes. or two
feet below, so ! would have either to
spring up or leap down.
The other day, when ! had entered
at the risk of life and limb, he opened
q package Of cigarettes. / said very
politely: 4 am dying for a cigarette.
May Hhave one?'
II wasn't. / don't smoke them, but
he at once handed me the package
with extrayagant ~politeness, TO help
myself. and has been my good friend
ever since"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
Hat IL of the Box Carr

Not all the instruction given to
young railroad men is intensely seri.
GUS. The following definition was re-
Gently offei ed to a beginner: "A box
car belongs to the fowl family. Dur
ing the spring and summer months 1t
can be found In nearly every part Of
the country. Its favorite haunts being
railway tracks, and 1t is easy to cap.
tire. In the autumn, however, like
certain other fowls, 1t goes into hiber-
nation or flies to other climes. Scat
tered instances are known where
specimens are captured during the
autumn months. A lasso OF. q we'll
creased switch crew is sometimes
used in sharing the box car, but main
strength is the best weapon. In any
case the hunter must be very wary,
as any noise like the fluttering OF a
waybiIl will make the quarry disap-
pear. Some railways own large fiocks
of domeshcated box cars, but they are
carefully guarded during the closed
season. The wild box car when
caught and fairly well loaded be-
comes perfectly stationary
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM.
instrument Which Receives and De.
livers Messages at Long Range.

The latest tlme-saving addition to
business system is a little instrument
which enables the head Of a business
or department to converse with one
or all of his subordinate officers in an
ordinary tone of voice, in any part Of
his Office, and without holding the ap.
paratus to his ear or mouth. Their
replies will come to him In like fash
ion, 80 that the whole conversation
will be Just the same as II all parties
were talking together In n room. If
the manager wishes to communicate
with one person only, he can easily
make It impossible for anyone else to
overhear, and II he wishes to keep the
replies secret from someone in his
own Office, there is a receiver which
he can use In the ordinary way.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
AUTOMATIC TIME SWITCH.
Can Be used to Open or Close the
Circuit.

This device can be used to either
open or close the circuit at any de-
sired time, An alarm clock Is firmly
fastened to a wooden bracket and
provided with "a small wood or metal
drum, A. TO which is fastened a cord.
B. The other end of the cord Is tied
to the switch handle so that when
the alarm goes off the switch is either
opened or closed, depending on wheth'
err the cord is passed over pulley c or
pulley ID.
When the cord is passed over pulley
c, as shown In Fig. 4, the circuit will
be closed when the alarm goes off, but
II It is passed over d the circuit will
be opened. Pulley D is fastened 10 a
piece Of spring steel, L. which in
operation is bent, as shown by the
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21

is 1888, and the scene Philadelphia.
Even at that time some people were
beginning to get restless and wanted
to go faster. The stage coach did not
travel with the speed 1t once did. The
new mode Of travelling on which 1t had
been decided to call a railroad train
seemed to be gaining popularity.
There was a daily increase in the
number of daring ones who risked
their lives for the sake of novelty.
There was, in those days, no union
station with its whirl Of trucks, shout.
ing newsboys, iron cages with uni.
formed guards "jawing" people about
%crowding. No confusion of voices and
changing of gongs and putting of loco
motives, piles OF trunks scurrying to
and fro, says the Kansas City Star.
The little toy of an engine with three
or four little omnibuses attached look.
ed more like a plaything than a train.
The boiler Of the locomotive was not
much larger than a barrel and the en-.
sincer's cap was a nttle platform with
some curtains hung around it. Just
behind the engineers cab MAS a pile
of wood for the boiler.
1t was one of these primitive
trains that William Best drove across
country at awe-inspiring speed of Is
miles an hour. When a stop was made
at Morristown or other stations, Best
was hailed as a hero. Crowds watch.
ed him as he oiled his engine and
wiped this hands on the curtains Of
his cab. That was IA years ago, when
Best was 20 years old.
The veteran engineer was born in
England, in Cornwall, in the year 1878,
two years before Waterloo was fought.
He came to America while in his
shops at Philadelphia. Promotion fol.
lowed, and In 1888 he was believed to
be capable of running the engine. He
was given charge and made his first
trip between Philadelphia and Tren.
ton, a distance of 80 miles. There
and back to Philadelphia consumed
the day, and was counted a days
work. The wages were high for those
days. Sixty dollars per month, as en-.
glneers were vGSy scarce. The track
was constructed Of cross ties and
wooden sleepers laid along them with
the strips of iron fastened on top with
spikes. These spikes often worked
loose and stuck up an inch or two
above the rails, when they were called
snake heads" He remembers one
day when they we're running at a good
speed-which meant probably IS miles
an hour-a drive wheel got tangled
in some snake heads and the iange
was wrenched of. II flew back
through the cab and narrowly missed
his face.
Best thought more Of his life than
his job. and vowed he would quit soon,
and did. After resigning his place as
engineer he was sought by Baldwin,
the pioneer locomotive builder in this
country, to 60 with an engine to the
south and run 1t On a new road. 1t
was customary then for the builder
Of a locomotive to send an expert
along and start it for the buyer. Best
declined, because he had had enough
of railroadir z.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
4; William A; Radtord VIII answer

Mr.. William A. Radford win answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject Of building for the readers of this
rience as Editor. Author and Manufac-
tnrer, he is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
all inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
1874 Fifth Ave. Chicago, ILL.,. and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
Forty feet square on the ground IL
size enough for a large cottage house
with good sized rooms conveniently ar.
ranged. The hall in the center with
rooms on both sides of it takes a per
sons mind back to boyhood times
when the larger houses we're mostly
built on this general plan. They may
be called colonial, but they are just
as convenient by any other name.
There are some sensible house de-
signs that we can never get away
from. We may move a partition a
foot or so and make a few minor
Improvements, which In themselves re-
quire certain changes from the old
1879 o4AeAS Duiit uOuoE. ~ pTUleCt
the water pipes in winter we find 1t
necessary not only to put in an ade-
quate heating device that will warm
the whole house, but the use of the
building paper in the walls comes in
as an additional precaution. You may
work with the plan according to GU
mulative experience in minor details,
but the old fashioned hall In the mid.
die with living rooms on both sides
has remained and will remain as one
of the most comfortable habitations
that man eve devised.
Long, narrow city lots are respon-
sible for the dark side lane in lieu Of
a hall and the so-called house that has
a chain OF rooms reaching away back
yonder until it is necessary to con-
meet the kitchen with the front door
by electricity and to install a tele-
phone for easy communication be-
tween the front and the rear. An
architect Is given a certain plot of
ground to work on, and he is expected
to cut out a house to fit. Wide lots
in crowded cities are about as scarce
as automobiles on a sandy road, they
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
pouIson Wireless Progressing.

Vladimir Poulson, the Danish inven-
tor, expects soon to establish wireless
communication across the Atlantic
from Denmark to America. He has
erected a station a few miles from
Copenhagen and an American station
will be completed in a few weeks. His
system is based on singing electric
waves which, he says. have inexhausti-
Bile power, where the spark system
loses energy over long distances. Mr..
Poulson first perfected his system for
a distance Of 10 miles. increasing It
to 100, $50 and 760 miles; o he de-
clares that he can operate over greater
distances than the Atlantic's breadth.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
GOES BACK TO 1883
OLDEST LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER
IN THE UNITED STATES.
William Best Of Missouri Now In His
Ninety-Fourth Year, Assisted in
Operating the First Railroad
in the Country.

Along with only survivors of other
historical events prominent in the
speeding a Of our nation. the olc-
est locomotive engineer and most GER
tain the only survivor of the several
who assisted in operating the first
railroad in the United States, is IN
titled to some notice. This man is
William Best. now a resident of Gen.
try county, Missouri. On the same
farm where he literally pitched his
tent more than half a century ago,
near the village of Alanthus Grove, the
old man still hobbies around his prem
Uses from day to day. This old man,
now in his ninety-fourth year, can
draw a vivid picture Of the first rail.
road in the United States. The date
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21

open fire Is born In the human race
because of the comfort it afforded be-
fore stoves were invented.
A house as wide as this should be
set well back from the street. You
can't always choose your street line
because others may want something
different. You don't want your house
back behind others because of the
view, don't think houses look any
better strung along in a straight line,
in fact, ! prefer to see them a little
independent, but you can't go entirely
by looks. You feel you have a per
feet right to look up and down the
street, and you don't want some n to
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
wireIess station on Airshlp.

The possibilities and practical util.
ity OF wireless telegraphy In aerial
navigation will be thoroughly investi-
gated aboard Count Zeppelin's airship
this summer. A wireless station has
been installed On the craft, IN which.
instead OF extending upward as In
other stations, the receives extends
downward, consisting Of a bronze wire
300 feet long. Power from the air
ships two S0.hp. motors works the
transmitter, which Is capable Of send
ing messages $50 miles.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
The Electric Bouquet.

duce either initials or words. For ex.
ample, says Popular Mechanics, on
the recent occasion Of a reception
given by his employees to their man.
ager on his return from a long alb
sence a mammoth bouquet OF roses
was presented to him, In the middle Of
which glowing in soft colors was the
word Welcome" Current was taken
from a wall bracket Through a flexible
cord 20 feet long, which permitted the
bouquet to be carried about the room.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21

aecting snrfsce desired. Then give
this section of the buh two coats of
aluminium lacquer or aluminium enam.
ell. Do the coating while the lamp Is
lighted, SO as to get the coating on
evenly, To draw a circle on glass
with a pen compass, paste a small
piece of cardboard on the glass and
push the center point of the compass
into the cardboard.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
English Paste croouet,e..

Take common pie crust. roll out
thin and cut with a biscuit cutter.
Have any kind Of cold meat made into
a well seasoned mince (already cold).
place a dessertspoonful on each piece
OF paste, turn over. mince edges to-
gether, dip upper side In the white Of
an egg, dip again in broken vermicelli
and drop in boiling fat. Cook a golden
brown. Serve on hot platter which is
covered with a dolly and garnish with
parsley or watercress.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-06-21
hydraulic slulcina.

Hydraulic sluicing is being employ.
ed at Seattle, Wash, for the removal
Of q large hill in the residential sec
ton Of the city. The material con
sIsts principally Of blue clay. which is
exceedingly tenacious and hard to
move, but is easily handled by . six
inch giant nozzle at 120-pouad pres.
sure hydraulic. The supply OF wates
IS taken from Puget Sound. some
2502 feet distant.