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saw the larger snake, three feet long,
gliding up the sleeve of the presi-
dents son. In the most gingerly man
ner they took hold of the collar of the
boys coat and gently removed the
garment, taking care to keep out of
range of the snake Dlsdaining rescue,
Quentin seized his coat, and while he
toyed with the squirming reptiles
skated outside, where a party of
women visitors were thrown into hys-
terics at sight of the snakes.
Quentin brought three snakes from
Oyster Bay with him. He found that
he could not take care of them prop
erly and turned them over to an ami
NAL fancier. But Quentin got lone
some without his snakes, and the fan
cier loaned him king snake and a
smaller reptile. Quentin went to the
executive Offices to show his new
treasures to his father, who observed
that the king snake was about to
make meal of the little one, and
warned his son to be careful to pre-
vent such a calamity
Quentin finally left the White House
to the great joy of everybody there.
His father remarked to a caller that
Quentin's taste was inherited, for he
not only liked snakes, but had scotch
ed few in his time.
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Blast Furnace Gas,

The amount of gas generated by a
blast furnace to produce pig iron is so
enormous that if collected and utiliz.
ed for power purposes it would prove
revolutionizing in manufacturing in
dustries. Thus to produce in an ordi-
nary we'll equipped works $50 tons of
pig iron the blast furnace would gen.
crate 20,000,000 cubic feet of gas. To
harness this enormous amount of
waste fuel is the aim of the builders
of gas engines. Utilized for generat-
ing steam by burning, about 1000
horsepower could be obtained; but if
burnt directly in a modern large gas
engine, the horsepower generated
would be several times as much.
Eminent engineers estimated that
even If half this volume should be
wasted or used for heating the air
blast of the furnace, there would still
be sufficient to produce between g.
600 and 1000 horsepower. Such an
enormous gas generator would thus
prove of the greatest value for rgordi-
nary manufacturing purposes. like
wise, the gases of coke ovens can be
utilized In the same way, adding
greatly to the Importance of the gas
engine in It's new field. Mining
World. :.s..
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man has helped, but has accounted for
but small percentage of the eggs put
out of business
Trees of which the foliage has been
injured or even totally destroyed by
these marauders may be seen on al.
most any street of Washington, the
caterpillars attacking by preference
poplars, soft naples, elms, alders,
birches and willows. But other trees
by no means escape their depreda.
tions, though the gingko and tulip are
almost immune. Besides destroying
the foliage, the caterpillars are often.
siVely intrusive, invading the homes
of the residents and otherwise becom-
ing nuisance.
AS usually seen, the tussock cater
pillar has two big, hairy protuberances
like horns sticking out of where his
forehead would be if he had one, and
another one-really two close togeth.
er-projecting like the rudder of an
airship. He is excessively hairy and
ugly, and his hairs are stuck in loose
ly and are apt to fall out on any per-
son upon whom he drops, causing in
flammation and swelling. These hairs
are finally tangled up in the silk as
the caterpillar weaves his cocoon, and
become part of the egg receptacle.
leaving the caterpillar Smooth
worm," not a "woolly one," and look
ing far unlike his original hirsute self.
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ANENT THE HARTMAN
FISH RAILROAD CLASH

r HE fight for the control of the Illi-
i nois Central railroad between Stuy-
vesa1t Fish and E. H. Hartman re-
calls other clashes between men who
deal in railroads. Many people re-
member the bitter fight waged two
years ago by Joseph Ramsey, Jr., then
president of the Wabash, against
George J. Gould, with the avowed pur-
pose of wrestling the system from him.
1t was hot fight while it lasted, and
many unpleasant words were said on
both sides. Yet if you were to go
into the Wabash offices you would
see among the photographs on the
wall, one enclosed in a narrow black
frame, the portraits of Mr.. Ramsey
and Mr. Gould, placed side by side, as
though they were the best of friends.
The two portraits will probably re-
main framed together until they be-
come yellow and timeworn as the
other mementoes of the past that are
on the Wabash Office walls.
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RAPID GROWTH OF NEW
YORK CITY UNDERGROUND
NEW YORK.-An investigator with
~ bent for facts of curious interest

NEW YORK.-An Investigator with
~ bent for facts of curious interest
his discovered that while the sky
scrapers of Manhattan are pushing to
greater and greater heights, the city
underground has been growing even
more rapidly. According to his COM
putation hundred thousand persons
carry on their daily occupations be-
meath the streets and below the wat
ers of Greater New York. Some of
these are caisson workers laying
the foundations of huge buildings,
employees of the various tunnels push
ing their way under the North and
East rivers and workmen in the sub
ways. In addition to this specialized
line of underground activity, there are
certain industries carried on almost
entirely beneath the surface. One Of
these is baking, and it is stated that
nearly all the bread and pastry eaten
by New Workers is prepared below the
ground. There are thousands of small
shops on the east side that occupy
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cellars without light or ventilation ex-
cept such as comes from the single
entrance reached by steep fight Of
steps from the street.
Devotees of the more fashionable
life also are taking to underground
city since some of the new hotels and
department stores have utilized the
space below the surface of their sites
with doors leading to and from the
subways.
It is pointed out that a man can
come from Chicago to New York, put
up at hotel, visit several stores,
transact business at downtown Office
building and return home without
once setting foot out of doors. This
state of affairs undoubtedly presages
the time when there will be an under
ground city extending over the whole
lower part Of Manhattan Island, with
it's own streets, shops and systems of
transportation. Perhaps in time a
race of real human moles will develop
in the metropolis.
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This is only slight evidence Of
the rule Of Wall street to stifle or
conceal it's personal feelings. And
yet, beneath the surface, bankers,
railroad financiers and capitalists are
banded in hostile groups or camps
that prey on one another. Even the
fair sex enters into the secret wars,
and many a social rivalry is trans
ferred from the drawing-room to the
financial fighting grounds in Wall
and Broad street. One very aggres-
sive matron not so long ago convulsed
not alone society, but also the finan-
cial district, by making an observa-
tion that is still being repeated in
the millionaires' clubs. It was at the
close of the life insurance investiga-
tion, when E. H. Hartman made his
famous trip to San Francisco, Just
after the earthquake. Yes" said the
matron, latter having robbed the
policy holders, he's going out to San
Francisco now to rob the dead"
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Harvest.

s." Harvest.
In current humorous paper lady
on horseback Is represented looking
over a wall at farmer. She says,
Il am so glad you are going In for
wheat, Mr.. Hayrick! My husband
made great deal of money in it on
Wall street." The satirist has touched,
without intending it, the profound fact
that under all our material prosperity
lies the produce of the earth; that
every man, from the farmer to the
master of the stock market, succeeds
or fails with the crops. One of the
most promising American novelists,
who died in his prime, set for himself
the splendid imaginative task Of
tracing through a series of novels the
kernel of wheat, from the field to the
loaf Of bread. In his Epic Of the
Wheat" he attempted to tell in new
kind of harvest fable the story of mod
ern man. AS far as he went, he did
succeed in making the kernel of wheat
the heart of a large section of our
highly complex life. The flooding in
of millions of bushels of wheat about
his hero, who stands in the wheat
pit in the stock exchange, is as pow
erful as the rush of armies in the old
military epics. All summer long the
world watches the crop indications.
There is a shortage of grain-crops"
The cotton crop is moderate COM
pared with last year." "An improve
ment of hundred million bushels
was made in the corn crop in July"
Complicated by other forces not sure
ly discerned by the wisest statesman
and the shrewdest capitalist, these
crop reports swing the world up and
down, says Youths Companion, until
the harvest is all in and the facts are
known. There is momentary settle
ment in business and politics, the
world breathes sigh Of relief, and
than all industry that depends on the
crops begins to hum. Harvest is a
great taking Of stock between the
coming in Of the raw materials of life
and the winter months, when those
materials are converted to the mani
fold uses of man.
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EVERY street car in this country
Il may be made a travelling postof-
flee before long. Such a plan is now
under consideration by Second Assist.
ant Postmaster General McCleary,
with the object of still further improv-
ing the mail service
Mr.. McCleary's idea is that when a
person writes letter the sooner it is
on its way the better it suits him.
If mail facilities are still further i'm
proved the man will write two let
ters where he now writes one and
the government will receive just that
much more revenue Postoffices on
street cars, he believes, will place the
writing public in close touch with the
postal department and the convent
ence will add materially to the gov
ernment's income.
The system has been tried on the
line between Minneapolis and St.
Paul and has proved successful. Every
car on that line is equipped with a
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the American charge dafaires
maest is a niGt man. H haha
that his military training should
entered the
shah will thoroughly
verng O forces.
Is of
tenance o rank
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w ELL-MANNERED dogs are now
w permitted to pay calls in some
of the hotels which have been closed
against them. Even at the Waldorf
Astoria, where there has been for
years a stern rule that none of the
canine family may be received ex-
cept in the basement kennels, there
have been signs of leniency.
eranian of aristocratic lineage was
permitted to enter the elevator and
was escorted to the fifth floor. But
this kind of license is not often
given, and no really large dogs with
we'll set jaws and impolite ways
with their teeth would be tolerated.
The Pomeranian was brought up to
the Thirty-third street entrance of
the Waldorf-Astoria in a cab by a
very prepossessing young woman.
Il would like to take my dog up
to show him to Mrs. Blank" she
said. "Will it be all right, do you
Think" -
"You will carry him?" asked the
clerk. "Oh, yes," was the reply.
"Boozoo is so little can hold him on
my arm"
, 1T will be all right, then," replied
the clerk. -'F .''t
Although the hotels Of the city
do not generally advertise the fact,
there has been disposition lately
to permit dogs and other animal
pets on the premises if they are well
behaved: The Hotel Savoy repre-
sents the extreme in the exclusion
policy, for none lis permitted to en-
ter the portals, and not a sign to
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MAY USE STREET CARS TO
IMPROVE POSTAL SERVICE

mail box and the people patronize
them literally. The cars stop to re.
ceive letter, the same as a passen.
ger. If the scheme works we'll where
it has been tested, Mr.. McCleary can't
see why it will not work we'll on all
street car lines. At first the system
may be installed only on the main
street car lines of the various cities,
but will be extended gradually to take
in all the lines
The cost of the service is to be
investigated. Officials at the depart
ment are of the opinion the expense
will not be great, as the street car
companies will no doubt furnish the
necessary letter boxes and permit
their conductors to handle the mail.
In many cities street cars are now
used to transfer mail from one postal
station to another and the postal au-
thorities believe the system for the
collection of mail can be successfully
developed
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The city of Erie, Pa, has done well
TO honor, by statue, the memory of
Eben Brewer, the heroic postal clerk
OF the Spanish-American war, who
gave his life for the soldiers at ST.
boney, says Youths Companion. He
had gone to Cuba to establish a milf.
tary postal service, and he did it. But
the number Of sick, wounded and dv-
ing soldiers at Siboney, and the
scarcity of doctors and nurses, made
a demand upon his sympathies which
ne could not resist. Four days and
1our nights, without a moments rest
ne devoted himself to this humane
work. and then he collapsed. Dart
mouth college, from which Brewer
was graduated in 1871, may we'll
snare with Erie, his home city, the
pride In this hero of civil life.
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been tucked up for the night and
had peacefully wended their ways to
dreamland, and nurse was taking a
farewell survey of her charges be-
fore turning out the lights and seek
ing her own bed.
She discovered that mosquito was
humming high, insistent tune in one
of Sammy'e ears, and she was striv-
ing to annihilate the little pest with
out disturbing Sammy, when suddenly
without any warning, that small per-
son bestirred himself and fell upon
his serenely sleeping brother and
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22

AS an indication of the value of
water transportation it NAV he 70.
marked that the Manchester ship ca
nal IN England shows an increase in
receipts for the last six months of
more than $4,000 over the same No.
ROD in 1905. Much of this increase
IS due to the large quantity of Ameri-
can cotton shipped to the mills at
Manchester. Water routes mean low
freight rates, says the Troy On. W
Ilmes' and all over the world the ad-
Vantages to be thus derived are com.
Ing into more careful consideration
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Pay of the Old Masters.

A popular illustrator lighted a dol
lar cigar with a 81 bill.
II make more money in a day than
Michael Angelo made in month" he
said. i've been studying up the wages
those old chaps got. It's amazing.
michael Angelo was paid $40 q
month while doing the cartoons of the
battle of Pisa, and Leonardo, who help
ed him, got the same rate. They were
both docked for lateness and of days,
but there was no overtime allowance.
"Correggio got for his Christ in
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the Garden $7.25. Carracci's 'Ressur-
rect1on' only brought the painter $3.50.
Albert Durer for his pen-and-ink por-
traits was not paid in cash. A bag
OF flour, 100 oysters, pair of boots
Durer would gladly do your portrait
on such system Of remuneration.
Rembrandt's top-notch price was
'$475. He got that for his Might
Watch :.
"Velasquez worked chiefly for thu
Spanish government. He was paid at
the average rate of $35 picture.
Think of 1t! Thirty-five dollars for
'Rokeby Venus!"
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STATE DEPARTMENT TO
TEACH GREEN CONSULS

A room in the department has been
equipped as complete working Amer.
ican consulate, suitable to transact the
business of any part of the world, civil
lized or unciviliZed.
Appointees are no longer permitted
to spend that 30 days. period in their
own way, but are required to report
every day at the state department for
duty and to spend a certain number
OF hours in this model consular Office.
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IN London and
through Germany the North the
for New
time followed history which
in
willing country
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MO MORE green consuls are to be
~ sent abroad to represent America
if the plans of the state department,
which have just been put in practice,
realize expectations.
Ever since the establishment of the
consular service it has been customary
to permit a newly appointed consul 30
days with pay before leaving America
for his post.
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when he began
He something
mtted his
night He took the matter before the Birmingham Commercial
railways
lied popularity
heads with
the legislature
Conner
wanted everytnghe ieunantgovernos the
commission
He
the
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it in all campaigns battles
at Washington D. c.,
teb rs 1866 and assigned
which
to color - o ~ o
january l9o4 has
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HOTELS MORE LENIENT
TOWARD GOOD CANNES

that effect is displayed The Bur.
lington, a family apartment hotel in
West Thirtieth street, near Fifth
avenue, which is owned by Mrs.
Richard Hudnut, who is a fancier
herself, publicly invites those who
have dogs to come to it's roof.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22
AROUSED BY SLAUGHTER

Mohammed Ali Mira, the new shah of Persia,
who ascended the throne last February, aroused
at the awful slaughter of his subjects by invad-
ing Turks, has called upon the sultan to curb
his auxiliaries, asserting that the temper of the
Persian people will inevitably force on a war
should the frontier continue to be harrassed.
The shah is S5 years old. AS a child he
showed great Intelligence and remarkable
strength of character. He is well versed in the
subjects taught in Europe and speaks French
fluently His majesty is described as serious,
energetic and fond of his work, personally at
tending to every detail of the government His
officials have often been heard to complain of
his zeal and exactitude when governor of Tabriz
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-22
TO WRITE HISTORY OF RUSSIA

Mrs. Augusta Hale Clifford of Portland has
sailed for an extended trip abroad During her
absence she will add to her material for com
prehensive history of Russia It is no new thing
for Mrs. Clifford to tarry in other lands, for al
though born in Maine she has spent more than
half her time foreign shores during the past
thirty years.
sister Of the venerable u S. senator Eu-
gene Hale, she springs from long-lived stu
dious family. After her graduation from Obern
college she became devoted student to history,
literature and art. Shortly after her marriage
to Hon. George Clifford of Portland, he laid
aside his legal practice and journalism to accept
a consular service
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soundly pummeled him.
Nurse, oh, nurse" Sammy sobbed
vehemently, after she had soothed him
for moment, ''he keeps telling me,
right into my ear, that it's a little,
little, little bit of thing and he
won't stop.!"
And then nurse thought of the mos.
quito's song, and the upheavel was
explained.
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Canada is so anxious to secure set.
tiers in it's vast northwestern domain
that it gladly throws in the climate
free of charge 10 any farmer who will
agree to go ur there and live on a
auarter-section.
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Sir Iummas will never be happv
until he gets that international Yacht
Ing mug and there is nobody else on.
earth that the mug would be surrend.
cred to with fewer regrets than to tho
knight of the Shamrocks
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Yale's Japanese professor of Japa>
nese civilization has eloped with a
"nlte woman. Probably he did not
nuean tnls action to be demonstra-
tlon OF the trend of Japanese ciyiliza-
tion.
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II laughter is the result of a nnion
OF the blood corpuscle with the nerve
cell, as a notable scientist asserts will
not ne kindly teach melancholy pes
simists who are predicting panic lust
how to make the connection?
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The Visitor-How old are you, Tom?
The Boy-Aw! Ma says I'm too
young to eat the things I like, an I'm
too old to cry when I don't get 'em!
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GOVERNOR FOE OF RAILROADS

Gov. Braxton Bragg Conner of Alabama has
become new big figure in Alabama state poll
tics because of his fight against the railways
He Is the man who led the Morris Avenue
soreheads' against the state machine and won.
His motto was "progressiveness" as against
"standpatsm."
Conner as mere stripping of boy served as
a state cadet during the civil war. From pow
erty he rose to affuence He became merchant
then Joined field to field, and today is said
to run more plows than any other man in Ala
bama. He is interested in cotton and flour
mills and other business concerns but it was
not until he was ffty-odd years that he entered
political life It ia said that he po into no1itics
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ARMY CHIEF RETIRES

BY the retirement Of General McCaskey from
the United States army the other day at the
age of 64 by operation of the law as to age
limit the force loses one of it's most unique
characters The general is the last commission
ed officers on the active list who answered Presi-
dent Lincolns first call for volunteers in April
1861, and served throughout the civil war, a
period of more than four years. He received
his commission major general, United States
army, on the forty-sixth anniversary of his entry
into the volunteer service as private
He was identified with the First and Seventy
ninth volunteer regiments from Pennsylvania
during the war, and served in General Patter-
sons army in Virginia, and later in the armies
Evening journal., 1907-06-04

bitrarily to place a tablespoonful twice
daily on cows feed Is likely TO over
tax the kidneys by undue irritation.
Better place lump salt where cows
can reach It at least once a day or cut
OFF six inches of a nail keg and till with
sack salt to be licked as wanted.
Many feeders are also OVERRIDING the
feeding Of other rations and animals
do not clean out their managers. II
one head viii eat is pounds Of hay and
90 pounds are given Il Is always in
different. But II only IL pounds are fed
the entire ration is eaten and the next
feeding time is an event Of interest to
the herd.
Fine chaff I'm fed boxes win be eaten
with zest n other salt is withheld, and
when the animals have eaten an they
will pass along and give each one a
large thimbleful Of fine salt scattered
to include each corner OF the feed box