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Fig. Iv-Motor Truck.

mot much,' said Jack. ''If that's all,
you sit down and I'll finish this load.
and then we can rest together, and gent
ly but firmly he took the shovel from
the stoker and himself filled the bar
row. while the other stood and looked
on half abashed.
When this load was delivered and the
barrow returned, they both sat down,
and during the ten minutes interm1ssion
before they had to start filling the bins
again they got pretty well acquainted.
Jacks second shift came at eight bells.
with the watch changing and a new man
In the bunkers.
In the stoke hole was a little Aus
tralian fellow whom Jack had met be-
fore, and had by no means liked,
who, as soon as the watch was set. camc
into the bunkers and ordered him to
follow.
What's up now" he said to himself.
but did not hesitate passing through the
glaring door at the end of the bunkers.
through a passage leading between two
steaming boilers. with barely four-foot
space between. and out into the so-called
stoke hole, where the light for a few
minutes almost blinded him.
1t was the beginning OF the watch.
The stokers were cleaning out the fires.
removing the clinkers and getting things
in ship-shape for their four hours shift,
stripped TO the waist gaunt. lean fellows.
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him. and half an hour later he again re-
ported for work below.
After eight bells that night, when the
new watch had gone and the old watch
were in their hunks. there was nothing
doing on the '1and-lubber's" side Of the
fo'c'sle.
slippery Elm had found few pages
OF an old magazine under one Of the
hunks and was reading.
Henry. an old sailor. was in his bunk,
smoking away on an old cob pipe. some
tobacco cut from greasy plug OF ''cab-
bage leaf
Zallner was doing on q bench along
the side Of the table. propped from rolling
or at each lunge Of the vessel by kes
or cement stood up in front.
Jack for amusement got down his cheap
cloth suitcase, took out paper and pensil
and wrote to his two nephews. Morton
and Henry Messer, whom he had amused
for some months past by writing them
about different things to make as they
had shop of their own and spent most
Of their time out OF school hours In II.
Il can't tell you much tonight" he be-
gan, for I'm pretty near all in. You
will get the particulars Of what have
been doing from letter I wrote your
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Jack flied the pail and then stood
around and watched, awaiting the return
of his boss who came back presently
"Ali right" he said Now do that some
more. Fill up the pail and put out these
ashes here" and he pointed TO a grea:
row of white hot Goals extending nearly
the whole width of the ship in front OF
tne furnace.
Picking up pail, Jack walked as near
TO the pile near him as he coull without
scorching himself-as he vas unused to
such heat-threw on the water aud ran
quickly back as a great cloud of steam
rose kissing and roared UP through the
yawning openings OF the great ventiiators
overhead.
Another pail and another followed the
first, and so on down the line until his
work was done, when, half-blinded by the
smoke, with his head reeling from the
effects of the gas, he staggered out
through the gangway between the boil
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place to fasten the truck. and the washer
shown at W ay be fastened between
the car body and the truck II desired.
Fig II. gives the pattern for the eIec-
trio locomotive and Fig. ". shows how
its trucks re made. the piece being
SNAPPED with a 'cow-catcner' in the front
and left fat on top, 1t being separate
from the locomotive body when IT IS
fastened on by a washer.
THE way the trolley is made is shown
in Fig. VII. T being the pole. (a) a piece
OF wire bent through a piece OF brass
tubing (b) for roller, and with the wire
(a) fastened to the stick (t) by a
string Cd.
IF Is the troIlev wire.
1--WE got a scheme for making a steam
locomotive, too, ard switches and track.
and gates and semaphores. but can't
write about them now, so I will leave
them until I get back home.
Sorry ] can't write you any more now
but lights are out In few minutes and
I must stop.
Remember me to the rest Of the boys
there
CTo Be Continucdl
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Fig. 1-Pattern for the cars.

very ioud-spoken and profane manner.
ZaIluer was working. and working
hard. and Jack spoke before the boy re-
allied that his relief had come.
Seeing him there, Zailner Strengthened
up, handed him the shovel. and sneaked
out and up the hot iron ladder with a
glance of fear Of the stoker in his eyes.
AS Jack took the shovel the stoker no.
ticed him and got q good view of his
face from the light of the lamp above,
and Jack was looking straight into his
eyes.
They dropped almost instantly, and,
reaching for the shovel in Jacks hand,
he scooped up four or five, more shovel
fuls onto the barrel, and. without so
much as looking at him, took the han
dies in his great fists and trundled the
barrow away through the little iron door
at the other end of the bunkefs, where,
for an instant he was silhouetted against
the glare Of the roaring furnaces be-
yond
Jack sat down on piece OF board iy.
ing on top of the coal and waited.
A moment later and back he came
rumbling the barrow along over the iron
floor until he reached the spot he had
left, when he dropped It with a bang,
picked up the shovel from where he had
dropped It and started to work.
Guess I'm here to help toe" said our
friend. Where's my shovel?"
The stoker looked UP and caught his
smile when the set look on his face van
ished. The smile which he gave in re-
turn cracked the layer OF coal dust over
his face in several places.
law, sit down." he said, almost bash
fully. 'I can do this all right. This load
Will stock them up in there for a while,
and then we can born rest"
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MopE1s FOR THE YOUNG.

Ny child. II your ambition IS to be both
wise and great.
Then the men who have been noted are
the men to emulate.
julius Caesar, for example. never used
the telephone,
Yet his fame is as enduring as the ever
lasting stone;
Alexander never, never smoked a big and
fat cigar;
Hannibal would not be tempted to ride
on trolley car.
II you want to find the highway to the
citadel OF fame.
TO be like the greatest persons then
should ever be your aim.
Washington, with all his honor, never
turned an auto crank.
And he died a leading statesman, with
some money In the bank.
Old Methusalah never ittsd I'D his house
with hardwood floors
Never wildly knocked a golf ball DER the
spreading out-of-doors:
Donaparte was fond of study in the
watches OF the night,
But he wouldn't read his papers By an
incandescent light.
II you've chosen something honored as
feature OF your name
Emulate the people listed in the mighty
roll of fame.
Darwin didn't use the subway when he
had to so downtown;
Pharaoh did not play euchre, yet he wore
royal crown:
Hugo drank no ice cream soda, never
wore a rnade-up tie:
Shakespt are wrote his plays IN free hand,
no typewriter would ne buy;
Yet today these men are listed with the
the truly, truly great
And, my child, they are the people that
that you ought to emulate.
These are they whose names are craven
in the citadel of fame.
And OF course you have the secret-make
your ways and theirs the same.
Chicago Evening Post.
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young man asked him as 70 navigation.
the horsepower OF the engines, the speed
the vessel was capable OF making and dis
cussing the stresses which must have
been brought 70 bear on different parts
OF the hull during the recent storm with
the air OF an engineer. or at least one
who was very well posted on such mat
ters.
The mates anger seemed entirely
gone. a smile and It had vanished. and
here he was instead OF finding fault
chatting away with a mere passage
worker and land-lubber and enjoying IL
and he a first mate.
AS he spoke. however his eyes were
not idle. but noticed ia a minute the diff
ference between this side of the boat
and the one which the other had swept
There was no speck OF dirt left behind
here and as the bo'sn's mate passed a
few minutes later he called out 20 him
as he pointed his thumb over his Shout
der AT Zallner.
Hey, Boz Send this lubber down in
the bvnkers where he belongs. and you"
he said turning 10 the other young man,
finish up your deck here on both sides
and then report 20 me" and passing on
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FIG. 1.-THE Electric Locomotive.

other. for sudden thought had come
10 him
and here's a chance for q new kind"
''Tn go down with you on alternate
shifts" he said out loud. you can stand
IL for a half an hour and then you
can come up and breathe while go down
and then when the half hour is up you
can go down again while come up and
get a whin."
So IL was finally arranged.
The room itself In which they worked
was enormous and when our friend first
entered 1t he could hardly make out any
thing OF its proportions. Just above his
heao where he stood was single cleo
tric bulb seemingly as inefficient in this
great mass OF darkness as candle on a
starless night.
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Fig. VI How Truck is + as.ensd

father last night. and which I viii mail
when we land at the same ti1ne I mall
this.
1T viii be some time after get ashore
before Ill get a chance to write you
ANYTHING moro to make so / thought I'd
write you this little squib while / have
the chance and you'll find some drawings
with this tool telling how to hx up a
very simple car line.
''All I've got to write on is this big
sheet OF wrapping paper. but I guess you
can make II cit-
'At the foot of the page is shown the
car line and a track with the electric
locomotive coupled on. You can see from
this that the bodies OF both the car and
the locomotive are just cut out OF a
piece of inch board with key-hole saw.
The windows are 7 ade by boring holes
with an inch bit of the size you want to
make them and then squaring them out
with your knife.
''Ine trucks are made as In Fig. ";
7 being a square block of inch wood
planed off on top so that the point o Is
the highest This Is shown also in
Figs l.. III. and vi.
''At this highest point a small hol> is
bored through for a screw and this is
put through as at J. Figs. Ia. and VI,
up into the C body at the proper place
so you see Q truck can turn on the
screw as a pivot.
THE wheels are halves OF spools
turned wrong ide to and fastened to the
block r by screws (s) with little wasner
w between to keep them from rubbing
on t.
THE car itself is cu' from the pattern
In Fig. L., which may be copied any size
you want by marking on the squares as
shown: the same number of them and as
much larger as YOU want your car larger.
II you want the car twice as big. make
the squares twice as big. etc. This also
shows how TO mark the car out after
wards with lines L to give Ie the finish
it needs.
This is also shown at the foot of the
page while at the left just coming onto
the sheet is car not marked out but
just as it was sawed.
The ends f OF the vestibule are little
sticks put in afterwards. The steps X
are bent UP OF tin.
Fig. ]. will also give you the correct
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under the deck he disappeared in tn
direction OF the engine room, and as he
went he smiled.
Come on. Cholly," shouted the bo'sn.
beckoning Zallner with a motion Of his
whole arm. and Zsllner followed. hav-
fng suddenly acquired violent cough
which seemed 70 rack his whole frame.
These two also passed forward and dis
aDpea,e ed down the ladder leading 20
the bunkers below.
The other was at work again, sweep
ing away and whistling as he worked
till big. fat sailor working away at
the winch on the hurricane deck just
above called TO a sailor across on the
other side OF the hatch opening, Hey.
Hank. Go down TO the steward and get
a can Of worms and g box OF bird seed.
I think our bird down there needs feed
IN"
At last this part OF the deck was swept
and taking shovel near at hand the
young fellow scooped up the sand ana
dirt he had swept into the scuppers and
tossed IL up over the hatch conlbing
just as the mate passed By again on .he
other side.
A gust OF wind picked UP the dust az
the leavings few over the side. whirled
Il back across the deck and all over the
spick and span uniform OF the mate
who stopped short and iaughingly brush
co himself of, while the young man had
expected some such treatment as his
companion had received few moments
before.
Pretty green yet, Bo," he laughed,
Pretty green yet. Next time throw II to
windward and II won't come back on
You." And on, on. he went, chuckling 10
himself as he busted off his shoulders
and sleeve with his handkerchief.
The man above who had seen the oc-
currence called to his companion.
Say. Yankl Dye sec that? That kids
got stand-in with the mate all right.
He'd OF kicked us all over the deck"
We'll. he amt lazy anyway" said the
other He tries hard enough"
just then zallner emerged again from
the hstch-way.
Say. Jack" he whined, and coughed
dramatically. Wont you go down IN
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s25 month. all of which would be wasted
in a gerat spree at the end of the voy.
age.
His guide was q scant five feet high
and yet as is SO common with little men,
had very bossy manner.
Here. b." he said, pointing to a pail
under tap.
Take that pail there and fill II up
and he hurried on down the line OF toll
ing stokers.
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He could distinguish great Jumps OF
coal around him. near at hand, and barely
make out q little Of the great mass OF
this black substance towering away back
into the darkness. while at his feet was
the narrow lane of hard iron floor or
which he stood.
The afr was filed with the fying dust
and as he glanced at the bulb overhead
he saw how thickly this CRIME filed che
air and how the coating on the lamp
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ZE&7 1|1l.l E&@ . s.

kent the room as dark as it was.
In front of him as he stepped up was
Zallner. his face besmeared and streaked
with burrows where the sweat had run
down his face, dressed in the suit in
which he had left London. now much
the worse for wear. shoveling away IN
good earnest, while the long, lean and
nuch-besooted stoker, whom he was sup
posed 10 be helping. sat on the opposite
edge of the wheeibarrow which was be-
Ing filed, and directed the work In
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utes and then went off returning shortly
Afterwards.
II saw the bo's'n again" he said. "and
he said If you won't so down. he don't
care a rap who goes down, but one OF US
must go down. and we can fix it UP be-
tween us. It's pretty hot down there
and / don't want to stay too long at
time in that dust. and IL - -
TN tell you what I'll do" said the
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ers and fairly fell on pile of coal out.
side to get his breath
Zallner was soon at hand for relief. and
as soon as he was able Jack climbed ur
the hot iron ladder, which almos. blistered
his hands and fell prone on the deck
when he reached the top.
Such life may be all right for stok-
ers. but our friend was not used to 1t.
The fresh air. however. soon revived
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the bunkers fur 's' afternoon. I've 5ust
got over havin' pneumony and I'm 'fraid
OF getting that dust down there in my
lungs. Doctor said fore I left home I'd
have to be seerful"
Don't know as I can help you much. -
answered the ore he had addressed as
Jack. FOR my eyes are on the bum too.
guess Il won't hurt your lungs much -
and he threw anyother shoveful Of waste
overheard this time TO windward
Zallner hung around for few min
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Couldn,t Stand the Racket.

There's a country buyer out there"
said the senior member Of the firm, that
/ want you to take care Of"
Not me, please protested the sales
man. Il promised my wife I'd stop
drinking. g."-Philadelphia Press.
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most OF them, with hard, unresponsive
natures
With long rods they raked out the Goals
pillng them while hot upon the iron floor
In front Of the furnaces.
The rows of boilers extended crosswise,
of the ship, each row OF boilers being
separated from the next row by space
of a scant twelve feet between whicn
boiling, smothering and steaming rows
these men must work for twelve hours
during the day, and for a miserable so or
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-02-06
RAILWAY LOBBY
IN LEGISLATURE
Many Bills Were to Be Killed or
EmaScuIated

Boise, Idaho, Feb. Cone Of the
most interesting Developments Of the
session is the resignation OF Repre-
sentative Frank T. wyman Of Ada ~
attorney for the Oregon Short Line,
this being a result Of the campaign
waged here by the Short Line against
the railway commission bill.
Mr.. Wyman was disposed TO oppose
the bill when the session BEGAN. In
fact, had he been called upon at that
time to vote ON the measure the vote
would have been cast In opposition.
Re felt that the reasons against the
plan rather overbaIanced those in It's
favor. While he recognized the right
Of the state to exercise such control
as is proposed, and while he felt that
such control would be needed In Ida
hn at some time, he was not con.
WINGED the time had come 70 enact
snch legislation.
Subsequent events caused Mr.. Wy
man to change bis mind. however.
A very active campaign was started
by the railway people against this leg.
isiation and Mr. Wyman became con-
WINGED that improper methods we're be-
ing employed. In the house . pass
was sent TO the clerks desk by No
CIacken, author Of the anti-pass bill
just ct the time the measure was com
ing up for action, with the statement
that it had been handed him the night
before; a furious flght was made
against the governor in tho wool Rrow.
eTs' convention, and another fight was
made against him In connection with
the investigation Of the coal shortage.
Under these circumstances Mr.. Wy
man became convinced IL was time 10
art on railway control, and changed
bis attitude. As he expressed it. such
a course was demanded OF him son
his oath a. a member aud In defense
Of the dignity Of the state. -
He is q leader Of the insuEFection-
lists in the house, and he has follOwed
up bis action in connection With mat
tiers in controversy by forwarding his
resignation as attorney for the Short
Line company.
A story Is current that some vIsi-
tons are likely to be arrested for viO-
lation Of the anti lobby Law enacted
at this session. Il IL charged they
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-02-06
AFTER ATER AND
LIGHT COMPANY
Variants Resolution Tabled by
the Council

The city fathers held an adjourned
meeting yesterday afternoon in the
council chamber, at which some i'm
Portant matters were brought before
the board for consideration. The
committee on ordinances reported ON
the Carr gas franchise and recon-
mended that the application be placed
on the table until the Price franchise
is disposed of.
A special committee which had
been appointed to secure a filing cab
met for profiles, reported that the
cabinet had been procured and placed
in the city engineers office.
s. A. Varnam again sprung a sensa
tion on the members when h. stated
that he had discovered that the Con
sumers Company had been violating
the rules of the ordinance granting it
a franchise, in as much as it charged
consumers and patrons s1O for laying
laterals from the mains to the proper
~ line, which was not only a viola
ton of the rules of the ordinance, but
also a violation Of the laws of the
state and read decisions Of
the supreme court of the state to
prove his argument. Mr. Varnam
charged the Consumers Company with
''practicing this violation for the past
eighteen months on those whom it
thought ignorant Of the terms of the
franchise. Mr.. varnam presented
and read a resolution which be had
prepared to the effect that the people
be told of this practice ana warming
them not to make the payments. A
motion was made and seconded that
the resolution be adopted, but was
voted down and the resolution placed
on the table.
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Would Imprison Boy.

Tacoma, Wash, Feb. 6.--Kenneth
Mcintosh prosecuting attorney for
King county, yesterday filed an
information charging Chester Tbomp-
son, the acquitted slayer Of Judge
Emory, with being a dangerous per-
son, and asked for his detention as
such in the state panitsntiary at Wal
la Walla for an indefinite period.
Mcintosh says:
The state will nos SithdraU from
its stand Of insanity and simply ask
for the dentsntiOn Of Thompson rs q
dangerous person.
This move will be vigorously OPP
posed and sombated by Mr. Thomp-
son, who will Bght for the boys
treatment, care and confinement in
an institution for the insane.
At ) O'Clock Chester Thompson was
brought into court TO hear the read
ing Of the information.
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in the open market cheaper than the
contract price under the commissions
adoptions, better bound and in every
way better constructed, containing
more and better material for the var
ious grades and better adapted to
school work. Should this bill pass
permitting this commission to again
adopt the books, it would require the
expenditure of from $4,000 TO 10000
for Occur d'Alene to conform to it,
and entail that loss upon the patrons
of the school.
Independent school districts large.
" represent the progressive educa-
tional element in the state and should
be left untrammeled in the selection
of one of the most potent means of
progress, the text books. Courses of
study should be based not on text
books, but upon principles. Text
books should be used tn carry out a
course of study instead of requiring q
course of study to conform to the
text books.
Conditions obtaining in the rural
schools differ materially from those
that obtain in Independent school dis
tricts, and | believe uniformity of
text books in rural schools to be bene-
fetal inasmuch as those schools are
seldom placed under the jurisdiction
of the best educational talent, the I'M
qualified, fortunate in party politics,
usually receiving the plum as a re-
ward for political work, with the re-
suit that the rural schools are geneI-
ally left to their own resources in the
betterment Of their work. Our state
is growing so rapidly that TO my mind
il would be a great mistake even to
jeopardize the possibility Of tying up
the educational oenters Of our state by
forbidding them to take advantage of
the educational opportunities that
may come during the next six years.
This, to say the least, l feel would
be the result should the state again
enter into a contract for state uni
fOrmity of text books for independent
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