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Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

Smithsonian institution OF which he had
been appointed the first secretary.
In 1873. two years before his DEATH ne
was asked to write an account OF his work
at Princeton. This is the document now IN
the university library.
IL was across the university campus that
he strung the first telegraph wire ever
operated in America. A year OF two before
he left Albany he had been working at his
invention of the electro magnetic telegraph
for transmitting signals at a distance
whereby dots might be made on paper and
bells struck. indicating letters of the alpha
bet. He refused to patent the invention on
the ground that It was incompatible with
the dignity OF science to confine the prob
able benefits to the use of any one in
dividual. In his statement he says: Il
think the first actual line OF telegraph
using the earth as a conductor was made
In the beginning of 1896. A wire was ex-
tended across the front campus from the
upper story OF the college library building
to the philosophical hall on the other,
Through this wire signals were sent from
time to time from my house to my labor
atory."
Portions OF Prof. Henry's electrical
apparatus are still In the university
museum, among them being his giant
electro magnet nicknamed Big Ben" by
the students for whom he constructed 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
A WonderfnI Stroke.

The New York Herald credits Justice
Harlan with this story on w. H. Taft:
did l ever tell you about the mar
vellous drive my distir guished friend the
Secretary of War made one morning on
these very links of Murray Bay? No?
"Well, l was with him at the time and
that establishes the veracity of what 1
am about to declare. Come up near" he
said turning toward a newspaper mar
who was present. II want to be sure you
hear the figures correctly"
Yes broke in the secretary" he might
forget them and have to make them up all
over again.
For what want" continued the JUS
tice, ignoring the interruption, rs to get
onto the golf page of the Sunday papers.
To do that | must adhere TO the truth
strictly-the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth.
but, as l was saying, this roly-poly
youngster over here-Taft l mean-was
just finishing up a bit behind me, as usual;
-ahem! three OF four behind me, if 1 re-
member rightly. 1t was growing dark,
and he was in a hurry to complete the
score and yet anxious not to be too far
behind. He made a terrific drive for the
last hole, one that made the ground ripple
like the surface of a lake when a bowlder
drops into it. You all have noticed that
often. Then he plunged on, riding the
ripples toward the hole and looking for
the little white ball.
BY Jove, | struck a good one that
time, he sang out, as he went further and
further and no ball in sight. i believe
made the green
'And, sure enough, just then the caddy
called out:
Here you are, judge, right in the hole,
and, 10 and behold! when Taft looked in.
and Taft began to turn handsprings for
joy. l confess l thought it was pretty
good, too, and went back to the last tee,
TO see If l couldn't do something like tina
myself, l knew. of course, It was a fluke,
a one in a million drive. but was bound
to try. When / got to the tee / under
stood. There was Taft's ball just where
he had set 1t up. His club hadn't even
grazed it. The rest of the story the caddie
can explain"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
Waiter Who WnIted.

A man who called himself George Arnold
was before a police court judge on the
charge of stealing a ride on a train to Dag
upan.
Where were you? ?" asked Judge Low, re-
ferring 10 ms former place of abode.
In Manila" was the reply. Il was wait
ing"
"Waiting for whOm?'
-"Just waiting"
What were you waiting for?"
ITO get my money"
"Who from p
''fhe man / was waiting for"
What did he owe It TO you for?'
For waiting"
How did you start I'm waiting?"
by beginning 10 wait"
What do you mean? Explain yourself. o.
II thought you knew 1 was waiting in a
restaurant"
Obi gaspsd the judge.-Phnippines Cos.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-26
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at great speed. Gfraffes are frequently seen. They are more timid than the an telope however, and are by no means so brave as the zebras.
 We see more and more wild animals as we go onward. The whole region is a geological garden; and the beasts are so protected that they are fast increas- ing in number. All hunting here must be done by licenses. and. as I shall show later it costs S250 for the right to shoot a certain number of elephants and other big game The only animals which one can kill without government permission are lions and leopards, and the danger is that the lion or leopard and not the man will do the killing.
 Telegraph Wire as Jewery.
 One of the great troubles which the British government had while building the Uganda railroad was to keep the na- tives from stealing the telegraph wires. The women use such wires as iewelry. They bind 1t around the legs from the ankle to the knee They wrap it in great coils around their necks. and they make 1t into round disks, which they tie to the lobes of their ears. They steal all sorts of railroad bolts and nuts for personal ornamentation, and brass wire and pieces of bronze are so much in demand that they will pass current as money. All the way here I have seen natives loaded with wire of one kind or another Some had little more than the wire on them, and the clothes of most were conspicu- ous by their absence. About the only cloth worn along the Uganda line Is small pieces of cotton Some of the men wear breech cloths, and some of the women have short skirts. Farther up the road I understand they wear nothing, and at the terminal stations both men and wo- men go about as naked as when they were born.
 Some Queer Jewelry.
 It is wonderful how these people mutt late themselves in order to be what they consider beautiful. The ears of many of the women are punched like sieves in order that they may hold rings of va rious kinds. At Vol l saw a girl with corks, each about as big around as my little finger, put through holes in the rims of her ears. She had a great cork in each lobe and three above that in each ear. There was a man beside her who had two long sticks in his ears, and far ther up the road I saw one who had so stretched the 1ope holes that a good sized tumbler could have been passed through them Indeed, I have a photograph of man carrying a jam pot in his ear.
 AS I write I can see an ebony African with a brass collar around his neck and anklets on his legs. His only other gar ment is a strip of calico about the loins. With him is a man with a nose ring not unlike that we use to keep pigs from roofing; and further over is a giddy naked dandy who has three coils of gall vanized telephone wire in each of his ears. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-26

English overseer, who sat up with his gun and watched for them.
 It was not far from this station of Nairobi lthat man was taken out of a special car by a lion while it stopped over night on the side track. The win dows and doors of the car had been left open for air, and the three men who formed its only inmates had gone to sleep. Two were in the berths and the other, who had sat up to watch. was on the floor with his gun on his knees. As the night went on he fell asleep and woke to find himself under the belly of the lion. The beast had slipped in through the door. He seized the man in the lower berth and jumped out of the window, carrying him with him. The other two men followed: but they failed to discover the beast that night. The bones of the man, picked clean, were found the next day.
 Through East Africa by Rail.
 But come with me and take a trip on that part of the Uganda railroad over which l have been travelling. We start at Mombasa a little coral island in the Indian ocean. Our train carries us across great steel bridge to the mainland, and we climb through a jungle up to the plateau. We pass baobab trees with trunks like hogsheads, bursting out at the top into branches. They make one think of the frog who tried to blow him self to the size of a bull and exploded in the attempt. We go through cocoanut groves, by mango trees loaded with fruit and through plantations of bananas, whose long green leaves quiver in the breeze made by the train as it passes. Now we see a gingerbread palm, and now strange flowers and plants, the names of which We do not know. As we rise we can see the straits which separate Mon basa from the mainland, and higher still the broad expanse of the Indian ocean comes into view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-26
Queer Features of Travel on Eng lands Lime to Centsal Africa

under the superintendence of American workmen. The way it happened was ow- ing to John Bulls desire to have the work done quickly and eheaply and at the same time substantially. While he had been laying the tracks from here to the sea, our bridge companies had surprised the English by putting up the steel viaduct across the Atbara river in the Egyptian Sudan within much shorter time and far more cheaply than the best British builders could possibly do. Therefore, when the British government asked for bids for these Uganda bridges they sent the plans and specifications to the Brit ish and to some of our American firms as well. The best British bids provided that the shops should have two or three years to make the steel work and longer still to erect 1t in Africa. The American Bridge company offered to complete the whole job within seven months after the founda- tions were laid, and that at a charge of s90 per ton, to be paid when all were in place and in working order This price was about half that of the British esti- mates and the time was less than one third that in which the eight bridges al ready constructed had been built, so the American company got the contract. It carried It out to the letter, and had the government done it's part the work would have been completed in the time specified.
  1t really consumed five months longer, but it was all done within the space of one year, which was just about half the time that the British contractors asked to get their goods ready for shipment.
 How They Were Built.
 The British were surprised at how cas- fly and quickly the Americans carried out their contract and how little they seemed to make of it. The civil engineer who was sent out to take charge of the con- struction was little more than boy. His name was A. B. Lueder, and he had grad uated at Cornell University only a year or so before In addition to him there was a Pennsylvania man named Jarrett who acted as superintendent of construc- ton, and about twenty bridge builders and foremen from different parts of the United States. These men arrived at Mombasa In December. 1900. and they had completed their work before the fol- lowing Christmas They acted merely as superintendents and fancy workmen. All the rough labor was done by East In- dians and native Africans, furnished by the British. When the road was started the government planned to use only Afri- cans, but they found this impossible, and therefore imported 10000 coolies from In- dia. These men came on contracts of from two to five years, and their wages were from four to fifteen dollars a month and rations. The native laborers were paid about ten cents a day.
 Before the American workmen arrived here a large part of the bridge material was already in Monibasa They left one man there to see that additional materi- als were forwarded promptly, and came
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-26

at once to the seat of action. They put up the bridges at the rate of something like one a week, and constructed the long est Viaduct in sixty-nine and one-half working hours. Had it not been for the enforced delays on the part of the govern- ment they would have undoubtedly com pleted their work in seven months.
 As it was, what they did forms one of the wonders of civil and mechanical en- gineering. The bridge material was so made that its pieces fitted together like clockwork, and that notwithstanding it was put into shape way off here, thou sands of miles from the place of construc- tion and in one of the most savage parts of the world. The materials in the via ducts included about half a million feet of southern pine lumber and more than thirteen million pounds of steel The steel was in more than one hundred thou sand pieces and the heaviest piece weigh ed five tons. The average weight was about one hundred pounds per piece. The greatest care had to be taken to keep the parts together and in their own places. Every piece was numbered and those of different bridges were painted in different colors. Most of the natives here look upon steel as so much jeWelry, and 1t was impossible to keep them from flch- ing some pieces for ear bobs and brace lets.
 Where Lions Eat the Passengers.
 It was difficult to build this road on ac- count of wild beasts. There are a hun dred places along 1t where one might get off and start up a lion. hhnoceroseS have butted the freight cars along the track, and they infest much of the coun- try through which 1t goes. 1 was shown a station yesterday where twenty-nine Hindoos were carried off by two man. eating lions. The man-eaters came night after night, and took away one or two of the workmen from the construction camp. They were finally killed by an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-26
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By Frank C. Carpenter
Punctuating Time.

TAuStdobhl9 iHiSs
 From Harper's Weekly.
 The season is waning in which even the least reflective of the sons of earth tentatively makes his lit- tie punctuation marks on the great veil of time which floats over him. Christmas eve and Christmas morning. the last twilight of the year and the ringing in at midnight of the New Year, who is 1t that at such moments shall escape meeting his double. for 8 few seconds. at any rate?
 These points of pause in time are moments when the ghosts of the past come round us thick and fast. and hap py Is he to whom they bend down and smile" year has slipped by us. and we stand here, as we have stood be- fore, remembering, regretting. hoping, demanding, questioning. A year and a year and many and many years have slid away, and when we paused we found life much the same. though the elements in it shift position. Things and people appeared and vanished, and new ones filled their places. There were friends we swore should outlast a lifetime, but some of them died. and the impress of their lives upon ours WdAeu ldlnls aHu some lOTBOI us, duu lived beyond our reach or call; and others we forgot. and left behind us on the road. And our plans and under takngs. too. succumbed to destiny. Some were unworty, and we dropped them: and some we accomplished. and so forgot; and some met with a for bidding destiny and were denied and we dropped them there; and some part of us went on living and a large part of us died. For we live under inexora- ble law. and law cuts off and builds up without asking leave Life fleets past us, weaving it's own great cosmic pattern which we never grow large enough to see; and the corner of the picture where we play is made up of things good and things evil.
 And. above all, man loo',s out be- yond his own winglar -ality into the regions of tk g heavens, and watches innufneI aDi~sl suns speed on eternal ways. and he says: T, too, am up there. l. too, play a part Tn the wheeling of the stars through their orbits" and from the thought he draws in space to his soul, knowing the smallness of his part in the great scheme, and knowing. too. that he can not so much as pluck a flower but the movement will reach into the farthest, starriest way and cause a sun to tremble in it's course. So his life, small, changing, lasting for breath of this matter he names eternal life, and he identifies his little momentary breath with all that is imomrtal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-26

Nairobo, British East Africa. HRAVELING by railway through the
 wilds of Central Africa! Steaming 4 for hundreds of miles among ze- bras, guns, ortriches and girafesl Rolling along through jungles which l the rhinoceros haunts and where the lion and leopard wait for their preyl
 These are some of my experiences dur ing a trip I have just taken over the Uganda railway from Mombasa to Nal robol
 Ten years ago it took a month to cover the distance between the two points, and the whole way was on foot. l made it in less than tWenty-four hours, and that in a comfortable car. The railroad fare was $&, and I had fairly good meals on the way. The distance Is over 300 miles and It 1t just about half the length of the rail- raod Leaving here shall contnus my journey over it on to Lake Victoria, and shall land on that lake not far from the source of Nile.
 The Uganda Railway.
 This gives you some idea of the Ugunda railway, which the British completed only about five years ago. The road begins at the Indian ocean and it climbs over some of the toughest parts of the African con tinent before it ends at Victoria the greatest fresh water lake of the world. Leaving the seacoast, the rise of the road is almost continuous until it reaches the high plains of British East Africa Here at Nairobo l am more than mile above the sea, and about fifteen miles further on, at the station of Kikuyu, the road reaches an altitude of 700 feet above that of Mount Washington. From there the climb is steady to a point of mile and half above the sea, and then there is great drop into a wide ditch-like valley 2.0O0 feet deep. Crossing this valley the road again rises until it Is far higher than any mountain in the United States vation of $500 feet, and then falls down to Lake Victoria which Is just about as high as the highest of the Alleghenies. The road was built by the British gov ernment in less than five years and has cost altogether over $25,000, GOO. It has a guage of forty inches, rails which weigh 50 pounds to the yard and its tracks are well laid and well ballasted. Last year something like 10000 tons of goods and 1S0,000 passengers were carried over it, and its earnings were about $50O,000 more than it's operating expenses. It does not yet pay any interest on the capital in- vested, but it is of enormous value in the way of opening up, developing and pro- tecting the country.
 Twenty-seven American Bridges.
 Among the most interesting features of the road are it's American bridges. They cross all the great ravines between here and Lake Victoria, and every bar of steel and every bolt and rivet in them were made by American workmen in American factories and taken out here and put up
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1 Nairobo, British East Africa. by railway through the
 wilds of Central Africa! Steaming
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-08
Library Convenience.

In the library of a well known
scholar arc some bookshelves, with
an attachment which is ideal for a
person who expects to use books for
reference. Under the shelves, about
81 inches from the floor. is a recess
the width of the shelves, and about
two inches high. In this is a nat
board, the width of the shelves and
of the same wood, which can be
pulled forward by putting the hand in
a groove in the front lower edge. This
serves as a shelf on which to lay a
book, which is being used for refer
ences for a few moments, or to lay
out number of them when some one
is looking up a particular subject. All
the bookcases are made in this way
and every one who has occasion to
use them finds the shelves a great
convenience.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-08
Celery Jellv,

Celery jelly is an attractive basis
for fancy salads. Cut up the outer
green stalks and to one cupful OF eel
cry use one pint of water with one
teaspoonful of salt. Cook until soft,
add one-quarter of a box of gelatin
that has soaked for half an hour in
half a cupful of cold water; strain
through jelly bag and mold. When
solid cut out the center and I'LL with
the salad. Two oranges, two bananas
and two apples diced form an attrac-
tive salad to serve with the celery
Jelly
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-08
WAYS OF PREPARING FRUIT.
Apples and Pears of Great Value, Both
Cooked and uncooked.

These fruits are both useful and
wholesome. An apple eaten raw the
first thing in the morning will be bene-
fetal to those who suffer from consti-
patton. Baked apples are also good
for the same purpose, and are easier
of digestion than when uncooked.
They are very good for children for
either breakfast or supper, and may be
varied by sometimes simply baking
them on a tin, and afterwards sprink-
ling them with sugar; and at others,
peeling. taking out the cores with an
apple corer, filling the hole with sugar
and putting a few cloves and a little
water into the jar; when filled with
apples, tie 1t over with brown paper
and put in the oven till the apples are
cooked. Some sorts take SO much
longer than others that we cannot
give time ror them. Pears cooked in
the same way are very nice. Apple
tea is a very pleasant drink, much ap-
preciated by children. 1t is made b.
boiling apples, cut in half, with sufi.
cient water to cover them, some
sugar and thin lemon rind; the apples
should be quite soft, then put into a
colander for all the liquid to run from
them. When cold, add little lemon
Juice, and more sugar If needed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-08
NEW VEGETABLES IN MARKET.
Hostess Has Opportunity tc Serve
Novelties to Her Guests.

The hostess who likes to serve
novelties at her table should make
the most of the odd vegetables and
fruits now on sale.
The yam, or Brazilian sweet patato,
is increasing in favor. One exhibited
recently In the window of fancy
grocer was more than foot In length,
with an average circumference OF ten
inches. The price asked was IS cents.
Any recipe for the cooking OF the
sweet potato may be applied to the
yam. 1t should be boiled first and
sailed, when it is ready for serving
in any of several different ways.
A tropical vegetable now shown is
the chayarette. 1t is somewhat sim
liar in general shape to the green pep
per. It is, however, more feshy in
side, and in color is very faint
green, almost white in some places.
The chayarette should be boiled
first, then sliced, rolled in crumbs
and fried. When so served the ap-
pearance is not unlike diminutive
slices of fried egg plant. Served cold
and mixed with green peppers and
celery the chayarette may be used as
a salad.
The Egyptian melon is another con-
spicuous novelty of the fruiterer and
fancy grocer Fine specimens of this
melon may be seen suspended in a
network of cord in some Of the win
dows.
The melons range in price from
| $3.50 to three dollars, and as large
melon may be served to dozen OF
Is persons the price asked is not as
high as might at first appear.-Chi
| cago Journal. ts
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-08
SUFFERED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
With Eczema-Her Limb Peeled and
Foot Was Raw-Thought Amputa-
ton Was Neutrality-suspicious.
Life Saved by Cuticura.

IT have been treated by doctors for
twenty-five years for a bad case OF
eczema on my leg. They did their best,
but failed to cure it. My doctor had
advised me to have my leg cut on. At
this time my leg was peeled from the
knee, my foot was like piece of raw
flesh, and had to walk on clutches.
l bought a set Of Cuticura Remedies.
After the first two treatments the
swelling went down, and in two
months my leg was cured and the new
skin came on. The doctor was sur
prised and said that he would use
Cuticura for his own patients. Ihave
now been cured over seven years. and
but for the Cuticura Remedies
might have lost my life. Mrs. j. B.
Renaud, 277 Montana ST., Montreal,
Que, Feb. 20, 1907"