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Junse; r f. Gas Power. zoos. TR 1854.
,. kinealy' j. IL. Mechanical Draft. 1908. TIM
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Machine Tools.
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shall again I placed the point Of my
chisel on the pipe just under the water
and dealt it a terrific blow. missed and
struck OFF my little finger
He held up the stump.
Did Not Feel the Pain.
Il pledge my word that I did not feel
the pain. A second blow fell true. and a
third and fourth. and with the fifth felt
the chisel give. l caught sight of a fiery
spark Of fame in the flue, and the next
instant heard the water kissing and pop
ping as it rushed through the leak into
the furnace below.
1.-The men heard the water when 1t
struck the fire and knew there was a
leak somewhere. They. of course. then
opened the water plug and raked out the
fire.
Realizing that l was fast losing con-
seriousness, / dragged myself under the
manhole. where might be found as soon
as the boiler was opened. I have a faint
recollection of seeing a round patch Of
daylight darkened by the head of a man.
and for the following five days 1 knew
nothing.
Il was in the hospital in Pine Bluff for
three months. and am still afraid I am
about all in. However. the doctors say
that the mountains and rest will do won
ders for me. so I am going to try it out
in Colorado for a WHILE
The old young man ran his fingers
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INSTRUCTIONS

addition they were caked on the inside
and as there was not enough help to be
had / decided to go into the boilers my
self and chisel off some of the caked
matter while the negroes were roaming
out the fueS
This worked all right on the first
boiler and l soon had 1t in good shape
! then went to the second boiler and told
the workmen as soon as they had finished
roaming out that boiler to replace the
manhole on the first. fill II with water and
fire up for test.
Il went down on the inside and found
the second boilers f1ues in an especially
bad condition. ! must have worked for
an hour and was so busy l did not notice
that the noise of the roaming had ceased
until l was nearly through. My first in
timation that anything was wrong came
when the candle began to burn dim and
the boiler seemed full of the candle gas
and smoke. l turned around to see what
the matter was and to my horror saw
that the manhole cover had been replaced.
Il crawled along the flues fast as I
could until I had reached the spot and
tried to push the manhole cover up. but
l was too late. The workmen had screwed
1t down firmly. l struck the side of the
boiler with my hammer and called re-
peatedly. The sound was almost deafen-
ing TO me, but l am sure ii hardly
heard outside 1t then flashed over me
that the men had Misunderstood me and
were preparing to make a fire under the
second boiler instead of the first.
The horror Of my situation caused me
to feel sick for a moment, but l realized
that II there was anything to be done 1t
must be done at once, SO l crawled along
the rust-covered hues to the end of the
boiler. In doing this accidentally knocked
over my candle and put 1t out. With a
cry of anguish I reached for 1t, but 1t
had fallen down among the f1ues and was
out of my reach for good.
Following close upon this l heard the
rush Of water through the injector and
knew the boiler was being filled. Now
was the time to act. thought, II I in
tended to get out alive, but my candle
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war
The immortal speech delivered at Get
tysburg in sanctification of the brave
dead buried there from the first has been
known as 'Lincon's Gettysburg Speech"
A great judge of literature. Ebert Hub
bard, has referred to this simply phrased
little address of the war President as:
THE greatest speech of any time in any
tongue
Lincoln's Simple Eloquence.
Its simple eloquence did not reach the
audience In full measure on the day il was
delivered. for the big crowd was more at
tracted by the snowy rhetoric OF Edward
Everett. who was the orator of the day.
Lincoln was there merely because he
was the President Of the United States
He was not looked to for an Grafton. and
he made no preparation. 1t was not until
he had taken his train fol. Gettysburg
that he had a chance to turn his busy
mind from the many cares that oppressed
it in order to get ready a few words In
which to address his fellow citizens
Taking an envelope and stubbv little
pencil from his pocket he wrote out the
passage beginning, -Four score years and
ten
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started a raging headache. and my tenn
pies throbbed as II they would burst. l
had torn my hands until they were bleed
ing freely. and my eyes seemed to bulge
out grim and gaunt in front of me was
the fire in the furnace that would slowly
roast me to death.
II thought of my old mother of home,
me- The flues were now becoming
warmer / could feel their heat through
my clothing. and once more l pounded
and yelled. Back and forth l crawled,
painting. praying. moaning The flues
were now so hot that they burned my
bare hands, and my head swan from the
heat.
I'm a moment of desperation l seized
my hammer and dealt myself a severe
blow in order to stun myself, SO
that the last pangs might not be so ter
rible The blow only burst the skin and
caused me additional pain. Hotter and
hotter grew the f1ues until l felt that l
could no longer stand the agony. Strange
and weird figures appeared before my
vision. At last. more dead than alive.
threw myself down upon the burning
pipes to hasten the end My teeth ground
together like a wise as the heated iron
burned my flesh. I could not have re-
# seemed to me lifetime. before I
seemed to hear, as plain as l ever did In
my life, the voice of brother who died
years ago. l will never understand the
connection of my older brother with my
deliyerance, but 1t will always stick in
INV memory that 1t was his voice that
told me the way to it. The voice sounded
as it always had in the days of our boy
hood. I recognized 1t in an instant. and
felt not the slightest surprise. 1t said,
quickly:
"'Cut the pipe. Arthur
In q second was on my hands and
knees The last ray Of hope had dawned
before me now, and with more strength
than I ever before commanded or ever
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This envelope that bore on its back i'm
mortal words that patriotic parents have
been teaching children to memorize ever
since. and that masters of the English
tongue have for four decades been teach
ing to students as one of the most inspired
instances Of eloquence, has unfortunately
been lost. II 1t still existed it would have
a priceless value. and would go into the
nations archives side by side with the
Declaration and the Constitution.
Perhaps the busy President. modest al
ways to his own achievements, and little
reckoning the value of his speech. care
lessly tore 1t up on his way back home,
or soon as the speech had ended.
The public wildly welcomed the great
leader, but his little speech passed COM
paratively unnoticed while the flowing
periods of Mr.. Everett were hailed as
something magnificent.
But time brings It's revenges. Today not
one sentence from Everett's Grafton Is re-
membered. while nothing in the English
language is much better known than Lin
coins concluding phrase:
That government of the people, for
the people and by the people shall not
perish from the earth"
More and more every year Gettysburg
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THE WAYFARERS. By Mary Stewart
Cutting author of Little Stories OF
Courtship," etc. Illustrations by
Alice Barber Stephens. New York:
The Mcclure Company. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
THE goody number of sympathet-
ic studies of modern American
domestic life which this author
has to her credit explains the
interest with which her first
long story has been awaited. And there
will be many to think that the interest
has been justifed-to at least a moderate
degree. There are two great excellencies
in Mrs Cuttings story: She has sue
ceeded in giving remarkably true and
appealing picture of girlhood. and she has
also made clear. in the history of the
husband and wife. one of those dangerous
crises of married life which require no
mean amount of skill and subtlety on the
part of the author to represent.
The story is that of charming and
feminine little southern wayfarer who is
York suburb There her lot Is cast with
q married cousin. Various adventures,
some of them tragic according to the girls
point of view. all of them entirely within
the possible In the life Of almost any
girl of today. befall her; the young
husband and wife. very much In love
with each other. are very nearly crushed
In an economic venture: all of the way
farers have their share of anxiety and
suffering before the skies clear and there
Is peace. And the test Of the trial Is
that each one of them shall have pro-
crossed a little further on his way.
The special note struck by a New
York suburb In the full orchestra of the
nation Is indicated by the author with
surety. The characterize ton is careful
and delicate throughout. While the book
is in no sense startling nor vigorous nor
dramatic. ii is essentially true to condi-
tons of modern life. "Dosia." the young
heroine. is winning and girlish. and. as
the event proves, capable of rising into
womanliness. And if the hero is some
what misty and indefinite. he occupies
what is so apt to be the position of the
hero of young girls dreams-a station
of benign and dignif1ed aloofness-in
which Mrs Cutting has again demon
strated the skill with which she deals
with the feminine.
THE ROMAN EMPIRE. By H. Stuart
Jones, Ma. formerly fellow and
tutor of Trinity College, Oxford. etc.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
The present work seems to answer very
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the tourney proceeds. Bits Of historical
association and Of half-forgotten ro-
nance, attractive personalities. silmpseo
accosted. passed. glow OF pieasure w.
beauty by the wayside. and a chuckle
over some drole-it seems but a snort
path that brings the reader to Paris.
There. the author pauses long enough 70
proclaim himself a stanch believer IN
the serious and moral worth OF me
France he loves. before he says rare~ell
TO her beauty.
Too much can hardly be said Of the
wealth of sketches furnished by Hansiip
Fletcher. To the man who hnds IN tne
personal atmosphere conveyed by sym
pathetic and poetic drawing charm
that photography but rarely attains. The
Path to Paris will be real delight
Notre Dame. the Quay Side. Havre. the
Belfry, Honfeur. Chateau Gaillard take
on new characteristics because Of the
point OF view and personality Of the ar
tist. and many bit Of winding road. or
quiet woodland or of hidden pool. appeals
to the receptive soul with an intimate
charm.
VILLA RUBEN. BY John Galworthy.
author Of The Country House" etc.
New York: g. p. Putnam.s Sons
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
A story hich is somewhat deceptively
simple in its first impression is this lat
est romance by John Galworthy Pub
NShed In an earlier fo.m LII England IN
1900 it has been rewritten and presented
to American readers for the first time.
With a little group of people living quiet
ly in a town ip Austria fate has Its way.
and the old drama Is enacted wherein
spring supersedes winter and the old in
fall bly, gives place to the new.
Simple as may be the motif. the sharp
lines Of individuality which mark on
each member of the oddly assorted
household at Villa Holbein from every
other. and the almost uncanny delicacy
and tenderness with which the situation
is handled. make the little book note
worthy in an enviable sense. The study.
also. of the rigors and depths Of the ar
fist nature as exemplif1ed in Harz is one
that carries instant conviction with it..
There have been few artists in fiction
that were artists without being also cads
or weaklings-Harz Is an admirable and
sane exception. And there have not been
many maidens in literature more thor
oughly maiden than Christian. with her
vague, tender dreams which melt into
the reality Of steadfast loving. Nor
must the quite delicious Greta be forgot
ten. who manages to be child and woman
and distinct individuality without max
ing any stir about 1t at ALL
But the height both of power and OF
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Worcester. Ewood and others. Religion and
Medicine; Moral Control Of Nervous Disorders
Metallurgy.
ManIfacture Of Pig Iron 1908; RF-T11s ..
1905. RF.R44sm
stouehton. Bradley, The Metallursy of Iron
and Steel. 1908. RF-StISm.
Farming and Live Stock.
Earle. F. 8. Southern Agriculture. 1908 RG.
How We Make Ducks Pay. 1907. RJNHss.
Wilcox. E. ". and Smith c B. rssmers q
ence.
Cookery.
and Preparation Of Food; Laboratory Guide. 1907
Rz Gi.:u " c.nn,,. and p,o..-v,,r .,
1905. Rz-Ds5sc " > : '''''
r1nm Sthe1n Iii 1im comp ,a ash Recipes
Electricity.
Canning. W. L Co. Handbook on Electro
Marshall; Pereiv.i. Induction Coils: How te
Radcliffe. y. r., and Cushing. H. &. ir. Tel
sphone n. tall Wrns' Opera
Raymond E: B., The Tracing Of Direet-curren
and Acknowledgements Motor Troubles 1908
HX-RZ16t.
Stansneld, Alfred Electric Furnace: Its Evo
luton, Theory and Practice 1905. RT-St27s.
Railroads.
Bodmer, G. r. The Inspection of Railway Ma
Gayetty ]. W. Motormen's and Oonductors
Compendium Of Valuable Information. 1905
SYEG253m.
RAYMOND, W G. The Elements Of Railroad
Engineering. 1908. SVER216r.
Srott Ralph Automatic Block Signals and
Signal Circuits 1908 SV-ScoSS.
small, 8. A. Electrical Railroading. 1908
SYE-Sm l6e.
Hydraulic Engineering.
chatlsy. Herbert How to Use Water Power
Hubbard. ". D.. and Kiersted. wynkoop
Waterworks Management and Maintenance. 1907
SM-Hs62w.
Lea. F. c. Hydraulic. 1908. sLI46h.
Paints and Practical Painting.
Armstrong. G. D. Cyclopedia Of Painting. 1907
H-Ar56.
HoIiey c. D.. and I.add. e. F. Analysis q
1905. SI-H729
Marie. Frederick. Modern Pigments and Thei,
Vehicles. 1908. sI-M2s7m.
Sanitary Engineering.
Chase. g. p, and Coz, A. J. Practical Review
of Public Works. SK-C3s6.
Glow, g. r. Practical Up-to-date Plumbing
1905. sJ-C62sp.
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y
scenes of horror as portrayed by
such a writer of fiction as Victor Hugo
pale before 1t. This man, who survived
being locked inside a boiler while the
water was turned on and fire built be-
meath him. is gray and wan and haggard
while yet in his youth
Arthur Mcdonald the man in the case,
took train at Baltimore last week bound
for Colorado. He has tried an ocean voy-
age and will add to it a sojourn in the
Rockies in an attempt to recuperate from
his wrestle with death. He told his own
story as plain unimaginative man would
tell II, and the telling took but half the
time of the railroad journey between Bal
timore and Washington.
II am twenty-four years of age and
for the last three years have been en-
ployed boilermaker. principally in
railroad shops. l learned my trade when
quite young and, though fully aware of
the dangers of boilermaker's life. 1
never once dreamed of the awful ex-
perience 1 would go through or l should
never have attempted to drive a rivet.
The experience to which l refer occurred
four months ago below Hope Ark. A
new set of boilers had been put in and
negro firemen were relied upon to attend
to them. They soon got out of order and
the foreman sent all the way to Pine
Bluff to get a boilermaker. There were
none available then except those in the
railway shops there. AS a pretty good
sum was offered. laid of from my regu-
lar work and decided to make a few ex-
ira dollars. This try came near being
the end of me.
''When reached the sawmiIl found
the boilers In a bad fix. The fiues were
choked and needed roaming badly. In
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have been put upon the market The
purpose is to tell the young folks precisely
what they desire to know about the birds
without scientific language. 1t tells about
the flicker robin. humming bird. blue jay.
cardinal. swallow, whippoorwill. crow,
pigeon. kingfisher. cowbird, sparrow
quail. bat. woodpecker, lark. blackbird.
wren and oriole. There are ten beautiful
colored Illustrations. The little chapters.
each devoted to bird. tell about their
habits and peculiarities and how they
make their nests and train their young.
This is just such a book that every young
naturalist should have as a foundation
OF his scientific library.
THE PATH TO PARIS, the Rambling
Record of Riverside Promenade.
BY Frank Rutter. With Forty-seven
Illustrations by Hanslip Fletcher.
New York: John Lane Company.
There u only one natural way to
Pars" says Mr. Rutter with enthusiasm.
to his friend the Limner. "a way that
was before railroads, before even high
roads were. That way Still exists and
that way we will take-the waterway.
The Seine. the Seine is the only true path
to Paris!' 1t was as a result of COM
promise Of this high idealism with motives
and his friend decided to land at Havre.
bicycle from point to point beside the
Seine, leaving the road for the river.
walking instead of wheeling when desir-
able Thus was the path chosen, the path
on which lay Harfleur. Tancarville, eau
debec, Jumieges, Rouen. Les Andelys,
Giverny. Vetheuil. Nantes. st. German
and many another city fined in the an
nails o. art or war. And it is a path that
any one who loves good company. pleas
ant incident by the way, and the charm
ing testimony of the Limner's sketches
to the beauty Of castles. cathedral. port,
by-path and river should follow.
With the associations that cluster about
Havre, Harfieur and Honf1eur the story
fifty opens. The reason for lingering In
that enchanted region Is told when one
reads: IAN artist still living at Hon
f1eur can remember boy counting
sixty painters sketching on the same day
in it's environs. and among these sixty
were all the chiefs of Barbizon-Corot,
Millet, Rousseau. Daubigny. Troyon.
Jacques. Dupre. Diaz. as we'll as Courbet.
Couture. Lepine Jongkind. Boudin. Har-
pignies, Isabey and other great men,.
The special object of the authors pilgrim
age at this moment is Boudin, fine col
lection of whose works is to be found in
the artists native Havre. and also In
Honf1eur
1t is with a fine mingling of the en-
thusasm of the artist with the zest for
experience of the lover of his kind that
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satisfactorily the demand for a history of
this period. which should be at once brief
enough to be suitable for school and ref
erence work and up-to-date in its inclu-
scholars into Roman history and archeol-
ogy. ITO tell the story of the Roman
empire in its fullness is task" says the
author. for which no man living is quail
fed. and 1t is probable that the historian
who is destined to achieve that task with
has made use Of Schiller's 'Geschichte der
Romischen Kaiserzeit" as the basis OF
his narrative: but no statement made In
that work has been repeated without verl-
f1cation. and an endeavor has been made
to incorporate the results of the twenty
four years of constant research and dis
Covery which have passed since Schillers
volumes were published. While the mat
ter is necessarily much condensed, the
authors style is graphic and entertaining.
AROUND THE WORLD IN A YEAR.
BY George L. Carlisle Of the New
York bar. New York: Robert Grier
Cooke. Inc. The Baker & Taylor
Company, sole selling agents.
In the flood Of travel literature it is an
achievement to strike an individual note
which shall distinguish any one narrative
from the mass. Mr.. Carlisle has m m
aged to find this note in certain brevity
dHQ emphasis winch make prom Lent tHe
one or two points he himself has found
Of special interest in each of the scenes
he chronicles. The traveller lays special
stress on the less hackneyed phases OF
the orient, where he finds food for pithy
comment. This is In no sense a guide
book" the reader is relieved to learn; sit
is the tale Of journey. Nor yet is it
diary. but rather a record Of i'm
pressions." The travellers journey across
the Atlantic to Gibraltar. thence to
Algiers. from Algiers back to Genoa
and Naples. into Egypt. up the Nile.
There is an interesting experience in
tenting on the desert. Constantinople
and Athens are tasted, the timer
airy includes an expedition into little
known Java and ends with China and
pan. The travellers are not hurried
through with the main stream of tourist
movement. but seek their own times and
opportunities-just the trip that most of
Mr.. Carlisle's readers would enjoy.
OUR BIRD FRIENDS; Containing Many
Things Young Folks Ought to Know
and Likewise Grown-ups. BY
George F. Burba. New York: The
Outing Publishing Company.
The book is one of the plainest and most
easily understood Of the bird books that
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pathos Is reached by unassuming I'M
remarkable Uncle Mic" In a restrained
and sure fashion the author has made his
end model of the pathetic. Of the pa
thetic with no alloy Of sentimentality.
and with a suggestion OF hope that comes
from the subtle suggestion Of the tri-
umph OF personality. And the culmina-
ton Of the love story Is. again, both in
tune with the most absolute realism and
at the same time touched with inspira-
ton. 1t Is so perfect an expression Of
ife's bitter-sweet. great-little. so touched
with humor and yet SO palpitant with
tenderness. that 1t marks a degree Of ele-
walton Of thought and of control Of lit
erary form that cannot but make the
judicious rejoice.
1t Is doubtful whether villa RUBEN
will excite comment among any vast
number of readers. Its appeal is too gen
tie. Its method too restrained. But 1t Is
an admirable piece Of genre painting. in
stinct with many Of the elements which
make literature a force for good.