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lowing passage from the Annual Regis
ter for 1916:
A new coach was started in the
spring to run to Brighton, distance
Of fiftytwo miles, in six hours. . .
This, however, became alarming, par
ticularly in the populous neighborhood
of NewingtOn, through which it passed,
and the parish officers there caused I'm
formation to be laid against the driv-
ers for driving furiously on the pufric
road so as to endanger the lives of his
majesty's subjects.
The result Of this is to be read in
Mansard's Parliamentary Reports"
June 10, 1916.
The Attorney General moved for
leave to bring in bill the object of
which was the protection Of the lives
and limbs Of his majesty's subjects by
correcting the enormous abuses Of
stage coach drivers. Within these few
days it would be hardly credible what
a number Of applications he had re-
ceived on this subject.
Some accounts were enough to freeze
one with horror. A gentleman of We
racity had Informed him that on Tues
day, May 81, at 8 80, the Trafalgar
and Regulator coaches set off from
Manchester and got to Liverpool at
500, doing this journey in two hours
and fifty minutes, at the rate Of twelve
miles an hour-New York Sun.
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HUNTED BY A BUFFALO.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The time has gone by for hunting
buffalo on the plains. While it lasted,
the sport was followed too closely for
continuance. The pursuit Of the game
was exciting, but when the buffalo
turned hunter, and the object Of his
search was the sportsman, the interest
in the outcome Of the chase was greatly
heightened. The author Of "The Faith
er Of st. Kilda," r. Campbell, tells in
the pages of his book how he engaged
In one of these double-headed encoun-
tiers in the country Of the Saskatche-
wan River.
The sight of the huge monsters ca
reening madly along with fiery eyes
and tossing names, followed sometimes
by an eagle-feathered savage, mounted
on strangely decked-out pony, with
the scalp of his latest enemy flying be-
hind him, utterly demoralized my
steady-going, faithful nag, and he ran
away with me down steep bank, in
spite Of all my efforts, pitched me
headlong against great granite block,
and himself fled madly over the prai-
RE.
Beneath the shadow of this boulder
I lay in a half-conscious state 1 know
not how long, but I was reused at last
by the sight of a large herd Of buffalo
coming full gallop over the crest Of
the hill above me and making straight
in my direction, followed by feathered
Indians and hatless halfbreeds, firing
wildly from all directions, and sending
bullets whistling about my ears till 1
was deafened by the sharp sound. l
got hold Of my rife and planted a bull
let in an immense bull, but alas! not so
as to kill him.
AS the buffalo turned upon me 1 rose
and ran around the boulder, he after
ne, and so we chased each other for life
and death. A bullet from the fint-lock
gun Of one Of the savSges hit the boul-
der and sent splinter Of 1t into my
hand, leaving me wound Of which 1
still carry the trace.
Scarcely knowing was hit, 1 ran
On until my breath was almost gone,
and I felt that in a few moments I
should drop and be tossed and tram
pied by my Infatuated foe.
By this time was chasing him, rath-
er than he me; in fact was close be-
hind him. I raised my rifle as he
swished his tail round, and drew the
trigger with my last ounce Of strength.
I had won, and my already wounded
enemy dropped dead.
At least it had not ended as many
such encounters have, when in last
paroxysm the wounded monster turns
and losses horse and rider into the air
like dry chips, tearing them with his
horns, stamping them to death with
dying effort, and then falling dead upon
his victims.
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A Revolutionary Invention.

A new gun torpedo invented by Lieut..
Cleland Davis, of the United States
navy. has been successfully tested at
Fort Strong, in Boston harbor. The new
mechanism of war is styled gun tor
pedo, because it discharges the torpedo
proper after it has struck and perforated
a ship and thus drives it's charge of eX-
plosive farther into the vitals Of the
stricken. craft. In referring to the sue
cessful demonstration Of the new tor
pedo's ability to do what has been
claimed for it, Lieut.. Davis says his
invention will enhance the value of sub
marine attack as conducted by torpedo
boats, destroyers and submarines, and
its appearance will compel a radical
change in the construction of battleships,
making it necessary to cover their bot
toms with armor-plating.
LII the bottoms of battleships have
been made vulnerable to attack by the
Davis invention, there will be revolu-
ton in naval construction that will make
many costly vessels obsolete Armor
plating on ships bottom would greatly
increase the weight of her hull, and com
pei designers to dispense with every
pound of top-weight that can possibly be.
discarded. Ships will be huge gun plat
forms beneath which the quarters Tor
officers and crews will be arranged De-
hind the armor-plated top-sldes, shleidng
the power plant, which will have TO be
reduced in weight also, as far as possible.
New problems will thus be brought for
ward for solution, and the nations which
have been behind in the race for sea
power will have an advantage in not be-
ing compelled to sacrifice costly ships
that have become useless to a large eX-
tent
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A Serum for Nervous Exhaustion.

The latest serum cure brought to the
attention Of the public is of such general
APPLICATION that it will attract even more
attention than cures of the same char
acter which have been heralded as rem
edies for diseases that have hereto
fore baff1ed medical science, such as
tuberculosis and cancer. 1t is announced
by DIR. Paul M. Boiler, a prominent
French physician who has just arrived
in the United States for conference with
a patient who consulted him in Paris.
The serum is for the cure of anemla
and the restoration of the nerves whose
collapse is responsible for this menacing
condition. 1t is injected into the system
of patients hypodermically, and its adj
ministration is said to be painless and
without danger. The serum, which has
had two years. successful trial in
France. acts directly upon the nerves
and through the bracing it gives them
restores the blood to state of health
fulness. The important claim in this
connection is that it works its cure with
out taxing the stomach, which is usual
ly severely tried by the administration
of tonics in the usual way. In some
instances severe cases OF dyspepsia are
established by effort to restore the
nerves, and the patient is injured instead
of being helped.
AS the American people are intensely
energetic, and bent upon the achieve
ment of business results at any cost,
they have been termed a nation of
bloodless dyspeptics. This is hardly
true. While nervous exhaustion is COM
mon in the United States, the mass of
the people are healthy, and eager for
more work. But where breaking down
is experienced a serum that can strength
en- the nerves, without disabling the
stomach may bring about cure that is
impossible in any other way. Thousands
will watch eagerly for further develop
ments in regard to the new nerve cure.
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Old Pete's was going to swim out with
line, though the older men shook their
heads and whispered that it was only
sacrificing another life.
Standin removed his coat and shoes.
line was tied round his waist. and
with smile to Nora he plunged into
the sea. He was at once swept off his
feet and sucked into the surf He was
strong swimmer, and during his stay
at Cockersand his chief recreation had
been long swims in the sea. But in
those shuddering depths he felt helpless.
He was tossed about like a cork, one
moment buried in the hollows, the next
flung on the crest of a wave. He swan
as in a dream, but he continued to make
Roadway, and after what seemed an
eternity of effort he found himself
bruised and gasping on the sloping deck
of the Concord. He would not be the
first to get into the wicker basket which
was Immediately slung on to stouter
rope, and the four men and boy who
formed the crew were safely transferred
to the shore, leaving Standin and the
skipper. Tom Harling. alone on the
heaving deck.
"Come, hurry up" said Tom; 'she's
going to pieces fast, and soon there'll be
nothing left of the poor old Concord"
'After you, Tom," said Standin.
"You forget I'm the skipper, and it is
for me to be the last to leave In you
go; it will be too late in minute"
chats just it. 1t will be too late,
and I want you to get ashore. There
is girl there waiting for you. She
loves you. She has always loved you.
[ came between you for a time, but she
never cared for me as she cares for you.''
"Do you mean that" cried the young
skipper fercely.
81 swear it. Hurry up, man. You're
wasting precious time"
II can't leave yon here"
Every well, we will both stay" re-
piled Standin grimly; "but I shall not
have a girls broken heart to answer
for"
Toms face blancheG. He gripped
Standin's hand. Perhaps you are
right" he said. IT am acting like
coward, but I love her. bye, sir,
have cursed you ever since I met you;
in future I will bless you.''
He swung himself into the basket and
was gone. He had no sooner touched
the beach than loud cry went up from
the crowd. He looked backwards over
the sea, but his eyes met nothing but
the angry waste OF waters.
The next moment Nora was sobbing
in his arms.-James Cornthwaite in the
Manchester Chronicle
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peror some years ago and got him start
ed on the regeneration of China When
the Dowager discovered what was go
Ing on, she deposed the Emperor and
had the heads of most of the followers
OF Kang removed. But Kang escaped
and has been visiting various American
and European countries since in the in
terest of the reform of China. He has
organized many reform associations, the
chief of which Is in New York.
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The Decline of Apprenticeship

The suffering during the present wintn,
among the English poor is said to he
more widespread and more difficult of
alienation than at any previous period
within the memory of elderly men.
memorial addressed to British govern
ment officials by the Nottingham Cham
Der of Commerce attributes the distress
very largely to the decay of the appren-
ticeship system
The memorial points out that formerly
children were taught few subjects in the
schools, but the boys received as appren-
tlces IN workshops and factories a sys-
tematlc and thorough training, and could
always later on, and often did, supple
ment deficiencies of school learning: that
many successful and prosperous concerns
were started by intelligent workmen thus
trained; and that, in fact, the former
system OF apprenticeship reared up that
race Of splendid artisans and craftsmen
which laid the foundation of all the
great industries in Great Britain" Now.
the memorial goes on to point out, all is
altered for the worse. In few factories
and workshops boys are still taken as APP
prentices, but even there employers are
hampered and obstructed by trades
union rules. AS consequence, boys
who must work turn to any sort of odd
jobs, for small pay and with no hope or
incentive such as the former system held
out. When employed in factories, they
are usually confined to one tool, gaining
no general knowledge Of the trade, and
eventually, when they would under the.
old system be earning high wages, many
of them drift into the ranks of the unem-
ployed.
Referring to the good results of APP
premiership as Illustrated in other coun-
tries, the memorial cites the system pre-
vailing in an American establishment, the
tool factory of Brown & Sharpe, of
Providence, Rhode Island, where ap-
prentices are carried through all the diff
ferent departments of the factory, and
provided with instructors who drill them
in the theory as we'll as the tech
mic of their work. This system is ad-
vantageous not only by reason Of
what it does for the character and ca
pacity of the workman, but also because
of the benefit which it confers upon the
employer, furnishing him with work
men of the very highest grade of skill,
whose output is incomparably superior
20 the best that average workmen could
produce.
Much good, from the standpoint of the
workingman, has resulted from the or
ganization of labor, but there are large
entries to be made on the debit side of
the ledger as a preliminary to balancing
well as in Great Britain, labor unions are
responsible for the almost total extinc-
ton of the old apprenticeship system,
and for resultant loss to the brightest
element of the laboring class. How
long will it be before organized labor
realizes the harm done by ''leveling
down. and takes to 'leveling up in
stead? When that day dawns it will be
rich with promise for men who work in
the trades as we'll as for those who con-
duct the great industries and are con-
cerned not only for profits, but also for
economic and material progress.
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November s, 1867, at the age of two
months For fully three minutes they
looked at each other with Mortified and
chagrlned faces. while Mr.. Talbot. the
sexton, smiled behind the cover of his
brown, honey hand. Then Dick broke
INTO a great, hoarse laugh, which neither
his mothers severe glance nor Rutb's
ICY remark This is cemetery Rich
ard" could squelch; and all the wav
home he and the old sexton. sbakin9
with silent laughter, followed the otbeT7
three naughty figures. '''0'
The subject was everafter forbidden
one, and no one dared to speak of what
happened in that cool, green cemeterv
but Mr.. Underwood quickly and uncere'
moniously fell out of the family tree.
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MENELIK II. AND HIS PEOPLE.
Mighty Monarch OF Abyssinfa VIII

Mighty Monarch OF Abyssinia who
Welcomes Civilization.
Few mightier monarchs than Menelik
II. OF Abyssinia ever swayed the destl-
mics Of a people. Throughout the vast
territory Of the Abyssinian highlands
his individual will is law to some mill
lions Of subjects, laws also to hordes
Of savage Mohammedan and pagan
tribesmen without the confines of his
kingdom. His court includes no coun-
cilors. Alone throughout the long years
of his reign Menelik has dealt with all
domestic and foreign affairs of State
But now this last splendid survival
of the feudal absolutism exercised and
enjoyed by medieval rulers is about to
disappear beneath encroaching waves
of civilization, which long spare moth
ing picturesque. Cables from far-off
Adds Abeda, Menelik's capital, bring
news that he has formed cabinet and
published the appointment of ministers
Of war, finance, justice, foreign affairs
and commerce.
And this change has come not from
the pressure of any party or faction
within his kingdom, for such do not
exist; but out of the fount of his own
wisdOm-a wisdom so sound as to
prove him a most worthy descendant Of
the sage Hebrew King Menelik claims
as ancestor-if indeed more proofs
were necessary than the statesmanlike
way in which he has dealt with jealous
diplomats, and the martial skill with
which, at Adua in '96, he defeated the
flower Of the Italian army and won
from Italy an honorable truce.
Whether or not the claim Of Menelik
that he is lineally descended from a
son supposed to have been born to the
Queen of Sheba and King Solomon Of
old is true, and there is no real reason
to doubt it, it is certain that in race
type Abyssinians plainly resemble the
sons Of Israel, crossed and. modified
with Coptic, Hamite and Ethiopian
blood, and to this day cling closely as
the most orthodox Hebrew to some Of
the dearest Israelitish tenets, nota bly,
in their antipathy to pork and to other
meat not bled before dead, to observ-
ance of the Sabbath and the rite of
circumcision. And this notwithstand-
ing that the Abyssinians have been
Christians since the fourth century Of
this era, when, only eight years after
the great Constantine decreed the rec
ognition Of Christianity by the State,
PROSECUTING monk came among them
with faith so strong, heart so pure and
eloquence so irresistible that single
handed he accomplished the conversion
of the Abyssinian race.
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Two Great Industries.

The animals sold from farms Of the
United States or slaughtered on farms
in 1907. according to the yearbook of the
department of agriculture. were worth
ST ,270, 100000. This was nearly one-fifth
of the grand total of wealth produced in
the twelve months by American farmers
Enumerations of cattle in this coun-
try on January l. of each year, show that
from 1868 to 1908 the number of dairy
COWS increased from 100000 to 21OOO,-
900. and their farm value from $3.50 OO0,-
600 to $650,000,000. In those forty wears
the number of cattle rose from Ii 100000
to 100000, and their farm value from
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may or may not mean the rapid prog
ress of reform in the Chinese empire.
The chances, however, are in favor Of
the growth Of occidental ideas and a
rapid development of the country.
Among those to whom China is much
indebted for whatever Of modernity
and reform has already taken root
there, may be numbered Kang Yu Wei,
one of the greatest Of modern China
men. For years he has been an exile
from his native land and now resides
in Penang. But he has kept up his
propaganda Of reform despite all dan
ger and opposition. He, is the man who
put ideas of western civilization and
progress in the head Of the Chinese En-
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Hedge of Roses.

1t is not generally known what de-
lightful feature a rose hedge may be-
come, even in the villa garden. or such
would more often be planted in lieu of
the ubiquitous privet.
Where the area of the garden is limit
ed. or where only moderately high
hedge is desired for encircling the rose
garden or bordering tennis lawn, a Sc
lection should be made from the China or
monthly roses, the Japanese or rugosa
roses and the Austrian briars: If the gar
er growing of the dwarf teas could he
utilized, and from the free Towering
polyantha group delightful little hedges
can be made that would grow to a height
of 5 or 4 feet.-Gardener
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TAKING DOWN THE STOCKING.

''What did you get in yours,
Jim and Eddie?'
''Look what I've got in mine,
Tom and Freddien'
"A box Of candied dates
Gee whiz! A pair of skates"
''An engine, cars, and track
ooh, the poor jumping jack,
Broken already"
What did you get in yours,
Jessie-Molly
Look what found In mine!
A talking dollyw
III show you how she cries.
''Oh, look! She shuts her eyes!"
''Mittens-and slumber socks
''Tea-set-and building blocks
Goodby, how jolly!'
what did you find in yours,
GroWn-up brother?''
.'Why not look in your own.
Little Mother?
(Mother and Father say,
They'd rather watch than play:
Presents enough, they trust
They've got in having just
Us, and each otherD
Sarah N. Cleghorn in Everybody's.
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connection of leading neurologsts makes
the statement: Anger is not evidence Of
vicious nature Occasionally find the most generous
lovable of and women who constantly give way to
fiery temper, and sometimes come in contact with
the most despcabe creatures who always calm and
sefpossessed In the case of the kindly individual tenn
is nothing but bad habit habit which, if allowed
to go unchecked, grows with fearful rapidity"
This same neurologist suggests the remedy cold
plunge when we have keyed our up to the ex-
podng point, is quick of preventing an angry
outburst Another method is to get out and walk rap
idly at first and then more slowly the paroxysm
passes. When the nerve tension has been established
1t must be relaxed in way The safest plan is to
cultivate the habit Of calmness of preventing the
from becoming keyed up to the exploding point
theatrical manager who had just passed through a
scene" with his leading lady was asked by friend
what he did when she few into such tantrum moth
Ing" he replied. II just sit and watch her grow old"
And that is the summing up of the whole matter Anger
unrestraned the shortest cut to old age decrepude
disease and death The antdotes for this pas
sions exercise and rigid selfcontrol Walk and be
happy if you would prolong life.
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The departure under sealed orders
of the battleship Maine, which steamed
out of Hampton Roads during the pre-
valence of what sailors colloquially style
IA living gale,' is evidence of urgency
that will keep the public on the qui vivi
as to her destination, which is probably
the coast of Venezuela.
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concur, but there serious indiges-
ton is the punishment of those who frequently allow
themselves to be either suen wrathy at meal times
We know too well the effect Of passion the heart.
We have all experienced the violent palpitation, the
shorness Of BREATH that is due to improper aerao of
the blood when the heart is working too rapidly the
burrng Of the mind because the blood sent to the brain
has not been properly purified in its too swift
through the lungs We have felt all these conditions
when have given way to intense fury, but have
probably not stopped to consider their real import The
heart is not the of sentiment 1t is the hardest
worked muscle in the whole body and it is the that
is allowed to rest for minute For every extra
heart beat force upon this muscle in the prime Of life
cutting off at least two at the end Of life Only
few weeks ago woman in Of the ST. Louis police
courts having brought her nehbor before the Judge
a charge Of disturbing the peace was SO overcome
with Indignation when she attempted to state her grev
that she fell dead in the presence of the defendant
the jury and the witnesses.
An eminent aenis gives 1t his testimony that the
lunatic asylums crowded with patients whose minds
have been ultimately destroyed by giving way to an
irascbe temper with effort at selfcontrol In this
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Milwaukee is to be one of the stations
of the new United Wireless Telegraph
company, as matter of course. As one
Of the big cities at the head of Great
lakes commerce she has distinctive i'm
portance as a lake port from the fact
that shipping is on the move in her har-
bor all the wear around.
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Sir Thomas Upton has abandoned his
plan of racing for the Americas cup
next year. because the time limit for the
acceptance of challenges under the terms
of the deed of gift has expired.
There is now a full year in which Sir
Thomas and the New York Yacht club
can ''back and flr' while negotiating
for a contest in 1910.
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to ss4o,oooooo. Here is /

'PI TJ,00O,000 Yof0,00O,00O. q
marvellous growth of wealth.
The American Sugar Beet Growers
Annual, just published, estimates that
$23, 100000 have been paid to farmers of
the United States for sugar beets grown
this year. The sums paid in the states
growing most beets are thus given: Colo
RADIO. $7,500,O00; Michigan, S5.000,0O0
California. S4.500,O00; Utah. S2.5O0,0O0:
Idaho, $1,300.000: Kansas, $650,000, and
Montana, $45000O.
Although the total sum received this
year by the growers seems quite large,
the culture of sugar beets is an Infant
industry" Last year the United States
consumed 3,442,000 tons of sugar. OF
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THE WASHBURN TIMES.
WASHBURN, WIS.
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., . Publishers

Pittsburg, which has long been known
as the smokiest city in the Union, is to
be relieved of boodling aldermen as the
result of an investigation which was
sprung on the principle that there's no
smoke without a fire.