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The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17

tenn at Twin Falls, Idaho few days ago, when a lusty swarm accomplished what the national congress, James J. Hill and other well-organized agencies have failed to do.
 F. R. Ferguson, travelling sales man of Chicago, who was an eyewlt- ness, brought the story to Spokane. He said in describing the incident;
 "Tin dishpans, tam-tams, whistles and other recognized lures failed to dislodge the swarm, which had settled in the spout of the standpipe at the water tank, where a long train of freight cars stood on the main line without suffi cient water in the boiler of the big mogul to pull out The driver and fireman did excellent team work in trying to reach the pipe, but the bees gave them short shift and the men refused to make the second attempt
 I'll. A. Swab, an expert on bee lore, bore down upon the scene to capture the swarm. He was armed with a nail keg and two long sticks He sent
 
 keg, but in less than six seconds the assailant had score of active bees up his sleeves, and he made a dash toward the railway station. Swab also remembered he had an important busi- ness engagement elsewhere.
 The firemen and members of the section crew were next routed, and when the engineer appealed to Agent Sullivan that worthy declared it was a matter for the maintenance of way department. The conductor of the stalled train suggested sending for the sheriff. while the stoker insisted on calling out the fire brigade. The brakeman on the front end offered no solution, as he was nursing a dozen or more knobs of the size of mature hickory nuts on face, hands and body.
 Finally bystander prescribed the water cure, adding: If that doesn't drive 'em away nothing will
 "A well-directed stream from a gars den hose seemed to have a quieting effect, and the pipe was lowered to the intake on the tender and the tank filled with bees and water.
 While replacing the pipe the fire man was attacked by several strag- glers, and to protect himself from further onslaught he tied a red ban danna handkerchief around his head After raising the spout he tucked the handkerchief into his pocket and ac- cepted the congratulations of the on- lockers upon his escape, but while hopping his face vagrant bee winged it's way out of the folds of the bandanna and stung him on the lip.
 After the excitement with the bees two small boys climbed to the roof of the water tank and with bare hands captured the queen, placing her in the bottom of the keg. into which the bees quickly swarmed. Swab bought the swarm, paying the youngsters SIPS to swell the candy and lemonade fund, and the incident closed"
 As it is not likely that the real cause of delaying the train will be incorporated in the official report to headquarters, the foregoing record is made to show how the tie-up occurred.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17
City of New York Is Being Made Over

where age brings veneration, and nothing except the very largest build ings and improvements here are likely to attain any degree of permanency
 In the last few years, for example. practically every one of the famous hotels has vanished. The site of the Fifth Avenue hotel, rich in memories and traditions, where King Edward. then Prince of Wales, was entertained years ago, is now marked by an enor- nous office building with no traditions whatever. Not so long ago Union square a few blocks farther down town. was a hotel center second to none in the country.
 Now even the hotels which sup planted those which established this reputation have disappeared. It Is even reported that the famous old Astor House, far downtown. Is to make room for an office building.
 The famous old restaurants have nearly all vanished. The Hamilton Grange trees have been cut down to make room for apartment buildings.
 Everywhere the same spirit is ram- pant, and the accusation that New York has no sentiment seems to find plenty of substantiation. But from a commercial point of view the change now going on promises results un dreamed of few decades ago.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17
Big Crowd Expected for Hudson Show

named in a curiously striking manner
 Hudson, according to historical rec ords, is supposed to have starved to death in an open boat in Hudson bay. Yet the most interesting feature in connection with the celebration held in his memory, will be the greatest banquet ever held in a permanent structure, at which 5000 guests will eat in memory of the man who starved
 The banquet, which is to be held in the Hotel Astor, will be remarkable in many ways It will mark the open ing of the new grand ballroom, the largest room of it's kind in the coun- try, covering 24,000 square feet, or more than half an acre, and three stories in height,
 Fifteen hundred couples, it is esti- mated, will be able to dance in com fort in this room, which marks as great an accomplishment in its line as did the achievement of Hudson and Fulton in theirs.
 More than $100,000,000, it is esti- mated, will be spent during the cele- bration, and Father Knickerbocker will not only have achieved the record of having quadrupled his population in one week, but of being the worldly greatest host as well.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17

NEW YORK-New York is becom- lN ing newer New York at such an astonishing rate that it is now authori- tatively predicted that by the year 1925 it will be practically impossible to find in the city single building worthy of the name antedating the memory of the average middle-aged man.
 In other words, the city, which it is expected will then be the largest in the world, will have achieved its ex- isting position so far as physical con- struction goes in only little longer time than the time usually allotted as the length of single generation.
 That there is solid basis for such a seemingly incredible prediction is borne out by the mania which seems to possess this city to do away with everything that by any stretch of the imagination might be called old
 New York indeed is exactly revers- Ing the practice of the old world,
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17

MT. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide expe- rience as Editor, Author and Manufac- turer he Is, without doubt. the highest authority on all these subjects Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 194 Fifth Ave, Chicago, H., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
 For certain reasons it Is sometimes desirable to have bedroom and bath room on the ground floor. There are people who do not like to sleep up stairs, there are others who cannot we'll climb the stairs, and good many old persons are not able to go up or down, but in houses as ordinarily built they have not the necessary accom- mocations on the first floor. In many instances old people are denied com forts that they are rightly entitled to, because the house is not arranged in their interests. This plan is designed to meet just such requirements
 There Is bedroom on the first floor with liberal clothes closet on one side and a bathroom on the other side, and there are plenty of windows to make the room bright and cheerful. l like to see old folks made comfort able. They have spent their best days working for the younger mem- bers of the family, and it is no more than right that they should have the very best possible care and at- tention in their declining years.
 An arrangement of this kind Is ap- preciated by some families where there are no old persons. The wom- an of the house prefers to sleep down. stairs, and she wants conveniences to make her work as light as possible. There are thousands of combinations of rooms, some of which are easily made sufficient to meet the needs and requirements of every one, all that Is
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17
Peoples Kitchen Again Feeds Hungry

week and still have something left for tobacco, wherewith to promote the dreams of affluence in which full stomach is prone to indulge.
 Although quite new in it's present quarters, the Kitchen serves about 800 meals day. It is hoped that soon the number may be trebled. That will mean profit to the promoters and en. courage them to start branch kitchens in other parts of the city and run sort of feeding trust for the thrifty.
 The Working circle sends in 200 children every noon to be fed at the Kitchen, but nearly all the other GUS toners are men employed in the neighborhood or within easy reach. Some of them are just getting foot hold here and want to keep their health to do their best work and save money to bring their families across the ocean. There are 40 or more young men who think the country will give them a chance if they will fit them selves for nd who spend the even ings in study after working all day. They stimulate their ambition by a hearty supper at the Kitchen.
 From II to and from to are the serving hours at the Kitchen. Both meals are alike and seven cents Is the price of each Customers are ready as soon as the doors are opened, and from then on they keep the walters busy. The management arranges the bill of fare and lays at each place the regular meal. This saves time in service and customers don't have to puzzle over a choice of food.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17

careful arrangement of the heating plant. There should be small furnace In the cellar placed near the center of the front part of the house with reg isters in the lower rooms and hall as near the furnace Hs possible. Pipes from the furnace to the upper rooms must be as nearly perpendicu- lar as possible, so that each room In the house may receive both heat and ventilation from the furnace, with the exception of the kitchen.
 With this arrangement small fur mace that would burn six or eight tons of coal during the winter would keep the whole house comfortable every day with little help from the grate and the warmth from the kitchen.
 The warmth from the kitchen is more valuable than is generally real ized, from the fact that most persons like to hear the teakettle sing, and this means that moisture is being rap idly -evaporated. It takes 25 per cent. more coal to raise the temperature in
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17
One Bad New Yorker Out of Every Twenty

TT HE New York police make an ar | rest somewhere in the five bo- roughs every two minutes. On an aver age, 2S persons are taken into custody in the city every hour. This means 670 day The total number of ar rests in the last year was 244,S22.
 Every arrest costs the city of New York S59. The total appropriation for the police department last year was Si4452,000, exclusive of the amount appropriated for pensions. There are 10000 policemen, and each of them averages two arrests month or one every two weeks. Each cop costs the city $1,460 year in salary Most of the vast number of arrests are for uisdem out of 244.S22
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17
JOlSTS ARE OLD STRANGERS
Curious and Historic Timber in Use in Warehouse in Maryland
 Village.

The warehouse of c. s. Mercier, ih Point of Rocks, Md, has some curious and historic timber in it. The joists are made from the "stringers" which were used on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad when the cars were drawn by horses, before the days of the locomo tive These 'stringers" were oak timbers, about six inches square, laid lorgitudinally on the track just as the T rails are now laid. Upon these tim bers iron straps about two inches wide and half inch thick were spiked, and upon these straps the wheels ran. To fit upon these thin straps the fianges of the wheels must have been very slight. Now and then the end of strap would get loose. the wheels would get under it and the iron would penetrate the floor, and sometimes passengers were severely wounded by them. They were known as snake heads" To several of the stringers now used as joists in MT. Mercier's warehouse the straps are still attached. and it is doubtful whether anywhere in the world there is another specimen intact of this kind of ''raip used in the infancy of railroad construction. The ware house was built about sixty years or more ago, at the time the primitive rails were supplanted by crossties and iron rails.
 For year or two, beginning in 1882, Point of Rocks was the western territory of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, pending the litigation and the settlement by the legislature of the right of way between the river and the mountain at this place. Large quantities of goods and produce were brought there, and the old warehouse in which they were stored is still standing and in good repair. It :a now used as hotel
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17
WHEN RAILROADS WERE NEW
Diary Long Kept by Engiishman, Re. gently Deceased, Reveals Some
 interesting Facts.

There has just passed away onG who was intimately associated with our railroad system when it was in its very crude infancy, says the Lon don Globe
 MT. David Stevenson. whose death has occurred in his eighty-eight year, joined the London & Birmingham railroad in June, 1887, and rose to the position of goods manager of the London x Northwestern railway. He kept a private diary of the important events of those early days when the third-class passengers rode in open carriages and tickets were torn from a book.
 MT. Stevenson told how the road side stations were inclosed with lofty iron railings, within which the pas sengers were imprisoned until the train arrived. They were then per mitted to rush out to take their places, for which they sometimes had to join in a free fight Then the en- zine gave a prolonged whistle, which Charles Dickens described as saying, Here are 250 people in the veriest extremity of danger, and here are their 250 screams all in one. The chatter caused by the stone blocks, which were used until the wooden sleepers replaced them, added great ly to the unpleasantness of the jour ney."
 In MT. Stevensons early days the signalmen were actually men signals They were attired as policemen of the period, with dress coats buttoned up to the throat, white duck trousers and top hats. They stood at inter vals along the line and performed with their arms, their worried brains and two flags" all the duties of the signal posts by which they were superseded Sir Robert Peel, Lord Brougham and Daniel O'Con- nell often rode on the railway, ac- cording to the diarist, for the novelty of the sensation.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17
Affects 27,OOO Railroad Men

Twenty-seven thousand employees of the Boston & Maine railroad became eligible for a pension when Gov Draper signed the pension act which was petitioned for by Harry H. Will son, chairman of the pension commit tee. There seems little doubt that the measure will be unanimously adopted among the great body of workingmen, and that the measure will be accepted as an important pre- cedent for not only other railroads of the country, but for all the large pub lie service corporations.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17
Locomotive for Small Railroads.

The novel "hydroleum" locomotive of Arthur Koppel, German engineer, Is designed for short railroads serv- ing special industries. It has a wa ter-tube boiler, two or four cylinders. and as fuel uses either crude oil or tar oil from gas or coke manufac- ture. Unlike alcohol or gasoline mo- tors, it is reversible without inter- mediate gearing. It has the high starting power and overload capacity of the steam in 15 or 20 minutes in stead of the two hours of ordinary locomotives, and is free from ashes, slag. smoke. smell and cinders. It combines large capacity with small size
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17
cross-Eyed Man erouqht III Luck

Iu K.
 Railroad men have a special disliho for Cross-eyed men. This supersti- tious dislike is attributed to an incl. dent that occurred on a Missouri rail. road several years ago.
 A section gang was being made up to go out on the line and do some repair work, Ten men were needed for the work and nine had been chosen. The tenth man was lacking when along came one and applied for the job. But he was cross-eyed anu the foreman was about to turn him away when he discovered that it was time for the train and none other had appeared. Despite the black looks of the other nine. the cross-eyed man wsis taken on.
 Bad luck followed the gang from the beginning. One man was sun struck and had to be sent to the hos. pital After that it was record similar to that of the ill-fated Ten Little Indian Boys" The gang was on the job 10 months and every month removed one of the gang by aocident until there only remained the cross-eyed man, who rounded out the tale of disaster by being run down by train and killed.
 September is the fatal month in railroading and every railroad man signs with relief when it has passed On the records of the railroad Sep. tember stands convicted of being the unluckiest month of the year for w-ecks. For months everything may have been running along in an ideal manner, but September will pile up enough disasters to pay for past i'm munity. Why this is so no railroad man can tell.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17

winter from 60 to 70 than it does from 30 to 60 degrees. It requires very little fire in the furnace to keep the temperature up to 60 or 62 degrees, even in cold weather. Experiments show that 62 degrees Is as comfort able when the air contains 55 per cent. of moisture as 70 degrees is
 when the air Is as dry as it is ordi- narily from furnace heat when no wa ter is being evaporated. Most fur naces are provided with water tank for this purpose, but it is often
 neglected and allowed to remain dry
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17
Miqht Work We'll Here.

An Italian drummer gets his pho tograph taken and has it pasted on : railway ticket which, for $40, en- titles him to travel his territory two months. He can travel day and night if he wishes. The arrangement is e.eod for trade. A similar ticket is asued for shorter period in Switzer- and, which is good for tourists--and or the hotels where they put up. In .ume little wrinkles our railroads are away behind
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17

necessary is careful painstaking study of the many different plans offered to select something that is suitable in any and every instance. The aver age American family consists of five persons. It is well enough to bear this in mind when building a house, because it may be necessary or de- sirable to sell the property at some future time. If the size is right for the majority of prospective customers, it is much easier to effect a sale. In this plan there are four bedrooms so arranged that all the members of a family of five may be accommodated without crowding any one.
 There is something about the ar engagement of this house that requires
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17

Total for 9 years 1ls,375
 The figures indicate that five per every 20-get into the laws clutches for some offense or other; 19 good New Workers to bad one is the pro portion.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17

probably tnlS IS the first time that a queen and her retinue and sub jects c o m p l e t e ly tied up a steam railroad. a Spo- kane (Wash.) dis patch to the New
 York herald says:
 It happened on he Hartman sys-
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17

for hours and days. For this reason the teu kettle Is one of the best house warmers we have. Moist air is necessary for health There is no heating plant in existence that will warm the temperature in our houses to 70 degrees in freezing weather,
 without driving the moisture out of
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17
HELD UP BY BEES
TRAINMEN HAVE UNUSUAL EX
 FERENCE IN IDAHO.
Insects Swarmed in the Spout of a Water Tank and Fought Made Things Lively for
 Few Minutes.

Swarming bees are credited with doing all sorts of unusual things, but
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-17

Value of Worlds Railroads. The railroads of the world are val ued at s27.775. 100000
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-24
FREE-F0R-ALL FIGHT
RoWdies Made Trouble on Train
at BarloW-Several Badly Cut
Paducah Police Notified.

Following the report of a general
melee at Barlow, KY, Sunday as CIV
en- in yesterdays Bulletin, it is learned
that the constable in trying to armst
the men engaged in the fight was cut
about the face and neck. They were
and released on their own re
cognizance They were to have hal
their trials yesterday. The following
from the Paducah Sun gives more
detailed account. of the affair: ,.
"A. free-for-all fight occurred at Bar
low last night, according to reports
that reached .Paducah. About twenty
young men were on the train that left
Cairo for. Paducah, and they be.
came disorderly. but the train crew
prevented trouble. When Barlow wa 5.
reached, the men got off and a
general melee followed Everybody
was fighting and some were stripped
of clothes. Several are said to have
been armed with knives.
"a 'rr- 7j~j5~-o telephone message
was receryed by %" police last night
from Marsha. Joe Shelby, of La Cen
ter, asking the police to watch out
for five men who are alleged to have
seriously cut woman at Barlow last
night. The names given in We're:
Charles Seat, Tom Futrell, Audrey
Charles Stratton and I.
Jones. The men are said to have
boarded an Illinois Central passenger
train at Barlow after a difficulty and
on reaching LaCenter skipped out.
They are believed to have headed for
this city"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-24
Advoea,. Small Farms.

Fifteen acres of land in southeast
ern Pennsylvania, cultivated accord
ing to the best known methods and
yielding. principally in dairy products,
an income of more than $1,000 year,
have been selected and described by
the Department of Agriculture as a
model for the farmers of the United
States.
The Department has thoroughly In
vestigated the methods used, and finds
it possible to point out that upon
comparatively small area a good In
come may be produced merely by the
exercise of intelligence and knowl-
edge. This farm, when it came into
the possession of its owner was mort
gagged for 1920. Six years later the
mortgage was paid off and the pro-
fits had begun to accumulate. But
thirteen acres of the land are under
cultivation, the remaining two acres
being occupied by buildings,
The Government is greatly interest
ed in bringing attention to farms OF
this character. II has become Gov
ernmeft doctrine that smaller farms
and better methods of cultivation Will
greatly add to the production and
wealth of the nation and to the COM
fort of the farmers, besides multiply
ing by many times the number OF per-
sons who may obtain living from the
soil.
In the newly irrigated lands of the
Far West, the policy of selling not
more than forty acres to any one per
son has been adapted, and the De-
partment of Agriculture is endeayor-
ing to demonstrate that upon even
much smaller areas than this profits
exceeding those made upon many Oh
the larger farms can be obtained
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