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The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
TRAIN LOSES ITS WHISTLE
ODD Incident That Is Believed to Mark
a Record, at Least on This Par
tcuIar Line.

II occurred one day recently, and
tne passengers on the Big Sandy train
are smiling yet when they think of
the oldest incident that has happened
on that branch of the Chesapeake &
ONO IN years. The train bound for
Ashland lost its whistle while still
many miles up the valley, and was
forced to stop and back up almost the
entire distance, looking for that whis-
tie, which was eventually found miles
away from where it was missed. The
loss delayed the train five hours. 1t
was due at Catlettsburg at five o'clock
IN the evening, but didn't reach that
point until ten o'clock that night.
Trains have been known to lose their
sWltchmen, their cabooses and some
times whole cut Of cars, but never
before has a Big Sandy train been
known to lose it's whistle. Under the
law, train may not operate without
a whistle, and it was this fact that
caused the conductor of this train to
run back over many miles of track
to locate the lost object.-Pikesville
Advocate.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
FOREIGN.

Official figures of the ravages of the
bubonic plague in India show the ap-
palling total of 95,S84 deaths in March
Diplomatic relations between Turkey
and Montenegro have been severed, ac-
cording to the Stampa, and their min
listers recalled.
All advices from Canton indicate g
desperate condition in that city. There
are 10000 soldiers within the walls
and there is great fear many of these
will prove disloyal if it appears tha.
the rebels are about to gain the upper
hand. The rebels are strong in num-
bers and have carried on their work
of destruction with fanatical bravery
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
p1auad Won T oct D,

Zbyszko defeated Gus Schoenlein
(Americus), in a finish wrestling
match in Baltimore, in two straight
falls.
frankie White and "Muggsy" School
have been matched to go twenty
rounds at Cheyenne, Wyo., some time
within two weeks.
mickey" Sheridan of Chicago out.
boxed frankie White of Chicago in a
ten-round bout before the new Nation
al athletic Club at Gary, Ind.
Joe Mandel, Southern featherweight
champion, and Jack White of Chicago
are scheduled to box in Memphis,
Tenu.
A golf match which many persons
would travel miles to witness is sched-
uled for Chevy Chase Club links in
Washington President Taft has is
sued challenge to "Chick" Evans.
the Western open champion. who is to
play in the English tourney.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
RaiIroadlno bv Sails.

Many Of the small towns along the
coast of Chilli are being connected by
sail railways. These railways are the
idea of an engineer engaged on coast
Improvement work. Finding the time
spend by workmen In carrying mate
rials from the town to the place of
operations costly item he decided to
take advantage Of the trade winds.
which blow in that region with clock
like regularity, and accordingly, he
had number Of fair-sized box cars
build and provided each with a large
sail. These cars not only accommo-
date the men going and coming from
work, but proved amply sufficient to
transport the material needed in the
construction of the works. THE aver
age speed attained by these cars is
from 80 to 40 miles an hour.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06

1t consists of a self-propelled car,
from one end of which extends "a
foot trussed boom carrying the track
lifting device and carriage on which
are the shovel arms. The track lift
Ing device consists of two travelling
graphing arms which engage the
rails at the joints and midpoints, and
lift them until there Is sufficient clear
space beneath the ties for the shovels
to operate. A battery of shovel arms
Is provided on each side. The bat
terry on one side, or even the individ-
ual shovels in each battery, may be
operated Independently. The shovel
arms have both lateral and vertical
motion, and joint at the point where
the shovels are connected with the
arms makes it possible to move them
at any desired angle with the arms.
This Is to provide a horizontal in
stead of radial motion of the shovels
while under the ties.
In operating the car is run out to
point where the boom overhangs
a depressed portion of the track The
gripping devices are then attached to
the track and raise a section of it,
The shovels are pushed out, the sashes
lowered until the shovels engage with
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
REC ORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

Francis B. Clarke, former president
of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle
railway, died in Portland, aged seven
ty-three
While the latest figures have not
been given out, it is announced that
Leadville, Colo, still heads the list OF
postal savings banks.
DR.. j. L. Wilson, chief surgeon OF
the insurrecto army, is seriously Ill IN
the rebel camp, near Ell Paso, threat
ened with blood poisoning.
Ten Cinnamon are on the North
west Shelter Island, eighteen miles
from San Diego Cal, marooned by
Smugglers and are starving.
Attorneys for both sides in the dy-
namiting case at Los Angeles have ar
ranged for the early arraignment Of
John and James Mcnamara and Orite
McManigal.
The uniform bill for the regulation
of fraternal insurance societies has be-
come a law in Alabama, California,
Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Oregon,
Utah and Washington.
The selection of Ell Paso as the place
for holding the formal peace confer
ence and the naming of Judge Fran
cisco Carbajal, of the Mexican Su-
preme Court as the government com
missioner, are the important develop
ments in the peace situation.
int oil r1rnCi.
dent of the Boilermakers and Iron
Shipbuilders of America, of Kansas
City, says that an assessment of 3 to 6
cents will be levied upon the 100000
members of the American Federation
of Labor to aid J. j. Mcnamara.
Heavily manacled and guarded by
eight officers from Chicago and Los
Angeles, John j. Mcnamara, his broth
er, James w. Mcnamara, and Ortie E.
McManigal, alleged dynamiters, en-
tered California on the Santa Fe rail
Aroad and are in Jail in Los Angeles.
Charity organization officers and
the police of Des Moines. Ia, have
been seeking for an elderly woman
who attempted to sell for small re-
muneration baby boy three months
old. The woman went from house to
house on East Twelfth street, in flu
tile effort to find sale for the child
Four robbers rode into Naponee
Neb., in an automobile, blew up the
vault of the Naponee State bank and
escaped with $4,000 in cash. Citizens
were aroused by the explosion, but
the bandits threatened them with re
volvers and compelled them to seek
shelter.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
WASHINGTON.

Reciprocity with Canada must be
adopted now or never, and must stand
or fall by its own terms" says Pres
ident Taft
Illinois congressman, friends of Sen
ator Lorimer, and closely associated
with him in political affairs, are pre-,
dieting that he will resign.
Samuel Adams, a Chicago lawyer.
will succeed Frank Pierce, resigned,
as first assistant secretary of the in
terror, Secretary Fisher has announced
that Mr. Adams will assume his duties
about June 1.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has concluded another weekly
out announcing opinions in either the
Standard Oil or the tobacco suits un-
der the Sherman antitrust act
A bill providing for the enlargement
of the House of Representatives from
391 to 433 members, and the apportion-
ment of these members to the differ
ent states on the basis of the popula-
ton shown by the recent federal CEN
sus, passed the House.
Alleged unreasonable and unjust
clas freight rates from Omaha to Col
orado points were attacked in a COM
plant filed with the Interstate Com
merce Commission by commercial
clubs of Omaha, Sioux City and ST.
Joseph against railroads serving the
territory
With the resignation of Edward G.
Kinney as chief law officer of the
Reclamation Service, to take effect
May 1st, all the officials of the Inte-
rior Department who figured promi.
nently in the Ballinger-Pinch inves-
tigation, have now severed their con-
nection with the service.
Race issues are to be raised in the
House in the near future, if several
Democratic members from the South
have their way. Representative Rod
denberry of Georgia announced that
he had prepared bill prohibiting ne
groes from eating in the House res
taurant
The activities of the Department of
Agriculture in the detection and pun
ishment of people who attempt to
manufacture and market impure foods
is unabated, and promises to make it
extremely dangerous for anyone to
continue these practices. The penalty
is heavy.
Postmaster Genearal Hitchcock is
confident that penny postage" is a
probability of the near future as the
result of reductions in the $17,600,000
postal deficit which existed when he
| took charge of the Postoffice Depart
ment He has made a statement to
this effect in acknowledging letters
received regarding the postal situa
ton.
Three weeks of the extraordinary
session of the SiXty-secOnd Congress
having passed into history with rec
ord of rapid-fire legislation by the
House, the Senate is finally organized
but is in no haste to consider that part
of the Democratic program already
disposed of by the lower branch. Ca
madam reciprocity is the only matter
now being considered by the Senate
and that probably will not come before
it for action for several weeks.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
GEN ERAL.

DR.. B. c. Hyde, convicted in Kan
sas City for the murder of Col. Thos
B. Swope, has been released on bond
The second highest price for a book
in the Hoe library sale was reached in
New York when book sold for $21,
600.
Fire in the heart of Buffalo's bust
ness district destroyed the five-story
building of the Buffalo Glass Compa
ny, with a loss of nearly $250,000.
The fishing smack Frantera, bound
from Campeachy to Mobile, was
wrecked in the Western gulf storm
near Galveston, and it is feared three
of it's crew were lost
Elmer c. Swope, claimant to th3
$5,000,000 estate of Thomas H. Swope
the late Kansas City philanthropist
has disappeared from his home in Mar
tinsburg, w. Va.
Orders for the national encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic at
Rochester, N Y, Aug. 21-26, have
been issued by Commander-in-Chi
John e. Gilman of Boston.
Fire in the big Arbuckle Sugar Re
filming Company plant in Brooklyn
spread rapidly throughout the uppet
half of the main ten-story buildin
and caused loss Of $250,000
AS the result of werck on the Penn
sylvania railroad of a train of teachers
going from Utica, n Y, to Washing.
ton, D. c., eight persons are dead and
a score more seriously if not fatally
injured.
1t is quite probable the young WON
an who took the negotiable bonds
worth $150,000 from Mrs. S. B. Ar
mour of Kansas City, will be arrested
1t depends upon whether she will re
store $4,000, which she thus far has
refused to give up.
A tornado struck Sedalia, Mo-, and
damaged property in path two
blocks wide and mile and a half long
A number of houses were torn from
their fundations and large trees were
torn up or snapped in twain The
property damage is heavy.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
Tragedy Narrowly Averted.

What might have been serious
railroad accident was narrowly avert
ed at Junee, Australia, recently. A
goods train from Junee was stationary
at Bethungra railway station, and
slightly In advance of her usual rest
ing place, when the Sydney express
to Melbourne, which does not stop at
Bethunga, dashed past, striking the
stationary engine of the goods train,
cutting the buffer off and portion of
the front of the engine woodwork was
splintered to matchwood The pass
engers naturally were greatly alarm
ed, and there was much rejoicing at
the narrow escape from a dreadful
death.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
Sprjnu Hats,

Miss Lillian Russell, at luncheon
at Sherry's in New York, was talking
about the Easter hat of 1911
1T is to be TALL" said Miss Russell.
THE new French beauty, Mile. Lam
telme, has settled that. The Ian
telme hat, which all Paris is raving
over, has in the back plume that
rises up almost to the clouds.
what do you think of my new
hat?' young girl asked me in Fifth
avenue the other day. Don't you
think it's a poem?'
'T looked at it. 1t was a genuine
Lantelme. The plume in the rear was
nearly three feet high.
Hardly poem, my dear 1 said.
Rather short story"
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
The Pocahontas DELEGATION.

Clarence w. Watson, the new sena
tor from West Virginia, was delegate
some time ago to congressional con
vention down in his district.
Pocahontas county was represent
ed in the convention by only one dele
gate.
The chairman asked for a roll call
on a matter that many did not under
stand whereupon the lone Pocahontas
delegate arose and said in all Sc
riousness to the assembled multi
tude:
Watt The Pocahontas delegation
desires 20 hold consultation. -
Washington Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
Dlninq Car Service In india.

Dining car walters on railroads in
India are barefooted natives, in long
white gowns held in at the waist by a
broad band, their heads wrapped up in
puggrees Ca light scarf. The dinner
service Is rough and coarse, and the
price higher than in this country.
Most of the food served comes in tins.
Between courses dishes are piled on
the floor. India is land of contrasts,
and this contrast between the dirty
black feet and the dirty white dishes
is one of the things to which the trav-
eler gets accustomed, but never recon
ciled.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
Threw Cars From Track.

The West Clare QrelanO railroad
line was the scene Of a peculiar acci-
dent lately. At crossing a large
number Of cattle coming into a fair
at Ennis were held up by the closing
of the gates while the morning train
from Ennis was passing. One Of the
beasts, becoming frightened, jumped
over stile on the line. The driver of
the engine at once shut off steam
and the train slowed up, but not before
the bullock had been killed. The en-
CINE kept the rails, but two empty
cars were capsized and badly dam
aged.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
Erudite PhvsIcian-

western physician received the
following from a brother physician:
Dear Dock: l have a pashunt whose
physical sines shows that the wind
pipe has liberated off and his lungs
have dropped into his stumick l have
given hym everythink without effeckt
his father is wealthy honoable and in
hooenshial as he is a member of as
sembly and god nose l don't want to
loss hym what shall l do ans by re-
turn male. Yours frat, Doc Tishbein. "
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
"Sheep-Nose" Cars.

An interesting type Of car Is in use
on the electric railroad running from
Indianapolis to Toledo. This car is
provided withsa parabolic front end,
commonly called a "sheep-nose." The
object of this arrangement is to re-
duce wind resistance when the cars
are running at high speed, also to
make it easier for the car to force its
way through snow drifts. The frame
of the car is very strongly built, and
is arranged to carry a steel sheathed
pilot which serves as a snow plow.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
New Rival to the Track Gang.

the earth, and then are raised again,
the shovels pushing the earth beneath
the ties, thus completing the first
stages of the operation The empty
shovels may then be operated back
and forth to tamp the earth This
operation is repeated continually, the
grader moving forward on the battery
length Of track it has just finished.
The machine builds entertainments
without the use of trestle, and with
but five men composing it's crew, is
said to be capable of doing the work of
a hundred men with shovels.-Popu-
lar Mechanics.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06

erS in m o s t
branches of work,
the man with the
shovel has held
his position un-
challenged in the
work Of grading
and ballasting rail-
road track. Now,
however, a rail-
road builder Of Du-
Iuth, Mimi. has
devised a ma
chine that he be-
lieves Is destined
to do the work Of
lifting jacks and
the gangs Of SHOW
elers and tamp-
ers.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
Ten Thousand Go On Strike.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Without further
warning than might be gathered from
conferences of a committee with rail-
road officials, the shopmen of the
Pennsylvania railroad on the Pitts
burg division extending to Altoona,
Pa, went out on strike and the union
officers say 10000 men are out.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
MinneanoIis Carpenters Quit.

Minneapolis, Minn.-Four hundred
carpenters on a dozen big buildings
here struck today. The men ask so
cents an hour raise.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
ReIaian Government Lines.

The total mileage of the Belgian
government railroads on January l,
1910, was 1858 miles of double track
and 1,410 miles of single track.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
Japanese Railroads.

The Japanese railroads at the close
of their last fiscal year had 5,029 miles
of line, of which more than nine-tenths
belong to the state.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
FOR TRACK GRADING
MECHANICAL DEVICE THAT DOES
AWAY WITH LABOR.
Idea of Duluth Man Means Great Saw
ing In Expense of Building Rail-
roads-Method Is Simple, but
Highly Efficient.

While machines have been stead
lily taking the place Of ordinary labor
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06

Hongkong. = Rebellion, brigandage
and anarchy are stalking through the
western half of Kwang Tung province,
numbering. pillaging and burning.
The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06

RECIPROCITY with Canada must be
adopted now or never, and must stand
or fall by its own TERMS" says Pres
ident Taft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-04
Institutional Insanity.

From the New York Times.

FROM the New YORK Times.
OF course there will come from St
Luke's Hospital an explanation why 1t
was that a man taken there late Thurs
day night, suffering from that very seri-
Gus injury. a fractured knee. was turned
away untreated and told to go to police
station. AS it happens, the man was one
Of the best known merchants doing bust
ness on 125th street not less able than
willing to pay for medical services. He
had been hurt when his automobile ran
into an unlighted excavation, and had al
ready been carried five or six miles in
another automobile, so that his need for
instant attention was pressing. These are
facts, however. that have no bearing on
the refusal of admission to the hospital.
except as they remove few conceivable
excuses for sending a wounded man away
from place where he obviously belonged
to one where as obviously he could not
get the services he needed
The only way to account for these and
similar episodes-they occur with some
thing like regularity at all Eospitals-is
by assuming the existence in these in
stitutions of a tendency to affiict their
mana gers and employees with what may
be called institutional insanity. The dag
nostic mark Of this mania is delusional
belief that hospitals are erected and main
tanned as ends in themselves. not as de-
vice for treating, and If possible curing,
sick and hurt people. The victims Of the
mania are obSeSSed by the notion that
hospital rules and regulations are MADE
to be observed whereas. of course. their
purpose is quite different. and they ought
to be broken whenever keeping them in
terferes with the attainment of the quite
different purpose.
Institutional insanity is apparently un-
avoidable and incura hle-in institutions.
Its manifestations are rather more irri-
tating in hospitals than in other institu-
tons, but il invades them all. and fully
accounts for the general public's dislike
of them all and its horror of going into
them The same or very like malady
affects municipal, state and federal off,
Gals to a considerable extent. They for
get that they are the servants of the peo-
pie, not masters or superiors, and treat
them with something of kindly conde-
scension at best and with fierce contempt
at worst. Like all insanity. these forms
of 1t should excite sympathy, not anger,
and those of us fortunate enough TO es-
cape the infection should be more gentle
than We are with our afflicted brothers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-04
PUT BAN ON UNIFORMS;
WILL BE PROSECUTED
Owners Of Arizona Amusement Re-
sort Charged With Vio-
lating Law. -

The determination OF the administration
to enforce the law passed by the last Con-
gress requiring amusement places 10 re-
spect the uniform of the United States
army and navy was shown today when
Attorney General Wickersham. with tire
approval of President Taft. instructed the
United States attorney at Prescott. Ariz,
TO proceed against the owners of tho
Yavapai skating rink for refusing ad-
mission to Capt. O. f. c. Ord. l. s A,
retired. and Capt. Duncan X. Major. jr.
9th Infantry. and Sergt. Rodenhurg
of the Arizona National Guard
These officers were refused admission to
the rink when wearing uniforms May 4
Mrs. Catherine Gallagher OF this city.
president of the society for the protection
of the dignity and honor of the uniforms
of the United States. brought the case n
the attention of President Taft Suhse-
Quently the rink owners apologiZed
pleading ignorance Of the law and
abrogated the rule prohibiting persons m
uniform from entering Mr.. Wickers sham
and the President declined to accept the
apology. In a letter TO the President Mr.
Wickersham said:
Il have no sympathy whatever with the
proprietors Of places of amusement who
take II upon themselves to exclude men
wearing the uniform of the United State
army or navy. | am DESTROYS of making
/ an example of any one who comes within
| the purview of the law on that subject
l wish the law We're applicable in states
| as Well as in territories.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-04
WHAT IT rs TO LAUGH.
Historic Personages Who Never
Laughed.
From the Strand.


What is laughter? An American hui
morist has called IL Ian unidentified wild
ening of the human mouth. accompanied
py noise resembling a cough in the eff
fort to avoid swallowing a chestnut"
Laughter says Prof. Sir Charles Bell.
is convulsive action Of the diaphragm.
In this state the person draws a full
breath and throws il out in interrupted.
short and audible ordinations This
CONFUSION of the diaphragm is the prin-
cipal part of the physical manifestation
of laughter.
But there are several accessories espe-
cially the sharp vocal utterance arising
from the violent tension OF the larynX
and the expression of tie features, this
being more intense form of the smile
In extreme cases the eyes are moYstened
by the effusion from the lachrymal
glands"
There are some people who cannot
laugh-who are wholly unable to enjoy
either the physical or the mental luxury
of a laugh. Thus, it was said of William
III. that he was utterly at a loss to UNI
derstand what could be got out OF laugh
ter except loss of dignity. There are
many persons in history who have been.
according to common report, incapable Of
laughter. Queen Mary l. John Knox.
Robespierre and Moltke are examples.
The iron duke himself rarely, If ever,
went beyond a grunt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-04
Thackeray's Carelessness.
London Chronicle

From the London Chronicle.
The high value set upon the Thackeray
manuscripts now on exhibition at the
Charterhouse contrasts with the careless
ness with which the great novelist him.
self sometimes treated his copy" A
good deal of Phillip was written at
the Atheneum Club. and one day. when
he had completed the manuscript of a
number for the printer. Thackeray laid
it down in the cloakroom and forgot It.
That evening a messenger arrived at his
house for the copy, but Thackeray was
dining out Next morning he rushed down
to the club in desperate anxiety, and
after an exciting search the manuscript
was discovered in the dustman's box.
into which it had been swept by house,
maid