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Largest Depot in Europe.

Which is the largest railway sta.
ton in Europe" is a question which
every newspaper has answered mum
berless times for inquisitive readers.
From nov till further notice the reply
must be: That at Leipzig. Travellers
who know the Fatherland have al
ways classed the "Leipziger Bahnhof"
as the most dingy and ugly in the
country.
For ten years artists and architects
put the heads together to make 1t
the acme of beauty and convenience.
n now for ten years the builder
has been busy. 1t has a frontage
of $50 yards; rs lines of rail run into
It; 1t will see 400 trains a day; there
are SO clocks to tell the time. The
finishing touches will take till 1918.
and by that time nearly $35. 600, 900
will have been spent on it.-London
Chronicle.
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WHITE PIMPLES en- HEAD

Ransom, Ill.-"The trouble started
on our baby when he was only about
two weeks old. Started like little
white pimples, looked like an old scab
OF blood and matter. His whole head
was covered for a few months, then It
went to his ear, shoulders, and his
whole body. 1t seemed to come out
thick and sticky on his head. while
on the other parts Of his body 1t was
more like water coming out of the
skin. He would scratch until the erup-
ton would be all covered with blood
and gradually spread. The least little
stir or rub would cause the sores to
bleed, spread and itch. Never had a
FULL nights sleep, restless all night.
The sores ere horrid to look at.
1t lasted until he was about two and q
half years old. Then we saw an &C.
zema advertisement In the D to
use -, but 1t did no good. Then
we used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment. We put the Cuticura Oint-
ment on thick at bed time and put .
tight hood on SO he could not scratch
the sores. Then we washed 1t clean
with Cuticura Soap and warm water
twice q day, and he was completely
cured" (Signed) Mrs. E. F. Sulxber.
ger. Dec. 80, 1911.
C%uticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura. Dept. L. Boston"
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Girl Ran Iocomotjve

4 dare o to run this engine" said
William ~Pagenhart, an engineer EN-.
ployed by the contractors double.
tracking a division Of an eastern rail
road, to Miss Ethel Seiple, a telephone
girl.
You can't dare me-" was the
prompt reply the engineer received.
and without further ceremony the
young woman jumped into the cab,
threw open the throttle and the engine
started down the tracks.
The contractors had laid their own
tracks from Wapwallopen to a point
where a trestle is built. Miss Seiple
sent the engine down the half-mile
at high speed and brought it to a
stop at the termination of the track.
She handled the engine in a way that
surprised the engineer, who was per-
mitted to ride as a passenger.
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sons hadn't done him much good. no

sons hadn't done him much good: hs
would like to have seen good old Cor
don Galorey again; he loved him-he
had no use for Ruggles. no use-it
had beer all his fault. His mind
reached out to his father, and the old
mans words came dining back:
Buy the things that stay above
ground. my boy" What were those
things? He had thought they were
passionate had thought they were
love, and he had put all on one WON
an. h couldn't stand by him, now
that he was poor
The spasm in his heart was SO sharp
that he made a low sound in his throat
and leaned against the casing of the
window. He must see her, touch her
once more.
The fellows Poniotowsky's seconds
mad chosen to be Dams representatives
came In to fix him up" They were
In rock coats and carried their silk
hats and their gloves. He could have
laughed at them. Then they made
him think of u~ndertakers, and his
blood grew cold. He handled the re-
volvers with care and interest.
I'm not going to let him murder
me, you know" he told his seconds.
They helped him to dress, at least
n of them did, while the other took
Dams place by the window and looked
to the boy like a figure of death.
The hour was getting on; he heard
his OWE motor drive up, and they went
down, through the deserted hotel.
The men who had consented to act for
Dan regarded their principal curious
ly. He wasn't pale, there was a bright
ness on his face.
"Partons," said one of them, and
told Blair's chauffeur where to go and
now to run "Partons."
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Ponlotowsky. There in his motos
ne gave up his effort to set hie
thoughts clear. Nothing settled down.
ven the ground they few over. the
trees with their chestnut plumes.
blurred, were indistinct, nebulous. as
II seer through a diving-bell under the
sea. Fear-he didn't know the word
he wasn't afraid-it wasn't that. VET
ne had a certainty that it was all M
with him. He was young-very young
and he hadn't done much with tho
JOB. His father would have been
OF him. Then all his Thoughts
went to Her. The two men in the
motor fioated off and she sat there as
she had sat yesterday in her marvel
ousiy pretty clothes-her little coral
shoes.
He had held those bright, little feet
IN his hands on the Thames day; they
mad just filled his great hands.
Their Lefty Lane. too, spirited awav
and the boys thoughts turned To TN,
man he was to meet. THE affairs are
purely formal" he had heard some
say, IAN exchange of balls. with.
out serious results"
CTO BE CONTINUEoo
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Railroads Fifty Years. AGO,

A curious relic of railroad operation
n1ty years ago, down In Tennessee
and Georgia, is exhibited In the toi
lowing extracts from the rules then
in force.
Each engineman will keep a watch
which must be regulated by the time
or his conductor at the commence
ment Of each trip, and will always
have in his possession the current
schedule book.
Should any stock be killed which
may be likely to endanger the safety
or the next train passing, the engine.
mar Will stop his train until the track
is cleared.
AS a general rule when trains meet
between stations, the train nearest
the turnout will run back. Any dis
pute as to which train has to retire is
TO be determined at once by the con
ductors, without any interference on
the part of the ~enginemen. This rule
Is required to be varied in favor of the
heaviest loaded engine or the worst
grades. If they meet near the center.
IN case OF backing, a man must be
placed on the lookout, so that any dan
ger to the rearmost part OF the train
may be seen and the engineman at
once receive notice. The backing must
done cautiously.-Railroad Mans
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motor. There Lefty Lane discovered
she had dropped her handkerchief,
and sent the prince back for 1t.
AS though he had been waiting for
the temperance of Poniotowsky, Dan
Blair stood close to the little table
which Lefty Lane had left, her hand.
kerch1ef in his hand. AS Poniotowsky
came up Dan thrust the small tritie
OF sheer linen into his waistcoat
pocket.
i will trouble you for Miss Lanes
handkerchief said P~oniotowsky, his
eyes cold.
You may" said Dan as quietly, his
blue eyes like sparks from a star.
trouble me for hell!" And lifting
from the table Poniotowsky's own
half-emptied glass of champagne, the
boy flung the contents full in the
Hungarian's face.
The wine dashed against Ponitowsky's
lips and in his eyes. Blair laughed
out loud, his hands In his pockets.
The insult was low and noiseless: the
little glass shattered as it fell SO soft
ly that with the music It's gentle crash
was unheard.
Poniotowsky wiped his face tran
GULLY and bowed.
You shall hear from me after |
nave taken Miss Lane home
Tell her" said the boy, where Won
left the handkerchief, that's all"
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Finds $4,000, Gets ST Reward.

Q ten minutes Edward Stone.
brakeman on a st. Paul accommoda.
ton train running from Chicago to
Libertyville, was the possessor uf
$25,0O0. He did not know it. At the ex-
piration of that time Herbert Schoen.
berg, OF Morton Grove, dashed IN
to him and asked if he had found an
old shoe box Schoenberg had left on
the train. The brakeman produced
the unopened box, and was told it
contained the money for starting a
new Morton Grove bank, of which
S~choenberg is prospective cashier.
Stone was rewarded with $1.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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PERIL ON RAILROAD TRACKS
Foolish Custom Responsible for the
Great Bulk Of Casualties Re-
ported Yearly.

In an eastern Kentucky town a few
days ago live persons, returning from
church, We're walking on a railroad
track. They saw a train coming and
stepped off of n track onto another
only to be struck by an engine com.
ing from the other direction. which
they had not seen at all. One of the
party vas killed and all the others
were injured.
walking on railroads Is extra haz.
ardous now that so many Of the roads
are operated by the double track sys-
tenn. 1t is a practice that is largely
prevalent in all parts Of the country
and 1t is responsible for the great
bulk of railway casualties which are
recounted in the quarterly reports Of
the interstate commerce commission.
me number of railraod passengers kill
ed nowadays is comparatively few.
Some of the biggest roads in the Unit.
ed States are able to carry hundreds of
thousands OF passengers in the course
or a years business without fatalities.
The Increase Of safety appliances has
greatly reduced the lists OF accidents
among railway employees, but the num-
Der or persons who are killed while
walking the tracks continues TO in
crease from year to year.
The right of way Of a railroad
which owns the road and is not a pub
lie thoroughfare in the sense that
applies to a street, a turnpike or a
nelghborhood road. Persons who
walk on railroad right OF way are
~trespassers and incur q needless risk
Those who trespass on the lands of
An individual subject themselves to
prosecution, but there is decidedly
less hazard in such trespasses than In
walking on railway tracks. 1t is some
what remarkable that a practice so
fraught with danger should be so
generally persisted in both in city and
in country. Il cities and in villages
other thoroughfares are not lacking,
and the foolish and perilous custom
should be MISUNDERSTANDING
Courier-Journal.
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they blurred, their voices were small
and far away. Finally he said:
"All right, all right, | can shoot
we'll enough; this kind of thing isn't
our custom. you know-I'd as soon kill
him one way as another, as a matter
Of fact. No. | don't know a darned
soul here" There was a confab IN.
comprehensive to Dan. Its all one
to me, gentlemen" he said. I'D rath-
er not drag in my friends. Fix it up
to suit yourselves"
He wanted them to go-to be alone
Ito stretch his arms. to rid himself
Of the burden of sense and be free.
And after they had left. he remained
In his window till dawn. 1t came soon,
morning in his heart. His mind
worked With great rapidity. He had
made his will in the States. He
wished he could have left everything
to Lefty Lane. but If, as Ruggles said.
he was a pauper? Perhaps 1t wasn't
a lie after all. Dan had written and
telegraphed Ruggles asking for the
solemn truth. and also telling him
where he was and asking the older
man to come over. If Ruggles proved
he was poor. why, some of his our
den was gone. His money had been
a burden. he knew it now. He might
have no use for money the next day.
What good could 1t do him in a fix
like this? He was to meet Ponlo-
,towsky at five o'clock in a place whose
name he couldn't recall. He had seer
1t advertised. though: people went
there for lunch.
They were to shoot at twenty-five
paces-he might be a Rockefeller or
q beggar for all the good his money
could do him in a pinch like this.
His father wouldn't approve, the
old man wouldn't approve. but he had
sent him here to learn the ways OF
the old world. A 1ickering smile
crossed Ais beautiful. set face. HIS les
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a condition. Railroad rails will actu
ally creep forward along the ties
Solid and ponderous as they are. the
steel rails ere not immune from the
effects of heat or the steady pound
ing OF long trains moving over them
always in the same direction.
On the railroad tracks laid down
over Eads bridge this peculiar phe.
nomenon may be observed n day In
the week. Rails creep just as rapidly
over this structure in January as they
do IN August. Many trains roar over
this piece OF track suspended over the
Mississippi. The constant pounding of
these heavy trains and heavy engines
sets the track ~a-creeping. Fifty feet
OF rail a month is cut from the east
end or the ~east-bound track and from
the west end of the track over which
the West-bound trains pass.
The rails travel twenty-five inches
every day all the year round. In
ABOUT W years a given rail would
wander all the way across the big
bridge. 1t has been necessary to put
A>NPSi uSNISC VII UIiS eUU ana
"a feed rail- on the other in order to
keep the engines from coming down
through an unexpected gap to the
bridge floor.
Heat has the same effect on a piece
OF railroad steel. 1t will cause it to
elongate and press against the rails
at either erd. Once In a while there
is a railroad wreck produced by Just
such a happening. The hot sun pours
down into a cut upon a cinder road
bed or upon the rails u somewhere
IN the prairie and they begin to
"kink' and twist under the glare. The
next train that comes along at a fifty
mile an hour gait finds itself piled up
In the ditch. The rails have crept
until they could creep no farther and
then they have tried to tie themselves
a knot.
In wet weather the rails and ties
On open track show the same tenden-
cy to creep as do those on the Eads
bridge tracks. Under the pounding
propulsion OF a heavy train they begin
% slide forward, but in these cases
they take the ties with them. The
whole track moves for many inches
would continue to move Indefinite
y If the section gang failed to come
along and true things up again.
Bridges and other structures actu-
lily grow longer under the heat of a
sun and contract under the
hill winds and frosts of winter. The
monument feels the suns
avs through all its granite structure
vhen the u gets hottest in
experiments show that it is slightly
ut or plumb on every hot day. More
experiments show thai it in
lines toward the sun as that luminary
noves around the horizon.
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Watch for "kinkcd" RaIIs.

Most engineers run with care on a
not day. They are expecting "kinked'
rails at any minute. The engineer
with a good eye can spot a kinky and
twisted rail in time to at least cut
down his speed. 1t will be easy to see
on a stretch Of straight track, for 1t
VIII bow up like a hoop in some in
stances. II he fails to see It until
upon 1t he shuts his y e and
hopes that all his string of cars. en-
CINE included, will take it on the run.
II he Is lucky enough to get over 1t
without being derailed he reports it
from the first telegraph station. The
mar might not be SO lucky.
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CHAPTER XVIII,
Such Stuff as Dreams.


Dan was in his room at the hotel
he woke and then slept again. Moth
ing seemed strange to him-nothjng
seemed real. 1t was three O'Clock In
the morning, the rumble Of Paris was
oull; 1t did not disturb him, for he
seemed without the body and to have
grown giantlike. and to fill the room.
lie mad a sense Of s%uffocation and the
need to break through the windows
and to es n pc into ether.
The entrance of Poniotowsky's two
friends was a part with the unreal
naturalness. One was a Roumanian.
the other a Frenchman-both spoke
fluent English. Dan, his eyes fixed on
the foreign faces, only half saw them:
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Began az Train Disoatchers.

The legitimate ambition OF every
agent at a country station is to be
come a train dispatcher. He per
ceives that such a position is the ave
nue. to all sorts of desirable places.
he learns that the men above him
have been dispatchers-W. C. Brown
OF the New York Central, F. C. Under
wood and J. c. Stuart Of the Erie. G.
w. Stevens Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio. Marvin Hughitt and w. A. Gard
ner OF the Chicago and Northwestern.
l. q. Rawn OF the Illinois Central, w.
A.. Garrett OF the Seaboard Air Line
and a host Of others.
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(Copyr right. 1910. by The Bobbs- Msrriu Col
SYNOPSIS.

Dan Blair. the 22-vear-old son OF the
ffty-million-dollar copper king Of Blair
Town Mont; Is a guest at the English
heen e OF ltaay G al fyro Pans car ,ar sa'he d,1 had
MS visit TO the United States and the
courtesy is now being returned to the
ff r. ms man man; The youth has an ideal cir,
Breakwater. a beautiful widow. who IS
attracted by his immense fortune and
tha = a liking TO her. When Dan was q
poy, "A girl sang a solo at a church.. and
ne mac never forgotten her. The Ga
tpreys: LILY and Dan attend a London
fneater here one Lefty Lane is the star
pan recognizes h"r HIS the girl from his
town. and going behind the scenes intro
duces .himself and she remembers him.
s SUE ,rar nnd that Prince foniot9wsSy is
IoIey ana a friend named RugRles deter
nllne 70 protect the westerner from Lily
an and other fortune hunters. Young Blair
pu1 Lefty and this angers the Duchess
ne "esferner finds Lefty III from hard
nnorki put she recovers and Ruggles and
70 ou,ld a home for disappointed the
afr'cal. people. Dan visits Lily, for the
ume forgetting Lefty, and later an
Lefty refuses to sing for an entertain
ment given by LILY Galorey tells Dan
ina al Lily cares for is his money. and
nave been mutually in love for years.
Lefty sings at an aristocratic function,
Ian escorting her home. Oar confronts
Galorey and Lily together, Later he in
forms Lefty that his engagement with
LILY Is broken. asks the singer to marry
nun, and they become engaged. Ruggles
.h,nks the westerner should not marry
a pubic singer. and e~ndeavors to induce
I-etty 70 give him up. She runs away.
rearing she Is not good enough for Dan.
hnc Ruggles makes the latter believe she
1as abandoned his love. Finally Dan
nnds Lefty IN Paris. where he is per
in pressing his suit.
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CHAPTER xxx.
The Picture Of Il All,

] FNNUTC T IL MI.
AS far as his knowing anything OF
the customs of it all, it was like lead
ing a lamb to slaughter.
Villebon, lovely, vernal. at a later
hour the spot for gay breakfasts and
gentle rendezvous, had been desig-
mated for the meeting between Dan
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Stronghold Of Wasns.

An extraordinary nest of wasns w..
lately on the Bedfordshire
(Eng) estate of Lord Ampthill, where
a man. using three wire WASH trans
has caught over 1000 wasps. The nest
consisted of six tiers. which stood
SIX ind a half inches high. and meas.
ured eight and a half inches across
The cells contained grubs and young
xasps in different stages OF growth.
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CHAPTER XxVIi.-Continuec.

She made him take a table in the
corner, where she : in the shadow
on the sofa, overlooking the brilliant
room. Maxim's was nc lew scene to
either OF them. no novelty. PoDio-
towsky scarcely glanced at the crowd,
preferrinS to feast his eyes on his
companion, whose Indifference to him
made his abstraction easy. She was
his property. He would give her his
title; she had demanded 1t from the
hrst. The Hungarian was a little over
dressed, with his jeweled buttons. his
large b~outonniere. his faultless
clothes, his single eye-glass through
which he stared at Lefty Lane. whose
delicate beauty was In fine play; her
cheeks family pink. her starry eyes
humid with a dew whose luster is OF
the most precious quality. Her un
shed tears had nothing to 90 with
Poniotowsky-they were for the boy.
Her heart sickened. thinking where
he might be; and more thar that. II
cried out for him. She wanted him
Oh. she would have been far better
for Dan than anything he could find
In this mad city, than anything to
which In his despair he could go for
consolation She had kept her word,
however, to that old man. Mr.. Rug.
giles; she had got out Of the business
with a fatal result. as far as the boy
was concerned. She thought Dan
would drift here probably as most
Americans on their wild nights do for
q part of the time. and she had come
to see.
b wore a dress of coral mink.
tightly fitting. high to her little chin.
and seemed herself like a coral strand
from nech to toe, clad in the color she
affected, and which had become cele-
brated as the Lefty Lane pink. Her
feathered hat hid her face. and she.
was completely shielded as she bent
down drawing pictures with her bare
finger on the cloth. After a little
while she said to Poniotowsky with.
out glancing at him:
III you stare any longer like that.
Frederigo. you'll break your eye-glass.
You know how | hate It,"
Used as he was to her SHARPNESS
he nevertheless flushed and sat back
and looked across the room, where. 10
their right. protected from them as
they were from him by the great door.
q young man sat alone. Whether or
not he had come to Maxim's Intending
to join a congenial party, should he
f1nd one, or to choose for a COMPANION
n of the women who. at the
entrance of the tall blond boy. stirred
and invited him with their raised
iorgnons and their smiles, will not he
Dan Blair was alone. male as
the pictures Lefty Lane had drawn on
the cloth, and he. too, Toasted his ewes /;
on the Gaiety girl.
by Jove!" said the Hungarian
under his breath, and she eagerly
What? Whom? Whom do i
you see?" :
Turning bis back sharply he evaded /
question and she did not pursue t
the idea, and as a physical weakness
overwhelmed her when Poniotowsky r
a second said: Come. cherte. .
Tor heavens sake. let's go"-she me. :
:h~anical!y rose and passed out.
Several young men supping together a
same over eagerly to speak to her $
md claim acquaintance with the Gar /
~ girl. end walked along out to the 6
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of the most solid
structures in the
world. That II
would and can &C
tually e for
~ward-rails, ties
and all-seems al
m o S t incompre-
hensible. Every
double track rail-
road in the coun-
try, however, has
10 fpht :uct cunh
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For Economy In Fuel.

with a view to economizing fuel
the Japanese government has adopt
ed for It's railroads a German type
of locomotive with cylinders but if.
teen inches in diameter.
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An Ominous Assurance.

Il think" said the young statesman,
that some of my speeches will be re-
called with interest in years to come"
They will" replied Senator Sor-
ghum. unless you are exceptionally
lucky"
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The Fool Ahro.a

Whenever a foo! gets away from
home he seems to be afraid some
body may pass him without noticing
his foolishness.-Chicago Record.Har.
aid.
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FEAR CREEPING RAILS
DANGER THAT GETS ON NERVES
OF RAILROAD HEADS,
Periods Of Intense Heat or the Steady
Pounding Of Long Trains Are tho
Causes-FrequentIy Result
In Wrecks.

A railroad track, properly ballasted,
bolted and fish plated, looks like one
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Veteran Locomotive n WORK.

veteran Locomotive at Work.
A locomotive that originally va
built in 1847 has been reconstructed
and given light work to do BY a Ear
lish railroad.
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Fastest British Railroad Run.

The fastest railroad run in Great
Britain fs the Ah miles between
Darlington and York. at an average
speed Of 61.7 miles per hour.
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important to Mothers

This time of year, in order to have
your innings, you ought to have your
outings.
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Horan-Did yez notice about tn
Joke Mike played on wan av thin
chauffeurs?
Doran-I heard a turrible thing hap
pened to him, poor Mike!
Horan-Poor Mike, tn divvle! He
had a shtick av dynamite in his
pocket whin he wor run over.