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The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
Horse Decreed Narrow Gauge.

With the installation of locomotive
on the Drumburgh Junction-Port Car
lisle railroad in the north of England
the last horse drawn passenger train
in Great Britain disappears.
But the ghost of the horse will stalk
ahead of every train, even the fastest
express, as long as the standard gauge
remains 4 feet 81a inches. This width
was decreed by the horse which drew
trucks along the rails laid down at
northumberland collieries, long before
George Stephenson invented the loco
motive. 1t is the width between the
wheels of all horse-drawn vehicles and
was accepted as matter Of course by
the first makers of railroads.
Only Brunei had the audacity to ig,
more the convention and increased the
power, speed and accommodation OF
his trains by making the gauge six
feet, the last length of which, however
disappeared in the early '90s, leaving
the horse precedent supreme.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
AUTOMATIC RAILROAD GATE

Hydraulically operated gates for
railroad crossings adapted to be auto
matically closed before an approach
ing train and opened after the train
has passed, are provided by this inven-
ton. The mechanism comprises pair
of inter-communicating cylinders of
different diameters, the plunger of a
larger cylinder being adapted to be en-
gagged by a vehicle moving on the
track, while the smaller cylinder is
fitted with a plunger that operates the
Scientific American.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
Public Opinion.

People say how strong public opin-
ion is; and, indeed, it is strong while
it is in it's prime. In its childhood
and old age it9s as weak as any other
organism. l try to make my own
work belong to the youth of public
opinion. The history of the world is
the record of the weakness, frailty
and death of public opinion, as geol-
ogy is the record of the decay of those
bodily organisms in which public opin-
ions have found material expression.
Samuel Butler
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
Inventor Of Steel Rails.

The first modern steel rails of the
type which made high speed railway
operation possible were designed by
Plimmon Henry Dudley, who was born
at Freedom, O., seventy-one years ago.
He became civil and metallurgical
engineer, and after four years as chief
engineer Of the city of Akron, O., he
turned his attention to railroading and
transportation problems.
Dudley's first invention, the dyna-
graph, was made in 1874. He perfect
ed the track indicator in 1880 and
three years later designed the first
five-inch steel rails used in America. In
1892 he introduced the first six-inch
100-pound rails. Another of his inven-
tions which made the famous flyers"
of today possible was the stremmato-
graph, an instrument for obtaining and
registering strains in rails under NOV
ing trains.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
WEARING ON NERVES
DUTIES OF TRAIL. DISPATCHER
MOST ONEROUS.
Man Directly Responsible for the
Lives of Passengers and the Safe
Transportation Of Freight
Must Be Gifted.

Since safety first" became the
slogan of railroads about five years
ago, as opposed to "get there quick, ="
there has been most gratifying de-
crease In the number Of accidents.
Railroads everywhere have been
forced by public opinion to adopt the
best mechanical appliances and to
make the most stringent regulations
for the protection of passengers. One
road which had had a number of &C.
cidents attended by loss of life, was
compelled to reorganize it's entire
signal system, as result of public
feeling after disclosures of a con-
gressional investigation.
Pacific coast railroads have had few
bad wrecks in recent years, and one
system operating on the Coast boasts
that 1T has carried 100000 passen-
gers an average of one mile without
a single fatality.
The man directly responsible for
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
Boon TO Mankind.

Ignatius Tootle, the renowned au-
thority on floral life, who lives near
the quiet village of Yankee Springs,
is at the present time trying to out
burbank Burbank, the wiz, by grow
ing a rectangular watermelon. Mr..
Tootle has noticed for years that ulti-
mate consumers have had much trou-
BILE trying to carry watermelon from
the store, inasmuch as they (the wa
termelons) are of awkward shape and
quite slippery, and after watermelon
has fallen and has hit the cement side
walk it's usefulness may be said to be
over. Mr.. Tootle's watermelon will
be long and will have square corners,
one of which corners will fit into the
bent elbow when the melon is carried
on the inside of the arm. Mr.. Tootle
expects to have his new melon grow
ing and on the market by 1927, if moth
ing happens.-Boston Globe.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
HAD THE PICTURES MEANING
What Famous Painting Rep
resented.

Two men stood before painting in
store the other day gazing wonder
ingly at a picture of an equestrian
statue of General Lafayette. The ia
nous Frenchman was represented on
a prancing steed. Over his arm he
carried robe. At his feet stood an
allegorical figure of Victory extend
ing a sword toward him as mark
of homage. l wonder what that pic
ture means? asked one of the men. Il
don't know" replied the other. Il
was just trying to make out what sea-
son of the year it was when a woman
could go around with so little clothing
while a man was dressed up in a
heavy suit like that" ooh, see what
it is now" cried the first one You
see the soldier stole the woman's
cloak and when he took it from her
he dropped his sword, and now the
woman is trying to trade him back
the sword for her clothing"
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
MIND TEST FOR TRAINMEN
piled by Managers of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Lines.

After many experiments the Penn
sylvania railroad has completed a
series of psychological tests to be ap-
piled to applicants for jobs as en-
gineers and trainmen in place of the
written and physical examinations.
The management now is seriously con-
sidering the universal adoption of the
idea as a means of automatically sep
arating the fit from the unfit, and
avoiding the heavy expense of training
men who afterward may be found un-
qualified.
The new tests, founded on principles
laid down by Prof. Hugo Munsterberg
of Harvard, are designed to put to
economic use some of the many dis
coveries concerning the way the hu-
man mind works, under different con-
ditions. The railroad officials have
been impressed by the enormous
waste resulting from the lack Of any
scientific method of selecting men for
the various kinds of railroad work,
and they found there were too many
incompetent men in the service.
If the company decides to adopt
these tests for applicants, it will be
the first employer to do so and 1t is
believed the successful operation OF
the idea will result in it's adoption by
many of the larger employers of labor
throughout the country.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25

If you wish beautiful, clear white
clothes use Red Cross Bag Blue. At all
good grocers. Adv.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
COMBINE BEAUTY AND UTILITY
Railroad Directors Had Definite Pur
pose In Planting Honeysuckle
Along the Right of Way.

For the past twenty miles or SO,
said the reporter to the railroad man,
as they were sitting together at the
business end of the division superin.
tendent's car on a part of the Chesa'
peake & Ohio before 1t begins to climb
the Alleghanies, II have noticed that
honeysuckle grows on the banks OF
some directors wife so romantic as all
that?"
Romantic nothing" said the rail
road operator That honeysuckle is
there for purely business purposes.
You recall there was an extensive
food on this and other roads a year
ago. That food washed out a lot OF
our track west of the Alleghenies. 1t
also undermined the banks of great
deal of the track eastward, where
there was not supposed to be any food
at all. But we found the railroad
banks which were planted with honey
suckle held against the undermining
influence of the excessive rains; while
the banks not so protected did land
slide of their own and blocked traffic.
1--WE are now planting honeysuckle
on the embankments where they are
liable to shelve, and are charging 1t up
to operating expenses without regard
to the humane idea that the odor might
be grateful to the passengers travel
ing on soft coal road."-Wall Street
Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
WAGES of Locomotive Engineers.

The best-paid locomotive engineers
in Italy receive $1.64 a day, firemen
So cents, conductors $1.28, head brake
men $110 and ordinary brakemen 73
cents, after long years Of service. A
station guards pay ranges between
fifty and seventy cents, and a switch
man, beginning at 81 cents, in Is years
may attain a wage of 20 cents a day
In reality they all receive considerably
less, for the government deducts from
their pay the income tax and pension
premium. 1t is not surprising that the
men are threatening to strike for bet
ter wages. When American railroad
employees contrast their own compen
sation with these figures they may
we'll feel that they are the best-paid
workers of their kind in the world
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
Blackbird Starts Trains

The police and railroad authorities
at the station of Basic, Switzerland.
have been searching for the last
two months for the criminal who has
been giving the regulation whistle for
the departure of trains from the depot
at regular hours and thereby endanger-
ing the traffic. Several trains were
sent off before their time by these
whistles, and had to be called back,
while in some cases collisions were
narrowly avoided. The culprit was
found in blackbird, who had built a
nest inside the depot and learned to
initiate the guards whistle Gen
darmes received orders to shoot it.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25

A man isn't necessarily honest be-
cause he is poor.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25

the movement of trains and the lives
Of persons carried by them is the
train Dispatcher telegraph operator
chosen for this work because of his
mathematical ability, his steady
nerves, good habits, executive qualifi-
cations and knowledge Of railroading.
The dispatcher is an Official con-
trolling from one hundred to three
hundred miles of track, and every
thing running over it. He knows the
hauling power of every locomotive,
the length Of every siding, the grade
of every stretch of track, ani the abil-
ity to make time" Of every engineer
and conductor. He signs the superin-
tendent's initial: to his orders, and is
in direct charge of the oporatio- of
trains.
Thus the dispatchers responsibility
is far more than to keep the trains
apart, he must get them over the road
at the maximum Of speed consistent
with safety, and see that every work
train, extra freight and every light
locomotive Is kept moving without
accident. On a big train sheet he
keeps tally of everything that travels
between stations, and as each station
operator reports trains arriving or de-
parting, the dispatcher marks the
time on his sheet.
Special trains, extra freights, help
er locomotives and work trains are
some of the things that turn the dis
patcher's hair gray, or make it fall
out He always is afraid he may for
get one of them, and issue the dread
ed 'lap order which may cause a
head-on collision.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
A Poser.

Mathematical Professor have now
completely discussed the theory of
Problematical Freshman-Yes sir.
Will you please compute the probabil-
ity of my passing this course Dart
mouth Jack O. Lantern.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
The Unfortunate Fact.

"A mans sins find him out sooner or
later" said the cynic; but, unfortu-
nately, most of the time they find him
in."-Judge.
The Winslow mail., 1914-07-25
Chile IMPROVING Railroad Lines

Chile will raise s1O,219,65O this year
for improvements on state railroads
and $22,921,215 for betterments will
ne raised in the next five years.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
A DIFFERENCE: HELLO
John Lind and the Legal Representa-
tive. of Carranha Discuss the Pro-
unsition Conditions Not
Made Public.


Washington. y. e. May 27.--
Representatives. Of the constitutional
lists here today took steps to reopen
the question of representation at
the Niagara Falls mediation. John
Lind conferred with the eonstitn=
tionalist representative, c. \. Doug
las. ANA both are 20 confer with
Bryan later today.
Neither Lind or Danglas would
discuss the conditions under which
the constitutionalists are willing TO
participate in the conference, but
both indicated that the Carranza rep
reentatiye would have most limited
power and would probably be used
to furnish Carranza with informa-
ton.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
W ATEE COVERS THIRTY
ACRES OF BROW &>N iIlE

Brownsville, Texas, May II
Thirty acres OF ground within the
city limits were under the Rio
Grande flood water last night and
a dozen Mexican families have been
forced to yaeate their homes In that
section.
The water IS from one 10 two
fleet deep and with the river rising
|slowly, the overflow Is rising In pro-
portion.
So far the levees recently con
|structed have been effective ana
ground covered by water last tall
when the river last Went out of its
banks is protected.
| Reports from up the river yester-
| day as far west as Roma give lit
tile hope for recession of the flood
as it continues rising there, being
now 23 feet above the low water
mark. Low ground along the river
at many points is becoming covered
but so far no damage to crops has
been reported.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
OvRBAA TIE SECOND
WON ENGLISH DERBY
HirSBt re. WAS SECOND AND
rEIIE HERMIT CANE Ot-T
THIRD.
Race Was Kun over tonTsc Which
Tor More than Century Has Been
scene of Annual Battle for
Equine Supremacy.
BY the United Press.

EPSON Downs, England, May y
H. H. Duryea's Durbar II won the
great Derby lIapsbure vas second
Peter the Hermit was thIrd. The &In-
ner WAS The only American entry ia
the Derby
The Derby winner vas ridden BY
Jockey McGee, an American The
purse was $4,000. 00. Durbar was
4 twenty to one short. The sutira-
eettes did not interfere with the
race
The Derby, proudly called by En-
glishmen the ''bme ribbon of the
worlds turf, Was run today over
the historic course which for more
tllan a century has been Che scene
of the annual battle for equine SUI
premacy The race was for three
year-olds. colts carrying ] 10
pounds. and lillies 123 pounds, and
was worth $4,000 to the winner,
81 900 to the second and $1,000 to
M ,ttra Tin. ryact distance Is
Ill f,rIonas 90 wards and the
.,aord ,ir,a ,rbinvo, IN 1910 bv
o,,h.rn. win Rerrard Dillon W.
:, ,..;,,.,os a. IL secondg
Having In mind the tragic sufra-
getfe intcrferences with last years
,,,..,.,. "a. hon ,fiys Emily WiIding pa
,.i.,,u ran ont in from, Of the Kings
-. 49,. =, Tottonb.n, corner
- ,..,.,.., .,a,.,, and .ccai,.ad in
,..,.-. ,r,.,, u.ttcb .te died Two DAYS
,.t,. ,-,a,,o, ltarhar, received
~, ,.,oo.srls had mr.
{" " ',''' ''F' ,....,.a,,,d ,,,,,,-
1T 20 s,,ora tho rourso to-
THO on,v other betting was com
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
Uno OF Grceiot's Printers Dies.

san Antonio. Je&as, MAY H.
Joseph tlrlch, - years old, United
States Consul az Monterey Mexico,
during the civil war and one Of the
most widely known pioneer resi-
dents OF this section of Texas. died
at his home here Monday morning
Mr.. Nlrich set type on the firt issue
of Horace Greeley's Tribune in New
York. He was the oldest member
OF the alumni association of Dickin-
son college, Carlisle Pa.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
SOLICITOR FOLK WANTS
ALL OF MORCAN's BOOKS
Takes Four Assistants with Him to
New York to Examine Books
and Papers of Late J. Pier
pont Morgan
BY the Associated Press.

New York. N. Y, May 27.--So-
licitor Folk of the interstate com
merce commission conferred here
today with J 7. Morgan's lawyers,
regarding the examination to he
made by the commission of Nor
CANS books. Folk announced: I'VE
don't want one book. We want them
all = He brought four men to as
sist him,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
MILITANT FIRES BIA>h
PISTOL At POLICEMAN
nv the Associated Press.

Epson Downs, England, May
=, pico q militant at the Derby,
discharged a blank pistol at q po-
1iceman. The discharge burned ms
t,o,sers and blistered one OF ms
legs rhe woman was arrested
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
iucioSe the Magnetic.

A little splash of water, either
from drips on the fan in filling the
radiator or from washing the car,
VIII often put the magnetic out of
action until the moisture dries out
Magnctos should be inclosed.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
<uECEs ON RAMPAGE
HOUSE WASHED ANAL
nv the Associated Press.

Corpus Christi, Tex, May 1t
Many Mexican houses aio"e Wv
hanks of the Nueces river were
washed away today when the stream
.s,ouaa its banks. The families
we're rescued In boats
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
ROOSEVELT WAS READY
TO EMO COAL STRIKE
Testified that in 1902 He Was Ready
to Take Action Equivalent TO
War to Bring Strike to an
End.


New York, May 21,--iooAeNelt
testified today that in 1902 he was
ready to take action, equivalent to
war time action, to end the coal
strike at that time even though it
would have ment his Impeachment.
The testimony was in an attorneys
suit for strike fees against President
White of the miners.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
To Investigate Killing.

Comanehe. Texas. May 27.-Clyde
Graham of Sipe Springs was shot
and killed last week Judge Arnold
has reconvened the grand jury to
Investigate the case. An arrest has
been made.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
Man Accidentally Killed.

Lampas3s, Texas, May 27,--Yest-
erday afternoon Lewis Morris, tin
ner, while repairing the awning in
front OF a store, came in contact with
live electric light wire and fell
twenty feet to the street below. He
was killed almost instantly.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
ltNAN AND ENGINEER
ARE KILLED IN WASHOUT
y FREIGHT Train Meets With Dis
["s'eF Due To the Heavy Rains
Two of Crew
Killed.

ny the Associated Press.
Texas, May 27.--Two
p'a'' as a result of a Katy freight
y running into a washout near
Today. Engineer William Me
- ana Fireman Jenkins, both of
'thFiile, We're killed,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
|NDAY's CHOIR LEADER
FACES A DAMAGE SUIT
ichr Old Blonde Seeking TO
["'oNer FIFTY Thousand Dollars
as Balm for Wounded
Heart.
Ky the United Press.

"'SaRo, Ill, May 27.-"He told
career of winning souls was
worthy than my love" deciar-
'''As Georgia Jay, a pretty blonde.
''e trial of her $4,000 suit for
\ =" VI promise against Homer
9Aa'er, choir director for EvaE-
bil'ie Sunday. Stories Of
l., 'sh. boat rides and taxis when
a'er kissed her and promised
'S her were recited by Miss
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
A STORM SAVES NEGRO
FROM WRATH OF POSSE
surrounded In a Cabin in the Woods
Fugitive Made His Escape
During Heavy
Rain Storm.
nv the Associated Press.

Fairfield, Texas. May 27.-Rain
last night saved Lloyd Thomas.
negro fugitive, from posse which
had closed in about him in the
woods near here. A woman saw him
getting his supper In negro cabin
and notified the posse, but seven
minutes later when the posse arrived
a violent storm broke. The hunt
for the negro is continued today.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
MOTORCYCLE HITS WAGON
TWO RIDERS ARE KILLED.
Nv the Associated Press,

Chicago, Ill, May 27,--EdWard
Bomark and Marie kiernan were
killed when their MOTORCYCLE hit an
express wagon today.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27

Every man has his little distinc-
ton; probably have suit smoking
oftcner than any man on my large
list of acquaintances. '-Rufe Hos
kins
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27
SARAH HER\HARDT Is
REPORTED SERIOl>l ILL
nv the United Press.

Paris, France, May ~Sarah
Bernhardt is seriously i'll at Llcee.
Her condition is grave.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-05-27

A lot OF men who oversee inn
are only in the way,
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-12-18
NfW$Iz5z Views
esSor11 Che
CAElEGEs q II IONA
ISSUED by Arizona News Blreau)

Issued by
O the sxn
to life
B.
o.
forgot Of the
Prescott committed Ernest W. Lewis who presided judge at shat
Frank
ernOr
of the
of
a
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-12-18
HOW WE GET THE NEWS.

Day before yesterday perfectly nice lady
called us up and with tears in her voice reproved
lis for not mentioning the fact that she had had a
friend visiting her last week. We told her that
she had not let us know anything about it and
that therefore, we did not know that she had a
visitor. Then she said, swell you should have
known. l thought you were running newspa-
per- Wouldn't that rattle your Stats? Some
people think that editor ought to be cross
between Argus and Anna Eva Fay. They seem
to think that OUR five senses augmented by
sixth that lets US know everything that hap
pens, even if see hear, feel. taste smell it
not. Dear lady, editors only human at
least, almost human. If you have friend visit
ing you, if you going away have returned
from visit out of town. if Johnnie falls and
breaks his ARM if your husband chops his toe
instead of stick of wood, if anything happens that
makes you glad, sad, happy, mad call us
up. Tell us about it. That's the way to get it In
the paper ~.~~ft
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-12-18
THE GOVERNORS BITTERNESS.

The governor appears to be more or less bit
ter over the fact that the majority of the people
of the state do not share his solicitude for the
eleven n1rderers at Florence who were sentenced
TO die for taking the lives of human beings, and
he is said to have remarked that the people who
voted against the abolition of capital punishment
are in effect guilty of murder. From this It
would appear that the governor IS still not recon-
ciled to the fact that the majority should rule
The governor holds the belief that the people who
voted against the abolition of capital punishment
would not have so voted had they not been msled
BY several who took prominent part in combat
mo bis theories. Is
Granting for the sake Of argument, that
the people of the state might have voted to abol-
ish capital puni shment had there been agitation
who is it that took the lead in the agitation if not
the governor? He made it his hobby-horse as
soon as he became governor, and he has ridden it
continuously during his term OF office. But, in
stead of attracting support to his stand, he has
apparently driven support from it and If anyone
is responsible for injecting extraneous argument
into the discussion it lis the governor himself and
if any individual is responsible for the fate that
will be melted out to those men it is Governor
Hunt and none other.
However, we do not believe that any ex-
traneous considerations entered into the peoples
decision of this question. We believe that it is
the deliberately registered protest of the. people
of the state against making the Law the Defend
ant, Society the Accomplish the State the De-
fender and the Felon the Prosecutor. If it is
wrong to punish for crime our system of jhris-
prudence should be changed. If civilization is
guilty of the acts done by criminals civilization
should pay them an indemnify