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Evening star., 1915-01-31
Then-and Now.

<&COUABBLING and fighting-there's
~ another very frequent cause of di-
vorce" said Prof. l.. Watts 1ngersoll
in an address before the Cleveland
Anti Divorce League.
"A man had been hailed before a
Cleveland magistrate for non-support
or some such fault.
but, let me see.' the justice said,
aren't you the chap who was married
in a cage of wild man-eating tigers and
1eopards"
"'Yes, your honor, I'm the man. was
the reply.
Exciting, wasn't it?' said the JUS
tice.
well, your honor said the r1an, Vt
seemed SO then. 1t wouldn't now"
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tin the Cars Soldiers Behind the Firing Lir

the names Of l36 are double stars. show
ing that they have been killed. Tho
31th Regiment has lost SO per cent Of its
officers the I'd cha ssenrs has lost Il"
per cent. and the l1th Regiment has
lost in killed alone 40 per cent. Tho
I'd Army Corps Is called at Wilma the
NO Way Round Corps bc'tusc fui-
mer commander used to teach the OIL
GERS that nothing hu, tough frontal iicl'-
ing paid in war. Nologodnsky SAYS that
this is the corps record in the prcser'
war. During the German retreat from
Poland in November. ii made sin from "a
charges. II lost 1l.ooo men. quarter u
its strength. but IL got possession of a
German trench.
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They arranged that a second shell
should explode in the apothecarys store
When the generals adjutant rode round
to make sure that the vodka was in
order. he found fragments ~ shell,
which had done extraordinarily little
harm. hut had broken three saurers,
and with extraordinary Sagacity broken
also the locks and the seals on the
vodka store. II had judiciously spared
the vodka bottles. That night the ten
heroes from the Saiesse forts had their
ague and returned to interesting war.
The officers "Sohra niye" has an inter
estng record showing how the Sd Army
Corps has suffered from war. Seven
hundred officers Of the corps are men,
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this wreck was shattered into almost
hundred pieces. seventy-four of the
fragments of steel being found after
the wreckage vas cleared away It
was a steel rail thirty feet long,
weighing eighty pounds to the yard,
with eighteen oak ties under each rail.
At five minutes before o'clock the
morning of the wreck another pas
senger train passed over the place
where the accident occurred. The rail
was not broken them. and the crew of
the train reported that they felt no
unevenness of any kind, or any other
indication of broken rail At }
o'clock the same morning, an hour and
five minutes later, the rail flew into
more than three score fragments when
the weight of the next train. came upon
it. and every car in the train was
hurled from the track.
In October. 1913, a passenger train
on New England railroad was thrown
from the track near Westerly, r. l., by
a broken rail. This rail broke into
three pieces when the train, travelling
Evening star., 1915-01-31
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mainder of the rail is sufficiently SOFT
TO obviate the development of the con-
dition that brings about assuring. II
may. he says, be brought about by the
discovery of some method of temper
ing the whole rail, or of temperiue
only part of it. Until it is found.
however, broken rails are going 10
continue to take their toll.
The reward of that chemist who uu-
locks the secret of the steel and shows
the world how to make rails that WIZ
wear and still viii not conceal tn-
cancer spots of transverse assures viii
be great.
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ing but praise the war. All have been
there. and all want to go back. Loud
est Kisses "interesno, interesno'' he
whom his friends call Petrusha.
:.
This Petrusha has very black
beard and might be Jew. On his
back is a knapsack, an ordinary sack
cloth sack, pink silk bag. an AK,
kettle, a pannier. bag of oats anu
q rolledup straw mattress, and ne
has an enormous scar on his cheek- l
ask him where he got the pink SILK
bag. "Baruinya prislala," says he, A
lady sent it." The lady read news
paper appeal for bags in which the
soldiers might carry tobacco, pen
knives and writing materials, so she
cut up her silk petticoat and made a
pink bag, which will rot to pieces ON
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in all. the largest not more than an
inch and half in diameter. Not very
big, but plenty big enough to wreck
the train and cause injuries more or
less serious to seventy-four persons.
Since transverse assuring of steel
rails was first determined to be the
cause of breakage of the rails and con-
sequent disasters to trains, the divi-
sion of safety of the interstate COM
merce commission, under Chief Bel
KNAPP, and Engineer Physicist Howard
save labored to ascertain the con-
ditions which create such fissures and
and means by which they may be
avoided and eliminated. These assures.
as the name implies, run crosswise OF
the rail-, starting always from the
little center of infection within the
rails very heart
I'VE have concluded" said Mr. Bel
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at thirty to thirty-five miles an hour,
came upon it. When Physi-
cist Howard examined the pieces of
broken rail it was found that two of
the breaks were caused by transverse
fissures. The assures and the centers
from which they radiated measured
only aboutj an inch and half in
diameter. The broken rail was later
sent to Providence. r. L.. where ex
animation revealed two more of the
deadly transverse assures, and still an
other had been found in the rail when
a part of ii bad been removed
from the ties. The rail concealed with
in itself five of the trans,.e-... :
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crimped onto softer steel to make
rails The device is new. as is the
method of utilizing it, and not suffl-
cient time has as yet elapsed to learn
If it possesses practical value, even for
street railways. Should it prove
success in this branch of railroadfng
the method might not be found ADAPT
able to steam railroad constructions:
are very different.
Mr.. Belknap believes that ultimately
A means will be found of rolling rail
the wearing surface of which shall be
hard enough to withstand the wear of
modern railroad usage, while the re-
Evening star., 1915-01-31

graph wires carry to the ends of the
land the lists of dead and injured. The
transverse tissure in the rail that
caused the disaster mentioned was the
prime cause that smashed that rail into
seventeen fragments Of the shattered
steel rail were found, and others tha.
would have completed the rail never
were discovered.
In 1911, the year in which this wreck
occurred, the total of railroad wrecks
found to be due to the same cause
transverse assures in apparently sound
rails-was 249. In the years 1902 to
1872. inclusive, there were 2,059 rail-
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KNAPP. who used to run trains before he
entered the service, wears ago, of the
commi ssion and became chief of it's
division of safety. that these tissures
are caused primarily by making the
rails too hard.
As if, the iayman will say, "a rail. in
tended for usage such : rails receive,
could be made too hard.
Not SO many years ago. Mr. Belk
nap continued. the railroads COM
planned because the rails that We're
They wore out too quickly, necessitat
ing frequent replacement with new
metal. The rail heads frayed out-you
remember how you used to find, i'll
walking along the track, where rails
had raveled and frayed and broken
along the edges until they Were as
rough and uneven as a deckle-edged
sheet of paper-and then new rails had
to be laid.
$50 the steel mills set their chemists
to work to find ways OF hardening the
steel that went into the rails. It's the
putting of carbon into iron that con-
Verts it into steel, mainly. Too much
carbon makes the steel brittle, and too
little keeps it soft. The chemists
worked the problem. and at last
the steel of the rails began to grow
harder and harder as they learned how
to make it.
When rails were made softer than
they are now. before the roads had
clamored SO loudly against the soft
rails that wore out quickly. the rails
used to become 'piped'-that is, the rail
itself would open longitudinally. They
don't do that much nowadays, but the
transverse assures are worse 1t was
a comparatively easy matter to detect
a pped rail; but Il rail with "A trans
verse fissure isn't discovered until the
Hyrre rerl
icist makes the post-mortem ON 1t.
Just how the hardening process
causes the condition that develops into
transverse assures we have not found.
The highest-paid chemists of the big
gest steel mills in the country have not
been able to learn how 1t is and why
it is that modern steel rails, made
hard enough to keep them from fraz-
zling out piping, cannot be kept
from developing the little internal cam
GERS that become transverse fissures
and wreck trains.
Until some scientist learns a way in
which to make steel that can be rolled
into rails hard enough to withstand
modern traffic conditions and still soft
enough to prevent the occurrence or
these spots of steel infection wrecks
due to broken rails are bound to occur.
There is no way in which they can be
guarded against. No inspection Will
reveal the presence inside rail of
the spot from which the fssure radi-
ates; even %-rays do not and cannot
reveal the presence of the spots.
perhaps solution may be found by
making the wearing surface OF the rail-
sufficiently hard, while the other parts
remain soft. How this may be done l
am not able to say. l am Il railroad
man and chief of the commissions dl-
vision of safety, and it isn't to be eX-
pected that l should be able to answer
a question that has stumped the chem
lists of every steel rail mill in the
United States."
X
A device and a method is now being
tested on street railway tracks in some
of our largest cities whereby an eX-
Evening star., 1915-01-31

Sunday Special From the Trenches
Tell
Was Allowed War;
WawOer
Man Wilma Who
Il the Fihinq
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For the discovery Of the eating, grow
ing, widening transverse f1ssure men
must wait until at length the rail
breaks under the weight of the flying
wheels and the newspapers tell the
tale of the dead and injured.
Last February a passenger train on
northwestern railroad was wrecked
Minnesota. One passenger, and one
express messenger were killed, and
seventeen other persons were injured.
The rail that. by its breaking, caused
Evening star., 1915-01-31

-HE long, heavy train-fourteen
coaches, Pullmans, diners ana
chair cars, drawn by two big
q engines rolled along over
rock -balIasted track designed for JUST
.ucb traffic. The rails of the track
weighed ninety pounds to the yard OF
solid steel, inspected. before they LETT
the mills that made them, with such
n;inuteness and rigidity that even mi
croscopic defect would have been dis
covered There was no defect that was
visible to even the acutest human WIS
ton, and so the big. heavy rail went
into the firm one-hall@sted bed, IN
which it was supported, as were its fei-
lows, on eighteen ties of sawed timber
The rails were spiked 10 these ties
with plates that c!amped them down
with double spikes.
Track walkers went over the track sew
eral times each day and night. searching,
peering for those littie things that cause
rails to break or spread when under the
weight of heavily loaded trains. Search as
they might, the track walkers found none OF
these defects. none Of tn. little flaws that.
beings, lolling comfortably in the up
holstered chairs of the cars. hurting
down ragged embaukmeuts But the de
feet was there. AS silvery, leprous
spot it lurked within the very heart OF
the rail like a cancer it sent its trrtacies
eating eating into the cold steel. and.
weakening as they ate. always hidden from
the eyes of the men who searched for
flaws.
Evening star., 1915-01-31

bers of the "Sobraniye.' Opposite the
names of 247 are stars showing that
they have been wounded, and opposite
Evening star., 1915-01-31

Then came the morning when the
big train, with its freight Of hundreds
OF men, women and children, passed
along Another train. just rs heavy,
had passed not more than NJ. hour be-
Evening star., 1915-01-31

A device and a method is now being
tested on street railway tracks in some
of our largest cities whereby an eX-
tremely hard wearing surface Is
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-09-25

ing Of her oval face and the gilded
wealth Of her hair.
She wrapped the ring in Holworthy's
note and handed it to Aloysius.
"Take this to Mr. HolwOrthy," she
said, land let me know what he says"
She fumbled in her pocketbook and
produced quarter.
"Take this she continued. Hurry
back"
"Tanks, lady" said Aloysius, plac-
ing the package in the lining OF his
hat He stood in the door hesitatingly.
"Well, why don't you go?" said Miss
Wetmore.
"Now, lady," Aloysius stammered,
don't yer go ter beefin' no more" He
blushed at his own temerity and ran
wildly down the stairs.
The tall young man was pacing nerv-
ously up and down his room as Alo-
ysius entered.
"Well?" he blurted out.
"She gimme dis ter hand ter yer"
said Aloysius, taking the ring from the
lining of his cap.
Holworthy seized it with shaking fin
gers, and his face turned a CHASTITY
white. Aloysius stood waiting in the
door,
"That's ALL Holworthy said. "You
may 60"
Still Aloysius fingered.
'What are you waiting for?" Hol-
worthy croaked.
"She told me ter come back" Alloy
sfus replied land let her know what
YOU said"
Holworthy swallowed in an effort to
control his tones and made a gesture
Of dismissal.
"Gor' he managed to whisper and,
sinking down on the bed, covered his
face with his hands, while his Shout
ders heaved with great choking sobs.
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Aloysius turned and tiptoed from the
room. A quarter of an hour later he
was again conducted to Miss Wetmores
apartments in the Benson. She raised
fearful face toward him.
Well she said, what did he say?'
Aloysius shook his head.
"Narten, lady" ~
She folded her hands in her lap and
gaZed into vacancy.
what did he do?" she continued, and
her lips trembled piteously.
"Now, lady," said Aloysius, don't yer
go ter talan on about it de way he
did. On de level, lady, he beefed sum-
pin awful"
Miss Wetmore rocked to and fro in
impotent misery, and Aloysius, forget
ting that he was messenger boy, laid
a comforting arm on her shoulder Gen
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Potash,P erlmutter
and Others
By MONTAGUE GLASS
TX RED, THE ME-
DIATOR

copyright, The Frank A. Munsey Col
a LOYSIUS WALSH, the same
they call Red was playing
~ the mouth organ. He exhaled
the melody and inhaled the ac-
compartment, while Patsy Barry sat
beside him on the bench and kicked
the wooden partition beneath, tempo
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thy she took his hand in hers and press
ed a dollar bill into it. Aloysius turned
red ana choked.
thanks, lady," he murmured; but
couldn't take it."
He left the money on the table and
backed out Of the room.
The manager at Forty-ffth street
was just finishing his stogie when
Aloysius came back.
well" he grunted ''wher've you
been loahng?"
Aloysius was in no mood for correc-
ton.
Say" he piped, me mudder's sick,
an I'm goin home. See?'
"You are, hey?" the manager replied.
"You stay right here till Z O'Clock"
For answer Aloysius flung down his
oilcloth covered book and walked out
of the office, banging the door behind
him. Without hesitation, he made
straight for the Altrincham.
"Say," he said to the clerk. Give got
an answer for Mr. Holworthy in 3d.
The clerk looked at the pigeonholes
behind him.
"Gone OUT he replied.
where did he go?'' AIoysius per-
sisted
"You might try the Criterion club"
said the clerk.
By this time the light snow had
grown into a driving blizzard, and
Aloysius shivered as he faced the
singing particles. He turned into
Fifth avenue, his head bent to the
storm, just as hanson dashed around
the corner. The driver gave mighty
pull on his reins and swore horribly
as Aloysius disappeared beneath the
wheels. Young Holworthy jumped
from the cab and carried Aloysius in
his arms to the sidewalk.
"By George" he exclaimed. cts
the messenger boy!"
When the ambulance arrived the sur
geon shook his head dolefully.
"Must get him to the operating table
Immediately" he called to Holworthy
from the back of the wagon as it clang-
ed rapidly away.
Aloysius awoke four hours later with
the fumes Of the ether lingering In his
nostrils. He turned his head painfully
toward the white capped nurse at his
side.
Am 1 goin' to croak?' he whispered.
The nurse patted his pillow cheer
fully.
you're all right" she said.
"Say." he muttered again. ''kin I send
fer me friends?"
The nurse nodded, and placed linen
screen around him. She bent her head
while he whispered two names and ad-
dresses.
1t seemed like an age, but in reality
it was barely half an hour before they
arrived. Holworthy was the first to
come He leaned over Aloysius and
pressed his hand in silent sympathy. |
smiled gratefully.
"Say, Jack" he murmured, "have yer |
got dat ring"
Holworthy took it from his pocket |
and laid it on the bed. Then Miss Wet |
more entered. She stood on the OPP
posite side Of the bed and faint flush |
to Aloysius' cheeks as he saw
her,
He closed his hand over the ring.
Put it on. lady he muttered
With dropping eyes she placed the
ring on the third finger of her left
hand. Aloysius turned to Holworthy.
"Git over on de udder side.'' he whis-
)ered, and in q moment the two lovers
we're clasped in each others arms.
sAloysius beamed and half rose in his
)ed
kiss her, Jackw he gasped, and fell
Jack on his pillow.
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difficult task, for he began four epis
ties, only to tear them up. At the fifth
attempt he concluded short note 'ant
| handed it to Aloysius.
Take this letter to the Benson" he
said, land wait for an answer. If the
lady says there isn't any come bach;
and let me know. Here's 10 cents for
ear fare and a quarter for yourself"
Aloysius pocketed the quarter
Tanks, Jack" he said Eyer all
right
The tall young man sighed heavily.
He had large melancholy eyes and fea-
lures so delicately nodded as to APP
good to look upon, and the dinner coat
which he wore by no means detracted
from his appearance.
Hustle. now" he said, land If you
come back in less than half an hour
there's more coffee downstairs
Aloysius grinned and hurried for the
elevator. On his way down he discov-
cred that the envelope, none too secure
ly sealed, had broken open, and in the
street car he drew the letter from it's
covering and perused it with frown.
1t ram:
Dearest-Tell me you didn't mean what
you SAID this afternoon. The boy will
wait for an answer. HUBERT.
Oats hot onew Aloysius mutter-
ed replacing it in the envelope. The
car logged along over the joints in the
rails. and Aloysius, seated for warmth
over a grating Of the electric heater,
took his harmonica from his tunic and
passed it furtively across his mouth.
The only other occupants Of the car
were the conductor, who stood inside
the door and an old gentleman curled
up in the corner behind the financial
page of conservative evening paper.
At the first strains the old gentleman
glanced menacingly over the celluloid
rims of his glasses. and the conductor
darted up the aisle Of the car
"Hey!" he yelled. Eyer wanter cut
dat out. See?'
Aloysius rose slowly
"Who for?" he inquired, and as the
conductor grabbed for him he lodged
and jumped nimbly from the rear plat
form. Standing on the sidewalk, he
inserted his two index fin
gers in either corner Of his mouth and
sent shrill defiance after the retreat
ing car Three times and with great
solemnity he repeated the performance
and then turned and entered the por-
tails of the Benson.
"Dis is for Miss Ethel Wetmore, he
said to the clerk. IAN dere's an an
swer.''
The clerk handed the note to bell
boy, who returned a moment later.
"She wants to see the messenger"
ne said.
Aloysius was ushered into a room on
The third floor in which a lady was
sitting, a lady of such compelling
charm that Aloysius removed his hat
md gasped
Are you the boy that Mr.. Hol-
worthy sentY' she asked.
"a tall guy wild a dress suit?" Alo-
ysius queried.
The lady nodded.
"Yes'm,'' he said.
Slowly she removed from the third
niger of her left hand a solitaire dia-
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mond ring that
sparkled brill
iantly in the sub
dued lighting of
the room. But
Aloysius had no
eyes for the gem.
He gazed open
mOuthed at two
round drops that
j e d gently
down the lady's
cheeks.
Now" he COM
menced huskily-
nov, lady-dOn't
yer, now
He recognized
in her the orig
inal of the six
photographs in
the room at the
A | t r i n C b a M,
though the beau
ty Of her features
was many times
enhanced by the
4oIo
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BRIEF LOCAL NEWS

A. B. Cox is in the city from Port
, land on business visit
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Clemans are in
the city from Charleston attending the
fair.
J. R. Fullenwider, postoffice in
spector, was in the city from Spokane
last evening.
H. A. Bard, travelling freight agent
of the O.-W. R. & ~, is in the city
from Spokane.
Northern Express company, was in
the city yesterday from Spokane at
tending the fair.
After brief stay at home, Jerome
j. Day returned to Northport where
he is experimenting operations for
the installation of a smelter.
Miss Allen, the new instructor in
violin and orchestra, will make her
first public appearance in Moscow at
the Presbyterian church tomorrow
morning.
A. R. Wall of Linden is in the city
attending the fair. Mr.. Wall says that
the bean crop on the Little Potlatch is
bigger and better this year than in
many years.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson of Southern
California are visiting at the home of
Mrs. Amanda Wolf Mrs. Anderson
will be remembered by her many
friends as formerly Mrs. Taylor Will
son.
Little Doris Mae Rowley, who has
been visiting her great grandmother,
Mrs. Ralph J. Townsend, has return
ed to her home at East Helena, Mont.
She is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
D. Rowley.
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The young peoples society of the
Christian church wish to announce
the first of their series of parties to
be given Saturday night, September
25th, at the church. Everyone is in
vited ROOT
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Local and Foreign
MHRHETS

The following market quotations ar,
the prices paid to the producer by the
dealer and are changed daily, thus Civ.
ing the public the accurate quotations
on all classes of grain, produce and
meats:
The grain quotations below were
furnished today by the Mark P. Miller
Milling company of Moscow.
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Safety Deposit Boxes for rent la.
tab County Abstract Co. If