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different key, and behind his back asked
each other how it was that a man with
Arthur Hamln's salary had so often to
borrow the price of Il luncheon
AS for the notes he signcdit is common
knowledge how quickly they make the time
pass by.
In word, iamlin had lived lifetime
Of petty worriment. Yet somehow he con-
trived to maintain certain show of dig
nifty. Somehow he had met his obligations,
though they might be ever so far behind
hand. And through it all he had kept his
family reasonably happy. Yet a night of
untroubled sleep was quito unknown to
him. The point is, he had learned to live
without happiness. He had, precisely
this, made friends with his Worries
Now he sat at the window on this first
night of spring and thought of it. The
bills were paid now. Two years before.
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On such an evening in spring, Hamlin
sat, and sat there long. lie thought Of
his wedding day, of the brisk sort he had
married, Of the prospects Of successful
authorship which had frightened those
days for them both. OF many things he
thought; Of tho charming objects they had
bought for the housc-and at such CHASTITY
prices! There it had started. Both Of them
had enlightened tastes, neither had pos
scssed shred of restraint. Lovely enough
it had been for q year or two. then began
the worry. Always a little faster than he
could pay they had purchased always on
the strength of stories to be sold, of
novels to be writtcn-which had so steadily
refused to be written in his busy lite.
His days had gone into work at the Office.
The evenings when he had planned to
writewell, Lucy was always so fond of
bridge and the theatre.
With the arrival Of the two girls, peace
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Lucy had divorced him. One daughter had
married well; the other had married even
better. By the card, Hamlin should have
been happy, with the house no burden any
longer, but only capital place for the en-
tertainment of his friends. Not a thing
should have rutllcd Hamlin as he sat there
nothing but such grcfs and stretches Of
loneliness as fall to us all
For long time, till we'll into the morn
ing, Hamin sat at the window, rewriting
the story of his life. Very quietly and
very long he sat, and smoked cndlessly.
Then he did thing which served all his
friends for n nne-day wonder. He sud-
denly rose and passed out of the room and
into the bathroom. There he reached into
the medicine chest and swallowed some
thing.
1t is true that his worries were go e.
But he was utterly lost without them
B. K
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The Difficulties
Involved

Amos Schaeffer consulting engineer of
the Borough of Manhattan, has submitted a
comprehensive report to the Reconstruction
Commission, in which he points out the
technical difficulties of the sub Hudson ye-
hicular tunnel as planned. He suggests
instead a number of tunnels of much smaller
dimensions, which, he states, would be ade
quate to handle the traffic and which would
not present the almost overwhelming prob
lens of the proposed plan.
The experimental features of the PRO.
posed project are the unusually large di-
ameter OF the tunnel; new method of
hnlng 1t, which is untried, and the uncer
talnty OF estimating to any accurate degree
the cost or the time it would take to com
plete the undertaking. Ventilation is an
other objection raised to the plan as it now
stands.
The new features are largely expert
mental and involve considerably more risk
than the accepted methods" SAWS Mr..
ochaeHer. On the other hand, if nothing
new were undertaken no progress would he
made. The departure from the usual meth
obs OF subaqueous tunnolling, however. is
quite radical.
1T is perfectly feasible to construct tun-
nels across the Hudson River Of a size suf-
nc'ehtiy largo for two lines of vehicles, say
aoous 20 feet IN diameter, and to estimate
LARRY accurately the time and money re-
au'reo' The two-dcck tunnel proposed has
capacity considerably larger than il re-
CURED Tor traffic in tho near future, 40 that
Two tunnels' with space for four lines Of
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20. After it is constructed, is it disable?
-. Are the estimates of cost anywhere
near correct; in other words, will the state
find that it has entered upon programme
of much more expense than it has in sight
at the present time 90
The five engineers to whom these ques-
tons have been submitted are Amos
Schaeffer, consulting engineer of the Bor-
ough of Manhattan; H. d. Parsons, engineer
of the New York City subways; George w.
Fuller, George F. Kuntz and Paul g. Brown.
Although these engineers all believe We
hicular tunnel would be an important public
work, yet it is felt that there are certain
disadvantages in the way the work has been
planned.
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Worry

had ceased in the household Hamlin
JOY there was, of course, in plenty. That
was for Lucy, for Peggy and Anne as they
grew. 1t might not have been altogether
bad, but for the bills, the duns, the visits
Of collectors to his desk, so that they
became jest among his mates at the
Office.
Such matters he kept from the three
merry girls at homo ~ this everlasting
puzzle, which sometimes became positive
~ entertaining of how to stave Off a suit
or where to raise the money for some un-
common demand, as when Lucy needed the
new fur coat. His ncighbors used to envy
Hamlin. There his wife, always so
handsomely dressed, and his sprightly and
popular daughters, in proof of his doing
so well. People entertain a prodgious re-
spect for man who is doing we'll.
At the office his associates marveIcd in
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which 1,4oo feet is directly under the
river. The Rotherhithe has the largest
cross-section Of any subaqueous tube of
this type in the world and took four years
to construct 1t was driven with shield
S0 feet in diameter through clay mixed with
shells, pebbles and loan. a much flrmer
material than that which would be encoun-
tered in the proposed Hudson tunnel The
top of the main tunnel excavation in the
middle of the. river was only seven feet
from the bed Of the Thames. The maxi
mnm progress in ono day was l2.5 feet. The
air compressora were together capable Of
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Broadway, surrounded byea dazzling
radiance of electrical 'pyrotecirnics.
They had not been back long enough
to escape the blatant contrast New York
street made with the darkened ways of
Franco. 1t. did not seem safe rational
all this light. Not very long ago both of
them had been in a certain accurately
mapped piece of country. where the lighting
of a single candle : harbnger of de-
struction. They still remembered itr-that.
place was not easy to forget-and the pict-
ure, coupled with the crowds on the bright
thoroughfare, made them i'll at ease until
theymet.
They knew they had been thinking of the
same thing; they knew it SO surely that it
was. not worth the effort to frame their
thoughts in words. Instead they asked the
question that. comes SO readily to any one
who took the trip to Europe:
when did you get back?"
Neither cared particularly, though they
both registered every appearance of interest,
But 10 the asking they had crossed the ocean
again-and not in the direction of the
Statue of Liberty. 1t was an introduction
to land where you reduced lights to
minimum, where the cellar was the logical
place to sleep, where anything might happen
in the brief span of single evening Hhey
had left that existence behind with protesta-
tions of relief, and yet one of them was
saying: - -
"say, Bill reminds you of the good old
times, doesn't ?" ,H t~ias
''You said it," the other replied; sit al
ways will when we meet like this" ~. .rs-'
And they both were right. The glamour Of
the past, trite as the phrase Is, has some-
thing to do with it. 1t evohes all sorts Of
charms you had never associated with your
engagement in Europe. 1t even gives that
joke about the quiet in the front line
trenches a shade of truth. For instance,
northeast of the quaint little town of Sept
sarges, situate few kilometres west of the
Meusr River, just before it meanders down
to the reaches before Verdun, is a wood,
like" the town, the worse for. wear from a
number Of years intermittent shelling.9 In.
spite of this, however, the Boche soldiers
did well with that wood. Once upon a time,
not SO very long ago it was far enough
back in the territory of Bochcland not to
be inolested much, except by the heavier
and more expensive artillery. Therefore, the
fserrea, command, awaiting itself Of this
feSloA OIL comparative quiet, erected num-
Der Of rustic buildings, surrounding some Of
them ,sith little gardens and fences antf
,gatewaysa za'here was a motion picture che
~ sE40sFa the woods, barracks, stables, and,
Is SEA ri all, an officers club This was To-
- eats ORA rise of ground beneath cump
r Of T. IS 1t had three rooms decorated, in
acceptance With the Teutonic idea of a home.
Ih ire ~aro stoves, books and pictures and
even CHI RS The most desirable feature
I was Co rfaodious dugout close enough to
the ha k Dor so that you could reach it in
the pro feroial three bounds When we ar
rived in the wood and the Boche consider
ately retired over the hill and into the val
ley thar sheltered the white wallis and red
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By Hilda D.. Jackson
"HE HUDSON avehicular Tunnel
project recommended by the New
York State Bridge and Tunnel

n
project recommended by the New
YORK State Bridge and Tunnel
Commission has been taken UP by
the New York State Reconstruction Com
mission to determine whether or not the
plans are practicable.
IN the opinion of the. advisory council of.
engineers of the Reconstruction Commits
S'on' vehicuiar tunnel between New Jersey
ana ne" YORK would be public work of
great Importance, and in the interests az.
the communities to be served should be car
rieo to completion as soon as possible.
Between three and four thousand letters
from leading merchants and manufacturers
covering not only New York, BROOKLYN, and
Long Island City, but all of the State of
Sew York. have been sent to the Albany
<esasiature urging construction of such
tunnel as modern method of handling
ana retaining increased export trade. It
nay also been pointed out that the project
"n' give employment in very short time
20 several thousand returning saoldiers.
Among the advantages which the tprne,
would afford, according to T. Albeus Adam.
a'saDs1 OF inc New Jersey Ipters tate
Drtnge and Tunnel Commission, would be
the quick and certain transportation Of
merchandise, foodstuffs and coal from the
mainland direct to final destination in Man.
haitian. The Bronx and Long Island. nm
h1ndcred by fogs, Ice or weather eond;tio,.
IA the item Of coal alone" Mr. Adams
says, "the entire cost of the tunnel could
nave been betrayed out of any one NJ
dozen days losses in January, 1918, due I'd
the inability to move the coal baroea
across the river, not to mention the sufYar.
ing resulting from the coal famine. New
Jersey has already enacted Legislation, pro-
yiding for the collection of an annual tax
to pay her share of the construction. and
has appointed commission with power. to
prcceed. II now remains for New York
70 sna<t similsr legislation and for. Con-
gress to pass an enabling act"
Tho proposed plans Of the New York State
Bridge and Tunnel Commission contemplate
tunnel much larger in dimensions than
has hitherto been constructed undsr lar
conditions There IN no experience upon
which 70 base either an opinion Of the prac~
f'cability Of the CLANS or an accurate esti.
snss1 u their cost II has basn Judged that
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supplying 100000 cubic feet of air an
hour.
In Paris the tunnels were built under two
arms of the Seine for the Metropolitan
halfway by means of compressed air Gals
sons sunk beneath the riverbed.
because tho methods planned for the pro-
posed vehicular sub Hudson tunnel arc so
new and untred tho New York State Re-
construction Commission has put the fol-
lowing three questions to tho five leading
engineers OF the state:
i. Is the type Of tunnel proposed pos
siblc Of construction2
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FTER all, there are two seasons
to the year. One Of them opens
= on the evening when a man

~ 0F III" WITH VfdII UVIUIV
the hearth, with a table at his elbow bearing
a seasoned pipe and a fragrant mixture, an
equally seasoned book, siphon, bowl
of cracked ice dccanter with a trust
worthy content, and he lights his first
autumn fire.
The other season opens some months
after this, when, with chair now drawn
beside the window, Il man opens the sash
and lets in the first scents and airs of
spring. book then is superAuous. At
such Il moment every man is his own poet.
More often he is his own biographer. The
budding leaves, the omnpresent tokens Of
fresh beginning of things, arc apt to
send the mind back over its own begin
nings.
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tho latter, and it would be fair to assume
that the results would be the same"
One OF the tunnels to which General
Cocktails refers is tho Rothcrhtho tunnel
under the Thames, in London, which has
length Of 1893 feet between portals, of
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hiding Feasible Plan for the Traffic Tunnel to Jer>

the tunnel would pay for itself in twenty
years, would prevent coal famines, and facil-
itate freight traffic In general. 1t would run
from Canal Street. Manhattan, to Twelfth
Street, Jersey City.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Feeling Among the Boys in the
Ranks Crystallizing ON the Cues
ton of Permanent Organization
By John P Marquand, Ex-Lieutenant, u. S. F. A.

)" HEY met beneath an arc light, on
. Broadway, surrounded bya dazzling
radiance of electrical pyrotecirnics.
Thavy nod knn~ h A. I<... IL,
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01
COMB SAGE TEA IN
FADED OR GRAY HAIR
1t Mixed with Sulphur it Darkens
so Naturally Nobody
can Tell.

Grandmother kept her hair beauti-
fully darkened, glossy and attractive
with brew of Sage Tea and Sulphur
Whenever her hair took on that dull
faded or streaked appearance, this
simple mixture was applied with Won
derful effect. BY asking at any drug
store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound" you will get large bot
tie of this oldtine recipe, improved
by the addition of other ingredients, all
ready to use, at very little cost. This
simple mixture can be depended upon
to restore natural color and beauty to
the hair.
A well-known downtown druggist
says everybody uses Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Compound now because it
darkens so naturally and evenly that
nobody can tell it has been applied
it's so easy to use, too. You simply
dampen a comb or soft brush and
draw it through your hair, taking one
strand at a time. By morning the
gray hair disappears; after another
application or two, it is restored to its
natural color and looks glossy, soft
and beautiful.-Adv.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01
CITY FOLK SEEMED UNKIND
Visitor Couldn't Understand Such an
Exhibition of neighborIness"
as They Gave.

He was old any angular, but strong
and outstanding, with the look of he
farm on his unsophistieated face. In
his old and none too clean blue jump
er and jeans he gazed out upon the
boulevard with it's shining cars and
daintily clad ladies. Confidence in eli
the. world shone in his innocent old
eyes.
Say. mister. I'd like ride please"
he called to the driver of new seven
passenger car at the corner of Thir
ty-fourth and main streets.
But the seven-passenger ignored mis-
plea. Car after car did the same, and
the old man turned puzzled eyes to
the others standing near and re-
marked in neighborly fashion: "Out
our way we amt so proud as to refuse
a ride TO anybuddy. "-Kansas City
Star.
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afford transverse routes to points
along their shores, the great expanse
of the country is unprovided with we'll
made roads. Transportation from
points lying at a distance from the
main route is, therefore, costly and
difficult. Only limited quantity Of
grain can be hauled out of the country
to the railroad. while the railroad it.
self is not able to take care of the
grain that could be easily produced
by the peasant population of Siberia
in good seasons. The result is that
a large crop of grain forces down the
local price, so that the peasant actual
ly finds that large crop brings him in
less money and causes him extra work.
The greatest need of Siberia in the
immediate future is improvement in
roadWayS, so that communication may
be easy from interior districts where
grain can be raised, to railways and
the grain can be carried out of the
country. The improvement of the ST.
berian railway was already in hand
under the American railway commits
sion in 1917, when the bolshevik rev.
olutiOn occurred and put a stop to the
work. 1t will be comparatively easy
to increase the carrying capacity Of
the Siberian road very largely by phys
ical improvements, and by better man.
| agement, particularly in dispatching
trains by a comprehensive system.
Roadways by which Siberian COM
MERGE can be extended from the rail-
way route to the interior, districts
should be improved and extended in
the very near future.
Caravan roads of southern Siberia
include among the most important, the
route from Petropavlovsk down to the
river Ischim, past the Onlutav noun.
tains and the river Sary-Su to Buk-
hara, and from the same city by the
river Tchaglinka, past a number of
lakes to Akmolinsk, Nourinsky and in
to Turkestan.
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Good Character Test.

BY the unanimous assertion of every
man who ever went on hunting trip
that involved camp life for consid
cradle length of time, there is nothing
like participation in such an expedi'
ton for bringing out and making clear
the fundamental realities of charac-
ter. 1t reveals both virtues and vices
strengths and weaknesses, and empha.
sizes them all. Not only are many OF
the restrictions and inhibitions created
and enforced in ordinary community
intercourse suddenly removed or weak.
ened, but there are made new demands
and the performance of hard and dis.
tasteful work.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-03-01
BOSCHEE'S SYRUP

Why use ordinary cough remedies
when Boschee's Syrup has been used
so successfully for fifty-one years in
all parts of the United States for
coughs, bronchitis, colds settled in the
throat, especially lung troubles? 1t
gives the patient good nights rest,
free from coughing, with easy expec-
toration in the morning, gives nature
chance to soothe the infiamed parts,
throw off the disease, helping the pa
tient to regain his health. Made in
America and sold for more than half
a century.-Adv.
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tude, and has an area of 6,5OO,OOO
IBERIA by emigration from Russia re-
quired a movement of population
which would be facilitated by the
opening of roads for wagon transport.
1t was in 1922 that the town of
Ekaterinburg was founded, and in 1853
plans were made for projecting a road
toward Tiumen and thence across the
Siberian steppes. The route followed
was that of the present Siberian rail-
way. Work was delayed for some
years by changes of government, but
the road was finally completed along
the line proposed.
Over this main Siberian highway
passed thousands of colonists, many of
them political eXlles from Russia, 9TH
ers Cossack soldiers directed to take
up their residence along the main ST.
berian route for the purpose Of mill
tary protection, says writer in
Magazine Russia. The road formed
main line of connection between
scattered settlements of natives of
various races, who had previously
made limited use of trails and rivers
for intercourse with each other, and
Z for commerce with the world outside.
1t formed the only route by which the
interior of Siberia could be reached
er routes were the caravan trails
across the mountains and deserts to
the south, and the difficult passages
of the Kara sea into the mouths of
the OBJ and Yenesei rivers.
6 The sibrsky-Trakt
Of the main highways used as pos.
tai routes, the principal road is the
famous Sibirsky-Trakt, over 1900
miles long, following, as has been said
the same route as the Trans-Siberian
railway. Most of this road could be
covered easily by vehicle, except in
the stretch between Sretensk and
Khabarovsk. Between those towns
about $40 miles of road can be made
by vehicle, while the rest, $50 miles,
is covered by pack-horse trail over
the mountains, giving an alternative
route to the river Shilka. The trail is
used through the fall and spring only,
while the river serves for boat trans
port in summer, and sledge transport
over the ice in winter The portion
of the route between the river Shilka
and Khabarovsk is called the Amur
Highway.
Another important main highway is
the Irkutsk-Yakutsk Trakt, 1,S4O miles
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grace, her charm; Germany, her pro-
found romanticism. For the
rest, nature has given him =. a
noble heart, and genius. Yes, genius
in the full acceptation of the term
must be allowed to Chopin. He is not
virtuoso only, he is also a poet, he
can make US apprehend the poetry
which lives in his heart, he is a 'tone-
poet" and no enjoyment is equal to
that which he bestows upon us when
he sits down at the piano and impro.
vises. Then he is neither Polish, nor
French, nor German; he betrays a
higher origin, he is of the kindred of
Mozart, of Raphael, of Goethe; his
true fatherland is the dream kingdom
of Poetry.-Heine.
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On a Siberian Highway.

in length, of which $50 miles are pass
able by vehicle. The remainder of the
distance is covered by the river Lena,
in summer by boat and in winter over
the ice by sled. The highway from
Omsk through Semipalatinsk to Altai-
Skaya follows the river Irish and has
q length of 760 miles. There is also
a main highway from Tomsk to Semi
palatinsk, distance of 40 miles.
All the above highways We're i'm
portant links in the governmental con-
troll of Siberia from Russia. Over these
roads courierS, police and soldiers
could pass readily from center to CEN
ter, keeping all settled parts of the
country in communication with the cen
trail government. The main Siberian
road is now largely disused ON account
of the superior communication offered
by the Trans-Siberian railway, and the
other highways will eventually be
paralleled by railways as well. None
of these roads is paved or improved
in any way which would be considered
as acceptable for main road in Amer
lea. The absence of stone in much
of Siberia will make it difficult to pave
them. though much could be done by
establishing brick works and surfacing
the roads with brick, in which case
motor truck transport would form an
important auxiliary to the railway.
Few WeII-Made Roads.
While the Siberian railway is cross
ed by a number of important rivers
running from south to north, which
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my housework. Ny baby when seven
months old weighed 10 pounds and I feel
better than I have for long time. I
never had any medicine do me so
much good. Mrs. Pearl. MoNYHAN,
Mitchell, Ind.
Good health during maternity is
most important factor to both mother
and child, and many letters have been
received by the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, telling of
health restored during this trying period
by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.