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c?o»*vf*i<mT wr rse«-j> siri'A *rh+«:& v.^t^v.* A GREAT WORK RAILROADERS REMEMBER MR. M03ELEY WITH GRATITUDE. IGHT I have a wor with you, sir, wit] out the cabin?" Immediately lea' ing -my associates, followed the 6hor muscular, athletic flj ure of the camp do< tor out to the edge c the forest. "What' up, Doc?" I fcske 1 expectantly. *1 want the 'elp of a man as "a the nerve to do an ugly job befor daylight," he whispered sententiouslj "Murder?" I tried to smile. "Mayhap!" he quietly replied, to m amazement. "That lets me out. Doc. I'm of for my bunk." "No it doesn't" he hissed, follow lug my hesitant retreat. "What bring me 'ere late at night In a storm i more Important to the company an its hundred and sixty-two hands 1 camp, than to you and me. This Job' goto' for-ard tonight; come what m*y And you who are handy with a gu and I who have "no talent for t&l afterward--wels, it's we two for tb perfawmence. I'm dead serious, I an and you'll stand by--I'm certain of tbaL Come, the tide's just a-turnln'. We'll have to be movln' with it. Every moment we're nearer 1 stampede and a panic In camp. Get your gun and aneak to my hut right away. Not a peep to them gents from Boston, nor to any one else. We're going for bear, understan', plain brown bear-- tomorrow." That Alaskan night was of the foul- - est! A fretful kamook bayed dismal­ ly on the opposite shore where Halda Indians sometimes dwell on their canoe voyages among the Prince of * Wales Islands. The Coplan Copper company's smelter cast fitful patterns of light and shadow upon the freezing bay. The wild voice of the hills smote the sea beyond with a hiss and roar. January was in an&ry mood In the wilderness as I kicked the snow from my boots before the doctor's cabin, and his hound uttered a long, low growl within. It seemed but a mo­ ment when our pipes were loaded, the "whuskey" on the rude table beside us, and the fire roaring in the doctor's lit­ tle rusty stove. Turning suddenly and bringing bis fist to the level of my face, the little man unpacked himself brusquely: "Am I correctly informed that you're leaving camp for the east on the next boat?" "That's my Intention unless this storm detains me." "Well, sir," continued the doctor, as he placed a foot on the hound's thick neck and recharged his glass, "I hope nothing will interfere with your leav­ ing but I can't see the horizon of a little mess down near the Indian quar­ ters behind the mill. You see, I can't say anything to those timid city direc­ tors about it, fearln' of their indis­ cretion and a tangle with the health officer at the port o' entry. Them di­ rectors hate me! Now you've appealed to me as a man of the woods. You've been about some where a man's got to be several times a man. This d d Indian must be handled mightily rough tonight. At least we can't weep over him. He sneaked in night before last without permission, and it'll explode any minute." When the doctor rummaged for two black shroud-like gowns and careless­ ly threw them across the bed, I sus­ pected that we were either to lynch somebody, commit a corpse to the sea or participate In some ghoulish cere­ mony of pagan belief amongst the Slwash across the bay. Finally I blurted: "Doc, what are these black klmonas for? Looks like a hanging." "It might better be a hangin'," he retorted, pawing amongst his apothe­ cary stores, from which he occasion­ ally set aside a package. "It's small­ pox! That's what it is--in a camp of panicky miners ready to bolt on the first whifT. Smallpox--fourteen-day- stage, and a pest house harboring the d d case. Do you understand ? Smallpox!" Then with a toss of the head and one of those sudden turns upon his auditor which characterized all his in­ tense utterances, he growled: "Come along now, we've got to move that case out of camp before dawn or, well, you'll see the company's boat in the hands of mutinous miners, and its creditors dividln' its assets in bank­ ruptcy, and me a-goin' to the coop for violatin' the law." We skulked along the beach as far as possible from the glare of the smelter. Black buzzards, sheltering in • wood pile, chattered raucously. The doctor whispered: "Our plan, remember. If the buck shows fight, do your part; I'll do mine. We'll avoid a rough and tumble as long as possible. Hear that sea racing past the inlet! Gad! what a night for Women and children! This bread and bacon won't be needed, I'm bellevin'. 2W1£M1%"> JLJf Poor brown devils--and yet--Stand by now, and If you feel yourself cavin', bite that cigar like a mink trap and work away. Musn't bungle this!" We remained for a moment in the shadow of the silent mill to rehearse the "Job" about to be perpetrated. The Indian's rudely-curtained hut win­ dow gleamed faintly red a bleared eye in the dark void. We knocked. A menacing grunt and a shifting of moccasin ed feet within--nothing more hospitable. 'The doctor, with food and medi­ cine. Let me in." We let ourselves into the hut before the Indian had arisen from the floor. The hut reeked with the foul stench peculiar to the domestic conditions of nomad Indians in this region. We lured the Indian outside. Our return from pestilence to the cold, sweet air of the Alaskan forest, intox­ icated me. The doctor began menacingly: "Why didn't you ride out on the morn­ ing tide? You said you would last night. You died and, damn you, en­ dangered tne health of the whole camp. You've got twenty minutes to paddle off with your family or get shot." The Indian replied sullenly as he moved toward the canoe upon the beach. "Squaw too sick. Hunt for meat all day. I go when the water sleeps--mebbe soonly." He turned de­ fiantly with clenched fists. "See here, Thlinkit, you've come into this camp with what miners would shoot you for. I've given you two days to clear out at the risk of Infecting our men and wrecking the mine for three months. I've got twenty men in the shadow of that mill ready to pound you into pulp when my gun barks. You understan'? Now, we'll do this quietly or we'll do it fighting'." Saying which the doctor drew his pistol while I entered the hut and seized the Indian's rifle. A long dory-like canoe was torn from the thin ice Into which it lay bedded. The brutal duty was under way. The squaw, whose disease had ad­ vanced to the stage of desslcation, opened her terrible eyes--eyes sunk­ en and deliquescent. Go six miles down the coast; you'll find fresh water and game a-plenty. Set your traps, and wait for the com­ pany's launch to pass on her way out. Paddle out to meet her when you hear her whistle--four days hence. If you attempt to land within this inlet, I'll sink your boat with a shot. Now, then, heave off." Having given his commands, the doctor Joined in some mighty shoving and cussing to get the boat away; the Indian's reluctant paddle caught the water lazily, and the deeply laden craft of disease and death, and hatred of the white man, finally pointed her angular nose toward an unknown and a doubtful fate. I looked around for Doc, before setting the hut afire and burning the last vestige of the case that had worried him. He was not ashore. He had vanished like a ghoul from the Iadian's dying fire. I hel­ loed softly, and. gazing toward the disappearing boat--descried his squat figure with a paddle in the bow! Was It possible? Yes, there he was and from there he called to me this weird adieu: "Good night, old chap. We've done a d--n fine job; but I'm going to finish it alone. Send a canoe after me day after tomorrow, or pick me up when the Mary Ann puts out to sea. If I'm infected. I'll hang my pink shirt high in a fir tree near the beach, and don't you come within a hundred feet of me. If I'm all right, i 11 get aboard and see you off for the states. I say--burn the Indian's hut, sneak to my shack and lay low. Don't explain anything. Those miners wouldn't stay in camp a minute, and the health officer'd hang me for not re- portin'. Thanks, old chap, thanks. It was a dirty job for you." I heard no more except the woolies gathering aloft and hitting the distant sea with a roar. The sturdy little Doc would "finish the Job alone!" Firing the hut from the inside, I sneaked through the camp toward the doctor's shack. It so happened (as It always hap­ pens) that on the day after my grue­ some job with Dr. Dickson, one of the visiting eastern directors had a "tre- menjus case of cramps," as the super­ intendent impressively announced. "Now, where was that good-for-noth­ ing, lying, scheming little Doc? Why, drunk abed, of course." So, with this verdict, a collection of exasperated directors visited Dick­ son's shack to rout him out. The door unlocked, but the doctor was nowhere in camp. A meeting of the directors was called which resolved that it was dangerous to the camp to continue the employment of a man who was this, that and the other bad, incompetent, unfaithful thing. So Doc was dis­ charged on the spot, the while an in­ vitation was prepared to another phy­ sician at Juneau to come and fill the exalted position. It was an innate sense of respon­ sibility which Impelled me to steal away on the third night after Dick­ son had gone to sea with his sick wards. Packing my light kit I bun­ dled up what remained and left it labeled to follow me in the Mary Ann when the visiting directors returned to Ketchikan. My note to them did not create a favorable impression of my attentiveness to their distressed busi­ ness. "Gentlemen: As I may serve you more by finding Dr. Dickson than by remaining in camp, I have left some of my duffle to accompany you on your voyage to Ketchikan. I am cruising down the bay to hunt for him and for--bears. While sailing, please look for my flr& and a freshly-blazed spruce on your port side. Kindly blow the launch whistle every two miles down. I ought to be from six to eight miles south on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island." From the doctor's shack I appro­ priated his ritie, a supply of ammuni­ tion and such medicines as I thought he might need; also I took some Scotch whiBkv, and brandy, pies and tobacco, a cot, tent and bedding, a stove, shotgun and shells, field glass, disinfectants, and all the provisions I could induce the cook to hand out. One of the squaw's babies had died on the^jday following their rough voy­ age from the mine. "And the other little varmint," said Dickson softly, "will pass In his checks presently. The squaw'U pull through If the buck don't lay down this week. I'm goin' to stand by the case a while longer if you say the b#ss isn't cussin' of me." Early the next day we heard the siren of the Mary Ann. The launch was sailing down the bay. What I said to the rubicund and pudgy Doc, and Just what he said to nie as he stood off twenty yards or so with eyes of greater eloquence than his quaint tongue had ever known, doesn't mat­ ter here and now. Sufflco it that I made my short but tafigled way to the shore alone, stood under Doc's pink shirt and near the fat new Maze and waited for the Mary Ann. Her pirate captain, seeing me waving a small birch signal-fashion, stopped his en­ gine and drifted as close as he deemed prudent. In a few moments the launch lifeboat bad taken me aboard and to a cabin load of sleepy directors. They suddenly perked up with a chorus of questions concerning "the Irresponsi­ ble little scamp." Yes, I had found him In the Interior of the island. He had fallen in with some Indians, and, well, to be quite frank, he had asked me If the man­ agement and directors missed him. and if I would convey to them his apologies for leaving camp without the usual polite exchange of a good­ bye and so forth. This twaddle exasperated them as 1 had intended. Their language of and concerning little Dickson shall have to he fumigated before public use can be made of It My violent and obsequious friend. Captain Furloso, and I were alone in the wheel house where he kept his eyes on the company's mail bag. As I espied the bag a villainous idea seized upon me. "Have a smoke, Cap'n?" I offered the bandit this bit of eastern hos­ pitality in my most persuasive pianissimo. "Cap'n," I began, leaning over his smelly, little black and tan figure in a confidential, warm-hearted manner, "Cap'n, I wrote Dr. Bumpus of Juneau a letter at the mine which I think I ought not to send him until I have seen some one In Seattle. Just let me open that bag a minute and I'll with* draw it before I forget it in the rusb at Ketchikan." "Cert," piped the captain, like tba good, brave BOUI that he Is, "here's the key." Then looking around fierce­ ly at nothing, he half whispered: "Just turn the key !n the wheel- house door. Them gents from Massy- chewsitt might butt in afors 'you* done it." So, having "done It" in a Jiffy, I felt assured that the temporary custody of Dr. Bumpus' letter gave me control of the situation created by my all-too- precipitate friends, the directors. Just before we sailed from Ketchi­ kan I enclosed the Bumpus letter in one of my own and addressed it back to the company's manager at the mine. These letters, therefore, went to the mine on the Mary Ann's return trip and were in the manager's hands on the foyrth day following our depar­ ture from Ketchikan for Vancouver. This is what I wrote the manager, a man preposterously jealous of his official prerogative: "I be* to enclose the letter you ad­ dressed to Dr. Bumpus. pursuant to th« direction of your board whllp I was In camp. In a fortnlRht Dd. Dickson will return and explain the Important service he has been rendering: your company. "Inasmuch as my counsel and advic* concerning your company lias been the object of my examination of its proper­ ties and affairs, I suggest that nothing be said to apprise I>r. Dickson of the action of your board, nor of its Injustice to him. I should regard the doctor'i resignation from your staff, at this time, as a serious calamity. "Meantime, I am explaining the doc­ tor's absence to the directors while they arc on their way to Vancouver." "(jreat little runt, that camp doctor at the mine," I soliloquized, as we finally debarked from the steamer and settled into a Pullman bound for Se­ attle. "What's that?" came a screeching and derisive chorus. "He's a little beast, and If--" 'fcSfei "Now, see here, gentlemen/I've de­ termined to raise you to the lofty level of that little cut, between here and Seattle, or wreck this train in the at­ tempt." So I told them of thf heroism of this runt of the wilderness, and heard their snivels and saw their tears, their hedging and squirming and Justifying and all that men do whose conduct should bring regret and remorse. A month thereafter I received this assuring report: "Ketchikan, SS. Alaska. "Pear Mr. Bobs: "I'm well agalnfl btu badly pocked. Got away from the Cape as soon as I dared, and came here. The squaw pulled through, but her kiddles died. I envy them! The buck was almost decent while I was down. Still, I 've a mind to lick him aplenty when I get strong again. "Two of the boys went to the mine, sneaked my things aboard the Mary Ann, and left my written respects for that manager. I shall have him also to beat up when he comes my way. There's a rumor here that he has been discharged. "I've heard something of what you did for me with them entomological gents from the Kast. Much obliged. I 'm going to hammer the binaclo Off the one with the blue whiskers when he comes to Alaska again. Keep this quiet. «o I 'll have him to look forward to. "Much obliged for the port wine and other good things from New York. I 'm going on the staff of the Nellie Mine next month. A big bunch of the boys at the Coplan Mine want to go with me, but I won't do that sort of thing. "Yours In Iodoform, • "Doc." Eleven days later I received the following telegram from the Jubilant Dickson: "Met and mangled the manager to­ day. He's in hospital. I'm In JalL All the boys satisfied. "DOC." Knocked Out "Sam Langford "Here is a good fish story," Baid the Imaginative member of Mr. Boldt's staff at tbe Waldorf the other day, ac­ cording to the NeAr York Sun. "You know tbat glass tank In the grill room where the trout are kept? Well, In tbe lower tank was a large trout which the waiters have b«en calling Jack Johnson. In the smaller tank above was a smaller trout tbat tbe waiters called Sam Langford. Be­ tween the two, so ran the grill room gosBip, there was much feeling. "The chef at the grill was making a lobster a la Newburgh when the water in the tanks was being changed, and an attendant put Jack Johnson in the upper tank. Just as soon as he sight­ ed his enemy Jack made a dash and caught him with his nose under the stomach. There was a swish, and the smaller fish flew out of the water and landed in the lobster a la Newburgh that the chef was making, spoiling the dish absolutely and of course bringing about Sam Langford's de­ mise." "Say, is that true?" queried a by­ stander. "Well, it's plausible, isn't it?" Nothing is easier than fault find­ ing; no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character are required to • <>t up in the grumbling busines%.-- Robert West. A Modern Vacation. "How are you going to spend your vacation this summer?" "I'm going to pick out some sum­ mer resort hotel with a small dining- room, and then .every noon when I fight my way intb it, I'll just imagine that I'm at the coronation." Tls not only the grave that parts us from our comrades and lovers; we lose them on the way; they broaden and narrow away from us. and w« from them. Man Mainly Responsible for the Safe­ ty Appliances With Which the Lines of the Country Are Now Equipped. Every one knew > that the casualties imong the trainmen and switchmen aggregated a ter- ^ C < 71 rible yearly toll. --vJ Under Mr. Mose- ley's direction the actual statistics were collected and published. The to­ tals of the killed a n d w o u n d e d proved to be as appalling as those of war, and, with this showing of an awful waste of blood for his argument, he passionately took up the cause to which he gave the remainder of his life and the last ounce of his energies. He unconsciously initiated what has become in this later day a general na­ tional movement, for the conservation of natural resources, a movement that fittingly began wiih the CoiuiervaUou of human beings. He started alone, fearlessly facing hostility or inertia on every hand; but his unselfish enthusiasm and his unwearied persistence slowly won the Interest and confidence of presidents and congress. He saw the safeguards grow year by year and rate of slaughter on the rail decrease. He fought on until he saw the laws require every freight car in the country to be made over for the safety of the railroad workers, equipped not only with automatic couplers and brakes but with uniform running boards and ladders and grab- Irons. He saw the hours of service on the trains limited by statute, and peace between railway employers and employes fortified by effective provi­ sions for mediation and arbitration. His long task all but finished, he sank down literally at his post of self-imposed duty, lamented by grate­ ful thousands in cab, caboose and switchyard all over the country, and respected by those against whom he had manfully striven. They knew best of all that he was not battling for him­ self, but for others, for the man in overalls. By the sheer force of his generous enthusiasm and devotion, tempered by practical common sense and a spirit of fairness, he had dis­ armed opposition at every encounter. Moreover, while the cost of his system of safety car appliances will run high above 1100,000,000, so dis­ tinguished .an authority as the late E. H. Harriman commended it as a meads to Increased economy and effi­ ciency in operation, and the effect of the arbitration law in averting strikes has saved the roads more than the total expense entailed by the new car equipment. No honest interest ever loses by Jus­ tice. Line Means Much to Brazil. The line of the Northwestern rail­ road of Brazil crosses the Panama river at Itapura, where rapids divide an upper from a lower navigable reach; then the Aquidauna and Mi­ randa rivers, tributaries of the Para­ guay and navigable to that stream, which the railway crosses at EJepe- ranca. It then runs up the further bank of Corumba and reaches th^ Bolivian frontier, five miles beyond, after having run due west, along the twentieth degree of latitude, across an almost totally uninhabited country, with only three towns (by courtesy* to mark the line--Carpo Grande, Aquidauana and Miranda. The importance of this line is con siderable. Politically, it unites the furthermost state with the center of the republic, and diverts through Kra- zll a considerable portion of the traf­ fic for which the Argentine republic has been catering. From a military viewpoint it provides a quick route to the frontier, while considered as a railway, it represents the building of a line 915 miles long without any rail­ way connection on the way, and that in a remarkably short space of time. It is hard to realize the difficulties of all kinds that had to be met and overcome across a country almost as unknown as Central Africa, where epi­ demics of malaria broke out fre­ quently, and whose portion of the hitherside of Itapura is still infested with Red Indians, who keep on at­ tacking the works.--Lienel Wiener in Cassler's magazine. Bridge Work Leaves Its Mark. A man walked into the office of Thomas Higgs, assistant prosecuting attorney, this morning. ' Hello, bridge worker," said another man seated there. "Howdy," answered the stranger. "How did you know I was a bridge worker?" "No trouble to spot one of your trade," was the answer. "You walk with your head bowed and your eyes looking about two feet in front of your feet. Other persons may walk look­ ing at the ground, but you fellows have a way all your own." "You win," said the stranger. "I'm a bridge worker and I'm on the Ar- mour-Swift-Burlington job. I reckon if you had been walking a tight wire a hundred feet or so above the river for eighteen years, as I have, your head would be bowed, too."--Kansas City Star. ' British Locomotives. Although British locomotives, limit ed as they are by the narrower clear­ ances of tunnels, bridges, etc., have never reached the size of locomotives in America, there has been a steady growth in dimensions, and some of the latest engines are extremely powerful. Thus ten of the Atlantic type, built for the East Coast Scottish Express use, have a total heating surface of 3,456 square feet, and a grate area of 27 square feet. The barrel of the boil­ er is five feet six inches in diameter, and fifteen feet ten and one-half inches In length. The tank has a capacity of 4,125 gallons of water and flv« tons of coal. The total weight of the engine alone Is nearly 90 tons.--Scientific American. NOW GO TO MECCA BY TRAIN Pilgrims to th* Tomb of Mahomet Saved the Hitherto Necessary Trip Across Desert. The decision of the Turkish govern­ ment to extend the famous Hedjaz railroad by carrying the metals of this line across the desert from Me­ dina to Mecca calls attention to what is undoubtedly one of the most daring railroad enterprises of the age. This railroad is unique In its claim of being the only railroad built for the purpose of carrying pilgrims. Indeed, known as '"The Railroad of the Pil­ grims," it is being used for the trans­ portation of Mohammedan pilgrims to Medina, the burial place of their prophet. Starting from Damascus it runs almost duo south through wild and sterile country for more than 820 miles to Medina. A short distance from the terminus is Daraa, now quite an Imposing and important station, where the line* Joins tbat coming up from Haifla round the southern shores of the Sea of Galilee. From Daraa the line gradually as­ cends the undulating slopes of a plateau as far as Zerka, where it drops into a deep valley, and climbs out again by a winding belt. As the line proceeds southwards, signs of civilization become fewer and fewer, and the sense of desolation more pronounced. Pursuing a course paral­ lel to the River Jordan, and almost identical with the old caravan route, the railroad traverses a district as full of interest for the Christian as for the Mohammedan. Decayed ruins of past civilizations and silent monu ments of long-departed prosperity ®ro visible on all sides. So the journey continues until El Ula is reached, 609 miles from Damas­ cus and 210 from Medina. Beyond El Ula none but Mohammedans may go, even the engineer-in-chief, who is a German, had to relegate to a Moham­ medan assistant the carrying of the metals Into Medina. The railroad is now to be extended to Mecca, the birthplace of Mohammed, but to ae complish this, 285 miles of track has yet to be laid across the desert. This !s now being rapidly done and con­ struction trains carrying the neces­ sary material have proceeded south from Damascus with Turkish soldiers who will build the line under the di­ rection of a Mohammedan engineer. It is interesting here to note that when the Bagdad railroad has pro­ gressed another 200 miles and tbe Bosphorus is spanned by bridge, the sacred city of Mecca will be In direct railroad communication with Con­ stantinople. WHY SHE DID NOT SEND HER PICTURE What They Did About It. The reason was because her face was so disfigured by a skin eruption that she couldn't h^ve it taken. Just make a note of this fact if you know anyone who suffers from disfiguring skin eruptions. Resinol ointment cures eruptive skin diseases. It re­ stores the skin to normal health and clears the complexion. "I take pleas­ ure in testifying to the most excellent results from the use of Resinol, both ointment and soap," writes Miss Opal Lilley, Camp Creek, W. Va. "I had been troubled for four or five years with a very disfiguring eruption on my face, and Refiinol has helped it so much." Resinol ointment should be used for all skin eruptions, ec­ zema, erythema, herpes, barber's itch, psoriasis, etc. It stops itching instantly. Resinol promptly allays irritation and is the best dressing for burns, scalds, bolls, felons, carbun­ cles, etc. It is a comforting, healing preparation, which can be used freely on the tendefest skin. Resinol oint­ ment is put up In opal Jars in two sizes, price fifty cents and one dollar. At all druggists. Resinol Cbemics) Co., Baltimore, Md. NOT IN THEIR CLASS. WATER BOTTLES GIVE HEAT Primitive Custom That Survives on Trains Running on Local Lines In France. Although the limited trains on the branch railways are provided with up- to-date equipment, the local trains, made up for the most part of the old­ est cars , are almost ent i re ly lacking i "Hi, fellers! Jest look what sez it don't mind playing wit us if we ain'l rough!" Hot Water Bottles That Warm French Local Trains. in comfort. Especially is this so at regards heating, the primitive hot wa ter bottles being still in use. These bottles are so hot when first placed in the compartments that it is impossible to keep the feet upon them but they soon grow cold and are worse than useless before a station is reached where an exchange of bottles may be made.--Popular Mechanics. Valuable Apple Tree. Thirty thousand dollars was the sum recently offered an eastern Washington nursery company for an apple tree located near Lake Chelan. The proffer was made by a syndicate which desired to propagate the tree It was turned down by the nursery company, which will develop the fruit Itself. The tree is twenty years old and is called the Chelan. The fruit is gold­ en yellow and is said to be different from thai of any other apple grown in Washington. It is also said to pos­ sess exceptional keeping qualities, a box having been kept in storage in Spokane for two years without any marked deterioration. Twenty years ago, the story runs, an Indian planted a handful of apple seeds, three of which grew. The fruit of'only one of the trees was good for anything. The tree is now of great size and a prolific bearer. Last year at the National Apple show at Spo­ kane fruit from the tree took first prize for new varieties of apples- Pay Streak. CRIMINAL NEGLECT OF SKIN AND HAIR Cutlcura Soap and Ointment do so much for poor complexions, red, rough hands, and dry, thin and fall­ ing hair, and cost so little that it ia almost criminal not to use them. Think of the suffering entailed by neglected skin troubles--mental be­ cause of disfiguration--physical be­ cause of pain. Think of the pleasure of a clear skin, soft white hands and good hair. These blessings are often only a matter of a little thoughtful, timely care, viz.:--warm baths with Cutlcura Soap, assisted when neces­ sary by gentle anointings with Cutl­ cura Ointment. The latest Cutlcura book, an invaluable guide to skin and hair health, will be mailed free, on application to the Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Boston, Mass. A Prudent Program. "I make it a rule never to lend any­ body an umbrella," said Mr. Growch- er. "Good idea," replied Mr. Grump. "If you keep lending an umbrella about there's no telling when it may drift into the hands of the original owner." Used to It. Thompson--Wouldn't you hate to have death staring you in the face? Johnson--No. If you'd seen my wife's stare, you'd realize that death's has no terror to me.--Harper's Bazar. It sometimes happens that a Woman marries a man because she is sorry for him. But is not that a poor way to show her sympathy? Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets first put up 40 years ago. They regulate and invigor­ ate, stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar- coated tiny granules. Unless he is home where he can rage before the family about it, a bald- headed^ man will pretend he doesn't know there are such things as flies. If your skin is marred by pimples and liver marks, take Garfield Tea. It will regulate the liver, cleanse the system and purify the blood. There's nothing disappoints a wom­ an more than not to be disappointed when she expects to be. Mrs. Wlnslow's Bootblnjr Syrup for Children teetbinft- Mofteuu the Kums, reduces inflamma­ tion, paiiu. cures wind colic. 26c a bottle. Many a man s Idea of being well dressed is a noisy necktie. Cbew and smokA untaxed tobacco, cheap and uodopecL Meriwether & Jfidwards, Cl&rksville.Tenn. The biggest work in the world ^ be- Itig floTi- in fhr red rrhr^lMuse. Largest Electric Switch Tower. The largest electrically controlled switch tower in the world has just been put into service at Providence. K. I . on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad. The tower is equipped with 77 switch levers, provid­ ing 266 combinations. Elaborate pre­ cautions are furnished to prevent the giving- of a wrong signal. The power used is taken from the feed wires of the railway, but as a precaution two other sources of power are provided, which may be drawn upon in case of emergency.--Scientific American. SYRU ELIXIR •NNA Proposed Arctic Railroad. A proposed Arctic railroad is the latest development in railroad engi­ neering. A bill will Bhortly be in­ troduced in the Russian duma for the establishment of reliable trade com­ munication between western Siberia and western Europe ty way of the Arctic ocean. The construction of a line from the Abi river to the shore of the Arctic ocean has now been planned. Cleaiises ih# System effectual I y; Dispels colds and Headaches: cfye to constipation. Best for men, women and children: young and old. Toqetits Beneficial effects, always note the name of the Company CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP & plainly printed on the front of every package of the Genuine