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cMivivW5- '"F THE HEART NIGHT WIN A STORY OF THE GREAT NORTH W65T 0y VINGIE e. ftoe ILLUSTRATIONS 6Y CO T̂̂ &L copy/?/C/fr OY POOD. M£AD AND COVPAMY SYNOPSIS. Siletz of Daily's lumber camp directs • stranger to the camp. Walter Samtry Introduces himself to John Daily, fore­ man. as "the Dilllngwortli Lumber Co.. or most of it." He makes acquaintance with the camp and the work he has come from the East to superintend and make successful. He writes to his father that be Intends to set a handful of the wealth In the uncut timber o( the region. He sives Siletz permission to ride Black Bolt. hi« saddle horse. In an emergency he (>roves to the foreman that he does not ack Judgment. Stletz telis him of tlie Preacher. He discovers that Silet* bears the sign of the Siletz tribe of Indians and wonders what her surname is. In the flush of a tender momeru he calls her "the Nigrht Wind in ihe Pines" and kisses her. Poppy Ordway. a magazine wrlt"r from New York, comes to Daily's to get material for a romance of the lumber region. Hampden of the Yellow Pines Co. wanes Sandry to keep ofT a tract of stumpage he claims title to and Sandry thinks he has bought as the East Belt. Hampden sets up a cabin on the East Belt and warns trespassers off. Sandry can find no written evidence of title to the tract. His men pull down the cabin. Sandry compares Siletz and Poppy. CHAPTER X. The Fight in the Timber. When Sandry awoke next morning the gray day was alight outside his pane and he could hear the rumble of the dinkey as it rocked up from the lower rollway. By this he knew that breakfast was over and the crews out in the hills. Therefore he got into his clothe3 in double-quick time, swung up to the cook-shack, washed in the porch and presented himself with apologies to Ma Daily. Siletz came in in the dusk of the long room and set the cup beside him, quiet, soft-footed, slim and straight In her plain garments. She seemed made for service, the unquestioning service of woman, as she waited upot his needs after the fashion of the prim­ itive mate of man. She placed a last touch here and there, smiled at him and crossing to the west door, snapped her Angers to the big mongrel and stepped out Sandry, his hand unconsciously poised with raised spoon, watched her. He saw her hasten as she neared the edge ci the ievei, and finally, as if she oould no longer hold herself to the decorum of her pace, break into flight, running like a deer up among the pines with long bounding leaps. As she dis­ appeared he dropped his hand and be­ came aware of Ma Daily in the door to the kitchen. She, too, was watching her. "Mrs. Daily," he said suddenly, "what is Sletz?" The old lady turned on him quickly the piercing glance of her sharp eyes. "Just a girl," she said succinctly. Bhe turned to her realm and Sandry rose and went out in the mist. He climbed steadily with something of the logger's movement. This much he kad learned along with a thousand other things of the free life, and yet he was a novice--Johnny Eastern •till. He was thinking deeply as he Climbed, lost in the majestic silence of the hushed pines with the stilling car­ pet of needles at their feet, and it was Mime time after the first sounds from ahead had come to him dimly that he wakened to the loud voices of men in Quarrel. As he broke through the wall of dripping waist-high fern he came full upon a sight that stirred his blood, •nd fired his wrath, in spite of his ef­ fort to keep calm. There in the new cutting stood Hampden, his face red with fury, his eyes snapping, his dou­ bled fists shaking at Daily who front ad him. Behind the two the men were "Rotten are we! 'Live clean to th' heart!" And with a lightning pass he slapped Hampden square in the face, leaping backward like a cat. In a flash the two groups of men had mingled and the silentSfroods rang with a conflict that was a delight to every heart in the mixup, with the exception, perhaps of Hampden, who was too small and mean of nature to love anything for its own sake. Sandry on the outskirts beheld it with consternation. "Men!" he shouted, jumping up on a stump. "Hampden! Hampden! Daily! Hampden!" A bare arm shot forward into a face which crumpled and sank out of sight and the owner of the arm looked up at him. "Come off your perch, Johnny!" he cried with the insolence of indiffer­ ence, and even in the excitement of the moment the thrust went home to the young owner. His jaw tightened and he marked the man, one of the fallers, for future reckoning. How the fight would have ended Sandry, thinking it over afterward, could never decide. They were evenly matched in intent, the two factions, and nearly so in numbers, though Hampden's force was a trifle the stronger. Blows rained fast and furious. Blood was flowing freely and the oaths and laughter had given place to pant­ ing silence. "You low-down cheat!" he heard Daily say as he closed with Hampden, "We'll--settle--a few things--now." There was the scent of heated flesh and of warm blood in the close, moist air, and the clump and swish and crunch of heavy bobts threshing the fern. From under the trampling feet he caught sight of a limp figure, crum­ pled on its side. Something in its ghastly stillness caught at his heart and set a purpose in its horrified amaze. He must stop this thing at any cost. Springing down he caught up a long blacksnake whip lying coiled beside a stump. It had evidently come with the Yellow Pines outfit, for what purpose he did not know, for there was not such an article anywhere in camp. Raising his arm he whirled it back to send the long lash singing in among the struggling mass, when a sound, coming clearly out of the brooding stillness of the great pine woods, ar­ rested him. It was the high, silvery note of a flute. Shrill and clear, it cut into the rush of the fight like a flashing blade. The men heard it, even through the fight rage. Here and there the furious action halted a moment, without voli­ tion, it seemed, and a man drew quick­ ly out on one side. In the moment's hush that followed a whole cascade of sparkling notes fell from the rldgc like a handful of diamonds trickling down, and sweet and tender came the strains of "Lead, Kindly Light." Daily caught his antagonist by the throat and hurled him backward, opening up a space in the locked and panting swelter. "The Preacher!" he panted. "The Preacher's comin!" With common consent the two fac­ tions fell apart, the Yellow Pines own­ er getting to his feet blind with the un­ caring anger of the bully. So it was the Preacher who was com­ ing thus with the herald of those sil­ ver notes--the Preacher whose worn old Bible lay in the little south room grouped in menacing bunches. They were huge fellows, every one of them, ( and whose name brought the light of as if they had been picked purposely, j gladness into the somber face of bare-armed, open-throated, wet with the constantly falling, soft mist. Those of Hampden were armed with pikes and peavies to a man--and these are deadly weapons. Daily's crew car­ ried axes and several had cant hooks. "I told your Johnny Eastern to stay off this here land!" cried the owner of the Yellow Pines, his voice running up on the last word in a squeak of rage, "an' I'll see 't he does! An' you an' your river hogs that you pass as loggers! Rotten outfit, ye are! You'll Kit off an' stay off! This land belongs to me by right of good money paid -- »u' you tore down O'Connel's home­ steader's cabin! That's ag in the law!" He thrust out hi$ heavy face belliger­ ently, inviting insult, a first movement *>t violence. It came, not from Daily, the easy-going, tactful foreman, who fcad righted many toppling crises, but "nm Jim Anworthy, the curly headed •oung scapegrace who was the worri- ment and favorite or Ma Daily. He Huns himself forward with a whoop. VISIONS SEEN BY SOLDIERS Men at the Front Firmly Convinced They Have Been Witnesses of Supernatural Things. In periods of great national stress, when the responsibilities facing a people call for an effort superhuman, the mind is more prone than in times less tense to place dependence upon rtivlne aid and to believe that super­ natural powers are exerting their might. This tendency is embodied in a lit­ tle column entitled "The Bowmen and Other Legends or the War," written by Arthur Mach^n. The potent character of these tales of latter-day miracles is well exempli­ fied by the faot that the story of "The kiowmen." with its allusion to the ap­ pearance. of a supernatural host, has been accepted widely In England as tact. Upon its publication in serial form, there cauie to the author scattered Inquiries from editors of occult jour Mais at to the foundation of the story. Siletz. Sandry. still holding whip, waited expectant. the trailing What he be- voice as gentle as his eyes, "it i\as been long since we mot! I h#v6 wearied on the way for the face* of friends!" He held out a hand, slim and shape­ ly, yet which bore the look of one-time strength. The foreman took it, after wiping his own Bwiftly on his cordu­ roys. "We ben jwaitin' for you a long time," h£ said, "an' we're mighty glad you've come." The stranger nodded and, turning to the shifting lumberjacks, went round among them with a word for each and that same delicate handshake. Before he reached Hampden, the owner of the Yellow Pines, straightening his dishev­ eled clothes, swung out of the group. As he passed Sandry he glared into his face. "I'll stop you before another twenty- four hours," he said savagely, "and don't you forget it. Your little deed to the East Belt an' this strip happens to have been made by a bogus owner, who soaked old Frazer for a pile an' cleared. It's been filed on as a home­ stead an' sold to me, an' I'll se«i you in hell but what I'll get it--all. I was keepin' the belt as a surprise party for you, but I guess it's due right now!" The vindictive triumph in his small eyes was a guaranty of his earnest­ ness and Sandry returned it with a glance as earnest. "You speak in rid­ dles, Mr. Hampden," he said coldly, "and I'm inclined to think th« pummel- ing John gave you has injured your mentality." The Preacher reached him as the other turned away, followed by his men, who shouldered their tools and disappeared through the undergrowth in a shambling file, abandoning the fight for other means. "A stranger?" asked the newcomer, extending that. fine white hand, "a stranger at the camp?" "The new owner, father," volun­ teered Daily, "Mr. Sandry " "Ah, yes! You are young, sir, In the ways of the world! But God guides the feet of the young. It is a labyrinthian path--the way of youth! There are butterflies along it and primroses, and both are so easily trod underfoot! Ah, so easily! And a little farther along there is regret and shadow. Ah, me! Ah, me! What is the way out?" He turned troubled blue eyes to the foreman and the latter, strong and held, when at last the player came out in a watery bar of the slanting light, astounded him beyond measure. The stranger wore a garment of some coarse brown fiber, buttoned down from the throat to the feet and belted at the waist with hempen rope. He carried his flute high with a mar­ tial air, as if it told of victory and conquest, and his thin form walked lightly and erect. White and tine and delicately lined, the face above shor.e radiantly from between heavy hair .which fell in long, loose curis, white as the winter snow. Blue eyes, under ! level brows, looked out with the ha!f- j vacant innocence of the very young- | For him the world had stopped some | time ago. As he emerged through the ! fern, Sandry saw that the brown gar­ ment was wet to the knees, the heavy J shoes upon his feet sodden with earth. [ "Ah, John, my son!" he said in a position had any basis in fact, to his amazement, some of his correspond­ ents maintained that he must be mis­ taken. In provincial papers hot con­ troversy was waged regarding the exact nature of the appearance. Bishop Weldon, Dean Hensley, Hen- son, Bishop Taylor Smith (the chap­ lain-General), and many other clergy have occupied themselves with the matter. Doctor Horton preached about the "Angels," at Manchester; Sir Jo­ seph Compton Riekett (president of the National Federation of Free Church Councils), Btate^ that the sol­ diers at the front had seen visions and dreamed dreams, and had given testi­ mony of powers and principalities fighting for them or against them. Answered His Wistful Query With the Plaintive Sweetness. lumbering as an ox, laid a light touch upon the sacred flute. The troubled eyes dropped thereon. "Why--certainly. How could I for­ get!" And lifting the instrument and his silver head he answered his wistful query with the plaintive sweetness of "Jesus, Lover of My Soul." "That," he smiled, "is the way out, son, in case you should lose yourself in the shadows--the lonely shadows of dishonor and sin." He laid his haqd on Sandry's arm and slowly the young man's face grew darkly crimson. His lips twitched and he turned away. "I'll go down to camp, son," said the preacher to Daily, "there are those there who are al­ ways there?" There was a quick sliding of some­ thing like fear in his voice. "All there," said Daily kindly as the peculiar arrival turned away. "He is a bit embarrassing at times, Mr. Sandry," he apologized, "but inno­ cent--and a bit o' the God he preaches. Sa^s he's the father of all things fath­ erless. It's the strongest grip of his trouble, the idea that he's a father to everybody an' everything that needs him- regular lunatic on the point. Pitiful sometimes in his eagerness. But lie's loved from Seattle to Santa Barbara, and known all over the coast." "Let's go down to the trail," said Sandry, changing the subject; "we'll rush the work on the double quick. Put on an extra crew. I'm going to take heed to that swindler's words. He meant what he said. There's some­ thing crooked here." FISH KNOCKS OUT FISHERMAN Gives Man Black Eye and Breaks Its Own Nose--Will Be Kept as Trophy. •ft MiUmi thn •mil)of denied that vmi Dance, to the Vibrations. Vibrations of the floor caused by the playing of an orchestra are said to be sufficient for deaf persons to dance by. This at least is the ex­ planation given for a dancing exhibi­ tion by deaf couples held in San Fran cisco recently. Others, not susceptible to thef»t> vibrations, faU IP*X> the •h/ttim <*•*• watching. It was a starlight night and "Joe" Rivers' good launch Yankee lazily slid through a succession of oiled waves. Biff! and Skipper Jerry Shlvely at the wheel measured his full length of six fept five upon the deck. Bang! Some­ thing careened off the spokes of the wheel and lay fluttering in the scup­ pers. "Who did that," bellowed Jerry as he arose to his feet and glared down upon the cowering crew. "Something from overboard," timor­ ously replied William Askerson. able' seaman. "Seen it come aboard." A few turns of the wheel and the Yankee settled back to its course, while the crew began to search and finally came upon the fluttering thing in the scuppers. c - It was a flying fish, and not a large one at that But ,it bad sent a man who weighed ove& 250 pounds to the I m«t for the full count of ten and had CHAPTER XI. i;<„ . -- • • * An Unrecorded Deed.^^v The Preacher proved to oe the strangest thing in all this strangd country to Sandry as he watched him in the days that followed. He spoke but seldom and then with a quaint pre­ cision, a beauty of speech and thought that amazed the man from the East. But they were old thoughts, Sandry found at last, thoughts formulated in the fire and enthusiasm of youth, hence still burning when youth had fled and age had brought its empty seeming. "And it is there," he said to himself, "that S'letz gets her manner of speech, though her visions are her own, born of her centered soul." At the end of the week Sandry went to Salem. When he returned his face was drawn as if from loss of sleep, and he summoned Daily to the oiilce. Sandry pulled open a drawer in his desk and took out the deed to the East Belt. "This," he said tensely, "has never been recorded.- I searched the records at the land office and our deed is not there. Instead there is a brand new hom.estead filing in the name of T. J. O'Connel. Daily, either old Frazer was crooked 'or a fool." There Was a strained note in the owner's voice. His foreman sat in the tip-tilted office chair, open-mouthed and round-eyed. "Then Hampden's got th* strangle- holt--damn his soul to hell! He knows about the contrack an' he'll bilk it if he can. But Frazer wasn't crook­ ed, Mr. Sandry, I'd stake my life on that." "Then why did he sell me the East Belt stumpage--the prize card in the Dillingworth pack--without a record­ ed deed? This isn't worth its paper." He waved the folded slip. "And why didn't, you verify all pa­ pers, Mr. Sandry, when you made the deal?" Daily was entirely earnest and un­ conscious of the effrontery of his words.. Sandry's boyish ^&Ce flushed painfully. "Inexperience," he said bluntly; "faith in men, though by all the signs I should have lost that, and lastly no conception that such a thing could be done. Our first move now, however,, is to find Frazer." Daily shook his head. * "That new bucker we took on yes­ terday in the bunch of new men told me last night that Frazer was in 'Frisco two weeks ago, and was goin' south. Sailed on the mail boat for Panama." Sandry regarded his foreman grimly out of sparkling blue eyes. "Then," he said, after a moment's tuought, "we'll save our contract first and fight for our stumpage later." He rose and began gathering up the papers on his desk. "At noon," said he, thinking rapidly and with astonishing ease in this, his first business crisis, "you will take every man off the present work. We will build no more trail toward the East Belt now. Instead, we will lay track as fast as possible into the tim­ ber at the head of the valley there to the north. You know that contract calls for six million feet of logs to be in raft at Yaquina bay by the sixteenth of March. If it is not there we lose our big profits and the connection with this powerful company. Now get busy." Speculation and comment were rife in camp when Daily announced at noon that all work along present lines was to be dropped and that all hands were to fall to laying track to the north. "By jingo," grumbled Collins openly, "we're gettin' scairt out by th' Yella Pines! Ef it ain't plumb disgustin'!" "Quit?" cried Jim AnwOrthy, "let a bunch o' cutthroats call us quitters? What's eatin' you, John?" "Orders," said the foreman warning- ly, and the men buzzed like a nest of hornets. Among the old hands at the camp it was almost a personal affair and they took it to heart, criticizing with that freedom which characterized their kind and laying the blame upon the new owner, the tenderfoot from the East. Feeling at the abrupt giv­ ing up of operations at Hampden's threats ran so high that three old- timers--including Smith the hook- tender, a jewel in the crown of any logging camp--rolled down their sleeves and called for their time. "Can't stand the atmosphere," said little Smith, settling his round, nar­ row-brimmed felt hat a trifle forward on his bullet head, "it's gettin' too cul­ tured. We'll be asked to stop swearin' next, an' eatin* with our spoons. Me fer th' timber right. 1 don't like civili­ zation." "Let them go," said Sandry grimly. "I'll learn how and tend hook myself if necessary." Days slipped by so swiftly that San­ dry scarce found time to count them, and they were all too short. He was out before day had even crept up the eastern slopes of the great Cascades, and was still going when it died half across the Pacific to the west. He ate like a logger and slept without a dream. The dampness freshened his cheeks and curled his hair into a riot under his gray felt hat; and Siletz, glancing given him the blackest of eyes in the bargain. The flying fish and the black eye were brought into port here one day last week by Mr. Shlvely, who pro­ poses to keep the first and is making every effort to rid himself of the lat­ ter. The flying flsh had its nose broken in the encounter and only lived a tew minutes.--Los Angeles Times. Had a Right to Be There. A man arrested for stealing chick­ ens was brought to trial. The case was given to tbe jury, who brought him in guilty, and the judge sentenced htm to three months' imprisonment. Tbe jailer was a jovial man, rond of a smile, and. feeling particularly good ou that particular day. considered him­ self insulted when the prisoner, look tng around tbe cell, told htm it was dirty and not fit tor a bog to be put in. One word brought on another till finally the jailer told tbe prisoner If be did not behave nimseir be would put bim out. To wbtct tbe prisoner replied: "1 will give you to iinder- stand, sir. I have as good a right bent as you Havel" sidewise from under her level brows, flushed darkly beneath her dusky skin, at the wonderful man-beauty of him. She could not forget the day in the fern glade when he had stooped tQ her for that passing kiss. She felt a constant pulling of all her nature to fall in a little way behind and follow him. This feeling puzzled her and several times she caught herself al­ most in the act when he passed through the bijg room, or paced' the length of the porch. She fed migar to Black Bolt, sat on the seven-foot fir stump on the ridge with an arm over the staid shoulders of Coosnah, watched the wonderful gold lights in Miss Ordway's hair, and dreamed more than ever. Upon the Preacher she waited hand and foot, with a devotion beautiful Kin its un­ consciousness. Ma Daily went about her business in an unusuai silence; and she, too, took in all the details of the author from the East, but with a far different eye. "Don't like her smile," she solilo­ quized in the steam of her important realm, " 'tain't thick. It's spread on mighty thin--like a step-ma's Jam." But to Sandry, when he found one of his rare half-hours of cessation from the rushing work, that same smile, brilliant and well-poised and of the distant world, was a refreshing wind. "You're working too hard, Mr. San­ dry," Miss Ordway often told him, "why don't you go after this Hamp­ den man?" "Haven't time. This Contract may mean the slow gain of years. I must save it first and by all means." "H'm. I'm keen for the unusual. There may be a lot in this. I believe I'll do a little investigating. You know I spoke of it and you said go ahead--?" "I wouldn't mix up with that man. Miss Ordway. He's the coarsest type I ever met with." "Trust me," said Miss Ordway brief­ ly, and the next moment could have shaken herself for the salf-slangy. half-hoastful expressT^x. And upon the word Bhe put her in­ tention into action, for with her usual far-sightedness she saw an almost un­ canny opening and dovetailing of plans. The next day but one a fitful, blowy, tearful day, she ventured forth, clad in a smart suit of corduroy that had done service on many a bridle path in the far metropolis--and Bhe sat Black Bolt like a soldier! Sandry watched her go with an unconscious pride in her urban appearance. She rode astride in his saddle, but though he ad­ mired .every iiii« oi i,ii« splendid pair, he was conscious of a comparison which left something to be desired. Black Bolt with Siletz swinging drunk- enly to the dip and lift of his running stride, had been one. They had been the West. This was the East--and it was artificial. While Sandry stood at the block watching Miss Ordway cantering down the valley, he heard a light step be­ hind and Siletz came around the filing shed. He turned to her, smiling into her eyes, which lighted slowly as they rested On him. "Where have you been, Little Squaw?" he asked. "Over the hog-back." "Eight miles! You shouldn't go Off like that, child. Don't you know you might lose yourself in this /wilder­ ness?" Sandry moved slightly and Siletz glanced across his shoulder down the valley. A gasp, as of indrawn breath made him look up. Her lips were open and Intense as­ tonishment sat upon her face. For a moment she stared at the distant rider. Then she whirled, so swiftly that one of her long braids whipped across Sandry's face like a lash, and dashed into the lean-to. When she emerged the dark color had drawn out of her cheeks and Hps, leaving them ashen. Her face worked and Sandry fefl back a step at sight of her eyes. They were fell savage, flaming with a rage which astounded him. "Why -- why -- S'letz!" he cried catching her by the wrist as she passed him, "I didn't know you felt like this about the horse!" But she flung his grasp loose in a perfect fury and dashed up the steps to the kitchen, the sobs coming wildly. With an indescribable sensation sending shivers down his spine, the young owner went to his office. When Miss-Ordway returned late in the day her smart habit was stained with mud, her little cap was charm­ ingly awry, and she bore all the ear­ marks of adventure. "But I know Hampden of the fal­ low Pines," she whispered intimately as Sandry assisted her to dismount, "if I did have to manage a rather spectacular fall and ruin my coat in your unspeakable mud. I think he'll furnish admirable data." "What?" cried Sandry, "you did that? Well, for the love of heaven! No wonder you can portray other folks' emotions! You simply go out and make your situations!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) So a Bolt Can't Slip. A method of locking a nut upon a bolt in such a way that it cannot work loose iB the object of a patent granted to William Johnson of Pittstield, Mass Tbe bolt is tbe ordinary screw boit. but has a flat edge down one side Upon this a washer, made of spring steel is placed. The straight edge of the bole in tbe washer fits that of tbe bolt, thus making it immovable. Tbe surface of the washer 1s punched with round bosses. Tbe un der surface of tbe nut is bored with tbe same number of holes as there are bosses and of equal size. . When the nut is screwed down the bosses yield under pressure until tbe nut is driven home, when tbey tit into tbe holes. Tbe nut cannot work looae but can be removed easily with a wrench. GREATEST VIADUCT IN CHILE \.r i*;': •If® ISK ; MMM '*:> ' SV.;v *> *. -4.- This Viaduct on the Santiago and Valparaiso Railroad, Recently Complet­ ed, la Considered a Triumph of Engineering. A Glance at the Illustra­ tion Will Show the Difficulties That Had to Be Overcome by the Build* ers. NEW AUTOMATIC STOP DEVICE, IT 18 CLAIMED, CHECK8 TRAIN'S 8PEED AT ONCE. \ Men of the Rail Will Recognize the Simplicity of Its Construction and Method of Working--Elec­ tricity Is Employed. More Trouble. "Why do you never take your fam­ ily t.ut in your car?" '•("lot seven In my family." "Well, you have a seven passeng«r car." "Yes. and when it's full people think I'm operating * Jitney bus ' It Is claimed that a train going 60 miles an hour can be stopped within 2,000 feet by means of an apparatus now being tested on an American railroad. This ap­ paratus is intend­ ed to be used in connection with a double-track block system, and auto­ matically sets the brakes and stops the train at the en­ trance to a block if the block is not clear. The track part of the ap­ paratus consists of a steel ramp 180 ieet long supported on the ends of the tires at a distance of 22 inches from the rail. This ramp slopes each way from the center, the center being three inches higher than the ends. Each locomotive operating on this section of the road is equipped with a contact shoe that engages the ramp and is mounted on the lower end of a vertical rod, the whole being sup­ ported on the crosshead guides. As the locomotive passes the ramp this shoe is raised three inches. The shoe operates a piston and through this a pneumatic mechanism that closes the throttle and sets the brakes if the rear end of the ramp is not elec­ trically charged, while if it is elec­ trically charged, magnets are ener­ gized that hold the mechanism and prevent it from operating. The con­ trol consists of electrical connections so arranged that the rear end of the ramp is charged only when the block is clear. The forward end is always charged, so that trains are not inter­ fered with when backing.--Popular Mechanics. BRIGHT FUTURE FOR ROADS Novel ftallroad Bridge. A bridge that is to be built for the Holland government railroad over the Serajoe river in Java has been made complete in the shops in Holland and so carefully has this be<£n done that no field work will be required in erecting the steel structure other than that of connecting the members, says Popular Mechanics. The bridge site is far from any kind of shop facili­ ties, and to make sure that the struc­ ture would go together properly it was first erected as carefully as if on its permanent location, In the yards of the manufacturing company in Hol­ land. Following this it was taken down and is to be shipped by steam­ er to Java. The bridge is of unusual design, consisting of three arched spans of steel connecting with short, straight trusses over the piers. It has a total length of 608 feet 10 inches and weighs 580 tons. It is designed to carry a single track railroad hav­ ing a gauge of three and one-half feet. Rush for Locomotives. The call for locomotives the pres­ ent year is very large. American roads for, the first ten months of this year ordered 940 and the rate of orders is increasing, indicating that the domes­ tic call will exceed 1,000. The foreign orders for ten months are 1,581. Word has gone out to the railroads that if they will need new equipment they had best reserve space now, as the prospect is the shops will be fully oc­ cupied later. Orders have been taken from Cuba, Spain and Greece, and it is expected that other neutral coun­ tries that have thought of Germany will send orders to thiB country. Expert Sees Nothing but Prosperity for American Lines--Compari­ son of Capitalization. A study of some recent comparative statistics issued by the bureau of rail* road economics ought to repay the in* vestor whose vision is not limited by stock market prices. So far as they could be compared, the railroads of 38 countries were an* alyzed and certain facts brought out that should indicate roughly the de« velopment to be expected in the Unit­ ed States. For instance, in the number of miles of line operated per 100 square miles of area, our country is behind practl* cally all of the older nations of com* mercial importance. Our figure is 8.4, FYane^f 12.18, Austria's 12.2, Den* mark'jj 15.45, Germany's 18.08, Hoi* land's 18.3, Hungary's 10.61, Italy's 9.78, Switzerland's 19.38, Belgium's 25.78, and the United Kingdom's (England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales) 19.3. in this respect we are ahead of such countries as Japan, Sweden, Cuba, Bulgaria, Roumania, Spain, Portugal, the South American countries, New Zealand and Australia. In miles of line operated per 10,000 of population we are under Australia (excepting New South Wales),Canada and the Argentine, and we are far above the old countries named in the preceding paragraph. It is reasonable to predict that our figure of 26.15 miles of line operated per 10,000 of population will fall to* ward the 5.71 of Germany or the 5.13 of'the United Kingdom. It will fall faster than the figure of miles operat­ ed per 100 square miles of area will rise. Our population growth will continue steady and rapid; the growth of rail­ way mileage will be much slower in proportion, writes John M. Oskison in the Chicago Daily News. Qijr railroad capitalization (upon which interest and dividends must be earned) is $63,535 a mile; that of the United Kingdom $277,147, of France $148,4(53, of Germany $116,365, of Switzerland $122,010. We compare best with Canada's $64,054. As population grows and traffic be­ comes denser-the capitalization of our roads will increase. ALL FAVOR ELECTRIC POWER Many Important Facts Brought Out in a Comparison Between Ita Use and That of Steam. " The fact that no boilers "are required on electric locomotives elminates one of the large sources of trouble for the motive power department. One loco­ motive can also be run over several different divisions without injury to it or without reducing its efficiency. Un­ der present operating conditions, with steam locomotives. It is rarely pos­ sible to run either a passenger or freight locomotive over more than one engine district, which will average from 100 to 150 miles. Under elec­ trical operation, solid through trains can be run over several divisions with­ out any longer stops at the present terminals than would be xn&de or­ dinary way stations. The maximum results for steam tft- gines are obtained partially by the quality of the coal used and by the ability of the fireman to keep plenty of coal in tho firebox. With electrical en­ gines they can be run at fairly uniform speed and in making long, heavy moun­ tain climbs they should be as efficient for the last few miles near the top of the climb as whep starting up the grade. The success of the work will mean the gradual electrification of whole systems. Two Birds Had Occupied Nest. A North Westmoreland (Eng 1 farm- gf in the course of his rounds through his fields found a nest with 25 eggs in it. The large number was not the only marvel, for on examining the egg? he found that 15 of them belonged to a pheasant and the remaining 10 to a partridge. The pheasant, as the stronger bird, was the probable in­ truder. Of Course, It's a Whopper. A paragraph is going the rounds of the Eastern newspapers to the effect that there are more than a hundred girl students weighing more than two hundreds pounds each enrolled in the University of Kansas. It has prompted the Toledo Blade to remark that it constitutes the answer to the old query: "What's the matter with Kan-' sas?"--Kansas City Star. Hour-Glass Auctioneer. An ancient custom has just been ob­ served at Chard, Somerset, England, when a meeting of the burgesses con­ ducted the annual letting of tbe mar­ ket tolls. An hour-glass was set, and while the sand trickled from one half to the other bids were made. The buyer cf the tolls was determined by the last bid before the sand ran down. Indian Railroaders Pensioned. India's railroads pension all old em­ ployees. Times for Disappearing. A rn*T| ought not only to go into his closet to pray, but also to eat corn on the cob and tried chicken.--Judge