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$ By Vingie E. Roe N i g h t W i n d Illustrations A STORY OF THE GREAT NORTH WEST -odd. Mead and Company SYNOPSIS. --2-- 81W* of Daily's lumber rump directs a stranRPr to the catnp Walter Sandry Introduces himself to John Daily, fore­ man. as "the Dillingworth 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 m 'Cr CHAPTER III--Continued. Out of the near gloom, which was lightening a bit with dawn, the log trail rose, an aggressive snakelike trough climbing uncompromisingly at an angle of 36 degrees, its center a straight pine log sunk to its surface, which was polished like Ivory, its slightly curving sides the same. How many tapering trunks had gone into Its two miles would be hard to say. for In some places they had sunk and been covered--in the dip, say, over the ridge where the real mountain began, at the turn where it wound around the Shoulder. Before ten minutes Sandry was breathing heavily, though he said nothing and kept close at Daily's heels. The logger strode forward and upward with an easy, climbing lift that rippled every muscle in his loose body, while the man from the cities strained and heaved in painful labor, slipping on the wet earth, floundering lb the rotten bark and brush that lined the way. They climbed beside the trail, not in it Ahead of them the gang of men had long since disap­ peared from sight and hearing. The forenoon that followed was the opening page in a new chapter of his life, and Sandry bent all his faculties to a grasp of outlines. He stood silently watching the work go forward. They had reached the cutting. Here, in a wide dip high above the world, it seemed to the V'-Mr- ®asterner- was a huge circle of aetiv- *tjr. Close beside the built trail a sec- '4 ond donkey engine fussed and j/t ; screamed, reaching out uncannily on all sides for the great logs, to haul .them in with screech of spool and strain of cable and turn them over to s the mysterious steel rope that came constantly crawling back on its trav- cling line. This was called the "yard- Ing engine"--th~ one at the foot of the trail beside the railway and the track being known as the "roader" The monotonous song of the cross­ cut saws bad begun where the buck- era were converting several hundred and-flfty-foot trunks into handling sections. A little below, two foot-wide planks some five or six feet long had been set into a giant yellow pine about eight feet from the ground, one on either side, and on these two men were stand­ ing, their flannel shirts open * at the throat, their sleeves rolled up from arms of steel and leather, their heads bare. Sandry watched the bending of their backs, every muscle outlined under the clinging shirts, the play of their knees, the whole easy rippling s their entire bodies with the regular vj give and take of the long saw. The j hoards, known as springboards, rose and dipped with the even motion. These men were fallers, and pres- _«• ently they would lay the towering monarch of the great woods to the ftff, fraction of an inch in a given place. \ " ^ ready for the buckers. the hook-tender • Vand tbe cable* ' !~*i ln the meantime the logs already gldown were swiftly stripped of their ^ limbs, cut into thirty and forty foot yv? lengths, rolled into the trail with ij? peavey and cant hook, and sent up and Uopyri^iit nature, dense and untouched, waiting for the hand of pygmy man to come and take her lavish treasures. By nine o'clock the sun was shining above the peaks and the fog had van­ ished from the valleys and although it was late fall there was no feeling of the death of the year. On the con­ trary, there wasa sense of bustle and hurry and wore beginning with the advent of the rains. The tidewater slough was bank-full and- mud-brown with thick grass and water growths along its edges. The stranger unoon sciously drew ^reat breaths of the sweet air of the high hills and began to feel dimly something of their charm. John Dally was everywhere, looking at this, lending a hand at that, shout ing some good-natured instruction here and there, overseeing with an eagle eye each minute detail of the work. One of the new owner's first impres­ sions was that in this man he had an object of great value. He was just thinking this when there came one long blast from the donkey over the ridge and the men dropped their tools in their tracks, the two on the spring boards jumped down, leaving the saw just where the call had caught it. far out on one side, and the foreman came up to him. "Dinner time, Mr. Sandry.** be said, smiling, "I "spect you're pretty hun­ gry." "What?" cried Sandry. "why, I hadn't thought of it! Ls it possible we've been here five hours?" "Sure. Time goes fast in the hills." They began to climb the trail, the men straggling out ahead and behind the youngest forging forward in the eagerness of youth and healthy appe­ tites, the older characters, all of them hardened woodsmen, taking it more leisurely. Before they were half way up. how­ ever, Sandry was breathing heavily. "Might I ask." said Daily, "some­ thing about the change in the com­ pany?" "Certainly. There has simply been *n nutrleht sale of the interests, all of Walters v over the ridge to the accompaniment of shrill toots from the whistle-bob's •••??: restless cord, the straining of rigging fS&M | and the squeak of fiber on polished : fiber- . The built trail ended here in the shallow hollow between the firBt ^'5 ridgo and the great mountain beyond though up the face of the latter it was * prolonged by a cleared path sharply t i;! defined among the dense growth of tbe timber. 1 He was impressed by the magnitude of the country. On every hand tbe lifting hills were clothed in trees, close packed and of such girth and height as to seem almost grotesquely impos­ sible. Humanity was dwarfed to in­ significance, like an ant crawling on a cathedral column. Sandry looked around. Up to this distance the woods were dotted with cuttings where the great stumps glowed white amid the vivid green and the debris of slashings and trim­ mings which combined with,the fern and hazel brush and other under­ growth to make a perfect tangle. But beyond, along the new-cut trail, was EARLY HISTORY OF EUROPE . Confederation of Germanic Tribes the Foundation of Countries of Ger- ... many and France. w Ha Stood Silently Watching the Work Go Forward. which, or nearly all. 1 bought from Dillingworth & Frazer. A fifth, I be­ lieve, is still owned by a Mr. Rakeham, who is somewhere in South America I have copse out to take absolute charge and learn the timber business " "1 see. And you've had no experi­ ence?" "None." said Sandry a little shortly. "Maryanna Humphrey!--but my feet is tender!" complained a voice behind. Sandry glanced quickly back. Three lumberjacks were plodding up the slope, their seamed and weathered faces set intently on dinner. On one, a red-headed chap of some thirty-six or eight, powerful and rugged, he set his sharp eyes. "But I'm acquiring it," he finished, "rapidly. Discharge that man." Daily did not turn. "1 can't." he said, "he's just quit." Tb* name Pranks was applied about tbe middle of the third century to a confederation ot Germanic tribes dwelling on the middle and lower Khine. Later they became divideu into two principal groups--the bail aus. inhabiting tbe districts on Doth sides of the lower Kb me. and tbe Klpuarlans, settled on tbe mludie Khine. in the third and tpurtb cen turies hordes of tbem b>.-gao to move southwards and atterwards luto Gam. In 358 Emperor Julian, altbougn be defeated the Saltan invaders. auowea them to establish themselves perma nently in Toxandria. the country be (ween tbe Meuse and tbe Scheldt From this time Prankish cbiets anc warriors frequently served in tbe Ko man armies; and during tbe tirtb ceo tM<*y tbey rendered valuable service to the empire by stemming tbe tide ot barbarian invasion, Hy ibis time tbe •wiia* Franks had made themselves CHAPTER IV. Old Reins in New Hands. The East and the West had met. It 'was apparent in every essential that had to do with Sandry and his men in common. It showed when be sat among them at the head of the long table, in tbe masters of northern Oaul. while the Rlpuarians were concentrated around Cologne. Under Hlodowlg or Clovis. king of tbe former confederation, tbe Pranks were converted to Christian­ ity. while by bis conquests ln cen­ tral Gaul, and by his subjugation ot tbe Alemannl and tbe Ripuarlan Pranks, be not only extended bis do­ minions as far as tbe Loire tn tbe one direction and tbe Maine in the other, but he laid tbe foundation of what subsequently developed into the kingdom of Prance. Sumatra's Tea-Growing Industry. Tbe island of Sumatra, now la> course of development as a tea pro­ ducer, and reported to be capable ol producing heavy yields from mature plants, has followed up last years in troductory period by larger supplies, and tbe industry has received much encouragement from tbe abnormally high values of the past year.'Tbe teas have already secured a "good will" iu tbe market. Tbe area under tea now approaches 8.000 acres nearly all or woicb nave been opened out on rlhe , east coa»* from Assam seed. way he used his hands, his knife and his food. It glared when he spoke, it paraded in his clothes, and most ot all it stood forth pitilessly when he sat by himself at night in the plain little room under the dripping eaves. They were nearly always dripping, the pane behind the spotless curtains was al­ ways black and glittering, there was nearly always the shut-in silence that rain imposes--that dense silence, lis­ tening and lonesome. Sometimes, to be sure, it was only a little Oregon mist that saddened the night outside, but it had the same effect on the young man from the midst of life in New York, He was East and he knew* it.' Also, the men had known it from that first speech In the doorway of the cook- shack. They spoke of him among them­ selves ashV'Dillingworth," accompany­ ing the word with grins, tasting its flavor as delicately as any be-spec- tacled professor of the East dallying with a new derivative. Nowhere in the world Is discern­ ment brought to a finer point than in the lumber camps and mills of the Northwest, among that floating gentry of the pike and peavey, the knee-laced boot and the "turkey," who pass here and there with the seasons, picking critically at the speech and doings of many places. Also, nowhere is there a stronger prejudice against any manifestation of personal superiority, any exploitation of what may lie east of the Cascades. To them tbe man and the place are one--East and Easterner. They felt for him that contempt which only the seasoned feel for the inexperienced. And with the quick­ ness which was his characteristic, the new owner sensed the feeling among them. It only added to that jumble of sensations and impressions which had crowded thick upon him from the first and which he had had no time to assort and get under control. He had simply laid them away for future at­ tention. In the meantime he went quickly at tbe work of settling himself in the new environment. A load of lumber was brought up the slough on the punt from the mill at Toledo and four men were put to building a small of­ fice. It was set at the pdge of tbe slough, a bit below the cook-shack, where it commanded from its two east­ ern windows and door the track, the roading donkey, the log-trail and the railway, and from the southern oue the winding slough, the rest of the track and the lower railway, where the donkey engine left the logs, its duty done; After that they rolled down with much splashing to the nar­ row ribbon of water which, with ev­ ery flood tide backed in from the bay. lifted them high and trundled them, grinding and groaning, slowly down, perhaps to the mill at Toledo, perhaps to bo laced together with mammoth chains, built into a great raft and towfid ou^- to\ the ocean to voyage along the' coast) down to southern Cal­ ifornia or up to Portland. A tiny, wheezy tug fussed about the backwa ter for the express purpose of starting the monster rafts out on the ebb. Inside the new office were Installed a roll-top desk, a case of books, a map or two and several chairs, beside a small stove. Here, with tbe four pine walls around him, Walter Sandry at last looked around and called himself at home. The drawers of the new desk were full of documents and mem­ oranda, the history, with statistics and records down to the minutest detail, of the Dillingworth Lumber company. These he set himself to master as bis first step toward the vast goiden goal of the dream that had brought him west. Very shrewdly he decided to take nothing out of the capable bandB of his foreman. There had been a sort of tense pause in the camp pending this development. When it became appar ent that things were to go on as usual the work went forward as if a line had been loosened. Big John Daily had gone about dur­ ing the few days of uncertainty with the unruffled calm of his quiet nature, though there was a small, a very small ache somewhere inside him. Ever since he could remember, his life had been cast In Daily's lumber camp1-- when his father, old John Daily, had logged with oxen on the eastern slopes of the Coast range and there was no Jerkwater railroad in to Yaquina bay. When a 200-foot fir had tottered out 6f line and sent tbe old man forever into silence In the roaring thunder of its fall, the boy John, at seventeen, had picked up the reins of government DISCOUNT ON CZAR'S CHECK Painter Learned Something About How Business Is Conducted in the Realm of Nicholas. When Professor Tuxen. the Danish artist, bad finished bis great work, "The Coronation of tgdward VII," ne received, it appears, an order from tbe Russian emperor f r a copy ot this painting, for which the czar was to pay 12,000 rubles. In due course tbe professor repaired to Petrograd to deliver the painting. He was granted an audience with tbe czar, who expressed bis satisfaction with the picture and who banded the professor an order for the sum agreed upon. When tbe professo" presented tbe check for payment be was told tbat an order from tbe erapefor was sub­ ject to n discount, and be had there­ fore, to accept a sum considering? smaller than tbs face value ot too check. Motors bis departure from Ru«sta tbe professor bad a farewell audience with tbe czar, who, in the course ot in tbo oarap and carried on thp work, abetted and aidei by that efficient general, hlB mother. With the years of bis young manhood he had worked, following the wilderness as progress pushed it backward to the bay, seeing little of the outside world save per­ haps f6r a trip, once in three years, to Portland or down to San Francisco, and always during the past it bad been the Dillingworth Lumber company into whose vast holdings the camp had cut its way. Always there had been no hand of power in the hills save his own, no supervision excepting the annual visits of some member of tbe firm who went over things, nodded, estimated, took figures and went away. He had car* ried on his camp himself, fought since be could remember with the Yellow Pines company, whose holdings were vast as those of the Dillingworth, and had not thought of change. When Walter Sandry settled quietly down with no voice in the doings of the camp. Daily drew a good breatb and went ahead once more. As for the new timber magnate, he sat down at the new desk on the first day of his occupancy of the little office on the slough's edge and wrote tils first letter. » It was on a printed letterhead! " i DIUIoKworth Lumber Company; Toledo. Orenron. Dear Dad: Excelsior! I fancy I'm on top of the world! Wish you could step in here for an hour's, chat. The countrv would amaze you as It has me with Its mighty bigness. You feel like an atom crawling on the sea's floor--too small to count. The hills are like our beloved Catskllls, only they are their wild cousins from the wilderness, unkempt and savage. . . . There la wealth here, Dad, untold wealth and I Intend to get a handful of It. The timber Is unsounded. It reacheB away to the Siletz reservation on the north--and on beyond. These Indians come into camp once In awhile with baskets, a timid sort of people, fishers, not fighters. The stumpage ls magnifi­ cent. We are the company, though we have a rival, a formidable one. the Yellow Pines, which operates to the south of us I have met none of their people as yet. but my foreman tells me there ls, and always has been, bad blood between us. , Well, dear old chap, I must not weary you. Write me all the happenings that concern you there. Tell Hlgglns If he neglects one thing about you I will skin him alive when I come home for a flying trip. I hope, Bir. you are feeling comfortable and will go Into the winter in good shape. When the spring comes on I believe we can bring you out here with comfort-- thu Pullman service Is smooth as glass across continent. And 1 know the trip would benefit you. As he wrote these words the young man's bright blue eyes softened like a woman's and a grim line settled about his lips. He knew, on the word of the greatest specialist of two conti­ nents, that the dignified old gentleman to whom they were addressed, a white- haired gentleman with the finest bear­ ing and 'the gentlest heart, tied irrevo­ cably to an invalid chair, hi*d at the moat but a scant year to live: Yet he wrote of hope and travel and return­ ing health, wrote determinedly with a force that must communicate some­ thing of its light to the lopely wreck left by the tide of life stranded at the edge of that mighty, flowing stream, the metropolis. He finished the letter with a com mendation so tender, so indicative of a great affection, that it did not sound like a man's, a son's to a father-- rather like a daughter's to an ailing mother, signed, sealed and stamped it. and sat for many minutes holding it in his hand, staring hard with drawn brows at the yellow pine of the new walls. Again the faint shadow of sad ness, of regret, flickered from the past across his features. Then he sighed, rose with his graceful quickness and straightened his Bhoulders. As be closed the desk and stepped from the office he felt that he had gathered up the rsins of the new life. CHAPTER V. Wild Blood snd Horseflesh. The fall drew on apace. Sometimes the austere gloom of the mighty coun­ try thrilled Sandry with a strange compelling; oftener it held him at a dripping window with a load of lead on his heart. He had no companions John Daily, easy, simple, suggesting tried force, was his only comfort. In him he found something vaguely fine, as the plain little stone at the bottom of clear waters takes on1 a certain simple beauty. They spent an occa­ sional evening together in the little office, talking of the work, and the new owner asked and learned many things Into the ample heart of white-haired Ma Daily Sandry bad stepped that first night, wholly without intent. "He speaks like a man." she opined decisively, "an" you mark my words he'll prove himself so, if his bands are white." Of the girl Siletz he had scarcely taken a moment's notice. He did not even know that when she served him 6ilently at the oilcloth covered table the two long braids were tied togeth­ er at the nape of ber neck so tbat by no chance could they fall against his hand. Neither did he know that the dog Coosnah watched him always with pale eyes Of these two he knew less than of any others in camp wilh whom he had as much to do. As for the girl herself, she kept away from his vicin- conversatton. asked him: "Did you get your money, professor?" Professor Tuxen replied tbat be had not Intended to mention the matter, but since bis majesty himself rslsed tbe question, he would say that be bad received only part of the money. At this the czar seemed not at all surprised, but calmly made out an­ other order for tbe sum iphicb had been deducted from the orlgtnal amount, and thus Tdxen got bis money.--Washington Star. New York's Imports of Wcod. New York Btate produces less than one-third of tbe raw material used tn her wood Industries. In spite of tbe popular impression tbat the introduc tion of concrete, brick and steel is do ing away with the use of wood. It bas been found tbst tbe stste Is vesrly using more wood per capita than ever before. More than twice as mueb wood Is used per person today than 60 years ago. More than six times as much wood per person is used In New York state iban in Germany, and more than ten times as *uc* as IA ̂ r«at Britain. ity. Oftene* they two, the girl and the dog. silent with a common consent like wild thin#* of the woods, sought the wind-swept top of the great stump on the western ridge. Here Siletz looked down on the drooping slope and wondered of the cities and the sea. He had come from them both She had never seen a man like him. His clothes were different His spec was unlike. So were Ms hands, white and fine grained. Aleo there was another of his pos­ sessions that she knew in every line and turn, Black Bolt, the splendid horse that stamped and whinnied with impatience in the lean-to behind the filing shed. She could no more let blm alone than she could refrain from lying down to drink from a mountain rill He called to her blood with lrresist ible force. Day after day she crept shyly to the lean-to and dreamed, watching the slope and the log-trail. "Oh. you beauty!" she whispered with a soft hand on the arching neck. "Oh. you beauty of the world! God made you strong to serve and beauti ful to be loved!" < • - ' -N And at that momenti on that par­ ticular day, Walter Sandry stepped into the doorway of the lean-to. At his foot on the sill the girl whirled upon him, her dark eyes wide with fright and confusion. "I--I-1-" she stammered like a child. Sandry looked fit her for the first time keenly. "You are fond of the horse?", he asked. But her tongue clove suddenly to the roof of her mouth and one of the inherent silences that sometimes fell upon ber shut her lips. She dropped her eyes, twisted" her fingers ln Black Bolt's mane, and then. Looked Around and Called Himself at Home. with a gliding motion, soft-footed and swift, went past him, running toward the cook-shack. The incident was nothing in itself, but it 3et the man thinking of her He had seen adoration in the eyes she bent on the splendid animal, heard it in the words, stilted and incongruous. "Queer youngster," said Sandry to himself. That night after supper he came out. contrary to his custom, from the little south room with its patchwork quilts, its crocheted mat and its antique Bible, into the big eating room. He found Ma Daily rocking in the little chair, her tired old hands lying comfortably on the Portland Weekly spread out on her slanting lap. The wall lamps in their tin reflectors sil­ vered her white hair exquisitely and brought out softly the thousand kindly creases on her ruddy face. On the end of the bench drawn up to the stand Siletz was sitting, weav­ ing a mat of long grasses, and her fingers were deft as an Indian's. Behind ber on the bench lay Coos­ nah. head on paws, eyes blinking sleepily. "Come in, Mr. Sandry," Bald tbe old lady ln her rich voice. "Draw up a chair. We're restin'." He sat down and bent a smile as brilliant as his blue eyes on this hardy old toother of the wilderness. Prom the first he had felt ber personality, though he had no time to pay more than a passing attention to it. "I should think you'd neetL it," he said. "How do you manage to keep up the stroke?" "Law bless y6$!" she laughed eas­ ily. "I ben trained to it. I've cooked In camp, young man, for forty-two year straight ahead." "Then you've seen the growth of the country, the coming of railroads, the making of towns." "Right from the bottom np. Seen 'em grow from three cabins an' a cov­ ered wagon." "You've witnessed the inroads of the world on this < fine timber, too." "Yes, an' it hain't teched yet. seen it cut up over the Range au down this side, an' they's double stumpage for every acre that's ben cut, between here'n the coast," ' <TO BE CONTINUED.) Precious Metsls in India. Precious metals continue to accu­ mulate In India in enormous qusnti- ties In spite of tbe war. This it brought out by th') figures of the gof* and silver imports of the current year, which are now published. These show that after deducting all exportations there bas been *ct three months an ad­ dition to the stores In tbe country of no less than 168 iakbs worth of gold and 22b Iakbs wortb of silver. In tbe same period tbe miats in India have struck off the large sum of 3$ lakfr* of rupees which bas thus also beer added to the circulating wealtb of th« Inhabitants, a total value Of Ovea $14,000,000. Nesting Qolt Ball*. A golfer wbo was playing over tbt St Neots Huntingdonshire, links ia ISugland tbe other day bit nis oaU into • hedge, and. alter searching fot *t VOIDS time without success, ob served a bird s nest Prom curiosity aiore than with any expectation ol luiding nis oail tbere. be looked rate tbe nest, sud round not only nis ova bell. Dili tbr*e Others ai#iU»T*4 stury. out actual tt«U SAFE FROM DANGER - * • > : i P' In Cass of Injury to Locomotive Crew Can Take Refuge in Armored Cans* LATEST SAFETY DEVICE FOR THE PROTECTION OF EN31. NEER AND FIREMAN. & Automatic Mechanism Is the Result of Careful 8tudy--Makea Greater Possibility of Escape In Case of Train Wreck. "The engineman and fireman stuck to their posts," or "the engineman and fireman Jumped." The account of virtually every rail­ road wreck contains either one or the other of these statements. The men­ tal struggles, all the more acute for their brevity, which lie behind those statements are overshadowed by the. magnitude of what follows. Yet to the engineman and fireman they often are the beginning or the 6nd of all things. What man dare say that when con­ fronted with the necessity of making decision of life and death upon a second's notice he will face death for hlfe responsibilities or that he will throw duty to the winds and think only of saving himself? The chances are that training and instinct, as well as sense of duty will keep the engine crew at its post, yet many a driver of the "iron horse" has gone to his death by following his in­ stinct, when conditions were such that sticking to his post could not have prevented the accident and when he had a chance to jump and save his life. Comparatively few engineers ever are called upon to make such snap decisions, but as sure as the sun rises and Bets a certain number of them are forced to every year, and no man can say that he will not be next when he takes his engine from the roundhouse. It is a useless sacrifice of tv/o addi­ tional lives for the crew to Btick to the cab when the accident cannot be avoided. It is likewise a dereliction of duty for the two men to jump when, by sticking to their posts they may avoid, or lessen, the seriousness of tbe accident The problem is worth solving. And It has been solved by "William A. Uttz, a Ft. Worth inventor. The principle involved is that of an automatic bit of mechanism which re­ lieves the engineman and fireman of the responsibility of making the de­ cision. In the event of impending dis­ aster the simple pulling of a lever does everything that the men could do by sticking to their posts, and at the same time automatically and in­ stantaneously without necessitating any further action, even the moving of a muscle, on their part, provides them with a better and safer method of escape than that of jumping. Danger appears ahead. Each or ei­ ther man pulls his lever, and the mechanism closes the throttle, applies the brakes and sand, extinguishes the fire, then reverses the engine. Simul­ taneously the engineman's and fire­ man's seats drop below the level of the cab floor, into heavy steel cylin­ ders, heavy lids drop over them and lock, and the two men, neatly "canned" in padded receptacles, are thrown wide of the tracks to either side of the speeding engine. It makes no difference whether the drums in which the men are tightly inclosed fall Into the water, or wheth­ er an engine or a car falls on top of them. In the first case the drums float. In the second they withstand the weight or are pushed aside. The airbrake drum on a locomotive, experience has shown, is never crushed in a wreck, and the "man drums" are seven times stronger than the air tanks. Mr. Utta Is a practical railroad man, and the value of his Invention is apparent when it is known that it is not a mere theory, an invention on paper, but that it has been tried out repeatedly with human occupants un­ der as severe conditions as could be arranged, and each time with perfect success. Why They 8ucceed. 4*fffcaps you think that a lot of ns- ceBsful men won success because they had nerve, whereas their success probably Is due more to good, hard work while you were standing on the street corner arguing politics or re­ ligion.--Atchison tllobe. Navigable 8ubterr«nean River. Av subterranean river ln the Philip­ pines is navigable by small boats for 2% miles from Its mouth, passing through several largo stalactite-hung caverns. WITNESS HAD AN ANSWER And Lawyer Learned Lesson Which He Insists He Will Always Keep In Memory. A railroad lawyer, who has much to do with human nature, says: "Nevdir cross-question an Irishman from the old sod." And he gave an illustratiok from his own experience: A section hand had been killed by an express train and his wido-y was suing for damages. Tire main witnesfcl swore positively that the locomotiv^b whistle had not been sounded until after the whole train had passed over his departed friend. "See here, McGinnis," said I, "you admit that the whistle blew?" "Yis, sor, it blew, sor." "Now, if that whistle sounded in time to give Michael warning, the fact would be in favor of the company, wouldn't it?* "Yis, sor, and Mike 'would Be testi­ fying here this day." The jury giggled. "Very well. Now, what earthly pur­ pose could there be for the engineer to blow his whistle after Mike had been struck?" "I preshume thot the whistle wor for the next man on the track, sor." I quit, and the widow got #11 ahe asked. SWITCH SHIFTER IS NEW Invention Has Many Points of Valu* Which Are Clear Even to the Inexperienced. This invention relates to means for switching street railway cars and the main object is to provide a device which will accomplish this result from Switch Shifted the front platform of a car and be under control of the motorman. An­ other object of the invention is to, provide a device which is normally out of operative position, but which may be placed in operative position by the motorman's foot. A further ob­ ject is to provide a foot pedal where­ by the motorman may, at will, throw a switch to the right or to the left.--» Scientific American. Vast 8ums Invested. It is estimated that the railways of the United States maintain 85,000 pas­ senger or combination passenger and freight stations, and that fully 80,006 of these are buildings cost |25,000 or leBs. New Idea in Forestry. , By transplanting young trees upslda down, so that the branches developed roots, and the roots leaves, an English railway has produced small shade trees in less time than ordinarily. Electrical Locomotives Best. German railroads have found that the maintenance of electrical locomo* tlves is more economical than oper> a ting cars fitted with individual mo­ tors. Safety for Railroad Men. f Shoes with quickly removable sole^ ' and heels have been invented i|i France for railroad men so that they can escape should their feef. be caught in tracks. }, j, Killed on Grade Crossing^ Orade-cro«sing accidents cott 108 lives in Pennsylvania in the fiscal year ending July 1. To the Rescue. "Here's an item/', said tlie telegraph editor, "about a New York man giv­ ing his wife a $50,000 tiara. That will make every man's wife in America want something of the kind." "Kill the item," directed the proprietor. "What's the use of running a news* paper if you can't occasionally help y o u r f e l l o w m e n ? " -- L o u i s C o w * ier-Jouraal. ' ---- rr- British Capital In Canada. * Fifty per cent of Canadian fire t» surance is by British companies*