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- - - --- TUPS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1896. YOI T XT mi The coal-mining industry ot Gr?a! Britain has seldom had a mers unsatis factory year than 1895 proved to be. It is said that in the event of war between England and Venezuela, 100, 000 Brazilians will join the latter country. An Indiana Judge, in his address to the local Grand Jury the other day, charged them to hear oertain evidence '\yith an unsparing hand." Many a man's word is as good as hil bond, but it always happens when the pinch comes that the bank won't ad vance any money except on the bond. Since 1875 the marriage rate in Ber lin has decreased from 30.6 to 20.3 per thousand. At that rate there would be no marriages at all forty years hence. _ It ia a French paper that says the United States is commercially a great and powerfnl rival for all Europe com bined. This is ahead of time, but Americans will try to live up to it within the next century. The famous Russian artist Verest aohagin advises the people of Moscow to build all their houses on distinc tively Russian styles of architecture. He says that it would give the city an original aspect, and attract thousands of tourists, with the accompanying profita._^^^^^^^^ A heated cor troversy is now in pro gress between St. Paul and Minneapo lis, aa to which eats the most mutton. St. Paul claims that she consumes twice as many sheep as her sister oity, and Minneapolis claims that the sheep consumed in St. Paul are very small, and although she may consume a greater number of muttons that they are so small as to oanse Minneapolis to lead in pounds ot mutton. The Scottish Farmer says that har ness ho:.'663 are so scarce in that coun try that they must come to America to have their needs supplied. Not find ing what they wish, they take back the best available, which is to their loss and ours. The French are buying then' light cab horses from us, whioh they formerly obtained from Germany. They contend that they can buy their cheap horses oheaper than they can raise them. j???Rg afKcTi; in the Tale Literary Magazine has cr et.ta J a stir among the students. In che article one of the editors attacks the Yale society sys tem, and says that it has developed hypocrisy and wira pulling ; that quiet scholarship at Yale is under a shadow, and that the "old! "Brick Row" de mocracy has become greatly impaired. The writer also attacks the Young Men's Christian Association of the collegs aa A refuge for hypocrites, who seek society and other honors. Dnring 1895 just closed the Utica (N. Y.) Herald tried to keep a record of all people reported to have died in the United States at the age of 100 years or over. The total reported was curiously enough, pays the Herald, just 100. Two-thirds of those were women, all but four being white wo men. Of the oo'.ored centenarians there were thirteen men. The oldest person to die was a colored man, who was 125. A white man died at St. Louis who had claimed to be 140, hut there was no proof that he was over 121. Even at that age, however, he waa the oldest white man to die during 1895. The oldest white woman was 120. lhere were fourteen people whose ages ranged from 110 to 125. Tue New York Tribune says: Some little time ago a famous firm of Lon don solicitors found it neoessary, in a case involving large interests, to have some detective work of a difficult and delicate nature* done in this city, and instead of employing the regular agen cies put ft in the hands of an American women of good social standing in pri vate life. She undertook the task, and has been so completely successful in the performance of it that the firm employing her has not only thanked her, but sent her a oheok for a hand tome sum. The employment of women of education and position for delicate work has become common in England, bnt thus far few women have been so employed in th'.s country. If they go into the buainei?, however, it is pretty safe to say that they will succeed in it. From Vienna oomes the nowa of a wonderful discovery in photographic' 6cier.ee. It is no less than a means of photographing the interior of solid, opaque bodies. By the new system the bones of a man's hand were per* factly photographed, the flesh being Invisible in the picture. Broken limbs and bullets in human bodies were also success!uliy revealed, as well as ob* jeets placed in a woolen box. Pro fessor Rontgen, of the University of Wurzburg, is the inventor. The light he uses to pbotogroph by is produoed what is known as a Orooke's pipe, viz : a vacuum glass tube with an induction electric current passing through it. The resnlt is a light that appears to penetrate organic subs tances just as ordinary light passes through glass, j The inventor throws open a wide field 1er the deduction ol new truths in electricity and optics. MYSTERIOUS RAYS. BY THEIR AID THINGS INVISI BLE ARE PHOTOGRAPHED. The Marvelous Discovery ID Photog raphy of Professor Roentgen-? Results Obtained by Amer ican Scientists. THE recent discovery of Pro fessor Roentgen, professor of physios in the University of Wurzbnrg, Bavaria, which it is believed is destined to revolutionize photography, is the latest topio to olaim the attention of scientists in Europe and America. By the Roent gen disco very, pictures may be taken of the interior of solid substances. Mysterious rays, called by Professor Roentgen "x rays," in this process easily penetrate solid substances nuch as wood and metal. The skull of (This is the picture of the rat taken by i photographie discovery. E very boa? of the tall was pictured on the plate.) a man, the bones of his feet and hands, in fact, his entire skeleton may be photographed by the Roentgen meth od, showing how one would look with the flesh ott his oones. Flaws and ine qualities in the heart of minerals may be detected, it is claimed, by this re markable process of photography, and still the discovery is in its infancy. Professor Wright, who occupies the chair of experimental physics at Yale University, has been at work ever since the first news of Professor Roentgen's discovery was published. Professor Wright's experiments, says the New York Journal, were made with a great variety of substances, and it was found that strong impressions were obtained upon a photographic plate even when it was enclosed in an opaque wrapping of black paper and covered with a pine board half an inch thick between the rays and the plate. He was aacceasiui in obtaining distinct impressions of a number of American coins-silver, copper and nickel-showing almost complete interception of the rays ; but there were differences, the copper coins transmitting more than the niokel and the nickel more than the silver. In an earlier experiment a somewhat thinner board of white wood was used, the plate being wrapped in black paper as before. On this board was laid a pocketbook of dark Russia leather with several flaps of leather within, and containing seven cards, two of them thick. A number of small coins were slipped into the inside com partment of the book, which was then closed and laid upon the board under the tube. On the plate, when devel oped, only a faint shading was left by the pocketbook, but the coins left a strong and definite picture, showing with surprising clearness their num ber and position in the book. A trace of Professor Wright's hand, which rested upon the board during this ex periment, w?s also strongly depicted. The outlines of the hand were some what blurred, and in the palm faint traces of the passage of the rays be tween the bones could be detected, but there was little of the effect, re ported by Professor Roentgen, of the PHOTOGRAPHS MADE BY PROFE9 (These show the lead In a renell, eye Rias through a pasteboard box, und the metal st greater distinctness of the impression made by the bones. It may be said with regard to the pictures produced on the sensitive plates by these experiments that they have to the eye an appearance similar to those of shadows thrown by the ob jeot upon a surface when the source of light is but a short distance away. If the objeot is at a short interval from th e illuminated surface ?he image is somewhat enlarged, also distorted if the rays falls obliquely, and the edges somewhat blurred or diffused. If the distance of the tube is increased or the interposed opaqae layer is thinner, so that the object experimented upon is brought quite neat to the sensitive plate, then the outline of the pictare is more sharp and clear and the pro portions are more nearly normal. In Professor Wright's first successful ex periment, instead of a photographic plate, a piece of sensitive bromide paper was used simply wrapped in stout black paper absolutely opaque, on which the objeets were laid, con sisting of a pair of scissors, a lead pencil, and a quarter of a dollar. These objects left a strong impression, with remarkably clear outlines of their exaot forms. The reports of Professor Roentgen's work state that the cathode rays do not suffer refraction, and that there fore no image is formed by the action of the lens through which they pass. OTOGRAPHING THROUGH A RAT'S SK i Yale professor by the aid of tho "X ras'S," i ) rodent's skeleton shows plainly in spite o Professor Wright's experiments con firm this, and seem to indicate further that they are not susceptible to double refraction or to reflection. In this respect they are radically different from rays of light, as also from the rays produced by electric oscillations as described by Professor Hertz. The real nature of these wonderfully mysterious rays forms a most thrilling PHOTOGRAPH OP A HAND. (The third finger had a ring upon it.) subject of future investigation, both as to methods and scientific proofs. Professor Wright has photographed a rat by the new process, and the ribs of the animal and the bones of the leg show with great distinctness, although the rays were required to pass through a ooating of hair, hide and flesh. The gristly substance forming the interior basis of the rat's tail is visible and as distinct as tho graphite core of the lead pencil previously pkotographad. SOR WRIGHT, OF YALE COLLEGE. 363 in their leather cnso, threo metal balls tanks of tools through the wooden handles.) Professor Wright has ako experi mented with various kinds of wood, and has secured notable photographic results. His experiments are oarried on in the usual dark room of the la boratory, although he does not con sider darkness an essential quantity. The room is partially lighted by a ruby window when the shutter is dosed, or it can be lighted by daylight with th? window shutter open. He be* Heves the new photographic process ia capable of great development, and that it is destined to be invaluable in medical and surgical usage. Patients Under X Rays. Important experiments to test the value of the Eoentgen X rays in the field of surgery have been made in the laboratory of Dr. William James Mor ton, in New York. The subjeots upon which the rays were tried were several patients from the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, in Forty-sec ond street. As a preliminary experiment, the physician made a picture of the hand of a feminine attendant at the labora tory, using tho discharge from Leyden jars, the current being generated by a static or influence maohine, and a new tube or bulb, containing in addition to the two aluminum eleotrode term inals, a metal reflector, hanging bell like from the top. The exposure lasted thirty minutes, and the result was, IN. is one of a series of experiments with the new t the tough skin, and ereu the gristle in its perhaps, the best ever obtained in this country from this now familiar experiment-the electricity having al ways been obtained previously by means of an induction coil, circuit breaker and other ordinary appliances. The print from the negative showed the bones in deep black, while the flesh appeared as a shadowy substance surrounding them. On one finger a ring seemed curiously suspended in the foggy effect produced by tbe flesh shadow, while the bone of another finger disclosed an old fracture. Experiments on Animals. Of all the experiments made in con nection with the X rays, the oddest are now being quietly conduoted, it is reported, in the physiological labora tory of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New Yo rk. Tho intent of theinvefltigattonis to d?termin? tho possibility of using the Roentgen rays to impress images of objects on the cortex of the bram. Experiments made on animals gave results regarded as most promising. In one experiment a bone lying in an out of the way corner of the room had been previously photographed. The shaven skull of a dog was exposed to the influence of the picture by means of the X rays. On being released after a sufficient exposure, the dog immedi ately hunted np the bone, showing that there was an image of it in his mind. The image of a fierce dog was im pressed upon the brain of a rabbit. On being released the rabbit evinced bigue of great fear-so great, indeed, as to lead to the question whether in sanity might not be produced by the impressing of horrible images. New Army Bicycles. The new army tandem and the model forty, mounted with a Colt's automatic maohine gun, were exhibited at the Madison Square Garden Cycle Show and attracted great attention. The tandem is a regular model taken directly from stock and finished plainly in enamel and nickel. On the front handle bars are tightly strapped two army overcoats, and on the rear bars a pair of blankets. Besting safely in brackets on either side of the machine is a twelve shot repeating rifle, and hanging on each seat post a Colt quick action revolver of the latest pattern. In addition to thia thera is a case of signal flags extending almost the whole length of the machine, but not inter fering with the riders in the least ; and this is the case with all the equip ments, being as well and safely placed, ready for use in a moment, and yet oansing not the slightest interference. The Colt automatic gun mounted on the model forty is the one reoently adopted by the Government for our navy. This gun weighs between thirty-nine and forty pounds, shoots two hundred and fifty or five hundred times-being automatically fed-and is remarkably accurate. It is fastened securely to the head of the maohine, can be easily directed at any angle, and does not intertero with the rider or affect the steering of the machine. These two wheels are as perfectly equipped with the neoeasary accouter ments of war as would seem possible, and the interest which army people and civilians alike h ive shown in them leads one to believe that it will not be long before the wheel will form a very effective adjunct to regular army ser vice.-Scientific American. Largest Cargo ol Live Stock, What is believed to be the largest cargo of live Btock ever shipped from this country was being taken aboard the Dominion liner Scotsman, at Port land, Me., last Thursday, destined for Liverpool. It consisted of 1500 head ofoattleand 1600 sheep.-New York Sun. Minnesota Whiskers. Summer -and- Winter. wTrath. BApJE AND WAIST. SOME A Styl LATE FEATURES IN 'HAN'S GARMENTS. WO h Jacket Basque of Almond Grein Faced Cloth-Shirt Waist of Figured Percale-Pretty Child's Dress. TT ?LMOND green faced cloth, /\f brown velvet and changeable taffeta, showing both shades ? T' are stylishly united in tho handsome jacket basque, a row of gimp decorating the lower edge of yoke. The foil fronts of & ilk and seamless yoke of velvet are arranged over fitted linings that close in centre, the yoke closing with the collar at the left shoulder, and under rever. A belt ot v?lvetJ wrinkled by gathers at each end, crosses the fronts at the waist, the bilk blousing slightly over the belt. The jacket basque is glove-fittmg to the waist line, below which the seams are sprung to give tho fashionable rip pled effect. Tho loose-fitting fronts roll bj^ok in graduated lapels that YOUNO LADIES' JACKET BASQUE -T stand int in points from the shoulders. Foll gigot sleeves are shaped with singlejseams and gathered at the top over comfortably fitted linings, the wriatalbeing plainly completed. Plain or.mimd woolens will develop stylish* ly by /4he mode, with velvet and silk to match, or contrast widely. The reyirscan be faced with silk or velvet or d^WL-5?ftfed with gimp if a more elab orate finish is desired. Ono material alone can be used, and the yoke decor ated with rows of gimp, insertion or passementerie. The quantity of 4?-inch wide ma terial required to make this jacket basque for a lady having a 30-mch bust measure is 3$ yards ; for a 34-inch size, 3} yards; for a 33-inch size, ? yards. SHTBT WAISr FOR MISSES. Figured percale made the stylish shirt waist pictured in the sacond two column engraving, and designed by May Manton. The edges are finished plainly with machine stitching. The fronts and back have fullness collected in gathers at tho upper edge. Toe back and front yokes are inad,e double, the under yoke being straight on its lower edge. The gathers are joined to the straight lower edge of under yoke or lining, and the pointed yoke is stitched down on its lower edges, thus insuring a neat and strong finish. The right front is finished with a box plait stitched on, through which button holes are worked for the 6tu ls or but tons used in closing. A narrow cas ing is applied at the waist line in back, through which tapes aro drawn and tied over the fronts to adjust the fullness under the belt that encircles the waist. The turndown collar is mounted on a high standing band, whioh can be joined to the shirt waist or made separately, as preferred, the neck being finished with a fitted baud to whioh it can be buttoned. Large gigot sleeves are gathered top and bottom, straight cuffs completing the wrists that are closed with Jink studs. Cuff openings are made at the back of sleeves, whioh are finished with under and over laps, pointed at the ends. The handsome new deeigns shown in summer waBh fabrics intended for shirt ?waists insure their continued popu larity IhroTuh the coming season. Batiste, percale, lawn, satteen, cam brio and. dimity develop stylish shirt waistB by the mode. Tho quantity of 36-inch wide ma terial required to make this shirt waist MISSES' .-Il for a miss ten years old is 3 yards ; for a fourteen-year-old size, 3? yards; for a siKteen-year-old size, 3 V yards. STOCK COLLARS OF BL KOK SATIN. .Block collars of black satin to wear wi til skirt waists and t'..in summer drenaos appear among the novel access eries of dress. They are a simple plai n ctiff bani with a large cord of white satin on the upper edge and marie to button on to the waist back and front. Over this is a nairow black satin tie brought around and tied in front like a man's. CHILD'S DRESS. Fancy striped batiste in ecru and pale green is here made np over pale green taffeta, the collar, insertion and all-over embroidery that forms the shallow yoke being of ecru batiste. The long blouse waist is arranged over fitted body linings, the shallow round yoke portions being covered with the embroidery, and the closing is made invisibly in center back. The pretty bertha collar is of plain batiste over green taffeta, outlined with insertion, double, square tabs falling over each shoulder, with straight outline, on front and bnclc. Full, long drooping pulls aro arranged over comfortable linings that have cuff facings edged with insertion at the wrists, the stand? ?Dg collar being of insertion to match. The full, round skirt in fashionable length ?3 gathered at the top and joined to the lower edge of the body, the blouse drooping over the top, as 6hown. Pretty dresses of plaid or I-DESIGNED BY MAY MANTON. mixed woolens, combined with velvet, or silk, can be developed by the moda for best or schqpl wear. Cotton wash fabrics will make up stylishly by this pattern with collar of colored cham bray or batiste. A CHILD'S DRESS OP STRIPED BATISTE. The quantity o? 44-inch wide mater ial required to make this dress for a child two years old is 2J yards; for a six-year-old size, 3 yards; for a ten year-old size, 3} yards. MUSLIN'S AN'D LAWNS. New cotton cr?pons are the showiest of all the cotton goods, coming in very large plaids of colors in striking ( on* trasts and very deeply crinkled. Pale yellow and mauve with white is one of the best schemes of cMor. These are twenty-eight iuches wide, and are sev enty-rive cents a yard. Dotted and figured Swiss muslins are in ne tr and charming designs. Lit tle Dresden bouquets, and sometimes larger clusters, in natural colors, are set about amid dishes of wpving lines of color, and tiny raised dots of white are added. These are only forty-eight cents, and are thirty inches wide. Solid colored Swisa muslin, light re seda green or dark navy blue, hassmall pin dot? of white wrought in it, as if embroidered there, and costs eighty rive cents a yard. White Swiss mus lins for r .ists, for separate sleeves, or for entire gowns are embroidered in inch wide stripes with beautiful effect. The newest lawns have flowered stripes in Louis Seize coloring, deli cate as if partly faded, and are simply [1RT WAIST. exquisite, yet only twenty-five cents a yarii, which doe* not promise much for durability. Still simpler lawns aro in even narrow stripes of a color witli white. New dimities hflve col ored grounds, or else white grounds with moire designs in mauve, blue, or green. Dotted dimities for children's frocks are largely imported.-Harper's Bazar. GIGANTIC LIFE BELT. A Buoy Which Will Hold Up Many In the Water. Tho ever present dangers of the sea -dangers illustrated almost daily by accounts of collisions, firo or other disaster, so often |attended with loss LATEST DEVICE FOR LIFE SAVING. of life-have prompted the invention of many more or less ingenious life saving devices. One of the simplest, and yet most valuable, is that lately introduced by William Brandt, a sail maker, at Lubeck, Germany. Substantially it is a reproduction on a very large scale, of the life saving belts or rings commonly found aboard ships. But, besides its greater carry ing capacity, it presents some novel and sensible features, which enhance its value. Numerous partitions divide the belt into watertight compartment.-', so that damago to any part does not material ly affect the efficiency of tho whole. The great elasticity of the belt reduces the danger of damage to a minimum. Despite its great 6ize it is very light. One man can easily roll it along the deck and fling it ovorboard. It does not matter how it strikes the water-it invariably turns right side up. The middle space is taken up by a strong network. An important addition is that of ropes m*do fast to tho periphery of the belt, and kept afloat by corks, so that persons several yards away from tho buoy can draw themselves to it. Seven large men standing on it don't appreciably sink the device, and when it is considered how small the weight of a person partially supported by the water is it will be seen that one belt can cave a large number of people. Shoes From tho Mayflower. Mrs. Eliza A. Brown, of Browns rille, Me., has in her possession a pair of shoes which came over on the May flower. This particular pair of shoes was made ac Chatham, London, in 1417, by John Hose, whose trade mark can still be observed. Mrs. Brown in herited the shoes from her mother, Mrs. Lydia Gilman, of Acton, Me. Mrs. Gilman had her'choice between two pairs, the only authentic relics of A COLONIAL DAME'S SHOES. this nature of tho famous Puritan ex pedition. They are of green brocade satin, w>.th buckles, and tie over the instep. Tho heels are made of cork and are very lijht. Between the soles and the uppers there is a piping of white ki 3. Tho stitching, which is visible, ia dona as neatly and exactly as in any specimen of latter day ma chine work. The shoes ara an interesting oxam ple of the rotation of fashions. Al though 480 years old, they are exact ly in the style of the fashionable in door woman's shoe for 1896. The toes are of the toothpick variety, as point ed as they can be, and turned up a little. Tho ancient shoes 6eem to be broader at tho ball of the foot than is the vogue to-day. The uppers are of a curious looking green brocade satin, the Color ot which has not been impaired in all these years. This rare old pair of shoes could be worn by a fashionable New York wo man to-day without exciting any com ment.-New York World. A Unique Experience. A unique experience, even in tho an nala of the sea, was that of the bark Alice which reached Portland, Me., a few days ago after a stormy voyage of nineteen days from Turk's Island, in the Carribean. The bark carried a cargo of salt, and* she bad been out but a day when it was found that the ?alt had struck through into the water butts, and every drop of fresh water aboard was ruined. Tho captain hoisted signals of distress, and made provisions for condensing as much water as possible. Enough water was condensed to provide half a cupful for every man aboard. It was five days before a vessel was sighted. The suf fering had been great and the situation was growing desperate. The vessel gave the Alice as much water as could be spared, and tho voyago was com pleted with a better, but still short supply of water. Tho Alice bad only fourteen hours of good weather during the trip._ Wear Woolen Kneecaps. Man"y persons in Belgium wear woolen kneecaps, which a?e exactly like the woolen wristbands worn by all school children in rural districts in this country. The kneecaps are de signed to protect the kneen, to which they aro said to be more liable than any part of tho lower limbs except tho feet. Dead Ivory. Most of the ivory that comes to thc market is 'Mead"-that is, ivory taken from animals long since dead, and which has been stored awr.y by the natives for years. There is no danger in Africa of the supply hoing exhaust ed for several generations at least. Fishing by means of electric lights has been successfully tried at New Haven, Coan. A lamp lowered iuto the sea brilliantly illuminated the water over a circular area twenty yards in diameter. Are you taking SIMMONS LIVER REG ULATOR, the "KING OF LTVER MEDI CINES?" That is what our readers want, and nothing but that. It is the same old friend to which' the old folks pinned their faith and were never dis appointed. 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A few doses wil demonstrate its su perlative virtues. Price, 25 cts. peH ? bottle. For salo hy druggists. Extinction of Birds. One cause which threatens the ex istence of many species of birds, if it has not already produced the extermin ation of some, is the rage for wear ing their feathers that now and again seizes civilized women, who take their Ideas of dress from interested millin ers of both sexes-persons who, hav ing bought a large stock of what are known as "plumes' proceed to make a profit by declaring thom to be in fashion. The tender-hearted ladies who buy them little suspect that some of the large supplies required by the "plum trade" are chiefly got by lay "plume trade" are chiefly got by lay bretti gregariously, and that at their very breeding time. No havoc in these Islands approaches that which is perpetrated in some other countries, especially, it is surmised, in India, though there now contrary to Law; and the account of the ravages of a party of "bird plumers," at the breeding stations on the coast of Flor ida, given by Mr. W. E. D. Scott, who in former years had seen them throng ed by a peaceful population, is simply sickening. Did we not know what Lis feelings were, one might in read ing bis terrible narre t:ve lose patiouce with him for not expressing more strongly his detestation of the bar barities be recounts. But bis absten tion is doubtless attributable to the fact that his narrative appears in a strictly scientific journal, whore sen timental expressions would be out of place. All offorts to awaken the con science of Liose who tacitly encourage this detestable devastation, and there by share in its guilt, have hitherto fail ed, and, unless laws to stop it be not only passed, but enforced, it will go on till it ceases for -.vant of victims, which, indeed, may happen very short ly. Then milliners will doubtless find that artificial feathers can be made, men as aruflclal flowers now are, ?nd there will be a fine opening for the Ingenious inventor. Thc pity Is that he does not begin at once. A Petrified Woman. At Runja, in the Punjab, a native who had recently married for a second time was importuned by his new wife to have the remains of wife No. 1 re moved from their resting-place near a mineral spring and deposited in the village cemetery. Preparations were made to that ef fect, laborers opening the grave in tho usual manner. When the wickerwork basket in which thc woman had been Interred wa;* reached, and fiforts made to raise it, ihe weight of the receptacle and its contents was found to be too heavy for the four men engaged in the work and the appliances at hand. When the basket collin was finally hoisted to the surface one of thc lab orers removed the lid to ascertain tho cause of the unusual weight, To the surprise of all. it was found that the coffin contained a solid stone figure, the corpse having become perfectly petri fied. The husband removed the re mains to bis home, where they now are. and it is said that thousands are daily viewing the wonder. Lofty Tunnels ir Peru. We are so absorbed with our own affairs In this country that we can hardly realize with what rapid strides seme of the South Ai i erl can Repub lics are advancing lu engineering. To-day representatives of thc Westing house electric people and the Baldwip Locomotive Works are In Smith Ameri ca figuring on equipping some ol* their steep grade roads with electric loco motives. There has recently been completed a tunnel througl a range of ti e Andes Mountains which lies at a higher elevation than any other tun nel In the world. This tunnel is eight cen miles from Callao. Peru, and is cal led tho- Galelra Tunnel. It it 3,800 feet long, a::d is at an altitude of 15,060 it ct. There ure sixty other smaller tunnels through the Andes Mountain* in Peru.