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BRPr Wr~ r r MEMORIES. An empty rooj, and yet how faT! I Of her since she has gone: II No trifle but becomes a thing g| For thought to dwell upon. Thf very silenco misses her, _ And moves on noiseless feet, |H J-'earin? to wake some memory . The "brave heart could not meet. Irrevocable fate is felt In every place, and look! How firm its iron hand has grasped W That open half-read book. 1 ^-Edith Turner Newcomb, in Harper's Bazar. <?lcE 38? W DR. JIM'S TEST | Ste Ml ifcfesssjtel THER TOM" and 'Doc wffi'i .littiT tor Jim" they were called ^Hni F fill ky the villagers. They i fSax., I'll were brothers. Thomas I viBgl and James Radcliffe. refc apectiveiy. old baehclors both, one the Tillage parson, who looked after the ?ouls of the brethren, while the other, (Brother Jim, doctored their bodies. ! Father Tom lived in the little par - -1 U Ul. aJ/1_ sonage next xue cuurtu, wuu me est woman inhabitant of the place?a dame past seventy, but who knew how to darn stockings?as his housekeeper. EDr. Jim lived at the other end of the .Village street and looked after his own L-% housework. " "Even brothers who are so fond of each other as Tom and I ought to live apart," said Dr. Jim. *'It strengthens the affcctions." The brothers passed every evening of their lives together, one uight at the parsonage and the next at the "doctory." and they passed every one over their pipes, for the par.son wasn't a prig, and the doctor was wont to say that tobacco was the only known spc^ cific for all human ills. "Tom," said his brother one evening, *'I see that old Bill Lamson has died Over at Leeds." i "Yea, Jim," said Father Tom, "and I was at his deathbed." "I always suspected, Tom. that you ^ knew all about Bill Lamson's part in ^ the Johnson killing years ago. if he had a part in it, which I am inclined to believe, by the way, and that you kept the whole thing to yourself." "Well, suppose I did know about it. Jim. If Lamson told me anything? jwhich I won't grant even now?he told it to me because I was a clergyman, and it's not in the clerical province to tell on a man who is repentant, I no matter what his crime." W "Right you are, Tom, and I tell you that a physician ought to hold secrets >Just as tight if they come from a pa/ttept I wouldn't give up a wounded . murderer if he had come to me for /treatment and had thrown himself on my mercy and on my professional tare. I'd consider myself a sort of a r Ifather confessor to his bodily ills, as jou might to the sins of his soul." "You're all wrong, Jim. You can't class the physician with the priest. /The soul and the body are things apart, and the touch of the sacred 'doesn't enter into your profession as it does into mine. You have no right to claim the clergyman's exemption from Wlgiring evidence against an evildoer fwho has trusted you. In concealment you do the state an injury." "Likely I would if such a condition sever confronted me, Tom, but I (wouldn't give the fellow up if he had Once trusted me and I had cared for him. I might be an enemy of the state ' In so doing, but I'd sleep better after > It" V T-io hrnthors sonsmtprl fnv tli<? nl^ht % Dr. Jim went back into the little laboratory back of the sitting room, musing over tbe talk with his brother. "It {would be a curious situation to be placed in," he thought, "to have a ^wounded criminal on your hands aud ito /eel that the state might look to you as an accomplice because you had failed to turn him over to justice after sSmB you had patched him up." Dr. Jim sat up late studying. He NhEwH beard a nois* outside the door at an 'hour after midnight, and, throwing it open, a man fell into the room and on .to the floor. "I seen your sign, doctor, gSsHP (with the light behind it. I guess I'm Ifljjyggjf flone for, but mebby you can fix me ?p-" The man gasped and fainted. Sturdy ggXSl^k 'Dr. Jim picked him up and carried wSShH him to the laboratory, where he laid HeHaH bis burden on the lounge and made a basty examination. The man had a jgKr bullet hole through the thigh, and was jST iweak from the loss of blood. Beyond V that his injury wasn't serious. Dr. Jim stanched the flow and gave the I man restoratives. I* "Where did you get this wound?" he asked his midnight visitor when he lad regained consciousness. "Don't tell on me, Doc. I trusted you. I cracked u place with a pal. He ? gdt-away all right and has the swag, * but I got shot when the old feller in the house waked up. Maybe I done for him. I don't know, though, but he didn't shoot again after he hit me, and I let drive back." iou can x stay nere, saia ur. Jim. "Patients and other people will be here to-morrow, and you can't travel for a ,week. I'll pnt you on a cot in a room Over the summer kitchen at the back * of the yard, and I'll look after you. though it goes against the grain." And ,the doctor smiled a bit grimly as he f thought of his conversation with FathI er Tom a few hours before. ! An hour later the wounded burglar r (was bandaged, fed and secreted in the \ .upper chamber of the unused summer kitchen. There was a fierce pounding A, at Dr. Jim's front door. He opened it. The village constable and a dozen ex? cited citizens were there. "Father Tom has been shot!" they fairly howled at the physician. Dr. Jim felt his knees tremble under (him. The constable, who had some Bense, hastened to say: "Oh, he ain't hurt bad, but come along." i. The doctor found his brother suffering from a slight scalp wound and lamenting the loss of $500. nearly all the money he had In the world. Dr. Jim treated his brother, and then strode away toward his home. Senti^ ment was all right, but when a man's Bk brother was shot. why. that was different. "You shot and robbed my brother," he said savagely to the patient tossing on the cot. "Was he your brother. Doc? I'm gorrv. and you've been good to a foiler. Don't give me up, Doc." i- 1 < " '' > y. .r, : The doctor cogitated. "nave you g< the ?500 you robbed him of?" he aske< "No, honest. Doc, I ain't. Sam g< the hull of it." "A man should not do for his brotl or what he would not do for mankin at large," mused .the doctor. He wei to his study, took $300 in bills from recess in his desk, put it in a huge ei velope with a slip of paper, on wmc he wrote in a disguised hand: "Here's your money. I didn't kno' you was a preacher. My father w? one?Snaky Sam." The doctor saw to it that his broth< got the money next day. The patlei over the summer kitchen improve rapidly. Day by day he would repea "So the parson is your brother. You'] a good, game one, Doc." In a week the burglar was gon Three days later Dr. Jim received package. It contained $000 and a le ter which said: "I met Sam. I got tl m/\noTr hoot nml thpn I raised son lUViJUJ i-'Uv.?, ? more; no matter bow. The extra hui dred is ferperfessional services. You'] a good, gam$ one, Doc. Lanky Ben The next night Father Tom and J) Jim were sitting smoking togethe "Jim," said Father Tom, "if I'd h that burglar I shot at and he'd con: here, what would you have done wit him?" 'Tom, my boy, the time has come 1 talk of other things." ? JBdward 1 Clark, in Chicago Record-Herald. An Unprofitable Convert. In Burmah the drum major of a infantry regiment, noted for his stead ness, good humor and constant attei tion to his duties, one day suddenl disappeared from the barracks at Rai goon. At first it was supposed tbs he had gone pn a spree in the towi ' ' A *- UX~ ? ana ne wouiu turn up wueu m? mau l was over, but as day after day passe and no news came of him it was at las assumed that he had gone off in one c the American ships which called a tnat port, it being no unusual thin for soldiers at Rangoon to desert i this way. About eight months aftei ward a native Burmese came to th barracks one morning and by mean of the regimental interpreter made i known that he had been sent by phoonghee (native priest) from a neigl boring Buddhist monastery in the foi est to say that there was an Englis soldier there whom they wished to ge rid of. An escort was despatched an brought back no less a personage tha the absentee drum major. The on! explanation he had to give was tha the spirti of adventure seizing him on day, he had taken a fowling piece fin gone into the jungle to shoot. Con fnc opmcs the mnnnsterv. the DhOOI ghees had behaved hospitably to bin and had allowed him to sleep ther that night. During the night the fane seized him to become a Buddhist, an making known his desire to the con munity next morning he was .^cceptec For a few months all went well. H remained quietly indoors absorbed i the study of Buddhist mysteries, whlc had a peculiar fascination for hin But after a time the demon of unres began to stir him up again. He mad repeated incursions into the jungl and each time returned laden wit! game. The taking of any form of anl mal life is contrary to the principles o Buddhism, and the phoonghees expos tulated with him, but without avail so, finding him an unprofitable converl they got rid of him by communicatin with his regiment.-rGolden Penny. Gum Cliewins and Ltrnacy. Who would have thought that doc tors would countenance fhe practice o gum chewing? Yet here is the new from St. Paul that the Minnesota Stat Board of Control includes chewinj gum in the list of supplies for insan asylums, as its use is often found t have excellent effect upon patients soothing them during violent spells and enabling them to concentrate thei minds upon various forms of wort Doubtless it is the muscular, not th secretory, activity that produces th beneficial result. The secretory actrv ity may deplete the salivary glands and thus prove prejudicial to diges tion. Insane DeoDle are nervous, am almost every one inclined to nervous ness has discovered that there ar forma of fidgeting which enable hlr to relieve the tension upon his nerve and help him to concentrate his atteu tion. Many a lawyer and many an orato would be at a loss in speaking if h could not twiddle his watch chain o twirl his eyeglasses. Many a travelin man and many a politician would los his reputation for ease of manner i conversation if deprived of the ciga he gracefully puffs in the intervals o his talk. And the fan! What mlstres of coquetry would be willing to sui render her fan? But while gum chewing may reliev tlie lidgets in tne case 01 tnose wno a the chewing, the sl^ht of it is Ilkel to give the fidgets to other peopl obliged to look on.-^ilwankee Ever ing Wisconsin. Feminine Duplicity. A young man visited his girl west c town on Sunday evening. After the bad talked several hours he declare his intention of kissing her. She wa apparently Indignant, and said sb would tell her father. Rememberin that faint heart never won fair lad the young man was not dismayed, an succeeded in planting a kiss behind he left ear. To make good her threat tb young woman arose hastily an walked to the kitchen. "Papa," sh said innocently, "Mr. M. wants to se '? 4*4 11 All svV. f I y UUl" Ut'\v giiii. <an ti^ui, iigav! said the old man, delighted vrlth chance to show It. Taking it from tb rack he stepped Into the parlor. TL young man broke four window panf In getting out, and when last seen wo still running bareheaded up the road i the direction of town.?Gardner (11! Chronicle. A Relic of the Paris Siege. There has just been added to tl Army Museum in Paris a very inte estlng memento of the Franco-Prussia war. It is the first and perhaps tt only number of a newspaper calk The Ballon Foste, dated Sunday, uct< her 30, 1870. The paper, folded to tl size of a letter, was dispatched froi the city by balloon, and a four-cei stamp was attached to each copy : that it might be posted to the snbscri or. The Ballon Poste was intended keep the provinces informed' of whi was happening inside of Paris. Tl paper was found in Tours. .SCIENTIFIC * | POULTRY ;11 RAISING a I aHE troracndous growth dur7^ ___ ing recent years of the w O I Q poultry and egg Industry, ts , - * Js which, in point of value of i the product, now ranks as >r ' one ui ilie leading American wealth producing activities, has resulted in l(j the introduction of modern scientific t; ' methods, which are quite as marked;e ly in contrast to former practices as i the advances in any other progressive 0< i field of endeavor. Indeed, to presenta day achievements in this direction t. ; must be /ittributed the recent develie opment of the American export trade ,e in eggs, which has recently invaded a. markets as far distant as the Orient. :e Perhaps the most convincing demon* ? stratiou of what scientific methods are r< : accomplishing in the poultry industry r ! is afforded by the dnique poultry farm at Sidney,. Ohio, which ranks as the ie largest in the United States, and probi, ably in the world. The buildings i which comprise the plant consist of ;c ' two main structures and a number of 3 smaller mciosures. ah are ot uricu ; construction, with slate roofs; and I more than $100,000 has been expended j in buildings aad equipment, exclusive of the cost of the site, which comprises 140 acres. i The hatchery, or broiler plant, is 1 480 feet in length. The main portion J of the building js huilt iu the form of the letter U, and has a periphery of 840 feet. In the basement of the j1' other part are thirty incubators, each 1 containing 000 eggs, so that there Is a total of 9000 eggs daily in a state of 1 incubation. The tilling of the machines ' is so timed that one incubator will discharge its bro^d each day, and thus " the plant may be said to have a daily " hatchiug capaci^ of 300 chickens. e fj I Jiifm ^; j|p^^ ? i ^ ~: 1 ~ it THE NURSERY FOR NE e ' ?; c From the isrrabator cellar, the small b chickeus are taken to what is known '* as the "nursery," which constantly * shelters about CQOO young chickens, !* ranging iu age from one to thirty days. I? When the chickens have attained the aged of thirty-one days, they are low8 ered by an elevator to the ground floor and put in the U-snaped part of j the building, which is divided into sixty pens. The chickens advance ; one pen each day, so that at the end f of two months they have completed s the circuit and are ready for transe ference to the shipping department. It g may be noted in this connection that e the U-shaped portion of the building o is constantly tenanted by about 21,000 i, chickens, ranging in age from thirty ), to ninety days. The egg house at the r Sidney plant is 537 feet in length, and similar in construction to the building e above described. It is bisected lengthe wise by a four-foot aisle, on each side - of which are thirty pens containing i, fifty hens apiece. The 3000 high grade i- Leghorn fowls produce daily 200 doz[1 ens of unfertile eggs for culinary puri poses. The eggs for the incubators e are produced by 000 high grade Plymti outh Rock fowls. s As indicating the proportion of loss, i- it may be stated that out of every 450 eggs which go into the incubators, an r average of 300 perfect broilers are obe tained. Connected with the egg house is an egg washing and marking room, g where the date is stamped upon eacn e egg sent to market. ii ! One of the notable advances which r j have been made by the scientific poulf : try farmer of the present day is found ;g j in the practice of herding chickens. - j Instead of allowing the hens to run at j large as formerly, mingling freely and e picking their food from all kinds of o refuse, they are now divided into coly e T 2'f. ?.. .e f}' '!'** ?.f|. '" ; X "V" I f ' : ' ' e j " ''WW 3 I* ' n ?:<?:. :*< -: . y.- - -. ) : PEN'S IN THE Bf j onies of not more than thirty hens. ie Each colony has its own reservation, r_ j maintained in the highest state ot' hyn glenic cleanliness, and ea<?h group of ie , hens is separate and isolated at all ,(1 times from the others. This also facil0. itates the use of feed calculated to ie insure the greatest possible prodivtlve _ *1... UCSJj il SlllJJt'Ul lli Illt.'U liHJ t/uiivi jt States Department of Agriculture, as ;c> well as progressive poultrvmen. have ljJ of late years given great attention: toj unci, a fan indication of what has been accomplished in this direction, it may be pointed out that the average year| ly yield at these scientific poultry * . v - farms is in .lie neighborhood of 2U eggs from each hen, whereas und( the old conditions the average year] yield per hen did not execed forty egg Another advantage cf this now pol OV r%f ?nnrrrvrofiAn ?c* frtiinil in ilm fn/ that, should a chicken become sick c breed vermin, the trouble cannc % THE EGG HOUSE AND HATCJ spread beyond the one reservatio without detection; and thus there 1 obviated the danger from epidemic such as have frequently in the past r< suited in serious loss to poultry rail ers. Another new adjunct is found i the automatic ii^st. which preserve the eggs free froui the taint of incubs tion. No degree- of incubation is poi sible, because, by means of these ne1 nests, the egg is removed immediati ly after it is laid. The automatic ne: has a hole in the bottom, beneat which is a revolving disk that receivt the egg as soon as it Is kid and mov( it away from the nest. The growth of the roultry busines as conducted on a large scale, cou] iWLY-HATCHED CHICKS. And no more significant criterion tha the recent marvelous development ( the incubator industry. The centre c the incubator manufacturing businei is found In the middle West, and or town in Illinois turns out more tha 50,000 incubators every year. It estimated that not less than 500,OC incubators are now in . use in tfc United States. Many of the large pou try farms have incubators with a ci pftclty of 1000 eggs each, and froi which there may be hatched I0.0( chickens a year, the loss varying froi t: ' . P.; ' I' A MODERN P five to twenty per cent. From a sc entific standpoint probably the mo; interesting incubator ?<ant is thi erected by former Vice-President Mo ton, at Ellerslie on the Hudson, s though ex-President Cleveland has high class installation on an expei mental farm at Princeton, and Pres dent Diaz of Mexico has a costly i; cubator built especially to bis ord< uy ail Aiuuricuu uiuuuiuLiuici. Even in the testing of eggs, in LOILER BUILDING. provemonts have been made in the pr vailing method. The most effectii way of testing au egg is to subje it to the light, but under the old pla when the egg was held close to tl flame of a caudle, it almost iuvariab! happened that the shell was oiac enod. The use of electric light ha however, rendered conditions perfe for a thorough test of tne eggs ai I _ -.J. 1 ,.i nil* IKUMOl ?|>t'L'U ill uiiiiuiiug.?wv.it title American. . At the pros?at time Cape Colony hi approximately 19,000,000 sheep at goats, roughly valued at $47,D0U,0:J I I J Sanitary Drinking y Fountain s. ! j. No Possible Way of Distributing ?t Infection. >r A drinking fountain designed for the >t purpose of preventing the exchange of t V _ i iERY AND BROILER BUILDINGS. n disease germs and microbes is beln? is introduced for use in schools and such :s places where the drinking facilities are 2- largely and promiscuously used. The 9- I n >s l3 d I SAMTABT DRINKING FOUNTAIN. sanitary feature of this apparatus exists in dispensing entirely with the use of cups and glasses. The general design of the fountain is shown in the accompanying cut. The flow of water is regulated by a convenient stop-cock and the person desiring to make use of the fountain leans over the font and manipulating the stop-cock causes a flow of water to be projected upwards into the open mouth above. The overflow falls back onto the top of the flat surface below, thereby maintainI ing this in a cleanly condition and re? I mftwinnr oil rw>Qcihlo Jnfpptl'nn tlPflT thO UiVTlUg uu j/\/uw4w?v a source of supply. As the nozzle through jf which the stream is projected is cov>f ered, it precludes the possibility of js anyone drinking directly therefrom. fe jj A Sign of tbe Times. is It is a healthy sign to see the press >0 associations of the different States le taking action on the asinine and ante1 diluvlan libel laws, declares Newspaa perdom. Too long have the newspam pers stood idly by and let Legislature M) after Legislature adopt measures in which were diametrically opposed to - . - ' --i glgijgig ' ' J OULTRY HOUSE. i- our much vaunted free press, and too st many times have the papers helped relt elect the very men who deliberately r- passed the law curbing the power of tl- the press. It is high time the matter a was given serious consideration and i- decisive action taken. The trouble is ii- that each paper has felt that It need n- have no fear of any kind of a libel ?r law no matter how drastic. But now they have had their little expensive 3- experiences and are able to see that any newspaper, no matter how care~~ fully edited, may be injured .under a foolish, inconsistent or unconstitutional libel law. Let us all realize this and keep pounding until the good effect is evident. Let all remember, too, that it is much easier to prevent the passage or uniioerai noel laws thai? to change them after once passed. Fear. Fear is of two kinds, logical and Illogical. Illogical fear is where a man stays in the house because, say, there is a lion without But where a man stays in the house lest if he venture out a mosquito bite hini and give him malaria, that is logical fear. It is clearly more humiliating for the former to contract tuberculosis by reason of his confinement than for the lat' ter.?Detroit Free Press. Medical Bubbles. hovo infpntpd a new form of bubble. Neuralgia, sciatica and lum bago are known to be affectations of e- the ends of the nerves which lie just ,*e under the skin of the painful region, ct It has been discovered that by injectu, ing air under the skin the ends of the ie nerves are lengthened and the pain rely lieved. The bubble of air is pressed k- by the fingers and caused to move s, about until all parts are relieved. In ct dislocations, fractures and bruises the id same treatment has given relief, u Two million of London's inhabitants never go to church. ..i rrv.? rlnnfti nf Hio nno-jn <c 1 Li I X Lie avciu^w vt. V-V wvvmu ?M iU. 1 aboul two miles. THE GREAT STRENGTH OF INSECT! Fr. de Zeltner in La Nature?Trans lated and Condensed For Public Opinion. Every one iu a general way know of the astonishing muscular power em ployed by insects, and of the rea tours de force which they execut eitllpr 111 tile pursuit 01 prey or xu ue feuding themselves against their ene mies. At the same time one rarel; has a precise idea of the strength o the.se insects because there are fev standards of comparison, althougl nothing is simpler than to make a cor rect valuation of their strength. The wing strength of insects i known because of the work of Feli: Flateau and De Lucy, who showe< that these little creatures could no raise a weight much heavier thai themselves, no matter what the sui face of their wings. During the cours of these experiments a very interestini fact was discovered, uamely, that tb size of the Wing* decreases as til weight and size of the animal iu creases, a fact w.hich explains the slov heavy flight of the beetle and th swift, light movement of the gnat. The case is entirely different, how ever, where the creature moves on i solid surface where its six feet ma; obtain points of support. In this cas we can approximately calculate th force exercised. Take, for example, i fly by the wings, leaving the legs frei so that they may seize and raise i x A^r; sJW .Iff diaobam rllustbatixo thb stbengt1 of ixsEcra. match, as shown in flgure 1. If : man wished to perform relatively equa labor he would have to raise a beac 24V2 feet long by 14% inches square The earwig of figure 3, harnessed to 1 small chariot drags without difficult; eight matches, which for a large per cheron horse would mean dragginj 830 beams as long and thick as him self. The man who leaps the 300 me ters of the Eiffel tower is merely re peating the action of the flea whic! can leap 200 times its own height Finally the Hercules in figure 5 i obliged to raise eighty large locomo tives to equal the relative strength 0 an oyster, which in closing its valve exercises a force of fifteen kilogramt Thus it is a much more simple thin; to calculate the strength of insects tha: to equal it, and our modern athlete have yet a long road to travei befor they can compete with animals occv pying very humble positions in th living world. AIDS PRIVACY IN TELEPHONINC A simple arrangement is shown her for those who desire secrecy and pri vacy when telephoning. It is a sler der metal frame covered with musli or canvas. Drawn over the head, i Insures the greatest ease in hearini as well as privacy in telephoning, afte; which it is simply folded up. The Nemesis ofBoodlers. Joseph W. Folk, the young Circuit ! Attorney, of St. Louis, whost? earnesi j work in sending to prison the boodlen ^Ik JOSEPH W. FOLK. who have disgraced the fair name of the Missouri Commonwealth, has placet] him in the front rank of public officials who believe in literally living up to his oath of office. '' I sTtO DISCHARGE 20,000 MENf 5 - RailroAds Retrench, Owing to Falling Off in Traffic. s i- Cle Systems Begin to Rednce Forces' tm1 the Lowest Possible Limit Because of the Industrial Situation. ' ' 7 New York City.?Several railroad { companies have announced reductions \f in their working force, and it is ex!i pected that between now and Novem' ber 1 nearly every railroad in this eountry will discharge some of its em3 ployes. Such action, it is explained, c is not unusual this time of the year, 1 but a larger number of men will be t dismissed this fall because the raila road companies have been working aby normally large forces since early last e spring. A natural falling off in traffic? fs the reason generally assigned for ? these railroad dismissals. . e ' Basing their estimates on the reducc tlons already announced experienced railroad men say that between 15,00? * auu zu.uuu men win proDaDiy De laid e off by the railroads throughout the country this There are about 1... 250,000 railroa^ employes in the Unla ted States. Vice-President Brown, of the New ' York Central, thinks that about 2500 e men may be dropped from the payroll* e of that system this month. The greata er proportion of the dismissals will be e from the car shops. Notices of disi charge have already been served oit . 800 men in Albany, Syracuse and Buf- * About 1500 shop men, train men and ; }: track men will be discharged on the f Pennsylvania system. Vice-President Pugh says that most of the men to be dismissed will be recent employes who were hired during the rush period of last spring. Few, if any, of the old & employes of the Pennsylvania system are to be discharged, and no important wnrV nf Irrmrntrowionh la t/\ ha manaBit ed. * ; The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe operating department will lay off about 1500 men this month; and such improvements as can wait will be deferred until next year. The manager? of the Atchison systeiA believe that all kinds of heavy work can be done more cheaply next year than now. a Not less than 3000 employes will be :1 dispensed with on the Union Pacific 0 and the Southern Pacific systems be?. tween now and Dececmber 1. These a dismissals, it is said, are to be made -|? because the work for which the niei* y were hired is completed. It is probable that all of the transcontinental 5 lines will cut; down their working i- forces some aft^r the crop shipments k'ffl e are over. .The .tailing off in ore ship! ments has caused some of the Western *? h roads to take off about ten per cent, t of their freight trains. * ' The Illinois Central will curtail It? ilH operating force anywhere from 600 to " 1800 men, and the Chicago and Alton 1 will also make a small reduction. b President Ingalls, of the Cleveland, i. Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis sys3 tem. says that at present there is great volume of traffic over his Hues, s but he expects that It will be neces- . e sary to let some of his employes go as << soon as the present rush slackens. The Lake Shore will dismiss nearly 1000 ;.:JS e men this month, and the Michigan Central about hjftjf that number. About 300 of tfye Lake Brie and Western Employes will be laid off on November L.; , The Erie management has already i dismissed several hundred men from i.1.A A AnAM^In* lilt" repau- guupa uiu iue ui/ciauuts e force, and there will be a still further , redaction between now and December 1. The West Shore will lay off abont '* 900 men, and the Boston and Albany, a an equal dumber. A gradual reduction in the operating force of the Newr, ' York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad is now under way, and before th? pruning knfcfe Is laid away about 1000. employes of this company will be out 5 of work. The Missouri Pacific and other Goultf lines will reduce thler working forces Y33 slightly, but there is to be no cessatioa in works of extension and improvement. The Wabash expects to Increase rather than diminish the num- ^ ber of its employes on Pennsylvania improvements. The Rock Island and the 'Frisco systems will lay off betwep^ 1000 and $ 1500 men this month and next. CAVE 591,000 FUN MISSION WUKIU Sermon Scoring Christians Followed by * x Rich Harvest of Sbeckela. * % ? New York City.?At the twenty-first annual' convention -of the Christian, r rfc and Missionary Alliance, held here, the missionary offering In cash and pledges amounted to $91,167. The Rev. A. B. Simpson, who preached the annual missionary sermon, asserted1 that for every man, woman and child in the United States $40 is spent an- . .-i nually for liquor and tobacco, while forty cents was the average contribution of each Protestant Christian in this country. ^ DESERTED THE MAINE IN BUNCHES United State* Battleship Loses Over Oae> Quarter of Her Crew. Washington, D. C.?During the eight months ended September 1 there were x 129 desertions from the battleship . , Maine, which carries a crew of 504 men. This unusual record is attributed 'J to the fact that the Maine spent montha I in dock undercoin^ repairs after her . trial trip, and that the crew were anx1 ious for a cruise. 5 Most of the deserters were coal r passers and landsmen who had never been on the water before thty enlisted in the Navy Xlelc's a United Stat?* Attorney. The President appointed John P. t Nields, an anti-Addlcks man, United t States Attorney for the District of1 j Delaware. Ohio Monuments Xow National. ! The ten Ohio monuments on the battlefield of Antietam, including one to President McKinley, were presented to the Government Governor Nash, nf nhin. made the Dresentation speech. and Robert Sliaw Oliver, Acting Secretary of War, accepted the monuments for the Government. Dani ire Caused by Landslide. Part of a mountain slid into a river near Birehlngham, Canada, killing cattle. destroyiug canal locks and doing . other damage. College Bits. The entering class at Williams num- -1 bors 1">0. J Tufts opened with a register of 338 students. Cornell's registration to date shows 2345 students. Dartmouth begins its 134th year with 71)8 students. Six hundred new students enter tho : ,University of Nebraska this fall; total, [ 2000. i j Columbia needs $10,000,000 to prop-> i l erly carry on its work, says President I Butler in his annual report. V Y'Vv'i S. . > *