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. . ?- V*^ > ., V'A NEW EPOCH IN THE HIS || Electrification of the Ne1 I'- River Railroad in the Nev Sv WILLIAM THE electrification of the passenger traffic of two of the most i important steam rai'.roads in the 'trorld, for distances of from twentyfive to thirty-five miles, radiating from a terminus in the greatest city on the Western hemisphere, may well be termed the marking of the commencement of a new enoch in the history of I transportation. i Having this object in view, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company in 1899 commenced a careful study of the problem of changing motive power within what has been termed the VNew York Zone," south of Croton, on {he Hudson division main j j ^ I I line, and on the Harlem division soutli r ?C White Plains. This study also necessarily included the handling, iu a i similar manner, of the through and - suburban service of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad south of the point of junction at Woodla wu. After the commission had settled tipon a scope of territory to be electrified and had decided that the peI culiar conditions in the neighborhood Of New York justified the adoption of direct current as preferable to alternating current, contracts were awarded for the laxtfer portion of structures and equipment, v One of the first appliances ready is .the most powerful electric locomotive in the world, which has Just been completed for the New York I Central and Hudson River Railroad +!>/>. riar.ni.nl I iU Uic ouvpd VI Uic VICUV4U1 Company and the American Locomotive Works at Schenectady, N. 1". This locomotive is one of between thirty and fifty which will- be used for hauling the through passenger trains .within its Electrical Zone from Grand * Central Station through the Park Avenne tunnel to Croton on the main line, jA distance of thirty-four miles, and to .White Plains on the Harlem division, a distance of twenty-four miles. This will be the heaviest steam railway passenger service which has ever been handled by electric locomotives. With one of these locomotives trains of ten or more cars will be hauled at express speed of sixty to seventy miles per hour, and the design and method of control are such that two or more locomotives can be coupled together ' and operated by a single engineer from F the leading cab, so that the size of the train that may be under the control of one engineer is practically unlimited so far as the question of motive power. 1 <3 + ! ?/-? 1 AArvrvNAf I r?/v ip xu geueiai uvsi^u iac ivtuujuuic 10 double ended and symmetrical in construction, so that it can be run in either direction with equal facility. The locomotive has four driving axles, and , Too Hoeh to Expect. ' "See here, landlord, must I sit here forever before I get the half chicken that I have ordered?" "Ob, no, sir! I'm only waiting till somebody comes and orders the other half. Of course, I can't kill half a Sicken!"?Fliegende Blaetter. Senators at Lupcheon. ?enators Crane and Knox, who generally go to lunch together, since their hungry experience waiting for the last of the President's message, while near- j !y all the rest of the Senate enjoyed & satisfactory meal below, have~at last located a good corner of the lunch COOB3. On the first visit there they were content to resale themselves in the public room. Thither they went agaiu yester* day, entirely unaware that there is a place set apart for Senators, where the rulgar public may not enter. As it was getting along in the afternoon the table linen was not of the whitest nor the menu card as spotless as it might V have been. Still, the two new Senators were making the best of it, when A wis? committee clerk passed. "Why, you can't eat here," said he to Seiator Crane. "But, in Heaven's name, can't we eat anywhere?" asked the Massachu" setts Senator. The two were politely led to the inner v room and were seated. They now feci . that they are actually making progress Ill (UK \Y a J a Ul WJC wvwakv. . . ? a Ion Post. v Whole CI?tern Out of Order. 'A story conoerning the Rev. Handel! Creighton relates to -the time when, as a "vicar in Northumberland, he looked after the temporal weal of his people. He was legal adviser and doctor." druggist and compounder of medi-j pines as well. One old woman was telling the vicar's wife what Dr. i Creighton had said to her. "Mr. Orerghton, he says it's my digester that's out of order." explained she, "but I say it's my whole cistern." Getting Close to Nature. If wp can only come back to nature together every year, and consider the flowers and the birds, and confess our faults and our mistakes under the si-* lent stars, and hear tiie river murmuring in absolution, we shall die young even though we live long, and we shall ^ Lave a treasure of memories which will - be like the twin flower, a double blossom on a single stem, and carry with Ui into the unseen world something ' jwhich will make it worth'while to be tin mortal.?Outlook. FORY OF TRANSPORTATION w York Central & Hudson r York Zone. J. WILGUS. pony trucks at each end. Each driving axle carries without intermediate gear* A mnfAi* ing tlie armature 01 an eiamt muw. having a normal rating of 330 horsepower, and capable of developing much greater power for short periods. This locomotive is, therefore, capable of developing greater horse-power than any steam locomotive. The main frame of the locomotive is of cast steel, and is carried on elliptic springs, with the load equalized as in a steam locomotive. The main frame serves a double purpose, being not only the mechanical frame of the locomotive, but also the magnetic fram? for the electric motors. This construction is strong and simple in design, and further insures reliability and a minimum of maintenance; The parts are NEW HIGH SPEED 97 Ton El?ct?le Loeemotlvo also especially accessible for inspection and cleaning. Mounted on the main frame is the steel cab in three divisions, in which are located the various devices for operating the locomotive. The locomotive is equipped for both straight and automatic air braking, signaling devices, bell, whistle, headlights, air-sending device, electric air compressor, etc., being .as complete iu every Tray with respect to operating devices as a steam locomotive. For purpose of testing this locomotive, six miles of the New York Central track . between Schenectady; qnd Hoffmans fcas been equipped with a third rail. The track is practically: straight and ballasted to permit maiimum speieds of seventy to eighty miles per i ? uuui uwiii^ muixucu. The question of sizfr and exact character of the suburban cars lias not yet been settled, but from these proposed improvements thu3 briefly outlined, the railroad company anticipates a marked increase in the comfort and safety of its passengers, and consequently a decided increase in suburban business. Property abutting on the railroad will naturally increase in desirability as a result of the withdrawal of the annoyances unavoidable in the operation of the steam passenger locomotive. The beautiful territory along the Hudson and Bronx Rivers and Long Island Sound, under these favorable conditions, will grow rapidly in popularity for honieseekers, to the mutual advantage of the railroad company and of the public. What is also of great importance, the adoption of electricity, makes possible the future reclamation of between thirty and forty acres of overhead space in the territory occupied by the terminal yard in the heart of th? city of New York, which, instead of being feft open as required with steam operation, may be utilized by the company for, superimposed structures in any '.manner best suited for its purpose. PcarU .*% Daytime Com. Pearls are the daytime gem. They U\J iiUL liuVC IV ICUCCl JigUl iu to the best advantage. Ia fact, the loveliest tinted pearls, the pink pearl of the Bahamas, the bronze-black pearl of Panama, are more'beautiful in daylight The Paths of Feace. It was toward nightfall on the third day after Mr. Hogau's departure for Boston that he returned to tiis family in Chetwick with a bandage round his head which covered one eye, and with his left arm in a sliirg. Mrs. Hogan looked at him in silence for same moments. "Well." she said at last in a tone of great chilliness, "you're a fine-looking man to be coming home from a visit to your uncle that's a priest." ,;It was the great crowd did it," said Mr. Hogan meekly. "Wo were all striving to get into the building at the one time, and there was one man fell against me wlie:i I was holding my arm out to make room for uncle, he being undersized, and, that broke a bone, or at any rate sprung it out of plac*. * "And two minutes after, -when uncle was trying to get me out of it. there was a man pushed us both flat', and then he and another one walked on me head." 'And -what was all this great crowd?" asked Mrs. Hogan suspiciously ';It was the^P'ace Congress." said Mr. Elogan calmly.?Youth's Companion. Fall* in Hid Mission. Hearing one of his officers say at dinner that ''half a dozen Russians could drive the English out of Tibet," a soldier in Manchuria, -who had been serving as a waiter at the table, asked some people where Tibet was, and, learning that it was somewhere southwest, persuaded seven comrades to join V?i*v? in on nmft/lifmn Thfttr hn rl maI UiUi 111 au VA^CUIUVU. AUCJ UUU. UVL gone far when they were attacked and seized by Chinese bandits, from whom they were afterward rescued. Japanned English. A Japanese guide book which ha3 been issued for the benefit of English speaking visitors contains the following: "The restaurant in this ground is the first established in the city. It has very fine view, and its business is prospective." Trained Butterflies. A California woman, Miss Mabel Adams Ayer, of Sun Francisco, has succeeded in trainuig a number ot butterflies. Sugar and water are the inducements, and the little winged pets 50 through several cute performances. WOMEN GAMBLERS. The Propensity of the Feminine So* For Speculating. People who liave made the matter a study contend that when the set-rich- j quick microbe attacks women it is not j ! easily exterminated or made harmless, j The phantom pictures which rise and i fall with the click of the ticker fascinate them. and they play the game of [ chance with the recklessness of vet- j | eran gamblers. Hundreds of women j | give their orders clandestinely, and the i | fact that they have an interest in the j stock market, that their daily examina- i 1 tion of the market report is proinpred | ' by anything lyeyond a desire to be informed. is not known to any one save j their brokers. These are good customers for brokers. A sigh over a statement showing a balance on the wrong side, a vow "never to do so any more" or an order given ' just to get even" is the usual sequence. There is another class of women stock gamblers in which the bad loser is largely represented. This class supports bucket shops . in the residence parts of the city, like the one which was raided a few days ago. When these?women win. they are happy, but j when fortune frowns on them they I are "horrid."- They want their money I back from the bucket-shop proprietors. {. They cry. scold, and finally threaten j to "tell on the mean things" who took their margins. In order to s-hield themselves the threat is not often carried * ? 1 - ^? 'I * !??. KiiftUaf f V* r\n 1UIO eZiecULluiJ, UIIU iue uuv ikc. .1UU|. , continues to do business at the old sitand. taking money from the women who succumb to the temptations of ! the tape. It is refreshing to know that ] once in a while a woman gets so j thoroughly angry because of her losses I that she. does her share toward break* ! ing up the bucket-shop business. She i would never do such a thing if iier speculations were successful?hence all good citizens should rejoice when she loses.?New York Tribune. German Militarism. An unusually scandalous case of. military justice fills public attention here. Some days ago, at Dessau, two private soldiers, named Guenther and Voigt, were convicted of insubordination to a Sergeant named Heine, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude and expulsion from the army. i Heine met the soldiers in a dancing saloon, ile was drunk and insulted ? ?? ?j- - r IT/v some giri menus ul uikwuk. jclc was asked to apologize. Instead of apologizing, he unsbeatliod his sword and wildly struck out on all sides. Voigt and Guenlher disarmed liira, and in the struggle he fell, and while on the floor he injured another girl. These are the facts. ! At the trial counsel engaged for the prisoners pleaded that his clients acted only in self-defense. He wra sharply reminded by the prosecution tliat no sucli defense could be considered: that j it was the duty of the two soidiers to j allow themselves to be killed by Heine I ratter than raise a hand against him. ' That Heine was sentenced to three j months* imprisonment only puts the crown on the entire scandalous procedure. Feeling here runs high at the travesty of justice?London Chi'ouicle. Tho Old-Time Mathematics. In the old-fashioned district school ! to master square root was an achievej ment, and they who with ease worked j out problems in cube root formed an ' intellectual aristocracy. Not cne boy ! or girl in a thousand had occasion perj haps, in after life, to extract the crbe j root of any number, and yet the comj prehension of the problem tovlhose who I uppiuauucu 11 WllU HUCICOL uau VU&4 osity was a liberal education not to be despised. The teacher who could set before his pupiis the processes to be used, with the meaning of them, with models showing how-a cube was built up and how its root ,was extracted, entered with the few.wh^ could understand him into a world of thought in j which the mind was enlarged and ' strengthened. If the children of our public schools to-day are incapable of | I pursuiug such studies and the teachers j I see no good in them, comething seems j to have been lost out of our system of ! education. A student who does not | know at least the general principles . of conic sections has lost glimpses of .the most sublime aspects of tin universe in which he lives.?Christian Register. Wisdom-Whispers. It is well to take.time iu thiukljg ' before making accusations. > There is a species of treason in carry ing water on both shoulders in a love affair. * Women take frigut easily over a lover's compliments to a no trier ot the fair , In every man there is a disposition to do the grand where women are con- , cerned. . Some women say nice tilings in a way that brings a feeliug of pride as well as satisfaction. When one man sneers at another it is fair to presume jealousy is at the bottom of it. It hurts a woiu.in's pride to have another woman share with her a man's attention. / Many men delight to play the heavy swell in a uniform that is' gaudy and cheap. ... A wrman who can use her eyes with effecj: is a dangerous rival. When a man regards himself as irresistible it is time to do xome quiet thinking and self-abnegation.?Philadelphia Bulletin. To Stuily Criminology. The American Bar Association has passed a resolution in favor of establishing in the Department of Justice. Washington, a laboratory for the study of the criminal, pauper and defective classes. In the Bureau of Education. Washington, Mr. MacDonald has for several years been carrying on work nf tliic l.-infl iinilw monv difficulties. and it is mainly owing to his initiative, that the foregoing resolution -was framed. Found an Armadillo. In some interesting notes on the researches of Dr. David, a Swiss naturalist. in the Congo ijprest. there is reference to a find made by him of an armadillo, four feet long. cioseJy resembling its congener of the pampas. It frequently assumes an erect attitude, supporting Itself oa its tail and. holding the tree trunks y.K'j i'.s i :r. ci\ri for.ci.TV ... . , ' , " ' !." v: '' *" ANIMALS NE P-RaMONG a collection of son ^ twenty living animals r Aceived some time since t the New York Zooologic: ^ Society from Captain Tho ? ?Qoi^jng, 0f the ship A frida, was a small, wliite creature tbi proved to be a puzzle to all natur history experts who ss?w it. It twenty-one inches long?a little ^boi than twenty-seven, counting in ti tail?and stands ratber more than t inches high at the shoulders. 1 y?* '<'~ /S >^?>l >;f^l;cw?#Si^% 'X; W^M. | DOG-LIKE DASTJRE, AN ANIM. THE I It rather resembles a small Spi dog, but it is not a dog any more tba it is a raccoon, although the shape < the head and the face marking -ths seem to belong so peculiarly to tL family of Procyonidae. are marvelous) imitated in this little beast. Perhaj It resembles a white Arctic fox moi than it does any other creature. ] had been called a white fox in tk country, Northern Japan, from whic Captain Golding obtained i", but it J THE WHITE RACCOON DOG evidently no more a fox than it is dog or a raccoou. It has now been admitted to tl ? - i- u 1 nnimo ; gr&tlt USSCZUUiy UJ. L"iUJ?AUtrv4 uuaujm under the name of Xyctereutes albi or the white raccoon dog. It is not o ten one sets an opportunity of gazir upon a brand-new animal never befoi known to scientific zoologists. Another very rare animal?so far : the writer knows, the first animal < j its kind ever seen on this side of tl I Atlantic?the so-called Tasmania ! wolf, zebra wolf, of pouched dog. Th; | lacinus cynocephalus, is to be seen ; | the New York Zoological Park. A though not new to science it is in son ' I Choice Books For Children. | If a child loves books at all you cs j hardly begin too early to instruct hi I or him (there is no reason for alwa; [ saying "him") with really valuab I books. The fine book sets a standai of treatment for' rhe rest. If the chi | has only cheap, flimsy volumes, s j wny-3 coming to pieces, a book w! I seem to be worthy o* no care, and tl I library will not be valued. But I choice work, beautifully bound, is i ( charming a possession that it will 1 sure of respectful treatment, and tl owner will come to see that a boc ! is, or may be. a matter worth consi j eration. There are in second-liar stores thousands of good books thi cost no more thaa the poorly printf works, despised by all who thir bookmaking an art. Buy good book and you help to bring good books in the market; for the public receivi [ what it asks for.?From Books ar i Reading, in St. Nicholas. Copper Treatment of Water. The public must not make the mi take of imagining that the coppi treatment for destroying disease ba teria in water supply systems is d signed to replace or supersede sIot sand and other efficient means, of fl tration now employed. It is intendc lo supplement tliese methods. Filtratic is usually effective, but manyiytimi cannot be used. The method. Is so.e; pensive that the vast majority < towns ar& obliged, to do without i Again, there are many times when tl ! polluted water of a reservoir must 1 ! ? I TOE AMERICAN C0> I ~ ' . '^-Tnmrai . W TO SCIENCE. I ie respects a more Interesting anlma] e- than the white raccoon dog. Tb4 >y "Tasmanian wolf," so far from being r al a wolf, does not belong to the dog 1 s. family. It is, in fact, a marsupial, c J- and is more nearly akin to certain of j it the kangaroos, than it is to the Canal idae. The female, indeed, has a well j c is developed pouch, though the marsupial re bones are wanting, being replaced by i * ie cartilages. The animal walks upon in its toes and partly upon half its solea ; or palms, as may be seen more evi- 1 ^ ~~ ?I I Ui WITH A POUCH, RELATED TO 1 KANGAROO. J tz dently in the hind feet; this causes the 1 m body to* be brought much nearer to the 1 >f ground in running than is the case 1 it with a wolf or dog, and constitutes the 1 le Tasmanian wolf a semi-plantigrade. 1 [y The lower canine teeth in dogs pass J >s on the outer sides of the upper one3 * e when the mouth is closed, while 'the > [t larger recurved canines of the Tas- ] ie manian wolf in the upper jaw are sep- * hi. tarated from the incisors by a space 1 Is into which the points of.the lower ( I j j -AN ANIMAL NEW TO SCIENCE. I t ... a canines fit when the jaw is shut The * animal has the peculiar-lower jaw of ^ the marsupials?the angle is inflected; 1S it is, in fact, a marsupial with strucf. tural parts foreshadowing those of the ig more highly developed dog. Such an :e animal as this transports us back to those primeval times when animals is far more generalized than those thai! 5f now exist united in themselves diverse ie characteristics and specific features in never, in our day (.save in a few such y- instances as the Tasmanian wolf), it found in any oae individual or in an^ lI- one species.?J. C. Beard, in Scientific 1$ American. i 4 purified at once. An epidemic is at in hand, and there is no time for slow'filer tration. Then it! is that Dr. Moore's ps discovery helps us. By his method, in le a few hours we can thoroughly sterird lize the water, destroying every dan* Id. gerous germ in it, and the process is il- so cheap that every small town can [11 afford to adopt it.?From Gilbert H. ie Grosvenor's "The New Method of Puri. a fying Water," in .the Century. 30 >e Punctuality. ie My father was the most punctual >ls man I ever-knew. He was always ready for family prayers, for meals, 'd and met every engagement, social or at business, at tlie moment. He expected all of us to be the same, and taught tk us the use and necessity for forming 3> such habits for the convenience of all to concerned. I never knew him late for | Sunday service at the post chapel. He 1(1 used to appear some minutes before the rest of us, in uniform, jokingly rallying my mother for being late. ? and for forgettiug something at the < s- last moment. When he could wait jr no longer for her, he w;ould say that i c- he was off, and would march along 1 e- to church by himself, or with any of v- the children who were ready.?"Recol- ] il- lections Robert E. Lee," by,,.Captain ' id R. E. Lee. i >n - ? : 9 ] es The largest sailing vessel in the | x- world is nearing completion at Bremer- < of haven. It will exceed by a thousand ] it. tons the Hamburg flve-iuauted PreUs- < ae sen, which is at present the largest as < ?e well as the tautest sailing vessel afloat. < (SULATE AT JERUSALEM. ! ! ;v\S..." ,A <-1 ^ff ' BAN ON GUESSING TESTS.1 'ottofllco Department to Bar Them From ?. the Mall*. Tbe day of the guessing contest is lumbered, for the Po&toffice Departaont is preparing to exclude this class >f business from the mails. After a I ecent Cabinet meeting Postmaster- I General Wynn announced that the task i )f weeding out the objectionable en- I erprlses would be begun in earnest, I md as fast aspossible. those that are < llegal wilt be;, separated from those :hat are legitimate. Pew contests, it s believed, will survive the sifting iroeess, for practically all of them are leld to be within the scope of the an3-lottery statute. Newspapers that conduct political juessing schemes for the purpose of rooming their circulation; magazines :hat find new subscribers by inviting ?stimates of the number of immigrants ;omlng into the country within a given ime; private companies that open ibeir books to receive, at so much a chance, forecasts of the attendance of i big exposition or football game, or rote? in an election?all theser concerns will be brought under the scrutiny of the department, and if they cannot arove.fjheir methods to be those', of legitimate business enterprises will be barred from the use of - the mails and must necessarily quit business. Postmaster - General "Wynne said that several sample cases were submitted to Attorney-General Moody recently, with the request that he rentier an opinion as to their right to transact business through the mails, tt was not announced exactly what concerns tvere taken as samples, but It is understood that one prominent newspaper which has made a good deal of money out of political guessing contests and a concern that has been conducting a.-big business in selling'" chances on^an $85,000 list of prizes in connection with the number of persons attending the St. Louis Exposition, were among tho^e landed to the legal adviser of the Cabinet. Mr. Moody declared .emphatically that the "samples" were clearly lotteries within the meaning of the law. In each the Attorney-General held that "thousands have invested small sums In the hope'and expectation that luck would enable them to secure large returns. A comparatively small percentage of the participants; wilt realize their expectations. Thousands .will get not&teg. They are In effect lotteries. under- the guise of guessing contests." Attorney-General Moody then went on to quote a unanimous opinion of the New York Court of Appeals, handed down on August 5, 1904, which said that ''where a scheme lacks the elemonf-s of a intimate business enter pris? it is a lottery .within the meaning of the statute." Mr. Wynne said that the department heretofore, acting under the opinion of former legal advisers, had allowed concerns to operate guessing contests in which some amohnt of skill played a part in solving the problems pre* sented. For instance, where the guess- , er could use a "form book" or/historic records to determine the probable performances of horses or of basebail teams with a view to telling correctly the result of big races, the standing of clubs at the close of a season or the attendance at such races or games, it hud been held that the scheme was not a lottery. "But chance was always the determining factor, after all," said the Postmaster:General. "A horse entered in tlie race might fall and break his leg. A baseball player on one of the teams might be put out of the contest by illness or death; the grandstand might be blown away or burned, and thus cut down the attendance, if the guessing were u'oon the number of persons ?vit uessing the performance Of the horses or men.,. No amount of study devoted to the tdope books' or histories could efface the element of chance. But since the old ruling, which held that 'calculation, foresight, knowledge, inquiry and information enabled the participant to approximate the cor- i rect result, was believed to be good law, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled that cases identical in principle were 'guessing contests,' and 'guessing contests' are lotteries. The department will take up each case on its merits and dispose of all that come under its notice as rapidly as possible. Some of the schemes may be legitimate. I do not wish to declare that all are bad. Those that are not objectionable will not be made to suffer for the j-ins of those thai are."?New York Tribune. ? Slow at Chorea. President Palmer, of the World's Fair Committee of 1893, in one of his speeches at that time told a story about i boy whose father was a stern man, who used the boy very har3bly at times. One night he sent the boy to the woodpile to get a backlog. The boy went out, but he did not get the backlog, for he took that time to run away. Ten years later he came back after many voyages. He felt sure that he had not been a dutiful son. so he tliougbt he would go uome ana ?ee ma aid father and beg hia forgiveness. As lie neared the old familiar place Iiis ?yes filled -with tears. The thought occurred to him to look iu at.the winlow, and there sat his father in the same old place, juot as he used to sit so long ago. The old scene rose to the son's mind, and going around to the woodpile lie picked up a backlog, anfl, putting it on his shoulder, hfe walked in. saying: "Dad, here's the backlog!" The old man looked up and said ralmly: "Well, Bill, you've been a good while ibout it"?Kansas City Journal. A Street Doctor. A feature-of low street life in Tokio Is tlie "kuisha," or moxa doctor, who applies small pads made ?f certain dried lierbs to the skin, then setting them alight, the ensuing blisters being supposed to be most effective as a cure for various ailmeuts. Among the doctors' remedies, too. are rhinoceros pills, warranted a sure cure for tightness of the chest, gnashing of the teeth and depression of spirits, and "furidashi," a popular remedy for coughs and colds, which is said to expel the devils and promote circulation: while musk pills ;ire prescribed as an infallible cure for every ill, from a red nose to sea sickness. . < 1 ' . . " 1 ' Remarkable fireprootiug properties ire credited oxide of titanium by an. English ' dyer. Flannelette treated tvith it could not be made to burst into lame, and other textiles are claimed to be made equally resistant, while it A. cfcnnot be removed by dyeing, boiling or washing. . The Increase in the number' of tall buildings has resulted In a larger use of ribbed and prismatic glass for windows, afl well as in the production of improved varieties of such glass. The illumination of dingy rooms, shut in by lofty wall3, is increased by the reflection, from the many facets of the glass, of light which would otherwise :> V pass the windows without penetrating fj the interior of the rooms. -The employment of diffusing glass is regarded as introducing a new era in ihtetlor light All-recorded submarine earthquakeshave* been plotted on a map of~ the vtfe^ld by Wilhelin Grebs. Many o? them' represent submarine" volcanic eruptions, and a very striking fact is their great concentration in the narrowest part of the Atlantic Ocean, between Africa and South America: \It is suggested that this greater ap?are:nt ;Jjs| activity may be due largely to' lack of observations in the much less tfav-. ^ '^1 eled Pacific. Other centres are'the ' ' West Indies, the west <doast of South f/J America, the south or the Bay '61 Bengal, the Malay Archipelago', eastern Japan and the Mediterranean. Electric light baths are reported to be quite common in German hospitals, .'J An English physician, Dr. J. S. Hooker, .sr^tes that he has found them much more effective in rheumatism and like diseases than drug treatment, and, as they fill the skin with blood, he> sag- .'3?| gests that they should be of great im portance xa unugiug uui iun au^ico^u . , u rash of fevers, such as scarlet fever and smallpox. The use of X-rays in serious blood diseases lias given sur-. prising results to Professor Bozzoli, of Turin. He- has succeeded in curing a difficult case of leuchaemia, a disease V; iwhich arises from increase in the White corpuscles and may endure from six months to ten years. v Renewed speculation as to the .caase of tb%mysterious force known as magnettsm has naturally followed>Dr< " J Hensler's'production of magnetic aliens ffaB from non-magnetic materials. : One Of his alloys?containing sixty per cent ^ of copper, twenty-six of manganese \v^j| and fourteen of aluminum?proved practically as magnetic as iron, but If is very brittle and cannot be drawn or . forged. On attempting to increase the malleability by adding iron, all mag' netic properties astonishingly .disappfeared. An old idea was that magnet' Ism is uue to some, pecuniarily ut iuc '"*M of the iron atom, aithongli this metal % is not magnetic when heated,, but it . now appears that magnetic properties now depend upon some special, group- v-?s Vig of fihe atoms within the molecule, ^ WHEN PAPER IS EXHAUSTED ffill the Blif Sunday Newspaper and th? One-Cent Dally Disappear? At the rate at which forests have disappeared and are disappearing be- :%ij fore the advance of the electric tretfelling machine and the pulp'miUs, it " is only a question of years *vJien the supply will be exhausted and either other fibres must be used or the prices of paper return to somewhere near ,,-y^ those of forty years ago. \ The straw of all the Cereals, includ- . ing rice.jire used for paper making to - .4^8 a considerable extent, but for the whito \ blanket with which the newspapers 3 covfer the earth morning and ev?aing ? wood-pulp alone is used. When we think of this It is very interesting to speculate as to the effect of a failure of this supply and a ris$ ia. <" the cost of paper upon civilization. The first result would be the disapnearance of the blanket sheets and the abolition of big head lines. Our newspapers would become compact publications, of the pattern of the Outlook, Independent and smaller magazines. The penny paper and probably the two cent paper would disappear. Copy would be ruthlessly condensed because -Tj of the liniitf of space for a three, or even a Ave Cent paper would be small. , ;.V'? Advertising space would be reduced : and the prices for'it raised. The effect of such a change upon ' the habits of thought of a nation would be hardly less radical than the changes of climate from the deforesting of our mountains which has long ?seemed probable. The destruction of the forests would certainly bring about the small and high priced newspaper. We may be saved from both, however, if the owners of the vast tracts into which for- . '-|? est lands are now being consolidated " ' -ys by the great paper making companies will follow a judicious, business-like course in their operations. This is cot to strip the land of its trees with no regard for the future, a? a mere temporary affair; but to make i : J* the ownership of forests anil the management of great pulp and paper plant* . a permanent investment and to so cut -T-| the trees and .conserve their future growth that they may be- depended upon for all the future.?Bangir Com- " . - >1 mercial. Farmer Shot^bv? Cow. ' yjSj Ira Cummins, a Woods County farmer. was accidentally shot near Marshall while attempting to remove a cow and a calf from a pasture. Cummins carried a loaded shotgun, and the cow became angry and chased - - - Jj Cummins. In sp doing she caught her lrorns on the gun trigger, discharging the weapon. The contents entered Cummins' breast, killing him instant- ? ly.?Alva Pioneer. Souixa of Solomon'* Gold The evidences that Rhodesia was the country from which King Solomon's gold w?.s obtained are said to be accu- . mutating. The builders of the more nucient portion of the massive and ex- Si tensive ;*uins recently explored at Great Zimbabwe, are believed to have lived about 1000 B. C.f and to have belonged to a race who were the gold purveyors of the world. jf _