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\ TOM LKSIS MAKKS LOOD ON PROMISE. JU'fusctl Many litMHl OiIt-cm inn 1 it* Now at Work in tiw Mine When He Wok Vears A^?. Bridgeport, O., June 1 tJ ? Tom Lewis has made good his promise to go "back to tne mines" the promise he made when defeated tor reelection as president of the 500,000 member* of the United Mine Workers of America. Lewis was offered big jobs?one atf $10,000 a year as editor of a journal ? but they didn't tempt him. He took .Mrs. Lewis on a little vacation trip and then- just a few duys ago, shouldered his pick and shovel?the miners' gift?and set out for Wheeling Creek mine, where he worked sixteen years ago. He was given his check, "No. 162," and assigned to room "No. 13." He sought out his "buddy," Kiivl U-i... 1. ? 1 1 l v. v m j . I *v.v, HI1U 1U1U ucru Ills JUl Tiller in the old days. Together in j mine car they shot into the mine s -lack mouth. After 4 o'clock? at itie end of the eight hour day that Lewis had won for the miners?he came again to the surface. It was an average day for two good miners and Lewis made at least $2.50. "1 feel just as fit as when i threw up my job sixteen ye.113 ago to take my first official position with the union," he said. "Fit? Well, I should sa y so," interrupted Syl Price. "Tom is just as good a man as when we both worked together, and as good as I ever wunt to work with." "I'm not back here just to make a bluff good," said Lewis. "I'm here earning a living for myself and family. I'm a miner and I'm proud of it." "Any blisters, Tom?" asked a 1 young fellow of giant physioue. "Look at 'em,** retorted Lewis, laughing and dropping his pick and shovel against his leg, as he ! opened his grimy palms. "1 never 1 had a blister in my life." The on- 1 ly marks on his hands were a few ( scratches knocked off by the rough edges of the coal. 1 At home it was an anxious day for Mrs. l.ewis. Accidents occur daily in the Belmont Company mines, and she has seen her neigh- 1 bors' husbands carried home crush- 1 ed often enough. The girls could not remember when their father used to go to the mines every day, but they' shared their mother's fears. When he walked home, smudged with slack dust and dinner bucket in hand, the three came out from one of the prettiest houses on the street and rushed to meet him. "Tom ? Tom ? \re you tired, Tom?" "Only a little, sweetheart, and feeling fit as a fiddle," he answered. Then he went around to the kitchen door so as not to track mud through the house. MYSTERY OF THK MASTODONS. Siberia's Glaciers and Marshes Disgorging Old Ivory. Siberia furnishes a large quantity of ivory to the markets of the world, but the production of it helongs to another age and to a 6peCi*s of animol that Hhao **- twists says Harper's Week *. s The ivory is cut from the I'isks of mastodons whose skeletons are found frozen in masses of ice or buried in tlie mud of Siberian rivers and swamps. The northern portion of the country abounds in extensive bogs which are called iirmans. In these are found the tusks of the mastodon, from which it is inferred that these animals lost their lives by venturing upon a surface that would not bear their weight. Even to wild animals these urmans are forbidden ground. The nimble reindeer can some times cross them safely in the summer time, but other large animals at- , tempting to do so would be engulfted. In the museums at Tobolsk are , numerous specimens of mammoth, which throughout this region are by no means rare. When an ice pack breaks down a river bank or the summer thaw penetrates more deeply than usual into the ground some of these antediluvian monsters are ( very likely to be exposed. In many cases their remains are so fresh and well preserved, with dark, shaggy hair and under wool of reddish brown, their tufted ears and long, curved tusks, that all tho oVvorUrt " J ? ?? anu even some or me Russian settlers persist in the belief that they are speciments of animals which still live, burrowing under ground like moles, and die the instant they are admitted to light. The further the traveller goes northward, it is said, the more abundant do these remains become. They are washed up with the tides upon the Arctic shores, and some extensive islands off the coast contain great quantities of fossil and bones. Tusks which have been long or repeatedly exposed to the air are brittle and unserviceable, but those which have remained buried in the ice retain the qualities of recent ivory and are a valuable article of merchandise. There is a great market for these mammoth tusks at Yakutsk, on the I^ena, whence they find their way into the workshops of European Russia and to the ivory carvers of Canton. WASH INGTON INVESTIGATION. "Red Buck" Takes the Measures of Some of the Captains of Industry Who Have Been Summoned There Washington, June 17. ?Interest ijik men are Demg brought here to testify before the various investigating committees of theHouse. The average Congressman is as dull as a frog pond, when oompared with a citizen like John W. Gates, once the wire king of this country, and Elbert H. Gary, who draws more salary than the nine members of the House that interrogated him last week. I know some clever, entertaining statesmen, but they are few in the hill, by sonte hook or crook, or cheap demagoguery, or a fight with a negro, may bring some sad head to Washington to represent Con-1 greesional district, but unless a man' h;us gray matter in his head be can- J b not run the United States Steel Cor- pi poratiou or could not have organiz- it ed and managed the American Wire Company in its golden days. v< John W. Gates was once a trav-1 cling man. He drifted into the1 H hardware business, and fell head-! long into the manufacture of steel! products. Horses, pretty women,: faro, and other games, and all sorts i of spirited things appeal to hint. Mr. Gates was the first important | tc witness put on the stand by the e? Stanley steel investigation commit-I ai tee. He wanted to take a trip to ti Scotland, and Perhaps Monte Carlo, w and preferred to testify before quit- cl ling the country. Chairman Suh?- ol ley. Alio is an accomodating Ken- y? tuckian, was willing. j ol The former wire-maker is a fine-1 m iooking piece of flesh. Clad in a si nutty gray suit, with yellow shoes ci and sox to match, and the best of ct linen, lie appeared as neat and tt fresh as a school girl graduate, the ei day he told what he knew about In Andy Carnegie and J. P. Morgan, to smooth cheeks still have the bloom | in of health in them and his mustache : oj and hair are touched with frost, cc but his eye is clear and bright, and hs harbors u faint mischievous smile, w which, when he talked about Mr. Carnegie broadened into a laugh. ra 1 never listened to a more de- of liglitful witness. He did not owe ce l'terpont Morgan or anvbcwlv i-Isp a ?ii cent that he could not pay the day J lo he was here. Rich, independent, j n? and free from ordinary cares, he ; w dues not mind having a little fun lie se threw brickbats for five hours, and! of will take the officials of the Steel tit Trust, if there be such a thing, th years to sweep the dust from their ol front steps. In the meantime J. W. st Gates, the gay, the debonair aud lo the cunning, is capering nimbly to w< the tunes of a Scottish bag-pipe. fa "Andy Carnegie was a queer olfl soul" said Mr. Gates. "Nobody ever th did understand him. If you hitch- of ed him up lie would break loose, fa Gentlemen's agreements did not su bother him when it came to selling sk goods. He was out for Andy." ex In substance, that is what Mr. tit Gates said of the Ironmaster. Thisjer speech was not made in a spirit of j eo criticism, but it was incidental to j of other things. w< The committee and the newspaper wi men enjoyed Mr. Gates. He made good copy. or Mr. Gates was accompanied by w< his son. Charlie, and his attorney, ot Richard Jones, Jr. The younger hi Gates sat at his father's elbow and w: have him a hunch every now and ca then. If the "Obi ?- -? ?? ? w .-u? uiavir cx? ,,v answer that seemed to Charlie to hit di the bull's eye, Charlie smiled and se winked at some of the busy scribes. 01 "Morgan told Jim Hill that he 111 and 1 were not on good terms," said ht Mr. Gates. "Mr. Hill got us togeth- tb er. 1 got Charlie Schwab, took hint so to Morgan. We had an all night cl session. The plans for the big ni steel corporation were made." <>e That is the way he put it. Judge a Gary says that he is a dreamer. He P< said that Mr. Carnegie was in a pool to sell railroad rails at a cer- di tain price, but he broke the agreentent and soldto one of his cus- dt tomers for less than the figures ac fixed. "We had hint up," declared the witness, "but he slipped out. He de- w nied the charge. The truth was, he P1 had thrown in nails, spikes and >s everything else, and in that way Ci et.i^ed the agreement. If you con- ai victed hi:u and fined him, he would not pay tr.e peuatly. That is all di there is to it." From Gates the Stanely commit- 111 tee went to the other extreme. P< Judge Gary followed. No smoother of witness ever appeared in Washing- te ton. For three days the members of 'n the investigating committee grilled ce him, but when he left the stand he ar was just as calm and as ready as the day he went on w Judge Gary has the advantage over ninety-nine one-hundredths of his fellow men. His maker started A! him out with a head full of sense V and a heart full of ice andcourage. sa His first efforts at making money ki were devoted to the practice of ve law. He succeeded. He was the Pi Judge in the second trial of the Chicago anarchists. As a judge, he ?l ranked well. Cool-headed, affable, st educated and quick. Judge Gary is di able to play with committees. He hi told the Stanly committee many 8' things, but could have told it more, th Having heard him tell enough to di fill a book, every page of which th would make entertaining reading, Ti I would like to hear some of the ot things he did not tell. st Judge Gary is a middle aged rf man. He is younger than Mr. P< Gates and of quite a different type, fl Mfe is a serious matter with him. b< He has worked, using hands, brain ti and heart, all of his days. Hard a labor has brought his success. The f'i Stanley committee would adjourn at tl 6 o'clock to meet at 10 the follow- ? ing morning. The witness was al- w ways among the very first to ap- u pear. The committee seldom got v< a quorrum until 10:30 or later, r: There is a difference that counts in the every day world. Hhat half 31 hour gained by Judge Gary and b last by the committee every d.ay a makes a vast diffenence in the fin- o al count. Some people would call o \M - n ??r. v? ary s success "luck," but V study the man and you will under- v stand. o I used to fox hunt. Every man si can be likened to a foxhound. Be- is ing fond of the old hound I can say t! this without offence, in a pack of " red fox killers you have one or two a dogs that do the work. Old Bead, z for instance, strikes before any tl jother dog? Why? Because he cov- <' era more ground and hunts longer o and closer. When the fox is up, he n may be the leader in the desperate n life and death contest of the fox. h All hunters know why he leads. He w has the stuff to start with and im- a proves every opportunity. Judge P Gary is the leader of the steel pack, c He is up early and late, and strikes ii while the iron is hot. If the gov- e ernment puts him in jail, a mighty v good worker will be behind the g bars a Chairman Stanley and his asso- n dates were impressed by the frank- a n<es, whether feigned or genuine, p of the steel magnate. I have no ci doubt that the Steel Trust is gull- c< ty of violating the Sherman law, it 9 ct of tipping brings theother com-1 urtmcut into position to be filled, i 'hen the bucket tips It forms a \ losed electric circuit with a record-. ig pen attache'd and the number of ucketsfuls discharged is automati- ( lly written down. Another instrument used by the j ureau is the sunshine recorder. ; his consists o( a straight glass , ibe with bulbs at each end. These ; ulbs are filled with dry air, the | lumbers being separated by a small uanity of mercuary and alcohol, j latinuni wires are inserted in the liddle section of the tube. The I wer bulb is blacsened with lamp-! lack and is always turned toward le south. It is so mounted that henever the sun shines it will start ie recording pen to writing, and as >on as the sun ceases to shine the ut It will require smart lawvers to ai rove it by Judge Gary's testi- pi LOuy. X\ We ute loolcLiigg for Teddy Roose-; cl elt and Pierpont Morgan. in ? . ? b OW TO FORECAST WEATHER. al ot Impossible Xo? to Divine Some )>' Time Ahead. ? Science Daily 1 Growing More Accurate. 11 The weather bureau at Washing- b >11 and nearly all the other met-,u' jrologicai institutions of the world. Q re now eiigaged in taking observaons of the temperature of the sun ni ith a view to determine what It lunges take place in the radiation PI ' heat from that luminary. Many ** jars ago Prof. Samuel P. Gang ley, w ' the Smithsonian institution, liav- ** ig observed that the appearance of st >ots on the sun nearly always coin- 1M ded with weather disturbances, P' ime to the conclusion that perhaps u< le law of the weather might bebas1 upon changes in the amount of Sl sat given off by the sun from day day. With this opinion as a work- * g basis astronomers and meteorlo- " ;ists all over the world have be- P' >nie interested in the matter and ive resorted to all sorts of plans to rest this secret from the sun. 1,1 It is believed that the changes ir. J1 idiation follow certain movements the sun, and that they recur at ot rtain well defined periods, just as ie seasons change on earth. How ng the periods are is not known. ?l jither has anyone yet discovered hat brings them about. There ta ems to have been some foregleanis 111 this new iilesi nf '~ tv an in the long range forecasts of .. e past. Although modern meteor- _ ogy has decried the art of the ill believe in the verity of the ng forecasters, millions of people _ eather predictions of their old- ^ shioned almances. The meteorological institutions ot (.>.t e world have entered into a sort.1' agreement to record upon every al vorable day the radiation of the in and the related polarization of ;y life. These observations are j1* changed by the different institu- 111 >ns and when they have been tak- jV l for a long term of years and are mpared with the weather records (r those years it is hoped that eather forecasting at long range ('| ill become a scientific reality. The effect of such a discovery up- : al. i the civilization of the world , 1 ould perhaps be greater than any JJ her discovery made in the entire1 J story of the human race. Blessed ith the ability accurately to forest the weather, no farmer would J:| *ed to feel the pinch of destructive t outh. With an unusually dry ? ason ahead of him he would need ; lly to plant such as required little x oisture, and dry farming would come a national institution. On ie other hand, if a very wet sea>n were in prospect he would loose nnlv t-1... 1. ? v mm m J OU*.ll IIUJJS US 110606(1 uch moisture for their most sue- _ sssful growth. The effect of such a' discovery would be no less im-?r irtant to men in other avenues of 11 fe than to the farmer. The in- \ vidual could plan his vacation, his! 00 sliing trip, and all other affairs'?? 'pendent upon the weather, far in | ( Ivance, assured that there would 1, ; no disappointment thereafter. )ai The instrument used by the jc< eather bureau for the ascertain- j ent of the changes in radiation known as the pyreheliometer. Dupled with an electrical resistlce thermometer it is so sensi- al ve to hear that it can register a fference in the temperature mil-|n1 3ns of times more minute than p< ay be recognized by the average ct jrson. The pyrheliometer is made two blackened discs fitted 011 a ed pully fashion, and immersed water. The sun's rays are conntrated on these discs, and the nount of radiation is determined w r the varying temperature of the f? ater at tlie different exposures. w The pyrheliometer differs radical- OI from the instrument used by the itrophysical observatory in the in- *s 'stigation it is making to the 111 me end. This instrument is lown as the bolometer, it was in nted by Professor Langley and im oved by Professor Abbott, who is >w in charge of the Astropliysical iservatory. As improved, this in- ~ rument is capable of recognizing a fference of temperature up to tlie mdr^edth-millionth part of a de- D ee. One of its essentials is the iread of a spider's ? web, a hun ed times mmore delicate than any iread ever spun by human hand, he gazure of a fly's wing in an- m her item called for in the con- Q1 ruction, to which is pasted a mir- C( >r as small as a pinhead, but is jrfectly ground as a $50,000 reector. The ray whose heat is to k s measured is thrown into the s' ny reflector and from that "nnn ? thread of spun glass. The gen- u ral principle if the bolometer is ie same as that of the little solar lotors one sees in many jewelers' indows. Pyrheliometers also are v< sed by Professor Abbott in his in- f< DStigation of the constancy of solar . idiation. These Investigations are only a C1 mall part of the weather studies n eing made by the weather bureau ci t Washington. Some years ago an bservotory was erected on the top . f the Blue Ridge mountains, iu '' irginia, and here all sorts of in- si estigation into the whys and whens e f the weather are being made and t, U kinds of ingeneous and delicate istruments have been devised for a tiene studies. One of these instru- e iei,ts consists of a woman's hair t iid pen which writer with unfree- t able ink. The oil is extracted from lie hair and in this way it becomes e xtreniely sensitive to all variations 1 f moirlure in the air. Great care lust be taken to prevent the accum1 illation of foreign matter on the air. It must be washed once a 'eek with clean water applied with a camel's brush, and many other i recautions taken to assure the ac- t uracy. Many automatic recording istruments are used by the weathr bureau in its meteorological in- k estigations. One df these is a rain j uage. It consists of a receiver and little bucket with two couipartlents in it, mounted on trunions in c ct of tipping brings the other com- ? artments is always under the re- t elver. When a compartment beomes full it tips over and empties s contents into a tank, and in the 0 ?n ceases to write. A chart is laced upon a revolving roller oper:ed by clockwork. By this means le weather bureau is securing a inshine and shadow. The barometer used by the eather bureau also makes a connuous written record of the atmosliere pleasure throughout the enre year. The bureau likewise pos sses instruments for accurately ensuring and recording the velocy ond direction of the wind. It is been sent up into the air. with her instruments, in free balloons captive kites. With these it is been able to learn new and l irprising things about the weather, j me of the kites frequently atin an altitude of nearly three iles. although the average is about I *o miles. The investigations made with the ites and balloons have discovered | inditions which have upset many | cepted theories. It used to be be- ! T ?ved %iat the atmosphere grew JL Kiler with altitude, but this rule1 ts many exceptions, a great layer j * warm air being frequently found 1 oatiug upon a layer of cool air. It so has been found that the wind av be blowing from the east at the ound, and from the southeast a ilf mile above the ground and froi e south a mile up. Cloud moveents indicate that the wind direc3U changes to the right with in easing altitude, but kite and bal on observations show that it fre-1 lently turns to the left. Changes the surface of the earth and one id two miles above, thus contracting the former accepted theory at high temperatures started from e higher portions of the atmoslere and gradually work down to e surface of the earth. All this formation is of much service to e weather bureau in making its recasts. Sometimes a storm passes stward without being followed by pected clear weather, because a cond storm was developing off the e middle and South Atlantic last. This new development is not incated by surface observation, but e Mount Weather flights show the proach of the storm in the highregions of the atmosphere before arrives in the lower regions. It ems that the majority of storm nditions may be forcasted by the " lf-registering instruments in the Bather bureau kites and balloons _ least 24 hours before there is iy appreciable indication of these snditions on earth. The Poor I>octors. "When a man dies, is an inquest ways held?" "Oh, no! If a doctor has been in :tendance the coroner is not supused 10 have inquired into the iuse of the death."?Toledo Blade. Soulless Contributors. London is to have a dock that ill accommodate vessels 1,100 et long. Of course Germany ill have to proceed to construct le for 1,100 foot vessels. But this more sensible than the Dreadiiught competition since the docks ill be useful for other purposes lan those of destrutcion. Experimenters are developing the .ingless bee. ACKNOWLEDGE IT. lion Has to llow to ?l>e lm?? liable. ? Scores of Citizens Prove It. 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