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Many Perils and Thrills Faced in Postal Service Adventures Are Not Con fined to Air Mail Alone. Washington. ? A vivid picture of the dangers and thrills of flying the air mall has been Impressed upon the American public during the past month. This picture Is only one of a long series illustrating the history of the postal service. "The winter struggle against storm and ice, driving snow and sub-zero weather Is shared alike 1)y the uiall pilot aloft, the Alaskan musher with his plodding dog team, and countless carriers on rural routes in western and middle- west em states." says a bulletin from the National Geo; graphic Boclety. "In Alaska there is as yet no fed eral air mall service. Through pri vate enterprise some mall Is carried by plane, but the winter service still relies mainly upon dogs and sleds. One of the longest dog mall routes is the GT>0-mlle run from Kotzbue to Point Harrow ? Uncle Sam's northern most post office. The mail team leaves l'olnt Harrow early In Novem ber, as soon as there is snow enough for travel, and Is expected to com plete the round trip of 1,300 miles by Christmas. So regular Is the arrival of the north-bound Christmas mall thut It rarely disappoints the children of Point Harrow. Supply Own Dog Team. "On one of the more southerly routes, from Nenana to Idltarod. a distance of about 350 miles, a weekly service Is maintained. For each round trip, requiring 35 days, the pay Is $804. Over IKK) pounds of mall and supplies are carried, so the driver seldom has the luxury of riding. He must, of course, supply his own dog teaiu, equipment, ami food for the trip. "Some of the most dangerous and difficult routes are much nearer home than the barren lands of Alaska. Records of the Post Olllce department shows one of the worst to be from Sandusky, Ohio, to the nearby Islands In Lake Erie. Winter storms In this district are severe, and Ice conditions singularly treacherous. The best craft for tlje Job Is a combination sailboat, rowboat, ice yacht and sled. When water Is open, or the ice strong and smooth, the sail con be used, but more often progress Is discouraging ? dragging slowly over rou^h Ice cakes, or breaking inch by Inch through 'young' Ice. ."A similar route In Lake Michigan, known as Death's Door, runs from Ellison ? bay to Detroit horbor, Wis consin. Then there Is the Idaho route from Rocky Par to Atlanta. Carriers there make the winter trips on snow shoes, packing F>0 pounds of mall. "The smooth speed of city delivery Is In sharp contrast to these tales of persistent and courageous effort. One of most efllclent systems Is New Yo^ftclty's 'blow-gun mall' which han dles letters received In the metropoll8.^''"T*wqath the streets of Manhattan are 27 miles of parallel, pneumatic tubes. Through these tubes nt Intervals of ten seconds, shoot car riers, each holding 400 letters, and traveling at a rate of 30 miles an hour. They are propelled by com pressed air. . World's Biggest Business. "The United States postal service today Is the biggest business In the world, employing over 232,000 work ers; but Its purpose has not changed since the pre-revolutlonary days when stoge-conch mall took six weeks to ko from Hoston to Philadelphia. An Inspector, reporting on the efficien cy of the colonlul service at that time, remarked that the public good was 'the sole Inducement for taking so much trouble as we do.' "When Renjamln Franklin was made deputy postmaster general of the Hrltlsh colonies In 1753, conditions were promptly Improved. Weekly trips between Philadelphia and Hos ton were started, the time was cut In half, and new routes were opened. The postage rnte, however, remained hlffh ? forty dollars ($40) for three letters from Falmouth, Maine, to Hos ton ! In 1775 the continental con gress appointed Frnnklln postmaster general of the thirteen American col onies. lie had previously franked his letters 'Free. B. Fronklln,' but now he changed this to 'II. Free Franklin.' "Through the years following the Ifovoltltlon the history of the Post followed closely the history of tho pioneers. Less than I0<> years ago there was still no overland mall to California. The Mormons In Utah had a messenger system of their own. and there were a few 'post ofTlces' like the one at Ash ('reek, Neb. This was a trapper's cabin where letters were left to be carried on by the next Farmer Finds Mill After 150-Mile Hunt Orantshurg, Wis,? -Frank Ander son, Frederic (Wis.) farmer, re cently completed a MO-mlle trip In search of a grlrtt mill where he might have a load of grain ground Into flour. The circuit embraced nine towns and two states. He found that In each case mills either were con verted Into power plants, fish hatcheries and other projects or were out of operation. Despairing ly, he started the long trek home ward, only to discover a mill suit able to his purpose In a village 2r> mljes away. nt?ll I I ? 9 tr^vefer who came along, often let ters were stuck In notched sticks be side the trail on the -chttjice that they would be picked up by sbme one re turning eastward. ? "With the excitement of the great gold rush In 1849 everything moved rapidly. Including the mall. There was soon a regular service, run by Feramorz Little and^ls wagon train, between Fort Laramie, Wyo., and Salt Lake City. Even as late as 1858, Fort Laramie was Denver's 'neurest post otllce,' and the men who staked out claims near Pike's peak had to send 200 miles for news from home. In 1800 the daring riders of the Pony Ex press reduced the distance between San Francisco and St. Joseph, Mo., to the amazing time of eight days; and nine years later the silver spike was driven which completed the first trans continental railroad." Squinting Is Corrected by Use of Stereoscope Birmingham, England. ? A novel method of curing children born with a squint has been adopted by a hospital. The patients are given a sort of stereo scope. A model is placed in each lens and the children have to place a loon In a cage, a baby in a bath or a sheep In the exact center of a field. The eyesight of hundreds of children have been cured in this way. A REAL CHAMPION In his hand a modal, emblematic of his new honor; In his pocket, a check for the sum of $1,(>00. and on his face a proper smile, Ilcnry IMcard, twenty-seven-year-old pro of Charles ton. S. C.. looks every inch a champion. Henry had Just showed the way to the country's best pro and amateur golfers, with a score of "2X3, In the an nual North ?nd South Open Golf tour nament at Plnehurst, N. C. New Robot Sleuth May Read Human Mind Electric Device Will Open New Era, Scientists Say. Milwaukee. ? Inquisitive science has developed an electric detective that Is so sensitive that after It hus^ been studied for a while it will undoubtedly be able to tell you what you are think ing about. It was designed to tell the resistance of matter under observation to an elec tric current. It la what is known as the Wheatstone bridge, and several of the devices are In use In Milwaukee now. Marquette university has them In the physiology department and. in the college of engineering. The col lege of engineering uses^them In Its electrical classes. The United States bureau of fish eries at Gloucester, Mass., has been able to tell, with this device, Just how fresh a fresh fish really Is. It can be used to determine spurious coins from real ones ? because a stanuard coin, which Is an alloy, has n standard resistance to electricity, and any other alloy will vary from that. Holding one of these .devices In his Buck Rabbit Inspiration for Jugoslav Industry Belgrade. ? A buck rabbit by the name of "Magnus" has proved the in spiration of a new Industry for Jugo slavia. Two years ago his owner. Professor Lebedev, a lecturer on the technical faculty of the Belgrade uni versity, purchased him from Britain for the purpose of starting an Angora rabbit farm. Professor I^ebedev had a few other rabbits at that time, but he attributes most of his success to this prize win ner, who has brought the population of his farm up to 1,500 In two years. Due to the success of this first venture in the Angora wool business, Professor Lebedev expects to open other rabbit centers in Jugosalvia. Part of his success he attributes to the inexponsl veness of rabbit nourish ment here, and labor In caring for them. High prices are obtainable for first-class rabbits both from Britain and the United States, Kach rabbit is clipped approximate ly four times a year and his food bill averages not more than about 02 cents In 12 months. The average wool re turn per rabbit is over $3.20 and the upkeep is negligible. A flourishing In dustry is predicted for Belgrade and vicinity. hand, Oscar D. Werwath, president of the Milwaukee School of Engineering, said : "This little Instrument Is capable of measuring ol&m resistance with as wide a variation as 10,fxx4 ohms, it can pick out a resistance of one ten-thou sandth of an ohm. This makes Its practical application unlimited." He went on to say that each person Is more or less magnetic. The brain especially, he said, Is an enormous cre ator of electricity, inasmuch as each particle is In Itself a sort of electric cell. "Why," he said, "it might be possible with such a delicate device, after years of research, to be able to read a per son's mind, through the amount of current that one can send off in the process of thinking." Night Motor Racing Is Growing in Popularity Washington. ? Night automobile rac ing Is rapidly becoming popular the country over, It was indicated In a sur vey by the contest board of the Amer ican Automobile association. Introduced three years ago at the Ascot speedway in Los Angeles, before the Idea of after dark competition gripped baseball and football fans, night races drew record attendances. However, not until recently have the lucrative possibilities of "illuminated" races become apparent to eastern and midwestern speedway operators. Now race operators In these sections have made extensive, hurried arrange ments to Install Ullumlnatlng facilities In their speedways In time for the sea son openings In late May. Track pro moters at Long Island, N. Y. ; Reading, Pa, ; Fort Wayne, Ind. ; Cincinnati, and Detroit all plan to feature the com paratively new after dusk sport. Mammoth Thermometer Is Placed on Eiffel Tower I'arls. ? With the Installation of a mammoth thermometer on the Rlffel tower. Parisians and other Paris dwell ers can tell exactly when to shiver and sink deeper Into their mufflers and when to emerge and breathe a few breaths of fresh air. Shortly before Ills death, the Italian Jacopor.zl, expert electrician and father of electrical dis plays on store fronts during the Christ mas holidays, submitted tl.e design (or the huge thermometer. It was ap proved as a pennnnent fixture to the Citroen display and has been erected. Ancient and Modern on High Seas A gllinptte of n century Ionic (>nnt In afforded iih by thin photogriiph of a I large Milling fthtp being tow?*l through the North Ren hound for the ICngllah chnnncl. ' BRISBANE THIS WEEK No Cash for Uncle Sam j The Wirt Myetery The Tiger's Immortality Poor Old Trotzky Mr. Chamberlain, In charge of Brit ish finances, tells happy fellow coun trymen that conditions are good In England : "The past fiscal year has shown a profit of $200,000,000," and "The atmosphere Is distinctly brighter." It Is not brighter for your Uncle Sam. Mr. Chamberlain also announced that "he did not propose to make any provision for the payment of war debts to America," and the statement was loudly cheered. It Is to be hoped j that President Roosevelt will, In his own time, make a reply that will bo "loudly cheered" on this side of the water. i Money can be collected from Eng land and other countries by a tax on ! all shipping entering our ports. We still own the ports and the docks ? at least that Is the popular theory. j They could not well retaliate, since we own little shipping. The United States would like to hear President ] Roosevelt say to the British, the j French and the others. "There are ? several ways of skinning a cat, and I propose to show you one or two of ; them." Young ladles attending the fateful ; Virginia dinner at which Doctor Wirt thought he heard somebody call Presl- i dent Roosevelt "only the Kerensky In the revolution, soon to be replaced with a genuine Stalin," testify that nothing of the Kind was said. In fact, the young Indies agree that the dinner started with a monologue by Doctor Wirt which outlasted the dinner. Nobody else could say a word. I The clrcns kept a big striped tiger named "Boss" locked In a strong cage, 1 strong enough to keep the tiger In, j not strong enough to keep death out Death entered, and "within ten rain- . ntes the tiger was on his way to be made into a rug." That will be for the tiger a sort of Immortality. Fire and moths permitting, his beauty may | survive for 50 years, made perfect by artificial eyes, teeth and tongue, grow ing gradually dimmer. Man has no such certainty of eternity, apart from faith, except In his children. They do supply whajt might be semi-eternal representation on earth. Parents of certain modern children, however, might well say, "I should rather be mude into a rug and get my eternity that way." You feel sorry for poor old Trotzky, despite the color of his politics. Fate put him In the Russian revolution, raising him to the heights. Stalin threw him out, Into Turkey. He wnn- ! deped to France and guilelessly start ed organizing a "fourth Internationale" , to "put an end to all organized gov- ! ernment." The French government ' puts him out of France, and he doesn't I know where to go. Fie thinks of the United States, but j what with Professor Wirt and one thing and another he can hardly hope to get In here. England used* to re ceive all revolutionaries, but some other countries may reject Trotzky to avoid offending the younger, more powerful Stalin. Cheer up, If your house Is mort gaged. Uncle Sam discovers, after 158 years of nntional life since 1770, that he has a pocketbook and mean? to use It for you. Some of his hun dreds of millions will he used carrying along your mortgage until you have j had time to pay it off. Even If it If ? not a "distress" mortgage, he may help I yon. The mortgage holder will be ; QKked to reduce his Interest rate nnd ' to extend the mortgage to ton or even j fifteen years. In return he will have the government's guarantee that the mortgage will be paid. Mortgaged home owners will ask, "Am I dreaming?" Some real estaters will say, "Let me get my real estate mortgaged to my brother-ln-lnw quickly, and let him get a government gnnrantoe." Thus far the government In Its re covery experiments has spent five thousand million dollars for relief of various kinds. It could spend ten thou sand millions. It would not cost a cent more of expense If It would print and pay out the money Instead of In filling bonds that are fictitious, since bankers do not rea'ly pay for them, the Interest doubling the amount paid out New York city has 07,000 tenement bonnes In which 2,000.000 people live, because there Is no other place for them to live. Of the 2,000,000, 90 per cent live In Ore trnps, according to i official report. 'ITiere Is, however, a iillver lining tx> this cloud, from one point of view. When tenement house* burn down, and tenants* burn up, the landlord gets his Insurance. If th? Jaw forbade Insurance on flretraps, an It ?h on Id do, the owner would be on tl.e spet night and day to prevent fire. Ami there would be less arson. In a new treatment for pneumonia fresh air Is pumped Into the pleural cavity ?f the patient, "giving the af fected lung a chance to rest and reslat Infection." Also It brings on the "crisis" 48 hours sooner before the disease hn? made the patient too weak to fight. Kin* Fontiiro* SynitlMit*, I?o. WNU TAX MEASURE PASSED BY THE SENATE It Provides for Revenues of $480,000,000. Washington. ? The senate passed the new tax bill, amended to Increase levies on the rich and to provide mil lions of dollars In revenue in excess of administration demands. The vote was 53 to 7. The measure, threatened with a White House veto because of a tax on Philippine coconut oil, went to con ference with the house, where admin istration leaders were to attempt to eliminate some of the more drastic amendments approved by the senate. The seven senators who voted against the measure were all Repub licans: Harbour, New Jersey; Dickin son, Iowa; Hale. Maine; Hastings, Del aware; Hebert, lthode Island; Keyes, New Hampshire, and Townsend, Dela ware. Designed originally by the honse to plug up holes in the Income tax law through which J. P. Morgan and other wealthy citizens avoided payment, the bill called fur revenues of only $2.r>8, 00(1, 000 when It reached the senate. A small band nf liberals led by Sen ator Robert M. I. a Toilette, Republic an, Wisconsin, leaped upon the meas ure and virtually rewrote It before the final vote. As revised the bill provides for potential revenues of $480,000,000. Striking changes tiwde by the son ate Include: A Hat 10 per cent extra "recovery tax" on all lO.'M Incomes. A sharp Increase in taxes on )arg?i Inheritances. Increase in gift taxes to correspond with the Increase In estate taxes. Elimination of the privilege under the present law which permits corpov atlons to file consolidated returns for aftllates or subsidiaries. Provision fur opening all Income tax returns to public Inspection. President Roosevelt, back from ms fishing trip, conferred with loaders of congress and told them what logisia- j tlon he desired enacted. Speaker Ralney and Majority Lender Byrns Indicated that the house could wind up the leg- I Islntive program sketched by the Pres- | ident by May l.r>. Roth lenders, however, were dubious about the senate's ability to get through that soon. It was thought probable that the President. In urging the May 1"> date, was hoping for a June 1 adjournment. Representative Ryrns Indicated that ? the President was anxious that the | tariff bill he passed first and then the j stock market control act. Speaker 1 Ralney said various amendments to , the securities net would be voted. WASHINGTON BRIEFS Contracts for more than $8,000,000 [ worth of work on the gigantic Fort J Peck project In Montana wore let by j army engineers. A house bill to authorize payment ! for purchase of or to reimburse states or districts fnr the cost of rights-of-way for flood control work in j the Mississippi valley was passed by 1 the senate without a record vote. Or. Leverett S Lyon, executive vice president of the Brookings institution, Joined NRA as deputy assistant ad ministrator to have charge of policies governing trade practice problems, price stabilization, costs, and consum er protection. President Roosevelt transmitted to congress an executive order abolish ing the geographic board and trans ferring Its functions to the Depart ment of the Interior. The board was created In 1KOO. Its chief duty hns been to settle questions regarding names of plnees such as disputes over the correct spelling of the nnmes of mountains and creeks. 50,000 Dress Workers Locked Out in N. Y. New York. ? A lockout of fiO.OOO dress workers of the city was an nounced by the National Association of Dress Manufacturers, an organization I of 2,r>(K) contractors, as a result of dis- ! putes with Jobbers over observing the industrial code. The contractors allege they have been victimized by "nil kinds of kick backs" and nre unable to p'?y the la bor wage until the Jobbers pay them enough to cover both labor and over head. Woman Is Slain by Shot Through Kerchief Leon, Iowa. ? Mrs. Klin (leorge was found shot to death In the bedroom of a house where she was staying here. A pistol was found under the bed. A red bandanna handkerchief had been plneed over tlx* woman's henrt. It had been pierced by the bullet which killed her. Badger Congressman Is in an Automobile Wreck Washington, Representative Ray* mond J. Cnnnon, Wisconsin Democrat, told police he was the dr'ver of n enr which struck a taxlenb In which three members of the New York Stock ex change were riding. One was pnln fully injured. Cannon told Lieut. J. II. Lee he had given Ids name to a pollcemnn nt the scene of the Accident, and had not re ported It because they already "knew who I waR." IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson (Dy REV P B. FITZWaTEH, L>. D, ilombcr of Faculty, Moody liibl# Institute of Chicago.) ?, 1914, Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for May 6 JESUS ACCLAIMED AS KINQ LESSON TEXT? Matthew 21:1-46 GOLDEN TEXT ? Wherefore God al so hath highly exalted hltn, and given him a name which la above every name. ? Phil. 8 9. PRIMARY TOPIC? When Children Sang to Jesus. JUNIOR TOPIC ? Jesus the Savlour Klng. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC ? Ix>yalty to Jesus, Our King. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADL'LT TOP IC ? Acknowledging the Lordship of Jesus. The picture presented In this chap ter Is a very dark one. The common designation "Triumphal Kntry" Is most unfortunate, for It was only such In ' appearance. Back of the cry "Ho sanna" was being formed the awful cry "Cruclfj Him." It may he pos sible that tho awful word "Crucify" was uttered by some of the same per sons who cried "Ilosannu." 1. The Preparation (vv, 1-0). < . 1. The sending of the disciples for the nss (vv. 1-3). Jesus told them Just where to go to find It and how to Answer the Inquiry of the one who owned It. This shows how perfectly Jesus knows our ways, 2. The fulfillment of prophecy (vv. 4, 6). Some five hundred years before, Zecharlnh made this prediction (Zech. 9:9), Christ's coming in this way was in exact fulfillment of this prediction. This Is highly Instructive to those who would understand as yet unfulfilled prophecies. The prediction of Zecha riah 14:3-11 will he Just as literally fulfilled as that of Zecharlnh 9:9. 3. The obedience of the disciples (v. G). The request may have seemed unreasonable, but they obeyed. II. The Entrance of the Klna (vv 7-11). 1. The disciples put tlvelr garments upon the ass and sot the Lord there upon (v. 7). This act showed their recognition of him as their kins (II Kings 9:13). 2. The action of the multitude (vv. 8, 9). Some spread their garments In the way; others who had no garments to spare cut down branches and did ^ the same with them. 3. The city awakened (vv. 10. It). It was a stirring time In Jerusalem, but a more stirring time awaits that city. 1 his will take place when the Lord returns to the earth in power. III. The King Rejected (vv. 12 10). The Immediate occasion of this re jection was the cleansing of the tem ple. A similar cleansing had been made some two years before (John 2:13-17), but the worldlings had gone back to their, old trade. Exchange was n' t in itsolf wrong, but doing it for >?;;ln was wrong. IV. The Nation Rejected by the King (vv. 17-40). Having shown their unwillingness to receive Christ as their king when offi cially presented to them, the king now tnrns from them and makes known their awful condition in parables. 1. The barren fig tree cursed (vv. 17-22). It was on the morning after his official presentation as he was re turning from Jerusalem that Jesus observed the unfruitful fig tree. Be cause of hunger ho sought tor figs and finding none, he caused to fall upon tho tree a withering curse. The bar ren fig tree Is a type of Israel. With its leaves it guve a show of life, but being destitute of fruit It had no right to cumber tho ground. The nation thus stood as a mountain in the way of the gospel. Jesus encouraged the disciples by showing that If they had faith even this great mountain could not stand In their way. 2. The parable of the two sons (vv, 28-.'52). Both sons nro told by the father to work In his vineyard. The one, like the profligate publican, re fused outright to obey but afterwards repented and went; the other pro tended a willingness to obey but In reality did riot. The first one repre sents the publicans and harlots; tho second, the proud and self-righteous Pharisees, the prlrsts, arid elders. Jesus declared the publicans and hnr lots would go Into the kingdom before them. 3. I he parable of the householder (vv. 33-40). a. The householder. This was Ciod^B himself. b. The vineyard. This means Israel (Isa. 5:1-7; Jer. 2:21; Ps. 80:0). c. The husbandmen. These were the spiritual guides, the rulers and teachers of Israel. d. Tho servants sent for the fruit of the vineyard. These worn the vari ous prophets whom Ood sent. e. The son sent by tho householder. This was the !x>rd Jesus Christ. They knew him to be the eon, but they did not show him reverence. They cast him out of the vineyard and slew jlm. VmIiia of SiUnrs ^ devotional value of sllonre Is recognized In a retreat, which nmy be described ns a period of silence np^nt with Ooi. broken only hv vocnl nu?dl tatlon and prayer preparing for and arising out of tho sllonce. Serving God "Let us s?*rve <}o<l In the sunshine while he makes the sun shine, \V4i shall then serve h|m all the better In the dark when he sends the darkness. The darkness la sure to come."