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The Tra\tiers
Said Polly and Molly a ad Bobby an I John,
"We'll go 1o Eur,-fO and back again.
We're afraid wo will drown if we go in tho j
1 oats, !
So we'.< ?o instead in a railroad train."
It was made of tho bed feather easy chair,
Is. held them all with a bit of a squeeze.
With Bobby and John astride of its buck,
Willie Polly and ilolly recline at their ease.
"Europe is nice, they tell us when
The bell for luncheon calls them home.
We climbed all over the mountain peaks.
And swam the Tiber in ancient Home."
They go to the Klondj'ke when luncheon is
through,
Their gold they tell us would fill a room.
They climb by Jacob's ladder at hist,
To make a caii on the man in the moon.
No wonder it is when bed time comes,
They vawn and nod their traveled heads,
But they start at once for tho land cf dreams,
As soon us they're tucked in their tiny
beds.
?Washington Star.
The Game of Chase.
Swiss children make believe that
the pursuer in the game of chase or
"tag" is invested with an imaginary
evil spirit whose power is subject to
certain charms. For instance, if they
touch cold iron, a gate latch, a horso
shoe or an iron noil the power of the
demon is broken. Sometimes ihey
make gold or silver their charm.
They play "cross-chase," in which the
runner who dans across the patch
between tlje pursued and the pursuer
becomes the object of the catcher,
and the former one goes free. Again
if the runner squats he is free, or, he
may squat three times and after that
the charm is lost. The chaser often
disguises himself and unless the captive
can guess who he is the captive
is banished from the game. They also
play "turn-cap"?the chaser wearing
his cap with the lining outside.
Another Swiss game is called Pot of
x Gold. One of the swiftest runners
takes a stick and pretends to dig for
a pot of gold. He works away for a
few minutes, then cries out "I've
found it" and runs away with it at
the top of his speed. He has the advantage
of a few paces at the start,
for while ho Is digging the other
players are grouped behind him at
least one rod distant. The player who
catcnes him gets the pot of gold and
becomes in turn subject to robbers.
. This keeps every player on tne cnase
continually.
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A Spider Story.
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One chilly day I was left at home
alone; and, after I was tired of reading
"Robinson Crusoe," I caught a
spider and brought him Into the
1 house to play with. Funny playmate,
wasn't It?
Well, I took a washbasin and fastened
up a stick in it like a vessel's
mast, and then poured in water
enough to turn the mast into an
Island for my spider, whom I named
Crusoe, and put him on the mast.
As soon as ho was fairly cast away,
around to find the mainland. He'd
scamper down the mast to tho water,
stick out a foot, get it wet, shake it,
f- run around the stick and try the other
side, and then mn back to the top
again.
Pretty soon It became a serious
^ . matter to Mr. Robinson, and he sat
down to think over it. As in a moment
he acted as if he was going to
shout for a boat and was afraid he
was going to be hungry, I put treacle
on the stick. A fly came, but Crusoe
wasn't hungry for flies just then.
He was homesick for his web in thecorner
of tho woodshed. He went
slowly down the pole to the water
and touched It all around, shaking
his feet liko pussy when sho wets her
stockings in the grass; and suddenly
a thought appears to strike him. Up
he went like a rocket to the top, and
commenced playing circus. He held
one foot in the air, then another, and
turned around two or three times.
He got excited and nearly stood on
his head before I found out what he
knew, and that was this: that the
draught of air made by the firo would
carry a line ashore on which he could
escape from his desert island. He
pushed out a web that went floating
in the air until it caught on the table.
Then he hauled on the rope until it
was tight, struck it several times to
Eee If it were strong enough to hold
him. and walked ashore. 1 thought
he earned his liberty, so I put him
back in the woodshed again.?Hearth.
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Parrot Walked tli? "Wire.
The rotund German who resides on
Olive street has a parrot which is a
great pet. It knew so much, and had
become so fully a member of the family,
that the other day, when Poily unhooked
the latch of the cage and
skipped there was general consternation.
Even the street urchins on Grand
avenue joined in the chase. The master
and the mistress and all the small
boys for miles about lent a hand, but
Polly went from one roof to another,
and* then made a jump and safely
reached the trolley wire. Her toes
were just a bit too long for a firm
clutch, but she hung on. swaying back
and forth like a tight-rope walker, and
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lilt? uiijv wuiiut'i was 5?nv; u:uii i turn
upside down on the wire.
Sassy boys on the street below gave
her instructions and a kind friend
from across the way tied two brooms
together and made a vain attempt in
excellent German to convince the wanderer
that waywardness would prove
fatal. But no ice was cut by this
demonstration, and it was not settled
until the next car came along. Its
pole swept the bird from its perch
and she took refuge on r nearby roof.
Then there was more climbng and
more reaching, until the whole neighborhood
had joined in the hunt. One
man shinned up a tree, dropped from
a branch to the apex of the roof, h*ld
out his broom and plaintively pleaded,
"Come Polly, nice Polly, come mit
me!" . But Polly was obdurate; she
didn't give a cent for anything but
the freedom which was hers. It was
so nice! Flitting from branch to
branch and roof to roof she led the
army on. Never a wiser bird! She
knew just where she stood, she appreciated
her advantages and was intent
on making the most of them. '
This was kept up until the parade n
reached the corner of State and Chapel.,,
streets. Here Polly got a secure resCri
ing place on the flagstaff swinging
from Brook's store. Her heart was
beating fast from the unusual exertion;
every feather seemed to be disarranged:
her beak was wide spread
for all the air there was to be had.
The chase had been a hard one. three
hours long, and surrender seemed the
only recourse. So Polly gave in,
threw up the sponge and walked the
broomstick into captivity.
She has been awful sassy ever since
but she is glad that It is all over, and
ben? in her body
aches she is content.?New liav?? J
Saturday Chronicle.
Tlie Honey Bird.
A great many years ago people used
to drink a sweet water called mead
that was made of honey.
We never hear about mead in these
days, when so many different sorts
of wines are brought to us from other
countries. But in olden times mea*i
was held in very high esteem; and
the person who made it. and who
was called "the mead maker," was
thought to be of more importance
than the doctor. Queen Elizabeth
used to drink a great deal of mead,
and left behind a recipe for the best
I way of making it.
There is a bird called the honey
guide that lives in Africa, in the
country of the Hottentots. It is
rather larger than a sparrow, and is
so fond of honey that it is always on
the lookout to get some. There are
no beehives in that country, but the
bees make nests in the hollow of a
tree, or in some other sheltered place.
The bird is sure to find its way to the
bee's nest, but it does not like to attack
it. for fear of being stung. So
it begins to call out in its own way
for some one else to come; it makes
a loud piercing cry, that is well known
to all who are within hearing.
SnmoHmAR lhe hear is lurkinc about
among the trees, and he hears it;
and by-and-by he sees the bird perched
on some branch close by. The bird
flies toward the nest of the poor unsuspecting
bees, and the bear follows;
for he loves the taste of honey, and
this is not the first time, by any
means, that he has goncafterthehoney
guide. He does not much care about
the stings, though they sometimes
put him into a great passion. At
any rate, he pulls out the nest with
his feet and paws and feasts on the
honey; and while the bear is eating
the bird is sure to get as much as he
wants.
The Hottentot knows the voice of
the honey guide and follows it with
great delight. When he reaches the
nest he does not forget his kind
friend; he takes care to leave behind
that part of the comb which contains
the eggs and the little grubs,for the
bird likes these even better than the
honey.
And he would not catch or kill the
honey guide for any reward that could
be offered. A traveler or.ee told a Hottentot
that he would give him any
number of glass beads if he would
set a trap for the honey guide. But
the Hottentot would do nothing of
the kind.
'"The bird is our friend," he said,
"and we will not betray it!"?Washington
Star.
Tlie Hnclc Driver's Little Girl.
Six little girls in Miss Rexford's
school were about the same age,?
Cora, Ethel, Sally, Edith, Jenny, and
Ruth. Five of them were generally
to be seen together, at recess and
going auu rciurmiig nuui stuwi,
but the sixth one, Ethel Stedman,
was not apt to be included in the
good times of the others. This was
not because Ethel was not as pretty
or as bright or as pleasant as the
rest of them or because she did not
wear as dainty frocks. No. it was
all on account of her father's being
a hack driver. Sally's father was
a doctor, Edith's was a clergyman,
Cora's was a lawyer, Ruth's painted
pictures, -while Jenny's father kept
a bookstore. These little girls did
not realize that a man who drove a
hack for a living could be just as
good as if he went around curing
the sick people or stood behind a
counter selling books or even preached
sermons in a big church. So Ethel
was made to feel that in some way
she was not quite their equal, though
she didn't understand what the reason
was. It would never have occurred
to her that her dear, kind father was
the cause of all this snubbing.
Day after day Ethel went to school,
wishing she could do something to
make the girls like her better. Finally,
her chance came.
It was warm and sunshiny when
school i opened one afternoon; but
before long it grew cloudy, and, when
the children were let out, the weather
was so threatening that the five
friends hurried along, hoping to reach
their homes before the shower. They
had onlv eone a few blocks, however,
when great drops began to fall; and
in a minujte it whs pouring. There
was no way but to scamper up on the
step-s of a house, to wait till the rain
should cease; but the question that
troubled them was how soon would
it stop. It might keep on until night,
and they all lived a long walk away.
It thundered and lightened a little,
and Cora and Jenny began to cry.
It grew darker, and rain came down
in such sheets that the girls could
hardly see across the street. Then
a hack came rolling along; and to
their surprise, it stopped right in
front of the steps.
"Girls! girls!" called a familiar
voice; don't you want to ride home?"
Before one of them could answer,
Ethel's father had jumped from his
high seat, and had poor little frightened
Jenny in his arms. He deposited
her on her feet inside the carriage
door; and in a minute or two the
five were all there, half laughing,
half crying, and being whirled along
toward home.
"Father came after me; but you
started on ahead, or 1 should have
asked you to ride then," explained
Ethel; and the five couldn't help feeling
n little hit ashamed to see the
eagerness with which the girl whom
they had all slighted was ready to do
them a favor. As for Ethel herself,
she almost wished a shower would
come up every day, it was such a
delight to be right among the girls,
and be one of them!
"How did you get home?" asked
Edith's father that night.
"Mr. Stedman brought me in his
hack. Ethel asked us all to ride."
And Edith related the circumstances.
"Mr. Stedman is a nice man," said
the clergyman, reflectively. "I told
some one the other day I didn't
believe there was a better man in
this town than Erastus Stedman.
And he has a good wife, too. I am
glad that Ethel is one of your mates.
You'd better invite her to spend some
Saturday with you."
Edith told the other girls what her
father had said; and they agreed that
they ha.d made a great mistake, and
that they would do their best to rectify
it. After that there was no lack
of "good times" for Ethel Stedman.
?Emma C. Dowd. in Zion's Herald.
J?p:?Re?e J.aquer.
A piece of genuine Japanese lacquer
costs the native artist almost a
lifetime to perfect, and is produced
by hundreds of thin coats of lacquer,
laid on at considerable intervals of
t?me, the value consisting rather in.
the labor bestowed than in the quality
cf the material used. First-class
lacquer work can scarcely be scratched
Vy a needle;
BIRDS ARE BEE-EATERS.
They Only Consume Stingless Drones
?Working Bees Are Safe.
A gardener complains to me about
the loss he sustains owing to the fondness
of the pretty little bluetit for
bees. "You'd never believe the lot
that little chap snaps up, right off
the board in front of the hive." The
I spotted flycatcher, a charming summer
migrant, whose pretty nesting
I and feeding habits I have watched
j with great interest, and whom I have
found to be a very confiding bird
and one true to his old nesting places,
has also been most unjustly libeled
and persecuted for the same reason.
The fact is both these birds do
tajte bec-s, but if the complainants
followed up the matter they would
And that the birds dare not take a
worker bee, because of its sting, and
they only devour the stingless drones
which are being turned out of the
hive, or are destroyed by the working
bees as no longer necessary to
the economy of the hive, just at the
llITltf Wllt'll li.v taiv.uci o aiv <.uuvuD
these fat drones to feed, their young
with. The swarming season is then
over. Instead of destroying the useful
insects the birds are actually
helping the workers. And so they are
the best friends of the beekeeper.
The error of attributing the destruction
of working bees to the action of
birds is a very old one. In the fourth
Georgic, Virgil writes to the fol-'
lowing effect: "The bloody-breasted
swallow bears away in her beak the
bees while oi*the wing, sweet morsels
for her merciless young." A writer
in an old number of the Beekeeper's
Journal says: "I saw a swallow fly
up to another which was sitting on a
telegraph wire and put something in
its mouth, and then go away; the
other almost immediately dropped it.
I found it to be a large drone."?
Pall Mall Gazette.
PIE.
Waiter?Have a piece of pie, sir?
Pincher?No. thank you; I never
eat pie. It doesn't agree with me.
Waiter?To every person who has
eaten one order we give pie without
extra charge.
Pincher?Come to think it over, you
may bring me three pieces of pie?
two of berry and one of custard.?Boston
Transcript.
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Germany's army on a war footing now
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l'uzzle Cushions, Now.
The latest cushion in the Gibson girl
series shows her seated in a drawing
room. A young man near by is biting
his lips by way of fortifying his
courage, while the rest of the company
is socializing on the other side
of a large screen. Under this picture
we are admonished in the plainest of
lettering to find the girl who is going
to be kissed within ten minutes. The
best part of this puzzle picture is that
you don't have to stand on your head
to solve it. furthermore, the characters
are of normal size, which is
more than can be said of the mix-up
of Liliputians and Brobdignagians in
most puzzle pictures.
The Elec'ric Lamp.
The electric lamp has kept pace
with the development along artistic
lines that is apparent in all branches
of household fitments. The incandescent
lamp is now admitted to the dining
table, although until recently the
incandescent burner was thought to
shed too pitiless a glare to be desirable
for dining table illumination. The
glare has been ingeniously softened,
and at a recent dinner the electric
lamp, which occupied the centre of
the table was the most effective decoration
that could be imagined. The
pedestal and supporting column were
ot silver gilt, around which were
grouped charming female figures in
French bisque. The incandescent
burners were shaded by glass globes
In soft hue of rose; these In turn
were veiled with numberless strings
of pearls in rose-white tint, and the
light shone through with a softened
glow that was delightful.?Brooklyn
Eagle.
Glauses for the Tablo.
Nowadays the fashion is to serve a
different type of glass with each
course at dinner, and thereby display
the varying beauties of shape, coloring
and engraving of one's lavish store.
Some hostesses, who do not go quite
to these lengths, have adopted different
sets of glass to match their various
sets of china, and a new and fashionable
painted glass lor dinner parties
has come recently into use.
The crystal is very bright and thin,
and adorned with a green, red or blue
band at the edge of the bov;l and on
lite edge of the foot, and the cwner'3
initial and some heraldic device are
painted on the side of every piece.
This is highly ornamented, but care
must be taken not to use red-banded
glass with a blue china service, else
there will be anarchy in the carefully
elaborated decoration of the table.
Furthermore, it is not considered
tasteful, to say the least, to use one
or! r\cc* ct voi rrVtt +V? -non CrVi Q m OQ1
DCi. ui 51000 ou tuivu^u m i
?Philadelphia Inquirer.
Hot Woather Cleaning.
For the hot weather cleaning, when
all unnecessary exertion should be
avoided, quick and easy methods of
keeping the summer cottage in order
are in demand by the practical housewife.
Use whiting or ammonia in the
water for washing windows instead
of using soap.
If the preserving kettle is stained after
putting up the berries, and washing
does not remove the brown streaks
use the kettle for boiling potatoes in
their jackets.
Lemon and salt will remove stains
from the fingers after peeling potatoes
or working in the garden.
To keep tinware bright and shining
polish with newspapers occasionally.
When frequently used, the tin will require
no polish beyond that given by
the daily washing and drying.
It is well to remember that hot
water will set grease stains in clothing.
If grease is spilled upon aprons
or the white goods of the summer sewing
become spotted with sewing machine
oil in the making wash out the
spots with cold water before putting
into the hot suds.
Blood stains are also quickly removed
by soaking and washing in cold
water before using not water or soap.
Summer heat and dampness will
quickly cause mildew at this season,
and it is difficult to remove it from
clothing. The best plan is to use a
weak solution of chloride of lime?
about a teaspoonful of lime to a quart
of water.
To clean brass bird cages, wash in
cold suds and sprinkle with whiting,
then dry and polish with dry flannel
and chamois.
To remove white stains and spots
from furniture rub them with spirits
of camphor, then with flannel wet
with linseed oil, and finally with dry
flannel.
Chicken a la Maryland?Singe, drain
and wash quickly one or two chickens;
split them down the back; springle
with salt and pepper; dip each half in
beaten egg, then in bread crumbs;
put them in a buttered dripping pan
and pour over a little melted butter;
place in the oven and roast for 20
minutes; remove to a hot platter and
pour over one cupful of cream sauce
made with one tablespoon of butter,
one tablespoonful of flour, one cupful
of milk, salt and pepper; serve small
cnrn fritfprs
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Currant Flummery?This is nice for
breakfast on a hot morning, as it is
just tart enough to give the zest one
desires. Add two cups of granulated
sugar to the strained juice of two
quarts of mashed red currants Stir
until sugar is dissolved. Take one
pint of this juice and pour over a pint
of ground rice and blend until perfectly
smooth. Boil the remainder of
the juice in the real kettle, and into
this stir carefully the thickened juice.
Cook until thick and then pour into
molds large or small 3nd set on the
Ice to stiffen.
Patatoes With Cheese Sauce?Pare,
boil and ir.ash 12 good-sized potatoes;
season with salt and pepper and '
moisten with a little butter and hot j
milk. Make a half pint of drawn but- 1
ter. season with salt and pepper and
stir in two beaten eggs and two table- ]
spoonfuls of grated cheese. Put a
layer of the potatoes in a buttered bak- j
ing dish, and cover with a thin layer ,
of the sauce; then add another layer j
of potatoes, then more of the sauce
and in turn more potatoes and sauce. |
heaping up in a mound and covering !
the top with the sauce; strew this
thickly with grated cheese and Ret itt '
A quick oven to brown;
THE UNDERGROUND MOI8TURE.
The Water Table Has Been Brought
Nearer the Surface.
One of the interesting developments
which of late yeftrs have been attracting;
considerable attention in connection
with irrigation is the charge
in the underground water level of
irrigated districts. Within the last
few months the United States Geological
Survey has issued in its series of
Water Supply and Irrigation Papers
a report of J. B. Lippincott, resident
hydrographer by the Survey for California,
on the water storage possibilities
on Kings River, which contains
interesting information regarding
the underground water conditions
found in the irrigated portion of the
Kings River Valley near Fresno.
The height of the ground water, or
the "water table," is the distance beneath
the surface at which the soil
is found to be saturated with moisture.
In the Fresno district the striking
fact has developed that, while
previous to the practice of irrigation
there in 1870 the water table stood
at 60 feet below the surface, at the
present time it is found at from 10
to 15 feet, and in places even from
4 to 6 feet. So high has the water
risen in certain sections that some of
the cellars near Fresno were flooded
and had to be abandoned, and the
ground water at present stands so
near the surface that roots of alfafa,
vines and trees readily penetrate
it and soils are kept continually
moist. Surface wetting has become
unnecessary in many sections.
This condition of saturation represents
the use of an immense amount
of water in irrigation. The total
quantity of water brought to the vicinity
of Fresno, as indicated by the
report, during the seventeen years
between 1879 and 1896 would, at a
very low estimate, have covered the
50,000 acres, to whose surface water
is applied in irrigation, to an average
depth of 4Y2 feet per annum, or'
to a total* depth of 75 feet Some
of this water has, or course, been
consumed in sustaining plant life;
more has been evaporated; but the
most of it still permeates the subsoils
of the irrigated region and of the adjoining
lands.
The abundance of underground
water has been widely taken advantage
of by the inhabitants of the
region, and over 850 wells have been
sunk, whose individual capacity
varies from a small discharge to over
a million gallons. These wells are
used largely for domestic purposes
and for stock, but they are also employed
for irrigation, street sprinkling
and city supply. One of the largest
pumping plants draws water from a
well 600 feet deep, driven in a city
lot 50 by 150 feet, for the supply of
a city of 12,000 inhabitants.
THE SECRET OF SOARING.
A Naturalist Claims to Have Discovered
It at Last.
The power of the condor, the hawk,
the vulture and some other birds, to
so?:r without a single motion of the
Wings for hours at a time has never
been satisfactorily explained An
English naturalist, Mr. J. Lancaster,
claims to have discovered the secret
and by accident. He had been studying
the subject for 15 years without
arriving at a conclusion, when the
killing of a yellow-tailed hawk on
the Flat Top Mountains of Colorado
gave him the solution. A furious for /%?+
V? o rl K A An rQOrtr.tr In tVlOt TPtHOTI
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and had filled the air with smoke and
$shes. While he was examining the
hawk's feathers he noticed a peculiar
stain on the sides of the quill
between the spicules.
Examination with a powerful nicroscope
showed that the stain extended
along each spicule between the plates.
The downy filaments filling the
double wall-structure of the wings had
the same discoloration. He scraped
o:I the stain, and found that it resembled
soot from a stove-pipe, which
showed that the smoke-filled air had
been goi:ag through the wings in an incessant
stream, carrying the carbon
particles with it.
Here was the secret of soaring revealed
to him. A feather is an airengine
consisting of a quill and two
vanes, made of spicules, between
which are the plates. The spicules
nake a channel about one-fortieth of
an inch in width, and the plates cross
it There are about one thousand
of them to the inch, and they are located
at the outer surface, filling
nbou^pne-flfth part of the depth of
the channel. About nineteen-twentieths
of the space of the channels is
open to the passage of air.
The mechanical service or tne
plates, he says, is obvious. The
curve impinges against the air-current
through the feathers and drives
the bird to the front. Pressure produced
by the normal factor of weight
Is thus made to serve as the motive
power of flight.
THE ONE-SHOE RULE.
Experience Teaches in the Retail Boot
and Shoe Business.
The proprietor of a little shoe store
on the East Side was alone in his
place yesterday when a short, stout
young man walked in and asked to
look at a pair of shoes. He had tried
on a number of shoes when the shoe
dealer looked at him and said:
"Ve alvays deal square mit people
like you. I am acquainted with your
mother. She alvays gets her shoes
here, und dot is vhy you can have dot
pair for $2."
The man laced up the shoes and
was about to tie the shoestrings when
another young fellow came In.
"You stiff," he growled to the customer,
"why did you insult my sister?"
"You go back to that place or I'll
punch you full of holes," replied the
man who had the shoes on.
The next minute he received a
punch on the cheek and the fellow
who had done the punching ran out.
The man with the new shoes ran after
him shouting. They disappeared
around the corner.
Tho owner of the store waited half
an hour and then called his wife
from their apartments in the rear.
"Becky," he said, "I tink mebbe dot
man is a swindler."
"Swindler," repeated Becky, "vhy
I heard you say his mother vere a
customer."
"Ach, dot vere only a business lie,
but it cost me $2. Der next man
vill only get one shoe to try on before
he pays cash down. Dot's der
new rule; understand?"
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FRESH AIR IN COAL MINES,
The Quantity the Mi/iers Need and
and How It Is Supplied to Them.
In the operations of coal mining,
which, in the United Kingdom alone,
produce something over 235,000,000
tons a year, and find employment
for nearly three-quarters of a million
of people, there is nothing of
more vital importance than the continual
supply of a sufficient volume of
fresh air for diluting the noxious
gases prevalent in the mines and for
enabling the underground workers
to breathe a comparatively pure at:
mosphere. It may be said of modern
mines that the efforts to provide this
air have, in the majority of cases,
been attended with so much success
that the atmosphere of a modern coal
mine is superior to the atmosphere
of the forge or factory on the surface.
The particular a'mounts of air rei
quired at the various collieries depend
somewhat upon the nature of
the mine, whether non-gaseous, or
slightly gaseous, or very gaseous; also
upon the number of human beings
and animals employed in the mine;
and on the amount of coal produced
which is not always in proportion to
the number of persons engaged therein.
Taking all classes of coal mines, a
fair and liberal consumption is from
500 to 1,000 cubic feet of air per
minute for each human oeing employed
in the mine. Authorities differ
very much as to the quantity, and
even the lesser of the amounts stated
will, in many quarters, be considered
excessive; but they are not exaggerated
amounts, and there are exceptional
cases where even the larger
quantity could, with advantage, be
greater rather than less.
Taking the total number of persons
employed in and about the mines of
the United Kingdom as three-quarters
of a million, nearly 600,000 of this
number will be employed underground,
and the consumption of air,
on the lower basis stated, for such
an army of workers will amount to
something like eighteen thousand
million cubic feet per hour, representing
in terms of weight more than half
a million tons.
Making a comparison between the
weight of the coal raised and the
weight of air which passes through i
the mine in the length of a year, it I
has to be remembered that while
coal production is not continuous, and
in many cases occupies less than half
of each twenty-four hours, and not
always six days in the week, good
ventilation at collieries means that
the current is practically continuous
from January 1 to December 31, day
and night, Sunday and week day. Following
out the figures given above,
it is found that the weight of air
which ought to pass throught the
mines of the United Kingdom in a
year is not less than four thousand
million tons, or something like twenty
tons.of air for each ton of coal produced.
It is not too much to say that, taking
the coal mines of the world, the
weight of air passing through them
| for purposes of ventilation exceeds
I the -tt-eiffht of all the minerals raised
even if the generous, although necessary,
maximum estimate of one thousand
cubic feet per minute per individual
be reduced one-half.?C. M.
Percy, in Cassier's Magazine.
The Frisco System
Offers to the colonists the lowest
rates with quick and comfortable service
to all points \n the west and
northwest. Thirty dollars ($30.00)
from Memphis. Tickets on sale daily
during September and October. Correspondingly
low rates from all points
in the southeast. For full information
address W. T. Saunders, G. A. P. D.;
F. E. Clark, T. P. A., Pryor and Decatur
streets, Atlanta, Ga.
A Mexican Railroad's Record of Safety
Considerable prominence has been
given in the press of the world lately
to the fact that not a passenger on
the English railroads has been killed
during the year 1901. It may prove
of interest to know that the Mexican
National Narrow Gauge Road, from
Corpus Christl through Laredo to the
City of Mexico, with its branches,
amounting to more than 1,200 miles
of operated road, for more than twenty
years, has never killed a pa36enger.
This, in the face of the fact that this
road climbs more mountains, turns
more curves, than any road in the
United States.?Galveston Daily News.
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that he has used Peruna in his family
and found it cured when other remedies
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Rev. E. G. Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian
church of Greensboro, Ga.. writes:
"Having used Peruna in my family foi
some time it gives me pleasure to testify to
its true worth.
"My little boy, seven years of age, had
been suffering for some time with catarrh
of the lower bowels. Other remedies had
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i and can heartily recommend Peru
i na to all similarly afflicted. It Is
certainly a grand medicine."?M. J.
Rossman.
Catarrh is essentially the same wherever
located. Peruna cures catarrh wherever
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