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THE JOURNAL __ HAS FACILITIES FOR V ine job printing ■ Call orlwrite for Prices. THE JOURNAL ....IS THE.... FAVORITE PAPER with readers and advertisers. DEVOTED TO THE^TBUE INTEBESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF SENECA COUNTY. VOX.UME 15. SENECA EAEES,. N. X., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1899. NUMBER 14 SeijeeaQp.Jouri^al l»at;l.ISHED EVERY 'VVEBNESDAV 1! THE JOURHtL PUBLISHING CO. (HJIITED) PARTRIDGE BLOCK, SENECA FALLS, N. Y. T E B M S ; Tonnty Subscrlbera, $1.50 when paid In advance; SiibscrilierB outside the county, $2.00 per year, postage prepaid; Subscription for six months, $1.00 in ndvance. RATES OF ADVERTISING •• 2ws. 4ws. 2m«. 3ms. Oms.; 1 omiea?,'Charitable, Ucitgious and llho notices, 30 charged at regular rates BUSINESS CARDS. OSSIAN n. CONGDON, E R N E S T G. GOULD, WILLIA/Vl H. HARPST, Seneca Falls, N. Y. L. FOSTER CROWELL, ‘ S eneca F aiab , K. Y. ^AND GRAVEL AND I.OAM delivered SH E L D R A K E HOUSE. A CAPITAL STOPPING PLAOE for pnrtii A, GOODMAN, Prop. Sheldrake, Seneca Co., N. Y KELLOGG’S LIVERY. C. B. HOWE, M. D. MAYNARD E. WILLIAMS, U I N'EWYOKK ( e i ^ t r a l & HUDSON RIVER R. a THE FOUR-TRACK TRUNK LINE da?l^“[» S r » b k w o e r j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^Thfe^rthe Onb-^Vne entering the City of New the very center of the city. On and after tJunday, June 24, trains will pass Seneca Falla as follows : ^ 't^ n ly \ r n M Sumlajs, Syracuse to Geneva and LeMih Yalley System In E ffect Alay 14th, i8 9 9 . .SESKCA FALLS RRA.NCll. 7:10 A. M. 7:\>0A. M, 10:0.> A. M. 10:10 A. M. 5:25 i». M. 5:40 r . M. I a K.VVE OENEV a V F.VST\VA.U 0 S & S 'lS m iS S a: 0 » P. M. Daily ex.-.-pt Sutidav ■‘P.Iaek Din- 9:56 r. if. Daily Nlshi Express for TTa\tB WESTWARD. 5:13 A. M. Daily for Kocheatcr and Ituffalo. R^ii^SoG B!^ial?an5 M l t i ^ ^ e s & ^ d S d h r s ^ t ^ s r ’ ^S. pf MIIXSP^VUGn, District Passenger Agent J.H.McDonald Successor to William Hill*. General Fire Insurance And Real Estate Agency. Seneca Falls, N. Y. D. M c C a r t h y & s o n s , S y r a c u s e , N . Y. Sgiacuse “Gilmstin Blms\ gt $ 25 . 00 . A noble wheel at an ignoble price— $50.00 worth of bicycle excellence for exactly half that sum. No wonder that we’re selling them by the score. No wonder that orders come by mail from North, South, East and West. Even the great quantity purchased can’t stand such selling long, so don’t wait. Ladies’ wheels $27.50. Ten per cent, extra on all wheels where credit is desired. AT ANDERSON'S! One tells Another. That is one reason why we arc having such a trade on Shirt WaisLs, Summer Underwear, Corsets and hose. We anticipated the hot wave with cool goods. Everything in Wash Goods from a 5 c. Calico to a fine French Organdie. Ladies’ and Children’s Vests from 5 c up. Summer Corsets 25c and 50c. Shirt Waists 39c, 50c, 75 c. Parasols 50c, 75 c, $1.00. J. H. Anderson. We are agents for the “New Idea” Patterns Cutting and fitting is easy with “New Idea Patterns.” Any Pattern and Any Size, only 10 Cents. Subscribe for “ New Ideas for Womans Wear,” a Magazine issued monthly. Price 5c per copy, 25c per year. M. C. GOULD, DENTIST I SENECA FALLS, N.Y. Gold and ?l illings 76 cents. Rubber nnd Oxy Phosphate Fillings 75 cents While’s or Jnsti,8 full upper or lower sets $10 Wilmington Slbloys nnd other cheap teeth, $8 Singleorown on roof $2.50 Skeleton plates or Movable Bridge work on G old or Rubber, at lowest possible rate Nitrons Oxide Oasa dmlnistcred. riartin O’Neill REAL ESTATE FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT INSUR ANCE AGENCY. OONVEYANCING houses for Safe and to Rent RENTS COLLECTED. SAME OLD STAND, 89 FALL BT. A L F R E D GOODMAN, A g t. Seneca Lake Steamers. SUMMER TIME TABLE. T a k e s E ffect H a y 2 p, I899. Beginning on the above date, the Sc Steamer \Otcllanl'* will make landinga balance of acaac '8 OB per time 5 ?“ S f E ii i t e iji-r : ; l i ;; GOING NORTH. f B S 5 = : ^ | S = <■ G e X ^ '? :::::;;;::;:;;.::;;::: “F” indicates boats stop on signal only, or to land passengers. P. A. Herendeen. Qcncml Passenger Agent. GENERAL OFFICE, GENEVA, N. Y. A WET EVENING. Curves iron grim, sinee rni And tented mists imrurl. Acro.ss the crystal floor, is vanished all In grayncss blank and cold. Its lifted peak, that whilo clear skies o'ershone With hyacinth crest their bluebell awning broke, Far, far to seek the shining, lost and flown, As j’crteroveu’s smoke. il water’s sheen, high sl< iter’s sheen, high slopes that glint and With .sudden lawns of light. Only in small oheekered fleld,s. begun to glow With kirning lilooiu of imnlm and oar and The g?ory, blurred away nnd stricken low, What torcli slmll rt'illuino? storm tangled, drenched, tossed dank on hlqck peat mire, Foam: ilaino of feathery gold—ah, wind and Tliat now eonsiTiro, forhenr oiir heart’s dcsiro, No spark bo nuenched save that the world’s hearth flro With nio^n may kindle again. —Jano Barlow in Athencoum. I AK OHIO f j SOLCOKPA 1 i>. -------------------------------- Mingo county people were aghast when they learned that Gracchus Ma guire had obtained an option on the Frobisher farm, for the story of the pride and fall of Peter Frobisher was .still fresh in their minds. Only a year before the old dry goods merchant be gan to build what he called “ the finest residence in southern Ohio.” A storm of indignation had swept over the county when it was announced that the house would bo erected upon an Indian mound. There are all kinds of ny ]p— -------- -—■‘1- *•-- are all kinds of ■ legends connected with the eart 31’ks scattered by a prehistoric ra s iind the carpenters einploy- iiiilding the house went awfiy half r earlier tlmn customary to 1eei works scatti throughout .scuthern Ohio. Not a man in Valley City could be hired to dig the cellar, and Frobisher had to send to Rand Run for some of the Poles. They had no scruples, for the reason that the legends of the mound builders were to them sealed books. The laborers dug down eight feet to a pocket of white sand, in which they found a human skull, various strange looking implements, an altar of sun dried bricks and a tablet, shap ed like the sounding bo.ard of a bass viol and coveml with liieroglypliics. The nows of the discovery spread .all over the countryside. The farmers after dark avoided the road which pas.scd the de.secnited Indian mound. The masons iind the carpenters einpk ed in building the house went awfiy h an hour earlier tlmn customary to k from being on nnliallowed ground aftei T i u h i He could have rilled 100 Ir and felt no tremor of the life bad been the road of the rough. He had been found 34 years before in a basket a t the railroad crossing. Around bis neck were a chain of gold and a locket, which were promptly confiscat ed by the trackwalker who discovered him. The Presbyterian minister, re minded by this action of the historic remark of Cornelia, tlie mother of the Gracehi.naiued tbefoundling Gracchus. Maguire was the name-of the last man who was killed at the cro.s.sing. Gracchus Maguire was roared in the Mingo County Orphans’ lioine. At tlie age of 14 he W’as taken into Peter Fro bisher’s dry goods store as an errand boy. He bad a t.-isto for leiu'ning, saved his money, and with the aid of Prohishor m ade his w ay through college. H e w as ill Valley City teaching school in order to get funds to carry him through a couLse of inedicine. M a g u ire took a lively interest in the things which were found in the an cient landmark, which he called a sac rificial mound. Ho even read a paper upon the subject before the Htate Arch.'e- ologicnl society, in which he said that the finding of the tablet amply demon strated that the mound builders had a lated to mean that vengeance would fall upon the man who disturbed the ancient sacrifice. The rendering aston ished Peter Frobisher a little. He was still further surprised by a remarkable phenomenon which he noticed shortly before the house was completed. A black scum had been noticed from time to time upon a spring back of tho match. me rested over the water for a mo- ;nt and disiippeared. Frobisher paled at the sight. “Do you believe it?” he exclaimed. “Do you think that this place is cursed by Injun spirits?” “ N o n sense’ replied Maguire. “ Como to think of it, I remember that I was cleaning an old coat down here with benzine. You will have to see more than that before you can believe all this old woman’s talk about the mound builders.” The new dwelling, when completed, Inlfillccl the fondest hopes of the Fro bishers. It could be seen for miles over the country. At night, when the lamps in the front hall were lighted, gleams of yellow, red and cobalt shone through the colored glass on either side of the great front door. At the suggestion of new house was and because it was not far away from a horse pond. The Frobishers had their house warming in the form of an afternoon reception, in deference to the prejudices of the villagers. The guests came with trepidation. The Widow Simpkins was observed to look furtively about her be tween the serving of the chicken salad and the “ pa.ssing” of the ice cream. Miss Belinda Sommers uttered a pierc ing shriek nnd nearly fainted when a table was accidentally overturned. As evening approached the guests hastened to take their departure. Sam Johnson, the nearest neighbor, was awakened shortly after midnight by some one pounding at his door. He opened it, and Rebecca Frobisher fell fainting across the thre.shold. Behind ir, with eyes in —1'=-*- ----- --------- range terror, hi je a leaf, stood T before the old couple could be persuaded to tell of their experience. Peter Frobisher i that he had been awakened by si one swaying the portieres in the d way of the adjoining room. The dra- nery narted. and he saw the form of a ruder pointed i full, round moon, which conld be seen from the window, and waved a weapon resembling a batlleax. He remained for a moment and then seemed to fade away. The aged couple fled shrieking from their new abode and ran for a mile along the dusty road to the home of the Johnsons. The Frohi.shers deserted Moundmere for all tim e. The stock and f a r m in g implements were sold for half their value. The rich acres became fallow ground nnd the lawn a waste of weeds. Peter and Rebecca moved to Valley City and made their home in three lit tle rooms over the dry goods store. Buch was the state of affairs when Magnire obtained his option. A stonishm ent grew in Mingo one morning when a curl of smoke issued from one of the chimneys of the Frobisher homestead. Investigation proved th a t Gracchus Ma guire had actually made his' home in i N - the lair of the disembodied mound builder. He had transported his trunks Moundmere and carted several loads cheap furnitnro out to tho place. The boards were taken down from the windows, and the bouse began to loc :e a human habitation, lor spread all over Valley City icchus Magniro had obtaine\ 3mo m y sterious so schoolteacher had i money even ti leases upon some of the adjoining fai These documents were couched in biguous languf agricultural open should not be dist Packing lat the iwners ind provided tbf itions of the 01 irrived at the little railroad station and in the night were hauled through the village streets to the old farm. There were hundreds of feet of iron pipe, odd looking wlieels and gigantic tool chests. Half a dozen men iiliglited from the Columbus train one evening and were driven to Mound mere. The signs “ No Admission” and “ Trespa.ssing Forbidden” were posted on all the fences. These seemed like a work of supererogation, for nobody then dared to even stop his horse within a mile of the gateway. The young schoolteacher withdrew himself more and more from the society of Valley City. Hardly a Sunday passed in tho old days when be did not walk borne from church with Ellen Spencer. The girl now saw him seldom. There teons, was regarded as one of the moat eligible young men of the town. As to the railroad cimsing incident, that bad long been forgotten. No high er tribute could be piiid to any man than that, for in the village the aristoc racy was firmly founded on “family.” The elect were the direct descendants of the .sturdy New Englanders who had come to the region early in the cen tury, chopped down tho tree.s, killed Indians and made the wilderness to blos.som with white churches and red schoolhouses. Ellen Spencer was de.scended in the direct lino from tlie man who carried in the fii-.^t .surveyor’s chain through the primeval forests of Mingo. Strange stories w ere whi.spered about Grace! lU.s Maguire. The mothers of the country spoke of him as one who had obtained fabulous wealth by rob bing the mofind builder dead of tjieir golden ornaments. There were those in the village who hinted that no right thinking young man could occupy tho house from which old Poter Frobishei’ had been driven by tho chastening hand of Providence. Valley City was filled with uproar not long after this by intelligence of a most alarming nature. The news came that Gracchus Magnire had begun to drill a hole into the earth in the very mter of a circle of Indian mounds in ident joininjoining adj farm s and a colt broke bis E Behind the shelter of the tnrfed tomb.s, mysterious operations were con ducted. A skeletonlike scaffolding arose, the sight of which filled those who saw it with nervous apprehension. One day a stationary engine was set np neiir tho stnictiire and surrounded by a shed. A narrow alleyway, resembling a rope walk, was built between the tim ber skeleton and the boiler. Before very long tho farmers noticed a rope tight ening and sagging within the network of wooden briices. Sometimes a rod of iron rose fiom the ground and they heard a persistent drubbing sound. The patience of Mingo county could not further go. A mass meeting was held in tho town hall one night which resulted iu a committee being sent to the gates of Moundmere. A mastiff “ to prote.“t against your historic Wright, spokesman, disturbing 1 race and thus this peacetul have already ed from the I cause he desecrated tho tomb of an an cient people. \We ask you in tho name of humanity and in the name of all th in g s of good report to abandon the ’es of a prehis iging misfortune upon ling community. We Peter Frobisher tnrn- hoine of his forefathers be drib ; opi'rations. Whether yt iron or trinkets of gold, no good can come to you or to us by such an impio is quest.” To which Gracchus Magnire replied in rhetoric equally well balanced tl were carried on day and night. When the sun shone, the curious saw the whirling rope, and in tho evening a glow hung over the engine shed. Gracchus Magnire stood at the base of the skeleton of timbers one evening in June watching his workmen at their task. He was thinking of the thonsand.s of dollars which he had sunk in a hole in the ground and of the returns which had yet to come. Maguire was aroused from his reverie by a shout. The man who twirled the handle of the rope seemed like one pos sessed of an evil spirit. He had served his time as a driller in the days when Pennsylvania was covered with der- ^'^^Bail!” he cried. “Get out of the Magnire stepped back. A thin stream of black slime flowed from the iron c y l inder as the valve of the boiler was loosened. “It’s the proper shale,” growled the tool dresser, who had ju s t come from his forge. The drill it wooden braces c )und. Held by the ri his hands before his face. “Draw that fire!” he yelled at ( of the helpers. “Draw that fire, j The helper irresolutely grasped tl shovel and started to tho furnace doc His eyes were fixed upon the swingii eyes were I. He took fed upon th e swinging ipther look at the der- i fast as his legs could :y him. Gracchus Maguire picked up the shovel which the man had dropped in his flight. “Look out!” he heard the driller say. The voice seemed to be that of one who was miles away. There were a loud report and a flash of light. Over the mud and slime a yellow trail sped from furnace to derrick. From the well dart ed a tongue of flame. A thing of fire rolled over and over and fell into the shallow creek back of the mounds. Gracchus Maguire, when he recovered consciousness, was lying in a spare room of Moundmere swathed in band ages. Through the small paned win dows shone a brilliant light which il- teachcr. “ Where is the fire?” asked Maguire. Then the occurrences of tho night crowded hack upon him. He looked out toward the meadow. He saw a shaft of flame quivering into the air for 100 feet. It sprang above the top of the burning derrick. The structure toppled aud fell hlaziiig to the ground. It lay there hissing and writhing. Around tho burning well swarmed Valley C ity 's volunteer fire company. A stream of water bad been turned upon the flam ing jet. The driller aud Ilia niiitps were trying to porsnacle the firemen t h a t th e ir work would be of no “Fools, foclsl” muttered Gracchus Magnire. “ They might as well try to stop the progress of a man who has ail.” I painfully in his bed. In ; fire ho saw a dull rod d by a dilapidat G faces of the idi( that .shaft cf building, surrounded fence. He beheld the faces of the idiots and the epileptics with whom he had spoutpout hisis childhood.dhood. Theyhey fadedaded away.way, s h chil T f a and Ins gaze fell upon a ragged boy bending over rows of young corn. He saw the. face of‘ a white haired man whoso smile was gentle and whose look was kindly and benign; then a youth sleeping beneath the counter of a dry goods store. The print laden shelves disappeared. Ho beheld a congregation coming from a littlo white church. There were grave faced women in aliutca gowns and men in suits of shiny broad- “Ho’s not family, you know,” they seemed to-bo .raying. Then there ap peared a pretty girl, a Marguerite with hynniiil and golden braicls. She smiled at him and passed on. Maguire leaned his head upon his hands nnd looked fixedly a t the darting jet which to him meant riches, pros perity and power. The sullen roar of the gas was to him the sweetest min strelsy. Then there came to him an over whelming sense of guilt. Ho saw before him the imago of a m a n whom he had “I iiave reached the goal,” he said, but at what a cost! All these years I have worked that I might ask her to be wife of a man who had obscured n by succe.ss. Today I am a sight and iu the sight of Go^!”’ orignn He remembered now that while he had toiled and planned she had grown fnrtlier away from him. He seemed to bear again the words wliich Ellen Spencer had spoken to him months ley were stanning beneath tl ing. “ Till re are times when I fe you forget that there is no true gained at the sacrifice of the highest In the light of tho.se words all his leasonaiig became l)ore sophistry. W hat if ho li.'ul agreed to give Peter Frobisher 'aliTO of his land and of th e de- he full va: erted lion i By whose plol fallow ground am bisber would have laughed a t him had told him Unit the farm might be an Ohio Goleondii. Even the state geol- ogi.st had .sneered and told him that the stratification of Mingo county’s rocks made his belief utter foolishness. ■Whether the rock strata .would per mit it or not, Gracchus Maguire had Staked everything on his belief. Every cent he had in the world, every cent ho could borrow, bad been gunk in a he in the earth. “la m further from real success,” said Gracchus Magnire, “ than the end of that tube in the ground is from the pure air and tho sunshine.” On the edge of the group gathered about the well he saw a carriage. Two women walked path toward the recogniz ' mother. Gracchus Maguire leaned forward and took a letter iiad from the table. With bandaged fingers be painfully wrote. It was a brief message—a few lines linddled together with a baiting signature at the end—yet they made the man who wrote them thousands of dollars poorer than a pauper. He direct ed the note and settled back upon the ^ “ Miss Spencer wishes to speak you,” said the negro man servant t entered the room. “ I will see her,” said Maguire. “ Take this note to Mr. Frobisher and lose no time about it!” T h e door opened a m o m e n t later and Ellen Spencer entered. “I am not worthy that you should see me,” said Gracchus Maugire. “I drove an old man from his home that I -night gain the riches which lay cdy atone ed the op spirit, who exiled : have tried to make ment. I have j u s t : tion on this farm.” “It seems like a dream to me,” said the girl. “I only knew that you bad done wrong—that you were with a temptation. I could your face, in your every act. “It means, ” replied Gracchus Ma guire very slowly, “ that if I had not surrendered all claim npon this land to day I might be a millionaire and not a beggar. It was to win a woman whose family despised me because I was a foundling that I struggled for riches and power. Do yortknow h e r?” “You do notl” repied the girl. “If you did, you would have felt she not capable of caring for a man m on account cf his-success.” mndmere as indreds of der- 0 its mind the day when the telegraph carried the news to the whole world that two pros pectors, by the names of Frobisher and Maguire, had discovered the greatest reservoir of natural gas which drill had ever pierced. To me every derrick is eloquent of the secret of Moundmwe, and his wife, whose name w John Walker Harrison in New York Herald. ________ | ______ _ ARE MADE OF GRAPHITE. first thing to be said about lead s is that they are not lead pencils Once upon a time sticks of lead ised for making marks on paper ___ - ood, and the name has survived, though now adays all the pencils are filled with graphite, or plumbago. This mineral is found in only a few places in the world—in Cumberland, England, ’■long the Laurentian ranges in the rovince of Quebec and at Ticonderoga, t. The largest mines on this conti- ent are a t the latter place. The graphite is taken in the lump from the mines and carried to the re ducing mill, where it is ground or pul- eing mill, v ---- •ized in stamp mills undi ides of graphite float ____ __ ..ater through *a num b e r of tanks, collecting at the bottom of these reservoirs. It is packed in barrels in the form of dust and sent to the factory, where tens of thousands of lead pencils are turned out every day. The pulver ized graiiliite is so fine that it really is a dust, dingy in color and smooth and oily to the touch. It is divided into va rious grades of fineness by floating it on water from one tank to another. The coarse dust sinks to the bottom of the first tank, the next finer to the bottom of the second tank, and so on down the being ground together between stones, and the hardness of the pencil is secured by increasing the proportion of clay in the mixture. For the medium grades seven parts by weight of clay are mixed with ten parts of graphite. After the graphite and clay are ground together the mix ture is put in canvas hags and the wa ter is squeezed out under a hydraulic press, leaving a mass the consistency of putty. The plaster is placed in a forming pre.ss, wliich is a small iron cylinder, in which a solid plunger or piston works up and down. A steel plate having a hole tho size and shape of the “lead” is put under the open end of the cylinder, aud the plunger, pressing down, forces the graphite through tho hole, making a continuous thread of wire of graphite. As long as this thread is moist it is pliable, hut it becomes brittle when dry, so it is han dled rapidly. It is cut into three lead lengths, straightened out and then hardened iu a crucible over a coni fire. The leads when taken from the cruci bles are ready for the wood, which is pine for cheap pencils aud cedar for more expensive ones. When tho strips of wood are received at the factory, they are run through a machine which cuts iu each one six grooves, round or square, and at the same time smooths the face of tlie wood. The filling of the strips is done by girls. The first one takes a grooved strip of wood in her left hand and a bunch of leads in tho right. She spreads the leads out fan shape, and with one motion she fills the six grooves with leads. Next to her sits another girl, who takes the filled strips and quickly and neatly lays on another grooved strip which ha,s just been coated with hot glue by a third girl. The filled and glued strips are piled upon each othei and put in a pi-e.8s, where they .-ire left to dry. The ends of the strip are evened off under a sandpaper wheel, and then the strips are fed into a m a chine which cuts out the iiiflividual penciLs, sliapos them and delivers them smooth and ready for tlio color and polish in sis stream s. The coloring is done w ith liquid dyes, after which the pencils’ are sent through th e v a rnishing m a chine.— School and Home. His Great Sorrow. “ Hard luck!” groaned the fashion ably dressed young man on the hotel divan, shifting his feet to the rungs of the chair opposite. “Hard luck—that’s The young fellow a t his side, in like attire, kept sympathetic silence. “ Yes, if it hadn’t been for my tough luck, I ’d have all sorts of money,” he went on, pulling his hat down over his eyes and sending a puff of cigarette smoke up against its brim. “I was dead solid with a pretty little girl—cashier in one of the, big hotels. She wanted to reform me, make a man out of me, she said. Tw ice I came in to see her when I wasn’t steady on my feet, and .she told me that if she ever learned of me getting too much again it would be all day between us. Well, one night I dropped into the hotel when I couldn’t tell tho floor from tho ceiling. She hasn’t .spoken to me since.” “ Can’t see anything so bad about that,” commented the friend. “There are lots of others. ” “ Yes, hut”—the young man was shaking lii-s head and his voice was sor row ful— “ b u t i t w as ju s t the next week that an old uncle died and she came in for a cool $G0, OO l . Again the young fellow a t his side kept sym p a thetic silence.— Chicago Journal. Poison In tbe Blood of tlte Bel. It has been known for years that the minutes. This discovery was: ------------- ten years ago by two Italian brothert name Mosso. The poison is readily de stroyed by heat and by mere lapse of time, wherein it differs from a snake poison, which long retains its virulence. Moreover, eel serum is harmless when taken with food, it invariably succumbs I processes of digestion. If serum . animal that has been to the process! he taken from THE TRPKK JUGGLEK BILLY SKAGGLY'S BAGGAGE SMASH ING AT PRAIRIE JUNCTION. How n Brolvon ITnnfUe on One Triinlc Cniised nn Accident Tliiit Biulcd Hi*# Them Over” Transfer System at That Station. “ It has always seemed to me that about the slickest thing in the way of trunk juggling that I ever saw, ” said an old railroad man, “ was something that a baggageaggage manan named1 Billyilly of the station a t an angle B Skiig- alled Prairie a b m gly used to do a t a p Junction on the M. N. and T. road. Billy was running then on the old G., X. and Q., which was at that time an independent line, but practically a branch of the M. N. and T. coming in at Prairie Junction, running along back of the station a t an angle and striking the M. N. track 100 feet or more to the west. This inclosed a sort of a V shaped open space, like a V lying down flat, be tween their track on one side and the station and the M. N. track on the oth er, the widest part being hack of the station. This part was planked over from the station to the G. X. track, Q. a man used to roll a baggage truck across this platform to the baggage car, and they’d get the baggage out on it, and then he’d roll it back across the broad platform to the station. “ T hat’s the way they were doing there before Billy came—the way they do it under like circumstances every- where. But Billy said that was all a waste of time, labor and trouble, and ho soon put into operation hero a trans fer system of his own by which he easi ly put the trunlcs over alone. “ The trains on tho G. X. used to halt with the baggage car right back of the rear door of the station. From the door of the station to the door of the car was maybe 50 feet. Billy could throw a trunk as far as any other man I ever knew—I don’t know hut what farther. But he couldn’t throw a loaded Saratoga that distance, and what he used to do was to hound ’em over. He made fast in the middle of the platform a thick rnhbor cushion about as big as a doormat. “ Where be learned how to do this or had I don’I how he got the si know. He may hai ! had a run sonie- there was a iilat- where before where there was a filai form like that to cover, or it may h that ho invented the system to meet this situa and then practiced up somewhere with a blank till he could hit the mark, hut certain it is that he conld .stand in the door of his baggage car and throw a trunk in such a man ner that it would land with one corner on the bouncing pad aud hound up and on plumb through the hack door of the station every time. “I was running then on the M. N. on a train that stopped at Prairie Junc tion, and we used to meet Billy’s train on the bi-ancb, and often I ’ve looked out down back of the station, where the branch came in, to see \Silly bounc ing the trunks. After he’d got ’em started he’d keep two in the air all the its arched s usual, som e thing happened. “Billy pulled down from the stack in he car one day and rolled along on its end to the ciir door a big, massive trunk, marked ‘Snakes; Handle Witli Care. ’ Billy had seen the words ‘Handle W ith Care’ before, and ho had also heard of trunks being marked ‘Snakes,’ ‘Dy namite’ and that sort of thing, and so the marks on this massive trunk did not impress him strongly. He hustled it along to the doorway, seized it by the handle, lifted it and launched it through the air. “Very likely this was the first trunk th a t Billy ever missed the m a rk w ith, and I don’t suppose he’d have missed w ith th is one if the handle h a d n ’t broken just as he let go of it, but it mi.ssed the pad by about an inch and a half and came down on the hard platform with a bang that busted that corner wide open. Even as it was, the trunk bound ed well up into the air. It bad rubber knobs on its corners to protect it and the plank it struck on was springy, hut it didn’t hound toward the station dcor. It was deflected at another angle, and as it ro.se snakes began dropping out of its busted lower corner. “A man, who could easily have got out of the way but for the fact that he was sort of fascinated by the sight of 3 falling snakes, was knocked do ; and had his ”l^g by the flying t broken. This accident broke up Bill; transfer system at Prairie Junction. The super said they were proud of Billy as a baggage tosser, hut that that one mishapishap hadad cost ’emem i\ —e h cost ’ in on way and other more than the hire of a man to carry the baggage across would cost them for five years, and the first thing I knew the bouncing pad had been taken up and the man was back with the baggage truck, roiled up in front of the baggage car door in the old familiar way.” —Chicago Inter Ocean. Genuine Hospitality’. mericans, even though ation on ei nation on earth, might well take a lesson from the Russians in regard to the respect they pay a letter of introduction. The English send word vhen you can be received, and you pay lach other frosty formal calls and then .5 o ’clock tea are asked to 5 o ’clocl wildly exciting function of some other similar im portance. The French are great sticklers for etiquette, h ut they are more sponta neous. and you are asked to dine a t once. After that it is your own fault if you are not asked again. But in Russia it is different. I think the men must have accompanied my messenger home, and the women to whom I presented letters early in the afternoon were actually waiting for me when I returned from presenting the- last ones. In Moscow they came and waited hours for my return—I was mortified that there were not four of me to respond to all the beauties of their friendship, for hospitality in Rus sia includes even that.—Lilian Bell in Woman’s Home Companion. A Little Mixed. A woman went into one of the down town Lowell grocery stores the other day and, after ordering a number of things, said, “I need some sugar, but I am not going to buy it until the price comes dow n .” “I don’t believe that it will come down m u c h ,” said the clerk. “You don’t mean that we have got to pay that exorbitant price?” “What do yon mean?” “The price that was in the papers yesterday.” She had rsad the stock reports that sugar stock had taken a ju m p u p w a r i
