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Show Edward, you will take Helen Into iimiiimfflmnimmimnnifflmnimnimniinmmninmimmmimmmimiiiiinimiimniK a She was not pretty, but straight and strong looking, with deep, deep eyes and that perfect repos that goes with I perfect strength and Innocence. caught myself thinking several times during dinner what a veritable angel of rest she would be In a room. I wondered aa I watched Lsr talking to Dexter if they had ever met THOROUGH THE WHIRLPOOL RAPIDS OF IAGAR A JV pain-strick- iiuuuiuummiumiumiiuiuuiuiuuuiuuiuiitiuiuiiuummiiuiuiuuiammuuuutiiutul u 80 fir known, the first craft to paaa through the whirlpool rapid of Niagara with human being aboard waa the email steamer "Maid of the Mlat" on June 6, 1861. There were three men on board this boat, the principal one being Joel Robinson, who won renown by the daring feat . From that lime until 1883 no person braved the billows of the wonderful gorge. In 1883, however, Capt. Matthew Webb, an English swimmer of note, crossed the oreau and journeyed to Niagara, bent on swimming through the rapids. He attempted the feat on July 24, 1883, and lost his life. The death of Webb had a stimulating effect on people who love notoriety, and at once a numlier of schemes for navigating the rapids presented themselves, or were presented by people who sought fame and dollars. One such was Carlisle D. Graham, a Philadelphia cooper, who announced that he would build a barrel in which be could navigate the rapids and whirlpool. There was some little laughter at he thought of a human being rushing through the turbulent waters of the Niagara gorge Inclosed in a barrel, but all the Jokes rracked did not deter Graham from carrying out his scheme, and on the afternoon of Sunday, July 11, 1886, Graham surprised everybody by not only going through the rapids and whirlpool, but by going down to Leuiston, the full length of the gorge. Since that time he has made four other rapids trips in hla barrel. One of these made on July 13 last, when be Jed at the whirlpool. ' One of the results of Xfrahams last barrel trip waa to arouse the ambition of Mine Maud Willard to make a similar trip, the result being that Graham and Miaa Willard agneed to navigate the gorge on Saturday, Sept. 7. The plan waa to have Miss Willard make the rapids voyage In Grahams barrel, while Graham, protected by a life preserver, was to swim from the whirlpool to Lewiston, a feat never successfully performed up to that time. On the afternoon referred to Mlsa Willard and the barrel were cast adrift above the lower bridges at 3.58 oclock. Two minutes later she passed under the bridges, and at 4.04 p. ra. the barrel entered the whirlpool. It had been the experience that barrels and boats were captured and withdrawn from the pool within an hour after entering there, but in Mias Willards rase Ing beenAde on July 8, 1900, when in a boat of his own construction. On his ret An home after hla first exploit he conceived the idea of rebuilding hla boat In order that he might take a series of soundings close to the falls and also Ip the whirlpool. On this new craft he expended much time and labor and It waa in It that be made his next trip. The boat Is 21 feet In length, has an outside beam of four feet and a height of six feet six Inches, and draws nearly four feet of water. It is claimed to be the smallest steamer In the world. In shape it somewhat resembles a whaleback. The wood used in the construction of the boat la oak, elm and pine. The deck Is of oak and pine. The total weight of the boat is between four and five tons. The wooden keel has an Iron weight or additional keel attached which weighs about 2,100 pounds. At the port of Chicago the boat Is regis," a pleasure tered as the launch, and Nlsaen by the papers is al- full-deck- Fool-Killer- '' before. Two millions of peopls la Pennsylvania, and probably a million more who have emigrated from Pennsylvania to the middle west, use It in Even in cities daily conversation. like Allentown and Reading no merchant can be successful In business unless his employes are proficient In its use. On the troliey lines and In the railroad yards employes may be heard employing it constantly In social conversation. These men speak English well, but it is easier for them to chat in this strange dialect which Is governed by no rules of grammar. It seems that they are using it even when on duty, but the safety of the public demands that this practice shall be stopped, and the employes themselves will doubtless all agree that the Lehigh Valley railroad has done a good thing in Issuing the orders. Pennsylvania Grit. before. BY EMERY POTTLE Lord God of Tsars, thy contrite peopls stand To rendsr now thy talent to thy hand: Forgive ths meager Increase, Lord, we plead. Forgive the wasting of thy pregnant seed. Where wide, whits noons of harvest on us burn. Amid ths sweat of struggle we would turn And thnk thee for these honest, toll-wo- days. In songs of work ws give thee truest praise. TRAVEL UNDERGROUND. Loadoa'a Roads a Travesty aa Rapid Transportation The movement of the traffic in the city of London proper, the center of the financial activity of the world, la suggested. Although only a square mile In area, with a day population of about 300,000 and a night population of only a tenth of this, in a single day over a million and a quarter of people and 100,000 vehicles enter and leave its limits. The general street traffic Is carried on by about 200 miles of tramways, nearly 150 lines of omnibuses and 12,000 cabs. Internal communication Is also provided by two lines of underground railways, with suburban roads connections, and three deep-levTwo lines are operated electrically. under construction, six more authorised and parliamentary rights are nought by existing or new companies for thirteen railways, or modifications or extensions thereof. Most important of the existing roads for internal traffic WILLARD, WHO LOST HER IFK IN THE WHIRLPOOL RAP-"lD- 8. lowed to carry two people, which Includes the crew. Two deadlights, or windows, are set about eight feet back from the stem, one on each side of the engine room. The glasses are about four inches In diameter and of heavy plate, affording ample light to look about the engine room. The propeller la and 28 inches in diameter, quite large boat The Inteenough for a rior of the boat is divided into five spaces, one at either end for corks and the barrel wjudhot caught until after cans, an engine room, a coal room and and admitting of the greatest possibilities are the existing Metropolitan ana the District railways, with their extensions. Unlike the roads of later construction they are of the "cut and cover" type, brick arched and with flat roadbeds. Both lines of way are In a single tunnel, close to the surface, and at times In the open, the extensions being almost entirely so. These roads may be described as composed of an inner circle (or ellipse) about thirteen miles around, with outlying branches ! radiating and looping In various directions. At present they are unfortunately under separate managements, aa well as subject to running rights which Interfere with a reasonable schedule. The class system and compartment cars characteristic of lines, are maintained, while fares vary materially and in many Instances are almost prohibitive. The present operation is a travesty on rapid transit, says F. J. Sprague In Engineering. The Inner circle presents a service between the upper and lower halves, while with stations half a mils apart, and with no grades or curves worth mentioning, a schedule of only 11 miles an hour Is maintained.- The atmosphere Is foul from the use ot IN WHICH PETER NISSEN SUCCESSFULLY steam and the waits ars double what THE are necessary and ths delays are augNAVIGATED THE WHIRLPOOL RAPIDS THE SMALLE8T FULLmented by changing engines. DECKED STEAMER IN THE WORLD. four-blade- d, 40-fo- ot When I questioned I mt Boms of thy servants give thes back tenfold. The gain Is thins, no part would ws with- hold; And ws who bring thee naught. In silent pain. Let us return to glean ths Helds again. Lord God of years, thy grateful people stand To render now thy talent to thy hand; Judge thou our service In Its thought and deed; Grant us ths heart of joy, thy workers meed. Strategy. BY F. H. LANCASTER. ICopyright, INI, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) I could scarcely realise that It was Indeed Dexter Boyton who came back to me after that summer out of town. Be bad been auch a blithe, light- wedding ring around and around In a preoccupied way. "At Grayton," Dexter replied briefly. Gray ton? That sounds cool and comfortable. What sort of place la It?" "Oh, a little country place." "Without telephone bells or milk carta or cobblestones? I see. By the way, Edward, you will have to see the man about our telephone. It Is shockingly out of order." "What's wrong?" I asked, as relieved as I fancied Dexter was at this turn of the conversation. Why, I don't know. But when you called me up today I heard my best friend around the corner telling my best friend across th street that I was the stupldlst woman In town and couldn't see a thing when It was right under my nose. Such things ars calculated to shake ones talth In friendship and I really think the telephone man ought to sea to It. We both laughed and Dexter arose face. "Mr. Morton," he began quietly enough, "I am leaving town for a long time, perhaps forever. We had better strike my name from th firm." "Leave town?" I exclaimed aghast. "I see what you are thinking of. He moved to the window and looked out mechanically. Standing there with his back to me the poor fellow told mo all about it It waa neither love nor money. Until last summer he had believed himself an orphan. Out he was not Out In one of the western states d man serving a long was a sentence. He waa his father. He had seen him for the first time nine months ago. The question came stern and gray-haire- abrupt "You will agree with me, sir, that I have no right to offer my stained name to that superb woman. No love on earth could atone for or excuse the Insult" No, be was right I agreed. Bitter and bad aa It had all seemed there was nothing for it but to fill up the grave as best we could and go on. It was at this Juncture that Molly came In to see about a check I had forgotten to Indorse. "Gracious, what solemn faces," she Is the world coming to an laughed. end? Yes, my world Is," Dexter answered her. And then to my astonishment be told her the story. "Well upon my soul," Molly broks out Indignantly. I think you might at least let her have some say so la the matter. Here you have been making love to Helen for six months and you propose to walk off without a word! You men may call It honorable, but I call It dastardly. Take your hat, young man, and go straight up to tho house. Dont you dare to break that grand girls heart unless she gives you leave to. Not if you hare a hundred fathers In the penitentiary. Upon my soul. Edward," she continued as Dexter caught up his hat and went out' Here 1 have been breaking my neck for a year to keep you from talking In that forgeries and penitentiaries boys presence and now when he Is fairly safe from being embittered for life you must go to work and upset everything with your tomfool honorable Ideas." "Molly," I said with a gasp of humility, I didnt know, I do you think she will marry him?" She cant very well unless he asks her to do It. "Oh, he will ask her. I saw It In his eyes. Tm glad you have seen something." There now, dear. Ive been a blundering donkey. But do you think she will overlook that forgery business?" She has known about that forgery business all along. For my part I dont see anything so terrible about It I suppoee the old gentleman needed the money or he woaldt have taken It hearted fellow before he went away. Whistling over hla work, singing matches of operas on the stairs, smoking one cigar In two weeks and always ready with a cherry word. Now he went about grave, The same straight, steady look rat of hla eyes, but behind It something it hurt my heart to see. e, I pondered much over the change. Why bad his clear, flexible whistle become a monotonous dead level of sound? Why bad he ceased singing and taken to smoking lncessently? lightWhy, In short, had my care-frehearted boy leaped in one brief summer Into stern, unyielding manhood? Waa It love or money? to goi I assured my wife that It was money. "By my word, Morton," he said when I did It because I wanted to save the I followed him Into the hall, "that wife womof yours is the sweetest-soule- d boy. Let even the best of women suspect an that ever lived, and he laughed a wound of the heart and she will drop again In his old happy way. I did not dare to object lest I should th probe of her curiosity Into ths ugly hole until the helpless sufferer raise her suspicions, so Molly went wests with agony. away to summer at Grayton, leaving a There Is this difference between men terribly empty place In our big busy Ovrnu rrliM a Fiddler. The German crown prince promisee and women as regards the past A city. 8he was to be gone only a month, to exhibit the versatility for which hla man will bury the dead love, tramp but, ye gods, what a long one It was. I left Dexter in charge of the office father is famous. During the recent the earth down hard In the new-mavisit to Lowther castle the Earl of grave and go on his way. But a and went to meet her train a full hour "It Is before It was due. I hoped she had Lonsdale engaged a large band, which woman can never quit say was under the direction of Mr. Ham- dead. For the rest of ne- life ahe not run upon anything that had best be forgotten. However, It was ths next ilton, the senior conductor of the Lon- must spend precious hours trying to a be morning at breakfast befors I rememthat It may galvanise corpse. don county council park bands, and bered to ask her about it. played long programmes of music each love never really lies In a woman's Mr. Boyton? I dont remember that was know. I I But don't heart glad evening. The programme, It may be I heard his name mentioned. It never mentioned, did not Include an undue that I bad put Molly on a false scent occurred to me to Dexter. say that I was a proportion of German music. Perhaps shout friend of hla Possibly that was the In so own She was her pleasant with the Idea of remedying this omisbright easy way; talking politics and reason.a But oh, Edward. I did meet sion the young prince on the last evendear girl quite out of the orliterature whenever I Boyton such ing of his vlalt borrowed a violin from home with me for a dragged She is coming to New Orleans dinary. social evening, one of the orchestra and played Hanto attend lectures at Tulane and i that the dropby degrees boy began del's "Largo In very creditable fashping In of, his own accord aa he had made her promise to spend at least ion. . been wont to do before he went away part of her time with ma You will Go straight to the house. for that summer out of town. Only Ilk her I know. Honors Rasy. "Of course, I assented. Your taste Then with sudden softening. "Dont once In tho six months that followed She: "You know, John, you promised where women are concerned Is perworry, dear. A little common sens mo-- a sealskin wrap, and He: fect will save any situation. Shs will mar"And you promised to keep my stock"I flatter myself," she retorted misry him before the year Is out" ings darned, and you havn't done it" chievously, "that my taste Is equally And she did. She: Well, you don't mean to say good where men arc concerned. Didnt break your promise on that acyou'll I select you for a husband?" The Feahloeebl Frowmar. count?" He: Well, It's just this: I tried to stop her, but befors I left In these days of You don't give a darn, and I don't give Even tor the office I was so badly hacked a wrap. Philadelphia Pross. the subject of wrinkles Is one of that I forgot to make further Inquiries vast Importance and a new preventive concerning the expected gueat has been evolved. It Is called by th Of course Dexter came home with timionbli halMi and me that evening and I left him to find suggestive name of "frowner, "I feel hurt," the young lover reof a rather stiff bit of consists his Into simply the ran marked to the adored one. until way I parlor Why?" white paper about the slie and shape "Because all the time I have been upstairs to tell Molly. I By the way," I said after a little, of a postage stamp,, and having on courting you find you have been mak"Dexter Is down stairs. Its back a similar coating of gum. EsBut courts ing Inquiries about ms." Dear "Is hs? Helen Is are I pecially It Is designed as a preventive all think the style Just now." me, of Inquiry In. the parlor. I hop they havent of the wrinkles between the brows or said the fair girl. Cleveland Plata found It awkward. at the corners of the eyes; and la Dealer. I stopped and stared with one sleeve these places, after being' 'moistened, these should be pasted whenever one of my coat on. Wkil We Are Caariag Ta. Is about to engage In some occupation "Helen?" "Do you think you will marry that causes the habit of wrinkling." that titled gentleman from abroad?" "Yes, the young lady I told you of. At the fashionable shops of large cities "I haven't quite decided," answered Do put on your coat, dear. They may "frowners" are now as regularly on the American heiress. I am not sura be having an uncomfortable time." as almost any other accessories of sale In him canthe support I style to were to all appearances having the toilet. Many, however, prefer to They which his ancestors were accustomed." a very comfortable time and when make them at home, a proceae simple Molly Introduced them, shook hands and Inexpensive. It has also been fofind "Leave town! I cried. . like old friends. Spiders Tap Wires. by those who are Ingenious that it Is make a single bad break. The Argentine Republic has been did Molly "Ws were really getting on very best to cut them circulsr la shape decide to her been upon I had urging obliged .to put the telegraph line bewhen she turned to nicely," Dexter said la reply to Mollys Instead of square, as they leave lees of tween Rosario and Buenos Ayres un- her summer trip, Miss Ainsworth tells ms a trace when removed. Heavy writing apology. to-- attend lectures at der ground, becauxe on wet days the Dexter. Intends she that paper from which to fashion them Is summer last year, "Where did you electric torrent was dissipated through Tulane." ' available to all, and a little dissolved Ilr. Boyton?" th numerous spider webs attached to aimless' was gum arable will stick them on good "Why yes," replied Molly, wince. it saw Molly the I boy the wires. I be and will think. "It very tight. Montreal Herald and Star. her ly. pleasant looking at the fire and turning long-distanc- e, ten-minu- te - FOOL-KILLER- ," p. m., and she bad been floating In a boiler room. The corks and cans are tor the purpose of keeping the boat afloat in case of springing a leak and that they serve their purpose is proven by a recent test, when it was found that the boat would not sink evsn though full of water. Nlsseu's voyage through the rapids on Oct 18 was witnessed by 15,000 He left the Canadian shore people. from a point near the (alls at two oclock, and after cruising about in the still water for two hours, he floated Into the rapids. The pasaed through the rapids in tour minutes. Nlasen attempted to take soundings in the rapids, but the force of the water broke his cable and he was compelled to desist the pool over five hours. When she entered the barrel she took her pet dog for company's sake. When the barrel was landed the dog was alive, but Miss Willard waa dead. The day before Miss Willard's trip, Martha Wa- - Fool-Kill- PENNSYLVANIA er DUTCH. Ia Coaaaqaaara af a CoUIslaa, Railroads Taboo It. C. D. GRAHAM, WHO MADE A NOTABLE SWIMMING RECORD DOWN THE NIAGARA RIVER, geafluhrer made the trip and was taken from the pool alive. On Nev. 38, 1886, Sadie Allen made the trip In a barrel of different construction, with George Haxlett Later a Michigan woman went to her death In the attempt The latest venture of this kind is that el Peter Nissan of Chicago, who on Oct 12 successfully navigated the whirlpool rapids in a boat called the This waa hla second trip, the first hav21-fo- ot cigar-shap- ed "Fool-Killer- ." - Pennsylvania Dutch is spoken to such an extent In various parts of the Keystone state as to nave become an Issue that has created some feeling. Th Lehigh Valley Railroad company has recently offended some of Its patrons by ordering all crews on its lines to use only the English language while on duty. The order says that "under no circumstances shall Pennsylvania German be spoken," and It Is said to have been Issued for the reason that recently a serious collision nearly resulted because a conductor gave directions to his crew in this language, and a brakeman who did not understand It perfectly shifted the cars to the wrong track! As tbs rules are printed In English, the railroad officials are plainly In the right in Insisting that this language shall be exclusively uaed by ita employes while on duty. What kind of a language this Pennsylvania German tongue, which requires such an unusual order to be lasued to railroad crewaT It la a strange combination of English and the German dialect spoken In northern Bavaria. A quarter of a y ago it waa said that this was dying out and would soon Such prophecies, howbe no more. ever, have proved to be false, for It Is now spoken more widely ever aen-tur- bin-gua- tta Molly about It later on she laughed merrily. It waa on a raw, bleak day In March that the boy came into my private office with a queer drawn look on hla el MIS3 din- ner." de ss is |