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Show USE SURPRISE TEST WHERE HURRY IS UNKNOWN Travelers NEW i I in Newfoundland Must Havs Leisure and Take Things as They Are Found. SYSTEM DEVISED BY RAIL ROAD OFFICIALS. or About Thia Time. do they call them ocean llnera?" she asked. They're getting new terms every day, he said, without looking up from the sporting page. I never heard It before, but an ocean liner is probably a hot one that isn't lnflelded well and rolls Into a puddle or something. She made no answer, hut when he had gone to business she phoned the doctor about him. At PERMANENTLY CURED. IS GREAT TRAVELER No Kidney Trouble in Three Years. Mrs. Catharine Kautz, 322 Center Four year ago Ilnd,,y Capt. Simpson Has Circled the 1 became afflicted Globe Eighty Times. with kidney trouble, and rapidly ran down in health. I suffered from backache and other kidney disorders and was languid and weak. I doctored and used different the "Round Australia Sydney, no better. Doan's hut became remedies SO World in Eighty Days," or times me Pills and for three cured round the world which is the more Kidney 1 have from kidney free been years Verne's record? Jules surprising romance has made us fa- trouble." Remember the name Doan's. For miliar with the former udveuture. ale by all dealers. 50 cents a bos. comNow Capt. Alexander Simpson, Foster-Milbur- n Co., Buffalo, N. Y. mander of the Pericles of the Aberdeen line ot steamships, has just perFORTH formed the latter feat. He has trav- PAPA'S POSITION SET eled no less than 2.0fi0,Mii) miles at sea, a record probably unique In the Explanation of Youthful Suitor That Doubtless Satisfied Father of Hia Hnimls of the mercantile marine. Adored One. All through his career the captain has remained faithful to the Abersaid the pale youthful Yea, sir, deen line; and since the days when he served his apprenticeship In their suitor; Tve come to ask you fur your old teak-buil- t daughter's hand. She is fair as lil and copper-fastenesailNations, lea, sweet as honeysuckle, tender ns a Ihe clipper. Queen of violet, charming ing vessel of 848 tons, he has witIs that Mary you are talking nessed some marvelous developments about? asked papa. In the mercantile service. Yes, sir. It is a mere formality, 1 When the Aberdeen llae began to this asking for your daughter's know, run steamers In 1582, Captain Simpson was appointed chief officer to thu hand; but we thought it would be ateamshlp Aberdeen, which waa the pleasant to you If it were observed." Mary's papa stiffened. And may I inquire," he asked, who suggested that asking my consent to Mary's marriage was a mere formality? You may, sir, replied the young man, simply. It was Mary's mother." Philadelphia Inquirer. 1 Our first Journey was made by train, Buys Olivia Howard Dunbar iu HarObject ! to Compel Trainmen to per's. We had nut yet decided where we were going, but in any case there Give Absolute Obedience to Orders was but one train to take, aud there Watchers Set to Discover would be plenty of time to settle on the Delinquents. the destination after we were once We made an unnecessary In the endeavor to lessen the loss of aboard. stir about on catching this train a United States railroads the raillife road roinpanlea, phrase that still clung to us because or some of them, it was advertised to leave at 8:45 in have devised a the mornlug. The lady hotel clerk, when we presented our case to her the system railed "the before leaving, in the nervous, night surprise and efftest. It imperative American fashion, gave us iciency In the sooLhing consists in sur- dubious reassurance. of the Newfoundlander, with prising a train- brogue man with the in- whom the upward inflection biguilies acquiescence in everything that is, we formation there is danger were told that the hotel did not serve breakfast, and that although it ahead when early there Isn't ami was possible that ihe truckmen (who a raft on wheels) might apthen seeing what operated pear In time to convey our trunks to he will do. The engineer or thu station, ft wua nevertheless not habit to begin work belore nine other trainmen their never know when o'clock. We did not succeed in altering the the teBt is coming. custom, and therefore left countrys It is an extension of the principle whereby a traveling St. John's when the train got ready w auditor drops Into a station unexpect- to take us, hich was not at the hour scheduled. But we were the only acand examines the agent's edly who travelers experienced any agitacounts. At some time the engineer It Is recogsees a signal set against him. An of- tion on that account. s nized that bound for the nobody ficer of the road is watching him from can a in be and possibly hurry, somewhere, but he does not know Newfoundlander enjoys and makes that If he brings his train instantly the to a stop he is all right. If he doesn't, the most of the social opportunities an elastic time table provides. he Is hauled up and punished fur dis- that We came to understand that an hour's obedience of orders. both in advance and in retard There is a good deal of opposition margin of the nominal hour is allowed by all to this new system in the railway discreet travelers. But If sociability world. Those railroad men who are we never got on a train without findmore interested in being dignified than some one able and willing to tell ing in preserving the lives of their pas- us where to get off, and following his sengers call it a Russian spy sys- advice if is the sociability There are tem," and dirty work. feature of the Newfoundland who If think that the railway service. Its others, however, picknicklng facilisurprise test will reduce somewhat ties are no less markedly agreeable. the annual massacre of passengers, it That Is to if you take a five hours' doesnt much matter whether it Is journey yousay, muy count upon spending called a Russian spy system" or not. three of them in waiting somewhere. In the past 22 years more than If you are properly equipped with a 1,334,900 persons were killed and in- picnic basket, you wander out into the jured on United States railroads. Dur- adjoining landscape and cat some ing one fiscal year alone that which thing, and later concede that a great ended June 30, 1907 122,835 persons charm has been lent to travel. And were killed and Injured. This is much stocking a luncheon bag shortly bemore than double the number killed comes as simple a matter of routine and wounded at Waterloo, which was as a handbag. In no boastpacking CspL Alexander 8lmpeon. 63,428. In the greatest battle of the ing but as a stimulus to later spirit, modern world, Mukden, 100,000 are neither the the tin opener, travelers, tint vessel to Introduce triple expanestimated to have been killed and cork-screnor the vacuum bottle, sion engines. A little later, while in were or 22,000 less than wounded, which are the chief requisites of command of the steamship Australkilled and wounded on United States railway Journey, was once forgotten. asian, he began to take an interest In railroads in the year named. Borodino tracing the trend and speed of ocean fa called the bloodiest battle of the currents, a hobby which has developed Race Life. for Thrilling nineteenth century, but only between To prevent a serious collision two Into so Important a business that the 70,000 and 80,000 were killed and United States government is about to Even the Messina earth locomotives, with several passenger bring out a new set of charts entirely Jounded. not much surpass the coaches, while descending the Jura drawn from his data. to on had the Alpa put speed highest United States railroad record for a valuable records, which now These aa some freight cars, which fill many bulky log books, had their year, for the official estimate there is possible, had broken away from the train soon 125,000. origin In a Joke. On one of his voyThe Russian spy system of the after leaving the station of Croy, were ages, nearly 30 years ago, a passenon the with urrific " was showing him an Ally surprise and efficiency test is intended descending train. A raceBpeed for life en- ger passenger to reduce this slaughter. had received as a rewatch he sued, which was watched by a number ward for After a trial of half a century, sending in the requisite numof alarmed passengers through the said Frederick C. Syze, trainmaster of ber coupons to an illustrated comwindows. One of the engineers felt of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, reThe ic paper. Jocularly rethat the train seemed rather light, marked that he captain would try to earn a cently, with the train order system, on looking out, saw the heavy can we say it is any safer today than and, watch also, and accordingly had the cars, detached from the train, freight tn the comic sheet manifolded at its inception? Hedge the system at great speed the steep coupon and dropped overboard In beer bottles about .with all the safeguards con- descending en500 yards away. The day throughout the voyage. ceivable, there are still crevices in- slope only communicated with hia com every On his return to London, Captain numerable in It where personal equa- gineer rade on the next engine, and both put was surprised to find that tion slips in and the collision. Even on full speed, and a thrilling run for Slmpeon reached of the coupons had many by conceding that the train dispatcher life through a snowstorm ensued. The their destination, and he was duly preIs Infallible, the figures clearly show locomotives won the race, for, on a sented with a watch. The proprietors that the system breaks down after the the freight cars stopped, of the paper also printed thousands of orders leave his hands; could he per- steep grade, to and were again coupled the train, sonally control them to their fulfil- which arrived at Lausanne before the coupons for the captain to use ment the showing would be much betduring his voyages. The results were scheduled time, owing to the great ter." astonishing and when he realized pace during the race for life. what extraordinary distances some of And he told how, when he was prothese sea messages covered before moted to train dispatcher, a veteran Fatalities Among Railroad Employees they were picked up, he decided to said to him: Figures show that railroad employees deal with the matter In a serious and Young man, always figure on some on or about tracks, trains methodical way. Every day a coupon engineer, conductor or operator doing working cars are exposed to a high was placed in an empty beer bottle, or engines some foolish thing with a train order accident liability. Of the fatal accl rorked down and sealed hy dipping that be has no business to do." neck in molten marine glue, which It is a sad commentary, he added, dents to employees other than station the hard. It was then thrown oversets In New trackmen and men. shopmen "on our methods that we install exnt noon. board pensive signals and issue rigid in- Jersey from 1888 to 1907, 93.9 per were caused Messages of His Own. cent, trains, by moving structions as to their operation, and When his supply of coupons had then have to stand behind a tree to locomotives or cars, while 100 per see whether the engineers iay any at- cent, of the deaths of station men oecn exhausted. Captain Simpson prepared a message of hia own, and the 58.3 per cent, of the deaths of shoptention to them or not. 95.6 per cent, of the deaths following was printed on a slip of paaud men describes about That, however, Just in English, French, Spanish, Gerthe surprise and efficiency test. On of trackmen were due to this cause, per man and Italian: one road the testa are made by the Of the total fatal railway accidents This paper was put overboard for the moveto were due 93.5 the rent, an per trainmaster and a signalman on purpose of traclns ocean currents. The or cars. finder tn please forward, statins when average of once in three months. On ment of trains, locomotives another the road foreman of engines The causes of accidents also show and where It was found, and reap a Just and a signalman make them about that a considerable proportion of the reward. The captains name and address at the employees were Injured because On another once a month. offices of his company were apthe or of their that own carelessness their period ia something like once in six The Just reward" referred pended. weeks, and the tests are made by the to used to consist of a copy of superintendent, division engineer, Froudes "Oceana." Railroad Fatal to Family. trainmaster, and supervisor of signals. Bottles have landed on the shores con On another the teats are made about The story of a family's fatal of Portuguese and French Guinea, on quarterly by several testing parties nectlon with the railroad was told at the roast of Africa, and. In fact, In arranged by the superintendent. The Torre, Devon, England, the other daj almost every quarter of the globe. tests have to be reported, which in- In an inquiry Into the death of have been picked up by natives, sures their being made. There are freight conductor named Hole whe Many who imagined they had secured a MonTc was killed by a passenger train. regular blanks for their reports. sealed beer botprize in the cari-fulltreal Herald. yeurs ago his sister was run over by tle, and their chagrin an drawing thn an express near Barnstaple, and losl cork chh he easily Imagined. A negro a leg; and 16 years ngo his father, In Sierra Leone, who picked up a hot Railroad Yards. Minneapolis' Improved who was station master at DunbiilL tic and did not receive the promised , Work that will cost more than near Bridgewater, on seeing his little reward, wrote to say: "I uni sorry to 000 and will enlarge the Minneapocadaughter wandering on the line and Insinuate you that the ropy of lis terminals and greatly Increase 8n express approaching, rushed to tlu Froudes Oceana wan not transmitted be will pacity for handling freight and both were killed. child to me. started this jear by the railroads. A bottle thrown overboard one day Flans announced last year, some two near the Cape of Good Hope was, Block System Reduces Mistakes years ngo. and others through Interafter a long Interval, found on the Much opportunity for cnrclcssnes vening periods are being taken up and now that spring Is opening the work has been taken away from the way west roast of Scotland, having. It Is Is beginning. That 1910 will witness station telegrapher by the InstaUatfn supposed, gone round hy the West Inthe greatest activity for years in the of the block signal system, whirl dian islands, until it was eauglit by the Gulf Stream and curried tn Its .Minneapolis tern. Inal field Is indl-- i prevents two trains, technically, the space lying between tl landing place. Shortly after Ills apalt d. two block signal posts. But iu on pointment to the Pericles, Captain of the serious collisions only the otlu Simpson threw- over a bottle when Pay of Engineer In Bohemia. 140 utiles from Cape Town. It block about the automatic signa day Kuilrnnd rngineers in Itohcinia vn:t washed (shorn five months later with his red lant-r- n wlih a salary of $182.70 a year, r.or the flagman at Ptirtthyha, in the Brazils, having which is Increased $40 00 every sec- hurrying down the track, preici'to' raveled cost lives 4,000 miles three mi: that collision a ond yi ar untiT the maximum. $527.50. to other passengers. many injuries is reached. t aiidgooiluosK.--I.eeIn IJ1M . Sin-per- j fellow-workme- $10.-000- be-ei- n r DEFIANCE ditwiM v It rauwii munv wnmi I irrrc s uuiOiiil IiihM h) I a Juxaiivc, turii lau ualluimr. Always l.ct p Imagination under either Man-h-- STARC- H-M oaaraa M nan price aat SUPERIOR OUAUTVa only IS ouncaa a DEFIANCE" IS con- W. N. U., trol. Sslt Lske City, No. QL SCM d out-port- Sarsaparilla Leads all other medicines in the cure all spring ailments, humors, loss of appetite, that tired feeling, paleness and nervousness. Take it. A Dye That Will Color any Fabric. Mra. 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