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Show THE BEAVER .... Alitor W, U Klssrlck, MILFORD t Manager. SUCCESS OF RAILROAD OF TELEGRAPHY. UTAH Spring, bless her, sba likes. may the rhubarb the strawberry shortcake. Make room for aa Graduates Found Capabls of Taking Poaitiona of Rsaponaibility After a Few Month of Really Prac-- ' tical Training. far as Me and AliKLY, i ml cii almost never, is it of any use for a man to a proposal of marriage k mb ice as to Imw lie shall iiiana-rto the woman of hi choice. Hooks of ctiiiicttc, with formulas for every occasion; counsel from obliging and deeply interested friends, however alike are of little or no avail to "him who lacks a tongue. Shyness is, above all, a true of characteristic love, and the inan who Jistiiiguii.liing has most cause highly to esteem himself is often the one who is most dilliileiit, alio will stammer und Mush like a bashful school lay in the presence of the woman whom he believes to the paragon of her sex and who all the while, if the truth were known, may be longing to help him out with his faltering tqieecli. were it Kissible, to know how many, or rather It would In; how few of the men who have learned proposals by rote, who have rehearsed attitudes before a mirror, who carefully have prepared tfiemselvea in advance fur the occasion, have carried out their preconcerted plans. When the time comes the chances are that all previous preparations will be wholly forgotten. The lover will he mute as a fish or blurt out his love after a fashion of his own, more sincere than rhetorical. An offer of marriage which would do to be phonographed would be too fine to le true. Avowals of love which slip glibly from the tongua is practiced in the art of courtship in fact, that suggest that tlie he has been there before. To a timid lover and most tme lovers are timid popping the question is a terrible ordeal, even though he is reasonably sure that his beloved one has made up her mind to accept him; he approaches the final business of formally proposing marriage agitated , and nervous to a degree. It is come to think about it, but there few to modest and tender hearted young a 4ire things inure terrifying man than asking the girl of his heart to wed him, excepting, indeed, the second part of the transaction, asking papa, which, by the way, it ia said, the girl of the period does much to make easy. It lias been said that as no two men eat alike so no two make love in precisely the same manner. Usually tlie man conforms to the disposition of the woman whom he loves. There is just one rule which all men should follow : He explicit. The woman who loves will not need to be told how best to say yes." Tlie vacillating woman has no right to allow a man to propose to her and accept him she cannot make up her mind to temporarily tell him the truth. There perhaps may be cases where n woman is justified in accepting a suitor for whom she only feels sincere liking and resiwct, provided she is frank with him and lie is content, but the woman merely because sho is tired of saying no mukes a grave mistake, for which she is sure to I?t your yed be yea and your juiy dearly later on. nay nay, for what is more than these comcth of evil. I When It saw the colonel the Sphinx silent. remained discreetly Girls' names written on exits are turned out of mid storage front one to three years old. c.H.-riciicel- Simian dinners are still popular In the New York smart set and some of them cost 10t) per plate Paris has a "ham and Iron" though ham and diamonds would more appropriate combination. fair, be a Japan Is taking an Intereat In baseball. which seems to assure a cordial understanding beyond question. Bay. not the young man's fancy lightly turn to thoughts of love? Spring millinery bills do not embitter Why should bis dreams. science has achieved an Into take the picture of beating hearts This ought to make effective exhibits In love pleadings. Now sH-uko- vention A celebrated oculist says that people seldom see things as they are. Particularly Is thla true when they look at schemes. who was run down Is suffering from a New . York men street without So Impetuous are the members of tbs Hungarian chamber of deputies that they began burling book and Inkwells without waiting for tbs machine. As a matter of fact man is not In rebellion against buttoning up his wife's waist In the back. He likes anything that proves ha is a convenience about tbe house. One good thing about the gaseous of Halley's comet, which Is long, polled d to envelope the earth before is that we shall not be com to get It through a meter. says that a war between this country and Japan Is Little does he realize, the strength of the Imaginations of some of our speakers. Count Komura after-dinn- er New York gave away a car load of babies to New Orleans people the other day. This corroborates the old saying that generosity consists In giving sway something which we do not wsnt ourselves. Sailing of the Mauretania was delayed half an hour by the nonarrival of soma cans of cream. We are surprised to learn that the Mauretania does not have among Its attractions a cowpasture and creamery of Its own. The appendix, thinking the human race has not enough trouble of Its own Just now, has started to make more by Inventing for Itself s new and Thla dlseaae the exclusive disease. doctors have agreed to call "appendicular gastralgla." and there Is smnll doubt that those who wish to keep strictly up to dnte will contract tt without delay. Indeed, appendicitis may go quite out of fashion. I r Ixt-aus- movin- tall , qui-cr- Economists who declare there la now too much gold will not exert any noticeable Influence on the enthusiasm of the man with a mining prospectus. broken shoulder. should never go on the their nursemaids. A few year ago Y. Headrick of tbe The Idea of running Instruction trains for the benefit of farmers ap- pears to be growing In popularity. One of these trains. In charge of the state sgrlcultural department. Is on a trip through New Jersey and the farm-erare flocking to the stopping places In large numbers to listen to the lecture! and wltncHs the demonstrations. The practical value of thla method la recognized, and the American farmer who wants to be up to date Is cntch-lnon. New Jersey evidently Is wideawake as to the importance of utilizing Its natural resources. a g The United States collector of Internal revenue In New York reports that the corporations are generally responding to the requirements of the new federal law calling for returns as a basis for taxation. Tills Is and shows a much better spirit than Indicated In many quarters at first. The best intelligence In corporate management Is beginning to realise and recognize that reasonable restriction and regulation are eqult able and In the public Interest, and managers are governing themselves accordingly. be Chicago telephone girls must over five feel high. Don't talk back to a Chicago telephone girl. Perhaps you who live in the larger cities mid who occasionally want a taste of something to remind you of the old home down in the country buy a quart of buttermilk from your milkman and think you are getting the genuine article. Perhaps you are, but the chances are that you are not. When creameries make butter they do not bother with working the milk; they, separate all of the cream by use of the modern separator, and leave the skimmed residue out of the proceedings. Hut buttermilk was too good a drink to lose, and it haa always been considered healthful. So when modern creamery methods began to deplete the hntlcrmilk stock efforts were made to do something. Uncle Sam has put the stamp of his approval on these efforts, and John Michels of the North Carol inn experiment station of the department of agriculture, has just finished a series of tests for making artificial buttermilk, and an investigation into the methods employed bv the creameries. The artificial product, according to Mr. Miclu-Is- , when cannot be distinguished from ordinary good properly manufactured, Here ia the way it is made: buttermilk. As soon ns the skim milk leaves the separator, there is added to it some good milk; this approximates the fad of natural buttermilk. To this mixture is added a large quantity of pure culture lactic acid bacteria, anil the temperature is brought tip to 0 degrees. Knough culture is used to make the milk curdle in about six hours. When the is above 70 there is a tendency for the milk to whey off after it has curdled. When thoroughly the milk is churned for 40 minutes in the h ioned way; this churning breaks up the curd clots and the same result is buttermilk that will satisfy most persons. Artificial buttermilk is sold at live cents quart in quart tattles and 15 cents a gallon in cans, although in some of the larger cities the price goes tip to ?5 and 00 rents a gallon. Considering both its food and tonic properties, says Mr. Michels Buttermilk may cheap ut ten cents n quart. re old-fas- jx-- r Many American girls would not he so fond of the switches and rats with which they augment their own tresses if they knew that the Uniglit articles have oiico liccn the long, (lowing queue of a China- man. J. Santa Fe railroad, with headquarters at Chicago, decided that there was a way by which the Santa Fe could be supplied with more competent telegraphers with less Vice-Preside- costly expert-mentin- Chinese never dispox of their queues while living, hut it is no breach of custom to sell them on the death of their owners and this is quite commonly done. They are taught cheap at home, nnd as there is no inqiort duty, can lie sold nr low The police, on medical advice, in the United States. Of course prii-estopped a Marathon endurance dance in San Francisco which bnd laated It they are fumigated, boiled anil dv.vl so of hours. One of the danrera seemed to bo in the best sanitary shape when they reach the American shops. urging himself to the point of torture, Their coarseness is against them and for this reason manv of the hut that did nut prevent the crowd In Celestials and partly the attendance from resenting the humane anight switches are partly the hair of the action of the police. It is the same incr si rands from the heads of casant girls in Frame. I'ussia young old story. Scratch tbe skin of civlll ad Finland. The two make a good blend and it takes an exjH-r- t to deter tatlon and find the human brute un he presence of the oriental elcincnt dernealb. s with profltable development haa proven the practicability of Kendrlck'a plan. One student of this school waa graduated at the end of five and a half months and was placed In a responsible position on the main line at (90 per month at the start He waa only 22 years of age. This could never have been accomplished by tbe old. Irregular method of allowing the operator to educate himself. Telegraph operators are, as a matter of fact, Some spend years In students' Jobs along the railroad before they can earn as high as $50 a month. The student at tbe Santa Fe telegraphers' school pays no entrance fee, but Is required to pay a tuition fee of $5 a month. Every graduate Is guaranteed a position at a better salary at tbe start than he could possibly obtain without the thorough training received at the school. At the end of six months' service, after graduation, tbe student is refunded the money paid In as tuition. Thus the student has received an education in railroad telegraphy, which he could acquire only by a struggling existence of several years, and it has cost him absolutely nothing. He has the advantage of a good education, which will equip him for a successful career la railroading. The school Instructions ronslat of straight telegraphing, preparing each student for regular line work at once, and equipping him with the knowledge necessary to get In line to become a train dispatcher and on up. When a student has qualified on the wire work and rules he Is then sent each day to some near station, where he works with the operator and station agent, gaining a practical knowledge of handling trains, selling tickets, and the freight business. Here he Is under the direct supervision of experienced Santa Fe employees, who are under orders to train the 1 student In the right way. There are a few other schools for the teaching of telegraphy scattered here and there throughout the country, but there Is no other school operated by a railroad as this one Is. AH work Is carried on under experienced instructors, who are missionaries In the Santa Fe promotion work among the employees. Constant vigilance is tne price of the switchman's life. Occasionally even constant vigilance is fruitless. Death leers at seeinjngly the safest moment. Three switchmen were standing on the front footboard of an engine puffing along about six miles an hour In one of the Northwestern yards. It was a bright, sunshiny day in enrly spring. There were no other engines within the radiua of a block, and the track aeemed perfectly safe, for a heavy zebra" had Just passed over. Suddenly one of the ties at a rail joint sank Into a slight washout, the engine left the track, and the footboard, carrying Mulligan, one of the switchmen, crumpled up under the front of the engine, which, after thumping along the ties for about ten feet, came to a atop. The other two switchmen had been thrown to one aide. Kxcept for the loss of a few square Inches of skin they were uninjured. Mulligan, dazed, with both legs useless. still had enough sense to crawl toward the light. Grasping the rail and dragging both legs, snake fashion, he appeared to his astonished companions, who hastened to pull hint out from behind (he front trucks. Then, sitting propped against his companion's knees, he watched the engine sink into the so It earth and speculated on the probable length of time It would have taken him to die had any part of his clothing been caught while he was under ihc engine. Alter he had fully recovered figured out just how long he had worked during the year. He had been Injured twice, and It had been just four days from the time he went to work after recovering from the first Injury when he was hurt the second time. In bath cases the margin between life and death had been narrow, and he had worked just one month, di-a- d n Forebodings. ain afraid Mrs. Film mins Is very " said Miss Cayenne. "In what respect?" "She Insists on living so extravagantly that her husband won't he able to pay decent nlimony." Washington I The Santa Fe does not pay pensions higher than $75 a month, nor doea U pay lower than $20. The railroad company believes, aaya Walter Weyl In Success Magazine, that It la precisely the more poorly puld empluyea who should be assured of a reasonable pension, since the men with higher salaries may be presumed to have saved at,.- least A man who something. earned $50 a month and had worked 20 years would receive only ten dollars per month on th Pennsylvania, but would obtain $20 on the Santa FC. The western road discriminates in favor of those who find it hard to lay aside for arainy day, and In esiieclally meritorious cases the board of Is allowed to add 25 per cent, ta the pension to which the man le entitled by length of service. If you glance at these railroad pension systems superficially, you may think that they do not pay. It seems as though the railroad company Is giving out and not getting In. But If you look a little closer, you will see thst the railroad is getting more than an The whole service has equivalent. Improved. The old engineer has an interest In the company; it is "hie' company. He puta a little extra zeal Into the work; a little extra Intelligence, a little more conscientiousness. If he avoids a wreck which might otherwise have occurred, he saves the company more than the whole cost of the months pensions. The morale of the force improves. That it pays the railroads Is shown by the fact that one railroad after another is adopting the plan. The plan of pensioning old employes is spreading through the entire glRtntlc transportation system of the United States. Bent to Nebraska Penitentiary fot Burglary Ha Turns His Cell Into a Workshop Probably Will Bo Paroled. Lincoln, Neb. From convict No, to Inventor and capitalist, from a narrow little cell in the Nebraska state prison to the head of an airship manufacturing plant In St. Louis is likely for William Howard, an Inmate of the penitentiary near Linsentence for coln, under a burglary. Howard, since he became an Inmate of the penitentiary, has perfected a model of an airship which he is sura will revolutionize air travel. The plana are In St. Louis, and patents are to be procured. He say a: "Howard, of course, la not my real name. That was the name under which I wai sentenced, and that it will remain until I am out of prison. I do not wish to give my right name, because It would be distressing to my relatives and friends. I was born in Missouri, below St. Louis, nearly forty years ago. Machinery haa been my bobby ever Ince I have been old enough to understand the use of tools. Ten yearn ago I took up the study of air navigation, and have been working on the problems at Interval! since. My plan is similar in some respects to that of Count Zeppelin, but I believe my model Is an Improvement. It is an airship combining tbe principle of both the dirigible and aeroplane, but radically different from that of tbe Zeppelin creation. Instead of being a huge collapsible gaa Fast Trains of the Future. bag for sustaining power, mine will In discussing the things needed to be k. rigid aluminum gas cylinder or Increase the average speed of rail- chamber, large enough, of course, to way trains, an official at a recent rail- correspond with the number of pasway conference urged strongly a de- sengers to be carried in the basket. crease in the weight of cars, and madr 'This gas chamber will contain Just an interesting comparison with bl enough gaa to hold the ship in air. cycles. A system of planes will act as the In a train made up of Pullman cars. It appears, the engine has to haul not less than a ton and a half of dead load for each passenger carried. On the racetrack the bicycle carries Its load, at an average railroad speed, on a dead weight of 20 pounds to the passenger. One hundred and fifty times as much dead weight to be carried per passenger on a railroad as on a bicycle! What the limit of speed for trains will be during the present century no one can tell at present, but with existing conditions more than 100 miles an hour hare been made over a short distance. Bridesmaids. Bridesmaids are due to brides' recognized need to have about them something old, aomething new, something borrowed, something blue. For where bridesmaids are at all old It makes them blue to see another girl married, and thus they can be made to serve a double purpose. Three times a bridesmaid, never a bride" is an old saying, but there's not much to it Like thrice armed is he who hath his quarrel just, it is true in theory, but not in business. If a girl means business, la other words, Is makes very little difference how many times she has been a bridesmaid. Bridesmaids are not a distinct speclea. Except that they wear bigger hats, they are much like other girls. Puck. Expensive Danger Signal. moat unusual danger signal was that used by a man named Stewart Dunbar, near Lake City, III., recently. A worker on the railway track, he was homeward bound late at night, when he fell through a cattle guard and his foot became firmly caught Hearing a train approaching, Dunbar frantically tried to free himself In vain, and with a match lighted the only paper he had to warn the engineer of his danger. The paper was a $20 bill. The train stopped a few feet from him. Dunbar was picked up In a fainting condition, the last edges of the bill still clutched in his fingers. A Friends Met Death Together, Two extraordinary accidents occur red on the railroad near Wigan the other evening, says an English exchange. A young mau named John Spencer was knocked down by a train outside the station. He was removed to the infirmary, but died before arrival there, diaries Donnelly, a friend, went, to look for Spencer's shoes on the line, Bnd while doing so he waa caught by a passing train and killed. The Beggar Part. "Your wife looks charming tonight Mr. Blinkers," remarked the hostess at Her new costume simthe reception. ply beggars description. "Well, I don't know ns to that." rejoined Blinkers, "hut It almost beg gared me." Long Service on English Railroad. Mr. George Sellars, who has retired 50 years' service with the Great Western Katlioad company of Kng land, traveled 3.370,0d0 miles during the 41 years he acted ns guard. after short-sighted.- Star. William Howard Perfects Airship Model in Prison. 4S02 six-ye- en-slo- g Mul-lign- The SUCCESS - new men. He followed up this Idea by estab- - ink-restin- It will be bard for Hermit to content himself with the sport of clam digging when he gets back to Oyster A New York man by a baby carriage c a.-- A Railroads Satisfied That the Expenditure cf Money Has Brought Full SCHOOL Returna. for tlie straw lioiir.eix Now g-picture PENSION SYSTEM IDEA WORKED WELL COUNTY NEWS Mexican Railroad Expanda. The Southern Pacific railroad ot Mexico has now extended its line in Acoponcia, 95 tulles south of Muiat lan. ' At Work In His Cell. motive power and also serve. In ease of necessity, to carry the ship upward. The propulsion will not be by direct gasoline power. It will be by electricity generated by a gasoline engine combined with a dynamo. Danger of collapse or other accident with my ship will thus he reThe gas chamduced to a minimum. ber can be made to sustain any weight deemed necessary, but it will be only secondary to the planes for powpropulsion and weight-carryiner. A chamber 200 feet long will probably carry 25 passengers. Count Zeppelin Is certainly to be congratulated on bis success, but except for my unfortunate arrest I believe I would have beaten blm in the Inventive race. I think I conceived the Idea in advance of him. Howard's inventive genius has not stopped with his dirigible aeroplane. He is preparing plans for an aeroplane somewhat on the lines of the Wright and Fa ream biplanes. A preliminary model has already been prepared. Not much attention was paid to the models at first, but Howard stuck to bis work, devoting moat of his time to his dirigible, the problem he started to solve long before airships were seriously discussed in this country or Europe. Howard has been an inmate of the prison since March. 1907, following his conviction for robbing the residence of K. T. Swobe. manager of the National Fidelity Company of Omaha. Before his conviction he Invented a marhlne which he sold to the An.erlcqr. Tobacco Company for $3,000. A mall box lock, invented by blm had been favorably reported by tbe Locks had played an government. important part In Howard's troubles The charge of his nnd successes. picking one and entering the Swobe residence and making away with several hundred dollars' worth of silverware, led In bis being sent to prison. g cigar-rankin- g Canadian Fishing Industry. The catch of fish in Canadian waters by Canadian fishermen. Including seals and all fih products, in 190S was valued at $2i 1 ",t.iK7. The industry required a IV!;!i:g fleet of 14,111 vessels. |