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Show Gentle Woman Who is an Expert Machinist py diversion from tne humdrum and PETERS LIKES NOISE AND monotony of housework, and she enjoys it. She takes as much pride in GRIME OF A FOUNDRY. turning out a perfect shafting or set of pulleys or some intricate part of engine as any housekeeper wsuld IS A SKILLFUL MOLDER. an in making a good cake or, in doing a choice bit of embroidery work. Mrs. Peters can tire the boiler, keep-- i Can Melt and Pour Metal as Well as Ing up the proper amount of steam Skilled Workman Any and water, and can run the engine. Proficient Through And more than that, she could put it Tutorship of Husband. all together again without any trouble were it to be taken apart for her. .iwankee. That a woman is paya"Threading" a piece of steel, a job ble of the development of mechanical accuracy and speed at the requiring ekill equal to that of any man la fully same time, she does with as much exemplified in the case of Mildred D. ease as threading a needle for sew-- i Peters, of Rice Lake, Wis., a young ing, although the operation is indeed woman who, by her own desire and very different. love for machinery and tinder the In ' making a shrinking fit," where-- : tutorship of her husband, has become in a casting must tie heated to a cer-machinist. tain temperature to avoid bursting, a After three years of work in her job in which al! machinists often fail, husband's machine shop and foundry she has no trouble. This is a job that (known as the Rice Lake Iron Works, is common in all large engine works. Mrs. Peters has become so proficient As one watches her at her work he thai there is now no job conies into is impressed by the scene of the big the shop that is beyond her skill. She machines responding with surges and from can do anything, making a groans to the delicate touch of theso "shrinking fit" or "keyseating a cou- skillful feminine fingers. Since it has always been believed pling" to manipulating the trip hammers and other massive machinery in that good machinists must have a natthe shop. ural talent to lie able to develop the She does not take a back seat for skill successfully, it makes this vom-- ! an's work all the more wonderful. None of the timidity and fear that woman has. as a rule, around machin-- j ery, is seen in Mrs. Peters' conduct in the shop. She pursues the work with a confidence that is associated only with an expert knowledge of the business. That Mrs. Peters is the only woman In America with the pluck to tackle this sort of a business is probably true. She does the work, not because she is compelled, but because she finds real enjoyment in the handling of machinery. There seems to be actual affection in her gentle touch of the cold steel machines over which she presides in the foundry. It must not be inferred because Mrs. Peters har proven her adaptability to such a calling that she is lacking in the charms and accomplishments that go to grace womankind. The feminine side of her nature Is equally interest- MRS ' I full-fledg- ing. She Is a Full Fledged Machinist. any of the skilled machinists who work with her in her husband's establishment, Her knowledge of njachinery is not confined to the machine shop, for she goes into the foundry, which is an adjunct to the shop, and there can cast or mold anything in the line of machinery, even to the pouring of the eizzling hot metal Itself. in molding, which is regarded as requiring much experience and skill to prevent defects in the castings, she Is perfect. She turns out clean castings, which she pours from the heavy, hot ladle very steadily, as required In this class of work, if it he a thin plate to be poured fast, something that all molders look upon as difficult, and often with fear, she never fails to get a perfect casting. In handling brass, she makes those castings without difficulty, and melts and pours the metal herself. But it is in the machine shop that toer heart Is set, and the noise of the ponderous and powerful machinery is music, to her ears. It Is to her a hap i Possessing a good education, she can converse intelligently upon most any subject, and can play the piano and sing with considerable ability. Her husband declares she has the most perfect health of any woman he ever saw. He says her unusual labor has not tended to detract from her womanliness, but that her heart is as full of womanly tenderness and sympathy as it was when she became his wife. Mrs. Peters, when asked how she happened to learn tc work in the shop, replied with a modest smile: "Well, we had no children, and would get lonesome at home. As my husband and I always were companionable, I spent much of my time In the shop to be with him. I began to use a hammer and a vise occasionally and then I got to trying my hand at making things lust for fun. Pretty soon I found I could turn out some of the simple jobs that came in without my husband's instruction. Naturally, I felt an exultant pride over my achievements, and wanted to do more difficult things all the time. Now, my husband tells me I am safer in some of the difficult work than any other machinist in the shop." 1 Drift on Raft at Sea in Per I tor Eighty Hours Two Sailors Reach Norfolk, Va., After Terrible Hardships as Cast ways. Korfolk, Va. From Monday morn- ing at eight o'clock until Thursday as darkness was and starving but for three small fishes which were cast up by the sea upon a t of wreckage on which (hey rode and were divided and devoured raw, John Koerber evening following, drawing near, thirsting and Karsten Beratsen, seamen aboard schooner Nelson E. Newbury, of New York, (.'apt. Bernard, rode on a raft on the sea off this coast alternating between faint hope end deep despair, until the steamer Egda came along and saved them. The story, which they told simply, of their escape from death and the drowning of their shipmates, is particularly pathetic. They said that the Newbury sailed from Port Royal, S. C, for New York, with cargo and a deck load of lumber, that Ihey were becalmed outside for eight days, but on last M.mday morning when the cook aaid Ihey were off Charleston, a hurricane struck them, which, within 15 minutes, stripped every sail from the vessel. Next the deck load on the lee side was washed and blown overboard. Then the schooner dipped her stern end the cabin deck was washed away. Within a few seconds the vessel was turned over and all hands tried to climb over the weather side. A big wen came then and swept four of the six men off the wreck and the survivors, who never saw them again, believe they were drowned. Koerlier. who Is 27 years of age, end Bemtsen. 21 years of age, swam for about two hours, alternately In the water nnd upon some id' the three Inch planks of which the deck load was composed, or torn fan these by the the late three-maste- waves Finally both men, good swim mers. got atop of the cabin roof, and although the waves rolled over this for many hours, they hung to It until they were rescued. The cabin tablecloth, which they found hanging on a hook, an oilskin coat and a pair of overalls were hoist d Hughes and Hearst, Candidates for Governorship of New York NEWS SI Signaled with the Cabin Tablecloth. ed above the raft and were waved by the men. who also shouted and screamed when passing ships were Kilt'.:; .'earners passed sighted. them, some of ihem so close that they could see their rigging, before the Bfda came. THEY ANEMIA CURE Williams' Pink Pills the Meet Successful Remedy for All Forms of Debility. Anjemia, whether it results from actual loss of blood, from lack of nutrition Dr. due to stomach) trouble, or whatever its cause, is simply a deficiency of the vital fluid. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills actually make new blood. They do that one thing and they do it wi ll. "As a girl," savs Mrs. Jessie Fink, of 180 East Mill street, Akron, Ohio, "I suffered, from nervous indigestion and when I was eighteen years old I was reduced in weight to 98 pounds. I was anaemic, nervous, couldn't eat or sleep, was short of breath after the least exertion and had headaches almost constantly. I had a doctor, of course, hut I might as well have taken so much water for all tlie good his medicine did me. Fiuallv mv vitality and strength were so reduced that I had to take to my bed for several weeks at a time. I could not digest any solid food and for weeks I did not take any other nourishment than a cup of tea or beef broth. "While I was sick in bed I read of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and I stopped all other medicine and began to take the pills. Soon my improvement was very noticeable. My strength began to return, my stomach gave me no pain and just as soon as I begun to take solid food I gained in weight. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills certainly saved my life. I am now perfectly well, have regained my normal weight of 120 pounds aud I think Dr. Williams' Pink Piils are a wonderful medicine." These celebrated pills are recommended for stubborn stomach trouble, for all cases of weakness and debility, such as result from fevers and other acute diseases. All druggists sell Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, or they will be sent by mail postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. h h Battleship Connecticut, Built by Co"2rrmet, Put in Commission 'wy sentenced to be hanged on October 26 for the murder of the woman's husband in Kansas City. Major Ladd has reported to Govern-3Magoon that he had finished count-lnthe funds in the Cuban treasury and found that they totaled a little more than $12,000,000, mostly in Am- r (United states New natnesntn onnes-m- . ui.i With a skeleton crew of some 300 officers and men, the others having been ordered to Cuba, the first-clas-s battleship Connecticut, the only one of its kind ever built in a government yard, was put in commission at. the Brooklyn navy yard the other morning. The Connecticut displaces 1G.000 tons and is the biggest of battleships except the English Dreadnanght, which has a displacement of is. 000 tons. She was launched two years ago to a day, and carries an armament of four York 12 2d three-inch- , 12 seven-inch- , guns, eight eight-inch- , and eight one pounders, in addition to many small caliber guns. The full complement of men and officers, including the marine guard, is s..o. of whom 550 are yet lacking To drive her twin screws, the Connecticut is provided with ensines which cost $1,000.01)11. For six days they were run under severe test conditions and ihey worked perfectly. Not only do these engines furnish motive power, but they provide electricity for 100 motors in various parts of the vessel, by which all the mechanical work Is performed, such as the turning of turrets and the hoisting of ammunition. Electricity is everywhere. It lights the vessel and it transmits its fighting orders. From the forward bridge a "telatograph" transmits the actual handwriting of the commander's orders to every gun station and engine room in the ship, just as the telephone transmits the spoken order. From the two bridges blaze two searchlights five feet in dlamter, exactly twice as large as any seirchlights ever carried by a battleship before The wireless telegraph is aloft. Along her water line, over her engines, and about (he turrets, she carries shots like peas. Insteel armor, capable of tossing off side the water line armor In it Is a layer of corn pith cellulose. The officers of the Connecticut are Capt. William Swift, commander; Lieut. Commander Shoemaker, executive officer; Lieut. Commander Chandler, navigatiiur officer; Lieut Fuiiinwlder. ordnance officer; Lieut. Baldwin, chief engineer: Lieut. Yarnell. Cronin and Long, Midshipmen Ingersoll. Church The civil officers are Paymaster Hoopes, Assistant and Strasburger. Collins and Surgeon Tolfree. was attended with many difficulties The building of the l h Combating the "Lazy Worm." large district in the middle of Porto Rico, with a population of with the "lasy 100.000, Is afflicted worm." nnd official efforts are being made to Improve the inhabitants' condition. A hospital has Ucn established at Albonlto. with an endowment of $15,000, and will do what it can to check the ravages of this minute eptlle, of the existence ,f which the ld time native Porto Rlcnn never had the slightest notion. Lam year an American medical officer, ('apt. Ash- ford, treated 4,500 cas. ,lnd nearly all of them were cured As a re suit, the population Is aroused t much enthusiasm, and the a'Tllctod r A Men ARY Major Alfred Dreyfus has taken up New York. Chariot Evan Hughes, Republican noninee for governor of hts military duties as major of artil New York, first became generally known to the New York public in 1904, lery. when as counsel for the gas investiThree persons were killed and gating committee in New York, he twenty Injured in a railroad accident wrung from officials of the gaa and at Eperson F ranee. a vast electric light companies in a ehcrt amount of information All the miners who were entombed 'in.e and surprised the logicians by as the result of (he explosion in the lis ability to grasp details of importnear Wlngette Durham, En colliery ance. was Last year he appointed counsel for the legislative insurance land, have been rescued. The dis committee. investigating Three children of Anthony Hughes closures which resulted from his quesat Flandreau S. D., were burned to tions put to witnesses In that investl-Katiocaused a scandal that was the death in a lire that destroyed a barn talk of the world, brought about Im- in which they were sleeping. portant reforms in the insurance laws Mrs. Lena Cowdin, daughter of and made Mr. Hughes a national fig ure. Mr. Hughes is 44 years old, has Bishop Henry Potter of New York practiced law since 1884, when he was committed suicide by hanging at 6 graduated from Columbia law school private sanitarium at Cromwell, Coun and has for some years been regarded as one of the ablest men in his pro Rev. A. E Kelly, promoter, of the from Beulah religious land settlement iu fession. Alter his graduation Brown university in issi he got an Dickson county, Tennessee, haa been appointment as professor of Creek at soon charged with using the mails arrested, returned Delaware academy, but CHARLES E. HUGHES. to New York. He was soon admitted to defraud. into partnership by the late Walter S. Carter, whose daughter. Antoinette. Bernard Duffey. who was convicted Mr. Hughes married in 1888. Then lie received an offer of a professorship at Cornell university, which lie accepted, filling that post with success for of holding up and robbing a man of 8 two years On his return to New York in 1893 he entered into partnership cents, has been sentenced by Judge once more with his father-ilaw. This relation lasted until the death of Lawler of San Francisco to ten years Mr. Carter, not long ago. Since 'hen the firm has been Hughes. Rounds & Schurnian. Mr. Hughes has been a member of the Republican party ever in the Folsom prison. since he began to vote, but he has kept out of what is generally known as Jackson Norris and his father, Geo active politics. He was nominated lor mayor of New York by t He Repubwere both killed and Joseph Norris, licans last year, but declined the nomination, Richardson was probably fatally shot William Randolph Hearst, "phenomenon in politics," has been a news during a quarrel between the three paper editor since 1SS6, when, after a short experience as editor of the Lam near Rising Sun, Indiana. poon at Harvard college, he induced Three Christians and three Jews his father, Senator George Hearst, of who were caught October 12 robbing California, to turn over to him the the offices of the firm of Friedberg, at San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Hearst Rostov-on-Don- . Russia, have been tried purchased the New York Journal in 1895, and started the Chicago Amerby court martial and shot. ican in 1900. More recently he has Lieutenant Robert B. Calvert, ol established papers in Boston and Los the Twenty-fourtAngeles, and has become proprietor infantry, U. S. A of a monthly magazine, the Cosmohas been killed by Sergeant Tayloi politan. He has served two terms in of the Twenty-fourtinfautry at Al congress as representative of the buera in the province of Leyte. Eleventh New York district, has made a spectacular, but unsuccessful, Ten men were burned to death, two campaign for president of fatally injured and anothet perhaps I he United States, and has come within a few thousand votes of being electslightly hurt as the result of a firt ed mayor of New York. which destroyed the boarding house He ran for mayor as the candidate of the Municiof Mrs. E. E. Watley at Birmingham pal Ownership league, whose platAla. form called for the forfeiture of The force of laborers engaged in lapsed gas franchises, municipalization of the lighting of the city of New the streets of San Francisco clearing York and a supply to the public at WM, R. HEARST, of under the direction Oi Pres debris half the price charged by the private companies. As a candidate for mavor he made as many as six speeches a day, encouraging the idea that his ejec- ident George Duffey, of the board of tion would mean cheaper and better transportation, better and more schools public works, has been increased to better wa?es, shorter hours, and lower taxes. He attacked "bosslsm" and tiOO men. "grafters," making a particular capital out of the insurance revelations then Lewis A. Geisler of Paulding, a se at their height, and appealed strongly for , the support of un:on iabor. Recently the Hearst forces organized the Independence leaetue, and that league nior at Ohio Wesleyan university at nominated Mr. Hearst for governor a few weeks auo. The Democratic state Delaware. Ohio, and right end on the convention at Buffalo indorsed the nomination. This will put Mr. Hearst's 'Varsity footfall team, fell dead of name on the ballot in two places heart disease on the field after running down a punt. A caravan consisting of forty camels, conveying German goods to Morocco City, has been pillaged, and Dr. Rosen, the German minister, has enw u. v tered an energetic protest with the nuiiupji Morroccan government. In a raid made by the police of San Francisco, five persons were arrested an the suspicion that they may have been connected with the robbery and murder at the Kimmon Ginko or Japanese bank a few weeks ago. Governor Folk of Missouri has granted respites until December 10 for Mrs. Aggie Myers and Frand Mott-man- , three-pounder- s IF you want to make Money send for my Illustrated Catalogue. Free to Bargain House of Chas. iihrerht. P.O.Box 164, N.Y.City. you. L Repartee Won Hearers. A good story is told of Frances Lady Waldegrave, who long since paid her debt to nature. She was a woman of quick repartee and many husbands. It was soon after her fourth rnatrimo-na- l venture with Chichester an Irishman, that she appeared in a Dublin theater with the brideFrom the gallery a man groom. shouted down to her: "And which iv the four do you like best?" From her box her answer rang out: "The Irishman, of course." And the Irish peopled house rang with applause. Eor-tesqu- e, Longest and Oldest Tunnel. The near completion of the Pennsylvania tunnel reminds the American IsrwMgit "f the oldest known tunnl. in tK'Ji, ,'d, that of Sliiloah, near J-- inscription, " Sr'anions .. V due coverec applying In great numbers for treatment. Heretofore the malady has been deemed Incurable. h Jewels Are Cheap. jeweler, no matter how dishonest, would not steal the jewels In a watch, for they are valueless; they cost only ten cents apiece. In antique watches the Jewels were often very costly. In modern watches they are never worth more than 16 a gross. W.-.tc- of the diggers from the nrstTn.-etin- g both sides. Newspapers did not appear in those days, and so the event cannot be exactly dated, but it most probably took place under King Heze-kiaabout 700 B. C, and is an interesting testimony to the high state of civilization among the Jews at a time when Europe was inhabited by savages. Round and Square Balls. years ago there was started t In Chelsea, Mass., a political organization, and after a few meetings it was decided that a ballot A were needed. box and ballots brother made a motion that a committee be appointed by the chair to procure the same. A brother who was always suggesting amendments moved an amendment that the committee be instructed to procure round white balls and square black balls. Another brother asked him to describe a square ball, which brought the house down and caused the mover of the "You think amendment to ejaculate: you are d d smart, don't you?" A few semi-secre- erican gold. The books balanced exactly Mrs. Topsy Logsh was held up footpads in East Oakland, Cal., and robbed of a small sum of money, after the men had seized a baby which she was carrying and threatened to A FOOD CONVERT. dash it to the sidewalk if she did not them money. give Good Food the True Road to Health. MacFadyn & Co., the London house of Arbuthnot & Co, bankers of MadThe pernicious habit some persons ras, announced Saturday that they had still have of relying on nauseous drugs been compelled to suspend payment. to relieve dyspepsia, keeps up the The firm did considerable Indian patent medicine business and helps banking business The cause of its keep mi the army of dyspeptics. is caused Indigestion dyspepsia suspension was not divulged. by what is put into the stomach in A verdict of guilty of granting rethe way of improper food, the kind bates on sugar shipments was rethat so taxes the strength of the di turned by a jury in the United States gestive organs they are actually crip court in New York City against the pled. W New York Central Railroad company hen this state is reached, to resort to stimulants Is like whipping a tired and Frederick L. Bomeroy, the com horse with a big load. Everv addi pany's general traffic manager. tional effort he makes under the lash A girl only S years old committed suicide iu Vienna, throwing herself increases his loss of power to move the load. from the window of her mother's Try helping the stomach bv leaving house into the street. The child had off heavy, greasy, indigestible food and an intense dislike of school work and lake on Grape-Nutlight, easily di- her mother had threatened to punish ested, full of strength for nerves and her if she did not go to school. brain, in every grain of it. There's no Judge Foster has denied a divorce waste of time nor energy when Grape-Nut- s is the food. to Mrs. Carrie Fisher, of St. Louis, "I inn an enthusiastic user nf firano. who claimed that bar husband went Nuts and consider it an ideal food." fishing every other Sunday. Judge writes a Maine man: Foster held that a mau had a perfect "I had nervous dyspepsia and was right to go fishing every other Sun- all run down and my food seemed to day if he did it in the proper time. do me hut little good. From reading Willie Hoppe, of New York City, an adv. tried Grape-Nutfood, and has again proved his right to the title after a few weeks' steady use of it, of the world's champion at felt greatly Improved. balk line, one shot in. The young "Am much stronger, not nervous lad was challenged by the veteran, now, and can do more work without .lake Schuefer. of Chicago, and won feeling so tired, and am better every at the Madison Square (iarden conwav. cert hall. "I relish Grape-Nutbest with cream The control of the commerce of the and use four heaping teaspoonfuls at Panama canal and the whole Missis a meal. I am sure there are thou slppi valley Is the Incentive for the sands of persona with stomach trou creation of a deep waterway which ble who would be benefited bv using Congressman Joseph K Ransden of Grape-Nut" Name civen bv I'ostum Louisiana proposes to Chicago bust ties Interests In an address at the Co.. Rattle Creek. Mich. Read the little book. "The Road to Wellville," in Brest club. here's a reason." pk'Ti. 1 A s s New Submarine Cable. submatine cable bus Just been laid from the Shetland Islands to Thorsluvn In the Faroe islands, bud hmien to Seydlsfjovd In Iceland. A j dis- - iv.. s Bay-mast- The M M |