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Show THE BLADE. Published Every Saturday at - - NEPHI, - , UTAH. THE DIRECTORY. TJ. S. Senators - ...... . . . . .1 Frank J. Cannon. Arthur Brown. t)elegate' to Congress . . . . . . ; .:. . J0 E. Allen. argued Marston," ought Bascom, "youeourse. to go. Of " yon are a bachelor of 50 "Touch lightly on that point, please, ' I of you as "Society might make a fad a viovelty. "And again, my dear Bascom. it said" Zane. W. Barch. Judges of Supreme Court.... G. A. Miner. J. V. Higgins. mightn't." . Judge Fifth Judicial District.. E. P. or inot, Senator, Seventh District. James Driscpll. does It whether "However, Adelbert Cazler. Member Lower House bachof of the Office Bryon Groo. wantyou to get out Registrar Land Office Frank Harris. elordom and go with me." Receiver Land Tou are very- - kind." COUNTY DIRECTORY. JUAB t Charles Foote "For a variety, old man. Will you Hugo Deprezin Selectmen A. L. Jackman go?" J. T. Sullivan 8herlff. "As I said in the beginning, I now .D. W. Cazler Assessor and Collector.... repeat, 'No, sir. Clerk and Recorder William Burton, Thomas Winn Bascom had been married for several ..Edward Pike Attorney T. C. Hanford years, and I had his frequent assurance Surveyor William Ockey that his entire married life was nothTreasurer Eustice Coroner John T. Miller ing more or less than a path of silver Superintendent Schools r . ' C. S. , jut . sunshine, through a golden garden of roses. It was a charming metaphor, but it fell upon unappreclatlve ears, for I knew that Bascom had written poetry in his youth, and. in addition to that, he was married, and I knew what all married men had to say to bachelors of matrimony, as they had found it. It was simply sugar spread upon an uncertain condition in order to catch" such unwary flies as might be attracted thereby. "Well, well," he said, "have it your own way. I am sure I can stand It if you can; but, say, will you join me over Sunday at my own house? I've told my wife about you, and she is so anxious to see you that she commis sioned me to invite you out for bun-day- ." MILLARD COUNTY DIRECTORY. (Andreas Peterson. - .John Styler. Selectmen.. . jjamesC. Gardner. . Holbrook. Bberiff ..O. . . . . . . ..Alma Greenwood. Assessor . ...A A. Hinckley Collector .Thos. O. Calllster. Clerk and Recorder.. . . Jno. M. Hanson. Attorney . . Willard Rogers. . 8u rreyor. Treasurer. ...Joseph D. Smith . . . Sidney Teeples. Coroner D. C. Calllster Superintendent Schools. . . .......... iron The fact that American bed- steads are being shipped to Jerusalem eught to make our iron manufacturers rest easy. Nothing was lacking to the home- eoming of the Marlboroughs save the presence of Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt and Bachelor or no bachelor, I could not Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. afford to be a boor, and to slight such as this was inexcusable. an A Nebraska man has sued a telegraph So invitation I began to hedge a bit. company for $2,000 because a message "My dear Bascom," I said, apologetiwas delayed so long it made him miss cally, "why didn't you tell me you his mother-in-law- 's funeral. Think of wanted me to go to your own house?" that "Well, It hadn't just occurred to me, I guess," and he laughed. It is never too late to learn. Mrs "Of course," I went on, "it is quite a attends 36, Lydla Blackburn, aged different thing to go there than to school every day In Chicago. A year go " ago she could not read or write. To "Then you'll go," he interrupted, with day she can do both very nicely. such an interest that I became susA Montreal florist is getting a great picious. "Are there to be any of the gay and advertisement. He has sued Queen Vic giddy throng about?" I asked. toria for $1,900 for flowers sent to a "Summer girls and such?" he restate funeral. The queen has offered to plied, settle for $900, but the florist still says "Mostly," $1,900 or fight. "Then Til be frank with you and say is not one on the place." there Lucinda Tucker of Kansas, who in these circumstances, then, I'll "Under vented the song, "Good-by- e, Old Party, BO' Good-bye- ," which inspired the popu"Good for you, old man!" he lists and retired Senator Ingalls, has me on the back. "I'll rescued her husband from drunkenness go and clapping telegraph my wife you will with a cowhide. come up with me Saturday evening." Then he went out of my ofllce to send Chicago messenger boys are to be his dispatch. mounted on wheels. As It Is a very It was about 4 o'clock Saturday aftdifficult task to remain on. the wheel ernoon when he reached his home in without making it go, at least a little, the country, three hours earlier than it is safe to say a noticeable gain in his usual time of arrival, as he had time will result. taken me out at that hour so we might have a little loafing spell before dinner, A Chicago madman created much ex and as the day was unusually fine in cittement at the opera last week In that the country and as it had not been city. The malady probably came upon pleasant in the heated town, I was glad him when he found that he had paid enough that he had been so thoughtful, $3.50 to look at a pair of puff sleeves i Jt was delightful under the big trees and listen to discourses on. subjects of of his dooryard he objected to calling such .vital interest ac the most sclen 4t a lawnand when he brought, out a tiflc way of treating a cold in the head couple of great, juicy mint juleps, and or the merits and demerits of detached we sat there browsing upon them I collar and cuffs for shirt waists. don't think I ever felt more at peace jwith the world than I did at that very Judge Wright . of Champaign has moment, summoned before him all persons who Later Mrs. Bascom a dainty j little have expressed contempt of the recent woman, with three as pretty children action of the grand Jury in indicting children can be pretty to a bachelor the state university trustees which is at :practlcally a call for a mass meeting of the entire population of the state, lun atics,"dumb persons and members of the grand Jury; alone excepted. ex-cfaim- ed, . j i 1 The common council of Omaha passed the curfew ordinance. The people opposed it and the mayor of course vetoed it. Then. Just for spite, the council passed t over the veto, .which act has the people. They enraged say the curfew shall not ring; and that's exactly what the boys and girls say, who are now trying to get an ordinance passed compelling aldermen to be home 9 p. m. ' " ; un-Toman- Bas-com- assisting. , , : ' ' length than any other country, 403,900 miles, and Russia comes next, although European Russia has only 81,000 miles. The other countries follow in this order: Germany, France, Austria-HungarBritish India, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, Turkey, the ArgenIn tine Republic, Spain and Chill. point of proportion, however, Belgium .leads with 409 miles of wire for. every y, square miles of territory; Ger- many comes next with 250 miles; Hol- land is only slightly behind Germany, and th-- United Kingdom haa 2S0 rsllea cf tclcsrajph fcr every l.COO miles eomairy. . r -- ' 7- v'-- ht v . no.-rig- ht contended warmly. "You have called a lucky turn and so has Hilman. Bui you have exhausted the supply. Now, If I could get such a woman as Mn. " But I stopped short, for I waa about to make a discrimination which was hardly complimentary to my host, and I didn't want to do that. "Go on," he urged, good naturedly. "I don't care if you say Mrs. Hilman. Anybody could see that you had a leaning that way. Even my wife wasn't as all envious of her sister." "Very well," I submitted, "say Mrs Hilman. If i could find such a woman as Mrs. Hilman, I am not at all but that my mind would not undergo a change, and that I could not be per suaded to throw off a few of the trammels of bachelorhood." Bascom let off a guffaw that not only startled me, but it shocked me as well, for I thought I had said something I should not have said. "What's the matter, man?"; I asked, much alarmed. "That's it," he continued to laugh. "What's the matter with Mrs. Hil, man?"; I was much more disturbed than ever at this queer inquiry, "What do you mean?" I asked, taking him by the collar. ."Why, old fellow. If Mrs. Hilman is your ideal and you think you could be happy with that kind of a woman, why don't you avail yourself of your opportunities and take Mrs. Hilman?" " Wha wha wha why why-- " I stammered, utterly upset. "Oh, there Isn't any Mr. Hilman, if that's what you are trying to say. He has been in the quiet churchyard for lo! these many years, and Mrs. Hilman has been living with us the last .twelve-- ! month, and I am positive that she is heart-who- le and fancy free, and, what is more to the point, she is just a little bit tired of living with us. See?? Possibly I saw, and possibly I didnt. ;' Whether r did or not, I spent the next Sunday with Bascomandincidentally with Mrs. Bascom and Mrs. Hilman. The next Sunday I spent principally with Mrs. Hilman. And the next. . ' And there are others. " -- was rather spirituelle and re tlc Mnalc as a Hair-Growe- es There ywas a very remarkable and Interesting article in McClure's Magazine a short time since, which I read with that pleasure which accompanies the perusal of a good short story; in fact, if I had any fault to find with the article it was that it was too dramatic, and too much like a short story, where a person wishes to keep the climax to the end, as some of our writers do, and so it did not seem so much like the record of fact it is reported to be. The article was entitled , "The Fastest Railroad Run - Ever Made," fand was written by 'Harry Perry Robinson, who is. editor of the Railway Age, and was one of the official timekeepers on the train. Mr. Robinson explains that the London & Northwestern and Caledonian railroads, from London to Aberdeen, a distance of 540 miles, broke the railway record last summer by running on an average 63.93 miles an hour. He adds that the English press "hailed with a jubilation that was almost clamorous the fact that the world's record in railway speed belonged once more to Great Britain." As a matter of fact, the English press did nothing of the kind; but that as a minor detail. My rememberanoe of the news paper articles written at that time in London, is that most of them were warning the companies that something would break one of these fine days, and an appalling disaster would be the result. However, that is neither here nor there; the fact remains that the greatest speed attained on a railway up to last August, was made in the race to the north, from London, the object being, it seemed, to get those who wished to engage in shooting in Scotland into that country as quickly as possible. It was not thought in London that the efforts of the railway companies were directed toward American records, but that it was rather a rivalry between the two the London & competing railways, Northwestern on the one hand, and the Great Northern on the other; each of which roads alternately ''held the record until the racing stopped, there was so much said and written about such reckless running. Public opinion in England was decidedly against railway racing, and I think that that had something to do with the cessation of the struggle. g A captious, person to out RobinMr. might perhaps point son that when the English record was broken it was broken openly; that is to say, any man who had the money could go upon the fast train and time it with his own watch. Ixdo not propose to cast a shadow of doubt- upon the account Mr. Robinson has- given in McClure's Magazine, because if I did Mr. Robinson might not believe the story I now feel at liberty to tell. The fact is that I was sworn to secrecy, but now that Mr. Robinson has written of the tremendously fast run the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern made from Chicago to Buffalo, a distance of a fraction over 510 miles, I consider myself released from my promise to say nothing of the other In which I English took part, and of which nothing has, up to this time, been said either in England or in America. I am rather loth to' write this account, because it seems to me that if railway records are to be broken, they should be broken in plain view of the public, and that a train should not steal quietly out of either London or Chicago In the early hours of the morning without some impartial person on board, representing, if possible, the other side of the question. Mr. Robinson's train left Chicago at 3 o'clock in the morning, and there was nobody representing England or the English roads, on board." 'However, I cannot say anything about this, because the English , rt silver turnip of a watch himself which wouldn't split the minutes, let alone the seconds, and so he would like to have a really reliable gold watch with which to keep the time. I was to meet him at the London terminus of the London & Glasgow Air Line exactly 12, midnight, three weeks ago. There fault-findin- record-breakin- g, , ; . -- - "That can't be Glasgow!" I shouted to Swipes. "If it is, we have .traveled something like two hunded miles an hour ,and the Lord only knows what speed we attained in making up for lost time when we were crawling on at seventy and eighty." That's Glasgow, all right enough," to Peter. said Then he j Swipes. yelled "For heaven's sake, shut off steam I Don't you sf-- where we are?" But Peter was struggling with his engine, and all at once he yelled back at us: "I can't stop her, sir!" "Heavens and earth i'1; said I. fWhat e That's Glasgow, All Rlsrlit Enough." was some little risk in going out at that hour, for it is well known that one of the most obnoxious and oppressive laws made by Queen Victoria herself is that every man in London must be. in his own house at 8:40 o'clock, and have lights out and be in bed at 9. Any one out after that hour is liable to arrest, so I stole up and down through by streets dodged the policemen until I came to the terminus. Here I was amazed to find an Immense locomotive and one flat car with two camp stools on it. "What's this for?" I said to Swipes. "We're going to break the record with this train," he replied. "I want to have it1 as light as possible, for an - ordinary carriage meets with such resistance In passing so quickly through the atmosphere that I concluded to take a freight car, and if we have a smash-u- p it won't be so expensive." "But you don't expect me to sit on one of these stools in the open air from here, to Glasgow?" I cried, ' aghast. "Oh, that's all right," he said. "The stools are fastened to the floor of the car, and I have shawl, straps: with which you can fasten yourself to the stool. There won't be any trouble on - " 1 that score." "Where are the other fellows?" I asked. "There aren't any," he answered. "When you are going to break a record the fewer you have on board the better; watches differ and It would be bad if there was a quarrel about time; your watch shall be the only official timepiece in the company; mine, as I think I told you in the letter, generloses two hours out of the twenty-fally our, so I think we had better not trust to it." I strapped myself to one stool and Swipes strapped himself to the other, i - was something dreadful, and once S realized with horror, as we swung around a curve, that all four wheels were off the track, and that we wre flying in raid-ailuckily, however, the wheels came down on the rails and all was well once more. By this time the stations passed us in one continuous streak, as if we were running through the suburbs of a big city, and I was wondering all the time when we would come to the. town; but finally I realized that it was impossible to keep time, even with my excellent watch , and so we would have to lump the thing by calculating how long it took us to come from London to Glasgow. f The lid of my watch, which I had, inadvertently, exposed to the breeze, snapped ahd blew away, and I saw that the gold of the . hunting case was beginning to flake off, so I put it in my pocket to save: the rest of it. I knew it was not yet two hours since we left, London, and, to my amazement, I spied the spires of Glasgow. I recognized the place, because I was born there. r; : bo-cau- se is to be done?" "I don't know," said Swipes. "It's my own fault I told Peter, in the hearing of the engine, and she Is one of the cutest engines on the road, that we were bound to break the American record, which is five hundred and ten miles. You see, it's only four hundred and one miles, decimal five, to Glasgow, and I'll bet you that brute of an engine is bound to do the other one hundred and nine miles even if she has to do it on the highway. The railroad stops at Glasgow, and I don't know what's going to hap.... pen." As he concluded the sentence there was a crash-ana bang, and the next moment we were in the principal street of Glasgow, tearing along the rails of the street car line. Luckily, the same law being in force as was in London, nobody was out on the street and "so we went at the rate of 84.73 miles an hour up the main thoroughfare ' of Glasgow, and finally struck to-nigh- , : t, . the north road for the Highlands. Peter was struggling all the time with the engine, but could make no progress in his endeavor to stop her. When we got about fifty miles on the main road from Glasgow, sometimes slowing down to 63 miles an hour, on the hills, Peter, with a white face ,turned toward us, and shouted: "My God, sir, we're on the Craigne-puttoc- h Loch road, and the Craigne-puttocLoch is at the end of it, about fifty miles ahead." "How far Is it from London?" yelled Swipes, putting his hands beside his mouth to make the sound carry. "The middle of Craigneputtoch Loch is just five hundred and ten miles from London, and it's over afhou sand feet deep in the middle," shouted Peter. "That's where she's making for!" cried Swipes, unbuckling the straps and clinging to the stool. The hill snow rose grandly around us in the darkness ,and we saw the black waters of the loch. "Jump, Peter, jump!" cried Swipesr as he threw off the straps. Peter did so, and I cut the strap that r held me. Instantly we were all and myself ,the stoker, Swipes lying on the hillside on the heather. The doomed train plunged right into the center of the lake. It had comrace, and used up pleted its the fraction by sinking a thousaud feet to the bottom. Luckily, none of us were hurt In tbe slightest, with the exception that Swipes sustained a compound fracture of, the thigh; Peter had both arms broken, Jones had all his ribs and one arm smashed, while I had my veracity sprained so badly that no one has been able to believe a word I have uttered since. Detroit Free Press. The Iiarsreat 'American Mule. , The largest mule that ever walked on American soil is now, or was re-- 1 cently, the property of one.;George R. Johnson, a farmer living a3 few, miles east of Honey Grove, Tex. His mule-- ; ship Is exactly 18 hands, or fi feet 4 inches, In height, being exactly 794 Inches higher, than the famous Los Pecos (Old Mexico) mule, which was so as being widely advertised in 1890-0"the most, gigantic specimen of the mule family the world has ever known." The Honey Grove mule Is not slim nnd but is built In to his proport'on. height. weighing h and at 12 :15 we pulled out of Maryle-bon- e terminus. It was agreed that we were not to begin the record until we had passed Highgate, and were thus safely out of the influence of London. The distance from London to Glasgow is 401.5 miles. We had for Peter McGump, who was a Scotchman, and therefore knew the read to Glasgow well, and Jones, of Whitechapel, did the Billy firing. We had no brakeman, because, as Mr. Swipes said,5 It was not on the brakes we were going to depend for break7 ing the record. The. engine was known as the Mary Jane, and familiar to all the operators on the road as "Her Golden Hair Is Hangin' Down 'er Back." She gets this nickname from her great speed, and from the fact that the smoke with the sparks In it trails out behind like a great banner. After leaving Highgate, Peter gave more steam, and the speed began to be something appalling. "Oh, It's nothing to what we'll have by and by," said Swipes, as he observed me make an Ineffectual grab at my hat, which disappeared in the darkness. Swipes counted the milestones while I ticked off the seconds on my watch ,and before long we were going seventy miles an hour. We had an advantage over the American read In the fact that there are rarely any level in England and that one railway is never allowed to cross another on the level. By the e time we panned Hole we were doing eighty-fiv- e miles an hour, 1,619 pounds, St. Louis Republic. en--gine- er, Po-te- 510-mll- e' piano-playe- rs - . Where Are the Other Fellows. ; i to be written then the race should.be open to outside parties- - who might wish to know the time without asking a policeman. He added that when the New York Central broke the English record they did so with their Empire State" Express, which any one could have traveled on who had the money to pay his fare. This, he claimed, was the right way of breaking a record if you are going to write about it afterwards. Nevertheless he was going to follow the Lake Shore & Michigan .Southern fashion, just to see what his railroad could could do,and he invited me, as a person owning an American watch, to come upon the trip, but begged me to say nothing whatever about it, for he said, instead of breaking" the record, we might perhaps break our necks. He added that he regretted he owned' only an old -- An English statistician has demonstrated . the fact that music has a direct and wonderful influence upon the growth of the hair. Among the com- minded one more of angels than of good housekeepers. In addition to her other attractions. Mrs. Hilman was of the laughing, jolly kind of women, who 'seem to carry a surplus of sunshine .with them for general distribution, and I always had a kind of sneaking fond ness for that kind of a woman. I went to bed early, as is the custom in the country, and though I was in good sleeping trim and my conscience was in perfect order, somehow I lay awake thinking what a lonesome sort of life a bachelor's life was, and how much cozier and pleasanter a woman Idaho Rabbiti. In three rabbit drives this season in could make a man's life, even If, she Cassia county, Idaho; some 8,000 rab hadn't more than half the chance. After a long time I slept and dreamed bits have been killed. The animals are breams, in which there were summer astonishingly numerous and a "very serious nuisance. A round-u- p hunt is girls and other disturbing elements, and when I awoke in the morning, m to be held every week in the hope of response to Bascom's knock, I was my exterminating the pest. Old self again and laughed at the very Four thousand homicides a year ar Idea of a woman as a" life companion. In Italy. This is almost a committed During Sunday I had several very average of one in every two hoir. In the night time all rightnotenough, if the record breaker did say anything about it In public, but if the newspaper accounts were record-breakin- g x r. posers the percentage of baldness is 12 per cent, which is about the average of people generally. Performers on the. piano, violin or other string, instruments retain their hair up to a late period In life. In the case of especially the hirsute growth is aggressive, and violinists are a close second. Recall .the shocks worn by many of the eminent pianists and vio linists of the past twenty-fiv- e years. Performing on, brass instruments, no tably the cornet, French horn, trom bone or tuba, Is "demonstrated" to su perinduce baldness, and massive brows that reach around to the back of the neck are so general in the regimental bands of European armies as to have given rise to the diagnosis of "trumpet baldness." "Hold on, it's the telegraph poles you are counting!" "No, it isn't," he replied, "it's the v "Nonsense!" I cried. "At that rale we are going at the rate of one hundred and eight miles an hour." . "A hundred and eight it is, then," he said. Stoke her up , Peter." I then called the general attention to the fact that itmanaci was not r engine-drivean to tell to etiquette "'stoke up," as that duty was per- formed by Billy Jones, j He apparent-ly learned for the firsts time that en- tgineers do not do their own stoking, and he thanked me for the informa. tion. At last the mile-stonpassed so rapidly that Swipes could not keep trade of them; so we abandoned the attempt to count them and took only the stations,as we had a record of distance between them. I saw now, !bj making a calculation between two sta. tions, that we were going at the raU of 100.45 miles an hour, and my baU would have stood on end if it were not for the fact that is was standing straight out behind. The oscilVition I - ; V mile-posts- ." J ip---- s, erid ' A German Investigator has an nounced that the total length of telegraph . lines in the, world , is 1,062,700 miles,' of which America has 545,600 miles; Europe, 380,700; - Asia, 67,400; Africa, 21,500, and Australia, 47,500 miles. The United States has a greater 1.C00 mile-post- , , an investigation and the railroads are . ! "AND ? THERE ARE OTHERS." of my proclivities, joined jus, and with ' A strange phenomenon has been no- her came tier sister, Mrs. Hilman, a ticed, in various parts of Nebraska. woman of 35, to whom; I was Water stands higher In wells and; is matronly presented. found in larger volume In streams than formally I confess I to an admiration of Mrs. for several years at this season. There Hilman as soon as I sawher; not that has been very little rain In Nebraska Jdxs. Basconi wasn't admirable, but that during the last fall and, winter, yet her sister was older and more substan streams which were dry last years are tial to my mind. In fact, Mrs. Hilman filling with water from some unknown was of that; pleasing rotundity or per-jso- n source and wells show more water than which seems to appeal to an usual. The weather bureau has begun b man of 50, while Mrs., . -- . ; nine-tent- hs by luckier than others, and also whether there was much chance of Mr. Hilman! departing this life and being laid toj rest with his fathers, I knew of a num-- l ber of pleasant churchyards where I! thought Mr. Hilman I might be accommodated with quarters indefinitely, and I felt that I could attend his funeral with much pleasure, though, as a rule, I abhored funerals. "Well, old man " said Bascom, as we took the train for town Monday morning, "I hope you enjoyed yourself." "I never had a pleasanter outing in my life," I answered,, with such sincerity that he actually blushed, "and you have my thanks in all their ampliU tude." "I'm glad you liked it, for more reasons than one," and he smiled rather ' curtly. " "Oh, yes, I know' I said, with a laugh., "You think that after my exhours perience of the last forty-eigmy views on the woman question will undergo a radical; change?" He nodded and smiled at my profundity of observance. "Fess up, now, Marston," he said, "haven't your views changed somewhat by what you have lived in for even so short a time?" "Well." I replied, picking my way carefully, "I am willing to say that as far as your household is concerned, the prospect is more pleasing than I thought it could be." "And would you say, the Hilman household were any" less pleasing than mine?" This was a nudge and a chuckle that I thought quite uncalled for In view of , the fact that Mrs. Hilman was a married woman, and I had to express undue admiration for her or her household, and which made the blood rush into my face. ."Of course, that must be included," I said, trying to laugh off my embarrassment. "And still," I continued, ftthat is only two, and there are millions which one wouldn't care to prais.". "What are they to you?" he retorted, "You are not hunting for the millions but the one." "Apparently I am not hunting on with a great degree of success." "But you should, and now you have positive proof that the life 1 not as black as it is painted." "It's very easy for you to talk," I j ve-ne- ss, 1 STATE OFFICERS. 5overnor. . t. .Heber M. Wells. Secretary of State. . ...James T. Hammond. Treasurer .James Cnlpman. Auditor Morgan Richards, Jr. A' C. Bishop. Attorney General Supt. of Public Instruction... John R. Park. ' i with said puissant posit! to my friend Bascom; "no, sir, I shall not accomthe pany you into unof the haunts married woman," "But, my dear O," and as the Lake Shore train had attained a'speed of 92.3, Swipes yelled to Peter ,as well as he could, to'plvo her more speed, because if she didn't put in her best licks now, what could we expect when we came to the high grounds and the stiff -- lades of. the midlands. This shoutipg of Swires however, had no effect! because iwe were going so fast that his words never reached Peter, who stood with his hand on the lever watching grimly the track in front. As Swipes continued to shout out tbe I by night again I was worse than I was the night before, and began wondering why it was that some' men were so much j THE STUDY OF WOMEN railway manager did exactly, the same thing on the trip of which I have to give an account. I fear I cannot tell as graphic a story as Mr. Robinson, because1 will not split the seconds with the same accuracy as his. He can run into about ten decimals In a second, while I think my watch is doing well If it records the whole second, and It Is a good American-mad- e watch, too. The manager of the London & Glasgow Air Line Railway, Mr. Swipes, sent me an invitation marked "private," saying that he waa bound to beat the record made by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad now that they had come out into print iLbout It. He added that he thought record-breakin- g . my-watc- "."V- , V 1 road-crossin- gs raw-bone- Toad-ln-th- d, , v ; 5 " I |