| Show LI STORK-I- S r-- First State BANK Salina- :of A J Lawia President Alma V Huiah Cashier Dr Obae Lammersdorf Chris Jorgensen James A Boss - DIREOTOR3 W H Brown E Christensen and OFFICERS ' HEADED TOWARD HOLLAND AGAIN VioePreeldent Cashier Asa’t M A C Freeoe Soorup Drafts drawn on all the principal cities of the United States and Europe Banking in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Four per cent interest paid on time deposits tOVtXMVCXXff MEATS and GROCERIES bides k pelts wanted Lvcrytliin§ all occasions geo w long prop —The for the table for and Fresh Fine level but many people thought It could not be kept open In the winter time This fear proved groundless and the road turned out to be a very al lucrative investment national Eastern and Western Parts of the though it has not as yet paid directly In the form of dividends it has done Have Easy Means of Kingdom better than that by greatly acceleratCommunication — Event of ing the development of the Trondhjem Much Importance district and of Nordland and Christiania — The opening of the In 1872 Investigations were comrailway across the mountains from Christiania to Bergen recently by menced with the view of discovering the best line for a railway between King Haakon was an event in the his- Christiania and Bergen and in 1874 tory of this country of far wider Im- the storthing voted the first part of an portance than any one not well ac- eventual railway quainted with Norway geographically the selection from Bergen to Voss and topographically would be able to But to the general public the continappreciate Norway is divided Into uation seemed Impossible and more three isolated parts by the Bovre like one of Asbjornsen’s fairy tales mountain and by the broad and wild than anything else for the field exrange of mountains that bear succes- plorations had more than confirmed sively the names of Fylefjeld and the popular conception that the difLangfjeldene The overland route be- ficulties to be overcome were truly tween Bergen and Christiania was formidable The railway which has even more than thi) route to Trond-hje- Just been opened follows practically a great hindrance to traffic passthe line which the engineers traced In It does for a considerable dis- 1874 From Voss to Opset a distance ing as tance over mountains of a height of of about 50 kilometers (35 miles) It 6000 feet and more rises with steep gradients from 339 to Although Norway was united into 5100 feet and rising further to a maxone kingdom as early as 872 by King imum height of nearly 8000 feet It Harold Haarfager and has remained passes altogether a distance of more united ever since the natural splitting than 100 kilometers through high up of the country into the western mountains coming down to 4800 feet northern and eastern districts has In- at Gjeilo And in these Inhospitable evitably to some extent impaired the regions It was found necessary to bore not less than feeling of unity In the nation And the Gravehals tunnel the barriers which nature had raised between the districts have formed very serious obstacles to personal cooperation for the development of the economic resources of the country The consequence has been that the Inprogress has been considerably slow- Consul Pontius at Swatow Tells er than It might otherwise have been teresting Story of Industry In Good roads were constructed in the District principal overland routes in the beginning of the last century and they Washington — Mr Albert W Pontius represented an Immense Improvement the American consul at Swatow sends on the ancient trails which had been an interesting report of how the Chihe possible only on foot or on horseback nese fans are made But a Journey of several days In a writes Is of origin so ancient in southcarriage was expensive and entailed ern China that no one knows when It great loss of time and In the winter was started Tradition has It that the time severe hardships’ In 1880 the first fans were made In the little vilrailroad to Trondhjem was completed lage ot at Ampow which Thus the great barrier between the Is about three miles from Swatow northern parts and the southeastern For hundreds of years only the women of in the were the overcome different country parts villages through which The highest point of this road does the industry spread were the not lie more than 4000 feet above Sea but so great is the demand Christiania-Berge- n Rail Line Across Mountains Completed SCENIC LINE OP THE WORLD Daily between Ogden and Denver Choice of Routes Denver For Folders Booklets Trains Leave Salina E-- Through St Etc Pullman and Tourist address I A BENTON Peyton Gen Agt Pass South bound Dep 2:31 p m Local Agent LUMBER CO Johnson-Arneso- n - - - Sleepers to Louis and Chicago Salt Lake City Utah North bound 10:50 a m Everything In Lumber - - We sell Jumbo Plaster and Portland Cement Doors Windows Mouldings Phone 1 6black Chinese Adept Fan Makers — Ratcatcher Issues a Deti London’s New Official Offers to ture One Thousand Rodents Three Nights Horner Rasmussens Call THE CAFFETERRA For Choice Confectioneries Fresh Fruits Ice Cream Tobacco Cigars Stationery Old Post Office All Hours Restaurant Bakery Harness Bldg Leather Goods Shop and Shoe Store Harness Saddles Horse Blankets Tents and Wagon Covers and full line of Men’s and Boys’ Dress and Work Shoes We want your Our goods are tho best and our price the lowest Drop in and look our line and be convinced yards long besides a number ot shorter tunnels For '19 years the engineers continued their exploration work! and meanwhile a national determination was slowly forming that the task of unitand western Norway ing eastern should be undertaken In spite of ah In 1894 the storthing deobstacles cided upon the construction of a railway from Voss to Taugevaud and In 1898 the continuation of the line through Halllngdal to the junction railpoint on the Chrlstlanla-Gjovlroad Roa was decided As a preparation transport roads had to be constructed and barracks for engineers and workmen built kroner ($135000) had to be spent on transport roads alone Tho Gravehals tunnel was constructed by a contracting firm the rest of the work was done directly by the state The whole road was built exclusively by Norwegian engineers and workmen The contractors on the big tunnel once made an experiment with Italian workmen but they very soon proved so far inferior to the Norwegians that they had to be sent home after a few weeks’ trial The railroad has a lengflT'of 49?" kilometers (300 miles) and there are 178 tunnels aggregating 36682 meters (119250 feet) The total cost amount ed to 54000000 kroner ($14580000) It has been necessary to put up wooden walls at many exposed points There are three rotary snow plows of American system these having proved far superior to other patents which have been tried By their help and the wooden walls It Is believed that Mie traffic may be carried on as regularly as on any other railway 5311 White Front Market NORWAY’S NEW ROAD Three Fast Flyers KWMMXW Hague— Holland Is again expecting an heir to the throne and of course the people who have Just heard the news hope that it will be a boy although such a result would cause the supplanting of the beloved little Princess Juliana Queen Wllhelmina is in excellent general health and Is seen often riding In her motor car for she has become an enthusiastic automoblllst People have been remarking ot late on the wonderfully Some time ago she adopted the practice which comes from the West Indies of clear complexion of the queen It Is said to be a great lnvlgorator and a wonderful help to the complexioON taking lemon baths The a trade over CapIn London— It seems that the gruesome freemasonry which binds European official executioners t together causing them to Intermarry and Inherit the profession is not without its parallel among ratcatchers Hence John Jarvis who has just been appointed official ratcatcher to the London county council at a salary of $24312 a year Is a ratcatcher by Inheritance and Instinct quite as much as he Is by profession Since 1803 each male member of his family has devoted his life to catching rats and so it was with the greatest confidence that Jarvis issued a challenge to all the ratcatchers in the kingdom to catch more of the vermin In a given time than any man living provided that neither dogs nor ferrets were employed In the hunt Furthermore he said that with the assistance of his uncle Mr J Dalton he would undertake to catch 1000 rats in three nights As Jarvis made these challenges he fondled half a dozen tame white rats while his daughter at his side played with a couple of ferrets “I have no son to carry on the business" he said “but Kit there and her younger sister both know pretty well all there is to know about catching fats "The means I use for catching them alive Is a family secret known only to my people for the last four generI won’t ations tell you exactly what that secret Is but I don’t mind letting you know that It acts very much in the same way as chloroform does on a human being Over my back I fling a huge sack connected with a trapdoor arrangement at my side I wear noiseless boots and black clothes "As I walk down the passages with a bull’s-eylantern attached to my side the rats scared by the light scamper past me As they run I can pick them up left or right hand and r Gradudrop them- Into the ally they work their way around to the sack on my back My! How they I fight! Sometimes when fancy I have a hundred I find half of them are killed by the time I arrive home” for these cheap fans used as they are by the millions for advertising purposes that nearly every man woman and child works all day and half the night at The industry Is almost confined to the district oecause here abounds a particular kind of bamboo especially suitable for the rigs and the handle of the fan The manufacture of the fan is very simple For the frame the split bamboo is repeatedly rived until each piece Is sufficiently slender and flext ble These thread-likpieces of bamboo are arranged In a row attached to each otner by a thread passed crosswise through the middle This thread is fastened to a strip of bamboo giving the fan its shape The ribs are then slightly heated and benl at the ends The fan has now the peculiar and characterise shape at the top Very flimsy silk gauze is then pasted on the face and a kind of tissue-likpaper on the back After the handle Is attached the border of the fan Is black varnished and the gauze Is coated with a mixture The handles are made of bamboo various kinds of hard wood bone and ivory The hand painting ob the fans is cleverly done in some Instances being works of art The medium quality fan retails for 25 cents Mexican (ten cents gold) better grade one to four dollars Mexican (40 cent to $160) The amount now exported yearly amounts to about $30000 Thin fan trade of late has shown a decrease due to the importation of Japanese straw fans which have met with favorable demand now Lower car Steps In Chicago Chicago — Chicago women have wos their fight for lower car steps Fifty new cars for The City Railway Com pany now being built In Philadelphia will be constructed so that the platforms will bo at least one and one half inches lower than the present platforms |
