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Show TRAIN WRECK ON BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD THE WORST IN MANY YEARS Previous practice is a path leading mountains of skill. The accuracy pvvvvww For re,t time review of the dally sources o library is for S inform a tion on. the enemies of easy errors and the friends of forethought , to refn better methods. ( duce mutually expensive mistakes of mechanical, commercial and professional people, A FISHPOND EXPERIENCE. The Sissons had a farm which had a fish pond, which had one pet trout and twenty-sevebig suckers. Cousin Orvice and his mother were visiting the Sissons. Orvice had a bushel of enthusiasm witn a gill of discrimination. When he wanted to fish they let him flsh and he had that pet trout out in thirty minutes. The Sissons had good hearts they served the trout for Orvices breakfast. When nearly ready to leave for home Orvice heard Mr. Sisson say that he would have to drain the pond some day to get the suckers out before he could stocK it with good flsh also that he Intended to draw some muck from near the woods for his lot near the barn. Orvice was original, quick to think and good in debate when he made up his mind he wantel to do something. In twenty-fou- r hours he had plans laid for Mr. Sisson to Invite some more cousins, drain the pond, catch the suckers, have a big dinner, then get the muck from the pond. The other cousins, came, the dam was broken, the water let out, the suckers caught in a way to excite the crowd, a good dinner consumed and the muck remained in the bottom of the pond and continued to remain there. If Orvice could have remained there and got the muck from the pond to the field, rebuilt the dam and stocked the pond with speckled beauties then all would have been well, but he didnt remain he went home and then went to college. Mr. Sisson had other things to do, and when Orvice would ask in his letters about the pond and in the letters coming back the pond would be reported as in the Bame condition as Orvice left it, Orvice began to review his visit ana his work. In time Orvice began making regretful remarks, and he wrote letters that brought forgiving replies. In two years word came that the farm had been sold with the pond as Orvice had left it, but not to worry any longer over the vacation event. . But this vacation event was put down in Orvices book of experience as a case of shortsighted blindness for temporary selfish pleasure which produced two years of discomfort and permanent regret n - Empty Seats of Organizations. There is one place in a big city where an organization for young people is so lacking in seating capacity that three persons have to use one chair one in front and oqe on each side. This letter does not apply in such a case. Another organization in the city has a gallery with five hundred empty seats nearly every time the members get together and sometimes the seats on the main floor are but half occuMany leaders have reported pied. that it is easier to get members than To get it is to secure attendance. members and get them in their places when they should be there requires a sustained interest in a central object Without a definite object there is no excuse for an organization. With a definite object well understood and systematically pushed by means of wide swake methods members come to meetings. Wide awake methods are not necessarily new methods they may be as old as history, but they must have life, To activity, usefulness and variety. think of them and adjust them requires originality and sense. Sense oomes by respect for others and originality begins with a love for the object Unless a leader loves his work he will not get members out in all kinds' of weather or away from other attractions. But love for the work devises plans and awakens resolutions and determinations in others; it also hears, sees and keeps for the right time and place ideas and information as useful tools and powers, for doing. DECEIVING to THE YOUNG. A public entertainer of a third of a century ago, gave as one of his regrets the memory of having taught a little swear. girl how-tA very, profane man told how, when a small boy, men would hold him up in their arms and teach Lim to swear at his drunken father. A woman gives this report of an experience she had when a girl and left in charge of her home while her parents took a days trip. The parents had provided another and older girl froth a neighbor's home to do the housework, but told their daughter not to leave the house except to go to the near by postofflee for the mall. The daughter was not told why to remain at home, so when she was continually urged to go to the woods for flowers she went as she had frequently done before. On her return she found a younger daughter from the neighbors sitting In her own rocking chair, and as this little girl was a schoolmate she was pleased to see her and asked her to go out to play. To her surprise the little visitor refused and insisted on remaining In the chair. When mail time came the little girls were told by the temporary housekeeper that they could go one to her home and the other for mall. ' Then the girl noticed that as she went out with the big girls sister that the little visitors skirts were sticking out and she could hear the rattle of paper. When older she understood the plot of being sent to the woods for flowers and the peculiar actions of the younger sister as a visitor. When parents and older brothers and sisters use the little ones as mediums for international error, where is there a chance for the little one to recover their spirit of purity of purpose? Does there come a time in every life, no matter how far from the light of wisdom it has been led or wandered, when it comes to a path leading to liberty? Some claim that by means of faith, hope, observation, discrimination, desire and comparison any person may Bee better methods and follow them. The personal interest of others who fortunately speak or do the right thing at the right time hasten the right way being seen and followed. An Intense interest in better methods Is the best remedy for undesirable habits, and there are hundreds of ways by which people have become Interested in better methods. The degree of the Intensity of the Interest in accuracy and best methods has much to do with success in conquering, as some poor or undesirable methods resist the change more than others or some people have more of themselves to conquer, but the greater the fight, the greater the power to do when the victory is won. Those imprisoned by Incorrect education may wish for escape but doubt that it is possible. To those this may be helpful continued wishing If genuine grows a will power to conquer occasionally, and by investing each victory regular success is reached. Those cases on record of instantaneous and complete and permanent victory are the most hopeful of anything in the world. Why teachers who are the liberators of those imprisoned by regretful education and environment, do not know more about these escapes is a question many have asked. A Bad One. One of the most honorable men in a most honored American state made a public blunder that surprised himself. Though one of those little things likely to happen any time it will be a long time before he will forget it He was on a train with a lady and gentleman who were to go beyond his station. As he got up to shake hands and bid them good-bhe picked up one of their telescope cases and started off with it but the owner called to him. Then the honorable man discovered his unconscious act and exclaimed: My gracious, I should say so; I guess I thought I was going to take a trip. As he does take a trip with luggags frequently it was an easy error. y His Observation. A young man from the country, while in a large city, said he now un- derstood why city people had to move lively they had to or get left or get killed. There are some corners, in some cities, around or by which more people go each day than are in one of our smaller states. The awful disaster to the Duquesne flyer on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Dawson, Pa., Dec. 24, makes a sad Christmas for many families. It is not only the worst railroad calamity this year but the worst in many years. There have been thirty derailments and collisions during the year where the loss of life has been exceptionally large, but the collision on the Big Four railroad of Nc. 19, when were killed and seventeen thirty-onInjured, had been the worst up to the present horror. In this one twice as many were killed and live times as many injured. It may be interesting in connection with thee thirty disasters to know that twenty of them were caused by collisions and ten by derailments, which would seem to indicate that more attention is paid to the condition of the roadbed than io the details of running (rains. If there can be any consolation in such an accident, 'by which over three score persons were killed outright and many others were injured, some of whom will die, it is in the fact that it does not appear to have been the result of carelessness or Inefficiency A freight train loaded with timbers Lad train, and just preceded the passenger soihe of the ties had- - fallen upon the track. The Duquesne flyer, running at great speed, rounded a curve, and, before the engineer could slacken speed, the entire train, except a sleeper and dining car, was derailed. The timbers were properly loaded, but the breaking of a stay a contingency which hardly could have been foreseen let some of them down. The e Dr. Thomas B. Mehard of Connells-vlll- e, Pa., who assisted in rescue work and attended many of the injured In the railroad wreck near that city Dec. 24, has given a scientific medical version of the cause of the deaths. He said: Many persons have been mistaken as to what caused the deaths of the wreck victims, believing they were due to scalds and burns. Aside from the engineer and fireman, who died from crushing violence, the death of all the others was due to the inhalation of superheated steam, thus causing an edema of the larynx and in- crew of the freight train were not in a position to know 1L It was a horrible disaster. Men were crushed to death, scalded to death, burned, to death. Cars were telescoped, smashed, burned. Every detail of horror and of suffering possible in a railroad wreck characterized this one. It is not creditable to skill in construction that cars should be built of material which li made all the more Inflammable by paint and varnish put on In profusion, and that they should be built so lightly and go to pieces as easily as a cardboard house. The old wooden vessels have largely given place to steel vessels. Why should not the old wooden cars be succeeded by steel cars, which will offer some resistance in case of accident and reduce the risks of death and injury to crew and passengers? . CAUSE OF THE WRECK. Information Seems to Show Disaster Was Unavoidable. The wreck was caused by the breaking of the castings on a carload of bridge timbers on a westbound freight train which bad passed Laurel Run not more than fifteen minutes before the passenger train. The wreck occurred on a curve, and it was impossible for Engineer Thornley to see far enough ahead to detect the obstruction on the tracks. The big Atlantic type engine plunged into the timbers at a velocity of sixty miles an hour. The engine plowed Into the embankment, and the baggage and express cars were thrown into the Youghioghney river. The smoker followed the engine and landed squarely on top of it. This allowed the escaping steam from the engine to fill the car. The smoker was packed to its utmost capacity, and all the passengers were cooked alive. Most of the killed were foreigners who were literally roasted to death, the baggage and smoker telescoping the engine and Immediately catching fire. Not a single passenger In the car escaped with his life, and it Is estimated that at least forty of the dead were in the smoker. An operator at "V R tower on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad, across the Youghiogheny river, was the first to send word of the accident and to send for relief. lie was watching the Duquesne limited as it was speeding along the Baltimore and Ohio tracks across the river. He saw the cars pile high In the air without in any way slighting my duties as preacher of the gospel. For instance, Monday, Instead of being the blue Monday, was devoted by me to the study of some branch of law. The knowledge of law is helpful to all professions and as much to the ministry as any other. Is not youi congregation the Jury and will not a convincing argument carry weight in matters religious as in. matters of law?" d THREE GOOD FISH" STORIE8. Sea Serpent, Monster Oyster and Lobster Arrive. While returning to his home late yesterdry, s;.ys a dispatch irom Atlantic City, N. J., William Blackman saw a lung, dark ,ject being tossed by the restless waves beating on the beach at Yentnor. At last one big comber left it stranded high on the sands. Man-Eatin- g Blackman approached. Before him lay a sea serpent eighteen feet long and with a head twelve inches from ear to ear. Its mouth was the same size. The next morning it could not be found. Residents are greatly alarmed. About the same time Richard Burbage of Pleasantville went oyster hunting in Lake's bay. After a mighty struggle he landed a bivalve, he says, which measured two feet in length, fourteen inches across the back, twelve Inches in depth, and the meat in it weighed twenty-fou- r pounds. All PleaBantville can bear witness that no oyster ever caught was its equaL Then John Winder proved the rule of three and made the cycle complete. Is mate of the yacht Pittsterfering with respiration, death re- Winderand he pulled a lobster up on sulting from the want of oxygen. In burg, a codfish while fishing twenty line, other words, the victims died of air miles off shore. It weighed. Winder starvation. pounds. "The word edema practically means says, forty-fivIt was either a man-eator the an escape of the watery element of the blood in the surrounding tissues, original lobster, says Winder. All Atlantic City is aghast at these thus causing pressure on the opening from the lungs to the throat, In the happenings. place where the vocal cords are atJOKE ON HENRY IRVING. tached. This change in the vocal cords and larynx, practically a scalding or cooking, caused the alteration Famous Actor Not as Well Known as He Thought. in voice sounds emitted by those who Inhaled the deadly steam. This death Henry Irving tells with glee of an is one of the most horrible known to incident which occurred shortly after medical science he had made his name famous the world over by a series of successes in and then sink back on the tracks. The Lie Lyceum theater, London. He was screams of the injured and dying were standing in the portico of the theater plainly heard. In another second he one day when he saw passing an old was sending word to the railroad of- friend with whom he had played in ficials at Dawson and Connellsvllle. his days of struggle. Stepping forFor more than 500 feet both the ward Irving grasped the old actor by east and west bound tracks were torn the hand, saying: Smith, my dear' up. The engine was completely de- fellow, I'm glad to see you. How are molished and the big tank you getting on? Oh, so so, was on the tender was thrown 100 feet the reply. Ive been over the counahead from the wreckage. The bag- try with a rather poor for the gage car was thrown into the river, past year, and how about you, old but was only slightly wrecked. man? Are you doing anything?" All the cars were derailed and the trucks of all except the diner were Change In German Embassy. torn completely from underneath the Under the hand of its new mistress, cars. the American wife of Baron Von Stern-burFew people were injured In the Pullthe German embassy In Washman cars and the diners, although few ington has emerged from the charescaped without at least some slight acter of a somewhat nondescript bachinjuries. elor abode it has presented of recent Hardly had the bodies of the dead years and begins now to have a cabbeen removed from the coaches until inet of its own and to reflect somethieves began robbing the dead of thing of the taste and individuality of Jewelry and money. Special officers the woman to whom fur the time bewere deputized, and with the aid of ing it Is home. The baroness was the Baltimore and Ohio police force Miss Laughlln before her marriage. and Conr.ellsvllle officers the work of the ghouls was stopped. Justice Brown His Own Bootblack. It is charged that the foreigners who Though a very stout man, Justice escaped serious injury in the wreck Brown of the United States supreme Immediately set about robbing their court blacks his own shoes nearly more unfortunate countryme:., and the every morning. The justice ssys he dead as well as injured were robbed of feels proud to Imitate Abraham Lintneir money and other valuables. ' coln even to that extent On getting-ouof bed he dons his underwear and Minister Admitted to the Bar. socks, puts on his shoes and then For years Rev. J. E. Herman of Mil- plies the brush. When fully dressed ford, N. II., has been studying law, and the distinguished Jurist finds It somenow lie has been admitted to the bar. what difficult to crick sight of his fool I have done all this study, he says, covering. e er 7.000-gallo- n fit-o- g, t |