Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1896, Page 23

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARO@H- 21, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. __—_———— : RAILROADS. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. : hedale In effect March 15, 1996. Leave eo from a a of New 3 srsey avenue ai st. For Chicago and Northwest, Vestibcled Limited trains, 11:30 am., 8:05 p.m. Louis and Indianapolis, Vesti- night, uted Limited, 8:i3 12:4 Amited, 8:45 ‘p.m.; express, 12: For Pittsburg and Cleveland, express dally, 11:30 a.m. and 8:40 pm. For Lexington and Staunton, 11:30 a.m. For Winchester and Way Sixtions, #5:30 p.m. For Luray, Natural Bridge, Roanoke, Knoxville, jempitis snd New Orleans, 9:10 P.M. Cars through. ¥, 3:45 p.m. daily. Baltimore, week days, x7:30, x $:3 a.im., 32 p.ni 31:15, 4:30, 228 p. Sundays, 8:30 a. For Frederick, *9:00, 71 15:30 p.m. or Hagerstown, +1 3, week days, sun, 1:15, way points, * stopping at prin- m, YORK AND LPHTA. with pintsch light. York, Boston and the 10:00 a.m., Dining Dining Car), P. open at 10:00 o'ck oe CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. @MROUGH THE GRANDEST SCENERY 1X AMERICA, ALL TRAINS VESTIBULED. ELECTRIC LIGHTED, STEAM HEATED. ALL MEALS SERVED iN DINING, walks. TION SIXTH AND B STREETS. Schedule In effect DAILY —Cire sTA- 1898. . Louis Spe- Puliiman sleepers wg and St. Louis without fanatl to Chi FL. V. Limited: Pulluan sleepers to oa and Louis«ille without pes to VI Hot Sp Wednesdays ana. Saturdays. if to Chi id St. Louis. 10-57 AM., EXCEPT SUNDAY—Via Richmond for Cid Point and » ik “Only rail Ine. 2% P.M. DAILY—For Gordonscille, Charlottes- Stauntoo and for Kichwond, daily, ex: Re tions and tickets at Chesapeake and Obio offices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania avenue, und at the staticn. H.W. FULLER, $a23 General Passenger Agent. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Station corner of 6th and B streets. as, Cle eiand and ‘Luledo. Car to Harrisburg. 10:30 A.M. FAST €ar to Harrisburg. ris NE.—Putlman Buffet, Parlor Parlor and Dinivs Cars, Har- to ure. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS.— man Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisbucg. Sleep- aud Dint rs, Harrisburg to St. Louis, d Chica ing Cine’ RN EXPRESS.—Pullman Dining Cars to ‘Louis, and Sleep- to Cincinn: 5 EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleep- Fs igua, Mtochester and Su < BAO Ster, Buffalo and atarday, with Sleep- juspension’ Bridge v rle, Cenamlaigna, Rochester, Buf- ara Fulis duily, Sieeping Car Wash- NEW ¥ORK AND THE 1OXAL LIMITED,” dally, With Dining Car from Baltimore. ining 7 3 ) oy for Williamsport, Falls dilly, except Wasuiugton to S ar). 7: Car ‘from i 6:40, 10:00 aod 1 only, Fast E: pt 3 is, 7:20, 9:00 AM. ‘except Sunday. ida Special” for Jack- . Week days. nd, points on Atlantic Coast 5 46 P.M. daily. Richmy 340 BM. dally." Rtchibond only, 1 vs. Hon for Quantico, 7:45 A.M. daily, and . Week days. ndria, 4:30, 6:35, 7:45, 8:40, 9:45, 10:57, AM., 1 1:40, 8:20, 4:25, 5-00, 5: 02, 10:10 and 1 P.M. On Sunday at 145, 9-45 AM. 2:45, 6:15, 8:02 and 10:10 Alexandria for Woshin: 9:10, 10:15, 10:28 AM M. . , » 9:10 Ticket offices, corner i5th and G B sts., where orders can be left of baggage to destination from J. R. WOOD, Passenger Agent. General Manager. General 29 SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Wiedmont Air Line.) Schedu'e ip effect Januzry 6, 1896. AM! tioins arriv eave ai Pennsylvania n Wille. Connects at nastas for Stresbu xcapt Sunday. and at Lynchburg with the Norfolk ard Western daily, ind with C. & OU. daily for Natural Bridge and iftor Forge. 11:15 A M.—Dall: MAL Pull ugusta; also Pull- . to New Orleans via Mont- ing at Atlanta with Pullman Sleep- @ ‘or Birmingham, Memphis and St. iis. for Strasburg, daily, except Sun- 01 P.M.—Local f P.M.—Dally—Local for Charlottesville. P.M.—Daily—New York and Florida Short Compartment and Observa- New York to St. Augustine: Room Sleepers, New York to mpa and Augusta; Vestibuled Day Coach, Wash- Gagton to St. Augtstine, and Dining Cur, Salisbury fo St. Augustine. 10-43 PM. Dally WASHINGTON AND SOUTH. ESTERN VESTIBULED LIMITED, composed of an Vestibuled Sleepers, Dining ‘Cars and Day Sleepers New York to Asheville New York to Memphis via k to New Orleans via At- mery. Vestibuled Day Coach nta. Southern Railway Dining me M. eaily, except Sunday, and 2: jor Round Hill; 4:32 P.M. daily, ex fords. for Leesburg, and 6:25 P.M., daily, ferndon. Returning “grrive | at Wastlagton PM. ill, 2M. ard 3:00 daily from Round A-M. daily.except Sunday, from Herndon, and AM. dofly, except Sunday, from Leesburg. trains from the south arrive at Washi AM, 9:45 AM, 2:20 PM. and 9: ily. Manzssas Division, 10:00 A.M. daily, cept Sunday, and 8:40 A.M. daily from Char: tes ‘Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and information Yernished at offices. 511 ard 1300 Pennsylvania ave- . ard at Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta- + W. H. GREEN, General Superintendent. +: 3M. CULP. Tratc Manazer. A. TURK. General Passenger Agent. fz L. S. BROWN. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. — a MEDICAL Dr. Leatherman, SPECIALIST, 2 F ST. 'N.W. .. BLOOD, KIDNEY and ts “HY DROGELE, V. modern surgical barr to 9 to 12 am, 5 : and Saturday “nights, 7 fo. tmh2-Im* " MANICU ‘and BLADDER 'ARICOCELE and ls. Consul- RE. AMCUIS. “xp cumovovise = yim tot pm mabe having superth cus hairs, moles, warts, ve them forever removed by electricity at mh6-1. ‘D RESIDENCE, 703 15th st. nw, Ladies birth “marks, facial blemishes, &. ine Falling Hair, Dandruff, 1 Blemishes and Skin Diseases promptiy. and DR. J. SEMMES, 704 14th st. . Use ' beater but it wilt i Does not cure all diseases, but It will cure oes er D: epsia or tion, _ Besbogeia og indies —MUNYONS ee REM DLE Disease. Sold by All Druggists, Mostly for 25c. a Vial. Munyon's doctcrs at your service free. Office open 9 to 5; Sundays, 10 to 12; Monday and Thurs- @uy evenings, 6 to 8713 14th street northwest— where they can be .comulted absolutely free of ebarge on all discases. mhi8-w,th,s,3t CARRIER PIGEONS IN WAR. The Service Rendered by These Birds in Various Foreign Countries. From the New York Tribune. The practical utility of the homing pigeon was first demonstrated during the siege of Paris. The Parisians, the large majority of whom had never heard of the capabilities of pigeons, were amazed at this unexpected success of the first experiment. At first the dispatches carried by the birds were written by hand on small pieces of very thin paper and on one side only. It was, however, a long and toilsome meth- od, and quite unsuited to the transmission of the enormous number of dispatches which had to be sent into Paris. It was then suggested that the size of the dis- patches he reduced by photography, whtre- by also a large number of copies cculd be secured without risk of error. The dis- Patches were accordingly first copied in handwriting in large characters, then past- ed one under the other on large sheets of cardboard. These large sheets were then fixed to wooden panels about two feet by three and a quarter feet, and the panels, covered with two or three columns of mes- sages, were photographed and reduced to one and a half inches by two and a half irches, a reduction of one three-hundredth in surface. The photographs were on very thin paper and on one side only. They | were checked under a microscope before | being fastened to the pigeon. Among the first dispatches sent were several cuttings of the Moniteur newspaper, which at once demonstrated how much more considerable the reduction would be if all the dispatches were printed before being photographed. The next step in advance was, therefore, to set up the dispatches in type, and to pho- tograph them on each side of the small Paper messages. Shortly after this a still greater reduction In surface and weight was effected by photographing messages on a thin film of collodion, each film contain- ing on an average of 2,500 dispatches. One bird could easily carry a dozen of these films, making thirty thousand dispatches, It is estimated that 150,000 official dis- patches snd 1,000,000 private dispatches were carried by pigeons into Paris. Thus It will be seen that the mission of the carrier pigeon has been something more | than the mere pleasure of the fancier; and such a record of usefulness as thet during the siege of Paris leads to the belief that | a valuable addition to the signal service in the army and navy may be had at an al- most insignificant annual expenditure for its maintenance. Pigeon Service in Many Armie: Indeed, the European governments were not slow to take advantage of the lesson learned at Paris. The organization of reg- ular military pigeon systems in almost every continental nation of Europe soon followed the Franco-Prussian war. The military budget of France assigns a credit of $20.00 for the annual cost of sienaling and pigeon lofts. In accordance with law, the military authorities have also the right to requisition messenger pigeons, and the president consesuently directed that once a year a cen@us he made of all messenger j pigeons. The Germans at once recognized the importance of the services that pigeons had rendered their adversaries during the siege of Paris, and were one of the first nations to establish military lofts; they have provided for communication between different ps of the empire by sucn ju- dicious distribution of the stations that their system is the most extensive and complete in Europe. The annual credit for pigeons and visual signaling is $8,500. Rus- sia places such dependence upon the sys- tem that a sum approximating $10,000 is said to be annually appropriated for this purpose. Ttaly has an extensive military pigeon sys- tem, and the birds are trained out to sea with a view to the!r emplovment as messen- gers from the cruisers off the coast. The Spanish government has established pigeon lofts at various coast-guard stations, the idea being to emnloy the birds to communi- cate between different stations and also between the shore and cruisers. In 1887 a homine pigeon station was es- tablished at Kev West by the signal corps of the army. The position of the island with respect to the possessions of other powers was considered to be advantageous, and communication from the ships of a sanadron crutsing in the neighborhood was desiranle. The Secretary of War made available one of the unoccupied store- houses of the Key West barracks, which was converted into a cote upon approved plans. In the experiments which followed it was not designed that great speed should he develoned or exceptional flights undertak- en at the exnense of hardiness and trust- worthiness. The greatest care was taken in the training of birds, and by judicious mating the qualities most desired were combined and reproduced. In the first sea- son voune bird= were trained at a distance of 10 miles from home. In the second sea- son it was intended that the distance be increased. and that In subsequent years a return from a distance of 400 miles and even more should be accomplished regu- Jarly.__ Unfortunately, the experiments at Key West were discontinued, and at the present time fhe only pigeon station in which officers of the government are ex- perimenting is the one at the Naval Acad- emv at Annapolis. The officers of the practice vessel of the cadets, when starting on their summer ernise on the ocean or their short cruises down Chesapeake bay,-have taken baskets of birds trained at the Naval Academy for the first time to fly over bodies of water. ‘The superintendent of the Naval Academy has favored the experiments with enthusi- asm, and has allotted for use as a pigeon loft the tower of the new boat house at the eastern end of the grounds. ——— CATCHING THE MOLE. There is a Demand for the Skin at Good Prices. From the San Francisco Post. “No, boys, it ain't money that makes my pockets bulge out that way, but it Is the equivalent,” remarked a gray-haired, gray- bearded rancher from Mendocino, as he took in the slack of a hay rope that did service for a belt. “To tell you the truth, my breeches pock- ets and my coat pockets, too, are pretty well lined with moleskins. Within the last year I have developed into a mole hunter, and !t pays. I have several acres in strawberries at Ukiah, and they need considerable water. I used to put in a lot of time digging little trenches and turning water thls way and that, but it was disappointing to go out the next day and find that I had been irrigating ja mole hole. I set a watch on the little pests, and I soon learned their habits. Since then it fs no trouble at all to get them. “In the first place, I found that a mole never comes straight to the top of the ground, but always on a slant, and you will see the ground agitated for some time be- fore he throws up his hill. If you step with- in twenty feet of him when he comes to the top he will instantly stop work and run. It’; no use to try and catch him then. “But a mole is the victim of habit. If he is disturbed at his work at 2 o’clock today he will not come back till exactly 2 o'clock to- morrow. You can set a watch by him and depend on its being right. Well, I watch around in my berry patch and take the time whenever I disturb Mr. Mole. The next day, when it is time for him to come hack, I take my station near his hole. As soon as he throws up his little mound I plant my foot behind him and close up the hole. Then all I have to do is to scoop him out of the dirt and drop him in my pocket, kicking and scratching like a good fellow. I kill him, stretch his skin on a 8! le, aman here in the city pays me $1 apiece for them to make purses of.” ’ A Cire for EVAPY| au i The Battle Ship Iowa, Which Will Be Launched Next Saturday. EUROPEAN VESSELS OF LIKE Sib Any of the Larger For- eign Ships of Like Type. WONDERS OF MACHINERY ship yard, Philadel- phia, and then, amid the mysticism of that ceremony, the cheers of crowds, and the shrieking blasts of every near-by whis- tle, the largest of our first-class battle ships will glide down upon the waters of the Delaware, and the ship will be one important stage in her history nearer the beginning of her active service and that career in which she is ta help maintain the might, majesty and peaceful dominance of our flag. Appropriated for by act of Congress aps proved July 19, 1892, the work of her con- -struction was awarded to Wm. Cramp & Sons on February 11, 1893, for the con- tract price of $3,010,000, and on August 5 following her keel was laid. ; The vessel has a thousand tons greater displacement than her prototypes, the coast-line battle ships Indiana, Massachu- setts and Oregon, the difference being care- fully adapted to the betterment of the lat- ter craft; and she may be said to bear the first impress of possibilities suggested by the Harveyizing armor process, a method | ¢4- ST MILLIONS! cock in ample bounty, wholesome food for the cfew: a re! coo plant, with a daily eapacity of a Abdi of ice, will grant that comfort and preserve unspoiled the fresh provende?, that-home food may wel- come the sharpened appetites and replace the “salt horse and. d. tack” of former times when far at rt The miles and mileg, of rope which form- ed the rigging of ourlancient craft have a modern substitute in the thousands and thousands of feet of steam and water pipes that do a like transfer of power and hold control over all the hanism and: every one of the many wate¥;tight compartments into which the ship fs cut. As a Foe. s The offensive preva tf the ship will con- sist primarily of i$ and torpedo dis- charges. The main tery is composed of four twelve-inch and eight eight-inch breech-loading rifles mounted in pairs in six turrets; the secondary battery consists of six four-inch rapid-fire guns, while twenty six-pounder, four one-pounder and two gat- ling evns constitute an auxiliary force. ‘The Sur twelve-inch guns are housed in N SATURDAY | two barbette, balanced turrets, and poke next the Iowa will be| their long” bodies out through walls of launched at Cramp’s| hardened steel fifteen inches thick, while the mechanisms that turn the turrets through their arc of 270 degrees, load, de- press and elevate the guns, rest safely be- hind the protection of the barbettes seven- teen inches through. Concentrated upon a foe on either side, the four great guns would send forth a mass of a ton and a quarter of hardened steel driven by 1,720 pounds of powder, leaving the rifies with @ pent-up force equal to the energy needed to raise the whole ship, crew and all, to a height of eight feet in one second. From the four smaller turrets, five inch thick, firing through an are of 170 degrees and revolving within barbettes three inches heavier, the efght-inch rifles can fire shell of 250 pounds, capable of passing unde- formed through eight inches of steel four thousand yards away and with a possible bombarding range of one mile for every inch of caliber. Four of the four-inch rapid-fire guns are placed on the main deck, sheltered by arm. ored sponsons and thick steel splinter bull heads, while the two remaining are mount- ed up in the after superstructure, where they command an extended sweep. From these rifles and the smaller rapid-fire guns could be maintained a perfect storm of explosive shell, before which the unarmor- ed parts of a foe would yield like paper and through which it would be impossible for a torpedo boat to pass. The Deadly Torpedoes. From the bow or two places on either side amidships torpedoes could be launch- These weapons are tiny vessels in of manufacture by which the face of the| themselves, actuated by miniature mechan- steel is hardened to any desired depth, thereby greatly increasing its defensive properties, The ship is 360 feet long, has a maximum beam of 72 feet 2% inches, and will draw, when ready for sea, a trifle over 27 feet of ism of great power and delicacy, guided by self-adjusting rudders that automatical- ly compensate for the variations of sub- aqueous pressures and bearing a head charged with the deadly force of 120 pow.ds of gun cotton—a material three UNITED STATES BATTLE SHIP IOWA. | water. In all the sugyestive lightness of white paint one would hardly imagine her @ floating mass of 11,410 tons of steel, but such in fact she will be when fully equip- ped and prepared for service. Protecting the Vitals. The motive power and machinery of a ship, aside from the guns and their protec- tion, are termed the ‘vitals,’ and to shield them from an enemy's fire Is a prime con- sideration. To that end, on the Iowa, a water-line band of armor, 7% feet wide and 14 Inches thick, 3 feet above and 4% fect below the load line, running forward and aft for a distance of 18 feet amidship, offers a broadside protection. The ends of this belt are then joined inboard by athwartship bulkheads 12 inches thick, and resting, like a roof, upon the four walls thus formed is a protective deck of steel, 2% inches thick, strong enough to deflect any shot passing in through the five-inch armor, which reinforces the sides from the top of the heavy band up to the main deck. Above this roof and extending to the sides are many feet of coal, so wisely dis- posed that its preserce may give added pro- tection to the boilers, engines and maga- zines that lie below and within this box of heavy steel. From the lower edges of the thick cross-wise bulkheads, spreading from side to side and running thence to the bow and the stern, are two decks of three-inch steel, the forward one terminating at the stem and forming the spine for the ram be- yond. Coffer dams on each side and for- ward and ft of the vital region, filled with cellulose, a substance swelling rapidly when wet and capable of plugging automatically shot holes admitting water, will give added protection to the parts less heavily shielded. Within the outer hull for a distance of 24% feet, the space occupied by the vitals, there is another or inner bottom, extending up to the protective deck or armored roof of this region, seeming, as it were, a smaller craft cut off abruptly at each end and fitted bodily within the larger vessel. The space between this faner bottom and the outside skin is divided into numerous water-tight compartments, under the control of power- ful pumps, having individual capacities of thousands of gallons a minute. The entire interior of the ship is further cut up into other but larger compartments, that can be filled or drained at will to quench a fire or to overcome a leak. Way down in the depths of the craft, be- neath the water and under the protective deck and those tons and tons of coal—each in its own compartment—are five ponderous boilers and two sets of triple expansion en- gines, which must develop the power need- ful to drive the ship through the water at the rate of sixteen knots an hour. Powerful Machinery. With bared breasts and arms, a corps of coal heavers and firemen will shovel fucl into those thirty odd glaring mouths and torment with long slice bars the furious masses of writhing flames that the boilers may be goaded to their working pressure of 160 pounds under the added draught of nu- merous fans. Deft engineers and assistants will watch the intricate maze of pulsing steam and water pipes, the lightning strokes of shining piston rods and crank shafts, and keep cool with a frothy emul- sion of oil and sea water the burdened jour- nals and the immense thrust blocks that bear the push of those driving engines and transmit that awful power to the movement of the craft. ‘No less than a hundred auxiliary engines, steam, electrical and hydraulic, will lessen the tax upon the muscular energies of the crew of 450 souls, perform tasks beyond the power of that whole aggregation, consid- ered as a unit of energy, and add to the effi- ciency of the craft by lifting and lowering the boats, raising the anchors, loading coal and stores, discharging ashes, bringing shot, shell and powder from their rooms be- low to the several gun stations, turning the turrets and swinging the great rudder from side to side against the pressure of hun- dreds of tons of rushing water, and that at the merest pressure of the lightest hand. The exhausted steam is not wasted, but turned instead into two large condensers, where, after wandering through miles of cooling pipes, it is turned out in the form of hot water ready for reconsumption. The Wonders of the Interior. Steam will spread its cheerful glow throughout the living spaces and keep them dry and warm under the hardest of weather conditions, and great blowers will send fresh air into the bilge and coal bunk- er’ and drive therefrom the noxious fumes and gases that may gather there. An elec- tric plant will develop the light needed to shed the refulgence of hundreds and thou- sands of candles within her darkest cor- ners or to guard without against sudden assault at night; distillers, with a daily output of 18,000 gallons, will supply plenty of fresh pure water; large galleys will times as powerful as powder. Endowed with a seeming intelligence that holds them against wind and tide straight on their errand of death and demolition, they speed rapidly toward the object of their discharge, and no ship yet built can with- stand that blow, if fairly placed. Just behind the forward large turret. and below the pilot house is the conning tower, within the narrow compass of which and behind whose walls of ten-inch steel the captain controls these mighty powers and guides his shtp into action. ithin that little space the master brain force of the whole craft is centered, and branching nerves, in the shape of numerous wires and tubes, are carried to every important point down the spinal column of that ar- mored tube, putting the commanding of- ficer in touch with every important sta- tion. There before him he reads the speed of his ship—knows to an inch the direction of the rudder; reads repeated the orders that he gave and knows them minded; fol- lows the hand that marks in yards the dis- tance of the nearing foe: knows the readi- ness of every part of that great organism below him, and watches the coming enemy Hairy the narrow slits in the walls about im. Silent, and with tense nerves, the gun crews await the signal to hurl in any di- rection great masses of destructive steel, hastening on their errand with a velocity of 2,000 feet a second, while way below the busy firemen feed the roaring furnaces. The massive machinery quickens, and through the ship is felt the steady throb of those, ponderous bodies; and, when those engines are making a hundred and more revolutions a minute and the two 16-foot screws are churning the water back with all the force of 11,000 horse power, the ship— a@ moving mass of 11,410 tons—speeds on- ward at the rate of sixteen knots an hour. To stand before her then means to take a blow of awful might from her murderous ram, before which the toughest armor would bend like bunch grass in an autumn gale. Director of Powerfal Forces. Such, indeed are the possibilities of mod- ern warfare. There are no supernumer- aries—each man has his appointed place, his single responsibility, and the post at which he must fight or perish in full reali- zation of the direful forces with which he has to bear; and above it all the master mind in the conning tower must wrest his honors by that finesse, thought and cunning of execution his undaunted courage and self-control make possible. With 1,800 tons of coal aboard, her bunkers filled, the Iowa will be able to steam, at a cruising rate of ten knots an hour, for thirty days, covering in that time a distance of 7,400 miles; and at full speed, sixteen knots an hour, will have an endurance of six days and a radius of action of 3,000 miles. | In power of battery, scope of fire, armor Protection and efficiency, the ship is equal to any of the larger foreign ships of like type, while considerably ahead of her Eu- ropean classmates of like size. As an ex- ample of the American naval architect’s skill, she fs regarded ag an achievement of which this nation should well feel proud, oud @ namesake in‘ whitch any state might glory. as A Danger. From Treth. t If the big ocean liners keep on racing and running their long thin'noges into the mud, the summer resorts‘aldtig the Jersey coast will have to be moved inland so that they Will be out of harm’s way. ——— +e —___ Which Acopunted for It. From Truth, ad “after that,” remarked the young slim who had been telling ax inane ghost story, “my mind was a blank.” “That accounts for it,” commented a sharp young woman, and theie was an interreg- num of profound silence. ——+ee—__—_—_ Agreed With the Speaker. From Puck. Mr. Cumso (interested in the news from Congress)—“Mr. Reed says he considers smoking in the House a very bad: practice.” Mrs. Cumso—“So do L It just ruins the ILLIPS PH E: IN - AR VOR RICHNESS AND DIGESTIBILITY. BIDDY’S CHARMED LIFE. A Hen's Exeiting Ride on Ice Cakes am the Maine Freshet. From the Lewiston Evening Journal. One of the most exciting things that oc- curred xecently was the going over the falls of a hen on a cake of ice. Probably 2,000 people saw the hen in Auburn and Lewiston. It was in the forenoon and the ice was running in large cakes over the falls. As ene cake approached the dam a living object was seen moving on it. Some one ered out that it was a baby, others that it was a dog. When it sped, eddying and turning, by Little Island, those on the Auburn end of the Maine Central railroad bridge thought that they discerned a hen sitting on the fce, and as it drew nearer it proved to be one, She was taking it easily and seemed rather to enjoy life. As the cake on which she sat went over the first undulation of the west end of the dam che cast her weather eye up at the folks on the pler as much as to say: “Why don't you folks come and take a ride with me?” “That hen is a goner!" said one who saw the cake of ice strike another and go to pieces in the rips below the falls. But Biddy calmly fluttered cver onto the bigger piece and rode on. A great crowd came rushing down to sce her fate in the thrashing caldron of West Pitch. “Now she’s as good as dead,” and it did seem to worry her, for when the cake of ice rode up over the top of the Old Gentle- man of the Falls end plunged downward into the mass of fiving spray and foam the hen gave a surprised sort cf call and spread out her short wings and flew cackling over the dashing waters and seething foam, out and down into the eddy below the falls, where she lit on the nearest ice cake and sailed calmly on. Right under the Grand Trunk bridge, says Mr. Nelson A. Dodge of Whirple street, she lost her footing on the cake she was on and got into the water, but she fluttered and floundered on to an- other cake. and in a minute or two dis- appeared below the island. “That hen will live.” sald the man who saw it go over the fails. “If she doesn’t go near enough to the shore to get off she will es picked up at sea by some passing vessel.” os HIS WISHES NOT CONSIDERED. But the Rules of the Store Were Closely Adhered To. From the Chicago Daily Tribune. A man with a bundle under his arm made his way to the gas and oil stove counter in one of the big department stores the other day and addressed the young woman in charge: “Here is a ten-foot piece of flexible gas pipe I got from you last Thursday,” he said. “I would lke to exchange it for a longer one and pay the difference.” “There’s only one longer size in stock,” she replied, “and it’s only two feet longer. What did you have to pay for this?” “Seven cents a foot.” “Well, it’s two cents cheaper now. We reduced the price this morning.” “Then a twelve-foot piece would be only sixty cents “Yes, sir. “Well, I ought to pay the ten cents’ differ- ence just the same. All I want is—” “That's all right. Just take it to the ex- change department, on the next floor, and they'll give you an exchange cheék.” ‘The customer followed directions. “I want to exchange this piece of flexible gas pipe for a longer one,” he said to the young woman behind the counter, “and I have been sent to you.” “What did you pay for It?” she asked. “Seventy cents; but I bought it last Thurs- day, and the price has been reduced since then. I only want—” “That's all right. Name, please?” He gave his name. , please? ve his address. “Here is your exchange check.” “But this calls for seventy cents, and I'm only really entitled to—” “Take it back to the department where you got it and the young lady will make the exchange for you.” He took it back. The salesgirl at the gas pipe counter wrapped up the twelve-foot piece, made out a regular sale check for sixty cents, and sent the two slips of paper to the cashier. Ten cents came back. “Here is. your gas pipe,” she said, “and here is the change.” “But I don’t—” “Are you waited on, lady?” He took the ten cents and made his devious way out of the building, more deeply impressed with the inexplicable mysteries of the department store exchange system than he had ever been before. ss Absolute Panctuality. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Some two months ago a boy who asked for employment in a local manufactory was told to come again when he reached eleven years of age, as he was at that time under the proper age. 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