Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 20, 1912, Page 7

Just a Bit of Life as It Cropped Out on a Railway Train. A TOUCH OF REAL HUMANITY. The Rough Looking Man Who Proved That His Heart Was Big and In the Right Place and the Shabby but Grateful Foreigner He Befriended. “Whenever I hear anything nowa- days about ‘man’s inhumanity to man,’” said a Providence citizen the | other day, “I am reminded of a little incident. I was coming back from Boston with a friend og the midnight | train, and, getting on board at the Back Bay station, we found a seat near the rear end of the car. “Soon after the train pulled out I happened to look around and saw the conductor apparently expostulating with a rather shabby looking specimen of humanity who was sitting in the last seat. At first 1 thought the man was drunk, but as 1 watched I saw that he was a foreigner who couldn’t understand English. He was holding out a crumpied one dollar bill to the conductor and saying ‘New York’ over and over again. “Finally the conductor shook his head, said something I couldn’t catch and went on. The foreigner, a rather decent looking young fellow, gazed at him despairingly, then buried his face in his hands and began to cry. With the usual callous indifference of the traveling public to the troubles of any one else, I paid no more attention to | the man and prepared to take a nap. “I was just beginning to doze when I became aware that a man was stand- ing beside me in the aisle, speaking to | me. I sat up and looked at him. He ‘was a rough appearing man, far from prepossessing, clean shaven, with a ‘sort of bulldog face. “‘Say, gents,’ he began, ‘I want to) know if you wouldn't like to help a fel- | ler out.” “TI stiffened instinctively, determined to refuse to let him make a ‘touch.’ “‘There’s a poor young foreigner back there,’ he went on with a jerk of his thumb toward the alien, still sit- | ting with bowed head, ‘and he’s up against it for fair. He can’t speak a word of English, and he wants to go to New York. where he has friends. “*He got the idea somehow he could do it for a dollar, all he’s got; but. of | course, he can’t, and they’re going to put him off the train when we get to Providence. It’s mighty hard on a fel- ler like him, and there ain’t any tell- ing what'll bappen to him getting put off in a strange city at 1 o’clock in the | morning. | thought maybe you’d be willing to give a little to help him along.” “He stopped, looked us straight in the eye and smiled sheepishly as if he were ashamed of what he was doing. We gave him a dollar. and he went on through the car, and there were few of the passengers who didn’t respond to | He came back counting | the appeal. the money. and as he got to our seat | heard him say: “There's a dollar more needed—!’ll make it up myself!’ and he pulled out a couple of fifty cent pieces and added them to the amount. “The conductor and the brakeman were standing at the door of the car near the foreigner’s seat. “*Here,’ said the man who had col- lected the money to the alien; ‘give me your dollar.’ “Dumbly, but trustingly, the young fellow handed it over. and. giving it to the conductor with the rest, the bull- | dog man said gruffly: “There's bis fare.’ “It slowly dawned on the alien what had been done for him, and as the con- | ductor punched the rebate check and handed it to him the gratitude in his | face was indescribable. He couldn’t speak, but he took his cap off and bowed again and again to the official, | but the latter pointed to the passenger who was sitting in his seat across the aisle and told the youth that he was the one to thank. “The foreigner crossed the aisle till he stood squarely in front of his bene- factor, took off his cap and, with tears of gratitude in his eyes, bowed again and again. It was evident enough that the benefactor was embarrassed by this unexpected outburst. At first he waved his hand around the car to indi- eate that everybody had had a hand in ft. But he couldn’t make the foreigner understand. The latter kept on bow- ing, whereupon the uncomfortable in- dividual in the seat grunted and turn- ed to look out of the window. “I have never seen,” concluded the man who was telling the story, “a kindlier—if 1 were a girl I should say a sweeter—act of charity in my life. Sit- ting across the aisle. this hard faced man had heard the story of the for- eigner, helpless, alone and frightened, and out of pure goodness of heart, without any necessity for doing it, he had taken upon himself the ungrateful task of soliciting money from the rest of the people in that car to help out a man he’d never seen before and would probably never see again.”—Providence Journal. i The New Star. ' “How did you become an actor? I é guppose you studied Shakespeare and other masters for many weary hours.” “Not exactly,” responded the promi- nent star. “I became an actor by mak- ing a three base hit in a pin Pittsburgh Post. ‘The best part of beauty is that which mo picture can express.—Bacon. A FRIEND IN NEED THE EARTH CRUST FAST TRAINS IN Its Density, Its Thickness and al Pressure it Exerts. A BAR TO WORLD EXPLOSION. The Reasons Why This Old Planet of Ours, With All Its Pentup Fiery, Voicanic or Gaseous Forces at Work, | Could Never Be Blown to Fragments. Some writers have accounted for the asteroids on the theory that they are the fragments of a world that from | some unknown cause has been explod- | | ed in its orbit. Similarly, many have thought that perhaps at some distant’ | time, when the seas shall have been drunk up into the cracked and thick- ened crust of the age shrunken earth and the volcanoes—those vents of the fiery interior—shall have become chok- ed and extinct, the pentup gases gener-. ated from the descending moisture by the still great internal heat may ac- tually explode the old earth like a veritable bombshell. But that can never bappen. In 1883 Krakatoa, a sleepy old vol- cano on a small island in the strait of Sunda} between Java and Sumatra. began to show marked signs of uneasi- ness. Round the voleano the quaking earth opened enormous fissures in the bottom of the sea. down which rushed Niagaras of water. Then the fissures | closed and confined the engulfed flood in the hot subterranean depths. The | water was quickly converted into steam, the steam into dissociated gases, without room for expansion. It exerted a pressure equal to that of the strongest dynamte. The great chimney of Krakatoa, | sealed since the memory. of man, | barred the normal path of escape. Higher and higher mounted the prés- | sure under the buge mass of the vol- | eano; then, of a sudden, came a blast ; that actually shook the earth. Never before in historic time had there been | Such a shock. The whole top of the old | mountain was blown into the sky. The recoil was distinctly felt clear through the terrestrial ball. Z This great cataclysm has been cited |as an indication of the power of the pentup forces that may some day dis- rupt the earth itself. Let us examine | the underlying principles that must | guide us in passing judgment on the | correctness of this theory. An explosive compound is a combust- ible combined mechanically or chem- feally either with oxygen or with an | oxidizing substance that will burn with- out the help of atmospheric oxygen. Among the most powerful high ex- |plosives are nitrogelatin and picric acid, each of which has a density more | than one and a half times that of water. The products of their combus- | tion are nearly all gaseous, whereas the | products of the combustion of ordinary | black gunpowder are less than half | gaseous. The larger part is the solid matter that makes the smoke. The energy that a high explosive can exert depends on the volume of the gases liberated and the temperature to which the heat of the explosion ean | raise them. The exact temperature of the gases liberated by a high explosive at the in- stant of detonation is not absolutely known. but may be approximately learned through chemical experiment. Nor is the amount of pressure known with absolute certainty. It is probable, ! however, that nitroglycerin, nitrogela- | tin and picric acid, when detonated in a confined space, exert a pressure some- jwhere between 300,000 and 500,000 | pounds to the square inch. If we assume that the earth crust has a density five times that of water and that its average thickness is fifty | Miles, then it follows that it exerts a | Pressure of more than 500,000 pounds | to the square inch; if the crust is a hundred miles thick, then the pressure ‘ls more than a million pounds to the | | square inch—a pressure certainly great- | jer than the expansive force exerted by the most powerful high explosive. Plainly, no quantity of high explosive | detonated under the crust of the earth | would be able to lift it, and consequent- ly we know that no world of the size of the earth can ever explode from its own pentup internal forces. If, then, no high explosive force is | sufficient to blow up a world the size of the earth, how can worlds explode? |There is only one way in which the heavenly bodies can become possessed lof sufficient energy actually to blow |up, and that is by collision. The stars are flying about in space | with velocities that range all the way from five miies a second to 500 miles a tecond. If two celestial orbs, traveling each at a velocity of 200 miles a second, met in a head-on collision they would be fused and gasified by the impact, and the heat generated would be sufficient to break up the matter of both into its ultimate elements and to expand it into nebulous haze. This is the way in which science says that new suns, new nebulae and new stars are born.—Hud- son Maxim in Youth’s Companion. Sorry He Spoke. He—I'd like to know what enjoy- ment you can find in going from store to store looking at things you haven’t the least idea of buying. She—I know I can’t buy them, but there is a sort of melancholy pleasure in thinking that I could have bought them if I had mar- tied George Scads when I had the chance instead of taking you. Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.— Richter. SERIOUS CLASH Six Dead and Many Injured in Rail Wreck. VICTIMS ARE TRAINMEN Florida-Cuba Specials on the Sea- board Air Line Road Collides at Granite, Va.—Steel Cars Prevent Casuaities Among the Passengers. Richmond, Va., Nov. 20.—Six are known to be dead and many injured as the result of a headon collision near Granite, N. C., between the north and southbound Florida-Cuba special trains on the Seaboard Air Line rail- way. Telegraph wires were down and communication with the outside world entirely cut off for many hours. The known dead are: C. H. Beckham, engineer, Raleigh, N. C.; W. A. Falson, engineer, Ra- leigh, N. C.; R. J. Gray, colored, fire- man; James Rufttn, colored, fireman; O. V. Priddy, express messenger, Boy- kins, Va., and Express Messenger King. Many of the passengers and mem- bers of the crews of both trains were ; injured, including Conductors W. R. Tilghman and G. G. Shannonhouse, both of Richmond, who are reported to have been seriously hurt. The cause of the wreck has not been determined. The northbound train was due at this place, eight miles south of the wreck, at 2:40 a. m but did not pass until nearly 4 o'clock. The southbound train was due here at 4 o’clock. The two trains met just outside the yards of Granite, a small! station near the state line. Wrecking trains were rushed to the scene from Norlina, N. C., about sev- en miles south of the point of the wreck, from Raleigh, N. C., and from Portsmouth, Va. The trains were composed of steel sleeping cars and dining cars. GIVEN UP BY THEIR SURETIES Two Defendants in Dynamite Trial Are Jailed. Indianapolis, Nov. 20.—Edward Smythe and James E. Ray of Peoria, Ml, two of the forty-five defendants in the “dynamite conspiracy” trial, were placed in jail because their bondsmen withdrew the security on which the men had been at liberty, At the opening of court attorneys for the bondsmen announced they would surrender the prisoners, who then were placed in the custody of the United States marshal. The reason for the withdrawal of the bonds was not given. GUNMEN ARE FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER Jury in Rosenthal Case Out Only One Hour. New York, Nov. 20.—The four so called gunmen, accused of the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal last July, were all found guilty of murder | in the first degree after the jury had deliberated on the case for a little more than an hour. In his charge Justice Goff defended ' the testimony of the state’s chief wit- ‘ness, Bald Jack Rose, and declared that if he had been lying it was more than likely that he would have com- pleted his story by declaring that he saw the defendants shoot their victim down. He also cautioned the jury that the stories told by the defendants bore a striking similarity one to the other, and hinted that there had been collu- sion in framing their defeise. ONE KILLED IN AUTO WRECK Otisco (Minn.) Man Loses Life and Relative Is Injured. Mankato, Minn, Nov. 20.—Fred Lewer, aged fifty-five, manager of the Independent Harvester company of Otisco, was instantly killed and his brother-in-law, William Preim of Alma City, was severely hurt when Lewer's car became unmanageable and turned turtle near Smith’s mill, just across the line in this county. Preim was removed to Janesville for treatment. Lewer is survived by a widow and nine children. PULITZER LEFT $18,000,000 Gotham Publisher Gave $1,500,000 in Public Bequests. New York, Nov. 20.—Joseph Pulit- zer, late proprietor of the New York World, who came ‘> America prac- tically penniless, . at the time of the Civil war, in which he served as a@ Union soldier, still was in reduced circumstances, left a gross estate, tax- able in New York state, of $18,200,000. Mr. Pulitzer left more than $1,500, 000 in public bequests, which are ex- empt from taxation. THERA EREP ERED OEE TD OES a ks MILLINERY The latest and best inLadids’,Mis- ses and Children’s Headgear, at rea sonable prices. A trimmer who knews her business. Seaton Moa reforteateateeteatestoetoateeteetoets : ! H FURNISHING HOUSE GRAND RAPIDS. SPECIAL SALE MINNESOTA. RAMA AAAAN AAEM AY | LADIES’ | TAILORING | Suits, Skirts, and | Coats, well made, welllined and a per- fect fit guaranteed. FANCY WORK Pillows, Towels, DRESS MAKING You will “have a fit’’ and be delight- ed if our expert designer make your clothes. Fit, Style and Workmanship guaranteed. 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