PARTY LINE TELEPHONE.
A Sqonl»bl«» Between Subscribers
That Wjim Settled Very Speed
ily nnd Amicably.
Washington has thousands of party line
telephones. I he best of feeling does not
always prevail between those on the party
lines when both want to u.-e the phone at
the same tune, says the Rochester Democrat
and ( hromcle. A prominent politician is
on a paity line with a doctor. He was in
great haste to get a friend over the’phone
and began ringing and shouting “hello.”
The other subscriber wanted to use his tele
phone at the same time, with the result they
w®(l'^.!"oon -aying haish things to each other.
W ho arc you, demanded the politician.
1 111 Hr. blank, was the answer.
“Oh, pardon me, doctor, you can have
the line. It it weren t tor you 1 couldu t
make a living.”
’ Well, who are you? ’ asked the doctor.
“1 m Jones, the undertaker,” was the an
ewer.
The U. S. Dept, of Agriculture
rives to Salzer’s Oats its heartiest en
dorsement. Sal/er's New National Oats
yielded in 1903 from 150 to 3<>0 bu. per
acre in 30 different States, and you, Mr.
Farmer, can 1* at. this in 1904, it you will.
Salzer’s seeds are pedigree seeds, bred up
through careful selection to big yields.
Per Acre.
?nlzer’s Beardless Barley yielded 121 bu.
Salzer’s Home Builder Corn... 300 bu.
Speltzand Macaroni Wheat_ 80 bu.
riilzerV V ictoria Rape. 60,000 lbs.
Salzer's Tcosnite, the fodder
wonder .160,000 lbs.
Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass... 50,000 ibs.
Salzer’s Pedigree Potatoes. 1,000 bu.
Now such yields pay and you can have
them, Mr. Farmer, in 1904.
SEND 10c IN STAMPS
and this notice to the John A. Salzer Seef’
Co., La Crosse, \\ is., and you will ge\.
their big catalog and lots of farm seed
samples free. |K. L.]
M it.v a genius has been considered a fool
and, too (,i ten, he wa» merely a different kind
o. fooJ tnati tne one he was considered.—
Puck.
(Mrs. Hughson, of Chicago,
whose better follows, is another
woman in high position who owes
her health to the use of Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
“ Dear Mns. Pixkham :— I suffered
for several years with general weakness
and bearing-down pains, caused by
womb trouble. My appetite was poor,
and I would lie awake for hours, and
could not sleep, until I seemed more
weary in the morning than when 1 re
tired. After reading oneof your adver
tisements I decided to try the merits
cf Lydia E. Pinklsam’s Vegetable
Compound, and 1 am so glad 1 did.
3S'o one can describe the good it did me.
1 took three bottles faithfully, and be
sides building up my general health,
it drove all disease and poison out of
my body, and made me feel as spry and
active as a young girl. Mrs. I’inkham’s
medicines are certainly all they are
claimed to be.” — Mus. M. E. Hughson,
347 East Ohio St.. Chicago, 111. — $5000
forfeit if original of above letter proving genuine,
ness cannot be produced.
More than a million women have re
gained health by the use of Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vcgetahlct (impound.
If flu* slightest trouble appears
which you do not understand
write to Mrs. Pinkbam, at Lynn,
31 ass., for her advice, and a few
timely words from her will show
you the right tiling to do. This
advice costs you nothing, but it
may mean life or happiness or
both.
Genuine
Carter’s
Little Liver Pills.
Must Boar Sienaturo of
See Fac-Slmllo Wrapper Below.
Vorr small and os easy
to toko as irogar.
FC3 HEADACHE.
FOR DIZZINESS.
FOR 81 LIUUSHESSs
FOR TQRPEO LIVER.
FOR CONSTIPATION.
FOR SALLOW SKIN.
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Stupendous SlnKlin'f'tln^,
TVo have in times past been told much
cf wonderful feats in rail- id building,
and much has been written of the en
gineering skill and daring that directed
the course of the iron horse across the
plains and mountains that lie between
the Missouri river and the Pacific Ocean.
“In the grandeur and magnitude of the
undertaking, the Union Pacific— Central
Pacific has never been equaled. The
energy and perseverance with which the
work was urged forward, and the ra
pidity with which it was executed, are
without a parallel in history,’’ were the
statements of the special government com
missioners to the Secretary of the In
terior
Thirty-five years ago there was no tune
to spend on work similar in that which
has just been completed. Then the world*
was watching while the builders of the
Union Pacific and Central Pacific raced
for supremacy, it was a magnificent con
test. but nowadays the owners of the
road have been brought to consider other
problems. One of these necessitated the
solution i f the grade question and the
straightening of the track.
One of the most interesting and diffi
cult feats of railroad engineering ever
undertaken has just been completed b
the owners of “The Overland Route.’
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Had
road -the building of a bridge across the
Great- Salt Lake between Ogden, Utah,
and Litoiii. Neva la.
Tim work being practically completed,
the new track was formally opened on
Thanksgiving Day when Mr. K. 11. ilar
rimari, head of the llarriinan Lines, and
a big party of railroad magnates partook
of Thanksgiving Day dinner in the mid
dle of Great Salt Rake.
The Ogden-Lucin “Cut Off" is 102
miles in length, 72 miles on land and 30
miles on trestle work and tillins over the
■waters of Great Salt Lake. It presents
a practically level track except for a short
distance on the west end near Uucin. Ne
vada. where a slight grade is encoun
tered.
i i»i use oi im.1 hu on win inrow mi
the transcontinental traffic over the old
line from Ogd in to Litcin, Nevada, around
the Lake. This strip of track is one
of the most expensive of the I landman
system, the maximum grade over the
long Promontory hill is 101 feet to the
mile and helper engines are always ne ts
sary. The elimination of the use of these
engines will mean the saving of at least
$1,500.00 a day in operating expenses and
also a saving of several hours hi running
time.
Active work was commenced in 1902,
and thus the almost impossible task was
completed in about 22 months. The last
pile was driven during the last week of
October. This great work has cost ovei
$4 200,000,00.
1’he cut o?T runs from Ogden west 1"
miles over level country before reaching
the lake proper, then across the east arm
of the Lake 9 miles to Promontory. Then
five miles of solid road bed and then L)
miles west over the west arm of the Lake
toward Lucui and thence across the (.rent
Salt Lake Desert to Luein. Nevada.
Across the east arm of the Lake, it will
be almost a continuous tillin supported
by trestle. Near the middle of this will
be a gap of 4 i() feet of open trestle work
left for the Outers of the Hear liver which
flow into tne arm of tlie Lake.
Across Promontory Point runs five
miles of soli»i road bed and here difficult
work was encountered. A cut of 3,000
feet long in sand and rock of barren
bluff being necessary. At this point, the
most beautiful on this inland sea. sur
veys have been made for an immense sum
mer resort.
Across the west‘arm of the Lake is 11
miles of trestle work with a tillin ap
proach at each end of four miles. In
completing the work of spanning the Lake,
one great difficulty was encountered across
the east arm by the settling of fillins and
trestle work. This was caused by the salt
of the flow of the Hear river having col
lected for centuries over the bottom of
the Lake and having formed a salt wall
of 100 teet. It took 1,000 tons of rock in
rules which appear to have reached the
bottom of the Lake proper and which lias
resulted in a firm and splendid road bed.
In a speech which he made at the Alta
Club. Salt Lake City, on the eve of the
opening of the "Cut Off.” Mr. llarrimaa
raid:
"The completion of this undertaking
will reduce the distance between San
Franeweo and Salt Lake by 41 miles, and
will eventually bring the time between
the two cities down to 22 hours.
“It is intended to reduce the running
time from Salt Lake to Chicago to 30
houis, and put passengers into New York
in 50 hours trom Salt Lake.
"These two railroads l.'nion Pacific and
Southern Pacific have spent in the last
three years somewhere near $130,000.
000.00 in repairs and improvements aside
from the expenses of operation or main
tenance.”
TOOT FOR MISSOURI CORK
|>oetlf I’uk<‘ reals* a Pnean of Pride
—Muy Have Hail Corn Juice
ou (he Inside.
The Joplin Globe's poet, having read that
Missouri heat' the world in the production
of corn, took his horn in hand and blew these
few blasts in celebration of the fact:
"\\ hen you think about Missouri and are
wont to toot her horn, please to give a pass
ing n#ntion to her golden yield oi corn,
Tiaigii she sets the pace industrial in ap
ples rosy red, and in other lines of (Hurt 1*
serenely at the head, it is only very recently
she's come into her own as the state where
in the biggest crop of yellow corn is grown.
The bureau of siathvlk-s agricultural relates
that Missouri nmv has distanced all her sis
terhood of states m the number of acres
dedicated unto corn and the number of
bushels from each fruitful acre burn. The
statistics draw comparisons, which show
upon their face that Mi-*.Prohibition Kan
sas is assigned to second place, and ambitious
Oklahoma, of whom a deal is heard, the facts
and icy figures »ti< k in corner label ■ 1 t-hi.d.
So hereafter, when you feel inclined to toot
the old state’s horn, don’t forget to blow a
blast or two in honor of her corn.
Xot Without Dint i not ion.
A note of family pride was struck in the
Con versa tii n between three sru ill Heading
boys the other day. The parts played by
their respective grand fat he rs in t he civil war
were being depicted by two ol the boys in
vivid colors The career of each, it seemed,
had been halted by confinement m southern
prisons, and it was on the la t ter fact t hat the
lads laid particular stress. The third youth,
unable to match tlie.-e recitals with any
military achievement of his own forefathers,
preserved an envious silence for a while, and
then, not to be outdone,said, disparagingly
‘‘Why, that's not so much. My l ncle Bill
w as in jail a long time, and lie was never in
the army at all.’ —Philadelphia Ledger.
MUIR GLACIER NOT ON VIEW
Four Yesrs £inc» Steamers Have
Able to Re3C'.t Ir.
Tourists in Alaska have born
greatly disap}ousted in the past
four .seasons at i hr inability of ex
cursion steamers to approach tin*
front of t lie 31 nil* glacier, says the
New York Sun.
I’p to the summer of 11)00, ex
eursion koala from Sitka had reg
ularly steamed alone- tile very
front of i his l est know n and most
interesting of American glaciers,
and it was a treat to view at short
ramie the mighty ice wall four
miles across.
In t lie summer of lilllO, however,
the ire-choked channel of .Muir in
let prevented steamers from ap
proaching nearer than ten miles,
and in the three summers since
then (hey have been slopped by
ice at distnitres of from live to ten
miles.
A short time after die last ex
eursion party of 18110 visited .Muir
glacier, a series of severe earth
quakes occurred in that region. It
is supposed that the impassable
eondit ion of Muir inlet, since t hose
September earthquakes, is due to
the shaking the ghirior received.
In May last. Messrs. Andrews
a ml < *ase. of Skagwny. forced t licic
way with great difficulty to the
face of the glacier, where they
made an interesting discovery,
no indication of which could he
observed at the distance from
which the glacier has been viewed
for several years.
It lias long been known that
Muir glacier is a recedingice river.
I is front is breakingofl'or molt ing
faster than the ice is formed, and
the rate of recession since John
Muir rediseov<*red the glacier in
1ST!), was about a mile in seven
years.
lint the glacial front in the last
four years has retired two miles
and a half, a far higher rate of ret
rogression than has been observed
before. The present indications
are that before long Muir glacier
will cease to reach tidewater.
BROOK FARM AMENITIES.
Some of the Humors of the Colony
of Notables.
Mr. Lindsay Swift, whoso work
on ilrook Farm is really one of the
most thorough monographs over
written in the country, reports a
legend that one of the younger
members or pupils confessed his
passion while helping his sweet
heart to wash dishes; and Knier
fon is the authority for stilting
that as the men danced in the
evening, clothespins sometimes
dropped from their pockets. Haw
thorne wrote to his sister, not
without sarcasm: "The whole fra
ternity eat together and such a
delectable way of life has never
been seen on earth since the days
of the early (Tirist ians. We gei
up at half-past six. dine at half
past t welve itnd go to bed at nine.”
An element of moral protest also
entered into the act uni work of the
more serious members, writes
Thomas Wentworth 11 igginson, in
Atlantic. Thus Mr. Ripley said
to Theodore Parker, of John
Dwight, afterwards eminent as a
musical critic: "There is your ac
complished friend; lit* would hoe
corn all Sunday if I would lot him.
but till Massachusetts could not
make him do it on Monday." L’u
mor adds that Parker replied: “It
is good to know that he wants to
hoe corn any day of the week.”
The question is not how far these
details were based on fact or wen*
the fruit of fancy, but the immedi
ate point is that they materially
aided in keeping up tin* spirits of
the unbelieving world outside.
Sir Oliver Lodge.
Sir (Miver Lodge is a man talk#
about in London. lie lias con
reived a device for tight ing fog by
electricity, the current to be shot
from tall masts.
Marries to Reform.
A woman seldom marries a man
lo reform him unless he has mon
ey and is miserly.—Chicago Daily
News.
In ii i t ii li a !.■
y III :l 9
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