CARS TO RUN SWIFTLY WITHOUT WHEELS.
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MODEL OF ALBERTSON MAGNETIC Tn atm
Letters patent have been Issued by the American and European eovem
meats for a new system of railroading, which, according to its Inventor
Trill carry a train or cars wunout wneeis drawn by a one horse-now,.
motive from New York to San Francisco
nhlih will niah n rnamlaffnn
mveuu"". u.v- .v.BU.t.vu .anvvny u-ain tnrough space at tho
f ano miles an hour, is the oreatlon f t. . .r. 1 tne
electrical engineer, late of Copenhagen
or iue jia. "" "iu nauroaa have been placed at
ihp nrofessor's disposal for the worklne out of hia BnhQr t ... ..
proves to be practicable It upsets a law hitherto believed Immutable, namelv
i.n tlin hpnvler the load, the mora nnnia j. .
, ' ' .
Aihprtson seems to have proved that
, ...... " """i lug jess me power
needed. The scheme in brief is as follows:
The tram is equipped wun a set
slide along under the rails and lift the
a car weighs ten tons, the engineer of the train would merely turn on a
magnetic force of eleven tons, which would thus overcome the weight of the
train and allow it to be propelled with a friction of only one ton. In other
words, the entire weight of the train is held iin hv tho mQn .
experiments have actually shown that the more the train weighs the less
force Is needed to propel It. The great speed claimed by the Inventor for
the magnetic train Is made possible largely by the fact that friction Is almost
wholly done away with.
On such a railroad system as this smoke and vibration would be elim
inated; there would be no possible chance of grade-crossing accidents no
derailing, no hot boxes. Sleeping cars would be superfluous, as the distance
between the oceans could be covered In one day. No mechanical or pneumatic
brake would be needed, for the train is itself a brake, for, In order to stop
the engineer would simply turn on more magnetic power, thus making the
pressure upward greater. ,
COOL HEAD IS ESSENTIAL
Trainers of Wild Animals Must Be
Ever on tha Alert for Surprises.
Wildcats, tigers, Jaguars, panthers,
ind leopards offer the greatest menace
io their trainers. These are the ani
mals that appeur to long most ardently
stalk their prey and utter their night
cries In their native haunts. Almost
Incessantly they swing buck and forth
behind the bars peering over the heads
of the spectators with wild eyes that
seem to be trying to discern the for
est beyond the confines of their prison
house. Besides their restlessness, a
reason why the big beasts of the cat
family are considered more dangerous
than the others Is found in their de
ceptive methods of attack. Lions and
bears meet their enemies boldly, but
a tiger or a leopard particularly the
latter creeps up stealthily, crouches,
draws back when faced and then,
when the victim's guard Is relaxed.
gives a mighty leap. Kind treatment
s but slight effert upon the crea
tes of the forests. Their deep feel
ing or protest against a life that Is
most unnatural td them cannot be
banished by lumps of suear nnd friend
ly pats.
The process of subjection Is, of
-course, a very gradual one. A train-
erg first step is to make himself
known In a pleasant wav to his new
Pupil. He attends to its feeding for
a week or so, stands by its cage talk-
'ng to it and opens the door a little,
tubbing its head cautiously as It ap
proaches. Finally when the anbnal
nas become accustomed to his presence
he enters the cage, being as unobtru
sive as possible, so as not to frighten
or irritate his host. For an hour or
more at a time he may Bit in the cage,
reading or playing with the animal
he dares. A trainer's next move
usually to give the pupil a taste of
aw power. A rope Is fastened to its
and passed around two or three
oars of the cage. The animal is given
Plenty of room in which to move, but
uen it mnkes a leap at its trainer,
no hns become more dictatorial In his
manner than before, it is pulled up
snrt. This practice is resorted to so
Wen aurlng the prellmInnry trainiDg
t tho beast loses confidence in its
Powers. A whipping now and then is
also necessary.
When an animal Is well under con
"l It is taken from its cage Into the
rcna, where instruction in tricks be
? 14 1(1 flr8t made to take and
"tain the place assigned to it. On
wat at the side of the big cage
Mt is placed. The animal learns
"at on entering It will find food there
n acquires a habit of going
voluntarily to its place. Then it must
Cm ht t0 kepp lts 8at- Wnen 14
nmps down without being called it
Punished a little and forced back.
tan h h lt C0Ine8 t0 rcall3!e thflt 14
"nTe no Peace except on its own
urea and so it stay there. The same
rieral tactics are used in teaching
'iimnl. their positions on pyramids
ana "thor formations. Success.
italy tired of her past.
"m0tt " Ancient Landmark. Like-
to DappeaP ncfope Lon.
"aly ! trrd of a RlorIous dontll
c.mi 801,8 boa8t of Garibaldi and Mar
W0t f RnPhnel and Julius Caesar.
n fc mny "Wel1 BbrU8r thelr Bhuld
boat. i fopo,sners complain of steam-
not !h the Grand canal- are
w Tievers when the Campanile
in ten hours' time. This remarkabU
n . .. ult:
University, Denmark. The' facility
r ueu lo rave it. Professor
the heavlpr tii i,o -
of powerful electric magnets which
cars from tho trn-i, to .'
falls. The papers and statesmen ex
hort the people to imitate more power
ful nations and abandon their idle,
pleasure-loving spirit, their love of
pegenntry, Idleness and fireworks, their
indifference to education, to sound
politics and finance.
The Roman city government is now
willing to construct railways along
side the Forum. The old is mixed with
the new, Industry with art, energy
with decay. There Is a telephone at
the spot where St. Peter Is supposed
to have been crucified. I saw the king
of Italy In an automobile by the ruins
In which Christian girls were gored by
bulls. Ills four attendant guards rode
bicycles. Trams and buses start from
the square In which are Nero's bones,
where Luther knelt before his great
revolt, by the gate through which an
endless line of shadows pass, from
guilty Macbeth, doing penance, to so
many popes and emperors. The great
est of churches Is now lighted by elec
tricity as well as by Michelangelo's
dome and the same new luminary Is
turned upon the dying gladiator. The
Roman glories in his modern stations
and ugly civil buildings and cares little
for Cicero or Brutus, for the renais
sance or the antique world.
Underneath a statue of Garibaldi, on
one of the Roman hills, are groups of
figures, allegories, in which Europe
presides over history and art, America
over trade and Industry. Collier's
Weekly.
"Hot Time" as the National Air.
"Hot Time in the Old Town," de
clared Trof. Georg Eduard, of the
German department of Northwestern
University, "Is bound to become the
national air of the United States. Both
the music and the words are In perfect
harmony with the Yankee spirit, and
when the people want to express them
selves and can't think of anything
else to sing, they break out spontane
ously with 'Hot Time.' They've sung
it all round the world.
"The charge up San Juan hill was
made to Its music, and the hand played
lt when the United States soldiers en
tered Pekln, and to-day they are sing
ing lt in the Philippines."
Prof. Eduard spoke in all earnest
ness, for though he Is a native of Ger
many and not yet a naturalized citizen
of this country, he Is thoroughly in
love with America and her progressive
spirit, and declares that he will never
return to Germany to live. These
statements were made to his German
class, and were occasioned by the les
son for the day, which was the Ger
man song, "The Lorelei." The profes
sor became so Interested that he took
up the whole time of recitation with
his discussion. He spolce of German
and American political institutions,
and compared the character of Presi
dent Roosevelt with that of the Ger
man Emperor. Frof. Eduard came to
Chicago in 1803 as world's fair cor
respondent for a German newspaper,
and later accepted the position as
teacher of Gorman in Northwestern
University Chicago Evening Tost.
Undo Iteuben Buya!
Truth am mighty cu' must prevail,
but human lintur' only likes to hear
de plcnsnnt part of lt. De man who
goes about spenkln' de naked truth
all do time Is less welcome dan de liar.
Detroit Free Tress.
Somehow, it always pleases men
when a worthless boy comes out, and
becomes a mighty good man.
PASSION FOR REVOLUTIONS.
Repeating Klfles and Cannon Have
Failed to Work a Cure.
If some of the learned scientists
who are devoting their talents to the
study of germs would turn their at
tention to South America and the lsl
nnds of the Caribbean they might have
discoveries which would prove a bless
ing to mankind in that disturbed quar
ter of the world. Why should the
South American and the West Indian
take to riot and revolution as naturally
as a duck does to water, asks the Bal
timore Sun? Is it because they are
of a fiercer and more turbulent disposi
tion than the Inhabitants of other parts
of this hemisphere, or is it because
they are the victims of sinister bacilli,
germs of rampant and Irresistible
strenuosity?
Not long ago an American savant
announced that in certain parts of the
United States there is a bacillus which
mnkes its way into the bodies of its
unfortunate victims and produces an
invincible aversion to physical and
mental activity. If there Is a germ of
inertia, why shouldn't there be a
bacillus of pernicious activity and mis
directed strenuosity as well? It is not
fair to the South American brethren
to assume that they are totally de
praved; that they engage In throat
cutting and other bloody diversions
from pure love of doing evil. In some
degree, at least, they have been under
the influence of American nnd v.nm.
pean civilization for a great many
years, io some extent they have in
troduced the forms of civilization Into
their governments and social institu
tions. Yet, despite their contact with
citizens of the most enlightened nations
ana tneir commercial and diplomatic
relations with Europe and the United
States, they have scarcely more re
spect for law and order than the
human race displayed in the days of
primitive man.
If there are bacilli in the western
hemisphere indigenous to the tropical
regions which Incite a people against
Its will'and natural disposition to com
mit deeds of violence and murder sav
ants ought to be able to find a remedy.
The antidote commonly used In cases
of pernicious strenuosity has not prov
ed a success. Repeating rifles, bay
onets and cannon have failed to work
a cure. When the South American
has Introduced the germs of revolu
tion and riot into his body nothing
will deter him from stirring up trouble
not even the fear that he will be
shot or bayoneted to death. When he
Is under the influence of the bacillus
of strenuosity and that seems to be
a chronic condition with him he is
like the Malay fanatic who runs
amuck, killing right and left. The
scientist who discovers the remedy for
this would be one of the greatest tri
umphs of this century if the ever-warring
Inhabitants of the Latin-American
republics and of Haiti were inoculated
with the bacilli of slothfulness and re
duced to a state of Innocuous inactiv
ity. The implements of war have
failed to produce the desired result.
Now let science take a hand and if
possible transform the turbulent folk
of the tropics Into peaceful and law
abiding citizens of the new world.
What Education Teaches.
The great thing In all education, says
a noted professor In the Beacon, is to
make our nervous system our ally, in
stead of our enemy. It is to fund and
capitalize our acquisitions and live at
ease upon the interest of the fund.
For this we must make automatic and
habitual, as early as possible, as many
useful actions as we can, and guard
against the growing into the ways that
are likely to be disadvantageous to
us, as we should guard against the
plague. The more of the details of our
dally life we can hand over to the ef
fortless custody of automatonlsm, the
more the higher powers of mind will
be set free for their own proper work.
There Is no more miserable human be
ing than one in whom nothing is ha
bitual but Indecision, and for whom
the drinking of every cup, the time of
rising and going to bed every day, and
the beginning of every bit of work, are
subjects of express volitional delibera
tion. Full half the time of such a man
goes to the deciding, or regretting, of
matters which ought to be so ingrained
in him as practically not to exist for
his consciousness at all. If there be
such dally duties yet not Ingrained In
any one of my readers, let him begin
this very hour to set the matter right.
Unite the Proper Thine
"Gladys," said Chumley to his man
nish sister, "I've done so much for you
you should write me a testimonial."
"A testimonial?"
"Yes; you might say: 'Dear brother,
once I was a timid, delicate girl, but
since using your collars, shirts and ties
I hare become a new woman." Phila
delphia Press.
KcscntlnK an Innult.
"This, I suppose," said the visitor,
"is the gun your great-grandfather car
ried through the revolution?"
"Most assuredly not," haughtily re
plied Cadlelgh Rich. "That was his
gun, but his man carried lt for him, of
course." Philadelphia Tress.
A ten-cent argument often ends In a
10 quarrel
Wagon Wrench aad Jack.
When a team gets stalled with a
heavy load and the driver uses every
means of persuasion, from the whip to
bad language, to urge the horses to
start the wagon, nearly every passer
by has a feeling of sympathy for the
animals and a desire to caution the
driver against cruelty. A more prac
tical thought than these has entered
the mind of a Mlssourian, resulting in
the invention of a simple apparatus,
which can be carried on every wagon
for use in emergency of this kind. In
stead of "putting his shoulder to the
wheel" the driver will get out his
wrench, secure it in position and ex
ert his strength at the end of the long
ASSISTS TEAM WITH A HKAVT LOAD.
lever, lifting and rolling the wheel out
of the rut or up the grade. The ar
rangement consists of a pair of hook
members, which engage the hub and
are adjustably secured to the arms piv
oted to the lifting lever. The latter
has a tilting shoe, which engages the
face of the wheel as pressure Is exert
ed on the level. The device will fit
any diameter of wheel by loosening
the cams which connect the arms with
the hooks, and adjusting the latter at
the proper length. By placing the hook
ends on the ground and the end of the
lever beneath the axle this device can
also be usJ as a wagon Jack to re
place the one which teamsters usually
carry.
A Thins to Do.
Another thing we general farmers
ought to do, and that is set out more
forest trees. Did you notice the story
of that old walnut bridge in Indiana
that a certain company wanted so bad
ly that they were willing to put up a
good steel bridge in the place of it?
The wood, they thought, would be
worth more than the steel bridge. And
the men who controlled the walnut
bridge refused the offer. Now, this
state of affairs Is likely to continue.
Our forests are vanishing, and unless
you and I, the general farmers of the
country, get right down to business
and plant trees the day is near at hand
when fencing and building material
will be worth almost as much as gold.
Every farm ought to be turned into a
little forestry station. We can easily
get the seeds of such trees as are In
digenous to our locality and plant
them. Time will do the rest, and some
day the world will thank us for doing
what we did. Up-to-Date Farming.
Ilarneaa for Unruly Bow.
There are several devices for over
coming the proclivities of some swine
to eat their young, but none of them
better than
the method
shown in the
1 1 1 u stratlon,
which consists
in making a
harness and
attaching it to
the animal In
such a man
ner that she
muzzle fob uolt pio. can not get lt
off. At the same time this hwness
does not prevent the animal from eat
ing slop or shelled grains. Little ex
planation is necessary about this hnr
ness, for the cut shows how it is made
and adjusted. , The essential feature
Is to have the strap back of the fore
legs adjusted tightly enough so that
the nnlruaP can not slip it .over her
head. It must also come close enough
to the forelegs so that there will be no
?hnnce of its slipping. The harness
should be made of heavy leuther well
Joined with rivets. The expense of
such a harness as shown Is small and
several pf them can be made if neces
sary so that any and all of the ptg
eaters may readily be' kept from doing
mischief.
Farmers and Canaera.
The Farmers' Protective Association
of Central New York Is moklng trouble
for the canning factories in setting
prices for which the members are will
ing to grow their produce Instead of
taking the prices offered, as heretofore.
The scale ndopted is considerably In
advance of what was received by farm
ers last year. Some factories have
granted a slight incrense. In Mary
land there ore much agitation and con
flict between growers and packers of
tomatoes along the eastern shore
Country Gentleman,
The Mythical Cum Whoa.
The Department of Agriculture nt
Washington reports that an enormous
number of letters are being received,
from fanners In all parts of the coun
try, asking for definite information
concerning a so-called new grain des
ignated as "corn wheat." Samples for
trial are asked by most of these in
quirers. The department Bays that
these letters are obviously the result
of widely published untruthful news
paper articles. The department au
thorizes the statement that there is no
such thing as "corn wheat," and that
it is not probable corn and wheat can
ever be crossed, and .that it Is a cer
tainty, if they were, that the hybrid
would not be fertile. The grain which
has caused the furor, the department
says, is known correctly as Polish
wheat, although the grain Is not a na
tive of Poland, as the name suggests.
Its original home is in the Mediterran
ean region. The heads and grains of
this wheat are very large, the grains
being, In many cases, twice as large as
taose of ordinary whes.t. The state
ment that it yields from sixty to 100
bushels per acre, however, Is an ex
aggeration, although there may be in
stances in Idaho and Washington,
where the ordinary wheat yield is
large, where the crop may be sixty or
seventy bushels per acre.
The experiments made by the de
partment with the Polish wheat have
generally shown that the yield is dis
appointing. The new wheat has been
grown, except experimentally, In but
few places In this country. From the
experiments so far made the inference
is that the grain may be very good as
a hog food. But Polish wheat Is much
restricted in Its adaptability, and, the
department says, cannot be successful
ly grown anywhere east of the Missis
sippi River, but only in the great
plains region In Washington, Montana,
Idaho and the other parts of the Pa
cific States where the grain Is grown.
Onion Culture Profitable.
Onion growers are feeling more
hopeful over the prospects than for a
number of years back, for the pros
pect is for good
prices for several
years ahead. While
there is little chance
that price's will reach
the figures of twenty
years ago, when on
ion growing was so
profitable, the pros
pects are. at least.
BOUTHPOBT$
encouraging. One pf the best classes
or onions ror profit is the Southport
Globe, illustrated herewith. The im
proved strain , of globe onions was.
given the name Southport, and both
the white and yellow sorts are su
perior to the old globe varieties. The
red Southport does , well in many sec
tions, but is not so reliable as the red
Weatherfleld. Both the white and
yellow Southports are of good size,
most attractive in appearance and are
excellent keepers. Both are also late
sorts and heavy yielders. The South
port Globes are well worthy of atten
tion on the part of onion-growers.
Pore Fhouldere for Work Horses.
The heavy work season of the farm
nearly always occasions galled or sore
shoulders of work horses. Here Is a
simple and chenp way to prevent this:
"Take an ordinary sweat pad and
cover the surface next to the shoulder
with white soft oilcloth. Be very care
ful to have lt put on very smooth,
without any wrinkles or lumps on Its'
surface. The cover is put on by neat
ly serving lt with strong thrend, so that
it will not become displaced. The
trouble with the horses' shoulders in
this respect Is caused by sweating, and
as the oilcloth presents a cool, dry sur
face nnd does not hold the dampness
as leather or cloth does, It prevents the
shoulders from becoming sore In al
most every instance." Indiana
Farmer.
Wool Clin of 1002.
The world's wool clip for 1902 Is esti
mated at 2,711,001,571 pounds. Of this
quantity Europe furnished 044.244,439
pounds, South America 510,000,000,
Central America 5,000,000, Asia 274,
000.000, Australasia 510.000,000, Africa
134,425,000, Oceania 50,000 pounds, and
North America, Including the United
States, the British provinces and Mex
ico, 333,342,032 pounds.-Farro Stock
Journal.
Farm Notea.
For a good grafting wax take four
pounds rosin, one pound beeswax, one
pint linseed oil. Tut Into an iron ket
tle and heat slowly, stirring thorough
ly until all Is well mixed. Pour the
whole mass Into cold water nnd pull
by hand until lt assumes a light golden
color. Make Into sticks and put in a
cool place until required" for use.
Grafting wax never comes amiss, and
lt always pays to keep it on hand. In
case of Injury to a tree at any time It
Is valuable.