The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 53, Ed. 1 Monday, August 14, 1916 Page: 3 of 4
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} By HAROLD CARTER
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(Copyright, WW. by W. G. Chapman.)
Nina Suflitt sut in her bedroom ami
cried over a letter.
It was nine in the evening. On the
morrow she was to become the bride
of ail Euglisli nobleman. Viscount
Addisielgh was a very estimable young
man, very shy, awl obviously hulf in
love with her. lint both had been
dragooned into the marriage.
The days had gone so fast since the
engagement that Nina hod had little
time to regret. It was not until Jacli
Tremont's letter came that the ilood-
tlde of memory came sweeping back
on her.
Five years ago they had been all
but engaged, lie was a poor artist
then, and there had been a terrific
scene when her stepmother learned of
her friendship for the young man, and
of the little suppers at Itentl's, where
they had had such gay parties of
young Bohemians. It had been
glimpse into the wonderful world for
the girl, which closed down abruptly
when she had not the strength to go
her own way.
She had not seen Jack since that
last parting, when she had promised
to write to him. And all that was
live years ago.
Her father's death had followed
Her stepmother, a worldly woman,
only wanted to get the girl off hei
hands. She had been touted shame
lessly In the foreign markets—that
was the way with her set—and finally
the viscount, with an impoverished
late, had bargained for her. At
least, not he, but the family lawyer.
All had been very decorous, and
well, Nina was to marry him on the
morrow.
She read her lover's letter again
through blinding tears. It was only
semblance of the present evil from
their hearts. Ar*d he told hr? of hi*
success, and of his friends; some mar-
ried, one dead, one traveling abroad.
After the meal he lit a cigarette and >
they sat closer together, heedless of
the passage of time.
I am glad to have seen you, Nina."
he said at length. "We had a gooil
time together. This will refresh my ;
memory to carry It with me the rest
of my days."
She looked at him Inquiringly. "Bo
ou mean to say, Jack, that you still ^
are as much as that?" she asked in-1
credulously.
He nodded. "But It's nil right, my
dear." he answered. "The time to j
ght was live years ago. I lost you j
then—I deserved to lose you."
She was thinking very hard. The
incredible thought went through her I
mind that if she stayed here, If she j
just stayed with Jack, whom she loved,
nothing could ever harm her, nobody
juld ever know, if she stayed—
She glanced at the clock, and was
horrified to see that It was midnight.
She sprang to her feet In alarm.
"I must go, Jack," she said.
He conducted her gravely from the I
restaurant. They were the lust to j
leave. The yawning waiters watched | rh(in up an(, awEy,
Kre the break of the day
THE BANDIT BARD.
them reproachfully as they went out.
The street was brilliant with revolv-
ing signs. Crowds hurrying from the
heaters blocked them. There came
the sound of music from the restau-
rants, and the voices of the diners.
'It was happy," said Nlnu wistfully.
•Yes," he said. "I shall see you to
your door, Nina."
She looked at him in alarm. "No!"
she said. "I must go In softly, Jack.
I must steal In. 1 can get on a ear
and then get off In front of the house."
We'll fly, quickly fly to our hiding,
And there we will rest
Till the sun In the West
Has given the signal for riding.
Joseph Thompson llare.
rounded in n tnrrrn by five officer*,
heavily armed, who were bent upon
capturing him, and he whipped the
whole five with his fists and escaped.
The authentic stories of his exploits
would fill a large volume. He some*
times had bands of followers, and
sometimes he operated alone, and he !
had phenomenal luck.
There was nothing haphazard about
his methods. He laid his plans like a
general, and followed them up. He
had his scouts and spies, and received
accurate Information when wealthy
travelers were about to set forth on
pilgrimages. Then he would ambush
them and relieve them of their val-
uables with an old-school courtesy
that must have been highly gratifying
to the victims. Ills operations cov-
ered a wide territory, and he moved
so quickly and mysteriously that it 1
was almost impossible to locate him.
It was characteristic of this singu-
lar man that after every robbery he
was overwhelmed with remorse, lie
would repair to some secluded spot
and sll in sackcloth and ashes, and
write poetry full of heartbreak; and
his poetry, considering his meager ed-
ucation, is surprisingly good. Several
of his poems have been preserved,
and they are melodious and sweet.
There Is not a discordant line In any
of them.
Time and again he made up his
mind to abandon his wicked courses
and lead a quiet and reputable life,
but something always Interfered. Upon
one occasion, after making of haul of
$5,000—which was a fortune in those
days—he traveled back to the scenes
of his boyhood, intent upon buying a
farm upon which he had worked as a
child. He had heard that the place
WITH THE MAN IN THE ENGINE CAB
WMIMU. I
Joseph Thompson llare might have
distinguished himself In any one of
half a dozen honorable professions,
for ho had many of the qualities
which command success, but he was i was for sale, and he was determined
afflicted with Indulgent parents, who J to own It, and settle down and live
He took her hands in his, and at | permitted him to run wild In his youth. I happy ever after. But when he ap-
tlie very last he lost his self-control, j of a romantic temperament, he wasj proached the farmhouse a savage dog
1 of reading books of adventure,] sprani
"Stay with me, Nina," he whispered. | fjnd of reading
sprang at him from behind some
Stay! You have no one you cure j aI)d the books to which he had access j bushes, and chased him all over the j ^
for. Be my wife. I can't lose you j were not of the character-building 1
now, Nina. Will you?"
The temptation was terrible,
fought It
place, and bit a sample out of his per-
son, and he was so mad and disgusted
that he left the neighborhood at once,
and resumed his old tricks.
Another time, bcfrig well loaded
kind. Among them were various
She j chronicles in which the celebrated
lown silently before she ■ Hrltlsli highwaymen were exploited as
could answer. heroes and Joseph grew up with a
Only Jack, that I never was a quit-1
ter, as you said," she answered. It j
wouldn't be honorable—that's all.
He let her hands go, and she turned
away. Then a newsboy came, racing
along the street.
Great fire!" lie yelled. "All about
the Suflitt fire!"
The headlines made her reel. She
snatched a paper from the boy's hand, j
The Suftlt house was blazing. The
fire engines were unable to control it.
The entire block was threatened."
There was no further word between
them. She sprang on a car and Jack
took his seat beside her. But many
yards from the house the cars were
blocked In the jam.
The house was a blazing ruin. Men
were searching within it vainly for ,
her. Nina heard the words that passed |
among the crowd. "All safe but the
bride!" "No chance* of finding hei
now in that furnace!" "l'oor thing, J
and on her marriage eve!"
She reeled Into Jack's arms. Cn-1
recognized in the crowd, she fought
out her problem. If she were dead 1
all would be well. The viscount, hon- !
orubly released, as herself, her cold' !
hearted stepmother, hardly di great desire to emulate Turpin, Shop- | with money and remorse, he decided
DID RAPID THINKING
HOW FIREMAN SAVED TRAIN AF-
TER CONNECTING-ROD BROKE.
Simple Thing, in His Estimation, but
It Meant the Preservation of
Lives and Property—Just a
Hero of the Rail.
The fireman stood on his narrow
perch before the fire box, and be-
tween times of filling the box he would
look at the silhouetted form of the en-
gineer—In his little cab forward,
perched almost amidships of the long
black boiler. He did not have much
time to look; for the box was forever
demanding more hard coal.
There was a hiss of steam, a crash
of metal—and the fireman dropped his
turn trip to the city In late afternoon.
Many a time, having been delayed en
route outbound, "Tommy" would find
upon nrriving at City Farm siding
that he would be "behind time" if he
proceeded to Braddock and would
soon be "running" against his own
schedule time west."
This was not admissible, according
to railroad ruling, and so "Tommy" i
would call out in the train that he
was about to "return to Pittsburgh j
and that passengers for Braddock |
could either return with the train or j
get out and walk" the two miles—
which we Invariably did, on such an !
alternative.
"There Are Thieves on Board All These Boats, and They Are Looking
for Such Men as You."
tressed—
She clung to her escort's arm. "Jack,:
take me away!" she wept. "Take me
herd, and the rest of them.
, to go to Baltimore and become a mer-
He was born In Chester county,, chant prince
Pennsylvania, In 1780, and was the
away. I will go with you now. My first great American highwayman, as
past life lies burled—somewhere in he probably was the most admirable,
there!" I was wore like Robin Hood than
— 1 uny gentlemen of the road of whom
PARTS record, for he was brave, chiv-
| olrous and generous, and if he stole
from the opulent with one hand, he
gave to the needy wifti the other. One
cannot read his history without de
FOR BALL-BEARING
Measuring Machine That Is Infinitely
More Sensitive Than a Hu-
man Being
le made part of the
Journey on a steamboat, and was
greatly annoyed by an opulent drover,
who persisted in Hashing a big roll of
bills, and boasting of his wealth. Be-
ing full of virtue, Hare took the drov-
er aside and advised him to conceal
his money and do less talking. "There
are ^thieves on board all of these
boats," said Hare, "and they are look-
shovel. The connecting rod had brok- j llHsite whore Homestead now Is. Ills
en. They were going 00 miles an j lnllu_ to Braddock, was giv-
hour, and the loosened end of the ] (,u n fcw mtuutes to reverse for a re
heavy steel rod that hud come crashing !
up with the force of ten thousand men
and horses, and thrown the entire side
of the engineer's cab down into the
ditch beside the track. Now the rod
was pounding back and forth—a
mighty commotion, not soon to end;
for the hand that clutched the throt-
tle lay Inert upon It; the lifeless form
of the engine driver was caught In
the wreckage of the cab. And some-
where In that wreckage the trembling
needle of the speed Indicator still
hung close to the 00 mark.
The fireman thought quickly—it's
a way with the men In the engine cab.
lie knew that the engine must be
stopped—and at once. Hut It was im-
possible for him to get through that
'wreckage and to the air-brake control
quickly. lie did the next best thing.
lie took a stout iron bar, and climbed
over to the top of the swaying tender
and down into the narrow space be-
tween it and the first of the heavy
cars of the train. With a short, quick
blow he broke the air-hose connec-
tion between the engine and the cars.
The brake set automatically, the train
stopped, and the fireman went for-
ward to get his companion's body.
In a few minutes they were crowd-
ing around him—the folk from the
ears—and making a good deal of fuss
over him. They said he was a hero.
But lie merely replied that he had
done a simple thing—and perhaps the
connecting rod had broken one of the
air-pump connections and so would
PLANTING THE BUSH FRUITS
Recommended by New Jersey Station
That Raspberry and Blackberry Be
Six Feet Apart.
The New Jersey station recom-
mends that raspberry and blackberry
plants be set about three feet apart
In the row. Six feet Is the minimum
distance between rows, and Black-
cap raspberries and blackberries will
often do better If the rows are seven
feet apart. Such strong growing va-
rieties of blackberries as the Ewlng
Wonder or Black Diamond are easily
cultivated and handled when set at a
minimum of four feet apart in the row.
Dewberries are usually set with the
rows six feet apart. Currants and
j gooseberries are set four feet apart
! In the row, with six feet between
rows.
Karly planting of bush fruits is very
important. If the buds and shoots
aro broken off after startlag, the sec-
Interesting Reminiscence of Old-Time ond lot does not develop immediately
Conductor Related by Pitts- and the plants therefore do not get a
burgh Man. i good start. The Blackcap raspberry
I requires more care In planting than
The writer was very much Inter- the red raspberry or blackberry, be-
ested in a recent article in your paper, «auBe Its roots are developed In a
referring to a mutual friend, "Tommy cluster, Bimllar to those of the straw-
Drake," as he was familiarly called In berry. All plants bearing rot gall,
his time, writes a correspondent of the a most destructive disease, are thrown
Pittsburgh Dispatch. As conductor on out.
the Pittsburgh & Connellsvllle rail-
road in "the sixties," it was my pleas- pi r.u rue PATMS OF WE£DS
ure as a schoolboy to know "Tommy"
quite well—as a dally passenger from
Braddock to the city.
And now, in brief, to relate a rather
amusing, as well as paradoxical inci-
dent, when credited to the rules and
regulations of the railroad In the days
of single tracks.
Between the city and Braddock was
a siding at "City Farm" station, op-
MADE THE PASSENGERS WALK,
Mixture cf Arsenic and Water Applied
In Ordinary Sprinkler Will
8avo Much Labor.
In summer when weeds and grasses
grow rapidly In the paths In flower
and vegetable beds, and one does not
care to be continually digging up the
paths, or causing the earth to be
loose by pulling the weeds, the paths
may be kept pretty free from weeds
and grass by applying the following so-
ultion with an ordinary sprinkler:
Take five ounces of powdered ar-
senic, and one gallon of water, and
boll the arsenic and water together
stirring constantly as the mixture
boils for several minutes. When thor-
oughly mixed by this process, add two
gallons of cold water, and a half pound
of soda.
The paths Bhould be dry when this
Is applied. One-half the quantity can
bo used If there Is not much space to
be freed from weeds.
This will save hours of very irto
some toil in hot weather when vege-
tation is apt to grow very rank and
make paths very unsightly.
Her Heart Leaped as She Saw the
Well-Remembered Figure.
n little congratulatory note, saying
that he was dining alone that night at
the little tuble in Kentl's, which they
used to occupy, and that he would be
remembering her.
The house was very quiet. Every-
one hud gone to bed early in anticipa-
tion of the exhausting events of tho
morrow. The girl peeped out of lier
room. How easy it would be to en-
cape for an hour or two, to fly to Jack,
to spend one lust short hour with him,
bejore the drab life ahead of her be-
rsn!
She trembled; and then, with those
memories of the past, she could resist
no longer. She slipped 011 an old dress
and hut and coat, and softly made
her way down the stairs. She shud-
dered as she saw the roses that had
already been entwined along the ban-
isters,- heralds of a joy that was never
to be hers.
Half an hour later she entered
Itentl's. And her heart leaped as she
saw the well-remembered figure, soli-
tary at the far table among the lights,
in the midst of the gay crowd. And
the years that were past seemed like
11 dream to her.
He did not even start when she ap-
proached him, threw back her cloak
and sat down facing him.
"Nina, I dared dream that you would
eome to me," he said. "I willed It
with all my power."
"I had to come," answered the girl.
"I could not start on my new life after
I got your letter without letting you
know—"
"What?" he asked gravely.
"That I loved you in the old days,"
she answered. "I should not be say-
ing tills, but my marriage is not of
love, on either side."
"And you will go through with it?"
"Yes," she answered.
He looked at her In approbation.
"You never were a quitter, Nina," hj
answered.
They dined together.
The average person has little con-
ception of the accuracy with which it
is necessary to work on some classes
of machinery. Ball-bearing parts, for
Instance, are produced in large quan-
tities, yet in some cases the limit of
error is placed at one-tenth of on®-
thousandth of an Inch or about one-
numbei of cronies of his own age who
had grown up on bandit literature,
and they were all eager for action.
Ing for such men as you." The drover
ploring the fact that he took the left didn't take the advice In good part I |mvj sej the brakes anyway,
hand trail when a lad; had he taken lie boasted that he was able to take j today he sits on the right hand
the other, his bust might now be in I care of himself, and he'd like to see | f a gtan(jar(j locomotive cab—for the
the Hall of Fame. I that thief who could despoil him. Here- j ,.caraei.back engines, with their
His first exploit was "pulled off" I upon llare lost all patience with him, c|umgy separate engineer's cub set
when he was a schoolboy. He had a and robbed him of $4(10, and left the j ml(]wuy „p0n the boiler's crown, are
boat. He was pursued and captured | . out o( gty]e He slt9 there,
and served eight years in the peniten- j knowing thnt responsibility rides be-
tiary for this little joke. I sj(,e Wm He knows other things.
1 or many years he pursued his I fJe knows that the connecting rod
course with comparatively few re- Rome tjme break agaln_it is one
verses; and the reverses usually came ] ()f (he most eommon forms of locomo-
to him because he would not use fire- j Uye arcldents, and in the very nature
arms in self-defense. He might have ; of thlngg mugt go remain. He knows
escaped capture on several occasions th#t danger ln a thousand f„rms for-
had he been willing to shoot. When- eyer confr„nts him—a broken rail, a
ever he was in custody Hure preached j whee)i or a bit of metal dislodged from
to Ills fellow prisoners a good deal, j th(J flying rush „f a passenger train up-
trying to Impress upon them the fact | on a neighboring track, the break-
that the most unprofitable thing in the 1 down 0f the human structure of the
world is a life of crime. "The lot of ; operation of the railroad upoH which
the meanest laborer in the land." said . unfotv of those
Gardens for Railroad Men.
Railroad men's gardens Is an Innno-
vatlon Introduced by the Great West-
ern Railroad company to help its em-
ployees. All along the line on both
sides of the railroad can be seen tiny
plots and almost every foot of space
has been turned over to grow war-time
potatoes and other vegetables. In this
way several hundred acres are being
cultivated. As a rule an allotment
runs from 10 to 20 rods, which
Is about the limit of a railroad work-
er's spare-time capacity. Each holder
pays a nominal rental for his ground,
and on account of the war all the hold- j
era are making extra efforts to get the i
very utmost out of their holdings.
Fewer flowers are seen In the plots, |
and a wider range of vegetables, with j
a view to successive crops, has be-
come general.
twentieth the thickness of a human Hare proposed that they rob an old
hair The human sense of touch Is miserly farmer who lived In the neigh-
bour se in comparison. I borhood, and the boys agreed. One
A multple indicator described in night they went to the farmers resl-
Popular Science Is a very satisfactory dence, intent on pillage and found
device for measuring parts that must him beated on the front porch, in his
be accurately gauged without loss of nightrall, the heat having driven him
time. The machine consists of a sub- from the house. The boys waited for
stantlal base plate with an accurately hours, hoping the old man would go
ground, hardened steel facing and an to bed, but he sat there nr. though
Integral standard carrying a measur- waiting for the end of the world. The
ing appliance. The dial indicator other boys experienced a chill In their
reads In thousandths of un Inch, each feet, and wanted to go home; but Hure
graduation representing a one-thou- said he had come forth to rob, and
sandth Inch movement of the Indicator was going to rob. So he stole quietly
stem to the porch, and found the farmer
The work to be measured is placed was asleep. Then he entered the
under the measuring point on the mul- house and rummaged around until he
tipl.ving lever. As this Is very near had found $.">00, when he rejoined his
the fulcrum, a relatively slight mo- companions.
tlon will be changed to one of ten , All his exploits were characterized
times that magnitude at the dial in- by a similar daring. As a young man
dlcator. If the work Is but one-thou- he went to New Orleans to seek his
sandth inch larger or smaller than the fortune! Upon landing there, in his
standard, the pointer of the Indicator backwoods ruiment, he was ridiculed
will move over ten graduations on the by a group of toughs. Hare walked
dial. An error of one-tenth of a thou- op to the biggest of the rowdies and
sandth will move the pointer one gtruck him ln the face. Then there
graduation. | was a fight that was talked about In
New Orleans for years. The big rowdy
Pheasants Hear Zeppelins. was Bill Marshall, a celebrated pugil-
A Zeppelin raid over the east coast 1st of the time. He was forty pounds
of Scotland was announced In a curl- j larger than Hare, but the country boy
ous manner by pheasants. At mid- j whipped him to a frazzle. Then a pub-
lic fight according to ring rules was
arranged for and a tremendous crowd
witnessed the conflict. Hp re again
whipped Marshall, and retired from
the ring with a comfortable roll of
money.
Throughout his career he preferred
PLAN TO PROPAGATE GRAPES
Layering Is Easier Than Many Other
Ways—Covered Vine Will
Throw Out Roots.
Grapes may be propagated by meanB
of layering more easily than in manj
other ways. Tho best plan Is to dig
a trench from two to three Inches
deep, lay the vine In this and cove!
it over. Leave the tip sticking out.
Layering Grapes.
The vino that is covered will throw
Robins Build Nest In Engine. ()Ut root8 an(j 8en(] many stems up at
Early In the spring a pair of robins the j0jnt8> These may bo separated
built their nest on the front of an en- un(j planted separately.
night a colony of young birds became
extraordinary clamorous, the sound,
It Is said, resembling a long-drawn
wail. An old man who knows all
about pheasants was awakened out of
his sleep by the noise, and remarked—
"Something Is gaun to hnppen." A
few minutes later the sound of burst-
ing bombs was heard, and the sky be
came inflamed. It Is of course, a fact
wtt it was as j of natural history that pheasants, like
I rrv as In the o°d days, for they ro- ell hunted creatures, great and small,
solved to banish aU care 0/ re-1 aie pecuUarly sensitive of hearing.
the meanest laborer in the land," said j ^ safety and the safety of those
he, "is a thousand times more enviable |Btrusted to his care Is so very de-
than that of the most successful crim- pen(jent
inal-' if you would know something of the
Returning to his native state after mfln in the englne cab_ g0 ttnd ride a
seventeen years of wandering and ptl- j |ut]e way with hlra It ls not easily
lage, Hare was greatly distressed to ■ ,nanage4 The railroads have now
find that bis younger brother had j vn very strict ln the enforcement
adopted a career of crime, and was j ||f th(J ru|(J fori,iddlng strangers in the
the associate of thieves and gamblers. | (,ngine cal)Si Yet, ln this one in-
This hurt him more than any incident i Ktancei lt can be arranged. You mere-
of his career. With tears on his cheeks j s,g^ ,remendously portentous legal
he implored and entreated the young j „releaSeS," whose verbiage, freely
man to reform and be good, but ln ! trunsiated, gives you the distinct Im-
vain. The youth had no use for the pregsion that you are going to your
path of virtue. | sure doom.—Sunday Magazine of the
"If you must be a criminal, then," 1 washington Star.
said Joseph, "come with me, so I can j — •
watch over and protect you." Joseph Record Carload,
had planned to rob the mails, so he j Accor(jing to the Engineering News,
could get enough money to settle down ()ie Pennsylvania railroad recently
he always was going to settle down. |,arrlc), the largest railroad carload ln
gine In the Union ruciflc yards at Junc-
tion City, Kan. The engine was tem- j
pornrily out of service and the birds
were not molested, the roundhouse em-
ployees taking an Interest ln the rob-
ins and protecting them.
Recently orders were received to
move the engine to Kansas City at
once. In the nest were four plump
robins, almost ready to fly. R. M.
Cole, district foreman, moved the nest
and its contents from the engine front,
placing it on a snowplow in the yards.
The young robins did not object to
the transfer, and within a few mo-
ments the old birds had located tha
moved nest and were back on lt.
Russia to Build Railroadi in China.
The Russian government immediate-
ly after the close of the war, will Is-
sue a loan of $24,333,000 to China, to
be used exclusively In the construction
of live railroad lines ln Manchuria, ac-
cording to an agreement Just reached
between the financial agents of the
two countries, the details of which
have been reported to the stute de-
partment by Consul Caldwell at Vladi-
vostok.
Ills brother, with other robbers, ac-
companied him on this errand. They
robbed the coach, but were arrested
at Baltimore a few days later. The
young man drew ten years, and Jo-
seph was sentenced to death. He was
execited In September, ISIS, and ills
his fists to firearms. Often he would j last days were given over to the writ-
depend upon nature's weapons when | ing of poetry and the utterance of
his life or liberty was at stake, and | moral homilies. He was probably the
when he had deadly weapons ln his only great robber whoso hands had
b-rtt. Oc one occasion he '"is sur- never been stained with human blood.
combined weight and size aver moved
by rail. It was the 8,000-kllowatt gen-
erator of a steam turbine power unit,
which weighed 80 tons, and which
when In place on the car stood 15 feet
714 inches above the rails. It was
shipped from Greenville, N. J., to Jop-
iln, Mo., on a new flat car built to
•arry a load of 70 tons. In order to
tvold low bridges and other obstacles,
t was necessary to send the car by a
ircuituej route.
A raspberry vine may be made to
produce new plants by bending ovet
the tip of a cane and covering it with
dirt at the end.
ESTIMATE OF INSECT INJURY |
Truck Crops and Fruits Damaged to
Extent of 20 Per Cent—Co-
operation Is Necessary.
Careful estimates show that insect
damages to farm products, including jg
fruits, cereals, corn, wheat, etc., are
10 per cent, hay and forage crops 10 jvj
per cent, forest 10 per cent, live stock «
10 per cent, storage products 10 per jig
cent, truck crops 20 per cent, fruits 3
20 per cent.
A systematic study of bores Infest- |j
Ing shade trees shows that no perma- ra
nent success can be obtained in com-fij
bating these pests without communl-g
ty effort and co-operation.
GOOD TREE PLANTING HINTS
Farmer Should Be Very Careful to See
That Roots Are Kept Moist at
All Times.
There are a few general hints in
Off and On the Track.
At an interlocking switch near Wl- . .
nolia, Wis., a freight train was using : "tting a tree which should not bo
the switch and had Just cleared the forgotten. Trees are living organisms
crossing when a St Paul freight | and they cannot Ive if the r roots are
, f.i k «v,„ ,w„ii exposed for any length of time to the
50 feet on the ties, struck a guard rail, |
and leaped back on the main track.
Seventeen cars behind It performed
a like feat, and when the train finally
was stopped only one car was ofT tha
rails.
at all times.
Electrification Goes On.
Up to date ubout 2,500 miles ol
steam railroad in the United fctatei
have been electrified.
High Pressure Essential. jr'
High pressure is essentia! in spraying i
apples especially for tht petal-fall ap- 1
plication. At this time tha liquid must 1
be forced into all the calyx cups. Thi J
necessitates the spraying b"ing ap- |
plied In coarser drops than tor the;
later sprays
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Burke, J. J. The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 53, Ed. 1 Monday, August 14, 1916, newspaper, August 14, 1916; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc113277/m1/3/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.