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s . riht, 1907, by H. H. MoClure & c.) , -. ; -.-v. ; "WtU gap. ea5d Mr. Doojey.. "I sec 3 li-er new ettiaan'ooat ihas broke all i . rJs. It com acrost tli' - Atlantic wan la four days. . Passengers thai gvt aboard at Liverpool on Saturday mere Jin New York Friday - afthcr- "Bmt thlat's tmore tih.ln four days," eo2d Air. Henneasy. "Not be nautical time," said Mr. Dooley. "Ye mustn't figwre dt out tih' way ye do on land. On (land ye Uvir read (Chat 1' TfrwidOTbolt limited Qias broken all records (be flhraveltm' rm New York .(HarrfsouTg) to Chi cago (Fort Wayne) la eight (hours.' But -Willi steamboat 'ua different, Ye saw a lot Av eiinve off ayether end an' what s left Is th' v'yage. Th Conyaid fine's gTireat ocean grcy- (hound or tevitlMn Iv rtffi seas haa broken afll radonis It tSirtuns-AitUnitatc passages except tflitm made (be th Germans. She has , ehiraveled fr'm ttJvemttoS (a troek bo for off th' coast lv Xrctertd that I wlvtlr w it) to New -York (Sandy Hk lightship) an four or five days. SBrfttamya again rules th "waives So it yve tanny f rinds inclined to .'boast about anakln' a rec- tard atffc thim did they swim albnord at Dauntf Bock an' w4m off at h' ffglhtahip. If they didn't, refuse to ak off ye'er hat to thim. To tell Wow ftomig ftt takes to cross th Atlantic ' eompuitle th' elapsed time fr'm fhoord tn (horns to tooordtn' house. It's fr'm week' to tan day depaiwiia' on tih' tltm yt8 go o (bod aflilu ye coimie hnrmte. Aiaffwvy. a man eaat nome over on a . i fTMby boat ha toad th' diwJe Iv a ' tArnw axplatoitn' tfo hia wife what he d wiflh tih other two days. No rc- , ; ord Sn' Wiwn.Atlamtlc thrawl takn Into aooomnt V Jonyest, ronglhst an' anoait flaogiwoftw tpvrt lv th' ponwav, whWh Is throxtglh tih' Nw ToTk cus tom tiotiso. "But 'tis wondherful annyhow. Tla wondherful that a man hud crosa th' Atlantic ocean annyhow an tl enough to make ye dizzy to think !v film crowrin It In an iron boat that lookt like a row lv office buildings. The grand times they must 've had. Ail th' tlmo they were on th bound-: it's a tur-rble awkward thing to have to have to force money on an English man in an admiral's uniform." Ing billows th' wireless tiilyKr;ift kept 'them in touch with liime. Tir ii;iy i . vaa whin a tnan got n a bout an' i waa lost ft a wp(k or ten iayH. Now, T be hivens, through the wondhern iv modhern science he's hardly settled down- to a cigar an' a g;mx iv pinochle with another fugitive that . ho'a Just met, whin a mt'ssenger boy cornea down th deck on hl bkyele and hands him a tillyKram with gUni tidings fr'm home. 'J'h' house Is burned, th' sheriff hns levied nn his furniture or th' fam'ly are down with j 1 " ' . "" ijA Ha ' ' i ' Sti Hs ' W K H lit t" J I a f If ' - W ! OX OCEA X TIUVEL. BT FINLEY PETER DLNNTS th' whoopln' cough.' On th' other hand, we know all about what they are doln" on boord th" levuhin. JW as ye'er wife Is thlnkin' iv ye bein' wrecked on a desert Inland or fioatln' on a raft and slngnallln' with a red flannel undherahirt she picks up th pa-aper an' reads: Th' life iv'th' ship is Malachl HInnlssy, a wealthy Bachelor irm Plttsburjr. uis at tlntlons to a pretty - widow from Omaha , are "most marked. They make a handsome couple.' f'Well, air, they must ve had th' gloryus time on boord this new boat In th' old daya all yi linew about a ship was that she left Liverpool and landed in New York afther a most disthresaln v'yage Now, be hivens, ya r-read iv th' gay life aboord her fr'm day to day: Th tie in th' billyard tournymlnt was played off last night Th restaurants are crowded nightly an great throngs are seen In Main sthret undher th' brilliant illuminations. Th' public gardens are in full bloom an' are much frequented be chlldher rollin' hoops and sallln' boats in th arti ficial lake. Th' autymoblll speedway gives gr-reat satisfaction. Th' opening day iv th' steeplechase races was a auccess. Th' illvator in th left annex fell thirteen stories Thursday, but no wan was injured. Th brokerage house iv Conem an' Comp'ny wlnt into th hands iv a. re ceiver to-day. Th' failure was due to th' refusal iv th' banks to lend anny more money on hat pools. Th' steeple lv th 8wedenborjan church Is undher repair. Th' Daily Fog Horn has put In three new color presses an' will begin prlntln a colored supplement Sunday next. An' so It goes. It am t a boat at an. It's a city. "At laete I thought it was but Han- nlgan that come over in It says it's a boat. 'Ye must've had a grand time,' says I. 'In this floatln' palace, atln' ye'er till iv sumachuse food an' gasin' at th' beautifully jooled ladles,' says I. 'Ah,' says I, t.t wondherg iv science that end put together a con- thrivance th' like lv that. says I. 'It's a boat,' says he. 'That's th' best I can ay about it,' says he. 'Did ye not glide noiselessly through th' wa ther?' says I. 'I JJd not,' saya he. 'Dlvvle th" Kli'lo. Wo bumped along pretty fast an' th' InJInea made noises like iiijlne.s an' the' ship creaked like army uhlp." An' wasn't th food fine?' 'It lepindril on th' woAjther. There was )lenty Iv It on good days, an' too much lv It on other days.' 'An' th mus! V 'Th' music was upllled by th' stuorts' 'An th' beautifully Jooled ladies'." 'No wan knew whPther th' ladles were beautifully jooled except th' lady t.iat searched thlm at th" custom house. Pon't ye make a mis "Th steepU iv - - - i O" take, Doole7,' 1 saya he. 'A boat's a boat. That'a all it Is. Annythlng ye can get ye -can get betther on land. A millyonaire is made aa comfortable on an ocean liner aa a longshoreman on earth an ya can play that com parison all th' way down to th steer age. Whin I read about this here floatln' palace I says to mesllf: "I'll "Whin add a little money and go acrost in oryental luxury." Whin I rot aboord th' decks were crowded with happy people wdrryln about their baggage an' wondhertn' already whether t-V inspector in New York wud get onto th' false bottom If th' tirunks. I give th' old an' enfeebled English glntle- man that carried me satchel a piece lv silver, He touched his cap to me an says "Cue." "Cue" is th English f'r "I thank ye kindly" in Irish, He carried me bag downstairs in th' ship. We kept goin down an down till we touched bottom, thin we rambled through long lanes neatly decorated with steel girders till we come to a dent in th' keel. That was me boo door. At laste part iv it was. There were two handaomo bertha in it an' green bottles. Three or four hun dred men had begun to walk around th' ship with their hands folded be hind thim. A poker game between four rale poker players an' a man that didn't know th' game but had sharp finger-nails was already started In th' smokln' room. About that time I begun to have a quare I had th' top wan. Th' lower wan was already occuypled be a glntle man that had started to feel onaisy on th' way down f'm London an' was now preparej f'r th' worst. I left him to his grief an' wlnt up on th' roof iv th' ship. It was a gay scene f'r th boat had started to feel onaisy on th way down f'm London an' waa valid chairs with shawls over thlm, pretinJin to read an' takln' deep smells at little slnsatlon. I haven't been able itlo Arid out yet wlhlalt dt waist. I m'ust uiffk Dock O'Leary. I wasn't nea-U-k, im'Jrfd ye. I'm a good stalJioir. But I had a tfumny fwliln tin me fore- heard "between me eyes. It wasn't a hMwliw:lhie exactly, but a ikllnd iv a tffihinamiKa rtnsatlon .like I wsprt to .havie wlhlin I waH a hoy an' Muled tio look cross-cycid. I upposo It was h' stlhmng 1iihlt. 1 d'Mn't have anny avernkm to food. Not at all. But someho w I didn't like th' smell iv food, lit. wa dilMigiwatWe to ime an' it em ed to make lih' platon in tmo fhiead worse. KlTal thnea I win to th' din ing remit lntlndin' to nx th' vyal comp'ny there, hut qailt at tih' dure. It was very jit.hraire. I don't know how io account f'r It. Very few peo ple were aeaslck on th' v'yag. hut th' Swedenborjan church It s .c -n. i h:. :xt v . .-..ic iv it ty blip's lj.-L;.r. 1M aa iav arry mie a!.lme-nts to a Cnrnss maker a. to a ilhJp'a doietor. L'ut.ithere lit an' fr'im m-d .pint iv vle.w It "was .th' most important lvint iv Hh" ipassage. Nex to that th' tmost excftln' thing: was tfhrjiln' to 'find aanybody ' iat wd tak money 'fr'm me. It's a tur-rble awkward thing o have to force anon vrio an Bngiihanan in a. unlfomm like an adnvtr&J's an' talkln' wlBh on accent that manny iv th' finest ipeo iple on tth Mk weTa thryln' to imi tafUs, "but. I ecfhoo-led roesiaf to It.; An' sthrange tio lay they rJver Hyfuaed. They wrre ven fbc.uther thin Chat I was flavin iih ,ih1p whin tih fellow that pulled ihV ipl-ag out iv th otlher the ocean rises in its wrath mon' 'bath fTr tnUe tourlhied cmejon th' aho wider. I turned an' nee a ifrtndily steam in his eye that imade mo wtoun dlner if the had a knife. I gaive htm athat Hhey call five ibotxs over there, whJoh da ,waa doHar an' tw4n,ty cinto iv our inwney. He toudhied his cap an' aaya "Ou." I ;waa greatly moved. I (hiave now as flange a ejection of cues as Jake edhaeffer Bin' more ex pinedive. But it's done .warn, thiirug f r ove. It's made roe cotmipeitent f'r an ny office connected with th' legal de (pairttmlinit 4v a sthreeit raJlway. Bo hdv- " Whin a, messenger boy comes down th deck on his bicycle an' hands him itellygram, " ens, I cmd hand a irdeice iv tdhajig to a Juidige iv tih Bupreem Coort I hear th' Oonyard Mne haw -paused a divi de ind. They ought to tmake a imergw wltih th head stoort," saya he, "An there ye ar're. A bout's a boat even whin it looka like a hotel. But It's wondherful annyhow. Whin ye come to think iv it tl wondherful that anny man cud cross th Atlantic in annythlng. Th' Atlantic ocean is a fine body iv wather, but it's a body lv wather Just th' same. It wasn't in tlnded to bo thravelled on. Ye cud put ya'er foot through It annywhere. undher repair' ) aii..tr l.n's ileal. A if. m t;.ro,i a ', t:;o(; into it iiu' t .' hor-e Mine sinks). This iiiuke.-i hi:n civ.s an' he buiUs a boat iv th' same mateeryal as a millyon horse slioes, loads it up with machinery, pushes it out on th' ftillows an' goes lark'n acrost thim a9 happy u a e plaze. If he didn't go over on, a large steel skyscraper he'd take a dure off it's hings an' go on that. All ye have to do is to tell him there's land on th other side lv th' ragln' flood an' he'll say: 'All right, I'll take a look at it Ye talk about th' majesty lv th' ocean but what about th' majesty lv-thls here that th' ocean don't get tired iv grow Hn an roarin' at th little sixty-eight by eighteen Inches bump iv aelf-rell-anca that threats it like th dirt un dher hla feet? it's a wondher to me they 'show their contimpt race iv men. They don't pay anny heed to it's hollering. When it be haves itsllf they praise it as ''though it was a good dog. 'How lovely th' ocean looks undher otir moon.' Whin it rises in its wrath they show their contimpt f'r it be beln seasick into it. But no matther how it behaves they niver quit msin" its face f r a right iv way. They'll, niver subjoo it but it niver (bates thlm. There niver was a time in th4ahlsthry Iv little man's sthruggle with" th' vasty deep that he didn't daerve a decision on points. "Well, it's all very well, but Tt me th' dhry land," said Mr. Hennes sy. "Will ye lver cross th' ocean again?" "Not," said Mr. Dooley, "till they asphalt It an' run th' boats on throl leys." The largest vineyard in the wprld is near Ban Calbrlel, Cal. J. Ralph Burton, the former United States Senator, has boujrht an interest in the Union, at Sal In a, Kan., which he will edit ; ' B. My ipantry la overrun with large (tiaak ants. Can you tell aue a sure (method to tget rid of them? A. Tako a tin tpio mlate, cover t!he bottom and sides i thickly with Jard and rplaee it In the pantry, with a short , atiek for (permitting, the anta to - clisnh tip - to the plate. 1 In a hort time the Plata will 'be covered with ants as they will foreake even sugar for la,rd. When the itflate Ut iwll nvworod turn It upside down ai"er the (hole of a foot f'r iU stove and tine mted lard will destroy au the ants in this trap. New Home. What Is tihe am earni ng of the displacement of a ship in tons? A. Its weight It diqplaicea that amount of water. VE. B. Wlhat la a Okraerick; neither the International or the Century dic tionary defines the word? (2) Does ahjmUnium corrode or rust? (8) Years ago i read a poem in LitteH's Living Aige, the title of whtah I do not re call. In tfhe poem these lines occur: "It woufld mot" make me sleep more peacefully . To know thou wert wasting all thy ; , Jlfe in woe For ny ipdor sake; What tlove thou hast for one -Bestow it ere I go." Please pulblish entire ipoem and greatly oblige? ' A. The word la applied to nonsensi cal verse. (2) It does not. (8) I would ibe igtod to dbllge you. tout (have' not time to study a weekly publica tion for "years" to And the (poem. f?. C. W. f!aT mtm a1H mva fhnw long our (govern ment has (been tput tlnsr the Roman caele and th nnman hiead on American half -dollars and auarters. and what anitlh-nrltv thv have for doting so? A. I cannot aay how long the eagfle has appeared on these coins, ibtrt it w tpiaicea on some coins nwwn more than A hundred veArH Bum nf t never ibefore heard it called a Roman eeigie; tne maio: eagle, aiao (known as the American easrie, -1s (peteuliar to North America and has (been known as "the (bird of freedom'' since win. hitlonary daya All authority is vwrt- Nameles.-Please print retnt-pe for ! move red engine oil from a tin can? ia. A recipe without the apparnbus fortrna(kinig ipop drtntka would Ibe worthlesa, and yon don't want to fbuy the appartus till you know how to use St. (2) There are any quantity of scouring articles, to ibe used in con nection with hot water. T. A. C Please advise me n to firms wanting valuable rpear.la,' or have them write to the; I (have some pretty ones? A. Show your pearls to a manufac turing' Jeweler. W. H. R.iLand can (be sold for un paid taxes, no matter how it was ac quired. K. L. O. I regret my Tnafblllty to advise aa to what breed of hogs would he most profitable for a locality I have never eeen. Better advise with stoicksprowera in that section. iRose. Write the , gentleman to care of the manager of the Atlanta Baseball OWb. You tthould Ibe proud, indpewdenit, ttalkatirve and oomipetent to ibcar large responsibilities. M. (A. iM. -Your foaM-dioflar of 1M7 la worth fifty-one cents if in igood con dWon. 1 The others are not rare. For eign coins are of no value here except as "bullion. B- O. D. Knowing nothinig of the character of tihe (puxzfe pltotures you send, my g-ueae aa to (title wwuld ibe of no value. 4 j W. A. If the article you desire a patent on la a, simple one you can make application ... without employing a lawyer. Write to the Ctommtaeloner of Patents, Washington, D. C, for blanks and directions (how to pro. ceed. A patent cost thirty-five do,l-lars..-- ."" - . . -.':' '. . .. B. F. Wlhen iwas eight or ten days considered fast rtlme for an Atlantic voyage? - A. In 1858 thevsteamer Persia was t record breaker, iher time being 9 days. I hour and 45 minutes; she held the record for ten years, when tha vteairuer Scotia madefh ' days, 1 hours and 48 minutes, wl It wo m unwi is5z xnat any steamer mads the voyage in leas . Vhnn seven aays. wnen nn AiasKa made the voy age in 6 davs. 18 hour nnA ? nt. ovtea, The route in all thee days was owwwn ew xotk and (Wni9cown, east tor west -' ' Nod . 'HV'W in iron nr atant electrlcallr? f2V How u hra . ow the ordinary proce? r-: t c; trc .-. s -s . .:., : .; :i o" .i vaiui ; t t; a i:)-,vtf-'..e cur rent, lie it devl"i-s ut Hie plate In tha cirouiit that oKera HiUii resistance. Thn when the ends are at the tproper heat, they are pressed together and the weld da effected. (2 Through, the oompteto local! znjtlon of the Iheat. M. R. -By what iprocesa la kerosene vm 'jiiaiut;; . . - . t , .. 'A. It is secured from crude petrol eum toy distillation. A comimon form of still la a .horizontal iron, cylinder SO ifeet iong by 12 1-2 feet in diameter and holding from 600 to' 700 barreJs of crude oil. Above this are dome and vapor pipe. . Under increasing' temperature, oils pass off in the ordei of their volatility. (Afiter ' gasolines and naphthas oome tihe illumiinatiln oitla, folloiwed Iby lubricating oils, till little, la left but ar. . ;. I J3. What i the meaning of !'KJnet?" . '. A. Kismet Is an Arabic word mean ing fate or destiny. For Instance, if any, mlsfortana- lhappena to a Mo (haanmedan, he ibows lla head ' and saya "Klsnvet"--It was fated! philos ophically accepting tt as sometihlng which had Jbeen destined to. happen, and could not be avoided. ? s , ' (A. H. Klndly name all i differ- ent ianfruages of the world? , A, The iprindlpal languages : are iBngilldh, French, German, . Italian Spanish. Russian,' tPonraguese, Turk ish, Greek, Hindu and Chinese,; These speaking these tengiuaigea comprise more than 1,000,000.000 people, or about four-flftiha of the, 'human race. In addition there are several thousand rnrtnor dialects, and i partlaHy under-, stood savage tongues, tntoludinig aoane in interior Africa of which, TllttO Is known, , - " . ' K. J. Who was itha compiler and translator of the Arabian Nights? A. They were discovered in Syria In the latter part of the aeventeentlhj cen. tury. and introduced into (Europe (by Antolne GaUamd, the French Oriental 1st who traveled extensively in " the Bast Galland aflterwarda translated thean into the French and published them in Paris Jn 1708-12.' The Ibest English tranlatllon Is that of B. W. Lane, pulbllshed In 1839. 1 FP; C (What did the Capitol Build- ing and the Congressional Library Building cost at Washington? . A. The central section of the Capfi . tol was compJeted in 1827. With its furnishings and extensions in subse- ,. quant years tt la estimated that the total cost of the National Capitol has (been $30,000,000. Th Congressional Library was otwnpdeted in 1887 at a cost of 86,306,000. O. O. What to tha area of the Yel lowstone National Park? A, It contains 8,812 square miles or 2,119,680 acres. ' 'A. N. Una a iwoman been made an ofBcwr in the United Btates army? A A, Tr. Anita Newcomlb McOee. a darughter of Prof. ' Simon NewcomJb. was disMngUWhed during the Spanish war iby rwowving cttmmfe&ion with1 the rank of first lieuitanant in the army as surgeon. The human .voice wUl-carry three m&les through tt 20-foot speaking tufbo. Do People Shun You On Account of Foul Breath From Catarrh? Then Head Below. "My, Wtjr! Ulwtj Breath! "why uon'i job Have uauss cure That Catarrh?" If you continually k'hawk and spit and there is a constant dripping from the nose into the mouth, if you have foul, disgusting breath, you have Catarrh and I can cure it. 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