"JJTVT I T '- '5 To be one of as army of 10,000; to travel by rallroal 23,000 miles every year; to stand In a car forming part f a swaying, rushing train, surround ed by open-mouthed sacks and pigeon holes, shuffling letters and papers at the rate of 2.500 per hour; knowing , that every error goes against your record; to work sometimes sixteen to twenty-foor hours at a stretch, often sleepy and hungry these are some of the dally experiences of the railway mall clerks. Then add to these the constant possibility of being knocked into eternity or crippled tor Ufe In a .wreck. Yet they are a contented lot, these railway mail clerks, happy only when "on the road." But it la not the environment for a domestic man. nor for him who has passed the top of the hill of life and Is jogging down Into the dark valley beyond. Thus a maloritv of the clerks are young men; them are preferred by the Post Office Department, for they have fewer cares, are more active, and can work faster and with greater accuracy. Uncle Sam Is nroud of the person nel of this expert force and takes everr nrecaution for their safety and comfort. Their hours are fixed, and overtime la required only in cases of absolute necessity. A Traveling Postofflce. A railway ma- car Is technically an P. O." or Railway Post Office. It runs between stated points, receiving and distributing mail through post offices alone the line. It Is a govern ment post office on wheels, and is United States territory, though owned by the railroad. It is as well built arid as completely equipped for its Duroose as a Pullman. Iron racks foi mail sacks extend along each side. Above are tiers of open boxes and pig nn holes. "Work tables" si ? on the racks. There is neither plush nor mahoeany. It is built for work and la th abode of workers. Let us Imagine that this car is the "R. P. O." leaving Pittsburg, Pa., for Cleveland, Ohio, over the f ennsylva- nia road. The Pittsburg city post office delivers to the car man for points east of Cleveland (called "local mail") and "through mall" for Cleveland and points west The train rushes out of I'ittsburir. The whistle blows for station. No stop here. A "helper," cDem a side door, swings out the mall "catcher" and pUks up a mall sack from a crane by the track. Now the work begins. This sack contains mall from th station lust nassed. Some of it is for the next office, some for Cleveland, some for the tor west The mail is dumped on a table1 and a clerk oouncea on it like a wolf on a Iamb. Be tosses letters in all direc tions. He throws papers and" pack- hither and yon. this way and that, as fast as an expert eard player can distribute a deck. But every piece of maft finds Its mark In a particular aack or box. Tb" ck- ana boxes are labeled: but the labels are unneces- mnm him onick ere catchea only the name of the office, ignoring that of the addressee. Though U work oeara mechanical it calls for a' high degree of training. Note the marvel lous accuracy less than two per cent of errors in the work of the whole force for a given year. . The whistle blows for another way station. The door is opened, a sack la thrown off, and the catcher yanks an other aack about for distribution. And so it goes without cessation. The whole scheme is so arranged fat there la Just time, working wiu. the utmost speed and accuracy, to make connections. Skill Needed to Throw Sacks. tie wide. The comparatively light tender and mail car responded instant ly, while the heavy baggage and passenger coaches constituted a drag that broke the coupling. Relieve ot this burden the engine, ' t naer an mail car shot ahead ana leapea tne twenty-foot drew, landing on the eth er side in safety, tie engine ca eaeei and side-wiped the iron bridge we-. tearing Its jacket w wiwra fcnvv-in the cab Into the riv- The rest of the train, with brakes set aa- tomatically, came to a atop wnaaac a foot to spare. Bees JSataeal Spendthrifts. -The New York Times reprinted from Montreal paper which . doubtless lifted It from one In London a most amiable story to the effect that when beea are taken to Australia they learn in a single year the uselessness of tor- ins honey tor a winter mat new- comes and that they thereafter aban- OUR SUGAR COXSVXPTIQS Beet SUgar Now Mom Than Half tne . World's Total rroaucuofw Of the more than U00 million dol lar's worth of merchandise brought in to the United States during the last year more than 150 million dollar's worth was sugar, sugar lormea oy far the largest single Item la this larg est, importation which the United States has ever made In any single year. The U ited States is - Increasing steadily and rapidly its consumption ot sugar. The sugar producers at home are increasing their output of both cane and beet sugar, but even their rapid increase in production is not keeping pace with the increasing some demand, and as a consequence the quantity of sugar brougtre into me eeantry increases from year to year. It has doubled In the last twenty years, while population meantime Increased test 60 per cent The annual average Importation during the five-year .-riod eadiag with 1885 was 1,031,149 tons, aad drying the five-year period ending with 1S05 the annual average was 2,106, 043 tons, despite the fact that the sugar production at home had grown from 178,035 tons in 1885 to approximately 600.000 tons in 1905. . The United States is the largest sugar-consuming country In the world, though the ner capita consumption in this country is not as great as in the United Kingdom. The total consume- "100 1DCH LAW-lIAKUr REPRESENTATIVE BOWERSOCK, OF KANSAS CITY, CRITICISES SIU MAKERS, Says Selfishness and Ambition Lead them through a Wilderness of Folly and Buncomb aad Valuable Time is Wasted. I have long criticised and seriously objected to the making ol so many laws, and I have long contended that men are not made good and honest by statute,, remarked Representative Justin D. Bowersoek, of Kansas, re cently. ;V '. : The comparatively Indiscriminate enactment of legislation on all subjects general, special and personal is a great evil and a greater roily, i nave insisted that selfishness ana prejudice are at the basis of too many enact ments, and that human nature and the settled Drlnclnles of business and commerce, honorable competition, and the results of buddIv and demand can hardly be changed by law to any ben eficial extent rnrtwiie ereed. ennldltv. and cor ruption can be, ought to be, and will be modified, curtailed, and brought within decent limits, to say the least No man desires this : -ore earneBuy than I do; no man will go further along any reasonable lines in any ie dtlmate and nrsctleable effort to bring this about, whether it be in con nection with railroad rates, wanaaru mi rebates, beef trust unlawful com bination, watered stocks, or whatever or whoever may burden the consumer or producer, unduly or unjustly, for extortionate gain. . Equal righto to all, special privil eges to none' will not come taropgn iTTinranucabie. non-emoremm uwa drawn on the theory ma . uv reached the millennium. "The ordinary legislator, and his name is legion, has a legal panacea for nverv ill. If he had ss mucn nonesiy " ... . M W t Villa. assurance, tne una oi aw vuw would be: M'Ari act to make men do business on earth as it is done in heaven,' i consummation devoutly to be wished but let us not forget the effect of the Pnne's bull aaralnat a comet and the beating of tom-toms by tne aborigines on an eclipse. - . A Two-Foot Rat, 'A warehouseman at the Oriental Throwing off sacks calls for anoth er kind of skill The expert knows from the weight of sack, apeed ot train and pressure ot wtd Just when and bow to let the aack so. He can drop it on a mark. It platform be crowded or littered with baggage he most pick a clear spot lest his cannon ball of leather and nail lev up train at nnmn unsuBDeciiua' traveler. I have seen a mail clerk drop a sixty nonnd sack from a train going a mile a minute, landing it lightly on a track twenty feet from the track. . at ranrea there are accidents, and danger is always present Yet in ten years past but 86 clerks hare been killed on the road an average of ten a year, with a force numbering up to 11 nnn Th lmml representative "f each clerk so? killed receives $1,000 from tie government Arrangements are contemplated for payment of an annuity to every clerk permanently disabled in line of duty. J The mall car Is usually next the tender and runs a greater risk In ac cidents than a passenger car. But tha noaitton Is sometimes advanta geous. An instance is cited of a Pecu liar wreck near Poughkeepsle, N. Y. Toe train was crossing a bridge when don their dear-bought fame as models of industry and hilariously devote to sport or idleness all of their time ex cept just enough in each day to satisfy that day's hunger.' No doubt this tale will shock and grieve a large number of estimable people, but for our own part, says the Times, it very consider ably increases such little affection as we previously had for these tlresomely virtuous fowl and therofore will we do our best to believe it There aie some difficulties in the way of doing that Bees, despite their reputation for Intelligence, are evidently about the stupidest things with wings merely animated acquisitiveness, indeed work ing as hard as an American million aire to pile up wealth far beyond any possible needs, without a single taient except to get, get, get As fighters, while -bees are brave enoueh. they are unable to strike more than a single blow against any of their mora daneeroua toes, dying tnemseives as a result of it while the foes, after howling with pain for a bit, cairn down and hunt more honey. .It is almost incredible, therefore,- that a creature Incapable of seeing the futility of work carried to an absurd extreme only for the profit of human robbers should be able so quickly to a raw on uuenun from the failure of winter to appear when expected. "Almost" is not "quite," however, and we, too, can do- lieve what we want to oeneve. do we will not question the story from Aus traliawhere everything is possible, asvhow and we hope that someooay will take a few of our ants down there and Drove that they. also, are indus trious only Because iney nave u oo that they are not a bit fonder of indus try than are the butterflies or any of the sluggards who have always had the sense to see that between toll to-day and hunger to-morrow there Is so little to choose that differences of opinion on the subject are entirely permissible. MTEQ.I0R of a mail cab. tlon in 1904 aggregated J.767,000 tons, m&kina- an average consumption tor each individual for the year ot about 75 pounds. ' During the half century prior tol8B0 beet sugar formed a small proportion, at the world's sugar production, the percentage which beets supplied of the world's sugar product being in 1840 but 4.3 per cent, in loeu 14.8 per oent in 1890 63.7 Der cent while 1900 showed for beets the highest propor tion in the world's production ot sugar. 67.7 per cent .. ., ffl nn uu Era Sold Direct Frcm Factory and in l!o (fcr IVay YCJ SAVE FKO:! $75 13 $2C3 When too bov Wlrif Piano, too birr at whole You pn the actual cost of makine- It with Only our wholesale profit added. When you buy S piano, as many still do at retail you pay the retail dealer's store rent and other expense. You Day his profit and the cmnmlaslon nr 'aalanr Of the scents or salesmen he employs all these on top of what the dealer himself has to pay to the manufacturer. The retail profit on plana U from 7S 10200. Isn't this worth saying? SENT CM TRIAL MYWKEP.E WE PAY FREIGHT. . . NO MONEY IN ADVANCK Vf will phoe Wins Piano In any home fn the United States on trial, without asking for any ad vance payment or deposit. We pay the freight and all Other charges III advance. There Is nothing to be paid either before the piano Is sent nr whan ft la received. It the Diano la net eatla. factory after 20 days' trial In your home, we take It back Inf. Tr lit UVhhVft Payments, enlr "m-oK" J S L?' thi plwthtn Hyoo wer..emlnlnf it t our TeThi 'rS ,2. penie ic-yoB. , . . music teachers and musicians. Thousands of these "2. r5E ?. io'SSii pianos are In your own State, some of them undoubt- ZZZZIrW I..'A ur catalogue coo- easiryaswecan in new i w viiy, ana wiio '- " . : "T1 ' . - t-' j aolutely no trouble or annoyance to you, and -The tonee of any or all of these. Instrument may arithout anvthlne belne raid In advance be reproduced perfectly by any ordinary player on the arrival either for freight or any other expense, piano br means of our Instrumental Attachment. we taceoia pianos ana orana in exenange. ' mhwctiwiii fauvmoa 07 winvaunuin A guarantee for 1 2 years against any defect In ud. ln,T ot P'ano. WINO ORGANS are mad tone, action, workrnsnshiB at material la givea wl,n srie care and sold In the same way aaWlng you need this book HVMidieBifTantrioteilwwailiMs 1 nil A book not cjat!tffTi3--tfiat gfvtt yon all the Voa pometvsxl by ex pari, it tolls ..boat the dlffeirtil m&fe jriais UeKi ui tuurvua tmnm i m uwaoivsre wj im an sul at ordertwid in uofi la oompiet tHieroIorwllA a A fullT.tt will BaLk 7oa juftK ot too, MrfclM, JTA VVOrKnumiuaip uim ituuui n vriis jvu ouw sw wm m piano and bow to ceil gooa mm Daa. it m ac I lutalytba enly book oftta Kind tvenmbiMwi JC contains, 100 wnra pajfew idq nurareos o InitTaUona. all oerotad to plane eontmctioo IIS Dame w - inn cvuk. oi vumpitws iiiiuruiav faon ADoui rianna, we wau is iree i WING ISGX anyone wiemntf to cmyapiano. nave to uvw w all vna euu ua juariuuaea WING & SON 8sviewis 8t New York )).,, Featal Te-dav white von Av CH,JM,aMHW think ot It Junt giving your name VT . ... ., and addme, er send the attaolied MS fX addrtSS tontttn OeWW, SSS&SSJVytM Book rfOmtlet, In- in hi eaui to yuu promptly ff slto pruts titd Itrmt effay hymaa. , ft4mmtom Wtar JHanci. 308-869 VT. 13th 8t New TorV 1868 38th Year-1906 EvWDINS dock. In Balumore, Had the aistino- - Vr trMtmrat I the only abac tion tho other day of killing the lare-J rfCO "M"0Jn,"SrS est rat ever seen along tho local water realm C n T, only on that con front The rodent weighed nearly Until Will treat any dnur naer sereu pounds, and from the tip of his Qured &&Jffij$Si uOM lO lU VUU VL aUaV WUl ai yiwwMw GbOBtly iBhea. They had lust moved In the house and, as Is usually the case, the former tenants had left much rubbish, behind them, v" "Just look," complained the little woman, "here are three horrid palls of ashes In the yard." "Ah," laughed the M husband, "speak of them with more reTereace." "Reverence. Why should It "Why, they are the ashes of the de parted." - : ' - " " , J - funooa lot Attittelal Rosea. The city of Indors Is modern and ugly and uninteresting. Apart, from balnc the nroeoerous capital of a rich native state, Its chief claim to notor iety rests upon its aoepiuu, wuicu ua won universal fame by the manufac ture of artificial noses. That may seem a very limited Industry on which to build a name. But in India there am oftTprul rava of nromotlng this In dustry. When a woman comes to the hospital carrying her nose In a napkin vnii ms.v falrlv assume that her hus band suspects a breach of the Seventh Commandment When a man appears the enf'ner mv that the draw wn op,rt. 1. a wd whs irarh that ne onti! u.ot t.;i. T.A lie was a flnlvk t:,!n!r. Lev"""nsr t' ert"'ne for t "CCUtrAB WEECK 1n the same tUriit von may set h!m down ss a usurer who has fallen Into the hands of his cllfuts. and bas had no Porf'a to plead his carina, Indore Oiacii te suui,: ucv'u Urotr Is the lwjoca pf these nnlortunatcs. two feet It was only after a desperate fight lasting twenty minutes, that the im mense rat was killed. For soma time scraps of paper and wood in the tool room of the warehouse Indicated that a swarm ot rodents was at work. Then one. morning the warehouseman en countered the blK fellow. Wltn a hnvim handle he attempted to put an end to the rodent's lire, cut tne rat showed light Back and forth he nnmnarwri. atnrl when cornered fie rushed at his assailant Once he hid be hind a coil or rope overneaa, ana wen h dashed at the man's neaa. ine latter dodged but the rodent's sharp teeth crazed his face. At last the rat wu viiiArl and measurements proved that he was the biggest ever seen in port .-'. The animal Is supposed to he a spe cies found la South America and It is believed ha cam hers in a ship, all of which carry many rodents. Dr. Waterman, Suhe B. H Lexington, Av.,N.Y eaii m OraaS (ol eoooe. trr MHoe SS peaaacat Itralaa at 10 ea. It'i a ; sawtr. na am I Bopa, i VVe trwe . I ftrBlalns.atmkapaeaairia at Weav end retara s Wf- Ttwe we end job tbe .WVaiWnwejw. , BIC FOB SCARF, BEAUTIFUL RING & HAND BAG vna ahnnia tau aavantase ox uu . irrand chanee, other flmn give only - . one premium, we give you three. BIO FUR SCARF, mad ot Baltio Seal, rloh, dark, durable fur thick and soft, and shape Tory full ; trimmed at the end with six full tall ; fa-,tns with hook and chal n. tiOLlD COLD-FlMsnEI) REOKWT 1)IA- -J iioin) msa. xo Denoui it on one's nngvt Jstoexperlenceanoverwhelmlnirdealretoovmit. T AUIES HANDSOME BAG.Verystylishj JLi flneimporteit leathery nlckel-eilverfraina, ftiTTjlxhwl with Smelling Bottle and Mirror. UCMEMPFB I W give you all S Promt am KtllitmDCn for wiling 28 fastselllng artV clea. You oan earn them In one day. We trust you. Cost nothing to try. We take baok all not sold. Send address, and we send yon the article postpaid I when sold, send ui money von get, and we w 111 send the For Scarf, Rina; and Bae; free. Get busy. WrlU to-day. Address Tme bloc Co.. Dept. 450, BQSTOW, Wone. FREE r ) 1 Hb Has Tltre wa Away His Bcltlss tM Scslss ami uses the N.P.CC Phototraphlo Preparations erdy. 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IN IRONICAL VEIN, Senator Lodge's bill providing tor! the reorganization ot the eonsular ser vice has been shorn by the Committee on Foreign Belatlons of Its most In cendiary and detestable ieaturea tne provision (or examining canaiaaus for appointment, and this still mora objectionable section: 'That whenever vacancy snail occur in the offlos ot consul general, or consul above the sixth ( $4,000) class, members of the two clause next below that in which the vacancy occurred shall be deemed eligible to be selectel to fill such vacancy. . This was a paloable attempt to en graft the merit and promotion system wiyvti ttie eowmlar service, and uvereoy to deprive national lar-malcers of their ancient sacred right to assist ths Presi dent In selecting consols general ana Mirhaalarted conanls. A. mMorlty of the committee rejtard It as the sordid Injection of eommerclallfrm Into a pnre Iv political matter, on the fllmey pre tence that te consular servIrM Is a bntrlnama InsHtritlrm. Tf the Committee on Forelsrn Hela. tlmts had pe-mttted tliis section to stand. It wonl! have been an abject eap- Itnietlon to the force that are rentltlouflly ToMjIrtj Ct.zt of Its catronaee TtorveTs. Ihe lloa that vonna ponmila that have made good re cords should te promoted and tltat nromlnsnt : elUsena recommended by lerialatora should aeceot oaltry places at the foot of the list was intensely mmiraant to the Senatorial sense. As statesmen representing watchful ana ex- iwtant eonirUtnerita. manv OI Wnom ex- ardae valnable Influence in behalf of their party, they could not consent 10 closing the door of hope. Every Con cTeaalonal dl-trlct has Its share of alderlv and hiehmmded students of the world's affairs, men who may nave oeen radelv buffeted by fortune ana wno cherish the hope of dodging further cruel strokes by landing In a pleasant consulate. They are men who nave jma wAoman serrloe tor tneir party. and aftan they retain connections that can not ha ignored. 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