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DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST, NAPOLEON, O., JULY 16, 1896.
A ROSTER ROMANCE.
Eha posed within poster guwa
Beneath poster tree ;
A poster background wiggled down
Into puter se.
I mastered op ft porter smile
And said. "Oh. queent las.
If yoa decide it worth your wLlle,
Our troth shall come to p;is!"
Ehe viewed tne with sv-oster frown
And cried. '"It cannot l ;
Ton have no wi ir.l. entwine renown;
Too plain yoa alv for n:u. "
I wildly ilashrd upon my wheel;
I scorched it hire and there.
Collided, spilled, and. with a sqnoal,
I hmrl ciy paruenH tear.
All in- 1 and blond and mgs I ride
To hr who did in Eing:
Bhe drooped u;in my and siphed,
"Ah, cow you're just the thine!"
Chicago Becord.
HIS SPANISH GIRL
I wonrlorod why Barry should be sit
tiiiR ulone iu the parrtcu ut 10 o'chek
on a Cui' midwinter nijrht. As I nun in
hered him, ho lmd Ix-on n sociablo fort
nf fellow, fond of parity mid pivttr
girls and thrro was a cotillon gninsr
on inddors in tho ballroom. I wondered,
too, whore hi wife was, for he hud tuld
tuc he was married.
It was six years since I hud last seen
him. We had been boys together, just
otit of college, end I hud visited him
for a summer in the southern part of
tho state, where his home had always
been and where his family was one of
the few "old" ones which could right
ly lay claim to gentility of other than
mushroom growth.
After that visit I had gone buck to
San Francisco mid to a truly San Fran
?iseo system of work, with the result
that my health und spirits hud steadily
decreased, and nt the end of these half
do.: -n years I was obliged to come south
for a long rest.
I had chosen this delightful and
quiet hotel in the hope that I might not
have my peace disturbed by any of my
numerous acquaintances, but here, the
first thing, came down upon us in our
retreat a crowd of wordlings f rom town,
bent on dancing a cotillon. Barry had
come with them. Why, then, I repeat
ed, was ho not in the ballroom, and
where was his wife? Perhaps she did
not dance. But, in thut case, why was
either of them with the frivolous party
that was turning our secluded spot into
bedlam?
For a moment longer I let my gaze,
follow a girl iu white satin, who had
fascinated me. She was very young and
brilliant and erect, with the face a
painter would have, chosen for Olym
piad, wreathed in vines and serpents.
A high, unnaturally white forehead,
with very bluck nnd very straight, thin
brows, eyes long and flashing and cruel,
a large nose, suggestive of the Hebrew,
thin, red lips, continually parted in a
wild sort of smile over wonderful teeth ;
a brilliant color, a long face, black hair,
parted and twisted low on ono of the
most columnur nocks I hud ever seen.
It was not a beautiful face. In repose
it was far from beautiful, but it was
rarely in repose, and her laugh was the
most bewildering tiling imaginable. If
she had been the heroine of a romance,
men would have loved and hated her to
tho extent of the shedding of a great
deal of blood, but in life today it is
hard cash, not women's faces, that ac
complish that. I took one last look at
the demoniacal young face and then
went to hunt up Barry.
Wo had already met in tho office, but
had not had time to exchange a dozen
words. I wanted to talk over old timeg
and new times, so, when I drew near
him, I scraped my feet and coughed,
as being the approved method of break
ing in upon tetes-a-tetes and meditation,
and when he started I said: "Hello!
That you, Barry?" and took a seat be
side him on the bench. He offered me a
cigar and gave mo a light, from which
I inferred I was not unwelcome.
"What are you doing, mooning un
der a pepper tree? It seems to mo danc
ing's more in your line, or doesn't the
madam dance?"
"Yes j she dances."
"Oh:" I said, und feeling slippery
ground, proceeded to avoid it. "Came
down from town tonight with tho par
ty, didn't you?" I asked.
"Yes."
"Heaps of pretty women. "
"Do you think so? I admire your
northern worn. fer more. They have more
distinction too. Ours fade early, be
sides. "
"Well, there's .jnc girl there, by
Jove, that mukes up for a country of
mediocrity that witch of a flirt with
the black hair and the very bare shoul
ders who is dancing with Thornton. If
I didn't happen to have some one I like
better in the city, I think I'd go iu for
her."
"But she's married, my friend. "
"No? Who's the proud possessor?"
"I am."
' 'You don't say ? Since when?' '
"Since five years ago nearly. "
, "Well, it's a little late, but permit
me to congratulate you. She is superb. ' '
"Thanks." And then we lapsed into
vilence, and I reflected upon the facility
With which a well meaning man may
put his foot in it.
"You wonder at my not dancing,
don't you?" ho said abruptly. "Well, I
used to like it. I 'like it now, but I
found Mrs. Barry was already engaged,
so there was nothing for me to do but
to order flowers gracefully and step out
hero to reflect and recall.
"Do you know," ho went on, "I had
a romantic meeting and parting on this
ipot once, right under this very tree.
It was just after I left you, six years
ago the meeting. I had ridden out
from town on Nocturne. You remember
her, the little black mare? I was walk
ing her along a road which ran about six
feet from here, just about where that
Bon Silene bush is (it was before the
days of the hotel), when all of a sud
den she shied at what looked like a bun
dle of old clothes under this tree. No,
no; I wasn't thrown, and I wasn't res
cued by the heroine. It was not much
of a shy, just enough to make me look
again at the bundle and wondev vrhr.
it was it was dusk, you know and
then to notice that the bundle moved,
"Wnererore l couclurtcri it was a
woman, probably a Mexican. It was a
woman, or a very young girl, rather,
and a deuced pretty one a Mexican too.
I could Sba tint, even in the twilight,
for her eyes gleamed in the dark as on
ly a pair of Mexican eyes can gleam,
und there was an added brightness, for
the eves were wet with tears. How do
I know? I dismounted and found out.
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Castoria.
cf course. It Isn't likely 1 was going to
see a woman prone on the ground a
long way from tho nearest habitation
at nightfall nnd yet not offer her any
assistance in my power.
"Well, as I said, she was crying
stnrmily, and I sot about finding out
why. She told a most blood curdling
tale of pan utal cruelty. It wasn't true.
I've found that out since. She was only
16, but she could tell an extraordinari
ly pond he. As a matter of fact, she had
found that a particular flame of hers
was poiug to take another girl to some
shindy. But the cruel treatment story
did nicely, and I comforted her she
was such a mere child, I honestly
thought. The lie was innocent enough.
They aren't taught to think n falsehood
anything serious. She was just a trifle
shy and shrinking, like a little pirl who
puts her hands behind her and lowers
her lushes at the advances of a stranger.
In fact, that is exactly what she did.
You should have seen those lashes.
You'd have Ihvii just as big a fool as I
was and have staid nntil the moon
rose and made an appointment for an
other meeting, and eventually you'd
have fallen as badly in I.ivo as I did.
"We always met under this tree. It
was on her father's lanel, but quite out
of sight of thi' house She said that if
he we re to find us togethe r he would re
demise his brutality, but I assured her
that if we we re discovered we would
run eiff at once and get married. The'
child was in one of her acquiescent
moods and lowered her eyes anel agn e'el.
Of course I could only manage to get
uway on Saturday e venings or Sundays
this is the anniversary of our meeting,
by the bye; you see I cling to old mem
ories but we made the most of our
time'. I never had bee n so infatuated as
I was with that Spanish child, with her
tawdry, bright frocks, her shy ways,
her geirgexius r yes and he r broken Eng
lish. She really was Spanish anel not
Mexican, I learned."
"They all are," I ventured.
"I know, but your sarcasm is wasted.
In this case it was be yond question, nnd
there was American blood iu her veins,
too a little of it.
"I insisted upon running away with
her and getting married nt sea, and,
after no end of refusals, she finally con
sented. Oh, I was far too smitten, too
ensnared, to have it occur to me then
how a match of the sort would hamper
my career; how an ignorant country
girl would prove a thorn in my flesh in
the critical town clique ; what a social
drag she would be upon me'! I knew
the family would raise particular Cain,
but when a man wants to marry iu spite
of his family he is apt to look upon it
as a small stone to be kicked out of his
path, and it takes him some time to dis-
cover that his pebble, is a good sized
bowlder,
"But we quarreled. " A long pause,
while Barry lit another cigar from the
old one and puffed it into plowing. I
kept silence, and after awhile he went
on: "You may think most women arc
fiery, but you should try a Spaniard.
She got the cruel father a harmless,
shriveled up old fellow to take her in
to town behind ono of his trotters one
day. She wanted to buy a gown, which
she told him was for some kind of a
baile out here, but it was really to get
married in. I had brought her a sample
of the stuff I wanted her to get ; other
wise she'd have appeared in pink and
green and white lace beyond a doubt.
"Well, she saw me on the street with
a city girl. I believe it was Nora Clarke.
You remember her? She was the merest
acquaintance, as yon know, and I treat
eel her as one eloes any woman one hap
pens to meet. Wo passed a confection
er's, and I, naturally enough, asked her
to have some soda water. I don't sup
pose I'd have done it if I'd known that
Ysadora was around, simply because I
was aware that she wouldn't take it as
an American fiancee woulel have done.
"But she was around, and she thought
I was doing the deadly elevoted, so the
next Saturday, when we were to have
run away, she met me with reproaches
and tears and deviltry generally. She
wouldn't listen to reason. She tore up
tho new gown and refused ever to mar
ry me or any other man, anel she used
some strong but musical Spanish. I fan
cy she was more jealous than hurt, but
I well, I was completely clone up. To
say that she looked meire beautiful than
ever would be to put it weakly. When
I saw her disappear for good over be
hinel that clump of eucalyptus, I was
on the verge of suicide. Pity I stopped
at the verge'.
"The fe'llow who hns since built the
hotel bought this spot, that saw our
meeting and our parting, when her old
ithe r died, a year or so later.
"You came along just as I was going
over old memories anel wishing I sup
pose I shonlel not say it wishing that
it, were six years ago, and that I was
still blindly infatuated with my Span
ish sweetheart of 10."
I am not fond of the modern unfinish
ed story. I want to see the heroine laid
in her grave by a host of weeding
grandchildren, anel flic hero following
r contentedly soon nf tor, so I asked,
"But what became of the girl?"
"Nothing over ' becomes' in real life, "
he answered.
'Where is she now?" I persisted.
'In the ballroom, (lancing tho cotil
lon with Thornton. "
Then"
'Yes. We made it up after her fa
ther's death and we're married on dry
land and have lived happily ever nft-
e r, lie aelele'Cl, shrugging ins snouieieTS
and throwing away his cigar. Gwen
dolen Overton iu San Francisco Argo
naut. Annty Krngor.
Mrs. Krupor, the wifo cf President
Kruger of the' Transvaal, who is an ex
tremely homely woman, does nearly all
her own housework, cooking meals,
making her own bed, and always takes
a hand in the family washing. When
her husband has "state guests" to eliu-
lier the good lady will trust the task of
waiting on tho table to no one, and,
donning a white apron, she performs
the office of butler. Her husband has a
private fortune of 25,000,000, but it's
Aunty Kruger s boast that they live
on their "coffee, money" a pcrquisito
of Sa.OOO a year allowed them by the
government.
Els Proper Sphere.
Author Mary, I've made a mistake
In my calling; I'm not an author, but a
born chemist.
Author's Wifo What makes you
think that, Heirace?"
Author Well-, every book I write
becomes a drug in the market. London
Answers.
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Castoria.
CARRY THEIR EGGS.
LARGE BIROS DISCOVERED BY
EX-
PLORERS THAT DO THIS.
The tint of th Albatross sod 6cm Oth
er to Where They Sit Down Ad Island
In the Antarctic Region The Expe
rience of Andnboo.
Some time ago a small party of ex-
llorers Iand-1 ou one of the apparently
barren islands just ou the borders of the
antarctic regions and found it inhabited
by a remarkable colony of birds that
ranged from large Mother Carey like
birds to penguins of all kinds and de
grees. The island was fairly covered
with the feathered inhabitants, and, as
the boat ran on to a rock that apparently
afforded a landing, the birds, instead of
moving away, seemed determined to
resent the intrusion anel stoexl their
ground, viiously attacking the men,
who, though they knocked the birds
aside with clubs and oars, made no ap
preciable inroad upon their numbers.
The party theu formeel a compact
boely, and, armed with bonthooks to
push the shrie king timing aside, moved
up what apparently was a street here
and there dotte'el with singular stool
like objects about a leet in wieitn,
arger at the top. These were the nests
of the albatross, and, as the men were
especially desirous of obtaining a set of
r ggs, they observed the nests ve ry care
fully, but in every instance the bird
when approached shuffled clumsily
away, and no eggs were found, though
the birds were supposed to be sitting
upon them.
Finally a nest was found containing
an egg, but just as tne men drew near
tho birel alighted and took her place
upon it, eying them with suspicion and
uttering a curious half hissing souueL
They watched he r for a few moments
and the u forced her from the uest, when,
to their amazement, the egg had disap
peared as completely as though it had
been swallowed up. The nest was ex
amined closely and finally torn apart,
the men thinking that possibly the egg
might have slipped into it in some mys
terious way, but without success.
One of the party attempted to catch
an albatross, aod while he wa9 follow
ing the bird in a ludicrous chase over
the stubble an egg sueldeuly appeared,
dropped by the running bird, which hael
all the time been carrying it, not under
her wing, as she is supposed to do at sea
by superstitious sailors, but in a pecul
iar sack in the skin provided by nature
for this very purpose.
Tho albatross is famed for its power
of flight, following vessels hundreds of
miles. Yet when nesting it apparently
forgets that it has wings, as it can be
handled and pushed about in tho nest,
making no attempt to fly or move un
less driven away by blows. This may
bo due to the fact that the egg is held
in the curious sack anil the bird in
stinctively knows that it cannot fly off
with it ; so it resists.
This sly bird is called the molly
mauk. And its cousin, tho great alba
tross, has a similar habit, the egg,
which is five inches in length, almost
as largo as that of a swan, being held
in a perfect incubating peiuch.
Ou Marion island tho expleirors found
the great king penguin a bird which
stands half as high as a man, with its
bill pointing directly upward instead of
out, as with other birds. As they lauded
and approached the singular creatures,
which hael been standing about, they
hoppi'd away slowly, but not an egg
could be found, a set of which was the
object of the visit.
The birds had a peculiar movement.
Instead of walking and moving ono foot
after the other, or alternately, they
held them close together and hopped.
This excited the laughter of the men,
who finally toppled a bird over, where
upon the egg rolled out upon the sand.
The king peuguin was also an egg
carrier, not only holding it while stand
ing still, but carrying the big egg about
with it by placing it in a pouch for the
purpose, holding it in with tho broad
webbed feet that are kept closely to
gether. This explained tho curious hop
ping motion of the birds, as they could
not move their feet without dropping
the egg, but the moment one was forced
to give up the prize it ran away, using
both feet, like ordinary birds.
This remarkable habit does away with
the necessity of a nest, as the bird car
ries its egg with it as it moves about.
In these instances the birds rarely trans
port the egg to a great distance. If un
disturbed, they probably remain about a
certain locality, but there are birds
which have been known to transport
their eggs from one place to another,
literally flying away with them. When
Audubon first heard this story of the
nighthawk, called Chuck Will's widow,
ho thought it a story of the negroes.
Some insisted that the bird carried the
egg away under its wing ; others that it
rolled the egg over the ground. To de
termine the truth Audubon concealed
himself in the woods under a nest, hav
ing first handled the eggs, and waited
to see what the old bird would do. The
first bird to arrive appeared very de
ji'Cteel at the discovery that tho secret
home had been found, ruffling up its
feathers and uttering a moaning cry
inst audible to the listener. Then the
mate arrived, and, after various move
ments indicative of alarm, each bird
took an egg in its capacious mouth and
flew softly away.
Le Vaillant, tho French naturalist,
observed tho collared goatsucker of the
Cape of Good Hope carrying off its eggs
in tho same manner a comparatively
easy feat, ns tho mouth of all these birds
is very capacious, u veritable trap when
the jaws are opened for the various in
sects upon which they feed iu tho dusk
bi'twoon day and night.
Many birds carry their young short
distances, as the woodcock, which has
been seen carrying off a little ono be
tween tho claws, while it is well known
that the wood duck carries its young
down from the uest in tre'es to tho wa
ter, using her bill for tho purpose.
Philadelphia Time
His Little Scheme.
"How is this, Florence? Here is a
guitar n place of your mandolin?"
"Yea, mother. Paul Davis took my
mandolin in mistake for his guitar. He
will return it tonight whon he comes
for his guitar. " Dotroit Free Press.
A British patent covers England,
Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Chan
nel islands, but not one of tho British
colonies.
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Castoria,
FACTORY SYSTEMS IN SWITZERLAND.
Skilled Watchmakers Will Hot Work by
American Methods.
It U most interesting to compare the
aiffereut methods by means of which
the highest grade of mechanical perfec
:ion is attained in various countries.
Notwithstanding the high character of
American watches, for example, the
finest Swiss watches will retain their
great reputation. The bwiss workman
receives the parts from the manufacturer
i the rough, take s them to his home,
juts his best individual skill into the
finishing and assembling and brings tho
completed watches to his employer.
The latter inspects the work, and out of
a batch of, say, 50 watches ho selects
five or six as worthy of his attention
and puts the others into the regular
trade under some general trade name.
The selected watches he readjusts, work
ing over them for days, weeks and
mouths before he considers them worthy
to be'ur his own name, and it is these
watches which go to those who not only
have the money to buy, but also tho
patience to wait.
A prominent firm of Ameaean jew
elers, chafing under the inconveniences
of this old world method of doing
things, sought to introeluce American
methods and see if the highest grade of
Swiss watches coulel not be made more
methodically. A factory was built, en
ticing rates of wages were offered to the
most skillful workmen, and the experi
ment was tried. But, alas, tho Swiss
workman soon found that no regular
wages could pay him for his loss of lib
erty. To be ou hand when the whistle
blew in the morning, to have his stated
hour for dinner and his fixed hour for
quitting at night these restrictions he
could not long stand. Formerly he had
worked when he felt like it anel stopped
when it pleased him, and when he was
paid feir one jeib ho took his own time
to begin the next, generally waiting
until his funds ran low. The factory
plan did not work for long, and the idle
building now bears silent testimony to
tho Swiss love for independence, which
is as much a factor in present life ns it
has been in past history. Cussicr's
Magazine.
TWO MEETINGS.
A Very Old Man Tells of Something That
Awakened Tender Memories.
"I came across something last Sun
day," said an old, very old, man one
day iu 1900, "something that brought
tears to my eyes and started a flood of
recollections that I could not control. I
had been out with my son-in-law for a
little excursion, and feeling thirsty we
dropped down in the yard of a neat
looking hotel and called for some Rhine
wine and selters.
" 'Yon will have to order a meal,'
said the waiter, and we said, 'Of course ;
two meals. ' In time the Rhine wine
was brought. The glasses were smaller
than they were when I was young, but
their contents were 'otherwise well. '
Then he brought the meals.
"They were the ordinary Sunday
drink meals. My son-in-law's was or
dinary in every way ; but the waiter
had dropped mine, and, picking it up
in a hurry, had placed it ou the plate
upside down. Otherwise, of course, I
should never have noticed it. On the
bottom of the meal, carved deep into
the crust, were the initials 'B. G. R.,
and the date '1896, May 17." Seventy
years old and more that Raines Sunday
meal wasl The initials were my own,
and, as I looked at the figures, almost
as fresh as when they were first carved,
my memory went back to the bright
Sunday in May, 1896, when a friend
and I had ridden on our bicycles to the
self same 'hotel' and ordered the same
drinks' and meals. Of course, it was
only a coincidence, but it was interest
ing.
"It was just about that time," said
tho old, very old, man, picking up his
cane, "that the custom the boys had of
carving their names on turtles backs
was given up; they carved them on
Raines Sunday meals, because they last
ed longer. And I think that I was one
of the pioneers of the new custom. " And
the old, very old, man went out. New
York Sun.
Julian Scott, Drnmmer Boy.
The Boston Transcript says that Ju
lian Scott, drummer boy, Company E,
Third Vermont volunteers, "received
tho first congressional medal of honor
for bravery at the battle of Lee's Mills,
Va., April 16, 1862. His duties did not
require him to be present on the field.
Learning that four companies of his
regiment, including his own, had cross
ed the creek and were suffering terrible
losses, and that many of his comrades
were killed and wounded, he started for
the scene, forded the creek, and, in the
face of a terrible fire and countercharge
from the enemy, succeeded unaided in
bringing two severely wounded com
rades across the creek. A general order
was issued by his brigade commander,
General 'Baldy' Smith, commending
the heroic bravery of this drummer boy.
The act of congress granting the medal
of honor was passed July 12, 1862, and
it is reported that Secretary Stanton
was so pleased with the bravery of this
boy that as soon as the medals were
ready he sent the first one to Julian
Scott."
Wonderful Vitality of Seeds.
Professors Webster and Pouchet, who
have recently been engaged in experi
menting on the vitality of seeds, find
that the seed of Mcdicigo americaua
(lucern) may be boiled uninterruptedly
for four hours without losing their vi
tality. Seeds so treated sprouted and
sprung up in from 12 to 17 days. St.
Louis Republic
The women of savage nations rarely
pay much intention to the dressing of
their hair, while savage men, on tho
contrary, regard their coiffures as of the
nttnnar. innutvt.n'Q
When Wales Won the Derby.
"I shall always be glad," says a gosslper
In nn Kiiplisli paper, "that I was present
when our future king won tho Derby. The
temoh of nature which makes the whole
world kin drew prince and peoplo very
cleise that day. Everybody knows that roy
alties are neit, as a rule, above all things
human. But the prince is as human as
any man living. And at the Derby the tre
meuelous outburst of affectionate loyalty,
tho long uproarious yell of delight which
greeted his horse as winner, touched him
so that his face grew white and he trembled
visibly from lieiad to foot. Tho prince was,
indeed, unable himself to lead his horse,
mel one likes him, if possible, almost bet
ter than ever before when one realizes how
deeply he was stirred by the popular ova
tion accorded to him. And tho Duko of
York, too, could scarcely disguise his agi
tation." -
Northwest $ 1 a year
WITH A BARREL OF OYSTERS.
Bow a Great Russian Banker Bought His
Freedom From Serfdom.
One of the best known banking houses
of SL Petersburg and the one to which
most American visitors to Russia curry
letters of credit is that of Messrs, Shal-
ouuine & Sous, the founder of which.
father of the present head of the firm,
iwed his liberation from serfdom, 15
.ears before the decree cf emancipation.
5o a barrel of oysters. Old shalounine
Was a serf belonging to Count She-
remetieff, one of the wealthiest nobles in
Russia. He had frequently entreated
the count to grant him his freedom, of
fering him as much as $500,000 for the
boon. But money was no object to the
count, and it gratified his priele to feel
that one of the leading baukiTS of the
empire was one of his serfs, una'le to
marry either his sons or his daughters
without his master's consent. Moreover,
as serf, the tanker was liable to have
his money seized and confiscated any
moment by the count, since everything
that belonged to a serf, including his
wife, children and property, belonged
ipso facto to his master.
One day Shalounine, who had just
thut very morning re-turned to the capi
tal from Oelessa, called at the Shere
metieff palace for the purpose of report
ing his arrival, as in duty bound to his
owner. He had brought with him a
barrel of delicious Crimean oysters for
presentation to the count, but left them
iu his carriage at the palace door until
he should have obtained his master's
intimation that his gift was acceptable.
On entering the presence of the count
the banker found him surrounded by a
party of guests and engaged iu berating
his chief butler for neglecting to pro
vide oysters for the breakfast to which
they were abeiut to sit down. The butler
was explaining to the count that there
were no oysters to be got in the capital
at that moment for love or money.
Catching sight of the serf banker the
count exclaimed :
"Oh, it is thou again. Thou art come
to pester me once more for thy libera
tion ! Thou knowest that it is useless. I
should not know what to do with thy
money. But stay, I will tell thee some
thing. Get me some oysters for my
breakfast and thou shall have thy free
dom!"
Shalounine bowed low. left the room,
fetched the small barrel of oysters which
he had left in his carriage at the door,
and laid it at the feet of his master.
As soon as the barrel had been opened
the count called for a pen and paper,
wrote out a declaration emancipating
both the banker and his familv from
serfdom, and then, bowing courteously
to the man who but a moment before
had been his slave, exclaimed, "And,
now, my dear Mr. Shalounine will
you give us the pleasure of your com
pany at breakfast?" New York Trib
une. ECONOMY OF SPACE.
A Great Power Generating Station Which
Covers bat Little Ground.
Probably no other kinds of power
plants afford better illustrations of tho
tendency to concentration than some of
the modern splendidly equipped electric
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economic considerations have dictated
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with a corresponding boiler plant, or
only a little less than two horsepower
per square foot. It would seem, indeed,
as though economy in space could not
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