'MAN IAAMltAHilUNt
Railroad Caruso With a Cyolone
in Either Lung.
Clyde Hayes, Who Calls the Trains In
Chicago's Big Northwestern 8t.a
tion, Has a Voice Like a
Foghorn.
Chicago.-Clyde B. Hayes is the rail.
road Caruso. Every day from 3:30 p.
m. to 11 he proclaims the departure bf
more trains rthan any other station
caller. His concert platform is of all
steel construction and it is located
way up near the splendid ceiling of
the new Northwestern railroad sta
tion.
Thirty thousand people each day
lend appreciative ears as he skylarks
the suburban schedule on the Milwau
kee and Galena divisions, plus enough
overland trains to keep Chicago and
the Pacific coast bound in close fel
lowship. Presidents of the United
States, boy orators, world famous
evangelists, divinities of grand opera,
baseball umpires-none of these ever
had the constant opportunities of Train
Announcer Hayes to enlighten and
electrify a listening multitude.
Passing swiftly over the poor boy
and burning ambition section of his
life, we find Hayes in full charge of a
night accommodation train in Nebras
ka. Yes, until recently he was a rail
road conductor, and was treading the
threadbare aisle of a Nebraska ac
commodation, occasionally unhooking
a brightly nickled lantern from his
left elbow and dropping off into the
night to wigwag the engineer.
One day the division superintendent
of the Northwestern line at Omaha
summoned young Conductor Hayes in
to his grim presence.
"Are you aware, Mr. Hayes, that
yoh have been 'turned in' a number of
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Caller Hayes.
times lately?" said the superintendent
to the conductor after the latter had
nervously placed his cap on the edge
of the glass topped table.
Hayes trembled and his heart sank.
To be "turned in," in railroad patois,
means to be the object of complaints
by passengers.
"What have I done, sir?" he mur
mured anxiously.
"You have disturbed the sleep of a
large number of passengers on this
line," said the superintendent. "Let
ters have come to me from traveling
men who ride on your train, and they
say that when you announce a station
at night your voice not only wakes
them, but scares them and knocks
them out of a proper frame of mind
to do business the next day. Here
after, Mr. Hayes, when calling out sta
tions I wish you would not try to dis
place the window panes or experiment
with sound vibrations on the bell rope.
But it seems that 'Mr. Hayes is a
walking library for volumes and vol
umes of stentorian noise. It couldn't
be suppressed, and as he had no time
to attend a ball game and let out
steam on the bleachers, he had to re
sume his old habit of standing at one
end of a yellow car and closing the
door at the opposite end by sheer force
of his low register. Also he would
cough when impelled by the platform
draft, and the stovepipe would col
lapse with a jangling noise. For a
time the gentle patter of cinders
would be stilled and the volatile dents
in the water cooler would take up the
echoes. At least, that was the descrip
tion given by the sleep-eager passen
gers who signed a petition which was
sent to the big chief at Omaha ere
another month had passed.
The railroad officials were deeply
puzzled by the case of Conductor
Hayes, who had proved himself relia
ble and efficient in' every other way.
Some one suggested putting him on a
clay run, where people sleep at their
own risk, or at the mercy of the train
cutcher.
In the meantime the hilarious story
of Conductor Hayes and the sleepy
drummers found its way to Chicago
and Conductor Hayes was ordered to
report here. He came wondering and
jpromptly he was set to work learn.
ing the list of train departures. Then
when the new station was opened,
like an admiral on the porch of a bat
tleship, he stood in his high balcony
and began his interminable recita
tions in earnest. For a day or so he
wrestled with echoes and acoustic
snares, but now he has mastered the i
problem of resonance in the great sta'
tion.
Pamous Woman Who Wrote "Uncle
Tom's Cabin" Was Born One
Hundred Years Ago.
8 Litehfield, Cbnn.-The one hun
dredth anniversary of the birth of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, one of the fa
mous children of Dr. Lyman Beecher
and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
was cetebrated at her birthplace here.
While the author, of many books,
Harriet Beecher Stowe is remember*
ed chiefly by her great work, "Uncle
Tom's Cabin." She was forty years
. of age when the story began to run
as a seriel in the National Era, an
t Abolition paper published in Wash
n ington. It was translated into every
language of Europe, had a sale of over
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500,000 copies in the first two years
after its publication, a fourth of which
were in England, and it is still called
for in many of the public libraries of
the country. As a "best seller" it far
surpassed all the work of recent days I
and has been exceeded in circulation
by the Bible only. At one time more
than, a dozen theatrical companies
were traveling through the country
presenting this drama.
HANOVER'S FIRST BUILDING
Old Presbyterian Church Which Was
the Earliest College Structure
Is to Be Remodeled.
Hanover, Ind.-The old Presbyterian
church at Hanover, which was the first
building of Hanover college, will be
remodeled. The building was erect
ed in what was then South Hanover.
in 1828. Hanover college had had its
inception in a little log cabin two
years before.
The first real college classes in the
state were held in the building that is
to be remodeled. A seminary was also
started in the building in 1837. This
was remove4 to Chicago later and is
now the lagBest seminary of its kind
in the west-the McCormick seminary.
A tornado took the top story off the
building in 1837 and the college was
moved to a new structure about a
mile east, overlooking the Ohio river, n
and the building was made into a h
church. Every commencement exer- ci
cise since 1830 has been held in this a,
church, and a large number who have
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First Building at Hanover.
become prominent in affairs have gone
out of the building as college grad
uates.
It is believed here that the first
diploma given to any woman from an
educational institution of any kind
was given here in this building to
Margaret Minter of Nantucket, R. I.
More than fifty people who have been
members of this church have gone in
to the foreign mission field, and ten
college presidents were once members
of the congregation.
WOMEN TO CARE FOR TREES
Aldermen of Middletown, N. Y., Let
Contract to Society Leaders
Big Victory for Former.
Middletown, N. Y.--The women of
Middletown won a great victory the
other day when the board of alder
men turned over to them the care of
the shade trees of the city and the
bids of other contractors were thrown
aside. Last year the Federation of
Women's Clubs took up the matter of
saving the shade trees of the city and
succeeded in getting the taxpayers to
vote $1,200 for that purpose. The al
Sermen let the contract and at the
tnd of the season tihe women claimed
he work had not been done properly.
This year the women asked the alder
non to award them the contract.
JOINS YOGA COLONl
Educator's Wife Goes to Follow
Strange God.
Purdue University Head Divorced Aft
or Indian Philosophy Is Said to
Have Taken Wife to South
Sea Islands.
Lafayette, Ind.-lIt is the high priv
ilege of all to follow individual tdste
in the matter of religious bbliet, but
sometimes the result is deplorable in
the extreme. Not all can think alike
as regards the here and the hereaft
er, on this all-important matter of man
and his final destiny, but in spite of
this diversity of opinion all good men
and women will deeply sympathize
with a family where the wife and
mother has deliberately left her home
to follow after a strange god. Such a
regrettable instance has just been
brought to light through the granting
of a divorce to President Winthrop E.
Stone, of Purdue university, who is
given the custody of a minor child,
Henry Stone, on the ground of aban
donment.
The course of this tragedy which
has brought deep sorrow to the Stone
family is told in a pathetic story
dating back three years, when a class
in "Yoga philosophy" was organized
in Lafayette. Many women and men
in college joined the class, which be
came a fad in social circles. It was
taught that a complete fulfillment of
"Yoga philosophy" involved the sep
aration from family, friends and kind.
red, Mrs. Stone became a devout fol.
lower of this faith and left home.
When last heard from in an authentic
way she was in Germany, but has been
reported since that she has left that
country for Kabakon, a South Sea Is.
land, to join a colony of followers of
the new belief. In the island where
Mrs. Stone is supposed to be its mem
bers are called sun worshipers.
This colony is one of the queerest
in the world. It was founded several
years ago by August Engiehardt and
numbers fewer than 100 persons. They
live almost entirely on cocoanuts. The
clothing they wear is said to be of the
variety and quality affected by the
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natives of the South Sea islands who
have not come in contact with the
civilizing influences of the mission
aries.
Owing to the trouble with his wife
Mr. Stone recently sent his resigna
tion to the trustees of Purdue, but
they unanimously declined to accept
it. He has been a capable head of the
university since 1900.
It was no emotional, impulsive ac
tion that took Mrs. Stone from her
family. Her course was deliberate,
and she followed it after long reflec
tion and, apparently, after having
counted the full cost.
Most singular is the story of Mrs.
Stone's fall under the spell of the mys
terious Yoga cult. For years she had
been reading theosophy and kindred
subjects, and was mildly interested in'
them. It was along about this time
that Dr. George Moulton organized in
Lafayette a class in the Yoga philoso
phy. Many women and some men, in
West Lafayette, the college town,
joined the class, and it became a great
fad with certain highly educated peo
ple. Moulton taught that the Yoga phil
osophy was the religion of the Indian
Yogi, or Soothsayers.
One of the leading features of this
doctrine was that of the "withdrawal,"
or separation from kindred and
friends. It was this feature that at
last fastened itself upon Mrs. Stone as
subsequent events showed. Meetings
of Dr. Moulton's class were held in
several homes. Books on the subject
were put in the hands of Mrs. Stone
and other members of the class, and
their interest grew.
Radical and revolutionary as were
the books of the cult, Dr. Moulton .
seemed to go still beyond them, and
evolve a Yoga philosophy of his own.
But the members of the class were '
warned not to make public any of the s
private and secret instructions of how t
to send telepathic messages, how to d
hypnotize, how to usu the key of Kar
ma Yoga, and how to heal the sick.
One of the injunctions in this respect
was "Do not become a laughing stock F
for your friends by telling them what 51
you can do or how you do it."
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June Brides Set Record. h;
New York.-June brides were nev- ti
wr so numerous in Greater New York at
is this year. More than 6,000 11i- I
:enses-6,059, to be precise-were Is- at
lued in the' month, against 5,728 in w
.he same _,'nth last year, which was w
he record intil now. sl
DICTOGRAPH AS A DETECTIVE
Reaently Invented Instrument Plays
an Important Part in the Ohio
Bribery Trial.
Columbus, O.-In the trial of Rodney
J. Diegle, sergeant-at-arms of the Ohio
state senate, convicted of aiding and
abetting the alleged bribing of a state
senator, the state relied on a me
chanical device, the dictograph, a high
ly sensitized telephone, for its strong
est evidence.
The dictograph transmitter was se
created in a detective's room in a ho
tel and a court stenographer in anoth
sr room, reported the conversation in
which it was alleged bribes were of
fered and accepted.
For the first time in the history of
detective work this curious machine
was used.
A dictograph consists of a series of
sensitive metal plates set in a hard
rubber cylinder. In its elements it Is
a telephone transmitter magnified.
Used in a business way it enables a
man to sit at his desk in his private
olfice alone and talk off his correspond
ence without the stenographer being
Operating the Dlotograph.
:ic present. The rtenographer may be in
a the next room or the other side of the
at building, but she hears the words as
Is. distinctly as though she were at his
of elbow and sets them down.
re The detectives got some of the sus
pected men, separately and together,
In a hotel room, a dictograph was
st under the sota. A court reporter was
al at the other end. Word for word his
td nimble fingers recorded every word
that was uttered. None but he and
1e the detectives knew.
18 Nothing escaped the transmitter
not even the opening or closing of the
door-and the stenographer trans
aribed everything which the little in
strument reported to him. This re
port was admitted as evidence by the
fudge who presided at the trial.
The inventor of the instrument is
K. M. Turner.
In order to entrap the legislators
who were suspected of receiving
bribes, Detective Smiley acted as
briber on the occasion when the dic
tograph was used and he and O. O.
Walcott, the stenographer, were prin
ilpal witnesses for the prosecution.
The defense objected strenuously to
Wolcott's evidence being admitted,
but the court ruled that it was cor
roborative of the direct evidence and
was admissible.
MARKS MISSOURI SEA LEVELS
The United States Geologlcal Survey
Has Recently Completed Work
In the State.
Jefferson City, Mo.-The United
Btates geological survey, working in
conjunction with the surveyors of the
state of Missouri, have been establish
ing the levels in this state and plac
Ing tablets or "bench marks" in many
places. These markers show the
height of that point above the sea
level.
These bench marks are of two
forms. One is a circular bronze or
aluminum table three and one-half
inches in diameter and one-fourth
inch thick, having a 3-inch stem which
is cemented in a drill hole in solid
rock in the wall of some public build
ing, bridge abutment or other sub
stantial masonry structure or in the
solid rock.
The second form to be set in the
ground where there is no rock or ma
sonry, consists of a hollow wrought 1
Iron post four feet long. A bronze or
aluminum table is riveted over the top 1
Tablet or Marker.
of the post and it is sunk into the a
ground so that the top protrudes t
about six inches. c
The tablets are stamped with the
words: "U. S. Geological Survey. a
Missouri." The elevation in feet above s:
sea level is marked on the tablet and o
the words: "Two hundred and fifty tl
dollars fine for disturbing this mark." it
Old Church as Garage. g
Long till, Conn.-The old white d;
First Methodist church building, ai
steeple and all, for many years used T
as a place of worship and the first
church built in the town of Trumbull, it
has given away to the progress of the c(
times and garage. The edifice, which t
stands almost in the center of the vil. t
lage, has long been a landmark. The gi
steeple will be retained, the galleries in
will be made into waiting rooms for A
women and the pulpit and platform a. at
show place for accessories, gl
SERVICE FOR MUTES
Texas Church Whose Members
Are All Deaf.
Crying Bables or Late Comers Do Not
Disturb This Congregation-Com.
municants Are of All Creeds
and Followings,
Fort Worth, Texas.-Sermons with
never a spoken word, congregational
singing without an audible note of
melody, public prayers in which there
is no sound, Sunday school teachers
whose lips are inarticulate. All these
are incidentals of the Sunday services
of a Fort Worth.church.
The pastor is not disturbed by cry
ing babies, and tthe late comers do
not take the trouble to tip-toe, but let
their heels fall noisily on the uncar
peted floor. The belfry that tops the
building is purely ornamental, for no
member of this unique congregation
could hear any bell invented.
No church in the United States is
like it. It is the only church in the
whole country whose congregation is
composed wholly of deaf mutes.
The sixty or more deaf mutes living
in Fort Worth organized the congrega
tion, called the First Evangelical
church for the deaf, in 1907. The real
founder is the Rev. J. W. Michaels of
Louisville, Ky., who is still the pas
tor, although he can make only four
visits a year to his voiceless flock.
The building, a neat and substantial
structure, was built solely by deaf
mutes. The pulpit was carved by the
Sunday school superintendent, G. W.
Sheppard, who is a skilled woodwork
man.
There Is no church debt. None of
the members is wealthy, and the con
gregation has had a hard struggle.
But it has won because the members
are very proud of having the only deaf
mute church in the United States and
are correspondingly loyal.
The church is interdenominational.
Creeds are sunk in the common in
firmity. In the roster of 40 members,
a half-dozen denominations are repre
sented. The pastor is a Baptist, but
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Superintendent Sheppard Preaching.
if a convert is conscientiously op
posed to immension, he does not hesi
tate to use the sprinkling or pouring
method of baptism.
Because of the long lapses between
the visits of the pastor, a large part o1
the ministerial duties fall upon the
Sunday school superintendent.
The service begins when Supt. Shep.
pard mounts the rostrum. First is roll
call. With the record before him, the
superintendent, by signs, calls off
the name of each member, and each
person present responds in the same
fashion.
The Apostles' Creed is recited in
unison. The uniformity of gestures
is not the result of careful drilling,
but comes as naturally to the worship
pers as speech to the average person.
Supt. Sheppard then delivers a short
sermon, taking the Sunday school text
for the day for his subject. He is
known as an "eloquent man" by the
members of the silent congregation.
His delivery has an earnestness that
impresses even those who cannot un
derstand his signs.
At times he "talks" rapidly, his
facile fingers, accompanied by full
arm gestures, working with a speed
that taxes the attention of his audi
ence. Again, for the sake of greater
emphasis, the words come.slowly, lin
geringly, from his finger tips, and one
may well imagine that he is an adept
in his silent art of oratory.
The eyes of the members never
wander from the speaker, since,
through their eyes alone, can they re
ceive his message.
At the close of the superintendent's
address the congregation "sings" in
signs. Most commonly the hymn is
oh. familiar to all the members, as
the singing would be hindered by hold
ing bookes. Next, the Sunday school
classes take their places. The lesson
goes forward as in the ordinary Sun-I
day school, except that the questions
and answers arc in the sign language.
The service clo.ses with a benedictiou.
Often nmili- .rs fronl other churches
in the cit., penach to the deaf mute
Coiagrcgt. in,,. A young woman, who
married a .Iate, and so acqaired a
thoroug :Icknwledge of the sig., lan
guage, 'm1 -wI; directly behind the visit
ing speakor a ad acts as interpreter.
As fast as tIh words are spoken, they i
are tansmlrt d to the det.f congre
gation by signs.
HOW TO BECOME INVISIBLE
Ancient Recipe Tells the Method, but
It Will Be Found Rather
Complicated.
A. E. Haite, a compiler of liter"
ary curiosities, has been collect.
ancient witcbh
craft, charms,
spells and mag
ical cures from
all kinds of rare
old books and pe
pers. These are
being published
under the title of
"Book of Ceremonial Magic," and re
veal amazing credulity on the part of
some of our forefathers and foremoth
ers, who took more stock in witch
craft than we are supposed to do in
this enlightened age.
For instance, here is a recipe for
making yourself invisible. Jus
imagine how valuable the gift of in
vdslbility would be today if this recipe
was any good and could be made use
of.
"Begin this operation on a Wednes
day before the sun rises, being fur*
nished with seven black beans. Take
next the head of a dead man; place
one of the beans in his mouth, two in
his eyes and two in his ears. Then
make upon the head the character of
the figure which here follows (omit
ted.) This done, inter the head with
the face toward Heaven, and every
day before sunrise, for the space of
nine days, water it with excellent
brandy.
"On the eighth day you will find
the cited spirit, who will say unto
you: 'What doest thou?' You shall
reply, 'I am watering my plant.' He
will then say, 'Give me that bottle; I
will water it myself.' You will an
swer by refusing, and he will again
ask you; but you will persist in de
clining, until he shall stretch forth
his hand and show you the same fig
mre which you have traced upon the
head suspended from the tips of his
fingers.
'In this case you may be assured
that it is really the spirit of the head,
because another might take you un
awares, which would bring you evil,
and, further, your operation would be
unfruitful. When you have given him
your phial he will water the head and
depart. On the morrow, which is the
ninth day, you shall return and shall
find your beans ripe. Take them,
place one in your mouth, an then
look at yourself in a glass. If you
cannot see yourself it is good. Do
the same with the rest, or they may
be tested in the mouth of a child."
LOCATING THE BONE "LUZ*
Osaicle From Which Body Is Recoie
structed, According to the Ancient
Hebrew Writers.
Much scholarship and anatomical
knowledge has been employed from
time to time in ef
forts to identify
the bone Luz, said
by ancient He
brew writers to be
the nucleus frorm
which the body in
reconstructed at
the resurrection
There are many mary 'A.s stories of
the indestructibility ;.. Lus, and the
bone has been located by rival claim
ants to the honor of discovering it in
various parts of the human skeleton.
"The most careful searching in the
last published and amplest treatise on
osteology will not result in the dis
I covery of the bone called Luz," says
fa writer in the Lancet. "It will be
necessary to go to the Frankfort edi
tion of the 'Theatrum Anatomicum' of
Caspar Baubinus (1621) for a descrip.
tion: "It is stated by Hebrew writers
to be a bone which cannot be de.
stroyed by fire, water or any other
element, nor be broken or bruised by
any force. Its site is in the spine
from the eighteenth vertebra to the
femur.
"'We read that the Emperor Had..
rian once asked Rabbi Joshua, the
son of Channi, how God would resur
rect man in the world to come. He
made answer: "From the bone Luz
in the spinal column." When Had
rian asked him how he came by this
knowledge and how he could prove it,
the Rabbi Joshua produced the bone
so that the emperor could see it.
When placed in water it could not be
softened: it was not destroyed by
fire, nor could it be ground by any
weight; when placed on an anvil and
struck with a hammer the anvil was
broken in sunder, but the bone re
mained intact.' Hieronymus Magius
represents that, according to the
Talmudists, the real bone is near the
base of the skull, whether it be in the
base itself or in the spine. Vesallus
writes that this ossicle is described
by the Arabs as resembling a chick
pea in size and shape, and Cornelius
Agrippa describes it as magnitudine
ciceris mundati (the size of a shelled
pea). Different anatomists have held
it variously to be the sacrum, the
coccyx, the twelfth dorsal vertebra,
one of the \.ormian bones in the
skull, and one of the sesamolds of
the great too."
Prompt Restitution.
Timid Y'oung Thing-W-\hat would
you do if a man stole a kiss from
you?
Experienced Flirt--Make him give
it back.
At an Afternocn Tea.
"That fellow Is evidintly a poet."
"I've sen him at a g'ntil many teas
but I neLvr he:ard Iihon recite any
poetry."
"Maybe not; but look it him eat,'