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JUST ONE WISH. All our lives are some of longin* Soma are longrln," for their youth, Some lor ej es that looked In their eye*. Ej es alight with love and truth, Some are longin' for the hilltops That the sun of out didi gild But I'm longin* for a shortcake Like Aunt Esther used to build! For a great, big, thick, old shortcake. Like what she knew how to do, "With the top crust brown an* flaky 8 An' the befries peekin' through "The'v fl "Tween the upper crust and under Let th^pi long for youth' I'll take For myself another shortcake Like Aunt Esther used to make! It must be just inspiration That helps people cook like that! Helps them mix the dough and knead it. An' to siide it with a pat In the o%en in the kitchen, An' to know how long 'twill take Swear, I'm longin" for some shortcake Like 4&mt Esther used to make' If a fairy'd sometime -whisper: "Here's three wishes, bud, feryou Wish fer three things jo want hardest An' they'll ev'ry one come true," I'd sa "You keep two, your own self One is all I care to take Just one wish, give me some shortcake Like Aunt Esther used to make!" J M. Lewis, in Houston Post HEROES OF TH E ENGINE ROOeM sea th neroe rea tn i\ N E ml I said the manager of a transat lantic line, as he nodded at the retreat ing figure of his visitor. "One of our engineers, and he and his kind save many a ship many a time at great per Eonal risk, and are not even thanked for their efforts by the passengers. "But that's because the latter don't know when or where or how the en gineers preserve their lives, for their deeds are unheralded outside the en gineers' mess and the captain's room. Yes, sir, it's true that words for every one but e shake hands with half the crew, Except the dour Scots engineer, the men they never knew." The manger apondered a moment. "I'll prove to you that these men are the real heroes of the ocean," he said, nd these are the stories that he offered in proof: A certain steamship in the Pacific trade had been sent out from her home port with the majority of her boilers out of commission. In midocean one of the few boilers capable of being fired got leaky tubes, and it became neces sary, in order to keep the ship under headway in a hurricane-swept sea, to repair the boiler immediately. The fire was pulled out from under it, the manhole lid was unscrewed and re moved, and the first engineer, wrapped from head to foot in a thick coating of asbestos, crawled into the hot boiler, and with chisel and hammer began tear ing out the defective tubes. For two minutes he worked, and as he worked held his breath, o*a single gasp of the fiery air in his lungs would have 'killed him. Then he crawled to the manhole and was pulled oufc by stok ers. I Five minutes later "he again went into the boiler. This time, after nearly two minutes' work, he succeeded cutting away two tubes. On the third entry he removed three, and after that he spent another five minutes resting. Then came the task of reaming in new tubes, and to do this he was compelled to enter the boiler five times. In each case he stayed inside nearly two min utes, and as he crawled out the last time he barely had breath and strength enough to say to his chief before he fainted dead'Stway: "It's done, sir." As a result of his experience in that hell of heat, the man was laid up in the Bhip's hospital for over a week. And to *-his day his sleep is constantly dis turbed by dreams in which he is roasted in red-hot furnaces. This same engineei was in the boiler room one day when suddenly a valve, in among a great coil of pipes above the boilers, began leaking badly and filling the room with scalding steam. Instant ly, and regardless of his own safety, he scrambled upon the pipes and breath lessly began making repairs. He had almost finished when, as un expectedly as the valve had got out of order, a pipe joint, below the one on which he was standing, broke, and a stream of hissing steam enveloped his foot. When he endeavored to pull it away, he found it to be tightly wedged in the joint. He had on low shoes, and before his cries brought aid his shoe and sock were burned off and his foot and lower leg were parboiled. He was unable to resume work for three months, and to day he walks with a perceptible limp. Yet he looked upon it all as apart of the day's work, and uttered no complaint. Ten years ago, just around Christmas time, the Umbria broke her thrust shaft and floundered, helplessly in midocean. The part that broke was 26 feet long and weighed tons. Under the direction of the chief en gineer, f!he pieces were secured and sus pended by chains from the top of the shaft tunnel, and then, although the shaft threatened to fall on him at any moment, he crawled into the tunnel, found that the shaft was broken off square, so that it could not be riveted together, and spent hours in taking measurements for a collar to be fastened over the break. He spent other hours in making and putting on the collar, all the time either lying on the fiat of his back or working in a squatting position, so small was the space. All told, he labored unceas ingly for two full days. After that he slept two hours, and the 22 hours following he worked without pause until at last he had bolted the jacket in place The job was finished late Monday pight, and the ship was got under way. Early Tuesday morning the head et a bolt broke off, the jacket slipped, and once more Tomlinson had to crawl Into the tunnel and make repairs. Again the ship got under way and again after an hour of running, snap went two bolts. And once more Tom linson risked life and limb in,the shaft tunnel. To make along story short, Tomlinson Was crawling into the tunel continually until the voyage ended,'but while the passengers did not know of his heroism until they landed and read of it in the papers, Tomlinson had the satisfaction at least, of knowing that his work had prevented the shaft from knocking a hole into the ship's side and leaving the vessel helpless and in peril of a stormy sea until tow should chance along. It was a Scotchman who pried open a safety valve and prevented a serious explosion on a liner that is sailing the seas to-day. For some reason or other the donkey engine, used for hoisting cargo and luggage, had been started at sea and a fireman put in charge of it. An hour or so later the second engineer, whose watch it was, distinguished an unusual noise among the multitude of sounds of the big shipso keen is an engi neer's sense of hearing. He located it as coming from the donkey engine, and rushed thither. As he got near he realized that the safe ty valve had stuck and after he had slid down the narrow, oily companion way, he found not only the safety valve stuck tight, but the fireman asleep at his post, and the boiler all but ready to explode. In less time than it takes to tell it, he grabbed a crowbar and was UJ among the pipes, frantically trying fc pry open the valve. How long he worked he does not know"it seemed years," he said but he finally got the valve open in the nick of time and prevented an explosion, which would surely have blown a big hole in the ship's bottom. Not infrequently the engineers are compelled to work in water up to their knees. The plates of many a ship, when she straddles a sea, move and cut at their rivets and leak mightily. Then the engineer must wade around in an engine-room flooded from port to port and give heed to naught but the welfare of his engines. He must not think about the mani fold dangers of sailing in a "leaky old tub," or of rheumatism, or other ills that will come to him from work ing for hours in brine and bilge water. It is a trite saying of the sea that wherever there is a ship engineer there also is a bad case of rheuma tism. It is only when a cylinder head bursts or a large valve gives way, filling the engine-rooms with seed ing steam before the opportunity can be seized upon to repair the damage, that an engineer is forced to leave his post. Then it is that he has to charge for dear life up steep, narrow companionways, made slippery by en gine oil, to a place of safety. And all the time he climbs upward, the steam pursues him, for the companionways are in the only opening leading jout of the engine-rooms. But it is not often that escaping steam gets ahead of an engineer, for he is a man trained to act like a light ning flash in emergencies. The emer gency is not always below decks. An English tramp once came into New York harbor showing the queer est-looking funnel imaginable. While several days out a storm carried away the funnel, and to keep their ship from having to be toweSl in, the engi neers rigged up a funnel out of pieces of old sails, twine, rope ends, flattened out tin cans, and all other kinds of junk that they could make to serve their purpose. This wonderful work they held in position by lines made fast to the masts, and so well did it fulfil the duty for which it was constructed that the tramp made port only a day or so late under her own steam, refusing all offers of assistance and thus saving to her owners thousands of dollars in salvage money. "And such Instances," said the man ager, are almost of everyday occur rence."N. Y. Sun. ARID ACRES RECLAIMED. Vast Section ot Idaho to Opened for Settlement Because of New Irrigation Canal. Seventy-five thousand acres of arid land will be reclaimed and opened for settlemnet in Idaho as the result of a deal just made by an irrigation com pany. A big canal is to be constructed from the Snake river, about 12 miles above the town of Blackfoot, in Bing ham county, and it will run southwest 58 miles. It terminates just below the American falls, Blaine county, where" it discharges its surplus water back into the Snake river. The country that will be traversed by the canal is considered one of the most fertile valleys along the river, and for years has been an object of envy to agriculturists. The canal will be 85 feet wide a. the top, 60 feet wide at the bottom, and capable of carrying six feet of water, a river in itself. It will have the capacity of irrigating 75,000 acres of land. Ten thousand acres of school land will be watered under contracts made by the company with the state of Idaho. The Snake river has a watershed of over 10,000 square miles. At the time when the greatest amount of water is required for irrigation purposes there is the greatest amount of water avail able. When the river is the lowest there is five times more water availa ble at the point of diversion than can be carried in the canal. The amount of water appropriated, if placed upon the land at one time, is sufficient in quantity to cover the entire traet to depth of over six fed &* iJteiJ8Klii**'~ :r* JFCu.~- xZ? SPORTS AND ATHLETICS Tennis experts have been playing a more or less prominent part in the public prints of the east, and the preliminary prac tice for the inter national matches have caused con siderable interest American players have, as a rule, been playing d,n unsteadygame and their real form not shown. H. IJ. Doherty, the Brit ish champion, who with his brother, R. F. Doherty, and H. F. Mahoney, re cently arrived to take part in the matches, has perhaps displayed the best tennis shown yet in the east, and that only when forced out of his easy going stride to prevent the loss of a set. Doherty goes at the game much like a man playing for the pure animal enjoyment of it, leisurely making his strokes and at peace with himself and the world. Once aroused, though, his speed and steadiness are something re markable and are some indication of the style of game the Americans are up against. His cross-court drives and smashes, beautifully and fiercely placed, are decidedly depressing to his opponents. If in the international matches he has the ability to so vary is style from the easy strength-sav game to the fierce, fast play thero no doubt he could win the series, strength conditions being equal. Eoherty. In the tournaments so far played on the Metropolitan tennis courts this season little attention has been given the new service rule, more familiarly known as the foot-fault rule which was made by the United States National Lawn Tennis association. Where the average American player is at variance with those who advocated the change is in that part of the rule which says: "It is not a fault if one only of the server's feet does not touch the ground at the moment at which the service is delivered. He shall place both feet on the ground immediately before serving, and not take a running or walking start." This will make it a difficult matter for those players who were so fast at getting to the net behind their service to attain that position of vantage. It has been the force of these aggressive tactics that has beaten the Englishmen from the old days of Goodbody down to the time of tho great competitions of last year, which witnessed the overthrow of the Do herty brothers. Speed and abilityto break world's records do not always win middle distance bicycle races, as was shown recently at Boston, when Bob by Walthour de feated George Le ander, of Chicago, and Basil da, Guich- ard, the French- man. The distance was 15 miles from a standing start and Walthour won in 18:11. De Guich- ard is the chap whorecently reeled off a mile at Pittsburg in 1:08, creating a new mark, while Leander came into prominence recently by breaking all world's records from one to 15 miles. Middle distance pace-following now adays is a much more dangerous pro position than it used to be in the days of the triples and quads propelled by leg power. Since the introduction of me chanical pace there have been several fatalities and now every precaution is taken to guard against such accidents as resulted in the deaths of Johnny Nelson, Harry Elkes and others. Tho pacemaker, too, comes in for a great deal of consideration and the man over the motor now presents a strange sight to eyes accustomed to the scanty at tire of the old days. In the first place the pacemaker is provided with a solid leather cap, such as is used by foot ball players. This fits snugly on his head and also protects his ears, so in case of a fall he has a chance to escape fracture of the skull. He is dressed as warmly as if going on an arctic ex peditiona leather suit and rubber overshoes being designed to protett him. The clothes are all heavily pad ded and this saves him some when an accident results in a fall. The pace follower has to take more chances. He cannot handicap himself with heavy clothing and a headgear and has to take his chance in a mix-up. About the only safeguard Tie has is an iron attachment on the rear of the pacing machine which prevents him from touching wheels with the motor. This in itself, however, saves many falls, although in the old days Jimmy Michael used to nonchalantly rub wheels while going at top speed with out coming the cropper that usually ro sults. T* George Leander. The grand old game of yachting has been revived on the Oconomowoc lakes in Wisconsin. The twenty-fifth annual regatta of the Oconomowoc Yacht club was sailed on La Belle lake recently. Boats from half a dozefc lake* were entered. The event was the most in teresting regatta that has taken place on the lake in years and as a social affair it surpassed all expectations. Hughey Duffy, manager of the Mil waukee Western League club, has an nounced that there was no truth in tho report that the Milwaukee club was to be transferred to Peoria and the lat ter club shifted here for the balance of the season. HARRY MARTIN. ACCORDING TO CABBY. he Trip* of a Woman Philanthropist Slant Be Arranged trill* he Deity. A Brookljn woman whose philanthropic ettort are mainly directed toward making Ufe happier and better for the little iolk3 of the crowded sections of the borough tell* a good story on heiself, sa the kagle, of that city. As her held of endea\or is not conhned to one section of that bor ough, she generally travels around fiom settlement to mission or recreation ground a cab On* day she wa* on her way to a gathering of her proteges when she espied a. masculine acquaintance who had, on a pre vious occasion, manifested some interest in her work, and invited him to accompany her. He accepted, and they traveled donn lanes and through bjwajs heretofore un known to him. In one of the narrowest and most crowded streets in & down-town quar ter the fair philanthropist stopped to pay a v.sit When she entered tne cab again the man said. it_ _, "You have an arrangement with the Deity as well as the cabman when you come on one of these expeditions, haven't your "What do jou mean.'"' was the astonished reply. "Well, jour cat driver says that only the Lord knows where 3 ou good ladies are going when you start on trips of tins sort. She Didn't Care. Maplehill, la, Aug. 10th."I felt as though 1 didn't care whether I lived or died, I was so miserable all the time." In these woras does Miss Nellie Barfoot, this place, descube her condition. Eveiy woman who is, or has been, sick and suf ferine will understand and appieciate just howMiss Barfoot felt, and there are no doubt many thousands of similar cases. It is truly an awful thing when a woman gets so low that she can say "L don't care whether I live or die But Miss Barfoot tells a different story to day, and her words should guide eveiy suf fering woman to the path of health and hap piness. "I used Dodd's Kidney Pills, and I am cured I feel like anew person, and I would say to every woman, suffering as I did, give Dodd's Kidney Pills a trial, and you will not be disappointed. They are worthy of the highest praise." What She Thonerlit. A freshly made bride and bridegroom launtered down Broadw ay, and the bi ide be came angry because they attracted so much attention. The bridegroom suggested: that she carry the suit case and the satchel, ex plaining that this was a sure way of avert ing suspicion. The bride figured awhile, and, after consulting the thermometer, came to the conclusion that she preferred the pub licity.N. Y. Letter. Get What Yon Aalc For. When you see an article well-advertised in the newspapers, jou may be sure it's a good article, for advertising only paj if the goods are honest and possess merit. The people who make a specialty of one advertised ar ticle, like O&scarets, Cand Cathartic, for ex ample, stake their whole business existence on its doing what they say it will. They must "make good," as the saying is. Read ers of this paper are urged to be sure that they get what they ask for, when they ask for an advertised article, for it's the good thing that is imitated and counterfeited Don't accept substitutes! Insist on getting the genuine! Didn't Lik to Boast. "How are you getting- on with ou music, my dear?" inquired a lady of her niece "Well, of course," replied the niece, dif fidently, "it wouldn't be proper for me to compliment mjself, but some of the neigh bors have told me they have staid awake at night for hours, listening to my play ing.' Stray Stories. Radisson on the Chippewa. A new town in Sawyer county, Wis,, on the Omaha Road. Located on both the Chippewa and Couderay rivers, in center of a most fertile and promising hardwood district Good muscaJlonge, bass and pike fishing in both rivers Exceptional oppor tunities for landeeeker&r-If looking for a new location don't fail to see this new country For mnp and full particulars write to Postmaster, Radisson, Sawyer Co Wis., or to T. W. Teasdale, General Passen ger Agent. St. P. M. & O. R'v. St. Paul. Kept a Secret. WifeThink I can't keep a secret, do you? HusbandYes, I do. "Well, I've worn an old hat trimmed over for the past two months, and I ha\en told) a eoul yet, so there."N. Y. Weekly. The Home Tha Jack Built finds greater appreciation when one reads of 'The Town *lhat Jack Built" and the money-making possibilities in the distuct contiguous thereto. Send two-cent stamp for copy of this pamphlet and other Kat publications equally as attractive and inter esting. Addresa "KATY," Suite A, St. Louis, Mo. 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