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WE HANDLE THE BEST GRADES OF COAL AND WOOD Special Attention Given to Moving Household Goods and Furniture, Safety Guaranteed. PROMPT SERVICE WITH BAGGAGE. BAILEY & BEESON FUEL CO. Pabst Blue Ribbon and “Budweiser” “It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks,” and the man who has been using “Pabst Blue Ribbon or Budweiser” IN PINT OR QUART BOTTLES could never learn to drink any other brands. He would miss that delicious flavor that pure malt and hops give to these beers, as well as the delightful sparkle and invigorating qualities that make them such a favorite. WINSLOW COLD STORAGE CO. DISTRIBUTORS. PHONE 168. The Winslow Livery, Feed and Sale Stable CHAS. DAZE Prop. GENERAL LIVERY AND TRANSFER BUSINESS Grain, Hay and Coal PRICES THAT ARE RIGHT AT— N. G. POY GENERAL MERCHANDISE FRONT STREET WE MAKE A SPECIATLY OF Wagon Making And Do First-Class Work In General Blacksmithing, Horseshoing and Mo Repairing AT PRICES THAT ARE RIGHT J. R. PHILLIPS, BLACKSMITH SHOP J. R. PHILLIPS, Proprietor FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Received Every Morning FAMILY TRADE A SPECIALTY CITY GROCERY STORE Phone 188. HARRY C. SHIMIZSU, Prop. Miss Dee M. Moss Public Stenographer and Abstractor Office: Front Street Opera House Building Do You Know The Proper Way to Finish Your KODAK PICTURES We Do and Will Neatly and Promptly Finish ail Kodak Work Mailed to Us. Mishler & Walker GALLUP NEW MEXICO WEARING ON NERVES DUTIES OF TRAII. DISPATCHER MOST ONEROUS. Man Directly Responsible for the Lives of Passengers and the Safe Transportation of Freight Must Be Gifted. Since ‘‘safety first" became the slogan of railroads about five years ago, as opposed to ‘‘get there quick,” there has been a most gratifying de crease in the number of accidents. Railroads everywhere have been forced by public opinion to adopt the best mechanical appliances and to make the most stringent regulations for the protection .of passengers. One road which had had a number of ac cidents attended by loss of life, was compelled to reorganize its entire signal system, as a result of public feeling after disclosures of a con gressional investigation. Pacific coast railroads have had few bad wrecks in recent years, and one system operating on the Coast boasts that it has carried 8,000,000 passen gers an average of one mile without a single fatality. The man directly responsible for He Is always afraid he may issue the dread "Lap-order,” which may cause a head-on collision. the movement of trains and the lives of persons carried by them is the train dispatcher—a telegraph operator chosen for this work because of his mathematical ability, his steady nerves, good habits, executive qualifi cations and knowledge of railroading. The dispatcher is an official con trolling from one hundred to three hundred miles of track, and every thing running over it. He knows the hauling power of every locomotive, the length of every siding, the grade of every stretch of track, an! the abil ity to “make time” of every engineer and conductor. He signs the superin tendent’s initial to his orders, and is in direct charge of the operatio. of trains. Thus the dispatcher's responsibility is far more than to keep the trains apart, he must get them over the road at the maximum of speed consistent with safety, and see that every w f ork train, extra freight and every light locomotive is kept moving without accident. On a big train sheet he keeps tally of everything that travels between stations, and as each station operator reports trains arriving or de parting, the dispatcher marks the time on his sheet. Special trains, extra freights, help er locomotives and work trains are some of the things that turn the dis patcher’s hair gray, or make it fall out. He always is afraid he may for get one of them, and issue the dread ed “lap order” which may cause a head-on collision. Inventor of Steel Rails. The first modern steel rails of the type which made high speed railway operation possible were designed by Plimmon Henry Dudley, who was born at Freedom, 0., seventy-one years ago. He became a civil and metallurgical engineer, and after four years as chief engineer of the city of Akron, 0., he turned his attention to railroading and transportation problems. Dudley’s first invention, the dyna graph, was made in 1874. He perfect ed the track indicator in 1880 and three years later designed the first five-inch steel rails used in America. In 1892 he introduced the first six-inch 100-pound rails. Another of his inven tions which made the famous “flyers" of today possible was the stremmato graph, an instrument for obtaining and registering strains in rails under mov ing trains. Blackbird Starts Trains. The police and railroad authorities at the station of Basle, Switzerland, have been searching for the last two months for the criminal who has been giving the regulation whistle for the departure of trains from the depot at regular hours and thereby endanger ing the traffic. Several trains were sent off before their time by these whistles, and had to be called back, while in some cases collisions were narrowly avoided. The culprit was found in a blackbird, who had built a nest inside the depot and learned to imitate the guard’s whistle. Gen darmes received orders to shoot it. Chile Improving Railroad Lines. Chile will raise $10,219,050 this year for improvements state railroads and $22,921,215 for betterments will he raised in the next five years. THE WINSLOW MAIL. COMBINE BEAUTY AND UTILITY Railroad Directors Had Definite Pur pose in Planting Honeysuckle Along the Right of Way. “For the past twenty miles or so,” said the reporter to the railroad man as they were sitting together at the business end of the division superin tendent’s car on a part of the Chesa peake & Ohio before it begins to climb the Alleghanies, “I have noticed that honeysuckle grows on the banks oi the tracks. What is the answer? Is some director’s wife so romantic as all that ?" “Romantic nothing,” said the rail road operator. “That honeysuckle is there for purely business purposes. You recall there was an extensive flood on this and other roads a year ago. That flood washed out a lot of our track west of the Alleghenies. It also undermined the banks of a great deal of the track eastward, where there was not supposed to be any flood at all. But we found the railroad banks which were planted with honey suckle held against the undermining influence of the excessive rains; while the banks not so protected did a land slide of their own and blocked traffic. “We are now planting honeysuckle on the embankments where they are liable to shelve, and are charging it up to operating expenses without regard to the humane idea that the odor might be grateful to the passengers travel ing on a Boft coal road.”—Wall Street Journal. MIND TEST FOR TRAINMEN Munsterberg’s Ideas Practically Ap plied by Managers of the Pennsyl vania Railroad Lines. After many experiments the Penn sylvania railroad has completed a series of psychological tests to be ap plied to applicants for jobs as en gineers and trainmen in place of the written and physical examinations. The management now 7 is seriously con sidering the universal adoption of the idea as a means of automatically sep arating the fit from the unfit, and avoiding the heavy expense of training men who afterward may be found un qualified. The new tests, founded on principles laid down by Prof. Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard, are designed to put to economic use some of the many dis coveries concerning the way the hu man mind works, under different con ditions. The railroad officials have been impressed by the enormous waste resulting from the lack of any scientific method of selecting men for the various kinds of railroad w'ork, and they found there w 7 ere too many incompetent the service. If the company decides to adopt these tests for applicants, it will be the first employer to do so, and it is believed the successful operation of the idea will result in its adoption by many of the larger employers of labor throughout the country. AUTOMATIC RAILROAD GATE > JTHPII UI.UJIUI I I.T? ■HI un.l UII P ■»- u - 1111J11 y g $ -sU v V - J Hydraulically operated gates for railroad crossings adapted to be auto matically closed before an approach ing train and opened after the train has passed, are provided by this inven tion. The mechanism comprises a pair of inter-communicating cylinders of different diameters, the plunger of a larger cylinder being adapted to be en gaged by a vehicle moving on the track, while the smaller cylinder is fitted with a plunger that operates the gate.—Scientific American. Horse Decreed Narrow Gauge. With the installation of a locomotive on the Drumburgh Junction-Port Car lisle railroad in the north of England the last horse drawn passenger train in Great Britain disappears. But the ghost of the horse w 7 ill stalk ahead of every train, even the fastest express, as long as the standard gauge remains 4 feet 8% inches. This width was decreed by the horse which drew trucks along the rails laid down at Northumberland collieries, long before George Stephenson invented the loco motive. It is the width between the wheels of all horse-drawn vehicles and was accepted as a matter of course by the first makers of railroads. Only Brunei had the audacity to ig nore the convention and increased the power, speed and accommodation oi his trains by making the gauge six feet, the last length of which, however disappeared in the early '9os, leaving the horse precedent supreme. Wages of Locomotive Engineers ’ The best-paid locomotive engineers in Italy receive $1.64 a day, firemen 85 cents, conductors $1.28, head brake men sl.lO and ordinary brakemen 73 cents, after long years of service. A station guard’s pay ranges between fifty and seventy cents, and a switch man, beginning at 51 cents, in 18 years may attain a wage of 70 cents a day In reality they all receive considerably less, for the government deducts from their pay the income tax and pension premium. It Is not surprising that the men are threatening to strike for bet ter wages. When American railroad employes contrast their own compen sation with these figures they ma; well feel that they are the best-paid workers of their kind in the world MRplNk MfeiOT^ »”5 Lge re hment, HAD THE PICTURE’S MEANING Spectators at Least Formed Some Idea What Famous Painting Rep resented. Two men stood before a painting in a store the other day gazing wonder ingly at a picture of an equestrian statue of General Lafayette. The fa mous Frenchman was represented on a prancing steed. Over his arm he carried a robe. At his feet stood an allegorical figure of Victory extend ing a sword toward him as a mark of homage. I wonder what that pic ture means?’ asked one of the men. “I don’t know,” replied the other. “I was just trying to make out what sea son of the year it was when a woman could go around with so little clothing while a man was dressed up in a heavy suit like that.” “Oh, I see what it is new,” cried the first one. “You see the soldier stole the woman’s cloak and when he took it from her he dropped his sword, and now the woman is trying to trade him back the sword for her clothing.” The Way of Progress. A dog barking at a passing automo bile is generally supposed to be as tell ing a symbol of futile objection to the march of progress as could well be imagined. In the almost same category, however, belongs The strike of the stevedores in New Orleans against the introduction of the electric truck to transport freight between vessels and warehouses. The wonder is that this Improvement has been so long delayed instead of or.fy now appearing—and then as a source of a new labor diffi culty. One cannot have much sym pathy for opposition in this particular j instance. The motor vehicle in all of j its forms has come to stay, and the i rest of the world has been rather rap- j Idly adjusting itself to the new condi- j lion.—Engineering Record. : A Poser. Mathematical Professor—l have now completely discussed the theory of probability. Are there any questions? Problematical Freshman —Yes. sir. Will you please compute the probabil ity of my passing this course? —Dart- mouth Jack o’ Lantern. The Unfortunate Fact. “A man’s sins find him out sooner or later,” said the cynic; “but, unfortu nately, most of the time they find him in.” —Judge. [ |,'i The picnic is incomplete without Libby’s good things * [ to eat. Ready to serve—no fuss and bother. There are a cumber of Libby Luncheon specialties at your grocer’s. J Get acquainted with them. J H Veal Loaf Pickles Deviled Ham Olives Boon to Mankind. Ignatius Tootle, the renowned au thority on floral life, who lives near the quiet village of Yankee Springs, is at the present time trying to out burbanlt Burbank, the wiz., by grow ing a rectangular watermelon. Mr. Tootle has noticed for years that ulti mate consumers have had much trou ble trying to carry watermelon from the store, inasmuch as they (the wa termelons) are of awkward shape and quite slippery, and after a watermelon has fallen and has hit the cement side walk its usefulness may be said to be over. Mr. Tootle’s watermelon will be long and will have square corners, one of which corners will fit into the bent elbow when the melon is carried on the inside of the arm. Mr. Tootle expects to have his new melon grow ing and on the market by 1927, if noth ing happens.—Boston Globe. Public Opinion. People say how strong public opin ion is; and, indeed, it is strong while it is in its prime. In its childhood and old age as weak as any other organism. I try to make my own work belong to the youth of publio opinion. The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion, as geol ogy is the record of the decay of those bodily organisms in which public opin ions have found material expression. —Samuel Butler. If you wish beautiful, clear white clothes, use Red Cross Bag Blue. At all good grocers. Adv. A man isn’t necessarily honest be cause he is poor. Throw Away your complexion troubles with your powder puff no need of either when you use pure, harmless pf/iiUZ/ F ace Pomade “The ALL DAY BEAUTY POWDER” At all dealers or by mail 50c. Zona Co., Wichita, Kansas. DEFIANCE STARCH is constantly growing in favor because it Does Not Stick to the Iron and it will not injure the finest fabric. For laundry purposes it has no equal. 16 oz. package 10c. 1-3 more starch for same money. DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha. Nebraska