MAINTENANCE OF WAY STANDARDS. By F. A. Smith. Containing in one handy volume the present rules and practice in the Road Departments of the principal American railways. Over 300 illustrations. Size 5x7 inches. Price, $1.50 net, postpaid. An instructor and guide for Roadmasters, Section Foremen and Construction Foremen. The contents include chapters on General Turn-Outs, Stub and Spilt Bwitches, Analysis of Curves, and a large number of tables for the quick and correot construction of any switch. Cloth, 174 pages, 4x61⁄4 inches. Price, $1.00 net, postpaid. RAILWAY CURVES. By F. A. Smith, M. E. C. E. This book is written especially for practical trackmen who desire a guide so that they may become better aoquainted with the elementary principles of railway curves and to enable them to adjust their curves satisfactorily independent of the divil engineer. All complicated formula or calculations have been omitted in order to produce this practical work. Cloth, 4x6 inches; 50 pages, including tables and diagrams. Price, $1.00 net, postpaid. THE TRACKMEN'S HELPER. A practical guide for American Trackmen. Thirtieth Thousand. 350 pages; fully illustrated; 5zł1⁄2 inches. Price, $1.50 net, postpaid. STANDARD TURN-OUTS ON AMERICAN RAILROADS, By F. A. Smith, C. E. M. E. A practical handbook for Roadmasters and Track Foremen. A now, handy reference volume-giving drawings of Standard Split and Stub Switches, and full desoriptive details arranged for convenience and ready reference when putting in Switches. THE ONLY BOOK OF THE KIND PUBLISHED. ROBERTS' RULES OF ORDER, ROBERTS RULES OF ORDER having been readopted by our Boston Convention to govern the Parliamentary Practices of our Brotherhood, will be furnished to our members upon receipt of the price of 75 CENTS FOR EACH COPY. BACKBONE. A Bouncer for the Blues. Hints for the prevention of jelly-spine curvature and mental squint. A straight-up antidote for the blues and a straight-ahead sure cure for the grouch. Twenty Thousand Copies Sold and Not One Returned. The Optimism and Healthy Good Cheer of Backbone gives the inspiration to look on the "sunny side of things." Everyone needs a little encouragement at times and all will benefit by its reading. Backbone contains over 80 pages of gloom-dispelling philosophy, the best of the "Keep-a-Pushing" poetry and hundreds of remarkably good sayings, mottoes and aphorisms of our ablest men. A few of the Backbone Bracers are the chapters on Character, Cheerfulness, Purpose, Success, Opportunity, Progress, Worry, Persistence, Self-Improvement, Training, Little Things, Courage, Self-Confidence, Mistakes, Thoroughness, Enemies, Love, Criticism, Duty, Work, and a dozen other subjects. These chapters are introduced with splendid original articles by Dr. W. C. Abbott, Dr. George F. Butler, J. D. Albright, A. S. Burdick, W. F. Waugh, and others. Eighty pages printed attractively in two colors and tied with silk ribbon. Price in art binding, 50 cents each. De Lux, limp brown leather copies, $1.00 each. Terma eash with order. Money back if not satisfied. Special prices on quantities. The above books are the very best of their kind in the market and can be highly recommended by the Editor. A supply has been obtained and are for sale at the prices named for each. Send in your orders, remitting by express or pontoffies money order, cash or postage stamps. Address all orders to Samuel J. Pegg 27 Putnam Ave., Detroit, Mich. WHERE DIOGENES NEEDS NO The City Bank of Bloomfield, Mo., was closed three weeks ago by George and Rudolph Houck and E. J. Williams, the principal stockholders and directors of the institution. They discovered a shortage, immediately called in the State Bank Commissioner and posted a notice on the door that all depositors would be paid. The cashier is charged with having looted the bank. Investigation showed that the bank's capital and surplus of $30,000 was gone. The total shortage was $90,000. The Houck brothers and Williams made good their word. It has stripped them clean. In the case of the Houcks the homes they had deeded to their wives were mortgaged. The doors of the bank are now open and will stay open until every depositor gets his money. Then they will be closed. When the lock is turned for the last time the Houcks and Wil liams will step out into a wintry after noon practically penniless. But though "broke" they will not be poor men. On the contrary, they will be rich. They have proved themselves. They will have the confidence of their neighbors, the love of friends, the admiration of people who otherwise might never have heard of them. They will have their own self-respect. They will have as their rating whatever credit they may ask. Bradstreet's could give no more. Perhaps they could have evaded this obligation. Doubtless they could have compromised the claims. But it happens they were not built that way. A few sordid scoffers may sneeringly regard them as Quixotic. The majority of us, however, gladly lift our hats to them and thank them for being precisely the kind of men they are. Diogenes needs no lantern in Bloomfield.-St. Louis Re public. The Kalamazoo Improved Reinforced Pressed Steel Hand Car Wheel Is the most economical wheel Because of its improved construction; its extra thickness of metal in throat and flange; its greater strength, due to deep corrugations in web; its perfect hub-fit, absolutely preventing loose hubs; its interchangeability, Atting any make of car; altogether making it the best all-around wheel, which will last twice as long as any other. Descriptive eircular mailed upon Whan needing a VELOCIPEDE, don't forget to write us for prices on If you can't pay cash we'll sell you on the installment plan. KALAMAZOO RAILWAY SUPPLY CO. Manufacturers, KALAMAZOO, MICH RAILWAY RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES FOR SEPTEMBER. The business of the railways for September while showing a considerable improvement over that of September, 1911, does not maintain the rate of increase set by the record-breaking month of August. The total net operating revenue of 90 per cent of the steam railways increased $5,896,840 for September, while the increase for August was $13,865,622. This increase in net operating revenue was at the rate of $21 per mile of line for the month or at the rate of 70 cents per mile of line per day. The total operating revenues per mile of line for the month increased 6.5 per cent, the operating expenses 7.3 per cent and the net operating revenue 5.1 per cent. The foregoing statistics are from the summary made by the Bureau of Rail way Economics from the reports of the railways to the Interstate Commerce Commission. A special committee of the railways having headquarters in Chicago reports that bills now pending in the Federal Congress providing for an increase in the number of employees of the railways and for the rapid substitution of steel for wooden equipment will, if enacted, place the railways under an additional expense of approximately $12,000,000 per annum for the former, and a total expense of $632,746,000 for the lat. ter purpose. Without compulsion, the railways in the course of three years have increased their steel equipment 750 per cent and their steel underframe equipment 256 per cent.-Bureau of Railway Economics. Why are good women like ivy? Because the greater the ruin, the closer they cling. |