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THE STATE REVIEW 



The Blessed Man 



Oh, blessed is the man who knows 



Enough to make a speech; 

 Whose graceful erudition shows 



A mighty mental reach; 

 Who comes before the listening throng 



With eloquence and skill, 

 And wakes them all, both weak and strong, 



To a responsive thrill. 



But far more blessed is the man 



Who goes from day to day 

 And merely does the best he can 



With nothing much to say. 

 Unblamed by all his fellow-men, 



It is his joy to find 

 Himself the only critic when 



He wants to change his mind. 



Washington Star. 



Timber Treating Plant 



The new tie and timber treating plant of 

 the Santa Fe Railway company at Somer- 

 ville, Texas, with a capacity for handling 

 10,000 ties a day, is in operation. This is 

 the largest plant of its kind in the world. 

 It is said to have cost $1,250,000, including 

 the material yards for piling of lumber for 

 seasoning. 



This tie treating plant consists of five 

 huge steel cylinders, each 132 feet long and 

 six feet two inches in diameter. These cyl- 

 inders have doors at both ends, and the 

 material to be treated is run into them on 

 small trams. Each cylinder has a capacity 

 of 025 ties. When they have been filled 

 with ties the doors are closed and air forced 

 in under a pressure of seventy-five pounds 

 to the square inch. Creosote oil is then 

 admitted into the cylinders under the same 

 air pressure until they are full, after which 

 the pressure pumps continue at a pressure 

 of 150 pounds to the square inch and force 

 the oil into the wood. This is kept up until 

 all of the oil is forced into the timber that 

 it is possible to get there. This part of the 

 process takes about two hours. When it is 

 completed valves are opened and the oil 

 remaining is let out into an underground 

 tank by gravity. Upon the pump pressure 

 being removed the compressed air in the 

 wood cells of the timber expands and forces 

 out this liquid creosote, which would other- 

 wise remain in the pores to work itself out 

 in time. A vacuum is then created in the 

 cylinders so as to bring away the loose oil 

 around the ties. Then the doors of the 

 cylinders are opened, the trams and their 

 loads removed, and the cylinders are ready 

 for another charge. It takes about five 

 hours to complete each charge. 



"Can I recover?" gasped the injured man. 



"No, I fear not," replied the physician, 

 shaking his head. 



"But your wife can," assured the damage 

 suit lawyer from the other side of the bed. 

 Houston Post. 



"In my long career of argifying politics I 

 hev learned this one thing," said Uncle Hen- 

 ry Butterworth, "never to argy with a man 

 that invents his own statistics." Kansas 

 City Times. 



A little girl who listens to Bible readings 

 from her mamma and excerpts from the 

 morning papers from her papa sometimes 

 gets her expressions mixed; archaic usages 

 and political slang are liable to jolt each 

 other in her own conversations. For in- 

 stance, she has grown to hate publicans and 

 sinners and hypocrites, and when she was 

 asked in her Sunday school class last Sun- 

 day what sort of people she should ever 

 avoid and those liable to descent into fiery 

 pits, she replied blandly, superiorly: "Hypo- 

 crites, Democrats and publicans! " New Or- 

 leans Times-Democrat. 



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Capital $500,000 



Surplus and Profits $ 1 54,000 



Officers: 



Dudley E. Waters, President, Charles S. Hazeltine, Vice-Prs- 

 ident, John E. Peck, Vice-President, Frank M. Davis, Cashier, 

 John L. Benjamin, Assistant Cashier. 



Directors: 



Julius Berkey, Charles S. Burch, Melvin J. Clark, Claude Hamilton, Charles S. Hazeltine, William G. Herpolsheimer. 

 Joseph Houseman, George H. Long, John Mowatt, J. Boyd Pantlind, John E. Peck, Charles A. Phelps, Samuel Sears, Charles 

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