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��which last is equipped with an elec- tric stove, a dish washer, an ice plant and other necessary auxiliaries.

The engine-room, located aft, contains four eighty-horsepower en- gines which drive four screws fifty-one inches in diameter, so that the barge can travel at a speed of ten miles per hour in slack water, seven miles upstream and twelve miles when running with the cur- rent or downstream.

To facilitate the handling of these large cargo-carriers further, many recently in- vented marine appliances are installed, such as telephone service, wireless outfit, searchlights, and a system of indicators located in the pilot- house, by means of which the captain can almost instantly tell the condition prevailing in any part of his ship.

These barges can deliver freight at New Orleans five days after leaving St. Louis, a very much faster schedule than anything heretofore attained by the old type of stern-wheeler.

��This Barn Bears a Lesson to Pacifists

THE well-known contrariness of the middle - western farmer was illus- trated in an amusing way recently when

����An equestrian milkman of Buenos Aires. If he gallops he may deliver butter

��Alfred R. WagstaJF.

The owner of this bam refused to remove it when the

landlord's contractor wanted to make a concrete path

where it stood. Hence the result shown

an Illinois contractor requested a farmer to move his barn out of the right of way over which a concrete sidewalk was planned to be run. The farmer ignored the contractor's request. Then one bright morning the contractor smashed holes through each end of the barn and, despite the farmer's angry protests, the sidewalk was laid through it and on the way to its eventual flestination.

"Quiere Leche Hoy?"

DOWN in Buenos Aires the apart- ment houses do not have dumb- waiters and the milkman does not come rattling and clanking across the cobble- stones in front of your home at ap- proximately four A.M. By that hour he is just about preparing to leave his hacienda with a full milk can strapped to either side of his horse. Arriving in the city he will make his rounds, stopping at his various customers to inquire Quiere leche hoy?— "Any milk today?" Some milk peddlers announce their presence as they canter along by loud shouts. But this practice is generally discouraged, as Buenos Aires is a quiet city, resenting vulgar hallooing in its orderly streets.

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