Identifier: stnicholasserial4821dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Greece and Turkey puzzles us. Is Turkeyalways going to make trouble for the Christianpart of the world? What are England andFrance really after? And just where do the peo-ple of Greece stand? How much does the Rus-sian part in it all amount to? Its pretty hardfor a reasonable, peaceful sort of chap to under-stand it all. The floods of Pueblo, Colorado, in June, broughtout once more the quickness of Americans to helpAmericans. Like Baltimore after the fire, Galves-ton after its flood, and San Francisco after theearthquake and fire, Pueblo resolved at once tohave a better city than ever. Most people areheroes! The Watch Tower still thinks, as it alwaysdid, that even if things dont go as well as theymight, its better to be cheerful than to be alwaysmelancholy. The fellow whos always expecting somethinggood to come along has at least the pleasure ofanticipation. And if realization fails to happen,the perpetually gloomy person has only doubledthe trouble. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLK
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CREWLESS TRAINS ARRIVING AND DEPARTING WITH THE MAILS CREWLESS RAILROAD TRAINS Why do we need train crews on our railroads? This is the age of automatic machinery. Wemake machines that perform marvelous pieces ofwork without requiring any attention. Gear-wheels, cams, levers, rods, all operate in perfectharmony as long as there is plenty of oil to keepdown friction. Some machines seem almost tohave the power of thinking. Now a railroad isjust a vast machine, spread over miles and milesof territory, and composed of a lot of conveyingmechanisms. Its only job is to carry loads fromone point to another, a very simple task com-pared to that of an automatic screw-machine.Why cant we have automatic trains that willrun without motormen or engineers and firemen? The answer is that we can, but we do not liketo trust the lives of passengers to blind machinery.We want a human being, and one of long expe-rience, at the throttle-valve of the locomotive be- hind which we ride. Machines are all right

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