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il'ifl m VOL. VI. LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JAN. 2T, 1893, NO. 38. m i iir, i m, Professional Cards. J. W.SAIN, M. D., lias located at Lincolnton and of fers his services as physician to t lie citizens ot Lincolnton and surround ing country. Will be found at night at the Lin colnton Hotel. March 27, 1S91 ly Bartlett Shipp, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LIJfCOLNTON, N. Jan, f, 1 &0 1 . Finley & Wetmore, A1TYS. AT JjAY, LINCOLNTON, N. (j. W ill practice iu Lincoln and surrounding counties. All business put into our hands will be promptly atten ded to. April 18. 190. lv. Dr. W. A. PRESSLEY, SURGEON DENTIST. KOCK HILL, S- C. Will spend the WEEK BE(i INNING WITII THE 1ST MONDAY 01 EACH MONTH at office in Lincolnton. Those needing Dental services are requested to make arrangement by correspondence. Setisfaction guar anteed. Terms CASH. July 11, 1890. ly DENTIST. LINCOLNTON, N. C. Cocaine used for painless ex tracting teeth. With thirty years experience. Satisfaction ;iven in all operations' Terms wash and moderate. Jan 23 '01 1 v GO 'lQ BARBER SHOP. Newly fitted up. Work aways neatly done. Customers politely waited upon. Everything pertain ing to the tonsorial art is done according to latest styles. HeNRY Tatlok. Barber. English Spavin Liniment removes all Lard, soft or calloused lumps and blemish es from horses, blood spavins, curbs, splints swecney, ring-bone, stifles, sprains, all swollen throats, coughs etc. Save $50 by uae of one bottle Warranted the most wonderful blemish cure ever known. So!d by J. M. Lawinc DruggistLincolnton N C. Itch pn human and horses and all ani mals cured in 30 minutes by Wool fords v-'anitary Lotion. This never fails. Sole by J M. Lnwing Druesist Lincolnton. N C A. F. Britton, Jackson Tenn.. writes: I contracted malaria in the swamp? of Loui siana while working foi the telegraph compauy, and nsed every kind of medicine I could hear ot without relief. I at last sueceeded in breaking the fever, hut it JLr vJllO VlA and then my system va prostrated and saturated wita poison and I tecaiae. almost helpless. I finally came here,' my mouth so filled with sores that I could scarcely eat, and my tongue raw and filied-with fittle knots. Yarlons remedies we.ro resorted to without effect. I bought fvo bctu'es ot B. B. B. and it has eured and strengthened me- All sores of my ruwuth are healed and my tongue entirely clear of knots aud soreness, and I feel like a hew jnan.'' K. R. S-uilter, Athens, Ga , writes : "1 have heen ffllicted with catarrh for mauy years, although aM' sorts of medicines and sevejal doctors Cid their best to cure in? M"y"blood was very impure, and nothing A fl p 1 ) FT ever had any effect ViV'l i 11 111 lupou th disense until ! used the great Bl od remedy known as B' B. B.. a few bottles of which fleeted an entire cure, recommend it to all who have- catarrh; " I refer t: any mer chant or banker of Athens, Ga and will reply to any inquires " ONE .IILLintl LADIES Are d.iiiv rei onnncndiniT the ADJUS TAELE ll It Expands Across The Bali. & Joints. This makes The best Fitting, nicest Looking and most comfortable in the world. Prices, f 2, $i.sr. ?3, and 1S0 Consolidated Shoe Co., Manufacturers, Lynn, Mass. Shoes Made to Mea' lire. To be found at Jenkins' liros. -tBUCKLEN'S AKNICA SALVE The best Salve in the world for cuts and bruises, sores, salt rheum, fever sorts, tet- j er,cbappei hands, cbiiMa'ns, cortis, and ll $kin eruptions, and positively cure iies, or no pay required. It ij guaranteed V)?ive perfect satisfaction, or money refun d. .Price 25 cents per box. For s-ale by J. j .kvm-, Pybsician arid i'harnu.cist POIl DYSPEPSIA. 4-ditfC!-Ucii, and Stomach disorders, use ' BROWN'S IROX RITTKRS. a f.Rlors krrp it, Jl per bottle. Genuine hai puia-mark Tossed red lines on WTappej. Are yon interested in Lincoln countj? Then tako the Couiuee A MILLION FRIENDS. A friend in need is a friend indeed, and not lefs than one million people Lave tund 'tist such a friend in Dr. Kir-g's New Dis covery for Consumption, toughs and Colds. If you have never used this Great Counh Me-licine, one trial will convinc you that it lias wonderful curative powers in all di-e;.sos of Throat,Che.-t. and Lungs. Krtclj bout? ii guaranteed to do all tin t i cLiinjc J or money will le refunded. Trial rx'ttlei fie-: at J M Lawin's Druir stoae. J Largo bolt k-s 50c. and $1.00 VT 71'NTlON I nas revoiulionuod I V ENTION I the world during the last half century. Not least amonr tbe wonders of inventive progress is a method and system ot work that can be performed all over the country without senaratins the Workers from their homes. I'ay hb jeral;any one can do the work; either sex, young or old; no speeial ability required. Capital not needed; you are started frpe. Cut this out and return to us and we will send you fret,, something of great value aud importance to you, that will start you in business, which will brinir you in more iu iicy ri'uht away, than anything else in the world. Grand outlit free. Address True & o., Augusta, Maine D ESE R VI NG PRA ISE. We desire to say to our citizens that or ye.-trs we have been selling Dr, King's New discovery for Consumption, Dr. Kings New Life l'ills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, aad have never h.uidh-d remedies that sell as well, or that have given such universal satisfaction. We do not hesitate to guarantee them every time, and we stand ready to refund the purchase price, if satisfactory reesults do not f 11 iw their use. These remedies have won their great popularity purely op their oi"rits. AtJ.M. La wing's Physician and Pharmacist. Scientific American Agency for DESICM PATEN COPY RIGHTS. etcJ For Information and free Handbook write to MUNN A CO., 3a Broadway, pew York. Oldest bureau for securing patonts in America. Fvcry patent taken out by us is bronprbt before the public by a notice given free of charge In the JmvHfic Junction! Lartrost circulation of any scientific paper in tbe world. Splendidly illustrated. So intelligent man should be without it. Weekly, 3. OO a voar; f 1.50 six months. Address MUNN & CO., t'L'BLisuEits, 361 Broadway, Hew York City. ITeiped t lie Other Fellow Onl. Pittsburg Chronicle. A Pittsburger who spent a part of last summer in England tells an incident which sadly disturbed the the religious part of a pariah in Penzance, A rnaido.u lady of that town own ed a parrot, which somehow acquir- ed the disagreeable habit ot obser- ving, at frequent intervals : "I wish the old lady would die.'' This annoyed the bird's owner who spoke to her curate about it. "I think we can rectify the mat ter," replied the good man. 'I also have a parrot, and be is a righteous bird, having been brought op in the i wv hp shnnld pii. T will Ipnd vnn ! , , t k , . . i my parrot, and I trust bin influence i will reform that depraved bird of yours.'' The curate's bird was placed in the Name room with the wicked one, cm) n uAnti ia th tirn ha1 hpfinmfl i , t . . i i accustoaied to eacn other the bad bird remarked : "I wish the old lady would die. Whereupon the clergyman's bird rolled op bis eyes aud in solemn aa-. cents added : "We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord 1'' The story got out iu the parish' and for several Sundays it was nee essary to omit tbe litany at the church services. Live it Dovrn. The yo.ing clerk's eyes flashed as he read an article in ihe morning papers- It was an outrageous at tack upon the gentleman at the head of his departmedt or a course of action which was represented as both base and cowardly. All the correspondence relating to the af fair had passed through the young man's hands, so be knew that tbe statements were false and most damaging to the reputation of his beloven cheif. Carrying the paper to the gentle man assailed, be asked if be migh j write a reply. The elder man read the paragraphs calmly, smiled andj shook his head- "What will yoa do?" the asked. clerk 'Live it dowu," was the reply, I'll sA T TD a rtrr utDve as 1 haye done so many other calu-i came a new stimulns a hope, tniiies. Talking back is the most j bright as a vision and almost a futile and undignified exertion in i baseless. He fell in love ! lie did the world. If yoa succeed in cuts ting up one falsehood each part will wriggle against yoa. Let it alone and it will die of starvation.''" Against Wind and Tide. 11Y ANNIE SUEILDS. People in Maysville always shrug ged their shoulders when Mark Lamson war meutioneri, and nsua'" ly the expresnive esiun was loN lowed by sotxie deprecating remaik "Coiues of bad stocK." old Jud Lennox would say, in his pompous ) dictatorail manner. "AH the Law sons were worthless, and Mis. Lsiai" on was a Hodge, aud everybody knows what thtu are." The house iu which 31aik way born, and where he scrambled up to manhood, was a large farmdiousp, tumbliug to pieces inside, A ith a roof always being patched against leaking, doors without locks and witb shaking hingea, windows that rattled iu every wind, ceiling that I dropped plaster whenever a heavy 1 foot shook tho upper rooms aa furniture in the last stage of shab biness. His father and mother were slatternly in dress, shiftless in househeld management, and the handsome, bright boy was over-in. dulgeut aud neglected as their own indolence suggested. But Mark Lam son inherited none of the leading traits of hi parents. Probably irr some remote ancestor there waa a mixture of energy, res olution and ability of which the .Mayvil'e gossips bad never heatri, and for which thy certainly ga e Mark no credit. It was in va;n that, the principal of the Maysville High School declared that mark had graduated with the best record he had ever given in the school. It wasusebss for the lad himself to keep his life free from blame, and earnestly endeavor to do his duty. Maysvrlle could not forget that he w;s a Lamson, and his mother a Hodge "bad stock !" i As he passed from boyhood to I manhood, Mark began the unequal j struggle against fate and circum j stances, that was dictated only by ( his own energv. Ills father had i - i been able to get bread from the farm by a lazy tillage that gave the bare neppssities for tho table : his mother hart v m,li :nenm that ve the three clothing or the poorf s description, and both were in open moothed wonder that Mark was rot content, as they had been, to dwas die through life and "make out'' with what they had. And Mark, struggling to attain better things, with only a vague. undisciplined longing for improye- . I ment, met no encouragement, at home or abro :d. Lie tried to obtain j a sitoation, but employers were shy about giving work to a Lamson : he met but cool reception at the Mays- ville social gatherings, having no . . . f. . ... knowledge of horv to repair his own linen or keep uis poor cioiumg even tidy. Boy-like, he imagined a new suit and gay necktie were all-sufli cient for a party, and did not heed the frayed cuffs and broken collars at which the Maysville belles turned up their noses. But, in spite of his father's iazy comments, his mother's fretful re monstrances, Mark Lamson, rinding no employment outside, determined to see if the farm would not find him io work, "Oh, yes ; do as yon please," his .. , . ... father said. ey for new fangled fixings, and the land is about worn out. Pleuty ol it, to be sore, but 'taln't worth shucks." to, single-handed, Mark under took the work of bringing np the old farm. Early and late he toiled, repaying fences, weeding, picking stones, rooting out dead stumps, prepairing his land, without one hand stretched out to help him, one voice to wish him success. Thomas, the only man his father employed, gave a surly refusal to aid, upon the ground that his regular routine of shiftless farming took all his time, ana Mark patienly submitted. i He was twenty-one years old, j when into his dull, monotonous life not walk in cautiously, counting his steps and weighing his chances, but he fell, in plamp, suddenly, hopes lessly. Ti re had been a warm discus -ion at the judge's about inviting Mark to the puty lh.it was to cele brate E--ie's eighteenth birthday and her final return from boarding schrol. Bat Ihe pet of the house hfid ;t will of her own and a live' te o'leciion of Mark's handsome fact and boyish galaniiies, and in sisted upon his being iuvited. 3lark, carrying in bis memory only a pret j ty ! i 1 1 1 43 girl, found himself confront el by an un leni.ibie beauty; a fnee to win homage in far more preterit tiou circles than Maysville. boosted, a:jl a gentle grace of manner none ol the girls of his arquaintance had ever extended to bim. Tbe touch of the olt, little hand offered to greet him riveted the chains Isie's face had cast about '.laik's heart, and made bim her 1 i .i . i n l. -T i ;,iave lDcn a" mc-J,e- ut? l,ilu BUUV a,i f for s.vmpathy, and his first half-hour with Essie filled his longing heart with conteat. She remembered all his boyish aspira tions ; she entered into all his hopes and ambitions. The party was the beginning of an intercourse that stimulated anew every good resolu tion, gave a new vigor to every hope of Mark's life. There are women who carry in their own hearts an overflowing fund of sympathy, who can sink self ut terly in the presence of another person's interest, and throw their own power into their .neighbor's wotk without orYiciousness or offense. I Esie Lennox was such a woman. young as s.he was. S!e could give her whole mind to every detail which she had carried to her, from the cutting of aprons for a neigh bor's child to tho gentle soothing of an invalid's terror of death ; from her mother's preserving kettle to the comforting of a nejidy bereaved widow or orphan. Nothing was too deep or solemn, nothing too trari' sient or trivial, for that tender, even active interest and sympathy that made her the idol ot Maysville as well iis the comfort of her home. And in her home she fouDd no one w hose claim seemed stronger to her than Mark'.. The vililaae was ! essentially democratic, and the fact that Essie was the onlv child and heiress of the richest, most intinenv tial man in the place did not prevent her from visiting Mrs. Lamson upon terras of perfect equality. She was fond of the weak, amiable woman, strongly as she censured, in her youthful strength, the easygoing ,nJolence that made ner nome sucn a scene of confusion and discomfort; and, in her gentle, pleasant way, she endeavored to brighten that home for Mark by suggestions and offers I of Le!P lhat fel1 to the S-onnd. It, was fighting a feather bed to try io rouse Mrs. Lamson to any active improvement, and rebuffed there, Esie could ODly help Mark by words of sympathy that were; like wine of life to his love. An hour with Essie sent him back to his uphill work full of new hope, every energy stimulated, every hope brightened. He had not dared to set before him in plain words the hope ot one day winning her heart to answer bis own, for there was all the humility ot true passion in that youug, ardent heart, but he realized a new force, a new spur to ambi- Essie never sneered at him as the ueignuors bad become accustomed to doing ; Essie never threw cold water over his plans for improving ... . , the land ; Essie was never sarcastic over the clashiDg of hispoveity and his ambitiors. As he saw ber more frequently, he ventured to tell her of wider, wilder hopes, of some day escaping from tbe dredgery bes fore him, and making bis way to a city, where his education might give him a start m more congenial occu - paiiou. 'Father ar.d mother seem to need me, TOW, lie IO. a JSSie, OUe OS "rhev are o d. and they have no oUer child. 1 think ic is my plain j dutp to stay' "I think it is," was tbe quick re ply ; "your mother conld scarcely bear a seperation.'' "And while I am here, I most d) the work lhat lies under ray band," he said, "hard as it is ! But Essie," aud his face brightened, -do you knew that already I have made the farm pay double what it has ever done. Nest Sj-riug 1 can hire help out ot money I saved from the sale of last veil's crops V Essie, all eager interest, entered into the discussion of ihe capat ili lies o! suii a lot for turnips, such a patch for wheat, the possibilities ot : iliiirv. fli liAsr fiiltmn for fowls 1 as if she had never studied music or! filled her head with French aod German verbs. B'lt the horror and wrath of Judge Lennox, wheu, alter two ears of mild courtship, Mark took hi fate in his bauds aud asked per mission io many E sie, cannot be described. kA Lrnison !" he cried, when hav ing dismissed Mirk be returned to tho bosom of his family. "A Lam son for E sie's husband ! The fel. low wants my money to send afttr ail his father and bis grandfather have squandered.'' ''Do ou really aud truly think Mark rs a spendthrift, papa V E sie aked quietly. ''Does he ever lounge about tho stores or taverns, as Harry Carter and James Kay burn do?'; 'T Well, no, I never saw him," was the reluctant admis-dou. "Did you ever hear that be drank or gambled, or even smoked 'X-o I never did.'' "Is he not regular at church V "Ye-e?." "Hut, oh, Eaie !" struck in Mrs Leunox. "What shabby, half washed shirts he wears, and his fin gers all out ot his gloves, and hal tbe buttons of his coat gone 1" "Poor Mark !'' said Essie, gently. "He needs a wife." ,;We!l, he need not look here for one,1' growied tbe ju'lge. "1 heard Mr. Thompson say, last week," said Essie, quietly, '-that there is not a better farm in Greene county than Lamson's." "Such a palace of ah ousel" the judge sneered. 'Mark is hoping to put a new house on the place,next year. He has had buijders over from B , tut they say the old house is beyond repair, and it would cost les to have a new one." "And where is the money to come from ?'" "Where the improved fam; came from," said Essie ; "from Mark's in dustry, perseverance and enery, iu tee tace of the hardtst discourage ments ever a young man bad to fight." SEh!" said the judge. "What ? What ?' "See what he has done," said E- j sie, still in an even, quiet tone that carried conviction tar more than an excited one. "Eight years ago, when he was but a boy, he put his shoulder to the wheel and took his playtime between school hours to weed and clear away stoues. No- body helped him. He was rid'eu's ed, sneered at, discouraged on all sides. lie had the poorest farm in the pla'ce, aud he has made it one of the best. He has put every spare dollar into books on agriculture, im proved machines, good stock. He has now four men at work for him. good horses, good cattle, good poul-jthe is.-uc- of notes or certificaUs, try, and he will have a good houge. j which con-titutcs the most conven- j Papa, do ou not tbiok it will be aient form 0f circulation among the pity to have tbe new house in the j people. Any measure which w;uld i care of Mrs. Lamso?', to r oin as che ! has tbe o.d one : Out-doors tbej ..ii i.f. n..i i imauaeeaeni is an oil io ;.:aih, anu see wh it he has done. But a man cannot make a home comfcrthble ' aloie ; he needs a wife." "Well,' said the judge "let him have one, but not my child." 'Still he loves me." s lid Essie. "and I love him !"' "Pshaw !" said the judge, and marched out of the boose. But prompt as he was, he was IJq an( be loved Essie. He had j let prejadiee influence him against Mark all bis life ; now be took pains , ; LO unu OUl IIU UlUUU uphucihuid auu i;iav.r, ai:u im-i uas ucru j was well tounded. Grudginjly en oneh was the verdict given in Mark's favor. Maysville did not willingly acknowledge it had been wrong in its estimate, and shoul dered upon Mark all tbe faults of hi8 ancestors. But the faults were j strong, ana juuge Lennos toauu j himself confronted by them. Slow, Uy. for he was not easily convinced, he took respect inio the place of contempt, a')d, after a mouth of pa tient nivestigition, sent tor Mark. Tue interview va a frank, manly one, th old geutb man not being given to hal-heatted measures ot kin:l IIh n lniirtetl his former '. , .i - liprueiiea.i result, because as vet DO pr lUil ei's, and bear fdv coiumenicd ii the voutig man who had struggled so noblv. i "heu your new house is linlslu ; ed,'' Le srtid, "I will let my E-sie be, jour wife, A man who ao make i his wav against wind and tiile as ! you have doiie, deser ves a happy home."' The judge beiug a power in Mays- i vil le, public opiniou veered round, ;;s soon as the engagement was an nounced. The new house being completed, Essie became housekeep er, Mrs. Lamson gladly resigning her feeble iviu. And under the new regime it was wonderful to see ! how even the old people smartt ned j up. They had no chronic objection to cleaulmess, it some one e'se did the necessary work ; and with Mark and Es:e to govern and direct, th Lamson farm and Lamson house hold so lost its old name, that you contd scarcely find to-day in .V:.yss this simple and apparently cheap ville one vcice to repeat the old device will mark a new era iu met saying that "Mark Lamson came of eoroloy. At present meteorolo bad stock.' 51 r. Carlisle on llio fcup.f inn. Now it is pretty derinifely set tied that Senator John G, Carlisle of Kentucky will be Secretary of the Treasury under President Cleve land, his veiws in regard to silver becomes important. The latest ex pression ol them is lound in a le: j ter which was pubished in the Cou- j rjer-Journal on Aug 0, JSl- aud which that newspaper has rec.-ntly reprinted : "Ihe gold and s lver coins can not be of equal intrlns o value, as demanded by this resolution, unless the metal contained in each of them is ot equai value while still in the form of bullion Coinage adds nothing whatever to the intrinsic value of the metal, but only ascer tains ofiiiilly its weight and fine ness, pnts it in a convenient form for circulation, and authenticates it by the stamp of Government- The United States h?s coined over s40() ! 000.000 in silver since the passage ot the Met in 1KT8, but tl is has net j ft would lake five, men a year to added one cer.t to the intrinsic val t,UlM one, if they had to do cvery ue of the metal contained in them , thinj; , starting with the raw mater nor has the purchase and coinage otjA!s. this enormous mass of silver uurrn gj A Philadelphia man made the a period of fourteen years caused j first locomotive that ever polled a by any increase in the price of j load. It was famons "Old Irons vcr bullion. On the contrary, tnejsijes?'- 0uj)t itl 1832 for the German price of silver bullion in all markets! town railroad- Up to that time of the world, in tbo3e counties j the steam horse had been generally where there is free coinage a- well as in those where the mints are closed to silver, is much lower now than it was m 1878, wheu this Gov. jernment began topurenasi! ii at the rate of 24,000 000 woitb per an- nurT1 "Neither gold nor silyer coin-, ex jcepr the subsidiary coins, will ever again enrer iuto very general use as currency in any preat commercial i country. The principal office of these coins is to form a basis fc r Qve a tend-ncy to broaden this' oasis of cjxcal-iticn b y iucrea-ing . - . . . ... jtne amount d metallic money witn j rcl.ich the paper ctn be redeemed j would in my opinion, be beneficial j not only to this countn. but to the world generally ; but this cannot be done 'jy the fabrication ot two I coins of the same denomination. but not of equal intrinsic value, be cause both of the coins cannot con stitute at the same time the money of redemption. Sixty- j eight cents' worth of silver aud one i dollar's worth of gold cannot both j be standards of value at the t-ame fully demonstrated by our own ex perience during the last fourteen ye:rs. for, although tbe silver dol lar has been all that time a full le- !gal tender under the statutes of the j United Srate, everybody admits) that we are still on a gold basis, and therefore the value of all tbe paper in circulation is measured not by silver but by gold.7' Free ltullooii tor Meteorolog ical Observer iu lligu Air. The employment of free ballous for meteoiological ooeervations at very great heights has long been ' discussed, but hitherto with little oailinui -uita'ile tor this purpose Keuard, , . r'renrh scientist however ba lnst preseiite.1 to tne 1'arrs Academy 1 h'sign for such a balloon which 'Tomises to be a success. His piopo-;d niinatnre vessel for sounding the atmosphere is suppli ed with a very light self recording barometer aud self-recording ther nruneter, prrtly made ol aluminum, e u L w-i L'bmg less five pouiids. To prevent derangement of tho regis tering apparatus upon the fll of the baboon h. piovides eoch instru ment with an elastic guard so effect- jVe that the c'ockswork of the in- stnrtneut is not interrupted by the shoek of ibo fail. The total weight, instrument included, does not ex ceed twetityone) pounds avoirdu pois. If found to work satisfactorily gist know but little more by direct ii slruno ntal gauging of the upper a'mosphere than the fauna inhabi- ting the floor of the Atlantic know ol the Gu!t Stream and its associate surface currents. A, Y. Herald LocomoJivcM Thai Ciiu Travel at flic Kate of !l ?IiIcM In Hour. Washington Star : Strange that Philadelphia, wh'ch is reputed a slow town, should pronounce the fastest locomotive in the world. Yet su!;h is the fact. A great factory there, which is theb'ggest of the kind In existance, turns out 1,000 mighty iron horses with sinews of forged steel every year. It com. p'etes three of these engines every working day, and at a pinch it can increase the number to four per diem. That is the rate ot output, though, ot course, such gigantic ma ehin s cannot be begun and finished within twenty-four hours. Forty five daya xre ordinarily required to make a lo romotiVA, though tho task , .ls ()ten performed in seven days. declared useless for practical pur poses. After this achievement or- ders fl wed in upon inventor. The factory which he created now sends is locomotives all over the world j i ,a supplied the engines for tbe j new railroad in the Holy Land from ..ialTa to Jerusalem, which was open ; lo trains October 1 last. The line j ia f i f t v three miles long extending ! across the Plain of Sharon and I then thence up through the moon ; tains of Jndea. Such rapid transit js H great help to pilgrims. Thaa r;,r tin- only casualty reported was the ruurjj0, over of a camel and its (i,ivtr s-v weeks arm rhA unPPd record I of Tofornntivp tp4 hrnL-tn rn fh Handing railroad between Philadel' I pi,ui an,j jersey City by an engine 'which made a mile in 37 seconds. Five miles were also covered in 3 minutes and 25 seconds. Going at such a rate tbe engineer does not venture to put bis bead out of the car window. If he did so he 'could not breathe and tears would be blown oat of his eyes. On the stretch of the track spoken of the fastest trains iu tbe world are run every day, covering miles in 42 and 43 seconds rights along. A mile in 37 seconds signifies 94 mile au hour There is no doubt that a speed ot 100 miles au honr will soon be reached and exceeded. Better track?, bigger wheels and higher sfeam pressures are essential elen ments ot acceleration. This factory in Philadelphia em '. ploys 4,500 men, divided into day land night shifts. In wages G0,0OO 'a week is paid.