W. r. MAISHAU, glif ud frwri«tw. DEVOTED TO THE P10TECTI0N OP BONE AND THE
VOL* __-fT^in|iri J1M_|[T^rjm^ N1 ai*_J
POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS
ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
UwVr tkla had will La grlatnl Inm lima In I lima not* worthy uorruoav
•a thcioea tl currant iatrnal Thar will ba lakes I rasa public adtlmaaa.
buoka, wacaiiaas. aawepapare. la (art wharerer w» war tod thaw, Rowe
Uwta these aalcctltua will accord with oar elawn and tka vlawa ot our read
rra. aoamlwre lhr opix/alte will be true. Rut br reason oI the aahlret waiter,
tto ***•■ *We Utkorahip. or tka r It are eaprtaard. aach will Ware aa element
ot tlwalr latarast to waka It a caasptrooaa uttaranca.
Jut Sa.
AakcvlUt ClUacn.
Did you ever notice tlmt the man who has the l^rwt use for
you, ii the man who owes you tuouey that lie won’t pay, or has
otherwise done yon an injury?
■mnasiMs- i .'.'VJ I I ■ i-—
The New Theme!
Writtf, RrrorfVcr.
"How to prohibit prohibition,’’ was the chief theme of discus
sion at the National Liquor Dealers’ Association in Baltimore
recently. The cry used to lie "prohibition does not prohibit.” and
yet somehow, the liquor uiL'ii always violently opposed it. Now
thby recognise that prohibition does prohibit, and their problem
"how to prohibit prohibition.”
Straight Tip ler Turner.
Rutnait Landmark.
While the Landmark isn’t the authorised mouthpiece of
Statesville’s candidates we make bold to aay that he is running
because he wants the office nnd because the people want him to
have it. He is in line of promotion, has a laudable ambition to go
up higher, and has the capacity to fill the place. And while we
bear no D1 will to any other candidate, wishing them ail well, we
think it our duty to give their friends the straight tip that States
ville’s candidate is going to wiu.
Ssnatsr Tl Llmaa's Mint aka.
Ricbmood Howl,—dt.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, has bad bia pocket picked
on a train. This was what we might have expected to happen to
a guileless and horny-banded representative of the over-hardened
and groaning masses. Also it is natural that the purse of this in
corruptible servant of the people and foe^of corporations and
trusts contained little or no money. The Senator's chief grief Is
that all the many free passes and franks the receptacle contained
have disappeared along with it. Consequently his travel is
crippled and his telegraphic and express facilities badly hampered.
The Lawyers Responsible.
Charilv and Children
The lawyers, who often boast that they are the conservators of
peach and good order, are responsible to a greater degree than any
other class for the reign of mob law and the contempt of the igno
rant and unthinking for the courts. So long aa justice is delayed,
and often outraged, by the tedious delays and parleying and
technical tricks by attorneys who have in mind only the fee which
their clients may be able to pay, we may expect to see the ex
asperated and hot-headed of the community taking things in their
own hands and meeting ont summary vengeance upon supposed
criminal*. We are told that our system ia worse than ih.i 0f any
other country under the sun. Elsewhere speedy trials are ob
tained. and the shysters who share the spoil with the criminals
they shield from the punishment they deserved, are not allowed
the privilege and the power they abuse ia the courts of this
country.
Dm’t Undarsstlmsla Roosevelt's Strength.
Vnr York Sin.
If the Democrats are to have any reasonable expectation of
defeating Mr. Roosevelt next year, they mnst not make the mistake
of underestimating bis political strength or his present personal
popularity. Such an iudiscri urinating opinion of him as the
Nashville American gives shows notpnly an excess of partisanship
but at least a partial misunderstanding of tbe situation:
"Unbalanced, unreliable, full of Self, empty of prudence, of
knowledge, of discretion, of the comprehension of the laws of
nations, of the laws of his own country, of even the little hodal
lews, Mr. Roosevelt is a failure. Ia that not palpable? Mast we
needs butt oar heads against a plainer proposition to take oognl
sance of this all too apparent national misfortune? Must there be
yet a greater one?
"And yet the Republicans have already committed themselves
to this man's re-election, or rather a number of them have. States
have instructed for him, conventions have endorsed him, and for
-1* happy appreciation and enjoyment of oar woadroaa
prosperity have any of us stopped to think for what good or gain
we owe Mr. Roosevelt? Is it not all the reverse? What Democrat
can do worse?”
Thsadsre’a Ufa.
«. P. N. «a Ike MuKtIIU Mly K«w«.
Listen, my children, and you aball hear
CH Theodore’s ride through the night so drear—
Starting at 2 and riding till 5—
Hardly a man is now alive
Who’d do such a freakish thing and queer.
He said to bia son, "If the weather is right, '
If it thunders and storms, if ft blows and it rains,
Let tb« news leak out to the press to-night
Z!1** T* '1 riAe *ud through the roads and the lanes,
Trom Sagamore Hill to 8ayTille town
You on the bay and I on the brown—
“"d ,p',rrl*»* w«,,» have time and to spare
To breakfast with uncle snd make the iolka stare,
And show to the people . President rare.
So through the night rode Theodore,
And so through the night rang bia whoop and halos,
Tba galloping bool-beats, sow loud and now low,
These sounds that shall echo forevermore
Poe, held in the newspapers of the past.
Through all our history to tba last,
la the days of Presidents steady and staid.
Who slumber at night snd ride in the day,
The people will thrill at this strenuous ride.
Which our Theodore took for a grand-stand play,
l
RACE OVER
THE COUNTRY
TRIP WITH FAST NAIL OflAPKI
CALLY DESCRIBED.
Writer Takes a Rids Ob Engine
Thai Falla Aa Impertant Train
—S*eid Almsst Incredible sod
Sensations are Naaereas—
Iren Herne Seeas te Have the
Wings #1 a Bird la Its night.
W. a. Steam, la Ckicase Ckraolclr
"By the sweat of thy brow
shalt though eat bread,'’said the
Lord to Adam 6,000 years ago in’
the Garden of Rden. Since the
delivery of this curve mankind
universally has obeyed the com
mand of Divine wrath. The
men who feed the fire boxes of
the monster locomotives hauling
the United States mail semes
the continent while half the
world’s asleep are entitled to
fnll benefit of the reward for
obedience to the Scriptural in
junction.
Most of the mail trains in this
country run daring the night,
when the busy hum of industry
is hushed sad business people
sleep, when the hour of labor is
ovei.
Out in the country alongside a
trunk line dying the honrs of
the night some restless sleeper
is sroosed by the deep throated
call of the engine saluting the
signals as she flies over the
switches set at green.
Like the roar of the storm the
fast mail has passed through the
village and all is quiet once more
except, perhaps, the retaining
distant nimble as she crosses
the bridge two miles sway, and
the restless sleeper tarns bis pil
low hoping to woo the drowsy
god.
The average Chicago citixeo
goes to bis office early in the
morning and opens his mail con
taining letters dictated late in
the afternoon of yesterday five
or six hundred miles away. He
is aware that this is good service
bat be gives the matter very lit
tle thought and takes it as a mat
ter of course. Twenty years ago
he was just as well satisfied with
the letter of day before yesterday
but if to-day eighteen or twenty
hours were consumed in trans
porting a letter from Omaha to
Chicago he would raise a howl
that would put the siren of the
fast mail engine to the blush.
SPEED ALMOST INCA EDIBLE.
Tp-day the order for the mer
chandise comes winging its way
from one hundred miles west* of
Omaha to Chicago between can
dle light and breakfast. It was
the writer's privilege to ride "in
front” on one of these mail trains
and he selected the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway. It ie
492.5 miles from the Union Pa
cific station in Omaha to the
Wells street station of the Chi
cago and Northwestern Railway
at Chicago. No. 10, the east
bound mail, consumes eleven
hours on the run. bat as twenty
three stops (not inclndingsever
al slow downs) are made in order
to collect express and mail and
change engines at Boone and
Clinton, Iowa, theengineermast
average sixty-three miles every
sixty one minute* in order to
hold the schedule. This is at .a
much higher rate of speed than
passenger trains are ran on mg
ular Bchedulet.
No. 9, the sister train, leaves
Chicago at 10 p, m., ana arrives
in Omaha at 8 a. m. the follow
ing morning, n still faster sched
ule as part of her daily perform
ance between this city and Ce
dar Rapids, Iowa, 220 miles it
accomplished in 260 minutes, in
cluding stops, changing engines
and alow downs.
The public knows very little
of the movements of them fast
mail trains, for no passengers
are permitted to ride on them—
not because of danger, which is
entirely eliminated, but doe
chiefly to the possibility of de
tention.
wane tbe wily passenger
agent la attracting thousands
with expensive and profusely Il
lustrated, literature to ride In the
palatial limited trains toward
lake and mountain, the official*
in the operating department ate
watching, watching, every de
tail connected with theaafe con
.“ot tfc* passenger,
but the mall between the ter
mi 01.
SAFUTY AND ASXXD SOUQHT.
Like the fond parent with deep
solicitude noting tbe develop,
went of the child Into youth and
into manhood, be bis destiny
either the pffJptt or tbe prise
ring, se do these officials unre
mittingly seek for alemeat* of
safety, apeed aod comfort.
The trip to the starting poiat
was made on the California Bx
press,affording an opportunity to
observe the character of the road
bed by daylight between the
Mississippi sod the Missouri
fivers.
The same double tracks, with
long sweeping cuives, heavy
rails anil heavy ballast, were
stretching their lengths to-ward
sunset as perfect and exact ns
between Chicago and Clinton.
Word hod been flashed along
the line to division men to re
ceive the writer with courtesy.
All were found to he young in
telligent and enthusiastic in the
conduct of their dally duties.
None had any axe to grind; they
simply showed satisfsccion in
their work, with desire for pro
motion well esrned by consistent
use of iudgment mud thorough
application to the work at band.
Henry E. Torgcusea. proprie
tor of the Chicago Architectural
Photographing Company, in
company with the writer was
placed in charge of Trainmaster
Fred H. Ham mil of the division
from Boone to Council Binds.
Every facility to secure the pho
tographs used in this article was
placed at the disposal of Mr.
Torgcusea. Even the mercury
st 102 degrees in the shade had
no influence on the determina
tion of the young and energetic
| trainmaster to make the trip
: successful.
uur pleasant task over, we
were now ready to make out
ward display of that ealmneaa
and indifference necessary pre
vious to a ride of 550 miles across
the great State of Iowa on the
left-hand side of the cab.
Having seen the picture mao
comfortably installed in bis ma
hogany sleeping car on No. 6, a
fast express train bound toward
Chicago, the scribe presented
his credentials to Engineer
"Dory’’ Adams and Conductor
Free L. Payne, aud was wel
comed cordially.
No 10 takes mail from the
Overland Limited at Omaha
coming from California, Oregon,
Salt Lake City, Denver and the
Northwest, distributing it to
Chicago, New England and the
Southeast. Pour cars built of
the best sod strongest material
by the best mechanics, provided
with every safety appliance,
constitute the regular train. The
four can touch the beam at 300
tons and engine No 218, with
seventy-four inch drivers, cylin
ders 19 by 26, runs under 190
pounds steam pressure and
freigbs 244,600 pounds ready for
business.
watcaes are consulted. Allis
hurry, for the Overland ia fifteen
minutea late and mail bags axe
flying into our cars from the just
arrived train. Side by side axe
taro iron horses panting, one
from the West, tired and travel
stained, ready ior the stall to be
gToomed; the other ready for a
dash to meet tbe son, screaming
at the poppet valve in anticipa
tion of the scare the is going to
give the greenhorn from the
windy dty.
The last bag is in, No. 218
gives two hoarse exultant signals
and I wished I was with Torgen
sen in the Pullman which left
over an hour ago. Maybe we
will overhaul him and pass him
in the night.
Over the high bridge spanning
the restless Missouri we roll with
a certain exhilaration mingled
with a feeling of doubt. Thank
heaven the track is double and
although "Dory" says few ride
with him because they are afraid
we cultivate a cheerful expres
sion and ask George Peters, the
fireman, if we are ia tbe way.
He smiles and shovels a few
tons of cool into tbe fiery fur
nace.
Leaving the "bluffs" we stretch
oat toward Misssouri Valley,
skirting the hills on tbe right,
the readask growing dimmer on
tbe left beyond the Missouri bot
toms. Dancing green signals
apparently straight ahead on the
track threaten us with instant
collision, hot pass safely under
neath the cab. Stations and
outlying buildings are assuming
fantastic motions and 1 in ante
I saw a woman carrying a house
on her back.
"Seventy I" bowls Gsorge, tbs
fireman, as be thrust his shovel
through the firs door. His face
illumined for an instant, brings
back tha stonr of Adam'a admon
ishment la tbe Garden’ of Bden.
A cluster of lights, some of
them rad now approaches and
Doty applies the air at short and
•till shorter laterals. Missouri
Valley Junction is at hand and
Mo. 218 comas to a stop opposite
the telegraph operator's window,
purring and quivering orach like
• giant cat after a desperate race
with a fierce dog.
A MILK A MINLTX.
"Tweaty-three miles ia twen
ty-three minute*," says Dory,
Uchtiac hi* torch, rrabbin*
•on** waste, six] lo * trice he ii
oat there eedet the wheel* oUia«
t>ii wituout waking for an an
swer.
..a I gaze at him then coating
grotesque shadows by the aid of
□is flickering light I am strong
ly reminded that the "old griz
zled veterans with his band on
the throttle" is a creature of the
mythical past. Your modem
engine runner docs not keep hia
band oo the throttle—ha keeps
it on the air. The unwritten
law of the trank line fa safety
first. Yon can ran fast, but you
must not take chances.
Dory was 43 in Janaary and
has no nerves or gray bairn.
At Carroll the trainmaster
mounted the seat aad inquired
into the state of my nervea In
stead of answering him direct I
calmly inquired the price of land
per acre Just to show Urn bow
brave one could be in the face of
imminent annihilation. While
I be was explaining about this we
ran nine miles in seven aad fow
fifth minates.
xmrcniag ana making and
cHck,ng, we shot toward a hooch
of lights, two of them red, down
low directly ahead of aa. Be
fore I could rash over and tarn
on the air Mr. Hammil said;
"That is No. 8 with year friend
on board. We have overtaken
them 112 miles oet."
Aa we rushed by the side
tracked express train I leased
out of the window and naked the
photographer if be had "polled
the slide." Two days after we
met in Dearborn street in Chica
go and he said "Yu, I did."
W« soon passed over the great
steel double track bridge near
Boone, and looking down on that
beautiful sight bathed in the
pure silver light of a fall moos,
the shimmering waters of the
broad Des Moines River framed
in the emerald setting of green
foliage lost their liquid charms
in the bine disUntiforest-crowned
hills. Another scene came be
fore me. A black, tempestuous
night, the river on a boisterous
rampage, carrying all before it,
the railroad bridge at last yield
ing before the terrible pressure.
A train is due and out into the
black night and dying scud brave
Kate Shelly creeps out over the
loose timbers with a lantern and
saves the train and its passengers
from destruction. This was
twenty years or more ago.
At Boone I bid good bye to
boon companions and took np
with Engineer William Toney
and Fireman Frank Baton on
Engine No. 216 boo ad for Clin
ton. This run of 200 miles was
made in three hours and Afty
minute*.
From Ames to Marshalltrtrn,
thirty-seven miles, the time was
forty-one minutes, including
stauding start and nnish.
No track unless 1 ai d with
mathematic*] precision could en
dure such terrific bursts of speed.
The outer rail on all curves la
elevated sufficiently to permit a
speed of ninety miles per hour.
The nearest approach to this
speed was mads in the descent
of the grade near Tama, when
for three miles a sustained speed
of eighty-seven miles per boor
was maintained. At this rate,
notwithstanding the large diam
eter (6 feet 4 inches) of the driv
ing wheels, the exhaust from the
smokestack waa one continued
long roar. Sparks were vomited
like mi nature volcanoes; the
wind resistance becomes a cy
clone, the elide of the Hah
motion becomes incessant.
DOWn-GBAOB smtSDMO.
The great machine knows that
Engineer Toney will laVy advan
tage of tha straight grade down
rhnr^tev.'s
shaktag with determined and
thunderous roar. No. 218 laid
her smoke Bat on the mail car
tops to the teat; Uke a woman
in hysterica, she fled like a thing
of Ilk through tha Tama Indian
re serration.
Someone yelled "Indiana," 2
thought he said engines end
consigned myself to the cate oi
Providence, fully expecting to
be instantly projected toward
bright A returns 6,000,000 miles
away. My instinct, however,
compelled me to hold to my
aeat like a fotecloaad chattel
mortgage.
When we bad mowed oowi to
• gentle Jog of seventy miles an
boor Mend Toney approached
•ud humbly apologised for be
ing on time, mid be wished era
ware a Uttle behind time, ao he
eooid show me a Uttle faat run
ning. I endeavored to show
him that I waa In ao harry to
reach Chicago, that the family
was not expecting me until No
vember and boat ness waa not
^A?lltle rate of eighty-seven
miles ah boor ia tbs streets of
Chicago the following would
A young man meeting an at
(Continued on fourth page.)
o
_
HUNTER’S BOOK STORE
—- in inifn i" '
OWcc Sw«m, BcfcnKmBM.
nwneaUd abow. * mo“““**■•*
I win cootiaue the aewi ml beadle the DooahrHii^>
jfohb wMchwfflbeoweete «jd»MrtiMw*ygEgg/^g:
SCHOOL, BOOKS.
All the pnblic school books adtpted by the state board coo
3-jf-Jj-. Com* to hro<tp—tows tor school books and
J. A. HUNTER.
CBAIO 4 WUSOH.
_ '