People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Interchangeable 1000-Mile Tickets. [ARTICLE]

Interchangeable 1000-Mile Tickets.

Every traveling man should have one. They cost hut 820 each and can be purchased of any agent of the Monon route. They are good for one year from date of sale and good for passago on the following lines: Baltimore A Ohio R. R. (Lines west of Pittsburg and Benwood, including Wheeling & Pittsburg Division); Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern R’y. (Form L 38), all divisions; Buffalo, Rochester A Pittsburg R’y; Cincinnati, Hamilton A Dayton R. R. (Form I. D.tf), all divisions; Cincinnati, Portsmouth A Virginia R. R. (between Cincinnati and Portsmouth only); Cleveland Terminal & Valley R’y; Columbus, Hocking Valley '& Toledo R’y; Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking R. R. (Form J); Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western R’y; Indiana, Decatur A Western R’y; Indiaha, Illinois A low a R. R; Louisville, Evansville A St. Louis R. R. (Form B) (Good only for continuous passage between Louisville uud Evansville, Evansville and St. Louis, uud Louisville and St. Louis); Louisville, New Albany A Chicago R’y; New York, Chicago A St. Louis R. R; Pittsburg, Shenango A Lake Erie R. R; Toledo, St. Louis A Kansas City R. R. (Form L 8); Wheeling A Lake Erie R’y (Form H.) The above lines afford the commercial traveler access to the principal cities and towns in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky, with through lines to St, Louis. The train service of the Monon Route includes all the conveniences devised to make traveling a pleasure. Vestibuled trains, with parlor and dining cars on ull day trains; Pullman buffet and compartment sleeping cars on all night trains. Special features: Steam Heat, Pintsh Eight. Sidney B. Jones, City Pass. Ag’t. 232 Clark St., Chicago. Geo. W. Hayler, Diet. Pass. Ag’t. 2 W. Washington Sc., Indianupolis. E. H. Bacon, Dist. Pass. Ag’t, 4th and Market Sts., Louisville. W. H. McDokt, Receiver and Gf-n’l Mgr. Frank J. Reed, Gen’l Pubs. Ag fc. General Offices: 198 Custom House Place, Chicago.

W. H. BEAM, Agent.

Frank Leslie,b Monthly is the first of the Christmas magazines to appear, and it is in every respect a beuutiful number. Under the title “A Magic Island,” Beatriz B. de Luna writes entertainingly of the picturesque Catalinas of California; Cornell University described by Herbert Cropbie Howe in tho second paper of the profusely illustrated series on “American Universities and Colleges;” Major-General O. O. Howard tells something of the “Character and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee.” and among the illustrations to this article is the last portaitr of the great Confederate; there is an interesting paper on pottery by Lawrence Mendenhall; an excellent Christmas story is contributed by Margaret E. Sangster; in “Canoeing Down the Rhine,” Rochefart Calhoun takes the readers pleasantly from Basel to Heidelberg; Francis Wilson’s new play ‘Half a King, is described and pictured with portraits and views of the principal scenes; Varina Anne Jefferson Davis, the “Daughter of the Confederacy,” has something to say of the proposed Battle Abbey of the South; and there are numerous short stories and poems, andj an attractive young folks’ department, -More than the usual one hundred illustrations are given Iq this number.