Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 1, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 June 1890 — Page 7
The Perils of an Early Pedagogue.
PRENTICE 3XULF0RIVS NOTE DOOK
Tc*«hJTt|j the Vorniff Ii!ea While I"
ger
lirlits
of
doctor,
(1lMv
I
Dan
Shot—How I Knoclicd Oat
EnglUh Grammar Vnljaf Fraction*
Prohibited.
[Copyrighted, 19R, b* tbe Author.]
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WAS not confident of my ability to teach oven a "common
•school" when the situation was offered me in a litHe Tuolumno county mining camp. I rt.'.icl so to my old friend, Pete
II., who 1 nul secumV me the position. "Well," «ail he, after a reflective pause, "do you retain a clear recollection of the twenty-six letters of the alphabet? For, if you do, you are equal to any educational demand this camp will make on you."
It wa« a reckless
,,camp."
No phase
of life was viewed or treated seriously. They did walk their horses to the gravq slowly at a funeral, but how they dkr race back!
It i8 legally necessary, however, that I should be examined as to my .ability by the Hchool trustees. These wore Dr. IX, Hill K., a Bnloon keeper, and Tom J., a miner. I met them in the juatice'H ofllee. The doctor was mi important appearing limn, proud, pompous, well dressed* and spectacled. IIo glared at me with an expression betwixt Ba.ines* and severity. I saw he was to be the chief inquisitor. I expected from him a searching examination, and trembled it wa:i years since 1 had ween a nohool book. I knew that in geography I wiw rusty and in ruathenmtiea musty.
Before the doctor lav one thin book. It turned out to bo a spelling book. The doctor opened it, glared on mo leisurely, and llnally Haul: "Spell cat." I did so. '"SpelHuit." I itpulUul. "lint."
tU*
with a look of explosive tteree-
uess. and In a tone an octave higher. I spelled, and then remarked: "LUit, doetor, you Burely must know that I can spell wordrf of one Hyllable?" "I don't," ho shouted, and propounded "mat" for me spell, with au increase of energy in hi« voi x\ and so went on until I had so spelled long enough to amuse him and the other two trustee triller#. Then he shut the book, saying: "Young man, you'll do for our cauip. I wouldn't teach that nohool for §5.000 a year and there ire two boys you'll have for scholars .hat I advise you to kill, if possible, the first week. Let's all go over and take a
school house was the church, built aiul paiil for partly by the gamblers and by the good people of Jimtownfor the UKO of all sects" on Sundays, or educational purimses on week days.
was shut up in that little church six "tours a (lay with sixty children and youths, ranging from to
18
you
voars of
age. In summer it was a fiercely hot little church. The mercury was always near 90 by noon, and sometimes over 100. and
could at times hear tin:
shingles split and crack on the roof fie cathedral. A few years of interior California summers'suns will turn un pointed hoards and shingles almost as black as charcoal
The majority of my pupils' iarents lieing from
New
Kngland and North
iVmerica. they brought and carried into flTeet all their North American ideas of Education. The California summer heal /is, 1 think, unfit for educational pur-
JHWU'S. It is too hot to herd sixty rest less children together six hours a day They
proved
this in several cases, Sum*
fell Mck suddenly. ikuno fainted. But this made no difference. The school went- on in all its misery. 1 gent a faint ing child home one day. and the fathe returned with it an hour afterward. He was tiem\ and said he wanted his child kept in school when he sent it to school
This was in California's early days My scholars were the children of the Argonaut*. and in «e eases had come out with them. There was then no regu lar system of text books. PuUlfelir: had not commenced making fortunefl getting out a now school book systet every three years.
My scholars came, bringing a great varietv of school boobs. They brought "Pike's Arithmetic." which had come over the plains, and "Smith OeogFa nhv," which had sailed around Ca|W
Botox,
Then* was a regular museum of English grammar*. whose authors fought each Other with different rules and oalM the various part* of speoeh by different names. I atvountod lor the gm*t variety of grammars on the «ap{*^dea that it is or was the ambition of large portion of ^hoolmaMeni to wi iio a work on grammar before they died and say "I
have
:v* i'uf -3W'T'5_ TKRRE HA
to come in, and did often come in, to goeak under the seats and lay themselves at their masters' feet. I had frequently to kick or order them out, and I noticed that whenever a dog wa3 chased out he would take the longest road to get out, and under as many seats as possible, in order to receive as many kicks as possible from the youthful owners of the other dogs.
I could not so organize a battalion of ten different grammars as to act in concert on my grammar class of twenty pupils. So I put them all on the retired list, and tried to teach this so called "science" orally. I chalked the rules on the blackboard, as well as the names of the different parts of speech. I made my scholars commit these to memory, standing, although I will not argue that memory takes any stronger grip on a thing while the pupil stands. At last I taught a few with good memories to "parse." I worked hard with that grammar class, and waa very proud of their proficiency until I found that after months of this drilling they neither spoke nor wrote any better English than before.
However, I lost nothing by this experience. for it helped me to the conviction that I have held to ever since, that the entire grammar system and method ioea very little to make one habitually use correct language, and that a taste for reading and constant association with correct English speaking people does a great deal. As for spending time in "parsing," I think it would be better to use that force in learning the boy to shoe horses and the girl to make bread, or let the girl shoe the horses if she wants to and the boy make the bread.
The labor of touching the ulphabet to ten infants, calling them up once an hour "to say their letters," is, in my stim-.ition, greater than that of swinging a pick in th'o.surface gold "diggings."
Irave tried both, and infinitely prefer the pick. It is not no much work when you are employed with them as when you are occupied with the other pupils. Then these poor little alphabetical herubs can do nothing but squirm on their low benches, catch flics, pinch each other, make and project spit balls and hold up their handu for another drink of water. I could not let tlieui out of r'oors to play in tho sand, where they should have been, because the North American parent would have considered himself as defrauded of a part of his infant's schooling were they not imprisoned the whole six hours.
Neither can you sot a child to studying or or any oilier letter. There is not :in idea in A or B. During the two years of my fuhiiiuistration I wrought with one child who never could get successfully bcy»nd
F.
Her parents questioned
my ability as a teacher. Some days she would repeat the whole alphabet corectly. I would go home with a load off my mind. The day her mind would relapse into an alphabetical blank after
She grew to be an eyesore to Th« sight of her at last made me sick. I held public examinations every six months, and was caroful to do all the exnminiuf «*'«"'*1
1
the audienco I invited did me great damage on one of these memorized performances by asking a simple arithmetical
question of the show off geographical
boy. Tho urchin was brilliant in dealing with boundary lines, capes and islands, but his head was one that mathematics? could not readily bo injected into. On the other hand, my specimen grammar ian was as likely to describe an island as a body of
land
mud puddle and what earthly conception could ho form of the ocean and its inlands?
But the parents who attended these xhibitions of stuffed memories were struck at the proficiency of the progeny and retired with the impression that their children knew a great ileal because they had parroted off much that was all Greek them and after I had been in this occupation a year I would sit in mv empt^y theological school house when they had. gone aud try and convict myself as a profound humbug, and one, txx compelled, in order to get a living, to encourage and foster a system which had so much humbug in it
The California schools were not then '"graded." They were conducted on the "go
as
you please" plan, sometimes go
ing as the teachers pleased sometimes
as the ^rentes
pleased,
son
except
mix
f^ l-iom wore two alike. But the
great**! variety lay
\n
grammar-x
left another grammar to W«w
and ©onfoafc posterity Besides bringing grammars, mo* (botovs brought d«gs. I.Vg*of many 'breed*' and sism hovcrcd amuftd the idiool hosts*. Tbey war,Vol frepHmtiy
taught Latin. It is bring
ing extremes pretty near each other to teach Latin and A s. But I ''taught the young man Latin as I was "taught many things at school. I started him committing to memory the Latin declen sious and conjugations, and then heard hunt "sat Ids bsson." if he got anything out of it I don't know what it was,
tough work. He never reached
any translations of the classics, for several reasons. Another father was annoyed because I exorcised his son mathematically in what, in those days, called "vulgsfr ructions." "1 don't want," said he, "my
to lave anything to do with fractions, anvway. They're no use in bi«aess. Eanything over half a cent wo call a cent on the boofes* and ©anything under it we don't call not bin'. _Bnt I want Thomas to be well grownded in Hare and tret.**
So I grounded Thomas in "tore and tret." He grew up, took to evil ways, and was hung by a vigilance committee where in Southern California. A
or
six oi
spofe
v*:tf
link* English.
not blame him. He had force enough Inside of him to run a steam engine. It
would
have vent in some direction. But it would not expend itself in "learning lessons."
He
toy ~h« stammmd W badlv was sent I with his ciaas always lay within easy apME, I \TSS expected to cure him. proach of knife or pi»£ol. Besides, I was
my jmpib were Mexicans, and
Onp of iav trials was a* great, stout by,» full of vitality that he ooi nnxMix «v««* at his desk. I o—-d I ber*.
would work his books into
a Tra«y of dog's ears. His writing book was ever in mourning with ink stains. His face was generally inky. His inkstand was generally upset. He would hold a pen as he would a pitchfork. He seemed also to give out his vitality when he came to school and infect all the others with it. He was not a regular scholar. He was sent only when it was an "off day" on his father's "ranch." In the scholastic sense he learned nothing.
But that boy at the age of 15 would drive his father's two horse wagon, loaded with fruit and vegetables, 150 'miles from California to Nevada over the rough mountain roads of the Sierras, sell the produce to the silver miners of Aurora and adjacent camps, and return safely home. He was obliged in places to camp out at night, cook for himself, look out for his stock, repair harness or wagon and keep an eye out for skulking Indians, who, if not "hostile," were not saints.
When it came to using the hand and the head together he had in him "go,: "gumption" and executive ability, and none of my "teaching" put it where it was in him either. He may have grown up "unpolished," but he is one of the kind who are at this moment hiring polished and scholarly men to do work for them onvery small wages.
I do not despise "polish" and "culture," but is there not an education now necessary which shall give the child some clearer idea of the manner in which it must cope with the world in a few years? The land today is full of "culture" at ten dollars a week. Culture gives polish to the blade. But it is not the process which makes the hard, well tempered steel.
The "smartest" boy in my school gave me even more trouble than the son of the rancher. He could commit to memory as much in ten minutes as the others could in an hour, and the balance of the time he was worlcijig off the with which he was filled.* Hi,. i-v~=jory was an omnivorous maw. It would in anything and everything with the smallest amount of application. It vr^uld have required two-thirds of my timet to feed this voracious and mischievous tle monster with books for his memory to devour.
But he was not the boy to drive a. team through a wild oountry and dispose of the load in Nevada, though he could on such a trip have committed to memory several hundred words per day on any subject, whether he understood it or not.
My young lady pupils also gave me a great deal of trouble. They were very independent, and for this reason: Girls, even of 15, were very scarce then in the mines so were women of any marriageable age. There were ten men to one woman. The result was that anything 225 ssrao*»to8friei by men of all ages. My girls of 15, as to life and association, were grown up women
Young
semi-bald
miners and middle aged,
headed miners, who did not
realize how many of their years had slipped away since they came out from the "States," took these girls to ball«and
whiried
V. 11 I
"surrounded—by land as
by water. I had no heart to find fault with this poor barefooted urchin who, when in olass, was always trying to stand on one leg, like a crane, and sending his right big toe on exploring scratching expeditions up his left trouser. He had been born and brought up in an inland country, where no body of water
was to be seen save an occasional fleeting
eml
jiem by night over the dusty
he^rivilegeof being in the same
room with his future wifo six hours a
day
One needs to ltvo in a country where there is a dearth of women to realize these situations. When my school was dismissed at 4 o'clock p. m., all the unemployed chivalry of "Jimtown" massed on the street corner at the Bella Union saloon to see this coveted bevy of Cali fomia rosebuds pass on their way home. The Bella Union, by tho way, was only a few yards from the church. Extremes got ry close together in these mining camps. But the frequenters of the Bella Union, who gambled all night on the arid green baize of the monte table, had more than half paid for that church and I infer, wanted it in sight so that no other persuasion should run off with it. I was glad when these girls got married and entered another school of lilc, where
sometimes as the I knew within a year's time they were
\upite pleased. The parents of tho youth-1 likely to have a master, fuY brains I wn« trying to tie dop into future statesmen and president wanted me to teach many things. One father wished his
I was once "barred out" at the close of a summer term. This was a fashion imported from the extreme southwestern part of what som« call "our beloved Union." Returning from dinner I found the doors and windows of the university closed against me. I parleyed at one of the windows a few feet from the ground I was met by a delegation of the two biggest boys. They informed me I could get in bv coming out with disbursement of $2.50, to treat the sch *l to nuts, candies and cakes. I did not accede smashed the window and went in. Most of the undergraduates went suddenly out, I clinched with tho biggest boy. The other, like a coward, ran away. The two together could easily have mastered me. Order was restored. The mutiny did not hang well togelher. It was not a good *'«8nh»Be.* The northern bred scholars did not quite understand this move, and did not really enter heartily into it Their backing had been forced by the two b« boys, and therefore had not go6d stuff in it.
The big boy had acut face. So hadL His still bigger brother met me a few days after and wanted to pick a. quarrel with me about the affair, A quarrel
a Yankee. Be was a Tteacan. And thia was in 1862, when tbe two sections in California were neighbors, but not very
ATURDAY EVENING MAIL,
THE WHITE SQUALL.
timphtc iooonnt of a Sharp, Bhor^Mm In tli* Gulf of Gaaoony.
In the-month of July, 1886, the schooner Swallow, recently overhauled, and made ready for a scientific exploration ofthe Gulf of Gagcony, following the line of coast which borders the great depths, commenced the first attempts at dredging the bottom at a depth of 500 meters.
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On the second day our rope scaffoldings and dredge were let down under a cloudy sky and into a muddy sea. The barometer did not indicate anything abnormal, still the aspect of a sudden cloud, forming rapidly in the west-south-west in the course of the operation, seemed sufficiently threatening to cause us to postpone the drawing up of the dredge until the passage of that inopportune danger.
It was necessary to shorten sail with the utmost rapidity in ordor to avoid too great a traction on the cable, the breaking of which would have caused the loss of our only deep sea dredge. The violence of such a squall not permitting the exposure of any ordinary sail jye found we would only able to carry^the jib, and that only if the space before us was clear.
I terminated these arrangements won\ng whether we were going to lose our principal implement when the first puffs of wind which preceded a gale of gathering intensity struck us powerfully, careening the schooner to the larboard. Adust of water was raised by the first puffs of 'the squall from the waves which were almost instantly formed, and this joined the stinging whips of an iqy torrent of rain and hail and lashed the sea to a crystalline whiteness which reflected the brilliance of a meteor.
The crew, sheltered from the wind by the lee biHwarks, awaited in silence an order for actjon there where it should be most necessary." But at- the supreme moment of such a cataclysm which sweeps all, which bruises faces, stifles voices, when tho water has stiffened the cordage and sails,^when the vessel under bare poles crouches and quivers under the anger of the ten}pest, regular work is out of the question and the helmsman is tixe only one who pursues any active labor, but the schooner, he}d by the weight of the dredge which she drags, doqs not obey the helm with her usual readiness.
After an hour of fierce rage the thick masses of cloud are suddenly broken, and behind them hangs a thin curtain of vapor which is dissipated in a few minutes and the blue of heaven reappears.
Soon the squall hiding the opposite horizon glides away from us by a mysterious power and no trace is left on the mobile sea to betray its passage.
The schooner anchors and hoists one by one her sails, whose folds as they open shed cascades of water wljich have accumulated there, and soon the soaked G&Ulonta of-the crew float, or are spread now with kind t*nev©lencb on those multicolored lines of tricots, sabots, tarto im
so.recently
A
roads of Tuolumne county in dusty bug gies. It was difficult for one lono man, and he only a schoolmaster, to enforce discipline with these prematurely matured children, who had an average of two chances a month to marry, and who felt like any other woman their power and influence with tho other sex. Half of them did have a prospective husband in some brawny pick slinger, who never wont abroad without a battery of portable small artillery slung at his waist, and who was half jealous, half envious of the schoolmaster for what lie consid-
had threatened their lives.—
BO.receuwjr um*
Prince of Mtnaoo*4n Sunny Howr.
Points About the Hair Brush.
Theie Is another consideration in. connection with the nee of the hairbrush, wffich, though it may scarcely'naed mention, should not be overlooked. The brush should be kept clean. It gives oner a shudder to see the brushes and oombsthat aw sometimes supplied at places of public resort. Wo one should ever think of using a public h«ir brush yny more than a public tooth Witth, un1eife4t becomes a matter of absolute necessity but the fact remains that tbe individual article requires to be 'properly cared for, else it becomes an instrument of danger rather than a delight.
If thecase is not very aggravated the bristles may be washed in lukewarm water, to which a few drops of ammonia can be added. This-will clear away the accumulated dust and di|*t as by* magic. The bristles can be rinsed in pure water and allowed to dry in an airy place the brush should not be exposed to the sun, nor should tbe back of it be wet at any time. Soda and soap soften the bristles, apd if the back of the brush be of ivory it will turn yellow by their applicatibn. For general use iti is better economy to buy a cheap brush, and, after uslqg it for a reasonable time, throw it into the fire and start afresh.—Good Housekeeping.
Made Wealthy by a Whtpptn*.
John James Mago, a millionaire who lives nine months of the ye^r in Paris, is the hero of a curious story. It is related of him that fifteen years ago he was British vice consul at San Jose, Guatemala, and a poor man. One day a native commandant, who was running the port, ordered that he be given 100 lashes for gome fancied insult. The vice consul as lashed accordingly. I&ter the British government stepped in and ordered that Mago be paid $500 foi every Hutu Qnatexnala wis glad enough to pay the money* which made the vice consul a ccraVarafcively rich man. Having more ready money than apy one else in the country, President Barrios entered into partnership with him. Mago became a large coffee planner and dealer and also was given exclusivfe franchises fof building docks in the porta, out of whkSh he a great d6al of mopey. His fortnne is now estimated at f5,000,u09.—New "Work World,
Arm
Thoee-erho
it
Knrop*.
When Too
la
In traveling on the continent jcet Bfr daekerV guide booiks. Look op tfce hotel*, and if intending to stop at any place for several days "vrrite ahead, tat terms. Ask for a price including Hght and service, as the? «*w«ys extra. Wfcentlie pric* do« not include lights take candles alcAjg. The charge for lights is fihy cents a night for .each person, and a dozen candles coat bat twenty wits. Soap i» always an extra except in England.
ask for asythtag not an
tbettH of vriB pay
hMB&Bomdtr to*
la tbe Paris resumrants
warm friends, and about equal in nmr?- for tbe table clofcli aad napkins
P&sesrmx 1
to begin pith.-Exchange.
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Sadder Than Death.
Recently a district telegraph messenger, who was speeding along the street with a telegram 'valued at 15 cents a minute, was run over and seriously injured by a blind man named Standfast, Standfast is a cripple, having a wooden leg. He had taken this leg off to rest it while he sat by the wayside and begged, and some mischief loving boys had taken the leg and hid it. Standfast, missing it, was groping along the sidewalk feeling for it and inadvertently moved directly in the messenger boy's wake. Several persons, seeing that he would run the boy down, shouted to the latter that the blind man was after him, and the boy, realizing his peril, made a desperate 6print for his life and for a few feet gained on his pursuer, but before he was far enough ahead to turn out with safety the cripple was upon him and ran clear over him before Jie could be stopped.
The boy's injuries were very serious, as he fell upon his wrist, spraining it so that it will probably be two weeks before he can hang on to the step of an omnibus going in the wrong direction. It was reported late that night that, owing to his inability to utilize this favorite official time killer, the boy had delivered one message nearly on time, but the rumor was indignantly denied at headquarters, the superintendent offering to prove by the books that such a thing had never occurred since the invention of human speed. At a late hour this morning it was feared that the boy was recovering his inertia, which had been severely disturbed.— Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
A Girl's Way of Getting Kven.
A fashionable doctor having a house on Fifth avenue prides himself upon tho favor with which he is regarded by women. In this respect he is decidedly unadmirable, but his skill as a physician enables him to rank high in his profession despite his conceit. The other day he reoeived a summons to call on a young woman famed for her beauty. She was a new patient for him, auid, as he arranged his cravat with extra precision before entering his carriage) he fancied himself on the brink of hn unusual conquest. Reaching the house, he was shown into tho reception room, where, a moment later, ho was joined by the beautiful girl whom he hatT been culled to attend. "Ah!" exclaimed he, rising to greet her, "you are not, then, ill enough to be in bed." "Oh, I am not ill at all," cried the girl. "Some other member of the family?" ask,pd the doctor, rather disappointed. "Well," said the younft lady, "wo call him one of tho family. You see it is my little fox terrier, Dixie. Fie has a bono in his throat and I thought you might bo able to remove it."
With freezing dignity the doctor got out of the house as quickly as he could. "Ho had dxpressod a desire to meet me," said the beauty, speaking of the matter afterward to a friend, "and ho did so in a Very insulting way. I was told of it, and I decided to giye him an my acquaintance." York Tj*i.+,rr
What Does It Mean?
"100 Doses One Dollar" moans simply that
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Therefor* tbe best
THE COWBOY KNOWS!
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Trying to hold a drove of cattle together in a drenching rain means an^onnt^ej^nre which
hardship
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i% worth its weight in gold, and invaluable to anyone exposed to stormy weather. For all saddle uses, rou want a
Pommel
the entire saddle, pommel, and «nUed7,and completely envelopes the nder from head to foot Ht
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Railroad Time Tables.
Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Oar* attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Bleeping Cars attached daily. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bufitet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run daily. All other trains ,Sunde run daily, Jays accepted.
Milee the
uauslly bnngs on rheonwuam andaumlar v/U ,— ti,ivr,no/'h(*(ind complaints. At such times a Fish Brand 51iclt-
Sbcker, which keeps
Aud, betides
keeping him dry, it keeps him warm. Every range rider has one. .Why shouldn't you? Br«reof worthless imitation.-.every garment stamped w»h rish Brand" Trade Mark. Don aM*« wy inferior coat when yoa can have the Fish Brand Slicker" delivered without extra cost. Particulars and illustrated catalogue free. A.J. TOWER. Boston, Macs.
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H. A I. DIVISION.
X.BAVB FOR TEK WEST.
No. 9 Western Express (S&V)... 1.42 a No. 5 Mall Train 10J21 am No. 1 Fast Line (P«fcV) 2.10 m. No. 21 8.10 pm No. 7 Fast Mali *...... 9.tH
X.EAVK FOR THE KAST.
No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) No. 6 New York Express (S«iV) No. 4 Mail and Accommodation No. 20 Atlantic Express19 (PAY). No. S Fast Line No. 2 6.05pm
FREE
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1.30 am 1.51am 7,15 am 12.47 2.80
ARH1VK FKOH THIS KAST.
No. 9 Western Express tSA V). 1.80 a No. 5 Mall Train 10.15 am No. 1 Fast Line (F&V) 2.00 No. 21 8.05 pm No. S Mali and Accommodation (Uo No. 7 Fast Mail* 9.00 pm
ARRIVE FROM THE WEST.
No. 12 Cincinnati Express
1.30 am 1.42 am 12.42 2.10 5.00 pm
No. 6 New York Express (s^vV). No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAV). No. S Fast Line No. 2
T. H. & L. DIVISION.
LKA VR FOR THE NORTH.
No. 52 South Bend Mail 0.00 a No. 54 South Bend Express ..... 4.00 pm ARRIVE FROM THE NORTH. No. 51 Terre Haute Express 12.00 No. 53 South Bend Mail ....... 7.30
THE POPULAR ROCTK BETWEEN
CINCINNATI, INDIANAPOLIS TERRE HAUTE
ST. LOUIS, LAFAYETTE, and CHICAGO.
The Entire Trains run through Without change, between Cincinnati and Chicago. Pulnian Sleepers and elegant Reclining Chair Cars on night, trains. Magnificent Parlor Cars on Day Tral ns.
Trains of Vandaiia Line [T. II. A L.
b®of*b
DivJ
makes close connection at Colfax with C. St. L. fc C. Ry trains for Lafayette & Chicago Pullman and Wagner Sleeping pars and Coaches are run tliTouj tween St. Louis, Tern: Indlauapolis
'aguer aiBoping vino nua iTougli without srre
ana Cincinnati
viaf«0
...
hsoXfno and Big 4.
Five Trains each way, daily except Sunday three trains each way on Sunday, betwee* IndianiiuoH® tiod Ciucinnntl* fTVK« A.dtr -Jii«Which makes Clncln1116 Ollly Line„ftti
its
Great Objeo-
tiveoolnt for the distribution of Southern and Eastern Traffic. The fact that it connects
east and South went? gives It an advant
Tickets and Baggngo Chroks toaU
'^roi ib Tickets and Baggage Checks Principal Points can be obtained at Ticket off line at all Coupon SbH0MAR.W JOHN EOAN,.
-1 be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparllla, °u coupon Ticket Offices throughout blood purlflor.
Tilst. Pass. Agt. Qen. Pass. A Tkt. Ajit» corner Washington Cincinnati,^ ana Meridian st. lud'pls.
AGKSCHVILie
Shortest and tbe Quickest.
CINCINNATI to NEW ORLEANS
Entire Train, IJ^^.^^nnt^ChaSS
Hhrpvenort for Texas. Mexico and California. )10 Miles the Bhortest, 3 hours the Quickest from CINCINNATI to JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
Tlxnc 27 hours. Holirt trains and through siMSDere without change for any c«ass of ps*" The Hhort Line between Cincinnati sengers and
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