Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 August 1897 — Page 2

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AFFAIRS OF THE RAIL

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AND ALIA PURCHASING AGENT'S OFFICE WILL NOT BE ABOLISHED.,,

I'drhaps tHe Greatest Car Famine la the History of Railroads Is Now On— Railroad Notes. .•,•

The announcement made a lew days ago that the Columbus shops o!" the Pennsyl­

vania -would hereafter be made a general

storehoufie for the lines of" the southwest

system hae caused the employes of some departments of the Vandalia to speculate as

to the probable fate of the purchasing office. Id was given out several times that the Dffice of Vandalia purchasing agent was to oe abolished. There is absolutely no founlation for statements that the? office is to be abolished. An official of the Vandalia made this statement: "The Terre Haute shops are far too big an institution to be kept up by supplies from the Columbus shops. I has no doubt but that some things will be ordered from the Columbus shops for the local shops, but liere are too many things to be bought for the shops here to make a storehouse at Columbus of any advantage. I am sure there will tie nothing done with he purchasing agent's office on this road.

OAR FAMINE CREATED.

Wave of Prosperity Almost Congests the Railroads.

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(Freight men say that every -dayr oarer-fata becoming scarcer, and already it is1 inrpossible to fill, orders for export shipment via Newport News and Baltimore, and the lines running to Toledo and Detroit and troubled to furnish cars. J. -A. Barnard, general manager of the Peoria & Eastern, who is well informed concerning the needs in the way of cars of the Big'Four, says he does not remember -when just such conditions have' existed as at present. He says to the Indianapolis Journal that there is no city" in the country which shows the real condition of business more than does Indianapolis, and there is no better pulse of business than, the loaded car movement via Indianapolis, either east or west bound) as, when any roads prosper Indianapolis lines have their full share of prosperity, So fas as the Peoria & Eastern is concerned it cannot fill all-its orders for cars-especially for export via' Newport News, consequently he has instructed agents to' first furnish cars called far in the

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totlSitfess" and then divert

any surplus remaining to through business. The Big Four WBQfiGffcas of ears short every day of filling calls, and is now moving the largest number of care- daily in its histpry, for some pfs^^sceeding 5,000 loaded cars per day. j^Fiye.thousand loaded cars, per day, in "#e^$,(as been considered the maximum. J. R. Cavanaugh, carservice superintendent of the Big Four, yesterday went to Cincinnati to see what could be done to secure pior§ cars for the business via Newport News and-Baltimore, and for Toledo. He says not -only is there a loud call for grain cars,-.but, for. furniture cars and cars to move.-the'melon crops, and the movement of miscellaneous freights, local in character, seems heavy beyond precedent.

H. G. Stiles, general agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, went to Cincinnati yesterday to see what could be done to fill the orders of connections at Indianapolis and handle the local 'business of Indianapolis and at points on the line.

John Lazarus, traffic manager of the Indiana, Decatur & Western, states that on that line he could load in the next week 1,000 cars .did-he have them.. .Gars, he says, are wanted to load with grain for the seaboard: and for Toledo, and their local business is seldom as heavy as at present.

Caesar Rodney, general agent of the Vandalia at his point, says that since he has been agent of the company he has not known such a demand for cars. Last week the road brought into.Indianapolis over 1,300 cars, chiefly loaded, with corn, melons and: live stock.

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The Wabash is having a heavy run of business, trains often running in eight to ten sections. Dn Monday the furniture manufactories of Sheltoyville- ordered fortyfive cars to load, at once* tirose of Connersville forty cars, and Anderson, Muncie and many of the totfns hi the gas belt are making numerous .-calls for cars.. Taken as a whole, the officials Tvhtr look after the supplying of equipmentirhiweuuo easy task. Car tracers are ibeihg~S^tit -ttrgv-ery direction to! see that cars are-unloaded promptly and relumed to flome Shipping'point. Car service Associations areoni.be alert to-see-that cars are not held otfe'iAtautif'Orer the time the car service associations: allow, and as each, day increases the' culls for cafg the question of supply becomes more serious.

Railroad Notes.

Henry Brunner 'art employe of the Vandalia shops, was injured while at work Tuesday afternoon.

T. L. Roberts of Brazil has been made foreman of the car repair department of the C. & E. I., vice E. R, Kirby resigned.

Robert Irwin, an employe of the E. & T. H., was injured at Farmersburg yesterday morning.. He lives at Elnora. Irwin was climbing over a freight car when the handhold broke and he fejl off backwards.

MURDERED FOR THEIR MONEY.

TavI4 (Detrick and. Wife Killed Near Bellefontaine, O.

Bellefoutaine, O., August 12.—David Detrick and his wife, two of the wealthiest and most highly respected people in the county, were found horribly murdered at their country home yesterday morning. Investigation proved that the bodies had lain there for the last three days. No one lived with the old people, and the crime did not come to light until yesterday.

Mr. Detrick's daughter came to spend the day with them, but suspecting something wrong ran to a neighbor's. He entered the door.

Mr. Detriok lay upon his face in the kitchen, covered with the "bed clothes, his head crushed in and pools of blood over the flo6r. His wife lay across a doorway in her night clothing, wtth her skull crushed and her body otherwise mutilated. The couple had evidently been dragged from bed and murdered for their money. Everything indicates that the deed was committed on Monday ni'ghti the last time they were seen by their neighbors.

FROM $6,800 TO $500,000.

Indiana Manufacturing Ca's Assessment •. Raised. Indianapoiis,r Aug. 12.—The state board cf tax commissioners today* acting upon the advice of Attorney General Ketcham, sustained the appeal of Merrill Moores from the Marion county board of review in the matter of the assessment of the stock of the Indiana Manufacturing Co., and injreased the assessment from 16.800 to $500,500. The attorney general read to the board an opinion, covering twenty type written pages, in which he took the ground that It was not only the right of the board to assess the property, but its duty. This is the case which, it is believed by attorneys, will toring the members of the board andr the attorney general into conflict with John H. Baker, judge of the United States district court. The judge enjoined the local board from assessing the gtock of the company on the ground that is issued for patents, and when the county board of review disre•janied the injunction the members were roots*

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cited for contempt, and were not purged until they had rescinded their action. The state board, in the light of the situation hasi notified the attorney general that special counsel will be" employed to defend him in the event Judge Baker has him cited for contempt.

Chester Bradford, attorney for the Indiana Manufacturing Co., when told that the state tax hoard had increased the valuation of the taxable property of that company from $6-,800 -to $500,000, expressed his opinion of the action forcibly: "That action of the state ta*7iboa&fd is mere child's play," he said, "itte nonsense they have gone off on a tangent and made.fools of themselves. Judge Baker's -decree that the Marion county tax board should not increase the valuation of the. company's taxable property is law. When the state tax commissioners increase the valuation they have broken the law they have broken their oaths to keep the laws of the United States. I have no doubt that Judge Baker will find some means to enforce the law he made in this case when he made the decree. I know him as a positive man. When he says a thing he means it. I see no action for us to take at present.. It's simply a case of lawbreawing by the state tax board."

BIiULY BRYAN'S SPONSOR.

Good Times Cause Him to Repudiate Free Silver Craze.

The man who first proposed William J. Bryan for congress, 'Mr. W. H. Crary, a real estate dealer of Omaha, formerly president of a Democratic club there, is at the Shoreham, says the Washington Post. Mr. Crary is,"ajroung man, but ihas lived long in Nebraska, and is enthusiastic over the business and financial situation in that great agricultural' state. "Nebraska has produced an enormous amount W wealth in the last two years," said Mr. Crary, who proceeded to quote figures about the 350,000,000-bushel corn crop —76,000,000 bushels more than the phenomenal crop for 1896—40,000,000-bushel wheat crop, and 25,000,000-bushel crop of other small grains. "The hard times of last year seem to have been a godsend to the farmers, for most of the two years' crop of corn is still in their hands and commands good prices. If they had' been able to sell last year they would be much worse off financially."

Mr. Crary says the state is starting out on a phenomenal boom and quotes his author ity for the statement. Omaha is soon to have a 500-ton beet sugar plant connected with a glucose factory that will use 10,000 bushels of corn a day. 'There were never so many cattle in the state as today," added Mr. Crary. "They are being finished for the market by the farmers, who are slow in selling their corn outright. For feeding cattle corn is worth upwards of 30 cents a bushel. We have had ample rains, and Nebraska is the best looking agricultural state in the Union. Farm ers can borrow plenty of money to buy feeding cattle. Since January 1st $40,000,000 of mortgage indebtedness has been paid in the state. Populism and Bryanism are, therefore, on the wane*, and the representatives of those ideas are ceasing to feel that they can legislate money into their pockets."

Mr. Crary speaks of the large increase in packing factories for South Omaha by the Chicago magnates, which by January next will make that -city the second largest beef packing city in the country. Then the coming Trans-Mississippi exposition and other industries are booming things generally for Nebraska.

W1E ARE BEHIND.

British Vessels Carry Off Half of Our Merchandise imports and Exports.

Washington, Aug. 12.—According to the records of the treasury department British vessels are carrying over 55 per cent of the merchandise fof the United States, both of imports and exports. Examination of fig ures for the first six months of this year show the total imports in vessels have been of the value of $432,689,981 and of domestic exports in vessels $452,800,405. The percentage of imports carried in American vessels is 15.36 and in foreign vessels 84.65 of imports in vessels the British have carried 55.89 per cent. British carry 68.23 per cent of the value of exports by vessels.

The value of Imports carried in American vessels for the six months ending June 30th, was $66,428,149, and of -that carried in foreign vessels $366,261,832 and the value of exports for the same period carried in American vessels was $37,113,168," and of that carried in foreign vessels-$415',887 237.

The value of sugar, which has been largely brought from the West Indies in American vessels, carries the percentage of imports in American vessels higher than that of th| value of domestics exports.

WAS WITH LIEUTENANT GREELY.

Charles W. Clifford, Who Killed His Wife •jk and Himself. ..

Chicago, August 12.—Charles W. Clifford who killed his wife and himself yesterday at their home, 302 Rush street, was a mem ber of the famous Greely expedition to the North pole. He was with Lieutenant Greely during all the long and terrible trip to the frozen regions of the north. He saw his companions starving to death or succumbing to the cold arid disease. He took part in the killing of the ill-fated Henry, whom hunger had driven to steal part of the supplies portioned out to others. Clifford went with the expedition as a carpenter.

Policeman Gustav A. Penner, of whom Clifford was jealous, has been suspended by Chief of Police Kopley pending investiga tion.

EXCURSIONS OF MERCHANTS.

A Series of Them Arranged to Go to Phila phia,

Philadelphia, August 12.—The first of the series of merchants' excursions arranged by the Trades League of this city will arrive at noon tomorrow. The start was made to day from points on lines of the Pennsyl vania road in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Over 2,000 Western merchants and their families are expected and the merchants of Philadelphia have completed all arrangements for ex tending to them a welcome in addition pointing out the trade advantages and oppor tunities of the city.

The excursions have been so arranged that each visiting merchant will have an oppor tunity to spend some time at either Cape May or Atlantic City.

SUDDEN DEATHS AMONG* TANNERS

The Result of an Unknown and Dangerous Disease. Clearfield, Pa., August 12—The Flails Creek tannery at Falls Creek, this county has closed down, because of the appearance of a peculiar and terrible disease among the employes, of whom four died within a hours after they were seized. It is posed to be caused by handling some hides which were imported from China and con tained the germs of an unknown and dan gerous disease. Measures will be under taken to stamp it out before it spreads any further.

Bryan Qniiif to Moiitaua.

Sspencer, Id*, Aug. 12.—W. J. Bryan has returned from his seventeen days' trip through the Yellowstone Park. He was met here by Governor Smith and Congressman Hartman, who will escort him to Butte andi other points in Montana. i_'&v -f •,

TISRRE HAUTE EXPRESS. FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 13.1897

NO LONGER A COPPER

JAMES FOX DISCHARGED FROM T81 TERRE HACTE POLICE FORCE.

Police Board Satisfied He W»« at Sluui'i! Road House—Dennis SnRbruePn the Back Now. ». d-

John E. Lamb scratched. for evidence in,, the wilds of Illinois. He went down to Greenfield bayou and did some, seining for evidence that would clear James Fox, th$ policeman, who was charged with a viola* tion of one of the rules of the police depart^ ment. Attorney Lamb probably worked a? he never did before for a client. He. labored in vain, however, tot at noon yesterday the Board of Metropolitan Police commissioners returned a verdict in the case which has been on for one week, and which has been prolific of such sesational testimony.

James Fox was summarily dismissed from the department. His was a violation of rule seven, relative to policemen visiting houses of ill-repute. The verdict was announced shortly after noon yesterday, and the news of the officer's dismissal spread rapidly People all over the city were talking about it. With but very few exceptions the action of the police board is commended. People also commend Superintendent Hyland for the persistency with which he entered into the case. There was a time when little misdeeds were covered up by men in authority on the police force, but this day, it is .announced, is past, and there are no favorites.

James Fox had a fair and impartial trial He was given ample time to bring to the front his witnesses. Even after the test! mony was all in Fox's attorney was given permission to hunt up more evidence. This what caused the delay of the verdict from time to time. Attorney Lamb went before the commissioners yesterday for the last time in Fox's, behalf. He made his state ment and then the commissioners went into executive session. They were behind closed doors for a long time, but at length it was given out that Fox had been discharged^ the penalty prescribed under rule seyen. In taking up the case as a whole, it is said Judge Davis devoted -two hours to a discussion of Dennis Shugrue's probable'conectio^ ith the matter. It will be recalled thftt Belle O'Niel testified that Shugrue told her to be careful about her testimony about Fox* that Fox was a man with a family and wa&. building a couple of houses.

This and the testimony that Shugrue had been riding on a tandem with a woman of the town, which he has vigorously denied, has caused the board to delve into the tangle. Shugrue is now doing duty in place of For. He has not yet been called before the commissioners, but his case has come up as a side issue in the Fox investigation. An absurd statement has been printed that Conimissloner Raidy is opposed to Shugrue because the policeman, in 1894, was a member of the American Railway Union, and took an active part in the strike. Such a statement is "bosh. Raidy has always, since he became a member of the police board, entertained the most friendly feeling toward the officer.

The verdict in the Fox case will be a warning to policemen in the future. When the policeman was first brought up, charged with -the breach of discipline, Superintendent Hyland told him in a kindly manner to make no mistake in his answer to a question about to be asked. He told Fox if he was guilty of a charge about to be filed to tell the truth about it. He told Fox that the department believed enough evidence had been collected to convict him- but that if he was guilty* and did not desire to go into a trial he could plead to the charge with the knowledge that whatever was done it would be with the fact that the officer was penitent and had told the truth in the minds of the police board. Fox preferred a trial to a lay-off of thirty days on a plea of guilty, and the evidence brought out will go down in police history as the m6st thoroughly mixed any police board has had to listen to in the city of Terre Haute.

Now that the trial is over and Fox has been dismissed from the force the woods are full of men who a few days ago were deaf, dumb and "blind to the issue, but who recollect they know all about it. A business man was talking yesterday. He is one of Terre Haute's oldest business men, too. Here is what he said: "I'm sorry that Fox has been fired. He was a friend of mine, and I did all I could to save him. A man for whom I once did a favor was at .Slusser's on the day Fox was there, and when the officer wjas suspended this friend came tf me and told me he was there and was afraid he would be dragged before the police commissioners. I had once done the fellow a favor and I told1 him to keep his mouth closed and to steer clear of detectives and police commissiohers. This jnan said he would reciprocate the favor I did him by remaining silent in my friend, Fox's, case. He kopt his word, but the oat's out of the bag anyway.''

SHOWS IN THE FACE.

fhe Disastrous Effect of Certain Pastime* on the Phyilognoaay. 'If you don't want the world to know that you have done a thing, don't do it,' was the sage observation of an'ancien philosopher. The advice has a renewut. force now, when women are becoming more and more emancipated and are tak ing up the pursuits and occupations anteven the sports and pleasures that used tv be oonsiderfed man's especial prerogatives Whether women's faces are more mobili and more ready to receive an imprint, or whether women are less given to self re straint, and so express more of tbeir inner feelings, is not definitely understood, but the fact remains that on nearly every feminine faoe is indelibly stamped, some impress of her favorite pursuit or amusement

The bicycle face is well known, with its^ tightly drawn muscles, resolute, tense ex pression anc an underlying air of resigna tion, as if it were saying, "If death whirls around the next earner, I will meet it with fortitude." The long distance lens of the golf eye is also growing common, but the card face is comparatively new. The more experienced Sherlock Holmeses of society claim that they can detect the difference between the whist face and the oountenance molded by progressive euchre, but the card face in general is reoognizable of the veriest tyro.

There are women who have thrown tbemeelves into card playing so forcibly, with suoh Intense exoitement, that it is po longer a diversion, but^ a serious task. Whether they piay for money pr points or for some trumpery prize which they would not admit to their drawing room except as an evidence of their skill at the gamp, the result is the same. The strain on their nerves is expressed by closely diawn brows and an eye eager and watchful for an op ponent's plays and misplays, while greed and the desire for gain show themselves in ugly lines about the month. This descrip tion applies, ef course, to the worst vie tims of the craze, bnt the same symptoms in a more or less modified form are appearing on the faoes of not a few of society's maids and matrons. Munse^'s Magazine. a

WHY SHE WAS GRACIOUS.

A Lover Who Easily Fell Into Ingenions Trap.

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She was particularly gradtius that night and he was correspondingly happy. He felt that he bad made an impression at last.

Sbe let him hold her hand a minute when sbe welcomed him, and be thought —in factj he was quite sure—that she re

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sponded to the gentle squeeze he gave it, and heretofore the had been so distant, so cold, although always oourfceous. Sorely it was enough to make him feel happy. Then! she laughed at his witticisms, and there was something in her manner that invited him to draw his chair closer to hers. Of course he accepted the Invitation, and almost before he knew it he found himself whispering all sorts of silly things to her, while she listened with downcast eyes.

It was blissful, and yet there was a greater pleasure in store for him. She blashed and hesitated a little as she asked if he had a photograph of himself.

Of course be had, and sbe should have one that very night. He would go for one at once. She protested that that was not necessary, but he insisted. She should have anything that she wanted and have it at onoe.

She thanked him so ooyly and sweetly when he brought it that the boy was nearly insane with joy, and when he left she let him hold her hand again for a minute.

Then, as he walked away with a light step and a light heart, she handed the photograph to her maid and said with decision "Mary, hang that in the servants' hall, where every one oan see it, and remember that I am never home when he calls. 1 must stop this thing somehow, and mamma changes servants so often he gets in every week or two now. "—Harlem Life.

A CHERRY TREE STORY.

Pat an Oil Man Blankets It at the Start With a Watch Tarn. "You observe this plain gold ring on my little linger," said the man from Chicago, turning the oirclert off as if it were a brass nut on a screw. "It has ray wife's full name engraved in the inside. Well, it is our engagement and wedding ring. My wife lost it one day when we lived near San Francisco, and, though we searched high and low, we couldn't find it. One day, nearly two years later, a friend of ours insisted on presenting me with a small cherry tree"— "I'll take a cigar this time, please," remarked the man from Oil City. "I said cherry tree," continued the man from Chioago, "and I'm giving you a true story. Well, this offer of iny friend was declined at first, but my wife insisted, saying that we could set it out in a.particular place in the lawn. She marked the spot, apd I sent for the little tree. I dug down about 14 inches where she designated, and, pe help me—*1 turned up this ring! How it got there we never could guess." 'f "There's nothing improbable about that," said the Oil City man, "unless it is the cherry tree. But did I ever tell you the story of my watch? This same watoh" -f-pulling out a gold hunter. ."Several years ago I was drilling a well up in the Bradford district and had got down about 1,800 feet, without any sign of luck. I was looking at the hole under the derrick with something like despair one day—for we had stopped work on it. Pulling out my watch, which I carried without fastening, it suddenly slipped from my fingers and down she went, chuck into that dry bole. The idea of adding that to my loss riled me, so I got a cylindrical tube, such as we get tests of sand with, and put some putty near the open end and let it down the hole, which it fitted neatly. My watch came up with the suotion, stuck fast to the putty. It hadn't stopped running. "Yes, and do you know we renewed work on that hole the next day and got first sand in six hours!" "I hadnt finished about my ring," put in the Chicago man. "We had moved to

Iowa, and my wife lost it again. I offered $100 reward for it, but no use. We came to Chicago, and seven years after I bad left the Iowa place I received the ring through the mail from the man we had sold out to. He said he was pulling cab' bage in the garden and found it solidly grown on the root of a cabbage!"

We began to move away before the Oil City man could recover.—New York Herald.

Hadn't Earned the Beward. A fat man carrying a gun and leading a dog made a dash down Market street for the Oakland ferryboat. He could have caught it if he bad walked quietly along, but he became excited, and old Time commenced having fun with him. The dog would run on the wrong side of telegraph poles and hydrants, and tangle up his chain in the legs of pedestrians. By the time spent in apologizing and untangling the dog he was delayed till the little gate closed in his face. Then he ran around to the big gate, dodged around a mail wagon, and made a run for the boat. The deck hands raised the apron and the boat moved slowly out, but he was determined to catch it, and, gripping his gun and dog chain a little tighter, made a run and sprang into the air. The boat was only six feet away, but the dog balked at the apron. The hunter stopped in the middle of his leap, his feet flew out toward the steamer, and he dropped into the bay like a bale of hay. A small boy who was fishing from the wharf dropped his pole, splashed into the water, and towed the fat man to a pile, where ho clung till a boatman pulled him out. 'My boy, you Saved my life, he exclaimed enthusiastically, as he kioked the dog and tried to wring the water out of his 6hotgun. "Let me reward you."

He thrust his hand into his clammy pocket and fished out a wet 10 cent piece. "There, my boy take that, but don't spend it foolishly." "No, 6ir I can't take it, sir." The boy pushed the generous hand aside. "I didn't earn it." "Why, you saved my life, boy." "Yos, I know it, sir but it ain't worth 10 cents!"—San Francisco Post.

"Uncle Billy's'* Political Becord. In every county of Kentucky you will find a lot of old men who take great pride in telling you that for 40 or maybe 60 years they have never voted anything but the Democratic ticket. They began perhaps with Jackson and haveoomeon down the line. An old man of this sort, who was called Uncle Billy and who was very close fisted, one day saw a group of voters about Governor Prootor Knott. Uncle Billy, leaning on his tall staff, edged his way in and asked to be introduced. He was formally presented "as the oldest voter in the county." "Yes, gov'nor," said Uncle Billy, with evident pride, "I certainly t11" the oldest voter in the county. Ef airy man will tetch a man as has throwed more Democrat votes than I hev, I'll furnish the liquor." Hereupon several of the crowd, knowing Uncle Billy's stinginess, but- eager for any chance to come into a. treat, pricked up their ears, and Unci® Billy, nothing this and becoming alarmed at the probable outlay if be should be prowd wrong, hemmed and hawed and added, "That is, I'll furnish the liquor to airy man.asfetches the man."— "Fun -on the Stump," by Edward-J. MoDermott, in Century- t-i- 3

A Verification.

"I would gladly lay the world at your ifeet," the young man exclaimed. ''Dear me," sighed Mabel. "I almost wish yon hadn't said that." "Why?" "Father is always saying you act as il you own the earth."—Washington Star.

The baya bird of India spends his spare time catching mass moth fireflies, which ho fastens to the sides of his nest with moist clay. On a dark night a baya's nest looks like an electric street lamp..

Blast furnaces of today which produce five times the amount of iron cost very little more than the furnaces of 95 years

A RAILROAD TICKET.

AN INTERESTING SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE COUPON PASSPORT.

It Is Bora la a Printing Offloe and Ends Its Days In a Fiery Furnace—Details of a a S in the Tickets.

The life of a railroad tloket is bne6f'the most absorbing interest. It is a.recbrjl of "intricate simplicity" all through'.. Fjom the time it leaves the hands of the printer until it arrives at the office of the ticket auditor of the railroad on which it was collected it has passed through a great number of processes that insure its safe transmission, correct sale and certain return to the checking officer ef the road, all of a coxnplloated nature, yet all simple enough.

Coupon tickets are, as a rule, of but two kinds. In selling these tickets it is necessary to so arrange them that every road over which they are honored will have something to show for it. For this reason a coupon is provided for each road, and the conductors on that road tear it off when it is presented to them for passage.

What is known as the Steroraberg form is in general use all over the United States. This is a patented ticket, and all of the roads pay a royalty for its use. On a journey from St. Louis to Ell Paso, Tex., there would be three coupons. The ticket would be sold In St. Louis by the Missouri Pacilic railway, and the first coupon would read: "Missouri Paclfio railway. St. Louis to Sedalia, Mo." The second would read: "Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway. Sedalia to Fort Worth, Tex." The third would read: "Texas and Pacific railway. Fort Worth to destination between tho punch marks." Every coupon agent has one of the Strom berg punobes and he punches the point of destination on tho last coupon.

The other style of coupon tioket is what is called in railroad parlance the "skeleton form." It is blank as far as both starting point or destination is concerned, and is issued to the smaller agents. When they have a call for one of these tickets, they fill out as many coupons as there are roads to be traveled over.

The tickets are sold to the passengers und remain in their bands for but a short time, if the conductor of the train is vigilant, and he usually is enough so to get all the tickets before the next station is reached.

And there tho publio's acquaintance ends. The conductor, always suave and ready to be obliging, has many things on his mind to look after. One of these is the disposition of his ticket collections for the trip- ...

He gets them together out of his several pookets at the end of his trip and assorts them in station order. He then counts them. All collections from mileage books are also counted carefully. He then enters up on a report blank the number of tickets collected and the number of mileage slips taken up and between what points. On the same report he also enters the number of cash fares and between what points collected.

This report, with the tiokets, is inclosed in an envelope and mailed to the general auditor or the ticket auditor of the road.

Here the real work on the ticket begins. The auditor receives reports daily from the agents along the line, and it is his business to check them up against the receipts of tickets from train collections.

The conductor's collections are brought In and turned over to young men in the auditor's office and by them opened. The tickets inclosed are carefully counted to see that the conductor's statement on his report is correct. They are then entered up on a blank as "from," "to," "number of tickets" and "amount," and the total is struck. This is done in order to arrive at the daily earnings of each train. A careful record of this is kept and a monthly average per trip taken. The traffic officials are then enabled to see whether certain runs are paying and to take steps to make them pay or withdraw them. It is odd to look down the list of a oertain train and see how nearly alike are each day's earnings. Except where there has been a big excursion the collections do not vary to an appreciable degree from day to day.

The ticket checkers assort all of the month's collections in order of destination. Thus, if St. Louis be the station that is to be checked, all tickets from St Louis to Jefferspn City are got together. The agent may have reported the sale of Nos. 16,211 to 15,310. 100 tickets. It is the business of the ticket sorter to seo how many of theso'tickets have been collected and to mark the report of the agent to show those that have not been turned in. Whenever these missing tiokets do come in the report of the agent for the month in which they were sold is resurrected from some dusty hox and the missing ticket ohecked as "in." It is surprising how many tickets are belated and how many never come in. Frequently persons buy tickets that are limited and cannot use them until the limit has expired, when they throw thorn away. In other cases a ticket may not show up for a month or two, when it is unlimited.

Coupon tickets require much more careful handling than local tickets, and tho men who keep the books on them receive better salaries than the local ticket sorters.

All coupons tickets are turned over to them from the train collections and by them carefully assorted as to roads of issue. Eaoh ticket or coupon is then carefully re­

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And then comes the end of the railroad ticket's life. As soon as all reports have been checked up and a careful division of earnings—that is, the apportionment to the various divisions of the earnings—has been made, the tickets are filed away for future reference. It is aUsolutely necessary that the tickets should be kept on hand for a long time, not less than 12 months, for sometimes a lawsuit is dependent on the ticket on which some passenger may havo ridden. After 12 or 14 months' wait tho tickets meet with tbeir fiery fate. They are taken out of the filing cases carefully, and under the inspection of a responsible man are burned.—Robert EL Lee in St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

DICTIONARY ON NAILS*.

They Figure In Speech as Well as Trade and Building. To nail a thing is to fix or fasten with a nail or nails to drive nails into for the purpose of fastening or scouring, 8uch ae to nail up a bos, to nail. a shelf- to the wallfto nail down the batches^ «tc. to stud with nails figuratively, to nail a thing is to pin it down and hold it fast, such as to nail a bargain Oft secure by prompt action. It was Burns who said:

Ev'n ministers, they ha'e been kea'd, In holy rapture, Arousing whid ot tiroes to vend,

An nail't wi' Scripture. Passing into the colloquial, to "nail to the oountes" is to put a counterfeit coin out of circulation by fastening it with a nail to the counter of a shop hence, figuratively, to expose aa false.

Other definitions referring to the nail are: Nailer, one who nails, who makes nails or who sells them, while a female nailmaker is referred to by Hngh Miller as a nailerees. A nailery is described as an establishn3en(r^rher» nails are

tiring la said to be nail

hpaded

when so

shaped to mamble the head of a nail. A nailing machine i« one for forcing o* driving nails into place in carpentry,® feeding tube for the nails, connected witn a plunger or reciprocating hammer la, sboemaking, a power machine closely lied to the shoe pegger, used to drive stnaa* metallio nails or brads Into the soles of shoes.

The nail machine is a power machine for making nails, spikes, brads or tacks, A nailmaker is one who makes nails nailer, a person connected in any capaoity^ 5 in the manufacture of nails. W -V

A nail plate is a plate of metal rolled the proper thickness for cutting into nails.®' A nail rod is a strip split or cut from aar iron plate to be made into wrought nails. A nail selector is a machine, or an attach-^ ment to a nail machine, for automatically^'| throwing out headless or otherwise ilJ^l| formed nails and slivers.

A countersunk nail is one having a con«^» shaped head like that of a screw a outnail, one made by a nail machine, as distinguished from a wrought or forged nail. "On the nail" means on the spot, at once, immediately, without delay or postponement, as, to pay money on the naiL This phrase is said to have originated from the custom of making payments, in the exchange at Bristol, England, and elsewhere, on the top of a pillar called "the naiL"—Hardware

He May Get There Yet.

"That man Bluffly is the busiest fello* I ever knew," chuckled one who ha known him for years. "He married a lot of money, and there is not the slightest reason for him to work at all, but he wants to keep up the impression that be'* no deadhead in the enterprise and keep* going through the motions as if he had to.

He ooncluded once he'd do editorial work on a paper. He fitted ^5p an elegant sanctum at his own expense, laid in fin cigars for callers and then announced himself ready to have hostilities begin. Hi first assignment was to give his impres* sions of the European situation. He declared himself at home on the subject, chatted and smoked all afternoon, told hii friends to look out for a 'thunderer' and invited them out when he felt like warming up on tho theme. lis the evening hs was equally breezy and assured. When the managing editor dropped in about 10 and asked Bluffly if the article was ready, ha answered with a Wave of the hand and the announcement that it would take him at least a week to get up such an editorial as

was

due himself and the paper. He could not be made to comprehend that the paper bad to come but eviery day or that the shifting situation rtigbt be entirely changed in a week. He was tried with several other topics, but never had any copy prepared and was induced to resign. "Hd opened a broker's office that soon became a

social

,clubroom where there wa«

no suggestion of business1. He bought a patent right that he threatened to push till he had made a fev? millions, but in a month

forgot

,tha^h6 b\vned it Now he

has tackled electricity with a view to talking with Mars.''—Detroit Free Press.

Truthful Advertising.

The half dozen transcontinental railroad companies, says John- Muir in The Atlantic, advertise the beauties of their lines in gorgeous many colored folders, each claiming its as the "scenic route." "The route of superior desolation"—the smoke, dust and asbes route—would be a more truthful description. Every train rolls on through dismal 6moke and barbarous roelanoholy ruins, and the companies might well cry in their advertisements: "Come, travel our way 1 Ours is the blackest It is the only genuine Erebus route. Tho sky is black, and the ground is black, and on either side there is a continuous border of black stumps and logs and blasted trees appealing to heaven for helpasif still half alive, and their mute eloquenoe is most interestingly touching. The blackness is perfect. On account of the superior skill of our workmen, advantages of climate and the kind of trees, the charring is generally deeper along oar line, and the ashes are deeper, and the confusion and desolation displayed can never be rivalod. No other route on this continent so fully illustrates the abomination of desolation." Such a claim wtiuld be reasonable, as each seems the worstv- whatever route y»chance to take.

Nearest to It.

A boy of 6 years, /wbo*attends a privacy school where prizes are given on every sort of provoc^fcJop. »8 yet ha*

men after his pattern better off."

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earned a prize, came home one afternoon and exhibited, prptidl^ne of these rewards of merit. "Gobi!! said his mother. "Buthowdid you gain it?" "I was first In (Datuiral history. "Natural history at your age? How did that happen?" "Oh, they asked me how many legs a borse had."

And what did you say?" "I said five." "But a horse hasn't five legs, child. "I know, but all the other boys said six. "—Pearson's Weekly.

George W. Vanderbilt.

A North Carolina man is quoted in th* Washington Post as saying that George W. Vanderbilt is one of the most popular men in that state. "And now," be adds, "he has increased his popularity by proposing to build in Asbeville a hospital for tho treatment of consumptives and persons

corded in a book so that its history can be suffering with contagious diseases. He tracod from its start to its destination. At will donate $100,000 as a starter for the the end of eaoh month a statement is ren- institution, which will be, when completdered to all interested lines by the road ed, one of the finest in the south. Mr. that issues the tickets of all sales over Vanderbilt is not selfish with his immense their lines. In this way a kind of clearing fortune, and if there were more wealthy house arrangement is kept up and the debtor road makes remittance to the creditor road after deducting offsetting accounts.

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They "W ere on the **Anxious Seat." Recently while preaching a powerful sermon on a hot Sunday the pastor of the Orion (Mich.) Congregational church was pleased to see an' anxious look gradually overspreading almost every face in ths audience. Tbe preacher's heart was glad. "At last! At last!" he thought. "They arc awakened!" With an energy akin to inspiration the good man fired a fusillad* of startling eloquence, whiob 6eemed to intensify tbeir uneasiness. After tbe bencdlotion the pastor was pleased to notice the people on

the

"anxious seats" appar­

ently fighting against conviotion and trying to rise up and then sit down again. With beaming faoe be descended from the pulpit personally to clinch tbe effects of his masterful sermon, but, alas! th« painter who bad varnished tbe church seats a few days before had put some oil in his varnish, which bad softened with the heat, and the hesitating crowd waf stuck there like so many flies.—Exchange. 4* Head Moo^j.

When Dr. Scbliemann was digging at the. supposed site of' Troy, be uncovered, tbe remains of several ancient cities which bad been built one after another on ths same hill. In the seoond layer from th« bottom he discovered masses of silver in the form of axe heads. Dr. Gotze now suggests that these were intended not foi implements, but for money. Bronze ax« heads have also been discovered in ancieni remains, mingled with metal pieces in th« form of rings, in suoh a manner as to suggest that all alike were intened to serve ui money. After tbe axe head bad disappeared as actual money the memory of it was pre-. served in tbe coins of Tenedos, which

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tbe figux* ot an axe bead. Dr. Gotze also suggests that the "wedge of gold" which Aohan stole from tbe spoils of Jerichoano for the stealing of which Joshua had himstoned to death was a specimen of tbe ancient ass bead money^—-San FrancitooAr

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