Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1894, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. A CLEAR TRACK FOR THE FLYER. DANGER SIGNALS -Saeo ae eee Devices Used on Railroads to Pro- tect the Train Service. SORE WARNINGS 10 ENGINEERS New thn ie iahactins and Warning Signals Being Adopted. AN aneonisiinda CRITICISM ae egy YOUNG Charley Shields, who Was passing along the tracks of the Rock Island road near Chi cago last November, burning directivy be- fore him, he evidently concluded chat it was placed there for spec- tacular effect, as he rushed forward and in the air and to one @ide and enjoye! the shower of brilliant sparks that followed? its contact with the earth. Yet the boy was trifling with one of the most effective danger sivnal= used al- most universally by the railroads of this country. The signal hed becn thrown from the rear end of a suburban train, and, if it had been ieft in the proper e intended for It, would have kept the train following at least fifteen minutes in that train's rear. The train following was an © , and Funning at a high rate of speed: F ‘Was missing; the flagman of the suburban train believed he had fully protected his train, and the express dashed on and the train ahead,with ter results. Twelv Passengers were killed and over twen were badly injured as a result of a thoughtlessness. Charl was only tw years old, and when arrested the da lowing the wreck, confessed that he had re- moved the burning fuse, not knowing what it was. The Best Rule to Follow. The boy can, no doubt, be forgiven on the strength of his tender age, yet it is a ques- tion whether thousxn‘is of people twice age ever saw a similar signal and 2 not have acted similariy under like cireum- stances. The best rule to go by when in the vicinity of a railroad is to keep hands off. Every little piece of machinery or obscure burning lamp is playing its little part to- ward an effective whole, and the disar- rangement ef one may make the other ineffective. The employes know this and <e- pend upon the prover working of each and every one to help them out in a speedy and} safe transaction of the railroad . Of the dozen or more signals used in rati- Foading, the red flag by y and the red lamp by night are the oidest and, no doubt, the most useful of danger signals. The fuse that is thrown from the rear end of a train im foggy weather, and when a stop is not} to be thought of on account of the close Proximity of an oncoming train, is prac- tically a late inventi Many years back a red fuse was used. but it had to be utilized by the flagman driving the spiked end into | the crosstie. It would burn ten minutes and then go out. The train following would see the light and either siow down in speed or stop until the light had burnt out. In that way trains were kept ten minutes apart. The improved fuse contains a series of col- ered lights. The first, being red, will burn hve minutes; the second, blue, also burns five minutes, and the third, white, finishes out the fifteen minutes. engineer following the train from which the burning fuse has beea thrown knows al+ Most to the minute how far he is in ¢ fear, and instead of pp holds his tra’ under control and governs himself : ingly. Tais fuse is weighted Spiked at one end, from a swift-mov assume an upright position, there better and belng seen farther. ‘The Terpedo &! The torpedo is another effecti signal. and also a signal of in. In the case of a rear fagman of eer train pla a torpedo, he will genera ly use one, while the fagman of a f, frequentiy makes use of two. In the first i the engineer imest to a st: slow stle fe nile, if it ne will know y cn to until man io protect consisted in eircumfer t : Dropping in Emergency Signal. Ret be jarred off by torpedo. y a hunting we A w danger tt fair @clipse the dynamite torpedo in effectiv saw a bright red fuse | in great glee tossed it; By this means an | ‘about i tomatic torpedo lately ew York Central upon a section of their road known as the | Fourth avenue tunnel. It has been so suc- cessful in its operation that it has attract- ed widespread attention. Several railrosd men of undoubted ability have pronounced it the surest automatic danger signal | known. This torpedo is attached to a semaphore, and is designed to give audible araing by the explosion of a torpedo never a train passes the signal while set at danger. Several accidents have oc- curred In the last few years through negll- | gent engineers sleeping at their posts, and us a result running by the silent sema- phores. When the signal is set at danger, it automatically places a torpedo under a amer, which set close to the rail, here a passing wheel is sure to strike it. When the signal is turned to safety the torpedo is automatically withdrawn, After a torpedo has been explode! by a passing train, another torpedo automatically takes its ce. Of course, there is no guard us tampering with the ap- s, but even if there was, it only re- | duces the percentage of safety, as the origi- nal semaphore is still on guard. A machine » this, which is ceriain to cail an en- $ attention to a danger signal every something thai railroad employes been looking for the past decade. ‘The railroad commissioners of Illinois have indorsed the torpedo, and that it will be soon in general use is undoubted. A reporter of ‘the iverung Star recently dropped in on a session of the Ra!l and Tie ness is the Palmer introduced by the Club down on Virginia avenue and caught several of the members in u heated dis- ‘cussion of danger signals, A; hi <id white- ng engineer had ng his experi- ais of different descriptions | and also his opinion of the same. He said: Can't Be Too Many Sign: | “I have come to the conclusion that there {cannot be tco many signals along a rall- road. A person that does not understand railroading will frequently remark that me loves not see how trainmea can Keep from being confused on account of the numerous Hghts and semaphore arms at 4 siding or raiiroad crossing. To me and all of you, I know, this sounds foolish, as has sometimes occurred we have en sWeot by the first set of signals wit t catching a glim b aired but vigorous looxi: > managers of railroads com: conclusion that their en human and lable to err 1 be for the tra’ d the favorite a@ railroad a of as 1 run | 2d tasted. journey is n aed r will soon be ro: there are really Spring a torpedo on me in fogay or a red lamp on a pit 1 I'll rake the sand fly > work for tts life. of capi >t pur was a le i erime to temper with “a dav the is tn the bu on and of the strike recently that road than ¢ s. Dr. Warner, yed b, me not long s @ case once wherein an engia SS The Protector o! frightened to death through tamp With switch signals. He said the n fouad 2 track after th | which He examined every part “s body ai even an h cleariy demonstrated afterward that the en- i been in a wreck some years! | before similar to the one that caused his and he no doubt recognized that } terrible click of the switch pin that toi }hum it had been tampered with and th ‘fe'sht_ was so great that it stopped his vart beats. Work of Train Wreckers. for instance the work of that f train wreckers up near Allentown They broke the the semaphore signals, were broken, and the : ine Lehigh Valley road. operating sWitches ire ai witch senoted when the switch was <Srown for the siding. The red voard was turned against all east-bound trains, and but for the fact that the mischier was dis- covered by an honest track-walker the re- sult would have undoubtedly been disas- trous. Now put yourseii in the place of an engineer approaching that spot on an train running at the rate of fifty miles an hour. He glances ahead as he swings around the curve to see if the signals at the little station are all right and denote a clear track. The night may be a ciear one and he is enabled to see a good distance. At the point where the tampered switches are located there is an | embankment about forty feet high sloping | down to a country road. The engineer's train is a little late, and as he sees ahead that everything is clear he gives an ad-| ditional pull on the throttle, and his true- | biae engine darts ahead with renewed | speed. On they come, and the next ine | stant strike the switch, swerve over on to the side track and crash into a line of coal-laden cars thereon. This occurs in| three seconds, and in one second more the engineer is at the bottom of a| mass of wreckage, with scorching steam blowing over him, in the road at the foot | of the embankment. To go through such an experience and come out alive is re-| markable, and can you wonder at a man} being frightened to death when, under like circumstances, he dashes into a switch | and recognizes that terrible clack, clack, | that denotes a misplaced switch. I've had | that experience, and I don't. want to! trust my heart pulling me through it, again. Knowing these facts, I never | smile when I hear of a railroader being | frightened to death. I think it would be a good fdea, boys, for us to Invite the superintendent and other officials of the road to attend these | meetings of ours and secure pointers ag to how the road should be run. Of course we know more than they do, and they might For ike the invitation as an honor. ance, they might take this idea themselves and place another | r signal on the list. Dut-of-Date Ypnitances. “When a late accident occurred over in j and 2 solid growth of pulp. The seed ceil and the | Tam not a par-| | season prices in the large cities. The giant | No crop that grows will so cleanly | the soil acid f the Rear of the Train | red away, and aty was given out that he had been crushed to! a of the| utopsy was) any kind on the robust! New Jersey in which some twelve people were killed and about thirty injured, it was discovered for the first time that the road upon which the wreck occurred was us- ing appliances and ideas that have gone out of date ten years ago. The wreck was caused by the stupid work of the rear-flag- man, but the heavy fog was the principal cause. Now, if that road did not want to eall into use the block system, why didn’t they adopt a series of signals that would help them out in case of just such a fog. Thick weather is almost continuous through the Jersey meadows from the latter part of January until far into the month of May. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but here we see the say-so contradicted. “Now, my idea is that the engineers adopt a sort of distress signal similar to that employed by the tugs and steam ves- sels in large harbors and along the sea coast. Stops between stations are not of frequent occurrence and as soon as the engineer finds that he must slacken speed or come to a standstill let him start blow- ing the locomotive whistle, say two sharp blasts at a time with an interval of about half a minute between. These signals need be used only in case of fog, at night, or on @ section of the road that has many sharp curves. The whistle sound will carry a great distance, and if the engineer foliow- ing hears it, and the chances against him not doing so are very small, he will under- stand the situation thoroughly and govern himself accordingly. Of course, the pas- sengers may be startled at first by the piercing shrieks of the whistle, but when they come to know its meaning it will act as a warning to them and soon lose its startling feature. Had such a danger sig- nal been in use at the time of the Jersey Meadow disaster many lives could have been saved, even if the engineer following could not have heard it, as the passengers would have been on the lookout and many escaped injury by jumping. I don’t claim originality for this new danger signal idea, as it was suggested to me by a prominent newspaper editor, but I believe it is a good one and I'm going to use it whenever I believe the necessity calls for it.” —>——___ IT ORIGINATED HERE. How a District Garden Produced a Famoua Tomato. New things under the sun come high, and the man and the spot that produce them are in luck. One of the best stories of a new thing happened right here in the District of Columbia. It was in the summer of 1588 that Mr. S. M. Clark, formerly superin- tendent of the bureau of engraving and printing, found one morning in hi» garden near Benning a new, peculiar tomato. It was evidently a sport diftermg in every respect from those around it. Mr. Clark had been raising tomatoes for family use for several years, and knew the old fe- tles,one after another,as wel! as a school boy knows his letters. He watched the newcomer carefully and noted its characteristics, When it ripened it was a beautiful dark color. The older varieties a: that e | showed more or less of the purple stade, and old market gardeners always know that @ purplish tomato {s inferior in flavor. The purple always carries with it a sharp, metallic taste, which is pecullarly unpleas-, ant. Mr. Clark's new tomato was bright red, very smooth and ripened evenly. Its Most netsble peculiarity was its yreat size. When fully ripe one was picked and) weighed. It tipped the scale beam at pre- | cisely twenty-five ounces. A tomato that would weigh a pound and a half was cer- inly a curiosity. Mr. Ciark knew his rt was worth lookin: ter A ‘ore surprising circumstance was de-| ped when the new fruit was cut open) its meat 8 solid and thick) for over half an inch from the skin and the center was nearly an inch and a half thick were not only few, but phenomenully small. | that Bis n proportion he smallest cv a and probably tne smuilest t will ever be produced. Clark | howed his tomato to There were but few frui and by naged, by picking tem v i green, to prolong their p th Zostern branch All th © to San Diego. Fe or, fewness of seeds and uni-| form ripeaing Its equal has no: been see! Sor cann'ng it is easity the first and be ere are other varict at favorites. There are over nd tue fist is ‘adays the fad is to| getables that can be} S88 witn electric light in} ime, so as to hit the big out-of. | | ymato that first saw light over on the! is not of this hot-house/ @ open sky and sandy soil. | Well supplied with commerci:! phosphates. | exhaust | of potash, nitrogen and phosphoric The best resulis, therefore, come | waere the tomato can get all the food it nts to feed upon. It will consume twice | 3 much potash end nitrogen as pctatoes, | and several times as much phosphoric acid, and it grews to its highest perfection on the Sandy, alluvial soils around Wash neton. | ud, great as the de nd is for it, e suip-| is cultivated wita comparatively little | or and cost. The price, th-refore, need | er be hith, and, in fact, is not. Six tons| be raised to the acre—nearly twice as | uch output in weight as the same soil, | fertilizer and labor will produce in potatoes. | and ten 8 as much as in wheat. Yet the! ve seldom goes below 25 cents a bushel, | the farmers ‘Ji agree in saying that 1f they can net 25 cents a bushel there is “big | * in tomatoes. | an output ree states a can be had) rly $3.04 imps t to produce improved va her thing that must be considered is that the life of a variety Is very short. ‘Ten years is about the average period during which any ety maintains itself in its charact qualith Mr. ¢ d all the seed he could. also had an excellent fruit painted, turists during the follc prize he had the seed heecould the noxt tment would take a pound. the mi least ten pounts. All t planted in 1880, but the c not large and the amount inconsideratie. Mr. Clark , neighburs for trial and induc deners to undertak lue department. This some dil tensive experiment with the undertaken by Mr. W. F. ham's, Md., who set out half W plant was sh of Lan- acre. “It was a poor investment,” said Mr. Farish. “From my half zcre of ground, all | nicely fertilized and well tilled, I had a splendid crop of tomatoes, but a mighty | small one of seed. You couldn't guess how | little seed of that tomato can be raised to} the acre. I gathered a little less than two! pounds from the half-acre patch.” That, however, would have been worth while if the seed could have been sold at $30 | a pound. But Mr. Clark's friend, who was | chief of the seed division in the Department | of Agriculture, had died in the meantime! and his market disappeared with him. Sub- sequently the new variety and the right to handle it was purchased by a well-known horticulturist at $12 per pound for the seed, and extensively cultivated and pushed. | Thus to Mr. Clark and the accident of | birth here in the District of Columbia the! country at large owes thanks for what is generally regarded the most important variety of a favorite summer fruit. —~<__ His Advances Spurned. From Puck. a Cap. Ricornus.—“exc-se me; but won't | you have a bit of this delicious overshoe?” Miss Nannie Goat.—“No, thank you! I! never chew gum. property. I have never sworn to a tax re- = — |turn. I have sometimes signed one, but Dandruf forme whe the skin are |, Have never sworn to one. I could sw weakened, and, {f nezle follow. Hall's Hair Rene: paldness is sure to the best preventive. | wer is | vote against it if they had any idea that it Jone, do not pay my fair share of the ex- | ported cloth, but that does not pay much representation?” not a temptation. about their local taxes. I would like to know how many men make a fair return on their property? In the west they drive east they convert their loose money into government bonds TO PASS THE SENATE The Wilson Bill is Certain to Go Through. Tf IS NOT ALTOGETHER SATISFACTORY But the Democrats Will Vote for It Just the Same. -_ INTERVIEW WITH MR. TELLER Se es) Written for The Evening Star. (Copyright, 1894, by S e Grantham Bain.) ENATOR TELLER ays that the tariff bill will pass the Sen- ate by a strict party vote. I talked with the Colorado Senator | at the time the, newspapers anounced | that he might vote | for the democratic bill. The report grew | out of the complic: tions over the Pec ham nomination, when many rumors of combinations involyiue that nomination and the tariff bill were in the air. Ever since the last fight for silver began Mr. Teiler and his colleagues have been watch- ed by republicans with some anxiety for fear that they would follow some other Senators into the populist party. Any one who knows Mr. Teller or Mr. Wolcott at all should know better than to expect any such folly from them. The only question on which they agree with the populists at ail is the question of free coinage. And Mr. Teller has been too long identified with the republican party to break out of it because it did not agree with him on a subject on which both parties are pretty well divided. Mr. Teller laughed when I spoke of the report that he would vote for the Wilson bill, Worse ‘Than the Present Law. “Why should I vote for it?” he said. “It does nothing for my people. In fact, it is a little worse than the present law. The | Wilson bill proposes to put wool and lead on the free list. Colorado is interested in both of those industries and both of them would be injured. We are not so much in- terested in the tariff question as we used to be, because we have the feeling that New England has been using us for a good many years to protect her industries par- tleularly; and we were not at all satisfied with the way the New England people act- ed toward silver. We are tired of being used by others. And you can be sure noae of us are going to be misled by the Quay | amendment either. I told Quay today that | we were not going to abuse our democratic } friends who have helped us out from time | to time by voting to put a free silver clause | in the tariff bill so as to kill it. The free silver proposition is not offered in good faith. It is put forward by men who woull could become a law I asked the Senator if he had any hope of silver legislation at this fon of Con- ‘None at all,” he said. ing to expect of thi going to take o Jchn Sherman the “We have noth- Congress. But 1 am soon to quote to h he made en s!iver cpped the puri t a » inroug use we k not passed silver w f the su id to his Winter. We | © d have kept the bill in the Senate until | hext summer if we had wished to do tt. | wut then everyone would have said that we | were responsibie for the hard times and | the stagnation of business. © Rebound in the West. “I was surprised and delighted when 1} went out to Colorado in January the Sen. : © find how quickly our | people had recovered from the effects of the silver repeal. ‘There is less suffering there today than there is in the east, though we have no one to thank for it. We are indebted simply to the wonderful natural | resources of our state. Our people have turned to gold mining. The other day they took $128,0) out of one mine in twelve hours, Nothing like it was ever known in the country before. Most of our people who are interested in silver had a Httle money, they turned to gold mining, | coal and other industries. ‘They are | even developing marble quarries. And where | a man had no money, he has had no troubie getting a stake. I thin hat our people are | the greatest people in tl vorid for giving } credit. Any man of health and good char. acter can go into any camp In the state end | get supplies to last hiva six months without | acent. Yes, it did me good to see how our People had taken hold. 1 never went. to Colorado unwillingly in my life until last | November. s heavy-hearted then. But | our people have met their trouble bravely and conquered it. And as I sai they are | better off than the people of New York. | But we owe the people of the east nothing ie” for | aritt, 1| As the" bil to the question of the Senator if he believ it Wd Surely Pass. | “There is not the slightest doubt of it said he. “It will pass by a strict party vote, There is a gr of talk about | this or that demo: Senator voting | against it, but I don’t believe any of it A man came to me the other ¢ 4 two were would. same d: He was not » said, not see how attache, ve that their P would sta but it weuld kill them in and Mr. Hill is not ready to go out of naticnal politics yet.” I asked Mr. Teller if was in favor of the income tax, That was the reason given for the statement that he would vote for the tariff bill. “I am in favor of the income tax,” he said, “though I do not like altogether the machinery proposed in the House bill. And 1 think that the tax ought to be on all in- comes above $2,000, I believe that I, for penses of this government. 1 don’t drink any whisky or smoke any tobacco. Per- haps some of my clothing is made of im- duty. The income tax would give me an opportunity to pay my share of the govern- menc's expenses. I would not tax the me- chanic or the artisan. But suppose my in- come is $10,000 or $12,000, What is $200 a year out of that? Why, you would lend more or waste more than that amount.” “But wouldn't you waste just as much any way?” I asked. “Perhaps you would,” said Mr. Teller. “But then you must contribute something to the government or you ought to.” “And the temptation to fraud and mis- With Reference to Taxes, “It would be an opportunity perhaps, but Nine men out of ten Me their cattle and their sheep from one state to another so as to avoid taxation—in the temporarily swear that it is invested in so as to non-taxable that the value of my property was state] correctly on the basis of other returns—but | Prom ti the law does not contemplate comparisons. So if I am not to pay more than my fair share of iocal taxes, I must leave the as- | sessment in the hands of the assessor. I am | not going to swear that my farm that I|{ would not sell at $30 an acre is worth only $15 an acre. I always make a ‘ull return of my personal property and at its full value. A great many men swear to valua- tions that they know to be incorrect. Men seem to feel no sense of moral obligation in making a tax return. It would be no worse with the income tax than with any other. And I believe that an income tax would dis- tribute the burden of supporting the govern- ment more equitably. I may vote for the income tax if a separate vote is taken on it. But I shall not vote for the Wilson bill nevertheless.” I asked the Senator what the wool-grow- ers of Colorado would do if wool was put | on the free list. “Go right on raising wool, I suppose,” | said he. “They cannot get rid of their sheep very well. And certainly wool aca | be raised as cheaply in Colorado as age is | where in the world. All of our sheep are | on government land. Yes, I had a letter’ from a big wool-grower a few days ago saying that while the Wilson bill would hurt our wool industry it would not smoth- er it.” “Do you expect the debate to be prolong- ear” ‘It will take two or three months to con- sider the bill intelligently. But I think that the republican Senato: ill not attempt to prolon the debate unreasonably. They can not afford to do so any more than the sil- ver Senators could afford to prolong the de- ; bate on the silver repeal bill beyond a cer- tain point. The bill will not be recommitted for hearings and it will pass the Senate, I have not the slightest doubt. I shall shed no tears when it passes, although I shall vote against it.” a THERE ARE SOME MONKEYS One Can Trust, and This Capuchin is That Kind. The white-throated Capuchin, or Sapajou (a monkey named after a monk!), and his near relatives are some of the poor littie fellows who find the monkeys’ purgatory on | this earth. They are les miserables, writes | William T. Hornaday in St. Nicholas, who | go about with the organ grinder, dance when the chain is jerked, and pass the tiny hat for the pennies. Poor little beggars! How much better for a monkey is the hun- ter’s bullet in the leafy jungle than the deadly hand organ on the hot pavement, and lifelong misery. As a household pet, or a captive in a zoo, the Capuchin monkey is the prince of good fellows. He is of good, comfortable size, neither too small nor too large, fair in pro- portions, active, intelligent and docile, and aecidediy affectionate. Many old world monkeys are treacherous and dangerous brutes; but so far as his human friends are ned, the Capuchin is nearly always to be trusted. He has a countenance like a pale, sad-looking old man, heavily burden- ed with care. Out of a large cageful of monkeys of var- fous kinds that I once kept, the white- throated Sapajou was the only thoroughly | satisfactory Inmate. He was sincerely at- tached to me, and whenever I came near him would purse out his wrinkled lips and | complain to me about® his disagreeable | neighbors at a great rate. When trighten- | ¢d. his shrill, rasping shrieks, and the ex- pression of his mobile face, made a repre- sentation of terror so perfect that a tragic | actor might well have copied it. When | coaxing his keeper for food or attention, he | Would thrust out his lips until they formed a funny looking little tube, and say in a plaintive tone, “Poo-00-00-00!" These graceful and interesting monkeys | re found in eastera Honduras, Nicaragua, | Rica, Panama, and northern South | America. At home they are not nearly so active and bold as the spider monkey,doubt- less because they are not all legs and tail like the spiders. “They not only eat fruit of | all kinds, but are also very fond of beetles and other insects, eggs, and even young ds. The tail is prehensile, but not pow- erfully so like that of the spider monkey. = — THE ORIGIN OF THE ME The Dake of Branusy tor of the Card, Phitze i Times, » Dake Henry of Brunswick who erved in the intervals of a ban- ide of his plate, and when the curi- ous guests ventured to inquire into the na- ture of his stucies he explained that it was a sort of program of the dishes which he ad commanded from the cook,to the intent t if some delicacy which especially ap-| pealed io him were marked for a late stage | in the repast he might carefully reserve his appetite for it. he simplicity and beauty of the idea ap- pealed instantiy to the good duke’s con- ers and the menu card from that moment became an institution. In its old-fashioned form the bill was usually written in large letters on cards of such imposing dimen- sions that room for only one could be found at each end of the board. In the mediaeval dinner this ald to selec- tion must have been an absolute necessity, for the dinner in those days was a mine of surprises, Neglect in Correspon: From the Philadelphia ‘Times. How many of us in writing letters really answer the questions asked by our corre- vondent? We rattle away about the ather, our own affairs and everything under the sun but the subject which we have been particularly requested to notice, and when our letter reaches its destination there is much weeping and walling and gnashing of teeth in consequence of our heedless neglect. Reform is needed in this | quarter as much as in many others that are more continualiy dilated upon, ae mee. From Puck. | F Run Down by a Loaded Handcar. lg D.T. Allyn’s Serious Accident on the | () Paralysis—a Hailroad’s Ingratitude. —_ To Health ¢ ) —_ —— | ©°° For all suffering * (From the Waltace, Neb., Herald.) ‘ * from rheamatise, * Last summer Mr. D. T. Allyn of this place, * oct, sciatica and * worked for the B. & M. R. R., as a section hand, : phe on the section extending east from Tecumseh, | | the county seat of Johnson County, Nebraska. | On the 2d day of July he met with an accident that nearly cost him his life. He and fiveother men were working a hand car In front of which Wasa push car. Mr. Allyn was standingonthe front part of the car, with his back towards the direction in which the car was being run. Just as the two cars came together, the foreman ordered him to step from the car on which they were riding on to the push car, and at thesame time signaled another of the men to apply the brake, which slackened their speed enough to cause a gap of a few feet between the cars. Y x 6 Remington’s (Sure Cure For Rheumatism And Gout Owes its success to the fact that it bas never fall- €4 to bring relief Whenever used. It is quick, sare and = thorough, even in the most stubborn cases, and bas = bun- dreds of testimo- blals. Sold By | Ki | In stepping back tocomply with the order he fell upon his back in the middle of the railroad | track and the car, with its load of five men, beat tools and water keg, in all weighing fully a ton, |} passing over him. A rod on the under side of the car caught his feet and doubled him up so that his feet struck his face. As he rolled over, the bull-wheel struck his back and inflicted the injury that came so near proving fatal. Thecar was raised from the rails and thrownoffthe track. » He was carried to town and Dr. Snyder, the B. &. M. R. R. surgeon at Tecumseh, was sum- moned. Afterwards Dr. C. C. Gafford, Dr. Yoden and Dr. Waters, all of Wymore, Neb., were called in consultation, but they could afford no reliel About the lst of October he became par- alyzed from his waist down. The sense of feel- ing entirely left his legs, which became drawn one across theother. Dr. Livingston, of Platts- mouth, Neb., the head physician of the B. & M. R. R. system was summoned to treat the case, but finally informed his patient that he could not live to see July, 18%. He had not the means to pay“the expenses of a law suit against the railroad company, but the company’s attor- neys very willingly compromised the claim for damages by paying him $2,002 His condition Grasty sells newest pattern and fine quality continued to grow worse, theexcruciating pain | Cotton Warp Mattings, 30c.; sold elsewhere 45 to in his back never ceasing, until upon the re- | 50c. Don't you see the tax again? as commendation and by the request of a lady People come to Grasty's from all parts of friend, Mrs. G. W. Swan, of Tecumseh, Neb., he | CitY because everything ts sold at bargain prices. Six Tumblers, 15<.; a . began taking Pink Pills for Pale People. Tothe ; © - raf or a yy we | Herald reporter he said: “I had no more faith | saucers, . ri on en: in them than I would have had in eatinga ‘Woot handful of dirt.” He commenced taking the Jong, pills on the 2d day of February, taking one af- 50, Everything svld cheap for ter each meal, and in ten days time, to his sur- prise and intense delight, the pain began to leave him. For seven months he had suffered continuously, and his Joy when relief camecan be imagined but not described. He continued taking the Pink Pills until the fore part of May. About the middle of March he could gc about is ordinary work without any inconvenience, Ile considers himself entirely cured and feels as well as he ever did, except that his back is not as strong as it was before he was hurt.) This spring he moved on to a farm twelve miles southwest of Wallace, where he has planted a good crop of corn and is doing all his ‘work without any hired help. Should anyone doubt the statements herein made, they are in- Vited to see him personally or write to him, and address him at Wallace, Neb. He is thank- ful for what Pink Pills have done for him, and is willing to go to some trouble to let others ‘The know of their wonderful curative properties. Bowed to the treatment of the Skin, Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, it seems, contain Scalp and Blood and the removal of facial in a condensed form all the elements necessary Diemisbes. Eczema, Acne, Pimples, Red to give new life and richness to the blood, and Nose, Red ‘ony coy 4 restore shattered nerves. They are an unfail- | $ Superfivous a Falling of the Hair, Tattoo Marks, Scam, ‘ng specific for such diseases as locomotor Danérof and all skin imperfections and ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sci- Giseases scientifically treated by the mest atica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous head- improved methods, aci.e, the after effects of Ie Erippe, palpitation Dr of the heart, pale an low com, xions, DERMA tired feeling resulting from metvous prostra- ep! tion; all diseases resulting from vitiated hu- mors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles pecular to females, such as suppres- sions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness. They build up the blood and restore the glow of health to pale or sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses Of What- ever nature. ‘These Pills are manufactured by the Dr. Wil- liams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and Brockvilie, Ont, and are sold in boxes at © cents @ box, or six boxes for $2.50, and are pever soid in ouik. iain eikaneus acon an GEO. W. RICH, Wish Of Us On Credit. CREDIT prices thus be seen that it tost ar enor seer ae prices in her $103.10 more to be Sek aa to other stores—WE MEAN IT- when we | be well. tain Just as elegant”? sors eo R-[=-P-A-N-S TABUL! ° cure any fllness resulting from a disordered @ gestion, and in nino casos out of ten « single om Furniture GS eee. eS Ra A505 und by Gruggists generuily. e153 And Carpets As you'll find in any other store—WE MEAN THAT, TOO. We are anxious to sell for 9 CASH, but those who prefer ensy weekly S RHEE wii eens SOLOTELY ViTHO! ‘AST—SUPPER, without signing a nore—without a ‘Bpowledge interest. Kead these prices—they are me Gy eS and or CREDIT—as you please: Seven-plece ‘trition, and & careful the Parlor Salte—plush or hair cloth, 50 and | properties of wellselected a clear on Up 0 $200 a suite. All sir les of up- ed. breakfast tables [3 wisters. Solid Oak Suite, gis | provided which may bevel ginse in bureaus A hundred’ ot saiclous es—all prices. Brussels Carpet, ‘les of Ingvain Carpet, 35c. of ec: ard carpet, laid free of . Hair 3 ings, $1.75. Six-foot Table, $3.50. " Stoves—heating and sizes and prices. GROGAN’S one antern $19, 821. 823 7TH ST. NW. BET. H AND I s7s. We close every evening at 7. DR. CARLETON, 507 12TH ST. N.W. SURGEON SPECIALIST. THIND YEAR SDD REsS Dr. Carleton treats with the skill born of expe Nervous Debility. Special Diseases. Practice limited to the treatment of Gentlemen Exclusively SHOES. SHOES, CLEARING SALE. Eg; a shoes So ee bee a ree Seger Sqasas cles “e J. BE. Little, 1002 FSt.N.W. fel3-lw SO TTERBURN” Lithia Water For Dyspepsia, For Indigestion, For Liver Diseases, For Kidney Troubles, For Disordered Stomach, 3 Infammation, Nervous Debility, . Eruptioas, Bladder, For Insomnia. 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