Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 25, 1889, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1830-SIXTEEN A =E VERYBODY CO OMAHA MERCHANTS’ September 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th, 1889. REDUCED RATES ON ALL RAILROADS. LARGE PRIZES FOR BEST BRASS BANDS OMAHA WILL BE BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED WITH ARCHES, BANNERS AND BUNTING. The Whole Gty wil be Brilliantly Hluminated. Day Parades, Night Marches, Fire Works, tfc Merchants’ Week is the outgrowth of a desire on the part of the Omaha Merchants and Business Men to become better acquainted with the Business Men and Mer~ chants in the country naturally tributary to our city. New Orleans for years has had her Mardi-Gras celebrations, St. Louis her Veiled Prophets, St. Paul her Ice Palace, and other placas various other entertainments, For several years there have been futile attempts to start a movement of the kind for Omaha, but from lack of any one tn take initiatory steps they never culminated in success, This year, however, the movement was started by a few of our leading business men, others became interested, an association of 100 was formed, commit~ tees were appointed, and evervthm%‘ promises a great and glorious success. y perusing the programme it will be seen that there will be entertaining features every dayNI:vleasurabla and profitable to thosz who come %o see us. erchants’ Week, therefore, is nothing more nor less than Omaha'’s greeting to the west. find the ‘““Gates Ajar.” WHAT YOU WILL SEE. You will see the best paved city in the United States. The Gate City opens her gates and bids you enter in. Come and you will PROGRAMME. ALL PLACES OF AMUSEMENTS Will Present Attractions During the Week. The following programme has been arranged for the weck, but will be aided You will see the largest newspaper office in the world. by other attractive features: You will see the best built city in the West. COLISEUM EXPOSITION. At tho latter place there will te open every evening the Mer Manufucturers’ Exposition, This exhibit will be ar Mr. J. C. Bonnell, who had charge of the Nebrasku ¢ New Orleans. Monday, Sept. 2d. Receiving visitors and arranging for their comfort. sday, Sep'. 84, Dr. Talmage will lecture at Fair Grounds at 11 A. M. Public Buildings and all Omaha thrown open to the public. Wedr eday, A. M., Sept, 4th, Grand Trades Display, being the largest procession of the kind ever seen in | ants’ and ¥ tho West, including Business Floats representing the Industries of the Nine- | teenth Contury, escorted by an army of ‘Trav nged and superintended by xhibitat the World Fair at You will see the most prosperous business community on the face of the Earth. You will see the only city on the Missouri huviag two bridges across the Big Muddy. You will sec the largest Smelting and Refining Works in America. You will see the best Bank buildings and more of them thun can be seen 1n any other Western City. You will see the most approved and among the largest packing houses in our country, where they utilize every part of a hog but the squeal; every part of & steer but the horns. You will see the largest water works plant in the Missouri Valley. You will see electric motors and cable cars, of the latest-muke. You will see the great Omaha Fair with its Agricultural, Horticultural and Stock attractions, and its great horse races. You will see the largest trades display ever attempted west of Chicago. You will see the big Coliseum building, containing the Merchants’ and Munufacturers’ Exposition with its thousands of entertaining teatures. You will see a grand display of fire-works, and the largest and best drilled Flambeau Club in the country. You will see thousands of people from all over the West. You will find the citizens of Omaha willing to enterta spend a pleasant and prosperous week. THOS. KILPATRIC, Presiden THE LININGER ART GALLERY. Through the liberality of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Lininger, the T Gallery will be open every day from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. its many art treasures, gathered by Mr. and Mrs. L. in their several tours to the Art Centers of the old world, E v one who is interested in art should take this opportunity to visit this great art gallery PRIZES FOR BRASS BANDS, The management have offered prizes of $600 for the best band participating in the p: les. Conditions of Band Contest. he competi side the city of Omaha. Award to be Aininger Art This gallery is noted for ling aud City Sulesmen, U. S. Rt ular Soldiers from Fort Omaha, the Omaha Wheel Club, Metropolitan Police Force of Omaha, Omaha Fre Depurument with its apparatus. Band of Sioux Indians in their Scalp Danees, Sun Dances and War Dances. Wednesday Evening, 1lluminated Parade of Flambeau Clubs. Grand Display of Fire Works during the March. oy AL B sty 2 Ll o1 L AGA ; Bt el E made Friday, Septembe: Three com- Eiectrio Light I"“"“;”‘“"" of Streets, Buildings and Arches. § poent judges will decide. No bund of less than twelve picees will b allowed to 3 : £ Thuraday; a. M, Sept. Sth. compete. All entrics to be in_ the hands of E. B. Bruce, care of Blake, Bruce & Railrond Bxcursion to the Great Stock Yards and Packing Houses of South Omaha § Co.. on or before August2i. No enury fee, but ull bands competing for pr Thursday Evening, must participate in the parade free of charge. ¢ Parade of Omuhis Ward Clubs for Prize Banner. CHEAP RAILROAD PARES. _Frulr-_yz A. M., Sept. 6th, Take advantage of the reduced rates on railroads and come and see Omaha Brass Band Competition for Prizes amounting to $600. and get acquainted with those with whom you do business. S LS Among other attractive features the Omaha Fair Association have engaged Parade by Flambeau Clubs, Tlluminated by Fire Works. e dErou et Broohim HivinatHeT t6 Talmag Hver e Tonibition Ru of Omatiad#ize Daparimanty ghtod by Elocteio Lights: | the reramed Brocklyn aivine: Hev. DoWitt talmage, lo; deliver an addrdsson Ccmpe n and assist you to T . T K A T v e A T et Sttt ROBT. EASSON, First Vice-Prosident. ~ ROB. §. WILCO, Second Vice-Prosidet. WAL L SHAW, Tuied Vies-Prasident. 1. B TAYLOR, Sacretary. 8. W. CROY, Troastrer. quarries on Mount Pentelikos over there | gins to talk politics; and there is no political | a few of the wives of candidates have re- | on public improvements. The Athens of to Dockstader, ‘I guess not, I guess not.’ That ARGANSAS WAY AT ATHENS. Buckshot for Ballots in the City of the Parthenon. 'TIS A NATION OF WINDBAGS. Every Grecian Youth Imagines Him- #elf a Statesman and Beging to Spout Folitics as Soon as He Can Talk. The Greeks Are Garrulous. \Copyrighted 1559 by Frank G. Carpenter.] ATnENS, August 1.—[Special to Tue B ~The Athens of to-day is a city of the nine- teenth century. Its buildings are the two and three story houses of brick and stucco which you find in the towns of France and Italy. They are roofed in red tiles and they are built in blocks with all the regularity of modern civilization, The streets are paved with cobbles and the sidewalks are flagged with blocks of stone, The stores are of the same description as those of any American city and their plate glass windows show stocks of goods that will compare favorably with those of Washington or Deuver. The strects cross each other at right angles and street car tracks run through the busiest of them. You can ride in the Athenian tram- way for three and five cent fares over the same grounds upon which Alciblades dashed In his seven-horse chariots, and the steam whistles of the locomotives which draw trains along the railroads to the Pireus and Corinth, reverberate against the time colored MAKBLE PILLARS OF THE PARTUENON, which, standing on the mighty Acropolis, ill looka over the city as in the duys when Pericles had nis golden rule, nearly twenty- five hundred years ago. It is tie oldest of the old looking at the newest of the new. Modern Athons has been built wishin fifty years. Au the time of the Greek independ- ence, in 1834, it was a dirty viilage of three bundrea miserable houses. By a census, which hus just been completed, it has now one hundred and eight thousand people, and it has nearly doubled its population within the past ten years. The Greeks themsclves look upon their country us that of a nation reborn, aud upon Athens as a city, rising Phaenix like, to a brighter and better exist- ence from the dusty asheB of its past. The Athens of to-day lies partly on and partly off the site .of the ancient city. It is on the edge of @ plain with the hill of the Acropolis rising upward sheer 200 feet at its back aud with the low mountain of Hymettus at one side. Near this are other mountains, and away to one side across the plain are the blue waters of the Mediterranean sea. From the Acropolis you can see THE PLAINS OF MARATHON, on which the great battle was fought, where the Greeks under Maltiades defeated the Persians, and away to the west are the blue . waters of the bay of Salamis, where Xorxes, the Persian king, watched the destruction of his thousand war vessels by the Grecian floets, At the side of the Acropolis is & rocky hill about one hundred feet high, and more of @ cliff than » hill, on which St. Paul preached and on which the court of Are- opagus was held, to which the old Athenians passed sentences of tife uwud death, wnd where Demosthenes was tried for bribery and convicted. Every surrounding is his- toric and classic, and tho sky, the hills und the sea are the same. The heavens arc today as wonderfully blue as they were in the days of Howmer. The poppy flowers mixed with the wheut are as blood a red as they were when . Plato sat among them and talked phiissopby, and the durk hemlock on the hills as green us wheo it furnished the finlflm which killed Socrates. Mount [ymettus, with its rocky, silver gray sides furnishes as sweet nonoy to-duy as when the Girecian poets sang its praises, snd from tho comes for the mnew public buildings of Atiens a8 pure white marble as thut with which Phidias worked and out of which Praxiteles chipped his famous statues. Itisonly in respect to 1ts natural sur- roundings that Athens remains us it was in the past. Its buildings have all the fresh greenness of the nineteenth century, and it is a town of hotels, theaters and nowspapers. It is a business town, to0, and the modern Greeks are among the brightest business men of the t. The Turks have a proverb, which says: “From the ireeks of Athens, from the Jews of Salonika and from the Armenians everywhere, Good Lord, deliver us!” Itis also said 1n the east that one Greek is equal 10 at least two Jews, and_you will find no Jews in Athens, though they are scattered over all other parts of of the Levaut. The storekeepers MAVE NO FIXED PRIC and you bargain for everythiug you buy. The rule is to offer not more than one-third of what 18 asked, and you must bargain with your butcher, your tailor, and with even your druggist. " A lady of Athens was de- scribing to me last night the purchase of her last spring bonnet. Said she: “I went into the leading millinery shop of the place and picked out a well-trimmed piece of lace and straw, and asked the price.’” It will be 100 francs,”” was the reply. 'Oh,” said I, *‘but I can’t pay so much. 1 think fifty francs is enough for it, and 1 will give uo more.” The merchunt looked at me and said at once that it was impossible, then seeing thut 1 was about to leave,hesaid: **Well, madame, if you think fifty francs is enough you may have 1t for that.” Aud, concluded the lady, who is a Greek, “iv1s so all over Athens. You must never pay what the people ask you. Then you will see in some of the stores prices marked on the goods, and the notice hung up that there are none but fixed prices at such places. But this is a fraud. You must tell them you can not pay so much, und you will get the goods for less.” I have tried this plan during the past few days, and I find I can get a considerable re- duction, even in SEDLITZ POWDERS AND QUININE, The modern Athenian does not like manual labor and the result is that most of the Greek citizens of Athens are in_mercantile or professional business. I find that th is little of what we would consider squure dealing among the merchants, They try to got advantage of those who trade with them n every way, 'I'he money used in the stores and in Athens generally is dirty, grezsy paper money, issued by the national bank, and the shin plasters, which are in some de- nominations not bigwer than a special de- livery stamp, reminded oue of the fractional currency which prevailed in America some years ago. The ten franc or two dollar notes are of about the size aud shape of our green- backs, and as there are no one dollar notes, the people provide for this by chopping or cutting the TWO DOLLAR NOTES IN HALVES and these halves pass as good. This money is at & discount of over 20 per cent, und in changing gold you make twenty odd cents on every dollar, There are few foreign baunks aud the changing is done by men who have little counters with glass mouey boxes unon them wnd who make u comwission on every transaction, Athons, as the capital of Greece, is, of course, the political center of the country. It is here that the king lines and it is here that the chamber of deputies mects and set- tles the destinies of the nation. But first let me tell you something about the Greece of 1380, It is not, you know, divided up now @8 it was in the past into 'a dozen different governments, It was consolidatea under the Mohammedans. By the war of a half century and more ago it was freed from the domination of the Turks and it was given a Kking by the leading governments of Europe. This king was Otto, of Bavaria, and he ruled until 1862, when he was expelled and Great Britain, France and Rus- s chose the present king, who the on of the king of Denmark. The Greeks Jnrhlu themselves on their democ- racy, and they say they believe so much in equality that they prefer to have a foreigner rule over them, Their country is, all tolg, ouly as large as West Virginia or half the sizo of the state of New York, and they num- ber ouly about two willions of people. Each oue of the mulo sex among these two mil- ions THINKS HIMSELP A STATESMAN, | aud as se0n as biefis 0ld euough W spoak be center in the world, perhaps except Wash- ington, in which poliics 18 more talked than in Athens, The chief subject is the actions of the chamber of doputies, which is the Greek parliament, and the effect which these ons will have on the governments of Surope. ‘The modern Greek imugines that everything that Boulanger, Bismarck or Gladstone does 13 more or less connected with Greece, and, like one of our own cities, he thinks that Atheus is the hub on which the wheel of European politics moves. The place of this political discussion and Rossip is the cafes, of which there are hun- dreds in Athens, und in which every afte noon und evening thousands congregate and drink coffee or mastik and talk politics. They buy the different political papers and settio as they come up, the question of the hour in modern Greek. There are a half dozen newspapers published here, and they all seem to bo thriving, if their sales are any ndex of success. They are all in Greek. and one of t1em, & _comic political sheet like Punch or Pack, but not one-tenth the size, is madoup outirely of poetry, It hascar: toons taking off the pecularitics and doings of the leading politicians, and it is said to be us witty as an old Greek comedy. T visited THE PARLIAMENT TIOUSE yesterduy. It is a big three-story building brick and stucco, which looke more like the mansion of a Paris millionaire than a govern- ment ofice, lonic columns of the purest white marble support a portico over its front door, and its interior contains a library, some offices aod the hall in which the deputies meet. There is but one house in the Greek parlisment and this contains 150 members, who are clected by the people of the various provinces, every man having the right to vote. Tho members are elected for four years and they must sit not less than three mnor longer than six months every year, They receive salaries amounting to $400 a session, and if an extra sesgion 18 called they get $300 more. In the most prosperous times they cannat thus muke more than $700 u year. They have fully as much power us our members of con- gress and they in reality govern Greece ‘Che king has the veto power, but he would not dare to exercise it against a large ma jority vote, and tho result 1s that his power is uot much greater than that of the gueon of England, parliament meets is about us big as the uver- age church, HOLDING THKEE HUNDRED PEOPLE, Its walls reach from the ground floor to the top of the three-story building which con- tains it, and its ceiling is of great panels of gold and white wood work. It is built in the shape of a half moon, and into the walls are cut two rows of gulleries, one above the other. The seats of the deputies are semi- circular benches which rise in concentric rows one above another, and in the center of which, at the front of the room, is the seat of the president. This seat is built between 1wo great white marble columns, and in the galleries back of it and considerably above it 15 & sort of an opera box inwhich ‘the king sits when he autends the meetings. Marble busts of the king and queen stand on pedes- tals, just below this, and between the depu- ties und the president are desks at which sit the ministers of the king's cabinet. The members themselves have little desks a foot square which are fastened to tho backs of the beuches in front of thew, and euch berch contains room for several members, The Greeks are very foud of speaking and they are good speakers and a place in this chamber is quite as much an onor here as is & seat in our senate, A politician hus, in fact, more influcoce here thau in the United States, and it is men rather than measures which constitutes the politics of Greece. ‘The party in power rules and controls the offices and if it fails to kold the support of the chamber of deputies the opposition comes in and takes the reins and ON THE OLD SPOILS SYSTEM ousts the officials of the opposite party and puts in its own. Justnow Mr. Tricoup one of the greatest statesmen of Greece, is the oremier aud his party lately got the rei They changed all of the clerks and by look- ing at the books proved their pred ors guilty of defrauding the government. ‘Lbis was especially 80 in the custom house offices. All of the old employes are, I am told, now in prison, while the clerks of some of the other offices are awaiting trial. ‘The elections 1 Greece are held somewhat on the same plan as in Awerica. There is stump speaking beforehand and muny of the same electioncering dodges are played, Not The room in which the Greek | cently helped in the election of their hus. bands to parliament, and I was to!d of an Athens lady who, at the last election, seeing that her husband was likely to be defeated, took several embroidered flags to neighbor: ing villages and calling the people together, told them that all such as wanted to vote for uer husband would have a free passage to Athens and tickets to the theater. She then presented them the flag to carry and the whole town glad of a cheap trip to the capi- tal accepted the offer and the husband now sits in the chamber. In the processions of candidates in Athens it is, T am told, not an uncommon sight to see THE WIFE OF A CAXDIDATE in fine clothes riding along in u carriage and distributing election documents and some- times flowers to the people. In the zetting up of a boom for a candidate his [riends sur- prise him by screnades and demands for speeches in front of his house, I'he candi- dute comes out, and just as ameng our poli- ticians at home, protests that he is surprised and goes on to make his ‘‘extompore” re- warks by pulling a rolt of munuscript from his coat-tail pozket. All of the elections and public meetings of Greece, even to the court balls, are held upon Sunday. The election polls are in the churches and the chief election place of Athens is the cathedral. The voters are all registered and the blloting is done in such @ way that fraud is hardly possible. Each candidate has a ballct-box of his own and bis judge sits behind it. ‘Thesc boxes are in a row along one side of tho church, and this place is so fenced off that only one man can pass ulong and vote at one time, The boxes themselves are about a toot square, and each has a round pive-like hole in'its top just large enough to admit tho arm of a man. This pipe runs down through the miadle of the box until iv meets a parti- tion which divides the box in half. THE BALLOTS AKE BUCKSHOT and the voter casts his ballot in the affirma- tive nccording as he casts his shot into the compartment on the right or left side of the box. His name is given as he starts in to vote and he is handed just as many buckshot as there ure candidates and no more. Each judge can see that he rolls up his sleeve und thut he has only one boliot 1 his hand before he puts it into the box, and a8 he drops it to the right or the left side the box no one can see how he votes aud fraud is almost im- possible. ‘There 18 no ballot box stufing in Greece and in cuse the ballots in the boxes bo not correspond with the tally at the en- trance the whole vote is thrown out. Both 1o the making of laws and in the elec- tions the greatestoficare is taken to prevent fraud, and in the ehamber of deputies a bLill must be discussed and voted upon article by article on three separate days before it can be passed. ‘Thesstandard of intelligenc among the people is high, and the poorest consider themselveson an equality with the richest and the bimest blooded. The modern Greek, whatever his position, does not imag. ine that he can bemdelow you 1n station, and the waiter at a café or the driver on a street car does ot hesitale to chat with you and to express his opinious: 1he people are very patriotic and theycbelieve in THE FUTERE OF GREECE, They are makiog wonderful progress, Already they have 88) miles of railroad, and there is talk of aidine which will go from Athens north andwill make connections with the railroads of1HMurope. This will bring the east ul least mday nearer Europe, and it will probably diversia large part of the trade and travel which goes from Inaia and Egypt to Paris gnd Loadon, by Italy to Greece. It will make the city of Athens one of the great cities of Eurove and will make s material change in the country. At present all ves- sels going Lo Constantinople and Athens must sail around the Ieloponesus, a grsat penin- sula, which lies at the south end of Greece d which is the southernmost point of Europe. The seas about this are very stormy and the passage 18 always rough BY THE CORINTH CANAL which 18 now being cut, the boats will be able to come through the Gulf of Corinth, wbove tue Polopovesus, and a day will be saved between Athens and Italy, and the ships which go to Constantinopie will save twe days in their voyages from Naples und Sicily. An immense amount of shipping will in this way be brought to Athens, und the city will increase even more rapidly than it is now dong. The people show themselves capable of taking advantage of every improvement. They are more like Americans thau oricn- fals, and they do not seruple to spend money auy s a town of theatres and good hotels. It is a city of fine schools and of museums. 1t has a #ood society, and its people are as bright and well posted as those of most cities of Europe. RANK G, CARp — PEPPERMINT DROPS. The pretty housemaid is the lily of the valet. .. It is never too lato to learn—But some- ‘times we find nothing left to learn, except that it is too late, ‘What a quiet, economical world we would liye in were it not for the movements of the upper jaw. Tho sensational columns of some dailes emulute the pollywog in their proportion of head to tale. Remorse is o good deal like a wooden leg. It may help you on your way, but always think how much happier you woula be with- out it. The harvest of fingers torn off and run through thrashing Machines Is reported to be fully up to the average this year. ‘The name applied to & new train between Chicago and New York is the “Ladies’ lim- ited.” Do the managers of any railway blindly imagine they can limit the ladies? The bathing dress isa leveler of all dis tinctions, In a single scanty garment there 18 no use of putting on airs. 1f your friend, who has been cultivating a kitchien garden all summer, looks thin and wan, don't lay it wholly to hard work. He may be trying to live on what he raised. It was all very well for the braye Law- renco to say : “Don’t give up the ship!” But when it is a_postmastership that you hold, and the president cuts your head off short, you are hardly to be biamed for giving it up. “Ihis 18 somewhat of a ‘twine trust,'” said the young man us his best girl wound her arms about his neck to whisper sweet nothings in s large left year. Hons are kept busy findiug the means for moving their crops, Whoever expects more of this life than viotuals_and clothes, with a little sparo change for the circus, is doomed to & broken- hearted old ugo. The Billings family will have a reunioo at Springtield, Mass., Septomber 6. Poor Josh is dead , but the purveyors of billingsgate are numerous, “I am always ready to give any man a 1ift, " said the sheriff s he sprung the gallows- drop. The finding of Tascott has become a dis- tinct ndustry. It has eot, in fact, to the point where a little protection might prove valuable for some of those found. Though America is not famous for her jew- elry, it is said 8ho has a rich seal ring, 'Tis the accounts of a side-door saloon that are kept up by the double-entry system. Whon the American Bar associition meets at Chicago, tenders of hospitalities will be wmade on all hands. Marriage is the hitching post on the road of life. 1t's & long lane that has no dog in the or- chard at the other end of it. An opening attraction at the seashore - The ealm and placid clam. Jefferson Davis has issued what Boulan- gor would call manifesto about *the brave nen who sustained our righteous cause,’ addressed to an ex-confederate colouel at Pine Bluft, Mr. Davis has, perhaps, been experimenting with the new elixir. The singers who saug into on’s phono- graph at the top of the Eiffel tower this week found themselves able to make higher tones thau ever before, This is both physiological and ambiguous. No wouder St. Paul is indignant at finding the nawmes of four dogs in the Minneapolis directory. Oune dog ina city directory is counted as about three and & hulf humau be- ings iu estimating population, A bachelor of forty he, A man of culture, pride and wealth A maid of twenty summers she, With sparkling eyes and glowing health, He wooed, but not as others have, With loviug words more sweet thaa true; He laid his bank book in her hand, aud werely turned to “Balance due.” She raised her e ; his cause was won— A maid of sterling sense wus she. He clasped her to his maoly breast, And now a married wan is he. THE ENGINES TELESCUPED. The Remarkable Result of a Col- lision on the Union Pacific. TRACKING A VAGRANT CAR. Elcctricity Knocking Out the Best Railway Lincs With a Speed Equal Almost to That of Thought. Railway Chatters, “Railroad accidents are sometimes oda af- fairs, notwithstanding the fact that they are sometimes very serious,” remarked Train- master Baxter, of the Union Pacific, & few days ago. “‘During my checkered cureer as a railroad man, I have had ample opportunity of noting the truth of my assertion, A few years ago, I was train dispatcher ou the Union Pacifie. I was very tired one evening and was almost dozng when I heard the ticker click off ‘First section No. 14, going east, ran into No. 8, between Grand Island and Lockwood.! My heart jumped right into my throt, because I was afraid perhaps that I had issued a wrong order and was responsi- ble for the accident; and I breathed very much easier, you may depond upon it, when, on looking over the copies of the orders sent, T found that the engineer ou the freight had evidently misunderstood his orders and was alone to blame. ho ticker kept on telling about the uc dent and, as good luck would have i was kiiled, or even scriously injured but the track was blockaded budly. The superin- tendant came down in u few moments and iside of half an hour had a wrecking train on the road. I went with it. When we reac! the sceu we found that the crew from ( Island had cleared tife wrecked cars away, but the engines were still on the track—or had lefv the rais, and thero 1s where the odity of the accident comes in, Of course you Lave heard of cars being tele- scoped but did you ever hear of locomotives being telescopedt C But theso had, The freight engine wis o beavy draft affair while the passeuger locomo- tive was of light draft, rney had not met fairly ond squarely and actusliy the smaller engine hud dived, us it were, straight into the larger. The smoke-stack of the larger engine was still_standing, and the cabs not being much injured, it was the od- dest looking sight I ever suw. There was a photograph taken of the scene, which was veproduced in the Scientific American. It caused considerable coment awmong wma- chinists.” 3 “They may oll talk s ghey marked Car-Accountant Bucking chanced to listen to the above anecd accidents and other incidents of railroad life, but, if you desire real. genuine, uualloyed ex citement, come and hold down my place of three months while I take a yucation. “Pwo months ago, a fellow out at Fremont asked and gained permission to remodel a Union Pacific stock-car, claiming that he could 80 change it that it would equal 1f not excel any of the high-priced stable cars, and thut the exi would be light, very light. Well, he fixed up his car und got'a stock shipper 1o ioad it with cattle for the Chicago market by way of @& trial. It was @ pretty fair arrangement but not up to expectations, s0 we did not have any more fixed up in that fashion. But thatcar! I haven't seen that car since, altho! been trying to find 1t ever since. Sowme road collared it at Chicago, aud, after tracing it around for & time J located it at Atlanta, Ga. I wanted it right away and ordered it back and it got as far as Mewbhis, when 1 again lost it. The next poiut that 1 los itat was St Joseph and I thought I had it sure, when presto! it was hauled down to Dennison, Tex. But I persevered and finally cornered it at San Diego, Cal. F'rom there it went to San Fraucisco und 1 said to myself ‘now that car is coming right straivht to Omaha,! But did it! No, After @ spuce of three mouths I found it at Portland, Ore. I'hence it went to Sioux City, and I chuckled to myself, ‘Buck, my boy you've won at last)” But have 11 Well, 0 quote the immortal Lew * 18 now on the Canadian Pacific, and I ex- pect is loaded with siove coal going west. But | will get it ordie trying to find out why I do not.” “Wh changes have taen place in raily roud equipment within the last fow yearsi™ John Francis, ctilef of the B. & M. r department. When I first begun_railroading, the pas- songer service on all lines were very ordi- na leeping cars, and there were a few in use, wero tame affairs contrasted with those of to-day, with all of life's comforts attached. The bunks, for such only could they be called, were hard, uacomfortable affairs, and the sleep of the passcuger was anything but bulmy. Then, too, there were no dining cars, and the traveler, insteud of sitting down to an elegant table had to bolt old dry sandwiches and muddy coffeo at @ station where a free-for-all fight was generally the termination of o rush for something to eat. Instead of cushions on the scats of passenger coaches, therg waore wooden seats, The roads were rough, the engines slow and vothing was s nice as it is to-day.” “Yes," said Arthur Smith, Mr. Fran chief clerk, “and what_improvement we will yet sce in the matter of transportation when clectricity shall haye become completely harnessed, Eat your breakfast at home, dinner in Chicago and supper 1n New Yori Kverything fast, nothing slow. No sides tracking for trains, no danger of running off the track, no sleeping cars, no dining cars, no uncomfortable passenger coaches, 1o dusty, dirty cinders from tho engine to get in your éyes,” Oh, this electrical air ship trans= portation will bo a grea “Arthur,” remarked Mr. Francis sternly, Do you forget that you ure in the employ of the great Burlington route, the greatest on carth, standard gauge, steel rails, double track, fast traius, the best service, et ete. “No, sir,” said Mr, Smith, as he resumed his occupation of writing a better to Chal man Blunchurd of the Central ‘Lrafic assos ciation. o “Very few prople 1n railroad service,” rés marked IRoad Master O'Donnell, of the B. & M., “have any idea of the causes of broken rails which frequently resuit i serious acei= dents, Some causes ure very curious. KFor instance, a flat wheel 01 & car has been known to break a ruil at the joint. A heavy engine with wheels which have sharp flanges under the trucks has been known to exert such @ pressure on tho curve as to break a rail, but such an instance is rare. A neavy engine also has been known to crowd a guard rail on u curve so hard as to break it, and jump the track, Such accidents ura wore likely to huppen in winter than sums mer."! P. P. Shelby, the late general manager of the Montana Central, who was & few aays ago seloctod ns trafic manager for the Mani= toba I8 once more iu his proper sphere. He tially @ traflic manager and no man in the country knows the transportation sits uation from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the gulf better than he, Despite that under his nsusgement the curnings of the Montana Central huve in= creased from month to mouth uutil a point when a dividend can be declared has beon reached, he himself will concedo that the supervision of an_operating department is not hie forte, He is wmong the leading trafo men in the country and bus fow equals and no superiors. His promotion is a deserved one and the Manitoba managenent will never huve cause Lo regret their action, ——— We two alone. 'The restless ocean Broke billowy on the glistening shore, el e, 1 whispered, with emotion— ‘ell me you uever loved before, * Her uzurc eyes thro' tear-drops glistened Aud stifling heart-throbs half o'ercome her, wind and wave stand still to listen—= *Not this sume Whil Soft falls her wnswer: wmer.” e SR Mrs, George Pendleton Howler, of Ci clnnati, was not carried off by I[talian brigs unds, as recently reported. 13ut shie 1 havs ini & tough fight with Parisan brigands diss guised as hotel keapers,