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10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, THE SHERIFF OF SISKIYOU. BY BRET HARTE. IN TWO PARTS—PART L Copyright, 1694, by Bret | arte. On tho 16th of August, 1854, what seemed te be the entire population of Wynyard's Bar wan collected upon a little bluft which over- looked the rude wagon road that was. the only approach to the settlement. In gen- eral appearance the men differed but little trom ordinary miners, although the foreign eloment—shown In certain Spanish pe- cullarities of dress and color—predominated, and some of the men were further distin- guished by the delicacy of education and sedentary pursuits, Yet Wynyard's Bar was a city of refuge, and comprised among Its fnhabitants a number who were “‘wanted” by the state authorities, and fits actual attl- tude at thet moment was one of open re- bellion against the legal power, and of par- ticular resistance to the apprehension by warrant of one of ity prominent members. This gentleman, Major Overstone, then astride of a gray mustang and directing the had a few days tskiyou county, him for the ating certain movements of the crowd, betore killed the sheriff of who had atempted to arrest double offence of misapprop corporate funds of the state and the ing of the oditor who had {mprude posed him. The lesser crime of homicide might have been overlooked by the authori- ties, but its repetition upon the body of their own overzealous and misguided official could shoot- ly ex- voin, sald a word to his file leader, and the four files closed in a com- pact square motionless on the road. The young officer’s unsworded hand hung quietly at his thigh; the men's unslung carbines rested easily on their xaddles. Yet at that moment every man of them knew that they were covered by 100 rifles and shotguns lev- eled from every bush, and that they were caught helplessly in a trap. “Since when,' sald Major Overstone, with an affoctation of tone and manner different from that in which he lad addressed his previous companions, ‘“‘have 'the Ninth United States cavalry helped to serve a state court’s pettifogging process?” “Wo are hunting a deserter—a half breed agent—who has just escaped us,” returned the officer. His voice was boyish—so, too, was his figure in jts slim, cadetlike smart- ness of belted tunic—but very quiet and level, although his face was still flushed with the shock and shame of his surprise. officer drew The relaxation of the relief went through the wrought and waiting camp. The sol- diers wero not seeking them. Ready as these desperate men had been to do the'r lead er's bidding, they were well aware that a momentary victory over the troops would not pass unpunished, and meant the ulti- mate dispersion of the camp, and quiet as these innocent invaders seemed to be, the would no doubt sell their lives dearly. . The embattled desperadoes glanced anxiously at their leader; the soldiers, on the contrary, Took afght before them “Process or no process,”said Major Over- stone with a sneer, “'you've come to the last THE HALF-BRE! RO .. 7 S\ D HAD 'l'lll{(‘)WN HIMSELF UPON THE MAJOR. P =2 not pass unchallenged, if they expected to arrest Overstone for the more serious of- fonce agalnst property. So it was known that a néw sherift had been appointed and was coming to Wynyard's Bar with an armed pos: But it was also understood that this invasion would be resisted by the Bar to its last man. All eyes wero turned upon a fringe of Jaurel and butternut that encroached upon the road half a mile away, where it seemed that such of the inhabitants who were miss ing from the bluff were hidden to give warn- ing or retard the approach of the gosse. A gray haze slowly rising between the fringe and the distant hillside was recognized as the dust of a cavalcade passing along the invisable highway. In the hush of expect- ancy that followed the irrégular clatter of hoofs, the sharp crack of a rifle and a sud- den halt were faintly audible. The men, scattered In groups on the blufls, exchanged a smile of grim satisfaction. Not so their leader. A quick start and an oath attracted attention to him. To their surprise he was looking in another direction, but as they looked too, they saw and un- derstood the cause. A flie of horsemen, hitherto undetected, were slowly passing along the litle ridge on the right. Their compact accoutrements and the yellow braid on their blue jackets, distinctly seen at that distance, showed them to be an es- cort of United States cavalry. Before the assemblage could realize this new invasion a nearer clatter of hoofs was along the highroad, and one of the ambus- cading party dashed up from the fringe ot woods below. His face was flushed, but tri- umphant, “A reg'lar skunk! by the living hokey!” he panted, pointing to the faint haze that was again slowly rising above the invis- ible road. “They backed down as soon as they saw our hand and got a hole through their new sherift’s hat. But what are you lookin' at? What's up?" The leader impatiently darkening faco to the file. “Reg'lars, by gum!" ejaculated the other. pointed with «a MAJOR OVERSTONE, THEN ASTRIDE OF A GRAY MUSTANG. “But Uncle Sam ain't In this game! Wot right have they—' “Dry up!” sald the leader. The escort was now moving at right angles with the camp, but suddenly halted, Almost doubling upon itself in some evident tommotion, A dismounted figure was seen momentarily flying down the hillside, dodg- Ing from bush to bush until lost in the un- ferbrush. A dozen shots were fired over its head, apd then the whole escort wheelod and came clattering down the trail in the di- rection of the camp. A single riderless horse, evidently that of the fugitive, fol- lowed. 2 “Spread yourselves along the ridge, every man of you, and cover them as they enter the gulch!" shouted the leader. “But not & shot until'l give the word. ' Scatter The assemblage dispersed like a startled village of prairio dogs, squatting behind every available bush and rock along the line of biuff. The leader alone trotted quietly to tho head of the gulch. The nine cavalrymen came smartly up in twos, & young officer leading. The single figure of Major Overstone gpposod them with w command to halt, Looking uff, the young | Overstone, place to recover your deserter. We don't give up men in Wynyard's Bar. And thoy didn’t teach you at the academy, sir, to stop to take prisoners when you were outflanked and outnumbered.”” “Bedad! they dldn’t teach you, Captain to engage a battery at Cerro Gordo with a half company, but you did it— more shame to you mow, sir, commandin the thayves and ruflans you do.” “Silence!” sald the young officer. The sleeve of the sergeant who had spoken —with the cheyrons of long service upon it— went up to a salute and dropped again over his carbine, as ha stared stolidly before him, But his shot had told. A flush of mingled pride and shame passed over Overstone's face. “'Oh, it's you, Murphy!” he said, with an affected laugh; “and you have improved in discipline with' your stripes.” The young officer turned his head slightly. “Attention!” ‘One moment more," said Overstorie, com- Ing forward. “I have told you that we don't give up any man who seeks our protection. But," he added, with a half-careless, half- confemptuous wave of his hand and a sig- nificant glanco at his followers, “we don't prevent you from seeking him. The road Is clear; the camp is before you,” The young officer continued without look- ing at him: “Forward—In two files—open order. Ma-arch!” The little troop moved forward, passed Major Overstone at the head of the gully, and spread out on the hillside. The as. sembled camp, still armed, lounging out of ambush here and there, ironically made way for them to pass. A few moments of this farcial quest and a glance at the impenetra- ble wooded heights around apparently satis- fied the young officer and he turned his files again into the gully. Major Overstono was stll lingering there. ‘I hope you are satisfled,” he said grimly. Ho then paused, and, in a changed ang more hesitating voice, added: “I am an older so). dier than you, sir, but I am always glad to make the acquainfance of West Point." He pated and held out his hand, est Point, still red and rigid, glanced him with bright clear eyes wider hgnt lashes and the peaked of a smartly cocked cap, looked coolly at the proffored hand raised his own to a stiff salute, sald “Good afternoon, sir,” and rode away. Major Overstone wheeled angrily, but in Qoing s0 came sharply upon his condjutor— the londer of the ambusiied party. “Well, Da®son,” he sald impatiently, yelt, 1 impatiently,“who “Only one of them d—a half-breed Injin agents. He's just over there In the brush with Simpson,” lying low till the soldiors clar_out.” “Did you talk to him?' ““Not ‘much!"" returned Dawson scorntully, “He ain't my style.” “Fetch him up to my cabin; he may be of some use to us.” Dawson looked skeptical. “I reckon he ain't no more galn here than he was over there,” he said, and turned away, 1L The cabin of Major Overstone differed out- wardly but little from those of his com- panions. It was the usual structure of logs lald lengthwise and rudely plastered at each point of contact with adobe, the material from which the chimney, which entirely oc- cupled one gable, was built. It was pierced with two windows and a door, roofed with smaller logs and thatched with long half cylinders and spruce bark.. But the interfor gave. certain indications of the distinction as well as the pecullar experiences of its occupant. In place of the usual bunk or berth built against the wall stood a small folding camp bedstead, and upon a rude deal table that held a tin' wash basin and pail lay two ivory-handled brushes, combs and other elegant toilet articles, evidently the contents of the major's dressing bag. A handsome leather trunk occupied one corner with a richly caparisoned silver mounted Mexican saddle, a mahogany caso of dueling pistols, a leather box, locked and strapped, and a gorgeous gold and quartz- handled ebony “presentation” walk- ing stick. There was a certain dramatic suggestion in this vevela- tion of the sudden and hurried transition from a life of ostentatious luxury to one of hidden toil and privation, and a further sig- nificance in the slow and gradual destitution and degradation of these elegant souvenirs. A pair of silver boot hooks had been used for raking the hearth and lifting the coffee ket- tle; the Ivory of the brushes was stained with coffee; the cut-glass bottles had lost their stoppers and had been used for vinegar and salt; a silver framed hand mirror hung against the blackened walls, For the major's occupancy was the sequel of a hur- ried flight from his luxurious hotel at Sac- ramento—a_transfer that he believed was only temporary, until the affair blew over and ho could return in safety to browbeat his accusers, as was his wont. But this had not been so easy as he had imagined; his prosecutors were bitter, and his enforsed se- clusion had been prolonged week by week, until the fracas which ended in the shoot- ing of the sherift had apparently closod the door upon his return to civilization forever. Only here was his life and person secure. For Wynyard's Bar had quickly sucoumbed to the domination of his reckless courage, and the eminenco of his double crime had made him respected among spendthrifts, gamblers and gentlemen whose performances had never risen above a stage coach robbery or a single assassination. Fven criticlsm of his faded luxuries had been delicately with- held. He was leaning over his open trunk— which the camp popularly supposed to con- tain state bonds and securities of fabulous amounts—and had taken some letters from it, when a figure darkened the doorway. He looked up, laying his papers carelessly aside. Within Wynyard's Bar property was sacred, It was the late fugitive. Although some hours had already elapsed since his arrival in the camp, and he had presumably re froshed himself inwardly, although his out- ward appearance was still disheveled and dusty, brier and milk weed clung to his frayed blouse and trousers, What could be seen of the skin of his face and hands un- der its stains and begriming, was of a dull yeliow. His light eyes had all the brightnes without the recklessness of the mongrel race. They leisurly took in the whole cabin, the open trunk before the major, and then ted deliberately. on the major himself. Well,” sald Major Overstone, abruptly, what brought_you here?” Same as brought you, I reckon,” re- sponded the man almost as abruptiy. The major knew something of the half- breed temper, and nelther the retort nor its tone affected him. “You didn’t come fust because you de- serted,” said the major coolly. “'You've been up to something else.” I have,” sald the man, with equal cool- ne I thought so. Now you understand you can't try anything of the kind here.” If you do, up you go on the first tree. That's rule 1 “I see; you ain’t particular a for the sheriff here—you fellers. The major glanced at him quickly. He seemed to be quite unconscious of any irony in his remark, and continued grimly: “And what's rule “I reckon you needn’t trouble yourself be- yond rule 1, returned the major, with dry significance. Nevertheless he opened a rude cupboard in the corner and brought out a rich silver-mounted cut glass drinking flask, which he handed to the stranger. said the half breed, admiringly, ut waiting Certainly.” “Certainly now—but before—eh?” Rule No. 2 may havé indicated that ref- erences to the past held no dishonor. The major, although accustomed to these pleas- antries, laughed a little harshly. “Mine always,” he said. “But you don't drink?" The half breed’s face darkened under its grime. “Wot you're given us? I've been filled chock up by Simpson over thar. I reckon I know when I've got a load on “Were you ever in Sacramento?” “Yes.” ““When?” “Last week."” “Did you hear anything about me?" The half breed glanced through his tangled hair at the major in some wonder, not only at the question, but at the almost childlike eagerness with which it was asked. “I didn't hear much of anything else,” he answered, grimly. “And—what did they say?" id you'd got to be took anyhow. They allowed the new sheriff would do it, too.” The major laughed. “Well you heard how the new sheriff did it—skunked away with his whole posse before one-eighth of my men! You saw how the rest of this camp beld up your nine troopers and that sap-headed cub of a lieutenant, didn’t you? You wouldn't have been standing here if you hadn't. No, there lsn't the civil process nor the civil power in all California that can take me out of this camp.” But neither his previous curlosity nor present bravado seemed to impress the ragged stranger with much favor. He glanced sulkily around the cabin and began to shuffle toward the door. “Stop! Where are you going? Sit down. I want to talk to you.” The fugitive hesitated for a moment, and then dropped ungraciously on the edge of a camp stool near the door. The major looked ut him. “I may have to remind you that I run this camp and the boys hereabouts do pretty much as I say, What's your name? rTom.” “Tom? Well, look here, Tom! D— it all! Can’t you see that when a man is stuck here alone, as I am, he wants to know what's going on outside and hear a little fresh talk?”" The singular weakness of this blended command and appeal apparently struck the fugitive curiously. He fixed his lowering oyes on the major as if In gloomy doubt If he were really the reckless desperado he had been represented. That this man—twice an assassin and the ruler of outlaws as reckless as hims:1f—=hou'd apprcach him.‘n this ha'f- confidential way evidently puzzled him. “Wot you wanter know?" he asked gruflly. “Well—what's my party saying or doing about me?” said the major impatiently. “What's the Express saying about me?" “I reckon they're throwing off on you all round; they allow you never represented the party—but worked for yourself,” said the man shortly. Here the major lashed out: A set of traitors and hirelings! He had bought and paid for them all! He had sunk $2,000 in the Express and saved the editor from being horsewhipped and jailed for dibel! Half the cursed bonds that they were making such a blanked fuss about were handled by these hypocrites, blank them! They were a low- lived crew of thieves and deserters! It Is presumed that the major had forgotten him- self In this infelicitous selection of epithets— but the stranger's face only relaxed into a grim smile. More than that, the major had apparently forgotten his desire to hear his guest talk, for he himself at once launched into an ' elaborate exposition of his own affairs, and a spacious and equally elab- orate defense and justification of himself and denuuciation of his accusers, For nearly half an hour he reviewed step by step and detail by detail the charges against him, with plausible explanation and sophistical argument—always with a singular. prolixity and reiteration that spoke of incessant con- scious and self-abstraction. Of that dashing self-sufficiency which had dazzled his friends and awed his enemies there was no trace! At last even the set smile of the degraded recipient of these confidences dark- ened with a dull, bewildered disgust. Then to his relief a stop was heard without. The major's manner instantly changed. “Well,” he demanded impatiently, as Daw- son entered. “I came to know what you want done with him,” said Dawson, indicating the fugitive with a contemptuous finge “Take him to your cabin.” “My cabin! Him?" ejaculated Dawson, turning sharply on his chief. The major's light eyes contracted and his thin lips became a straight line. *I don't think you understand me, Dawson, and an- other time you'd better wait until I've done; I want you to take him to your cabin and then clear out of it.yourself. You u stand? I want him near me and alone (To be contlnued.) e Suleldal Marriage. Ho was engaged to the girl but he would not carry out the contract, though he re- fused to give her up, says the Detrolt Free Pross. She had coaxed him at first to give up his foolish notion, but he wouldn’t hava it, and finally she kicked out of the trac Why don’t you stop fooling, she “and marry me?" “My dear,” he pleaded, “marriage in my would ' be sulcide.” “Suicide? What do you mean mean that I am 80 poor I could not hire a cook.' “Well,” she urged bravely, “what of that? 1 am strong and well and can do the cookix until you are rich enough to hire a cook, “I know that, my dear love," he mur- mured, taking her face in his hands, “it Is your cooking that I am afraid of” apd young love's dream was split wide open. ————— DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures sores. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures ulcers. ald, o AS CIEAP An Instructive Atray of Figures Proving he Contrary. THE MINT THAT GRAHAM BELL BUILT Telephone Profits -and Prospects-Harness. Ing Ningara's, Power—Important De- uis iy the Field of Elsetricitys Two momentous events of the recent oc- currence foreshadowed a year of notable progress and activity in the fleld of elec- trical science. Of the two, expiration of the Bell telephone patent is entitled to pre- cede for the reason that it opens to com- petition a boundless field hitherto monopo- lized by one concern. No less in importance, though limited in application, is the suc- cessful development of the great power of Niagara Falls, No monopoly in recent times developed as rapidly and obtained such commanding power, as the Bell Telephone company. The extent of its power may be measured by the enormous tribute it exacted from the people of this country, According to the Boston Herald, the present company was or- ganized in May, 1500, with an authorized capital of $10,000,000, and issued capital of $6,500,000. This was increased to $7,350,000 by giving a right to the National Bell Tele- phone 5 to company's shareholde subscribe for $850,000 at par. From that day until re- cently subscription privileges at par have been fssued, and sundry extra and valual rights have been given to shareholder None of these is included here. The company began paying extra dends in 1884 They are included above and in detail have been: 1884, $288,063; 1885, 044; 1886, $352,084; 1887, $392,084 1888, $600,000; 1890, $760,000 1891, 01,8 $1,125 000. The average regular and extra divi- dend per year has been $1, The average capital has been $11,2 The average rate of dividend has been 14.72 per cent. divi- 500,000 ENORMOUS PROFITS. The National Beli Telephone company had a capital stock of $700,000. When it con- cluded to reorganize as the American Bell it sold 500 shares in its treasury for $600 per share to meet its “immediate wants,” presumably floating debt. It then gave each shareholder six shares for one and turned the property over to the new company for 10,000, taking pay in stock at par. The ear ended February 28, 1880, and in- two months of ‘the National Bell year. In 1884 the fiscal year changed to the calendar year and covered but ten months. The total dividend payments and capital at the end of each year have been: Surplus earnings Equals on applicable to stock per dividends. cent. 1885 ++$1,809,996, 1886 - 1973750, 1 1887 7,608.12 20.80 1888 © 23863 1889 . 216051,888.69 1890 1 2,860,41 1891 . 312681 1892 ..... curests ZAILL The company now proposes to ask the legislature of Massachusetts for authority to add $30,000,000 to its capital stock. This vast sum is required, the managers say, to increase the efficiency of the service. Those familiar with the methods of the company assert the fund will be ysed to buy off com- petitors and prevent a rivalry which would bring about a radical reduction of tele- phone charges. Opposition companies are already in the fleld jn Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Loufs and other points. If these secure a foothold and the Bell people secure the increased capital, it is likely the country will witness a repetition of the swallowing process which distinguished the Western Union in dealing with competitors. PRIVATE LINES. But there is a vast fleld for telephone use- fulness which cannot be monopolized. = Busi- ness houses, factories of all kinds, institu- tions and colleges will find the new order of vast benefit, for now all such can have telephones of their own connecting their various departments, .at a cost lthat is practically nothing compared to that which they would ‘have had to pay to the Bell company. Rallroad companies and great factories will get the full benefit of the new condition of affairs. Men of moderate means and rich folk may now have a telephone line between their houses and thelr stables, and can give thelr orders to the coachman without sending for that functionary to the stablos. Perhaps the new order will be mostly ap- preciated in the country. Every farmer in a county may have a tclephone connecting his house with that of several of his nearest neighbors, and the new automatic switch- board may be used when a general confab is desired or when the doctor is wanted. Hundreds of electrical manufacturing con- cerns scattered in the cities all over the country are now almost prepared to deliver instruments exactly like the Bell telephone —practically Bell telephones—to any one who wants them. The prices will range all the way from $35 to $50, including, of course, the complete Instrument with its two counterparts. NIAGARA FALLS POWER. The first of the mammoth turbines by means of which some of Niagara's limitless power is to be harnessed, was successfully tested ten days ago. While the power is a part of the gemeral system now being de- veloped at a point about two miles above the rapids, it is designed to operate the huge paper manufacturing establishment erected last year. The construction of the power house, pits and feeder for this paper mill was started at about the same time the big pit of the Cataract Construction company was begun. The pit of the paper mil is 20x40 feet and 158 in depth, and the water has a head of 165 feet. It was sunk under great dificulty, owing to the presence in lurge quantities of water which Jowed through the seams of the rocks from the river, and was exceedingly hard to check. It has taken nearly two years and bas cost several lives, many thousands of dollars and has employed hundreds of men and horses. The turbines, resting on per- pendicular shafts, are encased In huge iron coverings, and the shafting rises to the top of the pit, braced at every thirty feet with fron staging. At the top on these shafts are the huge cogs which connect with the shafting and machinery of the mill, This does away with-any need of belting and any loss of power from such a cause. The mill has its own waterworks plant, its own fire_department, electric light station, and, in fact, all converlénces necessary for its operation. 1w It is expected shortly that the company will place three more turbines in the pit of the mill, which will give It 6,600-horse power. The penstock for the additional three is in positlon” below, and with little work they will be got in readiness. A BOLD ELEGTRICAL PROJECT. This is the agg,of great engineering pro- jects. The agnificent idea of reviving anglish industry by cutting a thirty-six mile canal and thus miking a seaport of Man- chester has justiboen successfuly carrfed out, and the harnessing of a portion of Niagara Falls for. ghe suply of light and power to a largq ,sectlon of surrounding country will soon) b an accomplished fact. An enterprise thal compares favorably with theso gigantic undertakings in originality and daring {s now on foot. It is proposed to use the tidal currents of the Irish Sea for the generation of electricity by joining Great Dritain and Ireland, and bullding power houses on the fsthmus. The power houses would meet all requirements, one for sup- plying the Scotch side, the other for the Irish side, and a railroad would run along the isthmus from Cantire to Antrim, the re- spective points at which the junction with the main land would be made. The Guif stream flows in a continuous current from the North sea into the Irish sea In volumes of water estimated at many cubic miles dally, and utilization of us much as would test the capacity of the two power houses would enable power and lighting to be sup- plied to the districts on both sides of the channel for hundreds of miles around. The waterway between the headland of Cantire in § nd and Torhead in Ireland, on the proposed line of junction, s fifteen miles wide and 474 feet deep at midcurrent, but 'EBRUARY 11, much shallower toward oither shore The high bluffs of Cantiro and the still higher land on the Irish side, from 900 to 1,200 feet high, offer facilities for gravitating the ma- terials requisite to form tMe Isthmus. Tho superficlal extent of land required to form the isthmus would be a little more than a square mile,of the average width and depth of 100 yards, The cost of creating this Junction” would be about $10,000,000, and it would occupy about three years. It s pointed out that the tmportance and value of the results in the present aspect of af fairs in Ireland cannot be overestimated. A land function of Great Britain and Ireland would eroate a more porfect homogeneity of the united peoples. It would change the Irish sea into a land-rocked bay-—lessened in depth by the ation of the Atlant current from the north, thereby serving to ald the natural drainage of the adjacent and make the marsh land of the east 1 capable of the highest de o asts, ast of Irel greo of cultivation. The Mull of Cantire is about 865 miles in a direct line northwost of London, and about 126 north of Dublin TESLA'S TEST. The February Century contalns an article by Mr. T. C. Martin, editor of the Electrical Gngineer, on the work of the Servian-Amerl can electrician, Nikola Tesla. The writer says: Mr. Tesla has advanced the opinfon and sustained {t by brilliant expsriments of startling beauty ani grandeur, that light and heat are produced by electrostatic forces | acting batween charged molecules or atoms erfecting a gencrator that would give him currents of several thousand alte second, and inventing his disruptive dis charge coil, he has created elect tic con ditions that have already modified not a few of the accepted not ons about electri ity It has been supposed that ordinary cur rents of 1,000 or 2,000 volts potential would surely kill, but Mr. Tesia has been seen re cefving through his hands currents at a potentfal of more than 200,000 volts, vibrat ing 1,000,000 times por second, and manifest- ing themselves in dazzling streams of light. nations per This Is not a me tour de force, but illustrates the principle that while currents of lower frequency destroy life, these are h striking test, which, After such a the way, no one has displayed hurried inclination to repeat Mr. Tesla’s body and clothing have con tinued for some time to nit fine tmmers or halos of splintered actual flame is produced by thi electrostatically charged mole curious spectacle can be seen of puissant, white, ethereal flames, that do not consume thing, bursting from the ends of an in duction coil as though it were the bush on holy ground. With such vibrations as can be maintained by a potential of 3,000,000 volts Mr. Tesla expects some day to envelope himsel complete sheet of lambent fire that leave him quite uninjured. Such cu as he now uses would, ho says, kecp a aked man warm the north pole, and their use in therapentics is but one of the practical possibilities that has been taken up. The Chicago, Milwauke St. Paul rail- light. In fact, an gitation of in a will way is heating and electrically lighting few of its trains by means of special tender cars. Bach of these is thirty-four fect long, strongly built, encased in sheet steel, and is hauled directly behind th wder of the locomotive. It weighs, when loaded, about 64,000 pounds, and earries a boiler, engine, dynamo, three tons of coal and allons of water. The boiler is of the loe motive pattern the crown sheet I ported by radial and the fire box & pan enclosed in a water hottom water is regularly obtained by means of an injector drawing water from the locomotive tender through a rubber h in case of failure of this supply, however, the water in the tank is used and is calculated to be about two hours' supply. The engine is an automatic Westinghouse, with cylinders six and one-half inches in diameter and of six inches stroke, capable of indi- cating eighteen-horse powen with 100 pounds of steam. This engine is belted to a fifteen-kilowatt Edison dynamo. which furnishes the current for lighting the train. Thy exhaust steam from the engine may be run directly to the air through an exhaust head on the top of the car, or it may be sent to the uptake of the boiler to arge the fire. The steam used to heat the train in the winter is taken through a 2-inch pipe running along the top of the car to a hose coupling at each end. One speclal at- tendant is run with the car, and he is ex- pected to perform all the operations of firing the boiler and regulating the heat and light of the entire train. The trains are from seven to ten cars long, requiring from 150 to 225 Incandescent lamps of rl6-candle power each. In summer, when the steam is not required for heating, the tender cars are laid off and the lighting outfit placed in the forward end of the baggage car, steam being taken from the engine. AHEAD OF THE COWCATCHER. The electric headlight is now used on many railroads, and W. B. Sparks, who is interested in a southern road, says that his company has found it a very profitable in- vestment. The lights cost about $375 each, fixed on the locomotive, and they cost no more than the oil light to maintain. The old headlight would not throw its light on a very dark night more than 150 feet, and it is impossible for an engineer to slow up his train in that distance, even with the emerg- ency brake. Quite an item in the expense of the road used to be claims for cattle killed. During the rainy season the lands along the line of the road become very wet; in places they are entirely covered with water, and the cattle come upon the track secking some dry spot on which to sleep. When the old headlight was in use as many as thirteen cows have been killed at one time, and the damage claims have some- times amounted to over $1,000 per month. Now the electric light throws its rays from half to three-quarters of a mile in front of the engine; obstructions can be easily seen at that distance, and some of the engineers ipsist that a switch disk can be more casily made out by it at night that in the daytime. 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