Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1894, Page 3

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: M( HE DAILY BEE. L AR COUNCIL BLUFFS. PYFICE - - NO. 12 PEARL STREET | Dalivered by earrier to any part of the eity. | H. W. TILTON, Le: EPHONES—Business office, No. 3 night tor, No. 2. MINOR M i [ The Boston store of Omaha purchased the mainder of the Kinnehan shoe stock for ,625. Rev. George Muller delivered an address “Independence Day Fallacles” before a rge and appreclative audience, which filled dberty hall last evening. Although Mr. uller at times deviated from his subject, 0 spoke with his usual eloquence and en- thuslasm, and held the attention of his Msteners for nearly an hour. Fourteen members of the Ganymede Wheel elub took a trip yesterday to Neola and roturn, a distance of fifty miles. While topping at the hotel Ogden set his wheel n the sun, and when he came out found that the heat had caused the tire to ex- lode. He got back home with a great eal of trouble and a wagon. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hanni- balsen, who %as thrown from a buggy the sther night and thought to have escaped fnjury by lghting on his feet, turns out to have ‘sustained a fracture of the collar bone. On account of his youth, however, the break will mend soon. Mrs. Hannibalsen is dcing picely, and ler physician etates that there I8 no danger of serlous results. The running of trains on the Rock Island TION. road has been resumed once more. The west bound ‘mall, due here at 6:10 a. m., Is expected to arrive this morning on time having left the Chicago depot Instead of Blue Island, as all trains have been com- pelled to do heretofore. The eastbound mail was made up here last evening at o'clock and is expected to run clear through to Chicago, and the 10:50 mail train will also leave this morning. For sale, cheap, two lots on Broadway near postoffice, 25 feet and 50 feet. Homes for men of moderate means at low prices, y payments. Fire fnsurance written in the best companies. Lougee & Towle, 235 Pearl street. Grand Plaza telephone 45. Grand Plaza bathing beach. Grand Plaza plenie grounds. Grand Plaza’s cornet band beats them all. Grand Plaza’s fine row boats are all the 0. Grand Plaza excursion accommodations ean’t be beaten. Afternoon and night concerts at Grand Plaza, 2 to 6 and from 7 to 10. Manager of Grand Plaza can understand 22 languages. So all nations will feel at home. “He that does not visit Grand Plaza know- t nothing, and will be for all time to come branded a traltor to enterprise.”—BEugene. For cobs go to Cox, 10 M1y street. Tele- phone 48. ‘Washerwomen use Domestic soap. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. h.m" Ethel Witter is visiting in Ottumwa, Frank Hough visit to Chicago. Miss Pearl Moorehouse of Loveland fs vis- iting friends here. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Bushnell will spend a week in Dickinson county. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Collins, on Fourth street, a daughter. Miss Maud Virgin of Burlington, who has been visiting friends here for several weelks, expects to leave for home tomorow. Mrs, H. Luring and daughter, Miss Ella, have returned from an’ extended visit in Richmond, Ind., Cincinnati and other east- ern points. Frank Chambers, formerly deputy county elerk, now of Mason City, is In the city for & couple of weeks' visit' with his brother, H. J. Chambers. Prof. F. A. Hyde, formerly principal of the Council Bluffs city schools, now con- nected with the Western Normal school at Shenandoah, will be a- member of the faculty of one of the colleges at Lincoln, Ncb., next fall. leaves today for a weck's Grand Plaza, Lake Manawa. Grand Plaza will be open to free admis- slon every day up to noon. From noon until midnight an admission fee of 10 cents will be charged, which will admit to grounds and to concerts and all entertainments. No return checks will be given. No person of questionable character will be permitted to enter the grounds. No admittance to Grand Plaza will be charged to persons who desire to rent boats or bathing suits. Ice cream and refreshments served In the pavilion of Grand Plaza. Real estate is cheap in Council Bluffs. ‘We can sell you a home, a vacant lot, a ruit or garden farm cheaper than ever. ow I8 the time to buy. Day & Hess, 89 earl street. Have Added a Club, ‘The Commercial Pilgrims, for the purpose of making their headquarters on the third floor of the Brown building still more at- tractive, have added social features that make it something of the nature of a club. Reading rooms have been fixed up over- looking the beautiful Bayliss park, where all the leading daily papers and magazines are kept on file, and everything else neces- sary for club comfort provided. Yesterday twenty or more of the pllgrims enjoyed the hospitality and some cigars and other things. The rooms will hereafter be under the care of Henry Coffeen, and will be open during the day and evening to business men as well as commerclal travelers. The local pligrims desire to make their headquarters of commercial importance and expect it to be the meeting place of business men and citizens who desire to discuss plans and make arrangements for pushing all the city's interests. Lake Manawn Kallway Time Card. Commencing Saturday, June 9, trains will leave Council Bluffs for Grand Plaza, Bath- ing Beach and Picnie Grounds at Lake Man- awa as follows: No. 1, 9 a. m.; No. 3, 10 a, m.; No. 6, 11 a. m.; No. 7, 13 m.; No. 9, 1 p. m.; No. 11, 2 p. m. Trains will run every twenty-two minutes thereafter until 10 p. m. Return tralns will leave Manawa on the halt hours up to 10:30, when they will re- turn every twenty-two minutes. A nice, cool swim at Manhattan beach, Lake Manawa, s the proper thing to take these hot day: Talking Up n Whoel Meet. At the regular monthly meeting of the Ganymede Wheel club this evening the ques- tlon of having a wheel meet under the club's ausplces Is to come up for discusgion. There has been talk of this for some time past and there is but little doubt that the scheme will be carried into exccution some time be- tween now and the 1st of September. Wheel- men from Omaba have encouraged the Gany- mede, and there will be a big crowd in at- tendance from that city, as well as from other towns all over this part of the coun- try. Prizes will be solicited from the mer- chants of this city and a program of races will be arranged that will occupy about a day, or possibly two. The wheelmen of this eity and Omaha have shown the kind of riding they can do on a number of occaslons and it a meet Is held there are sure to be some good records made. The Eagle laundry plant has been greatly larged and improved, and we are now pro- ?‘d to turn out a large amount of strictly rst-class work. Neglige and colored shirts Iadies' waists, etc., a specialty. We guar- artee not to fade warranted colors, Tele- phove, 167. 724 Broadway. Best all wool ingrain carpets, 66c dvriug July, to make room for new stock. COUNCIL BLUFFS CARPET Cu. J. R. Soyder, the commission man, has been made sole agent for “‘Quirye, the latest discovery of Dr. Koch of Berlin. It I8 a tasteless distillation of quinine, with pepsin and the best rye whisky, and is pro- Dounced a royal remedy for dyspepsia. It can bo sold anywhere without federal li- euse, | NEWS FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS Ex-Congressman Rosawell @, Horr Talks About tho Strike Situation, REPRESSIVE ~ LEGISLATION IMMINE NT Result of the Present Disturbances Will Probably Take the Form of Laws to Restrict Organizations — Endorses Clevelaud Once at Legst. Ex-Congressman R. G. Horr of Michigan is spending a few days with his Council Blufts relatives, Dr. Pinney and family. He is making the rounds of the Chautauqua as- semblies, his usual mode of taking a sum- mer outing. He spoke at the Beatrice as- sembly on the Fourth. It is a sad commen- tary on the deserted Chautauqua grounds of Council Bluffs that this season Beatrice 1s more than paying out. On the Fourth there were over 5,000 to hear Mr. Horr. Des entertaining the Chautauqua Mr. Hoor deems it a of his soclal duty to give Instruction to populists and to en- deavor to lead them into what he deems the better way. One of his effective weapons is “the calfskin hrgument.”” Mr. Horr has a calf which travels with him, and he dis- plays it with telling effect before all audi- ences where lie thinks there is any populistic heresy. The illustration is drawn from the hardy scenes of farm life, with which Mr. Horr, in his boyhood, had a barefooted familiarity. His pet calf grew discontented with the usual and liberal allowance of four quarts of milk and wanted to have more In quantity, even If the quality was not so good. To appease the demand for fiat milk the farmer added four quarts of water to the four quarts ol milk. The eight quarts satisfied the yearning of the populistic calf for more, although it had to stretch its calf- skin a little more to get outside of the eight quarts, and got no more real milk than be- fore. “The calf demanded still more fat milk and four quarts more of water were added, but still the calf got no more food than be- fore. “Now, -if this calf keeps on demanding more and more quantily without regard to quality, and this increasing of fiat milk keeps up,” asks Mr. Horr, ‘“what will be- come of the calf, eh? There can't be but one result—that calf’ will bust.”” “What do you think of the strike, Horr?” was asked. “I think the backbone fs broken. You see, they started out wrong, They pro- posed to punish the public for what Mr. Pullman has done or not done. The public won't stand being pounded for what they haven't done. “What effect will it have on future legis- lation?” “I don't know. It may lead to the attempt to frame some laws to prevent all organiza- tlons which are inimical to the public’inter- ests.” “Do you mean against tions?"” “I mean against all organizations, whether Iabor organizations or capitalistic organiza- tions, which are against the best interests of the country. “How aboul Governor Altgeld?” “Why, he's acting in a nonsensical way. The fdea that Uncle Sam can’t send his troops anywhere and everywhere to protect national property or enforce national law. We'd be in a pretty way if the government couldn’t do that. We might as well have no government at all as a_government which cannot execute its own laws or protect its own propert, Mr. Horr secs no threatening revolution or gobs of blood on the moon, and his faith in the strength of the government and the love of law and order among the people prevents him from being a nervous alarmist. He will remain a day or two longer with his friends here and then visit Minnesota. Mr. labor organiza- 0 BY. T TQ And the Place to Go, Boston Store, Council . Blairs, Ta. Everything to be had Come and examine Read the bargains. just as advertised. Boods. You won't be disappointed. SHIRTS, Gents' $1 laundered shirts, 39c (collars and cuffs). Regular §1.25 laundered shirts, 76¢ each, Big lot negligee shirts, worth $1.50, for T5e_each. Madras, silk and French flannel shirts, 8010 as high as $2.50, in one lot for 95¢ each. Geod B0c shirts, now three for $1. HOSIERY. Lot of black, tan and red children's hose, all sizes, sold as high as 50c, cholce for 15¢ pair. Ladies’ 45¢ and 50c hose, now 3 for $1. Big bargains ladies’ hose at 17c, 25c, 33c pair. BXTRA LIST. Wool challies sold for 50c, now 3lc. Umbrellas, see values at 75c, $1.33, $1.50, $1.98. Best apron ginghams, Ge. Best_prints, 4c and 5e. tn_all kinds of wash goods. See values In laces, walsts, corsets, mitts and handkerchiefs. FOTHERINGHAM, WHITELAW & CO. Councll Bluffs, Ta, Big inducements Boycotting Pants Buttons. One of the churches of the city has re- cently Inaugurated a reform by substituting plates for the old contribution bags. The trouble with the bags was that the cheaper money seemed to bé driving the dearer out of circulation and pennies took the place of quarters and half dollars. The treasurcr of the church is authority for the statement that since the plates have come Into use pennies and trouser buttons are almost un- known, and men who have been making a record for regularity In contributing at little expense to themselves now have to dive down a little deeper and drop a little larger coln into the slot. This experiment is being watched by other churches who have difficulty in making both ends meet. A nice, cool swim at Manhattan beach, Lake Manawa, s the proper thing to take these hot days. ans Laundry Co 620 Pearl strect. 'ielephon The laundries use Domestic soap. Domestic soap breaks hard water, Whist Club Outing. The Omaha Whist club visited Manawa Saturday afterncon and the members put in the time enjoying themselves to the limit, ‘boating bathing, rowing and loafing. In the evening they had another turn at their favorite game with the Council Bluffs club and were vanquished by a total of eight polnts, Meyers-Durfee Furniture company, 336-338 Broadw Bargains in fine furniture, Fireworks. Davis, the druggist. cooking stoves for rent and fer 5213 2* Gas Co's office. e — A PSYCHICAL PUZZLE The Mystery of Mollle Fancher's Life Still an Unsolved Problem. At a modest dwelllng on the corner of Gates avenue and Downing street, resides a much-written-about lady who indeed, fearfully and wonderfully made. Museums and varlety shows have not been able to sieze upon her for the drawing card, which must be periodically renewed. Yet, It it wero possible to induce her to place herself upon exhibition, her fortune and that of her manager would be made without fur- ther effort This refusal on her part to become the “leading freak," and her reluctance to court publicity in any way, Is the strongest evi- dence that she is what she seems—an inex- plicable psychical wonder. So remarkable is her case, says a dispatch to the Globe-Democrat, that ~-Judge Abram H. Dailey of Brooklyn was invited by the president of the Psychlcal Sclence congress of the ‘World's falr to prepare a paper in regard to it, which he did at considerable Brooklyn, | length, giving as authorities the names of well known men, whose veracity could not be_questioned. Mary J. Fancher, familiarly known as Mollle Fancher, has been bed-ridden for nearly thirty years. She Is now about 46 years old, and has been suffering from a spinal trouble ever since a fall which she recelved while stepping off a horse car, at the age of 16. It was at the time when la- dies wore hoopskirts, and in getting off the car the hoopskirt caught and dragged her a considerable distance before the conductor discovered her and stopped the car. She was taken up unconscious and was found to be severely injured In her side, back and head, ang two ribs were broken. After six weeks' lilness she apparently re- covered for a time, and was able to go about the house, until spinal trouble began to manifest itself in the shape of convul- sions, about nine months after the accident. These convulsions alternated with periods of rigidity, or apparent lifelessness, which she calls trances, and which are to this day her substitutes for sleep. This was early in the year 1866, and at this time she lost her sense of sight, which she has never re- coverad, At this time she also lost, tempo- rarily, some of her other senses, and for years her throat was so contracted that it was impossible for her to swallow, food be- ing Injected artificlaily. Her right arm was distorted and bent up over her head, but her left hand being unaffected, she was able to work by bringing the left hand up over the head to meet the right. She remained in_this condition for nine years. Of this period Judge Dailey says in his re- port: “During those nine years, I am in- formed from unquestionable authority that she wrote upward of 6,500 letters, worked up 100,000 ounces of w orsted, did a vast amount of fine embroidery and a great deal of very beautiful wax work.” At the end of these nine years, of which she has no recollection whatever now, nor at any time since, her muscles relaxed, and, pulling her right arm down, she seemed to wake from sleep, and turning to Dr. J. Fleet Spier, who was in the room, she remarked: “Well, doctor, did your brother get home in time for his chicken pot-pie?” thus con- tinuing a conversation which had been begun nine years before with Dr. Robert Spier. The most remarkable thing about Miss ncher is the fact that she is blind and yet This Is the point where credulity Te- bels and refuses to be convinced With eyes sightless she does the most beautiful embroidery, paints flowers, writes letters and numerous other things which one hardly dares to mention for fear of be- ing laughed at. When the dainty, prettily embroidered handkerchief cases, neatly crocheted iced wool fascinators and other fancy things were shown to me by her nurse my one thought was that elther Miss Fancher could see, or else she had a skillful needle-woman in_her employ. T ¥ ] Full of doubt and curiosity, I repaired to the office of Dr. J. Fleet Spier of 162 Mon- tague street, Brooklyn, who was for years her attending physician, and he occasionally sees her now. “Doctor,” 1 said, “can you tell me what it all means?” He smiled pityingly upon me, as though he would say, “And is this another?” but shook his head and replied: “No I don’t deal in these things. T don't believe In spiritualism nor _clairvoyance, nor any of those supernatural phenomena. I confine myself to this mundane sphere. This is why, when I come to the facts in Mollle Fancher's case, I am stalled. They are things to be explained. I don't believe in llving without sleeping, and I don't be- lieve In seeing without eyes, but in some mysterious way, I don’t intend to say how, Miss Fancher manages to do both. I have been so prejudiced against clairyoyance and that sort of thing that I haven't given the poor girl the credit she deserves.” “But, doctor,” I asked, “‘don’t you think there is great opportunity for deception?” “Hardly,” he replied, “The case has been under constant scrutiny for so long that if there had been any humbuggery in it, it would have been found out long ago.” “Besides,” he continued, “I belive that she is perfectly honest. My prejudice in- duced me once to take my oculist, Dr. Wright, up to see her, to ascertain whether her blindness was or was not assumed. He tore off a slip of newspaper which he him- self had not read, and, placing his -hand over it, asked her to read it, which she did. ‘When he removed his hand for the benefit of his own eyes, - which could not see through such barriers, he found that she had read it correctly. “Then he tried her with colored worsteds, asking her to name the shades of each, which she did correctly in every case. “He then examined her eyes and found it was impossible for her to see, for two rea- sons. In the first place, the optic nerve was practically dead, and in the second place, the condition of the eyes themselves was such that it would be impossible to see without glasses. ‘At this result I felt ashamed of my dis- trust of the poor girl, but it only made it the harder to understand.” “I have heard that she was somewhat changed in the past few years. Is that true “Yes, she is much fleshier than she was. From a welght of, perhaps, 75 or 80, she has developed into a woman of 150 or 160 pounds. But that is the case with all bed- ridden patients. They get fatter and fat- ter, until at last they burst. Some day she will die of apoplexy or somehing of that kind.” In talking with acquaintances of Miss Fancher I gathered a few curious facts, some of them rather amusing. For years she conducted a fancy store on the floor below her, and it is sald that when anything was lost she knew where it could be found. She no longer keeps up so large an _establishment, but has her work dis- played In threo or four glass cases in a small room on the same floor with her own room. A friend brought her an original poem one day, and she, holding it up before her sightless eyes, sald: “That is very nice; you have, signed your name to it, haven't you?" The same lady, with whom I am person- ally acquainted, was one day arranging scme pieces of embroidery In a box, when Miss Fancher remarked: “‘See, the corner is turned up; turn it down, please.” A ludicrous incident occurred one day, when Miss Fancher had hired a man (o hang some lpictures for her. ‘“You haven't hung that one straight,” she said, pointing to one of them; and he, looking up and seeing that she was right, dropped his ham- mer and nails and fled, for he knew that she was blind. Such are the facts, which can be verified, concerning a remarkable case that has puz- zled the wits of many a wise physician and psychologist for years. Spiritualists have sought among themselves, the idea. Newspapers have sought to give her no- toriety, but she absolutely refuses to see re- porters. One thing is certain, that If she is a fraud she has not made nor sought to make any money by it. She refuses to gratify the curiosity of those who regard her as a sort of “elephant” which is to be seen along with the other sights, even though she might make money thereby, and lives a peaceful, but one can hardly think, a happy exist- ence. to reckon her but she shrinks from e Tron Rods in Concrete. Now that Iron rods are coming into ex- tensive use In concrete construction in order to strengthen the masonry and enable it to resist tensile strains, a number of conserva. tive architects and engineers have objected to the practice on the ground that the iron will rust in the cement, or that the cement will not adhere to the iron. With regard to the first objection it Is Interesting to learn that at Amiens a pipe made of concrete, with iron rods to stiffen it, was taken up after thirteen years of use, and the rods were found to be as smooth as when first embedded in the concrete. The same result was found to be true at Breslau, where iron rods, which had been imbedded for twelve years in concrete, were found to be unin- jured, although their projecting ends had rusted away to mere threads. With regard to the second objection, the late Prof. Baus. chinger of Munich made a number of ex. periments to determine the adhesion between cement and iron, which he found to average about 626 pounds per square inch. In an experiment made with the fron rods em- bedded in cement for twelve years at Bres- lau, it was found that the rods broke before they could be pulled from the cement. At some tests made in Berlin It was found that a quarter-inch rod embedded in a concrete plate 7% inches thick could not be pullea out with a load of 2,660 pounds attached to it, although the concrete was raised to a red beat, AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Gun Club Has a Spirited Contest with Live Game fdf Targeta, —Lal SCORES MADE BY: THE PARTICIPANTS T Bigger Shoot Belng Propared for Next Bunday — Sentimént Among Packing House Employgs Regacding the Strike-Magle City News. The South Omaha Gun club held another contest yesterday, which was quite spirited. The first match was a club shoot at twenty- five blue rocks, which resulted as follows: Berlin, 12; Lewls, 22; Reed, 14; Hughes, §; Smith, 18, and Sanford, 17. The next contest was at fitteen blue rocks, 2 entrance fee and two moneys, 60 and 40 per cent. The score was: Lewls, 13; Berlin, 7; Smith, 12; Reed, 7; Sanford, 13. In shoot- Ing off the tie between Lewis and Sanford, miss and out, Mr. Sanford won and Mr. Smith took second money. The third match was at fifteen entrance, and resulted as follows: Lewis, 11; Sanford, 11; Berlin, 9. ing off the tie Lewis won. Then came the double rise contest, five in number, $2.50 entrance feo. The score was: Berlin, 6; Reed, 6; Lewls, 5; Sanford, 6. Reed won the tie. Here the boys began to get blooded and contested at ten single rises, §5 entrance fee, The result was as follows: Berlin, 6; Reed, 6; Lewls, 8, In shooting off the tie for sec- ond money Berlin won, The' next was at ten single rises from un- known traps and the entrance money was raised to §7.50. Lewls broke 8, Reed 7 and Berlin 6. The club has ordered 100 live birds for the shoot next Sunday and some lively sport is anticipated. ____ L ment Respecting the Strike. Judging from the general expressions made by the hundreds of workingmen on the streets of South Omaha fully 90 per cent of them are heartily in sympathy with the Pullman_strikers. There are many, how- ever, who are openly denouncing the de- struction of property. The laboring men in South Omaha number eeveral thousand. They are not as thoroughly organized here as they are in most places. In fact, the workmen in the packing houses have but little to do with each other. The packing house employes have, perhaps, pald as little attention to the details of this strike as any gang of men In the west. They are not in- terested, and the men who ought to know what they are talking about say that only a small per cent of them would quit work it ordered out by the Knights of Labor or any other order. If any of the packing house men quit work it will be because they are laid off on account of the inability of the management to secure trains to haul off the product. Several hundred of the men worked yesterday and got in extra hours on Satur- day night besides. Magic Clty Gossip. Patrick Rowley is confined to his home by sickness. 5 The city council will hold an interesting session tonight. The Home Circle club enjoyed Saturday evening at Courtland beach. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. fiycox, Mr. and Mrs, C. H. Watts, Mr. and Mrs. A, P. Brink and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moriarity made up a party for Courtland beach Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. A. P.:Brink are visiting friends in this city.) Mr. Brink was at one time cashier of the Packers National bank here, but is now living in South Dakota. A great many citizens, took advantage of Spring Lake park being open to the public and went there with their families, many taking their dinner’baskets with them and remaining all day Sunday. There is now sore”prospect for another hose cart contest amiong the Hammond, Cudahy and stock yards teams. If another race is run there will be considerable money chango hands on the result. The Fourth of July committee will close up its business at a meeting to be held Tuesday night at the city council chamber. All persons who have any bills or other grievances had better submit them at that time as it will be the final meeting of the responsible committee. Mrs. James Cahill called at the police station last evening to have her husband arrested for disorderly conduct. Mrs. Cahill claims that her husband not only assaulted her, but upset thd table which was covered with dishes and broke several of them. They live on Twenty-fith street between L and M. rocks, $3 Reed, 10; In shoot- s SEVEN IN A BUNCH. A Marvelous Bit of Rallrond Engineering in Californla. There has just been completed in Cali- fornia what is regarded as a marvel in raflroad construction and engincering difli- culties overcome. The line runs from Mar- garita to SAn Louls Obispo, a distance of 16.7 miles. There are seven tunnels on it, bunched close together, with an aggregate length of one and a half miles, the long- est bore through the solid rock being 3,600 feet and another 1,300 feet. There is a steel bridge 800 feet long and seventy-two feet above the top of the creek which it crosses, besides three bridges of elghty feet span ‘and @umerous smaller water- ways over which the track runs on arches of stone. The grade, too, is considerable. In the first three miles from Santa Mar- garita to the summit trains must climb a 2-per-cent incline, or 116 feet to the mile, and then for eleven miles beyond toward San Louls Obispo is a descent of almost the same degree. The actual work of boring the hills and of making the grades and fills was begun Qctober 20, 1892, It was no small task to drive the seven tunnels through the moun- tains. The materlal to be excavated was nearly all the serpentine formation which constitufes the mass of the Coast Range, some of it flinty In hardness and some soft and crumbling. All the drilling was done by hand, and the amount of material exca- vated Is estimated at something over 1,100, 000 cublc yards, necessitating the employ- ment of from 1,200 to 1,500 men and from 300 to 400 teams. The tunnels are of the standard size for broad-gauge roads, 16x22 feet, and are fully timbered throughout, nearly 4,000,000 feet of lumber having been used for that purpose. The time in which the tunneling was done made a record equal to that of the fastest hand drilling done in the United States. Another Interesting fact is the low percentage of fatalities during the work. Only two fatal accldents occurred during the building of the road, while the average mortality in such con- struction work in the United States is one man to every 400 feet of tunnel. The steel bridge ever Stelner creek, near Goldtree, Is very much like the well known Pecos river structure. It is of the box- girder pattern, the rails being laid on a hol- low steel box, supported on steel trestles set in masonry piers. The creek 1s the merest thread of a brook in summer time, but when the rains come it sweeps down the canyon in a mighty torrent, sq there is need of a bridge long, strong and high. The cuts are deep and the fills of great height, In many places stone buttressed fills have been made, when trestle work would have been much cheaper. As it is intended to make this line the main passenger route for the southern overland the more expensive work was decided upon because of its superior safety and durability. Every cul- vert is of stone, finished off in the best style of _workmanship. Nowhere on the system within the samg distance are there so many fine pleces of railway engineering or 80 many interesting bits of construction. Emerging from the tun- nels the road winds through a region broken into precipitous hills and deep ra- vines and makes a descent of nearly 1,29 feet in. ten miles. It follows the sinuous course of Steiner creek, which flows through San Luls, crossing it twice, each time in a manner that warms the hearts of engineers. At the upper crossing the stream is given a channel under the roadway by a stone cul- vert ninety feet In length, over which is a solid embankment flanked with stone rip- rap. The culvert was made this great length in order to furnish a base for the enormous fll. A westle would have been cheaper, but DAY, JULY 9, 1894. the embankment cannot fall or burn down and will not require periodical repairs. Further down is another original plece ot work in the shape of a complete horseshoe embankment. This was constructed merely to gain grade. In coming down the T the engineers struck a ravine which they must cross. It is less than 200 yards stralght across, but to go direct would make the fall in’ that distance about sixty feet. So an immense horseshoe embankment was bulit out into the valley on a ten-degree curve to make the grade, which fs 118 feet to the mile. At the toe of this horseshoe the fill is about sixty feet in height. The main tunnel, 3,600 feet long, is at the summit, some three and a half miles from Santa Margarita, with a station at the mouth called Cuesta, Here is a neat bit of engineering. When the e was surveyed and the spot was lo 1 where the hill should be plerced for the long drive through the rock, a creck was found to be in the way. A dam was built and made unusually solid, for the creek, insignificant enough at this time of year, carries a large volume of muddy water from the hills when the rains are upon the land. The dam diverts the stream to the right hand, and right under the face of the masonry runs the track to the mouth of the long tunnel. It seems a little odd at first to notice that the railroad, built with so much cut- tunneling, bridging and grading should ronsiderably longer than the wagon road, which has been until now the onl; for transportation between Santa and San Luis Obispo, but it is readily un- derstood when the rugged charact the country traversed is taken into consideration. The stage road is only eleven miles long, while the new railroad extension is close to seventeen miles in length, but there s a ma- terial difterence in the elevation of the two lines. The stage road climbs and winds to a helght of 2,000 feet, the lowest prac- ticable point for a road through the steep Santa Lucla mountains, while the highest point on the railroad extension—in the sum- mit tunnel—is only 1,400 feet above sea level. e iy FLYING THROUGH FLAME, ng Dash Throug! shed. Forest fires had been raging in the moun- tains for more than a month, writes Cy Warman in the New York Sun. The passen- gers were peering from the car windows, watching the red lights leap from tree to tree, leaving the erstwhile green-garbed hills a bleak and b ned waste. The traveling passenger agent h a Burning Snow- had held the platform all the way up the mountain, s00thing sights there,"” valley, her fears and showing her the and scenes along the line. “Over he suid, 'is the sunny San Luis and those high hills—that snowy when seen in the golden glow of sun- as called by the Spaniards, Sangre de Christo, the blood of Christ. Farther to the south and a littlo west is the great silver camp of Creede, where it is always after- noon. “Looking far down the vale you can sce the moon-kissed crest of the Spanish range, below whose lofty peaks the archaic cliff- dwellers had their homes. Here to the north, where you see the fire flying from the throbbing throat of a locomotive, is the Iine that leads to Leadville, whose wondrous wealth is known to all the English-speaking people; yes, even as far south as Texas they have come to talk of Leadville and the mine: “Now we have reached the crest of the continent, where— “‘Oh, yes, 1 have scen it!" chimed In the maiden.” “It's by Ernest Ingersoll, is it not?"’ “No,” he replied, “this one Is by the Builder of the Universe, and, as I was about to say, the water flows this way to the At- lantic and that way to the Pacific.” “Why, how very, very funny,” said the “schoolmarm,” but the railroad man has never been able to see where the laugh came in. He was making no attempt to be funny, and turning the tourist over to the porter, after assuring her for the 100th time that accidents were never heard of on Marshall Pass, he said good night. The conductor came out from the smoky station, lifted his white light a time or two, the bell sounded and the long train began to find and wind its way over the smooth steel track that sfould lead from the hoary heights to the verdant vale. And the gentle curves made cradles of the cars and the happy malden in high five dreamed she was at hore in her hammock, while the man of the road went peacefully to sleep in upper six, feeling that he had shown all the wonders of the west to at least one passenger in that trainload of people. The engineer reached for the rope, and the long, low “toooo toooo-too toot” went out upon the midnight alr, and the women folks whispered a little prayer for the weary wvatcher in the engine cab, placed their preci- ous lives In his left hand, and went to sleep again. The long train creaked and cracked on the sharp corners, and, as the last echo of the steam whistle died away in the dis- tant hills, slid swiftly from the short tangent and was swallowed up by a snowshed. At that moment the fire leaped from a clump of pinions, and the sun-dried snow- shed flashed aflame like a bunch of grass in a prairie fire, It had required the united efforts of three locomotives to haul the train up the hill, and the engincer knew that to stop was to perish in the fire, as he was utterly unable to back out of the burning building. That is why it appeared to the passengers that all at once every tie that bound this human-burdened train to the track parted, and the mad train began to fall down the mountain. Away they went like the wind. On they went through the flery furnace like a frightened spirit flying from the hearth of hell. The engine men were almost suffocated In the cab, while the paint was peeled from the Pullman cars as a light snow is swal- lowed by the burning sun on a sandy desert, At last the light is gone, they dash out into the night—out into tue pure mountain alr; the brakes are applied, the speed is slackened, the women are still frightened, but the conductor assures them that the danger is past. Now they can look back and see the burn- ing sheds falling, The “schoolmarm” shud- ders as she climbs back into her berth, and an hour later they are ahl asleep. At Gun- nison they get another locomotive, a fresh crew, and the train winds on toward the Pacific slope. The engine is stabled in her stall at the round house. The driver walks about her, pats her on the neck and talks to her as ho would to a human being: “Well. old girl, we got through, didn’t we? But it was a close call.” ——— She Charms the Birds and Heasts, Mrs. H. R. Ludwig of Montague, Sussex county, New Jersey, possesses a gift of magnetism which gives ler wonderful con- trol over animals, birds, reptiles, and insects. The most vicious horses, which are utterly unmanageable by any one else, become per- fectly tractable and obedient under her voice and touch. Dogs, cats and other domestic animals, whether belonging to her or to others, seem to understand every word she speaks, and they do the most astonishing things at her order. Shy, suspicious and unapproachable as the wild fox is, he will not only not fly at the approach of Mrs. Ludwig, but will ‘come to her at a word of command. Wild birds fol- low her when she walks about her farm, and frequently will not be driven away by her. One particular robin is so infatuated with her that it hovers about the house con- tinually, although Mrs. Ludwig has taken it far away several times and tried to frighten it Into leaving her. 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An Appreciative Notlee of the Poetle Teibute to Mary Ball, 1 have kept silont, says the critic of Tow Topics, while the detractors of Mr. Georg Alfred Townsend have been flinging jibos and jeers at him on account of the remarkable and interesting poem that he prepared for the dedication of the Mary \Washington mon ument at Fredericksburg. 1 feel, however, that it is my duty to protest against such in- Justice to an Industrious American produce 1 flatter myself that I am familiar with mo of the commemorative and memorial poe that has been written in English in this c nt, Bouth omo A advaatten fatne oder iy "or"three timee [1a nge snoye. "ario r ATl - are Avited 46 n- tury, and I am sure that any jury of litera experts would agree with me that Mr. Town- et Qi s ‘s ballad on little Mary Iall has a qual- Edgemont, S. D. ity that will be s valn fn_the liter an ba purohased ronl etate Critleastors will, we Thside of two yow and Lot on request. tire of elogy or uly may chatter about o on the duke of Wellington and Emerson's Concord Hymn and Lowell's Commemoration Ode, and quote from “Adonais” and “Thyrsis.” Let them show me, If thoy can, any pas those poems or any other poem thut ca a taper to this noble stanza: e bal 1 !/‘ The Ramuni It was little Mary Dall, and she had no fame at all, Dut the world was all the same as It she had. she hnil the right to breathe and to tottie and to teethe, nd to love som nning Ntte Tl 1t was all the same ved a widower, Though he p her, o gave hor i the family wa Are you, can’tsleep, can't cat, tiredy thirsty? Blood poor? It's a tonic you want— H i res ,Rootbeer. ‘This sparkling, exhilarating, and re- far more Aughter and a son and the oldest, Hittle large, Hope of little Widow Washington, Ts there not In this somothing of the large simplicity of early balladry? Is there not, too, something of the onomatopoetic stre: ydney Lanier? You can almost hear the cradle rock and the bawling of the little Ball freshing drink, while bein, boy. You can smell the paregoric. 1 do not | agrecable in bouquet and flavor than quite understand the me r of “other” in the finest wine or champague, is at the fourth line, but I know that Mr. Town- send would not have shaken it up and stirre the same time unlike them, being free from alcohol. it in without some iwise, artistic purpose g Through the ni on the fifth line we can A temperance drink for temperance almost sce to read the inscription on the people,deliciousand wholesome as wells headstone of Mary Ball's husband's first i'mmm(heMuml,tirklesdmpnlnte. wife. And what a , luxurious rhyme is Package makes five gallons. that of “large’” and “George! On Mr. Town Ask your storekecper for it. send's muse are neither flies nor fetters, 1 do not envy the heart of the man that can read without a sob Mr. Townsend's descrip tion of George settled at Mount Vernon going into politics, and little Widow Wash ington’s remarks when she heard the drum: By he was settled with Take no substitutes. nd Send 2-cent stamp to Chas. ‘r]‘_ ftlr‘u ul pioe Co., Philadelphia, for beaut; ture cards. Potomac’ his brid Overseeing Norses, houn, And it seemed but second n pleasant tide ks and wards, e 0 Bo to the tu nd at polities and cards. had come when th widow eried, “what demon s at “Tia the Eonflict with the King, 'tls two worlds a-mustoring, And the call George." Where is Will Carleton now? Iar _quality of Mr. Townsend's scs must strike every reader. I know already of two families in Bast New York where the c of duty comes to mother's Dr. E. C. West's Norve and Brain v:mmfl 3 s0ld under positive written guarautee, by suthdrs {204 ngunts oy, to oure Weuk Memory: Loas I uand Nor wer; Lost Manhood; Quie [ Tack of Confidonde; lus; Loes OF Powes The popu- B! Night Lossos; Norvousness; of the avor-oxertion; Youthful Errors, o dren use them as counting-in rhymes. The | Tobacco, Opiim or Liquor, which soon loa malice of Mr. Townsend's detractors is inex ;‘;"-lti;{;!‘g!;;flm'l;"r‘-hln-nnf'r-wl Death, x!m-h' Jytton gvaranteo to dure o T'S COUGH BYRUP. A o c Colds, Asthmn, Bronchitis, O ooping Cough, Sord Thront: Plonsunt t 11 slz6 discon{fnued; old, 50, size, now 250.5 QA RANTEES (ssuod only by _Omaha. 1 cusable. This Fredericksburg ballad is the best work he has ever done. =~ He must be between 50 and 60 years old now, but he is not too old to flower. This ballad is, if T mistake not, his first original work. I hail it as an_omen that he will scrap-book no 170, TI0W 800 Goodman Dru, more. Good fortune to his new departure! IT! 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