The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

ion of Troubles Causes uch Suffering. _N|‘ MESS "[ Wu brou- math and El". XOD D \\ lâ€"l\( LRY‘IONS. 0 the South Renamed g m \rLunsn- and Texas. mat to be able to say a. few lump-mull I was tempted :Lhar arn‘. "aw I feel likea ;«l\41’.:'1“lt".n_f of the Womb work uu:.1 L wassoweakl xxx 4 to sum and rest. M? in bed and so n 'he [but nnise or 311 Duh! ‘fn't‘lflru so weak t at 1 rar It A Lxxzferem. now. t u». 'xwrk w u adrml :8. Lama ntrzer zzrfl‘utcd perm-,_ remain, Yours in gratin“; er'n Thralrl. Chic-go. "In :- lean! 'l'hnl In her hill- m1 paw.“ aluuhlv Advlre mud n- Mar Tobacco. exchange your n-m:,-mbcr it will 2 a; valuable if e m the front is Sarsaparilla TEY yâ€" ”A ,u‘gzewu') pncu, .uny. L"1.: lebum. VL VHF/J1 2” 3g 3.8. rt 7;. in m<m395fl .. H gici 697.3 5 in. 55.»; 59 Nam: 41 ran; .5 “Ecoâ€"En on M 1.255 EN cafiflmvon . n H ER 8.13 noun $2.; Mr; I. , v CVC‘T Distress True Ema! Yunnan \V' *e an «hm; that "I'D "Osman News. v“ ) WU - .' Eh, "ALP‘lney x p m; opens for rw wvured by mnl. bu mu needed A we L'ouner-Jour- 7x :‘ when we a: “1va and wee we love. 12" :e cathanzc. in want to I: m: will 1"! L015: tau-o K » 1 0 K) the underlay, L ,‘x Lbk)".:!8 R ”7: "a; tobacco is M» -u'hor tobacco - in Arkansas, {19 (are for the » u- m wneflent H tU saute : Vt‘iinly didn't '1 7);. Y. Jour- Jnts wuuld hurt H) k) s Begum 4 n»r:h\\‘est, 1: .zr -3t!_v re~ n .\ will and -:'u antes. wnty~ono 11 um and arm Ends. '1 l’_x_=senger F 'U' Route m! 15. De- )mehis. H“, Pensa- nxiule daily :- “‘3 from v, Florida. 9‘3. â€"-Deu'oit us hav1 i, Thgse service Whit '9 ‘ :wpyright. 1897.] AST night 1 opened my punoramy of L the Holy Land, accompanied bymy gland agregashun of a side-show and 'ver Regulator, to a large and en- thusiastic audience at Strongvme. I was drivin' inuo the town in the mer- noon when I met up with a man on a cayuse. who st0p§ me and sez: ,n AL- r‘Stranger, I‘m\ _the mayor of the town. and it‘s my dooty to ax ye a few questions. Ar' ye a critter of good on moral character . T‘Thai haiu’t none better." sez I, as I swells out my chist with pride and Rooks him straight in the eye. “I begun ivy moral character when I was a y‘nr‘ bid, and I kin bring any amount. of proofithat I'm as spotless as an angel." “116V ye got a mishun?" “I hev. It’s to unwind my panoramy of the Holy Land for the benefit of your town. The price of admlshun is only ten centh, and I‘ve known a single exhibisb to turn a dozen men out o’ the path 9f wickedness. Incidentally, but sort' 0' connected with it. I hev a menagerie of dead and livin’wonders. which interests and instructs, and beâ€" tore and after the exhibishnn I sell HUI“ uy Iv ~..._.._ __V, “Most 01 us would be sick halt the , time if we swallered our own advice.” “The man who lies hates to be told of it. jest as much as if he was tellin’ the tr th." I “It. ay be fun to try to hit a fly with a. crowbar, but it’s q, heap 0’ time the only purely vegetable later made in America." “We’ve got a highly moral town," sez he, as he looks me over. “and I shouldn't want any vice to creep in and rear its head. I think you may show {er show. Speakin' of that Liver Regu- ator. how does it afiect a critter ‘3" “It has a balmy eflect‘ yer honor. One swaller produces a balmy effect on the general systemâ€"two arouses the enthusiasm, and the third is purty sar- tin to bring out a war-whoop. Nuthin’ like it, was ever put up in small bottle More. Would ye pardin me if 1 ob- Iarved that yer liver seemed to be in need of sum consoiashun?" "I know'she does," he replied, “and if ye happen to hev one 0’ them bottles handy L might try a smaller." ‘ 1 A47 *lâ€"ibn I passed out a bottle and ten minus later the mayor was thro in’ up his hat and whoopin’. That evenin’ the lame, the halt, the blind and every- j.) _.. Jame, luc nun, in}. an..- __,, i ' body else in Strongsville attended my show. Before the exhibishun opened I Ipoke a few afiectin‘ words to the asâ€" Voemblage. They were mostly conearâ€" nin’ my moral character and my purely vegetable Live: Regulator, but, now. and then I seized the opportunity to hold up to them sich sayin's as: , AA. 1..." u... “It. [may be fun to with a crowbar, but it wasted jest the same.” wuawu Jun ...... “Natur don't hev to born fules. She kin find 'em full-grown any day in the y'nr. and in almost any place." 11: sellin‘ my Liver Regulator I took keer not to deceive the confidin' public by claimin' too much. Thar’ ar’ hu- man critte‘vrs as fondly expect that the contents 'of one and the same bottle wfll cure consumption. pull a mewl out of the quicksand. stop the toothache. regulate the liver, scare away the itch [bottle and ten minits was thro‘vin’ up his ...‘ ,:_9 LLâ€" Liver MAYBE AND THE BOTTLE. ‘iver Begu- and bedquilts on the tables. When 1 shbwed the pictur’ of the city of Jeru- mwnf' sez saiem this' capshua man stood up and of the and draw 9 prize in a lottery, but I al- lus discourage sich expectashuns. The success of my; menagerie was fur be‘ yogi-my most sanguine hopes, When I held up my Vain Endeavor bottle and showed ’em the Kansas grasshopper butt'm‘ the cork in his vain endgavprs to rekiver his, hoppin’ liberty the audi- ence was agin me and fur the hopper. When, however, I made my moral pint. that it. was useless and a’ sin fur hu- 'man natur' to kick agin the inevilable, ‘ the audience was ngin the hopper and \ fur me. A My lectu‘rr also went well with the audience. One cause of its success was the absence of cusa words'in my rev marks. From fast to last I‘did’n‘t let a profane word creep in. and sich slang expresshuns as I wqued in his the an?! so fairly on the head that even the preachers applauded. Another reason 1 ......~1,- l'” paw"-.- "rr‘*~*~ , was the pathos in my voice. I spoke as one etandin‘ at the bedside of‘a dy~ in’ wife, and sich was the imppesshun made that seven diflerent wimmln had to use the lame handkerchief tn wipe their fallin' tears away. I had to pause more than once to control my own emoshuns. and one of the preachers got up am] pinted to the samumstances as proavin’ my moral charactm‘, I‘ am sorry to any that thar’ was on}: capshus critter in my large and intelligent au- dience. He was the owner of the op- posishun hotel. and was pained because I preferred to stop at a house with reg‘lu‘ table cloths instead of sheets Se’t : “Stranger. what, ye givin' us?" “It’s Jerusalem," sez I. “Ye ar’ 21 deceiver!" sez he. “I was born and bred in that very town, and if it ain't Tolédo then I'm a goat. Yc’ve left the Maume river out, but I‘d know {he town with my eye shret." . . ACI hm‘d ?” “Them hills in only painted on to de. ceive.” . ' “Hus sez I. we. - .. He was goin‘ on to say that he could pick out the house he was born in. and that he expected to see his brother tdrnfin’ a corner, when a. preacher got up and commanded him to silence. That preacher had been to Jerusalem and slashed about fur six weeks, and he couldn’t be deceived. He even pinted out; the spot on which he had bin bit by a dog, and he wound up by oflcrln’ to bet the capshus landlord twenty to one that. it was the best pictur’ «)1 Jerusalem ever put on ca’nvas. The un- dience was with me and agin the land- lord, and he sneaked out and was s‘een no more; The incident furnished me opportunity to git ofl slch sayin’s as: “The champion of truth never ”and: ,aloneri' ’ “ “Facts best shirts which buttoh be- hind " know." 7 nuv u . “Even the preacher covgéa in useful new and then.” ‘I shall be glad of contribushuns tr) increase the size of my menagerie and advice as to how to run my panoramy so as to create the greaftest moral im- preshun. No immodest livin‘ or dead curiosities will be considered. and no profanity allgwed within ten rods of the tent. .3‘ SILAS HUMBLE. General‘showman and Philosopher. “Ainybody can make walls.” sez he. f‘And has Toledo got hills on every 7I‘oleao éotu walls around her ‘2" Used to Haul Railroada Through a Tunnel. 1 HUGE ELECTRIC A New and Van Rgtorm In fig! tugâ€"Cdmpleto De-cupudl the, Locomotives 9nd ' Their Edfulpment. [Special Baltimore Letter-J The giant electric locomotives of the Baltimore Ohiotrailroad are- now, hauling the passenger trains through‘ the belt line tunnelht Baltimore. This tunnel is the laugeet soft earth tun- xiel ever drilen and runs under Howard street. one of the principal thorough- fares of the city. - 5 The tunnel extends from iCamden station on the south to Mount Royal station oin the north and is @339 feet. or nearly “/3 miles long. ’From the'Cam- den station the line rises on what is a heavy gradient for a steam‘railroad, and all trains in this direction require the assi/itance of a very powerful loco- motivzy.’ To haul'very heavy freight trains through thiaaunnel by ordinary ‘ lireightsteam locomotives would “fill it with smoke and noxious gases and v‘ren- der it intolerable. if not. actually dan- gerous. to passengers in the trains passing soon after; even the smoke from an ordinary passenger train in a tunnel of this length would‘he quite objectionable; The question of proper ventilation of the tunnel, therefore, be- came important. The disadvantages of the steam locomotive were patent. and ’some means had to be found of do- ing ‘away with the smoke and gases either by ventilation or the abandon- ment of steam haulage in the tunnel. The various systems not. involving. the production of smoke and gas were con- sidered. and by process of pxclusion all were discarded except electricity. This system eves adopted. and {or the past two guts three electric loco tives, the largest ever bulls. have hand ed the entire freight service 01 this great trunk line through the t much They would probably have beehut into passenger service before this, but the receivers decided tor various reasons to postpone ‘ their employment in the haulage of pasâ€"‘ senger trains until the completion of their may station. This was opened recently and the passenger, as well as the freight, traffic is now being handled by the electric locomotives. i The electric locomotives are the largest of their type ever built. They consist of two trucks, each truck hav- ing two axles and four wheels. Each axle carries a motorâ€"the most power- ,ful railway motor ever designed. having a pa“ er of.360 horse power. This gives 'to the locomotives four motors, with a total pulling capacity ,0! 1,440 horse power. The motors are of pyramidal shape and have six poles and six sets , “A 4_‘ In... -uâ€"r- ,, of brusges. They stéud about five feet high and are gear-less. thalis, the armaâ€" tures gre not fixedto the axles, but are ....-.. .. v built up on a sleevfie through which the _axle runs. ' The-nrmatureiis part of the motor which turns, and each end of it is fitted with a“ large cast iron star. The points of the star fitted into rubber- cushioned receptacles in the driving wheels. and when the armature turns the wheels are revolved by the star. euy .._...~ __ 7 V The two trucks are fastened securely together and are covered by a spacious iron cab resembling the cab of an ordi- nary steam locomotive with a tender shield at each end, This cab contains 2 all the apparatus necessary to operate the locomotive. At one end is a large controller, by the manipulation of which electricity is let into Went oi the motors as required« is con- troller is large, as it has to break the very heavy current brought to the motors.- A dial instrument in front of the motorman shows him just what power the locomotivei taking. When- ever a current’ of electricity is broken there is always a spark. In a modified shape we see it in th ordinary are light. The size of the arc depends upon thexamonnt of current flowing between the two points, and it allowed to com ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE . ELECTMC LOCOMOTJVE ATTACHED TO FREIGHT TRAIN. ywoufiwm nwfiy the metal 6* A'v " ‘gfiry much as it burnt ‘ yk‘fiin‘in an arc lamp. ‘ “uglier has. ttferefore. an ht!- ‘Atgflce known as n magnegi‘ ‘ When an arc is about! if werful magnetic draft is ctr, ' ivhich instantaneously e’ixti L 8-qu the are as soon as it is stdrtéé. The‘énb is also provided with safeiy devices to prevent any undue rush'géjt current getting into_the motors ' causing damage. It aho/ contains? air compressor for the air brakes abd the whistle. By another ingenious sn- tomatic contrivance the' motor “a? when the pressure in the tanks falls: and stops when the air reaches the;,- quired pressure. % I u- I . jig TVlZIlzxrch ‘sbield carries a headlight and one carries :1 bell. The weight of eti locomotive is 192,000 pounds. or 96 mph. The tremendous hauling powerqu these huge machine: has been malty times demonstrated. When they wefie first put into service the drivers w 'e apt to try experiments. and around fie locomotives have grown up a seriey t stories whiqh are told in the 1'0qu- houses all along the road. But in bp' tober of last year an actual reli ble demonstration was made. Due to sense misunderstanding on the part of , e i operator t-wo freight trains, withgi loaded freight cars and three engiégs. l; r, f none working and all coupled togeth ‘were: stopp/ed in the tunnel on the dp ‘grnde. It would have required all it'he power of the three engines to start tljia tremendous load ‘of some 2.000 toga and they would probably have had to call assistance. but the electric loco- motive started this long train seeming- ly as easily as any of the ordinary : trains it had up‘to then handled. in less than two minutes the speed on the up grade was 12 mile: an‘hour. With freight trains the normal Epeed is lim- ited to 15 miles an hour. but with the = - the far: foil whl 1 pro i doll l hon pro ‘ hot 1 his a lz or im} in his paisenger trains the electric loco fives have developed '31 speed 01 miles an hour on this grade. : To carry the large amount of c 'iem required in the operptjon of Lbesqléwm motives the overland system is deed, but instead of the trolley Wire a shoe which is attached to a flexible trolley on the roof of the locomotive run; in an Iron conduit suspended abovefihe track in the open and at the cen§dr of the arch of, the tunnel. Every pncaw (ion has been taken to insulntd‘tho overhead line perfectly. The length of. the overhead structure is over 15.00!) feet. and the electric locomotives‘ op- crate beneath this for the entirqldin- tance. g The power plant which supplies'cur- I rent for the locomotives and for. the incandescent and are lamps in thegtunj nel, waiting~rooma and stations, is: on of the most extensive in this cofifit ‘ It is located just east of the Ce den 1amnion in a building 322 feet ; ng. ’Large additions have recently i been made to the electric plant and it is; now capable of furnishing 3,000 kilowafits or ? 3.000 horse-power in electric powet‘ and about 1,150 ho‘se-power'for the light: ing service. 0 course. the locomotive: are not always in service and tb‘c deâ€" mend On the power plant is int’ mitv tent. In order that the dynamos; ere- iore, should not remain idle whEn tho locomotives were not working, the rail- road company made an arrangement with the local street car company to take a_ certain amount of its excess of power; it now supplies to the Baltimore Traction company enough electricity to operate nearly 200 street cars} in the city of Baltimore. ? E ‘ The electric line has now been’ifi suco cessful operation since its inaugurétion, and has a‘tractedmttention the yorld over. The performance of the ehctric locomotives has been carefully “ditched T)? steam railroad men and mechanical experts. as the pioneers of a n“? and vast Q’E‘form. By the use of elecfiricity the most objectionable feature ‘ tunâ€" nelsâ€"smoke and gasesâ€"is doneg‘away with entirely and travel has become even comfortable. ‘i Ample Provocauon. ’: "I understand you pounded the man in the next flat?" . “Pound him! Well. I shoulfi'jthink I did. I nearly killed the gcouna’rel.” “What was the trouble?” * “He insulted meâ€"oâ€"actually iixfulted me with deliberation and malic‘p afore- thought; and it was no trifling" insult, either.” ‘ . I; “What did he Say?" ‘ Q “He asked me if I wan the min who played the comet. every night": . nu L2__'nn L:-_. . pluycu u": uv.u~v----, -°â€".. .. "Why didn’t you kill Mumâ€"tuneup Post. 01, now the festive moth doth wing Through cldset and through hail. To ask his merry comrades I! i ’ They're going to the camghoi all. A Fall Pbem. the electric locomo- IN: ifihrnu To Shelter “Old Folkl." The grand lodge of Illinoié odd fel- lows in session at Springfield adopled E thevreport of the Special committee in I favor of locating the Odd Fellows’ old folks‘ home in Mattoon, the citizens of i which towu are to furnish bonus ap- i proximming $36,000. Eight thousand ‘ dollars was also appropriated to build $3 chapel and school at the orplian'l l home at, Lincoln. and 517.000 was apâ€" i propriated for the mzh‘menance of the Contcrence o! Char! Men. The state conference of churixies and corrections in session at Jacksonville ndoiwted resolutions urging the legisla- ture to minke an appropriation for the accommodation of 1,200 more idiot. Ind feeble minded who are now nak- lng for admission to tfie instilution at, Lincoln but who cannot be accom- modated thére..0fficers forthe year wer‘o chosenas follows: President,Rev.Jenkin Lloyd Jones. of wcagn; first vicepresi- dent. William A. Tnlbott. of Rockford; second vice president, Mrs. B. T. Rainer. of Czirrollton; secretary. Mrs.James W. Potion. of Springfield. i The Olden Man. _ 3 Is'uac Thompson. of Pawpaw, believeg’, { to be the oldest man in Illinois, passed i his one hundred and first birthday and ‘ a large reception was given him in hon- l or of'ihe event. His hearing is slightly 5 impaired. but his mind is clear; and hi: i memOry as good as ever. He tails many 3 igteresiing stories of the year 1812. In jhis earlier day he was an influential ifactm- in political circles. He is the i father of 15 children. ‘ I; Work of I Fiend. ' John De Silva set fire (0 the stock barn of Frhz Dahler at Pans and 30 head of fine reglstered milcb cows, five .calves and five horses were cremated. lDe Silva was diéchurged recently for old daughter of Dahler. and out of reâ€" ,venge started the fire. He was cap- 'tured soon afterwards and placed in jail and" made a complete confession. fl-_. 1 Daughter] 0! Rebekah. ‘3 «At the thirteenth anxihal session in l l T3111 attempted assault on the ten-year l Springfield 'of the Rebekah assembly it was decided to build and maimain an i old folks' home. Officers Were e\ected 1, n5 follows: PresidenL Mrs. Lucy Mes- {siclg Quincy; vice preseident, Mrs. L. EGIasier, Chicago; secretary Mrs. L013 ‘Rickard. Olney: treasurer. Mrs. Etta. ! Springer. Chicago. home ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. Hanging to (he Ratteru. John Kloppenburg. aged 37 years. son of August Kloppenburg. a wealthy and prominent German citizen ‘of Spring- field. was found hanging to fihe rafter- of his barn. His sister. Marie Kloppen- burg, committed suicide Christma- week two yeursagq by hanging. Spring "they Spured. Judge Trimble. of the Bureau county circuit court, has dgnied the applica- tion made for the appointment of a m- ceivcr for the city of Spring Valley. This order was entered on the grounds that the presebt circumstances do not warrant such action; Told in I Few Lines. The coal operators of northern Illi- nois refused absolutely to arbitrate with the miners. All arran emeuts have been com- pleted for 5%: erection of a soldien' monument in Paul to cost $5.000. "William H. Aflhur. of Chicago. was elected chief consul of the_}llinois L. "William H. Armur. 0: Lineage. w... elected chief consul of the_ Illinois L. A. w. ‘ _ William E. Stockhnrt. and pfife, who disappeared from Shelbywfiille. leaving an indebtedness of $9.000. have been located at Cassel. Germany, where ‘hey hope to settle file indeb‘edness. Philip H. G. Nickel. an old citizen of Mascoutah, and for many years a lead- ing florist, died at the age of 61 yearn. Capt. Joseph' Jennings. a veteran of the civil war, fins found dead in his barn at Maywood. He was one of th‘. founders of the town. Montie R. Vaughn, aged 13, of Do- catur, nécidentally killed himself with a revolver at OerrgGordo. Fred, tile eight-year-old son of John Raban, fell into a large meal bin in the barn on the farm near Elgin and was smothered. Gov. Tanner has appointed W. G. Cochran, of Sullivan, and Benson Woods. of Effingham, trustees of the Soldiers" Orphans’ home at Normal. At a special meeting of the Nash- ville board of education it was decided lo prohibit the nudenm of the high school from supporting a football team. The p651. ofii-c-e and ihe large depart- ment store of D. Beennn 8: Co. wero burned at. Streator.‘ the loss being $250,000. Willie Jenningn. aged ten, was as- sailed by a crowd of rough boys at Louisville and beaten so that he died. Miss Ida Sundsteadt, of Rockford, was fatally burned‘jby explosion of s gagoline stove. _. _- . ,, ‘___.l 15...! k- " ‘Wiuiam McNenl the road side near lean horse reachinl saw"..- 7 ,, William McNenl was found dead by the road side near Abingdon, his rider- leam horse reaching home without him. Receivers were appointed in Chicago for he International Building. Louis and Investment union. who“ liabilitiel are $325,000. an: vu~u,VVvv In the Sixth distnict Henry S. fioute“ (rep), of Chicago. was elected con- gressman to succeed Edward D._CookA. deceased. v to (he Ratteru. ten, was