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UIVJ At* • by JOI IN f Jhjf TTM< •*&%» 0 PAR as things political go. Pat 'Brien owns the town. So far the railroad goes, and that !s to the jumping:off place In the Pifclflt ocean, Joe Dale owns the railroad. Dale's railroad motes and has a large part of its being in O'Brien's town Scon or late these two men were sure to war for supremacy in the town, and this Is the story of how it hap­ pened, The people of the town and the stockholders of the rail­ road don't come into the story at all. They only furnished the sinews of war, which fact is abun­ dant proof that the story Is true. Pat O'Brien's town calls him the cardinal. Tn & sjomeiit of angry defeat, & silk-stocking*-" ene- <ay, too polite to liken Pat to the devil, sourly dubbed him a second Cardinal Richellcu. The came tickled the town's fancy, and it stuck. The cardinal didn't mind. He was too busy 4K> cavil at mere names. His business as a stock­ broker grew with the town, he had for customers men like John, the son and henchman of Joe Dale, and when John bought and sold stocks it to be supposed that the cardinal profited through inside knowledge. Other business friends jrere powerful and their friendship financially was worth while. Colonel Legarde, who controls the Superior railroad, is also president of the Interstate Electric fltlway, an electric road, with terminals and local lines in the town. The elec­ tric roau neeaea many political favors and the cardinal obtained them for it, or for his friend Colonel Legarde. Really there was no other way to get anything. Unless and until Pat nodded his head there was nothing doing, for the town council fed out of his hand and state legislators followed out his orders. Pat O'Brien waxed rich. But one generation away from the "ould sod" his clothes spelled American business man, but his neckties faded the solar spectrum to a neutral tint, and marked the politician who bought and sold franchises and dealt out jobs at will. Knowing the times to talk and to keep silence, a loyal friend and a dead­ ly enemy, he made money for his stock-dabbling customers, serenely grafting his political way as tiie surest means to a desired end, and was worth a million and a half, at least. He owned the town. As John Dale's business of owning the railroad grew greater and more complex, he was more and more away from Lacedaemon--for that Is better flreek than the real name of the town, anyhow-- It became necessary for him to ask favors of the cardinal, and the favors were given with open hand. Dale found it necessary, too, to have a daily local organ and a voice wherewith to fool the people. He bought the Daily Planet Publish­ ing company, and made Pat O'Brien president Dale regarded the presidency a reward for favors received and a final binding of the town boss to his chariot tall. T*he cardinal knew that Pollock, the editor, recel\<ed all his orders from Dale, and regarded the presidency as something Of a joke. Grown to full stature among the other railroad kings, ruling had become a habit with Joe Dale. He made and unmade towns and the people in them at will, and expected no other in­ terest than Joe Dale's to be thought of, or moved ib, or lived for by any one connected with him. Sometimes he mistook his man, as when on© day he went into the office of one of his eminent and well-paid legal aids and found the lawyer dead to the outside world and Joe Dale's busi­ ness in a volume of Balzac. The railroad king blew up. "I don't pay you to read dum French novels," he roared. The law­ yer looked at him a long moment. "Mr. Dale," he finally said, "You pay me for what I knew, not what I do. I'll read dum French novels"--crescendo--"or do any other dum thing" --forto--"any dum time or any dum place"--for­ tissimo--"I dum please!" ending with a Wagnerian bang on the table. Whereupon Joe Dale changed the subject. Dale thought he owned the president of the Daily Planet company, but the cardinal had other thoughts about the matter. Colonel Legarde win ted a new franchise for an extension of the Interstate to a Bummer resort, some 30 miles away. Th^ proposed extension would pass through another town or two on its way to the lake and would parallel Joe Dale's steam road. Now Joe. Dale and the colonel were bitterly at outs over various grabblngs and snatchings each had made at the other's magnateship. The car­ dinal could not see that this concerned him at all. The extension would be a benefit and a convenience to the town. There was money In It for him. The deal ncas on. Thee Joe Dale came from New York and sent - for the cardinal. The two men faced each other with the feyes of poker players in a game, keen, deep, unfathomable. For the rest, It might have been a whiskered farmer in his Sunday suit meeting a city man, otherwise correctly clad, wearing a red, red ascot tie. "1 hear," said Dale, "That the Interstate peo­ ple want a franchise for that foolish summer re- ' aorjt extension of theirs." *1 hear so too," the cardinal replied. •"Well, let's cut it short. They can't get it." "The extension would be a tfood thing for the town, Mr. Dale." "I don't want it, It parallels my road. Your city council must refuse, the franchise." Here ^viis no slushy talk or thought of the rights of peo­ ple or of stockholders. It was "my road," and •"your council." The cardinal was undisturbed. "The people want it, Mr. Dale," he said, "It will be a great convenience for travel between the towns and the lake." Dale measured his man again. There were the cool, unfathomable eyes, the correct clothes, the red tie. The red necktie settled it. O'Brien was only a cheap politician after all. He must be shown. "You know, O'Brien, the Planet will oppose this thing to the bitter end, and you are the president of the Dally Planet Publishing com­ pany. It will place you in a nasty light." This no news to the cardinal, and his eyes were to nasty lights. But he said, In the of a man who half surrenders: "I hadn't thought of that." //m"- ///////< M W//A . {fc- - lOHSs -•te' . you 6COCK. PRfwcoise or youvuowT ee paesiOtar oe roe Pitwet cowxsct y coore* r Pr>r i p(§<varenpTT5?5r Bio kil l ino- (3 cooornro ofC <r» ippe«. s^ock," "Pollock will roast you," the magnate went on, "Of course he can't do It by name, but he will do you up. You must block this franchise. I insist on It, as yoar friend." "Well, Mr. Dale, Colonel Legarde Is my friend too," continued the cardinal. "The extension will parallel my road. You must stop it," snapped Dale, irritated by the men­ tion of his enemy's name. He cared nothing about the extension itself, but that Colonel Le­ garde wanted It was enough to make him fight the franchise. O'Brien knew this as the real rea­ son and went on deliberately. "It will be a hard thing to do. Colonel Le­ garde is popular--" This second mention of Legarde was too much for the temper of the railroad king. He blew up. "Dum Legarde!" he shouted. "You block that franchise or you won't be president of the Plah- ' et company long." "Hold-on, Mr. Dale. Don't get hostile. I'd no. Idea you were so dead set against this thing." Well, I am. And I don't want to have to tell you about It again." "You won't have to," the cardinal assured him* and departed, well satisfied with the fact that he had made Dale too mad to see that no prom­ ise had been given to block the obnoxious fran­ chise. Joe Dale went back to New York convinced that he had shown the man with the red neck­ tie it was not sare for Joe Dale's men to fool with the Dale buzz saw. Apparently he ?tad, for when the franchise came before the council it was chewed over, chewed up, delayed, tabled, ta­ ken up again. Juggled with, side tracked and everything but killed outright. Public, interest In* It lagged. Pollock of the Planet, his fears soothed by the parliamentary acrobatics which he thought were only O'Brien's method of "saving face," took himself and his loaded editorial pen to New York on business. This was the cardinal's time, and he acted quickly. At the next meeting of the city council the franchise was rushed through. But this was not all. In the absence of Pollock the president of the Planet company assumed authority, and the morning after, out came the Planet with news descriptions of the Interstate extension, scare- head, first page, and double-leaded indorsement of the council's action, the need of Lacedaemon for the proposed road and the many benefits it "would bring to the city, on the editorial patge. The peo­ ple read and marveled. Some laughed and oth­ ers of the knowing ones looked scared. Dale's ELECTRICITY AND STEAM COMPARED S.team and Electric Locomotives Ecjm?! Capacity, guns were spiked. He had no other local means of attacking the franchise or the cardinal, and any way the deed was done. All wondered what he would do. They didn't wonder long. As fast as a rail­ road king can get over the rails, Joe Dale came to Lacedaemon. He almost literally threw the Dally Planet out of its office windows, murdered It and jumped on Its corpse. He fired Pat O Brien from the presidency with force and arms. It would have been tragic, if everybody had not been grin­ ning at Dale's futile wrath. As it was, the only satisfaction the irate railroad king got out of it was to tell a few party leaders who besought him to continue the paper or sell, that he would let the Western Associated press franchise ex­ pire rather than see another fool paper like that in Lacedaemon. Even this small satisfac­ tion was lessened when Pollock insisted on his salary being continued to the end of an Iron-clad four-year contract. Mr. Dale went back to New York .with new ideas about city bosses and their waya."j The episode, for it was only an episode in the life of busy Lacedaemon, was soon almost forgot­ ten. The cardinal had shown Joe Dale tkat he was boss of the town. Joe Dale had chopped off the cardinal's presidential head In retaliation John Dale continued his business friend and cus­ tomer, and the whple affair was dismissed freeo the canUnal's 'busy mind as closed,' with honors even. But Joe Dale was not through with Pat O'Brien, It is a railroad king's prerogative to punish, as well as to reward, and for the punish­ ment of O'Brien, Dale laid a trap the effective­ ness of which lay entirely In its simplicity. Came John Dale one day to the cardinal and said: "Pat, I have a private tip that a big kill­ ing is coming off In Nipper stock. Buy me ten thousand at the market and hold on until. I tell you to let go." "All right," said the cardinal, and bought an­ other ten thousand as well for his own account Nipper advanced a point. He called In a few chosen friends who formed a pool and invested heavily. Nipper advanced two points, five points. Pat bought more; he would pull out when John Dale did and retire from active business with his profits. John Dale himself had gone to New York on the day he gave his order to O'Brien. Within a day Nipper began to sag. Then It dropped below the buying point. The pool put up more mar­ gins. The stock still dropped, swiftly now, and the other members of the pool became alarmed. Pat reassured them. They're shaking out the small blocks of stock," he said, "Then you'll see her sky-rocket." • Nipper continued to toboggan. Pat's friends were seriously concerned. They talked of sell­ ing and pockoting their losses, but he showed them his' hand. "Look here," he said, "John Dale Is in this thing up to his neck and we know where he gets his private tips. Here's what ho has on my books alone. As long as he holds on and keeps up his margins, I'm satisfied." His friends knew the cardinal; they knew hte, too was "up to his neck;" they held on. Suddenly Nipper went down like mercury In bllzsard weather. The friends were wildly alarmed. They insisted uu*i Juuu Dale was giving Dick the "double cross." Though he did not be­ lieve it, he wired to New York for special and private Investigation of John Dale's movements there. And after a little delay tidings came that made the pool-sharers very sick men. John Dale had gone to New York, had a short talk with his father, then gone straightway to his broker and sold short ten thousand Nipper at the market. The profit# on the sale a if the stock went down would pay his losses on the Lacedaemon purchase. Meanwhile Joe Dale would see to it that Nipper did go down until Pat O'Brien was utterly swamped. Of course the pool made haste to sell out. John Dale's private tip had been a prophecy. A killing had been made and O'Brien and his friends were the slaughtered ones. When the debris was final­ ly swept up the cardinal, who had plunged fierce­ ly on his own private account, found himself poor­ er by some $750,000. It had cost him that much to disobey the mandate of a railroad king. But he stt!! owns Lacedaemon. Lure of the City Strong Fascination That Even Beauty of the Country is Unable to Overcome. Tb* oitdle-aged woman was at the ad there one of .her friends her, to her great surprise. "You don't mean to tell me," exclaimed the I " scalier, thai you have given up your ' beautiful home In the countryV • \ "Yea, I have. My daughter simply o*i oat * It." "Why?" Bjcause she doesn't like the coun­ try. Whenever she visited me out there she complained BO bitterly about things that we were both unhappy. She thought the cream was horrible-- all fu.1 of thick lumps, Instead of sciootk and thin, like i<*aj city crenw. The'butter, shs said, tasted like grass, and the broilers didn't taste 'high,' like the kind she was used to. There was so much light it made her eyes ache, and the scent of roses kept her awake at night, so she sold the place and brought me in here." "Reminds me," said the caller, "of an old play, In which I once saw Mrs. Gilbert. In one scene she personted a woman who had Just returned to New York after a long absence. She opened a window which was supposed to overlook Broadway, leaned out, took a long whiff, and then exclaimed rapturously: 'Oh, the dear, delightful, dirty New York!' "--New York Press. Grand Patriotic Celebration. More than forty pure and mixed races of mankind took part in the co­ lossal international pageant In cele- bratlor of the centennial of the birth of Ellhu Burrltt, "Apostle of Brother­ hood,' held recently in New Britain. Conn., thp Hardware city. School ex­ orcises, thoral singing, parades and floats, speeches and an illuminated town enjoying a half-holiday contrib­ uted to the patriotic celebration. - V- m The accompanying illustration gives a comparison in false of steam and elec­ tric locomotives of equal capacity. The electric locomotive is a power­ ful machine for the hauling of pas­ senger traffic on the 8implon Tunnel railroad in Switzerland. The total SAFETY IN TUNNEL ELECTRICITY SEEMS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. Does Away With Danger of Having Trainmen Overcome With Poison­ ous Gases Bound to Accumulate With Coal Combustion. Jl crisis in railroading was reached j one day not long ago when a heavy freight train be­ came stalled in the tunnel' con­ necting Port Hu­ ron, Mich., with the town of Sar- nia, Ontario, and c a r r y i n g t h e tracks of the Grand Trunk. A powerful switch engine pushed the stalled train out of the big bore and the railroad men were horri­ fied to find the engineer of the stranded engine huddled in a heap Oil iiiy flour of his cab and the fireman a limp bundle across the lumps of coal in the tender--both had been suffo­ cated from the poisonous gases from their big engine while trying to get up steam enough to pull the heavy train out of .the tunnel. This was the third accident of this kind within a short time and it was all too apparent that a safer kind of power had to be found. The engineers of the Grand Trunk remembered that the Baltimore & Ohio had been troub­ led with its tunnel transportation fa­ cilities about the city of Baltimore as early as 1895, and that they had beten experimenting with electricity as a motive power, so they hurried to that city to make an investigation. They found that the electric locomotives of the B. & O., looking more like huge locomotive cabs than anything else, handled the heaviest trains with ease, even on the steepest grades, and that the Baltimore tunnel was practically free from all smoke and gas. When a steam train was ready for the tunnel, the fires were banked, the steam was shut off and the electric lo­ comotive coupled on to haul the train and the dead steam engine through the tunnel. Inquiry into the cost of operating these electric locomotives showed that they could move so much (aster, being smaller and more power­ ful, and could haul a large train at such a remarkable speed that the cost of operation was really less than it would be by steam. It is worthy of historical note that the B. & O., first in the use of electricity as a motive power, was also the first railroad to use a steam locomotive In this coun­ try. The Stourbridge Lion, one of the two English locomotives, was import­ ed to this country and used to haul trains on the B. & O. as early as 1830. A year later the Albany & Schenec­ tady railroad was running. In the early days of railroading on the Great Northern all the trains had to be zigzagged over the Cascade mountains on a "switch-back." It took three of the most powerful locomotives to switch seven passenger cars over the mountain and the labor was as nothing compared to the time it took to get the train over, for time is so Important in all railroad work. To avoid this monumental task a huge tannel was bored through the moun­ tain, about a hundred miles east of Seattle, costing millions of dollars and years of toil. At the time this tunnel was opened traffic on the Great Northern was not so heavy as it is today and the tunnel worked very well, notwithstanding that the grades were very steep and the giant steam locomotives could wt run through the bofe very often because of the dangerous smoke and gases. Great vigilance was. required to keep the air in the tunnel anywhere near pure and time and again the train crew a were lifted from their positions half dead from suffocation, and once a passenger train became stalled in the tunnel and quick work was re­ quired to get them out in safety. The dangers and delays in this tun­ nel were a continual source of annoy­ ance to Mr. James J. Hill, and he dis­ patched a party of engineers to go up the Wenatchee river and study the wa­ terfalls with a view to make them haul the trains through the Cascade tunnel. TICKET PRINTED TO ORDER System In Use in Europe Really 8eems to Have Something to Recommend It. Every railroad ticket tn vo»«r is the fadism in Cologne. The print­ ing machine which is In operation there carries as many printing plates as varieties of tickets require for issue from the station. The names of all stations are arranged in alpha­ betical order on a ecale. Ob a ticket being demanded, the clerk inserts a blank piece of cardboard of the con­ ventional size into a sliding carriage which is the printing apparatus, moves It along until it is opposite the name of the station required on the indi­ cator, depresses the handle, and im­ mediately the ticket drops out im­ printed with the name of the de­ parture and arrival stations, date, con­ secutive number, fare, route, class of carriage, and any other fact that may •be required. At the same time a duplicate Is printed on a continuous sheet, so that no working operation by the clerk. Is necessary. No card can possibly be printed by any unauthorized perspn without being registered on the con­ trol sheet, which cannot be altered by the clerk. Misuse Is out of the ques­ tion, and the working office Is proof against theft, since no ticket is of any use until passed through th6 ma­ chine, being merely a blank until this operation Is over. Any type of ticket can be issued without delay, Including clerical, tourist, excursion, etc. One official at Cologne Issued 500 tickets in an hour. On leaving each day the clerk simply totals the amounts re­ corded on the duplicate sheet and bal­ ance with his till. Clandestine printing of tickets is en- turely prevented, as the plates for printing the tickets cannot be with­ drawn except by the printing apparatus itself, which is returned to its orig­ inal position directly after Impression. The success in Cologne has resulted In the adoption of the new railway ticket system by the German, Swed­ ish, Danish and Austrian state rail­ roads. The idea Is also applicable to any other business where tickets are used. Strange Railroad Accident. A peculiar accident happened at Maxwell, la., early one morning re­ cently, J. W. Hamahl, a grain man, being struck by a westbound train and carried twenty-nine miles to Madrid before being discovered unconscious upon the pilot of a huge Mogul Mil­ waukee engine. The trainmen knew nothing of the accident till the uncon­ scious man was discovered at Madrid. He was given treatment by a physi­ cian and aboard a special train was brought back to Maxwell and later to Cedar Rapids, where he lies in a hos­ pital, with little chance of recovery. How the accident occurred is a mys­ tery. It is thought that the victim was driving in a buggy abd went to sleep. Near a level crossing his horse was found killed and his buggy smashed to kindling wood. That the trainmen should have had no knowl­ edge of the affair at^the time seems extraordinary indeed.--Exchange. The Meanest Ever. The meanest trick ever perpetrated upon a lover was that which his girl's pa sprung upon an Arlington Heights youth who stayed longer than the old man's stock of patience could last. He finally appeared at the head of the stairs and began to sing 'The Morning Light is Breaking; the Darkness Dis­ appears." REAL VETERAN OF THE RAIL Jim Hunt of Albany, N. Y., Beloved by All Acquaintances, Has Fund of Reminiscence. Ask any engine driver in the east who Jim Hunt is and he will say: "Who--Jim? Why he's the man that brought Abe Lincoln from Schenec­ tady to Albany. He'll tell you about It if you'll go to Albany." Jim Hunt is seventy-five years old. He was an engineer on the New York Central while the present generation of loco­ motive drivers were playing In the clinkers in the train yards. When he is not playing pinochle with the fire­ men of steamer 7, he is telling how Abe Lincoln looked when he stood on the platform of his car and watched the crowds that came to meet him all along the 17 miles from Schenectady to Albany. Jim says he felt proud that day. "My engine was Erastus Corning, Jr.. No. 47. She wasn't very big. You could put her tn the tender of these fellows running \ now, but she^was as sleek and smooth as your pet cat." The firemen of No. 7 have bought him a wheel chhlr, which he can run by turning two cranks. They put a bicycle light on it for a headlight, and every morning on this go-by-hand locomotive, he goes from his home to the engine house, where he sits all day telling stories of railroad life in the early 'COs.--Lea- lie's. Treating Bruises. In the treatment of contusions with extensive discoloration of thri skin, if olive oil be applied freely without rub­ bing the discoloration will quickly dis­ appear. Absorbent cotton may he soaked tn the oil and applied. If the skin is broken a little borlo acid should first be applied over the abra­ sion. A black eye thus treated can be rendered normal in a few hours, especially if the oil be applied warn. Building Without a Window. St. Louis now has a concrete build­ ing fifty-seven feet high, which hasn't a single window. It la illuminated In the daytime by means of a skylight io the roof. GOT PH0 RAPH OF PANTHER Bpeltlng Elanc* Which F«w Man* y S p"rtLc?r* Wki Of : wigh Again. / ' A liflnthe will often r results, as < not easily killed, and e with very unpleasant certain occasion In the length & the road is IS mites, the tunnel itself eons! sting of nearly the whole of this. The electric locomo­ tive will operate at four speeds, 16, 21, 33 and 43 miles an hour, the cor­ responding horsepower being 550, 650, 750 and 850.--Popular Mechanics. Another band of engineers was set to work figuring on the electrification of the tunnel and the Installation of pow­ erful electric locomotives for the tun­ nel work. Today giant locomotives are shut­ tling the trains through the Cascade tunnel. These giants develop more than 2,000-horse power, weigh 115 tons, and on tests have now a tractive effort of 80,000 pounds. These elec­ tric locomotives have been in opera­ tion some months, and they haul the heaviest steam trains, dead engines and all, through this tunnel at a apeed which was impossible for steam pow­ er. The Wenatchee river is har­ nessed about thirty miles south of the tunnel, where 10,000-horse power is generated by the falling water. This electrical energy is transmitted to the electrical zone about the tunnel. Dcccan. H ipeared to be quite dead, and o f the spectators rushed up with a c. ra on a stand to obtain a picture oi supreme moment He got his phraph, and; strange to say, it survi what followed; but no sooner had taken it than the (mil- there reviv^ore himself loose, and went for th&iographer. Somehow the man escg, but the camera was sent flying, l disconcerted by his encounter wnt, the panther turned and made f<|he nearest tree, np which he we£ quickly as a monkey. Now, the tr^as crowded with in­ terested spears, and for three or four strenud seconds (until the panther was t) we enjoyed a spec­ tacle of nativ ropping to earth with loud thuds ripe plums from a jungle tree a » panther approached them.--Wide fid Magazine. BURNii HI •RUPTI0N TO FEET FROM "Pour yeaijfeo I suffered severely with a terril|czema, being a mass of sores fronted to feet and for six weeks conficfto my bed. During that time I sl-ed continual torture from itching I burning. After being given up by doctor I was advised to try Cuticu temedies. After the first bath wit uticura Soap and ap­ plication of < ;ura Ointment I en­ joyed the firs x>d sleep during my entire illness, also used Cuticura Resolvent and > treatment was con­ tinued for abt thr*A x* *t»». end of that tl I was able to be about the ho J entirely cured, and have felt no ilfects since. I would advise any pen suffering from any form of skin t ble to try the Cuti­ cura Remedies i I know what they did for me. . 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