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Boxing Bill Goes Through, With Referendum 4t^chjij^v *&• WOlt ON MEASURE 28 TO 15 rt :' Ifltsolution Prepared by Representative - J( Hilton and 8enator Latham Re- vlyi#-Inquiry on Lak« Fr*Wt • Right*. ' Springfield.---The Carroll boxing bill, •; 'tttli the referendum attached, passed -•.^fthe senate by a vote of 28 to 15--just *- itwo votes to spare. «iav ^ " waa a close squeaic. Theroll call 9 ,' V^.'ended with the bill three or four votes "V short The presiding officer ordered . ^ a verification and the call of the ab- sentee«, and delayed the final an- .^v^ljjnanncement while Senator Broderlck • ;-:^ led a flying wedge around the chain- , ; ber gathering up a few stray neces- votes. With the referendum clause, the vi^lhouse friends off the bill believe they can win out. Following is the roll call which won tor the boxing bill: , Yeas--Baldwin, Bardlll, Barr, Boehm, | Broderlck, Canaday, Carroll. Coleman, Daltey, Denvlr, Ettelson, Gorman, Glaikln, Haase, Hamilton. Harris, Harding, Herlihy, Hughes, Hurley, Latham, Meeker, McNay, Olson, Roos, Sullivan, Swanson, Womack. Nays--Austin, Bailey, Campbell, Cleary, Cliffe, Compton, Cornwell, Curtis, Franklin, Hull, Jewell,,Landee, Lauder, Pervier, Piercy, Smith. Property rights involving millions of dollars in Chicago are affected by a resolution prepared by Representa- , . tive George C. Hilton of Chicago and 3enator Sam W. Latham of Eldorado for simultaneous introduction in house and senate. All of the Streetervllle tract, the Chicago Beach hotel, the r .Wilson bathing beach and other valu- • able shore lands of Lake Michigan, with many miles of river frontage in various parts of.the state whose fee may be in controversy, are affected. The resolution Is designed to revive the < Uperfleld report on the sub- mer-C^,,' lands of the state and to force Action on its recommendations. Until now it is said that powerful in­ fluences have effectively forestalled every move toward reclaiming these lands for the state. The resolution repeals the resolu­ tions by which the Chiperfleld com­ mission was created February .24, 1909. It tlren repeats the resolution of the next legislature March 23.1911, directing the attorney general to prosecute. Nothing has been done in the Intervening four years and the resolution continues: "Now, • therefore, be it resolved by the house of representatives, the Ben- ate concurring, that the attorney gen- . eral of this state make report what * legal action, if any, has been taken by the department of justice of the , state of Illinois toward carrying out «'the recommendations of the commit­ tee appointed as aforesaid and of the subsequent resolution, the result of such action, and if no action has been taken to carry out such recommenda­ tions that +• • mediate legal steps be taken to carry out the recommenda­ tions of the committee and aforesaid resolution, having special reference to submerged and shore lands of Lake Michigan." Faces of many members of the leg­ islature dropped and more than one Indulged in hard words when the tip was passed around that Speaker Shan- ahan declared he would not sign the appropriation for their mileage in its present form. The bill went through the house by a vote of 112 to 30, and the members were counting on Gov­ ernor Dunne's signature and their money within a few days. "The senate appropriation bill, ' which w$s passed by the house, mere­ ly sets the money aside for contingent expenses," said the speaker. "The words specifying In accordance with house joint resolution. No. 20' were 6truck out That is the mileage reso­ lution. Consequently, If Lieutenant Governor O'Hara and I sign the bill, we will be responsible If the appro­ priation is illegal." The proposed solution is to pass the boiise bill with the original pro­ viso. The Boyer house bill, however, was struck from the calendar imme­ diately after the senate bill was passed. Many members are adverse to putting in more time on the propo­ sition, fearing that tha impression will be created through the state that much of the time of the session Is being used in cuing for their person­ al needs. The house had * "birthday party" for itself. After passing the mileage and salary increase bills in the morn­ ing it voted itself another "present" by adding the Curran amendment to . J? the Bailey bill from the senate, allow- ing railroad passes to members. Measures for City of Chicago. ; Springfield.--"Chicago * bills in the legislature are getting along remark­ ably well," declared Richaid S. Folsom, corporation counsel, who has £een putting in most of the time since his appointment in the state capital pushing the legislation in which the city is interested. ; "While ^om; big ^ghtls for home rule and that is holding the center of attention, there are many other bills of great importance to the city which we confidently expect to pass," he continued. "Most of these have passed one house and are in the oth­ er, so that we are not too sanguine in believing that the hardest part of the fight is won. ' If Chicago gets home •rule we will have practically every­ thing we asked for." James G. Skinner, assistant corpor­ ation counsel, has been on the ground watching the city's bills ever since the session started. In addition Leon Homstein, another assistant, has been here a good share of time. Mayor Thompson and other city officials and aldermen also made a flying trip, while Aldermen Capltaln, Richert and others have been hare repeatedly. The official list of the city's bills and their standing Is: Henderson unemployment, 9. B. 24 (Glackln)--On third reading tn the senate and an agreement reached with supporters of Governor Dunne's bill for the administration backing. "No man's land" annexation, S. B. 176 (Swansofe)--Passed the senate and on second reading in the house, and its duplicate, H. B. 472 (Dahlberg) passed the house and on third or final reading in the senate. Lake Calumet 99-year riparian leases, S. B. 295 (Swanson)--On third reading in senate, and duplicate H. B. 628 (Dahlberg) on second reading in house. Grants city Chicago Beach hotel land, S. B. 326 (Hull)--Passed senate and on second reading in house, while H. B. 710 (Rothschild) la on third reading in house. Park boards may convey sub­ merged lands to city, S. B. 327 (Hull) Correcting defects in wheel tax law, S. B. 380 (Ettelson)--Has passed sen­ ate and is on third reading in house, where Rothschild, who introduced H. B. 804, is pushing It In preference to his bill on second reading In the house. Compelling street ear extensions, H. B. 126 (Burns)--Is on third read­ ing in the house. Prohibiting similarity in bank names, H. B.-127 <Burns)--Has passed house and is in senate committee. Home rule for Chicago, H. B. 899 (Frankhauser)--Is on third reading in the bouse after a hard fight, with the Barr-Dailey-Ettelson combination to cope with in the senate. Ip addition to these the (>111 permit­ ting the merger of the elevated and surface and future transportation lines has been put on second read­ ing In the senate and various other Chicago measures which the city has not pushed and some of which it is opposing are advancing. The Chicago public utilities home rule bill survived a stormy session in the lower house and was advanced to third reading. As amended, the bill leaves the powers of the state com­ mission intact, except that it gives the Chicago city council the power to reg­ ulate public utilities in that city, with the exception of railroads, telegraph companies and interarban traction lines, if the voters of Chicago so de­ cide at any election. The Gardner bill making iRMVpral women subject to a Due of $200 or imprisonment in the county jail for one year or both, was . passed by the house by a vote of 93 to 0.' The bill was attacked by Represen­ tatives Lyle, Lee O'Neil Browne, But­ ler and Donahue. It was defended by Representatives G. H. Wilson, Octree *od Devine. • i Illinois Corporations. ^ The following corporations were license^ by Secretary of State Steven­ son: Alabaster Art company, Chicago; capital, $15,000. Incorporators--Thom- ^ .as D. Pelton, M. von Liski and John Pangere. r, ^ American Vaporator company, Chl- ; -fcago; capital, $1,009. Incorporators- Marion Luce, H. A. Blossat and Flor­ ence E. Holdridge. Charles J. Costello, Chicago; capital. | - $1,000. Incorporators--Charles J. Cos- tello, Mabel A. Costello Charles Scfclutz company, Chicago; <H; capital, $l6,000. Incorporators -- Charles Schlutz, Harry Leipsiger and Mae Crains. y . ... General Supply factories, Chicago; * capital, $5,000. Incorporators--W. B. .iO. Armstrong, J?*K. Russell and Par- . _ ,; ker H. Hoag. La Harpe Supply company. La v |f]Harpe; capital; Incorporators * . ^--W. H. Hartzell Bert M. Cavanagh y and Beulah Bowman. 4 The Mail Despatch company, Chi- |.u,'^Tlcago; capital, $1,000. Incorporators-- 3 Arthur C. Bachrach, Frederick H. Mar: if; ienthal and Oscar Blumenthaj. Named en Pardon Board. \ Col. McNaugAton of Joliet 'was named by Governor Dunne as a member o1 the state board of par­ dons . to "succeed Lewis G. Stevenson, whom the governor appointed secre­ tary of state to succeed the late Harry Wooes. The governor also reappointed Will Colvitt of Springfield as the Re­ publican member o^the board. Other nominations sent to'the senate by Gov­ ernor Dunne were: J. H. Ankebrant of Chicago, West Chicago park commissioner, vice John Anda, whose nomination was with­ drawn last week because ol^ political differences. Samuel O. Pearce of Quincy, trustee of the Western Illinois State Normal school, vice D. P. Hollls, resigned. Members of the board of visitors for the fol!owing Btate institutions: Mrs. William M. Brinkman of Chi­ cago, Chicago state hospital. Mrs. J. Niles Wheeler of Geneva, Elgin state hospital... * Mrs. Felix Lecy of Chicago, Charles School for Boys. Mrs. Robert Bruce Farson, Charles State Training School Girls. Mrs. George B. Watts of Elgin, Illi­ nois Industrial Home for the Blind. 6. (LP. JUDGES WIN St. St for * STATE MEWS BRiEFt HUlsboro.--Robert Knox McBeth, who taught Harry Lauder, the Scotch comedian, his first song, is dead in his home here. Monmouth.--Miss Louise F. Stotts, Instructor in the modern language de­ partment of Monmouth college, will not return next fall, having resigned to return to her home in China, where she plans to take up educational work assisting her father, who is -a mission­ ary tn the Honan province. BMxmiington.--After a separation of 19 years, Joseph Roby of Hoopeston and his son are reunited. The parents separated when the youth was eight­ een months old and the mother was awarded custody oj the child. Recent­ ly the father expressed a desire to meet the son, who was iiving in Blooin- ington. He offered the boy a home and position, which was accepted. Sterling.--The annual convention of Pythian Sisters adjourned to meet at Galena. III., in June, 1916. About £00 jtelcrfttgft isre itfsaent. ? V. -tW Four Are Elected to the Supreme - ^^pgCouii •Jffa ;v MANY WIN IN THE CIRCOttS W. ^ Duncan of Marlon Defeats Al­ bert Watson--Carter, Dunn and CaKwright Returned--William M. Farmer Elected. Chicago, June 8.---Control of the state supreme court was regained by the Republicans in the downstate elec­ tions, which returned their Kitting judges and seated Warren W. Dun­ can of Marion from the First district in place of Justice Albert Watson, Democrat Justice William M. Farmer of Vandalla, the other Democrat seek­ ing re-election, was successful. Three Republicans, Orrin N. Carter of Evanston, - Frank K. Duns of Charleston and James H. Cartwright of Oregon were re-elected, With the election of four Repub­ lican justices and one Democrat the. vote on the bench will stand four to three. Two Democratic justices, George A. Cooke of the Fourth dis­ trict and Charles C. Craig of the Fifth district, are holdovers. It Is the end of Democratic control of the bench which came for the first time in decades last February .when Governor Dunne appointed Justice Watson to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alonzo K. Vickers. MAKE UP4QF SUPREME COURT. Elected.: District 1 7--Justice bffin N. Carter Rep. 1--Warren W. Duncan .Rep, 2--Justice William M. Farmerv. .Dem. 3--Justice Frank K. Dunn Rep. 6--Justice James H. Cartwright. .Rep, Holdovers. 4--Justice George A. Cooke Dem. (--Justice Charles C. Craig. Dem. CtftCUJT JUDGES ELECTWX First Circuit. Judge William N. Butler. .. U.. Rep. Judge Albert W. Lewis..........Rep. DeWitt T. Hartwell. .Rep. Second Circuit, • Julius C. Kern *. . .Rep. Charles H. Miller Rep. G. C. Eagleton Rep. Third Circuit. Judge Louis Bernreuter Rep. Judge George A. Crowe Rep. J. F. Gillham Rep. Fourth Circuit. Judge James C. McBride ...Dem. Judge Thomas M. Jett Dem. William B. Wright Dem. Fifth Circuit. John H. Marshall Rep. August A. Partlow .Rep. Walter Brewer .Rep. Sixth Circuit.'. Judge William K. Whitfiel#,.... .Dem. Franklin H. Boggs ;Rep. George A. Sentel j,. .Rep. Seventh Circuit* Judge James A. Creighton.. . Dem. J u d g e N o r m a n L . J o n e s . . . D e m . Judge Frank W. Burton.... ....4 .Dem. Eighth Circuit, ^ Judge Albert Akers .*1.^ .Det^. Judge Harry Higbee .Dem. Judge Guy R. Williams... A , . .. .Dem Ninth Circuit. Judge Robert J. Grler ,*.4. .. .Rpp. ludge George W. Thompson......Rep. Judge Harry M. Waggoner.......Rep. Tenth Circuit. Judge John M. Niehaus Dem. Judge Theodore N. Green Dem. Judge Clyde Stone., Rep. Eleventh Circuit. Judge George W. Patten Rep Judge Thomas M. Harris Rep Samuel Welty Rep. Twelfth Circuit; Judge Dorrance Dibell Nonpart Judge Frank L. Hooper Nonpart. Judge Arthur W. DeSelm... .Nonpart. Thirteenth Circuit, Judge Edgar Eldredge........... Rep. Judge J. A. Davis .Rep. Judge Samuel C. Stough,.......Rep. Fourteenth Circuit. Judge Emery C. Graves Rep. Judge Frank D. Ramsay Rep. William T. Church ....Rep. Fifteenth Circuit. Judge Richard S. Farrand< Rep. Judge Oscar E. Heard Rep. Judge James S Baume. .Rep. Sixteenth Clrcui|, . Judge Duane J. Carnes. .Rep. Judge Mazz-inl Slusser .Rep Judge Clinton F. Irwin ..... Ind. Seventeenth Clrttttt, Judge Arthur H. Frost Rep. Judge Charles H. Donnelly Rep Judge Claire C. Edwards..Rep "I'll Vote If I Can Move," Dies. Danville, June 8.--"I believe it is the duty of every citizen to vote if he can more," said John Creamer, six­ ty-two years old, one of the pioneers of Danville. Then he arose from his sick bed and went to the polling place. He walked up to one of the judges and asked for Instructions on the marking of his ballot. Then he keeled over and sank to the floor dead. Girl Drowns While Bathing. . Galena, June 8.--With relatives standing helpless on the river bank Miss Mabel Miller, twenty, of GalenS, was caught by a whirlpool and drowned while bathing in the Missis­ sippi river. The body was recovered. 8pringfleld Poy Dies of Burns. Springfield, June 8.--John Ghrra. nine years old, of Virden, died here from burns received a week ago when he climbed a tree in front of his home and came la wniMt with a high- tension wire. Near-Slghtednees. ' •\ Many people believe that A child may be born near-sighted, but this is not the case. Near-sightedness al­ ways results from strain, and in the great majority of cases can be pre­ vented, or at least kept down to low degrees, Some Comfort. A dispute between a nurse and a patient isn't likely to be nearly so se­ rious for the patient as a dispute be­ tween his doctors.--Spokw man 8* view. ILLINOIS BREVITIES it •u- Abingdon.--Francis G. Blair, state superintendent of public instruction, made the graduating address before the senior class of the Abingdon high school. Edwardsville.--a tlx weeks' sum­ mer school, with regular courses in a dozen branches, will be conducted at the Edwardsville high school this sum­ mer. Carlyle.--Edward Fincher, thirty- three years old, died after a fight with Joseph Kinder, in which Fincher re­ ceived a blow on the head. The cor­ oner's jury held Kinder. He gave bond for $1,000. His plea is self-deftmse. Fincher is a miner. Mount Carmel.--The annual com­ mencement exercises of the Mount Carmel high school were held. Dr. H. G. Paul of the University of Illinois made the graduating address. The class^has 28 members, and the diplo­ mas were presented b3T W„ P. Hab- berton, president of the school board. Mount Vernon.--Charles Rosenberg- er and George Edgeley, firemau and brake man on the Illinois Central, are held on the charge of robbing cars of merchandise/ Two special officers disguised as hobos rode on a train and arrested Rosenberger. Edgeley was later arrested. The men say they live in East St. Louis. Springfield.--Under an order issued by the state public utilities commis­ sion, L. F. ODonnell will be prohibited from operating a "jitney bus" line in Jacksonville until he obtains a char­ ter of convenience and necessity from the state. A general order affecting all "jitney buses" in the state may fol­ low the action of the commission. Cairo.--All the country around Mc- Clure and Dogtooth Bend is under 8 to 15 feet of water by the overflow of the Mississippi, and thousands of acres of corn and wheat have been destroyed. Only two buildings in Mc« Clure, a village of 300 inhabitants, are above water. There were many nar­ row escapes from drowning. Duqoin.--As a result of the heavy rains the drainage district of Jackpon county, south of Duquoin, has become filled with water and farmers are fish- .ing with pitchforks. The drainage ditches and Small streams abound with fish, and instead of digging bait all one has to do is get a pitchfork and go to the bottoms. Quincy.--As a monument to the memory of his only son, Charles, killed by being struck with pitched ball in game at Payson, May 22, Henry Sey­ mour announced he will build a $30,- 000 public school at Payson on condi­ tion it be named Charles Seymour me­ morial school. Directors accepted. Will commence building at once. Peoria.--Chicago and Alton passen­ ger train No. 15 left the rails one mile west of MInler when running 50 miles an hour, three persons were se­ verely bruised and cut. They are Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Housh, Carroll, Iowa, and Miss Lucy Sangster, Farmer City, 111. The mall, baggage and smoker cars were overturned. Spreading rails are thought to have caused the wreck. Springfield.--The state live stock commission issued orders changing the status of several counties. The fol­ lowing are changed from the modified area to the restricted area: Carroll,, DeKalb, La Salle, Logan, Stephenson, Whiteside. The following are removed from the restricted area classified and placed in the free area list: Cass, Champaign, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar. Henderson, Hancock, Kanka­ kee, Knox, Livingston, Macon, Mason, Menard, Moultrie, Morgan, McDon- ough, Piatt, Puttman, Stark, Tazewell, Woodward and Warren. Decatur.--Mrs. George A. Keller was declared legally dead by Judge McCoy in the Macon county court and her eBtate, valued at $200,000, will be turned over to her husband. Mrs. Keller lost her life almost eight years ago. when she and her three daugh­ ters went down with the steamer Co­ lumbia in a storm off the Pacific coast George A. Keller was formerly presi­ dent of the Great Western Racing cir­ cuit and is known to harness horse­ men in all parts of the country. A son, Edward Keller, living at Port-i land. Ore., will also share in the es­ tate. Chicago.--Two boys lost their lives in the lake off Dlversey beach when a sail boat capsized less than 200 feet from the shore. Eighteen employes of the Lincoln park board, working un a breakwater near the beach, watched the battle against death. As far as could be learned not one of them made an effort to go to the boys' assistance. Fifteen-year-old Harold Jacobson of 2127 Cleveland avenue, a companion of the victims, was saxed by Harry Collins, a member of the Lincoln Park Yacht club, and William Stift of the Lincoln bark police. Those who lost their lives were Arthur Anderson, 17 yeaft old, of 2110 Ashland avenue, and John Adams, 18, of 2*129 Cleveland avenue. Chicago.--Two aviators, one of them a former pupil of Lincoln Beachey, were hurt probably fatally when the Curtiss biplane in which they were riding fell 300 feet while they were over the Cicero aviation field, West Twentieth place and South Fifty-sec­ ond avenue. The men were taken from the wreckage and hurried to St. An­ thony's hospital. They are: Vincent Durry, 5032 West Twenty-second place, also known by the name of James De- laney. Hurt Internally, Frank Touth, or Frank Krach, living in Cicero, hurt internally and right leg and right arm broken. Jacksonville.--The fifteenth annual convention of the Illinois state branch of the United National Association of Post Office Clerks closed here. Elgin was chosen as the meeting place for next year. The following officers were elected: President. Torey Johnson, Rockford; vice-president. Arthur Mes- ler, Peoria; secretary, W. C. Pflaum. Elgin; treasurer, Phil Graul, Alton. The following chairmen of committees were appointed: Rourd Robin, W. H. Myle, Decatur; organization, Henry M. Key, Sterling; grievance, Charles O. Biile, Urbana; finance, M. E. Horn- bach. Scringfleld. KILLED. ON RAILROAD RE-FIGURES 8H0W APPALLING SULTS OF TRESPAS9. Use vt lines' Right of *%«y ht This Country Is Responsible for a - Death List That Has Be- , come Serious. ; • A circular issued by the New Haven railroad says that it is not so much affected by the genus hobo as some other roads in this country are, yet in the last three years 42 persons have been killed and 394 injured while tres­ passing on the company's property. In the majority of cases the persons killed or injured were not tramps but persons who were using the railroad's right of wdy as a public highway, generally to make a short cut, or young boys or men seeking to steal rides on freight trains. In 19^2 152 persons falling under the class of trespassers on the New Haven right of way were killed and 108 injured; In 1913 172 were killed and 160 injured, and in 1914 118 were killed and 126 injured. During these years the New Haven and other roads of the country have been making ef­ forts to end the trespassing evil and avert the loss of life, but seemingly without success. The heaviest toll of life is taken in the summer, the mortality rising from the spring months with the tempera­ ture. For example, in the month of January of this year on the New Haven's line four trespassers were killed, in February eight, in March fif­ teen, a gain-of almost 100 per cent in a month. These figures form striking con­ trasts when compared with the losses of life through trespass on railroad property in other countries. In Great Britain between 1901 and 1910 only 4,- 344 persons were killed and 1,315 in­ jured. Great Britain, however, takes strong legal meanB to prevent a loss of life through trespass on her railroads' right of way, as is shown by the New Haven's statement, which says: "If you walk along a railroad in Eng­ land, believing you can thereby see the country better or get home more quick­ ly, you are arrested and taken before a local magistrate, who fines you $10. In Canada you can be fined up to $50 and imprisoned for two months, and there, too, the law is strictly enforced. In France unless you have a permit you cannot walk the tracks without great danger of bging fined and even jailed. In Germany the penalties range up to $25. "Only 13 states in this country have thus far followed the example of these European countries in having laws for bidding such use of railroad property. These states are Maine, New Hamp­ shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Virginia, Delaware, Georgia, Missouri, Minnesota and Washington. The pen alties prescribed range all the way from a five dollar fine and ten days in jail in Maine, to $500 fine and a year in jail in New York. "In one town in Connecticut, where the New Haven's tracks were persist­ ently crossed at a number of points as a short cut, the railroad erected a standard wire fence In addition to put­ ting up warning signs. This fen<je was torn down as fast as it was put up. Finally unable for thiB reason to keep the fence in repair so that it might serve Its purpose, the railroad attempt­ ed to erect other barriers. They were removed in a similar manner, the last one being torn down the very next day after it was put up. "What makes the problem an espe­ cially serious one for New England Is the very large contribution which In­ dustrial workers make annually to this death toll. Probably no other railroad In proportion to its length has so many industries located close to the rail­ road tracks as the New Haven. In many cases the employees of these es­ tablishments elect to nse the right of way as a highway to and from their homes in disregard of all warning signs. To abate this evil the railroad has taken the matter up directly with the heads of these concerns and has asked for their co-operation. It has also asked school superintendents to caution their pupils of the danger of walking or playing on or near the rail­ road tracks." BAIL TIE AND FASTENER One of the principal objects of the Invention is to provide a cross tie with a rail fastener having means for securely locking the track rails against the tie. An important object is to provide a fastener adapted to clamp the tie so firmly to the rail that all vibration will be reduced to a mini­ mum, and also to provide for taking up wear between the fastener and rail- --Scientific American. Turning Auto Into a Railroad Car. Some of the railroads are changing ordinary automobiles into railroad cars to be used in their inspection work. All 'that Is needed Is a set of steel-flanged tires. The regular pneu­ matic tires are deflated a trifle, the steel put over them, then Inflated firm­ ly into a groove in the steel, to hold them firmly in place, and the machine, with the steering gear locked straight ahead, goes merrily down the track at enormous speed. But, as each of these steel tires weighs1 250 pounds, their use is not likely to become popular. COUNTIES WITHOUT RAIL LINE There Are Only Two, and One 8eems A b o u t t o ' 8 e e t h e I w o r f f - ; * * Its Ways. • . From the Potomac river to the Maine-Canadian border there are bq^ two counties of any states that can* not boast a single mile of steam rail­ road. One of these is Fulton county. In southern Pennsylvania. The other is Pendleton county in West Virginia. But Fulton county is awakening from its Rip Van Winkle slumber and is giving ear to the clarion call of progress. Its county seat, McConnels- burg, is going to have , a street car line. , t The primeval silences which have hung over the county will be dispelled by the sound of warning gongs when uniformed motormen yank the rope B.S wide-eyed citizens stop to. stare at the electric-driven apparition coming along the highway. Usually the trolley car follows the steam-drawn vehicles, but in the case of Fulton county the order may be reversed. Here's hoping that its progressive citizenship soon may have the choo-choo tbo, and thus leave Pendleton county, W. Va., to bear alone the dubious honor of being the only county in the territory mentioned to be without a steam railroad.--Phila­ delphia Prass. RAILROAD BOUGHT FOR $1 It' Is a Sixty-Mile Line Located Kansas--A Record Sale. In Here's how the Kansas Southwest­ ern railroad, sixty miles long, between Arkansas City and Caldwell, Kan., was sold a few months ago for $1, says the Kansas City Star. The road was owned jointly by the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe and the St Louis & San Francisco rail­ roads. It was badly involved and in a poor physical condition. The Kansas state public utilities commission had just issued an order that $150,000 should be spent to put it In better condition. E. P. Ripley, .president of the Santa Fe, and W. B. Biddle, one of the three Receivers for the Frisco, met to talk over what was to be done about the commission's new order. "How would you like to buy the road?" Mr. Biddle asked. "1'^ name a price, give or take," Mr. Ripley said. "Go ahead," the Frisco receiver said. "One dollar," Mr. Ripley snapped. And that's the way the Santa Fe acquired full titlo to the ownership of the branch road. The story came out. when a Santa Fe official tqftt it *t the John W. Weeks luncheon. ; AIR SIGNAL VALVE This invention provides a valve in the train signal air line which permits the actuation of a signal when a re­ lief valve at one of a plurality of points is opened, said signal prefer­ ably being in close proximity to a lo­ comotive engineer or to a motorman of a motor car or train, reports the Scientific Atnericaq. The valve pre­ vents the signal actuation when the train line Is closed, regardless of the pressure of air in the train line. The valve permits the actuation of the signal of a portion of the air rushing from the air reservoir as an open re­ lief valve. Waste In Railroad Ticketa. Down in the passenger and ticket departments the ruthless hand of the economizer went, says the Sunday Magazine of the Chicago Herald, and before ft was through a lot of dupli­ cate pasteboard used for tickets was confiscated. There was such a mul­ tiplicity of forms of tickets in use on some roads that it took most of the time of a private printing establish­ ment to print them. On a single branch line there were, six hundred different styles of printed railroad tickets, and on the main sys­ tem upward of ten thousand. Most of the big roads had as high as five thou­ sand standard forms of tickets, with any number of special forms to be printed from week to week. Every excursion, special train, or conven­ tion gathering meant the printing of a lot of new special tickets. Simplified tickets have supplanted many of these old duplicate and intri­ cate forms, and many of the roads are adopting machines that working some­ what on the principle of the cash reg­ ister, will stamp and date tickets in indelible ink and give the destination Just as plainly as if printed. Qood Arrangement of Lights, By a new invention the light en the railroad crossing gate changes auto­ matically as the gate is raised and low- 'ered. 'Justly Famous. "He's a pretty fair attorney, isn't he?" "Fair! He's a wonder. Why, that man single handed has acquitted our most notorious criminal three times for exactly similar crimes." A New View. a nice, kind man Nero was!** "What? Why, the wretch fiddled while Rome burned!" 'I know. He'd probably waited all <sht8 life for a chance when he wouldn't disturb anyone."--Fun. Wt*:1 German Railroads. There are 39,000 miles of railroad In Germany. The Proper Term. "1 say, barber," queried the callow youth in the chair, "should a man shave up or down?" "It all depends. Now, for Instance, when I am shaving you I always shave down," replied the tensorial artist, wUhk £he accent on the down. A . ; : Never Too Latsn' . ^ President of the Anti-Tobacco* So ciety--Young man, I am sixty-seven and never smoked in my life. , Gay Youth--Oh, well, don't worry Cato learned Greek at eighty-six. "i THE GROWTH OF s - WESTERN CUM Increase in Railway Mileage^ School Attendance and Population. 3fl Some idea of the extent of railway construction In Western Canada can be derived from the fact that the rail­ way mileage In the Province of Al­ berta has been doubled in three years. The present mileage Is 4,097. In all of the settled districts there is ample railway privileges. The rates are gov­ erned by a Dominion Railway Commis­ sion, and in the exercise of their pow­ ers they not only control the rates, giving fair equality to both railway and shipper, but form a court to hear ' complaints of any who may .•desire, to lodge the same. In the matter of education no better M instance of the advancement that is * taking place can be given than that found in the information to hand that attendance at the .University of Al- : berta has increased 1,000 per cent lu five years, and is now thoroughly rep­ resentative of all settled portions of the Province. The students In attend­ ance are from sixty-one distinct dis­ tricts. Then as to the prosperity which fol­ lows residence in Western Canada, J. B. Edward of Blackie, Alta., gives splendid testimony. He writes, "In , the spring of 1907 I first came to this . locality from the State of Iowa, Cass- , County, and located on a quarter sec- - > |r tion of land near Blackie. Since com- lng here I have been engaged in mixed ( / "Ji'f farming, which I have found to be more profitable than-where I formerly £||.v lived. On coming here my worldly .: holdings were small besides having a family to care for. Lnow own three , ^ 4"' quarter sections, sixty head of cattle, twenty head of horses and forty head "x a! ' of hogs, without encumbrance. "During the seven years I have not r' 1% < had a crop fail. My best crop of oats averaged ninety bushels per acre, with >v :':J ' a general yield of thirty-five bushels,- < and upward. My best wheat crop aver- '• i/lff aged forty-three bushels per acre. . •; i When I have had smaller yields per- j acre I have found that it has been due to Improper cultivation. The win- ; • ters here, although at times the weath- * er is cold, I find as a'whole are very agreeable. The summers are warm, 4 ^ but not sultry. The summer nights.' are cool and one Is always assured of 1 / "•% \ a good night's rest. My health has been much better, as I do not suffer from catarrh since coming here. I IJjfe have no land for sale, and am not wishing ,to make any change, but ^ would be pleased to answer any en- . quiries concerning this locality."--A4» ; vertisement. ' ulS FEW WAR PLAYS HAVE UFE Writers Seldom Successful In Produc- tof Dramas That Long Public Attention. » , To write a long list of plays which have in their day figured as war plays would neither prove nor disprove any­ thing except this--that they were so written as *0 deserve recognition from posterity, or not; if ihey were they got it, and if they were badly done, nobody remembers them; certainly the fact that they exploit a passage at arms, a battle of wrr, never kept bad plays out of the limbo of forgetful- ness. Dryden's enormous product includes at least two dozen war plays, and they are the deadest in our literature, ac­ cording to the Theater Magazine. He loves alarms and excursions, but while one ode devoted to them In a spectacu> lar way is spouted by every schoolboy, the plays of this poet in which war as a spectacle figures even more grandiloquently are quite lost to ail but the bibliophile. The first war plays that naturally recur to the Anglo-Saxon mind are Shakespeare's histories. These are war playp, Indeed, if any exist in Eng­ lish. Armies march and countermarch through them, battles i re joined, lost or won, cities are besieged and taken, the sight and sounds of sixteenth cen­ tury warfare are constantly he*rd and seen; they are perhaps the model war plays of our la iguage; and Shake­ speare's free hand was the only hand to deal with them. A man nearly always gets iU4irri«4 while his brains are taking a vacation --if he has any. GET POWER ' The Supply Comes From If we get power from food, why not strive to get all the power we can. That is only possible by selecting food that exactly fits the requirements of the body. "Not knowing how to select the right food to fit my needs, I suffered griev­ ously for a long time from stomach trouble," writes a lady from m little Western town. "It seemed as if I would never b» able to find out the Sort of food that was best for me. Hardly anything that I could sat would stay 011 my stomach. Every attempt gave me heart-burn and filled my stomach with gas. I got thin­ ner and thinner until I literally be­ came a living skeleton and in time wan compelled to keep to my bed. "A few months ago I was persuaded to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such good effect from tho very beginning that I kept up Its use. I was surprised at the ease with which I digested It. It proved to be just what I needed. **Ali my unpleasant symptoms, tho heartburn, the inflated feeling which gave me so much pain, disappeared. My weight gradually increased from 9S to 116 lbs., ruy figure rounded out, my strength came back, and I a:u now abl*» to do my housework and enjoy it. Gnkpe-Nt'.is did ii " • ten days trial will show anyoM some facts about food. Name given by Poetnm Co, Battln Creek, Mich. Read. **The Road to Wellville." in pkgs. 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