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BAILWAY BACKET.
echoes wafted by the rumbling
BAILS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
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East Bound Shipments.
Chicago, lll.—The east-bound shipments from
Chicago last week were 44,038 tons, againgt 36,591
tons the previous week, and 53,088 tons last year.
Percentages were: Wabash, 11.7; 3ig Four, 5,
Michigan Central, 11,2; Lake Shore, 8.1; Fort
Wayne, 11.2; Pan Handle, 14.2 per cent.; Balti
mae and Ohio, 1 per cent.; Grand Trunk, 10.6 per
cent.; Nickle Plate, 6.2 percent.; Chicago and
Alton, 13.8 per cent. Lake Shore percentage is
surprisingly small.
St Louis, Arkansas and Texas.
Greenville, Tex. —From local officials of the
St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway company
it is learned to-day that twenty-two miles of track
from Greenville towards Fort Worth had been laid
up to yesterday, and during good weather lately the
work has progressed at the rate ot two miles a day.
The supply yard of the company, hitherto at Com
merce, is now being moved to this place. Agent
Wray reports business steadily swelling. Four
cars of through freight were received to-day. Over
500 bales of cotton were shipped, and as much is
awaiting shipment. Cars can not be supplied fast
enough to meet the demands of shippers As this
part of the road is received by the company, which
will be at an early day, an accommodation train
will be put on from Greenville to Sherman and
Texarkana connections.
Railroad Earnings.
The Pennsylvania railroad earnings, lines east of
Pittsburg and Erie, for September show a decrease
of $58,340 in net earnings compared with September,
1886. The earnings for the nine months of 1887
show an increase of $1,151,824 in net earnings com
pared wsth the same period of 1886.
ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO.
1887. Increase.
Third week Octobers 140,500 $ 19,600
Since January 1 4.750,808 1,005,220
NORTHERN PACIFIC.
Third week Octobers 368,571 $ 64,578
Since January 1 10,351,466 672,014
ST. LOUIS, ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
Third weeTC Octobers 84 487 $ 42,831
Since January 1 1,755,615 640,344
MEXICAN CENTRAL.
Third week Octobers 100,000 $ 54.450
Sincejanuary 1 3,707,455 795,193
VERA CRUZ.
Forty-second weeks 87,582 $ 18,040
Sincejanuary 1 2,708,236 319,320
MFXICAN NATIONAL.
Septembers 85,939 $ 2,616
Since January 1 760,725 36,540
Kansas is ahead in railroad building this year
v ith 1,184 miles of new track. Texas comes next
with 655 miles, Nebraska third with 536, Dakota
fourth with 491, Indian Territory fifth, 433, Colo
rado sixth with 403, and Montana seventh with 273
miles. These seven States and Territories have
built an aggregate of 4,000 miles, or nearly two
thirds of all that has been built this year in the en
tire country.
Arkansas Traffic Association
The following freight agents were at Peabody
hotel, Memphis, Tuesday, in attendance to the
Arkansas Traffic Association: B. F. Mitchell, Gen
eral Freight Agent of the Newport News and
Mississippi Valley company; W. C. Smith, Assist
ant General Freight Agent of the Missouri Pacific;
A. R. Bragg, Agent at Little Rock of the Missouri
Pacific; S. W. Tucker, Assistant General Freight
Agent of the Memphis and Little Rock; J. A.
Woodson, Assistant General Freight Agent of the
Little Rock and Fort Smith; C. H. Dolbeer, Pool
Agent, Little Rock.
Tne Coal Stove Must Go.
A meeting of the presidents, car-builders and
engineers of the vorious railroads in the West, was
held in Chicago for the purpose of abolishing stoves
for cars, and to prevent such holocausts as occurred
at Koutz a few days ago. Mr. Rhodes, master
car-builder of the Burlington road, presided. There
were about fifty persons present, and all were of the
opinion that the coal-stove in passenger cars must
go, but to provide a convenient as well as comfort
able substitute, troubled the meeting. However,
the majority present were in favor of heating the
coaches with steam supplied from the engine.
Several genttemen said that the plan was a possi
ble one, and would, when brought to perfection,
prevent such harrowing sights as those commonly
witnessed in railroad wrecks. A committee was
appointed to meet Eastern railroad men in New
York and adopt a uniform system of heating pas
senger cars on all trunk-line roads. Resolutions
condemning the coal-stove were adopted.
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“ Ma,” said the baby at the supper table, “ I know
why this cake is called angel cake.”
’* Do you,,’ replied his mother, without much
interest. ,
“ Yes; it’s because its made by an angel, i hat s
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JOYS OF COUNTRY LIFE.
Mr. and Mrs. Bowser’s Visit to a Genuine Rural
Summer Resort.
“ I think we had better go away for a couple of
week’s,” observed Mr. Bowser a few evenings since
as we sat on the steps.
“ But why ? Our house is nice and cool, and we
don’t seem to feel the need of a change.”
“ Oh, we don’t, eh? That shows all you know
about it! If you had half an eye you could see
that the baby was sufiering for a change. You are
looking like a saffron bag around the mouth, and 1
am just dragged out myself. We shall go to the
country.”
“ But our rooms are so cool, aud we can buy
whatever we want to eat.”
“ Cool rooms! You wait till you strike a coun
try bed-room and you will call this house a sweat
box! As for living—yum! yum! Think of cream,
fresh eggs, yellow butter, fresh berries, old-fashioned
biscuit, delicious coffee, night breezes, new-mown
hay, ripe cherries, et al.! ”
I supposed we should have a week at least in
which to get ready, but Mr. Bowser only gave me
a day and a half, and he even begrudged half a day
of that. He telegraphed to the landlord of a coun
try hotel on the banks of a small lake, and the most
I could do was to tumble about a bushel of things
into a trunk and tie on my bonnet. We got out
there by train. That is, we got wiihin six miles of
the place. Mr, Bowser had been in such a hurry
that he didn’t ascertain particulars. It was only
after he had bargained with a teamster to take us to
the lake for three dollars that he found that the lake
was not on the railroad. He looked a little gloomy
over it for a spell, but finally showed me his nine
dollar fishing out-fit, and after awhile forgot any
unpleasantness in viewing the country.
We saw a farmer cutting wheat.
We saw three crows.
We rode over three miles of causeway and three
of dust.
We saw as many as five barns.
We met a barefooted boy.
We saw a dead horse.
If we met or saw anything else I can’t remember
what it was. Mr. Bowser drew in deep draughts of
what he called the elixir of life, and quoted poetry
about the plow-boy and the lowing kine, but I guess
he was glad when the ride ended. The sun had
burned the back of his neck as red as fire, he was
all dust and dirt, and the cause-ways had tired him
out. We found the hotel a picturesque affair. It
was half log and half frame. I can’t say whether
it was Queen Anne or Tom Collins style, but it was
probably one or the other. The landlord had given
us a room in the log part. He knew that we sighed
for the picturesque, and was willing we should have
it. It was a room as much as eight feet long and
five feet wide. There were red . peppers and may
weed and seed corn and onions hanging to the raf
ters, and the great cracks in the floor were partly
hidden by a rag carpet. There was a cracked look
ing glass of the Noah’s Ark period, a bedstead
which had come over on the Mayflower and a rheu
matic old stand made in 1776 held up a tin wash
dish and a jflue pitcher without a handle.
“Is this the et al., Mr. Bowser ?” I asked as I
dropped into the only chair with baby and looked
around.
“Do you want the earth?” he roared back.
What do we come to the country for ? Do we
expect to find palaces out here ? I tell you, this is
the most picturesque, romantic spot I’ve seen in
twenty years, and I propose to put in two months
here! ”
I finally got the baby to sleep, made my toilet and
then went out with Mr. Bowser to view the neigh
borhood.
There was a lake.
It was almost forty rods long, and almost twenty
rods wude.
There was a post-office and a blacksmith shop.
There were two hay-stacks, a ruined saw-mill and
a lame horse.
That was all. and I returned to the hotel while
Mr. Bowser went filling.
We had supper at six o’clock. The landlady
rang three bells. The first was to notify us that we
could expect supper; the second vas that supper
was being prepared; the third that supper was
ready. Between the different bells Mr. Bowser
picked the burs off his pantaloons, rubbed some
ointment on his neck, and said to me:
“We all feel the change already. I haven’t seen
you and the baby look so well in six months, while
I have the appedte of a horse. I think we’ll put
in three months here.”
When we went to supper we found knives and
forks without handles, cracked plates and a table
cloth with seven holes liberally und artistically
distribut d throughout its length and breadth. The
tea might have been sage, or it might have been
catnip. The biscuits were yellow with saleratus.
Tne butter was white in the face ahd tasted of the
last generation. There were some fried eggs, but
they had scared a setting hen off the nest to get
them. The milk in the pitcher had turned. It
probably belonged to the Turner society. Mr.
Bowser tried to stuff himself in order to carry his
point, but it was no use. He might have restrained
himself until morning had I not said as we returned
to the bedroom:
“As for living, yum! yum! Think of cream,
fresh eggs, yel—!”
“ Yes, think of it!” he roared, “ Who got me out
here! Who was whining about the pure air of the
country —finding fault with our table—complaining
of our 14x18 bedroom! You’ve succeeded in drag
ging us out here, and now I hope you feel better!”
We sat on the veranda and fought mosquitos
until ten o’clock and then went to bed. It was a
bedstead with a cord in it, and it was a straw bed
on which we slept. There wasn’t a mosquito bar
at any door or window in the house and we were
hardly in bed before the pests pitched on us.
Seven different times before midnight did Mr.
Bowser get out of bed, light the tallow dip and at
tack the enemy. He was getting out for the eighth
time when the cord broke and we all went through
to the floor. Then we got up and sat up the rest