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NOTES OFTHE RAILWAYS
Illinois Central’s Scheme to
Beautify Its Stations. |
MOTOB OAKS FOE THE ALTON
Ffatnrp. of Passenger Coaehes to
, He Tried on Branch Lines In Mis
souri and Illinois—The l^riaeo to
Burn Oil on Its Engines, Supply to
Come.From Wells an Its l.ine. r
Every station along the many lines
and branches of the Illinois Central
railroad is to be remodeled and beauti
fied by architecture and landscape
gardening, and Miss A. E. MeCrea, a
Chicago woman artist, is to direct the
whole thing, says the'Chicago Exam
iner./
Y'Miss MeCrea is not to be hampered
by leading strings, technical restric
tions or official red tape, but Is to be
tput into the field with full authority to
tuse her womiiu’s Judgment, woman's
'Ingenuity and woman's artistic talent
for beautifying the? countless unsightly-
stations strung along the great com
mercial highway.
The field consists of nine states in
the heart of the Mississippi valley, and
a private car litted with every conven
ience will convey Miss MeCrea over the
territory, visiting every station on ev
ery line, where she will Inspect, sug
gest, order and revise until the task is
finished. -Along the lines from Chicago
to St. Paul, St. Louis, Sioux City, Oma
ha and New Orleans are decrepit little
stations, Which will be the especial'care
of Miss MeCrea for many months to
come. Each will be visited-,‘.where ad
visable new buildings will be built,
and In every case green turf, artistical
ly arranged flower beds and/ clamber
ing vines wilt change the face of scenes
which travelers have learned to abhor.
This is the first time any corpora
tion has attempted so great a work in
this direction, and its successful ac
complishment will be heralded all over
the country. Railroad' officials pride
themselves on the excellence of their
rolling stock, but leave the stations to
care for themselves, except for the
kindly touches of an agent or boy
whose artistic inspirations are held la
check by the necessity of keeping the
switch lights burning.
The Chicago and Alton railroad has
(completed plans for operating gasoline-
1 electric motor cars between Mexico aud
■ Jefferson Citv. Mo„ and between Vjari-
* ous points In Illinois, says the Kansas
(■City Star. The service wilf be installed
' upon branch lines where it wily lie
• economy to operate motor cars Instead
-of the more expensive steam trains.
The-Ctus: that havfe been’SfiHt jji the
ucw service are designed on the latest
pattern. They wilt seat'elghty-slx pas-
- sengers, exclusive of a smoking room
that wiil accommodate fifteen, and will
be operated by.a gasoline motor, sup-,
plementod by electricity for the pur
pose of insuring quick stops. The elec
tricity wiil be supplied by a storage
battery. It has been estimated that the
motor car service can be operated at
IS per cent of the cost of steam opera
tion.
Two cars will be put on for the fifty
mile run between Mexico and Jefferson
'City, and connection will be made with
tail main line trains on the Alton. The
•ears are designer! for a maximum speed
•of eighty miles a;, hour. The cars are now
\being built, and the. service will be in
stalled July 1. The motor ear service
to be put on by the Alton will be the
'first service of the kind to be put In
'operation In Missouri.
A feature of the electric motor attach
ment is that the car can get under way
on the start at the rate of fifty miles an
hour for a short dfStance of two or
three miles. In addition to the passen
ger coaches there will also be operated
gasoline-electric baggage freight cars.
The Frisco is making preparations to
utilize oil instead of coal in its engines,
sand a. number of them running in the
-vicinity of the Texas arid, Kansas oil
fields are being equipped to burn it,
"gays a Springfield (Mo.) special dis-
ipatch to the St. Louis l’ost-Dispateh.
Some tests of the fuel oil taken from
these wells-prove It to have wonderful
•heating qualities, ^and better results
Will not only be obtained by its use,
hilt it will be a great factor in. aiueco-
:nomioal way. .Nearly all of the roads
wow securing oil on their own lands are-
using it to a great extent Instead of
•coal and find that it is productive of
much more satisfactory results. It is
not nearly .so hard on the firebox or the
flues of an engine ou nceouut of their
'being no necessity for allowing the
cold air to get to either. With a coal
burning engine more or less cold air
will get to the flues on account of open
ing the door. Considerable expense'
will be entailed in making this change,
but it is .considered an economical one
by the management. The best oil, how
ever. yet discovered on tim Frisco right
of way ls_that found at Tulsa, I. T^fat
which point the inunenee to give oil a
trial as a fuel was first brought to bear
bn the Frisco management.
U. F. Gifford of Vincennes, Ind.. who
lc now building the northern extension
of his Chicjigo and Wabash Talley fall-;
^ road from Grape Island, on the Kansa-
| kee river, to Indiana Harbor, has in
vented a. copibination railroad con
i'. strueting machine that cuts down hills,
fills ravines, digs ditches, that makes,
fills and grades railroad track beds,
picks up a complete section of iron rails
and ties and deposits same ahead of
; the machine', drives piling, builds
j bridges, digs oi/t trees and rocks In Its
|, mechanical operations, says the Chlca-
i go Inter Ocean. The machine. It la said,
;■ will revolutionize the present system of
| railroad construction. V
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ROGERS’ SERVICE TO TWAIN
How tlii* SI i»ii ilnnl Oil Mon Saved
Noted Tfmnorlst'a Copyrights.
Henry II. Ilogers, the Standard OU
j magnate, has other interests besides
I making money for himself, says John
8. Gregory iu the World’s Work for
[ May. He has found time to render a
j distinct service to American literature.
! The story of ills'friendship and service
I for Mark Twain reveals a phase of his
| character that is little known. It be
gan long lie fore he knew Mr. Clemens.
Once years ago Mr." Rogers read
“Roughing It.” He liked it so mucii
timt he rend it again. Then he read it
[ to_ his wile aud to his. children. He.
I said, "If I fiver have the chance to help
the man who wrote it I will.” And the
chance came.
- When Webster & Co, (of which Mark
Twain was a member) failed every as
set of the famous humorist, including
the copyrights of his books, went down
iu tlie wreck. It was what is called "a
bad failure.” Mr. Clemens surrendered
everything. Not long afterward he
walked into the Murray Hill hotel in
New York one uiglit with Dr. Rice, a
well known New York speMabst. A
man with a white mustache was seated
on a divan.
“There's a man you ought to know,”
said Dr. Rice, “and he'd like to know
you. Tliat’s Henry H. Rogers.”
Dr, Rice presented Mr. Clemens. Mr.
Rogers knew of the Webster failure.
He asked permission to be of service,
in forty-eight itours he was managing
the author's business affairs; He gave
ills time, worth thousands of dollars a
day'; to recoup the fortunes of a broken
literary man. Into it- he- put~e4L his
business acumen and energy. He found
that Webster & •%: ow’od Mrs.^ Clemens
personally $05,000 eiish lent from her
own pocket upon the firm's notes. He
made her a preferred creditor and to-
secure the claim gave her the copy
rights of her husband's books: In this
wav the books were saved, by Mr.
! Clemons. They have -been his principal
assets. They were worth more to him
then than tbe gift Of f500.000 In cash.
RaC^s saw Mr Clemens safely
Hi rough these frying fiuslness troubles,
f Bui.lib did- net stop then 5 . Bvey since
' li-- has, ;C!i'b a few others, constituted
himself a guardian of Mr. Clemens’
j businfiss^fajalrs,.. .Last yettr_he Aided in,
. consutnmailftig the deal for tlie publica-
: tion of Mark Twain's complete works,
'which placed the author beyond finan-
J ofal pare for the rest of his days. Out
of that service has grown an affection
ate friendship between the men, re
markable for Its contrast—on the one
hand the astute, vigilant man, with his
finger always on the business pulse,
and on the other the lovable, dreamy
humorist. They meet often, play euchre
and go on yachting trips. ~
SCHEME TO WIN SOULS.
Massachusetts Baker Sinks Hymns
■ While Pell<111 nb Dimnlinnts.
Frederick Hodgkins, a baker of Ev
erett, Mass., has asked for a license
to sing' in the streets, so that he can
1 sell hot fried doughnuts and Win souls
! at the same time with his hymns, says
j§§ Boston dispa tell to the New York
Tribune. Hodgkins is noted for his
; molasses cookies and doughnuts and
has been going from house to house
i peddling them, though he has a pros-
j perous bakery business besides.
I, He stands in front' of a house and
strikes up a hymn. When the women
come to buy of him he first fills their
order and tlieii talks to them of re
ligion and of saving their souls. He
is afraid of being arrested if he sings
• without a license, so he lias petitioned
I the aldermen for one in- order to carry
on his religious doughnut methods of
• salvation. .
I American Fuse Used by Japanese.
) . A naval officer now stationed at
! League Island says the fuse uspd In the
projectiles with which tlie. Japanese
: have been so successful in blowing up
I Russian warships and the fortifica
tions of Port Arthur is the invention
I of an American, Charles P. Watson, a
native of Brooklyn, says the Philadel
phia Record. :■ The fuse has always
been a point of trouble in the projectile
because of its unreliability.'- This one
is new iu idea and has only recently
been adopted by the United States. In
fact, is must have been adopted by
the Japs just about as soon as it came
j out and before any other nation had
tested it. The Incident serves; very
| well' as an example of the perspicacity
I of the little brown people of the east.
Radium lias been found in wneaten
, flour, said Professor J. J. Thompson at
| the-;Royal institute, London. | How it
I got theres he added, he could not ex-
: plain. There was no doubt, however,
that such flour would produce radio ac-
■ five bread. 1
CORELLI ON SIMPLE LIFE
Happiest Way of Living, Says
English Novelist.
HONESTY ITS; CHIEF INGEEDIENT
KEEP COOL!
; If Follow?®, :Siinplj, She Says, th«
Simple Life Shoiild Make For Hon
est Dealing; With, Ourselves and
With .Others—Says It Is Only For
Plain Dealing People—Its Advan-
tftge tn Kiiaking Friendu and Foes.
All England'is torn up with'the dis
cussion of the simple life, and ladles
of high and lotf degree arc taking part
in it, - says ijhe Philadelphia Press,'
Marie Corelli,|tlie novelist, recently ex
pressed herself very decided'4' In her
familiarly breezy manner on social'
problems in die London Graphic, •; In
the main what she has to say about tlie
simple life applies as well to'America
as It does! t’i~England and is worth
readingp^^^tois; as fdilotvs:
“The-fact*,t|at the simple fife is the
happiest life fe ‘obvious’—but; notwith
standing tills.(the latter day mania for
money and e^»r more aud more money
shows.no sign of abating in its fever
ish intensity. I can truthfully assert
that,no one living is a greater optimist
tlfan I. But I set my belief .on the
masses, not/ on the classes.. The
‘masses ! lea<J a simple life because they
are perforce’compelled to do so, and
they persuade themselves that it is a
hard fife lfiCjiviy because of the con
trast they are forced to draw between
it and the Gotten criminal luxury in
which the ‘classes’ of today elect to
live. ,
' “For the ohisf ingredient of the sim
ple life is honesty—honesty in the reia :
tlons of man with his 'brother man*?
honesty of pumose, honesty of thought,
honesty of speech. But It seems -from,
such accounts of the modern ways of
modern lifeg's are chronicled iti the
daily press a(me—that this quality is
-efitirely lackifg to whgt is called ‘so
ciety’ in iWs45entietli century.
“Men SKullc dB* - sfiuffie, letting ‘I
dare not’ wait upon T would.'’ '’Wanen
occupy themselves with the paltriest,
and sometimes tlie most dishonorable
intrigues and seldom have the intel
lectual grace .or dignity to dra w tlie
line at those of their own sex' who are
guilty of fktgratii Immorality-or marital
.dishonor,Jvhkduihey might do if they
Used tirg|j-'i -v undoufiteslfy||Sp|%'
tor the !;i rf . s V .Jinn of li< ■inv iil-.-aly and
.serial They; are alfaid to
Wfend.’“i. r vj ' ~ '
§' “But nnods io be offendedjp Why
should any man or woman so Se him-
thing? IiNs surely better to speak
fairly and plainly to a foe. than to hit
him in the back and then run away.
“The simpb life, if followed simply,
.should make for honest dealing with'
Miuseln'-- |gi with others. What is the'
good, for example, of entertaining at
one’s housij‘people whom one does not
care for and never really wishes to
become inilmate with ? ' ‘Oh, but cus
tom x ahd observance,’ says file lady of
.fashion, ‘irake It necessary to ‘,‘clear
off all these.apeople" oftce a year!’
" ‘Clearing: off all these people’ means
an ‘at bomb’ 011 wfiicli considcra ble
casfi id wasted and which results lit
erally iti nothing but a gabbllfig crowd
pushing anti .treading on encli other's
tpes«~not ofi*.- single unit of which
crowd probably lias a thought in com
mon with the-host or hostess. .
“You Who^ would live the simple life
are hot called upon to do more than en
tertain youwfriends. Mark 'tlie Word
‘friends.’ Ifriends are few| they need
very little iintertaiiunent. Their pleas
ure is to be{ with you, and yours‘to .he
with them. i’The.v will not ask you for
‘$25,000 Worth of roses’ or ‘gifts for
the cotuion|it $5:i0 aide e.’ They will
expect youij Interest, your sympathy,
your kindneis, your fidelity., and if they
receive thefjg they will be more than
/satisfied. %
“For thgjdmple life has always this
.advantage- that it knows its friends as
friends lndi%d and its foes as foes in
deed. Afidtghe very foundation of true
friendship (p honestj’. Emerson sayst
‘A friend isia person with whom I may
be sincere.IsBefore him f may think
aloud.’ .Tb^re is 110 existing cause in
the whole yniverse for people to play
the hyjiwfrife with one another.
“The simple:; life is only for honest,,
plain dealing people who are easily con
tented anfi who find pleasure in sim
ple everyday; things, simjile - everyday
things gensigjty proving to be the chief
sources of/umitloyed happiness. To
such people mefcbe repeated the words
of the angel SMi? F ro, ihet Eidras:
‘Dnto yon Is piarat isfeopenod: tlie tree
of life Is planted: tlml.tim<^hjjj>i**fi is
prepared; plenteousnessnPWde ready
and rest is aliowf«d--yea, perfect good
ness and wisdom!’T ^ *
UghtntTiS HoilB For the I'yramms.
An official of thtt^Cgyptian govern
ment has been m Phn\(lelpliia looking
at lightning rods. says%he New York
Tribune. It seems the xjliinate of the
Nile valley*has so chang«} that light
ning threatens the Pyramid*. The dee-
oration of those ancient jMles with
lightning rods ' would certainly give
♦hem an odd appearance.
Selman & Co. are now ready to serve all
summer drinks, ice creams and sherberts.
They have made special arrangements
for the comfort of their patrons. Their store
room is cool and pleasant. If you want to
keep cool pay them a visit.
SPORTING GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Our stock of Sporting Goods is completel
baseball enthusiasts will find a complete line
of balls and bats, etc., always in stock.
For drugs and sundries you will always
find a complete a«id fresh stock.
Meet me at Selman & Co’s, on week days
from 6 a. m. to 9 p. m.; Sunday’s 7 to 10 %
m., and from 2:30 to 6 p. m.
nr. J. L selman & co
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