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Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

ago at Columbus. He bad then only local
reputation as railroad man. He had aided
in the development Of the Hooking Valley
coal fields and constructed a number of Ohio
roads. Since then he has been one of the
leading railroad builders of the country, and
has pushed forward with success railroads in
Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska, Tennessee,
Georgia, Alabama and the northwest. He
has been president of half dozen roads, and
he Is now connected in important capacities
with large railroads all over the United
States. BE is one Of the largest stockholders
in the Chase National bank, of New York
city, is q member Of the New York exchange,
and he seems to have that Midas touch which
turns everything into gold He has cut loose
from Ohio, as it were, owns . big house on
Fifty-seventb street, in New York, and has
one Of the finest country seats at Dobbs ferry
on the Hudson. At this place he has sixty
five acres OF finely laid out lawn and wood
land, has water front of eighteen acres and
has full opportunity for gratifying his yacht
ing tastes. His next door neighbor Is John
Jacob Astor Gen. Thomas Is man of liter
ary and scholastic tastes He is a student as
well as a money maker. he is a good talker
and is thoroughly democratic in his manner.
He walks like a soldier that be is and his six
foot frame, wen padded with muscular flesh,
forms one Of the striking figures of Wall
street Every one calls him general and he
earned the title for gallant service in the
army. He enlisted as boy of 81, and rose
TO be brigadier general After the war was
over be left the army for business, and his
success seems to be only Just begun.
THOMAS j. ToDD.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
Begging Fraternity of New York.

The begging fraternity includes some
unique specimens Of professional charity
seekers. With these the police never inter.
fere-why, no one knows Perhaps il is be-
cause they are harmless in their way. per.
haps because no other means OF gaining q
livelihood is open TO them: perhaps because
it might puzzle the courts how to dispose Of
them
What, for instance. could be done with
the poor. limbless fellow who crawls ALONG
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

stately ships and swift moving ferry steam
ers, till the view is bounded by Staten Island
Straight north the view Is over many miles
of the most densely populated sections of the
city, over all that network Of streets and al
leys extending from Chambers some four
miles northward, church spires rising here
and there like island peaks from the ocean.
the Catholic cathedral with its great gut
cross conspicuous across the three miles Of
solid blocks which lie between it and the
bridge
If you want to see humanity In stew your
place is at the New York end Of the bridge
about 6 O'Clock p. m. Every minute and a
half train Of three cars, packed with peo-
pie, sta, Is over the bridge; and to ill these
there is an unbroken procession up the stairs
and al sng the platform Just below, where
footmen and vehicles enter the footway and
right hand driveway, the uproar Is terrific.
All the trite simles fail to give an idea-the
swarm Of bees entering the hive, the flock Of
pigeons, the crowding Of busy ants, the flies
swarming to spilled molasses Our artist has
caught the scene as it is every day at that
hour. The roar Of passing street cars, the
jingle of bells, the shouts of teamsters, news
boys and street venders. the rumble Of the
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
cicApA sEPreNoecEM.
The So Called ssvemeen-Year Locust In
Iowa.

The So Called Sevemeen-Year Locust In
Iowa
KNOXVILLE, Ia, June 26.-In rambling
through this lovely country Of southeastern
Iowa land it is lovely, you bet | find the
people nightly exercised about the locusts
which, as they say, "are coming out Of the
ground by millions" They seem to be doing
no great damage, however, and my guess is
that they are not the regular seventeen-year
locusts, for this is not their year.
remember well when the ''clipper built
grasshoppers" of Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska
were called iocusts. The people borrowed
the name from their reading of Scripture,
and thereby slandereda tolerably innocent
creature, for the real locust in this country
really does just as little harm as he can con-
sistently with his business Of propagating his
species, while the high flying grasshoppers
make desert as they go.
As this locust emerges from the ground Il
looks like worm mufied in loose sack; the
latter dries in few minutes, cracks and
slips off, and then the feeble insect staggers
out and begins to feel around for something
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
yfohnmmed's Faith.

Some Of Canon Isaac Taylor's contentious
are strongly supported by The Chinese
Tunes, which declares that observers notice
how much the average Chinaman is inn
proved where he adopts the faith OF No
hammed. The man becomes more cleanly,
manly, honest and hospitable; and, as rule,
his fortunes improve too. And, silently but
surely, Islam is making great way in some
parts of China, so that in few years the
followers of the prophet will in many regions
outpumber the Buddhists and Confucian-
istsn 1t should be borne in mind, however,
that the Buddhism which Is thus being sup
planted is Buddhism of a degenerate type,
and that even the Confucianism is Of a very
impure and materialistic kind. The strug-
gle in the regions referred to is, for all pracI
tical purposes, a struggle between Islam and
mere idolatry. In countries, such as Ceylon.
where better form of Buddhism prevails, it
Is not found that Mohammedanism makes
much headway
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
7rsAr.

green and soft. 1t gains strength mighty
fast though, and 1t is really interesting to
watch the little gossamer wings expand and
vibrate in the breeze till the little thing gets
able to work them. As soon as able they
mount to the limb of young tree and 60 TO
cutting hole, either to suck out the juice or
to lay eggs in, or perhaps both. And this il
the only way they do any damage-and not
very much at that-as they never bother
fruit or grain or grass The real seventeen
year locusts came in 1851, 1858 and 1885
In the first and last named years | was In
western Indiana, and in 1868 ] was out on the
Union Pacific grade in Wyoming and Utah,
and no one there noticed the locusts, as they
are liable to have such things any year out
there. When they first came on the Nor
mons dn 1850 and 5p the latter called them
crickets, and they corresponded exactly to
the description Of those crickets which are
such a curse In Algiers and other sections Of
Africa They ate one crop clean to the
ground Then the Mormons offered public
prayers and planted again. The crickets
came again and began on the second crop.
Then the Mormons prayed louder than ever,
and enormous fiocks Of gulls came from the
lake and ate up the cricketsi So the crop
was saved, and the Mormon historian piously
adds that ''there were no gulls in the coun-
try before the Latter Day Saints came" I
am glad 70 add that even among the Nor
mons there are not as many gulls" as there
were tnirty-odd years ago AND this re-
minds me OF Apostle Orson HYdes petitaon
with wnicn ne c,oseo ms Puonc prayers In
tne years "nen iocus's tnrea1enec- IL ran
soou' .nus'
anu nnaily, Lora, save US irofn an lnluns'
crlcAets' serpents' aposeates ana grassnoP-
pers' ana from All tnose carnivorous animals
tnat 90 wnert' Fne-e-e-rt t"nistlng, IN
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

LOOKING SOUTH FROM TIE BRIDGE
lyn bridge, from the roof of the Produce Ex-
change, from the top story Of Tho Tribune's
tower, and from several other commanding
points
But for the purely spectacular know Of no
finer view than may be had, soon after dark
Of clear evening, from the heights just west
Of Orange, N. j., commonly called the
Orange mountain There the ridge rises
very abruptly to such height that from the
mountain brow one can look clear over the
low ridge on which Hoboken and Jersey City
stand, and can see all the lights of the great
city and the Brooklyn bridge, the latter shin
ing like great bands of diamonds arranged
in low arch of over two thousand feet.
But rather the most varied and animated
scene is from the bridge itself, just at sun
down. If one stands on the western division,
just before the bridge passes over the water,
the tops of the tallest houses in eastern New
York are far, far below him: and he looks away
down into the narrow and crowded streets
which seem like rock cuts in some great ex-
cavation. and remind one. curiously Of some
of Maj. Powell's pictures Of the stone houses
in the deep canyons of Arizona. Away down
there fsT here is an illusion produced which
makes tho street seem below the natural level
one sees stalwart men as IL they were boys.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

No single disease has enta.led more suffer-
ing or hastened the breaking up Of the consti-
tuition than Catarrh. Tho sense of smell. OF
taste. Of sight, of hearing. the human voice,
the mind.-one or more, and sometimes ali.
yield TO its destructive influence. The poison
is distributes throughout the system attaeke
every vital force, and breaks up the most
robust Of constitutions Ignored. becaule but
little understood, By most phystctane. tmDo-
tensly nssaiied b. QuAcks and ea1n83aesns.
those suffering from it have little hope 70 be
relieved Of It this STE Of the grave IL II
time. then. that the Lopular treatment OF this
terrible disease By remedies within the reach
OF all passed into hands st once competent
and Trustworthy. The new and hitherto ur-
tried method adopted By Dr.. Sanford In the
preparation Of his RADICAL CuRI has won the
hearty approval OF thousands. Il Is fnstan-
saneous In anording relief In all head colds.
sneeziug. snufning and obstructed breathing.
and rapidly removes the most oppressive
symptoms. clearing the head. sweetening the
breath. restorfng the senses Of smell, taste
and hearing, and neutralizing the constttu-
tionai tendency Of the disease towards the
lungs, liver and kidneys
Sanford Radical Cure consists Of one bottle
Of the Radical Cure, one box Catarrhal Solv
ent and IN Improved Inhaler price. 81. Potter
Drug and Chemical Co.. Boston.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

Gen Thomas has at
the age of about As
jumped full fedged
into the flock of
great A m erican
fnanciers. 1t was
he who. in connec-
ton with CalvinS s.
Brice, engineered
the Nickel Plate
railroad through in
such a way as to
make several mill
lions for himself
and q good road for
the country. Imet
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
BE. Line Holiday Rates.

The C. G. C. & r. Railway company will
sell excursion tickets at one fare for the
round trip, good going July Sd and 4th and
good returning until July 7th. inclusive.
These tickets will be sold between all sta
ti0ns. On July 4th the great Cincinnati
exposition will be opened with grand In
dustrial parade. The sight will be one of
q life time. This will be good time to 60
to Cincinnati on . cheap rate.
GEO. II. KNIGHT, Ticket Agent.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

By the way. have you ever noticed that
It costs great deal more to go back to
Europe than it cost originally to come
from thereY Look at the number of peo-
Pile who on very small wages have saved
up enough to leave Germany and Ireland
and other places and come to America,
and can't on very large wages save enough
to go back 1t Is funny when you come
to think about 1t that q man who came to
California years ago at q cost of about SIS.
tells you today be can't afford to take
trip to the old country because it would
cost him too much money America seems
to change people good deal. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
An Honest Criticism.

Her mother. with commendable tact and
consideration. was endeavoring to say
something complimentary in regard to the
particularly homely infant Of friend and
neighbor But our uncompromising small
heroine wouldn't have It SO. "Why.
mamma, dat baby looks des like one Of
does little blind kittens what was left In
our basement; des like little lukewarm
kitten. Washington Hatchet.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
Advice to Mothers.

Mn. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for chill
dren teething, Is the prescription Of one of
the best female nurses and physicians In
the United States, and has been used for
years with never-failing success by millions
OF mothers for their children. During the
process Of teething its value Is incaleulable.
It relieves the child from pain, cures dysen.
tery and diarrh@s, gripping In the bowel,
and wind collie. By giving health to thu
child It rests the mother. Price 25ca bottle,
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

uum, auovs ana rre heavy wagons entering
the bridge-these cannot be pictured. Conver-
sation, what little there is, is carried on in
stentorian shouts, for It is getting near din
ner time, and 10000 people who live In
Brooklyn and work in New York are going
home at the rate of 80, 900 an hour by bridge
and ferries. j. h BEADLE
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

The proprietor Of Kemp's Balsam gives
Thousands Of Bottles away yeariyf This
mode Of advertising would prove ruinous II
the Balsam was not . perfect cure for
Coughs and all Throat and Lung troubles.
You will see the excellent effect after tax
ing the first dose. Don't hesitatel Procure
bottle today to keep in your home or room
for immediate or future use. Trial bottle
free At T. J. Casper's drug store, II east
Main street. Large size soc and S1.00.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
The Reason Why

Ayers Pills ars % popular =. thss
while always reliable = . eashaxsis
medicine, they never leave any III
effects. This u because thsy - purely
vegetable, and entirely ffss fsom calo-
mel or any othsr dangerous drug. In
all cases, thsrsfors, whsthsr the patient
be old or young. thsy may b conf
IDENTITY administered.
In the Southsrn and Western stasss,
where arrangements Of the liver are %
general, Ayers Pills have proved IN In
estimable blessing. d. ". Bains, Nav
Berne, N. c., writes:
II suffered . long time with stomach
and liver troubles. / tried various rem
edies, but received NO benefit until I
commenced taking Ayers Pills. These
pills benefited ma ax once. took than
regularly for o few months, and my
health was completely restored"
Throughout New England. next 70
lung diseases, Stomach and Bowel
Complaints ere tbs most prevalonk
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
I. B. . W. Rout. bun st,n.

The y. /. & W. railway will sell round
trip tickets every Sunday at one fare for
the round trip. to points on this line. Tick
cts good on ALL trains leaving Springfield
after p. m. Saturday, returning on trains
leaving Springfield ut 2:05 Q. m. Monday,
and No. 9, leaving Peoria ct $50 q. m. fol-
lowing Monday. c. L. HILLARY,
Ticket Agent.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
p.nrer 10 the Hop.e Inv.

Few realize what an enemy to man is
the common house Hy 1t is bad enough
to have them c-awl over our berries. It Is
tantalizing TO have them speckle our glass
ware. II Is maddening to have them In
vestigate our bald heais, but there are
deeds Of which the fly Is guilty that put
Ill these In the shade Flies eat sewage
md putrid matter that Is rocking with
disease germs until they are filed with
them. and then bite Us and 30 inoeulate us
with disease. or leavs the contagion in our
food We hear great deal about the
attie things that make up life Let some
Jne tell us about the little things that
cause death k-Philadelphi Time&
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
A Change Of Title.

Two are riding in street car. when one
says to the other:
"Look here. Mac. here's Hoadley com
ing: he's Just written book. Remember
the title. Forever Bereft, and when In
troduce you say something about it: it
will please him"
Hoadley enters and Is ct once intro
duced by his friend to Mr.. Mac. who says,
enthusiastically:
$50 glad to meet you. my dear sir. l
have wanted for Q long time to know the
author of that charming book-er-er-
Never Got Left. Detroit Free Press
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

New YORK, june ga birds eye view Of
the city of New York would show US a mar
row strip of earth and rock which more
nearly fills the description of human hive,
probably, than any other equal area in the
world. The reason is that in all other great
cities business has room to divide and ex-
pand in all directions; but the surface Of
Manhattan Island Is natural monopoly,
and birds eye view, or what is very near
n, may now be obtat,ed from any one Of a
dogen points; from the crown Of the Brook
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

be was one Of the
most active news
boys who carried
papers at this time
he Providence
Journal Office,
where he bought
his extras, was in a
building which was
also occupied by
the American Tele-
graph company,
and which after
ward became the
Western Union.
Young Phillips be-
came fascinated
with teleeraphy-
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

Pherdinand's Phervens Phancy Phioored.
"Phairest Phlora, wrote an amorous youth
who is smitoen with the phonetic craze,
'.phorever dismiss your phears, and phly
with one whose phervent phancy Is phixed
on you alone Phriends-phamily- -phather
-phorget them, and think only of the
phelicity Of the phuture. Phew phellows are
30 phastidious as your Pherdinand; 80 pheign
not phondness If you pheel it not Phorego
phrolic and answer phinally, Phlora"
s'Oh, Pherdinand, you phoolp was phsir
Phlora's curt reply.-Galveston News
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
Dyspepsia

and Constipation are almost uniysrssl-
Mr.. GALLAGHER, . practical chsmiss, II
Roxbury, Mass, who was long troubled
with Dyspepsia, writes:
"A friend induced me 10 Try Ayers
Pills, and, altar taking one box without
much benefit, was disposed 70 quit
them; but he urged perseverance,, and,
before had finished the second boz, I
began 70 experiencs relief. continued
taking them, at intervals, until had
used eleven boxes. Suface ft 10 ssy,
that am Row . well man, and grateful
20 your chsmistxy, which outstxipa
mine"
The head and stomach are always In
sympathy hence the cause Of most Of
those distressing headaches, to which
% many, especially women, sxe subject.
Mrs. Harriet A. Marble, Of Poughkssp-
sic, N. T. writes that for yeafs she wAg
Q martyr to hsadaehe, and never found
anything to give her more than tem-
porary relief, until she began taking
Ayers Pills, since which shs has bssa
In thu eniovmant of porfocf henlfh. .
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
GOTHAM As SEEN FROM THE
BROOKLYN BRIDGE.

Metropolitan Streets Are Often Like Deep
Canyons-How the People Crowd Onto
Matters
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

A warning comes from Connecticut. A
woman In that state died, the other day,
after eating circus peanuts. Parsgraphers
may now let go Of the red lemonade joke.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30
A HEAL1H SEEKER.


ne cosc,sdeo, aowevef, fnat Connoct''us
was eood enough ior aim.
AT certain far west railroad station We
got INTO conversation Win man VINO was
ateinR on sne oepos piatlorm wanting tor tne
tain-
came out 70 this country Few days
ago, he said after talking some time, for
my health, put am going oack 70 Connecn-
cut on the next Train
Doemt tne cimale agree Win your
asked briar.
YES tninf the climate would agree with
me all right but the people don't went
up mere lew miles. A Friend OF mine mad
pent . summer near there on Big NOSE
Georges ranch, and he recommended the
paace 70 ma
simply went there for my health, In
sending 70 BOARD curing the tan and return
home before cold weather. As got OF the
train wnen ~ arrived noticed quite a crowd
on men on sne piatforn, all wearing oig NAT
na" ana spurs and waking very DOW
legged istarsed do~n the steps toward tho
no'ei Wnen ono Oh snem approacned me con-
noenU'aiy ano saaa: ne you goin 70 open
Dans, partner a "nasf asked a
oank, ne said why, no, SAID 1, 'wnas
mace you tnink was going 70 engage IN the
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Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30

As one follows the footway out TO the mid
die and highest point Of the bridge he meets
successive groups of all classes and races: a
squad of Italian laborers returning to their
dark quarters in the city. group Of China
men Fastening home to Mott street, or a
small regiment of laborers with pick, shovel
or other implement at shoulder arms; again
one meets a laughing group of young Brook
lynites, on their way to evening amusements
on the New York side, and again an attract
i've coterie Of well dressed ladies and gentle
men who are taking the evening air, and in
no other place can they get SO much of it and
so cool and pure as on the bridge.