The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-07-20
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ScuuCJiOu OF tne tlmc between New
YORK and Chicago is that IL has come
20 late. Twenty hours are ample for
. little less than thousand miles.
x'he waste OF time that has deferred
until 70 late day the arrangement
pf this new table between the lakes
and the seaboard has been at sta.
lions where the switching OF rolling
'toek, the transfer OF baggage apo
mails and the appointing of coache,
nave been done without that dis
patch that has characterized the run.
oing OF the fast expresses. An aver.
age OF ffty miles an hour IL fairly
rood, but IL is not phenomenal! In
TACT, the American railway system
oas scarcely kept pace with the de.
'ciopment OF the ocean steamship
'ervice. Passengers arrived in Chi
:ago Saturday who took ship al
queenstown the previous Sunday
all the difficulties OF ocean travei
taken Into account, this Is more i'm
pressive than making 1000 miles in
twenty hours without a mountain
range 10 cross and with no engineer.
ing problems OF any pcrplexing nature.
The railroads throughout the coun
Try arc likely TO be stimulated 10 i'm
provement OF their schedules by the
oew express trains between the lake,
and the Atlantic. The Southern ser
eice, 30 far as II is controlled it
Southern ccnters. is In urgent need
Of speeding. The Southern planter
aunht s,, tat l.,V , o.. 4
valuable but parishable freighls they
send 20 Northern markets. Southern
business men have everything 70 gair
by bringing South and North NOR,
Closely together. There has been
considerable improvement during the
past year in means OF communication
between Chicago and the Gulf; but
the manipulation Of neither passenger
nor fast freight trains Is yet whai
intelligence, energy and little more
outlay OF money would easily make 10
The next step for Northern anc
Eastern, as well IA Western anc
Southern railway management, ought
TO be popularlze the improved scrvic,
by lowering the rates Travel is lik,
UONhAi MI w N-lllf 'll'dlFi lllf NldlIlI
the greater the number OF letters
The lower the railroad ticket Ia,
more the thousands that will use IL
--Chicagn Herald
woman's influence IN Chna.
The laws and social customs of China
make q womnn's life most restricted
Dne in every way; and yet, III spite of
al disadyantages, In uu country IL fe-
male influence more powerful. The
women of China are the very backbone
Of tho Nation, seeming 60 be- born with
natural sense of honesty which IL
,onspicuously abscn; among the men.
While the mendacity of Cinnamon il
proverbial, the women are. as II rule.
truthful, and have great strength Of
character. They make good wives,
struggling bravely TO restrain their
husbands from ramshu drinking, opium
smoking and immoderatc gambling,
vices for some of which most of then
have a propensity. They are dutifu
daughters and devoted mothers. II
is only surprising that there are moi
! more good men 90 be found among
their sons. A Chlnaman lnosc re.
deeming quality, however, is the warm
affection and respect he generally feels
for his mother. Their filinl obedience
is indeed remarkable. A mandarin
some forty years OF age will calmly re.
mark that he must go here. or that he
cannot go there, because his mother
has hidden or forbidden him 20 do so
And woman's influence is not alone
confined TO the domcst g circle. Ii is
well known that Li-Hune- Chang. the
great man of China, cuusults "I,ndy
III" on matters of importance, and TO
her credit let II bc snid that he is al
ways foremost in favor of progress and
n more enlightened way 81 governing
the country. The Lmprcs, DoWnger
is also woman of grcn; intelligence
indeed, when the disadvantages of her
education and mode Of life are taken
into consideration, II must bo admitted
that she ~ one of tAn most remarkable
women of the age. That she is not,
however, quite exempt from feminine
vanity IL shown by the fnct that she
was not long since ndmoushcd 10y the
Board of Censors for dressing too
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