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Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1896-06-17

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The morning times., 1896-10-25
Adaptability of the Wheel to
Practical Ne dS.
WORLDS HIGHEST TRACK
Mexico a Wheelman's Para
disc. A New Device For
Protecting Eyes.
downright. 1861

The telegraph bicycle is the invention
of man of anderson, Indiana, who has
been associated with railroads long enough
to know that when there is wreck of any
sort. the company wants immediate and
full particulars of ii. This novel idea is
nothing less than telegraph office, which
travels on u bicycle, and is SO constructed
that IL can keep 10 the railroad tracks, or
can, in five minutes be in condition 10 leave
the tracks and take to the highway.
BY this arrangement, railroad men are
enabled 10 mount their wheels and get
without delay to the scene OF a railroad
wreck, OF 10 repair a broken line. ltis at
such times that the managers of a tele-
a railrGad, appreciates any possible saw
Ing of time, and this is what the use of the
accompiisheS.
When II Is desired to use the machine
on the rails a three wheeled Triangular
framework Is attached TO the bicycle, which
holds IT securely in place on one Of the
rails.
The small wheels Of the triangular frame
are Hanged like the ordinary railway truck
wheel, and by fitting the rails closcly Y
prevent al danger Of the bicycle slipping.
One peculiar feature Of this arrange
ment is a coil of wire which is carried
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| Is Of en- a Touch of Comedy
In Is Mel dramas.
CASES OF COMING TO LIFE
Superstitions of Various Per-
sons Who Visit New York
City Morgue.

and they all took hand in loading tho
proper body in the wagon
ut frequently occurs that some person
comes here, Identifies body as that OF a
dear friend, bursts forth in the loudest
kind OF waiiing, and then returns a few
hours later, laughing with Joy, to say
man or woman thought To lie dead had
coine home only little the Worse for
mixed ale or some other deadly beverage.
But would you believe that there are
persons whose sense of huInor is SO per-
verted that they play tricks on the dead?"
he asked.
We'll, hardly"
There are some. They come here regu-
larry, identify bodies, and order them
sent to an address. Upon arrival there it
is found that no one knows them. and
they are trundled back here. No one
wanted the body alive, and no one wanted
it afterwards" he concluded.
A few weeks ago the body OF a man
was brought TO the Inorgue whose
cleuched right hand held five playing
cards. three trays and two aces There
was such a look OF Satisfaction in the
mans eyes that no one who has ever
played toe great American game could
resist smile
The stake which that hand won was
Geath. and the laugh at the pleased ex-
preston of the floater's face was hushed
as soon as it left the lips.
II shan't forget the seven days that
came Just after the explosion of the bomb
in Russell Sage's office few years ago.
SAID Keeper White a few days ago be-
tween the visits OF sad-eyed woman, who
was looking for her boy and a nervous
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young man who had read of the finding
of body which he was afraid might be
his fathers. That week was the hardest
1 ever passed through. 1 wish We had
kept record of the number and kind OF
folks who came here TO look at the bomb
thrnwcr's head, which, you remember, was
all that was left OF him. There were
literally thousands OF callers who wanted
To see that head Hundreds pretended
they could identify the horrible thing as
ii nOated in a glass jar of alcohol where
We had put it for preservation. but no one
who came for that avowed purpose could
offer the slightest clew-
You remember how tis' Identification
came about finally, of course-how Ike
White, newspaper reporter, got hold Of
one of the buttons from the bomb thrower's
| trousers; how he followed up the cIew the
! button furnished, and, in Boston, found
| the maker of the trousers, and then how
the bomb thrower'S parents Were after
| wards traced.
| .All that was told in the newspapers
| at the time but no true notion was given
4 in print of the general morbid interest
| that was taken in the case. II was the
| museum keepers who made life burden
| for the genius OF the mcrgue. 1t seemed
| as if every one OF the men who cater To
| the amusement of the masses in New York
| was determined to secure that CHASTITY
| remnant of the tragedy. Some tried to buy
| 1t with money, and there were several
| offers Of NOR. chan ST 000 each for the
| awful Jar and its contents. When il was
found that atpurchaseof hething would never
| be allowed there Were big offers for its
rental, as the museum men Were confident
that many dollars could -bc gathered In
during even a brief exhibition OF the trophy.
| When it was learned that it could not even
be rented, attempts were made by tue score
to get possession of it by bogus identifica-
tion. All sorts of schemes Were reSorted
to. most of them So transparent that they
needed only moments investigation TO
stamp them fraudulent. 1t got SO bad be-
fore Ike Whites real Identification was
made, that the dead house men were al
most ready to bounce out of the place
everyone who came in to look at the
trunkIess head. After the second or third
day of the week there came fear that,
unless sharp watch was kept, the head
would be stolen, and so it was taken into
the hospital every night and locked up in
big iron safe, which was constantly un-
der the eye of Il vigilant watchman."
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.M'kIALEY IN DIME NOVEL
Does Wonderful Things, as
Hero in a Boys Paper.
SAMPLES OF THE. THRILLS
Story Is Called "Young Napoleon Nc
kinley; or, "a Boy Politicians Fight
to the White HOuse''-B Bryan Has
Also Been Immortalized Between
Yellow Covers.

Hon. william Mckinley, candidate fol
President of the United States on the Re
publican ticket, does not alone occupy the
attention of the adults OF his party. He
has been made novel hero. and his thrill
Ing experiences as told in juvenile
weekly, make spirited reading.
A few extracts are given to show the
trend ofthe boys literature OF the day. The
same publication is also running the life
and adventures OF the candidate on the
Democratic ticket, entitled: BILLY Bryan,
the Boy Orator OF the Platte; or, From
Plow to President" The author OF the
last named romance "old Sport" makes
William Jennings Bryan rescue an inno-
cent man from u lynching party, as well
as other less adventurous and heroic things
Verify, the boy author and juvenile pliS-
fishers are very much up to date.
CHAPTER /.
Introducing Napoleon McKinlcy-Thc Quar-
rel
Again tell you, Burt johnson, IL you
were twice as big and twice as rich, you're
not going to lord it over every boy In Niles.
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BICYCLE PATH OF PROGRESS

months of the year We have no rain in
Mexico that amounts to anything, and the
few showers never W ct more than the sur
face, which is-as dry as bone within an
hour after the rain is over Mexico is In
many respects n wheelman's paradise.
There is hardly any dust on the roads, and
what little there is, does not blow all
over one as it does in the States.
AFTER leaving the City of Mexico, the
road ON which the track in the skies is situ-
, ated, winds upward toward the SHOW
capped ridge surrounding the plateau. ON
both sides of the way areimmensetreest that
cast n pleasing shade as the whc eimen pedal
along the hard, dry roadbed.
The growth of vegetation is most lux
uriant, and across the narrow valley can
be seen the green clad slopes of the NOUN
tains, as they rise to the snow capped peaks
which pierce the clouds. The entrance
! to the track is by sharp turn out of the
road. across a little rustic bridge, over
what was once canal. The ticket office
is tiny building with a matched roof,
| which gives a very picturesque effect to
the entrance.
THE track is third OF a mile in length,
anu is nan eHClIClcu ps lHC Biuhdstdhu,
which has row of handsome private boxes
in front Just beyond the grandstand is a
promenade with well kept walks and an
evergreen lawn.
''on the opposite side of the track from
the grandstand are the training quarters
of the men. Each man has separate
house to himself, while for general use
| there is n large house for all at the track.
The enclosure is kept in the best possible
order and there is every convenience for
| the riders as well as for the spectators.
The track is rather a fast one One rider
| rode an unpaced mile in 2:l2. ] myself
have ridden twenty-one and two-third
miles in one hour, uDpaced, and on one
occasion made a century unpaced, in five
hours and twenty minutes.
directly in front of the path can be seen
| the towering heights OF Popocatapetl, the
| highest mountain in America. Since the
earliest memory of man this giant has been
| snow-capped. Just beyond is seen another
| huge peak. 1t is LXaccihnatl, and although
| both mountains seem but few miles dis
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HUMOR::G OF THE MORGUE
Copyright. 1861

New York, Oct. 24.-There are men In
The morgue to whom death has become sadly
familiar, yet they have their fun, neverthe.
less. 1t is fun Of d gruesonie sort, to be
sure. but without it life would be unbear
able.
The echo Of their laughter rings back in
hollow mockery, as II the Iifelcss bodies
stored in tiers were enjoying the Joke, and
| This weird echo often checks their ioIlity
Mr.. White, the keeper of the morgue, has
| seen many queer things within that gloom y
chamber that would be rich material for
the funny paragraphers-
Only u few weeks ago he was standing un
| the pier outside the rnorgue when "A small
| tug came putting up the river a nd made fast
to the landing. -
Got u stiff for YOU laconically de-
| cIared the tug captain, leaning out of the
windo W of the pilot house. ar
All nxtt," responded White, who at
once summoned his assistants, and they
hn,sted ashore the body OF d well-built
young fellow that was towing astern of
the tug.
Found him down the bay and made fast
who seemed to expect some praise for his
work; but he did not get it from White, who
is so used to handling nothing but dead
| bodies that q pew one only means so Ducn
more work. So the little tug went stea m
ing angrily away, and the body was placed
| in an ice box. -.H..T f ----
Shortly after. a deputy coroner appeared
| to view the remains, and was just about tn
| weld his Instruments in beginning An au-
| topsy, when the corpse sat up in the box,
| inquiring calmly what in h is the mat
| ter? tits colder than a cake OF ICE here.
Deputy coroner, morgue keeper anu as-
| sistants'fell over one another in their haste
to getaway, and the corpse. as badly fright
| ened then as they Were, jumped up an;i
started after them. He only reached the
office. Where he sank III i chair ~, h..vstc u.
| Whisky and other restoratives We're ap.
| nlied III liberal quantities, and the resur-
| rected one was soon able to lie taken to
| Bellevue Hospital. There he gave his name
as Samuel Cochran, twenty years old of
| No. 246 West Forty ninth street. He only
left the hospital few days ago, but many
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KATIE'S SINGING.

Never knowed nuthin' o love-not me,
Till Katie went siuein' by,
Matchin' the mockin' birds up in the tree
CPeared to be singin' pertickler at me
Singing at me. at meD
Never knowed nuthin' O. love-not me-
Till Katie went singin' by;
Down where the blossoms was show fih
free,
Tossin' her curls an kisses at me
Her curls an her kisses at me!
Never knowed nuthin' o. loye-not me,
Loves in the world an the sky;
Bees in the blossoms an birds on the housh-
Rills In the meadow just ripple it now
Ripple an ripple it now!
Love 1t was singin' an singin' so sweet
That morDin' when Katie went by;
That's VIII the blossoms fell down at her
feet
That's wh y she listened an heard my heart
beat
Listened an heard my heart beat!
Frank L. Stanton, In Chicago Times Her
aid.
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GUESTS su RE OF COOL WEATHER.

Hotel at Spitzbergen Where the Ther-
mOmeter Never Rises to Fever Heat.
I mentioned in my last article the hotel
that had been erected on the little spit of
land in Advent Bay, and as hotel In lati-
tude 7S degrees north is novelty, II may
interest some readers to have description
of it. Its, of course, built entirely of wood,
and is of the ordinary type of Norwegian
chalets, with spouted dragon ON the gable
in default of signboard
The bedrooms are cozy little cabins, with
portfolios for windows, for, as there is
nu sun to let in during the dark months,
and ones chief aim and object Is to
keep his rays out while the sun holds
all-nignt sittings, the smaller the aper-
ture the better. 1t only took about
fortnight to put it up, and already, be-
sides some of the members of Sir Martin
Conway's expedition, it has had several
staying visitors.
An enthusiastic Norwegian sportsman had
| made II his headquarters, and there We're
also some English ladies patronizing it.
Once Week the Norwegian company which
put II up runs n mail boat, carrying passen-
gers and letters. II has its own pOstOrrice
and its own stamps, which, however, only
| frank letters as far as Tromso. Those who
| have stayed there report very favorably as
| to the comfort and food and as the charge
| is only 10 kroner day, it is by no means
an extravangantly dear place to stop at.
The Norwegian sportsman referred To
| had had very fair sport, having Killed two
polar bears, reindeer and a walrus, but
the walrus is difficult to secure. Unless he
| is shot IN the throat. IA wound which for
| some reason prevents him from diving he
disappears into fathomless depths when
| mortally wounded. For the ornithClogist
| Advent Bay presents many attractions,
| and at present the birds are by no means
shy. What the result OF constant incursions
of trappers may be is another question.
The scenery all around us was very grand,
| but the hotel, Haunting its Norwegian
| flaE-Spitzbergen, though claimed by Rus
sia and Norway, is really no mans land
| almost forbade the belief that we were
actually in the region OF the pole, yet
we were then a good deal north OF the
spot where Franklin and his gallant crew
died.
The name of the most Conspicuous noun
tain in view, towering over gigantic
| glacier-Dead Mans Ear-savored enough
OF romance and adventure to cancel, at
least in part the incongruous effect OF the
neat little inn with its rostoffice, and even
theempty champag gne bottle which betrayed
the pIcnicker and trpper. There is coal,
by the way, in the neiehhorhood. and one
oftheparty secured a specimen ola ligneous-
looking character, and peat there must
be in abundance, for the promontory was
OF very Irish bog-l description.
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COAL SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
ExtruoI binary Increns eof the Worlds
Consumption During II Century.

Cassier'S Ndyaziae.
In $40, about the time the steam engine
was invented, the consumption of coal in
Great Britain was some 100000 gross
tons a year. IL had risen to 27,OOO, 200
tons n 1916; to 80 $4,000 tons in lS5u:
to s4,Oi2, ,69S tons in 1900; to l12,sI5,525
tons IN $40; to lie ,963, ,4G9 tons III 1850;
to ISL ,614, 2SS tons in 1890, and to
lSS.211,o ,o25 gross tons (2lO,sTO.S2S net
tonsl in 1894. The result of the dis
cuSsons on the subject OF the duration OF
the coal supply of Great Britain was the
conclusion that if the output increases in
the same ratio as il has for twenty or thirty
years. the coal will be exhausted in j
little over century. These estimates
are now regarded as excessive, as 1t is
conceded that there is in each nation
limit TO industrial development, which,
without considering the great economies
In the use Of fuel, VIII also limit the en-
penseS OF coal production. Mr.. Gruener
places this limit for England at 80 900 600
| tons, which supports a mining population
OF 900, 600 miners and working popu-
lation OF 5000 600.
In the United States the production of
coal has been increasing in much greater
ratio than in Great Britain. We cannot go
back TO the eighteenth century and give
figures OF production of coal, nor Is that
necessary in order to Indicate how enormous
| has been the Increase in its production and
| consumption in the United States. AT the
| tenth census, 1880. the production of coal
| IN the United States is reported at IL.
| 4S1 $50 nett tons; at the eleventh census,
| 1883, it had risen to l4l .22S. BIB net
| tons, nearly double, and in 1898, according
| TO the report of +. W. Parwer. of the United
! States Geological Survey, it was 1S2,-
352,774 net tons. an Increase of more than
| two and onc-hair times in thirteen years,
| doubling about every five years
| Similar increases could be show n FOR the
| other great coal-producing countries, as.
| Belgium, Germany, Austria, France, and
| Russia. The worlds demands for heat and
| power are increasing marvelously, while
the worlds supply of coal is definite
| quantity, and it is ap evident proposition
| that with the exhaustion of its coal, not
| only will the power and influence of a
| nation decline, but even its existence
may be Imperfect
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climate upon national character has been
greatly exaggerated, Assyria. Babylonia,
Egypt and Carthage, situated in hot lati-
tudes, were among the most masterful ma
tions of antiquity. Mohammed and his con.
quering legions issued from the burning
wilderness of Arabia. and at a later period
his SUCCESSORS were able to beat back the
repeated attacks of the combined crusa ding
nations from tue North.
The greatness of a nation depends mainly
upon intellectual and moral qualities, and
these have often been conspicuously de-
velopcd among tue inhabitants of hot cli-
mates. 1t is important, too. to remember
that the same nation, occupying the same
region, may be great and powerful in one
age and weak and contemplate in another.
The difference betw cen the ancient Greeks,
Romans and Saracens, on the one hand. and
their modern descendants ON the other can
not have been due to climate.
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This bullying has been going on too long.
1t must Stop-right here.''
what have you to do with it?' growlcd
johnson.
I've everything to do with it, This bull
lying OF yours must end-onc" for all. That
boy has done nothingto you that you should
treat him like dog. Hes not your size,
nor your strength. and you ought to De
ashamed OF yourself"
The last speaker was boy OF seventeen
a well ll-developed, sturdy-looking lad, with
clear-cut features of an aquiiine cast, firm
mouth and BLUSH gray eyes that shot living
lightning as he spoke.
The scene was an open space or square
in the small town of Niles, o.. the audience
a dozen boys ranging between the ages of
fifteen and eighteen.
They looked TO be schoolboys-and Were.
In the center of the throng wasa stalwart,
we'll knit youth with tiack hair and eyes.
He had been standing over a much smaller
lad than himself, whomtle had been beating
when the first speaker came up.
There was something sinister about Bart
JohnsOn's face. 1t was apparent that he
had been accustomed to lordiDg 1t over the
other schoolboys. as he was biggerand much
better dressed than any present.
You had better let Garrett Emerson up
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est comes off best" was Williams en-
phatic reply. -s-a-
And withoutmore ado he made dash
for the school bully.
Burt johnson squared off and made an
upper-cut for young McKinley's head.
The boys scattered. giving the contest
ants plenty Of room, while the lad whom
johnson had been pummeling moved aside
with the rest.
His nose wasoleeding, his eye discolored;
he had been crying.
He had now ceased his sobs.
He eappearedconcerned for his champion.
But he need have had no fear on that
score, for William Mckinley met Burt
Johnson,s uppercut with one, two three
on the body and face that staggered him.
This he followed up with O cross-counter
and two more blows in rapid succession
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or you'll have to deal with me-" said the
first speaker again. whose name was Will
lam Mckinley and whose father was an
industrious and prosperous iron manufac-
turer of the little town which we have ad-
vertcd to.
"If l dom do it, what them" said Burt
Johnson doubling his fists threateningly.
1t was plain that all the boys, with the
exception of Mckinley, stood in great feai
of this young bully of Niles.
Then III see il l can't make you," came
quietly from young Mckinley. i"
Look out. Billy" interposed one of
the boys You're not strong or quicl
enough for him"
Its not always the strongest or quick
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Which not only daze d but floored the larger

Wlicn not only uoze q Dut IlOOre0 the larger
boy.
, This ended the tight for the time being, so
far as Burt johnson was concerned, Tor up
came at the moment the town marshal, OF
Niles, Ben Halliday.
The town marshal wan an old Mexican
veteran.
He had seen service with Gen. Scott, aud
went to Mexico with volunteer regiment
from his native State, Ohio.
When the marshal came up the boys
scattered, all save Burt johnson aud Will
liam Mckinley.
Ben Halliday was no friend Of Burt John
son.
His quick eye took in the trouble at once.
He was only too glad that Johnson ha d got
whipped for his brutality.
Been at your gaI.es again?" snecred
the old man. "But you reckoned without
your host this time, my fine fellow. Good
for YOU, William the marshal exclaimed,
I'm glad you lickedu him, and licked him
well, TOO. Bullies get al the fighting they
want-and sometimes too much"
Burt johnson now picked himself from the
ground, where he lay, and with an ex-
preston of resentment said:
'Wilain Mckinley, for once you've got
the upper hand, But well meet again.
When we do look out for yourself
But Billy, without deigning TO notice this
threat. turned ON his heel aud walked away
with Halliday.
where do you go from here?'' aske the
boy of Ellsworth
"Washington.'
II should like to go with you" with much
earnestness, from Billy.
I've to call on the President. He's a
great, good man, and I've no doubt but you
would like to see him. If you can get your
fathers consent I'll take you"
1t was not SO hard TO obtain the consent of
the father as Young Mckinley thought
Two days later Col. Ellsworth and Will
| liam Mckinley were walking arm in arm
up to the White II ouse.
Billy, his school companions called
! him, was visibly impressed with the Presi-
dent, as Lincoln was with Billy.
His clear-cut, honest face, with its rather
remarkable resemblance 10 the great Nh
| poleon. soon made Billy hosts Of friends
in Washington.
But there was to come a crisis in his
life sooner than he expected.
While Young William Mckinley was in
Washington with Col. Ellsworth, Fort Sum
| ter. after a two days bombardncnt, sur
| rendered to the confederatcs.
This was the first blow the country had
| received, So TO speak and ii came almost
| like lightning bolt out of clear sky.
War had begun between North and South
In earnest.