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The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01
ATAx|A S Durable /
REPORTED CURE STANDS TEST OF
FULL INVESTIGATION. -.

A Former Victim of Locomotor. At.xia
Now Free from Suffering and -
Actively at Work.
eyes," said Mr.. Watkins to a reporter.
"it is true that have been cured of
ataxia by DR.. Williams Pink Pills."
care you sure you had locomotor
ataxia?" Nv, = -
"The doctors themselves told me so.
Besides I recognized the symptoms
What were they?'
"Well, the first indications were a
stiffness about the knee joints that came
on about four years ago. A few months
after that appeared, my walk got to be
uncertain, shaky-ilze. lost confidence
in my power to control the movements
Of my legs. Once, when I was in the
cellar, I started to pick up two scuttles
Of coal, and my legs gave way suddenly,
and tulnbled all in a heap in basket.
I couldn't close my eyes and keep my
balance to save my life. Then I had
fearful pains over my whole body and I
lost control over my kidneys and my
bowels"
"How about your general health -
"Sometimes was so weak that I had
to keep my bed and my weight fell off
twenty pounds. Things looked pretty
bad for mo until I ran across q young
man who had been cured by DR.. Will
iams' Pink Pills and who advised me to
try them"
'Did these pills help You rightaway?"
II didn't see much improvement un-
til had used six boxes. The first bene-
fit noticed was better circulation and
a picking up in strength and weight. I
gradually got confidence in my ability
to direct the movements Of my legs, and
in the course of seven or eight months
all the troubles had disappeared.
"Do you regard yourself as entirely
we'll now?"
Il do the work Of a we'll man at any
rate. can close my eyes and stand up
all right and move about tho same as
other men. The pains are all gone ex-
cept an occasional twitch in the calves
Of my legs"
Mr.. James H. Watkins resides at No. 70
Westerlo street, Albany, NY. DR.. Will
liams' Pink Pills can be obtained at any
drug store. They should be used as soon
as the first signs of locomotor ataxia ap-
near IN q peculiar numbpess Of the feet.
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wolves of the senate" that ate up Red
Riding Hoods grandma.
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Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used
for all affections of the throat and lungS-WA
o. ENDsLEY, Vanburen. Ind. Feb 10. 1900
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01
IN a Pinch, Use ALIENS FooT.EAsE

A powder. 1t cures painful smarting, nerv-
Gus feet and ingrowing nails. It's tho
greatest comfort discovery of tho age
Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for
sweating feet. Sold by all druggists. 25c.
Trial package FREE. Address A. s.
Olmsted, Le Roy N. Y.
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Mrs. wlnaow's Soothing Syrup.
aammato2, allays pain, cures Wind coo sc hoet3S
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As It Sometimes Happens.
Eyes, they were married in haste" :"
"And repented at leisure, eh?"
mo; they repented almost immedi-
ately.""-Louisville Courier Journal.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

DR.. David Kennedy'e Favor1te Remed, II
adapted both and all ages Cures KidneV V.n7
Liver complaint and puriaes the blood. q All dEuSesS
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

The surest harbinger of war is 4
peace congress. j
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Water on the brain is calculated To
quench the fire of genius.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01
Female TROUBLE
NOT RECOGNIZED
As CATARRH,

ly recognized as being caused by
catarrh
Catarrh of one organ is exactly tho
same as catarrh of any other organ.
What will cure catarrh of the head will
also cure catarrh of the pelvic organs.
Peruna cures these cases simply because
it cures the catarrh.
If you have catarrh write at once to
DR.. Hartman, giving a full statement
of your case, and he will be pleased to
give you his valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.
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Justice often becomes so droWsH
that it mods upon the bench,
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"A short time ago found my con-
dYfion very serious. had headaches,
pains in the back, and frequent dizzy
spells which grew worse every month.
tried two remedies before Peruna,
and was discouraged when took the
first dose, but my courage soon re-
turned. In less than two months
my health was restored. ."-Mrs. M.
Brickner.
The reason of so many failures to
cure cases similar to the above is the
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

act that dis
eases peculiar to
the female sex
are not common
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-28

to say, "I told you So" but Cooper laugh
ed. declared it was not his intention to
build stationary engine and would keep
on until he got one to move IL it took all
summer.
The company didn't want anything more
to do with it, so Cooper, having meantime
fallen in with two bright young Balt-
more mechanics of such clever mechanical
bent as led both to become widely known
in later years-George w. Johnson and Jas.
Miholland-sent the Tom Thumb as he
christened it, to them with cart blanche to
remedy every defect and insure the success
Of the next trial trip. Facilities were not
particularly extensive those days A shop
did not mean then what 1t does now.
hand forge, an anvil and a supply of ham,
mers about completed the inventory. Muscle
spelled efficiency. 1t took until the sue
ceedng midsummer to shape things for an
other try.
From the boat on wheels that the little
car suggested to the palace-like coach OF
today Is far cry, as 1t also is from the
pioneer passenger train of 1880 to the Linn
tied" of 1905. The whole of the frst-loco-
motive and car-would not crowd the bag
gage car of the last There are many lin
limited 1t was. The tiny Tom Thumb"
and the open boat-looking improvisement
on wheels. to the seats of which the pas
sengers clambered They weren't many in
number. and they congratulated themselves
upon the luxury of seats and outer edge
upon which firm grip could be taken. The
only other car available had merely a fiat
platform, and ease in transit was largely
dependent upon there being several passen-
gers, each Offering the means to the other
to hold on. Jogging along behind a horse
in this fashion was well enough, because
If passenger fell off the beast could be
stopped, but steam pulling was another
proposition, and once under Roadway,
there was no telling what might happen
If the passengers were anchored only by
their feet.
Development of Railway Coach.
However. it should not be understood
that the bare, open. ffat-top on four
wheels, as pictured comprised the full pas
senger equipment of the B. & o. at the
time mentioned. Not so. 1t had been fol-
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latter had a horizontal boiler and was the
original grasshopper type adopted from the
mine pumping engines then In general use
abroad. The Cooper had an upright boiler.
with an adjustment of cylinders and pis-
ton action the like of which had never be-
fore been seen. The "Lion's" boiler was OF
Hae double or return fiue variety, while
that OF the Cooper was tubular. a crude APP
plication Of the principle first conceived by
Oliver Evans, the Philadelphia, and father
Of the premier essential OF the modern To-
connective.
Cooper's indomintable spirit was never
more strikingly demonstrated than IN
his resourcefulness in connection with this
boiler, the first multi-tubular for practical
purposes in the country. There were no
tubes to be had. none made and to get
them up especially for the occasion meant
without machinery or plant adapted for
such output. a delay of months. In the
emergency Cooper bethought himself or
gunmaker who usually kept a stock OF gun
and from him bought all he had. With
these gun barrels the problem was solved.
They served as the tubes for his boiler.
The original engine Cooper sent around
from New York to Baltimore by sailing
vessel There were no wheels when 1t ar
rived, but little things like these could not
stay Cooper, who speedily arranged with
Ross Winans, then assistant to Chief En-
neer Knight of the Baltimore and Ohio, for
the missing means OF locomotion. A plat
form had also to be fixed, upon which to
support the engine. and in turn to be sup
ported by the four-hanged wheels from the
company's stock. There was good deal to
be done to get this first locomotive together
and in shape to run The railroad people
had no faith in 1t or had any one else to
speak of save Cooper.
Not Damaged by Failure.
When finally the trial trip was essayed
and the old thing baked there were many
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in such direction and certainly no expert
ence. Nevertheless, not only was he the
inspirer of the first locomotive built to
actually accomplish the first practical move
ment by steam ON rails in America. but he
was the indomitable pusher against OBJ
stacles until he overcame every one of them
roads on the continent. The most persist
ent of his opposers were the Baltimoreans
themselves. 1t is very different prop
osftion,- this looking backward seventy-ive
years or more from the vantage ground of
the present, and, the reverse view, the
one ahead for three-quarters of a century.
Hindsight, as with the people OF today,
was regarded with far more assur-
ance than foresight. The men direct
ly having to do with the operation of the
pioneer American railway as was the B.
and o.. did not believe that steam was a
possible means Of propulsion. The road
was, they said. too crooked IN alignment
In the first place; in the second the grades
were prohibitive, and the reports of the
cost of running and keeping In repair the
few locomotives in use In England made 1t
out of the question that sufficient business
could be assured to meet the expense
Peter Cooper's locomotive.
Notwithstanding. Peter Cooper persisted
went. in fact. to the length OF designing .
locomotive and having what he called such
built. This was In 1920, just about the
time the "stourbridge Lion was delivered
IN New York. But the Cooper affair In mo-
wise resembled the English creation. The
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lowed. as the next step in the develop
ment of the American railway coach. by a
clapboard shack-looking affair, with two
windows on each side, rear door with a
step, side benches on the inside and a table
In the center, upon which to deposit bag
gage. bundles. etc. The driver. for this car
was drawn over the rails by horse, had
seat forward, a perch in stage coach fash
ion. Next In order, and marking pro-
nounced step In comfort. was the then
remarkable car Pioneer" 1t had room
for six passengers. two each on three sides
facing the horse; it was covered, open all
around, had curtains and such extent of
leather findings as to create much COM
ment OF its general luxurious appointments.
In 1t a memorable first trip was made from
Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills, among the
distinguished guests of the occasion being
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last sur
viving signer of the Declaration of indie
pendence.
This much-heralded innovation of old
time methods was followed the sue
ceeding morning by the first railroad adj
vertisement ever appearing in an American
newspaper, the B. & O. announcing in the
would run three times a day each way from
Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills. passage TWEEN
ty-five cents. In those days passengers
were not ticketed. but carried on way bills
about as freight is today.
The Successful Trial.
The Pioneer" as also its shanty- like pre-.
decessor, was too heavy to be drawn by the
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How the Great Lines Protect Their
Property.

From the New York Evening Post
The loss of the Lackawanna terminals at
Hoboken raises the question. How do the
railways carry their own Insurance.? Many
of the leading lines assume the greater
part of their own fire risks without pur-
chasing Insurance I'm the regular COM
panIes. The Pennsylvania set the standard
OF railway insurance about twenty-five
years ago. Up to that time all Insurance
on railway properties was carried in regu-
lar underwriting companies. Now the
roads accumulate their own insurance
fund
The plan is simple. A kind OF "blanIet
Insurance" is placed on all the property
of road. The railway company pays
into special fund each year an eQuabe
premium the value of the risks car
ried. In this way the entire property IS
protected This general insurance, how
ever. is limited to some small amount. suf-
fcient to cover, for instance. the stations
and sheds at unlmportant points. The
"congested risks are reinsured. On New
York terminals. for instance. as well as on
steamship fleets. system shops. etc, the
insurance department OF the railway takes
out policies in the regular insurance
companies, which are divided into two sec
tons known as the Eastern Syndicate
and the western Syndicate" On very
large risks. such as the Hoboken termin-
ais, no one fire Insurance company cares
to take the whole risk. Half a dozN
companies have policies on such prop
ertY.
Small fires. such as happen almost every
week at some point on the Pennsylvania,
are looked after by the railroads special
insurance fund. The Lackawanna fire. the
Illinois Centrars fire at New Orleans, the
Grand Trunk fire at Toronto, or the gem
eral destruction OF railroad property at
Baltimore usually fall upon the fire insur-
ance companies. The railways do not as
sumo such large risks. The insurance on
equipment involves different problems
Many railways do not carry any insurance
ind fIAK- a
and sinking funds. When another lines
cars are destroyed, as in the Lackawanna
IRE, the company on whose tracks the cars
stood at the time must foot the bill The
expense comes out OF the general expense
fund. Rolling stock pledged to secure
equipment notes Is generally Insured
against fire and wreck. When IL Is de-
stroyed 1t has to be replaced as security
for the collateral Most of the large roads
have superintendent OF Insurance whose
duty 1t is to supervise the placing OF risks.
TO watch that no great margin OF possible
loss by fire is exposed at any one center.
risks.
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About DYING

Sir James Crichton Browne, r. r. s.,
says that the best antiseptic against the
onset of old age is an active interest in hui
man affairs. Those who love most keen
young longest 1t IS a good working hy-
pothesis that the natural life of man Is 100
years, and that of woman a little more. II
they fall short of this there has been some
thing wrong in the manner OF life" The
fall in the death rate in England and Wales
during the past fifty years meant he said
the saving of 223, 600 lives per annum. This
great gain had, however, occurred chiefly
among people in the first half of life. 1t
was remarkable fact that I'm men OF all
ages from forty-fiye to seventy-five there
had been a startling rise in the death rate.
and that in women from fifty-five upward
it had been practically stationary.
In a hygfenic Utopia death ought only 20
occur at eighty-five years and upward. Ac-
cOrdlng to Pythagoras. a man ought to be
ashamed of being i'll except through acct
dent or climatic influences. DR.. J. Haddon
had announced that since he began living
on one meal day and no animal food but
butter his health had greatly improved.
1t should be remembered. however. that
enthusiasm was very apt to degenerate into
faddism, and apropos of Vegetarianism il
was worth noting that coHcurrenuy with
the increase in the death rate there had
been an increase in the consumption OF
meat.
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MOSQUE FOR LONDON.
The Khedive, the Shah and the Amir
Subscribe Funds.
From the London Mall.


Reyiya!s are in the atmosphere and
shortly it may be expected that crusade
for Mahommedanism will be preached in the
cities. towns and parks of Protestant Eng
land. A mosque has been designed for the
METROPOLIS by Mr.. r. Williams, who Is at
present at the court Of the khedive OF
Egypt, studying Arabesque designs of walls
and floors for the further establishment OF
this fame of Islam.
Beautiful and fairy-like will be this struc-
ture of marble, for the building of which
three mighty princes OF Islam-the Shah OF
Persia the Khedive of Egypt and the Amir
of ADMINISTRATIVE lavishly subscribed.
1t is 20 be erected near the Thames on
the Lambeth side of the river, nearly OPP
poste Westminster Abbey. Here will be
the monastery for the teaching Of such
Engiishmen as will consent to go out as
missionaries to preach the faith of the
prophet in other countries than their own
Here proselytes to the faith can go into
retreat to mediate and be instructed in
the tenets of Islam, and here viii be the
college, where Moslems Will be able to
study at a yery much less fee than in any
other college In England.
The Amir Of Afghanistan, the NiZam or
Hyderabad, the Rajah of Rampur and e
number OF opulent Indian princes and chief
tains haze expressed their intentions o.
helping in every way the furtherance or
their faith in London.
The finances of the community appear &c
be in a fourishing condition, seven thou
Sand pounds, Il is stated, being the amount
In credit after all expenses are paid.
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anything else, and they had been attracted
by the reports of steam traction on the
English coal road between Stockton and
Darlington. So they thought they would
try the same scheme on their tram line.
Three locomotives were bought on the
first order, big order. too, for those days.
II was much more daring than were a cor
poration now to order three flying ma
chimes for commercial use. The three en-
gines were the '.Stourbridge Lion" the
America" and the "Angenoria." But the
'Stourbridge Lion proved a failure and
the order for the "Angenoria" was Cancelled.
The America" had already arrived.
The "Stourbridge Lion" was to have
weighed three and half tons. It weighed
double that and the track was so fifmsy
that the locomotive could not be run over
it. The Lion" was set up finally as a
stationary engine and used to operate the
cables that were used on the inclines along
the coal road. But as a locomotive it
operated but one day.
The situation on the Baltimore and Ohio
was different. The road was primarily de-
signed as a common carrier, and though
coal constituted large pact of its freight,
it was also intended for passengers.
Object Of the Plan.
The impetus to its construction was to
overcome the commercial advantages New
York and Philadelphia had gained through
the operation of the Erie canal the
Baltimore idea being to offset this with a
rail line connecting the Ohio with the nav
igable waters of the Chesapeake bay. In
cidentally. of course, Baltimore was to
profit by becoming the terminus of the rail-
way. This is where Peter Cooper came in
He was a New Yorker. but the character
istcs that there made him the foremost
merchant and citizen were naturally mani
tested wherever his interests lay. He had
large landed interests in Baltimore. His
comprehension was broad enough to real
ize that the entire vicinity would profit
through the consummation of the under
taking.
Peter Cooper was not a man of mechan-
ical attainment, had no especial aptitude
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Cooper engine, hence the improvising of
the boat car, as described, for the his
torical trial trip. In England it was,
at the period, the prevailing opinion that
locomotives could never be adapted to as
cending heavy grades or permit of opera
ton sharp curvature. American en-
gineers largely conceded with this opinion.
and Cooper's comparative failure with this
diminutive tom Thumb" the previous
year-1S29-not strengthening the belief
that the B. e. o., owing to its grades and
curves as originally constructed, could ever
be operated by steam. Cooper proved all
this a fallacy. His tiny Tom Thumb with
the car attached on that 2Sth of August,
seventy-five years ago, made the run with
out a break from Baltimore to Ellicotts
Mills in an hour and a quarter. and the
return trip In fifty-seven minutes. one
horse was it's computed power and the
weight In entirety it drew was four and a
half tons, the average speed twelve miles
an hour.
To the Baltimore and Ohio 1T meant
everything, for with steam power and Its
consequent increase of efficiency the future
of the company was made certain 10
the country as whole its significance was
perhaps wider and of more vital import
ance than anything previously known In It's
material history.
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RESULT OF ACCIDENT.
Nelson Cowell Accidentally Shot and
Instantly Killed.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, August q. 1905.
Nelson Cowell. aged fifteen years. whose
home is near Richmond, Va, was acct
dentally shot and instantly killed early this
morning while hunting squirrels near Nor
beck, five miles from this place. He had
been staying at the country home of his
uncle William NJ. CoweI, who Is well
kyown in Washington, where he Is engaged
in business. About ) o clock this morning
the unfortunate young man and four COM
panions. ranging in ages from thirteen to
seventeen, left the Cowell home to spend
a few hours hunting squirrels. Soon after
reaching the woods, young Cowell and the
youngest of the party, boy about thirteen
years of age, separated from the others.
While walking about the woods they
thought they spied squirrel in a hickory
tree and We're in the act of approaching
the tree when the gun of the younger boy
was accidentally discharged. Cowell was
about twenty feet behind but the entire
load entered the side of his head, tearing
nearly his whole skull off and killing him
instantly. The other young fellows hasten
ed to the scene of the accident and carried
the dead body of their companion back to
the Cowell home 1t Is not definitely
known. but it is said that the boy respon-
sible for the accident was the victims
cousin. The remains of the dead boy will
be sent to his home tomorrow. 1t is stated
that he had made all preparations to start
for home In the morning. 1t is said that
the young fellow that did the shooting is
almost distracted. as are nearly all the
members of the family of the dead boys
uncle.
A verdict of accidental death was given,
folliwing investigation by the coroner.
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Serve.

From the New York Sun
She looked all OF nineteen years old and
must have been keeping house at least a
week Her inexperience was testing the
grocer's ability to suppress his smiles.
MY husband" she said, in a manner
intended to show that she had had one for
years and years. thinks succotash is sim
ply lovely. I'll take a pound OF it,
The groceryman continued to suppress
his feelings while he filed a paper bag
her to have it cooked thoroughly.
He was beginning to feel secure again
when she bought can of soup of much
advertised brand and said You can give
me five cents worth of serve"
The man behind the counter was bewil-
dered even after hearing the order re-
peated. She explained:
THE directions tell you how to cook It
and what to put in. But 1 haven't got
everything that's called for. The direc-
tons say just add hot water and serve -
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CHAPTER xXVII-Continued.

''Why not let him shift for himself a
while?" suggested Woodruff who couldn'
have taken more trouble about the affair II
the hoy had been his own. "A man never
knows whether his feet were made to stand
on and walk with, unless he's been down
to his uppers."
81 think the boys got his grandmother
In him" said |. Lets give him a chance.
He'll make a career for himself yet
like his fathers said Woodruff.
That, with the sincerest enthusiasm. BUT
instinctlvely I looked at him for signs OF
sarcasm And then I wondered how many
successful men would, in the same cir
cumstanees. have had the same curiously
significant instinct.