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This means that no matter what the certificate
is worth as stock. no matter what ii is quoted
at in the market. the bearer thereof can stop
on a ten-hour train for New York and pay his
or her friends fare with IL. pay for freight
to the amount of $780, and all with a certificate
of stock that costs only $50 at the present mo-
ment 1t is evident. therefore. what an un-
usual opportunity this stock offers. Nothing on
earth can wreck its value. From the moment
the road begins to run trains. each share Of
stock will be just as good as money; four times
good If bought at present prices. 1t will be
easy to turn into instant cash if you don't want
transportation, because any ticket broker will
cash it at small discount for brokerage. even
in one year from date, when the first hundred
mile section of the road is in actual operation
between Chicago and Goshen.
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The Time to Invest Is Now-Never
Again VIII the Price BE So Low

Railroad fortunes are the greatest fortunes on
earth. The men that piled up untold millions by
railroad investments were not men who asked
every Tom. Dick and Harry what TO do. what
was safe. what good. They were men who
turned deaf and an eye OF impartial1ty
upon the scoffers and thought 1t out on the
merits OF the case. whether or not the PROPOSE
tion was worth while. They used their own
Judgment their calm common sense, that 5
all In saying to you that the stock OF the
Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad is
not only the soundest. safest and wisest invest
ment for all your savings. but that il you buy
now at the low price Of $50 per hundred-dollar
shares. you will surely become a wealthy man
from their rise in value. want you 10
your own good Judgment and convince yourself
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Electric Line Will Build Up Many Grea,
Fortunes.

The time has the people ought
to own the railroads, and they are going to
own them.
The Chcago-New York Electric Air Line Rail-
road is the great entering wedge. When this
road is built the farmer can look out upon his
grainfeld with the content that comes from
OF his earnings won't go TO into the jaws of a
greedy railroad, as excessive freight charges
The manufacturer and small freight shipper will
be able to get his product through as quickly
and cheaply as any other shipper No longer
Will the small shipper be fooled with the sickly
excuse that we can't get cars while he sees
ms big rivals goods go whisking along through
pull and favoritism.
But, what is the best of all, the small stock
holder, and there is no reason that 1t should not
be you, will have an investment that will make
him financially independent. The conditions that
made possible the building up Of America s
greatest fortunes many times more prom
ising than they in the olden railroad days
The old steam roads. being loaded down with
debt, waterlogged with overcapitalization and
worn to their marrow bones by their fearful
struggle to pay dividends on securities that
stood for false values, are in no position to sac
rihce their millions of investment and build a
through electric line like the Chicago-New York
Electric Air Line Railroad. 1t took new blood,
new courage to do it; it took faith that the
project was SO big and broad and. well conceived
that the necessary hundred and fifty million
dollars would be forthcoming.
The profits that this great electric road will
make for the stockholders are almost beyond
calculation, while the natural rise in value Of
the shares because Of the extraordinary earning
power is likely to be such that an investment Of
500 at the reduced price at which the first
shares are marketed may. at the end Of few
years. stand for a quoted market value of two
thousand dollars. and yield yearly income Of
two hundred dollars. II it does this. and it is
not at all unlikely that it will, the man who
Invests $500 in Its shares now will have a
yearly income Of $1,000. OF course, the only
time snch colossal profits can be made Is at the
very start. After the first section Of the road
Il built and the people see it in actual working
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Chicago to New York City for s1o--a figure that
is about one-half the regular fare now charged !?
There be question that the Chicago
New York Electric Railroad will become the
richest and most powerful business factor in
this country, its workings being on the basis
of a new order of things industrial and the
foundation stone upon which our economic we'll
being Will rest. When this great electric road
gets into full working order the small shipper
can send his freight on basis of absolute
equality with the big shipper.
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The Earnings of the Road VIII Be
Beyond All Precedent

The new electric road would command an enor-
nous patronage even If it did not offer any ad.
vantage in speed, convenience~or comfort over
existing steam lines, for its rate Of $40. which
is just about one-half Of present passenger rates.
would command the traffic. But when in addi-
tion to the fact that the rate is only $40 we add
the fact that the time is only ten hours and the
well-known advantages of electric over steam
transit, there seems little reason to doubt that
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Dividends from railroad are surer than from
almost any other kind Of investment. from the
fact that no great FIRE, earthquake. or other
calamity can entirely Obliterate and ruin the
property The investment is spread over such
wide expanse that 1t is an utter impossiohlty
that than small proportion OF II can be
wiped out OF existence at any one time
Trust funds, which seek only the safest Ia
vestment. are more largely placed in railroad
securities than in any other way. The total
value of the stock and bond securities of rail-
roads in the United States amounts to about
fourteen billion dollars. which is about one
eighth Of all the wealth Of the country
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Chicago to New York in % Hours, Fare $40

other power consumers welcome It, because of
the low w-priced surplus power the new road can
sell them. Thousands of homes will glow
brilliantly from the electric lights supplied from
the same source, feature that is bound to
make friends for the road from one end of the
line to the other
The problem Of grade crossings has not only
been solved, but done away with. The Chicago
New York Electric Air Line Railroad viii be
the first example in railroad history in which
no other road, highway or street is crossed '.at
grade on the same level. The new road
will either go under all such obstacles,
n feature which saves all the time that exist
ing steam roads lose by their ''slow-downs' at
crossings, and enables the electric train to
maintain its marvellous speed.
The Chicago-New York Electric Air Line
road has among its staff the very man who
secured every foot of the right of way for the
Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Electric Road and
was one Of the most prominent factors in
bringing about its great success. There are
also among its officials several men who were
actively connected with the Burlington road,
two of them in the operating department. It
is wellknown and universally acknowledged
fact that the Burlington has graduated more
successful railroad experts than any other road
in the country. and thv success Of the new
electric road will be assured in no small degree
by these two men,
No Makeshift Plans for the New Elec-
tric Road
The builders of the Chicago New York Elec-
tric Air Line Railroad have determined that nc
matter Of expediency shall cause them to build
with only today in view and to forget tomor-
row. Many minor curve grade might be
left untouched and hundreds of thousands OF
dollars saved in original cost,~but they must and
will be Strengthened out and leveled down
Every curve and grade that is left in road
way to save construction cost constitutes a per-
manent drag on the operating cost for all time
an expense that exceeds what it would have cost
to do the thing right in the first place by q
thousandfold The constructionists of the new
electric road are pursuing makeshift policy.
If curve or grade exists and ought to be re-
moved 1t will be removed. Wherever the new
electric line crosses steam road it will &c
over or under it.
The roadbed will be the most solidly built of
any in the world, the high speed of the trains
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This certificate Will be accepted In
payment for transportation to the
amount of the par value of the
shares Of stock represented hereby,
and Mt current tariff rates over any
part of the road In operation.
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How This Great Electric Road Came
TO BE a Reality

The chicago-New York Electric Air Line
Railroad is duly Incorporated and chartered
under the laws Of the State of Maine. Its
officers
ALEX. c. MILLER, President.
: ->CHARLEs 7. CHERRY, Vice President
THERON II. BAaEs Secretary and Treasurer,
formerly Gen. SuDf. Chicago & Alton Y. n.
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New Road Encounters Few obstacle,

New Road Encounters Few Obstacle.
The histories of most of the steam roads read
like political melodramas Bribery and corrun
ton Of State and national dignitaries was looked
upon as being as essential as the layinp of
rails industries were throttled, coal mines
forced into line and right-of-way secured by the
most desperate tactics.
No such struggles viii be necessary in the
construction of the Chicago-New York Electric
Air Line Railroad. Most of the large cities
are not absolutely crossed by the right of wav
but lie very close to it. This has given the
project all of the advantages and none of the
difficulties encountered by the steam roads
The line is. in Most cases. just near enough
SO that an Insignificant spur Of a few miles
long viii. for all practical purposes, locate the
line beside the city, while 1t is just far enough
away TO escape political similar obstacles
Never was railroad project launched with SO
few difficulties confronting it.
Everywhere along the line manufacturers and
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necessitating calculations this score. 1t
will be 'ballasted'' with crushed granite
throughout it's entire length, and l00-pound
steel rails will be used.
Power-houses will be 80 miles apart and will
keep third rail- constantly charged with
5000 electrical horsepower. Every part of the
machinery will be in duplicate, so that no break
down can possibly affect the running of the
high-speed trains.
Some of these power houses are located near
coal mines, the screenings of which be had
at such low prices that the total cost of power
will be greatly reduced thereby. 1t is even con-
templated to use some of the sulphur-laden coal
Of Michigan, coal that sells at a very low
figure because its sulphur destroys ordinary boil
ers. This coal can readily be burned under
boilers of special construction, and produces
power at a cost away below that of power de-
rived from the ordinary steam locomotive. Power
derived from coal through direct burning under
locomotive boiler compares with power pro-
duced from a central station and through elec-
trio motors is to s, and in favor Of cleo
tricity
When it comes to safety, electric power is
SO superior to steam that there is hardly any
comparison at all. The danger from fire is in
significant, the danger from explosion elimi-
mated. and the danger from breakdown due to
crystallization practically done away with. 1t
is well known that constant humping on any
kind Of metal tends to make it crystalline, with
danger from cracking ever present. Everybody
knows how steam locomotive jolts and thumps,
and 1t at once becomes evident why many rail-
road accidents occur steam lines. On cleo
trio lines, the motor being rotary and working
without any humping whatever, it can be
clearly seen how electric transportation increases
n wi
at the highest speed.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

HARRY H. LATHAM. President OF the Latham
Machinery Co. Chicago
ALEX. c. MILLER, former President OF Au-
rora Trust and Savings Bank, Aurora, Ill
HARRY E. PROCUNIER, President of the
Moon Mfg. Co.. Chicago
hon. CHARLES 7. CHERRY. Capitalist. Os-
wego, IL
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company, every print paper mill in the
middle west will be absorbed by one
company.
Illinois Athletic Club Carnival.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 27.-The sec
ond annual athletic meet for charity of
the Illinois Athletic club will be held
at the Coliseum this evening. A very
interesting program has been prepared,
which includes the following events:
Five handicap events five mile run,
sixteen pound shot put, twelve-pOund
shot-put for high and preparatory
schools, pole vault and twO-mile run;
eight scratch events, which range
from a two mile run to a sixty-yard
dash, and include hurdle races and
high jumping; and finally relay races
for grammar school girls, high school
girls, newsbays, university students,
high school boys, grammar school
boys grammar school boys, members
boys, members of the Y. M. C. A. also
for policemen, firemen, letter carriers
and several open races.
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HIGH WATER RECED|NC At sTOCKT( n
Hundreds of Armed Guards Patrol the
levees-Loss of Property Is
Heavy.

STOCKTON, Cal, March 27.-Hun-
dreds of armed guards patrol the levees
in the reclamation districts of the San
Joaquin river 1t is slowly rising, but
il is believed the worst is over. The
lower San Joaquin river is rising but
reclamation districts are not in danger.
At kassOn it is estimated that 5000
acres were flooded this morning. A
thousand head of hogs were drowned
Twenty thousand acres on the west
side near Banta is Inundated The
MOlen family is in danger of drowning
and a launch has been sent to rescue
them. Parts of Stockton are hooded,
but the business section has escaped
The water is now falling in this city
City superintendent of Streets Oscar
Wright went insane from the strain of
fighting the flood this morning. 1t is
believed he will recover.
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Makes It Plain That q Report
Should Soon be Forthcoming.
DIs6UsTED At THE AWFUL EXPENSE
SEATTLE ACCOUNTANTS THIS
AFTERNOON PROMISED RE-
PORT IN TEN DAYS.

Disguised at the expense the city is
being put to and the way the work is
ching drawn out, Mayor Hunt visited
the experts at work on the city's books
at their Office on the top floor of the
Ransom building this afternoon and
blandly inquired when a report might
be expected. Mayor Hunt was accom-
panied by Councilman Cox, chairman
OF the judiciary committee, and it is
said the Seattle accountants were DO
litely informed that it would be ex-
pected in a very short time The ac-
countaints promised that the work
would be wound up and a report made
within 10 days.
THE expert work has gotten to be a
farce and should be wound up at the
earliest possible moment" Mayor Hunt
declared this afternoon "The expense
the city is being put to is something
outrageous. l don't know what the ex-
perts have unearthed, but it seems the
work has progressed far enough so that
a report might be made"
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GLASS OF THE ANClENTS.
The Blowers Of Thebes Were Experts
Many Centuries Ago.

The Blowers Of Thebes Were Experts
Many Centuries Ago.
The glassblowers of ancient Thebes
are known to have been as proficient
in that particular art as is the mosa
scientific craftsman Of the same trade
Of the present day after a lapse OF
forty centuries of SO called progress. y
They are well Acquainted with the
art Of staining glass and are known tc
have produced that commodity in
great profusion and perfection. Ros.
selini gives an Illustration of piece OF
stained glass known to be 1000 years
old, both in tint and design. In this
case the color is struck through the
vitrified structure, and he mentions de,
signs struck entirely in pieces from q
half inch to three-quarters Of an inch
thick, the color being perfectly incor-
porated with the structure of the piece
and exactly the same on both the OBJ.
verse and reverse sides.
The priests of Ptah at Memphis were
adopts in the glassmaker's art, and not
only did they have factories for manu-.
featuring the common crystal variety,
but they had learned the vitrifying OF
the different colors and the imitation
Of precious stones to perfection. Theil
limitations of the amethyst and of the
various other colored gems were SC
true to nature that even now, after
they have lain in the desert sands from
1000 to 1000 years, it takes an expert
to distinguish the genuine article from
the spurious. 1t has been shown that
besides being experts in glassmaking
and glass coloring, they used the dia-
mond in cutting and engraving glass.
In the British museum there is beau.
tiful piece of stained glass, with ar
engraved emblazonment Of the mon.
arch Thothmes Ill, who lived 3,40C
years ago.
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Wa|Ia Wa||a Tannery Will Make
improvements.
MANAGER WEBER BUYING MACHINERY
WILL BE LARGEST ESTABLISH
MENT OF KIND IN SOUTH
EASTERN WASHINGTON

w. H. Weber, manager of the Walla
Walla Tannery, is at present in San
Francisco buying new machinery to
install in his company's tannery, which
is located at the north end of Palouse
street.
The new machinery Mr.. Weber will
buy is the latest of it's kind and its
installation in the tannery will mean
much in the way of making the plant
one of the most modern and up-to-date
in this part of the country.
In addition to having the manage
ment of the Walla Walla tannery Mr.
Weber, along with his father and
brother, is also interested in the Walla
Walla Leather and Shoe Finding COM
pany. This concern does a large re-
tail and wholesale business and is 10
Gated at 10 East Main street.
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Yates Starts Campaign in Chicago.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 27.-Ex-Gov-
ernor Yates, who has been campaign
ing through various parts of the state
in favor of his candidacy for the
United States SenatOrShip, arrived
here today and will begin a thorough
campaign in this city tonight. He in
tends to speak in every one of the
thirty-five wards of the city, and also
in Evanston, Oak Park, Riverside and
several other places in the country
districts. 1t is understood that Mr..
Yates has the solid support of Cover
nor Deneen and the supporters of Gov.
Deneen and that they will make every
effort in Chicago as we'll as in the
rest of the state to insure the election
of Ex-Governor Yates to the United
States senate.
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TODS QUIT FINE HOME.
Banker and His Wife Abandon Splen-
did Home in Quest of Health.

GREENWICH, Conn.,, March 27.-J
Kennedy Tod, the banker, and his
wife, are wooing beneficent, health
giving nature, and have got as close
to her as they can. They have de-
serted their splendid home, Innis Ar
den, at Sound beach, on the shore OF
Long Island sound, and are leading
the simplest life in two little rough
shingled cabins. These huts are on
Mr.. Tods great estate, but they are
in a woodland, which if not primeval,
is certainly carefully preserved.
In one cabin dwells Mrs. Tod. VIII.
was Maria Howard Potter, Bishop
Potter's niece. She, who is leader
of society in New York, sleeps on a
bed of boards. In the other hut lives
the banker worth millions There the
civic reformer and philanthropist exists
like trapper in the forest.
A serious surgical operation was
performed on Mrs. Tod a year ago, and
her recovery was very slow.
Il am trying to coax my Wife back
to health, and this camp is one of the
means by which I hope to make her
herself again." said Mr. Tod.
Mrs. TOds health has improved
since she sought Mother Natures en-
brace at the first of the year.
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TO DEFY COURTS.
Single Ownership of Western Mills, Is
Threat Made by Mill Owner.

APPLETON. Wis, March 14-An
trade in the west and a boost of the
price to cents before the year is over
may be the result of the United States
supreme court decision in the general
print paper trust case. This is what
one manufacturer says:
There is no doubt whatever that if
the newspaper publishers win their
fight against the manufacturers, the
mills will go under single ownership
1t cannot be otherwise. With market
conditions as they are, 1t would be
simply impossible to go back to the
old way of each mill scrambling for
orders. 1t is bad enough as it is. And
il has been proven taht the single own
ership principle is feasible, works well
on prices and cannot be attacked in
the courts, so if we cannot have the
that
why. I do not consider myself s
vindictive person as a rule, still must
say that 1 would like to see these pub
fishers paying five cents a pound for
their paper for awhile. and you mark
my word, stranger things have hap
uened in this world than that they
should be paying just that same five
cents before the present year is pass
ed
Several other manufacturers ex-
pressed the same degree of confidence
in the prospective single ownership
scheme and declare there is little CUES
ton IN their mind that if the govern
ment rules against the General PAPER
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THE ATMOSPHERE.
First Attempt to Weigh 1t Was Made
by Aristotle.

First Attempt to Weigh 1t Was Made
by Aristotle.
If we are to believe both legend and
history. the first attempt to weigh air
was that made by Aristotle, the great
Greek philosopher Of the fifth century,
He first weighed an empty goatskin
bag and then inflated it and again put
it in the balances, and because he
found no difference in weight under
the two conditions announced to the
world that air was a substance wholly
without weight
With modern laboratory apparatus
most any high school scholar can dem.
onstrate the fact that a flask Of ten
cubic inches capacity weighs fully
three grains more when filled with al.
than it does after being placed under
the exhaust of an air pump. The nu-
merous experiments that have been
made on the weight of air warrant the
scientists in announcing that the
weight Of the whole terrestrial atmOs-
phere is about equal to that of solid
copper Ual SlAty-tWO mlleS LII ulduetef.
The philosophers have also shown that
the weight of the atmosphere must be
limited to where gravity overcomes the
centrifugal force. If it were Of equal
density throughout its height above the
earth, it could not extend greater alti-
tude than 27,S1S feet, which would
leave about 1000 feet of Mount Ever
est sticking out above the atmosphere
1t is well known fact, however, that
air loses its weight and density as we
ascend from the sea level, and calcula-
tons which have been made on that
basis go to show that there may be a
stratum Of very thin air at height of
1900 miles.
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The Use of Quinine.

People who suffer with the liver and
who get run down in nerve strength
sometimes complain that quinine does
them no good, says a physician. The
reason is this: When quinine passes
into the intestine it is acted on by the
bile and forms with it salt that is
soluble only in a great excess Of bile,
so it passes out Of the system without
entering the blood at all. To prevent
this bilious persons ought to clear out
the bile by good liver pill or saline
purgative before the quinine Is taken.
Even when the liver is not affected 1t
is always best to take such medicines
before using Quinjne.
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Kidney Troubles

are easily relieved and cured in the
beginning, but as the disease grows in
severity We must find a more potent
remedy. Here is where Irving's Bu-
chu Waters excel as a cure. OF course,
they give quick relief, but more than
that they give a sure and lasting cure
They positively purify the blood. Sold
at soc a box.