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The Peoria (Ill.) Star asserts that
the defeat of McCleary shows the peo-
pie take no stock in a man that
stands still, and says the Minnesota
farmers want the present tariff modi-
fed and that they may eventually
line up with "Jim" Hill who wants
reciprocity with Canada. Americans
in Manitoba have seen state lines OBJ
liberated In their own country and
they will demand that the boundary
line shall in like manner be abolished
between Canada and the United
States. Then there comes forward
the st. Paul (Minn.) Dispatch and
welcomes the assistance which Mr..
Hill, with his prominence and great
influence, can bring to the move
ment." The editor believes that If
the United States will meet Canada
half way the Instructions to com.
merce can be removed.
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several years. is famous. From one
central power station over two hun
dred miles Of road are operated. or will
be as soon as the line to Belvidere Is
completed. Electricity at wholesale is
sold to cities and villages along the
route for lighting purposes: electricity
for power Is sold to farmers. Trains
of elegant cars run into Chicago at O
speed which would have seemed i'm
possible few years ago. Passengers
wave good bye to steam trains on a
paralleling railroad. which they pass
easily. A parlor and dining car Is one
of the luxuries which the suburbanites
enjoy going to and from the city, aAd
the railroad seems veritable gold
mine for its owners.
Tne horse car has long since disap.
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cries. this II %n'1 TO hpvs o. ~ o., %.
suit of rcrifcuf vpvs .i, cu 'D'a
n machine to IT," "'~c1' IT, M
take and was g"nqtlv ast1nished 10 soa
Il begin to rotate. = llis rcver-ii,ilty
Of function was rrlic'v dem ols'. '.~'te 1
for t1he frs' ''lrc nj the Vienna expo
sition in 1879
Not until 1870 was 'he first electric
RAILWAY u;'f 'u onorntiou. 'alsing the
current from 2 dv0nup using mod
.ern motor and cgrr''iNg nnssengers
lus rove,'v was ln operation at the
Berlin pvrosH'or "rd we y mile and
twn-tliriy N length. The train con.
sisfe VI s'Hall locomotive and three
small ears. "np llr If carrying TWEEN.
~ pconlc. - r'ache1 speed Of eight
miles IN hour.
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FORT HILL.
December 81, 1905.

December 81, 1905.
Miss Jennie Wilson is visiting her
grandmother, Mrs. Wilson, of near
Locust Grove.
Absalom Null, LOTUS Odonnell and
James Jinkins we're visitors In Balm.
bridge Monday.
Walter Rhoads, of Sinking Spring,
was the guest of s. S. Deardoff
Wednesday.
Henry Countryman visited B. w.
Spargur and family near Carmel Sat-
urday.
Roy Rhoads, of Cliff Range, visited
Ira and Perry Wilson Wednesday.
B. F. Atwell, of Morgantown, is be-
ing entertained by J. B. Turner and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave White visited q.
G. White and family near Turkey
Saturday!and Sunday.
Mrs. Louisa Lawson Is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Laura johnson, of
Beech Flats, this week.
Mrs. Charlie Eubank and children,
of Carmel,i are the guests of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Mace.
Mrs. Myrta Cameron and youngest
son, of Marshall, spent Xmas with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. I. W. Stults.
J.P. Havens and family, Mrs. Re-
hecca Stults and Mrs. Permelia
Kissling and family ate. turkey with
Daniel Butler and family Xmas.
Mrs. Eta Thompson and children
spent Xmas with Mr.. and Mrs. Il. G..
White, of Sinking Spring.
]. L. Butler, wife and daughter
visited VIM. Butler and family at
Sinking Spring Saturday.
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The Cleveland, (O.,) Leader main
tains that "tariff revision and reci-
procity make their appeal most effec.
lively through the comparative figures
of international trade, properly ad-
justed to the relative size and re-
sources of great exporting countries. I"
1t claims that latter making all due
allowances, the foreign commerce of
the United States ought to be greater
than it is. In exports per capita this
country is not near the head of the
list. Argentine beats the United
States badly on that basis"
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ried two passengers at Dover, New
Hampshire.
Then the United States congress be-
came Interested. By special grants
Professor Page of Smithsonian instl-
tute was aided in the construction OF
several forms Of motors. One of them
was used as locomotive and, driven
by a battery of one hundred Grove
elements, was tried April 20, 1851, on
a railroad running from Washington
to Bladensburg A speed of nineteen
miles an hour was developed so great
tnat 1t destroyed the batteries.
Numerous other experiments fol-
lowed, all commercial failures because
the motors We're crude and the source
Of power primary battery. The de-
velopment of the wonderful modern
dynamo was necessary before electric
railroading could become a commercial
success. The first great step was In
1860 when an Italian named Pacinot-
II invented a continuous current dy-
namo. Three years later the first
practical commercial machine for con.
tinuous current operation was made
by Gramme.
still the modern electric car was In
possible. The ''reverslbllity OF func.
ton" had yet to be discovered, invol
wing electrical transmission OF energy
through two machines, one driven by
power and generating electricity; the
other reversing the operation, receiv
Ing electricity and developing me
cnanical power.
Like many other important discoy
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FROM HORSE CAR
TO THE TROLLEY
Story of the Wonderful De-
velopment in Electric
Traction During the
Past Twenty
Years.
PASSING OF STEAM TRACTION
Gradual Elimination Of Distance
Through the Development of
the Electric locomotive
Chicago to New
York In Ten
Hours.

During the summer of 1887, there
appeared in the New York Sun the
following facetious news item:
"rhey tried an electric car on
Fourth avenue yesterday. 1t created
an amount of surprise and consterna-
ton from Third st. to One Hundred
and Seventeenth st. that was some
thing like that caused by the first
steamboat on the Hudson. Small boys
yelled dynamite" and "ratsv and
made similar appreciative remarks un-
ill they were hoarse. Newly-appointed
policemen debated arresting It, but
went no further. The car horses
which were net on the other track
kicked without exception, as was
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About this time Steph"u p. Field
and Thomas Edison in tne United
States began experimenting. In 1880
Edison was operating at Menlo Park
an electric locomotive which pulled
tw, cars.
The First Electric Railroad.
The first regular electric line to he
established was ut Lichterfelde, Ger
many, near Berlin 1t was only nile
and a half In length and opened for
traffic In May 1881. The trains car
ried twenty-six passengers. at maxi
mum speed Of thirty miles an hour.
The first electric car to he operated
regularly in the United States was in
stalled by Deft on the Hamden branch
Of the Baltimore Union Passenger
Railway IN August, 1886. That
was barely twenty years ago. So
great as the skepticism Of the public
and railway men generally that the con-
tract under which the road was built
withheld payment one year so that 1t
might be determined whether the cars
would run. mo one but knave or
a fool would undertake such thing"
said a well known scientist at the
time. Scientists sometimes have trouble
keeping up with the procession. About
the same time small cars We're .oper-
ated by Van Derpoele at South Bend,
Ind, followed by other small roads In
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miles OF electric railroad track and
only about one hundred Motors and
motor cars. In 1905 there We're nearly
thirty thousand miles Of electric track
I'm the United States alone.
This change was not accomplished
without opposition. encouragement
and financial difficulties. Mr.. Sprague
hin self. who was so potent factor In
working this change. has told the story
Of his first important contract. In the
spring of 1887, the Union Passenger
Railway company of Richmond. Va,
engaged him TO build nm electric rail-
way The first car was run out one
night while the skeltical people slept.
to make sure II could climb the hills.
II started out In blHzc of glorv and
ignominiously was towed back again
by four big m,fies. But Sprgu per
sisted until on Feb. 2. 1SSS, In n
drizzling rain. the road opened for
business.
IRON that time forward the future
Of electric railroadIne was assured and
events moved rapidly. City arrer cir,
adopted the new motive powor: horse
cars becane things Of the past: In
terurhan roads hecan to gridron the
country everywhere. md In each In
stance cnn,nprcinl snccpas was
scored. Electric interurban lines hav,
been money makers from the start
| The greatest developrent has beer
IN the east; hut thu west IL not fal
her'nd. The Aurorn. Elgln and chi
cago Electric railway tthe third-rai
SYSTEM which has been In operation
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peared. VIII the iron horse. the great
steam locomotive. he supplanted also? q?
THIS question occurs to all who can
see the significance Of passing events.
Probably not for many years to come.
as far as heavy freight traffic is con.
cerned. because steam is especially ap.
plicable to the hauling of freight. But
the action Of the New York Central In
electrlfying thirty-fve miles Of its road
leading out of New York. and the
popular agitation for similar improve
ment In nicago and elsewhere. woul |
seem to point to time not far distant
when electric railroads will connect
distant cities and greatly shorten the
hours Of travel.
Chicsgo to New York In Ten Hours.
In fact such railway already Is
being built between Chicago and New
York by the Chicago New York Elec-
trio Air Line Railroad company, OF
Cilicago. This company. headed by q
group OF practical railroad men. pro.
poses to run limited trains. making not
more than three stops, through to New
i ork or Chicago. In ten hours. The
thought fairly takes ones breath away
at first. but the project considered
soberly seems practical enough. and
certainly Is "a consummation devoutly
10 be wished" The work OF grading
began Sept. near LaPortc, Ind.
AS the new road will bs an air line.
with few curves. the route surveyed
Is 100 miles shorter than the Pennsyl.
vania '.Short Line, and $50 miles
shorter than the Lake Shore and
New York Central each OF which runs
trains covering the distance In eighteen
hours. Taking into consideration the
shorter route Of the Air Line, this Is
equivalent to q fourteen-hour service.
With low grades, straight track and
no grade crossings, the seventy-tive
ndles an our average necessary to a
ten-hOur service ought easily to be
maintained. Even on the first class
steam roads of today ninety miles an
hour Is not uncommon for short dis
hnces.
The Scientific American of Feb. 1S,
1905, speaking editorially Of the New
York Central experiment, says. "The
success Of this installation, Of which
there can be no doubt whatever, marks
the hrst step In the gradual substi-
tuition Of the electric for the steam
locomotive In the operation Of long dis
tance express trains" The Chicago
New York project may be regarded the
second step.
Y Mr.. Sprague himself says that speed
Is "a matter of finance" "What then
will determine the future?" he asks
"Chiefy the financial factor, as 1t must
the future of any other great industrial
problem. When savings In operation
and the increased return for traffic
will more than pay fair dividend on
money invested for electrical equip
ment, will trunk lines be operated by
electricity"
Professor Charles p. Steinmetz, one
Of the greatest authorities on cleo
tricity, is quoted as saying, There Is
no limit to the speed that may be de-
veloped In electric traction--that is,
there Is no limit up to 150 or 200 miles
an hour. Higher speed than that the
car wheels could not stand. They
would dy to pieces from centrifugal
force. Not only can a speed Of 120
miles an hour he maintained on a
train equipped with electricity, but In
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Edison Electric Locomotive Operated K.

Edison Electric Locomotive Operated Ez-
psrimentaiiy at Mcnio Park. 1880.
Windsor, Canada: Appleton, Wis; Port
Huron, Mich; Scranton, Pa, and
Montgomery, Ala. In the autumn Of
1884 Frank l.. Sprague. whose name
Is inseparably connected with electric
traction, began to attract attention
with his motors.
Twenty Years Of Achievement.
At the teginnirg OF 1887 there were
In the whole world less than sixty
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natural. over an invention which
threatens to relegate them to sausage
factory"
That was less than twenty years
ago. Today the New York Central
Railroad Company is expending $780,
00O, 900 In the electriflcation OF the first
tnlrty-five miles Of its system, and the
car horses were long ago relegated to
the boneyard, II not to the sausage
factory"
They" have done marvellous things
since the increasing knowledge Of
electricity opened up new world Of
achievement. and we have scarcely
crossed the threshold. In 1880 the elec-
trio car was n dream In 1890. an ex-
pertinent; in 1900, great and wonder
ful fact which Is revolutionizlng pas
senger transportation and will enable
human beings 10 move from place to
place twice as fast rs they do at pres
ent.
Born in Old Vermont.
When in 1884 Thomas Davenport, Of
Brandon, VT, ran toy motor mounted
on wheels on a small circular railway,
the modern electric railroad with Its
possible speed of over one hundred
miles an hour was born.
In 1888 Robert Davidson, OF Aber.
deem, Scotland, built an electric loco
motive which actually reached a speed
of four miles an hour on the Edin-
burgh-G Glasgow railway. Nine years
later Professor Moses G. Farmer op-
Grated an experimental car which car
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RAINSBORO.
Decem ber 81, 1905.


spent last week here with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs Wu. Auckerman, re-
turning ON Saturday.
Mr.. and Nrs j. G.. Harrington, of
Pittsburg, Pa, we're the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Harrington the
latter part of the week.
Mrs. Doc Cooper has been spending
the holidays with her parents at
Nipgen.
Miss Ada Baker returned Saturday
from several days visit with her sis
ter, Mrs. McWilliams, near Green
field.
John Watts and J G Redkey went
to Marshall last Saturday night to
attend the X. of P. lodge at that
place.
Neville Carper, of New Petersburg,
spent Monday mig hit and Tuesday with
MIR. and Mrs. ]. b. Davis.
Mrs. VIM. Wright has been suffer.
ing for several days from an attack
of la grippe.
MIR. and Mrs. Burch Hixson enter
tained with a turkey dinner ON Christ
mas at which thirtv-two relatives
we're present.
Miss Grace Epperson has been
spending the holidays with friends at
Washington @. Il.
A reception was given at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. benson Ladd last
Tuesday In honor of their son Vernon
and bride.
Miss Beatrice Davis, of New Vienna,
spent part of last week here with her
parents. Rev. and Mrs. J. q. Davis.
Mrs. e. B. Roads and daughter,
Martha Lydia, of Hillsboro, have been
the guests of Mrs. VIM. Browning the
past week.
Mrs. Mary Clark, of Bainbridge,
visited here last week with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. ]. A. Beaver.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. e. Upp entertained
with turkey dinner on Christmas
day.
Misses Mae and Locia Davis return
ed to their home in Cincinnati last
Wednesday after spending several
days here with their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL Evans gave a din
ner last Tuesday in honor of James
Evans and bride.
The second quarterly meeting of
the M. e. church will be held at Mar
shall on the third Saturday and Sun
day of January. The presiding elder
will be present on both days.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Mccoy, who had
spent several months In the western
states for the benefit of the latter's
health, returned here last Saturday
reaching the home of her father,
Marshall Montgomery, at 8 p. m. At
3 O'Clock the next morning the spirit
of Mrs Mccoy had taken its flight.
The funeral will be held this after
noon at the Friends church. Our
deepest sympathy goes out to the
bereaved husband and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Grim, of New
Petersburg, spent Christmas here
with Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Stalker.
Miss Matte Douglass, of Hillsboro,
spent part of last week here the guest
of Rev. and Mrs. ]. T. McColm at the
parsonage,
Misses Leona and Ella Holmes, of
the Point, visited Mrs. Vernon Holmes
part of last week.
CMr. and Mrs. Elisha Beaver enter.
tained with a family dinner on Christ
mas day.
For hue tailoring call on Phil
| Vuvx-a m
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my opinion II is an entirely feasible
scheme from the commercial point Of
view"
At any rate, the world seems on
the eve OF great things, and no scien-
tlst dares say today as was said twen-
ty years ago. "a man Is knave or a
fool" The attitude Of the American
public is one OF faith ana expectancy.
best expressed by recent remark Of
an old lady In her last sickness:
II don't want to die.v she said. II
want to see what they are going ts
do"
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A Happy New Year Is our wish for
each and very reader of the NEWS
HERALD.
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Don't Miss This Sale.
Corner High and Walnut SITS.

Katie-I never gave you any en-
couragement.
Ernest-Ye you did; you led me to
believe that your father was walthy.
Jester.
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CARMEL.
December 81, 1906.

DSSChioCi oit ioOus
A happy New Year to all,
Charley McCoppin is visiting with
his wife and children at the home of
her parents In Springfield.
Mrs. c. L. Eubanks and children,
Geneva and Paul, are spending few
days with her parents nearlFort Hill.
Will Keelor leaves for Arkoe, Pike
county, tomorrow to resume his
school work after one week of vaca-
tion.
The family of L. D. Mccoy we're
called to Overman Monday to attend
the funeral of Mrs. VIM. Mccoy.
George Burbee, of Wilmington, was
a visitor here during the holidays.
Master James Penn, of Hillsboro,
visited at the home of his grand
parents, J. T. Penn, and wife, during
his vacation.
Mrs. Martha Butler, widow of the
late Albert Butler, died quite sudden.
ly on last Monday night at her home
In the vicinity of Foft Hill. Iuterment
the following Thursday in Pike coun.
ty below Latham
ID N. Evans. of Hillsboro, was de.
iightfully entertained at the home oi
n. N. Euhanks last Wednesday night
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That's the house the Doctor built,
The biggest house you see
Thank goodness he don't get our
money,
For we take HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea. GARRETT &sAYREs.
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The sultan of Turkey has taken to
importing birds from England by the
carload. Among them are song birds,
a. we'll as other that are simply useful
40 enemies Of destructive insects.
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mamma, may l 60 out and play
tag with the girlsp"
"Certainlv not, Louise. You've got
to stay In and use your exerciser."-
Judge.
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Gentleman--I was good friend of
your late husband. Haven't you per-
haps something which Icould have az
a memento of him.
Inconsolate widow-What would
you think of me?-Figaro.
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For fue tailoring call on Phil
Themes West Main street.
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ADVERTISING RATES
Will be Made Known on Application.
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"Bilkins. you're a friend of mine
amt vou?"
"Yes; hut haven't any money just
now. ."-Louisville Courier Journal.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-08-31

eldest eleven and the youngest still
in her fourth year.
Even that was not cause for sor-
row altho the children were poorly
clad. We noticed the buttons
bursting on the waist of the two
girls as their 1.-THE young bodies
had out-grown the clothes.
Poverty is no disgrace but is
often inconvenient. We could find
some brightness in the cloud
lowering over the sick man, until
we learned the real truth-the
cause for the above mentioned con-
ditions. The wife of this man, the
mother of those little children
"tell it not in Gath, had left
them to their fate-gone with some
scoundrel of a man who will later
on shake her off as he would the
dust from under his feet. The
shock and grief over the wife's
perfidy had completely Frustrated
this man and strangers were caring
for him, hoping that a change of
scene and associations might restore
him to health, bodily and mentally.
"FIorence, is in the Door Of
Hope. She went there On her own
accord, saying she was tired of the
life that leads down to death and
henceforth would follow the Bible
injunction to Ego and sin no more. "
The above was whispered in our
ears as we waited at the depot
except that we have given fic-
titious name.
We have in our possession the
letter that she had written her
mother just before the razor, with
which she attempted to take her
own life, was snatched from her.
The unfortunate girl was i'll the
house of the scarlet woman, and
desperate. She has now found in
that Door Of Hope a safe refuge
from temptation. All Of the above
are incidents that came to our
notice within less than one hours
time.
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Tragedies Of A Day
In A Reporters Life.

A news editor or reporter, if at
all inclined to see the pathetic side
of life, meets with all the real live
issues involved in a thrilling novel,
boiled down of course, almost any
day, more especially if mingling
with the surging crowd at the
depot.
Thursday, on our way to meet
train No. 1, A. B. & A., we heard
of the death of that railroad en-
ploye and saw the casket being
carried to the station. 1t was near
train time, and we were without
flowers, much to our regret.
Just as we stepped on the plat
form a little girl met us with box
ofbeautifulroses with a, ''for your
railroad boys Mother Enterprise. :"
Out of that box of roses we dec
grated the railroad bride and groom
who were starting off On the jour
ney of life with nothing but happi-
ness in prospect; other roses were
laid on the casket of the railroad
young man whose life on earth
went out among strangers.
Then we started to decorate the
living railroad boys, when one
Engineer with a few streaks of
silver in his hair, said, "Mother,
if you don't care we will give these
flowers to my babies" Those
babies proved to be two little girls,
three and six years old who had no
one in the world left to love and
care for them but the engineer,
their grandfather. There was an
extra note of pathos in his voice
when he remarked, "they haven't
even a grandmother-nobody but
me, "-as he looked down at them
clinging to his pantaloons. When
the conductor helped the little
orphans on the train it was with
unusual tenderness and the look of
Heaven in his face.
Another depot incident heart
breaking in its finality, was hus
band and father borne on a cot to
be carried away to friends.
To be sure that in itself was
nothing so terrible but lowering
near him were four children the