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The Ceredo Advance.
T. T. McDOUGAL. Publisher.
CEREDO. : WEST VIRGINIA.
CURRENT TOPICS.
Grain crop of Panada northwest in
placed at 100,000.000 bushels.
E\cry week $li0,000 worth of United
States typewriters go to England.
1 he demand for electrical ventila
tors in India is ahead of the supply.
The crack scholars of Harvard ’01
were Freund, Hauer and Petersen
two Germans and a Swede.
1 he inhabitants of tin- Province ol
Ontario writ** more letters than those
of all the rest of Canada.
The number of Protestant Chris
tians in Ceylon lias increased in fif
teen years from 440,7-'ll to 7>5,611.
Japan lias two imperial universities
—one at Toyo, the other at Kioto.
1 lie latter is only three years old.
William Dorsey Jelks, the new gov
ernor of Alabama, is a lawyer by pro
fession and has mude a fortune by
his practice.
It is claimed that Joseph (iaspard
Chaussgras de Dery, a French enpi
lieer, made 4he first maps of Detroit
in 1740 and 1754.
Mosquitoes sometimes live GO days
in captivity. Nobody has been able to
find out how loop* they live when they
are not in captivity.
Match making, once the most peril
ous of handicrafts, has become per
fectly safe through the discovery of
Itmorphous phosphorus.
A curious criminal law exists in
Greece. A man who is there sentenced
to death awaits two years before the
execution of the sentence.
Greater New York, although over
1,500,000 less in population than Great
er London, covers an area of 509
square miles, a world's record.
\n elprtrical generating plant al
most ns large as the Great Niagara
1 alls plant will soon be in operation
at the Kalis of Glomen, Norway.
There are at least three varieties
of dogs that never bark—the Austra
lian dog. the Egyptian shepherd dog
und the “lion-headed dog” of Thibet.
Some of the more expert railroad
men in the country believe that the
limit of sustained speed with the ex
isting style of locomotives has been
reached.
Kred ( . Easton, son of the late J.
C. Easton, a retired millionaire, will
Ij’ive $100,000 toward the erection of a
new 1’resbyteriun college in
Crosse, Wis.
Last month, on the news of our
corn crop troubles, England Imported
from producing countries 4“ per cent
more of that cereal than in the same
month of 1900.
. The umbrella has taken a firm hold
upon the native of India, or, at any
rate, upon the Bengali. No less than
3.000,000 umbrellas are imported into
the country every year.
Mont Blanc has for tin* first time
seen a fully equipped company of sol
diers on its summit. Alpine Chasseurs
made the ascent and the usual salute
was fired at Shamonix.
One (if the most brilliant entertain
ments ever seen in Constantinople was
1hat recently given bv Mr. Irishman,
the American minister, in honor of
his (laughter's birthday.
In her sham maneuvers the English
navy has lost two destroyers and oth
er vessels have been crippled. One
may imagine wh it would happen to
the English navy in real war.
Ih** jarrow wood, which grows in
Australia, is almost the only kind
known to the lumbermen which ef
fectively resist the depredations of in.
sects. Not an insert will touch it.
Helen Gladstone, daughter of the
great liberal, has become warden of
the Woman's University Settlement in
Southwark, London, and will soon
lca\e Cambridge to live in that dreary
slum.
Naval Cadet Herman Smith Turner,
of Maryland, recently appointed, ha*
been admitted into the naval acad
emy at Ann.ipoli*;, despite th«* fact
that, while over six feet tall, he
weighs but ninety-five pounds.
I he ( nnaduin government is in tail
ing the Marconi wireless telegraphic
system in the Gulf of St. Lawrence,
and the steamer Tyrian has been de
spatched to establish the first sta
tion a*. West Point. Anticosti.
>"Tr,r of ♦n«* stories told concerning
1lif sudden fortunes aerjuird down
in the new oil fields of Texas make
Jike tales of old California and the
new gold digging* in the Klondike
tar".#- nad we.-.! in the comparison.
Wdiiatu C. Whitney will not allow
his gnat ;:irl in the Xdirondaclrs to
if t he ordinary way.
lnsteao he e »: trees of over ten incii
**' i:i 'linen, -, r. leaving the «ma!ler
ones •„ grow, and thus always |,a- a
handsome forest.
( areful observation* have becui
made in ord* r to find out which col
or?, for lit iform* present t|»e West
mark-* for the enemy's shot. and it
has »>een found that the most fatal
erdor is red. rifle gr,, ,, coming next,
brown third, while Austrian bluish,
grey is the least fatal.
Of the 2.080.000.000 bushels of Jar.
ley produced by the civilized cotin.
tries of the world llnssia produces hv
far the largesr amount. Next in or
der comes Austria, which is followed
by Germany, the J'mted States. Kn
gland and Spain.
The statistic of the strikes in
1 ranee for .fupe hate jtjsf been pub*
lished. In nil the month gave Irfrth
to forty-seven, while the total for the
first six months of the year was :;0fl
The some period In 1000 yielded 475,
which shows an agreeable falling oil
fn the discontent of the vy*rki„R
classes.
IIE ENTERS A DENTAL.
Sermon Regarding the Diminishing
of Sunday Audiences.
Or. Tnlmniif rrr«rnl» Sonar Ilnrd
Fiifin Shomlng That Cbarrh At*
tendance In Anirrlcn In .Not
In Uecndriivr,
[Copyright, 1901, by Louis KlopsCTi, N. Y.J
Most encouraging to ull < hristian
workers i>, this discourse of lJr. Tai
inage while denying the accuracy of
statistics which represent Sunday au
Jieuces us diminishing. Text, lie
brews 10:25, “Not forsaking the as
sembling of ourselves together.”
Startling statements have been made
in many of the pulpits and in some of
he religious newspapers. It is heard
jver and over again that church at
tendance in America is in decadence. 1
Jcny the statements by presenting
loine hard faets. No one will dispute
the fact that there are more churches
n America than ever before, out* de
nomination averaging two new
churches every day of the year. The
law of demand and supply is us inex
orable in the kingdom of God as it is
n the world. More churches supplied
argues more church privileges demand
ed. More banks, more bankers; more
factories, more manufacturers; more
ships, more importers; more churches,
more attendants.
In all our cities within a few years
.'hurches have been built large enough
to swallow up two or three of the old
time churches. I cannot understand
with what kind of arithmetic and slate
pencil a man calculates w hen he comes
to the conclusion that church attend
ance in America is in decadence. Take
the aggregate of the number of people
who enter the house of God now and
compare it with the aggregate of the
people who entered the house of God
25 years ago, and the present attend
»nee is four. to one. The facts are
most exhilarating instead of being de
pressing. That man who presents the
opposite statistics must have been
most unfortunate in his church ac
quaintance.
i ou are noi to argue adversely he
■*ause here and there a church is de
pleted. Churches have their day.
Sometimes merchandise will entirely
occupy a neighborhood and crowd out
the churches and families ordinarily
attendant upon them. Sometimes a
church perishes through internecine
strife. Put there are no facts to over
throw the statement that I have made
n regard to the increasing attendance
upon the house of God. Now, I am
ready to admit, as every intelligent
man will admit, that there are
thurches which have been depleted,
*nd it is high time that a sermon be
Treached fur the benefit of young men
who are just entering the Gospel min
«try and for the warning of prosper
tus churches as to what are the causes
>f decline in any case. If merchandise
crowd out a church, that cannot l»c
helped, but under all other circum
stances decadence in church attend
ance is the fault either of the church
or of the pastor.
Churches are often cleared of their
audiences by the attempt to transplant
•he modes of the past into the pres
ent. The modes and methods of £0
years ago are nn more appropriate for
o-dav than the modes and methods of
to-day will lie appropriate for .".o years
hence. I)r. Kirk. Dr. MeElroy, Dr, Ma
son. Dr. I)c Witt, Dr. Vermilyea and
hundreds of other men just as good
is they were never lacked audiences,
because they were abreast of the time
n wh.eh they lived. People will not
be interested in what we sav unless
we understand the spirit of the day in
which we live. All the woe-begonish
statistics nre given by those who are
trying in our time to work with the
worn-out. machinery of the past times.
Such men might just as well throw the
furnaces out of our church basements
and substitute the foot stoves which
our grandmothers used to carry with
them to meeting, and thr< w out our
organs and our cornets and take the
ild-fa^hioned tuning fork, striking it
on the knee and then lifting it to the
»ar to catch the pitch of the h.vrnn,
and might as well throw out our mod
ern platforms and modern pulpits and
substitute the wineglass pulpit, up
which the minister used to climb t ft the
dir/.v height of Mont Plane solitaries*
and then go in out of sicht and shut
the door after him. When you can
get the great m.i<*es of the people to
fake passage from Albany to PufTnlo
in stntfe coach or canal boat in prefer
ence to the lightning « xpre«* train
wh'ch fb.es it in four hour*, then you
can get the great rna««*e. ,,f the j’.eo
pie to go to a church half » century be
hind the time.
The trouble begins away back n the
rheological • 'vninarie-. It is a shame
that larger pros ion |« r,uf made f..r
mini'ter* of religion, for the *-iek and
the aped and the infirm who have worn
themselves out in the service of God.
We have navi] .asylum* and soldiers*
asylum* for men who fought <»n land
and *ea for our country when these
men have become aged or crippled. and
it i* a shame that larger provision is
not made for the good soldier* of .levus
Christ who hate worn them*rlvp* out
In battling for the Lord Mm „f
provision in that respect m ike a tend
ency to turn our theological seminaries
info hospital for *»e-k and aped and
infirm ministers. When a man begins
to go t! »wn. they give him the title of
I>. I>. by way of resuscitation. If that
fail-, then the tendency is to elect him
to a profcssorsh p in some fhelogical
seminary. There are grand exceptions
to the rule, but it is aften the ease that
the professorate is a theological sem
inary i« occupied by some minister of
the Gospel who, not being able to
preach, is set io teach others how Up
preach. In more cases than one the
poorest speaker in the faculty is the
professor of elocution. We want m-ore
wide-awake, more) able-bodied, sole
minded men, more enthusiastic men in
our theological seminaries and in the
professorate* men like Addison Alex
ander, who could during the week
teach young men the theory of preach
ing and then on Sunday go into the pul
pit and with the thunder and light
ning of Christian eloquence show them
how. What would you thiuk of a fac
ulty of unsuccessful merchants to
train young merchants or a faculty of
unsuccessful lawyers to train young
lawyers? It is often the case that
theological seminaries cut a man and
clip him and square him and mold him
*nd bore him and twist him until all
the individual is gone out of him and
he is only a poor copy of a man who
was elected to n professorate because
he could not preach. We want less
dead wood in the theological cpnjj.
nar.es and more flaming evangels.
At a meeting of tin* general assem
bly of the Presbyterian church of the
I nited States a clergyman accus
tomed on th* Sabbath to preach to
an audience of 200 or 200 people, in an
audience room that could hold 1,500,
was appointed to preach a sermon on
how to reach the masses. I am told
the incongruity was too much for the
risibilities of many of the clergy in
the audience. Now, a young man
coming out rrotn such bedwarfing in
fluences, how can he enter into the
wants and the woes and the sympa
thies of the people who want on the
Lord's day a practical Gospel that
will help them all the week and help
them forever?
Young ministers are told they must
preach Christ and Him crucified. Yes,
but not as an abstraction. Many a
minister has preached Christ and
Him crucified in such a way that he
preached an audience of 500 down to
200, and from 200 to 100, and from 100
to 50, and from f.0 to 20, and on down
until there was little left save the
sexton, who was paid to stay until
the service was over and lock up.
There is a grea- deal of cant about
Christ and Him crucified. It is not
< nrist and Him crucified na an ab
straetion, but as ag Omnipotent sym
pathy applied to all the wants and
woes of our immortal nature—a
( hrist who will help 11s in every do
mestic, social, financial, political, na
tional struggle—a (’hrist for the par
lor, a ('hrist for the nursery, a Christ
for the kitchen, a Christ for the barn,
a ( hrist for the Street, a Christ for
the store, a Christ for the banking
house, a ('hrist for the factory, a
Christ for the congressional assem
bly, a ('hrist. for the courtroom, a
Christ for every trial and every emer
gency and ever perturbation.
It is often the ense that the dif
ficulty begins clear back in the home
circle with misapprehension as to
which child ought, to be consecrated
: to the ministry. John is a keen, bright
1 boy. He is good at a bargain. When
| be trades at school, he always gets
the best of it. Make him a merchant.
He will soon gather n fortune and go
right up to take his place among the
commercial princes. George has
great cerebral development. Chrono
logically. language is large. Make
him a lawyer. He will argue his way
to the front, and he will take his
place among the Mansfields and the
Storys. Henry has a large girth at
the chest and is military in his step
and hearing. Send him to West, Point.
We shall see him yet a brigadier gen
eral. William is fond of sketching
ships, and he knows ns milch about
a vessel ns an old sailor. Make him a
shipbuilder. The vessel that he builds
will successfully wrestle with the
Carihoean whirlwind. Aleck is not
very well. He has never had very
good digestion. Since that last ma
larial attack his spleen is enlarged,
lie has a morbid way of looking at
things. He will sit for hours look
ing at one figure in the carpet. His
manners are so mild, so soft, so gen
tle, so affectionate, so Heavenly, and
he cries easily. Make him a minister.
Now, my friends, that is a great mis
take. If you want to consecrate one
of your sons to the Gospel ministry,
take the one widest awake, the
brawniest, the most brilliant, the
most irresistible, the most potent. A
tremendous vork owns before a pro
fession whose one object is to lift
the nations toward God and prepare
( them for Heaven.
Ah. my friends, churches will he
largely at feruled just in proportion
i as we ministers can meet their
wants, meet their sufferings, meet
their bereavements and meet their
sympathies. If there he n church
with small help, small audience, medi
mn neip. medium audience; large
help, large audience. If there l»e a
family in n city and three depots of
bread ami one depot has 100 loaves
and another 500 loaves and auuther
depot 10.000 loaves, the depot that
has 100 loaves will have applicant*,
tnc depot that has 500 loaves will
have far more applicants, the depot
that has 10,000 ioaves will have
throngs, throngs, throngs.
Oh, my brethren in the Christian
ministry, we urn t somehow get our
shoulders under the burden of the
people on the Lord's day and give
them a good stout lift, and we can do
| if. VVc have it all our own wav. It
a great pity if with the floor clear
; and no interruption, we cannot dur
ing the course of an hour get our
j hymn or our prayer or our sermon
under such momentum we can. by the
help of find, lift the peeplc, body.
| mind and soul, clear out of their sins,
temptations and troubles
We must make our ehurehes mag
nets to draw the people thereunto, so
that n man will feel uneasy if he doe*
not go to church, saying: "I wish I
had gone this morning I wonder if
I can't dress yet and get, there in
time ft, is 1! o'clock; now they are
singing It is half past 11; now they
are preaching. I wonder when the
folks will he home to tell us what
was said, what has been going on.”
When the impression is confirmed
that our ehurehes. by architecture, by
music, by sociability and by utriuoii,
shall be made the most sMraetlf)
place o.n earth, then we will want
twice as many churches a» we have
now, twice as large, and then they
will not half accommodate the people.
I say to the young men who are en
tering the ministry, we must put on
more force, more energy and into our
religious services more vivacity if we
want the people to come. You look
into a church court of any denomi
nation of Christians. First you will
find the men of large common sense
land earnest look. The education of
I their tninds, the piety of their
1 hearts, the holiness of their lives,
qualify them for their work. Then
■ you will find in every church court
of every denomination a group of
men who utterly amaze you with the
fact that such semi-imbecility can
get any pulpits to preach in! Those
arc the men who give forlorn sta
i tisfics about church decadence. Frogs
j never croak in running water; al
1 ways in stagnant. Hut 1 say to all
Christian workers, to all Sunday
school teachers, to all evangelists, to
all ministers of the Gospel, if we
want our Sunday schools and our
prayer meetings and our churches
to gather the pimple we must fresh
en up.
Why should we go away to cot an
illustration of the vicarious suffering
of Jesus ( hoist when at Hloomfield,
N. J., two little children were walk
ing on the rail track and a train was
coming; but. they were on a bridge
of trestlework. nnd the little girl
took her brother and let him down
through the trestlework as gently as
she could toward the water, very
carefully and lovingly ami cautious
ly* so that he might not be hurt in
the fall and might be picked up by
those who were standing near bv;
while doing that the train struck
her, nnd hardly enough of her body
was left to gather into a funeral
casket .* What wns that? Vicnrious
suffering. Like Christ. Hang for oth
Woe for others. Suffering for
others. Death for others. What is
the use of our going away off to find
nn illustration in past ages when in
Michigan a mail carrier on horse
back, riding on, pursued by those
flames which had swept over a hun
dred miles, saw an old man by the
roadside, dismounted, helped the old
man on the horse, saying: “Now,
whip up and get away?” The old
man got away, but the mail carrier
perished. Just like Christ dismount
inp from the glories of Heaven to
Pl*t- us on the way of deliverance,
then falling back in the flames of
sacrifice for others. Pang for others.
Woe for others. Death for others.
Vicarious suffering. What is the use
of our going away off in ancient his
tory to find an illustration of the
fact that it is dangerous to defy (Jod
when in the Adirondacks 1 saw a
flash of lightning and bolt so vivid
I said: “That struck something very
near'.’ ’ A few hours afterward we
found that two farmers that Monday
morning had been seated under a
tree, the one boasting how that the
day before—on the Lord’s day—he
had got his hay in and so cheated
the Lord out of that part of the time
anyhow, and both of them laughing
over the achievement by which they
had wronged the Lord of His holy
day. when the lightning struck one
dead instantly, and the other had
been two weeks in bed when we left
the Adirondacks and has become nn
invalid. I suppose, for life. He did
not make as much out of the Lord as
he thought he <1 id. Was it any less
an illustration for my soul because
j * met ♦bp clergyman on his way home
from the funeral, and he told me of
the facts and said the body of the
man who had been destroyed was
black with the electricity?
O Christian workers, we have got
to freshen tip. What is the use of
our going back in the Christian clas
sics to find an illustration of the vic
torious Christian deathbed when my
personal friend, Alfred Cookman, a
few years ago went away in as im
perial grandeur as did Kdward Pay
son? Is it any less an illustration to
me and to you because I met him «
few weeks before in front of Trinity
church, Broadway, ami I said:
“Cookman, you look as if you were
working too hard?" Where in all
'the classics is there such a story as
I that of Cookman when, in his last
moment, he cried: "1 am sweeping
through the gates washed in the
blood of the Lamb?”
Oh. fellow Christ in n worker*, w hu t i®
the use of our being stale and obsolete
and ancient when all around us are
thc'C evidences of (lod's grace, (rod’*
deliverance, find's mercy and find’s
wisdom? We have gnt to freshen up
in our sermons, freshen up in our
songs, freshen up in our /cal, f re Mini
Up in our consecration, and if wc dr# it.
my brethren and sisters, we will no I
more have to com* people to come to
church than if you throw corn on the
ground yon have to coax piircnns to
come and rat it. no mure than you
would have to coax a fired horn local
oats you throw in hi* manger. Yes,
we must freshen up in our Sunday
schools and in our prayer meetings
and iri our pulpits.
I? is high time that the church of
flod stopped writ ing apologies for * he
church, l/ct tlie men who are on th*
outside, who despise religion, write the
apologies If any people do not want
the church, they need not have if. It
is a free country. If any man doe*
not want the Oos|h>I, he need not have
it. It is a free country Hut you go
out. O people <>l (jod, and give the (ios
pel to the millions of America who do
want it! It i* high time to atop skir
mishing and tiring on a genet .it engage
ment. I want to Jive to sec the Ar
mageddon. all the armies of Heaven
and hell in battle array, for I know offr
conqueror on the white horse will gajB
the day. I,el tfie church of (Jod he de
voted to nothing else, but go tight or
to this conquest.
G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.
tVuuirn's Relief Corps and the Na
tional Mexican War Veterans
llelU Sessions.
Cleveland, O.. Sept. 11.—The naval
veterans took first place in the festiv
ities attendant upon the Orand Army
of the ltepublic encampment Tuesday.
The 87th anniversary of Oliver Hazard
Perry’s historic triumph on Lake
Lrie was fittingly celebruted in a
grand parade of naval veterans niul
u naval display upon the lake.
At Central armory Tuesday night
th** Union ex-Prisoners of War held
their 29th annual reunion. The ar
mory auditorium was packed to the
doors.
At a naval dog-watch in Gray’s
armory the principal speaker of The
night was (apt. Richmond 1*. Hob
son, of Merrimac fame. Uapt. Hob
son was enthnusiastically received
by the large audience.
President McKinley's old regini**nt,
llie 23d Oiiio, in which he enlisted
as a private in Company G. in 1801,
and which had for its commander
Col. Liitherford lb Hayes, another
president, held its annual reunion
Tuesday at the Chamber of Commerce
auditorium. Over 300 men attended,
which made the largest gathering of
the regiment in ten years.
Cleveland, O., Sept. 12.—The sur
viving veterans of the greatest war
in all thi; annals of history, the
Grand Army of the ltepublic, have
again responded to the bugle call
and Wednesday fell into line as they
were wont to do in the dark days of
the civil war.
It is estimated that nearly half a
million people were spectators of *he
magnificent pageant. The column
was over eight miles in length, and
was splendidly handled, the column
moving steadily and with scarcely a
halt or break until the entire line
had passed the reviewing stand.
Cleveland, O., Sept. 13.—The first
day of the national convention of the
Grand Army of the ltepublic was
taken up with the reading of the re
ports by the commander-in-chief,
adjutant general, chaplain and the
various commit ices.
Commander-in-Chief Rassieur, in a
spirited address, severely arraigned
Pension Governor Evans upon his ad
Juinisfrntica of the affairs ot the
pension bureau. His complaint em
braced alleged unfairness and de
tdiction of duty in office. Senator
Haw'ey announced liis intention of
lighting any attack made upon Com
missioner Evans. He expressed ihe
fullest confidence in the commissioner
to rectify any existing evils in time
and counseled moderation in the
case.
The Woman’s Relief corps, auxil
iary to the Grand Army, held the
first session of their annual con
vention rhursday. The address of
the national president and the adop
tion r*f the reports of other national
officers and of the various committees
consumed the first day’s session.
The National Mexican War Veter
ans’ association, at its session Thurs
day, received telegrams from Mrs.
.1 offer son Davis. Mrs. U. S. Grant,
Adm. Dewey and others.
Cleveland, O., Sept. 14.—The con
vention of the 35th annual encamp
ment of the Grand Army came to a
close amid the silence and gloom of
impending death.
News of the grave condition of the
president cast a shadow over the pro
ceedings and it was consequently de
cided to proceed with the election
of officers and to refer all other iin
jiortant business of the session tc
the incoming council of adminstru
tion.
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, of New
v ork, withdrew his name as a can
didate for commander-in-chief before
the nominations were made.
Comrade Ayers, of Delaware, moved
ihe nomination of Gen. TUos. .1
Stewart, of Pennsylvania, Gen. Gobiti
seconding.
Gov \ an Sant, of Minnesota, placed
Judge Ell Torrance in nomination
The Torrance vote st-ood 470 to Stew
nrtvs 230, when Gen. Wagner moved
tli.it the vote be made unanimous in
favor of Torrance. The motion wag
carried.
Other officers elected were:
Senior Vice Commander—John Me
I lroy. Washington, I). C.
•tumor \ ice Commander—Jnmei
O'Donnell, Illinois.
Surgeon General- Nr. W. R. Thrall
Cincinna tj.
(JiapInin-in-Ghicf Rev L.VM.Hoyle,
Peimsv Ivnnia.
The ladies of the Grand Army of
the Republic elected the following of
ficers;
President—Mrs. Emma Wall, Low
re nee. Kan.
Senior Vice-President Eli/a Wag
gonrier, San Franciseo.
Junior Vice-President Jennie liar
tie!I, K« ntucky.
Treasurer— Annie Miehener, Ger
liu.ntovvn, I’a.
( hr.plain • Lnvinin Rrninnrd, New
York.
Council of \dministration- Rach
ael Doran. Pittsburg, Pa.; Nfarv T
Hagen, Chicago.; Olive Allison, Rich
mond, hid.
T rrmmnry niKrmmt,
Washington, Sept. 13.—Thursday*;
statement of thr* treasury balances in
the general fund exclusively of the
$l'o,ooo,ono gold reserve in the (litis,
ion of redemption shows: Available
eash balance, $183,214,859. Gold, $11$,.
911,134.
I,ratr« the f-lmchn »»«e.
New York. Sept. 13. Intimate
friends of Mr. Edward Hell, senioi
member of the banking and broker
age house of Hell <& ( 0„ learned
Thursday Hint he had sold his seut
BIG RAILROAD IMPROVEMENT,
A unique excursion was recently arranged
by the l nion Pacific Railroad company.
About sixty newspaper men. repre-enting
tne leading journals of the country, were
invited to take a trip on the Wyoming di
vision. “The Overland Route,” for the pur
Poae of viewing the stupendous engine* i mg
achievements recently made on that line.
The tram was made up of two private
cars, three Pullman palace sleej#ers. a dining
Car, drawn by one ot the new compound en
gines. with an observation car—constructed
on the same plan as a trolley car—ahead of
the engine.
One hundred and fifty eight and four
tenths miles of new track laid, reducing the
mileage between Omaha and Ogden by 30.47
nines, and reducing gradients which varied
from 45.4 to 97.68 feet to the mile to a maxi
mum of 13.3 feet, and curves from 6 to 4 de
grees, while a great deal of bad curvat ure
has been eliminated entirely.
A mountain rt moved and lost into a
chasm; huge holes bored hundreds of feet
through solid granite, an underground river
encountered and overcome; an army of men.
with all sorts of mechanical aids, engaged
I1! work for nearly a year; the great
l nion Pacific track between Omaha and
Ogden made shorter, heavy grades elimi
nated, and the business of the great Over
land route flowing through a new channel,
without the slightest interruption.
Millions of money have been -pent to re
duce the grades and shorten the distance.
This reduction is the result of straighten
ing unnecessary curves, and the con-truc
tion of several cutoffs between Huford and
Bear river, Utah.
The curvature saved is about one-half,
t.ie grading about the same, while the angles
ar«* reduced nearly two-thirds. The su
periority of these changes is apparent to the
practical railroad engineer. It is also ap
parent to the operating department in trie
reduction in operating expenses, and to the
traveler in the increased speed the trains
can make.
I he new line run* due west from Buford,
avoiding the high hills and eighty-foot grade
from Cheyenne, and piercing through out*
and the big tunnel, crosses the Blaek Hills
at a grade of less than one-half (43.3 feet)
over mountain altitudes.
. from a constructive standpoint the lina
is remarkable for the amount of material
required in the construction of immense
embankments and the building of large
tunnels through solid rock. The construc
tion of the new line between Buford and
Laramie alone has involved the excavation
of 500,000 cubic yards of material, one-third
of which (exclusive of the tunnel excava
tion) has been solid rock, of something over
160,000 cubic yards per mile.
Too much credit for this work cannot be
fiven to Horace G. Burt, president cf the
nion Pacific railroad, and his assistants.
The excursion was replete with mnnv in
teresting incidents, and the splendid 'hos
pitality of the Union Pacific officials was a
revelation. The newspaper men evinced
their appreciation in many ways, particu
larly in a resolution of thanks to the Union
Pacific officials. General Passenger Agent
Lomax, and Messrs. Dariow. Park and
Griffin.
Dealing In I'tlnrri.
“I hope, said the young man who was
spending a few days at the -eashore, “that
our engagement will not prove to be a mere
summer subterfuge.”
"I hope your hope comes out.” rejoined
the fair maid at his side, “but one can ruver
tell what effect frost will have on such
things.”—Chicago Daily News.
The Literary Malden.
'Tou must have discerned my love,”
sighed Harold Spooneigh to Beatrice Ritcra,
“tor my face is as an open rage to you.”
.“Hun,” sweetly replied the fair young
girl, “as far as 1 am concerned, your face
is a rejected manuscript.” — Baltimore
American.
< urelcMM Jolts.
“I brought this milk back.” said the an
gry patron to the milk dealer. "It’s thice
fourths water.”
“John,” said the milkman sternly, to his
son, who was standing near, “did you give
the cows a drink before you milked ’em
this morning?”—Ohio State Journal.
'Widening tlie Itreueh.
I wish you and May would become
friends again. said the would-be peace*
n.aker;, "Well.” said Fay. ' if she’ll makeup
I will. ‘ I told her you had said that, and
•lie said: The idea! It’s easy for her l
never saw her when she vvasn’t made
up. —Detroit Free Press.
To Prevent Diphtheria
Use Hoxsie’s Croup Cure. No nausea. 50cts.
Ifappy is the man who can’t borrow
trouble.—Chicago Daily News.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are the
brightest, iastest and easiest to use.
A gay deceiver is never gay long.--Atchi
son (ilobe.
SHOES 9 f VJSSL
CHIOJI M A UK.
- E or More Than a smarter 0f a Cent ury
The reputation of W. L. Douglas $3.00
and 43.50 shoes for style, comfort and
wear haa excelled all other mukes sold at
these prices. This excellent reputation baa
been won by merit alone. W- L. Douglaa
ahoea have to give better satisfaction than
other $3.00 and $3.50 shoes because hi*
reputation for the best *3.00 and $3.60
shoes must be maintained. The standard
has always been placed so high that the
wearer receives more value for his money
Mi the W. L. Douglaa $3.00 and $3.50
■hoes than he can get elsewhere.
W.L. Douglas sells more $3 .OO and $3.50 i
shoes than any other two manufacturers.
W. L. Douglas $4.00 Gilt Ldge Line
cannot be equalled at any price.
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Oradn loaf harm ummd In $0 and $0
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Bold by t he best shoe dealers everywhere.
Inalsf upon having XV. I.. Dougina rtioee
W’ltli name un<l price stamped on bottom.
How to Order by Melt.— If W. I. OooclS*
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anywhere on receipt of price and
oU. additional for i-«rrlafr«, My
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pair that win equal an.i ftia
tom made Mines. in atyle. fit and
wear, lake menaur'ir ■ • •» of
foot a« ahown on mod*I Mato
Style desired . lire and w idth
ostial It worn; plain or
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