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TIIE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE. Iecrnlor OU Progress IHnplnrlfift M-niu. tTn t i. t-i . 1 1 .1 I I pany hn given h (Jenrral EIpc- trMoation of on of lt lines from I'liiliidflphU to Atlantic City. In volving n fxp'ndlturp of from i;.mvX to n.nnft.oto. Thl ftitciriTit. mad offl clnlly. puts to rent the rumor" In riroila tlon for iomo tlmo t.-i.t iffarrln; rl"n propnufl hy the Tr nnf ylvanla railroad for thin linn. An a railroad project It In In more ways than on unique, ud Is the first contract of Its klnil, so far as la known, that has ever been awarded. Tt mean the discard ing of th entire equipment of the line In volved, or nt least the transferrin of the succeeded steam equipment to other linen of the company. It differs from the contracts let hereabouts for the equipment of steam lines with electricity In that such contracts are only for short parts of the tnaln line, and In most cases the changes were Impelled to facilitate the movement of trains In terminals. About elxtv miles of the line In all are to he converted to electricity. Included In the contract. Is the necessnry power station equipment which calls for Curtis turbines. Cars are to be equipped with the Spraaiie. ieneral Klectrlc multlpln-unlt control, and are to he run Just as nre the trains In the subway and on the elevated. Work on the changes, it Is officially stated, will he be. run at once, and after they are completed trains will he run every fifteen minutes. A local service of this kind will also be maintained betmeen Philadelnhla and MIH vllle. and Fhlhidclphla and Woodbury. An Fleclrlo Twr. ' Tho year 1!KK5 in evidently to be dlstin Kulshed for electrified expansion that may be compared In the amount of capital Involved and with the extent of the track age with the rnllroud expansion which be gan In the early 'ROs and continued until the year Mr. ' Cleveland was first Inaug urated as president. The steam railroads have capitulated to electricity In New York state, says the Philadelphia Press. What was at one time a suspicion is now spoken of by the electricians as a cer tainty, namely, that much of the passenger Gossip and Stories Norway's ev Klnar. ORWAY'8 new king was once an apprentice In the Banish navy. In tho mess to which, ho be longed he was called by his first name that is. Karl In Diinlsh N B3 and he had to eat the s ime "grub" and stand the same hardships an all the other apprentices. Although everybody knew him to be a prince of the realm, no deference whatever was paid him as such. On the contrary, he was "hazed" and made miser able In good old midshipman style. He took his medicine bravely enough. On board ship he had to mend his own clothes, darn his socks, sew on buttons and keep his weapons and accouterments In order. He slept In a regulation sailor hammock, wtih his clothes rolled up under his head for a pillow, without a nightshirt and wearing only a sailor's woolen striped un dershirt and bundled up In a woolen blanket, sometimes with his sea boots dangling by the hammock rope. He used to make the big brass binnacle, flash like silver mall. He could never quite get used to chewing tobacco, which In the eyes of every true apprentice Is ono qf the cardinal virtues, and whenever ho was seaMck. which often happened, ho used to sit In the gangway on a bucket and chew rye bread. Senatorial Topers. William Sulzer. the Tammany congress man who has Just been presented with some thirty quurts of rare old liquor, has never taken more than half a dozen drinks in his life. Mr. Sulzer Is wont to recall a celebration while he was speaker of tho New York state assembly. Senator Edmunds of Vermont on that occasion was a principal speaker and before he began Ills remarks he had caused the disappear ance of nearly a quart of fine old brandy. Ijiter In the day Mr. Edmunds did aw with about the same amount of old rye. The distinguished Vermonter is about the lost of the old guard led by Thurman of Ohio, to the members of which a quart of liquor was Just enough for fluid at one meal. of National Traits. Dr. Douglas Hyde, president of the Irish Gaelic league, ntrongly believes that a loss of national characteristics tends to make a man cowardly. "I was at a fair In Ireland once." he said recently, "and a young man answered me In English Dr. Lyon's PERFECT Tooth Powder Cleanses and beautifies the teeth and purifies the breath. Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century. Convenient for tourists. PREPARED Homeopathic Medicine Our store Is the largest depot for Homoeopathlo Medicines to be found In the west. We are In a position to supply WHOLESALE and RETAIL hhl'l HOUSES, as well a PHTYSl CIANS and RETAIL, TRADE. NOTE When ordering always state what form, tplll, liquid or powieri. of medlcioe Is deslrsd. aUo what strength. Sherman &McConneII DrugCo. Car. 16th and Doda; flts., Oauaha. Every Woman wuiwvuaa na uoaia snow BOU UK wonderful H4RVTL Whirling Spray m W IITHI M IAN Maaa4 Am-livn. liaal-Sal amrwtw(li. If b rannui aupply die MaHt L. h no olUr. but ttiMi Lamp fur IUuiLTjrJ b-fc.k -W It f aU nanioular and -Iir1inii4 in. Valuabialo lalir. MtHVUI. (O., roc ! tvr lUIKHAN UcCONNBU. OKUO TO. Cor. utb and Doa Iuk. Omaba. a, jttt . in the traffic across New York state, even that represented by the parlor and sleeping cars, will be hauled by the electric current. There seen.s to be no reason why elec tricity should not serve economically and safely and satisfactorily from New York to I!u(Tnlo or from New Tork to Huston, if It Is to serve satisfactorily from Croton or White Plains or Ftamford. thirty miles from the Grand Central station, for the hauling- of passenger trains from those points to this station. Then, too, the an nouncement that the Erie is t) buy und to electrify lon strrtches of railroad, urban and suburban, perfecting that work during the next year, and that some of tho longitudinal feeders of the Vanderbllt lines are to be electrified In central New York. Illustrate how greatly the work of railroad electrification as well as the consolidation of various Independent systems Into single concentrated systems will be progressed during the year 1H06. Wireless Sew Tork io Porto Hlco. A few nights ago Admiral Dunlap, com manding the naval station at San Juan, had the pleasure of receiving the first mes sage at the new wireless telegraph station of the government from Key West. 1.4ou miles from San Juan. It name with perfect distinctness, it Is expected that a 50-horse power engine from the states will arrive soon to run the big dynamo now being installed. Messages can then be sent as well as received. The new station at San Juan Is a thirty-five-kllowat station, similar stations being at Guantanajiio, Cuba, and Key West, Kla. It Is located on tho out skirts of San Juan, on a ti 111. nmong some old Spanish fortifications on the ocean's edge. Three maats, each JOS feet high, and carrying more than four miles of wire, are a part of the equipment. The station has heard from Manhattan Beach, a forty kilowat station, and from Savannah, On., a similar station. Pensacola and Guanla rtpmo have also been heard. Within a few months a station at Colon will give connection with Panama, The De Forest system Is used here and at Ouantanamo mid Key West naval stations. The other evening while the San Juan operator was listening for messages from Key West, he overheard New York telegraphing to when I asked him a question In his na tive tongue. I Inquired why it was that he did not use his native language. He shrugged his shoulders and answered that, although bis father and mother spoke nothing clfe than Gaelic, he did not pro pose to do It. When he said that." con tinued Dr. Hyde, "I declare to you that I lost my temper and I struck the fellow a blow that seni him staggering. And do you know that the spalpeen did not have the courage to knock me down for striking him?" A CalldoTvn. The late Prince Herbert Bismarck bad the reputation of having a decidedly brusque manner In society. Once at a royal reception he bumped roughly against an Italian prelate, who looked at him in dignantly. "Tou evidently don't know who I am," said the prince haughtily. "I am Herbert Bismarck. "Oh," answered the prelate, "If that doesn't amount to an apology it is certainly a perfect explana tion. Harrlman at Work. E. W. Harrlman, the great raliroad ope rator. Is a small man, very slightly built, narrow-chested, delicate In appearance. At his desk he is a regular wrlrlwlnd Silas A. Holcomb Most Successful Populist (Continued from First Page.) the new party nationally. In 18f2 came the Omaha convention with its platform, which has provoked more discussion than any political platform adopted by any party since the civil war. More people, I war rant, have obtained a primary education In national politics as a result of the pro mulgation of this document than from any other great event that has happened In the last quarter of a century. Principles of Populist Party. "It was opposed to the financial system then prevailing. It was opposed to na tional banks as banks of issue. It held to the doctrine that all money should be Issued by the government, whether coin or paper, and lie niado full legal tender, and that the creditor be deprived of the right to discriminate against any form of money issued by the government. The coinage of both gold and silver at a fixed ratio on equal terms was advocated. It believed the public domain should be held and dis posed of to actual settlers; that alien ownership should bo prohibited and that forfeited railroad land grants should be reclaimed for the benefit of the people seeking homes. It preached the doctrine of laws for the regulation of the great transportation lines in order to Insure equality and prevent discrimination and extortion. It believed In ultimate goverA ment ownership as the ruest practicable and best means of permanently overcom ing the evils the people were contending against. But if regulation will accomplish the same purpose, well and good, I dare say will ba tho expression of all advocates of government ownership. Municipal owner ship of public utilities has always been at tractive to populists and is In harmony with their political creed. The election of I'nited States senators by a direct vote of the people and many other reforms calcu lated to bring the government nearer the people were advocated, which need not ; here be enumerated. j "Wherever the party has been given j power reforms have been Inaugurated from which benefits of a tangible kind have re sulted. Speaking of this state only, econ omy In the management of state and county affairs has been uniformly exerrixed, pub lic expenditures reduced and extravagance eliminated. A practical business adminis tration honestly conducted has been the rule. In the way of legislation who can question the wisdom and Justice of the Australian ballot law. the maximum freight rate law, the county treasurer examina tion law. the depository law, the eight-hour law, anti-trust laws, anti-compact insur ance law, the law preventing corporations from contributing to political campaigns, mutual Insurance laws? I cannot remem ber half of them. There are many which are in substanc real and genuine as re form legislation calculated to be no tit all and to Injure none. It Is, of course, true that those in hom a trust has been con fided by an election to office have not In all instances measured up to the party's ideals or fully met the expectations of tt mem bership. This is almays the case. But the party has made substantial progress In .the direc tion of better laws and the better ad ministration of public affairs. It chosen representatives have made an honest effort to Improve on then existing condition: and Field of Wcston. New Yolk is about J.Sffl miles dis tant, and every word of her service mes sage to Boston was heard here, although Boston's reply could not be caught. New York was telling Boston that her instru ments wire out of tune. So far Now York has made no attempt to reach San Juan, and evidently Is not HWare that she luis been heard here. As conditions are now New York may communicate with San Juan any time. Improved I'.lectrle Lamps. The, new year will probably be distin guished In electrical history by the com mercial exploitation of several types of Im proved lamps, which should give a strong Impetus to the extension of electric light ing In competition with gas. In his Inaug ural Hddress to the Manchester section of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, which took the form of a useful summary of recent progress, Mr. S. L. Fearce com menced with a recital of the various effects being made to cheapen electric light by the contrivance of more economical and efficient lamps. Engineers whose attention Is more particularly directed to power and traction work may consider the Improve ment of lighting apparatus a question of minor Importance, bnt the prosperous fu ture of the vast maiority of central sta tions In the t'nited Kingdom must be de pendent on lamp connections, and there Is still room for the manifold Increase In this class of business, which was undoubt edly arrested by the discovery of the In candescent gas mantle. From among the numerous types Nernst, Tantalum, os mium, mercury vapor and higher effi ciency carbon filament lamps, not to men tion others In the laboratory stage of which we have only vague reports from the con tinentthere should be at least one ro bust survivor able to exercise a bene ficlat Influence on lighting business. For main street Illumination such deficiencies as are admitted to exist In arc lamps do not appear to be beyond the power of the inventor to remove. One of the most obvious Improvements called for Is the In troduction of a trustworthy magazine aro lnmp. Those In control of three-phase power supply systems working; with About Noted Men for energy. 1 He goes through his corre spondence and through the hundred re ports that reach him at a pace that Is not rivaled in any office cn Wall street the region of speed. His stenographers must keep the pace. He has a small army of them and, report says, they work In re lays. Ho can keep them all busy. He is one of the most rapid thinkers In the street and his action is a quick as his thought. Conlil and the Bookseller. A confidential clerk in George Gould's office the other day broke his reserve un der an impulse to part with tills story: A man with a silk hat and oily smile tried to get a personal interview with the millionaire. "You can't see Mr. Gould," said the clerk. "I would advise you to write a letter and ask for an ap pointment. That is the best you can do." This letter was duly received: "My Dear Mr. Gould Please meet me at the corner of Broadway and Forty-second street. I have a very fine de luxe Shakespeare; would sell to you on installments." Hooaevelt on the Ranite. A characteristic story of President Roosevelt was thus told not long ago by an old ranchman who was with him in frequently In tho face of stubborn opposi tion of a formidable character, and in a measure have succeeded. 'TIs better to have made that effort and only partially succeeded than not to have made it at all. What is lA-it at the Populist Party. "The party has not entirely ceased to ex ist. As an Independent organization it has, it is true, almost lost its identity. Its vot ing strength still remains. There is stiil among the great mass of the voters the same independence that manifested itself in the organization and growth of the party which will make Its influence felt In the future as it has in the past. The party has been a great educator. Its ldeaa have ben Investigated, approved and adopted by both the great political parties. How often do we now hear from the caverns of in trenched wealth and power the cry that one or the other of these two parties is em bracing political principles wholly popu llHtio In character. And they are. And this accounts, for the voters who consti tuted the rank and file of the party return ing to the one or the other of the stronger parties. They are not politicians in the sense that they want the offices to be filled by any particular party or any particular set of men. AJ1 they demand Is that good and wholesome laws for the benefit of all shall be enacted; that the laws shall be enforced against all alike, and that they be protected from the encroachments of the strong and powerful, represented by trusts, great corporate Industrial enterprises and powerful transportation companies. They ask no unfair advantage, nor are they will, ing that others shall enjoy special privi leges at their expense. They are willing to respect the rights of others and of prep erty In all Its forms, and simply ask that their own rights be not trespassed upon. "The democratic, party has shown won derful tenacity of life and power to re cuperate after severe defeat. It shows signs of returning to the sanity it man ifested In 1X96 and 1900 (you see sanity is a comparative term), and If It continues steadfast In the faith as expounded by tho founders of the party, I see no reason why tt should not win and retain, so long ,as It deserves to, the confidence of the voters or a majority of them. The mental berration manifested a year ago appears to have been only transitory and la rapidly passing away. Tho leaders appeared too anxious to get into office at the expanse of principle and consistency. They sairiliced prlnclplo for expediency, and the voters would not under these circumstances rally to the support of the party's candidates. The republican party, or- at least some of Its chosen leaders, have manifested a commendable determination to meet present-day problems and solve them In a way that will greatly redound to tho coun try's good and tho common w-al. In these efforts loyal support, I doubt not, will be given by the fwople generally. But let the reactionary element, the ultra con servatives of either party get control, let tliire be no halting, hui union and uncer tainty or failure to meet and dUpose of thesu presking problems, and If I mistaka not the statu t the publlo mind, tne peo ple's voice will be beard in no uncertain sound in condemnation of the betrayal of a public trust and of the failure to act. In these later days astounding majorities Electricity twenty-live cycles will barn with some satisfaction that a twenty-five period arc lamp has Just tn-in plaied on the mar ket which Is quite suitable for lighting open spaces, so that the hitherto unavoid able loss due to conversion to direct current Is obviated. The slight pulsation caused by the low periodicity is not noticeable unless the lamp Is actually stared at, nd even If the lamp has to be placed low for Interior lighting this rather trying ef fect can bo avoided by using the Inverted type. There Hre a large number of high roofed factories In which no inconvenience need be experienced, and In the meantime It may be found possible to overcome this objection to an otherwise very useful tT of arc lamp. "We understand that It Is the Intention of the Metropolitan railway of London to endeavor to utilise the twenty-five-cycle arc for the lighting of stations, thereby certainly effecting a saving worth consideration In comparison with the cost of transformed current for continuous arcs. leed of Telesrrnph J stern. M. Luglnbaehl gives the following table on the speed of various telegraph systems: Words Operators Words Per Hour at the Per Per Line. Two Ends. Operator. Morse T'lrt 2 8W Sounder l.r 2 .W Sounder, duplex 2,000 4 600 Sounder, quad ruple 4.0O( ROD TTurhes V i I 7S0 Hughes, duplex 2 S 4 720 Reaudot. trinle. 4,33 6 720 B e a u d o t-T"iu- breuil double.. 4.SH) 4 1,200 Vheatstone au tomatic quad- ruplex 12 rs is Wt Murray, slmnle. 2.i 4 7"0 Murray, dunlex. 6.76U 6 X0 Rowland, oc tuple 13,440 12 1,120 Merendlcr, 2x12 posts 12,000 24 500 Mereadler, du plex ?4 0f( 4 50 Pollak & Vlrag.6'r' Siemens 17.S66 13 1,374 Two wires. tMore than l.OuO. The data for the first six systems are based on observations of the author; the last five are taken from statements in engi neering Journals. Wyoming: "He was Teddy to us all and he carried water and helped aroung gen erally, though he was boss of the ranch. One day the foreman came in and said: "I'm going out on the range, Teddy, and will divide all the mavericks I find. I'll brand half for you, half for me.' "No you won't,' said Roosevelt, 'and you'll take your discharge at the end of the week. A man that would steal for me would steal from me.' " A Hard Strategic " Men who wear glasses are not attractive to women," said the comedian, Joseph Coyne, to the Washington Post. "Fat men, too, rarely please womankind. The former fact was forcibly brought home to me on a railway Journey recently. The drawing room of the car I was riding In was occu pied by a bride and groom-ahe was very pretty, he ugly and weak eyed, but a mil lionaire. "From where I sat It was impossible to overhear a good deal that went on in the drawing room. This, in one of the things I overheard: " 'Oh, George, why do you make faces at me like that?' " 'I can't help It, darling. My glasses are falling off and I don't want to let go of your hands.' " can be reversed at the first succeeding election where there exists a cause for it. Wants Bryan to Ran Aara'n. "I hope Bryan will again become the democratlo candidate for the presidency. I believe he will If there is a general de mand for him again to become the stand ard bearer of his party. I do not think Mr. Bryan courts the nomination or cares specially for it save as a mark of confi dence, or that he would change his course or public utterances In the slightest degree In order to obtain It. My own Judgment is that he feels altogether Indifferent on the subject so far as he personally Is con cerned, but has his whole heart set on the success of the principles he is so staunchly championing. If he becomes a candidate it will be on a platform the honesty and sincerity of which there can be no ques tion and no ambiguity or equivocation in its utterances." Dyspeptic Philosophy Moral support won't feed a family. Vanity never goes hungry. It feeds itself. When a fellow's dead in love it's his own funeral. Just as soon as we discover that Ignor ance Is bliss. It isn't. The fellow who wins in a walk must be the only entry. The fellow with money to burn may live to rake the ashes. As a rule, a divorced woman acts as though she had been born that way. There Is no contempt like that existing between two of those fellows who know It all. I,nts of people wmild be glad to get rid of their experience for less than they paid for It. Good Intentions should be covered with asbestos. You know what's paved with them. It may be true that all men are fools, but they are not reminded of it so often if they remajn single. Eve was the only woman who had posi tive preof that she was the only woman her husband ever loved. The trouble with the people who stand up for their rights la that they always want to sit on everybody else. New York Times. Called Him Down Two newsboys were standing on a Six teenth street corner, Denver, when a boy who used to sell papers came up. "What you doiu' now. Jimmy?" asked one of the newsboy of the newcomer. "Qot a Job In a railroad office," replied the other. "I am inakln' three times a much as I did sclliu' paners." Then he started away. "So long, felh-rs; I gotta vamoose," be said. "Vamoose." repeated one of the news boys. "What's that?" "A-, git wise. It means 'go.' I gotta go see?" came from the ex-newsy. "Well, why don't ou say 'go,' then?" said one of the two. "Jlst because you got a fi-dollar Job you needn't to come no millionaire Capitol hill talk on us." Den ver Pott. Aren't you tired of hearing Kansas City held up as the model of enterprise? The Bee has pointed the way. The Bee has backed this proposition but it can't be a success, unless everyone joins The Bee in the enterprise. ARE YOU FOR OMAHA? THE Please deliver Order them TO The 20th Century Limited Via the LAKE SHORE and NEW YORK CENTRAL The Route of the Government Fast Mail Trains CHICAGO - NEW YORK 18-HOUR TRAIN IT SAVES A DAY FROM LA BAIXW BT. CHICAGO Leave Chicago at . Arrive New York at W. J. LYNCH Leaving Omaha at 11 P. M. daily, arriving at Cedar Rapids 6:10 A. M.; Clinton 8:15 A. M., and Chicago 11:55 next morning. "THE BEST OF EVERYTHING." Other Chicago trains at 8 A. City Offices, 1401-03 Farnam Street. cm Golds Cured QUICKLY 'Qutuitie) breaks upcuida la lae h'u.1 in a tew bourn- lfuv( . do bud Hf i-r- flp.-tj IliUa yuinicfl 1'rrpttratloi,. trt do loony irom your drug tin A.U fr tho u-.uuuo oloreJ box "1 iuhi iu unlet rcans 'CONTAIN? 'JO'J'KJ'IE LAf 4 TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER Addra Omana, ab. 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