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Show net start, twelve completing the journey to and Bordeaux and ten returned to Paris no hostler or coachman is required. within the time prescribed. The start was made on June 11, and unlimited carriage has ELECTRICITY TO THE AID OF The horseless the tired. made between these two cities not get does It staying qualities. to be cruel to it. It is was speed as as sixteen miles per hour high not OUR EQUINE FRIENDS. It is possible on the not does and average from Paris to Bordeaux ready at any and all timesDrive and fifteen a horse miles per hour on the return influenza. from suffer fJie Greatest Mechanical Irohlem Of the thirty or forty miles one day and he trip, the carriages driven by petroleum horseless car- motors proving the best. The electrical Century in Various Stages of Solution must rest two. Drive aone e miles day and 200 carriage dropped out of the race soon A Electric Race Between Chicago riage seventy-fivhumane after leaving Paris. There is little the and the next, if you choose, and Milwaukee. The doubt that electricity will finally suno protest. enter can society lorn persede all other motor powers, but at horseless carriage has the greater not does time the storage battery systems that a horse I? gevity. The life of TIIE HORSELESS AGE. 3,000 mile3 at an expense of more than $40 for motive power, make -- Corn Promises a Large Yield, Except In the State's Garden Spot. McCook, Neb., Aug. 26. On crossing the Missouri River running to Lincoln, the Burlington land agents party found a prospect which, from an agricultural standpoint, could not be excelled. Corn is luxuriant and sturdy ears and every stalk shows large-size- d sticking out from it. It is so far advanced that the uninitiated could fie made to believe very readily that it 13 past all harm from any source. Notwithstanding its fine appearance, however, it is not yet out of danger of frost, and will not be for at least two weeks. A fine crop of oats has been reaped in this section. Much of it is still in the shock and a good deal of it has been stacked. It is thrashing out from thirty to fifty bushels to the acre and will average about forty. The wheat crop has all been harvested, and farmers are now busy plowing their land preparatory to putting in another crop of winter wheat. Leaving Lincoln the outlook is much less promising. Between Waverly and Fairmont, a distance of sixty miles. Is a stretch of, country which has usually been described as the garden spot of Nebraska. Crops have always been abundant here, however poorly they may have been in other parts of the state. Last year and this year have been the only known exceptions to this rule. Somehow this belt has suffered severely this year. It has rained copiously on all sides of it and all around it, but the clouds refused to give it a drop of moisture until too late to save the corn crop. For a stretch of country sixty miles long and sixty miles wide the corn crop is a comparative failure. It will only run from a quarter to half a crop, averaging as a whole an ordinary crop. about one-thiOats have, not faired so badly. They are thrashing out from thirty-fiv- e to an acre. forty bushels Heavy rains fell over this section at the end of last week They came too late, however, to save the bulk of the corn. Very much of it is .wilted beyond redemption and a good deal of it has already been cut for fodder. Wheat in this section is thrashing out fifteen bushels to the acre. West of Fairmont the scene again changes and an ocean of waving corn, strong and luxuriant, is to be seen as far as the eye can reach in every direct tion. The crop from Hastings to the western boundary of the state is practically made,4 and nothing but a killing frost can now blight It. It will average not less than sixty busbels to the acre, and very many large fields will yield fifty bushels.1 Around McCook is where the disasters of last year were most severely felt. The gains of this year have more than made up for the losses then sustained. The whole section of Gountry looks like a veritable garden, and the people feel buoyant beyond expression. Winter wheat is thrashing out about twenty bushels to the acre and the best fields are yielding thirty bushels. Spring wheat is running from twelve to eighteen bushels to the acre. Oats average from fifty to sixty bushels, the best fields thrashing out 100 bushels. Alfalfa is a new crop here with which the people are delighted. All kinds of live, stock eaUit with relish, and it is proving to be fattening fodder. The first year it yields one ton to the acre, but after the third year it yields three crops a year, which foot up seven lf tons to the acre. It ia and worth in the market $5 per ton, but to feed cattle the results have shown it to be worth $70 per acre. It is the coming crop all along the the flats of the Republican valley. HE GREATEST The horseless were too imperfect to compete with, mechanical prob- much exceed eight years. the systems of using lem of this age Is oil, gas and steam. transportation. No Through the courtesy of the Chicago Times-Heral- d other question of a we are enabled to illussimilar nature bo on our trate first page the nine vehicles closely affects the took the prizes. In looking over that the welfare of the the results of this competition it is inpeople. The cost of teresting to notice that the steam car-as every conceivable riages failed to make any 'showing article of use Is compared to the petroleum motors, also very governed that the electric carriage compared largely by the cost very unfavorably with either of the Df transportation, either of the finished others. It is stated that the cost of oparticle itself or the crude materials of of the petroleum carriages will eration which it is made, or of the workmen carriage does not get scared and run not exceed two cents a mile. This, with that made it, and often all three com- away. It can be managed by anyone the convenience and much greater bined. Civilization Itself waits upon after two hours study. It takes years of experience to learn to manage horses, and the best drivers are the ones who most frequently get hurt. The horseless carriage takes up less room. Its introduction will almost double the capacity of a street for traffic. The horseless carriage will almost eliminate the item of street cleaning. The care of streets is one of the great municipal problems and the horse is the chief offender. The substitution of the pneumatic cushioned tires of the horseless carriage and motor wagon will make Amount of fuel it is possible to carry, it possible to keep a street in repair aft- should certainly count verymuch in its er it has once been paved. the problem of transportation. It t .One can hardly judge from the favor. France has takfen the lead in the without reason that ; wise men have as published, however, for there carResults horseless The civilization of any nation manufacture of these said: no are details at on one given as to whether the exhibition Is told by the condition of its roads. riages, and had or whether there was serious vibration motive The power As the Roman Empire grew, mighty "e Worlds Fair. an smell from the fras not. did It was objectionable one of this electricity. roads were constructed. Compare the fuel. The results obtained must be considered remarkable from a purely standpoint, as the fact that an engine, as compact as the requirements demand, should be capable of continuous operation of from forty-big- ht hours to sixty hours, is a remarkable performance. The fact that an oil engine is an economical motor cannot be disputed. Some tests made by Professor Irwin show that a motor indicating six to eight horse power can deliver a break horse power with an equivalent consumption of about one and pounds of coal per horse power hour. This being equal or slight ly superior to. the performances of tijie best steam engines of large size. has ofThe Chicago Times-Heral- d fered $5,000 in premiums for a race of horseless carriages to be held Nov. 2, 1895. This will be the first of its kln3 to be held in the United States, and will doubtless be the forerunner of many more. The course is to be between Milwaukee and Chicago, a distance of eighty miles. The question is now being debated if the race be not made from DAILY SCENE IN PARIS. Chicago to Milwaukee and return, of 160 miles. civilization of Europe with that of however, attract wide attention. A distance Already a number of entries have In the former you have the road race for horseless vehicles was ar- been Asia. made. The race is open to the broad, smooth roads; in the latter you ranged last year between Paris and world. The money will be divided as find only footpaths, bridle paths, and Rouen, a distance of eighty miles. A follows: First prize, $2,000 and a gold almost nothing of the westerh high preliminary trial took place about the middle of July, 1894. There were 102 of these entries, and about one-ha- lf turned up at the trial, which was over a distance of about thirty miles. .The result was the selection of twenty-on- e carriages to take part in the race of jSunday, July 22, 1894. Of the twenty-on- e carriages entering, about one-thiwere propelled by steam motors of some kind, the remainder being propelled by oil motors. There were no entries of either compressed air or electrical vehicles. The designs were of all descriptions, but the type most general medal, the same being open to comcarried four passengers, though one carto world. Second prize, way. These but indicate the primeval ried as as ten. Peugeot Freres petition with the 'high a condition in which the whole transpor- had five $1,500, stipulation that In the carriages entered, all driven by event of the first prize being awarded tation question there remains. Goods oil engines, Panhard & Levassor had to a vehicle of foreign invention or are carried at great expense on the backs of camels, asses and coolies. Civmanufacture, the prize shall go to the most successful American competitor. ilization in those countries 1 waiting Third prize, $1,000. Fourth prize, $500. for a better interchange of products, has adopted the The Times-Heral- d both of the hand and of the brain. Till to be used in place term that time barbarism. motocycle There is no of horseless In Europe and in the United States carriage. JAPAN'S EXPERIENCE. doubt that many European vehicles will learned men of many trades are devotrun. make the be and to efforts their various present ing problems Realized the Advantages of transportation, from swimming unThe results of this race will be bene- They Save Western Demonetization. not ficial in many ways, the least of der water to flying in the air. Bicycle Mr. to call attention to the which will be Kaneko, the Japanese minister riding is described as being the- next comof dethe condition of our roads. With the interior, says- that the policy of thing to flying. The wonderful ing into use of motocycles on a grand England and the United States on the velopment of that means of locomotion scale there must of necessity be im- sHver question has been of great benefit is but an earnest of what is to take four also oil driven entered, engines other1 in by the Horseless branches. provement in our highways. When the to Japan. We pay in silver, he said, place M. and two Le steam Biant had motors, exto demand becomes emphatic the work and seU for gold. If we were an imare next in the order carriages carriages entered. The first carriage will be done. porting nation of course the situation perience the effects of inventive genius. commenced the journey at 8 oclock The Farmers Review does not wish would be reversed, but we are a nation Sunday morning, followed at short in- to take the position of an alarmist, and of exporters, and have demonstrated tervals by the other twenty. The re- throw out the impression that we will by centuries of experience that the peostrictions and conditions of the race henceforth have no use for horses. On ple of Japan need not go outside the were somewhat peculiar, as it was not the other hand, it can but advise limits of the empire for a single one of to keep a sharp eye on the the neeessarier of life. Most of our imdesigned to test the speed, and for this reason it was calculated at about eight situation. We see the inroads the ports are raw material and machinery, miles per hour, no allowance being bicycle has made on the business of materials of war and other supplies remade for any greater speed. The ob- the liveryman, and also on the busi- quired by the government. While we ject was primarily to test the control ness of producing the family horse. have to pay gold for our cotton and iron and comfort of the conveyances, and Tbe coming of motocycles will doubt- the prices of both products have deprealso the freedom from breakdowns less work something of a revolution in ciated with silver so that we do not feel Two hours ,the equine world. The first effects will the difference so much as we otherwise rather than the speed. stoppage in all was counted upon, and be felt in lessened demand for carriage would, and we ,get so much more for it was estimated that the journey would horses. The last to feel the effects will our silk and tea compared with the cost A few years ago we first began to hear be accomplished by 8 oclock in the be heavy draft horses, and the common of producing it than we did years ago of electric vehicles being used in Euro- evening that is, twelve hours to make farm work horse. Ultimately even nhat the demonetization of silver in the pean cities, first as the playthings of the run of eighty miles, with two hours these may feel the effects of eompeti-jtio- n United States and India has really been the rich, and then as the servants of from motors, but it is so far in of great benefit to this country. We the tradesmen and mechanics. They the future that the sale of draft horses have demonstrated that a nation is able were soon used for delivering groceries bred and reared now will not be o' live and prosper on a silver basis. being and other merchandise to customers. curtailed. Hence, draft horse We pay no more for labor or food or greatly They became quite common in London. seem would to be safest for the clothing and get nearly twice as much breeding In France various kinds of vehicles farmer. five takes It years to produce a for everything we produce. were made, a few to run by electricity, The middle men and exporting merdraft and the is not likemarket horse, but more to be driven by steam power to be chants to As overstocked. the pay no more to the producer for ly speed and by gas and oil motors. or sHk or tea than they did two with rice which mechanics will supplant The firms that manufactured them we can muscle, only conjecture. The years ago, but they get twice as much increased in numbers, and were enwas use in for twenty-fiv- e bicycle years :or them In New York, London and numerous orders for horsecouraged by before a became it really great factor Paris. The prices of these commodities, less carriages. These were seen to our in economics. Only within the last which are our principal exports, are regof great advantage over the old style six has it years expanded beyond all ulated by the demand in New York and that required horses to draw them. for the become what is de- London, .the same as wheat and cotton, and stoppages, average anticipations making The advocates of them enumerated the about miles hour. a craze. nominated But motocycles and telegraphic per eight are received sevfollowing superiorities: The horseless The race attracted a great deal of in- will doubtless 'not be thus slow' in win- eral times each reports which govern our day terest, and the results obtainepbwere so ning their way. The bicycle has sales here, less freight and charges. satisfactory that efforts were made to broken the ice, so to speak, and the There has been no effect upon wages or secure another race under more diffi- firms that can manufacture at a rea- the cost of living, which are just as low cult conditions. Some of the competi- sonable price motocycle family car- as they used to be. Therefore, tors of the previous race and a num- riages that W'ill cost only a few cents ference between silver and the difhas ber of subscribers, including James per hour to rtm them, will be overrun been all profit to Japan. The gold action of Gordon Bennett, eoPeetcd about $15,000 with orders from the first. We can see England in stopping silver coinage In for prizes, and arranged for the trial how the construction of electric car India has helped us in that country. W'e which recently took place. This race lines has increased from a are now line single exporting great quantities of was fieri Versailles, throimli Orleans, a few to immense propor- manufactured goods there, years ago and the Biois, Tours, Poitiers to Bordeaux, and tions today. Future inventions will not amount is month. increasing every to back Taris. a total distance of about generations to win favor as did 740 miles. This was a far mere difficult require the steam locomotive and the steam-hea- t. Frank Enough. was ac'but undertaking, successfully made and to can bo maintained i are now People alive b.i3 to3tlier, who was keenly trvfrmw cf those e a le'"ou I to d' rcwie v rrk at Ices than half what complished by about one-ha- lf W'ill invention in industry, that 4hit jihln Tho stoppe ges were remamma would do for their suppose it r- - ffi top y fer the feed, housing and competing. or ne meet comfort V their rmi ifr come to her some day and f :e ;' a i r. like A good average horse duced to the utmost limit, that at Bor- c" and, the Athenians cf old, you loved your MudSes? "than 3,000 miles a deaux being only eight x minutes in cne run affier every near thing. Incredulity fUr tGhnc: a fa! triv1 nor were forty-siJoLnnicase. and There is entries, with the tes 1 1 fir r. It 4 to way giving $125 him from p youth. e Bulletin. Pittsburg the mads vehicles twenty-onReview. actually a r. b L;r I'm nrriage can I better-understo- od is-no- nie-qhani- cal rd two-tent- hs BIT OUR CONDITIONS IN NEBRASK . ' one-h&- - - iff An SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF Till FUNNY WRITERS. It Man;- i'rr J! i- - it f. r - C ( j t ThcilAfli. w, a j - ; i t ivv . n r Bm tl to think , lf, I ? . jut than in ih ef the country money The N w Woman on the1 Iffiui Keep Right at It Flotsam and Jclstiu from II u inor's I Everllowlng Tide. Xlie itloomer BlAiden in i .about gold mu, jjm tl, Fun. Tin go 1 mini - d j, be panning out as wdl Vp In comptrl on with the f',,' of getting to tl,. nj' proce-.there while getting out t IIEN FIRST HE ing bin ino-- s nm ms to Tho 1 dons the trous- what over Burned. Buthave t vrri ers. who have lately There comes to a coal resources ef the cor j t n g boy could be made A thrill and a feeling On the tad shore1 of Cook's p.;, . Of wonderful joy; Is a big vein of coal fully five f i?, With hands In his efitirely expo-ee- l at low tile, vi' pockets. la necc--ar- y to get the coal p Complacent crowbar and pry it out in as j . smile, A recent imeti-as a Hes awara cf this doped t bowed that tewru fact below the first vein is another Ills clothes are the style. feet thick, and three oilier v J found In the immediate ndghh', When a woman dons bloomers AH the veins are horizontal rfrd v How altered the case. for miles along the shore. Cor, What complex emotions quantities of this coal have LrV Are shown in her face! I by the steamship Crolulis, Shes no faith In buttons, between Juneau and Cooks lug Her feet seem immense. tho chief engineer it La says And she longs for the lee steaming qualities than the Brit , Of a sheltering fence. lumbian coal, and is In many r better than any other coal proemPossession but seldom tho Pacific coast. -- , , ( s bn coal-gcttin- g t , de-ire- d. " , - V, A. It does not ri'i aU. Some San Francisco people Pent a Contentment ensures; 4i woman who only The trousers secures .Gets little but worry For fear she may tear em Unless with them goes A husband to wear em. Truth. ! bark, with a scow and a party of to this place last winter, and tbr ) was loaded with tho coal at very ' cast, and the cargo brought tho tors considerable profit. One has already squatted on GOO acres property and others are follow a Strategy. example. "Aha, exclaimed the King of DaIhere are no chiropodNts In Jcnn -homey, imperiously waving his hand, go barefoot (Hi for b;'w l you will observe that our Amazons people wooden sandals and except tabis, iiuh never retreat any more. that lit otfr uVV The potentate touched his brow sig- otockinga When it rains they closely put on h,ch U clogs, which ere held to the feu p,: nificantly. that pass over the instep and betwh our head "Oh, yes, he proceeded, first two toes. There is a Chinas p V Is something larger than a peanut. 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