FAIRBANKS' STANDARD SCALES: All Sizes, and adapted to all purposes.
WINDMILLS: For Farm and other Uses. Pumping or power mills.
WINDMILL FIXTURES: Pumps, Cylinders, Pipe, etc.
TRUCKS: All Styles, for warehouse, packing houses, etc.
BEAMS: Grain Testers, Assay Balances, U. S. Standard Weights and Measures, etc.
INSPIRATORS: Hancock's Improved Boiler Feeder.
WATER WORKS: For Towns and Villages. Erected complete or material furnished.
STEAM PUMPS AND BOILERS: All Sizes. Improved patterns.
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[Sidenote: illustrated by H. W. McVickar]
DRAWN & PRINTED IN COLORS BY _WEMPLE & CO. ☼ LITHOGRAPHERS_, New York.]
[Illustration: WE CARE NOTHING FOR RAILROAD CONDUCTORS]
(_Respectfully dedicated to the Conductors of the Chicago & Alton Railroad._)
(BY D. DALZIEL, EDITOR OF THE CHICAGO NEWS LETTER.)
SCENE--_The Exterior of a Railroad Depot_.
(_Enter_ ANGELA, ELLA _and_ SAPHIR, _and a number of æsthetic young women._)
ANGELA--There is a strange magic in this love of ours. Rivals, as we all are, in the affections of our Reginald, the very hopelessness of our love is a bond that binds us to one another. (_All sigh._)
JANE--Fools, yes, fools. Know ye not that this man never can be yours? He loves another, and that other is PATIENCE. (_General misery._)
ANGELA--Patience, the young woman who milks the cow and sleeps in the stable! Surely the gentleman's taste must be a trifle unæsthetic.
JANE--You must not question his motive. He is utterly transcendent in all he does. But the milkmaid, as you say, is indeed a little beneath the regard of one so truly too.
PATIENCE--(_Appears at background and looks with contempt upon the lot. She then comes down._) What is the matter, girls, are you ill?
ALL--No, we are in love. (_More misery._)
ANGELA--Ah, Patience, if you have never loved you have never known true happiness. (_All sigh._)
PATIENCE--But the truly happy seem to have so much on their mind. The truly happy never seem quite well. But I have some news for you. The Railroad Conductors' Annual Picnic will be held here to-day, and the young men in their gorgeous uniforms are now on their way to this spot.
ANGELA--(_Contemptuously._) Railroad conductors!
SAPHIR--I am told they are men of very full habits.