Why Greatest And Best

wesoesome envious mortais ot'ject to the Chicago & North-Wcstern Railway being called the greatest and best line in the country. What moans greatest ? Is it more length oí line, miles operated and business transported ? What means best ? Every one knows the reply. That this line is greatost, a few t'acta will demónstrate. It operates neavly twenty-one hundred miles of road (2,078 tobe exact), aud reaohes nearly every important point in Northern Illinois, in Wisconsin, in Nortliern Michigan, in Iowa, in Minnesota, and runa many miles into Dakota. What other line begins to traverse so many States ? None - not one. A road 500 miles in length is a long one. A thousand miles makes a great lmg. What then should be said of one '2,100 miles lone ? Just think of it. It it was laid eastward from New York it would reach more than twothmls of the way across thu Atlantic Ocean, or from the pine ciad I1ÍII9 of Maine to the sunny sbores of the Gulf of Mexico. Great is it not ? Then for a moment look at its business. It carries millions (thiuk rif what millions mean) of passengers a year, to say nothing of the silver and iron, and lead and lumber, and cattle and hogs, and thousands on thousands of car loads of wheat, and oats, and corn, and horses, sneep, and the thousand and one other kinds of freight that is grown or used or handled by the people of the great North-west, through which it is the great Take down your map and trace its routes. Fix your eye ou Chicago as a starting point. Westward in nearly au air line you will trace its Californian line untll you reach the Missouri River at Council Biutïs, opposite Omaha - here is a single run of nearly 500 miles. Back to Chicago again you look northwest, and follow another of its routes through Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, through the pine woods of that whole State- this is 400 miles more. Again looking trom Chicago you can trace a line through Sparta, Wisconsin, La Cross, in the same State, Winona, Owatonna and New Ulm, in Minnesota, and northwestward far into Dakota - here we have 625 miles more of road. Again coming to Chicago we see two lines running northwardly- one along the lake shore to Mihvaukee, and thence to Fon du Lac, and the othor running moro inland, through Janesville, Watertowu, etc, also to Fon du Lac, thence through Oshkosh, De Pere, Green Bay and Escanaba, to Negaunee, lshpeming and Marquette - here is another 440 miles of road. Then we have a line from Chicago to Elgin, Rockford and Freeport, another from Clinton, lowa, to Anamosa in the same State, another from Konosha on Lake Michigan to Eockford, in Northern Illinois, and af ter all longer lines we have many short spans to traverse beforo we have found out all of the Chicago & North-Western Railway. Is it ony wonder then that this lino is called the great Western Trunk Line í So far ahead of anything else is it in the way of road bed, cars, Jócomotives and hotel coaches, that even lts competitors are obliged to acknowledge that it is the best. The passengers to or from California, Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, the Black Hills, Minnesota, Manitoba, the East, West, North or South, should see that they are furnished tickets by this great line. Forget not that this alone of all the roads west or north of Chicago, run the world-renowned Pullman Hotel Car. No other western road has Pullman or any other form of hotel cara, no matter ivhat they claim.