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KANSAS FABMXNG.
Noteworthy Incidents Amon; the Farmers
of the State.
Corn planting has been going on for a
-week in Southern Kansas.
Advices from Piqua say that winter
wheat is seriouelv injured.
A correspondent from Ponnona writes
that the winter wheat is badly frozen
out.
A. H. Smith, elected Mayor of "Wel
lington, owns 2,000 acres of land in Sum
ner county.
Capt. Pierce, of Junction City, set out
one thousand apple trees in his orchard
on Arbor Day.
Winter wheat in the vicinity of Logan
is fair. There is about 10 per cent, more
sown than last year.
It takes 4,500 bushels of wheat per day
to keep the mills of Salina running to
their iull capacity.
Prospects for wheat in the neighbor
hood of Edgerton is poor; unfavorable
weather and fly are the causes.
Sumner county is .still troubled with
rabid doge. The Press says five farmers,
living near Rome, were bitten the other
day.
Scandia Journal: We learn that the
winter wheat in Beaver and Norway
townships has been entirely killed by
the past severe winter.
A. W. Keeling, who for some years has
owned the old Insley farm near Oska
loosa, committed Euicide by hanging on
Friday last. He has been insane for
some months.
Iola Register: Our seed men report the
sale of more clover seed this Spring than
t they have ever before sold in any one
year. Our farmers are all beginning to
see the necessity of providing themselves
with tame grass pastures.
El Dorado Republican: Corn planting
is DrotrreBsincr. Probablv one third oi
the acreage ol the county will be in the
erround bv the last of the week. Some
corn was planted last week which has
begun to come up.
Augusta Gazette: We took a ride to the
country, last Saturday, and during the
trip passed many wheat fields, but one
of which looked good. While the oth
ers were poor, very poor, and will doubt
less be ploughed up and seeded to corn.
Winfield Courier: The Independence
papers boast of corn selling there at thir
ty cents a bushel. If Montgomery coun
ty would raise more stock her corn
would be worth something. Cowley's
home demand has kept corn at forty to
forty-five cents for several months past.
Wellinglonian: Advices from the coun
try say that the fruit crop is still unin
jured except the most tender variety,
which, of course, is not taken into ac
count in making up the crop estimates.
Peach trees are in bloom and the buds
on the apple trees are beginning to
swell.
George S. Eaton, a farmer residing
near Valley Center, says the Wichata
Beacon, reports that he will have fully
two-thirds of a crop of wheat, and some
of the Reighbors, he says, will have a
full crop. All the promising wheat was
sown in corn stalks and was protected to
some extent from the frost. Wheat in
the same locality, sewn upon open land,
was frozen out and much of it will be
plowed up and planted in corn.
Atchison Globe: We desire to warn
farmers against a new swindle. Two
strancers meet at a farmer's house to
stay all night, and during the evening
thev cet up a trade between themselves,
which requires a witness, and the farmer
is asked to sign the papers, simply
to witness the trade. If he does so he
soon finds that his name is signed to a
note which he has to pay. The law does
not seem to touch these cases, and
farmers should hang the first man
caught at it
Wichita Eagle: There is much com
plaint against the city and its authorities,
bv larmers adioininc the city, for the
manner in which dead animals, especial
ly dead horses and dogs, are disposed of.
In many cases they are hauled oeyond
the citv limits and iust dumped out: in
others not half covered, and so on. One
centlemen told us yesterday that a
horse.dvintr of something like the clan
ders, was hauled ouf and dumped on his
farm. If there is an ordinance covering
this matter it ought to be enforced; if not,
then one should be passed.
Kansas farmers, says the Newton
Republican, are not to be caught napping.
Last week just a day or two before
wheat took an upward leap, several east
ern buyers sent men out to Kansas tp
buy all the wheat they could get. Har
vy county farmers who were visited by
thesemen had their suspitions aroused
by the offer of a few cents above the
market value and in most instances
refused to sell. Upon inquiring they of
course discovered that wheat had taken
a jump of 16 cents. The farmers are
now marketing the cereal as rapidly as
they can haul it to town.
Bolls ana Carbuncles.
These are the volcanos of the human
system. They proceed from impure
blood and form a riotous demoralization
of the digestive organs. They are an
noying, painful and sometimes danger
ous. They can be driven out by toning
up the system, and this can best be done
by the use of Brown's Iron Bitters.
Messrs. Handy & Bullman, druggists.
Anapolis, Md., say, "We sell lots of
Brown's Iron Bitters. All who use it
seem pleased. We hear not one com
plaint1' KANSAS WOMEN.
Items or Interest Concerning Them.
Mrs. Katie Wentz was fatally burned
in a prairie fire four miles from Offerte,
last week.
Mr. Williams and pupils surrounded
the Frankfort school house with 177
trees on Arbor day. Miss May Hartman
Slanted 26 trees and scrubbed the school
ouse in the Hawkins district
Dodge City lime: The "widows re
treat" is the name of a new settlement
two or three miles south of the city.
Mrs. A. L. Bobbins, Mrs. L. E. Atchison,
Mrs. Mary Lyman and Mrs. M. Wolf,
have taken claims on the Osage lands.
What a fine chance for lour widow !
Courier: Miss Anna Kuhn, one of
Winfield's sturdy young ladies who is
"holding down" a claim in Clark county,
came home last Thursday and returned
to her post of honor to-day. Miss Iowa
Roberts is also at iome after several
weeks' soiourn on her ClarK county
claim.
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Emporia tfjeirs: There .is perhaps no
home in this city adorned with as mauj
fine and richly framed paintings as or
nament the parlors and library of the
residence of Dr. J. A. Moore. An unusu
al feature of this galerie, which would
cttqpp nnxr nrT. onllert.inn. and cf which
v-uortr Tipf hPATR the nharacteristic3 of
an artist's work, is that almost without
exception it is executed by Miss Ida
Moore. Among the rare exceptions we
had the pleasure of noting an excellent
portrait of Dr. Moore, just finished, done
by Mrs. George Strunck,and presented
to Miss Moore. This is a life-sized oil
painting, three-quarters length. It is a
fine work in every particular. The po
sition is standing.'witharm supported on
a banister. The background is a library
scene, of the artist's own designing. The
expression and tints and every detail of
the finish are remarkably natural, and
withal, though from the brush and pa
lette of another, it is not strange that it
should be, as it is, among the most high
ly prized paintings of the collection.
GRAND ARM GUEANENGS.
Particulars Pertaining to the Post.
The sons of veterans have organized a
camp at Winfield.
A Post of the G. A. R. has been organ
ized at Garden Plain.
They manufacture G. A. K. floar at
Sedgwick city.
The old soldiers of Iola celebrated the
anniversary of the battle of Shiloh.
Frankford Bee: The G. A. R. have de
cided to hold the county reunion at this
place, and the Adjutant instructed to
confer with the other Posts of the coun
ty to fix the dates.
News: The G. A. R. post of Stockton,
have made arrangements to build a hall
40x100 feet, with an armory down stairs
The building will be a stone one and
will be a credit to the G. A. R. boys.
Wichita Beacon: Department Comman
der Stewart, Assistant Adjutant General
Woodcock, and Quartermaster General
Myers, have each received a beautiful
gold G. A. E. Badge as presents from J.
Olds of Philadelphia.
Centralia Journal: The G. A. R. Post
bought of F. A. Stiekel & Co., the hall
they now occupy on Wednesday last .for
$300 and will make immediate improve
ment. The Post is composed of solid cit
zens, and no doubt will keep abreast of
the times in this matter.
Iola Register: A large delegation from
McCook post G. A. E., went to Moran
last night to help Sanders post celebrate
the anniversary of Lee's surrender. We
acknowledge a cordial invitation to ac
company them, and very much regret
that it was impossible for us to leave
town.
Newton Republican: The lecture by
Mrs. Anna Wittenmyer at the Baptist
church, last evening, was highly inter
esting. Mrs. Wittenmyer is thoroughly
conversant with her subject and is a
very fluent speaker. The G. A. R. peo
ple will come out several dollars ahead,
and will devote the proceeds to expenses
of decoration day.
Eldorado Times: The ladies of the
Relief Corps have a pillow of velvet
beautifully wrought in roBes, vines, etc.
a veritable posy-bed on exhibition at
the TJ. S. Boot and Shoe store which is
to be sold by 200 tickets at 50 cents each,
one of which will bear a lucky number
and win the pillow. The proceeds of the
sale will go to purchase a new carpet for
Masonic hall. The work on the pillow
is in the highest degree creditable to the
skill of Mrs. A. F. Roberts, who gener
ously donates it for the purpose named.
Lyons Democrat: The G. A. R. enter
tainment was greeted by the largest audi
ence of the season; the hall being crowd
ed and seats at a premium. The even
ing passed very pleasantly and the pro
gramme was presented in a very credita
ble manner by the "boys" who took
part, and they all have a right to feel
proud of their efforts in planning, and
bringing to a successful termination, so
good an evening's entertainment. We
understand the Post realized a handsome
sum that will replenish the relief fund,
which has been severely depleted by
charitable work during the Winter just
ended.
A special meeting of Lincoln Post,
Topeka was held at G. A. R. Hail on the
evening of the 15th, in honor "of Col.
M. Stewart, the new department com
mander. Geo. M. Noble, J. S. Shellabar
ger, H. K. Danenhauer, Geo. F. Parmelee,
and A. K. Rodgers were mustered. Af
ter the ceremonies an impromptu camp
fire was called in which the ladies of the
Relief Corps joined. Col. Stewart com
plimented the Post on the excellency of
their work. Post Commander Hanna
ford, of Wisconsin, Col. Carroll, of Paola;
Post Commander Pond, of Ft Scott ;
Commander Capson, of Chicago; Col.
Woodcock, of Wichita ; Mrs. Finley and
Mrs. Huron, of Topeka, and others, made
short addresses. The occasion was a
most enjoyable one. The committee ap
pointed by the various G. A. E. Posts on
Memorial Day are requested to meet at
Major Anderson's office on Saturday at
4 p. m. for the purpose of organizing.
The Committee on Transportation ap
pointed by the department encampment
of the Grand Army to secure rates to
Portland, Me., for those who wish to at
tend the National Encampment in June
next met at the Windsor hotel in To-
Eeka April 15th. They were met
y passenger agents from various
railroads. The members of the com
mfttee regarded the rate of $37.50
from the Missouri river as too high to
take any considerable number from Kan
sas and as the railroad men present were
not authorized to make any lower rate, it
was decided to make an appeal to the
general managers for a reduced rate for
Kansas. The following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved, That the committee on trans
portation do not feel justified in recom
mending any particular railroad line to
the members of the G. A. E. in the state,
but that the matter be left with the
various posts of the department to make
their own arrangements.
Resolved, That the department officers,
delegates and their families will travel
by the lines giving the lowest rates and
best facilities.
The committee adjourned subject to
the call of the department commander.
There is scarcely a farm in Bucks
county to-day, says The Doyhstovm (Pa).
JnteUigencert that would sell for more
than the improvements in buildines and
fences would cost
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Sterling observed Arbor Day.
Hodgeman county has twelve postoffi
ces. Cowley county is to have a $3,000 poor
house.
Carpenters and masons are called for
at Norton.
Ex-Gov. Glick has returned from
Washington.
The school board of Lindsborg observ
ed Arbor Day.
"Progressive euchre" has reached the
northern tier.
The Eepublic County Pilot has been
started at Cuba.
Ten new houses are in course of erec
tion at Minneapolis.
Twenty emigrant teams came into
Stockton Sunday last.
The public square at Phillipsburg was
planted in trees on Arbor day.
The Winfield school board set out 300
maples on the different school grounds.
The Santa Fe officials planted trees
about the offices and yards of the com
pany at Nickerson.
The Kansas Sugar company at Ster
ling expects to make a large amount of
sugar the coming season.
Hon. C. J. Jones, of Garden City, had
a sale of his town lots last week, which
aggregated over $5,000.
On account of the fear that dipththeria
might become epidemic in the schools of
Hiawatha, a vacation was given last
K. Raymond has been appoint
ed official reporter for the different Dis
trict courts of" the Thirteenth Judicial
District.
There is some reasons to believe that
the Santa Fe company will build a line
of railway from a point near Florence
direct to Wichita,
Hon. A. J. Hoisington states that every
one hundred proofs, made in Comanche
county, are held by the General Land
Office, for investigation.
Arbor Day was duly observed by the
Valley Falls schools. About seventy
five trees were planted, and quite a
number of roses and flowering shrubs.
Seven new brick two-story business
houses are on the tapis at Independence,
to be built on the burned district just as
soon as the material can be produced.
Abilene has recently suffered the dam
ages of two fires, one was an ice house
and the other a row of frame business
houses on Spruce street. The total loss
will probably reach $9,000.
Twenty-three thousand acres of land
were recently entered in one day at the
Garden City land office. The settlers
are largely in Clark, Meade and Coman
che counties.
The old residence building of Dan
Ainsworth, situated in the north part of
Newton, near Sand Creek, one of the
early "land marks," was burned down
Monday morning last about 7 o'clock.
Ellsworth Reporter: At least 100,000
trees were planted in Kansas on Arbor
Day. The pupils of the Ellsworth public
schools set out trees on the school house
grounds, and it is expected that each
child will look after his or her particular
tree.
The county commissioners have let
the contract for the Ottawa county new
courthouse to Kelly & Stephenson and
Limdgren & Manly, home contractors,
for $19,900. Work will be commenced
immediately and the building will be in
closed this year and finished next. This
is quite a victory for Minneapolis.
At Auberry, Johnson county, two
young men named Frank Harrison and
John Kearner quarreled about a girl to
whom both had been paying attentions.
Suddenly Kearner drew a revolver and
6hot and instantly killed Harrison. Both
young men belong to well-to-do families
of the county. Kearner went to Olathe
and gave himself up to the authorities
and is now in jail.
Wellington Press: A private letter re
ceived by a lady in this city from her
husband who is in New Kiowa, savs that
a few days ago four cowboys entered that
town and took possession of everything,
enforcing their demands at the revol
ver's muzzle. They put as en stop
to all building arrangements, ran all
the land agents out of town. They furth
er swore that the railroad should not en
ter the place. The building contractors,
Messrs. Dobbs & Campbell, have d'e
charged all of the carpenters in their em
ploy, who have gone back to Caldwell,
where quiet reigns. J. C. Jackson and
son, formerly of this place, have packed
their "kit" and gone to Medicine Lodge.
Hiawatha is in a flutter of excitement
over the report that the Missouri Pacific
is to build an extension from that point1
to Denver. "The news comes direct
from the headquarters of the company,"
says the World, "and whether or not it
starts from Hiwatha the indicatons
would seem to warrant the belief that
the new line will be speedily built Th6
Missouri Pacific, under the existing ar
rangments, is cut off from all western
business except with the one line the
Central Branch, and their lease of that
is but temporary. There is but the al
ternative left, then, of building a line of
their own through to Denver, and a
fitrht for thfiir RharA rf Vinioncoa nivoa
tip the field to the other lines, or brings
wem 10 sausiactory terms."
Wichita Eagle: And now they have
newfangled ways of getting married as
well as doing almost everything else. A
gentleman who came here a short time
ago from Texas, and whose face is be
coming quite familiar on Douglas avenue,
was married by telegraph dav before
yesterday. The girl was at one end of
the wire at Dallas, Texas, while the man
was here at the other end of the wire.
The vows were passed between the par
ties which made them one. The preach
er also was in Texas. It may be a very
good way to get married, but it would
appear to us to be a little cold. We pre
fer the old style.
STOCK SQUIBS.
Points and Items about it"Hui Stock.
Watch the dogs now.
The late warm weather has caused the
manifestation of the heel fly.
The cattle that get bogged are those
which are too weak to extricate them
selves. The Salem Argus says that cattle are
doing well and horses are in fine shape
in that locality.
W. J. Smith, of 8every, shipped one
hundre'd head of fine fat cattle from Sev
ery to St Louis a few days ago.
Frank Randall of Manhattan was so
unfortunate as to lose a thoroughbred
Jersey calf last week. Had it lived it
would have easily brought $100.
Peabody Gazette: Messrs. Rathbone
sold 180 head of fat steers for $5 50 per
100 lbs. the other day. W. H. Sutphiri
sold 150 head for a good figure.
Peabody Gazette: It cost the Short
Horn breeders in the recent combina
tion sale $750 to sell their 100 animals, or
&7 Krt nav Kaail TUI 1 t-i ...
vi .u pcx uvou. j.uib biiuwb mat getting
up a big sale is quite a costly affair.
Peabody Gazette: Dr. Loose bought a
splendid Berkshire sow at Dr. Lackey's
sale for $15. The same night she gave
birth to seven beautiful pigs, making the
doctor's Berkshires cost him less than $2
a head.
Oswego Republcian: W. W. Inglish,
who had a span of horses stolen from
him some six years ago, was lucky to
recognize and claim them on the street
one day last week. They were among
a lot of horses on their way West
Cattlemen in southern Kansas are not
much concerned about the settlement
upon their ranges of grangers. The cat
tlemen consider that the grangers will
be valued agents in the procurement of
titles to the range.
Cattle on the Gorham range in Ford
county are in a fair condition. Only a
few losses have occurred there up to the
present time. There are twelve thous
and head of cattle on this range and
there are eighteen acres of grazing land
to each head.
Ludwick Kramer,of the the cattle firm
of Kramer & Sons, whose range is on
'No Man's Land," and who are holding
15,000 head of cattle, says that the cattle
losses on their range, from the warm
season ol last year to the warm and grass
producing season of the present, will not
exceed five per cent
Some cattlemen deny that there is such
an insect as a heel fly. An experienced
range stackman has informed the Dodge
City Cowboy that he had never found one,
although thousands of times he had
seen cattle rustling at the height of their
speed for the bogs to cool their fevered
feet. It is his theory that the annoy
ance to cattle by the exudation from the
spines of grubs, is the cause of the crazy
actions which is popularly attributed to
the heel fly.
The truth of the matter is that in wes
tern Kansas, Texas, southern Colorado
and New Mexico cattle went through the
winter in unusually 'fine shape. The
weather was the worst ever known, in
frigidity temperature and prolongation
of severity, yet the good condition of the
range and the hardihood of the old rang
ers, enabled the cattle to successfully
buffet the icy blasts of the late terrible
winter. Where range cattle had an
abundance of sea room they got along
swimmingly. The late through Texas
cattle suffered severely upon the ap
proach of the northers and many of
them woodbined, and the loco in some
localities causeed both horses and cattle
to yield to the inevitable, On the whole,
however,in the buffalo grass regions east
of the mountains, range live stock went
through the past winter in a manner sat
isfactory to the owners. In that portion
of the Indian territory, where the regu
lar prairie or blue-stem graps covers the
plains, the cattle losses were heavy.
There is but little substance in prarie
grass in winter. The buffalo grass, when
properly cured, is quite as nutricious in
winter as when sporting a hue of green.
The Fifer and Drummer of Scltnate.
Boston Evening Transcript.
So many different accounts have
appeared from time to time regarding
"the fifer and the drummer ofScituate,"
that the public hesitate which to accept.
With a view of getting at the real facts,
and presenting the subject in an authen
tic light, your correspondent visited Miss
Abby Bates, the surviving sister, to ob
tain her version of the incident. "Aunt"
Abby, as she is familiarly called, lives
alone in a low, old-fashioned house, on a
bluff overlooking the ocean. Although
nearly eighty-eight years of age, her
mind is clear and her health good.
Eebecca W. and Abby were born in
Providencetown, Maes., and in 1803 the
family moved to Situate Centre. Her
father was a seafaring man. The fishing
business was dull, and, having a family
of thirteen children to provide for, he
was obliged to seek other employment.
Through the influence of Mr. Jesse Dun
bar, the Captain was appointed keeper
of the light-house, wherein, December,
loll, the family took up their residence.
It was about the middle of the after
noon on a pleasant September's day that
Rebecca's mother said to har: "Make a
fire and put the Kettle on; father and the
boys will be at home soon." Tho echo
of this command had scarcely diod away
before the mother espied two barges
heading directly for the light. Each
barge was maned by about sixteen men,
and carried a brass cannon on its bows.
The guard were away. The excited
mother, throwing up her arms, exclaimed
"Children, the redcoats are coming."
At a glance the girls comprehended the
situation. "In the north room of the
house," said Aunt Abby "were kept the
fife and drum belonging to the guard.
"Up into the room rushed Eebecca,
and, returning, handed me the drum,
saying, 'You be the drummer and I'll be
the fifer.'" Ensconced behind the
light the American army of two began,
"Give 'em the roll call," commanded
Becky. This being done, the strains of
"Hail Columbia" and "Yankee Doodle"
pealed forth on the air. The music was
continued for somo time, now in imita
tion of an army marching, now counter
marching, untill at last it was observed
that the La Hogue displayed a flag on
the masthead as a signal for the men to
return. Peeping from behind the light
Rebecca saw that the barges were return
ing in obedience to the signal. With
joy beaming in her girlish eyes she said
to her sister, "Scare 'em. I told you so:
see, they are going back." "As soon as
we saw them return." said Aunt Abby,
"we struck to playing 'Yankee Doodle.'
because the British dislike that. I tell
you sir, We just put in on that too."
"How long shall I let dot dozen of
beer stand I've got against yon?" asked
George Horner, a San Antonio saloon
keeper of a local inebriate.
"How long have they been standing?
More than a year? asked the local ine
briate. "Yes"
"Then you had better emp'y those
bottles. The beer must be flat by this
time."
C. W. IT.
-DEALER IN-
Stoves and Tin Ware, Wood
Corn Shelters, I X L Stalk Cutters, Horse Powers, "
Tanks. Also Agent for the
OLD RELIABLE HALLIDAY STANDARD,
TWENTY-NINE YEARS IN USE.
All wanting to purchase Windmills will do well to call at my Shop, opposite Post
office in Wa-Keeney, and get catalogue of prices before purchasing.
BEFERENCES-J. O. Ella worth. 8, T.Bartlett, 8. P. Bartlett, B. Hacker. A C. JHck,
W. 8. Mead, Thomas Caddick. of Wa-Keeney; Samuel Bowman, two mills; Thomas Moore, aadg,
16-foot geared mill for Thomas Hindman, of Grainfield, and George B. Henn and John Collie,: I
Graham county. Tne above list is a part of the mills I have sold and put np in the last year. I else
manufacture and repUr all kinds of tinware and fit np pump and gas and wi ter p'pe.
THE ELECTRICAL AGE.
Wonders of Electricity to be Realised
Before Many Tears.
Robert Lnce in Van Nostrand's Magazine.
The possible application of the prin
ciple of the electrical transmission of
power are almost numberless. We Khali,
I believe, at no distant date, have great
central stations, possibly situated at
the bottom of coalpits, where numer
ous steam engines will drive many elec
tric' machines. We shall have wires
laid along on every street, the elec
tricity tapped into every house, and
the quantity of electricity in each
house registered as gas is at
present. The storage battery will
fill a place corresponding to the gasome
ter in the gas system, making the current
steady, rendering tne consumer inde
pendent of the irregular action or stop
pages of the dynamos of the central
station, and enabling the use of dynamos
of the highest tension ; i. e. : those which
produce the currents of the greatest, in
tensity. The electricity will be passed
through little electric machines to drive
machinery to produce ventilation, to re
place stoves and to work all sorts ol ap
paratus, as well as to give everybody an
electric light. Solar heat will be used to
run the dynomos in the cloudless re
gions. Every where the power of the
tides, and such waterfalls as Niagara are
to be utilized. Is not a millennium to be
anticipated when the water power of a
country shall be available at every door?
Steam, which in the last century has
conferred so many benefits on the world,
will give way before electricty. The dy
namo will replace the steam engine.
This prediction seems wild and vision
ary, yet when steam was first thought of
as an available force its advocates were
considered just as the advocates of dy
namical electricity to-day are considered,
mere enthusiasts. But public opinion
never stops the march of intellects. After
it had proved the powers of steam to be
enormous, genius never halted, but
straightway went on anticipating still
more wonderful discoveries in the realms
of electricity.
The prophetic ken of science was hap
pily exhibited by Dr. Lardner, in his
treatise on the steam engine. "Philos
ophy," said he, half a century ago, "al
ready directs her fingers at sources of
inexhaustible power in the phenomena
of electricity and magnetism, and many
causes combine to justify the expecta
tion that we are on the eve of me
chanical discoveries still greater than
any which have yet appeared;
and that the steam engine itself,
with the gigantic powers con
ferred upon it by the immortal Watt
will dwindle into insignificance in c6m
parisonwith the hidden powers of na
ture still to be revealed, and that the day
will come when that machine which is
now extending the blessings of civiliza
tion to the most remote skirt3 of the
globe will cease to have existence except
in the page of history."
To day we are beginning to appreciate
the truth of this prophecy. To-day we
see dynamical electricity in the forefront
of the physical sciences. The principle
of the transmission of power by electric
ity fast approaches5 its realization. We
are, in truth, just entering upon a won
derful age.
Sir. Cox's Foresight.
A rather amusing instance of the ways
of some of the Democratic retrenchers
and reformers is afforded by some
changes in the last diplomatic appropria
tion bill. It is to be remembered that
Mr. S. S. Cox, who has lately been ap
pointed Minister to Turkey, had a good
deal to do with the provisions of this
bill as passed at the last session of Con-
Igress.
mat ait. uox, tne uongressman ana
chairman of the committee on .Foreign
Relations, would legislate so as to make
it comfortable for Mr. Cox, the Minister
to Turkey, is not to be averred lightly;
but somehow or other, things seem to
have fallen out that way to a remarkable
degree. It turns out that some very ma
terial new frills were added to the
American legation at Constantinople by
this measure. The salary of the Minis
ter Resident was increased from $7,500
to $10,000, and besides that, one or two
attaches were added and $1,000 provided
for the purchase of a steam launch for
the use of the Minister. If Mr. Cox was
a Republican, the Democrats would be
now plainly intimating that he fixed up
things very nicely for himself.
When tne next Congress meets it looks
as if there was a good chance for a strike
in favor of retrenchment and reform by
cutting down that $1,000 steam launch.
30 Tears Experience FK.
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