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'" { . " ' ' 'tn + 0 1 4'+f " " K' K'; J ;,Y".,h , 6 ..4 .xv ~F , .i. "i f "l r r r', fj A . f 4r I ICKENS, S. C,, THURSDAY, JUNI+, 24, l THE NOW-CAPPED "ROCKIES." 3 IMPREisIONS OF A TRIP TrittIn 'TH1E ] STATE F4'oJ(0,0Ao. Scenes Along the Route by ltnl-.-Th'e Wonder fal City. of Denver--The Future of a (.rcat Conmonwealch. (Denver Letter in Pomeroy's Democrat.) Those who ride in sleeping cars in the East are quito apt to remain in their i bench to turn, snooze, think, plan and rest as on they roll. Not so here. ~ Sun rise, and all were up. The oars of the Burlington Route were so well laden 1 with passengers that every berth was 1 occupied, the great majority of passen gers-in the sleepers being persons from t the East who had never been to Denver, t never seen its rocky mountains. Near ing their destination, they were like the early bird. It is now six o'clock. In two hours we will be in Denver. The berths havo allubeen made'up for the day, the cars dusted out and people are on the qui vivo. We are running southwest. Be- 1 hind us is the head of the Republican i valley and the millions of acres of choice % Nebraska corn land. We are on top of f the divide, as a fly would be on top of a f barrel that lay upon the ground. Miles e of unfenced country are to be seen, with t here and there a little house, home of a homesteader or headquartere4 of a ranch- I man or cattle raiser whose cattle are to I be seen grazing on the wide expanse of I plains here being run over. I The depot buildings are small, painted t red and snug. Depots are so far apart I that several others can be built between n them in time! The appearance is that 1 of a very now country, yet it is older in c fact than is the East., as first of all from a the vasty deep rose the backbone of the continent, stil to the west of us. 7 *A lady screams: -'O! See!'" She points to the west and there, sure enough, areo to be seenI the snow-capped mountain peaks of the grand old 111o11n tains. In a little while the cars have s sped on so that we see the main range, extending south from Cheyenne or near there, for hundreds of miles. They rise t as a great wall might rise along the sea ( shore, the plains to the east being under I the evening shadows of the mountains A that rise in the west. Now we see down into the valley of the South Platte. Many school teachers insist that Denver is a city on the North Platte. Such is not the case. Denver is .on the waters of the South Platte, about t 140 miles fron where it, heads. Thlee riyer is not large, except after a freshet. It runs through a pleasant, wide valley that ai Denver is fourteen niles east from the ioot hills and that at (reely is about forty miles east. Along here is the choice agricultural lands of the State, i taking in the county west from Denver t to Golden in a gorge of the mountains, Boulder, Longnont, Fort Collins and i Orcely, in the respective coun)ties of t Jefferson, Boulder, L:arimor and Weld. t Longmont being in Boulder county, one t of the fluest in the State. West of these counties, west - from , Denver, the county-seat of Arapahoe y county are the Rochy Mountains, rising as an abrupt granite 1wall to the height of I ai mikor 8,000 feet above the plains- t From north to south we see them from i the cars, a range of fully two hundred c mile. Denver is about 6,000 feet above a sea level. We are a full mile near the i stars than are those who live in New York. The mountains rise lip into the s cloudsthat rest, upon their snowy lealks. from 6,000 to 8,000 feet aleve the plains. 6 The air is light, so clear, so r'arified < (hat no new comer' canU judge distanee. ,s To the nortivest we see a very high ( peak, standing like a whitc-headedl Long JTohn Wentworth, of Chicago, higheri' than his fellows. That is Long's lPeak. a It is named ml hlonor of L.ieut. Long, anl i exlolrer who was a long tinme in getting 1 to the top of it, there to float the Ameri-r can flag.C wiIITE AnOvE Til15 onAY AND olt5EEN. O>now is whilte and deep on thoe tops aind sA1mes of the mountains, while the plains below ar'e green with growing grains and grasses. Away along to the I Soulth rise thie a)otw-eappedei Rockies, liker a great cross-cut saw., jts teeth inl air. It t is seventy miles from where we are thisi mtorning- in thie ears, west to the top of c Long's P'eak, yet people in the caIrn esti- I mate the distance at fifteen to twenty v miles. There are big maountainis lad little a mountains all stuck inl togetheri like C Eslothes-pins iln a snow heap. About -t :sety-five nilecs south fr'om Long's i: P and sixty miles due west from 8 Denver, its snow-white to1) piercing a al .gray, sniow-made cloud that is beating 1 gip to fall and to whiten anew, rises f Org's Peak, tihe top of which is 14,441 e iet above tihe level of (lie sea. It is the mnountain unider' which the comipaniy oIf 1 which the editor and writer hereof is piresidenit is driving a tunnel ait the alti- I tuide of 10,000 feet~abovo sea level, amnd wvhich tunnel will bie live miles long. a Welcome, old fellow! We have seen I you before, as fr'omi your slunit range I we hlave looked east towvard (lhe Atlantic and westwardl toward (lie Paifiic, miles I upon miles. Some of these days we w~ill walk through you anid ride through you,, and 'Walk into your hundreds of fissure il veins laden with gold, silver, co)pper andC a lead, and get as nmuchl fatness ont of ,youi as a rat geta out of a cheese it haistur-.i rbwed into beyond the reach of a cat. To the south from Gr'ay's P~eak, about] seventy-five miles distant, with nmanv. snow-covered peak botweeni us is rutE's PECAK, dist.ant ab)out inety mliles fromi Dene but its top not so igh by fourteenfe as is Gray's Peak, which uip-shoots west of Denver, as a.gnide to Salt Lake City ~ iwhich is 403 miles north of west fromn Denver, ihreet line, and 687 miles dis- I (ant by rail, via Cheyenne, and 775 miles ~ distent by way of Pueblo and Guion rimsl the D)enver anId Rio Grane n411ntain elimnby railroad,l. Then on to tile south, fair as the eye can reach, rise thie moneItaUis as a wftll ~ between eastern and western Colorado--~ between the A4lantic and the Pacific, and known as the Continentail Divide. TOOK oUlT 111s f7'TU , $peaking of the above-naed monun- I tain route around and over fromi Denver a to Salt Lake, it is one of the wonders t of the 'world. A prominent business man a and capitahlM fro Linoo Nebraaka, vas on the train and we heard him say: 'I have been over the Northern Pacific, nd the Union Pacific, and the Central ?acific to the Pacific Ocean. They are ,rand routes. But the grandest moun ain route of all that I have over rode >ver is the Denver and.Rio Grando from )enver by way of Gunnison to Balt ake. It takes a man to the top of the nountains above the clouds, and lets urn down into gorges that almost ex. slude the sun. I would not have missed t for anything, and yet I would not ride >ver it again for ten thousand dollars. Cho way the cars run down the terrible frades is frightful. I looked out till my lead ached. Then I became seasick and lervous, and it seemed to me that I must )c dashed to pieces." Thus do the works and reputations of ,reat thinkers and workers gird the con inent and stretch from pol to pol; but here is no more need to doubly insure rour life when riding over the Denver and Rio Grando Railroad than when iding over any other road built and >porated by men who know their busi ess. YEARS AoO. To Pike's Peak. That is what folks aid years ago. They did not go to ike's Peak, but to the junction of Cher y Creek with the South Platte river, here in the bed of the stream gold was ound. Pike's Peak was a landmark seen or hundreds of miles, and to get within eventy-five miles of it was "getting here" in those days. The beautiful ten perance city of Colo ado Springs, forty-five miles south from )enver, is between Deuiver and Pike's leak, )ut there are no springs at Colo ado Springs. At the foot of the mioun ains, five miles west, are springs, at sanitou, or in the garden of the gods, s SOme Oo el named this grand, majestic ocality, from which folks start on horses r mules for the top of Pike's Peak, and chance to see the world below. We cc into the valley of the South Platte. t comes out from a doorway in the uountains, about twenty-six miles soutlh rest from Denver, as the water came out if the rock struck by Moses. By the way, Moses was different from ome people of to-day, as he was a sue essfl striker. See the crooked line of bright, green rces, thrifty cotton-wood, that mark the ourse of the river. See the belt. of green arms along the river, clear down to )enver, and on forty miles north, show Dg where farmers are getting in their vork, and by irrigation bringing forth rop"s that pay large profits. DENvER. Now we see the spires of thecity. Now he city itself. Gracious! what, a city. here it is, fourteen miles east of the foot. uills. Fourteen miles east from the tiountainls, on the plains. It looks like ,n oasis in a desert. A city four miles wug and about a mile and a half wide. L city of 80,000 inhabitants. One of the iandsomcst, most progressivo cities in lie Union.' Considering all things it has to rival on earth. Where thirty years go was a bald-headed plain, now rise ens of thousands of trees, to almost hide he beautiful city they shade. Out from lie green rise towers of churches and ehools, finler than are to be found else here west of the Mississippi river till e reach San Fr;neisco. Cupolas of alatial private residences, and high eaded towers for electric lights, prove hat a modern, progressive people are hose who live in the city inied in h]on r of General Denver, the gallant pioneer ncd statesma;i, who now resides in Wash ngton. From the tops of those high smoke tacks that mark the locatiotl of the great. melters of Argo, owned by United tates Senator N. P. Hill, Wolcott and ters, 1111 of the Omaha and D)enver melIting works, ownied bIy (ex-(overnor hraut and others, the snmoke rolls day nd night withou1t ceasing, as millions loni millions oIf dollads worth (If gold ind silver bullion are here each year oasted and stewed out of thme Ore brought obycars from the wondrous mines f oorado. Thiiten raijroad lines entre here at thme Union depot, one (If lie'largest and handsomest in the world. Now we comoc up to the broad1 plateau *f railroad works in front (If the depot; *n time to the minute, from Chicago to )enver direct bly the Bunrlinigton route, o more worn, worried or weariea than hough we stayed at home and worked a the garden. Here are lines (If horse ars leading to all parts of the city orth, south, east and west. Here ar.e ido, rIcan streets of the broad gauge attern. Amida them on each side runi treanms of water, used for the irrigation f gardens farther back. Here are shade rees making D)enver to appear as located i sonmc anchanted forest. Here are tele raph nmessenge.r boys; churches as fine s. are to be found in New York city, rithi audiences that cannot he excelled r dress and all that peCrta1ins to) n1odern njoIyable religion. IHere are monthly, weekly and daily apers, chief of which is the Rocky lounmtam News. Hero are banks as mie as well oflicered and as solidly foun ationed as are any in the country. Here re moire large, beautiful stores and more ive, prosperTous merchants than can be udin aniy city of its sizei in the Unitedl tates. IHere arq hotels equal to the very (st in tlas coiuntry, with guests from 11 parts (If the world. Here are manu acturing est alzihments growing into erfect life. H ere areL as4 good pe)ople *nd as de(servinig as5 the sunl ever shone n, and niore (If pIrogress to the square neh thaii can he found ini any other *ities oIf this 'ouintry save Chicago, St. ~auml and Minnueapolhis, as into, the West ush the vigoIrouis-Ihinded mien who make o'rtunes quicly,, as; they heuve vim, rauins and means, with courage to inivest tot ilone in Dnver prop1eirty, buit in utside lands and mines1(. Here, too, are lines oIf gamle rs;, sh ark's, hysters, (dead-b eai 5, huncoie steereres, ani1( 11 that goes to maitke up a li;e, cosmuo >olitan city. Here, too, are the jiiy-hawk - re, black-miler(s anud sceinig plunde(lr ru of all wvho have legi t imalte b usiniess nterp)rijies in tow. Hlere, tool, are the oilfIi, heartle5s grabbers f.or all ]heie m in sight. Men:~ who get diruink, abuse51 hemselves and all who trust theum. Men rho have ''played out" in other locali zes, and who camne here to whet their angs agaiaj,~ each other, and who rip it -t al hmte ejn se upo0n 1 uKne5 er ae iser , .~iddes, 11 bunoheli in together and helpin0 to well the grand variety. Hero is a n~amie~ o n[m~md up of Al, men, from first to last. Here are as fine places of amusement as can be found in New York, and here gather audiences that for wit, wealth, worth, beauty and style, cannot be excelled any where on this continent. All in all, Denver is a model city, with hundreds of attractions and but few black patches or drawbacks. Her artesian wells from which come the purest of clear cold water; her rich gardens from which come small fruits and vegetables; her fine hot-houses from which com choice flowers in endless variety and pro fusion, and her unequaled climate make this the capital of Colorado a city to be proud of, built here as it is in the midst of what was once called theAreat Ameri can Desert! And this of a State that yields the best wheat in the world and that, with a l)ol)ulation less than 300,000 total, lifts over 40,000,000 of dolars' worth of wealth out of her coal, iron, gold, silver, lead and copper mines year ly, hardly yet dug into except as pros pects to determine how to conduct future miling operations. How bright and beautiful the morning! How busy are all whom we meet! 0-11 ('113ENA1 COO)N'1. IN cAN%Ih.t. Efow Somte of thte 1?unnwny' Itogauen 11uwporl TIheu)Raelvee un'TheIr City of1 Henoge. A Montreal correspondent of the New York Mail and Express writes: "John C. Eno heads the list of criminals in ('ana da. Hle is living at Quebec. The house lie rents is large, and the situation de lightful. It is two and a half miles from the postoflice. The rent lhe pays-near ly $2,000 a year-is, for Quebec, enorm ous. This means, proportiolately, lboult $0,000 to $8,000 per year in New York. Rents are very low in the (old lRock City, and the Eno house at .Beauvoir is one of the finest, in the sublurbs. Finani cially, he appears to be at ease. He drives good horses and is liberal with his money, but socially he is not known. Neither lie nor his wife is ever invited out, nor are they visited by society peo ple. Eno has Iever been asked to the Garrison mess, and does not belong to the only social organization in Quebec of any pretensions--the (arrison Club. The old French faniilies do not ask hini to their houses. Hlis acquaintances are principally made at barrooms. Some few society men have a Ilodding uaqulaint ance with lim. Society is exclusive, and the old llblesso have long memo ries. Whenl lEno) gives dinner "parties" they are only attended by his legal ad visers, or speculators who may wish to see him. The Comnercial Clul) he be longs to is a small place where men of business meet. It has no social signiti cance and does not pretend to auv. Many leslectahle uerelhants belong to it. These men nimeet. Eno) inl a business way. 'They do nc ask him to their hlomes. Some of the: may drink with lhin at the St. Louis 'Iotel when they meet him there; that is all. He visit: the houses of two or three personal friends, but the stories about his being received into society are exaggerations. He attends cocking nams and billiard tournaments, and lie is a constant visitor to St. Roch. This is the roughest sub urb iml the city. '"The New York Aldermen and their friends attract much attention. They are -Billy Moloney, Charley I)enpsey, Keenan anid )e :Lacy. They all have rooills on the same floor of the Windsor Hotel, with the exceltioln of Billy Mo loney, who is in a small house near the hotel. )e Lacy and Keenan are great chuns, and are rarely out of each other's sight. Moloney and )enpseyJ", . how ever, seem to be engage in p icket duty and throwing inquisitive peo)le ofi the scent. They ?il live like lords, getting the best of , v.rythiing and scattering their money abiot liike water. ''New Yor-a has not a monlopo(ly of the criminals here; Chuicatgo makes a very good runming for second place. Moris the 'church deacon,' anid truisted adviser of widows nd orlitains, hieads the list. Morris hadut thtousanuds of dollars initruist ed to his care. 'The p)eople whose mtoney lhe had were chiefly poor, struggling men and wyomen, who had saved the gather ings ittrusted to him after years of self sacrifice and privation. '[he victims of this man thought they wer-e saving uip for the 'rainy day.' Many of his dupes were laboriig m eii, charwomen and1( orphans to whem smiall suns of iimney had b)een left, Hie encouraged the pt plc to deposit their mnonev in his keep, ing. When lie got what'hie considered sutleienit for his wants lielelt. 1Ihe miade pautper's of hiunmdreds of p)oor peopile in Chicago. He (lees not appealr to mind that. H-e as runtmninig a prosperous busi nes3 her-c. Tie wi-item' saw himt in a butggy yesterday. lHe sat behind a fast tr-otting b)lack. Thie luhb of health was present on his countenance. Tlhere was no cowardly conscience ini thait moan 's face. .But the dietectives say that Morris is no(t at ease, for all his iassumpitioni of mdiffe~rencte. TJhecy have niotied that lie always cpu iloys the one driver toi take him 'to and fronm his platce of business. 'Thley think ho is atfraid of hbeing kidl nappedc(." A Itnlh ~dIitor I*nys~ for n ifnt. Thne Cleveland Pr'ess permits ma little facetious diversion in its State news colh umin, which is condtucted by a ytung Norwalk newspap)(.' matn ne iitloster'. It is appriopimate to say that. he is unm marritied and tunengatged. Lanst 'iTisdaiy lie published a paragraph to this efl'ect: ''A Maion giril started hert gradua timng essay ats followvs: 'F aim fairly wearied out with the inceessaiit prnating of the lords of creation on the ditties antd sphere of woman.' " The paragraph closed with the somewhat dmnger'ous asseri,ion th at the edhitoir woiul bet a new sprinlg lhat that the authmor of that discourse onI wotman's spbi .re could not bake a loaf of b)read. Suurday Mr1i. Foster rec(eived front Marion 'u large box. ft conmtatied sundry light le'aves of bread anid enke, in'arvelimi.1 'oothisomne. An ttaopa niyi altidav'it bore the solensii o'.th of the sweet giril graduaimite (who ps sesses the pretty naime of May Williams; that hma, unaided, bankedl the wheat bread mrked "'Exhnibit A," tha two specimens o)f corn briead marked "'Exhibit B,'' and the chocobiite cake "'Exhibit C." Thme notary's seal of onen wtis aflixed to the aililiavit, and it was settled beyound a doubt in Mr. -Foster's mind that hiis rash wag(-r had been aep1te'd. lHe thterefore weont out and lavished his week's salary on ai new spring hat. Of course lie had never seen Misst Williams.--Cincinnati Enquirer. Never waitt for dead man's shoes. Show. An interesting feature of the West Point Military Academy on Thursday last was the mounted exercises of the cadets in the riding hall. By the time Secretary of War landicott and party ar rived, Capt. Augur had a line of horse men before him. The men wore their gray fatigue suits and all sat their horses well. At a word they started off one after another and swept about the area at a gallop). Then sabres were drawn and the drill commenced. First the blade wac brought down upon an imaginary foe at the right., then it was twirled in air, next thrust forward, again backward, and lastit a sweeping slash was made to the left. Once the horses were in line, the nel stood at their heads. ".Mount." In a twinkling, ),, cry cadet was in air. In another, without touching a stirrup, he was in the sadlle. Another com mand. The men were on their feet again, but only to vault clean over sad dIe and all and stand ready at the other side. Then up again in the saddle. They twisted around, now facing for ward, now backward. and again side ways. A nd while they so drilled two uprights were fixed at at distance of about. fifty feet from each other with a pad as lug as a cap fixed upon each with i han dlIe attached to it. At a word tihe caval rytcn dashed off. Now one came along at full gaellop, leaned over ats he reached the upright till his 1and was below the level of the stirrups, and in fall career picked ilp one pad after another and tossed it. behind him. it was a feat re luiring coolness and address, lmt. iearly all exeented it, satisfactorily. Next the pad wias placed utpon an ill) right the height of it main, and at the salue dlshtitee as before another was plaeed on it lower stuand. Between themn was placed horizontally a beam resting onl two iprights-a good, stiff jump for it horse im such a litiited space, and one requiring at rider to have his brain clear. The wtord was given. A horseman came galloping on. As he reached the taller statnd lie drew a revolver. It flashed, laid the pad, struck by the bullet, tunilled oil, while the horse dashing oil was it moment after lifted over the har ill a lyin'g jnilp. Round still the horseman wen it, his coirades following one by one. And tow its hI(le approached the staitd on which the pad is replaced he has his sabre on. Ie ainshes at it., hiL it fair-ly, and almost before it reaches the ground he is over the bar; his sabre cuts an are through the air as (e leans over his hotrse's shoulder and tosses up with it great slash it bunch of tanbark, and then just recovering in his saddle he 1rings down the blade with a SW eep tlou the pad of the si'cound upright and tosses it ofl. In the next exercise the tprights and pads are still there, but in place of the jumnp is :a high pole with a tr"atsverse bar, from which hangs just. within roach of a horseman's '.abre anll iron ring only it feV inches iii diamueter. And through all this, too, the horses go around tt. tIe top of their speed, the feat, repeated agaii and again, a few failing, 1nit nearly all successful. Next saddles are removed and the menl ride bareback at will. 'T'here is no circus performance like this spectacle. 'T'he pllaec is full of hounding :teeds; some withi riders leaning over th ir shoulders till their hands sweep the ground; some lying at full length upon their ilcks; some facing to the rear, but guiding them with lIspir and rein; soie jumping on and off, like circus riders, while the alti mal is going at the top of his speed, and some vaulting clean over them and keep ing il) the pace. It is a thrilling specta cle, which a 1bu1irst, of itu)tise riewil anid thenic the men(1 reeat th1 eir exciting drill, triinig b)y couples onl hlIf the iiminher oIf holrses. It wolul 11e called a gallant etpite,triani show anmywhere. An old (officer's conunet interplreted tIhe general oplinion: "I never saw lbetter riders5." A ( ycIonei o 'rt-foar Vencrs Ago. Stories of the reccent eyclone ill Ohio are Comlinig ini quite freely, but they do( nIot appIroachI the marvelous storlies of the f(ornadto flhat swepIt upi the vatlley o'f the iroarin C1 odoirus, ini Yo rk eounty, inl the spIrinig of 1812. A fter the storlin we speak of oneW farnier fotund that hlis well had been pulled upl by the rotts and( waIs hianginig onI the limbls~of a white oak t re four miles awy A cellar blelonging to one (If his neighb ors was split inI two, (one lalf of it 1beinig 1blown fthrouigh iI stonte quarry and1( the othier hal11f tuirned up_1 (entwise against ai halystackl ini lie adtjoinig counity. A flock tof geese were comlplet ely strlippled (If thiei r feathers Iby the wind, anld a dlried apple pie wa'ts bIl tti oughl the siticof a school house15, terrif,ying thl e t eat:her an d sch olars, 1la sides ruiinhg aL large miap o (f the gralss hopper dhist.riet.s of Kanlsats. A large barnil conitainting thlirt een tolns of lIay wats lifted off its foundtation anti Catried'hnodi ly six miles tdownt tine valley, whtere it aett'edl dow!I 50 squaIrely tht thle doors1 ((ould he1 oplened witho'ut pIryhlig thlein, T he wind blew the tails off six I )lrhiam Cows, anid a Uerkshire pig, weighing 200) pouls, was blowin complJ)etely throu)igh lls skmi, the hti(e remaltniing inl It stiand m g Itositi andit p reservinig aln expression lIf naturanilness thI at dlecived many vis-t itorsi. Th'le 1bounldary lilies (If SI veral toIwnships were bentt a'll (out of shlapl, so that they lootked like a curled halir mat tress til at hot gridtdle, anid the ir was1 lownVi so compllletely out (If the valley when they wianted1 to bireathe'.- Phihudel lte( (II'fl l,,t Moenhi,,l NihnIiI r. "'le smiallest newspapecr (ot the contti lielt iS puiblishied ini (Guadalllajarla, Alexico, lie catpitatl (If the St ate (If .hdis(o, and1 inl oC(f thte leadin~g cities of th11 e rpulic. 1'h e El ITlIn, a a-yof w hic~h wais shtownis b y M lajor II ilderi, thle enereget iC comflniamonerl to thle World's Expjositionl, in t I city, front Mlissouri1, Is a fouri - page weekly, five bly thrie incOhes in size, a.m<t, ao nu- well ho fancied, is a nuirvel in the waIy of condensation. Thie mlotto of the paper, as translated, read(s: "i t - tie straw P-nd1 mhItll wvheat."' TIhe (tIl olenser of eithe~r the New York or UItati more Siun wouldi turin greenI withl tnvy after taking ai ghlimpse at this realhly worIi deriful little Mexican shleet. TIhe prnice of the paper peor week is Ine (cent. At tho bottom (If the ib'st page is printed theifollowing: "Rtesponsiblde- -Lina Luana, R. (1. Fuentos, pinflter." 'The coipy ini hand contains five smlall advertisernents. -New Orleana8 rTmane8Dmoc.a A A ittoulntc Fi,h-iLIke maci ne or Whicla (reat ''I(tag nre Kxpeerd. Lieutenant Ml. E. Hall, U. S. N., who for several years has been endeavoring to perfect a fish torpedo, has one now nearly perfected at the Eagle Iron Works in Iiuldo. The Courier describes it as twelve feet long, in three sections, and re-enforced by four longitudinal girderp to give it greater strength. In the Ox tremne how there is a capacity for a charge of se'venty pounds of gunpowder. This is fixed by means of a primer of fuhni nato of mercury. A )lunger projects in front, having two crossed knife edges constructed so as to act when the torp>e do strikes a vessel at a small angle. 'he ordinary torpedo in such a case would simply allow the projectile to glance off without exploding. The plunger breaks the screw that holds the spring-firing apparatus, thus releasing the firing pin which explodes the charge by striking the sensitive primer of fulminate of mer cury. On the bow there are two auto matic fins used for steering. The gen erator is composed of a series of tubes that hold gas and vapor at 1,000 poundis pressure. The middle section consists of plaiin cylinder 15- inches in diameter, and in this the generator is contained. The fins are worked by small engines whose valves are automatically controlled by power derived from the generator, whlose great pressure, 1,000 pounds to the square inch, has only been obtained after incessant labor and innumerable experiments, many of which were fail ures. The after section of the torpedo contains the propelling apparattus, con sisting of (ardner's patent three cylinder engimie, vhich works two screws by gear ing. 'ThFlese screws are two-bladeu, and revolve in opposite directions. Their l)ecnliar feature is that the blades of one screw are each at right angles to those of another, thus enabling screws of large diameter to be used as ixner blades of the screws revolving in the same space. The three dillerent sections of the tollpedo are screwed together so as to lmake water-tight joints. 'The projectile is so constructed as to dive and keep a certain depth by means of the aiutouati (illy controlled pins in the how and the diving rudder in the tail. Two tails tend to keep the torpedo upright and regular, en('losing the screws to )reventt their be ing fouled by any floating object, such as seaweed, etc. (I the top of the death dealing maichine are tlree hand holes covered b y plates -one giving access to the aplrriratus which controls the fires at, the engine, the other aIiording access to the diving rudde'. The engine is in closed in a steel case, wl ich slips into its plhce in the torpedo, and is there held by three tolts, so that it ean be readily re moved for examination or repair if need he. Attached to the engine is a governor, the invent io1n of Mr. (ardner, foreman of the Eagle Works. This governor con trols the eniginte so aS to give uniform rate of speed while working under viry ing degrees of pressure. The great advantage claimed for the new torpedo is its stratightness of course. The undulating imotioii of the ordinary torp edo freilently causes the machine to (live without striking its object. The new one, it is said, enli be aimed more directly and certainly at the precise spot where it vill have the greatest. destructive ipower. Anot1her idviltag e is ini the (is tance traversed. 'I'he ordinary torpedo. Iis i range of about. 700 yards; the new finny creature speeds along to the extent of alout a mile and a half, or 2,400 yards. The engine is the only one made in this country at all suitable for the work colitenmlplated, and the patent for thus part of the apparatus is vested in the E'agle Troll Works Company. Wit.hout iany speiail tem.ts or' aphainces, it is nothing short of woniderful howv eficient hy the new torpedo in all its parts has been complet ed :mnd now nearly fit ted together(1. It wvill shortly lie puit to the test in Lake Erie. ThIe wholeh aparatus has a 1lmoyiancy of fifteen feet, and it is coilmpulted to lie able to( bilow into siinithi erecens the largest vessel afloat. i'enatomr t ian Wyck, Van Wyck, 'of Nebiraska, is the only Senaitoir who m his ass:>ciates do not' pre tend( to muledrstaiid. lie is liable to get recordls of the pre~s mnt Coingress will sh ow that lie hams h~ad as mi of the funi of the Senate as aniy two mnii ini it. Van Wyck is noithing if not audacious. lI e will attack anmy one who stands in his way. Only a few days ago Ednmundls aroise iindi attehmplted to s<muelch tin fiecry Nebiraskanm with ani avalanchele of Senri~ torial precedenits. it Vain Wuyck ab so hutehy refuised t be1~ squielchemd, am n mire hy repl ied ini his mo1(st rasping tonS es: "Nowv 1 suppihose we shaill lbe trcete to. the terrors of the Supiremie Court.'" 'The Semiate, of course, lamghed, and that, too, it thle (X expise of thle great Ednmulnals. Vani WXyck is nao resipict er of iersionls. WhIn fully convinced that, a certain iroject is right. andu ought, to prit ,ail therle iSn't an ybodyl. in th e Senate whou ennm prev'ent his figh tin1g that maeasure ti the h itteri emid. "O ldh Vain,"' as thei liys icall h imi, is aigainst secret sessoilns. It e Ibelieves t hat thie Senate was creiited fior the ilprpose of aitteniding to a part oif thei pecople's builsiniess,.'herefore, lie argoues, thme peopile arem justly emntit.leid to a fullI knowledge of all I hat is goig oni.- -Wah mngtoni Letter to tIh' Boston Traveler. 'Thmere are hpeopde who ihmaginte tIhatI a jiockey's hi fo is it j'oyousi le ; th at ('arthI canm omter few greater diilighits than11 to raie Ithe wimn-m of ai greamt racei and tio lie h.d back toi th li ea1li y anm (estaitie crowdl, andiu t htt the sole dirawbaiuk toi the prfsso i'f 111n thii bclimi of Ibiing askedI to pasy imeomie taix onm ?10,00 ai I) year. IbIt ho'w utterly unltrule is s1(uchmi oin ionl is well shlowni by lhe rcinig eirre. sh,ondenti oif the New' South Waliues IEcho, whoi saw Archer's face at the I )iiby, anid thils d'escribes it: "'It was likhe tIluttl of a n11i abouit to he hiangeid- a duielist fight inig with ai foe at onc(e feaired and1( hatedi ai hum, ill shiirG ill aniy po)sitioni of awul str'ain, withI the ('omplI lex emootionos of terror, hoipe and resolve, It was all thme oblservaition of a seciind ; but it brought hmomie to the Ilmid the abiysmal depiths oif life smud d1atth, exultanit joy oir hiorrible despair that underliui the gayety and the 1bdare, the biright dresses, the sllmlig womenm, the Pppping (of chaam pailgnie bottlesi, and the vacuous nioise oIf Epsoml1 raice' course." After this there would seem to be nothing for it but to start a Joekey's 1scuofl Society.-P~all Mall Gav.ette, TIE PRINCES AS THEY ARE. SKETCHES OF THE HONAPARTIsTr3 THE IEP'UBLIC FEARS. Pion-Plot, ''ao Much of a Coward to Ever Give Hattle.-How Prince Loui and Prince Victor Appeared in School Days. Tle proposed French law for the ex pulsion of the princes of noble blood draws the attention of the world to the strange political situation of France as it is to-day and has been for six or seven years. The republic established at the close of the Franco-Prussian war feels insecure with the pretenders to the throne within its borders, and fears that through some intrigue the present gov ernment may be overthrown, though nono of the pretenders can actually count upon a sufficiently largo following to dare to take any decisive stop. The Orleanist party is rich, but not very numerous and far from active. The monarchical party is in favor of a king by divine right, but has none to go to. T'he members of this party have been brought up to hate and despise the house of Orleans, yet the elder branch having fallen, .i . ' hated head of that family is also the heir of Henry V. and of all their kings. They prefer the republic, prefer anything to having the grandson of Louis Philippe and the great-grandson of 'Lous Fgalit" profane the throne of St. Louis. "The strongest party, the Bona part ists, want an empire, but are much in the same position as the Monarchists. The heir of the great Napoleon is the hated Plon-Plon, the most unpopular man personally in all France. Besides this, it is objected, his father married a (ierInan princess, he an Italian. Many ardent Imperialists say that they can even )laCe No hopes in the son1s of a man like that until they have proven them selves possessed of the virtues that en deared the founder of tl,eir family to the French. Had the young son of Napo leon II. lived, they sty he would surely have become emperor, but thea brave lindsome boy went to his death ii Zululand to gain a little glory, and by his last acts endeared his memory to the hearts of his countrymen. It is probable that if the bill expelling the French princes should become a law the majority of the exiles will seek an asyun in the United States. 'Ile Coite de Paris, who served during our civil war in the Army of the Potomac, has al realy b1een cabled all invitation to come over by soe over by some of his old a -my comirades, and it is fully expected that he will come. The Comnte has many friende on this side of the Atlantic, and his literary labors in the revisiolu of his history of the civil war would be facili tated by coming here. Prince Jerome Napoleon has expressed himself on sev eral occasions during the past few years as anxious to come to this country, and will doubtless avail llimself of the excel lent opportunity for traveling offered by it orcilble exp;llsiol from France. Prince Jeromlc is, in his every tastes and cllar acteristics as different from the first Napoleon as one man can bo from anoth er, His cowardice made him cut such ia ridiculous figure during the Crimean war that the soubriquet of Plon- Plon he won then has stuck to him ever since. Ho takes after the founder of his family in but one respect, his personal appear anco. Of this resemblance Pr"ince Jcronle is very proud; he is rather taller than the "little corporal" and is just about as fleshy as his famous uncle was in his hat ter years. His chleeks and hips are close ly shlaven and1( his features large and rather hlandsome. No one whlo is familiar with the p)ictures of Napoleon I. wouIld fail to recognize his lineamnents ill the face of his hleir. Prince Jerome is a p)olishled malln of letters, stud(iouls and thloughltfull by na ture, liberal ini his religious views, ex tremnely fond of goodl living and leasant comipany. He has an1 unusua111 abptitude for languIage., spea1ks well half a dozen ninsli, anid is initerested ill an ythinga> perltam tg to p)hilology or etymology. c hlas written several volumes, whdichl ha(ve meot w.ithl unliforml success, and Ilas rank ed amiiong the leadling savanIts of 1:. counttry. H e is fond of the )ompljoy of literary 11en1, and likes to walk alo>ng the streets slowly, with his han11ds biehind b ack, lis head erect, dlisculssing books aml( auithiors. Thloughl by3 nalture an ('asy-goimg man11, of pleasant disposition, le has never b)eenl able1 to get alonig with' the memblIlers (If his owni family. His !jIImrr1els with his wife, -lrgely on relig 5)ous grounllds, as8 she 15 a devout Roman Catholie, attracted as much01 attention som11 yeairs ago as (did is diflicuilty with his eko'lest son1, Prince Victor, w1hichl re - sult('d inl a comiplete sepalirationl, more r'ecently. Soith of thle sons5 of Pi nceS Naleon001 maly cOoe to this counlt ry w~hien theOy are expeI(lledO, anld it is certalin that P'rinlce V'ictor, whlo is now making ai tour o,f the world, will be lhere soon1. Some six or' seveni years a go b othI of the youngl men(1 werle studenCits at the Lycie dui Vauives, formeruly known as the Lycee dui P rince hiiipeial, sit uatted just outside tIle walls of Iliris. lie wr'iter' wals at t hie tiiet at the L yceo, having been for four years in the same clauss 11s Prinlce Loutis. Th'le eider P rine was ai til, raw-bonecd boy oif nearly six feet ini heighlt. lie hadi heen~i growinig fast for several years, and hie was r'atheor clumsy in allppearancee, but waIs very strong phlysicall1y and1( quite an Ilihlete. iiis featutres 'were heavy and raithleur coarse, his hlair' always cult shlort, los upper' hp shladed by ai slight dark Iiutstachie. H e was5 scrupulloulsly nleat in lois dreIss, anld was iniclinled to hold hlim lif aloof' from hils ()h1Lsm1ates who were lat I;.r imehnedci to ridicule him t. Hie (lid aot hoard at the LiyceC, [as thet large ma ll ony of the stuldenuts didi, but lived ait i' ouse (If (one (If thet. prloIfessors, Mmr. unilli(er, a frienld of his -father, whlo "iO'C(an(liedl him toi andi fromn the 1)1ace ouarly eivery (lay and assisted1 him with his lessonsu. [ProfessorI Cluvillier usually wa11lked uIp auId downvi the corr'idors dutr inlg the rtecess hiours, tramp1l~ing upJ. and down slowly with his pIile of bJookN untder hlis arm1. Victor wals t*n Iuatelligent scholar, but nlot br1ighhlt 11is ind) waIs oIf a ratheri he~a1y order, andi while lie seiiied ho woIrk (1u1d( hard hierarely hel a bet terl rank ini his class thanll abhout hailf way. Ih.n mauthema*tic( andl hlistory he was unuswily studious and1( alwoays stood well. Princo Louis was by far the handsomer and more clever of the two. .4 height, with finely moulded f T pure (lark complexion, bright well proportioned body, he,w"ias; an ideal prince. He had nne manly qualities, however, that thuso his fellow countrymen. Ed -I very much liko his father in one that of cowardico. He invariably pro himself as timid as a little girl, and be put to flight by the slightest indies. tion of hostility. While the majority of the young men in his class played bo 'K ball and other games he would qul sneak into the playground around near the door for some kw. hearted fellow to come u and talk " him. Of a very retiring i oitlo wais apt to seek refugo in flgh if the crowd appreacled him. His great de. light was to walk up and down with some other young man, building elabOrate castles in the air; a few words of praise would elate him as highly as any harsh. ness would deject him. He was by na. turo light-hearted and bright, but wQful. ly lacked al)lplication. He had at the time as indefinite ideas about America an most Frenehmen have, and he often asked the Americans at the Lycee most absurd questions about their country. He was very grateful to the writer for having protected him from the rough. ness of is classmates on one or two oo. casions, and in the plans he made for the time that his family was to return to power he invariably included the writer, to whom he said he intended to give one of the highest positions in the land. Louis' laziness caused him a great deal of trouble in his studies. He invariably put off his work until the last moment possible, and then rushed through with it carelessly, lie frequently appeared in the class-room without having looked at his lessons. He would take his seat a short time before the professor arrived, and try to make up for lost time. He had a faculty for committing Latin and Greek to memory, and could get a fair idea of what he had to recite in a few minutes, but lie forgot the lines as quick ly almost as he learned them. On .Thursday mornings, which were devoted to cornpetitions between th6 students for rank in the different studies, after the :ul)jeet had been given out, Louis would generally sit for an hour or more idly looking at the paper before him, or mak. ing rough ".iand poor sketches over his books. When lie finally got down to work, his sole idea appeared to be to rush it through in any manner he could. one day then the competition was in Latin verse on it subject given out by the professor, Louis only managed to grind out one verse during the two and a half hours allowed to work. The two Americans in the class had rather the faculty for grinding out "machine'" verses rapidly, and stood respectively first and second in the class, and Louis )rofessed to warmly admire their "talent." lie assured the writer that "when lie becamue Emperor" he would appoint hin "Latin poet extraordinary to the Court." Both of the young Princes Napoleon are very pleasant socially, and if they conclude to come to live here they will become social lions. NICUOLAS RIDDLE, .\ li;w sTi'tIE. Dr. 'anlming:e \Vnni, Labore"rm for King Alcohol tn iZnl Workc. The ltev. Dr'. Tainage preached a ser. monl last Sunday in the Brooklyn Taber nacle on the Poverty among the working classes caused by the use of intoxicating liquors. )r. ''alnitge introduced his sermon by saying that there ought to be more public fountains, where persons on the street could get puro0 col wvater. "'In Persia," said lhe, '-under the reign of Darius hlystaspis, the peolo did not prosper. The iy iuade money, but did not kceep it. Wh'lat has become of the :billions and billions of dollars paid to the working classes in this country? Some of it lhas gone for the necessities of life, butt most of it has been wasted in foolish outlay, wausted at the gaix'ag table and in iintoxicants. The most per sistent, imost overpot wering enemy of the working classes is itoxicatiing liquor. It is the anarchist of the centuries, and. has boycotted, and is boycotting, the body, ind andi( soul of Amierican lab or. Withiun three hundred yards of the Bands Street Methodist Chureb, Brooklyn there are fifty-four saloons, aind anothe - is und1er preparationa. Stand the saloons of this country side by side, and it is carefully estimated they would reach, from New York to Chicago. While the ordinfary strikes are ruiinous, I proolainm a universal strike agaiinst strong drink, wvhich, if kept up, will be a relief to the working classes aid the salvation of the American nation. I will unidertalko to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United Staltes whio, withmn the next twenity years, if he( will refuse all intoxi-. eating beverage and( be0 saving, may not bOcomie a capitalist. "When you depleCte a workingman's physical energy you deplete his capital. 'Ihu stimulated.workmnan gives out be fore the unstmirjated workman. A brickmaker in England gives his experi ence ini this matter among men in his emiploy. Hie said: "'he beer drinker who made the fewest bricks turned out 659,000, the abstainers who made the fewest bricks counted up 746,000. The difference in behalf of the abstainer over the indulger was 87,000.' When the Rlussians go to war a corporal passes along the line and smells the breath of each31 soldier. If there ho in his breath a taint of intoxicating Jliquor tho man is sent back to the barracks. Why? He cannot endure fat igue. All our yoUfmg men know this. Wheni they 'are prepar ing for an athletic event they abstain. Our working peopl1e will 1be wiser after awhile, amid the imoney they throw away oui hurt ful indulgencees they will put into co-operattivei associations and so becomoq cap)italists." DJr. Ta'mlmage las arranged to go to the 'Thousand lIvuH Juie 2( with 600 of lia congregaltioni. Tlhe'y will travel in parlot andI sIeop)ag coaches and will be gone threo dhays. Last Sunaday thue son of Derry D)ondd: " ode a muule, 'and the son of Tonm Jog .* rode an of. While they were rihing togethan he o turnied and gerued the ammule, openta ts side so that its entrasils protruded. was inh sight of l)on-:ldson's wIfe, who a ". ni ai (dtlente 'oitIlin. The result-was po icrhius that she (lied next day.-.-Abodve Pr~ess and Ba'nor