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Bistorical Society ,3 POE TR v 1wm coa more a., posoon, no.. of war on sailishes ve he be4 idea of RRY1MP1rt W 11minware (e*,..<.. . . 1 -" - - - -- - - - - -2- - - - - - 1510. 15 POETRY. SUNLIGHT ALL THE WAY. "Good-by, Jennie; the road is long, And the moor is hard to cross; But well you know there is danger in the bogs and marshy moss. So keep in the foot-path, Jennie? Let nothing tempt you to stray; Then you'll get safely over it, Fcr there's sunlight all the way Sunlight all the way; So never you fear, Keep a good heart, dear, For there's sunlight all the way." The child went off with a blessing And a kiss of mother-love; The daisies were down at her feet, And the lark was singing above. On. on in the narrow foot-path Nothing could tempt her to stray; So the moor was passed at nightfall, And she'd sunlight. all the way Sunlight all the way; And sh e, smiling, said, As her bead was spread, "l had sunlight all the way." And I, who followed the maiden, Kept thinking, as I went, Over the perilous moor of life What unwary feet are bent. If they only could keep the foot-path, And not in the marshes stray; Then they would reach the endof life Ere the night could shroud the day. They'd have sunlight all the way. But the marsh is wide, And they turn aside, And the night falls on the day. Far better to keep the narrow path, Nor turn to the left or right; For if we loiter at morning, What shall we do when the nigh' Falls back on our lonely journey, t And we mourn our vain delay? r Then steadily onward, friends, and we Shall have sunlight all the way Sunlight all the way, Till the journey's o'er, A ad we .each the shore Of a never-ending day. -Harper's Weekly. ft ---.-_r - n SELECTED STORY. a THE SALVATION ARMY. b LoNDox. Oct. 24.-The besat praised and a' the worst abused of the religious organiza- a tions of England is that strange body of qi people who call themselves the Salvation tit Army. Probably, too, this body is in its he rough and ready way, doing more good bl t hau any other. Certainly it shows more W vigor and aggressiveness in its attacks 30 upon the strongholds of sin. Of what the co Armiy is here no adequate opinion can qi be formed from the little success that has dt attended its operations in the United States. Ve This is its birthplace, and for the 18 years th' of its existence has been its headquarters. ly Among the lower classes of English society pr it has found from the first not only the the strongest incentives to effort, but an ap- lo( parently inexhaustible supply of suitable ful material. Naturally, therefore, it has ed reached in this country its fullest develop- bel ment. Its strong points and its weak ones fi are seen in England in their strongestlight as and just as you must go to Rome to forma Ms proper judgment of Catholicism, so must the you come here if you would getan adequate pr( idea of what the Salvationists are doing. ese For better or for worse the army here is constantly before the public. res IT WILL NOT DOWN. People are compelled to hear about it, to see it, to take a position with reference to it. It preaches to them in the parks, parades before them on the streets and makes a prominent place for itself in the daily press. Not always does it appear in the columns of the latter in the most desira ble form, butit does always appear in some form. Now the story of its zeal is told in the police court report, some of the sol diers having taken up carnal weapons, as in a case of recent occurrence inwhich a captain held the head of an outruding cab horse while a female lieutenant belabored the animal with a tamborine. Anon the higher courts furnished the sensation, Gen. Booth being called to account for a breach of contract in failing to keep open a cer tain house for the sale of liquors, and being ordered, in consequence, to relin quish his claim to the lease and pay dam ages. On another occasion the bishops of the church take Salvationists in hand, and the papers inform us that their lordships are down on the movement because they have found that it promotes illegitimacy, and we have hints of the sudden turning off the gas at some of the meetings and of terrible carryings on afterwards among the young people present. Still latter, the general's daughter gets expelled from one of the cantons of Switzerland, and not satisfied with this distinction, she finally achieves a glorious though brief imprison- 1 ument. The papers are full of the details 4 of this episode, and the name of Miss 1 Booth, coupled with that of the salvation army, is for the time, on everybody'slips. F Frequently, too, much that is creditable to i the army finds its way into the press, the 1 public being kept informed not only of its a peccadillos and failures, but of its victories and triumphs. Thus the battle goes on, I the Salvationists having many enemies and e aiso many friends, and their caute, though falling at times in popular esteem, yet in- a varible rising again, like the truth which f Will not remain crushed to the earth, ntla s today it claims recognition las the t; g Vigorous and successful evangelizing g 44gency since the days of Wesley. THE ARMY HAS NOW ' in Great Britain and Ireland 500 corps and b 241 outposts. The former operate in the tc Populous centers and the latter .c7y on bi the warfare in "villages, in barns, st~bIe, at cellars and the back parlors of pv6foras shops." The total number ofcommiseiop. w ed oflcers is about 1500. Abroad . . ". have 70 corps and 174 o6ficers. In ~~: t I they have In course of erection in Ed !l alone 16 halls whose total W tt will accommodate 5,000 people and which will cost more than $100,000. Those in I authority will give -no eltat of the num. - ber of their aMiwers. This they say would be Impossible; they can only tell the number of oflcers they have., General Booth stated&rently that shold the latter increase during the next 24 years in the same ratio in which they had in the last two years they would then have a staff of over 2,000,000. Their many halls in this city are crowded at every public service, and on Sunday nights hundreds have to be turned away. The exercises are of the most free and easy kind. Short speeches are made, the band plays and the sisters sing solos. The latter part of the perfor mance is done in regular music-hall style. When the chorus is reached the soloist gesticulates significantly and audience catches on, accompanying the singing with a rhythmic stamping of feet. The members of the army appear in uniform. They are mostly of the working class, though here and there one sees those whose delicate features and refined man ners mark them as belonging to the higher orders. Among those presentas listeners you will see many roughs, and some who again, are obviously respectable and well to-do in the world. The latter form the special objects of assault when the collec tion is taken, which always occurs, by the way, when the interest is at full tide. Jet a brother move the audience by a par ticularly pathetic appeal to sinners, or a sister wakens enthusiasm by the telling lines of some favorite hymn, and at that point yon can look for the money boxes to be passed around, as confidently as for roses in June; and not always does one I passing sufice. It is THE MISFORTUNE OF THE ARMY that it has few of the wealthy connected e with it and has no way of raising the need- a ful funds except by public appeals made f mostly on the Sabbath day. This fact puts a weapon into the hands of its enemies and tries the patience, sometimes, of its best friends. Gen. Booth is the greatest f beggar in christendom. To his great Exeter Hall meetings he always charges C admission, and then never fails to take up b a collection to defray expenses, and fre f quently supplements this with a subscrip- g 1 tion to help on the cause. Not long ago ii he invited outside friends of the army to at breakfast with him in that historic place, ki which they did to the number of 200 or a 300. The first thing after breakfast was a collection to pay for it, and then an elo- T quent appeal was made for money to re duce the debt of the army. And the pro- m verb holds, "Like leader like people," for is the general's subordinates grasp as eager ly after the filthy lucre as himself. In a provincial town recently it was announced se that on a certain evening the leader of the al, local corps would preach Marwood's on funeral sermon. The community wonder- sh ed what connection there could have been sh between the worthy captain and the de- ca finct hangman, but, of course, there was a great crowd. About all that was said of Marwood was that he was a member of the Primitive Methodist church, and those As present were congratulated upon having escaped the danger of 'a five minutes' of ficial Interview with him." From the th rest, according to the local papers, the till sensation proved to be a mere scheme for wl getting a lot of people together for finan- as cial purposes. If the army i ever wreck- tus ed it will undoubtedly be on this rock of - of money getting. Not, however, because his they gett0o mtich, but because they fal ne to get enough, for debtsr are accumulating and the general has just announced that Pal "they are in greater financlal straites than as I STHE OFFICIAL ORGAN - of the Army, the War Cry, is hawked s about, Sunday and weekday alike, at all a their services, and it has a tremendous a sale. A glance over any single copy of 1 this paper will give a fair idea at once of their eccentric methods and of the way they are getting on. You will be struck i first, in reading the sheet, with the pecu liar nomenclature of the Salvationists. 'They are "blood and fire soldiers." Their prayer meetings are "knee drills," and . those held early in the mornings are "hal lelujah breakfasts." The women of the company are hallelujah heiresses to glo ry," otherwise called "Salvation Mag nets." Their processions are "glory marches." Earnest exhortations are "red hot shot." A service for relating experi ence is a "salvation sharp-shooting meet ing," and the enthusiasm with suchgath erings close is denominated a "Hallelujah wind-up." The personal names given to converts are equally striking. "Hallelu jah Jacks" are in great abundance. Other male celebrities are "Happy Charlie, the converted gardner," "Happy Jim," "Hal lelujah Cheap Jack," one called "~Six Feet of Salvation," and another bedtiug the suggestive title of "The City Road Devil Dodger." Then there is the "HalleluJah Barber," and the "Hallelujah Postman," and the "Hallelujah Schoolmaster,", while among the temale Slatl are a 'Hap py Charlotte," "Happy liza,"andy very effective worker called "Welsh Kitty." THr TEs.UONY . given by converts furnish r~o for thought. Onaetlls us that found smoking to behis ban s nl a get noa peace ti i`eb d "dag :'in* t garden and buried his nine ipea" Ao.tg other used to get so rank t e lay oiS a tub of ater be w:s bed.' Aot eckr to be ahar hi ''t re but ear 3l ýeP* Lbeen t inottier a c whle a ec'r the.-i4t~i 8~~~i;~ in War Cry publishes give the best idea oi am- what is being done. They come from all say parts of the field and are in the style o1 tell regular war dispatches. One informs us aral that "two rebels were shot on Saturday ter night and four on Sunday." From an the other place we learn that "banners are ast flying and the devil crying." Another of says, "Open air meeting good. Captain his Lily Jennings beating the drum. Great ce, consternation." One captain sends word to that with a procession of six he "stormed he the town." Another reports "a great ies smash-up in the devil's kingdom," and are still another gives the cheer ing informa )r- tion that the "devil turned and fled as we le. approached." But the best is that which ist reports "the devil completely route~s and ce a host of prisoners taken." Sometimes, it ng seems, THE REGULAR CLERGY he favor the Salvationists with their presence and help. One had spoken at a certain a meeting but did not make much impression, n for "Capt. Black Anthony was the great er attraction and many came to see her." The rs clergy, however, do better when they 1o muster in large numbers, for from one - place comes: - "Night meeting a wonder. About thirty persons present, an( one after another spoke we saw that tdevil was trembling. Another dispatch tells us et that among the speakers at a certain meet ing were "two converted guards, two con a verted firemen, two converted masons, a converted dressmaker and a converted mil g liner." Another informs us that "one of a the sergeants took a backslider home to r dinner and they had the joy of salvation e for dessert," Another report is to the ef fect that "at the inside meeting an infidel testified to the peace which the publicans cannot give, and a parish clerk who had I said 'Amen' for two and sixpence a week, - and thanked God that he was now saved from sin." Two other reports are very greatly to the credit of the army, showing with what UNSWERVING TENACITY they adhere to their principles. One is as follows: "We are not allowed to stand still for open air services now, so Captain Coles foutnd a fresh method. The brass t band to the front, single fitm; Sisters sin- t gle file on one side of the road, and broth ers on the other side in like manner, mak ing rooms for vehicles to pass along, thus avoiding anything like obstruction. We d keep on a slow march, singing, praying a and speaking, the roads lined with all v classes who are glad of our company." 8] The other report says: "Met an old man a who said, 'They tell me if I join you I a must give up my glass.' 'Yes, certainly, it al is a condition of membership,said I.'Well,' " replied the old man, 'I have lived to see a two kings and one queen, and I have eaten T seventy-four Christmas dinners and have fi always had a little drop with them. I tried o0 once to give it up, but could not. But I have found Jesus at your barracks and I shall try once more, in His strength, and I be shall join you, too, and help you all I le can.' " i THE GLUSSOGRAPH. An Instrument for Recording Speech Automatically. One of the most interesting exhibits at the Vienna Electrical Exhibition is Gen tilli's glossograph, a little instrument by which speech is automatically reproduced as soon as it is uttered. A small appara tus is placed in the mouth of the speaker -in contact with the roof of his mouth, his tongue and lips-and on being con nected with an electro-magnetic register ing apparatus the sounds are committed to paper. It is constructed in such a manner as not to cause any inconvenience to the speaker: neither is it necessary that the voice should be raised, as it reproduces a whisper as exactly as a shout; the only condition is a correct and distinct articula tion. According to the inventior's calcu lation, it will be possible to write four or five times as fast by means of the glosso graph as has hitherto been possible even by the quickest writer. At first sight it appears as if this invention were but an improvement upon Edison's phonograph; it is, however, of a much older date. It rests, unlike the tormer, on an acoustic principle, and does not reproduce the t sounds in a microscopical form. The chief c obstacle to the introduction of the glosso- d graph, says the Pall Mall Gazette, will be R the difficulty in deciphering the charact- c ers, but it is not impossible that with the ni help of a second automatic apparatus the characters produced by the glossograph n may be translated into our common type writing. The orthography would doubt- to less appear strange,'but in these days of et phonetic spelling this might not long be a k bndrance. r The Latest Air Ship. e Gentil's air ship has been seen by a re porter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. M. Gentil was a medical practitioner in France, but owing to political reasons he came to America in 18 iand<lttled in St. Louis as a locksmith. It has been his life ar a~r n to make an air ship, and he has con atruoted four different machines, each nss ceptible of improvement.. The linal effort is. a egar-zhaped balloon, with gas co. - prtment, a dder athe thick end, and eerew-shped sail' 4 a"'A end . to raise #r lower t.. altitude. Me claims that; e i steer hia air sAp at will with his pin e, tan he her whathe lIfting powe of "he av ts `s d. e Whole. e a netwok from wb depe i. car, wgporteq by a as s sopetetp ga a aving th eak - as.dm sf 0117' t~bpon I;:a B " of EGYPTIAN HORRORS. Al Visit to a Madhouse *here the Exist. 8 ence of Cholera was Suspected. y The following frightful description of a I- visit to an Egyptian madhouse is taken *e from a letter by the Cairo correspondent ,r of the Egyptian Gazette: n Grave suspicions were entertained by Lt many that the Government Lunatic Asy d lum, at Abbasseeyeh, jas a hotbed of I cholera, and that the extence of the dis .t ease within its walls _~ being concealed. t I No difficulty was made: about my being c admitted to the place. We were ushered t through a deep, dismal erehway into the a recreation ground of th asylum, where v the mad people were wapdering about in a solitary, purposeless way. Turning to n the left beneath an arcade we entered a dark doorway, just as thejast of a herd of a idiots had been driven in before us. We R took ten.or fifteen stride. along a sombre passsge, and on reaching the wall made a quartet turn to the right and stood facing a long, lofty corridor, lighted only by a few small windows near the ceiling, se- A cured by iron bars. All along this corri dor, at the base of the wallon the left hand side, the lunatics sat spuatted on their G haunches in a long and almost intermina. C ble row. To all appearnce they were a quiet, inoffensive, mise ble looking lot hi of creatures, literally cldo d in sackcloth. Their only gariment conasted of a sack cloth shirt, descending to their knees, with an aperture through which to pass the head, and sleeves falling half way to the elbows. They had not a particle of linen ge about them. On our right were the bed rooms; lofty, spacious, sombre apart- an ments, entered through low doorways. di The bedsteads were similar to those in use dil in the native hospitals and barracks-iron tip frames and planks. The bedding and bed- of clothes were filthy in the extreme, and w swarming with vermin. Each room was T1 crowded with beds, placed about an arm's "i length from each other. The stench was th intolerable, both in the apartments and in to the corridors. No regard was even paid clr to the most elementary notions of cleanli ness. hu ak- AN INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE. hus At length we reached what I can only We describe as the chamber of horrors-the ing apartment in which refractory patients all were mastered and treated. It was a lofty, F., spacious room, with plentpyof light. Here ,an a most horrible sight greeted us. All I I around the walls, at regular distances of ,it about six feet, were arched cavities com 11;' mencing at the ground and extending to gee a height of about two feet six inches. en The extremities of a curved !poh bar were ve firmly fixed in the masonry on either side ed of each cavity. The purpose of this ar rangement was as follows: When a man I became violent he was placed, with his 1 I legs bound and with his back against the iron bar, in a sitting posture, his arms be ing firmly lashed to it. The cavity in the wall was supposed to prevent him injur a ing his head by swinging it backward and forward or by dashing it from side to side at against the masonry. As we entered this n- venerable torture chamber the first thing y that met our gaze was a recumbent figure , surrounded by three or four attendants. ON THE RACK. We discovered a machine bearing a close , resemblance to a weighing machine on the j bascule principle, only that the bottom r- part, that upon which the goods are placed to be weighed, extended some three or ,r four feet from the back piece. The top of 1e this back piece was padded to the depth of e about a foot, the padded part being cov a ered with red Morocco leather. On this t y machine *as seated a patient, with the t back of his head against the padding and his legs extended toward us. The three r or four attendants by whom he was sur- a rounded were engaged in binding his arms c n to rings fixed behind the back part of the e t machine. The left side of this wretched o n being's head, at the height of the eyes, a was covered with blood, and his left eye s almost closed, all the part surrounding it ti e being much swollen and inflamed. While as the attendants were engaged in tying him a Sup he was sobbing, the tears streaming h down his cheeks, and he rocked his head tf gently from side to side as if in pain, oc- q - casionally glancing toward us. While we F stood gazing at the horrible sight he did p not attempt to offer the least resistance. A Of course the injury which he had sus- p tained may have been self-inflicted, but is ti equally likely, I think, that he had been ci knocked down by one of the keepers. The p appearance of this prison was filthy in the F extreme. The stench was insufferable. hi The kitchen, which was close at hand, ni was a gloomy, dirty sort of place. The th women's quarters were even worse than th those of the men. They were very crowd- re ed, and their generally filthy condition is beyond description. Many of the women were hysterical, and two of. them were naked. - Female Doctors in India. el London Spectator: The plan for employ- av ing female doctors in Inda one of the few thoroughly sensible plans recently star by phlanthropists seems likely to be a ucss. A sum of, hasbeen raed in Bombay to guarantee les tlwo or wi ree i adles-one of them i 1 M eey, M. mt };sa uessf ul S151 through the groat imtz1ig igh~te--.ad £UO to start u -Ij- cr fering has overridden the opposition of the Council of the medical college, and at. ordered the admission of female students, if qualified by general education. The Sa number of entrances is certain to be large, en and in a few years each of the Three nt Presidencies will have a staff of female doctors thoroughly familiar with the lan by guage and imured to the climate. They 3Y- will reduce the sum of human misery far of more than a dozen orders admitting lads is- with an English veneer on them to posi td. tions for which they are hopelessly dis ng qualified. We are glad to notice also that ed the new doctors intend to make a business he of their work, to claim fees from those re who can pay, and to earn if they can a in good income for themselves. One fortune to made by a woman as a doctor in Calcutta a will keep the supply more regular than of any amount of philantropy in individuals ie who after a few years die out. re THE HOVAS' STRUGGLE. A Missionary's Account of the French I Fight in Madagascar. I had a long and interesting talk in the . Garth Castle saloon with the Rev. Mr. Cousins, another English missionary from i Madagascar, now on his way home with I his wife. "The new Queen," said Mr. Cousins, "is a firmly established on her throne, her h Prime Minister stronger than ever he was, I her people are resigned to their misfor- I tune, but are nevertheless calmly and dog- a gedly making preparation for a long re- Ii sistence. Every able-bodied Hova man c and boy has voluntarily joined the Hova ti army, and are now training. The boys v diligently learning how to handle the na- s tive spears, and even the very women talk a of fighting the detested invaders. The _v 1 worst of it is the Hovas have no big guns. ii They have a few thousand Remingtons, sa which they don't know how to use, and o that is all. For the rest they have to trust to their spears-ugly weapons enough at ti close quarters. The French, a very small ci force ot them (probably only four or five ih hundred) occupy the fort outside Tama- pi tave, and command the town itself. No ei sooner did the bombardment begin than the Hovas withdrew into the country. ai They have made a dtsert around Tama- ec tave for a distance of twenty-five miles, Is and are watching the French-preventing to all supplies from reaching them by land, ei and virtually besieging the besiegers, who th are in a position the reverse of being ot pleasant. All the towns and villages for as miles on the road to Antanarivo have been sh burned. The invaders will be led into in ambushes and harassed incessantly. If in necessary Antanarivo will be burned sh rather than it shall fall into French hands in and, as the Hovas are most obstinate peo- sy ple, the war might be prolonged indefi- pl nitely. Meanwhile, provisions are grow- a ing dearer daily in Tamatave. Business the in Madagascar is utterly at a standstill. la3 The Hovas have stopped all exports of rice the from the island, and make night attacks on wi their foe when they can, and every th Frenchman has been driven out of Hova on territory to Tamatave. Twenty years ago tra there would have been a general massa- the cre. There was some talk even now when etc the news of the bombardment reached the co_ capital, but the Prime Minister interfered tio to prevent it. So you see civilization has pl done something for the M.alagasies. )r AMERICAN AND ENGLISH FAVORITES. )f "Foreigners are rather disliked, but an Df exception is made in the case of English v- and Americans. I am inclined to think is that the iovas still hope that the English te will interfere to protect them. d "The Sakaluvas and other tribes domi ae nated by. the Hovas number altogether about four millions. The Hovas, who rule is over the territory that stretches from the e extreine north to Fort Dauplain, number d only about one million, but they alone of i, all the tribes aie united. The others are e split up into an infinite number of fact t tions, continually at strife among them e selves. The French are spending a vast I amount of money. They are obliged to g have electric lights burning constantly af I ter dark, and to relieve the garrison at fre - quent intervals. Every night boatfuls of s French troops are taken off shore and re I placed by others from the men of war. And all this to effect a most unjust pur pose. At the outlet they had right on their side, for the Hovas tried to evade the clauses of a treaty allowing foreigners to purchase land in Madagascar. Had the French been fighting for this they would have universal sympathy. But they are not. They began a war of aggression and the Hovas, seeing that they would have this struggle forced upon them, soon grew resigned to the inevitable." Decaying Dudism. .New York correspondence Boston Tray eler:--It is said that a &act o: has tak.dn place among the you.g ilods of FiftR avenue, and that the dude make-up is ra pidly being relegated to swells of the aeo' aond class. The dude costume is now chief ly worn by young genutleuien the ribbon department of some dry gooids empori , who, having invested heavily in the br , curled brim bat, tight pantaloons, stued f k coat, and toothpick hoes, cannot t frd tgetother loh ma present. The upper swells have, for the nowee, ec Ie -I 8m t ca i c . n of ARWE LOCOl OTIVES DOOMED? and ots, A St. Louis Inventor Who Wants to he Ruan a STrain with Electricity. St. Louis Republican. rge It's a success! What? Why, the elec tric railway system, an application of ale which Dr. Wellington Adams is the in ventor, and St. Louis the cradle in which ey its infancy was nursed, and which will fds have reason to be proud of the vigor to which it will arrive. A reporter called is- upon Dr. Adams recently in his machine shop at the top of the building at Third and Vine streets, and found the inventor se engaged in explaining to some lady visi tors the workings of the electric railway 1e and in exhibiting the models of his cars, I ta which he has now perfected and has in tta running order at his workshop. The model of the car, which embraces his in vention, was upon the floor running upon I brass tracks and connected with the place where the electricity is generated by a means of copper conductors running t between the tracks. The car is of light i ,h and airy construction, having but one ( door, and that at the side of the forward he part of the car, opening upon the place t r. where stands the genius of the train, who d m is at once conductor, brakeman and engi- ` th neer. The car is lighted by electricity, p the lamp and principle of the lamp being is also inventions of Dr. Adams. r When the current was applied the car s, moved along the tracks at the rate of about r- 10 miles an hour, and could be slackened, - stopped or reversed at the will of the one e- holding the electric key. Near by was a Ii car-wheel of the same size and construc 'a tion as are to be used upon the trains a rs which the doctor intends to run by his c - system. This wheel was of about the tl k same dimensions as the ordinary car- h e wheel being, however, a little more bulky S i. in width and lacking that appearance of 3, solidity and homogeneity possessed by the er d ordinary wheels of railway carriages. ai It n the wheel lies the secret of this inven- ' t tion, for herein are contained all the me- P1 11 chanical devices by which the subtle force T e is converted into a motive power upon w principles as new as the devices which are 0 employed. to 1 Near by the track was a small compact ni arrangement of coils and wheels connect- hi ed by a belt with an ordinary mechanic's sa lathe. This arrangement was the doc- - tor's electric engine, which can be used either as a power machine or to produce at the electric light. Further along was an- sti other electric engine, which had been used L( as the sole source of power in the machine th shop. This is the only place of the kind th in the country where electric power is used er in every one of the operations of tLe fel shops. Being asked by the reporter where in were the salient differences between his system and those already in use in various places, Dr. Adams said that it would take t a book, and a large one at that, to answer th the questions. Primarily the differences he lay in the fact that by means of this system the item of locomotives was done away with, the many difficulties attendant upon the running of long trains were blotted out, the less wear and tear upon the Vo tracks, and less expense of construction of thv the read, in the matter of bridges, culverts, be etc., consequent upon the lightness of the coaches, and, above all others, the applica- So tion of the power immediately to the thi place of traction, namely, the wheels. The system contemplates the founding t at various central stations of engines for sa the generation of electricity, which is con- Col ducted along between the tracks, taken up an by an attachment to the car, communicated ing to the wheels, and the circuit completed Ca through the tracks. Each car is to run separately having its own electrical appli ances, and the conductor or engineer (who it are one and the same) will be able to use, th as motors, the power of one, two, three sun or tour wheels, at pleasure. The gain bu and preservation of power by means of this application to each wheel is almost C incalculable. The amount of power used B can be gauged to exactly meet the wants t of the car, and for general uses only one Ire wheel will be necessary to be l. Iled into rapi requisition. ea Chinamen Find a Loophele. if SSANeFRA cmco, Oct. 22.- Suspicions have for some time past existed that many - Chinese have been permitted to land from " Chinese steamers, who, under the restric e tion act, are not entitled to that privilege. 0 A loophole was discovered to exist under B article second of the treaty, which permits any Chinamen other than laborers to come B to the United States, if provided with a certificate issued by the Chinese govern ment identifying him as engaged in other | pursuits than thatof laborer. The steam er Rio Janeiro, which arrived Saturday, brought 132 Chinamen from San Francisco seventy-seven of whom held traders' certificates issued by ofic.ls of the Chinese Sgovernment. Notwithstanding the Sstrongest eternal `evidence of their being gnorant Cinese laborer,, they were all . with the exeption of six, permitted, to .land. The teamr Cetc, which: arrived. . last month, brought .14 Chinese, flfty-four of whom held similar ertleates issued by olfaiis ,of the Chinese government. Fully 90 per oen both lots beoo to the o mo class of workmen. lWhen that iro m p e was cll to e he attertion -- _z e ta )? complimentary. She was glad to escape into the counsel's office, where she gave to vent to her indignation at the outrageous conduct of the crowd. A broker who wit nessed the scene said: "It has come to a pretty pass when a woman, whoever she is, cannot be treated with common decency Son a public street." Ill OCTOBER ODDITIES. to d It is said that good musicians execute ie their music, while bad ones murder it. d Mother-"Now, Nellie, tell me who ir this gentleman Is." Nellie-"That ain't i- no gentleman-that's.pa." y A II ouston man says the only scripture ;, he can recollect is the text: "An honest n man gathers no moss."-Houston Post. e Don Piatt is writing an opera. The i- downfall of this once brilliant man excites n universal sympathy.-Bismarck Tribune. e "It was a hard thing to build a church, y a harder thing to pay for it, and a harder C thing still to fill it," is the dishearten C ing remark of a worn out preacher at e Cheyenne, W. T. "Really, love, I had a delightful time at a the ball last night." "I should judge so, darling: I heard you three times ord er the waiter to bring more cherrapin and tam pagne."-Life. Professor to class in surgery-"The right leg of the patient, as you see, is shorter than the left, in consequence of which he limps. Now, what would you do in a case of this kind ?" Bright student -"Limp, too." "What are you laughing at my dear?" asked Mrs. Jones of her husband, who was chucking over his morning paper. "Some thing I saw here," he replied, "but it's hardly funny enough for two."-Wiscon sin State Journal. Lovers ought to move to Havre.-Gouv erneur Herald. But if her Marseilles in and says he is Toulouse, what then ? Winnepeg Siftings. Why, then, the Paris probably separated.-Washington World. Then they wouldn't Skobeloff together, would they? A man named Gasbill recently applied to the Arkansas Legislature to change his name because his girl always objected to his figure whenever he'd meter. She said he was too high, and turned him off. -The Judge. The quail-eating idiocy usually begins about this season of the year. It has struck us as being rather funny that St. Louis hasn't suggested to Lord Coleridge the feasibility of trying to get away with thirty quails in thirty days. This is gen erally-the substitute St. Louis has to of fer for a banquet.-Chicago News. A Miles City Bonfire. MILES CITY, Oct. 23.-At 11:15 last night 8 fire was discovered in the rear of the Cri terion saloon, on Main street, adjoining r the Leighton bank. It quickly gained ' headway, despite all efforts to quell it, and spread rapidly to the Fifth street front. The buildings, with but fopr exceptions, d were one-story frame or log shells, well seasoned, and fell an easy prey to the de vouring element. In half an hour after the fire was discovered it was completely " beyond control, and the attention of all e was given to saving stocks and movables. " So expeditiously did the crowd work at e this that before any of the burned build ings became cleared from the fire every g thing that could be moved and was worth r saving had been carried into the park. Coleman's Cottage sailoon, corner Main P and Fitth streets, was one of the first build ings erected in town. It was built by Capt. John Smith, and was substantially n constructed of pine logs. Owing to its construction, when it commenced to burn it made the hotest kind of a fire, and soon the buildings across Main street began to e smoke, but the well directed work of the 1 bucketbrigade, aided by wet blankets, was successful, and such buildings as the t Commercial hotel, Merchants hotel, 1 Brown's hall and Sleeper's corner still stand, although scorched severely. The fire along the Ffth street front had spread rapidly and with increasing wind was feared would jump Bridge street and com municate with the block beyond. Tc checkmate this a keg of powder was placed in the last building on the block, which when reached by the fire, exploded with great force, leveling the walls of the burn ing building and effectually confining the fire to the block on which it starte i. A Bereaved Family. WimNIPEO, Oct. 23.-A dispatch from Elk Horn, beyond Brandon, reports a sad calmity in the drowning of three children of Mr. Angus, a resident of that locality. A young girl aged 12 had gone to a pond, frozen the previous night, to skate, but going on it some distance the ice broke precipitated her into the water. Her younger brother rushed to her rescue im mediately, followed by a step brother, who plunged Into the cold water and manfully endeavored to save her, but after strug gling in. vain for some time all sank to rise no more. The saddest sight of all was the mother, hearing their outcries, ran frQm the house toward themi but reached the bank in time to see her'children disap pear from 'Ight. A mWhsenger was im mediately dispatched to break the sad news to the father, who had been to Elk Morn on busl.wess. On iarte git be be eamne overwhelmed with gamf. The sad occurenoe has est a gloom ov we the vicinity, Ma Mr. Mrs. :n :, are well knowa and higly rspetel rd. Ssho 14 Phil t ibsop' a* ~f~Qfi* `I~h ba