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JIM JEFFRIES GOES into TRAIN
ING AT ASBURY PARK,
SEW JERSEY
THIS X 3 HE WILL WHIP RUHLIN
The Hi« Fellow- Ik Very Confident
and Say.H That He Feel-'
in ' Fine Con
. .... , dition.
NEW YORK, Jan. —James J. {fries
left for Asbury Park, N. J., tonight, and
tomorrow w 111 take his first exercl3e for
his championship battle with Gus Ruh
lin. ■which lakes place at Cincinnati
Feb. 15.
The champlcn ariived^ivim Phil irelp-r.la
early today, where h^clo.ed his theat
rical Season Saturday night. He met
his old manager and tra'ner, Billy De
laney, anil both proceeded to Asbury
Park.
Jeffries was looking in the best of shape
and said he was in tine condition. He
said:
"I will so into training t 'morrow to
do my first work for in*? big lifcht. I feel
fine now. an.l barring accidents I expect
to be i" line shape when I meet Ruhlln.
As regards the result of this battle, there
is no doubt in my mind but that I w.H
claim the championship after Feb. 15.
( HOSiIV HEAD'S THE LIST.
Record ii I the Tmiis fur Ihe l.nsi
NEW YORK. Jan. G.—Carefully com
piled accounts of the work of trap-shoot
ers for i:t'O how W. W. Crosby, or" Pal
lon, 111., to hi the most consistent win
ner-at inanimate target, with ft general
average of 255 points. J. B. Fanning:, the
California crack shooter, has the largest
number of one-day average wins, yet he
is in second position lor the year, by
figuring second, third and fourth average
wins in the point ratio. "
Those who established high average^
following Cr. sby and Fanning in order
are Rolia Heikes. of Dayton, O.: Fred
Gilbert. Spirit Lake, Io.; Luther Squier,
Cincinnati; F. Parmalee. Omaha, and C.
W. Budd, Dcs Moincs, 10.
Fanning made a new world's record on
targets, breaking 231 without missing in
open contest for prizes. It was done in
two days but was continuous. Fred Gil
bert and J. A. R. Elliott, of Kansas
City, were the principal winners of ltO
live bird matches.
During the year Gilbert and Elliott shot
six matches at IO birds, each man win
ning three. Long runs at live birds wer.»
few during 12<X>. Gilbert made a run of
126 and Elliott, the next best, of 15,
George Roll holding the next bist record
for one day, 114.
Famous Knfcli»u Jockey Here.
NEW YORK. Jan. Samuel Loatea.
the famous English jockey, arrived on
the Kaiserin Maria Theresa today from
England. He visited here some years ago,
and said about the present trip: "1 have
c»«ie here to spend Fix -weeks, but as to
my plans I can not speak at present. I
am here merely on pleasure brnt." Ask
ed as -to whether he would ride while
here, he said that he could not say.
Jockey Loates was second in the list of
winning jockeys in England th r.ast year,
having: U4 victories and 510 losses. ' The
first jockey was the American, L»:ster
Reiff.
Ii HI BUILDERS
AN ENGLISH DESCRIPTION OF THE
CELEBRATED FIRM Ol<\
HERRESHOFFS
THERE ARE SEVEN BROTHERS
Three Of 'I liem Blind— No BrltliU
--. Vessel Could Defeat Their Mas
tei'|»leees. Vigilant, Defend
. - er :>nil Columbia.
When Mr. Wdtson, the famous Scotch
yacht <if signer, was asked the other day
If he could turn out v Shamrock 11. that
would bi.-;U the next Yankee defender of
the American <up, he replied that Herve
hhoff, his American rival, was thy lvirde.t
man in thi» world to beat, writes L. H.
Moore in the London Express.
Although Mr. Watson has designed
many successful boats, including the
Britannia, o\\r,<><l by the Prince of
Wales, perhaps the best all-round b-.*at in
British waters, yei no one of the three
cur challengers designed by him or Fife*,
and built by the Hendersons at Partick—
Vaikyrie H, Valkyrie ill., and Sham
rock 1., ever succeeded in beating Herre
phoff's three masterpieces, Vigilant, De.
fender, and Columbia.
Capt. Nat Herrofinoff is a Watson and
Henderson in one. He is Irs own de
signer and builder. It is perhaps this
latter fact that gives him soir.e adv. Mage
over hi* Scotch rivals.
THE HERRKSIIOFF FIRM.
The fame of the Herreshoffs as boat
1., Is an institution in the United States,
and of late years no yacht is considered
a crack bo.a unless turned out of its
yard. Much has been said and written
of tin- Fferreshoflf work's and of the seven
brothers—three of whom are blind—but
only these who have been brought into
direct association with them know how
interesting the daily life of each is, espe
cially of the four brothers who live in
Bristol.
The face of the HerreshoiTs as boat
builders has extended to all parts of the
world, notwithstanding that r.o large
ocean steamship has ever been turned
out from their works. Probably the
largest vessel over built by this firm
is the torpedo-boat dishing of the United
States Davy. Her remarkable perform
ances on the Hudson river, when she
passed the fast passenger steamer Mary
Powell and left her far behind, attract
ed the attention of the government, and
she was purchased for the navy She
afterwards distinguished herself in the
Spanish-American war by a running fight
in a Cuban harbor with three gunboats
and the land fort
HEAD OF THE FIRM BLIND.
There are three brothers forming the
firm. The eldest, John, who is blind, the
president of the company is about sixty
years old. He is very active, and despite
his affliction, takes a leading part in the
business of the firm.
Of course, his letters must be read to
him. and after dictating replies, he spends
many hours each day going through the
Bhops, guided by the arm of an attend-
wnrt ,he fI se<: ms to kn°w just where the
»ork » that he wants to inquire about
and just what sort of work it is Run
ning his hand over a model or tneside of
a boat in process of building he says
quickly: "This must be altered he^e" or
Chronic Nasal Catarrh poison
every breath that is drawn into the lun«r»
There is procurable from any druggist
the remedy for its cure. A small quant!
ty of Ely's Cream Balm placed Into th«
nostrils spreads over an Inflamed and an
gry surface, relieves immediately. th«
painful Inflammation, cleanses, heals and
cures. Drying inhalants, fumes, smoke*
and snuffs simply develop dry catarrh
they dry up the secretions which adhere
to the membrane and decompose, caus
ing a far more serious trouble than th«
ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all dry
ing Inhalants, use Ely's Cream Balm It
Is reliable and will euro catarrh, cold In
the head and hay fever easily and Dlau.
? Z\ All druggist, sell it at 50 cenuT^
H^sLlVy!" 1 by Ely Brother8 ' » ™£
"That bend is not sharp enough; you ar»
not following your copy."
The blind man was always a lover of
boats. When he was old enough to man
age a jack-knife he began whittling out
boats, and in his fifteenth year he built
a good-sized yacht for his own pleasure.
He became totally blind by slow degrees,
but he went on building bnats, carrying
in his mind the modeis he had known by
sight. Forced by his blindness to greater
mental activity, his- practical mind grew
to one of great concentration and acute
ness, and what is remarkable is that he
has been able to keep up with the times
—to grasp the technicalities of the latest
machinery and to keep abreast of the
newest notions of the day.
THE LITERARY HERRESHOFF.
The second brother, Lewis, who also is
blind, is the literary counselor of his
brothers, and is perfectly familiar with
every detail of yachts and yachting. I
have read many descriptions of yacht
races from his pen that make it difficult
to believe that he has not the use of his
eyes.
Others tell him just what movements
tho rival yachts are making, and the
blind writer knows precisely how the
scene looks, and as a sailor what the
boats are likely to do next. His rare
stories are among- the bsat turned out,
and his pen is eagerly sought by news
paper editors.
He is an accomplished musician, and
can use the type writer as rapidly as
an expert.
When Mr. Watson spoke of "Herre
shoff," however, he had special reference
to Nathaniel Herreshoff. popularly
known as "Capt. Nat."
"CAPTAIN NAT."
He is the actual designer of the firm,
and is the mechanical genius of the fam
ily. His successes in the way of yaclns,
f;om rive-raters up to the big singie
stickcrs that keep the cup in America,
are numberless. They are distributed
all along the American coast, and sirs
known at every regatta. Severn! have
be«. n sent to this country.
"(.'art. Nat" is about fifty, and, unlike
lis b; others, is in full posession of his
Fight. He lays down the designs for
yachts, works out the models, makes
all the calculations of measurements for
hulls, spars ar.d sail.--, and it is to his
genius that the effectiveness and beauty
of the Herreebofl models are due. He
is an expert trailer of yachts as well, and
it is always "Capt. Nat" who handles
the tiilv?r of his latest creation in her
trials before turning her over to her
owner.
He is a large, muscular man, slightly
round-shouldered, and is the most active
worker at his yard. He is quiet, his
demeanor suggesting that his head is
full of plans, and he need depend on no
one but nimself for entertainment. From
his custom of inclining his head to one
side thfie is a local saying that he ac
quired the habit from watching his rivals
at races, craning his head to look at
them under the boom.
"CAPTAIN NATS" FAMOUS BOATS.
The famous yacht designer has had
the best preparations possible for his
work. After graduating at the institute
of technology at Boston, where he took
numerous prizes, he worked for seven
years in the great Corliss engine works
of Providence. Then he joined his broth
ers at Bristol and gave himself up wholly
to marine engineering.
One of his earliest productions was
the famous ectamaran, Tarantella, which
developed a speed of twenty-one mites.
This was in IS7B, and since then his
yachts have been noted.
Capt. Herreshoff in now engaged on
the designs of the new yacht which
is to defend the "mug" for the eleventh
<J mir,^ rom Bntlsh attempts to recapture
it. The Plans, which, laid doa-n in a
room in his own house, are kept under
ock and key. are guarded most jealously.
The vessel will be built in a shiphouee
not only seurely locked, but protected
by watchmen constantly. The spars and
fails and all the detail* of the forthcom
ing yacht will be made by the Ilerre
snrfts under Impenetrable secrecy in
workshops to which only those possess
ing keys are admitted.
When the boat is built she will be
openly exhibited at trials. With the
energy and genius at work on both sides
of the water, two of the finest racins
machines we have yet seen are sure to be
If the Watson boat succeeds, Sir Thom
as Lipton will become the proud pos
lZ Svor%. the blUe Hbbon Of the ht
"Mav the best boat win!" is the toast
of ya-.ht clubs in Britain and America.
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Continued From First fage.
Minn., has been communicated with and
his desires as to the disposal of the re
mains requested.
J. S. Bentley fiad for several years been
engaged as subscription so-k-itor en
various papers, and at the time of his
dcatih was connected with the St Paul
oflice of Hearst's Chirago American A
yoar ago he was night clerk at the
Harvard hotel.
P. Scofield came to the hotel last
Tuesday evening from Slbley county
where he had been engaged as a farm
laborer during the summer and fall.
Although h.> frequently stopped at the
hotel, very little is known of him.
George RucV-y was engaged as barber
in the Temple Court barber shop, and
had many friends in this city. A brcther
J. M. Rudey, telegraph operator at Eagli
Grove, To., was yesterday apprised of
the death of his brother, by Coroner
Nelson. He instructed that the remain^
be sent (o Eagle Grove, and that will bo
done this afternoon.
Michael Monahan was well known to
North side residents, where he had livel
nearly thirty years. He vas at one tlm«
engaged in the grocery btsiness on Sixth
avenuo north and lived at the hotel a
long time.
J. N. Eriekson, whose body was the
first to be taken from the building, had
his home at Alexandria, Minn Mis? Til
lie Erickson. of 471 Laurel avenue St
Paul, identified him as her bi other ' and
she will assume charge of the remains.
He was one of the last men to register
at the hotel Saturday night, and had
never stopped there before.
Jacob.'en. the man who died at the city
hospital yesterday, was practically un
known to the management and lodgers
of the hotel. He registered at the hotel
only a few- days ago, and told nothing
about himself.
ONLY ONE HOLOCAUST WO&8B.
The death list makes the fire next to
the worst in the history of Minneapol's.
In the mill fire in ISTB eighteen lives were
lost, and up to yesterday the Tribune
fire of eleven years ago he'd the second
mortuary record. In that fire seven lives
were lost, which is exceeded by one, in
the Harvard hotel fire.
Hundred? of people called yesterday at
the county morgue to view the remains
Nearly all were impelled by curiosity,
and none of those who railed were abe
to furnish any information additional to
that already in the possession of Cor
oner Nelson.
Hundreds of people also visited tie
scene of the fire, but the broken windows
were the only outward evidence that
there had been a fire In -the build'ng.
The total property loss will not exc?ed
$3,000, of which $1,0(10 is to the buildin-.
$1,200 to stock, and about $40) to the hotel
property.
SUGGESTION TO LEGISLATORS.
Coroner Nelson stated last evening that
no inquest would be held, as after a
thorough investigation of the fire, he
could not see how it would be pcsdb'e to
locate the blame for the loss of life.
Nelson, ig, however, of the opinion
that it is a matter that might b» profit
ably taken up by the state legislature,
and that some provision should be passe 3
regulating lodging houses. As a rue
these places are nothing more or less
than fire traps, as was so startingly
manifested in the Harvard hotel fire.
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.
London—Henry Wyndham, Baron Le
conneld, formerly captain of the First Life
Guards and member of parliament for
West Sussex in the Conservative inter
est from 1864 to 1860, is dead. _
THE ST. PAUL " GLOBE, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1001.
11 IS II Hi
ARRIVAL OF THE RED WING MAN
TODAY AWAITED BY SENA
TORIAL CANDIDATES
QUIET AT THE HEADQUARTERS
There Whs Little Going; on Yester
day—Plans for the Inaugural
-of. the Lteiflslntare
Tomorrow.
The corridors of the hotels where poli
ticians usually congregate were quiet
yesterday and almost entirely forsaken.
At the headquarters of Clapp and Evai;3
visitors came and went intermittently
all day, but nothing of a formal charac
ter was done. Speculation as to the de
velopments of the coming week formed
the basis of the discussions and both
factions seemed as confident as usual.
It was expected that Tarns Bixby wou'.d
drift in from Red Wing and liven up
things generally, but the Third district
man decided to rest until today. Ha
will probably come in bright and early
this morning, and some definite informa..
tion as to his intentions should be forth
coming today.
The Ninth Ward Rough Riders' club
held a meeting in the Endicott building
yesterday afternoon and decided to 83
--cort Gov.-elect Van Sant from the Wind
sor hotel to the capitol building Tuesday
forenoon when his inauguration will
take place.
There were only twenty-five members
of the organization present, but out of
these twenty-thres promised to meet at
the capitol building at 9:30 a. m., from
whence they will proceed to the hotsl.
Those members who were in attendance
yesterday have been instructed to notify
all other members if the club, and it
>s expected that over Kity men will be
in the escort. The club has about 100
members.
After considerable discussion it was
decided to appoint a committe to see
about getting a b^nd for the occasion.
1 he committee will get either the Ninth
Ward band or the State band.
Other Republican organizations may
also decide to be. a part of the escort.
Tomorrow at noon precisely the thirty
secoml legislative session will commence,
and it scarcely is likely that any of the
members will be absent, most of them
being in the city already. IHie house
will be called to order by Secretary of
State-elect Hanson and the ceremony of
swearing in the members will proceed
without any delay, after which the bouse
will be ready for the inauguration cere
monies.
In the senate Chief Justice Start will
administer the oath of Office to Lieut.
Oov. Smith, then the body will go to
the house chamber. No other organ
ization proceedings will be necessary, &s
all the senators o.uali ijd for office tivo
years ago.
As soon as both bodies are seated the
retiring and the incoming governor will
enter the chamber iibroa.st, fottCared by
a number of former governors, among
whom will be I^-kmis i\ Kubbai\l, A, tt.
McGill, John £?. PflJsbbry am! Alexau'Jor
Ramsey.
Gov. Lind will then deliver his fare
w< 11 address, reviewing his jnliTiinlstra.
tion and outlining recommendations for
the consideration of the new governor.
The chief justice will then administer
the oath of office to Capt. Van Sant, who
will immediately read his inaugural mes
sage to the legislators assembled. It
will contain a summary of his views on
the best method of governing the state.
Ti^ere will be no change In tha office
of the attorney general. Mr. Douglas
will file an oath of office, and the per
sonnel of his staff will be the tame
as during the past two years. The rail
road and warehouse commissioners leave
their offices today £.nd tiie newly elected
board will be in full % ssession tomor
row.
Peter E. Hanson, secretary of state
elect, has already filed his oath of office
and assumes tho. duties of his pr>sit:on
today. The incoming state treasurer is
at the capitol with his force of clerks,
but will not formally assume control un
til tomorrow.
POPULATION OF ENGLAND.
riimiji'i-H In Proportion of Town and
U in;. I Population.
London Telegraph.
T. A. Weldon, F. C. A., read a paper
at a meeting of the Royal Statistical so
ciety recently bearing on the distribu
tion of population in England and Wales
in 1891, as compared with 1801.
At the outset Mr. Weldon said that the
condition of things in_lßol was that, with
the exception of London, there was r.i)
town with 100,000 inhabitants. The me
tropolis had a population of 922,000 and
Manchester the next largest town, about
91,132. There were 112 towns outside ef
London with populations descending from
that figure to 4,000 and amounting in all
to 1,400,762, but the bulk of the country
was.thoroughly rural, say, over 31,000,000
acres, inhabilated by 4,721,252 person?,
out of the total population, 5,892,536. How
striking the change since then was shown
in the fact that the ordinary density of
population in rural districts was, In 1801,
about 100 persons to the square mile; in
tS9I it averaged 130 persons","and the rural
populatien was only 5,534,000 persons, out
of a total population of 29,002,525. There
fore, Instead of being paramount, rural
interests were, in 1891, those of less than
one-fifth of the whole people.
As the proportion of town population
was now more than fi4 per cent, against
33 per cent in lS'll, the rural population
had fallen fiom 5:: down to 19 per cent.
In 1801 the lowest proportion of rural
population in any division was 30 per
cent, but in ISJ4 the minimum was 6 per
cent, and five divisions showed ratios
not higher than 12 per cent. If, how
ever, the metropolis itself (with its belt
of environs^ could be separated from the
rest otl the division, the surrounding area
would not differ widely in the constitu
tion of its population from the adjacent
divisions; 82 per cent of its area and 39
per cent of its population would be rural.
Still, statistics illustrated in an impres
sive manner the transfer of political and
industrial power which bad been gradu
ally accomplished in less than a century,
and should convince us that the Englan 1
of today was in many respects unlike tr.»
Fngland of earlier times, though active
progress? of population had been restrict
ed to little more than four millions or
NERVOUS
PROSTRATION
is only a failure of strength.
It takes strength to get strength.
Get strength of stomach first
Your stomach will then look
out for your body. Scott's
emulsion of cod-liver oil ena
bles your stomach to get it
from usual food; and this is
the way to restore the whole
body.
We'll send you a little to try if you Wee.
SCOTT & BOWNfi. 40, Pearl street, New Yon.
acres out of thirty-seven millions, and
therefore in a measure the face of the
country was little changed. The old out
cry as to London devouring the country,
though it. had more justification now than
it had in the time of Smollett, was seen
to have been based on exaggeration.
As regarded the more progressive
places, there anpeared to have be:n lat
terly a slackening in the rates of increaso
of the older centers, such as towns which
in 1801 had not less than 2,000 inhab'tants,
but a fully sustained increase in the pop
ulations of those Tisihg places which had
not attained importance in l&Oi. In the
latest decennium,' ISOO-1, the check to
growing populations' was, however, gen
eral. Dealing with rural districts, it was
shown how generally the phenomena
have resembled each' other in all parts
of the country, /both as respects early
increase and later decrease in the num
bers or the people' An interesting featu c
of the paper was..a. number of carefuily
compiled tables showing the relative
increase of typical English towns during
the century. Of these towns the most
marked progress was displayed by Car
diff, which has sprung from 2,264 in
1801, to Hl.aai at the last census; Brighton
from V.6G2 to 142,129; Crewe, from 121 to
28,761: Middlesbrqugh, from 581 to 76,13 V
and Barrow, from 9&4 to 51,712.
BOSS TWEEDS DIAMONDS.
Biahop Potter's Story of a Diamond
Snspeniler Button.
New York Sun.
Bishop Potter said recently that a fri e nd
ot nls picked up a diamond as big as his
thumb in the office of Boss Tweed one
day and then it turned out to be one of
the boss s suspender buttons.
"Now, with all due respect to the bis
hops friend, I do not believe that, dia
mond Btory," said a man who saw much
of iweed in his days of power. "Had
the old man ever worn a diamond sus
pender button 1 certainly would have
known n. The fact tat, the only big dia
mond the boss ever displayed was a large
solitaire that he never failed to have in
his expansive shirt front. Twed was a
JOlly old dog, and often in his stuttering
way used to get off some queer remarks
just for effect or as a guy on his he.tr-
. It would have been just like him to
pay when his diamond soltalre was pick
ed up by the bishop's friend: _ -Oh
that s . only a suspender button of mine
-1 didn t miss it."
"This Spender.button:stot >' puts me
in mind-of a genuine diamond tale about
the boss. Tweed's spokesman on the Ho
of the assembly was Thomas C. Field
of this city. He, like the boss, wore a
large diamond in his shirt front. But it
had a little chain and pin attached to it
that the boss's , diamond had not One
evening Field had dined, not wisely,! but
too well, and during the siting of he as
sembly fell into a heavy slumber with
his head on his desk. _Alee Frear was al
so a member from this city. He saw that
certain bills could • riot b3 handled prop
erly unless Fields? had a clear head, so
he got the speaker,! Billy Hitchman, to
secure the passage H of ; a motion to ad
journ John J. Bl^.ir and Billy Cook,
members from this city, quietly got pos
sess on of Fields' ijiamond pin? Tnen
the lights of the assembly chamber were
turned- low and Fields' was left slee l'
tnere. -:.-., c- XI of. _- - . ■ -
ir/fl was dawn-the next day when
Melds woke up. ; Fields rubbed his eyes,
stretched himself, yawned, and then look
ed around. He said nothing, but qui't'y
walked out and down State street to th*
Delevan. When he turned up at break
fast Boss Tweed' arid ; Alec Frear were
already at the table and so was Hitch
man. Fields was wild. He ha.d missed
his diamond -when he got to his root
He had already gone to police headquar
ters and told how he had been robbed.
He said that while o not feeling well he
had gone into the assembly chamber, and
imagining tliat there ■ was to have been
a night session; he had taken a ten min
utes nap, and that during that" time
some one who must have followed • him
had taken his diamond. Fields told his
story at the table and raged like a
madman about the los of his pin
Well. Fields,' said 'Twe.d, 'Wliat „u<^
you think there was to be a night session
ana r?° to the assembly chamber at a IV
Hanged if I know,' said Fields, 'but—
.J.wee<rpulled at his napkin which he had
the habit of tucking under his big d.-übe
chin. .There on the boss's bis white sh"rt
front glistened Fields' diamond, made
unmistakable by its little gold chain and
"There was a general lau?h all round
the table No; Fields did not.laugh. Half
raising himself up from his seat with
his fat face flushing as red as a bet,
he exclaimed in a voice (hat cou'd be
heard all over the dining room: •
- Tweed 1 always knew you were the
damnedest thief on. .record, but before this
session is over I'll make you pay me in
cash ten times the.-pvice of that pin.' Of
course Fields: got his pin.
"At the close of the session one nirht
he was with Alexander , Frear an.l
bpeakor Hitchman, enjoying a cold bottle
m a corner, of the boss's room at th ■
Delevnn. Putting his hands ' into his
pocket he drew out a roll of white tissue
paper. - 'S-a-a-y,' said he to Hitehmini
with a laugh; ' a month ago I told Tweed
he d pay heavy cash for that pin busi
ness, didn't,!? Well. I compromised, and
he unrolled the paper and exhibited three
immense soltaire diamonds^ worth it was
afterwards learned, $3,1-00. So the ioke
on fields, proved a costly one to Bss
Tweed. Fields had actually made Tweed
believe that he would kill one of hla pet
bills : if he did. not settle in that diamond
v.ay. ■.: „ .■'..-..". ; . . „,. _ ..-.-. : -- ■■--
"Let me say this 1; No one who ever
knew (he wav the Tweed ringsters revel
ed in money in those days would think
the diamond suspender- button' an im
possibility.. Diamond were worn in pro
fusion by all Tammany officials and
the bigger the diamond the bigger the
man in the estimate of the heelers It
is said that many men in the legislature
who helped Tweed in, 1871 to pass certain
ring measures were"paid w.th diamord».
One of them, it-is 'said, once remarked
to the head of .the =lobby of that day
Checks can be traced and bills can be
marked and gold eagles nicked for fu
ture-identification? but • valuable unset
diamonds tell np.^tales out of school.'. •
WHAT MODERN SAILORS FEAS.
No* Winds and Sens, bat on Explo
sion Which Sends the Shl;> Down.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
"Boiler explosions are . the terror of the
seafaring: man," said an old-time deep
water captain, speaking of the frightful
disaster at the carbolmeum works. "Such
a thing is bad enough in dry land, but
imagine a catastrophe of that kind at
sea! In ninety-nine cases out of a hun
dred it means the absolute wiping out
of the craft itself" and every soul on
board. ■
V "The average landsman would be great
ly shocked in looking over the maritime
records to see how many vessels disap
pear each year and leave absolutely no
ue to their fate. They run well up to
the hundred mark.-and such a ' mystery
» £8* t0 ** cx Pteined a»'ay by storms.
A Chinese typhoon may swoop down like
lightning out of a clear sky and tear
a ship to pieces, but some floating wreck
age is sure to tell. the tale. A boiler
exDlo^ion. on the contrary, will "blow a
hole as big as a railroad tunnell right
through the center of the hull, and the
stricken vessel simply goes down like
a shot. There is no time to unfasten a
boat from. the uavits or cut loose a spar
In the opinion of seamen, that Is the
story of at least 90 per cent of the ships
that leave port and are never heard from
again. Luckily the modern system rf
marine boiler inspection Is extremely
strict and thorough, but. it is impossible
to absolutely prevent-carelessness and !
fraud, and often enough. no doubt the
fault lies with the engineer. -
a 'There is an old " story .of a drunken
Scotchman who mistook the -thermome
ter for the stean»:gauge and 'cussed out'
the stokers .because *he couldn't get the
pressure above £0. That yarn -will hard
ly hold water, but I've seen cases almost
as bad. I am glfid'ta say. however, that
awing .the oast ten tears there has been
a steady diminution- of the number of
vessels which : 'mysteriously - disappear.';
That is due. beyond.,all question, to the
increased stringency of boiler inspection
and the greater strictness of «xamina--J
tions before a license is issued to engi
neers. Nevertheless Ihere is still consid
erable room for.-. improvement in both
brandies. . _. , ."x--if~: • j r ' — ■ -
Are You Engaged?
Dodge County Republican.
A man who gq*rs to see a girl twice a
a week and takies frer to places, is le
gally engaged fp h£r according to the
recent decision, i whether he says any
thing to her ab<sfit irtarriage or not and
she could recover suit for breach of
promise. It is hoped that girls will
take advantage and force boys to marry
them Young men have a habit of loaf
ing around a girl's house for years and
drifting off without saying a word about
marriage. While a .young man is loaf
ffcg around a girl's house he probibly
keeps some one away who would talk
business.
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AMERICAN CONSUL MAKES A RE
PORT OX THE EXPERIMENTS
IN FRANCE
HOW GRAPE CROPS ARE SAVED
Severe Summer Storms Prevented
' l»y the Dlsekurgre in the Air - -
of n. (nnnini—Official
Report.
Cannonading as a prevention for hail
storms has been made a epecial study
by John C. Covert, American consul at
Lyons, Fiance. In advance sheets of con
sular reports, issued Dec. 21, Mr. Co
vert says:
Since 1 left the department a report
on the firing of cannon at clouds to pra-
L *•/!..' - „:^ . . __j__^
HAIL CANNON READY TO OPERATE.
vent- the destruction of grapes by hail
storms, several newspapers and a num
ber of individuals have requested that
"the consul at Lyons make a supple
mentary report on this subject." "With
; this object in view. I accompanied Mr.
i Jean Raulin, a professor of agriculture
and an official of the Farmers' alliance
| (Syndicate Agricole,) of the Southeast of
France, in a visit to the towns of Bols
d'Oiget and Deniee.
In the first place all the grape growers
of the neighborhood had been invited to
•pitiiess the trial of two guns, especially
constructed as hall destroyers. In the
second place, Deniee, a general jollifica
tion was organized to give, vemt to the
joy of the grape growers over their sue-
I cess in vanquishing their most dreaded
enemy—the hail.
Two long cannon were displayed in
each place, almost identical in shape,
but differing ir. the manner of firing.
Each gun is of the shape of an inverted
cone, the opening at the mouth heing
twenty-eight and one-half inches wi3c.
It is planted upon a tripod three feet
high. The gun itself is six feet clx
Inches high above the tripod. It is
made of thin boiler iron. At its base is
a forged breech, which holds a forged
iron block. In the center t>f this block
is an aperture six inches long, about the
size of a large dynamite cartridge. In
which is placed a metallic cartridge
containing eighty grams of blasting pow
der, wadded with a cork, and tamped
like an ordinary miner's blast. It is
discharged by a needle on a lever at
tached to the baae of the forged iron
holder.
TEST OF FIFTY SHOTS.
As many as fifty shots were fired in my
presence in order that Vice Consul
Browne and I might inspect the working
of the guns. The detonation is very loud.
As soon as the lanyard Is pulled flame
is visible at the mouth of the gun, fol
lowed immediately by a wreath of amoke.
A shrill whistling sound immediately fol
i lows the firing of the cannon and is
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heard for fourteen seconds. At a dis
tance this whistling is much louder than
near the gun. I am told that it travels
at a speed of 330 meters per seeond--4,620
meters in fourteen seconds, which Is
nearly two and one-half miles. During
the firing a few drops of rail fell.
I interviewed from twenty to thirty
wine growers who used the cannon last
summer. They were all emphatic in
their belief in the efficiency of lighting
hail with gunpowder. They said that if
the weather were hot and they saw the
clouds forming-, they prepared for a
change: If tho clouds were moving
rapidly, their direction was changed, or
the movement was stopped by the firing.
They were torn asunder and broken into
shreds, and a copious fall of rain soon
followed. Tn localities where great losses
from hail have been incurred every sum
mer, the cannon were used last summer
and no hail fell. Two or three miles dis
tant, where no cannon were fired, the
hail was very destructive. At Denice,
in the Beaujolais, the grape growers
have suffered from hail seven years out
of the last decade. They think all ihi
conditions favored hail last summer and
that they were protected from its de-
I ..7 .|
EFFECT OF THE DISCHARGE.
structlve ravages by their cannon. One
cannon protects nearly seventy-five acres
of land.
EXPENSE IS INSIGNIFICANT.
The expense of equipping a shooting
station is: One cannon, $25; cabin for
cannoneer, $10; ten cartridge cases, $6;
ramrod, 10 cents; a needle, 10 cents; horn
and lantern for signaling, $1.90;-freight,
$1.90; total, $45. The cost of operating a
gun for five hundred shots, not including
labor, is $15.50. The cannoneer is insured
against accidents for a season for $2.
At a meeting which follow, d the ex
hibition, the general ieretary of the alli
ance, Mr. fcilvestre, delivered an addre^,
in which he cited many proofs cf ihe c '-
licacy of the cannon, against the hal'.
Several grape growers t;o£ the floor and
asserted that their vines were destroyed,
while those of their neighbors who were
under the protection cf the cannon w.re
uninjured.
An agricultural paper announces that a
vast defensive alliance has been iormed
in the French A'.ps, including the giap>
growers of five departments, for the pur
pose nf buying cannon and powder for
war against the hail next summer. D.\
Faul Cazeneuve, oni> of the most dis
tinguished fci=ntists of F.an?e, says the
Question is still in the domain of experi
ment and that nothing i 3 p.oved; "that
the commune of Dentce was not thl=i
year on the Hne of the hailstorm and
was only spattered by the heavy sur-
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rounding norms." He adds that "It a
number of communes where cannon w:re
fired were on the line of the hail torm
;nnt»wtre prt.ticttd anl t c o hera were
subjected to great 1.-eses from h;il t at
would prove the effkacy of the cann a."
The wine growers say this is just what
happened. Dr. Oazt-neuve thinks that
no amount ot cannon filing would in
fluence great s-torms, and asks what th se
cannon would have clone against tfce te il-
Me oy(.l<:iie at Qalvea'on. But he ih'nk?
the i xp<.rim* nts ■bonld 1 c c: nt nued " >s
tematically and seientiirally" and thj t
"when it shall feavc brc-n demon t ;>*ed
that moderate lnilt rnn can be ion
jured. then it will b- Hire en ugh to tike
measures against hunicanes.*'
FAITH IN CANNON UNSHAKEN.
The doubts of this learned scientist
will not preVent many thousands of can
non from being used in the vineyards of
France next summer. Two ..thousand,
cannon were engaged in cloud shooting"
in Italy in 1899. Last year the number
had swelled to 15.000. The Italian. gov
ernment goes so far in recognizing the
efficacy of the cannon as to furnish
powder to grape growers at 3 cents per
pound. ; .
The director of the agricultural societ
ies of the Southeast of France, a union of
farmers' alliances, has sent ja . report to
the French ministers of agricultural on
this subject. He witnessed many demon
strations against hail in France antf was
a delegate to the anti-hail convention
in Italy. He says In his report that "we
cannot conclude that, In all cases, the
use of cannon wilt" afford complete pro-'
tection, but it is undeniable that the.re
sults obtained are most interesting and
give- veritable hope 3 for the future."
Before the present improve! cloud de
stroyers were in use, vine, growers phot
powder from a sheet Iron case fixed in
a strong box on the trunk of a tree.
In some parts of France, they rang, and
still ring, , church bells, believing that
the vibrations in "the atmosphere affected
the elements. If the hall continued to
fall In spite of the ringing, they averred
that It would have been worse but for
the clangor of the b<-!!s. ,A
—: A -pamphlet written by V. WTmorel de
votes eighty octavo pages to this sub
ject. M. A. Gninaud has also written ■
pamphlet on "Firing Against the Clouds.' 1
In which theory and practice are fully
discussed.
LIBRARY DEVOTED TO HAIL.
The bibliography on the formation of
hail and the methods of combating it,
cpnnon firing at cV u,ls, and subjects relat
ing to the preservation of vineyards from .
storm 3 comprises 107 distinct works, the
titles of which are given In the Vermorel
appendix. - ...
A hail firing ccnsrreip. to b'- held In
Fadua. Italy. Nov. 27. 28. and 29, to dis
cuss this subject and to examine the dif
ferent kinds of cannon. •'
Tho PIU DlavMiiiil.
"Fort St. George, Madras," by Mrs. F.
Penney.
While Pitt, the grandfather of Lord
Chatham, was governor of Fort St.
George In 1638, he became acquainted with
a Jewel merchant named Jamchund. who
brought a diamond of great size, for
sale. He asked £30.000 for it in the roua-'n.
It should, of course, have been bought
ou behitlf of the company, but Pitt: see
ing money in It, could not resist the
temptation of making a private bargain.
He became the possessor of the stone for
the sum of £20,400, and he was quite sat
isfied that he had behaved honorably
when he paid the man, who on his part
was also content. But the diamond was
known to be worth more than Jamchund
had received, and the transaction gave
rise to a good deal of gos.sip, which In
no way decreased when later on Pitt
had the stone cut Jn England, and sold
it to the regent of France for £116,009.
Even that enormous sum did not repre
sent its true value. The stone was ;■•> '.n
the royal crown of France, where It still
remains, and it is valued in the present
day at £480,000, close upon half a million
sterling. It weighed 410 carats in tbfl
rough, but the cutting reduced it to 136.
carats .
Treed by Wolves.
Menominee (Mich.) Spe. Chicago Chron
icle.
A. J. McAllister, a foreman for Mann
Bros., of Milwaukee, was chased by a
pack of wolves near Metropolitan. Mich.
He climbed a tree and was kept there in
the freezing cold for six hours until res
cued by men from the camp who were
scouting In the woods for him.