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December 19, 1901 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. i i h iii iir mil ii in n u oiuiuo ur Dunn viwn. British Troops In Splendid Con dition, but More Needed. STRAIN OH OPFIOEBS; DTCE5SE, Military Correipondent Says E land's General In loutk Africa Bm Worked Twelye Hoar Dally For Tenn- Thc Dnrghen , Still Hopcfal. A military correspondent of the Lon don Times, 'a message sent from Pre toria, rteolnres that the statements that the British troops in South. Africa are 'stale" are, untrue. He says, on the 1 contrary, th"t tnt men are in spienam condition, and, though they would be giaa to get come,7! tney nave nox iost. their zest for fighting-. This refers both to the regulars and the volunteers attached, to the various battalions. Some , colonials recently 'recruited at South African seaports are less satis factory, but the best colonials, those from Canada, New: Zealand, and Aus tralia, are invaluable, and the new yeo manry are improving. . The correspondent says it is undenia ble that the strain on the generals and their staffs Is excessive. Many of these officers have worked for twelve hours daily for two years. Lord Kitchener alne seems absolutely impervious to wear and tear. The regimental officers 'are all right. . v ' Re-enforcements to the number of 25,000 would be' immensely valuable, savs the correspondent, and would ren der the last stage of the war rapid and complete. The Boers keeping in the field number from 8,000 to 10,000, anrt they are mostly In as good condition as the British. They are seasoned sol diers and get pleny of supplies from the Kaffir kraals and from parts of the country that are only accessible to themselves: The Kaffir kraals also serve as remount depots, and for each ' Boer there are two Kaffirs, who, even when unarmed, are useful auxiliaries. For fighting purposes, says the corre spondent, the enemy must be estimat ed as numbering 20,000 exceedingly mobile troops. ' .. The- Boers still believe that European Intervention Is .imminent that Great Britain is tired pf the war and that they have only to hold out long enough In order to make the British so weary that they will .surrender. The burgh ers are fighting to win and are convinc- ed that they will win. . ... J.. -' The Boers pay attention to the Brit ish press, but may not believe the poli ticians' speeches, as they consider poli ticians professional liars. They note every word indicating the weakening of British determination, lamenting the cost of the war and speaking of the In ter national 'complications to which" its continuance may give rise. They have no particular enmity toward the Brit ish nation and rather like the "khakis," but their one thought Is the restoration of their Independence under their own flag. Openly they say that when a Liberal government comes Into power they will get justice. The correspondent dwells on the dif ficulties of Lord Kitchener's position. He has 3,000 miles of communication? to protect, civil governments are being re-established, the English populations are being brought back, and the ene- in v ri in liiiurs Mir uciuk ivru &.vru .! lvtjl. All is being done with a much smaller T number or effective troops tnan nas iV been imagined. The removal of Lord Kitchener would be fatal, eays the correspondent, and would be construed by the Boers as a great triumph for themselves. He (Kitchener) knows . the Boers better than any other man In South Africa, and the army trusts and believes In him. A dispatch to the London Times from Wellington, New Zealand, says respon sible New Zealanders returning from South Africa declare that more sol diers are needed to finish the war. The troops have the utmost confidence In Lord v Kitchener, but, bis efforts are hampered by the 111 advised agitation in the United Kingdom. ANNOVING THE PRE8IDENT. Reply Sent to a. Womta Vko Leo tared Hint For Sabbath Breaking. Among the annoyance! of a presi dent's Ufa are the Intrusions of well lntentioned people upon bit private and personal affairs, says Harper's Weekly. He is the common property of the nation. He has no home, or as little of one as the public is compelled to leave him. He is worse off than any private citizen in the country in this respect, for when he and his wife ask some friends to call on them on a cer tain day of the week persons who are not asked and who do not know them accept the Invitation which was not given them and go also. Not so an noying perhaps are the people who open upon the president as teachers of personal morality. They have no dell lcacy. They rush In where they are sot asked, and they insist that now the president Is In the' White House he shall conform bis life to theirs, shall live as they think is right and is a monster of iniquity If he does not ac cept 'their tutelage. .-' There is. not a president who has escaped them., .and. there never will be until -yre have a score or so of presidents each of whom win , not 'heed them, who will .not an swer their letters, , who will insist on haying, bis own habits and on living According to his own light and not ac cording to the light of another, A We have recently had a temperance president who has been called a drunk ard because some one said he saw him drink a glass of champagne at dinner. Denials of the truth of the statement merely whetted the appetite for ob jurgation. And now we have another president, a very abstemious man, who receives letters nearly every day whose writers express the regret that we have a "winebibber" in the White House. These letters, we are told, are not answered, .but a reply was sent to the woman who reminded the presi dent of the commandment, "Six days shalt thou labor," and then lectured him for Sabbath breaking. The reply was written by Secretary Cortelyou and was this: "I am directed by the president to say that he goes to church on Sunday morning and takes his wife and chil dren into the country Sunday after noon. v "To which of these occupations do you object?" . ' ' ' ,' HUGE RAILWAY COMBINE Details of Plan Advanced by 1' Paul Morton. V i A Anecdote of the President' To wilt. . Stories of President Roosevelt's youth and. precocity are now coming to the fore, says the Wnshington correspond ent of the New York World. An ast ern senator starts off with this: When Roosevelt was five years old, he came around to the family church early one Monday morning. He found the sexton busy cleaning up. Young Roosevelt opened the door and looked in. The sexton noticed him and told him to come in if he wanted to. Teddy made no reply, but carefully looked at roof, ceiling and floor. When young Roosevelt returned home," his mother asked him where he had been. "I have been, to -church looking for the zeal," replied the boy. , "The zeal L" exclaimed the mother. "What do you mean "Why," replied .Teddy, "the preacher spoke yesterday .about the 'zeal that devoureth man,' and I wanted to se it." . - The president shook bis bead sadly when this story was told to him. Balloon for Marconi's Experiment. Wjlliam Marconi, the Inventor of wireless telegraphy, who Is at St John's, N. p.. conducting experiments with his system, succeeded the other afternoon in floating a balloon 200 feet above the summit of Signal hill, which is 600 feet high and overlooks the har bor of . St. John's, says the New York Tribune. This balloon is fastened by a series of stays which render It almost motionless. It holds up the vertical steel wire which is used in the system of wireless telegraphy in communicat ing with distant ships. HALO OF HEVELIUS S RARE St. Lonts Astronomer Talks Un nsaal Phenomenon. "The great halo of Hevelius observed recently at Cleveland, O.'. said the Rev, M. S. Brennan, lecturer on astron omy, at St. Louis university, to a re porter of the St. Louis Republic, the other day, "is a phenomenon remarka ble only, tor its rarity. ' It is produced by the same condition that gives us rainbows, parhelia, paraselenae, sun dogs and a number of other balos about the sun and moon. "All these are caused by light both reflected and refracted by vesiculous clouds - that is, clouds which carry small particles of water. In these the light Is separated as in a prism, the white rays of the sun or moon coming forth in bars showing all the colors of the spectrum. That is refraction. If this Is then reflected upon the earth, It Is visible to us. We then see the vari ous phenomena I have mentioned. "The common sun ring, or halo, Is at a distance of 22 degrees. There Is an other, less common, at a distance of 46 degrees. The third, very rare indeed, at a distance of 90 degrees, is that first accurately described by Hevelius about the time of Galilei, though observed previously. This has been seen since its description only seven times until the recent observation of the Rev. Fred erick Odenbach of St. Ignatius' college in Cleveland, i "Though this observation has not yet been reported officially, I have no doubt It was substantially correct 41s related in the press dispatches. The r.lmospher- lc conditions over the country are now In a state calculated to exhibit such phenomena. This great halo may not be seen agpin in hundreds of years, or it might possibly appear every day fo a week." t MOVING SIDEWALK URGED. i Novel Unerflrronnd System Snn-arest-ed to Relieve Pari Streets. A novel plan to relieve the congested condition of Paris streets has just been submitted at a meeting of prominent engineers which was held to discuns further improvements in public trans portation. M. Cassalonga, a well known civil engineer, suggested that an under ground moving sidewalk similar to that at the Paris exposition of 1900, but much larger, be constructed. Accord ing to his plan, there would be four platforms,, each moving at a different rate of speed from the others, the fast est going at the rate of thirteen miles an hour. - ; ' ' ;' ' " M M. Cassalonga convinced bis hearers that such a scheme would be cheaper than an electric underground railway and that It would multiply greatly the accommodation of the public. He said to the Paris correspondent of the Chi cago Dally News: v "Part of the platform might be given up to the use of heavy teams, the city thus gaining both from an aesthetic and a pecuniary point of view, since the paving department would save hundreds of thousands of francs annu ally by the reduction, of wear on the street surfaces. I am sure also that the public, would prefer the rolling side walk to stuffy cars, not to mention the elimination of danger from collision' Plans and estimates of the curious undertaking were submitted recently to the traction committee of the mu nicipal council, members of which re ported that they were vastly attracted by the idea, provided electric power for It would not prove too costly. NATIONAL 0WUEESHIP SUGGESTED Tleo President of the Santa Fe Sys . tern, la a Lecture at Chicago I'nl ersrty, Favored the Consolidation ot All ; Iilnes In the United States. , Plea. For .Pooling-, j , Consolidation of all the railway lines of the country under the control of a single cdrp oration," either private or public, was advanced by Vice Presi dent Paul ' Morton of the Santa Fe system the other evening as the ulti mate solution of the weighty trans portation problems that are at present vexing the business world. This, Mr. Morton declared, is the re sult toward which the large railway systems driven by the legal restric tions' on pooling, which work against their business interests, are now rap idly tending. . ; ' 5 ' ' He Imparted these, views on the sub ject In a lecture on "Some Railway Problems," delivered before the stu dents and faculty' of the University of Chicago In Cobb hall; Chicago, says the New York Journal. Whether the ownership of the. con solidated lines would . remain in " the hands of private individuals or betak en' over-by the national government Mr. Morton expressed; himself as un able to foretell, but-that consolidation itself was bound to come in the near future he stated as certain from pres ent conditions in the railway world and the underlying tendencies of mod ern industrial progress. "The best minds of the business world are engaged today," said Mr. Morton, "in working out plans for the further consolidation of industrial op erations under great corporations. The same tendency is at work in the rail way world. "Under the present laws 'there is a great deal of unlawful pooling done In secret, and it 'is remarkable that there is not more. "I see only three . solutions to the problems which are at present vexing the railroad world. These are: "First. Legalizing of legitimate pool ing. , , ... "Second. Unification of ownership of all the railway systems.. "Third. Government, ownership and management. . .. . . .,.".., . "I .have., always been In favor , of le gitimate pooling. . Its absence, as I say. is at present hastening the consolida tion of Interests between' the different railroads. Personally I view the solu tion of unity of ownership as much bet ter than legalized pooling, and I do not see' any, harm that would ensue from a consolidation 'of all' the railway in terests of the country under a single private management. "A vast amount of money could be saved "under such a system of control, and the railroad management would certainly give a part of this gain to the public in the shape of lower rates and better service." SURPRISED BY BOLOMEN. Bow Unarmed American Soldiers Defeated a Number of Filipinos. , Interesting details are drifting in of the bravery of the soldiers surprised and massacred at Balangiga, writes the Manila correspondent of the New York Evening Post. Prodigies of valor were performed by some of the men, armed with table knives, stones, clubs or other rude weapons. A hospital corps man is credited with killing elev en natives with a shovel, while anoth er man beat out the brains of four bolomen with a baseball bat before he went down. . A sergeant of Company C and six men fought their way to the headquarters building to rescue the officers if possible. The officers were all dead; but , the little squad held its ground until it had hauled down and saved the flag, when it fought its way back to the beach and sailed away. One explanation, of , how so. many men with bolos could be so near the quarters of the troops is that between 100 and 200 - natives were employed to clear the surrounding grounds'. These men were furnished by the pres idents of the village, and they were permitted to carry their bolos, as part of their work was the cutting of un derbrush. These were the men who, on a preconcerted signal, threw them selves on the unarmed soldiers. BIG RAILWAY STATION HOTEL . Ibsen and His Work. A Norwegian recently arrived in New York tells this, says the New York Times: v- . '" v , Henrik Ibsen,, the Norwegian dram atist, was one day at dinner asked by a pushing maid how . many words he wrote per day.. Replied he: "My dear miss, I haven't written -a single word In ten years!" r ' Of course bis questioner and those who happened tp overhear the conver sation 1 were fairly startled. One of the party was bold enough to say it was incredible, drawing especial at tention to .the fact that the poet's work, "When We Dead Awake," had Just run . off the press, adding trium phantly. - ''-v . "Now, master, you don't mean to say you dldn,'t write that f And then the Norse skeptic unbent and explained: : "I did not write that play, I merely thought it out. My secretary wrote it." : - . A Novelty In Foods. One of the newest things in the way of foods . Is fish powder, which, it Is claimed, Is a highly nutritious article, easy , of digestion, and therefore par ticularly suitable for Invalids, It Is Intended for ordinary, household use. There Will , Be One In New , York's New Pennsylvania Depot. In addition to being a novelty, through Its possession of underground trackage, the projected union ; station of the Pennsylvania Railroad company will be the first building of it kind in or around New York to bold a hotel, says the New York Herald, It will be on the west or Eighth ave nue side of the big station The great structure will . be live and one-half stories above ground. , There will be two stories below ground, leading to and providing for the tracks. A pas senger entering the building on the east side will walk down a. long incline to the first story, eighteen feet under ground. h.'V.-:::;:-:- ' Ticket offices and waiting rooms will probably be placed on the ground floor, but some of the ticket' offices are exi pected td be on the underground floor. On that floor will be a wide gallery overlooking rthe tracks. ; From it pas sengers will descend sixteen ' feet by stairways to the train platforms. Pro vision Is to be made for carriage drives down to the level of the long gallery over the. tracks. ' ,rV ; , The Long Island road will occupy the north half of the station and the Penn sylvania the south section. A simple switching arrangement provides for the receipt of -trains on th outside tunnels and their dispatch , by . the Thirty-second street lines. The Thirty-second and Thirty-first street tubes can be used for direct traffic? such as through trains to Long 'Island points from Philadelphia or places farther west and for through trains from cities south of New York for New England points. : - ' v .'v Two express trains that are the pride of the Pennsylvania road the Federal and the Colonial which run from Bos ton to Washington and vice versa with out change, will undoubtedly go through this tunnel when the flew Hell Gate bridge is completed and connec tion established by it between (the Long Island and the New York, New Haven and Hartford roads. These trains are now ferried around New York and make no stop in that city. NEW MEXICANS FOOLED. 8w ."Gamble" Over- ti Senator' Door and Wanted a Game. Down iii the .basement of the capitol at Washington there Is a, row of com mittee rooms used by: members of the senate and house whocannot get bet ter ones up stairs. ., Over the door of each room is. painted the, name of the occupactr Senator ' Gamble of North Dakota, while waiting for the senate painter to prepare him a, sign, printed the word "Gamble" insprawly capi tal letters . on 4 a large sheet of paper and pasted it on the frosted glass door. Three visitors from f(flew Mexico wandered . past i4 the t other .afternoon reading the signs on .the, doors, says the New York World. When, ..they came to Senator Gamble's room, i with Jts pa per sign, one of them nudged another and said, "Let's go in and look her over" . They ; opened .. the door and walked In, to the astonishment of a mild mannered young man at work at a typewriter. The three New Mexi cans stood, together near the door and looked around. -Finally one of tbem said, "Where's it?" : r "Where's what?" asked the young man at the typewriter. "Why, the layout or , the wheel? What's the game, and how much is a stack?" "I don't understand you," said the young man at the typewriter. "Aw, that s all right." said one of the party. "We're all right too. Open up. and we'll take a chance." , By this time the young man was be ginning tp think the visitors were cra zy. He protested that he did not know what the New Mexicans meant, and they, after a whispered conversation, stalked out Into the hall." "Guess our game ain't good enough for him," was the only comment made. "But It says 'Gamble' on the sign, sure enough." ' " ; , . ' " ; BABY QUENTIN DISSATISFIED Yoana-est Roosevelt Lonn-s For the Freedom of His Old Home. Quentln, the youngest son of Presi dent Roosevelt,. Is the only member of the family who can boast the Capital City as a birthplace. He was born Just prior to the Spanish-American war at 1735 N street. Washington, while his father was organising the rougb riders. He often wears a little rough rider's uniform, and the attendants of the White House must maneuver through all drills whenever the infant warrior takes a notion. J Quentln does not think much of Washington as a plae V of residence, says the New York World. The lother day , he desired to jrark through' the nower beds'bn, stilts. ',Hls. father told blin tbatUhe gardener objected.: .The youngster answered: ; "t don't see ! what good it does. for yon to "be president. Tbere are so many things we can't do here.-1 wish I was home again.", ' , v .; ? zl , . ...New Species '. of'Otter. J, , T,. ' Way down In Soutb America.' from Guiana to Argentina, there has been discovered the arifanha, recognized, a the largest species of the otter. ' It grows -to -a length of five feet The oddest thing about it Is that its skin seems( to be much too large for . Its body.ays the Philadelphia Times. In liveliness it surpasses even the playful seal. Aa ariranha has been tamed and has a bound for Its playfellow. At a certain hour the eaptive goes to the door of its cage and there whines and yells until turned loose in the garden, where it rushes around, barking joy ously. It deftly eatches the fish thrown to it and skillfully prevents the dog from appropriating any of the food. . " FUTURE OF OKLAHOMA DeTelopment of the Territory Discussed by Delegate Flynn. TBAINS CROWDED WITH SETTLERS Enormous Influx, of Immlajratlon Is . Making the Great ' Sonthwest Rich ' In Capital and ResonrceoPeoplo Happy and Frosperons, bnt Want to Come Into the Union. - - ; Delegate Dennis T. Flynn is enthusi astic over the growth and prosperity of Oklahoma. In conversation v with the St. Louis Globe-Democrat's Washington correspondent he discussed tbe develop ment of the territory enthusiastically. He said; "There was never such ft steady flow of good people with money Into any new possession of this country as has been and is today converging into Oklahoma, and the peoplt of the east have no conception of it ; ' - . "If you don't believe it, try to get ft seat in a Pullman car going through tbe territory. Tbey are as crowded aa the day coaches.; It . is Impossible for the average passenger at a way station to get a seat on any train in the terri tory, so great is the multitude of peo ple . traveling. It is estimated that,' aside from the rush of settlers, 20,000 people from, the two states of Iowa and Illinois alone have come to us and bought farms inside of two years. Not withstanding that, where the main lines formerly operated one through train each way a day three are now run to meet these conditions of Immense pas senger, traffic. ' "And what do. you think of this: Many of the farms that were given to settlers as free homesteads only, two years ago are now selling for $10,000 each. There is something doing s out with us. "Oklahoma has a territorial extent nearly as large as that of the' great state of Ohio. It has a population of half a million. It has an assessed valu ation of taxable property of $300,000, 000. It has the largest native born pop ulation of any state or' territory in the Union. We boast of the largest and best public school system of any state admitted within recent years. Our cli mate is unsurpassed, and we can raise corn, wheat, oats, cotton, peanuts, rye, sweet potatoes and other agricultural products on the same piece of land, which Is a good combination to play to for a farmer.' ".. -. "The opening of the new lands under the wise and able administration ' of Secretary Hitchcock has added fully 100,000 new people to our population. The manner of opening these new lands was an. entire change from all prece dents since the government was organ ized and has redounded not only bene ficially to the people of the territory, but to the administration as well ; "Oklahoma has more state and na tional banks and more money on de posit in them than any other agricul tural section in the country. Brick and frame bouses are being erected faster than the material can be supplied. The people are not only prosperous, but are happy. They only ask now - for one right to which , they are entitled, and that is statehood. We raised a surplus of SO.000,000 bushels of wheat last year, and the total crop was 40,000,000 bushels. We wear smiles with our good clothes. The various industries and oc cupations are all -thriving and, while there has been a short cotton and corn crop by reason of the drought, an abun dance of other l crops and great com mercial activity have prevented any stringency in financial matters. "When . we come into the Union, we will come in with colors flying. Okla homa raises the finest staple cotton, only being surpassed by that of the south sea islands. More miles of rail road have been and are being con structed there .during the past two years than in any other part of the country. The territory is fairly being gridlroned by the old trunk lines as well as by new companies who want our traffic. The fruit crop, of which little is said, is one of the best. The Jobbers are now using our peaches to compete . with, the best' California brands. The prospect of the next wheat crop is very promising, and thousands of cattle' are being wintered on the wheat lands'. The opening of the Kiowa and Comanche country has giv en great impetus to the development of these rich lands, and oil and gas have already been discovered. "I shall advocate that all future lands shall be opened to settlement in the same manner as were the last lands opened. Under the present man agement by the interior department tb -settlers are guaranteed freedom from blackmail and contest, while the counties are guaranteed freedom from Indebtedness by the sale of lots in the county seat towns and the proceeds used for Improvements. "Just think: of three county. seats containing - 320- acres in what was a wilderness on the 6th of August last bringing within twenty days thereafter about $7J50,0o6 from the sale of lots, the money to be expended for improve ments In the counties In which they are located. ,- And we still have, several Indian reservations of several million acres of public lands, which can be entered in 160 acre tracts under the homestead law, "Our people have the greatest per sonal admiration for President Roose velt, as they think he Is a man of great courage and ability, and," con cluded Mr. Flynn as be disappeared within the door of the committee room, "when he signs the bill this winter making Oklahoma a state,, wo will love him all the more." Several Japanese women barbers are employed la Honolulu, WONDERFUL CAVE FOUND. Marvels of a Frehlstorio trwellles; Plaee In the Rookies, A new cave that gives promise of developing into the moat wonderful of its kind in the known world has bin discovered, In the. mountains about forty-eight miles east of Butte, Men., in Jefferson canyon, says the St. Louis G lobe-Democrat. Its extent is as yet unknown, though It has been explored for a. distance- of ten miles and to a depth of about S00 fett Thev entrance to .the cave, which Is near the track of the Northern Pacific railway, and abaut 1,600 feet above tbe bed of the river, was discovered ft few weeks ago by ft hunter, and the cavern has just ben explored by ft party beaded by J. W. Gilbert, a newspaper writer of Butte. Mr, Gilbert returned , recently with evidence of his . discoveries and tbe wonders of the cave. Several skele tons were found In one of the many rooms, and many articles and utensils of stone and copper were lying about, some of which have been brought out The skeletons are of people of gigantic stature, and the belief of Mr. Gilbert Is that the cave was tbe abode of a prehistoric people and that further ex planation win bring , to Wght proof of that fact and more remains of its in habitants.'::.,: r f '"Vii.': f A theory is that by a sudden change and disturbance of the earth , tbe en trance to the ancient home , was closed and the inhabitants walled up and left to diel A .large river, with a fall of, 100 feet at one place. Is one of the wonders of the cave, and. a' score of apartments, some hundreds of feet in extent, are decorated with the wonder ful formations of nature, r One room resembles the Interior of a cathedral, with a gigantic pipe organ, the pipes being formed of stalactites tuned by nature to give forth beautiful noten of harmony. A member of the exploring party; by striking the , pipes with a stick, played "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and the explorers declare it was the grandest music ever heard.' Access to the cave Is very difficult, as a direct descent of 400 feet is nec essary before any footing can be se cured. Another party will shortly visit the cave fully equipped for a thorough exploration. . 1 HEATING THE WHITE HOUSE Open Fireplaces Made t?se of by the ,: President.- ... With a thought to solid comfort the architects of ' the White House planned an open fireplace for ; almost every room in the house, but 'not since the furnaces were put in years ago have they been generally used until the ad vent of President Roosevelt and his family, writes tbe Washington corre spondent of the Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Roosevelt always has open fires in tbe rooms in which she received her guests, on reception days. , - . J '.. . The president and, In fact, tbe entire family use the'library more' than has any president's family in many years, and an open fire glows on the hearth all the time. Each of tbe other li ving rooms have open grates, and they are kept In use most of the time. In the executive part of the White House the open fires also are used, and nothing so accentuates the southern air of the White House as the carrying of coal In huge scuttles from room to room to replenish the fires. A It is a matter of unceasing interest to the northern bred children of tbe president to watch the firemen keep the fires going. They Sire planning great times for Christmas, when corn popping over the bright coals will be one of their amusements. NEGRO WORLD'S FAIR. Company Has Been Ora-anlaed and Cities Are Asked to Bid. . The Negro World's Fair company has been organized, the plan beiag to hold the fair some time In 1004, and cities throughout the country are be ing asked to bid for it, says a dispatch from Savannah to the New York Trib une. The Rev. H. N. Newsome of Opelika, Ala., Is president ' of the or ganization that purposes to hold a mammoth fair for the, amusement and enlightenment of the colored race. lie has urged the Savannah city council to make an offer to secure the fahv" The north, east, south and wetit are already represented In the company. The promoters say that the fair will attract persons from the four corners of the globe ind are enthusiastic for the undertaking. ' For Nnrslna- Tramp, : 5,000. George Adams, a miner living at Shaner, near McKeesport, Pa., ten years go was summoned to his door one cold night, A stranger was there almost famished from hunger and cold. Adams gave him food and a bed. In the morning the stranger was too ill to proceed on his way.. Adams and his wife nursed bim for two weeks. .After he recovered the stranger, who gave bis name as David' Craig, left. Adams has just received a letter, according to the New York World, from a lawyer In Denver saying that Craig,; who had died In that city, had left $5,000 in his will to Adams and his wife. . The Loac Ynletlde. ' Whrs ipend ye the eve ot the Holy One'n birth, Oh, child who bt wtadertd wy from my hesrthT - , . ' V ; The Joy of the ChrUtmaatide fllla til the earth; Where pasi y the Yule of the yeert : There stuAa a lone flr In the Held of the dead. Bedecked with froet tinsel beside thy white bed; For candies the glint of the ctara overhead. But still is thy chamber and drear. ft ens sf yea afar could bnt guide me to thee, Td follow its beam to the ittermt sea; : rd hang thee my gifts on aome paradise (xee M death would but let me anear. O mother of Christ, by the lowe that ye bore The. Bethlehem babe, by the Christ ye adsre, ,; Oh, And ye my motherless child. I implore, :, ad give bar thy love's Christmas cheer. -aarpera Weekly. HEW ELECTRIC DEVICE Present Street Railway Systems May Be Revolutionized by It. DOES ' AW AT WITH TE0LLEYS, Cost of Constrnctton Is JUweh ; Less Than , the Troller or Third Rail retona The Current Is lader-gresad-No Danger of Live Wires Froia It. "' A nw system of operating, electrio 'street railways, which promises o rev oiutlonize the business and do awaj With the dangerous and unsightly trol. ley wires and poles, has been Invented by an electrician of Milbury, Mass., says a Boston dispatch to the St. Louli Globe-Democrat It consists of a row of square Iron boxes Imbedded in thi street between the tracks and fed by an underground current, ingeniously cu1 off wten not In use and tbe power tak en up by a shoe on the car. The boxes may be placed at a distance of ten feet, if desired, and It has been illustrated tbat tliere is no danger to horse or man In crossing or coming in contact with them.; ; ."'V"'' - : , For several months experiments have been going on in the vicinity of the cat barns of the Milbury and Blackstone electric road in Milbury, where a long piece , of track has been laid and an equipment of Iron boxes placed between the rails, surrounded with half a dozen kinds of paving and street construction materials. No one was let into the de tails of the affair until the other day, owing to. the fact that all the patents applied for had not been . granted. Scoren of street railway men and elec tricians have thoroughly investigated the system while it has been in opera tion. ; In every test made It has proved its success, and all the railway men have been convinced upon investiga tion that the new system of under ground power is a marvel of inventive genius and certain to revolutionize street railroading.. Instead of feeding the current through overhead wires this system feeds It through an underground wire into a cast Iron box, which is covered with manganese steel, insulated there from. Oie end of this cover Is slightly elevated and rounded, but when set into the pavement is in no way an Im pediment to travel. Within this box Is a sh!et of copper, imbedded in a slate backing at one end of the box. In the center of the box and extending toward the opposite end bent at right angles and inserted Into a pressed steel arma ture rests a solid block of insulation. The top of the armature lies within an inch or so below the underside of th cover of the box. 1 Underneath the car a long shoe Is strung, ta, which is attached at regulai Intervals, In pairs, magnets "wound ' f oi 6(IB volts. Attached to the shoe art plates of nonmagnetic steel which art movable and used as tbe contact shot and susceptible to nnevenness or rise and fall necessary to always come in contuct with the boxes. When the cur rent Is on, the armature In the box is drawn up in contact with the cover ol the box in such a way as to make s contact and with a sufficient , surface to aSlow the carrying of 300 or more amperes, If required, into the motor ol the car. r When a car is immediately over and the shoe is In contact with the pro jecting part of tbe box, the boxes and shoe are then alive, but as soon as the car passes from over said point the armature yields and drops by gravity to its normal condition, resting upon the block of insulation. The cost of the construction depends entirely upon the number of boxes and amount of feed wire used to the mile. The road now 4n operation in Milbury is constructed with a car shoe 21 feel long and with the boxes 10 feet apart In large cities, however, it Is thoughl that it would be more practicable to hav the boxes within 5 or 6 feet and use a shoe of 8 or 10 feet. , The cost oi construction is much les3 than the trol ley system or even the third rail sys tem, and there is less danger, as the boxes througb which the power is de. rived are alive only when a car is ovel them. 7 ,. " ' ' . ' ' One of the tests made was to set the brakes on a car containing thirty pas sengers and then apply the power, and to the surprise of the electricians and railroad men who were present tbe cat moved off with ease. It has been dem onstrated that a car can be run up a grade of 5 per cent with 100 passen gers when all the brakes an; set, which Is considered a remarkable test of tbe strength of current supplied through the boxes on tbe ground. ; Honse Under the ICarth.' Y . An - Interesting discovery '.. has . been made ontbeestate of the Marquis ol Zetland, lot Orkney, says j be London Express. Workmen came across s subterranean - house about thirty-sii feet long, -and further .explorations brdught to light several signs of habita tions;, including the remains of ruined walls, the' bones of sheep. Oxen, boars, fish and whales, deer horns stone tres tleib, pottery, and charcoaL toge'fbei with some implements fashioned from bones.: The most remarkable t feature In 'the bulldtng Is that the roofing ii supported by four massive pillars, eaci consisting of a water worn stone plac ed on end, - k ... , x . 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