8 .1: i ' 6 HOVvf TO TRAP A TORNADO. 1 $rf3p ss'ifisE I FIFTY years hrnc? every big town In JTStC Y the Fouthwest will mr''SW''i nnvc n tonin,l SSi .W.jtfil trap. TlllH Is what Professor II. Ilnzeii, of I Ai l,c Weather Hureau .it Washington, told n New York Sunday Journal reporter. The tor nado trap Ih his own Idea. He pro poses to deHtroy the tornado heforo it hns a ehanre to wieck and hill by using dynamite. "The time hns l-a - ,, -;- urrlved," said Pin feasor 11 a z en, "when pcrloiis at tention tiniHl he given to finding pome m o a n s of defence against thoso whirling HtorniH. Ah the fo railed eyelone belt I) e c i in c s more thickly populated disasters from this cause will grow moiefieiiuent. Al ready people In that pait of the country have be gun to regard the BSf""i Iff (picHtlon n having an Important rela tion to their fu ture w e I f a r e . When a menacing cloud Ih seen they are terrified, an ticipating catas Swss trophe. "My heller Is that any town In that region would bo rendered safe against tornadoes by a series of lookout station! extended In a lino from north to t"" eoutli, no uh to In terpose a barrier " " t ""anger Hide, from which the r e v o 1 v I n g storm Invariably comes. TIiIh barrier Hvoiilil be made effective by means of a 'system of dynamite bombs connected with the etntlona by wires. It would not be necessary to keep guard all tlu time, and the men appointed for the purpose would only go on duty when warning wait received from the Weather Hureau that conditions were favorable for cycloncte. On Feeing a funnel cloud approaching the operator would simply wait until It got near enough and then touch off the car tridges, which would blow It to smith me ni. "What reaFon Is there for doubting that such a method would be succe'ss fulV Do we not know that wutor HpoutK at Fen are sometimes dissipate.! and reduced to liarmlcsuneiu by the llr Ing of guns from threatened ships? A waterspout If nothing more or less than a marine tornado. Occasionally they have been Feen to run upon the land and transform themselvcH into 'cyclones.' If the tornado were not destroyed by the dynamite explosions It would be likely to be deprived of so much of itft energy ar. to be rendered Incapable of doing harm. The cost of maintaining such systems of de fense throughout the eyclono licit would not amount In 1,000 years to the JliO.OOO.OOO which the recent calamity Is said to have cost St. Iouls. "Money ought to bo appropriated by congress for studying th's strange and little-understood phenomenon. It Is most Important that we should learn about the mechanism of the tornado a meteorological disturbance capable of destroying $20,000,000 worth of prop erty lu ten minutes. All we know at present Is that the energy of the 'cy clone' must be electrical. It is always accompanied by a severe thundtv storm. The Weather Hureau report cays that during the St. Louis torna.lc. the 'electrical display was ewcee.lijiglv brilliant, the whole west and nortli .jvest elty being an almost continual blaze of light. IntciiFely vivid Cashes of forked lightning were outlined In KPijcn, blue and bright yellow against (lie duller background of ncYer-ceai-lng sheet lightning.' "Evidently, then, It Is nccesnry that we should find some me.itiu of iliivil patlng the electricity with which the destructive funnel cloud Is charged. We must do for the tornndo what wo do for the ordinary thunder cloud, whose lightning wo conduct away haimlessly by metal rode. Just here I wnnt to call your attention to a very Interesting fact. I have devoted n great deal of attention to the study of 'cyclones,' following tte history of all that have been recorded for u great lluauj .-tars lack, mid I havn never ieZ-7 .&'' Kli ' Known of a case where one of tbcm struck a town that had a forest of even " few acres in extent to the southwest. I "To"ilo always travel from j wiutlnvrst to northeast. I am Inclined '" """K that a forest of moderate ex - I J ... 1 lent to the southwest of a town Is a mest efllclent protection against storms of this kind, because the trees draw off tho electricity that gives to the 'cyclone' Its energy. If this Is true, It follows that eveiy town In the dan ger belt ought to plant trees for a tor nado barrier, If It has not already this defense. Such a plan Is much sim pler and less costly than the dyna mite system which I have already sug gested. Tho towns ought not to ie main undefended while waiting for trees to grow, and so I would propose that n temporary makeshift might be service-able, consisting of a barrier of tall poles with a net work of wlies ex tending betwen them. "Some time ago 1 made a list of 2,221 tornadoes that were recorded In the Culled States between 1 S7-'I and 1SS8. They caused an average lots of one life and $11,812 per 'cyclone.' New York state had 120 of them. Including one of the first order, costing a total or $1,. 270,000. There were 111 in Pennsyl vania, which destroyed $l,0!is.0(l(i worth of property. One of the very worst occurred at Wnlllngford, Conn.. August ft, 1878. when .14 neonle were l.llle.l. 70 ivn.m.1.,.1 1 ... ......... were wined , s ' ".. . 7." monuments were blown off their bases. The loclty of whirl re.p.lred to accomplish iiiiu ,.,... ..u.i 1 ... .... ..... ' ve- 11113 ' cniimaieu ai L'(;i miles mi hour. From these facts it would ap pear that the east is not at all safe nam calamities of this kind. The electrical display at Wnlllngford is de scribed as having been most terrific. "Accepting this electrical thenrv. it may naturally he asked how the torna do gathers Its tremendous store of elec trical energy. This Is a very dlfllcult question. We know that there Is elec tricity In the ntmosphere. Whence comes this electricity? Perhaps It Is generated by sunlight. Another the ory Is that the heat energy of the sun Is transformed under certain condi tions into electrical energy. My notion Is that the particles of moisture which go to make up the clouds ore some of tlu 111 charged with poltlve electricity, and others with negative electricity, under oidlnary circumstances-. Con ditions of wIik.1i we know little, or nothing, cause them to rush together, and there follows a display of light ning accompanied bj the noise we call thunder. "A tornado In a thiinder.storm multi plied In lolence. Respecting 'cy clones.' we are sadly lacking In data. When a phenomena of this sort oe curs, everybody runs away; no one thinks of wniclung It. 1 am not cer tain that the runnel-shaped cloud Is no a injthlta Idea. "The approach or a tornado is never without warning. It is accompanied by a roar that has been likened to the bellowing of a million mad bulls. Tho width of the path of destruction Is rarely over aOO feet. The bent thing to do In case of the near approach of such a storm. Is to tun to the north. There Is no utfety, however, except underground. "No building of stone or any other material Is proof against the violence of a tornado. This fact was Illus trated at Orlnntll. Iowa, in 1SS2, when a storm of this kind took sixty lives and destroyed $S0.000 worth of prop, eity. One of the buildings reduced to complete ruin wen a solid edKlc(. ()r i tone and brick used f0 a public school. The tornado tore it to pieces as cnsii.v us 11 11 nan been so much lath and plaster. That was the 'rec oi d' tornado up to JSP0, when a 'ey clono' struck Louisville, K,-., ami wiped out seventy-six lhes and $2,2.r,0 000 worth of pioperty." ' Schlatter' Whlto llcinir. It Is probable that Schlatter is hous ed at some Isolated winch In the moun tains between Mule Springs and Cllf. ton. The people of the ranches where he tarried tell wonderful tales about tho healer and his whlto horse. It is positively asserted that the horse will not touch food or water except wheie his, master deigned to accept like hos pitality. The appetizing alfalfa and the elcaniet, nicest corn failed to tempt the horse to partake thereof at the ranches where his master did not eat or drink, and this wab true whero he had liceen ridden long distances be tween rancliLs.- Silver City (Ariz.) Bu te rjulzc. Act'tl (liilf Cli.iniinii. Lcnl Rutheiford Clark, who Is over 70 cars of age and a Judgo of the Scotch Court of ScFslon. has won the first prize In the golf competitions at Cannes twice ruiinli.g. m-rr Klllnl liy i:u:nln ,r lulHiul, A herd of deer tiled to crossthoirack of the Long Island railway. One of them wiih killed. THE HEP CLOUD CHIEF, TO START AN ENGLISH COLONY. A S'J.OOO.OOO It1111.l1 lii California tho Flto (,'lioopn. J. O. Ollmore, agent of the syndicate of English capitalists who have been negotiating for the purchase of the Chlno ranch In southern California, and (. Wilding, a prominent chartered nccoimtant of London, nrrlvcil from the southern part of the state tho other day with Wendel Enston and (Jeorge Enston, who had been showing the two visitors nil over the Chlno ranch, says the San Francisco Chronicle. "The dial is about closed," said Mr. Easton. "The ownersof the property have agreed to sell and the English syndicate lias agreed to buy. Now all that remains to be done is for the ac countant to verify the figures of the chartered accountant whom wo em ployed to make a report on the prop erty. The terms of the sale have been agreed upon mid the purchase price will he nhout J2.000.000. The orlglnnl terms agreed tinnn tirnviilnri thnt nun. I " ,-- . --.-..- ...... ..... 1 fourth of the purchase price be paid cash down, and the balance In one, two and three years. The syndicate Is anxious, however, to pny the entire amount right away, and according to piesent plans the entile $2,000,000 will be turned over before the Hist of Ue ceniher. The Chlno ranch Is owned by Rich ard Gird, but C. 11. Philips has a bond of purchase on the property which will have to be satisfied In the settlement. The San Fianelsco Savings union also has a mortgage of half a million dol lars on the property. The Chlno ranch contains about 10,000 acres, and Is shunted In Chlno valley. In southern California. Some 7.000 acres of .the pioperty are devoted to beet culture, and supply the big Chlno beet factory wiin nearly all the sugar beets con sumed there. The sugar works are excluded from the Improvements which go to the Kngllsh syndicate in the purchase of the ranch, but all other Improvements, Including the Nortl Chlno water system, the railway cor neetlng Chlno with Ontario, on t line of the .Southern Pacific, and Urn Antonio eon.von, a piece of water piop erty nrteen miles above Chlno, arc in- '""'i in uie purcnase price. Mr. Oil- I ,lW(' ' " the syndicate which he represented would form a corporation I ' ."" " '"V" U' ""wl; T, . Idea Is to place the nroiertv under ihn management of an Bngllah superin tendent and bring out Knglish farm ers to settle in the valley with their families and work the land. "I have estimated that the ranch would sup port a colony of 100 families very com fortably. The colonization scheme will be carried out by men who are big transportation, shipping and colonizing people In London." Tour Yrur lit-tllnc H'oiiil. Robert Winn, an old and eccentric character, died at his home on Unrgls cieek, this county, recently. "Uncle Hob," as he was familiarly called, lived to bury two wives, and, not wishing to slight either, on his dying bed he asked that his lemnins bo burled by the Hide of his faithful old dog that had but a few days preceded him. The request was compiled with. The death or "Cncle Rob" iccalls an incident In his lire that is decidedly out or the ordinary. During the opening scenes of tho civil war "Cncle Hob" was anx ious to Join the confederate army. Ills wife was opposed to his doing so and usul every argument and effort within her power to prevent it. One cold winter morning, after "Uncle Hob" had abandoned the Idea, an Mrs. Winn sup posed, of Joining the army, she asked "Uncle Hob" to go to the woodyaro and g.itlwr foiiio wood with which to rekindle the fire. "Uncle Hob" start ed, but Instead or "gathering wood" he walked to Mississippi and Joined tho army anil for four long years fought for the cause of the confederacy. At the close of the war he returned to the home ho had suddenly descitcd. Bn terlng by way of the wojdyard, he gathered up an armful of wood and entering the room he found his faith ful wife who had continued to remain at the old home. Walking up to the fireplace he carelessly threw down his armful of wood and looking Into the face of his now dumbfounded wife he coolly remarked: "Here's your wood," after which he proceeded to ninko him. feir at home, as of yore. -Loulsllli PoM. MUCH IN LITTLE. A tipple or laughter la woith n floo.. of tears. If the dog whose day this is will call at this ofHce, he can have It nnd no questions asked. Kvery man Is the architect of his own fortune; but mighty few of them ever learn the trade. "Svviet aie tho uses of adversity." exclaimed the iceelver as he pocketed sixty per cent of the estate. Povcity Is no disgrace, and It Is Just as well It Isn't; there are enough dis advantages about It as It Is. "A soft answer turneth away wrath," and It's a good thing to use when the other fellow is larger than yo,i. If It Is true thnt the good ir.tn do is oft Interred with their bones, the cof fins of some men nro not crowded. it's an ill wind that blows nobody good; the small boy vvhoce sister Jias the carlet fever gt a vacation. Familiarity breeds contempt; It Is not nuir us much run to exercise a lawn-mower the last ten minutes as It vas when you first took hold or It. Fools rush In where angels rear to Head. This, perhaps, accounts Tor tho ract that the tools carry off so many of the pilzto In love and business. "Kind words can never die." How bitterly does a man realize that tcrl blo truth when he sees all the kindest words ho over said In his life glaring at lilm from his published letters In a brearh-fcf promise suit. FRIDAY, JULY 10, J8!IG. AQUEEN'SIOXGKEIGN. FIFTY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF QUEEN VICTORIA. A Much I.otl K(irrlri I'opulnrlty Atiione All Climen Tim Turlty of Ilor I.lfe m a Mothfr, Wife unci (Jnrcn Btorlei of Her Youth. (London Letter.) ARLY one r.unny Juno morning, vvhllo the gras was still wet with the dews of night, there lode post haste up tho ave nuo or elms that led to Kensington Palace u pair of distinguished visi tors. One was Dr. Howley, nrchblshop of Canterbury; tho other the marquis of Conyngham, then Lord Chnmlierlnln. 'riw.nn-ii Kensnlgton today Is In the heart of London, at that time It was a secluded country place. They knocked and they rang and they thumped, but no one was astir. Atlast a sleepy do ....... .. . ....... . imnm; ,Wih iiroiispii nim n message taken to the attendant of tho Princess Victoria that they desired an audience with her Royal Highness on business of importance. After considerable delay the attendnnt Informed them that the princess was In such a sweet sleep that she could not venture to dis turb her. Then they paid: "We nro come on business of state to the queen, and even her sleep must give way to that." The attendant left them, and a few minutes later a falr-haircd girl of 18 came Into the room "in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown oh and her hair fall ing upon her shoulders, her fret in slippers, tears in her eyes, but per fectly collected and dignified." That was firty-nlne years ago. and the falr halred girl was Quoer: Victoria. At the council which followed at 12 ilock the same day Fhe presided With much ease as If she had been doing thing else all her life. Mr. (Jreville, 9w v W?lmB ill f w rWWimSBHKHt QUEEN VICTORIA who was present, s.ty: "Sho looked very well; and though so small In sta ture, and without much pietension to beauty, the gracefulness of her manner and the good exprcs-slon of her counte nance give her, on the whole, a. very agreeable appearance, nnd, with her outh, Inspire an excessive inteiest In all who approach her. In short, she appears to act with eveiy sort or good taste and good reeling, ns well as good sense." Queen Victoria first saw tho light In Kensington Palace 011 tho 2-Uh of May, 1M0. She Is the only child of Ed ward, duke of Kent, fourth son of George III., and of the Princess Loulso Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. Abraham Lincoln was then a 10-ycnr-old boy, Gladstone runabout Inthort pants with frills to them nnd probably trundled n SW&ft iirv Jifs&Jsffm mm fc QUEEN VICTORIA. (At the tlnio of her coronation.) hoop, while Lord Salisbury had not as yet come Into existence. Tho duke of Wellington was fresh rrom his tri umphs at Waterloo, and Daniel Web ster wns In tho zenith or his rnme. Tho Income, voted tho young queen by the first parliament which she opened In person n row months after her acces sion was $l,02ri,000 n year. The speaker truly tald in presenting the bill to her majesty that "It had been framed in n JlbTal nnd confiding eiilrU" 1 ifc. 'U.viW1';f' vr.M h fr'' p'F KsrvKSVKAyw 1 rrkir. -vi.iijih v Many sayings of the queen as ft young woman have been preserved, showing the trend of her early ideas, and her high seiiFe of honor. On one occasion a minister told lur majesty that she need not scruple to sign a paper without examination as It was not a mntter of "paramount Import ance." "Hut It Is for me," sho replied, "a matter of paramount Importance whether or not I nttnch my signature to a document with which I am not thoionghly satisfied." No less deter mined was her icply to the same min ister when urging the expediency or sotno measure "I have been taught, my lord, to Judge between what Is right and what Is wrong; but expediency is a word I neither wish to hear nor to understand." On the 10th or February, 1RI0, Vic toria married her cousin, Prince Al bert or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, with whom she had long been deftly In love. It proved as everyone knows a most happy union. Prince Albert was singularly handsome, graceful and gifted, mill made an Ideal husband. During their twenty-one vears of wcuucu me tney were blessed with nlno children-four sons oml iivi daughters. Of tho sons nil are living except Leo pold, duke of Albany, who died in 1884. or tho (lnughtern, tho eldest married Frederick William, tho late emperor or Oermanv. The second, known as Princess Alice, who became tho wlfo of Prince Freilcrlek-Wllllani of llese, tiled In 1878. The Princess Helena married Prince Christian, of Denmark. Princess Louise became the wire or marquis or Lome, and tho youngest. Princess Ilentrice, married Prince Henry of Uattenberg, who died recently while taking part In .1 mili tary expedition on the west coast of Arrica. Notwithstanding tho popularity or liucen Victoria her life has been at tempted more than once. In June, IS 10, Edward Oxford, u crazy lad of 17, firnl two shots at her as she was driv ing with Prince Albert up Constitution Hill, n road leading through one of the London parks. Roth shots were fired deliberately, but fortunately missed their aim. Oxford was arrested and tried, but proved to be insane and was bent to an asylum. Two years later a man named John Frauds, the son of a machinist, fired n pistol at her r.s she wns driving down Constitution Hill in the very tame place where Oxford's attempt was made. He was condemned to be hanged for the offense, hut at the request of her majesty the sentence was commuted to transportation for life. Tho very day after this tnltlgntlon or punishment be came publicly known another ntteinpt was made by a hunchbacked lad naii.ed Rcan. He was seized In the uct ot pre Fentlng a pistol at the Queen as she was diivlng rrom Hucklnghnm Palace to the Chapel Royal. Tho weapon was loaded with powder, paper, closely rammed down, and some scraps or clay pile. Ho received eighteen months' liiipilioiiment. In May, 18-19, nn Irish oiirhia.ver named Hamilton fired a pi.Mol leaded only with powder at her majesty on Constitution Hill, and In the following May, Robert Pale, once a llcutt nnnt of Hussars, struck her lu the face with a stick. Each of these men received seven yeais' imprison ment. Finally lu 1872 a lad of 17 named Arthur O'Connor presented a pistol nt her majesty as she was entering IJuek Itigham Palace on her return from a drive. It proved to be unloaded, how ever. In his other hand O'Connor held it petition on behalf of tho Fenian prltoners. He was given twelve months' Imprisonment and a whipping. As Justin McCarthy fairly states In his "History of Our Own times": "The sovereign is always supposed to under rtand tl:o business of tho state, to con sider Its nfTairs, and to ofTer an opin ion, and enforce it by argument, on any question submitted by tho ministers. When the ministers find that they can not allow their Judgment to bend to that of their sovereign, then indeed the sovereign gives way or tho mln lstcrs resign. In all ordinary cases tho sovereign gives way." Quicn Victoria, while carefully adhering to the consti tution, ins never allowed herself to become in any sense n mero figurehead. Ono ol her Hist acts after the resigna tion of Ixird Melbouinu ns prime min ister, when she sent fur Hlr Robert Peel, was to tell him "that she was sony to have to part with her late min isters, of whose 'conduct sho entirely approved, but that sho was bound to constitutional usage." The memorandum which she caused Lord John RusFell to convey to Loul Palmetston In 18.10 shows that she thoroughly understood her rights as well as her obligations. Lord Palmer ston had acquit ed a habit of "dealing with foreign courts nccordlng to what Ftcmed best to him at tho moment, nnd his sovereign nnd his colleagues often only knew of some Important dis patch or Inr.t ruction when the thing was done, and could not be convenient ly or becomingly undone," a habit of which the queen had several times complained. Her majesty, In her memorandum, Intimated In plain tcrnia. that she wished to know beforeha'v what lie proposed to do In n given cPl that she might know as distinctly to wiiat she had given her royal sanction. She further Intimated that having onco given her sanction to a measure, any arbitrary alteration or modification of It by the mlnlbtcr would bo considered as a failure in sincerity towards the crown, Justly to bo visited by tho exer cise of her constitutional right of dis tills, lug that mln.-.lcr. Many anecdotes me told, showing that though punctilious In matters of ceremony and caioful to exact tho re spect due to her exalted position, she Is above all an honest, loving woman of simple icllned tastes. Prior to her marriage the Archbishop of Canter bury asked her whether it would be desirable to omit the word "obey" from tho manlage tervice, and she tin swercil; "1 wish to be married as a woman, not as a qiifcn." To show how particular the queen has been in the proper education of her children, a sailor once carried ono of tho queen's daughters on board the loyal neht. As he set her down on the deck he said: "Theie you are, my little lady," The child, who had not liked being curried, shook herself and said: "I am not a little lady; I'm n princess." Her mother, who over heard her daughter's rpcech, said quietly: "You had better tell the kind tailor who carried you that you are not a little lady yet. though you hopo to be one some day." Another anecdote shows the firmness of both mother nnd daughter. Hearing their father address tho family phvsi elan ns "Drown," the children began (o do tho same. The queen corrected them, nnd all called him Mr. or Dr. Drown except tho Piiniess Royal. Her majesty heard her. and said that If she again did fo t.ho would be snt to bed. Next morning the wilMl child said to the jvhysiclan. "Good morning, Urown," then added, seeing her mother's eyes llxed on her. "And good night, Urown, for 1 am going to bed." And to bed bho accordingly went. lads under arms in cuba. The Poor I.! uve tlm l!nirlnc f Scilillrrn. A favorite disposition or the army by its enemies is to speak or it as com posed of boys, but that shows Ignor ance of war. says: Murat Halstcad in Review of Reviews. It is never safe to despise boys in any capacity, least or nil in armies. On the bnttleflcld of Shlloh It was lemarkcd of the dead when they were gathered for burial It was true or the boys in blue and gray alike that hardly one In three was a bearded man. The; boys. In the true icnso or the word, were In the great majority. The .Spanish lads under arms In Culm are ituiely, swarthy fel lows, well filled nnd equipped for the field nnd many of them with kindly, friendly, humoieius faces, and they trudge along well clothed and shod, with brown blankets rolled tightly and iicu ai 1110 corners, swung over their shoulders; bags em their backs that seem lighter than knapsacks and equally serviceable and their rillen nnd cartridges loading them heavily but not more so than the Germans or French on a march. The boys of whom I Fpeak were fairly drilled and, though Just landed, had evidently been ret up and put through their steps. They had the swing for a long tramp As a 111I0 the boys with the rllli-s wcio much younger than the officers, m my of whom were i.tont. The Spanish aimy is not one to be despised, nnd however It may suffer from the am buiendes ror which tho tropical vege tation affoids such eminent facilities will make Itseir respected when it meets roes It cannot see. The boys canno; march as fast as raiders t-in ride and will Mifler fioni the over whelming rains and the deplorable toads and sicken and dlo in thousands but owing to the better understanding of sanitary piccaiitlons the loss from exposute will not be great as lu former years. The marching to the front of the young men of Spain was n inournfiil spectacle. There are duik-eycd moth ers sisters and sweethearts thinking of them far away, who will wait and hopo and pray for them and their snfo return until tho closing hcciics, when tho roll or the iinroturnlng Is unrolled. I wish to speak with respect or tbo ..nanlsh hoys-poor rellows- the sons ot poor parents-who never make tho V.-.HS ; they flght-and I have seen Jo great armies or Germany. Frnn J " , America and many or the tioops of V , - W .....W ItttH Italy an; England. To give a man no Sabbath rest Is nn attempt ,0 reduce him to All touti A rrkt5 Ilk?"' "ml UPan,t ,lkQ ..iked like machine or mule, and being n man. it 8 h,B Go.l-glv", )ri lege to s-and upright ti i 1 . "SSSf """ "" " w r I w