THE OMAILrV DAILY J3EEt SATURDAY , MmiUAllY 15 , 18JGj THE' ' FIELD OF ELECTRICITY Invasion of the Domain of Steam in Suburban Roads. DEMAND FOR ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES n < Itotui * unit Afiroml Cure fully Wntdiril Hlcrlrlp Uttlit- In iillnlnir li Other < n ( N , The Norwalk , Conn. , city council recently granted the Norwalk Tramway company per mission to extend Ita trolley line to West- port , a dlstanco of about three miles. When that line Is completed there will bo only a gap of about four miles between the Nor walk Tramway company's syatom and the system of the Bridgeport Traction company , now reaching to Southport , and with thai Rip eliminated the Now Haven Steam com pany's main system will be paralleled by trolley roads for a distance ot about twelve miles between .Bridgeport and Norwalk and South Norwalk. This Is an Important part of the New Haven company's line for local travel. Figures presented by the latter cor poration to the state legislature at the last session showed , for example , that between Bridgeport and Southport during six months the local passenger traffic has Increased by 5,131 passengers , or about 25 per cent , an compared with the year 1894 , when no electric co'mpetlon existed. Between Bridge port and Palrfleldr-somewhat nearer Bridge port than Southport the traffic during throe test months of the same period fell oft on the New Haven road 60 per cent , owing to the opening of the trolley line. The only chance probably of blocking the now lines is an appeal by the steam company to the superior court , which , under the general street railway law of the state , can rule that a parallel line Is not demanded by pub lic necessity or convenience. An examination of the whole trolley sys tem of Connecticut shows that the steam railroads of the state are now paralleled by trolleys for a dlstanco of about 101 miles , and that about one-third of all the trolley roads parallel steam roads moro or lejs di rectly. The New Haven steam road Is par alleled about sixty mites ; the Now England road ( coritrollod by the New Haven corpora tion ) about twenty-eight miles , and the Philadelphia , Reading & New England about thirteen miles. Trolley roads almost certain soon to bo built or actually In construc tion now will add aliout thirty-four miles , of which sixteen miles will parallel the Now Haven road , six miles the New England and twelve miles the Now London. North ern. On the basis of last year's official fig ures of the results of competition on pas senger traffic , the Indications are , however , that the total loss of the steam companies by electric rivalry does not now exceed $100 000 a year , as compared with the pertou before any trolleys had been built. In such a comparison It must bo remembered that a largo proportion ot the trolley parallels represent merely the BUbstltutlon of elec tricity for horse power on old. street railroads paralleling steam lines. ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES. Further evidence of the steady Invasion of traction by olcc- the domain of steam power trlo motors Is further shown by the demand for the latter. A representative of the Baldwin and' Westlnghouo companies , speak ing of the demand to a correspondent of the Globe-Democrat , said : "Tho Westlnghouso and Baldwin companies have become convinced that the demand for electric locomotives will grow rapidly In ttic near future. The steam locomotive which the Baldwin company has been making rpr sixty years Is not to te laid on the shelf rfsut away , but that company has come to believe , I think , that U will gradually , but surely , bo displaced by Its electric successor , and has grasped the opportunity to take ad vantage of the coming change by Joining forces with ono of the two great electric motor companies which control the supply of ouch motors In the United States. The alliance Is an exhibition of the foresight of both companies with respect to coming chances of very great Importance , as well as an attempt to avoid the waste of energy by a division of labor and unnecessary dupli cation for It would scarcely be practicable for the B-ildwIn company to set up and use an effective motor plant of Its own. Exist ing patents would stand In the way. "The allied companies propose to perfect and offer to the steam railroads electric locomotives which they will buy and uss. The resources of both concerns , the eloc- trlo Inventions , devices and experts of the one- the methods , the expert locomotive and Tunning gear machinist of the other , are being taxed In the effort to produce a mo tor which the steam companies can use to service but especially advantage for any kind of , pecially for the rapid and safe transportation Sf passenger trains running more frequently than steam twins at the prcsant time. "Tho demand first to be satisfied Is for electric locomotives to draw passenger trains on the suburban roads of the trunk Ines. The 'demand already exlste-ln fact , all the eastern Jteam companies have placed large orders This has been caused by the compe tition of the suburban trolley roads which are extensions of railways In city strnsts. Only o fo.v months ago I had a successful business Interview with two of the grea companies having terminals In Chicago , and hitherto doing a largo and profitable busl- npss to tlio suburbs on their main linos. The Burlington company's suburban bus ness threatened by anew In and out of Chicago Is which has undertaken to corporation , i Extend new trolley roads from the- city tea ' lines , and dwcn towns on that company's this a payliiE business will bo fought for to the dolM' ' MAGNET. "Tojla li working on an Ideajn the shape of a. motor , and you know our company has the flrit call upon anything that comes from his fertile brain , that I bellove will about ! IP a locomotlvp with the success . llv cqt "deilVefl. This motor Is entirely or g- pro or nal and truly maivolous. The secret lies turning the Inc-rt and seemingly lifeless of magnctlwn Into an active force force powerful than steam or a current from n " ° take tin ordinary magnet or a piece nf Iroii through which a magnetic current Is n' sslng and hold It close to llttlo pieces Sf rS'nnd tecl , It will attract them and hold them motlonlow. This Is practically all that the world has e\cr known of magnetic Tesla that this In- forte Now It M IW to vlolble force , pent up within the confines of the magnet , might perhaps ba developed or transmuted or changed , or utilized In such 1 nunnor thai It would become active and quick \yhcro It has always lain passive. Upon this theory he worked for years , and Its sue- * cctsfut development In Jho Testa motor 1 i' only ft question ot small details. ' "Tho principles of the motor , concisely put. are these : An electric current U passed thrciiKh a circular magnet , In uppearanco resvsmbllng a life prci-orver. It coiwlste limnlir of a. ring of Iron with copper wlra bound around It. The eloctrlo current gen- crates a strong magnetic current which fUkhes around and around the rlrcular mag net at a torrlllo speed , Now. If ono holds a .mil flow to an ordinary electric magnet It will bo passlyn In the hand until It Is ' brought close enough for the magnetic fyr , < * to seize It , when It will fly out of the hand ttnluht to , tlio magnet. But If ono holJ& n nnll rloso to the circular magnet pf Teria'r It nil ! begin to revolve In the hand ; that U if the nail Is held by thu head and the point ' allowed to hang over the hollow renter of the magnet , the point will move around In a circle , tilowly M Hrst. then fatter and fuitrr , , . until , It U Is drnppud upon tlio table In the centur of the hollow , It " 111 uplu around FO rapidly that the eye csusot follow Its mo tion * . .11 "Sorrral explanationrc elven nf ( he - phenomenon , one tl.at there are ocvrral mag- { nolle currents In the Iron rlns. and they ire chaclnn one another around in A furloiii- , ; ac , but the myetury it M profound a v Yer , "Anotl.tr Intereillne experiment la the balancing- an Iron \\hccl OR a nnll , or let the wheel revolve upon tha finger , uilng ( lip flng r a tlio axle , and holding It clew tfl th , mignet , It will Hy n round at a rate tVt wjll take one's bruth tv.vay. It li not Dcccj.ary to touch thu magnet .U all. All nil ? neQU | jo da U to hold a piece of Iron or t l Iw the hand nd bring It vritblb a fo.-t of th mEUil ( , anil then ) i will fe | a quu r . tuvAlou ( , a * of XUUIQ Juvll'lo | fcrce trying to draw the piece of , metal out ot hl hand , and , falling In Ms , trying to twist It around In a circle. "Such Is the principle of the coming Tctl * motor. In Its application as a motive pJwt ? " on the railroad , the construction , of course , differs from that of the experimental msg- net , but the Idea IS the name. A TRST OF TH13 NEW FORCH. "In equipping the new locomotives the circular magnet Is attached to the bottom t the engine , and the axle upon which the wheels revolve passes through the center of the magnet without touching It. tthen the current Is turned one the maisnetle fotco whirling around In the hollow of the mag net catches the axle and turns It. The power for generating this magnetic current can bo transmitted by underground wlrej for almost any distance , and there Is prac tically no waste of pwor or energy. "Wo tested two of our motors recently on the Nantashct Beach railroad , and while the experiments were successful , they did not completely satisfy us In all the working details. It's the little things In olcclrklty , an In life , that cause trouble. "A two-motor car was first tested with a load of nine cars , with a combined weight of 302 tons. As this load was too heavy , the cars wore dropped off , ono at a time , until only five remained , which were drawn fairly well. Then the four-motor engine was ballasted with 5,000 pounds of iron and at tached to seven loaded cars , weighing 243 tons. It drew the load easily , and there seemed to be no great effort when the load was Increasid to nine Cars and 303 tons. The two motor engines were then coupled to gether and attached to various loads up to thirty cars , weighing 954 tons , which * wore successfully hauled. While making this test something gave out on the four-motor en gine , and the less powerful engine handled the entire load , giving us another electric mystery to salvo. . . . . . . "Our company Is also keeping a strict watch on the Hellman electric locomotive , now In operation over In France , on a trunk line loading outof Paris. It Is said to be a great success" " , and Its admirers predict that it will supplant all competitors. N\hlle our locomotives are supplied with electricity from overhead or underground , the Hellman electric locomotive carries a triple expan sion steam engine , which generates the elec tricity required * Steam power produced In the ordinary way drives n dynamo carried on the tender. The motors are placed on the trucks. This arrangement Is said to give a saving of 20 per cent In fuel over tho- simple steam locomotive. At first sight such a result seems Incredible , and no ono was moro surprised at the claims set forth than your humble servant. "It might be conceded that n locomotive generating Its own' electricity by the use of steam would bo more economical than our electric locomotive , since It dispenses with costly qverhoad copper wire conduc tors and Is exempt from the waste of cur rent' Incident > to the use of long wires , butte to suggest taat It Is moro economical In fuel than the ordinary steam locomotive sounds Ilko a Joke. "The explanation Is. that Hellman go'.s moro ot coal by using power out of n given weight a triplo-oxpanslon engine. Ordinary locomo tives are extremely wasteful of steam. By using the same steam thrice Instead of once enough power is saved. It Is claimed , to rnako up for what Is lost In convert ng or dinary power into electricity. If this be practicable , the Hellman locomotive has for most purposes , decided advantages over other electric locomotives , slnco It can he used on ordinary tracks without special prepirat on. Trolley wires and poles are dispensed with , a ' "It Is suggested , however , by the Hellman Indention thatvOf It bo a practical thing a further development of the steam locomotive Is possible , which would give It a new lease of life and make , electric constructors hump themselves to- keep up with the procession. For use In Ion ? itunnels , however , our loco motive remains the bast , since It produces no cmoke as the Hellman engine does. ELECTRIC LIGHTING IN EDINBURGH. Prof A B. W. Kennedy , electrical ad viser to the Edinburgh Town Council , has recently had occasion to make an exceedingly pleasant report with regard to the progress of the electric lighting station In that city , says the Electric World. He advised the town council to lay down a plant to supply 40000 eight'candle-power lamps connected , and led them"to expect that this figure would bo reached within two or three years , and that the works' costs ( Including all office ex penses ) would , when the output reached 300,000 units per , annum , be about 3 pence per unit sold , Prof.Kennedy now finds that after only sevbn and a half months' working the lamp connection has reached an equiv alent of 45,000 eight candle-power lamps , and that the works' costs ( although the output In the thlrty-four-weeks has only been 285,000 , and the greater part of this thirty-four weeks has been summer time ) , averaged 1.50 pence per unit 'Bold. nWlth this data to go on , he now. prophesies that by April next , which will be the end.of the first year of operation of this , station , 800,000 units will have been sold , and that the averags for works' costs will be about 1 % pence. The total Income earned will then bo 16,000 , and the town council will possess a balance of between 2,000mnd 3,000 , after paying every thing , Including Interest and sinking fund. It In needless to say that one outcome of this favorable result will be the imme diate extension , of the plant. Prof. Kennedy also suggests that the voltage between the outer and middle wire of the three-wire system should be raised at an early date to 200 or 250 volts. With regard to the consumers' lamps , he sug gests that the town council should Issue a notice to the effect that on and after May , 1806 , the standard voltage will be 220 In respect to consumers connected after that date , and that on and after August , 1S97 , the now voltage will bo standard for the whole system , and finally that at any time between these dates , the town council will bo ready to supply any existing customer with new 220-volt lamps at 6d each , the old lamps becoming the property of the coun cil. The effect of this last clause. Prof. Kennedy thinks , will be that each customer will run his existing set'of lamps as long ns possible and ( Ifen buy a new set cheaply from the town council. He estimates that the loss will be about 8d per lamp , and as the present lamp connection Is equivalent to about 40,000 8-cp lamps , and means prob ably about 20,000 actual lamps , the cost of the total operation will be under 700 , and the carrying capacity means ( for the same percentage drop ) will have been quadrupled ; nn operation which would have cost about 60,000 had It not been necessary to quad ruple the capacity by laying extra copper. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS IN ENGLAND. The slow progress of electric traction In Great Britain 1s a matter not easily com prehended In the United States. A recent English , writer states that tha total mile age of electric roads In that country doei not much exceed forty ; and that , while It was expected that the opening of the City & South" London and the Liverpool elevated railways would have a powerful Influence in favor of electricity , It Is doubtful If twelve miles of electric road have been opened In the three years these lines have been working. This teems to have been chiefly due to the widespread opposition to overhead wires. As Eng lish streets are not remarkable for beauty , the objection to the wires can hardly been on esthetic grounds , but It probably results from a vague .fear that the safety of the public might be endangered a fear much Increased by the garbled reports of accidents In America. Accumulator * , steam and pe troleum , have been tiled on certain tram ways with no very encouraging results. A change of sentiment now appears to be In progress , .as several new electric lln ; are nearly completed , and the opening of the tram line at Bristol a few weeks ago may bo taUon oa the beginning of electric traction In England , The slJe trolley , orig inated on the South Staffordshlic line and alto utffil at Bvlttol , Is raid to liavo inc ) . with very favorable reception , as It makes cro3s v.lres unncccsiury. iMi'ROVijp ELECTHM OANIH.I : HOMIER. A new electric cjm'lo holder ban been t ] tl&u' ! > i which ( a likely to popularize H alylo of clcnfrjc Hauling tU ; ho * n'way ' * been ottiuctho for Jpwln ? roon . wlon and gallery Illumination , the Imitation of a candle ftimti In tlouilcj or tinted glak . This method of lighting has hitherto been xomc- what noRlceieii Sy reason nf the dlfllcultlcv i-xpeilencnl | n'a.Jip iig candles ot varying lengtl.o. 1l.c- nun ; fitting 1' arratiKiN ) to hold candle tubes of jufy Ipngth ulthln : \ range of from about three in I three-fourths to > ! x ami ono-liaU luhei. : ( th stalk being tele- 8opti ! , and lilted Witt ; all tl.w needful ad- jutting device * , . Ono Minute Cpugl ) Cure touches tl.b right ipot. It also louche * It at the right tirju U you take It it hen you have a couga or cold. Sea tht pulut : Then don't cougU. IN THE GHETTO OF CHICAGO Section Througed vd h Russian and Polish Jews. THEIR FANATICISM AND THEIR SUFFERINGS Orcnt MnrilNlilpn ntul MticH I'ovcrlr nurtured L'nroiniilnlnliiKlr Core- niniilill OliHcrviutCf * of the Jcrrliili Snbliutli. it The Chicago Jewish Training school Is situated In the midst of a peculiar people , says the Chicago Tribune. A people pos sessed of a fanaticism so high , so fine , m self abnegating that It enables them to tn- dure exile , poverty , and every deprivation .without a murmur. To the casual obsarver that locality bounded on the north by De Koven street , on the south by Fourteenth , on the west by Johnson strict , and on the cast by Canal , Is simply a place InhablteJ by poor Russian and I'olUh Jews , so crowded and packed together thai many thousands of them live _ within" tlita limited area. Passing Up ahd'db'wn the very dirty streets In this vicinity one. . sees at-every step men , cither seated or moving , vending all sorts of cheap things , and whole families ? boiling over , as It were , from the pots of the thronging tenement houses unto the side walk from which they open. They are not buoyant , hearty , romping children , and well- fed , contented mothers that one flndg biding on the sldowalk , for many hours of the day , when the weather Is mild. In evpry part of this Ghetto , but clfln children and , acnemlc mothers , for they arc a delicate , although a prolific , persistent race. Indeed , how , could they bo otherwise than delicate since they are slowly starving , not only 'for want of proper food , but for everything In life , for all they have is hope , which , with them , Ir surely a thing deferred , but nourished by the religion for which they suffer. How It Is that they are a persistent people Is a problem which would seem to have no logical solu tion. Perhaps It Is a matter of Inheritance : and from the old patriarchs from whom they are descended , they have the peculiar , endur ing vitality which has enabled the people of their faith , through many centuries , to endure the untoward conditions which have annihi lated races not so endowed. Whatever the cause , certain H Is that here they arc living , constantly companioned by poverty and sickness , and yet living and also multiplying , and through all holding firmly not only to the spirit , but to the letter of the Jewish religion as It was taught and prac ticed In the time of Abraham and Jacob. Strange as It may seem , In this Ohotto there are more than 10,000 people who have been for years , and still arc , suffering martyrdom for their religious faith. Prosperity was * theirs In their native lands if only they would renounce Judaism and accept the teaching of another faith , but with one ac cord they turned them from material pros perity , with all Its allurements , and accepted cxllo and the thrall of the grimmest sort of want for conscience sake. Although they find religious liberty here , these Jews of the old regime find little else for which they havn reason to be thankful. Of handicraft they know absolutely nothing , although with very few exceptions they are well , oven highly , educated. Many of them are fine accountants , and are quite familiar with the technicalities of business , and many of them could command a fair eulary It they would work on our Saturday , their Sabbath. This they will not do. They will sacrifice themselves , their families , ' their future , but their religion never. This being true , there Is not much they can do but peddle. Thus It happens that the spectacle is seen of a man of fine acquirements , often the possessor of exhaustive , abstruse knowledge , Kolng about every day in the week , save Saturday , with a pack on his back. In this settlement of vendors who can-read and speak In many tongues , and are so familiar with the Talmud that they can give whole pages of It wlthoul the addition or omission of a' word , tbo man who has a horse and wagon , however poor. Is an exception , and Is regarded as opulent FRIDAY NIGHT CEREMONIES. It Is when the sun goes down on Friday night that a strange and dignifying trans formation , both.within and without , but es pecially within , takes place throughout the length and breadth of "this peculiar settle ment. Without the shutters are drawn , and every sign of occupation ls"banlshcd. Be fore the setting of the sun every peddler has returned ; every sidewalk vendor withdrawn his wares ; every child is gone , and the streets , so ovcrthronged every other tlmo In the week , are dcsarted and still. Just after sunset the sixth day In the week one may walk blocks In this section without being able to purchase anything , not oven food. Within the poor houbes of these poor people , and here three rooms 'are a luxury , which Is by no means common , whatever the size of the family , the change Is greater than without. If there Is but one room , though It be dull and grimy and lighted by a single window opening on to a court. It Is made as attractive as cleanliness and such little trifles as ore kept stored for this one night of the week can make It. A white cloth , often only a coarse bit of cotton , costing but a few cents , but Im- ir.nculately clean , la spread upon the tablu and a light set upon It. The- children are made as tidy as circumstances will per mit , and all evidence of poverty Is , as far as possible , banished. The best meal of the week , however poor It may be , has been prepared , and although the miserable home may have been without the cheer of warmth for the whole week , Is made comfortable by a freshly trimmed Ore lighted before the going down of the sun ushers In the Jewish Sabbath , for after that no Jew here may light a tire until it goes down again. Thus a hoiiso where squalid poverty very often reigns the rest of the week , on' ' Fri day night Is made to assume an air cf comparative comfort. Leaving the children , excepting such boys as are over 13 years of ago , gathered about the whlto covered table , on which have been placed the Talmud and , such other books as the family possesses , the father and mother and grandparents , If there are any , proceed to the temple , for they know their place of worship , as have their fore fathers through all the centuries , aa the "temple. " When the polemn service of the Mosaic dlipensatlon | s finished , and they return to the abiding place tliey call hcme , as they enter the door the children all rise and stand with bowed , heads , while the oldest man of the household , the patri arch , the father usually , If , there U no grand'father , stretches forth his hands and pronouncea the blessing jvUh which Jacob blessed his grandchildren when on his * death bed : "God bless you like Ephralm and Manasseh. " Then the mother or grand mother pronounces the blessing : "God bless you like Rebecca , Rachel and Leah. " Despite pinching poverty and Its endless attending train of evils , , wlilcli Include all that externally bemeana and b.elittler , there Is about these people , in thrjr wretched houses , the night that tbo Jewish Sabbath U u e be red In , an Innate distinction and dignity which reminds ono of Emerson's assertion that a sanctified soul Is always elegant. The Hollcltous , anxious Insistence of the street vendor falls away from the father of the faintly , and he becomes the patriarch , teach ing his family the fine poetic truths voiced by the prophets of old. And the mother , also Just returned from the temple , Is at this time rajsed above her mean surround ings by a certain spiritual exaltation which U not of the 'ephemeral , emotional eort , but \\hlcli Inspires her to bear without complaint her Iwrd lot , and yet honor the law by greet ing racli Sabbath with a clean house In aa near holiday attire as she In able to command. In Home of tlieso poor houses the strenuous effort to honor the eacred day Is , Indeed , touching. When the evening meal Is over the children gather about their parents' and the father reads to them , first of all , from the Talmud , and It Is upon such literature aa the fallow- lug that the children here , who are , indeed , a mighty company the average Is ten In a family who have little to cat and less to near , are n-urlslied : Tin- olive then Its oil will yield , When In the olive prem ; So from Iil xliix Is Israel healed Through guttering and distress. Uod oxtendh His hand of merojf , T iom beneath the antieli' wings , 1\ > receive , unseen by justice , Whonuoe'er repentance brings. O lot respect be dully shown To Mm that's old unil , fee.ble erown , Whose store of learning , nobly won , Now hnplesly from him hn rtonol The nacred tablp.o , hewn of clone , Within tlio' nrk lay not alone , For Mile by side with them we find The broken tablets lay enshrined. Oed make * tho" c- high who humbly gd The velf-cxnlted Oed brings low. It In the custom for all the children of a ho'iichold to be at home , whether they live at homo or not , on Friday evening , and it la an unwritten law among this people , whoso lives are In so many respects like a strong strange current from rcmota antiquity , thai all differences , whether between parents ami children , or brothers and sisters , snail bo con sidered as If they never had been , when the blessing of Jacob has been pronounced. This undoubtedly accounts. In part at least , for the strong and loyal regard which Invariably exists between the different members of fam- Illes among thlS'pybple , and the unvarying considerate affection and respect with which children regard "their ; parents. It Is alsj a rule ff6m which there rcems to bo no dcvIatlon 'a'WBng ' these strenuous re ligionists , that w iilt'ever ' betide , the parents Instruct their bnlWren most carefully In the tenets of thotr rhllglon. At < mo time , at the social settlement house in this vicinity , classes were formell1 , by tome young ladles from one of thofashionable South side synagogues ' gogues , for thi pU'rposs of teaching the children hero In , regard to religious matters. To the astonlshmtnl > of the : * ) refined , highly edcuatcd philanthropic young women they discovered thai . . these poor , under nourished , raggda children knew more about the old testament ) scriptures than they , and were constantly 'propounding questions which they were quite'undbje to answer. Parents are supposed to be responsible for their children .Until they are 13 years of age , and It Is thin expected that they have been so Instructed that they can answer for themselves. The boys at this age arc given a "tcphllllm/ " which Is a small leath ern case containing four verses from the Pentateuch , which Is bound on the head , In accordance with the scriptural command , while the wearer , with his face turned to the east , eiys his morning prayer. The girls are not so provided , neither are they , or the women , permitted to occupy the same part of the temple as the men , but have a place provided apart as In olden times. This separation of the sexes'is also carefully observed In the home. U matters not how small the room , how poor the occupants , oamo sort of a division Is managed , and the boys are separate from the girls of a family when they sleep. TRAITS OF THE PEOPLE. In studying the lives of this unique pee ple. In our midst , and yet no more of us than are the people of the South Sea Islands , ono finds'some peculiar phases of human character and extraordinary facts In regard to how people are able to live. For In stance , ono day a teacher , who has among her pupils two little Girls , the children of a Russian Jew , observed they did not go home at noon. She Inquired the reason , and after some hesitation was told that they did not have any lunch for that day nor any fire. She Investigated the matter and found that the father was an Invalid and was In the country , where he was barely able to earn his board , and that the family of three the mother and two children were and had been for a long tlmo living on 12 cents a day. which the mother earned by finishIng - Ing slippers. When the work was not forth coming , as sometimes happened , even this small sum could not be expended , and then there was no lunch or fire. Yet this woman would not accept charity , declaring firmly that she was not a pauper. When later the eldest of the girls stated that slip must leave the training school for two or three weeks until she could earn enough money for a Jacket and was offered one that she might not leave the school and so lose her place In her classes her mother refused to let her accept the gar ment , saying she would rather the should lost her place In the school than take the first step In dependence , for the first step taken the second would be easy. This sort of moral fiber Is quite consistent with the persistent tenacity 5n the matter of religious faith which brought these people exiles to our Ehores and 'keeps them steadfast In holding their Sabb.ath sacred , and while It cannot be eald to J > o general It Is quite com mon among them , . Althought the faith of their' ' fathers Is carefully and ponslstcnlly Instilled In the minds of , their children , and , for the most part , successfully ; "to' theds most orthodox of Jews , still the" chUdren'"do''not ' escape the trend of tl o Umls rtor"fatl to 'sic that they must in , part jflelil to tie } customs of the country In wlilcli tfieyllve. : At the training school they are instructed In practical handi craft , which makesjthem capable of breadwinning - winning In" any 'one 'of several different lines. When they havecdmpleted the course there they realize thar'th'cre Is open to them in dependence , com'fort. respectability on the one hand and poverty , dependence , depriva tion , and keeplnt 1Kb Jewish Sabbath on the' other. They make'their ' choice , and a large number of thcni' oVc now supporting their families , for they ah ) fa'.thful to their faith In all but' ' the Sdbbath observance , and es pecially are they'loy'al to that part of It which commands filial J'deVotlon. The young men and women who" are taking this stand In dicate the change1 ( Which , when the present genertlon shall have passed away , will take place In this Ghetto.1' In the meantime It Is a strange anomaly that these psoplo who like Paul , the chle'fcst of the apostles , are Pharisees , and , In ia way , believe In a future life , still , when questioned , will affirm that an after life Is something of which they cannot know , but > for which they hope. It Is this hope that leads them on that they may cherleh It iwlth as much certainty as possible they forego everything which would enrich the present. You can't makp a new f.rni with Salvation Oil , but you can cure the bruise with It. 25c. INDIVIDUAL POINTS OK VIEW. IIoiV I'tTHOiinl IntiTi-HtK Color NloiiH of Opinion. A man absorbed In his own trade or pro fession often views all other subjects through a medium colored by It , Bays Youth's Com panion. A shre d young New Yorker was In North Carolina when Fort Sumter was fired upon. Ills father excitedly , telegraphed to him , "Civil war has begun. " "Then , " calmly said the youth , "turpentine will go up. " Ho spent all of his money In the purchase of turpontlne , sent what he bought north , kept It for two years , and laid the foundation of a successful business career. Ileau Drummell Is said to have met the duke of Wellington just after that hero re turned victorious from Spain , the Idol of the English people. Drummell regarded him coouy ana remarked , rnere is something lacking In a man who can wear a coat like that. " An enthusiastic horticulturist , when he heard of the massacre of the Engl'sh mis sionaries In China , wrote In his farm journal : "While wo deplore bloodshed , It must be con fessed that the English and American mis sionaries are a selfish lot , lacking In patriot ism. They never have sent a eeeJ of the famous melons of Asia back to their own country. " A canny publisher In New York when the labor strikes of two years ago began raid : "Hard times and trouble of all kinds are upcn us. The public will want books to make them laugh. " Ho acted upon the Idea , and his books of gay romance and fun had a ready dale In eplte of the scarcity of money , Perhaps no subject Is tinged in our nilndi , so Etrongly with our own personal ( Idlosyn- craclea as that of a future life. "Do I be- Here In Immortality ? " eald the great German physician Knope. "Do you think 1 ! shall not be here because a valve In my heart will not open ? " A faithful negro nurse traveling In Italy with her mistress objected to tlp ( robes of the angels in a hmoua picture by Corre-gglo , which tlmo had .yellowed , "Ua saints , " she tald , "Is de last fblk.to put bad laundry work out ob dere hands , ' , ' In which she stumbled on a great truth , ' though In homely gultv. A great ccniedfgnHwhOEe character has en deared him to majiy.who care nothing for his art. was once talking of the mystery of death. . . "The Great Ifpnagcr la right , " he said reverently. "Who would give any heed to the play If ye coujd ijee behind the curtain ? " U - Not a few who read what Mr , Robert Rowls , of Hollands , Ya.-riia to ay below , will re member their own experience under 1 ke clr- cunutanccx : "Lart&wlnter I had la grippe which left mo In a Iw state of health. I tried numerous remedies , none of which did me any eocd , uaf\ ( \ I was Induced lo try a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The first bottle of ll , ; * far relieved me that I ' wa enabled to'aitend to my work , and the second bottle ejected a cure , " For file at 25 an > l V ) cenU i > er bottla by drugglMs. THE ARMY RIFLE A TERlif Phanomonnl Destructive Powers Shown by Recent Testa. THE FLIGHT OF ITS PROJECTILES Hone CtMinlilriu ; nnil i\p1o lre 1'orco ' of the Miilloln-Kvcrv Solillcr 111 * Own .Snrnron An Alnrm- I'rnlilruii A very short time ago. when most of the natlona of the oartli were going about \\lth chips on their shoulders , Imploring some one to knock them oft , the medical men ol the various countries began wondering whit would be the effect on the soldiers of the possible enemy should the arms now adopted by the various countries be used In actual warfare. These medical gentlemen , say the New York Herald , made their reports to their governments , and , needless to say , the findIngs - Ings of the scientists after their experiments were not made public. There wore some thing ? . It was found , that In order to retain oven an ordinary degree of patriotism It was well to conceal from the possible sol dier. ,0no of the government ! ? which miulo those Interesting Investigations sent Us report to the surgeon general of the United States , with the warning that It was not Intended for the public. On the contrary , It was printed , for the benefit of the surgeons of the army , and should be kept from the rani : and flic , as the romilt of the promulgation of the facts mentioned In the report might Inter fere seriously with the personnel of the army. SOME EXPERIMENTS WITH THE GUN. It Is rather singular that at Just about the same time , If not a little before this oHlclal Inquiry was made , Or. John H. Qlrdncr of Now York City began some experiments on his own account with the new rlflo adopted by the United States army and now In the possession of the regular troops , with the gun factories hard at work turning out sufficient to supply an army of war strength. Dr. Qlrdner made his experiments and drew a number of deductions , which have been published In a weekly newspaper , but ijieso remorks'of the experimenter merely skimmed the 'surface , and the complete results of tl.e surgeon's experiments will not bo known until he makes them public In a scientific periodical of repute. Prom .the experiments made by exports not alone In firearms and dynamics , but by sur geons of renown , the weapon adopted by the United States army , the Krag-Jorgensan rifle , Is one of ( ho most brutally effective weapons which has ever been Invented. It was re garded as humane. Inasmuch as the wounds It made would be clean and the passage of the projectile BO rapid that there would be nlmopt no splintering of the bone or tearing of tissues. Instead of this , except within a certain very limited range , the effect of the bullet la explosive , and It not alone tears and mutilates In a terrible fashion , but It nalioK tii hnnn Into a nn In and Increases the percentage of fatalities to a very ma terial extent. When the military arms having small cali ber and using a bullet of a diameter much less than the old rifles were adopted by the European armies , the representation made was that the change was In the Interest of humanity and that the small caliber bullet could not make so severe a wound as the heavy projectile of the old weapon. The ex periments were made at certain wellvdeflned distances at which "armies would be likely to do battle. But the effect of the missiles at other distances , especially up to 400 yards and beyond. 1,500 yards , was not determined. It was presumed that If the wounds were clean and free from excessive laceration at the distances experimented with , they must bear , necessarily , the same general appear ances at other distances. IT WAS HOPED TO DISABLE. NOT KILL. With this general result the examining boards were content and the public gener ally was Informed and thoroughly convinced that even though the now arms adopted were much more precise In action and had an enormously Increased carrying and pene trative .power. , they were adopted because the' chief object of warfare was not to kill an enemy but to disable him , and that the wounds Inflicted by the new weapons would be of a character which could be treated successfully and that recovery from them would be rap'd. ' The same condition of things which In duced the acceptance of the guns in Europe existed hero. This government had Its hu mane Inclinations played upon and the ex perimenters were shown how straight was the trajectory and how clean was the track of the projectile , until there seemed to be a decided demand for the gun because the person hit with Its missile might bo knocked over and made helpless for a time , but that he could be fixed up with great promptitude and dispatch after the battle. Dr Glrdner , In his article , describes the flight of the bullet as In three divisions. The flrst Is from the muzzle of the gun to the end of 400 yards , the second Is from 400 yards to 1 500 yards and the third Is from 1.500 yards to the limit of flight-two miles. The first of these may bo described as the destructive division of the flight. Anything struck within this range Is splintered and torn as though by nn explosion. The mark of the missile in an oak board is Irregular , and the effect of the projectile striking anything having the same resisting power as flesh Is explosive , the bullet tearing the mark to pieces. ENORMOUS VELOCITY OF THE BULLET. It should bo re-membered In considering the power of the flight of the bullet from this now -gun that the muzzle velocity Is 2 000 feet a second , and that Its course Is almcst resistless. It Is not like the Mlnlo ball of the civil war merely lead , which Is Itself flattened and torn In Its course but It IB conical , and the lead core Is first cov ered with rtcel and then plated with German silver. It was sent through sixty Inches of plno board without disturbing the Jacket of the bullet In the slightest , This was cal culated to have the effect In gunshot wounds of doing away with the sever ? laceration Inevitable from the course of a missile dis charged from .one of the ola army rifles , when , the bullet spread at the point of Im pact. At the distances dcecriboJ , between 400 and 1,500 yards , the advantage Is very marked , and Is likely to make this limit known as the humane limit. Her ? the wounds Inflicted by the rifle are remarkably clb'an and the punctures of the bone appear as though they had been carefully drilled. The appearancetrf the flesh wounds \v \ equally clean and without laceration , and If there was a certainty tnat every person shot and 'not ( { tiled outright would be within Lho humane limits and would recover from Ills Injuries the gun would seem to make warfare a sport rather than a hardship. Ah experiment was made In Germany with the ( ir/ny rifle with which our army IH equipped , and seven dead bodies were placed In Indian file to receive the bullets. The rifle wan dltchargcd at a distance of 650 yards and the missile pasted through all of the subjects and was never found , This was lit > 50 yards. Had the bullet been discharged at ' 350 yards ( hero would Imva been plenty o addiTho conditions then may \ > t tin. aglncd when an experiment recently made with a human skull U relitoj. SMASHED A SKULL TO PIECES. Thfr experimenter secured a bkull and filled liu Interior with potato , which has about Iio same consistency as tlic brain mutter. One of the new Unlt l Stales army rlAp * vas OUchargcd at the ckull at a distance of ,00 yards and the ikull was Jltfrally binaelioil > y the force of th ? Impact. TliB content * were , strewn for half a doren yards about- lad this been tried nltliln the humane Imlt the bullet would Imvu patted through ho skull , leaving a tiny hole behind It. The eamo experimenter had occasion to hoot a rabid dog while using I'JC ' .inny rifle , and thought that the use of the ucapon would be about an humane a method of kill. tig the lirute as could be devised. What W.IB ils astonishment when the bullet struck the unfortunate animal to sue It practically burnt ho fore part pf the trui.k open , ifiilte as hough iha animal had litcn lilllnl Itli an explosive bullet. Tlilr wouU Iio nmloubtrdiy ho ft/suit of a wound lu a limn in bujy. In cioo.the rangn wan within thu limit which nay bo dcrcribed a * brutal. The pbyalclaos who have folio fed the ex- pertaentn tuy that the cffixt of Me : bullet I'trlklng a thigh or au arm br.in : would lit ) , unli > * the perron was wltblti the urea pf 400 o 1,500 yards , to reduce the bono ulimiyt tea a pulp. Setting or raving the llmh would 10 Impossible. The amputation would Irtve o be prompt and complete. Dsuth vpiild probably result , from BUCU a wound. There liptf lie it , of tounc , a r ? t di-ul nf which caeuallley may occur. Uo'cie ad- Quaker " When the stomach is A true saying , after a breakfast Quaker OATS Sold only in 2-b. ! 'Packages. 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Then there Is a period when the top appears to bo'perfectly still and yet Is revolving at an enormous rate. A third period onsuca when the toy be comes uncertain again and again begins to wabble. These three stages of the spinning of a top explain , according to Dr. Glrdner , the three points of theflight ot the projectile. Ho believes that as the bullet leaves the tnuzzlo of the rlflo It 'Is given a twist which Improves Its accuracy , 'of , course , but makes Its penetrative course decidedly unsteady. The quiver "which accompanies this early flight of the bullet Is the thing which docs to ! business with. , human flesh and bono. . When the 400 yards mark is reached' the bul let's flight becomes steady , and Its penetra tive power Is.of course concentrated. At the 1.BOO yards limit the top begins to be tired of spinning and the bullet shows Increasing Indications of unsteadiness until tbo end of Its flight. It Is during the periods when the cour.so of the projectile Is not perfectly straight and true that the great damage Is done by the bullet. SURGEOMS ARE COM ILfNG STATISTICS. The medical corps of the army is com piling a scries of talliesbased upon the medi cal reports of the casualties during the civil war , with the object of showing how lestructlve the present rifle will bo In actual warfare. From what Is known at present concerning the results ot these experi ments , they will show that bscauso of the iractlcal absence of trajectory In the flight of the projectile of tlie'qew rifle the chance of escape while charging will bo reduced to the minimum , There can be no longer any charges across country. The charging 'orco ' would be wiped out before It reached ts enemy. The straightens of the flight of the bullet has entirely done away with the chance that the enemy will fire over your head. All he has to do Is to hold his ifle straight and blaze away and kill gonio- hlng. Ucsldes , there will be no longer any advantage in flghtlng In the woods from be- ilnd trees and the < like. The cxparlmcntB tave shown that the bullet passes with the utmost readiness through trees three feet In diameter , and any person standing behind would be killed lnovlably. ( The absence of trajectory has Increased to an alarming de gree the area In a Held of battle within vanccs could bo made over Intervening spaces with comparative immunity. Now , nothing Is safe within two miles of thu gun. An exceedingly alarming problem la con fronting the authorities In regard to the safety of the military corps or any person not combatants. Tliry will bi > practically wiped out should they attempt to save the wounded on the field. They could scarcely avoid being wounded , and another corpx would have to be employed to aid tlu'in , and D3 on ad Inliiilttim , Now It Is proposed to teach every soldier the principles of first aid to the Injured , co that 'they may rtrenj .heir own and their comrades' wounds. They nlll ho taught especially how to stop liemorrhages and caqh man vll bn provided with a little package of antlieptlcs. tewed to iih ) uniform and freed from till pmalulo In- 'ectlon. Then when they receive wounds hey may aid each other and no : awult the ambulance corps. Raymond JCWKLKK. "Without haste IM < H am. . - Without rest " In season and out of season , a great corps of silver workers , assembled from every artistic nation in the world , labor har moniously together , blending fancy of the brain with cunning of the hand , in producing those -narvelous creations of Utility and Beauty known Gofliam Silver Too good for Dry Goods Sto.-ci Jtv/ilen 6nly. 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