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t4 VOL. II. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C,., WEDNESD)AY, JUNE 23, 188.NOE8 TiE SNOW-CAPPED "RC1E. IMPRESIONS OF A TRIP THRO1's1 TIHE STATE OF COLORADO. Scenes Alon; the Route by Rail--The Wouder ful City of Denver-The Future of a Great Commonwealth. tDenver Letter in Pomeroy's Democrat.) Those who ride in sleeping cars in the East are quite apt to remain in their bench to turn, snooze, think, plan and rest as on they roll. Not so here. Sun rise, and all were up. The cars of the Burlington Route were so well laden with passengers that every berth was ied, the great majority of passen gers in the sleepers being persons from, the East who had never been to Denver, never seen its rocky mountains. Near ing their destination, they were like the early bird. It is now six o'clock. In two hours we will be in Deaver. The berths have all been made up for the day, the cars dusted out and people are on the qui vive. We are running southwest. Be hind us is the head of the Republican valley and the millions of acres of choice Nebraska corn land. We are on top of the divide, as a fly would be on top of a barrel that lay upon the ground. Miles of unfenced country are to be seen, with here and there a little house, home of a homesteader or headquarters of a ranch man or cattle raiser whose cattle are to be seen grazing on the wide expanse of plains here being run over. The depot buildings are small, painted red and snug. Depots are so far apart that several others can be built between them in time! The appearance is that of a very new country, yet it is older in fact than is the East, as first of all from the vasty deep rose the backbone of the continent, still to the west of us. A ladv screams: -'O! See:" She p3oints to the west and there, sure enough, are to be seen the snow-capped mountain peaks of the grand old moun tains. In a little while the cars have sped on so that we see the main range, extending south from Cheyenne or near there, for hundreds of miles. They rise as a great wall might rise along the sea shore, the plains to the east being under the evening shadows of the mountains tat rise in the west. Now we see down into the valley of the South Platte. Many school teachers insist that Denver is a city on the North Platte. Such is not the case. Denver is on the waters of the South Platte, about 140 miles from where it heads. The river is not large, except after a freshet. It runs through a pleasant, wide valley ?hat at Denver is fourteen miles east frozn the foot hills and that at. Greely is aboui, forty miles east. Along here is the choice agricultural lands of the State, takin in tha county west from Denver to GoIden in a gorge of the mountains, Boulder, Longuoat, Fort Collins and Greely, in the respective counties of Jefferson, Boulder, Lari1er and Weld. Longmont being in Boulder county, one of the finest in the State. West of these counties, west from Denver, the county-seat of Arapahoe county, are the Rocky Mountains, rising as a abrupt granite wall to the height of a mile, or 8,000 feet above the plains. From north to south we see them from the cars, a ralLge cf fully two hundred mile. Denver ig about 6,000 feet above sea level. We are & full mile near the stars than are those who live in New York. The mountains rise ap into the clouds that rest upon their snowy peaks. from 6,000 to 8,000 feet above the plains. The air is light, so clear, so rarified that no new comer can judge distance. To the northwest we see a very high peak, standing like a white-headedl Long Johni Wentworth, of Chicago, higher than his fellows. That is Long's Peak. it is named in honor of Lieut. Long, an explorer who wea a long time in getting to the top of it, there to float the Ameri canfag 'wHITE ABOVE THE GRAY AND) GiiiI. Snow is white and deep on the tops and sides of the mountains, while the plains below are green with growing grains and grasses. Away along .to the south rise the snow-capped Rockies, like. a great cross-cut saw, its teeth in air. It' is seventy miles from where we are this morningin the cars, west to the top of Long's Peak, yet people in the cars esti mate the distance at fifteen to twenty miles. There are big nmountains and little mountains all stuck in together like clothies-pins in a snow heap. About ~eventy-five miles south from Long's Peak, and sixty miles due west from .Denver, its snow-white top piercing a gray, snow-made cloud that is beating up to fall and to whiten anew, rises ?fsy's Peak, the top of which is 14,441 feet above the level of the sea. It is the snountan under which the company of 'which the editor and writer hereof is president is driving a tunnel at the alti tude of 10,000 feet above sea level, and which tunnel will be five miles long. Welcome, old fellow! We have seen you before, as from your snmmit range we have looked east toward the Atlantic and westward toward the Pacific, miles upon miles. Some of these days we will walk through you and ride through you, and walk into your hundreds of fissure veins laden with gold, silver, copper and' lead, and get as much fatness out of you as arat gets out of a cheese it has bur rowed into beyond the reach of a cat. To the south from Gray's Peak, about' seventy-five miles distant, with many a snow-covered peak between us is PIKE' EAK, ,distant about ninety miles from Denver, bati its top not so high by fourteen feet, .as is Gray's Peak, which up-shoots west .of Den're, as a guide to Salt Lake City, which is 408 miles north of west from Denver, direct line, and 687 miles dis tant by rail, via Chayenne, and 775 miles .isant by way of Puebic and Gunnmson, as i-uns 'the "Denver and Rio Grande Mountain climby railroad. Then on to the south, far as the eye' can reach, rise the mountains as a wall between eastern and western Colorado between the Atlantic and the Pacific, and1 1'.own as the Continental Divide. TOOK ouT HIS TUCK. Speakig of the above-named mroun tain zonte around andover from Denver toSsit Take, it is one of the wonders of the world. A prominent business man Suppitait frigm Taigobb N~{eg1ka was on the train and we heard him say: "I have been over the Northern Pacific, and the Union Pacific, and the Central Pacific to the Pacific Ocean. They are grand routes. But the grandest moun tain route of all that I have ever rode over is the Denver and Rio Grande from Denver by way of Gunnison to Salt Lake. It takes a man to the top of the mountains above the clouds, and lets him down into gorges that almost ex clude the sun. I would not have missed it for anything, and yet I would not ride over it again for ten thousand dollars. The way the cars run down the terrible grades is frightful. I looked out till my head ached. Then I became seasick and nervous, and it seemed to me that I must be dashed to pieces." Thus do the works and reputations of great thinkers and workers gird the con tinent and stretch from pole to pole; but there is no more need to aoublv insure vour life when riding over the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad than when riding over any other road built and operated by men who know their busi ness. YEARS AGO. To Pike's Peak. That is what folks said years ago. They did not go to Pike's Peak, but to the junction of Cher ry Creek with the South Platte river, where in the bed of the stream gold was found. Pike's Peak was a landmark seen for hundreds of miles, and to get within seventy-five miles of it was "getting there" in those days. The beautiful temperance city of Colo rado Springs, forty-five miles south from Denver, is between Denver and Pike's Peak, but there are no springs at Colo rado Springs. At the foot of the moun tains, five miles west, are springs, at Manitou, or in the garden of the gods. as some one nar',ed this grand, majestic locality, from which folks start on horses or mules for the top of Pike's Peak, and a chance to see the world below. We see into the valley of the South Platte. It comes out from a doorway in the mountains, about twenty-six miles south west from Denver, as the water came out of the rock struck by Moses. By the way, Moses was different from some pple of to-day, as he was a suc cessful striker. See the crooked line of bright, green trees, thrifty cotton-wood, that mark the course of the Liver. See the belt of green farms along the river, clear down to Denver, and on forty miles north, show ing where farmers are getting in their work, and by i-rigation bringing forth crops that pay large profits. Dp-VE R. Now we see thespires of the city. Now the city itself. Gracious! what a city. There it is, fourteen miles east of the foot mills. Fourteen miles cast from the mountains, on the plains. It looks like an oasis in a desert. A city four miles long and about a mile and a half wide. A city of 80,000 inhabitants. One of the han smest, most progressive cities in I the Union. Considering all things it has no rival on earth. Where thirty years I ago was a bald-headed plain, now rise tens of thousands of trees, to ahnost hide 1 the beautiful city they shade. Out from 1 the green rise towers of churches and i schools, finer than are to be found else where west of the Mississippi river till j we reach San Francisco. Cupolas of j palatial private residences, and high- ] ieaded towers for electric lights, prove that a modern, progressive people are: those who live in the city named in hon- i >r of General Denver, the gallant pioneer II and statesman, who now resides in Wash ingtn. i From the tops of those high smoke taks that mark the location of the great melters of Argo, owned by United tates Senator N. P. Hill, WIalcott and thers. and of the Omaha and Denvert melting worjks, owned by ex-Governor rant and others, the smoke rolls day< d night without ceasing, as millions ipon millions of dollars' worth of goldt ud silver bullion are here each year< oasted and stewed out of the ore brought: ere bycars from the wondrous mines f Coorado. Thirteen r-ail'ogid lines~ 1 entre here at the Union depot, onie of the largest and handsomest in the world. i Now we come up to the broad plateau f riroad works in front of the depot; t n time to th~e minute, from Chicago to Denver direct by the Burlington route, o more worn, wvorried or wesried than< hough we stayed at home and worked in the garden. Here are lines of horse ars leading to all parts of the city-i north, soutn, east and west. Here are a wide, clean streets of the broad gauge pattern. Aside them on eac-h side run( streams of water, used for the irrigation f gardens farther back. Here are shade trees making Denver to appear as located I in some enchanted forest. Here are tele- i graph messenger boys; ?3hurches as fine I sare to be found in New York city, with audiences that cannot be excelled For dress and all that pertains to moderni nujoyale religion. Here are monthly, weekly and daily e papers, chief of which is the Rocky l J~ountain News. Here are banks as fine, as Tell oflicered and as solidly foun- i lationed as are sny in the country. Here re more large, beautiful stores and more ive, prosperous merchants than can be Found in any city of its size in the Unitedf states. Here are hotels equal to the very 1 best in this country, with guests from: ll parts of the world. Here arc manu- I aturing establishments growing into;1 perfect life. Here are as good people I ud as deserving as the sun ever shone ' on, and more of progress to the square I nch than can be found in any other I ~ities of this country save Chicago, St. < Paul and Mfinneapolis, as into the West -s-h thme vigorous-minded men who make i Fortunes quickly, zs they have vim, t rains and means, with couirage to invest t not alone in Denver property, but in utside lands and mines. 1 Here, too, are lines of gamblers, sharks,f ~hysters, dead-beats, bunc steerers, and m ll that goes to make up a live, cosmo- x ~olitanl city. Here, too, are the jay-hawk- 1 rs, black-mailers and scheming plunder- t rs of all who have legitimate business t nuterprises in tow. Here, too, are the a selfish, heartless grabbers for all there r is in sight. 3Men who get drunk, abuse < themselves and all who trust thenm. M1en t a-ho have "played out" in other locali- z ties, and who damec here to whet their e Fangs against each other, and who rip _it i intoall whom they can fasten upon in1, the guise of friendship or the garb of a business. Here are msers, meddlers,< hkin-flints, land-pirates and hoodlums, 1 ll bunched in together and helping to ] swell the grand variety. Tr Chazmber of Commerce made up of Al, men, from first to iast. Here are as fiue places of amusement as can be found in New York, and here gather audiences that for wit, wealth, worth, beauty and style, cannot be excelled any where on this continent. All in all, Denver is a model city, with hundreds of attractions and but few black patches or drawbacks. Her artesian wells from which come the purest of clear cold water; her rich gardenis from which come small fruits and vegetables; her fine hot-houses from which come choice flowers in endless variety and pro fusion, and her unequaled climate make this the capital of Colorado a city to be proud of, built here as it is in the midst of what was once called the great Ameri can Desert! And this of a State that yields the best wheat in the world and that, with a population less than 300,000 total, lifts over 40,000,000 of dollars' worth of wealth out of her coal, iron, gold, silver, lead and copper mines year y, hardly yet dug into except as pros pects to determine how to conduct future mining operations. How bright and beautiful the morning! How busy are ll whom we meet! OCRI. (i3XAL COLONV IN CAN.ADA. Hon lia:e of the Ra::away to;: *--' ')port riemelies in Their -ity of rite--. A Montreal correspondent of the New York Mail and Express writes: "John C. Eno heads the list of criminals in Cana :la. He is living at Quebec. The house he rents is large, and the situation de lightful. It is two and a half miles from the postoffice. The rent he pays-near y $2,000 a year-is, for Quebec, enorm :us. This means, proportionately, about 36,000 to $8,000 per year in New York. Rents are very low in the Gold Rock City, and theEno house at Beauvoir is yne of the finest in the suburbs. Finan Aially, he appears to be at case. He rives good horses and is liberal with his noney, but socially he is not known. Neither he nor his wife is ever invited ut, nor are they visited by society peo ple. Eno has never been asked to the arrison mess, and does not belong to lie only social organization in Quebec >f any pretensions-the Garrison Club. Mhe old French families do not ask him xo their houses. His acquaintances are )rincipally made A barrooms. Some ew society men have a nodding acquaint-I mnee with him. Society is exclusive, Lnd the old noblesse, have long memo ies. When Eno gives dinner "parties" hey are only attended by his legal ad isers, or speculators who may wish to ;ee him. The Commercial Club he be ongs to is a small place where men of )usiness meet. It has no social signifi ance and does not pretend to any. Iany respectable .ierch:uts belong to t. These men meet Eno in a busmiess av. They do not ask him to their iones. Some of them may drink with tim at the St. Louis Hotel when they neet him there; that is all. He visits he houses of two or three personal riends, but the stories about his being eceived into society are exaggerations. le attends cocking mains and billiard ournaments, and he is a constait visitor o St. Roch. This is the roughest sub Lrb in the city. "The New 'York Aldermen and their riends attract much attention. They .re Billy Moloney, Charley Dempsey, eenan and De Lacy. They all have 'ooms on the same floor of the Windsor otel, with the exception of Billy Mo ney, who is in a small house near the Lotel. De Lacy and Keenan are great hum, and are rarely out of each other's ight. Moloney and Dempsey, how ver, seem to be engage 1 in picket duty ad throwing inqguisitive people off the cent. They all live like lords, getting he best of everything and scattering heir money about like water. "New York has not a monopoly of the riminals here; Chieago makes a very ood running for second place. Morris, he 'church deacon,' and trusted adviser f widows and orphans, heads the list. lorris had thousands of dollars intrust to his care. The people whose money te had were chiefly poor, struggling men n women, who had saved the gather ags inhrusted to im after years of self acrifice and privation. The victims of his man thought they were saving up or the 'rainy vay' Mfany of his duipes ere laboring men, chatrwomen and rphans to whom small sums 'f money Lad been left. He encouraged the peo e to deposit their money in his keep ag. When he got what lie considered ufilcient for his wants he left. He made >aupers of hundreds of poor people in hicago. He does not appear to mind hat. He is running a prosperous busi ess here. The writer saw him in at suggy yesterday. He sat behind a fast rotting black. The flush of health was resent on his countenance. There was o cowardly conscience in that man's ace. But the detectives say that Morris not at ease, for all his assumption of adifference. They hav-e noticed that he lwas employs the one driver to take im to and from his place of business. hev think he is afraid of being kid ap ed __ __ A Rash Editor [ays for a Hant. The Cleveland Press permits a little acetious diversion in its State news col m, which is conducted by a young orwalk newspaper man named Foster. t is appropriate to say that he is un iarricd and unengaged. Last Tuesday1 .e published a paragraph to this effect:1 'A Marion girl started her graduatingi ssay as follows: 'I am fairly wearied out rith~ the incessant prating of the lords f creation on the duties and sphere of rn'" The paragraph closed with] he somewhat dangerous assertion that he editor would het a new spring hat* hat the author of that discourse on romian's sphere coul not bake a loaf of1 read. S..tm-dlay Mr. Foster received rom Marion a large box. It contained! ndry light loaves of bread and cake, arvelously toothsome. An accompa ying 'aidavit bore the solemn oath of he sweet girl graduate (who possesses!: he pretty name of May Williams) that ]: he had, unaided, baked the wheat bread f arked "Exhibit A," the two specimans 3 corn bread marked "Exhibit B," and he chocolate caise "Exhibit C." The i otary's seal of oflice was affixed to the< ffidavit, and it was settled beyond a .oubt in Mr. Foster's mind that his rash eager had been accepted. He therefore I rent out and lavished his week's salary n a new spring hat. Of course he hadi ever seen Miss Willam.-Cincinnatii hnqirer. _____ WE T POINTr ..CIRiIATS. The fadets Treat Their Vis;ors t, Circus Show. An interesting feature cf the West Point Military Academy on Thursday last was the mounted exercises of the cadets in the riding hall. By the time Secretary of War Endicott and party ar rived, Capt. Augur had a line of horse men before him. The men wore their gra fatigue suits and all sot their horses well. At a word they s' :rted off one after another and swept about the area at a gallop. Then sabres we-e drawn and the drill commenced. Fi-:t the blade was brought down upon an imaginary foe at the right, then it was twirled in air, next thrust forward, again bnckward, and last a sweeping slash was made to the left. Once the horses were in line, the men stood at their heads. "Mount." In a twinkling, every cadet was in air. In another, without touchg a stirrup, he was in the saddle. Another com mand. The men were ,n their feet again, but only to vault clean over sad dle and all and stand ready at the other side. Then up again in the saddle. They twisted around, now facing for ward, now backward and again side ways. And Vwhile they so drilled two uprights were fixed at adLtauce of about fifty feet from each other with a pad as big as a cap fixed upou each with a han dle attached to it. At a word the caval rvmen dashed off. Now one came along at full gallop, leaned over as he reached the upright till his hand was below the level of the stirrups, and in full career picked up one pad after another and tossed it behind him. It was a feat re quiring coolness and address, but nearly all executed it satisfactorily. Next the pad was placed upon an up right the height of a man, and at the same distance as before' another was placed on a lower stand. Between them was placed horizontally a beam resting on two uprights-a good, stiff jump for a horse in such a limited space, and one requiring a rider to have his brain clear. The word was given. A horseman came galloping on. As he reached the taller stand he drew a revolver. It flashed, and the pad, struck by the hullet, tumbled off, while the horse dashing on was a moment after lifted over the bar in a flying jump. Round still the horseman, went. his comrades following one by one. And now as he approached the stand on which the pad is replaced he has his sabre out. He slashes at it, hits it fairly, and almost before it reaches the ground he is over the bar; his sabre cuts an are through the air as he leans over his horse's shoulder and tosses up with a great slash a bunch of tanbark, and then just recovering in his saddle he brings down the blade with a sweep upon the pad of he second upright and tosses it In the next exercise the uprights and pads are still there, but in place of the jump is a high pole with a transverse >ar. from which hangs jpt within reach f a horseman's sabre an iron ring only a few inches in diameter. And through all this, too, the horses go around at the top of their speed. the feat repeated gain and again, a few failing, but nearly ll successful. Next saddles are removed and the men -ide bareback at will. There is no circus performance like this spectacle. The place is full of bounding steeds; some ith riders leaning over their shoulders ill their hands sweep the ground; some ing at full length upon their backs; ome facing to the rear, but guiding them vith spur and rein; some jumping on nd off, like circus riders, while the ani- i nal is going at the top of his specd. and ome vaulting clean over them and keep ~ng up the p~ace. It is a thrilling specta de, which a burst of applause rewards, md then the men repeat their exciting rill, training by coulies on half the mmuber of horses. It would be called a ~allant equestrian show anywhere. An la otlicer's comment interpreted the ~eneral opini"': "I never saw better iders." .1 (yce'e of" Forty- 'our 1Wars .o. Stories of the recent eyeclone in Ohio re coming 'n quite freely, but they do ot ap~proach the marvelous stories of he tornado that swept up the valley of ho roaring Ccodorus, in Tork county, in he spring of 1842. After the storm we pak of one farmer found that his well ad 1been pulled up by the roots and was anging on the limbs of a white oak tree our miles away. A cellar belonging a' ne of his neighbors was split in te, meC half of it being blown through a tone quarry and the other half hu-ned ip endwise against a haystack in the .djoining county. A flock of geese were ~omletely stripped of their feathers by he 'wind, and a dried appie pie was lown through the side of a school houseI errifving the teacher and scholars, be sides ruining a large map of the grass topper districts of Kansas. A large arn containing thirteen tons of hay was ifted off its foundation and carried bodi v six miles down the valley, where it etted down so squarely that the doors* ~ould be opened without prying them. he wind blew the tails off six D~urham ~ows, and a Berkshire pig. weighing 200 ounds, was 1blown comp)letely through mis skin, the hicie remaining in a stand ng position and preserving an expression f naturalness that deceived many .vis-j tos. The boundary lines of several ownships were 1bont all out of shape, so hat they looked like a curled hair mat :ress on'a hot griddle, and the air was ,lown so completely out of the valley hat peole had to go up on the hills rhen they wanted to breathe.-Philadel Th'Ie ('ontinlent', smzalle.t Newspper. The smallest newspap)er von the enti aent is published in Guadalajara, MIexico, he capital of the State of .Jalisco, amnd me of the leading~ cities of the rep~ublic. he El Telegrama, a copy of which wa ~hown us by MIajor Hilder, the energetic ommssoner to the World's Exposition, this city, from MIissouri, ls a four-| tage weekly, five by three inches in size, Lnd, as may well be fancied, is a marvel the way of condensation. The motto f thme pap~er, as translated, reads: "Lit le straw and much wheat." The con enser of either the New York or Balti-' ore Sun would turn green with envy fter taking a glimpse at this really won e-ful little MIexican sheet. The price f the paper per week is one cent. At e bottom of the iirst page is pr-inted he fllowing: "Rfesponsible-Lina Luna,' s. (' Fuentes, printer." The copy in ai /contamins five small advertisements. _m'w Orleas Times-Democrat. Lieutenant M. E. Hell. U. S. N., who for several years has been endeavoring to perfect a fish torpedo, has one now ueary perfected at the Eagle Tron Works in 3ufflalo. The Courier describes it as twelve feet long, in three sections, and re-enforced v four longitudinal girders to give it -reat(r strength. In the ex treme bow there is a capaitv fora charge of seventy pounds of gunpowder. This is fixed by means of a primer of fulmi nate of mercury. A plunger projects in front, having two crossed knife edges constructed so as to act when the torpe do strikes a vessel at a small angle. The ordinary torpedo in such a case would simply allow the projectile to glance off without exploding. The plunger breaks the screw that holds the spring-firing apparatus, thus releasing the firing pin which exploaes the charge by striking the sensitive primer of fulminate of mer curv. On the bow there are two auto matic fins used for steering. The gen erator is composed of a series of tubes that hold gas and vapor at 1,000 pounds pressure. The middle section consists of plain cylinder 15: inches in diameter, and in this the generator is contained. The fins are worked by small engines whose valves are automatically controlled by power derived from the generator, whose great pressure, 1,000 pounds to the square inch, has only been obtained after incessant labor and innumerable experiments, many of which were fail ures. The after section of the torpedo contains the propelling apparatus, con sisting of Gardner's patent three cylinder engine, which works two screws by gear ing. These screws are two-bladed, and revolve in opposite directions, Their peculiar feature is that the blades of one screw are each at right angles to those of another, thus enabling screws of large diameter to be used as inner blades of the screws revolving in the same space. The three different sections of the torpedo are screwed together so as to make water-tight joints. The projectile is so constructed as to dive and keep a certain depth by means of the automati cally controlled pins in the bow and the diving rudder in the tail. Two tails tend to keep the torpedo upright and regular, enclosing the screws to prevent their be ing fouled by any floating object, such as seaweed, etc. On the top of the death dealing machine are three hand holes covered by plates-one giving access to the apparatus which controls the fires at the engine, the other affording access to the diving rudder. The engine is in closed in a steel case, which slips into its place in the torpedo, and is there held by three bolts, so that it can be readily re moved for examination or repair if need be. Attached to the engine is a governor, the invention of Mr. Gardner, foreman of the Eagle Works. This governor con trols the engine so as to give uniform rate of speed while working under vary ing degrees of pressure. The great advantage claimed for the new torpedo is its straightness of course. The undulating motion of the ordinary torpedo frequently causes the machine to dive without striking its object. The new one, it is said, can be aimed more directly and certainly at the precise spot here it will have the greatest destructive power. Another advantage is in the dis tance traversed. The ordinary torpedo has a range of about 700 yards; the new finny creature speeds along to the extent of about a mile and a half, or 2,400 yards. The engine is the only one made In this country at all suitable for the work contemplated, and the patent for this part of the apparatus is vested in the Eagle Iron Works Company. Without ay special tests or appliances, it is nothing short of wonderful how efficient v the new torpedo in all its parts has been completed and now nearly fitted together. It will shortly be put to the test in Lake Eric. 'The whole apparatus as a buoyancy of fifteen feet, and it is cmputed to be able to blow into smith reens the largest vessel afloat. Van Wyck, of Nebraska, is the only Senator whom his associates do not p~re tend to understand. He is liable to "'et up at any timne and create a row, and ihe records of the present Congress will show that he has had as much of the fun of the Senate as any two men in it. Tan Wck is nothing if not audacious. He will attack any one who stands in his' way. Only a few days ago Edmunds rose and attempted to squelch the fiery ebraskan with an avalanche of Sena orial precedents. But Van Wyck abso utely refused to be squelched,_and mere ly replied in his most rasping tones: Now I suppose we shall be treated to the terrors of the Supreme Court." The Senate, of course, laughed, and that, too, t the expense of the great Edmunids. Van Wyck is no respecter of persons. When ~fully convinced that a certain roject is "right and ought to prevail here isn't anybody in the Senate who can p)revent his fighting that measure to the bitter end. "Old( Van," as the boys call him, is against secret sessions. He >elieves that the Senate was created for the p~urpose of attending to a part of the ~eople's business. Therefore, he argues, the p~eople are justly entitled to a full kowledge of all that is going on .-Wash ngton Letter to the Boston Traveler. The J',ckey's Lie There arc people who imagine that a jocke's life is a joyous life; that earth can oifer few greater delights than to ride the winner of a great irace and to be led back to the scales by an ecstaiti urowd, and that the sole draw~back to the >rofession? is th ohaxice of bemng askedI o pay income tax on ?10,000 a year. But liow utterly untrue is such an opin ion is well shown by the racing core ~pondnt of the New South Wa les Lcho, who saw Areher's face at the Derb~y. and Lhus describes~ it: --It was like that of a aan about t' b~e hage- duelist fight n with a foe at once feared and hated -a man, in short. in any position of twful strain, vwith the complex emotions f terror. hope and resolve. It was all h observation oi a second; but it rought home to the maind the abysmal epths of life and death, exultant joy or iorribe despair that underlie the gayety md the blare, the bright dresnes, the mniling women. the popping of chamn agne bottles. and the vacuous noise of psom race course.' After this there vould seem to be nothing for it but to THE PRINCES AS THEY ARE. SKETCHES OF THE BONAPARTISTS THE REPUBLIC FEARS. Pion-Pion Too Much of a Coward to Ever Give Battle--How Prince Louis and Prince Victor Appeared in School Days. The proposed French law for the ex pulsion of the priuces .-of noble blood draws the attention of the world to the strange political situation of France as it is to-day and has been for six or seven years. The republic established at the close of the Franco-Prussian war feels insecure with the pretenders to the throne within its borders, and fears that through some intrigue the present gov ernment may be overthrown, though none of the pretenders can actually count upon a sufficiently large following to dare to take any decisive step. The Orleanist party is rich, but not very numerous and far from active. The monarchical party is in favor of a king by divine right, but has none to go to. The members of this party have been brought up to hate and dspise the house of Orleans, yet the elder ibranch having fallen, the hated head of that family is also the heir of Henry V. and of all their kings. They prefer the republic, prefer anything to having the grandson of Louis Philippe and the great-grandson of "Louis Egalite" profane the throne of St. Louis. "The strongest party, the Bona part ists, want an empire, but are Au m the same position as the Monarchists. The heir of the great Napoleon is the hated Plon-Plon, 'the most unpopular man personally in all France: Besides this, it is objected, his father married a German princess, he an Italian. Many ardent Imperialists say that they can even place no hopes in the sons of a man like that until they have proven them selves possessed of the virtues that en deared the founder of their family to the French. Had the young son of Napo leon III. lived, they sr y he would surely have become emperor, but the brave, handsome boy went to his death in Zululand to gain a little glory, and by his last acts endeared his memory to the hearts of his countrymen. It is probable that if the bill expelling the French princes should become a law the majority of the exiles will seek an asylum in the United States. The Comte de Paris, who served during our civil war in the Army of the Potomac, has al ready been cabled an invitation to come over by some over by some of his old army comrades, and it is fully expected that he will come. The Comte has many friende on this side of the Atlantic, and his literary labors in the revision of his history of the civil war would be facili tated by coming here. Prince Jerome Napoleon has expressed himself on sev eral occasions during the past few years as anxious to come to this country, and will doubtless avail himself of the excel lent opportunity for traveling offered by a forcible expulsion from France. Prince Jerome is, in his every tastes and char acteristics as different from the first Napoleon as one man can be from anoth er, His cowardice made him cut such a ridiculous figure during the Crimean war that the soubriquet of Plon-Plon he won then has stuck to him ever since. He takes after the founder of his family in but one respect, his personal appear ance. Of this resemblance Prince Jerome is very proud; he is rather taller than the "little corporal" and is just about as fleshy as his famous uncle was in his lat ter years. His cheeks and lips are close lv shaven and his features large and iather handsome. No one who is familiar with the pictures of Napoleon I. would fail to recognize his lineaments in the face of his heir. Prince Jerome is a polished man of letters, studious and thoughtful by na ture, liberal in his religious views, ex remely fond of good living and pleasant ompany. He has an unuzual aptitude for langunageF, speaks well half a dozen dioms, and is interested in anything ap pertaing to philology or etymology. He has written several volumes, which have met with uniform success, and has rank ed among the leading savants of his ountry. He is fond of the company of literary men, and likes to walk along he streets slowly, with his hands behind ~ack, his head erect, discussing books and authors. Though by nature an easy -going man, of pleasan~t disposition, e has never been able to get along with he members of his own family. His qarrels with his wife, largely on relig ous grounds, as she is a dev-out Roman atholic, attracted as much attention some years ago as did his difficulty with is eldest son, Prince Victor, which re suted in a complete separation, more ecently. Both of the sons of Prince Napoleon ay come to this country when they are xpelled, and it ;s certain that Prince ictor, who is no v making a tour of the orld, will be here soon. Some six or even years ago both of the young men, ere students at the Lycee du X auves, ormerly known as the Lycee du Prince [mperial, situated just outside the walls f Paris. The writer was at the time at he Lycec, having been for four years in the same class as Prince Louis. The lder Prince was a tall, raw-boned boy f nearly six feet in height. He had een growving fast for several years, and e was rather clumsy in appearance, bu as very strong physically and quite an athlete. His features were heavy and ather coarse, his hair ahvays cut short, is iipe~r lip shaded by a slight dark ustache. He was scrup)ulously neat in is diress. and was inclined to hold him seli aloocf from his .lassmates who were nter inclineud to ridicule him. He did hot b~oard at the Lvce, as the large ma rite of tdw Studle11ts di, but lived at thei fiouse of. one of the 1,rofessors, Mr Cvilier. a friend of his father, who! .ecompaiiied him to and from the p~lace earlv every day anud assisted him with his hs-es." Professor Cuvillier usually alked up and down the corridors dur ng the rcess hours, trampin.g up~j and~ own slowly with hi. lle of books undert his arnm ' etor was an intelligent .choar, but not bright. His mind was of a rather1 heavy ordecr, and while he seemed to work quite hard he rarely held tbetter r.mik in his class than about half way. In mathematics and historv 1 - as unsually studioinIWI* well. Prince Louis was and more clever of the two. Of medium height, with finely moulded features, a pure dark complexion, bright eyes and well proportioned body, he was in looks an ideal prince. He had none of the manly qualities, however, that would en thuse his fellow countrymen. He was very much like father in one respect, that of cowardice. He invariably proved himself as timid as a little girl, and could be put to flight by the slightest indica. tion of hostility. While the.majority of the young men in his class played foot ball and other games he would quietly sneak into the playground and wait around near the door for some kind hearted fellow to come up and talk to him. Of a very retiring disposition, he was apt to seek refuge in flight if the crowd appreached him. His great de light was to walk up and down with some other young man, building elaborate castles in the air; a few words of praise would elate him as highly as any harsh ness would deject him. He was by. na ture light-hearted and bright, but woful ly lacked application. He had at the time as indefinite ideas about America as most Frenchmen have, and he often asked the Americans at the Lycee most absurd questions about their country. He was very grateful to the writer for having protected him from the rough ness of his classmates on one or two oc casions, and in the plans he made for the time that his family was to return to power he invariably included the writer, to whom he said he intended to give one of the highest positions in the land. Louis'laziness caused him a great deal of trouble in his studies. He invariably put off his work -ntil the last moment possible, and then rushed through with it carelessly. He frequently appearedin the class-room without havming looked at his lessons. He would take his seat a short time before the professor arrived, and try to make up for lost time. He had a faculty for committing Latin and Greek to memory, and could get a fair idea of what he had to recite in a few minutes, but he forgot the lines as quick ly almost as he learned them. On Thursday mornings, which were devoted to competitions between the students for rank in the different studies, after the subject had been given out, Louis would generally sit for an hour or more idly looking at the paper before him, or mak ing rough and poor sketches over his books. When he fmally got down to work, his sole idea appeared to be to rush it through in any manner he could. One day when the competition was in Latin verse on a subject given out by the professor, Louis only managed to grind out one verse during the two and a half hours allowed to work. The two Americans in the class had rather the faculty for grinding out "machine" verses rapidly, and stood respectively first and second in the class, and Lois professed to warmly admire their "talent." He assured the writer that "when he became Emperor" he would appoint him "Latin poet extraordinry to the Court." Both of the young Princes Napoleon are very pleasant socially, and if th conclude to come to live here they become social lions. NIcHOLAs RIDDr. A NEW STRIKE. Dr. Talmage Want-4 Laborers for King Alcohol to Quit Work. The Rev. Dr. Talmage preached a ser mon last Sunday in the Brooklyn Taber nacle on the poverty among the working classes caused by the use of intoxicating liquors. Dr. Talmage introduced his sermon by saying that there ought to be more public fountains, where persons on the street could get pure c:ld water. "In Persia," said he, '-under the reign of Darius Hystaspis,.the people did not prosper. They made money, but did not keep it. What has become of the billions and billions of dollars paid to the working classes in this country? Some of it has gone for the necessities of life, but most of it has been wasted in foolish outlay, wasted at the gaming table and in intoxicants. The most per sistent, most overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchist of the centuries, and ' has boycotted, and is boycotting, the bod -, mind and soul of American labor. Withi three hundred yards of the Sanda Street Methodist Church, Brooklyn there are fifty-four saloons, and another is under preparation. Stand the saloons of this country side by side, and it is carefully estimated they would reach from New York to Chicago. While the ordinary strikes are ruinous, I proclain a universal strike against strong drink, which, if kept up, will be a relief to the working classes and the salvation of the American nation. I will undertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United States who, within the next twenty years, if he will refuse all intozi eating beverage and be saving, may not become-a capitalist. "When you deplete a workingman's physical energy you deplete his capital. The stimulated workman gives out be fore the uinstimulated workman. A brickmnaker in England gives his experi ee in this matter among men in his employ. Ho said: 'The beer drinker who made the fewest bricks turned out 659,000, the abstainers who made the fewest bricks counted up 746,000. The ifference in behalf of the abstainer over the indulger was $7,000.' When the Russians go to war a corporal passes along the line and smells the breath of each soldier. If there be in his breath a taint of intoxicating liquor the man is sent back to the barracks. Wvhy? He annot endure fatigue. All our young men know this. When they are prepar ng for an athletic event they abstain. Our working p~eople will be wiser after awhile, and the money they throw away mn hurtful indulgences they will put into o-operative associations and so become apitalists." Dr. Talmaage has arranged to go to the ['housand Islvs June 26 with 600 of his ongregation. They will travel in parlor ind sleepin5g coaches and will be gone hree days. D~ied of Fri;:ht, Last'Sundav the son of Den~y Donaldson obde a mule. :md the son of Tomn Jones ode an ox.. Whilk thiey were riding together hie ox turnedl and gorgdh mule, opening