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LAURENS C. H., S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST If), 1885.
NO. 3
.THE SNOW-CAPPED "ROCKIES."
IMPnBSMONS OK A THU? Tllltni Oil Uli:
STATU OF COM? JW HO.
Scene* Aloug Ilia Houte by Unll-Tho Wonder,
ful City of D?nver-Tlie Futuro ?r n Urea I
Commonwealth.
(Denver Letter In Pomeroy'a Democrat.)
Those who vide in ?looping mrs in the
East are quite apt to romain in their
bench to turn, snooze, think, plan and
rest a? on they roll. Not so hero. Sun
rise, and all were tip. Tho cars ol' tho
Burlington Route were so well Lulen
with passengers that every berth was
occupied, the grout majority of pr-ssen
gers in the sleepers being persons from
tho East who had never been to Denver,
novcr seen its rocky mountains. Near
ing their destination, they were like thc,
carly bird.
It is now six o'clock. In two hours
wc will bc in Denver. The berths have
all been made up for thc day, thc cars
dusted ou( and people are on thc qui
vive. We are running southwest. Bo
land ns is tho head of the Republican
valley und (he millions of ucres of choice
Ncbniska corn land. Wo arc on top of
tho divide, as a (ly would bc on top of a
barrel that lay upon tile ground. Miles
of unfenced country are to be soon, with
herc and (herc a little home, homo of a
homesteader or headquarters of a ranch
man or cattle raisor whoso cattle aro to
be seen grazing on the wide expanse of
plains here being run over.
Thc depot buildings are small, painted
red and snug. Depots aro so far apart
that several others eau be built between
them in timo I The appearance is that
of a very new country, yet it is older in
fact than is tho Bast', a.s lirst of all from
tho vasty deep rose the backbone ol' (ho
continent , nt i ll to the west of us.
A lady screams: .'()! See!''
Hbo points to tin? wost and there, sure
onough, are to be seen the snow-capped
mountain peaks of tho grand old moun
tains. In a little while the cars have
sped on so that we see (ho main range,
extending south from Cheyenne or near
there, for hundreds ol' miles. They rise
as a great wall might rise along the sea
fdiore, the plains lo (he oasf being under
thc evening shadows of Hie mountains
that rise in the west.
Now wc sec down into the valley ol'
tho South Platto. Many school teachers
insist that Denver is a city on tho North
Plath'. Buoh is not tho case. Deuvoris
on thc waters of ibo South Platte, about
110 miles from where it heads. Tlie
river is not large, except alter a freshet,
ft runs through a pleasant, wide valley
that at Denver is fourteen miles east
from the foot hills and (hat at (neely is
a bon! forty milos east. Along here is tho
choice agricultural lands of tho State,
taking in thc county west from Denver
to Golden In a gorge of tho mountains,
Boulder, Longmont, Fort Collins and
Grooly, in the respective co uitics of
Jefferson, boulder, Larimer .nd Weld.
Tjongmout being in boulder county, one
of tho finest in tile State.
West of these comities, west from
Denver, the county-scat of Arapnhoe
county, aro the Rooicy .Mountains, rising
as an abrupt granite wall to the height of
u milo, or 8,00!) feet above thc plains.
From north to south WO SCO thom from
?be cars, a range of fully two hundred
.milo. Denver ia about o,000 feet above
sea kiV?l. Wo are a full mile near thc
-stars than aro those who live in Now
York. Thc mountains rise up into tho
?louds that rest up.'ii their snowy peaks,
from (>,(>()<> to 8,000 fc?f above thc plains.
Thc air is light, so elem, BO mri fled
that no new comer can judge distance.
To tim northwest wc see a very high
peak, standing like a white-headed Dong
John Wentworth, of Chicago, higher
than his follows. That is Long's Peak.
it is named in honor of Lieut. Long, an
explorer who was a long (imo in getting
to the top of it, there lo flea) thc Amen
t "mn flag.
wurra ABOVE run OIIAY ANO OKKKN.
y? tow is white and deep on the tops
and Sr ^dee of tho mountains, while thc
plains below arc green with growing
grains ai vl grasses. Away along to thc
.south rise d**' snow-capped bookies, bat
a great ero- * S11W> ?H t<vth in ftU''
is soventy m>vs from where wo ar., this
morningTn th?> ?W ?'i58'40,,010 toP ,%t
Long's Peak, yt%* PCOPW m tho cars esti
mate tho distance At fifteen b> twenty
"'There ure big lilountaim. and little
mountains all stuck in togcthor like
clothes-pins in a snow houp, About
seventy-five miles south from Longe
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
(?fray's Peak, tho top of which is l l, GI
foot above tho lovel of the sea. lt is thc
mountain under which tho company ol
which tho editor and writer hereof ifi
president is driving a tunnel at the alti
tude of 10,000 feet above SOO level, and
which tunnel will bo five miles long.
Welcome, old fellow! Wc have soon
you lahore, as from your summit range
wo have looked east toward thc Atlantic
and westward toward tho Pacific, milch
upon miles. Sonic of these days wo w ill
walk through you and rido through you,
and walk into your hundreds of flssurt
vein? laden with gold, silver, cojqior ami
lead, ami get as much fatness out of yon
us a rat gets out of a cheese it I UM bur
rowed into beyond tho reach of a cat.
To tho south from Gray's Peak, al>oui
scventy-rtvo miles -lishuit, willi many t
snow-covered peak between us is
I'IKB'S I'KAK,
distant about ninety miles from Denver,
but it? top not so lugh by fourteen fool
as is Gray's Peak, which up-shoots weal
of Denvor, as a ?tide to Halt Lako City
whioh ia 40(1 miles north of west fron
Denver, direct line, and 1187 milo? dis
ttAh by rail, via Choyoune, and 77o milei
distant i?V way of Pueblo and Gunniaon
,as runs *ti?C Denver and Rio Grandi
Itfoimtain clim ty railroad.
Then on to tba #>oth, far a? tho oy<
?can reach, rino thc mountains aa a wal
bctwoen eastern and western Colorado
between the Atlantic and tho Poodjp, ant
known as tho Continental Divide.
TOCK OUT IUD TUCK.
Speaking of tho above-nam. .) moun
tain route around and over from Don ve
to Salt Lake, it is ono of tho wonder
of the world. A prorofoen^ business mai
Mi? capitoUst fro? Wneoln, Nebraska
I was on tho train und wo heard him say:
"I huvo boon over tho Nortborn Pacific,
and tho Union Pacific, and tho Control
Paoiflo to tho Pacific Ocean. They are
grand routes. But tho grandest moun
tain route of all that I nave ever rodo
over is tho Denver and Kio Orando from
Denver hy way of Gunn ison to Halt
Dake. It takes a man to tho top of thc
mountains above thc clouds, and lets
him down into gorges that almost ex
clude tho sun. I would not have missed
it for anything, and yet I would not ride
over it again for ten thousand dollars.
Thc way the cars run down tho 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
bo dashed to pieces."
Thus do the works and r?putations of
great thinkers and workers gird the con
tinent and stretch from polo to pole; but
tboro is no more need to doubly insure
your lifo when riding tiver the Denver
and Kio Orando Railroad than when
riding over any other road built and
operated by men who know their busi
ness.
YEAHS Aoo.
To Pike's Peak. That is what folks
said years ago. They did not go to
Pike's Peak, hut to tho junction of Cher
ry Creek with tho ?South Platte river,
wiicro in the bed of the stream gold was
found. Pike's Peak was a landmark n en
for hundreds of milos, and to get within
Seventy-five miles of it was "getting
there" in those- days.
Thc beautiful temperance city <>f Colo
rodo 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, live miles west , arc springs, at
Manitou, or in the garden of tho gods,
as Home, one named this grand, majestic
locality, from which folks start on horses
or mules for tho top of Pike's Peak, and
a chance to see the world below. Wc
se t; into the valley of the South Platte-,
lt comes out from a doorway in tho
mountains, about twenty-six miles south
west from Denver, as the water cami1 out
of tho rock struck hy Mostos.
Ky the way, Moses was different from
some people of to-day, as he was a suc
cessful striker.
Seo tho crooked lino of bright, green
trees, thrifty Cotton-Wood, that mark the
course- of tho river. See tho he-It e?f greou
farms along tho river, clear down h>
Denver, ami em forty mile s north, show
ing where farmers are- getting in their
wenk, and by irrigation bringing forth
Crops that pay large profits.
DRNVBn.
Now WO see the spires ed the city. Now
tho city itself. Gracions ! wind a city.
There it is, fourteen miles east of the- foot
mills. Fourteen miles cast from the
mountains, on thc plains. It looks like
an eiasis in a desert. A city four miles
long and about a mile ami 'a half wide
A e-ity of 80,000inhabitant?. Ono e.r the
handsomest, most progressive cities in
tho Union. Considering all tilings it has
no rival on earth. Where thirty yean5
age) was a bald-hoodod plain, now' rise
te-ns ed thousands of trees, h> almost hiele
the; beautiful oity they shade'. Out from
the; given rise toworri of churches and
schools, finer than are- to lu- found olse
whore west of tho Mississippi rivor Hil
we- oach San Francisco. Cupolas of
palatial private residences, and high
headed towers fen* electric lights, prove
tind a modern, progressive people ore
tlio.se> wini live- in the city named in hon
or ed General Denvor, Uiogallant pioncor
and statesman, who now resides in Wash
ington.
From tho tops of those high smoke1
stacks that mark Hie location of tin-great
smelters of Argo, owned by United
States Senator N. P. Hill, Wolcott and
othe rs, and of the Omaha ami Denvor
smelting works, owned by ox-Govornor
Grant and others, the smoko rolls day
and night without ceasing, as millions
upon millions of dollars' worth of golel
and silver bullion are here each year
roasted and Stewed Olli of the ore brought
hore by cars from thc wondrous mines
of Colorado. Thirteen railroad lines
centre here at thc Union depot, om- of
the largest aliel handsomest ul flu- weald.
i Npw w o como up to tlie broad plateau
of railroad works in front of the depot;
em tune to ?lie minute, from Chicago to
Denver direct by the (tarlington route-,
no more worn, worried or woo-ricd than
though wo stayed at home and worked
j in tho garden. Hero are lines of horse
ears loading te) all part? of thc city
north, .south, cast and west. Here- are
wide-, clean streets of the broad gauge
pattern. Aside them on QG?l) Hielo run
streniiis of wah r, used for tho irrigation
of gardens farther back. Here Ore shade
tree s making Denver ta appear as located
i in somo enchanted forest. lier?; are tele
graph messenger boya; churches as finc
us are to bo found in Now York city,
with audiences that canned bo oKeollcd
; for dress mid all that pertains to modern
enjoyable religion.
Herc aro monthly, weekly ami elaily
papers, chief of which is the Rocky
i Mountain Nows. Hero aro hanks as
linc, as well ofllcercd and as solidly f'oun
dationod aa are any in tho country. Hen;
aro moro large, beautiful storcsaud nu>re
live, prosperous merchants than can ta
found in any city of its size in the United
i States. Hore are hotels ce nial ta the very
i la-at in this country, with guests from
1 all parts of tho world. Hove are manu
facturing establishments growing iuto
> perfect lifo. Hero aro os good people
[ and as desorving a? tho sim ovor shone
i on, ami moro of progress to tho square
. inch than con be found in any other
cities of this country save Chicago, St.
t Paul and Minneapolis, tm into the West
i rush tho vigorous-minded mon who make
fortunes quickly, as Uley havo vim,
brains and means, with courage/ te invest
not alono in Donvor property, hut in
i outride lands and mines.
[ 1 b-iv, too, aro lines of gamblors, sharks,
^ shysters, dcftd-lwata, bunco steerers, and
> aP that goes to make up a livo, ?pfmo
1 politanoity, Hero, too, aro thc Jay-hawk
" ors, block-mailers lind scheming nlnnder
' ors of all who have Icgitinmto misinos*
. enterprises in tow. Hero, too, ore the
1 selfish, heartless grabliers for all there
ia in sight. Men who get drunk, abuse
j themselves and all who trust them. Men
I who have "played out" in other local i
: ties, and who came here to whet theil
1 foogs against eaoh other, and who rip it
jnta all whom they can fasten upon in
tin; guisp of friendship or the garb ol
- business. HJW?) oro misers, meddlers,
r skin flints, land-piratea gnd hoodlums,
? ail bunehod in together and helping tc
i trw?ll tho grand variety.
, Hoare is a Cbamb-fir o? Commerce math
up of Al, mon, from Hist to last. Here
aro BS Uno places of amusement as eau
lie 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 hut few
black patches or drawbacks. Herortesiau
wells from which come the purest of
clear cold water; her rich gardens from
which come small fruits and vegetables;
her line hot-houses from which como
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 hero as it is in tho midst
of what was once called the great Ameri
can Desert! And this of a State that
yields the best wheal in tho world and
that, with a population less than 800.000
total, lifts over 40,000,000 of dollars'
worth of wealth out of her coal, iron,
gold, silver, lead and copper mines year
ly, hardly yet dug into except as pros
pects to determine how to conduct future
mining operations. How bright and
beautiful Elie morning! How busy are
all whom WO meet!
oin CRIMINAL COLONA IX CANADA.
How home of Ute Runaway IIOKIIVM Dlxporl
Tltcntftclveii tn Their Lily of Heftig
A Montreal correspondent of tho Now
York Mail and Express writes: "John 0.
Euo heads the list of criminals in Cana
da. Ho is living at Quebec. Tho house
ho rents is largo, and the situation de
lightful. It is two and a half miles from
the postoftlcc. The rent he pays- near
ly $2,000 a year-is, for Quebec, enorm
ous. This means, proportionately, about
$0,000 to $8,000jpor year in New York.
Routs aro very low in the (told K ick
City, and the Eno house at Beauvoir is
ono of the finest in thu suburbs. Finan
cially, he appears bi be at casi . He
drives good horses and is liberal with his
money. I ml socially hu is not known.
Neither he nor his wife is ever invited
out, nor arc they visited Ivy society peo
ple. Eno has never been asked to the
Garrison mess, and does not bolong to
the only social organization in Quebec
? of any pretensions-thc Garrison ('lui?.
l|Tlio old French families do not ask him
[to their houses. His acquaintances arc
principally made at barrooms. Some
few society men hovea nodding acquaint
ance with Ililli. Society is exclusive,
and tho old noblesse bavo long memo
ries. Whon Eno gives dinner "parties"
they aro only attended by hi* legal ad
visers, in speculators who may wish to
seo him. Tho Commercial Club bo lie
longs to isn small plaoo where men of
business moid. It has no social signifi
cance and does not protend to any.
Many respectable merchants belong to
it. These men meet Eno in a business
way. They do not ask him to their
homos. Some of thom may drink with
ililli at tile St. l.oui.s Hotel when they
moot him thora; that is all. Ile visits
tin; houses of two or three personal
friends, but tho stories about his la ing
received into society aro exaggerations.
He attends cooking mains and hilliard
tournaments, and ho is a constant visitor
to St. Hoch. This is thc roughest sub
urb in tho city.
"Tlic New York Aldermen and their
friends attract much attention. They
are Billy Moloney, Charley Dempsey,
Keenan and Dc Huey. They al! have
rooms on tho same fioor of tho Windsor
Hotel, with tho exception of Hilly Mo
loney, who is in a small house m ar the
hotel. De Lacy ami Keenan are gnat
chums, and are rarely out of each other's
sigid. Moloney and Dempsey, how
ever, seem to be engage ; in picKci din v
and throwing inquisitive people ott de
scent. They all live like lords, getting
the best of everything and scat'., ring
their money about like water.
"Now York has not a monopoly of the
criminals here; Chicago makes a very
good running for second place. Morris,
the 'church deacon,' and trusted adviser
of willows and orphans, heads tho Hst.
Morris had thousands of dollars intrust
ed to his care. Tho people whoso money
he bad were chiefly poor, struggling men
and women, who had saved tho gather
ings intrusted to him after years of self
sacrifico and privation. Tho victims of
this mau thought they wore saving np
for tho'rainy day.' Many of bis dupes
were tailoring men, charwomen and
orphans to whom small sums of money
had been left. He encouraged the peo
ple to deposit their money m Iiis keep
ing. When he gol what ho considered
sufficient for his waubs he left, lb-made
paupers of hundreds of poor peoplo in
Chicago, Ho docs not appear to mind
that. Ho is running a prosperous busi
ness hero. The writoi saw him in a
buggy yesterday. He sat behind a fast
trotting black. Tho flush of health was
present on Iiis countenance. There was
no cowardly conscience in that man's
foco. Hut tho detectives say that Morris
is not at ease, for all his assumption of
indifference. They have nc Heed that he
always employs thc one dr or to bike
him to ana from his placo of business,
! Tlicy think he is afraid of liebig kid
napped."
\ ltni.li i .lu.M iv . for a Hm.
Tho Cleveland Press permits a little
facetious diversion in its State news col
umn, which is conducted hy a voting
Norwalk newspaper man loamed I? oater.
It is Appropriate to say that he is un
married and unengaged. Last Tuesday
ho published a paragraph to this ott'ect:
"A Morion giri started lier graduating
essay as follows: 'I am fairly wearied out
with tho incessant poding of the lords
of creation on thc unties and sphere of
woman.' " The paragraph closed with
tho somewhat dangerous assertion that
tho editor would bet a now spring hat
that tho author of that discourse on
woman's sphere could mit bake a loaf of
broad, Saturday Air. Foster received
from Marion a largo box. it contained
sundry light loaves of bread and cake,
inarvmously toothsome. An accompa
nying affidavit lmrn the solemn oath of
the sweet girl graduate (who pos- - i
the pretty namo of May AVilhalnsf that
she had, unaided, baked tho wheat broad
marked "Exhibit A," tho two specimens
of corn bread marked "Exhibit ll," and
tho ohocoloto coko "Exhibit G. Tho
notary's seal of offico was affixed to tho
affidavit, and it was settled 'beyond a
doubt in Mr. Foster's mimi that his rash
wager had been accepted. Ho therefore
wont out and lavished his week's salary
ou a new spring hat. Of cou iso ho bad
nevor seen Miss Williams.-durinna
Enquirer.
Never walt for dvad man's ?hoes.
anna
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WK HT POINT ACROBATS.
The ?1 adelt Tren? Their Vl?lt?rn Co Pirrili
Show.
An interesting feature ol tho West
Point Military Academy tm Thursday
last was the mounted exercises of the
cadets in the riding hull. by the time
Secretary of War Endicott anti party ar
rived, Capt. Augur lind iv line of horse
men before him. Tho men won their
gray fatigue suits and all wit their horses
well. At a word the}' shirted off one
after another and swept about tho area at
a gallop. Then saines wero drawn and
the drill commenced. First tho blade
was brought down upon un imaginary
foo at the rigid, then it was twirled in
air, next thrust forward, nguiu backward,
und lust a sweeping slash was made to
tho left. Once the horse8 were in line,
tilt; men stood at their heads. "Mount."
In a twinkling, every cutlet was in air.
En another, without touching a stirrup,
he was in the saddle. Another com
mand. Tin' men were on their bet
again, but onlv to vault clean over sad
dle and all anti stand ready ut tin; other
side. Then up again in the saddle.
They twisted around, now facing for
ward, now backward and again side
ways. Ami while they so drilled two
Uprights were fixed ata distance of about
titty feet from each other with a pad as
big as a cap fixed Upon each wit li a bon
die attached to it. At a word tho caval
rymen daahl <1 off. Now one came along
at full gallo)), leaned ovor as bo reached
the upright till his hand was below thc
level of thc stirrups, and in full career
[licked up ono pad after another and
tossed it behind him. lt was a feat re
o: ni ring coolness and address, hut nearly
all executed it satisfactorily.
Next tho pad was placed upon an up
right tho height of a man, ami ut tho
sume distance os before another was
placed on a lower stund. Between them
uns placed horizontally a beam resting
on two uprights -a good, still* jump for
tl horse in such o limited space, und one
requiring a rider to have his brain olear.
Tho word was given. A horseman carno
galloping on. As bc reached thc taller
stand ho draw a revolver, lt Hashed, and
tho pad, struck by the bullet, tumbled
oil', while the horse (lushing on was a
moment alter lifted over tho bar ill a
living jump. Bound still the horseman
wont, h is com rudes following one by one.
And now as ho approached tho stand on
which thc pad is replaced hu has his
sabre out. Ile slashes at it, hits it fairly,
and almost before it reaches tho ground
bc is over thc bar; Ids sobro cuts an arc
through thc air as ho leans over Iiis
iiois.'s shoulder and tosses up with a
great slash a bunch of tanbark, and then
just recovering in bis saddle bo tirings
down tho blade with a sweep upon tho
pad of tllO second Upright ?Hld tosses it
off.
In thc uoxt exercise tho uprights and
pads oro still Ibero, bul in place of thc
jump is a high polo with a transverse
har. from which hangs just within reach
of a horseman's sobro an iron ring only
a few inches in diameter. And through
all this, too, tho horses go around at tho
top of their speed, the feat repeated
Ogoill and again, a few failing, hut nearly
all successful.
Next saddles are removed ami tho men
ride bareback at will. Thora is no circus
performance Uko this spectacle. Tho
place is lull of bounding steeds; sonic
with riders leaning ovor their shoulders
till their hands sweep tho ground; some
lying at full length upon their backs;
some facing to the rear, hut guiding them
with spur and rein; some jumping on
and off, like circus riders, while the ani
mal is going at tho to)> of his speed, and
sonic vaulting clean over them and keep
ing up tho pace. It is a thrilling specta
cle, which u hurst of applause rewinds,
und then thc men repeat their exciting
drill, training by couples on half tho
UUinbcr of horses. It would bo called a
gallant equestrian show anywhere. An
old officer's common! interpreted thc
general opinion: "I never saw better
riders."
\ Pyelone ol" Poriy-fonr Vea m IRO.
Stories of tile recent cyclone il1 Ohio
are coming in quito freely, but they do
not approach the marvelous stories of
the tornado Hud swept up tin- valley of
tho roaring Codoms, in York county, in
tho spring of 1842. Af tor tho storm we
speak of one farmer found that Iiis well
bod been pulled up by tho roots and was
banging oil the limbs of n white oak tree
four miles away. A collar belonging to
ono of his neighbors was split in two,
one half of it la ing blown through a
stone quarry and the other liulf turned
up endwise against 0 haystack in the
adjoining county A Hock of geese wore
completely Stripped of their feathers by
the wind, ana a dried apple pie was
blown through thosidoof a school house,
terrifying the teacher and scholars, be
sides ruining a large map of the grass
hopper districts of Kansas. A large
burn containing thirteen tons of iiuv was
lifted off its foundation andcarrici 1 bodi
ly six miles down the volley, where it
settled down so squarely that tho doors
could bo opened without prying them.
Tho wind blow tho tails off six Durham
cows, lind u Berkshire pig, weighing 200
pounds, was blown completely through
Iiis skin, thc hide remaining in a stand
ing position and preserving an expression
of naturalness that deceived ninny vis
itors. Thc boundary lines of several
townships were bent all out of shape, so
tlint they looked like a curled hair mat
tress on a hot griddle, and Hie air was
blown BO completely out of tho valloy
that people had to go up on thc hill's
when they wanted h> breathe. Philadel
phia Press. t,
Tin- Continent'! HmniieNi Newspaper.
The smallest uowspaper on the conti
nent is published in Guadalajara, Mexico,
the capital nf tho Shite of duiiaco, and
one ot the leading cities of the republic.
The El Telegrama, a copy of which was
shown us by Major Hilder, tho energetic
commissioner to the World's Exposition,
in this city, from Missouri, ls a four
page, weekly, five hy three inches bl size,
otid. as may woll bo fancied, is a marvel
in the way of condensation. Tho motto
of tho paper, as translated, reads: "Lit
tlo straw and w.uoh wheat." Tho con
denser of citb r tho New York or Balti
more Hun weald turn green with envy
after taking a glimpse at this really won
dorfnl littlo Mexican sheet. Tho price
of tho paper per week is one cent. Ai
tho bottom ot the first pogo is printed
the following: "Bosponsiblo- Lina Luna,
R. G. Fuentes, printer. " Tho oopy in
bond contains five small advertisements.
-Now Orleans Times-Democrat.
MKUTBNANT llALI/S TORl'BUO.
An Automatic Kl*li?Llke Machino of Which
Urea) Tliliigu ?rr BxMcctcd.
Lieutenant M. E. Hall, U. H. N., who
fur .several yours has boen endeavoring
to porfoct a fish torpedo, has ono now
nearly perfected at tile Eagle Iron Works
in Buffalo. Tho. Courier describes it as
twelve feet long, in three, sections, and
re-enforced hy four longitudinal girder?
to give it greater s! length. In the ex
treme how there is a capacity fora charge
of seventy pounds of gunpowder. This
is fixed by meant) of a primor of fulmi
nate ot 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 ease would
simply allow tho projectile to glance off
without exploding. The plunger breaks
thc screw that holds the spring-firing
apparatus, thus releasing thc tiring phi
which explodes tho charge by striking
tho sensitive primer of fulminato O? mer
cury. On thc bow there are two auto
matic lins used for steering. Thc gen
orator is composed of a series of tubes
that hold gas and vapor at 1,000 pounds
pressure. Tho middle section consista of
plain cylinder 153 inches in diameter,
and in this thc generator is contained,
Thc tins are worked by small engines
whose valves aro automatically controlled
by power derived from tho generator,
whose great pressure, I,OOO pounds to
tho square inch, has only been obtained
after incessant labor and innumerable
experiments, ronny of which were fail
ures. The after section of the torpedo
contains tho propelling apparatus, con
sisting of ( lardner's patent three cylinder
engine, which works two screws by gear
ing. These screws aro two-bladed, and
revolve in opposite directions. Their
peculiar feature is that tho blades of one
SCl'OW arc each nt rigid angles to those
of another, thus enabling screws of large
diameter to bc used as inner blades of
tho screws revolving in the samo space.
Thc three di tte ron I sections of tho
torpedo aw 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 tho bow and the
diving rudder in tho tail. Two tails tend
to keep tho torpedo upright and regular,
enclosing tho screws to prevent their hi -
ing fouled by any floating object, snell
as seaweed, etc. < In the top Of the death
dealing machine are three hand holes
covered by plates OHO giving access to
the apparatus which controls tho foes at
tho engine, th?- oilier affording access to
tho diving rudder. The engine is in
closed in a steel case, which slips into its
place in tito toi*] lodi '. and is there held by
three bolts, so that it can be readily re
moved for examin?t iou or repair if need
bo. Attached t<> tho engine is a governor,
thc invention of Mr. (lardner, foreman
of tho Eagle Works. This governor con
trols the engine so as to give uniform
rate of speed while working under vary
ing degrees of pressure.
Tho great advantage claimed for tho
new torpedo is its straightness of course.
Thc undulating motion of tho ordinary
torpedo frequently causes thc machine
to dive without .-.triking its object. Tho
new one, it is said, eau be aimed more
directly and certainly at tho precise spot
where it will have tho greatest destructivo
power. Another advantage is in thc dis
tance traversed. The ordinary torpedo
has a runge ol'about 700 yards; the new
tinny Creature speeds along to the extent
(d' about a mile and a half, or 2,-100
yards. Tho engine is tho only one made
m this count rv at all suitable for the
work contaminated, and tho patent for
this part of thu apparatus is vested in tho
Eaglo Iron Works Company. Without
any special tests or appliances, it is
nothing short ?d' wonderful how efficient
ly tho m w torpedo in all its parts bas
been completed and now nearly titted
together, lt will shortly bo put to the
test in Lake Eric Hie whole apparatus
basa buoyancy ol' fifteen foot-, and it is
Computed to bo able to blow into smith
ereens tho largest vessel afloat.
???.imler \ nu Vt yck.
Van Wyek, ol Nebraska, is tho only
Senator whom his associates do not pre
tend to understand. Ile is hallie to get
up at any lime and cr* ate a row, and tho
records ol' the present Congress will show
that he lias lind OS much of the fun of
tho Senat?' as any two men in it. Van
Wyok is nothing if UOl audacious. Ile
will attack any one who stands in Iiis
woy. Only a few ?lays ago Edmunds
arose and attempted t<> squelch tho fu ry
Nebraskan with an avalanche of Sena
torial precedents. Hut Van Wyok abso
lutely refused to bo squelched, and mere
ly replied in his most rasping tones:
"Now I suppose WO shall be treated to
tho terrors of the Bliprcmo Court." The
Sonate, of course, laughed, and that, too,
at tho exponso of tito great Edmunds.
Van Wyok ia no respecter of porsons,
W hen fully convinced that a cert lin
projcot is rigid, and ought to prevail
there ign'l anybody In the Senate who
can provent his fighting that measure b>
the hitler end. "I Md \ an," as the boys
Call him, is against secret sessions. Ile
believes that the Senate was created fpr
? lu- purpose of attending to ?? part of the
people's business. Therefore, he argues,
tho people aro justly entitled to a full
know ledge of all that is going on.-Wash
ington Letter to the Boston Traveler.
The Jockey'!) Life.
There are people who imagine that a
jockey's life is a iOTOttfl life; that cart)]
can oder lew great? r ?leliglit? than to
ride tho w inner of a great nico and to bo
led back to the scales by an ecstatic
crowd, and that the sole druwliock to the
profession <s thc chance of being asked
to pay income tax on ClO.OOO a year.
Hut how utterly untrue ia such an opin
ion is well shown by tim racing corre
spondent of the NOW South Wales Echo,
who saw Archer's face at tho I 'ci ? ?Jj, fiQu
thus describes it: "It was like that of n,
, man about to be banged-a dualist fight
ing With ft fpp M once te ared and hated
a mau, in abort, in any position of
awful strain, with thc complox omotions
of terror, hope and resolve. It WUS all
tho observation of i\ second; but it
brought homo to thc mind thy abysmal
. depths of lifo and death, exultant joy or
. horrible despair that uuderlic tho gayety
i and tho blare, tho bright dressT the
smiling women, tho popping of cinun
1 nogno bottles, and the vacuous noise of
Epsom race courso." After this there
i would seem to bo nothing for it but to
stArt a Jockoy's llescuo ttooioty.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
TI1K l'UINCKS AS TH K Y AUK.
KKKT? IIKH OF THE BONAPARTISTS TUB
REPUBLIC FEARS.
I'll m - rion Too M o iii or n <'ow arti to Bver <a w
llnt(l(*"llo\v l'rlnce I.oui? and l*rlnc?* Victor
Appeared In School liny-.
Tlio proposed French law for thc ex
pulsion of tho princes of coblo blood
draws tho attention of tho world to tho
strange political situation of France as it
is to-day and has been for six or seven
years. Tho republic established at the
closo of tho Franco-Prussian war feels
insecure with tho pretenders to tho
throne within its borders, and fears that
through some intrigue tito present gov
ernment may be overthrown, though
none of tho pretenders can actually count
upon a sufficiently large following to
dare; to take any decisivo step.
The, Orleanist party is rich, but not
very numerous and far from active, rho
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 despise the house
of Orleans, yet the elder branch having
fallon, 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 Egalit?." profane the throne of
St. Louis.
"The strongest party, tho Ronnpart
ists, want an empire, but ore much in
the same position as tho Monarchists.
The heir of the great Napoleon is thc
hated Pion Pion, the most unpopular
man personally in all France. besides
this, it. is objected, his father married a
Gorman princess, ho an Italian. Many
ardent Imperialists say that they can
even placo no hopes in the sons of a man
like that until they have proven them
selves possessed Of tho virtues that en
deared the founder of their family to the
French. Had thc young son of Napo
leon lil. lived, they sr y he would surely
have become emperor, but thc brave,
handsome boy went to his death in
Zululand to gain a little glory, and by
his last acts endeared his memory to thc
hearts of his countrymen.
It is probable that if tho bill expelling
tho French princes should become a law
the majority of tho exiles will seek an
asylum in tho United States. Thc Comte
do Paris, who served dining our civil
war in the Army of the Potomac, has ai
rean v been sabled an invitation to come
over by some over by some of his old
anny Colnrades, and it is fully expected
that he will conic. The Comte has many
friendo on this side of the Atlantic, and
bis literary labors in thc revision of his
history of the civil war would bo facili
tated by coming here. Prince Jerome
Napoleon has expressed himself on sev
eral occasions during thc past few years
as anxious to come to this country, and
will doubtless avail himself of thc excel
lent opportunity for traveling offered by
a forcible expulsion from Franco. Prince
I Jerome is, in his every tastes and char
acteristics as different from thc first
Napoleon as ono man can be from anoth
er, His cowardice made him cut such a
ridiculous figure during the Crimean
war that the soubriquet of Pion Pion he
won then has stuck to him ever since.
Ho takes after tho 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
tho "little corporal" and is just about as
tleshy as his famous uncle was in his lat
ter years. His checks and lips arc close
ly shaven and his features large and
rather handsome No one who is
familiar with thc pictures of Napoleon I.
would fail to recognize his lineaments in
tho face of his heir.
Prince Jerome is a polished man of
letters, studious and thoughtful by na
ture, liberal in his religious views, ex
tremely fond of good living and pleasant
Company. Ho has an unusual aptitude
for language', speaks well half a dozen
idiom s and is interested m anything ap
pertaing to philology or etymology. He
lins written several volumes, which have
met with uniform success, and has rank
ed among the leading savants of his
country. He is fond of the company of
literary men, and likes to walk along
the streets slowly, with his hands behind
back, his head erect, discussing books
and authors. Though by nature an
easy-going man, of pleasant disposition,
bebas novov bern able to get along with
tho mombo rs of his own family. His
quarrels with his wife, largely on relig
ious grounds, a? she. is a devout Roman
Catholic, attracted as mitch attention
some years ago as did his difficulty with
his eldest son, Prince Victor, which re
sulted in a completo separation, more
recently.
Roth ol'the sons of Prince Napoleon
may come to this country when they are
expelled, and it is cortain that Prince
Victor, who is now making a tour of the
world, will bo hore soon. Some six or
j seven yours ago both of the young men
were students at the Lycee du Vauves,
formerly known as thc Lycee du Prince
Imperial, situated just outside the walls
of Paris. The writer was at thc timo at
tho Lycee, having been for four years in
the samo class as Prince Loni?: The
elder Princo was ft tall, raw-boned boy
of nearly six feet in height. Ho had
been growing fast for sevond yours, and
lie was rather clumsy in appearance, but
was very strong physically and quito an
athlete, His features wore heavy and
udher coarse, Iiis hair always cut short,
his Upper lip shaded by a slight dark
mustache. He was scrupulously neat in
his dress, and was inclined to hold him
self aloof from his classmates who woro
rather inclined to ridiculo him. Ho did
not board at thc Lycee, as the largo ma
jority of the students did, but lived at
ino house of one of tho professors, Mr.
Cu \ il lier, a friend of Iiis father, who
accompanied him to and from tho place
nearly every day and assisted him with
his luHHOJiH. Professor Cnvillior usually
walked up and down tho corridors dur
ing tho recess hours, tramping up and
down alow!,) with his pilo of books undo*
his arm. Victor was an intelligent
acholar, but not bright, His mind was
of a rather heavy order, and while ho
seemed to work quite bard ho rarely hold
a hotter rank in his claus than about half
way. In mathematics and history ho
waa i nu anally studious and always stood
. Well.
Prince Louis washy far tho handsomer
and moro olever of thc two. Of modium
height, with finely moulded features, a
pure dark complexion, bright oyes and
well proportioned body, ho was m looks
an ideal prince. He had ?IOHO of the
manly qualities, however, that would en
thuse Ins fellow countrymen. Ho waa
very much like his father in ono respect,
that of cowardice. Hi invariably proved
himself as timid as a l ille girl, and could
be put to flight by tho 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 ana wait
around near tho door for somo kind
hearted fellow to come up and talk to
lum. Of a very retiring disposition, ho
was apt to seek refuge in flight if tho
crowd approached hun. His great de
light was to walk up and down with somo
oilier young man, building elaborate
castles in tho 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 tho
timo ns indefinite ideas about America a?
most Frenchmen have, and he often
asked thc Americans at the Lycee most
absurd questions about their country.
Ho was very grateful to tho writer for
having protected him from tho rough
ness of his classmates on one or two oc
casions, and in the plans he made for tho
time that his family was to return to
power he invariably included thc writer,
to whom he said ho intended to givo ono
of tho highest positions in the land.
Louis' laziness caused him a great deal
of trouble in his studies. He invariably
put oil'his work until tho last moment
possible, and then rushed through with
it carelessly. He frequently appeared
tho class-room without having lopked
his lessons. Ho would take his ser, a
short time before thc professor arrived,
and try to make up for lost time. Ho
had a faculty for committing Latin and
Greek to memory, and could get a fair
idea of what ho had to recite, in a few
minutes, but he forgot thc lines as quiok
ly almost as be barned them. On
Thursday mornings, which were devoted
to competitions between the students for
rank in the different studies, after tho
subject had been given out, Louis would
generally sit for an hour or moro idly
looking at the paper before him, or mak
ing rough and poor sketches over his
books. When he finally got down to
work, his sole idea appeared to bo to
rush it through in any manner ho
could. ( )llO day when the competition
was in Latin verse on a subject given out
by tho professor, Louis only managed to
grind ont one verse during thc two and
a half hours allowed to work. Thc two
Americans in tho class had rather tho
faculty for grinding out "machino"
verses rapidly, and stood respectively
lir.st and second ill the class, and Louis
professed to warmly admire their
"talent." Ho assured tho writer that
"when ho became Emperor" he would
appoint him "Latin poet extraordinary
to tho Court."
Both of the young Princes Napoleon
are very pleasant socially, and if they
conclude to conic to live herc they will
become social lions.
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