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nished him with the regulation bridle, belt
and sword. Konald drew up his horse at a
short distance from the two officers and
saluted.
"There's no doubt about his horse," the
Major said, "that is if he is sound. "What
a good-looking beast"
"That he is, Major; by Jove, I believe
it's the very animal that young Boer asked
us 120 for yesterday; pon my word, I be
lieve it's the same." . -s
"I believe it is," the Major agreed.
"What a soldierly-looking young fellow he
is; I thought he was the right stamp yester
day, but I hardly expected to see him turn
out so well at first."
The two officers-walked up to Konald, ex
amined his horse, saddle and uuiiorm.
"That's not a regulation rifle you have
got there," the Major said.
"Xo, sir; it is one I brought from England
with me. I have been accustomed to its
vse, and as it is the regulation bore, I
thought perhaps I might carry it."
"It's a trifle long, isn't it?" the Adjutant
asked.
"Yes, sir; it's just two inches too long,
but I can have that cut off by a gunsmith."
"Verv well, if you do that vou can carry
it," the'Major said. "Of course it's much
better finished than the regulation one, but
not much different in appearance. Very
well, we pass the horse." Konald saluted
and rode off to the stables.
"He hasn't come out penniless anyhow,"
the Major laughed.
"So, ihat's quite evident," the Adjutant
agreed. "I daresay his friends gave hlrn a
hundred or two to start on a farm, and when
lie decided to join us he thought he might
as well spend it, and have a final piece of
extravagance."
"I daresay that's it," the Major agreed;
"anvhow Ithink we have got hold of a
good recruit this time."
"I wish theywere all like him," the Ad
jutant sighed, thinking of the trouble he
olten had with newly joined recruits.
"By the way," the Major said, "I have
got word this morning that the dralt is to be
embarked to-morrow instead of next week.
They took up a ship for them yesterday; it
seems our men there are worked off their
l5s, for the Kaffirs are stealing cattle and
horses in all directions, and the colonists
have sent in such a strong letter of com
plaint to the Governor that even he thinks
the police force on the frontier ought to be
strengthened. Hot, of course, that he ad
mits in the slightest that there is any
ground for alarm, or believes lor a moment
that the Kaffirs have any evil intentions
whatever; still, to reassure the minds of the
settlers, he thinks the troops may as well go
lorward at once."
"I wish to goodness," the Adjutant said
bitterly, "that Sir Harry Smith would take
a cottage tor two or three months close to
the troutier; it would not be long before his
eves were opened a little as to the character
and intentions of the Kaffirs "
"It would be a good tiling," the Major
agreed, "but I doubt if even that would do
it till lie heard the Kaffirs breaking in his
doors; then the enlightenment would come
too late to be ot any service to the colony.
By-the-by, the Colonel told me yesterday he
should send me forward next week to see
alter things. He says thatot course if there
is any serious trouble he shall go forward
himself."
The following morning the dralt of
Cape Mounted Rifles embarked on board a
steamer and were taken down to Algoa Bay,
and landed at Port Elizabeth, drenched to
the skin by the passage through the tre
mendous surf that beats upon the coast, and
iere marched to some huts which had been
erected for them on a bare sandhill behind
the town.
Konald Mervyn was amused at the variety
of the crowd in the straggling streets of Port
Elizabeth. Boer farmers, Hottentots,
Jlal.iys and Pingoes, with complexions
vm i"g through every shade of yellow and
brown up to black; some gaily dressed in
light cottons, some wrapped in a simple
cowhide or a dirty blanket, many with but
little clothing beyond their brass and cop
per ornaments.
The country roundwas most monotonous.
As far as the eye could see it was nothing
but a succession of bare, sandy flats, and
beyond these hills sprinkled with bash and
occasional clumps of aloes and elephant
trees. Upon the following morning the
troop marched, lol lowed by a wagon con
taining their baggage and provisions, drawn
by ten oxen. A little naked boy marched
at the head of the oxen as their guide, and
they were driven by a Hottentot, armed with
a tremendous whip of immense length, made
ot plaited hide fastened to the top ot a bam
- boo pole. Alter a 11 miles march
the troop reached the Zwart Kop river, and
crossing the lord, encamped among the scat
tered mimosas, and numerous wait-a-bit
thorns. The horses were then haltered, and
they and the oxen were turned out to" leed
till night. The next day's march was a very
long one, and for the mo't part across a
1 candy desert, to the Sunday river, a sluggish
stream in which, as soon as the tents were
pitched, the whole party enjoyed a bath.
"To-morrow we shall reach the Addoo
Bush, Blunt," one ot his comrades, who
Knew the country well, remarked. "This is
near the boundary of what you may call the
Kaffir country, although I don't think they
have (heir kraals as far south as this, though
there was fighting here in the last war, and
may be again."
"'But 1 thought our territory extended as
far as the Kei river?"
"So it does nominally," the other said.
"All the country as far as that was declared
to be forfeited; but in point offactth Kaffirs
remained in possession of the country, on
condition that they declared their allegiance
to the Crown, and that each chief was made
responsible lor any cattle or other robberies,
the spoor ot which could be traced to his
kraal. Of course they agreed to this, as in
fact they would agree to anything, resolv
ing, naturally, to break the conditions as
soon as it suiied them. Local magistrates
and commissioners are scattered about among
them, and there have been a lot of schools
and missionary stations started. They siy
that they arc having great success. Well, we
shall see about that. In the last war the so
called Christian natives were among the
first to turn against us, and I expect it will
be the same here, fpr it's just the laziest and
worst of tbe natives who pretend to -become
Christians. They get patches of land given
them, and help in building their huts ana
all sorts of privileges. In about half a day's
work each week thev can raise enough food
to live upon, aud all that 's really required
of tbem is to attend services on a
Sunday. The business -exactly suits them,
but as a rule there are a great many more
Hottentots than Kaffirs among the converts.
I can give you a specimen of the sort of men
they are. -Not long since a gentleman was
coming down with a wagon and a lot of
bullocks trom King Williamstown. The
drivers all took it into their head to desert
one day it's a way these fellows have, one
of them thinks he will go, aud then the
whole lot go, and a settler wakes up in the
morning and buds that there isn't a single
hand lelt on his place, and he has perhaps
four or five hundred cows to be milked ana
twice as nianv oxen and horses to look
niter. Well, this happened within a mile
or so of the missionary station, so the gen
tleman rode over there and asked if some of
ihe men would go with him down to Beau
fort, a couple ot days's march. Nobody
would go; he raised his offers, and at last
offered five times the usual rate of pay, but
not one of tbe lazy brutes would move, and
he had at last ii drive the whole lot down
himself, with the aid of a native or two he
picked up on the way. However, there has
been pretty good order along the frontier
for the last two years, partly due to
the chiefs having to pay for all cattle
traced to their kraals, partly to the fact that
we have got 400 Kaffir police and an un
common smart lot of lellows they are scat
tered all along the frontier, instead of being,
like us, kept principally 'in towns, .You
' see, we are considered more as a military
body. Of course, we have a much easier
time of it than if we were knocking about in
.small: parties anions the border settlements;
but there U a lot more excitement in that
sort ot life, and 1 hope that, if there is
trouble, they will send us out to crotect the
settlement.'
"1 hope so," Konald paid cordially.
"Barrack life at a dull little town is the
slowest thing in the world. I would never
have enlisted for that sort of thing."
"Well, if what the settlers say turns out
right, you will have plenty of excitement I
cn tell you. J was in the last war. and I
don't know that I want to eo through an
other, for these beggars fight a great deal too
well for it to be pleasant, I can tell you.
The job of carrying dispatches or escorting
wa'gons through a bush where these fellows
are known to be lurking, is about as nasty
a one as a man can wish. At any moment,
without the least notice, you may have half
a dozen assegais stuck in your body. And
they can shoot straight, too; their guns are
long and clumsy, but they carry long dis
tancesquite as ..far as our rifles, while as
for the line muskets, they haven't a chance
with them." v
Two more days' marching and the troop
arrived at Orahamstown. Here they en
camped near Port England, where a wing
of the Ninety-first Regiment was quartered,
and the next fortnight was spent in con
stant drills. The rifles were then ordered
forward to King Williamstown, where two
days later they were jointed by the in
fantry. Before starting, the Adjutant had
specially called the attention of Captain
Twentyman, who commanded the troop, to
his last joined recruit.
"You will find that man Blunt, who
joined us yesterday, a good soldier. Twenty
man. It may be he has bean an officer and
has got into a row at home and been obliged
te leave the service. Of course you noticed
his horse on parade this morning;, we have
nothing like it in the corps. The farmer
who owned it offered it to us yesterday
afternoon, and wanted 120 ponnds for it.
He said that both its sire and dam were En
glish hunters, the sire he had bought from
an English officer, and the grandsire was a
thoroug hbred horse. The man has a large
farm, about 25 miles from Capetown, and
goes in for horse-breeding; but I have seen
nothing before of Jus as good as that I ex
pect the Voung fellow has spent his last
penny in buying it Of course I don't
know what he will turn out in the way of
conduct; but you will find, if be is all right
in that respect, that he will make a first
rate non-commissioned officer, and mounted
as he is, will, at any rate, be a most uselul
man for carrying dispatches and thatsort of
thing. I confess I am very much taken
with him. He has a steady, resolute sort ot
face; looks pleasant and good-tempered, too.
Keep your eye upon him,"
Captain Twentyman had done so during
the voyage and on the line of march, and
Ronald's quickness, alacrity and acquaint
ance with nis duty convinced him that the
Adjutant s supposition was a oorrectone.
"By Jove, Twentyman," an officer of the
Ninety-first said as he was standing beside
him when Konald rode up and delivered a
message, "that fellow of yours is wonder
lully well mounted. He's a fine, soldierly
looking fellow, too, and I don't know why,
but his face seems quite familiar to me."
"I fancy he has been an officer," Captain
Twentyman replied. "We have several in
the corps men who have been obliged for
some reason or other to sell out, and who.
finding nothing else to do, have enlisted
with us. Yon see, the pay is a great deal
higher than it is in the regular cavalry, and
the men as a whole are a superior class, for
you see tbey find their own horses and uui
lorms, so the life is altogether pleasanter for
o man of that kind than tbe regular service.
Almost all the men are of respectable
family."
"I certainly seem to know his face," said
the officer, thoughtfully, although where I
saw it I have not the least idea. "What is
his name?"
"He enlisted as Harry Blunt, but no
donbt that's not his real name. Very few
men of his kind, who enlist in the army, do
so under their own names.
"I don't know anyone of that name," the
officer said, "but I certainly fancy that I
have seen your man before; however, I don't
suppose in any case he would like being
recognized; men who are under a cloua
don't care about meeting former acquaint
ances."' A week later, to Bonald's great satisfac
tion, a party ot 20 men, under troop-Lieu-
tenant Daniels, were ordered to march that
afternoon to the Kalousie river, whence the
settlers had written praying that a force
might be sent for their protection, as the
Kaffirs in the neighborhood were becoming
more and more insolent in their manner.
Many of their cattle had been driven off,
ana thev were in daily expectation of an at
tack. Bonald was one of the party told off,
and small shelter tents were served out;
these would be carried on -their horses. No
baggage was taken, as there would be no
difficulty in obtaining provisions from the
farmers. The men chosen for tbe service
were all in high glee at the prospect of a
change from the dullness of the life at King
Williamstown, and were the objects of envy
by their comrades.
The start was made at daybreak, and af--ter
two day's long marching they reached
their destination. The country was afertile
one, the farm houses were frequent, most of
them embedded in orchards and vineyards,
showing signs of comfort and prosperity.
"This is the first place that I have seen
since I reached the Colony," Bonald said to
the trooper riding next to him, "where I
should care about settling." '
"There are a good many similar spots in
this part of the country," the nan said,
"and I believe the (oiks here are every
where doing well, and would do better if it
were not lor these native troubles. They
suffered a lot iu the last war, and will, of
course, bear the brunt of it if the natives
break out again. There are a good many
English and Scotch settlers in this part
There are, of course, some Dutch, but as a
rule they go in more for cattle farming on a
big scale. Besides,.they do not care about
English neighbors; they are an unsociable
set of brutes, the Dutch, and keep them
selves to themselves as much as possible."
(To be continued next Saturday.)
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To Taller Camp bandar. Angnit 4,
Trains leave Union station at 8:45 A.. M.
and 12:10 P. M. Returning ttains leave
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6:50 p" M., and one after evening service.
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account, profusely illustrated, of a t.OOO-mile
trip down the river by Jung lager will appear
in to-morrovftmsBjLTCB,
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OFF LOME LABRADOK.
A Eockbouncl Coast Haunted by Ship
wreck, Death and Disaster.
THE EAELY BASQUE SEA BOYERS
Who Discovered America 1,000 Tears Before
Columbus Sailed
TO SEEK FOE TEE LAUD OP PBOSHSE
rraoit ocz tiiavkliso comxissioxer.i
Ox Boabd Schooner Sophie, July 22.
Our steamer passed Belle Isle, tljat huge
island rock of loneliness and desolation
guarding the Gulf of Newfoundland, be
tween Newfoundland and Labrador, just
aiter the light swept past us from the east
and the sea, and, sailing all day within
sicht of those northern massive walls whose
vast escarpments 'of red, puce and gray,
seemed set like the bases of mighty castles
upon an emerald bed, the contemplation of
the vostness, mystery and desolation of this
most useless' and peopleless portion of
America, Labrador, prompted an impulse
to at least skim its edges iu a still more
leisurely form of loitering and pilgrimage.
An English tourist was easily persuaded
into joining me in a plan for brief northern
ad venture; and, debarking at Rimouski," we
came upon a veteran Yankee lumberman
with the fever of exploration strong on him,
and in less than 21 hours, having found
many happenings to our liking, were sail
ing the lower St. Lawrence in a snug two
masted schooner of 80 tons burthen, the
clean and clipper-like Sophie, manned by
four sturdy French fishermen of La Fieur
de Lis harbor, headed directly for a tiny
purple cleft between stunendous headlands,
which our captain, good Monsieur Des
champs, told us was the entrance to a deep
and silent harbor of the grewsome Labrador
shore.
A, lonely land.
Labrador proper is that almost unknown
land of unparalleled sterility and loneli
ness lying between the Gulf of St. Law
rence, the Atlantic Ocean and that well
nigh limitless inland sea, Hudson's Bay.
That portion known to men is the part, or
the sea-line part, we had set forth to look
upon. It properly consists "of two grand
coastwise divisions. The waters of the first
flow from desolat. solitudes into the St
Lawrence and gulf, along the immeasura
ble county of Saguenay, in the Province of
Quebec, while those of the other seek the
Atlantic to the north of Belle Isle Straits,
along the grandest but most forbidding
shores ot any land, to where Greenland is
but a day's journey ahead of favoring gales.
On the 'one hand, all along this frightful
coast, from the lofty rocks ot the Saguenav,
which stand like eternal sentinels of the
St. Lawrence, to the bare peaks beyond the
last wretched hut of Hebron, the remotest
of the Moravian missions in North America,
the entire coast line is one interminable
reach and record of human peril and suffer
ing, of fog, iceberg and tempest, and of
wreck and disaster inconceivable. On tbe
other hand, behind this rugged coast, there
is but a waste so barren, so mighty in its
immeasurable solitude of rock and stream
and inland sea, so indescribably "the land
given to Cain," as told by Jacques Cartier
in 1534, that only the imagination can
traverse it to that awful, farthest north
where Silence sits frozen at, the feet of God.
LEGENDS OF LABEADOK.
And yet there is more than fancy and le
gend in the tales our captain told of olden
activities along these shores as we exhilara
tingly swept these northern waters. Tales
weird and strange they were; but the warm
blood of Basque was in his own veins, and
his eyes kindled with the wondrous his
tories of Basque adventurers here 1,000 years
ago histories which, could they be proven,
would compel Bancroft and Headier to re
write all their early pages, and would sadly
dampen the enthusiasm for tbe ptopdsed
Columbus celebration of 1892.
Briefly this is how the story runs. The
old Iberian race, perhaps a race 1,000 years
older tnan the Egyptian, which came from
somewhere and overran Europe from the
Mediterranean to tbe Archangel and Kara
seas, and finally succumbed to other inva
sions, blendings 'and assimilations, com
prised a people not only cultivated in the
arts but those which gave the world its first
and greatest navigators and sea adventurers.
All coasts and climes were known to them.
The concentrated remnant of this mighty
people gave to the Basque provinces and
Brittany their interesting and spirited folk.
From among these, more than' 1,000 years
before Columbus, assisted by the wily though
niggardly spirit of Spanish conquest and
domination, made the New World subject
ive to the old, were those Iberian, or Basque
navigators, who had seen every rod of coast
line from Nova Zembla beyond the howling
maelstroms ot Spitsbergen sea, around the
Arctic Spitsbergen groups, the lar Icelandic
norths, past Greenland's 4,000 miles of ice
and silence, the eternal ice peaks of Elles
mere Land and Cumberland Island, down
beyond the dreary reach of Labrador, all
along the mighty distances of St Law
rence's gulf and Newfoundland itself, past
Prince Edward's and Cape Breton Islands
and Nova Scotia, to that dread mystery and
graveyard of the sea. Sable Island; where
during all those centuries theyhad chased
the whale and taken the mack'erel and cod.
.From such as , these, humble and unknown
whalers and sailors, Columbus undoubtedly
gained his positive knowledge of America,
aud through it his immortality and tame.
OFF THE LABBADOK COASI.
Before evening came we were underneath
the shadows of the towering Labrador coast,
close upon the Seven Islands and bay.
These islands are huge rocky peaks rising
precipitously from the gulf to imposing
heights, the Great Boule reaching 700 feet,
a few miles to the south and west of the
Moisie river mouth. The bay behind, in
which we anchored for the night, is fully six
miles long and two broad, and when "once
within, the capacious harbor sefems land
locked by the islands and a vast promontory
at its western extremity, the latter reaching
an elevation of 700 feet Two parallel
ranges of mountains, rocky and dread,
their bases covered by dense growths ot
stunted spruce, rise in dark and undulating
silhouettes as if to render impassable the
impenetrable wilderness behind. Sweeping
around coastward toward the Moisie river
is a long, circling, sandy beach, and along
this. Jn the edge of the stunted snruce be-
hind, were scattered a few wild and ragged
encampments ot Labrador Indians. All
looked greasy, lifeless, despondent, hope
less. There was not one picturesque character
istic about tbem save tbe queer, puggy,
almond-eyed faces of the little children, and
an occasional quaint cap of crimson and
black, set upon the heads of tbe Indian
women, from underneath the edge of which
are 'puffs if black and wiry hair matted
down between the eyes and ears. These
people, perhaps 200 in number, and called
the Montagnais, with a few Nasquapees,
are a portion of the ragged, starving, fate
whipped remnant of the great Cree branch
of the once noble Algonquin race. Seven
Islands Bay and Moisie have for centuries
been their summer rendezvous. At Moisie
are the mission houses, chapel, one of the
dreariest cemeteries your eyes ever beheld,
trading houses, salmon fish stations and a
scraggy village alone .enlivened by these
spiritless Indians, the summer time salmon
curers and traders, and the trifling official
life, as the Canadian Government compels
all sailing craft trading along the Labrador
shore to take out their clearances at this
point It is a dreary, lifeless, dirty spot,
where nothing less alert and pugnacious
than soul-saving and trade could brave the
wretched soddenness and desolation.
A SALMON HAUNT.
The mouth of the 'Moisie has special in
terest for sportsmen, it being the haunt of
myriads of salmon; and fish of from 30 to 40
pounds weight nave irequently been taken.
The river itfelf windi through aa ma-1
DISPATCH, SATURDAY,"
broken wilderness from the central treeless
stone and ice tablelands of Labrador; while
part way along its valley runs the centuries
old wide Indian trail to the great :lake of
St John.1300 miles to the southwest.
The coast line trom Seven Islands and
Bay would doubtless measure ISOjniles to
the next trading-post and village behindthe
noble group of Mingan Islands which stud
theLaorador coast for a, distance of 45
miles; but the sailing distance is not half
so much. In delicious weather and with
out trace of fog we sped eastward past huge
ocean steamers. Government cutters and
scores of fishing smacks, changing our
course somewhat to the south, for at least a
glimpse of that loneliest and most grew
some of all spots within these northern
seas, the Island of Anticosii, the North
Point andthe lighthouse of which are about
14 miles distant from the Labrador shore.
There is little in the island save horror
and desolation. It lies diagonally across
the northern portion of the gulf, its north
westernextremity set squarely into the 90
miles wide mouth of the St. Lawrence river
and its extreme southeastern point lies about
100 miles directly north of the center of the
gulf. It is 122 miles long, 30 broad, has a
circumference of 270 miles, and contains
about 2,000,000 acres of land, or, more prop
erly speaking, surface; for land it has not.
Its northern shores are. lofty, and present to
the eye noble terraces of mountainous rock
with spruce-covered escarpments of green,
blending into purple, mist-covered indenta
tion:, or black and forbidding crags.
a forbidding spot.
No one can describe, or justly conceive,
the desolation and dangerous character of
this great Gulf island. Canadian geologic
and geographic surveys have been repeated ly
used to foist it into notice and invite popu
lation. But its history is one of death to
mariners, ruin to capital, and starvation
aud death to emigrants, who, to further
some dastardly stock scheme of plunder,
have from time to time been deft to die
alone upon it. Its entire interior is one vast
utterly irreclaimable wilderness of rock,
swamp and bog. The stunted spruce is in
many places so matted, dense and storm
broken, that wild animals cannot penetrate
it, and shipwrecked men have walked on
top of the murderous mass for miles. There
are no safe harbors. In every direction ex
tend into tbe Gulf limestone reefs to entrap
and wreck.
The only humans existing upon it are the
keepers of the lighthouses and wrecking sta
tions, warily supplied with supplies in fair
weather; a half dozen trappers and hunters,
who are set down on its shores from venture
some sloops; an occasional "egjrer" who
here pursues his contraband vocation unmo
lested through fear of approaching his
haunts: or downright outlaws who consign
themselves, to an ' inconceivably more
wretched prisonment than any known gov
ernment can provide. Puffins and sea-gulls
shriek around it; a few wild animals devour
each other upon it; its deadly shores are
strewn with ever bleaching "wrecks; every
hoarse song of the sea beating against its
crazs is a dirge for the dead whose skeletons
rot beneath; but curiously enough, as if in
keeping with that seeming law of compen
sation which holds danger and sacrifice as
the price of all attainment of value, its cruel
coves-and impenetrable bays swarm with
mackerel,cod, seals and whales in a profu
sion not elsewhere known of men.
BEAUTIFUL MINGAN.
But it is a more pleasant thing to turn
one's sight from such accursed shores to the
beanteous Mingan Islands to the north.
Emerald, amethyst and onyx, set in leathery
surf, they are, and all day the sunlight and
and the vagrant mists play over their win
some sea face wondrously iudeed. All the
way eastward toward the Atlantic the great
Laurentian range of mountains gradually
lessens in altitude, breaking into rounded
and softened elevations, with here and there
a lowering cliff to hintof the Sanara of stone
behind. But there a splendid old peak leaps
upright like a Tierce cutpost toward the sea.
Over and above the Mingan isles it lifts its
cloudy head, midway between the Magpie
and St John rivers. This is grim old
'Mount St John, and the river of that name
in which countless salmon play, is one of
the noblest of the northern coast. But there
is no escaping tale and sight of the wreck.
The westernmost islets of the Mingans are
. called the Perroquets. They are the high
est and scenically the most admirable ot tbe
group. Here Captain Deschamps pointed
out the spots where the great steamers, the
Clyde and the North Briton, were totally
wrecked in September. 1857, and Novem
ber, 1861; while on the shore of every one of
these great outliers of the Silurian basin,
marking the boundaries of the old-time
Silurian seas, is half embedded wreck, or
shore-strewn flotsam of vessels nevermore to
sail.
In and out of Mingan harbor, around
whose shores cling a remnant of the ban
ished Acadiians of Nova Scotia, intermin
gled with French half breeds and Nasqua
pes Indians, all of whom receive ministra
tion's from the Oblate Fathers at a quaint
old mission; before the modern fishing vil
lage ot Long Point behind the Perroquets;
and between and about most of these
splendid islands; we sailed at will for three
idyllic days idyllic at least to tbe English
tourist and myself, and our captain bold
chatted away merrily of tbe many things he
'knew, which all men so love to tell. But
our xankee timber explorer could see no
place for mills, no trees for cutting, no
money to make, and legend and tale were
barren of interest to him.
Edgab L. Wakeman.
LATE NEWS IN BEIEP.
The Mexican steamer Ybero has landed
five shipwrecked German sailors, who were
picked up a; sea, at Vera Cruz.
Tbe lead mines in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, are
shutting down, owing to the imposition by tbe
United States Government of duties on lead
ores.
George Biler killed the Rev. Sam Sbarpe at
Lebanon, Ky., yesterday. Both were colored,
gharpe was living with filer's sister, claiming
she was bis wife.
Tbe low grounds In Central Illinois were
visited by a frost early yesterday morning,
wblcb did considerable damage to growing
vegetables. Corn snllered In most exposed
places. Tobacco was also severely injured.
Plalnfleld, N. J., was in a state of great
excitement. For a long time it looked as
tbough tbe big dam above tbe city was about
Lto burst Finally tbe gates wero forced open, a
portion oi tuo water uwa uu aim luo winger
averted,
M. C. Kimberlyhas been appointed General
Superintendent of the Northern Pacific Rail
road, to succeed H. It Ainslie, who recently
resigned to become General Manager of tbe
Wisconsin Central, bin Klmoerly has been
Assistant General Superintendent, with offices
at Helena, Mont, for some time past He is an
old employe.
Mr. Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati
Commcrcial-Qazclte, who has been in Germany
to recover his health, reached home yesterday.
The Republican clubs ot Hamilton county have
arranged to give him a public welcome to-night
at Music Hall. Mayor Mosby will preside. Mr.
W. H. Parham will speak a welcome on behalf
of the colored people; Mr. M. A. Jacob! on the
part of tbe press, and governor Foraker on be
half of the Republicans of tbe State.
A fierce quarref has broken out between
the Smiths and tbe Slashers, near Pineville,
Ky.. over a hoc worth 12. Tbe Smiths' homo
was attacked baturday laBt by tbe Slashers.
boles through the door and broke several win
dows. Smith retaliated by putting ' a guard
armed with Winchesters on blusher's road to
Flat Lick, the nearest village. Both sides are
now well armed aud are watching for each
other. Incidentally all travel along tbe road
passing their bouses is cut off.
Seneca Swalm.who was convicted 15 months
ago of stealing diamonds and valuables from
Mrs. Clara Belle McDonald, of San Francisco,
and who was sentenced to ten years in prison,
bad his sentence affirmed yesterday by the
Supreme Court Swalm Was an adventurer,
who became intimate with Mrs. McDonald, and
was largelyresponsible for her troubles with
her husband, a son of the millionaire President
of tbe Pacific Bank. During her divorce pro
ceeding here Swalm acted as the wife's ad
viser, and induced her to give bim railroad
bonds, diamonds and jewelry valued at 120,000.
Then he left under a disguise, bat was caught
on the train with bis plunder. This was two
years ago, and ever since be has fought against
going to prisdn.
Rf 4EF13T TIATT to-morrow's Dis
DLil AHllrt. 11 ALL) patch, gives a de
scription of the life and appearance of Jjfon,
William JSwart Gladstone.
TENNYSON AT 80 &$&?&'
J?rfmunft GoAAe. itlustratttl bit a nartrait at the
pM (aureate, in tomorrovii Dispatch.
ATTGTIST 3; , 1889.
THEEE IS NO LIMIT
That Can Yet be Seen to the Manifold
Uses of Electricity.
A NDMBER OP NEW INVENTIONS.
The Subtle Fluid Famishes Power at the
'Paris Exposition.
A FIRE ENGINE WITH THE NEW FOECE
Max J. Becker, President of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, in a recent ad
dress to that body, draws a vivid picture ot
the future of electricity, which, he says, is
certainly destined to excel all the forces of
nature in the extended range of its useful
application. In the prosecution of subter
ranean or subaqueous operations, such as
tunnelling, mining, sinking of caissons, the
use of the electric light is found to be of
special benefit; in its incandescent form it
is absolutely safe against the dangers from
explosive gases, and in caisson work
it removes the risks and inconveniences
incident to the ready and rapid com
bustion 'of inflammable substances under
the influence of high atmospheric pressure.
In discussing electric street railways, and
their ready adaptability where cable lines
and horse traction are out of the question,
Mr. Becker refers to an electric railway at'
Allegheny City, which, in a distance of one
mile out of a total length of four miles,
ascends, with a speed of fully four miles per
hour, a hill over 400 feet high, upon a
gradient of 12 -per cent, with numerous
curves of 40 feet radius, the cars being often
loaded with 75 people. Upon the lower
portion of this line the electric current is
supplied by means of an underground con
nection, and on the upper portion of the
line by the ordinary overhead conductors.
Bharpibootlnir.
Some very sharpshooting came off a little
while ago on the African coast, where the
correspondent of a well-known electrical
paper happens to be stationed. Two Arab
chiefs had come down from Yemen to Aden,
and a trial ensued, in which the Arabs, who
were crack shots with their long guns, came
off quite the best Our American resolved
on a surprise to these gentlemen, and invited
them to a grand test on the morrow. Mean
while he prepared a fulminating fuse, laid
a couple of insulated wires to a point on the
sand hills some quarter of a mileawav, care
fully placed the fuse, covered it with sand,
and on this placed a small glass bottle.
Next day the Arabs were invited to fire at
the minute speck in the distance. They
fired half a dozen times, naturally far wide
ol such a mark. Our marksman then took
his place, his attendant (with his hand op
the key) being not far off. That bottle burst
into thousands of fragments at the first shot,
and the Arabs left with the most awestruck
idea of the wonderful skill of the American.
Electric Detection of Iceberg.
The narrow escape of the Saale when col
liding with an iceberg", brought out a num
ber of suggestions for the prevention of such
accidents in future. In most of these the
idea of an electrical indicator, which would
denote the presence of icebergs at a sufficient
distance to avoid a collision, was put for
ward. F. B. Colvin, in an interesting ar
ticle on the subject, demonstrates that,
while such a device might be quite effective
under some conditions, its action could not
invariably be depended upon. The fanlt
dees not lie in the apparatus itself, but in
the conditions which exist respecting the
currents surrounding an iceberg and involv
ing the direction in which the ship ap
proaches. Mr. Colvin suggests that the
best way of avoiding icebergs is to go where
tbey are not, namely well to'the south; but
in these days of the smashing of speed rec
ords this sensible suggestion is hardly likely
to be followed. -
Electrical Cable Weldlnu.
A problem which has always puzzled the
mechanical engineer is the finding of a
method of uniting successive cable lengths
without materially decreasing the strength
of the original sections. "Where the joint
was required to be practically of no greater
cross-section than the original cable great
difficulty has been experienced, and the
strength of the cable has invariably been
reduced. Now the aid of electric welding
has invariably been called in, aud this dif
ficult task is performed with absolute pre
cision. With proper arrangements and tbe
exercise of ordinary care, each strand of a
cable may be united to that of another, end
to end, so that the joint is practically im
perceptible. Electrically Treated Sewage.
Mr. Webster, the inventor of the latest
treatment of sewage Jay electricity, has been
visiting Maidstone, England, with a view
to the formulation of a scheme for the puri
fication of the river Medway, which is now
very much polluted by sewage. In com
menting on the successful results which
have attended recent experiments in the
economical precipitation of sewage by elec
trolysis, a prominent New York electrical
journal suggests that an application of this
'system might possibly at last do away with
the ioul conditional' tlle water front along
New York City.
Electric Power at the Exhibition.
It was found objectionable to use a steam
engine and boiler to drive the 650 feet of
shafting in the agricultural galleries, about
25-horse power being required for the pur
pose. It was finally decided that power
should be tranimitted to it by electricity.
The steam engine is located in Machinery
Hall, and the dynamo and motor are fur
nished by the company for the transmission
of nower by electricity. The total length
of the circuit is about 3,000 feet, the con
ductors being of silicon bronze. The cur
rent is used at about 1,000 volts pressure.,
.
Primary Battery Improvement.
Very worthy of note are the recent im-H
provements of P. B. Delany, the well-known
electrician, in primary batteries.. Having
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in mind the inconvenience connected with
the gravity battery in its present form, he
has, by the simple addition of an envelope
for the zinc and for the copper crystals,
overcome what has heretofore been a source
of much trouble and annoyance. The simple
method of preventing the creeping of the
salts in batteries, will also be appreciated
by those who have the care of batteries in
which this defect is prominent
Tempering; Copper.
This is one of the 'lost arts, which has
been actively songht for by'scientists and
mechanics for years. The process has been
accidentally discovered, and tests of the
quality of the copper thus treated have,
shown most remarkable strength and wear
ing qualities. It will be especially valuable
for use in the bearings and commutators of
dynamo machines, and also, for the jour
nals of locomotives and cars. An establish
ment in Pennsylvania is now placing the
metal on the market.
Water Gnu.
In discussing the question of water gas
and its applications, Max Geitel, in a recent
number of Glasser'e Annalen, calls attention
to the various attempts that have been made
to obtain illuminating gas by the electroly
sis of water, and suggests that with the great
advance of the lust few years in electric
science such electrolytic decomposition may
contain possibilities even now undreamed of.
Electric Fire Engine.
An electric fire engine, which can be
tapped for service whenever wanted, is one
of the latest inventions. The advantages
claimed are. that it can be started at full
speed; that it is much lighter than a steam
fire engine of equal power; that it costs one
third less; that it is noiseless in. its opera
tion, makes no smoke or ashes, and is safer
and more economical.
Preservation of Milk.
A. French electrician, having noticed that
the passage of an electric current retards the
formation of the cream, thought that
treatment by electricity would be .favorable
to preservation. A nnmber of experiments
have been carried ont to see if this was the
case, and the result has beea very satis
factory. The Yacelpbone.
A successful test was mads at Chicago
recently of a new invention called the vagel
phone, which transmits wave sounds by
magnetism. It is claimed that the instru
ment will convey sounds a great distance.
DISSOLUTION OF TARTNEESHIP.
The New Opera Becomes the Exclusive
Property of G. C Jcnk.
J. X. Watson and Harry McFarland,
Esq3., yesterday completed the negotiations
between George C. Jenks, who wrote the
words, and Charles W. Fleming, who wrote
the music, of the "United States Mail," by
which the latter relinquishes, for a sum of
money not named, his proprietory interest
in the production. It will be put on the
road next month. Among the backers are
Dr. C. S. Scott and A. P. Moore.
That Colored Driver's Tronbles.
James Thomas, the colored man accusedof
stealing shoes from the firm of A. I. Scott
&jCo., was held by Alderman Cassidy yes
terday afternoon for trial at the September
term of court. .The hearing in the case of
parties charged with receiving the stolen
goods was continued until to-day.
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Their Contract for Advertising.
At a meeting of the Pittsburg Exposition
Society yesterday the contract for their ad
vertising, exclnsive of the city papers, was
awarded to Bemington Bros.
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A Machinist Who Was Compelled to
Leave at Last
COMPLETE AND PERMANENT.'
"I have lived in this city for a ion
time," said Mr. Creahan, "and have a larjre
circle of acquaintances both in Pittsburg
and Allegheny. Up to about three or four
years ago, as any of my friends can attest,
I tras as hale and hearty a man as yon could
find in the State. At that time I caught a
severe cold. After a while it seemed to
leave me; bnt whether it was not entirely
well, or I had contracted fresh colds, X do
not know. At any rate, my head became
stopped up, my throaLraw and uncomforta
ble, and I had a rontinnal hacking cough."
Tbe gentleman in qnestion is Mr. James
Creahan, No. 41 Mulberry street, Alle
gheny. He is a machinist, and has been
engaged for some time at Lindsay & Mc
Cutcheon's machine shops, at the foot of
Bidge avenue, Allegheny. Previous to tiit
engaging witn them he was with the West
inghouse Company.
"Tne trouble at first," he continued,
"seemed trifling, and I paid no attention to
it, but it steadily grew worse. My nostrils
would clog up, and sometimes when I used
my handkerchief to clear them, my nose
would commence to bleed. My throat got
worse, and it was a painful operation for
me to swallow my food. My eyes would fill
with water and were so weak and inflamed
that I could scarcely see. There was a buz
zing noise in my ears and after a while I
began to have severe pains there. My head
ached continually, feeling as if someone had
a steel band tightened around it.
"This continued for at least two years,
when I fonnd that the trouble was more
rapidly extending. I first noticed this in a
pain around my heart and in my groin. The
former was the more severe. It would
come on suddenly, completely prostrating
me for a time. Indeed, only about two
months ago I had an attack that nearly
caused my death. In addition to these
pains, I had palpitation of the heart. It
would be followed by a slow, irregular beat
ing, and a feeling of faintness.
"I slept well enough, but it did me no
good. I wonld feel more tired in tbe morn
ing than when I went to bed. My throat at
this time would get choked up, and I could
feel (the mucous dripping back into it.
Mr. James Creahan. 41 Mulberry Street.
"I would keep hawking and spittinicon
tinually. There wasalways something there
that I could neither get up nor down. I
could never eat in the mornings. Inad to.
force my food down, and what little J did
eat made me feel as though I had a big load
on my stomach. .1 would often have a
nauseating feeling, with an inclination to
vomit, I tried all the remedies that were
recommended to me, and was under a rjby
sician's care. But I grew steadily worse,
and finally had to lay off from work.
"About this timelreadacaseinoneof the
newspapers that was similar to mine, which
Doctors Copeland & Blair had treated suc
cessfully. 1 went to tbem, and, finding their
charges reasonable and witbid my means,
placed myself under their care.
"1 soon began to feel better. The soreness
in my throat, pains In my ears and headache
all left me. My eyes ceased to be watery and
no longer troubled me. Tbe pain around my
heart, which caused me so much suffering and
anxiety, has entirely disappeared. 1 arise in
the morninc feeling perfectly rested. I haTe a
good appetite and enjoy my meals. Indeed, I
feel like a new man. It was not by any means
a temporary Improvement. I continued to get
stronger and better until the last trace of my
trouble passed away. There is not a trace of It
left now. I am as well as I was four years ago,
and feel grateful to Drs. Copeland & lllair for
my complete recovery." ,
Mr. Creahan resides, as stated, at No. 41 JIul-;
berry street, Allegheny, and his statement can
be easily verified. ,
.
VERY PLAIN TALK,
Showing the Outline of t Route Whloh Is
Often Followed.
"When a person with a delicate constitu
tion has a tendency to catarrh or consump
tion whether this tendency is Inherited or
results from taking cold easily it is notice
able that that person invariably loses flesh
and loses strength, showing that the nutri
tion is interfered with.
In such a case the sufferer should at once
be placed under Influences that will restore tbe
defective nutrition and tend to invigorate the
constitution.
It is to be remembered In every'case the pres
ence of catarrh is an evidence of predisposition
to consumption, and no matter how slight tbe
attack may be. it should be treated with the
greatest care and the treatment should be con
tinned until all traces of the catarrh have dis
appeared.
If the catarrh Is allowed to reach the smallest
tubes In the lungs which condition is Indi
cated by tbe spitting up of a yellow material
then Immediate attention to the malady lsde
manded, or serious lung trouble will result.
Catarrh is, nine times out of ten, the cause
that produces consumption, and hence no one
can afford to neglect a case of catarrh, however
slight. It is easily cured. If taken In time and
treated regularly and correctly by a specialist.
If left to Itself it is rarely cured without a
change of climate, but with each new cold It
gets more and more troublesome, extending
always a little deeper into the lungs until a
cure becomes difficult and sometimes impossi
ble. "I should like to be treated," a lady remarked
the other day, "but I would not like to have
my name in the paper." Let ltbe stated that
Drs. Copeland and Blair never publish a name
or statement without the full and free consent
of the patient, nor do they publish one hun
dredth part of the testimonials, letters and
statements received by them from grateful
patients. As observed, the statements given
are entirely voluntary; and are given by the
Batienta for publication. Drs. Copeland and
lair would never publish the most emphatic
testimonials unless the patient giving it under
stood that it was to be printed and gave willing
consent.
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"Wnere they treat with success all curable
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Office hours 0 to 11 A. it; 2 to S P.M.; 7 to 9
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