rjEPT-JJi THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. " t , T " 4-- SECOND PART. PAGES 9 TO 16. PITTSBM I IT, The Petroleum Producing In dustry Has Come to the City's Outer Gates WITH ITS ROYAL RICHES. Bnsy and Pnshins: the Oil Man Has Surely Come Here to Stay. THE GAS CITI ALSO AS OIL CEKTER And Headquarters for Everything Pertain ing to the Trade. riCTUEES F021 THE CHAETIEES FIELD rwmrrzx for the Disn.Tcn.1 ONTBIBTJTING for 30 years to the growth, prosperity and greatness oi Pittsburg, the pe troleum producing industry has at last come to her very gates. Pittsburg is an oil town, and the oilman is here. He has been here to some extent for this whole 30 years, : and possibly that mnn Mcnn ho :fTH41 hasn't been noticed V-'M.' Terr much. Another reason is that Pittsburg is the biggest place the oil man has ever invaded inhis nomadic wealth seeking, and rather gets lost in the crowd. He has been largely in the habit of being the crowd himself, and therefore accustomed to being much noticed wherever he went A good bit of his going has been into the depths of forest fjstnesses, even far away lrom railroads, where he has built his own cities to order on short notice. THE SA3IE OLD CBCWD. Coming into a ready-made city is a little surprising to him and it may be a little sur prising to the city itself. But he is here, now, in force. Just outside the city limits, ot Chartiers, is a forest of derricks, and the Heady march is this way. There is the same mad rush, the same din and con fusion, the same bad roads at Chartiersthat go with the oilman in all his wanderings. There are the same bnsy teamsters with the same wicked oaths; the same brawny driller with the same tall yarns; the same green tool-dresser with the same pretense of long habited toughness; the same rig builder with the same long legs, and the same pro ducer with the same mud and oil blotches on his good clothes. It is the same crowd that has been seen lrom Ricbburg and Bol ivar to Macksbnrg and Eureka, from the days of Oil Creek to the days of West Vir ginia. Not always the same individuals, to be sure, for wh'erever the oil man goes he gath ers new followers in all the various: depart ments of his business, and when he gets done with the rush of development he always leaves behind him a crop of new pumpers to join in the migratory proceedings when the held that knew them first is "played out" and the little wells have been coupled to gether and reduced to a disgraceful condi tion of "pumping by heads." GAS CITY BECBUITS. In this wav the oilman has grown from a pioneer, laughed at by himself, to an army of very respectable and respected proport ons. Aheady recruits have been drawn ironi Pittsburg. A good many men to whom oil was but recently a distant mystery are now fjll-fledged producers, gaming lortuue and experience princi pally the latter in the ways of golden grease. Not a few young men of Pittsburg and the immediate vicinity are "in the swim" with the army of oil well workers. The Westview development was the first to crowd in on the city with the Jack's Bun annex. And now the Chartiers field is trying to invade the citv itself. It has been a long time coming. Fifteen years ago the A PBODUCTNG great Butler belt begun at Parker's Landing was pushing its wav in this direction and business men here were tak ing a lively interest in it Pipe lines were laid Jrom that field to this city and refiner ies were located here. Tra'de was following its natural channels. But the schemes of the Standard Oil monopoly and the crim inal collusion of the railroads diverted this natural wealth to other places. The mag nates wanted this industry outside the State, and every natural law of commerce was violated to secure this result. WHEN THE TIDE TUENED. Next the tide of development turned the other wa. The great Bradford field ab sorbed all interest and all the capital ofthe business. Pittsburg grew cold toward the youncand rapidly growing industrv A great deal of business drifted to Buffalo and manv Buffalomans were attracted into the bustling life of oildom. Allegany county N Y., came next and drew the business still farther away frr.ni Pittsburg. Then the tidal wave turned again and rolled down into Warren county. Interest quickened here at once. On came the oilman to Butler acain nearer than before to the natural center. Away down to Macksbnrg at the nextleap.be found Pittsburg between his northern and southern activity and first be gan to settle here. vmmm unjw3fi&iiiyiy .. - Since then the business has been closing in toward the center, as well as radiating in all directions from it. Northwestern Ohio is a lone radiation and the "West Virginia fields are but little shorter. Xet this is now the great business center for both. Creep ing in from both sides there came the "Wash ington development, the Bakerstown field, Canonsburg, Shannopin.Sewickley.Crafton, Westview and Chartiers. HEBE AT LAST. Pittsburg is now "in it" in the fullest sense of the slang term. The sup ply houses came with the opera tions at Washington and Shannopin, and the company headquarters came close after ward. A number of the leading companies are now working from here. The Colombia Oil Company has had headquarters here since its inception, and it is one of the oldest of tne companies at present in exist ence. The Hazelwood Oil Company is another old stand-by and so is the Tuna Valley. These are reinforced by the Fisher Oil Company, Forest Oil Company, South Penn Oil Company, Chartiers Oil Company, Augusta Oil Company and many partnerships and associations. Emphatically, Pittsburg is the great oil center now, and will continue to hold that position for many years to come. It is J A GBOUP OP destined to be the borne of many of the oil princes for all time and the great head quarters of allot them. They may spread the field as far as they will, this will still be the hub or the wheel. Pittsburg manufacturers have let some golden opportunities slip in time past, but it is reasonable to suppose thev will now take advantage of all the openings left. As matters stand, the boilers and engines, fit tings ana castings are all made elsewhere. Much of the pipe used is already made in y wi &? SfOM JL Drilling WelL this city and vicinity, but in no other line is the oil well supply trade properly repre sented here. TBADE TVOBTH HAVING. It is a profitable trade. Less attention is paid by the oil producer to price than to promtness and speed in filling his order with first-class goods, and advantage is taken of this fact by the supply men to maintain a good, stiff tariff on almost everything.- There is no reason why Pittsburg should not make as good boilers, engines, brass goods and cast and wrought iron fittings are made any where. SECTION. Tbe benefits of the petroleum develop ment are by no means confined to the trade in machinery and supplies. The golden fluid brings wealth wherever it is produced, the army of peoDle connected with the busi ness make a market for every necessity and many luxuries. They are usually well sup plied with money and not sticklers in regard to price. The companies may, of course, take away the wealth they hare produced lor themselves, bnt they cannot take away what thev have brought to the royalty owner. Hundreds of farmers, struggling hard for a mere subsistence, have been sud denly lifted to riches and luxury by the re turns from royalties or bonuses, or helped ont with taxes and the interest on mort gages by rentals. WHAT THE FEYEB BEINGS. This city is the repository for most of the wealth produced by the surrounding fields, and it is no mean amount, either. It will not be observed so much here amid tbe vast capital belonging to other industries as it is in out-of-the-way places where it makes the wilderness take on metropolitan ways and wear municipal manners, bnt it is an ini--portant contribution to the sum total. The gain, however. "is not all in moner. lianv good citizens will be added to the populaj I tion. Boise undesirable ones will cwae,tociJ mm A j?Ml tn fV&JViviw.,,.. ga. ..gi&aiu" "um c JaHI I lvlllaTrii but they, like the others, will be less noticed in the throng. .. The Chartiers field is a point of Interest to many Pittsburgers, beiides those who have money invested the-e. It attracts not a few sight-seers, and they are well repaid for the trip if not previously familiar with the op erations in the field. The scores of tall, symmetrical derricks add a pretty pic tnresqueness to the landscape quite at tractive to the visitor. There is a feeling of being in wonderland when a person takes his first tour of observation through amid the bustle and noise attendant upon the de velopment of a new oil field. The hissing of steam, creaking of pulleys, clanging of hammers and ring of anvils gives the im pression of visiting a great workshop ont ot doors. lirSTERY OF THE CABLE. Then there is the wonder, as a long drill ing cable unwinds itself from the whirring wheels, of how the driller can tell when he has his ponderous tools on the bottom, and how on eartn, or more properly, away down in the earth, tbe presiding genii can tell when their tools are working properly or what kind ot rock they are. working in. What occnlt power have they that they can tell what is going on a thousand feet below them by merely feeling the rope as they turn NEW ONES. it around and around, first one way, then the other? This is not wonderful to the driller, of course. He learned it all long ago while dressing tools for the'other driller. There is nothing odd to him in the fact that he can tell by the "kick" of the rope, which he calls "jar," whether thetoolsarestriking something soft or something hard, whether they are nearly resting on the bottom or only touching it by the spring of the rope, whether thev are running free or sticking in an irregular shaped hole. He thinks it would.be easy i to tell all that with his hide full of Chartiers whisty, bnt sometimes he can't. Those who are fond of the seeming dan gerous feats of the trapeze performer or tight rope walker, will enjoy watching tbe rig builders "running a derrick." 'Apparently holding to nothing they lean out backward, three-score or four-score feet from theground and drive a spike with unerring aim and surprising swiftness. Up, up, girth by girth, they pull their staging and push the planks up toward the sky. A MUSHEOOM GEOWTH. It is not the work of weeks to put up one of these tall structures, as it is to put up a tower or steeple. Prom ground to top is all conmasced easily within "the" -working day of ten hours and frequently in much less time. The rig builder goes up without a ladder and only when he has the rest of the derrick complpted does be nail a ladder up the side for the subsequent use of the driller and his natural successor, the pumper. Our pictures to-day represent a producing well on the east side of Chartiers creek, flanked on either side by other completed wells, with a background showing the hill on the west side of the creek, from which a number of derricks rise like spires in the distance; a gronp of new rigs just outside Chartiers borough where the town lot craze will hurt somebodv; a drilling well with the walking beam tipped up ready to draw" tools, ana tne initial represents a new rig just in the edge of the town, where only the derrick and tank have been completed. A. K. Cbum. CUT A SHABK IN TWO. A Remarkable Story of a Jinn-Eater That Floated In tho Bed Ben. Philadelphia Inquirer. "Here is another shark story," said John Beece yesterday. "You remember that Captain Corkey, of the ill-fated steamship Suez, took passage for England on the P. and O.'steamship Sassetta. Well, Captain CoYkey, while on the Bed Sea, expired. On the next day the body was committed to the deep in true orthodox style. 'The next morning the lookout forward called the attention ot the officer of the watch to the fact that a huge shark was jammed in between the bobstay shackle and tbe stem. Investigation showed that tbe monster, which was over 30 feet long, was almost cut in two. The stem had struct him just below the gills, and while his head protruded en the starboard side his body bad slewed in under the port bow. The sharp iron stem bad cut into the creature to tbe depth of nearly a foot, and all efforts to get it clear were unavailing. Captain Barry at last ordered tbe vessel full speed astern, and that sent the man-eater adrift. "There were many theories to account for its getting foul of the vessel, the most nat ural of which was that it was asleep on the surface when struck by the stem of the swiftly moving steamer. There were those among the crew, however, who held that tbe ghoul had been prowling around the vessel in hopes of raaking'a meal off the corpse of poor Corkey." I A PSETTY BOUDOIR Novel Trimmings In Plok Tbat Will Set Off a Bower for Beantr. Washington Post. Here is an idea for a small withdrawing room or boudoir: Tint the wall with soft china pink, and tone them down with lace hangings. Nottingham curtain stuff looks exceedingly well, and, as we all know, is not expensive. Choose a feathery, ferny pattern. Yon can find lovely designs some times in Nottingham. After tacking them on the wall finish the top with a flounce about 15 or 16 inches in length. By divid ing a curtain you will tret the finished edge for tbe bottom of your flounce. The pink thus covered beeomes very deli cate, and forms a beautiful background for water-color drawings. The whole room should be kept as delicate as possible with softly-tinted china as a decoration. Let the frames of the pictures and furniture be white, the latter covered with a cretonne with a wild-rose pattern, and the floor a light sunny yellow (raw sienna stain), with white wolf fur rugs. With a white wood wainscoting about four feet in height, your room is complete. Kolblnc Remarkable About Ir. Jewelers' Weekly. Watchman The first time I cleaned your watch it was in a gold case; the next time in a gold-filled case, and now it's In a silver cae. . i H. A. X. T. UnriAVp civ. ', t'gtances alter cases," jou know. circum., PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, A COMING CATACLYSM. Professor Buchanan's Predictions and What They Are Worth. THE PERIOD OP DIRE CALAMITY To be Followed by a Political, Eellgioua and Social Millenium. PACTS USED IN TBE DEDUCTIONS iwuithui ron thx dispatch, t Among other things of interest, Prof. Jos. 'Bodes Bnchanan, in his remarkable article on "The Coming Cataclysm of America and Europe," published in the August number of the Arena, predicts the income of a Semocratio administration in 1S92. Not proving satisfactory, however, the Labor party will next take the reins of government In hand. The deaths of the two prominent men now at the head of administrative affairs will, he says, take place inside of three years Presi dent Harrison being the last to go. The Czar is to have a violent end within two years, and Queen Victoria will depart this world some time in 1891. The Prince of Wales will haye but a short reign, followed by abdication and death within ten years. The opening of the twentieth century will be "pregnant with war and discord," both here add in Europe a war which will eventually end in the destruction of mon archy there, and in a social and political revolution ot great import in the United States, the latter to occnr about 19 years hence, and continuing till the year 1916. The six years prior to tbat date, says our author, "will be by far the most calamitous that America has ever known." A LABOR AND CAPITAL WAS. The war here will, he affirms, be a labor and capital war, complicated by religious discord and tbe race question. The Chris tian Church will be shattered in the coming conflict, as an ecclesiastical power, but the twenty-first century "will witness the ex istence of a religion in which all that is good in the past will survive." The mar riage relation is also to be more satisfactorily adjusted. The cycle of woman is approach ing with full compensation for all the horrors we are to suffer. Nature, too, he says, is busy preparing many calamities for nse. The continued destruction of our forests will bring about an increase in floods and barrenness. The Yang-tse-Kiang in China, in its last over flow, overwhelmed 309,00'J square miles ot territory, and destroyed nearly 1,000,000 of people, xne .Mississippi win in time De come a like scourge to us. Cyclones, strange seasons, failure of crops and consequent suf fering and mortality are some of the evils which are also to be on the increase. Bnt the grand climax is to be geological. The natural convulsion is to begin on tbe Pacific coast, probably extending toward the Sand wich Islands, and- from British America down to the coasts of Mexico. "Lower Cali fornia will suffer severely, especially San Diego and Coronado." THE EAST TO SUFFEB. But the most awful effects of the shock, which is also to be accompanied by im mense tidal waves of destructive power, will be felt along the Atlantic seaboard. The latter, affirms the writer, will be almost totally wrecked by submergence and tidal waves, from the borders of New En gland to the southern shores ot the Gulf of Mexico. Everv seaboard citv south ot New England that is not more than SO feet above- tbe sea level ot tne Atiantlo coast, is destined to a destructive convulsion. Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, San Augustine, Savannah and. Charleston are doomed, and Richmond, Baltimore, Wash ington, Philadelphia, Newark, Jersey City and New York will suffer in various degrees in proportion as they approach the sea level. Brooklyn will suffer less, but the destruction ot Jersey City and New York will be the grandest horror of the ages. Southward, the countries and States bor ing the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico will suffer with more or less severity. Southern Florida will probably be entirely wiped out The flood caused by tbs tidal wave will roll np the Mississippi as far as Baton Bogue. Caraccas will be entirely destroyed. THE EABTH TO CHANGE POLES. "In Europe the grand climax of geological convulsion will end in a terrific shock affecting the who'e Mediterranean region and Egypt. The Suez Canal will be washed ont, and Cairo and Alexandria severely in jured. Tbe final crash, says Buchanan, will come near the hour of noon, and will last about an hour. But all this, horribl as it appears, is notbing to the stupendous event that, the writer afhrms, may also take place in this, our time or calamity, from 1910 to 1916. Some 100,000 years ago, the earth, owing to astronomic events, was suddenlv whirled from its position, changed its pole's and overwhelmed its tropical regions in ice. The laws of periodicity make ,probablo the re-occurrence of the same event again some day. And if any such disturbance occurs now, remarks our autbor, it will in all probability take place some time during the six years of cataclvsm mentioned." But out of all this horror of ruin and wreck, of war and destruction, there will finally rise a pure and ennobling democracy, a new religion and social law, that will re generate the world anew, and the twenty first century will see peace and universal brotherhood the rule. Nature will take a rest for another cycle of centuries, and the dawn of better days will merge into a mill ennium of redeemed and perfected hu manity. BASIS OF THE PBEDICTIONS. Naturally enough, the article in question has attracted much and widespread atten tion. That the criticism bestowed is often of a captious and skeptical nature is even more a matter of course. Tile material spirit of tbe nineteenth century scoffs at the possi bility of what may be called the prophetic instinct in man, and is at the same time too ignorant ofi the scientifio basis, upon which prediction, to be accurate, is necessarily founded. As a man and author, however, Prof. Buchanan is too well known to be hastily judged and condemned In the pres ent instance as unworthy respect and cred ence. That he himself is thoroughly sin cere and in earnest no one can doubt. His eonvictions are based on a positive, scien tific law of periodicity, tested for over 30 years. So tremendous an announcement, he says, should not Le made from any lim ited data. It should be tested in every pos sible way before giving it to the public, and it has been. The parallax is established and the telescope is positive in its revela tion?. THE PEOFESSOB'S METHODS. It is difficult almost impossible how ever, for the uninformed, and I may say the uninitiated to even approximate "an understanding of the process by which such a parallax is arrived at: And the difficult? is increased by the lact that there is more than one such process.' Among those pro cesses whieh may be called purely scientific, is that which is based on the laws of proba bility, the mathematical theory of which aims at reducing to calculation where po'ssi ble, the amount of credence due to proposi tions or statements as to the occurrence of events future or past, more especially as con tingent or dependent upon other propositions or events the probability of which is known. The law of probability, however, seems to differ with every distinct class of events, making the necessary calculations a matter of considerable experience and skill, minded with a constant element nf mnm less uncertainty. .ne Jaws ot periodicity, Jwweyer, on the SEPTEMBER U, 1890. other hand, are generally accurately defined, and predictions founded thereon have there fore exceptional weight. Predictions con cerning the weatber, crops, seasons, diseases, social and political problems, and astronom ical events are based on the laws of periodic ity as ascertained by repeated observance and from recorded facts and statistics, and mathematical calculations, which last, in the case of astronomical predictions, are almost absolutely correct. TELEPATHIC PBEDICTION. There is also prediction based on the psychic or telepathic powers in man, a method governed by the laws of thought transference and magnetic radiations mun dane and supermundane. The more sensi tive the brain to such transference and radiation, the more vivid and clearly de fined the perception of things to come. Forebodings, presentiments, intuitive per ception concerning the future, up to instant and positive conviction, all belong to the telepathic realm of predictive power. Still another and psychially higher source is that based on intelligent clairvoyant vision, having lor background the astral light or ether a background made pic torially panoramic of things past, pres ent and to come, by the formative power of thought. All mundane events are born of thought, which.first takes living form and substance on this astral side of nature, waiting only the alcbemlo power of will and opportunity to materialize itself on the more material plane below and without. It is thus tbat coming events do actually cast their shadows before them, and tbat the clairvoyantly developed sensitive mind may behold and foretell tnem, THE UNCEBTAINTT. But here also, the element of uncertainty creeps in, made present by the complex nature of many of these thought projections, involving, as they do, en masse, individual, national and racial characteristics, not rarely of donbtful and confnsed import The seer, therefore,, must be clear sighted and wise beyond his fellows, to read the visions aright. That predictions based on this power of clairvoyant sight so oiten fail, is probably due'to inability to so read, as well as to tbe failnre of will or opportunity for subsequent materialization on the ter restrial plane. Mankind cannot always do what it would, even when nationally roused to resolve. Some such powers, telepathie and clair voyant, Prof. Buchanan claims for himself, regulated and tested, however, by scientific deductions and mathematical formulae. Nor is this his present attempt at predic tion inceptive; during the progress of the last nail century ne bas foretold tbe ap proach of many important events, social and political and geological, with remarkable accuracy and success. His present recently expressed convictions therefore demand more than ordinary attention and respect It may be as well to add that prediction is not prophecy which is tantamount to say ing Uiat Prof. Buchanan does not claim to be an inspired i. c. passive medium for divine or spirit utterance in any sense of the word at all. He is a scientific predictor not a prophets Maek F. Gbiswold. TIGHT-EOPIHG HIAGABA. S. J. Dlxon'a Fenta Compared Wltb Those of Blondin and Others. If ewYork World. The feat of S. J. Dixon in crossing Niagara's gorge on a tight rope recalls other efforts in that direction. When, in 1859, M. Blondin proposed to stretch a cable across the river and walk over on ft, everybody thought it impossible. He was without money, but a subscription was raised, the rope purchased, and for two seasons thou sands of people witnessed his performances. The second season he had a rival in Slgnor 'Farina, and tbe two walked almost daily, lilondin below tbe Suspension bridgr and Farina near the falls. It was the second season that Brondin carried Harry Colcord across on his back in the presence of tbe Prince of Wales. Blondin and Farina were followed later on by Mme. Spelterini, Harry Leslie and La Pierre, the latter dropping from his rope into the river. After LaPierre no rope-walking was done until tbe summer of 1887, when Stephen Peere erected a wire cable between tbe Cantilever and buspension bridges, which was successfully crossed by him on Wednesday, June 22, 1887, while quite a heavy wind was blowing. At a late hour Saturday night, June 25, 1887, Peere was found dead on tbe slope beneath the cable. It is supposed he committed suicide. The cable was not ued again until Satur day, August 13, 1887, when Prof. J. E. DeLeon attempted to make the trip, but his performance was unite unsatisfactory. The cable is seven-eights of an inch in diameter, 900 feet long and weighs 9S0 pounds. MEMENTO OF THE LOST CAUSE. A Piece of IbcLlIIiocrupb Stone With Which Confederate Money Was Made. In an old cemetery called M Tabor, near Anderson, S. C, some curious pieces of rock were recently picked up. One of these bad two inscriptions on it. They were the ends of the engravings of two Confederate $10 bills, and on a closer inspection it was tound tbat the delicate tracing of the en graver had not been erase'd or defaced by the action of the elements. The story of the stone is one that smacks of the romantic side of the Civil War. It Vat used in the mint at Bichmond, in printing those ten-dollar evidences of the poverty of a perishing nation with which the war-worn South was flooded up to the final catastrophe of tbe evacuation of the Confederate capital. When the heads of departments of the Government fled they carried away with them the stones used in printing the paper promises to pay ot tbe Confederacy. Among others was this stone. But tho emergencies of the case grew so great that some of the stuff had to be abandoned, and among other articles these stones were sacrificed They were concealed in an old university near Anderson, where it was hoped the Fed erals wonld not discover them. But not so. The raiders were qntck-witted and keen scented in those days, and they were not long in ferreting ont the whereabouts of these now useless relics, and they were soon broken. A large number of broken pieces were cast into a deep well near by, where they were afterwards discovered when the well was cleared out By some means a number of pieces were collected by the negroes and carried to the cemetery, where, in accordance with the negro's innate love for anything odd and curious, they were used as headstones and ornaments for the graves. Destroying Wmpi, Adweller in the country, who has. had considerable experience with wasps, gives the following method for compassing their quietus: Cover yourself with flannel round neck, head, bands and arms; arrange a net around your face so that no wasps can enter or touch you. Now dissolve half n pound or camphor in one pint of paraffin oil. Get a large metal syringe, such as is used for enemas, and at nightfall saturate the nest oy quirang tne paramntnto tbe entrance, Bepeat the dose if necessary. Do notap. i li AiiiTtT. i imwHaaiini, ; -J A ONE-SIGHT STAND. How Two Dizzy Beauties of Texas Tore Up a Harlem Theater AND THEN QUIT THE BOARDS. A Growler Spoils a Bright Fatare and a Good Deal of Scenery. FLENTi; OP EEALISM ON THE BTAGE. tcOBBXsroiroEircx or tux DisrATCS.1 New Yobk, September 13. LOVELY son brette, fresh from Texas, supported by a frisky Ingenne from the same State, played a one night stand at a variety theater, Harlem, last week. It was their first appearance upon any stage. The performance can not be said to have elevated the his trionic art mate rially, but it was decidedly interest ing as illustrating the possibilities of Two Growleri the modern blood- and-thnnder drama. The said ibgenue is a cunning and affec tionate four-legged little lady about 5 months old, of the genus TJrsus, and'the said soubrette, party of the first part, now in custody of the Central Park authorites, is a lovely, wild and agile 20-pound speci men of the genus Felis in short, baby bear and wildcat, respectively. The ill-assorted pair were brought from their native mountain fastnesses by a variety gentleman on his recent vacation in the Tom Ochiltree district, Texas. It is not quite certain whether the Ochiltree district is in Texas or Texas in the Ochiltree district, but it is presumed so. MAN AND BBUTE. Lord Byron must have studied the lower animals superficially when he drew tbe only distinction between them and mankind in the ability of the latter to get drunk. In man intoxicants are for the most part a cul tivated taste; in the lower animals a natural one. From the elephant down, the latter will drink intoxicating liquors on sight. A man comes naturally by brute Instincts when drunk. So you will pardon poor little Mile. Bruin, when it is reluctantly admitted tbat on the very first day of her arrival she par 'took freely of the beverage which is usually Lots Worse Than a Mouse. drawn in Harlem with five, inches ot shirt collar on it, and got mellow, got funny, got boisterous, got beastly drunk. Next morn ing she had "hot choppers," and drank a a gallon of cold water, rubbed her poor lit tle head and moaned piteonsly from time to time. She rolled about nearly all day, practically dead to tbe world, possibly vow ing over and over again never, never, never to touch another drop when the stage car penter, who bad gotten through this stage on his own account, brought in a foaming "growler." NO BEFOMI THEBE. If Mile. Bruin had dreamed ot reform it was one of those irridescent dreamswhicb an Ohio politician has characterized as "a d d barren ideality." For she leaped to ber feet at once, and seizing the grpwler pressed it to her youthful bosom with an emotional fervor suggestive of Cora Tanner. With a grateful hug she raised the tin bucket to her lips and gently quaffed long, exhaustive draughts. What recked she of the tax on tin plate? She never hesitated, never paused never even offered anybody else a arinic. vv nen it was over sbe passed the empty bucket back with a plain intima tion for more. Here is where Madmoiselle made a mistake. It is always the last drink that knocks ns ont But Mad amoiselle felt first rate and wanted to feel better. While she was vainly trying to walk a crack, already under the influence of the beer, an acting assistant snpe attempted to induce Mile. Catamount to indulge In a wee drop. Bnt whether a teetotaller or merely indignant at being served with "all sorts," flew at the bars of her cage in a lurious way. DANCE HUSIO IN A OEOWXEB. This cage was on a broad property table in tbe corner, and was ordinarily strong. Mile. Bruin stood on her hind legs unstead ily, and looked at Mile. Catamount with a wicked leer in her eyes. It seemed to re mind ber of Texas all at once. A fresh growler quiokly recalled her back to Har lem. She began to brace up by again hug ging the growler for abont two minntes, during which time its contents disappeared. With an Intelligent attitude for imitation of her buman equals in society Mile. Bruin cow undertook the execution of a sailor's hornpipe. She was a little discon certed when the turn was over to find that one of her legs persisted in bending the wrong way. She examined it once or twice rather curiously, and scratched her head in deep thought. At this juncture a fresh growler was brought in, whereat Mile. Bruin was so de lighted that she Jumped upon the property table and tried to make Mile. Catamount understand the situation. But tbat loveliest of her sex resented this familiarity by sud denly gathering in a double handful of hair from Mile. Brnin'a shoulder and hissslg the performance like a whole Bowery gallery. Mile. Brnin was too much astonished to re tpond promptly, and without a word jumped down with such a lightning somersault, that she looked like a big bunch' of hair with 12 or 15 legs. She squatted down a moment, silently licking the place where the wool ought to grow,but will never grow any more. Mile. 'a feelings were hurt It took the entire con tents, of the third growler to brace her up. THE OLD, OLD STOET. The next morning's sun rose on a red-letter day in tbe history of the place. Mile. Bruin rose considerably later, suffering from .Lead. The same parched throat yearned for" vpiipnin v n uciiuiinii. r urns t nn am ma r,i i a barret or ice water.. If the had been at a ordinary hotel Mile. Bruin v would have hopped out of bed and pressed the button connecting with a pitcher of ice water and a gin cocictai, which wonld have materially modified her views of life in Harlem. As it ' was, she tossed restlessly on ber pallet, con sisting oi a pint or sawdust, and tried to re call where she had obtained her last drink, and the circumstances attending the loss of a fraction of her epidermis. An attache came in and got something to feed the animals. Poor petite Mile. Bruinl She licked his hands and begged for some thing to cool her raspingthroat. She didn't want any breakfast. She wanted a drink. But he couldn't understand Texan "as she is spoke" by Mile. Bruin. So piteonsly, however, did she beg, so gentle and sub dued her manner that the man loosened the chain abont her neck before he went away. HUNTING A DBINK. It nsed to be a war proverb that a soldier who sincerely set about getting a drink would be sure to get one. The Lord helps those in this way who help themselves. No sooner had the unexpected deliverer vanished than Mile. Bruin slipped her chain and paused a moment before tbe dressing room, whence tbe snarl came. There were various charcoal sketches on the door. Was Mile. Funntcit Trees Thev Ever Saw. Bruin studying art? or was sbe mentally debating whether to go in and smash Mile. Catamount or go and get a drink first? With a process or human reasoning almost touch ing she decided to hunt up a drink. She softly left the greenroom and entered the wings and npon the stage. Nothing but an array of em pty seats. There was a forest scene on, and for a moment Mile. Bruin was thrilled with joy. Not because ofthe rocks and tfees and flowers and vines that suggested her native wilds of Texas not at all. On the paint bridge far up against tbe rear wall were sundry cans of paint A TEBBIBLE FALL. To the poor petite ingenue they appeared to be growlers representing so much beer. Every nerve and muscle was now alive. She forgot her headache. Her thirst increased. With the keen instinct born of tbe necessi ties of the moment she quickly discovered the ladder. The paint bridge gained, she made for the supposed growlers, grasping the nearest in her strong yonng arms with a smile of satisfaction. In another instant a copious shower of white paint covered the surrounding scenery. Another and poor petite ingenue snorted and growled and knocked half a dozen paint cans right and left, and a shower of brushes, red. white, green, blue, yellow and every other kind of paint went splashing and rat tling down to the stage below. She gave a spring for the nearest tree, and if ever there was a bear surprised! it was Mile. Bruin, for tho branches were a delusion and a .snare. and the great trunk that rose so grandly, about which she threw her limbs, shrank into a skeleton of lath and canvass and nails. A NEW KIND OF TBEE. Bipl snortl split! swish! splitl yell I Mile. Brnin had never struck a tree like that before. She landed on the stage with a lacerated carcass and a combination of con fidential expressions which could they have been translated into Harlem English would have made tbe hair of a dead saint curl. There wasn't enough of that stage tree left to make a court plaster. At least not enough court plaster to cover the scars of Mile. Bruin. Now it so happened that this was matinee day. The combination of blondes had tbe legal right to the theater. Any perform ance of Mile. Bruin or others was,tnerefore. in the shape of an extra or unprofessional matinee not advertised. It was getting on toward 2 o'clock and two or three of the real ladies ofthe combination had taken posses sion of their dressing rooms. The bossjady herself, a fleshy beanty of several tender summers unaccounted for, was there, and of course the knowledge that the bear was loose caused a panic. As soon as Mile. Brnin recovered her breath from the haz ardous descent from the paint bridge she was mad all over. She was scratched and bruised and dry and covered with paint and dirt It was not unlike human reasoning for her to at once attribute her misfortunes to Mile. Catamount, her nearest enemy. A BEAUTY TBEED. Having arrived logically at this con clusion Mile. Brnin recovered her equilib rium and immediately started for the dress ing rooms in search of her tormentor. Rh reached the first door where she heard a noise just as one ofthe girls was climbing upon her table with a yell. The dressing room door latch is little more than a fiction and it gave way to Mile. Bruin's weight with scarcely a protest. But Mile. Bruin was not hungry jnst now she was after other game. For she immediately retreated to the next door. T-e-a-o-u-g-hl Ah I now she knew where Mile. Cata mount was! In another instant down went the door. SmashI Yeoughl Snlftl Bang! Growl! went the Texas ladies, tooth and naiL Mile. Bruin broke that cage into smithereens. Both Mile. Catamount and Mile. Bruiu rolled out into the greenroom floor and over and over each other in a rough and tumble fight that lasted about a minute. The lur and hair flew around in a cloud. Then Mile. Bruin got in a good one with her right that sent "Mile. Catamount sprawling out on the stage. Here Mile. Catamount s"aw the forest She didn't recog nize it at first, but suddenly darted for one of the trees and essayed to reach 'the nearest branches. BBUIX'S 8WEET EEVENOE. She came down, slitting great strips of canvass with her sharp claws. When she reached the stage with a thump there was Mile. Bruin to send her spinning. Up sbe went up another property tree, making holes at every step and down she came to get another and another whack from Mile. Bruin, who, now covered with paint and gore, was a sight to behold. Mile. Bruin knew those trees. She made no attempt to follow her hated rival. All she had to do was to wait and. wback and this she did until about seven of the traditional nine lives of Mile. Catamonnt were exhausted. Tbe other two would haye gone the same way bnt for an inspiration of the stage car penter, who arrived on the scene with a growler of beer. Mile. Bruin turned once more to the paths of peace and pleasantness. -Here was that drink. She embraced the opportunity and the growler: and under the soothing pota tion offered no objections to being, rnbbed down, recbained and led back to her corner. Mile. Catamount wis also secured. The next day she was sent to Central. Park, a present to the city of New York. Mile. Bruin is still leading a quiet bnt steady lite of dissipation at the variety. Sbe hasn't as m nnn i mir .nnr n n a aa a.. t way withaJl'of.ui-MWB grow older. mucn nair.,out has more sense. It u the w- Chaslm t, Mrrpgi-r, TELEGRAMSAT SEA, Another of Edison's Forthcoming Electrical Marvels Tested on the City of New York. MESSAGES SENT BOTH WATS Between the Ionian Liner and the Steamers She Passed on Her Last Voyage Over the Atlantic SENSATION AM0XG THE PASSEJfGEES. Fleasnre Beeiers Will Draw tie Line at Ficttii? 8ewi Off the Cables. rcossEsroxBxxcx or nns sisfatcs.i On Boabd Steamship City op Nirw Yobk, JMEAK yUEENSTOWN, AngUStt A great problem, it is believed, bas been solved and information as to the caprices of fortune have been caught np in mid ocean by some mysterious force and in some mysterious way. Electricity, that subtle power of which so little is yet known, is to be used in communicating between moving ships on the ocean. The process seems easy when it is all explained by the genius of those who have conceived the idea of cap turing sparks of lightning in the air, on the ground and along the water, but to the layman all this seems a myth, and I wonder how many doubting ones will read this story. What fun we have had on this voyage in watching and wondering at the new nse to which this marvelous force is being put This palatial floating hotel with its 1,700 souls on board, is the vehicle, and many of those going ashore at this moment to make a trip through Ireland carry with" them a new experience gained at sea. How it came about no one knows, and how far it will enter into the economy or expenditure ofthe future in life and property remains in the hand of time. The story of sparks and flashes, as my mind gathers it, is an interest ing one. MYSTEEY Or A BEAUTY. A round-faced, rosy-cheeked girl walked the deck of this wonderful ship for two days after our departure. ,Her step was springy and her whole manner that of a woman thoroughly at her ease, yet, she did not look to be over 23 years ofage. Occa sionally a man wearing the air of an artist was seen speaking to her. Generally she was alone, and frequently leaned over .the side of tbe vessel, as if in a deep study of something in tbe water. She did not appear melancholy in the least, but bright and happy. Her manner was so unlike that of the rest of the guests of this modern giant of the ocean that before a day was out, everyone of the first saloon passengers were wondering who she was. She seemed constantly on the move and there was a business-like purpose in all her actions, far away lrom the sleepy and stupid ocean traveler who is simply bent on pleas ure. This young lady had the best accom modations on this great ship which seems faultless in construction, equipment and service, yet appeared to be alone, excepting the mysterious man who occasionally talked with ber in a business-like way. A nnmber of the people endeavored to become ac quainted with the fair young woman who was attracting so much attention, bnt while pleasant to all, she would drift away from any attempt to become on intimate terms with her. 4 A STEANGE INSTEU3IENX. Twice on the second night ont she was seen alone in the bow of the ship with a strange-looking instrument in her hand mounted on the new metal railing of tha vessel, which seemed to have jnst been placed there. A nnmber of tbe passengers watched her every movement, and reported that after an hour of effort at something no one knew what she folded up the little case in her hand and walked rapidly toward her stateroom with a look of disappointment npon her face. This incident only increased tbe curiosity of the passengers, for it was not five minutes before those who were able to sit up knew all about tbe strange occur rence, as those who travel tbe ocean know that information more or less correct travels faster on shipboard than anywhere else in the world. The southern course this yearis a popular one on account of the amount ot ice which seems to have broken loose from tbe coasts of Northumberland Island and Greenland and floated south into the eddies below- the banks of Newfoundland. It is to shun them that the Ionian line of steamers take a more extreme southern coarse than any other, and have met no ice this season. In fact, no first-class steamship of any of the lines except the Cunarders tnat sail to Bos ton have reported any ice except the Nor. mannia. AN OUNCE OF PBEVENTION. But the City of New York sailed mora than a hundred times out ofthe short course to be safe from those floating mountains which come down from the north, a menace to those who go to sea. She thus lost some in speed, but gained in public confidence. This far southern course takes us away from the general line of travel, and no ships were sighted until the third day out, when a number hove in sight A ship at sea is an event worthy of consideration. The passen gers are all notified tbat one is in sight Everyoneis anxious to look at theapproach Ing cralt, but no one on the City of New York was so eager as the mysterious young lady with the singular-looking instrument in her hand. Perhaps it was 3 o'clock in the afternoon when the first sensation of the voyage was sprung by the announcement of the ap proach, of a Cunarder. The young woman and the strange young man with her walked rapidly toward the front part- of the boat and stopped at a point where the metal lin ing was, the very place wnere she had been seen the night beiore. For a few momenta the? were in close conversation and both seemed to grow nervous as the two magnifi cent cralts came closer together. Vossibly a mile separated them when the two grew serious and seemed to be debating about their work. THE FIBST MESSAGE. They were in the same half excited state, until the Anrania, which they were eyeing with so mnch anxiety, had passed far astern of us. Then the two walked suddenly toward the after part of the vessel, secluded themselves and sbe began writing. It was not two minutes beiore the man left her side with a paper in his band and walked toward the captain's cabin under the bridge. The dignified old tar who has sailed the ocean lor 40 years and had many remarka ble adventures read this message in regular telegraphic form: Captain Watklas, Cltvof SewYort: Crossed longltade.50. Clear weather. No ice. All well and happy. McKat, Captain Anrania. The captain smiled at these good tidings, but never said a word to a soul on board about this new experiment in communica ting between moving vessels. Two hours later a "tramp" was sighted and the hand some woman and the mysterious young man were again on the bow of the ship and fire, minutes later the following dispatch was picked off from omewbere or somehow by tbe little brass macnine the young lady operated: Captain WatUas, City of K aw Tort. Tblslsxho Missouri, bound from London taL". J -33 i l m m e .M.Wit ,, VM.MV M.f W VVft VWMjrfl.J K - r- j: j.i&
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