P2TTSBTJB,q.
the Parnell family hare been christened,
and an ottoman tipped with an Irish harp
in bog oak carved by Connolly, on which
lies a quilted green silk spread sent to Mr.
Parr.e.l when he was imprisoned in Kil
tnainham, and on either side of the windows
are two nandsome caskets in carved oak and
silver, one given by the city of Dublin and
the other by the city of Limerick.
ItEJIIXDEB OP HIS MOTHER.
Behind the former is an address from
"U'atcrford and the latter is backed by the
address presented to Mrs. Delia S. Parnell,
the statesman's mother, by the National
Land League of the county of "Wicklow.
There are a number of examples of the old
masters and many family pictures on the
walls, and two very handsome inlaid
marble tables which are covered with
old china, rare bits of glass and other bric-a-brac
Under one of these tables stand the
full-sized wheelbarrow and spade in hoc
oak and solid silver presented by "William
Murphy when Mr. Parnell turned the first
sod of the West Clare Kailway.
Ihe mantelpiece is a very rare and valua
ble example of Florentine mosaic done in
Irish marble, the entire frame being
traversed with shaded wreaths of foliage,
iruiU and flowers. On the center table are
three emu eggs mounted in silver, and pre
sented bv Mr. John Vox, an Irish-Australian,
to Mr. Parnell. to his mother and eis
ter Fanuv, also an lister egg m silver and
gilt sent bv the Irish ladies of Liverpool to
Kilniainhamjail, with a golden yelk of a
hundred guineas.
OM.Y ONE PICTURE.
The walls and ceiling of the dining room
are elaborately and admirably decorated in
stucco work alter the very bestsUleof the
renaissance, a peculiar effect being produced
by large wall mirrors inlaid lu wreaths of
finely finished plaster flower work, and
tnere are some ery choice medallions in
color, also set flush with the snrlace of the
walls. The only picture is a life-sue portrait
of Commodore Charles Stewart, father ot
Mrs. Delia S. Parnell, painted by Sully,
alter his ictorv over tne British navy on
the big lakes. There are some Chippendale
cnairs and a sideboard made to fit the alrove
built lor it. If anyone were to reproduce
this room in America he would not regret
it, and. lor that matter, the whole plan of
the house is very livable, and is a good
model for a country house anj where.
The library, which also serves as the
breakfast room, is on the left, facing toward
the Mceta.g of the Waters. There are
many thousand books, mostly old volumes,
many o which jre very valuable, having
been collected by the grandfather of the
prcset.t owner, Mho was a great enthusiast
in art and letters. Iu one corner is a curi
ous octagon est, matched by one of more
laod-rn design at the ingle nook, and com
fortable arm chairs stand on either side of a
wide wood fireplace, with tables, dinner and
tea, dotted here and there over the room.
FAVORITE MOUNTAIN EETKEAT.
During ray visit e went to the moun
tains alter grouse, driving tbrouch the fa
mous village ot Aughrim, then upward and
onward until the grass and the trees were
left behind, and the purple heather bloomed
nut against the brown turf and gray bleak
stone The air became purer, a sense of
still beauty came over one as the light and
shade chased each other over the rounded
slopes of radiant color: now the mountain
frowned, and now a flash leaped up as the
sunshine tipped some brook trickling adown
th? canyons.
Presently we turned a long spur of the
hills and got a first glimp.e ot Augh-a-Tanash,
which imans in English "Tne
House oi the Dirtv Woman," where Charlis
S. Parnell is most at home, for he prefers
the nlace in the mountains even to Avnu
dile. After the revolution of 179S the En
glish colonized Wicklow with a resident
armrana built military roads and barracks
for the soldiers.
By the strange irony of fate the chierest
fortalice, in which, as the story goes, 2.000
Men were lodged, was altered over by Mr.
Paruell's f itlier, and the central portion now
serves as a shooting lodgp, while the ends
are gone to rack ami ruin, and the vast ex
panse of the walled in drill yard serves as a
TLATGEOUS Droit TnE DOGS.
The rooms are vast and desolate. The
vislas from the windows arc sublime. In
lrout the valley trends s way lor miles and
ruiics, while in the rear Lug-na-quilla, the
second highest mountain in Ireland, rises
aloft over thousands of acres amid the drift
ing clouds that enwrcath its regal summit.
Charles fa. Parnell is kot the strong man
that he was in ears gone by. He was wont
to sit by the sreat fireplace and think, when
he should hive been on the moor. The
wear and worry of nis weishty life of tur
moil, anxiety and relaxation have worn
upon him, and the lusty limbs that were
wont to lean from clump to clump of heather
rested easier in the saddle of the shooting
pony that Mr. Corbett had brought along.
But wheu the wide ranging dogs stiffened
to statues ot red bronze and there was the
hush of expectancy in the air, then the old
spirit came oer him and he sprang lightly
to the sod, grasped he old under-grip gun,
made by Itigbv, of Dublin, and given him
by bis brother John 20 years ago. and then
slowlv, anxious.lv. meu and doss drear on
until tne brown birds burst into air with
deck of beak and whirr of wings, as though
a volcano had exploded at our feet.
THE SPOUT OJT THE JIOOB.
The guns speak, feathers fly, some of the
nack sail over the hill on outspread pinions,
some come thudding to the heather tc drum
out their life or scramble into vain sought
hiding amid the cracks and lumps of turf.
Or may be the white scut of a hare goes
bobbing over the nnevenground, firing last,
but not fat enough lor the leaden hail that
follows. I have known most hunting that
there is, but give me a good grouse mour in
good season and I will ask no more.
We fished and shot, feasted on the spoils
of our rods and guns and wondered at the
people of the place, with their patient,
hopeful, hopeless, let-things-be, it's-all-for-the-best
way of living Then one morning
we drove away from Avondale, through the
undulating hills, across lovely Glennamure
and through the choicest scenes of Wick
low to tLe Seven Churches and Gleuda
Jough. Here we took a boat, rowed under
Si. Kevin's Bed, caught a basket ot fine
lake trout, and then to horse azain, and
followed the Avon back to the old house on
the hill. My visit was wondrous pleasant
and will not soon be forgotten.
H. F. Johnston.
THE POWER OF HABIT.
How Tincture of Aloes Got tlie Better of a
Eright Young Man.
I have read of men who have acquired the
habit of chewing cloves or coffee beans until
the habit bad taken as strong a bold as ever
did alcohol, morphine or cocaine upon its
victims, savs Dr. A.C.Hobinson, of St. Louis,
in the Globe-Democrat. I can readily be
lieve this, because there is a young man ol
ray acquaintance who actually acquired
what was for a long time an uncontrollable
taste for the tincture of aloes, one of tbe bit
terest substances in or out of the pharnia.
copcsia. He had beeu addicted from child
hood to the disagreeable habit of biting his
finger nails incessantly. He was advised
to touch the tips of his fingers with the
tincture of aloes. At first the remedy was
successlul, but the desire to nibble at his
nails was incessant.
Gradually he got used to the bitter taste.
Later on be craved it, and he actually
reached the point where he carried a phial
of the fluid about with him, and applied it
from time to time to bis finger ends, being
utterly miseraole without it. The effect on
his constitution of this idealized nircotiza
tion at last became so serious that he ap
plied to a celebrated nervous specialist who,
treating the habit as a disease, in some
manner effected a cure. Tbe young man
now grows talons where lie bad the nails
gnawed down to tbe quick formerly.
A. Boom for Uncle Jere
Ex-Speaker J. Warren Keifer, of Ohio,
says be believes the Republican nominee for
President, if the convention should be held
tbis winter, would be ex-Governor Jeremiah
Busk, of Wisconsin, Secretary of Agriculture.
ELECTRIC EXECUTIO
flow the Eillins: of Kemmler Might
flaye Been Made Much More
Successful.
A CONSTANT C0RHENT NEEDED.
Tbe Dynamo Fumisteda Constant Pressure
and the Cnrrcnt Yaried With
the Resistance.
A PEOPER MACHINE EASILY MADE.
The Trouble It Ttit tat Hnmsa Body Doesn't Always
Eire th Suae Bcsutues.
tWRITTEJf TOR TUB DISrATCH.1
The execution of Kemmler by electricity
is still fresh in the minds of the public, and
other executions by the same means are to
occur shortly in the State of New York.
The certainty of these future executions
make it incumbent upon those in charge to
profit by the experience gained in Kemni
ler's case. It has been charged that the
harrowing scenes in the execution room
origin ited in the minds of correspondents
whose imagination was stimulated by parties
interested; but it has not been proved.
Nevertheless, leaving this out of sight, it is
an established fact that the current was ap
plied the second time upon Kemmlei, and,
to that extent at least, the execution was a
failure.' Why was it so?
There is not the shadow of a doubt that
people haver been instantly killed by electric
shocks, and these from dynamos of the same
character as that used to kill Kemmler.
This fact alone points strongly in favor of
electrocution. But can the current not be
used to better advantage, and are there not
methods of applying it that will preclude
the possibility or failure?
rOWElt OF THE COMJIEECIAI. DYNAMO.
Electrocution is a new and novel appli
cation of electricity, but suppose it was not
new? Suppose it had come into use about
the time of th. commercial dynamo. Would
it be reasonable to expeot a dynamo built
and designed for incandescent lighting to be
equally well adapted to produce a death
dealing shock? Just because your powder
used iu blasting rocks will kill, is no reason
why a more suitable powder shoulu no: be
used in a gun. Just because a locomotive has
power is no reason for using its power other
wise than on the rails. Engines are built
to suit the work they arc intended to do.
Dynamos are built and designed with the
same object iu view. One dynamo is de
signed for electric plating; another for street
car traction; another for arc lamps; another
lor incandescent, and so on almost without
end. But a ujuamo designed for electro
plating would not work at all on an arc
circuit. Can we wonder then, that electro
cution with a dynamo designed to work on
an incandescent circuit has not proved a
grand success?
The dynamo used was a constant potential
machine; that is, it gaveaconstant pressure.
To undeistand what this and that which is
to follow means, it will be necessary to
understani the simple law of the flow of
electric current, called Ohm's law. It is
this. The pressure or the force pushing the
current through the circuit is always equal
to tbe current flowing multiplied by the re
sistance of the circuit. That is, suppose the
pressure were 2,000 volts and the resistance
1,000 ohms, then the current would of neces
sity be 2 amperes. It the pressure were
2,000 volts and the resistance 2,000 ohms,
then the current would be only 1 ampere.
it's the cuunE ;t that kixxs.
Thus it will be seen that with a constant
pressure the current will vary inversely as
the resistance.in other words if tbe rcsistince
is doubled the current will be halved. Now
it must be distinctly understood that it is
the current that kills, not the pressure.
However, as the resistance of the human
body is Terr high, it takes a great pressure
'to lorce tbe netded current to produce in
stant death through the body. Exactly
what this death-dealing current is, I do not
know, nor does anybody else. However,
lor the convenience of arguing the point in
question, let us assume that one ampere is
the needed current to produce instant
death, and I do not think tnat tbis can be
far out of tbe way.
The dynamo used on Kemmler was a con
stant pressure machine. Now, if we assume
that it gave s pressure of 2,000 volts and that
the resistance of Kemmler s body was 2,000
ohms, then the current passed through his
body wonld have been one ampere, which,
according to our assumption, would have
produced instant death. But, on the other
hand, if the resistance of Kemmlcr's body
had been greater than 2,000 ohms, then the
current would have been correspondingly
less, and death, according to our assump
tion, would not have bien instantaneous.
Now, is it an undisputed tact that the elec
trical resistance ot the human body is chang
ing all tbe time, and that, too, through very
wide limits. A constant pressure dynamo
might, therefore, at one moment yield tbe
death-dealing current of one ampere aud the
next moment entirely fail, due to the change
of the resistance of the body placed in the
circuit.
A COSSTANT CURRENT THE THING.
Ere this it must have become per "ectly
clear to the reader that what is needed for
the purpose in question is a constant cur
rent dynamo, be the death-dealing current
what it may, 1, 2, 2J or 3 amperes. It is
just as easy to build a constant current
dynamo as it is to build a constant pressure
dynamo. The use of a constant pressure in
candescent dynamo for electrocution is to
my mind like using a shotgun to shoot a
man to death, in so far that the instruments
in either case are not designed for that kind
of work, and, consequently, when used tor
this purpose, they fail to give entire satis
faction. There is also one other way of
looking at it. A blunderbuss will kill a
man, but a pistol will do tbe came work
better aud with less powder.
The incandescent machine used on Kemm
ler was, if I remember rightly, a COO-light
machine, and this means a capacity of
about 40-horse power. But a machine de
signed for the purpose aud having a capac
ity of about four or five horse power, would
do the work better and bear the s-iioe rela
tion to the 40-horse power machine that
the pistol does to the blunderbuss. Let us
now take a closer view of a constant current
machine and see what can be done with it.
We know that a constant current machine
can be made, and we know that it is the cur
rent which causes death, and not the pres
sure. However, we do not know the exact
current needed to produce death. It may
not, in fact it is quite likely that it is not,
the same for everybody. The proper cur
rent can only be determined by experiment,
and for this reason it is very much to be re
gretted that this data was not furnished by
the Kemmler experience.
GIVING PLENTY OF M AUG IN.
Now, we have assumed that one ampere
of current is sufficient to kill a man. If
that is so, then two amperes will more than
likely cover every possible case, and using
the style ot dynamo that I propose, this cur
rent of two amperes wilt be quite independ
ent of the resistance or other conditions of
the subject It seems to me, therefore, that
the proper dynamo for the purpose in ques
tion is one that will yield a constant current
of two amperes (or to put it more broadly, a
constant current sufficient to cause instant
death) and an electromotive force (pres
sure) capable of rising as high as 10,000
volts.
The application of Ohm's law will show
how such a dynamo will invariably adapt
itself to the resistance of the subject and
cause instant death. One or two examples
will illustrate. Suppose the subject, in
position and ready for death, has a re
sistance of 1,000 ohms; then, accord
ing to Ohin'a law,, the. pressure
must be equal to the constant
current of two amperes twice the resistauoe,
1,000 ohms. This will give a pressure of
2,000 volts, and this constant curreHt ma
chine will instantly adapt itself to these
conditions. Suppose the subject has a ret
sistance of 4,000 ohms, then, as above, ac
cording to Ohm's law the pressure will be
8,000 volts, and again, the dynamo, if con
structed to give a constant current will
adapt itself to these conditions) A little
further consideration will at once show,
thntwith a constant current dynamo, the
preliminary measurements made on Kemm
ler to determine his electrical resistance,
would be unnecessary, for by the very con
struction of the machine any variation in
resistance is provided for. It may be, that
numerically, the above figures do not suit
the case. However, relatively they do. They
serve to convey the idea I have striven to
present. It is not proper to use a blunder
buss for capital punishment when a pistol ia
at hand. Scire Facias.,
1AEGEST DYNAMITE GUIT.'
It Has Just Been rinished and Is to TJso
Compressed Air.
Fall Mall Budget.
Messrs. Taunton, Delmard, Lane & Co.,
ot Birmingham, are just finishing tbe largest
dynamite guu which has yet been made.
Tbe explosive contents are made np for
greater safety iu tiny waxen pellets, and
lodged in a shell, the true flight of which is
secured by a tapering telescopic tail; and
the gun is to be discharged by the expansion
of condensed air at a pressure of B,000 pounds
per square inch, the impulse of which is a
safer propelling energy than the ignition of
any kiud of powder, because it does not
operate so suddenly as to cause a danger of
the premature explosion of tbe missile. The
telescopic tall enables Lieutenant Graydon
to shorten his shell by one-half, aud to re
duce proportionately the length of the im
pulse tube or gun proper; while the use of
a pneumatic charge makes it possible, with
out danger, to construct the shell more
flimsily than would otherwise be the case.
The coutract with Messrs. Taunton & Co.
is for a 15-inch torpedo projector which will
throw a charge of 000 pounds of dynamite a
distance of three miles; but it is expected
that this contract will be followed by orders
for still larger weapons. As soon as the
gun now in hand is delivered there will be
a trial of its powers at Portsmouth against
the Zalinski gun, not with dummy shells,
as iu the case of tbe American experiments,
but with actual charges of dynamite. The
noise of the discharge being small, tbe pro
jectile might be dropped into a fort or on to
a ship without giving the besieged any mti
mition of the quarter from which the attack
came. The concussion when the dynamite
exploded would in all probability he vio
lent enough to put a large garrison hors de
combat, even if they were not wounded by
debris; and, truly aimed, a single shell
wonld destroy an ironclad. The barrel, or
pneumatic tube, of the gun is of Whitworth
lorged steel, and weighs about 11 tons.
TAKIHQ OUT THE CTJBLS.
Colored Girls of Boston Wear Straight Hair
Now.
Boston Special.!
The colored women of this city have
learned that it is possible to takr the tint
out of their hair, and there is quire a sensa
tion over the new discovery.
The idea was introduced by a young col
ored womau from Virginia. She herself has
a glossy bang and back hair as straight as
that "of tbe late Sitting Bull. She
says her own hair was formerly
crisp and kinky, hut that an
old Canadian woman told her how to make
it straight, and this information she is now
imparting for a consideration. The cus
tomer is told first to wash her hair and come
witn it well dried. She does so, and then
the operation begins.
A preparation that is amber-colored and
of the consistency of cream is taken trom a
large jar and rnbbcJ thoroughly into the
hair, and where it was entirely lusterlcss
before it begins to assume a gloss. This is
rubbed so thoroughly into the scalp that
none of the bairscan fail to have received a
portion. Then vigorous brushing is resort
to, anl the short hair besins to lengthen.
If it were an inch long before, it is now
fully two inches long, and if before it had
been done up in what old-fasbioued
Southern people term "plaits," it is
now ready to be rolled into a loose
twist or a loose coil at the back. The oper
ation takes about four hours and is perma
nent in its effects. It gives the colored wom
an a very Indian-like appearance, and the
few who will admit having been treated
claimed thev did it merely to make the la
bor of combing their hair so much the easier.
One of them said: "One thing I know, and
that is that it is terribly convenient to nave
straight hair. I never before realized what
a blessing it was. Before, I dreaded the
task of combing it, and now I don't mind it
at all." Bair straightening promises to be
the fad for the winter among the colored la
dies of Boston.
HOW LONGr.
Motorman Keely and Ills Faithful Com
pany Heard From Again.
New YorkTribune.3
The stockholders of the Keely Motor Com
pany have just been holding their annual
meeting at Philadelphia. Their confidence
in the motor would seem unabated a fact
which shows how much more go there is in
their faith than as yet has been developed
by the machine. It is said that just as soon
as Mr. Keely secures "a practically continu?
ous motion of the engine without variation
of speed" an engine will be made for busi
ness purposes.
Good. It was the esteemed poet Milton
who remarked that "thev also serve who
only stand and wait." The Keely stock
holders doubtless wear this quotation on
their hatbands.
MBS. CSHEA'S HOUSES.
She Has Two Hather Dismal Looking Ones
Down at Brighton.
Fall Mall Bmljct.
Mrs. O'Shei has two houses' jit Brighton,
Nos. 9 and 10, Walsingham terrace. They
are the very last houses ia Brighton iu the
Shorebam direction, tney face the sea, and
look onto some very bleak'and-damp tennis
courts. Even in the summer they look
dismal, and naturally very much more so iu
this weather. At "the ' back the "win.
dows look onto some b.uilding plot
JuYs. O' Shea's JJesfdcnco.
covered with rank- grass. In the distance
tbe down may be seen partly concealed'by a
tea mist. No. 10 is apparently-only partly
furnished and looks Ttjy dismal. No. 9, on
the other hand, looks cheerful enough. A
large cage ot birds may be een in the bow
window on the ground floor, the upper win
dows have red curtain, which,, give a
warmth to the cold stucco facings', while ihe
form of a little girl with'a head qf jrolden
hair gives life to the picture. '"
MSp B' EL' ft fni a or
WHAT COLUMBUS DID
A Discussion of tbe Credit? Which Be
longs to the Genoan.
HIS KAJIE AND TBE WORLD'S PAIE
Carious Old Haps That Foreshadowed the
Aier Continents.
LEGEND OF THE SETTLEMENT OP CUBA
mmus roa the DisrATcrr.i
' NUMBER of ed.
ucated gentlemen
were, a few days'
since, discussing
onr great Chicago
Fair, which is set
for 1893. At first
the talk was di
rected at tbe com
mercial s value to
the world at large,
of these stupend
ous international
expositions. One
and all agreed that
there was no mis
taking their value
to not only our
own country, but to all others. They were
admitted to be the most effective motor
that have as yet been devised by modern
peoples for the advancement of human
knowledge.
As the discussion continued the question
of the name adopted for the coming exposi
tion the Columbian arose. While a ma
jority held that Columbns was entitled
to the honor of the name, as a slight reward
for his achievements, there were others who
insisted that he was not entitled to such
honor, as It was by no means proved that he
had beeu the first to reach the American
Continent.
PERPLEXITY IN DATES.
The first point that awakened argument
was the date of Columbus' alleged discov
ery. To the student of history there was
something perplexing in thin, said they; for
it the credit of having discovered America
was given to Columbns, what was to become
of the claims of tbe others who had unques
tionably visited and in some cases perma
nently located iu this country long before
the Genoan existed?
As the result of a suggestion offered, the
party present then investigated the interiors
ot the standard dictionaries for a definition
of the word "discoverer." It was found
that there was a unanimity of opinion
among lexicographers that "a discoverer"
was one who discloses; who lays bare a
secret; an "explorer" was "a discoverer,"
inasmuch that lie discloses to general knowl
edge that which was not already known.
Now, this was a hook upon n hich the fol
lowers of Columbus could well hang their
arguments. And they proceeded to do it
with great earnestness. Admitted, said
they, that Christopher was not the first by a
little matter ol hundreds or perhaps thou
sans of vcars, he was at least tne first to "lay
bare" tbis great hemisphere to the civilized
world. Scandinavians may have found
their way to it; Irish navigators before that j
again, ana irnoeniciaos iu iar remoter nines
thau either, but they had left no record of
their isits to tne educated world; tbere'ore
were not entitled to credit in the discovery
of tbis country.
WHAT COLUMBUS DISCOTEEED.
But the most interesting phase of the dis
cussion was to come.
"Let us admit this claim for the sake of
agreement," said an individual, who(up to
that time had taken no part in the talk,
&i-:
Marco Polo.
"and come right down to Columbus and his
time, to satisfy ourselves of the justness of
bis claims, as against those of even his own
cotemporaries."
As the gentleman's argument was of con
siderable length the most important points
only, are given below.
On his first and second voyages, Columbus
made all of bis so-called North American
discoveries. Vespucci, his rival, but never
theless his close friend, honors him with the
title of "Discoverer of the Island ot Au
tillia," as a resuh of these voyages. An
tillia is tbe island known to ns as Cuba.
Now, the peculiarity of this discovery it
such it is termed is that tbe island of that
name had a place on the globe of Martin
Bebaim, which bears date 1492. However
indefinitely it is located on this chart, it is
yet the same that Colu-nbus is given tbe
credit of discovering to the world. At tbe
time this giobe was made Columbus had not
returned from his first voyage. Here then
was an island which is at least supposed to
exist before our navigator brings tidings of
its discovery.
STILL EARLIEB C1IABTS.
Furthermore, this ame island appears on
a chart of the year 1425, which is still pre
served in tbe ducal library at Weimar. It
is also represented in the atlas of Andrea
Bianco, made in 143G. and now preserved in
the library of St. Mark, in Venice. Most
interesting'of all, however, is the fact that
it Mas introduced hy the celebrated .Floren
tine philosopher, Toscanclli, in the chart
prepared by him at the request of the King
of Portugal, a copy of which was sent to
Columbus-berore his voyage.
It seems hard to believe that either Tos
cauelli or Behaim would introduce in their
maps a bit of geography which they were
not certain had an cxis'ence in fact, yet such
seems to hive been the case it Columbus
really discovered tiie island. As authority
lor its introduction, Behaim, who was con
sidered one of the greatest map-makers that
ever had an existence, says: "In the year
734; when all Spain was conquered by the
heathen from Africa, the above island was
settled by an archbishop from Oporto, ac
companied by six other bishops, as well ns
other Christians, both meu and women, who
escaped from Spain by ships, with all their
possessions; aud they built seven cities
whence the island was called-the Island oi
the Seven Cities."
THE STORY OF MIGRATION CONFIRMED.
Another ancient legend treats of practi
cilly tbe same story, It locates tbe period
of the migration above mentioned right
alter the victory gained hy the Arabs over
King Roderic ut Xeres de la Froatera in
711. Portuguese historians go into the facts
oi the case, aud contend that such a migra
tion did take place at the time mentioued. If
this story is accepted it is evident some
knowledge ot this out-lying American point
oacl been given 10 me civuizea world before
Columbus had dono so; therefore in this
case, at least, he could lay no claim to dis
covery.' It is argued that the settlement of this Isl
and and its existence was largely legendary!
Eyen if that is admitted, the very fact that
it is placed on tbe most reliable maps of the
time is evidence that the chart makers
really believed in its existence, and if. on
the other hand, it merely evolved from their
imaginations, it is certainly one of the most
remarkable coincidences of history. It hss
also been generally believed that Columbus
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considered himself slighted when the new
continent was named after another; that the
fact of his claims having been rejected so
wore upon him that
DISAPPOINTMENT BEOKE HIS HEAET.
Even Humboldt asserts that the name
"America" was a nionunieni of the world's
ingratitude. Keccnt investigation proves
that there is a great deal of "bosh" in all
of this. It was a fact that Columbus did
not even know that he had "discovered" a
new world no more than did Amerigo Ves
pucci, wbo also died before this had become
kuown. Columbus did not start out to dis
cover new worlds. He had no earthly idea
of doing so, no matter what romantic his
torians would have us believe to the con
trary. His intention was to reach India,
and in records of his after life he indig
nantly spurns any other imputation as to
his intentions.?
In a letter ot his dated 1S00. which is still
extant, he says: "If anyone does not give
me credit with having discovered the re
maining parti ot India, it simply arises
from personal hostility." Again in 1498,
when he made bis third voyage and suc
ceeded in reaching the mouth of the Orinico,
he gave us further proof of his ignorance of
the real geographical situation. He says of
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this river: "If this immense stream does
not flow from the terrestrial paradise, it
must take its rise in a land of boundless ex
tent." WHAT SEBASTIAN CABOT DID.
This was the first glance the Genoan navi
gator had of the main land, whereas that
Anglo-Veuetian, Sebastian Cabot, had
reached the coast of Labrador in June of
the previous year and iu this same year
(1498), actually sailed along the entire
North American coast from the latitude of
Hudson Bay to the lowest point of Florida.
At this point an Englishman of the party
present murmured something about "stick
ing a pin there."
If most accounts be true Columbus' many
voyages were more or less failures, for the
reason that he was always laboring under
the delusion that the strange countries vis
ited by him were parts of India. He Is not
to be censured for this as he was not the only
one who was possessed of tbis idea. Even
the most expert geographers did not admit
the existence of a veritable continent be
tween Eurone and Asia until long after the
death of Columbus. The most curious and
wonderlul ideas prevailed as to what the
navigators of the time had really discovered
and where it was located. In the region of
the South Pole, a laud ot rather vague ex
tent was represented under the name of
"Brazilia Inferior;" South America as
sumes a shape in some respects correct but
North America appears as a small rectan
gle ending at the 50th parallel of north lat
itude.
FINDING THE EARTH TVA3 BOUND.
It would be well at this juncture to in
quire how the stupendous mistakes arose.
To do so thoroughly it becomes necessary
to go back to antiquity.Some 1,800 years
before Columbus made his famous vovages,
Aristotle said that the idea that Spain and
India were separated by water oulv was in
credible. Eratosthanes, a Grasco-Ecyptian
astronomer, who lived a century after
Aristotle, entertained more definite views.
He said: "If the extent of the Atlantic
Ocean did not prevent, it would be possible
lor us to sail from Spain to India along the
same parallel."
Thiswas one of the first intimations that
philosophers believed the earth globular in
shape. ' As the centuries rolled on this idea
became more general until the growing
world of the Middle Ages'began to Insist
that if the earth was round, according to
the theories of the scientists, India could
be reached by sailing to the westward, and
if so commercial Europe would be benefited
vastly.
Then the conglomeration of fact and fable
recounted bv Marco Polo had also its effect.
His wonderful stories of distant "Cathway"
(China) and "Cipango" (Japan), where the
mountains were of solid gold; pearls as com
mon as pebble, and rubies and diamonds
sparkled iu the open soil, was an incentive
that could not long he neglected; even if
almost certain death encompassed the way.
WHAT INSPIRED COLUMBUS.
Columbus was one of these seized by the
fever, and he early began to lay plans for a
voyage in search of these strange countries.
That he was of the opinion that he had
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some of his correspondeuce after his return.
In 1504 he wrote a letter in which he says:
"I reached on the 13th of May the province
of Mango, which is contigious to that of
Cathay. From Ciguara, in the country of
Veragua. it is ouly ten daya' journey to the
Ganges."
Reference to" Behaim's map shows that
Columbus considered himself tn have been
on tbe northern shores of China, and the
mere fact that be gives to the land visited
hy him, the nahies of countries described by
Marco Polo is almost- certain evidence tbat
he was in search of those regions. It was
still further argued that if Toseauelti had
not supplied his plan and Hegiomontanus
his "Ephemerides" or tables of declination
of the sun and caber heavenly bodies, as n
means of assistance to navigators, and if
Behaim and his cotemporaries had not
produced charts and maps, Columbus would
never have been heard of beyond his own
immediate times.
Whether or no the. points raised in the
foregoing are at all worthy of weight in con
sidering the claims of Columbus to having
been the discoverer of this country will not
be discussed af present: Tney are gtven
here aimply for what they are curious
points advanced during an evening's dis
cussion of Columbus.
W. G. KAUFMANN.
Affected Sis Sight.
Cupid Longmlre struck a colored porter
iu Louisville the other day who wears spec
tacles. "Jim," said Cupid, "how did you eyer
get near sighted?"
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FIRE ON THE' RANCH.
Alice MacGowan's Lively Experience
in Southwest Texas.
THE HOUSE BUSTLER OP THE PARTT
A Trained Pony and an Entrained Elder
After a Contrary Calf.
INSPECTING THE USD WITH A GDN
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Buena Ventura Kanch,
Crockett County, Tex, Dec. 18.
This is a cattle ranch in a country where
sheep ranches are the- rule. It-is a beautiful
country, partly high, level plains and
partly roiling prairie, broken by low, flat
topped hills and ridges into hundreds
of draws, hollows or valleys. The land is
fertile, mostly; the varieties of mesquite
grass grow rich and plenteous; the climate
is mild and delightful, northers infrequent
and of modified ferocity, but the great de
sideratum is water.
Kunning water of any sort there is none,
except during and immediately after heavy
rains. The water courses are nine-tenths of
the time arroyps, dry beds or runs, and the
lagunas or lake beds scattered over the
plains to the northeast of this place are'only
dips in the prairies, where the grass grows
fresher a greater portion of the year. For
all these reasons this is an ideal sheep
range, especially desirable to winter sheep
on. They can find among the hollows and
draws shelter from a wind from any direc
tion or directions plenty of long, rich
mesquite grass, while the absence ot water
is no drawback, lor sheep drink very little
or no water in winter, anyhow.
GOING OVER THE RANCH.
But this, as I said, is a cattle ranch. The
family consists of tbe ranchman and his
mother; the other members of the household
being the ranchman's assistant and, jnst
now, myself. I have been "out on the
range" with Mr. Jackson every day since I
got here. A ranchman goes out on the
range or rides over tbe land where the body
of bis cattle run to see it they are all right.
if any are hurt, or sick, or molested by wild
animals, etc.
We each take a gun slung to the saddle
hook, one well trained hound aud two pups
"that aint old enough to have any sense
yet," my host says, aud are on the lookout
lor deer, antelope, cat or panther. The dogs
go to start and trail cats,, foxes or panthers;
so far we have seen only deer, and the two
senseless pnps always rush in yelping just
in tltnA frt Hrivi. th. rramt nwav
I can never, somehow, receive tbe im
pression of the utter solitude of the coun
try miles upon miles, leagues beyond
leagues of plains as level as a floor, or of
broad, winding valleys and draws, like great
ancient watercourses, where prehistoric man
mav have looked ou noble streams taking
their way in stately majesty to tbe Bio
Grande, leaving greenness and life and
music behind them, but now thirsty and
silent and soundless, save for the occasional
whirr of partridges, the flight of a hawk,
the silent bounding away of a gray deer
like the frightened deity of the place, the
rare call of plover or curlew, or tbe clusters
of cattle feeding by twos and threes.
A PICTURE OF THE PLAINS.
Yet, such bond-slaves of habit are our
thoughts; such creatures of our long-time
surroundings and experiences, I can never
convince myself ot the genuineness and
completeness of the solitude. All is so sofr,
the slopes are so gentle, with the slant sun
light smiling over them, the occasional
mesquite is so like a peach tree, the live oak
a spreading bid apple tree, that I see in
every heap ot rocks or irregular break in
the horizon line a cluster of little houses;
leafless twigs are spires; a colony of tali
sotol stalks ou a bank above a dry arroyo
looks a little vineyard, or a garden, beside
a stream with thrifty bean sticks; along the
winding cattle trail (to me a little tame,"
domestic, rural path) I look and look to
see man or boy coming, with a gun, maybe,
and rabbits, or a scythe over his shoulder; I
hear the whistle, a bark; I hear distant cow
bells, mellow voices of reapers, or mowers,
or plowmen, laughs aud calls of hnutcrs,
the little treble cry of children playing, a
cackle, calls, duckings, hammerings, all
the suggestions and sounds, indistinct and
softened by distance, of rustic life and our
nearest neighbor, a sheep ranchman, ten
miles away 1
Wc 'lope on and on, we make detours,
circle around the foot of little hills and
skirt low blnffs. the favorite haunts of cat
and panther; theu creep cautiouslv over
divides, gallop boldly out across high
plains, the feeding grounds of deer and an
telope. I look continually lor fence or
other bar to our progress, but there is none,
none, none in any direction. It is all snace.
unlimited, unhindered, 'like an eternity or
a universe; but still, for me, just over the
next divide around the next turn, under the
brow of the next queer-looking hill, always
awaits the village or hamlet, or nestles the
farmhouse.
A BOLTING LITTLE BEEF.
The solitude has in it nothing of desola
tion. It is such a fair, kind, inviting land,
so friendly, so humanized, so gracious and
familiar, that I can never really know or
feel our utter loneliness and isolation; 1 can
never convince my fancy, -my imagination
of it, and it is still with me as with Tenny
son's Princess Ida's lover, the dream is the
real, and the real but a dream. We had
been out all morning, some days since, beef
hunting the ranchman, the cowboy and
mjself; wc had found a fat, curly-faced,
muley yearling and driven him home. He
bolted, to my great delight, jnst at the cor
ral, and I was allowed to help round him up
again.
It was perfectly astounding to me the
way my chunky little pony, that I had se
cretly thought lazy and sleepy all the morn
ing, conducted himself. The moment the
call bolted Little Wilson without so much
as "by your leave" was off after him like a
shot- "The cowboy was on the other side
with his rope swinging around his head.
We headed him back again, and again, and
ever time he bolted. If tbe cowboy had
been on Little Wilson he could have roped
tbe calf readily, for Little Wilson ran in
close alongside over and over again, shook
his head and snorted with zeal, then sheared
off, and when he found there was no rope to
make taut, dashed up again. I felt sorry
for him. Jt seemed humiliating for such a
business little fellow to have to carry a
clumsy tenderfoot a female one, at that.
THE CALL TO THE FIRE.
But we got the calf iu the corral. I steeled
myself to look while my host dropped him
in his tracks, with bis nose right at his fore
feet; theu we rode to the house to get some
dinner, Mr. Jackson tving up our ponies
with the remark tbat wc would go out and
look for a cat or a pinther after dinner.
But while we were at the table a weary,
bmoke-begrimed man rode up to tell us he
had let out tbe fire from bis camp over on a
side draw. He and his partner had been
fighting it all morning alone, but had found
they were losing ground, aud had come for
help.
"If it gets through here into Johnson
vour whole range is gone," said he.
We all got up very promptly; canteens
were filled with water, old coats and "green
deer hides huuted up to tight the fire with,
girths tightened, all made ready.
Wit! vnn en?" Raid Mr. Janlmnn. Inntr.
in? si me.
"Of course," I replied, as calmly as I
could, but overwhelmed with delight at the
nprmission.
We were iu the saddle in short order and
off at a good gallop, which we held, with
only brief breathing spells, for four miles.
As we neared the gap, and the smoke loomed
up thicker and blacker, my companion
leaned anxiously forward in his saddle and
bis large horse swung ahead at a faster pace,
my little pony coming promptly up along
side. SHE HELD THE HORSES.
When we reached the firs Te found fivej
men at work, the man wbo had come for
us and his partner, a couple ot cow hunters
from some distant ranch.and our cowboy.
"You'll lead my horse," said Mr. Jack
son, jumping off, throwing his coat across
the saddle and handing me tbe bridle rein.
Tbis was something, but I soon felt it was
awfully little, as I looked at the men in the
heat and smoke fighting silently, de
terminedly, and I was debating the feasi
bility of tying the ponies aud taking a hand
as best I could, when the cowboy came up
and looped his pony's bridle over the saddle
pommel of niy horse, and tbe next moment
the cow hunters and the other two followed
with theirs, till I had a string of four led iu
my right hand and one contrary fellow that
had to he coaxed along, in my left.
"I wish I could help," said I to the last
man as ha gave me his horses. "Y'are help
ing a lot," he answered; "it nlways takes
one hand for horse rustler, you're saving one
man's work."
This was better. The men fought and
fought, and I followed and followed. Every
little while a dilapidated figure wonld come
to my caravan out of the smoke and flame
with grimy face and burning eyes and drink
long from one of the canteens on tbe ponies,
and it was usually only by the pony that he
went to tbat I could judge of his identity.
IT WAS A .HARD FIGHT.
Sometimes the fire would burn low and
seem almost under control, then, with a rat
tle like that of musketry, would burst out in
a group of tall sotol stalks and bulbs, or a
thicket of greasewood or live oak scrub, and
burn and rage and roar with a resinous odor
and poppings and crackings like torpedoes.
The afternoon wore away; the sun went
down red and angry, the horse rustler grew
cold in spite of the close proximity of the
fire. I was as cold as tbe scorn ot the un
feeling world colder. The marrow in my
bones was chilled: my private opinions weie
frapple; my very innermost thoughts and
secret convictions, even my ulterior designs
were congealed within me, but what was to
be done?
The fire was pretty well in hand, but
everybody was pretty well exhausted.
"If we don't meet'the fellows Irom over
on Howard soon after we get over the top of
ths divide here, we'll be give out," I heard
one say.
But hurrah! hurrah II We met "the fel
lows from over on Howard" right on the
top of the dividel They had cleaned every
thing up so far and so had wel The fire was
out and all was well!
NOT USED TO THE FAIR.
When ''the Howard fellows" caughtsight
of a riding habit they shied like ponies at
some hideous object. I am never wantonlr
cruel or ruthless and would have turned off
a little to help them out, but Mr. Jackson
called out grimly, "Here Walker, here's
Miss MacGowan."
Poor Walker came reluctantly forward.
There was nothing but the name left of the
jaunty gallant I had met at so many dances.
The smoke and soot and bunring heat had
done their deadly work. Afterward, when
I reproached Mr. J. with his cruelty, he
grinned and said: "O, he wanted to stam
pede, bnt I thouzht he ought to come up
and take his share along with the rest of
us."
The fire was out; every man came and got
his horse. Mr. J. jumped upon his: "Cornel
We'll have to go like the very dence,"
said he, "we're all wet with persplratiou,
and it's cold."
We went. We went at a dead run. My
ideas began to thaw and circulate, my heart
leaped, my blood turned in my face and
tingled through all my veins. Long before
we reached the ranch house my side ached
and my head was dizzy.
Bnt what false show, what make-believe
could ever stir the blood like this living
reality? Alice MAcGowan.
CHINESE PLAYING CAKD3.
Those Used by the Celestials Are of Peculiar
Shape and Size.
St. Lonls Globe-Democrat.
'"The Chinese name for a card considered
singly or as one of the parts of a pack is
sbeu, or 'fan,' a most evident reference to
the manner of holding cards spread
open like a fan, which is common to all
nations.
"The shape and size of the Chinese card
are peculiar, Tbey ara printed ia black on
a thin cardboard. Tbe backs are sometimes
bright crimson, and sometimes black or yel
low, and they are tbe shape and size of a
finger. Some of them are little more than
half an inch broad by three inches long, and
others are 1 inch wide by 3 long. The
pips and court cards are always printed in
black on a white background, and on tbe
face of some of them are stamped Chinese
characters printed in red. In some packs
the cards have animals, such as horses and
deer, represented upon them; while in oth
ers characters which may mean tbe names
only of the animals are written above the
pips. The cards are rounded at the top and
bottom, and at the upper end a small por
tion is left blank, as if to hold them con
veniently and allow of their being spread
or 'fanned' out, showing the whole of the
pictured surface, tbe blank space being
held under the thumb and fingers.
Strangely enough, this blank space being at
the top instead of at the bottom of the card,
it wonld seem that they should be held by
the top and spread out in exactly the reverse
way customary among Europeans. The
tiny cards are so narrow and so small that
tbey might well be held concealed by the
palm of tbe band, which could effectually
cover them and prevent the shape of the
pips bting seen through tbe thin cardboard
or the number of the cards being counted by
the opponent.
"The Chinese have another name for their
cards, aud this is Wat-pi, but it seems to be
the name given, to different games, as tbey
also call queer-looking tablets on which
round dots are placed iu regular order and
which resemble our dominoes by the same
name."
STALE BEEAD AHD WUTE,
Tho Diet Upon Which a Bright Old Lady
Seems to Thrive.
At No. 1413 Third avenue, in a couple of
rear rooms on the second floor, lives an old
woman whose partiality for short commons
has so astonished her neighbors that they
are prepared to wager that she could easily
outfast Suect if she could only be induced to
undertake the task, Bays a writer in the
New York Herald. The name of the woman
is Mrs. Elsie Shively. I found a little crea
ture with a crooked spine, but with a great
fund of chcerfnloess and vivacity, com
bined with a good deal of intelligence. She
at once disclaimed all pretensions to being
a faster. "About 18 years ago," she
said, "I met with an accident
which, combined with rheumatism and
other ailments, has given a curve to my
back that nature never put there. For a
long time I could obtain no relief, but simply-had
to endure tbe pain as best I could.
I found oat about four years ago that the
only thing that would give mo relief was
what my neighbors call fasting combined
with other treatment. But it isn't fasting
at all. It is simply dieting.
"I partake very sparingly of stale bread,
eating nothing else, and drink a little hot
wine before going to bed. Then I envelop
myself in a wet sheet and get bundled up in
a lot of spreads and blankets, the result
being a profuse perspiration. And as the
perspiration oozes off my aches and pains
pass away, too. And alter keeping up tbis
treatment for three or four months. I eniov.
for me, comparatively good health."
A Pack of Chinese Cardt.
Which Is the Longer?
Philadelphia Keeord.l 1
Just look for a moment at these two hori
zontal lines aud tell which is the longer:
Our friend, Snap Judgment, will sav,
"The lower one, of course," but if 6. J. will
measure the two he may open his eyes.
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Is that branch of electro therapeutics relating
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SUPERFLUOUS -HAIR
On the Female Face.
Hair on tbe upper
lin, chin, cheeks, nose,
forehead, between the
eyes, ears, arrasj
breast: on men':
cheeks, above the
beard line, destroyed
forever by tho
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THAT NAME. PEOMISENT IX THE BAKERT
AND COSFECTIOXEET BUSINESS, TESTrTIES
TO TIIE SKILL OF BE. BYERS IX CtTEISO
HI3I OF A TEOUBLESOUE AFFECTIOir.
Mr. Scblumpf had been afflicted with ca
tarrhal, neuralgic and stomach trouble for
long time, which always became greatly ag
gravated every sprlnjr. The shooting pain be
tween the eyes and thronch temnles to back ol
head at times became unbearable, and crusts
were constantly forming in nostrils, causing
dryness in bark part of nose, tbe throat, tongue
and mouth. Larzo Assures formed in tongue,
becoming so painful tbat chewing and swallow
ing were performed with difficulty. Dyspeptic
symntoms, such as bloating and rifting after
meals, bad. taste in mouth, loss of appetite, eta,
eta, set in, making life miserable.
Mr. W. B. Schlumpf, Bewickley, Pa.
After five months' continnons treatment by
Dr. Byersall tbe unpleasant symptoms com
plained of Iy Mr. Scblumpf were removed, and
he says: "I am cl-i to state that Dr. Byers nai
cured me entirely of all my troubles and I
never felt better in my life. Out of gntitnde
to him and desire to be of service to others I
make this statement freely and unreservedly.
My advice to everyone similarly afflicted is by
all means consult Dr. Byers before giving up
all hope."
A pationt's grateful appreciation of bisworz
is often as azreeable to a physician as the re
ceipt ot bis fee. Mr. Scblumpf has sent me at
least a half dozen patients who in their tarn
have sent others, so this is sufficient evidence
ot my honest and conscientious work, and M
good work always pays, patients can expect to
receive a continuation of my best endeavors la
their behalf.
TREATMENT S3 JL MONTH, JUDICTS '
CXUI3ED.
Office of Dr. Byers, established 1SS5, No. 421
Penn av. Specialties: Catarrh, all nervous,
blood and sKln diseases, all chronic diseases.
Hours, 9 till i, 7 till 8. Htradajs, forenoon only,
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