y 22 k F Failure of the Lindsay Party in the Exploration of Inner Australia. EYENCAMELSBROKEDOWN. For Twentv-Fonr Days the Big Beasts Hadn't a Drop to Drink. AX OASIS 1HAT HAD SHRIVELED. Where Giles Found Pure Springs These lien Found All Parched. JfATIYES DRAWING WATER. FROM TREES prarrrax roK the dispatch.! Dismal failure has been the lot of the large party, led by David Lindsay, that -was fitted out at jrreat cost, over a year ago, to complete the exploration of inner Australia. The terrible heat and the parched desert areas where hardly a drop of water could be lound, are the primary causes of the dis aster. The highest hopes had been aroused by the enterprise. The scheme of exploration had been formulated by the .Royal Geo graphical Society of Australasia, The money required, amounting to thousands of dollars, had been provided by one man Sir Thomas Elder the weathiest and most enthusiastic promoter in Australia of science and discovery. Everything looked bright for the expedition when in April last year David Lindsay, a tried and successful ex plorer, started from Adelaide with 12 com rades, including a scientific staff of 9 men and 42 camels to complete the map of Aus tralia. The work of exploring inner Aus tralia had, in the past, devolved chiefly upon nine men, of whom Lindsay was one. Our map shows the most important routes of these travelers. Three Unknown IJands to Explore. Three great tracts of which nothing was known were to be brought by the tenth ex . pedition to the knowledge of the world. All of them are w est of the overland tele graph. The first unknown area to be visited was that between the southern track of Giles and that of J. Forrest, and is about 1.300 miles long from east to west and 350 miles wide. After crossing this strip Lind say was to turn north to the headwaters of the JIurchison river and then work his way back East through the unknown region be tween tLe routes of Giles and 'Warburton. estimated to be 900 miles long and 200 miles wide. The third unexplored district where Lindsay was to end his labors lies in what is known as the Northern Territory, mostly between the overland telegraph and the Victoria river, and is a region of some 400 miles by 300 miles. The routes across the great interior which our map shows could never have been fol lowed if it had not been for the introduc tion of the camcL- Early explorers used horses as baggage animals, and their success was poor because water is a scarce com modity in the great wastes. No Arctic . enthusiast, no explorer of tropical Africa has ever endured more terrible sufiering than has fallen to the lot of Australian travelers. Camels With Arabian Drivers. "The History of Australian Explora tion," says Iteclus, "gives the highest idea ot the grandeur and fortitude of man." Sf eim brought in a new era in Arctic explor ation. Camels introduced into Australia from Arabia in 181G made long and suc cessful journeys possible in inuer Australia. The camels Lindsav took with him were in charge of their Arabian drivers. They had been in the country three vears, and having become accustomed to the changed con ditions of air and forage, could be depended upon for good service. Alter leading the line of the overland telegraph, Lindsay s real work began at the Everard range of high hills, He soon dis covered that his arduous enterprise had fallen upon eiltime. In all that region not a drop of water had fallen In two years. Sources of water that had been discovered earlier were wholly dried up. At the start, however, the party were able to fill their water hags, and thev set out bravely for the unknown West. Over the parched plain they toiled, past Blvth range and on to Borrow range. At the Blyth hills they ob tained a small supply of water, but by the time they reached Borrow range the situa tion had become very serioui They de cided wisely that to push into the unknown reeions beyond would probably cost the lives of all. It became now a hunt, not for geographical discoveries, but for water. .In Oasis Shriveled and Bnrne-1. Over 400 miles southwest was a remark able little oasis, discovered by E Giles in 1875. He reDorted that thousands of cattle and shep could be raised in this verdant place. There was abundant animal life and a fine growth of grass in the little area a few square miles in extent, and Giles called the water he found there Queen Victoria Springs. Tne Lindsav partv struck out straight for these springs. What was their J norror, jvnen inev arrivea mere with their camels in a perishing condition, to find that the terrible heat and drought had turned the green oasis into scorched and barren desert. Not a drop or water could be seen, and yet they must have water or die. With the fraotic energy of despair they began to dig in one of the hollows, and at a depth ol 20 feet they reached water so im pregnated with alkali as to be almost nn dnnkable, but, bad as it was, neither man nor beast refused it. The party filled their water bags and advanced 150 miles further south before they came to a fairly good water supnly. It "had been one of the most terrible marches in the history of explora tion. For 35 davs the party had marched under the blazing sun and had lound only a few quartz of water. Camel Without W atcr 24 Days. For 24 days the camels had not a drop to drink, and the 13 men had an allowance of only three pints each a day. It is surpris ing that only three of the camels died, but when they reached the coast at Esperance Bay on October 14 last," they were scarcely able to stand. Two weeks rest was neces sary before the party could start north again in the hope of saving their expedition from utter failure. Our map shows Lindsay's route North when he started again lor the unknown. He learned that he could not count on a drop of water to the north of Hampton Plains. Turning to the West and then to the North west he struck cut for the upper Murchison river, his camels becoming rapidly weaker on account of their great sufferings from thirst. At last, the lone latent dissension in his party burst into fkme. Tlfc entire scientific staff accused Lindsay of unkind and arbi trary conduct and grave mismanagement. They resigned together, and making their way to the west coast, left Lindsay to struggle on with his brother and camel drivers. Called Back br the Society. Though for a short time his camels were so far gone wi(h thirst that they could not eat, the pluckj explorer made fair progress until he reached the Cruikshank ranch not far south of the JIurchison. Lindsay now thought his troubles were nearly over and he had high hopes of accomplishing bomeming auer aii. wnat was nis dismay, therefore, to find at the ranch a telegram from the Geographical Society calling him back. The news of the desertion of his scientific comrades had reached Adelaide, ORWATER AbtAHLH and the expedition, which all Australia had watched with the deepest interest,. had been pronounced a failure. ' Lindsay left his camels and bajrgage to re turn by easy stages. He hastened to Ade laide and at once proposed to the Geographi cal Society to, explore at least the Central part of West Australia. He was confident that he wonld find running water there. Sir Thomas Elder, however, while expressing great confidence in Lindsay, declined to re fit the expedition for the present. The whole enterprise was therefore abandoned. Took Alone Too Many Men. The expedition added nothing whatever to geographical knowledge except the discov ery and naming of four mountains. Geogra phers are agreed that its failure was not duo to inefficiency on the part of Its leader. He is responsible, however, for mistakes in organizing the party. It was a.blunder to take 13 men and 42 camels for a journey of many hundreds of miles through regions where scarcity of water was to be expected. Large as his party was Lindsay says he would have pulled through had he obtained 2,000 gallons of water. In places where water ordinarily was to be expected by dig- I ..... I - L TJH BjHslglr ? 1& nvN tfifllil EjfiZGjuikshank's JfyfxsT WA- J "AMhs- 11 J lEXili ROUTES OF LINDSAY ging three or four feet he found at a depth of 15 feet small quantities that would haye helped a small party, but was hardly a thimbleful apiece for his large force. In 1887-8, this experienced explorer crossed Australia from Port Darwin to Adelaide accompanied only by a native boy and four baggage animals. If he had started on his latest journey with a flying column of four experienced bushmen and eight camels the result might nave been different. As it was his unwieldy party of scientific experts had no knowledge of bush or desert travel, but their appetites were good and they needed plenty of water. Drawing Water From the Trees. It should not be inferred that'all these inland regions are permanently unfit for human enterprises. Lindsay saw them last when they were suffering from an unusually prolonged period of drought; but much of this region needs only rain to vivifjr it. Natives inhabit certain districts and Lind say saw them drawinc their water supply from the roots of small trees called the mailed tree He says they can tell by the appearance of the trees which will yield a, supply of pure water. Jlr.'Charles Chewings and other authori ties assert that immense expanses of inner Australia, once believed to be nothing but useless desert, contain large number of nat ural artesian springs, and they believe that by artesian irrigation many hundreds of thousands of acres will yet be reclaimed for the uses of man. Australia and Africa have this striking difference. Africa is like an inverted saucer, the interior being higher than the rim of the continent. Australia is tne saucer in its usual position, the inner plateaus being lower than the more or less mountainous outerjportions. A Place for a Sea bat 'o Sea. "When the early travelers saw the country beyond the highlands of the southeast eoast descending to lower levels they imagined there must be some great Caspian sea within which received all running waters. In place of this central, imaginary sea, how ever, there exists .only comparatively small basins without exterior drainage; and it is the utter lack ot rivers available as high ways to the far interior that has made the exploration of inner Australia so exceed ingly difficult. The history of Australian discovery is more crowded, in proportion, with tragical incidents than that of any other continent JIany explorers haye succumbed, some killed by the natives and others overcome by fatigue, thirst and hunger. Friends have separated, appointing a rendezvous at some late or eminence that the treacherous mirage pictured in the distance, and have never met again. Many a record of travel tells a story of intense suffering amid far spread sand dunes, of floundering through saline marshes or thornv spinlfex, the ter ror of all Australian explorers, with heat intolerable by day and freezing temperature at night A Sad Record of Exploration. The botanist, Cunningham, was murdered by the natives of the Bogan river in 1835. The savant Lelchardt, after" his first great jburney, which is shown otf'bur map, at tempted in 1847 to cross the continent from east to west, and disappeared with his entire party from human ken, leaving no trace that has ever been discovered. Burke and "Wilis perished of their privations in 1860 uot far from Lake Eyre, and the only survivor of theii party was King, who was rescued by a relief expedition. These are only the most conspicuous of the tragedies 'ot Australian exploration. Geographers began to think it was im possible to cross Australia through its center. Finally South Australia offered a reward of (50,000 to the first man who should traverse the continent from south to north. Stuart made two attempts and failed. Thn Great Overland Telegraph. Line. He tried again in 1862 and won the rich prize, following the route that is now occu pied by the overland telegraph; and it has been said that he stood upon the verge of the Indian Ocean "gazing upon it with as much delight as Balboa when he had crossed the isthmns of Darien from the At lantic to the Pacific" Stations are now es tablished along the telegraph route, and in recent years they have been the base of operations of all expeditions that have pioneered the way into various parts Of Western Australia. In view of the disastrous collapse ot the Lindsay expedition it may be some time be fore the land exploration of Australia is completed; but the present failnre is not at all likely to be regarded as final The ex plorers' routes, shown on the map, prove conclusively that with the aid ot . camels, there is no longer any doubt as to the prac ticability of traversing the interior." Cyrus C. Ada-ms. Tonne Foraker Christian Name. Gov. Foraker's youngest son has been christened Arthur St Clair, after the first Governor of Ohio. Gov. St Clair was a gallant but bluff old soldier of the Bevoln tion. It was he, so the story goes, who, when he first embarked at the little village ot Losantville, the ancient Cincinnati, re marked, in his impressive way: "Let's have no more of such a damnable name as that; call that town Cincinnati" His name was suggested to Mrs. Foraker by a medal with which she was presented at the Ma-, rietta centennial celebration during her husband's first term of office. THE COLLIDE TOUlH'S PALL v It Was the Outcome of Hli Parents' Visit on Commencement Iay. Atlanta Constitution The old man, the old woman andihe chil dren had traveled ten mile in an ox cart to see the young man graduate. It had cost the old man all the cash in sight to give his boy the chance, and now he was going to see him distinguish himself. He arrived and found his son' in the hall talking with three professors. The young man glared at him in gold eyeglasses and yellow shoes. "I believe you are my father?" he said, with condescension, "but really, you're qnlte disgnised in that old -hickory-striped shirt. Full it off as soon as yon can. I'll lend yq one of my white ones. And mother, I must see your milliner. You look a fright in that bonnet. And that little cotton head chap my brother, I believe? why don't you dye his hair? He's in bad taste, vouknowl And lather, send, tne ox can home by your footman. I'll hire a carriage, AST) OTHER EXPLORERS. you know. Oh, I got lots Just wait till I get home!" to learn you. While the graduate was going on in this style the dumbfounded old man was slowly divesting himself of his home-made coat, and as slowly rolling, up the sleeves of his hickory-striped shirt Then he fell upon the graduate's neck, and the Utter fell upon the floor, before the astonished pro fessors. "Sit on . his head, old woman!" Bhouted the old man, "and hand me that buggy trace, Jimmy. W'y, the darned onerv critter's dons fergot his raisin'l That's it. Maria! Hold him down, while I frail the life outen.biml" And ten minutes later' the .. graduate, minus the gold eyeglasses and the yellow shoes, was being hauled home in the ox cart, and his mother was wondering it a flaxseed poultice wouldn't help his head. AH ABSENT-MIUDBD KIHTSTEB. Be Walks by His Own Chtrreb, Where He Was Expected to Officiate. A clergyman in a little town in New Jer sey is now without a church, notwithstand ing the fact that no member of his faith was ever more devoted to his creed than he. His parsonage was close beside his ctyaroh, he was accustomed to have services every Sun day evening, and for the three years of his pastorate he had never tailed ' to , preach a sermon there. One Sunday night a few weeks ' ago the bell in his church summoned him tq evening prayer; he put on his overcoat and hot, walked toward the church, saying to him self as he did so. "Service is coiner to be held there," and never dreamed that it was his service, .nor that he was the clergyman who was expected to officiate. The church filled, the congregation waited, but the clergyman came not The vestrymen were surprised, and, fearing that the minister was sick, some one was sent to the house to inquire.' There the servants said that he had left the honse to go to church, and at this the vestrymen became very frightened. A search was insti tuted and finally the preacher was found at the house ot a young woman to whom he was engaged to be married, standing by her side singing to her accompaniment She had been surprised at his visit, but, not being a churchwoman herself; had made no inquiry as to why he should have come at that time, and had said nothing abont the service that he was evidently neglecting, while he de clares to this dav and thosewho know him best are confident that he is telling the truth that the fact that he had a duty to perforin one to which he "had long been accustomed had entirely slipped his mind, and that the first intimation of it was when the vestryman put In an appearance. Friends accepted his statement, but his Bishop didn't, and there is no Episcopal pulpit in America open to him to-day. Tne NewTork Recorder is responsible for this story. t TEE ARIUAL'8 VIEW OF HAH. It la Claimed They Fear the Sara;e More Than the Civilised Being. Popular Science Monthly. Savage man, who has generally been first in contact with animals, is usually a hunter, and therefore 'an object of dislike to the other hunting animals, and of dread to the hunted. But civilized man, with 'his sup ply of bread and beef, is not necessarily a, hunter; and it is just conceivable that he might be content to leave the animals in a newly discovered country unmolested, and condescend, when, not better employed, to watch their attitude toward himself. The impossible island in "The Swiss Family Robinson," in which half the ani mals of two hemispheres were collected, would be an ideal place for such an experi ment But, ' unfortunately, uninhabited islands seldom contain . more than a few species, and those generally birds, or sea beasts; and in newly discovered game re gions, savage man has generally been before us with his, arrows, spears and pitfalls. Some instances of the first contact of ani mals with man have, however, been pre served in the accounts of the early voy ages collected by Hakluyt and others, though the hungry navigators were gener ally more intent on-victualing their ships with the unsuspecting beasts and .birds, or on noting those which would be useful com modities for "trafficke," than in cultivating friendly relations with the animal inhabi tants of the newly discovered islands. A Saleslady Captivates jthe Divine cara. The story is told of Sara Bernhardt that, visiting a Brooklyn bookstore recently, being pleased with the attentions of the young woman who waited on her, she snatched up a book from the counter, tore out one of the leaves and scribbled on it a pass to the theater, which she handed to tne clerk. The latter was much gratified at the honor done her by the "divine Sara," but the proprietor of 'the store was by no means pleased at the mutilation of the book, which belonged to anexpenslre set of Tennyson's works. , . A Novel Method of Preserving lee. An easy way to lay in a stock of lee' for summer use is practiced by a Minnesota farmer. In the winter he packs drifted snow in his ioehouse, for a few nights, wet ting it with well-water. Whan frozen hard it is covered with sawdust 'Last summer his stock of snow-lee lasted until Septem ber; it was just as good and, clear as river ice; and ha hadn't the trouble of hauling it THE.-PITTSBURG DISPATCH. PLOtyS IN POLITICS. The legislative Soil About Washing " - tori Hasn't Yielded Well. . ONLY 23 FARHKRS Iff CONGRESS, While There Are 270 Lawyers Who Can 0nt Talk Them Every Time. PBS. 'PICTURES 0B THE STATESMEN rcORErsrovDixco op the dispatcii.i P?a.shi XGTOir, June 17. The revolt which brought this Congress to the front was understood as being largely in the in terest of the plowman, the wheat-grower, the cotton-picker, the herdsman. It was announced that the farmer was demanding attention; that the man who had callosities on the inside of his fingers was about to supersede the man who got his bread by the sweat ot his ingenuity and had raised corns on the oonvolutions of his brain by over working that organ. Well, what are the facts? Why, the tacts are that the lawyer is just as dominant in this Congress as ever. There-are-a few more farmers jhan usual, but they have .no more influence on legislation than they had In the Fifty-first Congress and their voices are" scarcely heard. As John Davis,, one of the ablest farmers in Con gress, said to me yesterday: "We scarcely expect to get any of our important measures through this session, but shall be satisfied with an educational campaign. We are going to make some speeches that will in fluence votes hereafter." Making Themselves Indispensable. Another Congressman-farmer from the West permits me to publish his plaint thus: The lawyers always rule the States And all the rostlo drudges; They crowd the bar as advocates " And fill tbe bench as judges: And no man understands the laws Till after-he has paid them For they are tangled up because -, The cunning lawyers made-tnem! This is "the farmers' Congress," yet there are only 23 members who really get their living by agriculture, and there are 270 lawyers about three-fourths ot the whole and 20 more belong to one of the so-called learned prof e ssions. In the Tennessee dele gation both Senators and all ten Congress men are lawyers. Both Senators from Vir ginia are lawyers and all the ten Congress men, except a parson and an editor. Both senators irom Texas are also lawyers and 10 out of the 11 Congressmen the'odd man being "Parson Long," who thus indicates in the Congressional directory that he is virtually and sentimentally a Presbyterian farmer. , AZnrmrT'i Acoonnt of Himself. John Benjamin Long, . of Busk, waa born In the county of Kacosdoohea, September 8, IMSVnis education Is ordinary; has held no official position of any Import: In 1834 he be came ainember of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, and took an active Interest in advocating the.cause of progress among his fellow laborers; la now Overseer of tbe Texas State Grange and President or the Texas Farmer Co-operative Publishing Associa tion: has always been a Democrat; is a Bullng Elder in tbo Cumberland Prebyte rian Church; made the canvass and secured the nomination for the Fifty-second Con gress over some of tbe most prominent and best men of tbo State; bad no expressed op position after nomination; he received 12, S7J votes, and 56 votes scattering. Among the other clerevmen are Senator Kyle, of South Dakota (Congregationalist); McKlnnev, of New Hampshire (Baptist); Baker, of Kansas, and Posey Lester, ot Virginia, who Is "an itinerant preacher in 18 States.'; Ampng the doctors are Galllnger, of New Hampshire; Dockery, of Missouri; L. E. Atkinson, of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Dunn English, ot New Jersey, far Abetter known as a poet and author. ' The Merchants An Not Politicians. It is noticeable that there is only one merchant In the House, but a number are engaged in . mercantile pursuits. So a lot of the lawyers are chromo farmers tillers of the soil at long range. There are half a dozen bankers, too, who are fiat farmers raising produce at a tremenduous expense, the horny hands with which they toil being sttached'to somebody else's shoulders. One of, these is J. B. Taylor, of Ohio, the wealthy .banker and lawyer. In a recent speech on the floor ho claimed fellowship with the grent body of farmers of this land, when a colloquy something like this took piaee: ' Thomas E. Watson (Ga.) Mine is an easy question: Are you not the President of a national bank? Mr." Taylor I am President of two Na tional banks, but I do not see what that has to dOiWith this .question. Mr; -Watson Mow I would like to ask y on - if the profits from your farm enabled you to buy your bank stock, or the profits from your banks enabled you to buy ybur farfn stock? pinch laughter. , Mr. TaylorJ: have always had a farm since I, was able to' own one, and I believe inagricultureand 1 believe agriculture has a great! future In this country. I do not know'of abetter investment in this country than a good farm. Ton depreciate your own business. .Ton cry down your own trade. Ton 'destroy ypur own markets and dis courage "your own people. These farmers had better complain less and work more. They had "better talk less about mortgages and more about their business. ferry Slmpon Bashes Into History. Mr. Jerry Simpson The gentleman from Ohio utters a sentiment that is very familiar to us' all, a .sentiment that has been uttered In every; age' by aristocrats who have lived upon the toil of tbe people. It is the state ment that was uttered by Louis XVI and his" satellites wjien the laboring classes ot France appealed to them for relief from op pressive laws. ".Work a little harder; talk less," that is the utterance of the aristocrats in every aze. "Work more: talk less: leave 'to us the conduct of government affairs, and we will sen that you are taken care of. Some of tbe most extensive farmers and planters ,in this Congress are those who practice law as their chief interest This is true of Senator Gibson, of Maryland a man of 50, Who does not look his years. He dresses,with natty care, wears his gray ing hair 'jauntily parted in the middle, and his marked resemblance to General Hawley is emphasized by exactly the same sort of pepper-and-salt mustache and goatee. He is the owner of,Ratcliffe Manor, one ot the four manorial estates still remaining in the old Catholic commonwealth. The manor house was built in 1757 a vast, big-chim-nied, three-storied, many gabled, spacious ly balconied mansion of brick, overlooking 400 acre's of the fairest part of tbe Eastern shore. Gibson keeps a farmer, of course. He raises corn and wheat 25 to 30 bushels -to the acre of the latter. He has 4,000 or 5,000 peach' trees, and sends the peaches and such small fruit to New York and Bal timore, -v Glbtton'a Oysters Were Stolen. At a steamed oyster supper once given here, Senator Gibson remarked that oyster farming In the United States began at Bat cliffe. '1' planted 10,000 bushels myself," he said, "and I should reap a great harvest now if they had not been stolen. As It is, I barely got enough to eat" Hehnan is running a farm of 300 or 400 acres in the. southeastern corner of Indiana, and he 'can' stand on his front door sill ana see court ''houses in three States Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. 'His 'sightly home is on the Ohio river hills, and the house is the one he was born in. built bv his father in the early pioneer days In the first "quarter bf this century. 'A kind of ability resulting from, courage, sagacity and experience gives him.areat,' deal of influence on the floor. He has bean a lawyer, but he now spend most of his, time fuming when he is not here. He'lxiises bay, wheat and corn, and "fancet" is. .written, all over him. He is SUNDAY, JUNE 19. homelier than Lincoln. Nature made him when she was feeling reckless. He looks as it he had been rived out with a dull ax from a tough maple log; His gesTures are all severely angular and his voice sounds Ilka a tinman's cart on a corduroy road. His beard is always three- times as long as it ought to be, and his head is covered with cow-licks evidently bestowed when the animal was feelingmad. He isn't as poor as he looks, but, in spite of his proverbial honesty, is worth, they say, 9160,000. He keeps no clerk here, but does all of his own work, even to directing seeds; but I sup pose he finds that easier that digging post holes or plowing up a new clearing. Farmer-Senators From the North. , The Northern Senators are mostly small farmers, and the Southern mostly large planters. Mr. Morrill spends all the time he can on his little Vermont farm of bo acres, and never enjoys himself so wen as when he Is there. But be is almost always present in his .Senatorial seat, and looks younger and more vigorous to-day at 82 than Mr. Edmunds did when he resigned at 60. He has been in Congress almost 40 years. Senator Casey, of North Dakota, was sent here as a farmer bv the farmers. He is one of the biggest farmers in the land, having the control of over 300,000 acres and owning a good deal of it himself. Irriga tion is his continual text, and he expects to make his State a garden by bringing to the surface the vast lake which underlies it. The question of fencing his immense domain recalls Senator Faruell, of Illinois, whose Texas fences, it is said, encompassed 6,000, 000 acres of land and were enough, if strung out, to reach from Galveston to Chicago. George, of Mississippi, is probably the most extensive planter in the Senate, own ing some thousands of acres. Just now he is disgusted with the markets and is hold ing bis cotton for a rise. In appearance he is undistinguished a medium-sized, brown faced, tangle-haired man, spectacled, and with a faded-out stubbly beard, and clothes that are reported to have been cut out with a fretsaw. He is one of the three or four best lawyers in the Senate. He is said to have forsworn carriages and swallow-tall coats, and he has no . respect for liveried coachmen with bugs 'on their hats. The plain, swarthy man scarcely looks a histori cal character, but he was a private soldier In Jeff Davis' regiment, in the Mexican War. a ' Jerry Simpson Isn't a Candidate. Jerry Simpson is as lively on his feet and with his tongue in the House as if he were pulling stumps with an unbroken yoke of steers. He owns 1,000 acres, and when he is at home it keeps him busy to take care of the stock. For 23 years he was a sailor, and, though he is not bow-legged, and does not hitch his trousers to any great extent, he stands with his feet pretty wide apart when contemplating the future "of parties. He refuses to run again; he thinks he can do more good and have more fun "manufactur ing public sentiment" on the terrestrial stump. Clover, another of the five astonished men who found themselves eleoted to Congress from the same State, has a ranch of 1,600 acres and wastes a good deal of valuable time In chasing graded cattle around it He is willing to take another two years here. Baker has been renominated and says he will be re-elected. Otis is a shy, timid, suspicious man, who feels very much away from home, and is not at all certain which way the volatile feline is going to jump. Funston, of that same tempest-tossed and grasshopper-riven State, seems to be lone some. I asked one of the Alliance men why it was. "Well."he said, "he's a farmer, and works at his trade, and he talks - in a loud and continual voice in favor of farmers and then he votes against everything that farmers want done, and so' we call him aarmer funston. Many Farmers by Brevet. New York has threa alleged farmers ,in the House Ketcham, Curtis andGreenleaf. They do not use the hoe'or perspire 'much themselves; they are professionals rather than amateurs. Thev loye farming even -well enough to put their money into it They do not rely on it for support; it relies on them. Col. Greenleaf has an extensive farm frontine Lake Ontario near Bochester, on which he nas built more than half a mile of solid breakwater, and he and Mrs. Green leaf make a summer home in. thee rambling, roomy, antique house that broods there and spreads its maternal wings. upon the, lawn. He not only grows crops"but ' fine stock, among which are 40 choice cows and 30 horses the latter Kehtucklan" crossed with some of the Arabian steeds that' Grant owned. Greenleaf can make a good speech, but he knows the value of time, and when the universal mouth Is uncorked he is rather inclined to suffer and be silent' He is a tall, gaunt man, a little handsomef than Holman, but not much. I asked him if he had" any income from his farm. "Income?" he repeated in surprise, "cer tainly; all income. Pare 'air, new butter. alderncy cream, fresh vegetables, prime health, good appetite, sound sleep, agree able company. All there Is on this green earth worth having," arid I shriveled un der his disapproving eye. He topk Presi dent Harrison up to Bochester last -week and very likely engaged him for a hot- weather visitor. The 'Clond-Compolllnc TJrrenforth. "'"' They bad a very lively discussion in the House the other day over a 910,000 appro priation to enable Dyrenforth to experi ment further to produce rain oy exploding dynamite in the air. There was a good deal ot fun over it, and Lewis, a farmer of 'Mis sissippi won considerable eclat by the able manner in which he championed and ex plained the project The House agreed to the appropriation, to "its great credit, I think, because that- action showed a pro gressive spirit and a willingness to pursue scientific research. , But it is only fair to add that the scien tific men of Washington, beginning with heads of bureaus and continuing straight through (the lines ot experts in dynamics and meteorology, are almost unanimous against the feasibility of Dyrenforth's plan. Some of them boldly call him a charlatan; not one in 20 believe 'in his scheme for ca joling rain-water or in his alleged successes. One of them has figured out that a moderate rain, tenmilessquareandone inch deep, would weign more than a million of' tons, and he asks what sort of an explosion It would take to move that weight? Shall we know any I more about it next year? or will the next century listen to this same discussion in definitely prolonged, and continue to guess whether occurrences arc results or coinci dences? W. A. Oeopbtjt:- He Wouldn't Itanoanoo Old Ireland. New York San. During the May term of the Superior Court at Caribon Ma., a number of aliens were naturalized, among them an Irishman. When the clerk put the question, "Do you renounce all allegiance to the Queen. of Great Britain and Ireland?" etc., the Celt replied: "I'll go back on the Queen; but. young man, I'll never go baok on old Ire land never I" The lawyers smiled, tbe spectators tittered, and Judge Robinson laughed outright The candidate's condi tions were accepted, and he got, his papers. Queen Marcherlta's Faraons Tteck'&ce. Queen Margherita, of Italy, can always be recognized by her necklace of numerous rows of pearls. From year to year the ornament grows more costly, as the King participates in his wife's love for Jewels and adds a new string every year, so that now the chains hang as far as tbe waist, rather spoiling its , appearance as a graceful ornament 6be can also be easily recog nised by the ringlets she wears on ner fore head. A Strange Incident in Free! Douglass' Etfe- ITew York Ledger. A strange incident is recorded in, the life of Frederick Douglass, the colored orator. He has recently secured a clerkship in a department at Washington for the daughter of his old master in the days of slavery. She- was brought up in luxury, but has ex perienced manr. hardships., and waa glad to aeeept the assistance of a man who was onoe old on tbe block by her father's command. 1892. AT A GIANT'S FEET. j -Dreamy Dajs Spent Watching the Lofty Crater of Momotoinbo.' THE V0LCAH0 IS BESTING HOW Bat Great Flames of Smoke Erie From His Mightr Head. WT6 PILGRIMAGE THAT ENDED. IN DEATH, CCOBBSsroirpzTcz or thz dispatch. La. Paz. NrcAWAnrrA. ft A .Tun. a Sris village, situated on the store of Lake Managua, Is a place of small Importance. Here the line of the Nicaragua Bailroad is broken by the lake, making it a terminal point The traveler eastward bound must transfer his belongings to the little steamer that will carry him over to the eapitol on the opposite shore. ' I came here principally to look at Momo tombo; when I left New York two years ago, I had determined to make a special 'study of volcanoes, and this being the first opportunity that occurred, I lost no time. Momotombo is a giant standing 7,200 feet In his stockings; he is "roek ribbed and an cient," and seems to me to combine every quality that a first-class volcano should possess. He Is bald headed and- smokes in cessantly after the manner of his tribe. He stands beside the lake and waves his white plnme a mile and a naif above the waters that ripple at his feet Momotombo is the highest of the Marablos ftange, and is one ot the greatest purely volcanic masses in existence. True, the summit of Cotapaxi is nearly 19,000 feet high, but the base, properly speaking, begins at an elevation of nearly 14,000 feet above the Pacific. Here we have the whole grand pile in view at one time, the shore line marking the beginning of the ascent, which is barely 200 feet above the sea, All Climates Alone Its Sides. The first 2,000 feet, which rises gradually for three miles, is covered with a dense trop ical forest, dark, dank and dismal, the haunt of serpents, scorpions and myriads of stinging insects. The huge trees are covered with vines and creepers, and support an endless variety of orchids. It is a congenial home tor droves oi monkeys. Above this is a second belt of woodland, but more open, and diversified bv wide spaces of barren rock or grassy glades. The trees here are mostly oak and pine, and the acorns furnish food for the herd of wild hogs 'who claim this region by right of conquest, but who hold their title only by superiorly of num bers and eternal vigilance, and even then fall frequent victims to the fierce appetite of the mountain lions, whose epicurean tastes are particularly gratified by tne flavor of a young porker. At 4,000 feet all trace of vegetation disap pears, and the vast cone rises abruptly, an unbroken mass of lava and scoria, to tbe yawning crater, whose mysterious depths nave never been explored. . Long years ago some pious monks thought to coyer themselves wi.h glory and add luster to the words of the Holy Ohureb by planting a cross on the highest point The fiery old Monarch smiled grimly, as he watched these pretentious beings creeping upward, slowly, laboriously, now cutting their way step by step through the all but impenetrable jungle, now scaling walls of basaltic rook that he had reared in infant sport ages past On they come, slowly, painfully, but bravely withal, t burning with religious zeal, dragging the ponderous emblem. They had passed the forest zone, the last stunted pine was now far below, around and ahead . stretched a world of cinders and volcanio debris. Here and there masses of black, gneiss rock, and blocks of pumice broke the otherwise smooth outline of this mighty-ash heap. u ' 1 he Vlrw From the" Barren top. Undismayed by the awful desolation, they boldly entered this treacherous field of shifting ashes. Twenty-five miles away the blue line of the ocean was distinctly visible; below them, spread out like a map,, with every detail accurately penciled, lay 'the lake and river, with a dozen villages, half hidden among orange groves; far to'.the southwest the white walls of the Cathedral of Leon gleamed faintly out of the blue haze. ' The angle of ascent now increased to 45 degrees, and the men sank to their waists in the yielding surface, raising-clouds of blind ing dust Prom the interior of the mountain came a low, premonitory rumbling, like the bellow of an angry beast, low, deep and tearfuL. It was Momotombo's warning to these hnman insects; it was as if he said "thus far shalt thou come, but no farther." Bat the voice was unheeded. With a muttered prayer they pressed on, defying the giant who from his smoky throne had seen continents ' rise and fall and rise again 10,000 years be fore the dawn of history Abl to be chal lenged by these mldsetst Momotombo shook with wrath, and lo, the desecrators of his solitude were no more. Just what caused the catastrophe can never be known, but the supposition is, that in their struggle to advance, they started a slide which soon- became an ava lanche sweeping down with resistless force, burying the pious adventurers a hundred feet deep. Not one escaped, and later ex plorers have been unable ,to find any trace ot the ill-fated party. Sterp ae a Cha'ch's Roof. Some idea of the difficulties to be en countered in making the ascent may be formed, when it is stated , that the last stretch of 3,000 feet is almost as steep as a church roof, being traversed in many.places by deep fissures from which clouds of steam and deadly gases rise continually, so that tbe traveler Is in constant danger of being suffocated should he escape the slides which are almost sure to occur, tbe whole unner portion of the cone beine composed of loose dust and detached rocks, which the slightest disturbance will 'bring down in a destructive avalanche. ' And so it happens the crater has never been'visited by man. Great characters lore to associate with their equals. Momotombo being great, occasionally invites a thunder storm to spend an evening in social chat At first their voices are heard murmuring Indistinctly, as they discuss some 'choice bit of gossip, but as the hours roll on the mirth Increases, fed by the red-hot cheer from sulphurous larders, until the earth trembles with tear of their mad riot In the morning all signs haye disappeared; there he stands smoking tranquilly, extending the hand of peace to all the elements of earth and air. Age has now cooled tbe pasions of youth, and though be frowns darkly at times, his anger is short lived and easily appeased. A puff of blacker smoke, or a spurt of ashes relieves the pressure and he resumes the calm indifference that has Characterized him for more than a century. Llttlf Fn'lows Make lMt of Fuji. Not so his diminutive neighbors, wbo In dulgein so muoh fuss and fume, that unwary travelers are often misled by their clatter. Especially is ttiis true of Conseguiaua, who, though boasting an altitude of only 3,800 feet, is a regular little "spit fire'" and throws out such volumesf smoke and dust In her jealous fits as to effectually hide her great rival. Her last outburst occurred in 1835, when she sought to establish her superiority beyond cavil by spreading a coat of ashes tea feet thick over a vast tract of Nicaragua's best grazing lands; the area So destroyed is roughly estimated at 300 square miles. On this occasion the finer dust was carried to a distance of 1,200 miles. At Kingston Jamaica, TOO miles away, the air was darkened by the eloud, and streets and houses covered with the fine particles. Merchants experienced much annoyance, and loss from the effeets of the shower, which impalpable as air penetrated the closest fitting esses, watchmakers and jewel ers being especially unfortunate. ; "We tarried many days at a little eats, in rontof-which,' in the cool shade of a pair of 'mango trees, we lay in our hammocks Smoking the delicate and fragrant cigarettes durjandlord's pretty daughter, "Bonita," rolled for our especial benefit At times we Slept, but our eyes were always turned to the' mountain, dreamily watching the shadows' of the olouds as they glidel slowly across It -1 Every Day fjraa a Form. , 3"he low murmur of tiny waves on the pebbly shore, the hum of Insects in the trees', above, the distant thrumming of a guitar,, combined-with the drowsy atmos phere, filled our hearts with a deep content tory day Was a poem; every night a de lightful interlude, Why not remain in this restful seclusion ? Let those whose minds tro, tormented with vain ambition continue he mad struggle for wealth or fame or place glittering baubles that reward for a moment a life ot toil, hardly have they been ..secured when the hand that grasps them shrivels in death, and the tinsel toys become a bone of contention among quarrel ing successors. -" The sun had set, and the mantle of night wss drawn over the lower world, but the high crest of the mountain held (he rosy light of evening, the upper fields of broken lava and scorls glowed with life and warmth. The deep gorges, that scarred tbe vast dome were traced in dark blue lines on a ground of pale violet that gradually melted into a brilliant orange at the sum mit the whole standing out in bold relief against a somber sky. From the depths of the crater a luminous cloud rose slowly to a height of a thousand feet, where it spread out In all directions a canopy of gold. This was our hero's hour of triumph. He had no rivals now, the tallest of his envious neighbors wss lost in the gathering shadows; he alone remained visible, grand, glorious, invincible. Trebla. WALKIHG 05 WATEB, Many Daring; Feats Accomplished by Cap tain Terry and C. W. OMr.'vlr. Walking on water has been accomplished by at least two Englishmen Captain Terry and Prpf.I O. W. Oldrevie both of whom use specially made floats. Captain Terry In 1883 walked-on tbe Thames from Barnes to Mortlake, ' in England, at the rate of nearly four miles an hour, and intimated an' intention of walking across the Channel from Dover to Calais, but that walk has not yet come off. Prof. Oldrevie, who is tbo champion water-walker of the world, has made several successful- exhibitions of his power both in Europe and in this country. He successfully brested the" Niagara rapids, walking on the rapids through Hunter Falls in the pres ence of more than 5,000 spectators. He also performed a dating, and dangerous feat in. Boston Bar 'on the 27th of July, 1889. On that occasion he started on a trial trip across Hnll Gut Three or four harbor boats passed near him, and he was obliged to take their wash; but notwithstanding this, he accomplished the teat easily in 16 minutes, the distance being about a quarter of a mile. Then, the professor was taken into Mr. CunniiPs steam yacht, which steamed away with him for his next trip. He was lowered into the water and at once turned his face toward the mainland. So rough was tne sea that the breakers hid him from view nearly half tbe time. Tbe yacht followed as closely as possible, her occupants mo mentarily expecting to see the professor disappear beneath the surface and never rise. -Alter a plucky struggle a distance ot fire miles was successfully covered, and Prof. Oldrevie male a safe -landing at a point near Strawberry Hill. " JChe wooden floats on the professor's feet were square boxes of cedar four feet long, furnished at tbe top with a recess for the feet, and in tbe bottom with a series of col lapsible paddles, hinged to swing hori zontallyand on. the backward push present a flat surface, like the membrane of a duck's loot Where Sausage Is Hade From Doc; 31at A dog-nsing sausage maker has been caught, at. last A man named Basson and his wife have been tried at Lille, on a charge'bf systematically dealing In sausages made of -dog fletb. a Suspicion -of Rasson'd business led to investigation of his shop, and the Health Inspector of the town of Roubaix found- there a regular slaughter house containing 13 dogs' carcasses and oth er living dogs waiting lor conversion. The prisoners were sentenced to six months' im--prjsonment Srrange Discipline In the British Army. HeVYork TVorld. .A singular anomaly in connection with British army discipline is reported. In a certain regiment were two officers. One was the husband of a wife who strayed from the path of conjugal duty: the other was the means 'of leading a wife (not the same but .another man's) from the same path. The first officer was requested to send in his papers, while the second was informed that, not being married,.he ought to dine more frequently at the officers' mess-table! a " i - . TQjtot' Daughters Dread the Gendirmea, The latest of Count Tolstoi's visitors from the west of Europe reports the Count's youngest 'daughter as saying: 'The ap proach of a sledge always excites us. Every minnte we tear that gendarmes may come to take away our father.'' The Count himself looked "hale and hearty" and was clad, as usual, Jh a' gray woollen blonse, with top boots on his legs and a plain sheep-skin gar ment over his shoulders. He urged his vis itor to become a vegeterian. i ZASt of Trrtonl's Fnmoni Cafe. Tortoni's famous cafe imParis is for sale. and there is . a possibility that it will be transformed into a beer garden. Less than a generation .ago it was one of the glories of the boulevards, but the tide of fashionable life swept on byitfora harbor further West. But though Tortoni's may go, there still re mains the biscuit Tortoni to keep fresh the fame of one of the greatest of Paris restau rants. . . V-: .Doit'T allow your bouse to become overrun with roaches, Dedbngs. otc Clean, them out with Bufflhet Unevcrfalls; 2cts. When Baby was sick, tre gave her Castorls. When shew-as a Child, she cne4 for Castoria. Wben'ahe became Miss, she clung to Castoria. Wben she had Children, she gave them Castoria WEAK MEN touk AirEmoa a CALLED TO THE TOM am tsw ! SWEAT EWGLTSW kucxdt; Gray's Specific Medicin mpotency. and all diseases that arise rrom oyer ndfllience and se!f-ahue, as f.oss of Memory ana Uc. TUnnMl or Vision. 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JtlMt JK3fkA Attil iBf Win I " ill liiii ii Hi i i i iinii Mram w.fvM,nit Mliiil snermatorrhea. aaa -J C0STIVENESS 11 not relieved by judicious and timely treatment, is liable to result in chronio constipation. As an aperient that may be used with perfect safety and satis faction, Ayers PlUs are nnsurpas'sed. Unlike most cathartics, these pills, while they relax and cleanse, exert a tonic inflnenco on the stomach, liver, and bowels, causing these organs to per form their functions with healthy regu larity and comfort. Being purely vego- table and iree irom drag of their usa attended mineral any kind, is not with injurious effects. Good for old. and young of every climate, Ayers Pills are everywhere the favorite. G. W. 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