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A Visitor Must Walk a Great Many
Miles to See All the Wonders of
the White City — Route of the
Average Sight-Seer — Some Ex-
hibits of Foreign Countries.
The World's Fair is not only a wonderiul
exposition of the globe's industrial, mechan-
feal and artistic progress, but it is a “city of
magnificent distances.” Speaking of the
immense space covered by the Fair, the Chi-
cago Record says :
Some poor weak woman who could not
travel four blocks downtown without board-
ing a horsecar will walk five miles at Jack-
son Park. She does not realize it atthe
time. All the time something is happening
to engage the mind. The long jaunt is taken
In homeopathic doses, 100 yards at a time. It
has often been remarked, and there is no
harm in repeating it now, that the general
bigness of things around the Exposition
fires delusive ideas of distance. The visitor
an experience like that of a ‘‘tenderfoot’”
in the Rockies who concludes to walk over to
8 certain peak before breakfast, and after
traversing a few miles is told that he will be
there before night if he keeps moving. The
excursionist at the Fair often forms a hasty
conclusion that he can see nearly everything
in a day. Afterward be is ready to admit
that he couldn't cover the ground in a week
on a bicycle.
Take the Plaisance, for instance. From
understand why you were so tired out at
night and went to seep on the way home,
your head resting on the shoulder of a per-
fect stranger. Any man who started at Madi-
son street and walked to Jackson Park would
think he was performing a feat of endurance.
He comes to Jackson Park and covers the
same distance without knowing it. Why is
it? Those who have “studied the strange
ways of ‘hu say it is because he is
buoyed up and exhilarated by novel sights
and kept on the prance by rousing music.
He mind is so busy that he forgets about his
egs.
How far must a man walk to see all the
Fair? This is a hard questionto answer, but
here are some fairly accurate figures on the
larger buildings. If you wish totraverse the
main aisles in the Manufactures Building,
just to get a good general impression but
without edging around thousands of show
cases, you will find nine main aisles east and
west, each 750 feet long, a total length of
6750 feet. The north and south aisles, eleven
in number, are each 1750 feet long, making
a total length of 19,250 feet. This makes
26,000 feet, a trifle less than five miles. The
minimum estimate for the gallery on the
same basis is 12,500 teet. This does not
allow for passing through the narrow aisles
of open exhibits. It refers only to what
might properiy be called the streets and ave-
nues. Furthermore, it does not allow for
doubling up on each thoroughfare. The
Gsitor must see both sides at the same
me.
Machinery Hall has flve east and west
aisles, each 1300 feet long. To pass through
these uires 6500 feet of travel. There are
eight main aisles north and south, each
feet long, making 4000 additional teet or 10,-
500 in all. To ‘‘do” the building thoroughly
these transverse aisles should aol
On this basis the necessary traveling distance
is called 10,500 feet. The same rule is fol-
lowed in the case of each building.
Manufactures, main floor........
the Cottage Grove avenue gate to the en- | Manufactures, gallery.................12,500
trance from the main grounds is exactly one | Agriculture, main floor................ 9,900
mile. The man or the woman, however, who | Agriculture, gallery...........c....... 4.500
wanders out to the limits of the Plaisance | Agriculture, annex. . 4,400
and then back again does not travel in a | Forestry........ . . 2,900
straight line. He or she makes diagonal | Shoe and leather........ ers 38,500
cuts across the roadway from one noisy show | Krupp gun and convent. 1,000
to the other, strays off into pockets and | Administration........ asses 400
probably tramps a quarter of a mile in Java | Electricity, main floor................. 5,250
or old Vienna, forgetting that each of these | Electricity, gallery........... 2,600
shows is a little city of itself. In fact, a | Mines, main floor.............. 3,150
journey into the Plaisance and back will ' Mines, gallery...... Bet avir anes: 2,000
mean not far from three miles of walking if | Transportation, main floor............ 5,440
the sight-seer is at all industrious. Once | Transportation, gallery...... 4,000
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around on the Ferris wheel is nearly one-
sixth of a mile.
Here are some distances which the habitual
visitor will appreciate. From the entrance
to Midway it is 4300 feet to the Administra-
tion Building. This is considerably more
than three-quarters of a mile, a good walk,
even in the country. Yet people who cover
the distance every day look over at the dome
and say: ‘“There’s no need of taking a train ;
it's only a step.” Up at the narrowed north
end of the grounds, it is 2000 feet from the
Fifty-seventh street gate over to the lake, yet
this preliminary stroll is unnoticed by those
who pass the State Buildings and then turn
southward for the main part of the show. In
keeping track of distances »' is always well
to remember that once around the Manufac-
tures Building lacks about 200 feet of being a
mile,
Suppose you land from a boat at the Casino |
pier, walk over to the peristyle, turn north
and pass through Manufactures Building,
straight through the Government Building
and then proceed by the shortest cut to the
art palace, How far do you suppose you
have traveled? A mile? More than that—
6800 feet, if you kept as near a bee line as
But if you selected some of the
paths and reconnoiterd in side aisles
through the two buildings, you walked one
and one-half miles.
Follow the average sight-seer through a
day’s walking. Pick outa route which is
common. He alights from a train at the ter-
minal station and goes to the Administration
Building, whence he drops south to the Ma-
chinery and Agriculture Buildings, merely
passing through them to reach the peristyle,
along the length of which he passes to the
Manufactures Building. By the time he
reaches it he has covered, at the lowest, 4500
feet. Through Manufactures Building once,
then through the Government and Fisheries
Buildings and over to the art palace easily
makes 6000 more. If he follows the much-
traveled route from the Art Building ‘down
past the southerly State Buildings to the
laisance entrance it is just about 2500 feet
to be added.
Then the Plaisance. Perhaps he will not
walk to the extreme west end, but he will go
three-fourths of a mile and return, making
an actual chalk-line distance of one and one-
half miles with another mile to be added be-
cause of the zig-zag course, making it 13,000
feet on an easy compromise. Leaving the
Plaisance, suppose that he passes through
the Horticulture and Transportation Build-
ings to the court of honor and the grand
basin, around which he walks slowly during
the illumination and band concerts, finally
directing his way to the terminal station and
a train for home. Any tape-line measure-
mert following his steps would show that
arcother 9500 feet had been placed to his
credit. He had not crossed the wooded
island, had not looked into the Mines or Elec-
tricity Buildings and had not gone farther
north than the art palace nor farther south
than the Agriculture Building, Add up the
figures and it will be found that he walked |
85,500 feet, or a trifle less than seven miles, |
with hardly any allowance for incidental
foraging to the right or left. As a matter of
fact any one following that route would walk
ten miles.
Many persons have covered the ground in-
dicated. Perhaps you have, yet you couldn't
Transportation, annex........... es
Horticulture, main floor. ..
Horticulture, gallery. .
Government... iu. 4. done.
Woman's including gallery.
Fisheries. ..... ... .,.... seis
Art Palace, main section......
Art Palace, two wings....... 7 \
The grand total is something in excess of
118,000 feet or nearly twenty-three miles. At
the same time the estimate does not include
State, Government or private buildings ; the
Plaisance is igrored and no account is taken
of the long jumps from one building to an-
other, Let the reader figure for himself
whether by walking forty miles he could see
every nook and corner of the Exposition
from the washy head of the pier to the west-
ward end of Midway Plaisance.
The moral of this is: “Don't try to see
everything in one day.”
THE EXHIBIT OF ITALY.
Italy has reason to feel proud of the un-
equaled exhibit she has made in the various
departments of the World's Falr. No other
country of equal slze and commercial im-
portance has done s0 much to make the
great Columbian Exposition a success. In
the Manufactures Building, west side, sec-
tion A, Italy's main exhibit is to be found.
The liberal art section contains 18,000 square
feet, and is located on the interior floor in
the north-west gallery... This space is de-
voted to the exhibit of books, photographs,
musical instruments and other articles that
may be included in the category of liberal
arts, but nothing, however, of an educational
nature, except, of course, what {8 contained
in the books. Italy is jealous of her book-
making art, and many flne spacimens of
book making and printing make this part
of the exhibition one of the most interest-
ing.
The main section on the floor proper of
the Manufactures Building is, perhaps, one
of the best arranged and most unique dis-
plays of a country’s handicraft and ingenuity
to be found in the whole building. There
are specimens of hand-carved woodwork so
delicate and wonderful as to command the
highest praise for the artist’s skill, but not
this alone ; so perfect and so exquisite is it as
to make one question whether its siiperior
has ever been seen. The largest bas relief
ever carved from wood is among the articles.
It is twenty feet long and three feet wide,
and is made from a single block of wood.
What is more, it was made expressly for the
Columbian Exposition.
There are specimens of Italy’s beautiful
chiseled marbles, Florentine mosaics, so su-
perior to anything in this line shown as to
leave them without a competitor in this
branch of industry.
An enameled silver coffee set for twelve
persons acquires its great value from a very
complete history of the world engraved on
the platter and cups. All the details of the
principal events of the world from the days
of creation to the present are worked out in
' the finest lines.
Lace, said to be worth $1000 per yard,
with brocades and tapestry of untold value
and exquisite design, forms an attractive
feature and calls forth many complimentary
expressions from lady visitors.
The two majolica paintings in front of the
pavilion are much admired, and are valued
n the appraisement at $20,000. The pottery
and glassware, the figures in gilt, the stat-
uary and carving in wood, the beautiful
collection and display in marble and bronze,
make the Italian exhibit not only one of the
most valuable, but among the most interest-
ing.
ALGERIA’S EXHIBIT.
Algeria is a French colony, bnt it has been
given a distant Place and large space in the
Agricultural Building. The most prominent
object in the exhibit is what is called the
Moorish room, which is a reproduction ot
an apartment in the palace of the Governor
at Algiers. Inclosed by Moorish arches, in
imitation of marble, is a central court. The
office of Mr. Monteils, the commissioner
from the colony, is situated at one of the
corners, the rest of the space being devoted
to a display of the productsand art works ot
the country. Pictures by native artists hang
on the walls, showing the four seasons in
Algeria, a street scene in Algiers and other
subjects. A fine cabinet in native woods is,
shown, tobacco, manufactured and naturai,
and specimens of the ramiee a variety of
reed from which fine fibrous material is
made. Woods of the country are exhibited
in the form ofthin sections bound in volumes,
resembling books. There is a fine Arabian
mirror, the frame of which was carved with
a knife by a native artist, and other speci-
mens of wood carving.
In the main department oi the oxkipit, a
great display of cork is made. The trunk of.
a tres is shown, the rough bark in bales, and
manufactured eorks. Sheet cork for hat lin-
ings is shown, and thicker leaves for insoles
for shoes. There are 1,200,000 acres in Al-
in full production in five or six years, wnen
the crop will be enormous. Algerian cork is
equal to that of Spain, it is asserted. Growth
of the tree is limited to lands in the Mediter-
ranean basin. There are 260,000 Krench
people in Algeria, the same number of per-
sons of other Nations, and 3,500.000 natives.
A curious product of the country is alfa, a
fibrous grass from which ropes aremade, It
pulps readily, and fine paper is made, much
of which is exported to England. As evi-
dencing the importance of Algeria's com-
merce, goat skins to the value of $300,000
were exported to the United States in 1892.
‘T'his industry is of recent growth, as, four
years ago, none were exported. Wool is
another important product, while the grain
of the colony is of superior quality.
SPAIN AT THE FAIR.
Among the foreign countries contributing
to beauty and elegance in design of exhibits
and display Spain is prominent. The Span-
ish section in the Manufactures Building
covers an area of about 28,000 square teet
and it has been economically and judiciously
used. The pavilion erected is an exact re-
production of the famous Cathedral Cordova,
except, of course, in size. The structure oc-
cupies space under the inner galiery in the
southwest corner of the building and in the
rear of the Italian and Swiss sections.
In this section there are 350 exhibitors from
Spain, mostly showing products of cloth
and lace. In the working of the finest lace
texture, in design and delicate execution,
the Spanish may have equals, but they cere
tainly bave no superiors. In embroidered
designs, silk workings and gauzy woven
fabrics an exceedingly ingenious and inter-
esting display is made.
As usual the most expensive exhibit fills
the least space. Because of its novelty and
its representation of something new in the
working of precious metals, the greater in-
terest, perhaps, attaches to it. Felipa Guis-
asola, a lady of Madrid, some years ago con=
oeived the idea of ornamenting steel with
gold, by first sketching goaizHe on steel and
then hammering gold into the grooves, leav-
ing a greater or less projection of the precious
metal on the surface, according to the size
and character of the figure desired to be pro-
duced. The gold was then shaped by ham-
mering or was cut on thesurface to represent
faces, flgures, flowers or whatever design
fancy or the love of art dictated. The finest
work of this kind in the exhibit, worth over
$100,000, is two fine vases, one of the Pom-
pelian design and the other Renaissance
They are about four feet high, and the steel
body is richly ornamented with gold of ali
colors.
MAKING THE AWARDS.
Fifty judges in the Manufactures and Ma-
chinery Departments started to work for the
first time a few days since. They found
some of the exhibitors not prepared, and in
such cases the exhibits were passed for the
present ; but-all the exhibitors who were
ready expressed their acquiescence in the
system of awards. The foreign and domestic
judges in the Department of Agriculture met
in the Asomily Hall of that building for or-
ganization. They elected as President Will.
iam R. Williams, delegate from Russia and
professor in the Academy of Moscow. Count
Addleman was chosen First Vice-President.
Meetings of judges of awards in the De
partments of Mining, Electricity and Fine
Arts have also been held to perfect the or
ganization preparatory to getting to work on
the exhibits. The fine arts judges will fol
low the European jury plan, which they
think alone practicable and satisfactory to
the exhibitors in such a department.
The Committee on Awards is discouraged
over the refusal of nearly all the agricultural
implement exhibitors to Dattioipate in the
fleld test outside the city. Only two harvester
machine exhibitors entered for the examina.
tion, and the feeling among the bulk of the
implement exhibitors, as expressed in the
recent protest sent to Chairman Thacher, is
not favorable to success in that branch of
the exhibits at least.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
NEw York cheese manufacturers have se
cured three first prizes.
FouRTEEN separate and distinct congresses
were in session at the Art Instituts the other
day. The most largely attended was that of
the college fraternities.
Aveustus HEMENwWAY, of Canton, Mass.,
has invited all the schooma'ams in town to
go to the World's Fair at his expense, There
are twenty-six of them.
Tae Department of Awards is now the
busiest branch in the great Exposition, and
Mr. Thacher, its chief, has increased his
clerical force from flve to 100.
A B16 map showing the educational pecu:
larities of the Pennsylvania public sohools,
colleges and academies, has been shipped to
the Fair. It is fourteen by eight feet in size
and contains 112 square feet of canvas.
TrE Masonic apron worn by Washington
in the lodge room as well as the valuable
and interesting lodge emblems of General
Lafayette form a feature of the exhibit in
the Government Building, beneath the great
dome.
Ix the dome of the Horticultugal Building
there is a perfect facsimile of ti Capitol at
Washington, done in immortelles. The
grounds surrounding the Capitol are also
shown, and it forms a unique and interesting
exhibit. a
Tae World's Youth Congress, a gathering
made up of the brightest young people be.
tween the ages of twelve and twenty-one,
and representing schools, academies and
colleges throughout the country and varions
institutions of learning in England and on
the Continent, has been in session in the
Hall of Washington.
Ir is generally conceded that forthe limited
amount of money expended on its buildings
and display of articles made, the State of
Arkansas leads all the rest. The mineral
and wood exhibits in the Stats Building are
especially interesting, both from their num-
ber and completeness, as well as from the
unique manner in which they are arranged.
CARDINAL GIBBONS has acceptsl the invi-
tation of the Committee of the Maryland
State Commission to make the prayer and
benediction on the occasion of Maryland
Day at the World’s Fair, September 12, That
is also the date fixed for the meeting in Chi-
cago of the Archbishops of the Catholic
Church, Cardinal Gibbons, the primate of
the United States. will preside.
geria covered with cork trees, which will be
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON FORBUNDAY, AUGUST 6.
tr
“Paul at Miletus,’ Acts xx.,22 35. Gold
en Text: Heb. xiii, 7. Commentary.
22. *And now behotd, I go bound in the
spirit nto Jerusalem, not knowing the things
‘hat shall befall ma thera.” List wzek wa left
Paul at Ephesus alone, his eompanions hav-
ing gone to Macedonia. Then followed the
aproar, after which Paul left Macedonia,
went as far as Greece, tarried there three
months, then returned through Macedonia,
and we now find him at Miletus on his way
to Jerusalem, hastening to be there if poszi-
ole by Pentecost (verse 16). Touching at
Miletus on their homeward voyage, he sent
to Ephesus to have the elders come down to
him, and our lesson to-day is his farewell ¢o
them. He reminds them of his manner of
life among them and of his teaching. Doing
must precede teaching. See Math. v., 19;
Aetsi., 1; Mark vi.,, 30, Josh. i., 8; Ez
vii., 10.
23. ‘Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth
in every city. saying bonds and afflictions
While he did not know what
particular events might befall him, he hada
general knowledge that it would be as it had
been, and even so to theend. It was in his
commission that he should suffer (Acts ix.,
16), and large foretastes had he already in
the stoning at Lystra and the scouring and
imprisonment at Philippi.
24. “But none of these things move me,
neither count I my life dear unto myself, so
that I might finish my course with joy.”
The ambitions of this servant of Christ may
be seen in such passages as this in connec-
tion with I Cor. ii., 2; II Cor. v., 9; Phil i,
20; Gal. vi.. 14. To make known the gospel
of Brace, to make Christ known through
these bodies, to be in all things pleasin,
unto Him and have his service accepted o
Him, these were his constant aim. and in
these directions he exhorted his son Timo-
thy (II Tim. i., 3; iv., 15), and through his
writings exhorts all believers.
25. “And now. behold, I know that yo all
among whom I have gone preaching the
kingdom of God. shall see my face no more.”
In some way he knew that he would not
meet them again till he should meet them at
the judgment seat of Christ, and therefore
he would speak to them the more earnestly
and waste no time on vain words. If when
we speak to people, even in ordinary con}
versation, we felt that we might not mest
them again in this world. we would be more
apt to say something about Jesus and things
eternal.
26. “Wherefore I take you to record this
day that I am pure from the blood of all
men,” not only in the sense of having
wronged, corrupted or defrauded no man
(II Cor. vii., 2), but he had cleared himself
of all responsibility in reference to their
soul's salvation. If we, as the messengers of
God, faithfully declare His messages of sal-
vation, then we are clear of the bloodot
those who hear, whether they believe or not,
See Ezek. ifi., 7-9, xxxiii., 17-19.
27. “For I have not shunned to declare
unto you all the counsel of God.” That
which he had received of the Lord he had
made known unto them without diminishing
a word (I Cor. xv., 3; Jer. xxvi., 2). He had
kept back nothing (verse 20) through fear of
man. He believed in his heart that it his
was to please men he was not worthy to be
called a servant of Christ (Gal. i., 10). So
he lived and labored not as pleasing men,
but God, who trieth our hearts (I Thess. ii.,
4). What a needful word this is, ‘‘He that
hath My word, let him speak My word faith.
fully” (Jer. xxiii., 23).
28. Take heed therefore unto yourselves,
and to all the flock, over the which the Holy
Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the
church of God, which He hath purchased
with His own blood.” One of the risen
Christ's last words to Peter was a threefold
exhortation to feed His sheep and lambs
(John xxi., 15. 17), and Peter passes it on to
us, saying, ‘‘Feed the flock of God which is
among you” (I Pet. v., 2). Nothing can feed
us but the word of God. The written word
is full of Him who is the living word, and He
Himself said, ‘‘He that eateth Me, even he
shall live by Me” (John vi., 57).
29. “‘For I know this, that after my depart-
ing shall grievous wolves enter in among
you, not sparing the flock.” It was Paul's
delight to maintain himself by his own labor
that he might haveto giveto the needy things
temporal and spiritual. But there were and
there are those who, professing to be shep-
herds, not only do not teed the flock, but
take good care to live upon the flock—wolves
in sheep's clothing (Math. vii., 15, x., 16).
30. ‘‘Also of your own selves shall men
arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away
disciples after them.” It is one thing for a
man to be accused of drawing people after
him, while his whole aim is to point them to
Jesus (I Cor. iii., 4, 5). It is quite another
matter for » man to live and labor for the
sake of a following (Acts v., 36, 37).
31. ‘“‘Therefore watch and remember that
by the space of three years I ceased not to
warn every one night and day with tears.”
Woe be unto the pastors that destroyand
scatter the sheep of My pasturage, saith the
Lord (Jer. xxiii., 1). See also Ezek. xxxiyv.,
2. Prayerfully, tearfully and unceasingly
had Paul labored for their souls’ welfare, and
as he foresaw the possibility of false teach-
ers and souls ruined and lost his heart was
grieved.
32. ‘‘And now, brethren, I commend you
to God and to the word of His grace, which
is able to build you up and to give you an in-
heritance among all them which are sancti-
fied.” He knew that if they would only hold
fast to the word of God they would not waver
nor be lod astray. The only safety then and
now is ‘‘to the law and to the testimony. It
they speak not according to this word, surely
thers is no morning for them" (Isa. viii., 20,
33. “I have coveted no man’s silver or
gold or apparel.” He was not seeking theirs,
but them. He wanted nothing from them,
but he had something to givethem. Though
he was poor, yet he made many rich , though
he seemed to have nothing, yet he possessed
all things (I Cor vi., 10). When any gave
him gifts, he was especially glad for them,
because it was just so much added to their
aceount in heaven.
33. “Yea, ye yourselves know that these
hands bave ministered unto my necessities
and to them that were with me.” Therefore
when the false teachers would come, seeking
theirs and not them, only wanting to make
something out of them, not caring for their
souls, they could say * ““Thus did not Paul.
He never asked us fo: anything for himself.”
See further instruction upon this point in IT
Thess. iii., 8.
35. “I have showed you all things, how
that so laboring ye ought to support the
weak, and to remember the words of the
Lord Jesus, how He said, It is more blessed
to give than to receive.” It is not recorded
that Jesus ever said just these words, so that
possibly Paul has here given us some of the
unrecorded words of Jesus. This principle
however, was certainly in His teaching an
very prominent (Luke vi., 30; xiv., 13, 14).—
Lesson Helper.
—
Parachutes Are Not Now.
It seems that as early as 413 B. C.,
a prisoner in Egypt astonished the
natives by jumping safely from a high
tower, impeding his downward pro-
gress and landing” without too vio-
lent a jar by holding a blanket over
his head. The parachute, as we
know it now, is said to have been in-
vented by adventurous Frenchman
who exhibited 1itin Paris in 1796, and
early 1n this century an English
@ronaut named Green, precipitated
himself, with a parachute’s restrain-
ing aid ffrom the ample ether, to
terra firma, in Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia, thus making the fist
recorded descent in America.
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS.
A DRUNKEN RACE RIOT.
HUNS AND POLES BATTLE AT PRICEBURG. THREE
FATALLY ANI' MANY OTHERS BADLY
INJURED.
8crANTON—Raturday was pay day at the
wines at Priceburg, a prosperous borough
of this county, and the several hundred
Huns and Polish employes began to drink
heavily. At night a Hun and a Pole. engag-
ed in a fight in Bryan Fallon's saloon and
their countrymen took sides with them, a
free fight resulting.
The borough police arrested four Hun-
garians and lodged them in jail. At9 o'-
clock the Hungarians held an indignation
meeting, and then proceeded in a body to
the jail, where they overpowered the keeper
and liberated the prisoners. This caused
the largest riot that has occurred in this
region in 16 years. The Poles took excep-
tion and a race war commenced, lasting
three hours, during which there was a
reign of terror, all the saloons in the town
being taken possession of and the officers
driven off. Over 30 men were injured, three
fatally and one Pole had his ears cut off.
Many windows were broken in with stones
and clubs.
Shortly before midnight Deputy Sheriff
Craig arrested several of the rioters and re-
stored peace. Many arrests will follow.
THE CROP BULLETIN.
REPORTS INDICATE THAT RAIN IS NEEDED
BADLY IN SOME PARTS OF THE STATE.
In the weekly report of the State Weather
Service, it is said that rain is badly needed
for crops in the Southern section. Tobacco,
potatoes and pastures are suffering. The
corn crop looks well. Wheat and hay are
about housed and oats are being harvested,
Fruit prospects are not improving. Rain is
needed badly in Southwestern section and
corn and potatoes will be short unless
it comes soon. The fruit crop will be light.
In the Northwest crops do not appear to
need rain. Inthe Northeast drought con-
tinues. In dry sections the hay crop is said
to be from one-half to two-thirds ofa crop.
Corn, potatoes and tobacco are in a period
when moisture is most needed. In many
places the rainfall has been barely
sufficient to prevent disaster.
eee
TWO LITTLE BROTHERS DROWNED.
ALLENTOWN.—While three brothers, George
Willie and Lewis Sochray, aged 13, 11and 6
years respectively.sons of George A. Soch-
ray, were sitting on the banks of the Lehigh
river in this city. Willie toppled into the
stream. The other brothers in trying ta
rescue him fell into the river. Assistance
came and Willie was rescued. His two
brothers were drowned.
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TO CATCH LIARS.
Among the laws passed by the recent leg-
islature is one for the protection of news-
papers against practical jokers and espe-
cially against maliciously inclined people
who have in the past been free to get any
kind of malicious report they could into
ihe papers to serve their own purpose, and
then let the newspaper bear the brunt of it.
Following is the act:
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‘‘Any person who wilfully states, delivers
or transmits by any means whatever to the
editor, publisher, or reporter of any news-
paper, magazine, publication, periodical or
article for publication therein, any libelous
statement concerning any person or corpor-
ation and thereby secures the actual publi-
cation of the same, is hereby declared guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon eonviction
shall be sentenced to pay a tine not exceed-
ing five hundred dollars and undergo im-
prisonment for a period not exceeding two
ears or either or both at the discretion of
he Court.”
ArT Beaver Falls, the other eve ing Mrs.
Jane Smith was sitting on her front porch
in her bare feet. A pet chicken saw one of
Mrs. Smith’s bare feet and gave it a fierce
peck. The chicken’s bill penetrated an
artery and Mrs. Smith almost bled to death
before the flow of blood was staunched.
Mgrs. Porry Ros, of Butler county, who
died last Saturday after celebrating ner
hundredth anniversary, came of a long
lived family. Her fa:her served in the rev-
olutionary war and lived to be 86 years old,
while her mother was a few months over
100 when she died.
WHILE Mrs. W. H. Brick, of Buffalo,
Somerset county, was sitting 1n front of her
house hol ting her baby an eagle swooped
down as if to carry off or attack the child.
The mother screamed and ran into the
house and the eagle flew away. It has been
seen before.
LAST year the Raney farm. near Mahon-
ngtown, Lawrence county, was stocked
with imported bug-snapping toads. It was
feared the cold weather had killed them but
last week they came to the surface in great
number, and are now playing hob with the
bugs.
Last Saturday night a valuable horse be-
longing to J. WW. Gonaware, a Greensburg
merchant, got twisted up in the halter in
some way and hanged itself, being 1ound
dead in the morning.
A rEw days ago a conductor lifted a ticket
from McVeytown to Lewistown that was
sold August 19, 1867. The interest on its
face value amounted to exactly its original
cost.
A FrEIGHT wreck at Bixler, on the Penn-
sylvania railroad. caused by the breaking
of an axle killed 11 horses, injured others
and delayed traffic five hours.
Jorn W. Vaxarra, for extorting money
from an old soldier was sentenced by Judge
Buffington at Ere to £50 fine and serve three
months at hard labor,
E. J. GAYNOR, railroad contractor, Potts-
ville, has assigned. Judgments amounting to
nearly $50,000 have thus far been filed; as-
sets nominal.
AT work in one of the quarries at M hon-
ingtown is a mule that is known to be 34
years old and bids fair to live many more
years.
At Harrisburg, John W. Boyer, who did
not hear the gong, was killed by a street car
while gathering wood in the suburbs of the
city.
MAYOR TIiLBROOK, of McKeesport,
issued an order that street fakirs
prohibited from doing business.
has
will be
ALFRED Tavror has sue! Mercer county
for $25,000 for alleged injuries received
while crossing a couuty bridge,
Tne Fayette county mutual insurance
company. of Uniontown. which suspended
in 1879, has been reorganized.
CHARLES ANDREWS, brakeman on the
Pittsburg & Western at New Castle, feil
berween cars a d was killed
THE big Mexican monument at Harris-
burg, in Capitol Park, 1s toppling and will
be removed soon.
DrparneRrIA in a malignant and fatal form
is epidemic at West Newton.
Tur Mercer county wheat
: crop is the
largest for many years,
i SOLDIERS" COLUMN
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THE PLOT FRUSTRATED.
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Interesting Bit of History From Ft. Je
ferson Records.
tte
JOHN J. O'DON-
nell, who was re
cently ordered tc
Ft.. Smith, Ark,
to take charge of
the weather sta-
tion in that city
gave to areportes
before he lef
copies of some
interesting tele-
grams which he
gays are unwrit’
ten history. Be.
fore coming te
Pittsburg, Mr.
O'Donnell was in the Signal Service at Key
West, Fla., and was also stationed for 1
time at Ft. Jefferson, on the Dry Tortugas
which isthe most isolated fortifiction in the
United States, and which was used after
the war as a place of confinement for State
prisoners. Among those kept there were
O’Laughlin, Mudd, Spangler and Arnold,
who were found guilty by a military com-
mission of complicity in the assassination
of President Lincoln. The telegrams which
Mr. O'Donnel! copied from the records of
the fort relate to a plot to rescue these pris-
oners which was formed in New Orleans
in August. 1865. The first telegram is as
follows;
LousviLLe, Ky., Auz. 17, 1865.
Hon. T. T. Eckert, Acting Assistant Seere-
tary of War:
I have important papers. I think the
commanding officer at the Dry Tortugas
should be put on hisguard against an at-
tempt to rescue the State prisoners in his
charge. A company is organizing in New
Orleans for that purpose. I havethe facts
from a -eliable source.
L. C. BAKER,
Brig. Gen.
‘WaAsHINGTON, August 17, 1865,
Col. C. H.Hamilton, 100th N. Y. Vol., Com~
manding Officer, Dry Tortugas, Fla.
Iinclose herewith #opy of a telegram from
Brig. Gen. L. C. Baker. The Secretary of
War directs that besides taking effectual
measures against any attempt to rescue
prisoners, you will place the four State
risoners, Arnold, Mudd. Spangler and O'-
aughlin, under such restraint and within
such limits inside of Ft. Jetferson as shall
make abortive any attempt at escape or res-
cue. You will return by Lieut. Carpenter.the
bearer of this, a full report of the measures
you take under these instructions.
E. D. TownNsSEND,
Asst. Adj. Gen,
Edwin M. Stanton, the Secre'ary of War,
sent this telegram to Maj.Gen.E.R.S.Canby,
at New Orleans, as soon us Gen.Baker's tele-
gram was received: '
“This department is informed that an op-
eration is on foot in New Orleans to go to
the Tortugas and by surprise or stratagem
seize that place and release the prisoners
there. Immediately on receiving this tele-
gram send a special messenger to notify
the commanders at Key West and Tortugas
to take strict measures to guard agsinstany
stratagem or surprise and secure the safety
of their commands. You will also use every
effort to defeat the parties engaged in this
conspiracy and defeat its object. You will
also please notify the Division Commander
and request his co-operation.
Gen. P. H, Sheridan was in command of
the Department of the Gulf in 1865, and he
sent a messenger to Kt. Jefferson with the
secretary’s telegram and ordered the com-
manding officer to report to him at once the
strength of the garrison, Capt. W, R.
Prentice, of the One Hundred and Sixty-
first New York Volunteers, who was com-
manding the post on August 24, sent a re-
port to Gen. Sheridan telling him the small-
ness of the garrison and urging him to
hurry forward 10 companies of ths One
Hundred and Sixty-first under Lieut. Col.
William B. Kinsey, which were at Apala-
chicola awaiting transportation. Capt.
Prentice also reported to Adjt. General
Townsend that none of the prisoners were
allowed outside of the fort after sunset;that
the entire fort was patrolled every night, in
addition to the regu ar sentinels and that an
efficient force was kept in readiness at all
times to man four of the 10-inch guns.
A general order was issued regulating the
approach of vessels, and a detail was in
readiness to board them to examine them
before they landed. A system of signals
was arranged between the boarding party
and the guard. Everything was kept in
readiness for any sudden attack. The total
strength of the garrison was 377, and of
these 275 men could be turned out on a
moment’s alarm.
The expected attack was not made, be-
cause the conspirators learned that their
plot was known, and an attempt to rescue
the prisoners would be foolhardly. Hew-
ever, it was never entirely abandoned, for
three years later there appeared at Ft. Jef-
ferson one Maloney, a lawyer, whoannounec-
ed that he was there to see the men in con-
finement who had become known as the
‘Mississippi prisoners,’”’ preparatory to
bringing an action to test the legality of
their imprisonment. He asked some
special privileges from Capt. E. Bainbridge,
Fifth United States Artillery, then com-
manding the post, and this is the order the
captain issued:
“Mr. Maloney will not
with the prisoners at this post
accordance with existing rules.”
This order was issued becanse another
pi was suspected. Shortly after this
resid ent Johnston pardoned Spangler,
Arnold and Mudd. O'Laughlin had died
before this.
Ft. Jefferson is an interesting place out-
side of its historical associations t is built
on a coral island, Garden Key, one of the
largest of the Dry Tortugas. The reet of
which it is a part is 400 miles long and very
dangerous for navigators. Itis calied *Dry”’
on account of the peculiar formation of the
beach and harbor, which does not permit a
vessel to get close to it. The reef is precipi-
tous. In a ship's length 25 fathoms of wa-
ter and less than 2 fathoms can be found.
The fortification was provided for by the
twenty-ninth Congress, which appropriated
$2,040,000 for it. Two-thirds of the men em-
ployed in building it were slaves owned by
8. R, Mallory, afterward Confedarate Secre-
tary of War. After the attack on Ft. Sump:
ter, the first guns, two 40-pound Colum bias,
were mounted and they are still on their
carriages, though now they are useless.
The fort in design is an irregular hexa.
gon surrounded by a moat 80 feet wide con-
taining eight feet of water. The wall is 40
feet high and the fort can accommodate 500
men. It is fast going into ruins and only a
few men are kept there under charge of an
ordinance sergeant. There is 8 marine hos-
ital station there and a light house. — Pitts-
De Times.
communicate
except in
rayea ror His Candidate.
The eccentric Father Taylor, the
sailors’ pastor of Boston, was a stroag
partisan of Governor Briggs. On one
occasion, just previous to the latter's
election, he
was making the usual
decorous prayer, asking the Lord te
give the people for Governor “a man
who will rule in the fear of God,”
etc... when he suddenly broke off:
“Pshaw, Lord! What's the use ot
boxing the compass like that?—give
us Governor Briggs!”