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CATASTROPHE AX1) HO- PT ON COLORADO ROAD. 'F THE DEAD INCINERATED. F° Hundred People Taken From Wreck Badly Injured, Many Of Whom Will Ole. Ivorst wreck in the history of K) occurred at 12:25 Friday ■ on the Denver and Rio ■nd Colorado Midland railways Hi half miles west of Newcastle, twelve hours’ incessant work ■king crews in clearing away ■is and recovering the bodies ■who perished, it was impossi- Hore than estimate the loss of ■ not even those known to be He been identified. Many of Htunates will never he known, ■s possible that the number ■ll always be in doubt. ■the best information obtaina- ■ thirty persons are believed ■erished, Be while 185 were taken wreck suffering from serious ■ reck was caused by a head- ■ision between a Denver and ■nde passenger train, running Bte of forty miles an hour, and ial Colorado Midland stock tuning ■rifle at thirty miles. was the concussion that ■gines, Boker baggage and express and day coaches and two vs were totally demolished and ■ torn up for rods in both di- Bld to the horror of the scene, Bk caught fire from ail explo- ■ Pintsch gas tank on the pas- H'ain and burned so rapidly H: passengers pinned beneath were burned to death before \ ^Bl Hi reach fragments them. of limbs and ■ a number of persons were ■ of the ruins. ■ost generally accepted theory ■ cause of the wreck seems to ^Conductor Hsp. Burbank, of the Hsenger, i'ial, anticipating the time undertook to steal a Hud beat the passenger into Burbank escaped unin- ■ npuii orders from Coroner ■been placed under arrest by Hi Engineer Ostrander is mis- H> thorough search about his His to reveal any vestige of his ■ It is thought that when he ■threatened danger he jumped ■ engine, and realizing the re- f his negligence, took to the hills, soon as the news of the wreck td Glenwood a relief train was Irom that place and the more se- w wounded were removed to the er and Rio Grange company’s lal at Salida. F bodies were found in the ruins b car and four in another. The id remains of two women, appa- clasped in eaali other’s arms, found. Their heads and lower were burned off. OBTAINED A MAIL TRAIN. H* of Decatur, Ala., Sav That Ouar- ^Kntine ■mg Rules Must Be Obeyed. to the continued refusal of Montgomery and Columbus road ■rnisk Irs, passes for the quarantine the eastbound fast mail was bed Friday by the authorities of [tur, Fs and Ala., held just until outside the train the could city Inspected. The officers had train orders after •rest the crew of the [arrived in the city unless they llied with the red flag signal. [G RE HARD FOR RAYISHER. In Citizens Will Pay »1,000 For Miss Chapman’s Assailant. [Macon, [strenuous Ga., efforts dispatch says: being Quiet made are leate the assailant of Miss Sallie pman. The offer of $250 reward tayor Price will serve to make the bli no more thorough, but more nnged. le governor will not be called on ter a reward, as the people of the Bill in alL probability, volunteer ■tutions to the amount .of $1,000. GONERS GET BIG MONEY. ir Department Shows' Amount Paid K Out For the Past Year. ■annual report of the auditor of Hrior department at Washington Him: the annual amount paid for Hs during the past year was ■ ■payments 7,637. on pensions account ■ fiscal year 1896 was $128,722,- hnd for the fiscal vear 1895 $140,- 141; 1894, $138,119,551, and for $154,552,214. e cost of the service last year was i per $1,000; for 1896, $4.07; for >, $4; for 1894, $3.77, and for 1, $4.35. FILIBUSTERS GET OFF. iclilion Leaves Florida for Cuba on \ a Schooner, formation has been received by acksonville,Fla.,Times Union and len from Carrabelle announcing I filibustering expedition left there li schooner at daybreak Friday king, carrying thirty Cubans, be- I [is arms and ammunition. believed that a transfer was L outside to some other vessel. [e [e Brothers, schooners which Wild Eagle under and were Lion at Tampa, have returned. WARRANTS FOR DEPUTIES. Additional New* of Slaughter of Miners at Latimer. Saturday night twenty-one corpses ’ u ram8 hackle frame shanties scat¬ tered over the town of Hazelton, Pa. Forty maimed, wounded and broken figures tossed on the narrow cots of the Hazelton hospital. Of these it was almost a certainty that five would be added to the death list. Such was the execution done by the one hundred and two deputy sheriffs, armed to the teeth, upon about one hundred and fifty ignorant foreigners, whose total armament consisted of two little penknives. All the men killed ranged in age from eighteen to forty-five years, all foreigners, Hungarians, Poles, Lithu¬ anians and Slavs, and nearly all had families. First and foremost, the purpose these men had in view when their march reached its tragic end was con¬ summated. The 1,500 workers at the Latimer mines, to whom they were bound in an effort to induce them to join the strikers’ ranks, have laid down their picks and sworn to do no more work until all the demands of the men at all the mines in the district have been conceded. Warrants for Deputies* Arrest. Next in importance was the issu¬ ance of warrants for the arrest of Sheriff Martin and the 102 deputies. These were issued at the instance of the United Hungarian Societies. Sheriff Martin was under the guar¬ dianship of the soldiers and he could not he reached. Saturday afternoon constables made an effort to arrest A. E. Hess, who led one company of the deputies, but he had shelter within the military lines of the Ninth regiment and they refused to permit the constables to pass tlie guards. The warrants charge murder, as¬ sault and battery and threatening to kill. GOVERNOR’S WARNING. Chief Executive of Pennsylvania Issues a Pro cl a ma t i on. On account of the horrible slaugh¬ ter at Latimer, in the coal region, Gov¬ ernor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, is¬ sued a proclamation admonishing all good citizens against aiding or abetting unlawful proceedings. “I do hereby notify them,” it reads, “that the lives and property of all citi¬ zens of the commonwealth will be pro¬ tected; that the laws will be enforced; that the humblest citizen will be pro¬ tected in his right to earn a livelihood and in the enjoyment of his home and family, and that the safety of life and property will be guaranteed to all at whatever cost, and I do hereby com¬ mand all persons engaged in riotous demonstrations and unlawful conduct threatening the peace and dignity of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to disperse forhtwitk to their respective places of abode, warning them that the persistence in violence or unlawful assemblage will compel such use of the military arm of the commonwealth as may be necessary to enforce obedience to the laws and the maintenance of good order.” CAMPHOR TREES WANTED. Secretary Wilson Suggests Their Culture In Florida. Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural department at 'Washington says that arrangements will be made by the de¬ partment for the thorough introduction of the camphor tree in Florida. He sa^l that there was no doubt that the tree would be a success, as it had already passed the experimental stage. The department will give all posssible encouragement in the way of supplying seed and young trees, and Mr. Wilson predicts that tlie country will soon be producing a sufficient supply of eam- phor for its own needs. He also announced his purpose to adopt a policy for the encouragement of the growth of the English walnut, the tree of which will, he thinks, do well anywhere south of Washington. DYNAMITE KILLS THIRTY. Magazine in South Africa Explodes With Frightful Loss of Life. Advices from Johannesburg, South Africa, state that an explosion of dy¬ namite took place in the magazine of the George Gouch deep level mine, causing terrible loss of life among the miners. Five white men and twenty- five Kaffirs are known to have been killed. LIABILITIES VERY HEAVY. J. K. Willard Suspended From the New York Exchange. Regarding the failure of J. R. Wil¬ lard & Co., brokers, reports were cur¬ rent in Wall street Friday that the lia¬ bilities are much lai’ger than supposed. One client lost about $500,000. He may institute criminal proceedings. A telegram from Chicago from J. R. Willard says the capital of the firm was supplied by the Dwiggius Brothers, and says that he was guar¬ anteed a salary for- the use of his uame, but had no other interest in the business. J. R. Willard has been suspended from the Consolidated Exchange. NEW YORK PROHIBITIONISTS Hold a State Convention and Name Chief Judge of Court of Appeals. The New York state prohibition convention, in session at Syracuse, concluded its labors Wednesday by nominating Francis E. Baldwin, of Elmira, for chief judge of court of appeals. The platform presented and the issue of the liquor traffic de¬ nounced the Raines excise law and secular amusements on Sunday. The plank declaring for woman suffrage Mas voted uo»vu. SHOT DOWN BY A PENNSYLVANIA SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTIES. THE LIST OF DEM IS flPPflLLING. Miners Were Marching and the Officer. Attempted to Stop Them—Troop. Called Out. The strike situation in Pennsylvania reached a terrible crisis on the out¬ skirts of the town of Latimer Friday afternoon, when a band of deputy sheriffs fired into an infuriated mob of miners. The men fell like so many sheep and the excitement was so intense that no accurate figures of the dead and wounded could be obtained. Reports were that from fifteen to twenty-odd were killed and forty or more wounded, many of whom will die. One man, who reached the scene im¬ mediately after the shooting, counted thirteen corpses. Four other dead lay in tlie mountains between Latimer and Harleigh. Those who were not injured carried their dead and wounded friends into the woods. Throe bodies were found Friday night on the road near Latimer. HOW THK SLAUGHTER BEGAN. The strikers left Hazelton at 3:30 o’clock Friday afternoon, announcing th ir intention to go to Latimer. As soon as this became known a band of deputies was loaded on a trolly car and sent whirling across the mountain to the scene where the bloody conflict followed. After reaching Latimer they left the car and formed into three companies, under Thomas Hall, E. A. Hessel and Samuel B. Price. They drew up in a line at the edge of the village with s fence and a line of houses in the rear. Sheriff Martin was in command antf stood in front of the line until thi strikers approached. They were seen coining across the ridge and Martin went out to meet them. The men drew up sullenly and list¬ ened in silence until he had once more read the riot act. This finished, a low muttering arose among the foreigners and there was a slight move forward. Perceiving this the sheriff stepped toward them and in a determined tone forbade advance. Some oue struck the sheriff and the next moment there was a command to the deputies to fire. The guns of the deputies instantly belched forth a ter¬ rible volley. The strikers were taken entirely by surprise and as the men toppled- and fell over each other those who remain¬ ed unhurt stampeded. The deputies seemed to be terror- stricken at the deadly execution of their guns and seeing the living strikers fleeing and the others drop¬ ping to the earth, they went to the aid of the unfortunates whom they had brought down. The people of Latimer rushed pell- mell to the scene, hut the shrieks of the wounded drowned the cries of the sympathizing and half-crazed inhabi¬ tants. Sheriff Martin sent a telegram to Governor Hastings, stating that mob law prevailed in the lower end of tho county, and asking for assistance. Governor Hastings ordered Colonel Dougherty, Ninth regiment, N. G. P., to start for Hazelton at once. The regiment left Wilkesbarre for Hazelton at 5 o’clock Saturday morn¬ ing. TROOl’S CALLED OUT. A Harrisburg special says: Gover¬ nor Hastings ordered out the Third brigade, of which General Gobin is commander, Friday night, and in¬ structed General Shall to hold the First brigade in readiness. The troops mobilized at Hazelton, and were on the scene before daybreak Saturday morning. Captain A. R. Paxton, United States army, attached to the National Guard, started for Ha- zeltou by direction of the governor. Superintencent Creighton, of the mid¬ dle division of the Pennsylvania rail¬ road, was called into the conference at the executive mansion, and arranged for the speedy transportation of the soldiers. FURMAN HAS N1AY PRESIDENT. College Trustees Elect Andrew P. Mon¬ tague to Succeed l>r. Manly. The trustees of Furman university at Greenville, S. C., unanimously elected Andrew P. Montague president to succeed Dr. Manly, who resigned because th'e trustees objected to his filling a pulpit while president. Mr. Montague is professor of Latin and dean of the faculty of Columbia university, Washington, D. C. He is forty-three years of age, is a graduate of the University of Virginia, took Pb. D. at John Hopkins. His Latin text- b >oks are used in Virginia. MORE BURNED BOWES FOUND Now Estimated That Sixteen Lives Were Lost In Santa Fe Wreck. A special of Friday from Emporia, Kan., says: It is now believed that sixteen persons were killed in the Santa Fe wreck. The charred remains of three more bodies were found. Two of the bodies, a man and woman, were burned beyond recogni¬ tion. Little remains of the third body, but a shirt bosom marked YV. B. E., a Knights of Pythias pin and a green stud may afford identification. Engineer Frisbee, who was injured, died from bis ivoanfis. THROUGH GEORGIA. J. W. Nall, of Troy, Ala , has been appointed commercial agent of the Central of Georgia Railway company T. at Augusta to take the place of Mr. E. Charlton, who wns recently appointed eastern agent of the Ocean Steamship company at New York. The report of Receiver Joel Hurt, of the Suwanee Canal Company, has been placed on record in the clerk’s office of the superior court at Atlanta. The report states that the prospects for realizing a good amount of assets from the company are encouraging. Dr. C. D. Wall, who was sent by the Columbus authorities to Birming¬ ham a few days ago to investigate the smallpox situation there, reported to the board of health that the situa¬ tion is no worse than giveu out. The hoard rocommended that tho council adopt stricter vaccination regulations and inaugurate a house-to-house ex¬ amination. The much talked of Horse-Swappers’ State Convention will meet in Coving¬ ton, Ga., on the 21st day of Septem¬ ber and remain in session three days. The object of the convention is to elect a president, vice president and other officers. Every horse-swapper invitation in Georgia has has a special to attend, and those in attendance will be entitled to a vote at the convention in any and all matters brought before the union. Mr. Phil G. Byrd, Governor Atkin¬ son’s special commissioner, appointed to inspect the misdemeanor convict camps, has filed the supplemental re¬ port of his investigations which the governor asked for some time ago. It concerns the discovery and inspection of several private camps that were not known to be in existence at the time of the filing of the first report, and is a complete description of their location, size and condition. At Hahira, ten miles north of Val¬ dosta, Sam Parker, a farmer, who lives at Cecil, four miles away, was killed by Shelton Dampier, a young man who worked at the wood rack near Hahira. Three years ago Parker prosecuted from Dampier for stealing meat him. Dampier was convicted and sent to the chaingang. He swore then that he would kill Parker on sight when his term expired. The tag business has at last been settled. Commissioner Nesbitt has let the contract for 3,000,000 tags to the Dennison Manufacturing company, of New York, at 45 cents per thousand and a $2,500 bond has been made for the faithful performance of the con¬ tract, which provides for the delivery of 3,000,000 “G” tags and as many more as the agricultural department may need, at 45 cents per thousand. It is estimated tkat4,000,000 tags will be used before the year is out. They cost this year but little over one-fourth of last year’s price. A question has been sprung which may result in Chattanooga, which has long been known as one of the leading cities of Tennessee, becoming a Geor¬ gia town. Doubt has been thrown upon the accuracy of the survey of the boundary line between this state and Tennessee, and if the theory of emi¬ nent legal authorities is confirmed, it may be found that Chattanooga is on Georgia soil. This view is shared by Colonel W. A. Wiinbish, special com¬ missioner of the state for the Western and Atlantic railroad, who has looked into the question in his official capac¬ ity, and expressed his strong belief that a correct survey would bring the city of Chattanooga within the conhnes of this state. The fight for the courthouse and county seat of DeKalb county grows warmer as the time for the legi slature to meet grows nearer, and the lines will soon be definitely drawn. Much arranging of detail is now being done by the Stone Mountain people and they will present a solid front when the time comes for final action. Their representatives have been in commu¬ nication with a number of the legisla¬ tors and are getting their forces to¬ gether and organized before the bill is presented to the general assembly. It will be oue of the first measures to be acted on at this session, as it is desired that the question be settled as soon as possible, so that the work on the new building may begin immediately. For years the hearing of arguments and petitions for the pardon of con¬ victs has taken up much of the time of the governors of Georgia, and several of them have tried to induce the legis¬ lature to establish a board of pardons, but failed. Now Governor Atkinson comes forward with a proposition that ad¬ may be accepted, as it entails no ded expense. It is that the raliroad commissioners, whose present duties, require only a portion of their time, be required to do the pardon business will without extra compensation. He recommend this, unless the legislature creates a penitentiary commission tc supervise the convicts at the expira¬ tion of the lease, and in that event he will suggest that this body be made a pardon board. His idea is that the pardon board shall hear all applica¬ tions for commutication and pardon the and Governor, then make who recommendations will the final tc pass order. In this way the responsibility will be shared by several heads, in¬ stead of being placed entirely upd¬ one. CONVICTS MAY HE PUT TO WORK ON PUBLIC ROADS. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S STATEMENT Four Plan. Bv Which the Misdemeanor Convict. .May Be Worked—Other Georgia New*. Attorney General Terrell has issued the following self-explanatory state¬ ment: Misdemeanor convicts may be legally worked In lour ways: First. Upon the chaingang of the county where the convict Is sentenced. Second. Upon the ehaingang of any in¬ corporated town, city or village of the county. Third. Upon the chaingang of any other county of the state under a contract be¬ tween the authorities of the two counties In¬ terested. Fourth. Upon any works except mechan¬ ical pursuits wherein the products of their labor will come into competition with the products of free labor, that the county au¬ thorities may see fit to employ the chain¬ gang, provided, the control or the convicts is not given to private persons. Under this latter plan the county authorities may em¬ ploy them upon the farm of a private person, employ them at cutting timber for the saw¬ mill of a private person, etc;, but the county authorities must retain control of the con¬ victs and not let any private person have management or control of them. Camp. Are Breaking Up. Of the eight hundred misdemeanor convicts illegally confined in private camps in Georgia three hundred have already been unshackled from their lawless bondage and put to work upon the public roads of the counties which convicted them. The camps which still exist are slowly but surely disin¬ tegrating, and it is now a question of a very short time when the good work of reform which Governor Atkinson inaugurated a few months ago is crowned with complete success. Every day brings fresh evidence of the healthy work of the leaven of re¬ form in this loaf of illegality. Already the counties of Jasper, Hancock, Rich¬ mond, Wilkes, Elbert, Bulloch, Ap¬ pling and Washington have joined in the good work, and the meeting of the fall term of other superior and county courts will unquestionably complete the job. Governor Atkinson says that he does not believe there will lx a single private misdemeanor convio: camp in Georgia by the time the nex legislature meets, and there is plant; of evidence to sustain his prediction There was one witness bofore th Fulton county grand jury which in dieted W. B. Fuller, who gave some startling testimony and furnished some evidence which puts the prisoner in a bad light. The witness was Mr. Brown, of Woodbury, the brother-in- law of Fuller. Mr. Brown stated that after Fuller had been arrested and carried to Atlanta, he wrote a letter to a friend in Woodbury asking him to get his coat and destroy what he found in the pockets. When Fuller was ar¬ rested at a sawmill, near Woodbury, be was not given time to go home and get his coat. When the letter was re¬ ceived the coat was found and the pockets searched and a bottle of mor¬ phine was discovered. The poison had been purchased in Atlanta, and Fuller’s anxiety about having it de¬ stroyed pointed to the fact that he had bought it for .the purpose of giving it to the child. * * * Captain W. W. Williamson, who captained the Georgia team at Sea Girt, has received a challenge for the Georgia men from the Twenty-third regiment of New'York, which has been accepted, and the match will be shot on the Avondale range,near Savannah, on Thanksgiving day. The Twenty- third regiment contains many of Nev. York’s crack shots and those who rep¬ resented the state at Sea Girt. „ Afte: their recent work at Sea Girt, how ever, the Georgia boys look on the challenge as a huge joke, and those oi them who have returned say the con¬ test will be all one way. They say they will give the New York men a good time, but they will have to teach them a lesson on the range. For the third time Commissioner Nesbitt will receive bids for the sea¬ son’s supply of fertilizer tags. The Hartman company, of Demorest, did not close the contract won by them and for that reason new bids have been asked for. The successful bid¬ ders wired that if they had to close the contract by last Monday they would let the matter go. This they did, and Commissioner Nesbitt wrote to the bidders stating the circumstances of the bid and informing them that new bids would be received at his office until the noon hour on Septem¬ ber 10th. Owing to the nearness ol the season it is necessary that the tags be obtained at once, and there will b< no delay in the matter. The marriage of Miss Doreh to Gen eral Longstreet is understood to in¬ volve her withdrawal from the list of candidates for the position of state librarian. It is learned that she will fill the position of assistant librarian until the term expires, which will be nominally on the 28th of September, but practically not before the legisla¬ ture meets, as no appointments There is will be made until then. a great deal of curiosity to know what effect the retirement of Miss Dortch from the race will have, and there are vari¬ ous opinions about it. THE MEADOW BARS. We stood beside the meadow bars,!' The sun was sjnkjm: low Behind a bank ofrosy olouds, Fringed In with amber glow. the hill, The evening crest shown o’er In disk of silver light, The mook-blrd echo’d from the tree To greet the coming night. < The running brook that, In Its glee, Was Had silent babbled all day If long, hear no\v ns to The coming twilight’s song. The meadow stretched, so fair and green,; Far as the eye could see, To distant hills with purpldshade, Where slept the flower and bee. The For twinkling the of the sheep’s sweet bell, j down willow corpse, And Was swoylbg'wlth the the evening tops. wind. moved clover The evening’s hand swept o’erthesky And softly lit the stars, And hung them in the openspace Bight o'er the meadow bars. My love’s head on my shoulder fell, Her voice was sweet and low, Her Ups met mine in sweet caress, All In the twilight glow. —F. V. Wheeler, in Iroquois Magazine, PITH AND POINT. She—“Yes, Mr. Detrop has dropped out of my life for ever.” He— “Elevator or coalhole?”—Chicago Rec¬ ord. Bobby—“Popper, how did ‘Sleep like a top’ start?” Mr. Ferry—“It is a mispronunciation. The original was ‘Sleep like a cop.’”—Cincinnati Enquirer. She—“The Sanfords contemplate taking a trip to Europe. I wish we could afford to do it” He—“Why, there’s nothing cheaper than contem¬ plation.”—Puck. “Does your husband act as he did before you were married, Mrs. Light¬ ly?” “Much the same. When he goes out at night he remains very late.”— New York Weekly. “Is the Rev. Dr. Gumms as elo¬ quent as he used to be? When I knew him he always electrified his audience.” “He doesn’t now. Perhaps tho insula¬ tion has worn off. ”—Truth. Teacher (in kindergarten)—“You’ve omitted something, Mabel, in making your letter ‘I’s. ’ What is it?” Mabel —“I guess I forgot to put eyebrows over them.”—Household Words. Agent—“Here is a cyclometer not at all like some cyclometers which register two miles, perhaps, when you have only ridden one.” Lady—“Have you any of that kind left.”—Standard. “Did that young ballet dancer promise to be a sifter to Jack?” “No; she said she’d be a mother-in-law to him if her younger daughter would have him.” — Philadelphia North American. “Opporchunities,” said Uncle Eben, “is pretty sho’ ter come ter ebry man. But it’s a mighty good idee, jes’ de same, foil him ter hustle roun’ an’ send out a few invitations.”—Wash¬ ington Star. It was evident to the practiced per¬ ceptions of the young woman that be was in a melting mood. As if to verify her acumen, as soon as her father ap¬ peared the young man ran.—Indian¬ apolis Journal. When a woman goes off to spend the season at a resort, leaving her husband at home to work through the heat and dust, she' starts a story about how gay men are when their wives are away.—• Atchison Globe. Advertising Clerk— ‘ ‘Your advertise¬ ment begins: ‘Wanted, a silent part¬ ner.’” Patron—“Yes, that’s it.” Clerk—“Do you wish it placed under ‘Business Opportunities’ or ‘Matri¬ monial?’ ’’—Truth. Visitor (in insane asylum)—“What is the nature of that poor fellow’s hal¬ lucination?” Keeper—“He thinks that he invented the various terms used by golf players.” “Of course, it isn't so?” “Oh, no! He is merely a lunatic, notan idiot!”—Puck. “Do you eat missionaries now?” the tourist asked of the cannibal. “Oh, yes!” responded the latter. “You kill them first, don’t you?” persisted the tourist. “We do now,” sighed the urbane cannibal, meanly. “We found quick lunches produced dyspep¬ sia. ”—Boston Transcript. Tho Natural Bridge of To-Day. The Natural Bridge in Virginia ia 215 feet in height, 100 feet in width, with a span of ninety feet. Under the arch might be placed the Washington monument at Baltimore. Cedar Creek, the stream over which it stretches its arch, is clear as crystal. No photo¬ graph or painting can impress the mind with its immensity or grandeur, or geometrical proportions, or the rich coloring, or the picturesque surround¬ ings. One must feast his eyes upon this mighty arch to realize its vastness. Under the arch are the outlines of an American eagle, formed by moss and lichens. Upon one side is where George Washington, when a surveyor for Lord Fairfax, 150 years ago, carved his name in the rock. The ravages of time and exposure to the elements have nearly obliterated the name, but some of the letters ore quite distinct. In the years gone by Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and many prominent states¬ men, before railroads were built, spent days of inconvenient travel to look up¬ on this-—one of the wonders of the world. Now the iron horse speeds over its steel roadway, and in a few hours one can reach this destination without fatigue.—Baltimore Sun. Germany Improving Rivers. Germany has during the last two de¬ cades spent close upon $100,000,000 in dredging and improving the Rhine, the Elbe and the Vistula. This fact has lately been brought home to the French Legislature, which is expected to take early action with regard to the restoration of the banks of the Loire and its conversion once more into a navigable stream and into an artery of commerce. Charges For Park Seats. Paris manages to make $30,000 a year from permits to let chairs in the squares and gardens for the accommodation oi p romen aders, -V -----.