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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, MAY 22,1888.-TWELVE PAGES.
TALKING MACHINE.
the preservation of family isyinjfsor the
last words of the dying, for application to
music boxes, toys and clocks, but chiefly
T 1 for the use of business men who wish to
JMr. .liaison b Hows His JUatest dictate without the aid of stenographers.
Phonograph.
MACHINE IS SEEN BY NEW YORKERS
AimI Pronounced n 8ucc©m-A Probable
Caapecr of tlie Telephone and Tele-
graph — It Talk**, 8Iutf« aud
rL^k the Comet.
Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Hsw York, Maj 11.—Since the Elec
tric dab has occupied its handsome new
smarter* in East Twenty-second street in
this city many interesting papers have
been read and surprising exhibitions given
in the building by members and others.
Bat it is doubtful whether any exhibition
has possessed a tithe of the interest of that
which is going on as t write. A few days
ago T received an invitation from Mr. K.
T. Gilliland, vice-president of the club snd
Tkmu A. Edison's right hand man to at
tend a special meeting to-night and listen
to s paper die was to read on the pho
nograph and its development. I found
rayeeii in good company when I arrived
and was welcomed by Mr. ifenry L. Da-
wis, the presid nt, Air. Cha les W. Price,
the secretary, and Messrs Theo. W. Vail,
S. id " Tomlinson and O. A.
Hidden, directors, for among
Khuse whom I at on •« caught
aigUof were Allen Thorndyke Bice, of
Sfcs .North American Keview; General
Bkisrmsn, Colonel Ingersoli, Theodore 1
Thomas, W. 1). Howells, the novelist;
Htataoa Howard, the dramatist; G. P.
latfaisp and a sprinkling of well known
tSergymen.
When we had taken our place in the
Sarge drawing room on the first floor we
fcinwi to the paper read by Mr. Gililand,
which was illustrated with over a hundred
thawings thrown by a stereoscope on a
■own. The paper seemed to be listened
mo bj the electricians present with breath-
Bear interest, but was a trifle too technical
Hoc complete comprehension by laymen.
Fret Uobert Spice, ot Brooklyn, then gave
nr Mir interesting experiments to il-
initiate the nature of sound
waves and the formal proceedings
were at an end. Then the
company broke up and began to be aston
ished in dead earnest. In various parts of
She dub house were placed the newest
farauof phonographs, which were now for
<hr first time seen outside the laboratory
of Hr. Edison, We had all heard, of
cniree, about this extraordinary instru
ct -at, tor it is now just ten years sines Ed
ina startled the world by announcing the
invention of his “talking machine,” which
■reined less a machine than aa organism;
We know too, that after allowing it to
ratqaietly for many years, lie had been
lor mouths past devoting himself to its
prscticsl perfection, but I am confident
that no one present had any preconceived
notion of the form it had subsequently as-
•nmrd. In place of the cumbersome affair,
with its loud metallic tone we remem
bered, was a neat, pretty little instrument,
■mailer than a type-writer, but suggesting
curiously a compromise lie-
Caraen ' that familiar machine
and tlie telegraphic instrument to bo seen
in any railroad station. The suggestion of
the. tppe-wriUT is due to a horizontal cylin
der about five inches long by one and a
/half in diameter covered with white wax.
Partly covering this is a little arrange
ment of polished brass resembling some-
writ jt n pair of eye-glasses with broad flat
. In place of the glasses, however,
i two diaphragms,one of which is termed
recorder, for it is used to record the
ah, the other the repioducer, for with
.the “talking back” is accomplished. To
the left of the cylinder is a small square
R. x containing the small electric
mr4or, which is one of the
chief improvements lately added by
3fr. Edison. Two or three little keys con
veniently placed are used to start, to stop,
airtomske the machine repeat from any
*k«tv»d point as occasions may require.
This ia what a cursory examination ol the
(Monograph showed us.- Now for the prac
tical operation as was seen to-night. A
little key is shifted on top of the box con
taining the motor and jvith a perfectly
■tendy uniform motion tne cylinder begins
to (evolve. The operator then, in an or
dinary tone of voice, speaks into the “re-
seeder” eve of the brass spectacle or eye-
gl*«* ss i term it. As he talks the dia-
(■hrxgm vibrates and a liny metal point,
ati&xed to its under side, begins to mark
tines of varying depth and regularity on
ike wax cylinder. When lain say
is finished’ the operator turns
* key which lifts the recorder
out of the wty, and brings the reproduc
er into its place, the cylinder is shifted
back to its starting point, the motor set
tanning again and the delicate little mem
brane which has, like the recorder, a tiny
Mint affixed to it, begins to give back in
low but clear and distinct tones the very
Words which have been spoken a few mo.
men is before. The effect is startling for
. awry peculiarity of speech, every rising
or falling inflection, everv pause, even any
temporary huskiness of tone is given
back with marvellous fidelity.
Of the ten instruments exhibited this,
evening nine were for convenience sake,
limited to reproducing. Conversations,
nawuiami of piano music, solos on a cornet,
a recitation * by a well known humorist
ba t been recorded on various cylinders
astd over and over again tlie little instru
ment ground them out to the wonderment
of the listeners. The remaining phono
graph was arranged for reco.ding as well
■a reproducing, and the visitors amused
themselves by talking into it and then
bearing their own words ground out again
dictate t -- „ . .
In a long chat I had with Mr. Gilliland
during the evening he acquainted me witli
much in tlie history of the invention. It
appears that Mr. Ediion owing to the mul
tiplicity of his other and more pressing in
ventive work was obliged to lay aside the
telephone until comparatively recently.
In the meantime other persons have put
upon the market another instrument which
while in no way approaching the phono
graph in completeness or efficiency is still
sufficiently like it to constitute what Edi
son considers a serious infringement of his
patent and one which will shortly come
before the courts. In a few days work
will be begun on a phonograph factory
which will be able to turn them out rapid
ly, and they will be offered for sale in
about two weeks. Horace Townsend.
ENGLISH RAILWAY RATES.
Comparison hy a ltrittsli Export Author
ity favorable to American Railways.
From the London Weekly bulletin.
Kailway companies are not philanthrop
ic institutions, it is Fven prosable that
the woes of that long-suffering class, the
British farmer, do not find a sympathetic
echo at board meetings of a railway direc
torate when the question of rates is under
discussion. If railway rates are to be
sensibly reduced it must be sliowu that it
will be to the pecuniary advan
tage of the company, or at any
rate that it will not involve a loss. It
would be well, perhaps, if those who talk
glibly about State interference, and who
are never so happy as when dwelling upon
the iniquity and injustice of the companies,
would remember this. We.hold, however,
that there is a method by which railway
rate.- can be so reduced as not only to ben
efit immensely the general public, hut the
companies themselves. It it can lie shown
that rates are excessive, that it is within
the power of the companies to reduce
them without injustice, then it may fairly
be contended that the State has a right to
interfere and protect the interests of the
public.
Let us tum for a moment to America.
There we find that the expense of trans
porting commodities from tlie producer to
the consumer has been reduced to some
thing like a farthing a ton per mile. The
rates now charged in a section of the
United States corresponding in area and
population to the United Kingdom are
from 60 to 80 per cent, less than the aver
age rates citarged hy the English railroads.
The cost of transporting eggs from Basing-
stroke to London, a distance of fifty miles,
is double the rate charged from the inte
rior of France, thus placing France and
Belgium practically within a twenty-five
miles’ radius of Loudon. This being so,how
is it to be expected that English farmers
beyond the twenty-live miles radius can
compete successfully with their continental
rivals? Again, is there any logical reason
why a cargo of grain can be transported
2,260 miles by rati in America, 3,500 miles
by water to London, at a less sum than it
costs to transport 350 miles hy rail in
England? From a trading point ot view
the city of Edinburg is further from Lon
don than ^Chicago, and the north part of
•Scotland is further from Loudon than the
antipodes. A dealer in Leadenhall market
had fifty barrel* of birds shipped to him
from Chicago at 7s. 4d. per "barrel. Six
were left at Liverpool for a cus
tomer, who it ultimately was
ascertained only wanted three barrels. Tlie
remaining three were sent from Liverpool
at a cost of 10s. Cd. per barrel, or 40 per
cent, more than the rate from Chicago.
Numberless instances of a similar char
acter might be given, but what we have
stated will be sufficient for our purpose. If
the low rates prevalent in America prove
anything, they show that it is possible to
transport cheaply. It may readily be
granted that the immense distances' and
the keen competition tend to lower rates
considerably, but granting all this, there
is a very wide margin between the
actual cost of carriage in the United States
and in this country.
By the improvements the railway com'
panies have made in their goods wagon*.
\Vo do not wish to indulge in technicalities
which would not be intelligible to the gen
eral reader. Suffice it to say that the
standard American freight wagons weigh
9J ton* and carry 30 tons, with a maxi
mum capacity of 40 tons of paying load.
The rigid wheel base is 3j to 4A feet; the
body ol the wagon, at a speed of five,fifteen
or twenty-five miles an hour, is almost ab
solutely steady. The bogle truck under it
takes up sixteen motions before imparting
ope to the body of the wagon with its load.
The English wagons weigh from 5 to 7
tons, and carry 0 to 8 tons of paying load.
Tlie rigid wheel base is from 9 to 12 feet.
The body of the wagon takes up every jolt
imparted to the wheels from unevenness of
the tracks or joints, which, with the long
leverage of 9 to 12 feet rigid base, ham
mers the metals nnd causes 250 per cent,
greater expenditure for maintenance of
way than on the lighter and much more
poorly conatructed American railroads.
From a careful examination of the aver
age freight traffic of twelve of the princi
pal railroads in England, it will be seen
that they are hauling 600 tons of superflu
ous dead weight to every 1,000 tonB of
paying load carried. Dea'd weight and
rigid wheel base are tlie chief causes of
the excessive rates charged by the railway
companies. It costs just as much to haul
« ton of dead “eight a mtl* *« it nwt« to
haul a ton of paying load. Farmers and
manufacturers have to pay fqr hauling
1,900 tons of dead weight and load, when
with modern appliances they would
only have to pay for 1,300 tons
of dead weight and load. The bogle
wagon is mounted on two trucks of
| four wheels each, is adapted to take a
An ingenuous attachment was exhibited in I c, ! r T? readily, and can be turned round
connection with this. A sharp thin blade : w, thm its own length. English wagons
■« attached to the “recorder,” and as the • cann °t be turned round on their own
I Under revolves shaves off an indeaeriba- | wheels, and even when passing round only
iy thin layer of wax containing the j f ;difficult curve they have to be
rewiou* impression so that aclean, smooth i J?* r v ol J account of their rigidity,
nnrfaoe is left for subsequent conversations, j T “® number of tons of goods and min-
Thiff enable* the cylinder to be used over j •*“ carried by the London and North-
nd over again, a in at ter of convenience western railway during the year ending
•kivfly for the cost of the near cylinders is . ” un ® '*?• I*j87, w «* 33,937,758. JTho super-
il«« merest trifle, and is leas indeed than , 111,0,18 “®»d weight actually used by that
chat of the paper on which a correspond- “ m P ,n y '» transporting this freight was
in?; lumber of words could be written. nearly 19,900,000 of tons. It would be an
On every side 1 heard nothing but e *. easy task to estimate the amount of uae-
daiuotion* of surprise and amazement and . ‘* lvt weight carried by the various
pT'ijilie-fe* as to the various practical di- r.nglHh railways, anil we have no doubt
Hetaons ia which the invention will be that the figure* would lie 10 great as to al-
■si. As bearing on this point, Mr. Bice most, surpass belief. Hu rely, by the intro-
■aggestively recalled the article written by , duction of modern appliances, not only
Hr. Ldi-uu fur tlie North American Be- the public, but the shareholders in die'va-
wie*. and published in May, 1878. In this "o' 1 " railways wonld be immensely ben-
***'- amured lue Mr. Kdiion pronhe- *“^7*. traffic receipt* would he
would he fur- ‘luicklj quadrupled, agriculturist* would
5,
Ur
1 that the phonograph would be fur- quickly quadrupled, agriculturists would
r developed until il could be used for ,ie *ble to coaqsete far more •accessfullr
■U kind, o! dictation, for the recording of with their foreign rirals, the cost of coal
boo .f r the use of the blind and others in the metropolis and the other big citina
• ■ 1 rending Is an iinpoaibility, for remote from the collieries, wonld be much
—* *- — 1 - t-nrhing of wlscsd, sad It r:»14 be uifficoU to
VACCINATION “FOLNTrV
How the Virus Is Obtained on tlie Marietta
Vaccine Farm.
Marietta, Pa., Despatch to Philadelphia Press.
The demand for vaccination “points,”
the little ivory scalpels charge with vac
cine virus that are tlie potent modern in
struments of prevention of smallpox, lias
increased with great rapidity of late. The
demand from Philadelphia has grown
with special rapidity. The largest “bo
vine” vaccine farm in the State, as well as
the largest in the United States, is situ
ated here, and it will be interesting to
know how the virus which is now be
ing introduced into thousands of systems
every day is prepared. The vaccine
farm here is conducted by Dr. H. M.
Alexander, an experienced and skillful
physician. The virus with which the
heifers are inoculated originated from a
spontaneous case of “cow-pox” discovered
near here in February, 1885. A visit of
inspection was paid to-day to the vaccine
farm, which is now turning out every day
between 35,000 and 40,000 “points”—which
means tlie same number of vaccinations.
There is so much public misconception as
to the method of obtaining the virus
which, ever since Jenner’s discovery, lias
been the great preventive of a dreaded
plague, that a brief account of the pro
cesses followed on the Alexander farm will
he, at tiiis time, of general interest.
Marietta stretches along the eastern
bank of the Susquehanna river, at the ex
treme end of the great Lancaster vallev,
which is often termed “the garden spot of
Pennsylvania.” On this land, wortli from
$2 0 to $300 an acre, thoroughly healthy
s|>ecimens of thorough bred Jersey, Suffolk
and Holstein cattle are raised. Carefully
selected heifers, from eight to ten months
old, of these are the healthfn! vehicle util
ized to furnish the virus which, implanted
in the human blood, medical science lias
proved will prevent the small-pox
Tlie heifer, young and clean-limbed,
gentle-eyed and innocent of all knowledge
of either science dr disease, is hired of the
farmer who is raising her. The animal’s
pedigree is known for generations back
and the crop in which she and her forbears
have fed arc the richest in tlie State. Tlie
heifer is carefully led into a wagon spe
cially designed for her transportation. and
wheeled as delicately as a child in a baby
carriage to the vaccine farm. There slie
is unloaded, led into a sweet stall, washed
all over until every hair is as clean as
Boap and water can make it, curried fre
quently, and fed for several days on care
fully prepared bran and middlings. When
her skin is as soft and her hair as silky as
a kitten’s, and when nature gives every
indication that her health is perfect, the
heifer is led to the operating room.
Meekly she follows her leaders, ruddy-
cheeked sons of bronzed farmers, soon to
become animal surgeons. Calmly, but
with wondering eyes, she suffers herself to
be led to the side of a so-called “table,”
a framework supported by four legs. Prettv
heifer’s eves grow a little anxiouB ns a
V-shaped wooden crib, padded with leath
er, is lowered upon her back and three
broad leather strap, fattened to the crib,
are passed under her belly and tightly
buckled. Perhaps she wonders whether
she is to turn horse and carry this Btrangc
saddle; but her wonder, whatever it may
bc ; changes to fright when with the turn
ing of a witnlla-- she is lifted off her feeU
turns npside down in the air and is swuir*f
in this position gently to the oper
ating tabic. Here her head and neck
are firmly strapped to a padded pil-
lar, her feet are bound to strong uprights,
and her tail tied to one of tlie legs of tlie
table. Poor Bossy cannot move a limb.
Her gentle eyes roll upward in fright, and
she twitches the muscles of her silky chest
witli nervous apprehension.
One of the men at tlie foot ef the table
seizes a basin of warm water and some
soap, and carefully washes the inside of the
thighs of the prostrate beast. This thor
oughly done, with a sharp razor the hair is
shaved from a surface about six inches
wide and two feet long, exposing a velvety
skin. This skin is again thoroughly
washed and dried, and then one of tlie at
tendants slaps it with his hand until the
surface grows as scarlet as an autumn leaf.
The purpose of this “spanking” is to stim
ulate the local circulation.
The next step is the inoculation. With
a large lancet the operator scrapes the
tender skin on each leg in six or seven
places, leaving spots three times as big as
a dollar, from which the] epithalamium
hail been removed. The spots look as red
as blood, but the patient heifer seems not
to suffer. Then a large ivory “point,” ten
times as large as is used in a human pa
tient, and heavily charged with virus, is
rubbed over each spot until the serum of
blood is brought to the surface and thor
oughly mingled with the virus. The heifer
is now inoculated with “cowpox” and is
led away without exposure to the outer air
to a clean, sweet-smelling stable, where she
takes her place in a long row of other pa
tients. Here she in watched nightand day
and receives as much attention as a sick
emperor might exact. At the end of eight
days the disease has reached its height
and the “cowpox” virus has accumulated
under .he scabs which nature has formed
over theqiluces of inoculation.
* ^ j*®! 1 lh® proper moment has arrived
the heifer is again placed on an oiierating
table in room as light and clean as a par
lor, from which every particle of dust is
excluded. There the covering of a sore is
removed and the opening sponged careful-
ly out. The next moment clear, fresh
virus exudes from the bottom of the spot.
rhi* t« lnlt«n nn a ilplinntn liriuK and an-
plied to the fine ivory points, with which
almost every one who lives in a modern
etty is familiar. The wounds upon one
i™V o , JL n J. Bb . e, J 0llgh yiru » to charge from
•>00 to 2,000 of these “points.”
This o|ieration over the heifer is laid
away, carefully attended, and soon recov
ers perfect health. The “points,” when
dried, are packed by neat-handed girls in
the glass cases, which may he seen in every
drug store. They are shipped to every
country m Earope, Urge quantities being
sent to England, as well as to China and
India. Bnt just now the orders from
Philadelphia are so heavy that to-day the
‘farm” was 6,600 “point* 1 ’ behind.
PRINCESS HALM HALM.
A Cubblen’s Daughter, Then in a Cirrni,.
nnd Hsally n Princes*.
From the Chliagn Herald.
Several uutries have been made of late'
a* to what became of Princess Halm Salm,
an American lady whose venturesome
character elevated her from the common
people to the rank of princess. Newspaper
stories have been published from time to
time about her, but none contain a full
and correct account of life and final disap
pearance from the eyes of the world.
I he last day* of her career were a happy
concltuion of a life fnll of romantic asso
ciations.
A gentleman who reside* in San Fran
cisco, but who was born and raised in the
Prince s’; satire village, has recent!' f»r-
I remember,” he said to a Call reporter,
“when yet a child in my native town of
rhillipsburg, Province of Quebec, listening
to old Captain Henry Jov spinning yarns
in ilia little cobbler’s shop. We called
him Captain, but he was a privateersman
in the American service, and finally settled
down to mending shoes and harness. His
wifewas an Indian squaw—a Cherokee, I
believe—the pet of all the little children,
and a female doctor. They were married
many years and had a family of two sons
and four daughters, but died s^me years
since.
“These were the parents of Princess
Salm Salm, quite illiterate and without
any ambition, and they were always the
same there. Adelaide Joy, the Princess,
was a remarkable child, and even then
would ride bareback horses through the
country without any fear. She could
shoulder a gun, too, and spent many a day
hunting in the woods. School was a mat
ter of minor importance to her, so at 15
she went to work in private families. This
monotonous life was badly suited to her
adventurous spirit, and at 17 she went to
St. Albans, Vt., and thence South with
Charani’s circus as a tight-rope walker and
equestrienne, under the assumed name of
Agnes Sinclair.
“It was rumored that she was married
to a performer, but she was certainly mar
ried to some officer of tlie Federal army
after she had left the circus when the war
broke out. She traveled to Mexico with
this officer and tiiere met Prince Salm
Salm, who accompanied Maximilian.
“Salm S lm was prince of a province or
princedom in Germany nnd was sentenced
to be shot with Maximilian, but through
her pleading the Mexican authoritfes par
doned him, with the understanding that he
should immediately depart fur Germany.
“It was never known what became of tlie
American officer, but the Princess then ac
companied Salm Salm to his native land
and they lived together there in peace till
the outbreak of the Frauco-Prussian war.
Then the Prince fought with the Prussian
army and fell before Metz. She died about
three years ago in Germany and left two
sons who are young men now.
“During her lifetime she never forgot
her parent*. A letter would be received
regularly every three months by the post
master of Phillipsburg, and it contained a
remittance with another letter for the old
couple. Her picture and that of her hus
band and children were suspended in the
little cobbling shop would he shown with
pride by tlie old father. The postmaster
was always instructed not to disclose her
identity to that of her people, lest it might
ruin her social standing in Europe. After
her deatli she was highly spohen of, and
her charitable acts during the Franco-
Prusaian war are still remembered.
“When a domestic servant her natural
desire for adventure and tlie stace induced
her to Btudv Shakespeare, aniT she pur
chased large volumesof his works. In her
palmy days, when Phillipsburg had been
parted from her forever, these same books
wrapped up old shoes and the illustrations
adorned tile wails of tlie bIiop.
” I'he Princess was a chirk I rnnette. very
handsome and engaging in manners, still
she was not a woman who depended on
natural gifts or graces as objects to gain
her ends.
“She died at the ripe age of fifty-five to
sixty years.
•.‘’The whole family are now in good cir
cumstances. One son, Henry Joy, ih now
u prominent physician ia Chicago; the
other, George, is a purser of a Champlain
steamer. Mrs. Mendall, a sister, ia owner
of the Mendall Lithographing Company of
Chicago, and in her own way mode a suc
cess ot life. She married a" workingman,
who died quite young, leaving a small bus
iness, which Bhe then managed with good
results. She now lias several houses on
Dearborn avenue, and is reputtd very
wealthy. Another sister is married to a
Philadelphia banker, and the fourth is the
wife of a United States minister in Mexico.
“George resides is J*Ullijs4>tirg with his
daughter, and guards the old homestead,
wiierc a reunion of the family sometimes
is held.”
The Field nail the Uattlo.
From the Herald.
Since 1884 there lias not been a time
when people were us agog over Presidential
indications. No Democrat doubts that
Cleveland will be renominated and re
elected. Few people care who shall lie the
Vice-President, for the chance of the Pres
ident’s deatli never lias been and never will
be considered in a nominating convention.
The rad experience of Presidential mortal
ity, however, shows that the executive
branch of the government stands on laws
that are not really in harmony with the
genius of the people. A Presideut
dead, there evidently ought to be
a new election. No man elected as
Vice-President can satisfy tlie people as
President. He is in the public mind al
most an interloper, an acting President.
He lacks the true apostolical succession.
The coldness of his party to Arthur after
he had conferred great benefits upon the
organization was n demonstration of the
popular idea that a true President of the
United States can only be secured by the
suffrage of every voter in the Union.
As Harrison nos Indiana on the Kepuh-
Iican side, so Gray would seem to have In
diana on the Democratic side. Inasmuch
as Indiana figures as a doubtful State, the
outcome of the Ht. fyniis convention is
likelv to be Cleveland and Gray, with a
platform acceptable to that leader upon
whom the Democratic party must lean if it
hones to reinstate itself in the confidence
of the people by returning to the sublime
principles of Jeffersonian government.
On llieRcpublican hill is canqied a motley
host without a leader. From the Demo
cratic lines it might almost appear that
there were to be no battle. If Blaine shall
lead once more, on a platform of wai taxes
in tiniesof peace, how can it lie doubted
that he will be put to rout worse than in
1884? Why is he not weaker to-day than
he was then? Has he learned the neces
sity of reform? Has he accepted the new
light of economy in Federal expenditure
and equivalently greater distributions un
der each roof-tree? And if Blaine shall
not take command, will John Sherman do
any better? Hu Blaine given utterance
to any false theory that Sherman has not
accepted as the gospel of free government?
Hu Blaine pleaded for a tax that Sher
man has not also demanded? Can the
Republican party commit the blunder of
nominating Hherman? There ia little
probability 61 such action in the Chicago
convention.
Hay .what one may, the chances of De
pew are not bad. lie is a good fellow.
Ho are all the gentlemen who have private
care and are living example* of the bene-
.filf of a high tariff on farmerx. His rail
road, great as it is, may be reckoned u
only the trunk of a wide ramification of
corporate powers. Standard oil, sngar,
iron, railroads, telegraph*—all trust*
and influence* would nsve in Depew an
advocate who by put service bu earned
attack his probity, to prove the
charges of bribery that might be
made against him, wi uid not strike the
main question. He lias passed through a
hard world. Had he not handled tiiat
world without gloves, he would not be the
Vanderbilt manager to-day. It would lie
the task of Mr. Depew, if lie should hope
for success, to be true to the tariff' of war
tjmes and _yct say os little about it as pos
sible. It is not credible thst the Republi
can party can, between this time nnd June,
change its attitude on the question ot
taxes. The partisan error, colossal as it
may be, cannot now be correc ed. But
, such a honey-worded candidate as Depew
j could give his party, as it were, a high
I tariff'glace—a sugar-coated tax that many
] voters would take as good medicine.
Of Western candidates for President on
tlie Republican ticket it iB unprofitable to
speak. They have not the sufficient
aroma of greatness, popularity or scandal
about them. Neither unusual streugth
against temptation nor unusual tact in
deadheading or casting anchors has given
them tlie main elements of their reputa
tion. ’ Judge Gresham, u man deservedly
high in tlie people’s regard, will be almost
entirely outside the convention, and,
politically speaking, might as well be an
alien.
Tlie outlook, therefore, is for Cleveland
and Grey againBt an Eastern man and
Harrison, with the Prohibitionists making
weaker tlie hopes of the losing party.
The Republicans will be branded with the
hot iron of high—even higher—taxation
and profligate expense. The vital ques.
tion now is, “Will the President’s message
be adopted as the .platform at the St.
Louis convention?
The importance of this question lies in
the effect on the lower House of Congress.
3 hat body of derelicts will no longer tarry
in ill-doing if the verdict of the people
were heard on this tax questioh. 'So far
the interests of the taxpayers have lx en be
clouded. Persons like Ingalls have covered
it with the misty yet choleric recollections
of the war. If “Cleveland and lower
taxes!” be the cry of the Democratic partv
and its_ Republican allies during tlie nex't
campaign, the Herald can find, no doubt,
that the House and Senate of 1889 will nt
their earliest day pronounce their devotion
to the true interests of the people.
In theiightof the unrepresentative char
acter of tlie present Congress, it is to b»
observed that tlie President, when he wroto
hie extraordinary message, earned the en
during thanks of the republic. Without
that fulmination it would have been diffi
cult to have made the tariff the issue to bo
joined in 1888.
KffMtl of flushooMli.
From ttee Chicago Herald.
But st few wiles front the city of Matt*
cheater lives a man who was as fine a drug
cierk as there was in Boston. Bui iiini
was some time ago, and no doubt he is for
gotten by the fraternity in that city. His
name is Roluhie 11. Hanford, and he is at
present residing with his widowed mother,
who owns a fine residence not far from
Manchester. His experience with hasheesh
is worth reproHtwine, A representative
of the Manchester Union saw Sanford some
time ago, nnd as it was just after dinner
nnd he hail partaken of his men! with un-
isual relish, lie was in the mood for talk-
ng- "Why. my boy,” said lie, “drug
lerksof conr-e have secrets. You want
me to tell you a little story, eh? If I
should tell you some of the -eerets of
course they would he secret- tiger,
but I’ll give you a little of my experience
with hasheesh. It’s a stuff that no one
wants to meddle with witli impunity, allow
me to inform you. If I had not been carc-
less 1 would not be able to tell you my ex
perience with hasheesh.
"It was some tight or ten years ago,
when I was at work for a prominent drug
gist in Boston. For some little time I hud
been suffering from dyspepsia, atid the ail.
m*nt bothered me so that life became un
bearable. I at least mixed up a decoction
thnt gave me great relief. I wns to take it
before meals, and placed the bottle on a
shelf behind the prescription counter
among ether bottles which are usually
found 'u that place. One uoou I went to-
take my medicine. I took down what I
thought to be the right bottle, and, dis
carding the use of n spoon, I placed the
erifice to my mouth and took a large swal
low. Horrors t The taste told me thnt I
had made a mistake. I looked at the bot
tle and—well, my friend, I had taken a
large dose of Indian cannabis, or other
wise hasheesh. I staggered back to the
rear part of the store. How queer I fait.
How light 1 was growing. Up, up, up l
went until my head bobbed against the
ceiling. 1 was like a cork floating on dis
turbed water. I glided along, and could
look down and see the huge bottles, each
one with a hideous face laughing at me.
The stools on tlie marble floor seemed to
want to keep me company and their click,
click on tlie floor sounde'd like thnmler in
my ears. Suddenly I was plunged into
inky blackness. From the black nothing
ness Hashed out bright balls of light. I
reached the sofa anil sank down uiHin it.
My tongue seemed to swell and I tried in
vain to scream, but no sound issued. I
seemed to know that there was a long,
long hour lie fore my fellow clerk would
be back froru his dinner, and then he might
not come it to tlie rear room and discover
my rondition. Tlie events of the day and
weeks came before my mind in all the de
tails, and I saw faces—beautiful faces—
angelic in their divinity, which seemed to
beckon to me and then vanish with a hid
eous laugh. All normal conditions and
relations seemed to lie presented. Again I
was tossed to the ceiling and then thrown
by some invisible force from one side of
the room to the other. I felt no concus*
Tncn I fell back into dreamy con
templation,and years seemed to pass bv.
Fantastic pictures were worked, my limLs
felt weighted with lead, just the opposite
to my experience of what seemed to me
years ago. I heard somebody say,‘Why,
Rolphie, old fellow, what’s the matter?
Nolphie, Rolphie!” The word reverber
ated like thunder. My ehup-mate had re
turned. Again he tried lo shake me to
myself, and I nevei hated a man so cor
dially as I hated him at that moment. He
got a doctor, and I tell you, my friends,
thev had no easy time to bring me to my
self. Every word they uttered surged into
my brain aud seemed to jar me to pieces.
That was a peculiarity of the s ufl. I
suffered from that experience long after
ward, and it appears even at this day, when
I think it over, that I have that feeling
coming on, *o |Kiwerful was the impression
made on me at that time." • •
Good It«*nlt* In Kerry Com.
11. A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer of
Chattanooga. Tenn., writes that he was serlotule!
sained with a severe cold that settled on his!
lrl«l many remedies without bencflL
i h'*}.'” 1 ’!?-,, This U the experience of
OLD PUEBLOS OF SILVEltLANlT
Descriptions ot AnniuU
brntlrna. *
8pecial Correspondence Macon Telegraph
Denver, Col., May 8.-One of the mos t
interesting features of a trip through the
Rocky Mountain regions, is the pre-e,,ee
of ancient relics which one occasional
meets with. The oldest reaW^ST11
continent have left their footprint* upon
the side of many a mountain. iS
perched on the overhanging brow nf Q
Utling cliff we find life rotaSdw S
of a prehistoric race. With these w e w,B
deal at the present, but will glance at il l
peculiar people whose habits and modes of
ife are a queer mixture of ancient mvs'
Ucisms and modern Jesuitism. tL.
Pueblos (Angliee villages) of the I’ueblo
Indians arc scattered along tlie eastern
r'opo of the Rockies, from the
heaiLwiitere of the Arkansas river, in Cola,
rado, southwards through New Mexico.
Ariz ina. The different Pueblos closely re
semble each other. Their dwellings areali
constructed of mud-colored, sun-buriJl
bricks, called “adobes.” Each building
encloses a square or court. Many houji
are two, and sometimes ns many as five sto
ries in height, each successive story l H -in?
set back twelve or fifteen feet from the Bide
wall* of the next storv below. The roofs
are formed of heavy timbers, covered with
a layer of earth, one or two feet deep. All
the walls are massive, being none
less than two feet, and oftentimes
four and five feet in thick-
ness. There are no doors
in these quaint dwellings, except in a very
few instances where some resident ha*
yielded to the pressure of modern ideas
and cut an opening through the thick side
wall. The usual manner ol entry is bj
ascending a ladder outside the building to
the roof, and through a hole descending
to .the interior by another ladder. The
v PUEI1LO I>E TAOS,
twenty miles above Embudo is, perhaps
the best preserved and most perfect spccil
men of a Pueblo Indian fortress. It con
sists of two houses each live stories high
ami each cap blc of sheltering a com
munity. An old ruined Roman Catholic
church stands near by. Thd build
ing is encircled by seven coniea!
mounds, suggesting the presence of the
mound builders. They are, however, of a
differentorigin. Cleanline* was conaid-
ered a part of godliness by the older mem
bers of these strange communities, and
and these hollow mounds were used as the
sweating chambers of the daily bath. The
largest of them also served the purpose of
a hall in which was performed the mystic
rites and ceremonies of the tribe. The
ancient observances are still observed here
U|ion Ht. Geronimo’s day, September 30.
In the early dawn of that day a black
robed Indianjiscends lo the highest terrace
of the Pueblo and addresses th« multitude
assembled below. In the plaza stands a
pine^rec shorn nf its branches. From *
cross piece at the top, fifty feet from the
ground, dangles a sheep, Lack downward,
suspended by a rope lied to its four feet.
Garlands of flowers, fruit and vegetables
and basketS’Of bread and grain hang from
the pole. The beii in the iittie adobe
chapel rounds, and a few ol the Indians
go to mass. A rotund Mexican priest
with a jpily looking face of glowing tear-
Ict. is the celebrant. A couple of old
Mexican.-and an Indian inai red \ blanket
are acolytes. The lio-t is cfeyateif, and **
muscular Indian at the door labors to de-
dians fire their muskets. The service
ends and a pmce—iou is formed
and marched to the race track,
The runners have prepared thems-lvcs in
the chamber of the mystic rites, and soon
appear. There are fifty of them, all nakei’
and painted, ca ll with a different de>igi
and combination of colors. Fifty otbe
runners from tlie other Pueblo now ap
jiear, dressed in different coats of paint
The two parties form in liDe on eithei
side of the track aud begin a slow dance
.Suddenly a noisy hubbub is heard am
three hundred vouug Mexicans sliotitinj
and yelling rush madly through thethroni
on their wild ponies. Their leader swing
by the neck a game cock. Now tlie rsce
begin, two runners from eacli side dasl
down the track. No sooner do they rescl
the goal than two others start off, nnd thu
foT’ two hours, amid the loud cheer* c
their companions, ilic sport keeps up unti
the sum ol the victories gained crowns om
side or the other with success. After tin
races the runners again range themselre
in two facing lines, and to the beating o
drums, begin a slow march through tin
struggling mass of spectators. F'rom tin
terraces of the Pueblos the women throi
cakes and bread, for which everylwdj
scrambles, and men, women aud childret
are mixed up in a dusty confusion, as dk]
struggle on the ground for the eovete<
morsels.’ The utmost good nature prevails
the spirit of enjoyment is infectious,and no
harsh word nor action mars the mirth. It
tlie afternooon about 3 o’clock, a mi tube
of naked and hideously-painted clown
amuse the people hy their queer antia
As sundown approaches, interest center
around the pole where the poor sheep stil
hangs. Many attempts are made, *n<
finally the pole is climbed, and amid tin
frantic yells of the populace tlie sheep i
thrown to the ground, together with thi
fruit, the flowers and tbj
grain. The downs carry ™
these trophies amid t»
wildest excitement. Ht. Geronimo issup
posed to be rendered exceedingly happy *
tiiis successful termination of the festirl
in liis honor. The festival is well wortk)
a special journey to see it The Poebli
Indians delight to adorn iuemselTCa !'
gay colors, nnd form most interesting' an;
picturesque subjects for the artist, eqwci
ally when associated with their qusin
surrounding*. They are skilled in tb
manufacture of {lottery, basket making so
bead work. The grand annual festival*
the tribe occur* on the 27tb of Dfcembei
and the ceremonies are *
a peculiarly interesting charactd
Both of the festivals attract large con
courses of people, and an* of the great**
interest to either the ethnologist, tlie «
cicaisstic or the tourist. All of the P* 11 ”
los are ea*y of acces* by railroad- and ib®j
abound in objects of interests dating b*d
very many hundreds of years before p
occupation of the country by the wbitj
and will fully repay the tourist for Jp
time and slight expense necessary to vn
them. Mart Clarke
Not That Kind.
From the Madisonian.
Our esteemed Democratic friend, 8.
Booth, whom Ham email announced
one of hii State executive committee ci
third party travesty, requests in to *j
that although a pruhibitionist, he r
Democrat, ami takes no stock in tlnf tli
party movement, and that the use <S
name therewith was unauthorized.
Akollihed Axalo.
London, Msy 1).— Advice-