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, |..« t the North river from
life* Turk i. the alien territory of New 1
| .! r.-'ey, r. ;. r .: f • nmut- r? and old
j and the wise payings of sll igtos find j
:hf‘‘r pro >f In thi - enchanted region j
lives & worthy farmer, one Isaac Van- j
derboot who for years Instead of pur-
i suing the co: tiding little woodchucks j
1 with deg and gun as an agricultural J
j p .??r iian pampered and fed them until
rnr.t! r’c
r*-'. ,k' "• .
ms 1
In the
1 rn the largest proportion of,
<r 11 of Harry K Th i-
v. of
Pitt
“burg,
I ■ *vr* 5took on the place. When the army <
fot the k
j;Jits' nt Stan.
\Vh::
te last
of North Jer by commuters crossed]
summer, t
it
it ion
1 im-
1 the river to Manhattan last Monday
•• om * r *vh 1 c h
wltni
*sse*
and :
which a few powdery white flakes of
frif-ndff r.f
th#* arcusoil hi
H*P h
opp (
!rawn.
1 snow were filling, this is the veracious |
Tn ti'Y'TftF'*
n fs> own
m mfl
It arid |
1 tale they told: On Candlemas morn- ]
twn nf thr
■ee medical ex
perts
. the
ing. cold, still and cloudy, Vanderhoof 1
«f Pit
tsburgors In t
excee
ids ail |
spread a feast of chopped cabbage and ]
previous r
ecords.
over
flow
every J
potato parings in the fie<d where the |
hotei in the city, appart
mtiy.
rell an J
groundhogs usually congregate and |
I? there anything I could do for you , annually passing through the Erie ca- j wrought, could resist the bullet of to-
perso illy?" njl amounts to nearly 2,000.000 tons, j day, and so the French Minister of
"Nothing." Then the VIce-Presi- j Yet this is only a small fraction of the , War has decreed that the thirteen reg-
dent's pah- fa e brightened. “Unless I torrent of tr;ide moving through the I iments of cuirassiers must be muster-
yoo •<: send ti e my nephew, who has 1 hair of Great Lakes, whose comraer- j ed out. their horses used for the bat
would seem the most appropriate of alt
last acts ;;i the warlike drama of Cui
rassiers and Grnvs.
id overlaid St.
been for twenty months a prisoner on
Johnson's Island."
Mr. Lincoln's face also brightened. “I
shall be glad to do it. Let me have
his name.” He took the name down in
his note-book.
When he returned to Washington he
telegraphed to Johnson's Island, dl-
cial development Fulton was one of the j teries of field artillery, which the de-
earliest to foresee. During the present ■ partm^n! is rapidly organizing, and the
year, up to November I, the domestic men themselves either turned adrift or
shipments on the Great Lakes, aggre- ' given places in other branches of tho
gated ti4.3S0.763 tons, an increase of ' artillery.
'.000.000 over the corresponding move- Cuirass Has Outlived Its Usefulness
once to President Lincoln In Wash-
An officer came Into the prison and
ailed out:
-‘Lieut. John A. Stephens, of Geor-
rding ho
ind Wes
on West Forty-
Forty-fi
m to be a popul
r those unwillin_
fnslve quarters. The Hotel
Longaere Square ha* five j
t any other time since Its J
The lieutenant had no idea what was
wanted of him: he thought he was be-
watch for results. I ing called out to be shot. He had been
street*. I j!ion a troop of thirty-two of the little captured at the siege of Vicksburg, and
stamping j weather prohpets had made their ap- I had beep imprisoned
to go to pearance, and after partaking of tho New Orleans, and
five months in
then carried to
P partaki
eded to indulge themselves J Johnson's Island,
midwinter frolic on the snow crust | When be reported at headquarters be
rhich covered the field. Suddenly the was told that he was to report at once
un came out, the Httle animals saw j to President Lincoln. So he was driven
heir shadows, and, without pausing : across the ice on I-ake Erie in a sleigh
ng hi
son al
Boston
• more of tl
je trial; Thaw's per- |
omen from New Or
th e Countess of Yar
mouth, has arrived from England, while
his mother, Mrs. William Thaw, has
hurried home from Paris to be pres- |
ent the trial which Involves th
.or. at th
San Fran- j f or a moment, they darted for their ! twenty miles to Sandusky, and went
:ters In
counsel
his
iach
principal
res and disappeared. Not a sign of J on to Washington.
spring for another six weeks to come. There at once he sought the Presi-
id the wise ones, with ominous dent, and. having sent in his name, he
takes of the head. By Tuesday morn- was immediately ushered into Mr. Lin-
ig the city was buried beneath one of ' coin's presence. He found the Pres!
worst snowstorms since the famous ! dent sitting on a table In a half-reclin-
r>n.
dents
novel
erallj
press
blizzard of *88. Now. as. the Jersey
ommuters wade through rivers of
_ life, I slush which flow where streets ought
liberty of Tier to be. they, wear the sad, superior smile
Vn army of several hundred art- of prophets of evil whose predictions
eporters and special correspon- have come true,
drafted from the ranks of lady |
nd
ensational writers gen-
iting the newspaper
iw
irt room from the be
ginning.
The Bureai
tlstics of the
ment of Agi
fu'dy 50 000 !
/ on the farms
of Information and Sta
s'ew York State Depart-
culture estimates that
borers will be required
State this spring.
of
and through Its office In this city is
putting into execution a novel plan,
which. In a small way, proved highly
successful in supplying the demand last
year. The department has advertised
extensively both In New York and In
Europe for agricultural laborers, and. as
a consequence. Is In dally receipt of
numerous applications from men, both
single and married, who are anxious .to
work on the farms of the State. Many
applications have been received from
Holland and other European countries,
where whole families are willing to
emigrate if assured of farm employ
ment here. Many immigrants reaching
New York are at once engaged by the
Bureau of Farm Employment. Last
year the bureau placed 4.171 farm la
borers and hopes this year to increase
the number to 50 000, which wil, give
the farmers of the State a chance to
sleep nights. But an investigator who
a day or two ago listened to twenty-
eight appeals for assistance in two
hours spent on two blocks on Four
teenth street, all of them from men
“out of work," and then recalled the
numerous appeals of philanthropic and
chnrltable organizations for funds with
■which to assist New York's army of
unemployed, wonders why It shou'.d be
necessary to advertise in Europe for
laborers to relieve a situation within
ten miles of Broadway which Is little
better than that of Kansas at the time
of the wheat harvest.
DISCOVER WEALTH
HI PRICKLEY PEAR
New York has a good deal of legal
talent which has acquired something
more than local prominence In more
than one Held of honest endeavor.
Rome of It is Indigenous to the sol. arid
some has been transplanted from less
favored localities: but, as a rule, the
contest for supremacy ly between
scions of the good old native Dutch
and Irish stocks, with the honors pret
ty evenly divided. Just now the Irish
are claiming a. new champion In Judge
Thomas P. Dlnnean. who has succeed
ed in stowing away in his midst ten
and three-quarter pounds of tender,
juicy beefsteak at a single sitting, thus
breaking the record of ten pounds
made by ex-Mayor Van Wyek several
years ago when he wrested the cham
pionship from the late Justice Patrick
IMvver. who had a celebrated capacity
for beefsteak. The feat which has
caused such rejoicing in the ranks of
the Sul.ivanitcs was performed at tho
famous old Atlantic Garden on the
Bowery at a banquet given by the pro
prietors. William and Alfred Kramer,
■who are Irish chiefly in their political
sympathies. All the elite of the East
Fide were at the feast, and Corporation
Counsel El ison rubbed elbows with
Count Spnrenherg, king of the East
Fide pawnbrokers, while Mayor’s Sec-
retarv O’Brien sat cheek by jowl with
“Jim" Villenigue. the caterer. But Col.
Mike Padden was barred because he's
the water register.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Feb. 9.—In
portions of west Texas and over a
great deal of south and southwest
Texas the prickly pear has long been
regarded as an unmitigated nuisance,
although during seasons of drouth the
ranches have found It a very good cat
tle food after the spines are removed
by burning.
Since the impetus given the making
of denatured alcohol it is claimed that
there is a bonanza to be reaped from
these cactus lands of Texas as a ma
terial for manufacturing alcobol, and
at several points In West Texas ar
rangements are being made to soon
begin work with portable stills, which
will be moved around In the cactus re
gion as the supply diminishes. Owners
of this cactus land are figuring on
some big revenue when the alcohol
making begins, and it is an experi--
ment that is being watched with much
interest throughout the State.
The feeding of this prickiy pear to
stock has also been given a new im
petus in consequence of some experi
ments that have recently been made
and the boost given the idea by the
Federal authorities at Washington. As
a result of careful experiments it has
been shown that a ration producing be
tween one and a quarter and one and
a half pounds of butter per day cost
about 13 cents when pear, rice, bran
and cotton seed meal were fed.
Good Flesh Producer.
Although prickly pear is low In nu
tritive value from the chemical stand
point, the steer feeding experiment
shows also that there is abundant Just
ification for the practices in vogue of
preparing cattle for market upon
prickly pear and cotton seed meal. A
gain of one and three-quarter pounds
a day at an expense of 3 cents per
pound compares favorably with the
feeding results obtained from standard
feeds.
Two experiments have recently been
undertaken, both conducted under the
Immediate supervision of ranehmen In
southern Texas in co-operation with
the bureau of plant industry at Wash
ington. The first test was undertaken
by Alexander Sinclair, of San Antonio.,
The second was conducted by T. A.
Coleman upon his ranch in Encinal.
There are two species of the prickly
pear recognized in that
ing position, and talking with Secre
tary Seward. Mr. Lincoln rose, shook
his hand very cordially, and said:
“I saw your uncle. Hon. Alexander H.
Stephens, recently at Hampton Roads."
Lieut. Stephens had not heard of the
peace conference, and this was his first
direct news of his family since his im
prisonment. President Lincoln con
tinued:
"I told your uncle I would send you
to him, lieutenant.'
Naturally the lieutenant was deeply
moved and grateful.
“You have the freedom of the city,”
Mr. Lincoln continued, “as long as yon
please to remain here. When you want
to go home, let me know, and I will
pass you through the lines.”
The lieutenant's appreciation and joy
can be Imagined. Mr. Lincoln talked
on pleasantly, telling him of the Hamp
ton Roads Conference, asking him
questions and making the hour a mem
orable one in many ways.
The lieutenant remained in Washing
ton about two weeks. Many old friends
entertained him. and he was In a state
of mind and body to set value on such
a show of good will.
He recovered his strength rapidly,
and when he went to Mr. Lincoln and
told him he was ready to go to Rich
mond, Mr. Lincoln gave him the letter
above quoted and a pass through the
Federal lines, and then handed him his
photograph, saying:
“You had better take that along. It
is considered quite a curiosity down
your way, I believe.”
Lieut. Stephens went on to Rich
mond, reporting for duty, and though
privileged to make a visit to his rela
tives in Georgia, and longing to soe
them, proceeded to "West Virginia,
where he served on the staff of Gen.
Gordon. Of course he had been duly
exchanged, the Federal officer who hgji
been released going North, carrying
with him memories of kindnesses and
courtesy shown him in Richmond.
PLANS TO HONOR
!T
The delegates of the various com
mercial bodies of the city who attended
the convention of the National Hivws
and Harbors Congress in Washington
In December have effected a permanent
organization for thp purpose of more j and
effectively assisting the Congress in its
effort to secure adequate annual ap
propriations for river and harbor im
provement. The bil: which has been
introduced In the present session of
Congress at Washington carries ap
propriations for the Improvement of
New York's waterways which aggre
gate approximately Si.900,000. This
amount, while scarcely in
Headed by CQrnelius Vanderbilt, the
Robert Fulton Memorial Association, a
body comprising about a hundred of
the most influential men in the me
tropolis. has undertaken to raise $600.-
000 for the purpose of erecting a suita
ble memorial to the father of steam
navigation and inland waterways. Cu
riously enough, the prime mover in
this undertaking is a descendant of the
famous Commodore Vanderbilt, who,
by means of his early adoption of the
steamboat in connection with his ferry
from New York to New Brunswick, on
the Jersey shore, laid the foundation
portion of i 0 f his colossai fortune.
Texas where the plant flourishes. One j Fulton lies buried in an almost un
is small and prostrate and of no special : known grave in Trinity churchyard,
value: the other has at least two forms, j an( j his four grandchildren notv living
one with yellow spines and the other j have given the association permission
with spines red or brown at the base. ; -o remove his body to whatever point
There is also another variety found in j may be decided upon as the site of the
south Texas and known as the blue ! proposed monument. The association
leaf- ■ is endeavoring to have a combined
The cows selected for this experi- I tomb and statue completed next year
ment were taken from the Sinclair ; in time f 0r ih e hundredth anniversary
herd. They were Holsteln-Jersey j of the launching of Fulton's first
stock. During the feeding period the j steamboat. It has also been suggested
cows were kept in separate pens and i that it would be appropriate to place
under separate sheds and were allowed ; a statue of Fulton at one end of the
to remain In the sheds or roam in the j Hudson Memorial Bridge, over the
pens at will. One load of pear was , Harlem, which will cost-$3,000,000, and
sufficient for a week’s feed, and at ! tvhich will be opened in 1909 during
feeding time the material was placed j the ter-centennial celebration of the
in a box and chopped with.a spade Into j discovery' of the Hudson river,
convenient size for the animals to eat. j Although Fulton ■ is best known as
The grain was fed at milking time. I the inventor of the first successful
ment last year, and of 22.000,000 over
that of the first ten months of 1904.
Of this mighty volume of commerce a
large percentage—51.626.029 net tons—
passed through the Detroit river, and,
further to emphasize the fulfilling of
Fulton’s prediction regarding the de
velopment of waterway trade, no less
than 39,130,337 tons of freight passed
through the “Soo” canal, between the
opening of the lake season and the
first of last month.
Studied Waterways.
Although Fulton was originator of
the Erie canal project and the particu
lar advocate of the plan to develop the
commercial possibilities of the Great
Lake region, at the same time he gave
his attention to American waterways
in general in much the same manner
as the present National Rivers and
Harobrs Congress is doing. To show
the extent of waterways development
in the United States during the last
century, the $10,000,000 which Fulton
estimated would be the cost of the Erie
canal may be compared with the $50.-
000,000 which the Rivers and Harbors
Congress and many commercial organ
izations throughout the country are
urging the government to appropriate
annually for the maintenance and im
provement of the national waterways.
Time has softened much of the criti
cism which followed the building of
the Clermont, and today Fulton is
universally acknowledged as the father
of steam navigation. Steamboats were
heard of as far back as the middle of
the sixteenth century, when a Span
iard, Blasco de Gary, is reported to
have propelled a vessel«by steam in the
harbor of Barcelona. Writers on steam
navigation, however, are inclined to
give the honor of the first attempt at
steamboating to Papin, who published
his ideas in 1690, giving a rude plan
of a paddle steamer, and who in 1707
experimented with a steamboat upon
the river Fulda in Germany.
About thirty years later Jonathan
Hull built a steam towboat, equipped
with a single wheel at the stern, which
was exhibited at London, and in 1763
an American. William Henry, of Chest
er county, Pennsylvania, tried experi
ments with a steamboat on the Cones
toga. This happened just two years be
fore Fulton was born at Little Britian
(now Fulton), in the neighboring
county of Lancaster, and perhaps in his
boyhood Robert was told of this ex
periment.
IE. MELBA’S JEWELS
tessellated, inlaid
Regis. t -
Verily. a beautiful voice is a golden
gift.
JOSEPHINE MBIGHA-N, in New
York Globe.
The fact is. the cuirass has passed
its usefulness. Every recent war has
shown that. Fifty years of battle how
not a war in which the armored soldier
has been successful. In our own Civil
War, neither of the contestants made
use of armored warriors.
Napoleon III did turn the cuirassiers
loose in the Franco-Prussian war. but
though they fought with bravery at
Gravelotte, where they bore the brunt
of the most spectacular charge of the
struggle, their courage could not make
up for their somewhat outworn equip
ment Moreover, they were fighting
against better men, better guns and
better horse. 1 ?.
In the frightful carnage of Gravelotte.
the cuirassiers sustained the greater
part of the damage, and whole compa
nies were wiped out At the end of the
struggle, when the reorganization of
the lYenrh army began, some of the
experts, who were farsighted, were for
abolishing the cuirassiers then, but the
sentiment of the nation was so much
against it that the project was post
poned.
No wonder France loved its cuiras
siers. They had a great history. In j estin
every war of the patrie they cut a su
perb figure, and until they lowered
their colors at Waterloo to the valor
of the Scots Gray, the world had come
to believe them invincible.
There are not many cuirassiers left
in the world's armies. The abolition
of the thirteen French regiments will
leave three countries with this arm of
the service—Russia, Germany and
Italy. Germany has twelve regiments
and Russia four, but it is altogether
possible that the Kaiser and Czar will
follow the lead of the French.
History of Cuirassiers.
Only a few hundred years ago the
man in the cuirass was the ideal
fighter.
Before the deadly quick-firing rifle
and machine gun had come to deal out
death as swiftly and surely as a bar
rel organ grinds out a tune, the cuirass
was sufficiently effective to turn aside
bullets.
Gustavus Adolphus, the greatest
warrior of Sweden, first taught the
world what a wonderful fighting possi
bility there could be In a well drilled
company of expert horsemen, able to
maneuvre with lightning swiftness, so
well protected as to be comparatively
immune from danger, and having in
their pikes, lances or sabers and the
When one talks with Mme. Nellie
Melba one talks in big figuers. We
didn't say to big figures! Perish the
thought! Mme. Nellie is as graceful
and as gracious as ever, and she has
not - grown a day older since she first
sang to us in—er—when was it, some
where tack In the mists of the early
part of the last decade of the last cen
tury! Think of it! And you wouldn't
believe it to see her bright eyes, and
her soft, dark hair and her always
winning and sympathetic smile.
When one considers all the pleasant
things that are always happening 'to I
Mme Nellie one Isn’t surprised that :
she looks so much less than her pos- ;
sible forty years. For instance, those I
Jewels about which so much has been j
written:
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POLITICAL GOSSIP
Before the end of the eighteenth cen- , irresistible onrush of their mounts, the
tury Count d’ Auxiron and the Mar- I force to wipe any ordinary antagonist
quis de Jouffroy conducted experl- ' out of the way. Only an equally pow-
ments in steam navigation in France.
The Ingenious Dr. Franklin, who drew
the lightning from the skies.” also be
lieved the steamboat practicable, but
he ridiculed the wheels which years
later, serving as propellers, made Ful-.
ton's steamboat a success. James
Rumsey, who experimented on the Po
tomac in Washington’s presence in
1784, and John Fitch, of Philadelphia,
who designed a steam craft in 17S5.
arc worthy of mention, though noth
ing came of their endeavors: and the
same applies to Nathan Read, another
American, who in 1789, in a boat equip
ped with paddles moved by steam
achieved some success at Danvers,
Mass. Nevertheless Fulton claimed—
and now receives—the credit of invent
ing the steamboat for the simple rea
son that his was the first useful and
profitable vessel of its kind.
Where Clermont Got Name.
The Clermont took her name from
the co.unty seat of Chancellor Living
ston, Fulton’s partner in the enter
prise. She was ISO feet long, 16 and a
erful force of cuirassiers could resist
such a force, and the military experts
of Europe, profiting by the lessons of
Gustavus. directed their attention to
perfecting this feature of offensive
warfa re.
England then had its cuirassiers,
though they have long since been aban
doned in the service of the British
King.
France early took up the subject,
and under Louis XIII. developed sev
eral excellent regiments. Louis XIV.
numbered among his military advisers
such eminent tacticians as Luxem
bourg. Turenne and Conde. and these
pushed the cuirassiers to a still finer
point of perfection.
The cuirassier of this period was
henvily accoutred, carrying beside
cabre and pistol, a lance or a pike,
sabre and pistol, a lance Or a pike,
to carry along still further the work of
preparation that was to give Napoleon
the finest cuirassiers in Europe.
It was Marshal Saxe who laid down
the code that for many a hard engae-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Although
President Roosevelt very seldom lets
anything stand in th» way of getting
even” with his opponents, it is now
practically certain that he will not re-
“It is so foolish to discuss jewels | venge himself on Senator Foraker by
when there are two opera companies appointing a negro to one of the Fed-
in town to talk about.'' said the 1 era i offices of Cincinnati. Following
diva. “Of course, they are beautiful the clash at the Gridiron dinner, the
and valuable, those jewels, and most ' president let it become known that he
of them were presented to me by inter- ' purposed naming a colored man for a
personages—kings and queens soft Government job in that ettv. It
and great men and women, to whom : was a Machtavelian move on the part
my voice has given pleasure. A curi- ' of Mr. Roosevelt, for it put Senator
ous thing is that in spite of the ! Foraker in a “hole.” The senior Ser.a-
amount of nonsense that has been i tor from Ohio could not very well ob-
written about the Jewels, the real value ject to the appointment of a pegrn,
has not been corectly stated. The , Mr. Roosevelt figured, so soon after his
papers have said that I had precious \ valiant championship of the race 1n
stones worth half a million dollars. As , the debate on the Brownsville affair,
a matter of fact, they are worth half ! However, both Senators Foraker and
a million sterling, or $2,500,000. No, : Dick raised such decided objections
none of them are here. I have sent i and so much pressure was brought to
them all to the safe deposit vaults for j bear by the Ohio delegation, that it is
safe keeping. One jewel that may be | now practically certain that the Cln-
of interest in the ballroom jcine of ‘La I cinnati offices will -continue to be
Traviata’ I shall wear toniyj? the triple j filled by white men. The President is
rope of pearls that belonj.i-d to Marie ! as tenacious in his revenge as he is
Antoinette, one of my moot precious j in everything else, and it is probable
possessions.” | that he will not give up his plans alto-
And then Mme. Nellie refused to say gether, but will appoint a negro to
another word about jewels, although j Federal office in some other section of
Miss Murphy, her friend and traveling i the State.
companion, recalled the funny little
fact that the last time Mme. Nellie William Aiden Smith, the new Sena-
sang before the royal family in Russia ' tor from Michigan, was sworn in this
she received four bracelets from the ; week. He will fill the unexpired term |
czar, the czarina, and the grand dukes. j of the late Senator Aigcr and will then
The diva and Miss Murphy scouted the • take office in his own right. Mr. Ij
suggestion that perhaps handcuffs and j Smith succeeds Mr. Mulkey, the thirty- qg
suehe things were uppermost in royal i day Senator from Oregon, as the Scn-
Russlan minds theso days. | ate "baby.” Mr. Smith’s christening
Mme Melba is enthusiastically inter- i establishes a new record in the mat-
ested in the present opera season in ter of Senate babies, for there have
New York. Two great opera compa- ' been four admitted to the roll since
nies. both drawing crowded houses, are September—Dupont, Curtis, Mulkey
to her the sign and symbols of a tre- i and Smith. The junior Senator from
mendous stride forward in the musical j Michigan has a committee chairman-
development of the Americans, and she ■ ship awaiting him. for he is to take
foretells a season of great artistic I charge of the examination and dispo-
progress and appreciation. Melba be- j sition of useless Senate documents.
lieves in rivalry and competition, and
everything that will help to awaken j A terrorist In the guise of “La
half feet wide, and of 160°’tons dfs _ j ment was the law of the cuirassier,
placement; and she drew four feet of “All evolutions must be made at the
water. The engine used in her was ! greatest speed, ordered Saxe Cui-
built by the famous inventor Watt of ! rass iers must be as handy and expert
Birmingham, England, according to ! 011 horseback as a hussar, and well ex
designs made bv Fulton. - The Cler- ! ercised in the use of the sword. Every
mont was launched in August 1807 1 squadron must attack the enemy sword
the musical taste of the people, and i Grippe” has forced “Uncle Joe” Ciin-
she really doesn’t seem to feel that the non. Czar of the House, to abdicate,
most interesting feature of this re- : Speaker Cannon is the latest victim of
markable musical season In New York : the disease, which ha? laid hold of
is that she is to receive the pretty lit- I many of the statesmen in Washington,
tie sum of $4,000 for each perform- ' He has not attended the sessions of
ance. the House for some days, and during
Melba is used to making large sums. ! his absence Representative Dalzell Is
■She made a fortune in Australia when ' occupying the chair. “Uncle Joe" is
she went there a few years ago. and : chafing under the restraint laid upon
out of the money her compatriots paid him by his physician, who refuses to
to hear her she took a sum large allow his patient to leave the sick
enough to build a magnificent hospital room. The Speaker’s condition, how-
in Melbourne. Generosity and a ■' ever, is reported to be not at all
broadkminded comprehension of the j serious, although his temper is said to
hopes and ambitions of struggling ! be decidedly frayed about the edges.
young artists are as characteristic of |
Mme Melba as egotism and selfishness | Senator Hale is becoming known as
are distinguishing traits of many I the "Schoolmaster of the Senate," and
ration of roughage, consisting of > steamboat, it was as an advocate of in
pear or sorghum or hay, was fed three i i an d navigation that he first attracted
times a day. Fear was also fed after j public notice. While in England,
milking morning ana evening and ; whither he went in 1786. at the age of
about midday. It was the purpose dur- . 21. he made the acquaintance of the
ing the entire period to feed al! the ; Duke of Bridgewater, who had con-
pear the cows would eat. . i sfructed a profitable waterway con-
Pcars Cost Only Burning. necting the Trent and Mersey, and as
onn . It has been found impossible at this the result of this acquaintance. Fulton,
,-r v -„i v , n nitinortinn * time to make an estimate that' is at in 1796. published a treatise on the 1m-
f<Tthe importance of the metropoHs in ' a11 reliable regarding the cost of this provement of canal navigation in which
co,mtrv or th^ : *‘em of the ration., The rancher gath- he forecasted the great development of
ron^rsted condit on of her rivers and I “rs the pear upon his land as he would American waterways. Fulton sent a
h»r^rt l« neverthe?e- se wolf ,l£- firewood, hence it costs him nothing, copy of this treatise to President
n.iroors. I.-, IV.imh.i .. ? • "» " n., WncVilnfvfnn n-hf. s> fUrnruvIod o-od Uc
tributed
to afford the nro<noot of ' The cost of the other Items of the | Washington, who acknowledged Its re
substantial benefit. Commercial men 1 ration fs as follows: Cotton seed meal. ' celpt tn a flattering note,
are encouraged, moreover, bv the pros- t P er rice bran, $13 per ton. Great Year in His Career,
noct that henceforth n= n rest' 1 ! of the ; sorghum hay. $, per ton. One man can ' The year 1S97 was the greatest in
campaign of the National River? and | easily burn nears for a hundred cows, all Fulton’s career. The launching of
Harbors Congress, appropriations will ;‘ n <* in addition thereto he can assist , the Clermont and heT successful pas-
h' based upon a systematic plan fo’- ' ,n ,he milking. He will use about ten (sage from New York up the Hudson
lowing careful studv of the require- ; pHons of gasoline each day in burn- ; to Albany and back was sufficient to
THO t.' of liff r'M'i "llit i "‘H * M cr thd% eninAff nfr the* nuunq artn Hnr. I mn ir A uic immoWoi v*«+
and on Monday. August, 11, started on
her historic trip to Albany and return,
which was accomplished in four days.
Her speed, allowing for stops, was five
miles an hour. They used white pine
for fuel, and every schoolboy has read
how at night, with sparks sky-rocket
ing out of her smokestack, she made
an appearance that terrified the sailors
on many a river craft. Later this ter
ror turned to envy, and several at
tempts were made to destroy the revo
lutionary packet. The fare to Albany
from New York was $7. A $1 fare was
the cheapest, no matter how short the
distance. In less than two years there
was a regular packet service up and
down the river. The Clermont and
her immediate successors cost between
forty and sixty thousand dollars each.
Fulton’s fame is so intimately con
in hand, and no commander shall be
allowed to fire, save under penalty of
the most infamous chasiering.”
Until Frederick the Great came, there
was no cuirassier to rival those of the
Marshal Saxe, but the warlike German
developed a body that did most re
markable fighting.
Napoleon, with customary sagacity,
adopted all that was best of every sys
tem, and the finer points of the knowl
edge of Saxe and Frederick he applied
to his own cuirassiers. In 1806 against
the Prussians at Jena and Auerstadt,
they did matchless work, and were re,-,
sponsible for these successes.
That command of cuirassiers under
Kellerman, at Marengo, numbered only
two hundred, but it turned a rout into
a victory, and by a rush of matchless
valor put the Austrian armv to flight
nected with the Clermont that it is not ! after ?vhat seemed a certain victory
generally known that he built many : The two hundred cuirassiers were di-
other steamboats. He constructed the rectly responsible for the taking of two
first steam ferryboats—double-enders i thousand prisoners, and the saving of
twin boats”—which were used on
the Hudson and later on the East river
and the Delaware. He designed the
first steam warship ever put in com
mission, the Demalogos, or Fulton tho
First, which was launched in 1814, but
which, because of the early ending of
the war in 1S12. was never used ex
cept as a training ship. That same
year, 1814. the first steamboat built for
use on the Mississippi—the Vesuvius—
Napoleon from the threat of a serious
defeat.
Napoleon violated the law of Saxe,
and permitted his cuirassiers to use
their firearms when they could be em
ployed to good advantage. They did
this at Eylau. At Austerlitz and Wag-
ram the cuirassiers brought victory to
the Legions of the Emperor.
The Russian campaign dealt badly
with the cuirassiers, for Napoleon, by
women who have devoted their lives to he has advertised on two separate or.
the development of some God-given j casions now that he has a rod in pickle
gift. for any unruly members who may at-
She is singularly free from the little tempt to retard the passage of the ap-
tantrums and whimsies that make gay propriation bills by the introduction of
and blithesome the lives of those who other measures and the delivery of
are obliged to live near great singers, long speeches. Last week, Senator
Mme Melba doesn’t consider It neces- : Hale referrod sarcastically to Senator
sary for a great singer to be tempestu- j Beveridge’s illuminating discussion of
ous and self-ventred, querulous, and j child labor, and this week he paid his
quarrelsome, just because such traits compliments in no uncertain terms to
are countenanced, if not admired when certain other members who contem-
one has been dowered with a perfect ! plate extended dissertations on pet
voice. Mme Melba is too kind and ! measures. Mr. Haie’s warnings are
fair to admit that she ever heard of given added weight for the reason that
the prlma donna whose dog was run he is now taking active charge of tho
over and who said when the news was appropriation measures because of th*
brought to her: “Don’t speak of it physical disabilities under which
until tomorrow. I sing tonight." Neith- j Chairman Allison is laboring.
er will she believe that story of another ! —
singer who beat her with a broadsword j Tile President will deliver an oration
because forsooth the hapless wight had ' at the dedication of the McKinley
not dressed her wig to the nightingale's ! memorial monument at Canton. Ohio,
satisfaction. No, Mme Melbn never tho last week In September. Although
heard of such things, and if she had ' tho exact date has not yet been fixed.
she would probably look at her infor
mant with her gentle doves' eyes and
quote her favorite stanza from the
Australian poet Gordon, and which
runs:
“Life is only froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness If? another's trouble.
Courage in our own."
The week before the diva left Eng
land she was a very busy diva.
Mr. Roosevelt announced his inten
tion of delivering the address, and
assured Vice-President Fairbanks, A?-
i sociate Justice Day and • Postmaster
General Cortelyou. members of the
1 board of trustees of the Memorial As
sociation, that he would be present.
was designed by him and launched at one of the few oversights charged
Pittsburg: and he also built the first ! against him. failed to provide frost
of the Sound steamers, the Fulton,
which plied between New York and
New Haven
In these days when the use of sub
marine vessels in warfare receives so
much attention, it is worthy of note
that more than a century ago Fulton
nails for the cavalry and ruined the
arm for the time.
But when Waterloo came, the Em
peror had managed to restore his
cuirassiers to their old state of
strength and proficiency. He relied on
them in the struggle that broke his ca-
Eight Inrhes of snow fell this week
in Washington—something In the
One 1 weather line decidedly unusual for the
thing she did was to attend the wed- i capital. The White House fnmiiy lias
ding of her "little boy." who is now enjoyed the snow fail to its fullest ex-
just twenty-one years of age and hits- i tent. Standing in the White House
band of one of the great beauties of yard is a giant snow man. the handi-
England. although she Is only seven- work of Archie'and Quentin, and the
teen. ! boys have headed small armies of
Mme Melba’s wedding gift to hpr laughing and -houlinc youngsters in
boy was a settlement of $25,000 a vear bloodless battles with snow balls In the
and a gorgeous fast automobile. The
father of the bride is Sir Jocelyn Ott-
wav. who Is the owner of the famous
Tufton Collection of old English mas
terpieces. by Romnev. Gainsborough.
Raeburn. Lely, and others.
Another bit of business that this
failv godmother of a prlma donna at
tended to before she sailed for America
was to lend her fine house In Great
white lot. In the height of tb p f>torm
the President slipped away from his
secret service guardian? and tramped
through the blizzard for eight mile#
along the bank.? of the Potomac.
The pa--?ing of General Charle#
Grnsvennr, of Ohio, Is to be made tha ■*
excuse for a. number of dimers. Sen
ators Foraker and Dick will give
Ml
I ing the spines off the cactus, and dur- ! make his name Immortal, but in addi-
| Ing the time this experiment was in i tlon to this achievement he at this time
Burin* 1906. according to the last re- pro ^*? s th f price th,s commodity J proposed the buildixi* of the bf* Srfe
no-t of thf* Irish Emijrmnt Socle tv, 26.- was 11 cent? P? r srallon. The cost of canal. The proposition was contained
a?? natives of the Emerald Isle landed a Say's rations for each cow while j in a letter ivhich Fulton wrote to Al-
at'the port of New York. In the mini- I bear without hay was betng fed was ; bert Gallatin, then Secretary of the
her there were 14.917 males and 12.095 i 13 rents. . Treasury, who had applied to the in-
Qnc thousand two hundred I The conclusion at \Vasiungton Is that j vent or for information intended as a
and" eighteen were under 14 years of j the Texas raiser has a very cheap fded supplement to a report to Congress on
a-e 14 994 between the age? of 14 and i xt hrind if he w,n nn, y S lvo the matter the matter of public roads and canals.
45. ini 712 over 45 years o',d. The In- | *t>e proper attention. Many ranchmen j Three years later the New York Legis-
flux has raised In certain quarters the
fear that Ireland Is about to be depop
ulated in favor of the United States,
and has revived the scheme for pre
venting such a calamity by towing the
‘sland across the Atlantic and anchor
ing It tn New York harbor, a scheme
which was first put forward by an en
terprising Individual in the era when
immigrant ships were smaller than
hoy are now and before Ireland had
abandoned supremacy at the pick han
dle In favor of American politics. But
i ■ fact that the Irish immigrants of
1906 brought with them $641.69$ in
good British gold and banknotes goes
f*r to disprove the poverty of “the
old sod.”
ract
The demand for New York t(
tate at rapidly advancing prlci
been productive of so many p
transactions that few of them :
more than passing notice. Usually in
the purchase of building plot? onlv the
t \ • dimensions of width and depth are
corsidered. the purchaser buying i loir
un to the-skies and down'as far as he
. ires to go; but the site for the new
postoffice building In Eighth avenue,
to which' the United States Govern-
tv.. nt ha.? .1u?t taken title, hi? intro
duced fhe third dimension of th. kness.
Beneath -he surface ? >ne of the btg
railroad : r.ne's vhich cross un hw the
Hit.Is river. 1 it ; s an interest'ng
«le». :-i r-'-’ky operations that the
'! e of t! ,. G V. intent is linlt-d to a
slice of earth twenty feet thick.
section of the State have pro- lature appointed a commission to look
vided themselves with pear burners, as into Fulton's proposal and report upon
they are called, which can be moved ; its feasibliltv. The following vear Ful-
arnund over the pear producing area ton, himself was rnnde a member of the
and the spines burned off the plant as i commission, and in the course of his
it is gathered. The slight scorching j work he addressed a letter to the pres-
given thf plant during the spine burn- I ident of the body. Gouverneur Morris,
ing process does not seem to affect the ’ j n which he said:
taste, for cattle eat It with avidity,
and it is apparent that had it not been
for be spines on his plant the cattle
would have long since wiped it out of
existence.
LINCOLN AND STEPHENS.
Another Instance of Lincoln’s Kindli
ness of Heart in a Scene at Wash
ington.
The Hampton Roads Peace Confer
ee e of 1>63, at which Mr. Stephen?,
Judge J. A. Campbell and R. M. T.
Hunter met Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Sew
ard ::: an effort to e?tabli.?h peace be
tween the North and South, and to to
put- an end to bloodshed, had endod in
failure, write? Myrta Lockett A vary in
the Century . Mr. Lin In and Mr. Ste
phen? had me: in 1847. when both were
r.etnhr r? nme thing
v, : A. .V . m-. per? nr' fr 'ship hid
developed between them: thl? wrs
•• ,i-.' ?: Harnp'.en R->t> is. When
they came K say goodbye, the Pres-
ident of the United State? -aid with
feeling to the Vice-President of the
"Well, Stephens, there ha? been
nothing we could do for our country- | time, when the volume of commerce
“Had it pleased the Author of the
Universe to have drawn Hudson’s river
from Lake Erie, a calm and gentle
stream of ten feet water, the reflecting
mind would contemplate with gratitude
the Divine munificence: and he who
feels that 160 miles of navigation on
Hudson's river would be a blessing to
this State, would compare the success
ful range of extended benefits, and
draw exact estimates of national
wealth from 160 miles of easy com
munication to the western extremity
of Lake Superior. For if Hudson's
river, collecting freight from its sur
rounding country, and an interior not
more distant than Cayuga or Ontario,
now bears on it? waters nearly 400.990
tons per annum, where shall {he mind
be arrested: on what number of tons
shall it dwell? when coming from the
population of the next twenty years.
; and the countries which surround
| Lakes Superior. Michigan. Huron and
the canai of 30 r ' miles through a fertile
! territory? Compared with the trade
; now on Hudson's river, it cannot be
j less than a million of tons each year.”
I It is interesting to compare this esti
mate with the statistics of the present
built and operated a submarine war reer, and they did not prove amiss,
vessel, the Nautilus, with which he ex- j but the odds against which they pitted
perimented at Brest. France, in 1801, j were too overwhelming for any bravery,
and which, to the surprise of the com- The crafty Wellington, knowing the
mission appointed by Napoleon to prowess of the Frencn cuirassiers, op-
watch the affair, maneuvered below the posed them with the pick of his fight-
surface of the harbor for several houis.
It was while engaged in planning sub
marine warfare that Fulton gave the
name “torpedo” to the form of explo
sive which had previously been called
a submarine bomb.
Yet Fulton met the fate of most in
ventors. for at his death, February 24,
1815, he was virtually penniless The
expenses attending his many ventures,
together with the litigation over pat
ents, had ruined him. The govern
ment owed him $100,000, according to
his claim, in connection with the use of
the Vesuvius as a transport during
the war with England; and in 1S64.
thirty-bne years after his death. Lie
claim was settled by the payment of
$76,300 to his heirs.
END OF CUIRASSIERS
IS DECREED BY FRANCE
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The glory of the French army—the
Cuirassier—has fought his last battle.
What the armies of the world could not
accomplish in the wars of three centu
ries, is to be achieved in a stroke of
the pen by a Drench military official,
and in a few months the Cuirassier will
be only a tradition.
The showy soldier on horseback,
wearing his flashing breastplate if
steel, with a brass piece in the center,
has ever been the idol of the show-lov
ing French nation, and the winner of
some of its greatest battles, but mod
ern methods of warfare have prut out of
commission the equipment that comes
down from the Middle Ages.
No cuirass, no matter how craftily
ing force, the cavalry under Gen. Pon-
sonby. This consisted of the Roya',
Dragoons. Scots Grays and Inniskilling
Dragoons.
These latter were early drawn into | with the diva
the action, for D'Erion. after overcom
ing Bylandt, was chased from a strong
position by the Grays.
B'etween 4 and 6 in the afternoon,
under the personal direction of Ney, a
movement of the French cuirassiers
was ordered. The grand old veterans
—Kellerman. Milhaud and Guyot—took
charge of the men. whom Napoleon al
ways awarded the honor of being
thrown at the enemy in the crisis of
the battle.
Straight at the center of the British
line rode the cuirassiers. They were
Cumberland place to Elizabeth Parklna , dinner in his honor this week to speed
—one of Melba*.? many protegees that him in his retirement from the House
have “made good." Parkina will give ] after a long service. A Democratic
a concert In Melba’s music room, banquet will be given in hi? honor-
which will be attended by the music j February 23. and Mrs. Grosvenor is to
loving fashionables of Engiand. A few be the guest at a reception arranged
vear.? ago Parkina was a little girl In by wives of Congressmen. In addi
tion, a fund has been raised in Con
gress, both Republican and Democrats
contributing to it. to purchase a val
uable memento for presentation td
General Grosvenor on his retirement.
the most unesthetic of American town
Kansas City.
Another protegee of Mme Melba is
Mips Sassoll, who came from England
BALLAD OF COLD STORAGE HEN.
Coming over on the steamer Melba
sang at the concert for the benefit of
the sailors’ fund. Autographed pro- i
grams with Melba’s picture were sold i From the Denver Republican,
for various prices, the lowest bring- I Dr. Wiley says It is impossible to ae-
ing $25. ■ termine how many years some fowls
When Melba sang at Covent Garden i have been in cold storage.—Press Dia-
this summer the first musical critic of ! patch.
London said that when the history of , ,
her career is written the work done by My mother was a hen in the days of
her in 1906 will undoubtedly be called good old Socrates:
the best work of her life. The same At the tender age of ten I was stowed
enthusiasm was evinced in Birming- away in bore to freeze,
ham at a concert where the hall was And, in all these years jou see that
supported by artillery# an< 3 did terrible ! crowded as it hod never been since the pve here in ingiaitv,
execution among the Britishers. Hud j visits to the town of Mr. Gladstone ■ I’ve acquired, naturally, a remarKaDia
they likewise been supported by in- | and Anton Rubinstein. i rigidity.
When the diva is at her home
fantry, Waterloo might have had a dif
ferent outcome, but the wonderful I London she has many diversions. She
valor of the Scots Grays, formed in : rides and reads, plays golf and Is a
squares to resist the attack, and com- bridge enthusiast, but best of all, she
pelled to support the frightful struggle j loves listening to music. She is fond
for hours, finally prevailed, and the of entertaining and she is justly proud
cuirassiers, shot to pieces, finally had j of her house, which is one of the most
I have gathered, through those year*, a
repose that's full of dignity,
j And I never, oh. my dears, have de
scended to malignity;
When a modem chick comes in, with
hla airs so full of silliness.
to retreat to avoid complete extermin- ; artistic mansions in London. Part of . I merely raise my chin in a patriarchal
ation. When Napoleon saw them coipe j the interior is modeled after rooms in j chilliness.
back he conceded the end. the Palace of Versailles, and the gem '
It is a curious fact that at the same of the apartments is the sleeping rtxyn $ have heard great kingdom* fall, like
time that the cuirassiers are to pass i of the singer, which is in tones of ; smash of rare old pottery,
out of existence, there is also talk in ! ivory, gold and pale pink. The bed and An< ^ have heard the final call for great
England of abolishing the Scots Grays, ■ dressing table are draped with price- I monarchs, old and tottery;
the heroes who beat them. . less old lace and the toilet articles are And yet. through every age, while goes
The suggestion has been made in | of clear pale tortoise shell, each piece
England, and enthusiastically received, j glittering with an JI in diamonds. Ad-
that before the two. Cuirassiers and I joining the luxurious nest is a dressing
Grays, pars out of existence, it would j room, with toilet articles of silver and j
Sevres and of hammered gold set with
pearl? diamonds, and turquoise. Off;
this room is the bathroom, which has
adjustable doors of pearl moulding and
diamond shaped crystals designed by
Mme Melba.
And now the mistress of this splen
did house Is staying at the gilded and
on the march historical.
Do 1 gaze, calm as a sage, upon life
phantasmagorical.
be a fitting and beautiful sentiment to
let them meet in reunion in Paris. The
date proposed is July 14, the Fnech na
tional holiday.
As a final reunion of brave men.
whose predecessors in the same regi
ment opposed each other In one of the
greatest battlefields of history, this
Do not talk about the sphinx, nor the
obelisks and pyramids:
I make those ancient links look like a
bunch of kids;
Perhaps, from my retreat, there will
come a time of severance.
But, meantime. I repeat, you should
treat me with due reverence!