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Tuesday, rm«Ru*mr«, »«or. , **■ THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH 9 THAW N TRIAL! EW YCR FCiRK, Feb. CM XI !W 101 DS ELS , |..« 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: NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. WASHINGTON NEWS 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!