Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1879, Page 12

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: PHAIR. 7 TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1879--'T'WELVE PAGES, they could catch. Under tho protection of the Brikteh Government. the natives in Natal bave grown rich in cattle and wires (their signs of ‘The population fins greatly {nereased, for the Zuln King's subjects wero constantly ficeing Into Natal for protectlon from his tn- They call their awn country © The Woe all felt. that the ‘evil: exe” of Zululand was jealously watching our peace aud prosperity, ‘The polley of the Beittat authority in Natal lias been mild und eonellia- tory tn the extroma toward the Zult Powers but at fast “something must ba done” to put an end to the danger that constantly threntencd Natal. Only during the rainy seston, while the Tugela River was overftowing its banks, did the people in Natat feat sovura from raids. ts are very warlike, andare wat * braves”? until thelr spears in hunian Thetr lives aro spent In Hehting neigh boring tribes for plunder, und genorally siteceed in “eating them up,” to use their own expres- Uscovering now Tle was nn camer 6ltt- dent and a desperate worker, nnd he succeeded in mastering eo many of the mathematical and other problema connected with electricat science that he beeaine the greatest authority thercou, particularly on magnetic Induction, in this coun- Fuller touk up the subject of the electric heht in 1874, and has been studying it, iu au ob- sctire laboratory in Brooklyn, witi! the present He found at the outset, lke so many Other men, that thero was need of a good mag- heto-electrie machine. based on the principle of Gramine's, nid pro- duced 50 powerful 9 oho that three years ngo he sitereeded in having it adopted by the Stock and Gold Telegraph Company of this city for prac: tical telegraphy, ‘Fhe Company named has over a thousand machines {n different parts of the are printed every. few “PRE ELECTRIC LIGHT. VT . : dina be anptein beat. keeping to two of her frlends, M. and Madume Fo ‘Tepault, who, in turn, intrasfed then to Au: s that ane of these tickets bor the nomber 878,590, which drew the big prize, and asks permission to lay an embareo on the amount standing to the eredit of Aubriot pending the hearing of the sult she has brought Her apnileation lias been post- poned until she can show some clear tithe to he put no mark of any kind on {t, and. the Tebautts are hardly prepar- cit to awenr that any one among the tickets they handed over for custody to the reeiplent of the $25,000 bore the number 078,009. Legros {ts positive that site ling been deprived of her rights, while Aubriot {6 inclined to regard the claim ns an attempt to lev Min, nid compel him to share his good fortuue with a cantankerous spinster. OLD TWENTY FLASKS, A Sketch of the Criminal Career of the Vermont Its Btatua in the United States as De- iribed by o Correspondont of the London Times, and of Death! He Declares that Edison Has Ut- terly Failed in His Experi- If He Isn't Hung, Ha Ought to Bo "Shown to a Dungeon-Coll,” and Kept Thora, the winning ticket, na Mademolselle Svtctal Corresponitence of The Tribune, Winnson, Vt, April 4.—That the otic may have a more clear {dea who the man Phalr'ts, of whom so touch bas been written, and who has been three times reprioved when upon tho brink of the gallows, I will give a bricf sketch of his he’ Sawyer Lamp, though Making Very Little Progress, Holds Out Some Promise hove stained Wall street through bustness hours electric machine was adopted ty operate the with these stock and gold indl- eators, Fuller has studied ever since to improse Dis generator, but when he had once obtained Generator of reasonable power, he returned to experiments with a lamp. He shunned and {fn the obseurlty of his little shup for yenrs over hislanp. He twas THE MAN NEST FITTED IN THR UNITED. STATES to attempt a solution of the problem. This in- ventor ovolyed a whole syatem of lighting,—the generator, a lamp, aml a moter,: He proposed to use two large atrect inains, one of them In- sulated, disconnected at the outward ends, ‘The positive main was to throw off a branch wire into vach building to be Hghted, the wire enter- ing the meter, performing acertain service there, and then returning to the strect to the negative main. The main current was not to do the fight- but It was to generate another current Ino ics of induction coils, und cach lamo was to be Ughted by the current from one of these coils, current Was to be uscd. CRIYWAYO MADE KING, ‘Umpande relened till tie died In 1878, and was succeeded by his son, Cetywayo, who bas now Anew iden stritek this con- wire conuectly, ‘What. Fuller Hod " Accomplished —-His . Death at the Very Hour of His Anticipated ‘friumph, John P. Phair,was born July 1, 1845. Passing ‘The anclent casi by the record of his earlier yenrs, and several misdemeanors of which his townsmen believed him gultty, but of which no direct proof was established, we come to his 19th year. A PINST ATTEMPT AT MURDER, Henry Thompson kept a restaurant in-Ver- gennes, the city in which Phair resided, was in the habit of epending hie evenings there. He saw Thompson count out some moncy one night, and put the money Into his pocket, Jan. 10, 1863, Phair lay in watt for: Thompson, think- ing he would rob him, Thompson started for home late at ‘night, guing his usual route. As Thompson passed o mill, a two-inch plank twelve fect loug shot out of nn upper window, narrowly mlasing nim, and falling so heavily that {t mado an indentation afoot deep in the Phair was arrested for this attempt at murder; but, the evidence being defcctive, ho tle of Weinstain, on the uppor Rhine, was, as everybody knows, inhabited in the autumn or 1853 by the powerful Baron Kalbsbraten, better known fn those parts 4s Old Twenty Flasks, a sobriquet derived from lis reputed daily capacity for the product of the vineyard. ‘The Baron liad wiany other admtr- Ho was agental, whole-souled, publle-spirited gentleman, and robbed, murder- ed, burned, pillaged, end drove up the steep aides of the Wolnsteid his nelghbera’ cattle, wives, and sisters, with a hearty bonhomic that won for Inm the unaffected esteem of his contemporarics. Ono oyening the good Baron sat alonedn tlie great hall of Weinstein, {0 particularly happy He had dined well, as was his habit, and twenty empty bottles stood before him ina row upon the table, Ikea train of delightful memories of the recent past. hud another reason to be satisfed with himeclt The conciousness that ho bad that doy become o parent Ht up bis coun- tenance with o tender glow that mero wine cane “What hol without! Ht! Seneschal!’ hoe presently shonted In a tone thut made the twenty empty bottles ring as ff they wer: musl- cal glasseg, while a seoru of sults of his ances- tors’ armor hanging around the walls gave ont in accompaniment a deep metallic bass, The Seneschal was speedily at nis side. “Seneschal,” said Old Twenty Flasks, you" gaye me to understand that the Baroness was doing Onely?” become famous. eelted King, that it would boo show some Irlendshlo to his nelehbor the Queen ho sent a request thit he wanted toa be crowned by her. Government {nforuted him that she could not leave her home to come au far, but the ceremony performed by her representative. After many messages it was agreed to crown hin if he would make certain nledages and take certain oaths; one was to tmnko no raids into Natal or avy other country on his borders, Alt ngreuments were mado, signed, and sented; soldiers marctt@ with Sir T. Shepstone, who was to act for the Queen, A great effort was made to show the Zulus En- gland’s pomp and power, horses and bright tini- and guns, a brass which to crown him, and 8 crown Correspondence London Timer. onK, March 0.—It {a now known that Mr. Edison has failed in bis experiments. most that ho has evor yet accomplished has ‘been to maintain 400 coiled tron wires Inn stato of. partial Incandescenco with n sixteen-horso Tho object of this ex- periment was to ascertaln the number of coils which could be brought to a red heat in any given circuit. It supon thts experiment that ‘Mr. Edison based his claim that he coud main- tain 20,000 lights burning from ono electrical station with a 600-horse powerengine. The con- clusion was a faitacious one, as Mr, Edison now i Platinium must bo heated to 9,700 deprees before {t attains the intensity of in, eandesconca which {a required for {llumina- tion, and whon the metal {s as hots that it is just on the vorge of melting. the lamp from melting, this used a reguiator consisting of a bar of metal through which the current flowed, which, when the current became too strong, expanded and switched off a part of the current, und thus saved the lamp. In practice the regulotor has failed to perform the service required of it, When the current becomes too strong, tho platinum burner melts in the twinkling of an eye, and the mischief is done before the recu- The inventor believed that ho could overcome this practical diMeutty, ‘ BUT ME 148 NOT BUCCEEDED. Hs lamps have contioually melted and he has been unable ta keep them from doing so, and the result {6 that there fs great disouragement at Monlo Park. There has been another difti- culty. Fourtcon out of Edison's sixtcen appli- cations fora patent at the Washington VPatent- Office haye been rejected. This iwpulsive man took up the electric licht tast fall ns an entirely new subject of experiment, and allowed hiin- self to bellcye that ho saw a way to make the Night useful whtch others had never thought of; but when ho reached the Patent-Ofice he discovered that very nearly every {dea which he had embodica in his applications nad either been covered by the patents of other invonctors or was not patentable at all. 4s obtained from the Patent-Oftice, and fs ono exptnuation of the discouragement which relens There i#no doubt that the Edison ucht would be a dellehtful resouree for the {lumination of dwellings if it could be de- pended upon. It flooda a room as though with golden sunllght,—pure, brilliant, and mellow. But the inyentor bas never yet been able to reg- ulate his current sa a8 to kvop his Jamps burn- fog for any length of time, nud he has never ventured on 4 single putlic exhibition of it. ‘The public have never secn ao much ns ono of his Mghts yot. A favored few who have been admitted to his laboratory at Menlo Park have incloced in a beautiful ns the light of the morn- ut he has refused to Iet nny ono in- spect ft closely, und has never altowe: hiblifon of {t“privatcty to last long. neyer beer, able to depend upon its durability. . Mis apparatus fs as for from perfection ns it ever was, guid, in fact, well-informed electri- ‘ork du not now belleyo that Mr, Edison {s oven on the right Hue of experiment. WITH REFERENOE TO THN BAWYEN LIGUT very little progress hag been made with that in- Ventlou either; but it may be sald of that latnp. that it has not yet proved a failure, and that it docs still hold “out some promise of success. Mr. Sawyer is endeayorlms to perfect a pian for maintaining a slender crayon of carbon in o state of Inteves imcandesconce {na gtoss clobe contaluiuy pure hitrogen. ly beautiful, It has about the power of five Bas-burncrs, and con be turned up and duwn ox- actly os goscan be. The diflleultics which he experionecs are the cettiny rid of oyery trace of oxygen within his ines globes aud the rapid removal of the leat generated within the globe by the Incandescont carb 1s not earrted off $n como munner, the tempera- ture of the nitrogen rises so high that the ylasa globo is liable to crack in a draught of alr orin cooling when the light is extinguished, eracklug of the glass inuy be dangerous to peo- ple in the room, and {f {t {s not, {t permits the oxygen to enter, und away goes the carbon in ten, minutes’ time. Mr. Sawyer’s tamps have repeatedly burnt out owing to the entrance of oxygen through cracks to the gloss, In order to obviate this trouble, a coll of yery large wire, Uke o spiral spring, ig introduced within the made to do duty as purtof the conduit of the clectrical current, sorbs the heat from the nitrogen atinosphere and conducts it rapldly to the large tron plate forming the base of the Iamp, and radiates it ‘nto the open alr. ‘This arrangement uuswers very wall, Mr. Sawyer mado tifty lamps Inst Detember, intending to elve a public exhibl- tion of his light on New Year's Day. In order that the lamps might be comely, fic mude the jass globes as slender as the chitnney of o jerinan student's lamp, carry off the heat was necessarily mado very aud when the Janips wero lit ft was found i} te perform the The glass globes be- able quallties. powor steam-ongine. and an armetiatr ‘in An alternating also on greot scarict rand, and pesus etywayo had the fe cannot stopto not neat, but ivery gaudy, ‘we are gind to sev that taste not to admire it). tell you all about thut Punch and Judy show, nor the vreat scare the Zulu army suifered. When the band burst upon their cars for the first tine in thefr lives, every man, woman, child thought it was death-blow,” aud the English bad planned ft all to take their country, and they wero panie strickeny antl there came very near belng a nreat fyht on the spot, but Sir T. Shepstone soon Nor must we tell how the Around the centres of each of these cores was a soft, tron head, and at a proper distance froin this a head of iusuint- ‘The outward ends of the cores were cotled with insulated copper wire, and 50, connected together ind to the iain wire (or encrator) as to produce tivo opposite magnetic Between the soft iron heads and the colls were wound smaller coils of Insulated wire, the fineness of which would depend on the ten- sion required. To onc ot the fron heads was hinged an fron arm, so made as to swing over upun the other, connecting magnetically the Ina coil so made, if a current je sent throuch the main wire rapidly changin; in opposite directions, the magnetic corcs wi! change polarity and the change will tnduco o current of great tension in the smaller coils, aul this second current, if conducted with proper wires toa lamp, wit] maintain platinum or car- bon In a high state ot tneandesconce, Twolnduc ton colls, or four, eau be coupled together for Hyghts of stronger power. A graduated switch is so og to permit tts brightness to be used at will, A great many experiments were made with this atyle of lump with platinum But the Baron ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT MURDER was mode upon Mr. M. D, Hall, by dropping a fourtecn-pound stone upon hitn,—the object be- ing to kill Hall and get his moncy from hin Phatr was acain acquitted, ANOTHER NURDEROUS ASSAULT Was perpetrated upon the same man Thompson. who was proprictor of the restaurant, and whom Phair Iaunehed the plank upon. This scéond attempt on Thompson's life was in the follow- ing manner: Thompson was crossing the bridge on his way home at about midnight, when oman arosc aud fired upou him, the ball passing through his tat and cutting the hair in {ts course. Thompson ran,—the man, ond went ‘to a nelghbor’s was procured, and with the world. n belief prevailed that. the Zulus bad laid the plan for a coronation to murder all and take Natal, been arotised by Cetywayo’s ficklences In chang- ing the time and place appointed for the corona- tion once or twice und had drawn them down from the highlands to the lowlands with the ex- cue that lifs thousand wives were tou fat walk up the mountain, and they begged to bo allowed to witness the crand ceremony, the firat event of kind in their history, ThoMISE8 OF REFORM. It was a good play, for Cetywayo never in- tended to keep Iiia promises. Ono promise was that he would have trial by jury, but oo sooner had the English power Jeft lis country when he ordered a grent slaughter of people tho were stpposed to Le friendly and to favor his hrother, for he wished to feel sccurc on bis fino new throne (0 great arm-chair), men Killed because the Spiritualists “smelled them out,” and thereby knew that they wera witches, but the, cattle they owned wero coveted and he must have what ho wanted. Spiritual- ists in Zalulund ore great in power, and they Acciso many of transforming themselves into wildcats, and in this disguise roaming over the land at night, potsoniny people evil,” causing death and trouble by ales N, and 8, a ‘Their fears lad ind replied the Soneschal, © that yanip fa doing aswell o8 could be ex- ‘The Baron mused in silenco for a moment, ab- ¢ the empty battle, sently rezardit hho continued, * that wave mo to un there were—" “Four,” said the Seneschal, gravely. eredibly informed that there are four, all boys.” “That,” exclaimed the Buron, with a glow of honest pride, bringing a brawny fist down upon in these days, when tho ledoctrincs of Malthus are gaining ground among the upper classes, fs what I co eredltable,—creditable, by Salnt Christopher, if ils eyes rested agafn upon the “T think, Seneschal,”? he added after a briaf pruse, ‘ttat under the clrcum- stances wo may venture—"" “Nothing could be moro eminently proper,” “Lf will fetch another The party then went used In this tam in his room. He was missing the next day, but soon his jnother recolved a letter from him eay- ing he bad shipped in the merchant-servico for a forelgu port, but ina few weeks ho waa back again in his native place, Vergennes. He was not molested, for sorfie unaccountable rensou, AN ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN $2,500, Some time after the last chrontcted explolt of Phair he took it into his head ta endeavor to be- como suddenly possessed of o large aum of money. To do this he brought bis wits into full play. Ho concocted the {ica to write a let- ter purporting to come from a wealthy Indy, a resident of Vergennes, to the Cash{er of the asking the Cashier to send her ands that evening, ns sly was morning train. TUEY OPERATED ADMIRABLY. A number of capitalists of Brooklyn, bearing ubout these experiinents, organized a company with $1,000,000 capital Inst December to ado} Fuller's inventions aud introduce hia lig! throughout Brooklyn. A new shop was fitted up for the juventor on Broadway, near Thirty- alxth street, in New York City, near his real- dence, and in this shop Fuller tolled for six tmonths almost literally day and nizht. whole system was {na most promi shape, when jast February an incident occurred which putastopto the progress of experiments in honschold Hehting. had determined to manufacture mMps and magneto-clectric mn- chines tirst for factory ure. About twenty fac- tories In New England and the Eastern Siates have this winter introduced the largo eldctric lamps of trom futo their workroome, and the demand for had suddenly become ¢ Company ‘resolved, therefore, to solicit orders from factories, audit had ecrenty-five machines vonstracted, which are being tnished up this week for face During the firat week of February Mr. Fuller was engaged in perfecting a new polut-to-point lamp, und began to be troubled. Against the advice of hia irfends, he worked ov bis new lamp until ft was finished. Inthe act of tightening up the last He bad many rich empty bottles. rejoined the Seneschal, flask forthwith, and of the best. your Excellency to the vintage of 1804, the year of thy comet?! “But,” healtated the Baron, toying with his moustache, ‘I understood you to say that there wore four of 'em,—four boyst"! - True, my lord,” replied the Senesehal, catching the {dea witb tie readiness of a well- “YT will foteh four more Vergennes Bauk, 2,500 of her f going away on the This information at Menlo Park. point-to-point If uo ever told of tt. That evoning Phair was seen pacing up aud down the rond between Mra, Stroue's house and the bank; but, fortunately, the Cashier, on consultation with the Preaidént of the bank, decided not to set and Phair was folled in his undertaking, FURTHER DEPREDATIONS, Phaolr seemed to be a chronic criminal, bent Upon all schumes of rascality, nud his depreda- tons began to get beyond the patience or toler- ation of the law-abiding community, At last ho camo to gricf for atealing hides, Ele was ar- rested for this crime, plead guile: a four years! sentence to Windsor this sentence hed nearly expired he was par- doned In order to retain hfs civi! rights, and he then proceeded to St. Albana to work in a ma. chine-shov. Io left St. Atbans, went hack again to Vergonues, sud subsequently came to Rut- witeh-amelling powerful, and they put. hundreds to denth year- ly; nnd when the English Governor remon- strated with him, reminding him of his promise that no one would be put to death unless found guilty atter a fall nnd open trial, he returned Cetywayo’s Commund- er-n-Chief made o rnid tito Natal Jast year, causing great fear for safety. leimunded that the chief who mado the ra{d into Natal and plundered somo of the farmere and notives .should bo given wy them; alsoa fine of 600 plied that he had already killed Usiraj id not deliver him, und that ho wante This was {n reference to the tino of 600 cattle, aud was but a pretext. forty days of erace expired stantial token of compiianca tho troops were ant we have heard the Wattle. It is with erent ation wo read of blame put upon Sir . an trained domestic; candle power ud the mone: t m As the excollent retainer deposited four fresh bottles upon the tablo within the radius of the Baron's reach, he casually remarked: “A pious old man, a traveler, fa io the castle ard, my lord, seeking shelter und a supper. Ne comes from beyond the Alps, and fares to- ward Cologne.” “1 presume,’ aatd the Baron, with an alr of Indifference, “thut he has been duly searched the means of Iebtin an impudent message, ‘The Natal Gov- with insomnia. head of cattle, “He passed this morning,” replied the re- tainer, ‘through the damaiu of your well-born onrad of Schwinkenfels, jp will readily understund that ho hag nothing now save a few beggarly Swiss coins of “atore time." MM PAINTED AND FELL TO THE FLOOR of his shop entirely exhausted, completely worn out with intensy mental applivation and Iack of as curried toh week afterwards he bad recovered 6v a8 to be itis busy mind had, Ju the mean- time, discovered 4 new idea in Induetion, sent over to the shop for his man George, the works, to explain to thn tie lu two men sat down together, and Mr, Fuller deseribed hts idea with much minute- ness—the shape of the magnets, the size of the wire, the manner in whieh the wire was to bo colled on, and so on, motioning with his hands to Mlustrate his menning. wuld, * George, do without tho aub- Phale’s father died about o year after John was releused from prison. John, when he caine to Rutland, worked at his trade as machinist, und eventually uecame acquainted with aud a. frequent visitor to the house ‘of the woman For the murder of this woman he is now under death-sentence, and has been on the brink of the gallows three times, PHATNS TAIRDREADTY ESCAPES Tis namo will be known far ond wide, whether he be guilty or inuocent of the treezu murder, . Vermontera are Ino fever-heat of discussion on the recent developments. aro now leaving nothiug undone to obtain a still further reprieve before vext Thursday, set for the fourth attempt to bang bitin. PUAIR'S MOTHER is an elderly and most. estima! at Vergennes, ordered tuto Zululand, y 17 oxel sud story of tho tirat “My worthy Consin Conrad {” exclaimed the Baron, affectionately, ' "It is the one great mis- fortune of my life that 1 live to the leeward of Schwinkenfels. But you relleved the plous man of his copper??? “My Lord,” sald the Seneschal, with an opol- egetic amile, it was notwworth the taking,” “Now by my soul!’ roared the Baron, ‘you exasperated ine, Colt, art not worth the taking! @ not for ita intrinsic value, but rou bavo cleaned him outas a mutter of pri- ciple, you tool!" The Seveschal buug his head and muttered At the same time he opencd OETYWAYO AND THE MISSIONARIES, Tlo saw the fearful danger to Natal’s 20,000 planters amd farmers, and 810,000 peaceful, un- armed natives living near o bloodthirsty tyrant, with a large army of stron ly, ul anxlous to 'd {nto the sea,” os the threat was often worded, Slr Bartle Vrero asked Cetywayo, after the last raid, to dishand his army ‘nnd to allow his soldiers to marry, tu xtve Natal security. Two years ago Cutywayo insulted the Eugilsh mis- slonaries. ‘Their converts were driven away and soine of ‘then: killed, aud the missionaries were ordered out of his country. They left in great haste, thnlefng and fell: foreman of th ey are simply wouderlul. anon, Well ir mictls Alia light is extreme- When Mr, Fuller had you understand Phatr’s counsel an explanation, the twouty-trat bottle. 3 “Never,” continued the Baron, lesa violently but atitl severely, “4f you valuc my esteem and your own paltry skin, sulfer yoursell to be aiwerved a halr’a breadth from principle by the apparent Insicniflcance of the loot. A consel- entions attention te detalls 1a oue of the funda+ meutal elements of « prosperous career—In fact, it underties all poiltical economy.” ‘The withdrawal of the cork from the twenty- eccond bottle emphasized this sentiment. “However,” the Baron went on, somewhat. mollified, ' this {a not a day on which I can cone sistently make a fuss oyer a trifle. all boys! ‘Chis taa glorious day for Weinstein, Open the two remaiuing flasks, Seneschal, und show the plous stravzer in. 1 fain would ainuse anyaelf with bin,’ “Now,” satd Mr. Fuller, “1 want you to under- that, George, for tt is very importants nie went over the matter sain, ex- the whalu fdea, with the mathematical principles involved tn it. pleted the explanation the accond tlie, he sald, George, do you think you understand The foreman sald he did perfectly. Mr, Fuller tooked pleased, lay back tn his chair, is that thelr lives were {ato some uf the well- practiced by Cetywayo. pen and ‘paper. When be had com- He Indy, resiiling Linet her one week age to-tay, on her return from Windsor Prison, where sho had been to visit ber condenmed son; as she said, forthe lust tine. ‘Tho aged mother was grlef-stricken und heart-broken, plead with her son to confess his crime of niur- yas guilty; and his response to Ais mother's prayers and appeals was, “ MOTHRE, I AM INNOCENT," ‘The prisoners in Windsor Prison uro to-day inn reprieve of Phair. are toa vila is all the men to rebuild hls military krools. It was u great work, and'the progress was slow. Ifo sent to iuquire the reason. ‘They roplied that some of the men were ill, Fle was enraged, and ordered Niasokilers to march throughout the land mui to kill all who were sick, and many. kitted. ‘I'he natlyes, who havo lately fed Into Natal, report that he h DIED SOON AVTERWARDS. ‘This was on the 15th of February. The Inventor's fe had ilickercd out, quietly, but unexpectedly to both men, and Mr, Fuller, a3 every one who wsaequatuted with his plans believes, hus do- parted just at the moment when he was about to become iamous and rich, of too practival a turn of mind to ace the poetic napect of sich an incident, and itis only within a day or two that the facts baye peeu privately obtained by the writer, ‘The death of My. Muller has retarded the per- his Jamp for howsenola inay possibly postpone tt for yeurs principtes of Induction were toyul vention, and ny one now livin: derstands those principles so ‘The company which he organized will not at- bout the household amp dt will confine {ts attention to So that de cau be eatd thot, in spite of all the agitation which lias arian ot ‘tits aubject In the United States, this country ts not o etup nearer to the substitution of electrice ity fur gasior general uses than it was year No perfect lamp lias Leen found for the purpose, and uone of the lumps invented are certaluly Known to bo cheaper than gas, Edie son alunite that he is IN DOUUT ON TILE SUBJECT OF COST himself. No otheminyentors in this country have been experlienting with household lights besites those above mentioned, For factory lighting tie point-te are coming into use very fast, torles and hotels are now emploviny Brush light fy leading: at present, “The carbon rods fn this tamp ure cover per tu inerease thelr condnet hnips of 2,000-candle power ing an ono vireutt with sixteen-horse power, at 81.05 per hour and the interest and elution on an Inyeatment of 83,750. ouly maier of fain) tries to operate several ‘The uthera—tho Arnoux & Hochtasen, Wallace, aud Maxiin— prefer ta employ a singlo small machine win ea tamp, believing that: power fe suved thera- iler to her If ho ferment over the 1,000 young gurls ted to death last year because they ob- the old mau be hud chosen for not allow young micn to marry, for he must baye then for soldiers In his miil- tary kraals, ready at a moment's notice to do When they are between 80 and 40, and have been good and brave soldiers give them wires, pick of nll the prettiest girls. the Seventh and Riehth Commandnents ways punished with death. No locks ure needed Wie Foratsingy sing are tuho executed as follows: Asa Magoon, Harden, January, » realize the duo which awalts them; but prevalent opinion is, that, if Phair js exe- cuted, considering ail the doubt: towetuer with the Iuct thatonly three weeks Vermont executed Henry Gravelin, who ls a was thought to bo fonocent, capital in Vermunt ts most likely to be abol the next Legistature ‘assembles, two years Viewed through the Baron's twenty-odd bat. tes, the stranger uppeared to be an aged man, —S0 yeare, if a day. Me wore a shabby gray efoak und carrled a palmer’s staff, nnd eecmed an innoctous old fellow, cast in too common- place o nold to furnish oven ao few minutest Tho Baron regretted seuding for him, but boing'a person of unfalliug politencssa, when not upon the rampage, he bade his gucst be seated, und fitled hins a beaker of tho comet 3.08 to hls guilt, ty Amerie un- ‘The coll to absorb and tempt to do anything: fora long time, factory lighting. AN AMEMIOAN GIRL IN ZULULAXD, A few years ago the daucliter of an Amertean misstonary made u tour through Zululand with an Englieh party. Thev had 9 messenger from the Secretary tor Native Affuirs to introduce ‘The first day he would not 8 Was undergoing some ention because his father but the next Way they were called and. ito his royal hut. strprise to seo a uncommonly handsome face, with a most benevorcnt expression, very pleasant, an The sketch of bim th the {hustrated ‘She Amertean's dauh- ter aaked him why be had refused to near the great vows that the brought tohis people. not listen to low, he coils were too service required of them, came heated, nnd both the cracking of the ginss and the melting of the wax at une base of thu globes which made them oir-tight follawed. ‘The whole of the Alty lamps hod tu be thrown aside, and the public exbivliion ‘WAS INDEFINITELY YOSTYONED. Mr, Sawyer returned tua lurger style of globe, He has now hit upon a size about twoand o hall or three inches in diameter, expanding Into 9. bulb at the tup, which Is safe and practical. "Mhu romoval of the oxygen has heen more difllenit Agreat: many plans have been tried, ‘Tho latest, and the one uow fn practlee, ts to ab= tuln a vacuum by the afd of merenry, wud to nd- m{t the nitrogen through the mercury, which ig expelled from the glube by the entrance of the gos, Owing to somo couse, there still re- matns o trace of oxygen within the globe, Where docs it como from? Tia fs the qui which {s puzzling Mr. Sawyer, the carbon itself contains enough atmospheric alr to carry within {teelf the agency for its own destruction when subjected to the action of the lis theory is that the oxygen, while combining with a minute quantity of te Incandescent.carbon ta form carbonic acld gus, 4s always ready to leave the gas for the blazing carbon, its affinity for the latter helng muen more eaxer, ‘Thus the slightest quantity of oxygen suflices tu bring shout the consumption uf the carbon ty tine, lamps oucht to last for years, he thinks. carhou crayon io earcoly longer than the lead of uo Faver’s punell, but it cannot evaporate, ant it will endure for a very tong period of thine if the totally removed, crayons last only ufew woul bour or 60 cvery duy, Could that point be inustered and the oxygen totally expeled, Mr, Sawyer could introduce his lauip at once into peeluily dn botels and slmitor ft would bo iu There have b ULULAND. Soma Historical Gossip—King Cetywaya's LifomAn English View of the Question. Misslonarles—An Among the Savugen, Currespondence New York Herald. Care ‘Town, South Africa, March 1.—The Bay of Natat was discovered by Vasco de Luma on Christinas Day, 1497. At various tinea af- terwards it was visited by Duteb, English, and Portuguese to necertain tts capabilities for trade, and hoping to find gold, 14633 by the wreeked crew of an English ship, who made thelr way oyerland from Delugoa Bay ‘They state that * the naturat fertility of the countries traveled through made the dukubitants lazy, indolent, docile, and sims ple” ‘They continue so to the present day. ‘The natives in Natal are Zulus, whose forefathers wero “ecattered und peeled’ by the kings fn 1820 Chaka made his name a terror toall in Natal, His successor (Dinyann) was vyenagreater terror, He wis deep and treacherous, and murdered his brother Chaka i and beeamo King, Ie made war upon tucch eusfgrants who had settled fa Natal, qd in ons of these ralde o party 1st him at home who were tired of Dingaan's brother Alter an obelsance, profound yet not sorvil the piigrin toot the glass and eritically taste io held the beaker up uthwart the ght, with trembling hand, and then tasted ‘The trial seemed to afford hin great satipfaction, ani be stroked bls long white them to Cotywayo, grant an audience, ceremoutes for purtfi Ureat waa their “Perhaps you dre o connoleseur, It your palate, eh?” aald the Baron, wini the full-length portrait of one of his ancestors, “Proper well.” replied the pilgrim, “though it ign trifle. sirupy froin too long keeping. By the bouquet and the vint Tshould pranounce it of the vintage of 1001, grown on the stecp slop south southeast of the castlo, in the fori of the tivo pathways that lead to undor the hill, sun's raye ruffected from the turret give a pecu- Mar oxcellence to the growth of that particular Hur your rascally varlets have shelyed the bottle on the wroug’ aide of the cellar. shoula have been put on the dry where your dougbty vraudairce, Sieismund vou Wetustuin, the Halry Uanded, walled up his third wife in preparation for a fourth,” ‘The Baron regarded: bis guest with a look of “Upon my lite!” ald he, “but. you wppear to be familiar with tha ing aud oute of this establishment.” “If 1 do,’ rejoined the stranger, composedly his wine, '?tls no moro than vatural, ‘ears under thia roo! happon to bea von courtly, his vole papers {6 0 cnricature. Natal wos visited tn mifystonaries had Ho replied uiat he coutd oinmon people, hut if Co- tonso, the kl of imisstonarles, would come to live with bin, bo would become a bellever. “Chis Indy sought opportunities to learn all thut ahe could of dife tu that hone, und it wag a sad story that she learacd. soemed filed with gloom; the volves of the people seemed bushed. She gained the conil- dence of an futeresting-looking young woman, ant sho asked her the cause of the silence, replied that two youn girts, great favorites, had beun strangied thut morniae because they lad yexed the King, Sho (oquired the reason, and tearoed that one of the “ ductors” had declared: thatacertaiy man was an evilwiller, and the King ordered him to be strauzted. "Tho girl was seen toery, for she loyed hint, and had remark ed that ‘they’ knew he was tnnocent. and ho ordered her to bo Aer triond, another young uirl, remarked, “Oh! to think for those words sie was killed! Tho seerct spy repented ber worda to the King, and soon she found herself olng to the vlace af execution, where she was eft “to fved the vultures.” but loudly they sang sougs of praise to thelr Uunly with von | tg Cape Town. ae te tiun abelleves thut Indesd, the very aly sof tls class wha electric current. ings with one nae es God and Muammar An Ingentous plan for enhanelig tha value of mining shares bas beeu devised by 8 Portuguese At Tinos Pucnte, 1 Audalusta, a nutne ber of shutts were dug with Ww view to the dls- covery of auriferous” dopusits, shaits hud been dug to a constderably depth withont the dealred result, the good pe. the place who had peen®hired as w knocked off work, ‘The promuters of the mini company Were in despair, ith a barber gested a plau for overcomiuz all. obstacte: ‘This wus a scheine for trading upon the religious doin order to carry It wr declared that he had seen Divine vistona, in which bad been revealed to him the success of the enterprise fortune nnd riches of all Bo succesetl the inspired barter thought he mtzht go fur ther, and become the founder of a new oect. He accordingly made a progress through the coun- try, Ws wpostles prommiug rich would belleve fa hin, but making it a coudithon that the converts shoutd gubscrite for the wine, ‘The Alcalde sent for o detachment of potice ‘The barber put hhinself at the head of Mis disciples, aud ina speech worthy of horted them tu fight, au+ sequence of victory would bo the Voluntary cruption of the mouniafn and je flood of gold upen the VETS. first onsct be killed the ehlef of the detachment of police, and, if prop- erly supported, might lave Ag It wus, the prophict waa izuowfulously dn pure nitrogen bis vad mare than eix! and know tts every Welnatein inyself,” ‘The Buron crossed timeelf, and pulled bis chalr a little further away from tho bottles and hla ware and wanted pence, Umpande tad to feo from Zuhdand futo Natal tu escape death, a8 Dingaan had heard a bint of the rebellion und suspected bis brother Umpan- de, who on reaching Natal requested the sup- port of the Dutch emigrant Sarmers. They Fatsed u force of 4W0 mounted warrtors and joln- vd Umpande’s army, which was about 4,0C0 Dingaan was routed ant Ned to the Amuswazl country, north of Zululand, where ved int rightly” “tu insure tlely from his constant and fea upen them und the ddjacent tribes.” UMPANDE'S REIGN, ‘The emigrants from the Cape Colony having taken Umpande’s part in. the rebetlion, pro- elakned him “Kink of the Zulua," und recelved as thelr Iudermnity 30,000 head of cattle; alo the Colony of Natal, extending from the Tugels. to the Unnzimbubu Rivers, was ceded tu thy Hoera. Soon after, the British Crown claimed Natal, because the emigrants were Bi ‘The Dutch loudly disputed thu right of nahn to juterterc with their republican gays ernment, but England was firm, and sent a furcu “to ght und conquer.’ Alter several engagements between the English troops and Ook porsession King was tuforme cbockod at once, At present his » burning only an +O nol” anid the pllerim, Jaughings “quiet Tam aware thit avery well ated custla has an aneestral chost, and blood are bouest, 1 was Lordjof Wefustein Ml 1 went, twelve years azo, to study meta- schools, aud the cursed No one dared to Oxtenalve tse, Jarge buildings for private hut number oF ex! Av the lower part of physics in the Arable scrivenors wrote ine out of th know this hall trom infancy! fire-place at which I used to Warm my baby toca. 'Thero ia the identical suit of armor into which L crawled whon a boy of 6 and bid tlll my saluted mother—heayven rest hier!—nigh died of {rieht. Itscems but yeaterday. Qreater than 8 mountaln, Stronger than an vlophant, White ng *Court’? a remark struck this lady which way shaw how the wind blei, on u post served matebes are all the fashion, aad sumsiicd the bact) ed "a goud deal and ¢ the clty where the exy ments are in progress, ‘Thy inventor ts yery drauk In stuting the obstacles ne etieounters and he aflows people to judge for themselves whether ho [a likely to sucee A third lainp for bousebuld use has beeo In- veuted within the Jase year and nearly perfected, One of the carly friends und assuclates of Eul- sou Was a young man tamed : 4M. PULLBI, a Connecticut Yunkeo, {a.whom the inventive faculty was active fram boyhoud. o ercat deal of telegraph machinery und Invent ed ineby industrial processes, such aa mudes of ‘utilizing wood pulp in paper-making, etc. or Sftecn years ago Fuller separate son because it would nu longer do to buve them ‘The inventions of the enw iicht easily have been sald to be due to the sugxestions of the oth parted, never to sce Were cen of very different qualitics, Kulson be- dng quick to seize upon uw Lew thought ju nut: ural sclepce wad apply it to practiva! «before any one chia could seo ite practical value, while Fuller loved deep problems us: » Bod Was much wore Jor o turyet, for shooting Bho touk her turn The Zulu men ‘+ wow- laimed, & We can never conquer the white men if the white women can shoot like that.” The Winner of the Firat Prize in tho Frouch ‘There on the well ranz, the One-Eared, with Which 1 cut off the mustaches of any tipsy elro ug he sat muddled over his twenticth Battle. ‘There is the very casque,—but perhaps these remtnigconees weary you, Use warrulity of an old’ man who has como to i his childhood and prime.” ‘The Baron pressed his hund to his forehead, “T have lived in this castle mywelf for half a century,” said he, “und am tolerably familiar with the history of my immodlate progenitors, But I can't say that £ ever had the pleasure of jintance, However, permit meto iil Id the pilgrim, holding copt, perhaps, the yintaze when the grapea— "> on stored ot bis gucst, of 1893," sald: be drily, “lack forty years of ripentug, You aro aged, my friend, gud your mind wanders." “Excuse we, worthy host,” calmly roplied the You must pardon from Granada. Aubriot, the Parla cursier, who held the num, | revisit the home of ber which was the grand prize in the national’ lottery, iy about to show cause why ho should uut be calted on to give up thy $23,000 hu ros celyed. Like a prudent man, the inoney, ho purchased, thes, and retired to his native town to lve at iis Ho never dreamt that his good fortune would ever be disputed; no oppo- sition was offered his ticket When presented, and althongh huudreds of cating were made on his gencrosity, uo ono attempted to contest the rizo bu suposed ho bad won. At theeloventh our an elderly spiuster bos come forward to accuso Aubriot of haying de Mecea or Medina eal nouneliy that the Dutch turmers, whe he bud taken Joveriment securl- work in company. for there wus no peace at heart. ‘nauy years neur the border of strife, and know We have fed by night und by day fy fear wid trembling to reach the while the Natal uatives hduted animals inte deep ravinos and juogics, iviug op roots wud planta. Que trite was driven by the pange of hungur to cat avy stray native Jrom any other tribe that und bo the two meu euse on thu interest, ten ull the fou, “Tt is good win whut We write about, Envllah settlements, ———— fa seattered ko the Cold, pturcing wlads and driving rain: cough, cold, or huarscnes Bull's Cough Syrup shoul Foraule by all drugsleta, 25 ctu. Merln. "The vintage of 1803 has been forty yeara collared. You lave no memory for dates|" “What call you this yeart demanded the Baron. “By the alnnnace, and the stars, nnd prece- dont, and common consent, It is the year of proce fourteen hundred, threo antl thirty.” “By ny soul and hope uf salvation, cjacu- Intod the Baron, © It ie year of gruce thirteon hundred, two nnd fifty.” ‘There fs evidently a misunderatandingsoma- where," remarked te vonerable stranger, 8 was born here in the yoar 1052,—the year tho Turks invaded Europe." " “No Turk has invaded Europe, thanks be to Heayon,” replied Old rwenty Flake, recover. Suny hia selt-contro). ‘You are cither a magician ornu impostor. In either vase I shall order you drawn and quartered ne suon as we have finisted this bottle. Pray proceed with your very Inter. esting reminiscences, nnd do not spare the wine? “YT nover practice mage? quictly replled the pilarin, “and os to being animpostor, sean oll Iny face. Don’t you recognize the fainlly tose, thick, short, and. genorotsly colored! How about the threo Intoral and two diagonal wrinkles on my brow? I see them thers on yours, Ara tiot my chaps Weinstein chops? ook closely. I court investigation,’ “You do look damuably Ite us," the Baron admitted, * Liyas the youngest,” the stranger wont on, “of quadruples. ily theres brothers were puny, delly thinga, nnd did nut Jong survive ‘their birth Asachild Twas the fdol of my poor father, who had some traits worthy of respect- ful nontion, guzzling old tuper and unconscion- able thief thouwh ho was.” ‘The Baron winced. ‘ y used to call him Old Twonty Plosks. It is my condid opinion, based on memory, that Old Barts, Flasks would baye been nearer the truth,! ‘ “Its allo! shouted the Boron, I rarely exceeded twenty hotties.” “And as for fils standing in the community," the pilgrim went on, without taking heed of the interruption, "it must be confessed that roth. Ing could boworss, Ho was the terror of honest folk for livs around, Property rights wero extremely jusecura in this neignborhoad, for the rapacity ofmy lamented parent knew no bounds. Yet nobody dared to complain aloud, for lives were not much sofer thin sheep or ducnts, Low the people huted his shiadov, und roundly cursed. him belind his back! I remember well that, when I was obout 14,—it: must have been in 708, the year the Grand Turk occupled Adrianople,— tall Hugo, the miller, called ine up to him, and sald. ‘Boy, thou linst a right pretty nose? + It is a pretty nose, ttugo,’ sald 1, straightening up, Se leon dirm ant strong? asked Hugo, with a anecr, ‘Firm enough and atrone enotgh, L dure say,’ L answered: but why ask such n fool's question” * Well, weil, boy," said Huo, turning away}; ‘looksharp with thine eyes after thy nose whon thy father is unoccupied, for he hus just thut consclence to steal the nose off hia sot’s fuce in Jack of hetter plunder,’ * © By St. Christopher!” roured the Baron, “tall” Hue, the miller, shall pay for this, I always suspected him, By St. Chriatupher’s burden, M1 break avery bone in his villainous ads. ‘OT would be an ignoble vengeance,” replicd the pligrim qulety, for tall Hugo las beon in his grave theao sixty yeurs.!? “Truo,” sald the Baron, rubbing both hands to bis bead, and gazing at his cucst with a lool of utter helplessness. "+I forgot thatitis now uext century,—thut is to say, if you bo not a spectre”? “You will excuse me, ny respected parent,” returned the vilerim, “if tsubjoct your hy- pothesis to the test of logic, fur it touches mo upon a very tender spot, impugning, as {t docs, my physical verity and my status ag an actual {dividualized Exo. Now, what is our relativo position? You acknowledee the date of my birth to have been the vear of grace 1852, That is a matter in wolch your memorr is not likely to be at fault, On the other hand, with a strange fo- consistency, you malntain, in the face of alma- nacs, chronolugics, und the march of events, that It Is atill the year of grace 185% Were you one of the seven sleepers, your hallucination (to use no harsher term) tmicht be pardoned, but you are neither a sleeper norasaint. Now, every onc of theclighty years that are pacice away in the carpet-bag of my experience pro- teats against your extraordinary error. it ls I who have o prima facto ricut to question your ohysieal existence, Dut net you mine, Did you ever hear of a ghost, spectre, wraith, apparl- tion, eidolon, or a spook coming out of ue fu- ture to haunt, annoy, or frighten individuals of an earlier generation?” i i ue Baron was obliged to admit that ho never had. “But you have heard of Instances where ap- paritions, ghosts, spooks, cali them what you will, hays Inyaded the Vresent from out the Mimbo of the Past?” ‘Ihe Baron crossed himself a second time, and peered anxfously into the dark corners of the apartment. “if you ara avenuine von Weln- stein,” ho whispored, ‘you already, know that this castle fs overrun with epectres of that sort. It ts diffleutt to move about after nightfall with- out tumbling over half a dozan of them.” “Then,” anid the placid logician, “ you: sur- render your case, You commit what, my re- vered preceptor In dlalectics, the learned’ Ara- Dian, Ben Dusty, used to atylo syloristic suicide, For you allow that, while ghosts out of the fu- ture'are unbeard of, ghosts trom the past’ are uot infrequently encountered, Now, (submit ta you aso candid man this prepositions That It i» tufinitely more probubic that you are a ghost than thut Lam onel”? ‘Che Baron turned very red. ‘Is this fillal,” he demunded, “to deny the flosh and blood of your own futher]? “is ft paternal,” retorted the pilgrim, not losing his composure, * to josinuate the unreal- ese of the aun of your own begetting?”? “By all the salute!” growled the Baron, grow- ing still redder, “this question shall bo settled, und speedy. Hatloo, there, Senusehall?? He called again and again, but in voto. “Spare your lungs,’ calmly surgested the pilgrim. “The best trained domestic in the world will not et{r from bencath the sod for all your shouting,” ‘Twenty Flasks sank back helnlessty in bie ehnir. Ho tried to speak, but his tongue and shraa requidiatid thelr functions, ‘Ihey only guruled. * That is right,” said his auest, approyin, “ Conduct yourself as befits a venerable and soectable ghoat from the Inst century, A woll behaved apparition neither -blusters nor {s vio- Tent. You can well afford to be peaceable in vour denortinent now; you were turbulent enough before your death.” My death?” gasped the Baron. xeuse Me,” apologized the pilerim, ‘ for referring to Uhat unpleasant eyent.’? “My death!” stammercd the Baron, his halr standing on end. “Ishould like to hear thu partlenulara,”” “1 was ardly more than 15 at the time,” sald the pilgrim musingly; ‘but I shall never forget the most trifling circumstance of the great popular uprisiig that put an cnd to my worthy. siru’scareer, Exasperated beyond endurance by your outrageous crimes, the people for miles round at fast rose in n body, and, led by my old friend tull Hugo, the miller, flocked ta Scowlukenfels and appealed to your cousin, Conut Conrad, for protection against, youraclf, thelr natural protector. Von Sehwinkonfols heard thefr comoloints with great gravity, He roplied thithe had long watched yqur abom- inable detions with distress nnd consternation; that he had frequently remonstrated with you, but fu vain; thot he regarded you ay the scource of the neighborhood; that your castle was full of dlood-stained treasure” and shamefully-ac- quired booty; and that lie now regarded it aa the personal duty of blimself, the conservator of Jawtul order und good morals, to march against Weinstein und exterminate you for the common goud." ‘ iY tthe hypocritical pirate! ? oxclaimed Twenty asks, “Which he proceeded to do,” continued - the pilerin, “supporto not only by his retatuers, ut by yourown, Imust aay that you made a sturdy deicose. Hod not your rascally Senes- chal aol) you out to Sctwinkenfols ‘and lot down the’ drawhridge one evening when you were as usual fuddling your bralus with your twenty bottles, Conrad never would baye galn- ed ap entrance, and my young uses would bave been spared the horrid tusk of wateling' the body of iny venerated pareut dangling at the entof rope from the topmost turret of the northwest tower.” ‘The Barou burled hls facuin his hands and began to cry Ikea baby. “They hanged mo, aid thoy!" he fultored, ' “Tau afraid no other construction can be put on [t,!" sald the pilurim, Ft waa the dnevita- ble termination of such a career as yours had been. ‘They hauued you, they strangled you, they choked you to death with a rope} fond the unanimous verdict of the community was Justl- flable Homlede, You weep! Devoid, father, 1 also Weep forthe shame of the house of yon Wolnstein! Como to my arms,” Father and son clasped eavit other in a tong,: affectionate cabrace, uid mingled their tears over the disgruce of Weiustuln. When the Haron recovered from his omottion he fouud uimself atone with his’ conscience and twonty- four euply bottles, Thy pilgrim bad dwap- peared, CUATTER 111, Meanwhile, in the apartments consecrated to’ the offices of muternity, all bad been confuston, turmoll, and distress. Iu four huge arm chairs sat four experienced matrona, each holding in hor lap q pillow of swanadown. On cach pillow had reposdd an influltestinal fractlon of human- ity, recently added to the sum total of yon Woivstoin, Que expericaced matron had dozed over ber charge; when shu awoko the pillow ta her lap was unoccupied. An iminadiate ceusus takeu by the ularined attendants disclosed the startling fact that, although thero were ati four uri chairs, and four aso wom pillows of swanadown, there wera but three ine The Seneschal, 18.an expert in mathe. maties and secuunts, from below.’ His reef the appalling susgicion, One of the quadruptete Prompt. measures were taken in this fearful "The corners of te room wero rau. sacked in'yain. Piles of bedvlothing nnd bas. were searchol through ond The hunt extended to other parts of ‘Tho Seneschal even sent out trusted, and dlsereot rotalners on horseback to scour the surrounding country. doweast countenances; no traces of the lost yoo Weinateln had been found, During one terrible hour the wails of the three neglected infuntatninyled with thescreams of the hysterical mother, to whom the attention of the four snxe women was exclusively direct At the end of the hour hey aullictantly recovered to {mi tu male a lust, though hopeless, count. On threo pillows lay threo ‘bubles howling lustlly fn unison.’ On the fourth pillow raposed a fourth infant, with a mysterfous sinfie upon {ts fuce, but cheoks that bore traces of recent tears New York Sun ON THE ICE. The Torriblo Prowicnmont n Sinking Boat Loft Ite Passengers In. Clereland Peaindeater, It has been sald by some of Mr. Georae W, Gardner's friends that the reason ho was defecate ed in the Republican Conyention for Mayor was because he was not in the clty for several days previous to the primarics, But it is known to onls a few why ho wae nut in the city or where he was, As wil! be scen further on, but fora good Providence be would not bo in the city, or even in existence, to-day, It is well known that hoe {s largoly interested in Ballast Island, o beautiful islet tn the Pat-ine Bay archipelago, which is thickly dotted with beautiful summor cottages, owned by wealthy citizens of Cleveland and claowhere. inidatof these cuttaces Is a large, fincly-appoint- ed club-houso where the auinmer dwellers take their meals and have their dances, house is kept by n steward nnd atewardess io the employ of the club association which owns keta of IInen ‘They returned with plore her attendants In order to have ovorything ready for the sca son, Mr, Gardner loft Cleveland on Monday, March 24, and on the samo afternoon left Sane dusky on the ill-fated Ittle steamer Uolden Engle, to accompany Mr. und Mra. Bixby. the newly engayed steward and stewardess, to Bal- Mr, Warren Corning, of Clever Innd, was alsoon the bost, which had alderavle number of’ other passengors beside B crew numbering six persone, Among the passengers were four Jadios ond four children, Mrs, Smith (widow of tho joat-hones near the Boobs House), had twin bables-und unother culld, and nnotuer Judy, whose name Me. Gardner does not, Knot, was also accompanied by achild. ‘Tho other Jadies were Mra. Bixoy, who was on Lake: Erle for the first time tn her life, und a Miss Smith, of Attédle Bass Jaland. ‘The voyage from Sandusky to Kelly's Island waa mado without inishap, und the passengers and freight for that taland was safely Jundcd, ‘the Mttlo stealner, which voyages and carticd so mnany thousand pasaen- fers between Put-fn-Ba: turned about and started for Ballast fefund, all the ladies being still not gono far before she began to have trouble with tho fce, which was dri{thicwith the curront of the lake, and interfered with the backing of the houtto get headway to bunt into the fco One of the ladies, man who kept the had made so many When about a mile from shore Mr. Gardner discovered, by signs which au experienced steatnboutinan only would detect, that the bost About the same time the cook reported to the Captaln that wator was coming it was soon found that tha boat would inevitably ain, and that all that the people and {vo_ aa _quictl that they had bet ter take thelr light bargage aud get on the ice, as they would probably uave to walk ashore. ‘The Captain then blew ul whistle for aid from the island, und caused Inmos to be swung to indicato the whereabouts of the party. ‘The tweuty-tive passengers were got out ona cake of ico about thirty fect square, and were then fnformed what ‘the trouble waa. motal Hife-bonat of the Golden Eaglo was also landed on the icc, and the women and childrea were put into that. ‘There wers four peddlers among the passen- gers, und ono of them attempted to get into tha boat with his pack, weighing 125 pounds, but Mr, Gardner slung [t out without corctnony, and {uformed its greedy owner that the women und children would be cared for first, the baggara Another of the peddlers tried a lke trick: when a change of loots was made later, and met withthe same treatment at the hands of ono of into the kitchen, freight out on In the courae of what must havo seemed a very long tle, ao boat with runners, used In winter for transporting the mails to and from Kelly'a Island, was pushed out to meet the —who wero pushing along very boriously in a necessarily zigzag roundabout course over the ice, Mr. Gardner ahead in tho darkness, feeling with on oar to ‘At ono timo tno boat was Jnunched into an opening and shoved across, White the men walked around and with much aivleulty again pnited the boat upon the Ico. Hero It became necessary for the lady in the. bow of the boat, Mrs. Stnith, to get out in order to hayo the crate pulled on tho ice. ner offered to taku the babe sho held while abo was helped out, but the mother would’ not let her darling go from ber protection, and twas a sisted out still clinging to hur little one. But, as suld above, the party of islunders, with lanterns aud the mail-boat, at length met the wrecked party and lent their ald in helplug the: asscugers to shore over the broken and drift avold open water. ‘t was exceedingly fortunate that no wind was blowing, or the tee would have been broken tn smaller cakes, and the danger (sufictently great as it was on acount of the current con heaving, breaking, und shifting tne ice) have been more tl It was a tollsome and hazardous journoy from first. to Just, acvoinplished in darkness excep for the lignt of a few tanterns part of the time But, to cut a long story short,’ it was safely end> ed, nxt alt Janded without serious accident ou the east polnt of the island, where th appropriated a tish-abanty for the ladi ward the {ohabitants opened thelr houses and mado all comfortable, The baggage was taken from tha Golden Es pie by the crow and by islanders dispatchod to the scene, and wus put upon: the tea, worker would take a pleco of bagent where lo thought it would stay unt! should take it further ahead, and would then ticlo taken off chine bolonging to Mra, Bixb article of baggage or froizht w! shure that night, Jor the feo drifted o that when a man returned to where he su had foft a trunk or whatnot ho foun and supposed some one had forwarded what he had left to shore, Thus It wae that avery at elu (exeupt the Hehe “traps” the ladies am men took with them) taken off the Guided Euete floated off down the lake on the drifting fev except the sewing-machine mentioned, ‘The next day men’ sent, out in boatg for this baguare succeeded tn recovering overythlug, pleco by plece, some of which drifted four aud, away, Dut it took then really all day During all the perils of tho night, Mr, Gard* ner says the Indies were berefnes; cool, col lected, und ready todo just what they were told. ‘The same can not be sild of some of’ the med On Tucadsy word was telegraphed to Bap duaty to scnd o boat to take some of the pat sengera to Baltast Island, ‘The ditthe Mystic wal h half ready. aud put out, taking ‘Gardacr, Corniy No boat appeare boat, a sowlug mi and others to Wullast on Wedoesday, um Mr. Garduer was naturally uneasy tu get back to bis potitical vinvyara, his husbandry. Ou Thursday, impatient atart howe, Mr. Garduer atarted with Mr. Coralig ina small boat for Put-im-Bay, tn hope to get vassuge from there to the mans land. With mueb labor and after bard Hehting with y reached Put-In-Ba i white there descried the Uttle steamer headed fora neighboring tatet. They auceeel ed in getting word to hur, and received anstel that the boat would Jay wliero ste was ore night, wid the next day would call for ea On Friday, therefore, Mr, Gurduer sailed on tht Sandusky; and on Saturday then too late to read the politcal ground lost. by bis absence, but no doubt sincerely congratulated himself tb» he had safely passed through extreme marit dangers und reached boing alive und well. - Wheto there 1s 0 weakness of the (hroat orlangh acold noglected may bo ali that ly required tu ¢ tablich a Mogering and yencrally Even whorv there i¢ no special tendency to bro chial or pulmonary trouble, a ai + tako care of itvif, often plants the sveda of § %: nous complaint, ‘sure Quent indtveretigns. ‘Take expecist caro 0: ualth, therefore, from the yory carliest ere cold, lott to be developed by Dr. Jayne's Expectoran| strengthen the brouculal tion, and cleanse them aud the Iuugs of all unce of prevention fs bw (uocs, allay sna tating substances. ber thun’s pound of cure,