Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1889, Page 11

CITY AND DISTRICT. GF No city in the world is so thoroughly covered by the circulation of a single news- paper as is the city of Washington by that of Tux Evextvo Stan. It reaches all readers in the city and vicinity. Jt swears to its circula- tion, No other Washington paper has yet done this. _—_ BLAVATSKY’S ALLEGED TRICKS. Dr. Coues Talks About the High Priest- ess of Theosophy. HE SATS SHEIS A GREAT WOMAN. BUT GIVEN TO ‘TRICKERY—THE STORY ABOUT THE MAHATMAS —THE RECENT MOVEMENT AGAINST DB. COUES, AND HIS EXPLANATION OF IT. There is # great deal behind this Madame Blavatsky business that does not appear on the surface. Prof. Coues says the trouble just now is that she has been caught and ‘turned down” on @ new trick. He professes to retain his friendship and regard for her better self. His explanation of the variance between her and himself that leads some of her adherents to at- tack him is interesting. It makes clearer some of the contradictory things in the reputation of the madame, and perhaps may give the public a little better idea of the present situation as to the science of theosophy. It must always be remembered that Prof. Coues treats the subject as a matter of psychic science, and is not carried away by enthusiasm. There is more cold-blooded intellectuality in his researches. He always refuses to talk of the machinery or politics of the gnostic or any other theosophical society, or to discuss the “Mahatmas.” A Stan reporter called on him the other evening and had an interesting chat for two hours. The conversation turned upon Madame Blavatsky, the present state of yehical research, and incidently the action of udge aud others in making their attack upon the professor. WHAT DR. COURS says. “As to these people,” he said, referring to his critics, “we bave cranks enough al- ready, without importing a set of bowling dervishes who will not be tolerated in the com- munity. I can blow them out of town between two puffs of a cigarette.” As he spoke he held his cigarette between his fingers and watched alittle puff of fragrant smoke circle upward over hishead. ‘Bah! They have found they do nothing.” He dismissed them with a hrug of the left shoulder. Then he Sere into a general discussion of the theosophical situation. «The fact is,” he said, “that the spread of much that is miscalled ‘theosophy’ is getting teo rapid. It is the purpose of those who see in the true science the orderly advancement of the human race—the betterment of man by gradual spiritual evolution—to keep dangerous instruments out of the hands of the evil, selfish and unscrupulous, and to restrain turbulent cranks. It is an inevitable misfortune that all things that are new and appear wonderful have @ fascination for fanatica. It is equally or more unfortunate that all jons of ability and power cannot be relied upon to use their en- dowments honestly, Superely and for good por oses. It is the desire and intention of the jeading theosophists in this country to keep down these cranks and unscrupulous fakirs. People who must howl when the psychic force is working in them had much better go toa good. old-fashioned camp-meeting and lose their heads there.where the thing is taken for granted. I think I told you in perhaps our first talk on the subject several years ago Setnge danger lay in the indiscriminate spi of schemes, each one of ich has been duly ex- is the formation of a secret or ‘esoteric’ society, all the members of which are sworn to do her biddii coures the gundtie thecnophists woald sizad =o such nonsense, and you will find the whole ‘fake’ laid bare in the Religio-Philosophical Journal of Chicago. The names of her dupes will be next in order. netism, “Take an extreme case. If I . magnetized you, mesmerized you, call it what you choose; if Tput you in such a state as to make you subject to my will and made steal, commit Neeley or marder, the inw would not punish me. You would be vi tim — the werless, irresponsible victiim. The law cor mitted. There is no punishment FOR THINKING MURDER, FOR EXAMPLE. “I want to emphasize the dangers there aro in the knowledge of these occult powers and forces without the moral stamina to use that knowledge for good. Take in illustration of what I say that recent very bad case of the Boston ‘theosophists,’ so fully exposed by the press. There is a true. real and actual ychic force. It may be used for good or for evil. Any honest theosophical society makes study of this force and attempts to direct it toward the improvement of man- kind, But such a society works yg and never strolls about the country mak breach of the peace. BLAVATSKY AND THE MAHATMAS, “But you are still thinking about my eccen- tric old friend Blavatsky,” he added, divining the reporter's mind after a pause, during which he rolled a fresh cigarette. “I am much better friend of Madame Blavatsky's than are those who ignorantly make a fetish of her or those who knowingly connive in her tricks and schemes, I think she is the most remarkable female organism now embodied on this planet. She hasdone and can do some wonderful things. On the other hand she has been guilty of many silly and some thoroughly bad tricks that bring discredit on her and on those associated with her. We have to look out for her all the time. That is one reason why 1 founded the Gnostic here, The trouble with her is that she is never twice the same, except as regards her famous ‘mahatmic myth,’ which I sometimes think she lied about so long and 80 steadily that she half-Believes it herself. She rratic. There are those who would worship her—and she would let them do it. She would have the ut- most contempt for them, but her vanity would be tickled by their abject homage. It would still further gratify her to play pranks on them, to impose the most flagrant frauds upon them, and to make them her slaves and her amuse- ment. It is here where the rub comes, I and others who are interested in theosophy do not propose to a such things as this if we can help it, and we think wecan. We re- cognize the wonderful powers of Madame Blavatsky, and as long as she confines herself to the proper exercise of these we are in accord with her. When she trifles with the credulity of the weak and assumes the supernatural it is a fraud, and as such we are bound to expose f. We seck but the truth, and the best means of placing it safely before the public. Theosophic truth, however marvelous it may seem, when we know it to be the truth we hold to it and maintain it. We will not saction any ‘pious frauds’ or use apy questionable means to ends however desirable in themselves. Madame Biavatsky has given us much trouble by her erratic moods, For more than a year I have been talking with her, warning and advising her. I exceeded all modesty, but not truth, in my appeals to her, and told her exactly what I p es 4 do. But it is useless to argue with the old lady when her back isup. The only thing you can do is to take it down. I told her if ‘she did a certain thing she would be exposed. She did it and ‘without cavil or delay.” Of But toreturnto mag- the vic- jd not find the crime I had com- The Causes of Floods in Washington, and the Remedy Proposed. FILL THE BASIN IN WHICH PENNSYLVANIA AVR- NUE LIES TO AN ELEVATION BEYOND THE RRACH OF FLOODS, AND BUILD A SEA-WALL ALONG THE EDGE OF 7HE RECLAIMED FLATS, ‘To the Editor of Twa Evexrxo Stan. In & communication on “The Fature of Washington,” published in Taz Stam the 18th of last February, I stated, in taking “a forward look” to the twenty-first century, that among other good things I could see in store for Washington was ‘Pennsylvania avenue raised above the reach of floods.” I did not then think we would be so soon, and so forcibly, made to see, by experience, the necessity for the immediate accomplishment of this great work, While the damage (not less than $1,000,000) and inconvenience this District has suffered in consequence of the late flood is fresh in the minds of the people, would it not be well to consider the case and try to find out a remedy for this bad condition of things? No doubt Pennsylvania avenue and streets of no more elevation would have been flooded to some extent if there were no obstructions in the river but that Long bridge and its cause- way, and the embankment placed in the river turned # much larger quantity of water into the city than otherwise would have come, must be admitted. Nature knows about how mach space she re- quires to convey her water from her mountains to the sea, and when interfered with manages to find room, even though it be through the streets of cities, She needs no advice from any one, and when let alone generally provides an outlet of sufficient dimensions for her wants, The trouble is that people settle on low —— adjacent to rivers without making provisions for floods, We see this in the loca- tion of our national capital. In ancient times there was a frog pond where the Center mar- ket now stands. I have conversed with a man who caught fish in that pond one hundred ears ago, Our fathers, wi do not seem to ve been very well posted on the subject of drainage, built a capitol on one end of this nd and an executive mansion on the other. Then, instead of filling up the pond and estab- lishing a grade above the reach of floods, they sent over to Holland, where the people make dikes and floods a’ specialty, and borrowed money to pay the expense of draining the pond, They built ®@ canal 80 feet wide from the Potomac at 17th street, extending alon; what is now B street (draining the aforesai pond), and finding its outlet in the Eastern Branch near the Navy Yard. This worked Leatesars Jigen! ile the canal was kept in a navigable condition, and until LONG BRIDGE AND ITS CAUSEWAY were built. Then our troubles commenced. The upper Potomac and Shenandoah have made us a lively visit about every year, and have had @ grand wrestle with tide, water and ice in front of our city. The Potomac has brought down about 10,000 tons of earth annually, which it haa deposited between Georgetown and Mount Vernon. A portion of this earth found its way into the old canal, gradually fill- ing it up, so that forty years ago it became un- navigable. Then for twenty years it became the receptacle for dead animals, old tin cans, broken bottles, discarded hoop-skirta, &c., &c., until finally during the administration of Mayor Emery an appropriation of $75,000 was made to clean it out and make it navigable. Then came the board of public works, and commenced filling where but a few days before the contractor was making excavations, This was all well enough had they carried the work of filling to its logical results by rais- this knowledge by fanatical agitation. It is a distinct menace to church and state, and tells against public good order and necessary social conventions. You might as well throw down im the streets the dogma of the Trinity or of the Immaculate Conception, and let the rabble try their teeth on what all churches are rightly agreed to regard as sacred if not divine ‘mys teries." You might as well hand secrets of the state over to @ street mob for discussion, or bring to the surface all the real facts of our social condition, which well bred people simply decline to discuss in public except when some special flagrancy forces itself upon attention. You will never find a real theosophist expound- ing the ‘divine wisdom’ to mixed audiences, for that would turn it into very human fool- ishness. SPIRITUAL ANARCHISTS. “I remember to have said that children must not be trusted with matches nor devils with dynamite. The little mutterings you hear now are an indication of that danger. These frauds and fakirs are now actually weak, but if they were more numerous they would soon be badly felt. It does not follow, because they are trands and fakirs, that none of them possess the psychic force of spiritual wickedness, Some of the worst have high powers of what is pop- ularly called black magic,’ of what in its low- est manifestations becomes voudouism. That is where the danger would lie if they were more numerous, or if there was no power ex- ercised to restrain them. It is this restraint that they are now fighting against so vainly. With the assistance of my friends of the Gnos- tie. I have hitherto kept them in check and pre- vented any explosion. They are to the spiritual world what the late New York strikers and rioters are to the financial world, and what the Chicago anarchists are to the political world of constitutional government, law and order. They are the spiritual anarchists and ‘strikers.’ If they were numerous enough they would create disorder and confusion, and play sad pranks in society. When anarchists or rioters form a mob and rush madly on to the destruction of lives and property, pda are not free agents, acting each in his individual capacity. They simply lose their heads, and ran amuck at everything. Each one is so . under the influence of the psychic force evoked by the assembling together of great numbers of disturbed spirits that he has no power over is own action. THE SPIRIT OF DISCONTENT and evil they call up in their united strength gets beyond their own control, and drives them on to agitate every wicked passion. Each indi- vidual is but an atom blown before the gale. ‘They are subject to a force they cannot con- trol; they have evoked a demon who masters them! In the same way spiritralists, mediums, theosophista, or what you like, that are ill- balanced or evil-disposed, might disturb the piritual peace of mankind if they were acting concerted in sufficient numbers, The professional, or commercial medium, the ‘person who uses iritual pow- ers for profit and other selfish purposes is almost sure to work evil in the end. He also destroys himself. Knowledge of one's spiritual self can be rightly used only to ennoble the spirit and elevate it to the first place in the taystic trinity of mind, soul, and body. Psy- chical power, used merely to do the bidding of bodily passion, both degrades the body and in- jures or destroys the soul. The moral and physical condition of a medium, no matter how great his or her gifts, the greater the gifts the worse if used for evil. Who is ready to be the ‘tor slave of e spirit that choses to fe possession, is low and debased almost be- youd one’s powers of conception. Such me- diums are sponges, like the sponges through which the electricity passes on certain electric instraments, Without will of their own the: are ready to take up withany spirit and ‘ub questions asked.’ . THEIR MENTAL POWERS DECAY and they sink to a state of degradation that is horrible to think of. Every evil spirit that is im the air finds a ready abiding place in their bodies and a yielding instrument for its deviltry. It is s very common thing for mediums to thus surrender their will power and become moral monsters. | know a man of great occult pow- ers—not a fraud—a man who has done some wonderful but who has bartered his gifts, been as ready to take Unto himself an evil as a good spirit; he bas been as ready to trick the lie as to act honestly. For trade purposes | poet bunself a C gy, Ame yo which any spirit might operate. mind is almost gone; he has no will power; he is unsound. He is a cringing coward before those whose he feels, anda devil for evil where his is the strongest ‘influence’ or ‘control.’ The crimes that may be committed by a person using poph the exposure came promptly on schedule time. And now the dupes who swallowed her bait are squeaking like rate inatrap. It is ‘rough on rats,’ to be sure, but they should not have signed the foolish pledge. The worst feature of it is that there are some persons whom she cannot shake off if sne would, for they know all about the original hoax of the ‘shrine’ at Adyar in Madras, India, and if they should ‘squeal’ her game would be up all over the world. Some of them presume on this when they stroll about the country in the guise of howling dervishes, “In seeking truth we must avoid deception and expose fraud. It is our purpose to expose every fraud there is and to break it up. hen Blavatsky STOOPS TO FRAUD she cannot escape esposure. She is not a fraud because she has not powers to operate honestly. She does things for pure deviltry, Just as I saw aman rform a magnificent feat in psy- immediately afterward do a false and impudent thing that brought prompé ex- osure, because the fraud was open to every- jody. With Blavatsky this is waywardness. She is seldom we'l balanced. She does not ap- porte have herself in Proper control, except in the early stages of plotting some new scheme. Fooling people has a fasci- nation for her. She is willing to sacrifice her reputation to gratify this queer kind of vani Her friends are those ant to keep her on the right path, and, le, preserve for her some good reputa- hey want her ¢o use her powers in the pursuit of truth and for good. The fakirs who cry about are partly her dupes frauds who have selfish aims, latter she has exposed hers tricks and they @ certain sort of power over her. They want to use her to practice on the dupes. It makes them mad to have frauds exposed and their practices denounced, ‘That is about the whole story, as I understand the present situation. But mark you, there is more to come as this ferment goes on. When free-thinking, outspeaking, radical ‘reform’ ets rampant on too high a horse the Gnostic . 8. thr what weight it has on the side of conservatism. If I had ‘a thousand’ gnostics a week ago, as the papers say, I have to-day ten thousand who are gnostic enough to range themselves squarely on the conservative side of law, order, and public decorum. This is the real way ‘to form a nucleus of universal brotherhood,’ one of the avowed objects of the true theosophical socict — = BOOKS OF THE WEEK. DARWINISM: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with some of its Applica- tons. By ALFRED KusskuL WALLACE, LL.D., F.LS., ew. With Map and Illustration New York: Macmillan & Co. Washington: Brentano's. IMPRESSIONS OF RUSSIA. 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By Taeopore Baxtierr. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Washington: H. Morrison. ps FRANC! A Story for Men and Women. By r ——oeee FUNCH-KELLY. New York: Sanfred 'o. eee Panton Cars To Derr Park axp OaKLaxp.— Commencing Saturday, June 22d, parior. cars will be run from Washington to Beer Park, Mountain Lake Park, Oakland, and Grafton, the Baltimore and Ohio vestibule limited leav- and Ohio depot at 11:20 a.m. * —___ INTER-COLLEGIATE BOAT RACE. The Yale Crew Defeats That of the University of Pennsylvania. ‘The eight-oared, four-mile straight-away Face between the Yale and the University of Pennsylvania crews was rowed last evening over the Thames river course, from Gale's ing the whole region between 17th street and the gates of the capitol to a height of 20 feet above tide water. But they stopped just where the most needed work should have com- menced, and the result has been inundation of our principal business streets ever since. THE NEXT BAD MOVE was to reverse things by building a level sewer on the bed of the old canal, from 17th street to lth street, to carry off the city drainage in just the opposite direction from that which it flowed through the canal. The result hasbeen thet this level sewer running against the cur- rent in the river has acted as a conduit to bring water into our streets through its traps and man-holes during every flood since. Then followed the building of an embankment by the Pennsylvania railroad, on the low ground at the south end of Long bridge, which had previously furnished an outlet for large quan- tities of water in time of floods. Suppose the same amount of water that fell last week were to come in February, with ice a foot thick on the river and snow a foot thick in the mountains, and the flood were to reach us about midnight, piling ice 30 feet high gainst the Long bridge and on the flats, what would be our condition? Would not the whole Potomac river come rolling in upon us? Penn- sylvania avenue instead of being two feet under water would have 20 feet of wuter upon it. Houses would be swept away and 50,000 people residing on the low | sparen would be drowned out. This is no idle speculation. It is just what will come sooner or later if proper meas- ures are not prom tly taken to guard against it, There are but few people who seem to be aware that Pennsylvania avenue is 20 feet lower than Maryland avenue the most of the way between 43¢ and 12th streets west, but such is the fact, The elevation at the intersection of Virgina and Maryland avenues and 9th street southwest is 30 feet, and at the intersection of those avenues and 7th street southwest it is 26.02, while at 9th and Pennsylvania avenue northwest it is 10.09, and at 7th street it is 9.0. At 7th and Market Space, opposite Saka’ store it is 14.10 ; at 7th and D, 19; 7th and E, 39.02; 7th and F, 42.85, This proves that Pennsylva- nia avenue, from the Capitol gate to 14th street west, is a great basin or ditch, through which, if kept at its present grade, the Potomac is bound to flow whenever there is a great flood, THE REMEDY. This is the situation, now what is the remedy? There surely must be one, and there would seem to be but one, and that is to raise Pennsylvania avenue and other low streets and grounds high enough to be above the reach of floods, The city could be protected from overtiow by a high sea wall along the Georgetown channel, but that would not prevent the water from reaching the streets through the sewers, if kept at the present grade. This is a big job anda disagreeable one to think of, but it is a job that is necessary to be done, and what is necessary to be done can be done and should be done. This generation should not longer “‘let I dare not wait upon I would,” but take hold and do the work at once. There is not a store on the avenne that would not be worth enough more than its t ptcpezed value than what it would cost to raise it to a proper grade. But the cost of this great work should not fall upon the people of the District. The gov- — ~ Pay tas entire cost of raising the grade, ing the property-owners to pay the cost of raising their bullain This Seale not be so big a job after all, With the aid of modern race it could soon be accom- lished. Railro: tracks leading to gravel Banks in the country, and steam-shovels would soon do the grading, while jack-screws, ma- sons, and carpenters would do the rest.’ The brains and energy that raised the roof of the great Center market 40 feet, and then con- structed under it the finest cold storage system in the world, without any interruption to busi- ness, would soon find a way to do this necessar, work, which would be light in comparison wi what Chicago, London, or Liverpool have done, The money that idiocy and rascality have buried uuder Rock creek, with the damage to our citi- zens by floods during the past twelve years, would pay the entire cost of the work. The Kvenue, and grounds adjacent, should not only be raised, but an embankment 20 feet above tide-water, with a granite facing going down to solid earth, and “resting on a concrete foundation, similar to the great Thames em- bankment at London, should be built along the entire river front, to prevent the ey of any more damage from floods, ‘e have had enough tinkering. Let us have something practical, All that is needed is money, brains and e1 , to rid the city forever from floods, Let us a leason from the old world, ‘THE GBEAT THAMES EMBANEMENT ‘was constructed twenty years ago, at a cost of over $8,000,000, This is the way they did it: A coffer-dam was first built the entire length of the work, Then the mud was dug out be- hind this coffer-dam, ae ne to the solid | Bald: London els; § feet h-water mark. ‘Then a tonsdntion of ghar tll ai concrete hich the wall reste, THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. THE AVENUE MUST BE RAISED. | to be trees, h, besides for business, would furnish the most beautiful drive and walk in the city. From the end of this embankment should be constructed the memorial dent who will investigate intelligently, and recommend to Co1 the gratitude of this tions yet unborn, an for nothing greater, such Denatestocs of the human ping ‘Linge, peosidants, snd wiittsry Yoross ‘ings, presidents, an ous tten, 3 “ J. H Care, in, vail higher riding, hap wor! side door and emerging unattended. roses bloom profusely about the cottage doors, It is told of this es that it fell innocently under the ban o! ago, which accounts for its A company of guests, so the story goes, stopped for » night at the Bath Alum springs, and among them were some very sick people, They were on their way home from some other resort, taking the journe: afterward the invalids fatality was charged most unjustly, all their | par Clay's nomination, but who was | 492 ¢ mountain neighbors testify, to the sojourn at | Frelinghuysen? > . name ‘of St the Bath Alum. pretty white porticos of the crescent are de- serted. The mountain ascent is resumed and D.C., SATURDAY, ” with ‘@ job” connected every great doteats everything but “the job.” orld nize suiployment to thousands of iss are GOING TO THE SPRINGS. Staging it Over the Tops of the Alle- 4 PRIMITIVE JOURNEY THROUGH A WONDERLAXD— ‘AN HISTORIO ROAD AND A GRAND PaNonama— | Stephen Vail atthe club. It was a silent, un- 4 HOTEL WHERE VIRGINIANS STOPPED A CEN- TURY AGO—A RELIO OF THE WAR, Correspondence of Ta EVENING Stan. Waum Scuipavus Srnixas, Va, June 21, We are in that rosy time of the year when all the ills that flesh is heir to are marshaled forth to accompany said “flesh” to the summer resorts by the seashore, upon islands and in mountain regions, Plenty of people take the annual summer holiday without a single ail- ment to keep their countenance in so doing, but the majority have a malady of their own or a member of their household has a weakness or is in tender youth or advanced age, for which change of sir and scene, sea or mineral baths will be highly beneficial. The great northern lakes, the northeastern sea coast and mountains, Europe and Alaska do not get all the sum- mer tourists, Old Virginia, in the south, has natural attractions of mountain and valley that crowd her hotels every year during the summer and autumn months, A few hours’ ride by rail from Washington in a southwesterly direc- tion brings the traveler to the edge of the pic- turesque mountain region of Virginia. Enter- the hill country, the historical Shenandoah ey is crossed, and then, plunging into the eaks, and after afew hours more of he passenger for the Warm Springs is set down at Millboro’, Ifitisin the evening he stays over night at the hotel there, and in the morning takes the stage that connects this valley of healing waters with the outer The stage also carries the United States mail, and the coachmaa handles the reins and the mail- amodern three-seated light wagon, covered with bowed frame of bent wood, over the top of which is stretched black oilcloth, and cur- tains of the same are rolled up at the sides and back. The horses are a pair of handsome bays, bred for their rugged staying qualities rather than for hthe beauty, The distance between Millboro’ and Warm Springs is 15 miles, and the stage travels it in less than four hours. The road is probably the finest piece of mountain-road engineering in the country, & road, and the ascent is i . ns i > wints'it chalter oaks Laren pve ndual: it | and that day, for the first time in the life of the mountain side. A short distance from Mill- boro’ and we come to the Millboro’ Spring house, a low, rambling, frame building, where immer boardersare taken in and regaled from @ mineral sprin; Sam’s leathern door of who smiles at the driver from under the slats of a bewilderingly becoming pink calico sunbonnet in a way that would have demoralized the equa- nimity of a less stolid official. After that the road lay across hills, mountains and valleys, along water courses, across-brawling streams, si trickling rivulets, through raging fords swollen by the rai church, with its years ago, standing ami graves in one of the valleys. the start is situated the springs. The hotel and cottages are built of red brick and have white painted wood trim- mings, and they form a crescent about one side of a park finely shaded with poplar trees. The pines was without living representation, the river lugging the mail-bag into the house at a HA and when from IN WASHINGTON—A TALE WITH MR. STEPHEN VAIL—HIS FATHER'S CONNECTION WITH MORSE AND THE TELEGRAPH. it Fi i t Scpelon Itis jing to think of that when wire first began’ to talk it spoke English. The first vent it uttered to the public ear was to re- late an event in American history. A Stan re- porter was sitting in the Metropolitan club house the other afternoon talking with Stephen Vail about the birth of telegraphy. Mr. Vail ee is s son of Alfred Vail, with whom Morse must a divide the honors ot the invention of telegraphy, if indeed, posterity does not decide that the “crown goes with the Vail.” It is claimed for the deceased Vail, senior, that he was traly the inventor of the Morse telegraph, and that the instrument first used in telégraphy, which is now at the National Museum, where it was placed by Mr. Stephen Vail, was invented and built by Mr. Vail, senior, as well as oj ated by him as an associate of Morse, Mach evidence has been produced to prove this, The pony oe og a used—the combina- | disposi tion of 68 dots, of brief and ny every tracted sound waves—was the invention of Vail. For the use of the magnet the world is indebted to Prot. Henry. 4 WIRE WITH 4 HISTORY. A bit of wire was introduced into the conver- sation between Tae Sram reporter and Mr. i S 3 bridge to Ar! The Presi- Cima sy improvements, will receive not only gheny Mountains. communicative bit of copper, about asixteenth ofan inch thick and 4 inches long. Most any hardware merchant would give you a similar bit of wire, because its value would be so little | b! he could not reckon a price for it. But this a piece Mr. Vail carries in his pocket- ik as carefully as if it were aad many times more weighty. It is a passive, pliant sub- stance—an inanimate bit of copper, but it gave the first electric thrill that has brought the in- habitants of the world close together, con- quered time, and annihilated distance. It isa bit of the firat 3 miles of wire ever used for tel- egraphy. It is a piece from the ex- perimental line constructed by Morse and Vail, sr., when they were testing their inventions. Only a little of this wire, Mr. Vail, jr., informed Tue StaR man, has been preserved. After it was taken down from the experimental line his father used of it as a trellis for vines on his front porch. Part of it may have been used in the construc- tion of the line between the capital and Balti- more, but if so it was lost track of. It was from the trelllis that the mementoes were re- covered, “I think I gotless than six feet of it,” said Mr. Vail, “After telegraphy became a wonder of the world we began to appreciate the value of such a memento, and we saved what we could of the original three-mile wire. I have given pieces of it toa few persons who have been especially interested in it, and some was arranged on acard with a photograph of the original instrument, now at the National Muscuia, that was sent to the Paris exposition.” THE FIRST MESSAGE, “There haye been a number of sentences quoted as the ‘first message sent by tele- graph,’” continued Mr, Vail, after he had care- fully put this bit of wire back in his pocket- book. “What hath God wrought’ is often quoted as the first message. Another statement is that Mrs. Madison sent the first message: ‘Mrs, James Madison’s compliments to Mrs. Wetherill.’ These messages were sent with Mr, Morse at one instrument, and my father, Alfred Vail, at the other—Mr. Morse being at Washington and my father in Jsaltimore. But the trutl that the first message (of course Burke about in Chi Trude, keeping plicity in late that They were their son. during th with equalcare, The vehicle is love, ON THE MOUNTAINS. ducting experiments much must have been roy was sent from Annapolis Junction to Washington by my father, Mr. Morse taking the message from the wire at the capital It was a newspaper mm: re, that The road-bed is firm, smooth and ; of ite C! his investi, i Sada apers came out with ‘news by tel- | nin. egraph.’ us the first news by telegraph ever published was in Washington, It was news ohne a of be A grees - sen by the whig convention itimore May one nee ee | ene arth rabtthat timo the wires had not beon run as far as imore. was twenty-three rae the arire fr pretty mountain girl, | Gave later when that end of the line wasmade. On the first day of May one end of the wire was at Annapolis Junction and the other ut the cap- itol. 'y father was at the end half-way to Bal- timore, ready to get the news from the Balti- more train concerning the convention and send it ahead on the wire before the train could reach Washington. It then took the fastest train about an hour and a half to make the distance between Annapolis Junction and Washington. Prof. Morse was waiting at the capitol to receive the message, The world had not then heard of such a on and was incredulous, Some public men ani editors of the Washington fs arid were at the capitol with Prof. Morse. Presently he got the signal from my father at the other station. The instrument clicked. Each click made a mark on the paper strip. That instrument marked down on a slip the dots and dashes that com- osed the mip habe: Now the operator merely Ectens to the sound. ‘The paper rolled out of the little instrument and Prof. Morse read the message eagerly. with him he said: “The train for Washington has just reached Annapolis Junction. It brings the news that the convention has adjourned, Mr. Vail has telegraphed me the ticket nomi- Hnated. It is—itis Clay and Frelinghuysen— who the devil is Frelinghuysen? “Those assembled in the room thought he was aquizzing them. They knew they might ensued, very and by a quaint old Presbyterian pointed gable of a hundred it its few mossy Ten miles trom famous Bath Alum mem) Red ciples and public opinion a few years PRESENT DESERTED ASPECT. A Lincol: in easy stages. Soon ied, and somehow the And that is the reason the | “They had to accept the evidence of their own senses and await the proof on the arrival of the train. 22,\.4889-TWELVE PAGES, THE FIRST MESSAGE TICKED. BURKE WILL FIGHT. "iter some le squabbling the case was ad- until next. Burke's lawyer | phosphate pow ‘Soa Intends to Bight extradition to: the last, but've | Foweun Gos 08 Wallet: 5 trouble if anticipated by the other side, the tion of the authorities here being to give How Burke was Arrested. The police are mysteriously and unusually secretive regarding the source of their in- formation about Burke, the Winnipeg prisoner. But it is now definitely known that the in- Chief McRae arrested his iancock, Mich. Whosent the facts is not known, but Detective Palmer ad- mitted this morning that Chief Hubbard has a man in Hancock who has done some remarka- for pase poct-peck that Burk e : e story that e might tive Dera sent to Winni and that Lawyer Trude and ex-, dreth sent the information requesting his arrest, Chief Hubbard was a little angry this morn- rad cna alte yg at ti viene m2. inning to end,” he said, “and is surd, ‘he “i formation on whi man came: from talk about before him we knew fs also rubbish, Why there were five men looking for him here before McRae ever thought of him. ildreth or Schaack had nothing at all to do with the arrest. Ihave my reasons for the source of my information a secret, but it will all be told in tim: “Will Burke be brought back whether Mar- tinson identifies him or not?” “He certainly will. There are four or five other people who can identify him.” WOODRUFF’S MOTHER MEETS HER SON. Mr. and Mrs. Black, of San Francisco, step- father and mother of Frank Woodruff, the horse thief now under indictment for com- murder arrived in this city Tuesday afternoon, and evening itors’ cage, and mother and son were soon in each other's arms, Both burst into tears, and interview Mra, Black's eyes were never dry. Strong men, used to such scenes, drew to one side and thought of the mother- MORE TESTIMONY BEFORE THE GRAND JURY. Robt. B. Ruck, the detective, was before the grand jury yesterday afternoon, and was re- quired to give his version of the story that Al- derman John McCormick once bribe him to remove Cronin. This story shrank into insignificance under the queries of the 5 f gre d jury, and proved to have had its origin reference is to public messages—in con- | in simple expressions of dislike and distrust Cormick once Luke Dillon as once more called to the stand and questioned minutely — the inner workings of the Clen-na-Gae ago members whom he had found in tions to have been hostile to Cro- . Dillon also gave certain additional details regarding the charges der Sullivan and the memorab! Harry Jordan, the bartender, was questioned regarding the habits and associates of McGee- han, the suspect, but he disclaimed any inti- mate acquaintance with that individual. He testified, however, to having frequently seen Burke and Patrick Cooney together, and said that they, on several occasions, visited his saloon in com: Edward Spellman, of Peoria, the Prominent distillery man and district officer na-Gael for the terri consin, was on the stand for half an hour, and testified in regard to the extent of that organi- wer of local camps to punish zation and the offending mem! est penalty that could be inflicted upon any , under the rules of the organization, was expulsion from the ranks, and insisted that if Dr. Cronin had been condemned to death under the star-chamber i camp, it was contrary to ractices of the Clan-na-Gael, rofewsed high regard for nd assured the jury that hi to ferret out the inst ir. Spel man Doctor Cronin, pa tanger pom was shared by all thi rs ‘ ators of 1e 6 e Turning to those in the room | fending Clan-na-Gael men in the United States, GOV. THAYER DEFENDS EGAN. Neb., dispatch says: Gov. 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Malaria. indigestion, Fever & Aue, Lass ot Matt Postess at Bled Meudgie be 22 Rae Dreset, Parte. E FOUGERA & 00. for the U. 8, 20 NONTH WILLIAM 8T., N. ¥. THE GLORY OF MAN STRENGTH.VITALITY ! ‘asa dummy, jderman Hel- @ blank fake McRae arresting anything of Dr. Cronin, called at the’ jail. by Sheriff Watson to see was called into the vis- tempted to upon Cronin, and those KWOW THYSELF, ‘the Errors of Youth, Premature Decline, Nervous and Physical Debility, Impurities of the Blood, EXHAUSTEDVITALITY UNTOLD MISERIES Resulting trom Folly, Viee, I Overtarxation, Enervati! “ for Work, Business, the "Avoid unakilful work. It contains Binding, embonsed, ma'!, -paid. peed nt mae Free. distinguished autbor, Wm. ceived the COLD AND from. the National inst Alexan- trial which the Clan- of Illinois and Wis- He stated that the great- Ns Bulfinch St., dings of any | Gem for books oF letters for advice should be fundamental prin- | directed as above. my4-s,tu,th EDUCATIONAL. 2 sficie ven. For SUV Mts Star omice, Session begins Oct. 1, and continues nine months, Complete courses and equipment for instruction im Letters and Science, in Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Engineering and Agriculture. Expenses moderate, — r “Wat. M. THORNTON, The governor defen : The newspapers got out ‘extras’ 3 HAY KEN, of the Faculty, almaye cucrywhere is seen the marvelous foli- | giving this dispatch, and when the train ar- sega Frat peter opens tebe PO Usewyer ve, te of the forest, whether above on the sloping | rived, an hour and a half later, the people on -Presideat’ Be — oT saks or deep below in the emerald valleys. | bourd, who thought they were the frst’ bear-| T¢, Ex-President’s Wife Attacked by | QWanTHMORE COLLEGE, SWARTHMORE Pa. The spicy pines throw out salubrious odors, 3 the flowering grape vine adds a ravishing per- fume and all the lights blush with the sweet rose color of the abundant laurel, The four-mile ascent of the Warm Springs mountain bas now begun, and when th notch of it is reached the driver stops his team to rest the horses and refresh the passengers with one of the finest views to be seen in this or any other country. tent of waving green in countless valleys and on cloud-piercing peaks coufronts the beholder, lie numerous radiant are distinctly outlined by the whitewashed palings that surround them, miles down the mountain road is made to reac! the retreat, and a purling mountain stream is crossed before the gates are entered, A broad drive, several hundred yards in length, leads up to the Warm Sulphur springs hotel, a build- ing in the substantial style of architecture that prevailed in the early colonial period of Vir- ginia, It wasa hotel in the last century, when guests used to come over the heights on horse- back to partake of its hospitalities, and when the stage-ride was a len, land the Indians laved in the opaline waters of the springs and gave the Great Spirit the thanks for the physical The house stands at the head of a beautify) and wonderful valley that is the great Ameri- can Siloam, 20 miles in extent, at an elevation of 2,500 feet above the level of the sea, and whose limpid waters are for the healing of the nations. ry the Warm lar elevation of sion of the state of Virginia in Richmond April 17, 1861. Col. John L. Eubank, late of the Warm Sulphur Springs hotel, aon the of the rolling Alleghenies, ‘The air is ineffably inspiring, and it is averred by veracious’ per- sons that on a clear day, with the ni erful glass, the ships may be seen sailing upon the ocean 200 miles away! sunshine the k, 1,000 feet above this vaie, a pointof ers of the news. were astonished to find ‘extra’ papers at the depot with it all-in print. “A great crowd of people were at the depot to meet the train, and there was a marvel to the world—news by telegraph. I met Kepresenta- tive Plumb, of the last Congress, and he told me of his being on that train and of his seeing my father at the ‘little brass machine’ sending the message by wire. The instrament my father then used is the one now at the National Museum, WHO INVENTED THE ALPHABET. “My father,” he continued, “joined Prof, Morse when he was thinking and working over the problem of electric communication, My father at once took the deepest interest in the matter and set to work with Prof. Morse to dis- cover some means of accomplishing this, Prof. Morse was a portrait painter and had no money. He had the idea that a telegraphing machine might be made, The two set to work and my grandfather furnished the money. Prof. Morse made a machine that printed word signs. It was an impracticable thing. My father worked on, Prof, Morse then devoting most of his time to painting portraits of our family—they were at my grandfather's house. By the terms of the contract entered into between them a! ventions by either should be put in the name of Prof, Morse. This contract was lived up to. Alfred Vail invented the alphabet now in use and constructed the machine known as the Morse instrument. This is acknowledged now in scientific circles, Before Prof. Morse died I was in New Orleans, when proof-slips of an arr ticle attacking Prof. Morse’s claims and giving the evidence the case was sent to me. I handed to an editor friend of mine toread, He laid it on the table, and, e top An immeasurable ex- THE VAST AMPHITHEATER fa pow- Glittering in the at the foot of the mountain Warm Springs hotel and. its outbuildings, all shining in whiteness, “and the grounds A descent of 1g h journey of many days’ Before the white man possessed the enefits resulting. Apoplexy Resulting in Paralysis. Mra. Hayes, wife of the ex-President, was stricken with apoplexy yesterday at her home in Fremont, Ohio, and last evening she was un- conscious, The attack came between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon while Mrs. Hayes wus sitting in her room sewit right side resulted, rendering her specchless. | mation Medical help was at once summoned, but all efforts to restore the ladv to consciousness have thus far failed. General Hayes was on his way home from Columbus at the time, and it was 5 o'clock when he arrived in Fremont. Burchard and Webb, have been summoned from Toledo and Cleveland, their respective homes. Mrs. Hayes’ sons, nal ray! wel Th upon the sub; consideration of the fourth dimension of because any one of the snakes would have swallowed one in front of him and yet have been swallowed by the two in back of hi therefore would be both inside and his two fellows. minutes iplia, ‘Under the care of Seventific and Lat Aso ratory School (2 ¢] » —— b. and extensive ot eataleae'and all pe EDWARD H. MAGILL. LL D., - Paralysis of the | Stuacuta, All interested ssacute an i jel 5-stw3m E. TOURJEE, Boston, Mass. ]]NIVERSITY OF VIRGINA, MIVERSEET OF VIRGE .- (nine: begin Lith July, Septemver. For circular bee a Va.) to. Ol a A Serpentine Problem. From Notes and Queries, An astronomer from Harvard observatory organ; some time ago propounded this problem to a | day, W. ae number of fellow savants: Suppose that three snakes, each two feet in length, should catch each other by the tip of the tail, thus circle six feet in circumference. Sup) each snake should begin to swallow ¢ in front of him. In what way would the re- sultant figure, after each owe the one in front of him, differ from the origi- ere were many di opi some of them entering. the RAWING AND PAINTING—THE Dire nice to, is at 604 E ot. ‘every branch for children, 4 charcoal, crayon on it snake mt F-HYATT, comd’t of * mp} C3 PA. On. Sicrkration for Gollere or Selene’ Schoo. Ss J. CALVIN RICE, A.M. re CONSERVATORY OF Exchange, 913 Penn. ave. primary had swallowed entering the ‘him, an outside of forgetting, left it there. I could not find it. Just before Prof. Morse died he sent for me. I was still south. He then sent for my brother. He was in Europe. Next the professor sent for my stepmother. She went to see him. He had these proof-slips and was much worried over them, and declared to her that he would see mountains, in which irregu- | that ‘gw was done Alfred Vail. Soon after d the Warm Springs have | that he died and no avowal was made by him,” ———— Good Scheme, but—. From the Lewiston Journal. A Lewiston young gentleman who had been seeking a new and easy way of keeping the score of a ball game so that his Dulciana could | six, understand it hit upon what he thought was a Nearly opposite to this house rises Sprin as secretary of the conven‘ instrament One hundred and fifty others sign it, among whom are Henry A. Wise, J: no, Barbour, Eppa Hun- ton, Jubal A. Early, Jno. 8. Bocock, Ji ino. Jno. M. a7Fte ii eae Asx Your E: THE POTTER ‘The Imperial Hair highest medical authority and lasting that it cap be used upon the eyebrows and eyelashes. BROWN? ‘is gusranteed by the to be 80 perfectly harmless HI HEE Hdl