Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1892, Page 12

12 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, ies ids bt ol -. Pes ee ae te Bi kel Pe ene ae 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. xm. beso gigantic as to be are | will be with such means of defense adjutant from July 1, 1854, until March 3, 1855, | have been the object of great solicitade Mf IK ‘i fetes ts une elk oes oie ee I IN WAR. much cheaper also. A 110-ton gun costs $85,000. | in case of danger. ‘hon bo wes poomnsted tobe expen in ners” the match-making mammas of those days. ne \ Pe By A} av. oe y : ree Its average life is only 95 shots, which means | “range finder” for ond cavalry—“the same old regiment, new | an interesting treat to listen to his tales of #o- tle is either bung over it or placed ons it is no good after it has fired that number | are two name” — ition of the second di ciety affairs on two sides of the world when he _-_ - | tripod, and an interval of twenty minutes or of jectiles. On this basis of reckoning each | other at the stern, bay deen to that of the second cav- | was young. - But while not * women t pro} i y being +_ | longer now occurs before the contents begin to . shot costs abaut $900, without counting | whose sole duty is alry upon. the of the regular | hater, or auything of that kind, on the contrary How the Food of the Red Man is} secthe and si and the odor of the olla | Fresh Methods of Destroying Exper-/ the powder ‘and projectile. which cost $790 | pomted at. the exemy army im August, 1861. Subsequentiy, in the | he ts a great admirer of a handsume woman, be podrida spreads about. One of the squaws 2 : more. Sixteen hundred and fifty dollars » pop | are by natural order of-events. on Fi 15, 1862, | seems to have had a for the company | Row takes up the large birch bark water pail, imented With. isa good deal to pay. It is true that when a | deck, and. the needle of the dial keeps @ major of his regiment—the rank of men. While living, or rather wandering | which she has partially emptied into the stew, missile from such @ wespon hits anything the | matically indicating the precise distance of with which he is now retired. He resigned | abroad, like the lobe-trotter class generally, — | and goes out to. the spring.or the river for ca = eared ts line} tobes serlonsly affected. | Que ex: navermry, 90 — a a tee army Jennery 1, 1868, was reap- | his paramount OF seems to have been ia > » fresh supply. This is brought in an i ent ot witha sent pro- 7 ni guns ly. ma; A., October 19, 1888, | escape the meshes of match-makers, as afore- PRIMITIVE METHODS. | witha wooden. dipper. Another trip to the| MILITARY BALLOONS. | [iii through 0 inches of solid ote Stakes aes Wwesmuen sania: nty years Inter, and was retired with thai scaffold is made, anda small basket of a of wrought iron, 20 feet of solid oak, 5 feet of Smokel rank on the 23d of ‘the same month. He had | frequenter of clubs, cafes and houses, | handful of dried inner pine bark serappings granite, 11 fect of concrete and 4 feet of brick | | eat powders are rapidly rome been « brigadier and major general of volun- aoe in London Ihemet Dishens and Tasteret ‘They Never Wash Their Cooking Utensils, and a little trencher of a quart or so of odorif- | Poisonous Bombs for Suffocating Armies— | back of all the rest. The striking energy of the versal adoption. They are expected wren fleorian Soe war of the rebellion, having and the same kind of — on the continent. and Coneequently Everything Has a Mixed | ¢rone, rancid i oposited: squat de > a ot ee oe tak ext ggutvolons So tha paper tsctaeery ts suiting ts copa of ai nied the rank J 3, 130 Reccdsks menaee leak eotaeioebe ents bemmeiane with, 2 : bronght in and dey at down on which was equivalent \e power necessary cay a january 5, 1866. His brevets in the regu- | and companions he was as y ween wt Taste—They Appreciate Good | [orth clone by the fre. Wendesfel High Explesives—Fiying War | tit: sient chips of the pred 7 per ecomee City | enemy well in view, maneuver his vessel t0 ad one ond oll grates, Geom the rinse af Wales, at Dislike the Work. lar army, which he, of course, still holds (“not ‘The fish in the kettle having after half an| Ships—Explosive Bullete—Submarine Boats of New York 1 foot ont of water. It will be re- | vantage, judge of the proper moment to use being offices, but personal attributes,” as dear | up or down, asthe case may be, and even im | hour's stewing begun to show signs of total dis-| and Torpedoes. membered that the famous ‘jubilee shot,” fired | his ram and see oe fe, atime to avoid GEM. ALFBED PLEASANTON. old Gen. Henry J. Hunt used to say), but which | those days he began, poe, to develop the es integration, the kettle is taken from the fire from a similar gun on the occasion of the queen's | them. Such powders are made in a curious carry no pay or command, are those ‘of lieuten- | eccentricity which now culminated. HAVE SEEN HUN-_ and set down alongside of the coals or partially jubilee, fell ac a distance of 13 mjles, attaining | shape, being turned out in the form of sut colonel U.S.A., “for gallant and meritorious |A friend of mine, formerly an officer 2 .q on them. Three or four wooden or horn spoons HOEVER IT WAS, | * the highest part of its trajectory an elevation | rolled like maps, which are cut first into long services at the battle of Antictam, to date from | of the army, says he met the once dreds of meals prepared 74 thrust into the contents and an Indian "| of 4 miles. uare strips and finally into little cubes. The A SOLDIER HERMIT. A Distinguished Union General Lead- ing the Life of a Recluse. reneral st “The Langham,” in London, when he bad for comrades, for the time being, a half « dozen ‘one of whom might have been a run- tho next might have been « mil- York broker, and the next a sprig of English nobility, or an'actor, or @ painter, and #0 on, «real ‘ian party. He was re kaling thera with tales of adventare and criti- cixm of art, invention, literature and a little of everything else besides. My friend said to him: in the Indian fashion by the mivages themselves during the last twenty years while traveling between British Colum- bia and Mexico, up and jown the Rockies, but can aay in all honesty that I have never seen or smelied an Indian stew or roast that I wanted to partake of in all my wanderings,” | said a gentleman to a Stax writer. . not that—that’s not the reason at all, for I have | been hungry enough, often, but the fact is sim- ply this: an Indian wants a great deal to eat and cares little about the details of cooking, whether Blaine or Hur- rison, that kept this country out of war with Chile, the failure of = fight was a great disap- pointment,to experts in warfare all over the world, who vainly sigh for a conflict that will afford some sort of test of the value of modern naval and. military methods. ‘There has deen no battle on the sea since the days of wooden battle ships, and rapid-firing weapons, fish torpedoes, high explosives, submarine de- stroyers and other devices for scientific and wholesale killing have had no chance for a prac- breaitfast is served. During the entire time of preparation the squaws have not said a word and the oceupants of the lodge, who have been sleeping all around this breakfast fire, #0 close some of them that their fect are almost in it, have given no sign of awakening or anything else, beyond snoring, that betokened life. Now that the stew is ready, the cooks ay so ina brief declaration, which causes most of the family to roll over, and lazily and silently gather about the kettle and the fire. FEEDING THE CHILDREN “The children are furnished with-little bark platters, upon which their mothers ladle out a quancity of the fish stew, sprinkle a modicum of the oil, and with this in their hands they cithe: run outside of the lodge or sit down Indian fashion on their heels with their parents arourd the kettle. The elders dip into the mess with these long-handled spoons aforesaid | SMALL CALIBER RIFLES. : It is a remarkable fact that the caliber of the rifles supplied to the armies of Europe has diminished within the last four years from 45-100 to 25-100 of an inch. Several very inter- esting results are accomplished by this change. To begin with, owing to the less resistance op- posed by the air to the smaller bullets they go straighter and the marksman can use his sights for point-blank range up to 500 yards. ‘Tho improvement in accuracy is very great and the velocity of the projectile is so far increased that. the latest pattern of weapon will kills man at » distance of three miles. So much greater is the penctrating power of the smaller bullet that {t will go through the bodies of four men in a row when fired from a distance of onemile. This was ascertained by the French, who, for the purpose of accurate experiment, stood up four dead men in a line and practiced upon ‘nt and meritorious services at the battle of sttysburg, to date from July 2, 1863.” of brigadier general, U.S. A., to date from March 13, 1865, “for gallant and ‘merito:ious services during ‘the campaign against the insurgent forces under the rebel Gen. Price in Missouri,” and of Major general, U.S. A... of the samo date, “for gallant and meritorious services in the field during the war.” Such ix the outline or skeleton of his record in the military service, as oficially recorded in the army register, the ups.and downs of which and the finale thereof probably having no | parallel in the history of any other disting aished commander during the half century that has elapsed since for some unknown reason be was dubbed “Kate” by his fellow cadets at the Military Academy. Among his classmates there were Gen. Grant himself, Gen. Jubal A. Early of confederate fame, known then and now as “Late Ear! the very good reason gait a 17, 1862;" of colonel, U. 8. A., “fo armor is a layer of cocoanut fiber and Inted cocoanut husks inside the outer vessel. A Danith cruiser, the Hekla, was fixed up in this manner and a big shot was fired clean through her below the water line. The layer of woody stuff closed up bebind the great bullet so that scarcely any water e1 tered. A fairly successful trial was made other day on the came tines at Norfolk, Va... shot being fired through & tank with ‘such ing. In Bulwer's novel entitled “The Coming Race” the strange people calling themselves the Neikya were represented as possessing such tremendous means of destruction, controllable by the merest infant, that they never thought of making war among themselves, ‘since to do so would have signified universal annihilation. One is tempted to imagine that some such state of affairs must actually arise in the world before RETIRED FROM THE WORLD. ‘The Career of » Brilliant Soldier Ending in Disappointment—A Native of the District— His Services in the Mexican and Civil Wars —Some of His Personal Characteristics. LONE IN A GREAT E 2 i yy,” for The result of the Minneapolis convention has a mine ore concerned | and, holding the bowl of this utensil in both a them. Another advantage of the new departure | very long. nations will no longer dare to city; practically a that while he was always early on the occasio - Sion cite men © ware i wealh ta tone {baadn thes alterantsty. blow apom its contests | Sool tclal. The United Biates gevermanant is tok- | ie tat coe soldier can carry as many as 160 fight because of the frighttal ‘power of theie mit amid the throngs of | of any roll call. drill or other ‘function, he wes | been the subject of much discussion in Europe on the broth and gravy, and what they can- | ingactive part—j rounds of cartridges. Last, but not least, the ticularly of late in theline of ‘own weapons. When armies cannot come within —in the experiments which served than b sight of one ancther without being literally wij is about the quantity of it. ion’ jliv- | also always late, as he was, for examble, upon | this week. As it was a general belief that not suck in they take up in their fingers. Some- | strategic bulloot smaller bullets are much more humane for use the nation’s capital ; liv- os Soe Wek, OE Sane, upon joa Be" 5 2 one memorable occasion when a certain “find” | Blaine would be tl nee of the repul “A great deal of nonsense has been written | times a lodge having fifteen or twenty inmates | all civilized and Christian nations are engaged | in war. Individuals. wounded by them, if not | ont en masse, when submarine bente have all pete ing lite of comfort | in the cellar of the Blair mansion in the suburbs | turty bis detent he Cenead rock es about the depraved appetites of Indians, what ort of spoons. Then one or two of | with for the purpose of discovering more | killed outright, are likely to recover. ‘During | tle ships at their mercy when airships can hover and contentment, but | of Washington proved a potent and im- | Pert? B he case of nasty mesees of putrescent meni, fish and oil | these useful vehicles will be passed from Indian | effective means for wiping out hostile armies | the late civil conflict in Chile an excellent op-| over fortifications and cities and reduce them life of seclusion and ex- it factor his failure to effect | {Tench newspaper compares the case of the they make way with, and other like fe to Indian, each one sucking in turn of its con- | and fleets, While busy with smokeless powders, | portunity was afforded for comparing the rela- | to ruins by dropping explosives, there will be chuatvaicalicaanaes.* is contemplated capture of that capital. | American statesman with that of Prince Bis- fast stop a moment. Go down t tent® or thrusting his or her fingers into them. | the chief object of which is to make the foe | tively slight injuries inilicted by the new-| nothing for the human race to do but to abandon Gach we te ere, too, was Gen. James Longstreet, com- | marck, supposing that his failare to secure the ech uot thn eieewk tre the chances | “The solid pieces of that come out | visible, the tment has been keeping | fashioned projectiles when contrasted with the | for good the great and noble institution called aoe tan | monly known as “Pete,” and Gen. Phil Sheri-| nomination closes the public career of the man are that if you are not used to it Lean order up | of this stew and the slips of dried pine |aneye upon the “smoke grenades” that are | wounds caused by bullets of the old war. Then in truth the much-looked for mil- siven in reply to an in-| dan “and Gen. Rosecrans, who was a first who. after Line oln and Grant, seemed to be the dish of Limburger cheese that will turn your |‘cambium’ are —_usuall dipped with | now exciting aftention in England. They are| Modern warfare is at the same time more | Jennium will have arrived. Reve Bacug. quiry a few days past | classman when Pleasanton was a “Plebe™ and ‘ - rn appetite adrift or a p nN filled with chemical substances which, on ex-| humane and more cruel than any style of fight- Tost popular leader of bis own party. But the news did not excite otherwise the criticism of the European press. Their special attention will only be stirred by the result of the pres- dential election next November. On this «ub- ject the opinion seems to be in Europe that if sectional dimensions in the democratic party continue, President Harrison will serve @ second term without any doubt. he nomins- | tion for Vice President of ex-Minister Whitelaw Reid ix considered over the Atlantic as a source of strength to the republican ticket, though used to teach him mathematics, as well as dozens of others of that day and generation, too many of whom have, alas! passed away, but whose names and deeds will always serve to em- dellish the brightest pages of American history. GREAT Scott! Gen. Pleasanton isa man who never pro- fanes his lips with an oath, nevertheless he is | not guiltless of the use of epithets. Years ago, before the now familiar exclamation “Great Scott” dotted the columns of the newspapers of “games which will drive vou from the seene. SOME PECULIAR TASTES. “With the rotten fish and roe repasts I have never smelled anything worse than the odor of a portion of that particular Dutch | cheese I have just referre y Indian spread that has been under my eyes. An India strangely enough. likes px h h aft fowls; a distinc tten egg he 1 eggs that are well advanced toward hate regarding the welfare and whereabouts of Major General Alfred Pleasanton, whose name and fame a few years ago were on the lips of nine-tenths of the Amer- ican people, and the records of whose exploits as one of the greatest cavalry leaders of our late war would fill volumes of graphic history. Ap- parently in the full possession of all his mental ties, and with no serious physical ailment, plosion, produce clouds of dense black’ smoke, and are designed to be carried in advance by skirmishers and thrown so as to conceal the troops following. Not less novel and remar] able are the illuminating bombs which are being tested by the Italians. One of them cast among | the enemy at night will burst and intmediately | light up the darkness with a power of 100,000 candles. ing adopted among nations in times past. It stops at nothing that will injure or destroy the enemy. During the rebellion when the south began to use torpedoes there was a cry of pro- test throughout the north. It was said that such an abominable me.hod of killing men was not consistent with the laws of war recognized by civilized peoples. Nevertheless it was not long before the ‘north adopted and employed One of the most extraordinary of new inven- | torpedoes extensively. Up to the present time tions in warfare is the French explosive called | explosive bullets have been distinctly set down “melinite,” which is not only effective for rend- | as being beyond the = of recognition by civ- hema Se A FLOOD OF FIRE, Relief Needed for the Sufferers at Oil City and Titusville. Tt has already been announced that Mr. Fred- erick L. Moore, the treasurer of the fund con- tributed for the relief of the sufferers along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal several years ago, had decided to turn over the balance of that fund to the relief committee in the oil regions. exeeptio ii i | , 4 4 " i i yantry, he used it bis t ent | be rather prefers: shell fish are always e: ing and destroying when thrown ina bomb, | ilized beliigerents. The very notion of firing a | ‘The terrible disaster which fell upon the people pes 7 mere eee es — Larhcrearey “yy jelhel dlr ioe ree [mom 6 oral alee — Mr. J Morton, «| pre- by savages, and [ know that if there was any but also serves a purpose similar to that of the — into thesbody of an —— that would of Oil City, Titusville aud vicinity has aroused | unknobe denen ot ee rere Slomyosngehag Tncwwel acomage tek: a . Paris, poompiradey seal keuopereos é : pose fo have been orighiaied by" the Safaceba | horrible and barkaroustethepointer Savage, | Seneral sympathy throughout the country. |tory-can Indian. fighter of great renown, a | gurity aud profanity. He was doubtless the In cumin Au eunsteae: aithah mugs commune tase econ te, | Seaptes espera le during the mnkddle ages, were utilized as late as | But now, forsooth, such sentimental views are | Contributions have been went in and while the | traveler whose face and figure was, at one time | Ventor of campaigns Ef Ge Sent te Mexion | _, The visit of the czar to Kiel and the festivities for they know and app: te the difference | the fingers of the eaters into the pannikin of | the Inst century by the British, French and | put asidealtogether,and in the next war hetween | citizens there are bravely attempting to meet sik! ete ese aie = the case of aweot or | oil. Alleat in this manner, and heartily, with ee ee nae waren | uvask waa of ouuai alihciag and caged tages wiping onthe hair and scanty clothes of the feeders. They all eat in silence, Hardly a word | asses and by the lapse of half an hour they ave finished, all winding up with deep pulls at the water pail and porcine grunts of satisfaction, “The family having dispersed from breakfast the quae fill up that kettle again with fish, i | they have it, or, not having it, with anything just ax rancid butt with them of Nancy were scarcely over when it was pub- caveat to cover it or have it copyrighted for his | licly stated that both the keiserand the czar own especial use and benefit. At any rate it | knew of the visit of Grand Duke Constantine to has served the purpose thousands of times, in | President . And though a German news- printand otherwise. of giving vent to both | paper gave out that the grand duke's action bad umorous and serious emotions. But his | not been indorsed by his sovereign, vet it is a greatest and most forcible epithet is “Great | general impression now that the endden a) Ceesar's Ghost.” When he hurls or hisses those | anceat Nancy of the Russian grand duke had words through his teeth, albeit his voice is | agreed upon by the powers in order to avoid powers of the old world, a scholar, bon vivant, wit and most companionable of all the agree- able public men of his day—voluntarily betook himself to his private apartments ina snug little hotel in the very hea.t of Washington on the 15th day of May, 1890, and haa not since been seen by or talked with, all told, more than a.dozen of his fellow beings. And with two or three exceptions those who have seen or talked Spanish. Smashed among the enemy, they set | free volumes of poisonous and asphyxinting | gases. Melinite is only three times as powerful ‘as gunpowder, but it has the great advantage of being entirely safe to handle. Its base is a coal-tar product termed picric acid, and it has about the consistency of molasses, being poured | into shells and hardening. ‘The fames liberated | by = bursting of one of these bombs are most great and Christian powers explosive bullets are to be a cémmon form of projectile, not fired singly,but discharged into the ranks of the feein streams. At the same time bombs filled vith diabolical combinations of chemicals many times as powerful as gunpowder willrend whole regiments limb from limb, while those who uty happen to escape the flring tragments will be smothered to death by poisonous fumes, A and it isa pity, perhaps, that he did not file the emergency unaided, yet it is known that help from the outside would be more than wel- come, Tue Star will take charge of contribu- tions and see that they reach the proper authori- ties. The following letter received by Mr. Moore during the past week from Mr. | J. R. Campbell, one of the leading citizens of Oil takes the place of batter bat though they know how to) i pre the t the labor | 4 the strong smell whic n kitchens is dae to this + unwashed L a i - | With him since that date have been of those | soft and pleasant to the ears of his listeners, | national excitement in France and on the Ger= deadly. Not long ago, for the purpose of ex-| commodore in the United States navy said to | Oil City, Pa., gives a graphic view of the situ-| With him since that date have opera Fo > 7. | ele they hate in their lander, set it on to stew | perithent, Inks Gon Gus Wu fie Sx © vaseet onl tis] waltse yesterday hatidale too iesetay on | aise necessary to him in administering to his per-|he conveys an impression of earnest-| man frontier. The German view the vinit nd when settled to the us s nt they take it off and stand it up in ite place by the tireplace. ‘There it remains all day, open and free to every member of the lodge, and all | it is being sampled firt by ‘one and other, and no more cooking is done again, sonal wante, BOON COMPANIONS, ‘Years ago an Irishman named Greason, a man of peculiar temperament as well as of queer physical build, opened a hotel and restaurant at the deck of which had been placed a number of sheep and goats. All of the animals not killed | by the fragments of the exploded shell were suffocated to death. One day a French work- | man digging out of the ground a melinite bomb that had been fired three days before was so destruction were regarded as impossible in war—namely, poisoned bullets and_ the poison- | Ii ing of wells. ‘Surely it will not be long before ho prejudice against even these will have van- ed. ness, indignation or surprise that do not | of Alexander III to Kiel as a positive sign that reside in any other vehement and italicised | peace will be preserved in Europe for a | expression. With his eyes half closed, with | period than was ly expected and disgust or contempt or derision marking every | the “coming war” is not a subject of discussion feature, with his dainty little fingers twiddling | #o long a« “a cordial entente” reigns between the air, so to speak, as his small hands are | Your telegram, just received, waa a cheery ‘ht of sympathy in the midst of our gloom. Since last Sunday morning we have been too busy burying the dead, feeding the hungr: clothing the naked and ’ finding roots for t hich are dis 2 d TORPEDOES AND TORPEDO BOATS. homeless to fnlly appreciate the extent of our | the f 13th and E = =) meee y eye a ee a So pee A "i ND TO! '. ome! » frilly ay corner of and E streets nofthwest. | thrown upward above his head, combined with | words of the article, “between fish is ever | until toward evening or sundown, when the head | far overcome by the gases which it still ex- faventt disaster. No specific appeal has been made by fe va "res y, the | y the squaws, ¢f the ledge returns from the day's chase or | haled as to be with difficulty restored. One of the most astonishing inventions of our cities to the count =i Hor heretofore the olf | Cet Pleasanton was a favored guest, or | the peculiar nervous motions of hit body, the | and the Hohencollern. fishing. Then, whatever he brings, be it flesh, fish, most likely it will be ‘served up in ettle just ax breakfast was prepared, with the same simple accompaniments, VENISON AND FISH. “But maybe one of the squaws takes a fancy to roast a piece of venison or to roll a fine fish in grass and green leaves, then to bake it in | the hot ashes and coals of a hard-wood fire. She knows how to do this, and do it very well, but it makes hera great deal more work when she has to prepare food in this fashion for fif- teen or twenty ravenous mouths, She thinks about it, and if she thinks twice she usually resorts to the stew kettle. ch in brief was the routine of an Indian f their rude dressing it tor ronsting before object to saying that water king or pepper; | no no condiments whatever. “The Indian in his daily search for food takes mosteverrthing that he comes across and he quite ® large variety, but when it comes out from the kitchen the result is that it all tastes ebout the seme jay boiled in a| hettle where fish were stewed 5 goose goes into this kettle tomotrow—in the meantime the kettle bas never be jeaned or emptied fully of the leavings day's re- ere the material for the next day's dinner thrown into modern times is a new torpedo boat now under- going trial at Detroit under the eyes of govern- ment experts. It fairly realizes the design of the imaginary Nautilus created by.the fancy of | Jules Verne. In fact photographs of the craft as it lies on the surface of the water and nearly submerged strikingly resemble the pictures of the submarine boat which illustrate the ro- mance of the French author.- It is cigar- shaped, pointed at both ends, and has a small dome-like turret on top, through a glass in which the steersman looks along the level of the wa While running thus the twin screws are driven bya steam engine. When the vessel wishes to sink the little smokestack is unshipped and down the cigar boat goes beneath the water, which closes over it while it pursues ita way at PUTTING THE FOE TO SLEEP. The object of civilized warfare being not to kill, but to disable and capture the adversary, it | has been suggested that shells, instead of being loaded with destructive and deadly explosives, should be filled with powerful though harmless drugs, which on bursting would spread a sleep- producing vapor. Thus an entire ship's com- | v might be plunged into involuntary slum- | " by a single bomb, and in like manner whole regiments and brigades could be forced to re- rign themselves to sudden and helpless repose to be revived later by their humane captors, The somniferous gas ought to have as nearly possible the same specific gravity as the atmo- sphere, so as to be dispersed in the latter and patron, who besides eating and drinking, | man who hears him utter them at once grasps Also had lodgings with oa Grenson,” a8, | the impulie of his thoughts and. understands was in the habit o' . And it/ that his vocabulary of vituperation has been was through « combination of the efforts of | exhausted, that in that way only can he “do | tTibuted to keep the European press busy last that strangely assorted pair that the exclusive- | the subject justice,” and that he has nothing | Week, such as the journey of Bismarck to ness of the dainty litle old-fashioned hostelrie | more emphatic to say. For example, when | Vienna, the great strike in » the insult was kept up in those days. ‘Ould Greason” | some luckless blunderer may mistake bim for | to President Carnot at Longchamps by three had a way of making any one he disliked, or | the other Gen. Pleasanton of blue-glass-cure | persons, who, anys a dispatch, were released the frhose patronage he did not desire, feel that | notoriety, he is at once overwhelmed and | next dav; the great reception tendered by Eng- his “absince was more welcome ‘than his | silenced with the exclamation, “Great Scott! lund to the Prince of and the hoisting prisince,” and the general had his own man-| No, sir. Iam not that man. sir. That is | of the flag of Great Britain for the first time at ner of demonstrating social “-freeze- | my brother, a militia major general, who lives | Fez, Morocco, by the mew minister of ber out” that was equally as effective. But there | in Philadelphia. Great Casar's ghost, man, ty. was one thing beside the eating and di what do you take me for? Who do you think i| _ 4 French leading ne . the Journal des they had in common each with the other, and | am? Great Cmsar's ghost, no, sir!” Drbats, speaking of this last fact, seems to be- lieve that England is trying to establish her in- that was horse, the love of the horse. If there! And then, if hie humor is inclined that way, | was anything that the old cavalryman did not | he will launch forth into a stream of reminis-| fluence in Morocco in the same way es whe did region has taken care of ‘itself in its many mis- fortunes and responded liberally to all outside calls, But this casualty came upon us when a long period of low prices for our commodity had drained the resources of our wealthiest, and we must have liberal assistance for the desti- tute homeless ones, not only for immediate needs, but to carry them until self sustaining. Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Erie have all sent money and committees of investigation, and, impressed with our needs, have returned home | to raise further funds. I'wired you briefly the situation and will mail you newspaper with local details, but the half “cannot be told nor « forecast be made of the poverty, sickness and deaths that will be eansed by the catastrophe. Titusville, about eighteen miles north of Oil OTHER INTERNATIONAL TOPICS. Bat there are other questions that have con- N b iG. ‘ f an ‘ : ‘ ighteen Of | know about a horse it was certainly something | cences of the embarrassments and provoking | in Egypt. It is reported, in fact, that the wew Jess cooking gives and re- | kitchen year in and year out, and it will be ob- | hang in clouds about the enemy, neither rising | a depth of ten fect or more. ‘It can stay under | City, on Oil creek, is quite a manufacturing % i ; ~ gs q nt dlavor to everything that comes from | served that the great bugbear of dish washing | in the air nor falling to the groand. * | tor half an hour comfortably, the supply of air | and oll refnine point. ‘the homes of the work ee roll Teabece poael situations he was subjected to in Paris twenty | English minister plenipotentiary, after a jour- the kettle d. u (¥—at least, it is so dk never troubled Mrs. Lo. But freedom in this ‘thers that the High explosives, hitherto untried in either military or naval contests, will play a large and important part in the warfare of the futui The most powerful at present known is “e1 plosive gelatine,” being fifteen times as_strong as gunpowder.’ It is made by dissolving gun cotton in nitro-giseerine, the preperation he- ing the consistency of honey. Unfortunately it is very unsafe stuff to use in battle, because a odd years ago, when the blue-glaas-cure craze was at its height all over the «peculative and credulous world, and when, ashe once expressed | it, “The people here and over there seemed to | necting all the cities on the coast know more about blue glass than they do about | to Morocco, also the admission of the men, the real men, who commanded our | the armies during the war. Confound ‘um! Blue glass? No, sir! Great Cmsar's ghost; confound ‘am! sufficing for that length of time. Vhile it is submerged the screws are run by batteries in which electricity is stored by the steam engine. The interior is lighted by electricity. A new kind of automatic torpedo, which does not carry men, is called the “Victoria,” and has been recently offered to the British govern- ment. Its motive power is compressed air, contained within it, and it is steered and con ney through the country, has asked of the gov- ernment a concession for . from ‘Tangier to Fer and a telegraph line ¢lared by our palates. satisfied—they simply eat to hive, and t ures of the table they count of less value mh the ease of their labors in the cuisine. THEY APPRECIATE GOUD COOKING. “Still Indians appreciate good cooking and were in the full knowledge of making a variety of feast dishes which were very good. They respect did not save the aboriginal woman from | far heavier burdens and toil than that ever borne by her white sister. “I think outside of the buffalo feasts of our | red men that the only real unalloyed pleasure | that they ever took in eating was when they went at stated seasons of the year for berries | and nuts and when they were able to pick and | | roast their green corn. These occasions were | peers were scattered over the flat lands bordering the creek. Rows of pretty little houses, with their gardens and surroundings, extended for nearly a mile. An immense fall of rain (some say a cloud burst) near the top of the water shed some twenty miles away tore away several dams and the liberated waters repeated the Johnstown die- aster, Tanks at the refineries were lifted from himself on it was his thoroughbred trotter, the best and the best kept and best equipped road horse in the District of Columbia. - So they dis- cussed horve affairs by the hour and told and Fetold horse tales by the day, week and month. general then dro out of politics, wherein be never did dabble much, Sod hed stepped enide out of the stream of fashionable, snd i i ficial life, whereon nieces en ee bullet striking it will set it off by concussion, | trolled by means of an electric wire from shore. | their foundations and their contents, almoat in- | 2°}442r ¢mcial life, whereon he bervlicwmpry Baga leg lading teehee chy ny ce Pepto [sep peng poe ge gee Bihderstood the making of gravies, thick soups | truly epicurean, as we understand it. and the | No explosive is good for fighting that | It moves beneath the water, ae the | stantly fired, were carried in immense flames in | West Point down to the of his friendly | make his diagust felt more decisively. It is the subject of serious discussion, iy in and corn brew! aud the baking of fish and | pleasure arose in their minds because there was | can be touched off by shock or otherwise than | object of its hostility uns if the operator | every direction. In the little time that hed | association with his fellow. n. They got | general’ belief this eccent rows out of a | France and Spain, where it is ‘that meats toa turn long, long before @ white man | no kitchen work connected with the serving of | by actual contact with fire. A novel kind of | wishes to seo just where it is on ite course he | elapsed between the finet rush af creer ng one slong ewimmingly together, and one of the | Seerly implanted religious aewee which overs | ax egies cccupation of Morocco would ever set foot on the American continent, but | these items.” bomb Js dilled with what the inventor calls | touches « button and it jumpe out of the waves | awful flames many bad been rescued and cat- | most familiar sigkle ont on the Tach ereeee reed | See sep anted religious sense, Garing bis | tically give Rugind tho hay of she Molen. the wooden dishes. such as platters, birch ‘bark | DON'T LIKE CONDIMENTS, Haas ach ead trae raat cngredients, | like a dolphin, The torpedo most favored by | ried to the higher lands, ‘You may imagine the | in those days wes Grenson sleek and eloas top | Moet naticnes cance ee ering {bis | cally give England the key of the Mediter. Kettles and spoons of maple or bass wood were | Indians like the cooking of the whites in | binitro-benzole and nitric acid, are in separate | the avy arg here is the invention of | fate of those remaining in their houses. They | buggy, in which he drove @ bright bay | meaning, let me explain that his beau ideal of a | London, in answer to the argument Recalls changed ith ancient odors a 10 | every respect save the use of pepper, much salt | fas vemels, which are broken "when the shot | Capt. Howell, U.S... It is worked on the| were licked up, almost literally, and. thelr | PUEEY: sleek and clean. oftentimes | great soldier, the greatest soldicr of modern | br the [press of Patie wed. Maia, potnis eet or pickles; they did not like our eat mente, bat | # red, their contents being mixed together by | principle of ‘the gyroscope, having a wheel, charred and disfigured bodies were only saved from utter cremation by under the water. ‘The same story almost is to be told of Oil City. We were congratulating ourselves that the flood had reached its height, when the foun- dation was washed out from under a tank con- | that taining 17,000 burrels of benzine at a refinery about a mile above us. The swift current car- ried it rapidly along, churning the volatile fluid into vapor, which exploded in several nearly simultaneously. Houses were down and men, women and. into the water or burned to death in an instant, At one point, where a narrow road rans under | }o a high bluff and the channel was close to chore, many spectators had gathered and others were trying to help the sub: residents. In an instant the air was full of flame and but few escaped alive. Our firemen worked nobly, but could not help the mabmerged. They prevented with his chum, the general, at his side. There. was @ marked contrast between the two—the | poleon Bonaparte,” ax he phrases it. There general being slim of build, erect and prim. | are few lines ever printed in this country or | always soldierly in every attitude, while his | abroad about the first Napolcon that he bas not companfon was thick set, bump-backed, with «| read. Nothing delights him better than to talk squatty attitude, his chin thrown forward so | about the career of that remarkable genius, and short fat neck pressed down against his he finds no little gratification in airing his famil- broad chest in the unsoldierly position of go- | iarity with even the smallest details connected | as-you-please. were an inch or two below with it, Invariably he concludes conversation upon this topic by producing a printed slip, Printed at his own expense for general free cir culation, relating a soliloquy said to have been uttered "by Napoleon at St. Helena, in which comparisons are made between the world’s greatest conquerors and the founders of its | greatest empires or kingdoms, - HIS PIPE ABANDONED. Two years and half ago, or more, the general .| called the late Dr. D. W. Bliss to his aid, and v f the # | = comes oe | | the rapid revolution of the shell “and exploded when soft and warm, is relished, and pastries and sweets of all kinds, Tea and coffee | they cared for very little, but acquired a taste which is spun up toa tremendous rate of speed Simes, he finds in, Napoloon, “the great _Ne- before the torpedo is discharged from the gun Owing to this device it maintains a perfectly straight course. The trouble with the cele- brated Whitehead torpedo is that it is hard to guide and is very apt to go crooked, If it| strikes the object ‘aimed at, however, some- thing is sure to happen ‘immediately. On| April 12, 1891, the Chilean insurgent battle ship Blanco ‘Encaiada steamed into the harbor of | [paraiso for the purpose of doing some dam- age. After accomplishing this Dbyees toa con- siderable extent she came to anchor for the night, not taking the trouble to put out her torpedo nets or even to keep a good watch, Prevently along came two torpedo boats, the Almirante Lynch and the Almirante Condell, belonging to the other side in the war, and they fired ‘halt x dozen Whitehead torpedoes, re. sembling #0 many big steel fish, at the Blanco the fact of-the practical ition of the re- gency of Tunis by France and of the fortifications of Biserte by French o_o cently undertaken. skill a time fuse. Wonderful accounts are given | ‘The fact was of the havoc created by the bursting of pro- | jectiles of this description. Up to the present time no method of throwing high-power ex- for rum rapidly. Usyally it was spit out quickly | plosives from guns by means of gunpowder has when first taken into their mouths with a look | been proved successful, although one scientific of great surprise and disgust, but when the | gentleman has wasted 300,000 of Uncle Sam's peculiar effect on their brains was anderstood | money in experiments, which only resulted in a became earnest beggars for | bursting many valuable a However, spirits, trials that are being conducted under gover Indians never had regular meal hours; they, | ment auspices with a new mixture pone after rallying in the morning at breakfast, ate | “emmensite” seem likely to solve thia problem, aguin whenever they felt hungry thereafter dur-| Until now only pneumatic guns have been ing the day, men, women and children. If the | found available for such purposes, family kettle became emptied by the lack of | Flying machines for use in war have engaged provision during the day the hungry members | no little attention of late on the part of inven- of that lodge would go into a neighboring one, | tors, Maxim, the designer of the famous gun, if not far off, and freely help themselves there. | ciaims to have produce’ ono which oe be eo If the stores were exhausted in all He di ii vehiiens ‘then, the} alec of. “peng trolled. He declares that he can fill his aerial Kettles was xbout all that they ever got before being recharged with a fresh supply of the raw ‘material. “A small fire and a slow simmering, stewing | of meats and dish, vegetebles and berries was the invarinble fenture of lodge tires when the | Pilgrims first looked in upon them. The wooden pans or keitles were liberally charged with meat | €ut into chunks aud partially filled with water which was made to boil by reason of hot stones regularly thrown in and taken out as they cooled to make way for freshiy heated dorricks, which were kept in reserve among the embers of a steady fire. “As soon as the iron kettles of the white men daughter of the Duchess of Edinburgh to the heir of Roumania and of the probable of Princess Maud of Wales to Prince Ferdinand ‘rom i & : E i : i : such as Europe has been dreading for a long time,” inasmuch a# at prevent “* parently doing her utmost,” concludes the quoted cable, “to give offense to tie France Boscia alianca | car with explosives and hover in it over the city | Encalada. One or two of the torpedoes hit the | the #pread pf flames on dry land. = aan were shown to our Indians the labor-saving | to bed supperless was nothing for | of ‘London? holding that great metropolis at| ship, and the latter was blown up, with great | We hud a well-orgunized relief association, SEASTOVEaM, qualities of these vessels were at once appreci- | them—it only served to stimulate them to/ ransom to the extent of,as many millions of | loss of life. But this is not deemed a good test | composed of our best citizens. They at once Correspondence of The Evening Star. Sted by Lo, who made the utmost haste to pos- | energetic hunting, and they never referred to | pounds as he chooses té mention. Thus sit- | of effectiveness of torpedoes in warfare, | opened rooms and cot to care for the v sews himself of them. But be did not change the subject among themselves as being the uated he can announce his terms by dropping » | owing to the fact that she was an old-fashioned package containing a statement of them | w: craft, It is very doubtful whether and his ultimatum of ‘‘cash or crash!” His | such a torpedo would sink a man-of-war of the contrivance is a cylinder of aluminum contain-| modern type, provided with separate water- ing three-fourths vacuum, its collapse being tight compartments. prevented peewee: ribs inside. It is propell RAMS IN FUTURE NAVAL BATTLES, and steered by electric gear, and is further sus-} Naval authorities assert that rams will be the Nene atthe aiee Me OES STEGE ascot effective weapons in the naval coxifits of compensatory nature that brings tho machine | the future, In the building of every battle immediately back to the horizontal when it| ship nowadays much attention is given to mak- ing the stem as powerful as possible in order tends to vary therefrom. that she may ram an adversary effectively. BALLOONS FOR WAR. that sho nisy ram an adve Depar ce conflict on the sen are reverting, fetes jeans Sins baw. eeey” ewe | evens te tone practiced 2,000 years ducting experiments with balloons for military when Rome was mistress of the waves. purposes. It will exhibit at the Columbian ex- ‘Then vessels of war were propelled by‘two or position one of its new “balloon trains,” con- | three banks of oars; now they are driven by fisting of three wagons. One of the wagons|two or threo screws, Then, as now, the carries a balloon packed in a basket, while the | most deadly blow was’ struck with other two convey cylinders charged with hydro-|a ram. nm, a8 now, the com- gas. When it is desired to send up the bal-| manding officer stood in a “conning tower” , itis taken out of the basket, connected | directing the movements of the ship, issuing with’ one or more of the cylinders, and is ready | orders for the Jaunching of missiles against the to make the ascent in fifteen minutes. It at- , and at the critical moment “giving the tains an elevation of 2,000 feet, remaining at-| stem” to an opposing craft. In order to com tached to the earth by a wire rope, through | tive the power of » modern ram imagine a which a copper wire runs. The copper wire| ship weighing 5,000 tons driven at a speed of connects a telephone in the balloon car with | fifteen miles an hour against a floating ‘antago- other tel rg ean ey #o that direct | nist, The force of the blow can be figured out communication is maint i desired, the tiplying, the mass ‘into the square. of telephone wire may be continued to the head- . ‘Twin screws help quick steering quarters of the ing general miles | o much that a vessel so equipped is hard to | pl away. Meanwhile, the ers in the balloon | strike, but practice in this kind of maneuver car can overlook the position and intrench- | menta of the enemy, being from the hostile lines. Sketch maps destitute. Our hospital awociation has been for months preparing plans for » large building. Uitded a tecant house, fitted it 2p &c., and at noon thenext day had it roaning patients, Doctors and nurses ten- ered alled service and soothed the agonies of the suffering and closed the eyes of the dying. “Sanitary matters have been looked after by an efficient board of health. As soon as the wpters subsided the debris was ransacked and many bodies taken out. ‘Today the entire ety in first-rate sanitary condition, for which we have been highly compliment by the representatives of the state health and the governor of the state, who have been with us in person. At'Titusville the same action has been taken, regardless of cost—trust- ing to the country to help us out. We estimate at least $200,000 will be required bills so incurred and in regular hours. self-sustaining basis—this for the the terrapin and all. the and the intervening eighteen miles. eo highly in days of yore have over $100,000 has provided. But be has everything his do for us among your may crave and, be gratefully received jously distributed. the result at all of his cooking. and stewed everything a» heretofore and failed to wash the iron pots. The act of roasting and Baking meate and vegetables involved a vast | deal more labor for the squaws,and the slov- enly and expeditious stew whereby enough for elarge number of voracious feeders was as quietly prepared as if tor only a few eaters— is universal stew became well established He simmered | fault of any one that there was nothing to eat in the house, but rather regarded it as something that ought to happen once in @ while. iit Loses setae Written for The Evening Star. “Out of Thy Life.” “Out of thy life,” could I but find Where the waters of Lethe run, Like some pilgrim of old without stlver or gold, 1 would journey from sun to sum. to regard or ‘as the impulse of the hour prompted He had always been a great smoker, but ie generally » regular cora-cob | ora plain reed stom with aPowbstan bowl,and | and Miss Mollie Shaw. Bev. Mr. among the savages long before white men were Anown to them. “An Indian warrior or buck when at home,or when squaws surround him, never gives the least atiention to the kitchen—not a hint or a a, but takes what the woman or wo- men of his household bring him without a mur- mur. But after these bucks have lived in con- tuct with white men they often cook at their own firesides, the pattern set them being too forcible, since the white trappers and pioneers Were skillful and particular in the preparation ef their meals when they had the leisure. ‘THE INDIAN LODGE OX THE PoTOMAC. “In order that a clear idea of the manner in which the Indian kitchen was managed every- ‘where in this country of ours before our civi- Mzation broke it up, let us look back a little wore a century aad regard an I ing 5 chamber, where he bas lived so long the life of voluntary exile, he does not smoke at all. In other wards, instead of smoking, as the o Oe, ma ome fire,” that is light- ‘one it another, and #0 on, day in and day out, as inveterate a smoker a8 Blucher or Bismarck’ or Gen. he smokes In quest of that fount I hath not seen, ‘Yet fabled in song and prose, But with waters as sweet and limpld, I ween, As dew on the heart of a rose. cream crepon and carried bouquets of Le France roses, After the ceremony the invited guests, ho were quite numerous, adjourned to the dining room rtook of @ sumptuous ‘The bridal Couples were. the recipioute of ‘I would journey unaided save by the stars, Scarce paustug to break my fast, O'ercoming all my progress bars, I would drink and forget at last. ‘Onward, famished for life's sweetest good, ‘Onward through forest and gien, In search of Lethe, that priceless food For the sons and daughters of men. Washington, D. C. ~- ~~ *e0e A Wonderful Set of Chessmen. | New York Home Journal. | FE é MLA rf F i ab E i indian summer house or lodge as it stood there on that Pent chore he arsenal is located today, at the of the Potomac and the Eastern Og le yor plo shelter of a member | owhatan's band, # hunter, who, with his | Pie ‘two or three squaws, six or sever: children and | Period of costume and équipment is A. D. 1194, ee ee eae mp eant eyo pe the chsracters being historical and con- summer and who will it down in No- | ten strictly accurate in detail ember and return to the winter village of his | “mPorary end strictly ? on the James river with the store of meat and fish that he shall lay by for the hymeveal solstice. “It is = June morning tl the sun is high in the heavens fe there the least “tepee;” the inmates, F : E ii Fr ie & ° id E is obtained by Euroy officers with twin- screw launches, w with well-padded bows, rash at each other and fight as men do wit 10 ‘The modern man-o'-war’s i i | i I I i i i U Hl , and not un- e H F ! i i i i i I i ; gE ! | BE i ? i F ; it 2 E i | f i i & f } li i i H { af i Mournfal, though birds make musi-, flowers sur- round— And then all’s gone! It isa shadow dies, No more, when God commands our pinions rise! Seaton Dowomo. ul k & F f rt & i it F E if i GEE uriahed 8 F i i Ee Hi WE