Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1895, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. : Btorage Ware Houses: 2° st. near M. es clean and renew your LACE AINS for you. We use a cleaning west of ofr own wo ‘S$ a Winner. ‘lid te tel you about it in am tnter- tiew. Carpets. -—Takes a lot to make a display in our Carpet Department—lots of room to fill up—lots of chance to make a magnificent showing. We do it. It’s practically selecting from everything—when you buy a Carpet here. Variety’s unequal- ed. We can interest you in the prices. Dig, healthy, full-grown reductions in order this week. 6m yards Extra Heavy , in handsowns design: y De. yard. Now... yards good quality Tapestry Brussels. Were Sve. 1. Now. 600 yards of our Celebrated Agra Carpets. Regular price, $1 yard. Ingrain For- 3ike. s7e 69c. yards hest quality Tapestry Erusels. Former price, 73e. yard. Now 405 cards Gedy Brussels, hand- fowe patterns, with borders to mutch, Regular $1 yard quality. Now : 4 tons, close 450 Carp: yards American Axminster uamdsome parlor designs. g rule Now. - wh Axminster Car- $1.co r price, $1. Now Wilton Velvets. Reg- 8s ular $1.35 quality. Now Se ee nglish quality Lino- . Was Tie. square yard. Now 50C- 4 . Mattings: 100 rls Mut Worth $5 3 per roll. Now. . $3.50 Jointless Mat- $10 per roll. g ~ 97-00 ) rolls Heavy. ti 200 rolls best quality Hea Jointivss Matting. Regular price, $16 voll, Now. 10.00 wt — wee ATLAS TAS FOUNTAIN, Magie Combination of Spray and Eleetrie Lights. From the New York Bvening Post. The Stieringer fountain stands in the very middle of the main division of the lake, which ts within easy view of every pert of the grounds, The site originally chosen was the center of the plaza; but this had several disadvantages. A crowd, for example, could gather around it and intercept the view of those behind, and it would be in danger of dwarfing by con- tact with the long lines of the paths and the acreage of green turf. In the middle of ‘2, however, ro crowd can gather; a@ surface ef smooth water annihilates all standards of proportion; and, ost striking ideratina of all, the lake will act like and not only expand the eppar- of the c dock t e ram Mertj- an of anythin’ the rver to rid hi asion of an armored v erative part of Imost dr: nd going ix ical impression is stili furthe: iced, for here is surely the space b n decks of a qu bottom than al a horizental outlt Kk leaf, 100 fe the widest part of the mide ys ten feet of head + wood, and over that from an iron fu er is let into ain will look from ying island of rough of pipes de, Climbing a Is nat om. the tne sho tone. A the | uninit sense i lead trom pumps to the perforated piping on the rcof. The pumps will be five in number, with a capacity of 21,000,000 gallons in twenty- four hours. The pumping plant at the position, it may be remarked in passing, is larger than that of the city of Atlanta, With its permanent population of 110,000 souls, The pipes on the top of the fountain will be so pierced as to throw fn the form of whi tains. g in ring and a mist bank. hydraulic atein » ring cur- ingly and olas in colo: l be used for the ¥ and the water ne hintdred rious will be ned, wh them when the fountain is in full 19%) pounds to the ure of ffected through cir of of the fountain, is set as in a sk I he passed the plates of colored hich are to give the water its se nd beneath all will be pla verful electric asting an 009 candle pawer. RINGS AND PINS. They Recome Precious to a Woman From Pleasant Associations, From Harper's Bazar, ‘The love of one's personal property Is instinctive, and a wi gets to feeling for her rings and pins a sort of affection is made of a whole sheaf of min- 5 and which glea ns The engagement the w ng rings are, of se, but while they cluster around th the sweet memo: of the happiest perlud of a I's life, other rings are almost equally prized. This one was bought one summer in Venice or Geneva. Tt is a souvenir of a charming trip. The other lost and found a half dozen E to haye a re to its eare 'S or unforte te she m: the opal ring a host of legen Superstitions weave their shadowy halo, and there are people who duced to wear the beaut? ere they in reference luck in its w Jewels possess the ers in less ephei Ha 4 were in nd go, but gems, er. 1 to carry nutiful un! and to look at the smol- ¥, the deep cool green ana the golden heart of ely a beautiful and delicate about gems, ee Wife of the Wrench President. From Harper's Bazar. Much of the.success of President Faure 1 public man is said to be due to his Madame Faure is domestic in her and cares comparatively little for society, but none the less she entertains charmingly, and with the aid of her two daughters, Madame Rene Berge and Mlle. Lur ure, she h state recep- tions at the ee from the dull, formal functions they have hitherto been, Madame Faure is an ex- tr re ely intelligent woma’g and her wit and ly repartee have become a proverb. (Copyright, 1895, by Irving Bacheller.) (Continued from Tuesday's Star.) IL. He said this quite unconcerned, and not a bit ready to argue the puint out with me. It was all very well for him to glide over it in that easy way, but what I wanted to krow was where had Michel Grey first heard talk of us? That the gossip was new to him was evident from the fact that he played billiards with my master the very first night he came to Paris. What chatter he had heard was heard between supper that evening and breakfast two days alter. And this was what troubled even tn the face of Sir Nicolas’ tale about him taking drugs and forgetting. “There’s danger moving,” I thought, “and if you're married within the month, Nicky, I’m a Chinaman.” This is how the thing looked to me then and for days after. While, on the one hand, Michel Grey talked no more, either to me or to Sir Nicolas. of his suspicions, on the other hand, I could see that he would have no truck with us, and was doing his best to make his sister think as he did. That he did net succeed in this ts to be set dewn to many things, but 2bove all to the fact that for days together he would hang about the hotel like a man without a mind, and was, as ell the worid could see, totter- ing fast to his grave. What drug he drank cr where he learned the habit, no man ‘could say, but a more pitiable spectacle What Drug Ke Drank No Man Could Say. than he made, looking for all the world like a blind thing come cut of a coffin, I hope never to see. Luckily for us, there was no affection lost between him and Miss Dora. Talk as he might, the day was rare when she did not plan some excursion with my master. They spent h her out at Fontainebleau or Ve were half their lefsure time at the picture galleries, the other half at the cafes and theaters. i saw them walking arm and arm in the I saw him kiss her when she went i ig in the morning; I saw him her when she came he again to dejeuner, and I began to think that all he was right and I was wrong. all ofa n, the trouble came, and ke up from our dream like men ro by artillery fire. el Grey had disappeared. For the e since we had heen at the hotel he had changed with my master over the dinner ta It did not come to blows, but the hands of the people around alone kept the two nen apart, and Sir s heard by twenty folks to say out of the American That night and the aid not sleep in his bed de Lille. At 10 o'clock two mornings later his sister Dora was knock- ing at my master’s door, wanting to know what he had done with him. : I can see her now, with her pretty hair streaming down her back and her face that flushed that she might have been rub- bing her cheeks with a glove. Many wo- men would have thought nothing of a man going off like that; but the quarrel stuck in her head, I suppose, and she was as scared as a rabbit. When Sir Nicolas came out to her, she was no longer gentle with him as she had been before this, but stamped her foot and spoke angry, with quick, biting words. “Well,” she cried, know, of course” “As God is my witness, I know nothing,” said he. “But you were with him last—you were the last to sneak to him.” “Indeed. and I was; and when he'd done he went straight to his bed room. 's not les that I'd tell you at such at the Hot, “where is he? You “Then where is he—what has happened to him—what shell I tell my father? Oh, they love him at home; indeed they do.” She began to cry at this, and my master teok her hand. “You poor little thing,” said he, drawing her head down upon his shoulder. I harm him, whatever he w too? Don't ye see, 3 gone off in a bit of 2 huff, and will be back befote your tears are dry. the first to laugh when he w “He is not the man to do that. n@h she was no longer an: med of him ail Sir Nicolas do when her a great ki td this but ei rst out laughi y Spent Hours Together. as ¢ as I am, little woman, and don’t you think any such thing. Whatever put hat into your head?” ‘I could not tell ou,” says she. “We do not think these things; we know them.” At this he set off laughing again, and did his best to cheer Was poor work he ma of it at the best. By and by, when he had seen a-nice little breakf. ent up to her rooms, he came @ took it thought he would. “Wel he, “the fool's gone right en & o word or sign yet. I'll begin to think by and by that harm's come to him.’* “In that case, sir,” said I, “it's a pity thi vhat was said two nights ago couldn't wer: n I hai 7” he asked. t's no good disguising ed to murder him.’ it—you PEAMAREPTON. AUTHOR “OF THE 1MAPREGN “Good God! Would they think that?” “There’s some that might.” a He stood stock still when I had said this, and his face was very white. “It's luck to make one gnash the teeth,” vaid he, presently. “I'd have married her within the week.” : “There's no reason why you shouldn't row, sir,” said I, “always supposing that it's well with him. But there are things to do.” ‘You think so?” ‘Certainly; and if it was me concerned I'd be up at the police station before the cleck struck again.” “Do you believe they would find him?’ “They might, or they might not; but it would be cover for you.” I'll do that,” said he, shortly. anything else?” “One thing,” said I. “This young fel- low has a father in America. If three days pars and we hear nothing of him, send a cable out to Boston, and advise that a reward be offered—a big one, say ten thousand dollars. Meanwhile, offer a reward of two thousand francs yourself.” “But Vd nave to pay. What's the sense in that?” “Sir,” said I, “if Mr. Grey of Boston will offer a reward of ten thousand dollars for the recovery of his son, there is one man weko will find him.” “And who is that, pray?” “Myself.” He looked at me with blank amazement. Then he said, quite simply: “Ye're a clever man. I'd be sorry for the day when we parted. “But we must part, sir,” said I. =o no time for nonsense, sure,” said 2. “And it's no nonsense I mean, sir. If I'm to find this man and to claim this re- ward, the work must be done away from here.” “Where would it be done, then?” “From the house in the Rue Dupin, where we lived two years ago.” He thought over it a little while, then he said “It's the devil of a head ye've got. you come to think of it?” “Common “There's ma. ‘Is there and How nse taught me, y a worse friend, .* © A week after this talk I :eft the Hotel de Lille 2nd took a lodging in a little house in the Rue Dupin. It was the first time in my life that ever I'd set to work to hunt a nan, and I knew at the besinning of it that I had 2 stiff job before me. Notwith- standing the light way we had taken Mi- chel Grey’s disappearance, seven days had sed and no living soul had heard a word of him. He had gone like a light in a wind, and had left neither letter nor messace. While some were bold erough to say that Nicelas Steele could have told the tale, the many were deceived by the pains my mas- ter took to trace the missing mar. None the less. it was not hidden from me that the police were watching him, and that eny minute he might be face to face with the greatest peril of his life. My _obje-t in moving from the hotel to Rue Dupin was a simple one. Jona- n Grey, the father of the missing man, had walked into the trap we had set for him like a child into a sweet stuff shop. His answer to his daughter’s cable w: immediate. “Offer the reward,” he sa and we had offered it. That is to say, had printed a thcusand bills and ed them, ‘Once get those bills about Pari I to Sir Nicolas, “and your man’s here couple of hours. That don’t suit us, w : nd dollars are at stake—not h If Michel Grey is to be found ing to find him, and to bank half name. The other half ig cht.” ay against that,” : “it's what I was th myself. But ye don't tell me claim the m and all the ing that you're my s that ye're dealing with Yankee: vret nothing, sir,” said I, “and ikes me to the Rue Dupin th had im Pascoe, the tout?” o other. If there's anything in Paris that’s news to him I should be glad to he: of it. He'll do the job for a hundr pounds, and gladly ‘Ye don’t “Fear,” I about Jim P: ear to trust him?” eplied, “why, L know enovgh uy a dozen men “This was a true word, and half an hour after it was spoken I was seated with Jim in the little bit of a cahin in the Rue Du- pin, where I told him the tale. Jim was a man whe got h ing the best way he eculd, but chiefly at Auteuell and Long- champs, and in being father-in-law to the English mugs who want to “do” Paris. If y one could say what had become of Mi- chel Grey he was the man; and I'd hardly got the words out of my_ lips when he jumped down my throat with his theory. “Bigg,” says he, “your man’s in a drug den—and, what's more, he’s in a private drug den. It’s a wonder his people hav: had any note for money before this t is, if Grey hasn’t a banking account of his own in Paris.” “I don't follow you there,” says T. “What do you mean by a private drug den?” e where they dose ‘em and “MH shops y trap A man with nt for him so long n they knock Fim dor leave him to sleep ft off in . You couldn't have named a worse job, I doubt that you'll ever set eyes on Grey again, if you live to be a hundred.” This was a facer. I'd thought all along that the American was laid by the heels in some opium shop, but that we should haye any difficulty in getting him out was a fact thai never entered my head. (To be continued Thursday.) — DEBS A WRITES POEM. One of the Contributors to the A. R. ; U. Leader's Magazine. From the Chicago Tines-Herald. One hundred thousand copies of the La- bor day edition of Eugene Debs’ Railway Times are being sent to all parts of the country. It is a special edition for dis- tribution at the gatherings of labor or- ganizations. The paper consists of sixteen pages, with an illuminated cov The list of contr s includes the fol- lowing poem by James Whitcomb Riley: Them Fiowers. TO MY GOOD FRIEND, EUGENE V. DEBS, ea fell It shal And all so knocked With a stlit upp t him up all alon s dark as the tomb, nnd And then take snd send him some roses in bloom, Aud you kin have fun out o’ him! You've seed him, ‘fore now, when his liver was notched like a saw, bby, for romanein’ round Posey biach in ver paw. when his health is away, e tek In distress, n yer little bokay and not be insulted, I guess! . what his weakness ts, flowers mal him think of the days Lis Innocent youth, and that mother 0° bis, And the roses that she ust to raise; So here, all alone with the roses you send, uint, v eyes is—old friend, ef they ain't! —_—_—_<+eo— Every Day Was Sunday. From Puck. Jones—I've noticed one thing about Philadelphia.” Brown—“What's that?” “One can run down there most any week- day and spend a Sundey.” ——— She Should Have Her Way. From Puck. Mrs. Fashion—“T've picked out a husband for you, daughter. Miss Fashion—“Very well; but I want to ht here, mother, when it comes to buying the wedding dress, I'm going to select the material myself. ses Is—my 'm blamed * Mr. NOW ON THE WANE The Season tin May is Drawing to a ~~ Close. a The New Argjvals Do Not FMl the Gaps Made _by Those Depnrting— Many Waghingtonia: is There. ae Correspondence of The Evening Star. CAPE MAY, N. J., August 31, 1896. The season here is rapidly on the wane, and every train carries away some of the Czpe’s summer Visitors: Others are com- ing, it is true, but not enough to fiil the gaps, and already the hotel keepers are be- ginning to sigh’ over the coming death of the short season of profit. Many of the hotels will remain open during Scptember, but the people who come to pass that love- liest of all months at the seashore expect reduced rates. That i8 the month when life is gayest for the cottagers, among whom innumerable card clubs are being orgun- ized. A favorite form of this amusement is the whist matinee. Many of the ladies are really expert players, and have studied ail the latest authorities on that serious game. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Noyes left Cape May Jast Friday evening, to the great regret of their many friends at the Stockton. During their stay here Mrs. Noyes took part in a ladies’ bowling tournament, and carried off one of the prizes. ‘Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Moore of Washington are passing a few days at the Cape. They are at the Stockton. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Snvth of Washington are exected at the Brexton Villa Saturday for a fortnight’s stay. Mr. Smith is clerk of the Supreme Court. Mrs. Skiles and her daughter, Miss Helen Stiles, are still at the Windsor, and expect to remain until late in September. Mrs, Otis T. Mason and her daughter were summoned to Washington on account of a robbery committed by a woman left as care-taker of their Mass.chusetts ave nue house. The thief had employed as- sistance and had obtaired packing boxes in which to move the valuables. They had intended remaining until the latter part of September. Before leaving they were join- ed at Brexton Villa by their friends, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Frazier, who remained until Monday, when they returned to Wasning- ‘ofr. I. Andrade Penny, son of the Vene- zuclan minister, is among the latest ar- rivals at the Stockton. Mr, and Mrs. Harry King arrived from Washington a few days since, and are set- tled at Congress Hall. ‘est of the hotels here advertise to re- main open during the greater part of Sep- tember. several of them offering special rates for the end of the season. Mr. Daniel Coogan cof Washington is at Corgress Hall. Fi Mr. J. Stone Abert is among the Wash- ingtonians at the Windsor. Mrs. S. C. Palmer and her two daughters, Miss Grace and Miss Helen Palmer, are visiting Cape May. They are at Brexton Villa, on Ocean street. J. D. Graves of Washington is at the Stockton. = Mr. ond Mrs. Blair Lee have rented a cottage for the remainder of the season cn Pier avenue, and are comfortably set- tled with their family. Several tea-gowns or wrappers were worn at one of the re¢ent morning hops at Con- press Hall. Tue; wearers were dancing, too, and the effect, was very odd. Dr. and Mrs,, H, D. Fry passed Sunday at their cottake,’ on Perry street. This is the first visit?they have paid to the Cape since their return from abroad, ow- ing to Mrs. Fry’syillness. While here Dr. Fry went fishing. and captured seventy- five finny beat! Mrs..B. A., £2 fin, Miss Annie Callan, Kate Callan, Mr. Thomas H. Callan Mr. James FR. Appleby are among ingtopians at Carroll Villa. > bieycle craze has taken a ve upon Capé May. The beach set road for {he wheel. > last bal) oF the season will be a ial_heref at the Prof. jes for thirteen Titam Daviss inday with nether at the C a Mrs. C. Newbold and Mr. J. C. if the Stockton, hington fs visit- the Oriole. Ing the Cape. Mr. Richard Cr ¥ of Washington is sister-in-law, Mrs, Marion Mill- y, at their cottage on South Mr. M. M. gs of his new home on M: etween Lith ard 15th J. G..Ellis and arrived at the ington E They are at the Lafayette. Mr. Henry Smith and his daughter, Miss ape Maude Smith, came up from the Point to spend Sunday. H. F. Ashion is visiting Mr. Horace ke at the Stockton Cottage. Miss Lucy Collins of Wasington is at the Brexton Villa, Miss Anna Fallon ts expected at Brexton Villa Saturda: Mr. Richard Cook has joined his parents, Dr. and Mrs. G. Wythe Cook, here and ex- pects to remain until late in September, and Mrs. Willett Trego, Mrs. P. L. mpson and Mr. Pearce Thompson of hington, who had been at the Cape r some days, left for Atlantic City last . George Fort Gibbs, the talented artist and writer, is passing a few days at Cape May. —_— POWER OF DIVINATION. What Hos Been Noted in the Case of Suecessful Business Men, From Harper’s Bezar. “Business is business," says the man vowed to, that life, and so it is unquestion- ably, but equally personality is personality. ving the latter out of consideration throw business calculations about as far astray as those of the astronomer who does not allow for personal equations. Thi the sucessful man of affairs fully under- sian When it can be recognized there {s noth- ing more interesting than watching the aetual consultation of a busine: n with the promptings of his own soul's equations. Such power of consultation is not pos- ed by all, and invisible with many of those who have it. I remember hearing a man describe such a rare with an older friend ; the keenest financier. The propo- sn which the young man had to present s reasonable, seemingly sure of success, and he himself believed in it enthusiasti- cell ¥ ung business velation in an id it before the old fellow,” he said, “one by one meeting and explaining the vexed points he raised. He ceased ques- tioning me finally because the patent value of the proposition seemed proved so far as words go. He nodded affirmation as each heading was chegked off. I felt emboid- ened to ask, ‘What do you think of it, sir? And then I saw @ curious sight. The old fellow sat motionless, looking away into space, his blue eyes growing innocent and far away as a child's who is listening for a distant and familiar voice. I could have sworn he heard something which I did not. inally he turned ‘to me with a smile and shook his head. ‘I can’t exactly believe in your plan,’ he said. I sat staring at him. i knew, and he knew, that his reason was it was, an instinct alone that e cld man back—an instinct in which erstitiously trusted, and on which he obstinately acted. It was the most extra- ordinary thing I ever saw. The more so that events have proved the warning voice gave him private Information which was more than correct. he plan failed dis- matly, as I too*well know.” Extraordinary or not, those who come in contact with successful business men will see the same phenomenon repeated over and over in greater or less degree. Call it a genius for affairs or what you will, this curious power of divination remains still as unexplained a mystery as any other kind of second sight. —_____ ++ —____ The Convict’s Meed. From Purk. “Ten years’ solitary confinemen ‘The terrible words fell upon the prison- er’s ear, and yet he flinched not. “J am innocent, I swear it! but—” A glad smile lit up bis eye. “At last I shall have time to read the Sunday papers through!” And the clanking of his chain made mer- ry music as he trod exultingly to his dun- eon cell. WHALES’ LEAPS. Gigantie Jumps Taken by These Monsters of the Deep. From the Philadelphia ‘Times. “Speaking of jumping,” said an old sea- man who had keen watching some boys playing leapfrog on the sands, “let me tell you of the greatest jump ever seen. It was many years ago, when I was little more than a lad, but E was bow oarsman on a whale boat belonging to the ship Hen- ry Staples. We had had bad iuck for sever- al weeks, when one day we sighted a big whale, and two boats set off in a race to see who would get there first’ It was fairly smooth, what the sailors call a white-cap breeze, and our boats fairly flew over the water. Finally the whale rose not one hundred yards away, head- ing -directly for us. The harpooner stood with his iron all ready to throw, while we grasped our oars nervously, prepared to jump at the word ‘stern all,’ that nearly always came when a whale was harpooned. Not a word was spoken, and suddenly a mountain of black appeared; it seemed to shut off the entire horizon. Up it went until I distinetly saw a seventy-foot whale over twenty feet in the air hovering over us. : “The mate was the first to regain his senses, and gave the command ‘stern all.” Just as we were ready to spring overboard the boat shot back several feet, and the next second the gigantic animal dived into the ocean, just grazing us, having com- pletely passed over the boat in the biggest leap -I ever heard of." Such gigantic jumps are rare. A sim- ilar one was recorded by Dr. Hall, who at the time was a midshipman on the ship Leander. They were lying in the harbor of Bermuda, when all hands were attracted by the appearance of a very large whale that suddenly appeared in the harbor and seemed very much alarmed by the shallow water, floundering about violently. The young midshipman joined a boat's crew that started in pursuft, and just as they were about to strike the whale disappeared, sinking out of sight, leaving a deep whirl- pool, around which the boat shot. Before it stopped up came the whale, having in all probability struck the bottom, and went into the air like a rocket. 30 _complete was this enormous leap,” says Dr. Hall, “that for an instant we ‘saw him fairly up in the air, in a horizontal position, at a distance of at least twenty perpendicular feet over our heads. While in his progress upward there was in his spring some touch of the vivacity with which a trout or salmon shoots out of the water, but he fell back again in the sea like a huge log thrown on its broadside, and with such a thundering crash as made all hands stare with astonishment, and the boldest held his breath for a time. Had the whale tak- en his leap one minute sooner he would have fallen plump on the boa’ Comparatively few people have seen a large whale, but we can imagine what an object an animal seventy feet long and weighing as many tons would make fiying through the air. Within a week of the. writing of the present article I was drifting along the shores of Santa Catalina Island, California, when a sixty-foot whale almost cleared the water about a thousand yards from the boat. I was about to ask the boatman what rock it was, when the great head descended rose into the air as the mon- by, the famous whaler, chroni- mber of incidents of jumping me leaving the water ng twenty or more feet among wi! complete into the air. Many of the inhabitants of the sea are good jumpers, and some have hecome fam- ous. Among them shoujd be mentioned the tarpon or silver king, a h fish with seales that gleam like silver, which consti- tutes the famous game fish of Florida. The leaps of this teautiful creature are cften astonishing. Several years ago a steamer was rushing down the St. John's river. The captain was sitting on the fore deck leaning against the pilot house, when sud- there rose in the air a beautifal skin- ing lish four feet in length. It came like an arrow and landed in the lap of the cap- tain as neatly as though it had: been placed there. i In Pacifie waters the tuna, an ally of the horse mackerel, is noted for fis leaps. Sometimes a school sweeps up the coast, and the powerful fish, often weighing elght uindred pounds, are seen in the air in every direction. They are Ke an arrow, turn gracefully five or six feet in the air and come down, keeping the water for acres in a m, and, if not the greatest jumpers, they are certainly the most grace- ful of the ieapers of the sea. 0 CHICAGO'S VEGETARIAN CLUB. Students Who Thrive ou “Garden Sass” at $2.50 n Week. Fiom the Chicago Adv We are watching with much interest the development and results of a vegetarian club which Las been started Im the interest of students of Chicago University. It is of course a private enterprise; has been in existence about a year; began with less than a dozen; has now a membership of about thirty, its full ecmplement, and is obliged to turn applicants away for the lack of necessary facflities. The uniform price for board is $2.50 per week, and it Is claimed that the menus compare favorably with those of ordinary meat-eating clubs, where the members pay $3.50 and $4 per week. We quote from a small pamphlet setting forth their system: “We use fruits, grains, vegetables, nuts, dairy products and eggs—in fact, every- thing of the nutritious sort, except the flesh and bones of other animals. The varlety of fruits and vegetables is so be- wildering, and the possible inflections in their preparation are so nearly endless, that the most exacting epicure may be sat- isfied. “We sit down to our breakfast table in the morning, .and there comes before us a v1 of oatmeal and cream, or it may be 2 wheat groats or som? other of farinaceous preparations. Ss we may begin our break- t with a plate of fresh fruits or a tempt- ing dish of fruited toasts or fritters. Fol- lowi :) jay come eggs in some of the ys in which they are served, wheat cakes or muffins and maple sirup, a baked apple, Saratoga wafers and Welsh rarebit, with cecoa, coffee and milk as beverages. Our luncheon may be of chop- ed cabbage with cheese, corn bread, olives, spaghetti with baked squash, sultana puffs, nuts and raisins and milk, At dinner s and croutons—the most ico—sweet or Irish pota- ed beans, mushroom cro- r, sliced tomatoes and sert of strawberry short- iced and hot, and lemonade sphate are our invariable din- tees, Boston quets or or cherry p ner beverage ‘The menus of no two days are alike, and in the daily preparation of the menus care is taken to supply the demanded amo Be of albumenoids, carbo-hydrates and minerals.” As to the effect of this diet upon the lividual the pamphlet goes on to say: After a few weeks of fruits and vege- tables there will come over you a feeling of buoyancy and emancipation that will be truly beautiful. Physically you will feel clarified and refined, your brain will be more obedient, your muscles will be newer, your temper will be less unbridled, you will be heartier and healthier and your con- science will enjoy a complacence that only the purified feel.” -——__+0+______ LAID TO REST. Last Rites Over the Remains of Col. McDonald. The interment of Col. Marshall MeDon- ald took place yesterday at Oak Hill cem- etery. The services at the grave were pre- ceded by a short service at the family resi- dence, 1514 R street. The officiating clergy- men were Rey. Dr, Snyder, assistant pastor of the Church of the Ascension, and Rev. Dr. Perry of St. Andrew's Church. One of the floral offerings was from the employes of the fish commission. The horNwary pall-bearers were Col. J. M. Wilson, superintendent of public bulld- ings and grounds; Col. Procter of the civil service. commission, Dr. G. Brown Goode of the Smithsonian Institution and Mr. Faison of the consular bureau of the State Department. The active pall-bearers were a detail from the Confederate Veterans’ Assbciation, Maj. J. D. Darden, Maj. R. W. Hunter, C William Brown, Magnus S. Thompson, John T. Callaghan and CoL John F. Prutlen. A delegation from the Sons of the Revolution were also present. President Cleveland and others sent per- sonal letters of condolence. THE ELECTRICAL OUTLOOK Problem of Transmitting Power for Lon: Distances Influence of the Discovery of the Utilization of the Alternating Cur- rent by Nikola Tesla. Ficm the Review of Reviews. When Nikola Tesla last gave to the world the results of his explorations into the fleld of electricity, the predictions which he ven- tured as to the possibilities of his discover- les were skeptically received. That was two years 2go, in a lecture which he deliv- ered before the electrical congress in ses- sion at the world’s fair. “His work is bril- liant, but of what use is it?” said one of Europe's ieading savants when Mr. Tesla had finished; and in this exclamatory in- terrogation the learned scientist voiced the generai opinion of the whole congress. Mr. Tesla was regarded as a theorist and his inventions as impracticable. A few wceks ago we witnessed one of the triumphs of this industrial age, the yoking into service of old Niagara herself. While this event is yet news, there comes the an- nowncerent that one of our great electrical companies has formed a business alliance with the krgest locomotive works in the country, with the view of substituting elec- tricity for steam on our railroads. These two projets are themselves an answer to the question asked by the incredulous sa- vant: Of what use fs Mr. Tesla’s brilliant work? for neither of them would at this time have been practically possible but for his discovery known as the “rotating mag- netic field,” which opened the way to the. conversion (by means of the alternating as against the direct current) of electrical into meckanical energy and the economical transmission of power through long dis- tances. This discovery forms the basis of the NIi- agara Company's attempt to utilize on a large scale that er-ormous power which for centuries has been running to waste, and thus to turn machinery in towns and cities so far away as Buffalo, twenty miles dis- tant, and perhaps New York and Chicago. And it underlies the hardly less bold ven- ture of the Westinghouse and Baldw: companies to drive a through railway ex- press by electricity. "It is not too much to say that the Tesla motor is behind all the large attempts at power transmission by electricity which are being made through- out the country, not only in the fields of manufacture and transportation, but also in mining, irrigation and farming. The Alternating Current. The “rotating magretic field” was discov- ered by Mr. Tesla over ten years ago, when the problems engaging the attention of the electrical world were the furnishing of light and the transmission of sound. The advantages of the alternating current as applied to lighting were already recognize: but no attempt had been made to adapt it to motor work, if, indeed, it had been seri- ously thought of. The direct current then in use was difficult to transform and not practicable for long distances. Mr. Tesla was at least the first to conceive an effect- ive method of utilizing the undulating cur- rent. As every one knows, a small piece of soft iron, when placed close to an ordinary magnet (or bar of iron around which is passing an electric current), will be ‘'rawn to the magnet and adhere motionless to it. It occurred to Mr. Tesla that if instead of a bar of iron he should take an iron ring and use two alternating currents, so regu- lated that one would be’ positive in value when the other was negative, he could, by means of wires wrapped alternately about the ring, produce a magnetic current which wouid travel around the ring in accordance with the frequency of the alternations In the electric currents. His theory worked in practice, and he thus had a magnet the north and south poles of which revolved while the magnet itself remained stationary. A piece of iron piveted at its center and placed within the magnetic fi of this ring, and concentric to it, would, therefore, be revolved by the changing poles of the magnetized ring. In this way Mr. Tesla was able to convert electrical to mechanical energy much more simply, economically and effectively than it had been possible to do it by the direct current. It was now only necessary to pass alternating currents around the axle of a wheel in order to set in motion the machinery of a mill or drive a railway engine. For transmission purposes, a3 well as In transforming electrical into mechanical energy, Mr. Tesla was soon able to demon- strate the superiority of the undulating over the direct current. It will be sifffi- cient here to say that by means of his motor, which {s only a development of his ring magret, power may be sent long dis- tances with but small loss. The magnitude of the field opened up by the Tesla motor will be apparent when it is considered that ten years sgo it was not economically pos- sible to transmit power more than a few hundred feet away from che source of pro- duction, while today its transmission is no longer a question of state of the art, but one of capital only. Power Sent Long Distances. As early as 1891 Mr. Tesla’s method was successfully employed in the experiment of sending 100 horse-power 109 miles, from Lauffen to the Frankfort exposition grounds. In southern California there has been in oreration for two or three years a plant which transmits power equivalent to 10,000 volts from a waterfall to a substa- tion at Pomona, 13 3-4 miles distant, and San Bernardino, 28 miles away, and ‘there is now being projected, also in’ California, an enterprise which will involve an out- of from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 for sup- % motors in San Francisco and adja- cent cities ‘h 20,000 horse-power from the outlet of Clear lake, es to the north. Mr. Tesla believes th easily possible at the present time to place 1,00) horse- power on a Mne at Niagara and deliver it to New York or Chicago, with a loss in energy of less than per cent, and it would seem that the ( ct Construction Company is also persuaded that this is within the limits of practical achievement. The alliance of the Westinghouse and Baldwin companies is in line with the policy recommended by Dr. Lewis Duncan in his address on the substitution of electri for steam: in re ¥y practice, del! 2 last June at the Niagara meeting of the American Institute of —that of making electr of an enemy of steam. This union of large railway end clectric interests would seem to mark the beginning of a new era ia traction, coming as it does along with the substitution of electricity for steam by the Old Colony road on its Nantucket division out of Bcston; the adoption of an electric instead of a steam engine by the Baltimore and Ohio railread, for use in hauling heavy express and freight trains through the long tunnel underneath the city of Baltimor:, and the installation of an electric line by the Penns ania road from Mt. Holly to Burlington. The purpose of the Westing- house-Ba'dwin combination, as officially an- nounced, is to develop the possibilities of the Tesla motor as applied to railroad serv-~ ice. It is declared that with this motor power is assured sufficient to draw cars at the rate of 150 miles an hour. This is per- haps the possible speed under favorable conditions of road and equipment rather than the rate likely to be attained in every day travel. The System Used. The method of clectric traction in use on the three roads named fs the trolley, the power being supplied to the motor or motor cars from the central station by means of wires. It is the same system that is in general use upon our electric street rall- ways, except that the alternating instead of the direct current is employed, the direct, as has already been noted, not being practicable in long distance transmission, The trolley, either the overhead or the underground, is the only method that has so,far been demonstrated as suitable to general railroad practice. By means of the Tesla motor it is now regarded by con- ]ofant Health It is a matter of vast importance to mothers. manufacturers of the GAIL BORDEN EAGLE BRAND CONDENSED MILK "sue a pamphlet, entitled “INFANT HEALTH,” YORK CONDENSED MILK COs s5 Haden NDEN: 71 Hudson Street, New York, ; nutritive tonic and table <j beverage [know of. Beware of imitations. ‘The genuine /ohenm Bops Malt Bx- S fract has this signature 5a7~ on neck label, E!sver & MENDELSON Co., Agents, New York. ASK FOR THE GENUINE JOHANN HOFF’S MALT EXTRACT. = a servative railway men and electricians . entirely possible to run trains under this system, say from New York to Philadel- phia, or through multiplication of the power stations, from Bcston to Washing~ ton, or even across the continent from . New York to San Francisco. But whether or not it would be feasible’? at the present time for our large companies + to change from steam to electricity, i Part or throughout, fs another question. These are transition days for electric trac- tion, and it is not probable ihat any of’ them is at present willing to go to the ex- pense of equipping electricaily a consider- able part of its line with a system which may soon be rendered obsolete by some’ new method. Perhaps we already have this new and superior method of traction in the com- bination steam and electrical engine upon, which Mr. Tesla has been at work for’ many months. The invention has been taken over by the Westinghouse Company, and it is probable that it is this applica- tion of the Tesla motor that the i alli- ance is to develop. This engine is design- ed to do away with the use of the un- Popular and well-abused trolley. Instead of drawing its power by wire from a cen- tral station, the engine generates its own power by converting steam into electric energy and then into mechanical. By this- transformation a large per cent of the power that is now wasted In steam loco= motion is corserved. From ihe same amount of fuel Mr. Tesla has Jemonstrat- ed, experimenteliy, that he can casily cb- tain twice as much effective energy, and pened favorable coriditions three times as mucl The Principle Involved. He effects this saving by means of @ “mechanical and electrical oscillator,"—an engine which is in itself a dynamo, and which operates with small frictional Iecses, The principle of this mechanism rests on the law of vibrations. With the machine - electrical currents may be transmitted of a perfectly constant period and at an abso- lutely certam rate, and so regitkited as to rive with precision an engine or a watch; thus, in railroad practice, overcoming the wear and tear to which cars are now svb- ject by the continual change in steam pressure. The Tesla “oscillator” is really a power staticn on wheels, instead of a loccmotive designed to draw a trein of cars. The power which it generates fs communicated to the wheels of the cars ~ as weil as to its own. This is accomplish- ed by applying the principle of the “ro~ tating magnetic field” in simply passing aliernating currents around each axle. Thus an even, steady motion is attained and favorable conditions afforded for a high rate of speed. ‘ Nikola Tesla, who is thus helping so ef- fectively to solve one of the great indus- trial problems of our day, the econo.nieal transmission of power, is still a you! man in the very vigor of life. His work has only begun. Comfort in Walking. From Hurper's Bazar. Whether the foot is well or ill-shaped, no one will walk well with it who brings it ecwn as the squaw does—that is, with the weight upon the heel. The connection which the spine has with the heel canses the jar, when the heel first touches the ground with the weicht of the body on ‘t, = te be felt even in the brain; and uncon- sciously the brain and body try to defend ; themselves, and interfere with the whole business The ball of the foot—that is, the pertion at the base of the great toe—should first touch the ground, the heel coming down immediately afterward, but with the shock spared or distributed. This xives every part cf the foot and every joint of every toe its proportion of work and fair and that all ate needed any one knows who ever lost a little toe or even the first joint of any other. Virgil told us that the godess was known by her gait; but what with hich heels and pinched toes © and urcertain steps, we are afraid that very few women would be taken for god- © Gesses nowadays if they depended for it upon the way they trip aldng city street or forest path with feet not quite as deform- | ed as a Chinese lady's are, ‘but by no means = feet that kindly Mother Nature gave them. A Summer Gi: Frem Trath. ““They only met last summer, and nobody knew they were engaged, so I suppose her announcement that she will be married ; soon will surprise everybody, don’t you?” ~ “Yes, I know it wili be a real shock te > ker fiance.” Surprise. Shorten it with Cottolene ig- stead of lard and see what a crisp crust it will have; how delicious and wholesome it will be. Pie made with Cot- tolene will do a dyspeptic good. Do everybody gocd because it is good. Thereis only one secret in cooking with Cottolene—use but two- thirds as much as you would naturally use of lard. 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