Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th 8t., by ‘New York Oifice, 49 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers tn the elty by cartiers, on their own account, at 10 cents Per week, or 44 cents per month. Copies at the counter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere fu the United States or Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents pez month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage added, $3.00, (Entered at the Post Ofice at Washington, D. C., &8 second-class mail matter.) 7 All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. of advertising made known on sex The Xoening WASHINGTON, D. C ,» TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1896-FOURTEEN PAGES Qrinters’ In& (fhe fittfe schoo? master of advertising), saps: Jt is cfa:med for fhe Washing‘on Stor, and profasfp fru‘$tuffp cfoimzd, Bat no offer new sraper in $e counfrp goers info 60 farge Q wercenfage of aff fhe Gouses wif8in a radius of {wertp mifes from f§e office of pubiicafion. TOILERS TO MEET ——— The Federation of Labor Convention in Indianapolis. TMPORTANT TOPICS 10 BE DEBATED —-—- - Probable Action on Pending Ques- tions Affecting Labor. WHO WILL BE THERE Correspontence of The APOLIS, Ind., November 29, 1896. coming annual convention of the ican Federation of Labor will be the greatest representative labor body that has ever convened in this country, if not in the werld, according to the opinion of Presi- dent Samuel Gompers, who yesterday talked as follews to a Star corresponden - n of the American Federa- tion of Labor which will assemble in Cin- cinnati December 14 will be composed of representatives of nearly all the great trades unions of the United States. “It may be necessary to dispel an illusion Prevailing in the minds of many that these Evening Star. gatherings of the American Federation of Labor are meetings of great masses of men (there tes); care to inves- being but about re aware, or, if aware, m te adopt t ventions are attended by an apparently small number of deiegates for an orgamza- m of suck vast nume strengih, the of L. being fully -mbership of the A. F ing of large numbers never was and never can be a reasoning, intelligent | legislative body; that where large numvers weet in conventions, whose time is neces- sarily limited, the work is really decided by the manipulators of what becomes not a convention but a ‘machine,’ awaiting only the formal indcrsement of the assembled delegates. In other words, a few constitute themselves ‘the bosses,’ while the masses simply become their ‘tools of trade.’ ‘Teaching Citizenship. “With this object lesson constantly be- fore the workers they have profited by it. ‘The trade unions are in their very nature the acme of democracies; they retain all that is best in representative gatherings, iscarding all that is vicious or tending to evil, hence it was deterinined that the con- vention of the federation shall be com- posed of the smallest possible number of delegates consistent with the rights of ali and still give the full voting strength of the membership represented The constitution of the American Feder- ation of Labor provides that an organiza- tion with less than 4.000 members shall be entitled to but one delegate: f; 009 Sa, Es rom 4,000 to but two delegates; from 8,000 to 16.000, thtee delegates; from 16,000 to 000, four delegates; from 1) to G4,000, five delegates, and so on. Thus it will be seen that the membership increases geometrical ratio to an arithmetical crease in the number of delegates ,who shall represent them; yet, in order that the full rights and wishes of the masses may bave full weight and influence, each dele- Bate casts one vote for every 100 members he represents. “In the hands of this gathering of th representatives of the real workers of our country the interests and hopes of all are committed. To this convention the gaze of all are dire>ted; on Its decisions grave ques- tions of the future depend. “The work of a more thorough and com- plete organization of the workers is of paramount importance to all things else. here need be no apprehension that the workers, when once organized, will fail to find a ‘way out’ of their unjust environ- ments, but to organize them, to organize upon a permanent basis, is the first ques- tion, and to secure that we must earn and deserve their confidence. This we have al- ready obtained to a large degree, and we should continue to extend our field of oper- ations until the righteous shield of organi- zation covers, protects, defends, advances and emancipates all the toilers. To dev the pians by which this—the organization of ali the workers—may be secured is the first duty of the convention. Hours of Work. “The question of securing a reduction in the hours of labor; the enactment of cet- ter laws to advance the interests of the workers, adult and young; the means to fully present the claims of the wage earn- ers upon modern society; the creation of @ healthier public opinion of the demands and the underlying principles of the iabor in a movement; to beat back the forces which seek to crush the organization of labor; these and a host of other questions of greater and smaller moment wlll come be- fore the delegates to the Cincinnati con- vention for actior and de “Muen of our succes: the manner with w h we coi ou fairs—the wise con jon at w arrive It is hoped that each © will feei that upon him rests the sibility of rei e & the be: ests of the working their hopes, their bt 2 here- after are in his nards, and that afier the work is done, the workers may with glad- dened and upturned eyes, with ow- lug with exuliation, their hearts throobing with joy, gather aro’ the banner ot labor, that their children with them in one ord will exclaim to the delegates to Cincinnati: ‘Well done, thou good and faith- ful servants.’ ” Organizations to Be Represented. The following neticnal unions will, it expected, be represented in the convention: American Agents’ Association, Actors’ Na- tional Protective ion, International Broom Makers, Journeymen Barbers, N: ional Journeymen Bakers and Conf . International Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union, National Union of United Brewery Brickmakers’ National Alliance 3 -rhood of Hoiler Makers and Iron Bnip Builders, United Brotherhood of Car- ters and Joiners of America, Cigar Mak- s’ International Union of America, Amal- gamated Society of Carpenters and Jo.ner: Retail Clerks’ National Protective Assoc tion, Cai «ze and Wagon Makers’ interna- tional, Coopers’ International Union of North America, National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of America, American Fiint Glass Workers’ Union, Glass Em- pioyes’ Association of America, United jarment Workers of America, Table Kn:fe nders’ National Union, Granite Cutters’ National Union, United Brotherhood of Harness and Saddle Makers of America, International Union of Horseshoers cf United States and Canada, Hotel and Res- taurant Employes’ National _ Alliance, Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, National "Longshoremen's Asso- ciation of the United States, Iron Molders’ Union of North America, Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers and Brass Workers’ Union of North America, International Associa- tion of Machinists, United Mine Workers of America, Amalgamated Association of Marine Water Tenders, Oilers and Firemen of America, Northern Mineral Mine Work- ers’ Progressive Union, Western Federa- tion of Miners, Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America, Pattern Mak- ers’ National League of North America, Potters” National Union of America, Inter- national Printing Pressmen's Union, Stone Ware Potters’ Union, Quarrymen’s Natiou- al Union, National Slate Quarryme: Union, Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes of America, Cotton Mule Spinners’ Association, International Seamen’s Union, Stove Mounters’ Interna- tional, Journeymen Tailors’ Union of Amer- ica, Tin, Sheet Iron and Cornice Workers’ International Union, International Typo- graphical Union, United Brotherhood of Tanners and Curriers of -America, Theatri- cal Stage Employes’ National Alliance, Na- tional Tobacco Workers’ Union of Amer- ica, National Union of Textile Workers of America, Amalgamated Wood Workers’ International Union of America, Elastic Web Weavers’ Amalgamated Association, Federated Association of Wire Drawers of America. Besides these state branches of the American Federation of Labor will also be represented in the convention: Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Ne- braska, New Jersey, New. York,.Utah and Wisconsin. Likewise Central Laber Unions from these cities: Baltimore, Md.; Bidde- ferd and Saco, Me.; Birmingham, Ala.; Bos- ton, Mass.; Brockton, Mass.; Chicago; Cin- cinnati, Cleveland, Chio; Columbus, Ga.; Cripple Creek, Col.; Denver, Col.; Detroit Mich.; Dowagias, Mich.; Duluth, Minn.; Erie, Pa.: Fargo, N: D.; ‘Fort. Worth, Texas; Hartford, Conn.; Indianapolis, Ind. Ithaca, N. Y.; Jacksonville, Fla.: Kansas City, Kan.; Kansas City, Mo.; Leadville, Col.; Lawrence, Mass.; Leckport, N. Y. Les Angeles, Cal.: Louisville, Ky.; Madi. sen, Wis.; Milwaukee, Wis.: Omaha, Neb.: Oneida, N. Y.; Oakhurst, Wis.: Paducah, Ky.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Piqua, Ohio; Port= land, Me.; Rochester, N. Y.; Rockford, Il. San Antonio, Texas; San Francisco, Cal. Scranton, Pa.: St. Louis, Mo.; Tampa, Fla. Toledo, Ohi Victor, Col.; Washington, D. C.; West Superior, Wis.: Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Yonkers, N. Y., and Zanesville, Ohio. ie i FLUENCE UPPERMOST. ‘The Corean King Said to Be Moved by It. R. W. Irwin, who has been in Japan for thirty years and has represented the Ha- watian government there, first as consul and afterward as the minister, during the ereater part of that time, has arrived at n Francisco from the orient. He said: “The statement that Russia has establish- ed a suzerainty over Corea is incorrect, al- though the fact that the king has been housed in the Russian legation might lend credence to that supposition. Japan’s am- bition does not extend to Corea. American nfluence is uppermost in the kingdom, and | 1 am credibly informed that the king 1s | acting entirely under the advice of three Americans. ister Sill, the secretary of d legation and an Amencan sssionary by the name of Underwood Irwin says that Japan’s sole ambition now is commercial and industrial advancement. The government ts encouraging the con- struction and maintenance of railway and steamship lines and manufacturing indus- tries. He declares, however, that a false impression has been gained of the extent and importance of the steamship subsidies recently offered. “The subsidies offered are entirely inade- quate for the purpose of maintaining a powerful line of transpacific steamers,” he declared. “The Nippen Yuzen I-aiasa,which has undertaken to run a line of ships be- tween Japan and Seattle, will think better of the project before two or three years” are passed, and the company which is head- ed by Asano, will, in my honest opinion, never materialize. It will be many years before San Diego is the terminus of any Japanese transpacific steamship line that Asano or any other Japanese capitalists or corporation may establish. Asano’s under- tak:ng is largely a myth. “Just now the trans-Siberian railway is attracting considerable attention in the orient. I believe that in three years the trans-Siberian railway will be completed to Viadivostock and a port on the Yangtsi river, probably Hankow. It stands to rea- son that the road will tap China if it wants to get business. Its terminus will not be ar open port to Corea. It will be a port on the Yangtsi river, the tea market of the world. Russia will build from the Mon- golian frontier to Peking with French cap- tal, and China will build from Peking to Hankow or some point nearby on the river with British capital. This is at present the fixed pregram, and Li Hung Chang will see it carried out, if he lives a few years. He said as much when in England. C¥ina’s part of the program can only be consum- mated by doubling her customs duties. She is now taking steps toward the accomplish- ment of that. —___+ e+ _____ PRESIDENT AND CUBA. Senator Frye Declares That Emphatic . Action Will Be Taken. Mr Frye has been interviewed at Lewis- ton, Me., “by a New York Journal cor- respondent. In regard to the Cuban ques- tion the Senator is quoted as expressing | himself hopeful of action by the President. Of the President he is reported as saying: “His patriotism is beyond question. I hope, nay, I expeci, to see him go out of office in a blaze of glory because of a righteous act in behalf of liberty.. He has the power in his hands. He has shown courage on several occasions, and I say frankly that 1 expect something splendid from him yet. He will act in an emphatic wag. I have gvod grounds for so believing, and as I expect noting of this Congress—or rather of tmis Senate—[ am made very glad by the conhaence which I now feel in the man at the White House.” “And you are a member of the Senate committee on foreign reiations?” “Lam, and my feluw-senators may think it unbecoming in me to taik on a subject inal is likey to come beture us; but, re- sarang Cuban independence, I am wiling wo su on record at any ume. The courtesy j ul tne Senate, so called, must take care of ise.i When human iverty is in the balance -WSt 1t.’” exuctly what shape do you expect the Presiaent’s acuon to iake?"” was asked. must deciine to say, further than that it will be unequivocas.” “What will be the card of the next Con- gress?’ “tlawaii. With President and Congress of one mind the seitiement of that prosiem will be easy. There will not be another lost opportunity to record.” +o EYIDENCE AGAINST DUTTON. the American THE Papers Showing How He Proposed to “Beat” Wall Street. Damaging evidence against Stephen A. Dutton, supposed to be the chief of the Valentine-McLaughlin gang of swindlers, has been obtained in the faise bottom of a box seized in Hoboken, N. J., When Mc- Laughlin was arrested. Among the papers found in the box was the prospectus of the Mud River Coal Oil Company of West Virginia, with an alleged .paid up capital stock of $3,750,000. With this corporation, aud the bogus Standard Coal and Oil Com- pany it was proposed to “beat” Wail street vy fioatug the stock. The officers were S. A, Dutton, president; F. Seeiig, secre- tary, and M. Wickizer, treasurer. ‘I'he gen- eral offices ‘were at Hamlin, W. Va. McLaughlin propused to use a one-hun- dred-thousand-acre tract of waste land in Kentucky, which he claims to own, for a city, to be cailed Hampton Park City. Handsome maps, show-ng lots and public buildings to be erected in the w.lderness, were found. a Dutton is the man against whom is pend- ing a charge of having defrauded Miss Lily Alys Godfrey and her mother out of $55,000 worth of Washington property. The Reading Reorganization. The existence of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company ended at 12 o'clock last night, its place being taken by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, which is being operated under the charter of thé Natidnal, or,"as it will soon be called, the Reading company. At the hour named the receivers, Joseph S. Harris, John Lowber Welsh and Edward M. Pexson, turned over all the railroads and franchises in their possession and ceased to operate the properties. Instruc- tions have been sent out stating that all employes holding positions prior to No- vember 80 will be retained. AN EARTHQUAKE: TRAP Interesting Adjunct to Uncle Sam’s Weather Bureau. SEISMOSCOPE AND —SEISMOGRAPH They Record the Exact Time and Continuation of Earth Shocks. IN THE BIG WHITE SHAFT —__>+—___ Perhaps no other machine employed by official savants for making scientific obse vations has a more interesting function than Uncle Sam’s earthquake trap. It Is baited now for the next earthquake, and the students in charge are hoping that na- ture may send them the much-sought-for game before long. It is the only earth- quake trap in the country, so far as gov- ernment scientists know. It s an adjunct of the natiopal weather bureau, although as yet the meteorologists of that institu- tion do not claim any ability to forecast earthquakes. Beneath the southwest corner of the main uilding of the weather bureau there is a square cell, whose floor is a single slab of cement, extending a foot or more into the exrth, and said to be so laid that nothing short of a tremor of the earth itself can shake it. Unon this slab rests the earth- quake trap, which in the more dignified language of science is known as a seismo- scope. The instrument proper occupies less space than an ordinary mantel clock. In simple words, it is a pendulum which moves when the earth trembles even to the slightest degree, and which at the moment of each tremor closes an electric circult and thereby operates a recording mech- anism. The Machine. A cylindrical weight hangs upon a long link, the latter supported by a horizontal pivot extending through it. From the up- per edge of the link extends a long delicate needle, about a foot in length, which points directly upward when the weight is at- tached. The slightest movement of the weight is greatly exaggerated at the point of the needle. This point, which is tipped with platinum, passes upward through a small platinum-rimmed hole in a flat piece of metal, held stationary with the base of the instrument. So perfectly is the needle balanced that its point normally passes through the center of this hole. One pole of an electric circuit is attached to the weight and needle, at the pivot, and the opposite pole to the metallic plate contain- ing the hole. Even the slightest movement of the earth will cause the suspended weight to wobble and thereby cause the peint of the necdle to touch the rim of the hole. When this contact takes place the electric circuit is closed and a message is dispatched into another building where a recording {:strument is at work. Making a Record. The instrument which xutomatically writes a record of the earthquake’s occur- rence is known as the seismograph. This is kept in the instrument room of the weather bureau, where are installed: the wonderful paraphernalia used in making weather fore- casts and special observations. The seis- mograph consists principally of a revolving cylinder, moved by clockwork, and adapted to make one revolution every six hours. Wound around the cylinder is a broad rib- bon of paper, cross-ruled with parallel lines. The distance between each one of these lines indicates five minutes of the revolu- ticn, Bearing against the paper-covered surface of the cylinder is a small arm, which, if held still, would trace a spirai like the chisel of a turn-lathe. The end cf the arm is tipped with a fountain pen, which makes marks on the paper. A regu- laior clock, which ticks at standard time, is connected with this arm in such a man- ner that every five mirutes the pen point will give a sudden jerk back and forth, making small points in the otherwise straight line. The points thus traced are the same distance apart as the rulings of the paper. The registering mechanism is in the same circuit, which is closed by the needle of the earthquake trap. It is so arranged that points similar to those made ordinarily every five minutes will be traced upen the recording paper by the fountain pen every time the point of the needle touches against the rim of the hole mentioned. Thus the earthquake is denoted by a single point or a series of points falling between those reg- ularly made. The exact instant of the disturbance may then be determined by counting off the number of five-minute marks made since a known time noted when the record was begun and by apply- ing a carefully graduated scale which will show how many minutes, seconds and frac- tions thereof the instant of the shock ex- ceeded the last five-minute mark preceding. Game Already Trapped. The earthquake trap has already caught two earthquakes and one hurricane. The first earthquake caught was that which shook Philadelphia and vicinity on the 1st of September, last year. No one in Wash- ington felt the shock and not even the au- thorities in charge of the instrument sus- pected that the vibrations had been carried thus far with sufficient force to be recorded in any instrument of precision. The earth- quake occurred on Sunday at 6h. 8m. 39s. a.m., and the record made by the seismo- graph was not discovered until two days afterward, and when it was not looked for. Shortly after this earthquake a second was felt in a few places, but not in Washing- ton. It was trapped by this delicate instru- ment, however, in a manner similar to the reeording of the former. Although seismoscopes are not supposed to make record of wind phenomena, the recent tropical hurricane which played se- vere havoc in Washington and other points of the east was recorded by the seismo- graph. The indication, at first thought, would naturally be that the wind on that occasion was sufficiently intense to shake the very earth itself. But according to the authorities at the weather bureau, this, in all probability, was not the case. The wind perhaps shook the weather bureau building to its foundations, and the inclosed earth beneath was made to tremble from that cause. What many men of science are anxious to see accomplished is the placing of ac- curate seismoscopes and seismographs in different observatories throughout the country, as widely distributed as possible. With a network of such apparatus, care- fully installed, the next phenomena of the Kind could be accurately observed, on a broad scale, for the first time in the his- tory of the world. In the Washington Monument. The largest selsmoscope in the world is owned by Uncle Sam, and is used here in Washington, but not for the study of earthquake shocks. This is a copper wire, five hundred and fifty feet long, hanging from the extreme top to the bottem of the interior of the Washington monument. It is protected throughout its length by a Hne of pipe, and holds suspended at its lower | end a plummet, which-hangs in a vessel of oil. Two small transits, arranged at right angles to each other, ‘are kept focussed upon the wire, just above the plummet. Even the slightest movement of the top of the monument may be observed by the transits. The rules of the monument re- quire the custodian to take a statement of the transits every day, and to submit the same to the War Department at the end of each month. The records thus drawn, as shown to the writer, reveal the interesting fact that no change in the monument’s position resulted from the two light earth- quake shocks of a year ago. If the tran- sits could have been watched, however, during both disturbances, some motion would doubtless have been observed. ‘Phe force of the wind is found to change the Position of the top of the mcnument to one side or another, but merely as much as a minute fraction of an inch. On very hot summer days the expansion of the south face of the great obelisk, which face is the longest exposed to the stn, is sometimes found to shift the apex ‘toward the north a few hundredths of an inch. Thus the ele- ments cause the plummet line to move ir- regularly around its normal resting place, but it is found invariably to lean toward this normal when there {s no great heat or wind, Directly after the severe hurricane of this autumn, the statement of the plum- met wire was taken, and it was found to hang only two one-hundredths of an inch off the normal. This was about the usual deflection, showing that whatever the bend- ing of the shaft was during the fury of the storm, it returned to Sts normal post- tion after the elements had subsided. ——— IN LABOR CIRCLES, Regular Meeting of the Central Labor Union, The regular weekly meeting of the Cen- tral Labor Union was held last evening at its hall in Typographical Temple, with President Milford Spohn in the chair, and Mr. James Crowley acting secretary. The most important business transacted was the adoption of a resolution to elect at the next meeting of the organization an alternate delegate to the coming annual convention of the American Federation o1 Labor, in Cincinnati, who will be expected to attend the convention with the delegate heretofore chosen—Mr. William Siiver—and to take the place of the latter in the body whenever from any cause Mr. Silver is un~ able to be present. Three nominations were made position, President Spohn, M snd Mr. William F. Weber. | The committee appointed to’investigate a charge brought to the attention of the Central Labor Union at its meeting last week that the Cranford Paving Company was violating the eight-hour law reported that there was no basis for the rumor. A delegate from the Barbers’ Union re- ported that the propricfor of a 5-cent shop recently started in Washington had tried to hire members of the union to work for him, but that each one who had been ap- proached on the subject had declined to accept a place so long as the tariff of rates for shaving, etc., adopted by the union was not complied with. Mr. John M. Hetsley of Carpenters’ Union, No. 190, reported that the members of his union concerning whom report was made to the Central Labor Union jn the past that they had nat been able to get their money for work: dome on one of the theaters here were still unpaid, and that as much as $100 was due ‘to some of them; also that it was not true, as reported in rome quarters, that they had agreed not to ask for their money until the work was completed. A’ delegate from the Brewery Workers’ Union reported that the directors of the new brewery at Rosslyn had assured their crganization that only unton brewers would be employed there. A delegate from the Plasterers’ Union re- ported that in pursuance of the resoluiion adopted at the last meeting of their union some of the members applied last week at the new Consumers’ brewery for work, but were refused employmept by-the superin- tendent, who informed he. was directed to take this cdurse bY direc- tors because the other craftsmen employed there had said they wotld quit the job if the plasterers belonging to the Central Labor Union, were taken on. A special ccmmittee of “five, Weber, Shandley, McCrink, Proctor and Moulden, was appointed to investigate Some reports in circulation relative to the Operative Plasterers’ Union, which, jt was alleged, were started for the purpose of injuring those directly interested. A resolution was adopted that the acting secretary notify Secretary Torrens, who has not been present at any meeting of the Central Labor Union for a numier of weeks, that unless he attends the meeting of the body to be held Monday evening next his office will be declared vacant. A special meeting of the grievance com- mittee of Columbia Typographical Union will be held this evening for the purpose of hearing ‘statements in reference to ‘he con- troversy between the Operative Plasterers’ Union and Plasterers’ Assembly, Knights of Labor, which has been brought to the attention of the union. The furmer will be represented by Messrs. Weber, Shandley, McCrink, Proctor and Moulden, and the others by Messrs. Clements, Stickels and others of District Assembly No. 66, Knights of Labor. The point at issue is the r.ght of the former to official recognition as an organized labor body, as claimed by the former, and which is denied by the latter. —_——__ LANCASTER COUNTY LINES. for the . A. T. Lewis Messrs. A Receiver of the Pennsylvania Trac- tion Company Appointed. Judge Dallas, in the United States circuit court at Philadelphia yesterday, appointed William B. Given of Columbia, Pa., recefver of the Pennsylvania Traction Company, which operates fifty-nine miles of raflway in Lancaster county. The court fixed Mr. Given’s bond at $30,000, and a certificate for the amount was immediately filed by the Equitable Trust Company of Philadel- phia. The receivership is the result of the application of George H. Lee and others, filed last week. It is understood that the proceedings were instituted by those friend- ly to the present management, and that steps will be taken at once looking to a’re- organization of the property. The road cost over $3,000,000. ——__-+ e+ ____ HIS MILITARY ESCORT, Major McKinley Will Be A€écompanied by the Eighth Ohio Regiment. Major McKinley's military escort. to Washington has been selected. Col. George A. Garretson of Cleveland, chairman of the committee on escort to the President- elect, has offically notified Cql. George B. Gyger of Alliance, Ohio, commanding -the 8th Irfactry, Ohio National Guard, that the personal military escort.of President- elect McKinley from Canton to Washing- ton will be composed of the Sth Infantry and Troop A of Cleveland, Ohio, command- ed by Capt. R. E. Burdick. Upon arrival in Washington, the sth Infantry will formas perscnal escort from the station to the Ebbitt House, after which the regiment will take its ‘place in Jine with the Ohio troops, ard such other personal military escort duty as may be required during the inavgvral ceremonies will be performed by Trcop A. The Sth Regiment Infantry, Ohio Naticral Guard, is composed of companies situated in the various counties which Major McKinley has represented in Con- gress. Of the twelve companies composing the regiment, three companies and also the Hospital Corps and Signal Corps are situ- ated at Canton, the regimental band be!ng stationed at Akron. soe. Death of Prof. Boas. Beauregard Boaz, professor of mathe- matics and astronomy in the College of Charleston, died at Charleston, 8. C., Sun- day afternoon after a short illness, He was considered the most accomplished rathematician of his age in the south. - eg - * Baron Saville Dend. A cable dispatch from London announces the‘death of Baron Savile, who for many years Teld high diplomatic appointments. He was British minister to Saxony from 1866 to 1867; to the Swiss confederation, 1867-1868; to Belgium, 1868-1883, amd +o Italy, 1888-1887. He was born in 1819, was created a baron in 1896, with special remainder in default of mal-issue to Joha Saville-Lumiey. sale, yet —during October and gave due hundreds DICTIONARY, notice toward Come (or write) to the store and WROTE AS HE WAS DYE) A Man Who Took a Does of Laudanum Describes His Sensations. After destroying all marks on his cloth- ing, a well-dressed man, about thirty years old, committed suicide in Chicago the other night, by taking laudanum. He described the effects of the drug in writing until his hand could no longer hold the pencil. The body was not fouad until the next afternoon. The man registered at the hotel as E. L. Bryan, but the police be- lieve this was not his name. Before taking the drug he wrote a letter to the hotel proprietor and another to the newspapers, in which he gave no cause for his act other than that his life had ter- minated in failure. In the letters he made humorous remarks. He conunued his de- scription in his note book of the effects of the drug until all the strencth had failed him, and some of the last of the writing could not be deciphered. As much of it as could be made out ts: “Drank one ounce of laudanum. After five minutes feel little or no pain. Heart ac- tion now pronounced. A slight pain in stom- ach. Note—My stomach is very weak, hav ing suffered for years from acute dyspepsia. “Ten minutes—Condition about the same. Pulse rapid and pains in wrists and a light pain in region of heart. Hand trembl A feeling of dullness, with m pain in all parts of the body. Note—\Will keep up this description of eifects as long 2s possible. Hope it will be of use to medical science. Eyes show change. A feclinz of drows ness coming on. Sort of a feeling of intoxi- n, accompanied by slight fever. ‘Twenty minutes — Pain increasing. A slight perspiration started. Am getting sleepy. Have a sort of num» feeling and no pain.” The last sentences were scarcely legible, so unsteady had the writer's hand become, and although he attempted to write a few more lines, the words could not be made out. The words of the final bulletin became larger as the end of the bulletin was near- ed. They were scrawled so as to be almost beyond deciphering, and their completion was evidently the final effort of the suicide. The other statements which were in the memorandum were undoubtedly written be- fore the drug had been taken, as they were in a clear, bold hand. The first is address- ed: “To the man that ke2ps the hotel: “Dear sir: I am awful sorry to cause you this annoyance. You will get some un- desirable advertising out of it; but, on the whole, it won’t pay you. Still, such things must occur somewhere. In all sincerity, I hope that you won’t think I would have harmed your house for any motive except accident. Regretting the trouble I cause you, and trusting that you will regard the incident as trifling, I am, siz, with great regrets, no more, E. L. BRYAN. “P. §.: No relation to W. J. The man started to write a second ictter in the notebook, but, changing his mind after starting it, seratched t ou* with his lead pencil, and recommenced cn the hetel letterhead. The letter is as follows: “To Any Old Authority, Newspaper, Coro- ner, ete.: “This is just a case of shuffling off this mortal coil, or attempting to do so, for one can never be sure that the most carefully laid plans wiil be successful, and this, like almost every act of my life, .is carcless and bungling, so far. “Who am I? My name is on the register downstairs. I have no friends. I am glad of that, for there wili be no mourners. Byron said his one regret was that he left nothing that caused a tear. My case Is the same, but I don’t regret it at all. People die sometimes and others are glad. Well, I am glad that in my case nobody will be made either happy or unhappy. “Do with me—oh, most anything—just don’t bother to look for friends. You could not find any with a searchlight or micro- scope. Of course, the reason I haven't any friends is because I've been bad. Well, maybe so, maybe not. This world is a big place. Students of right and wrong are Gif- ferent. Circumstances often compel actions ‘without consulting diseases. I have known ‘both success and failure, tasted life's sweetest and bittercst potions, and drained to the dregs the cup of life at the threshold of existence. Hopelessly handicapped by bad health, by injustice and by disappoint- ment. I give up the struggle. I die because I cannot liv “Please leave me alone just as I am. 1 have drunk one ounce of laudanum. I pre- sume this will be enough.” ———_+o.—_ ARCTIC SUMMER HOTEL. A Novelty in 78 Degrees North Lati- tude—Headyuarters for Sportsmen. Spitzenbergen Cor, London Telegraph. I mentioned in my last article the hotel that had been erected on the little spot of land in Advent bay, and, as a hotel in lat- itude seventy-eight degrees north is a nov- elty, it may interest some readers to have a description of it. It is, of course, buili entirely of wood, and is of the ordinary type of Norwegian chalets, with a spouted dragon on the gable in default of a sign- board. The bed rooms are cozy little cab- ins, with port holes for windows, fo: there is no sun to let in during the months, and ore’s chief aim and ob, to keep his rays out while the sun holds all-night sittings, the smaller the aperture the better. It only tock about a fortnight to put up, and already, besides some of the members of Sir Martin Conway's expedi- tion, it has several staying visito: An ¢ Norwegian had mad s_headq were also some English 1 it. which put it up runs a mail boat, c passengers and letters; it ha: e and its own stamps, w only frank letters as far as Tromso. Those who have stayed there report very fav ably to the comfort and food, and 4 the charge is only ten kroner a day by no means an extravagantly dear pla to stay at. The Norwegian sportsman ferred to had had very fair sport, having killed two polar bears, several reinde: a walrus; but the walrus, though : shoot, is very difficult to secure. Unless is shot in the throat—a wound which for some reason prevents him from diving— disappears into the fathomless depths when mortally wounded. For the ornithol- ogist Advent bay presents many attrac- tions, and at present the birds are by no means shy; what the result of constant in- cursions of trappers may be is another question. The scenery all around us was very grand, but the hotel, flaunting its Norwe- sian flag—Spitzenbergen, though claimed by Russia and Norway, is really no man's land—aimost forbade the belief that we were actually in the region of the pole; yet we were then a good deal north of the spot where Franklin and his gallant crew d. The name of the most conspicuous tain in view, towering over a gigantic gla- cier—Dead Man’s Ear—savored enough of romance and adveniure to cancel at st in part that incongruous effect of the neat little inn, with its post office, and even the empty champagne bottle which betray: the picnicker and trapper. There is coal, by the way, in the neighborhood, and one of the party secured a specimen of a li, neous-looking character, and’ peat must be in abundance, for the promontory was of a very Irish bog-like description. ———_-eee = A Turfed Railroad Bed. From the Philadelphia Times. Grass will grow on a railway bed if the ties are covered with soll and seed sown. This can be verified by a visit to the mount Park trolley line near the Bel: avenue entrance. This section of the track resembles two parallel rails laid through a green meadow, and the presumptiun is that the railway management intend to ke the entire track from end to end like it. if the grass can be kept green in dry as well as wet seasons the presence of the track will hardly mar the landscape at a Even the poles and trolley wire are not a: unsightly as_ the electric-light poles ad wires which have been allowed to distizere the park in every direction. There is a possibility, of course, that the grass be- tween the tracks may prove a hindrance to the operation of the line even if it !s orna- mental, but this is hardly probable if the grass is kept well mowed. A railway line with no ties in sight and carpeted with a luxuriant greensward will be a aovelty at least. and there s patronizing Bi Once a week the Norwegian com rry’ un- there j LOST! The avenues of Time are literally strewn with lost opportunities. Every day we hear the wail, “if I had only done this or that.” If I had only grasped the opportunity when it was presented. that the same chance presents itself the second time. Here is one of those rare instances. We contracted for 300 sets of that grand work, the— ENCYCLOPZAEDIC- It is rare indeed the end came afterwards and bewailed their luck be E cause they could not get a set. To give them one more chance we beg- ged and begged the publishers to please let us have 300 sets more-of the | Encyclopaedic-Dictionary. At first they refused. But our persistency has at last been rewarded and we have the 300 sets more. will last it is impossible to say. They may last a week, and possibly two or three weeks, yet they may be all sold in a few day | There Is But One Thing ToDo E Get Your Set At Once. Let some one else be disappointed. 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