Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1897, Page 12

TH EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. llth Bt, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, Ss. H. ScAUFFMANN’ Pres" New York Office, 49 Potter Building. = oe zs ‘The Exentng Star is served te subscribers im the ¥ hy carriers, om thelr own xecount, at 10 cents or 44 cents per mouth. Copies at the nts each. By 1 anywhere in the r Cannia— pe prepa 50 cents $1 per year, with VISIT OF VETERANS A Grand Army Delegation Calls on the President. A PRINTED STATEMENT PRESENTED Sa How Ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors Have Been Treated. THE REMEDY SOUGHT —— —- cmmend sterday afternoon the President received and welcomed a delegation of Grand Army men of this department, con- sisting of Thomas S. Hopkins, department ommander; Dr. J. F. Raub, senior vice department mander; Gen. S$. S. Bor- dette, past amander-in-chief; Arthur Hendricks, assistant adjutant general of at of the District of Colum- rth, commander Post Miller, renresenting The visit iting a state- r case, 1 asking for the res- tion of veterans and their widews who yeen removed from the public service or reduced In salary during the past four years. The statement showed that of re- ductions, re te., during that pe- riod twenty-one and one-half per cent were veterans or their widows tions for the same class ihe eight per cent. The President accorded the department commander a most respectful hearing, and the delezation departed with the assuranc that their case would receive speedy tention at the hands of the executive. A marked feature of the visit was the assembling In the east room of eighteen one-armed veterans, who hed been re moved from government service during Mr. Cleveland's incumbency. They selected Captain Miller, one of their number, to ac- company the department commander in the interview with the Presideat The President showed his the greatest attention and evinced t yest interest in the matter. He assured them that {t was a subject he greatly desired 10 take and that he should do so earl possible momen went away feeling confident would be done and that in they had a friend and comrade. The Pres- n instead of handing the printed by: to his secretary, is customary such ma placed it in his coat 4 stating that such form thet he could keep him, so that at a mo- ment when time he could take {t up for considerat The following is the statement by Commander Pop- the depart pia; Calvin No. eighteen « vetera was for the purpo: of pre ovals, e ved but The Statement Presented. commander of the De- Potomac, G. A. R.. re- the attention of the r Howing statement con- cerning the injustice and violation of the th of the law, which many members of the department have suffered during the past four years at the hands of an administration which has been indifferent, if not actually hi tile In » Grand Army of the j Rep this department, and in behalf of ex-Union sailors and marines, he appeals to you, as the chief executive of the nation, and as a comrade, to right their full measure of : During the past four years 1,304 ex-sol- diers in the government departments in Washington have been dischare-4, torced to re or reduced to inf This does not include the cases of es it include any case in the navy or the government printing office. official reports from the eight show ‘hat since appointments in the service were made, and that but 5ty cent of these appointees were «x-Union rs. sailors and marines. During this period there were s, of which the veterans rec ent he reductions, resignations and re- Js during this period, Zl42 per cent eterans of the war of the rebellicn. This illustrates in a striking manner how the has been discriminated axamst. What Investigation Discloses. Investigation discloses that in a large number of cases the resignation of the em- ploye was demanded and given. if he re- fused to resign, he was charged on the record with delinquency, or misconduct and summarily dismissed! Not intrequen ly he became the object of the petty spite of @ superior officer. such as the chief of a livision or of a section, and his record for ey ically forced cown intmum, and his dis- gs and grant them the M4 pro- ived but armed and oth though perfect petent to perform « AE atieg cee transferre positions involving different @uties and requiring physical strength and endurance. Failing to do that which was impossible, they were charset with ineffi- « and dismissed. Loss of mb cr pos- session of a medal of honor for gallantry upo: eid of battle was no guarantee of security Those who were not diseaarged or com- to resign were, in many instances, alary, though often required to same duties as before. Not a were receiving $1,600 and $1,800 m were reduced as low os $720, and $1,000. In all these cases respectful protesis and requests for a hearing were invariably ‘dl nied, and political favorites were appointe to the vacancies thus made Those wh + permitted to remain in the servic in many of the oilices, subjected to insult and annoyanc ned Usten to slurs upon the Union the situation me almost S vas the veteran » that many believed it necessary, er to retain their positions, tha: they ould conceal the fact of their military ervice, and cease to wear the honured jrand Army button. A Reign of Terror. It has been a reign of terror to the oid soldier during the past four years in this capital city, which he helped to. save. Many @ brave man whose body was torn and mangled in the service of his country kas seo. his wife and children suffer for food; many a dead veteran's poor widow has suffered in silence and in poverty, while, be tt said te the everlasting disgrace a and shame of the nation, in many in- stances positions they were abundantly able to £1 have been occupied by men, or the widows or children of men, who served in the confederate army. Even the sacred portals of the pension bureau have been in- vaded, and ex-confederates and their jows and children permitted to sit in judgment on the claims of ex-Union sol- siers, During these four years of suffering, de- pression and wrong the comrades have been sustained by an unswerving faith that the sucee>}ing administration would be friend- ly to thelr interests. Their faith was well founded. And words cannot fully express their joy over the welcome change. The attention of the President is also respectfully invited to the fact that the civil service rules now cover the positions of watchmen, assistant watchmen, messen- gers, etc., in the several departments, re- quiring an examination as the condition Lrecedlent to entry of the public service. Crippled Veterans. Many armless, legless and otherwise crip- WA pled veterans are not able to pass a civil service examination, although well adapted to employment of such nature. no other government employment open to them, and they cannot hope at this late cess in civil life, It is hoped that the President will remove this barrier to their appointment to the posi- tions mentioned, and that they may have nee over all others. It ts also respectfully submitted that it rould bo a gracious act toward these fasi- aging veterans if the President would rec- the modification of the civil service rules so as to permit the of honorably discharged sol- As there is day to meet with su to Congress appointment diers, widows, to any branch of the civil service not requiring technical skill or knowledge, where the salary. as fixed by law or regu- jation, is not above $900 per annum, or $3 without a civil service examina- During Mr. Cleveland's first administra- tion many ex-soldiers and sailors were un- j departments, the discharges were not of the wholesale character which has character- ized those of the past four years. Under the 014 civ‘l service rile 10 (now no one who had been separated from a classified position in the civil serv- could be reinstated, after the lapse of without a new examination and discharged ice one year, certification. President Harrison was appealed to, and rule so that the limit of which one thus separated from the civil service might be reinstated with- out a new examination or certification was done away with so far as honorably dis- modified th . were concerned, thus making them eligible to reinstatement at any time. Under this modification, quite a number in re-entering the were forced to wait vacancies, and, for the sake of their fam- took inferior r, to this day, succe many been able to recover the positions from which they were discharged. hers never succeeded at all. four years During the modification of the e rule has been practically inoperative. ot 1 of promo- | Pe! The Relief Sought. these comrades seek They respectfully ask that, by or in such other manner the President will relief which is simple. executive crder, as he may deem best, direc’ discharged ex- or marines, served during the war of the rebellion, or the widows of such, who have, since March discharged, duced in salary, without just cause, in any Jepartments of the gov other office Union 4 of the ernnient, of the government in the Iumbia, shall, upon applic without examination. stored to their former po: tion in writing, and promptly re- marine. charged i period, for alle the widow of such, has been d. Jency or mis- Il, upon making ap- | plication In writing—(a) be accorded an in- purpose of determining vestigation for the whether or not delinquency and, if so, whether or not such delinquency misconduct 5 misconduct be su not to be s ained, or is found tering the service, then sucn of such, or her former Or—(b) he or sne shall, notwithstand- ing such charge, upon filing an ap) in writing, be promptly reappointed to his or her former position without examination, upon a probationary term, h And if, at the expiration of that or she be found capable, cient and of good habit receive a permanent appointment. 1. That no honorably discharged soldier, served during th war of the rebellion, or the widow of such, shail be ¢hliged to take a competitive ex: for promction no honorably or marine, crphan of such, shali he discharg rment service without being first heard in his or her own defense. ee ae ASSOCIATION. ball be promptly restored to his ever, of six he or she shall or marine, discharged Be Taken to the Su- preme Court. The Attorney General has sent instruc- Attorney Macfarland New York tu take an appeal to the Unized preme Court from the decision of uurt of appeals in the case of ates against the Joint Traffic AS soon as the papers reach the Department of Justice a motion will be apreme Court to advance the docket, so that a speedy deter- mination of the questions invaiv An Appeal tiens to District the United s made in the § It is stated that the decision,of the Su- preme Court last Monday in the ease of the Trans-Missouri Freight Assozietion covers all of the main poinis in Judges Wallace and Larcombe in the case Traffic Association, and al- though it was a majority opi nor that of the minority sustained the prin- cipal points ‘ociation, and allowed by the cour be- Department that in view of the of the Joint on, neither it Justice had a: Joint Traffic Assoctation would a understood information has reached them that the Joint Traffic Association in- tends to still further contesi the questions ed, and hence the appeal. There is no question at the Department of Justice Monday's decision material point involved in the Joint Traffic Association case. and so far as the officta see, there can be only one is to the contest. and that is the association It also is their opinion that associations come as ¢ ions of the Inw as do It is believed that argued and decide covers every are able to must dissolve. the passenger the freight associatio the appeal will be fore the summer recess of the court. Several Sheds Burned. The fire short day afternoon, y before % o'clock yester- mentioned in The Star, for sounded from box a frame shed rear of 713 LL street northeast, occupied by Sam Shing as a laundry. Spread rapidly to the sheds in the joo, 711 and 715 H street, 725 and 727 7th Street and 724 Sth street. age is estimated at $1, W. B. Elbert, George W. Eckloff, Mrs. J. B. Bailey, James A. Cahill, ard Frank Reed. The blaze, it is thought, Was started by some boys, who were play- ing with matches in one of the sheds. —— Junior Order of Rechabites. Cammack Tent, No. 42, J. O. of R., held an interesting meeting in their tent room The following officers were installed for the ensuing term: Shepherd, John R. Mahoney; Rue; C. R., Frank Gues: R. S., Wm. Ctssell; Levite, John Talbert O. G., Winfield Maddor The flames The total dam- 000, the losers being D. O'Meara last evening. ‘ounseler, George W. D. R., Will Guest; F. S., George Loweny J. G., George Huse; mn; treasurer, Andrew ler, Henry Talbert. remarks were George W. E. Baird, R. H. Tolly of Cammack Tent, M. Currey; past chief rul Under good of the or made by Bros. J. R. Mahoney, Rue, A. M. Curry, C. and John Richards His Wife Paid the Fine. George W. Curtis was fined $10 or thirty days by Judge Miller for assaulting and striking his wife, Sidney Curtis. Mrs. Cur- tis, after having her husband arrested, re- lented and wanted him released; but when she found she could not secure sie set released fromarreen out punishment in t! Curtis was then SHINGTON D. C MARCH 25, 1897—-FOURTEEN HAWAII'S. FERTILITY The Black Loam and Sand From the Lava Flow. WHAT UNDERLIES RICH PLANTATIONS Use of Artesian Wells to Irrigate Coffee Fields. RICH, STRONG LANDS Stccial Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, March 10, 1897. ‘The geological formations of the Hawaii- an Islands may be, mainly expressed by one word—lava. The mass of the entire group is built up of that one mineral in its nu- merous verleties, not greatly differing from each other. A one-hundredth part may be composed of volcanic ashes and tufa, which are only what might be termed the froth of lava. Perhaps one-thousandth part may be calcareous coral and shell sand, some of it cemented into sandstone. Lava is the rock that wells up through the shafts of volcanoes, white hot from the molten interior twenty-five miles beneath the erst. It spreads out and cools in vast uneven beds of rugged rock, full of vesicles or spongy cells, except where it has filled some deep cavity where the pressure com- pacted it. This lava rock is very com- pound, a mixture of almost all known min- eral elements, but none of the valuable metals, except iron, in more than homeo- pathic quantities. And the fron is only enough to color it red when oxidized Hence none of these Hawaiian rocks ha any mineral value, and there is no work for the miner. Much of the more compact lava 1s available as an excellent butlding stone. very durable, and hewing more easily than granite. Honolulu is studded with new business blocks fronted with this bluish gray lava, of which we have moun- tainsful. Several beautiful public edifices are built entirely of it. Perhaps our five hundred cubic miles cf these lava rocks contain as much gold as does sea water, and as equally diffused. I believe there are several thousand billions of gold in the ocean, but its profitabie ex- traction is Lopeless. ture has a mar- velous alchemy which in the lapse of millions of t plutonic rock masses of once lava iike ours, undergo slow secular change, and*he- come transformed, and veins and lodes of valua and precious metals gather in their recesses. Here our rocks are young, peraaps nune of them a million years oid, and can yield nothing for the miner, neit er gel, iron, coal nor jewe ‘There are no stratified rocks, because no layers have been deposited by water, except what is still beneath the ocean. Yes, there are strata of tufa in very even layers. These rained down from the atmosphere in the form of hot mud, ‘which was spouted mil aloft in a volcani¢ throe and cemented as it fell, often incasing many square miles of scil surrounding the fiery vent. There a Several square miles on the Oahu railwa just out of town, which are covered by from six to twenty feet of these layers of soft reck, which overlie great thicknesses of alluvial soil, or of coral. The Site of Honolulu. Much of the flery mixture of lava and water, shot forth from sudden cruptions of the explosive kind, so expanded while aloft as to cool tn the form of spongy sand, or volcanic ashes, before falling. ‘This ci of Honolulu rests upon such a bed of from three to eight-feet of black ashes or sand overlying coral. On lower Fort street the cellar of a new brick block is now being excavated. It goes through eighteen inches of brown loam, then four feet of the black sand. The upper loam is only the black ashes decomposed by air and moisture. The ashes or sand wiil mostly be sifted for mortar. The coral below this will be level- ed to the proper depth. This coral sub- stratum was ancient reef formed under water, but now raised considerably above sea level. The whole of this Island of Oahu had originally undergone a slow subsidence, perhaps for half a million of years, settling many thousand feet, as is well ascertained. At a very recent period, however, probably not over 5,000 or 10,000 years, there an apparently quite sudden elevation of the whole island, varying in parts from thir to fifty feet. This converted into dry a large stretches of what was the fringing reef. It is not exactly true coral, but a ceneretion of fragments of coral, shells, madrepore tubes, and calcareous mud, forming a coarse, whitish rock. Most of this coral within the town became buried deeply with the black cinders or sand, which seem not long after to have been shot up from the great cinder-cone inland about 2.000 feet high, known as Mount Tantalus. The main mass of the voleanic moun- tains forming this island are evidently many hurdred thousand years old, as in- dicated by the great extent to which it has Weathered away, under the slow erosion of rain storm: and the torrents generated by them. Except near the bases of the origi- nal mountain dome, no traces remain of the once rounded form. Only sharp serrated ridges are left where the now wide gulches have eaten into each other. Many of these ancient ravines have had their outlets at the shore obstructed by very recent tufa cones, such as Diamond Head and Punch Bowl, which form such conspicuous land marks to Honolulu. In such cases new outlets have been formed for the streams. There seems to have been a very recent period of fresh volcanic convulsion around the shore of the island, perhaps coinci- dent with the changes attending the close of the glacial period. While t this city the foundations of most of the heavier buildings extend down to the solid coral, this is by no means neces- sary. The black sand fs itself so compact as to furnish a safe foundation for tie heaviest structure. Our builders long ag> learned to rely on its solid qualities. Both of the massive churches, the Central Union ard the Anglican Cathedral, rest upon this sand. A neat story is told about the latter. After the heavy foundations of the cathedral had been finished, some thirty years ago, the good Bishép Staley's mind misgave him. He began to {nstitute further inquiries about the sandy basis on which those foundations rested. Among other Persons he resorted to the Catholic bishop, who rejoiced in a huge cathedral of his own. “Bishop Maigret, will you kindly in- form me whether the foundation of vcur church goes down to the rock or rests upon the sand?” “Our church,” the old prelaie Ponderously responded, “is founded upon the rock!” He scored one that time tor St Peter. This black ash is an admirable fertilizer, although it is slightly poisonous to vegeta- tion until decomposed by exposure to air und moisture. Hence the roots of trees sel- dom penetrate it. Volcanic ash of like structure, but more commonly yellow, ex- ists in several other localities, and is al- ways extremely fertile. There are about four square miles of such soil under the prosperous Haua plantation, at the eastern angle of Maui, where the country is warty with cinder cones. At the southwest angle of the island is nearly as much more. At Kau, on the south end of Hawall, is a re- markable deposit of yellow ash covering over 100 square miles to a depth of ten to thirty feet. This must have been the ef- fect of a single explosion of a few hours’ duration, comparable to the enormous oyer- throw of Krakatau in 188. It probably took place not far from a thousand years ago. This Kau ash is excessively pro- ductive, but unfortunately receives scant rainfall in most parts, while irrigation is forbidden by the impossibility of water col- lecting on the new lava of the rainy forest uplands in the interior, There are, kow- ever, about 15,0 tons of sugar cropped annually from’ the moister windward up- lands of this ash bed. Fertile Coffee Plantations. The splendid new coffee district of Olaa, now opened by means of the Volcano road, appears to be located. upon a similar ash bed, the soil being a yery. uniform, soft, mellow loam of yellow color, several feet deep. It was probably an, ejection from the tall cone of Kulaina, some fifteen miles inland. ‘The immense rainfall of Olaa, averaging fourteen inches a month, has clothed this tract withvhigh, dense forest. The coffee shrubs are now beginning to produce first crops over several thonsanc acres, and the many planters seem to have fortunes in near prospect. The very productive Ewa plantation, near this city, is located upon what is evidently @ rather ancient ejection of ashes from neighboring cinder cones. *The vitreous structure of the ash has disappeared through age and decomposition, but its stratification can still be observed. Its fer- tility remains, as shown by last year's average of seven tons to the acre, some fields running up to eleven tons. Much of the area of the Oahu sugar plantation now starting has similar soil. Wherever tufa or cinder cones are seen with an adjacent rolling country produced by the burial in ashes of the rugged ravines and ridges, there the soil fs certain to be productive, if moisture can be had. I showed a friend over the great mill works of Ewa plantation last week. An hour's ride on the railway covers. the roundabout eighteen miles, the last two through some of the 8,000 acres of cane fields, This concern turned out last weck tons of sugar, or over 130 tons a day. ivery night over 200 car loads of the yel- low stalks form a string one-third of a mile long, accumulated as a supply for the night's grinding. Through the whole twenty-four hours there flows from the great rollers a stream of the sweet juice, filling a six-inch trough. Several barrels of Vancouver lime are used every day to defecate the juice in the great ciarifier tanks, where it is first brought to boiling heat. ‘Thence it 1s pumped along to a di versity of containers, Where it is evap- orated under vacuums maintained by heavy pumps. It is finally grained at the low temperature of 150 degrees. If boiled at greater heat, much would be wastefully converted into molasses. Thence it passes into the centrifugal separators, twenty-five whirling in a row, and is dropped into jute bags of 125 pounds each, while stiil over blood warmth. The little Jap women deftly stitch up the bags, and the men run them into the cars, six or eight of which daily, after an hour's run to the city wharf, dump their contents into the ships, not twenty-four hours after it was standing in the cane field. The entire power for the engi: and evaporators of these works is derived sole- ly from the combustion of about five-sixths of the bagasse, or trash of the stalks after the juice has been squeezed out of it. It is not perceptibly damp to the feet, and passes directly from the rollers to the fur- What is left over is ploughed into the fields as fertilizer. Five years ago fifty tons of coal were burned daily. The nine huge rellers which crush a the hard cane stalks into dr driven by horsepower Corliss engine. A Battery of Artesian Wells. This compaay is just opening 1,300 acres of new land, from which they expect in 1809 to increase their crop tu 18.0K) tons For the purpose of irrigating the new land, they are adding a battery of twelve Iv-inch artesian wells to the twenty already in use. A pair of immense pumps will lift the water, two-thirds of it to a height of 200 feet. This will bring the total daily supply of the plantation up to thirty-six million gailons, which is more than Chieago us and pumped much higher. I do not know whether such pump:ng works for irriga- tion exist elsewhere. The new Oahu plan- tation expects greatly to exceed these both in quantity of water and height of ii Doubtless Hawaii is well in the lead, if not ahead. One cannot but compassionate these poor rative Hawaiians, so many of whom con- tinue to delude themselves with the idea that they have the sole right to run a coun- try so far ahead as this in the methods of civilization. It is so ohyious:that they are tctally incapable of handling its affairs. et they are constantly set om by interested parties, especially Yankee-phobist British, to think themselves grievously robbed and outraged, because the government of the country is taken out.of-the hands of their native queen, and their.own-race is com- pelled to take a subordinate place in the management of what they gonceive to be exclusively thelr own country. When hun- creds of white men are constantly and vehemently teaching the natives this’ folly they, are not much to be blamed, but rather to be pitied for not seeing the truth. As a sample of the political pabulum served up to these poor people T append the following translation from the native paper, Ke Aloha Aina (Patriot) of March 6. It contains a large amount of very serlous matter on “The ‘Assassination of Liliuokalani.”” It tells its readers that it believes the story that Mr. Thurston left the Islands for the purpose of killing the queen: that this was foretold in a dream, which appeared in a former number of the paper. It asserts that Mr. Thurston still intends to kill her. It adds that there is little doubt that President Dole and the people with him are accomplices in that wicked conspiracy. The following extracts are given from a letter written by one of the ex-queen’s attendants: “The wives and daughters of the senators are about her all the time, except during sleeping hours, just as our people do.” * * “We, and all the city of Washington, were startled to receive a telephone from San Francisco, saying that ‘Thurston had come to America to (powa) take the life of the queen; Washington was filled with the news and expressed love and offered protection. Annexation is dead! Its ashes are scat- tered in front of the Capitol.” * * * “President Cleveland in the evening of February 11 gave his last reception to the representatives of foreign nations, and all were present except the minister and sec- retary of the republic of Hawali. I asked some government officers, why is Hatch not here? They replied that they had not seen those two at any of the President's receptions.” This talk is now reviving to some extent among the natives the igea that America will probably soon restore the queen. KAMEHAMEHA. . es A LIQUOR CASE. Archibald Donnelly Sentenced to #250 Fine or Three Months’ in Jail, Archibald Donnelly, an old army veteran, who is nearly blind and a resident of Rupleeville, near the Sgldiers’ Home, was before Judge Kimball on'the charge of sell- ing Uquor without a license. Sevefal wit- nesses testified that they: purchased liquor in Donnelly’s place. When Judge Kimball sentenced the accused to’$250 fine or three months in the workhouse; the Ifttle daugh- ter of the prisoner burst ifito tears and cre- ated quite a scene. Lawyer Moss then arose and ‘asked the court to make the sentence imprisonment in jail instead of the workhouse, but Judge Kimball declined to comply, stating that the effect would be that at the end of thirty days the prisoner -would be released under the “‘poor convicts” act, and he in- tended to have the license law complied with so far as he had power to enforce it. At.this announcement theslittle girl again burst out crying and much sym- pathy to be extended to her her mother, who was also present, but Judge Kimbril, who regretted the conditton igto which the unfortunate wife and d@ughter would be placed by Donnelly beingtaken from them, could not see his way to.pHange his action. A Chicken Thiefs,Punfshment. Chief Justice Bingham: today sentenced William Saunders, a boy, to ten into the Months in jail for bi chicken house of Henry A.) Durant. the first of this month, 4 — -_Jf you want anything, try an ad. in ‘The Star. If anybod: , will get nyboty has inal we wee, you [LINCOLN STORIES How He Told Them While Waiting for War Dispatches. ee 35 The “Cave of Adullam” Incident in 1864. Ses AN AFTER-DINNER. SPEECIT s foo At a dinner recently given by dist Social Union, at the Windsor Hotel, New York, Mr. D. Homer Bates iow vice President of one of the zrcat New York banks, was among the speakers, and gave some interesting reminiscences of that great, simple, wise and beneficent man, Abraham Lincoln. “The rebel guns had scarcely ceased their ominous firing upon Sumter, in Apr 1861,” said Mr. Bates, “when, a lad of se enteen, I was calied to Wash service in the United States Military graph Corps, where I remained until the close of the war. Those four years of my early manhood were crowded with events of momentous finportance. For the first time in the conduct of a great war the telegraph was brought into use, and this use was constant, not only between Washington and the quarters of the commanding yer in the field, but also between the several corps and bri In the early part of the civil war some of the old army officers were opposed to the use of the telegraph, as they favore the old courler plan, Iut their obje were soon changed to high praise when they found the immerse value of the tete- graph in army operations. Grants Tribu: “General Grant in his memoir says, re- ferring to the Military Telegraph Corps: Nothing could be more complete than the organization and discipline of this box of brave and intelligent mea Insulated wires were wound upon re povnds to each reel. Two men an. mule were detailed lo each reel. Was a wagon with a telegraph operato! battery and instrume for each divi jon, €ach corps, cach army, and one for my headquarters. There wei gons loz ed with light poles with a spike in one end. used to nold up the wires, so that w ons and artillery would not run over then. The moment the troops were in position to go into camp ail the men connected wi this service would proceed to put up the wires. A mule loaded with a cell of wire would be led to the rear of the nearest flank of the brigade to which he belong and would be iad ina live paraliel theret and wncoll it as the was Ted would be done ar of every B- 1 ade at the same Thus in a few min- utes’ le it takes a mule io walk the coil, telegraphic <cCmmunication would be effected be all the headquarters of the army. No or- ders ever had to be given to establish the while a man would hoid an end of the wire | eventful period as to maintain conti cation between the War Department and the headquarters in our immediate front in Virginia. The operators at either end were always-on duty: messages be- ing transmitted without the sending office being required to go through form of calling or Signaling the other operaior, who Was ex: to be on hand to copy the messages moment of the day or night. We read with never failing inter- est of the wars of Frederick the Great and of Napoleon, but as no telegraph in those days, an¢ was made but slowly. In our civil war, however, the tele- graph brought a!l the armies ‘close to- gether, and aithongh thousands of apart, they were in conjuncti mest simultaneou and news of vi tory or of disaster was flashed instantly ail over the land. The history of our civil war was thus written telegrap! incoln in the Office. “Lam proud to have been in that service respecting which Stanton, the great war secretary, sald tn one of his annual re- ports, as I find recorded in my war diary: ‘None have surpassed and few have equal- ed the diligence and faithfulness of the United States graph Corps.’ “All telegrams io and from the several departments of the government passed through the War Department telegraph of- fice, and during those years the tall home ly form of our beloved President was se to cross the wel!-shaded lawn between the War Department and the White Hou: merning, afternoon and evening, with ceaseless regularity, in order that he might be on hand to hear the latest news from the front. When a bate was imminent or in progress he would remain in the tele- graph office sometimes for hours together, awailing the news that would mean s muck to the country and to himself. In the intervals of waiting he would write a message of inquiry, counsel or encourage- ment to the general In command at head- quarters. Thus in July, 1861, while the first Buil Run battle was in progress, Linccln sat with Chase, Cameron, Winfield Scott and others in the litle telegraph office at the head of the stairs, half way between the first and second floors. There they waited, first with eager hope, then silently, al- n.ost breathlessly, unti! the message Came arnouncing a check to our arms; then with giowing anxicty and fears, as the swell- ing tide of disaster swept over the wires from Fairfax Court House, our nearest station to the scene of the conflict. Significant Dispatches. “In the Yorktown campaign, May, 1862, after weeks of paiient waiting for a for- warG movement of our forces, he tele- graphed to General McClellan: ‘Your call for Parrott guns alarms me, because it ar- gves indefinite procrastination. Is any- thing to be done?’ And in December, 1863, he telegraphed to General Grant, ‘Under- standing that your ledgment at Chatta- nooga and Knoxville is now secure, 1 wish to tender you and all under your command my irore than thanks—my profoundest gratitude—for the skill, courage and per- severance with which you and they over 80 great difficulties have effected that im- portant object. God bless you all.’ “In the intervals also, he would tell one of his inevitable stories, or converse on special topics in such a way as to lead some of his hearers to think him wholly indifferent to the awful questions of the jour. ee “Once I recall him speaking of the func- tions of the eye and brain, when one was reading aloud from a.newspaper or book. He sald that in his boyhood days he had come across a volume in which it was stat- ed that as each letter of the habet ap- peared before the eye it was photograph- ed upon the retina, so that the particular letter was actually spoken aloud at .the exact moment its printed form appeared befcre the eye. He discoursed at some length cn this marvel, remarking upon the attendant fact that the eye is capable of receiving several distinct impressions at the same instant, and that these numerous and oftentimes radically different impres- sions are immediately communicated from eye to brain by means of the most deli- cate nerve centers; for instance, said he, ithe’ eye may rest at the same instant of time not only upon a single letter of the alphabet, but upon a series of such let- ters composing a word and upon a suc- cession of words in a sentence, and not ica, only that, but the resultant record upon | the train of all these innumerable speech Lo be utter: sul gazing upon the printed or writ- page. The skilled accountant casis a moves up or down the p column. his respo total. In other words, he sald, commun eations are beir end sim! between the eye and brain. He likened MANY LONG HOURS SPENT IN WAITING |: 2» as regar “This referenee will iu: followed mome or less closely and doub:- army questions brought to his notice. His proverbially unfailing. Never on’ four years did I cver discover in him any e Metho- | anger definite opinion. If oth with him, he sought to convince them that they were wrong rather than that he was right. I heard him say once that in try- a case in court he generally ado; that plan. “He was well known to be a lover of Shakespeare, and in the wir long before his death, he went to the the- ater a number of times to see Hackett’s taff, and when at the telegra) between times he spoke of Hackett freely, Shake: an hou “MeClure, in his * alludes to his intimate knowledge of Shakespeare, and parti: Pennsylvania and Donough, during w a shelt near nis table a well-thumbed copy Shakespeare, and, turning to Henry IV pessage wi not sur thing auestion was coln as a curious fact. controlled b: anks, who were dissatisfied with Lincoln's conduct of the war, and who prof: believe that there was no hope for the country, save through an entire change of deal of ridicule cast upon the convention New York state, and who, if elected at the pollls, could not have taken office, 1 Constiuution provide: same state. One of the New York papers, the Herald, as I there were with him about 400 men.’ When graph ofhce. a Bible was called for, in order th: turned with It, presenting it to the Pre mnan’s rev oa of Mr. Lincoln, so that upon his de- cabinet, s nence in is one of great interest. Mr. Lincoln's la public reception took place in March, 13 and on the morning of the day it took place Stanton’s private secretary, of whom factory to the great canning interests of the country. In making up the bill the committee acted without the canning interests, whicit failed to fur- nish any information during the hearings. Florida pineapple growers reported that they could supply the entire market under a duty of two cents a pound, but it is claimed that the Florida product is noi suitable for canning at all. ‘The general impression in the Senate af- ter yesterday’s proceedings is that the de- bate on the arbitration treaty will not from this time forward consume a great deal of the time of the Senate. In view of the agreement made yesterday not to begin voting on the amendments until next Wed nesday, there is no probability of precipi tating a vote before that time, but thp in- dications now are for shorter daily éxec- utive sessions. There was a perceptible falling off in interest in the proceedings yesterday and it was impossible to hold a quorum in the chamber. At times there were not to exceed a dozen senators in their seats. The hearing of the case of Annie New- haus, who is charged with the larceny of somg articles from the house of Mr. St. Charles Fechner, during the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Fechner from the city sev- eral months ago, was today indefinitely postponed by Prosetutor- John A. Hamilton, administrator 58.the estate of one) James L. mnie. filed a bill in equity against James’ Holmes to enforce a judgment of $3,000. master of advert: v QPrinfers’ Inf (fe fittfe scBoof: sing), 6aps: Jt i6 cfa:med for tbe Washing ‘or Stor, and progabfp tru‘ftulfs | cfaimed, {Bat no offer newspaper jm Be countre goes info 60 fary> a percentage of aff {82 Bouses | tiffin a radius of ftwenfp mifes in turn t back to the organs of orally while the ey: from Be office of puBfication. ELECTRICITY WITHOUT HEAT Icng column of figures as his cye | The Latest Stage of the Search for This ge, and at the instant he reaches the end of the ve fingers jot down ine transmitted continuous- taneously in beth directions ation to the telegraph, although ds the Qual process it should be that the duplex telegraph was not then invented. Love of Shakespenre. fecate Lincoln's of thought and analysis, which he almest unconsciously in the study of Was unerring, his homely illustra- effective and his fund of good humor > in the er malice, nor was he ever without disagreed d er of 1865, not om on one oceasion brought a copy of peare with him and read aloud for myself beng his only auditor. arly Life of Lincoln,’ ularly to an inter- between Lincoln, Judge Kelly of n actor named Mec- ich Lincoln took from with fine discrimination an extende h, he said, in his opinion, was assed'in wit and humor by’ any- in Shakespeare. The omission the acted play of the passage in remarked upon by Mr. Lin- An Amusing Story. May, Is64, the Cleveland convention which nominated Fremont and Coch- This ention was engineered and a number of soreheads and sed to and army leaders. There was a vast its candidates, who were both from that the Pri t not come from the Si cident mus! emember, had an editorial ring to David in thé cave of Adullam, 222—And ever 1oting from 1 Sam. ‘ jistress, and every one and every one that wa: 1 ered themselves unto him, he became a captain over them, aai ? litoria! was referred to in the tele- the whole context might be One of the attaches, Secretary Stan private secretary (Major A. E. Hi. 2), ran to find the copy, and soon re- with a profuse bow. This gentle- renal manner attracted the at- ure, Mr. Lincoln arose, and, leaving the room, returned with the open Bible in nis and made a mock presentation to of the company, mimicing the style and action of the private secretary, who Was short and dapper, but, in fact, very pful. ‘The contrast between Mr. Lir coln’s tall, ungainly form, and that of the secretary was very great, and the whol: affair very funny, so that we were all con- vulsed with laughter. “In Nicolay and Hay’s History of Lin- voln there is an entirely different version of the cave of Adullam incident. For in- stance, the number of delegates in the Cleveland convention was stated as 400. Nicolay a struck wi ber of David's sorehead contingent in the cave, d Hay say that Mr. Lincoln was h the fact that 400 was the num- and that he called for a Bible to veri- number. Special Gratitude. “In closing let me say that no one has, I believe, greater cause to revere and even love the name and memory of Lincoln than I hav~, for the following reasons: ington one of the great public events is President's reception, to which an In Wash- may go. These receptions are al- always crowded. Members of the nators and other men of promi- public life attend, and the scene © above spoken, told me that a curly 1 girl, a stranger in the city, who Was visiting his family, was anxious to Ko the escor' President’s reception, but had no and he asked me if I would act in capacity. I consented and accompa- nied to the White House and introduced to President that curly headed girl, who for many years has been my loving and devoted wite Ss Perfecting the Tariff BI The republican members of the ways and means committee are still at work endeav- oring to perfect the tariff bill where it has proven unsatisfactory and where they think improvements can be made. Two or three changes have been practically de- cided upon, and amendments to carry them into effect are Hkely to ve made before the bill passes the House. One of the most important will be to transfer the duties on nursery stock, in the agricultural sched- ule, from ad valorem to specific rates. The present rate on this stock ts 30 per cent ad valorem, and the paragraph, will be changed so that it will provide specific du- The rate on pineapples will prob- be changed again, as it is unsatis- y advices from ee The Arbitration Treaty. ———_-e-______ Indefinitely Postponed. ——>.>—— To Enforce a Judgment:._ before the New York EF ; that given by Mr. Willard | February 24, on the subject from Carbon Without Heat.” The subject of the ¢ tricity has jong bx among scientists, and while it has been ae- coal into ¢ Means of chemically pro‘ therefore b tifle men the world over. Within the past vances have uné much has been added to our knowlede least of what not to do directions in which work might s able. To the layman not les. tist has this field been Ca. read quite as widel any statements of the ca: ceded Marvelous as was the dis. certainly a less ghastly senting the phenomenon of dire duction of electricity by the oxi carbon by atmospheric oxygen in trent is the hydro: He showed that by the i reducing agent the ble 2nd took on the br blood. He next improv in which the haemugiols ed as the cou carbons, and by connecting this with caus current Keu His argument from this was that the en- erey of carbon could be directly converted into electrical energy by means of atmos- pherie oxygen with heat, provid: properly pre Suitable conveyer of oxygen from thy mesphere to the His other Were full of inter The tin-platinum-chromte chic ter was one of the pi seen, and is « development. His critic’ tery, viz., that it is 1 efficient than th seems wel the great advantage used by The legal repre minister and of the See Yup & reached a basis of 2 difficulties existing in San Francisco as a result of t See Yup and the be off the boy merchants’ society. The injunction suit now in force againsi the Chines Francisco to prevent him interfering with the affairs of the See Yup Society will be Withdrawn and the minister will waive his demand for the payment of certain court costs. An emphatic denial is made on behalf of the minister that he demanded fror See Yups a one of the prop: consider the subs meney he stipulated for was, it is stated, but small and simply enough to pay cer- tain court fees incurre litigation in the San Francisco courts. An equally emphatic denial is made that the minister told tae See Yups tha: not under the Jurisdiction of the United States, but being Chinese subjects were under the coi contrary the minister told them that being in this country, of course, they must abide by and obey its laws. “The counsel for the See Yup Society unite in saying that in these respects the minister had been misunderstood and that he did not_make the result of the agreement the minixier will communicate with his government with a view to the leaders of the suciety in San Francis- co removed and their property and that of their relatives in China, which has been seized, restored to them. The See Yup Company was recognized by the minister and hes been granted permission to con- duct its business as before. The party probably will leave here for San Francis- co Saturday. Result. Mr. Case's Interesting Eaperimente With the u dof an Animal. From Electricity. One of the most interesting an enter- taining lectures that have e been given trical Sortety was rect conversion of fuel into elee- Mo an engrossing one complished in a multitude of ways, and some of them quite efficient, either the vost of the materials, the lack of efficiency, or the great trouble involved in oper maintenance of the operation, or all com- bined, has left the development tar sk of the ideal. so that today the burning of coal under a boiler, the tr the latent heat o} energy, and the latter into ele ergy by m attendant 1 The primary methods, is by f ing theoretically an effi per cent in some ric acid t ion of steam into ns of the dynamo, with all of its sill remains «uy tery, of ar the mos of pes (Poggendorf's Ty) as agalnst some 6 or 7 the ultimate effictency of conversi of the boiler, engine and dynamo, direct ersion of the energy of ectriclty by means of atmos- eric oxygen, instead of that of zinc by ed oxyern, ha n considered so great a desid- um us to attract the attention of scien- ear or two gr pubtedly been mac! s well ex of han to the tive, lecture will doubticss be if not mor p that 4 very of Roent- gen, i{ was no more so than that of Hertz and Lenard, but it ved a pe r recognition entir out of proporuen to its real relative importance. By many this is ascribed to the iar way ia which it was nted—its first work tically being disclosure of the bones of tne living organism. Mr. Case has chesen a no less happy meth attery in which t rh reduction af a dd took on th olor of veinovs biood, and that by pouring this back and forth, so as to thorough! rate it became oxidized as it is by the lunes red color of arterlal an electric of the bie eyer of oxygen to the i the latter to ring by mea ut the generation of 1 only that the carbon be ed beforehand and that « prepared fuel be riments, while x » the subject of his first exp ttiest In theory subtless capable of further ism of Dr. foundec as Jacques snows how the latter ap- parentiy failed to avail himself mucit better element equally at his disposal with iron. SEI YUPS TO BE PARDONED. The Difficulties Between the Chinese ntatives of fhe Chines creement wherel ecntroversy between the Sam Yup societies will adjusted. The See Yups will declare against the Sam Yups, or consul at San the ‘abulous sum of money” as itions on which he would tof an agreement. The asa ‘sult of the they were ‘ol of the minister. On the teme s attributed to him. As a % the sentences imposed on ————--e- —___ Needed Medical Treatment. “I am extremely scrroy to see you here,” said Judge Kimball to William Farr: @ venerable and fairly well-dressed man, who pleaded guilty to the charge of dis- orderly conduct. Farraday was c as above, and he told Judge Kimball that he was sick and needed medical attention. “Would you like to go down to the hos- = for fifteen days?” said Judge Kim- “Oh, no, no; not that long,” repliel Far- Taday. " “Well, the best I can do is to impose the usual fine, and in default send you down, with the statement by the clerk that you rt medical treatment,” answered the “Thank you, judge,” said Farraday, he went back to the cells. Sora a by Officer Carson —__@—__ Classical Fellowships Offered. The managing committee of the Ameri- can School of Classical Studies in Rome has offered three fellowships for 1897-98, open to bachelors of arts of universities or colleges in this coun’ vanced students. Peofemor: Ck pan ag bridge, Mass., will furnish blank forms of application, which must be filled L. Smith, Cam- a ied to him by May 1, =<