Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1887, Page 23

- spirit of the OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY MAY 15 IN THE ELECTRIC FIELD. Remarkable Development of Electrio Light- ing Plants THE TELEGRAPH N INDIA Electricity as a Motive Power—Type- writer Telegraphs—Electric Fire Atarms in Hotels— Flashes, Mr. E. F. Teston Electrinity, Tne following interesting paper by Mr. . . "Lest, was read before the Literary and Scientific club, Wednesday evening, May 11: Among the wonders of nature, electrie- ity is the most majestic. It is every- where and the range of its possibilities is boundless, It pierces the sky with a flash and the air responds with terrific reverberations. It catches the earth and the surface rocks and rolls like the wave of the sca. As the Indian truly says, “it is the voice of the Great Spirit.”” Not only is it His voice, but it is one of th of His power. Its presenc felt in the rolling worlds, inmost delicate flower. It is indestruct- ibles hence eternal and it can earry the human voice a thousand miles. It is not only in the seat of life, but a part It moves our bodic will, It moves the universe, and drive whirlwind, the cvelone, and the cane in its wrath, It ride storm in awful majesty, It great enough to wrec AS to its possibilitics, Wilford ss his “Problem of Human Life: “We hear the music of o piano by our side, and near delightful strans, but on turning to look for the cause of such ex- armony, behold no musician 18 1 'y$ move in correspond- mging notes, and the | and fall, hitting the string response to these moyements of keys.” “We know there must be a_musician somewhere if there is music. But where 8 ] His nvisibility c: have no weight as aguinst his existence, so long a8 the musicis heard, and the keys are secn to move.” “We seok to unravel the mystery, and on searching, we discover passing up one of the legs of the piano what appears to bea small ithin which, upon closer inspection, we find a large num- ber of small copper wirces, On- raising the key board we observe the undor sut- face is lined with a thin plate on and beneath each key, we discover an electro-magnet; its wires connected with suitable copper threads in the insulated chord.” But whe! of it , us the servant of our the hurri upon_th strength is a world. in the 18 the player® He must be somewhere, possibly in_ an adjoining room. Or, is it some flitting ghost touch- ing the instrument with an inyisible hand? On lifting 1ts lid we discover a tele- phone, and observing its copoer threads pass down the same insulated chord that conv the wires to the magnets, we take the hint and venture th call. The answer comes from I phia.” *“There sits the musician playing upon his grand piano, every key' of which is d with those of the piano by our us hiladel- wonderful still, the ng telephone at his ear becomes a combined dual musician and listener; every note is not only re- produced upou the distant piano, but is actually returned to_himself in Bhiladel phia, and repeated in harmony with his own, and with compound delight.”” Is this fanciful? Let us go back a cen- tury, and see the rapid strides scienc: has made in this respect: A well-known writer said: *‘About the year 1750 a marchant of Cleves, named Jorissen, who had becon almost totally deaf, sitting one day u a harpsichord while some one was pla ing, and having a tobacco pipe in his mouth, the bowl of which rested acci- dentally against the body of the instru- ment, he w: cably and unexpected- Iy surp r all the notes in the most distinct manner.” By a little reflection and practice, | obtained the use of this valuable sense: for he soon learned by means of a iece of hard wood, one end of which e placed against his teeth, to keep up a gonversation, and to be able to under- stand a whisper.” Here we have the prin ples of the telephone, that is, g sound by i52) Franklin made hisdiscovery, and brought the lightning from the clouds. We are familiar with the story of the kite. It1s said, observ- ing an ~ approaching thunder-storm he went out on the commons with his son, mlnglllnlvr a shed to avoid the ra ndnui ridicule, (doubtless some wi men of that day wondered what he was doing in the rain) he made a confidant only of his son. The cloud p: no sign of electricity appeared. ril’lng. he suddenly observed the loose bres of the string to move towards an an erect position. Presenting h‘:s knuckle: to tho key, he received a His th ory became a fact and n scien- tists hastened to crown the provincial doctor with a wreath of fame. Such was the beginning of one of greatest conv nees we T'he recent visit of minds me of an incic Some years ago and means of the American congi was in session, They were consider orse telegraph bill. With the nily usual to our states when handling an unfamiliar the members voted first on then on the other, until th \ was reached. Then Governor Wall of Indiana roseand aske sider his vote. ng his hat, he w into the hall and asked a question of the *eras; n at the other end of the cap- itol.”" ‘The answer came. Again he asked, and again the answer came. Ex- cusing himself from the laughing crowd he returned to the committee room an east the deciding vote in favor of the “bill. The committee reported the bill to i m of the sea. M the house. It passed congress in the Inst hours of the session. The work was finished, and Morse, in the hour of tri- umph, ' exclaimed ' “What hath God wrought?" But Governor Wallace, left t0 the mercey of his loving constituents, was defeated for re-election because he bad vo *'to throw away the people's money on a foolish thini.” Both lived to a good old nfio, one, to receive the most distinguished honors of the nation, the other with the sweet as- surance that he had been the chosen in- atrument to make successful the most potent civilizer of the age. “Fhus from the discovery of the deaf merchant of Cleves came’ the audiphone siwilar contrivances to relieve the rtunate, aud through the genwus of 'a“f' Belle ana Edison, the telephone, hile that of the printer of l’hilmfi'lbh n led to the electric telegraph and its astonishing result: Foilowing the @ We sce k‘r«‘flnou plung- ing into the wilderness, and meeting tl nd from ocean to ocean with the mystic wire, and Field laying the cable on the What are the deeds & cwsar compared with the achiev of these two men? One reared that fettered the nations and en- d brutalized its own people. It *fl\llhfid by ignorance and slavery. m the work of Creighton the sav- while Field has bouud the 1g- of the world, and the nations are destined to become one umversal land of brothers. Nor can we let this opportunity pass without calling to mind I'm eventful day in May, 1860 when the Atlantic and ic were united with bands of iron, when the cannon on Capitol Hill saluted the conquest of peace as each stroke of the hammer fell upon the last spike more than athousand miles away. How little we realized ¢ ; heard the booming guns that h y’w,rs‘flm ushers ity whose future of # boor of & might will be sccond to none “in ths vast re- publie! r should it be forgotten, to en of Omaha, E Rosewater was reserved the high privilege of flash- ing over the electric wire the language of the grandest instrument of modern the emancipation proclamation, penned by the most precious hand that ever mouldered in the tomb. ‘These are a few of 1ts territotrial con- quests. Let us look into the domain of nature and behold it there, and, by elec- I mean itin its broadest sense and S attributes. In the heavens we sce the tailof a great comet traveling at the rate of mil- lions of miles an hour. Whenee comes this amazing velocity? In the spring and fall the sko is luminous with a beau- tiful cone—the zodiacal hghts and the aurora borealis spreads its roseate hues at various seasons of the year. Does it oceur to any one that these phenomena have the same governor to rule thy Such is the fact the speetrum re hof the electric line of lights, Again, the sun, moon and moving in the pluces appointed by their ereator, is connccted b 1 magnetic attraction; you will, upon which its cre: each acting upon the other as it rolls throngh space. In eircling around the sun the th is circled by the moon. Both are eclectro-magnets. "At a given point the moon passes between the earth and another world. The magnetie con- nection between us and that world s 1n- terrupted, and disturbances of the at- mosphere ensue, Rolling along,the moon breaks this connection between us and sl another world, and the shock eau; the earthquake, sinking of mountains and islands and destroying thousands of the human race. Sometimes the sun and moon pass each other on the ccliptie, celipsing the sun in its passage, when the combined electric foree of two bodies thrills the earth, shaking i crust, and re ing the horrors of Li bon and Charleston. So_far as my ob- servation hus extendea, I find that all great carthquakes and voleanic crup- tions are cuused by the movements of avenly bodies and their relative positions with the earth. It is the same with the disturbances in the atmosphere ~—the ctric 8 being weak or strong according to the circumstances. Sometin these disturbances come in the tornado, charged to the brim with electricity, or i the hurricane, and the cyclone, where thousands who go down to the sea in ships are lost forever. Again they come in the rain drop or snow fluke, or in the magnetic storm, which lowers the temperature almost in & moment. Once in a while the beautiful planet Venus, now scen in the western sky, comes between the carth and the sun, keeping the earth company for months and weeks, ‘Then we have summers of extreme heut,.while the passage Iasts, be- cause we receive the borros heat of Venus in addition to our own supply from the sun. Such is also the case coneern- ing the moon toa more limited degree. Again the earth will pass between the great planet Jupiter, (now seen in_the southeast in the early evening) and the sun, and again the season will be warm near the time of the pa: because we not only receive our own at from the sun, but we pass through the addi- tional magnetic force put forth by the sun to huLfd the planet in his orbit.” My observations in this have also led me to believe this foree is exerted by the sun in « curve, because the day ng the ovposition of a superior planet are al- ways warm, while the day is apt to be cool or windy. These are also the phe- nomena attending the opposition of the planet Saturn, in the early winter months. At other times the earth is on one side of the sun, and the planets on the other. Like great magnets, as they are, they draw the sun’s heat away from' the earth, and the scasons are cool. When th planets and the earth are on the same side of the sun the seasons are unusually warm. ‘This is the principle on which astro-meteorolo- gists base their forecasts of the waather and the seasons. It is the basis on which Joseph predicted the good and the bad yeurs in Egypt, while Moses from his knowledge of the magnetic influence of these bo peaks of the precious fruits put forth b sun, and the precious things put forth on the earth by the moon, In our own duy, it is the secret of suceess any of our florists and farm- plant and prune by the signs of the zudine, and the position of the moon, There can be no question as to electri- city bemng the motive power of the uni- verse. By what process it works [ do not know, though others claim such knowl- edge.’ 1 can see no other reason for th velocity of the heavenly bodies, unless backed by this powerful agent. Heat and light are too slow. Besides, they are not universal, but direct 1n their applica- tion. It light was universal, there would be noshadow nor darkness. If heat was i al, there would be no glaciers nor cold. Its velocity has never been measured. Some claim this, but the claim is non- sonse. As un illustration of 1ts speed, in 1857 or Prof. Carrington saw a very bright spot on the sun. At the same instant the magnetic needles on the earth were violently agitated. Magnetic storms prevailed during the day, and at night the aurora borealis overspread the heavens. Here then, we have an instance of its velocity, It t ed 92,000,000 miles in an instant. ays it travels 2. in xteenth of a second; another 200,000 miles in_a second, and still unother 4,000,000 miles 1 a second. This is equal to 240,000,000 miles, or 9,650 times around the earth in one minute, Accepting 4,000,000 a1 n one hour it can travel a distance six times greater than the planet Neptune, twenty times faster than lignt, reaching the enormous total of 815 billion,600 million (345,600,000) wiles in twenty-four hours, If this is not enough to demonstrate its amazing power, an old writer says the Star of Bethlehem, expeeted in i%1 or 1892, must be traveling at the rate of 462,000,000 miles a minute. Whether this star is a myth or not, I do not know, but an e mi- nent French astronomer cluims to have located it in the point about where it is expected to reappear. If we admit this to be true, one can understand the rapid flight of an angel from God’'s distant throne, and, if the voice can be carried by an electric cur- rent, how the prayer of a human soul can be instantly heard in heaven. Electricity seems connected with our lives and spirits. Who can doubt the first. Let us see how 1t is with the other. Two operators are talking over the wire. 1t conveys intelligent answers and re- plies. We know the source! of the ihtel- ligence and how it is conveyed. A num- ber of persons with lockéds’hands sit around the table. The table moves—ask a question and an _intelligent answer is given. We know the tabie is electritied or magnetized, but what is the iutelli- gence controlling it. We see a man walking the streets, every muscle moving in obedience to his will, - What is the 1o+ telligence that moves his body? When the man lives we know he is magnetic. He has life. When he dies magnetism and life ‘fo outof him. Are they inseparable? If then maguetism or electricity arc indestructible, hence eternal, then wo are lmmorm,'beouuu electricity is eur servants to do our will. Therefora it 18 logieal to conclude the servant cannot be greater than his mas. ter, that is, the creator would not leave us, the superior to perish, while the ser- vants live forever, Eleetricity is luminous, so is the tail of a comet, the aurora bore and the zodiacal light;so is an angel and per- force the !lriril of aman, The dying have testified time and again to the pre- sence of bright beings around them and others watching at the bedside have claimed to see a luminous something leav- the body at the moment of death. As eleetrieity is luminous, has it any connection with the spirit? When leav- ing the body does the spirit assume a a shape or form? Ve judge 8o by the rhtning when it strikes the earth. Now, as clectricity and life are tangi- ble substanc can pereei when they beconie visible to mortal ¢ are luminous; hence the r brightness of the angels of whom we hayve read, aking this view of the connection b tween electricity and the spizit, for the holier the spirit, the greater its magnet- ism, we can account for the ng of the son of the widow of Nuain,the daugh- ter of Juirus, and of Lazar In each wus the exi e of the divine magnetic vower and will, calling the disembodied spirits back to their mortal bodies. It into consideration the yelocity of electricity we can account for the res- t the last day on scientific ver destroyed, although ange, the par remain. Let this agent loose unde control of the Almighty, and in stant by its magnetic power every parti- cle of our bodies will be drawn into its proper place, having undergone the chemieal ehang ne ary 1o make them immortal.” The living on the last day will go through the sume change, by the sume process, under the divine cnm- mand. That it will be electric there seeras to be no doubt, In this we have the proof of the ch in the body of ah, who disapp: m an eleetrie estation; the transtiguration when a bright cloud ‘overshadowed th the ascension, when a cloud out of their sigh can enter h and our Savior must have ¢ whirlwind and the cloud. pirit and e it explains the omnipr Even the pagans admitted the electric attributes of the deity when they pictured Jove holding the hghtning in his hand, The seriptures teem with these mani- festations of the Almighty and his min- rs, for they suy God ~ reasoned with h from out'of the whirlwind, showed fi in the earthquake and ed the Israclites with and the pillar of fire by night, manifested himselt i the thick clond av the dedication of the temple, and spoke the moral law from Sinai in thunderigs, lightnings, flame and smoke, The light of the angel shone in the ;n-imn of Peter, and the plains of Bethle- hem were illumined by the presence of the cclestial visitors. “At the tomb of Christ, after the the mignt; the cloud ? amid the quakings of the earth, w countenance like the lightning, 5 raiment white as s On the day of Pentecost can rusning, mighty wind with the cloven tongues of fire, resting on h of the disciples. Paul and Siias prayed and sang v to God, and the prison was shaken the doors thrown open by a great earth quak Th kind, se are but few of the cases of the ‘T'he propl with predie. f future el nifestations on ior foretelis how lestroyed through the agency of electricity ‘inally revelation sn; nd thunde and there was quake. * w o “And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. “Behold a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.” “Aund out of the throne proceeded lightnings, and thunderings, and vo! Can anything than this be more ma- jestie, showing, as it does, that, not onl, has_elect irth to ruin but it is the powerful agent of the ighty, proceeding dircctly from the s of His Omnipotence. “‘And there ngs and hght- great ecarth- D Typewriter Telegraphs, Mr. J. F. MeLaughlin, of Philadelphia, whose ingenious electro-pneumatic tube system we deseribed and llustrated re- cently, has now brought to a notable de- gree of perfection a system for using the typewriter diveetly for telegraph pur- poses. When the typewriter is notin use on the *nit it can be switched out and put to ordinary oflice work, Anyone able to operate the typewriter can tele- graph, it is i Electric World: The hotel papers are calling attention to the desirability ot more general adoption of electric alarms in hotels, The recent expe: at Buffaio, when an by its timely warning helped to save a great many persons, ought to be enough to convince that some such apparatus is a ary adjunct of every well con- ducted hotel, and we trust there will be a Zene adoption of apparatus of this ty Applied to Agriculture, The Marquis of Salis- sat at Hatfield, Eng., continues to he a live example of what can be done to aid the agricuiturist in ins work when a convenient souree of power 18 at hand, such as is afforded by elee- tricity. ‘The threshing engine formerly 18 bees c y a tric motor, and ently an electrie el vator, employed in raising newly-cut | or corn sheaves to the top of the stac has been introduced with marked sucy Dispensing with the usual horse or steam engine labor required for the machine, the elevator is supplied with an electric motor, fixed upon its bed, and driven by a current brought by wires from a cen- tral source. The wires are easily trans- portable, so that the elevator “can be taken from stack to stack in a very short time, The greatest radius over which the etectric elevator has been used at Hat- field is half & mile, being all that is there required. The principle is evidently ap- plicable to a far greater range of distri- bution and we shall see the time when our large western farms will be wor! more or less with the aid of electric power, Where a fall of water is avail- able this is particularly easy of accom- plishment, but even the _installation of a steam power plant to drive the dynamos will in many cases be below the™ initial cost of horses and their maintenauce, or that of a large number of individual e able steam engines such as are now largely in use, Comparea With Europe. Electrical World: As compared with Europe, this country has shown a re- markable development of isolated elec- tric lighting plants, The difference be- tween the two has often called forth com- ment, anb a favorite explanation has been the lack of enterprise on the part of Europeans. This opinion is not, how- ever, weil founded. " The well-known conservatism of the average citizen of Europe may accouut for the existing state of aftuirs in a measure, but there are other causes effecting the industry very directly. Chief among these, for .example, is the fact that in Europe the nles and regulations regarding the lacing of steam boilers are excessively stringent. We are accustomed to place ONLY ONE MAN IN OMAHA Who has any connection with the American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association and hence he possesses facilities for buying WALL Over all others, and now he proposes to give you the benefit of this advantage. We open for sale on Monday a large invoice of goods just received, comprising numer- ous patterns for parlors, dining rooms, and halls, for TEN CENTS PER ROLL. Hundreds of New Designs from 12!%c to 15c¢ Per Roll. A large assortment Rich and Artistic in Designs, suitable for fine residences at 25¢ to 35¢c Per Roll. We invite special attention to the wonderful decorative material callled LINCRUSTA WALTONS Unexceptionally beautiful and artistic in design and finish. logue of this material FREE; HENRY LEHMAN, boilers in cellurs, under sidewalks, or wherever it is found most convenient, buat suzh a proceeding would not for a moment be countenanced in most Euro- peun countries. In some of the latter, nothing more ths A two-inch plank is allowed to be placed over a steam boller. There ms to be a strange idea in the old world that a boiler on explodis riscs in the wir and f: flxucll?‘ in the same spot, that if there 1s anything in the prevent this intelligent action on — tne vart of the bursting boiler, mweh damage may be done. In conscquence of this i boilers must: be placed in buildings, and thus 'valuable LC ed for steam plants. Hence it is that the gasengine has come into extensive use abroad in connection with isolated plants. Iu proof of the difliculty encountered in the installation of aboiler in connection with electric lighting, we were recently informed by a foreign gen- leman that 1t took two years of hard to obtain permission to erect the ssary power plant in a certain pl Under such conditions, evidently, ¢ tric lighting must langui Of this troubl¢ in an extreme form, example was given lately with the Gordon instal- lation at Paddington, which, according to Ame stions, 18 well placed, but which, according to t ge Euro- pean idea, is an improvement not to he endured. America is certainly to be preferred. Electricity nsa Motive Power. pringtield Republiean: Whil ding by steam and horse-power ab- sorbs o large a share of «public atten- tion, the public must not fail to notice the rapid development which is taking place in the application of electricity as 1 motive power. Westtield, our cnter- prising neighbor, is subscribing $20,000 to introduce the Daft elactrie light motor syctem upon a car route of two miles. opee 18 considering the use of ele tricity for the same purpose. . Mar- tin, in the Railroad Gazette catalogues n large number of pl: cars for rvice are aiready operated by elec- y. A car fitted to an elec motor about double the price o ary horse car, but the horses, re at'from six to twelve per ear, ‘1 first cost about the same. = company, of New York, which now op- tes either by overhead wire or by third 1, is operating & road for the third t Baltimore: 1t has one at Los An- that earried 15,000 passengers and one a Orange, roads are under contract Pittsburgh, Mans- field, Ohio, and Iths N. Y.;the Van Depoele company of Chicago has_roads at Detroit and Port Huron, Mich., Wind- Appleton, Wis., Seranton, mtgomery, Ala , and has con’ ima, Ohio, and Binghampton, electric _companies have nver, Detroit, Kansus and other ci are on trial or about to be trica w York, the Daft, the Bentley- Knight conduit system, and the Julien electric system as” tried on the Eighth avenue eleyated. The Baltimore . ience has been the most extensiv according to Mr. Martin, the cost per day per car i b nst $6.50 for horses. No ele motor has been ap- plied on a s forming the present ! rvice for this y. But s experimental efforts re now being tried that within five ars we shall . probably see great ad- i of clectricity wton, and Brook proje As to the meth- r. Martin says o 18 # remarkable d range of rail- With 3 flexibility of appli choice to method. ' ean carry its own power in storage batteries: the cur- rent conductors may be placed on any existing track, or the car may depend for current upon an overhead wire with contact trollery or bush, and all of these can be used together, if necessary, on one road. I have been on street railways where each of these plans is exemplified, and have found all practicable and oper- ative. The motor can be put anywhere, even on the roof, and can be geared up in a dozen different wa The average v of power is casily 60 to 65 per and in ry case the current re- quired 18 exactly proportionate, at the minute, to the ‘work being done. The cost of the electric conductors is more than offset by the wear and tear of a horse-track. ‘The czntral station electric plant will, in many cases, be more than paid for by the economy in real estate, and it can be put anywhere along the Ime or nearit. It ‘can aldo, asit docs now, supply electric hght and power for general purposes, The Telegraph in India. Electrical World: We have received a copy of the Indian Telegraph Guide, for April, 1886, 1t is a remarkable evidence of the extent of the growth of the tele- flmm in the far east. It is a bulky little ok 8}x54 inches, and coutains no fewer than 138 pages of rules, mstructions, forms, lst of oflices, The Guide 18 at once interesting and sugg ive, and is full of details auch as only belong to a service under the con- ditions prevailing in India. Thus, for instance, a List is given of public ofticers who on occasions of geeat importance have the power to ‘‘clear the line,” or, n other words, suspend the receipt and aispatch of all other messages until their own telegraph business is trunsacted. A list of offices opened and closed at certain times mentions some which are closed “during the rainy se of oflicers open at sp “to the local requirements” includes a great many open, say, trom6a. m. to 8 a. m. and then from noon till 5 p. m. or from from 2to 6 p. m. The tem s eyi- dently well worked out, and its efliciency no doubt contributes largely to the se- curity of the Indian government as well the comfort of the queen’s Indian sub- jeets. In a private letter to one of the aditors of the Electrical World, Mr. P. V. Luke, superintendent of telegraphs, writ- ing from Caleutta, gives an account of the extent of the work done- We quote the following by On the 21st of March, 1886, we 500 miles of tele- graph line, with 81,500 miles of wire be- longing to the department, and 187 miles of river cable. This is exclusive of lines belonging to the rail- W companies, The messuge tratlic is increasing so rapidly that the need for the quadraplex is beginning to be felt,and we h Juststarted a quadru- I.h»x circuit betw ras and Bom- hay, 800 miles, w anslating sta- tion, In all probability shall extend the system gradually over miost of our main hines. We have been very busy in Burmah, with over 1,000 miles of ficld telegraphs and new lines conneeted with the recent annexation of that territory, and the workis constantly extending in a very trying country.’’ Telegraphers in 1nd work under many spec nd peenliar circumstanccs of diflie me of which tne above extract gives an idea. e BEATING THE BANDITS. have to do their 1 Expressman Brown's Winning Fight with a Gang of Train Robbers, Chicago Inter-Ocea “This last ex- press robbes sald an old railroad man, “calls to mind an exploit of an express messenger that ought not to be forgotten. It was about eight years ago, and Frank Browa, then in charge of an Adams ex- press ear on the Santa Fe road, was the hero of the occasion. Somewhere in Colorado the train was stopped by sev- eral desperadoes, the engine, biggage car and express car were detached and run forward three or four miles where the robbers expected to go through the express ear at their lc o. They had the advantage of the engineer and fire- man and brakeman from the start, be- cause they were unarmed, and the rob- bers, with their revolvers, compelled then to do their biddi “*Brown, however, 5)0 moment the traan was stopped closed his car and pre- pared for defence. During the run from the point where the robbers exnected to enter upon the business of robbery Brown strengthened his position, and when the gang attempted to foree an entyance he Wi ly for them. He knew that in hour a train would approach pposite diveetion, and his pur- pose was, through parley and a show of strong resistance, to delay the entrance of the robbers until about the time the train appaoached, He did not at first n out, but he deter- e fight, and for an hour went on. n robbers resorted to every expedient to induce Brown to surrender or to open the doors, and failing in that they proceeded to compel his surrende by opening « steady fire on the car. ‘L't would shoot fifteen or twenty times at dilterent angles, and then, taking it for the strugg granted that Brown had been frightened | or possibly killed, would make another attempt on the car. Everytime they were me by hostile demonstrations by Brown and were compelled to abandon the at- tempt. Every timo they were repulsed they opened fire more venomously, and when the whistle of the approaching train sounded there were 133 bullet holes in the express car, and Brown was still master of the situation. With the com- ing up of the other train the robbers n:udu # hasty flight, securing no booty at all. *This experience led the company to put guards on every express train, the manages choosing men who had a good deal of fight in them, and who, under- standing that they were paid to fight, were always ready for an engagement, The result of the enperiment was that no more attzcks were made on the trains in that section for a good many years. As a rule, the desperadoes who ‘attack ex- press trains are pretty well informed as to the condition of affairs, and if they know they are likely to be met with strong resistence or to come_in contact with men who will shoot without cere- mony, they are not inclined to make any ventures; but if they know that the ex- press messenger and the trainmen are un- armed, they have little hesitation in mak- ing an attack. - .— S1CKNEss comes uninvited, and strong men and women are forced loc-mplo{ means to restore their health ‘and strength; the most successful of all known remedies for weakness, the origin of all disense, 15 Dr. J. H. McLean's :lrcnglhemugConllul and Blood Puri- er. PA PER A descriptive cata- 15608 Douglas-st., Between 15th and 16th, North Side. GROVER AND KAPIOLAN The President Entertains the Queen Under Difficulties. Hawaiin MRS. CLEVELAND'S SERENITY lil-bred Washington Audiences—Pate ti's La Traviata—Emma Abbott's Warm Admirer—Secretary La- ar's Good Breeding. WasHiNGTON, May 9—[Correspondence of the Be n reach you, you will have read that M m Patti’s com- ing to Washington was a great success numeri and socially. And if a packe fringedto the very cdge with men in evening dress like so many black tassels dangling, with price of tickets all the way from $30 boxes down to 3 for the chance of standing all the evening, is a sign of a financial success, then most undoubtedly it wus a big finan- ial suct to all but the “almighty dollae” man who, expecting to make a golden fortune out of Patti’s nppearance in opera here, for one night only, by buy- ing up all the best seats and holding them so high that at last as the hour approached to ring up the curtain, sold them for what he could get and was thonghtful. It made my ears tingle with delight to hear, “Opera tick- ets, I)rino seven dollars, will be sold for five,” all along the line from the street corner to the very entrance door. ‘The price of tickets being so high and the wholesale buying up of the tickets by the sharpers, who must have slept on the curbing in front of the opera house the night before the sale so as to be the first in line in the morning, my Patti impossible for the real i« peoble of Washington, and I'm thinking if the audience had been composed of this class of people instead of the oflicial, volitical and S AND CRUSHERS, thinking a good d¢ about their good elothes and being looked an listening to the whisperings of souls through Adelina Patti’s voice, she would have been inspired to her | migh as she made her i the festive I wondered if a cold _chill duln’t creep down the divine diva’s pretty round back as she took a look at that brilliant hering and felt that there was something lacking. A goollovking crowd, to bo sure, B it did seem to me during the first part of the play that they were wholly engrossed ppearance, and how and what she looked like rather than how she sang and acf However, the coldest 1ce of selfishness must melt before that warm, passionate soul of music and art, and' lea by the peanut gallery (nearest heaven), where sat some of our very best judges of art and song, the audience broke > ong, wild roar of applause of ¢ tion. And how gracefully and g the fuir goddess” of music did bow her thanks, and espeeially daid she smile, s she alone ean smile, her gratitude toward the box where sat THE i ' AND IS who, the diva Lt the h and adm of about her, I presume because flowers such a cheap commodity here in <hington, none were thrown at the of the greatest music artist of this . After being agam and again re- called before the curtain, she sang *Home, Sweet Home,” as I ne again expected to hear it till I hear it beyond the blue sky, us the angels of song wel- come me to the eternal _home. I could not 1f I would, and would notf I could, attempt to describe that voice and singer as she stood in all her loveliness before ono of the most brilliant assemblages this count , ean produce. She was dre: velous costume of white, commosed of silk, satin, lace and flowers, brillinntly sparkling with such an array of diamonds I have never i i --enough to make seslieand Mrs. Senator S suicide out of sheer jealousy. voice may show to the in the opera of I s nothing more or less than * and 1 hate thut play —1 hate gilded folly set to music, put temptingly upon the stage--there =19 enough all about us everywhere to fight against. 1 hate to sea: people die—al- though theregare & lot of people who ought to die, just s woeds Am;fhtlu be hoed out of a garden—especially do 1 hate love affairs to end in deuth-—as llw{ surely must sooner or later! But such lovely loveliness us Patti to die in such a horrible way, bolt up-right in a chair with that rosebud of a mouth wide open and those beautiful eyes stark and star- ing. Awful! I should have forgotten, eyen the heaven in HER ‘'HOME, SWEET HOME," 2 had she not appeared before the curtuin to assure up she was a thing of beauty and joy forever. Of all perfection in dress Madam Patu's Patti was LOVE WIFE, k costumes in “La Traviata' are the most exquisite and uncqualled for richness of texture and artistic effect. Much has been sud and written of Saruh Bernhardt's ondertul elothes, they are wonderful, those that I have seen, but there 1s such a wonderof beginning and ending—so much of a muchness. Somuch of clothes to shake to find the woman, as though Bernhardt was made for the clothes, Patti’s clothes have the appearance of having been made for her—the woman first and then the clothes. And what costumes there were in that 1 ay 8! The like of which have never been seen in the opera house be- fore. A most desperate effort to get rid of the objectionable bonnet ard hats, but here and there a tower-of Babel bonnet and a Washington monuizent-hat was seen bobbing in front of opera glasses—a nip and contest to see which should full view of the stage, Mrs. Cleveland was resplendent in a rooshing costume of white satin and lace, and low-necked, the line drawn at he shoulder blades and arm_pits, after pproved fashion of her sister-in-lnw. he carried an 1mmense white feather fan, which she languidly moved to and fro, as# gentle summer brecze might have moved the large palms under the to fan the beautiful Many times during the most parts of the singing and adam Patti, 1 noticed opera :VELAND, all of which must have been very gratify- ing to her hubby, who sat in the rear of the box mopping his fuce. The night was intensely hot, every gas jet at full blast all over the house, degree de- acted from the brilliant effect of the 1 am sure that Madam Patti must uffered from the strong light and over-heated house, All the rest of us were uncomfortable. Thursday night Emma Abbott in “Il Travetore™ drew a splendid house. The president and Mrs, Cleveland, accom- panied by the e faithful Daniel and his wife, aceepted a box and and scemed to enjoy the play very much. Mrs, Cleveland, dressed” in a black lace cos- tume, looked very like the photographs of herself that are to be seen in shop windows all over the country—the most becoming costume she has yét appeared in. Her manner in public is that of per- fect composure and. solf.control. 'Sho takes the homage paid he s the just dues of the price of being Grover Cle lund's wife and mistress of the white hou, It was with the most intense in- terest she watched Abbott’s handsome tenor in the role of Manico, as Lenora's lover, It was here that Mrs. Cleve- land showed the promptings of her girlish, youthful heart, and scemed to forget all about her even the impu- dent stare of a blase man of the world who set in a box near, and turning his back to the stage glured at Mrs. Cleve- land all the evening, His want of good breeding and true manhood made my fingers itch to gi him by the collar and tumble him out of the window. But we must expect these big plays as the re- ward of fame. NEXT IN LINE to receive the best attention that this ad- ministration can_uflord (money no ob- jeet) the lavish attentions paid the ealico queen. It is something to have @ real live queen in our midst, even if she is us black us the queen of spades! To think it should have been leit tor the oriental cleopatra. interesting acting of M is an sight Cleve- of wonders, a8 a worth sceing, that of President nd and the dusky queen sitting side by 1t the state dinner last Friday night, ppearing ill at ease, hot ana” doubte ful of his next line of action. She majes- tic and solemn as the bron Libe ou the dome of the jesty can't speak but a few words glish, and his presidency can’t talk in the Hawaiian’s, the situation was rather trying to say the least, and I Cleveland, who being huld be- florul center piece opposite ir Carter, her mujesty's subs seling her big toe under the comical position her lord and was in. As full dress at state don't permit of ladies’ wearing all the sly giggling has to be the boots. “There is a great deal of suickering o1 s daysuny w While Seeret staunch a mirerof fair dly think he would allow his dislike for twilight com- plexions to give offense to his chicf by refusing to aceept the Lospitulities of his ansion on this state oceasion. | choose to think that Secreta had some good excuse for not “at the state dinner, i na good excuse th t n necepts ing an mviattion to a good dinner, for that man does like to be invited to lunch ! {t must be remembered that ary Lamar has a bride wife, pos- sibly she raised objections to sitting down to the table with a “‘colored pu sont sunny south still LI Y strong prejudice o the mixing of black and wh And yet the tie of blood in half-aud-half ra of the south will tell, How gratifying 1t must be to the colored people” of this country that at lust one of their celor has been royally treated by the democratic party. Con,