Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1889, Page 3

(UTTINGTHROUGR THE RIDGE emarkable B1gineoring of the B. & M.’s Northwestern Extension. HEAVIEST WORK IN THE STATE. Description of the Big Tunnel Which Has Been Made Through the Solid Limestone atPine Kidge Camp. The B. & M.'s Line to the Hille, Pixe Rmor Cawp, Nel Sept. 13— (Special to Tre Bre,]—This place is located on the Pine ridge, which surrounds the Btack Hills, and is some ten miles in width, Its height above the sea is 4,600 feet. Kive miles to the northwest is the Crow Butte, which is the highest peak of Pive ridge. The old Sidney and Elack Hills road passed along here, and its hroad and deep ruts are still visible, though it is no longer traveled. The country is very picturesque, Its hills, ‘which are Lwo or three hundred feet high, are constantly cut through by canyons one or two hundred feet in depth, along which the young pine timber grows thickly, affording a scene covstantly changing and always pic- turesque, There are *some ten w mills in operation around here which supply the settlers with the lumber which they need. The B. & M. rail- road company has cut 80,000 ties on jhese hills, and all the heavy timber used in the tunnel, about half a million feet, was ob- tained here, Now that the land is in the inds of settlers, the timber will be pre served and wili be suflicient for all the wants of the inhabitants. For twenty miles through Pine Eide, and approaching it, the heaviest railroad work in ‘ebraska is seen, and at this point for two or three miles it compares with that along the Pennsylvania and Erie roads, The tun- nel which pierces through the ridge eighty feet below the surface at this point, is a large, expensive and handsome piece of work. 1t 1s 604 fect 1n length, 21 feet wide und 14 teet high in tune clear. It was cut through the solhd limestone. It is covered with layers of stone, and is neatly timberea throughout in the form of a pentagon (five equal angles) the pines being one foot square. On the south side it is approached through n cut in the limestone rock, whose walls rise to a height of seventy feet, and which extenas continu- ously for half a mile. On the north side a similar cut extends for 400 feet, which is seventy-five feet deep and iwenty-two feet wide. Beyoud this is a big fill fifty feet in height which extends for two miles,and then another cut is s2en, whose walls rise through the solid rock 102 feet. For twelve miles through the ridge, to within three miles of Crawford, a constant succession of deep cuts through the rock are encountered, inter- spersed with lofty fills. The road curves to the right and left incessuntly, and the outlook in every direction is far-reaching, picturesquo, and altogethor charming. Dur’ ng the last ten months work with a very large force of men has been in constant rrogren on this interesting portion of the ine. Work on the tunnel began at the north end on July 8, and on the south end on July 10, since which dates to August 23, 852 fect “ have been cut from the north and 312 feet from the south end. The completion of the track through the tunnel has eoabled the company to begin track-laying northward toward Crawford, which will be completed to that place by the time this appears in prirt. On reaching Crawford track-laying will be increased from one and one-half to two and one-half miles & day. It is expected that the entire line will be compleled to its proposed present terminus west of the black Hills in Wyoming, about 150 miles from here, by No- vember. Among work incidental to the construc- tion of the road, the most important is the lay.og of iron pipes to secure and protect the drainage. Of this there will be on the first eighty miles w of here, the enormous amount of 80,000 tons of iron pipe laia, vary- ing from twelve to foruy-six inches in diameter, which will afford egress to the ‘water, and prevent all damage from floods and washouts, The Kilpatrick brothers, whose camp has been located here for the past ten months, are now removing their entire stores and machinery to the western end of the line, The site of the' camp 8o long occupied on the hills, near the tunmel, is a icturesque one. To the uorthwest it commands an illimitable scene, embracing the thouands of hills of the Pine ridge, n ‘which Crow, Red Cloud and other peaks are the prominent objects, with the vast stretch of open country beyond. On a clear day the chief peaks of the Blue hills, some seventy miles away. are visible. This whole Pine ridge, contrary to my ex- pectation, 1s well settled. 1 am told, and can well bolieve from what T have seen, that there are but fow quarter sections of broken country which are not taken and occupied. Everywhere, in riding through the country, one sees nestled among the hills and ravines the comfortable and often the attractive homes of the farmers, who generally possess u'tew head of stock, and in whose flelds and yards stacks of wheat, oats and hay are ev- erywhere scen. On the Running Water (or Niobrara, as it is known further down) to the southeast are good sized stock ranches, but as a rule throughout the hills ot the Pine ridge, the ground is occu- pled by small stockmen and thrifty farmers. These Mills of the Piue ridge, which are separated from the Black Hills, are an ex- tension of the range which lies to the north of Laramie. They are separated therefrom only by the valley of the North Platte river. That stream, after taking its rise in norvhern Colorado, flows due north; is crossed by the line of the Union Pacific road at Fort Stgele; * stretches around the Laramie hills eastward to Fort Fettermau, and from thence runs southeasterly to a junction with the southern branch at North Platt b, Despite the unfavorable weather there was another grand crowd at the Coliseum last evening, and the prospects are for-a verita- ble jam to-night. The exposition has been an unqualified success, and the management is to be congratulated. The affair closes to- wight with & grand sacred concert, the pro- ramue of which is as follows: rand Murch, **The Calvary”......,,.Gunod (From the Reaemption.) Selection, “‘Offenbachiana’ . ... Arr. Boettger ‘Trombone Solo, *'Romance” . ++++.Bennet Mr. C, Salisbury. Spanish Fantasia, *“The Pearl of Madrid” Mesereiiiia Bachman Sacred Songs, ‘Herald Angels" Beyer Duet for Cornets, ‘Mollie’'s Answer”. ..., “ra Diavolo A Night in Be Solo for every instrument.) Vaulcun (with anvil effects) Clarinet Solo, “Serenade", Mr. A, Benkait. Belection, “Huguenots'...........Meyerbeer Bt Lawronce. o ... Sims (Salo for Clarwets and Trombones.) o —— The P, E. O, The A. N. chapter of the P, E. O, met in secret conclave at the home of Miss Fitch, at 2420 St. Mary's, yesterday afternoon. Noti- wg could be learned of the mysterious delib- erations of that august body of feminines, except that a motion was made and carried 10 purchase a new side saddle for the nitia- tion goat, An inquisitive reporter who hoved 0 get u glimpse of the members in council was quickly banished, but he learned that the orgavization is composed of & number of “eachers aud other ladies of the city who met for the purpose of mutual intellectual - vement. The society is a scion of the col 'ge KOrosis of the same name, and the local “hapter was organized by ladies who were pembers of the orgunization while ut school. Any lady who meets the approval of all the Aembers is eligible to membership. Eighth Ward Republican Olub, A meeting of the Eighth ward republican Jub will be held av Scnroeder's hail, south- rest corner of Cuming and Twenty-fourth otreets, I'riday evening, September 20, at 8 ©'clock, for the election of ofticers aad the 0 of other important business, U. B anm;u. ] wl"u Becrotar, «Hiller THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 MOTOR MOVEMENTS, Bix Afld.itlnnll Treaing — The Omaha Extension. The Motor company has completed the work of stringing tho overhead wire on the Sixteenth street iine as far south as Vinton street, and intends to put on at least six trains to-morrow morning. The trains will run from Sixteenth and Vinton streets north to Leavenworth, east to Fifteenth, to Howard, to Fourteenth. At Fourteenth and Howard streets they will strike the loop, and, instead of running around it in the same direcsion as the Council Bluffs, Wul- nut Hill and other lines, they will take the other track and go around the loop in the op- posite direction back to the corner of ¥our- teenth and Howard, where they branch off on Howard and back to Sixteentu in the same direction as above indicated. The company has fifty-two cars on hana at prosent, and expects a consignment of twenty-five in a short time. For the present the cars will be stored in the car house at the corner of Commercial and Twenty- second streets, whero they have the largest frame bwlding in the city, it being 60x200 feer, with a helght of twenty-four feet to the first joists, The Sixteenth street line will be extended t0 South Omaba 48 soon as the graders com- plete v work on the streets which are to be occupied. The line will be extended from the corner of Sixteenth and Vinton via the following route: West on Vinton to Twenty- fourth, south to Q, west to Thirty-sixth, to N, to Twenty-seventn, stopping in front of the depot. All the poles and other material are on the ground, and will be put in place as rapidly as possible. 1t is expected to have the car house at South Omaha compleied within a short time. —-—— SECOND WARD REPUBLICANS, Delegates Selected and the Registra- tion Law Thoronghly Discussed. The Secona Ward Republican club met in Kaspar's hall last night with William Olstead i the cnair. The proceedings opened with a discussion relative to the location of the headquarters of the club, and it was decidad to meet at the above place and in Shell’s hall, on Twoatieth and Pierce streets, on alternate Satnrday nights, A communication was received from the State Republican league requesting the club to send two representatives to the state con- vention of republican clubs, which meets at Hastings October 6, and accordingly, Alder- man Kasperand George Stryker were elected to represent the ward on that occas| The following were selected, the san to be" recommended to the mayor for appointment on the registration board: Iirst precinct, K. W. Barto and William Olstead; second precinet, David O'Connell and A, Swigert. A resolution by William Olstead was sub- mitted and adopted in which the club recom- mended the nomirfation of David O'Connell, the secretary of the club, for justice of the peace, and pladged its undivided support to him, ~The secretary submittea a communica- tion rela to the numerical standing of the club, showing the membership to be sixty- three. John McCaffrey, H. I\ Black, M. C. Fisher and Charles Ryan were enrolled as members. During the selection of a regis tration board several persons took advantage of the opportunity to express their opinion on the coustitutionality of the registration law, Mr. Swigary stated that he did not believe that a citizen. in good standing, who was legally entitled to vote, could be disfranchised simply because he failed to register, and added that he, him- self, would vote a republican ticket this fall whether he registered or not, and no_mortal vower could prevent him, Jerry O'Leary arose in his usual dignified manner, and in- formed the club that he had conversed with a member of the legislature a day prior, and that the legislator had said that “‘one of the judges of the supreme court had as good as told him that the supreme tribunal would declare the rezistration law coustitutional.’” Councilman Kasper rotorted, saying that he had but little confidence in the decision of a judge handed down on the street. Themeet- ing wound up with the opinion prevailing that everyone should register. Next Satorday night the club will meet in its new quarters on Twentieth and Pierce streets. ~ Funeral of Miss Worthington. The funeral service of the late Miss Worthington, sister 6f the bishop of this diocese of the Episcopal church, took place at Trinity cathedral last evening at 5 o'clock. The auditorium of the church was filled with friends and mourners. The casket rested at the foot of the altar and was almost covered with beautiful flowers. There was g great profusion of flowers everywhere, They were banked against the reredos and almost completely filled the sanctuary, The services were conducted by the Very Rev. Dean Gardner, assisted by Dr. Doherty. The following ministers were also within the chancel: Dr, Zahner, Dr. John Will- iams, Dr. Pearson, Dr. Witherspoon, Dr. Brady, Dr. Krum, all of Omaha, and Dr. McCracken, of Fremont. Music was rendered by the full choir, The burial anthem wus most impressive and was executed 10 a masterly manner, The ca- thedral quartette, consisting of Me: o8 Cotton and Moeller, and Messrs, Wilkins and Lombard, rendered the anthem “O Saviour of the World,” &nd the ‘‘De Pro- fundis.” After the services the vested choir es- corted the mourners from the church, this completing one of the most beautiful burial services ever held in this partof the country. ‘The remains laid in state in the cathedral until 7:30 p. m., when they were taken. to the Union Pacific depot and placed on the train, Interment will take place in Batavia, N. Y., the birthplace of the deceased. The pall bearers were George and Joseph Herman Kountze, R. R. Ringwalt, J. M. Woalworth, H. W. Yates, G. F. Le- bagh and S. D. Barkalow. " “The casket was of red cedar, covered with royal purple plush, with heavy silver trim- mings. On the top was a plute bearing the words “At Rest.” Personal Paragraphs. H. H. Barnes, of Indianola, 18 at the Mil- lard, L. H. Arcade. Jewett, of Broken Bow, is at the J. L. Robson, of Chabpell, is at the Arcade, B O Millard. E. T. Stringer, of Grand Island, is at the Millard. E. A. Brown, of Nebraska City, 18 at the Paxton. J. L. Baker, of West Poiut, is at the Murray., A. W. Field, C. T, Boggs and C. A, Atkin- son, of Lincoln, are registered at the Murray, W. H. B. Stout, of Lincoln, is at the Murray, : B, P, Childe and wife, of Lincoln, are registered at the Paxton, Hon, Church Howe and son, Herbert R., of Auburn, are at the Paxton, D. P, Waters, a special correspondent of the Boston Globe, is at the Murray over Sunday. Mr, William C, Sweesy, formerly a strug- gling yound Omuha lad, but who within the past few vears has accumulated nearly a quarter of a million of dollars in Cleveland, has just been elected a member of the city council of that eity, He is 80 popular that there was no opposition candidaje run, ‘The following Omaha boys leave this week to attend school at Kemper hall, Davenport, Ia, Wilkie Edwards, David H., Touzalin Nutnan Shelton, Charlie Wilbur, Will _and Paul Hoagland, Richard Gray, Will Bur- rough, Alf. Donahue, Arthur Putnam, Lionel and Louis Marony and a soun of C. W. Hayes. Millar, of Murchiston, is at tne A County Salary Grab, A recent opinion by Attorney General Leese regarding the new law governing county supervisors, to the effect that those holding the oftice mentioned ure entitled to a salary from the time the law went into effect, has started a breeze among the members of the Douglas county board. Leading attor- ueys furnish the cheerful information that therattoruey geueral’s opinion applies Lo the bill passed two years ago last winter, pro- viding a salary of $150 a month for commis- siouers, ustead of # a day and wmileage when actively engaged. Under this ruling Mount expects to mv 900, O'Keeffe $540 and Timme $180. RAILWAYS AND ELECTRICITY Rapid Growth of the New. Motor in Popular Favor. DANGER OF OVERHEAD WIRES, An Addition to the Phonograph Which Wil Reproduce Gestures—ilec- tricity Instoad of Sand—A Mex- foan Invention—Sparks. Electric Railways. The application of electricity to street railways has bean so rapid that we are hiable to lose sight of many valuavle points in our herculean efforts to supply the demand. Those who are engaged in it know that they let many oppor- tunities slip by. They cannot help it. The more generally the points are known, the quicker will be the reward to some directly, and to them indi- rectly, The application of electricity during the past decade has boen astonishing. In the face of an industry a half century old, and of enormous wealth and power it has won the leading position. In every direciion that hounest effort has been made, it has succeeded. Commer- cial barriers have been broken down and physical obstacles swept nside. When once the feasability was demon= strated the end could not be predicted. For the transportation of the people in the streets of our towns and cities the demonstration has been witnessed, the application made and a wonderful luxuriant growth started, says George W. Mansfield i the Electro-Mcchanic. There 18 no industry so far-reaching in character, so vital vo a community’s in- terests, and yet one so little known as the street railroad business. Neither the scientific world, the commercial world nor the people themselves have realized its vast importance. Eliminate the horse car from every oity or town in the union and forecast the resalt. In 1828 the now great Baltimore & Ohio railroad started and horses were used to draw the cars. This might be lled the first horse car line in the ited States. In 1830 there were 12,856,020 persons ia the United Ststes, and not a mile of street railroad, nor scarcely of steam road. Asa rule the New York & Harlem railroad, incor- porated in 1831, is spoken of as the first street railroad in the country. The first car was run in November, 1852, from Prince street to Harlem bridge. In 1837 it temporarily succumbea to steam cars, but resumed Jn 184 The census of 1850 gives our country a population of 23,191,876, and pub- lished history but one street railroad. The child had been born, however, and in ten years the street railroad was in almost” every city of any magnitude in this country. To what has this chil wn? In 1850 our population W ,783. Wstimating on an jn- crease of 33% per cent in 1890, X months hence, the population will be 66,874,854, For the transportation of i v of people in the street cars s and towns, the most accu- rate figures it is possible to obtain show the engagement of about 425 companies, employing 28,000 cars, 000 horses, and operating some 8,500 miles of track. The capital estimated is variously esti- mated from $175,000,000 to $200,000,000. The number of passengers carried is 80 enormous that it is impossible to ob- tain figures of any great degree of ac- curacy. As a result of most careful compilations and estimates, it is rea- sonably sure that at least 1,500,000,000 passengers are transported. Still more striking is the importance of the street railroad business when compared with the magnituhe and ex- tent of the steam railroads of the United States. The figures of 1887 show a tabulation of 147,098.60 miles of railroand and 10,583 passenger cars, and passengers carried but 428 925,513, With npearly an equal number of cars and forty-two times as much road, only one-fourth as many passengers were carried. Behold the yet more amazing figures. The horse rs of the city of New Yovk carry 199,- 491,735 passengers, almost half as many as are carried by all the steam roads in the United States. If to this number are added to those carried by the ele- vated ronds, we have the total of 871,- 021,524, or almost as many passengers are carried in New York city alone as asare annually by all the steam roads in the whole United States. The street railroads of the state of Massachusetts carry 44,000,000 more people than the steam roads in that state. One road alone, the West ind of Boston, carries nearly 10,000,000 more than all the steam roads combined. Eleciricity in Powder Mills, The German technical journals re- cently published some instructions as to the precautions which ought to be observed in powder mills to avoid ex- plosions from electrical causes. The necessity for some such precautions is clearly shown by recent explosions, sev- eral of which are attributable to elec- tricity. In alarge powder mill in Ger- many, an explosion occurred in the press room. A workman engaged in pressing powder into cakes between sheets of ebonite, left his work during a thunder storm, When the storm wus over he loosened the vress, and on putting out his hand to remove the powder,a spark four inches long went to earth through his body, igniting the powder and kill- ing the man. The employment of in- sulating substances.such as guta percha, ebonite, ete., is therefore considered likely to lead to nccidents, In the pow- der mill of Hurr W, Gutler the sulphur crushing machines are all put to earth, and since this precaution has been taken there has been no trouble from mysteri- ous explosions which had previously proven so troublesome, Electric Energy. An electrical writer has calculated that the firing of a small pistol sets free about 600 pounds of energy, while a watch consumes about one fifty-fourth millionth of a horse power, the energy of the bullet being sufficient to keep the time for two years. An Edison tele- phone transmitier requires about a thousandth of the energy in a wateh; it would therefore be worked for 2,000 years on the energy exerted in the ps- tol, A lightning fash of 3,500,000 volts and 14,000,000 amperes lasting « twenty-thousandth of a second woul run a 100-horse power engine for ten hours. An Electric Shy Indicator, An electric shoal water indicator has been devised by two Mexican inventors. It consists of a strong cylinder filled with shot, so that when huog from a huge cable from a ship it wifi rewain pel'leull{ upright in the water. Em- bedded in its center is a glass or wul- canite tube half full of mercury, the two ends being closed by metallic plates, which are in communication, by insulated wires carried by the cable, with an electric battery and bell ou the deck of the ship. The action of the ap- paratus is as follows: When the vessel approaches shallow water the eylinder drags on the ground below, and is con- l sequently no longer upright, but is thrown over on its sil&™ This causes the mercury in the tupa to touch both the metallic plates atfubhad to the tube as above explained the electric eireuit thus becomes l-nmrlew. and the warn- ing bell on the ship instantly rings. ———t Electric Roads_in Boston, Boston appears to he, on the whole, very well satisfied withthe outlook for rapid transit presonted by the adoption of electricity on the West End roads, in 8pite of the fact that the service 18 to be given by means of, pyerhend wires. The Boston experiment 3§ an interest- ingone, and will, w;‘lh but doubt, be carried through succéstlully, says the Electrical World. But here in New York we have other conditions which may be improved, but cannot be disre- garded or abolished, In short, we have to consider the rapid transit problem with respect to the elevated roads, whose service with stecam has been o great boon but remains very unsatisfac- tory. It is now asserted and believed by many that the substitution of elec- tricity for steam will ‘meet nearly all the existing difficulties; and the trials that have taken place on the elevated road go to prove that electricity should be employed. Reprodacing Gestures and Speech. At arecent meeting of the French Academy M. Lippmann presented a note by M. G. Gueroult, in which it is suggested that by the combined use of a phonograph and an apparatus for in- stantaneous photography and reproduc- tion of the pictures obtained it would be possible to reproduce at any future time notonly the speech of a person, but also bring before theaudience a vivid picture of the person’s gestures and facial expression. The procedure would be somewhat as follows: A person speaking or singing into the phonograph would be photo- graphed by an automatic apparatus geared with the barrel of the phono- graph. The pictures would be instan- taneous, and taken ut the rate of, say, ten pictures per second. They would then be developed and arranged in a special lantern for reproduction on a screen isochronously with the phono- graph, when the latter 1s reproducing the speech. An audience might thus be enabled not only to hear the utter- ances of, say, a famous actor, but also see himself and his actions represented on a screen. About a year and a half ago M. A. Bandsept, of Brussels, expe- rimented with a similar apparatus. Klectricity Instead of Sand. A series of experiments electrical appliance for incre: tractive power of locomotive engines has just been successfully concluded by Ellis E. Ries, of Baltimore,an the Phil- adelphia & Reading railroad west of of this city,says a Rending, Pa., dis- patch to the New York Times. The trials w made on the Frackville grade, one of the steepest on the Read- ing system,and were pronounced emi- nently ' satisfactory in every respect. The upparatus consists of a small dynamo aud engine mounted upon the locomotive and furnishing an electric current, which is passed forward to the rear driving wheels, through that por- tion of the track rails lying between them. The passage of the current into the wheels and back causes an 1ncreased friction between the wheels and the rails, which is claimed to be far supe- rior to that obtained by sanding the tracks, and enables the,locomotive to draw a much heavier train, without re- gard to the condition: of the track, than is at present possible. The Frackville grade averages 185 feet to ‘the' mile, and ' with amo running and “‘a train = of forty-five vars attached to the locomo- tive the ascent was made in twenty- eight minutes, while without the cur- rent a trip over the same ground with the same train behind required fifty- five mines. The current used iswh at is termed a low-tension current, and the increased traction obtained isuunder complete control by the engincer. The invention is regarded as an important one by raiiroad men here. Sparks. Cincinnati people came within a hair’s breadth of a fearful asccident the other day through the insecure stop of the electric railway. The car stopped a littlo short of the propper point, and the gripman undertook to move it ahead a trifle, but he gave the motor a little too much power. The block was broken and the car pitched through the iron gateway, and down a distance of ten or fifteen feet, where it stood on its head and rested. Two boys and the gripman, who were the ouly persons on bourd, were but slightly injured. The business men who are members of the Jersey City Athletic club, and whose only opportunity to make a pleas- urable use of the club grounds are after the close of business hours in the city, have succeeded in getting the gavern- ing committee to arrange for lighting upthe grounds with electric lamps, The work will be started at once and rapidly pushed to completion. A novel use is made of the electric light on the St. Lawrence river, near the Thousand Island resorts. One of the lights has been placed at the end of ayardarm on the steamer St. Law- rence, which has a dynamo aboard. The light stands in front of a powerful re- flector, and as the boat steams about at night among the islands the search i ght is cast upon them, revealing with startling distinctness their beauty, and the veauty of the landscape. The Chicago telephone company has discontinued the ordinary service to Milwaukee, Hereafter the service will be given through the Long Distance telephone company’s line, which will, of course, he a decided improvement on the former service. The Long Dist- ance telephune company has completed its line to Milwaukee, and has five me- tallic circuits in operation. The poles of this company are capable of carcying forty wires, y The Pr of Wales ran up the river afew days ago in Messts, Ymmifluh & Co¢ electric launch, the Viscountess Bury, Starting at Kew bridge for Sun- bury, a visit was paid to Platt’s BEyot, where the above mentioned firm has a charging station. An elactric torpedo boat in course of completion attracted some attention, and aftera trip in sev- eral of the smaller launches, the party proceeded down the river, landing at Chelsea. At a recent sitting of the Paris Mu- nicipal council 1t was stated that the electric lighting now being tried on the boulevards, was only ‘partially sat- istuctory. From the long discussion which ‘took place hefore the council, suys a Parisian contemporary, it up pears that the concessionary companies ave done next to nothing, According to the Portland Oregonian, the fact that the western people are not slow in taking advantage of modern improvements is shown by the state- ment that one company alone during the lust four months hus put in nearly ten thousand electric lights in Oregon and Washington. English electricians claim they are ahead of Americans in their kunw?edgu of the scien o of electrotechnics, but behind in the practical applications of electricity. the dyn- | A STUDIED ORIMB. Translated from the French of Ler- mina, by E. C. Waggener: I have sue- coeded—moreover, it was very ensy to succeed. My object was this: To commit a crime, to profit by it, and to remain un- punished, a clear and oconcise pro- gramme which I have carried out in every particular. How? Well, I am going to tell you, for T believe, with all due modesty, that I huve displayed some ingenuity. 1. The crime; behold 1t. I was young and I was married, the husband of a beautiful but pure girl, and only a simple employe, on a salary of 2,200 franes a yoar. Not an exalted position, but one with which I was reasonably content, for I had always possessed modest tastes, My wifo was an orphan, with one sister. Marie and Blanche, both pretyy girls and pretty names, I had married Marie, and Btanche lived with us. Kverything went well with us—first a son, then a daughter, and then they raised my salary to 3,000f a vear. I had nothing to complain of. And then a notary wrote to me, was greatly astonished, for I had had but little to do with these honorible ministerial offi- cers. My surprise increased when this worthy Tabellion apprised me that a certain Calcutta merchaut, brother to my wife’s and sister-in-law’s father, had died and left them heirs to millions. That is to say, 50,000 francs to each. Tiens! to my wife a whole half million! The succession was promptly regu- lated, and I was in receipt of 25,000 livres of income. I sont in my resigna- tion as promptly, and organized anew my life. Five hundred thousand francs wis & goodly sum; and my wife's sister had its counterpart. It put the house llent footing with servants, rriages, ete. Always fond of art, I purchased some pictures of good style, and had myself clothed for the il by a tailor of renown, my style wasas good as my tyle, and with my well-shaped cet, small hands and fine hair, I was what is generally termed a handsome man. Only us time wore on T began to feel profoundly vexeé that my wife's sister had taken the fuil half of the million left. I should have experi- enced a very real satisfaction 1n pos: ing the entive sum. I had expenses, a wife and two children, and this old maid, for Blanche had long since t‘coiffed Saint Catherine,” had no one but herself to think of. It was then the idea came to me—to kill her! My wife was her only heir, and if she, Blanche, were out of the way, the million would remain intact, and I **could make good use of it.” This is what I told myself one eveping while talking with the two sistars. My crime, then, or rather my contemplated crime, as yet, was the nation of Blauche, and, as I was shrewd and in- telligent, I applied myself at once to finding a way to commit this crime without dange To this end I sought and studied all the accounts of causes celebres [ could lay my hands on, and very speedily nc- quired the conviction thut assassins betrayed themselves by the very cure they took to dissimulate their criminal intentions. ~So much learned was so much gained. Then I took to reading scientific treatizes bearing upon mental subjects —Boismont’s “Manual of Hallucina- tions,” Morel’s *‘La Folie and Mauds- ley’s “Crime et Folie.” It was in the latter werk that I found the outline of a plan well fitted for the present con- junction. It was wonderfully easy to be crimipal in deed when crim- inal in purpose; now, see you how I went about i A simple. visit to the house of a certain specialist—Dr. Lausedat, we will call him—and_the the most emineut alieniste of modern times. I have come,” I said to bim, *“I have come, doctor, to make you a terrible confession. I am a happy man. 1 am rich, I adore my wife and children und I have no cause for hate or anger against a soul that lives; nevertheless, at times I am in a frightful situation.” Tn speaking thus I affected a dull, ut even tone, widened my eyesand pe mitted my lips to twitch and contract spasmodically. I had not devoted my- self, you see, to medical lore without ing allthe symptoms. The doc- egarded me atfentively. “Continue,” he said to me. I bowed my head sorrowfully and re- sumed. “Yes, a frightful situation, a sudden e that seizes upon me, when alone in the bosom of my family, to kill some- thing. A fearful combat goes on within me, and I feel—yes, absolutely feel it— my hand invin¢ibly drawn toward the kuife on the table beside me, “*Whom do I wish to kill? My wife, my children, my sister-in-law? Ido not know. In that hideous nightmare I have no choice,and I seem to remain in know not how long—fecling every ut that they will read in my e the horrible secret that torments me. The first time or times, physical moye- ments, physical impressions, were suf- ficient to ‘dissipate the possession. A dash of cold water upon the brow brought back my calmness. the specter disappeared apd I returned to my family at ease again. *‘Now, however, the trouble is be- coming morve frequent, and—I feel it, [ know it—the resistance of my will and reason weakens with every attack. I begin to be afraid that I shall throw myself upon those I love and do them a fatal harm, My confession is made, doctor; I fear myself, Can you save me?” M, Laussedat had listened with the deepest attention, and now questioned me closely, What symptoms, if any, proceded these crises?” ete. 1 had studied them well; I had them all at my tongue’s end, and ran them off with the giibness of a scholar not to be tripped in his lesson. ‘*‘A weight in the head—at least it seemed so—as if the brain were 100 heavy and rolied in its bony box; of late a constriction of the breast, pressure upon the sides und —certuin acciGents—" “*Enoughl” cried M. Laussedat, *I know all about it; the case is curable— entirely so. Simply pursue serupulously the treatment I direct and I'll answer for the rest.” And he wrote 1t out, a long prescrip- tion, and accompanying regimen for me to follow, and I went away smiling hopefully; not, however, for precisely the reason the doctor supposed. Punetiliously and apparently, I fol- lowed the doctors instructions, My cub- inet was incumbered with boxes and vials till my wife became uneasy, and questioned me as closely as the doctor had done. 1 responded always that | was well, else evaded the questions, hut bent upon her from time to time o hollow regard, which I saw worried her more than ever. For three months I thus played my role, then—I returned to the house of the doctor. *'I is use- less,” I assured him, “‘useless and all in vain, Doctor, I am & vietim of fatality, wod far from being cured, am worse than ever—a prey to this possession more aud wore frequently. 1 am actually forced to fly the house, to tal long rambles through the city and wear myself out with fatigue to regain con- trol of mysell, it is like a wave that 1889.~-SIXTEEN PAGES. eversmounts and mounts. And, M. 1o Docteur,” I cried at last, “I am come to demand a favor of you--shut me up, now, immediately, in your maison de sante.” *‘Shut you up now?" sald he astounded. *'But—but to what end?¥” ‘*Because 1 know—1know it, I teil you —that [ am on the verge of a terrible crisis, the symptoms I have enumerated to you are inore violent than they have ever been; to-morrow it may be too late —I1 may have brought about some terri- ble misfortunel Shut me up. I beseech you, care for me by your methods as a specialist, the douche, the dungeon,the straight-jacket, anything, anythin on earth that will aid and save mel" And I sobbed aloud. The doctor was moved and deeply in- terested by 8o novela physiological sub- ject. Istipulated but for one thing— that my family should not be disquicted. “*No,” I sai he truth must not be told them. I wish them to be ignorant of the horrible extremity to which I now resign myself, I shall pretext a voyage on business for one, two, three months, as necessity demands. I shall disappenr, in short, for that period of time,and write to them only under your direction. Then,when the morbid state of mind or body yields to treatment, energetic as you choose, and I am cured ~—then can I return to my own fireside with the certainty of no bloody tragedy dogging my heels. Stirred by such eloquence, the doctor thumped, counted and listened to the play of my organ, and finally doeclared that I was right, though I had no lesion; that my case was simple, a ner- vous trouble, and absolutely curable. He consented to lend himsell to the de- ceit T meditated merely upon the prin- ciple of humoring a patient. He would place me in his own establishment, and a few weeks’ care would completely re- habilitate my cerebral equilibrium. My wife was equally easy to convince of the necessity of the voyage. She had herself noticed that I was not well. The change would help me. The next day I entered the maison de santo, a luxurious place, superbly ap- ointed, that would cost me a round sum, No matter; in the end I'd square ac- counts, for the road was open at last to my crime, My crime! which, in the fashion of ull story-tellers, is a capital heading for this—Chapter I, CHAPTER II—THE RESULT. An equally clever beginning for the second installment of my story, pre- pared with the adroitness of a profes- sional raconteur. But to continue: I remained two months in the maison de sante—a week, perhups, after my en- trance—continuing the farce & simu- lated access of frenzy, in which I sought to strangle my attendant, and which necessitated a well applied douche to quell i Then I had a fairly weli-done convulsion, and after that be- gan, littie by little, to return to my normal state. It is really very little trouble 10 enact the madman if you have studied the part well. They guarded me carvefully for six weeks’ time, and M. Laussedat paid me a daily visit, daily finding in me, as [ meant he should, a sensible modifica- tion of my symptoms, and daily felicita- ting me upon strength of mind. Ye gods! Strength of mind, when I was in a lunatic asylum! I showed myself, however a docile and exemplary patient, though I laughed in my sleeve when I #ot a chance, so well did I know how greatly the doctor was flattered. My case, you see, tailied exactly with the theories and statements 8o many times advanced by him in his dealings the deranged. It -was an exercise of nerve and memory to keep the run of these imaginary symptoms; still 1 did it, and did them well, particularly those which proved my case progressive and definite; the disappearance, for in- stance, of cephalic trouble, restricted respiration and the accompanying de- rangment of normal functions. But when the day came, and the doc- tor announced me cured and ready to return to my family, I objected. ‘‘Not yet,” Turged; ‘“‘another month, doctor, if only for observation; then only shall I feel that T can go in peace.” A pre- caution to which the doctor assented, at the sume time declaring it usele: In short, when I did resume my lib- erty and my home, wife, sister-in-law and friends positively feted me; for [ had finally consented to write them that I was suffering a little with lung trou- ble; was under treatment, though rap- idly improving, and had not spoken of it ‘before leaving them, for fear of alarming them. T was well now, an as- sertion with which my appearauce agreed, repose of mind, good living and the certainty of coming success having greatly fattened me. Yes, I was really very well, ‘Well? Exactly; never was I better, and everyone saw it, but four months precisely from the day when I resumed my place at the family table I plunged the carving knife into my sister-in-law’s heart as she sat beside me in her ac- customed place. Then I turned it in the wound (there should be no mistake if I could help it) with frightful and maddened howls, succeeded by maudlin tears, They arvested me, of course. I had counted upun that; also upon the fact, and so timed it, that Dr. Laussedat was out of town. In pursuaoce to my plan, you see, I desired, and it was necessary, thut I should be officially arrested, "I desired also to beofficially investigated. and that the investigation should pur- sue the usual line. To call upon the doctor too soon would interfere with this. Bah! how well one can calculate upon the events that follow a crime, the questions of the judge and the re- sponses, my responses avove all; *That 1 had acted without consciousness of the act, and under the 1mpulsion of a force I could not control,” adding to the statement, and as if bowed down by shame, a passing, and as if by chance, reference 1o Dr. Laussedat, The bait took, Dr. Laussedat, recalled in haste, tes- tified willingly in my favor. He told everything, and most~ pathetically; the frankness with which I appealed to him, the tests to which I had submite ted myself, the_struggie T had made to control the evil, and my patient, volun= - tary sojourn in the maison de sante. The “*homicidal mania™ was plain to the most skeptical minds, and well known and repeatedly encountered by the members of the faculty, and the two groat specialists, Fsquiros and Pinel, both recalied observations identical in every particular with my case, eto. Which I knew as well” as the doctor himself knew, since it was these identi- cal observations that had enabled me to construct my plan, Briefly, thifigs went as T wished and had counted upon. I was too rich and 100 well known to have the matter dropped with merely the preliminary magisterial inquiry-—they feared to be uceused of partiality. The court of as- sizes, therefore took me in hand, and as was bound to bo the cnse, unanimounsl acquitted me, only adding to the vindi- cation the condition that Ishould be re- turned to the asylum for such a period of time as the doctors should deem es- sential. *‘For the very emotional exe vlosion of which I had "been guilty,” as M. Laussedat assured tho Tribunal, “‘pormitted tho strongest hopes of a permanent cure.” Lam again in the mansion de sante for another term. Itis why I laugh, when unobserved, and say that I have succeeded, and accomplished my end— to commit & crime, to_profit by it, and to remain unpunished; for they will keop mo here only a year; possibly, ac- cording to ‘my vrogress, less than a year. One year,at most, for 500,000 francs in solid money. That frog of a doctor would swallow anything. Yes, I have undoubtedly succeeded, and one year, twelve brief months,fifty- two brief weeks, 865 brief days. will go fast enough with safety and the cer~ tainty of & million in current coin at the end of them. e He Remained. Detroit Free Press: At midnight the other night a patrolman found a man ving on the grass under a tree in the Randolph street jpark* and he aroused him with: *‘Come, mister, no one is allowed to sleep here. “But I have a good exocuse,” replied the man, “What is it?” “See that house over there? Well, please do me the favor to go and ring the bell and ask if William Dockey is at home.” The officer ascended the steps and rang the bell. A head was thrust out of an open chamber window and a fe- male voice demanded: Now, who is there?” dam,” replied the officer, “is um Dockey at home?” No, sir, and I don’t expect him until daylight,” snapved the woman,and at the same moment a bowlful of water de-. scended on the officer’s head and half drowned him. *Well,” said the man on the grass, as the dripping officer _came up, ‘you see how it is, don't you? I'm Dockey. That’s Mrs. Dockey.” “I think I see,” replied the officer. ‘You can remain right where you ave.” i S Thar Laugh at Heat, A few days ago Frank Woodward, of N. Y., who was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Smith in Fair Haven, received a peculiar present from Californiu, says the New Haven Palladium. It was sent to him by Le- land Stanford, the millionaive senator, whose wife is an aunt of Woodward. and also of Mrs. Smith. Mr. Woodward opeued the box and found three salam- anders packed in cotton. These bugs are more often read about than gazed upon. They were found in caverns by some of Mr. Stanford’s -employes, and Mr. Stanford sent them east. The three bugs traveled the 38,000 miles without **visible means of support™ un- lesss it was the cotton, but on arrivin, they were frisky ana evidently in goo spirits, They are chunky little fellows about two inches long, and resemble nothing as much as they doa piece of steel. They look like raw steel and act like it—that is, they seem to be metallic and invuluerable. They are alike insensible to heat and cold and can be toasted on a red-hot stove or seated upon an ice cake without their composure being in the least disturbed. e A Perjured Lover's Heavy Sentence. Women sobbed and men wiped their eyes in court yesterday, says a Somer- ville despatch, at New Albany, Ind., whon Joseph Henry Stultz,a prominenf young man about town, sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for sub= ornation of perjury. Stultzeloped from this city to New albany, Ind., with Carrie Ashby, a girl of filteen years, whom Stultz swore wus cighteen, an thereby procured a license, and then they were married. The girl’s father had his son-iu-law arrested and prose- cuted for perjury, and the ten-year sen- tence is the result. This is the first case of this kind ever decided in south- ern Indiana. Stultz’s heart-broken wife refuses to return to her father’s house, declaring that she will earn her own living and patiently wait till her hus- band is released from prison. — The Shah's Bed. Nossr-ed-Din never sleeps on any other bedding than what he takesabout with him (and it is not voluminous),says London Truth. The four-poster had a denuded air, albeit covered with a richly embroidered Persian quilt of many colors. I saw it before the shah arrvived. There was a squad of Persian men-servants standing around it who had come on before him with the bed- ding. The mattress was not much thicker than a rug and smelt o :aro- matics. If an insect diswurbed the slumbers of the shah, disgrace and other penalties await the bed-makers, Their care in “brushing, shaking and g all thai belongs to the couch is scrupulous, WISHE e T et e