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THE PLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MCHENRY. ILLINOIS CASHIER WAS SHORT. *IEW ENGLAND BANK OFFICIAL A DEFAULTER. Sis Death, Supposed at the Tine to Be from Natural Causes, Proves to Have Been a Suicide -- Gold-Laden Argo­ nauts Return. Defaulter and Suicide. Following close upon the sudden death of Cashier Lemuel T. Terry, of the Me­ chanics' National Bank of New Bedford, Mass.; comes the startling discovery that tie was a heavy defaulter and a suicide. Cashier Terry was found dead in a chajr in the directors' room and the physicians declared death due to apoplexy. An in­ vestigation revealing a defalcation rising $125,000, an autopsy was held, and the medical examiner found that Terry had -died from cyanide of potassium, taken with suicidal intent. Cashier Terry was cf a line family and wsls worth $50,000, when, a year ago,1 he exchanged the posi­ tion of assistant with Cashier James W. Hervey, who desired to be relieved of re­ sponsibility owing to ill health. Terry liad made his money in Calumet and Hec- ?a investments, and his speculations wip­ ed him out, and then he used the bank's money and some $25,000 trust funds be­ longing to the Sylvia A. Howland estate, the income of which has been paid to Hetty Green, America's richest woman. The bank is capitalized at $600,000, and has a surplus of $350,000. William W. Crapo is president, and the directory com­ prises the wealthiest manufacturers of the city. NCome Home Laden with Gold. Ninety pounds of Klondike gold dust, the property of three men, two of whom are S. J. Neville and E. M. Canary, came •by the steamer Discovery, Capt. Grant, which arrived at Seattle,' Wash., from Lynn canal. Neville and Canary were in the Klondike about fifteen months, and it is their purpose to purchase sup­ plies and return to the district via St. Michael and the Yukon, taking- passage on the first vessel to ascend after the opening of the river. John Kill, who has been constructing double deck barges on Lake Bennett, was a passenger on the Discovery from Skaguay. It is his pur­ pose to try the feat of delivering 600 head of live sheep at Dawson City. He will ship them to Taiya, and thence under­ take to drive the sheep over Chilkoot pass to the lakes. Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Base-ball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati .. 7 2 Boston . 5 4 Baltimore ... 5 2 Philadelphia. . 4 4 Chicago 5 3 New York.. .. 3 5 Cleveland ... 6 4 Washington. . 2 5 Pittsburg ... 6 4 Louisville .. . 3 8 Brooklyn • • * A 3 St Louis 1 1 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. 1 Minneapolis.. 2 4 1 Omaha 2 2 Detroit 1 2 Milwaukee... 1 Indianapolis.. 6 Columbus ... 5 St. Paul 5 Kansas City. 4 Powder Mill Explosion. The town of Dover, N. J., and the country within a radius of twenty miles was startled by a series of terrific explo­ sions, the first of which occurred in the Atlantic Powder Company's works, and the plant is now a mass of ruins. Six workmen were killed and four others were seriously injured. given to the public. Dr. Felix Adler, president of the Society for Ethical Cul­ ture, officiated at the wedding, which took place at the home of the bride's cousin, George Chase, in New York City. Lightning played some curious pranks during a recent thunder storm. While the storm was at its height a bolt struck a barn on the place of Joseph Beckman at W£st Hampton, L. I. Beckman and his 12-year-old son, Felix, were in the kitchen of their house, the father bend­ ing over the stove cooking their evening meal. The bolt glanced from the barn to the house and came down the kitchen chimney, striking Beckman. It took his right foot off at the ankle joint as if with a knife. It left, no mark On his shoe or clothing. His son was stunned and the neighbors who came in found the boy had been made totally deaf. WESTERN. NEWS NUGGETS. An armed clash between Nicaragua and Costa Rica seems inevitable at this time. A bill to restore United Staites citizen­ ship to Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, daugh­ ter of Gen. Grant, has been passed by Congress. "Bull" McCarthy of Philadelphia, who was knocked out in a twenty-round glove contest in Sacramento, Cal., died twenty- four hours afterward. John W. Baker, a private in Company I, Clyde, of the Sixteenth Ohio regiment, shot himself through the head with a re­ volver while lying on his cot at the ar­ mory in Toledo. ' " Julius Baldash, a Spaniard, died at Long Run, O., a mining town, from the effects of being shot through the lungs by Louis Ship, a German. The men had quarreled over the war and Ship took the side Of the United States. The 'six-story brick structure on Trin­ ity place, Boston, known as the archi­ tectural building of the Institute of Tech­ nology, was damaged $10,000 by fire. The fire started in the top floor. Students had to run.for their lives to the roof, whence they were rescued by firemen. With the confusion consequent upon wa*, the student feels the disturbance as much as others. The college Republicans have decided to postpone indefinitely the convention of the American Republican College League, which had been caHed for May 19 and 20, at Indianapolis. The Indiana Supreme Court, in session in Indianapolis, handed down an opinion in the case of Lewis Baum and others against Ella Thorn that is of great inter­ est to persons who loan money on chattel mortgage security at high rates of inter­ est and. to borrowers. Attorneys say that the effect of this decision is to permit any one who has paid interest at a higher rate than S per cent per annum within the past six years to recover back the excess in an action against his creditor, provid- -ed the loan is first repaid. There is increasing evidence that the Santa Fe Railway management is work­ ing to close up the gap in its road be­ tween Mojave and Bakersfield and gain an entrance into San Francisco. United States officers at Jefferson Bar­ racks, near St. Louis, Mo., have been ordered to purchase 1,500 small horses, 500 wagon mules and 500 pack mules. I Mrs. Emily E. Veeder, a well-known novelist and society woman of St. Louis died suddenly of heart failure at the Au­ ditorium Annex in Chicago. Her best known work of fiction is entitled, "Her Srother Donnard." At Plain City, Ohio, Frank Morgan's individual bank was robbed. The safe TVas blown and $10,000 to $15,000 taken. The thieves stole two horses and buggies to driVej away with. Rumors of an Indian uprising near Fort Sill, I. T., by Geronimo and his Apache band caused the return of one troop of caivalry which had reached Rush Springs on -its way to New Orleans. It is said that the Indians have fallen out among themselves also, and trouble is feared. .Men arriving at Chamberlain, S. D„ from White river bring details of a dis­ astrous prairie fire, which swept over practically, the whole of Rosebud Indian reservation, destroying hundreds of cattle and horses. So far as known no Indians lost their lives. The five swept over a greater part of a tract eighty miles long and sixty wide, extending to the Nebraska line. It is supposed to have, been started by a white man traveling overland to Valentine, Neb. It was the worst prairie fire since the one which destroyed Mount Vernon nine years ago. H. C. St. Clair was stabbed and shot by Deputy Sheriff McQuillen in the Idaho City, Idaho, jail. St. Clair is under sen­ tence of death for the murder of John Decker, a Spokane mining man. His case is now on an appeal to the Supreme Court. St. Glair had been a good prison­ er. He had given the jail authorities but little trouble. But he has been quite nervous of late. Nothing wrong, however, was suspected. A few days ago he suc­ ceeded in sawing through the iroa bars of his cell. He got into the main corri­ dor of the jail. No one was about and the prisoner went into the sheriff's office and armed himself with a shotgun and a revolver. As he came out of the door he met McQuillen. St. Clair fired both bar­ rels at the deputy, but they missed. Then he tried his revolver, but that was knock­ ed from his hand. Then the two men had a long and desperate struggle. McQuillen was the stronger and got h'.s prisoner down. Then he drew his knife and plung­ ed it several times into St. Clair. Finally he reached for the pistol whach had been knocked to the floor and fired. St. Clair was taken back to his cell and surgeons summoned. McQuillen was unharmed. A sensation has been created at El Paso, Texas, by the arrival from Chui- chupa, a village in the heart of the Sierra Madre Mountains, Mexico, of J. Newton Fowler with the news of the discovery by himself and Morris Singleton of the fam­ ous lost gold miue of Tiofa. The discov­ ery was made on the evening of April 6, in a deep, narrow canyon, through which runs the Rio Chico. a tributary of the Aras river. Mr. Fowler, while chasing a wounded deer, came across the ruins of three Arastas, and on investigating dis­ covered a stone wall enclosing an opening. Cutting through the wall, an old mining shaft was displayed and at its mouth were a number of crude old mining imple­ ments. Going down the shaft a few feet some very rich specimens of gold were found. If this is the old Tiofa mine, as is firmly believed. Mr. Fowler and his as­ sociates will receive $15,000 in gold from the Mexican Government, a standing re­ ward it has offered for the discover}- of the mine. The records of the mine were in the hands of the priests, who have searched the country for it, and the rec­ ords state that the shaft is walled in. More than one man has lost his life hunt­ ing for this mine. In 1882 Pitsican, then chief engineer of the Texas and Pacific road, was killed by the Apaches while he was searching for this mine. J. Newton Fowler is from Brooklyn. N. Y., where his father is a contractor and builder, and Singleton is an old ex-Texas ranger. The Tiofa mine was fabulously rich in gold and was walled in when its owners were driven out of the country by the Indians in 1S19. SOUTHERN. Thomas Compton, a farmer of Jefferson County, Tenn., became suddenly insane over war talk and killed himself by shoot­ ing. Boone Spencer, in jail at Murray, Ivy., for horse stealing, was visited by his wife, and when inside the cell she cut her throat with a razor and Spencer cut his with a knife, both dying in a few min­ utes. James Brooks, a miner residing at Ish- kooda, Ala., went home drunk the other night and commenced beating his wife for some imaginary wrong. He had her on the floor and was tearing out her hair with his teeth when she grabbed a pistol from his hip pocket and shot him twice in the abdomen, killing him instantly. News of a desperate street battle at Lone Oak. Ark., has reached Little Rock. W. K. Booie and two sons, Will and Charles, are dead, and the three Eagle brothers are in jail charged with murder. Bob Dougherty, a brother-in-law of the Eagles, was also implicated and is under arrest. The Eagles, who are nephews of ex-Gov. Eagle, and the Booies have not been on good terms for years, and on more than one occasion different members of the two factions have come together. About ten days ago some one fired on Charlie Boolie from ambush while he was standing in front of a store at Eng­ land. He was slightly wounded. W. K. Booie was a member of the Legislature in 1887 and his family is one of the oldest in that section of the State. The Eagles are well known in Lone Oak County. Their relatives have for many years dom­ inated local politics, and it is understood that the misunderstanding dates from a political clash between some of the Eagles and Booies. , V,f. EASTERN. At Ridgeway, Pa., Fred Rockwell and Patrick Banya were hanged. Rockwell murdered Lewis Haines and Banya mur­ dered Paretto Agusta. Commander Horace Elmer, U. S. N„ died at the Mansion House, Brooklyn, N. Y. Recently he had been detailed to equip and command the mosquito fleet. Mrs. Marie Vaughan Wilde was mar­ ried to Henry Siegel, president of the Siegel-Cooper Company of Chicago and New York. Mrs, Wilde's wedding day chanced also to be the day on which her first novel,. "Juleps and Clovers," was dnctive and valuable for agricultural pur­ poses, it being estimated by the surveyor general of Utah that 60 per, cent thereof is unsuitable for agriculture. Numerous streams of water traverse the reservation, which, at considerable expense, can be di­ verted from their natural channels and appropriated upon lands contiguous there­ to. The greater portion of the reserva­ tion is unoccupied and is not required by the Indians residing therein, but without legislation it cannot be occupied, and must remain sterile and unproductive. The Uintah, or the Utes, as they are frequent­ ly called, reside in the "extreme eastern portion of the reservation and number less than 800. Notwithstanding generous treatment by the Government, they are rapidly diminishing. In recent years the Government has allotted lands in several­ ty to a portion of them with gratifying results. All of them are desirous of tak­ ing lands in severalty, and so far as is TnowiT fBey"lire'TnTpiR>s§Ffi"witt tne a'u4- vantages that will result from an aban­ donment of tribal relations and entering upon an industrial growth founded upon landed ownership. It is believed that the policy of allotting lands in severalty will conduce to their preservation as well as civilization. Notwithstanding liberal pro­ visions made for them in this bill, there will be a large area for cession to the United States. After each head of fam­ ily has received' 100 acres of farming land and the same amount for grazing purposes nearly 2,000,000 acres will be added to the public domain." ; FOREIGN. The suspension of the firm of Sherwood, Thompson & Co., cotton brokers, was an­ nounced in Liverpool. Sherwood, Thomp­ son & Co. operated throughout the South­ ern States under the firm name of John Sherwood & Co. The firm had few out­ standing obligations in the United-States. The peace negotiations, between Nicara­ gua and Costa Rica have failed. War is probable. The two armies are facing each other near the frontier, scarcely half a mile apart. The Nicaraguan offi­ cers and troops, it is reported, are anx­ ious that President Zelaya should lead them. Business is at a complete stand­ still. The Nicaraguan and Costa Riean gov­ ernments have agreed as a basis for peace to settle matters of an international char­ acter by a board of arbitrators, to consist of one member each from Guatemala, Costa Rica and the diet of the Greater Republic of Central America, to meet on board the United States warship Alert. •The boundary question is considered set­ tled. According to t.he latest, advices from Puerto Rico, the agitation there is in­ creasing and food prices are rising fast. The authorities have taken steps to pre­ vent the departure of refugees. At Maya- gues, seventy miles southwest of San Juan, there is talk of a revolution. Refu­ gees from Puerto Rico who reached the island of St. Thomas by a schooner report that the condition of the island is cfiticel. Martial law has been proclaimed and Americans there are in danger, as they are without protection. United States Consul Van Horn at St. Thomas has bought 1,500 tons of coal for the United States Government, and he is negotiating for more. WASHINGTON. IN GENERAL A tremendous fire broke out in the Clydeside district of Glasgow, Scotland. Several large buildings were involved, in­ cluding the magnificent Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Andrew's. The damage amounts to £150,000 ($750,000). Flour has gone up 50 cents a barrel within the last thirty days and beer has also joined the war price brigade. The only difference between the breadstuffs and the malt beverage is that the con­ sumer at once pays for the rise in flour, while ttie saloonkeeper is the first to feel the upward tendency of a barrel of beer. Dr. E. O. Crewe of Chicago, who ar­ rived at Seattle, Wash., from Skaguay on the steamship Brixham, is the bearer of the first authentic news of the latest rich find in the Klondike district. He left Dawson March 22, and the following day in company with John Elwell stopped on Monte Cristo island, where the discov­ ery was made early in March by two Swedes, who were on the island, which is heavily timbered, to chop wood rather than dig for gold. The commercial situation is thus viewed by Bradstreet's: "General trade and spec­ ulation this week have exhibited most of the characteristics which have become popularly associated with the near ap­ proach of hostilities. Conditions are be­ ing shaped to the new order of things. There is consequently greatly increased activity in many special lines at the sea­ board, accompanied by excited markets and heavy price advances. While trade in the interior sympathizes to a certain extent with this price movement, there is still a perceptibly good trade reported entirely outside of this, which serves to prove that the prospect of war has not had nearly as much effect inland as it has had on the coast. The check to export trade at some ports, notably at the South, is reflected in temporarily smaller ship­ ments of wheat, corn and flour. The total shipments of wheat (flour included) this week aggregate 3,223,106 bushels, against 4,525,302 bushels last week. Corn ex­ ports this week aggregate 3,363,000 bush­ els, against 4,666,000 bushels -last week." The House on Saturday passed the army reorganization bill, authorizing the recruiting of the twenty-five infantry reg­ iments of the service up to a total of 31,- 800 enlisted men. The confereees of the two houses of Congress on the volunteer army bill have reached an agreement. The report was therefore agreed to and sent to the Presi­ dent for his signature. The army reorganization' bill has be­ come a'law. The conference committee of both houses came to an agreement, which was promptly ratified, and the President lost no time in affixing his sig­ nature to the bill. A Washington dispatch states that a favorable report has been made by the Committee on Public Lands on a bill au­ thorizing the appointment of a commis­ sion to make allotments of lands in sev­ eralty to Indians upon the Uintah reserva­ tion in Utah, and to obtain the cession of lands to the United States. The report says: "The Uintah reservation contains more than 2,000,000 acres of land, much of which, by irrigation, can be made1 pro- THE THREE KRUPPS. The Great Shops of the German Gun- makers. The city of Essen is located in the center of a hilly valley, which abounds in coal and iron ore, and the digging for both and the melting of the ore and casting the metal Into ignots and roll­ ing it into bars have been the occupa­ tions of the inhabitants for centuries past. Friedrich Krupp, the founder of the gteat works, bearing his name, was born in 1787, and when crucible cast steel was first being introduced in England, and its importation from there into Germany had been made im­ possible through the edict of Napoleon called "the contlnental-sperre," F. Krupp began to produce; crucible, cast steel, first in small quantities for files. Stamps rolls for coins- &nusuears,bnt' only slowly could he convince and per­ suade German manufactures to use his cast steel, and after a life full of dis- apyolnt'&^nts and hardships he died in 1826, "after a long and severe illness, leaving to his son Alfred little else than the old homestead, which still stantl^ffl'the midst of the great works, and the sfecret. of his invention. Alfred Ivrupp's energy and enter­ prise soon conquered. His first success was to be able to furnish east steel of a varying degree of hardness, thereby increasing .it's adaptability for many new purposes. Next came the invention of the weidless car wheel tires, which were patented in 1853 in all countries and furnished him capital for enlarg­ ing his plant. In 1S65 he interested himself in coal mines, iron ore mines and furnaces, which should furnish the material for his own works, and in 1867 he began to reap the harvest from his experiments inaugurated long since with steel cannons, and the great Franco-German war of 1870-'71 proved beyond doubt their superiority as against the old bronze cannons. Since then the success of these works and their growth have been phenomenal, and when Alfred Krupp closed the busy and successful and philanthropic work of his life in 1887 at Villa Huegel, his princely home on the side hills of the valley of the Ruhr, the city of Es­ sen in recognition of his great work erected in his memory a beautiful mon­ ument on the most prominent square of the city, and deputations from many nations mourned at his grave. Essen is a city of 96,000 inhabitants, and over twenty thousand of this pop­ ulation are employed in the -works of the able and energetic son of Alfred Krupp--Friedrich Alfred. Over twelve hundred acres of ground is covered with buildings and machinery. Many coal mines furnigh fuel for the works, over four hundred iron ore mines fur­ nish the metal/and large iron ore de­ posits in Spain, near Bilbao, have been purchased in addition, and a special fleet of steamers has been built which bring over three hundred thousand tons of this Spanish iron ore from Spain to the German coast and up the Rhine. Twenty furnaces at Duisburg and Neuwied-on-the-Rliine are reduc­ ing this ore for the Krupp works and are owned or controlled by them. The main street of Essen divides the Krupp works into two parts, connected overhead Avith innumerable mammoth steam pipes and bridges, and parallel with it, running east and west, the tracks of the Rhenish railway pass the works in the north, while in the south the railroad leading from Dusseldorf to Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin skirts the mill. Innumerable tracks connect these two main lines of railroad, sur­ rounding in an inextricable network the buildings and crossing the street leading to Muelheim below its level. Powerful locomotives bring train loads of raw material into the yards and leave the works with valuable prod­ ucts, finished and ready for shipment to all parts of the globe. Miniature en­ gines and cars move about between the buildings on narrow-gauge tracks, bringing material of smaller size from one building to another until it is fin­ ished and ready for the market. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime. $3.00 to $5'.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.19 to $1.20; corn, No. 2, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 60c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 11c; potatoes, common to choice, 50c to 70c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 95c to 97c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.09 to $1.11; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 60c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.05 to $1.07; corn, No 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oata, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 2, 57c to 59c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.06 to $1.08; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, 58c to 60c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, $1.06 to $1.08; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 57c; clover seed, $3.10 to $3.20. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, $1.09 to $1.11; corn, No. 2, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; rye, No. 1, 60c to 61c; barley, No. 2, 48c to 50c; pork, mess, $10.25 to $10.75. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.09 to $1.11; Corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00 wheat, No. 2 red, $1.18 to $1.20; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 36c; butter, creamery, 15c to 19c; egg*. Western, 11c to 12c- DEAD SNAKE. Frightened a School Teacher and Caused Her Marriage. William A. Furbish, of St. Louis, is at, the Colonnade. Mr. Furbish is a modest man, but, somehow or other, his fame as a teller of stories always precedes him to a town, and there was no exception in this case. Mr. Furbish, by the way, is a millionaire these days, although he wasn't always one. "You may not believe it," he said to a group of acquaintances last night, "but I owe my wedded happiness to a sualce, and a dead snake at that. One summer afternoon years ago I was driving along a country road when a piercing shriek from a little selioolhouse 1 hap­ pened to be passing struck my ears. The shriek was followed by a general exodus of pupils from the doors of the little wooden building. I hastily sprang from my buggy and entered the school, where I found the teacher, as pretty a girl as I had ever laid eyes upon, in a dead faint on the floor be­ side of a desk, the lid of which was open. Inside the desk, as I saw by a hasty glance, was a snake, dead, but coiled up as if alive and ready for all sorts of funny business. I picked the young woman up and carried her out into the open air, where she soon re­ vived. Then I took her home in my buggy, and six months later we were married. How did the snake come to be in the desk? Why, a couple of mis­ chievous boy pupils, eager for a holi­ day, had killed it on their way to school and placed it there, well knowing what the consequences would be. Before that little episode I never was much of an admirer of snakes, but since then- well," I can't say that I feel so harshly towrard them."--Philadelphia Press. brattons of notes, and of what tones an organ note is made. Every tone in music is to be found on this organ. For instance, what are known as sharps and flats on a piano are not really sharps and flats. C sharp and D flat are struck on the same black key, but, strictly speaking, that black key is neither; it is a note or tone situated midway between C sharp and D flat. If both of the latter were on the piano, however, the difference between them is so slight that it would confuse the player. So a compromise is made, and the two are blended, or, rather, the tone midway between them is used. But in Cornell the organ contains keys for every note in the scale, no matter how fine the gradation. With it students can see just howT a note on the organ in built UP. Certain notes on the organ are made up of certain other tones. On the ordinary piano you would not be able to illustrate what these notes are. You would need the true sharps and flats in order to com­ pose the notes. The overtones on the domestic instrument would be quite different. The pure fifth, which can here be accurately denoted, Is very much curtailed on the piano. Used in connection with this organ are a com­ plete set of resonators, or tuning forks. In order to find out how many resona- tions are contained dn a given tone, it is only necessary to strike that note. Those forks which resound in sympa­ thy with it are sure to be included in the makeup of the note. The silenl ones are not included in it. MOST CURIOUS OF ORGANS. $ Perfect in Tone, but No Ordinary Mu­ sician Can Use It. An organ which the leading organist of New York could not play is now be­ ing used by professors of Cornell Col lege. This organ is not, as might be supposed, out of tune. It is because it is in perfect tune that it differs so rad­ ically from an ordinary organ. The or­ dinary organ, such as is used in church es and drawing-rooms, is not in tune, even after the maker has just declar­ ed it to be in perfect order. The Cornell organ was invented by Von Helmholtz, and it contains a pure ly mathematical scale. It is made for the composition of chords such as are uot to be obtained on an ordinary in­ strument, and is used to study the vi Humboldt said that a single pound of the finest spider webs would reach around the world. One inch of rain falling upon one square mile is equivalent to about 17,- 500,000 gallons of water. English is spoken by only 125,000,000 persons, while it is estimated that Chi­ nese is spoken by 400,000,000. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, the number of English-speak­ ing people has grown from 25,000,000 to 125,000,000. A dog has in his upper jaw six in­ cisors, two canines and six molars on eaca side; in the lower, six incisors, two canines and seven molars on each side. According to the computations of Professor Hamy, the black race em­ braces about one-tenth of the living members of the human species, or 150,- 000,000 individuals. The White Star steamship Britannia recently made her five-hundredth trip across the Atlantic. She is twenty- four years old, and her engines and boilers have never been renewed. She has traveled more than 1,500,000 miles, so that, as far as distance is concerned, she might have paid three visits to the moon, and be now well on her outbound passage for a fourth visit. High prices are paid for butterflies, and some private collections, such as that of the Hon. W. Rothschild at Tring, Herts, are said to be worth $500,000, more or less. Some New Guinea butterflies have fetched $250 apiece. One of the Rothschilds is said to have paid $1,000 for a Papilla, now quite common. The demand for rare specimens has led to dishonesty. The insects are dyed or else wings from one species are. fastened to the bodies of other species. M. Martel, the well-known French cave hunter, has explored an "aven," or -natural pit, in the limestone of the Lozere, France, with remarkable re­ sults. After descending a vertical shaft for about 200 feet he found an immense hall, sloping downward, and at the low­ er end a "virgin forest" of stalagmites, resembling pine and palm trees. Many of them are very beautiful, and one, 90 feet in height, reaches nearly to the vault of tht, cavern. Nothing like this forest of stoue lias been observed in any other known cave or pit. Wonder is often expressed at the abil­ ity of the engineers of ancient Egypt to construct the great pyramids at Gi- zeli. According to one estimate, no less than 100,000 men must have been employed, during a period of twenty years, to build the largest of these pyramids. It has also been assumed that the ancients possessed immense machines which could hardly.be match­ ed in our day. At a recent meeting of the Philosophical Society in Washing­ ton. Mr. J. E. Watkius read an illus­ trated paper on this subject, and show­ ed how the great pyramids could have been erected without the use of compli­ cated or gigantic machines, and with­ out the employment of an enormous force of workmen. The principle em­ ployed by the pyramid-builders, accord­ ing to Mr. Watkius, was that of the in­ clined plane. By banking up the struc­ ture with earth, the builders were able to carry the great stone blocks to the summit with the aid only of levers and pry-bars. ^Afterward the earth was removed ami the ground leveled. Nuts1 for Eating. Nuts are much employed in high-class cookery, but' their value seems not to be recognized by the majority of coun­ try housewives, too many of whom let the squirrels get them all. Very de­ licious dishes are made of chestnuts. No nut mqkes a cake more delicious. Nuts chopped and sprinkled"over pud ­ dings, hot or cold, give a new flavor and generally improve them, while mixed through custard they make a surprising change in this simple dish. Stewed apples sprinkled with chopped nuts and the core space filled with jam make a good dessert, which need be of no cost except for the labor used, and this is of only nominal value.--Philadel­ phia Inquirer. CLIMATE AND CROP BULLETIN. Farm Work Retarded by Cool Weather and Moisture. The United States Department of Ag­ riculture issued the following climate and crop bulletin for the past week: - The week has been too cool for best re­ sults in New England, the central val­ leys and east Gulf States, while exces­ sive moisture has retarded farm work generally in the States northward of the Ohio river and in the east Gulf States. In the nfiddle and south Atlantic States, Texas, the Dakotas. generally through­ out the Rocky Mountain region, and on the north Pacific coast the weather con­ ditions have been more favorable. No rain has fallen in California during the week, and consequently the severe drought previously reported continues un­ broken. Drought also continues in Flor­ ida, though partially relieved in locali- ties-inthe.aorthemportion.ot,.the. State, The bulk of the corn crop is planted southward of the northern boundaries of Arkansas, Tennessee and the Carolinas, but northward of this line, except in Kan­ sas, slow progress has been made, owing to excessive rains and the cool weather. None has yet been planted in Indiana, but planting has begun in portions .of Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. A little planting has also been done in Ne­ braska. . ft ° : , . Poor stands are reported from the South Atlantic States, and but light growth has been reported generally in the Southern States. In' southern arid central Texas, however, the crop is growing, and is now receiving its second cultivation. QVer northern Texas the crop is late and ^ir­ regular. The winter wheat - crop con­ tinues in promising condition in the prin­ cipal wheat States in the central valleys. Further improvement is reported from Ohio, and in Michigan the crop has been benefited by recent rains. In the South­ ern States it is now heading. As a re­ sult of the severe drought in California the grain crop has been injured beyond recovery, except in the northern coast counties and in some of the foot hill re­ gions and over the southern portion of North Dakota. Seeding is well advanced over the northern portion of North Da­ kota and in Montana. In Oregon seed­ ing is complete, but considerable is yet to be dome in Washington. The early sown over the spring wheat region is coming up and is generally in promising condi­ tion. Slow progress has been made with oat seeding where unfinished in more northern States. In the central and southern portion of the country the crop has made favorable progress during the week. In Alabama the early sown is nearing maturity. The general outlook for fruit in the Northern States continues promising, and the pros­ pects in the middle and southern sections appear more favorable. There is abun­ dant supply of tobacco plants. Trans­ planting continues in South Carolina, and has commenced in North Carolina. Tobacco is suffering from drought in Florida. Chewing Apparatus. Old people who have lost their teeth and do not care about wearing false ones find a difficulty in eating their food. The re^ylt is the invention by a Frenchman of a chewing apparatus. This is held in one hand, and a fork in the other. A piece of meat, or what­ ever is to be eaten, is placed between blades, which are opened and closed three or four times, and by this means the food is reduced to a state of pulp. BIG POWDER MILLS BLOWN UP. Twenty Persona Believed to Have Been Killed in California. At 5:15 Tuesday afternoon Santa Cruz (Cal.) was startled by a tremendous ex­ plosion. Buildings were shaken as though by a violent earthquake, arxl the first thought was that on-e h-^d occtirrcd. Hard- ly had the rumblings died away when the second shock occurred, r.ot so violent as the first, and soon small boughs from redwood trees, shingles, bits of powder cans, and other debris began falling in the streets of the city. They cleared up all doubts as to the cause of the shock. The California powder works had been blown up. The second shock was follow­ ed by a third and (hen a fourth, more vio­ lent than the others. Between fifteen and "twenty people, mostly young boys, Employed at the works, were killed, and as many more were injured. The first explosion occurred in the gun- cotton works. This was followed by the destruction of the nitroglycerin house, and then a number of buildings used in the manufacture uf smokeless powder for the Government. Then the inside powder magazine blew up with a terrific roar. Although considerable powder was stored there, the amount was small in compari­ son with last week, as over 100 tons were shipped to Chicago Sunday last to fill the order of the Government. The California powder works were, next to the Dupont. works, probably the most extensive in the United States. These works were the only ones in the country, outside of the Dupont, that man­ ufactured smokeless powder, and thou­ sands of pounds of that material have been shipped East during the piist ten days. The works have been running to full capacity and at night on account of the large Government orders due to the wor with Spain. Nothing is known as to what caused the explosion, but it was probably due to spon­ taneous combustion. There were many wild rumors afloat to the effect that Span­ ish sympathizers did the work, but the stories are probably based on the fact that a number of persons of Spanish de­ scent live in the vicinity of the works. The factory was founded in 1SG1 and since that time lias been one of the chief sources of supply to the Government. FRESH BEEF FOR THE KLONDIKE Two Thousand Steers Will Go Over the Dalton Trail in June. Two thousand beef steers are being gathered in Montana for Shipment to Dawson in June over the Dalton trail. Tliey will comprise two expeditions in which fully $300,000 will be invested. A Taeoma dispatch says: C. W. Thebo,, backed by Butte (Mont.) men, has ship­ ped 1,300 steers to pastures here, where they will be fattened until May 20. Jack Dalton is arranging to drive 700 more steers over the same trail. Each hun­ dred steers will be in charge 'of six cow­ boys, each cowboy being provided with pack aind saddle horse, the two expedi­ tions employing 120 cowboys and 240 horses. Thebo has chartered the big barge Skookum to carry 900 steers and 3,000 tons of freight to Pyramid Har­ bor, landing there in June. The balance of his band will be shipped from Van­ couver on a barge now building. The steers will be driven by easy stages to Fort Selkirk, whence they will be ratted to Dawson, arriving in July. His cat­ tle will cost $130,000 landed at Pyramid Harbor, the feed, equipment and wages bringing the cost of the expedition to $200,000. The Daltons expect to receive 25 cents per pound live weight on the Klondike, which should make „their re­ ceipts over $800,000, leaving $500,000 profit. Men have been sent to watch the Dalton trail, the indications being that it will open early. Told In a Few Lines. Fessenden, N. D., has 300 inhabitants and four newspapers. J. P.. Marcsh, a pioneer business man of Denison, Texas, dropped deau at his place of business. Senator Morrill of Vermont celebrated his 88th birthday anniversary in Wash­ ington a few days ago. The oldest house in Pennsylvania, in Chester, lias been badly damaged by tire. It was built in 1608 and was long used as a tavern and later as a theater. The value of a sermon has been fixed by the Georgia Legislature at $3. This is the amount paid to the ministers who preach-at the State convict camps. SONQS OF THE HOUR. Remember, Boys, the-Maine. Where hovers o'er the nation a mighty cloud: of war, A threatening storm Is coming, we see It from afar, And many hearts are anxious, all ready for the fray; There are thousands all In order, the Blue beside the Gray, ' " And while the drums are beating and from. the bugle's mouth A call "to arms" is sounding, from the North., and from the South, - There blends a mighty chorus, one long and loud refrain: "When we strike for Cuba Libre, remember, boys, the Maine!" In this chorus are the voices of men with- many sears, . ' Who battled in the Southland against the- st.ripes and stars; There are voices of the veterans who battled for the North, - : . Who wore the blue at Shlloh and faced the cannon's mouth. They followed different banners and differ­ ent anthems gave, The South sang for the Southland, the North. for Northmen brave; But now they are united, have one chorus, one refrain: "When we strike for Cuba Libre, remember, boys, the Maine!" Mothers, sisters, sweethear ts, when you hear the war alarms, And the drummer beats "to rally" and the- bugle calls "to arms," And you hear the tramp of thousands from< the North and from the West, From the Valley and the Southland, hasten­ ing onward to the East; When you see your dear ones leaving and marching to the fray. And your farewells all are spoken and your tears are brushed away, Let your voices blend in chorus, in one long and loud refrain: "When you strike for Cuba Libre, remember, boys, the Maine!" --St. Louis Star. On Chickamauga Field. 'Way down at Chickamauga, in good old Tennessee, The regulars and volunteers will soon assem­ bled be; They'll camp upon historic ground--and won't it just be great To see 'em start to Cuba from Old Hickory Jackson's State? Attention, Americans! Line up all proud and straight, For you'll soon be sent to Cuba from Old Hickory Jackson's State. The Dons themselves may recollect Old Hick­ ory Jackson's name. For he licked 'em down in Florida and cov­ ered 'em with shame; So maybe they will understand why now we jubilate At the thought of starting for 'em from Old' Hickory Jackson's State. Attention, Americans! You won't have long to wait, Ere you march,away to Cuba from Old Hick-, ory Jackson's State. Don't you hear the bugles calling? ^They're sounding clear and strong, As down to Chickamauga our hew army sweeps along; It's a glorious procession, for no man would be late When the cry's "On to Havana!" from Old; Hickory Jackson's State! Attention, Americans! And strike a winning gait When you march away to Cuba from Old Hickory Jackson's State! --St. Louis Bepublic. The Flag Goes By. Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A Hash of color beneath the sky! Hats off! The flag is passing by! Blue and crimson and white it shines, Over the steel-tipped, ordered Hues. Hats off! The colors before us fly; But more than the flag is passing by. Sea fights and land fights, grim and great. Fought to make and to save the state; Weary marches, and sinking ships; Cheers of victory on dying lips; Days of plenty and days of peace; March of a strong land's swift increase; Equal justice, right and law, Stately honor and reverend awe; Sign of a nation, great and strong To ward her people from foreign wrong; Pride and glory and honor, all Live in the colors to stand or fall. Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums. And loyal hearts are beating high; Hats off! The flag is passing by! --Youth's Companion. The Best Old Gun in Town. I never thought I'd need her-- That gun o' mine ag'iu; N'er ever have ter take lier Frum the rack she's rustin' in; But times Is changed; an', Johnny, You might's well han' her down; Tlmr's still some flglitin* in her-- The best ol' gun in town! They heard her at Manassas; She ripped away like fun. An' made some lively music-- I tell you!--at Bull Itun, An' ever'whars she helt her own, 'Till peace come 'long ter drown That overpowerin' voice o' her'n-- The best ol' gun In town! I'm sorry that she's needed: I Mowed the wars wuz done. An' that I'd never have ter fill More graves with that ol' gun! But times is changed; an', Johnny, You might's well han' her down; Once more they'll hear the music Of the best ol* gun In town! -Atlanta Constitution. Absorbed in "War News. Don't talk to me o' farmiu', Ner polytlcs an' sick; I'm tuck away with flghtln'. An' want ter know jest which He? got the biggest cannons. An' ships, an' bustin' stuff; An* e< they're out fer bizziness Er puttln' up a bluff. Whar Is that flyln' squadron? An' that flotiller, too? Whar'6 these solgers started? An' whut they goin' to do? Don't talk to me o' farrnln'-- Had polytlcs enuff-- This war's a lively matter-- The hottest kind o' stuff. --Atlanta Journal. Vengeance Is Near. Will we ever forget .'?• The Vlrginius debt That darkens our fl^g with its stains? Will we ever forgive The assassins that live To gloat o'er the wreck of the Maine) Arouse frorm your dreams When the old banner streams, , The day of our vengeance is near; Let yoor glad voices break en the stillness and wake The world with > patriot's chete.