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The morning call., 1891-11-29
TIE old PONY EXPRESS.
Captain Mark 0. AilSla9 Tells Of The Danger in
Crossing the Plains.

He was Mark o. AinSlee, whose name
appeared on the register as coming from
Denver, Colo. A wanderer for wears and
years, ever since boyhood, Captain Ainslee
places little faith in the word "home," and,
to use his own expression, is at home
wherever lie hangs up his hat" He has
no home, and as a practical miner and in-
veterate traveller does not want any. He
has been all over the Western country, from
Sitka to the City Of Mexico, and knows
every foot of that country and the resources
of each section.
To Captain Ainslee and his associates.
along in the sos, when the few representa-
tives settled in the region where now stands
the city of Denver craved for communica-
ton with the States" belongs the credit
Of establishing that forerunner of civilized
means, the Pony Express. by which mails
and small parcels were transported through
surroundings where every step touched
danger in that wild territory lying between
the Missouri River outposts and the little
settlement at the foot of Pixies Peak.
Il tell you it wasn't no fun" said the Cap
tain, as he pushed back the water land
many a time | thought my time had come
sure enough. Why, them lnJuns was layin'
for US at every jump. and it seemed as if
every bush along the road was shakin' with
one of 'em almost dyin' fur chance at your
scalp. But letters was dollar apiece. and
the success of the Pony Express depended
Oh gettin' through on time, so there was no
chance to funk. Then. after a Teller got
started. lie might as well go ahead as turn
back, tur they was as thick one way as the
other.
tell you one thing that made me shake
once in while, and the old mans eyes
flashed at the thought. was the uncer-
tainty about finding fresh horse. The In
juns was just as likely TO clean out a horse
station as anything else, and then where
was you? One time, | remember well,
had running fight with band of the red
devils, and just about the time l found my
horse was badly wounded il commenced to
grow dark. That's all that saved me, but
they thought | got away, and quit chasin'.
| could only get the poor animal little
ways further and then he dropped
II took my knife and cut his throat, and
bags. Lighting ont for the next change
those devils had cleaned out the station,
and then the sweat commenced to stick out
on me in large chunks. Great Srott! | was
goner, because could never hoof it twenty
miles through that country to the next
stand bus | plodded along, my load SEEM
ing like 1t weighed a ten, and if ever a man
lived in hope right there was one OF them. |
amt no church man and never was one, bat
| tell you there was mighty nigh PRAYER OF
thankfulness went up from me somewhere
when | seen that station and pony stand.
ing.ready for me. louisville Commercial
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fine, thin upper with thicker lower lip aud

fine, thin upper with thicker lower lip aud
a somewhat heavy. dropping jaw.
There is no lack of majesty in the face.
and 1t is the one trait that seems by far the
most predouinating one at first glance.
There is grace also, but 1t needs smile. or
an amable word to bring it to the fore.
One of the prime qualities of queen, dig
nifty, is also stamped upon the features of
this noble woman. The Starhem berg fam
lily heirloom corresponds in all these details
with the best known portraits extaut of the
unhappy en-Werthmueller's. for in
stance, which represents Marie Antoinette
promenading with her children 10 the park
of Trianon. This is pronounced by Nine.
Campan as a most excellent likeness. 1t
was destined as present for Gustave Ill
of Sweden, aud adorned for long time the
walls of the Grlpsholm Gallery, circum-
stance known to only a few until 1867, when
the Empress Eugenie received permission
from the King of Sweden to have it eXhib-
tied at Trianon. But the copy made by
Bataille for the Versailles Gallery is only
poor excuse for the splendid original.
Another fine likeness. which corresponds
in detail of features and expression with
the Starhemberg canvas is the pastel made
by Kucharsky. This the Queen intended
for her friend, Nine. de TourZel. 1t is now
in the possession of the Duke des Cars.
Among these three authentic portraits that
owned by the Starhemberg family and
represented by the cut is the only one which
has been copied, and that one for the first
time in its existence.
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tionless in his place. The Captain was pass
Ing through the mesS-room. He saw Forth
and, paus:ng. said to him:
Well, my wrong headed fellow, are you
still resolved to leave nse"
But partially recovered from his EN- otion.
the Sergeant stammered:
'Captain-"
Reflect, you have only few days
longer
The Sergeant made Vague gesture.
Yes, yes, know" said the Captain, in
friendly way, it is not your vocation.
Are you aware what the future has in store
Tor yon? Here you have position; you
VIII Dc made adjutant at the first promo
IONS, that promise you. You are brave
and loyal fellow; you can hope for the
military medal on your retirement. That
means consideration and bread. Come,
nowP'
Captain. with courage and toll one can
get consideration and bread anywhere"
proudly answered FUrtin.
THE MADNESS OF SACRIFICE.
certainly, said the Captain, nettled by
the sub-of1cer's resistance, certainly but
are you sure of always having wOrkp You
have no family, YOU will go to Paris with
out resources-think well of all that. Here,
on the day of re-enlistment, you will receive
premium of 600 francs"
fortln gave start. 1t was trus-the pre-
MUM! he had not yet thought of that!
The Captain persisted, believing he had
convinced him, but the Sergeant no longer
| listened to him. He beheld Marie, KremePs
haDcee, extended, cold and white, i'll her
wedding dress, upon the lugubriOus nuptial
couch which was transformed into a NOR
| tuary chapel. A struggle was raging within
him, his heart was beating as if it would
burst and the madness OF sacrifice had
| taken possession of his braiu.
Captain" cried he, suddenly, ''if l re-
enlist to-day wheh will | receive the pre-
MUM of 600 frans?"
As soon as the regiments council of
! administration Is called together-in eight
| days at the latest"
Eight days! Marie would not be married
| Tor three weeks; the money would arrive in
| time to save her.
Captain, it is understood; | will hand
| you my application this EVENING"" said
| Forth, in trembling voice.
| , 1nere was sensation in the mess-room
the men stared at each other in astouish-
ment.
Good" said the Captain, grasping the
Sergeants hand. you're the right kind,
Fortln. and Fm glad you're going TO remain
| with Us"
And he left the room. whistlng march.
| Courage, old mani" said Fortin in a
| whisper to Kremel. MULLER will be paid
! In eight days and Marie will call herself
Nine. hremel. You'll invite me to the
wedding, wont you? will have the air of
reiatlve-of one of the family! A family
| ! wGo never had one-that will make a
| change in me!'
stunned, the soldier knew not what &c
| reply he g.asped the Sergeants hands
| with The mad temptation to raise them &c
his lips and kneel at his feet, while Bali
GGnd from the other end of the room cri ed
| out banteringly:
Hello! countryman. didn't 1 tell you
| that you'd re-enlist?"
| GUsrAvE GoUJAY.
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CONTINUOUS SHEETS OF IRON.
Sir Henry BHSSemRr RGleWS a Project That Has
Slept for ThirtY-fVe Years

An invention for the manufacture of con-
tinuous sheets of different materials that has
not been used fer thirty five years has been
brought forward again by Sir Henry Besse-
mer in a paper read before the Iron and
Steel Institute Of England, describing pro-
cess that may be used in producing contn-
uous sheets of malleable iron and steel d-
rect from fluid metal. His first expert
ments, says the New York Sun, in 1886,
were on the manufacture Of continuous
sheets of glass. On one occasion he
produced sheet of glass seventy feet
in length by thirty inches in width in about
four minutes, one end having become
hard and brittle while the other end was
in its plastic state. In 1856, after he had an
nounced that malleab.e iron in a molten
state could be produced rapidly and in large
quantities, lie grasped the idea that mallea-
bic iron or steel could be made not only in
continuous sheets and plates, but also in
thin bars or rods by passing the fluid iron
between pair OF iron rolls placed in the
same horizontal plane, and in his works at
ST. PaBcras he produced thin sheet Of
iron about four feet in length. The plate
had ragged edges, because the quantity of
molten iron poured from crucible fiuctuated
little. He was impressed by the import
ance of the discovery, but his scheme was
not accepted by manufacturers. At that
time the BeSsemer process oil making steel
was under cloud also
In his introduction he said that some in
ventions which appear well worthy of a
trial are never put to any practical test,
through having appeared at time when
the state Of the particular manufacture to
which they apply was rot so far advanced
as to render the proposal feasible with the
then existing state oil knowledge, although
at a later period and a more advanced state
OF the arts they would have been adopted at
once. After suggesting that an invention
which has slept In oblivion so long may be
used in these days in the manufacture of
tin plates he explains the improvements 10
the apparatus that he has been able
to devise. He would use as rolls two hollow
drums through which tubular steel axis
passes and conveys water for keeping the
rolls cool. The brasses fur supporting one
roll are fixed, while those of the other roll
are movable in a slide, and are moved by a
small hydraulic ram which is connected
with an accumulation. so that at any time
should the feed of metal be too much the
roll may be moved. He prefers rolls three
or four feet in diameter each, with flange
at one end only. The thickness Of plates
capable of being produced depends on the
size Of the rolls. With drums ten or twelve
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Is not the boon vouchsafed to the chronic nervous
inyaid. Slight noises startle him, odd and unex-
pected sensations perplex him. He neither sleeps
soundly nor eats heartily, he is almost invariably
trcubled with dyspepsia What should he do9 Be-
gin and pursue systematically course OF Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters. With digestion fortified and
food assimilated strength returns the nerves grow
tranquil and the zest of life returns A blessed
contamination indeed, and not only etfectually, but
pleasantly wrought by the Bitters. Biiousness,
malaria. rheumatism, kidney complaint also
prevented and cured by this sovereign regulating
medicine. Try 1t at once If your nerves out OF
order, and II their weakness is perpetuated by the
existence OF disease. A superb appetizer and pro-
moter OF sound repose a9
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The null is of the steel-barge pattern,
almnst Suhmarped and Summarizing q

The hull is of the steel-barge pattern,
strongly built pier. Two longitudinal
bulkheads divide the craft into three main
compartments, which are subdivided into
twenty-one separate water-tight sections,
without doors below the water line. The
vessel is 52S feet long, p feet wide and 3S
feet depth of hold, drawing 2S feet of water.
The displacement is reckoned at Il, 900 tons
and the capacity of the hull is figured at
10000 tons.
The engines designed to drive this craft at
a speed of "a knots per hour are three in
number, of 1880 horsepower, running at
120 revolutions per minute. with pr0pellers
of Ills feet diameter and 2i 2 feet pitch.
1t is estimated that a vessel built on this
plan would give accommodation for 100
irst-class passengers.
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MARIE ANTOINETTE.
fhe Most Authentic and Remarkable Likeness
Of The Queen

The pictures and portraits still in exist
ence of the unfortunate Queen Marie An
toinette vary so greatly from one another
in regard to the facial type that it is al
most impossible to obtain a correct idea of
the physiognomy of this sovereign, whose
life ended so pathetically. says a correspond
ent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Your correspondent has succeeded in OBJ
tanning the copy of an oil portrait, which
the French Queen herself gave to one of the
ancestors of Prince Camille Starhemberg in
the year 1777. as is plainly seen by the in
seription On the canvas. Prince Starhem-
berg was the Austrian ambassador at the
French court from ITS to 1776. According
to family tradition this is the only life-size
portrait for which the Queen sat to the
Painter Cheyalier Dagoty.
Marie Antoinette's face was a refined and
clarified edition of the peculiar type Of the
house of Hapsburg-L othringen; an arched
forehead. protruding eyes. an eagle nose, a
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TIE KINEf0GRhPH,
An Apparatus for Taking Pictures at The Rate
Of FOrty-SiI Second.

Frank G. Carpenter. the well-known news
paper CORRESPONDENTS recently had talk with
Edison on the subject of invent tons. and
among the many topics discussed the great
inventor spoke of the kinetograph, an in-
strument by means Of which forty-six pict-
ures can be taken in a minute. In a letter
to the st. Louis Globe Democrat the CORE
spondent writes:
here asked Mr.. Edison as to the pnono-
graph, and he told me that a large nun Der
of them were in use and that he believed
they would be eventually used everywhere.
He took me out into his laboratory and
showed me his last invention in connection
with the phonograph. which he calls by the
name of the kinetograph, and which
is almost as wonderful as the phono-
graph itself. With the phonograph
you can take song of PATHS from
the lips Of the diva and can reproduce 1t
before an audience in all its intensity and
beauty year later and 1000 miles away
By the kinetograph, with the aid of a stere-
opticou. You can throw upon a screen a
picture of Patti just as she looked and acted
at the time she was singing the song, and
one of the great exhibitions OF the future
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siag'y or in groups. pacing soberly in the
shady walks. intent upon open books or
Aurrying to reclt ltion or lecture.
This impression that l was in tire domain
Of TIL Princess" was deepened when 1
entered the main hall. then, in succession.
the reception-rOom, the Browning-rOom
and the various offices and parlors. aud en-
eouniered only feminine faces on every
side. "With prudes for proctors. dowagers
for deans" came irresistibly into my mind
when l was presented to President Shafer.
Or. Webster IA Phi. D.. Professor Bates.
Professor StOddart-all women. Blu when
we got into the elevator and l found the
elevator boy was a girl. it really seemed too
funny and Secret laughter tickled all my
soul"
l attended chapel in the morning. From
the gallery. where the faculty. the "Spe-
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Cials" and any guests are seated, looked
down on what was to ne a novel and inter-
esting sight, seven hundred girlish heads,
black, brown, golden and red. Tina re-
sponses were made in seven hundred treble
voices. and the hymns sung all in a great
semi-chorus Of soprano and alto.
The rooms-bed-room and sittng-room-
are always furnished by the college. l saw
several of these suites, each with the same
arrangement of two single beds, TWO bu-
Teaus, etc; the sltting-room frightened
and made attractive by the addition of
books. pictures, cushions. and occasionally
pretty desk or other bit of furniture
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centage of the girls who definitely intended
not to marry, but to devote themselves to
some specific career, some chosen art or
profession. But senior to whom | nut the
question: young woman of brains and
observation, and who has written quite ex-
tensiveiy on college topics as well as in other
felds-aSsured me smilIagly thai this was
mistake.
Many with whom l talked expect to be
Self-supporting after leaving college. 1t
struck me very f0rcibly as being, with all
its opportunities and facilities for heathful
exercise and recreation, place for honest,
straight-ahead hard work This was de-
cidedIy the attitude Of those teachers and
students with whom L talked, ard the
spirit of the institution, as opposed 10 that
Of the fashionable boarding or finishing
school. ALICE MACGowAN.
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Among the hobbies which Lady Wilde has
is that of womankind with big w. She
says that while she cannot bnt admire the
genius of George Eliot and Miss Martineau,
that for her they are not sympathetic
enough TO make her love them; she holds
that il is the lot of woman to touch life
with grace and to illumine with her wit
rather than 10 scorch. Divine sympathy,
human trust and love for her fellow women
are the purest, truest and highest attributes
of woman's nature, according to Lady
Wilde's code.
While holding these views Lady Wilde at
the same time lashes mercilessy with her
pen the women who have no thought or soul
above cooking, baking or sweeping. She
describes woman who cannot rise above
housekeeping as "a sort OF incarnate sweep
ing brush, an animated floor cloth, living
ubiquitous duster." She says that these
commonplace women never can be raised
from the duh prose of life into lyrical in
SEPARATION. For them the great mystic uni
verse is nothing but bakery or ball
room, whose souls are but of the circum-
ference Of their thimbles"
Like the Queen of Roumania, Lady Wilde
has made the folklore of her country ono of
her pet subjects for writing. She has gath
cred the traditions of her people. as well as
their songs. superstitions and home stories,
and has written them up In such attractive
form that they are raised to the dignity of
sentiment. The American marriage Of one
OF Lady Wilde's sons has given American
women feeling of sisterhoOd for the tai
ented EnglishwOman which they could not
before have possessed.-N. Y. Advertiser.
The morning call., 1891-11-29
WHALEBACK PASSENGER BOAT.
4 Proposition to Build One for Service on the
Atlantic side.

One of the latest ideas among Eastern
ship-builders is the application of the
whaleback style of construction of ships to
passenger vessels. An illustration of a
model of a ship of this character taken from
a drawing published in the Scientific Amer
lean is herewith presented, and it gives a
good idea of what passenger whaebacker
would look like.
The morning call., 1891-11-29
What Makes Hair Curly.

The difference between straight and curly
hair is very apparent on nicroscopical
examination.
A hair is a hollow tube. and straight
hair Is as round rs a reed. while curly hair
is always tiattened on both sides and curls
the edge. 1t is q curious and little known
fact that the hair of women is coarser than
that Of men. as well as thicker on the scalp.
In an average head of hair there are
about 10000 individual hairs.-National
Barber.
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There young man at the float,
WHO roved tn maid in a boat;
Their nos tioO was queer,
For they both had to steer,
And twas quite hard to manage that boat.
Twas dear little maid al his side,
And betwIxt them the space not Wide.
Cruel Calcium tight,
To reveal that sight
And to make them both eager to hide
l had talks with several students on the
subject of matTimony, asking them how
they thought the girls generally were dis
posed to regard marriage and what they
would, as Il rule. consider proper marriage
able age. They all agreed that twenty-four
or twenty-five is young enough for girl to
marry; but they differed upon the other
question. Some of the younger students
with whom | discussed the matter we're
disposed 10 think there was large per-
The morning call., 1891-11-29
SEVEN HUNDRED
TREBLE VOICES.
How They Work, Dress and Exercise at
Wellesley College.
First Impressions-Daily Life-Lake Waban.
Tennis rt-Bicycling-No Chewing
Gum Used-They Will Marry.
Special TO THE SUNDAY CALI.

WELLESLEY (Mass.l Nov. 16. 1S9l.-Some-
body told me. just as l was getting on the
rain for Wellesley. that the college is about
3 mile from the station. 1t is an ideal spot
for such an institution, green. sequestered,
saIubrious; just what you imagine Tenny-
sons Princess college should have been
Here and there we met and passed girls,
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Pictures Of all the Presidents from
Washington TO Harrison.
1T ALSO GIVES IN BRIEF:

The History of Colonial Politics.
The History OF Revo' utionary Politics.
The History Of the Confederation.
The History Of thu U. S. government by Con-
crosses.
The History Of the q. S BY Administrator
An Analysis Of the Federal Government.
Valuable Statistics on Debts.
Valuable Statistics on Revenues.
Valuable Statistics on Expenditure
Issues Of all Political Parties
The History OF all Political Parties which al7,
existed in this country.
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of unswept streets or sidewalks, of saliva
stained marble or granite, of ashes and
refuse of every description, and especially
of bits of newspapers and ends of cigars, as
signs of gross selfishness and a low social
tone.-The Nation.
The morning call., 1891-11-29

Lake Waban, within a stones throw OF
College Hall, is beautiful little sheet of
water, and surely never did little lake sup
ply more enjoyment to the gallon than IL in
the way of skating and boating. Each class
has its boat crew, and nearly all the girls
row more or less.
One OF the first pretty pictures i saw be-
fore L reached College Hall was a group of
plant, rosy-faced, young Hebes coming up
from the lake with their thin, curve-bladed
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brought by the occupants; but apparently
there was not a disposition toward the
rations wealthy college men sometimes al
feet.
how do the girls regard corsets and
tight dressing" / asked. and was told what,
indeed, could see for myself, that a con-
siderable proportion Of them wore no cor
sets at all or some of the more comfortable
compromises, and that, If one might judge
from appearances. there is NJ tight lacing.
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13x10.
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each Nation. 13x10.
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each Nation. 13x10.
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Comp etc Map Of the United States (Rsal
McNally & Co.'s 1890. 46x66.
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A Map of Alaska. 10xi3.
Map of South Africa. 10xl3
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Complete Map OF the Solar system-bsss eva,
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Mrs. Hancock of Cahuenga owns an oil
well which, 1t Is believed, gives oil enough
TO run sugar factory, and she proposes to
join the Cooperative Factory Association