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The De Tnt Clinton.

the Hon. c. C. Cambreleng. Four hun
dred and eighty-three thousand two hun
dred and fifteen dollars and fortysix cents
has been and Sl56, 693 will be expended IN
completing the work according to the Off
cial report made 10 the Legislature OF New
York in January, 1885,"
Governor Seward rode over the infant
road soon after its completion and described
his trip in this way: I'VE arrived at
Schenectady at o'clock this morning and
Immediately were carried in post coaches, a
distance OF mile and half, to the present
termination of the railway. There were In
waiting three large cars. which the pas
sengers entered. These ears differ not
much as to the construction of the body
from stage coaches, except that they
are about one-third larger and have
seats upon the top. The body is set
upon very short springs, which cause
but little elasticity OF motion. The
fore and hind wheels are equal in
size, made of iron, and are about two and a
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THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.
The True Story Of His Tragic Death In Zulu.
land.

The Prince ImperiaPs determination to
volunteer for service in the Zulu war was
due to sudden impulse borne of the ex-
element OF seeing his brother cadets from
Woolwich set out for the seat of war. At
the same time he had long been eager TO
distinguish himself in the hereditary pro-
fession of his family. He was brave Ito
rashness, and being very young he was
stung by the taunts of his political foes in
France, who were forever sneering at his
life OF sl6th
He left Camden House in February and
sailed the same day from Southampton.
During the voyage to the Cape both his
horses, we'll trained animals that knew him,
died, and at Durham he bought the one that
failed him so disasiruusly at the fatal mo-
ment.
On joining Lord Chelmsford's army, then
just entering Zululand, the Prince was en-
ployed in various light duties, and he was
also allowed to take part in some recOnnolt-
ering expeditions. On the first day of June
the Prince, along with Lieutenant Carey,
six troopers aud a kaffir guide, started out
TO make a reconnaissance, during which
they intended to complete certain sketches
and maps.
The party rested n while in an abandoned
Zulu kraal, where they unSaddled their
horses. The Prince, who was in command
oil the party, seemed not TO have used any
of those precautions that are necessary to
the safety of small parties III the enemy S
country. He probably did not understand
the StratagemS Of savage warfare; at all
events there were no scouts posted. as while
they sat Sketching the Zulus crept softly up
concealed IN the long grass.
just as the Prince gave the order to mount,
the hidden foe poured yolley among them
and then rushed up. One trooper Tell, but
the others got into their saddles, all except
one-that one was the Prince Imperial, the
best rider in Noolwieh.
No one will ever know how it happened.
but probably the ill-traned horse escaped
from his hand, as it is lncOncevable how, If
the animal had remained under control, so
expert rider as the Prince could have failed
TO gain his saddle. He caught hold of the
wallet OF the saddle as the horse sprang for
ward, but 1t gave way in his hand and with
Of the party were far ahead, the riderlesS
horse gallOped on, and the Son Of France
was left alone TO face death.
He met il brayrly, and fell at last covered
with wOunds-there were seventeen of them,
and all III front.
The monuments erected to his memory
both at Windsor and at Westminster show
how deeply England deplored his tragic
end, but neither monument covers his NOR
tai remains. He lies beside his father, the
Emperor Louis Napoleon, in the mausoleum
at marlborough, built by the Empress Eu-
genie, and there, near them, she dwells amid
her Tecollectl0nS.
In far away ZuIuland there stands a white
cross on the spot wherr the Prince Imperial
fell, and the savages that dwell there have
sworn to forever respect this monument of
his mothers lOve.-Wide Awake for Sep
tpmhpr
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subsequent retreat to Danish Greenland in
whale-boars would be easy. All lie wanted
was some backing nf his equipment and
transportation north of the party Once
there the exploration and the return would
take care of themselves.
The experiences of the Kite convinced all
on board that Peary somehow or other had
got the thing wrong end foremost, and that
after all his troubles are TO be the same as
those of all other northern explorers, who
have found that getting back Is the hardest
part Of it.
At present the Peary expedition stands in
this position: They are encamped In desc
late and almost Inaccessible region with the
task before them of making trip next
spring 400 miles north into region also
probably inaccessible, and then coming
back and finding themselves no better of
than they were before. In other words, they
have calmly undertaken to do III a few short
months two tasks, either one of which or
dinarv people would consider impossible.
If they take the northern trip over the lee
cap aud cannot get back starvation awaits
them. Ii they get back and then fail at
making the trip south to civilization the
same fate may be theirs.
The point where the party are camped to-
day is 500 miles north Of civilization. a term
which for the sake Of courtesy may be ap-
piled to the Danish settlement of Uper-
navik, which, at least, has communication
by vessel with Denmark. Between Me
Cormack Bay and Upernavik, however, is
Melville Bay, the most impassable OF Arctic
waters by reason of its immense accumula-
ti0n of icebergs and ice foes.
The steamship Kite when jammed in the
ice in this bay took twenty-0ne days TO
make 100 miles. Penry, in his proposition
to the Philadelphia academy, declared that
he would go through this in his whale
heats. This thing was done by Captain
Pike who commanded the Pruteus when
she was lost while going to the relief OF
Gree!y, but Pike had good boats and large
supply of men. Peary has neither Captain
Pike openly expresses the opinion that
Peary's whae-boats are not strong enough
to 90 through ice or be hauled over 1t, aud
that Prary's whole party does not constitute
a crew competent TO take even one OF the
whale-boat through Melville Bay.
A very lively time Is expected in the
academy when it is discovered that the
Quaker institution has placed seven persons
in SO perions a position. Many friends oil
the academy-ann the eXredltiOn was hnan-
cially backed by them in their individual
capacity-weTe ayerSe to assisting an Arctic
expedition anyhow on account OF the terri
BILE loss of life which has gone hand in hand
with northern exploration. 1t was only the
representa- of Pearv of the summer
picnic-like nature of the whole business
that induced them to give their moral and
other support.
Professor Heilprin. curator Of the acad-
emy, who accompanied the expedition, Is
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restrain your inspiration: your eyellds are
swollen and your head is burning. beg
you, / supplicate you, to yield if you love
me. What! You naughty boy, you wont?,
She would snatch up leaves and fowers-
would throw them upon the page COM
menced. He is tempted to get angry, for
the ink was yet wet aud his page Is smeared,
but she madly kisses him upon the eyes,
upon the forehead, upon the lips. Hespar-
dons.
Then Maria awoke from the delightful
vision; she saw Muran0 in the distance and
sorght with her eyes the little book that
had glided to her feet Was 1t true! IL
was indeed true-she bad not dreamed.
She once more took up the volume to read
the adored passage again. In her haste she
opened it at the first page that commenced.
thus: "Ail OF us who mourn for him
She read and re-read the cruel preface.
The w0eful date and the name we're there
pit.lessy marked. She uttered half-stlfied
grOan that frightened the boatman. He
thought he had heard an exclamation OF
anguish. He turned. leaned upon the oars.
1t was indeed the signora! She was as
white as sheet, speechless, and her eyes
were CLASSY, watery, like those OF dead
bird. The "barcajiolo," alarmed. turned
the gondola, turned the prov toward Venice
and returned with the utmost SPEED.
THE PASSING SHOW.
Maria opened her eyes. was reanimatsd.
=
hotel. A crowd of English folk. Americans,
people of all Rationaiities, swarmed gayly,
like insects in ray of sunlight. Each lndi-
yidual was inhalng the intoxication of the
day. They were in haste; they were busy.
The women, in light toilets, sprang joyously
into the gondolas. The most serious said
foolish things. were tempted to be eoquet-
tish, felt that they were doubly alive be-
meath that beautiful sky.
Maria summoned all her courage. She
must pass through that crowd. With ten
sion OF all her being she climbed the steps,
aided by the boatman. As she passed the
women grew sad, the men paused. Never
theless, except her pallor of marble, no thing
in Maria betrayed the internal catastrophe.
She walked proudly erect, gained the peri
style. A confused murmur reached her
deafened ears. a few phrases, however, came
to her distinctly.
Always alOne-I met her at Turin"
Poor woman," said a mans voice be-
tween two puffs of cigarette. ''She is a
consumptiye-san autumn leaf that will fall
at the first breath of wind"
God grant," thought Maria, that l may
so soon reioin him." NINE. META sARREL-
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PEARY'S POLAR
EXPEDITION.
Fears That the Lieutenant Has Made a
Grave Mistake.
Pretty and Daring American Woman I'm
prisoned in an Arctic Fastness-A Relief
Party Suggested Help Refused.

Is the Peary Arctic expedition in danger
OF meeting the unhappy fate of the brave
fellows who composed the Greedy party,
and of whom only fraction were saved
from perishing? asks writer for the New
York Herald.
Now that the ice ship Kite has returned
from her adventurous onslaught on the
frozen north after depositing Lieutenant
Robert Z. Peary, his wife and his five asso-
ciates in Mccormack Bay, North Greenland.
people acquainted with Arctic travel have
received information that gives them an op-
portunity of weighing the Peary expedition
in the balance, and there is strong feeling
among them that there may be a sad addi-
tion to the already too crowded volume Of
polar suffering-a chapter sadder than any
vet written, since it concerns the fate oil a
young and beautiful American woman who
accompanied her husband with no thought
or knowledge of what an Arctic winter
means.
From the start the expedition, it is alleged,
was based on nlisconception and misinfor-
nation. Peary some years ago made trip
To Godhavn, on Disco Island, when he
penetrated 4 long distance into the interior
of Greenland over the ice-cap in which that
country Is purIeu' his gave MIN lue iuea
OF taking a similar excursion over the ice
cap to more remote region, with view to
determine the northern extremity of Green
land. the position of which has never been
ascertained. Some scientists think that
Greenland extends to about $50 north others
are convinced that it reaches $50 miles fur
ther, OF to the pole itself. Peary went north
to find out which party is right, his own
opinion being that about So north is its ex-
trame limit.
Peary took bis scheme to the Academy Of
Natural Sciences in Philadelpha, an insti-
tuition which backed the Arctic explorer
Kane, and which has always been liberal
in raising funds for the settlement OF
scientific problems. To them he argued
that If his party conld reach Whale Sound.
in about latitude 77o 80 north, trip over
the ice-cap in the following spring and a
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HER PRESENCE OF MIND.

How She Saved Her Hat and Gave De-
light to the Passengers.
A rare piece of presence of mind des
lighted the passengers on surface car one
rainy night last week. 1t was exhibited by
a girl in lace gown aud the very tiniest
scrap of q hat that ever called Paris home.
No girl could have owned that hat and not
loyed it. That it Lad firm hold on the
wearer's affections was proved by the Sc
quei.
The girl and her escort had evidently
been to the theater. They were umbrella
less and apparently on terms OF frank
friendship Thai cab had been suggested
and declined was learned from their merry
talk Finally the young man signaled the
conductor to stop, and turned to MS charge.
I'VE will make run for it. l am sorry
for your hat," fe said.
"Wait minute" she answered.
She calmly removed the creation of silver
lace ana pink roses from her head, tucked IL
under her wrap, replaced il by her compan-
ions hat, picked up her gown and marched
serenely FROM the car, followed by mur-
mur of admiration from the passengers and
a surprised, bareheaded young MANN. Y.
Recorder.
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far too leyel-headed a man not to perceive
the unhappy position of the Peary party,
and in his report to the academy he cannot
fail 10 tell the facts as they appear-namelv,
that Peary will in all human probability be
unable 10 return unaided, Gnd that some
one will have to get relief expedition to
bring him back.
Thus far it is argued that the Peary trip
was a colossal blunder. Peary himself had
ne idea of what a journey through Melville
Bay meant. Before that awful region was
encountered he is reported to have spoken
quite sharply to member of the party who
suggested to him the ACCESSIBILITY of n relief
expedition next year. When he saw what
the place v as like, however, he changed his
mind somewhat, and in his report to the
academy he says that since the matter has
been talked of on the Kite" he would sug-
gest certain facts with relation to relief
party If any is gotten up. He details the
route of his whale-boat next August, and
names certain places where information can
be found of his whereabouts in cairns Of
stones.
Who will go to Mccormack Bay next year
to relieve Peary provided that he has got
back from the north and is there TO relieve?
The members of the academy party who
got glimpse of the glaciers and the ice-cap
on which the Peary people are to travel so
easily have no such enthusiastic notions of
the feasibility of the excursion as the Lieu
tenant. Probably the greatest danger will
be inability to determine their position. In
six weeks the Kite got only one or two
solar observations. On the ice-cap the con-
diti0u OF things would not be favorable to
taking the suns altitude. Every ounce OF
food to be consumed on the iee-cap must be
hauled on sled by the explorers. Deten-
ton aud starvation would be Synonymous.
In his calculations Of the ice-cap journey
Peary has made little allowances for the
vast .crevasses which nave always been
found on the inland ice. but which lie be-
lieves are not numerous so far north as his
position on account OF the greater soidity
of the ice by reason OF the more intense
cold. A journey OF 100 days might easily he
prolonged by misfortune into 200. This
would mean death to the party.
Another matter which astonished the
academy and which will lead TO great deal
OF unfayorable criticism and discussion is
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the presence of Mrs. Peary on the expedl-
ton. 1t can only be said that the academy
would never have hai anything to 40
with the project had il been known that she
was going. The verdict of Arctic explorers
everywhere is that those regions are not the
place for white woman, and on board The
Kite there was an outburst of indignation
when it was known that Mrs. Peary nau
actually been induced to remain in McCor-
mack Bay. None of the members OF the
Peary expedition, with the exception OF tie
colOred man Mat, who thought Greenland
was a sort of Atlantic City, knew that Mrs.
Peary was to remain. Each member de-
clared that he would never have enlisted
had he known 1t.
The addition of woman to the expedi-,
ton. therefore. really adds to its periis ana
difficulties, for however plucky she may be
she is not physically capable OF enduring
the eXhausting labor of a retreat over ice,
which has so often Frustrated strong men.
1t is also claimed that the party IS not
properly equipped in other respects. Peary;
it seems, forgot altogether the question Oh
a supply of coal and took none with him.
He was able, fortunately, to get seven tons
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from Captain Pike, who. however. did not
very much like parting with it as he was
himself short. This is cited by critics as
showing that the expedition was deficient In
management. Besides this all supplies,
dogs and natives were refused by the Danish
officials because Peary had omitted to get a
permit from the Copenhagen officials TO land
in Greenland. At Upernavik, in reply to
requests for help of this kind the Governor
filed this document on the Kite, printed in
English:
rhe Board of Directors OF the Royal Greenland
Trade make known:
l. Ii is agreed by treaties between the Royal
Danish Government and the United States OF
America, Great Britain and other States that the
west coast of Greenland. between latitude 500
and 73o. be closed for nayigl tion OF foreign ships
and Danish ships except by special permission
OF the Royal Danish Government by whom the
MONOPOLY of trade with Greenland is held.
2. Pursuant 10 The laws In force any ship nav
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The Peoples Songs.

That antique party who said "let me make
the songs of a people and l care not who
makes its laws" might want to modify his
statement little could he see certain
song-sheet now being hawked about in New
York City. As an exhibition of depraved
taste it would indicate that few solid,
well-eI forced laws in favor of decency
would be of more benefit to the people who
sing these songs than any number of such
ditties. however popular. The title of the
collection is ''Fhe Park Place Horror"
the first song being, according to the Trib-
une, wretebed bit of doggerel, entitled
"The Park Place Horror, or Buried Meath
the Ruins" the literary qualities of which
may be inferred from the line, ''Where
toied the throng for bread all day. dark
ruins now is seem" And then follow sucl,
songs as Learning McFaddenl to Waltz"
s'Gilligan's On Tear Again." 1T Goes
With Pound of Tea," and drill, You
Terriers, Drill" We are proud of the
people, and we believe, not without good
reason, that thsy are growing in intelligence
and refinement; but what songs" some of
them do sing, if this sheet is a fair speci-
men
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An old Trick Neatly Played.

Some years ago in one of the cavalry bar
racks man complained that several arti-
cles of his kit had been stolen. The Corpo-
raj of the room, finding that the thief could
not be discovered, got large tin mess dish
and turned it upside down on the floor with
the barr ack-room cat underneath II. Then
he ordered the gas to be turned down aud
requested each man TO touch the dish in
turn, saying that the cat would new when
the thief touched it,
As matter of fact, the cat did not NEW,
but the Corporal suddenly cried. Il have
him" and ordered the gas to be turned up.
Then he ordered eac.l man to show hands.
and all were black except those of one man,
for the Corporal had, unknown to the men,
blackeued the back of the dish before put
ting it on the ground.
Needless to say that the one man who had
not cared 10 tempt the ordeal by touch as
the thief, and search among his kit revealed
the missing articles. The man begged very
hard to be dealt with by a coart.inartial,
aud was let off with two dozen lasheS ad-
minis cred with baggage strap. The Cor
poral is still in the service and now holds
her Maiesty's commission. - 81. James
Gazette.
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ONLY Eighteen and Thrice Married.

Harry Thorner, the son of Millionaire DR..
Thorner, is locked up at Buffalo on a charge
of bigany. He is only Is years old, aud Is
said to have three wives in different parts
of the country, one in Buffalo, one in Phila-
delphia and one in Boston.
Ii is said that he and his latest wife
boarded with DIR. Robinson OF Niagara
Falls for iour weeks, and one dark night
they stole away getting out OF window,
taking their baggage with them.
Perhaps the most notable case was his
hasty courtship and marriage with Maud
WestcOtt, young and decidedly pretty girl
in one of the leading dry-goOds houses In
this cjty He Wooed and won her under
the alias of Harry Hamlin, having assumed
the name Of the Delaware avenue million
aire.
Under this name he beat clearinghouse
propretors, and the girl soon found out heE
p,,iotake and in three weeks she had secured
a divorce.-Buffalo Dispatch to Pittsburg
Press.
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IT Was JUST
A BABY ROAD.
But II Was the Beginning Of TO-Day'S
Great Trunk System.
From Schenectady to Albany-How the People
Were Educated Up to the Idea of Rail-
road and How the idea Grew.

The railroads play so important part in
the comedy, or tragedy, Of human life, that
it is somewhat difficult to realize that they
have only existed in the United States
since 1881. For several years before that
time, however, the newspapers had dis
cussed the subject of railroads. and in 1872
Mr.. Stevens of Hoboken had advocated their
construction, butnothing practical had been
done until then.
In the Utica Sentinel and Gazette of
August %, 1928. appeared a letter signed
Improvement" in which the writer said:
II intend to show the probable expense Of
single-edged railroad constructed for
horse power from this village to Albany.
with conyenences for passing teams"
The writer then trea is of railroads histori-
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Origin Of the sons of Veterans.

The order Of the Sons OF Veterans WAS
oreanized in 1881 by Major A. p, Davis, or
s"Father Davis" as the boys love TO cali
him Major Davis is resident of Pitts
burg. Pa. He is a man IN whom the mill
tary spirit has ever burned brightly. ne
was born in Gardiner, Me, ID 1888. In Io4s
ne sailed 10 California in search OF the gold
which was the magnet of SO many lives.
When the Crmean war broke ont he en-
listed as subordinate officer in the fTenen
naval service, in which he remained 10 the
close Of the war When the war OF the re-
beIlion broke out he enlisted IN one OF llls
fret yeoiments raised in the State of Maine.
He rose from the ranks until, in 1S65, ne
was given the rank of Major, and was mus
tered out as such. He has endearen nlin-
self to the members OF the order. rs has ms
good wife. who is known among the sons Ok
Veterans as Mother Davis. s."-frank Les
hes Weekly, Sept 9th.
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The owners of pugs. King Charles spanleis
and other canine pets, who are sojOurning
at Cape May hotel, are in dire distress,
caused by an edict of the proprietor calling
for the rigid exclusion of all dogs from the
premises. No more ceremony is shown
Nine. la Richessc's imported silken-haired
spaniel than the butchers mon2rel. Either
one is hustled unceremoniously off the hotel
porches and cruelty booted off the green
swards.
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Old Lady Ayleshury is one of the most
extraordinary figures in London society.
She is nearly so, and wears IA wig OF cork
screw curls. She is noted as The pOssessor
OF sharp tongue, and her language is at
all times picturesque and vigorous.