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self when he says this, and perhaps it is strictly true.
 In many other ways the two foremost electricians of the day differ radically. For instance, although Edison is so en- grossed in his work that he sometimes remains in his laboratory for weeks without going home to sleep, he is rare ly too busy to be seen by any inquir- ing newspaper man; and, no matter how pressed for time he may be, his greeting is always unaffected and hearty. It is, in fact, the characteristic greeting of the western man. being ae- companied by a warm handclasp, and often sounding slap on the back or a friendly poke in the ribs. You will never be made to feel i'll at ease in his presence if you really have something interesting to ask about, and if you are q good listener you are sure to go away filled with information on dozen points about which you were not pre- pared to question the wizard at all. I remember well calling at Edison's laboratory on one occasion to get an interview on a certain topic. He quick ly answered all my questions, after which he talked for an hour or more on a kindred subject of vastly greater inn portance than the one I asked about.
 Now, Tesla is not diseourteous to any one-far from it; but he does not allow you to forget for single moment that he is an excessively busy man, and, al- though he rarely withholds informa- 1. I Moreover, when the questions are asked and answered, it is ten chances to one that he will say:
 ''Now you are quite at liberty to pub fish all I have said, but not as coming from me. I am glad if I have been able to serve you, but I do not care to be quoted in the newspapers"
 There is also vast difference in the two mems methods of work, and Tesla is undoubtedly much the more scien- tific of the two. He reasons out his course as far as possible before he be- gins a given set of experiments, and works according to a carefully prepared plan. This, no doubt, is largely due to his earlier training. Tesla took up cleo tricity as a systematic study under the direction of experts while still a boy, and his work has been correspomdingly systematic. Edison, on the other hand, stumbled into an electrical career as a telegraph operator, and his inventions have almost all been made at random, so to speak-that is, they have been the results of experiments made sim ply to see what could be found. and not of systematically directed effort. Tesla's work is like that of the skilled marksman who deliberately takes aim at a definite target, while Edison's is more like that of the fisherman who puts out net for whatever he can catch.
 But in no particular do they differ more than ia, looks. Edison seems ike q typical man of business, with a ten dency to make a joke now and then. He is plump and roly-poly in appear ance, and his face is generally wreathed in smiles; yet there is always a look
 f latent seriousness, so to speak. upon his features. His hair is snow white now, and when you behold him for the first time you cannot be sure whether
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TRAMPS OF THE OCEAN.
They Are Crowding Our Ports for
 Cargoes of Grain.
They Come from All over the World and offer a Picturesque Sight To Carry Grain to starv-
 ing Europe.
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 Never since 1891 certainly. and nrob- ably never since transatlantic freight age began, have such large quantities of grain been carried abroad as will sail this fall to feed hungry Europe. Any craft that floats is good enough to carry grain this year. The shippers and supercargoes who are ever on the scent for business, and range from South Africa to Hong Kong in their Wayward courses, are now gathering to the American ports as flies swarm in a candy shop.
 Twice this fall-once in plain sight of the Coney Island excursion boats-I have seen crews of Lascars eating their queer foreign-looking meals squatted flat on the decks of tramp steamers hailing from Indian ports.
 The Lascars were sitting in circle with a bowl of rice in the center. on the deck. They dip the rice out with their hands, tilt their heads back and throw in-that is, the crude Lascar of commerce does so; though some have learned to eat with spoons by the time they get to New York.
 Lascars for sailors and Chinamen for stewards is the rule on Indian tramps The little Celestials are simply perfect cabin servants, and it costs little to feed them; they, too. live mostly upon rice.
 Upon the same steamer one will see officers eating meat and vegetables with knives and forks, Lascar sailors eating rice pilof with their large hands, Chinese stewards fourishing their choPsticks, and perhaps few Hin doos in group apart who for req sons of caste must dine separately.
 It is strange mixture of races and religions that gathers on the water front to help feed Europe with Yan- kee grain. There have been seen, this year, Hindoo Mohammedans and Las cars of the same belief prostrating themselves toward Mecca in the ports
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THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Work and Ways of Two Great
 Electricians.
Edison and Tesla Compared--oroker and the Shnrks-How the Tam many Leader Proved
 Theory.
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Sc far as the public knows, Thomas A. Edison has not been doing much of importance lately. But he has been working just as hard as ever, and is likely at any time to reveal to his fel- low creatures some strange and won derful invention, the very need for which has never yet been dreamed of by anyone else, yet which, once on the market will be found to be just the thing thousands of persons have been unconsciously waiting for. But it is not at all sure that Edison's next invention will be either elaborate or electrical, in spite of the fact that the bare mention of his name brings to mind volts and ohms and amperes.
 Several of Edison's best known in- ventions, indeed, have had nothing to do with the subtle current-notably the phonograph-and some of them have been no less simple than useful, like the mimeograph.
 Nikola Tesla, the younger wizard of the wire and the dynamo. is, like Edi- son, keeping himself constantly busy. Unlike Edison, however. Tesla has never made public discovery or an in- vention not electrical. He disdains to waste time on anything less mysterious and elusive, and he fully expects yet to perfect a number of inventions of much greater value than any of his earlier ones.
 Edison has said on many occasions that he is an inventor mainly for reve- nue, but with Tesla 1t is not so. He says he pursues science chiefly for the love of it. He probably believes him.
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snorodic Innuepva

Scientists have indulged in consider able speculation as to the condition of the influenza microbe during those pe- riods when the disease does not make itself manifest. One of the profes- sors of the Vienna Pathological insti- tute has expressed the opinion, formed
 after extensive research, that these germs are capable of existence fora long time in dormant condition. They may remain in the system for months without causing any illness. or even un- pleasant symptoms. Suddenly some favorable condition may arise. resulting in violent outbreaks of the disease, either in the individual or what may practically amount to stn epi5ie1..ii1. The bacillus of influenza varies in size and generally appears from the small- est coceus-like rod to that quite as large as the bacilli of diphtberia. Prof Lind- enthal's opinion does not coincide with the opinion expressed by many of his contemporaries in the existence Of the so-called pseudo-influenza bacillus.- N. + Ledger.
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of Philadelphia and Baltimore as well as New York. There are Buddhists and Confucians-if that is the correct word-and a ships engineer told me one day that the cook of his craft was a Mahdist from the Soudan, man from what has been the most inac- cessible spot on this earth for the last Is years.
 This Mahdist believes that the true believers are invulnerable by Christian bullets
 But many of the Mahdists have been wounded by the Egyptian" argued the teasing engineer one day.
 ''True, o Kwageh; but they must have been bad men, or the prophet would not have let them be hurt"
 Invaluable is such faith! At any rate, this zealot of the Soudan is good sea cook. In his youth he probably never saw rain, for there are whole re- gions in the Soudan where it never falls; but he has seen water enough since.
 For the rest, the medley of nations on the wharves is always confusing enough. the Norwegians and Dutch eheerilv hobnobbing with Bristist and spaniards and ''Portygeese"-who of all Europeans rank next to Lascars at the bottom of the scale.
 The lighters which take the grain from the big elevators are ugly hulks enough, fit only for harbor use. They spupgle up to the big elevators which dip their tubular probosces deep into tbe liphters' bodies, and suck away like mosouitoes until all the grain is drawn nn. The probosces are elliptical tubes which are thrust down into the grain, and "eat it up" with an endless belt of discs of metal showing it up the tube,
 The grain goes up, 5000 bushels an bonr to tbe hopper, and thence travels to the weighing box. Here it IS always found lighter than when it started from +be nest, having dried out on the way. Endless are the squabbles between hnver and seller over this difference.
 From the weighing box to the hold of +be tramp steamer the grain travels on o+bar endless belts. Shovels and hu- man mnscle have little to do with thls part of the process of feeding europe.
 Pretty nearly all steamships now 1sy adays have their hulks divided !, into to sec e; lions; and grain ships must be so dl- H. gided The grain must be put evenly - tho sections, and one must not he tao0 4ao far ahead of another in the load 1. soo otherwise the ship will De ..ssanood g or warped out of her shape The work of trimming the the 5o ~asay II Tonst st very asr we wet sponges over their mouths or erbans mssl wetter rags laid across thelT .,
 Pssua tsaas Even then the dust frequently
 makes them ill. sa;ls away
 When all is done the shlp ssiis @"''
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Knew Them Intimately.

"Towner Is q mighty bright fellow, if he is poor. He knows all the ropes"
 You bet he does, and he. smokes 'em, too-on1y he calls 'em cigars. Chi oago Tribune.
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1T Is ONLY A MIRAGE.

year ago and printed in pamphlet
form. were actually part of the con-
stitution. The question arose during
the making of nominations of officers.
and the main point at issue was wheth-
er members of the Feeders and Help
ers' branch of the union could be nomi-
mated as vice presidents. The conven-
ton finally voted to work under the
original constitution, except in cases
where it conflicted with subsequent
amendments and the Feeders and Help
ers were given recognition among the
candidates.
The nominees. who will be voted for
on Friday, are as follows: For presi-
dent, Jesse Johnson, Nashville: Joseph
]. Birmingham. Washington. First vice
president, John A. Warden, Pttsburg;
John w. Williams. Toronto. Second
vice president, Robert NJ. Kelly. Boston;
William J. Hintz. Buffalo; William
Dunn, Minneapolis. Secretary Treas
urer, William c. Loomis, Detroit; James
Gelson. Cleveland. the present secre-
tary. Delegates to American Fedora
ton: Joseph Wall, Boston; George
Kleinhenst Philadelphia; James O'Day,
New York
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Presidential Nominations.

Washington. June 1s.-The president
Thursday sent the following nomina-
tions to the senate: Jacob T.. HoutZ. to
be collector of the internal revenue dis
trict Of Nebraska; Charles +. Nester OF
New Jersey, to be an Indian inspector;
John U. Smith Of Oregon and William
j. Jones of Washington, TO be commits
sioners in and for the district of Alaska;
Henry j. Cleveland of Arizona. to be
agent for the Indians of the Pima
agency in Arizona; Clinton A. Snowden.
TO be commissioner for the lands of the
Puyallup Indian reservation in Wash
ington.
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HE MEANT TO KILL.
Wilson CongratuIates Officers
Who Effect His Arrest.
CONFEssEs TO SCHULTZ ASSAULT.

Describes In Detail How the Messenger Of
Kuhn, Nathan g. Co. Was sandbagged.
and Discloses His Assistants Name
Three Loaded RevoIvers Ready, but the
Daring Robber Is "a Prisoner Before lie
Can Secure Them.
Chicago, June 1S.-Led by Lieutenant
Steve Wood, Detectives Book. McKeough
and Garrigan effected the capture
Thursday morning Of Edward Wilson.
who is wanted. charged with the daring
midday assault and robbery of Christ
Schultz. amessenger for the clothing
firm Of Kuh. Nathan & Fischer. April 2,
Wilson was sleeping in his room at 456
Sixty-third street, and his wife was
asleep in an armchair at his side when
the officers entered the room. Detective
Garrigan awoke the man and ordered
him to get up. Instead of complying
Wilson attempted TO reach for a loaded
revolver-three loaded weapons being
found under his pillow-but he was pre-
venetd by Lieutenant Wood and Detec-
tive McKeough. Seeing escape was i'm
possible, the man dressed and accompan-
led the officers to the central station. On
the way down town he told Lieutenant
Wood that 1t was; lucky he had been
taken by surprise. as he intended 70 Kill
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LUTHERAN SYNOD REPORTS.
Much Work Done by the Delegates at
Wednesdays Session.

Wednesdays Session.
Mansfield, O.. June ls.-At Wednes-
days sessions Of the synod the Rev II.
A HaitlicoX Of Abilene. Kan, submit
ted the report of the board Of education.
The receipts for the biennial ending in
1895 were on apportionment $11,950 and
from other sources $4.4S9. and for the
biennial just closed. on apportionment,
sl7.22l, and from other sources S3,4O9.
These have been used to aid in the sup
port Of Midland college. Carthage SEM
mary and Hartwick seminary.
The committee to which was referred
the offer Of DR.. II. w. Kuhns. Omaha,
10 donate thirteen lots comprising
square in Omaha for the establishment
Of an orphans home, reported that Sem
ator Bogardus of Paxton, Ills, had tele-
graphed an offer 10 locate the proposed
home in Paxton and another offer had
been received from Sedalia, Mo.
Mr.. Kuhns said he had twenty acres
Of land lying eight miles out OF Omaha
which he would donate. If the synod
preferred a country site The synod in
structed President Hanna to appoint
standing committee 10 consider all Of
fers and report at the next general
synod. A resolution was passed in
structing the deaconness board to look
for a permanent location for the mother
house and report at the next biennium.
The Rev. Dr. Parson reported on be
half Of the National Lutheran Home for
the Aged at Washington, D. c., that one
building had been erected. others were
in contemplation. and the indications
were that. within a few years, consid-
erable development would be made.
The Indebtedness had been reduced 81
eco. The apportonment asked for the
next two years was cents per capita.
The annual apportionment of the board
Of education was fixed at 10 cents
member.
Treasurer II. F. Sayers report Of the
board showed the total of receipts from
the different synods on apportionment
for the bennium were $40. .221 disburse-
| ments Sl6,572. Total amount of money
received in the general fund during the
biennum was $20,63l, disbursements
! S19.7l5; balance. $915. The committee
! to nominate a board of education re-
ported the following: The Revs NJ.
Rhodes. ST. Louis; S. b. Barnitz. Des
Moines; S. c. Haithcock. Abilene. Kan.
| II. w. Kuhnz, Omaha: A. f. Wagner.
Topeka II. w. Saylor. st. Louis: Amos
I Miller. Hillsboro. Ills; T. f.. Dewey.
Abilene, Kan; w. w. Wilmer. Des
| Moines The committee on service rec
/ commended that the question Of tie
! translation OF the catechism be referr
! 10 the joint committee of the general
synod. general council and united synod
/ Of the south for further revision. 1t
was referred.
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an members Of the finance committee
of the senate were in session Thursday
engaged In an effort to adjust the cotton
schedule so as TO meet the demands OF
those who are asking for an increase on
cotton manufactures a compensation
for the duty OF 20 per cent placed upon
raw cotton. The committee has prac-
tically decided to settle the matter for
the present by inserting a provision at
the end Of the schedule imposing an ad-
ditional duty of 10 per cent. upon all
manufactured articles in which Egyp-
tian cotton enters. The proviso will
permit the whole question to be taken
into conference, and it is understood that
IL will be stricken out IN case the duty
on cotton IS not accepted by the confer
enCe
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ally UI1cer W.io sought to arrest him.
InnIicated Dan Cronin

Implicated Dan Cronin.
Wilson also confessed to the part ne
took in the robbing Of Schultz and I'M
plicated Dan Cronin, arrested shortly
after the robbery, and who was identi-
fed by Schultz as having been one or
his assailants. He said the robbery had
been planned several days before 1t was
committed. He was to sandbag Schultz
and rob him while Cronin bound and
gagged the victim. After the robbery
Wilson, said, he went to New York.
where he had remained four days. From
New York he went Coney Island,
where he was married, and remained
there two weeks. Leaving Coney ISL
and he went to Philadelphia. From that
city he went TO Hot Springs but learn
ing in that city that the police were on
his track he said removed TO Galveston.
Tex, and from there to st. Louis. Fear
ing detection he left the place hurriedly,
and arrived in Chicago a week ago OF
the stolen money Wilson said the 500
found in his possession was all he had
left He said since his return TO Chl-
cago he had not tried to conceal MS
identity. He visited his parents, he said
three days after his arrival in Chicago.
and last Saturday night he attened
dance on the south side.
showed Little Concern.
IT was his belief, he said. that there
was no case against him. as his father
had made good the amount he had stol-
en-. Wilson showed little concern over
his arrest His share OF the stolen
money, amounting to nearly S2,oOO, ne
said, he had spent in all manner or dis
sipation. The crime for which wilson
was arrested was committed shortly be-
fore noon April last He was driver
for the firm Of Kuh, Nathan q Ffscher'
| the wholesale clothiers at Van Buren,
and Franklin streets. 1t was his duty to
drive the firms messenger and act as
| his guard on pay day from the bank
the company did business with to the
| factory. On the day of the ROBBERY
Wilson. as usual. drove Schultz to the
bank. where the latter drew $500.
which he placed in satchel he carried.
With the excuse that he had TO drive TO
the Nickel-Plate railway station for
trunk for one of the members OF the
firm, Wilson drove Schultz under the
vtaduct at Twelfth and Clark street.
The Assault ON schultz.
] When they were halfway through the
dark passaeeway Wilson felled Schultz
TO the bottom Of the wagon with repeat
ed blows on the head from sandbag
and then beckoned to an accomplice,
who. he says. was Cronin, who was
waiting for the approach of the wagon
and the two bound and gagged the mes
senger, cut open his satchei and took
the money II contained. They then
Jumped from the wagon, leaving the
helpless. Schultz lying On Its hottom4 and
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-18
COLLEGE BUILDING DAMAGED.
Illinois University suffers $4,000 Dam
age by Lightning.


age by Lightning.
Champaign, Ills, June 1S.-At l o'clock
Thursday morning the Natural History
building at the University of Illinois
was struck by lightning, resulting in
damage to the building, furniture, ap-
paratus and library of probably $4,000.
The building itself is damaged to the
extent of $500 and the loss on the con-
tents cannot be accurately ascertained
for several days. Everything in the
building was water soaked. The build
ing was erected In 1891 at cost of $S2,-
900 and the value Of the furniture and
apparatus was over s125.000.
The building Is occupied by the de-
partments Of botany. zoology, physiol-
ogy. mineralogy and geology. 1t also
contained the office and equipments of
the state laboratory of natural history
and of the state entomologist and the
office and library of the agricultural
experiment station.
Work Of repairing the damage will
be commenced at once, and all will be
ready for the opening of the fall term
at the university.
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Caucus on the Cotton Schedule.
waahinsfns- .yana ta.-The RApublic.
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CLAIM KINsHIp WITH eARNATo.
Two Boston Cigarmakers After Slice Of
His Estate.

Boston, June 1S.-Two men in Boston
claim to be first cousins of Barney Bar
rato. They are Barnett Meyers and
Wolf Meyers. cigarmakers at the north
end Barney Barnatos right name
was Barney Isaacs. His father and our
mother were brother and sister," said
Barnett Meyers. I'VE grew up to-
gether in London, and my brother and
myself came here with our parents
about forty years ago. short time
before we started for America l met
Barney Isaacs on the street. We were
both named Barney, after our uncle.
Barnett Isaacs. He shouted across the
street to me: How do you do, Bar
ney?'
And shouted back How do you do
Barney?'
What are you going to America
for?' he asked. You can't get ahead
over there " oh. want to go to
America. think there is a good show
there, said l.
Better come to south Africa with
me- said Barney. there's lots of money
TO be made d" No. I choose America
l replied
bdihSS was pooi thOii' "ii' ne vas
a begger I called at one OF his offices
in London three or four years ago, and
when ! came away he gave me $l25 I
never asked him for money. There are
other relatives, but not so very many.
Some are wealthy. There is his eldest
brother Henry 1saacs, worth about
$50, 100000. Then there is Kitty, his
sister-in-law. She Is worth several mill
ions. I suppose they will get a good
share Of the property. We expect to
get little something when the thing
is settled up"
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made their escape. The horse, driver
less made its way to Clark street where
a passerhy heard schultz's groans and.
mounting the seat, drove the rig 10
Kuh. Nathan & Fischer's store. where
the messenger told Of the robbery.
Schultz was removed to his home, and
it was believed for time that his in
diately upon being informed of his sons
actions, Wilson's father. who was also
in Kuh, Nathan & Fischer's employ,
made good the amount stolen by his
son
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After Damages from Uncle Sam.

Executive Mansion, Washington. Jun
l6, 1897"
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whx woodford wa. Cho.en.

washington. June 1s-It Is formally
announced that Stewart l.. Woodford's
selection as minister tc Spain was in
fiuenced by the fact that he agreed to
20 to his post Immediately upon con-
firmation, something very much desiered
by the president, and also to remain
there throughout the present admins
tration, an arrangement not subscribed
to by some other possible appointees.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-18
Another Claimant at Montreal.

Montreal. June 1S.-Roland Israel
Gideon Barnett OF this city claims to
be brother of the late Barney Barnato.
the South African diamond king. Bar
nett states that Barnatos real name
was Barney Isaac Alri Barnett, and
that he was one of four children, three
boys and a girl, of whom Roland I. @.
Barnett was the oldest. He says that
Barney was educated at Heidelburg.
and the reason he wore glasses was that
he spoiled his eyes studying the strange
German characters. Barney. Roland
asserts, was never a circus performer.