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The evening times., 1898-08-06
LIQUID Am.
sspposea t. solve the Submarine
Beat Pr0blen.

SuppO0e0 70 DOlvc tne Soono1bne
Beat Problem.
No doubt there are many practical uses
for a liquid air the temperature Of which
Is more than three hundred degrees be-
low zero, and which ix easily carried and
and may be Instantly reduced TO Its nor
NAL state as a gas. The idea Is advanced
that 1t may solve the problem OF subma-
producing 1t, devised by Mr.. Trippler. OF
New York, II seems there Is machine
for the same purpose invented by Prof.
Karl Linde. in Europe. OF this air. N.
d'Arsenval, a professor of the College Of
France, says:
las one pint Of liquid air represents
more than 1000 pints of ordinary air. one
can readily see how easy 1t will be to
store away this primordial agent Of life
and to carry 1t down into the depths Of
the ocean. where 1t can be used not orly
for breathing purposes. but also fcr the
purpose of providing at will cold. heat
or motive power"
According to NJ. d'Arsonval and Prof.
Linde. says the New York Herald, liquid
air will soon be at the disposal of every
one. For 81 or less one will be able TO
buy a bottle Of pure air. just as one now
buys bottle OF wine, and with the help
of this pure air consumptives may hope
to regain strength, the sleepless may
surely look for sound slumber. and those
who suffer from the heat in Summer may
provide themselves with a desirable COOL
ness and need not take the trouble to go
either to the seashore or to the noun
tains.
The desired nquefaction is only OBJ
tained at 19l degrees (Centigrade) below
zero. which is the temperature at which
liquid air boils. and the desired pressure
and cold are obtained by two very long
concentric pipes. which are fashioned in
a spiral form. The compressed air ira
verses the interior pipe, after which it is
subjected to lower pressure. and This
process is continued until the tempera-
ture necessary for Hquefaction is OBJ
tained.
NJ. dArsonval can make a pint Of liquid
air in about an hour. By pressing on a
sort Of lever he makes the liquefied air
fall drop by drop into the transparent re-
ceiver. 1t has the appearance Of whitish
water. from which Is deposited carbonic
acid, that settles at the bottom. 1t Is
also marvelously pure. and II 1t is ex-
posed to the air it will bubble as 1t turns
to gas.
The evening times., 1898-08-06
AMERICAS PLACE,
Why She Must Take Her Stand in
the Front Rank.

the Front Rank.
In his lecture at Chautauqua. the Rev.
DR.. John Henry Barrows said: "Ameri-
cas- place in the. Christianizing Of the
world is far ahead, in the very foremost
ranks. We have the greatest wealth of
all nations Here Christianity has free
field for the exercise of its divine ener-
gies; here the sense of individual possi-
bility has been developed, and God has
placed us, like Israel of old. in the center
of the nations, touching England's great
est colony to the north, and the whole
Spanish world, reaching from the Rio
Grande to Cape Horn. on the south, while
to the west of us is the Asiatic world of
immeasurable greatness, which, when
awakened out of sleep, will combine with
America to make the Pacific Ocean the
chief highway of the worlds commerce.
Before two centuries have passed
away the English language will be the
vehicle of commerce, literature and civil
ization for the majority of the human
race. Many a time in my conversation
with English people have startled them
with a new fact, and a new fact Is usu-
ally disturbing to the British mind. name
w. that more than oneIhalf of those who
speak the English tongue live beneath the
Stars and Stripes.
America represents to the Orient the
higher aims and possibilities of mind. To
the Hindoo, America has a very diner-
ent sound from England. Members of the
National Indian Congress Informed me
that they looked upon our constitution
and our history and our prosperity as
guides and incentives in their work for
that future India which rises before their
agination like a splendid dawn on the
far-off golden heights of Kinchinjunga.
'I remember. how in Constantinople the
English companions of our voyage almost
WINGED when they came to realize what
shining record America. by her schools.
churches and colleges had made in the
last sixty years in the Ottoman Empire.
set over against the measureless shame,
cruel, diabolical sel6shnes of the Euro
pean Powers.
81 am almost persuaded that within any
thousand square miles of this great
Western Republic you may discover more
purity, integrity, self-respecting manhood
and womanhood than in the whole vast
continent of Asia, outside of what has
come from Christian influences.
"I met numerous evidences that the
American missionary has special advan-
tage over his brother from other nations,
in that he represents the Western Re-
public. The one evidence that America
is land of goodness and righteousness
and evidence that is stronger than rumor
and prejudice-is found In the character
and work OF our American missionaries
in all the wide realms of the Orient
The evening times., 1898-08-06
DIES IN AN AMBULANCE.
The Hospital Wagon 1. Wrecked in
n COllfsfOu.

New York, Aug. 6.-Mrs. Jennie Gala
han. thirty-two years old. the wife of
ex-Assemblyman Michael ]. Callahan, of
the Fourth district, committed suicide
last night in her home, at No. al Sec
ond Avenue. by taking a large quantity
of carbolic acid. An ambulance was
called from Bellevue. but the woman
died on the way to the hospital. Her
husband thinks she was insane. He
says that he had noticed lately that
she was given to melancholy spells. Her
home life was happy.
On the way to the hospital two men in
a carriage got in the way of the ambu-
lance. and collision was unavoida o,e
One of the rear wheels of the ambulance
was demolished, and the woman who had
died moment before was almost
thrown from the vehicle. A policeman
placed both men under arrest, and they
were taken to the Fifth Street Station
and locked up on the charge of reckless
driving. Since the woman was dead
the body could not be taken TO Bellevue
and it was temporarily placed in the
Fifth Stree. Station. Later the nus
band had an undertaken prepare the
body for burial.
The evening times., 1898-08-06

peacefully inclined Of the brute crsa-
ton, but this is not SO in Australia.
The inhabitants. were overrun with
rabbits. Whole districts became rab-
bit warrens. The Dummies fed on the
juiciest and tenderest morsels in the
gardens of the settlers. and girdled
young trees with their usual ease and
grace. In vain the people waeed un-
ceasing war against their enemies.
Men were hired to do nothing but shool
rabbits, and got good wages at that
occupation. Traps were set, poisons
were tried. all in vain. Some Of the
districts raid a bounty for rabbits
killed. But the rabbits which escaped
ate enough green stuff to make up for
all the money that anyone could make
by shooting their relatives; and after
all, the rabbit bounty came out Of the
people in the end.
Finally it struck some brilliant
genius that there might be parts of the
sold. He tried 1t, and found that his
idea was correct. He impaired the In
formation to his neighbors. They
heard, rejoiced, and acted. New Zea-
land. which was suffering in the same
way as Australia, adopted the new
plan. And now these colonies export
their rabbits instead of annihilating
them, and do a good business. 1t is
said that New Zealand alone receives
in one season no less than five hundred
thousand dollars from this industry.
The rabbits are exported frozen, and
are trapped and sold by the thousand.
a million and a half were exported
last year. Thus ends a war which
threatened to be as disastrous as the
Kansas grasshopper war. 1t is always
well to become rich by selling ones dis
advantages, but II is hardly possible
that Kansas will find a market for her
grasshoppers. Those natives Of the
Philippines who live on stewed grass
hoppers have never heard Of Kansas
The evening times., 1898-08-06
A HOTEL ON THE OCEAN.
Plans for n Novel Enterprise mt At.
lantic City.

Atlantic City, y. j., Aug. 6.-There is
an important new and original business
scheme on foot here al Atlantic City,. 1t
is nothing more or less than a hotel of
magnificent proportions and appurte-
nances which is to be built on the water
That is TO say, its construction will be
very similar TO that of one of the piers
The hotel is to cost s.. .000.0o0.
The entrance to the hotel is to be on
the boardwalk. The hotel itself Is TO he
five stories high and of oblong shape. the
short end being on the bo oirdwatk. On
each floor there will be wide porch en-
tending entirely round the building. The
basement will be furnished and PARTITION
ed on into bathing houses for the sole
use OF the guests of the hotel
The hotel is designed to compete with
the best in town and will be furnished
throughout with a view to comfort and
elegance. IT will be erected between
foung's pier and the new steel pier. ar
rangements having already been perfe It
ed for the purchase of the riparian rights
or all the space necessary
The evening times., 1898-08-06
SAVED By A GIRL.
Miss Geraldtne HaPrison'a brave
Rescue of . DrOwninG Man.

MhBo nCruIOIne hoREIQOn'0 HfAVH
Rescue of . Drowning Man.
New York. Aug. S.-Miss Geraldine d.
Harrison. the daughter of Henry c. Har-
rison, of Philadelphia. Is the first heroine
OF the season, at Long Branch. AT the
risk of her own life she sayed a man
from drowning on Thursday.
The young man who owes hrs life to
her pluck and skill is william Thom2-
son. well known in Philadelphia society.
ana a brother of Judge George Thomp-
son, of the Pennsylvania supreme court.
He IS staying at the Elberon Hotel.
Mr.. Thompson was bathing in front of
the Eaberon Casino. There were several
young persons in the water at the tine.
He was taken with cramps and found
himself helpless.
Miss Harrison heard his cries. and
withou; a moments hesitation SWAN cut
TO him. cheered by those on the beach.
He wes completely exhausted and had
lost consciousness when she reached his
side. bu; she held him up until a light
raft was sent out from the Elberon
Bathing Club, and he was placed upon II.
He was Immediately given restora;ives
and speedily revived.
Miss Harrison was loudly cheered when
she returned to the shore. and has since
been overwhelmed with congratulations.
She Is one of the bellies of Elberon and
an excellent swimmer. Mr. Thompson
had entirely recovered yesterday. The
patrons of the Elberon are now talking
Of presenting the plucky young woman
with a medal
Miss Alice S. Pilkinsron. OF New York.
was rescued from drowning yesterday
morning while bathing in front Of the
United States Hotel. She had ventured
out beyond the lines and was caught in
an undertcw- She screamed and A S.
Martin and Joseph Hobby. two young
men, who were in the water and near
her, went at once TO the rescue and
brought her ashore.
She was promptly turned over to
physician. and it was found that she was
very badly frightened. but otherwise had
not suffered much harm. NJ IS Pilking-
ton and her rescuers are saying at the
United States Hotel.
The evening times., 1898-08-06
Eager to Do Duty at the Front

Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug. 6-The Signal
Corps will not get away from Camp
Thomas before Sunday morning. The
general order granting a thirty-day fur
Tough to all convalescents will have q
marked effect on the daily sick report Of
the camp. probably reducing the sick list
by one-half. While the men in most in
stances have been discharged from the
hospital as cured. their names still ap-
pear ON the sick list until they are strong
enough to return to duty. The news that
the Twenty-second New York Regiment
was to be sent to the front has had a
most disquieting effect upon the men hi
the Twelfth New York. The Officers. as
well as the enlisted men, are all disgust
ed The enlisted men have beeen holdinG
indignation meetings of all sorts in front
OF their tents. and yesterday Major Dyer,
commanding the Third Battalion, found
It necessary to so out and talk to his men.
The evening times., 1898-08-06
A BRAVE WOMAN.
She Holds . Mad Dog With Her
Bare Hands,

New Brunswick N. j., Aug. 6-aiiss
May Stroud. of this city. has a new
claim to distinction Sne has always
been known as a pretty petite woman.
full Of se.f-possession and reliance. Now
she Is the heroine OF a mad dog adven-
ture in which she performed a feat that
would have tried the nerve and strength
of the bravest man.
She Is employed as stenographer by
Howard MacSherry. lawyer. One of Mr..
MacSherry's most valued possessions
was Jersey full-bloodej Boston terrier.
The dog was kept at the Office during the
day, and it was MS Stroud''s' custom
each evening to take it for short run
before going wiki it to the MacSherry
home on Carroll place. -.
Last evening she started as usual with
the dog. Ii had been acting strangely.
but she attached no Importance to the
fact Ju5t as she was passing the police
station Jersey was taken with convu1-
SONS resembling rabies. Il frothed at the
mouth and snarlei and snapped saw.
agely.
There was a cry of mad dog,' and
people scattered. Miss Stroud wlrhou,
a moments hesitation. dropped to her
knees ana SeiZel the SnarlnS animal
One muscular little hand c;utched his
neck and the other his back and there
she held him firmly, despite his desperate
struggles TO bite.
Some one ran into the police station
and shouted mad dogr' Sergeant Clin-
ton ran to the girls aid just in time. for
her strength was almost exhausted
Without a CULVER in her voice Miss
Stroud urged Clinton not to shoot the
dog.
''He Is a valuable animal and Mr.. Mac
Sherry prizes him highly she said.
Give him chance 10 recover"
Her plea gave the dog a respite. The
sergeant carefully carried him into the
cellar of the station and there tied him
UP. The dog later managed to escape
from his collar and had the station eel
lar all to himself for an hour. Later he
was found dead in corner.
The dog weighed nearly fifty pounds.
which makes Miss Stroud's feat the more
remarkable. 1t g registered as No.
&. 40 in the American Kennel stud book.
1t was a cousin to the terrier formerly
owned by J. Pierpont Morgan which COM
mitted suicide after being thrashed BY q
cat
The evening times., 1898-08-06
AN IRON FURNACE SOLD.
story Of the MisfOrtunes of nm Ex.
He'd Russian NObIeman. .. o.

Morgantown. W. Va, Aug 6-The con-
firmation by Judge Jackson of the sale
of the Irondale Furnace Company's prop
erty. situated twenty-five miles from
this place in Preston County, makes IN
the last chapSer in an unfortunate btst
ness enterprise. The plant was built at
a cost of 100000 ten years ago by Coun,
Felix Nemegyei, an exiled Russian no.
oieman and disciple of Kossuth.
whose intimate friend he was. Four
years ago the company failed. and the
property went into the hands of the Fed
eral court. Since that time Count Ne
megyef has made a desperate effort to
save something from his venture, and
succeeded In staving off sale of the
property until a year ago. when 1t was
sold under order of the court for &. .0oo.
The sale was not confirmed. because of
some upset bids. and at resale two
weeks ago 1t brought 1.5O0. With tears
in his eyes. the Count pleaded with
Judge Jackson to give him more time.
in order that he might negotiate with a
view to realizing more for the property.
Judge Jackson gave him until Thursday
and the sale was confirmed.
The evening times., 1898-08-06
aoLp 1Rolr x1onpux
The Steamer DiFig0 Brings Out Two
Hundred Theusana Dollars.

The Steamer DiFig0 Brings Out Two
Hundred ThSusana Dollars.
Seattle. Aug. &-rhe steamer Dirizo,
the twentieth vessel of this years Kion-
dixie feet to arrive. is in port with forty
Kiondikers and 100000.
The treasure is sor the most part In
the hands Of four or FIVE old miners. The
others Of the party stayed at Dawson only
few weeks. and then became disxusted
with the crowded conditions and hoated
down the river in open boats Some of
them are suffering from poisoned tSces
caused by mosquitoes.
The river steamer John ]. Healy has
arrived at 81. Michaeis with great deal
of treasure. which will be brough, down
on the Roanoke Two thousand five hun
dred pounds Of Klondike gold shipped out
by a Canadian bank is at st. MIohac's
awaiting shipment. 1t is guarded BY
mounted police.
The steamer Progresso is in the wors.
fix OF all the steamers stalled al St.
Michaels. by the loss of river boats. On
July q 1t was necessary to send a com
pany of Federal troops on board from
Fort Get-There to prevent the passen-
gers from hanging Capt. Gilboy. He
would not let the passengers go ashore.
and they said he was not feeding them
properly.
The steam schooner Del Norte. which
left here on June 25 with a portion of
the Laplanders brought across the At
lantic by the United States Government
and considerable freight, has not vet
reached ST. Michaeis and is booked as
missing. She had four Yukon River
boats in tow when she left this port.
She was compelled to beach one of them
at Juneau about a month ago. and she
has not been heard from since.
The evening times., 1898-08-06
saved a Life. But Lost His Own

Camden, N. j.. Aug. S-Thre was sad
drowning accident in the Delaware River
OF this city yesterday afternoon. in which
a boy hero lost his life. He was James
Carney, twelve years old. He and Frank
Fort, ten years old, were swimming in
the river with crowd of other boys
about their ages. They were some dis
tance out from the dock when the Fort
boy called for help. With the exception
of Carney. the other boys became fright
ened and made for the shore. 1t Is sup
posed that Fort was taken with a cramp.
He was helpaess in the water when Car
ney reached him. Carney towed him to
the shore, and then tahere were plenty Of
hands to lit the helpless boy out of che
water onto the pier. Carney was ex-
hausted by his hard swim IN supporting
the burden Of his cumpanion's body, and
when he reached the shore could hardly
move. Just as he released his hold on
For. he sank and did not rise.
The evening times., 1898-08-06
THE MINTs OF INDIA.
chairman TGwne Says They WIN
Open to- Silver,


Duluth. Mimi, Aug. 6.-In an interview
here Charles A. Towne, chairman of the
Silver Republican National Committee.
confirmed the report from Washington
that the British Indian currency COM
mission would report! in favor of open
ing the Indian mints, to silver at % TO
L. Mr.. Towne said, that he had receiv-
ed correspondence from authoritative
sources in London TO this effect.
He further stated that foreign bi-
metallis,s were using great efforts to
bring about an agreement among India.
France and the United States for The
free coinage of gold and silver at . to !.
why do they speak of a ratio of
% to 1?'' Mr.. Towne was asked.
Because" he answered. "that cor
responds with the rate of exchange te-
tween England and India, which is that
of one rupee as being equal to one shil-
ling and fourpence. and because the III
tention would be at that ratio to pre-
serve practically the present range of
India prices
Suppose that France, the United
States and India should unite on the
ratio of % to l. what would be the ef-
feet of opening their mints at that ratio
as compared with 16 to 1?''
"In anticipation of such proposition" :"
said Mr.. Towne. We bimetallists have
carefully examined that problem and
have ascertained that the establishment
of free coinage of both silver and gold
at the ratio of 16 to l would lead to a
gradual rise of average prices of about
25 per cent. whereas the use Of the % to
l ratio would make a gradual rise of
about 20 per cent. while the other two
,l.:.x a..
of the broken par OF exchange between
gold and silver and the maintenance of a
more staple. value of the money unit
would be secured in either case.
THE dishonesty of the promise for in
ternational bimetallism which the false
leaders Of the Republican party inserted
in the St. Louis plank In 1896 is now
clearly shown by the fact of their unani-
nous abandonment of the principles at
the only moment since 1873, when there
has been a fair opportunity of realizing
1t. 1t would seem as II after all the
only hope Of re-establishment of BIZ
metallism through the simultaneous OPEN
ing of two or three of the worlds great
mints may come to depend upon the men
who voted for Mr.. Bryan in 1896.
English and French bimetallists rec
ognize them as the only friends of gold
and silver coinage in this country. for
while events have steadily confirmed the
contentious of bimetallists. they have
seen the Republican Administration,
which was elected only because of its
pledge to secure bimetallism, devoting it
self to a strenuous attempt. in the Ian
guage of its Secretary of the Treasury,
to commit the country. more thoroughly
to the gold standard. and have witnessed
recently a scandalous procession of State
conventions eagerly repudiating even
the money plank of 1895 and rivaling one
another In rabid pronouncements for the
gold standard pufe-and absolute"
The evening times., 1898-08-06
U..fulne.. of the Manly Art.

They are having discussion in Eng
land over the propriety of a boxing
course in the public schools. English
men have always given a great deal
of attention to this sport, and it m ght
almost be said to be a national pas
time. Until fifty or seventy-five vars
ago. all classes took an intense interest
in prize-fighting, and schoolboys knew
as much about the rules Of combat as
they did about Latin verse, which was
so prominent a part of the curriculum
in the days of Tom Brown. This in
terest has not altogether died out, but
there is a considerable element which
opposes the idea of teaching boys to
box as a matter of course. The advo-
cate of the boxing sons is one Capt
Smith, retired officer of the army.
He says that since boys will fight any,
way, it is best that they should be
taught to fight in the most humane
and honorable way.
There is something in this. The boy
does not. live who will not at some
time or other find it convenient to know
how to use his fists. Nature has wisely
provided that in view of this fact. the
youngsters should have more or less
of the fighting instinct in their consti-
tutions. The degree varies with diff
ferent boys. But when a boy has this
instinct well developed it is no more
possible to keep him from having oc-
casional combats with other boys than
it is to keep a young terrier from chas-
ing rats. His energy will work itself
off in some way or other. Capt. Smith
declares that the rules of fighting i'm
press a boys mind with the idea of
it. He may have been in the habit of
stoning unoffending people, or of tor
menting animals, but when he sees that
this sort of thing is unfair and cow
ardly he will drop it. If the senti-
ment of fairness is developed in num-
ion, the offending boy will have to be-
have himself or go to coventry. The
argument, to anyone who has had
much to do with boys, seems to be rea-
sonabIy sound
Another point which Capt. Smith
makes is that when a boy or man can
use his fists he is less likely to use a
pistol or a knife on his enemy; and
that, too, has a basis of fact. If ev-
cry boyish squabble had to be settled
with deadly weapons there would in
deed be reason for anxiety, for, unless
the boys were trained to shoot like a
Spanish gunner, they would reduce
the population in a most alarming way.
But If nothing worse happens to the
victim than black eye or few bruis-
es, he is ready to shake hands with his
conqueror and live at peace forever aft
er. The boy who fights with his fists,
but fights aceording to rule, never at
tacking a weaker adversary or turning
his back on a stronger, according to the
good old Rugby rule, may be a rough
fellow, but he Is a manly and cOurag GUS
one. The boz who uses pistol on
another boy is usually q cowardly
young thug. The boy who does not
fight at all is liable to find himself in
where he wishes he could ad-
q good thrashing to some bull
ly, either on his own account or some
ones else, and how can he do II with
out the necessary experience and train
ing? All in all, 1t seems quite ~ desira-