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THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL: SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 25, 1889. 14 EDISON'S REAL COURTSHIP. WATERYUEI AfiSESALB IT WOULD EE UNCLE SAM'S CHIEF DEPENDENCE IN WAR, OF THE TERRY TRAGEDY. BRIEF REVIEW OF THE LIVES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS.

i Oil him, and Terry was her counsel. He finally married her. The suit, as is well known, was finally decided against her, and it was in the court room where Justice Field made his decision that Sarah Althea accused him of bribery, and it was here that Judge Terry drew his knife, for which actions he and his wife were both sentenced to imprisonment, and both vowed vengeance, it is said, against Justice Field. The rest of the story is well known. The meeting of Field and Terry in the hotel at Lathrop, and the shooting of Terry by Deputy United States Marshal Nagle, who had been appointed Justice Field's body guard, forms a tragic ending to a tumultuous life.

Justice Field, who seems to have had a narrow escape, is one of America's most prominent men. He is one of four brothers-David Dudley, Stephen Cyrus W. and Dr. Henry M. all famous men.

Judge Field was born in Haddam, in 1816. He is a graduate of Williams college, and went to California in He succeeded Judge Terry in 1859 ashief justice. THE LATE DR. MOTT. This beautiful suburb lies southeast of Topeka, overlooking-the'city, commanding extensive views north, south, east and west.

i or want or an agreement between the two houses of congress. It was, however, arranged that a small amount of money might be used to make an experiment at Watervliet, and orders were given to the commanding officer directing the purchase of such grounds and buildings as were needed. The floor of one of the storehouses was taken out and heavy masonry built as a foundation for the planers and other machinery that was brought there from the arsenals and foundries at West Point, South Boston, Frankford and Fortress Monroe. While this was a great gain upon what had been done, yet the capacity of the new machinery was only two 10-inch guns and six or eight 6-inch guns a year. The possibilities of Watervliet were found to be so great that bills ware introduced in congress appropriating something over for the purpose of erecting a new building, in addition to the old storehouse already adapted and now 4 use, for the manufacture of the larger class of guns.

Ten and twelve inch guns will be assembled in this new building, and it is so planned that an extension may be made in which guns of sixteen inch bore may be made hereafter, if it is thought they are necessary. In the old storehouse which is now in use may be seon twenty and thirty foot guns upon the planers. The thirty foot guns revolve two and a half times every minute, and chisels of the hardest steel shave o.T delicate ribbons just as if they were of wood, only iat the process is much slower. The works are now about ready to give out one 8 inch gun weighing fifteen ions and throwing a projectile of 2.50 pounds: one 10 inch guu weighing twenty-eight tons and throwing a projectile of nearly 500 pounds; one 12 inch breech loading rifle mortar, with a cast iron body aud steel hoops, and weighing fourteen tons, and twenty-five breech loading field guns of the hardest steel, and having a diameter of three and two-tenths inches. A 10 inch gun of cast iron, ribbed with wire, is also among the present output.

Congress finally determined to vote for finishing the new building; and also several million dollars in different parts scat- HIGHLAND PARK Furnishes the best investments for those desiring to own first residence lots, and offers sites for homes which will continue to increase for years in value. TREES ARE PLANTED Every fifteen feet around each block, and will be cultivated and cared for without expense to purchasers for three years. The streets will be opened and graded this year. An abstract of title accompanies every purchase. HIGHLAND PARK Is three-fourth of a mile from Fifteenth street and one and one-half miles from the State Capitol, which is the center of population.

A Story of the Inventor's Alleged Folet- fulness Stoutly Denied. Ora-g-, N. Aug. 19. A "not so is very tenacious of life, and one of the most provoking of those is the oft repeated story about Thomas A.

Edison's having married a telegraph operator, who worked for him, after a two days', courtship and then forgot for torty -eigne nours an aDout ma weaamg, ms bride and the lapse of time at some work in his laboratory. I knew the first Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, and have often heard her express her indig nation atiout those silly stories, and because there never was a tenderer, sweeter story than just that courtship and marriage I will tell it. Mary Stallwell was her maiden name, and she lived with her parents and went to school, and was lo years and 6 months old the day she met her husband.

She and three other girls were going home from school, and a terrible storm came up suddenly, and they all took refuge in the portico of Edison's la boratory, where he manufactured the gold stock tickers. A gentleman who was inside. and who knew one of the girls, invited them all to come out of the rain, and, to pass the time while the storm lasted, introduced them to Mr. Edison, who, she thought, was a sort of foreman, as he was pretty oily and dirty as to clothes and hands. Mr.

Edison kept by her very closely, and when the storm did not stop took down his overcoat and umbrella and took her home, going in almost uninvited and remaining quite late, talking to her mother. He asked permission to call again of the mother, who accorded it, not knowing who Mr. Edison was, supposing him a lonely young man who felt the influences of a home. He called there every other evening for five months, and then went to Mr. Stillwell and asked permission to court Mamie," who was still going to school, though unusually large of her age.

Mr. Stillwell was astonished, and Edison said: "I love Mamie, and I believe she loves me. I will be good to her, and I am able to take care of her, and I mean to have her for my wife." I The father was surprised, but asked a few days to think about it. Come down to my factory and go through the books, if you think I can't provide for her, and then make any inquiries you like, anywhere. I will come next Saturday for my answer." This was the first knowledge the family had that this quiet young fellow was the owner of all that business.

A week later Mr. Stillwell laid Mamie's hand in that of Thomas A. Edison. "Ill be good to her till one of us dies," he said, and he kept his word as few men do. His wife almost worshiped him.

"We will be married to-morrow," he said. "Oh, I can't," said Mamie. "Why not?" "I haven't any clothes ready, nor any thing," she answered, beginning to cry. "Well, then, we'll wait till Tuesday. That will be time enough, wont it, mother he said to Mrs.

Stillwell, and she consented, and the wedding was on Tuesday morning. Miss Lucy Hamilton Warner being her bridesmaid. They left on the Albany boat, all three, for Niagara Falls that same evening, and remained away a week or so, and it is safe to say that Edison never forgot that good and beautiful wife one minute of her existence then nor thereafter. Everything that money could buy or affection devise he laid at her feet. It was hi3 delight to see her decked in the jewels and fine raim.t that became her so well.

She bore him three lovely children, Dottie, a living image of herself, and two little boys, and then, after about fourteen years of happiness as his wife, she died sufcldenly in the rich fruition of her womanhood by an accidental overdose of morphine. There are many little tender things that I could tell of their courtship and marriage, but I feel that they are too sacred for the public eye. But their courtship was not of a day's growth, nor did she work for him, nor did he even for one moment forget her. H. A HANDSOME BUILDING.

It Is the Home of New London's Public Library. New London, Aug. 49. The trustees of the late Henry P. Haven, who in 1876 left his property in trust until 1890, one-third of its income and principal to be expended under the direction and according to the direction of his trustees, are credited with the creation of the new free library building.

The builng is not to be directly associated with Mr Haven's name, but when completed will be presented to the Public Library association. All will thus feel free to help in enriching its contents. The architects, for their part, have achieved a great success in designing a structure worthy to be a storehouse of the best literature. A pleasant slope, practically in the center of the city, has been chosen as the site. Two broad, elm bowered streets, Huntington and State, meet here, the latter being the chief business thoroughfare, but bordered at this point at its head, and near the quaint Eighteenth century court house with handsome dwellings and gardens.

The nature of the ground gives opportunity for a large and convenient basement, dry and well lighted. Harper's Weekly devotes considerable space to the structure, and from that publication the following information regarding it is extracted: The front of the building presents somewhat the appearance of one tall story, with high sloping roof, although in reality there are two stories, as may be seen by the gable. XEW LONDON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Over the three arch windows which pierce the gable is a carved stone tympanum, bearing the arms of New London a ship under full sail. New London is a city founded on granite, and it is fit that it should have a granite library, but in this case the granite comes from Worc6ter and has more of a pink tinge than tu local stone.

The Kibbe sandstone trimmings, together with the rock face, random jointed ashlar of granite, will form an effective combination, while the color effect will be further heightened by the nse of Akron tile on the root. The entrance porch is formed of three groined vaults, with wide arches, opening on Huntington street, and another arch, on the State street side, is especially commendable for its beauty and strength. A picturesque, pointed tower, to the right of the porch, inclosing a staircase to the upper story, lends height and variety to the facade. The interior arrangements are excellent. ather Small Potatoes.

A very cUminutive boy applied at the resl-denoe of Judge Peterby, of Austin, Tex. "You advertised for a boy to help work in the garden," said the youth. "You will not answer. You are so small that voa would have to nse a step ladder to dig potatoes." Texas Sifting. A Great Imp rov en lent, Bobbv (at the table) Ma, chuck me a piece of bread.

Mother (shocked) Bobby, is that the way to ask for braadf Bobby (guiltily) Chuck me a piece of bread, please. The Epoch. -V How ut TTTrr It 1 an Imyntnt XHrtft I provetixt eeentljr Hade in Machinery and Appliance Cone rnln the aianoZactore or Steel for- Cannon. For many years the United States arsenal at Watervliet, N. has been carried on with a very Km all number of men.

Gun carriages, harness and lighter equipments have been the principal articles manufactured, and the supply of those articles for the 'army has come almost exclusively from this arsenal. To many it appeared as though the arsenal had passed its usefulness, and that its days were numbered. Indeed in February, 1S83, the military committee of the house of representatives agreed to the report in favor of doing way with, more than half of the arsenals maintained by the government of the United States. Of thirteen only three or four were declared necessary, and Watervliet was one those to be abandoned. ft 4 I 1 WATERVLIET ARSENAL GROUNDS.

There is no doubt that the houso committee was warranted in its opinion so far as most of the arseuals in the United States were concerned. Even in regard to Watervliet there was some color for the opinion, because of a sale of obsolete weapons, which had recently taken place within its walls. It is likely that in no other arsenal had there been retained such a collection of old relics as the one that was disposed of there. A brief glance at the old paraphernalia will be of interest. "Linestocks," of which there were eighty -nine to be sold, were the old fashioned powder primers for cannon.

A gunner was required to fill the place of priming with wowder; then, whem all was ready, to brin out the linestoek, a kind of torch, and touch off the prime and gun. This mode of firing "was in vogue in the time of the revolution, (today a friction primer is used, a closed brass tube of fulminate of mercury being lacedin the Finall hole of the cannon and the pin discharged by pulling a cord attached to die friction primer. In the sale were included 33,004 "sabots" it various sizes and descriptions "Sabots," In the revolutionary days, or in the rebellion even, were indispensable, but now are unknown. They were round pieces of wood utilized as wadding, to which the shot trapped by bits of tin. Cartridges are exclusively used in army cannon now.

There is no such thing today as "hot shot," but in rears past a battle could scarcely be fought jrithout them. There were in the collection five furnaces for hot shot," "two ladles," ''five rakes," "five shovels," "four tongs' and "five forks," all of which wore obsolete. There were nearly 5,000 complete sets of accouterments and 2,700 incomplete lets for sale. In days of battle the soldiers were required strap themselves in harness aud to haul ooavyguns over the hills, while now this ask is performed exclusively by animals, fhe rope articles composing this peculiar jarness and drag rope was composed of "prolongs," "bricolea" and "men's harness." Besides, there were 13 "scrapers for cannon," 87 "port fire stocks," 251 "gun sights;" for A 32-100 STEEL FIELD FTSCE. owitzers, "rammers and staves," "sponges and rammers," "rammer heads," "cartridge blocks;" "musket stocks of a model of 1841," "ball screws," screw drivers, spring vises, "tumbler punches" and "tompions for Springfield muzzle loading rifles," 7,050 "Blakesle's patent carbine cartridge box belts," 5,000 "cavalry saber belts," "saber knots in grained or bufl leather," 27.203 "crimpers," "bayonet scabbards," 20,007 "cap punches and picks," 8.000 "saber bolt plates," 12,701 "cartridge box plates," "white buff gun slings," "elevated screws, barbette carriages," an assortment of fuse plugs of wood and paper, and leather coal sacks for mountain howitzers.

The situation of Watervliet, however, is exceptionally A tract of considerably over 100 acres is contained in the triangle, which has a base on the Hudson river and a direct communication with the world by the Brie canal, which runs through it. This double wharfage, on the canal and on the river, gives ready access to the city of New York and to all the ocean ports, as well as to Che lake ports in the interior. Close by are some of the largest iron and steel mills in the country, from which supplies of raw material can be drawn. As a fortress, it is one of the trongest in the country, for it can be easily guarded by a comparatively small force of men. In this respect it is better to maintain this arsenal than some other arsenal that is more accessible to vessels drawing more water than is afforded by the upper half of the Hudson river.

Water power is furnished from a raceway tot from the canal to the river with a fall of 5ghteen feet. Almost unlimited power ia lus close at hand during more than six Jkonths of the year. The capacity of the arsenal ia time of war was one gun carriage complete, with limber, per day; but this capacity was often increased. These facts and other considerations led to the introduction of a bill by ilr. Cameron in the United State tenate in 1SS5 for the erection of two large pin factories, one for the army at Watervliet and one for the navy at Washington.

This was the first practical measure proposed for the adequate protection of the United States sea coasts. The bill provided for the erection of the two factories at a cost of about $1,000,000 each, and also for the purchase of about 10,000 pounds of tempered steel from private firms to be converted into cannon. At that time it was estimated that between BOO and 400 guns, of various bores, would be required for the forts anl shins, some tbeax to weigh 100 tons. It was expected that each of the proposed factories would be able to turn out in a year twelve 16 inch guns, seventeen 12 inch guns and fifty 6 inch guns, the annual expense being about $2,000,000. This billrdid not pass the house of representatives.

Early in 1886 a report was made to the senate by Mr. Kawley recommending that the government establish two great factories for the casting of guns, and the bast locations were said to be the Washington navy yard nd thoJfjktfirvUIWMa. ItobjlLfailpd How the Enmity Between nd; Terry and Justice Field Finally Resulted in Terry Death An Extraordinarily Tumultuous Career Sarah Althea Hill. The killing of Judge David S. Terry the other day by a deputy United States marshal was but another and a very lively act in a tragic drama in real life to which the attention of the world has been occasionally directed for more than thirty years, and in which Justice Field, Sarah Althea Hill and the deputy are the only characters of consequence now living, but in which the lamented Broderick, Senator Sharon, Judge Terry himself and many lesser lights took exciting parts at various stages of the performance.

Judge David S. Terry's death was a consistent culmination of the stormy life which he led from the time he left his home in Kentucky, where he was born in 1823. The spirit of adventure early took possession of the Kentucky youth, and he went to Texas and joined in the war against Mexico, fighting through it under the banner of Sam Houston. Later he was admitted to the bar, and in 1849 he went to California, where he soon became prominent. In 1355 he was elected justice of the supreme court of California on the Native American ticket, and in 1S57 he became chief justice, succeeding Chief Justice Murray.

The famous vigilance committee, of which so much has been written, was organized in 1856. Its members were among the best citizens of San Francisco, and at its head was W. T. Coleman, the great shipping merchant and railroader. The committee was organized to quell the lawlessness which in those days ran riot.

Neefly Johnson, who was at that time governor of the state, had ordered a quantity of arms shipped to San Francisco in a vessel. They were to be used against the committee, who were on the lookout for them, how-ever, and succeeded in capturing twelve cases of muskets which had been concealed under JCIOI TERRY. SENATOR 6 RODERICK. JUDGE F1KLJ). SARAH ALTHEA HILL.

SENATOR SHARON. DRAMATIS PERSONS. brick in the sloop's hold. One of the men who was instrumental in having tho arms shipped was Dr. Shirtliff who was a friend of Judge Terry, and whom the committee promptly decided to arrest.

Judge Terry, in order to prevent this, immediately left his seat on the supreme bench and proceeded to San Francisco. There Dr. ShirtlifiT and Terry were found in a lawyer's office by a part of the committee, headed by one Hopkins, who demanded ShirtlhTs surrender. Both men gave up their firearms, and then Terry, without warning, plunged a knife into Hopkins' neck. The two men, Terry and Shirtliff, then escaped to a neighboring armory, but eventually, however, they gave themselves up.

It looked bad for Terry for some little time, but he finally escaped, owing much, it is said, to the efforts of David C. Broderick, whom ha afterwards shot in the duel which is so historically notorious, and who declared that he paid a newspaper $200 a week to help Terry out of his scrape. It was at this juncture that the hatred which Terry carried in his heart toward Senator Sharon was first conceived. Sharon was a member of the vigilance committee and a man of great influence with his constituents. Terry in the hour of his need appealed to Sharon for aid, but was refused.

Terry never forgave him. His enmity to Broderick is of later date and belongs to the political controversy which followed, and in which the two men were opposed to each other. David Colbreth Broderick was born in Washington in 1820. He removed to New York when a boy and received a public school education there. His father was a stone cutter and he served his apprenticeship at the same trade.

Later on he acquired considerable political influence in New ork, but he was defeated for congress 1846, and then determined to go west, where ho at once plunged into the political pot. In 1849 he was elected a member of the California con stitutional convention, in 1850 and again in 1851 he was elected to the state senate, and in the latter year he became presiding officer of that body. It was at this point that the breach between Broderick and Terry began to widen. Broderick was the leader of tho Free Soil wing of the Democratic party. while William M.

Gwinn and Terry were leaders of the Pro-Slavery party. In 1856 Broderick was elected to the United States senate, and at the same time he gained con trol of the state legislature. Another vacancy in the United States senate occurred a little later. Broderick had Gwinn elected, first, however, requiring him to write a letter renouncing all federal patronage, which was afterwards published and became known as the scarlet letter. Dur ing the campaign of 1S59 the breach between Broderick and Terry widened, until Broderick "went so far as to make a few remarks which were overheard by a friend of Terry's and were promptly taken up.

Terry chal lenged Broderick to mortal combat. The duel was fought on Sept. 13, 1859, and resulted in the death of Broderick. Nothing was done to Terry. He joined the Confederate forces during the war, and afterwards went back to California, where he was elected to the legislature and grew rich.

His political career, however, was practically over. He lived a comparatively peaceful life, attracting but little attention to himself until Sarah Althea Hill began her celebrated divorce suit against Senator Sharon. Sarah Althea Hill was and is in all re spects a remarkable creature. She was born in Cape Girardeau, in 1S50. and came of good stock, numbering among her relatives some of the best families in the state.

She was beautiful, dashing, and many were her conquests over her numerous admirers. Al though she was known as a coquette and in- ruaao. to oe last, no breath of scandal had ever been raised against her down to the time she left her home for California with her uncle. William Sloan, in 18TO. Her parents both died in 1S54 and left her in possession of considerable property, which, however, she had spent by the time she went west.

In California she lived with her tincic', but they did not agree, so her uncle removed ner to a aotex, wneresbe bad a suite of apart ments and lived in style. In ISSO she first met Seitor Sharon, and ber relations with bim extended over a considerable period. Af- I terwards she brocht.fc3r nous suit against One of America's Most Distin gruished and Famous Surgeons. Dr. Alexander B.

Mott, who recently died on his farm at Yonkers, N. was born in New York city March 31, 1S26. At 10 years of age his father took him to Europe, where he remained in school for five years. Re turning to New York he studied medicine in his father's office and in the Medical college of the University of New York. He also studied at the Vermont Academy of Medicine in Castleton, where he was grnduated in 1850.

Then he began active practice in Hew York city. The New York Medical college gave him a diploma in 185L In 1S50 he was appointed surgeon in the New York dispensary, and three years after ward was made vis iting surgeon at St. Vincent's hospital, which he had helped to found in 1849. In 1857 he took the degree of M. D.

from the University of Penn svlvania and. wa. appointed attend-Mi ag surgeon at Bellevue hospital in 1859. The medical corps of the MOTT. militia regiments that were sent to the war was organized by Dr.

Mott in 1861. Later on the United States Army General hospital, of which he was director, was founded. In 1863 he received the commission of surgeon of the United States volunteers, with the rank of major. Toward the close of the war he acted as medical inspector of the Department of Virginia and was attached to the staff of Gen. Edward O.

C. Ord. He was present at the conference between Gen. Grant and Gen. Lee when they arranged the term of surren der of the Confederate forces.

The success of Bellevue Medical college is due largely to Dr. Mott, who was one of the founders of that institution, and in which he held the chair of surgical anatomy from 1861 till 1872, when he became professor of clinical and operative surgery, which place he honorably filled to the time of his death. Many difficult operations were performed by Dr. Mott. The doctor made a special study of hydrophobia, and was considered the highest American authority upon this subject.

He and his son tried to form a school in New York like the one founded in Paris by Pasteur, but the experiment was not a success. Dr. Mott was as equally well distinguished in society as in his profession. He was a member of the Century club and was especially interested in Masonry, in which he had a number of high degrees. He was a member of the Loyal Legion, also president of the American Pasteur institute and the Mott Memorial library.

The doctor leaves one son. Dr. Valentine Mott. A Strange Bit of Rock. The bit of rock known as "The Orton Mad-stone" is the property of T.

M. Orton, a typical Illinois pioneer, who removed to that THE ORTON MADSTOXE. state from Kentucky when Joseph Smith and his Mormon followers fled from Missouri into Illinois. It is claimed by its enthusiastic admirers that this stone has wrought untold good to humanity. It is estimated to have saved no less than a hundred people from the horrors of death.

An old man from Louisiana, named Hoagland, located in Kentucky in the neighborhood of the school Mr. Orton was attending, having this madstone with him. His story is that the stone was found in an Indian mound by a colored preacher. Hoagland did not know of any wonderful C-res that had been effected by its applica tion to wounds, yet he said several psople had recovered from snake bites through the application of tho stone to the wound. Young Orton obtained the stone by trading one of Hoagland's boys a jackknif for the stone.

While in Kentucky Mr. Orton applied the stone to several mad dog bites, and in every case the parties recovered. Ho does not re member all those who have been treated bv the stone, but thinks they would number fully a hundred. So far as can be ascer tained, nobody treated by the stone has ever suffered from hydrophobia. A young man who had been bitten through the wrist by a rabid dog sought treatment in Denver.

The madstone was applied and adhered immedi ately; in a few moments a great stream of blood, water and greenish matter soaked through the stone and ran down upon the floor. The arm was swollen to twice its nat ural size, but in a short time the swelling was all gone. So far this year Mr. Orton has applied the stone to a number of persons who are all recovering. The stone is first boiled in milk and water the wound is then scarified by an attending physician and the stone applied.

Those who use it complain of a strange drawing sensation, and say that the stone acts as if it were alive. It resembles a piece of petrified honeycomb, and is like coral in general appearance and weight. Bed Dressing. At a recent sale of antiquities which en gaged the attention of Parisians, there was a bed covering nearly three centuries old. which a correspondent tells me is being copied by decorators for modern use.

'The material is red satin heavily weighted with gold and silk embroidery. Crowns, shields and fleur-de-lis are done with the metaL and the intermediate spaces are filled with figures of men and women in costume, and gayly caparisoned horses, most exquisitely wrought in silks, from wtucn time nas stolen the colors. The distinguishing feature of the quilt is a soiiary suuTed bolster at eacn end, over which the embroidered velvet is carried smoothlv. The sides of the spread are cut into five deep Vandykes, wnica are ooraered with gold emoroidary. A quilt of broca telle, or any suitable ma teriaL could be made in humble imitation of this gorgeous antique, and the bolstered ends would give the dignified effect of a divan to a low iron bedTtead.

A band of slosh could be used to border the sidas of the ouilt. 3eSK DR. A. B. THE PRICE OF LOTS.

The price of lots, according to location, from $350 to $500 per lot, one-fourth cash, one-fourth in one year, one-fourth in two years, one-fourth in threo years, secured by first mortgage at 8 per cent interest. For plats and maps and full information, apply personally or by letter to tho OFFICE OF Highland Park 117 East Eighth between Kansas avenue and Quincy streets, east of Daily Capital office. TWELVE INCH BREECH LOADING MORTAR. tered about among other foundries and partly by contracts with parties outside of the United States government. As soon as the building is done guns will be made thirty-five feet long, twelve inches in diameter, weighing fifty tons throwing projectiles of 1,000 pounds.

The writer asked what the range was and was answered: "From ten to twelve miles; hut the really effective range for any gun is only about five miles. That is to say, you cannot depend upon its hitting the mark at over five or Fix miles." "How about the larger bores for guns 7" "Twelve inches is large enough, but as long as the European nations have guns larger we shall have to do the same." "Do you bring your tubes for the larger bores from England, as has been reported?" "Some of them that is of the ten and twelve inch bores are brought from Whit worth's, in England; but it is likely that few will be brought from there in the future, because they are made in this country now. The eight inch bores are made at Mid vale, in Pennsylvania. In conversation with the authorities of the arsenal the writer was told that the government is now decidedly of the opinion that it is better not to attempt the casting of large guns at Watervliet or anywhere else. The reason is not only because the plant would be expensive, but also because if a plant of a particular kind were put in the government would find itself ten or twenty years from now making steel according to that process, while in the meantime the active competition among steel manufacturers outside would have carried them beyond such methods, and perhaps into the making of steel by entirely new and much cheaper processes.

Therefore, as the result of long deliberation, it has been thought for the government not to attempt the manufacture of steel, but rather to buy it of the manufacturers, trusting to competition to have it delivered much cheaper than it could be made. Then the question of casting ingot steel into the form of guns came up, and once more the government decided that it was better to have the men who furnish the steel cast it roughly into the shape of the guns than it was to be at the expense of 20,000 for the "traveler" and other necessary hydraulic apparatus for handling the steel when TCT-NTNa A THIRTY FOOT GtJX cast. Therefore the shops at Watervliet will be devoted strictly to assembling and finishing the guns, jackets, rings, and all other parts of the guus proper that will be furnished to them from the outside. It is under advisement whether or not the manufacture of carriages for the great guns shall be attempted. It should be stated, however, that there are now constructing cupolas and other appliances known to foundries at Watervliet lor the purpose of casting projectiles; and it is likely that the different parts of cast iron mortars will be made at this place so that they can be put together more readily.

It is very evident that the greatest reliance of the United States for guns for coast defense and possibly for a part of the naval armamentmust come from the Watervliet arsenal for rnan -rt. F. G. Mather. His Reason for Mot in.

"Darling," said the young man, as he tenderly raised the lovely head from the place where it had rested an hour or more, got up, sat down again on the other side of the beautiful maiden, and once more drew the golden curls to his bosom, "you have no objection to this slight change of position, have yout" "Xo. Alfred." she murmured soft It heart is on this side." "Yes, my darling," responded the young man his voice. tretnKHr'r with Hiun rolm 1 -ana my vest wui now ne soiled ante on both sidea." Chicago Tribune. 1 Fish rric i Tfce fishes are ripe in the creeklet. The angle worms crawl from their nook.

The pin that was bent for a tricklet Now comes into play for a hoolc Oh! was ever tnan more happy, Cou! ever more gleefully sing Than when buying trout in the market And shearing he caufht the whole string? Boston Courier. REGARDING THE TITLE. The legal title to this property has had a thorough investigation by three of the best expert examiners of land titles and pronounced by them absolutely perfect. Address J. K.

HUDSON, Topeka, ZjCclxl. All lots in Highland Park are 25 feet in width by 150 feet deep. trara in oo jer..