The Assembly Herald from Winfield, Kansas • 2

'ME DAILY ASSEMBLY HERALD, JULY 5, 1890. away I invested largely in olngto raise milk for got I was ery, and raise calves and. hr time I could ojir a UMt MUDtKN a short Rut t.hn tvettho pleased sues, bill went down, ftrlnra h.I "eucnea imormous boom MOSt Oi 119 knOW hC ftncfniii Vnt completion of a 135-ton gone in debt. Wevj money quick and "u9-r--failed, and the ex good. I found thaVS lilkJ iuuo too lasr.

ivitous paw for the Russians and iti Hamburg to Cronstadt, i'ssful test at the Happen marked another stage of monster ordnance. Lowest fast. VVe mu8tka Weuti heads that we rfiA'n5 all there. We lithe duct our business leu Jvrupp gun previously l'or one of about 119 tons, throwing pontiles of 2,314 pounds. Italy Bbu ir)f these mounted in a shore at eae'i au(l it is for coast defense also An Enthusiastic Meeting and Eloquent Addresses, i way than what I haye do it.

iw And now I have nothing at this time. 1 am glad that I'u "i you. 1 have seen no finer grove in MrlzKiea from Krupp. It has been said state of Kansas and 1 reel that it is an that the next step in advance under treatment is nowhere else practiced in schools as in the British Isles. If a teacher were to use a cane in an American school as it is used by English masters, he would be assaulted by the indignant parents.

A letter from Paris says that at a Buffalo Bill's show popcorn is sold between the first and second parts, and it is added: "It was fun to see the people when they first tasted after smelling it. A single grain was cautiously put between the lips and masticated. A look of delighted surprise spread over the face as the novice exclaimed, 'Why, it's maize and Peanuts were beiug roasted and sold under a fine name Algerian almonds." The work of William Duncan among the Indians of the Northwest coast has received such commendation recently, from Bostonians. that Mr. Ballou's testimony may be added as interesting corroboration from a traveler.

In his new book upon Alaska Mr. Ballou says of the missionary: "By his individual effort, with almost miraculous success, he raised from the depths of barbarous life, a law-abiding, religious, industrious and self-supporting community, who justly consider him their moral and physical savior." A curious industry of North Dakota, which will decrease in time, is buffalo bone picking. The vast herds. of buffalo have been slaughtered and their skins sold, and now the pioneers make merchandise of the bones scattered over the prairies. The bones are shipped to St.

Louis or Chicago and turned into glue and fertilizers. Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska and even older states have all been the scene of this strange contribution to wealth, and no one knows how many thousands of carloads have thus been gleaned after the slaughter of the American bison. An eastern Tennessee woman who NOTED SPEAKERS! honor to any man to stand here. You have bad some of the strongest literary men ot the country with you. From this Ai-sambly will go forth a power and influence that will educate you.

And people will come here from all over the land. I met a lady to-day, at one of your tents, who had come here from Missouri, and she said she had a regular feast, and it would tike a whole year to digest it. May this Assembly go on educating the peopje and lifting them up and making them better and nobler in every way. Thanking you lor your will close. Applause.

Hon. L. L. Polk, President of the National Alliance, Speaks to a Large Audience. BLINDNESS IN ENCLAND.

Steady Decrease In the Kate Principal Cause of Loss of Vision. went out to Utah as a mormon con Mr. chairman, ladies and gentlemen) aud fellow cilizeus: I certainly have good enough sense not to keep you long at this late hour. Your secretary asked me to deliver an address here this afternoon. I have no address prepared, but I ill say a few words.

I was very much pleased to get an invitation to bo here to-day, and I am glad 1 heard these distinguished gentlemen. I had a desire to come here to hear them. I want to say first, that we should remember that this is Fourth of July, and vert, came back disgusted some ti taken by the Essen works will be the making of a 150-ton gun, which will throw a projectile weighing 8,000 pounds. Hardly less interesting than these calibers are the more familiar 110-ton guns of the Elswick works, inasmuch as they are used for the batteries of British ships, as for example on the Beubow. This gun is 44 feet long, or about two feet less than the 119-ton Krupp, and its caliber is 16 1-4 inches.

The diameter of the powder chamber is 21 inches and the maximum charge is 950 pounds, to be used with a projectile weighing 1,800 pounds. With the extreme powder charge a muzzle energy of 62,700 foot tons is expected. These figures show a great change from thirty years ago, when the largest cannon mounted on a war vessel threw a shot weighing only 68 pounds and possessing an energy of only 1,100 foot tons. Still, there are not lacking complaints against the 110-ton guns. Those which have been built for the Victoria and Sanspareil are said to have developed serious defects, two out of the four already delivered having failed on the test, and one seriously collapsed.

A gun of this size costs over $100,000, so that the loss is serious in case of failure. Yet this is a matter that may not concern the government where private works, like those of Elswick and Essen, supply the guns. The makers have to stand the loss if the gun does not come up to the contract requirements. There is apt to be much exaggeration in the reports of the shortcomings of heavy guns. Krupp has made four 119-ton guns for Italy, and the Elswick works have matla many 110-ton guns for the Duillio, Dandalo, Italia, and Lepanto, besides the 105-ton guns for the Andrea Dosia, the Francisco Lauria, and the Morosini.

The French have also many heavy guns, although none of quite as great weight as the Krupps and Armstrongs. But the attention of artillerists is for the moment less absorbed in adding more metal and getting larger calibers than in the new system of smaller ordinance, which depends on a great increase in the rapidity of lire. This last object, as sought for from single shot guns, in which rapidity of manipulation allows something of the "effect of the revolving cannon, was first sought for about eight years ago; but it is only since 1885 that the present remarkable results have been achieved. The Armstrong quick-fire guns, as used upon the cruiser Piermonte, have become famous the world over; and in addition to the other European like the Nordenfeldt, Krupp, aud Gruson, the American Hotchkiss, Driggs-Shroeder, and Maxim inventions have achieved great success. The advantage of the rapid-fire gun was tersely set forth by Sir W.

Armstrong in saying that "the Piemonte is capable bf discharging against an adversary in a given time twice the weight of shot and shell that could be fired by the largest vessel now afloat, not including the leviathan battle ships of five or six times her size." That this is not an exaggeration will be seen when it is stated that the quick firing calibers have been developed from the little three-pounders up to six-inch guns, or, in other Avords, to the calibers forming the armament of our new ships, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Newark; and they can be fired six times as fast as ordinary guns of the same calibers. The number of the blind in the United Kingdom according to the last census was 32,296, being at the rate of 879 blind persons per 1,000,000 of the general population as com payed with 950 in 1871, 964 in 1861, and 1,021 in 1851. The decrease in blindness would thus appear to be gradual but steady, says the London Times, even allowing foi the fact that many who have very defective sight and are practically blind object to return themselves as such. The number of those of school age in England and Wales is 1,710, or one-thirteenth, a surprisingly small proportion, which points to the fact, well known to the specialists, that blindness, as a rule, supervenes in later life, the average, age of the blind being 49. Their general condition has been much improved of late years, owing, to the prevalence of more enlightened notions and the increase of special institutions.

But the commissioners remark that, in spite of the large charitable funds and philantrophic efforts devoted to their welfare, they feel convinced much may be done to better the condition of the blind and render them more independent of charitable aid than at present. Accidents from flying pieces of stone or chips of metal are accountable fot 58 per cent of the injuries to the eye, and in the case of 4 to 4 1-2 per cent oi such accidents the sympathetic inflammation of the remaining eye whicli so often sets in leads to total blindness. Shuttle accidents, formerly very fre quent, were diminished by the introduction of shuttle-guards, and the num ber of cases at the Koval Eye hospital, Manchester, decreased from twenty-ond in 1884 to nine in 1885. Strong pro tective glasses of talc or mica or tin i wire goggles are a valuable safeguar against such calamities, and early suit gical treatment is of high importance. Granular ophthalmia in badly venti.

lated and badly lighted dwellings i another cause, but with proper sanitary precautions this is preventible, and during the recent occupation of Egypt no loss of sight from ophthalmia occurred among our troops, owing to the excellent care exercised by the medical One of the most fruitful causes oi blindness is the inflammation of the eyes of newly born infants, and the Opthah mological society estimated that 30 pet cent of the inmates of institutions and 7,000 persons in the United Kingdom have lost their sight from that, cause. Various specifics are mentioned by the commissioners, but they all appeajr to depend chiefly for their success on prompt application. Cost of Prisons. It is estimatedlharthe expense of Staining the Pns oUhe Unf 4 Statea amounts to ft ear since, and made her report to her old neighbors. The consequence is that the "White Caps" took some visiting mormon elders in hand and let them off with a warning.

The elders disappeared, but returned a few days since, and were seen among the people whom they had been trying to proselyte. Thereupon the "White Caps" warned every person living in the district not to allow the elders to davken their doors, and since then there have been no more conversions to mormonism. An eccentric character who had acquired a fortune in Australia recently died in England. He spent his money very freely. He purchased valuable articles and invariably utkroyed them.

A gold watch was smashed up the moment it was bought, the back of a silver watch was wrenched off so as to be more convenient for. winding up, the straw was taken out of a new mattress for pig bedding, springs taken out of a new- easy chair, shelves out of the house for fire-wood, clocks broken up and thrown away, bread burned daily in the fire, legs of mutton and sides of bacon were buried in the garden, valuable plants and trees were bought and chopped up. He built a green-house and knocked it to pieces. He died a poor man aud was buried by the par ish. The bass viol is the most expensive of all musical instruments to its owner.

Its first cost is not the greatest expense. It is so large and awkward to carry around that it is continually getting injured by accidents that would not happen to smaller instruments. Somebody may kick a hole in it by dancing against it in a room, or it may be knocked against something while carrying it around. -It is most frequently injured on street cars while the musician is carrying it to the place where he has to play. After a man has an instrument for a long time he comes to look upon it as actually worth all the money it has cost him, and in this way a bass viol sometimes is valued at $1,000 or so by its owner.

A musician who sued a railroad company for $5,000 for a viol lost in an accident actually got $3,800. wo auouia remeuioer iuw omr oyaugiou Maimer which waves over us. How many want to give three cheers for the ltrtd, White and Blue? (Three hearty cheers were given.) While we are here to study the great social and economic problems, we must not forget to pay some attention this great and glorious day. One hundred and fourteen years ago an important event happened in old Independence Hall, Philadelphia. was there a few years ago.

I saw the chairs in which they sat when they framed the Declaration. They are sitting in the same place they sat then, and the same faces are looking down from the wall. If you are ever in Philadelphia and have only twenty four hours to stay, I would advise you to spend six of them at that place. There hangs the old bell that tang out lioerty. An old man stood in that bnfray all day and waited.

Toward evening he said: There is no use, I do not believe they will do it. Just then a bov came running and cried: Rimt, and he'rang out civil and religious liberty. And it has been planted in our country ever sincp. 1 came to Kansas about nineteen years ago, and Winfield was one of tue first places I visited, but I have not been here since. You did not have any Chautauqua Assembly then.

In fact you did not have much of anything except some sickly looking homesteaders who had been battling with fever and ague, and they would come up and in- if you did not want to buy a claim, remember one in particular who kept a store in town, and he said the country that can't produce feyer and ague isn't worth settliug; but now the fever and ague seems to have left you, at least I have not heard anybody complaining of it. I have traveled over most of the state of Kansas and I have never seen any better country than this most of the land is not so goad. When I came to Kansas I thought I would spend five years here and get rich, or at least have a gooOarm and well stocked and then I would retvrn to Pennsylvania and spend the balance of my days. But when the five years were up 1 was fast here. I couldn't get away and I was glad I couldn't.

I believe I have never men a man who had lived in Kansas anv length of time and then left it, that did not return if he was able to, whether he went east or west, oven if do have droughts and grass honpera like we used to have, and chinch I am going to relate a bit oi my own experience. When I came to ansas I was going to get rich right.