Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 December 1886 — Page 9

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FIVE WORTHY KNIGHTS.

PORTRAITS OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE BOARD, K. OF L.

The Knlglita of Labor are Wise Enough to Elect tho Controlling Officers from "Workiugmen Lite Themselvcs—Placlry

John Hayes.

It seems as if the Knights of Labor are going to be the fashion. Congressmen, editors and literary men are joining their ranks. Even large employers, with hundreds of men in their pay, are glad to enroll themselves among the Knights if the boys will let them. The order is increasing by thousands every month.

The highest officers in this vast body of organized labor are general master workman and a general executive board of five members. The portraits of the present board appear in this arti-

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The Knights show their faith by their works, in putting men from among themselves, into office, to look after their important interests.

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thut of Richard 'Griffiths twice ^elected general worthy foreman of "the order. He is a faithful member,

RICHARD .TRIPFITHS. devoted to the interests of the working people. The need of organizing labor to defend itself against the aggressions of monopoly has been apparent in America for some time. It is all very well to say that this is a free country and that a man should be allowed to work for what wages he pleased. But the same argument might be used for permitting him to be a slave. The injury of one member of the human race is the injury of the whole. To prevent the degradation of the whole by cheap foreign labor is, when one comes to think of it, a praiseworthy object. This is one of the matters the Knights look after.

Frederick Turner has been called tho dude of tho executive board. He is a young man comparatively .having been born in England in 1846. He came to this country young enough not to bo spoiled for an American. He was a bright public school boy in Philadelphia. He learned the goldbeater's trade, and worked at it for many years. Ho studs? to it iq fact, tLLlhi*duties as secretary and treasurer of the Knights of Labor left him no time tc attend to it. Then tho Knights voted him a salary sufficient for a living, and he loft his trade and worked for the cause of organized labor. One of the first of the local assemblies of the Knights of Labor, No. 20, was started in Philadelphia by Mr. Turner among his fellow goldbeaters. He is holding his office of secretary-treasurer of the Knights for the third term. He is a graduate of the Philadelphia public high school. Education always tells.

This is quite different from the farmers, who almost invariably elect a lawyer to represent them in congress, or in a state legislature. Thomas B. Barry is the third member of the executive board whose likeness here

T. B. BARRY. appears. He was born in Cohoes, N. Y., in 1852. He is younger even than Secretary Turner. "Young men for action, old men for counsel" the ancient classic proverb says. But the Knights have young men for action and for council too. That is one reason why they have accomplished so much in so few years, perhaps.

One of the first tilings Mr. Barry began to do was to "agitate.!' When he was only 8 years old he began to .work in a knitting mill from 5 in the morning till 0:80 at night. It was enough to make anybody grow up to be 3oi aeritator. \V. H. Bailey is the fifth member or tho general executive board. He is a Canaian, and was born in Hamilton, Onfc.

He. too, has been long known as zealous Knight. The Knights began their first agitation outside tho city of Philadelphia, where tho order was formed, in 1871. It :was a correspondence with the coal miners and nail cutters of Pennsylvania. Tbo organi-

W. H. BAILEY. zatwn gradually but swiftly spread till it embraced all the mechanical trades. joim \v. naves was oorn milaaeipma, where the Knights of Labor took their rise. His name is well known in connection with the operations of the executive board. Mr. Hayes got his practical education as a brakeman on tho Pennsylvania railroad. In 1S78, while on duty on the road, ho was thrown upon the track and a train passed over him and took off his left arm. No more JOHN w.- HAYES. brakiner after that. Maimed, as he was. the

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plucky young man learned a now trade whereby to get a living for himself and family. He became a telegrapher, and took part in the telegraphers' strike of 1883. He was one who was out of a place after the collapse of that strike, and like many another has found that being out of a place was the best thing that could have happened to him. He went into business for himself, tho grocery business, and prospered. He lives in New Brunswick, K.J. Mr. Hayes is now only 32 years old.

Soffe of the best missionary work of the organization has been among the coal miners. It has been the boast of us Americans that no women worked in coal mines on this continent. Well, summer before last Master Workman Powdcrly made some investigations in the Connellisville coke regions. At 6 o'clock in the morning he fouud a Hungarian, woman, "clad only in a short, coarse chemise and a pair of cowhide boots,1' drawing coke out of a hot oven. Another, half naked, was handling coke in a freight car. Her babe lay Upon the ground in front of tho car.

KNOCKED OUT.

A Tale of Pure Modern Mercenary

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CHAPTER I.

It was evening in the home of Eamestine McGoozlam, and it was also evening in the homes of her neighbors for several miles around.

Earnestine was waiting for the arrival of Col. D'Aubignac, who, in the vocabulary of the race track, for he once owned a hoi-se, was "aged," that is to say, gentle reader, he was past 5 years old. Indeed, he was about 47 years old and forty-seven week3 past it, but of that more anon.

Finally he came.

When the colonel came in he at once pro-" ceeded to business. "Dearest Earnie," he remarked, with pathetic sweetness, "am I to have my answer to-night—The answer that will make me the happiest man in Pittsburg, Allegheny county, Pa.?" "You are to have your answer, colonel," she replied, disengaging her hand, "but I can't say how happy it will make you.''. "Nor can any tongue express it," be said, slappingliis hand on his heart with the vehement emphasis of a trip hammer dropping on a wad of red-hot iron. "Tell it me," he continued, "tell it-niel" "You talk like a three-dollar-a-week Roineo on the variety stage, but I'll let you have it," she said. It is this: "I cannot marry you. You are not wealthy. Your pension is only $4 a month. Iam not wealthy, and I have no pension. I am my mother's sole support, and the $10,000 she has in real estate gives us a comfortable living without work. I shall marry a wealthy man, who is twenty years younger than you are and ten years older than I am. He has promised to give my mother a beautiful home and a large income, and we shall be very, very happy.1

The colonel sat as one dazed. Then he got up and groped around for his hat. "Au revoir," he said as he went out "Why did he not say adieu," inquired the girl of herself, without eliciting a satisfactory answer.

CHAPTER II

Reader, can you guess why the colonel said au revoir? CHAPTER III.

You shall bejtold in the last chapter. CHAPTER IV. For two long and happy years Earnestine did not see anything of Col. D'Aubignac. It was summer, and her mother bad gone to Sewicldey beach for the season. One day a letter came from Earnestine's mother. It was brief and to the point. It said simply: "I was married to-day, and myself and husband will lbe at home at once. Have my houso opened and aired.

CHAPTER V.

Earnestine was rather pleased, because she' had noticed that her mother wa3 getting lonesome, and she loved her mother so that she could not bear the thought of her being unhappy.

CHAPTER VI

She waited for her mother at the train She came and with her her husband. When Earnestine saw him she fainted. It was Col. D'Aubignac. As a marryer he had knocked Earnestine clean out.—W. J. Lampton in Tid Bits.

Hello! There's a Cat.

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SOW FOR SPORT.

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SOLD AGAIN,

—Life.

Economical Travel In EngmiiI. People travel economically in England. On the London and Northwestern railway during the six months, ending with June, 18SG, 25,118,561 passengers were carried. Of these 82,457,620 traveled third ft lass, 1,681,401 sec ond class and 986,593 first class. The same proportions characterize the travel on all the other roads.—New York Tribune.

A hotel exclusively for colored people hap Ween opened up in New_ Orleans.

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA THURSDAY DECEMBER 9,1880.—TWO PARTS —PART SECOND.

A PRESIDENT'S BIRTHPLACE. —_____ The House in Fairfield, Vt., whero Chester Alan Arthur First Saw Light.

A remarkable fact about a long line of the presidents of the United States is the exceptionally humble surroundings of their birth. The pictures of the houses in which Lincoln, Grant and Garfield were born have been published, and strange to say were all about of a type with the illustration herewith of the late President Arthur's birthplace! The plain, squatty one story structure, with a single door and a few windows, seems to be the lucky one as a starting point for the presidential aspirant. Our public men possessing the "presidential bee in their bonnets" should first find what style of house thoy were born in and risk their chances accordingly. And unborn Americans intending to run for president should take advantage of this point and see to it that their careers are begun right.

BIRTHPLACE OF PRESIDENT ARTHUR. The father of the late President Arthur was a Baptist clergyman, a graduate of the University of Belfast, near his native place, in Ireland. Fine scholar and able minister that he was, this building of which we give a sketch is interesting as showing the sort of parsonages a clergyman was expected to put up with in those days. The Rev. William Arthur's liberal education, particularly in the classics, was of great advantage in preparing his son Chester for college. But this event did not take place until they were living in better quarters in Union village, Washington county, N. Y. Young Chester was scarcely more than a babo when his family left the house he was born in."

YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN.

The Interesting Circumstances "Under Which the City Was Named. About eighteen years ago the minister of Greece, in Washington, addressed a letter to the mayor of Ypsilanti Mich.. asking how It was that that city bore the name oi OHO of the mist illustrious families of Greece. Tho reply of the mayor, only recently published, will satisfy an inquiry thai. has burdened more mbads ttiarrtterof the Grecian minister. It was: That during the Greek revolution in 1S33 or 1833, the city of'

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WSUJAXTI.

Nauplia, In the [Photo. by Siev-.-nson.] Peloponnessus, was besieged by a large body of Turks. Gen. Ypsilanti, a famous Greek chieftain, selected a picked body of Greek warriors, who made a sortie from the fortess, during the night, fell like a thunderbolt on the camp of the Turks, killing hundreds of them, and created such a panic that the Turkish pasha raised the siege of Nauplia on the next day, and that part of Greece was liberated from the presence of the Tarks. When the news of this glorious deed of arms reached anew town iri Michigan, it created such an enthusiasm, that a meeting of citizens was called, and it unanimously decided to call tho town "Ypsilanti," in honor of the great general.

This matter has just been recalled and made public through the presentation to the city of Ypsilanti of au engraving of the general, after whom the city was named, by D. M. Boli.tassi, consul general of Greece, in New York.

Toledo's New Union Depot. Toledo, O., is the last city to feel tho effects of the Aesthetic movement in railroad

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ing that is sweeping over the country, demolishing the unsightly barns and sheds that bore the naniQ of passenger depots. Tho first impression one gets of a town is liable to be lasting, and as this is usually received at the railroad station it is to the interest of both the citizens of the town and the railroad companies that the station should be attractive. This is being recognized on all sides, and the long standing neglect in this matter is being remedied.

MAIN PASSENGER BUILDING, TOLEDO. The main depot recently opened at Toledo, O., is built of Philadelphia pressed brick with carved stone trimmings. The interior walls are of glazed brick invariegated colors, the floor of tile, and the ceiling and all tho wood work of oak gives the whole an appearance of richness and solidity. Separate buildings for the accommodation of baggage and the express business are of the same style of architecture as the main building, but separated from it. "Umbrella" sheds aggregating a mile in length will cover the platforms between the passenger tracks. Next year it is intended to put up a restaurant building which will complete the accommodations for the traveling public and add to the pleasure of visiting the city.

Jnst Uke a Man.

Little Wife—1 don't think this bonnet qsits suits my hair, George. Husband (shortly)—Sh'a' thought o' ttat b'fore y' gave s'much money for it

She—What, my bonnet? He—No your hair, my dear!—Punch

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WASHINGTON ST ATI-II.

Philadelphia will have when it is completed one tho finest Washington statues in the coun' ry". It is to bo an equestrian figure of grand proportions. The liors' will stand upon a jfedestal whoso baso i- ornamented with emblematic figures suited to America. First, around the base are four figures, two male and two female. They represent the four principal rivers of America, bur, how thoy are divided as to sex, and which is ho and which is she, does not appear. One of tho river gods is an Indian, undoubtedly a he, with a pair of buffalloes beside him. Buffaloes in a statue or picture are about all we shall have left before long. ?, T'*.*"!•

Another one of the river deities is attended by a male and female deer, and thus far the squal representation of the sexes is very good. The other animals about the river gods area bear and a panther, a horse and steer. The horse and the steer are supposed to represent a Elentucky trotter and a Blue Grass beef coming across the Ohio river on their way to the New York marke.t.

The original design was by Rudolph Siemering, and took three years to study out. Rudolph Siemering is a Berlin professor who takes plenty of time for things. Philadelphia was so warmed up with patriotism after the centennial celebration of 18S3 that she advertised for models for a statue of G. VV. The invitation was extended to foreign and native sculptors. The successful design the one here shown. It was exhibited at the recent Berlin exposition, and, wo are told, attracted much attention. Dr. Fendlcr, vice director of the exposition, wrote cf

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Tho Late Ex-Governor Fhelps o,f Missouri. Ex-Governor John S. Phelps,' who died roently in the Sister's hospital at St. Louis, was in his seventies. and: had bcen oner#* of the mont important citizens ot his adopted state. He came to Missouri from tho east 1111837 and settled Springfield, in tlie southwestern iortion of tho state. and was elected to the legislature in 1842 and to congress in 1844. He served eighteen JOHN S. THELPS. years in congress and for seven terms was chairman' of the ways and means committee. Ho left congress in 1862 to enter tho Union army as color.el of a Missouri regiment which was employed in tho home guard service. In 1S76 he was elected governor of Missouri as a Democrat and served four j'ears. Ho was governor during the big strike of 1877.

A Suggestion.

Ladies, if you must wear tall hats In the theatre, give us something novel to look at.— Texas Sittings.

Mrs. FJskley's Ingenuity.

Friskley has fallen into the habit of taking a cocktail before his meals. He says his appetite is failing and requires a little gentle stimulus.

The other night when Friskley had arrived at home, and had kissed his wife, the following dialogue ensued: "Thank you, John. Wont you (afTectiontionately) kiss me again?"' "Bliss you again, my dear?" "That's what I said. Aren't you willing to, my love? Don't you love me well enough to?" "Oh, yes of course." (Kisses her again.)

She (sniffing the air)—Aha! Just as I supposed. You've been drinking again.— Boston Record. ..

Foolish Corpse.

It was at the morgue. Three ladies, whose dress and bearing showed them to be of the so-called better class, were gazing sadly at the body upon the marble slab. Two of the ladies were certain that they were those of •dear George. The third was not wholly convinced. She stepped forward to make another examination. "No, girls," she suddenly exclaimed, "it is not George. George bad false teeth." The ladies departed. The attendant gave the corpse a reproachful glance as he muttered: "Ye ould fool, if ye'd kipt er mouth shut ye'd bad a 'oiue funeralsBoston Transcript.

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was a "convincing portrait of the calm, clear thinking, self reliant man." The general grasps the bridle reins with his left hand, while his right rests upon a field glass. Thus posed, he looks thoroughly tho man who never told a lie.

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A PIONEER JOURNALIST.

The Late Erastus Brooks—IT is Career as a Writer, Politician and Journalist. Mr. Brooks was born in Portland, Me., on Jan. 31, 1815. His father, James Brooks, commanded the Yankee, which sailed from Portland, aud lost his life in the war of 181314. Mr. Brooks was a teacher at Haverhill academy, Massa-'.r.isetts, was a printer by trade, and for forcv-one years was editor and pronnctor of The New York Express, Earlier he n.iiilisbei! Tho Gazette at Haverhill, edited

Tho Portland Advertiser in the Haris on campaign, and was selected to take tho electoral vote toW ashington. For a number of years he was a correspondent of New York and Boston journals at Washington, and he represented The't Express there for seventeen successive sessions. In

ERASTUS BROOKS 1H4 he married the youngest daughter of Chief Justice Cranch. The year before his marriage he spent in traveling in Europe. He was an old line Whig, was elected to the state senate in 165355, and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1866-67 and of tho constitutional commmission in 1871-72. He was the "American" candidate for governor in 1856 and led his ticket by 7,000 votes. In 1855-r0 he engaged in a controversy with Archbishop Hughes on the church property question, which causcd much excitement. He died on Nov. 25. A couple of incidents will illustrate the skill of Mr. Brooks in beating his journalistic rivals.

Early in the forties there was an important state election, and The Express tnado arrangements to get the result before its rivals. All the election returns in those days, when Thurlow Weed ran things generally, went to the office of his paper, The Albany Journal, for there was no telegraph to bring the news to New York. Mr. Brooks went to Albany with a force of printers, arranged with Mr. Weed to get his returns, and took type along with him. Mr. Brooks secured tho latest returns, and when the steamboat left Albany in the evening he got on board with them. So did messengers from tho other papers. But Mr. Brooks had transformed one of the staterooms into a printing office, and when the steamboat reached her wharf here had the returns in type ready to be put at once into the form. By this method he managed to have the extra Express on the street with all the news a couple of hours before any of his rivals, arid so achieved a great news victory.

Again, in 1845, after Ezra Cornell had built his telegraph line from Albany to this city, The Express made a remarkable '"beat" over The Herald in securing the inaugural message of Governor Silas Wright. There was no railroad then, and eccentric James Gordon Bennett, who had a lino of pony expresses from this city to Albany to bring down the legislative news, refused Mr. Cornell's offer to use the wires to get the message, preferring to trust to his ponies. The Brooks brothers gladly accepted Mr. Cornell's offer ancl got Governor Wright's message over it immediately after its delivery. Tho result was that The Herald's pony express with a copy of the message to be used in the morning Herald met the express riders of the lively Evening Express delivering copies of the paper with the message printed in full. Tho Herald was badly beaten in a field peculiarly its own, and tho hitherto unheard of enterprise was the talk of the country for months.

.i Yarns About Clergymen. The late Rev. Joel Hawes, of Hartford, is remembered by many as a most eloquent divine. Singularly angular in person and quaint in manner, he preached truth in a most forcible way. On one occasion, after announcing that the usual collection would be taken for foreign missions, he added, in his mo9t impressive manner: "And I would say to those persons who are in the habit of pitting buttons into the box that I would thank them not to hammer down the eyes, for the Lord is not deceived, and as buttons they are valueless." It need not be said that there were no buttons that day. A REMARKABLE MISTAKE FOR AN IRISHMAN.

A clergyman writes: "A young man, a plain, good hearted Irishman, was about to get married, and be came to arrange all the difficulties he thought connected with the ceremony. I assured him there would be no difficulty that I would see him through all right. 'But,' said he, 'what about the ring?5 I explained and then, with a blush, 'When must I kiss the bride?' I answered that at the close of the ceremony I would offer a prayer, and just as soon as I would say 'Amen' he was to kiss the bride.

The ceremony went through all right I said "Amen," and looked at him in a knowing way. He suddenly remembered his duty, made a little jump, like a timid trout at a fly, and kissed—not the bride, but me. It was the heartiest kiss I remember ever to have experienced. He had a short cropped black mustache, and I still can feel the warm prickling of it on my lips. I understand since that why my wife has always teased me to raise a mustache.—Harper's Monthly.

Japan's Grant Mementoes.

The Grant mementoes and the pieces of useful and ornamental art contributed by the Japanese government, and now on their way hither, belong in the National museum at Washington, but its director cannot find room for them.—Harper's Bazar.

A Famous Girl.

The nurse of the baby Alfonso XIII of Spain is a famous girl now. When the royal youngster received his three decorations from the King of Portugal she exclaimed: "Now I trust his little majesty will keep his nose clean."

The Captain was Surprised. The latest case against a sea captain is for putting a man in irons for seventy days and confining him in a space so small that he could not lie down. The captain was surprised when the man finally died.—Exchange.

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LIBERTY'S RIVALS.

THE STATUE OF BAHIAN 1755 FEET HIGH. The London News says: Tho statue Liberty, just inaugurated at Now York, is, described as towering to the skies, above afi known statues of tho present and of tho ptnt A much higher statue exists, and has loqg existed, in Afganistan. Tho little knowledge which has been obtained of this statue, or statues—for there aro more tlwn one—bos been hitherto confined generally to a tarn Indian archaeologists but ot are now I®debted to the Afghan' boundary commiaBintt for much more complete information.

These statues aro on tho principal road between Cabul and Balkh, at a locality knotnros Bamian. At that placo tho rood passes through valleys, with high scarped cliffs conglomerate. Probably about tho early centuries of the Christian era. the Buddhist* excavated numerous •aves, as monasteries. for themselves, in the rock of these valleys.

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Statues Found in Afghanistan that ceed Bartholdi's in Height. The English papers have exhibited siderable jealousy of the friendship that ... ..t likely to ensue between France and Uw United States as a result of the presentatia* of tho great statue of Liberty. This & evidenced in the tone of their editorials, bat m.vro particlarly in the way in which thaftr ij lust rated papers ignore such a pictui CJ«|— nbject as the statue of Bartholdi's, by giviac a small picture of it in an obscure corner tf their papers, while the same papers pubtUb elaborate articles on some statues hewn fat the rock on the side of a cliff hi AfghanistMk-

These ancient excavations still exist, and! can bo counted by thousands. In addition to *. these, a number of statues of Buddha was cut out of the solid rock. Two at least am still standing, and the largest was measured by Capt,- Talbot with the theodolite, so that we now know the height to aU least a few inches. The measurement gavo it as 173 feet high that is rather more by a few inches than the Nelson column in Trafalgar square, and nearly 22 feot higher than the New York figure. This figuro of Buddha is the real Great Eastern of statues. The celebratadv Memnon statue of Egypt would only come op to the knee of this mighty ikon. At Bamian there is another figure of Buddha 120 feel high. These are erect standing figum. There is also sitting figuro about SO feet higb. There are the remains of two other figures, but they are in a ruinous conditio*. One of them is said to be about 50 feet or 60 feet, These statues were originally^' w» know, either gilt or covered with metal

Colored Financiers.

"Abraham Johnsing" had possesBi thrift, that quality so seldom present In race, to purchase a small grocery in a southern. town and run it on his own account.

Harrison Smiler hasn't a very good ui|whi tion for paying his bills. The colored groc— is quite familiar with bis failings, to sorrow.

Harrison walked into the store last wok and with a very courteous bow remarked: "Good day. Mistah Johnsing." "Good day yer se'f." "Go^ any rale nice bacon i" "Reckon I hab." "How much yo' cha'ge fo' dat bacon? Tte t'inkin' 'bout buyin' bacon to day." "Bacon hab bin goin' up fur de las' (aa minutes, so dat it's wuf eighty cents a poun^ s'curity required ef bought on credit,"

Harrison was staggered, but after a ininute inquired: "Any discount for cashP "Yes, sah." "How much?" 'Bout 90 pussent. "Gimme half a poun'," sighed Harrison, a* he scraped through his clothes for the sary four cents.—Merchant Traveler.

How to Keep the Boy» at Home. "HOT* shall I keep my boys at home?" a matron of an aged and experienced bead of a family. "How old are they madam?' interrogates the sage, before committing himself. "My eldest," she. replied, "is 13, and oqr baby boy will be 6 years old the 30th of .September. "No." K. "Of course you would not like to chaaw them up, would you?" "And your husband is not able to rent mcircus and have it in the house the year round?" "No, he is in very medtjrate circumstance*.* "Well, then, I would suggest as the mask economical, at the same time the most effective plan, to place patches on the boy*? trousers, make the patches of different cloth from the rest of the garment, and place them where they will be least seen when the boyts are seated. This will keep them at home and may induce sedentary and studios* habits. If this fails with the youngest, tie sunbonnet on his head—tie it tight, so be cant, get it off. As long as the sunbonnet lasts h» will stay at home. Nothing can coax Vtm into society."—St. Paul Globe.

Power for Arc Light*.

It is estimated that at the present time net less than 14,000 horse power, derived from \rater falls, is in use in the United States anA Canada for driving dynamo macJriiww. Nearly the whole of this power is employed for arc lights.—New York Mail.