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VOL. XXVII. PITTSBORQ. CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C THURSDAY, APRIL 6.Jflfl5.
NO, 34. '
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THE SPLENDID SPUR
OR
TflE ADVENTURES
By ARTHUR T.
45
CHAPTER IX.
(Continued.)
Being by this time angered, I did a
foolish thing; which was, to clap the
muzzle of ruy pistol against the grat
ing, close, to the fellow's nose. Singu
lar to say, the trick sarv'd me. A
holt was slipp'd hastily back and the
wicket door opened stealthily.
"I want," said I, "room for my horse
to pass."
Thereupon more grumbling follow'd,
and a prodigious creaking of bolts" and
chains; after which the big gate swung
stiffly back.
"Sure, you must be worth a deal,"
I said, "that shut yourself in so care
ful." Before me stood a strange fellow
extraordinarily old and bent, with a
wizen'd face, one eye only, and a chiu
that almost touched his nose. He wore
a dirty suit of livery, that had once
been canary yellow; and shook with
the palsy.
"Master Tingcomb will see the young
man," he squeak'd, nodding his head;
"but is a-reading just now his Bible."
"A pretty habit," answered I, leading
in Molly ''if unseasonable. "But why
not have said so?"
He seem'd to consider this for a
while, and then said abruptly:
Have some pastry and some good
cider:''
"Why, yes," I said, "with all my
heart, when I have stabled the sorrel
here."
He led the way across the court,
well paved but chok'd with weeds,
toward the stable. I found it a spa
cious building, and counted sixteen
stalls there, but all were empty save
two, where stood the horses I had
seen in Bodmin the day before. Hav
ing stabled Molly, I left the place
(which was thick with cobwebs) and
followed the old servant into the
house.
He took me into a great stone kitch
en, and brought out the pastry and
cider, and poured out half a. glass
only.
"Have a care, young man! 'Tis a
luscious, thick, seductive drink!" and
he chuckled.
" 'Twould turn the edge of a knife,"
I said, tasting it and looking at him,
but his one bleared eye was inscrut
able. The pasty also was moldy and
I soon laid it down.
"Hast a proud stomach that cometh
of faring sumptuously: the beef there
in is our own killing," said he.
"Young sir, art a man of blood. I
greatly fear, by thy. long sword and
handiness with the firearms."
"Shall be presently" answered I, "if
you lead me not to Master Ting
tomb." He scrambled up briskly and tot
tered out of the kitchen into a stone
corridor, I after him. Along this he
flurried, muttering all the way, and
halted before a door at the end. With
out knocking he pushed it open, and
motioning me to enter, hastened back
as he had come.
"Come in," said a voice that seemed
familiar to me.
Though, as you know, 'twas still
high day, in the room where now I
found myself was every appearance of
night; the shutters being closed and
six lighten candles standing on the
table. Behind them sat the venerable
gentleman whom I had seen in the
coach, now wearing, a plain suit of
black and reading in a great book that
lay open on the table. I guessed it to
be the Bible, but noted that the can
dles had shades about them, bo dis
posed as to throw the light, not on the
page, but on the doorway where I
Stood. ;
Yet the old gentleman, having bid
me enter, went on reading for a while
as though wholly unaware of me,
which I found somewhat nettling, so
began:
"I speak, I believe, to Master Han
nibal Tingcomb, steward to Sir Dea
kin Killigrew?"
He went on as if ending his sen
tence aloud:
"And my darling from the power of
the dog."
Here he paused with finger on the
place and looked up.
"Yes, young sir, that is my name
steward to the late Sir Deakin Killi-
""The late?" I cried. "Then you
know " - '
"Surely I know that Sir Deakin is
dead, else should I be but an unworthy
steward." . '
He opened his grave eyes as if in
wonder.
"And his son also?"
"Also his son, Anthony, a headstrong
boy, I fear me, a consorter with vile
characters. Alas, that I should say
it!"
"And his daughter. -Mistress Delia?"
"Alas!" and he fetched a deep sigh.
"Do you mean, sir, that she, too, is
dead?"
"Why, to be sure but let us talk
on less painful matters."
"In one moment, sir; but first tell
me where she did die, and when?"
For my heart stood, still, and I was
fain to clutch the table between us to
keep me from falling. I think this did
not escape him, for he gave me a sharp
look, and then spoke very quiet and
hush'd.
"She was cruelly killed by highway
men, at the 'Three Cups' Inn, some
miles out of Hungerf ord. ' The date
given me is the Sd of December last." "
With this, a great rush of joy came
oyer met and I blurted outt delighted:
-
OF JACK MARVEL.
QUILLER COUCH."
"There, sir, you are wrong! Her
father was killed on the night of which
Xou speak cruelly enough, as you say;
but Mistress Delia Killigrew escaped,
and after the most incredible adven
tures '!
I was expecting him to start up with
joy at my announcement; but iustead
of this, he gaz'd at me very sorrow
fully and shook his head; which
brought me to a stand.
"Sir," I said, changing my tone, "1
speak but what I know; for 'twas 1
had the happy fortune to help her to
escape, and, under God's hand, to
bring her safe to Cornwall "
"Then, where is she now:"
Now this was just what L could not
tell. So', standing before him, I gave
him my name and a history of all my
adventures in my dear comrade's com
pany, from the hour when I saw iier
first in the inn at Hungerford. Still
keeping his finger on the page, he
heard me to the end attentively, but
with a curling of the lips' toward the
close, such as I did not like. And when
1 had done, to my amaze he spoke out
sharply, and as if to a whipp'd school
boy. " 'Tis a cock-and-bull story, sir, of
which I could hope to make you
ashamed. Six weeks in your company?
Surely 'twas enough the pare unhappy
maid should be dead without such
vile slander on her fame, and from
you, that were known, sir, to have
been at that inn, and on that night,
with her murderers. Boy, I have evi
dence that, taken with your confes
sion, would weave you a halter; and
am a Justice of the Peace. Be thank
ful, then, that I am a merciful man;
yet be abash'd."
Abash'd, indeed, I was; or at least
taken aback, to see his holy indigna
tion and the flush on his waxen cheek.
Like a fool I stood staggered, and
Avondered dimly where I had heard
that thin voice before. In the con
fusion of my senses I heard it say
solemnly:
"The sins of her fathers have over
taken her, as the Book of Exodus pro
claim'd; therefore is her inheritance
wasted, and given to the satyr and the
wild ass."
"And which of the twain, be yon.
sir?"
I cannot tell what forced this violent
rudeness from me, for he seemed an
honest, good man; but my heart was
boiling that any should put so ill a
construction on my Delia. As for
him, he had r?sen, and was moving
With dignity to the door to show me
out, so I guess. When suddenly I,
that had been staring stupidly, leaped
upon him and hurled him back into
his chair.
For I had marked his left foot trail
ing, and, by the token, knew him for
the white-haired man of the bowling
green. "Master Hannibal Tingcomb," 1
spoke in his ear, "dog and murderer!
What did you in Oxford last Novem
ber? And how of Captain Lucius
Higgs, otherwise Captain Luke Settle,
otherwise Mr. X? Speak, before I
serve you as the dog was served that
nisht!"
I dream yet, in my sick nights, of
the change that came over the vile,
hypocritical knave at these words of
mine. To see his pale, venerable face
turn green and livid, his eyeballs start,
his hands clutch at air it frightened
me.
"Brandy!" he gasped. "Brandy!
there quick for God's sake!"
And. the next moment he had slipped
from-my grasp, and was wallowing in
a fit on the floor. I ran to the cup
board at which he had pointed, and
finding there a bottle of strong waters,
forced some drops between his teeth;
and hard wprk it was, he gnashing at
me all the time and foaming at the
mouth.
Presently he 'ceased to writhe and
bite; and lifting, I set him in his chair,
where he lay, a mere limp bundle,
staring and blinking. So I sat down
facing him, and waited his recovery. '
"Dear young sir," he began at length
feebly, his fingers searching the Bible
before him, from force of habit. "Kind
young sir I am an old. dying man,
and my sins have found me out. Only
yesterday, the physician at Bodmin
told me that my days are numbered.
This is the second attack, and the
third will kill me."
"Well?" said i.
"If if Mistress Delia be alive (as
indeed I did not think) I will make
restitution I will confess only tell
me what to do, that I may die in
peace."
Indeed he looked pitiable, sitting
there and stammering; but I hardened
my heart to say:
"I must have a - confession, then,
written before I leave the room."
"But, dear young friend," you will
not use it if I give up all? You will
not seek my life? that already is worth
less, as you see."
"Why. 'tis what you deserve. But
Delia shall say when I find her as I
shall go straight to seek her. If she
be lost, I shall use it never fear; if
she be found, it shall, be hers to say
what mercy she can discover in her
heart, but I promise you I shall advise
none." .
The tears by this time were coursing
down his shrunken cheeks, but I ob
served him watch me narrowly, as
though to find out how much I knew.
So I pulled out my pistol and, setting
pen and paper before him, obtained 'at
the end of an hour a very pretty conles-
sion of his sins, which lies among my,
papers to this dayv When it was writ
ten and signed, in a weak, rambling
hand, I Tead it through, folded it,
placed it inside my coat and prepared
to take my leave.
But he callecTonly an order to the old
servant to saddle my mare and stood
softly praying and beseeching me in
the courtyard till the last moment.
Nor when I was mounted would any
thing serve but he must follow at my
stirrup to the gate. But when I had
briefly taken leave I heard a voice call
ing after me down the road:
"Dear young sir! Dear, friend I
had forgotten somewhat!''
Returning, I found the gate fastened
and the iron shutter slipped back.
"Well?" I asked, leaning toward it.
"Dear young friend, I pity thee, for.
thy paper is worthless. To-day. by
my advices, the army of our Chris
tian Parliament, more than twenty
thousand strong, under the Earl of
Stamford, have overtaken thy friends,
the malignant gentry, near Strattou
Heath, in the northeast. They are
more than two to one. By this hour
to-morrow the Papists all will be run
ning like conies to their burrows, and
the little chance' wilt thou have to
seek Delia Killigrew, much less to find
her. . And remember, I know enough
of thy late services to hang thee;
mercy, then, will lie in my. friends
hands, but be sure I shall advise
none."
And with a mocking laugh ha clapped
to the grating in my face.
CHAPTER X.
I Leave Joan and Ride to the Wars.
Joan was not in the kitchen when
I arrived at the cottage nor about the
buildings; nor yet could I spy her
anywhere .moving on the hills. So,
after calling to her once or twice. I
stabled the mare, aud set off up the
tor side to seek her.
Eut to-day as I climb'd past the
spot, something very bright flash'd in
my eyes and dazzled me. I finally
found her sitting behind a slab of gran
ite with her back to mc. In the left
hand she was holding up the mirror
that caught the rays of the now sink
ing sun, while with her right she tried
to twist into some form of knot her
tresses black, and coarse as a horse's
mane that already she had roughly
braided. A pail of water stood beside
her; and around lay scattered a score
or more of long thorns, cut to tlie
shape of hairpins.
'Tis probable that after a minute's
watching I let some laughter escape
me. At any rate Joan turned, spied
me, and scrambled up, with an angry
red on her cheek. Then I saw that her
bodice was neater lae'd than usual,
and a bow of yellow ribbon (fish'd up
heaven knows whence) stuck in the
bosom. But the strangest thing was
to note the effect of this new tidiness
upon her; for she took a step .forward
as if to cuff me by the ear (as, a day
agone, she would have done), and then
stopp'd, very shy and hesitating.
"Why, Joan," said I, "don't be an
ger'd. It suits you choicely it does
indeed."
"Art scoffing, I doubt." She stood
looking heavily and askance at me.
"On my faith, no. Thou art cer
tainly a handsome girl; give me a kiss
for the mirror."
Instead of flying out, as I look'd for,
she fae'd. round, and, answered me
gravely:
"That I will not; not to any but my
master."
"And who is that?"
"No man "yet; nor shall be till one
has beat me sore; him will I love, an'
follow' like a dog if so be he whack
me often enow'."
"A strange way to love," laughed I.
She look'd at me straight, albeit with
an odd gloomy light in her eyes.
"Think so. Jack? Then I give thee
leave to try."
I think there is always a brutality
lurking in a man to leap out unawares.
Yet why do I seek excuses, that have
never yet found one? To be plain, I
sprang fiercely up and after Joan, who
had already started, and was racing
along the slope.
Twice around the tor she led me; and
though I strained my best, not a rn-d
could I gain upon her, for her bare
feet carried her light and free. Indeed,
I was losing ground, when suddenly
she stumbled. I laid hand on her shoul
der, and in a moment she had gripp'd
me, and was wrestling like a wild
cat. So when Joan rushed in and
closed with me, I was within an ace
of being thrown, pat.
But recovering, I got her at arm's
length, and held her so, while ray
heart ach'd to see my fingers gripping
her shoulders and sinking into the
flesh. I begg'd off; but she only fought
and panted, arid struggled to lock me
by the ankles again. I could hot have
dream'd to find such fierce strength in
a girl. Once or twice she nearly over
master'd me; but at length my stub
born play wore her out. Her breath
came short and fast, then fainter; and
in the end, still holding her off, I
turned her by the shoulders, and let
her drop quietly on the turf. No
thought had I any longer of kissing
her; but stood back, heartily sick and
ashamed of myself. .
For a while she lay, turn'd over on
her side, with hands guarding her
head, as if expecting me to strike her.
Then gathering herself up, she came
and put her hand in mine, very meekly.
"Had liked it better had'st thou
stamped the life out o' me, a'most.
But there, lad am thine forever!"
'Twas like a buffet in the face to me.
"What!" I cried.
She -looked up in my face dear
heaven, that I should have to write
it! with eyes brimful, sick with love:
tried to speak, but could only nod, .and
broke into a wild fit of tears.
(To be continued.)
When a difference of opinion arises
it is sometimes wise to split the differ
ence. '
GOOD
R O ID S. I
One Way to Build.
s$Q T the convention of Ameri-
' J$ can Road Makers, which
Q ZV O met in Detroit, Mr. George
1 $ Burns, the labor leader and
fOW President of the Michigan
Labor Union, advocated the use of
prison labor, cither in building roads
or in preparing material to be used
for hardening "their surfaces. He is
the first labor leader to advocate this
course, although it has been suggested
by many speakers and writers on this
question during the past ten years.
Mr. Burns sees that it Avould be clearly
in the interest of such prison labor
and also in the interest of free labor
to have the great army of prisoners,
now in the jails in the various States,
who are doing no good for themselves
and adding nothing to the common
wealth, applied to the road proposi
tion in some form or other. Many
people object to a suggestion of this
kind because they say that the use of
such labor for such a purpose would
have a contaminating influence in the
community where the work is done.
But to avoid such a. result Mr. Burns
showed how this labor could be applied
in the preparation of material, either
brick or broken stone, where the pris
oners could be worked in inclosures
as they now are. The products so pro
duced would not come in contact "with
free labor as the articles generally
produced by such labor do; conse
quently by this course you avoid com
petition with the manufacturer who
offers for sale the manufactured ar
ticle, or competition with the free la
borer who works to produce these
articles, and at the same time the
prisoner is receiving more useful in
struction, having more healthful exer-
cise and adding greatly in the course
of years to the common wealth. If
Mr. Burns' idea,. which is undoubtedly
a sound and wholesome one, should
be adopted by the labor unions of the
country generally, it would bring to the
road cause a very great and mucui
needed aid.
The great meeting of the Automobile
Manufacturers of America, held in
Chicago soon after this Detroit con
vention, developed the fact that all
of the automobile manufacturers of
America are heartily in favor of some
general plan of road building that shall
be applicable to all the States in the
Union. Being unanimous in this view,
they adopted a resolution indorsing
the passage of the Brownlow bill
which provides for a system of Na
tional, State and local co-operation in
the permanent improvement of the
public highways. It is very evident
from the logic of events that the time
is rapidly approaching 'when the
friends of the good roads cause will
be able to unite many forces in favor
of the general plan of road improve
ment that have heretofore been either
indifferent or hostile. The labor lead
ers generally have been hostile to the
idea of applying the prison labor to
this work, but now one of the most
progressive leaders of organized labor
has come forward and indorsed in the
most hearty and intelligent way the
idea or applying this labor to the gen
eral welfare of the community by
building up the public roads. In order,
however, that this shall be made pos
sible the road-building authorities, in
the various States and counties, must
be provided with funds of money in
order to obtain the proper machinery,
engineering skill and expert labor, so
as tomake use of the army of prison
ers who would be put at their disposal
under the new plan. In order to secure
this necessary fund it is more and
more ; evident that the aid of the Na
tional Government should be called
in to supply a portion of the money.
This is all provided for by the Brown
low bill, which was not only indorsed
by the Chicago convention, but also
by the Detroit convention of American
Road Makers. Hon. Martin Dodge.
Good Itoads Preservation.
Your recent editorial on "Good
Roads," . quoting a Rochester paper,
was quite apt." Embodying self-helpfulness,
but not intended to diminish
self-reliance, the good roads law was
an amplification of the county roads
law, under which, notwithstanding our
earnest efforts, the counties failed to
move; and it expressly provided the
roads, so soon as built, should be
turned over to the counties and be
thereafter maintained as county roads.
But, in furtherance of the home rule
principle, w-as added, "But the Board
of Supervisors may apportion the ex
pense as they may be empowered by
law," thus allowing any to do within
their jurisdiction as might seem best
therein, but I hoped that the main
roads - would become a flat county
rharge, as most just and equitable.
For such arterial system in each coun
ty is equally the interest of the city
as well as the town. These roads tra
verse tlie town, to be sure, but are a
burden beyond it and of more general
interest. - -
With main roads as a county charge,
tho towns will be better able to care
far the lesser roads, and should, as
cuid pro quo, in the general interest
also.
Come suggestion has been made by
those new more prominent in the good
roads movement since it has become
popular than they were iu the long and
difficult period which paved the way
.ind secured the legislation. The zeal
of new converts is proverbial.. But
there is in the archives of the State
Department a delightful letter from
James Russell Lowell, then Minister
to Spain, to Thomas F. Bayard, Secre
tary of State, exemplifying the disad
vantages of disregarding the whole-
j some doctrine of ne quid nimis in nrat
jters of State concern, -
Having provided the good roads legis
lation affording State co-operation t9
'an initial and limited extent -to the
counties and towns by the two comple
mentary statutes of 189S and their per
fection since, without impinging upon
local option, home rule or the adminis
trative entity of the counties and the
towns, but preservative of the same,
let us so conduct matters that the
State's contribution and co-operation
stop with this half share in first con
struction in justic? and equity. John
A. C. Wright.
PROPER FOOD,
There Is a Great Deal in llie Way We
Sat and Drink It.
The amount of advice we have bad
concerning what to eat and -what not
to eat would fill a booj. If we eat
boiled flour we may expect dyspepsia;
if we eat meat look out for litheinia; I
in pork trichiniasis may be in hiding,
and in richest milk the feverish bacilli
is doubtless sporting. .
And there is much in what we eat,
much that concerns our health and
strength, but there is much in the way
we eat it. It is well to iook out for
germs, but the most virulent cannot
stand a bath in good, healthy gastric
juice. It is necessary that germs come,
one way or another, but let it be woe
unto them when they strike the gastric
membrane.
Children nowadays are trained to do
most everything that is useless and ex
pensive, let us train 'hem to chew, to
eat and drink slowly.
A glass of milk swallowed at a gulp,
is to revert to the way of the ostrich,
and to invite indigestion and feed bac
teria, but to sip it slowly aud leisurely
is to make the warm, rich blood and
the strong, throbbing heart.
Slow eaters are small eaters, because
hunger is appeased physiologically
through the nervous system. Lots of
people never eat, properly speaking,
they simply fill up. The delicate nerves
of the stomach, which would tell us
of hunger appeased, -are overwhelmed
and stunned by the deluge of drink
and the rain of half-masticated food.
SoMhey lie silent, and the nerves of
ordinary sensation give the signal when
we begin to crowd our diaphragm up
about the collar bone, and we stop, not
because we have enough, but because
we are loaded and another mouthful
might explode us.
It has been shown experimentally
that it is very hard to infect a healthy
animal by way of the alimentary tract,
though it be fed upon the most virulent
of the pathogenic germs.
It is next to impossibls to avoid
drinking at some time or other the ty
phoid bacilli, but we can do muck to
wards improving the condition of the
digestive organs.
How many of us take a glass of wa
ter in one stream, and yet even a horse
takes time to drink.
Proper eating and drinking will go
far towards rendering harmless many
of the bacteria that threaten our life
on every side.
There is something in what we eat
and drink, but there is a great deal in
the way we eat and drink it. Health.
WORDS OF WISDOM; ,
Make a virtue of necessity.
They that govern the most make the
least noise. Selden.
It is madness to live like a wretch
and die rich. Burton.
A man used to vicissitudes - is not
easily dejected. Johnson.
The heart has reasons that reasou
does not understand. Bossuet.
Applause is the spur of noble minds;
the end and aim of weak ones. Col ton.
Many a man thinks he is on the look
out for evil when be is ouly looking at
evil.
The really busy man always has more
time than the man who only thinks he
is busy.
There is always hope for a man so
long as he can look at things with the
eyes of a child.
The happiest life is that which con
stantly exercises and educates what is
best in us. Hamerton.
They that on their glorious ancestors
enlarge produce their debt, instead of
their discharge. Young.
The good things that belong to pros
perity are to be wished, but the good
things that belong to .adversity are to
be admired. Seneca.
Mails In 1747.
The change in postal arrangements In
New York since "the good old times"
may be seen by the following adver
tisement, copied by the Troy Times
from Bradford's New York Gazette of
December 6, 1747: '
"Cornelius van Denburg as Albany
Post designs to set out for the first
time this winter on Thursday next.
All letters to go by him are desired to
be sent to the postoffice or to his
house near the Spring Garden."
During Hudson River navigation the
Albany mail was transmitted by sloops,
but in the winter a messenger, as above
mentioned, was required, and it is
probable that he ' traveled on foot.
The winter average of the Eastern and
Southern mails is given in the same
paper and same date, as follows: '
; "Qn Tuesday the Tenth Instant at
9 oclock in the-Forenoon the Boston
and Philadelphia Posts set out from
New York to perform their stages once
a Fort'nite during the Winter months
and are to set out at 9 o'clock Tues
day morning. Gentlemen and mer
chants are desired to bring "their let
ters in time. N. B. This Gazette will
also come forth on Tuesday Mornings j
during that time." . x .
. Heavy haulage work, such as that
of stores, munitions and even ; heavy
gun?, is already done by motor in the
Austrian army. Now the ' Austrians
are going to have armored motor cars,
each carrying a quick-firing gun.
H
umor-o
5 Business.-.
A duke in the court cf St. James
Was great at remembering names.
Especially when -They
weren't of men,
But rich young American dames.
Cleveland Leader.
. - ; An Eye to the'Futare. '
Mrs. Mason-3S'What did you give Is
abel foi a wed.ing present?" I
Mrs. Jason "A chafing dish. You
see, my husband is her husband's pbys
ician." Brooklyn Life.
Any Down-Town Street.
"When I catch him I'll wipe p the
street with him." .
"I don't know whether or not he
needs it, but the street certainly does."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Graspeil tlie Iile. ,
"What is your order, sir?" asked the
waiter.
"Bring me some frenzied eggs," said
the man with the napkin tucked under
his chin. Chicago Tribune.
WfWild Not Swim OverU'n"-
"What happened to Rolliguau'i".
'He dhrowned."
"An' couldn't he swim?".
"He did, fyr nine hours, but he was a
union man." Yonkers Statesman.
if e. ar iLl t e r a t nr .
"What's become of Tooihorn?"
"Oh, he's putting in all his time on
his new book, 'The Experiences of a
Chauffeur.' "
"Auto biograph;.- "-Brooklyn Life.,
Not Changed in Any War.
He 'How did you find your friend
whom you had not seen for two
years?"
Sher-"Oh, she had the same hat, the
same" dress and the same husband.?-!
Fliegende Blaetter.
Museum Mlrt'u
The Fat Woman " 'The Armless
Wonder' tells some awful funny
things."
The Bearded Lady "Yes;- and he
says them in such an off-hand way,
too." Puck.
Quite Extraordinary.
Mrs. Malaprop "Mrs. Vane's awful
stuck up about her shapely hand."
Mrs. Browne "Is she, really?"
Mrs. Malaprop--"Oh! my! yes. Why,
she's so stuck" on it that she's had a
marble bust made of it." Philadelphia
Press.
Flea in His Ear.
"Pop!"
"Yes, myson." ,
"Are not fleas very hard to catch ?'
"Very hard, my boy."
"How is It, then, that mamma gets
rcni so she can put 'em in your ear all
the time?" Youkers Statesman.
Hasty Correction.
Mrs. Gaswell (at the concert) "What
horrible discord!" -
Mrs. Mannerborn "Why, that's Wag
ner music."
Mrs. Gasswell "Certainly. As 1 was
saying, what horrible discord Vogner
is to some people!"- -Chicago Tribune.
Popular Belief.
"Bacilli," remarked the boarder who
had been reading the scientific pages
in a patent medicine almanac, "are in
visible' . f
"Right you are,", rejoined the cheer
ful idiot. "At least, those in kisses are
simply 'out of sight.' "Chicago News.
A rat a? 1st.
"So he has failed, eh? I guess he
doesn't believe in his luck like he used
to."
"Oh! yes he does; more thoroughly
than ever."
"Indeed?",
"Yes, in his bad luck." Philadelphia
Press. , .
" He Knew. '
"Children, we. will now have an ex
ample in division. Tommy Tiggley, if
your father brought home $10 to divide
with your mother what would she
get?" . : .
"Ten dollars." '
"Tommy, you don't know your les
son." "No, ma'am, but I know my mother.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Of Coarse.
Subbubs "I nearly broke" my . back
shoveling the snow off my place yes
terday." 1
. Backlots "Well, it's a- good thing
summer isn't here, too."
Subbubs "What are you talking
about?" ';
Backlotz "Why, if we had winter
and suriimer together you'd have to ,
shovel snow and cut the grass, loo."
Philadelphia Tress.
lad
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!' ft SCIENCE pf j
The lifting of massive iron and steel
plates, weighing four, six and twelve
tons, by magnetism is now done every,
workday in a number of large steef
works. The magnets are . suspended
by chains from cranes, and pick up the
plates by simple eontact and without
the loss of time consequent to the ad
justment of chain and hooks in the
older method. It is also found that
the metal plates can be lifted by the
magnets while still so hot that it would
be impossible for the men to handle ,
them. A magnet weighing 300 pounds
will lift nearly five tons.
A telegram from the Kiel Central
stelle announces that a new comet was
discovered by Mr. Giacobinl, at Nice,
on December 17, its movement being
in a northeasterly direction. This po
sition is situated on the western"
boundary of .the cpnstellation ' Her
cules, about 44 m. east of a Cbronae,
which has approximately the sanie
declination (27 degrees 2 minutes), and
is favorably situated Sox observation
during the three or four hours preced
ing dawn.. A second telegram - from.
Kiel informs us that the. comet was
again observed at Nice on December
18. '
Professor Tenck publishes in, a re
cent number of the National Geo
graphic Magazine an account of the
progress made; during the last live
years in the execution of a map. of
the world on a scale cf 1-1,000,000,
and which was presented to the Inter
national Geographical Congress at
Washington. During the last four
years France, Germany and Britain
have issued three series of maps, con
taining, sixty-oue sheets worked out
on the same scale and in the same
style of division of sheets. These
maps co TCr nearly 10,000,000 square
miles. - "
A clock which will run for two thou
sand years has been invented by Rich
ard Strutt, son of Lord Rayleigh. The
motive power i3 a small piece of .gold
leaf which is electriid by means of a .
very small quantity of radium sal t.
It bends away from the metal sub-
stance, and keeps moving under this
influence until it touches this side of
the containing vessel. At the moment
of contact it loses its electrical charge
and : then springs back and is again
electrified, and the- process repeated.
Sir William Ramsay considers that this
may be made into a very reliable time
piece at an expense of about $1000.
Addition and other mathematical
processes are performed by labor-saving
machines, and we are next 4to have
mechanical reasoning. The logic ma
chine of Prof. C. H. Rieber, of the
University of California, is an improve
ment on that of Stanley 'Jevons, the
English logician. In the "circle nota
tlon" of logicians all premises have
separate symbols, and conclusions are
produced by a combination of these
symbols; and on pressing the keys of
the new machine something like an
adding machine a manipulation of
circles and electric lights throws into
relief all formulas that are. possible
answers to logical : questions. The
proper keys have no chance of error.
The principle of the aeroplane has
been applied in a novel manner by a
French inventor, Count Lambert,
whose idea is to make a boat glide
over the surface instead of forcing its
way through the water. The appara
tus is called a hydroplane. It consists
of a raft-like boat, having, underneath
five inclined planes, one behind the
other,' and sloping backward. The in
clinations increase from- bow to stern,
A submerged propeller, actuated by a
fourteen-horse-powev motor, drives the
boat, and as it begins to move the
planes lift it to the surface, over which
it runs with surprising ease and speed.
It is suggested in the Scientific Amer
ican that an air propeller, instead of a
submerged propeller, 'would' improve
the hydroplane. Count Zeppeliu has
demonstrated, the practicability of air
propellers. '
Kerr Uses For JEleclrlclty.
It Is a French engineer who seriously
announces his invention of a suit of
electric eiothlug, with fine wire woven
in the goods and a storage battery.
By means of this invention he affirms
that the body can be kept in a com
fortable temperature in the coldest
weather. There is no apparent reason
why we should stop with this. Little
If any more current would be needed
to produce a light such as persons on
the vaudeville stage ' display1. Thus
every pedestrian at night would be
come a walking lamp post, with elec
tric force enough to shock an inebriate
who might wish to cling to him. It
would be practicable, too; for an Amer
ican inventor - to .connect, the current
with roller skates, thus allowing every
man to be his own trolley car. Phila
delphia ' Ledger. : ' i
Trze Shines For All Comers.
Located at 6bort, distances rthrough
out a Sixth avenue department store
are artistically constructed bootblack
stands in charge of dapper young men
wfio "perform dual service o,f operators
and demonstrators. Regardless of
whether the . footwear was purchased
on the premises, men, women and chil
dren:are Invited to avail of this oppor
tunity "lo shine him up." -This novel
scheme was projected by promoters of
a certain brand of polish. . Interest i'i
the something for -nothing campaign
is daily, at fever heat, masculine and
feminine bargain hunters eagerly seek
: ing preferred position in the "next"
line; New York Press. . 1 '