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4 THE WILSON ADVANCE: JUNE 24,1897. The Tolephone f 11 1813. WISER THAN BOOKS. M Edison may. read, with interest that in 17S3 M. Linquet de Li BastHle issued a prospectus, published in the Correspondence Secrete, London, 1788, (vol. xiv, p. 302), of a singular machine or experience ot the propa gation of sound - and the voice through: tubes prolonged to .a great distance" It it succeeded, he an nounced, people would be able to maintain with their sweethearts and friends at a distance, of some hun dreds of leagues a conversation which would "become somewhat public on the way, but by suppressing t'.ie names no one would be in the secret of the interlocutors." But It is not recorded that the scheme .was put into practice. In paper published in L'lilustration for 1S54 by M. Charles Bourseul he says : "Let us imagine that a person speaks near to ar mobile plate sufficiently flexible not to lose any of the vibrations produced by his voice, and that this plate in terrupts and establishes accordingly communications w-ith a battery, then we might have at a - distance another plate which would give at , the same time the same vibrations. An elec trie battery, two vibrating plates and a wire wouM be sufficient." 1 In ap-.por-.ioning the 'honors ot telephonic discovery M. Bouseul would, seem entitled to a share New York Tribune. My love than boch3 is wiser far. I scanned th8 countless pages Where all the words of wisdom are The proverbs of the sages. . ." I faiu had known what meant a kiss. What were component parts of bliss. But, though I cenned them o'er and o'er. It was no plainer than before. Af- last I found ray love, end he Explained it clearly, all, to me. Katrina Trask in New York Times. THE VETERAN. Out of the low wiu clow ecu Id be seen ttacc hickory trees placed irregularly in a meadow that wa3 resplendent in springtime green. Farther away the old, dismal belfry of the village church looircd over the pines. A horso medi tating in the shade of one of the hick orie'e lazily swisfced his tail. The warm sunshine rrade au cblong of vivid yel low cn the floor of the grocery Etore. ' an(j immediately, it seemed, there came "Could y 00 see the whites cf their down an avalanche of ' men. No one eres?" said the muq who was seated on know that during tiiis time the old lady a scap box. ; . hatj been standing in her nightcIotb.es "Nothing of tho kind," replied old' "at the bedroojen doer yelliu: "What's Heury vrsrmly. "Just a lot of flitting th' matter? What's th' matter? What's figures, and I let go where they 'peared th' matter?" poses ct liis own. "-The old man loaned a horse and an unwashed beggy. It ap peared later that one, of the purposes of j the Swede was to get drunk, .- .'- ' After quelling some boisterocrs frolic of the farm hand3 and boys in the garret j the old man had that night gene peace- fnhy to sleep, when he was aroused by clamoring at the kitchen door. He grab bed his trousers, antTtbey waved ont be hind as he dashed forward. He could hear the voice of the Swede, screaming and blubbering. He pushed the wooden button, and as the door flew open the Swede, a maniac, stumbled inward, . chattering, weeping, still scream iug: "Dc barn fire! Lire, fir el De barn are! j Fire, fire, fire!" There was a swift and indescribable ( chaupe in the old man. His; face ceased instantly to be a face; it became a mask,! a pray thing, with horror written about' the jnocth and eyes. Hahoarely shout ed tit the foot of the little rickety stairs, Not many business houses in these United States can boast of fifty years' standing. The business of Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, fllass., whose in comparable Sarsaparilla is known and used every where, has passed the half centennial and was nev,er. so vigorous jxs at present. .Speculation. Speculation is a passion which wrecks fortunes, bodies, characters, communities, nations. Many men reach after immense possible results rather than take assured smallpnes. They prefer the bucket shop to the savings bank. The Unknown patent medicine has more value in their eyes than that whose cpmposition is understood, aud whose operation has been tested by professional experts. The "divine healer" or the "Chris tian scientist" is trusted rather than the trained physician. Crowds of citizens shout themselves hoarse in praise of the- orator who has some panacea which never has been tried, but Which he warrants to remove all national ills. Here 'and there one gains money. Some, real or imagi nary bodily ills are cured. Spas modic impurses may be created to ward national prosperity.. But-every sensible man knows that ail these speculations offers immense risks and yield small returns. The many are duped, ttye few' reap the rewards. Honest labor, dilligent study, reliance on experience, insure safety. Gamb ling in business, in medicine, in gov ernment, in religion, is immortal. Its consequences are disastrous. . To warn men against it and to offer the sure rewards of honesty is to preach a genuine gospel, fitted especially to the needs of this time. Congregationalism Old Fine Climax Brandy. From ' grape wine, has. been tour teen years stored and cared for in the same way triat Brandies are cared for in France and is as fine in flavor and mellowness as Hennessy Brandy or Cognac. Ask your druggist for Speer's Climax Brandy. Massachusetts Mills Closing:. Lowell, Mass., June 19. The Mas sachusetts, Merrimac and Booth Cot ton Mills, each posted a notice to-day that beginning next Saturday, the mills will be closed for two weeks, and that when work is resumed, it will be only on half time. The Lowell Machine Company will also close for one one - week, and .after . wards run on short time. This will affect in all about 2,500. persons. to be the thickest. Bang!" "Mr. FlcmiuE', " Eaid the grocer. His deferential voice expressed somehow the old man's exact social weight. "Mr. Fleming, you never was frightened much in them battles, was you?" The vrttoran looked down and grin ned. Observing his manner the entire group tittered. "Well, I gness I was," he answered finally, "pretty well scared sometimes. Why, in my first- battle I though the sky was falling down. I thought the world was coming to an end. Ycu bet I was scared. " s j When they dashed toward the barn, -I iff presented to their eyes its usual ap- peafance solemn, rather mystic in the black night. The Sweden's lantern was j overturned at a point some yards from I in front of the bam doors. It contained , a wild little conflagration of its own, ! and even in their excitement .some of those who ran felt a gentle secondary vibration of the thrifty part cf their minds at sight of this overturned lan tern. Under ordinary circumstances it would have been a cal parity. 1 But the cattle in jo barn were Every one laughed. Perhaps it seem- i trampling, trampling, trampling, and ed strange and rather wonderful to them that a man should admit the thing, and in the tone cf their laughter there w as probably pore aclmiraticn than if old Fleming had declared that he had al ways been a lion. Moreover, they knew that he had ranked as an orderly ser geant, and so their opinion of his hero ism was, fixed. None, to be sure, knew how an ordeily sergeant ranked, but then it was understood to be somewhere just shy of "'a. major general's stars. Co when eld Henry admit ted that ho bad been frightened there was a laugh. "The j trouble wa?," said the old man, "I though they were all shooting at me. Yes, siu,' I thought every man in the other army was aiming at me in particular, and enly me. And it seemed so darned unreasonable, you know. I wanted to explain to 'em what an al mighty gccA fallow I was, because I thought then they might quit all trying to hit me. But I couldn't explain, and th3y kept on being unreasonable -blirn blam bang! So I run." Two little triangles of wrinkles ap peared at the corners of his e'es. Evi dently he appreciated some comedy in this recital. Down near his feet, how ever, little Jim, his grandson, was, vis ibly horror stricken. His hands were clasped nervously, and his eyes were wide with astonishment at this terrible scandal his most magnificent grandfa ther telling such a thing. "That was at Chancellcrsville. , Of couree afterward I got kind of used to it. A man dees. Lots of men, though, seem to feci all right from the start. I did as seen as I 'got cn to it,' as they say now. but at first I was pretty flus tered. New, there was young Jim Conk lin, old Si Conklin's fou -that used to keep tho tannery ; ypn n cue of you recol lect him he went into it from the start just as if he was born to it. But with me it was different. J had to get used to it." .: , When little Jim walked with his grandfather, ho was in the habit cf skipping nir.ng cn the stone pavement in front cf the three stores and tho hotel cf the town and betting that he could, avoid the cracks. But upon this day h'o walked soberly, with his hand gripping two cf hi3 grandfather's fingers.- Some times he kicked abstractedly at daude licus that curved over the walk. Any one could see that he was much trou bled. ; ., - ' "There's Sickles' colt ever in the medder, Jimmie, " said the old man. "Don't you wish you owned one like him?" : "Um!" said the boy, with a strange lack of interest. He continued his re flections. Then finally he ventured, "Grandpa now was that true what you was telling those men?" - "What?" asked the grandfather. "What was I telling them?" "Oh, about your running. " - "Why, yes, that was true enough, Jimmie. It was my first fight, and there was an "awful lot of noise, you know." ! Jimmie seemed dazed that this idol, of its own will, should so totter. His stout, boyish idealism was injured. , Presently the grandfather said: 'Sickles' colt is going for a drink. Don't you wish you owned Sickles' colt, Jimmie?" , The boy merely answered, "He ain't as nico as cur'n. " He lapsed then to auother moody silence. - - ' ' One of the hired men, a Swede, de sired to drive to the county seat for rmr- Why take Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic? Because it cures the most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DAY. above this noise could be heard a hum ming like the song of innumerable bees. The old man hurled aside the great doors, and a yellow flame leml out at one corner and sped aud spe- nd waver ed frantically up the old gisjr wall. It was lad, terrible, this. riCgle flame, like the wild banner cf. deadly and tri nmrLant foes. T,o motley crowd from the garret ha? me with all the pails cf tho farm. TI - ilung themselves upon the well. It s . leisurely old machine, loDgdwell : 1 indolence. It was jn the habit of cut water with a sort of; reluc . u The men stormed at it, cursed Lufc it continued to allow the buckets to ;V filled only after tbewJfleezy wind lass i:ad bowled many protests at the mr.il hr.nded men. With Lis open knife in his hand, old Fleming himself had gone headlong into lOHNSON'S V . 'f-i la it, CHILL FEVER AND TONIC Cures Fever In One Day. the barn, where the stifling smoe swirled with the air currents, and where could be heard in i 1 3 fullness the terrible chorus of the flames laden with tones ci hate and death, a hymn of wonderful ferocity. r .He flung a blanket over an old mare's head, cut tho halter close to the manger, led the mare to the door and fairly kick ed her cut to safety. He returned with the earn e blanket and rescued cue of the work horses. He took five horses out and then canne tout himself with his clothes bravely cn lire. Ke had no whisk ers and very little hair cn his head. They1 soused five rjailful3 cf water on him. His eldest son made a clean miss with the sixth pailful because the old man had turned aud was running down ,the decline aud around to the basement of the barn, where were the stanchions of cows. Some one noticed at the time that he ran very lamely, as if one of tho frenzied horses had smashed his hip. The cows, with their heads held in the heavy stanchions, had thrown them selves, strangled themsel ves, tangled themselvesdone everything which the ingenuity of their exuberant fear could suggest to them. , Here, as at the well, the same thing happened to every man save cue. Their hands went mad. They became incapa ble of everything save the power to rush into dangerous situations. The old man released the cow nearest the door, and she, blind drunk with terror, crashed into the Swede. The Swede had been running to and fro, babbling. He earried an empty milk pail, to which he clung with an uncon scious fierce enthusiasm. He shrieked like oile.lostas he went under the cow's hcofs, and the milk pail, rolling across the floor, made a flash cf silver in the gloom. Old Fleming tock a fork, beat off the cow and dragged the paralyzed Swede to the open air. When they had rescued all the cows save one, which had so fastened herself that she could not be moved an ineh, they returned to the front of the barn and stood sadly, breath ing like men who had reached the final point "of human effqrt. Many people bad tome running. Some cne had even gone. ?to the "church, and now, from the distance,rang the tocsin note of the old. bell. There was a long flare of crimson on the sky, which made romote people speculate as to the where abouts of the fire. - ' - The long flames sang their drumming chorus in voices cf the heaviest bass. The wind whirled clouds of smoke and cinders into the faces of the spectators. The form of the old barn was outlined in black amid these masses of orange hucd names. And men came this Swede again, crying as one who is tho weapon of the sinister fates: "De coltsl De colts 1 Yon have forgot de colts!" I Old Fleming staggered.- It was true ; they had forgotten the two colts in the box stalls at- tho' back of . the barn.-, "Boys," he said, "I must try to get 'em out." They clamcred about him then,, afraid for him, alraid of What; they should see. Then they talked wildly each to each. " Why, it's sure death!"; "He would never get out!" . "Why, it's Euicide for a man to go in there!" Old Fleming stared abseutmindedly at the open doers. "The poor little things," he said. Ee rufLcd into the barn:'J When the reef fell in, a great funnel cf,smcke swarmed toward the sky .as if the eld man's mighty spirit, released from it3 body a little bottle had swelled like the genius of fable. The emoke was tinted rose hue from the flames, and perhaps the unutterable mid nights of the universe will haveLno . power to clacnt the color cf this soul. , Stephen Crane in St. James Budget. A Budding Philosopher. "Say, paw,. i3 it anything to brag about when you don't do something you can't do?" 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