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YOL. VI. LITITZ, PA., FEID A Y MORNING. APEIL 13.1883. NO. 32.
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reasonable prices.
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»9-ly MAIN ST., LITITZ. PA.
GILL'S CITY GALLERY- PHOTOGRAPHY,
No. 19 EAST KING Street, LANCASTER, PA.
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T H A T THE
CmUGS WOBKt
PHJ2TONS,
SPRING WAGONS,
BUGGIES,
SLEIGHS, &a, &a
Manufactured at the
N E W HAVEN
Works.
Will give satisfaction,
Stock on hand and Made to Order.
SECOND-HAND CONVEYANCES.
REPATRlim DONB.
JOHN M. AMER,
oe21-ly NEW HA VEX, PA.
Á MOVE-ALL GO MPETITORS,
¡LIGHT Running
•SEWING MACHINE CO*
30 UNION SQUARE.NEW YORK
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•AND ATLANTA, GA.-:
FOR S A L E BY * «S
C. FATE,
Agent for Lancaster, Pa.
D. 8. EWING, General Agent,
1127 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LANCASTER P R I C E S AT T HE
LITITZ DRUG STORE
If you want a good pieee of TOILET EOAP or
HAYING SOAP,
Go to tlie Drug Store. Also, Electric, Hair, Tooth
ana Slaving Brushes.
Pocket Books and Fancy Goods in great variety.
S H O U L D E R BRACES
for both Ladies ana Gentlemen. Leather covered.
Elastic, Electric, and Hard Klibber
• T ' j r t a . s s j s o s »
en hand at regular priceB. A good fit guaranteed
or no sale.
Corlc Shavings constantly on hand. Garden
Seeds the most reliable, at the
L I T I T Z D R U G STORE.
gURKHOLDER WHISKEY.
Rome Distillery,
ESTABLISHED 1815.
One-half mile east of Lititz, on the Reading
<fe Columbia Railroad. The undersigned con-tinues
to manufacture
Rye Whiskey,
and makes it a special object to supply the
increasing demand in t h e community ibr
for medicinal and other important purposes.
All who desire RYE WHISKEY for Medici-nal.
Mechanical and Family use, will be fur-nished
with the genuine article at Low
Prices
WHOLESALE iND EETAIL.
Rye distilled for others by the barrel and
half-barrel.
Good Rye taken in Exchange
for Whiskey.
This Whiskey is put into Charred Barrels,
which causes it cure much quicker, and colors
it slightly red at first. To obtain a pure arti-cle,
as it flows from the worm, the Whiskey
should be purchased from the subscriber di-rect,
as he cannot be responsible for its purity
when bought from second hands.
OLD AND NEW WHISKEY CONSTANTLY
ON HAND.
While all other distilleries in Lancaster
county discon tinue man ufacturing during the
summer season, the undersigned is obligeuto
continue in order to supply the very pressing
demand for his CELEBRATED PURE RYE
H1SKEY.
D. D. BURKHOLDER,
Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa
B RUNNER VILLE
COACH WORKS.
The undersigned takes pleasure in inform-ing
the public that he is. well prepared to
make to order every style of Conveyances,
such as
CARRIAGES,
MARKET WAGONS,
BUGGIES,
FILETONS,
SLEIGHS, &c.
I take special pains in securing the best
"uterial for aJl work turned out of my shop,
id. this, combined with first-class workman-chip,
is a guarantee of good work.
N E W WORE: CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
REPAIRING OF ALL KINDS.
Persons in need of anything in my line
will do well by calling and examing styles
and prices. My rates are always as low as is
possible f<3r first-class work.
U. F. HARTRANFT,
o20 BRUNNERVIIXE, PA
GOOD FLOUR AND FEED.
Having refitted and remodeled the we!!
known old LITITZ MILL, and placed in it
entirely new machinery and fixtures, the
subscriber takes this method of informing
the public t h a t he is now prepared for the
MANUFACTURE OF FLOUR,
as well as FINE CHOPPING, of as good a qual-ity
as can be had anywhere. Farmers and
others specially asked for a share of tliuir pa-tronage.
Tlie wagon passes through Lititz
every day for the purpose of receiving and<»>-
livering orders free of charge.
aul3-lv B. H. RITTER.
MICHAEL ROTH,
TONSOR1AL ARTIST,
Opposite the Sturgis House,
MAIN S T R E E T , LITITS"
Keeps constantly on hand a good stock of
FINE POMADES,
HAIR TONIC,
SHAVING SOAP,
A.nd everything else belonging to the trade.
Hair Cutting done with neatnuss and dis-atcll.
Children's Hnir O^tfrn^ n PrH^-'Hty,
f^TUiXLUS -UULfcx.
Hotel and Restaurant.
This well-known House still continues to supply
tue public with
O Y S T E R S
AT THE LOWEST MARKET RATES,
at any time of the day, delivered to any part of
town free of charge.
OUR ELEGANT OYSTER SOUP
served every Saturday night. It can't be beat.
Lager Beer and other Refreshments
' always fresh.,
Returning thanks for many past favors, we hope
to receive your patronage in the future.
EDWARD S. STUBGIS,
^ Promiator.
A WINTER KEVKKI E.
See the fern leaves and foliage bright
"Which in forms of fantastic display
Have covered the windows -by night.,-
But fade at the full dawn of day;
So prospects and vision of hope
Which flit through my wearisome brain,
Disappear when exposed to the light,
Like the beautiful frost 011 the pane.
I have dreamt many day—dreams so fair
I n fanciful scenes full of joy;
I have pictured a f u t u r e so rare
Of bliss without tinge of alloy;
But I wake to the stern world once more,
And I feel its broad glare once again,
And my fanciful vision is o'er
Like the beautiful frost 011 the pane.
Will nothing t h a t ' s lovely ere lost
Save to mock us with hopes and fears ?
Is all that is fair to glide past,
Like tlie swiftly and fast flying years?
Wake, wake in the world there is light,
Oh, sing not this doleful refrain,
Or your holies will soon fade out of sight
Like the beautiful frost on the pane.
T W O L O V E R S.
High time declared the gossips c,f
Gray ville, that Nannie Williams made a
choice of a husband, and gave, to the
other girls, who doubtless would make
better wives, if they had not as much
beauly, some chance.
Utterly absurd that the men followed,
one after another, like sheep in a drove,
wherever her caprices led.
They were like a hive of bees con
tending for one flower, and blind to all
the gardenful besides.
But .Nannie only smiled when some
whisper ot' this reached her, and let the
gossips talk.
Full well she knew her power, this
simple country girl, who possessed no
dower save her beauty, and right royally
she used it.
Besides, it was not quite as the gos-sips
declared.
There was no such butter in. all the
county as that which came from Nannie
Williams' farm, and Nannie's fingers,
white and tapering as they were, moul-ded;
no cream was so thick and yellow,
and Nanny had sole charge of the dairy ;
no house was more neat and tidy, willi
a nameless air of feminine grace about
it, and Nannie, since her mother's
death, reigned sole mistress.
No wonder the young men felt the
race well run, with such a prize as its
goal.
True, she had a saucy word ever
ready, but one readily forgave its harm-lessness
for the sake' of the sweet brilli-ant
smile which lent her pretty face its
rarest charm, and seemed to mutely
plead her pardon.
However, when it was least expected,
Nannie made her choice, and it fell upon
Sydney Bichards
There was nothing to be said against
him.
He was a good-looking young fellow,
with a farm of his own.
He and Nannie would make a band-some
couple, and doubtless would suc-ceed
well in the wcrld.
But for all that it was a surpi ise to
many of them, and one or two of the
moie discerning ones said that she had
flirted shamelessly with Dick Arm-strong,
and that quiet as he had ever
been, he had grown more so since the
betrothal was announced.
Nannie did not hear this, however,
nor had she seen Dick since her engage-ment.
until one evening some three
weeks after.
She had wandered down to the little
gate opening on to the road, and stood
leaning hstiessly against it, when a
quick, firm tread broke the stillness.
She knew the step well, and a flush of
crimson rose to her face, then receded,
as a tall, stalwart figure came around a
sharp turn in the road.
He gave a quick start, too, as he per-ceived
her, and would have passed on,
merely raising the straw hat from thé
close-cropped blond head, but that her
voice, a little tremulous, detained him.
"Dick!" she said.
He halted then, but made no move-ment
to approach her, until she held out
towards him a small white hand.
"Dick," she repeated, "of all my
friends you aré the only one who has
not congratulated me."
"Indeed!" he answered, with a
hard smile.
T hope it is not too late. "
And touching the little fingers for an
instant only, he turned away again as if
he considered all his duty done.
Hot tears rose to Nannie's eyes,
Though from whence they sprung none
could have divined.
"You are cruel, Dick," she said.
"No," he answered, " I am kind, but
believe me, Nannie, I trust you may be
happy. Good night!''
She spoke no iurther word to detain
him, but stood and watched him walk
away.
Her eyes still followed the direction
he had taken long after his figure was
lost to her sight.
"He never loved me!" she murmured
to herself.
"He would always have been exacting
and jealous, and he never asked me to
be his wife.
"What right has he to complain?"
But the girl knew that she silenced
only her conscience, and no voice of
his, when she thus spoke.
He had uttered no reproach.
Dared she to her own soul say he
could haye found no cause for doing so?
Sydney Richards found something-amiss
with his pretty betrothed that
night.
She shrank from his somewhat too
demonstrative caress, and turned upon
him almost angiily when he asked her
to name the day for their wedding—in
fact to let I,he banns be read at once.
""Sou see, it'll soon be harvesting
time, Nannie, my lass," he pleaded, by
way of argument, "and there's no deny-ing
that the farm needs , a woman's hand
and a woman's care.
•'It's all ready for its mistress, and
why shouldn't its mistress be ready for
il?"
"Simply because she isn't your maid-of-
all-work, Sydney Bichards, to be
hirea when the season is most conveni-ent
and the demand for her most press-ing,"
was' the girl's hot reply.
But her lover bore it good-naturedly,
and just as he was leaving she penitently
let her arms steal softly about his neck,
while she raised herself on tiptoe to
whisper in his ear that he must forgive
her.
But—well, the cream had soured, and
the butter would not come to-day, and
so her temper had not borne the test.
Pardon thus sought might readily
enough be won for harsher sin, but
Sydney Bichards imposed his penalty
for all that; and so it happened that the
next Sabbath morning witnessed the
reading of his and Nannie Williams'
banns.
¡ Poor little Nannie!
But as the slow weeks passed and life
as slowly asserted itself, the doubt be-came
certainty.
Ah, well, the gossips declared again,
it was sad enough; but better it had
happened then than later, when Sydney
Bichards would have been burdened
with a crippled wife his life: long.
But Sydney himself, what did he
y?
The accident was five weeks old, and
the time fixed for her wedding had
long gone by, when Nannie sent for
him.
The lovely face was as white as the
pillows on which it rested, and the great
eyes looked larger than ever as they
met his.
"The farm has had to wait for its
mistress after' all, Sydney," she said,
with a sad smile; "but it won't haye the
mistress we had planned for it.
"You said it needed a woman's hand,
and mine are very useless hands now,"
and she held them up—grown so white
and thin.
"It isn't necessary to give you your
release from any pledge, perhaps; for of
course you understand I couldn't burden
you this way.
"But I thought you'd feel better,
maybe, if you let me tell you so my-self."
The man looked down embarrassed.
He had meant to say something like
this himself for he wished a helpmeet,
not a drawback, in his wife.
But, somehow, the words sounded
differently from Nannie's lips, and made
him feel small and mean.
Yet they were just enough, and when,
with » few murmured regrets, he left
her, the bond between them was forever
severed.
"Alone—henceferth alone and help-less!"
she whispered to herself, while
the great tears rolled silently down her
cheeks.
But she was glad, too, that it was not
Sydney Bichards' wife that spoke.
She and her pride were waging a hard
fight just then.
It had been a lucky moment that
Sydney Bichards had chosen to ask her
to become his wife.
That very day she and Dick had had
tli-ir first and only falling out.
It had been such a foolish matter,
and she had known herself quite wrong,
but she had determined that Dick
should yield, and instead he had quietly
walked away, saying—
"Nannie, when you acknowledge I
am right, send for me.
"It is only your pride that now re-fuses
to acknowlege me S9, and it is
with your heart, not your pride, I wish
to deal. Besides I have something
more I wish to say to you then."
Something more!
Ah, how well she knew what this
something more was!
As if it needed to be put into words!
As if she had not known all her life
that Dick, earnest and tender and true
as he was strong, loved her, and one
day would make her his wife, though
he little liked and illy brooked her
coquettish ways.
Indeed, on this account had been
their falling out, but she had deter-mined
this time not to yield.
And so when, a few hours after Dick
had left her, it chanced that Sydney
Bichards came to woo her, his tender
love phrases sounded very sweetly in
her ear, and she gave him her promise,
scarce conscious of all i£s import, but
glad to inflict on Dick some of the pain
trom which her heart was suffering,
"I'm going to try the new colt,
father, this morning," she said, when
it wanted but two weeks for her wedding
day.
"Better not," said tlie farmer.
" I doubt if he's ever had a woman
onhisljack."
"He would not be the first horse that
I had broken to that, "was her laughing
retort.
Tbe farmer said no more.
He had implicit faith in Nannie's
horsemanship.
But when, a little later, she came
down the stairs dressed in her habit,
she started to find Dick Armstrong,
holding the colt by the rem.
•'I had business with your father,
Nannie," he said quietly, "and the man
brought the colt round whilst we were
talking together, so I stayed to tell you
you must not ride him.
"He has a dangerous eye."
The girl smiled proudly.
'•Many thanks for your interest in
my life, Mr. Armstrong; but since you
have acquitted yourself of any responsi-bility
in the matter, I feel doubly
tempted to try the experiment."
•She stepped down beside the horse to
pat him with on«» little gauntleted hand,
a courtesy he acknowledged by impa-tiently
pawing the ground with his fore
feet,
Dick Armstrong's face paled.
Involuntarily he laid his hand on the
girl's arm.
"You must not, Narmie.it is absolute
madness."
*And if it is," she retorted hotly, "to
forbid it is Sydney Bichards' province,
not yours."
She could had used no better argu-ment
to silence him.
He had paled before, but now cheek
and lips alike were colorless, save for
one drop of blood upon the latter, where
his teeth had met.
One instant, the small foot rested in
his palm, in answer to her imperious
gesture for assistance, the next, girl
and horse had vanished from his sight,
the colt—with bit fairly between his
teeth and running like mad—running
as only a vicious horse can run, deter-mined
to rid" himself of the human
being he bears.
Dick Armstrong forgot his anger, just
though it was, forgot all save the great,
sickening dread at his heart—the dread
which was so soon to prove so fatally
well-founded—as, hastening down the
road, a riderless horse first came dash-ing
past him, and then, a full mile
further on, he met a party of laborers,
carrying in their midst a ghastly load.
At first, poor fellow, he thought it
that most terrible of ail burdens—a dead
body; but as he bent over the face, so
deathly white but for the crimson stain
upon the forehead, a faint murmur of
agony escaped her lips.
Gently these rough men bore her
home.
Almost as soon Dick was there with
the physician he had summoned; but
the latter, who had left him a full hour
without the sick-room, could minister
but little comfort on his return to where
we waited.
The girl might live, he said, though
only her wonderful health and youth
would accomplish that; but she would
be a cripple always.
Nam ie Williams a cripple!
No one could realize it as the news
That evening Dick came in.
" i o u can for jive me everything now,
Dick," she said.
"How good you have been to me all
this time.
' Sydney was here this morning, Dick,
and—ail is over between us,"
' 'You mean he gave you up, because
—because
"The coward!"
"Hush, dear!" she interrupted.
"It was I who released him.
"Why, Dick, any man would be mad
to take such a burden as I am on his
bands."
"Then I am mad!
"Oh, _ Nannie, give yourself to me,
and I will be happier with my cross
than any king that wears a crown."
"You are a king, Dick," she answered.
"Oh, my love! would that I had
proved worthy of you before it was too
late;" bat now—now it can never be!"
And plead as he might, he could not
change ker purpose.
" I love you—yes," she said, "too
well to accept now what onte.J threw
away,"
For weeks he pleaded, but Nannie
was firm, until one day he brought to
see her a young surgeon from the city
—a man who had gained wonderful re-pute,
and who told her that by submit-ting
to a dangersus operation she might
again walk.
"Is it death or entire recovery?" she
asked.
He answered—
"Yes."
"Then let me be your wife, Dick,"
she whispered In her lover's ear.
"1 shail haye that to give me strength
to recover, or I shall sleep better with
your name on thegrave above my head."
But, the operation over, Nannie woke
to life, not death, and strong and beau
tiful as in the old days, wears only a
tiny scar upon her brow to mark how
near she missed her life's happiness.
Physics IV Ilium Apparatus
The Great Russian Telescope,.
The great telescope for the Kussian
government has been completed by Alvan
Clark and sons of Cambridgeport, "Massa.,
and is ready for shipment. This mstru
ment has an aperture of thirty inches and
a local length of forty-five feet. To test it
the Olarks erected in their grounds a tem-porary
tube on a pier of brick twenty-seven
ieet high. ^ This mounting is in the open
air. A few days ago some of the astrono-mers
of the country were invited to view
the heavens through this telescope before
it is sent to Europe. It is now the largest
telescope m the world and a number ac-cepted
the invitation and visited Cam-bridgeport.
Among those attracted by the
great instrument was the astronomer of
the Providence Journal, who describes
what he saw in that paper.
The night was very cold, but still and
clear. The objects viewed by the party
were Saturn, Jupiter and the great nebula
in Orion. The view of Saturn revealed
the most delicate markings on the rings
and disc, and gave to the moon Titan, a
perceptible disc. The planet did not ap-pear
much larger than in telescopes of less
size, but the light was very brilliant,
revealing features which are rarely seen.
Owing to atmospheric or other causes, the'
definition was not as good as ill smaller
instruments. The view of Jupiter was
exceedingly fine, the wonderful cloud
coloring appearing m all its glory. The
moons appeared like planets of consider-able
size. The definition was, however,
far feom perfect and it may be said here
that there are but few nights in a year m
which the air is in snch a condition as to
give good definition in a great telescope.
The loss of definition from atmospheric
causes increases very rapidly with increase
of aperture, and the most perfect definition
is secured in small instruments of good
construction. The matter of definition
did not affect the seeing in the view of the
great nebula in Orion and this splendid
object came out in all its wonderful pro-portions.
This nebula has probably re-ceived
more attention from astronomers
than any, other object in the heavens.
Hie naval observatory at Washington has
recently issued a large volume on it, giving
drawings by the earliest astronomers.
The great telescope objective will now
go to Russia where it will be mounted by
the government for the use of Olto Struve
in the observatory of Pulkowa, nine miles
south of St.-Petersburg, , There will soon
be a larger telescope in this country, as
one ot thirty-six Inches aperture, is being
constructed for the Lick observatory on
Mt. Hamilton, California. Mr, George
Clark while in this city last fall mounting
Dr. Swift's telescope in the Warner OD-servatory,
expressed the opinion that thirty-six
inches was the limit for the present.
He believed that a second refracting teles-cope
of that size would not be made, but
the tendency would be to the use qf
smaller instruments that could be used to
greater advantage and on more numerous
occasions. There is reason to believe that
the thirty-six inch telescope will be some-what
disappointing, however perfect it may
be optically.
Gilding Clunaware ana Steel.
The application of gold leaf to china-ware,
is done either by adhesive varnish
or by heat. The varnish is prepared by
dissolving in hot boiled linseed oil ah
equal weight of either amber or copal.
This is diluted with a proper quantity of
oil of turpentine so as to be applied as thin
as possible to the parts to be gilt. Let It
stand after varnishing about twenty-four
hours, then heat in an oven until so warm
as almost to burn the fingers when handled.
Tbe heat softens the varnish, which is
then ready to receive the gold leaf, which
may be applied with a brush or pledget ot
cotton, and the superfluous portions
brushed off. Burnish when cold, inter-posing
a piece of thin paper between the
gold and burnisher, Where burning in is
practiced, the gold reduced to powder is
mixed with powdered borax glass (anhy-drous
borax \ moistened with a little gum
water, and applied to the clean surface
with a camel hair pencil. When quite dry
the article is put into a stove heated to
about the temperature ot an annealing
oven. The gum burns off, and the borax,
by vitrifying, cements the gold with great
firmness to the surface.
Polished steel may be beautifully gilded
by means of the ethereal solution ot gold.
Dissolve pure gold in aqua regia, evapor-ate
gently to dryness, so as to drive off the
superfluous acid, redissoive in water, and
add three times its bulk of sulphuric ether.
Allow to stand for twenty-four hours in a
stoppered bottle, and the thereal solution
and gold will float at top. Polished steel
dipped in this is at once beautifully gilded
and by tracing patterns on the surface of
the metal with any kind of varnish, beau-tiful
devices In plain metal and gilt will
be pioduced. For other metals the electro
process is best.
—The newest trains are the velAet
brocaded Sieiliennes, four yards long,
reaching- from the waist.
During a lecture course by professors
who have at their disposal a complete
set of physicial apparatus, there are
some experiments . performed by them
which at first sight seem very complicat-ed
but which nevertheless may be re-peated
by means of very simple objects.
There is, for instance, the interesting
Lissajous experiment, which consists,
as the reader is perhaps aware, in throw-ing
on a screen, by means of the oxyhy-drogen
lamp, the curves traced by one
of the arms of a tuning fork in sonor-ous
vibration. An analogous experi-ment
may be exhibited by means of a
common -kniting needle. Fix one of the
extremities of the needle in a cork to
serve as a base; then to the upper free
extremity attach a ball of sealing wax,
and on this gum a small circle of paper
about the diameter of a pea. Now,
holding the cork firmly between the
finger of the left hand, cause the needle
to sharply vibrate, either by bending it
far to one side and then suddenly releas-ing
it, or by striking it smartly with a
wooden ruler. The little bali of wax
surmounted by paper will be seen to des-cribe
a morefor less elongated ellipse, or
a circle, according to the intensity or
the number of vibrations. The phenom-enon
is very perceptible when care is
taken to cause the needle to vibrate
under a strong light from a lamp; and,
in such a case the persistence of the im-pression
on the retina causes the vibra-ting
wire to form an image which has
the appearance of a long and graceful
bouquet holder, or a champagne glass.
Among the experiments sometimes
performed to demonstrate melecular at-tractions,
there is one which is execut-ed
by means of an apparatus of a pecul
iar structure but the same phenomenon
may be shown m a much more simple
manner, as follows: Having cut two small
spheres out of a bottle cork, place them
on the surface of water. If one of the
balls now be carefully pushed along un-til
it is in quite close proximity to the
other, the two will be seen to quickly
rush towards each other, just as a bit of
iron flies to a magnet when the latter is
brought near it.
A writer has pointed out a neat meth-od
of obtaining an electric spark bv
means of a simple apparatus which he
calls the "tea-tray electrophorus." A
common metallic tea-tray is supported
on two dry glass goblets. A piece of
common brown paper, cut so as to be a
little smaller than the tray, and with
round corners is warmed, laid on the
table and rubbed briskly with a piece
of India-rubber, or with a clothes brush^
It is then laid down for an instant on
the tray. If at this juncture some per-son
presents his knuckle to the tray he
will receive a bright spark, which under
favorable circumstances may be a couple
of inches long. By simply putting the
paper down, touching the tray, and
again lifting up the paper, the tray is
again charged, and a large number of
sparks may be thus drawn one after the
other in rapid succession. The paper
may be lifted by the hands, but it will
be iound better if a couple of strips of
paper be fixed on with wax to serve as
handles
The sparks obtained by the tea-tray
electrophorus may produce a slight
pricking sensation, but to give a regular
electric shock will oblige us to store up
a charge in a Ley den jar. This import-ant
piece of apparatus may be improvis-ed
as follows: A round-bottomed glass
tumbler is procured—thin glass is pre-ferable—
and is filled about three-quart-ers
full of small leaden shot. If shot is
not at hand dry coal dust will answer,
though^not so well, and great care must
be taken to wipe clean the upper part of
the tumbler, Everything must he warm
and scrupulously dry. Into the shot is
inserted a silver spoon to serve the
place of a rod and knob. The tumbler
is held by grasping it well in the bottom
of the haed, so that the palm may cover
the whole of the rounded bottom. Hav-ing
thus prepared and grasped the im-provised
Leyden jar, it is to be charged
with sparks from the tea tray electrop-horus.
It should be held with the
spoon handle near to, but not touching
the edge of the tea tray, while another
person performs the operations of lifting
the paper up and putting it down, then
touching the tray, then lifting up again
and so on until a dozen sparks have
been sent into the jar. On touching
the "knob" a smart little shock is ex-perienced
in the wrists and elbows, and
a short, bright, snapping spark announ-ces
the discharge of the jar.
I ' m Not Afraid.
Mrs. Helen Williams tells the follow-ing:
Not long ago I stood by the death-bed
of a little girl, From her birth she
had been afraid of death. Every fibre
of her body and soul recoiled from the
thought of it.
"Don't let me die," she said, "don't
let me die. Hold me fast. Oh, I can't
go."
"Jenny," I said, "you have two little
brothers in the other world, and there
are thousand! of tender-hearted people
over there who will love you and taiie
care of you."
But she cried out again despairingly,
"Don't let me go; they are strangers
over there."
She - was a little country girl, strong-limbed,
fleet of foot, tanned in the face;
she was raised on the frontier, the fields
were her home; she shunned the pre-sence
of strangers with that childish
embarrassment born of a beautiful ima-gination
and faith in the possibility of
unknown manhood and womanhood in
others, based doubtless upon the coming
worth of her own womanhood. In vain
we tried to reconcile her to the death
that was inevitable, "Hold me fast,"
she cried, "don't let me go."
• But even as she was pleading, her
little hands relaxed their clinging hold
from . my waist and lifted themselves
eagerly aloft; lifted themselves with
such straining effort that they lifted the
wasted little body from its reclining
position among the pillows. Her face
was turned upward; out it was her eyes
that told the story. They were filled
with the light ot divine recognition.
They saw plainly something that we
could not see; and they grew brighter
and brighter, and her little hand
quivered in eagerness to go where
strange portals had opened upon her
astonished vision. But even in that
supreme moment she did not forget to
leave a word of comfort for those who
would gladly have died in her place.
"Mamma,'' she was say, "mamma,
they are not strangers. I'm not afraid."
And every instant the light burned more
gloriously in her blue eyes until at last
it seemed as if her soul leaped forth
upon its radiant waves, ana m that
moment her trembling form relapsed
among its pillows and she was gone.
Spencer & Hmer, of Fon Due Lac are
the attorneys for the saloon keeper, Alex-ander
McKane, who is one of the heirs to
mines m New Mexico valued at over
$1,000,000. The circumstances are as
follows : About the year 1871 Frank Mc-
Kane went from Indiana to New Mexico,
and, like nearly all men who go into a
mining country, he located à number of
claims. He was a bachelor, and lived the
life of a thriftless vagapond for several
years, when he opened a saloon, lie
maintained himself m the busir ess. not
.keeping a very elaborate place, until 1880,
when he died of smallpox, poverty-strick-en
and deserted. He had not even "a friend
left to communicate the intelligence of his
death to his Eastern relatives, if it was
known there he had any. His family, con-sisting
of three brothers, did not learn of
his death until a short time ago, a gentle
man appeared who was desirous of pur-chasing
their rights in the mines alluded
to above.
McKane's family consists of Alexander
McKane, of this city; James Mollane, of
Clay county, Indiana, where he is a col-lier;
and Samuel McKane, now confined
in the Indiana penitentiary at Michigan
City. The last was incarc rated for bur-glary,
but prolonged his term of imprison-ment
by attempang to hew a leg off one
of the prison guards. There was also an-other
member of the family, who, it was
reported, died of yellow fever in the South,
He was-a fugitive from justice, and there
$10,000 reward on his head for a murder
committed in Texas some years since.
Shortly after McKane's death it trans-pired
that some ot thè mines which he lo-cated
were exceedingly valuable, and
Brown & Young of St. Louis, set about
setting possession ol them. The Brown
of the firm is B. CJ-ratz Brown, who was a
candidate for the Vice Presidency with
Greeiey. They sent out Darnel Murphy to
hunt up the McKane heirs and buy them
off. Miirphy obtained a quit claim deed
from Jsmes McKane. m Indiana, for
$1,000. He made the same kind of a
trade also with Samuel, m the penitenti-ary
at Michigan Uiiy. He was some time
accomplishing his object with Alexander
McKane, of this city, òn account of the
peculiarities of the person with whom he
had to deal. Murphy represented that the
mines were of little value, that they were
undeveloped and involved in litigation,
that McKane's claim had been sold out,
and that he simply warted to perfect his
title to the property. Alexander is some-what
eccentric and rather. superstitious.
He was, it seems, a little suspicious, and
employed Spence & Hiner as his lawyers.
They wanted to look up the mines to as-certain
their real value, but McKane was
unmanageable by lawyers aad obstinate.
Murphy offered him $5,000, and, despite
the advice of his counsel, he took it, giv-ing
a quit-claim deed of his interest in his
brother's mining claims. Spence & Hiner,
however, had their suspicious aroused,
and made inquiries by telegraph, learning
enough to warrant beginning suit against
Murphy, before he left the city, to set
aside his conveyanco on the grout d that it
was obtained by false reprentations. Mc-
Kane repented of his rashness in giving
the deed.
Mr. Hiner afterward spent some time m
hunting up James McKane, taking Alex-ander
along £0 assist him. James retained
the firm to fight his case also. Mr. Spen.
cer has just returned from a two weeks'
trip to Mexico, looking up the legal points
in the case. He found that McKane died
possessed of a clear title to a one-half in-terest
m no less ihan five mines viz : the
Viola, the Penelope, the Windward, the
S.lrer Bell, and the Webster. Murphy had
been interested m securing titles to the
first three are worth over $1.000,000, and
have been improved to some extent. Mur-phy
transferred his tittle by a trust deed
to B. Grratz Brown, of St. Louis, acd John
E. Price, of Grant county, New Mexico.
Suits were therefore begun there to set
aside their title and the whole matter is
naw in the courts.
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One Inch, one year 8.00
Two Inches, one weelc 1 ®
Two inches, three weeSs 2*00
Two inches, six months g 00
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A Building Five Feet Wide.
The narrowest nouse 111 New York
may be seen at the northwest corner of
Lexington avenue and 82d street. When
Lexington avenue was cut through,
some years ago, a strip of land five feet
wide and one hundred feet deep was all
that was left of a certain lot belonging
to a person who did not own the next
lot on the street. Tlie strip, wliile;*of
little value by- itself, would be valuable
to the person owning the adjoining lot
on 82d street, because it would not only
enable liim to buikl a house five feet
wider, but would give him windows all
along the side of his house 011 Lexington
avenue. The two owners,. however,
could not agree as to terms, and a house
was erected on the lot adjoining the
narrow strip. Tlie owner of tlie latter
had not! ling to do but to abandon liis
lot or build a house five feet wide upon
it. Tbe latter course was perhaps
adopted because such a house would
sliut up all the side windows of the
neighboring building and considerably
reduce its value.
The new building-, which has been
finished for some months, is therefore
five feet wide, one hundred feet, deep
and four stories high. It is divided
into two houses, each fifty feet long,
and the entrance doors are, of course,
011 the avenue, as there is no room for a
door at either end. of the building.
The laws allows a building at the
corner of a street to have projecting bay
windows along the side, and taking ad-vantage
of this circumstance, the archi-tect
lias managed to plan a house
which, while peculiar in the inside ap-pearance
and probably very uncomfort-able
to live in, may find tenants. With-out
these bay windows, or square
projections ruimiiig from the founda-tions
to the roof, it would 110 tliave been
possible to build a house at all* for no
room would have been wider than three
feet. Each house has, therefore' two
bay windows, in one of which arg the
stairs and in the other one room Ibout '
eight feet wide by fifteen feet long upon
each floor.' The long passage between
the stair-well and the room is about
three feet feet wide. Each house con-tains
a kitchen eight by fifteen feet
and four rooms, eacj, of the same size,
but 011 different floors. There are also
ingeniously-placed closets at each end
of the building ancl under the stairs.
Both houses are unoccupied. One- is
offered for rent at $500 a year.
If the object of the builder of these
extraordinary houses was simply to shut
out the-light from his neighbor's build-ing,
he would probably have accom-plished
the same end at much less
expense by adopting Mr. George Kemp's
device of sheet iron shields. Mr, Kemp
did not wish the occupants of the build-ing
in the rear of his house, at No. 720
Fifth avenue, to over-look his premises,
and so he built an iron scaffolding in
his back yard, and placed iron shields
against tlie obnoxious openings, shut-ting
out air ancl light as completely as
brick wall would have done. This
arrangement has been for years the
source of no little comment from the
neighbors and passers-by.
Fulling a Tootli,
-Life in a Lighthouse,
There are horrible stories told of former
days, when a couple of men being on duty
on some isolated rock, one of them hap-pened
to die m rough weather; when the
survivor, fearful of being charged with a
crime, remained shut up in the closest
proximity to the corpse of his comrade
till the lull of the storm brought relief and
the opportunity of explanation. .Recently
we heard ot a case which might well seem
incredible were it not amply authenticated.
The watchmen on the Wolf Bock, oppo-site
the Cornish coast, were cut off from
all communication with their kind through
the dreariest months of the winter; and it
was nearly the middle of January when
ri lief reached them at last. Nowadays,
however, the light-warders in similiar
circumstances invariably consist of th! ee
at the least; and both on the light-towers
and in the light ships the men are sur-rounded
by all manner of material com-forts.
They have rooms as snug as tbe
limited structural arrangements will admit
they have ample rations of excellent food,
nor are the needs of their minds by any
neglected. Still it must be an unnatural
life at the best, and one that is perilously
fitted to nourish sombre fancies. We may
conceive that in the men who take most
kindly to the occupation, the imagination
is seldom strongly developed; but never-theless
they must be quick and intelligent.
General speaking, some moderate amount
of exercise is believed to be indispensable
to preserving the balance of the bodily and
mental powers; rnd in the dullest routine
of ordinary drudgery there are usually oc-casional
changes of scene and company.
But in many a lighthouse the occupants
are held fast by the legs, for exercise be
comes something more than effort when it
is reduced to practicing the treadmill upon
the steps of a corkscrew staircase, or to
takifg half a d<_zen steps upon a slimy
rock at low water. The crews of the light-ships
are somewhat more favorably cir-cumstanced
m this respect, since they can
do their walking on a more or less roomy
deck, and they enjoy, besides, a greater
variety of company. But the life in both
cases must be intolerably monotonous; and
to a landsman there would be little to
choose between the terrois of the one and
the other, when the sea is wrapped in im-penetrable
fogs or is being lashed into
fury by howling tempests. In a storm,
the lighthouse is in reality-the safer resi-dence
of our modern engineers, it is most
unlikely that another Eddvstone will be
swept away. Y et as the waves rush up
the slopiog sides of the tower, and toss
their tons of seething green water against
the lower courses of masonry, seeming to
shake the massive structure from the light
room to the foundation, it must need nerve
and long habit to resist the belief that the
violence of the elements may bring about
a catastrophe. As for the light ships, be-ing
moored in shallower water, thev may
be less exposed to the extreme fury of the
storms, though there is always a chance
for their being torn from their anchorage.
But, on the other hand, m even moderate-ly
bad wecther they must always be emi-nently
disagreeable places of abode. The
peculiar jerking motion, when the natural
heaving ot the ship is being perpetually
checked by the straining cables, is said to
be trying to the most seasoned of mariners.
"Weel, Bridget,'" said Margery,
'how did you get along with the doc-thur?"
Bridget—"Says I, "Och Docthur,
dear its my tooth that aches entirely,
and I have a mind to have it drawn oot,
and it piaze ye!" Says lie til me, 'Och,
murther, can ye ask me that now?'
Says I, 'Sure haye I slept day or night
these three days?' So thm the docthur
took his iron instrument in a hurry,
with as little con. arnment as Barney
would swape the knives and forks from
the tables. 'Be aisy, Docthur, says I,
'there's time enough—you'll not be m
such a hurry when your thurn comes,
'm thinking." 'O, well, says the Doc-thur,
'and ver no ready now you may
come the morrow.' Tndade, Docthur,
I'll not stir from this sate wid this auld
tooth alive in my jaw,' says I; 'clap on
yer pinchers and mind ye get houit of
the right one—ye may aizilv see it by
its aching and j amping.'
"With that he dabs a razor looking
weapon intil the mouth, and cuts up the
gums, as if it were nought but cowld
mate for hash for breakfast. . Says I,
'Docthur, what are you afther? . D'ye
want to make an anatomy of a living
creather?' 'Sit still,' says he, jamming
something like a corkscrew into 'my
jaw, and twisting the^very sow! out of
me, I sat still, because the murdering
thafe held me down with his knees and
the grip of his iron iu my lug. He then
gave an awful pull, hard enough to
wring a wet blanKet as dry as gunpow-der.
Didn't I think the day of judgment
was come till me? Didn't I see the red
fire of the pit?
" I felt my head fly off my shoulders,
and, looking up, saw something in the
docthur's wrenchmg-iron. 'Is that my
head you've got there?' says I. 'No, it's
your only tooth,' he made answer 'Maybe
it is,," says I, as my eyes begaa to open,
and by putting my hand up I found the
outside of my face on, though I felt as
if ail the ii side hade been hauled out,
I had taken a dollar to p.iy for the
op ¿ration, but I thought I'd just ax 111m
itie price, so. I says: 'Docthur, how
much may ye ax beside the trouble?'
'Fifty cents,' says he, 'Fifty cents!'
says I. 'Sure I've not been submitting
three days to that tyrant of a tooth for
fifty cents. Troth, this same tooth-puiling
is not so very expensive, and
I'm much obleeged. till ye, Docthur." •.
A Craze for Vulgar Display.
We think that the newspapers are, in a
great measure, to blame for this craze for
vulgar disp'ay that has got hold of people
of late. Every paper has its society re-porter,
and everything that is done by
Mrs. Moneybags or Mr. Goldbond is chron-icled
in the public prints. People pretend
that they dislike this publicity, out we
think that they become hardened and
rather enjoy it. There was a time when
the society reporter of the daily press got
most of .his information from the head
waiter, whom he bribed with cigars to tell
him the D-yaes of the guests, but nowa -
days the fashion reporters or chroniclers
of the doings of society are themselves
members of the sacred circle, and get
their information from personal observa-
¿ion. An entertainment was given a few
evenings ago, in New York, which was
supposed to be strictiv" private, where
essays were read and poems recited, but,
to the astonishment of ' most of those
present, five columns of the World on
the following Sunday were taken up with
a report of the proceedings, all of which-seems
to- me in very bad taste. We
suppose it comes from this strange love
of notoriety, though it may not be at all
the fault of the hostess."