The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 4, 1891, Page 6

coed A SENTIME? TAL SPOOK. le Gt citing Remark t Story Whiel is Ex- Hancock County. Til. of this —The is shoeked Carthage, Jan. 27 munity ¢ city beyond measure over an occurrence | that exceeded in the history of the On C. Bostone, un exemplary young man died bed ma most startling profession of faith,iu which he declared that he yet hoped anything of the kind oldest inbabi- tant. and on his death de a a number of young men in the neigh- borhood would turn into better paths. Last Wednesday “Aut” Wright was feeding his horses at the night as barn, an apparition appeared before him which looked like a Wright halloed at the disappeared. Sunday night Wright was returning while passing a lonely strip of road a form dressed in stepped out of a hedge fence inte the road in front of the horses. The an imals reared and plunged with fright but the spook caught each one by the bridle rein, saying ‘Whoa, Char ley; whoa, Frank.” The animals seemed to recognize their names, for they sauk down on their haunches and trembled with fear. The appa- rition then climbed up on the buggy tongue and walked along it until the dashboard was reached, then it said: “Why, “Aut” don’t you know Lewis Bostone? Shake hands with me.” Wright, though terribly frightened took the profferred hand, and said it was as cold and clammy as that of a young man. from church, and long white robes corpse. Wright then attempted to drive his team along, but the spook said: “Wait, I want to talk with you, and if you will only listen to me amo ment I will never bother you again ° Young Wright says he sat along side of the horrible apparition, which, he swears, was the dead body of Lewis Bostone returned to life, while the spook delivered messages to loved ones and friends, mostly of a religious nature. Wright has so far refused to repeat what Bostone’s spook told him. Finally the spook said. “ ‘Aut, I must go back Iam call ed, Oh! I must go back; don't you hear the angels calling? Good bye.” And the spirit vanished. Last night while young Wright was do ing chores around the barn the same npparation appeared. “Go way,” cried Wright. “I don't want to see you; go away, go away, I tell you. “I want to say just one word more,” said Bostone. “I don’t want to see you,” cried Wright, and in a fit of desperation threw a single tree at the object, which passed through it as though the body were a mist. The long white-robed thing moved away weeping bitterly and crying: “I want to say one mere word.” It is new revealed that Mrs. An- drew Wright, mother of “Aut,” who has been quite ill for some weeks, was the first victim of the appari- tion. She was in the barn yard ove evening about three weeks ago, when she was heard to utter the most piercing screams. She was found prostrate in an insensible con- dition and removed to the house. Delirum followed in which she mut- tered the names of Bostone,” repeatedly. still quite sick. The apparition has caused the most intense excite-| ment through all the eastern portion The lady is | of the county. Reuben Bostone, father of the dead boy, was seen by areporter this morning. He isa well-to-do and intelligent farmer. “Do you believe this to be your son, Mr. Bostone?” “I believe it is Lewis. He a yood boy and had the welfare of his your g friends at heart. I) wish * Aut” Wright would tell what Lewis tod him. I believe he has wonder things to tell.” “Have you ever seen the app: ri- tion. “No, but it must be Lewis. To-day the strange affair is the top- ic of conversation in Carthage. and future visitations from the spock 2 awaite ! with great interest. It looks as if Senator Gorman bad heard ths buzzing of the Presid n- tial bee and was bidding for poy ue larity. It is given out that he wis once an enthusiastic base ballist. come | Thanksgiving day Louis | object anc it | “Leuis—Louis | | A NEFARIOUS AR The Professional Vickpocket and How He | Kelieves His Victims of Valasties. “There is no renowned thi who as dexterous as pich is due toa double incentiv does your pickpocket la fort and exertion in success, b added spur are . This Not onl fore it has the Ire. Suecess a fe means as much an , and fai A vocation | slip means loss of liberty. of life, mor and, perhaps, a de will ever be apt of expertness in its o have rs not ent in more rc puta nucs of trade. “Pick pock not m and yeta Pnsitive band must Le as ¢ and accomplishments jand as strong a down. Outs lity who only do bee the nobi erenced by the bn one | sneak, and the ‘ec class than pickpocket while not as constant as tuat of fessor of the pace with the proce No sooner does some jeweler invent a new fasten- ing for diamond pins or studs than these men of finest touch devise the motion which evades its purpose. “The chief object of a pickpocket after certainty is speed. He can not dally with his victim by the hour. What he does is to be over ina flash. Speak- ing of pins and studs, there has never been a fastening so complex but the expert thieves could defeat it in a mo- tion. They do in their business as fine work as any Houdin, and the thief bim- self could not analyze or explain its de- tail His powers of execution have gone far beyond his power of pereep- tion or relation. “A pickpocket consults his owr a y at work is » famed pro- Ile keeps viol or ous condition constantly. Nof ever has such a time with he as this aristocrat of the ou 3 does not feel right he won't When he does, Vve known one impulse to take a car on some dressed and we hy ~ ‘t, and himself side to the window, sur shirt front of every -be passenger asthe car came up. ‘The moment one stowed a diamond in his linenor cravat the thief would hurry to the platform to get off. He would time his maneuy- ers so as to mect his man on the step of mula the car. They would collide. The thief's hat—a stif silk or derby—is in his left hand, and covers his dexterious right, which is put forward to protect its owner inthe collision. It touches the newcomer right where the diamond sparkles, and it is still covered by the hatin the other hand. With an apolo- gy the thief steps out of the way. ‘Ihe whole affair is the tenth part of a see- ond, but as he pows his regrets he has the diamond in that mysterious hand of his, and, as I have said, he could not detail the moves by which he attained it, even if he should try.”— Kansas City Star. ‘ SAVE THE COAL. How to Bualtd Fires and Economize in the Use of Coul, In no branch of household economy is there greater need of discretion and care than in the maintenance of fires, especially coal fires. There are two sources of loss: 1. The quantity of un- burned coal often raked down and car- ried out with the ashes. 2 The effort to prevent excess of heat by making but a very little fire, which needs con- stant stirring and feeding, yetis always either too weak or too strong, while scarcely half of tle coal is actually consumed. It is best to make up at once a brisk, strong fire, narrowing or widening the space occupied by it in the grate according to the weather or the work. If there is no special provision for this narrowing, it can be easily accom- plished by filling the ends of the grate- chamber with ashes or bricks, more or less according to the need. This tends to save the stove and its lining. Hav- ing the space to be occupied by the fire entirely clear, as well as the ash-pit be- to secure quick and full combustion of the coal placed over it. This coal must be in lumps, well-sifted from any slack; if it is hard coal (anthracite) much kindling must be used. because a high degree of heat is necessary to inflame it; but as it does not cake, but remains in free lumps, giving free passage to the air which is necessary to support and continue combustion, it makes a very hot and lasting fire. By closing the lower damper to cut off the air-sup- | ply the rate of burning is reduced. and it can be still further moderated by cov- ering the tup of the fire with fine cvai or slack— *"ba g up the fire,” as fur- nace men A moder e can} twelve HOuS o ore out any Stirring or any care, and certainty. W cite coal is of soft coal as e is well established (as in the evening, when the fire is chiefly needed to preserve a plant-house or other rooms from frost during the night), and this is a cheap and very easy of safely securing it without any watching or work of any sort until morning. The coal, being un- disturbed, burns to complete ashes with- out any waste, and if these are raked outin the morning, or at any interven- ing time, a good, bright fire is ready in , avery few minutes for any sort of work. The late afternoon is the best time to clear the grate and the ashpit, and to Start a fresh, keen fire of the size pro- portionate to the probable weather for the coming night and morning.—N. Y. Tribuna a good fire of iked >» with soon as the Stood Corrected. Amenities on a street corner “Tam told, sir, that you said yester- day that I ought to be plaeed in a luna- tic asylum.” A base slander, my dear sir, I assure you; what I did say, and I like te be | exact, was that the keepers should never | have allowed you to escape. “—Judge. ‘ said a | low, good dry kindling is put in, enough | | THE POTATO BLIGHT. A Minute Plant Belonging to a Well- Known Class of Fangi- e pe | Paternoster Edmond J. M’ Wee USSES point o a forest of de whiteness, licate stems of sparklin each of which as it ee ves off two or more lateral branches, | while toward the top there a lose togeth 4 tiny veget pearan d ous egg-shi nd its apex.” Microscope pest invar nal then, this brings famine to whole counties is a thing of beauty. Moreover, its powers of reproduction are marvelous. Minute, active bodies, called zoospores, do the mischief, and, accord- ing to one calculati line of leaf surface cove 1 hyphoe would probably bear about twenty thou- | sand zoosporangia, each son- tains from eigi at which of which © Len ZO0s it may be asked, do th produce widespread certain years, us in ‘90, while in others they mant? = Ey ‘Season there are probably a plants blighted—a of flelds in a on would put br—but t disease does S hot seem to spread, and the slight loss due of ful examination number potato ond do to th’s cause passes un- meteorc ve state ¢ he tells set of conditions mu: most, us, a st be cess of moisture, without w in most cases impossible for sporangia to ge nate, equal- ly impossible for the resulting zoo- spores to travel from leaf from plant to plant. to leaf and dno doubt Phe wit carries some spores; and the insects, es- pecially flies, are responsible for the transport of oth But a dry wind would probably be alto the gonidia; and as insects are perhaps equally prev- alent each year, their influence may for present purposes be neglected. The main meteorological condition is rain, and the writer is convinced that it is to the wretched weather during July and August of this year that we must at- tribute in great measure the widespread destructien of the potato harvest. CHINESE ALLIGATORS. Some of the Remarkable Peculiaritie: with Which They Are Credited. ‘The chief use of the N'go among the Chinese, not only in olden times, but to- day, isin medicine. But, as you must first catch your alligator before convert- ing him into drugs, elaborate methods of chase are given in some of these old books. A work entitled the “Pen Tsao,” ignoring the question of how to catch the alligator, suggests a quaint recipe for killing it: ‘‘Pour boiling waterdown its throat; after a certain time it will die; then you can peel off the skin.” The Venetian traveler, Marco Polo, wrote about these alligators; but his information was apparently set down from hearsay only. He, too, recom- mends the use of the body in medicine; the gall, he says, is an excelent remedy for the bite of a mad dog. But its use is not confined to this disease, for there is hardly a complaint to which Chinese flesh is heir that it will not cure. This reminds us of certain pills and draughts whose names will occur to every one, which are said to perform a like func- tion in the nineteenth century. Not only is this alligator useful when dead, but it has its uses when alive: its bel- lowing foretells rain: and perhaps there is some truth ‘in that statement. Another old traveler, Martini, relates a curious use to which these reptiles were put. In a certain part of China was alake in which were kept herds of | alligators. When his crime could not | be definitely brought home to asup- posed criminal, the unfortunate indi- vidual was thrown into the lake, in order that the reptiles might decide his guilt or innocence. If innocent, he was jet alone: but if guilty, devoured. This test savours somewhat of the ordeal by water for witchcraft; in both cases the results must have been somewhat uni- i e discovery of ligator in China was madeso by the late Consul Swinhoe and by Pere David and ee it is not really so ‘St appear that Al r powers of ming, ani can exist fora od without food. Within the last few days a crocodile.which must have swum for some hundreds of mi ed as having been seen at Islands. rocodiles have ’S. Was record- the Cocos A somewhat longer s an adventurous alli at the mouth of the Yang-tse river within a reason- ably short period after leaving his an- cestral home in America. But there is no need to posta even this feat of endurance, for there is a natural bridge, now incomplete, which once must have connected the American and Asiatic would land contiments) By this route, in earlier! times, when the climate was warmer, | alligators may have migrated and per- manently settled in North China, where they are now met with, though nowhere else in the Old tVorld. —Chambers’ Jour- Ral. noticed. Dr. selieves that | the causes of tb ies of the y | mentioned are to und in two- SCHOOL AND CHURCH. the United | St ou than s in the Ch 1 1 a3 220, 000 against 144,000 in IN76. —During the past two years Minne- sota and Wisconsin have more than 1. 2001 Libr: aries for the districts More than one-half of this is Great B »Uni enee such as is begotten in y parasitic is the au- man being the f. 1 hermit-er is to be depen least a "s supply. —Prof. en monarehical Europe may teach us some useful lesson with regard to pro- moting the interests of ‘the sovereign people.” Austria, for example, ruled by a Hapsburg, has gardens attached to many of the pu nd private schools or the practical instruction of the pu- i within her twelve British can, al yore than 7,- is estimated nd native, and $00,000 ersity has received Crecker Alexander, late Charles Crocker, of . a valuable gift consisting of 1 upon the structure, The cost 1 of its kind in the [be used f commencement pus. the most znd best- untry, will exercises is of univer- life —The French nstruction hav dates of both se iave the lite venty ties over publie decreed that candi- <es for diplomas shall re of the nineteenth ed in their curriculum substi n place of Montaigne and Chateau- wriand. Thiers, Michelet and Victor Lugo are to be taken up, and even Al- ide Musset, which latter introdue- on has given rise to considerable dis- ussion. Professors wno have to in- struct candidates for educational ap- ointments will ‘exclude from their ‘lasses every thing in contemporary iterature which savors of seeking after ffect, sophistry and feeble and un- :ealthy pretentiousness. They will vanish all books of a tendency toward sarcasm or skepticism.” RECENT INVENTIONS. \ Kew Odd Articles of Convenience Lately Contrived, An inventor bas just patented a paper est. Paper, as is well known, is anon- ‘onductar of heat, and the new waist- coat is said to be an excelent thing to vear when the thermometer is below ero. One of the most singular of recent vatents is a rocking-chair washing ma- ‘hine. The rocking-cnair, which is ‘laced in a tub inwhich are water, soap snd t e clothes to be washed, hasa rack mits rockers provided with a grooved voller. The wash-tub has projections m its vertical ends, and allows of the nll play of the rocker of the chair. The esult of this arrangement is that the nother of the family can rock her child osleep in her arms and at the same ime be washing the family linen. Persons traveling by rail can now make hemselves very comfortable by the use ‘f a patented portable elbow frame. These can be fixed so as to give the ef- “ect of the most cosy arm-chair, and the fatigue of a long journey is thus mate- jally diminished. These elbows can e folded when not in use and weigh under three pounds. A new device, which is adapted cither for a bed or bath-room, it a portable shampooing ‘pparatux. This patent applies toa eservoir to bold either hot or cold wa- ver, and fitted with a spray um projectinz from the reservoi arm is movaole, so that itcan be ‘turned iown, leaving a mirror. w is fitted n the reservoir, clear for shavi poses or for general use. ‘his hampoo is made entirely of ich handy metal, h bands free ise, anc i to any desired height any She Hur cin one of the fam- isa we sof onder of obedi- ence and She was up stairs and hé s vAunt Mary, here; I want you to hurry. too.” Aunt Mary started with more effort at haste than actual success. She had lefta bitof soap on one of the h ir steps, and it sent her bumping down the stairs ina most startling manner. 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