Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1896, Page 27

EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, “OCTOBER 431, 1896—-TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES, SS THE. GENUINE ~ JOHANN HOFF’S TAKES HIS SLE STANDING. A California Man Who Lives tn a Sentinel Box and Never Lies Down. From the San Franciseo Coll. Jake Rogers says that he fs the only man in the world who sleeps standing up. And most likely he is right about it, although there are many men living who claim to have done {t under compulsion during the last war. Jake also says that the reason he ts so healthy !s because he sleeps the way he does. Most people, however, would prefer to have a little less health and a little more comfort. The place where Jake has his home ts not a very well populated one. It is in Mendocino county, only a few niles north- east of Los Robies, and the nearest neigh- bor is some distance from nis place. But then Jake*doesn’t want neighbors, so that feature is really an inducemeat for him. In fact. Jake says that the reason he took up his present abode was to get rid of neighbors. He is not of a very good dis- Position, and an effort to get him to talk about anything but himself will surely re- sult in failure. It {s safe to say that Jake’s house is the only one of its kind in the world. It is built to sleep standing up in, and it would be impossible for a person ‘to sleep in It any other way unless he curled up like a bear. Jake built the house himself out of boards and logs that he picked up in dif- ferent parts of the country. It is a queer- looking affair, having greatly the appear- ance of a chimney with a roof on it, and @ very dilapidated roof at that. But the shanty is a strong one, and keeps out the wet, and that is all that is required. Even the latter is not required the greater part of the year in that section. There is only one door and no windows. While the outside of the house may Icok queer, the inside looks queerer. There is only one piece of furniture, and that is what Jake calls his bed. It really Icoks more like a coffin standing on end, for it is a sort of box tilted back only a few inches from the perpendicular. It is ratied at the bottom and also at the top, so that it is immovable. The inside of it is lined with straw covered with cloth, to give It & little comfort in cold weather, Jake says. When Jake wants to sleep all he does to lie back in his box and close his eyes. He says it doesn't take him long to for- get his troubles. In the next breath he will tell you he has no troubles since he took to sleeping standing up. Jake does no cooking in his house ply because there is no room. His nary department is located under a tree a shcrt distance away. His food consists of anything he can get by begging, bor- rowing or finding. But he don’t do much borrowing since the neighbors hava grown to know him “The way I sleep is the only right way for anybedy to sleep,” said Jake, “and the sooner people come to thelr senses and do as I do the sooner disease will be stamped out of the world. The noblest animal of all is the horse, and he sleeps standing up. How dfd I come to find out that it was the right way? Oh, that is igh to answer. see. I was sick as a boy way back in Massachusetts, about seventy years ago. and nothing I did done me no sort of good. There always was som thing the matter, and ;s soon as I laid down in bed my head began to ache. But do you know I stood that for half 2 cen- tury before I got any sense into me? And then I was out in California digging for gol You me night my kead ached so bad 1 couldn’t stay in bed, and had to stand against the wall to get relief. Without knowing it I fell asleep, and when I woke up I felt like a new man. I made up my mind to sleep that way all the time, but had trouble to find a place to do it. That is the reason I moved out to this plac It's over fifteen years ago, and I have never had a sign of the old trouble, and am convinced that sleeping in bed is the caure of all the pain and disease in the world. Sleep standing up and you will be @ new man in a short time.” The strange thing about Jake's theory Is that he admits that he dcesp't rest when he sleeps standing vp. He has to do that under the trees the next day. He says that has nothing to do with his idea, though, for most people do too much work, anyhow. ee UNCLE EPHRAM’S SORROW. It Came On When He Found He Had & Bloomer Girl in His Own Family. Brom the Atlanta Constitution. Uncle Ephram was at the white heat of fege. He stcod on the corner of Broad and Marietta streets, and it was something more than impatience that caused him to toss his hoary head petulantly, and snort Ike a porpoise in a choppy sea. It was not diffi- cult to observe that there was something of more than usual impcrt weighing upon his mind, as he was inclined to disregard any questions put to him by several white friends who gathered about; but his plaint was heavy, and the spirit of the old man screly grieved. “T ain't gwine do it,” he cald, wagging his head from side to side. “I ain't gwine do it, an’ dat ain’t all, I low she'll git dem kernipshus noshuns outen dat big head bgm “fo I gits du wid her. Dat’s wha “What's the trouble, Ephram?’ asked seme one who had just stepped up. “Dat gal er mine; dat’s what it am, dat Same new-fangled, butt-headed, outdacious gal er mine, dat’s what it am.” “What's the matter with her, Ephram?” t's what I say, an’ dat’s what I waz to know—what's de matter wid her, an’ ef | yo kin sot yer head to fin’ dat out I won't | The old man stopped, gave a sudden snort and locked indifferently across the street. I at once he broke out again “I ax dis question,” he sald, “what am de gals er dis day comin’ to, kase I don't know, an’ it takes a heap er studyin’ in de dicsbunary to keep up wid dese women tolks. “I ain't got much book sense, kase dey didn't hab none er dese nigger colliges an* sich lac in my day; but I low dis, dat skule larnin’ ain't gwine do fer gals, kase ft makes "em worsen er mule colt in de green pastur. “Dar’s dat gal er mine what Jedge Andy tuk an’ sent to de stockade, an’ den she up an’ ax me if I ain't gwine pay dat fin’. No, sah, I ain't gwine do it ‘twill she take out some er dem monkey nohsuns what she got out dar at de skule and endurin’ er de exposishun. She gits out dar, she did, wid all dem big-headed niggers what talk erbout dis, an’ talk erbout dat, ‘twill dey don’t know what side dey sputin’ on. I ax her what de matter, an’ why de name er Gord she come prancin’ roun’ wid her head histed lac she got one er dese here herse bits under her chin. “Den she switch round sam’ ez er cow what got a wolf on her back, an’ she say: ““Pa, I'se er member er de Sassiety fer de Elervashun er de Kulud Ginerashun." “Dat's what she say, an’ I ‘low I elevate you_wider light’ood knot ef you sling sich stuff as dat cuten dat big mouf er yourn. An’ dat cin't all; here she come er trottin’ an’ cr switchin’, an’ she say, she do: “Pa, V'se g e ter ride er wheel." “Whar dat gal eber knows enything ‘bout ’ on one er dese tandrums, or what- I ain't hearn tell, ‘but, boss, Yassir, sah, she wuz all done wuz. & MENDELSON | rigged up worsen er rope walker on ¢ day, an’ I'll be gol darned ef she come out wid pants, lac de men hab, MALT EXTRAC MAKES AND BLOOD. - — AVOID SUBSTITUTES ~~ CO NEW YORK, AGENTS In’ dey wuz big at der bottom lac er bal- loon. I say: ‘Name er Gord, nigger gal, what dat “Den she cackle same ez er settin’ hen: “Lordy, pa,’ she say, ‘dese am bloom- ers what ladies wear ridin’ down Peachtree. All de folks what keep up wid de times has bloomers.” “Dat’s all I wants, mon. I grab hol’ ter de seat cr dem pants an’ I fotch dis here hic’ry stick down lac er batterin’ ram. ‘Bloomers,’ sez I, ‘bloomers—I'll make You bloom lac er mornin’ glory in de sun- shine ‘fo’ I gits fru.” “But it wuz jes lac keepin’ de sow in de pen ez to hol’ dat gal when she gits dem pants. “It wuz yistiddy when dey kotched her. I hearn de perlice jist now tell "bout how come it. Dey say she kum er skeedaddlin’ down Yallabemer jes’ lac de ‘lectric var. Dey tells de jedge how ‘twuz she wuz er scorchin’. = “ ‘Sedge,’ sez I, ‘I ain't ax you ter turn dat gal loose, but what I ax is, jes’ turn me loose in de sam’ room -wid her, an’ ef I don’t mek her scorch den you kin pass de Jedgmen’ on me, too.’ ; “I aint enquire fer nuffin’ mo’ ‘en ter git dis fis’ side dat butt-head er hern. But Jedge Andy he sorter laf to hissef lac, an’ he argyfy dat dat same gal er mine had ter pay % an’ costs er git in de zebra waggin an’ go ter de stockade. “Den she ‘gin ter cry, an’ she luk at me outen her eyes and she say, she does: “Pz, pleas pay me out dis time an’ I don’t do lac dat no mo.’ “Mon, it wuz all I could do to hol’ my- se’f off er her. I ain't say nuffin’, but I thinks pow'ful lots. No, sah, I ain't gwine pay it. Lain’t gwine do i The old man stopped, snorted again and hobbled toward the Westview car, which was approaching. “Dat's what I say "bout dese here new- fangled women folks,” he said. ‘“‘Dey’s worsen mule colts in er gre — EVEN WITH THE A Speculator Squares Himself With His Lawyer Creditor. From the Chicago Tribune. The lawyer had won an important case for the man. He had dabbled in stocks of one kind and another, and, hard luck hav- ing overtaken him, he had bolstered up his vanishing fortunes with $50,000 of other people's money. But the other people had troubles of their own. They had wants that needed catering to, and when they found that the dealer in stocks had invested thei, means of .sub- sistence in an enterprise that would bene- fit no one but himself they arose with a howl of righteous indignation and brought a suit for damages. That was where the lawyer had his chance. He knew the man was guilty, and he told him so, but for all that he cleared him. He charged a pretty big fee, $3,000 being a conservative estimate of the value of his services. The man paid him $2,509 in cash and promised to give him the other $500 a month or two r. That was more than three years ago. The lawyer patient- ly waited on his client for a_ year, and then put the matter in the hands of a col- lector. In the course of two years the col- lector gathered in $100, and then, as his salary was more than eating up the amount collected, the lawyer took the case from his hands and gave it to the office boy. As an incentive to energetic work he immie, there is $100 coming to me from Mr. If you can get anything out of him I'll give you half of it.” Jimmie’s eyes snapped, and he went to work. He labored diligently for three months. Every morning at 11 o'clock he would go into the office ard present his employer's claim, and so run the gamut of the other five working days, and. then:re- peat the procedure the succeeding week. The man got mad about it at first and threatened to throw the boy out of the! office, but he finally thought better of it and contented himself with turning Jim- mie away with some stinging rebuke. Jimmie kept up the daily stege till last Thursday. Then he was, sick and could not come down-town. About 2 o'clock the lawyer was in his private office holding a consultation with: two clfents when there came an imperative rat-a-tat-tat on his door. He bade the Visitot enter, and a fiead, half concealed by a shock of bushy red hair, was thrust Into the room. “Please, sir,” said a high-keyed voice, "m from Mr. + an’ he wants to kpow Why your boy ain't been over today to dun ‘im for that $100 he owes‘ you.” - —+ © + IT WAS THE COLLARETTE. Young Woman Afflictcd With One of the Ils of Autumn. From the Chicago Tribune. She is one of the most popular girls in Chicago and he is the physician who has attended her ever since she wore short dresses and long braids. She came into the down-town office the other day, her pretty nose scarlet and her eyes swollen almost shut, while her hand- kerchief was a limp bali in her hand. “Oh, doctor,” she wailed, “such a cold as I have caught!” And then she proceed«: to sneeze thirteen times without stopping. “Him, it does seem rather troublesome,” returned the doctor calmiy. “We'll see what we can do for it. “Oh, please do,” she moaned. “I am to give a tea Tuesday, and on Thursday I am to act as Anna's bridemaid, you know. Oh, de-ear,” and she went into a fresh par- oxysm of Sneezing. The doctor felt her pulse and looked at her tongue and then, suddenly, he, too, began to sneeze. “There must be a draft somewhere,” he observed. “I wish people would learn to close doors. Strange, they are all closed new." “Everybody has a cold,” wailed the fair patient between sneezes, “and I haven't done a th—atchoo—thing to give me one.” “Wear plenty of warm clothing, eh?” said the doctor. ‘How about shoes?” “Ah, er; the cold is in my head, doctor, not—" “Sol pearanc “Just as I started out today. You see, I had just heard that Emily was a perfect sight with one, and I determined to do nothing tu make myself the same. So I even went and got out my fur collarette, which was packed away, so I wouldn't ¢-catch one. Oh, oh,” and she sneezed three minutes without a pause. The doctor, too, was sneezing, and, when he recovered there was an angry gleam in his eyes as he asked: “What was your collarette packed away in?” “In black pepper; I just hate the odor of tobacco and the moths—w-why, doctor, what mskes you look so queer?’ See 2 Was He Witty or Insolent? From the Northwest Magazine. ‘The “largest living lady” from one of the side shows connected with the Sells Bros.’ circus walked ‘nto a Spokane, Wash., drug store while she was there and looked over the drugsist’s toilet display. “You don’t seem to have the kind of face wesh I'm used to buying,” she sald, turn- irg away. Fearing he was about to lose a sale, the clerk replied, with more haste than diseretion: “We've got some good giant powder in the back rcom, madam; don’t you think that will do?” When did It first make its ap- THE IMPROVISED BOW. From NOVEMBER SKIES The Variable Star Mira and the Leonid Meteors. SHOOTING STARSDUE 10 AN ACCIDENT Information About Mars Greatly Extended in the Last Four Years. AS TO THE PLANETS HE PRINCIPAL OB- jects of interest to the naked-eye star- gazer next month, aside from the con- stellations, which may readily be lo- cated with the aid of the planisphere, are the variable star Mira, the Leonid meteors and the planet Mars. The star Omicron Ceti, better known as “Mira, the Wonderful,” one of the most freakish of the varlable stars—particularly interesting because of the great range of its variabillty—is now on the point of com- ing into visibility to the naked eye, and will probably reach its maximum of bril- Nancy some time next month. It is in a particularly good position for observation, and no one who is interested in celestial phenomena should miss this opportunity of forming the star’s acquaintance and noting its eccentric‘ties. The peculiarity of Mira is this: Ordinarily {t is invisible to the naked eye, being, when at its faintest, of between the ninth and tenth magnitude. Having remained at this point of lowest brilliancy for some weeks, it begins slowly to brighten, and after awhile 1t becomes visible to the naked eye. It continues to brighten for a month or six weeks longer, when it attains a max- imum of brilllancy, which is usually that of a star of about the third magnitude. In this condition {t remains, sometimes fluc- tuating In brightness, for a fortnight or 80, and then begins to lose its luster, and in about three months it ls again beyond the reach of the naked eye. Mira runs the cycle of its change in an average period of about eleven months, though there is a considerable irregularity, in its perlod, as well as in its brilliancy, when at its brightest. Its last maximum occurred some time in January last. Ow- Ing, however, to the prevalence of cloudy weather during that and the preceding month, observers were not able to fix upon the precise date of the occurrence, nor to determine very exactly the star's greatest brilllancy. It appears to have fallen short of the third magnitude. A Shoal of Meteors. ‘ The cause of the singular deportment of this and similar variable stars is among the enigmas which science is still attempt- ing to unriddle. Upon Mr. Lockyer’s ‘“‘me- teoritic theory” Mira is not, strictly speak- ing, a “sta that is, a sun. It is simply a condensing shoal of meteors, its light be- ing due to heat engendered by the collisions of these meteors, which are assumed to be in motion among themselves, owing to their mutual attraction for one another. There are here, according to Mr. Lockyer, two such meteor shoals, circling about each other in orbits of such eccentricity that, while ordinarily the two masses of meteors do not interfere with one another. yet when they are nearest together one of them grazes or passes partially through the other. As a consequence, the collisions become more numerous and’ more violent. and we see the “star” increase in bril- Nancy. The spectroscope shows that the star’s Increase in splendor is due mainly, if not wholly, to an outburst of glowing gases, a fact which is quite in harmony with Mr. Lockyer’s theory. Indeed, this theory was based originally upon experl- ments made with the spectroscope. When shining only faintly, the star is decidedly red; but as it brightens it loses its redness, and its spectrum shows bright lines, indic- ative of luminous gases, among which is the ever-present hydrogen. Mira will be, tomorrow at 9 p.m., in mid- heavens in the southeast. To find it—or its position, for it is not now visible—first find Menkar, the second magnitude star in the snout of Cetus. This star forms, with the Pleiades and the pair of stars in the head of Aries, a triangle with nearly equal sides, To the right of Menkar ts a group of three stars, as shown on the planisphere. The middle one of these is Gamma Ceti. of the third magnitude. The lowermost, of the fourth magnitude, 1s Delta Ceti. This star Delta is almost exactly midway between Menkar and Mira. With an opera glass, a small triangle of seventh-magnitude stars may be seen in the spot here indicated. Mira will make its appearance at the cen- ter of this triangle. Keep a watch upon it. In a Strenk of Splendor. Besides planets and comets there are circling round the sun, and therefore form- ing a part of the solar system, innumera- ble minute particles of matter, too small to be seen under ordinary circumstances with even the most powerful telescope, but some of which occasionally become momentarily visible as the familiar meteor, or “shooting star.” The appearance of a meteor is due to an accident—a fatal accident for the meteor. In an unlucky moment it has tried to cross the earth's orbit and kas been struck by the earth. The collision is a frightful one, for the earth is travel- ing in its orbit at the rate of eighteen miles a second, and the meteor may be moving with an equally great rapidity, possibly in a contrary direction. Entering the earth's atmosphere with a speed of fifty or one hundred times that of a rifle ball, it quick- ly becomes heated to redness, to whiteness, and usually within a second of time it has perished in a streak of splendér. These meteors are associated into sep- arate systems, millions of them perform- ing thelr revolution round the sun in the same orbit and forming what {s com- monly spoken of as a meteoric “stream.” One of the best known of these meteor systems is that of which the orbit is an- nually crossed by the earth between the 18th and 15th of November. “This great body of meteors,” says Professor G. John- stone Stoney, in an article recently pub- lished in Monthly Notices, “traverses an immense oval orbit which near its outer- most limit crosses the path of the planet Uranus, and near its perihelion crosses the earth’s path. * * Round this great inclined orbit the meteors glide in a stream which lengthens as it moves. inward to- ward the sun, and becomes shorter during each outward journey. Where the swarm Passes the earth it is about 100,000 miles thick, and of such @ length that, though it travels at the rate of twenty-seven miles @ second, the great procession takes two years to pass us, and when its hinder part is still with us its front will have reached to between the orbits of Jupiter and Sat- turn. Nevertheless, although so immensely long, it extends over only a portion of the circumference of its own great orbit, which it takes about a third of a century to traverse. “The front of this great swarm will next reach the earth's orbit late in the spring of 1899, The earth will then be in a distant part of its orbit, but in the middle of the following November, and in November, 1900, it will pass obliquely through the mighty stream, and on each of these occa- sions there will be an astounding rain of meteors, probably for about five hours, on the whole of the advancing stde of the earth.” Known aos the Leonids. Meteors belonging to the same system al- Ways move in the same, or very nearly the @me, direction after entering the earth's atmosphere; that is to say, their luminous tracks as they are projected on the sky are parallel to one another. Yet, owing to ithe effect of perspective, they appear. to radiate from.some.common point. ‘The posi- tion of this “radiant’’ has been chosen as & convenient means of naming ach, system. These November meteors, in whatever part of the heavens they may be seen, all move in tracks which, prolonged backward, lead to a point near the star Gamma, in the constellation Leo. Hence they are known as the ‘‘Leonids.”” Although it is only at intervals of thirty- three years.that the earth passes through the main body of the Leonids, when occur those. startling phenomena ‘known. as. ‘'me- teor showers”—the last was in 1S66—there are straggling meteors along the whole line of march in sufficient number to give us annually an interesting display of this sort of celestial pyrotechnics. The mz army is now approaching the earth, though still three years distant; and it will be well toybe on the watch for the appearance of its advance guard. * x In the middle of November the constel- lation Leo rises about midnight, Meteors belonging to this! group, seea before that hour, will all appear to proceed from a Point below the horizon, in the east. The display is usually the-greatest after mid- night. All the ‘showers’! of the Leonids lave ozcurred in the morning hours—the morning of the 13th or 14th of the month. On the 27th of the month the earth will pass through another system of meteors known as the ‘“Andromedes,” their radiant being in the constellation Andromeda, near the left foot. These meteors are interes: ing because, moving in the path of Biela’s lost comet, they are supposed to be thé fragments of that body, disintegrated into a shoal of meteors. The Mars, ncar the western border of Gemint, and about midway between Aldebaran and Pollux, the lower of the two “Twins,” now figes.at.about §.p.m. Jy is, unmistakable, owing to its great brilliancy and sts well- known ruddy color. Up t0‘this date’ its motion has been “direct”’—toward the east. Tomorrow it will be “stationary.” During the remainder of the year its course will be retrograde—toward the west. Our near- est approach to the planet this year will beon December 4, six days before the date of “opposition.” Our distance from then will be, in round humbers, 56,000,000 miles. The most interesting of the reports of observations of Mars thus far received come from Flagstaff, ‘Ariz., where Mr. Percival Lowell, assisted by Mr. Drew and Mr. Douglass, began the study of the Planet with a new telescope of twenty-four inches aperture on July 23. Mr. Lowell finds things going on upon the planet just as they did at the same dute—Martian date —two years ago, or one year ago, Martian time, for the length of the planet's year is nearly twice that of ours. ‘The same “seasonal changes” are taking place and in the same order. At the last accounts he was watching the “doubling up” of seme cf the canals—a remarkable phenome- non, first observed by Schiaparelll himself, the discoverer of the canals, and seen by Mr. Lowell and other observers, taking place two years ago in a regular and or- derly way, which shows that, thoush thus far wholly unaccountable, it has some close relation with the advancing season. The Martian Water Supply. Our knowledge of Mars has been very greatly extended in the last four years. There can no longer be a reasonable doubt that, while the planet has water upon its surface, its water supply Is very small relatively to that of the earth, and that the greenish or grayish spots seen upon it sre not bodies of water—“seas’—as has here- tcfore been supposed to be the case, but are the planet's lowlands, owing their color, in part at least, to vegetation. The ex- istence of the “canals,” long doubted, has been abundantly established by the obser- vations made at Arequipa, Flagstaff, Mount Hamilton and elsewhere, and the more distinctly they are seen the more r ys- tifying they become. ;Mr. Lowell is fully convinced that they are of an artificial origin, and certainly, as they appear in the drawings of them made by those who have seen them ‘best, they are quite inex- plicable on any theory, of a natural origin. Can it be that we are:on the point of ha ing preof positive that Mars is now in- habited by intelligent beings, as it is al- most certainly the scqne of vegetable “ife and doubtless of animal life of some sort? Mercury is a fporning star, but is too near the sun to be visible, it will be in goniunetion with, the sun—superior—on the Venus now shines jrightly for a short time after sunset as ‘an evening star. Jupiter is a morning star, rising about qa merning is Saturn and Uranus gre in close company in the constellation Storpio, both near the i; be sun. Saturn will; be,jn conjunction with the sun on the 12th. Neptune is still in Taurus, about ten de- grees to the west of Mars. posidiheck a o ies A MODERN BROOK FARM. Settlement of Christian Socialists in the ‘Adirondack Mountain: From the Boston Evening Transcript. Away up in the ‘Adirondacks at one of the highest points where a hotel is to be found —2,000 feet above the level of the sea—is a log camp devoted to the gatherings of a summer community, Upon visiting this lo- cality during the past season I was inter- ested -to find this little settlement. The houses are very striking in appearance, bearing a close resemblance to a Swiss chalet, their pretty curved roofs appar- ently quite mossy grown. The latter seem- ed marvelous at first, knowing that the cottages had. been recently. built, when upon a nearer approach I discovered that Planets. the moss effect is produced by a well-se- lected green paint. The twenty acres on .which the houses are located are owned by Miss M. of New York, tho founder of the settlement, and are upon a small plateau futting out from among the foothills Gr Mount Hurricane, commanding one of the finest mountain views of the Adirondacks, Mount Marcy, the highest peak; the Giants, and others being close at hand. This settle- ment is known as Summer Brook. It was started during the sum tier of 1585, and carried out somewhat on the plan of Brook Farm, which had its beginning in 1836. Like the latter, the members were all of cultivated families. They met together BY invitation to spend the summer according to the methods of fraternal co-operation— working, walking, studying together. Two servants are employed at Summer Brook, and with that exception the members do all the work, which equally divided does not require more than two hours a day of each one’s time. The washing was done by the ladies, the men assisting at the wring- ers. The special work of the men, how- ever, comprises what might be called the agricultural duties, caring for the fields and gardens and picking berries. In the main house is a large entertain- ment hall which is almost too vast and full of variety to describe. The floors are of hard wood, the fireplaces are suggestive of “ye olden time;” much of the furniture has @ rustic effect, as some of the pieces and doors heve panels of rough birch bark. At the end of the hall facing Mount Marcy is an immense plate glass window affording the best possible opportunity of studying a gathering storm or the glories of a moon- light night. In common with the Brook farmers the members of this settlement are largely socialists, and with their predeces- sors they believe in reorganizing society on a new basis, to reduce hours of toil so that all people will have sufficient time for self- improvement. In the words of part of the constitution of Brook Farm, they believe that humanity trained by these long cen- turies of suffering and struggle is at length prepared to enter into that order toward which it hes perpetually moved; thus also it is perceived that the present has its own high mission, that its only salvation lies in reorganizing society according to the un- changing laws of human nature and of universal harmony. In these days of in- tense individualism the socialist must work out h‘s own destiny, and as a spark of fire is produced by friction of matter with other similar matter, so the spark of eter- nal truth 1s frequently established by mind coming in contact with mind. Probably the best-known member of the Summer Brook settlement was Mr. Henry D. Lloyd, author of “Wealth versus Com- monwealth;” next is Mr. W. D. P. Bliss, formerly pastor of the Church of the Car- penter, Boston. Mr. Bliss, as many of your readers know, stood for Christian socialism, trying to teach that the relations which Christianity tries to establish between man. and man are indicated in the words, “Love thy neighbor,” and trying at the same time to show that In consequence of our present competitive system our interests are en- tirely hostile. The joyfully exhilarating Adirondack air, together with the harmony which seemed the atmosphere of the place, had a telling effect apparently upon the physical and mental condition of the members; every- body looked as if he were in the best of health and spirits. The Summer Brook houses are now closed for the winter months, to reopen by June 1 of next year. ——_—+ e+ ____ The best and latest news of the most re- liable character from all points of interest will be found in The Star next Tuesday afternoon. ———— ODD BREAKS OF SPEECH. Object Lessons in Careless Arrange- ment of Words. From the Ram's Horn. A coroner's jury in Maine reported that: “Deceased came to his death by excessive drinking, producing apoplexy in the minds of the jury.” An old French lawyer, writing of an es- tate he had just bought, added: “There is a chapel upon it in which my wife and I wish to be buried, if God spares our lives.” On a tombstone in Indiana is the follow- ing inscription: “This monument was erect- ed to the memory of John Jinkins, acci- dentally shot as a mark of affection by his brother.” A Michigan editor received some verses not long ago with the following note of ex- planation: “These lines were written fifty years ago by one who has, for a long time, slept in his grave merely for pastime.” A certain politician, lately condemning the government for its policy concerning the income tax, is reported to have said: “They'll keep cutting the wool off the sheep that lays the golden eggs until they pump it dry.” An orator at one of the university unions hore off the palm where he declared that “the British lion, whether it is roaming the eserts of India or climbing the forests of Canada, will not draw in its horns nor re- tire into {ts shell.” A reporter in describing the murder of a man named Jorkin said: “The murderer was evidently in quest of money, but luck- fly Mr. Jorkin had deposited all his funds in the bank the day before, so that he lost nothing but his life.”” A merchant who died suddenly left in his bureau a letter to one of his correspond- ents, which he had not sealed. His clerk, Seeing it necessary to send the letter, wrote at the bottom: “Since writing the above I have died.” An Oklahoma editor expresses his thanks for a basket of oranges thus: ‘“We have re- ceived a basket of oranges from our friend Gus Bradley, for which he will please ac- cept our compliments, some of which are nearly six inches in diameter.” The Morning Post in 1812 made the fol- lowing statement: “We congratulate our- selves most on having torn off Cobbett’s mask and revealed his cloven foot. It was high time that the hydra head of faction should be soundly wrapped over the knuckles.” «An English lecturer on chemistry said: One drop of this poison placed on the tongue of a cat is sufficient to kill the strongest man,” and an English lMeutenant sald that the Royal Niger Company wished to kill him to ‘prevent his going up the river until next year. A clergyman in an English town warned his hearers lately “not to walk in a slip- pery path, lest they be sucked, maelstrom- like, into its meshes!” ‘This metaphor sug- gests that of another clergyman, who prayed that the word might be as ‘a nail driven in @ sure place, sending its roots downward and its branches upward.” The present Duke of Leeds is reported to have accused the late governinent of mak- ing a direct attack on the brewers by means of a side wind. It was during the late administration that one of the Irish whips telegraphed to Dublin that “the silence of the Irish members would be heard in the house of commons no longer.” It was the celebrated Sergeant Arabin who, at the central criminal court, informed the prisoner before him that “if there was a clearer case of a man robbing his master that case was this case,” and, after pass- ing sentence, concluded: “I, therefore, give you the opportunity of redeeming a char- acter irretrievably lost.” In the Irish house of commons of 1795 during a debate on the leather, tax the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir John Par- nell, observed that “in the prosecution of the peasant war every one ought to be ready to give his last guinea to save the re- mainder of his fortune.” Mr. Vandeleur replied “that a tax on leather would press very heavily on the barefooted peasantry of Ireland.” At a recent temperance gathering an orator exclaimed: “The glorious work will never be accomplished. until the good ship ‘Temperance shall sail from one end of the land to the other, and with a cry of ‘Vic- tory! at each step she takes, shall plant her banner in every city, town and village of the United States.” Another speaker eaid that “All along the untrodden paths of the future we can see the hidden footprints of an unseen hand.” “We pursue the shadow, the bubble bursts and leaves the ashes in our hands.” ————-~+e+. Sarcasm. From Our Animaf Friends. Sarcasm generally doesn’t pay, unless it be of the pleasant kind used by an Irish- man to his employer—a coal dealer—who proposed to discharge him because ‘he couldn't learn anything.” “Well, I've learned one thing since I've been with you,” said Pat. “What's tha’ “That eighteen hundred make a ton.” Pat was retained. ——_——-ree_. ‘There are many interesting issues in the present campaign, but the issues of The Star on election day will be simply a reve- lation in modern journalism, | | rheumatic cholia and The Voice of Health calls the invalid to Carlsbad, for many do not know that the natural Carlsbad Spru- del Salt (produced by evaporation at the Springs and obtainable at any druggist's) is identical with the natural waters in action and results. for diseases of the stomach and liver; for Anzmia with Constipation, Chronic Catarrh of the Stomach, Liver Complaint, Bile or Jaundice. The indigestion of obese and gouty or persons is usually cured by Carlsbad Sprudel Salt, while the melan- 27 It is nature’s specific eavy feeling from dyspepsia is soon relieved. Be sure you get the genuine imported article ; the neck of every bottle bears the signature of the EISNER & MENDELSON CO., Agents, New York. BLACKSMITH AND PREACHER, An Illiterate Tennessee Evangelist Who Has Had Great Success. From the Knorville Tribune. The Rev. Tom Sexton, the blacksmith preacher, who is known to thousands of people throughout east Tennessee, has been preaching the Gospel for eight years and never went to school a day in his life. This man has an interesting career; in fact, it is remarkable. He is now just forty years old, and during the coming winter he is going to take a study course, and some day he will doubtless be one of the leading evangelists of the country. His home is in Maryville, where he has a wife and a family of little ones. Few people who are natives of Blount county and who saw Tom Sexton grow up to manhood ever dreamed that he would be a minister of the Gospel. He was born near Clarksville, Ga., and is the son of John Sexton, who was a veteran black- smith. In 1870 the Sexton family located in Blount county, and the old man opened a small blacksmith shop alongside the Knox- ville and Augusta railroad track, about three miles beyond Rockford. Here he re- mained until a few years before his death, which occurred seven years ago. “Sexton's shop” was known far and wide; in fact, it was the only one in that neck of the woods for several years. Tom grew up around the shop, and about all he learned was the trade of his father. When he became of age he was married, and soon after opened a shop for himself at Maryville, but later moved to Rockford, where he spent at least ten years of his life. He was known over the country as an habitual drunkard, and was often in trouble, neglecting his bus- iness to a great extent. One day he had been to Kncxville, booz- ing pretty heavily, and thought the train had left him, so he attempted to walk home. Out near the Knoxville and Augus- ta junction he sat down upon a crosstie and when the train came along he refused to get up, and the consequerce was that he was knocked into a ditch, but not se- riously hurt,-and was picked up and taken to his home, which then was in a little frame hut just beyond the Rockford depot. Another time he was. going hcme late one night, riding horseback, and rode his horse off into a ditch, the animal falling on him, ard neither was able to get up until a man came along and took the animal off the man. Another time he drove a blind mule into the river, having in the buggy his wife and children, but it happened none of them was killed. Eight years ago Tom professed religion and determined to lead a beiter life. He concluded that he had been called to preach, and so at Morgantown, in Loudon county, he preached his first sermon, and from that day to this he has kept’ con- Stantly at it. In Knoxville he has held four revivals and had 390 conversions. Dur- ing all his life of drunkenness he says hii good wife prayed for him, and never did he doubt her religion, and since he became @ preacher she has taught him to read and Write. Since then he has had a strong de- sire to attain more knowledge, but has never had the time nor the means. He is now preaching throughout east Tennessee to get money enough to support his fam- ily for three months during the winter, while he puts in that time in studying. Some of the college professors at Mary- ville have agreed to give him instructions and to hear him recite. While in the city one day last weck he said that he was just going to cast off all care and do nothing but study. Early in the fall he will open a big revival in Knoxville, and what money he can make will go toward keeping his family while he 1s studying. From the St. Louis Republic. One of the most erroneous of the many queer ideas which the layman has on the questions of natural history is the one respecting the elephant’s mode of sleeping. Even the old school of naturalists declared that the elephant had never been known to sleep except in a standing position. Of late, however, say within the last cen- tury, it has been learned that the error came about by persons studying the habits of such beasts as had not been long in captivity. Such animals when under- going the process of domestication, have been known to stand for twelve, eighteen or even twenty-four hours without once lying down to sleep. This is regarded as a want of confidence in their keepers, coupled with a longing for liberty. While elephants are at perfect ease and recon- ciled to their fate, they will lie down on their sides and sleep as all other beasts do. —_-++. The New One. - From Life. Little Kansas Boy—“And is heaven such a beautiful place, mamma?” “Yes, Willie. Why, in heaven the streeta are paved with silver.” THE ONLY WAY IN Fron Life. = THESE SKEPTICAL TIMES,