Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 3, 1897, Page 2

A TRAGIC WOOING. ARSON,” I said in- voluntarily, stoop- ing to knock the ash from my cigar, “perhaps I ought not to ask, al- though I _ have known you for = nearly three years, put is it usual for a wife to wear two wedding rings?” He had just lowered Dead silence. his violin, after a very soft solo—for it was considerably past midnight when I ventured that curious question. There thad been an evening party, and, as I was to stay at the house till morning, Carson's wife had said “goof night” and left us to finish our inevitable smoke and talk. His mouth twitched @ little, but it was some time before he retorted in a low tone: “Is it usual for a man under 40 to have hair as white as mine?” “Well, perhaps not—but I thought you attributed that to some shock or other. What has that to do with— with the two rings?” “Everything.” He listened at the door for a moment, turned down the lights, and then came and sat down, spreading his hands over the fire. “Two rings? Exactly, one is the ring I put on her finger when I married her; the second was put there by another man—and will stay there as long as the first.” “Never mind, now,” I said. His voice had trailed off huskily. “I had no idea there was any tragic element behind the fact.” “Tragic? Heavens! It was more than that, Arthur,” he whispered, turning up a drawn face. “I never meant to touch upon it, but when you spoke it «ame back with a rush as vivid as if I had been standing at the mouth of the old north shaft again. And that was six yeers ago. . “You've heard me speak, at least, of the mine itself—the Langley mine, in Derbyshire. } had only been assistant surveyor at the pits there for about mine months when it happened, At 9 o'clock that morning, Arthur, three of us stepped into the cage—old Jim Hal- liday, the foreman; his son Jim, and myself. The men had gone down an ‘hear before. I shall never forget that young Jim’s sweetheart had walked over to the pit with him, as she occa- sionally did. They were to be married im a-week or two,,and she—and she had on her finger the ring that he had bought in Derby the day before—just for safety's sake, or perhaps out of womanly pride. I recollect that just a@s the chain clanked and the winter sunshine was disappearing overhead’ be shouted out a third ‘good-by!’ to her —ittle dreaming that it was to be “good-by.’ Little enough old Halliday and I thought that days would elapse ‘before we emerged into God’s sunlight again! “A new vein had been bored the year before and then abandoned because it ran im the direction of the river. We three had had instructions to widen it for a space of 300 yards—a piece of work that had occupied us nearly a month. Old Jim picked and young Jim wheeled the coal away to the near- est gallery, from where it was carried ever rails to the bottom of the main shaft. ““f think it’s as near as possible, Mr. arson,’ old Halliday said. ‘Jim, give another count; we don’t want the water -evming in.’ STAGGERING TO AND FRO. “Jim went back. We could hear him Singing out the paces in his light- hearted fashion as he returned, his woice echoing through the long gal- feries. ‘Two-sixty-eight—pooh! you’re miles off it, dad!’ He was only a score ef yards off, though. Two-sixty-nine - - - two-seventy-four. It'll allow # full twenty yet, I reckon.’ “He had just finished his count when —but trere, no man could properly de- cribe it. It was something one had to realize for himself before he could understand a bare half of the sudden fterror that whitened our lips and seemed to bring our hearts to a stand- till. There was a rumbling in one of the distant galleries and a sickening tremble of the ground underneath us; then—then the most paralyzing sound, E do believe, that is to be heard in this world. How or why ,it happened is something to be placed among the host of unsolved mysteries; but there was one grinding, splintering roar as though the earth had split into pieces. “Before we could stir hand or foot to save ourselves—before we could even take in that an explosion had oc- curred while we Were guarding against another sort of danger—down thun- dered a mass of coal, tons upon tons of ft, that blocked up the only passage leading to the shaft. It just reached young Jim; standing where he did, he was struck down—we heard his screech ‘stifled beneath thedebris. For about five more seconds the earth seemed to be theaving and threatening universal chaos; then all became still as a tomb. “A tomb? We had our lamps; old Jim and I,looked and saw that we were at off from the rest of the world. » “What ‘happened next I hardly know; I was stupefied with the shock, sick with a mortal fear of death. He and I stood staring mutely at each other. The one thing I recollect is that his face was gray as marble and that a line of froth stood on his lips. “He was the first to come back to sense. He gave one choking cry of ‘Jim! and staggered forward to that black pile. The boy’s hand was stick- ing out from the bottom of it, clutch- ing convulsively at nothing. I sank down and watched, in a sort of dreary fascination, as old Jim, uttering strange cries, tore at the mass in a mad frenzy. God help him! Jim was the only thing he had in the world to love. In less than five minutes he had dragged him out, and sat down to hug him in his arms. Dead? No; he could just open his poor dust-filled eyes in answer to his father’s whispers, but we knew at once that he would never again make the galleries echo his piercing whistle. “For whole hours, I suppose, neither of us attempted to realize our situation. We sat on in dead silence, waiting for something to happen. Once or twice we saw young Jim’s blackened lips move feebly, and each time his father would mutter brokenly, ‘Ay, my pre- cious boy, we'll look after her!’ Once the old man broke out, quaveringly, into a hymn, ‘Abide with Me!’ but he got no further than the third line. That, perhaps, was about 8 o'clock, but we could keep no count of the time, as my watch had stopped. Hour after hour must have gone by, and still old Jim sat, with rigid face and staring eyes, clasping his burden. In all probability it was morning above ground before at last he spoke. “‘How long can we hold out, Mr. Carscn? I’m feared to go. I’ve been a godless man all my time.’ “That roused me. I examined our position carefully. The passage was about eight yards wide at this point, and measured about twenty paces from the end to where that solid wall of coal blocked our path to the outer world. As the bore ran level with the foot of the north shaft we were about forty feet below the clear surface. We had no food, and our lamps would burn, say, another five or six hours. oes “I think I must have fainted. I do not seem to recollect any more until the moment when I became conscious of my mate’s hard breathing over me, and of the fact that his hand was feel- ing—or, so it seemed—for my throat. I dashed him away, panting under the shock of this-new horror, “ ‘Jim,’ I gasped, ‘for heaven's sake, keep sane! If we're to go, let us die like men!’ “No answer; I heard him crawling away, and that was all. The dead si- lence was only broken by a faint trick- ling sound. Trickling! Yes; I put my hand to the level, and found half an inch of water. . . . And hotter and more stifling grew the atmosphere. Praying hard to myself, I realized now that should no help come, only a few hours could lie betwixt us and the end. And then—old Jim might go first, and I should be left. Nay, I was already practically alone; the fear that was slowly whitening my hair had turned old Jim’s brain. “He suddenly sent up a peal of de- lirious laughter. ‘Water! Who says water? Why, mates, I’m swimming in it! Here’s a go!’ “Presently he began creeping round to find me. I could hear him coming, py his labored respiration, and the swishing of the ooze as he moved. Round and round the space we went stealthily, until at last he made a cun- ning rush and caught me by the ankles, ‘Got him!’ He yelled it with a glee that was unmistakable. “Mere words could never convey the sensation of that moment. Half suffo- cated, past all ordinary fear, I closed with my poor old mate, and we went staggering to and fro across our prison, until at last I managed to throw him so that his head struck heavily against the wall. After that he lay quite still. I believed at the time that I had killed him, but we knew afterwards that it was that blow which preserved his rea- son. “The rest can be told in a few words. After that I lay there like one in a dream, while the pestilential air slowly did its work. Sometimes I fancied I could feel cool breezes blowing down on nie, and at others heard some one telling me to wake up, for that the whistle had sounded at the pits. How long I lay so I can only conjecture. I really knew nothing more until I was roused by the sound of that coal barrier crashing down before the ‘picks and spades of a dozen rescuers, and the hub- bub from a dozen throats as they broke into our tomb. “Only just in time. Old Jim’s face was only just out of the water, and they said that no human being could have lived in that atmosphere for an- other two hours. And young Jim?— well, there was just enough life left in him to last three days. + 10a “Till the end of that third day I kept to my bed, and then they sent to say that he was going, but that he wished to see me first. I reached the house just in time to catch his last whisper. “You—you’ll take her, mate! Marry her—no one else! Only—only you'll let my ring stay there. Promise—me —that.’ “What could I do but promise? I had not thought then of marrying his sweetheart—but it was his dying wish, and for years Jim and I had been like brothers. ee 8 “Just a year later I asked her if there was room in her heart for me, and— and—well, that’s enough. Now you know why my wife wears two wedding rings.”—London Tit-Bits. Of Course. Mrs. Henry Peck—I wonder who first used the expression, “And only man jz vile.” Mr. Henry Peck—Oh, soma woman suffragist, I suppose!— Twinkles, PYRAMIDS IN MEXICO. A Traveler Photographs Two Discovered Recently in Guerrero. A brief dispatch in yesterday morn- ing’s papers said Niven, the well- known mineralogist of this city, had just returned to Mexico City from the mountains in the state of Guerrero with several hundred photographs of a great ruined city, taken during a ten weeks’ trip. A letter addressed to David Proskey of 833 Broadway, a col- lector of curios, and a personal friend of Niven’s, under date of September 27, telling of his trip up to that time, says that Niven had been four weeks in the vicinity of the great prehistoric city of Teuchomietlepan. This city, he says, has a surface area of about 100 square miles. “I have dug into some of the subterranean chambers of the largest buildings,” he writes, “and found them filled with broken pieces of plaster, painted bright red and white, and on the floors beads, axes, idols and brok- en pottery. In an excavation which I made at a place called Guayabo I found at a depth of 9 feet from the surface, under the altar, an olla or jar of terra cotta filled with dirt and mixed with it wer 72 objects of mother-of-pearl, all perforated. Five of them were heads of kings, with crowns nicely carved. The olla, unfortunately, was broken by the peon’s pick, but I picked up the fragments and saved half the olla in- tact, with the dirt and objects sticking to it undisturbed. I found also, at oth- er places, the bones of strange animals, some of which I have preserved. 8 found the ruins of twenty temples around Teuchomietlepan.” It is about seven days’ horseback trip from Chil- panzingo, where the letter was writ- ten, to Mexico City. The dispatches printed yesterday said that two tem- ples and two great pyramids had been found. The pyramids of Mexico are the foundations of the temples of the sun and moon worshippers, and in them the antiquarian finds much that is curious. There were two ways of making a pyramid. One was to build it from a level with rude clay bricks on the inside, while the facing was of stone, ranged like steps. Pyramids of great size, like those that Niven has found, were hills smoothed down till their tops and bases were square, or rectangular, and then faced with stone and topped with a, building, with an al- rising above it. When the Span- iards came they drove the natives up into the temples from the city about it. Then the Spaniards tried to follow, but climbing up the slope in the face of the enemy was impossible. The pyra- mids were usually in dense forests.— New York Sun. How the Blood Moves in the Veins. The principal cause of the movement of the blood in the veins is what the physiologists refer to as “the pressure from behind.” By this is meant the capillary circulation or a movement of the blood caused by the constant pump- ing action of the heart, which forces the current into and through the veins —that is, to prevent their becoming so filled with blood that their resistance would counterbalance the pressure from the arteries—each pulsation of the heart by emptying the right ven- tricle allows a part of the blood accu- mulated in the veins to. be removed. In this way the backward resistance in the veins is kept inferior to the pres- sure of the arterial circulation. The venous circulation is also greatly aid- ed by the action of the voluntary mus- cles. It is a well-known fact that when a muscle contracts it thickens and be- comes diminished in length. The ef- fect of this lateral swelling is to com- press the veins lying between the mus- cles, thus forcing the blood forward. Another peculiarity is the half-moon shaped valves with which the veins are well provided. These “semilunar” valves open duly toward the heart, making any backward movement of the blood into the venous system im- possible.—St. Louis Republic. * A Dynamite Trust. The dynamite factories of England and Germany are organized in a trust and all the details of manufacture and trade are exceedingly secret. Common Sense. Too many Christians drop their com- mon sense altogether when they read the Bible.—Rev. J. T. Dixby. SMILES BETWEEN SERMONS. Testing Friendship.—“I do not be- lieve that I have a true friend in the world.” “So you have been trying to borrow money, too, have you?”’—New York Tribune. A Sad Truth.—“The best type of man always concedes that woman is the noblest created being.” “Yes.” “And then he acts mad because the first baby isn’t a boy.”—Chicago Record. Too Bad.—‘Kitty’s little brother scared away her new beau.” ‘What did the little rascal do?” “He told the man that his sister always took a flat- iron to bed with her.”—Chicago Rec- ord. After Her.—Captain of American Warship: Which course did that Cu- ban filibuster take? Mate: Due south, sir. Captain: Good! Head the ship due north. We’ll circumnavigate the globe and head her off.—Philadelphia North American. The Fish Liar.—‘Ever try one of those rubber fishworms?” asked the amateur. “Only one,” said the fish liar. “They are no good. The fish, after he finds how he has been taken in, dies of mortification before he can be taken out.”—Indianapolis Journal. Too Considerate.—‘If there’s any- thin’ Oi disloike,” said Mr. Dolan, “it’s shuperstition.” ‘Who's got it?” asked his wife. “Rofferty, the conthractor. He owes me $13, an’ he’s thot shuper- stitious he won’t pay me for fear Oi’ll ; hov bad luck!”—Washington Stax, SCIENTIFIC CORNER. CURRENT NOTES OF D#SCOV- ERY AND INVENTION. Lhe Invention of Lithography—Buttons and Combs Made of Milk—A New Popular Game for Children—About the Penguin. ca HE art of litho- : graphy was discov- ered in a very curi- ous way. We owe this invention to Alois Senefelder, SAY who was at one time employed at the Theater Royal, Munich, and latter- 5 ly a writer of plays. It occurred to him that etching might be done on stone in- stead of copper. He had a stone pre- pared, and was about to carry his idea into execution when a circumstance aappened that placed etching on stone in the background, and brought into existence a new art, that of litho- graphy. Let Senefelder tell the story in his own words: “I had just suc- ceeded in my little laboratory in pol- ishing a stone plate, which I intended to cover with etching ground, when my mother entered the room and de- sired me to write her a bill for the washerwoman, who was waiting ,for the linen. I happened not to have the smallest slip of paper at hand, as my little stock of paper had been exhaust- ed by taking proof impressions from the stones, nor was there a drop of ink in the inkstand. As the matter would not admit of delay, I resolved to write the list with my ink prepared with wax, soap and lamp black, on the stone which I had just polished, and from which I could copy it at leisure. Some time after this I was going to rub the writing from the stone, when the idea all at once struck me to try what would be the effect of such a writing with my prepared ink if I were to bite in the stone with aquafortis; and whether, perhaps, it might not be possible to ap- ply printing ink to it in the same way as to wood engravings, and to take impressions from it.” M. Senefelder surrounded the stone with a border of wax, and applied aquafortis, by which the writing was raised in a few min- utes. Printing ink was next applied with a.common printer’s ball, impres- sions were taken off, and the practica- bility of the important art of lith- ography was established. It may be interesting to add that the Duke of Wellington was the first to apply this art to a useful purpose, when he in the Peninsular. war by its means prepared. copies of despatches, orders and sketches of positions. Penguins. . The penguins are strictly marin birds living in the water or upon rocks that jut out above them. The wings of penguins have no feathers, but are covered with a scaly skin. Of course they are useless as organs of flight, but give effective aid in progressing through the water, and when the birds are on land are often available as fore limbs. There are many species, which inhabit chiefly high southern latitudes. Cunningham, in his book on the Straits of Magellan, thus refers to these birds as he saw them in that region: “On climbing to the summit of one of the high banks, we beheld a company of penguins, which, after standing erect and staring at us in a stupid manner for a few moments, shuffied off; their little wings hanging limp at their sides and their dark gray and white color- ing and reeling movements suggesting a drunk and disorderly funeral proces- sion. When hard pressed they aban- don the erect position, and crouching down on all fours, if I may be permit- ted the expression, ran along like rab- bits at a very rapid rate, using their wings as fore legs, till they gain their burrows, fairly ensconced in which they faced their pursuers, and slowly turning about their heads from side to side, barked and brayed in the most ridiculous manner, offering a stout re- sistance to being captured by biting most viciously with their strong bills. While contemplating one individual in its den I was suddenly startled by a loud ‘Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho’ close to me, and turning round perceived another bird, which had boldly walked out of a neighboring burrow and was thus ad- dressing me. I succeeded at last, though with much difficulty, in raking an old bird out of its hole with the crook of a walking-stick, and also ob- tained two young ones in their down.” Darwin thus describes the habits of penguins: “Having placed myself be- tween a penguin and the water, I was much amused by watching its habits. It was a brave bird, and until reach- ing the sea it regularly fought and drove me backward. Nothing less than heavy blows would have stopped him. Every inch he gained he firmly kept, standing close before me erect, and determined. When thus opposed he continually rolled his head from side to side in a very odd manner, as if the power of distinct vision lay only in the anterior and basal part of each eye. This bird is commonly called the jack- ass penguin, from its habit while on shore of throwing {ts head backward and making a loud, strange noise, very like the braying of an ass, but while at sea and undisturbed its note is very deep and solemn and is often heard in the night-time. In diving its little | wings are used as fins, but on the land | as front legs. When crawling, it wee dl be said on four legs, through the tus- socks or on the side of a grassy cliff, it moves so very quickly that it might easily be taken for a quadruped. When : at sea and fishing it comes to the sur- | face for the purpose of breathing with such a spring and dives again so in-! stantaneously that I defy any one at first sight to be sure that it was not a} fish leaping for sport.” New Popular Game for Children. The newest and most popular amuse- ment or game for children is a parlor merry-go-round or carousal, which is operated by the foot like a bicycle. It is a tiny arrangement, made in two sizes, a ten-foot circle or fourteen-foot circle. The smaller ones have four seats, but can be arranged with four more, thus seating eight little ones at atime. For ordinary use the smaller ones are popular, the additional seats being adjusted when a larger party wishes to ride. It is noiseless, strong and handsome, made of hard wood, steel and iron. The wood is natural oil finish, and the metal parts painted black or bronze. It can be taken apart or put up in five minutes without any tools, and one, two, three, or four can ride it. It runs either forward or back- ward with equal ease. There is no possible danger of accident, the seat arms being made of strong steel. The little ones may be strapped to the seat arms. These seats are adjustable in height, so that children of various sizes may have them the proper height to enjoy a healthful exercise without straining themselves. While it is made expressly for the house, it can be taken out of doors or to entertainment halls, and in case of warm weather a canopy can be had of either size to protect the children from the heat of the sun. As children are always attracted by a merry-go-round, this one, on a small scale for the home or lawn, will prove exceedingly popular. Buttons and Combs Made of Milk. For a long time buttons and other ar. ticles for which bone is generally used have been made from congealed blood, purchased at the slaughter-houses, and treated with some substance that hard- ens it to the sufficient consistency. The same articles can be made from milk by a process invented by an English- man. The milk used is the skim milk. The process of turning this liquid into buttons, pool balls, combs, backs of brushes and similar articles consists of mixing it with a substance the ingre- dients of which are a secret of the in- ventor, and compressing it. At the end of three days the substance is as solid as celluloid, and is ready to be cut and shaped in any way the manu- facturer wishes. At present a factory in Holland is engaged in fashioning the hardened milk into various arti- cles, buttons being the chief. The but- tons made in this peculiar way differ very little in appearance from ordinary bone buttons. They are a creamy white in appearance, but can be col- ored black or red or any other color by simply mixing the coloring mat- ter with the milk before the hardening process begins. They are said to pos- sess advantages over the bone and celluloid article in being less brittle and less liable to chip. For combs the milk substance has been found to be especially well adapted, as it is smooth and delicate to the touch, and derives from its creamy origin a glossy sur- face. In the same way it is a good sub- stitute for ivory in billiard and pool balls. \ Artificial Silk. So pronounced is the success of ar- tificial silk that English mills are tak- ing it up, and large amount of machin- ery now idle is to be put to work weay- ing it. There has been a good deal of question as to the relative strength of the natural and artificial product. Experiments have been made which show that the latter has about 80 per cent of the former, but the manner of working is quite different. Those who have worked with the artificial fiber are surprised at the exquisite colors produced. They take dye much more readily than the natural silk. Another peculiarity is the extremely rich and high luster of the fabric. Of course, the cloth made from artificial fiber will be less durable than the genuine thread of the silkworm, but it is promised in much less expensive grades, and when once the factories and mills are fully at work, it is claimed that prices will be wonderfully reduced, so much go, in- deed, that everybody can afford to wear silk. Locusts and Their “Friends.” It is a well known fact in natural history that certain animals and fishes have “friends” whose company acts as a safeguard against danger, and it is now reported that the locust, advanc- ing in intelligence, has secured similar protection. Of late strenuous efforts have been made in the Transvaal to save the crops from devastation,. but, to the consternation of the farmers, th new hordes of locusts bring with them scores of black insects which sting hor- hibly whenever their patrons are inter- Found the Right Kind h—Indi- gestion and “Constipation — H and Strength Restored. “JT have been troubled very much Severe Pains in the Stomac! with indigestion and constipation for the last ten years. Five years ag I was confined to my bed and suffered gay pains in my stomach. I was we and nervous and could not eat anything but the simplest food. I read about so many wonderful cures by Hood's Sarsa- parilla that I determined to try it. 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IF YOU WANT TO BUY A FINE FARM in good fruit country, warm climate, impproved, EG W to $20.00 per acre, write tod. W. Car penter, Bolivar, Polk Co. Missouri. The prizes at a progressive euchre party in Atchison, Kan., were all Bibles. “STAR TOBACCO.” As you chew tobacco for pleasure use Star, It is not only the best but the most lasting, and, therefore, the cheapest. Raillery. “Whta makes Flimmer continually grumble?” “He's railing at fate.” “Why?” “He got caught in the steel rail slump.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer, No two clocks can be made to keep time exactly alike, and strike simultan . Awa Highest Honors—World’s Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair, ‘DR: A Pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder, fered with. What the reward ot the, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD, “body-guard” is does not appear.