Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 24, 1888, Page 12

TEETE LR RS 000 TS SR = ¥ 0 Y i e The Bleotric Light in Forelgn Coun« tilsa. A GALVANOMETRIC BATTERY. Encandescent Lamps in Explosive Cases — Electric Railway — Suez Canal to be Lighted—Elecs tric Notes, The Electric Light ip Other Lands. Major E. C. Browne, an Englishman, Ariting about the nacquisition of Bur- mah by the British describes the effect upon the natives of the first exhibi- tion of the electric light. ‘A great ray of soft light,” he says, “‘shoots across the heavens from horizon to horizon. A flood of light is cast on a spot in the vil- lage, but it is off with more than light- ning rapidity to illumine another. It leaps and bobs and bounces about the earth in most uncanny fashion. The village is illuminated. It visits every rtion of it and seems to enter at the oors and windows. At first the people rush away, but finding thatin many eases the light followsthey throw them- selves down with their faces to the earth. Ina fow minutes the village and river banks are cleared, and the territied people take refuge in the bush or at the backs of houses. But this only lasts o very short time. Curiosity is stronger than prudence. So far the light hasstruck no one dead. Perhaps it may be harmless, so the children, clinging to each other, venture into the glare then run to their mothers’ arms screaming half with fear and half with delight. Some of the big boys then rush out, have a good stare, and having dared so much once more disap- ar. The ladies seem to gain confi- lence next to the children. Their curiosity cannot be restrained any longer, 8o they get together in groups, hide their faces and scream and giggle. Some of the more cheeky ones actually ut out their tongues atus and begin ancing and gyrating about. The men, last of ull, moodily emerge from their cover, and still not half liking it walk esutiously about, and gradually the vil- lage is gay. The Suez Canal to Be Lighted. Chambers’ Journal: It will be re- membered that a short time ago, in view of increasing the carrying capacity of the Suez canal, it was doh‘rminc({ both to widen and deepen that interna- tional waterway, and also, if possible, to enable ships to continue their jour: ney through it by night. A scheme has now been formulated to carry the lighting of the canal into operation. The syste which has been selecfed after consideration of electricity, oil, and gas as light-producers, is that of compressed oil gas on buoys and fixed standard The buoys lighted by Pintsch’s oil gas has been well tested now in various parts of the world, and can be made of sufficient capacity to hold a supply of gas for two months’ consceutive burning. A further pro- wvision is found in the lighting of the ships themselves; and before the vessel is allowed to pass through the canal at night, the oflicers in charge must be satisfied that it coutains the necessary lighting power. This is to consist of & r;worrul headlight, capable of throw- ng an electric beam for thirteen hun- dred yards. Each ship must also have another electric light suspended over its decl, which will give an all-round light fully two hundred yards in dinm- eter. A very perfect system of signal- ing by meuns of 1 ors and different I“ sed in th ighting the e may be looked upon as provisional until such be absolutely nece widening andde About B Electric railways Aront as one of the gr Sm/{ ovements of the n expe ‘N coming tothe it and popular w York 1 Nectr but a man my ently: ©if properly handlod know what h about when he ta the deadly wires.” “There is no telling how soon an amateur may be sent intoeternity with- out time to make his will. There is no more dangerous power known, in the hands of an iedced man, than electrici no warning and its effect is Au experience of over twenty years has taught me the greatest caution. *As o motive power this agency is in its infancy. The motors now in use are very crude compared with what I ex ect will be developed within the next on years; and yet wonderful pre hus boen made in si e ‘Ihere contracts out for 200 miles of electrical railway now, and it may sur- prise you to know that there are al- ready fully 176 miles of it in operation in the Unitod States. All are street railways, and thirty-five more are con- teacted for, The 1dorp: om, now controlled by the Thomas Houston company, of Boston, has about teen roads. Theve are seven running with the Sprague motor and seven with the Dafts. One of these s considered the best by electricians, a5 its motor is of the low potentinl order, and you can grasp the negat and positive poles of the battery with- out the least harm. Its principle is similar to that of the incandescent light. The high potential on the con- trary is more dangerous than dynamite, In the hands of an xporienced i tor is a dangerous agency. v will some time be the ailroads ross motive po of the country I have not the slightest doubt. However, the motors will have 1o be simplified and the system so por- fected lSmL its machiner; f handled by a man littl their workings. “Do you think storage batteries will rove ' effoctive - in dvawing heavy rains?" *Ithink the principle could be so per- feeted in time that it might be used in that way, but av present it is very crude. None but experienced men could handle Julian’s motors, and 1 don’t believe any one but Julian him- self would get out all there is in them.” Cable Lmprovements. Cable telegraphy,which has remai ned practically init oviginal condition al- most since thoe start, has not been en- th'el{y neglected by inventors. The ob- isct 510 increase as much as possible he speed of transmission and to remove to causes which at times tend to inter rupt transmission altogether. It was noted some time ago the replacing of the mouse mill and the static electri- fication of the by an electro-mag- notie deviee for vibrating the siphon. Mr, Dulm?‘ of New York, recognizes the difficulties that avises from sending signals into the cable in the formation of single letters, and has devised an pangement in which all the letters, both dots and dushes, are trausmitted from the same side of the battery, thus wvarylng as little as possible, the charge of the cable at each sigunl, and in this way decreasing the time for the noutra- tion for reversed charges. Tho re- sults which he. has obtained thus fur #re most promising. A test oa a longer cable that experimented with may THE OMAHA DATLY BEE: SUNDAY JUNE 24; 1838 —-SIXTEEN FAGTS lead to a wider application of this method. A Galvanometric Battery. The student in electricity is taught that the current flows from one pole of battery through the external circuit to the other pole, and then across the liquid element of the cell to the first pole. This is easily demonstrated to him as regards the external cirouit by the aid of a galvanometer or electro- magnet. But the existence of the cur- rent in the liquid cannot be so well shown, and usually no attempt is made to reveal To supply this defect ducational appuratus, says Enginecring, Mr. Conrad W. Cooke devised the exccedingly ingon- ious galvanometric battery which we illustrate. It is of the type of the Thomson reflecting instrument, but in- stead of the magnet heing surrounded by a coiled copperconductor it is placed among the couvolutions of four glass tubes, These tubes are filled with the liguid element of a galvanic cell, of which they form a part. At each end aled into a glass vase; one ains a zine rod and the other carbon rod immersed in dilute acid. which also fills the tubes. - dently, if the current flows from one olectrode to the other, as it is supposed to do, it must traverse the four parallel glass tubes. and in sodoing it will affect the magnet of the galvanometer., This is exactly what happens. When the ox- ternal eireuit is completed the mirror i ected, and the spot of light which it reflects moves along the scale. This apparatus, which is a fine example of glass-blowing, is a notable addition to an educational laboratory, Lighting New York Harbor. From time to time the use of electric lights in and around New York harbor has excited much interestand comment, says the Electrical World, and up to the present hour the only objection brought against the electric light for this purpose is that there was too much The Hell Gate ares no longer use the pilots complained of liancy, bnt those of Liberty h us, and those on the rooklyn bridge, though screened west- ward. will continue to light up, as they alone can do, the great thoroughfare between the two cities. We are now glad to note that the incandescents are t be given a chance on the buoys in Gedney’s chanuel, where the European electrivian coming in from sea at night find them bobbing up serencly and curtseying to give him a charvacteristic welcome. Incandescent Lamps in Cases. The very instructive made by Lieutenant Hutch York, on the explosion of g turing incandescent lamps w while it points to the evident necessity of protecting the lamps well in danger- ous atmospheres seems to usat the samo time to prove without a shadow of a doubt that they are the safest to employ in these very situations. The lamps experimented upon remained perfectly mert in the gases until ruptured, hence the ordinary protection by s able screens and by making the bulb of thicker glass ought to answer fully all requirements for safety. Exception may be taken therefore to the conclu- sion reached by the experimenter that the incandescent lamp is dangerous for use on bhoard ship in situations where explosive gas is liable to accumulate. It would certainly he difficute to devise an illuminant less dangerous in such situa- tions. If there is such an one, will the licutenant kindly name it? S IMPIETIES. Explosive experiments of New by rup- Bishop Tayler is “0ld Long-Walker.” Pastor to new convert. ou believe i onal de Siie—+*0h, n married five ? The bible that no man_can sery masters. and yet thero are sailors who serve three masters ana get along better than if the vessol had but one mast. The minister who pre; sermons 18 generally the gets the big salary; and in the wicked citics the winisters have generally found this out. STl do the best I ean. said the new convert humbly to the good ' pastor, **but you mustn’t expect too much of me at fivst, I've been an auctioncer for the last twel lled by the African White-Man-Well-Digger-and- D hes the shortest Minister—Well, Bobby, T suppose prizes at school sometimes? Bobt ver got any yet, sir, Minister—Why, how is that? ‘Bobby (with an injured air)—It's be- cause some other boy gets 'om. In the midstofa fervent exhortation to sinners a Portland revivalist, who is by busi- ness an auctionee: nine I've got ; thirt the Lord! will come ne While a ministe aking his closing prayer in i chul e striped cat of th walked up the aisle, coolly jumped on to tiw pulpit, squatted himself on the bible and rev- erently gazed at the minister until he had fin A New minister (sounding nose you o to base bail games sometimes, do you rot! Young parishioner (cau tiously)—Well, yes, sir—once in a great whilo,” New minister (enthusiastically) Once in a great while, eh! Why, I go every time I get & chance, myself! At a prayer meeting in a western town the pastor urged the people to ask and questions they would like to haye answered, This prompted an old fellow to get up and romark : H'What 1 want to know is ef an oath taken on a Bible which hez the fust ten chupters of Gennysis kissed offen it is bindin' " The Rev. Myron Reed, of Colorado, who ran as the deiocratic congressional candi- ate in that state two y in- terrupted in the midstof o by a man who shouted, “Louder! Reed stopped short, looked at the interupter, and said coolly: I was not addressing you sir, 1 was addressing tho Almig " “Fhen he went on with his prayer. >, of Washington, He is o native of ¥ ng get his man)--T sup- D.C, is gland. cevemony 1 cyer per- rse, his oyes twinkling was | el struck 12 o know ogical spe . This is the ced for bread and lite a stoue fu return,” Last Sunday church-goers in a small town in the western purt of Minnesota were not a little surprised when they had sottled in their pews to sce staring ut them from the wall back of the preacher's desk the follow ing card, written with charcoal on & piece of white cotton cloth: [ : from wiping : bandanas ! noxt presid, $ would ence : cheer for ( + serious inte: his church wi ain their forcheads with red : ing services until after the : tial election, as such an act : s present to ver Cleveland, and prove a tion to the divine service. iEORGE SQUIKES, Pastor, ew England clergyman tells this in dent: *He preached a rousiug missionary sermon and obtained the largest collection the church had ever given. One of the dea- man in the church, ex- bleasure at this result suid that when he came to the place he v couts & day. He re- yoar to the cause of for- n missions, and he would state for the en couvagement of his pastor that he had continued to give #1 & year from that day to this.” How many there are who do not in craase their gifts as they increase in riches! At a session of court held at Norris- town, Pa., October 11, 1786, Philip Hoes- nagle was found guilty of burglary, and it was with great difficulty that he was previiled upon to aceept bard lavor in stead of bangiug. SLIPPING OVER THE BRINK. Storfes of People Who Have Reached the Limit. A GALAXY OF CENTENARIANS. A Vocalist at 105—-Afraid of the Ele- vation — A Strange Spectacle—~ Three Old People at Troy— © Old Age Notes, A Vocalist at 105, Benjamin Moore of Tennyson, Ind., says an exchange, is hale and hearty at the age of 105 years. He was born in Rockingham county, N. C. TTe after ward moved to Washington county Ind.,and in 1887 moved to Spencer county, Ind., where he now resides in Grass township. Last year he helped todress hogs at the annual Kkilling- time, and he chops stovewood and does s generally. He is living with ¥ , who is eighty-f years old and enjoying good health, At the age of 100 he and his wife walked nine miles to visit some friends. Mr, Moore, in_his younger days, followod farming, and hauled cotton from North Cavolina to Washington, Charleston, Philadelphia, and all those eastern cit- ies except New York, He joined the M. E. church at the age of ninety-nine. He never voted for a rvepublican but once,and that was for a friend for town- ship trustee, He never was sick, and never used tobacco. His nerves are stead s voice is good. When ted him he sang a song ses in good style. He says he would still like to live. but is ready to go wheneyer the Lord shall call him, Afraid of the Elevator. Mrs. Elizabeth Sands, of Md., was born in 1789. When onl, teen she was united in marriage to Mr. Peter Smick, a tinner, and the young couple lived in Annapolis until® 1812, when the war broke out. Her husband, an athletic young fellow, entered the service, but instend of being provided with a gun, was employed making can- teens of his own tinware. He contracted bilious fever and died. The widow, with four children to loc after, at once took charge of the bus ness, but had a pretty hard time of i She complains to this day that, though the soldiers occupied her premises utilized her property ws evergiven her by the government. Un- like the other old defende v not granted & pension. After remain- ing a widow for ele enrs, she mar- ried Thomas Sands. ow and then her granddaughter takes her along when she goes out shopping, but cannot per- suade the old lady to enter an elevator. She has sixteen grandchildren. thfrty nine great-grandehildren and nine great-great-childven. Besid these there are ever so man, nieces and nephews, grand, great-grand and great-great-grand. A Century and Over. Stephen Gleason, the oldest resident of Fall River, Mass., died at the resi- dence of his daughter, Mrs. Desmond, in the 103d year of his age. He was born in the county of Cork, Ireland, and came to this country forty years ago, then over 60 years old. He wasof quiet dispositi 1d took no part in the ex- which occurrved in Ireland time. HeleftIreland because landlord. Sir Riggs Faulkner. raised his vent repeatedly, until he could nolonger pay it, and he was driven from the house which he had occupied for three score years, and where I fathers had lived and died for tions before him. He was married six- ty-five ye: zo.ond his widow is 88 years old. They had nine children, of whom six are now livin After coming here Gleason worked as a farm laborer until about fifteen years ngo. For the ;»:\q nine months his mind has been fee- sle, but he retained his bodi vigor, took long and attended church regularly. hearing and eyesight were good. Te was ill abouf three weeks. Shortly before his death his reason returned, during h his A Strange Spectacle, ‘The spectacle of an eighty year old bridegroom sued for the suppoit of his seventy-two year old bride gave the proceedings in the criminal court recently in the town of L The defendant was Johu wife, the comj ) a month after arr March, Ruff’s lawyer tried to prove tl venson he refused to support hi was that she had another hurba i The court refused to allow this on the ground that twenty-five years’ absence was prosumable evidence that the former husband was d . The venerable bridegroom was ovderved to pay 81 a weelk for his wife's support. emple is Dead. ed 100 yor Aunt Ald Aunt Temple Bass.ng: ) died in Macon, ( She has been J. O. Torbett and family for a long time She was the mother of four children, twelve grandehildren and a number of great-grandehildren. When the Semi- nole war broke out in Florida, in 1835 Aunt Temple was hving in county, and well did she remember seo- ing the troops of that county depart for the seat of war. She was 2 faithful old sorvant of the ante-bellum type, and will be missed by those who knew her best. The Three Old People of Troy. Margarvet Emperor, an inmate of the poor house of Troy, N. Y., is 103 years old, but her condition is feeble. She was born in Kerry, Ireland, in Mvs. Deborah Powers is ninety-seve years old. Her husband start small scale the manufacture of oil cloth, and one day a vessel filled with varnish boiled over and in attempting to extin- guish the flames Mrv, Powers was fa- tally burned. The widow took hold of the business and ran it successfully. It is now one of the largest oil cloth fact- ories in the world. Martha Waters was born in Massa- chusetts, August 15, 1789, and has passed most of her life in Troy. She is in fairly good health, and her mental fac- ultics are unimpaired. An Aged Citizen. The Pomeroy (Ohio) coi the Cincinnati Comm s Having learned that Aunie Roush woul reach her 1015t birthday shortly, I mined to call on her. I found he living with a distant relative, who for a consideration has agreed to keep her as long us she lives, 1hatshe has a pleas- ant home is attested by her remark that “*Mr.Bentz has been a *star’ man to me, and has treated me as well as a son could” She was born at Morgantown, Pa., June 4, 1787, Fourteen years later, with her parents and brothers and she came to a poiut in West V eightmiles above here, and a ye they went eight miles further up the river and erossed to the **U, S. of Ohio” and settled just below what1s now called Letart, where she has ever since re- sided. The same year, 1802, she met and married Henry Roush, a sturdy German pioneer, and from the union thirteen children were born, the last SEIDENBERG & CO'S FIG.ARO. FREE FROM DRUGS, UNADULTERATED, HONEST A ten cent cigar for five cents. *All Straight Havana Filler.” For sale by Following named Dealers Aberl Anisfie 0. 809 Anthes Geo. & Co.. No. v H .« 25th St, . 10th St. 22 S. 10th St. Cuming St. . 1608 Saunders St. Union Pacific Depot. . 2705 Leavenworth. Bell Ed., No. 1807 Lake St. Becht Max,Cor. 15th and Harney. Bonner H. J., Cor. 16th and Vinton St. Brown A., No. 2601 Cuming St. Bennett J. S., Cor. Clark and Saunders. Bergen J. E., No. 902 N. 16th St. Bell B. C. & Co., 13th and Jackson St. Beaty Chas., 13th and Leavenworth St. Brown N. H., No. 1520 S S Brown & Cronk, No. 611 Chandler I., No. 2926 Leavenwor No.’184 Seward St 1 1. 8., No. rphy Cates Bros., 26th and Cajori A.. No. 601 Pierce St, Cuningham P., No. 10 Crum & Bishop, Cor, 24th and Lake S Dalzell J. 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Attend our great Semi-Annual Clearing and Mark-Down Sale, as everything has got to when Aunie was nearly fifty years old. | The ten daughters gave birth to 110 children, and the threc sons to sixteen, making a total of 126 grandchildren of | Aunt Annie. These have multiy and replenished according to the b injunction, o that to-day Aunt An descendants will number fully 600 souls of which there are twelve children of the sixth generation. Just think of it: She is a great-great-great-great-grand- mother Aunt Annie has been in the ‘‘nurs- ery”’ business since she was able to rock a baby in the rude rocker made in the last years of the eighteenth century. Her mother died leaving five childr younger than her, which she raisec then her own thirteen, and since he own flock has grown up she has nursed four grandchildren, and at present is mother to Mr. Bentz’s youngest child, its mother having | died while it wasa little babe. Aunt Annie 15 remarkably s all around her neighbors, and before being taken sick about eight weeks ago, she would walk as far as Letart village and back, a dis- tance of over halfa nul 1 sight is good, although her left failing some since her illness. therme will not for tion travel by rail, as she valuc life too highly to visk it on any that docs not use the “patent ant lisioner™ that permits two trains to pass on one track at the same time, Aunt Annice is looking much better now than a vear ago, when she had her picture taken, even though just recov- ering from an attack of cold; and from present indications bids fair to live for soveral years. Old Age Notes, “hoc died last month in Guatemala at re of 120 y ' 8 , aged 101 ) five month, died at Fimdlay. John Batchelder, the dependent fa Samuel Batehelder, late of the Fifty-third Tlinois in s'the_oldest pensiouer ou the pay cars of age. Cynthia, widow of the late rence, died at the home of her grandson AW on her ninety-ninth year 2 M iss,, and , of 'thut “Uncle Nec Va., is ninoty-th wasted opport “never missed sraburg, W. wd has no , s he hns dog_fight or me i his way" in the what protracted existence. Ryder, of Orringt Xtc course of his so: Mvrs. Azubah who is 104 meio s She has a la enco with young and old persons all over the United State: Il 1 in Louisiana the other day Mprs, Bullock, aged seventy-nine years, who, when vs 6ld, when her parents were migrating from North Carolina to Tennes- soe, was captured by okeo Indians and kept among them for twelve years, when sho was found and rescued by her father, Smith Hitchens, familiarly known as Un Smith, died at his residence near Laurel, Md., recently. He would have been a cen tenarian had_ he lived a few months long He was the oldest man in Sussex covnty probably in the state. A few weeks prior to Lis dewise the deceased cut a complete set of teeth, s Jane Dutton, who died in Oakland, fow days ago! atithe age of eizhty- 408, iShe went around that ablished a 5 and when w New Hampshire spinftergand her proper will go to some relutives there, Atthe hacienda of Rio Florido, in Mexico, there Jives @ man 120 wears old. His wife i in her 11lth year. The owners of . the enda and the pédple of the neighboring plantations anticipatethe pleasure of giving this aged Indian colple a great many pre sents on the 100th auniversary of their wed- ding day. Hendricks, yeurs, e Horn in @ Choctaw Indian, aged 104 visitedDenison, Tex., re walks erect. He is d , but his eyesight is very good, He speaks English imperfectly. He hunted until within the past ten Last spring he rode to Turkahommr, - tance of forty miles. He says that his health is good and ' he expects to live many years yet. 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Hawkins Jessep,” Bergamot, knitting his together until they formed an omnious 1 bar across his forchead and nearly frightened bright-cyed daughter out of her senses. *+ But Mary Bergamot stood bravely to the guis of her little citadel. “No. father,” she said. **Oh, how can me, when you know that I don’t n and never can? long word,” said the said black evebrows Squ you as| love h squive. ] “But, *You me api, I know eed, T mes . do £ suid N you?" said the in slow and measured tones, Now. let me tell you what! [t isn't that you don't like Hawkins Jessup, but that you' ¢ enough 10 go and fall in love t young idiol, George 200 with tl b no use mincing matters,” id the irate squire. An artist, in- d! Why doesn’t he gointo white- washing and calcimining and earn a de- ttempt to argue with me, said Squire Bergamot, sternly. “Ill have none of it, and so I tell you. If George Lake comes into my house he’ll be put out of it pretty quick! And 50 you may tell him So out of the hous Mary looked after him with soft, sor- rowful eyes. She was o delieate, oval- faced girl, with sunny brown hair and rotund features, so unlike the rotund and positive squire’s as light to durk- ness. But, as she putdown theiron with which sh s tdoing up’ her father’s shirts—Squir have thought it a crying sin to employ 1ress while his daughter enjoyed ordinary aned up against the window whe the sun- came through the tremulous et-shaped morning glory w from her pocket a note, uline hand vo strode angrily of he: 55 and dr tlen in u strong, mus My Dearest Mar promise to be my wife, in sl tion! Will you tell ‘me s0 with your lips. Ever yours, faitiful to deuth, How her cyes glittered as she re and reread the short and simple lines, pressing them finally to her ved lips. 1 do love him! will be his wife,” she murmured, **And Iwill tell him so0 the first opportunity I get. Only papa!” A momentary cloud stole over her serene brow at this, but it wastransient. I don’t believe in elopements,” said Mary Bergamot, still riveting her eyes on the sheet of paper in her hand. ~*'I never did. But if papa still persistsin opposing our marriage I will leave my home and go out into the world hand in hand with George.” Just as this revolutionary thought passed through her mind the door creaked on its hinges. A heavy, well known footstep sounded. on the threshold. “It’s papa!” cried Mary. o Io her consternation our poor little his | Bergamot would | | into the ne could not find the entrance to pocket ir the multitudinous folds of her dress. For a second she was in imminent danger of detection: then she hurriedly thrust the incendiary docu- ment into the yawning mouth of a paper bag of choice seed corn which hung by the kitchen window. At the next in- 1t Squire Bergamot was in the room. said he. 1irs to the | 1eft-haiid corner of Mary went out with a dubious at the nail _on which the ww corn” hung, When s room was empty, and Squire e wns just imbing up into -hox wagon in front of the picket ) sturned mot Tumbe S Bring it out here “T'm g to get my d the squire. Ly Pepper’s . She might a had the to return it herself I He stowed the handkerchiel away in his pocket nd was just taking up the reins, when Mary rushed out, eriluson to the very roots of her hair, “Father, that bag of se oh, righ s all right,” said the squire placidly. I promiscd alittle to Miss Polly Pepper, and this is alveady shelled.” ather, tio it up “Nonsense!” said the squire, “T jest folded over the top und it'll go s shug asathief in o mill, right-ua-top of my bugs of mei . Away he v as he spoke, and kit second Niob 1 corn.™ it gasped poor Ma e tled over the stony rond poor Mary ran buck to cry If intoa my let she such an idiot as 1o put it there Miss Polly Pepper, a gaunt spinste of o very uncertain age, and a ver, tain infirmity of temper, ope of sead corn as the squire drc bt a brought it before,” said Promised it to us lust fall, I do despise these folks that are always put- ff things, Mercy upon us! 'V as she drew out the note: 4 it 10 get out of the wav? No it a love-letter!—and to me!— Mary'—und it s signed shington Dergumot, that's Well, I dodeclare!l Ain't he far gone? *All opposition.’ I s'pose he meuns Mary and my two brothers law that thi Lain't no business to mar see 'em furder afore Il let 'em over- turn my matrmonial prospeets i don’t. *Tel him with my own lip course T will; I'll go right over there a once. Delays is dangerous! And if he really is in such a hurpy—" Miss Polly’s fingers trembled as she took her little cork-screw curls out of their papers and put on a fresh collar tied with a blue ribbon, *“Blue’s the color of love,” said she to hersell with a simper, “and it was so romantic of my dear George to think of proposing to me in a bag of seed corn. The squire was at his supper when Miss Pepper walked in. a bite, woun't ¢ of | | | | | di “Sct dowh and have'Mary, fetch & you?" satd the squire. clean plate.” A Miss Pepper took advautage of the A. POLACK, Manager. momentary absence of her step-daugh- ter elect to proceed to business, +*George,” eried she, almost hysteric y, “‘I am yours!” Shy” “Forever and evor!” cried the lady, flinging herself upon his cout-collar, . “Are you crazy?” said the squire, jumping up. You asked me to be your wife,” said iss Polly, meltingly. I didn’t!” *Then what does this mean, eh?” de- manded Miss Polly. “It's as cloar a declaration of love as ever was writ and good ground to sue on.” The squire stared at the sheet o paper as Miss Pepper waved it triumph- tly over his head. “But [ didn’t write it,” gasped he, “Then who did?” demanded Miss Pepper. Just at this moment, Mary, entering . with fresh tenand a clean plate, caught sight of the letter, “It’s mine,” she eried with a sudden dyeing of the cheek mnl glitter of the eyes. My letter? How dured you read it, Miss Pepper?” *T got it out of the bag of sced corn,” protested the spinster, And T put it there for safe-keoping,” blushingly acknowledged Mary Berga- mot. Who wrote it?"sternly démanded the squire, And Mary confessed, YGeorge Lake, papa.” Miss P'epper went home crying bit- terly with mortified pride and disap- pointed expectations, And the squire came to the conclusion that true love would always have its way inspite of all iting | ts. Pupa vid Mary, “may I have Gorge?" “1'don’t care,” said the squire, Aud that, in his case, pussed for an affivmation, But the squi Wing a widower still, and Miss Pepper’s chunces grow “smuller by degrees and beautifully less,” e The Protty Waiter Girl. Neat and natt 1 pert was she, (Ham and eggs and bread for me!) And winsome her smile as a smile could he— (Pork and besus—-have the pork well done!) Her dainty hand brushed the crumbs away, (Both kinds o' sauce on that apple dump!) And my beating heart quick owned herjsway — (Potaters and greens along o' that fumpt) I fumbled the bill, but nothing could see; (Ioast turkey and stuft—dark meat, sec- ond joint!) My eyes wero on her, and hers were on me— (Plum pudding, another and plenty of oint!) “What will you have!" she broke the spelly (A cup of tea and coffee without ! bluehed and stammered, my oyelids fell— (Poric and suusage and sauer kraut!) Then I seized her hand aud whispered low; (Cabbage soup and a corn beef hush ) out, you fool! Come, let me go!’ (Onion stewed und potato mnnh!i’ - -~ In 1644 'Y of Thomas Oliver was sontenced to be publicly whipped for reproscning the magistrates; in 1646 she slande the ors wnd was sen « tencéd to have a cleft stick put on her tongue for Lialf an hour. She finally,in colony, alter huving osused much trouble in the cliur¢h sud to the authorities. A