Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1894, Page 18

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1891-TWENTY PAGES, By Hamlin Ga Ceprright 4e hen Wesley Rogers returned from the south he brought back with him a black man. Tt took but a few days for the whole country to know of it, and that he had been a slave and that his name was Unecle Eph The boys on the street followed him as he walked up the street of Rock River and clambered into the wagon of one of Wesley's neighbors who was in town with a load of corn, Uncle Eph was portectly black and had a mighty chest, though his legs were less powerful. His head was well shaped, his face was grave and his eyes unusually keen for a negro. He could read a little, Wesley sald, and he very religious, He was far from being a white man painted black, however. He seemed rather to be a very superfor negro. Wesley wus a coachman himself, and had been attracted to Eph by his power as an exhorter and singer. Wesley had the gift himself, and sang tenor to match Uncle Eph's bass with great delight as they rode home through the warm September evening. It was all strange to the negro. He had readily consented to come north, because to him It was a mystical “God’s country.” He went as a friend, not as a servant, for Wes- ley had no touch of authority in him. His bired men were always as much boss as him- solf. The big black man was dazzled by his reception in the north. yholy seemingly took a friend’s interest in him. e was the only negro in the country at that time, and the men shook hands with him o outed at him with the same pecnliar inflection they used when addressing each other. Ha could not accustom himself iis at once. It was all 0 strange. He worked for Wesley during year that he lived in the country Bat at the table with the rest timld protest. “I do' know, should do dat.” Certainly; sit down,” was to the firs and Misto Wesley, whedder I Wesley said. “You after some | around, so far to hisown other folks be swellin® he is tendin’ well as. some don’t sesm to as I can see; knittin' full as I know." Beckett stormed on. ness to come up here tryin’ equality with white folks.” “He won't have to tr} a level with some folk smile “I don’t know about that,” put in Adams, “He'd get pretty low it he did.” Beckett turned from one to the other, livid with rage “Yes, you'd all tak Y'r all abolition “Tut! tut! friend Be “the war is over, the ““Well, he's no busi- to get on an very hard to get on sald W o up with a nigger. sts." kett,” said Jennings, whole matter is set- d it any nigger his hoars cerned q Bacon Interrupted clutching his shoulder. “If you're brisk for can be accommodated. Now I'm d—d if I don't heave yeh window. I've heerd about all Kin stand!” Beckett looked down at the floor and mut- tered under his breath. Bacon wet on, with savage intensity “I was born south of Mason and Dixon's line m'self. I ain’t got no p'ticler love for niggers m'sclf, but as long as they go about peaceably and don’t trouble me I ain't got no say about what they shan’t do. As for equality—1'd a d—d sight rather have old Eph in my house than you. Now, don't let me hear any more of your yap This was about the longest speech Bacon ever made, and it silenced Beckett so far as any publ utterance was concerned, but thercafter he never met Eph on the road or passed him working in the fields without cursing him and slashing at him with his whip. Notwithstanding the kindness of the people, Eph felt that he would ther live alone, 80 the second spring he rented a little farm down on the river bottom and fitted up the old log hut there so he could keep house by himself. The people assisted him a little in ploughing and in cutting his grain, and he got along nicely. The second year he bought howl by war T think you shut up, or through the your yap I HE STOOD LOOKING DOWN AT HIS ADVERSARY. ain’t a slave any more. You're my hired man. Sit down.” “Well, you see, Missis she might"— “Good land, no; sit down, Eph. Have sense.”” Mrs. Rogers sald, vigorously. So he humbly did so. It was long before the wonder of it wore off, but at last he came to feel at ease. He seemed at last to feel his right to come and 80 as others did. Mrs. Rogers explained to Mrs. Adams: ““So long as he is as clean as we are, I don't see as I've any call to object, and he certainly is neat.” The children liked him very much, and on evenings in the kitchen ho came to tak- ing the entire group of yellow-headed young- sters in his great arms and with his mighty voice subdued to a soft, mild crocn, sang the baby to sleep. It was a moving slght—the great black and this mob 5t paly children. Mrs. Rogers used to sit and listen to him in sllence, until the striking clock warned her, then she roused up with a stact and a sigh. “Well, Eph; you do make time fly! Children rouse up, now. Gimme the baby, Eph. You're a great hand with babies, T must say. She's been a-worritin' all day today, but— Sometimes he sang songs he could not understand. Strange, wild chants, in a half volce, that made the shivers run over Mrs. She used to speak up irritably: what in the world you singin’ “I can't toll you quite, Missis. It's about do land ob be lion. Darky wants to go back. White man let me go. I would go €0 back—back to de land ob de lion!" Evi- dently something sweet and far-off came back to him as he sang these songs. He became a great feature in the pro- tracted meetings in the neighborhood. People came long roads to hear him sing. Wesley's enthusiasm was Justified when Bph rose one night and sang “Form a Line, Eider," during his first winter in the north. After “that the meeting prospered, and “Brother Lincoln” was recognized as a valu- able accessory. Also Brother Rogers had many callers of an evening, and then Eph “‘patted juber" and sang “Jordan Am a Hard Road to Trabbel,” and “Sinner, Let Me Go,” “Old Mule" and many other songs of the plantation. Ho grew in respect for himself, but he did not lose his balance. He was naturally a well-polsed character. He soon perceived that to retain any servility, or to doubt the genulneness of the good will expressed, would be making his nelghbors awkward nd angry. He accepted it all without comment. Ho oeased calling people names in the southern way. Missis Jones and Misto Bacon. He had little dialect, and lost very soon a large number of his most peculiar phrases. His thickness of utterance remained, However, in moments of excitemont his African tongue came back, together with a wild chant that delighted the people very much. There were times when he seemed sad—perhaps he was thinking of the peach trees and sunshine of Georgia. Life did not go altogether smoothly for him, however. There were a few shiftless woodmen came around the mill who were outraged that a negro should be treated lke a White man. They muttered threats about shooting, but Bacon and Councill told Eph he need not fear them. He tried not to be disturbed by their snarling, but he could not shuke off all sense of his terrible disability before the law. He was troubled most by an old “copper- head"” who owned a farm a little way up the river, Old man Beckett was reported to have come Into Cedar county from Ohio, where his presence was not valued. He was a tall, grim, red-haired man of 50, with immense shoulders, which he always carried edgowise to the front, like a fighting bull. His right eye was crooked and his voico was harsh and rasping. He was known to be a coward and brag- gart. A braggart with great discretion, He was loud in his threats against Uncle Eph at once. *I ain't goin' to have no — nigger a swellin' around over me,” ho sald one night in the presence of Councill and + weveral others at the March school meeting. Councill mildly interposed a word. ‘“He by their first He called them a bony old horse and a nolsy democrat wagon, and felt that he was getting along, Beckett was the only disturbing factor in his life. He never falled to stop and revile him as he drove along past on his way to Rock River, but Uncle Eph never com- plained. He bore it all in silence. Bacon and Counclll, returning from town one day, came upon Beckett yelling fero- clous threats at Uncle Eph, who was work- ing quietly in his garden, not hearing, ap- parently, ~the infuriate howling of his enemy. When they came near, Beckett drove hastily away. Councill pulled up, and Uncle Eph came to the fence, smiling. It was lonesome down there on the flat and he liked to have folks stop and chat. “Good evenin’, Mist’ Councill.’ “Good evenin’, Mist’ Bacon; fine evenin'. “Say, Eph, why don't you go out and whale the daylights out o' that old skunk? sald Councill. Uncle Eph looked troubled. “Well, sah, Iis tempted, sho'ly. I ask de Lawd to help me, sah; elsewise I would, sho'. ‘Tt would be a religious duty,” Councill said. “The next time that he comes by just give him a weltin’ that he'll remember.” Uncle Eph changed his feet a time or two. “Well, Mist' Councill, I feels mighty like it, ley with a | | He got Bph kept approaching. “‘You sho'ly try me,’”" he sald Beckett's volece within _reach I'll black dog. What you come nearer Uncle Bph still approached. “T ain't 'fraid of yo' whip,” he sald with a ealm inflection He was almoat within reach. He cane slowly, with a look of battle coming Into his eyes His bare ud arms glistening like old bronze worn with handling. There was son hing territying in'his steady approach, unhurried, but relentless, His mind was made up Bockett lashed out at him with his whip, His worn old team, aceustomed to his loud voice, did not Iift their heads. Eph leaped suddenly within range The whip came down once, and only once, on the black man's head, A sweeping cluteh of his bear-like paw and Beckett mo out over the wheel, fighting like a wildeat, and they went to the ground, roll- ing over and over in battle Now the negroe's voice arose, the gust came fnto his throat and the murder thirst into his heart. It seomed as if he could crush this man between the palms of his two hands, “Aocoah! yo' neber hit Satan—yo’ old debbil.” His words were lost in the deep roll of his growl. The last arose from where they lay rolling and striking. The team had moved off down the road a little. Blows, cursos, hoarse breathing came out of the dust cloud. At length Uncle F As he stood looking down at his adversary the smoko of battle moved away slow on the gentle wind. The white man did not rise at once He was stunned and bloody and subdued up at last and turned about in daze, looking for his team. Then he pic up his hat and whip. He looked at sullenly, but craftily. He did not ecare to try again At last he walked away a few steps. He looked so bedraggled and slouch ing that Eph's anger turned to amusement His teoth shone first, and then his volce gurglod out in thick laughter. o' suttenly look like a rooster,” he s Beckott turn you,” he said. Eph sobered. The rors for him. It was ble, incomprehensible silence till Beckett ¢ and drove away. Tl put you " he sald ! That meant a meant_a rule come you Don't “If you heart out, you. got. changed. cut your business neck battle me agin, yo' old secon’ best “I'll have the law on held unknown, invisi He stood in into his wagon aw ter- an force, ubed where the dogs won't bite white man's which _forever the black man, He had ndividual white people who good and kind. He loved his old mas- had both been kind and just; but his understanding of law was warped and incomplete. It was an intangible enginery which the white man in some way controlled for his own interest. It represented in some the difference between the black and the white. Personally he felt no fear of any living man, but this strange and awful pow:r of the law terrorized him He went about all day very sober. A general laugh when_the battle became Kuown. rybody said: “Served the right This gave little comfort to Eph, however, when the sheriff rode into the yard a coupls of days later with a warrant for him. He bowed his head in instant resignation and his face was pitiful to ses. “Mista Shirf, [ jest want to feed my chickens an’ shut up de house.’ Why, of course,” said the sheriff, as he lounged 'in the buggy seat. To Eph it was like going away forever. He looked at his crops, his chickens and his horse. He put down a big pan of water for the chickens and locked the door of his house and led his pony out. “I gist like to take Ole Ben over to Mista Bacon's, sah if you don’ mind.” “Not at all. Just lead him behind. You'll bo bailed out and be back tonight or tomor- row. So don't worry.” Bacon was hitched up ready to go to mill. “Hello, Eph! Where you go-un with that sheriff? Eph smiled rather pitifully. . T don’ know, Mista Bacon. 1 just goin’ ‘long o' him.” “What's up, Sam?" Bacon sald, coming to the wagon wlheel. “Old Beckett has sworn again: ph for 'sault and battery.’ ““The nld whelp. You ain't mean enough to serve that warrant on an old nigger? ad to do it, Bill. I can’t pass on the > of a warrant he powe at went ainst known many went round the country Practically old skeesex out a_warrant “Brown. “Well, I'll go right down to see Brown about it. It's a mean, sneaking trick. I told Eph I'd stand by him if he whaled Beckett and Ull do it if it takes half my farm.” He'll need a bondsman, Jugged, you know.' “Well, I'll sec about that.’ Eph was deeply relieved g0 along with him, sure; or he's to have Bacon Bacon made him tell i the whole story, at which they all roared. Eph's account of it seemed very funny, though he did not intend it to be so. “'N' ye wallered him good, did ye?" ““i sho'ly did trounce him to my best capa- bilities, sah,” Eph said, in answer. In some way he managed to put beforo Judge Brown his fear of the law. Per haps it was in his gesture, as he bared his head in awe. Perhaps In the nervous fumbling o¢ his hands. Certainly in some way he uttered the fear and awe of the human soul to whom law has meant in- justice, bondage and appropriation. The bluff old lawyer heard Bacon through, and then said in his judicial tones: “I'm a democrat. I believe in buying out the slaves, but I propose to see justice done. The law with me will not draw the color line. 8o far as possible I have also made law an instrument of justice and liberty. You “YOUR COLOR WILL NOT COUNT T do assw’ you, but I don’t just exactly kuow what folks say “Oh, that's it, is it?" “Yessah. You see, down south— Bacon interrupted: “You ain't down south; you're up north. 1f you'll thrash the pizen ‘out o' that old whelp, I'll see that you ain't troubled by anybody else afterward.” “I'll stand by you, t0o,” Councill sald. Eph's face shone with a sort of joyful re lief. “‘Well, sah, you can depend on mo, sah. He won't call ole Eph any mo' bad names. De Lawd willun, I'se obliged to trounce him de very nex' time come along un holleh."” The men laughed and drove on. to see the fun,” said Councill It was not long after that Beckett, being in a bad mood, pulled up before Eph's gate and yelled for bim to come out and take his medicine. Eph was in the barn and thought to keep out of sight, but at last he grew impatient of the man's voice and came out “You go 'long. Don' stand lerin,." Beckett grew more ferocious. “I'd get out and cut you into strips for a cent,” he swore, cutting at Eph with the whip. If 1 come out tha-ah, sah, I trouncé you sho'." Eph replied. Bockett shook his whip at him, wili? It you dare lay hands on me—’ “ra like there hol- You &0 home and attend to your affairs. If Beck- ett does not withdraw his charge you must appear In November and stand trial, but I don't think it will be serious. We'll see that the law Is dealt out with impartial hand. Your color will not count,” Bacon winked at the judge and sald: ‘I think we can Induce Beckett to call it a fair fout and no favor." The Jjudge remained non-committal. don’t know anything about that, but man comes In here all battered up swears out a warrant, I must issue it.” ph caught the tone if not all the words of the fudge's speech, and something vast and splendid came into his thought; for the first time in his life he caught a glimpse of freedom under law. His heart swelled till he ached with a_ wish to sob.” His e 1l with tears. He bowed his- great woolly head over the judge's hand with the gesture of a slave Don't do that,” sald the judge, sharply “I'm not doing this for you because yoy're black, but because it's the la the way home b Bacon, except now and a littie Joyful crooning religions ejaculation, That night some nelghbors passing by heard him' praying in his cabin. His voice rose In fervent chant as Le prayed God tc i it a and ¢ ek ey sat silent beside then he broke into phrase or uttered bless the judge and Bacon and all the good white folks who hatl been so kind to him And as the Iis oners—unimagin:tive farmer folk—rode on they felt a queer lump rising In their throats. * There was something mov= Ing In the voice of the old black man chant- ing praises of them to God as he knelt there In his lonely cabin on the river sands - WHEN JIMMY COMES FROM SCHOOL, in Ladles' Home Journal mes from school, at 4, m! how things begin huzz and bang and And brighten up ffom roof to floor; The dog that all day long has lain Upan the bick noreh waes his tail L And leaps and barks and begs again The 1081 corap 10 wae dinner puil, When Jimmy comes from school. cupboard latches clink a tune, And mother from her Knitting stirs 1l that hungry boy of he: supper will bo ready soc And then a slub of ple he t A'cooky, and a quine twe And for the br barnyard breaks, Where everythiy How 'y do,’ When Jimmy comes’ from school. The rooster on the garden fence, Struts up anil down, and crows and crows, As if he knows, or thinks he knows, He, too, I8 of some isequence; The guineas join the chorus, too, And just beside the window sill ' The red | swinging out of view, On his lght perch beging to trill, When Jimmy comes from school, When Jimmy comes from school, take care! Our hearts bogin to throb and quake With life and joy, and every ache I8 gone before w awa The earth tekes on a richer hue, A softer light falls on the flower And overhead a brighter blue Seems bent above this world of ours, When Jimmy comes from school. b ANSWERS NO PUZZLES. from Thoss quotatons about two-score ot poets, published b ago, excited a gres alone in the prizes questions themselyes. rect answers 1. “The talent of success Is nothing more than doing what you can do well. and do. ing we'l whatever'you do, without a thouzht ot fi Longfellow and er American and British The Bee a fow weoks deal of interest, not offered, but in the Here are the cor- Dirk—Year—Mald ymion.” ledge runs far Isle rocky into the And on away, The lighthou: A pillar fire day.” 4. Bret Hart cens in Camy 5. On a Portrait ot Red Jacke 6. Oliver ‘Wendell of the Ridic 7. Benjamin sasantry.’’ its outer point, some mile. ifts its massiv by night, of asonry, cloud by Holmes—"The Height tous,™ Franklin—"A Conversational Groene—"Ol1 Grimes, K Locker—"The J “The New Je eventh Psalm, seventh Ode,” . David—Sevent and eighth verses 12, Joseph Addizon—"An . L. Hensle Perry William ‘Cre A Hymn. ‘After the Ball" Wordsworth—"Tintern ~ Ab- n—“Don_Juan,” rt Browning—*The King t Buchanan—"Fra Giacomo. . Sidney Lanjer—"Centennial M tion of Columbia ' John G. Whittler—‘Centennial Hymn." 2. “Sir Wi Lay of the Last Minstrel."” . Robert enfng." Bupns—*‘McPherson's :n—Under the Port lor—*Possession.” William illen Bryant—"To nged Gentlan.”i Ralph Waldo Bmerson—“The Prob- 1 Thomas Mpore—“Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wire." 3, Alred Tendysbn—The Princess. 20. Robert —Shuthey—“Gooseberry “Pindaric Ode.’* Willlam Shakespeare—King Richard Act 1IL, scene ii. ok, Thomas” Buchanan Read—“Sheridan's ide. George H. Boker—"Dirge for a Sol- Pie,” Peaces” . r'dge—"“The \ag b nds * a Mulock Cralk—“A Lan- Ho- L' Phoebe C: John T. Tr: dinah Ma e Doxolog Thomas Babington Macaulay- nck Gilbert—"To the 8. Samuel Coleridge—*Ancient Mariner."” . James Russell Lowell—“Abraham Lin- “Commemoration O . Alexander Pope—*‘Ode Solitude," “The Quiet Life."” Not a_perfect answer was sent by any solver, the best that any did being thirty- eight ‘of the forty. Those that proved hardest were Nos. 13, 22 and 2. Harper's Young People, whose puzzle it was, offered to divide $40 among the senders of the bes solutions—best in all respects, corrcetnes spelling, ete, being considered, and in crder to fit the merits of the answers received makes the prize money $41, and gives to the four who sent exactly similar answers, each missing two questions, $8 each. Their names are: Margaret Kimmel, Jessie Northrup, Will M. Ritchey and Charlie M. Montague, and they live in the states of Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. The two who did the next best, and standing equal in merit, were James B. Forbes and Lois A. Dowling, both of Rochester, N. Y. They answered thirty-seven of the forty questions, but made errors in the thir elghth. For Instance, one found No. 21 to be by Scott, but put it into the wrong poem, and the other, in quoting from Long- fellow, omitted a phrase from the middle of the quotation—a phrase that was specially called for by the question. There has been sent to each of them $2. The following named prize winners, to cach of whom $1 was sent, answered from thirty-seven down to thirty-five questions correctly, in the order that thefr names are given: Charles W. McKlddy, Gertrude G Vroom, Irma Pixley, Robert Lee and Leigh Connelly. Harper's Young People says out an exception, so far as it can positively say, all prize winners in this contest have for ‘the first time been successful at answer- ing these unique questions, and it points out that solvers have, in that fact, great reason to be encouraged. Besides, whether one wins in these Harper's Young People contests or not, he gains emough new in- formation to well repay him for his effort. SEVEN FEET OF WHISKERS, Deards Compared to Whie Maors than a Stubble. There are at least two men living at the present time who have beards over seven feet in length, says the London Million. One is an Englishman, Richard Latter of Lon- don, who has a beard ten fest in length, and the other is Lagrand Larow of Missouri, whose beard Is upiard of seven feet long. If his strengih, Was In proportion to the length of his hajr, Larow would be an ex- ceptionally strong man. He is, however, unlike Samson 'in this respect. He is six feet high, 175 pounds In weight and enjoys average health and strength. He has not shaved his face for years. Some years ago a man at Odessa boasted of a rd eight feet in Strange to say,, this extraordinary caused him on one occasion to Le into prison. At an official supper in Petersburg a Fropnch lady told of per amaze ment at seeing a Pollsh Jew with a beard five feet long. An ex-governor who was present declared there was a Jew In Odessa viho had a beard eight feet long. General Incredulty was expressed, whereupon the ex-governor at ance wrote to his successor quest, and got it endorsed by high offi- to send the Jew at once to the capi- he governor construing this as an official order, had the Jew clapped into irons an sent him to the central prison for “‘detalned suspects.” AS no papers specify- ing his “crime” came with the unfortunate Jew, the prefect of the prison put him in detention as a secret police suspect, and, as the rules required, he was shaved clean The lady had meanwhile left the city, the ex-governor had no Interest in a shorn 'Je and at the end of a year, no complaint hav- ing been filed, the prisoner was released, with a warning to behave himself better in the future. Taylor on M that, with- b ALl SIS The American racing team which Zim- merman jolns in “Paree” 15 a top noteh one, composed of Zimmerman, Wheeler, and Crooks as stable, W. B. Troy as manager and treasurer. Henry Rue, the vet- eran trainer as handler, and the whole backed by Max pandy, the celebrated rench millionalre sporting man. Dewitt's Witch Hazel salve cures plles. ONE SOURCE OF BAD WHISKY The Fusel Cil in Aloohol a Brain Poison of Most Injurions Oharacter, IT IS NOW ELIMINATED BY ELECTRICITY The New ‘“Jerked Lightning" a More Per- fect Product Than y the ol v on the Ale it Made w Depending of Time, That this fs truly an electrical age s a remark often heard nowadays, and yet elec- trical sclence is but in Its infancy. That electricity Is one of the most powerful ab- sorbing agents Is a fact well known and recognized by Its use in both chemistry and pathology. That it 1s being successfully ap- plied in the rectification of spirits, however, by oxidizing and precipitating the methyl alcohols, s but little known, hence pre- sumably a matter of interest to the drug trade and the medical profession. In the manufacture of alcohol, pro- duced in a modern distillery, the corn is coarsely ground, and after being cooked with steam and mixed with yeast and small grain in a vacuum converter the starch is changed into sugar. The mash thus tained is conducted into large fermenting tubs, and during a period of seventy-two hours fermentation, generating and discharg- ing vast quantities of carbonic acid gas, the sugar has turned into alcohol, and the mash, now called “beer,” is ready for the still. The first product of the still fs called “highwine,” averaging in proof perhaps 140 degrees. This, by vaporizing in a high column, is distilled up to the desired proof of 188 or 190 degrees. This is the ordinary “alcohol” of commerce, containing all the impurities, known gencrally as “fusel ofl.” It should in reality be used only for sc tific and mechanical purposes, such as burn- ing, cutting shellacs, preservation of speri- mens, and in medicines for external appli- cation. Brought into contact with the mucous membrane of the elementary ca when used as a beve or administc in a medicine, the fusel oil asserts itself in a decidedly deleterious manner. We quote from one of the most eminent English physicians, J. M. Fothergill, M. D., I\ R. C."P., (probably the hest known author on physiology of digestion, ete.) “The drawback of all spirits of ‘fusel oil' they contain. This Is not added as an ordinary adulteration, but Is a product of distillation, which is only got rid of by the costly process of keeping. “The alchemy of time' converts it into flay- oring agents free from deleterious proper- ties. But spivit is rarely kept long enough for this to be achieved. New spirit is flery in taste and maddening in its effects from the large amount of fusel ofl it con- tains. Alcohol may have much to answer for on its own account, but it is scarcely fair to saddle it also with the crimes of its foster brother, fusel oil, a brain poison of the most injurious character. If alcohol could be distilled free from fusel oil much of the crime of drunkenness would be abol- iished, especially in low neighborhoods, where fiery spirits are largely drunk.” THE PROCESS OF PURIFICATION. Now, algohol cannot be distilled free from fusel’ oil, but the fusel ofl can be eliminated after distillation to a degree by rectification through charcoal, per- fectly by electricity and charcoal combined. Electricity thus has gained a march on Father “Time" and his “‘Alchemy.” Cologne spirits is the term applied to aleohol that has been rectified through char- coal, 1. ., passed under high pressure through large’iron alrtight vats densely packed with pulverized charcoal, the latter absorbing to a large extent the fusel oils contained in the aleohol. ' The charcoal after a certain time becomes so surcharged with these impuri- ties thdlf; ke a torpid liver, it refuses to absorh_any more, and then it is renewed. Ordinarily, the utility of charcoal ceases after being used about three months. But when the alcohol has first passed through the electric process the life of the charcoal is prolonged, lasting and retaining its ab- sorbing qualities for six months and more, thus proving by involution the value of the electric process. The latter Is simple in its operation, An electro-magnet, connected with a dynamo, and suspended in an air- tight tank of perhaps 100 gallons capacity, heavily charges with magnetism a half-dozen layers of close wire netting drawn across the tank near the bottom. This tank is fed under pressure, with the high wines to be purified, through a small pipe from below and emptied through another pipe near the top, so that the high wines remain under the influence of the electro-magnet for some little time. The result is not immediately perceptible, but when the above described tank is emptied and cleaned after a week's use the space between the bottom and the wire netting s found tp-ba filled with a dark slimy substance which, when dried, resembles a fine powdered chocolate. It is called by chemists “aldehyde,” and repre- sents the oxidized Impurities contained In the alcohol as Inherited from the grain. Aldehyde, while in solution in the alcohol, is mineral in its nature and ox!dized and pre: cipitated as a solid by electricity. Prof. Fresenius of Weisbaden, one of the highest authorities on electro- chemistry, says of the process, as patented in this country, that “It operates to release the fusel ofl, and ox!dizes the aldehyde, thereby improving the flavor and relieving tho liquid of many ele- ments deleterious to health.” TRIAL NOT. ob- is the amount INDU We produced 11,785,754 barrels of salt 1893, Paper tubes for holding yarn are a recent English invention So far as quantity Is concerned coal stands for 85 per cent of all the minerals extracted. Statistics show that Russia produces and consumes a smaller quantity of beer than any other nation. It is estimated by Traflic that the United States has produced two-thirds of the cot- ton consumed by the world for the last sixty-seven years. Montana has produced noarly one-third of the gold, silver, copper and lead in the United States. The mines of the state have yielded over $400,000,000. One farmer in Long Island has his en- tire ground of several acres laid out ex- clusively ln thyme, parsley, ete., from which he Is said to secure about $3,500 annually. A soup herb sort of specialty. No wonder the progtessive Japs the American market. They found pur chasers here in 1893 for manufactured silk goods to the extent of nearly $3,500,000, and of raw silk of nearly $15,000,000. A new waterproof preparation for coating walls, paper and other fabrics and water supply pipes 18 made by dissolving shellac of rosin in methylated spirit by the ald of a gentle heat and adding lead carbonate and carbonic acid to the partially cooled sclution. Congressman in or thread court L. Johnson and other Cleveland caplalists at Columbus have incorporated the Johnson Steel company with a capital of $5,000,000. They will construct an immense iron and steol plant at Cleveland and will mine and trans- port their own ores. The world's product of wool for 1892 is estimated at 2,325,854,000 pounds. Of this total nearly half was transformed into man ufactured =~ articles by western ope. France consumed alone one-fourth, giving her the leading place in the woolen indus- try, closely pressed, however, by England, Germany and America, Corks that have been steeped in vaseline are an excellent substitute for glass stop. pers. They are mot in the least affected by acids, the fumes of chemicals do not decay them, nor do they become fixed in the botties from long disuse. In short, they all the good qualities of the glass stop without any of Its disadvantages A great convention of railway employes 18 to be held at the Lenox lyceum, New York, on May 27, 28 and 20. The conven tion, whieh will represent 150,000 railway emplo; will be composed of delegates from the Order of Rallway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Broth erhood of Rallway Trainmen, Order of Rall- way Telegraphers and Switchmon's Thomas Mutual Ald association. The purpose of the con vention Is to consider and, It possible, agren upon A Iine of action to be followed to e cure such logislation as may bo beneficial to rallway employes, both from the national and state legislatures, - - Rules of Gotham's Milllonalre Club, Every millionaire who joins this club must be_able to read and writo. No millionaire Is permitted under any ofr- Samatarices to float among his fellow members Ny Issue of bunko bonds oxcee 000, 000 fn amount apiadhidid Under no cirocumstances will any conver- sation about art, literature or sclence be per- mitted on the premises. No member will be pormitted to bring his luncheon to the club wrapped up In a news- pape The price of pork and other sccurities will be posted every few minutes. Any member who wishes more frequent informa tion must Inquire at the desk. No member who woars Amerfean-made clothes will be permitted to sit at the front windows, Members will please not eat with their knives when there are outsiders present No round games shall be played whore the stakes exceed $100,000 a corner Members are requested not to approach the club on foot nor in a hired conveyance Members must not swear at the club ervants, as they are all younger sons of English noblemen Any member violating any of the above rules will be prohibited from using the gold soup plates for one month. Warsaw, Ind., was the residence of beauti- ful Augusta Phillipson, heiress of one of the wealthiest Hebrews of northern Indiana. olumbia City, a town an hour's ride east of Warsaw, is now her home, because it is the home of her newly wedded husband The gentleman in this case is Roy L. Hold- erman, a young man of exceptional attain- ments, but it Is stated that he is a clerk. 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