The Washington Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1893, Page 4

FORO «UE emanate WANTED HIS TRAIN, ANYWAY. | AN EARLY DISCOVERY. ‘. Passenger Who Didn't Exactly Remem. , Principles of the Telephone Known toa ber Where He Lived. Writer Years Ago. “People have no idea of the silly | 4 letter to the Kansas City Star con- questions that are occasionally asked tains the following information: us,” ssid Tom Howard, the ayburn- | “One day in 1842 I wound my watch ! haired young man of the Union Depot | and Jaidit on atable. I moved to the bureau of information, according to ® | other end of the table, six or seven feet Chicago newspaper. — away, laid down and went to sleep. And then Mr. Howard went on to | When I awoke, and before I raised my tell of the experience he had just had | head from the table, I heard the ticking with a suburbanite who was slightly | of my watch distinctly. Some time under the influence of liquor. This after I placed my watch on the other man stepped up to the window and the | end of apole and heard the ticking as following conversation took place: | distinctly at the other end as if I had “What time can I get a train out of | held the watch itself against my ear. here?” “In the following Summer, 1848, “Every ten minutes,” answered Mr. | while walking one morning with a shop- Howard. mate, I passed the beautiful grounds of “But at what timedoes my train go?” | Esquire Harris, at Wayne, township of asked the traveler. Stowford, county of Devonshire, Eng- “Don’t know. What road do you | jand. A wire fence 1,800 feet long was want?” ‘ by the roadside. I wagered a sum of “Why—let me see, it’s—darn if I money that I could take my watch to don’t forget.” | one end of the fence, and the ticking “Well, where do you want to go?” could be distinctly heard at the other. “I want to go home. Where did you | My shopmate took the wager, walked suppose I wanted to go?” to one end of the fence, signalled me “I'm nota mind reader. Where do | with his handkerchief, and I placed my you live?” watch on the top wire, I took it off “At home. What time can I get | and replaced it several times. My out?” shopmate came back presently, paid “Where is your home?” asked How- | the wager, and said he had heard the ard, turning to his time en a4 watch tick as aistinety as if apes ave “Why, at—well, where in thunder do | held to his ears. at was abou I live?” T’ve forgotten the name of the years ago. It was my first experience place.” with the telephone. I was nineteen “Got any letters about you or a busi- | years old then, but couldn't see far ness card?” enough ahead to make the millions that “Let's see, Yes, a it is. Abe | Imight have made out of my discov- Tm all right. If ever I come to Chi- 2, cago again I'll fetch my little boy with mea read an extract from the Sheffield me to show me the way home,” and the | Telegraph, in which the statement was man sat down on a bench, pulled his | made that about fifty years ago some hat over his eyes and slept contentedly | employees in a manufactory in England until a depot policeman awoke him and | sent up akite, to which was attached a put him on an Aurora train. kitten sewed in a canvas bag, with a ce netting over the mouth to give it air. a % When the kite was at its greatest height The most fruitful cause of curious | 909 fect or more, the mewing could be letters is ignorance of the rules of or- | distinctly heard by those holding the thography. Here is a case in point, the string. To the clearness of the atmo- epistle being one received by a gentle- here ttributed the hearing of the man from his gardener: “Honred Sir:— | Speeder My wif and I have taken the Ian from Windsor, Jenny Cedar has lost her head, the rest of the scrubs are all well. = HEE SS : f The Oxen are come down to prase the The walking delegate never tired o Goods.” One would hardly imagine, talking of the strike. He held that it from reading the above, that the intel- | Was justifiable if ever a strike was, and ligence he sought to convey was as fol- he was prepared to demonstrate that it lows: “Honored Sir: My wife and I was perfectly proper to strike to secure have taken the influenza. The Virginia ay desired result. He so told his cedar has lost its head; the rest of the Wife, and she seemed to agree wit shrubs are all well. The auctioneer him. She said it seemed to be the came down to appraise the goods.” easiest way of enforcing a demand. The doctor, too, who received the an- That night when he came home ne nexed note from a patient must have found the table was not set. been at first rather puzzled as to the “I want a new dress,” she said, when nature of his complaint. “Sur:—I he asked what the trouble was. : weesh yew wood koom an see me—I ay «Iknow. You've been bothering me got a bad kould-eel in my Bowhills— about that dress for a month,” he said, an av lost my Happy tide.” An “but how about supper? ‘ aspirant for literary fame addressed “There isn’t any,” she replied. the editor of the magazine he honored “This is a strike. by his attention as follows: “Sir “A strike? ‘ ‘ I want a position on yore exlent paper “Yes, a general tie-up. I’ve been as Eddytory riter. Im bound tomakeit trying to secure a peaceable settlement intrestin”—a promise not wholly with- of this trouble for some time, but now out foundation. To the uninitiated 1 just mean to enforce my rights, theatrical letters might be misleading. | “Mary, do you dare—' “If you can get me two murderers," _ “Oh, don’t you talk to me that way! wrote Garrick to Stone.” Iwill pay IfI can’t get you to arbitrate, why you handsomely, particularly the I've got to strike. I don’t care if it spouting fellow who keeps the apple does block the wheels of trade a little stand on Tower Hill; the cut in his face bit.” ay ri is just the thing. Pick me up an “You don’t understand.” , S alderman or two for ‘Richard,’ if you “Oh, yes, I do.” can; and I have no objection to treat © “I say you don’t.” with you fora comely mayor. Love's “I’ve asked for arbitration with a young dream is responsible for some view to compromise and that has also amusing epistles, but it will be difficult been refused. A strike is all there is to finda letter more concise and to the left, and I’ve struck.” point than that sent by Dr. Donne to his “But in this instance your demands wife's parents. He had married a lady are unreasonable.” belonging to arich family without the “I don’t think so.” consent of her mts, and in conse- “You're no judge.” quence was told by his father-in-law “You're the judge of your own de- that he was not to expect any money mands when you strike, eh?” from him. The doctor went home and “Ye—s,” penned the pithy note: “John Donne, “Well, Lam just as good a judge as Anne Donne, undone,” which he sentto you are when I want something. It’s the gentleman in question, andthis had no use talking. This strike is on.” the effect of restoring them to favor.| She folded her arms in a determined An advertiser for a wife received the way, and he subsided. It was perhaps following reply: “Sir:—Seeing Adver- halfan hour later when he looked up tisement that you are in wantes a part- and said: ner for life so i hoffer myself as a Can- “Mary, is the strike still on?” -” date. But before there is much carres- «It is still on.” pondence, I should like an intearew 4 “Aren’t you hungry?” with you. Notes the adres.” Some! “No. Isaw that I had something in correspondents do not waste words. the treasury before the strike was or- The schoolmaster who received the dered.” ‘- note consisting of the homemade word, | “Meaning the pantry?” he asked. ~Cepatomtogoataturing,” as an excuse | “Yes.” for the non-attendanve of one of his| I believe I'll get a bite,” he said, scholars, would think that his correa- ; advancing a step. pondent had a desire to economize as | She raised a forbidding finger, say- much as possible. It was meant to , ing with a cheerful smile: convey the intelligence that the boy was | “It is locked. The reserve is to be “kept at home togoa-tatering.” Dryden's used simply to keep the strike going, opinion on what constitutes the best You can’t touch the striker’s re- style of writing will no doubt find | sources,” many supporters. Several gentlemen; «Be careful, Mary,” he said warning- had submitted their writings to him. ly. «If I shut off the cash—” In giving the award to Lord Dorset, | “ Then she laughed outright and nod- Dryden stated that he was charmed ged towurd the pantry. with the style and subject and thatthat == I can stick it out a week—perhaps kind of writing excelled any other, | jonger,” she returned. whether ancient or modern. The com-| Five or ten minutes later he pro- position which so won his favor was © posed that they compromise on the promissory note for five hundred © basis of ten dollars. pounds. | «Iwenty,” she said firmly, | _“But that means ruin,” he protested. Enfents Terrible. y it.” a rd it. In the Caucasus Mountains there are | ge epi business,” said she, “I J wild, eetrtined abs poops ‘ offered to arbitrate once.” whose rough ways wo make tho It was 10 o'clock that night when wah fone if ber ebila ag ear. finally he gave in, and somehow he felt hs ie ct bs Gen cet that he had experienced a new phase of as peop. a “Th frat the strike business. It looked alto- out children ail Chesca baby is . Sether different from the other side of dagger. This is pi ted to him as Ee ‘oran hour or Her Faithfal Lover. A pretty incident recently occurred 7. in a public school. In a class of small — aes Sength zee ae children the teacher desired, by illus- that it makes no splash and is made to ee “ sa vos favorite. dagger : d e said, r seve! ruitless at- hual:his jit a8 sae tempts: “Well, children, if there was . ¢ the ti some one you love more than anybody ee on aaa one = else in the world, and wished always to studying « spelling book. When the ‘keep her with you, what would you say Caucasian boy grows up he knows just she was, what name would you give one thing—how to use s dagger— her?” A small boy held up his hand, while civilized boys know—well, some 824 when told to answer, responded of them kaow » great dash Semmag PrOMptly, “My mothgyy” _. seeems Hq Barred by the Prejudice that it Was Not Mentioned in the Bible. have been barred by the presbyterian prejudice that it was never mentioned in the Bible. In the Lothians it came {in about 1740, the year of the dearth, from Ireland, but was confined to gar- dens till about 1754, says Blackwood’s Magazine, when it was P lanted in fields about Aberlady. By the close of the j century it was a general article of diet. Ramsay says that George Henderson went about 1750 for a bag of potatoes to Kuysth, where the Irish method of field culture had lately been tried, and introduced the potato into Mentieth, where a few had been known, but only in the kale yards. The folks, however, did not take kindly to the new food. Old George Bachop, one of the | Ochtertyre tenants, when told by his | wife that she had potatoes for supper, said: “Tatties! tatties! I never supped on them a’ my days and winna the picht. Gie them to the herd and get me sowens.” It is significant that Burns, who sang the praises of kale and porridge and haggis, has nothing to say of the potato. sel Spiders on the March. In almost every part of Texas there is ;alarge burrowing spider commonly : known asthe tarantula, though some | naturalists consider such a classification / as incorrect. However that may be, ‘ the giant spider of Texas has a body equal insize to an ordinary human ; thumb and spread of legs covering an | area of about four inches, while !a thick growth of coarse black or brown hair gives it a general appear- ance anything but pleasing. Thecrea- ture, without being aggressive, is slow to take alarm, and is one representative of the lower animal kingdom which ; Seems to have no fear of man. A gen- tleman who has large landed interests in Western Texas saye: Several years ago I was taking a trip ; by ambulance through the eastern portion of Williamson county in com- | pany with two companions. We had just entered upona wide, level expanse, then almost devoid of vegetation, whén | Isaw several tarantulas crossing the road just ahead of us. Borrowing the driver's whip I sprang out and des- patched three of them, when a cry of warning from the ambulance caused me to examine my surroundings. I im- mediately became aware that a heavier contract confronted me than I was pre- pared to carry out; for a few yards away the earth swamed with big spi- ders, moving slowly in the same direc- tion as those I had first seen. I hurriedly resumed my seat in the vehicle, and our party had moved for- ward for some distance without en- countering more tarantulas, when sud- denly we came upon what might be called the main body of their grand army, marching due west. There could be no question as to the course pursued, as we were moving directly toward them, and it was then almost sundown. As our route lay southward we had come upon the column at right angle, and on either hand, as far as the range of vision extended, there was no apparent diminution in the spider force, which moved with the uniformity of a trained army. In this vast concourse about one square foot seemed the indi- vidual marching space that was allowed. Our drivers glanced uneasily around and said something about turning back, but by this time the spiders had cov- ered all the ground in our rear, so that retreat was quite as hazardous as anad- vance. The horses were urged rapidly forward. I suppose some commotion was orer- ted among the tarantulas immediately in the road, but those on either side seemed totally oblivious of our pres- ence. We felt some uneasiness about the horses, but they came through with- out being bitten. Amid surroundings so distracting I took little note of the distance travelled, but we must have gone fully half a mile before leaving the spiders behind us. Whence came | POTATO’S STRUGGLE FOR FAVOR. | The way of the potato was said to — HIS FIRST STEAM WHISTLE. Capt. Neal Used to Frighten Indians on | the Mississippi. > “I see they have finally settled the discussion as to who was the first man to use a steamboat whistle on the river,” said Capt. Jere Eastman, of Cairo, to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat man. “It was a mighty interesting dis- cussion, too, and the thing was in doubt for some time, but it’s all set- tled now and Capt. J. Stut Neal was ; the man. “As Capt. Neal explains it himself, the story is something to this effect: He was the engineer and part owner of the Revinue—spell that with an“i,” mind you—and she was the first vessel to use a whistle, They got it from Anderson Fulton in Pittsburg, where the boat was built. That was in 1843. “You see, they were making a trip with Government supplies to Fort Touson, on the Red river, in 1844. They had had the whistle then, for, while they were making the trip, Polk was inaugurated President, and old Cap’n Neal—he wasn’t old then— was the only Democrat on the boat, and, I tell you, he made the Injuns jump when he set that old whistle to tooting. In those days the whistle was placed a-top of the boilers, and the en- gineer could amuse himself to his heart’s content if he wanted to. “Old Cap’n Neal was a steamboatman born. He was the first man on the river to use the life preserver, and sent Cap’n so grand an army, and whither it was tending, I am unable to say, but there is little doubt that the spiders, by some mysterious understanding, had assem- bled from a considerable territory, and were moving by common consent to some more desirable region. The gentleman adds that, fearful of being called a Munchausen, he for a long time said nothing of his adventure, but that he has recently found sn experience similar to his own chronicled in the official report of some United States surveyors, who, while working in the West, saw vast numbers of huge | hairy spiders moving in a body with the regularity of well disciplined soldiers. Stampeding Oxen, Many people who have been much on the plains in the ante-railroad days have seen stampedes of mules and horses, but by far the worst stampede is that of terrified oxen. When they are loose they will, if frightened, run over a precipice, if it comes in their way, but if stampeded when hitched to wagons very few will escape. Once, when on the Cimarron, one of my ox teams became frightened, what at I neverknew. The six oxen started off at a break-neck speed, and the conta- ion was imparted to two other teams. he men tried to stop them, but they might as well have tried to check a mountain torrent. The oxen went on right across the country, with the heavy wagons rattling at their heels, and ran until nearly half of them fell dead from exhaustion, I used to think that a blooded horse was the only animal that would run itself to death, but after my experience I learned that it was no un- common thing for a frightened ox to 0 it. There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human Wastes samme W. H. Fulton all the way to Philadel- phia to get a supply of them for the Revinue. On the trip that I tell you about, the Revinue towed a keel boat all the way from Pittsburg via New Orleans to Fort Touson on the Red River. That was before the annexation of Texas, and at that time Fort Touson was on the boundary line between the United States and Texas, and Itell you that was a feat for steamboating in those days.” Willie Goes to Churoh. Willie (ina whisper, after two consec- utive minutes of laborious silence,)— “Mamma, what kind of flowers has that lady in her bonnet?” “You mustn’t talk so loud, dear,” mamma said, “you'll disturb the con- gregation.” «They look like johnny-jump-ups, don’t they mamma?” “Hush, dear! Listen to the sermon.” After a prolonged stillness of ten minutes he asked: “Are they real flowers, mamma, or only make believe?” “They are artificial, Willie Bea good boy, now, and don’t whisper any more. A “Yes’m.” & He said nothing for at least half a minute. iy ye “Mammal” saw “Sh, Willie! What is it?’ * * “When johnny-jump-ups are grown up do they get to be jumpin’ jacks?” _ “Listen to the sermon, dear.” “Yes’m.” came Ee Another period of silence. ~ 1 = “Mamma, the preacher said ‘thirdly.’ How many morelys will he—” “Sh, Willie!” 4 “Yes’m; but I’m getting awful tired.” “It will only last a little while longer, dear. Be quiet.” po ie (Vosimin| 9 cos 4 fF Silence. “Mamma, can a woman be real pious if she wears a stuffed hummin’ bird on her bonnet?” “Willie, if you don’t hush I shall have to punish youl” =. a “Right here?” = cS “No, after we get home, Sh!” =* =4 Another pause. “Mamma, seems to me I’ye been ’sh-ing a long tims! How much longer is he goin’ to—” Growing desperate, his mamma said: “Willie, if you say another word T’ll take you right out of chureh!” Apparently struck by an idea, Willie returned quickly: “I won’t say another word, mamzua, but I’m gettin’ just horrible tired, and I don’t see how I can set still anoth er minute, an’ I wish he’d quié talkizy’. Ain’t you tired ’most to death? How much longer is he goin’ on? What’s the use o’bringin’ me here, anyhow?” And Willie's mother took him out. 4 Sawmills in England. In England sawmills had at first the same fate that printing had in Turkey, and the crane at Strasburg. When at- tempts were mnde to introdiice them they were violently opposed, lecause it was apprehended that sawyeis would be deprived by them of gettis2g a sub- sistence. “or this reason it w as found necessary to abandon asawmil 1 erected by a Dutchman near London in 1668; and in tlae year 1700, when on e Hough- ton laid before the nation t he advan- tages of such a mill, he expr essed his apprehension that it might ¢ sxcite the rage of the populace, What he dreaded was ac tually the case in 1767 or 1768, when a) a opulent timber merchant, by the desi re and ap- probation of the Society of A rts, caused a sawmill driven by wind to be erected at Limehonse, under the ¢ direction of James Stanfield, who had learned in Holland and Norway the at of con- structing and managing machines of that kind. A mob assenabled and pulled the mill to pieces, but thealam- age was made good by the i1atien, and some of the rioters were punished. A new mill was afterward erec.ted, whic bh was suffered to work without moles. - tation, and which gave occasion te the erection of others, It appears, how- ever, that this was not thie only mill of the kind then in Brit:ain, for one, driven also by wind, had been built in, Leith, some years before. “Oh, I have a splendid story to tell you. Idon’t think I ever told it to you before,” said the young man to his faircompanion. “Is it really a good story?” “Indeed it is.” “Them youkhave not told it to me hefonp aa. REAL ESTATE AND LOANS. 606 F Street, N. W., ~ Wasuinetox, D, C GHEE CER EEE Subecribe to and advertise i» the Bzx, THE INDUSTRIAL BUILD-|It the city of Bowie, ING AND SAVING CO. Loans money to buy or build homes, Shares $1 each, payable monthly. Dividends declared ev ery January. Secretary’s office: 609 F st..n.w. Open9a. m. to 5 p.m. Monthly meetings at Lin- colo Memorial Church, cor 11th and R sts., n. w., first Monday uight in every month. Henry E. 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