Iowa County democrat. [volume], April 25, 1879, Image 7

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I IS PRAISE OF A LOVED OSE.
oil. Mir ns the Sav Is my no- flo.trsst:
All nature (or her hs* u pass,onate pining:
A lisht on the meadow v. heu morning beams
clearest:
A slur in the ni.ctit when toe hrljjlnest are
rhinitis:.
If she trips o’er the lea in the ctosr summer
weather
The daisies are thrilled wnß . souse of her
coning.
And the squirrels haste down to the woodslde to
gether,
To sec Iter, to hear her. and beet cease th> lr
bumming.
liiala Bisht for the Highlit.gale when she Is Mug
iuir.
i Height dav for the lark when she warbles at
morning;
liAt the thrill of her irill brigUt nature bursts into
nueing;
1 Her face shames the ted rose, the wood.an t
adorning:
Briie apple tree shakos is white blossomsupou
her; ...
| ‘Mid the corn where she stands brighter shine
all Us tassels.
And tigers and bears, 1 aver on my honor,
W ill erouch at her feel and dcelare they roller
vassals.
“Oh. yes I" you will say ; *• that's the Seng of all
poet’s!” , , , .
Bn: hold: other poets may s inr of their dearies.
Rhyme heather and weather together—you know
it’s ,
A trick of which never a one el them wearies.
But ihu love. I swear, is a ditlerent creature
Viom thelr's, who can bring to • aeir leet otlv
flowers , . , ,
And lovers and lions; , n y love s special feature
I- the way that inanimate things feel her pot.
ers.
I’ve seen a broom-handle tly around w hen she
clutched it.
And thrill with a life that was simply amaziny:
the felt mv hat flv iif ntv head —l'd not touched
li
ft And the broom on my buck thwack with mu
sical phrasing,
fAt one clip Of her elbow I've seen mirrors shiver
| Like aspens or lovers, and when her eye bright
ened,
; I've known sonp-tuieens on the table wild
quiver,
\ And dishea to dance up an i down as it fright
ened.
■Then talk not oi loves like to mine for enchant-
I tig.
I And prate not of what other poets have spo
ken;
f Such lair ones us theirs arn but trifles foi vaunt
ini;
I When my darline appears all then spells ate
soon hiokin.
Tbongh daisies and Peers and e‘n Vila's lion
jF May thrill when they come, they can ne'er
hold a candle
torwhoall tliines that yon ever clapped eye
on
■ Can stir Into life from tin pan to broom handle'
LOVE AM) A LAMTEHX.
Barstow’s Siiiing is it small station <>n
the G. S. A Western railway, and lo
cated out on the prairie at the edge of
a bit of scrubby woods. The little village
of BarsUnv is about a mile from the
station, and tc reach il one has to take
a rough road through the woods. The
line at litis point is perfectly straight,
ami reaches to the horizon in both di
rrcctions. These facts are essential to a
Lright understanding of the events that
took place sit the station one night
about a year ago.
Old Sam Britton, station-master, sat
rby the stove in the middle of the switch-
I house idly looking at the dull red coals
[in the ugly stove. His daughter Mary,
■ aged nineteen, sat hy the little telegraph
| apparatus near the window that looked
[ out down the line. By the aid of a lan-
Itern she was readinga stray newspaper,
f The Iron Trade Review—* strange paper
* for a girl to read, but it
belonged to a dear friend,
and some singular pictures had inter
ested her greatly. She was doing more.
Site read and listened. Not a thirg
stirred in the dull, bare, room save the
restless sounder on her table. The in
cessant clatter of tbo machine fell <>n
her ear, and yet she heard it not. Elm
City was talking to Oentreville, forty
miles through the night, and every word
was spelled on her sounder. Vet she
heard it not, for her mind was alert to
catch another sound. Her father had
lot fall the paper he was reading.
He could not read, for hitter disappoint
ment kept his mind harassed and
troubled. How long was this default of
payment to the employes of the rail
way company ‘.o continue? The last
month’s wages had not been paid, and
another month had nearly passed. The
line needed repairing. There were two
bad ties on this section, and one of tiro
signals was broken. The track-men
had complained that very day that new
and belter tools were needed, and that
more ballast was wanting.
Suddenly, far-away on the edge of the
sea-like horizon, arose a star. The
young girls eyes were on the patter, and
yet she saw ns rising. She looked out
the curtainless window and watched the
star grow bright, it did not seem to
rise, but to grovs big with brightness. It
is not for love to sit, and gaze. It must
act. She rose, and in silence went to
one of the great iron switch bars and
stood with both hands clasped about
the handle, and gazing down the line,
where the star had become a flame.
Then came a far-away sound through
the night. Without hesitation Hie
pulled the bar forward. Far down the
track the switch moved in tiro dark,
and a great green eye turned red. Up
the line in me opposite direction, an
other greeu star suddenly turned to a
warning red.
Samson Gilder sal on his high seat
with one hand on the throttle-valve,
gazing steadily ahead. A constellation 1
of green and yellow stars had sprung |
up on his horizon. Jack Cinder, his
fireman, on the other side of the engine,
had given voice to the monster as it |
panted along its iron way. Ah! one
s:ar Hashed red. The engineer i
blushed and smiled in the dark and
pulled the throttle-valve. Then came a '
push and jar as the heavy freight-train !
rumbling behind pushed against the I
engine. The motive power had ceased, i
and the immense momentum of the j
train drove the idle engine swiftly for-1
ward. The whistle spoke to the met) I
behind, and they gladly pulled at the
brakes, and the tram entered the siding.
The head-light threw a lurid glare on :
the switch-house, and by the light Sam- 1
son saw a young ghl standing by the
track. the was dressed for rough j
weather, and wore a red hood that was
not lovely. Samson thought it was
beautiful in the glow of the great lamp j
and against the winter-night. It may '
nave been the peculiar effect of the
light. It may have been love, for love
has finer eyes than unloving mortals.
They came into the switch-house to
gether, she smiiing and Lanpy, he |
pleased and gratified, yd w ith a shade !
of care upon his face. In bis hand be i
held anew track-layer’s bar, a Ur such
as may be used to draw spikes from
ties.
He spoke to Sam Britton pleasantly
*hcut the weather, and then said.
“ ThercV a bar for the vcctiou-mastcr.;
I bought it myself. The company j
seems to he too j>oor to give its men I
proper tools —’’
"To say nothing of our wages," added
the old man, roughly.
*• O. father, why do you harp ou that ?
The company has a great deal of prop
erty. 1 will surely pay us our dues."
The engineer placed the bar against
the wall hy 'he door, and thou turned to
Mary, tdi- led him away to her little
desk by the window, and there they sat
down together. Presently Jaek Cinder j
and one or two of the train men came
and sat down hy the dull red stove. The
conversation among ttie men for the
first few moments had a local tlavor, 1
and needs no mention. Then it branch
ed to a more important theme —the ov-1
erdne wages. Kven the lovers discus-1
sed the matter, and after a few word*
they slopped abruptly. Tears brimmed !
the girl’s eyts, and she turned away and
| gazed out the w indow at the glow ing
head-light.
Then one of the brakinen said: ‘‘And
the president is racing round the coun
try m a draw ing-room ear. He’s com
! ing up the road to-night on a special,
land every tiling ha* to give way to his
I train."
"I wish he might gel tumbled into the
! ditch," said a deep voice that startled
i them all.
‘•On, Samson, how could yon say
that?"
“Because I'm mad. Hero we can’t —’’
He stopped, and the girl blushed scar
let. “The president can make oxenr
! .-ions over the line and disarrange all
the time-tables, and yet wo an two j
months waiting for our pay. 1 think —"
He stopped and looked toward the
door: a nideons creature, half man, half
i beast, stood unbidden before them all.
A tramp, foot-sore, homeless, and hun
gry, he had found the door unlatched, j
j and had wandered in looking for shel
ter. The station master permitted the
man to come in and stand behind the
stove to warm himself, for ho was
nigh perishing with the cold, and then
the conversation lapsed inti) whispers.
Suddenly there came the sound of a j
distant whistle. The station-master
! looked at the sw itch bars to see that the
line was clear, and Samson ladder rose
'and said: “That’s William’s train. I’ll
go out and wave him a friendly light as
he passes,”
The sound of the approaching freight
train came nearer, and the engineer
took the lantern from the desk and
went out. The others fell into silence
as the rumbling train crept past the
door. The young girl stared at the great
head-light in sorrowful silence, thinking,
wishing, and hoping.
Taking advantage of the noise, the
tramp shuttled away toward the door.
Just as ho reached it he looked hastily
round the room, and then slyly picked
up the track-layer’s bar and disappear
ed. His presence had been a burden:
he had happily taken himself nil’, and
they paid no heed to Ins departure. A
moment after the door opened and
Samsoh Gilder entered. “The special
is in sight boys. We must be oil."
The men reluctantly went out to their
train, and the lovers met to part at the
door. Her eyes werf bright with ill
suppressed tears.
"It seems so long to wait —and all for
n little money.”
“I know it, dear, yet, when tne com
pany do pay up, we shall have all the
more.”
Nearer and nearer came the great
yellow star that had sprung up on the
horizon, From far rune the long wait
ing sound of the express whistle. The
lovers heard it, and held each a tighter
clasp. The tracks before the door be
gan to “sing.” The monster came on
in frightful fury. Sparks shot up in
fountains from its stack. The ground
quivered, the windows shook, with its
tread.
Ah! a despairing scream from the
whistle.
An earthquake.
Someone rushed past the girl. Slit
clasped the door for support, not know
mg -what had happened. She looked
! out into the night, .stunned and terrified.
There was nothing -nothing, save a
vast cloud of dust, white and ghostly in
the night, An! a gleam, a Hare of
light. It shone through the curtain of
dust as it drifted away before the wind.
There were hurrying footsteps, shouts,
cries for help, and groans. The dust
disappeared, and the end of an over
turned car stood out in the bright light.
The flames shot up higher. The wreck
grew in horrid proportions. Ah! it was
on lire.
It is a peculiar feature of American
life that new and unexpected circum
stances are always met and controlled
hy a spirit of organization that creates
out ol the men and materials at hand
the mastery of events. In half an hour
after the lirst crash, as the train left the
metals, the frightened passengers were
comfortably housed in the empty cars
of the freight-train. A car-load of lum
ber had been despoiled to make seats
for the whole and beds for the injured, j
The freight-engine on the siding was
used to drag the wreck away from the j
up line,and its tank,water and steam had |
been used to pul out the lire. In an hour I
the freight-engine, in charge of the ex- '
press people, started away will) it- j
dreary load, the well in the forward ears,!
the injured, on beds of hay robbed from
the freight, in the next cars, the dead |
behind.
Darkness and silence fell on the loin
ly way-station, and save where the black |
wreck lifted its mangled hones against
the sky, there was nothing to mark the
disaster except the pale faces of the men
who gathered around the stove in the ;
switch-house. For a long time nothing
was said. Their are times when speak
ing seems impertinent. Events be
came too big for words. Then one of
the men spoke and said,
"They did say it were the president;
who were killed in the forward sleeper.'
Mary Britton glanced at Samson Gil
der. lie was silent and self-absorbed, (
and bis face gave no indication that he
heeded this remark. At that moment
the door opened and Jack Cinder came
in. bringing in his hand, anew track
layer's bar. He brought it to the light
and held it before them all.
“Do you sec that, boys " I found it
under the smashed sleeper. It’s anew
Par, and—’’ The men looked at the '
bar for a moment in apparent indiffer
ence, and sad nothing. The keener j
feminine mind sprang to iatutive con- 1
elusions. Her thoughts leaped from a
terror to a defense.
"It was the tramp. He stole the bar
and wrecked the train."
"Mehbe he did, and tnebhe he did.i’:.
This 1 do know; Samson Hilder xvas
a-wihing the president into the ditch.
This is Ins bar, and lie xvas out on the
line just before it happened."
The coroner’s jury called to consider
the death of Thomas Starmore and
others, killed at Uarstow’s Siding on
the night of the-olh of February, met
at the switch-house and hoard the evi
dence of the persons who were known
to have been present at the time of the
disaster. Kven the tramp had been
captured. He xvas seen prowling in
the woods near the lino, and had been
caught by the section-master and his
men. Every one at once said. “The
tramp did it." Hut the tramp had in
his hand another bar just like the bar
found under the train. He admitted
having stolen the bar. He had seen
the disaster from the woods, and had
then nm away lest he should be caught.
After some time he had come back to
find the bar he had dropped in the
woods in his tlight. He had the
bar xvith him when caught. He could
prove all this, because tin bar xvas
rusty from lying in the snow.
The reporters of the Centreville pap
ers xvho xvere present called Mary Bril
toti to the tehxgraph that a message
might he dispatched. One of them
placed a paper before her “ A tramp
has been found xvho admits having
stolen the bar. but it is evident he did
not use it. All the evidence goes to
show that Hi# engineer wrecked the
train out of spite against the presi
dent.'’
These xvords Mary Briton sent off by
wire to the whole Tinted States, while
her lover sat near already in the shad
ow of advancing calamity. The oper
ators xvho read off these xvords in dis
tant cities heard every word distinctly,
little knowing the terrible Inal under
which they xvere dispatched. Never in
after-life did she forget that message.
“Gentlemen,” said the coroner, this
ease seems to warrant mein referring
tne whole matter to the grand jury for
further explanation."
Weeks passed, and then the trial
came on al the eenrt-lunise at Centre
ville. Samson Uillder had been com
mitted to answer a charge ofwillfully
wrecking a nt’lroad train.
Mary Britton lived years in these few
xvoeks. She eonld not believe Samson
had committed so great a wrong. Vet
every thing xvas ngain-t him. Tiaek
layers’ bars xvere abundant enough. He
eonld easily have found one about the
place, and xvith il have drawn the
spikes from a rail. Her mind went
backward and forward over all this a
hundred times in search of something
to prove him innocent. She still at
tended to her duties at the station,daily
sending and receiving messages. On
morning, as she sal thinking bitterly of
the sorrow that had invaded her life,
her eyes fell upon an old ncxvspaper
fallen under her desk. She picked it
up and opened il. 7Vt, Iron 7 rtulr l\r
new. She eagerly turned to the second
page Ah! why had she forgotten those
pictures? Strange black figures, etchings
if imp, nature printed. Given this
slight clew, iier mind leaped ton brave
resolve. She would bring science to
love’s rescue. How, she eonld not tell.
She had a vague idea of xvhat might
he done, ami, asking her father to at
tend to the telegraph, she ran hastily
out on the line and di vn the road to
the village. Stopping at a certain
house, she found a young girl who xvas
a good operator, and at once hired her
to take her place at the station.
Before night she had taken every dol
lar she had in the world from tin-sav
ings bank, and xvas on her xvay to the
city. The moving ears seemed to drag
too slowly. Why had she lingered so
long idle, and Samson in dangei?
The day of the trial came on. At
tin' trial all the testimony that we al
ready know, and much more of less
importance, hud been offered by the
prosecution. The defense set up the
previous good character of the prisoner,
and that seemed about all that could he
said.
Mary Britton had givi n her testimony
I oarly in the trial, and that seemed tin l
I all that she could do. 81.n had more
to say. hut was not ready to speak. All
the morning she had sat in the crowded
court room, watching the clock, and
waiting and looking for sonic one, a
strong and leave helper, Income to her
assistance. At the last moment she
spoke to the counsel, and asked for a
slight delay. There might he yet other
witnesses. The defense began to talk
against time, and a messenger was sent
to hasten the lagging aid.
The knight arrived. A pale, tiiin
faced young man in glasses appeared,
and demanded to give his testimony.
Behind him came a marvellous array—
mi ii with strange tools, lanterns of sing
ular construction, bars and mils of iron,
and a nun her of gentlemen who seem*
|cd to he prosperous merchants and
manufacturers. There came also an
old German Jew and a farmer from
Harstow’s. The young man spoke to
Mary Britton with the utmost deference,
and she consulted with him for a mo
ment, and then presented him to Ham
son’s counsel.
There was a slight murmur of stir
( prise at this demonstration, and then
Samuel Mayer was duly sworn. He
testified that he was an expert in met
als. He had examined the bar fo md
under the wreckid ear, and was prepar
er 1 to prove that Harnson Gilder could
not have used it in wrecking the train.
With the permission of the court he
would like to have the room darkened,
that with the aid of a lantern he might
project some nature-printed pictures of
the iron used in making the liar.
The prosecution objected. What sci
entific jnglery was this? J'he old lan-1
tern dijdge familiar in cases of forgery?
The court overruled the objection, and
the young man produced some pieces
of cloth, which his assistant* tjuickly
spread over the windows till the room
became quite dark. A gas jet was light
ed, and in the dim light (liter men set
up a screen and lime-light lantern as
for lantern projections. In a wonder
fully short time there appeared on the
white screen a strange figure—-a cloud
or blotch of blackness.
Hamuel Mayer then testified that at
the request of Miss Britton he nad.
planed one s : de of ear.f. if the two ! ar ,
till a smooth snrtaco had horn obtained.
A portion ol this surface on each bar
had then noon etched with acid, and
from this etching had boon obtained
v .U'.ro’'>int*'t copies or prints in ink.
Tim well-known method of etching
gave prints showing the disposition ot
the particles ot the metal, and serving
to show its quality. These etchings and
a vast number of others taken from
bars and rods made by the different
iron-makers of the country had been
photographed for lantern projection,
and, with the permission of the court,
some of these would he exhibited to the
jury. The projection now on the screen
<vas from the bar purchased by Gilder
and stolen by the tramp.
Kv ry eye was fixed on the singular
picture on the screen, and a murmur
of applause tilled the room, Suddenly
the picture was removed, and another
t ok its place. It did not - require much
attention to show that this represented
an entirely different kind of metal.
“This, gentlemen.” said the young
man, "is a nature printed etching (rom
the iron bar found under the ear. I
have compared these two etchings w ith
a groat number of etching* obtained in
the same way from bars made by all
the iron-men in the country, and I find
this one corresponds exactly w ith etch
ings of the Moorlow Iron CompanyV
metal. My assistant will place a sam
ple of the company's iron beside this."
At once another picture sprang up
beside the one on the screen. The two
were exactly alike.
Another w i:news took the stand the
president of the Moorlow Iron Com
nany. Ho testified to the taels of the
experiments and to the results that had
been obtained.
Another witness was called the
buyer of the railroad company. He
testified that the company had never
used the Moorlow Company’s iron. The
bar Gilber had bought had been ob
tained of K )ss. Ihmean A Cos,, Pitts
burgh, from whom the raihoad obtained
all its tools.
Another etching was projected; then
another appeared by its side, flic two
were exactly alike.
“The picture ,u the iiclit.” said
Mayer, “is Koss, Ihino.ui A Co.’s iron.
That on the left is the etching shown
first, and obtained from the bar pur
chased by t< liber.”
The judge rapped smartly on his
desk. This appl,m e could not be per
mitted again. The day-light was jc
admitled, and the pictures faded away.
Photographs of the etching were hand
ed to the jurors, and the various sam
ples of iron from which the etching had
been obtained were exhibited.
Samson Gilder sal with face averted.
How could he deserve such love? It
was too divine a gift. Why had lie not
known of her surpassing love for him,
her mastery of mind and will that could
accomplish such results, and all for him ?
He did not deserve so great a blessing.
Someone else was testifying. A
farmer living id Harslow had passed a
man on the road, just before the acci
dent, xvho muttered to himself, " I’ll
have my revenge, xvlioever may suf
fer.”
Abraham ,Saturn Is testified Unit he
had bought the old junk and refuse
from the wreck, and Hud found a coal
much torn, and probably belonging to a
passenger. In tlm coat xvas a pari of a
lettei a threatening letter uddresseed
to "John Morley."
“ He xvas killed in the wreck,” said
Mary Britton xvith Midden eagerness.
“Silence! Let the witness proceed.”
This letter threatened John Morley
with death for some past injury, mid
warned of some impending disaster, ll
was signed, “ Fred Sinythe.”
There xvas a sudden movement al the
rear of the court, and every one turned
to see xvhat it meant. A man xva
pushing roughly out o( the seats as if
eager to escape.
" Hy sixty!” cried the farmer from
Bars tow; " that’s tin Idler I sawjiist
afore the smash."
“ (t xvas a remarkable ease,” said the
judge to his colleague, after the trial.
“The woman must have been a person
of extraordinary mind lo have planned
tile scheme, and lo have xvon all those
scientific people over lo her side. 1
understand she had not a cent in the
world, and could pay them nothing.
Women will do anything for love."
Aiiollkt itiislon I’liilosoptii-r til barge.
I'blltulclphlii Unllfiin.
Ills name is Mr. A. I). Reunion, ami
' lit' live s in 110-lon, Unit great hirlh-place
of nii'ii of genius aid original ideas,
Mr. Reunion lias wriiten to the Stun
tijic A nuric'in to explain It is view- of the
: pnrpt r method of disposing of murder*
! era. * * Now,continues Mr. Rear*
| don, the large majority of murderers are
in good condition physically, and when
one is hanged a lirsl rate organism, cap
able of tiding much excellent service, is
simply thrown away. It is u dead loss
of force. Mr. Reardon, therefore, wants
to know why the lav should not author
ize expert surgeons to remove the con
demned man’s eyes, and to put them,
1 instantly, of course, into the sockets of
unoffending blind persons? If there is
, any he rest citizen who has lost a linger,
I Mr. Reardon would supply the deficien
cy from the hands of the convic l ; he
would portion out the latter’s lingers
and thumbs and toes among pi rsons in
the ncigoli irhood who happen to he
short of digits.
The Tidy Housewife.
The careful tidy housewife, when she
is givmg her house its sprng cleaning,
should hear in mind Unit the dear in
it ales of her house are more precious
t ian house s, and that their systems need
( ’causing hy purifying the blood, regu
lating li e stomach and bowels to pro
vi nt and cure the disease* arising from
spring malaria ami miasma, and she
Biiou'd know that there is nothing (hat
will do it so perfectly and surely as Hop
Hitters, the purest and best of all medi
cines, Bee other column.
Hntlsh India.
The cost of flie army in British India
even in time of peace, is $85,000,000 a
year, or 4 > percent of the entire reve
nue. The building am l furnishing of a
country home for the Governor of Bom
bay cost $575,000. No wonder there’s a
deficit in the revenue.
History of ( lack*.
The periods of the day were first
measured by the Assyrians with water
clocks.which according to eaily Persian
authors, werx> in use in Xinevah, in
tlie iv;gn of S.udanapahis. Phis clock
was merely a brass vessel of cylindrical
shape, holding several gallons of water.
A hole xvas bored in one of tue sides,
and it was calculated that the vessel
would empty itself live or si\ times a
day.
fne water-clock, or clepsydra, contin
ued to remain in itspiimnive condition
for many centuries; and it was not un
til the invention of the sun dial at Alex
andria, 550 years before Christ, that it
underwa nt any improvement. About
that time, however, an Kgyptian, of
Memphis, added a dial with a hand to
the Clepsydra, fhe hand revolved on
a pivot and communicated to a siring
which was attached to a tloat,
As ilio water leaked out, the
lloat fell with it. and the
tension of the string caused the hand to
move around with slight, spasmodic
jerks, something like those ol the sec
ond hand on a watch of inferior make.
When Pompey returned to Koine i
after nis triumph ever the Milhridiles.
lie brought with him, (rom the treas
ures of the King of Pontna, a clepsydra,
marking the hours and minutes oeeord- ;
iug to tho method of horology in use in
Homo, fhe cylinder and dial plates
were of gold, and the hands studded
with small rubies, each of the ciphers
donating the hours was cut from a sin-'
glo sappliin . The cylinder needed re
replenishing only onee a day
The monks of the order of St, Hein*
diet, instituted m the yeavo-d. comput
ed the time by the number of prayers
: they eonld say, audit was hence that
1 the custom ol w earing chaplets or heads i
arose. The task assigned to each monk i
was 10 recite as many "paters" and
"axes ' as there were beads on his
; string, and as the orthodox number on
1 a chaplet was supposed to he then, as
- is now, thirty-three that is one fori
leach yen of our Savon's life then'
was work fora full hour and a half, il
; conscientiously performed.
The (anions Caliph of Itagdad, Ha
romi Al Uasehid, restored the old water
clock to Kurope in the year SO7, sent a
magnificent clepsydra as token of
friendship to Charlemagne; hut the pre
scut was looked upon as a thing to he
rather admired than copied, for we find
no mention of any water-clocks ol
i French make until the reign of Philip,
j contemporary of William the eompiet
1 or.
The first real clock was made in
Franco in the year KI7K The maker
was one Mi nn de Vie, an Arab, who
had been converted to Christianity.
This clock was a monster machine,
weighing diHf pounds. Ii was moved
by weights, was possessed of a horizon
tal lex er, and provided xvith a bell to
toll the time, fne maker received a
pension of 100 erowiu ol gold for life
and xvn.s ennobled.
Horology was first appln and to ilslron
oniieal calculations by Pnrbaeh, in 1,100
and m 1.100 the Banish astronomer,
Tycho set up in Ida magnificent obser
vatory of Craoieshnrg a clock which
marked Uith the minutes and the sec
onds.
Popular tradition ascribes the inven
tion of xvalehes lo Peter llele, ol Nu
remberg, in (lieyiar 1100. Uni (hen il
is a notorious fact that King K dierl, of
Scotland, possessed one so far hack as
KUO, The only way in which ixe can
account (or lids discrepancy is by the
supposition that Mulches were original
ly invented by a Scotchman, but that
(lie maker died suddenly Million l pro
’ mtilgiilmg hiseeeiel. Herman xvalehes
'veil' not introduced al (he Kngli-li
I court until K>o7. I lie first seen m
Kiigliind xvas worn by (h beautiful
I,inly Arabella Stuart, Claude, wife ol
Francis I. of France, had one so small
that it xx ms. set in a ring.
I In 1.1:10, Halil.'O conceived (lie idea ol
a | >-ii<1 11 i 1111 • clock. The theory was
afterward pul into practice in J(i."7, by
11 ngens, in I lollimil.
The invention of spring j kel
watches, inch ns we now weal, is mxim;
lo tlie Koglishnnin Hooke; and dati
from I0.1M; and eighteen 'ears after
this, in Hie year I(*7<the first repeal
dig watch was made nt Amsterdam,
From tins time mild Hie present cen
tury, when chronometers and stop
watches were, invented, tne science of
horology received no further develop
nient.
Serious Hanger
| Thrcatcna every man, Human or child living In it
r -iz lon of eouhiry where fever mil ague la prime
lent, •li.ro the germs of nmUrlul dlacneu ara lu
ll (led (l uni the uir and arn awalluwctl from Dm
water of a.n li a ri'ijion. Medicinal aafcgmrd I*
a'nolntely rn eeaaary to nullify thla danger. Asa
111 emu of fortifying nnd acclimating I hi) ayalion
so a to be tblu to nodal Ills malarial polaon,
lloateller a Monierh llltlera la Incomparably llm
boat and ttio moat popular. Irregularltloa of Iho
atomaeh, liver and bowel* encourage malaria; toil
thcao are apeedlly rfictilkid by tin) Itinera. Tbo
luuctlona of dlgeallou and aacretlun arn aaalalud
by lla nao, nnd a vlyorom aa well aa regular con -
dltlon of lliu ayalem promoted bv It t.'onatllntion
nnd idiyalipic are lima defended agulnal • hav lo
roada of malaria by thla muirhlnaa preventive,
which la alao a certain and thorough remedy In
me wurai caaea of intermittent and remlltout
.even.
♦ . ■
Snake* n* I-lfe Hmlroyers.
The loaa of life m India duo to the ravigsa of
Venomotta annkea la almoat Incredible. Vet the
diaeaae which la aa w ly and deadly aa the dead
lle.t Ind a irptlle, la winding Iw roll around
ihonaanda of poo|de while the victim# are union
■ imia of lie preaenee. It haa lunir been a hobby
with 1 ueon,pi lent phvalclana to aaaiime that Colo
! rn in oil on la Incurable afier the fin matlon of to- I
I herelea haa begun; atoll In every rave they fall lo
effert a cure,- of counte tubercle# had begun to
lonn and they were incurable. Ibe re-orda of
medical trgoci dlaprove any aueli theory. On
the contrary, In caaea of lung dlaeaao which bad
been cured and the Mile Ilia lived forty and flfiy
year* In lobual haaltll. postmortem examtnatloi a ‘
showed large cicatrice# (acait) whnio the tuber 1
( lev bad been f'Oined and removed. The lube'- i
i lea arn removed by tbaorpllon Into the like 4.
An edclent alterative, Pr I'lerce‘e Ijoldeli Medi
cal dlwovery, mutt he uaed to cleanre the blood
of the actofuloua impurlllaa. Pur tuhereular
eunaompuon la only a form of acrofuloua diaeaae,
Uol len Medical Ularovery la a aoverelgn remedy
I r all forma of acrofu one dl-< ate, or aiogVovif,
•neb a lumort, while awelllnga, fever •ore*,
• rofulona vote eyea, aa we 1 aa for otner blood
•nd ikiu diaaaava.
The total lax levy of the city of IP)s-1
ton this year i* (8,71M,811, an increase
of f&I? ,VXi. Thu HS'ciscd valuation j
of property is about (Oik>,ooo,ooo, a dr-;
crease of over 180,000,01X1. This in
creased expenditure and decreased val
uation will carae the tax rate this year
to be nearly (1.43 per (100, compared
with fl.'Z* loot year.
! OtKFSR and butter hit bringing rel
atively bibber price# than evet before.
The exports of cheese last year to Great
Britain amounted to 111,000,000
pounds, worth over $18,000,000, a large
increase over the previous year. Butter
was exported to the amount of 14.000,-
tKH> pounds. •
77m if re, Soft fifty, diy. US, 1875.
Alter using one of your Mendelssohn
Upright I’iamvs in the Orchestra during
rehearsals and ten performances ot
Krglish Opera in the city, we can truly
recommend it as areally splendid in
strument in all respects. The action is
perfect, the touch prompt; the tone
brilliant, neb, pure and powerful, and
the singing quality excellent. What
astonishes ns most is that yon can af
ford to sell so line a Piano at so low a
price. K, D. Hiss, JbVtrfer,
S. Bkuhvns, Ihnduitor.
Wtl.t.lAM t'ASKI K.
Uksky C. I’KAKIM.
♦ •
Fn an,-, las/r is among the most dis
tinguished of musicians in the world.
IB' uses and prites a Mason A- Hamlin
Cabinet Organ, and pronounces it
” matchless,’’ “ unrivaled,” styling it
“ this magnilleent and to me so precious
instrument.’’ There could hardly hi
higher praise, or from more eminent
authority.
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N\> will pu.f Auimhii h hnUiy of |H |>or mailtb
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Ain)tji‘ ffi* Ail'lloeaMl > MIAN A ' Mnlnliull, M ,<IU.
Home Treatment.
tiik pHvatouxnoaL
tsaSP SELF-CURE 1
fur Sri voua hrlilllij, l,u*l Manhood, Spui*
llml tVtalniraa,
and alt allinanl. rH■■••■(l by ruilr ilhim and at
cnaas* In lular Ills. I unload or tampering Willi
qimcta writs to l>r. vvii.i.iaMH, who during 80
yean, nl city prartlrp baa won a rupnUtlnn aaimud
I,none In lbs Horthweat, fur lila Illilt book pu
tbs 11 <>>•■ TiraniPiii of 'hr ahoy* and kindred
dlaeaena, wltb I’HKM Ilinlo>H and plain dlrec-
Ilona for el( rnre l tionia. II la inualratsd by
laalomlral riatea, and la wuftb 111 Haight Is
hold lu III* aflto'iiot aepclallr llioas who baas
bran v illlll'rsd by ha ft cno bs übUiosd
by iin loalnj M cants lu curralmy or alampa. Ha
fas rs<| nl rod, Addreaa Hr. f. If IILUII,
da If art Watsr tttraal, Mn.n aba as. ni(.
MADDIAftF
IwlHnnIHIlL s;, # ij,oiiiiiufmiui/fu*
pa 0% ■■ 40 tua rrUjfr •hmiM !•!•-. II I* In
V Ll* U L I run 'Hi 111111*! W < linn ' r|r,
fir lnr I A llumln <la ( Khii-h, #*•*!
* w ■ 1 ■■ Ii aidi fur r*\ rrnt* ; muwif of
(•(•)( P(KMI)M I. AfMnak I*it ' All li A*> N\*, tui S
I iflli wrtri, (. l/miii flu. hiiiiiihy4 laiMll.
It yon ara a man of bualosaa, wpaasnsd oy to a
•train of your dullra, avoid rrlmuiauia and Uhs
HOP BITTERS.
If y on Am a man ' • Mra tollm* uv*r >onr rnltU
iawork, in *• <'u brain aa<l tirrvt <mw*>
HOP BITTERS.
If you aia loony, ami (offering from any lodla
<rat on or d'.l|inon. taka
HOP BITTERS.
If you (re luarr.ad or (Ingle, old or young, anffer
lug from poor boaltliur lurgiil.blog on
a bad of alrknraa, laka
HOP BITTERS.
Whoever yon aia, wherever you (I. wbeoeree yoo
loci ibai your ayaieui noa elsauamg ton g
or kUinblallog, without Inlvxlojlnij, tabs
HOP BITTERS.
tiara yon Uyintpila, khlnty or urlnury lOlMplalul,
dlac ’aoof tuv afomocA. 6otr</(, blood, hvn , or
nrrtitf Vou will bo cured If you Uks
HOP BITTERS.
It you ara (imply alllug, ara weak and low aplr
lied, try ill Huy It. loaist upon It
Voir druyylat ksspa It.
HOP BITTERS.
It may save your life. It hat •ave't hundred*.
MADIUON, WlB.