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THE COUNT? PAPER,
Itj DOnYNR A WALL MR.
ItEGON.
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IlKLATH'l .
A Miifilc buttercup I found,
A tint upon my wcry tray,
A MimmcT closed litr heated round,
Ami ushered In tlioautumn tliy.
A little memory of May,
That elapt too Ute, m I bare done,
And to unkiowlci; gone astray,
And now flood lonely In the aun.
It itemed with anxious look to ak,
Arc all my bright companlona dead I
Or linve I slept, forgetting tank,
Until the lorcly May has sped)
There waves around me autumn grain :
I tec the ripened npptca (hluc:
I feel the patter of the rain;
I see the gnipcs that blush with wine.
Ab, yea, I slept, I sweetly dreamed
Of babbling brook and azure sky,
And la my foolish faneyileetted
Tbat Hovers like me would never die.
From such a dream why should 1 waki
Afar unil In another zatio
Wake only that the heart may break
To find myself alone, nlonef
And tM It Is U) lire too long,
To overpass; our proper time,
And hear, tnateed of tnerry sonp,
Hie bells of death In solemn chime.
So, too, with man J youth slept away.
He wakes to find a useless ge,
An 1 wtnrlly from day to day
Prn;; out an almlesi pilgrimage.
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VF.YTEK AS FUEL.
A Vt lniporlnnt Invention.
A l'nn- Ttmt ltovcliitlonle the I'rndnc
Him of Strnm-Siicrriiiriil Hiiltwny Kx
p rlmciitn-IIjilroRf n Flume Under
tltr llotlrr-Nnphtliii imit Wntcr.
Ii'cll Cotrwivnilcnrn l'lilUilolp'.ta Itccoril.
Nkt Yokk, Nov. 2. Tho Holland
hydrogen procoss, which Involves tho
disintegration of wator and the libera
tion of hyhrogon by naplitba gas, Is de
veloping somo romarkablo results, and
appears to bo nn unqualified success.
The claims of tho inventors at first
scorned to b extravagant, but now nro
admitted by good sc'ontlllo authority.
Within 11 month a locomotlvo built
specially for n thorough test of tho pro
coss will be placed upon tho Brooklyn,
Coney Island and Flatbush Railroad,
and it is expected that Its wonderful
achlovctneuts will ofl'oct a revolution In
transportation and Industrial
--lions.
opcr-
Tho company that owns tho patent
ho applied tho, procoss successfully to
open iiro-plao?, to tho ordinary heating
apparatus of a dwelling nnd to rangoj
for cooking. I havo seen tho opera
tion in Uio latter caso, where tho entire
machinery (two retorts) occupios tho
spoco of a man's closed hands, and tho
procats of lighting a llro consists mcro
ly in turning two stop-cocks In narrow
pipes Uiat supply water and naphtha
and Boratchlng a match, and In two
minutes tlrao there is heat sufficient to
cook a steak. No kindling wood Is
needed; thero nro no coals orashos, and
i. . i . i. ..
wneu wiu uro lias served its purpose a
tutu of thn tliu'iib-snrew extinguishes it.
If connection is mado with a gas re
ceptacle, enough gas to light up a falr
slzod house for twenty-four hours can
bo made while tho meat Is cooking.
These domestic experiments illustrate
tho extent rf tho field to which tho pro
cess may ho applied; but tho inventors
havo realized that if thoy wished to
compel n prompt acknowledgment of
their wiccess it could host bo done by
upplylng it to transportation and travel
on Iho mil way. II wator as fuol super
cedes coat and wood in tho locomotlvo
every railway lino, steamship company
and all who uso stationary onglncs will
have to dopt tho now method.
Over fifty experiments havo beou made
with a locomotlvo on tho Brooklyn,
Conov Island and Flatbnsh road, und
tho results nro as startling to tho p.-.blio
as they havo beon satisfactory to tho
inventors. An or.lluary loeoniotivo
that had been In ustf for many years on
the road wns assigned for tho purposo
Tho Holland apparatus occupied tho
placo of vho ordinary fire-box. Three
hollow pipes took tho placo of tho
luruaeo oars, anu irom oaon biuo roso
burner-tips at short intervals-352 in
all. A floor of iron plates studdod with
thimbles, through which tho burner-tips
roso to within half an inch of their
ommlngp, rested on tho pipes. Four
hoavy iron rotorts rostod over tho first
forty, four burnors, and thoy received
wator, naphtha and stoam through
soporato pipos, and when boat
ed discharge tholr yjpors by connecting
pipes into mo pipos under tho floor and
thence into tho humors.
In starting tho'firo a smnll tank filled
with naphtha was first lightod nnd pine
u unucr one or the rotorts. As soon
as tiiia retort was sufficiently heated to
gasify tho naphtha naphtha-gas was
burned under all tho retorts nnd wator
admitted into thorn to bo converted In
to steam. As soon as both wator and
naphtha wcro thu gasified tholr gases
wcro jointly admitted to all tho burners
undor tho whole longth of tho bollor,
and the generation of stoam began In
onrnett; and, as soon as it was feasible
stoam from tho holler was introduced
into tho retorts instead or water, so that
subsequently tho naphtha only had to
bo gasified in tho .rotorts. At tho first
of these experiments, two hours after
tho llro was started, tho guago showed
sprossuro ot twenty pounds, and in
soventocn minutes more it went up to
forty pounds anu tho ongino moved out.
Within twenty minutes afterward tho
ealoty-valvo was blowing oft' at 120
ipounds. At tho outset tho experiment
era wore met by the romarkablo fact
that just la proportion as the hoat
increased tho consumption of naphtha
-diminished. It took thirteen gallons of
aphtha to mako tho first twenty pounds 1
of stoam but only twolvo gallons to ralso
tho prossuro to 120. Tho practical
significance of this record speaks for
Itself In its oxhlbit of amplo power for
running a largo passenger train forty
miles nn hour at nnppondlturo of llttlo
moro than a quart of naphtha per mile.
Tho sctontifio significance U found in
tho fact that hydrogon superseded
naphtha as fuel in direct proportion to
tho heat in and around tho burnors nnd
retorts. At fifty poucds projsuro stoam
was turned upon tho naphtha and tho
process of disintegration bogan. Tho
hydrogen released from Iho stoam,
unlllng with tho oxygon of tho air, pro
duced nn intenso heat, nnd tho steam
Itself wns ontlroly consumod. Whon tho
heat was at Its height thoro was no
visible sign of llro In tho furnnco box;
nil was darkness, proving conclusively
that tho burnors emitted nothing com
bustible but pure hydrogen, who.sollnmo
Is non-luminous. This Is tho point of
proof tho Inventors desire to reach.
Their theory is that after steam has
been Introduced from tho boiler and
disintegrated tho oxygon consumes tho
carbon of tho naphtha; tho hydrogen,
being left froo, unites with tho oxygen
of tho atmosphere, and gives out from
its colorless llnmo tho most intenso heat
that is known.
Tho question of comparative coit in
running a locomo'.lvo by coal or by wa
ter fuel is of prnot'eal if not of solentillo
importance Dr. Holland, from whom
tho process is named, estimates It at 78
cents for naphtha, whoro tho expendi
ture for wood nnd coal would bo $10.
Tho expenso of running a coal locomo
tlvo varies from 10 to 20 cents n mllo
according to locality, whllo by tho Hol
land procoss tho cost would not reach 2
conts n mllo. Tho largo sums of money
oxponded by railroad companios for
haudllng coal and cutting and storing
wood will also enter into comparison.
Besides, by tho uso of naphtha all dan
gers resulting from fires started by
spares will bo avoided, as tho wator fu
el omits no sparks or smoko. Thnt this
is not an unlmportnnt item Is shown bv
tho fact that in April last a singlo spark
from a locomotive cost tho Dolawnro.
Laokawaunn nnd Western road S80.-
fOO.
Tho experiments mndo on tho Lonir
Islnn.i Railroad worosucccssful, in splto
of tho fact that tho insido of tho boiler of
tho locomotlvo hired for tho purpose wns
covered with scallngs to tho depth of a
quartor of an inch and that tho unlimit
ed forco of dra't aimed at in its con
struction, in ordor to mnko it sultablo
for hard coal, mado Itcxticuiely unsuit
able for tho employment of gas burners.
A locomotlvo has just boon completed
for tho Holland Company by tho Grant
Locomotlvo Works, at Faterson, N. J.,
wniou is especially adaptod In all Its do
tails to tho hydrogon procoss. It Is fin
Ishod nd hoisted upon jackscroivs, so
that tho fires can bo lighted and tho
wheels set in motion. Externally it has
mo appearanco of tho ordinary loconio
tive, but it differs from it In the Internal
arrangements of tho boiler and tho fire
box. All tho spaeo usually occupied bv
tho coal llro Is utilized for getting up
sioam promptly ana increasing speed
Colls of plpo under-run tho boiler, and
somo seven hundrod wator logs oro at
tached. Tho number of burners is large
ly iucrcasod, with additional facllttie
for regulating tho number in uso on dif.
foront grades. Tho ongino is seemingly
penect, out lis projectors prefer to con
unuo tneir experiments a litllo while
longer, in order that when It Is placed
upon tho road It may silence all object
ors, mat it will bo a succosj, anil that
It will supcrsedo tho coal-burning en
gine, nnd thu rovditionizo tho procoss
of producing steam, your correspondent
(iocs not lor a'momont oubt
In accordance with tho Instructions
of tho Record to make a thorough in
vestigation, I called upon Mr. Robert
V hlto, superintendent of the Brooklyn,
coney isianil and Flatbush Railway
Company, tho load upon which tho ex
periments woro mado, and asked his
opinion of tho results. Mr. White is a
practical mackiniat, thoroughly vowed
In all that relates to locomotives, and
has no Interest In or bias toward the
now Invention of Dr. Hollaed. Ho
said: "I am satisfied from observation
ami my praolloal knowlodgo of tho
working of engines that tho hydrogon
process will ho a success. I watched it
carefully whllo thoy wcro operating
wun mo oruinary ongino, and am fully
convinced thnt with iho boiler and lire
box thoy aro now putting in tho now
ongino thoy cannot fail to make It a
success. Thoy mado tholr oporlmonts
Hero with one of our own locomotives.
and thoy told everybody just what Ihoy
wcro doing nnd how thoy did it, so that
tuoro could be no posslblo deception
nboutit. I witnessod it all, and I am
froo to say that thero can bo no quos-
uon noout tho result. Ata'cost not ox
cooding 16 per cout of coal if as much
as that-thoy did all that a coal encino
could do, nnd thero was not a partielo
of smoke, cinders, sparks or ashes, nor
any smell of naphtha. During ono of
tho runs thoy fastened a whlto cambrlo
handkorohlof over tho smoko-stack, and
when thoy took It down thoro was not
tho slightest discoloration upon it, nor
any porceptiblo odor, though tho hoat
was most intomo. At tnls timo. too. I
looked insido thefiro-tiox and thoro was
not a partielo of light to bo seen. But
for tho terriflo hoat I should not havo
known that thoro was any firo thoro!"
"How do yon regard tho invention.
as a practloal machlulst?"
"Thoro can ho only ono way of look
ing at it. If railroad companios can
cut down the expoaso of producing
stoam to ono-tenth, aud can dlsponso
with wood and coal and tho men who
haudlo thorn, they will not bo slew la
availing themselves of tho chanco. A
llanioloss ml smokeless stationary on
gino will bo a boon to ovory manufac
turer who uses s'.cam powor, nnd tho
steamship companies, whoso profits nro
out down by having to carry so much
coal, will spcodlly fall Into lino, too.
But tho locomotives on railroads will bo
benefittod in ovory Way. Tho boilers
nnd tlro-boxM will las. longer, becauso
thero will bo no havoc mado by wood
and coal, and tho heat will bo ovonly
distributed over their surfacos. Gas
will bo mado for uso, nnd stoam and
heat distributed ovor tho train just as
thoy nro needed. It will bo posslblo to
regulnto tho fires becauso tl oy will bo
nocdod for tho noxt up-grndo, but under
this process it will bo posslblo by a turn
of tho hand to shut off three-fourths of
tho burners aud thus keep tho train well
In hand, boshks lessening tho consump
tion of naphtha, This will nlso bo an
additional safeguard against nccldvuts.
In tho latter caso all tho lights could bo
extinguished in an instant, and thorc
would bo nothing to Ignito n wreck.
Tho uso of hydrogen heat also involves
much less noiso than Is mado by tho
ordinary engine1'
"Do you consider tho process safo?"
"Perfectly so. Thero is no danger
posslblo from any quarter. All the
gas is consumed in producing steam,
nud tho naphtha reservoir Is in tho ton
dor occupying tho spaco now allotted
to coal whoro no llro can reach it. I
find no practical objections to tho pro
cess anywhere"
It Is right to add that tho company
makes no privacy about tho apparatus.
All tho details of muchinory, ote, nro
thrown open fearlossly for Inspection
aud criticism, nnd investigation Is finnk
ly and unreservedly Inv.ted. J. F. M.
Bric-n-hrnc.
Ruskin was i nflattoringly truthful
when ho said: "Wo aro all, and always
asleep half our lives, and it is only by
pinching ourselves hard thnt wo ovor
learn to understand anything. At least
it Is not nlways wo who pinch ourselves;
sometimes other pcoplo pinch us, which
1 sti pose is very good of them, but it Is
a sad lifo, m ado up of naps of pinches."
It will bo remembered thnt Badin-
guot wns tiio iiamo of tho mason dis
guised In whoso clothes Napoleon III.
escaped from tl o prison of Ham, and
stuck to him as a nlck-nnmo ever
after. During tho Italian campaign
tho emperor called up a soldier who
had distinguished himself for bravery
in a torUin engagement, nnd fastening
tho cross of tho Legion of Honor to his
breast, asked him his nnmo. Tho man
hositatcd, looked foolish, and at length
flatly lolused to toll It; but on being
commanded to speak out, and asked
tho reason for his reticence, ho naively
remarked, "Moi ausst,jc vyapjiellc Ba
dinguct." Tho lato King of Italy Is tho best
specimen of tho old romantic typo to bo
found In our day. Trobablv thoro
novcr was a man who dealt moro ox
cluslvcly with tho posltlvoandpractlca
sido of lifo, or who was less influenced
by sentiment and imagination. Ho wns
bravo and bluff us an old feudal baron,
wun a uignity wiiicli was tho moro
roynl for Its simplicity. Ho was tho
representative of tho most ancient
reigning houso in Europe, and his per
Fonnl history is as full of stinngo ad
ventures nud situations us that of any
ancestor in tho 13th century. On one
occasion, in following his favorito past
timo of hunting, his hoise was thrown
down and Nouudod, and ho himself
nearly klllod, by a furious wild bear.
Another tlrao, when on a journey
which ho plcasod to porform on horse'
hnck, ho and a gcntleman-In-wnitins
out-rodo tho escort, and wero sur
rounded by brigands. Tho King of
Italy, anil doughty Victor Emmanuel,
taken at odds, was forced to allow Linv
solf to bo robbed to csonpo being car
riccl Into tho mountain fastnesses and
hold for ransom. Liberal, shrewd, and
unplaguoil by motnphysics as ho was,
certain notions and beliefs wcro all
powinui wun mm; nwasto ills sense
of tho claims of country that ho gavo
up his anclout patrimony anil tltlo to
unite Italy under a now-mado crown,
which to him was lined with thorns.
His medltoval veneration for tho Church
constrained hlra to submit to an undo
sired and unfitting marriage, as ho
could obtain absolution on no other
terms, at an hour when his lifo was
given up. btanuing botweon tho pat
riot Garibaldi, in his tod shirt, aud l'ius
IX., invested with moro than Pontifical
stato by his misfoi tunes, his martyr at
tltiide, tho eloso of a millonnial hier
archy, and tho fulfillment of a moro
than millonnial prophooy in his person.
II Re Galantuoiuo Is as fino a figure,
tho threo form as Imposing a group, as
can bo found on any page of histery.
Tho greator numhor of basquos nro
singlo breasted, but thoro is an effort to
restore tho diagonal fronts lapping far
on tho loft sido at tho nock, thon slop
ing away to to tho right sido. Two
points finish the front of somo. basquo,
whllo others havo ono sharp point, and
rows of la;o or of striped plusli fill in
tho sides smoothly, or olso thoro is u
folded panlor effect given by somo soft
fabric.
Wlfo, just returned from a shopping
tour "Come and seo what I've got for
you, Eugono.1 ' Eugcno 'Ah, just like
you, darling; nlways thinking of mo!"
Ho advanoos as hlswifo romoyos tho
wrapping and oxposos somo fine draw
ings from a nolghboting marble-yard.
Husband starts back and exclaims, ox
citodly: "Gracious, Laural what did
you bring tneso things noro iorf"
Thoughtful wlfo "Well, Eufcono, I
hoard you complain of feeling unwell
this morning and I thought you'd Jiko
to lcok at somo tombstono patterns,"
BMI-OLDINGS.
Onturx Minu!ne.
The snow-flake that softly, all night, Is vt hi en-
Inff treo-top and pathway;
The avalanche suddenly rushing with darkness
and death to tho hamlet.
The ray stealiugln through the lat'.lco to waken
the day-loving baby;
The pitiless horror of light In the sun-smitten
reach of the desert.
The ce 1 with Its preguant surpr'sc of welcome
young leaflet and blossom ;
The despair of the w lldcrncss tangle, and treach
erous thicket of forest.
The happy west wind as It startles some noon
laden flower from its dreaming;
The hurrleano cnwhlDg Its way through tho
homes and the life of the alley.
The play of the Jctlets of flame when the chil
dren laugh out on the heartb-stonc;
Tli town or Iho prairie consumed In a terrible,
hlslng combustion.
The glide of n wave on the sands with Its mjr
lad sparkle In breaking;
The roar and fury of ocean, a llmlllcs s mael
strom of ruin,
The leaping of heart unto heart with b'lss that
can never bo spoken;
The paslon that maddens, and shows how Clod
may be thrust from his creatures.
For this do I tremble and start when the rose
on the vino taps my shoulder
For this when tbe storm bents mcdown mvsoul
growcth bolder nnd bolder.
GARFIELD'S ANCESTRY.
Men Who Foucht In the War of the Revo'
lullon A Long Line of the Nation's Do'
fenders.
Iloston Ilcrald.
Tho genealogy of tho Garfiold family
seems tohavoboi nstrnngoly ovoilookod
In all that has been published of tho
( arcor and death of tho martyr Presi
dent. Boyond the scattering announce
ments that his earliest known nncostors
woro of Welsh nativity, vory llttlo has
over boon given to tho public journals
of tho day to denote tho sourco nnd
character of tho forefathers and ma
ternal predecessors who existed during
tho lonp interval from 1687down to tho
birth of tho embryo Pro-ideut on the
10th of November 1831. Colonol Rus
sell II. Conwoll, of this city, who pre
pared such an olnborato biography of
tho successful candldato for tho Presl-'
dency, immediately nftor his nomina
tion at Chicago, paid particular atten
tion to thoso details which aro now so
molnncholy nnd interesting. In n re
cent interviow which a Ilcrald nttacho
had with tho biographer, ho was assured
that all tho statements which ho mado in
tho life volume u ore found upon facts
whicti cannot bo questioned. Accord
ing to Colonel Conwoll, tho first root of
tho Presidential family of which thoro
is any tnnglblo knowlodgo was a Jamis
. Garfield (or Gcarfeldt), who, In 1587,
was given a ttact of land on Iho border
of Wales, near Chester. Entrland.
0 ,
through tho influence or Robert Dudley,
barl of Leicester. A natural inferonco
wonld bo that ho had porformod somo
'military service on tho 'continent under
that celebrated favorito of royalt', or
was of somo especial sen iou to Robert
at Kenllworth or London. Tho cstato
thus conferred Is said to bo situated near
Osvestry, and not far from tho most
boautiful nnd celebrated valo of Tlan
gollcn, on tho border of Wales. What
was tho nationality of this James Gar
field, whether Welsh or English. Ger
man or Dulch, docs not appear. Tho
most probable eonjeeture is that ho was
Welsh, and was a warrior of somo note,
perhaps a descendant of tho old knights
of Garrilili Castle Tho cstato con
fer: cd upon him was either releasod by
him, taken from him or for somo reason
his children did not inherit it, aud no
mention of them appears so far as is
now known in nny record of tho Garfiold
family until 16:10, whon Edward Gear
uciu, or uncster Knglanu, camo- to
America in a company of colonists,
who embarked with his family under
tho auspices of Governor John Win
mrop. ino namo appears again at
Wutertown, n this State, in 1635 and
is probably tho samo man. Of this in
dividual quite full accounts aio handed
down and curious researches into tho
family history claim to havo diseovorcd
his coat of arms, and if tl.o description
ot It Is correct It goes far to confirm
tho previous conclusion that tho Gar-
fields woro a martial family of wealth
and Influence in tho days of Queen
kllzabethMind perhaps in tho crusades,
It had threo horizontal bars of red on
r Held or background of gold in tho
center of tho shield, and a red Maltcso
cross on an crmlno can' on or cornor
piece Tho crest conslstod of a holtnot
with a visor raised, and nn uplifted arm
holding a drawn sword. For a motto wero
tho wonb: "In cruco vlnco" (by tho
cross I conquer). This Edward Garfiold,
from whom tho present largo Garfield
family ln America has descended, ap
pears to havo taken no groat prido in
his lineage or lon'.ly titles, for ho took a
personal and laborious share In tho
manual labor connected with tho clear
ing of his land in Wntortown, and left
but a moagro traco of his armorial badae
His houso was built on a boautiful spot
in Watertown, overlooking tho Charles
river, and tho sito Is still pointod out to
visitors, near tho railroad station of Iho
Fitohburg Railroad. In this houso ho
lived but a fow yoary boforo ho was ablo
to purchaso a much largor estate in tho
wostorn part of Watertown, near the
present location of the Waltham town
line On this land ho oreotod a capaci
ous mansion, and surroundod himsolf
with all tho comforts and oleganeo ot
tho "gontloman" of tho porlod, nnd tho
estato, now known as tho "Governor
Goro place," still holds Its position as
ono of tho most boautiful and valuablo
estates in tho vicinity of Boston. This
Edward Garfiold had a son, Edward,
Jr., and ho, in turn had a son Benjamin,
who bocamo n distinguished citizen of
Watertown und was given a Captalu'a ,
commission, by tho Govornor, in the
colonial militia. Ho held numerous
town offices nnd was oleotod nlno tlmrs
to tho colonial Legislature Ho wnj a
stont, broad-shouldered man, wllh nn
open, cheerful countennnco, an-' most
affubloand kind inlns manners. Ili-light
complexion, nnd ospooinlly light hn Ir np
pear to havo doscondod to tho j-resont
gonoratlon. Tho noxt ancestor m lino
wns Llotttonant Thomas Garficl , who
had offspring numhoringnnovcu dozen
mi . .
a nomas, jr., me tint a in order, was
tho ono who should bo written among
tno nnolcnt grandfathers ot tho Into
President, nnd tho next ono down tho
.icalo was Solomon Garfield, tho oldost
son ot tho junior Thomas. Solomon's
orotnorAiirahnmwas nn earnest dovotco
oi American inuoponaence, nnd lived
in tno town of Lincoln when tho rovolu-
nonary war ucgan. no was ono of tho
urai. vu.umccrs eniisicti in tno ctefenpo
oj uiu colonies, nnu wns m tu light at
.1 . ,
Concord, nnd sido by slda with many
Illustrious Americans, Including Judge
E. Rockwood Hoar, whoso dcs endnnt
and namcsako has becorao noted In tho
...... !l t .1.- it . ...
wum.ii ui mo nauon in into years,
Tho slgnnturo of Jttdgo Hoar's great-
grandfather, John Hoar, nnd Abraham
Garfiold nro still preserved, nnd iho
curious uocunicnt tiioy signed was an
Important matter in its timo. At tho
beginning of tho revolution separation
irom jngianil was not rrcnornlly
meditdtcd, nnd it was doomed important
to endeavor to fix tho responsibility for
tho bcglni ing of tho conflict, showing
which sido struck '.ho fitst blow, In tho
ovent of a settlement of tho trouble
inorcioro tno nlllilavlls of may persons
concorncd wcro secured nnd preserved,
bolonion's oldest son, Thomas Gar-
j! ..1 .1 I t . . ...
iium, was uorn in iuo, ami uvea u
farmer's lifo nt Worcester, Otsego
County, N. Y., and married Ascnatto
Hill, of Sharon, N. Y. Their children
wero Polly, Botsoy, Abrnm and Thomas,
nurara, wno wasnnnicil for his patriotic
unolc, who fought at Concord, was tho
father of tho lato President. Ho was
uorn Dee 28. 17DU, at Worcester, N. Y,
Ho was kept hard at work on a farm,
wun iiiuo opportunity fornn education,
Ho was married to Miss Eliza Ballou,
the venerablo surviving mother of tho
murucrcu rrcsident. nntl romovotl to
.
Ohloiu 1810. They had four ohildrcu, all
of whom aro now living, except tho lato
president. Tito father died suddenly
wiiuo dames wns a oreoping infant.
A GHOST AT NOONDAY,
The Spiritof an Executed Man Returns to Pro
test His lnnoccn,.o,
Pall Mall r.mt.
Wo hnvo received tho following oxtra.
ordinary unrrallvo from a correspond-
ent for whoso good faith and profession.
al aoutenoss of observation wo oan
vouah. Ho substantiates his story with
inn uotaiis oi Hates, nnmos nnd places.
which, howover, for tho sako of tho sur
vivors, ho doos not wish to bo publish
ed. Without any further prefaco wo lay
ins letter uetoro our roauors:
as my wife ana 1 wero sitting nt
breakfast with a guost whom I will call
Mr. A. thon on a visit for tho first timo
to our houso and neighborhood our
maid servant passed out of iho room on
her way to tho kltchon. As sho olosod
tho door Mr. A. startlod mo bv saving
"I saw a spirit of a man following thul
woman, who, as ho passed, said distinct-
ly In ray hoaring, God judgoth not ns
man judgoth. I wns innocent of tho
murder for which I havo beon hanged.
iwas tnero, but I did not strlko tho
blow.' " "What Is it liko." I askod
Ho roplied by describing a young Irish-
man whom I recognized nt onco ns tho
husbnndof my domestic, whoayonror
two boforo had boon oxeoutod on tho
chargo of murdor. Mr. A., a comnloto
stranger to tho locality, had only mot
mo for tin first timo tvo days boforo,
and ho was totally Ignorant of tho crlmo
in which my servant was so dcoply In-
tercsled. For obvious reasons tho sub-
joct was novor alludod to In our houso-
hold, whoro tho widow was rop-ardod
with feoling3 of sympathy, which led us
to avoid cs much as posslblo all rofor-
enco to hor husb.ind's fato. I had pre
viously good rooson to doubt whothor
tho ovidonoo against him justified his
oxecutlon. Ho had died protesting his
Innoconce His wlfo nnd friends woro
firmly convlncod that although ho had
bocn in tho fight, It wns not by his baud
tho fatal blow had I oon doalt. Iu addi
tion to this I had good reason to bclluvo
that tho roalmurderor was still at largo,
You can easily inv glno my astonish,
men', whou Mr. A. thus suddouly ven
tured upon forbidden ground, and ah
ruptly declared that tho spirit of a man
who had suffered tho capital penalty
and whoso personal appoaranco uxaolly
coincided with that ot the unfortunate
Irishman, was actually following tho
servant about tho houso proclaiming his
nnoceneo In accents which, although
naudlblo to mo, my guost doolarod woro
perfectly audiblo to him. I find hoard
thlt Mr. A. linil hi
Mr. A. linil hnmi n '-i nr " lintl
was not a llttlo startled at this striking
illustration of his peculiar faculty. I
roraarked that it was vory strango, and
Informed him that tho woman whom ho
had st seen for tho first timo with hor
" , M...
ghostly companion was really tho wid
ow of an txocutod felon. Somo timo
aftorwardho oxolaimod: "Ihore'ho is
again, repeating tho samo words!"
Intensely interested by this sudden
and apparently supernatural conflrma-
tion oi my suspicions, I dotcrmlnod to
i
put tho soershlp of my guost to what I
regardod as a crucial tost. I told Mr.
A. that shortly afterward Iwas going
into tho town, and as I should bo pass
ing tho spot wi?re tho murdorwas com-
raltted, perhaps his ghostly visitant
raigm lnuionto tno piaco wuorotho dead
man lay. Somo time afterward wo start-
od for tho town. When wo loft tho houso
Mr. A. remarked, "Thoro ho Is follow-!
Ing us, alluding to tho "spirit " When
we had oroceded Dart nf thn tv.Mrnlnncr
-----Mr j a
tne road, which wns quite unknown to
my friend, I mado a dototir to mnko a
business oall and wont alone nnntlinr
street, Mr. A. following me. Just as,
without a word on my part, wo wcro
turning out of tho main road. Mr. A.
said: "Tho spirit is standing nt tho cor-
nor. Ho snys wo aro not poIl it tho rlrht
way toward tho placo whoro the murder
was committed, and which ho has prom
ised to point out to me." I ropllod:
"Oh, wo shall como out in tho main
road again by and by hoforo wn reach
tno spot." wo procedtd on about
quarter of a mllo, and having dono my
business aud struok tho main roud aaln
which differed. I may remark, from
nono of tho other roads wo'had travcrs
od Mr. A. fcoon after declared: "Thoi
is thnt man jint on thoro, wnlllnT for
lift" As wo continued our wnllr. T nnr,
- r
posciy retrained from uttering a word
or oven thinking, ns far as I could, about
tho murder, so ns to provent any possl-
blllly of my companion obtaining nny
clow. As wo wero passlne tliroturh ono
.... . . n
oi tno lowost narts of tho town Mr. A
suddenly oxclalmod: "Ho tolls mo that
" was horo tho murder wns committed,
ft wns just thero (polntlnrr to tho nlnco
in tno roaU whero tho murdered man
JolL) I seo tho hubbub and confusion
rising up boforo mo as a picture, with
lo peoplo round. He. howevor. niral
tolls mo that ho did not slriko tho fata
Wow. Ho doos not oxouso himsolf from
being morally guilty ns being mixed up
with thoso who accomplished tho death
ot tho man, but st ongly maintalnj that
no wns not tho murderer." I will only
add In relation to tho Inst Incident that
Mr. A. described tho exact spot whoro
tho murdor was committed, nnd tho cir
cumstances in connection thorowlth
How can you nccount forthat? Mr. A
Had never boon In tho fown boforo: ho
hnd nover lived witliln a counlo of hun
reu miles of It; ho did not know until
within a day or two boforo ho arrived
that ho would over visit it; ho could not
by any possibility havo known that tho
ptorwoman In ray employ was tho wld
ow or n man who was hanged. IIo had
no concoivablo Interest in ilccoiviiif me
nor was ho concerned to nrosocuto thn
i .
matter any further.
Tho M ind ns a Motive Power.
Popular 8elcneo Monthly for November.
ir..- .
mining, now, 10 sources of cnorirv
uonvou irom sun-heat, lot us tnkn thn
wind first. Whon wo look nt tho regis.
ter of British shipping nnd seo 40,000
vo3eK of which nbout 10.000 nra
st?amcr3 nml 30,000 sailing-ships, and
whon wo tbink Ilow vnst an absoluto
nmount of liorso-powor is dovclopcd by
tho miSlnesl of tho stoamors, and how
uonsiderablo a proportion it forms of
tho wholo liorso-powor taken from coal
annually in tho wholo world at tho
present, and whon wo consider tho
sailing-ships of otlior nations, whloh
must bo reckoned in tho account, und
tnrow In tho llttlo Horn of windmills,
wo find that, own In tho prosent day of
6tcam nscondanoy, old-fnshionod wind
still supplies a largo part ot all tho en
ergy used by mnn. But, howover muoh
wotiiny regret tho timo when Hood's
young lady, visiting tbofens of Lincoln-
I slllro at Christmas), and writing lo'hor
uoarost ttiona " tendon (both sixty
years old now if thoy nro nllvo), do.
scnoos tno nought of sitting in
uiwer nnu looittng over tho w ntrv
plain, not desolato, becauso "windmills
lend revolving animation to tho scene,"
wo cannot shut our nvns tni1info,.t i
11 1:imcn-tablo deendenco of wind-power.
u,,s "eciulonco peimnncnt, or may
wo uol' tllat Jt is on,y temporary? Tho
uu:orrnucnu coal-store of tho world
!,ro Scorning exhausted suroly, nnd not
womy auathoprlco of coal is upward
0 ountl upward bound on tho whole,
tu0UKu no doubt It will havo Its ups
Md downs in tho I uturo as it has had in
tuo Past' antl 113 nuist 00 tho caso in ro-
sPoot to every marketablo commodity.
Wflcn 1,10 ooal nil burned or long bo-
10,0 " 14 n11 burned, when tho;o is so
littlo of It left, und tho coal mlnos from
whloh that littlo is to bo excavated aro
so llistant and deep nnd hot that Its
priettac Iho consumor U greatly higher
thauWt present, it 1 mortprobaolothat
Winwtftls ntllWlhvJild mntnri in c.
'""My'LjCf.n bo in tho nscondant.
'"'H.'i' tffwilldo man's mechani-
caHWjf Aland at loast. In propor
tion cW,, ...ijiulo to its prosent dolnir of
worK
. l fin "
Gege Eliot's Menial Vltnlllv
Century MM? tine, ,
Nothing Indeed, was moro romarka
blo In thhllas. porlod of hor life thon
horlntenf montal vitality, whloh fail
ing honltlrdld net soora in tho loat to
Impair. Asho possessed in an omlnont
dogreo Mat powor whloh has lod to sue-
coss Ingtso many directions whloh Is
ascribe
both to Newton and to Nauo
Icon oi
koopinir hor mind un(irrJf,iE!P"F h!s tribo
nt thn ntrntrti ii-WI I I f n V
Sho would Qiao to road or to pondor
when otffir dutios called hor, but novor
(as it selinod) booauso sho horsolf felt
th od. ll von in so complex an effort as
a.vlstl.tdk fjoturo-irnliorv Imnllos. aim
' - ..w UHU.UU ' I HUJtlU UlOUlUll3 iULJL'UU.
could (itinp for hours nt tho samo
pltoliOT' iwilist interest, find nnt.wnn.rv
fltalT ' v tWwaa this a moro habit
c ynl8
botwc suooossivo co'mposWMrj
hor mlnu As always fusing and com-
blnlng its ii'ah stores, und had hor lifo
boon prolon?d, it is probablo that she
would havoroduood work at loast
oqual in morlMo anything which sho
had already aydovod. I mayporbaps
bo allowed to Ivlustrate what has here
boon said by aAv words as to tho oo:u-
patlons of hor ltfst dnvs on oarth. On
tho Friday night boforo hor doaih, Mrs. I
Cross wltnossod a representation of tho
"iigamomnon," In Qroek, by Oxford
undorgraduatea, and camo back fired
with the old words, thus hoard' nnow,
and planning to road through tho Grook'
dramatists again with hor husband.
On Saturday, she wont as usual to (he
concert of classical music, and thore,
as it seems, sho caught tho fatal chill.
That evening sheplayod through oh tho
piano muoh of tho musio whloh had
been porformod in tho af torn oon ; for sho
was an admlrablo executant, and ren
dered 'especially hor favorite Schubert
with raro dollcaoy of touch and fooling.
And thus, as hor malady dcepenod, her
mind could still rospond to tho old trains
of thought and emotion, till, all unox
poctedly to horsolf nnd thoso who lovod
her, sho passed into tho state of uncon
sciousness from which sho nwoko on
earth no more
Artesian Wells.
New York Timet.
Artesian well makors say that water
can bo found nnywhoro, tho question
holng only ono of depth. This would
soom tp bo proved by operation? In tho
dosei t of Saharn, tho last f laco In which
ono would look for water. In that
dosort French engineers havo sunk from
75 to 100 wolls, which yield 600,000 gal
lons of wntor por hour. With this wa
tor a largo spaco has been brought un
der a high stato of cultivation. Among
tho moro notoworthy nrteslnn wolls In
tho Unltod States is that of tho Insano
nsyltim at St. Louis, Mo. It Is U813 f ct
nndyiolds 1500 gallons per hour. Tho
water is warm, averaging noarly 75 de
grees. In tho samo city a sugar r )
finery has a well of 2200 feet, yielding
nbout 5000 gallons por hour. In Louis
vlllo, Ky., Is ono 2080 foot deep, giving
11,000 gallons por hour. Charleston,
S. C, Is poorly sltuatod for wator, nnd
tho city council has spent much monoy
In trying romodlcs, commencing as far
back as 1824. Tho result has been nn
artesian woll 1250 foot doop, yielding
1200 gallons por hour. In Philadelphia,
tho Continental hotoi has a 20G foot
woll, 8 Inches in diameter, giving 22C0
gallons nn hour. Thoro is a decpor
nnd moro prolific woll In tho Unltod
Statos mint In that city. In Now Or
leans thero nro wells of GOO feet; ono In
ivoiunibus, O., 2775 feet, nndntOnargo
111.. 85 miles south of Chlcasro. within
a clrclo of -15 miles diameter aro 20C
wolls, averaging about 75 feet In depth,
ami yioming 2HHo gallons per hour. On
tho plains and in tho Colorado desert
artesian wolls arq to bo found, and also
in tno oil regions of Pennsvlvnr.la.
Many years ago tho Mirrors used In bor
ing a salt woll at Salino, N. Y., fell Into
somo unknown lnko 500 feot bolow tho
surface Tho tools wero lost, but; i
saltwater camo un nbumkntlv. Tp
California It is estimated that thoro nro
moro than a thousand artesian well
most of whloh aro flowing. Francol
celebrated for theso wells. Ono in tho
department Pes do Calais was sunk
1IC2, and is still flowinc nbundanlh-
Tho famous well of Gronello, near Paris
1792 foot deep, was finish! in isio
nnd yields 21,000 gallons nn hour. At
Passy thoro is a well 1923 foot doop, giv
Imr tho enormous riuantltv of G2.000
gallons an hour. London has a iarco
number of wells, nnd thoy may bo found
in almost all civilized countries. Tho
wator from dcop wolls is warm, tho
tompornturo increasing a degree for
ovory 75 or 80 feet of depth. Tho wator
is usually imprcgnnloil with minerals,
nnu lew wolls givo water that is fit to
drink. Whllo their wator wnnld enn-n
for putting out fiieo, for tho streets.
washing, stables, and many other pur
po cs, it could not bo used for driuklne-.
cooking, or browing. Their value In
isow York is limited nnd it would bo
unsafe to depond upon them in caso Iho
Proton should lt.il.
Tho American Cowbov.
St. .loo Gazette.
Tho American cow-boy is a wostorn
InHiiutlon. On tin great plains stntch
Ing out from Kansas nnd Nebraska to
tho California slopo, ho is nn auihoiltv
unto himsolf. Tho cow boy ixgenorally
born in tho west and dies there Ho
couldn't exist nny wero olse. II lives
In tho saddlo and for months soos noth
ing but duplicates of liimso f. tho cattlo
he. herds, his oayuso pontos, tho iilimit
ablo r.rairios or sago brush desorts and
heaven's bluo canopy. At niirht ho
pickets his hor-e, winp.s himsolf un In
his blanket, nnd falls on tho eround to
sleop tho s'umberof tho just. Tho cow
boy novor marries. IIo finds a wlfo in
every poi t, nnd Is not vory truo to Poll.
At th'j "round up" ho Is hard at work
night and day, but ho is at his
Imps on tho "drlvo" for ho is tl
of tho "Jamborco" whon ho b'
Tho first tinner to do on rnnil'
'n'lond up;" tho next Is
eftS.!htei and got "dcif ,
T,
"u" "'Ni;t ,it!i iTuwninir
tuo COW-bvSuTV wlthn
withou
cow-bov can horr .
- i r-1w
gallops
and out of
publlo honrt with
fins nt It, if "crowded."1
tioos not liko to bo crowd
his feelings. Thon thn Bhor&
hand
IIo has most llkoly boti,
self. Tho troublesoraon;
boy himself,
(Vlt.CI 'TI.A 1 . . 1 VA
uun-uuy Hiaqus gamn iup
to his work. If ho is sober hofttfuld
raairo fVCja protty ovon thing, ht ho
nover Is anttho?Bsult generally as at
Tombstono and Htinnowoll Is moro
cowboys gono to glory with their boots
on, no coroner and no cards.
Coxtaor Poddino. Ono egg, ono
cup ot sugar, ono cup sweet milk, one
tablospoonful buttor, one cup dried
M li .
,oasPoot
J. , oroam1f tn.rto.r; hake.
i7tom'on auro WmaB"ugtrl
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