AN ODD KIND OF CLUB. IT RESCMSLC3 A FULL FLEDGED TCLCSRAPH COMPANY. Aa Amateur Otcftnlullnn, th. Ketnbera of Which liar Their Iloanes Connect ed bjr Wires, So That They MJ Com Bianlcatc irllh Hacti Other by Telegraphs Ono of Iho most novel or nnlquo or ganisations iu Brooklyn is on that has recently jraiueJ a new lease of life through tho infusion of new and vig orous blood and by a thorongh reorgan ization. It is called the Phcnix Morse Telegraph club, and is perhaps the only ono of ila kind la tho United Stated. The old orfcaniaation was formed iu 1879 and ftartod ia life tinder the name of tho rhenix club. It was inangnrattnl by a number of young people, some of whom were engaged in occupation as telegraphers, and others of different vo cations, who took pleasure in studying the mysterious language of dots and dashes. A private telegraph lino was established and connected with Uie res idences of the members. A busy wire it was too. The hum of conversation, if it can be termed snch, was constant throughout the evening. Stories were passed over the electrical current, jests and jokes bandied, chess and checkers played by individuals who liked this sort of recreation, and in fact as good a time was usually pulsed as if the mem bers were brought in contact with each other by person in one room. Jokes of an innocent character were also carried on over the circuit, which had the advantage in so far as to allow the perpetrator to remain unknown or making it unnecessary to flee from the wrath of the person upon whom it was inflicted. Quite a number of these are stock property among the old members, who relate them to friends with ns mnch justo anil enjoyment as if they had oc curred only yesterday. One of these is to the effect that two members after practicing with another iu tho early evening, dtiriug which the sender trans mitted the Morse characters as fast as he could, or as telegraphers would say "rushed'' the receiver, notwithstanding the protests of this unfortuuate disciple of America's noted inventor. The latter promised himself that a speedy revenge would follow, and sought to find some means whereby he conld make the "rusher" as uncomfortable as he had been previonsly. The practicing finally came to an end, and the receiver waited until an un earthly hour of the morning, when he supposed his victim had gone to bed and when the click of a sounder would strike the gloom and quiet with the distinct ness of a blow from a trip hammer. At about 3 o'clock in the morning he went to the instrument and legan to call his victim in a manner which would indi cate that a fire had perhaps broken out or that the transmitter had serious need of aid in some dire calamity. He called in this furions style until he had awak ened the sleeper, who jumped up out of yd and went to the instrument, ex pecting to hear that something dreadful had happened. He answered the call rruakingly. His indignation can be im agined when the query came slowly and distinctly: "Will you please tell mo the time; my clock has run down." His answer is not recorded, bnt it is iafe to assume that the immediate vicin ity became as warm as a hot box of an overheated wheel. The organization went on in the even renor of iu way until two or three year ago, when it began to lauguish, partly m account of a defection of members Tho moved away from the city or be--iause tho remaining persons would not shoulder in the projier or necessary man ner the worry and expense of conduct ing such and organization. Then came mother club which was purely social la its character and which was also ! called tho Phenix club. It may have jeen that the similarity of names caused ! i bond of friendship to be established ;ir that some of the members of this body were capable of handling a key ind working the electrical current, tfowever this may be, the two organ izations were amalgamated and a new rder of affairs brought about thereby. Tho name was changed to the present jne, and under which it started out with bright and prosieruns auspices. A flat, corner of Marcy avenue aud Fulton street, has Wen made the head piarters of the club, and which may be :cnned the main office of this amateur lelegraph company. Here are located .ho battery room, which furnishes tho vwwerful fluid by which the wire is worked, and another, which is called the operating room , in which are placed four etsof instruments and a double practic ing outfit. A galvonoineter, whereby .he wire is measured, so that the where ibouts of any trouble on the line can be letected, U also included iu this tpac. Mectiugs anil Micial gatherings are held la a larger room running off from this ue. Eighty cells of battery work tho circuit, which covers a distance of near fy eighteen miles i:i this city, mainly in the upper reaidence section. The old "string" wai- overhauled by uu experienced lineman recently and ;ut iu sufiiciently substantial shape in jrder to enable it to more readily resist . Lho wear and tear of a line in a large ind busy city. The circuit is placed along the housetops on the route, und trouble of any kind or, as an operator vould say, "bugs" are rarely met with .r cxperieiicjd. Twenty-three so called "offices'' are on the circuit, all of which have their calls in tho same manner as do tho stations of a telegraph company. Among the present members of the club are practical telegraphers of skill aud feoords for sending and receiving. Considerable rivalry exists between them', and it is proposed at some future time tt have a tournament for fast trans mitting aud also for skill and ability in receiving the Morse characters. Classes will be established in order to give every ono ax'hance. One of the fastext senders iu tho country is the secretary of the or-. guuizatioiK Mr. Frank L.Ctttfan.liroek Ivn KtMrleJ 3 ' 1 ' ' ' " v ; HEADING A SHELL SCREAM. A nideoni ftoand That Trie the Nerves of the New HoMlrr. Tho talk turned upon personal conr ngo in a conversation I had tho other day with an aid-de-camp of Ueneral Alexander Hnys. The veteran, who had tho name of loing tho most daring aid on Hays' staff, said: "Yon ask me how I felt when I first smelled powder, so to ppeak. ell. after the lapse of all these years I'm almost ashamed to tall you. I was panic stricken, scared o?t of my lenses, my courage oozed out of me in r.n instant, and a Miiall bov could have captured me without trouble. This aw ful experience came after I had been about a year in the army. The regi ment of infantry in which I was was pre' imring to go into camp. VTe wore a few miles outside of Yorktown. which was in the ponsession of the Confederates, but none of us, not even onr officers, realized tho proximity of the enemv. There were some cattle with the army. ana some no w or other some of my com rades and I were part of the crowd that drove the beeves to the place where they were to be slaughtered. "We formed a circle, a sort of bull ring, and fell to skylarking and firing our pistols at the cattle as they ran hither and thither. It was all laughter and shouting. Suddenly, without the slightest warning, a sound that we had never heard before rose above t he clamor. It was a sort of whirring howl, lasting a few seconds only, but long enough to strike terror into our hearts. The men who had been as gay and noisy as school boys a minute before were dumb. I don't remember how they behaved. My own affairs kept me busy. I felt as if my lwots were nailed to the ground. They wouldn't move, neither would my legs in fact I had lost control of my body. I was perfectly limp and my knees sagged out. "That was the first strango sound, as of somo hideous, deadly bird firing over head. I hardly realized, mind you, that the enemy was shelling us. All I knew for sure was that somehow my life, which I had enjoyed so mnch a minute lefure, was iu danger. I wanted to run. but my legs wouldn't obey me. Two shells passed over me before I could shake off the paralysis. Then I ran as I never ran before or since, with u profes sional sprinter's speed, to the shelter of the woods from which our regiment had only just emerged. A second terror seized me as I reached tho first scatter ing trees. I had selected one, a big fel low, as my refuge, and when I reached it three other men who were crouched behind it pushed me violently away, saying thero wasn't room for more. Shells were still in the air. and with ter ror I pursued my flight. When at last 1 fell exhausted upon the ground beyond the range of the enemy's artillery, I al most lost consciousness for awhile. "Nobody was killed by those shells, but the Rebs' must have laughed to see us run, i;nd laughed louder yet when our cattle ran into their lines as they did. I felt more or less uncomfortablo always in going into battle afterward, but never again lost my nerve as I did at my fire baptism before Yorktown." Pittsburg Dispatch. Why We Have I-rap Tears. Why is it that thero have to be leap years that all our years ore not of the same length? It arises from the fact that the year does not consist of an ex act number of days. The length of the day and that of the year are the meas ures of tho motions of the earth. The glole we live on moves in two ways. It turns itself around like a spinning top, and at the same time it goes steadily forward like a bullet shot from a gun. It turns itself once completely around in twenty-four of our hours, as shown by the clock; this amount of time we call a day. Its forward or onward motion carries it around tho sun in a path that is nearly a circle; the time it takes to go completely around we call a year. The first motion gives us day and night fol lowing rath other in turn (the word "day" here having now n different meaning namely, not twenty-fonr hours, but the time of daylight. The second motion gives us days (that is, periods of daylight) growing gradual ly longer aud then gradually shorter, one end of the earth turning more to ward the sun fur half the time aud the other end for tho other half; and this brings us summer and winter and tho Reasons. Now the l.-ngth of tho year is found to Ik? nearly times the "length of tho day of twenty-fonr hours; that is, the year is SO.") days long and nearly six hours more. It is these six hours that give us our leap years, and it is in tho "nearly" that we find tho reason for 1100 not being one of their number. Rev. George Mc Arthur in St. Nicholas. Cripple ut the Capital. Strangers in the capital express niiu-h surprise at the number of cripples to be seen here, and offer various explanations of the sight. The majority of maimed citizens are office holders, who were crip pled during the late war. The form in which they pre mostly injured isthe loss of an arm, oftener the left ono, as olser vation shows. Many have parted with a leg, and the suppliers of substitutes in willow, cork or rubber in Washington aver that this is ono of the liest markets in the country for their profession. Bo sides these injuries received through violence, there are scores of people in tho government service who are afflicted with natural deformities. They are to be found particularly iu the treasury de partment. Kate Field's Washington, A ."Mirror in Your Clove. Without merely desiring to remind herself of her good looks a woman has often need of as much looking glass as she can see her face in. Iu the street, at a hull, at a theater, iu the sIhijis, all sorts of little disarrange ments may occur, and to set them right with a mirror is an absolute necessity, Tho very handiest form of portable mir rors is tho new "mirror glove." A little flap is buttoned np into the ilm of one glove. - When it is let down a small eir cularTrtiitrai U dlscloslKv York J-HiruM. .Bhc'ecDVi Th Wjr Women Pn, "If men wcro as economical In their jocir.l relations as women tiro wo would not bo such a retion of rpendthriit," said T. B. Rw, of Minneapolis. "I was impressed with tho force cf this idea to day by an obsorvat ion legun inacablo car and pursued through a dry goods es tatmstimont ana a restaurant. I saw two ladies chatting together intimately on a car, and when tho conductor ap proached them to collect the fares one of them had no change. The other offered to pay for her companion's rido, but tho latter wouldn t submit to tho proposi tion. Instead she borrowed a nickel from her friend, remarking as she did bo that she would break a bill as soon, aa she got down town and riay her. My curiosity was excited to see if women really dealt that way with one another so I followed the two after they got off the car. They first entered a dry goods store, where tho borrower made a small purchase, and as roon as she got her change she handed her friend five cents which was received without tho slight est protest. "Then they went into a restaurant to get lunch. Each gave separate orders and tho bill of each amounted to thirty cents. They marched up to the cashier and each paid her own biH. Now, these are small transactions, but they are in dicative of the difference iu tho charac ters of men and women. Had the objects of my observations been men instead of women, the man who offered to borrow a nickel for car fare would have insulted the other, and one of them would have ordered that dinner for both and paid the bill, which, I may as well say, would have amounted to dollars instead of cents." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The True Artist. nenry Norman rives the following instance of modest self estimate in the case of a man who is ono of the. most skillful and original artificers in the world, and whose works nro everywhere admired: This ivory carver sat in his little room. open to his little garden, chiseling upon a magnificent tusk, from which was just emerging a very graceful female figure. The ivory he held lx tweea his knees, and the tools were spread out at his side. 'How long will this take von?" I asked. "AlKiut four months," he replied. "And what is the proportion In-tween the value of the material and the value of tho labor in such u work as this when completed?" "I paid $1-10 fortius piece of ivory." said he. and four mouths' work, at $.10 a month, is $200." And this man was estimating his work at less than forty American dollars a month! His was the true artist's tem perament, for he was willing to accept only what would supply him with tho necessaries of life, depending for his actual reward on the joy of seeking to do a perfect work. "Are you not very sorry sometimes.' asked I, "to part with ono of these works, that have been companions and a part of your life for so long?" He looked up for a minute at a great white lily nodding above him in the garden, and then gently shook his head. '.No," ho said. "I expect the next to bo more beautiful still." A 8nggmtlon About Dinners. The next time you give a dinner give a good one. Do not feel that because you can afford it your dinner must con sist of complex, mysterious, rich, indi gestible dishes. No one wants them. All men hate them. When a man goes to a restaurant he never orders such a medley for himself. He never wishes them on his own table. Few women care for them, and not one person in fifty can digest them with comfort. Al though such dinners are very common in New York, they ure not given be cause we desire or respect them, but be cause we are a rich and vulgar people without the ability to realize our vul garity. Thero are many people in this city, and happily tho class is growing, who have tho good taste and courage to offer a simpler dinner to their guests. Such dinners can be as long and as dainty as the most fastidious may desire, and they are infinitely more satisfying. Try t" bear in mind that a dinner consisting of complex and mysterious dishes is only a development of American vulgarity. When a woman gives such a dinner yen are correct iu supposing that either her own taste is vitiated and falso or that sho does it because she thinks it "the proper thing." In either case it indi cates the presence of more money than intelligence. Life. Tlifjr Agreed Then and After. A Baptist minister took charge of a parish near Boston where ho knew that ono man wiw decidedly opposed to his pastorate. Soon after his arrival the Rev. Mr. X. called upon Mr. A. . "Brother," said he, "I hear that you think I am the wrong man to be tho pastor of this church." "Well, to be frank," replied Mr. A.. "I do think that another would have filled the place better." "Now that is just what I think," said the pastor. "But us long as we hold this opinion in opposition to tho majority of the parishioners, let's try to be unselfish and make the best of it." After that call Mr. X. never had a firmer friend nor more faithful cham pion than Mr. A. Boston Herald. Why I'etrureh Ik Remembered. Petrarch t nought it a disgrace that his verses should be sung in the streets. and ho regretted that he had written anything in tho vulgar tongue. No one now reiuls his Latin poetry, but every reader of Italian is churmed with the jKX'ins that attracted und suited the pop ular taste, which is made kin by a touch of nature, whether from the lyre or tho pen. Note and Queries. The Ivory of Solomon's Time. it is not impossible that ivory and apes in Solomon's time may havo come from Somali land and not from India. Scot- tosh Review. "A woman best understands a woman's ills." Thousands cf women have been benefited by Mrs. I'inkham's ad vice, and cured by her remedies after all other treatment had failed. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been more successful in cur ing Female Ccvnrlainis than any rcmcdv thi v.tv!'.! !..s ever known. Hq Yqu Mmw Keystone It is one of the greatest inventions of the age, and no Fahjikr can afford to be withont ono. DRILLS! DRILLS! DRILLS. iJUCKEYE, RICHMOND CHAMPION, and the FARMERS FAVORITE. They are the Best ; If you want a Drill pay you to our line. We have just received a tionable. If you expect to use salt on your Spring; crops, we want to sell it to you P. W. KITCHEN, BLOOMSBURC, PA. -THE- RELIABLE CLOTlilG AS Comes to the front with the LARGEST ASSORTMENT AND MAKING AND FITTING .'.OF THE.-. Best, the Newest ami Most Stylish, lowest In Priec ; anil to prove Satisfaction is our Endeavor The best value for Money is to buy your Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Neckwear, Trunks and Valises of , Corner 4 of Main and Centre Streets, BLOOMSBURG, PA. UNEXOEL&ED GLQTMING MADE TOOSDEB. Largest Clothing and Hat House in Columbia and Montour Counties. J. R. Smith &Co. i.i.viTt:n. MILTON, Pa., DEAI.EHS IM PIANOS, By tho following well-known makers: Chiclccrittg, KnnTiC) Wcbcr, Hallct & Davis. Can also furnish any of the cheaper makes at manufact urers' prices. Do not buy a piano before getting our prices. Catalogue and Price Lists On application. 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They are selling fast and we have only a few left. Remember that we carry a full line of r from reliable Manufacturers whose names are a guarantee of their goods. Salt, Salt. right and the Oualitv is unoues. House
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