ItMsl -WftSB'--!? THE: ' PITTSBTJlfo" DISPATCH, SUNDAY, , DECEMBER 7, 1890. 10 of preparing a body for the pray, the last rites xt the Trappists must be solemn. When the shadow of death draws near it does not add to the silence of the Monastery, but to the solemnity of the scene it adds a hundred lold. The dying monk takes no interest in the progress of his disease, nor manifests a desire to recover. "When it is found that bis life cannot be saved, ashes are strewn on the floor in the shape ot a cross, a thin layer of straw is put over the ashes, nijd upon this the dying man is lain, and there be remains until his death. NO WOMATt's HAND TO SOOTH. No feminine bands are there to brine roses, and be wbo has denounced woman niUbi die without ber tender touch. From the rude cross he is borne by silent hands to the grave lie helped to dip, and be does not even have the luxury of a coffin. The cowl that sheltered him in life must alone pro tect bis remains from the cloddy earth. After being lowered intolhegrave, thestraw upon which be died is put over the corpse and on this is sprinkled the ashes. The grave is then slowly filled with the earth thr.t was removed, may be, months before, a wooden bowl and spoon are removed Irom the long table.the daily life of the remainder is unchanged. The Abbot of the Monastery died not long ago. and a new one has been elected. I was shown into bis sanctum where be sat upon a plain, wooden, cbair-lite throne over the Crave of his predecessor the abbots being interred beneath the throne bis successor must occupy. 3TEVEK KEAD TEE KHEDTZEK SONATA. Thin newly-elected abbot was not very communicative, but I ventured to ask him If he bad read the "Kreutzer Sonata." As might be exnected, be had not, although be had heard of the old Russian. I told hi in briefly as 1 could what Tolstoi contended for, and asked him his opinion of it. He politely informed me that he cared nothing for other people's ot.inions of celibacy; that be was satisfied, and that it was none of his concern about Tolstoi or his book. He said the .nionks at Gethsemanx not only denied themselves the opposite sex, but took no in terest in the affairs of the world. Hedid cot know who was Presideut-of the "United States didn't care to know and had heard nothing of the world for years. Then I thought of the late election, and wondered that so few take upon themselves the vow and the cowl. Geokge F. Btjbba. BTOET OF HBS. GENERAL 10QA1T. How She Got Even "With a Woman 'Who Opened Her Letters. When Mrs. John A. Logan was in Lon don, as she was for some time a year or two ago, she had a succession of experiences with the wife of the hotel proprietor, who was also surnatned Logan, says the New York Sun. Mrs. John A. Logan's mail reached her always open, and with the profound apologies of the proprietor's wife, wbo appeard to labor under a series of ingenious and elaborate mistakes. Finally, one day, Mrs. Logan received an invitation to the garden party gicn by the Prince of Wales. Like the otlurs, it was opened, and Mrs. Land lady Logan's apologies accompanied it. Then Mrs. John A. Logan descended upon the otncrladv and demanded to know il she was expecting an invitation to the Prince of Wales' garden party Landlady Logan was obliged reluc tantly to co moss that she had received no intimation of such au honor. Then the American woman read the other such a lectin e upon the sin and impertinence of opening another r.e-son's mail as put an end forever to her elaborate excuse. In fact, it frightened her m thoroughly that trom that hour she religiously sent up. to Mrs. John A. Logan every scran of mail that bore the name of Logan, even where it was indubi tably intended for herself or even lor her husband. This was making an amende honorable, of which Mrs. Logan, even iu ber state of irritation, did not choose to avail bersclf. Mrs. Landlady Logan prob ably considered, however, that she had amply atoned by giving ber guest an equal chance with herself at the mail. MODEL BACHELOR'S DEff. Queer Places forETcrj-tliing.andEverythlnc; In Queer l'Jaces. All of bis life Judge Nicholson has re sided to himself, in a room over which be was the sole master, says the Athens, Ga., Banner. While this domicile was not as neat, perhaps, as many parlors, at the same time there was a place for everything and everything was in its place. For instance, the Judge always keeps bis shoes on the mantelpiece, and his kindling wood con cealed between the mattresses, a split-bottomed chair did service as a washstand, and he kept his Sunday clothes cicely hung up on the floor in one corner of the room. But while these arrangements were not such as many ladies would endure, they had the advantage of convenience, and the darkest eight the owner could place bis band on any article he needed. While Judge Nicholson is one of the most charitable of men, and bis band is ever open to tbe poor and needy, be takes care of his possessions. As an illustration, the year alter tbe surrender ne bougbt a Jot ot ligbt- wood to kindle bis fire. It was stored awav in bis wardrobe and bureau drawers, and only one piece at a time taken out, that was bid in his bed. The Judge has used from that same load of pine now for over a quar ter of a century, and he told us yesterday that he has several sticks yet left enough to last him years to come, with economy. But this is not all. He has a whisk broom and hair brush he has used constantly for over 50 years, and they are in good conui tion yet. NATURE OF STJCCTS TT.Txra, A New Tork Skeptic Takes Forty Drops and Then Has Faith. 'ew York Herald.3 Before Succi retired Friday night he lavaged his stomach that is, washed it out with a quart of lukewarm water. After the aundrying was finished he took the biggest dose of his elixir be has taken so far 10 drops and retired. The unusual dose did cot make him rest better, for be awoke dur ing the night twice and complained of thirst. Yesterday morning his rest -was broken, too, by lots of unusual incidents. In all Succi only got 6Js hours' deep. That leaves no tangible way to account for the faster's im provement in nervous vitality, except the pure triumph of mind over matter, or, as Succi puts it, be is self-hypnotized. Dr. Gibbs, the specialist in destruction of fat tissue, was a skeptic in regard to Succi'i lasting, and rather believed it was the elixir that contained nourishment. Dr. Gibbs took about SO drops of tbe elixir home and tried fasting with its aid. Dr. Gibbs came in last night and said he was entirely satis fied that Succi's fast was genuine, and that tbe elixir was but an opiate or anodyne, as claimed. Dr. Gibbs said the elixir made bim deathly sick. XNSTHrCT OF HOmHG PIGEOUH. Keinarkable Instance of a Bird Caught ty a Ketrlet er. Jiew Torlc "World. An incident of the strength of the homing Instinct in homing pigeons is told of a bird belonging to Mr. Baldwin. A gentleman walking in the country with a retriever dog as his companion was astonished by seeing in his pet's mouth a pigeon. Upon exami nation tbe bir-1 was found to bear a number and the owner's name upon the wing. Air. Baldwin was notified. Tbe gentleman into whose hands tbe bird had fallen was requested to keep tbe pigeon until it had recovered, and then to liberate it The bird was petted and its wound healed; Ibeu its cage was opened. The fol lowing day tbe bird arrived at the loft or its owner and took Its place on its accustomed perch. It was supposed that the bird had flown beyond its strength, bad fallen to tbe ground, and was resting when seized by the dog. AHEAD OF DR. KQCH. Howard Fielding Locates the Original Bacilli Slayer. THE ELIXIR OP A MAINE GENIUS. It Cared an Old Maid but Wouldn't Save tbe Doctor Himself. A HOMEOPATH BUINED EI A CHICKEN rCOEHESrOKDEKCE OF Till DIsr-ATCn.l Amity Dam, Me., Dec 3. In this peace ful hamlet, situated ten miles north north east from Goose Falls easily accessi ble in summer by tbe stage and iu winter on snowshoes I have located the original discoverer of the Koch consumption cure. I am aware that in the meantime be has been located in a great many other places in fact, he is, it possible, more widely distributed than Charlie Boss ever was but in a multitude of base imitations there is one genuine arti cle, and his name is Dr. Elnatbun Perkins, of the Dam. Tne testimony which convinced me that Dr. Perkins' claim was just derived addi tional weight from the fact that it was given me by a man whom Dr. Perkins had deeply injured. And he had done it with this very fluid wbose mysterious properties are the onlv rational explanation why anybody survives a winter at the Dam. Deacon Thomas P. Hatch was my witness, and he said to me: "Ef you don't b'lieve in tbe vartne of Dr. Perkins elixir just look at Aunt Elmiry. She's been livin' with our folks goin' on 30 year, an' she was mor'n half dead with consumption when she came to us. HABY A LTJiTG LEFT. "I remember she made ber will tbe fust year she was with us, an' while I didn't take no sinful satisfaction iu its provisions so fur as we was consarned, I couldn't helpthinkin' Dr. Perkins at Wok in His Laboratory. that Elmiry was likely to be called 'most any day. An' it ain't a question o' board, nuther; but that a human creetur should hang on so, with nary lung to stand on, is agin catur'. "It was in the winter of '61, soon after the death of old Simeon Hatch, o' the Upper Dam, by which Elmiry got the money what is hern, but what she'd had to let go on, long alore thi. but for Dr. Perkins. An' I don't lay it up agin him, nuther, though be has saidas much to Si Peters an' others. It was in the winter before that tbe doctor got ready to try his stuff on humans. He bad been expenmentin' with the lower animals for more'n a year. So far as I've read in the papers, he'd gone to work about the same way as that German feller. He had always swore that consumption was bugs. He said they came down in the fog lrom them Frenchmen on the Bay o' Fundy. He always did dislike a Frenchman. It was his theory that if you could kill the bugs you could cure the disease. RAISED GREAT SMELLS. Then he went to work in a general sort o way, stewin' stuff in a stove in his office burdock, catuip, juniper, hog weed an' sech. You could purty nigh allers find him at work over that stove, an' some o' the things be blled up could be smelt in Gooe Falls when the wind was fav'able. He would taste these compounds Irom time to time out of his spoon, an' shake his bead; they didn't suit bim. He allers bad a way o' tastin stuff be'ore he gave it to anybody; an' it was necessary in most cases to en courage the patient. "tasked him confidential once why it was that the Lord had made all tbe good and medicinal yarbs so all-fired nasty, an' he said it was a wise provision because people never thought they was tatin' medicine, an' Experiment inp on the Lower Animals. got no sort o com ort out 'n it whatever un less it tasted like the dregs of unavailin' re morse. By an' by. tbe doctor got a mixture that suited him. He tried it on an animal an' it worked first rate. Killed all tbe fleas on Si Peters' yaller pup an took the hair off the dorg beside, which was a little rough as the weather was then below zero. ox higher animals. "Then he tried it on a female relation of Peters' that was very bad with lung trouble; an' if she was now alive 'she could tell you more about it. But she died soon after; though that wasn't no fault o' the doctor's. He said she would. An' that's one thing I admire 'bout Dr. Perkins; he never makes a mistake in prognostication. When he says a person has got to die, there ain't no call to be hone ul. It's a lime for seric-ns prepara tion. There was J-olm Collins, a likely voung man as ever you see, an' one that looked good for 80 years, but Dr. Perkins said he'd have to go, an' he went. It's them things that give the people confidence in a physician. "But Dr. Perkins gave up that first mix ture of bis, an' it was something else that be tried on Elmiry. He brewed a big jug ot it regular every month, an' she takes a dose when she feels the need. I don't know as she looks any better 'from day to day, but she certainly don't look any worse than she did 30 years ago. She's that thin you'd think a breath would blow ber awav, but it won't. Years ago I asked Dr. Perkins what he thought of her, and he said: 'She'll have to pass through the gates like the rest of us; but, Thomas when she does, you'll be waitin' for her on the inside or at least, we trust so.' This give me such a chill, that I've been quietly takin the elixir myself ever sence. THEY HAD HAD EXPEKIENCE. "P'raps we've thought so highly of Dr. Perkins owin' to our experience with an other doctor that settled here along about '72. He gave ont that he was a homeopath or an allopath, I forget which, but in my opinion it didn't make no difference what kind of a path it was it it led to money. He gave all bis medicine in little pills, and it - ii.u- 40$''' got quite pop'lar with some, though others stuck to the real stuff with a taste to it. But on the whole, Dr. Griffin was gettin' a grip. I never took much stock in liim. He came mighty nigh lettin me die once, an' then charged me 530 damages because I got well. 'But his day was short. He nscd logo over to the Upper Dam to load up with them Ijttle pills in bottles, an' one arter noon, as he was comin' back, he stopped in front of my house. I b'lieve be had a letter lor Elmiry; but anywar he was pullin' something nut'n his overcoat pocket when one of them big bottles fell oat and bust on the ground. The pills was scattered all around, an' before the doctor could ' gel out to scrape 'em up, one o' my ctiickens had eat up every blessed one of 'em. Well, sir; we watched that chicken with anxiety. He didn't seem to be no worse during that day, bnt the next mornin' be began to act queer. PILLS ik a chicken; "He didn't associate with the other chickens, but went off in a corner, and ap-, peared to be thinkin' over bis past life. He medidated 'most all day, an' didn't seem 9 Jt Perserved Elmiry. to have no appetite. His case was so curi ous that I let on about it toone or two neigh bors, au' they came over to obsarve an' ponder. Dr. Griffin heard -of what was go in' on, an' he offered to buy (he chicken, but I wouldn't sell. I was interested in the experiment Then be tried to steal bim, but I kep' a dorgin those dayr. "I wish t you could a seen that dorg. He bad a moutli that anybody might step into, ronmin' around another man's barn by night, I take it tbat Griffin's. pills wa'n't much good lor dog-bite, for the doctor wa'n't seen lor some days. An' meantime that chicken was gettin' more fearful to look at every day. He was a jrrowin' bird at the time, but that medicine dwarfed him. Nothin' grew any more but bis head an' the expression of his countenance. I have 'seen many mournful sights in this vale of tears, but the look in that chicken's eyes bustany tbing I ever see for clear, genuine misery. BOTH DOCTORS GOT DISCOURAGED. "The neighbors that come to see him went away with the blue devils, an' Dr. Griffin's reputation kept sinkin' steadily. It was looked upon as a test case, an' when, in tbe spring of the year, that chicken lay down an' died, it was all up with Griffin. 'He bad to jump the town. 'An' arter that Dr. Perkins was more thought of than ever. He had lived down rivalry, and yet he didn't exult. He bore himself modestly, ana kep on prescrimn the elixir." The deacon heaved a deep sizh and glanced up at tbe graveyard on the hill. "Dr. Perkins must be a remarkable man," said L "It would give me great pleasure to call upon him. I would publish his discov ery to the world." "It's too late, so far as he's consarned," said the deacon; "be died o' consumption in the spring of '89." Howard Fielding. UTAH 13 G0IHG TO WAIT. Delegate Calne Says It WUI Not Clamor for Statehood Again. Delegate Came, of Utah, says that his Territory has ceased knocking at the door of Congress for admission into the sisterhood of States. "We want to be freemen, of course," he said to a Washington Post reporter, "but two years ago the Democrats did not think they could carry us, and the Republican Congress does not deem it wise to admit us. Utah, therefore, will wait until the invita-" tion comes to ber, and until then we are not likely to make any move toward statehood. We have all the qualifications necessary for admission. Our population, even by the imperfect census, is over 200,000, while Wvoming has only 60,000 and Idaho only 80,000. There are 5,000 more people in Salt Lake City alone thin there are in the whole State of Nevada. The religious prejudice which keeps us out is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution, but it nevertheless exists. Utah will stav a Territory until she is asked to be a State." AN ESTIMATE OF GRADY. Itomor That His Great Speech at New Torlc Was Written for Him. C. P. Cynic, Atlanta, Go., is quoted in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat as follons: "Bright as the late Henry Grady was, Will Grady, his brother, is, in tbe estimate of men who knew Henry well, much more talented as n writer and far more 'inventive of ideas. Evan Howell, of the Constitu tion, is considered with us an, abler writer than was Henry Grady. The' lattcr's repu tation was attained by reasou of his orator ical powers rather than brilliancy of pen. There is a rumor down in our section of country that the famous speech delivered by Henry Grady at a dinner some years since iu New York, which gained him a National reputation, was written by Dr. Smith, of Atlanta, a former member of Congress. HINTS FOE GOOD DEESSEES. Clothier and Furnisher. There Is a growing scope In the IrregnUr scarnngs. The shirt fronts of tbe best dressers are as plain as plain can be. The careful dresser has the old-fashioned buttons sewed on his dress shirts, even to the collar button. It is, no donbt, part of a well-bred man's edu cation that be should have been taught to tie his own neckwear. The moonstone has come forward strongly as tbe peculiar shirt stud of full dress tbat com pletely tills tbo requirements. The new standing collar with tabs, Tbe Prince George," is tbe most altitudlnous of any that bas yet appeared, while several of tbe turnovers are but a sbade lower. "You seem to regard me as a great trouble." said tbe collar to tbe necEtle. "I do," replied tbe latter, uneasily, "and tbat Is why I am con stantly trying to rise above you." TnE only way two scarf pins may bo worn is to have one in tbo scarf in front and tbo other in tbe back In contiguity with tbo collar and preventing the band lrom getting up beblnd. ' The heavy undressed kid glove seems to be coming forward prominently, while tbo un dressed kid for evening wear, with self-cording upon tbe back and large mutber-of-pear bat tons, is tbo particularly "propah capah.'.' The turnover collars are appearing In greater varieties. There is now a style iu the market witb two unttonboles in front upon an extra wide bind, tlio id ea being to have tbe collar set as high up under the chin as a standing efiect. Such a plan naturally will seenro the patronage of tbe long-necked fraternity tbat have hereto fore adbeied to tbe standup collar as their only friend. The effect is qntte successful Iq impart ing an air of greater torm&llty to tbe wearer. The wide flowing Ascot is .one ottbe latest of tbe large sized scarfings. It is made, from a square piece of texture, similar, when uncut. In appearance to x muffler, it Is .of soft, rich silken material, and tbe square Is ont In half as the first process of making up. Tbe two pieces are then folded narrow enough In the center to go about tbe neck, are Joined to gether and the ends, left lowing to a width of eighth inches at tbe point. Tbe tie Is In the foldover lorm, the fabric being too delicate for the De JolnvlUe tie, ana Indeed not of sufficient length. Ny "Si TGSk IN LOYffS LOTTED. More Women HaTe Drawn'Famo.Than Hate Won it-for -Themselves. LUSTRE OP HUSBANDS' TITLES. Only Two of tho Presidents' Wires Bhlne ' by Their Own Light. WASTING EKERGI IN SOCIAL WABS PTIUTOK FOB THE PISP ATCH. J Nonentities who have risen to fame and have found an established place in history through tbe lottery of Iovo are numerous. Prominent women of this age will be known hundreds of years hence as aTe now tbe Julias, the Claudias, tbe Octavias, tbe An tonias of ancient Borne not for their own deeds, but as the, wives of Presidents, Em perors and Kings, and of men who have become famous. Mrs. Astor who, as the wile of the riche'stman in America, occupies a position of prominence in society second to none in the country, will 0 years hence have faded into fortgetfulness, while some of the obscure women who wield the pen or walk the stage or talk to listcningthousandB will have tbeir.names filed upon "Fame's eternal bead roll." Mrs. Harrison, first lady of this mighty Republic, whose name now is in everybody's mouth, whose sayings and doings, whose goings forth and comings in are heralded and recorded beyond those of the greatest of queens will have .subsided a centnry hence into two lines in the Biographicai Ency clopedia just as Martha Washington is to day. To the immortal George is given seven or eight columns of that dense work, while the woman witb whom he 'said he would rather spend one month at home than seven times seven years in the Presi dency, is barely mentioned. HUE PBOrEB OEDEB, PEBHAP3. This is,perhaps, the proper order of things. George was the grand figure before the world, and Martha was only a feme covert. But yet she was a queen of society. As Lady Washington she held high court dur ing the first administration, and, by ber levees and hospitality, made herself a power in the sotial domain. Success in society, which means living at the top of tbe heap, revelling in wealth, or perhaps marrying a title, constitute the sole ambition of many women's lives. To this they bend every energy, point every wish, sacrifice every desire. For this they tramp down conscience, honor and honesty. For this they will let all love and lriendship go. Women there are so infatuated, so silly, so destitute of the divinest qualities that when, by some freak of fortune, they become possessed of the almighty dollar, they turn their backs upon their old friends, give their old neighbors the cold shoulder, and devote themselves to pushing into what they deem a higher state of existence, where they can achieve a name among millionaires and rank among kings. In this pursuit is often times exhibited the desire for conquest of an Alexander, the unflinching courage of a Jnltus 'Cssar, the resolute, indomitable stubborness ot a Grant. But to what end? WHAT WOMEN MAT 'WIIT. Jay Gould pushed up from the ranks of poverty to be the ruler of Wall street. He will go down in history as a money king, wbo conld buy up a" dozen of the petty princes of Europe and wield a Dower that could upset the kingdoms of the earth. He has something to show as the result of his brains, force of energy, exercise of shrewd ness and talent for foresight. But when a woman who makes it her goal to get into society, to swell around with the "four hun dred," to hobnob with a decayed nobility and ally her plebeian lanuiy by purchase or bribary with patrician blood, what does she receive iu return? Do scorn, ridicule, so cial sufferance only and barren bonors re ceived pav in sweet content? Does this ceaseless energy, this untiring pursuit of place in society, this bnrning desire for tbe laurels of the social world find reward in the fame for which Men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper." It is pitiful to think of the triumphs and ambitions of 7omen as recorded in the society world. Think of the biggest display ot diamonds constitutfng tbe greatest vic tory 1 Contemplate a battle of the factions of the "lour hundred" as to the wording of a visiting card I Contemplate the women who are "in," engaged in a constant con spiracy to keep others "out 1" What a laudable enterprise I what a noble ambition I MISTAKES 07 SOCIETY. "A line must be drawn," said Mrs. Blank, tbe other day. "I think It should EVIDENCE OF CHEAPNESS. Can yon call to mind any wide-awake town of 6,000 inhabitants where lots can be bought at prices we ask and on such easy terms? Secures a Lot PORTLAND, the county seat of Jay county, Indiana, is half way between Fort Wayne and Bichmond, and 118 miles from Cincinnati by rail, or about 90 miles in a direct line, and 150 miles from Chicago. It is in the Largest Continuous District of Natural Gas-Bearing Land in the World ! The gas wells now in nse at Portland have an ontpnt of over 15,000,000 cnbio feet daily, and this supply may be increased ad infinitum. The Grand lUpids and Indiana Railroad and tbe Lake Erie and "Western Bailroad give Portland a north, south, east and west outlet. The county is one of tbe richest stock raising counties in the State. Portland bas fine public schools, a Normal College, three newspapers, riz: "Commer cial," "Sun" and "Republican;" two banks, a building and loan association, seven churches, two fine hotels, besides lesser ones; an opera house, and does a large wholesale, retail and manufacturing business. THE EVANS ADDITION Adjoins tho North Corporation Line of the Oity of Portland, and Lies .Direotly on the Principal Street of the Town. Lots are offered in tbis subdivision upon the following terms, viz: One per cent cash with order, then one per cent each week thereafter (or more if so desired by purchaser) un til full amount is paid, when warranty deed will be executed for the property. A rebate often per cent will be made for all cash in advance. On receipt of first payment a bond lor a deed will be forwarded to the purchaser with the amount duly credited; also a large plat of the 'property 'and a colored township map showing the exact location of the addition. The Title to the Land is Absolutely Free and Unincumbered. A complete abstract of title furnished free to all purchasers on receipt of first payment. THE LOTS. ARE 25x140 AND LARGER, fronting on f30-foot street with 15K-foot alley, and are equal in value to lots selling in other localities of tne gas bejt at 200. We advise taking .tnoor more lots to secure a good frontage. There are twelve lots to the block. A. H. EVANS, be drawn at business women." Mrs.Blank's point seemed to meet the views of the com mittee, hence all ye teachers, writers, women who work, can consider yourselves debarred. Only Idleness is noble, only dependence is aristocratic. Women who work cannot have blue blood. Strike off their names. Mrs. Burnett is a writer and a business woman mark her off. Mrs. John A. Loiran ?e n linelnot. wnman nrflg. tiot lilt Xfr 1 A keeps a school give her the go by. So ciety must be kept clear of women with brains. Considering everything we don't know but what it would be a good thing to have the snobs railed off. But bow to do it is a solemn and perplexing question that must stand over. Of the women who have bad fame and greatness thrust upon them by their bus bands becoming Presidents, but two stand out as possessing more than average brains or showing more than negative characters. Mrs. Washington's tastes were for nim and housekeeping, and the official duties im posed upon her as "first lady" were a cere monious bore. She went through them with dignity and according to rule, but she counted time thus spent as her '"lost days." But Mrs. Abigail Adams, wife Vf John Adams, is famous on her own score as well as by ac cident ot the position of her husband as President She had remarkable political in sight, and was tbe first womau in America to demand equal rights fur women, and urged her husband, pending the adoption of the Constitution in 1776, to remember the women, and said they would not hold them selves to obey the laws in which they had no voice. Ot course "John" was talked down in tbe convention, but her son, John Qaincy alterward tookup ber side in Con gress. THE WOEK OP MHS. HATES. Bat since ber day, among all the women who for a few brief years have dwelt in the light that beats upon a throne, only one has shown the courage of her convictions as op posed to precedent and has given the force of her individual views on n great moral question. The others have been content to enjoy the glory of the position with which fate and a lavish luck have provided them just as the commonplace wives share in the good fortune of husbands whose brains and lucky stars acquire such wealth as would give ancient -Cicosus the feeling of being poverty stricken if he were alive. Mrs. Lincoln reached the summit of her hopes as the wife of the adored Lincoln. That her powers were not eqnal to the situ ation is an old story. Her tastes and aspira tions were for social glory, and it would ap pear as the irony of fate tbat her lines were cast when "society," so called, was at tbe lowest discount. Mrs. Johnson, being, an invalid, hardly appears in the annals of the Bepublic. but she has the distinction of having taught ber husband who from the tailor's bench rose to the White House chair to read. Mrs. Grant will reach immortality as did the wile of Julius Csezar as the wife of ber husbaud glory enough. Mrs. Hayes se cured a place for herself. Her name will ever be held in holy remembrance by those whose ideas were enforced by her individual influence. Mrs. Garfield never impressed herself upon the people as a woman of force, intelligence or capacity, A mystery sur rounds her personality to wfiich only the gossip of Washington gives the trace of a key. Mrs. Cleveland, a hundred years bence, will rank with Mrs. Madison as to beauty, tact, social genius and aptness for immortal ity as Presidents go. Mrs. Harrison is hardly cut out ot immortal stuff, unless her genius for painting is away and beyond her social talent. Still she will always find a line in the encyclopedias, as have her forerunners by virtue of her husband's name and tame. Why should tbe spirit of mortal be proud? was a problem which staggered Abe Lin coln, the beloved and martyred President. Why women should trade upon their hus band's titles Is another. Bessie Beamble. A FAKTuTra.7 ALLIAHC2 LEASES. On the Stomp He Showed Tie Did Not "Wear Socks and He Won. Et. Loins Globe-Democrat. l Jerry" Simpson, the Farmers' Alliance Congressman-elect from the Seventh Kansas district, is a remarkable character, and will attract considerable attention in Washing ton. He is a native of New Brunswick, and in the course of his eventful life has been a sailor and a soldier, a city marshal and a farmer. He has little education, but con siderable natural ability. During his can vass, when making a speech, he would roll 'up bis trousers and show the farmers that he wore no socks, and then commence a tirade upon his "silk-stocking" opponent, Colonel HoIIowell. Once, in the course of an address, be al luded to "Daniel Webster, who wrote the dictionary." A man who sat behind him nudged bim and whUpered, "Yon mean Noah." "What yon givin' us!" ejaculated the future Congressman; "Noah built the ark." W II PfflllTS OF W CENTS 1 WIK! ONE PER CENT CASH, THEN ONE PER CENT EACH WEEK THEREAFTER UNTIL PULL AMOUNT IS PAID in the Great Trustee, THE ELECTEiC LIGHT. Details of the Construction of tbe Incandescent Globes. WHT THE AIR MUST BE TAKEN OUT. Interesting Process of Attaching the Fila ment to the Wires. CABBONIZIXQ TUB S1LE THEEADS IWM11EX FOB THB DISPATCn.1 There are two kinds of electric lamps, the incandescent and the arc The incandescent are commonly used on the parallel system of electrtc distribution and the arc on tbe series system. These two systems of elec tric distribution have already been de scribed. An incandescent lamp consists of a glass globe, in size and shape very much like a pear; and an electric conductor inside this globe, of such construction and material that when a proper current of electricity is sent through tbe conductor, it will instantly be brought to'a wb,ite heat and this pro duces light. This conductor is usually made of carbonized bamboo or carbonized silk. The principal details in the manufacture of this lamp are as follows: First the glass globe is blown, leaving a bole at the bottom or smaller end of the globe large enough to admit the illuminating conductor above mentioned. This conductor is called the filament. A small hole is also leit in the tpp of the globe and provided with a glass tube through which the air in the bulb is eventually pumped out. pbepabinc the filament. The bulb in this condition is ready to re ceive the filament, whicb, however, must first be prepared in the following manner, tbe preparation being very much the same, whatever its material may be: A great many short, silk threads are so wound or adjusted on a block of carbon, that each thread will have the shape or curve of a horse shoe in fact, tbe very same shape that can be seen in any incandescent lamp in use. This carbon block with the silk threads is then placed in a very hot furnace and left there until the silk threads have been burned into carbon. When removed from the furnace they are hard and brittle. In this condition they are immersed in gasoline oil and while under the oil tbey are brought to a red heat by passing a current ot electricity through them. This operation causes a deposit of carbon to be made from the oil into the fila ments. When removed they are found to be much less brittle than when they came from the furnace. The next operation is to attack a short strip of platinum wire, about an inch long, to each end ot the horse shoe shaped carbon filament. ATTACHING THE PLATINUM. The method of making this joint is very interesting ana is as ioiiows: a irst tne plat inum wire is twisted or clamped around the end of the filament, then one pole of an electric circuit is connected to one side of the joint and the other pole to the other side of the joint. In this condition the joint is immersed in gasoline oil and sufficient cur rent then turned on to bring tbe joint up to a red heat. This heat in the joint causes carbon (soot) to be deposited there, thus securing good electrical contact between the carbon filament and platinum. The filament is now ready to be inserted into the glass globe. The loop, of course, goes in first, and after it is in the bottom of the globe is heated and melted around the two platinum ends and thus hermetically sealed at that point. The two ends of the platinum wires are leit protruding through the glass bottom and to these are attached two copper wires, which aro eventually to be attached to the two poles of an electric circuit, so that tbe current may flow through the filament and bring it to a white heat lor ligbting purposes. EXHAUSTING THE GLOBR The only thing left to be done now is to pump tbe air out of the bulb and then the lamp will be ready for use. To do this tbe small glass tube on the top of the bulb is connected to a mercury pump and the air thus exhausted as far as possible. Alter this the glass tube is melted off and tbe bulb sealed, leaving a little point of glass on the top. A suitable socket is then provided and a switch attached for turning the current off and on, and now tbe lamp is ready for use. The reason for using platinum wire to conduct the current through tbe glass bot tom to tbe carbon filament is this: The glass will of course expand and contract ac cording to the temperature to which it is ex posed and the wire leading through the glass will do the same, but if the glass and wire expand equally for given increase Natural Gas and Oil Field of 4&&&&WWW4-4-QG&Q444WGQ4 00Hffi-- Portland, Ind., or 49 West 9 temperature the glass will most likely crack and sooner or later a leak will be formed and air will enter the exhausted globe. Now to use a technical expression, platinum has the same "coefficient expan sion" as glass. This means that lor.a given increase in temperature platinum and glass will expand an equal amount. Tbis is the only metal known that has the same "coeffi cient of expansion" as glass, and althongh it is expensive, yet without it, incandescent lamps could not be made. WHT AIB IS TAKEN OUT. The object of the vacuum in the globe of tt incandescent Ijuid Is In prevent combus tion. When'we burn wood or coal wo do not destroy anything that is matter; we simply cause a change in the condition of things. Wood whsn burued is not destroyed as lr as matter Is concerned; it has simply chanced its condition. The carbon of tbe wood uuites with the oxygen of the air to form carbonic acid gas, so that when wood is bnrned its condition is simply changed, part of it being burned into the condition of carbonic acid gas and the rest into ash. Now, carbonic acid gas is composed of carbon and oxygen but if there is no oxygen present when carbon is heated to a white heat the union of tbese two elements cannot take place. It will now be perfectly clear tbat if we pump the air, which is largely composed of oxygen, out of the globe ot an incandescent lamp no combustion can take place; that is, there will be no oxygen there to combine with tbe carbon filament when it is brought to a white beat through the ac tion of the electric current. HEATING HIE FILAMENT. There now remains to be explained bow tbe electric current causes the carbon fila ment to become white hot. Tbis action is simply a transformation ot energy. If we rub our bands' together we transform some 01 the energy of tbe body into heat, friction being the cause ot the transformation. Tim condition of the body is one form of energy and heat is another form of energy. We can so rub two sticks of wood togetner tbat the energy of motion can be transformed into the energy of heat to such an extent as to cause the wood to ignite. If we force water rapidly through a small pipe the water can be made to boil. The heat of the water in this case is due to tbe friction be tween the rushing water and the sides of the pipe. It is just so with the electric current. If we force a current of electricity through a wire the electrical energy will be trans formed, through friction, into heat energy and the wire becomes warm. It the current is sufficiently great the wire can be readily melted. In tbe incandescent lamp, there fore, it is the friction between the electric current and the filament tbat causes the white heat, and as no combustion can take place the filament will stand this great heat for a long time before it will go to pieces. However, as no vacuum can be perfect, the filament will finally go to pieces. The average life of a good incandescent lamp is about 1,000 hours. CALCULATIONS ON LIGHTING. From a business standpoint it is necessary to know how many incandescent lamps can be worked with one horse power of energy. How, heat and electricity being forms of energy from one of which the other can be obtained, the above information is calcu lated in tbe following mauner: The unit of electrical energy is tbe "watt," and it takes 746 watts to equal one horse power. The watt is the product of one volt of pressure into one ampere of current. To that if we know the pressure in volts and current in amperes needed for any incandescent lamp, we can at once calculate tbe electrical energy. For example, if a lamp requires SO volts of pressure and one ampere or cur rent to bring it np to its proper candle power, its energy in watts will be found by SO multiplied by 1, or SO watts. If the lamp requires 100 volts and a half an am pere, its energy in watts will be tbe same as before; that is, 100 multiplied by y$, or SO watts, ana as it taces tu watts to equal one horse power, the number of lamps, as above, that can be worked witb one horse power is calculated by 716, divided by SO, or nearly 15 lamps. THE LAMPS GIVE OUT HEAT. Many people think that incandescent lamps do not give out beat. This idea is, however, a mistake, for although the heat given out by such a lamp is not nearly as great as the heat from a gas jet of equal can dle power, yet some beat is necessarily given off. It would be impossible to have a white hot filament, such as there is in an incan descent lamp, without heat However, leaving expense and conveni ence ont of the question, the incandescent lamp has tbis one overwhelming advantage oyer every other method of lighting, namely, it does not give off any products of combus tion and so does not vitiate the atmosphere. It follows from this that thsee lamps cannot smoke or blacken the wall paper. Scibe Facias. Ton are Invited To call on any druggist for a free sample bottle of Kemp's Balsam, the best cough in cure. Large size SOc and ?1. TTbsa WE OFFER LOTS AT TRICES AS FOLLOWS: $60, $65, $70, $7S, $80. $85, $90. $95, $100, $105, $110, $115, $120, $125, $130 and $135 each; Meridian street lots are $130 and $135. All without interest, and free of taxes until deed is executed. It any application Is received after all the lots are disposed of the money inclosed for first payment will be returned. Remember the number ot lots Is limited, and "first come, first served." The Royal Glass Company bas located a plant on tbe addition, covering an entira blosk, and have already turned out some ot the finest cathedral glass ever made In this country. The company expects within a lew days to be running to their full capacity. ANYWHERE UNDER the ENTIRE SUBDIVISION GAS CAN BE SECURED. EVERY LOT-OWNER MAY HAVE HIS OWN GAS WELL AND REGULATE THE SUPPLY TO ANY DESIRED, QUANTITY. A well properly snnfc is sure to strike gas. Three wells have already been sunk and in each a large and satisfactory flow was obtained. Tbe natural gas obtained In the immediate vicinity of Portland is so pure that it Is used for illuminating purposes, and is equal to tbe best manufactured gas. This claim cannot be made for natural gas found in any other locality. Poetlasd, I-D., March 1, 1SSS. I have made the survey and plat ot the land comprised in the Evans Addition to tba city of Portland, Jay county, Indiana, and hereby certily that there is not a lot in said subdivision tbat is not suitable tor building purposes and susceptible of cood drainage. The subdivision adjoins the coiporatlon line of the city. Meridian street, whicb pusses through tbe property, is the principal street of the city and the main tborattghfare of the county leading into the city. Sixteenth street is also au important highway. C. E. ROGERS, Ex-County Surveyor and present City Civil Kttfinetr. PORTLAND ias developed quite rapidly since the discovery of Natural Gas and Oil iu that locality. Population is increasing and land advancing. A number of new factories, business blocks, and over 100 dwellings have been built within the past year. The census of 1890 shows a gain in population of 179 per cent over 1880. There is every reason to believe that an investment made now will bring to the pur chaser large returns in the near future. Pearl Street, PIPES ARE THE RAGE. Since tbe McKinlry Law Went Into Effect They Are Stylish. NOT POPULAR FOR THE STREET. Manufacturers Find There Will be a Baa for Christmas Gifts. SOME HOYELTIES 0 THE MARKET One of the most notable things in New York during the last month has been tbo steadily increasing popularity of pipe smoking, and the consequent boom in the manufacture of pipes of all kinds. Tha manufacturers say that this turn of popular taste to an old-fashioned method of solace that was abandoned to a marked extent with the general introduction of good cigars at moderate'pricss began several months ago. The present boom came, however, with the ATcKinley bill. The effect of that bill," said Manufac turer Kaldenberg to a New York Sun re porter, "was immediate and unmistakable. It is another instance of tbe truth that it is an ill wind that blows nobody good. If the bill injured tbe cigar trade it is a benefit, and a big one, to the great American in dustry of pipe manufacture. We have the same story from agents all over the country. Eyerj where smokers are going back to the pipe. I mean, of course, they are adopting it for a quiet smoke at home, where they can enjoy a pipe in comfort. It is doubtful if Americans will ever return to the earlier custom of smoking pipes in the street, as Germans and English and some other nat ionalities of smokers do. GIFTS FOR CHBISTSIAS. "Just now manufacturers ot pipes are busy preparing the novelties for the holiday trade. Pipes have always been in demand tor present but this year, thanks to the tariff legislation, there will be a bigger de mand than ever." This frank statement of the condition of the industry was made in a hnge wareroom, filled on every band with glass cases con taining pipes of all sorts and sizes and vary ing degree ot worth and beauty of workman ship. "The most popular pipe made," continued the manufacturer, "is the brierwood. Some idea of the favor of this wood is furnished by the fact that we make 1,500 different styles of brier pipe, and find a trade for each one ot tbese styles. These pipes cost from 5 cents to $25 each, according to design and the amount of work required to com plete them. The most expensive are finished in meerschaum and amber. A brier pipe that finds an enormous sale in tbe Southern States is the 'Stonewall Jackson.' It has a squafe bowl, carved to represent a rough stone walL A LONG SHOBT STEJT. A decided novelty in pipes, one which has already won popularity in tbis city and ia the East generally, is tbe new spiral pine. This is made of plain brierwood, into the stem of which is introduced a hollow tube of bone, which is turned like a screw. The stem is about four inches long, but the effect of this spiral formation is tbe same as if the stem were 8 to 12 inches long A long stem is made ol ths wingbone of the albatross. Some of these are 20 inches long. The pipe is very handsomely mounted in silver and amber, and costs $10. A pipe tbat was designed especially for those smokers who would be inclined to smoke a pipe rather than a cigar but for the nicotine, which, they say, is a disagresabla feature of pipe smoking, is the center stem deep bowl. The stem is placed directly in the center of the bowl. In tbe bowl itielf is a cap made of meerschaum which extends almost to the bottom of the brier bowl. Tbe bottom of the cup is perforated like a salt caster. In the space between this perlnrated bottom and tbe bottom ot' tbe brier bowl tba smoker places a piece of cotton. Smokers say that this cotton absorbs the poisonons nicotine so completely that they can smoke the entire bowlful of tobacco without ex periencing any of tbe biting and disagreea ble flavor of the nicotine. These pipes cost $2 SO. "The Turkish water pipe is regaining the favor it once enjoyed as a home pipe for men of means. These pipes, made with globes of colored glass, cost Irom $3 to 55 each, with single stems. They .are also made with globes of elaborately cut crystal, some ol which sell for as much as $200 and $300. A few drops of attar of roses in the water bowl are fonnd to impart a most de lightful aroma to the smoke, and the per fume is readily detected upon entering the room." The triumph of the age Salvation Oil, first-class liniment, for twenty-five cents. PORTLAND Has over 5,000 population. The Evans addition is less than a mile from the Court House, on the main street, with three fourths of the population lying between it and the Court House. Portland, Ind. 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