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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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