Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, September 19, 1892, Image 3
"FELICE NOTTEI" God send the little golden bees of sleep To murmur in the blossom of your ear Thoir gentle summer music hushed and deep, Their softest slumber songs to you, my dear! And may the gypsy fortune telling dreams Draw you beneath their pointed tent find tako Your palm and toll you fortunes—rosy gloams Too sweet to be remembered when you wake! Once may your hyacinthine lids unfold Bathed in the limpid pallor of the moon. The happiest stars in heaven may yet behold. And pray and sigh for Joy, and slumber soon. —lrene I'utuam in Lippincotl's. A MAN IN THE BELL. In my younger days bell ringing was much more in fashion among the young men of than it is now. Some fifty years ago about twenty of us who dwelt in the vicinity of the cathedral formed a club which used to ring every peal that was called for. One Sunday I went with another into the belfry to ring for noon prayers, but the second stroke we had pulled showed us that the clapper of the hell we were at was muffled. Some one had been buried that morning and it had been prepared of course to ring a mournful note. Wo did not know of this, but the rem edy was easy. "Jack," said my com panion, "step up to tho loft and cut off the hat," for the way we had of muf fling was by tying a piece of an old hat or of cloth (the former was preferred) on one side of the clapper, which deadened every second toll. 1 complied, and mounting into the belfry crept as usual into the bell, where 1 began to cut away. The hat had been tied on in some more compli cated manner than usual, and I was per haps three or four minutes in getting it off, during which time my companion below was hastily called away—by a message from his sweetheart, I believe, but that is not material to my story. The person who called him was a brother of the club who, knowing that the time had come for ringing for serv ice, and not thinking that any one was above, began to pull. At this moment I was just getting out when I felt the bell moving. 1 guessed the reason at ouce. It was a moment of terror, but by a hasty and almost convulsive effort I succeeded iuj umping down and throw ing myself on tho flat of my hack under tho bell. Tho room in which it was was little more than sufficient to contain it, the bottom of tho bell coming within a couple of feet of the floor of lath. At that time I certainly was not so bulky as 1 am now, but as 1 lay it was within an inch of my face. I had not lain my self down a second, when tho ringing began. It was a dreadful situation. Over ine swung an immense mass of metal, one touch of which would have crushed mo to pieces; the floor under tne was principally composed of crazy laths, and if they gave way I was pre cipitated to the distance of about fifty feet upon a loft, which would in all probability have sunk under the impulse of my fall and sent me to be dashed to atoms upon tho marblo floor of the chan cel a hundred feet below. This was my first terror, but the ring ing had not continued a minute before a more awful aud immediate dread came on me. Tho deafening sound of the bell smote into my ears with a thunder which made me fear their drums would crack; there was not a fiber of my body it did not thrill through. It entered my very soul: thought and reflection were almost utterly banished; I only retained the sensatiou of agonizing terror. Every moment 1 saw the bell sweep within an incli of my face, and my eyes —I could not close them, though to look at the object was bitter as death—fol lowed it instinctively in its oscillating progress until it came back again. It was in vain 1 said to myself that it could come no nearer at any future swing than it did at first; every time it descended I endeavored to shrink into the very floor to avoid being buried un der the down sweeping mass, and then, reflecting on the danger of pressing too weightily on my frail support, would cower up ugain as far as 1 dared. At first my fears were mere matter of fact. 1 wns afraid the pulleys above would give way and let the bell plunge on me. At another time the possibility of the clapper being shot out in some sweep and dashing through my body, as 1 had seen a ramrod glide through a door, flitted across luy mind. The dread also, as I have already mentioned, of the crazy floor tormented me, but these soon gave way to fears not more unfounded, hut more visionary and of course more tremendous. The roaring of the bell confused my intellect, and my fancy soon began to teem with all sorts of strange and terri fying ideas. The bell pealing above and opening its jaws with a hideous clamor seemed to mo at one time a raving mon ster raging to devour me; at another a whirlpool ready to suck me into its bel lowing abyss. As I gazed on it, it as sumed all shapes. It was a flying eagle, or rather a roc of the Arabian story tellers, clapping its wings and screaming over me. As I looked upward into it, it would ap pear sometimes to lengthen into indefi nite extent or to be twisted at the end into the spiral folds of the tuil of a flying dragon. Nor was the flaming breath or fiery glance of that fabled animal want ing to complete the picture. My eyes, inflamed, bloodshot and glaring, in vested the supposed monster with a full pro portion of unholy light. It would be endless wero I to merely hint at all the fancies that possessed my mind. Every object that waa hideous and roaring presented itself to my im agination. I often thought that I was in a hurricane at sea and that the vessel in which I was embarked tossed under me with tho most furious vehemence. The air, set in motion by the swinging of the bell, blew ovor me nearly with the violence and more than the thundor of a tempest, and the floor seemed to reel under me as under a drunken man. JJut the rooet awful of all the ideas that seized on me were drawn from the su pernatural. In the vast cavern of the bell hideous faces appeared and glared down on me with terrifying frowns or with grinning mockery still more appalling. I found I was becoming delirious, and trembled lest reason should utterly desert me. I feared lest, when utterly deprived of my senses, I should rise—to do which I was every moment tempted by that Itrange feeling which calls on a man whose head is dizzy from standing on the battlement of a lofty castle to pre cipitate himself from it—and then death would be instant and tremendous. When I thought of this I became des perate. I cuught tho floor with a grasp which drove the blood from my nails, and I yelled with the cry of despair. 1 called for help, I prayed, I shouted, but all the efforts of my voice were of course drowned in the bell. As it passed over my mouth it occasionally echoed my cries, which mixed not with its own sound, but preserved their distinct char- I acter. Perhaps this was but fancy. To ' me, I know, they then sounded as if they were the shouting, howling or laughing of the fiends with which my imagina tion had peopled the gloomy cave which swung over me. In twenty minutes the ringing was done. Half of that time passed over me without power of computation—the other half appeared an age. When it ceased I became gradually more quiet, but a new fear retained me. I knew that five minutes would elapse without ringing, but at the end of that short time the bell would be rung a socond time for five minutes more. I could not calculate time. A minute and an hour were of equal duration. I feared to rise lest tho five minutes should have elapsed and the ringing be again commenced, in which case I should bo crushed before I could escape against the walls or framework of the bell. I therefore still continued to lie down, cautiously shift ing myself, however, with a careful gliding, so that my eye no longer looked into the hollow. This was of itself a considerable relief. The cessation of the noise had in a great measure the effect of stupefying me, for my attention, being no longer occupied by the chimeras I had conjured up, began to flag. All that now dis tressed me was the constant expectation of the second ringing, for which, how ever, I settled myself with a kind of stupid resolution. I closed my eyes and clinched my teeth as firmly as if they were screwed in a vice. At last the dreaded moment came, and the first swing of the bell extorted a groan from me, ns they say the most res olute victim screams at the sight of the rack to which he is for a Becond tiino destined. After this, however, I lay Bilent and lethargic, without a thought. When it ceased I was roused a little hy the hope of escape. I did not, how ever, decido on this step hastily, but putting up my hand with the utmost caution I touched the rim. Though the ringing had ceased it was still tremulous from the Bound and shook under my hand, which instantly recoiled as from an electric jar. A quurter of an hour probably elapsed before I again dared to make the experiment, and then I found it at rest. I determined to lose no time, fearing that I might have lain then al ready too long and that the bell for evening service would catch me. This dread stimulated me, and 1 slipped out with the utmost rapidity and arose. I stood, I suppose, for a minute, looking with silly wonder on the place of my imprisonment, penetrated with joy at escaping, but then rushed down the stony and irregular stair with the velocity of lightning and arrived in the bell ringer's room. My hands were torn and bleeding; my hair disheveled and my clothes tattered. I leaned against the wall, motionless and deprived of thought, in which pos ture my companions found me when in the course of a couple of hours they re turned to their occupation.—Black wood's Magazine. Why the Shy 1M Illue. The explanation of the blue of the "vaulted canopy above us" is not to be sought in the fact that the air, or its constituent particlos, reflect the readily refrangible rays of short waved length and let the less refrangible long waved rays through. The short waves of light —the blue color—are much more strong ly reflected than the long waved red ones. Lord Raleigh has proven the blue reflected in the light from the sky to be four-fifths times stronger than the yel low color and six-sevenths times strong er than the red. The violet is six eighths times stronger than the yellow, or about nine-tenths times more intense than the long waves of red light. These relations of intensity must therefore cause the reflected light to appear to be mostly blue. The blue of the Bky is also connected with the phe nomenon known as the polarization of light, that color in the colored waves al ways being polarized in the same direc tion, which is quite independent of the nature of tho turbid particles of the at mosphere. As long as present condi tions exist the sky will be of blue colors of varying intensity.—St. Louis Re public. Persevering. Customer—Waiter, do you remember me? I came in here yesterday and or dered a steak. Waiter—Yes, sir. Will you have the same thing today, sir? Customer—Yes, if no one else is using it.—New York Herald. Tho Top Notoli of Style. Mrs. Hayrick—Mrs. Lawnmo says all the folks at her house is fashionable people. Mrs. Meadow —I guess it's 80. All the Women has dogs, an all th' dogs is sick. —New York Weekly. Pllny'a Giant. Galabra, the giant whom Pliny men tions as having been "brought out of Arabia" during the reign of Claudius, was ten feet high, of fine proportions and weighed upward of 400 pounds.— Million. Borne I)lncoverlM and Inventions. The first patent for sewing machines Was granted to Weiscnthal, in England, in 1755. The steam engine was known 120 B. C. The first perfect engine was made by Watt, 1764. Calico printing was first executed by the Dutch in 1670; first made in Eng land in 1771. The bagpipo, the favorite Scotch and Italian instrument, was invented in Greece 200 B. C. Window glass was used in Italy in churches in the Eleventh century, in English houses in 1557. Gas was first made from coal hy Clay ton, 1739, and was first used for illu mination in 1792. Paper from rags was made in A. D. 1000, the first linen paper in 1319, and from straw in 1800. Chain shot were the invention of De Witt, the great Dutch admiral. They wore first used in 1666. Watches were first made in Nurem bnrg in 1477, and were called "Nurem burg animated eggs." Air brakes were invented by George Westinghouso in 1869, and subsequently often improved. Tile daguerreotype was invented by Daguerre, und the first miniatures were produced in 1838. Playing cards were invented for the amusement of the crazy king, Charles VI, of France, in 1380. Church bells were made by Pauliuus, an Italian bishop, to drive away demons, about 400 A. D.—St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. l'luygroumlM of Bower Blnlit. In Lumholtz's "Among Cannibals" a playground of the bower bird is de- 1 scribed. He says: On the top of tho mountain I heard in the dense scrubs the loud and unceas ing voice of a bird. I carefully ap proached it, sat on the ground and shot it. It was one of tho bower birds, with a gray and very modest plumage and of the size of a thrush. As I picked up tho bird my attention was drawn to a fresh covering of green leaves on the black soil. This was the bird's place of amuse ment. which beneath the dense scrubs formed a square about a yard each way, the ground having been cleared of leaves and rubbish. On this neatly cleared si>ot the bird hail laid large, fresh leaves, one by tho sido of tho other, with considerable reg ularity, and close by ho sat singing, ap parently extremely happy over his work. As soon as the leaves decay they are replaced by new ones. On this ex cursion I saw three such places of amusement all near each other and all had fresh leaves from the same kind of trees, while a large heap of dry, with ered leaves was lying close by. It seems that the bird scrapes away the mold every time it changes the leaves, so as to have a dark background, against which the green leaves make a better appear ance. Can any one doubt that this bird has tho senso of beauty? lift* Are Mueli I.lke Human Ilcltign. Bees do not appear to practice mili tary marauding on a grand scale, like ants, but many of them shamelessly live upon petty larcenies committed individ ually on foreign hives. They may be seen slyly trying to cheat the vigilance of the sentinels, and slip into their neigh bors' cities that they may steal and gorge themselves with the provisions there. Sometimes they even commit highway robbery, lying in wait in small bands near a strange liivo for the return of laden bees and plundering them on the road. The sentinels of the hive, on their side, keep off foreign bees, denying them entrance into the city, and if exasperated by attempts at robbery cluuse the prowl ers and try to kill them. In this bees imitate a great many human societies, whero robbery has seemed the greatest of crimes, expiable only by death.— "Property; Its Origin and Development." j Vegetarianism and Meat Kuting. A curious examination of the heart: of tho vegetarian and the meat eater shows that the number of beats to tho former are fifty-eight to the minute, and of the latter seventy-two. In twenty-four hours this means a differ ence of 20,090 beats. From this it is concluded that in the summer time the vegetarian has the advantage, for he can keep cooler and in better health under the reduced number of heart beats. But in a cold climate, or in out own winters, the heat generated by snob slow heart bents would hardly lie suffi cient to make life strong and resisting enough. Tho true verdict that one must reach is that the vegetarian is better oil in tho summer and the meat eatel stronger in the winter.—Yankee Blade. A Nest of Wll.l Outs. It was while in the river valley that 1 saw on a friend's house wall what was to me the most attractive of all species of oriole architecture—a nest woven from wild oats. Dependent frian stream ers it would have been readily mistaken for an artistic little fancy basket, tho work of human ingenuity, so perfect was its construction. Yet there had been no attempt at alteration since it was borne from the limb of the tree where found swinging, except that now it was suspended by ribbons, while the bird used none.—San Diego Cor. Chris tian Union. An Alarm Attachment. In Liberia there is neither clock nor timepiece of any sort, the reckoning of time lieing guided entirely by tho sun's movement and position. The sun in Liberia rises at 6 a. in. and sets at 6 p. m. almost to the minute all the year around, and at noon it is vertically over head.—Boston Herald. Queer Food. Among the people of Java cockchafers are a favorite food. These admirable economists, the Cliinose, eat the chrysa lids of silkworms ufter the silk has been wound off them, frying them in butter or lard, adding the yoke of an egg or two, and seasoning with pepper, salt I and vinegar.—Table. WASTED LABOR. The Story of an Kdltorial That Was Never Printed. CHAPTER I. "There!" exclaimed Editor Shackelford, of the Perkins Junction Weekly Thunder bolt, leaning hack in his chair, "if that doesn't settle their hash and drive the in famous hounds out of town there's no vir tue in strong English." Editor Shackelford had just written a vigorous article in regard to a traveling auction that had occupied a vacant room on the principal street of the town for three or four days and driven a rushing business, and he felt that he had roasted them in his best and most scientific style. His editorial was as follows: "A peripatetic gang of bloodsuckers from nowhere in particular and carrying n lot of snide and worthless goods, ob tained no one knows how, has infested this community during the week and worked off a lot of cheap jimcracks at more than double their value on the unsuspecting citizens of our town. These irresponsible fakirs, these mercenary vagabonds, these strolling auctioneers pay no taxes, con tribute nothing to the support of Perkins Junction, have no interests in common with our people and deserve to be held as designing interlopers. Under a thin guise of friendliness they carry on a warfare against our best interests. They are public enemies, deserving of universal execration. Shun them as you would a pestilence, a viper, or the raging flames of perdition it self! Touch not a single article these im pudent, tramping invaders have for sale. No man or woman who spends a cent at their miserable one horse auction is n good citizen. If you have any self respect, any public spirit, buy your goods of home merchants and let these cheap, character less, despicable outsiders alone. If you have a drop of patriotic blood in your veins or any just sense of the duty you owe to yourself, your family and the commu nity in which you live, keep away from these Peter Funks, and do not defile your homes with any of the cheap, nasty, worth less 'goods'—heaven save the mark!—they are trying to unload on the good people of Perkins Junction." "I think that will finish them," mused Editor Shackleford as lie read it over. CHAPTER 11. "Jacobs," said the editor as ho put 011 his coat at 6 o'clock p. m. and locked his desk preparatory to starting for home, "is that article I wrote this morning about the auction gang in type?" "Yes, sir," replied the foreman. "Make it the leading article on the edi torial page. When will you be ready to go to press?" "Be ready in fifteen minutes. Going to work off the whole edition this evening. Got a big day's job work to do tomorrow." "All right, Jacobs." CHAPTER 111. "Oh, Lycurgus!" exclaimed Mrs. Shack elford as the editor of the Perkins Junction Weekly Thunderbolt entered his home fifteen minutes later, "I have something to show you!" She took him into the spare room and pointed to a miscellaneous collection of things spread out 011 the bed. "I was coming from down town this afternoon," she said joyously, "and as I j passed the auction room I stepped in to see what they were selling. Did you ever | see such a lovely counterpane? I got it for" "Amanda," said the editor in an awful ' voice, "I" "Wait n minute. You'd never guess J what I paid for it. I got it for £1.75. And I look at those tidies! They only cost me j sixty-five cents! Then see that lot of pa- 1 per and pencils. 1 got them for you, dear. : Only a dollar. Think of it! Look at tliut ! beautiful afghau for the baby carriage, and these towels, and this lot of sewing machine needles, and the box of soap, and 1 that half dozen plated spoons! I never i saw things going so cheap. I got this whole lot for—what's the matter, Lycur gus? Where are you going?" "I am going back, madam," said the editor with a world weary look in his eye, "to the office of The Thunderbolt." CHAPTER IV. "Jacobs!" "Yes, sir." "Have you got the forms locked up?" "Yes, sir." "Unlock them and lift out that editorial 1 about the cheap auction." "Lift it out? What the Sam Hill have we got to put in its place?" "Put in a dead patent medicine ad! Slap in that three dollar shoe electrotype! Fill out the page with Lydia Pink ham! Run in anything!" yelled Editor Shackelford. "Yes, sir," said the imperturbable Ja cobs. And thus it came to pass that the most trenchant editorial ever written in the office of The Thunderbolt was forever lost to the good people of Perkins Junction. TIIE END. —Chicago Tribune. 1 Not Particular. Wife—Are you going to entertain Mr. West at your club when he pays us his promised visit next mouth? I Husband—No, dear, I don't think enough of him. I'll have him at the house.—Club. Too Croat to Hear. I Visitor—What is the history of that pn j tient? He looks so happy, i Warden (of insane asylum)—He is. That man, madam, succeeded in getting a white ! vest that fitted him around the neck, and it made hint insane with joy.—Clothier and Furnisher. Part of the Itlrd. The Young Housewife (to the butcher)— Have you a nice spring chicken this morn ing? "Yes, ma'am." "Well, please cut out the croquettes and Bendtliem to my address."—Chicago News- , Record. They Had Never Met. "You have never met Miss Gotrox's fa ther, have you?" "Never. He overtook me ouce, I re mem- ! bor."—lndianapolis Journal. ' MPORTANT! We will soon commence, in columns, the publication of the Great Composite Hovel, Entitled Bis Fleeting Ideal, The Joint Work of TV. H. BALLOU, ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, MAJ. ALFItEI) C. CALHOUN, ALAN DALE, HOWE & HUMMEL, PAULINE HALL, INSPECTOR BYRNES, NELL NELSON, MAIIY EASTLAKE, .TORN L. SULLIVAN, P. T. BAKNUM, BILL NYE. 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Conway, Ark. ALLEN C. SMITH, Pres., Tho Contaur Company, TT Murray Street, New York City* ■ BRAND CLEARING SALE. ] ONE WEEK ONLY, i i To Make Room for Fall Goods. ! " "We •will clcse cur entire stocl;: ; cf Oxford, ties cut a/t cost. 'j ; GEO. CHESTNUT, 93 CENTRE ST., FREELAND. ; WHAT TO WEAR! WHERE TO GET IT! Two important questions that trouble young men, old men, big boys and little boys. Wo will answer your queries most satisfactorily. We have ready-made clothing to suit men and boys—all styles and all sizes, and everything is just from the manufacturer—as new as new can be. Our stock of gents' furnishing goods— including collars, cuffs and a handsome line of neck wear—is certainly worth examining. Then we have BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, ETC., in such great varieties that no man need leave our es tablishment without a perfect lit. We can rig a man out from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, in such fine style that his friends will be astonished, and the man will also ho astonished at the low cost of anything and everything he will buy of JOHN SMITH , BIRKBECK FREELAN D . Bright Flowers of Spring tand Summer Time are PRETTY MILLINERY r t EFFECTS. like pretty things in new millinery goods. Coino and Fashionable city milliners enables us to give all the "THE NEW YORK." ARE THE VERY LOWEST. Mrs. B. Grimes, Milliner and Dressmaker, CENTRE STREET, BELOW FRONT. JOB PRINTING OF ALL KINDS DONE AT THE TRIBUNE OFFICE.