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PERPETUAL MOTION.
A PATENT ATTORNEY TELLS THE
STORY OF A CURIOUS CASE.
An Old Man in a Fever of Invention
Following the Will-’o-the-Wisp of
Perpetual Motion—A New Mechanical
Principle- Winning a Case by Making
Butter.
From the Washington S'tar.
“Do you have many ‘perpetual motion’
cranks nowadays?” asked a reporter of a
prominent patent attorney, at IViliiard’s
Hotel last night. “Not many,” was the re
ply. “I have had only one or two in my
experience. One of them was a very sin
gular case. It happened quite a while ago.
One day, while I was sitting at one of my
spare desks examining a patent ease, the
door opened and in walked three men in
Indian file. They were queer-looking fel
low's. The first was a tall, gaunt, gray
bearded and gray-haired man, dressed in
old-fashioned black clothes, covered by a
long linen duster. The second was a short,
fat, chunky’ fellow, a countryman, appar
ently, and neighbor of the old fellow. The
third man evidently belonged to this city’.
Probably he picked the other two up, or
happened to know what tiiey were after, and
so brought them to mo. Well, when they
got inside the door, the old fellow stalked
over in military fashion in my direction.
When he got directly opposite me lie turned
rightabout, and, walking up to my desk,
drew a long and large roll of paper from
under his arm. He handed it to me, say-
ing:
“ ‘Well, sir, what do you think of that:’
Si “I took the roll, opened it, and after look
ing over its contents for a few minutes, dur
jag which the old fellow stood as silent as
the grave, 1 said :
E“ ‘lt appears to me to be a perpetual mo
urn device.’
P*“ ‘That’s just what it is, sir. That’s just
What it is. I knew y’ou would see it in a
gfeinute,' said the old man with a grin.
A PRIVATE CONFERENCE.
B“The old man then looked around to
where my draftsmen were sitting, an inter-
Ktod spectator of tho scene. He motioned
Sjjently with one hand to my private office,
Seting as if he wanted to speak of things he
fmd not wish overheard. Wall, into my of-
Kv the three walked. When they got in
•ale the slwrt man closed the door and then
Hpvod against it, so t hat the draftsmen could
afcit get in. The old gentleman then asked
me what I could do for him. I inquired of
him in reply if he hail a model of lus inven
tion. He drew out of one of his pockets
three combs with con volutes on them. I
took them in my hand for a moment, and
then I told the old fellow that frankly I
could notget him a patent for perpetual
motion. The thing, as you know, is a chest
nut, and unless we could make some practi
cal demonstration of the invention in the
Patent Office the examiners there would
throw it out and laugh at me for m>’ pains.
But the old gentleman peristed that he
wanted it patented, even though 1 told him
time and again that it was utterly useless;
that there had never Ijeen and never could be
such a device invented. However, I saw that
the mechanical principle involved in a part,
of the thing was radical and totally new,
and I thought that 1 might get him a
patent for that. I toil him so. He wouldn’t
hear of it at first, but finally, after his com
panions hail persuaded him that it would be
best to let me protect him in that respect,
■nd that he could hereafter obtain a patent
a the rest, the old fellow consented.
READY WITH HIS CASH.
“He then asked me what was my’ fee. I
oid him that $5 was all I asked to make a
ireliminary examination to see whether the
hing had already been patented. But lie
vasn’t satisfied with this He wanted me to
ipply for the patent any’how, and so I told
urn that I would require $o() —$15 for the
Patent, Office fee and $35 for myself—to
start the thing. He never said a word,
but, putting his hand into an inside
locket, he pulled out an old leather pouch
luffed full of money. He took a SSO bill
ut and handed it to me. It, was then Nat
.rday, and the old man told me that he was
jniug back to Arkansas, and that, as lie had
ibout eighty miles of staging to do after he
‘eft the railroad he couldn't possibly get to
>is home before the following Wednesday or
'hursday. Now, although I had taken the
I'eeof soo from the old man, I had no in-
Jiention of hurrying the matter up, because
thought he was crazy, and therefore
■bought that the bare fa and of his knowing
■that the ivention was then on its way
Ehrough the Patent Office would satisfi v liim
■aid keep him quiet for a time. Ho, just as
Khey left the office, I called the short man
■bock, and said to him that I intended to hang
nbc patent up in my office for some time.
|Well, that
LET THE CAT OUT
SStf the hag. He told me that it was a put
£*p job on the old man; that ho had been a
r prosjs>rous dentist in a country town down
ui Arkansas when he got the idea into his
’’■end of inventing pciqietunl motion From
Hint time he gave up business—everything—
‘‘Msl devoted ail his time and niou y to his
coition. He said also that (luring the
Hirec years the old fellow had worked on it
Hint he had not had on any night more
tbun three hours sleep, and that his friends,
Buli/Jng his condition, sent, him on in the
ur>pe that once he got the thing before the
gfifiic" he would forget all about it. 1 saw
HBainlv that if the old man worked another
lax months over it lie would have to lie put
n an insane asylum. Well, the old man
went home, and do you know that before
the fallowing Thurwlav I got an allowance:
Ves, sir: They gave him a ]intent on it. I
expected, you know, that after 1 had com
pleted the preliminaries they would give me
eome references, and by’ this means 1 could
delay the affair as long as f pleased. But
no! ’lt went through without a hitch, and
tardly had tiie old man got to his home lie
ore my letter telling him alsnit it must
lave reached him.
“What then happened Ido not know. 1
have often wondered since what the old man
did, and whether he was finally locked up
in on insane asylum.”
A SINGULAR CASK.
“I suppose you have had mntiy other sin
gular case-i," said tile reporter.
“Any quantity of them, - ’ replied the at
torney. "1 had a case not long ago. An in
ventor living way lia<k in the country wreto
me that lie wanted to get out a patent on a
churn. The feature of the invention was
that at the time the cream was claimed the
butter made was collected in the churn by
a peculiar motion in churning. But the
man had not Hie happy faculty of express
ing himself on pajier with clearness, and so
when he wrote personally fora patent they
threw the thing out of tile office. Ikvhusc
they could not understand it. Well, one
night I Imught a gallon and a half of cream,
and after 1 got home I got, out the churn
and poured the cream into it 1 churned
away for about ten minutes and then haul
ing up the h<l I saw about three pounds of
butter nicely packed against one side of the
chum. When I presented the case to the
examiner he again threw it out, hut I np-
Imoled to tht> Ixiard, because I was satisfied
that, it was a practical idea. When the day
came for me to demonstrate the theory, I
gut tiie Mime amount of cream, awl, using
the humic mean*, produced u similar result.
The 1 sinnl were astonished The examiner,
who was present, was more so, and nuked me
to elucidate the theory for Ids benefit. 1
Void him 1 did not know any more than he
now it was done. The elf cot was; produced
by the motion of the eraaiu in tin-churn, as
i told von When churned It was sent from
one side to tho other, and then 1 nick to the
centre, ami 1 never saw butter pa -kml more
neatly fu my life. Why it d'd not lea''
•ven decent buttermilk
"iHm’t you know of sons' way of pre
venting curs and life from l**ing iUtroy<sl
by lire fi-om overturned stoves in i'uflro*d
ti> .rloiit*'" asked Uie repot b-r.
“If I did,” c*na< the reply. In u very dry
bale, “1 Would quit the |MbHt busiliew
Wu. they’ve Uiod a good many way*, but
I none suit. Tf they heat a car by steam,
j were the pipes to burst you run the risk of
I being scalded to death. If you heat by a
! stove, the coal will set the car on fire if it
j upsets. They have tried the plan of at
! taehing a heating car to a train, but that is
utterly and absolutely impracticable. If
they use chemicals to generate heat they
rim I tell but that at any minute the car may
lie shot up into the air. The man who in
vents such a contrivance as will prevent all
this has got an enormous fortune in his
hands. .Sure, too.”
CURED BY FAITH.
.-A
How William Wood Was Healed of
Acute Rheumatism.
From the Cincinnati Timex-Star,
Cincinnati lias another faith cure. It is,
too, a case which cannot be doubted. Wil
liam Wood, a trusted and valued employe
of the John Shillito Company, is the one
who was healed. At present he is in the
dress gisxis department. He has been en
gaged in this line of merchandising and is
well known in Cincinnati.
Mr. Wood is a devout mom tier of the
Walnut Hills Methodist church, now in
ministerial charge of Rev. John J. Reed,
formerly of St. Paul's. Mr. Wood resides
at No. 57 Crown street, Walnut Hills, is a
married man with a family, is aged proba
bly 53 years, and is altogether a worthy
moral gentleman, who has a high position
in the estimation of his employers and
acquaintances. He is also a leader of the
church choir, and is prominent in church
work.
Talking to a reporter, while he seems to
hoof a rather nervous, enthusiastic dispo
sition, still he was tempered by the apparent
candor, truth and veracity of a cautious,
practical man. Thus it, can lie seen alleged
facts related by Mr. Wood cannot be very
easily controverted. Moreover, Mr. Wood
had no idea that he tvas talking to a news
paper man, but rather a chance acquaint
mice under introduction of a mutual friend.
Far the past ten years Mr. Wood lias been
the subject of the most violent and painful
attacks of rheumatism of the sciatic kind,
tf Day and night and for almost endless
hours without absolute cessation has Mr.
Wood pursued his daily walk, suffering
great mental and physical anguish. <if
course his place in life has been determined
by the insidious disease, the degree of which
was proscribed only by atmospheric condi
tions of the most favorable kind. Unable
to perform that degree of work his active
nature longed to do, he was finally’ obliged
to content himself by some employment
that did not impose a task upon his physical
energies.
His infirmity, too, brought another ail
ment probably as serious us the attending
pain. In order to ease his stiffened, swollen
joints and limbs he adopted a sort of halting
walk, upon which, by common consent, he
was given letters patent, and thus all these
years the unfortunate man has walked his
humble way veritably a victim of a most
unkindly fate.
Mr. Wood’s only consolation in all those
years lias been an undiminished faith in the
doctrine of Christ and his teachings. Let
his affliction he ever so great he was always
at his post of religious duty in the church
and Sunday school, expounding the cause
he loved so truly and well. Experience was
beginning to tell him he would get no rest
until lie had paid the debt, to nature, and
while apparently resigned to his fate, lii.s at
tention was attracted to several published
reports of cures by faith. This gave him an
idea.
He had always prayed, but not with the
proper understanding and will. So he at.
once bared his soul to (rod and prayed as he
never had before. His devout wife, too,
joined in his fervent petitions to the t hrone
of grace. He discontinued the use of all
medicines, and did nothing for liis affliction
but pray. A year passed, still there was no
abatement of liis pain; but not at all dis
couraged, the husband and wife prayed as
hard and earnestly as at first.
Now Mr. Wood can take up the thread
and relate his remarkable experience of last
Sunday morning. As usual, accompanied
by his wife, lie was sitting in church. As
w ill be remembered the day was unusually
damp, rainy and chilly. Suddenly he says
lie felt a peculiar movement in liis lower
limbs, lie cannot express better than a feel
ing ns though a band was being pressed
down his limbs pushing the pain before it
until it left his perron at his toes. He sat
dumfounded for several minutes and ex
perienced a similar sensation. Hardly dar
ing to tell his wife ho cautiously moved his
limbs fiisst one way and then that.
To his surprise his limbs were capable of
motion without pain for the first time in
years. After church ho walked U>:no
straighten than for years, and maybe there
wasn’t great rejoicing in the Wood home
stead when the joyous fact was known j
Yesterday at work Mr. Wood M’as as lively as
n kitten, and said that he thought ho could
walk five miles.
t The news of his remarkable cui’e spread
rapidly among his fellow employes, and the
floor walkers, to test lus new powers, would
call him from one room to the other to see
him walk. As yet he seems to feel rather
weak from the effects of bis ten veal's’ con
finement with disease, but expects in a few
(lays to be as well as anybody. Certainly
the case is a remarkable one and is attract
ing much comment among his friends.
“EXCELSIOR” REJECTED.
An Editor Who Wouldn’t Give sl4
for It.
//. F. H. in the Critic.
In 1830-401 was editor of the Ladies' Com
panion. a monthly magazine published in
New York, by an ignorant, profane, con
ceited fellow, whom l had indiscreetly en
gaged to serve by letter, without previous
sight or knowledge of him. He had a stac
cato stutter, which, as his itnp"tuou.s nature
led him to talk with great rapidity, punctu
ated his speech in a very distressing way,
the accompanying contortions of liis i omite
nance increasing the peculiar effect. 1
learned on entering his service that ising
fellow, then but a literary fledgling, had
agreed to furnish the Companion with oc
casional short poems, at the rote of ;<I4
each; and one morning, as I entered the
office in William street, tile publisher bulled
in 1 from liis desk near Fee door with,
“L-l-l-look here, H ; s-s-s-see what a
(l-d-d-(l—d piece of nonsense Js'iigfellovv has
sent me! Je-je-je-jnst p-t ato this."
Then lie proceeded to read tin first stanza
of the poem, his indigent ion and oft-recur
ring stutter uniting m a display of elocution
the like of which, wc may safely presume,
the Ivric has never since been the subject of.
But it was on the viOrel "Excelsior,” of the
meaning of which lie had not the slightest
conception, that lie vented the full volume
of his wrath. Pronouncing it ‘‘Ex-shell
sliioi !” lie uttered it with an extirresion of
withering contempt. “There," he said (I
omit the stuttc’ing), "did you ever hear of
anything equal to that; Nov just listen to
another verse!” Then li< rend the second
stanza as he had done flic first, and passion
ately tolding the manuscript, said: "1 won
der if ingfellow thinks he can gouge sl4
out of mu for such a piece of d—il trash as
that! I’m not. such a tool, I eon tell him,
and i’ll send it back and give him a piece of
my mind.”
“Buchu-Paibu."
Quick, complete cure, all annoying kid
ney, bladder und urinary diseases, ifl. At
druggist*
"Rough on Bile" Pillu.
Hmnll granules, small (lane, big results,
pleasant in operation, don’t disturb the
stomach. !oc. and 2.5 c.
“Rough on Dirt.”
Ak for “Rough ou Dirt." A perfart
washing powiler found at la*t! A Imriiiless
extra fine AI article, par*' mid clean, nm -I
elm, fivsls’iis, Ideuelim uud wlilb'ire vvitliout
-liglHcal injury to filetubric I 'uoiirP.-d
f(*t fits* tilii'iui and laces, g ueriil h"ira Gikl,
kitchen mi l 111uildly I* - ISofbiix water,
saves Ini vr ami sail. Aditcd u> slarcli pie
Vents v'How ins’. file.. (Tie. sinusitis
THE MORN I Mix INKYVS: {SUNDAY, AERIE 24, 1887—Tu ELVE PAGES.
LITERARY AND OTHER WOMEN.
Some Interesting Facts About Them
and. Their Mode of Life.
New York, April 23.—Mrs. M.
I<ouise Thomas, Jennie June’s successor
in the Presidency of Sorosis, will
this summer rent, instead of occupying, her
farm. Mrs. Thomas has ixvn known so long
os tho “woman funner of Tacony” that it
will seem odd to picture her in other sur
roundings. Her title has never been a very’
exact one, however, for the Manse at Tacony
contains but twenty acres or thereabouts of
cleared land altogether, and has never ad
mitted of very extended agricultural opera
tions. The place is in reality a summer
home bought by Mr. Thomas, a retired
clergyman of the Universalist Church, some
yeans before his death; but, small as it is,
Mrs. Thomas made it a wonderful example
of the results to he accomplished by a
woman’s practical sense and business skill.
Her herd of Aldernevs, though a small one,
contained some of the best stock in the coun
try, her horses were thoroughbred Morgans,
and her bees —Mrs. Thomas is one of the
most successful beekeepers in the Union—
made her 10,000 pounds of honey in a year.
I put my verbs m the jxist tense, for all
these things are no more. Mrs. Thomas was
burned out last November Enough the care
lessness of some tramp who found access to
her barn. She does not < are to Is'gin el the
•starting point of her efforts a second time,
and will live in New York city in future at a
pretty spot she has bought beyond tho
Harlem at Fordham.
Mrs. Mary L. Barr, who is making herself
know as a writer of Scotch dialect stories,
hardly touched pen to paper up to the age
of .it. She lost her husband, who vvas
Military Governor of Texas, and seven
children in the space of twenty-four help’s
from yellow fever, and found herself left
with four little ones mid 50c. on her hands.
In course of time she drifted, as everybody
drifts nowadays, to New York and became
a governess in ttie family of one of A. T.
Stewart's partners. Her first tale, which
was writen at the request and to gratify the
whim of her employer, dealt with life in the
old days in Te xas and found a publisher
with ease, tslie has gone on writing with
progressive rapidity sincenr.dher exuberant
vitality defies time. Energy throbs in her
every movement and there is overflowing
life in the nodding of the bows in the bonnet
on her head.
Mi s Alice Freeman, the President of
Wellesley College, is a young woman whom
most of her sex look iqioii ns born under a
lucky star. With her erect figure, dark hair,
big brown eyes, and the glow in her cheeks,
she looks the embodiment of nineteenth cen
tury womanhood, conscious of strength, re
joicing in new opportunities, and eager to
put her just realized powers to runnl'.
Miss Freeman is a graduate of Michigan
University, as are so many of the tcacm
and slice! sslul women workers of the day.
Asa woman her infiirmce over other women
is marked. Professors and students of
Wellesley alike are loyal to her, and com
mencement visitors have odd experiences
now and then when they seek the President’s
room of an evening cud find a disconsolate
graduate or two sobbing away in the dark
ness over a forgotten glove or a bit of luce,
while the unconscious owner is enjoying the
festivities of the hour somewhere outside.
The trust.' s of Columbia College at their
centennial jubilation last week conferred
the degree of Doctor of Letter* upon Annjiiu
B. Edwards and upon Miss Freeman and
ttiai of Doctor of I.awsupon Maria Mitchell
Professor of Asti ouoipy at Vassar College.
11l these honors tho women were associated
with such men as Andrew I). White, George
William Curtis, George Bancroft, Chief
Justice Waite, Mayor Hewitt, of New
York, and others not less eminent. Truly the
world moves and even the most conserva
tive of institutions are thrust forward,
though halting with an unwilling step by its
motion.
Miss Clara Barton, of Red Cross fame, is a
Massachusetts wi *an, a daughter of one of
“Mad Anthony Wovne’s” old soldiers. They
say that she organized the first public school
ever started in Bonleiitowr N. J.,andsjie
was a copyist in the Patent Office at Wash
ington for some years before the war. The
first gun of the civil war brought l*er to the
front, and in the work of the fianitary Com
mission none was more devoted in tho field.
Slio spent the last cent she pisses*! in
organizing a bureau of records of missing
men of the armies, and s<> useful did it prove
that Congress voted her $15,000 for services
to the government.,*' As President of the
Red Cross Society, whose ensign waves over
America, Europe and the best part of Asia,
she is- the only woman living at the head of
n philanthropic scheme of any such magni
tude. standing us it does for world-wide
ls‘neficence on wheels. Miss Barton’s gift
for organization reverses the order of talent
usually ascribed to her sex. She has few
equals in mapping out a plan as a compre
hensive whole, while many a lesser mortal
can put her to utter rout, in the mm .ligament
of details. Miss Barton’s figure is a
contradictory one. Who lisiks massive; sue
is on closer view as slender and lithe as a
youug girl. *
Mrs. Lucy C. Lillie dictates all that she
writes to stenographers, two of whom she
has at her service, one in the morning and
one in the afternoon each day. Mi’s. Lillie
does not look like a woman with work
enough on her hands for children’s storii :
and grown-up people’s stories to drive one
wild, it would seem, between now and full.
She is a smooth browed, unruffled looking
woman, with hazel eyes and an ure
anxious way. Mis. Lillie is one of
the literary women who are famous
housckeeiiers us well, and she makes tor tin
t hree' children she has adopted the coziest ol
Lome's.
Mrs. Lillie Chace Wyman, the author of
“Poverty Grass." whom one meets in New
York now and them, is u quiet, gentie-man
liered htt’.e woman with (lark hair and eve*
and ' cry ; hy of any reference to lie'r literary
efforts or successes.
Mrs. May Riley Smith, who has one of the
sweetest voices among the choir of mfaor
imets, is the Sixrctary of Sorereis and, per
haps, its most popular member as well. Slk
is one of the few women who know howto
dress themselves so as to lie artistically
pleasing without attracting notice by depart
ing too far from the iron-clad rules that the
conventionalities lav down. With her oval
1 kh'and brown hair. : lightly grayish now,
she looks like a wcll-bal uicid wwniau and
suggests the poet that h ■ is.
Miss burned, whose quaintly suggestive
jwpers “On the Roundabout Road" have
been collected in Imok form within u few
weeks past, has wrieteu her glimpses of
country living and old-time country think
ing shut uj> in a city boarding-house, under
tin iiisjiirutiou of modern stone pavements
and brie!: walls.
Mrs. Ah'rey Sage Richardson, whose lec
tun-on English literature have made her a
familiar figure Hast and West, kisqis n jilen
mint home on Fifty-eighth street. New York,
where she pusses much of the summer, und
where one is always sure of meeting in
teresting | ■conic.
lire Kate I | von Clarke is another woman
author un<l journal;st who is ns proud of her
kitchen os of her library In her Brooklyn
menage, with the "help of one servant, she
has been known to spread a course lunch
for a t>nrty of guests which kept them vmie
four hem sand a half at tahle, and which,
t!w> salads excepted, was of doiiit*stie maim
Picture, w ith |Sirxloniil)le pride she assured
them, in ev cry single particular.
Mrs. Dur.int, the widow of the founder of
Wellcslcv, is one of the most active womiui
in Boston, dividing her time lietwenn the
Youug Men's Christum Association, the
money fo>- whose large building came in
large pun from hcl’lsKiket, und the interests
ol the girls at the ixillege, to wluiki well
living sin. is dcvi it"!,
(•live Thorne Miller, the |ss'tix, hus a
(luukliU"' who lure proved a dechlisl suixxis
in New York society this winter Miss Miller
is a tail ; 1. 1, slender, with brown hull’ and
an expix si ve e, w hose winsome VV li VS aisl
gift of ixiiivi-resatioii nuike her n lavorit*
w herever she go*
G>r|* VVilUam 'ui t is. daughter, Klizu
!-t i, llilei I*l - licreeU d<s id<*lly In Me' work
lIU Kiris, w> i jatlllguWiel from tie* voting
hales of h isure, und lax blllst'sf tho*' of
Bt it**it island into a Woi'l'iiri Woman
Guild, with reading imme. library ami
pleasant evening recreations, which are
showing themselves of decided practical
good.
Mrs. Champney, who wrote “Three \ as
sar Girls.” and who is the wife of Mr. J.
Wells Ohampuev, the iirtist, has a couple of
interesting little folk-as bright as her books,
though unluckily for the girls’ college one of
them is a bov.
Black laec handkerchiefs for evening wear
are the gallants’ latest whim. It is a .signifi
cant fact that, while the dress of women is
becoming in many ways more plain and
sensible, a decided tendency toward more
extravagance in color and cut of garb is
noticed among the sterner sex. Fancy
figured vests of gaudily colored silk or
worsted, shoes of patent leather with “loud”
cloth tops and fancy figured shirts are
among the season’s features in men’s fash
ions. Vigorous attempts are tieing made to
modify the uniform ugliness of the tradi
tional “evening dress," and the domain of
the knee breeches is extending. Our beaux
do not yet wear bangles like those of Lon
don, but an excess of other jewelry is often
seen and such accessories as canes and
gloves are of the most Jiowy description.
Is the time coming again when men of
elegant leisure shall vie with women in
the brilliance of their attire, the soft
ness of their lace and the glitter of their
jewelry?
Where do tiie missing gil ls of a big city
go to.' One hundred and fifty men and
woman in .search of lost girls of 20 have
made sorrowful pilgrimage in the lust i w
weeks from New York and Brooklyn to
look on the dead face of that murdered
woman at Rahway, dreading to recognize in
her discolored feature s those of wife, sister
or child. The record of missing women
is a startling one, and few of them are ever
found. N
A curious instance of the altered ideas of
the times with regard to the limits of
woman’s sphere is to be found in the fact
that searc-ly an impoi taut sale of reel estate
is now held at the New York Real Estate
Exchange-—a pademomuin of noise and con
fusion, by the way, beside which even the
Stuck Exchange is tame—at which women
ure not present, and often among the shrewd
est bidders in person or by proxy. Some
times thej take refuge on the platform; but
quite as often hold their own in the surging,
howling crowd. E. P. H.
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.
How a Valuable Stone Went up Sev
eral Thousand Per Cent.
From the Memphis Avalanche.
The suddciiest rise m values—from “ordi
nary” to “fair” and a long shot beyond,
“middling”—w as witnessed oil ’change yes
terday morning.
About the hour of noon, when spirits of
the earth, earthy, are abroad, a “fly”
youug Miller stepped into one of the de
liai talents of the Cotton Exchange building
behind a diamond breastpin that flashed
to-c tto. noble Six Hundred at Tennyson’s
Balnklava,
u, am.* in less than no time that flash
ing diamond was the cynosure of all eyes in
the room. All at once up sjjoke a gentle
man, the inibiLs of whose name are Col.
Seth W. Green, and, say* Col. Grcc-u, sezee:
“Whu’-’J you get it.’"
“Hot Springs, replied the young Millet,
one of tne lui Hk'omcst gentleman in the
city—for his size e ud the size of the city).
“I'll give yer dodar’u a half for it," said
Col. Green, who has an olf-eye for business
that needs no specs’. (That is, his eyes need
no spec.)
“Won’t take it,” grunted the diamond
owner.
“Tvvo’n a half,” added the Colonel.
“Nottenuff,” smiled the Miller.
“I’ll give you fi\ c,” p: otested Col. G., go
ing the full distance of u single leap.
“The pin’s yours,” said the owner, gentlv
unlimbering the diamond and bonding it
over to Col. Green, who transferred a bran
new 55 bill in exchange.
After a few minutes in stepped Maj.
Charles Palmer.
“i':i give f > ior that pin,” said Charley.
“Won’t take it,” grunted Green.
“Give you ten,” added Charles.
“Nottenuff," smiled the Colonel.
“Say ten,” Mr. Palmer persisted.
“GY*ay from here,” sang out Seth, be
ginning to wonder what magic wand had
in so short a time metamorphosed a Hot
Springs stone into a diamond valuable in
the eyes of a regular diamond merchant,
and one of the best judges of precious stones
in the country.
“I’ll give you twenty,” Mr. Palmer con
tinued.
“ Won’t take it,” said the Colonel.
“Twenty live,” the diamond merchant
came back.
“Say thirty and the pin's youra,” con
cluded the purchaser, not ready knowing
whether tiie latter was in earnest or not.
But he was, and the bargain was closed
then and there. The original owner will
feel like he had let a biid go when he reads
this report, but the event, or the series of
everts, happened just as recorded. It is not
unlikely the pin is worth somewhere in the
neighborhood of SIOO, since Mr. Palmer so
readily paid such a large per cent, on “first
cost." From this time forth Hot Springs
diamonds will be quoted “strong” in Mem
phis. The gentleman of whom Mr. Green
liousi* t th" pin puid only $1 50 for it a few
months ago.
Hanging* a Woman in Eniyland.
From the Poll Mail (lazcite.
The execution of E!i*sl>e' i it *rry, con
victed of the murder of liar daughter at <)id
ham, took place <>n Monday at Walton
jail, Liverpool. Horry was the execu
tioner. Thu wafYold was erected over a
deep pit specially made in n shed in the
prison y..rd. Thu convict having hern pin
ioned, the procession to the scuiTold me im
mediately i'onned, bended liy the chaplain.
The convict came next, with her eyes closed
an 1 supported by two in irnle warders. On
turning the corner which drought her in
view ol rho scaffold she opened her eves and
appeared to faint away. She was hurried
forward the few remaining paces, and
quickly placed under the 1 .tin. The chap
lain read the usual servin', to which the un
happy woman made hie responses in rn
audible voice. Kite <■•'••• • apolte some addi
tional words, which, however, e-edd not he
heard at the short distance front the srafT' Id
at which tile repornus s. . : tie I .111*, was
drawn and the woman fell out of sight.
Thu i eporters were at one l beckoned to ap
proach, and it wus seen thn* the I* sly v.a*;
hanging almost motionless, nor did any
niuvulur eouviilt-ions of a pronounce l kind
take place. The doctors descended lito well
by a ladder and took the usual observations
oi' the pulse. The chaplain who was after
wards as I.as l r.. to the words use Iby the
culprit on the scaffold said th* y were: “May
(rod forgive Dr. Patterson." The same n
rnr.i k she lad made during the proeeas of
pinioning. The convict, being a small and
tight woman, waa given a drop of six feet
ix inches. The chaplain states that tile
culprit was very attentive to his ministra
tions, liut she declared her innocence to the
Inst.
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On
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For indigestion and foul stomach take
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For sick and nervous headaches take Lem
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A GIRL OF NERVE.
Athletic Sports and How to Dress for
Them.
New York, April 23.—Yesterday, from
the deck of a ferryboat crossing the East
river, I saw a young girl in a canoe. She
was alone in the cockleshell'* which pitched
about merrily in the chop of an East river
tide. It was high noon and the long double
paddle glanced in the sunshine as tho self
possessed sailor picked her way through
the procession of tugs, running under the
bridge and heading for the battery. Shades
of her grandmother. That good dame had
nerves, but this little lady had nerve.
Good sirs and ladies fair, the girl of the
day has muscles. Mayhap she can stir to
gether a pudding or sew up a seam. Per
haps she reads Browning, jierhaps she is a
metaphysician, or a theosopbist—Heaven
help her—not unlikely she flirts a bit or
coquettes, but her da irity wrists are set with
springs of steel.
One day a couple of weeks ago there was
a bicycle seen leading against a little stone
church uptown. A tricycle stood by its side
and fifteen more bicycles were stacked ou
the cliurch green. The owners of the vehi
cles were attending the marriage of a wheel
man and a wheel-woman inside.
Presently out came the bride and
groom, both in fresh club colors .".nd
wheeled away on their marriage trip for a
two hundred miles spin. It would have
looked more sociable to the ordinary eye if
they had ridden a tandem, but the time may
come in the course of their partnership when
their steeds will suit each other's paces better
than now.
The tricycle will be ridden this summer
much more extensively by women than has
been the case in any year before. For one
tiling the machine is an expensive foible
and it has taken it some time to make its
way. It is heavier than the bicycle, too,
anil a little unfair to the weaker sex in
handicapping it at the start in point of
speed. In spite of these disadvantages, how
ever—and they are not nearly so noticeable
as in the lumbering things that went by the
same name a half dozen years ago—the
tricycle, and especially the improved tandem
that allows husband and wife or lover and
lass to ride together is gaining ground
rapidly, and Mr. and Mrs. Pennell will find
many imitators in their vacation trips ou
the wheel.
Tricycling is an exercise that calls for a
special dress. Nobody who has been t hrough
tne dusty and oily experiences of wheel hie
will think of disputing that fact. The
gown worn by the experienced is always of
a medium weight woolen material, and in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred is quiet
and unconspieuou- in color. English women
choose almost without excenrion a flannel
or merino combination of ordinary walking
leiigui with overuress made as sinijny a
- loose trousers to match the dress
in color, black woolen stockings, Norfolk
jacket, straw hut, a club ribbon and a free
and substantial walking boot. American
women, as a rule, have not yet adapted the
trousers, hut wear a skirt ot shghuy <influ
ent cut. The dress used by the women riders
in Central Park this spring shows a skirt
without back drapery, but ornamental as
the wearer's fancy chooses in front. For
length it is like the usual pro
menade dross, hut lias a slope of
about thre e inches behind to pre
vent lifting by the saddle at tho back. For
head gear one should choose a small light
weight cap of the same color as the dress, or
on along trip or a parade a ventilated helmet.
t£id gloves ure out of order. Silk and linen
or lisle thread ore the only things allowed on
the wheel. For underwear the same rules
that govern the boating dross hold; flannel
next the skin, no corset or crinoline and as
lew skirts as may lx'.
Canoeing has not grown to be a favorite
sport with women us yet, but, like tricycl
ing. its day is yet to come. The successor of
the birch Gai k is a toy so dainty ami withai
an instrument so true that it is impossible
to make its acquaintance without falling
prostrate liefore its charms. Girls at the
summer resorts not infrequently show them
selves good oars women, but if they knew
the bewitchments of the paddle they would
not fash themselves long with the oar. The
tandem canoe that enables the skipptr to
ship a stout young man for the voyage is
tiie only variety in which a woman often
trusts herself in the salt water tides about
New York, but on a smaller river than the
Hudson or bv a lake side the ten-pound
“bucktails” that the Adirondack trappers
somelaues employ and that. skuii over
the water almost of their own volition are
the ideal vessels for a solitary maidenly
cruise.
'there are always women—good sailors
some of them—at the annual canoe meets at
the Thousand Islands, and the canoeists of
Now York are building this spring an ex
tension for feminine use to their clubhouse.
Canoeing is an active sport or a lazy one, es
you choose to make it; and whether my Indy
lies mi a cushion in the bottom of the craft
and reads a novel in the shadow of the sail,
or whether she loves the grip of the
paddle too well to resign it altogether to
masculine hands, a boating gown is, 01
ought to tie, a sine qua non of her summer'. ,
enjoyment.
Tiie canoeing dress and yachting gown for
practical purposes are one. Ability to stand
water and a disposition to keep themselves
out of the way are the essentials of both.
Miss Brittania is apt tabe a little more sen
sible in some ways than kliss Columbia:
that i.< to say, she eight the res; >• 1 ive r*
warns of con fort and appearances, audit
the odds ure not too great , comfort carries
the day. In a word, Miss Brittania go-.,
aboard in a blouse or loose jacket, at-raigl.t
skirts and short ones. too. Miss Cohunbia
has a quick eye to tiie beauties of a triiu
v.uist and graceful draperies, and takes her
comfort out in looking well. The English
way is the hotter one, it items to me. mas
much as the gowns jnay 1 just as pretty.
For material, ilunnrl is better lor fresh
water than salt. There If; nothing that will
stand a (lash of the brine without growing
stiff, discolored and uncomfortable, except
a fine close serge that one can only hit on now
and then. For color, two combinations will
reign this year. The immemorial blue, not
trimmed with the equally immemorial white
braid, but embroidered with a stout white
silk cord, and a dark brown with n tint of
red in it, brightened with streaming ribbons
of rod.
When tennis was introduced into this
country a dozen vears ago it was seized
upon at once as the pretty girls' own game.
It is a pretty pastime and becoming to lioth
sexes alike. Aleu nave a clmnce to air their
rare Coquetries and their ofttimes superb
physical development; girls to show as in no
other way their delicate figures, graceful
ways and rosy latigliing faces. Tenni i gowns
have undergone few changes this spring?
Wliil ♦ now. us ever, the favorite color.
One can take more solid cs m'ort, though, in
a tan color, dust; or com, un l make ttier
poses—if that is any object—on tie g asm
well. Artistic combinations of blu a, ns.
mis and browns suggest- tlu-nisolvis -tuiily
enough to the ingenious girl's imagination
mid redound to her eredit in September an
well us June.
The tennis gown is tllieral in its rules for
the making, and calls only for sleeve, large
enough not to cut at the elbow, a waist
bread enough ill the buck to allow full use
of the arms in tunning, skirts that arc light,
and dmi>ery. if auv, liigh enough to allow
full use of th • liinln* in running. Tin- low
tennis shoes am belter than the high ones,
giving greater freedom ta the -aiikl-w for
that light jump in the air that so often do
teat* the prof' suoiuti accuracy of the anus
in overluuui or uu'tai liand service. For u/i
--dcrclotiiilig lh" Ichm of it tile I letter. A thin
silk pet newt that will not allow the skids
tooling mu-oral irtablv will olten save an
awkward fall. Corsets, it without sit v
ing, laid la-tter not lie than !*•. A mail's
tenuis soil is enough to lirfve n woman wild
with envy. How a light-footed girl oould
fly nUrnt the tcnius enirt if it were meet
and priHier for Ist to appear ill long sloes
ing*, w hite kiiickerlsM.'ie is, a red no t white
Ll-aiw and u silk JiM'ktty l ap. However,
that'* neither hare nor tie*i 1 lie set
feminine must put up with It. kiu Nations
and U- gla i that II he. loe'e 1 if I ..a to
lit e out of duo
JCL i'irtKA M h. *r-M.
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ATLANTA. G A.. LI.S. A.
"* ' Tor Sale liyMlDragged
LIVING WITNESSES.
DAWSON, GA., Dec. 7, ISSS.
For fully nine years I had catarrh. For five years I had it in the very worst form, howob
noxious that is I need not recount. I was under treatment of one of the most celebrated eye, ear
and throat physicians in the United States, but he was unable to do me any good. In despair I
resorted to numerous patent medicines that I saw advertised, but with no avail. Finally, about
six months ago. I began to take S. S. S. in sheer desperation, but with little hope and no faith in it
But to-day I am comparatively well; indeed, I have been so benefited by the S. S. S. that, although
skeptical of its merits, I am compelled by the benefit I have derived from it, to testify to its un
questioued curative powers in catarrh ca-ses. The best compliment I can pay it is that I haver*
< ently recommended it to a number of my warmest personal friends. Mrs. E. C. KENDRICK,
s. It. Harris' Good Freight Agent's Successful Investment of a Small Sob
of Money.
Mr. S. R. Harris is w ell known to nearly ail the business people of Savannah, and to many
others throughout Georgia. He is the obliging freight agent of the Savannah. Florida and West
ern Rsilw-av at the Centra! Railroad wharf. He lias recently gotten large returns from a very
small investment, of which he tells in the following communication:
SAVANNAH, GA., Jan. 8, 1887.
Swift Specific Company, Atlanta. (fa.: Dear Sirs—“ Over a year ago I was afflicted for six
months With malarial poison. This was accompanied by Dyspepsia, and for four months I could
retain absolutely nothing on my stomach save a little oatmeal, w hich I had to take three times
day to sustain life. I was reduced to such a low state that the most eminent physician of Savan
nah pronounced me to Ire in the last stages of consumption, and that my death was only aqua
(ion of a very short time. lean name this physician should any one desire it. Finally, when l
too, bad about given up hope. I began to take S. S. 8. as a desperate and almost hopeless expert
merit. I had taken almost every medicine I could hear of. but none had done me any good upto
the time 1 began taking S. S. S. Immediately after using up one- large bottle of the Specific I
began to improve, and. when I had used up six large bottles, I was entirely cured. Now, I can rat
and digest anything, and mv health is perfect.'’ Yours truly, S. R. HARRIS
< Al TSO'h TO tiS VV. iIERS Swift's Specific, like every other good remedy, is imitated
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is simply stolen from us. But the public who buys them is the greatest sufferer. Beware of these
Merciiry and Potash mixtures. The Mercury scents to sink into the bones, and the Potash drives
the poison into the system, only to lurk there and attack the tender organs of the body, a*the
lungs, the throat, the nasal organs and stomach. Hundreds of people have been made deaf, and
a great many blind, by the use of M -i-cury and Potash Beware of Mercury and Potash Mixtures
gotten up in'iinitation of our SPECIFIC. A few grains of Sugar of Lead dropped into a glass ot
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LAM) FOR SALE.
fail liiiii Sale at Florence, Hi,
A PRIL ‘2O, 1887,
Upon the premises, by the Directors of the'
Florence Land, Minin? and Mnonfaetiinn! ft,
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To the highest bidder, without reserve, will be sold
1,000 CHOICE
HESS ASi) RESIDENCE IS
The sale will continue from day to day until all Lots are 3old.
Terras easy, and special inducements to those who desire to buy with a view of locating an<i
building in the town. * 1
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