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2 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. LEMON ELIXIR. A Pleasant Lemon Drink. Fifty cents and one dollar per Isjttle. Hold by druggists. Prepared by H. MoCLKY, M. D., Atlanta. On For biliousness and constipation take Jionioii Elixir. For indigestion and foul stomach take lam non Elixir. For sick and nervous headaches take Lem on Elixir. For sleeplessness and nervousness take I/anon Elixir. For I mm of appetite and debility taka le/nim Elixir For fevers, chilis and malaria, take Lemon Elixir, all of which diseases arise from tor pid Ol* lllnoUsml live euuun Hot Drops Fine nil coughs, eotis, li<mu 'senew, mrr throat, lassietiitls and all thrust an.l huir ■lisi i I'ric" iStwl• Hit! Iy druggtsta. 111 jis.. *I b) In*. Ji. Mojde/, AUoiita, tia,, Ui both liould nod 10/ci. .. tiaub 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. SWIFT’S SPECIFIC. IGLEREKaS, GATHERING ROOTS Ror. THE IvIANUFACTURE DF so)- no) f - h-H*jh>eC L? A■ y ®~FOR THE BLDDD. iBEiIOB 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 and counterfeited to a large extent. These imitations and substitutes are gotten up, not to sell on merit of their own, but on the reputation of our article. Of course all that these imitators get 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 these imitations will c i ise the poisonous drugs to fall to the bottom and show the danger of using them, s iv 1 IT'S SPECIFIC is entirely vegetable, and is the best tonic for delicate ladies and chil dren and old people in the world. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Drawer 3. Atlanta, Ga 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, ' o w 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 % >r Illustrated Pamphlets of Florence and full information a WM. A. OSBORN & SON, Real Estate Agents and Attorneys at Law, 21 MARIETTA ST., - - - ATOAXT A. r A COIS SETS. w ( %■ ; S, O (Yftill’On lUir.ntr tlio |mt atx .Mr*. Tiiirt furv*i*Xit **(,( - *it. •i •• ill* 1 Ur of 4 o vtr all Otlrt'f I'lUl'-rll'J, .- < fuf C4fi^-i, *<J i* *. ii Muj.l jrLr nuullty, Mintin' hij<l work ma*;-in*# of Mjr l witti UmHT *;lo**o# .liiWnl4iHA tn*A*of v*noua kinds Ofion# N*oo -rriiifliHiiivi a “O,V. WAENr.rj'a COHALINI" U pribU J VU .iu.tlv of SUI UrtM. MEDICAL. IVrfeet, f< Stirur fnrpnnd f”!’’ I• It Htr-nfli. l-dtcn-y rn I !'"• j t octal with m-v Brain and S-rv '"■'•fV eI 000. w u li-e Old 1 tl.o w>’ • g CKVir.IF MKIHCAT.FnJ^iSi-. —ll l '■■■ . , , ,rin'f” c*- No lll,irtiiig. Gnefw-tsorK- . IWI'IVH IIMFH I-- * *. t-c.'S '• ”-' ‘" CnA iciiwi' P | f ; *V?. 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