Lincoln County leader., October 05, 1900, Image 3

THE DAYS GONE
O the day, gone by! O the days gone by!
The apples iu the orchard aud the path
way in the rye;
The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle
of the tiuuil.
As he piped across the meadow sweet as
any nightingale;
Whin tine bloom was on the clover, aud
the blue was in the sky,
And my happy heart brimmed over iu
the days gone by. '
In the days gone by, when my naked feet
were tripped
3'y the honeysuckle tangles where the
water lilies dipped,
And the ripples of the river lipped the
moss along the brink,
Where the placid-eyed and lazy-footed
cattle came to drink,
Aud the tilting snipe stood fearless of
the truant's wayward cry,
Aud the splashing of the swimmer, in
the days gone by.
O the days gone by! O the days gone by!
The nmsie of the laughing lip, the luster
of the eye;
The childish faith in fairies and Alad
din's magic ring '
The simple, soul-reposing, glad belief in
everything.
Vox life was like a story, holding neither
sob nor sigh
In the golden, olden glory of the days
gone by.
.Tames Whitconib Riley.
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t ON A PARK BENCH.
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rp ()M CHAPMAN sat on a bench
II lu Lincoln Park, a picture of de
spondency. Only a few days be
fore be bad been discharged from the
hospital after being Invalided home
.from the Philippines.. Ills brief Soldier
-areer was over, but he could not re
lurn to his' beloved profession, for his
right sleeve hung empty at his side.
Never more could he wield brush or
pencil. He had hoped to do great
things, and others had prophesied them
of him, for he had no little talent, and
Jsfore he enlisted his clever sketches
had attracted wide attention. Original
nm spirited as they were, he and his
brother artists had regarded them as
Only the earnest of what was to come.
"Nothing will come now," he said to
biuwself, bitterly. "All is ended. At 30
I have practically lived my life. I shall
lrag out a miserable existence on a
lHgarly pension. Yet were It not for
that pension I should starve. Perhaps
it would be better not to have It,
though. I had rather die than live a
dog's life, with no work to do nothing
lo look forward to."
Tom eyed the passers-by as though in
a dream. He saw weary-looking moth
ers carrying babies, or trundling baby
ar1s, with other tots, hardly more than
Infants, clinging to their skirts.
Bronzed young men and- sunburned
girls sped by on their bicycles; lovers
wt rolled along, oblivious of everything
but their own happiness; and innumer
able other people, in quest of fresh air
and coolness, sauntered idly past.
Presently a young wonianj quite dif
ferent from all the rest, came into
view. She was tall, distinguished-looking,
aud faultlessly dressed. She start
ed as she caught sight of the drooping
iignre on Uie bench and turned quickly,
dining impulsively toward him.
"frhy, Tom!" she cried, holding out
her hand, "I am' so glad to see you.
You have made all your friends proud
of you. How long have you been
home? Why haven't you been to see
us? You know mother never leaves
town lu August.' It's one of her hob
bles that home Is the best place iu sum
mer." Tom had risen awkwardly and taken
her extended hand. He. had not yet
learned to use his left arm gracefully.
He could not speak, although he felt
that she was talking to cover bin con
fusion. Miss Hunt sat down on the bench, as
naturally as though she had come there
for that purpose, and Tom resumed nls
seat.
"I must congratulate you, Miss Hunt,
on your good fortune," he said at last.
"I know of no one who deserves wealth
more than you."
The girl blushed. "Thank you, Tom!
but you didn't answer my question.
Why haven't you been to see usV"
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"WHV, TOM," SIIK C It I EI).
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BATTLE: SHIP ALAB VMA, QUEEN OF THE AMERICAN NAVY.
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; The Alabama Is the fastest ship of Its
jfluss In the United States navy. Dur
I lug its trial trip off the harbor of Bos
I'.ou it maintained u speed of seventeen
, knots an hour for four continuous
' hours.
' Length at water line, 3tkS feet; beam.
23 feet 0 inches. v
"(), I'm a back number. I had better
learn to keep In the background."
"You. a hero!" exclaimed Kllssaheth,
with a shy 'glance at the empty 'sleeve.
"1, a useless tnau, Miss Hunt; without
a profession and almost a beggar."
There was a long silence. Tom looked
on the ground, ashamed of the words
almost wrung from him. Elizabeth
stared fixedly before her, keeping back
tears. , . .
"Tom," she said, with great effort.
"Do you remember what you asked me
before you went a way?"
"Elizabeth!"
"Do you rememlKr, Tom, and do you
still love me?"
"Good liod! Elizabeth. Don't you see
the difference between us now?" "
"Do you love me, Tom 7"
"Elizabeth, you torture me." '
"You must answer, Tom."
Tom looked at her, his soul in his
eyes.
"I love you better than life." he said.
Then he added bitterly: "I forget; my
life is worth too little for me to put it
that way."
"Do do you will you won't you
wiarry me, Tom?"
."You love me, then? Is it possible?
It can't be. You are sacrificing your
self because you pity me. Elizabeth.
Do not tempt me. 1 am still a man."
"Tom, you make.it hard. I could not
talk to yon this way unless I loved
you." and the girl covered her face with
her hands.
"You are an angel,, dear, but I cannot
take advantage of your goodness. You
young, happy, wealthy I, mutilated,
with only my pension, my future blight
ed. I should be a coward to listen to
you."
"I am not happy. I am wretched.
O, why didn't I marry you when I was
poor? But I thought a wife would'
hamper you in your art. I believed so
in your future, and would not for
worlds have held you back from suc
cess." The man rose from ids seat, forcing
himself to be calm. "I must leave you.
BRINGS OLD SOL TO
Elizabeth. You tempt me past endur
ance." "You . are dreadfully unkind, Tom.
It's mean for you to tell me that I am
tinmaldenly. I can't help It. It's your
.fault. What made you make me love
you so?" Aud stately Miss Hunt burst
Into tears, regardless of a hundred spec-
! tators.
! Utterly aghast. Tom sat down and
Displacement, 11,525 tons; indicated
horse- power, 10,000.
Armor, nickel steel 4 to 10.3 Inches
thick.
Armament, four 13-inch and fourteen
(Much guns.
Speed developed on trial. 17 knots
continuously for four hours.
Complement, 4JX men.
endeavored to comfort her. In ten
minutes' time he was her abject slave,
and they had pledged their troth.
As they left the park Elizabeth de
scended from the heights. "O; Tom!"
she cried suddenly, ,"what must all
those fieople have thought of me?"
"Darling.". said her happy lover, "did
you never hear of being alone in a
crowd? Each little group was busy
with its-own tragedy or comedy." Chi
cago Tribune.
CONTROLLING THE SUN'S RAYS.
Seattle Genius Has Patented a Wonder
ful Device. ,
Julius Tantrove Is a genius who IIvjs
In Seattle, Wash. The people there call
him professor, because he has patented
a device which he claims will do many
startling things. A few things that the
professor claims his machine is capable
of achieving are the blowing up of war
ships at unheard-of distances, or the
melting of them while they are fleeing
iu desperation for safety, the destroy
ing of. forts and powder magazines
without coming within rifle range of
the place, t'.ie burning of a city at any
distance less than nine miles and the
storage of solar heat for domestic and
mechanical uses. The professor makes
no mystery of his methods. All he
uses is .a sclentitlc application of the
old burning glass with -which small
boys set lire to newspapers. The secret
of his patent lies in the arrangement
of pieces of plate glass so as to concen
trate the sun's rays iu the most effect
ive manner. He does not use an ordi
nary lens. Ills device consists of sev
eral immense sheets of plate glass so
arranged as to catch a great number
of sun's rays aud concentrate them at
a distance. The professor lias found a
financial backer In J. C. Sharp, of Salt
Lake City, who Is said to be enthusias
tic over tiie possibilities of the Inven
tion. The problem of storing or controlling
solar heat has been worked on by scien
tists for years and although "Prof."
Tantrove is the subject of much skepti-
AID IX DEFENSE.
clsui and ridicule he may have solved
the first step in the intricate problem.
There must be something Individual
and novel about the device or the "pro
fessor" could not have secured n patent
on it. Should it do one-half what the
"professor" claims, the methods of
modern warfare, transportation, manu
facturing aud heating would be revolutionized.
! THE SMfcLL OF THE ONION."
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It la Attributable to Combination of
Miluhur and Hydrogen.
It Is Interesting to make Inquiry into
the cause of this unfortunate quality of
the onion. It is simply due to the pres
ence in some quautity of another min
eral matter iu the bulb sulphur. It is
this sulphur that gives the onion its
germ-killing property and makes the
bulb so very useful a medicinal agent
at all times, but especially iu the
spring, which used to be aud still is in
many places the season for taking
brimstone and treacle iu old-fashioned
houses before sulphur tablets came Into
vogue.
Now, sulphur, when united to hydro
gen, one of the gases of water, forms
sulphuretted hydrogen, and then be
comes a foul-smelling, well-uigh a fetid,
compound. The onion, beiug so Juicy,
has a very large. percentage of water
iu Its tissues, aud this, combining with
the sulphur, forms the strongly scented
aud offensive , substauce called sul
phuret of allyle, which is found lu all
the alliums. This sulphuret of allyle
mingles more especially with the vola
tile or aromatic -oil of the onion; it Is
Identical with the malodorant principle
found iu asafetida, which is almost the
symbol of all smells that are nasty. The
horse-radish, so much liked with roast
beef for its keeu aud bitiug property,
aud the ordinary mustard of our tables
both owe their strongly stimulative
properties to this same sulphuret of
allyle, which gives them heat and acrid
ity, but not an offensive smell, owing
to Hie different arrangement of . the
atoms in their volatile oils.
This brings us to a most curious fact
Iu nature, that most strangely, yet most
certainly, constructs all vegetable vola
tile oils iu exactly the same way com
poses them all whether they are the
aromatic essences of cloves, oranges,
lemons, cinnamon, thyme, rose, ver
bena, turpentine, or onion, of exactly
the same proportions, which are SS'4 of
carbon to 11 of bydrogeu, and obtains
nil the vast seeming diversities that our
nostrils detect In their scent simply by
a different arrangement of the atoms
In each vegetable oil. Oxygen alters
some of these hydro-carbons; sulphur
others. Chambers' Journal.
LAW AS INTERPRETED.
The right of a city to discharge a
.sewer 'Into a tailrace belonging to an
Individual, where it runs through a
culvert tinder a highway, is denied In
Nevins vs. Fitchburg (Mass.), 47. L. It.
A. 312.
A breach of promise of marriage Is
held lu Sanders vs. Coleman (Va.) 47,
L. It. A. oSt, to be excused when, with
out any fault on his part, the prospec
tive husband has developed a grave
malady of such character that marriage
might endanger his life or henlth.
The right of a telephone company to
string wires In n highway is held In
Wyant vs Central Telephone Company
(Mich.) 47, L. It. A. 407. to Include the
right to do the necessary trimming of
trees In the highway In a proper man
ner, without first giving the landowner
an opportunity to do it.
The right of hack men and private
carriers to solicit business at a depot
without discrimination is sustained In
Oodbout vs. St. Paul Union Depot Co.
(Minn.), 47 L. It. A. 532, so far as re
lates to all points outside the depot,
but the right of the carrier to grant
special and exclusive privileges to so
licit such business within the depot Is
sustained.
An Infant who has bought a bicycle
an the Installment plan is held, In itlce
vs. Butler (X. Y.) 47, L. It. A. 30:i, to
be under obligation to account for Its
use and for deterioration' in its value
while In Ills possession, if he rescinds
the purchase. The disaffirmance of a
conveyance by an infant Is upheld, in
Bullock vs. Sprowls (Texas) 47, L. B.
A. '32(5, without restoring the consid
eration received for the property, when
It Is not In his possession or control
upon arriving nt full nge, but lias been
dissipated by him wnllc still a minor.
The rule that the law of the State in
which real estate Is situated governs Its
descent, alienation and transfer, in
cluding the capacity of the partlej fo
conveyances, and their tights thereun
der, is applied lu Walling vs. Christian
& C. Grocery Company (Fla.), 47 L It.
A. 008, In which a woman who had
been made a free dealer by decree of
a court of another State was held not
to acquire such status In Florida with
respect to the enforcement of her lla
ollitles against her separate statutory
property lu that State. But a suit in
?qulty was held proper to reach such
aroperty.
Ice Quurry.
An Alpine glacier near Brlancon Is
now regularly operated as an ice quar
ry, the blocks being cut and conveyed
over an overhead cableway to a con
venient place for shipment by rail to
Paris, there to be used In the cafes and
hotels of the metropolis.
Our Sea Coast.
Uncle Sam's seamen have a long
coast line to defend. It measures 5,715
miles, embracing 2,340 miles on the At
lantic ocean, 1,55(1 on the Gulf of Mex
ico and 1,810 on the Pacific ocean.
It is a rare man who doesn't do fool
things every day. ,
RESULTOFA FALL.
SAN FRANCISO) ATTORNEY FALLS
FROM PLATFORM OF STREET
CAR STRICKEN WITH
PARALYSIS.
Shock to the Syatnn Itrlnc on Nervous
"rontrution-llow a Cure AV
AflVcteil. ,
! Volumes might be written in praise
. of a popular remedy for the creating of
' rich, new blood aud the tip-building
! of a worn out body, but it is doubtful
' ti anything half so convincing could be
: demonstrated as is done by the inter
i estiui; etory related by Mr. Edward T.
j Dudley, a practicing attorney for 25
, years in Sail Francisco, with offices at
83 City liall avenue. Twelve years
ago, when 39 years of ago, Mr. Dudley
lost his balauce while standing upon
j the rear platform of a street "car, oaus-
iug him to full, striking the ground
I with the back of his head, which
j brought on a feeling of numbness and
eventually paralysis, loss of memory
and strength which, however, has
yielded to proper treatment as explain
ed by him hereafter.
Feeling thankful for the good done
him and realizing many others are in
a eimllar condition, Mi. Dudley volun
tarily tells of the benefits in his own
way which is given without color or
embellishment us follows:
"After the fall from the car I passed
It by as air accident that had left no
Mppiu'eut ill eiiects; yet a lew weeks
later, in endeavoring to get on a car, I
found I could not raise my foot. From
this time paralysis began in my feet
aud in time my lower limbs became
numb. I became pale as a ghost and
it brought ou a bloodless condition of
my system. From being a strong,
healthy man of 180 pounds, I was re
duced to 145 ponnfls, and my doctor
told my wife that it was only a ques
tion of time when I should have to take
to my bed. My wife asked if was I
going to dio, aud he said, 'No, but the
chances are that he will lie on the flat
of his back for 1?0 years.' I thought I
would fool him. Medicines prescribed
by the doctors and taken bv me did no
good, and my . system was so drained,
my blood ho impoverished aud I was
so debilitated that at the time I started
to take Dr. Williams' rink Pills for
Pale People, if 1 fell down I could not
possibly get up again unassisted. I
could scarcely walk a block. Now I
can walk three or four miles without
fatigue aud as you see, can lift my
leg aud am altogether a different man
and all from eight or nine boxes of
Dr. Williams' Fills. About three
years ago I saw Dr. Williams Pink
Pills advertised iu a San Fiancisco
paper aud decided to try them, and
from what I have told you of my con
dition, you can imagine how weak and
pale I was. ,
"After trying Dr. Williams' rink
Pills, I could see iu a very short time
that I was picking up color and my
health and general system was much
improved. I did not change my diet,
nor did I take any other medicine, and
I can assert that as a blood maker and
builder up of the system, they are in
valuable, as my increase iu weight
from 145 to 185 pounds I can lay to
nothing else than Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills.
"I have recommended them to hun
dieds whose blood was impoverished,
whose system was run down aud who
needed building up, and shall continue
to do so, as I believe they are the best
medicine in the world for that pur
pose." Signed, EDWARD T. DUDLEY.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 10th day of July, 1000.
JUSTIN "HATES, Notary Public,
In and for the city and county of San
Francisco, state of California..
All the elements neoessary to give
new life aud richness to the blood and
restoie shattered nerves are contained,
in a condensed form, in Dr. Williams'
Piuk Fills for Pale People. They are
also a specific for troubles peculiar to
females such as suppiessions, irregular
ities aud all forms of weakness. They
build up the blood and restore the glow
of health to pale aud sallow cheeks.
fa ineu they effect a radical cure in all
cases arising from mental worry, over
work or excesses of whatever nature.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold in
iioxes(never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a
box or six boxes for $3.50, and may be
had of all (lriiglnts or direct by mall
from Dr. Williams Medicine Company,
Schenectady, N. Y.
Qiinrniitliia In Nnvndn.
Ileuo, Nev., Sept. 22. Dr. J. E.
Cohn, quarantine ollicer for California,
and" Dr. M. P. Matthews, not-rotary of
the state. board of health, of California,
are here to inspect all westbound train
to guard against the possible introduc
tion of smallpox in their state. Small
poxs is said to be very prevalent in
Ureen Itiver, Wyo., aud several cases
bave developed in the euhteru part of
the state.
Lentlior Trunt KxiIiich Kxpeniiri.
New York, Sept. 22. At a reoent
mooting of the directors of the Ameri
can Hide & Leather Company, it was
decidod to reduce operating expenses
by about $150,000 a year. Today it
was announced thst 2!) accountants
employed in the local auditing depart
ment hud been discharged and that the
department had been moved to Chicago.