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TWO BARDS.
A bard who wrote In starea .
Once xaad e heathen hymn.
It had this stern refrain.
That moved as though in pain.
unilerthonght 01 graves)
Makes the sea grim."
A sooth land singer sum
With happy heart and free;
The Living, not the dead.
He dealt with, and he said.
i world is glad and young, .
And good to me."
And ever since mankind
Is shuttled back and forth
Between these singers twain
Of glad and sad refrain:
The south land warm and kind.
The bitter north. . .
Richard E. Burton in Harper's Weekly.
THE HIDDEN WILL
On North 1 Broad street, 'just below
"where the tracks of the Philadelphia
and German town r railroad C cross that
thoroughfare, Btands' a 'rttihed ' mansion
3roase that half a century ago waa brave
"With pillared porticos - and quaintly
earved doors and window frames. It is
today a cheap, tenement house, inhabited
ly a half.' dozen families, and the work
of improvement has 'left L the entrance
door several feet below the sidewalk. In
its halcyon days this old mansion was' as
many feet above it surrounding garden
a it ''is " now "below the asphalt paved
street . It was the home of Jabez Fields,
m hard, stern old ;tnan,' jirqud'as a prince
-and as reserved 'and unsocial as' he" was
haughty. His only living relatives were
grandniece, Alice Fields, and a grand
nephew, John Wilcox.
John Wilcox was a prosperous Arch
treet merchant, with a . comfortable
"bank account and a landed and bond
and stock estate that made him one
of the Quaker City's richest' men. "Ha
- was not on good' terms with , his- aristo
cratic 'old ' grand-uncle, who - despised ,
"trade and everybody who' labored for a
living. It is therefore not 'Strange that
the latter totally ignored his' grandniece,
pretty Alice Fields, who was as poor as
church mouse and a school teacher by
occupation. John , Wilcox ..was as" avarU
cious as he was" wealthy, and when word
"was sent to him one -day that old .Jabez
fields had died suddenly he hastened at
once to the dead man's picturesque man
sion and locking himself in the library ,
"began to search for his granduncle's
"wilL To his joy, in a tin box in which
-old Jabez . used to keep Valuable papers,
be found the document for which 'he
waa hunting. With trembling hands he
unfolded the crisp parchment, ' ran his
eyes over the closely written lines and a
yof joy escaped him. He had been
made sole heir to the dead man's estate.
Much ' chagrined ' was he, -' therefore,
., when a letter from Jabez Fields' lawyer,
James Dunnet, addressed to Mary Smith,
the old ; man's housekeeper; was shown
him. There was a later willand on the
day of the funeral the lawyer - would
come" to the old mansion to read it. -
, He's probably left, a good slice to
ome charity," soliloquized Wilcox, after
the housekeeper had left the room;' fefed
still confident that what was left would
oome to him he nodded "pityingly to his .
.school' teacher fcOneirt when' they met at
the funeral and mentally resolved to
make her a present of ten dollars to bny
' a new hat, gloves and shoes, all of which
articles of apparel were "very shabby.'
It was a misty, lowering day and the
old mansion seemed more than ordinari
ly dull and gloomy when the cousins re
turned to it after , all thAt remained of
their granduncle had been laid at rest.
In patience they awaited the coming of
the lawyer, but when 10 . o'clock arrived
and he did not "put in an appearance the
. housekeeper showed them to their rooms
and proceeded; with the assistance of the
"butler, to. lock np the house. These two
were fixing the fastenings to the big
front door when; ther" sound;: of carriage
wheels crunching the graveled drive was
heard, and when: Mary Smith opened the
- door Lawyer Dunnet confronted her. -"I
have been detained, Mary Smith,"
be said, "and wont read the will until
tomorrow. Have a fire lighted, in my
bedroom, for this mist has penetrated to
the skin; and by" the way, Mary, send
me np some hot water and a bottle of
the old man's whisky. I think a punch
will do me good." , . , . .
The housekeeper assured ' him that his
. wants should be attended to, and the" in
fluence of the warm punch and the fire
speedily made the lawyer ' very drowsy.
"Before retiring he took the will from his
pocket and laid it on the antique ma
hogany table which stood in the middle
. of the room. He was an early riser, and
' when he leaped out of bed the next morn
ing his eyes turned instinctively to the
table. . He started back with a gasp of
astonishment. ' The will was gone.
"Ha!" he cried.' rubbing his eyes.
"That's strange!" And, without stop
ping to dress, he examined the fastenings
of the doors and windows. They were
'-- all secure, and, although he searched the
room thoroughly, the missing will could
not be found.
After ' breakfast, 'the servants," Mary
Smith and the two cousins, assembled in
the library and the lawyer took a posir
tkm in the center of the room. :,"". ; .j,
"When I reached here last ' night" he
began, with his eyes on John Wilcox's
face, "I had the last will and. testament:
of my old friend, Jabez Fields, is my pos
session." and then he told of its mysteri
ous disappearance.' He-1" kept 1 his-eyes
.fixed on Johnwilcox's face, and the lat
ter shifted uneasily and changed color.
"Do you mean to say that I had - any
thing to.d with .its disappearance?" he
blurted out at last.
"I accuse no one," answered the law
yer qnietlyj and their he" askedfoj; the
will which' had been found kmong the
? dead man's papers by bis grattdnephew.
"When Wilcox produced it the lawyer
adjusted his spectacles, and with alook
of ooininiseratMbdixefctedItoWardtAliee
-Fields said: "Unfortunately the two wit
tiuiiui to the missing will are dead, but
I think we- can) prove its ; existence and
its'cantente.' It Miss' Field ?wisheav
"No, nor protested'- Alice quickly.
""Not for the world," and when Lawyer
I)uniiet1egatolWealipqletIy
from the room. There were tears in her
. 'yea a she groped her way. from, the
house and turned her step3 toward the
' K4 -ti.'A . U .. J
uu. ana .Tripcu'' uicuin avMy. t&liu
walked .'very fast. When she reached
her humble home Bhe'cbnld no longer
keep them back, but threw herself upon
the lounge sobbing ibitterly. So violent
was her grief that she did hot hear the
door open, but she started up with a
little cry of fright when a strong arm
was passed around her slender waist
and "a mustached mouth brushed her
cheek.
"Ernest!" she exclaimed, startingTip.
"Yes, dear, it is I," said Ernest Low
ton, and he kissed .away the tears. "1
met Lawyer Dunnet a few moments ago
and he told me the whole story, else : I
would not have dared t come.' . Ton are
still my poor, hard Worked little school
teacher sweetheart, and I want yon to
be my wife. If that - will had not so
mysteriously 'disappeared 1' should have
sailed tomorrow for South America.r
"Oh, Ernest!" she gasped. "How
cruel!" and-then nestling close beside
himi she. forgot all about her disappoint
ment in the enjoyment of a blissful and
reciprocal love."". " "
A few weeks thereafter they were
married, and for several months: lived
very" happily. In'! the meantime,: there
being no opposition, the will winch1 John
Wilcox had found was probated, and he
took possession of the dead man's estate.
Having been a very careless man so far
as business -wa concerned, Jabez Fields
had left his affairs in a decidedly com
plicated state, atul- Lawyer Dunnet was
kept busy trying W evolve order out of
chaos.- Alice had been a wife about five
months when her husband was. stricken
with a low fever. " Alice nursed "him
faithfully, and -their little ' hoard grew
smaller and smaller -until! only a few
dollars remained. She had had no in
tercourse with her cousin since the day
of Jabez Fields funeral, but now when
the life of him whom she loved . was
menaced she - plucked up the courage to
ask heir rich relative for a small loan.
Wilcox had . taken np his residence at
the old' mansion, and there she found
him busy in consultation with Lawyer
Dunnet. - Timidly- and in halting sen
tences she made known the nature of
her business. ,. ; - : .' . : -
I never loan money except on good
security, said - the Tich' man when she
finished, and Alice, with a great pain at
her heart and tears in her eyes, staggered
rather than . walked . from the room.
Lawyer ' Dunnet followed her into the
hall' and touched her: arm. '
"Acceptthis" from me,' madam," he
said, in .a ' low. voice, .and he placed a
bank bill in her trembling hand. "1
stop here tonight and will call to see you
tomorrow."
v Sobbing her thanks; she passed out into
the night and ' hastened with fleet steps
to the bedside of her husband. The doc
tor' was with him, and he whispered to
hef that the crisis 'had'' passed; and-' if
there-was , no relapse Ernest Lowton
would soon "be Well.
In the morning, much to her surprise,
Alice' received a note in Lawyer. Dun
net's handwriting bidding her hasten at
once to the '-old .mansion. Ernest . was
Bleeping qnletlyj and' leaving him to the
care of a neighbor she hurried on out to
"Oakdale.'V A; servant ushered heir into
the library, 1 where John Wilcox and
Lawyer Dunnet received her The latter
sprang up as she entered and grasped
both her hands.:
"I congratulate you, Mrs. Lowton,"
he said. "The ! missing will, which
makes you your granduncle's sole heir
ess, has been found, and Mr. Wilcox will
make no contest." '"-'- - -
"The will found r echoed Alice.
"Yes, and I'm left out in the cold!"
snarled - John r Wilcox.- "Allow me to
congratulate you," and he stalked an
grily from the room.
"It's a very strange story. - began the
lawyer when' the door closed after the
irate man, and he drew his chair toward
the one on which Alice sat in stupefied
wonder, hardly believing her ears. "You
know that when I was here the night
after the funeral of Mr. Fields that the
will, which makes you i his., sole heiress,
mysteriously disappeared. Last night 1
slept in the room that I occupied on that
unfortunate occasion.' When 1 awoke
this morning the will ' was lying on the
table just where I left it six months ago.
It looked . like magic, and 1 couldn't ex
plain the matter -until one of the, serv
ants said that he. .had - seen me prowling
about the garden fully dressed at 3
o'clock this morning. Then I remem
bered that when I was a boy 1 used to
walk in my sleep. I thought I had out
grown the habit, bat it is evident that
while in a somnambulistic state 1 hid
the will, and under the same influence
found it again." Philadelphia Times.
A Bat Climbs a Wire.
Did: yon know that a' rat. is a. good
acrobat? No?. Well it is, as an incident
which occurred in a well known business
house the other night will prove. There
is an elevator, in the establishment, sus
pended by a wire cable an inch in di
ameter. One night while the employes
of the place were at work there attention
was attracted by moving object on the
cable. An examination showed it to be
a rat rapidly making its way up from
the basement to the top floor by the most
industrious "shinning."
" Some time; ago one of the men about
the place reported that he had seen a rat
working its way up the cable. He was
laughed to scorn " by his incredulous as
sociates but the truth' of the 'operation
was established- in the months of two or
three witnesses, so that it cannot be suc
cessfully disputed. Youngstown . Tele
gram. .'. i - t y.
Light in the Head.
A Yfcrarnvlr Ufl k I on rv utHmroi 14-
J tie qeerly, but her hWband didn't mind
given away all her diamonds, $2,000 in
cash and all her clothes but one rig. She
.gave t& "stranger, , and they walked on-
believing her to be a great humanitarian
Detroit Free Press.
"A ' . . v ,; ...
'( i'Cr " Hot Cider 'tbV Bate . i.. :
""Chief Two Strikes can't" have lost
anything in this war."
-Why not?"
"Two Strikes can never be out."
Puck.
ELECfrRlC DYNAMOS.
MACHINERY THAT CAUSES THE AL
TERNATING CURRENT.
Comparison Between the First Frlettosal
Wheel and the Present Powerful Elee-
tro-Maanet. Difference) in the Two
Current The Machine.
The - first dynamo electric machine
ever constructed was made by Faraday.
This great physicist, the prince of ex
perimenters, as he has been called, dis
covered that when a disc or flat plate of
copper was made to rotate between the
poles of a powerful magnet currents were
produced in the plate from the center out
ward.'., By making a wire touch the re
volving plate with one of its ends and
bringing the; other- one in contact with
the rim he found that a current of elec
tricity passed along the wire, and could
be made to indicate its existence by de
flecting the needle of a galvanometer,
decomposing a chemical solution, or by
any of the well known effects produced
by electricity in motion.- i; ;
Faraday saw the importance of this
discovery and the great uses in the way
of - practical application to, which it
might be put but. he did "not himself
stay to develop it; he left that to others,
and with it the wealth which . might
thus be acquired, and himself went on
to investigate other obscure and little
known phenomena connected with phys
ics and electricity, -regarding this as his
proper work, and . exhibiting- in his con
duct the trne scientific, spirit. . When
many years afterward he went' to see
the first application of this discovery of
his to the production of the illumina
tion of : the North Foreland lighthouse,
he said, after looking at - the . large magneto-electric
machines there, "I 'gave it
to you an infant; you have made it a
giant." ....
Dynamo and- magneto electric ma
chines consist essentially of a coil of wire
"the armature," as it is called rotat
ing between the poles of a large mag
net; the poles being bent round so as. to
approach each other and have the arma
ture between them. This, magnet may
be either a permanent; magnet of .hard
steel, or an electro-magnet consisting of
wire coiled round a soft iron core,, a cur
rent of electricity being made to . circle
round the wire coil; and thus magnetiz
ing the iron core while it lasts. It is the
latter arrangement which' is almost nni-.
versally used now, though the magneto
machines with permanent magnets were
the earliest form. . , ... . . '.
..... TUB XXECTBO-UAOKBT. .
. A. magnet produces an influence in the
neighborhood around it, and this , sur
rounding neighborhood is known as the
"field of force" of the magneti. e.t the
sphere in which its influence can be felt.
A magnetic '-needle -or hit of iron' -filing
placed in this, field sets itself to point
along the "lines of force" of the field
that is, the lines along Which' the mag
netic force acts, and which form curves
round - the. magnet,- running -outr-aa. it
were, from pole to pole, and curving
round - toi theL'ther.; Any oneixaay eee
the form of these lines of ' force for him
self "by placing a bar maet underneath
a sheet ;o, paper .aid.itJien .sprinkling
filings on the paper, . .. ,
'OnV'tapping this the" 'filings wilTjset
ttieinselves along the lilies of force' ' in
beMtifm: regular cnrves.Here' thi Email
fragments of iron are themselves made
magnet while under the influence of the
' powerful, magnet' in whose ""field" they
are,, and'! therefore" place ''themselves
lengthwise along the lines of force that
is, along: the line of action of the result
ant magnetic force, at the place where
each one is. . - u ; f
' When a coil of - wire tor armature ' is
made to revolve- rapidly- in - the strong
field of force which - occupies the' space
between the poles of a powerful electro
magnet currents' are produced in the
coiL ' These currents alter' their direc
tion through the coil every time' 'the lat
ter changes its position with reference
to thepoles of the magnet, i The , side-of
the coil,, which was opposite the north
pole, is after half a ; revolution i opposite
the south pole, and the influence of the
south pole tends to produce an : opposite
current to that of the north - pole. Here
we have an "alternate current" dynamo
machine. -
PROCESSES Or US1SQ THE CtJEBENT.
As the coil or armature rotates'' with
great speed some hundreds of revolu
tions per minute these currents, in - al
ternating directions, succeed each other
very rapidly v and if an electric arc lamp
is placed on the circuit it will be lit up.
In this case it is not necessary that the
current be sent round the circuit in one
direction only; but although - the termi
nals of the lamp are constantly changing
their polarity that is, the north pole
where the current enters the next in
stant becomes ' the south pole where the
current leaves yet, as this occurs many
times in one second, the effect produced
is the same as if the current was in' one
uniform direction.. '.,,,.,....
The lamp has no. time to cool; it . does
not go out before the oppositely directed
current passes through it and produces
the same effect as the previous one. . No
flickering is observable. The impression
produced by the glowing carbon on the
human .eye is retained , by the retina: for
a far longer period than; the deration. of
one- surge" of " electricity' through the
'lamp; and is nbfr gone before the'-effect
produced 'by'- the 1 ' succeeding-'' opposite
wave makes its impression on our nerves.
In ' a ''contihnous '.current" "dynamo,
which is necessary ,f or , some .'purposes,
such as electro-plating,. where the effect
desired could not be produced if the di
rection', of the cxirrent'was: continually
'altering, the electric, cttrrent is"' made to
pass always one way round the external
circuit, i . This result is got by using the
dnratoaa .-r device b of r. oomrautator.
which: automatically .deflecta the.exarent
4 sd as always to eendit in
aa1 tm'wfrwing
direction through the plating . bath J or
the electric-lamp; as-thercase may be.
Knowledge; f -.. -. . i;
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The-. Grate ; City of the Inland Empire; is situated, at
the head of navigation on the Middle Columbia, and
is a thriving; prosperous city. '
ITS . TERRITORY.
It is the supply city for an extensive, and rich agri
cultural an .'grazing country, its trade reaching as
far south as' Summer Lake, a distance of over twc
hundred miles. ; . ...
-. THE LARGEST' WOOL, MARKET.
The rich grazing country along the eastern slope
of. : the "the . Cascades furnishes pasture for "thousands
of sheep- the "w:ool:from,"which. finds market here. ;
The-: Dalles is the1 largest, original .wool shipping
point iU 7' America, about 5,000,000 . pounds being
shipped. last year.y .r ; .
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The salmon fisheries are ;the, finest "cm. the Columbia,
yieldiiig!this. year af revenue of $1,500,000 which can
and will be more than, doubled in the near future. -t
.The.products of therbeautifurKlickital t; valley find
market .here, and the country south and east has" this
year filled th& -warehouses,
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: --; .ITS 'WEALTH- - -
; rIt i& the richest .city of its sizo on the cpast,;jau.d its
money is scattered overhand, is-bping t used t6 .develoipr
more farming country thanis tributary: to any other
city in Eastern' Oregon. ; - .- v
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