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About Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1902)
THE OLD HOUSE. The hons we used to lire in looks at 111 So wistfully as we go driving by; The wind that makes its ner tree mur nitirous . Flics swiftly after with entreating sish. One hark! come back! we hear it low implore. U'; up the grass-choked gate, the earth- tained door, A' .-lit in your childhood's Lome once Dior . Ah. no! ' ' " make 'uerry with light poe.-h tit newer aays inn pnso me past aside. Close io',:l;iit door the baby ned to reach Thi kn..l and play wjit--before he mod; , F Ht i"cd to sleep on th. bioad window :'. A sunbeam in his curls no, uot that hill- Tliis level road. Drive fast oh, faster ni'.l. Ilow small It wai! Bofore the birds nre grown They lie so warmly in one tiny nest; But nil the world is theirs when they have flown, And foreign roofs replace the mother's breast. Ah. wf-ll God careth. See, before us now The ampler home beneath a lofty bench. Lift l' the saddened heart and clear the brow. For in that empty nest beyond the hill Are blessed shadows at imniortnl ease; Thf sun-crowned baby on the window sill, The happy children underneath the trees. Oiil house, look not so piteous. Thou art Of liireer lives the very sweetest part; The tirt love of the unforgetting heart. Youth's Companion. HIDDEN IN THE CLOSET I T was early inoraing, and Tuonans. Lord 's valet, had waited on his master's American guest to see what he desired blin to do for him. There certainly was something odd in the gentleman's manner, and he had not the look of one who had enjoyed refreshing slumbers. At last, just as the man turned to leave the rom, he spoke: "Thomas, I hare been awake night." aU "My Lord will regret to bear it," Thomas. "Something odd disturbed me," tlnued the gentleman. "One of said con the maids kept me awake all night." "One of the maids, sir?" cried Thomas. "Yes, Thomas. She kept running into my room at least every half hour to look In the glass and admire herself. She came out of that door," and he "something odd disturbed me.' pointed to one In a corner, "and walked straight up to the mirror; the light from the night lamp fell upon her face; she heeined to catch my eye in the glass each time, and smiled at me as she did so. She wore a short, quilted skirt, a little black bodice, and full white sleeves, she had a gold cross tied about her neck by a black ribbon, and 'ore a little cap on her black braids a young girl with a French face. Thomas. Do you kiiow her?" Thomas made no answer. He looked at the gentleman steadily and grew pale. At last he spoke: "If I have the honor of understand ing you, sir, the young person came through the door?" "Yes." said the American. "More than once, sir?' "About once an hour from midnight until dawn."' "And smiled at you in the glass, wtere you saw her face? I understand sh.- did not look toward you as she I'a-.s.d. sir?" J v ' f 'ig'jt i Thomas." 1 'May I beg you to do me the faror of loi klug Into this room, sir?" 'e gentleman followed Thomas to the door through which be asserted that the young persou passed, and saw nothing but a closet about twelve feet square, with no door save the one that opened Into the large room, and high lu the ceiling a Uttle window through which a bird could scarcely have flown. It contained no furniture what ever. "There must be a secret door or or something!" cried the American. "I am not mad, and I was wide awake." "Yes. sir," said Thomas, still more solemnly. "An ordinary young person 'ould not have contrived to disappear, but the young persou you have seen has been au apparition, sir. for' more than two hundred years." "Au apparition!" cried the American gentleman. "Yes, sir." replied Thomas, "an ap parition, sir. I think you have seen Lady 's gentlewoman Kosette, r. It Is ten yenrs since she was seen before to my knowledge, but she has keen seen often." "I should like to hear more about Bssette." said the fceutleniau. AMERICA TO BE CALLED mmmmmmmm TEXX CHURCH AND ANCIENT AND PICTURESQUE GRAVEYARD. THE famous old Tenn Church, located in Amersham Bucks, England, in which many of William Penu's descendants are buried, and which contain the historic brasses of the Penn family, the earliest dating from 1507, is in great danger of falling into complete decay. The vicar of this veuerable house of worship. Rev. B. J. S. Kerby, is coming to Philadelphia early this spring for the purpose of interesting the people of the Quaker City in the work of repairing the old Penn Church, which he hopes to complete before the coronation of King EJward. This ancient ami historic church of Penn, so closely connected with the great founder of Pennsylvania, nn.l which contains a vault in which repose the remaius of no less than six of the founder's grau khiidren, the eldest of whom was named after him, stands on a lofty summit which commands a beautiful panorama of Windsor and the valley of the Thames. The sacred edifice stands "00 feet above sea level. From its massive square tower may be seen portions of twelve coun ties. This eminence gives a great charm to its churchyard, which contains some beautifully twisted old yew trees supposed to lie more than 1,000 years old. The church was built in 1-13, consisting originally of a nave and south aisle; a chancel was added in 17iW, in which are several very elegant monument by the celebrated Chan trey, aud also a tine east window of stained glass. The church is also famous for its ancient and well-preserved brasses, most ot which relate to the Petin family. The earliest of these is that of John Penn, 1597. and another is that of William Penn and his wife, Martha, dating from lti35. The tomb or vault containing the six grandchildren of the Great Quaker is in the center of the nave, ami is marked by a flat stone bearing the inscription: "Sacred to the memory of William Penn, son of Thomas Penn, proprietor of Pennsylvania, and Lady Juliana, his wife, February 11. 17o3." The unsightly and decayed pulpit in use for many years has recently been replaced by the beautiful oak pulpit from Curzon Street Chapel, of which Thackeray writes in "The Newcomes." It is three hundred years old, and the panels are beautifully inlaid, one panel containing no less than one hundred and sixty pieces of wood. The chapel has been pulled down and the site sold to the Duchess of Marl boro, nee Vanderhilt, to build a town house upon. Should the $2,000 be obtained, the vicar proposes to put up a brass tablet la the church stating that the roof and tower were restored by citizens of Phila delphia and other Pennsylvania's in memory of the Great Founder and to mark the coronation of Edward VII. of England. Philadelphia Times. "Yes, sir," said the valet. "This is an old family, and about two hundred years ago there was a Lord Herbert who was a gay, wild young nobleman, aud was a great admirer of the ladies, sir. However, by the time he was '30 he was married and settled down, and began to be much thought of and re spected. So was his lady, too, sir, though she was not handsome and was haughty. "One thing, however, the English servants did not like she brought a foreign maid with her from France a girl named Rosette and as pretty as a picture. "One day, sitting before her glass, Rosette combing her hair for her, she heard her husband come into the room. : Her back was toward him and Rosette was behind her. and they forgot the mirror, and so, sir. she saw in it, with-1 out stirring, both their faces, and she saw the girl smile at her husband and she saw him smile back at her. bhe understood everything, but she never stirred, and she never said anything I to him, no, nor to the maid, sir. "This was her room, sir. In that little 1 closet Rosette bad her bed, to be ready If she called her. But one morning my lady's bell rang furiously, and the maid who answered It was told to do my lady's hair, for Rosette had gone back to her native country. "All the time 6he was doing It the girl thought she heard a faint, moan ing sound, and was frightened, aud went back to the rest pale and trem bling, and before night it was well known in the bouse that that little closet there was uot only locked, but nailed up. "After that my Lord seemed to take to his wild ways again in a measure and drank a great deal, and my Lady lived much alone. There never were any children; but they both lived to be old indeed, and at last my Lady died in this room and was buried in the church yonder. "My Lord was as old as she by that time, but as soon as the funeral was over he went iDto my Lady's room and stood a long while before the locked and nailed closet door. "Then he said to himself: 'I cannot die until I know,' and ordered it to be opened. There were hundreds of nails in it; but they were all out at last, and the lock was forced, and my Lord arose and tottered Into the closet "It wasn't much they found, only a few bones and an ornament or two, but It was plain that the girl had been tied hand and foot and bound to the bed and left there to die if she was not murdered outright by the Jealous lady. "But ever since, sir, whenever there Is going to be misfortune In the fam ily, whoever sleeps here in this room sees Rosette come out of ber closet aud smile In the glass. No one ever sees her face, only Its reflection. 1 hope no tria ble will follow now, sir." As for the American, he slept else where the next night He bad no ad- ! miration for ghosts, even the family i ghosts of noblemen, and be bad no de I sire to see Rosette smile at him In the j glass again. New York Dally New. UPON TO RESCIE PENN CHURCH FROM DECAY CAUSES OF SUN SPOTS. Investigation Indicates They Are Not Due to Planetary Influence. It frequently happens that a theory which would satisfactorily explain cer tain facts of momentous scientific in terest is unable to Gnd acceptance for the reasou that the more closely it Is! investigated the less probuble It ap-l pears. Foi example, the attraction ex-1 erted by the planets on the surface lay-1 ers of the sun should account for sun spots, aud a great many astronomers have Insisted it did. But Birkland has examined this the ory with reference to the attraction ex erted by the planets Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn on the sun's atmos phere, and comes to the conclusion, which he has reported to the Paris Academy of Sciences, that the varia tions of the eleven-year-period cannot be traced to planetary Influences. It Is certain, he says, that the planets must have a tidal Influence on the solar en velope, but how far, if at all, that in fluence goes toward the creation of the spots Is at present mere conjecture. So, exactly, is It with the lunar attraction on the earth's atmosphere. It assured ly exists, but how far It Interferes with the readings of the barometer eludes all research. Even the late Dr. Croll's seductive idea that the changes in the earth's, orbit round the sun would account for the glacial epoch, a brilliant conception and one that captivated astronomers, j physicists and geologists alike. Is now very generally given up or In abeyance. In each case, says the New Y'ork Times, the causation Is real, uot imaginary, but whether It Is the "vera causa" of the effect to be explained Is doubtful. Answering a Question. Some of the troubles of editorship are the letters which come to the editor from subscribers la search of Informa tion. The Bookman acknowledges the receipt of this letter from a correspond ent who Uvea not a thousand miles from Boston: "Do you ever realize that the emana tions of human thought are never Iso lated and abstracted so that tbey stand without the universal consciousness, but that Instead they form one endless continuity whereby through all tbe phases of literature, whether primitive or typical of high aesthetic cultivation, tbey are united by what Is perhaps a subconscious but nevertheless an In herent and persistent striving after tbe complete and perfect expression of what is best In the human heart aud In tellect? Do you ever think of this?" Happily the editor was equal to the occasion, and he leplied in all tbe buoy ancy of an optimistic nature: "Yea. sometimes. By the way. In s couple of weeks it will be about time for buckwheat cakes." Why fche Didn't Scream, "Did you scream when be kissed you?" "Well, I guess not. Papa was In the next ro:m." Cleveland Plain Dealer. A woman can talk without thinking, but she can't think without talking. ' A WIRELESS 'PHONE. ACTUALLY IN USE IN PENNSYL VANIA AND KENTUCKY. Farmer Talks to 11 i Krirtula Across Vuitt 8iucrs Without Wires, and HuildinK, stonework and Noise of Traffic Conatitutc No Obstacle. Wireless telephony is now an as sured fact. Indeed. Just at the time when tlie whole country Is talking of the wonderful success achieved by In ventors recently iu wireless telegraphy, a test of telephony by the wireless means has been made with almost equally astounding results. A plain, almost unheard-of Kentucky farmer, who has Ikh'ii carrying on electrical experiments as a sort of side Hue, is the man who has come forward aud transmitted the sound of bis voice without wires through wood, brick, mortar and solid stones; through blocks of business houses, over loug distances through citv stivers iiuln- lerrupted by the noise of traltte. The laiuiei s uame is -Mitnau MiiliDlelleld and his home Is a farm a few miles from Murray, Ky. The story of bow he demonstrated the worth or his dis covery to the people of the little town of Murray will soon be world his tory. Wonderful n X-Kny. From a station in the law otiice of a frieud over u transmitter of his own invention lie gave his friends a greet ing by wireless telephony, and at sev en stations located in different bust ness houses and ollices iu the town, the message was simultaneously delivered. Music, songs, whispered conversations could be heard with perfect ease. Hun dreds of people visited the different receivers during the period of the pub lic demonstration and were astounded at the results. As insidious and pene trating us the wonderful X-ray, "the electric envelope of the earth" bore the Stubblolleld messages. This mys terious, intangible envelope Is ' what Stubblefield claims to have made a messenger boy for the millions that In habit the globe. PROFESSOR MADE "GIANT JACK" WINCE. The Courageous Act of a Northwest ern Sheriff's Wife. A woman who Is looked upon as one of the bravest of her sex In the West Is Mrs. A. F. Kees. the wife of Sheriff Kees. ot Walla Walla, Wash. The act which proved ber daring was the preventing of one of the worst Jail deliveries In the checkered history of Walla Walla. Among the des perate men who are locked Id the Jail In that city are Arthur Rogers, a UIL6. A. r. KEES. Kan Jose bad man; Marshall Linn, a highwayman, aud "Giant Jack" An drews, the terror of Coppei Hills, and It was with this select circle of cut throats that a plot to escape origin ated. The dash for liberty involved a murder perhaps three of them but a human life more or less Is not a matter of great concern to tbe bad men of the Walla Walla country. There was to be no sawing of bars, no tunneling under the walls. Tbe men had se cured a heavy vinegar bottle and se creted It In "Giant Jack's" cell. With this weapon tbey planned to dispatch Levi Malone, the Jailer. Should Sheriff Kees, who was suffering from a gun shot wound In the arm, oppose them in their escape be was to be dealt with as tbe moment might require. A few evening later Jailer Malone stepped into the corridor to lock tbe cells for the night. There was a quick blow and tbe next instant "Giant Jack" Andrews was choking out the prostrate Jailer's life. Outside tbe crippled sheriff was standing on guard, gun In band, but fearful that be couid not withstand the rush of fourteen maddened men. Andrews secured the keys, unlocked tbe door aud threw his weight against It. On the opposite side Sheriff Kees braced himself, striv ing to hold tbe door shut, but he was slowly forced back. Then came an interruption. Through the crack of the door appeared the barrel of a re volver and glancing over the sights were the Knapping blue eyes of the sheriff's wife. "You understand, do you, Jack?" the woman said. "I'm going to kill you unless you return to your cell." Tbe other prisoners, less dogged than their leader, already had slunk to the StubbTefleld Is the Inventor of ser eral electrical contrivances which have been patented in this country and Eu rope. His only assistant In the work on the Invention has been his 14 years old son. Bernard B. Stubbletiold. The father bus for years boon an enthusiast on the subject of electricity, nud the lxy has made playthings of elec trical devices since babyhood. The father says the sou deserves credit for numerous valuable suggestions giv en iu the course of working up the de tails of the invention. Up to this time he has devoted his cut ire attention to the construction, of a transmitter, lie will now occupy himself with the completion of an Im proved receiver, which lias been par tially constructed. It will, when per fected, bring up the sounds to any de sired pitch. With this device It will, the Inventor claims, lie possible to com municate with hundreds of homes at I I I . WJ ill n. 4 iff i tfrm i -. i tax' j i i. vi:ntok ami 1118 SON. the same time. A single message can be sent from a central station to all parts of the United States. lie thinks the device would be Invaluable iu the matter of sending out the United States Weather l'.ureau predictions, In directing the movements of a fleet flt sea aud In numerous ways which ap peal to one at llrst thought. Mr. Stubblelield is In hopes of get ting a government appropriation to aid Ii i in ill carrying on his work or at least the promise of such assistance. The possibilities of the Invention seem to be practically unlimited, and It will bo no more thau a matter of time when conversation over long distances be tween the great cities of the country will be carried on dully without wires. Iu the theory of wireless telephony ether Is the great medium for the transmission of energy. It fills all space, Interplanetary and Intermodu lar. The ether Is easily thrown Into vibration, resulting In waves. The lu tennolecular vibration of the ether Is transmitted to the earth and causes lntennolecular vibration there. At the transmitting station au electric current Is made to oscillate under very high voltage or pressure, and waves go out n every direction. These waves strik ing an electric circuit at a distant sta COLLINS TESTING HIS WIRELESS rear of the corridor. "Giant Jack" hesitated for a moment, as if trying to devise some way to conquer the plucky woman who held his life iu her hands. "One, two, th " The woman had started to count, and the terror of the Coppei country under stood at three she would tire. "Don't shoot don't shoot!" pleaded the big man to the little woman. "I'm beat, i'ou're too many for us. I'll quit." And with that "Giant Jack," who was a terror to men, capitulated to the "bravest woman In all the West," and the Walla Walla Jail delivery had failed. ALL IN THE FAMILY. Mrs. Casaldy Hud the Diviaion of La - bor All Arranged. When Mr. Cassldy suggested, one morning, that meat, vegetables, coal and Hour were "going up" while wug. were uot, aud that In the Interest of the savings-bank account It might be well to take some of tbe section-men to board, Mrs. Cassldy uttered neither rash affirmative nor harsh denial. She merely smiled ujoii her husband, and murmured, "Sure, Terence, 'tis the good bead ye have!" That evening, however, she opened the subject of her own accord. "1 do be wanting to save more money ine self, Terence," she admitted. "Would you put four men In the two chambers and charge them nve dollars a week?" "Yes," answered Mr. Cassldy. "And four men at five doiias is-How much Is It, Patsy?" "Twenty dollars," replied Pasty, promptly. "True for you, darling! Listen till him, Terence! 'Four lives?' says I. 'Twenty.' says he, betune two breaths, for all the world like his grandiatlier that might bave been a schoolmaster if he could ever have learnt to read. Twenty dollars! And ye never thought of taking anuy out for anny girl to help me wld the washing and scrubbing and the likes o' that?" "No," answered Mr. Cassldy. "No," Mrs. Cassldy repeated. "We'll have the twenty dollars all in the fam ily. Sure, I've planned everything out to-day, wld me for the Ironing and the mending and the baby and cooking. 'TIs nlgb about a woman's work to do that same cooking, when four of tbe six Is strangers; but I'll throw In the Ironing and tbe mending mending for eight, Terence and tbe baby." tion will set up oscillations m it simi lar to those which produced the waves. A telephone receiver will respond tu these secondary vibrations. The re ceivirg nod sending Instruments will probably have to lie tuned electrically to one another mid by this means a wireless telephone communication might be bad without fear of some ono tapping I lie wireless line. Stubblefield thinks that a transmitter for a long distance will not have to be of large size, and In that event European and American houses, with properly tuned Instrument, could bold daily conversa tions over wireless Instruments no more cumbersome to the otllce than tbo llrst long distance telephone boxes. The Collins Hycm. Somewhat different from Stubble field's method Is the system being per fected by Prof. A. Frederick Collins, a nlinble-wltted Yankee of Philadelphia. To put the case In a nutshell, it may be stated that be uses terrestrial curreuts instead of metallic currents such as are employed Iu the old fashioned tele phone or ether waves which are util ized by Marcoul. The Collins wireless telephone has uot, of course, yet reached the stage of development which It will ultimately attain, but out door wireless stations are Iu constant operation at Narberth, Pu. Each ter minal station consists of an ordinary camera tripod supporting a small wood en stand, to which Is affixed by mean! of a brass rod a cup-like transmitter, such as Is used Iu ordinary telephon ing, and two intensity colls enclosed Iu hard rubber, together with the pieces of copper sheathing technically kuowu as "condensers." Below the tripod Is a shallow hole iu the ground. In which Is buried a small zltie wire screen, and this Is connected by means of a wire to the mechanism on the tripod plat form. Willi this system In Its primary form It Is possible to send a message but one way-thut Is, If the person listening to a message wishes to reply he must talk Into an apparatus similar to that at the sending station. But the wireless Instruments designed for regular use, as for instance, those In actual service at the present time lu a Philadelphia office building, are com bination Installations the transmitter being lilted with a receiving litinex nud the receiver with a sending attach ment, aud are Identical In general ap pearance with the familiar form of tel ephone In universal use to-day In of fices aud residences. TELEPHONE. "Yes," said Mr. Cassldy, approvingly. "And Patsy will help tend the baby," Mrs. Cassldy proceeded, "what time he's not going to school or running er rands or chopping wood or carr'lnif coal or making beds or washing dishes. Y'eil have to learn the new tricks, Patsy-inaklng beds and washing dUli es. 'Twill be line for you when you have a family of your own." The boy began a panic stricken pro test, but Ills father checked It with a wave of the hand. "Yes," said Mr. Cassldy, decisively. "But whisper, Terence!" Mrs. Cas sldy went on with redoubled earnest ness, ""lis the sweeping and scrub bing and the week's wash that do be breaking me heart and me back. There'll be a power of It, what wld us and the boarders. So It's you I'll have to sweep mid scrub the floors of an evening, Terence, and It's every Mon day morning yousil get up early and do the wash." "I will not!" roared Mr. Cass dy. "Then nayther will I do more than, one woman's work!" his wife declared, with equul posltlveness. "Ho! ho! hot Keep the twenty dollars In the family, says you. But why would I be the only one to keep It? Would yous tend your switch by day and by night, too, If the railroad offered you the Job? Answer mo that, now!" An Unfortunate Kiample. The present King of Italy has a sharp tongue, which he Is uot slow to use If be thinks the occasion demands It. Not long ago he was bewailing tbe fact that It was almost Impossible for him to know the real sentiments of his peo ple toward him. "That." said one of the courtiers, ob sequiously, "would be easy If your ma jesty would disguise himself as a stu dent, and visit the cafes and gathering places of the populace. That Is what Peter the Great did." "I know." replied the king, "but ap parently you forget that Peter the Great used to hang all those whom be overheard speaking ill of him. Don't you think you'd better choose another example?" The Only One. The Sage There Is only one success ful argument to be employed In a con troversy with a woman. The Tyro And what Is that? Tbe Sage Dead silence. Puck. When It Is silks with the wife It la apt to be sulks with tbe husband. ,