The Lebanon express., September 15, 1893, Image 7

THE OLD SMITHY,
Long ago, whon Ufa wan new,
In thu old, diillKlitfiil (lays,
We would wiuulnr two autl two
Wllfiro Mill Hlllitltl'V fltUirifr fllttM,
Btwkod by hIiiuIowh of tho ntnlit,
Umm1 to HnhUm up tho hi I In,
Bwkon uh witli lliwra lirl(lit,
'Twhh a, cure for ohlhllnh illg
For the door wnit uvr wliln,
There wtut frowlom ovurywhnrs
Ni'tti' thu forifo and clow) heitld
Tho old anvil, always tliore
Could Ito rmiiid tho mighty man
With tlm Hwcai tiHu ills brow.
Gtunt of all mlKhty (dan
Iitiir none, not forRotten now.
Ah, hu told us fairy lore
Whllo lie punijuMl bin Mlnwa grirn.
For wo lovod the mystic Htoro
Pont up In the smithy dim.
But the sturdy nmltli In dead,
And thu nmltliy "n In dunny;
And the IvIbh tsllmh Imttuad
O'ur the hullowti torn and gray.
Ah! till) tfliOHtH of Ioiik uro
Only uomo to H)ull the night.
Where thu nmltli we lined to know
On the anvil umtd to amlte
With foetlmim a lighter Htroke,
When he'd ohko hie toll to tell
lu lila way a faot or Joke
Whlob he told, oh, met no well.
II. 8. Keller iii ArkuQaaa Traveler.
MISS KELLY'S SUIT.
The girl In the envelope factory hove
juBt finished lunoheou whon the fore
limn coram In and announces that owing
to a break in the machinery work will
be suspended for the rent of the day.
Though tliis will nmke Dome difference
in the amount of their bills at the end of
the week, the girls are not sorry for this
half holiday. It gives them an oppor
tunity to do many things. There is Miss
Muggie Kelly, for instance.
This young lady had long boon wait
ing for a chance to visit that locality in
definitely described as "up town" in
order to insgiect the various styles of
gowns, wrap and hats offered there for
sale. She is about to purchase a new
suit and proposes to hare it in the latest
style. She can get a fairly correct idea
of this by visiting the various establish
ments where costumes are displayed.
After the foreman has made the an
nouncement that the girls will have that
afternoon to themselves, Miss Kelly hur
riedly fixes herself up. Then she Bays to
one of the girls:
"Hey, Maine! Come up town with me,
will yer?" The young lady addressed
assents, and so they start.
They spend pretty much all the after
noon visiting the big dry goods stores
and inspecting the costumes worn by
the women out shopping. Maggie scans
the latter closely, aud is much struck by
the beauty of several "swagger" cos
tumes worn by young ladies about her
size and build, Why could not she have
one?
Iu the next establishment visited is a
fine display of these pleasing innovations
in woman's attire. Miss Kelly iiiBjiects
them all with deliberation. The more
she does, the more infatuated does she
become with the swagger costume.
She inquires the prices, aud her heart
sinks as she finds they are beyond the
amount of her capital. With her face
bearing a sad, hopeless expression, she
goes home. Miss Maggie does not sleep
well that night. Her dreamB are dis
turbed by visions of shirt bosoms, fonr-in-haud
ties and cute little vests. In the
morning she awakes uurefreshed.
Her longing to itossess a swagger suit
has grown during the night. Uliu tries
to overcome this by settling her mind on
other objects, but fails utterly. Only a
swagger suit will appease that wild long
ing. She must she will have it within
a week, but how?
Presently an idea strikes her. The
cloud clears from her face. Her spirits
rise. During that afternoon Maggie is
bo gay and lighthearted that her com
panions in the envelope factory cannot
refrain from remarking her manner.
The following Saturday evening finds
the young woman about to finish her
swagger suit. Ever since that idea first
seised her Muggie has been busy making
a gown and jacket. All she lacks is the
shirt bosom and tie. She would have
had these before but for lack of funds
Having received her week's pay at the
factory on Saturday afternoon Miss Kel
ly is now prepared to purchase these nec
essary details to the costume, with which
she proposes to create a pleasant sensa
tion on the Hill on Sunday.
After her supper they dine on the Hill
at noon Miss Kelly carefully counts her
money and finds that she bus just one
dollar and twenty-five cents. The bal
ance she has given to her mother earlier
in the day. With this sum in a small
purse, w hich she clutches closely, the
young woman hies her to a thorough
fare where the stores announce that
"geuts' furnishings" are sold inside at
ridiculously low figures. She stuuds iu
frout of the place a moment, gazing at
the display in the windows. A young
man stops to the doorway from the in
terior, beckons to her and suys, "Step
in, lady: everything cheap."
This invitatiou aud announcement as
to prices seems to be all that is neces
sary to induce the young lady to enter.
She steps iu. An old man stands behind
the counter. He nods his head slightly,
nibs his hands together, smiles and says,
"Good evening." Miss Maggie says:
"I want a shirt."
"The old man smiles again, rubs his
hands faster, looks up at his stock, and
requests the young woman to go into
more particulars, She does bo, and the
result is that soun three or four of these
articles, made from linen and about the
size a fourteen-year-old boy would wear,
are spread before her. The prices range
from fifty cents to one dollar each. She
does not know which to take.
Porhup your brother would like this
one, the shopkeeper ventures, at the
same time spreading out one that he
ays will cost eighty-five writs.
The idea that Miss Kelly is :uakmgthe
purchase for any one but a in ..e member
of her family never enters t ie wily old
man's head, -The young woiuan does not
inform him to the contrary. What is it
his business, she thinks.
"I don't know," she answers. "I won
der if it would fit him? He's about the
name size as myself."
She is assured that this particular shirt
will fit her brother as if it grew on him.
The assurance would have been just the
same had the article been twice as large.
Miss Kelly concludes to take this par
ticular garment. Then the shopkeeper
smiles a more oily smile and rubs his
hands together with more vigor, as he
inquires if the "young lady will have her
brother's initials on the tab?"
The necessity for such an arrange
ment having been made clear to the
young lady's mind, she thinks It would
Iks better if her brother's initials were
placed on the tab.
"What will it cost?" she asks.
"Five cents for each letter, lady. Do
yon want thenif
"Yes," she replies.
"M. M. K." are the initials she tells
him. These, she tells herself, will in
form everybody that the article belongs
to "Miss Maggie Kelly."
While the initials are being placed on
the shirt tab Miss Kelly selects a tie, for
which she pays twenty-five cents. When
these purchases have been made, she
goes home. Going into the front room
by herself, she fits, cnts and sews, and
sews, cuts and fits nntil far into the
morning. Not until then is she certain
that all will look right on the morrow.
Sunday comes. Waiting nntil the
afternoon, our heroine attires herself.
The costume is perfect. She shows it to
her mother. Her father is out at the
time. The old lady is somewhat startled
at first, and snyB so. The danghter as
sures her that "they" are wearing them
"up town," which somewhat calms the
old lady s fears as to the absolute pro
priety of such a costume. In fact, she
is not altogether satisfied, and warns her
daughter to "look out" when she goes
upon the street; "and mmnd, Maggie,
she says, in about the same tone Bhe
would employ if the girl was going on a
long journey, "don t let yer father
yer."
With these words ringing in her ears
Maggie goes out. As she walks down
the hill that Sunday afternoon she creates
a veritable sensation. The world seems
very bright to her. Even when a Bmall
boy, too young to possess a sense of the
truly beautiful, says, "Uit onto it, fel-
Inz," the young woman pays no atten
tion, but continues right along, proud in
the consciousness of her beauty and of
being the wearer of a suit in the very
latest fashion. Hasn't she the stiffly
starched shirt front, with its tab and
"M. M. K." in bright red letters? ftnd
don't her piccadilly collar and tie look
just too sweet for anything? What more
can she desire?
While Miss Maggie has been dressing
her father has been "out" with aome
friends. He has left these and started
for home, somewhat foggy in mind. He
comes up the street as Miss Kelly goes
down. As an inevitable result they meet.
The old man spies his daughter from
afar. At first he does not think it is she.
Hut as she comes closer he is sure of it.
He catches hold of a railing and steadies
himself until she comes up to him. Mag
gie is about to pass by as her father calls,
slowly and with great sternness:
"Mag giel" She stops. "Maggie,"
he continues in the same solemn tone,
"go home and take off my shirt"
"I ain't got on yo"r shirt," the young
woman replies.
"Maggie," says her father still more
slowly, "you've always bin a good gyurrl
and never told me any lies befure. Don't
begin now."
"I'm not beginnin lyin," the young
woman replies hotly. "I ain't got your
shirt. It's me own shirt, see?" Then,
as a clincher, "Have you got 'M. M. K.'
on your Bhirts?"
"Maggie," the old man responds, "I
don't care phwat you've on yure shirt,
it's moine. Go home an' take it aft, or,
be the powers, I'll break ev'ry bone in
yure body!"
From the manner in which this is said
Miss Kelly knowB that her father will
carry out this threat unless she does as
he tells her, So she walks home, with lips
quivering and the tears ready to start.
And when she reaches home the young
woman cries. Her mother offers her
sympathy, but Maggie is in no mood for
it. She cries until she falls asleep.
She has removed the shirt, and when
her father comes home he confiscates it.
The next Sunday Mr. Kelly wears a
shirt with "M. M. K." in bright letters
on the tab. New York Evening Sun.
Three Dairymaids From School.
With a remarkable energy that seems all
her own the Couutess of Aberdeen, who is
taking the keenest interest in the success of
the Irish section of the Columbian exhibi
tion, has mapped out and arranged a
scheme to take' throe Munster sohool dairy
maids to Chicago to show their American
cousins one or two points in the art of but
ter making. A few weeks ago the countess
paid a visit to the school and selected the
three maidens whose duty it will be to rep
resent to tho best of thoir ability the staple
industry of the south of Ireland.
Dropping Second Class Coaches.
Intermediate olass carriages are being
gradually abandoned on English railways,
cars of the old first and third classes being
retained.
DARTMOUTH'S NEW PRESIDENT.
nr. Tucker of Andover to Take Charge of
Ills Old Alma Muter.
The new president of the historic Dart
mouth college, Dr. William Jeuett Tucker,
ho will lie inducted into olllce at tne com
ing commencement, is an alumnus of tho
college and re
ceived his doctor's
degree from his al
ma mater. Dr.
Tucker has been a
professor in An
dover Theological
seminary for 14
years, having ac
cepted the chair of
sacred rhetoric in
1879 and subse
quently the chair
of systematic the
ology, He is an
alumnus of An-
dover also, by the
nit. w. j. tucker, way, having grad
uated in theology in lst. Dr. Tucker
Is a native of Connecticut and was
born in Griswold July IS, 1839. He en
tered Dartmouth at the age of 18 and
graduated with honors in the class of '61.
Hespent two years teaching before he went
to Andover for his theological course,
after finishing which he was called to the
pastorate of a Congregational church in
Manchester, N. H., where he remained
eight yearH. The Madison Square Presby
terian church in New York city called him
to its pulpit in 1875, the year in which Dart
mouth mode him a D. D., and he resigned
to go to Andover in 1879, his place in the
pulpit being filled by Dr. Charles H. Park
hurst, whose crusade against social evils
recently gained such sensational notoriety.
Though Dartmouth college is the fourth
in age of the famous New England Bents of
learning, having been founded before all of
them except Harvard, Yale and Brown, Dr.
Tucker is only ninth on the list of presi
dents of the institution. The college grew
out of a school founded at Lebanon, Conn.,
in 1754, by Kev. Dr. Eleozer Wheelock for
the education of Indiana, It was called
Moore's Charity school while at Lebanon,
but when it moved to Hanover, N. H., in
1769, to be nearer the Indians, of whom few
remained in Connecticut then, the name
was changed to Dartmouth in honor of
Lord Dartmouth, who had made liberal
contributions for its support.
In 1815 the New Hampshire legislature,
claiming control of the institution, changed
the name to Dartmouth university and
enlarged the board of trustees. The old
board contested the legality of this action
in the courts, carrying the cose up to the
United States supreme court on appeal
and finally getting a decision in their favor
by Chief Justice Marshall. Daniel Web
ster made the argument for the trustees.
He and Rufus Choate are probably the
most famous of the 5,0(10 graduates of the
college, though the roll contains the names
of some other eminent men.
Vacation Kipedltlous.
It is not a new thing for students in
vacation to make scientific expeditions
on their own account, combining camp
ing and "roughing it" with congenial
Btudy, but an expedition of the kind
which was successfully carried out dur
ing the vacation season of the present
year deserves to be noted sb of especial
importance and significance.
A partv consisting of a professor and
several students of Bowdoin college, in
Maine, organized an expedition to Lab
rador to study the vegetable aud animal
growths, and otherwise to gain a scien
tific knowledge of the country.
It was also planned, incidentally, to
ascend the Grand river to the great cata
ract. The Grand river flows from the
high plateau of northern Labrador, and
the falls by which it reaches the lower
level to flow into the Atlantic ocean are
amoug the grandest on the continent.
The Bowdoin college expedition was
fitted out at the expense of alumni and
friends of the college.
The Grand river was ascended, the
great cataract viewed and photographed
and its height ascertained. The students
who succeeded in pushing as far up as
the falls suffered many privations, but
won deserved honor in the successful
prosecution of their enterprise.
Their achievement is a good example
for other American colleges and students.
Much important information remains to
be gathered about the less known por
tions of our continent, and geological,
botanical aud zoological researches, faith
fully carried on, may always be made
scientifically profitable and valuable,
even upon grouud which bos been cov
ered before. Youth's Companion.
Green Sloth.,
The Blotlis at the Zoological gardens
are not quite bo green as they were when
they first arrived. We do not refer to
their growing recognition of the fact
that nuts aud buns are not suitable food
for an arboreal creature which subsists
upon leaves, but to a literal change of
color. It is a most remarkable fact that
the sloth has iu the wild state green hair,
which causes it to resemble, as it clings
to a branch, au excrescence of that
branch covered with greenish gray li
chens. In this way the sloth may perhaps
sometimes escape the keen eye of a ja
guar. It is still more remarkable that the
green color is not resident iu the hair it
self, but is due to the presence of quan
tities of minute green plants; aud this
explains how it is that in captivity the
sloth changes color; the plants, deprived
of the damp heat of their native forests,
die, and are not replaced, so the peculiar
gray green which is so characteristic of
the sloth is changed to a brownish gray.
London Graphic.
A Fnir Question.
Miss Passe Three clairvoyants have
prophesied that I should be married be
fore I reached 80 years,
Miss Blooming Bud And were you?
4 0m
No More Yarn. About Indians
There is an advertising man in De
troit, well known for his hustle, who has
a pretty pair of children that come hon
estly by a desire to get all the fun ob
tainable as they pass through this pro
bationary state. It is the habit of the
father to regale the little ones with blood
curdling Indian stories, for which they
have the same insatiable desire ua the
nickle novel fiend for his choice style of
literature. The moral of each of these
wonderful relations by the head of the
family is that the Indian, with all his
warwhoopuig and ghost dancing, cares
for good little children and scalps those
who are bad. This bothered Teddy, the
8-year-old, considerably, and he finally
determined on a council of war with hia
little sister. From all the evidence that
their wise little heads could get together,
they concluded that they wore bad chil
dren and decided to anticipate any old
Indian that might come stalking around
after them by doing their own scalping.
Teddy promptly went at sister s golden
locks with the family shears, sacrificed
her bangs and waded ruthlessly through
her hair. Then she reciprocated, and
nobody ever saw two such heads, scarred
over with nicks, ridges, "X'b" and tufts
that suggested the joint efforts of a Fee-
jee barber and a modern knife thrower.
The mother simply sat down on the floor
and wept scalding tears. The father
kicked himself around the mile circuit,
and the precious little youngsters in
sisted that they were only playing In
dian. That household now draws the
line on Indian yarns, Detroit Free
Press.
Histories! Name of Kings,
Some of the early kings of France
ruled over Germany at one time when
there was no division, but when there
was a separate German nation the rulerB
gained many curious titles. "Fat" was
one and "Blind" another. Also the
"Child," the "Fowler." Then "Blood,'
"Bed," "Black," "Superb" and "Sharp,'
while one king is particularly described
as the "Holy and Lame.
The rulers of the provinces that now
make up Spain had a number of kings
called Great and Catholic. Then they
also had the Monk and Gouty and in
cluded others who we' infirm Bad,
Noble, Strong, Valiant, Gracious, Sick
ly, Impotent, Beneficent and Ceremoni
ous. Ferdinand HI of Leon and Castile
was the Saint and Holy.
Hungary has her rulers described as
Saint, German, Thunder, Venetian, Great
and a King Mary who was probably the
only woman who held a like title. Over
Portugal reigned the Fat, Idle, African
and Great and Perfect
The people of Russia have generally
had a hard time of it We realize this
today, and the names given to their
kings show the reason therefor. None
was good, wise or just, though there
was Peter the Great, who did all he
could to help his country. But how
could a nation progress with rulers who
gained the title of Terrible, Impostor,
Proud, Lightf oot. Grim, Fierce and Lion
-Chicago Tribune.
The Science of Nose Study.
Not the least charm of the science of
"nosology" is the chance which it offers
to the historian of testing the characters
of eminent men by its rigid and unbend
ing standard.
The historical value of gems and en
gravings cannot fail to be enhanced by
their bearing on this most interesting
subject, and the moral value of axioms
and actions whose spring has long been
doubtful may be solved by reference to
the uasai developments of their authors.
Apologists for the money making im
pulse which it pleased Adam Smith to
ascribe to human action will, for in
stance, no longer be able to urge that
some Buch theory was necessary to a log
ical system of political economy.
Adam Smith wessed the Jewish nose
in its highest development. The nose is
the reflex of character, and the "naso
logical" political economist will brush
aside apologies and estimate the bias of
the father of the science not by the ne
cessities of a theory, but by the hard
facts of his Semitic profile. London
Spectator.
Character In Nickname..
When Austria was only a dukedom,
there were three rulers who won for
themselves the respective titles, "Cath
olic," "Glorious" and "Warlike." The
first was perhaps a religious man, like
Ferdinand the Catholic of Spain. The
second may have been like Lorenzo the
Magnificent, and the third a great war
rior. And so from these titles or nick
names we have likewise some idea of the
conditions of the people while these dukes
ruled.
France has had a most wonderful as
sortment of kings. One was the Little and
another the Bold. One was the Stammer
er, another Simple, while a third and
fourth were Indolent and Fair. These
names are descriptive of the kings them
selves, but it is hardly to be supposed that
a king who was indolent or simple did
much to further the interests of his sub
jects. But when we find Robert U called
the Sage we realize that he ruled wisely,
and that the people were better off for it.
Chicago Tribune.
The Customer Ate Crackers.
"Will you please have these biscuits
warmed for me?" asked a patron of a
Sixth street restaurant of a waiter one
night last week. "Very sorry, sir, but
the cook is taking a nap, and I'm not al
lowed to open the oven doors," replied
the knight of the tray. , The oustoiner
ite crackers. Cincinnati Enquirer,
BULLET PROOF BREASTPLATE.
The Invention of a Gorman Tailor to Pro
tect Soldier..
Projectile makers in recent years have
expended much money, time and ingenuity
in increasing the efficiency of thevarlouB
missiles that come within scone of their
endeavors, and they have undoubtedly
achieved some wonderful results. But of
what use is It all? No sooner is the pro
jectile improved to the extent of demolish
ing the likeliest object of its attack than
some counter improvement is made to de
feat the improved projectile. Armor plate
is made too strong to be penetrated by
missiles of the greatest known penetration,
aud then missiles are made to penetrate the
armor, and stronger armor has to be made.
So the inventors in the two lines keep play
ing seesaw with one another, now one up
and now the other, until it seems as if their
rival efforts must produce about the same
result as if neither had ever begun, and as
If the best way to end it all was to mutually
agree to do nothing.
THE SOLDIER OF THE FUTURE UNDER FIRE.
Here is a German tailor in Mannheim,
for Instance, who has apparently defeated
the lately gained aud much lauded in
creased penetrating power of the German
rifle ball, lie has invented or discovered
some substance which resists bullets in
way that greatly astonishes military men,
aud the army moguatesare after his secret.
Military commissions have made numerous
tests and declared the results most satis-
factory.
The inventor has made the material Into
a sort of cuirass or breastplate intended to
be fastened to the uniform at the shoul
ders and the thighs, and weighing only six
pounds. The surface of the breastplate Is
of ordinary military cloth, and the resist
ing Bubstance is purunderneath. Of course
it leaves the head, arms and legs exposed.
At one of the tests a life size dummy figure
of a soldier was dressed up with one of the
shields and set up to be fired at. Not one
of the bullet that struck the figure went
through the material. They were found
imbedded in the coat, all of them flattened,
by the resistance offered. In order to And
the probable effect of the bullets upon a
human body the dummy was covered with
soft material under the breaBtplate, and
the effect upon it was but a slight depres
sion, less thana tenth of an inch beneath
where the bullets struck. It seems likely,
therefore, that a soldier wearing the armor
would suffer some pain on being Btruck by
a bullet and at a short distance might even
be rendered insensible, but it is thought he
could not be seriously injured.
Electrolysis In Water Pipes.
A considerable amount of anxiety has
recently been caused, especially among
corporations controlling waterworks, by
the discovery that the passage of elect ric
cars has a tendency to seriously injure
the water pipes of a city by causing elec
trolysis. At a meeting of a waterworks
association an electrical engineer stated
that in some cases under his observation
lead pipe had entirely disappeared by the
action of the electrio current, and a like
result had attended the use of iron, gal
vanized iron, brosB and "rustless" pipes.
The corrosive action takes place where
the current leaves the pipe and not
where it enter it, and the phenomena
mentioned were undoubtedly owing to
the operation of electric cars. It is sat
isfactory to know that should the elec
trolysis of water pipes become bo serious
a question as it is thought by some it
may, a certain remedy, although it
would increase the cost of water instal
lations, would be the insulation of the
conduits. Chicago Herald.
Fasting Versus Antlfat. '
Miss Mollie Nealson set out to fast 81
days. She hod more pluck than strength,
but she managed to complete the task.
The only interesting thing in connection
with the feat is the fact that her weight
fell from 202 to 164 pounds, a loss of 1J
pounds a day. This would indicate that
ordinary fasting, as it is called, would
not be a very efficient antifat remedy.
If Miss Nealson wishes to continue her
explorations iu tliis line of science, she
may yet become a public benefactor.
Certainly a young woman who weighs
200 pounds has a strong personal in
centiveNew York World.
Talne's Seat In the Academy,
The particular seat iu the French acad
emy made vacant by the death of M.
Taine is No. 17. It is said to be one of
those whose occupant usually lives but
a comparatively short time after he at
tains to the dignity of membership, but it
has been held by some of the most distin
guished of the Immortals. Among them
maybe mentioned LEstoue, historian,
1684; Coislin, bishop, 1710; Marian, also
bishop, 1788; D'Alenibert, founder of the
French encyclopedia, 1754; Portalis, one
of the editors of the civil code, 1803; No
dier, litterateur, 1838, and Merimee, ro
uiuucist, 1844, Chicago Herald.
The Pig Cure.
A Nevada man had the dyspepsia very
badly and got no relief till an old woman
told him that he would get well if he would
go three times every day to a certain form
and feed a white pig an ear of corn. Of
course he didn't believe in such supersti
tious practices, but he did it and got well,
Now he doesn't care why.
Twelve ground hogs, ten skunks, two
swarms of bees and about fifty pounds
of honey were founrt - t hollow
r,r nnnr poiT.n. n m. mo.
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