Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1904 — Page 7

THE WATER FINDERS HOW THE DIVINING ROD RESPONDS TO THEIR PECULIAR PCWL.i JlyMlcrioiiN Art of the “DnwKer” an Practiced by Ger.UKiHk a .. J M In England—llemarkable Fovverv of One Famous Rod Handler. Those who regard water finding by means of the divining rod as the practice of a foolish superstition will be shocked to hear that in recent times it has been employed by cabinet ministers such as the Marquis of Londonderry, by belted earls like Lord Strathmore, by grave judges and sheriffs, by railway companies such as the Midland, by urban district councils and by landowners without number, writes Fitzgerald Molloy in T. P.’s London lyThe art of finding water, minerals and even criminals by means of the divining rod lias been known and practiced for centuries in every country in Europe. The rod itself, a symbol of magical power, is mentioned in the ancient mythologies, in the Christian Scriptures as the means by which Moses obtained water and is used in all ceremonial magic. The water finder's rod is merely a forked twig, usually cut from a hazel, a whitehorn or an apple tree below the bifurcation, and is generally a foot long and about the thickness of a pencil. Its twigs are held at the extreme ends between the fingers and thumb of each hand by the water finder, or dowser, as he is commonly called, who slowly walks over the land where it is desired to find a spring, until, on coming to the spot where water is. the twigs begins to move and its fork to bend downward. It frequently happens that on reaching this site the rod, which has pre viously remained passive in the dowser’s hands, twists itself round with such violence as to break. The statement that water will be found beneath (the depth is occasionally specified) has seldom been falsified. The experiment has been tried of blindfolding the water finder and leading him by a different route to the spot he has already indicated, only to show that the rod repeated its movements on his regaining it. A second dowser, kept in ignorance of the spot or of the land over which his predecessor lias gone, will almost invariably name the same site as a place where water will be found. Water finding is a special gift, re •lulling special physical and psychical qualifications, but is not limited to any class of society, to the educated or the ignorant, to age or youth, to men or women. Mr. ,1. D. Euys, F. (1. S., became an excellent dowser, while a woman of title in the midlands also became expert at finding water by this means. But, though a special gift, experience has shown that it can be transmitted—that is. when the rod is held by a person who has not this power, but whose wrists are grasped by a dowser, it w ill point to a spot where wixter may be found. No matter how diverse in rank or intellect or constitution water find ers may be. they all to a greater or less degree betray the same symptoms in exercising the gift—an electric shock seems communicated to them; they turn pale, tremble or have convulsive move meuts similar to those that disturb the nervous system of a medium who obtains psychic manifestations. Sir Lauder Brunton in writing on -‘Truths and Delusions” in the Universal Review says; ‘ When we hear that a man is able to discover water at a considerable distance below the ground — wu.xo -t —~3 ar* tirst an' io scout the idea as ridiculous, wane .. we were told that a caravan was cross Ing the desert and that all at once the thirsty camels started off quickly and at a distance of a mile or more water was found we would look upon the occurrence as natural." Regarding the divining rod as a subject for investigation, the council of the Society For Psychical Research ear nestly requested Mr, VV. F. Barrett, professor of experimental physics in the Royal College of Science For Ire land, to inquire into it. M ith "great reluctance and even repugnance, as he stated, he yielded to their wishes and began his examination, “hoping, however, in my ignorance that a few weeks# work would enable me to relegate it ‘into the limbo large and broad, since called the paradise of fools A report of his long and patient research concerning the divining rod was contributed by Professor Barrett in a paper called "The So Called Divining Rod. or Virgula Divina.” The outcome of his personal investigations, of reliable evidence and scientific knowledge. > may be summed up in his own words. “The movement of the rod is not due to trickery nor any conscious voluntary effort, but is a more or less violent automatic action that occurs under certain conditions in certain individuals. Having said so much, science still leaves us in ignorance regarding a human faculty which is the inheritance of some individuals and is undoubtedly the same power that, through a common piece of wood called the planchette, under the hands of certain persons writes coherent and sometimes important messages outside the range of their conscious intelligence and is the same force that Ims been found to rap out communications on tables. It is interesting, but not surprising, to learn that the exercise of the do" ser’s gift, which has been of immense service and which has been employed by those who frame and administer our laws, is illegal and therefore that those who receive money for its exercise are presumable as liable to fine and punishment as any gypsy fortune teller That at least is what may be gathered from the decision of W. A. Casson, the local government auditor for Bedfor

shire who refused to allow the fee oi a water tinder employed by the urban g. .tHct council of Ainpthill. '1 lie water tinder employed was I,eices ' h'w o ' r"”, 01 ' tUe ■ -"-hind, whose powers han l um made use of by many public '"•i. by taetory owners and parish councils. lie is remarkable for being I able at times to dispense with the rod j instead of which he uses his outstretch ed hands, which seem to receive a slight electric shock when he gains a spot where water or minerals may be found. He Is also able to state cor rectly, as evidence shows, the depth at which water will be reached and the quantity per hour the springs will give. The chairman stated that Mr. Gataker named a number of springs in one field, and the total of water there was more than ample for the town. Ths auditor said that what he had to settk was whether the employment of a wa ter tinder was legal or not. In the only case bearing on the matter that had come before the courts the judges had held that "the pretense of power whether moral, physical or supernatu ral, with intent to obtain money was sufficient to constitute an offense with in the meaning of the law,” and as Mr. Gataker claimed to exercise some such power his employment was clear ly illegal, and the amount of his fee wou'd be disallowed. BITS FROM THE WRITERS. A brave man doesn't think; he acts.— 11. Rider Haggard. Hurry, excitement, bustle—these are not good for people. Let us go slow and live long.—Frank T. Bullen. There is only one way in which a man or woman can develop real strength, and that is to fight unceasingly and to stand absolutely alone — Gertrude Atherton. To borrow one’s mental fare from free libraries is like picking up eatables dropped by some one else on the road and making one’s dinner off another's leavings.—Marie Corelli. To go a-fishing in the pond of the past is a pastime not devoid of charm. What old. forgotten, faroff things can be dragged up by the assiduous angler!—Ella Hepworth Dixon. By leading people to suppose that you are as wise as themselves you lose opportunities of obtaining useful in formation. They won't tell you things they think you know already.—Sarah Grand. Trnce Yoar Family Tree. A pleasant pastime — literally —for those who have no more pressing du ties aud wish to get outside their environment at least in thought will open up before her who begins to mount a family tree. Tracing one's genealogy may become—probably will becomea matter of absorbing amusement and attention, for it entails a thread gathered up here, dropped there, a letter to write, a book to read, a register to consult. To the self absorbed, the despondent. the listless, one may recommend this diversion as certain to suit even rather morbid conditions of temperament and yet as certain to gently force the mind away from itself to oth er persons and things in opening up a wider and wider field of reflection.

Kimberley Siexe Hable". During Lord Roberts' tour in South Africa he chanced to be in Kimberley on his seventy-second birthday, and the people of that city presented him with a pair of diamonds. One of tlie ‘•siege babies.” a boy of four years made the presentation speech. During the siege of Kimberley by the Boers about fifty babies were born. Lord Roberts had his photograph taken in the midst of the “siege babies" on the steps of the town hall. Most of the “siege babies" bear names recalling tne war. Thus, while “French.” ' •‘Methuen." "Bobs" and “Kekewich were used, “Rhodes" was even more frequently used, and "Siege” seems to have been most popular of all. Folltene"" Pay". Virtue is not to be measured by os teutatious giving. There is frequently more real love for humanity tn the soul of the num who removes tlie banana skin from the pavement than in the heart of the donor of the memorial window in the church. Politeness, like all other faults and virtues, may become habituni. It is surprising how manv small acts of kindness, how man’v little deeds of helpfulness, one mav’do in the course of a day when there arc inclination to be kind and a lookout kept for the opportunity. One may set out with this intention in the morning, and the footing up at m_ i not to others, hut to one’s own secret conscience-will be cheering and encouraging. Whale" «»• Their Hollilay"Professor Goldlob lias been telling the Christiania Academy of Science the results of his investigations into the migrations of whales. These creatures hang about the coast of Norway ami Finland until the spring is well advanced, aud then they go away on their travels. Some go to the Azores others to Bermuda aud the Antilles aud they cover these enormous dis tances in an incredibly short time. Some of them bring back I,ar l’ o ““® which bear the names of ships and other evidences of where these migrants have been for their summer holidays. reason tmu taee ciiieny flusl as is that, in the ordiumy pos.tmn a »,-e. i. 1. »..«■ ."I”-;; to tlie rays of beat, while moM ot tne Ljls shielded by clothing. Moreover. th e nerves of the face are i>arti< ulai ly with blood vessels.

going into battle. the sensations of a brave man' UNDER FIRE. How n Feel" V. ben the t’.ain of Huii(‘»s Ki j\. ~«**• ’I *.c terror i ii.it in inspire.! bj Facing a of Cavalry. T..ere is a muttered rumor in the• battery that the hills yonder are occupied by the enemy. As we halt tor a moment on the crest of the hill suddenly the spattering sound of rifle lire snaps the stillness of the morning air. The noise pulls me up with a jerk. My half finished sentence ends abruptly, aud I feel a shock within me as of a tug upon my heartstrings. The talk has ceased on the instant. A curious silence falls upon us, broken only by a hoarsely whispered “We're in it!” from a comrade. My emotions are bard to analyze. It is not exactly tear 1 feel, but rather a kind of uncomfortable expectancy. I dare not look my fellows in the face. To do so would .seem, I feel, like impertinent curiosity. But a furtive glance shows me each man bolt upright in his place, with features set and hard. The chatter of a Maxim upon the left swells into a clattering chorus, the irregular rattle of the rille tire. In the cold gray of dawn it is a chilling, deadly sound. Then, with a thunder of il.uduiug hoofs, a staff officer gallops up. "Walk—inarch!" The sharp command acts like a spark that fires the stiffened frame to life. "Trot,” aud, with a jingle, jingle of accouterments, the teams, their wicked looking guns lopping behind them, plunge downward to the plain. The battery is itself again. Action quickens the sluggish pulse, and in the excitement of the descent the ugly jabber of the Maxim falls on deaf ears. At the bottom of the slope is an awkward gully, through which the teams scamper heller skelter and come up with a gallop on the level under a heavy fire. "Action front!” In a trice the gnus are wheeled round and unlimbered. Now for the first time I begin to be conscious of the tire under which we are acting. All around I see little spurts of dust kicked up from the ground by some invisible agency, like gobbets of dry sand thrown up by the impact of colossal raindrops. Momentarily I hear the mellow thing whing. like the deep vibrant note of a banjo's tight strung bass, of an unseen

bullet flying past me. An uneoinforta ble sensation seizes me in the pit of my stomach, a kind of sickness that Is hard to describe in precise terms. Quoth Henry at Agincourt; And he that hath no stomach to this fight. Let him depart. Gladly would I depart but that a sense of shame would keep me even were escape possible at my post. It needs greater courage to openly fly than to stay. Yet it is not physical fear that lays hold of me. To feel that one must needs confront an actual, tangible foe. It is rather a mental terror with which these invisible missiles of death fill uje. There is no combating them. They come from nowhere, as it seems.

and" no man can say where they may find their billet. lam helpless. I can but ’(and still in my place, waiting, ickening expectancy, to see whether I shall be bit. A gunner beside me falls. It is sudden and quick. Without warning bis arms are flung wildly up into the air, and with hideous, gurgling groan he collapses. For a few seconds his limbs jerk convulsively, bis hands tearing at tlie tufts of grass and his teeth savagely biting tlie dust. As suddenly the movements cease, and the corpse lies where it dropped. My gorge rises, and all things squirm within me. But things are not always thus. A man there was who described his experiences of the South African campaign as "a long period of deadly monotony, relieved by of blue funk." But most inen get speedilj used to the sensations of being under tire. He is a callous soldier who can go unmoved through his first ordeal or. for that matter, can face in contemptuous mood the early stages of any action. But once through His baptism of, fire or warmed to his work th « BO,^ T I®‘ 1 ®‘ reeks little of bullets and shells. Use is everything. Thus, later, when I have become participant in a score or more fights. I find my early emotions gone entirely or at least so modified as scarcely to be worth consideration. A spint of fatal ism has succeeded those agonies of anxiety. It is impossible to dodge the bullets. I am here and the enemy s ■re is thick and hot upon me. It it is fated that I am to be hit, bit I shall be. If not—tant mietix. I come to d . regard the singing of the bullets am begin to have even a contempt for cov er If I wish to move from one point of vantage to another 1 no longer east about for the seemingly safest route. I im as likely to be hit one way as an other, and I go straight in conse’'n'bappened once in South Africa that during an action the general it) command, walking round his dispose ions on a tour of inspection came UI11)11 a gun that bad temporarily been trail scorning cover, was a -" n,ie ‘ ,ieen in the blushing pages of a well known sporting contemporary. Hie XZal paused aud gazed for a moment Then lie turned .to the -tiitl oth St who accompanied him. warfare!" he remarked, pointing to the unconscious gunner, and passed on. Thiuk®pf lhe Infantryman, lying pX for hours, it maybe in the same , a ce. while the Imllets fly. twanging i over his prostrate body. He dure not dlXv orders by rai-’Ug Ins head.

With bis eye to the ground he looks along the level of the plain to where I tin- sky line rims it or tl.e hills from which the enemy's fire is coming in close it. For foreg- r.:i 1 I.e Ims some coarse grass, the blailei of which be • idly tries to count again and again. and fir middle I'.isl.tnce ‘.'.e in ;rl!s.!c| boots, perhaps if in die order of ai ' comrade lying some few feet ahead tc | 1 rigl t or le: t. Steadiness under lire, however, is not the only thing which the soldier must learn. War holds other things to shatter the toughest of nerves. We speak not of certain sights and sounds which those who have witnessed and heard them will recall to mind. This is not the place to paint too vividly the hor rots of battlefield and hospital. But heaven grant the soldier may nevet have to face a charge of cavalry. T< stand and watch the wild rout of de moniac horsemen sweeping onward, tc hear the swelling thunder of hoofs as the vengeful horde rushes down upor him, to catch with unfaltering eye the glint of bare steel brandished fiercely—these are the things at which the stout est heart may quail. Worse still the foot soldier’s plight when the square of which he forms a part breaks up in disorder and stays not to receive the shock of the charge. Panic seizes him. His self control is gone. Reason deserts him. Flight flight, flight, is the one idea that rages in his mind. Like a startled hare he turns and flees, whither he knows not. Hot foot the cavalry pursue. He hears the thud ding of the hoofs behind him; and. screaming in his agony of terror, he flings away rifle, bandolier and belt in ills blind endeavor to escape. Loudei and louder drum the thudding hoofs in his ears. As he stumbles on he throws a glance of terror over his shoulder His pursuer is on him now. He sees the snorting nostrils and bloodshot eye of the giant war horse as it seems tc prance about him and peering around its neck the fierce face ot his enemy with grim, set features, distorted intc 1 a frightful look of inhuman savagery. 1 His eye catches the gleaming of bur 1 nished steel, and as he looks along the ‘ leveled lance that points toward him so unerringly 7 he sees the elbow crook ed to launch the vicious thrust. His 5 heart seems near to bursting, his head ? is singing and his mouth is parched ? and dry. He hears the deep panting ot e the horse behind him. and as he feels j its hot breath upon his neck he staga gers, lurches forward. With a wrenel -of the wrist, the horseman gallops on —A. E. Johnson in Royal Magazine.

A Ffok’m Appetite. Tlie frog's capacity for enveloping his comrades and assimilating then, was once shown by an incident which occurred under tlie observation of one of my acquaintances. He had returned from the country with a lot of frogs large and small, which lip bad obtained for one of the New York educational institutions. I have forgotten how many there were, but they numbered over twenty, I am quite certain. These he put into a large bird cage, the wires of which were close enough together to prevent even the smallest from es caping. On the third day he went to see how his captives were doing and found, greatly to Ills surprise, that al! had disappeared with the exception of two old "mossbacks,” and they were eying each other askance, apparently in doubt as to which would be the "last survivor of the whole ship s company.” as he expressed it. As an insect catcher tlie frog is quite expert, even such quick moving species as the dragon fly often falling victims to its dexterity. Fishes are also often captured, and good sized ones. too. n fingerling trout having been found in the stomach of a frog which was not more than six inches in length.—l’orest and Stream. Make Yonr Food Medicine. The garden is a great medicine chest. Be your own doctor and look to your own slight ailments. If you are wakeful, eat lettuce. For affections of the skin and for yellow skin eat onions. Onions are also good for colds, coughs, scrofula. For a torpid liver eat freely ot' asparagus. For malaria and general breakdown eat cranberries. If nervous and irritable eat plenty of celery. For constipation cat fruits—ripe and healthy fruits. Fresh fruits are good; so are figs and dates. Raisins are beneficial. When the body is in good condition keep it in good condition by denying tlie appetite what has once injured the bodv. One can do everything for him self' by eating the right thing and not too much of it. and by leaving alone the wrong thing and all of it. lie can do more than the doctors can do for him when he is flat on his back in bed. —Philadelphia Inquirer. Asklnic John Sherman a Qoeatlon. There is a story that was told when Secretary Sherman ran the treasury department. A young woman worked in one of the branches of Mr. Sher man's establishment. She bad a broth er in tlie war department. Secretary Sherman had an idea that reform was necessary in the family, and lie sent for the girl. “My dear young woman." lie said, t am informed that two of your family are at work in the departments here.’ “Yes," she answered. “And that is against our rules.” “Yes.” ■ “Which of you can best be given iff., young lady?" “Mr. Secretary.” she finally answered with a smile such as a pretty department girl can sometimes call to her assistance, "you are nt “ie head of the ’ treasury department and Genera! Sherman is at the head of®ie army. Which 1 of yon can best be given up. Mr. Secretary?"

i -y | "COME OUT OF YOUR SHELL" Hnolinnd" nml Wives Who Hold Aloof From Sei«hlior«. I am acquainted with too many busbands and wives who. though all the world to each other, are no.l.lng to the | world. T.eir whole lie is within I their home. They g.i'd.er comforts 1 about them, they bear dainties to each I otl e s d'.'s. t! ey live and move and hive their whole being in each others love. and. shutting out all the world, live o;dy for themselves. 1 say 1 know to > many su< h pairs as I these. They are far too ple-i.y. They cannot bear to be torn from their homes for an afternoon. They take no interest in others. 1 They never call friends and neighbors around their board, and they consider it a hardship to fulfill the common offices of social politeness to say nothing of hospitality. It is not un- ’ just to say that this is one of the most dangerous and most repulsive forms of married life. It is selfishness doubled, associated, instituted, and it deserves serious treatment. Homes, like individuals, have their * relations to each other, and, as no man 3 liveth to himself alone, no home should ’ live to itself alone. It is through the medium of homes that the soei.il life- ' blood of America is kept in cireula tion—through this medium almost exclusively.

Every home should be as a city set upon a hill that cannot be hid. Into it should flock friends and friendships, bringing the life of the world, the stimulus and the modifying power of contact with various natures, the fresh flowers of feeling gathered from wide fields. Out of it should flow benign charities, pleasant amenities and all those influences which are the natural offspring of a high and harmonious home life. Intercommunication of minds and homes is the condition of individual and social development, and failing of this no married pair can be what they should be to each other. Exclusive devotion to business by day and exclusive devotion to selfish home enjoyments at night will dry up. harden and depreciate the richest natures in the course of a few years, and as soon as the man withdraws from the business of the world the world lias seen the last of him and his family for life. They have no outside associations. It is as if they did not live at all. When they die. nobody misses them, for they have been nothing to society. As many doors tire open as before, and social life feels no rippie upon its surface when the sand is thrown upon their coffins. There should glow in every house throughout the land the light of a pleasant welcome for friends. On every hearth should leap the flame that irradiates the forms and faces of associates. Neighborhood should mean something more than a collection ot dark and selfishly closed hearts and houses. A community should be something better than an aggregation of individuals and homes governed by the same laws and sustaining equal civil burdens. Neighborhood should be the name of a vital relationship. A community should be a communi ty in fe-t—informed with a genial, social life, in which the influence of each nature, the power of each intellect, the wealth of every individual acquisition, the force of every well directed will and the inspiration of every high and pure character should be felt by all. A neighborhood of homes like this would boa neighborhood indeed, and none other deserves the name.—“ Timothy Titcomb’s Letters” in Boston Globe.

The Economy of the Bee. At one time the bees were male and female in equal numbers. The irresponsible male buzzed about, simply getting his own living, marrying and dying The responsible female not only got her own living, but that of her children. Somehow, by and by, they came to see the advantage of communal effort, and, just as women say to one another now, “If you'll wash the dishes IT wipe ’em," one feminine bee said to the other, "I'll be mother if you'll get the living." It was a bargain, and the accommodating females took drones in to board. The queen of a beehive does not rule; she lays eggs. She does not mind the bailies. She does not even do her own digesting, let alone getting the food. The attendants Unit surround her feed her with bee milk, secreted by glands in their beads. She has to be fed continually. for at certain periods she lias the power of producing from 2,(XX) to 3,(J00 eggs a day. twice her own weight —four times, indeed, for more than half her weight is eggs. In her lifetime a prolific queen will lay 1,500.(XX) eggs. Carlyle I" a Death Gaap. Carlyle—all unwittingly. 1 grantrings out the old world of misrule which was inaugurated by the first Adam—that world in which man's foolish wit and wisdom have borne sovereign sway, and human nature accord higly shows itself at best a mere battleground of heaven and hell. Emerson, on tlie contrary—but in like utter unconsciousness of mission. I ad-mlt-rings in that better world inaugurated by the second Adam, in which at last the divine spirit is supreme, and our nature, consequently touched by that inspiration, brings forth immaculate fruit—that is. all those spontane ous graces of heart and mind and man tiers which alone have power to redeem us to eternal innocence, peace and self oblivion. In short. Carlyle is tlie last gasp of a world in dissolution, tlie death rattle of an ancient but al ways merely provisional and now utteriy exhausted life of God in man. and there is consequently no outlook ct hope, but only of despair, in his filmy eyes for man's earthly future.—Henry Janies, Sr., in Atlantic.

BLACK JUMPING SPIDER. He f» the hongry Little Tiger of Hl» Fraternity. Whenever we think of spiders we think of wr»», large wheel like stretches or bulky r.rns-<>s or dainty gossamers spread on ti e grass <>r in fence corner.-., if tl.e spider did not build its snare, how would it get its dinner? Spiders are always on tl.e l > >k mt for a hearty meal, and as this means something to eat almost or quite as big as themselves, witli somewhat epicurean tastes into the bargain, they must be ever seeking food. The snare weavers follow h-.-t tl.e gold poetic precept. “Learn to labor and to wait." but the little fellows that build no snares, that do not depend on waiting, must, if the temperature permits, be ever on the hunt. Let us see how they follow a revised precept. "Learn to labor and to hustle.” On the sunny side of this tree trunk, on the old barn door, among the pine needles, in the crannies of the stone wail, under the projecting end of the wooden steps, amid the evergreen honeysuckle on the south porch, in almost any half sheltered, half sunny spot, we shall have no trouble finding the little black jumping spider attus, that scientists have renamed I’hidippus tripunetatus, though the three spots to which the specific name refers are generally increased to five or more. This Is the little tiger of the spider fraternity. So common and so active and so hungry is it that its list of victims grows very long indeed, even in its short lifetime, and generally they are of a kind that makes the little tiger a great and worthy friend of man. Flies, bugs, very young crickets anil grasshoppers. plant lice, tree hoppers, midges, gnats, small moths and caterpillars—these and many others are its victims by the score and by the hundred. It, too, spins a web (what spider does not in some way?), a delicate, pure white, cottony bag. to shelter itself and eggs throughout the winter, and later, when the eggs hatch its young, the little spiders swarm all over the mother and all through the thick web, reminding one of the old woman who lived in a shoe. Our little attus will not venture far from home. Find one that seems a wanderer and hunt closely, and ten to one you will find the web near by, somewhere in a cranny or crack, under bark, under stones, in heads of wild carrot, in curled leaves, in the disused lock or latch of an old door or, like our little resident of the honeysuckle, between two leaves which the web strands have drawn partly together. Get a straw and poke it into one end ot the web. Out pops the small proprietor from a slit in the other end ami. always turning face toward. the enemy, prepared to beat a further retreat or stand and fight.—St. Nicholas. An 01*1 Fashioned Clock. The oldest working clock in Great Britain is that of Peterborough cathedral, which dates from 1320 ami is conceded to have been made by a monastic elockmaker. It is t!;e only one nowknown that is wound up over an old wooden wheel. This is some twelve feet in circumference, carrying a galvanized cable about 300 feet in length, with a leaden weight of three hundredweight. The cable has to be wound up daily. The gong is the great tenor bell of the cathedral, which weighs thirtytwo hundred weight, nml it is struck hourly by an eighty pound hammer. The going and the striking parts of the clock are some yards apart, communication being by a slender wire. The clock is not fitted with a dial, but the time is indicated on the main wheel of the escapement, which goes round once in two hours. This clock is of the most primitive design, more so than the famous one made for Charles V. of France by Henry de Nick.—Scientific American. To Cnre Pe»»li<il«m. Hang these words on your bedp or tack them in your brain: I am going to become an optimist From now on 1 am going to elm my entire life and my entire sty’ thinking. I will endeavor hereafter to b* erous in my view toward others, minded, large spirited and kind. Ing well of everybody, mean of and overlooking the little tai’ lleving that there are other in the man that overwhelm fieieucy. "There is so much bad in of us and so much good in of us that it behooves each to be charitable to the rest I shall see the bright sk’ thing. I shall talk like an opt’ like an optimist and move • optimist, conscious of the shall radiate sunshine an one around me happier. ‘ ture. A Famon" AV In the train of Am when she went to - James VI., was a g - matchless drinking c ■ sensed an ebony wills beginning of a druni lay on the table, and t last able to blow ) I consent considered t of the whistle." ever, that during 1 the Dane was de laiurie of Maxwel days and three • ing left the Dan s “blew on the shrill." The w - family for mat person who ea I under Ferguse I of Annie Lam know u. 80l the snriject I Whistle."