text: ww - -•■ •'• -A isSJSfe e=== 3fc& l -- — - W‘ w ' ffl ” X W;,vJ.- < A jRh ■■. | J FWI ■-. <-■ FaMa E&9HI ■■•■■ <i= ” I / L=— &/V7N<j TURKEY •~ 3 AND HORACE VOdE, THE RHODE /dOA/VD FARMER WHO RA/dEd IT. Copyright 1907. JurtoSw jr/ vJri^tj J/:® irwiwi'tff fyy BfBERTHAE.BUdH _T_ HE parson hath appointed a day of Thanksgiving for this village that the cruel tide of Indian invasion is turned back and our lives are spared,” said Mistress Lovgjoy Goodwin, bustling into the warm kitchen where her sister-in-law Mistress Prudence Good win sat knitting by the flreplace and Ter listless daughter, young Mistress Patience Halcomb, bent languidly over the spin ning-wheel. Mistress Prudence made a sign for silence, but it was too late. • The face of the pale young widow grew whiter, and without a word she rose and glided away. Mistress Lovejoy looked at her sis ter-in-law inquiringly. “Hath she not yet become recon ciled to the decree of God?” she asked. Mistress Prudence shook her head. “Nay,” she said. “She saith ever that it is not by the decree of God she suf fers, but by her own wilfulness. If Bo Bent Languidly Over the Spinning Wheel. She had not come away from her husband against his desires — so she said, "She would at least have died with him." "That is wicked repining," said the aunt sententiously. "She ought to be dealt with by the meeting. She should be thankful that her life was spared when her neighbors were taken. Doubtless it was a leading of the Spirit that caused her to come here e'er the savages fell upon Wyoming. She, above all others, surely has reason to be thankful. You should deal with her, sister, and check this untoward spirit," said Mistress Lovejoy sternly. "I know not rightly how to do it when she is in such sorrow," she said. "She hath ever been a willful and unreasonable child, but a very loving one." "You have ever spoiled her, and her husband did the same." Perhaps this is a punishment to you both," said Mistress Lovejoy. Mistress Patience, a bride of a year, had left her home in Wyoming valley for a visit with her mother in an older settlement. She had begged and pleaded to make this visit with a willful demand that would not be denied. It was an unusual occurrence. The journey through the wilderness was too long and too long to think of visits. Most of the settlers were grown to daughters going to pioneer homes could hardly expect to see them again. But Mistress Patience — who was anything but patient in spite of her name — would not submit to this state of things. She begged and pleaded to go until her husband—to whom her lightest wish was law — gave his consent. He was the more ready to do this as there were ugly rumors of alliance between the British Tory forces and the Indians and the settlement of Wyoming, standing on a disputed tract, and not so well protected as other regions was peculiarly liable to attack. But Mistress Patience did not know this or she would not have gone. She was very much in love with this grave, middle-aged husband, who treated his young wife like a petted child. Many of the settlers had shaken their heads over Mistress Patience’s going. “He ought not to let her do it,” they had said. “I will only stay a little while. I will come back soon,” she had said at the parting, regretful at the last minute for her action. But the savage Indians had come down upon the village of Wyoming and swept it off from the face of the earth. The houses were burnt, the people massacred or carried away captive. Every day brought a fresh story of horror, especially dreadful had been the tale of John Halcomb and 15 companions who had been carried off and sacrificed in a sort of religious ceremony. “She must be roused. She must see people. I would make her go to the Thanksgiving service,” said Mistress Lovejoy. She was a notable manager, and her sister-in-law, with all the village, were wont to submit to her sway; and Patience went to the service. “There can never more be a day of thanksgiving for me,” she thought drearily, as she sat in her widow’s weeds in the square wooden pew. The long, long prayer was finished. Patience liked the prayer, for in it she could hide her face. It was never too long for her, although a modern church-goer would be aghast at having to listen to even a sermon of such a length. The psalms of rejoicing had been sung. These had been harder to bear. The preacher had settled into his discourse. He had turned his hourglass, and was already at “thirdly.” “God in his providence has exceedingly blessed us in delivering us from danger—he was saying. Patience shuddered. What good was it to her to be delivered since John had perished under the Indian tomahawk! A figure appeared in the doorway. Such a figure! Gaunt, tattered, wild-eyed, unkempt, barefooted, bleeding—a mere skeleton covered with ragged shreds of garments. It stood in the doorway quivering and motioning strangely. “Patience! Patience!” it cried. “It is some crazy exhorter such as used to come and harangue the congregations in my grandfather’s house.” "Time," said Judge Fletcher, whose ancestor had been a judge in the days of the persecution of Anabaptists and Quakers. The tithing-man stalked down the aisle to put out the intruder. Some of the men half rose, but sat down again when they that the matter was being attended to. It was a dreadful thing in those days to disturb a meeting. But John Halcomb's widow, unmindful of disturbance, started up at the cry and fairly ran down the aisle. "It is John!" she cried. Never had a religious service in Bethlehem. Kill been broken into like this one. The minister stopped in the very middle of his most important sentence. The dreaded tithing-man himself, who bore upon his soul the awful responsibility of every man and woman, boy and girl in the meeting house, forgot it all and cried out like a frightened boy: "It is a ghost!" But it was not a ghost. It was John Halcomb himself, safe. The story of the Indian attack on the village of Wyoming in 1778 is a story of marvelous escapes as well as of torture and massacre. No adventure in it seems more marvelous than that of John Halcomb which is one of the well-attested stories of his history. With 15 other captives, John Halcomb had been ranged around a large flat stone while a woman fury called "Queen Esther," who seemed at the head of this ceremony of sacrifice of prisoners, crushed the heads of one after the other with a great stone death maul. Two of the captives suddenly leaped to their feet and dashed into the forest. The Indians pursued them but did not shoot. Probably because their plan was to bring them back alive and torture them to death. One of the two—and it was John Halcomb—tripped on a vine and rolled down the steep river bank. Then he gave himself up for lost. But the fall, instead of bringing him to death, saved his life. He lodged under the heavy branches of a fallen tree and the pursuers, sure that he was ahead, dashed past it without discovering him. He lay concealed in this lucky hiding place until darkness came. Then wounded, lame, and almost famished, he started out on the journey of days through the trackless forest infested with hostile Indians that lay between him and Patience. A man less brave of heart would have given up a score of times, but there was no give up to John Halcomb. He might be so weakened that he could only crawl, but he crawled on. Tottering, stumbling, crawling, dragging himself along his painful way by inches and in danger of his life all the way, he covered the toilsome miles and came to make for his wife Patience a real Day of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving makes our prayers bold and strong and sweet, feeds and enkindles them as with coals of fire.—Luther. OUR NATIONAL BIRDS. “May one give us peace in all our States, The other a piece for all our plates,” IMPROVED LEVELING ROD. Apparatus Designed to Simplify the Work of Surveyors. The accompanying engraving illustrates an improved surveyor’s leveling rod. The rod is so designed that it is possible easily to take readings through a level to the small fractional part of a dimension and accomplish this directly without referring to the unit marks on the rod below or above the reading and without undue straining of the eyes. This result is obtained by covering the rod with graduations on all sides, the graduations of each succeeding side of the rod differing by a fraction of a unit, which gives the graduations a spiral trend. IMPROVED LEVELING ROD. thereabout and provides sufficient space for marking the figures in large type. In carrying out the invention, a hollow casing (A) is employed, which forms the lower portion of the rod. This casing is substantially square in cross section, but with the corners diagomilly cut away to form an eight-sided figure. Heads (I) serve to separate the adjacent faces of the casing. Within the casing is a second easing (B). similar in form to the easing A and provided with beads (C), which serve the double purpose of separating the sides of the casing B and acting as bearing surfaces, which fit against the interior of easing A. The casing B may be filled with a wooden core, as indicated in the engraving, or if may serve to contain still another easing of similar form if so desired. On the casing A, at one of the flattened corners, a lug (F) is provided, through which a set screw (E) is threaded. The set screw bears against the inner Cas- mg (B) and serves to hold the latter at any desired adjustment with respect to the casing A. The principal feature of the invention lies in the method of applying the graduations to the faces of the casings. This is clearly shown in the illustration. The numbers are placed only on the four broad faces of the casings, while the narrower corner faces serve to indicate intermediate graduations. The spaces between the different dimensions on the rod are preferably made in alternately different colors, so that they may readily be distinguished. The graduations on the corner faces of the rod may be subdivided, as indicated in the illustration. A patent on this improved leveling rod has been secured by Frederick Wulff of Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. POWER OF MUSIC NOTES. Vibration of Violin Strings Capable of Injuring Strong Walls. It is a curious fact that continuous violin playing will injure the walls of a strong building. This statement seems incredible to one not knowing that it is the regularity of vibration that makes it powerful. On the authority of an eminent architect it is stated that there have been instances when the walls of stone and brick structures have been seriously affected by the vibration from a violin. These instances are of course most unusual, but the facts are established by the fact that the vibrations of a violin are really serious in their unseen, unbounded force, and when they come with regularity they exercise an influence upon structures of brick, stone, or iron. It is needless to add, however, that only continuous playing for many years would loosen masonry or make iron brittle, but that the violin vibration would bring about this result in time is beyond contradiction. . In discussing this point, the architect observed that he had often speculated on what the result might be if a man would stand at the bottom of a nineteen-story light well on the first floor of the great Masonic temple in Chicago and play there continuously. The result could be more easily seen there than almost anywhere else, because the vibration gathers force as it sweeps upward. One can feel the vibration of a violin on a steel ocean vessel and at the same time be unable to hear the music. It is the regularity, as has been said before, that means so much. Like the constant dripping of water which wears away a stone, the incessant vibration of the violin makes its way to the walls and attacks their solidity. Towne—You look rather weary, old man. Browne—Yes. I’ve had a trying time this past week. Towne—Ill? Browne —No. On a jury. SUMMONS. In Circuit Court, Grant County, Wisconsin, Samuel Friedlander—Plaintiff. vs. The Platteville Exploration and Development Company, a corporation.—Defendant. 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