The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-11-28 00:00:00

THE LIBERATION sOCIETI.

A numerously attended Conference:. wider tie
insoles' of the Liberation Society, was hold ou
at the City Terminus flotol—hfr. Mistll. M.P., in ths
chair. The better orgiobratloo of the Sct-ty
London, and flu most efficient means of promoting thou
views, were the subjects of discussion, and the Lao of
the meeting was decidedly favourable to the accepittai
of Mr. Gladstone's challengo that the Librium
Society should educate the English people is ito
doctrines enunciated by Mr. Miell when the question,'
dlsostablishonent was before tho Mouse of C 411101061 it
May last:

TtiE WORLD IN JEOPARDY 1W A PILL:
• OIRKABLI STORY.
We have waited se long for the rum who tail.' is
lie Thames; on fire, that it is a little disappointing u
find that although he was living only thirteen moon
ago, he died without having performed that great lest
The litorarris An/lif, published at Recalismpta
Australia, on 'be 21at of August last, tells no abeam
him. To begin at the end. On the I.t of November,
187 i), the Asibisra Afraccagcr, a North-American p.m!,
drew attention to • disgraceful failure of jo,tior is 16
" Cspe Horn" district on Ulu 4.matral Pamtic /Whoa
A man named Parker, an attorney, arrested for mut*
was both by James G. Wilkins, Junkie of the Prom
and by the Grand Jury of Placer Comity, disMartal
without trial. The prisoner, in company with so
man named George Stimmerfiehl,w. trarelliug on tbi
Pacific railroad towards Chicago, on Ito I.t of Oetulat
1870. There is • dangerous CUM, no this liar, oro.
looking the north fork of thc.tuierican Hirer, at 1
place Galled Cape Horn, the rosd skirting • precipice
with a cheer fall of 1,700 feet. Ai they approached Wm
plain Parker persuaded Sunimertitll to leave Ito imah
of the car nod get upon the open platierai tli bale
to see the glorious view of the luAihty chum, 1
moment afterwards Summerfield was naihed to p.,.ass
thousand feet below. Parker a,, arr,sn.l bs.
successive trbitinals discharged him as iunuccut. Yaim
has since died, and, acc.ading to tho .tory is the
papers before us, has left a manit.ciipt wince apical
all. . .

Twenty years ago he knew Snowed.:ld to le
a very clever man, personally reaemblins iht
boldt or Webster. but with a dash of Sir Ws
Newton. Ile first appeared IS • SCLlOOluisiki OBlti
frontier of Arkansas, but, at the surge,hon of Wl'
Wheeler, took to the law, wbich he maatered then,4l
iii six months. But the law did not suit bier, anl
" made oonstant sallies into the fields of science. 111
lure, and art." We Cr. told that his inathesall
acquirements were unrivalled, and that, in •
publiabedion "Th. Desperadoes of the We,t,"
for immortality, on beholding the execution of Wu,
the moat noted culprits in Arkansas, has no walk'
any living language for beauty of dietiou an.
thought." But chemistry, which he Maly col
" youngest daughter of the Sciewes, burn &mid foe
and cradled with rollers of tire," was his (arson
study. Such merit was at length rewaided by is
appointment as Judge of the District Cost I of Only
vile, on the banks of the Rio °reed°. But iit< ti°
September he suddenly turned up at San Fresno,
and called upon his old friend Parker' exhibitiar
same intellectual appearance as ever, slightly aikP
ated, as Parker thought, by the effects of crick.
This interview between the friend. contains is
nucleus of the story. Sunnuerfield opened by &skill'
Parker had seen any newspaper artieLs lately 05 IN
conversion of water into fuel. Paikcr had not sol
such article', and thought, for his own part, that a'
expense of such • conversion would probably too abe'
to its Kuunral adoption. "On the contrary, rejoins'
Siumutirtield, "the expense is insignificant, mot
have the secret." rosier, the attoraey. sine,
business ; and, expecting to be emple)ed in p
taking out of the patent, naturally began to glorify as
merits of the invention. But Stitumerfield stopped his
and began to dilate on the inequalities of the preer,
distribution of wealth. This little oration he folio*
up by prodnoing • *mall phtal,sayiog, 'Fur the ei.
tents of that bottle I demand ono million dollars, s+
you must raise it for me in the city of Sian Franco'
within one month, or scones too terribie even for
imagination to conceive will surely be witnessed
every living human beieg on the lace of the globe. r"
long aliti the abort of it was that Mr. simians'
would have his million dollars, or he would set
the Pacific Ocean. Tuinkieg to humour ii'
Parker begged for further information. The ar6o-7,
was as follows :—Water is *imposed of exile* "-„,
hydrogen in chemical combination. Decompeo•-•
avatar and you have the matetieds for the mon
combustion, fire being the phenomenon attenimi
recombination. A small example of this eoinhou'4.,-,
the ury-hydro,on lima light, • slightly more
examile is afforded iu the explosion which atuelo'.
bad management Of that tight. Noe, r.uusice7,
claimed to Live made • little pill winch wouid
not only decompose the water with which it cao;
contact, but, by setting up contagious chemical .„,
would sot that water decomposing of itseit.
he a ated with potassium—which instantly 'Si,'"
placed in water—to supply the initial their f•t,
world contlagration. " One good expeno'' pi
r'r
worth a dozen arguments," at length lasid4 6
born we this basin of water." "1 WV
your word," said Suminetfield, and iii a
the flame was half-way up to the calling.
drop of water was burnt. This was enouSb,
would do what he could with the capitalist. ',so
Francisco. Of ouurse they mwe •
instruction Stimineriield uidi r ii„teela rut/lutes .7,- -I
all the water of • large pond, in the nryscg, "of
leading banker, • Bishop, a eliennuit,
University professionals, a physican, a jilgoist
• Protestant divines.' Then they tried to
lower his prico, but he was obdurate, and at len „a
sot to erotic to get him the money. They 001' e
' rains one-half I No wonder Calif orais.street befs'op
• look haggard and anxious. The hams of the fit di
' so wee-begone that the newspapers began W
money politic and • disturbs/um in the New
Room But the truth was that "the pale ii• Sip
desalt looked down upon them all, and pointed w'
bony finger to the tomb of tne whole uuniel„'"is
already looming up in the distance before Bust, a,
• last they persuaded Burn merfield to take 500,0•7_,
down, and go with Patter to get the balance
New York. Then, to make the matter short,.
Bishop, backed by the two Protestant divieo audr.
rest agreed—the Bishop was the first to suaAe:iie, •
, that Sumuaerfield mass bo killed, awl
few minute.' thought, and an argument which too,' ie
Meted on himself, but with which we will Be ow we
I the reader, accepted the commission with tile res
, have seen. slush 0
• Such is this truly remarkable story es
• Ziorttere dirges gives et sews. For OFIr P07;mloil
look upon it •• a Ay puff of nomot.rpolnkamu,_,A' mt
to snow whim rum ammo m krollen/
res 7 wail pill.