The Lincoln County herald., 1873-03-19
TERMS or ADvER rIsINC.
EOliap Ilarp.

Onc OF tue cWaIUcseTe ~ u te0cn sv0vy
is un oves snxious householdct who n
full Of cares while prepasipg for
jouraey. Hc writes oat relies for be
wife aud servants IN case the house 10 Oh
Gre, or robbers come to plunder his
goods. And h's precaution against the
latter danger is un sdmirable one. 1t 10
this Put Eolisn harps in the windows
at night, and any rogues provliDg about
will think attn ut home amusing myself
on my instrument, aud Vill not disturb
you
Could there be lovlier vay 10 drive OF
wicked Den from q good mans hoa,s
than by sweet strains Of music +? Evca
it burglars knew that the protector Of .
house was absent, they could hardly
bring tLeir minds to such meauness and
sin with such notes in their ears, from
the wind Of heaven across the simple
strings Of an II ,lian harp, which any
boy can make with a jack knife, bit Of
iue wood, and gard Of sewing silk.
Nor need We wait to scare away bur-
glars; we can have one of these sweet.
toned instruments at any time. We had
thought that every boy knew how to
make these ha'ps, but having recently
met with one who knew great deal else.
but who had never heard Of one, wo
thought there might lie others in this
generation who knew all about pianos and
organs, trombones, comets, and flutes,
who had not heard of this simplest aod
sweetest Of oil inst.uncD 8. So at The
risk of telling what yJu all may know.
we will tell you how TO u,ukc this list .
bearer Of the music in the air."
Form two little wedges Of wood about
the size Of your thumb-whttle one end
thin enough to be pressed between the
upper and lower sashes Of the wiadow.
Draw q line round the other end with
your knife and then. cut out ebougk
wood to allow a silk thread to lilo 10 tho
cavity. Cut off your elk to a length
equal to the width Of the window aud
enough more to tie round the wedges.
Wax it we'll, tie it ut each end to one Of
the wedges. Iusert the bits Of wood,
, drawing the silk very tight, into the
crevice between the sashes; and the harp
is made and in place.
You may hear ro music at first; but
as soon as a fresh wind rises there will
n n float through yoar room the softest and
clcarest notes, Eurer tha0 those Of almost
> any costly instrument.
A LITERARY SELL "A good story IL
told in literary circles in New York OF
an enthusiastic Carlyle club Of ladies and
gentlemen of Cambridge and Boston, whu
meet rcrio licalIy to read their chosen
n prophet aud worship at his shrine. Que
, of them, not imbued with sufficient rev
y erence to teach him better, felouiously
contrived to have the reader on D certain
evening insert something of his ow1
composition into the reading, as though
I it came from the printed page and Car
y lyle's hand. The interpolation was .,
a follows: WORD splu'tering organisms
Il in whatever place not with llutsrchesr
q comparison, apologies, nay rather with
Is out any snch spologes-but born int,
, the world to say the thought ,ht is il
n them autiphorial, too. in the main
:, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers
!, men, women. pedants. Verify vi,h you
q too, it's now or never" This paragraph
, produced great applause among the de
voices Of Carlyle. The leader Of th
"a club especially, q learned and metsphysi
4 cal puudit who is the great American
a. apostle Of Carlyle, sad nothing Curlyl
,r had ever written was more representative
# and happy.