The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1895-01-03

tArT- sre dUzsts ui little loEeiels 80
villages al sranpd vtich receive ibti
ssprlt from iae cane ceulfe - The vofk
.ts 60 very large scale, Tee re Aml
SIS tolt ssy they sre the iArstst ca earth
tut tten vs claim that Tor everything Il
IL Amigo, eIo,p, the lsil aud the dealt
rat. TLese ate ssil - he the sm'll
est
Ne, vi b 50 aae AZ electrical sapply Il
s,eus 10 be- sluiuI ustts oi hemp tia
toe Las Amigcs efuioals should ptrnl
10 tbe old fashioned m.aner Aod the'
came the news ei the elec'r5eutlous II
toe East. aud hoW the results bad not, at
tei al. been 80 iastab tlnenus IS bad beer
hoped. The weslcrn engineers raised
their eyebross wheu they read Of the pa
'uy .hacks hy which these men had per
tsbed. aud they vowed 10 Los Amigos
vtsu % irfci4Imable came 10 ir way Be
.Afu'd be dealt handsomely by 90 have
the rn1 Of all the big dyusmos. There
Should be reserve. ssld the engineers,
but he tLouli have sll they had got Aud
vHatthe Teeult OF that would be uone
could predict save 1t must be blasting and
| deal, Never before had msn been 90
charged With electricity as they would
char,e Tim He was 10 be suitten by the
essst CO. q ten Thousand bolts. Some
proybtsled combustion, and tome dsln
tergtsltan sud disappearance. They were
vi ing eSgeIly to settle the question by
o. 0sl demonstration. and It wss lnst at
ths III mtnt tbst Duucsu Warner came
that way.
VAR er bad been wspted by the law,
sut hy / obody else fer many years Desi
rtr,do. murderer train robber, aud road
ssrtt, { Was man beyond the pale OF
Lumsu Ilty. lie had deserved dozen
d,a he, aud the Los Amigos folk grudged
ban 20 gsudy one as that. He seemed
10 ierl hlmsolt 10 be INV ortby OF 1t. For
be made two frei zied attempts at escape.
tie Wsss powerful muscular man, with 4
lion head tangled black locks aud a sweep
rug ard which covered his broad chest,
When be vas tried there was 20 finer h ad
"a all the crowded court It's no rev
thing to hnd The best looking face from
the dock But bis good looks could not
b ltsr ce his bad dee.s, His advocate did
oil b, knew, but tho cards lay against
hin, md Duncan Warner was hsnded ovi
er to the mercy OF the big Los Amigos dy'
usu.oA
was preseLt at the committee meeting
ben the matter was discussed. The town
council had chosen four experts to look
after the arrangements. Three Of them
were admirable, There was Joseph O'Con
nor the very man who had designed the
dyDamos and there was Joshua Wsstmsl
c1tt the chairman of the Los Amigos elec
tricaI supply company, limited Then
there was myself as the chief medical
man, and Iaiely aD old German Of the
usme of Peter Stulpnsgel. TIE Germans
were a strong body at Los Amigos, and
they all voted for their man. Ihat was
bow be got on the committee 1t WAS said
that be had been wonderful electrician
at home, and he was eternally working
with wires and insulators and Leyden jars
but ss he never seemed TO get any further
or to have any results worth publishing, |
be came st last to be regarded az barmi
lass crank who Lad made science bis hob |
by. We three practical men smiled when |
we heard be had been elected as our col |
lea, ne, and tie meeting We fixed it all |
~ very nicely ourselves without much .
thought Of the old fellow, who sat with |
hi , ears scooped forward in bis hands for
be was trlils hard Of hesling, t,klng no
more part IN the proceedings than the gen
llemen OF the press who scubbed their
notes on the back BET ches.
We did no, take long to settle it all 10
New Ioik strength Of some 2 900 volts
had been used aud death bad not been ini
t,utrnrous Evidently the shock had
been 90 weak Los Amigos should not
fall into that errtr. The charge should
be sIG times greater bLd, heretofore, OF
ourse, 1t would be SIX times more ttiectl
we Nothing coul possibly be more log
cal The whole concentrated force OF the