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7 THE ME VOL. IV. MEDFORD, OKEGOX, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1892. NO. 6. MAIL. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. E. B. PICKETi, K. S. Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: Booms 2 A 8, 1. 0. 0. E. Building FBANCIS ntCH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Medford, Oregon. 7. B. WATT, X. D. Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: In Cbllderg' Block. B. P. GEABY, X. D. Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office on G street. BOBT. A. mES. Attorney and Connsel!or-at-Law Jacksonville, Oregon. Will practice In all Courts of the State. J. H. WHITMAN. Abstracter and Attorney-at-Law MEDFORD, OREGON. OfTii-e In Bnnk building. Have the most com plete and reliable abtrnctti of title In Jackson county. W. 6. JONES. M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office Hamlin Block, upstairs. DR. O. F, DEMORE5T, RESIDENT DENTIST, Makes a specialty of flrat-rlnB work at reason able rates. Oftlce In Opera Bouse, Medford, Oregon . , B.. PBYCE 11. D. Physician and Surgeon. Uedford. Oxvgon. WnXAED CKAWFOBB, Attorney and Counselor at Law MEDFORD. OliBlOS. Odtce In Opera Block WM, M. COLVIG, ' ATTORNEY-AT - LAW. JacksnuTUle. Oregon. MORRIS K. HARKNES8, Attorney and Counsellor 3 ranis Pass, Oregon. DRUGSTORE The imdtn.; dim store of Hertford Is GEO. H. HASKINS, ISaccmiimr to Hll.klns k Tawton.) He has anything in the line of Pure Drags, Patent Medicines, - Books, Stationery, Paints and Oils, Tobacco, Cigars, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, And Bwrythlnir tout la carried In a flrstHjiaaa Drug - Store. Prescriptions Carefully Com pounded. Main Strait, Vedford. Oregon. EAST AJSTD SOUTI1 VIA Southern Pacific Route. THE MOUNT SBASYA ROUTE. EXPBJ3M TRA'SS XtEAVZ PORTtVASD DAILY: Si7uth Horth 70 P. N. I Lv Portland Ar ?:3".a. x. :: P. X. I I.v M-drnt Lv 1 5 rtH p. K 8:15 A. M. J Ar San Fraucteco LfpAl p. x. A bore trains stop only at the following stations north of Roaehurg: East Portland, Oregon City, Woodburn, Salem, Albany, Tangent, Shedds, Halwr. Harrlsburg, Junction CI y, Irving and Eugene. Ko-rbur-r Mail Dally. t rf a. M. I Lt Portland 4:40 p. M. Ar Boaeburg Albany laical Dally (Except Sunday.) 5 : P. Jt. I Lv Portland Ar 8 : A. X. 9 MO P. M. 1 Ar Albany Lv5a) a. M PTJLLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS. Tourist Sleeping Cars For accommodation of Second-Class Passengers, altac ed to Express tral as. WEST SIDE DIVISION. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORYALLIS. Mail Train Daily (Except Sunday.) 7 jo a. jt. I L Portland Ar S Mo p.m. 12 :10 P. M. Ar Corvallts Lv 12 AS P. X. At Albany and Corvallts connect with trains of Oregon Partite Ballroad. (Exprew Train Dally Except Sunday.) 4 :40 P. X. I Lv Portland Ar 1 80 A. X. 7 :'J8 p. M. ! Ar McUlnnvtlle Lv 5;45 a. X 49-Throufcb tickers to all points East and Sooth ' Fur tiketa and full Information regarding Jfc. KOtULfcK, . V. KOtiEKS. Manager. AaaLG F. it P. Agt We ratbe14 t a win nw ye er !jt.. Ante te and 1; Together w tcked ei-ca brls-.t, e ru-c int Ughl W.ti In the r-kv. We sat i lie mow from 'i e itu t ecoulr Iree, A cro t bo; Her paling beams to pell of pnesy DM round tt threw. Pray, was Itatra- x- that In a scene like this 1 1 ilke I or 1 to. And ton a something iiko sup rnal btlas A J y aror The ordinary J y t a; n;or al feel? Ab, sod lo Any, The fluting moii.entM did my fate r. veaL She sold ra' "XayT I went a ay so sad the faars dl l start TJntn my eywf Bur, happily, to- ay I'm strung of heart. Anil Try wl-e. And though, no doubt, I'll meet her once aiain, do brwf I'll grow I will not speak those thoughts I toll her wben I tor? I herso. Too well her fickle nature dO' I know How false she Is Too well recall ow she did overthrow Hv hopes -f b.lsa. Ob. no, I will not ak ner love a;ra'n. For I cot; fAss That I am very much airald t at then Sie'da swjrYesl" Continent Tw Blighted Beings. Mortimer was twenLy-rniir ypars old, and tbe greatest foot on earth. Tufs whs a proud distinction, and it was the only on Mortimer bad. He had proved bis right to bear it a dozen different times In glorious action on the tented Q jld in close rivalry with others of bis ae and sex, all vyinc for the unique honor. But no one could wrest lt from Morti mer. In considering him it was so ap parent that it swamped every other at tribute. No one ever said : "How hand some Mortimer isl" or "How well he dancen !" or " How nice his people are !" or ' How many times he's been re jected !" all of which c al l bav been said with perfect truth. But every one the giil he led the g rman with last night, the fellow he walked down town with yesterday morning, tbe man he played tennis with on Tuesday after noon, the lawyer over whose office Mor timer's pres-noe cast a i esplendent glamor all expressed their views In the same way, with merely a Hiff-reuce of adjective: "Waat a fool Mortimer is! W.iat aconsntnmatp fool Mortimer isl What a blamed fool M rtituer is ! Tue most conclusive proof of Mjr ti mer's aggressive, persistent, obstinate foolishness was that he could get no one to marry him. Ail tbe girls knw that Mortimer was a fool and would have nothing to say to bim. He had proposed to any number of them and was always rejected. H Lad offered his heart and hand to Nw-Yorktrs, Bostonians, Baltlmoreaus, Fiiiladelphlans, and San Franciscans. Some of them fled away with pinrcing cries, while others swooned at the thought. It seemed that nobody wanted Mortimer. Bat one day be met Maud and lovd her with a lov that was not exactly his doom but still, do not let us antici pate events. Maud bad never been thought a fool until she reciprocated Mortimer's youn affections. Aft-r that, there were dark rumors about the meagreness of her mental equipment, and when the welkin rang with her silv ery laub, tbore were chose- who- spoko of tbe crackling of tjorna under a pot. Maud was a penniless beauty just the heroine for a tragedy. Sue lived on the fourth flat of an apartment-house with her brother Jack. Sue could do any thing but keep the flit in order. On winter afternoons she skated, and sum mer afternoons she swam. No one could dive as gracefully as Maud from the boat-house flo it. No one could dance as well as MauJ, or keep it up lor such a length of time, and her manner of con ducting a conversation on the stairs was something masterly. When she laughed, you could her two blocks off, and when she "served " at tennis, the boldest held his breath for a time. Add to these oharms that she was the finest looking girl in the world, nearly six feet high, with a waist of eighteen inches, a splendid carriage, and a dark, spirited head, and snrili wonder that Mortimer the susceptible, Moi timer the bachelor, the longing to be wed, melted before her like snow before thaw. The flirtation advanced with giant ptrides it had on seven teen- league boots. By the second time he had seen her, Mortimer said, like Prince Geralnt, "Now, by G id's rood, tuis is tbe one maid for me 1 ' He was so elated by the thought that he was once more in love, that be could not forbear confessing the sr-ft secret to some one, and he was in discreet enough but, of course, being Mor Imer no oue was surprised to con fess it to a distant female relative. The female relative did what all fe male relatives would have done under the circumstances. She bled her away, panting, wild-eyed, pallid, to tell another female relative. A family pow wow was Immediately convened, and several of the male relatives were let in on oaths of secrecy. The presence of the male relatives was not a brilliant Inspiration. They would not see the enormity of Mortimer's crime. They said they had not supposed he had so much sense. Toey said they did not sea why he should not marry her if he wanted. " She Is as handsome as a pic ture, ' said one : I, for one, think the family should welcome her with open arms." There was a murmur of assent from the male relatives, but the female reia .vs sa. as silent and unresponsive as tne avenue of sphinxes at Kirnak. During the pow-wow, one female rela tive came to tbe conclusion that the proper thing to do was to tell Aunt Mary, a hi-h power In the family. At ono fell swoop the latter banished all Maud's claim to benuty. In truth, the day was an unbeo ning one very warm and Muut was flushed. Then she wore no gloves, and tbe amazing tenuity of her waist, the haughty post of her head, tbe chal eugintr glance of her nariow eyes. unJ the impudent manner in which her sailor-bat was tilted loo e side, dis pleased Aunt Mary who described these peculiarities with a Tfealth of diction of which the family had never before sus pected be" capab'e. Mortimer's pap t heard her story and he waxed exceeding wroth. Ir there was a person on earth to be feared It was Mortimer's papa. He was a fierce-looking old gentleman, with beetlins brows and a taste for collecting old coins and gems. He was as determined as he was rich, and Mortimer who would have patronised the great Khan of Tartary aud patted the grand Llama of Thibet on the shnuMer, trembled befor- his father's . Olympian noi. Mortimer's mamma, wben she beard the direful news, wept and said she could not tolerate a tall woman In the house. If Mortimer had b l j con-side: ace and dutiful son he would have set tils affec tions on a pigmy. But the crisis was at hand. Papa was acquainted with the styte of the lady with whom his son de sired to ally himself, and that night, wrapping tbe draperies of his couch around him, he retired to anything but pleasmt dreams. Meanwhile Mortimer and Maud were having a rool lime regardless of theix doom, the little victims played. They dnnoed aud drov and walked together. M rtimergave M u I candies and flow ers; Miud gavt; Mortimer smiles and imUtjle looks. He was admitted Into tne Hat. He never saw the white shawl iaxnd ha never saw the kitchen, but he aaw Maud In a becoming summer silk. and lift bought her t!i - prt-ttlest glil in tb world. It was difficult to say wheth er M iud reciprocated bis adoration. Sm elicited from the female relative mat Mortimer had a wealthy father, and S4U a month salary " income," M rtimer always called it. It wa the even:nc after the day that Aunt M ry saw Maud that M .rtimer was c.thed to acc. uut. His fat.ier, sit ting enthroned like Rhadnmantuus un der a priceless M .nticelli, 'called ' Nymphs Dancinc" which was one great obscurity, with a few arms and legs breaking through the darkness here and tuere in an aggravating manner ar raign e1 M rt mer. and then denounced him. M -rtliuer. at first startled, soon regained his ca'm, and standing in a easv pose, one leg slightly in advance ol the other, his right hand caressing his moustache, listened trnnq-iilly. "Doyou wish to marry this female athlete?" asked the parent. " I do," answered the son. "'You love her?" "Madly." "Mddly on forty dollars a month?" "O i, no Ionly like her on forty dol lars a month, i. love her madly on what you choose to give us." "And suppose I don't choose to give you anything? ' Well under those circumstances, I ceae to love her." ''My son !' cried the father, and they fell ou each other's necks. Thon Mortimer's brothers came in and they ussmted him out of the room, laid blm on his little bed, and put cold com presses on his brain. When he revived he rose and went out to pay two visits. Tbe fl st was to Aunt Mary, who leceivd bim with proper melancholy. He upbraided her gently wit:i having torn asunder two loving hearts. S le defended herself, add ng, in support of her conduct, that Maud's late father had kept a corner grocery, his habit as he lived having been to sell molasses and sugar across the counter. At this. Mortimer's spirit rose like a pi oertix from its ashes. "If a man sail that to me I would knock him dowu !' and he cleuched his fl -t threatening. y. "Well. Mortimer, you don't want to knock down your aunt do yt-u? said Aunt Mary, in some n latin. The magnanimous Mr timer forbore. No he would spare her tl-is time. But In future bew ire I And he btro le out. jamming his bat down over his ears. He went to see Maud and to tell her that from h-nceforth they were two blighted beings two souls with but a single thought, that thought being the impossibility or a uatrirnonial alliance on Mortiraoi Vs income.' He had not heard of his emp!oyr's ufter to double his in co ran if he 'stayed away, or he might nave availed himself of it. "Hullo, Morty !" Mortimer paused on the curbstone and glared up at the vision with the flowing hair and green tidy, leaning out of the fourth-story window. "Hullo, Maud I" said ue, gloomily; "the governor's caught on." Maud, leaning far out on her folded arms, called down : " I can't ask you to come up just now, bo you U have to tell me from here. What does he say?" "He says he won't lot me." "Is that so?'' said Maud, absently biting an end of her loosened t.air "that's too i,ad, isn't it? What time is it? I'm going 10 the matinee and my clock's stopped. Won't be relent?" "No." . "Awfully sorry, 'Morty! Wbt time did you say it was?' "Ten minutes to two what matinee are you g'dng to?" " Ten min n s to two? Good heavens ! B til road of Inve 'is It good?" " Splendid. Well, I thought you'd like to know. Goor'-by I" "Good-by! Awful pity we couldn't arrange it. I'll be half an hour late." And Maud withdrew from the window, while Mortiner sauntered down the street. S; n Francisco Argonaut. AMERICAN ilfunS. People Born in Tills Country Who Have Handles fo Their IEau.es. It is well known that the Constitution of the United States frowns upon titles and orders of nobility, yet there are many native-born Americans whose dignities range from the humbler orders of Knight hood to the exalted rank of princes And I am not now alluding to heiresses, who have been raised to the peerage by mar riage. Tiiese instances are already familiar to the public. What Is is less known is tbe fact that many American men haven won a similar elevation by direct grant from a foreign crown. The famous scient si. Count Bumf ord, was a plain New Eug au:l Yankee named Thompson, who went abroad, attracted general attention by his chemical discov eries, and was ennobled by the King of Bavaria. In our own days Edison has been made a count, ami Pullman, of parlor car fame, a marquis, by King Humbert, but neither of them cares to sport the title, and it is only alluded to in a jocular fashion by their friends. The Pope has conferred the order of Chevalier on several Americans, the most notable being the millionaire Joseph Bannigau, of Providence. B. L The father of Edgar Saltus was knighted by Queen Victoria aud has the right to call himself Sir Francis Salt us. but has the good taste never to exercise that right. Marmaduke Richardson, a well-known New Yorker, was made a count by King Humbert, but never sports tbe title. Thero are many Americans now living abroad who are not so modest. A certain American criminal, well known to the po lice here as Max Shinbaum and by numer ous other aliases, is now living in Belgium as Baron Shinbaum. A former Boston spiritualist, Charles Hamilton Fiske by name, made his ap pearance in Wurtemberg a year or two ago as the Count de Vernoi , and for a period enjoyed the highest favor of the King, until he was doposed by concerted action on the part of the native nobility. In both these cafes it is not certain that the titles veie genuine, although it is quite possible that they may have been acquired by purchase, as easy step on the continent of Europe. Genuine Spanish titles, for example, may he bought pretty cheap, the price ranging from thirty thou sand francs for a couutship to eight hun dred for a knightship. In Italy the decayed nobility are enti tled to adopt strangers as their sons for a monetary consideration, and the adoption carries with it such titular dignity as would be the birth-right of a real son. The consideration, as a rule, is not large. A New York jnurnaRst, now liviug abroad, Is said to have purchased the title of "Prince Giialdini" for a mere trifle of $73l. To conclude, an instance of titled Ameri can citizens born on American soil Is af forded by the children of the Marchioness Danza, t e novelist, all of whom are mem bers of the Italian nobility. Epoch. An Ignorain.114. ' Mr. Blinkers I understand, sir, that your son and my tiaugter are engaged, aud 1 feel thatou account of my daugh ter's youth their oou tern plated marriage should be postponed. Mr. Leveihead-What? My son talking about marrying? Why, lie's a mere in fant, a perfect ignoramus. He doesn't know enough to hist himovr Sunday. W:ty, sir, tie felow i asu't been out of college over a year. GomI News. . Result of Woman In Bmlncu. Griffin (coming to the point at once) Kitty, will you have me? Kitty (equally businesslike) Thanks, Mr. Grifflu ; but I really can't afford you. Drake's Magazine. A FI3HIRMA D'3 SONG. The poplars tall kissed tbe cold gray sky. And In front was the hungry sea. And the river swept dark and drearily by. While the wind sighed mournfully; Away in the west, tbe low sun died ' , . Tbe amethyst banks between; And amid the reeds, the plover cried. As I gazed on that well-known scene. And the fishermen's boats were far away On the ocean's heaving breast; And the red lights gleamed wide over tbe bay From tbe high hill's windy crest; x And I saw again my lover's boat With her white sails all outspread, f Llke a joyous bird o'er the water's float Wben tbe evening skies were red. To-morrow tbe sun in the east will rla. And tbe fishing fleet come home. To gladden tbe weary, waiting eyes, - Wet with more than the salt sea foam: . ' But ah me 1 for tbe boat that left the shore ; That eve when the skies were red. For the fisher lad I shall see no more v'- Till the sea gives c p Its dead. ' A QUAINT RELIGIOUS CUSTOM. J ky ' Where the Ceremony of Washing ttum Feet Is Still Performed. t ' Civilization in Its onward- march has. swept away from this country many of the peculiar customs and ceremonies of half a century ago, but there is no truer rule than that "there is on exception to every rule," and accordingly many out landish practices are still in vogue In many sparsely settled parts of the Union. Every section of country has something uncouth or old-fashioned within its bor ders, to which a few of the old inhabitants will cling, but if they are alt as harmless as a ceremony still being occasionally per formed in some parts of the South, no one Is injured. In the section alluded to. which em braces Georgia, ihe Carolines and North Alabama, is a small and widely scattered religious sect known ns "Hard-Shell" or Anti-Missionary Baptists, whose custom of washing each other's feet is worth not ing on the score of novelty If nothing else. This denomination claims to be the Primitive Baptist Church and traces its origin directly to John the Baptist.: It was in 1837 that the Georgia "Hard-Shells" withdrew from the orthodox Baptist Church on account of a difference in opin ion on the subject of foreign missions, and so bitter were they against this work that they declared in infancy against all forms of missionary teaching. Tract societies, Sunday schools, temperance and Bible organizations fell under the edict which went forth when they declared themselves the primitive church and be gan to wash each other's feet during their religious meetings. The members of these churches are ex celient'farmers, so far as morals go. They are compelled to pay their debts and are not allowed to join the Farmers' Alliance. Only a little while ago this was at tempted, but the church promptly disci-, plioed the incautious brethren. They, look the temporance question square in the face and say, "We are not going to meddle with you. If any of our members wish to drink they can do so; bnt not to excess. If they get drunk they are ex pelled." That is about the stand they take, and as a man knows he will be expelled for drunkenness, he generally stops when he has drunk enough. The crowning glory of their religion consists in carrying out the biblical in junction, "Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say well; for so I am. If 1 am then your Lord and Master have washed Pour feet: ye ought, also, lo wash one ab- Vither's feet. For I have given jorraif-Ht- ouipio Luut. ye snouiu ao as i nave uone to you." The washing process Is exceedingly sim ple, the women sitting on one side of the church and the men on the other. At the conclusion of the 'service basins are brought to the front of the church, and with them buckets of water and towels. When all is ready the women march in groups up to tbe front bench on their side of the church and the men the same on their side. Half of tbe group of each side sit down and remove their shoes and stockings and the remainder wash their feet in a semi-agony of religious fervor, oarefully drying them after the process. This is continued until all have had their feet washed those who sat down first always washing immediately afterwards the feet of those who performed a like service for them- N. Y. World. FiV- Hondred enr Ago. Professor James A. Harrison has an historical sketch in the C iautauquan, in which he gives many of the rules which " Coxcombs f-nd Coquettes of Tudor Times " employed. Among them he cites tbe following: Sleep not after "a full stomacke; be merry before bedtime; lie first on your left side; wear a scarlet nightcap, and sleep eight hours In Summer, nine in Winter. On rang "ryse with myrth and remembre Gjd ;" take a stroll ; play tennis: keep your neck warm, and keep out of sleeping-rooms infested with snails, rats and mice. On these follow William Vauzhan's "Fi'teen D rections to Preserve Health" (A. D. 36U2), among which he recom mends his own dentifrice as "better worth than a thousand of their denti frices A charming remedy for dim sight is a solution of sugar candy ( I) and aloes; and the fourteenth direction commands you to pray to God and have a hole in your nightcip ! A little later on. Sir John Harrington, author of tbe famous translation of Arlosto and a favorite of Italian-loving Elizabeth, wrote ' The Dyet for Every Day," ana "On Rising, Diet and Going to Bed," showing us exactly how wise fops or wise coquettes should conduct themselves in these particulars. "St he says in the winter season somewhat by the lire, not made with turfe or Bttnking coale, but with oake or other wood that burneth eiere;" comb your bead at least torty times; and make your mind "mure cheerfuU," by rub bing your neck with a "linn. n nap king." Always work in tne forenoon, he continues; weurasapphire, an emerald, or yellow amber, " for in stones, as also in heartes, there is great efficacie and virtue," and peoy o wuo wear emeralds have Aristotle's testimony that tuey are "goad against failing sickness." Wonderful K-.igrd.ving." One of the finest oxiiuph's of minute engraving ever made was executed in this city about the year lWii, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Au old aud well-known St. Louis engraver made for the benefit of the Southern Relief Fair a steel plate, ex actly the size of a sil vet ha'f dime, and ou it cut the Ten Co mnavha-nts and the Lord's Prayer. This feni made a great sen sation at the time a i.l tne impressions ma le from the plat mjM v:.L Some of tiiein are still in esis:,'; v.dued highly as curiosities but I in-v.n- .e ird what be cam.t of the plate. As a sp cimen of small writing, it was the mo t rm-i: kable piece of work ever seeu in t i-an :ntrc. Followed the Crease. Cleverfcon For heaven's sake, old man, what are you doing in this pari of town? Dash away When I started for the of fice this morning 1 didn't notice that the blame tailor ha i creased my trous ers wrong, and Tve walked four miles out of my way. Clothier and Furnisher. Mrs. Breezy iwith hammer) -There, I've hit the nail on the head at last. Mr. Breezy Why do you put your fingers in your mouth? Mrs. Breezy That was tha nail I hit. New York Sun; The United States senate committee on woman suffrage reported in favor of it, 3 to 2. The world moves. COSSACK MOTHER'S LULLABY. Bleep, my baby, sleep, my darling, Balnshki Balo, Calm the moonlight on thy cradle, Batusbkl Balo! I will chant thee ancient ballads. Tales of long ago. While thou steepest, close thine eyelids, Balnshki Lalol On the rocks the Terek rushed. Turbid, wild and free; On Its bank the cruel foe man Whets his knife for thee. But tby father is a warrior Fear thou not the foe. Be will guard thee; sleep, my little one, Baiusbkl Balol Enowest thou not the time is coming - Thou Shalt don the sword Sitting proudly in tbe stirrups. Side, a war! ike lord ! Gold embroidered saddle housings I myself will sew, Sleep, my darling, sleep, mine own one, Balnshki Balol Thou shalt be a famous hero, And the Cossak's pride; Iwlll come to see thee mounted Boldly forth to ride. All night I will spend In weeping " When I see thee go. Sleep, my baby, sleep, my angel, Baiusbkl Balol . I shall wear myself with waiting. Watching still for thee, - All day long In prayer that heaven Merciful will be. I will wonder if thou'rt fainting. Or If thou liest low. Sleep, while yet no care thou knowest, Balnshki Balol Thou shalt take a holy image Ere thou leavest me. When thou orayest to God, my darling, Set It beforo thee ; And before the deadly battle Let thy memory go - Once to me, to me, thy mother, Balushki Balol . . From the Russian of Lermontoft FEROBIA'S FAILURE. 'You're a standin' in yer own light Feroby." Timothy Filbert shook his head solemn ly as he spoke. He was a large man, with small, light blue eyes, and a chronic stoop in the shoulders,, suggestive of a too steady application to the plow. "You're a scandin' in yer own light," he repeated, impiessively. " Mebbe your right," Timothy," admit ted his sister, meekly. She was not nat urally of a mee'v disposition, but there are times wi-en the most spirited person feels crushed by circumstances, and such a moment had come to Miss Fero'ji i. Timothy felt somewhat placated by the unexpected admission. "Tain't too late yet," he suggested, briskly, taking bis seat at the breakfast table, where liis sister was already pour ing the coffee. "You jest say the word, -Feroby, an' I'll give Jason Small weed a hint that you've changed your mind." His pale-blue eyes glanced inquiringly at his sister, but Miss Ferobia's meeitness seemed to have vanised us unaccountably as it had appeared. "I haven't changed my mind," she re torted with much asperity. T won't marry Jason Small weed, nornobuddy else. I'll stay rig.it here an' keep housj for you the balance of my days." Timothy Wi fgjled uneasiiy. He had his own reasons f r not apprecia' i-ig the gen erous offer. To fortify himself for the dis closure whicU must be made he swallowed half Ms cpfTo at a gulp. -' "I I fie truth is, Feroby," he stam-' mered, with a crimson countenance, "I felt so sartin I was a-goin' to lose you, I I asked Nancy Garget, an' she"laid she'd have me." The cat wps out of the bag now, and Timothy mopped his faee with his band kerchief and breathed a sigh of relief. But Miss Ferofca. like a sensible woman bore the shock bravely. "And'how soon am I to give up my situa tion?" she asked. Timothy g: ow uncomfortable again. "Hey? Ob ! why you needn't to be in a hurry. It won't come off fur a week yet," he hastened to explain. "An, of course, you know I wouldn't hev notliin' agin yer stay in right along, same as ever, only Na cy, siie " "You couldn't hire me to stay," was the reassuring answer, and Timot iy con gratulated himself on having the matter so easily settled. "It puzzled me consid erTjIe to know why Timothy was so sot on me uhangin' my mind." reflected Miss Fe rcbia, as she washeJ. up tbe b en b fast dishes and polished the knives and forks. "Butit's p'ain as pike-staff now. I might o knowed bn was say in' one word fur me an two fur hisself." Miss Ferobla was unlike her brother In appearance as s.;e wa? in disposition. While he was stoop-shouldered she was straight as an arrow. And though, as she admitted, siie was "getting along" in years, her bright eyes aud fresh com plexion contradicted the assertion, At her brother's request she remained at her post uut 1 the wedding was ovei and the bride installed in her new home. There was very little congeniality be tween the two won en, and Mrs. 'Jiraothy Filbert was disposed to triumph over her sister-in-law. "I s'pos'; you wasn't a-countin on your brother marryin'," she remarked disa greeably, as S ie combed out her ink black tresses beforo the square-framed looking glass in the best room. "He had a right to please himself," re joined Miss Ferobia, composedly. "But what are you going to do?" per sisted the bride. "As I told Timothy before T promised to have him. the house w t'n't big enough for two farn 'lies, an you fiu da' t, expect to stay after I come," "Au as I toid him, I wouldn't stay if he paid me for it," retorted Miss Ferobia. emphatically. "Oh, you're mighty independent," sniff e 1 Nancy, tossing her head. T sup pose you're a-calculatin' to take up with Jason Smallweed. You wouldn't ketch me marryin' a widderer," she added mali ciously. "If I couldn't be the table-clotb I wouldn't be the dish-rag. But Is'pose he's Hobson's choice with you." The truth was that she was afraid her Bister-in-fc.w might still manage to retain a place in the household by hook or by crook, and she was determined to provoke an altercation in order to prevent such a sequence. But Miss Ferobia was not to be drawn into a quarre!. "He may bo Hobson's choice, but he ie not mine," she returned coolly. Nancy, however, was as persistent as a gnat or a gadfly. "I don't doubt but what you'd rather have Felix Reylield," shesuggested, slyly; "but you needn't to count on gittin' bim, fur he's a-keepin' comp'ny with the Wid der Cheese man, an' everybuddy says they're a-goin to marry after harvest." It was a random shot on Nancy's part, but her black eyes sparkled with malicious triumph as she saw by her sister-in-law's burning cheeks that the poisoned arrow had struck home. Miss Ferobia deigned no reply, however, out went cooiy aoout preparations lor her own departure. She had rented a small cottage and a few acres of ground a mile or two from the old homestead, and Timothy could do no less than get out the spring wagon and drive her to the new home. It was yet early in the springtime, and the wild plum trees were white with bloom. The tall maples and elms by the roadside swung their light tassels In the Soft breeze, and myriads of buttercups and purple-hued pansies dotted the grass grown lanes. T dunno what you wanted of so much ground - 'round your house," remarked Timothy, reflectively, as the wagon rolled easily a'ong. "Half an acre would of been enough. I should say." "No. it wouldn't," maintained his sister, stoutly. "I'm a-goin' into the gardenin business, to raise truck fur the markets." . Timothy whistled. "You'll make a failure of it, sure as guns," he declared, ruthlessly. But Miss Ferobia was not to be discour aged. "There's plenty of men make a livin at It, an why not me? she asked. "I've got a little money laid by to start on. An' I've got a stout pair of arms, an' never Was sick a day in my life; so why should I make a failure of it?" But Timothy only shook his head and remarked, vaguely, that it was "onpracti cable. aud she would find out," aud de clined to commit himself further. And the conference was cut shoit by their arrival at the cottage. It was a lonely place, but Miss Ferobia was blessed with strong nerves and soli tude had no terrors for her. She had accumulated a few odds and ends of furniture from time to time, the gifts of various friends and relatives, which went a good way toward furnishing her diminutive dwelling. ; And when they were arranged to her satisfaction, and a square of bright-red rag carpet tacked down In the center of the room, Miss Ferobia felt as happy as a king. She was toolired after her day's work to do more than take a cup of tea and re tire to rest. But a comfortable night's sleep on the old-fashioned four-posted bedstead restored her energies, and for the next few days she was as busy as a nailer over her preparations. Lem Dodson was hired to plow the "truck patch," a cow with a young calf was bargained for, and a few fowls of the Plymouth Rock and Dorking species were purchased and were soon cackling vigorously around their new quarters. After a little more help from neighbor Dodson, and a vigorous use of tbe hoe on Miss Ferobia's part, tbe ground was in readiness for planting, and the ambitious market-gardener sat up till long past her usual bed time looking over her stock of seeds, and selecting those requi site for immediate use. There might be late frosts, she reflected, and such tender plants as beans and cu cumbers, summer squashes and nutmeg melons, would be better out of tbe ground than in it for a few days to come. " But beets and lettuce, spinach and mar rowfat peas and rutabagas, would stand anything short of a regular freeze, and might be safely planted at once. And. late though she sat up, the first pink flush of early dawn did not find Mi. i Ferobia napping the next morning, nor for many mornings to come. She was up with the birds, and after a hasty breakfast out she sailed, and hoed and raked, weeded and transplanted, till her back aci-ed and her fingers grew sore and her nose freckled and her cheeks tanned. But gardening is hard work, at best, and though Miss Ferobia labored with a will, the grass and weeds would creep in here and there in spite of her vig ilance. The purslane "pusly" she called it and horse nettles grew faster than hei butter-head lettuce or white spine cucum bers. The weather was not always propitious, and her first planting of suar-corn and early rose potatoes rotlei in the ground. But Miss Ferobia, nothing daunted, re planted the vacant rows with her later va rieties, and in due time the seed sprouted and gave every ptvmise of a luxuriant crop. But from that time on it was, as tbe little woman declared, a "tussle' between herself and the weeds. - V- While she was hoeing her cabbages and kohl robies and weeding her silver-skin onions, the cockle buros and wild morning glories were nourishing among her sweet corn and potatoes. She worked early and late, however, to eradicate tfte tenacious interlopers, and finally succeeded in accomplishing her task. When Io! one unlucky night Farm er Nubbin's pigs forced their way through a broken panel of the fence, and played havoc among tbe growing crops. Small wouder, indeed, if our heroine lost her temper at last, and pelted those pigs with clods, or whatever came handiest, and even whacked one of them across the snout with the hoe-handle. But with ail her efforts it was late in the day when the last one of tbe marauders was disposed of, and the feuce patched up, after a fashion. (I will say here, in parenthesis, that I do believe a woman could vote, and even make laws, and execute them, too, as well as a man, under some circumstances. When 1 say, "under some circumstances," I mean- if she were not hampered by prejudiced and unreasonable colleagues. But when it comes to patching rail-fences, the least said about woman's capabilities the better.) However, Miss Ferobia's workmanship. If not exactly artistic, was sufficiently in genious to prevent further inroads in that direction. But for some reason, from that time on, the Fates seemed to turn a cold shoulder on her efforts. The rabbits feasted on her early York cabbages and marrow-fat pease, the striped bugs worked destruction on her cucumbers and Cassava melons, the Colo ado beetle devastated her potatoes, and the squash-bugs ate up her Boston mar row; and patty-pan squashes. The foxes, minks, owls and hawks, to say nothing of opossums and weasels, thinned tbe ranks of faer youug Dorkings and Plymouth Rocks; and, to make matters worse, hei cow turned out to be a "jumper" and brought disgrace on herself and trouble to her mistress by daily raids on Father Nub bin's corn field. This was the lost straw, and, like the mythical camel, Miss Ferobia broke down under it. "There ain't no use a-tryin', as I see," she lamented dolefully as she set out her one cup and saucer ia readiness for her tea. "A lone woman don't have no chance at all." . . - ... "Au' here Tve spent all my money, an my garden ain't wuth shucks. And Tim othy, ne'll say he-told me bow 'twould be and that I'd better o' married Jason Small weed. Aud I almost b'liev I would No, I wouldn't either. I won't take up with a sroo ed stick, if I be nearly through the "Evenin", Miss Feroby," interrupted a cheery voice, and t ere, framed in the doorway, stood Felix Byefield, a smile brightenimr. his honest, sun-brrjwned face Miss Ferobia shook bands with her visi tor, and drew forth a chair for him, with a secret fluttering at her heart as she re membered her sister-in-law's insinuation. But Felix was evidently bent on making himself agreeable. "An" so you've struck out for yourself," he observed. "Gittin' along first rate, 1 opine. You must show me your garden T baven't got no garden, an' you sha'n't see it," declared Miss Ferobia inconsist ently. "It's all choked up with weeds I couldn't keep 'em nut. An what with the bugs, an the rabbits, an' pigs, I ain't got a cabbage-head left, skeerceiy." "Sho. now, you don't say! Why, if that ain't too bad,' responded Felix sympathet ically. "An the varmints has took all my young chickens," continued Miss Ferobia. "An Farmer Nubbins is a-goin to shoot my cow, an, an' ' The thought of all her woes was too much for her and she began to sob hyster ically. "Don't cry, Feroby; please don't," urged Felix. "He shan't shoot your cow, I prom ise you." But Miss Ferobia shook her head, and dried her eyes on the Crner of her apron. "I'll-sell the cow," she declared soberly. "An' I'll go an hire out somewhere, I can cook if I can't make garden." "No need to hire out," put in Felix eagerly. "I I wane somebody to cook fur me. Say you'll marry me, Feroby?" But Miss Ferobia in her surprise .stared at him, then hung her head, blushing like a gin. "It's so sudden," she whispered. "What's tbe odds," aked Felix boldly. "I wanted you long ago. only I couldn't somehow git the courage to ask you. Say yes, won't you, Feroby?" And aiiera little more urging Miss Fe robia did say yes, and felt very well con tented with her future prospects. In spite of her weedy garden. Timothy will say the truck business was a failure after all," she reflected, as she washed up ber supper dishes at night, with a very light heart, "but he can t say It wasn't a successful failure, anyhow." Helen Whitney Clark In Frank Leslie's. THE FUTURE NEW Y03K HARBOR. The War Department ana Governor Abbett In Controversy Over It There is a lively war of words going on between New Jersey's Governor. Abbett, and Secretary Proctor, of the War De partment, as to the future appearance of the side of New York harbor that abuts on the Jersey coast. The Governor and the State Eittrian Board have a Tjlan in con templation for an enlargement of tbe"Ta-j ciiities or the harbor that does not seem to commend itself to the judgment uf the Washington ofllcials. . - PROPOSED TSIiASDS VS NEW YORK HABBOB. One picture is a birds eye view of the seat of war. It is a view of New York bay looking south fromdirect'y north of the Statue of Liberty. Staten Island Is on the right in the distance and immediately over the statue is the Narrows. Extend ing below the statue for a mile or more is a row of docks and warehouses, which the railroads of New Jersey want to - build in order to reach deep water. And herein lies the controversy. These proposed warehouses are to be built ou artificial islands over & mile out from the New Jersey shore. Both are to be south of Bedloe's Island and 4,850 feet long by 600 feet wide. Be tween them and Bedloe's and Bobbins islands channels 1,000 feet broad are to be constructed. For the benefit of the com merce they are to attract and of the shore owners a ship canal 1,000 feet wide and 25 feet deep is to be dug through the mud flats and between the islands and the Jersey shore, lt was expected that the mud excavated from the flat -for the "canal will supply the material for ;he construc tion of the two artificial islands. The canal is to be close enough to the islands to make them as easy of access to ships of big draught as on the deep water side of them. Communication is to be estab lished between them and the main land by trestles with open draws in them to permit ol tbe free passage ol ships. This was the plan of the Sta'.e of New Jersey, but Secretary Proctor sent a Spec ial Harbor Commission to investigate it and they decided against it. Then the war began. There are other elements In the controversy- Tbe owners of th-shore in front of which the islands were to be built quote from their deeds to show that the Slate is now claiming for the purpose of reselling a portion of tbe property which it has al ready sold to the shore owners and from whom it bas had its money. The grantees, they say, "feel that they are being robbed under the cloak of legislative sanction iu the interest of some unknown corporation or some other mon eyed power ana that the State is being used to consummate this great wrong upon its own citizens." The descriptions in their deeds convey tbe lands by metes and bounds and add that the descriptions carry this besides, not only the described lands, but "If and wben said exterior lines shall be fixed at any other points or places further out in said bay, any and all lands under water lying between the present ex terior lines above desci ibed, and the new exterior line or lines that may be here after fixed, the same to be used for solid filling and for piers respectively." Besides these contestants there are the railroads already- established In Jersey City, who oppose the scheme because it will enable great rival roads to reach New York harbor. The fight promises to be a hot one and will be watched with intense interest. FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIE NCE. The American. Association's Fortieth Annual Meeting In Washington. The American Association for the Ad vancement of Sconce is one of tbe most Important among the scientific societies of this country. Its fortieth annual meet ing takes place in Washington this year, occupying the week beginning August 19th. The new President of the Associa tion is Albert Benjamin Prescott, one of oar most distinguished chemists. ALBERT BENJAMIN PBESCOTT. Professor Prescott is a native of New York, and is of the same family that has included Colonel William Prescott, the distinguished historian. He studied medi cine at the University of Michigan, where he was graduated in 1864: and then served In the United Slates army as assistant surgeon until the cloeof the Civil War. Returning to Ann Arbor, he was made professor of organic and applied chemis try and pharmacy, which chair he has since continued to till, with the additional duties of the charge of the chemical laboratory since 187G. and with the title of director since 1884. He has also bad charge of the School of Pharmacy in the University of Michigan since its first or ganization, and in 1876. when this school became a distinct department, he was made dean or its incuitv. - Professor Prescott is best known as the author of a series of text books on chemis try. He was prominent in t he revision of the "United States Pharmacopoeia" in 1899, holding in that connection the chair man chip of the sub-corn mi l tee on descrin- tlve chemistry. In 1876 he was made a .bellow of t;.e London Chemical Societv. and in 1886 was made president of the American C-iemical Society. He is In his sixtieth year.. ........ Electric light or power Is now used in nearly forty American mines, and with such success that a rapid extension of electric mining-is anticipated. A NEW CA5TLE GARDEN. Immigrants to Lund on Ellis Island, 1st the Shadow of Liberty's Statue. Immiorantfi seelr-ntr tha hnanlfnltt- -r the Unite 1 States will be examined as to their qualifications for the privilege on Ellis Island Vaw Ynclr TTnrW - tember l. This is the desire of Uncle Sam aou tne expectation of Colonel Weber, commissioner of immigration, and General O'Belrne, the acting commissioner during Colonel Wehor'c n iKsnw in 17..hM in stead of the insufficient, low-ceiled, stuffy OOTj. JOHN B. WEBEB. ' ' and malodorous quarters of the present liarge Office.. the immigrant will find him- -sel! in a great airy building, fitted with every reasonable accommodation for his . comfort and situated on a pretty piece of ground out in the harbor. Almost within a stone's throw the statue-of Liberty looms up on Bedloe's Island, which may inspire bim with feelings of respect and veneration for the institutions that made its erection possible. On the other side, across a narrow stretch of water, is tbe Jei sey shore, from which will come to bis ears the busy hum of industry. All about tbe water space are big and little ships and steamer moving about on commer cial missions, from the sight of which he may gather lessons of usefulness and ac tivity. The whole situation Is at once in structive and convenient. The island was originally two and a half acres in area, but by tbe construction of wharves and filling in with earth its sise has been exactly doubled. Since the early fifties and up to a little over a year ago it was used by t he Government as a naval magazine. Grouped about the officers' quarters were long, low buildings with walls two feet in thickness, where ammu nition of various kinds used in naval war fare was stored. It came in very handy during the Iat disturbance. The long continuation of peace and the construc tion of storehouses at other points moved the Government to put the little island to a useful purpose, and about fifteen months ago it was decided to make it the receiving station lor immigrants. The main building almost faces Bedloe's Island and is 400 feet ia length by 150 feet iu depth. It is now nearly finished and is - being pushed as last as skill and industry will allow. Everything- about the construction is American. The big building is of Ameri can woods, sided and roofed with Ameri can slate, bolted with American iron and guttered with American tin. Everything about itissoiidymmetrlcalandnsefuL It is two stories in height, divided Into com- -modious apartments and "will be steam heated and at night will be lighted by electricity.. . - The first floor is divided into three prfn - cipal departments for the care of baggage, which will bo known as the- general . freight, local freight and railroad freight rooms. At one end will be the rooms ot the customs officials detailed for duty on the island. The second floor is cut up into about twenty-five rooms, varying in size accord ing to the uses they are intend for. There are six immigrant "pens." each 40x70 feet in extent. The registry department is 70x70, and embraces the money exchange desk, telegraph office, clerks' offices, etc The ticket office for west-bound immi grants is 57x130 feet. The local ticket office adjoining is 38x39, and that for the New York division on another side is 50x65. The information bureau is 50x56, and the railroad clerks' room is 32x38. It will be remarked from these dimensions that Uncle Sam has provided plenty of room for everything that could be construed as coming within Government regulations for the care of immigrants. Tbe executive offices are in tbe front of the building, near the detention rooms, and will be handsomely fitted up. The surgeons' quarters will be in the two-story house formerly used as the keeper's residence. It is almost surround ed by trees. One of the best features of the place in connection with the provis ions for the immigrants will be the large bath house just opposite the Jersey shore In the northwest corner. His to be along rectangular structure with rooms along the shies and in a pool in tbe centre. A wall divides it equally. One side will be for women and the other for men. Thirty people can be accommodated at one time. When in full working order about 200 government employes will be engaged in looking after the new comers from foreign shores. MAIN BTCLDING ON ELMS ZEALAND. Through the isolation of the receiving station the immigrants will be saved from the ma-iy annoyances that under the old order could not well, be avoided. The miserable sharks that hang around the Barge Office now to take advantage of the " greenhorn will, to a very large extent, find their occupation gone. Small Slxe of Great Men. It is a remarkable fact, although rather paradoxical, it must be admitted, that many of the world's greatest men have been small of stature. Sheridan was known as "Little Phil" the world over. George B. McCIellan was of but little larger build. Napoleon's nickname, "The Little Corporal" is a household word in every civilized country. "The Iron Duke (the Duke of Wellington) was often twitted on account of his small stature and big nose. General (Lord) Wolselev is said to be ridiculously small and to be' compelled to shorten bis stirrups until they would hardly serve a ten-year-old boy when he rides horseback. One's mind's eye is likely to picture Gladstone as a piantboth phy sically and intellectually, but it remains" a fact that the Grand Old Man is but Ave feet and eigLt inches high. A Paper Hotel There seems to be practically no limita tion to the uses to which paper can be ap plied. To the long list of articles intended for personal use and in the smaller details of construction in rolling stock, such as vheel, axles. Ac., there has been added more extensive application of paper to the needs of everyday life by the building of a hotel constructed of this material. This novel residence, which has Just been finished, and is situated in Hamburg, has been made entirely of paper boards, which, it is said, are of the hardness of wood, but possess an advantage over the latter material in that they are fireproof, this desirable end being effected by 1m- . pregnation with certain chemical solutions- if. Y. Telegram. 1