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VOL. IV.
MEDFORD, OKEGOX, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1892.
NO. 6.
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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.
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