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MEDPBRD WLML THE v VOL. IV. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1892. NO. 7. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. X. B. PICKEL, X. D. Physician and Surgeon. Vedford, Oregon. . Office: Booms 3 & 3, 1. 0. 0. E. Bonding FRANCIS FITCH, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW. Meaford, Oregon. J. B. WAIT, K. D. Physician and Surgeon. Bedford, Oregon. Offloa: In Childera' Block. H. P. GEABY, M. D. - Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office on G street. BOBT. A. MILLER. Attorney and Connsellor-at-Law. Jacksonville, Oregon. Till practice in all Courts of the State. J. H, WHITMAN. Abstracter and Attorney-at-Law HEDFORD. OREGON. Offirn In Bank bnlldlnr. Hnve toe moat com plete ami reliable abHlracta or title la Jackson county. W. S. JONES, M. Physician and Surgeon. Hertford, Oregon. Office Hamlin Block, up-stalrs. OR. O. F, DEMOREST, KESI DENT DENTIST, Office In Opera House, Medford, Oregon R. PB.YCE, M. D. Physician and Snrgeon Medford, Oregon. Office -Guilders B!ovk; Bealdence, Gallows; reitlutmce. WTT.T.ART) CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counselor at Law MEDFORD, OREGON. Office In Opera Block AUSTIN L. HAMMOND. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. MEDFORD, ORE. ' VM. M. OOLVIG, ATTOKNEY-AT - LAW. JacksouvUle. Oregon. MOBB.IS M. HAKKNESS, Attorney and Counsellor Grants Pass, Oregon. DRUGSTORE !!njj drag store of Medford la GEO. H. HASKINS, (Suerowor to Hasklns a Lawton.) He has anything; in the line of Pure Drugs, Patent Medicines, Books, Stationery, Paints and Oils, Tobacco, Cigars, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, And everything" that to carried la a flraolass Drug - Store. Prescriptions Carefully Com pounded. tain Street, Hedibrd, Oreeom. EAST AND SOUTH Southern Pacific Route. TIIK AIOITNT SHASTA ROUTE. EXPRESS T BAINS LEAVK PORTLAND DAILY : North 7 AM p. M. 1 I.v 9 ti P. M. 1 L, 8:15 A. a.l Ar Portland ' Ar Hedtord Lv San Francisco Lt 7;3J A. X. 5:05 p. at thw tmliw Om nnlv at the following static! north of Boseburg: East Portland, Oregon City. Womlburn. Halem, Albany. Tangent, Shedda,, - HaHer. Harrisbnrg. JuncUon City, Irving and Eugene. RoMbnrg Mail Dally. Portland Boseburg Albany lcal Dally (Except Sunday.) Portland Albany . Ar8:W A. Jf. Lt5jOA1M PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPEBS. . Tourist Sleeping Cars . - ; For accommodation of Second-Class Passengers. . atlac ed to Express trains. WEST SIDE DIVISION. BETWEEN PORTLAND AXb C0RVALL1S. Hail Train Daily (Except Sunday.) TA) A. X. 12:10 P. M. Ar 5:30P.X. Lt ri45 P. a. At Albany and CoryalUs connect with trains of Oregon Pacinc Ballroad. (Express Train Daily Except Sunday.) Ar820A.f Lt I 5:45 A. at eyrhroughUckots to all points East and South ForUsxeta and : lull Information regarding rates, maps, etc, call on Co's agent at Medford. K. KUCBLgg, . E. KUUEKS. Manager. ' AaslG F. a P. Agt Woman's World. Women an Docton. The increase of women doctors in the city has been very marked lately, and several of them are now admitted as staff physicians at the hospitals and dispensaries. One great advan tage that they seem to have over their rivals of the other, sex is that tbey can tack out their sign and then fro as professional nurses until busi ness comes to them. The male doc tor frequently has to starve through a course of a year or two, and then he frequently fails to make enough to keep the pot boiling. Women doctors are generally proficient nurses, and tbey are trained by nature and study to care for the sick. They can take a patient and perscribe for him, and then watch by the bedside until all is over. At the end double fees are de manded the regular doctor's fees for prescribing and then the nurse's salary for watching and nursfng the patient according to the prescription made out by herself. There is no doubt but a great advantage is ob tained in this way, and the nurse and doctor are both held responsible for any mistake.' Among babies and wo men the female doctor has a field which is gradually making a spec ialty. New York Times. The Woman of Forty. At 40, it ever, the ladies know how to make the most of themselves, which is untrue of the vast majority in the twenties. Perhaps at no other age is the best type of woman more strik ingly beautiful. She understands how to exercise her gifts and charms in most effective fashion. The grace of perfect self-possession, often wanting in young women, is hers. If she was diffident, awkard and inexperienced, contact with, so ciety has removed these imperfections. If she was gushing, emotional, affected and too talkative, she has corrected these faults, and is warily winsome where before she was pos tively wearisome. In the normal ev olution of taste she has acquired the rare art of dressing faultlessly and so avoiding the distracting infelicities of earlier years. Her selections of style, color and material harmonize with her figure, complexion and the occasion, and she doesn t look day over 30." The woman of 40 is infinitely more attractive to me than she will be in later life, when her fine complexion fades, wrinkles leave theiryear-marks across her brow, silver threads her glossy hair, her eyea lose their luster and her step its sprightliness. She may always be agreeable, but never again so fascinating. The woman of 40! She is distract ing, delightful, divine ! Her society is a solace which robs remembrance of all remorse and poverty of all pain The spell of her dark, depthless eyes wakens latent emotions into ecstatic life, while the music of her voice thrills and fills the soul with joy un speakable. Grace; goodness and gen tleness supplement the rare and rav ishing beaut? of face and figure and her welcoming smile is a precious prize beside which wealth and learn ing and kingdoms are but dross. Luxuriant nature, in the infinite plentitude of her blessings, has be queathed to man naught else so in toxicating. and incomparable as the worHan of 40. Troy Press. Untruths About City Life. Every now and then some of the papers print a gay and alluring tale of the life .of a quartet of Western girls who come to this city to study art, write for the newspapers, or pur sue some other little calling that does not require any experience, says the Xew York Press. They immediately take a flat, paying, according to their admiring historian, ever so much more than a substantial business man with a family and a settled inoome would dream of doing. It usually has hard wood floors, over which the impecunious young women airily "scatter rugs." Kich draperies are also bought for prices that would' not procure cheese cloth, and without di minishing their capital in the least these remarkable young Westerners, without a particle of knowledge of New Xgtz or the best places to go, furnish "artistically." Then- they proceed to entertain, havincr friends to luncheon and din ner several times a week, referring In as nonchalant a manner to squabe: quail and game generally as ordinary mortals do to beefsteak and chops. They never seem to hurry from lunch to report at the office, and if they get caught in the rain it never spoil! their hat nor boots. They divide ex penses at the end of the week, and al ways have a nice little sum over to put in the bank, and so it goes. It is enough to make the everyday news paper woman or other kind of worker laugh or ery, for she knows how ut terly absurd and untrue it all is. She knows that to furnish and run even the most modest flat four girls must practice .the most rigid economy, must deny themselves squabs and quails and regard porterhouse steaks with respect, must give up lots of little entertainments that would en I tall expense, and, in a word, live lives OI aOSOlUK! aevouou IAJ tucu uusmcaa after they are fortunate enough to get any. -. , . . It is very harmful, 'his sort of thing. It makes girls think making their way in a big city ip as easy as writing about it, and brings hundreds of them away from iiome to struggle- on here till half cf them learn the bitter un truth of the Utopian stories, and re turn broken in health, their bit of money gone and their courage with it. As to the other half of them a small proportion succeeds, and the rest well, never mind. Farm Notes. No Middlemen Needed. A new cuapter has been added to the history of selling raisins in this country, and it may lead to good re sults to the growers, says the Fresno Expositor. A man with only ten acres of vines broke the barrier be tween the producerand the consumer, and altough it was a bold undertak for a man with so small a vineyard, yet it worked so well that he cleared 5 cents a pound for his entire crop, without stemming or grading. N. Chilgren, who lives in "Washmg- ington colony, is the man. His ten acres of vines are a small 'possession, comparison with some others in this country; but he was determined realize something on his crop or know the reason why. When the buyers came around they offered him ixA cents for the best rai sins, and from that down to nothing for the others. He refused to ; sell. Then the commission men offered him 2 cents down, and the rest when the'raisins should be sold. How much will the rest .be?" he asked. The commission; men said they couldn't tell. Then he asked when the rest would be paid him. They could not answer that either. He at once refused to sell on such terms. But he came to Fresno, bought $16 worth of clean s:tcks, packed his rai sins in them just as they came in the sweat boxes, chartered a car for $385 for Minneapolis, loaded his crop and started them. Then he bought a ticket for $44 for Minneapolis, and with two or three packages of raisins as samples he set out. He arrived in Minneapolis three days ahead of his car. With his little boxes of samples he went to a whole sale grocery and asked to sell his car load. They examined the samples and said : If your carload of raisins are as good as these samples we will give you 7 cents a pound." In three days the car arrived, ana the raisins were found up to the sam pies. The sale was made. Mr. Chil gren returned to Fresno, paid all costs and expenses of the trip to Minneapolis, and had 5 cents a pound clear for his crop. Before leaving Minneapolis the merchant to whom he sold said to him: Next year, it your raisins are as good as these, ship them to me. You need not come. I will take them. Mr. Chilgren is pleased with his success. It was quite an unuerian- and a bold move, but he made a suc cess of it. It is a lesson for raisin men to think over. They will think over it no doubt. They are thinking in that direction already. Paris Green on Asparagus and Tomato. s. On June 27 it was noticed that the asparagus beetles were very numer ous on the young growth of asparagus. Two different poisons were used, hel lebore, one teaspoonful to one gallon of water, and paris green, one-fourth teaspoonful to two gallons of water. The latter was by far the most effect ive, one spraying being enough to destroy almost all oftthem. The hel lebore not being of much benefit, the paris green was used on the beds that had been sprayed with it, and the same good Jesuits followed. These applications were made after the cut- tint? season had passed, ana in no way can hurt the crop for market. Paris green was also used when planting tomatoes, each plant being dipped ila solution of one-half tea- spoonlul of pans green to lour gal lons of water. This proved its value, as there are very few plants destroyed by the potato beetle, whilej in other years it has been almost impossible to save the young tomato plants ex cept by hand picking the beetles. C. E. Hunn in the Hew xork Jttxpen meat Station Bulletin. Poultry Hints From Exchanges. Hay and clover Utter and the Tak ings of the barn loft make lexcellent scratching forfowls. Jfanciers Jour nal. If fowls are penned up in close quarters it is impossible for .them to be availed of as breeders or, to lay many eggs. No large city can sus tain itself as regards numbers. The crowded territory of a metropolis is incuffinipnt. for this and but for the constant incoming of fresh recruits from the country, orthrough immigra tion, in afew generations, these "cities would become extinct, so, 11 you would have your fowls do well and breed well, don't crowd them to death or try to keep a hundred in the space wnere omy a aoseu uttu ivo. thrivfi and stow in comfort. Ameri can Poulty Yard. A correspondent in the Practical Farmer recommends giving cows a teaspoonful of sulphur once a week to make the cream churn quickef. John Gould, in the same paper, says it might affect the blood of the cow sufficiently to neutralize the albumen contained in milk, which is the princi pal, cause why cream is tardy in ris ing. - - ' A noted Western man Tiding across the country and noticing thousands of acres of corn stalks standing in the fields from which the ears had been jerked said : "The farmer is conduct ing the only business in the world that allows a man to lose 45 per cent of his capital stock and at the same- time live. - THE AIR. like some mysterious, seutlent thins, It throbs to throbbing lands and seas; I hear it weep, I hear ft sing. In Tagrant wind or breeze. It Alls the ghostly gloom of night With halcyon calm, with storm aud clash: And I can trace its farther night When aatnmn meteors Hash. It flings the new dawn's glory wide Over the dusk of silent shores. Over the misty hills which bide Sleep In their rocky cores. And when lt feels the shock and crowd Of the electric fires, it shows Mad splendors leaping from the cloud. - Booming their thunder blows. Or else, above that frozen land Which sends the piercing winter forth. It marks, in colors rich and bland, The aurora of the North! -George E. Montgomery in '-Harper's Weekly. END OF A ROMANCE. Benie Normand opened my studio door the other afternoon and received the hearty welcome he had a right to expect. We clasped hands, and after exchanging exclamations of greeting and surprise, peered earnestly into each ottier's eyes. For it was ten years or more, since we had last met; and we had changed in those ten years; so we looked curiously into each other's faces. Ten years and more was stamped upon us since last we me met, but still we stood well on our feet and our hands clasped 111-0117. But how handsome Benie bad grown! He always was handsome, but this, his mature manly beauty, was wonderful. His dark once- laughing eyer now had a subdued sadness in their expression, his voluptuous mouth was firmer, and his curls that had once been so blue-black were strongly mixed with eray. "You can rest," I said to Pauline, the model, who was staring at us, wonderin, at our silence, after the Hrst greetings. I had many questions to ask Benie, and many to answer about those past years, and I put down my palette and we lit cigarettes and began our cross-question ing. How odd It is to greet a friend you have not seen for years! a friend you have cared for, been intimate with, and who suddenly dropped out of your life long ago. You stand lace to face with him again, hold his hand and hear his old fa miliar voice; and there is the same free dom and familiarity in manner now as be fore, and yet' between you is an invisible space of years, a tremendous void that can never be (tiled. In time many thing? can be explained and recounted to bridge overtbat space ;it may even be silently dis regarded, but it can never be completely obliterated. Happy you are if you can 1 make the old friendship and the new join i and forsret the lost years. So you have been a professor all these years at Bordeaux; but you came to Paris sometimes?" "Yes, once or twice a year. "And you never came to see me !" "What was the use of ringing your bell in summer?" 'That's true!" 'Oriu winter; twice I tried to find you when I came up at New Year's and you had followed the sun south. 'I am afraid I am rather unsettled. 'I remember when you ware settled you were always talking of going somewhere. But I am coming to Paris next year. I expect to have a professorship here soon, and then I shall dispute you oftener. But tell me who will be there ot the old set? "The old set not manv,' I replied, shak ing my head. Where are the urands. Kerne con tinued, "who used to live on the Avenue de la Grande Armee?" Oh they? They went back to England vears ago. 'X am sorry: x snau miss mem. vnai strange delightful evenings nights 1 should say we used to have there; and what a strange crowd it was! Do you know I always enjoyed these long walks home in the gray morning light; long. long past midnight, when no sound was heard on the streets but the distant market wagons, the Alsatian peasant sweeping, and the early twittering bi i " And do you rememoer, 1 interrupted, the supper that night at Madame Savage's, the night of the enow-storm, when the coachmen, not ours, sent in word they could not wait longer, and Madame invited them, to supper." And what has become of jlauame Madame" Benie hesitated trying to re member her name, "who was Miss Kendle?" "She's dead. -"Dead." All the light suddenly went out of Benie's eyes that stared wildly at me. Dead, he repeated, and then trying to pull himself together, asked, "What did she die of?" "Ennui, T answered, vurning away to light a fresh cigarette. "Ennui I" he repeated. The match I was holding was suddenly blown out by a draught of air. "It s awfully hot here ! exclamed Paul ine, who, with a woman's tact and wis dom, had thrown the window wide open. "Are you sure she is dead.-' Heme asked. Sure I How could I declare I was sure to a man who looked at me as Benie didat that moment? "No," I answered, "I am not sure. I thought I heard of her death several years ago, but I may be wiong. "I ll write and mid out. "Thank you, if you will. I hoped to see her again some day. She was a delight ful woman ! "A delightful womzn !" I repeated. How was it I had, for a moment, forgotten he hod been fond of her? We had talked of Barbison, and the way lie said "Barbi son." with a tender note in his voice. should have made me remember, but I did not. For it was at Barbison they first met. Her family had heard the praises of Bar bison ou the edge of the Fontainebleau forest from the painters and came down there for a few days. They arrived after dark, were showi. to their lodgings through a farmyard and were horrified with the entrance to their quarters. But what could be u ones' It was late, Paris many soThsKhiteh?; and next morui.ig. when they awoke, the family- were surprised to find they had slept well, that thr beds were comfortable, and. although the' chambers were not luxurious, they w-'re clean. The sun was shining; they wouia stay one aay, as they had come so far, and all that day they wandered in the forest and it's : the old story they stayed all summer. : There Benie met Miss Helen and all that long summer they playj(Lcroquet,exploi,ed! the forest and sang songs together, songs long since out of fashion. Benie was not a painter, although a friend of many paint ers, but a studeut of philosophy- He had a pile ot books with him. and read .t times, but it was his -vacation, and his studies - never interfered v.itii Miss Helen's plans or preveutvd ..im from being liways attendance at any Dicnic. tea ot iorest ramDie. une evening we went into the.forest, a merry pack of us starting early together and returning late in pairs, and when we returned one couple was missing. Miss Kendle and Benie. Mrs. Kendle was very anxious, fearing her daughter had ben lost and would be de voured by the-wild beasts. We tried to console her, telling l.er that probably Be nie would see her saMy horn, and that the wild beasts of Fontaine bh-au were mostly rabbits an, -deer. But Mrs. Kendle. refused to be comforted, and so a relief expedition was or ganized. There were plenty of volun- Iwera, sou as tuc uijUL wast iucj) ma.ii j volunteered in couples. Hunting horns and a drum were carried to wake the for est echoes, and torches to see the "babes In the woods" when found. The party did not go far; they had not started off with serious intent only to pacify the mother, and contented themselves by exploring the "brigands' care," where some were almost smothered by the smoke of the torches, and came back singing in chorus, almost forgetting why the torchlight pro cession had been organized. As the re turning explorers neared the village, the iights 01 their torches ieii upon a couple sitting on the bench just inside the forest gate. Hallo! exclaimed Dson, suddenly changing the note of the solo he was sing ing. "Hallo, yourself! ' answered Benie. "You are making a great deal of noise." But how did vou net herer asked Leon. . "Easy enotigh round:the other way." Leon began it, and we all burst into a laughing chorus. "What is the joke?" asked Benie. "Joke I Suppose you and Miss Eendle fall into line with us and .we will explain." And. the march continued, horns blow ing, drums beating, and all shouting at the top of our voices ; and so the success ful rescuing party returned with the lost ; one. It was about Christmas when the Ken dies gave a grand dinner. Benie aat on the left of Miss Helen, and a stranger, a young man whose looks X scarcely remem ber, sat on her right. Of course, Benie monopolized Miss Kendle. The youug Btranger tried to join in the conversation, but was not successful. 1 cannot say B;nie Was rude to the man, for he did not seem even to recognize his existence. "Don't you think it is outrageous?" whispered Miss Tipman, my neighbor. " "What?" I asked. "Don't you know? of course, you do everybody does, except him "Him?" At that moment Mrs. Kendle gave the signal for leaving the table, and my ques tion was left unanswered. We were al lowed to smoke in the drawing-room at the Kendles', so we followed the ladii s. Miss Tipman captured Benie and insisted on his looking over the family photograph album with her. He did it politely, hut his attention and .eyes would wander across the room where Miss Eendle v-as talking with the stranger." But Miss Tip man kept him at the album. What was she about? I wondered; surely,' not try ing to fascinate Heme; she must well know any attempts of that kind would be wasted. Besides, Miss Tipman was uot a flirt; she was one of those yes, I must say it uncomfortable women to hf.ve about. One of those women who are al ways trying to "do their duty." What was sue up to uowr lalking loud enough for any one near to hear, so there was no indiscretion in my listening. -"There, do you know her? "Yes." answered Benie, turning ovor the page, anxious to finish the book. "And do you know himr "2fo." Again he would turn the page, but Miss Tipman put her hand upon hi. "But don't you recognize that picture?" i she insisted. 'Well, yes; it is of the man who sat next to Miss Kendle. I was introduced, but forgot his name." "But don't you know who he is?" "No, and what is more ' "Don't you know he is engaged to Miss Kendle?" This time Benie turned the page without any hinderance from his neighbor. He closed the book, rose and laid it on the table, turned, and without a word to any one left the room. Miss Tipman and I looked at each" other fot a few "moments in silence. 1 felt as if I must say some thing. If she had been a man I should have told him he was a first-class fool. As it w as, I simply remarked, "You've done it!' "I thought it was right," she answered, compressing her lips disagreeably. Benie went home and had a brain fever, and Miss Helen Kendle married to other man. Why had I not remembered all this when my old friend asked about madam e, who was Miss Kendle? What right ha-i I now, after my brutal manner of announcing Miss Kendle's death, to criticise Miss Tipman; Benie did not make me a long visit, but at the door I again promised to find out if it was really true; "She was a charming woman," he said, as we shook bands; and for the second time I repeated, "A charming woman !" "And he has never married?" asked Pauline when I closed the door. "No." "And was she handsome?" I hesitated, but why should I not tell the truth to Pauline? "No. j " And was the other as handsome as Monsieur?" "Oh, no, nothing like! "But h was the richest?" "Yes. I suppose he was." 1 well knew Benie had only a modest patrimony, while "the other" had houses ana ianas ana a Dig Dusiness. For a while I worked in silence, Paul ine's eyes were very bright, with a sus picion of tears. 1 Knew tier thoughts naa wandered from Beuie to her soldier lad and the baker's shop that was to be opened on his return, where behind the counter Pauline was . to reign supreme. At last Pauline's thoughts returned again to Benie, for she said with an accent of con viction in h-r voice, "How could she have done it? I don't understand," thus un consciously echoing what all "the old set" had exclaimed many years ago. I wrote to a friend as I had promised. and received the re ply expected "Madame who was Miss Helen Kendle, died several years ago." This note I enclosed to Benie aud he sends me a card in acknowledgment. On it he has written "Tnauks, my friend, for your note. I am sure those who die do not sutler the most." And Benie Normand is an eminent pro fessor of philosophy. -Henry Bacon, in Boston Transcript. Tony Complaint. Upon a certain southern plantation, be fore the late war, there was among the ne groes an old man named Tony, whose duty it was to attend to a little over-shot mill, where was ground the meal used upon the plantation.. He was a constitutional' grumbler, never satisfied that he got his share of everythinff Between Tony and his master there ex isted a strong friendship; they had been playmates in boyhood, and Tony never failed to pour into his master's ear the tale of his real or imagined wrongs. One summer an epidemic of fever broke out in the crowded negro quarters. It pre vailed for several weeks, and many of the servants died : but Tony's house was apart from the others, upon a high hill near the mill, and he and his family escaped the pestilence entirely. . .L '-- , One morning in the ; fall, after the epi demic had- subsided, his master, sitting uDon the "gallery, saw Tony approaching with his usual moody, dissatisfied expres sion. - " Well, Tony," be said. " what's the mat ter now? You've been so lucky in escaping the fever, I expected to see you happy for once in your life. "Luckv?" growled Tony. I don whar de luck is. Hyahs's all dem other niggahs been layin' up an' restin' in dey beds fur weeks an' munts' bavin mo' physic den dey could hole down, while I'se been grindin' stiddy" on dat mill, an' me an1 my folks aint even had our sheer uv de physic used on de plantoshun." Hawthorne's tombstone at Concord has been so mutilated by relic-hunters that it has been necessary to surround ti.e plot with a high fence. , . Major McKlnley Is a most devoted hus band. Every minute that he can spare from his political duties he passes by the side of his invalid wife. ESTOEICAL - SLANG. EXPRESSIONS COINED BY THE MASTER MINDS OF LITERATURE. ' " Some Familiar Pit race Which Had aa Ancient Origin The Bible Cited Mil ton, Sir Walter Scott and Thackeray ai Producers of Slang. The present age has a tendency toward sacrificing elegance for aptness in Its daily conversation and this gives rise to many popular expressions, not in accordance with the rules or books of the wise men, which are known as slang. The word slang is of obscure origin, probably com ing to us from the gypsies. A "slang-whanger is a noisy, turbulent fellow, whose language is not of the best. I and slangitself is generally considered dis j reputable. But there are qualities, classes. There is the low, vulgar slang, whose ori gin is in obscurity and whose use is among the vicious and- degraded. Above this is the dictionary slang of known pedigree and traced descent, often classical. "High toned" is an expressive term which precise people generally walk around. It - means "nobly elevated," es pecially in character, and was coined by Sir Walter Scott. Similar to it are "upper ten" and "upper crust," meaning the higher class of society, which ore said in the dictionary to be Americanisms, collo qual and low, the former being contracted from "upper ten thousand," and the lat ter carrying with it the suggestive supe riority of the fancy top crust of a pie. The "brick" is a merry citizen, rarely one of the "upper ten" and usually a grade or two below the "upper crust" In social standing, but he bears his medioc rity lightly and -laughs his cherry way through the world, often enjoying more than his stiff-starched superiors. He is a Jolly good fellow and never lacks friends. W. M. Thackeray first used the word in the sentence. "He's a dear little brick." "A brick in his bat" is an expression ap plied to an intoxicated person, probably from the fact that in that condition his head feels as heavy and useless as a brick would be if worn in the hat. "The dickens" does not come from the name of the xeuial novelist, but is a con traction of devilkins. diminutive of devil. and, therefore, only a polite, Sunday school way of saying "the devil." Web ster calls it a vulgar interjection. "To play the devil" means to interfere with in a ruinous way or to imitate the evil one, and this expression is given in solemn seriousness by the staid old dictionary without any signs of disapprobation, from which it may be concluded it is good Eq llsh, although it would not. add to the ele gance of drawing-room conversation.- John Bussell Bartlett, in his Dictionary of Amoricnnistns, is authority for -the statement that "on his own hook means by himself or on his own responsibility, and John Milton, stately and ponderous, is accused of having originated the phrase "by Look or crook," which means in any way or by any method, and it is in this way that Americans are accused of" ob-. taining the "almighty dollar," this.. last being an expression fathered by Wash ington Irving, which is so apt that itlias had large use. ' The modern use of the word "rats" as' an interjection can hardly be explained. Sometimes it expresses incredulousness and is uttered disdainfully just after the climax of an exaggerated statement. Sometimes it is used to express disgust and ilxigijtly pronounced is effective. Its use as a noun has a place In the diction ary of slang as one who deserts his party or associates, among printers one who works at less than established rates. Lord Stanhope, also known as Lord Mahon, an English statesman and histo rian who died in 1875, gives this interest ing history concerning it: "It chanced that not long after the accession of the house of Hanover, some of the brown, that is, the German or Norway rats, were first brought over to this country (in some timber, it is said), and being much stronger t.tan the black, or till then, the common rat, they in many places quite extirpated the latter. The word (both the noun and the verb to rat) was first, as we have seen, leveled at the converts to the government of George I, but has, by degrees, obtained a wider meaning, and come to be applied to any sudden and mercenary change in politics." In the book of Job, the oldest literature extant and according to John J. Ingalls, "the highest production of the human in tellect." appears the sentence: "I am es caped with the skin of my teeth," which is modernized "by the skin of my teeth," and gives the idea of a narrow escape, one so close as to be just by the thickness of the skin on the teeth which is so thin that no micrcscopist has yet been able to find it. "Tocast'in the teeth," means to throw defiant reproaches of insults spitefully, as one would cast a stone at the exposed teeth of a snarling dog. "Tooth and Daii" denotes the manner of an action full of frenzied fury, typified by biting and scratching as when two belli ge rant cats make the fur ny. Kansas uuy star. American Celebrities. Eichol s American Celebrities -a new publication gives the ages of various well- known persons, as follows: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 55 ; Mary Anderson, 32; Susan B. Anthony, 71; Maurice Barrymore, 37; James G. Blaine, 61; Edwin Booth, 58; Robert J. Burdette, 46; Benjamin F. Butler, 73; Will Carleton, 45; Georgie Cayvan, 32; George W. Childs. 62; Mark Twain. 55; H Coghlan,37; John A.Cockerill, 46; Anthony rmstivk. 4fi; T-ottA f!rahtrefi 41: W. H. I Crane, 45; Amos J. Cummings, 49; George William Uurtis, 67; waiter uamrosch, Charles A. Dana, 72; Fanny Davenport, 40; Chauncey M. Depew, 57; Mary Mapes Dodge, 52; Kate Field, 50; Marshall Held; 50; Dan Frohman, 39; Bichard Watson I Gilder, 46; Amelia Glover, 20; Pauline Hail, 33; MuratHalstead,62;MarionHarland,56; Joel Chandler Harris. 63; Alice Harrison, 40 , Frank Hatton , 44 ; BretHarte,52; Julian Hawthorne, 45 ; John Hay, 52 ; Bronson How ard, 48; Julia Ward Howe, 72; W. D. How ells,53; Agnes Huntington, 31; B.G.Inger soll, 57; Louis James, 49; Marie Jansen,30; Herbert Kelcey, 36; Belva A. Lock wood, 71; "Mary Logan , 50 ; Sadie Martinet ,30 ; Brandei Matthews, 39 ; Joseph Medill, 67 ; Clara Mor ris, 44; Joseph Murphy, 51; Thomas Kast, 51; JohnC. New, 60; Bill Nye, 41; Tony Pastor, 56; Annie Pixley, 35; Joseph Pulit zer, 44; George M.Pullman, 60; Matthew S. Quay, 58; Ada Behan, 31 ; James Whitcomh Biley, 38; Stewart Bobson, 54; Lillian Rus sell, 31 ; Sol Smith Bussell, 43; Edgar Sal tus, 32; Harriet Beecher Stowe, 80; Emma Thursby, 34; George Alfred lownsend, 50; George Francis Train, .62; Charles Dudley Warner, 61; Henry Watterson, 50; Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 36; Francis Wilson, 37. The Prise Kenlscky Family. A remarkable story comes from the Cen sus Office." It is said that i here is a wht te family in Montgomery county, Ky., named Willoughby. The age ol the father of the family, Henry, is tnlrty-five, and that of the wife .thirty-two. - They have had thirtyrtwo children; the eldest, a boy. is twenty-one, and the next child a girl of seventeen. This would make the father but fourteen and the mother but eleven when the first child was born, and necessitate the birch ot a child-every AichtMn tnnnths nnhftenuentlv. " The cen sus reports show many colored parents of aoes ramring from twelve to fourteen. years, but there are few white mothers re corded less than fifteen years of age. Louisville Courier-Journal. Col. George B. McCIellan, treasurer ot the Brooklyn Bridge Company, is said to be all the time growing more like his dis tinguished father in appearance c- - AN ONION PAKADISv HALF A MILLION BUSHELS EVERY YEAR FROM ONE 'OHIO COUNTY. The Great Industry In the Rome ol .Garfield The Glory of a Small Town shipHow Onions are Grown for the Market Boys as Weepers." The long line of yellow Lake Shore coaches whirling along the low Southern shore of the blue Erie carries the traveler through one ot the finest farming regions in the country. One of the most beautiful pari s of this region is the historic west ern Beserve of Ohio, so famous in wartime as the home of Ben Wade and Joshua Gid dings, and later of the lamented Garfield. 1 ne Reserve has an even dozen of coun ties, and if any one of these is to be given Urst place, it must be "Little Lake," the smallest and one of the richest counties in the State, famed the country over as the home of Garfield and the onion. Last year this little county shipped away of onions nearly 200,000 bushels,' aud some years, as in "88. has rounded out a full &,- 000. Of these tremendous amounts nearly half is raised in Perry, the smallest town ship of this smallest county, where, in stead of the stereotyped "Howdy do, the happy granger meets you with now s your oniousr In Perry, no matter where you turn. onions is king, and council, too. Field after field, acre after acre of them meet the onion-sick visitor on every hand. Onions everywhere, and few soils are so poor as to bs slighted. Ciay, gravel, sand, loam all do their share, but the soil of all soils for the onion is the rick black muck, ; made by vegetable decay and growing onions of so monstrous a size as to be be yond belief. A curious thing-about muck is that it will burn readily when dry, and known to burn to the depth of a foot or more, making it completely worthless. In the latter part of March the onions are sown in drills or ros, twelve to fif teen inches apart, and in a few weeks are large enough for the first weeding. The rows are gone over with a cultivator and the earth made loose and mellow. Then the boys fairly swarm to the fields, and the "patches" are dotted with shavers of all ages, toasting their bare shins in the broiling sun. and weeding for dear life. The boys generally use, to help their tired fingers, "weoders" made of thin strips of steel, bent in triangular shape, and fast ened to wooden handles. With these the work is lessened by half and the boys lit erally "buckle in,' in their haste to get to the end of the field. The weeling must be done over three or four times at least, and if the season be a rainy one the weedings must be doubled, and all the boys out of dresses, kept on the qui vive figliting the miserable "pus ley," the plague of all onion fields, lioys of ten to fifteen are paid from SI to 1.50 a day for weeding and in the busiest times the town must be scoured to find boys enough. In well-regulated fields the weeds are all gathered aud lugged away and great .care is taken lest any go to seed.. ' ' Few crops have more foes than the ODioo.- Often it is attacked by a kind of louse and almost eaten up. The cut worms and- -wireworms levy exorbitant toll, too. - Besides, a form of blight often spreads over the fields, and the thrifty green tops are soon yellow- and shriveled. Through all of these trials the former must keep a stout heart, and if the crop has no serious setback it will be ripe and ready for "pulling" by the 1st of Septem ber. Ihe pulling is generally done hy hand and the onions left on the ground till thoroughly dried. Then "topping," or cutting away thedry tops, is in order, and the urchins have their hands full again. bmp, snip, go the shears, and one at a time the onions go into the crates, while the lad reckons bis probable earnings at three to hve cents a bushel- After this the onions- are. barreled and are ready for the market," and if one will alight at the little ferry station any time in the fall he will find the quiet little vil lage bustling with business and the coop ers working with might and main to keep the shippers supplied with barrels. The onion crop alone brought into the county last year over $130,000, and of that amount i.L ItJHSL OU,UUU W Willi LU LUIS JibVltt IUWU' ship. Nothing is more variable, however, than the market price of these fragrant treas ures. 1 have known of theitbringina high as $2 a bushel last winter the nearly reached that figure while three years ago they would bring but 7 cents, less than the cost of handling, and many thousand bushels of choice onions were carted to the fields and dumped. These, of course, were extreme years, an average price being probably from fifty cents to seventy-five cents, and the grower who receives more than $1 is counted lucky. There is great danger in holding over the crop for higher prices, as sometimes quite unexpectedly the bottom suddenly drops out of the market and prices go to smash. Speculation in onions is a source of profit' to many, but on account of the sudden fluctuations in priees-fhe successful spec ulator should haver the shrewdness of Wall street, and must have his weather eye on all the leading markets, unless he wants to be "scooped." Bayard Wyman in Pittsburg Dispatch. Diving for Diamonds. Diamonds worth $2,000 were taken from the bottom of. New London harbor re cently, and the diver in his mailed suit who recovered them walks- beneath the river daily for another lot that are also worth S2,000. The diamonds didn't grow down there, but are the property of Mrs. Boerum of New York. They were on board Mr. Boerum's naphtha, launch. the biggest one in the world, that was burned at the Eastern Point (Groton)- wharf one night recently: Mr. Boerum sat on the Fort Gnswold Hotel veranda smoking a quarter-of-a- dollar cigar win e the launch was blazing. and he smile l cooliy: but Mis. Boerum didn't smile, for all her fashionable ward robe, together with the $4,000,.. diamonds, were In the vessel. Mrs. Boerum wants the rest of those diamonds, and she- paid the diver who-walked under the river big day wages to look for them. - The Laplander Bible. - The Lapps have the Bible in their own tongue, and few stories are more interest ing than the account of its translation. Over thirty years ago a series of . religious riots took place in a number of 'villages in Lapland, and among the rioters was one Lars Haetta. During the riots several homicides occurred, and Lars and some other of his companions were committed to prison on a charge of murder. They were found guilty and several were hanged, bat in consideration of his youth Haetta was condemned to life-long imprisonment. Commiserating his .condition, his keepers and the prison chaplain extended to him such favors as could safely be granted to a life-long prisoner, and finding them re warded by good conduct, took especial pains to teach him to reaa ana write. JUars became interested in the Bibles-grew day by day more fond of reading it and finally formed the bold project of translating it into his native tongue. Through many weary years the labor went on, for Lars i was no great scholar and the Lapp lan- guage, as may be -readily supposed, is not a nuent literary memum. ol thought. But finally the work was done, the Bible trans lated and printed In the language of -Lap-land, and the remainder of- Haetta's sen tence was commuted. He was living as late as 1870, and though an old man, was still active, and often served parties of travelers as a- guiae , Boston Transcript. MAN-EATiNG GIANTS OF S Horrible Peap!e Living on an la . I the Crulf ot California. - I " There are 174 giant cannibals, men and ' women, living on Seri Island, in the Gulf of California, and not sixty miles from the mainland of Mexico," said George G. Mo , v. Namaratoan Examiner reporter at tb Palace Hotel. , " What I say might seem ridiculous, bat It is nevertheless a fact, fori have seen someoftem during my travels in Mexico. Who their ancestors were or how long they have occupied the island is not - "r tnown, but they are now becoming ex- - "W-. C . tinct. - . . . ) "I saw three women and one man, ard tV.ni. A 3 M impression that they were brutes by by na- S It was f few of turc and brutes in heart and souL juts! uy vjionce uiac i saw uiein, as ww ut i them wntnrn kviit from tim Island f(Xm i ceptto sell the mats and shawls which they make from the skins and featt-oiS ot the albatross. Theyare cunning thieves. -; ; but otherwise their minds are dull in fact they seem stupified. They have & va- .-. cunt stare in their eyes, and, when not serious, an idiotic smile spreads over their faces. " Theislandof Sori is abouttwenty miles ' a long and at places ten miles wide, and I : was told no Mexican or white man ever ventures near or attempts toland on it, as they claim the island is thein domain and shoot 4he intruders with poisoned arrows or capture and eat them. TfVey exist on fish and goat meat, which sure plentiful. Low houses built of shrubbery, are their abode, Some live in 'dugout&V, or caves "cut into bonks. They roam ibout the island and lead the laziest life of uiy peo- ple'that I have ever heard of. . No cane can rp.llv tpil whnfc their riailv miitinfiof'llving is, but It Is a fact that the tribe is dinflT out, and it will not be many years before they will become extinct. Their mode of burial is not known, but it was estimated that where there are now a handful there were several thousand not ten years ago, and If they bury the dead. and do not bum the bodies, as cannibals do, the bones of their enormous frames will cover a large area of the island. The man I photographed is over 7 feet In height. His face wns a study when be saw the lens pointed at him, and he could not understand what was being done. 'He, as are all his race, was superstitious, but we overcame that obstacle by trw'zz a present of an old pair of trousers, wnicn he immediately uea arouna nis necs. Xao gentleman standing next to him is aboot six feet tall, end he had to hold the In dian's hand. An old rag encircled the up- per portion of the Indian's hmbs, -aodllf was tied around the waist. The- blanket made of albatross skin and feathers. The bow aud arrows which he holds are the only weapon they know of or use. His legs from the kixee down are not covered. The hat he wears is of straw, and he, as he stands there, is the typical Seri Indian. The women wear patched dresses made of cloth which they receive for albatross mats and shawls. They are wrmkleu ana old, very few girls being among the tribe. The bowls on their heads contain broken vessels made of clay. - ' "They ai-e a wonderful people, con tinued Mr. McNamarra, "and no doubt their past history, if revealed, will bring to light facts that relate to the magnificent reign of the Montezumas, or even far beyond the time of Cortez." San Francisco Examiner. The Origin of the Dog. - There see ins to be a decided drift of opinion among naturalists to the theory that oar numerous varieties of domesti cated dogs are descended not from a sin- -gle species, but from several kinds of wild animals as, for instance, the wolf and th jackal. The Fancier's Journal, comment ing upon this, declares there are recorded examples of turned wolves which in gentle ness and intelligence show a truly dog like capacity. With regard to tamed jackals, Darwin has pointed out that when "caressed they " jump about for joy, wag their tails, lower their ears, lick their master's hand, . crouch down, and even throw themselves on the ground. When frightened they cairy their tails between their legs. On the other hand it is undisputed that, whatever animal we may consider his pro genitor, the domestication of the dog be gan at an epoch exceedingly remote. The fossil remai ns of a large dog have been found in tertiary deposits, and there Is no doubt that the dog existed in a domesti cated state during the prehistoric times. us bones ore discovered in the shell neaps of Denmark aud in the lake dwellings of . Switzerland. The dog . meets us in the dawn of history for such varieties as hound, greyhound and watchdog are de picted on Egyptian monuments 5,000 years -old. It is well known that in Egypt the cog was worshiped under .the title of Asu- dis, ana aog mummies nave oeen iouna. - -There is a mastiff figured on the Assyrian sculpture belonging to 640 B. C. The fact is often overlooked that dogs were used by Greeks and Bomans not only in the chase . and for hunting down escaped prisoners, out ior war. - . It is worth noting that, according to some, naturalists, the Newfoundland and bt. Bernard dogs form a group by them selves, derived -neither from. wolves nor jackals, but from a distinct species of pro- -genitors. It is a disputed question whether the Newfoundland dog is indigenous to .North America or was Introduced either -by the Norwegians in .the year 1.600. or by Cabot jn 1497. Bearing on this question 1b - the interesting, fact that, the .Norwegians have, dogs closely resembling the New foundland breed. The Dingo dog of Aus- -traUa-.-does certainly seem to constitute a ; distinct,. indigenous; species, since It, is now found in both a. wild and domesticated . . state in that country, and its fossil re- mams are associated with those of extimrt ':' mammals. The Week's Sport. . i: - "... , iri-ve ut a Time. . f :.-. . -r Mrs. Hannah' Dober, the mother of fivs : little Dobers, has Invented the most unique s : toilet apparatus on record, says the - Tacoma News. It is a machine that bathe. rinses, drips, and dries-the entire Dober -brood simultaneously by- the simple turn ing of a crank. - ; 'i ;. - ' The Dobers hve on the water front, namr the old salmon cannery, back of Old Town. Like many of the houses In that vicin:, the home of the Dobers is built on piles. At k - nign uae tne dock pprcii oi this humnss home extends over the water, and ant was favorable to. the idea which Vrthlt Dober had worn concealed in her Blind fits? ' some time. With the assistance of her hot ;;.v-- band, the enterprising- but oveA'worJpw woman cut a-hole in- the floorinfl' of tb '-KTi back porch about four feet square, and thaa ouiit a winoass liKe tnoso in usa on era -v fashioned wen curbs. 'Then she got a q utv or stout. "wire sauze or 'BCD made a crate or basket that-would slip through the hole. in the floor.. " basket, which was- about three feet was hung in slinks fastened tt-a 1 corners and then attached to'ttdrnm.a v the windlass.- The baby washer wassoaT complete and ready to be put in operattoa. . Bright and early every morning the ft little Dopers are hustled out of bed. Th eldest, a giffof nine, though small for bar age, is an extremely handy'younj xisS and a great help to her mother She peals the nighties off her little brothers and sla ters, likewise her own, and loads them into a wire basket. - Next she throws to a hand f ul of waf ered soap and then joins the iittia band of candidates for immersion. -Wlm . everything is ready Mother Dober, wao has been attending to herhousehold,datiea In the mean time, comes out and mans taa windlass crank. She lowers her happy - little flock down into the clear, eoii watsc and srives them a thorough dousing by working the crank backward and forward ... . This movement and the commotion mads in the basket by the children prodnoss a lather from the soap and cleanse to kids In a manner equal, if npt superior, to taa ; regulation hand bath. i i X (J S -s ...: - -' J. ' - i n