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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.
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EXPRESS T BAINS LEAVK PORTLAND DAILY :
North
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San Francisco Lt
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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
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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.
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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.
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