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VOL. IV.
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, IS92.
NO. 8.
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THE INFALLIBLE SI3.,.
From ttao hillside npppath the daisy shy,
Aud we feel the breath of the clover;
We are Retting ahead of the bacilli.
And the days of the grippe are over.
The summer Is uenrinjt. without a doubt.
And to kuow It we've ample reason:
For the last year's straw Is taken out
And brushed for another season.
A DETECTIVE'S STORY.
James Blayne was a little out of temper.
For more than a fortnight he tuul unsue
eessfully devoted all the observations and
opportunity at his com inn ml to discover
the whereabouts of Lady Morton's jewels,
and of the man or womau who had stolen
them.
James Blayne was a promising- young
member of the detective force, on the look
out for the lucky step that should lift him
above the level of his compeers, and when
the Meiton robbery was entrusted to his
care he thought he had got his chance at
last.
It certainly was a rather interesting
case.
About three weeks before the day on
which we record Mr. Blayne's loss of tem
per, pretty Lady Merton, as might have
been gathered subsequently from the
newspaper reports, was spending a soli
tary evening in her house in Brook street.
Sir Robert was dining with an old friend
some little way out of town, and not re
turning till morning, my lady had in
tended going to the play with some
friends. But late in the afternoon she al
tered her plans, dispatched a note beg
ging to be excused on account of a severe
headache from Joining the party, and
with a curious feminine idea of comfort
and indulgence, told her maid that she
would not go down stairs agaiu, but
would have some diuner "on a tray" in
her boudoir at 7.30. At ten o'clock she
rang her bedroom bell, dismissed her
maid, requiring nothing wore that night.
Before leaving, the maid asked if she
should go to the jewelers' the next morn
ing early, as had been arranged, to take
there for repair a diaiuoud brooch of her
mistress's. "Yes," adding, as the maid
opened the jewel case to take out the
brooch, "Oh. leave it till the morning."
The box was relocked and the key put in
Its usual place in one of the dressing-table
drawers. The butler stated that at 10:30
the bouse was shut up, and every one went
to bed.
The next morning Lady Merton. finding
her headache no better, kept her room
darkened till after ten o'clock, when some
tea was brought to her by her maid. The
latter then went to the jewel cas for the
broken brooch, and finding the box un
locked, with the key lying near, hastily
opened it, and cried out her discovery of
the robbery to her mistress.
This was the storv that in twentv-four
hours was known to most newspaper
readers in the country, and this was the
story that about three weeks later was
trying Mr. James Blayne's temper. Again
and again he reviewed the few heads of the
case.
On July 25. Lady Merton went to bed be
tween 10 and 10 :3d p. m. The jewels were
then in their places, aud she, seeing the
box opened, told her maid not to disturb
them till the morning. The maid locked
the box. replaced the key in a drawer and
shortly went to her own room, fastening
the door this last fact beiug attested by
the housemaids, who slept in an outer
room. The butler swore to turning out
the lights and "shutting-up" at 10 30. Lady
Merton slept little and restlessly till 12:30,
when she got up and stirred the fire this
fact attested by the cook, who sleps in the
room above aud was aroused by the sound
of the poker. At ten the next morning
the jewels were missing, and the jewel
case stood in the dressing room within
and only approachable through Lady Mar
ton's bedroom.
Robbery from without Blayne rejected,
after due examination, as an impossibility.
From within, by a man, well nigh impos
sible, owing to the position of the jewel
case and to Lady Merton 's restless state
during the eight. It seemed a case of chez
la femme, and Blayne bad sought cease
lessly; chiefly among the women of the
house, of course, though here also the
great difficulty of crossing Lady Merton'a
bedrooii uuperceived by her was with him
more etrougiy in their favor than their ex-1
cellent characters from their employers.
The lady's maid seemed his only chance
as, of course, she was fully acquainted with
the situation in all its senses; and her;
footfall, which he proved to be light aud to
which, of course. Lady Merton was ac
customed wou'd disturb her less than any
of any other visitor. But the lady, whila
suggesting no other solution to the prob
lem, rejected this last theory with some
Indignation, declaring that she had the ut
most confidence in her maid, aud that she
had scarcely closed her eyes before mid
night, after which hour the housemaids
pronounced it an impossibility for the
lady's maid to have crossed their room un
noticed.
So Mr. Blayne was a little out of temper
with his lagging luck, and he decided to
get two or three days' leave, and then
having rested bis riddle a bit, to start
afresh at reading it. Thus he found him
self on the afternoon of August IS his re
quest for leave of absence having been
granted talking to a pretty, neat looking
girl in a small semi-detached villa on the
outskirts of the new and fashionable
watering-place, Stonelay.
" So you've been getting on pretty well,
eh, Nelly?" be asked.
" O, yea, Jem, very. The air here seems
to be quite setting me up, so I fancy I bad
been working a bit too hard, though I al
ways said it was mother's nonsense. Its
true its rather dull here, but then I often
go into Stonelay and have a look at the
smart visitors ; so even if aunt Sarah is
nappy at times, I don't mind. She's kind
enough, ready."
"She couldn't have got any one else to
bring her here, so she ought to be. I but
the beastly water puts an edge on a tem
per like her I Yes, I expect it's pretty dull,
alono with her. Poor Nellie !"
" O, I don't mind ; and we've got a new
neighbor."
" Old Mrs. what's name? you told ma
of, gone?"
" No. She's got a new lodger a man
good looking rather. She brought him in
one day to tea, and we meet him now aud
then on the road. But he doesn't go out
mucn.
"Oh, hiding on some 'count.' is he?"
asked Jem rather snappishly of the pretty
dressmaker.
" Nonsense, Jem ! he isn't hiding. He is
drinking the waters, he says, and be has a
very pretty sister."
"Sister? Then they both lodge next
door?"
"No. She comes to see him. She is a
lady's maid staying at Stonelay. The
husband of the ladyshe is with is drinking
the waters."
"Dgb! lady's.mald?" said Blayne, spite
fully, thinking of his recent trials, with
which his fiancee was acquainted.
" Really, Jem, I believe your failing to
fix the stealing business on the poor lady'i
maid has made you hate the lot I And
talking of your jewel alTair, 1 find while
you lose"
" How do you mean?"
" Why, yesterday I found such a lovely
button on the path just outside here. It
was sparkling in the sun, aud I picked It
no and brought it in. I went into old
Mrs. Brown's to ask Mr. Martin (her
lodger) if he knew anything about it; but
he was away for two days, she told me;
coming back to-night. Auntie says I'll
have to make it known, perhaps advertise
II no one claims it. for this morning i
showed it to Mr. Frazer, the jeweler at
Stonelay, and he said it was a very good
button, and uncommon, as the stones are
oeryis.
"What!"
"Dear mo! beryls. Are they as extra
ordinary ns all t hat?"
"That depends. Show us the button,
Nolly?"
" Hero It is," she said taking it from the
man tics hoi f.
"Twolvo gold filigree buttons Jeweled
with beryls," lilnyue murmured to him
self. " 1 should like to see your neighbor,
Nolly, anil his sister, the lady's maid."
"Why Jem, you don't think O, I re
member now. that description you sent
me of the lost jewels I But this can't be.
She is such a dear little thing and so
pretty."
"Yes; what sort?"
" Oh, middle height, dark hair, pretty
eyes, nice figure "
That'll do, Nelly. It would fit almost
auy one. I say, who's that coming up the
path to the house now?"
" Why, that's Mr. Martin." said Nelly, aa
Blayne instinctively got behind the mus
lin window curtaiu, from which post of
vantage ho could easily .see without being
eoen : he's good looking, isn't ho, Jim!
Looks like a gontleinan, rather?"
"Ye-es; just that last, I tniuk I've got
his measure?"
"And O. there is his sister just behind
him see? Now that's not your lady's
maid, is it?"
"That!" exclaimed Blayne, with eyes
nearly starting through the lace of the
curtain; "is that your lady's maid and
that man's sister?"
" Yes," answered Nelly, as hor neighbor
and his sister, nodding aud smiling to hor,
entered the next house.
"Does she stay the night there?" In
quired Blayne.
"O, no; never more thau an hour. Her
lady couldn't spare her. But what is the
matter with you, Jem, laughing in jerks
like thatr
" O, nothing. I say, Nelly, is there a visi
tor's list in the paper here?"
"Yes; but Jem now that wasn't your
lady's maid was it?"
"No, dear; now the paper."
Blayne wandered steadily on through
the list of " fashionable visitors" till ha
came to " Victoria hotel ; Sir Robert and
Lady Merton." Then he folded up the
paper, saying: "Well, Nelly, I'll go into
Stonelay with you to-morrow morning to
have a look at the fashions. Here is Aunt
Sarah coming to see after us." as that re
spectable lady entered tho room.
"And there goes Mr. Martin's visitor."
said Nelly, as a woman hastily closed the
door of the next house and hurried away.
" She must be late."
" Rather," said Blayne.
The next day the detective took his in
tended walked into Stonelay, and after a
few minutes' private conversation with
the manager of the Victoria, he astonished
Nelly by ins s'ang on buying her different
trash In all the shore that commanded
view of the hotel. At length, on his offer
ing her a pink glass mug decorated with
the legend, " In affectionate remem
brance," in forget-me-nots, she began pro
testing. "All right, dear, we'll take it to Aunt
Sarah," be said, with his eyes fixed on a
gentleman who was mounting a horse
that a groom had been leading up and
down in front of the hotel.
As soon as the subject of bis attention
had ridden out of sight, Blayne said tfl
his companion :
"Do you mind walking on home. Nelly!
I have a little business at the Victoria
which I must see to at once; then I'll oonie
on after vou with the"
"Jewelry?"
" Yes. and the mug." , . .
'Blayne walked into the hotel and sent a
written message to Lady Merton. asking
if she would see him at that somewhat
early hour, as he had to catch the next
train to town. He was shown into a sitting-room
where a very pretty woman in a
soft morning wrapper was lying ou the
sofa, reading the paper. She rose aa he
came in. and be thoughtof the lady's maid
whose description would "lit almost any
one."
"Well. Mr. Biayne," sho said, with a
smile, " you come about the jewels of
course."
" Yes. my lady, I do."
" There is no news. I suppose?"
" Your ladyship will be pleased to bear
that there is news?"
" Ah!" she exclaimed, starting. " what
what news?"
" A small, a very small portion of your
jewelry is in my bands."
" Indeed !" 6aid Lady Merton more calm
ly. " Are you sure it is mine?"
" I think, my lady, that beryl buttona
such as yours." pausing to note her pallor,
are extremely rare." -
"Ah! and"
" And this button that I hold In my
hand " he showed it as be spoke" was
found in a semi-detached villa at some lit
tle distance from this town during the ab
sence of the thief."
He watched the blood rush to her face,
her throat, hor brow, and, thoughtfully
looking elsewhere, said :
"The rest of your Jewels, my lady, must
be recovered by me or by you."
"Really," she stammered, "I I don't
see"
"I beg your pardon, my lady, but we
waste time. I know that in a cose of this
sort my instructions would be to avoid the
chance of scandal, and I look to you to help
me with this, for your o wo sake. You must
return to that house this morning with
me."
" I can't, I can't," she gasped, clinging to
the side of the sofa
" My lady, you must!" answered the de
tective. ."If you go with me I aboil find
only the jewels, hut if I go alone I must
find the thief. Now, will you come and
recover your property, or shall I dis
cover" Thanks to the exertions of that able
officer, James Blayne, Lady Merton is an
exception to many less fortunate ladies in
having recovered hor jewels, " never
again," she declares, " to lose them." And
the detective, now steadily advancing in
his profession, never forgets that anxious
aud trying fortnightduriug which he gave
too little consideration to latchkeys and
headaches. London World.
California itevUUrd,
The old miner, full of cherished memo
ries of that wonderful past, on revisiting
the scenes of his early labors sees no wind
ing line of miners by Hie river marge, with
their rattling rockets or long toms; no
smoke from canii-lire or chimney arises
from tho depths of oiges; cabins are
gone: no laughter nor cheery voice comes
up from the canons; no ounce a day is
dried by the supper lire. Gone are most
of the oaks and pines from the mountain
sides; the beds of the rivers are covered
deep with tho accumulated debris of years.
over which the water, oiiise clear aud cold
from the melting snows of the Sierra,
goes sluggishly, laden with mud, in ser
pentine windings from bank to bank. On
tho tablolauil above, lu the cnasms made
by hydraulic power In tho pleiocene drift,
the hollow columns of Iron that once com
pressed the water stand rusting away; the
monitors lie dismantled like artillery in a
captured fortress. All is silence and deso
lation whore ouco was the roar of water
mid the noise of busy life, Tho same red
and brown soil is beneath your feet, the
sal. io alteration of ridges and gorges is
here, the same skies u:ill ick id by clouds
from May to November are ovorhoad; the
same pure air is left to breathe in spite of
i-ourts and monopolies; a considerable
portion of the soil is cultivated; scattered
here and there over the mountain slopes
are homes surrounded with flowers and
fruits but the early minor sees it all with
tho sad belief thai the 'glory is gone. E.
ti. .Waite, In the ueulury.
There are now in cut.v.ii..in in Kew
Gardens 1,312 species of orchids, besides
171 varieties, and moro than 100 undeter
mined plants. There are amateurs, though,
having collections to beat that at Kew.
Mr. Ker's Valuable Parrel,
Simeon Kcr of Melbourne, Australia,
registered at the Russell House yesterday
forenoon.
" I came from Australia by way of San
Francisco, aud am on my way to Ixndon,"
said Mr. Ker. "I merely steped over fin
a few hours' rest, and take tho train for
the East this evening. My business la
that of a common carrier," ami Mr. Ker
smiled a complacent sort of smile ns he
placed a bulldog revolver on tho table aud
threw off his coat und vest .
" Don't be alnrnind," ho said, as tho Free
Press representative evinced somo little
nervousness at these warlike movements.
"I presume you have soon the stock ol
some diamond salesman worth anywhere
from $25,000 to $75.1XM. Well, 1 carry a
much larger stock, and all in one piece.
See here," and Mr. Ker drew out a stout
steel chain from the oHning in his open
back shirt, at tho end of which was a steel
portemonnaio. locked with a secret spring.
This he opened, and exhibited a diamond
of most wonderful size and brilliancy. It
was an Inch in diameter, and while hold
ing it in his left hand Mr. Ker's right hand
toyed with the revolver on tho table.
"That is a genuine African diamond ot
the first water and is worth 27.timi, as dia
monds go," said he ; "but ou account ot
its unusual size we regard it more valu
able. It Is insured for 25.0u0. No, 1 am
not afraid of losing it. In the first place,
it could only be obtained by killing me,
for It never can lie removed from my body
while am alive. I am not afraid to show
it, because I desire all good eople to know
I have it. You represent a well-known
newspaper. I find it all over the world.
Now, suppose 1 was to lie chloroformed
and robbed of it, you as well as others to
whom I have shown it could testify that I
bad it, though the officials to whom I
should complain of the loss might doubt It.
In the old days, and in certain Ux-ulilies at
present, it would lie as well to say nothing
about it. perhaps, but in civilized couutrle
it is different. The Insurance company
which holds the risk preferred I should
carry' It to iutrustiug It to an express com
pany." Detroit Free Press.
Old Hatch." UItm Aetrlre.
Benjamin Peters Hutchinson, says the
Chicago Post, bought one of those little
nickle-plnted saving banks which will not
open until you have dcpoflted SO dimes
within them. Every time he made a win
ning on tho Board of Trade he salted
away 10 or 20 cents, and yesterday he
found that his total savings amounted to
$2.10. Then a man came along and pre
sented for payment one of Mr. Hutchiu
son's I O U's for Si. It is said that the lia
bility was contracted during the course of
a poker game, but that's neither here nor
there.
"Ill pay it." said Mr. Hutchinson, " 11
you'll lend me $2.90 in dimes so that I can
get this $2.10 out of this pesky bonk."
So the man lent him $3 and the two went
to the bank to get it changed into dimes.
The 29 dimes went into the bank and Mr.
Hutchinson thoughtfully put the odd dime
into his pocket. As the bank was now full
it opened automatically and deposited 50
dimes into Mr. Hutchinson's palm.
" Now, then." said Mr. Hutchinson,
" hand over that I O L".
The man banded it over and Mr. Hutch
inson carefully tore it up.
" I a! ways like to do business on business
principles," he remarked.
Then he paid over the Si. asked the man
to count it and see if It wad all right, and
when that had lieen done, politely said
"Good morning" and started to go.
"Hold on!" exclaimed the man. "Ex
cusp me, but you've forgo tt on to return the
$3 I lent you."
"Cm," said Mr. nutehinson. "I don't
know anvthing about that. Have you got
an I O V for it? "
" Why, I just now lent it to you."
"Did you?" said Mr. Hutchinson blandly.
" I don't rememU'r it- You shouldn't have
lent it to me if you did lend it to me, as
you say you did without security. That's
not business. Always do business on
business principles, my son. tkjod morn
ing." Oat of Kilter.
Kilter or kelter was an "Anglicism"
long before it was an " Americanism.'
Skinner, in 1071. has "Keiter; he is not
yet in kelter, nuiulum cs parti us." H is
also given in a reprint of Kay's collection
of 16S1. The k before i points to a Scandi
navian origin. Cf. Dan. kilte. to truss, tuck
up, whence rlkilt. Riot gives S wed. dial,
kilter band, a lund for holding up tucked
up clothes; kiltraig, to gird up, luck up,
and fasten. The metaphor is obvious
enough.
This word kelter. as It should tie spelled,
is given in Johnson's Diet iouary, and de
rived from the Danish kelter. to gird. A
quotation is given from iiarrow's works,
where the word is used, itailcy in his
Etymological Dictionary, derives it from
the Latin cultiira. ll.tliwell ("Dictionary
of Archaic and Provincial Words ") gives it
as used In the east of England both as a
substantive and as a verb. It is a word of
every-day use in Surrey aud Sussex, in the
sense of order or condition. The Kev. W.
D. Parish, in his " Dictionary tf the Sus
sex Dialect," notices it lu the phrase,
" This farm seems in very good ' kelter.' "
I have often hoard it used in the same way,
aud anything that is out of coudiliou is de
scribed as being "out o' kelter."
Ou reference to the publications of the
English Dialect society it will be seen Uiat
the word is of very general use throughout
England. In the nciglilMrhood of Whitov
it occurs as a verb nnd sulstuiilive, and
in the mid and east Yorkshire glossaries
also; It Is used also In west Cornwall,
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. In west
Somerset, in Sheffield aud in Huddersf'.eld
the word means money. These references
will be sufficient to show that the expres
sion is not an Americanism, but that tin
word bos found, aud still finds, a place lu
vernacular English. Notes und Queries.
Thirteen n I.tt-ky iiiuilKr.
The old superstition tli-i'. t!io nn iilier
thirteen is unlucky U su;i n-d to hue
its origin as far back as tiie lat siipp-r,
when Judas betrayed his I, ml and after
ward hung himself. Then ui. howvwr,
instances where thii teon ii:n U'eu a lucky
number, as in a bit tor's io. n. waere oue
loaf is added to the dozen f n bi
There is also an account of a British
soldier lu tho reign of Willi un aud Mary
who was court 'luai liale l for having fallen
asleep at midnight, .v. ion ou sent ry guard
iiihhi tho terrace at Windsor. lie most
solemnly declared that lie wan ttinoeout of
the offense anil to prove it stv.ue that he
hoard tho clock Tom of '.Vcsi miiistorstriko
tin i toon when it should h tve struck
twelve. The court refuse I to boliovo that
ho could hear the clock at tli it great dis
tauce and sentenced hint to death, but
when anum er of iieoplec.i n ' forward and
made alllduvit that, the cluck actually did
strike thirteen on that sun nb;hl, ho was
lurdoucd Detroit I'Voe l'ics.s.
Oul-Ooor Hathera In Britain.
I found myself at tho Serpentine at an
unusually early hour tho other morning,
Bay a writer In tho London Graphic A
little way out In the water. In front of the
diving board, was a ladder ou the Ice, and
in front of the ladder were two trestles.
Between the two trestles the ice wui
broken away, leaving a space to dive about
ten feet long by five or six feet wido, the
trestles being placed thoro for the purpose
of keeping the miserable. Halo plunge bath
select from the skaters. To tho loft ot the
trestles was another ladder lying on the
ice. Near the bank I found a policeman
who was communicative. The bathers
form a kind of club and number about
twenty, he told mo. Thoy bathe every
mornlDg. No matter what the weather is.
in they go, just tho some. All classes ol
people belong to the club, I was further
told, and some came from a good distance.
One enthusiast is 75 years old. His hall
and beard are white af snow.
TO EXPLORE DEATH VALLEY.
Where the Temperature la 1110 B the
Summer and 1 lO In the W titer.
An expedition is bointt orgnn'zel in
Washington said President Willets of
the Hoard of Government Exhibits re
cently which if it is as successful as we
anticipate, will contribute in results
some unhpie features of the Government
exhibits that w ill excite general atten
tion. Nothing has been said about it
heretofore but I uin now ready to an
nounce Its ot.Jeetwbich is to make an
accurate biological survey of the famous
Deiith Valley in southern California,
This vulley is in a greut measure a terre
incognita. It is true that the Wheeler
nurvey gives us something of its topo
graphical features, and it is true also
that Capt. Charles E. llordine, curator
of egi-s in tho National Museum, made a
reconnaissance of tho vulley In lt)"7. but
the amount of accurate knowledge of
the country Is very small indeed. Scores
of persons have tienetrated lt and their
dried bodies are there now showing how
fearful must bo the heat. It is 130 de
grees in summer and 110 in Winter.
Nothing rots, so dry Is the atmosphere.
"Now. we propone t send eight or ten
of the most distinguished scientists that
can be found in the country on an ex
ploration tour of the valley. One man,
Vernon Bailey, is already working hts
way into the va:ley from Nevada, and in
a few days Prof. Thodore F. Balmer will
move up from the south and join him.
Other members of the expedition will be
projected Into the valley lu a short time,
when actual scientific work will be fully
commenced. The expedition, which
will occupy three months, will be one of
great peril, as the beat Is greater than
that of any other section of this country
and more Intense than that of the fam
ous desert of Sahara. Mirages are fre
quent, and water cau only be had by
digging for It. The exMdition will start
in with eight barrels or water. The pack
anlnia'swlll be mules and burros, and
there Is a question whether even they
will be able to survive the fearful heat
and the labor Incident to the trip.
"There are rumors of immense depot
its of gold and silver in the mountains.
They may be fairy tales, but there is a
tradition that once upon a time a gold
hunter ran across a red painted bucket
in the valley, in which was a rich chunk
of gold, and beside it a pickaxe, and the
shrivelled remains of a man. The hunter
returned to Cal forma with the gold and
was seized uf-on by miners and tortured
for t :e purpose of getting him to tel! all
that he knew. He related of finding a
mountain of gold and silver, but efforts
to discover their exact locality have al
ways resulted in failure. Now. we ex
pect to-show on a nikp at the Exposition
just what there is there in animate and
inanimate nat ire. We have a right to
expect to find BixH-iea not known to nat
ural history." Chicago News.
IVtnmon Kvllow.
A dream which President Lincoln re
lated to one of bis friends has a homely
siimlfteenee for many another "common
fellow." Lincoln dreamed that he was
passing, on some public occasion, be
tween ranks of the people, when he beard
one man say to another, as he pointed
him out. "He's a common-looking
fellow. Isn't he ?" "Well, my friend."
replied Lincoln, in his dream, turning to
the man whose remark be bad over
heard, "God likes us eomnion-lc-oklnp.
fellows, or else he wouldn't have made so
many of us."
The wit and wisdom of this dream
thought are good enough for any waking
moment. Yes. God evidently likes common-looking
fellows, and he has evi
dently given the work of the world Into
the bands of common men. The "genius"
was always rare, and he is growing
rarer. As the general level of intelli
gence and virtue rises, fewer and fewer
mountain peaks of commanding intelli
gence rises aliove the levoL And even
at their best the men of genius have
never done the world's work, or fought
its battles, or carried on its reforms.
They have often obtained the glory and
won the applause, but a Napoleon with
out his army, a Gladstone without his
constituency. atSpurgeon without his
audience, would be for more helpless
than the "common-fellows" without
their leaders.
This is just the thought needed to lift
the common fellow out of his common
placeness, and to raise the common task
to the pinnacle of sublimity. The com
mon fellows aro God's chosen workmen.
The common tasks are bis. and he brings
the workman nnd the work together.
No man really appears common to us
after we begin to realize that he is
chosen of God, Just as Lincoln could not
have been a common fellow in the eyes
of any one who knew his mission and
history. Golden Rule.
How Victoria Jonrnryi by Rail.
When the Queen of England wills to
take atrip by ra 1 the event Is of no
small lniortance. In preparation for
her recent trd fro n Carlisle to Aber
deen, a distance of 240 miles. Instructions
were issued to all road officials several
days in advance, and a copy of the same,
printed In gold, was presented to the
Queen, that she might understand that
every poss Me arrangement had been
made for tier comlort and convenience.
Each section master was directed to
examine his length of lire, and station
himself at the south end and his assis
tant at the uortb end of the same section.
A pilot engine sped over the trick
twenty minutes before the Missing of
the royal train, and this interval was
maintained throughout the entire jour
ney. No gatherings were permitted at the
way stations, and passengers were ad
mitted to but one station, and that the
Inst of the whole route. Demonstrations
of any sort wore forbidden, "tho object
being that Her Majesty should I e per
fectly undisturbed throughout the Jour
ney." Engineers on trains that awaited
the passing of the royal cars were
directed not to allow any smoke to es
cape from their engines or any sound o'
blowing off steam. The Queen pays all
expenses of losses or delays occasioned
by hor Journey.
Stevenson Will Settle In Samoa.
Robert Louis SteveiiL'ou has sold his
villa at Itouruom.'Uth, England, and sent
for his mother to come out and join him
In Samoa. A relative of Mr. S'.cvenson'a
says that Louis is well enough anywhere
that he can live out of doors. In Eng
glaud and Scotland be could live only in
the open air during the Summer months,
aud not always even then.
To tbe North l'ole by Balloon.
The belief In the possibility of success
ful rerial navigation still retains Its hold
on the minds of many intelligent men.
A French scientist now proposes to make
a scientific expedition to the North Pole.
He proposes to construct a balloon ot
lined silk, thirty metres in diameter
and. having a cubic capacity ot 11,121
metres. The balloon will be covered
with a apeoiul varnish, which will insure
Its absolute imperviousness. It will be
filled with pure hydrogen, and its car
will be constructed on a novel plan es
pecially suituble for a Polar expedition.
It is calculated that this atrial journey
will last four or five days. It is proposed
to start from Spit zbergon and it is hoped
will end on the North American conti
nent, or in the northern part ot Asia.
This Is by far the most important Jour
ney which has yet been attempted in a
balloon, and if successful, it will teaoh
many lessons, not only in atrial naviga
tion, but also in many departments ot
physical science. Philadelphia Telegraph.
A PHAIHIt OBJtUI GONE..
The Bnffalo Wi low I. Disappearing; With
tbe Isuffitora.
A Buffalo wallow, once one of the most
familiar objects on the prairies. Is a cir
cular depression, having a diameter of
from six to thirteen feet. In approach
ing a large herd during the summer the
first indication of tbe presence of the
huge animals was an immense cloud of
dust rising high in the air. for the
buffalo, as do many of tbe wild boasts,
loves to revel in the fine sand or dirt,
which be furnishes Ly digging it up with
fcis horns. "Like a bull in his wallow,"
was once a frequent saylngon tbe plains,
and it has a very slgmticent meaning
with those who have ever witnessed a
buffalo bull trying to cool himself in a
wallow.
Many years ago. in the early days of
travel on the great plains, the travellers
believed these curious rings to bave
been made by tbe Indians In their
dances, but the idea prevailed for a
abort time. The buffalo, whose hair is
remarkable for Its intense sbagginess
and thickness, must necessarily suffer
severely from heat, and then he will seek
the lowest ground on the prairie, where
there h"S been a little stagnant water
left, if h can find it. Of course, the
ground being soft under the short grass,
lt is an easy matter for bim to make a
mud puddle of the spot In a very short
time. He accomplishes this by getting
down on one knee, plunging his short
horns and at last his bead, intotheeartb,
and be soon makes an excavation into
which the water slowly filters. This
makes a relatively cool bath, where,
throwing himself on his side as flat as he
cm, he rolls forcibly around, and with
his horns and hump be rips up the
ground by his rotary motion, sinking
deeper aud deeper, continually making
tbewallow larger, which tills with water,
in which at length he becomes CO n
pletely immersed, tbe water and mud.
mix-d to the consistency of mortar, cov
ering bim perfectly, changing his color
and general appearance. When he rose
tbe mud dripied in great streams from
every part of his huge body, a horrible
looking monster ot mud and ugliness,
too terrible to be accurately described.
It was generally the leader ot the herd
who took upon himself the business of
making the wallow, or if he had foun I
another had commenced tbe excavation
he would drive nim away and wallow
until he was satisfied, standing in a mass
ot mud and wa.er in the hole until he
got ready to give tbe others a chance. It
was always the next in command who
stood ready, and when be came out toe
next, who advanced in his turn, and so
on, according to rank, until all bad per
formed their ablutions. Frequently a
hundred or more would patiently wait
their turn, each one making the wallow
a litUe larger and carrying off a share of
the mud. which dried and gradually fell
off.
It required about half an hour to make
a decent wallow, and tbe depth was
about two feet. Tbe water naturally
drains Into these holes, together with its
accompanying vegetable deposit, and
tbe result is a remarkably rich soil,
where the grass and weeds grow with a
luxuriance so marked that a buffalo
wnllow can be distinguished long before
it is reached. The prairies are covered
with them all over the central and west
ern portion of Kansas, where the plow
has not yet disturbed the primitive sod.
Tbe first thing a Kansas farmer does
after a rain, is to examine the buffalo
waliows : if they are filled with water the
rain has been a good one. and the saying
common in that region, bo'.h by the indi
vidual and the newspapers, is, when
speaking or writing of a soaking rain:
"Tbe buffalo waUows are full." When
the weather was dry the buffalo I ad to
content himself with the comminuted
dust he could make In the hole, and. as
the weather was generally dry. the
whereatouts of a herd could usually be
located by the cloud of dust above it
Kansas City Star.
8fean SI't-Maklns; 1st India,
A description of the customs at one ol
the petty courts will serve to illustrate
those of all the States. When either of
these two (British official or physician)
called upon the Rajah ot llwar, he was
shown Into the reception or throne-room,
where sat the Rajah, surrounded by the
great Slate officers. After tbe exchange
of the usual salutations, one of the officials
brought in a tray. on which were displayed
jewels and golden ornaments, studded
with valuable stones; perhaps the contents
of the tray would be worth SM.OCO ot
more. This trayfid was supposed to be a
present from the Rajah to his visitor, and
It was offered first to the gentleman, and
he. inclining his head, touches the edge ol
the tray with the tips of his fingers, and it
Is then passed over to his lady, who invari
ably accompanies the British officer (it he
is married) on such occasions. She follows
the example of her husband, and the tray
and Its valuable contents are returned to
the jewel-room. The Rajah of I'lwaris
the owner of jewels and golden ornaments
that are valued at $30.000.itt). In lieu of
the unaccepted jewvls. a long necklace ol
tinsel, of little value, is placed around the
neck of each, where it remains during theit
stay within the palace.
There Is a very strict law against any
British official accepting a gift ot any kind
from a native prince. Even where a doc
tor may have performed some serious op
eration upon a Rajah, who. beiug grateful,
wishes to give exclusive of a money fee,
varying from $1,000 to $5,000, according tc
the operation performed a present of a
shawl (cashmere), golden cup, or some
similar valuable, the doctor must obtain
special permission from the Viceroy before
dares accept the present. If any official
accepts a gift ot any value without such
permission, he may have to resign. In
the good old days, when the East India
Company governed India, an official's pick
ings, the preseuts often extorted from the
Rajah's were far more to him than hie
salary. It is not rash to calculate Warren
Hastings's one of the most energetic and
unscrupulous of all the earlier Viceroys
pickings, if I may call them such, during
his long reign as Governor-General, to
have amounted to fully $5,000,000. Indian
apolis Journal.
The Stage avtas.
Henry Miller, who may be considered
an expert, gave his views on the impor
tant subject ot the stage kiss to a Detroit
reporter. ' The public bave a general
idea that the stage kiss is a sham and a
delusion, but they don't quite see bow it
is done. There is always room to get
your head between tbe audieuce and the
person kissed, and that helps out the
deception." Mr. Miller avers that
realism In this respect would not do at
all. "It might be distasteful to both
parties, and what would be the use ot it?
The ladies ou tbe stage don't want to be
kissed by every man they play with
that is,-kissed as the lover would kiss
and it might not be pleasant to the
men." .
lie Traveled tn Florida,
"Did you go about much in Florida?,,
asked a gentleman, of an acquaintance
who had just come up from that State.
"Well, yes," was the reply; "I weut over
to the Suwanee River, cut over tho coun
try, and shot 'gators on the Wlthlacooohe,
fished for buss in Tsala Apopka, sailed on
Thouotossa, skipped over to Okoulook
hatchee, walked by the shores of the Weo
hyakapka, plucked (lowers by Hlckpochee's
limpid waters, visited the sugar fields on
the tortuous Kisslmmee, was buffeted by
the waves ot Okeechobee, and have also
captured tarpon on the Calooeohatchee. 1
expected to visit Istokpogayoxie, Locka
pepka, Hatoheneeha and Ecautockhatchee
before I left the State,"
Woman's World.
Comfort Versus Luxury In th Home.
"The greater always includes the
less," said Missie, conning the first
lessoAi In her new Euclid.
"True In mathematics," said her
mamma in an aside to a friend who
was calling, "but you can't apply that
axiom to the Browns' house. I think
you know them. Have you ever vis
ited there?
"Xo? Well, they are hospitality if
self, and visitors are always welcomed
heartily at their lovely country home.
It is furnished with every luxury that
money can buy. Paint and paper
and frescoing are in the latest style ;
curtains and draperies are rich and
costly ; the guest chamber is a marvel ;
the bed down itself ; but I have sel
dom spent a more uncomfortable
night than the one I passed there a
short time ago.
"I noticed upon retiring the almost
priceless Cloisonpe matchbox upon
the mantel noticed it, I fear, with a
little sigh of envy, for I adore exqui
site china. After an hour or two I
awoke, and, for some reason or other,
wooed I never so earnestly, I failed
to bring the coy restorer. I groped
my way to the mantel. The match
box did not contain a single match.
I think I would have given dollars,
which you know are a scarce commod
ity with me, for the privilege of
striking a light. There were no
cIocks to strike, and just because I
could not look at my wateh the hours
of that night, through all the rest of
which I lay wide awake, seemed inter
minable. "There was a beautiful little colo
nial writing-desk in my room, and
with the first peep of day I thought I
would pass the time by writing some
letters. A i as, here again the greater
did not include the less. There were
no pens, ink or paper not even a
lead pencil.
"There was an inlaid desk in the li
brary, and although I found paper
there the inkstand a gem in oxidized
silver was empty. Quite innocently
I later threw the whole house into a
state ot amiable confusion by asking
for a piece of wrapping paper and a
bit of twine."
The caller, who never loses an op
portunity to "point a moral," thought
that here was a good lesson to many
otherwise excellent housekeepers,
says the New York Recorder. She
knows of a seven-room flat in Harlem
shared by a family of five where there
is very little luxury pure and simple,
but a great deal of comfort. The
pleasure of a guest chamber is denied
them, but they have a way of "doub
ling up" by which they can always
put a room at disposal of a friend. It
is literally 8x10. The bed is only a
cot, but wide enough for comfort and
with the best of springs and softest
of mattresses. It is covered with a
Bagdad rug, so that you take it for a
divan until you get better acquainted
with it, an impression which the ril
lows, with their coverings of demin
embroidered in the shades of the rug,
fail to remove until these covers are
taken off and the hemstitched linen
pillow slips are seen.
At the foot of the cot stands what
looks like a desk in imitation mahog
any which, when opened, shows
washbowl, pitcher and water jar.
Above it a set of bamboo shelves
holds a small home-made portfolio of
artist's linen containing paper, envel
opes and postal cards. There are a
simple inkstand well filled and pen
rack with good pens, albeit in most
inexpensive holders. There are a
few well-chosen books and a magazine
or two. You don't have to ask for a
wisp broom or hat brush, for both
are ready to your hand. A cretonne
covered box with a hinged cover
makes a comfortable ottoman and
holds shoe brushesand blacking; in a
little rack in one corner of it is stowed
a bottle of dressing for ladies' shoes.
Hang Rrooms I p by the Handle.
Don't hang your broom brush end
uppermost, unless you want tc spoil
it, advises the Xew York Ledger. If
the brush is the least bit damp, the
moisture will work down into the
body of the broom and make it musty,
and after a time will rot the threads
all out. I know there is a great fancy
nowadays for fastening the brooms
on the wall by means of nails driven
through spools, as well as various
broom-holders and similar devices,
but it is all a mistake, as one may see
by giving the subject a little thought.
Hang up a wet broom in this way,
and the water naturally soaks into
the tying. Before it could be thor
oughly dried, it gets wet again.
The inside portion "of the broom is
fastened with wires. These become
rusted and break away and the
threads which fasten the outside get
rotted and some little blow breaks
them loose ; and then the broom is
spoiled. Go to the hardware store
and buy a dozen large-sized screw
eyes. Put oue of these in the end of
the handle of every broom in the
house. Drive nails and hang them
up. Before putting them up it is well
to dip them for about four or five
inches of the length of the brush into
hot water, then rap them smartly to
throw out the water, hang them up
and let them dry thoroughly before
using. In this wav the brush dries
straight and the broom will last as
long again as when treated iu the us
ual way.
These screw-eyes have various uses,
and it is economy to buy them by the
gross. The dusting-brush, floor
brushes anything with a wooden
handle may be hung up by the
means of them. The bread-board,
the ironing-board, ' indeed every
wooden utensil about the house may
be much more conveniently placed
by means of these trifling appliances.
Such small wares cost nothing, and
by their us-j one finds elbow-room,
shelf-room and order more easily
than by almost any other means.
General News.
GENERAL.
A line of whaleback steamers to -carry
wheat direct from St. Louis
down the Mississippi and across the
Atlantic to Liverpool is proposed.
The pope advises tbe French clergy
not to medd le with politics nor give
political exhortations.
UNITED STATES.
Thp OmuhA cAnnrilmen hAVA Iwn '
indicted for brioery in selling favors
to the Union Pacific railroad company.
The present council has declared for
feited the Union Pacific's charter
within the city limits and ordered its
tracks torn up.
The ti'Je to all the property in the
town of Elreno, Ok., was based on the
homtstei-d entry of one of the " soon
ers," who squatted before the hoar
set for opening the territory and
who have been declared by the fed
eral supreme court to have forfeited
the right to ever homestead land in
the territory. A mob of jumpers
raided the town as soon as the decis
ion was known, taking possession of
eve.-y lot or house they could find un
occupied. Jl typhoid epidemic is spreading in
New York. It started among Bus
sian immigrants. -
Two murderers were lynched at
Pine Bluff, Ark., a few days ago. ---
English capitalists 'are trying to
combine the tanneries of the United
t Late in a trust.
The federal grand jury of the dis-
trict of Columbia will investigate the
sugar combine and other truste.
The family of James Morton of Sa
lem, IiL, was poisoned by arsenic
mvT.--iiii:.!v ttiivm! xri f"b Kral onH
Morton died.
Three boys were drowned by the
breakinir of the ice while they were
walking across a pond in Humboldt
park, Chicago, Feb. 13.
A str ng pull in favor of dealing in
optioua was developed by the discuss
ion of the anti-produce-gambling bill
in congress.
The lottery and anti-lottery men in
New Orleans are arming and pre par-
ing lor oiooay worK.
The pastors of Omaha have united
to force the theaters to cease posting
indecent bills.
The merchants ofTorrington, Conn
have made out a black-list of beats
who can pay bills but don't, and they
propose to publish it. The editor of
the local paper is threatened with dy
namite if the list is published, and
armed men guard his office and resi
dence. All Russian immigrants arriving at
Xew York are -put in quarantine-on
account of the epidemic of typhus
fever among those already landed.
Morton will not run again for vice
president. Judge Botkin is holding court in
peace at Springfield, Kan.
ftstates are opposing Caminetti's bill
prohibiting the importation and trans
portation of infected trees.
Patti will, it is said, come no farther
west than Omaha on this year'sjfwe - .
well tour of America.
Two negroes were lynched at Bo
man ulos, Tuscaloosa county, AL.Fe b.
12, for robbing and burning a store.
Edwin Field, the swindler, son of
Cyrus W. and nephew of Supreme .
Court J ustice Field, has been indicted
again in Xew York, this time for for
gery. George Frys, a Walla Walla de
tective, says a man named Johnson
buncoed him out of $1600 in Sew York
and Johnson has been arrested.
Chicago distances the wild and
wooly west in the robbery line. An
express wagon and a mail wagon have
recently been robbed on her streets
and Feb. 11 three men with revolvers
robbed Patrick O'Donnell of $45 in a
crowded saloon in that city and es
caped. Hedgepeth, the train robber, has
been arrested in San Francisco and
taken east.
Young Blaine allows his wife to get
her Dakota divorce by default.
Farmer James Yohe, ten miles from
Kingwood, Va., was bound by five
men and tortured bv the burning of
his feet with hot irons till he gave up ;
his money, alxut $300, Feb. 12.
TTiM .1..-.- l.;il...l j
named Prat and his little daughter
and the horses he was driving near -Leonard,
Sherman county, Kaa -Feb.
13.
A woman calling herself Mrs. Fan
nie Franklin and claiming to own a
fruit ranch at Riverside, CaL, hired a
boarding house at Memphis, Tenn.,
took boarders for cash in advance, .
ran ouis amounting to 51000 and dis---
appeared.
FOREIGN.
Garza is reported to be in Havana,
the City of Mexico and several other
places, and his revolution flourishes
principally on paper.
The foot and mouth disease has
appeared among cattle in Norfolk- ,
shire, England, and is believed to
have been introduced from Denmark.
The revolutionary spirit is reported ,
to be on the increase in Mexico.
The $50,000,000 apropriated by par
liament to buy land in Ireland under
the Ashbourne act has all been spent.
Sixty persons suspected of being
anarchists have been arrested in .
Berlin. --
Owing to the 'failure of crops -famine
is causing widespread distress in '
Montenegro. This state of affairs
has resulted in the wholesale emigra
tion of people to Turkey.
The new French tariff has advanced
the price of beef and horse and mule .
meat is in increased demand in Paris.
There is no prospect of reconcilia
tion between the Parnellites and tbe
MeCarthyites. . f
A sewing machine aget at Butte re
sorted to a sharp trick to gain busi-
ness. He compounded an alleged
"watch-oil,"' which he gavetohissub- '
agents with instructions to use on all
makes except those of their own com
pany. Tne good heusewives of Butte
soon complained that their machines
would not run after the oil was used .
on them, and the crafty agent came
to their rescue with a machine of hi
own company, which he guaranteed.
He sold a number of machines before
1 the trick was disco rerei. . - --e v- .
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