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MEDFORD VOL. IV. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1892. NO. lOr THE MATE PROFESSIONAL CARDS. S. B. PICKER K. T. Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: Booms a & 3, I. O. O. . Building FRANCIS FITCH, ATTORNEY-AT - LAW. Medford, Oregon. J. B. WAIT, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: In Childers' Block. B. P. GEARY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Offioe on C street. KOBT. A. mnr.T.TiK. Attorney and fansellor-at-Law. Jacksonville, Oregon. TTfll practice in all Courts of the State. J. H, WHITMAN. Abstracter and Attorney-at-Law MEDFORD, OEEGOS. Office in Bank butldlnr. Have the most com plete an.! reliable abstracts of title In Jackson county. W. S. JONES. M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Medford. Oregon. Office Hamlin Block, up-stalrs. OR. O. F. DEMOREST, RESIDENT DENTIST, Hakes a specialty of first-class work at reason- a ok? rates. Office In Opera House, Medford. Oregon K. PB.YCE. M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office Childers Block; Residence, Galloway residence. WHLASD CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counselor at Law MEDFORD. OREGON. Office in Opera Block AUSTIN S. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. MEDFORD. ORE. WK. M. COLVIG, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Jacksonville. Oregon. X ORRIS 3L HARKNESS, Attorney and Counsellor Grants Pass, Ore gout DRUGSTORE Th? iMdlo-i droit store ot Medford is GEO. H. HASKINS, (Successor to Hakl" owton.) He has anytliing i.i the line of Pare Drugs, Patent Medicines, Books, Stationery, Paints and Oils, Tobacco, Cigars, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Ani erprythlnr that Is carried In a - flntxilAiui f Drug - Store. Prescriptions Carefully Com pounded. Main Street. Kedxbrd. Oregon. EAST AHfD SOUTH VIA Southern Pacific Route. ' THE MOOT SHASTA ROUTE EXPRESS TRUSS LEAVE PORTLAND DAILY : South North 7:00 P. . 9:33 P. M. 8:15 A. M. Lv Portland Ar7;3JA.M. Lv Medford Lv s r. Ar San Francisco Lt 1 1 HO P. 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Asst-O. F. A P. Agt Current News. Bread Kioto in Berlin A o course of 5000 people gathered nr of the emperor's residence in n 't B.-rl n Fob. 25 shouting "We must ee the emperor." Their demands r bread became so threatening that tbe police sent for reinforcements and on their arrival drew their sabers and tried to disperse the crowd. They were resisted with clubs and were swept backward by the surging mass. Soon they r 'Hied, however, and, mak ing free use of their clubs, beat back the crowd, which dispersed, leaving seventy wounded members lying on the street. This occurred in the forenoon. At :30 p. ui. a demonstrative crowd of 300 was dispersed near Brandenburg. n the evening a mob raged through tho city, smashing windows and loot ing the shops of bakers and butchers. Many clothiers' jewelers and grocers' shops in Berlin were ransacked dur ing the evening. Feb. 26 the rioting was renewed, but the crowds were frequently dis persed by the police, who used their swords ireely, not killing any, but wounding many. The cry of "Give us bread ; our families are starving," was a frequent one among the mobs, and the opposition papers published articles declaring that the "struggle between the emperor and his people has commenced and will not end till victory rests with the people," and that "the country is tired or hearing the tramp of well-fed armed men where there are hosts of starving un employed workmen." Several men were arrested who were dressed as women and carried dynamite under their clothes and it was believed that they intended to join forces at the castle and blow it and the emperor up. National Loan Companies Arraigned. The California bank commissioners have investigated the building and loan associations and found some peculiar financiering among them. The Installment Home association of San Francisco refused to report to to the board. The California Guarantee Invest ment company loans only on shares of its investment bonds, while holders of capital stock are alone liable for its debts, holders of investment shares being free from liability. The Pacific States Savings,Ioan and Building company of San Francisco reports liabilities greater than assets, and the figures it gives to the com mission do not balance Every mem ber is reported to be required on join ing to give a proxy to the secretary, which establishes a one-man power. The Continental Building and Loan association of San Francisco earned S33C4 in the year ending July 1, 1891, and its expenses were $6619. The lia bilities are $745 in excess of its assets. The Republic Savings, Building and Lean association of San Francisco has thus far done nothing but collect dues and absorb them in the expenses of management. Reuter s Co-operative investment company of San Francisco submitted n iur-oniplete and unsatisfactory re po t. The F'deli'y Savings and Loan as- ri n --f Los Angeles promises i 1 1 g until the end of seven years. I' X itional Buildingand Loan as- o atiou of Los Angeles has not suf ficient a-sets to meet its liabilities and the cost, i f carrying iton is 25 per cent of its receipts. The Imperial Savings and Loan company of Los Angeles appears to be using about twice as much bor rowed money as it receives from its members. A Scandal in Chile. A new scandal has cropped out at Valparaiso. The documents in the case have just been made public They relate to alleged transactions in bills of exchange by Mr. McCreery The revelations have fairly astounded mercantile circles. It is asserted that bills show there was bought and sold by him in De cember, 1890, and in January and Feb ruary, 1891, over $1,000,000. For the last three months, it is further al leged, he has been extensively en gaged in exchange transactions. This was especially the case during the Baltimore affair. It is alleged that he used official in formation which he gained from offi cial sources in his dealings. It is rumored that Lieutenant Har low, world's fair commisioner, is se riously mixed up in this scandal, and that he entered into partnership with Mr. McCreery in his purchase of the bills. The news of these transactions has helped to increase the feeling in Val paraiso against the consul, who has not for quite a while been favorably regarded there. Lieutenant Har low s lerxere 10 certain .New iork pa pers, in view of the present circum stances, seem, to (Jmlean minds, to furnish good reasons for the spread of startling rumors in the United States. The Reform Convention. The convention of reformers which met at St. Louis resulted in a call for a national nominating convention to meet at Omaha July 4. The convention ignored prohibition and referred woman suffrage to the state legislatures. It indorsed the sub-treasury scheme, free coinage and a graduated income tax, de manded the prohibition of alien own ership of land and of land monopoly and declared for government owner ship of railroads, telegraphs and tele phones. - General News. The Xiouisana lottery has been granted a perpetual charter in Nicar agua. The principal office will be at Greytown. Seaman Tiirnbull, who was mur dored at Valparaiso, was a Canadian citizen, and his father demands in demnity from the American govern ment. The Gorman ship Clara, from Liv erpool for San Francisco, was burned atseaSOO miles south of the equator on the way up. The captain and crew were rescued. The steamer Indiana left rhiladel phia Feb. 22 with 20,000 sacks of Hour, 2!) carloads of flour in barrels and a large assortment of other provisions, all contributed by the people of Phil adelphia, for the Russian famine suf ferers. After April the United States treas ury department will require pedigrees for five generations on the sire's side and four on the dam's in the case of thoroughbred animals presented for free entry on the claim that they are intended for breeding purposes. It will be difficult to ooimilv with this requirement, especially in the case of sheep, and in England the ruling is regarded an answer to the embargo on American cattle. UNIT ED STATES. Jay Gould's health is failing. Patti sang "Annie Rooucy " at Chi cago. The New York state convention in dorsed Hill for president. Henry S. Ives is in business in Wall street again after his term in prison. All the street cars at Indianapolis were tied up by another strike Feb. Newton Booth, ex-governor of Cal- fornia, is dying of a cancer in New York. Freddie Gebhardt says the Keelev treatment has cured him of the desire for drink. Harrison recommends an additional appropriation by congress for the world s lair. . The Union Pacific surrendered and granted the demand of its employes lor a raise of pay. The street-car system of Stillwater. Minn., were tied up by a strike for back pay Feb. 25. The Hugo mine's building at Ou ray, (Jol., was destroyed and W . Cam eron was killed Feb.2 by a snowslide. The Keeley cure for the liquor and opium habits is to be put into use in trie national military and naval homes. An obnoxious saloon at Newport. Tenn., was blown up with dynamite reb2i. Two adjoining stores went with it. Villard savs Edison will not be frozen out of the consolidate electric light companies because he is out already. A rich gold strike is building up a town at Carnero, Col., and the Mis souri Pacific is surveying a railroad to that place. Secretary Rusk is not supremely happy over the results of the rain makers' experiments, but he will have the try some mo.-e. Michael Dunn, who established an ndustrial home for ex-convicts in San Francisco and has been conduct ing one in Brooklin, N. Y., is dead. Banks Creiger has begun suit in Chicago for the return to the city of $1,000,000 alleged to have been wrong fully paid out while his lather was mayor. Albert Coucutt, a pupil in school at Valley, Wis., refused to obey his teacher, J. N. Allen, and the latter knocked him down with a club, kill ing him. Two colored childen at Rov's Mill, Ga., aged 11 and 9 years, who were left in charge of an 'infant, killed it and roasted and ate its eyes and slices from its cheeks. M-ron Van Fleet of Hastings, Neb.. circulated scandalous falsehoods about Miss Alice Yocum and Feb. 22 her father, A. D. Yocum, shot Van Fleet dead on the street. Frank C. Bairis hid in a box car at Vincennes, Ind., to steal a ride and was looked in and left on a side track eight days. He was badly frozen and nearly starved to deatti. Riotous strikers prevented the run ning of street cars at Indianapolis Feb. 27 and a number were injured in collisions with the police. That night 250 special policemen were sworn in. A census of the unemployed in Chi cago is to lo taken and the result published in foreign countries where the statement is being circulated that 3,000,000 laborers are wanted at Chi cago. The house of representatives has directed the committee on labor to in vestigate the working of the eight- hour law and endeavor to ascertain if it is being violated on government work and if convict labor 13 being used on government contracts. Antonio Gonzales, father-in-law of C. Garza, the Mexican revolutionist, was arrested at San Antonio. Tex., Feb. 25, on complaint of Captain Bourke for violating the neutrality laws. He gave bail and then filed formal charges against Bourke for overrunning his. plantation on sev eral occasions without process of law, FOREIGN Smallpox is raging in Tokio. Indian massacres are reported in Bolivia. Sugar factories are being started in upper iiigypt. The Canadian Pacific will double its track from Winnipeg to Fort William on lake superior. England proposes to make a fur ther disnlav of force in Egypt by in creasing her garrison there. The British government will not at tempt to carry through its Irish gov ernment bin till alter easier. The British steamer Loughbrow ran into the Forest Queen In the North sea and sank her, only the captain escaping. The boundary dispute between the Argentine republic and Chile has been settled and reciprocity between the two countries is proposed. An old man named Blchert who has been living with another man's young wife at Berlin, Ont., was tarred and feathered by White Caps Feb. 22. The Bolerian working people are making tremendous demonstrations and are threatening a general strike if parliament does not grant universal suffrage. Anarchists stole a large quantity of dvnamite from the government fac tory in Paris recently, only a few sticks of which have been recovered, Woman's World. Women and Student at Law. At the recent opening of the South ern Ca'ifornia College of Law, at Los Angeles, John W. Mitchell, the pres ident, in his lecture upon "Tho study of the Law," spoke of the utility of women studying law, in the following language : "This part of this discourse It is be lieved would be radically incomplete without calling attention to one other and particular cla3s of persons who need an insight into the rudiments of law which class, it seems, has also been neglected by those occupying a like position to my own I mean the women. He is indeed blind to the signs of the times who does not recog nize the expanding field of women's work, and their increased influence in the professions as well as in the fine arts. That women are entering the lists with men, in behalf of them selves and women kind is well ; for they must make up their minds to take up the task of urging tho re forms they need, and must solve the woman problem in all its bearings. Women are doing this. They are be coming competitors with men in the pursuits of life, it is true ; but it is as much from necessity as choice. But it is not only tho women who have to labor and earn their own living wh- need legal knowlodge to aid them. It is more needful to the woman of property, be her possessions but an humble home or a colossal fortune; whether she be married or single. Women want this experience to make them cautious of jeopardizing their ights, and less confiding in business matters. The courts are full of cases showing how women have been wrongfully stripped of their belong ings. And perhaps, if one woman had known the legal effect of some of her acts, one of the largest fortunes ever amassed in this state would not have been carried to distant states, and there scandalously distributed among scheming adventurers and lawyers, making a little Massachu setts county seat the theater of one of the most remarkable contests for a fortune in the whole annals of pro bate court law. 'As to the professions women were for a long time barred from them, but now the barriers to all of them have been removed, and there is not a pro fession in which women are not dis tinguished. They are graduated in sciences from most universities with the highest honors, and have stood the same tests as the men. The law was about the last to admit them within its precincts, and there they are meeting with an unexpected measure of success. Not only in this. but in other countries, there are suc cessful women practitioners. And in France, where the preparatory course is most arduous and the term of study longest, a woman recently took the highest rank over 500 men in her graduating examinations, and during the whole six years of class study she only lost one day from her work an example that is commended to you students. Undoubtedly, the fweight of the argument is in favor of women studying law." M r-.(.lmlttto' M nn- Pto. Mrs. Gladstone is famous for her mince-meat pies, ami the school-girls at Newnham often revelled in those dainties sent direct from Hawaiden by Mrs. Gladstone to her daughter. The following is a copy of the recipe from the original document prepared by Mrs. Gladstone's own hand : "For mincemeat a round of beef or a lean piece of the shoulder is the best. The suet to be used should be taken from the kidney. After the beef has been boiled it should be chopped with the suet its finely its possible. Peel and core a sufficient number of good cooking apples to weigh three pounds when thus pre pared for chopping. Mince these up with the meat and suet. "Then add three pounds of currants, a pound of seedless raisins and two pounds of stoned Malaga raisins, to gether with a quarter of an ounce each of cloves and cinnamon, one pound of powered sugar, half an ounce of mace, half au ounce of grated nutmeg, a tablespoonful of allspice, a liberal teaspoonful of salt, three quar ters of a pound of shredded citron and one pint of French brandy. Stir the mincemeat thoroughly after pour ing on the brandy, put it on the tire and heat it just to the boiling point. Take it off the fire and pour it into a well-covered earthen jar. Put it in a cool place where it will constantly be as near freezing as possible. Let it stand for three or four weeks before using. In order to have your mince for Christmas pies as near perfection as possible, make a rich puff paste and as you fill this with the mince meat add candied orange in small pieces." To bake beef steak score the steak well and put it in a covered pan; if not very fat add bits of butter to it, and season with salt and pepper; then grate bread crumbsover it. Put it in a little water to keep it from shrink ing. Bake twenty minutes, or it pre ferred very well done bake thirty minutes. A challie or cotton dress is not nec essarily inexpensive and it Is wise to consider before buying these materi als how many times in the coming season such a dress will be worn. The trimmings and making usually cost as much as the material and even the latter is not always cheap, for with challie at 87 cents and ginghams at 50 cents a yard one can better af ford a cashmere or silk when general utility is considered. Wedding receptions at which the bridal gifts are exhibited are tho ex ception. This is one of the few good reforms in society. Farm Notes. SiedlfH ItaiHlna. In March, 1889, a friend gave me three cuttings or Thompson seedless grapes. With these I grafted a dozen 2-year-old vigorous Rose of Peru vines. These vines are now tho heav iest bearers in my vineyard. We weighed the yield or one of them last August; there was 102 pounds of per fect, seedless grapes. I have three other kir Is of seedless grapes, the well known Sultana, which yields nearly as heavily as theThompson, the Corinthian, nearly equal in product iveness and superior in flavor, and in the fact that in a thousand tons of them you'll never find even a piece of a seed ; and the Zante, earliest and small, but when dried into currants most delicious of all. The average yield of my seedless grapes was nearly twice as great as the yield of the Muscats. The chief advantage of raising seedless grapes is their eailiuess of ripening. They're ready to cure dur ing the best drying weather of sum mer, before there is any possibility of loss or deterioration from even the earliest autumn rains. Being thus early in the market they find no com petition from other raisins, except the old remains of last year's crop. This always insures ready sale and a good price. Although they ripen only about two weeks ahead of the Mus cats, Owing to better drying weather, and their curing more rapidly by reason of their smaller size, they can be put into the market nearly, and perhaps fully, a month ahead of the great mass of the Muscat crop. W. A. Sanders in Fresno Republican. Humble Urea. The department of agriculture is about to send an expedition to India for tho purpojo of procuring certain giant bees which are wild in that country. They are the biggest spe cies known in the world and they build combs in the forest a Urge as ordinary house doors, giving enor mous quantities of wax. If they could spread their swarms in the semi-tropical forests of the United States they might be made to supply considerable crops of the finest and most vnluable wax. Curiously enough the drones are no larger than ordinary bees and this fact affords reason for hoping thai they will mate with the females of stocks already acclimated here. These wonderful insects have longer tongues than are possersed by other bees and the belief is entertained that they could secure from many kinds of flowers honey which now goes to waste. Nowadays beekeepers select their stock as carefully as farmers do cat tle. Hundreds of people all over the country make a profitable business of raising purv-bred Italian or other queens for market. In each hive are engendered from a dozen to 300 queen bees, depending on the race. If left alone they would nearly all be killed by being stung to daalh in their cells, because a bee household can never have more than one mistress; but the breeder removes the portion of the comb which contains these queen cells before their occupants are ready to emerge, and he puts one of them, with a bit of comb and honey, into each of a number of m'niature hives made for the purpose, with a few hand fuls of bees in each. Thus many thousands of queen bees may be pro duced in a season, and, iuasmuch as well bred ones sell for from $3 to $5 each, the business is lucrative. Crramtiig liter!mrnta. The fo' wing are some conclusions reached oy the Wisconsin cxptrinient station : 1. In skimming by the Cooley sys tem, the syphon should be set so as to leave at least one inch of skim-milk with the cream. 2. The efficiency or creaming by deep setting is greatly influenced by the character of the herd, the milk from some herds creaming very close, while that from other herds, under the same conditions, creams poorly. This difference may amouut to as much as one pound of butter per 100 pounds of milk. 3. Delay in setting may cause a considerable loss with the milk from some herds and scarcely, any with that of others. To avoid the possi bility or such loss it is reoommended that milk be set as soon as possible after milking. 4. Deep setting without ice under the most favorable conditions results in considerable loss, and where the water used is not lower than 50 de grees F. the loss is excessive, reach ing in some cases as much as 25 per cent of the total fat in the milk. 5. The centrifugal system of sepa rating cream overcomes all or these difficulties, giving an efficient cream ing with milk rrom all sources, either directly after milking or after stand ing several hours. 6. The Baby Separator No. 2 may be used with advantage with herds of from 10 to 20 cows. I have been intimately acquainted with eight farmers who quit their farms and engaged in other business with the expectation of obtaining easier and more profitable work ; but all or them did so to the detriment; or their pecuniary interests, and three or them, at least, to the injury or their health and the shortening or their lives. Ohio f armer. A cement cellar floor that may be readily cleaned with mop or broom and that excludes vermin is a wel come improvement. The destruction in a single year of fruits, potatoes and vegetables by rats aud meadow-moles would go tar toward rreeung me ex pense of a floor to exclude them. DANDELIONS IN THE SKY. An earnest little maiden Peeped up Into the nleht. Where merry stars were twinkling And marvelled at the sight. " And does the grass." she questioned, Orow bluo where It's so high? And are they dandelions The stars up In the sky?" Columbus Dispatch. THE PONY EXPRESS. Whenever BurTiilo Bill is In the city and at the Lelond hotel where he always stops, thoro, too. Is always to bo found Robert H. Haslam, says the Chicago Times. They aro Inseparable companions, and no won der, for thoy were for thirty years to gether on the (Treat plains of the west aa scouts and hunters. The colonel and his comiuiulon went seated one evening in the hotel offloe, tho center of a (Troup of admirlnsr listeners. Bomeone heard Cody call his friend "Pony Bob." and asked the reason of it. " What," said he, " did you fellowa never bear how Bob here came to be called " Pony Bob?" and he riirht here among you, too, most of the time. Come to think of it though that is probably the very reason . Bob himself would never tell anybody that he ever trailed a redskin or a buffalo, but he has though, and he met more than one Piute when he got that nickname. If you want to hear the story I'll tell It," and thu big man looked smilingly down at tho subject of the talk. " Now, colonel, you drop that, will youT Nobody cares to hear that old yarn." " But we do. we do; go on, never mind Bob; he's all right," spoke up the whole crowd. " Of course he's all right," replied the colonel, "and the story must be told. You see," continued he, pulling a handful of ci gars from his pocket, and after handing tbem all around finally lightning one bim 6elf " you see lt was away back in the 'Go's, at the time Lincoln was elected presi dent. Communication between New York and 'Frisco was then pretty slow, and the scheme of establishing a pony express for the purpose of carrying light mail and im portant matter of a light character across the continent was inaugurated by Bussoll. Major 4 Miller. But there is no use going over that pony express scheme; you all know about it as I do. You will remember the stamp that was used was worth a $S gold piece for a letter from New York to 'Frisco. It was like an ordinary stamp except that Instead of having the head ot Washington or some great secretary of the treasury It had a pony on which was a rider going it as fast as he could run. The mail matter had to be written upon the thinnest of paper, and only a light weight was given to each rider. " It was just about two weeks after this express was started." continued the col onel. " In fact, it had hardly got into good and complete working order, that Lin coln's election occurred. The extreme western limit of railway lines from the east was St. Joseph. Ma That point was to be the beginning of the pony route and it was to extend to Folsom. Cal, which was connected by boat with San Francis co. From St. Joe to Folsom is V miles and the question came up as to how long lt would take the pony riders to make the) run. The excitement over this grew pret ty warm and it finally reached a point where betung commenced. The pony ex press company declared they could cover the distance In ten day's time and the in credulous oces came to the front with SXU.OOO in cash, which thev declared thev were willing to wager that it could not be done. The arrangements for this bet were just completed when the returns ot Lincoln's election were ready to be sent out, and that was one ot the Important matters the pony express were to carry upon the return trip which was to settle the wager. The entire route was divided up Into stations, ranging from 100 to IX) miles between each, and a rider was hired for each of these runs." "What kind of horses did you have, Mr. Haslam?" some one Interrupted to in quire. "Mustangs and tough brutes they are too." replied Haslam. "Say. you musn't call him "mister,'" chipped in the colonel: "call him Bob; that is the only name he knows. Mr. Has lam I Ha! bal ha!" and the good natured scout laughed loudly. But I fay. Bob, there la one thing I have forgotten; tell me, how far was lt you rode?" "One hundred and twenty miles,' an swered the little scout; "if you will have It. my run was from a place called Smith's Creek, then in Ctah, but now in Nevada, to Fort Churchill, on the Carson river. This fort was established just previous to this time and all on account of the Flute war. It Is 13) miles between the two points and I covered it In eight hours and ten minutes." " How much did you weigh then. Bob? " was asked. "One hundred and five pounds, but I was tough; I never had a sick cay in my life," said Haslam. "Scouting on the plains is pretty health ful. Isn't it?" asked another inquisitive person. " It's not very healthy when you meet a bond of redskins," put In Cody. " particu larly when your horse is tired and they number about 100 to one poor white man. It's not healthy then." aud Cody rubbed his hand over his hair as it delighted it was still there. " Did you meet any Indians on your run. Bob?" inquired another curious listener. " O, a few," was the quiet rejoinder. " A fe w T" broke in Cody impatiently. "Why don't you brace up and tell howyou got that scar in your chin. It didn't spoil your beauty, certain, for you never had any." " 0 1 that's nothing to tell, colonel." said Bob. " It was only a little scrimmage. Now, here, gentlemen," ha continued, "the colonel seems determined, 1 shall tell ' you about that ride. Now, I don't mind if you really want to hear It, but It don't amount to much." " Go on. Bob, go on," oame in choru?. " Well, you see. that was thirty years ago, and I wasn t so steady then as I am now. You sec, I was only a little past twenty and I didn't care much what kind ot a scrape I got into. Well, I heard about that bet and I heard that the pony ex press company was having difficulty in getting men used to hard riding and slch, so I just waltsed Into tholr offloe, told 'em who I was, and made a bargain ; they gave me my route and said that all they asked me to do was to get there' and they didn't care how. Well. I got to Smith's Creek and waited my turn. It came, and I started out with a good, fast mustang, well armed, and in good spirits; naturally I wanted my employers to win that money and I was going to do my best to help them. You see, it anything hap pened to any of the boys along the line their cake was dough.so it was caution and skill that was needed, as well as haste. had gone about twenty rullos and came tc a bolt of timber I knew well, for I had been there many a time before and 1 know there was water just a short distance inside. 1 wanted some and so did mj horse, and we got it Just as I came out what did' I see but three- pointed Flutes, mounted on ponies and making directly for the 8 pot where I was. They were after water, too. They oame a cantering but they saw me just as quick as I saw them and pulled up short. I turned and yelled back Into the woods : ' Come on ! Come out boys; here's three rod devila!' just as though there was a party back of me. The reds started to run at first, but not seeing any one but me concluded I was alone and their meat Their arrows flew toward me as quick as a flash and one of them struck my horse in the knee and did him up tor good. I not over behind him ana in an in tsjj.th.au my short rflejeveled at one of the Indluns. ' Crack !' she went and the red tumbled to the ground. The other two came charging on me at full speed. ihe other barrel brought one of them down, and then at ten feet I shot the other with a pistol. I was fortunate enough to catch one of the ponies they rode, so putting a bullet into the head of my pwr horse I changed the saddle, nnL. mounting the pony, made another start, not having lost more than ten minutes' time altogether. I had ten hours by the schedule to do my 120 miles in, but I was anxious to beat it all I could, lor the next man would have that much leeway. " Well. I had no more trouble until I was on the next to my lost run. I was getting along so well that it made me feel kind of chipper, I tell you," continue ! Bob. "I wasonly about twenty- five miles from the fort, and I knew I was ahead of time. I had just forded a email stream and was picking my way through a narrow gorge that formed a passage through the west side when suddenly whiz ! went an arrow past my head, ana whack 1 it went against the rocks. The pass was narrow, and on one side the wall rose almost perpendicular above my head, while the other on my right sloped np more gradually, but was too precipitous to admit of anyone's ascending. It was on this slope the arrow struck, so I knew the shot had come from the left side and directly above me. Fortunately the wall was a trifle overhanging, and my first in stinct was to crowd in as close as possible to It. When in a fix like mine a fellow has to think and act quick. I knew the reds were just above me and only about fifty feet. The path through the gorge was rough and uneven, so that fast riding was something almost impossible, but I knew I had to get out of that gorge before the Indians could reach the outlet for which I was making, and I knew they would beat me there if they could. "1 only halted for a moment while shel tered by the cliff, and having made np my mind thata rush was the safest, I gave my horse the rein and let him go. Fortunately for me he was a well trained Indian pony, used to all kinds of travel, and I am sur prised to this day when I think how he did run and jump over those bowlders and gaps. I had calculated that the reds would be so intent on getting to the open ing in time to catch me that they would not take much pains to shoot at me while on the run; but for all that three or four arrows did whiz by me, bat I escaped them alL A half mile ahead I could see the opening, but as I 6a w it I remembered that about a quarter of a mile from that goal was a cross ravine, the bottom of which could be reached by a gradual slope from the tableland above. If one or more of tho&e Indians reached that ravine first, and they had every chance to do so, I should be at a disadvantage surely, for they could stand and fire at me at short range as I rode past. " Well. sir. some ot them got there; be fore I reached the rxace myself I felt that the crisis had come, and though I did not see a sign of one I was sure I would get a volley of arrows if not of bullets as I at tempted to rush by. I did. but as good luck would have it, the path just before reaching the ravine became smooth, and my pony responding to the stabs of my spurs, fairly bounded through tne air. "Across my path, and being a part of this cross ravine, was a gully in the rock perhaps three feet deep and as many wide, j My pony as he came to It rose ia the air to spring over it. That jump saved my hair; the moment I was abreast of the Indians they let fly, how many arrows I do not know, but one of them, out of all range, cut me here on the chin, two others wounded my pony In the flank and one I have it now with some other things I picked up on the plains stuck in my sad dle bag. My pony was not wounded so but he could travel, and I flew out of the gorge and on to the open prairie. Feeling so sure of me the redskins had not gone farther than the ravine, and before they could get out of that and undertake to pur sue me I was safe. It was a close shave and nothing but that jump saved me. At the station I had my cut tied up and at once put out on the last ten miles. I got to the tort without more trouble, having been just eight hours and ten minutes making the run. You speak of the Indians having ar rows; didn't they have fire arms?" asked a listener. " Well, you see. Indians were peculiar about that. Of course most of them had guns and could use them, too, but there were some tribes that were slow in getting used to them. Such a thing as an arrow is nvt known among the tribes now as a war weapon, but thirty years ago there were a good many that stuck to them and the tomahawk even when on the warpath. Now, the Fiutes and Shoehones were the last to use fire arms generally." "How many different ho.-ses did you have for the 130 miles?" asked the colonel. "Twelve." replied Bob, "and the com pany can thank that pony that saved me for winning the bet," "What was the time for the whole 2.000 miles. Bob?" asked another in the part v. "The company had just seven hours to spare when the dispatches were landed at Folsom: the time was nine days and sev enteen hours. " Well." said Cody, as ne arose from his chair and put his hand gently upon Bob" shoulder, "you needn't ever be afraid to tell anyone that wants to know how you got the name of ' Pony Bob.' You will al ways find attentive listeners." Ilamemins; be Tide. Felix Starhenberg. a Sweexiish inventor, has undertaken to harness New York Bay to a motor, which will mov - all the mach inery iu New York city. His motor is set in motion by the raise of the tide. He says that he has learned a nie'.e of apply ing one of the greatest forcesin the world, the rise of the tide in all the oceans. He says that it will produce limitless power at one-tenth the cost of steam or electri city. Yesterday afternoon Stnrhenberg took a modil of his machine down to pier A and experimented with it In the presence of a large crowd. He placed the mocUl on the water. The action of the waves caused a balance wheel, ten inches in diameter, to revolve at the rate of soo or S00 revolutions a minute. The machine ran about twenty minutes before the in ventor took it out of the water. He said that a small motor, operated by the power" of the the tide alone, could run a dynamo that would light a pier. The water motor weighed about twenty pounds, lt was kept In a box about ten feet long and about six inc'.es wide; Two weights descended from the machine into the water. It was the action of the water on the weights which made the motor go. .Inventor Starhenberg thinks his machine will revolutionize the world. Told By Maurk Twain. Mark Twain told a good story the other day. It Illustrates his point that all tht dorks in our bookstores are not well In formed in literary matter. The humorist's wife and a friend recently went into bookstore in a city of good size not many miles rrom How lorK. Accosting a clerk Mrs. Clemens said that her friend desired to secure a copy ot Taine's " Ancient Beg. lme." " Bog pardon," said the clerk, " what book did you say?" Mrs. Clemens repeated the author and title of the book. Going to the rear ot the store the clerk soon returned, only to inquire: " May 1 ask you to repeat tuo name or the author?" " Why, Taine." replied Mrs, Clemens, be coming a little annoyed. Assuming an air of superior knowledge. and looking at his customers with a pit. eoui glance of sprapathy, ne ventured to Mrs. Clemens; ., -" Pardon me, rnatlarhe, but you have tht Dame a tritle wing. You mean Twain not Taine," Buffalo Courier. POINTS ON MEN'S DRESS. Something About the Styles fa Skirts for Swmmer Wear. It would seem that the shirt might be mado to go on and fit like a aoat. In deed, the experiment has been tried, and successfully, as exemplified in the Prince Albert shirt that opens and buttons all the way down the front and may be pat on after the hair Is dressed. This certainly ii the way a man should make his toilet: His coiffure should be arranged before his dress linen Is assumed. The shirt might be made to button behind In the aama way, and there is no reason why the button-holes should not be larger and hori zontal as in a coat, larger pearl button being sewed on in a way to facilitate tha battening. The speculation that is now going on In the realm of shirtdom may tend to an ef fort towards the making of rhla dressy garment in a more congenial form. The. madras, cheviot, flannel, bilk and wool, and other fabrics, might be tried upon the public in some new measure of improved construction. The puff shirt Is a decided ly daring innovation, and there are other deviations from the recognized styles thai have awakened the public pulse to the pos sibilities of any lnnvation that may be of fered. As for the flannel shirt and its much mooted future this season, I do not hesi tate to predict its continued dominance for out-of-town wear. The cheviots and kindred textures with their heavy starched collars will be found very much warmer when any exercise is indulged in, and the soft, yielding collars of the soft fabrie shirts will therefore give these goods the popular call. The colored Ehirt will not be worn in the evening by men who own dress salts, and those men who have been accustomed to don the following day the white shirt worn at the evening reception will not, with a stock of colored shirts, do this; the result oeing that. In reality, while the colored examples are extra bought, Vt same number or one each night of the white dress shirts will be required by the men who essay to keep within the bounds of fashion's dictates. I see a new menace to the men of shirt dom in the knee underbreeches of mascu linity that have lately been introduced. If men will take to these moderated pant alettes and long stockings, why will they not tangent off to shirt-waists to button to and hold them np? The. only practic able way to make these latter, moreover, would be in jacket fashion, and would they not be well-fitting and comfortabia withal? Clothier and Furnisher. Divom in Two Cm The people of England have often dered if it is as easy to get a divorce in this country (America) as reported through tije news journals says M. L. Stannard of London. The subject had been made the point of so man- vts that I was induced to doubt tne accuracy of popular reports until I looked upon the matter. It is un mistakably verv esev to break asunder the ties of matrimony in the United States. In England a divorce is not procured so easily. The laws on the subject are very ancient and might be modified a little, bat as a whole they are much more preferable from a social and moral standpoint than those in this country. A peculiar feature of English divorce laws is that they are par ticularly hard on the male sex, dont you know. The women have much the best of it, although they had nothing to do with framing them and are in no way re sponsible tor the injustice to be noted. Desertion is not sufficient case for grant ing a divorce. I had a cause a tew years ago where a man was refused a divorce although his wife had deserted him eight years before through no fault ot his. I had another eject, and a wealthy one, who had been deserted on his wedding day ten years before. The woman, had mamed htm out of pique and then refused to live with him. Yet he coolant get a divorce. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Trmialng the Mro Sidney Woollett. the New York elocQ tionist, says that the way memory can be trained is by constant exercise. -1 know thirteen of Shakspeare's plays and Tenny son's 'Idyls' by heart, besides a volume of miscellaneous poetry. My process was simple. I went hard to work and learn-)d them by rote. Sometimes I would read ten lines over carefully several times, and then attempt to repeat them. It I failed I would keep at them till I knew the lines perfectly; then I would try ten -lines more. By memorizing ten lines at a tine thoroughly I had little trouble to repeat an entire poem of 10M lines or more. My favorite way of memorizing is while I am walking. Often I have walked fifteen or twenty miles, repeating long poems like Miles Standish, "Enoch Arden" and 'Elaine.' It somehow comes natural to me to memorize while walking. I seem to remember better what I have conned. Shakspeare's plays are difficult to memor ize, because the author has so many strik ing lines and so many original characters. Naturally it is more difficult to recite dramas than poems. It I happen to make the slightest mistake in reading my line3 I hear from it, so I am careful to know what I recite perfectly." Valets ftr the Bachelors. Over In New York." said a young Phfla delphian yesterday, " a bachelor can H" comfortably and not be considered on the same plane as a lone cat,' for sample: Richard Mansfield occupies "i suite ot apartments at the Crosie, on Twenty-sixth 6treet near Fifth avenue.. They consist of a' parlor, two bed rooms and a bath, fitted up elegantly, possessing the most perfect sanitary arrangements. A elevator runs all the year and a cxtrps ot competent ser vants attend to everything. He oan have his meals sent to him it he chooses, or he tu eat wherever h happens to be when hungry. The apartments unfurnished probably rent for $l.xnr- vear. In some apartment houses &r &A3& elors one or- two valets axe stationed In the building, and they attend to the young men as it they were private servants. So extra charge is made for any more than " for the gas. The tenant can be waked up, have his bath placed in readiness, his -clothes laid out. his collar buttons and studs placed In the shirt, get shared, in Tact, be made perfectly comfortable by the valet ; you may be sure this valet Idea is a very attractive one, and it pays, toa" Length, of Waaler Most of the stories we hear about whales of SOO, SOO, and 400 feet in length are the imaginary musings of persons who bar more respect for the size of a story than for the truht it may-cou tain. Mr. Scores by. a very high authority on this subject, declares that the common whale seldom exceeds 70 feet in length, and Is moch more frequently under 60. Out ot ttt whales which he personally assisted in capturing not one exceeded 58 feet la length, and the largest he ever, heard o being captured and measured by persons who could be relied upon only measured 77 feet Of the rasor-backed whale he has seen specimens that measured 108 feet. One ot these was found dead in Davis straits which measuered 101 feet, and (a skeleton of one found In Columbia river was 112 feet. Other specimens have meas ured all the way from 80 to 100 feet One cast on shore at North Berwick, Scotland, and preserved by Dr. Knox, was 83 feet In length. These instances seem to establish the avomge length of these huge animals, In hr) earlier accounts Cuvier, the eminent nat rali8t, with , considerable credulity, sa; s : - There Is no doubt that whales have been seen in certain epochs and in certain seas that were upward ot 3UD f4, or MS yards, long. , v. - J . . .-rr-'