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MAiiirEtm ENTEitrmsE. FACTS IN TABLOID FORM. THE DAI OF THE POOB. Wrer Btlor Hhi Thar Been Able to Procure Mach for Llttla. Disciples of unrest would have the orld believe that this li the day of the rich; whereas, on the contrary, I never In the history of the United There are 270 known active vol--canoes In the world, but most of them are too small to be dangerous. A Are caused by an exploding lamp States have the poor and those persons water may be quenched with milk, only spreading the burning oil. The soil turned up by ants in mak ing their hills In Central America Is used by the natives to make bricks by mixing It with water. of restricted means been enabled to procure so much for so little, writes Edwin L. Sabln in Llpplncott's. The rich may speed In their automo biles, but for Ave cents the poor may ride royally from one side of a city Ilk. nil.... L. rxf Via AafV The gold output of Alaska since . . . . , .. ' r. . oa .iT.. . . , . rled miles into the country, what an lmnrovement over the days of our 1880, when placer mining began, is in excess of $161,000,000, according to geological survey figures. ( Of the 1,000,000-horse power which the rivers of Minnesota are estimated to be capable of producing, less than one-third his been made available. The largest wireless station In Eu rope, that on the Adriatic Sea at Pola, Austria-Hungary, includes a '300 foot tower built on a foundation of glass. A boxlike utensil with crossed knife blades on the top Is a new Implement with which a potato may Jie cut into -chips by a single pressure of the hand. To prevent a person soiling his fingers when squeezing a slice of lemon at a dinner table a dainty silver imple roent for the purpose has been in dented. A one-half horse power electric mo tor, driven by a lighting current and directly connected with an air pump, Is a new convenience for Inflating au tomobile tires in garages. Propelled in the same way as a skyr rocket, but by powder that burns mora slowly, an aerial torpedo to carry life lines to wrecked vessels has been per fected by a Swedish army officer. Morlarlty had been badly hurt by falling from a scaffold, and after the ambulance had carried him away the question of breaking the news to Mrs. Morlarity came up. "Send Hannlgan," suggested one of the gang. "He's just the man to break the news gradual look how he stutters." Many people thought that King Ed rard set the fashion for men. He did not. Fashion Is a capricious creature, -and takes no notice of monarchs. The late king was hardly ever seen without a flower in his coat when custom was against the "buttonhole." Contrary to the general belief, the king had no spe cial tailor. "He gives us all a turn," is how a St. James' street tradesman ex pressed it. Schoeneberg, one of the municipal titles of greater Berlin, has passul an ordinance requiring its municipal sav ings bank to Issue to each new born baby a pass book showing a deposit of one mark, or about 24 cents, presented by the city, not as a partial compensa tion for being required to enter this cold world, nor yet regarding the pa rents, but as an encouragement to thrift on the part of both child and parents. Louis Brennan, like other inventors, has many imitators. A Russian who "has employed the gyroscope to keep a Tailway train upright on a single rail, T)ut who uses it in a different manner from Mr. Brennan, has recently been exhibiting his model in London. As yet It Is uncertain whether any of the monorail systems based on this princi ple will fulfill the expectations of their Inventors, but the greater the number the greater the chance that one will be successful.- New Pork Tribune. Carmen Sylva, queen of Roumanla, Is said to be one of the best business women in Europe. It was her Idea to -use the Roumanian talent for embroid ery as a commercial asset for her coun try. She opened workrooms where the peasants could obtain materials for their embroidery and sell it at a fair price. The surplus work wa3 sent abroad and the profits divided among the workers. In this way hundreds of peasants have been able to free their land from debt, to rebuild their cot tages and educate their children. It was the morning of the Yale-Har-Tard game at Cambridge, and two New Haven collegians were wandering through the Harvard yard, looking at the university buildings. Down a walk toward them came a youth of serious aspect, but palpably an undergraduate. 'I beg your pardon," said the Yale man, who is a bit of a wag. to the stranger, "can you tell me where I can find the Harvard University?" "I'm very sorry," said the serious one with never a smile. "They've locked it up. You see, there are so many Yale men in town." I have read that the humming bird in Australia protects its home with a lightning rod. Betore a thunderstorm bursts, the prudent bird covers the out Fide of its little nesi with a spWer's web. Silk is a nonconductor of elec tricity, and since the spider web is silk the humming bird's nest is thereby made lightning proof. The spider web between the cannon of the north and the cannon of the south will, let us hope, protect us from all future thun derstorms of war. Three cheers for the spider and her web. Rev. J. M. Far rar, in Christian Herald. "We have no idea in our country," writes an American from Bucharest, "what the gesangverein glee club Is the nearest word we have for it is in German-speaking countries. I was re minded of this yesterday when I wit nessed a public reception here of the gesangverein, composed of Austrian railway employes. They are on a trip to Constantinople, and stop at all im portant points as guests of their fellow Ringers, for there Is no place so fcmall that It has not its singing organization, at the sessions of which there Is al ways a joyful blending of mirth and music." Looking Into the Are, particularly a coal fire, is very injurious to the eyes. The stimulus of fire and heat united soon destroys the eyes. Looking at molten iron will soon destroy the. sight. Reading in the twilight is in jurious to the eyes, as they are obliged to make great exertion. Reading or ewlng with a side light Injures the eyes, as both eyes should be exposed to an equal degree of light. The rea son is the sympathy between the eyes forefathers, when it was either own your own private conveyance, or else Journey by foot or in the expensive stage. The rich may seclude them selves in spacious villas and country places, but the country place of the poor is provided, absolutely free of ex pense to them, in extensive parka where grass, trees, fountains and mu sic, flowers and statuary, are theirs to enjoy as If created by their pocket-books. For two cents a letter may be sent a distance which once would have de manded 25 cents. To the address of the poor as to the ball of the rich the carrier delivers the mall, and tor the farmr whose labor will not permit him to go to town there is the rural service. . For five cents the poor man may talk over the telephone as far as the rich man; and into the cottage as into the mansion has been extended the electric light, at a reasonable rate. Grand opera comes high, to be sure; but what does that matter when many, many amusement gardens, as well as the public parks, charge no admittance fee to their concerts? The rich may have their private libraries; but much larger libraries, of literature as choice .nd choicer, are open In cities and even in villages to .the knock of the com mon people. It Is not the day of the rich; it 1b the day of the poor, wherein especial attention is being paid to the persona not with much, but with little. 1 1 LEGAL IKFORMjmoiT f STARTED AT ZERO POINT. Primary School Education Denied Women lOO Veara Agro. Every step of woman's emergency train intellectual swaddling clothes has been contested. In the time of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin It was in bad taste to suggest that a primary school nducatlnn wan Rultable for woman. To teach her anything at all was held by the masses and the women themselves shared In the common belief to make her bold, Immodest, unfemlnine. A!l she needed to know was to keep ac counts and possess a few ladylike ac complishments. Grammar and spelling were coarsening to a properly reared female. One hundred years ago woman "started at sero point In this country," as one writer expresses it. She began to emerge from purely domestic sur roundings, Impelled by the call to par ticipate in social movements, though custom and her own sentiments were against her." What did she first at tempt to do? Merely to get a primary education. Consider the antagonism of outraged convention when women began to bo public figures, though small. The en tering wedge was a common school ed ucation. Gradually the wedge was pushed in further until higher educa tion in her own schools was permitted. Then, In this country, participation in the State University work was allow ed; then entrance Into tne professions. Contrast what now prevails throughout the world, at least that part of tho world which shares ideas in common with us. In the England that denied woman a common school education 100 years ago, full municipal suffrage prevalU. Women vote for everything except members of Parliament, and that right is logically conceded by the fact of the possession of full suffrage In every otn it respect For violating the statute providing that barbers shall be licensed and reg istered before being allowed to engage in tonsorlal toll, appellant in Jackson vs. State, 117 Southwestern Reporter, 818, was convicted. The law exempts students in the university and barbers In small town8. Its purpose is to in sure efficiency in the barbers and hy gienic conditions in their establish ments. The statute was declared un constitutional, by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on the ground that it was contrary to the provision pro hibiting taxation of mechanical em ployments, and that by its exceptions it became discriminatory because the evils intended to be prevented could as easily arise in an institution of learning or a hamlet as in the frescoed parlors of a metropolis. A Missouri statute prohibits courts from punishing contempts by fine ex ceeding $50 or imprisonment for more than ten days. In Chicago, B. Q. Ry. Co. vs. Gildersleeve, 118 South western Reporter, 86, it appeared that appellant had disregarded an injunc tion forbidding his traffic in partly used railroad tickets, and had been sentenced to fifteen days' imprison ment for contempt. Appellant relied on the statute, and expressed the fear that unless the statute were recognized as constitutional the courts could ex ercise their power to punish for con tempt in an arbitrary and oppressive manner. The Missouri Supreme Court held that as the court was created by the constitution, and had inherent power to punish for contempt, allow ing the Legislature to regulate this power would be permitting the legis lative body to exercise functions prop erly belonging to the judicial. Three ludges dissented. In United States ex rel. Atty. Gen. vs. Delaware & H. Co. 29 Supreme Court Reporter, 527, the statute pro hibiting railroads from transporting In interstate commerce commodities manufactured, mined or produced by them, or in which they were directly or indirectly interested, was construed, three justices dissenting from the court's opinion. The Federal Supreme Court held, in substance, that although a railroad conization could not trans port the product of its own mines, yet It could control a corporation en gaged exclusively in mining, and transport the mineral for the corpora tion which it owned or controlled; that the ownership of a railway car rier of stock in a lona fide corporation producing coal was not the interest in the commodity forbidden the carrier. The court illustrates Its deduction thus: A carrier mines and produces and owns coal as a result thereof. It sells the coal to A. It is impotent to move it for account of A. In interstate commerce because of the prohibition ol the statute. The same carrier become a dealer in coal, buys and sells coal to A. This coal it may transport in In terstate commerce. Thus it the rule of literal interpretation were applied this incongruity would result, and the intention could hardly have been to offer an incentive to a carrier to be come a buyer and seller of commodl- ties which it transported. SENSIBLE STYLES. Cam on Actreaa Pralaea Method Nov In Voa-ue. "Women never looked so well as they do in the styles of the present," says Miss Julia Marlowe. "They have gone back to the ancient Grecian style to a great extent, and nothing could be more beautiful than that. Every artist will agree that the women of ancient Greece were the most artistic ally clad of any in all the centuries of changing fashions. "Now we have gone back to that classical garb, and I thin we have Improved upon it to some extent. We have a happy combination of the past and present in the styles of to-day. Nothing could be more graceful and truly classical than a perfectly dressed woman of good figure to-day. They are getting close to nature, not un adorned, but adorned In the moat artistic manner possible. "Women have passed through. periods when fashion decreed that they must dress In a way that made them absolutely deformed. Bustless, hip pads and what not were required to bring them into conformity with tha style and make them artistically ridiculous. Our mothers wore great hoop sklrta which were atrociously ugly and ungainly. Only II or 15 years ago women's shoulder's bad great humps on them, which made them appear absurdly broad. "All this is past and gone. The perfectly-clad women of to-day appears as a woman should, in the shape that nature made her, and for the first time In many, many years she Is artistic. I trust that it will be a long time be fore she permits the fasblonrnakers to disfigure her again as they have lone so often in the past." SWIMMING STROKE FOR WOMEN FOB GIRLS TO BEAD. New nalo That Hla Recently Oaaa Into Effect nt tha Poatofllcc. It was addressed to a man, but none the lesa it is a letter tor girls to read. "Dear Grant," it said. "Somewhere I have seen this: 'One is never the common sinner.'. It means more to me now than ever before. "This morning I went downtown, as we agreed I should, to get your letter at the general delivery department of the postoffice. I found there were two windows for women, but there was a long line in front of each; bo I took my place at tha end of one line, feel ing as uncomfortable as if everybody knew that I was going to ask for my letter under a false name. "Don't be impatient with me for that. I hadn't forgotten the argu ments in favor of keeping our corre spondence secret, and I know father and mother do seem to us unreason able and unjust, but, you Bee, to tbera I am just their little girl, and well, I couldn't help feeling strange. "Soon I noticed that the line didn't move. A loua-voicea woman was nav- ing an altercation at the window. Aft er a while the woman next in front of me asked a stranger who stood look ing on what was the matter, and he came close and explained in a too fa miliar way, which somehow Included me with her, about a rule which had gone into effect this morning, com pelling every woman who applied at the general delivery window to give her real name and address. The de partment, he said, was primarily for the convenience of people who had no fixed address in the tlty, and it had been misused; a great deal of crime was known to originate there. And he went on to Bay that he had been there all the morning 'watching the fun,' aad that it was 'mighty interesting to ee how many married women came there for mall.' O Grant, I felt ashamed! "By this time a young girl behind me began to ask questions. Then she and a still younger girl compared notes. I couldn't help hearing. They had been answering some horrid mat rimonial ads under assumed names. The little one said her mother would 'just kill her if she found out,' and the other one suggested that if they should give some out-of-town place as their home address, and then insist that the false names were their own, they would probably get their letters all right. "It made me sick to hear them plan it so coolly, and yet, Grant, for one in stant I actually considered borrowing the idea and getting your letter that way. Then I looked up, and not ten feet off stood a man that lives near us. It was Just like a flash of lightning, the curious, unbelieving stare he gave me, and suddenly I saw myself in it, the 'common sinner.' "That is all. I waited Just long enough to say to those silly girls what I should wish somebody to say to my little sister in the Bame circumstances, and then came away without getting your letter which I wanted more than words can tell. "And, Grant, please please under stand and sympathize when I say that I cannot have letters, even from you at the expense of deceiving my father and mother. If our love for each other Is all that we believe, It can live down opposition; If It must be, it could even outlive an enforced silence but it can never stoop to anything that even seems vulgar or tricky." Youth's Companion. THE BEAUTY AUD VIRTUE OF LAURA. aaaBMBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaM Say from what part of heaven 'twas nature drew, From what idea that so perfect mold To form such features, bidding ua behold, In charms below, vhat Bhe above could do? What fountain nymph, what dryad maid e'er threw Upon this wind such tresses, of pure gold? What heart such numerous virtues can unfold? Although the chlefest all my fond hopes Blew. He for celestial charms may look in vain Who has not Been my fair one's radiant eyes, And felt their glances pleasingly beguile. How Love can heal his wounds, then wound again, He only knows how sweet her sighs, How sweet her converse, and how sweet her smile. -Petrarch. Shadow of an Inheritance Tha Laat Straw, An attendant at a Kansas Institution for tha deaf and dumb waa undergoing a pointless rapid Ore inquisition at tha hands of a female visitor. "But bow do you summon thasa poor mutes to chureh?" aha asked, finally, with what was meant to ba a pitying glance at tha Inmates near by, MTIa alfiirlna f Vl A ilTtt VlKnkllnl M A m so .reat that if the pupil of on. ex.,'- fudge. is dilated by being kept partially la the shade the eye that is exposed can not contract itself sufficiently for pro taction and will ultimately U Injured. British Health Review, Bar tha rkltoMiin, "Ev-ry man to hla trade, even -Bostoc Herald, "Anatrnlian Crawl'' Son la Popular with Modern Water Nympha. "Leander wasn't much of a swimmer If It bothered him any to swim the Hellespont," said Swimming Instructor G. H. Corsan of the Brookline munlcl pal baths. "Now, if Leander had used the 'Aus tralian crawl,' " Mr. Corsan continued "Instead of the old-fashioned 'breast stroke,' he'd have been across the He! lespont before he knew he was start ed." Instructor Corsan has been telling Brookline swimmers that they don't know what swimming is If they don't know the "Australian crawl," the Bos ton Herald says. "The Australians didn't invent this stroke. In the Brit lsh museum there Is a basrelief of some Acsyrians crossing a river men, women and children with their en rales shooting arrows at them from tin bank. Those Assyrians and heaven knows how old the basrelief Is are employing this 'Australian crawl' a plain as day. They'd laugh to see us floundering along with our clumsy breast stroke. The 'Australian crawl' is the only thing for ease, grace, speed and hygiene. It's great exercise for the shoulder and arm muscles, yet there is no effort to It. "On that account it's a fine thing for girls and women. Up In Toronto, which Is my native city, I have been teaching the girls this 'crawl.' They got tired of being taken out canoeing in Toronto bay, having the canoe up set and being left by the fellows to drown or get ashore as best they might. No, Toronto boys aren t more ungallant than any others. They're about alike anywhere. But Toronto girls decided they'd learn to swim for themselves. They are experts, too." I DON'T TUEN BACK. ! Women's Curloalty la aboeahop. "Women are proverbially curious," aid the shoe salesman, "but I think they show it more in a shop of this sort than anywhere else. At times it's bard to get a customer's atten tion, she's so busy watching what the women on either side are buying And when a sale Is completed and a woman walks out with her new boots on, watch the others. Every ee la fixed on tha newly clad feet, and if the wearer happens to be smartly dressed there'll be a sudden demand from the others to be shown shoes of the same type. I think lt'a for that reason that women are so particular about not having holes in their stock ings when they buy shoes. Men don't seem to cara." New York Sun. Tha Flrat Thonaand, "It's the first thousand dollars that's hard to get" "That's right," assented tha owner of tha garage. "After you separata 'am from that, they'll loosen to any extent." Louisville Courier Journal. When a man gets to be a Jish wash round oa tha Uddet How many poor youths on farms, in stores, in workshops or factories have held their minds persistently toward the object of their ambition when there did not seem to be the slightest possibility of ever realizing their dreams; and yet the way has opened to the young art dreamer, the music dreamer, to study with the great masters abroad, when such a thing seemed to be out of all keeping wkh their poverty and impossible to their condition, says Orison Swett Marden in Success Magazine. There is a great difference between the chances of the young man who starts out with a thorough understand ing with himself that be is going to make a success of his life, with a grim resolution to win at all hazards, and the youth who sets out with no par ticular aim or ambition, backed by no firm determination that he will make good, no matter how long l takes or how hard the fight. It is piti ful to see so many young drifters In our stores and offices and factories; young people who would like to get on, but who have never set their faces like flint toward a single unwavering aim and burnt all their bridges be hind them so that they should not be tempted to turn back. There is all the difference In the world between the prospects of the man who has committed himself to his life purpose without reservation, who has burned all bridges behind him and has taken a sacred oath to do the thing he has undertaken, to see his proposition through to the end, no matter what sacrifices be must make or bow long it may take, and the man who has only half resolved, who has not quite committed himself, who is afraid to cut off all possible retreat In case of defeat. There Is a tremendous force in the very act of committing one's self un reservedly to bis great life aim; a propelling power in the very act of Hinging one's being with all bis might into what he is doing, determined never to turn back, that Is well-nigh irresistible. Irresolution or unwillingness to commit the whole of himself to his aim is one of the great weaknesses of tba American youth of to-day. KUaaat. "He loves me not," tha daisy said. When Elsie sought to pluck An answer from It, leaf by leaf, Of ill or happy luck. "Ha loves ma not," tha daisy said. When all its leaves were dried, And Elsie smiled at Fata because She knaw tha daisy lied, Success Magasina. Think of tba Hot Air in every tows that ftavar amount to any this g I Old Martha came to wake me, say ing: "Your uncle Is dying!" So I went downstairs and stood once more In front of the half-open portlero, where for two days I had been await ing the death of the man who had reared me, and who had been such a tender guardian to me. He had. banish ed me from his presence. He had given strict orders that I should not be al lowed to enter the house. And all this without any valid reason, without any offense on my part; simply he had chosen to disinherit me in hot favor! In her favor! I could see her mov ing about in the dying man's bedroom, only a few steps from me. She waa reigning there like a queen. She was devoting herself to the sick man! She obeyed every direction of the physi cian, who was also In attendance. I did not lose one of her movements, but watched her with hatred mingled with sorrow, humiliation and disgust. She was beautiful and impressive in the dim light of tho curtained room. Her face shone like a pale water lily among overshadowing leaves. But I execrated her because of her grace, since she was using It Infamously, just as an assassin uses his knife or a thief his picklocks. And gloomy recol lections rose in my mind, like dark clouds driven by the west wind. Again I saw her, as I had found her on my return from Germany, installed with the old man. Again I heard my uncle say to me. "This is my old friend Sevant's daughter. The poor fellow died a ruined man. I hope that you will let me give her a little mar riage portion. You will be, none tha less, a millionaire!" The refugee, with her haughty, tacti turn disposition, her mysterious ex pression like dark ponds in autumn, her marvelous complexion gleaming beneath the somber fire of her hair, was by no means affable. She met me with proud reserve. But, in spite of that, she went straight to my heart. Her step made me tremble; the deli cate outline of her profile filled me with pleasure. At the end of a month I would have given heaven and earth to call her mine. I dared to say so to her. She refused me without- a mo ment's hesitation. I remonstrated: "You might at least have treated mo more gently!" "That would have been less effect ual." she replied. There was a certain barbaric gran deur In this frankness which I ad mired, like the sentimental imblclle of 22 that I was. But now I knew what this girl with the deep-Bet eyes had been concealing. I understood her silence, her cold re ception, her ' Insulting refusal. She was already confident of her success; she knew that she was to rob me of my fortune. And how she must bo laughing at the young Idiot? At that thought my anger nearly mastered me, as I stood helplessly by the portiere. I was on tne point of entering the room. But the doctor's warning words rang In my memory: "Do you want to kill our patient? It is the work of a moment! A surprise, any sudden emotion and he wili die!" Nature itself seemed to favor the de signing interloper! Again I watched her as she leaned over the bed, again I saw the haughty beauty, and that mysterious expression which bad won my heart. I heard the old man moan like a child; then there was a deep silence and the doctor said in a lor tone: 'He is dead!" I went into the room, could not ipeak, and it was she who broke tha silence by Baying: "I want to speak to you." Her eyes were full of tears, but her voice was steady. It seemed to me that she was defying me. However, I yielded, and went with her into the adjoining room. After a iinoment'B silence she said: "I want to excuse myself for not having sent for you sooner. Your uncle absolutely refused to see you, and, In his condition, I had nothing to do but to obey blm Besides .the doctor's orders were vx illicit. Believe m, I regret It!" "I believe it!" I exclaimed with an Ironical laugh. She looked me full in tho face, ber eyes flashing. She had ceased weep ing. "You will repent of that laugh!" she said proudly. "It is base! As a eour teous man your first duty Is to listen to me.'' I was Impressed by her attitude, though I loimldered It only another stroke of duplicity. I answered, grave ly: "So he It! I am llHtenlng to you Bhe continued, vehemently: "I know that you believe that I have been blotting sxuliiHt you, and have allenat ed your uncle's heart from you! I know that you believe me guilty of haviiiB robbed you of your Inherit ance! You think me avaricious, In trlgulng, Infamous. And yet all tbU is false!" "Then you are not the heiress?" 1 asked, with a sad irony. "Yes, sir, I am the heiress! But 1 have done nothing contrary to tho most scrupulous delicacy. I begged your uncle to call you back as long as I could do so without danger. I only stopped my entreaties when the doctor commanded me to do so. Your uncle was my benefactor. He saved me from poverty, and I could only act In a way consistent with my gratitude. When ba became possessed of that strange Insanity of preferring ma to vou could do nothing but yield to his will He was too ill to be contradicted." 'But you have inherited his for tune!" I continued wtih the same mel ancholy irony. What of that?" she said, and her ardent, solemn look never turned from my face. I exclaimed: "What would you think, in my place?" "I would think just as you do!" She drew a little pocktbook from the folds of her dress and handed It to me. "Pardon the poor old man and de stroy this proof of his Insanity." I remained motionless. My hands trembled. I dimly saw tho wretched' ness of my mistake. 'What do you mean?" I stammer at last. "The will Is there. I give it to you as the only heir of your unhappy uncle." Mr heart failed me. I leaned against the wall, speechless from shame ana grief, not daring to look at tho wom an whom I had bo cruelly accused. After a moment my strength return ed and I exclaimed in a beseeching voice. "Forgive me, and take back this pocketbook! I would rather die than accept the heritage under these con ditions!" "And I," she cried. "Do you sup pose that I want to touch It? Do you think that I want to soli myself by a theft?" "I have misunderstood you!" I ex claimed. "I have behaved like a brute! I am a wretched Imbecile!" "What does it matter? We shall probably never Bee each other again!" She Bpoke gently, with a rar-away look in her eyes; and a great dread claims Its share of life and Joy awt In tha midst of catastrophes. Trans lated for the San Francisco Argonaut from tha French. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN?" I BTAMMEBEB. filled by heart, mingled with adora tion and deep humility. "This is misery!" I faltered. "What do I care for that money? To receive It In this way Is the worst of tortures! I don't want it! In receiving it from you who have rejected me so cruelly, from you who despise me with suci humiliating gentleness, I should feel that I was dishonored for life!" "What do you say? Dishonored sim ply because I restore to you what la your own? Because I refuse to take advantage of a sick man's delirium?" She had taken a step backward, and the Bwaylng motion of ber dress, the play of light upon her hair, and the tender grace of her mouth, overcome me. "O heaven!" I exclaimed. "Why could you not have accepted my love? Why did you repulse me from your life?" "I was a poor girl, received with kindness and confidence. I should have betrayed that trust if I had listened to you." "Would you have listened to me If you had been rich?" She lowered her eyelids. For a mo ment Bhe remained undecided. Then the long lashes were raised again, and she said: "I think that I would!" My excitement increased, words failed me, and I could only murmur: "Why, then you could, Btlll " She motioned me to be silent: "Let me consider!" We were silent. I held my breath, and felt as if I were at tha end of the world, and in a sacred place where a miracle was about to be performed. "To-day," she said, "I think that I have the right to listen to you; my refusal or my acceptance would now depend upon nothing but my Inclina tion." I went to her Bide, trembling as If with cold. "Then take my Ufa or refuse it!" "I do not refuse it!" she Bald gent ly. Then, suddenly amlllng, and wtih her subtle feminine irony, she added: "And I never would have refused It if. For If you loved me very quickly, I myself was not slow to love you!" I bad no consciousness save of a wonderful sweetness. I took ber bands and kissed tbem humbly Sha with drew from me, reminding ma of tha presence of that solemn death, which, Indeed, I bad forgotten. Wo lowered our voices. But my heart could not dwell upon thoughts of tha grave; for it waa full of that ardent youth which HYDROPHOBIA. T Bom of tha Mean tried to Combat Thla Horrible Dlaeaaa. Every American should know some thing about guarding against hydro- phobia. Remember that a cure for this disease has yet to be discovered All that science does is to mitigate it tortures. Cauterizing or burning the bit of mad dog in hopes of destroying tho poisoned germ is useful in a surface wound; once the germ enters tho blood cauterization la useless. The Pasteur treatment prevents tho development of the disease if the bit ten party takes the treatment at once? otherwise the result is doubtful. Once the disease develops the doctor can only make Its progress easier. Death is Inevitable. It is not necessary to be bitten by a mad dog to have tha disease If any person has a scratch on the skin and comes in contact with the saliva of tho poisoned animal he or Bhe can be in fected the same as by a bite. Recollect that hydrophobia can de velop within three months after tho person is bitten; and there have been cases where six months have elapsed before the disease manifested Itself. A dog may show no signs of mad ness, yet the germ may be slowly work ing in his blood. A bite from such an animal will give the rabies even though) the symptoms of madness did not de velop until some time after tha attack. At present the county and city In several States pay for the Pasteur treatment and poverty la no bar to pro viding It It would be less expensive It tho State and county Bent physician! to our great cities to learn the Pasteur method, and then set up sanitariums nearer home for- the afflicted. The dis ease is here to stay for some time. Epidemics are becoming common and the extirpation of rabies will be a slow Job unless stringent means to counter act it are put forward. Chicago is now erecting drinking fountains for dogs in hopes that this will reduce the large percentage of madness among these quadrupeds. England Buffered severely from rabies, and to end the horrors of hy drophobia set up such safeguards that Bhe is comparatively free from it Tho dogs were muzzled as Boon as tho rabies made their appearance, and kept so until all traces had disappeared. HUMOROUS TAXIDERMIST. English 81 oaenm Wherein la Total tha Story of Cook Robin. Beneath the shadow of the ruined castle of Bramber, England, there la a novel and Interesting museum well worthy the attention of all who find themselves In that prettiest of South Down villages. According to tho Strand, the exhibits displayed there in are principally examples of the art of tha taxidermist, but the subjects are treated in such a humorous man ner as to render the museum unique in England. From a child's point of view it Is a veritable wonderland, reminiscent of the strange sights seen by Alice when she made her journey into that delectable country. It Is not, however, only the Juvenile who Is cap tivated with the exhibition; the adult is none" the less amused and agree ably surprised at the wonderful In genuity there displayed. The idea of thus combining the art of the taxidermist with that of the humorist was generated In the brain of the veteran proprietor. Mr. W. Pot ter. In 1861 Mr. Potter set to work to construct hla first eet piece, illus trating the "Death and Burial of Cock Robin." The work was done in Mr. Potter's spare time, and was not com pleted until seven years had elapsed. The nursery rhyme 1b too well known to repeat here. The whole of tha in cidents in the story are graphically portrayed, and, as evidencing the pa tience and perseverance exercised by Mr. Potter, it may be stated that no fewer than 100 specimens of British birds are Included in the setting. In addition to the birds which figure In tha story there are the cuckoo, night ingale, goldfinch, hawkflnch, bramble finch, whyneck, etc. Considerable in genuity is displayed In the arrange ment of the "fish with his dish," tho "fly with his little eye," the owl, tho bull rendered in mlnature, tha rook and the mourning birds all a-slghlns and a-sobblng. 'l.'ncla Joe" on Collea-a Education. "To a bright young man who baa anything in him, a college course, is not necessarily fatal to success. That is my view of It," says Speaker Can non in a discussion in the Yale News of the value of a college education. He continues: "The common school system tho High School course gives the aver age individual at least fair equipment for practical success in business or In the various callings that men follow who live by the sweat of their faces. That U about all that the average man will utilize. 'There Is always a question as to whether the average student will sur vive the spoiling effects of a college course. . "But there are a great many stu dents who accomplish something along the specialties, aa there are a great many of tbem who accomplish some thing practical la business and poli tics, notwithstanding the burden of bearing a collegiate course. "The human animal, on the average. Is not worth his salt if he Is incapa ble of making bis own way." Variety. New Maid Please, mum, there's man at the door come to collect on something yer bought on the Install ment plan. Mistress Ask blm whether It's tho encyclopedia, tha phonograph, tho brass bed, the piano or the sewing mv cbtna. Harper's Bazar, Borne poetry Impresses us at tho work of a man so smart he could go ciazy and make it pay; not only could, but did. It la possible for a woman to gat SO accustomed to bar husband's explo sions that she can always coma govs Uk ooo place