COURIER SUPPLEMENT; Oregon City, Or., April 1, 1898. OUT OF THE FIRE. One Home That Witt Hot 1'anlo Stricken When Dli Master Vi'eut to Kescno UIiu. The comnion b, lief that horses iu a burning building are always panio stricken and refractory, not recognizing their friends and refusing, obedience to those who would rescue them, is not strictly true, as is proved by an incident related by a Companion contributor. The governor had a fine black driving fcorse called Dexter. Although strong nd spirited, Dexter was docile and obe dieut and was pettod and made much of by his master. As the governor kopt no other horse, Dexter had the stable all to himself with a clean stall and a full manger. The stable was near the house, and in addition to ftexter's stall and harness room oontainod a largo carriage room, ku oat bin and a haymow ovor the stall. Ono night, when the family and the servants wero away from home and the governor was in the house alone, he was awakened by an ominous crackling ' and a bright glare on his chamber win dow, aud before he could collect his sleepy wits he was startled by a cry un like any sound he had ever heard. As he sprang out of bed the cry came again, and hastening to the window he learned the cause. Thp stable was all ablaze, and out of the smoko and flames Doxtor was calling his master to his rescue. Pausing only to don coat and slippers, the governor rushed out. The outside door of the stable leading into the stalf was already blocked by the flames, and the only entrauee to be had was through the carriage room, the harijoss room and a narrow entry loading past the oat bin. These rooms wore on fire overhead, and burning wisps of hay and shingles were raining down iu showers. Blinded by smoke, the governor stum bled along the roundabout way aud, reaching the stall sooner than ho oxpoot ed, fell hoadloug down the steps against the excited animal, who was vainly tugging at his halter. Thinking some new danger threatened him, Dexter gave a mighty kick that sent his master sprawling and lamed him for a mouth. "Whoa, Dexter I" shouted the govern or. "Don't you know me, sir? Steady now, old fellow, and we'll get out of this." Recogniziug his master's voice, Dex ter turned his head toward the prostrate man and uttered a coaxing whinny quite unlike his previous loud cries of alarm. Knowing he need fear no more kicks, the governor crept up aud cut thehulter and, calling Dexter to follow him, limped blindly through the smoke filled entry and the two blazing rooms be yond, and close after him went Dexter, his nose pressed against his master's shoulder, man and horse reaching tho safe outer air together. "It was Duster's obedience that saved him," said the governor. "I could not lead him, and had he shown tho least obstinacy or uuy less readiness to fol low at a word through all that round about, unaccustomed way I must have left him to perish iu tho flames, but ho followed like a well trained soldier, and wo escaped from our burning, fiery furnace almost as safely as Sbadraoh, Mesbach and Abeduego did from theirs. "Youth's Companion. A Thorough Cure. There is no sentiment about Grizler. He is ciose and is not easily alarmed. It is not surprising, then, that the doctor assumed tho utmost gravity w hen Ciriz ler called to present the case of his wife. "I'm greatly afraid," said the bus band, "that her mental equilibrium is disturbed. !She is unt like other women and not as she used to bo." "What are the symptoms:" "You may regard them of a negative character, doctor. To begin with, she ueer opens her fashion papers of la to. " "Had! Had! Very bad!" "I feared as much. Tho woman who lives next door called last night cud wore one of the mo.st elegant hats I v or saw. Yon kuow that I am not given to , noticing such things, Jlu (-Tn;.lor never seemed to see it and said nothing about it aftar tho caller had gmiu. " "Awful, "exclaimed the doctor, "aw ful. I've known your wifo, (Jrir.lor, ev er since she was born. Ku cue mt had a brighter mind or a happier dip isi tion. 1 can't understand it. Used id be the life and beauty of tvrry company tsho was ever in. Does sho gj nut'; ' "Ku, nor entertain. Neva' mi ntions tho theater, burns all itivitaiiotM and is without tho slightest interest in tho No dal whirl. I would give half Jm worth to see her the girl I married." "Done," snapped the duet r, and ho wroie out the strangest prc.-i npi;:i on record. 1c calle.1 for horses, ii.nl. i ,es, lino raiment, jewels and a well i.iltl purse. At the bottom was a i . e; t iu full for fJoO.OOO. There wan n.i ' ! ..nee for (irii'.ler to weaken, and uo.v his wife is oho of tbe most r!l!ia:t wiiu u iu the swiiu. When she and tlu old doo tor meet, he winks und bho v hit-pern. "'Vow dear old oal." Detroit l''ru FAITHFUL UNTO fJEATH. twite Spent Two Yean In Vindicating His Brother's Honesty. "I practiced law once in Silverton, Colo.," said one of the passengers in the smoking room of the Pullman, "and had a case that struck me as a model exhibition of faithfulness. A Swede was mail carrier over the pass to the other side of the range. It was not a long trip, but it was a severe one, made on foot and with the danger in winter from heavy snows added to its diffi culty. Andrew carried the mail ' fon a year, then one day he failed to reach, home. There were valuable letters in his sack, and the inference that he had decamped was strong. On the night he should have come into Silverton his brother, fresh from Scandinavia and unable to speak English, got off the stage. As county attorney I had to break the news to the boy and stood by while he wept. "Howards were offered for Andrew, and I sent out parties to searoh the pass, but to no effect. A miner claimed to have seen him a week lator in Leadville, but we got no more trace of him. The brother refused to believe that Andrew had done wrong and spent his days tramping the canyons searohing for his brother s body. We tried to get him to go to work, but he did not yield until by his shortness of funds he was starved to it. In tho summer, when most of the snow was off, he searched again, but in vain. During the winter he worked, but when the second spring came he re newed his lonely trarnpings up the trail. We thought him demented, but he cared not for our opinions. One day in August he walked along at the base of a cliff and saw a boot sticking out from some debris. He uncovered it, and his search was ended. That evening he came into town with tho mail sack, muoh stained but intact, and his brother's coat. The grave he dug, with the rough stone he afterward put at its head, is up the canyon yet It took two years to vindi cate his brother's name, but he did not begrudge it. Whon it was done, he went back to his native land. "Chicago Times-Herald. AN ANECDOTE OF LINCOLN. He Measured Height With a Miner In a Pennsylvania Town. In the course of an artiole in St. Nicholas Mary Lillian Herr relates the following characteristic anecdote , of Lincoln: Once while on his way to Washing ton as president the train stopped a lit tle time in the town of . Alloghany, Pa. Around the station a great orowd gath ered, eager to see the new president. They shouted and cheered until Lincoln hud to appear on the rear platform of his car. Ho bowed and smiled, but the crowd was so noisy he did not try to speak to them. Very near to the platform stood a miner, wearing a red shirt and blue overalls aud carrying a dinner pail. Like tho rest, he had stopped hoping to see Mr. Lincoln. The workman was al most a giant in sizo and towered head and shoulders above the crowd. No doubt he had heard that Lincoln also was very tall, and, encouraged by the frioudly face, the workman sudden ly waved his bttre arm above his head and called out: "Hi, there, Abe Lincoln I I'm taller than you yes, a sight tailor!" This loud speech silenced the crowd by its boldness, auil a laugh arose. But Mr. Lincoln, leaning forward with a good humored smile, said quietly: "My man, I doubt it in fact, I'm sure I am the taller. However, come up and let's measure " The crowd made way aud the workman climbed to the platform and 6tood back to back witli tho president elect. Each put up a hand to see whose head over topped. Evidently Mr. Lincoln was the victor, for with a smile of satisfaction he turned and offered bis hand to his beaten rival, saying cordially: "I thought you were mistaken aud I was right, but I wished to be sure aud to have you satisfied. However, we are friends anyway, aren't wo?" Grasping tho ontstrotched hand in a vigorous grip tho workman replied: "Yes, Abu Lincoln as long as I live. " Value nf the Kgg In Sickness. Tho value of rgg albumen as food in certain disi ased conditions ' is pointed out by Dr. C. E. Boyutou. When fever is present and appetite is nil, he says, when wo want an aseptic article of diet, the white of an egg raw serves both as food and medicine. The way to give it is to drain off tho albumen from an opening about half au iuch in diam eter irt the small end of tho egg, the yolk remaining inside the shell. Add a little salt to this aud direct the patient to swallow it. Repeat every hour or two. In typhoid fever this mode of feed ing materially helps us in carrying out an autiseptio plan of treatment Fur thermore, the albumen to a certain ex tent may antidote the toxiuea of the disease. Patients may at first rebel at tho idea of eating a "raw" eng. but the quiekuess with which it goes dowu without the yolk proves it to be less lisairrecublo than they supposed, and A PIANO FULL OF.WAgPS. They Kept Quiet t'ntll the Professor Struck the Loud JJotes. ( The piano was an old . grand., It had not been used for.ip64Wt T6,e conijpa ny had arrived in town but' a short time before the performance began; hence there had been no time to .teat the instrument, Neyerth,eiop tie profess or boldly opened wide the lids of the long unused grand and then sat, down to the keys. The first touch coavinoed him that the notes were still clear and strong, and that whatever , defeots in tune there might be would be very slight, so he began the soul inspiring selection. ' Now,' it happened tha In all the months in which the piano bad remain-, ed unused a colony of yellow, jacket wasps Had industriously Wilt them selves a hpme in the shape of a nest as large as a good sized saucer. The soft pianissimp'ptelude to the selection gen tly woke the 'wasps from their sweet dreams. But when the soft pedal was released. and the notes grew vigorous and the piano began to reverberate to the heavier passages the disturbed wasps suspected danger. , They curled their backs and stretched and shook their gauzy wings viciously. The profess or, nnheedful of the fact that the mu sic, far from soothing the savage breast of the vicious wasps ambushed within that piano, was rousing their ire, play ed on. From pianissimo to piano and from piano with one bound to fortissi mo the composition ran. All the while the wasps fluttered their wings wicked ly, viciously, and all the while the pro fessor played. Now came the climax; now he was throwing together vast handfuls of notes in the basso profundo region of the instrument. Just as the grand was belching forth from its inner most soul the musical thunder of that great Wagnerian opera the vengeance hunting army of yellow jacket wasps swept out , of the instrument, with a buzzing war song, down the hallway and upon the audience. Suddenly soul rending shrieks resounded through the hall. Men and women were striking about their heads, benohes were upset, arid a general stampede for windows and doors.ensued. Over the terrible up roar, a 'shrill,' piping voice oould.be heard shrieking; "Sharlie, come mitt, Ach, Sharlie, come mitl" ' Long before the outraged burghers of Kerrville were up a little' band of men with baggage, galore wended their way out of the town and sat down on the railroad track. They were the stereopti-co-musioal aggregation of San Antonio, and their faces, as they recounted ' the horrors through which they had passed., were the image of that of Napoleon on the nighi of Myaterloo. TThey flagged the south bound passenger train and took passage for San Antonio. Their wisdom in slipping ont of town under cover of night has never been question ed. San Antonio Express. The Usual Way. There are some society girls who like to marshal together all the trophies of a season, in the shape of euchre prizes, german favors and invitations galore to all sorts of functions, where they may be seen of men and bring green eyed glances of jealousy into the. eyes of other girls not favored quite so much, but the queerest effort of this kind that ever came tinder the notice of the writ er was a pyramid of empty candy boxes stacked up from floor to ceiling in a cor ner of the parlor. The largest was, of course, at the base, and there was every make and style, gradually diminishing to the .top. This dashing girl, with the immense capacity for destroying candy, excepted, every, male visitor to add to the number as she started a plant in each of the other corners of the room. Of course a tremendous rivalry went on among her visitors and admirers to get the finest and most unique native and imported boxes. Strange to say, she married a man who hud nover added a lone box to the pile, but he helped to destroy some of the most toothsome offerings of other fellows. New Or leans Times-Democrat. A Woman's Movement. The residents of the 28 literarv olubs which compose the Federation of Wom en's Clubs in Kentucky at a recent mooting which they held for the pur nose of interehansins ideas nrton club work decided anions other thinss to en deavor to establish a bird day in the public schools of the different cities of the state. This will be one effort iu a movement to preserve the birds. Thn presidents will also use their influence to have literature upon the subject dis seminated, as they believe women are ignorant of the vast destruction of birds caused by their feather trimmod bats. An English writer assorts' that there never was any Grub street, in Loodojv tbe name having 'beeo ;' invented bjf rvym. nuugry aumurs Decame iqqnrii Ced with that street because they were always trying to find it. In Mexico the school children who have done best are allowed to smoke clfari virile pursuing their lessons. WHEN I GET TIME. When I get time, 1 know what I shall do. I'll cat the leaves of all my books And read them through and through. When I get time, ' I'll write some letters then That I have owed for weeks and weeks To many, many men. When I get time, I'll pay those bills I owe, And with those bills, those countloas " bills I will hot be so slow. When I get time, I'll regulate my life In such a way that I may get Acquainted with my wife. When I get time On, glorious dream of bliss! A month, a year, ten years from now! But I can't finish this I have no time. Vogue. FRANKLIN'S GRAVE. Seasons Given For Allowing It to Remain In Its Present Condition. Benjamin Franklin's grave is in a neglected condition. No appropriate stone rises, over it, the ground round about it is unoared for, and the tomb of the great scholar and statesman is as obscure as that of a man whose name and fame were no part of the glory of his country. ' ' His grave is destitute even of a head stone. It is covered by an old fashioned marble slab which was placed there 100 years go and is now worn and discol ored by age. Nothing has been done to it since Franklin was buried there, and even the modest arrangements of the grave are not kept in the perfect condition that is expected of a great man's tomb. The earth on all sides is bare of grass, the oommon thatching of the common est grave, and an air of desolation is about the whole place. The sexton said that the descendants of Franklin would not do anything to repair the grave; neither would they al low anybody else to do anything. Ev ery day he has received offers of sub scriptions from visitors, who are dis tressed by ,' the forlorn appearance o. Franklin's resting plaoe and who woult like to , see it improved. In roply hi says, as he has been instructed, thai Franklin wished it so, "being a plaii man averse to display of any kind. ' Not long ago, at his own expense, h had the fading inscription reont, or els even the only distinguishing mark, thi name, would be gone. If he had not done so, the last rest ing place of the greatest man, outsidt of ,' Washington, in American historj would have been forgotten aud uu known. Who is responsible far this con dition of affairs? Not the living rela lives of Franklin. The responsibility rests with the American people, to Whom the man belongs. They should see to it in the future that what little it there to mark the grave is kept in bet ter order than it has been in the past. Before he died Franklin provided for his own gravestone and instructed a etoneoutter of his acquaintance in every detail, even to the inscription which was to be placed upon it He desired to be buried beside his wife, who had died some years before, and a common slab was to be placed over thorn both. The inscription arranged as he ordered -it reads: - : ' BENJAMIN ) - : and J-FRANKUN : : DEBORAH ; : - 1700 : ' Everything was done as he desired, and the work was paid for out of his 'estate and stands today the same as Whe he died. Philadelphia Times. - Wabbled When He Came to Possum. Old Uncle Claybrook is a very reli gious old , darky , aud , holds oonverse vjitj) hifi Maker twenty times a day or oftener. His habit is to pray and then turn off , into what appears to be a one sided conversation with the Lord, but it is evident that there is another party 'to it as far as he is concerned. To hoar him reminds one very much of a tele phone conversation. The other day he was going through his customary devotions, aud when he got to the point of expressing thankful ness for the many blessings of life he broke off into a recounting of them, says Cicero T. Sutton of the Owens boro Inquirer. "An den, dar's possum, Lord how'd you ever think of makin possum? Possum jes' beats all. Yon jes' couldn't beat it ef you tried ag'in. Possum, he, he I Yes, dar's watahmil lion. I hadn't thought of dat. Hit's jes' great You couldn't boat hit neither, could you, Lord? . Now, hones', couldn' you jes' fix it so dey bofe git ripe at onoet? Ef you was to do dat, you mought go out an shot de do'. Dey wouldn't be no mo' sin an no mo' sorrow an no mo' tribelation. Jes' try hit oucet, Lord, an jes' see whut a dlffuuce hit would make." ' And then "old ancle" began to bum a quaint negro camp meeting tune and stopped to look at a piece of liver in a butcher's stall as the best substitute for bis loved possum or as best suited to the small piece of money which repre sented his total movable wealth. Pitcher's Castorla. A Procession of Worms. In some of the Hungarian forests and in the pine woods of Norway there ex ists a tiny, wormlike insect called thej. sciara, of the genus tipula. During thej month of July or early in August they j.' gather together in large nnmbers, pre-! paratory to migrating in search of food or for change of condition. When set ting out on this journey, they stick themselves together, by means of some glutinous matter and form a huge serpent-like mass, often reaching a length of between 40 and 60 feet and several inobes in thickness. As the sciara is only on an average about three thirty eeconds of an inch in length, with no appreciable breadth whatever, the num ber required to compose a continuous line of the siae above mentioned is al most incalculable. Their pace is, of course, very slow, and upon meeting an obstacle, such as a stick or stone, they will either writhe over or around it, sometimes breaking into two bodies for this purpose. M. uerin-Meneville, a celebrated Frenoh naturalist, says that if the rear portion of this wonderful snakelike procession be brought into contact with the front part and a sort of circle formed the inseots will keep moving round in that circle for hours without apparently noticing that they are getting no "for rader" on their journey. If the proces sion be broken in two, the portions will reunite in a short time. The Norwegian peasants, when they meet one of these trains, will lay some artiole of their olotbing, such as a belt or handker chief, on the ground in front of it. If the procession passes over it, it is re garded as a good sign, but if it makes a way round the reverse is believed. In the Moravian districts a similar experi ment is supposed to foretell a good or bad harvest. Popular Science. Teaching Children. Noah Webster of dictionary fame ' would not have been in favor of the kindergarten, so people who sometimes revert to the beginning of the un abridged edition find by his memoirs there. " He felt." the writer sovs. "that children should learn to acquire knowl edge by severe effort; that the prevail-, ing effort to make everything easy isun philosoDhical and wrouc: that tbe creat effort of early training is to form the mind into a capacity of surmounting intellectual difficulties of any and ev ery kind. He wished at an earlv period of ready memory and limited oompreiiension to store the mind with many things which would afterward be found of indisnensablo use. thincs which are learned with tbe utmost re luctance, or rather in moat cases are not learned at all, in the more advanced stages of intellectual rrorress. He felt there must necessarily be much of mdgery in the formation of a thor oughly educated mind. "New York rimes. Points For Poachers. The West Indian negro is a born poacher. He catches the quail by the cruel expedient of strewing finelv pow dered cayenne or bird pepper in the lit tle dust pits whore the birds "wash." The burning powder gets into the eyes of the birds, whioh, confused and help less, are then easily caught. When he wants a wholesale supply ol Bsh, he explodes a piece of dynamite, which was probably intended for the making of new government roads, over a hole in a mountain stream, and the Bsh are killed by tbe concussion. " But his favorite resource is the bark of the dogwood tree. . This he drops in to a river hole, aud the mullet, intoxi cated, comes to the surface of the water. This singular property of the dogwood has caused it to be employed as a nar cotic. It is particularly useful as a lo cal ansesthetio, and it has been recent ly proposed to apply it in dentistry. Pearson's Weekly. 1 The Actor and the Man. Great painters, sculptors, musicians and actors are careful not to lose their beads in tbe tumult of tbeir emotions. Edwin Booth, so far as is known, never threw himself into his eharacter but on one occasion, and then he was playing Bertuccio in "The King's Fool. " Ii is related that . he came off the stage at the conclusion of. the performance con vinced that he had surpassed all of his previous efforts, and that he was ex cited, thrilled, tingling with the emo tions of the character into which he had blindly cast himself, but his daugh ter, Edwina Booth, who had been sit ting in a stage box, told him she bad never seen him act so badly. For that one performance Booth deliberately had chosen to be tbe man and not the art istSan Francisco Argonaut Leather and Kerosene. There is one use of kerosene which is seldom mentioned. It often happens that when a heavy shoe or boot has been wet it hardens and draws so that it hurts the foot. If the shoe is put on and the leather thoroughly wet with kerosene, the stiffness will disappear and the leather become pliable, adapt ing itself to the foot If oiled whiloi wet tbe leather retains its softness aj longer time. The kerosene does not in inro the leather irt alL