THE COUNTY COUIiT
Jin Adjourned Term Held Last
Saturday.
The Jar; List and Tax Levy for 1S9S
Occupy the Court's Attention
"Fire Centals Inch."
Id the mutter of the tax levy (or 1893
the following was made: County, 12
mills ; road, 4 ; school 7 ; state, 3.5 ; total
2G5 mills. Commissioner Marks dia
euted in regard to the road tax, as he
desired to make a 23-mill levy (or
county, school and state, and permit the
road tax to be worked out.
In the matter of the county printing
for the year 1S98, (he compensation was
reduced to five cents per inch, and the
Enterprise and Herald designated as
official papers.
In the matter of the jury list (or the
year 1898, it is ordered by the court that
the following named citizens and tax
payers of Clackamas connty be, and
they are selected as the jury list of said
county for 1898 :
Jame Occupation Precinct
CMB Jonos brickmaker Abernethy
8 heeler farmer
G W Waldron
Tbos Mann "
Ed Thayer "
VT II Smith
Henry Jewell "
J K Cole millman
J R Marks farmer
HJ Oglesby "
11 Campbell "
II Kocher "
II Hornschuh "
Thos Daniels "
W T Kirk
C Spangler "
W Grithentbwate "
Mike Moehnke "
Carrick Cassady "
Gene Cummings "
W H Fitxpatrick "
Win Boring "
E Richey "
ffm Bonney "
Barlow
Beaver Creek
Borings
ii
J Gorbett millman
Slim Hedges farmer
Frank Walkev
Canyon Creek
Cherryville
George Knight 41 "
James Evans "
O W titurgis " "
Led re w Mack " '
E W Howard " "
John Burns "
Herman Lee " "
J Molzan " '
E Hunter " Clackamas
J A Talbert "
John Robinson " "
HLoncoy " "
Ed Dedman " "
Fred Gage "
Dan Talbert " "
-iJ Johnson ' "
.Herman Brans ' "
T A Seperby '
-John Eri " Cascades
K Nelson " "
Paul Meinig "
t D Coalman " "
A Andre " "
W M Fine laborer Canemah
Geo Lazelle farmer . "
Geo Kidder "
D P Martin " "
Jas Partlow " "
W J McCord " "
L E Wise " Damascus
A W Cooke " "
J B Johnson " "
A M Lovelace "
E II Burghartd millman "
J R Morton farmer "
H Gibaon " Eagle Creek
II Wilburn merchant "
Isaac Gordon farmer "
Samuel Heiple " "
J A VanCuren " '
Charles Ballaw "
W1IH Wade Garfield
John Inglisb "
Geo Lockerly ' "
Hans Paulson " George
Waller Kirchem " Harding
BTToom " '
L Patterson "
Frank Wilson "
Fouie Funk " "
Fisher miller "
E Harrington farmer Highland
O Wallaca 1 " '
S Hutchinson " "
H Kleinsmith " "
Wm Buckner " "
AI Wing Lower Molalla
John Barth " "
J Smith merchant "
T L Dibble farmer Upper Molalla
M Johnson ' "
John Cole " '
Ilarl Engle " "
John Everhart " "
Jim Dickey " "
lievi 6tehman " "
Charles Holman " "
"W II Darnell " Milk Creek
John Denison " "
A L Jones '
Abe Larking " "
Del Trullinger millman "
John Labour farmer Marquam
K M Hartman " "
Vfin Bird " "
O D Larkins " "
M Grosling "
Tom Rogers " Milwaukee
J D Rusk " "
J 8 Rialey " "
II Thiessen " "
John WVtiler "
Thad Williams "
John Oatfleld " "
8 C Priestly " "
W H Counsell "
A Mauta " Maple Lane
W W Myers "
Tom Davis " "
H Henriel " "
MMMcGeehan " "
C Toner " "
T B Killin Needy
J K Miller " "
Fred Smith " "
David Y'oder ' "
CBair '
Sam Kauffman " "
Robt Thompson "
Frank Mathews " "
J L Waldron " New Era
Enos Cal.ill ' "
H Gregory " "
J Burgoyne " '
Tom Blanchard " "
J L Matlock "
A Walling nurseryman
Alfonao Shipley farmer
Oswego
ii
H Gans " "
L M Davidson " "
Louis Eaton " "
James Coou " "
Chris Boylan ' "
Win Hallinan " "
Frank Busch merchant Ore City No
M A Willoughby laborer "
Clarence Farr butcher "
Joe Stesrk laborer "
C W Vonderahe carpenter "
John Sbadle clerk "
M J Broderick laborer "
W A Huntley merchant "
Petzold butcher "
J C Bradley farmer "
C N Greenraan drayman Ore City No 2
COT Williams real estate agt
J G Porter capitalist "
G II Bestow millman "
Jas Wilkinson laborer "
F F White carpenter "
E C Hamilton merchant "
E E Charman druggist "
J R Williams laborer Ore City No 3
G W Boylan
WMAIdridge "
FA Ely capitalist "
John Gillott " "
C Moran blacksmith "
C W Fredericks "
Ed Baker farmer Pleasant Uill
V M Murray " "
Samuel Hillman " "
Neal Heater " "
Sam Westfall " '
A Molby '' Seivers
H J Thomas " Soda Springs
AVDavik " '
EP Carter "
Ira Bell " Springwater
W J Lewellen " "
A Lacey " "
J L Kruse " Tualatin
FT Larson " "
John Schivie " ' "
OP Sharp " "(
Jacob Miley " Union
J Vaughn " "
Win Stone " Viola
Geo Armstrong "
F 8 Baker laborer West Ore City
E Mass ' "
George Brown " "
J K Morris " '
Otto Olson " "
Chas Catta dairyman "
Skaguay Wants Lumber.
Building improvements at Skaguay
are distressingly embarrassed on ac
count of the apparent impossibility of
obtaining lumber from any source
The Elder, on each of the last three
trips, has been unable to carry lumber
which it was intended to send from
Portland to Skagway, and the steam
ers from Sound cities seem to be
equally freighted with passengers and
packs alone. Hundreds of tliousandx
of feet of lumber now await shipment
from Portland to Skaguay, and the
people of Skagway are anxiously
awaiting its arrival. Business of
every kind in demand there is be
ing established daily. The population
the town is increasing with almost
unexampled rapidity, and the commun
ity is in various ways becoming i
metropolis; but it is noticeably em-
bryotic in appearance, a condition
which may be attributed very largely
to the absence of material with which
to give it a more substantial and per
manent aspect. The last Elder north
carried four merchants, two barbers,
one doctor, one lawyer, two cabinet
makers, three blacksmiths, one wagon-
maaer, two sign-painiera and one
"corn-shaver," . all for Skaguay, each,
except the two painters, intending to
establish a business for himself.
For Young Men and Young Women
There is nothing that will arouse the
re of a young man or woman so quick as
to haye inferior laundry work put off on
them. They may dress ever so well,
but if their shirt front or shirt waist is
muHBy their neat appearance is spoiled.
The Troy laundry makes a specialty of
ladies' and gentlemen's fine work.
There can be no better work than is
done at the Troy. Leave your orders at
Farnsworth's barber shop.
Books Cheap.
Everything required in the school
room, books, slates, tablets, sponges,
ink, pens, pencils, etc. at Daniel Wil
liams, cornet Seventh and Center streets.
Full stock of nuts, candies, notions etc.,
fresh and of good quality. Bold at reas
onable prices.
FORGIVENESS.
I sat In the erenlng pool
Of lh heat baked city street
Miming ami watching a little pair
Who played on the walk at my feet
A boy, the elder, of strong, rough mold)
11 la sister, a blossom iwni
When, Just in the midst of their play,
Okine an angry ory and a blow
That bruised the cheek of the little maid
Anil caused bright tonrs to flow
Anil liruuitht from my lipaquick, aharp reproof
On the lad who had acted so.
And he etood by, sullen and hint.
While the maid soon dried her tear.
Be looked at her with an angry eye.
dhe timidly drew near.
"Don't be cross, Johnny t" (a little sob).
"Let me furdlT 'oo, dearl"
And the elond ia pawed and gone.
And again In their play they week.
And the etrong, rongh boy wearn a klndur mien
And brighter the maiden iweet,
While a whisper has oouia from the heart of
Ood
To man man on the treet,
-Engllnh Illustrated Magaalne.
THE OLD OFFICE DEVIL.
He Telle Bow He Evolnted Into Conn
try Editor.
The old time devil was keen to loom.
He had gall. He wasn't afraid to ask
the milliners for advertising or print
lug. He dreamed of owning a paper of
bis ovej tie experimented In a thon
sand ways. Ho lived in the ofllco al
most, bemg there early aud lata He
made a battery aud copper platod types
before the first type founder thought of
doing it. Ho did stereotyping in a rudej
way, making a matrix from blotting
paper. Desiring to do his work better,
be tried to buy proper materials for
stereotyping, but he was bluffed so easily
by tfce prices or talk given hun by the
dealers that for many years he supposed
be was the victim of some Infamously
Jealous trusts.
A tramp printer from Chicago made
him believe that gasoline could be
made. The Chicago man pointed to a
big can of the fluid and insisted that ho
had made it Gasoline was high priced
then. The devil sold the gasoline the
printer said be bad made to a rival
office, and the two divided the money.
'Make some more," said the devil.
There is a deuiuud for it " Tho Chi
cago pnuter left that night, and tho
editor mado the devil pay for the gnso
lina The editor can recall his last rink
from the tramp printer be "learned the
trade" with, the one who made gaso
line. He came into the "shop" Bnd was
denied work by the foreman. He saw: at
glance that the old days and looso
ways were gona .Neatly dressed, well
kept young men and women were at
work in an office as clean as a parlor. '
bosermium this sheet now?" he
inquired.
Jack Hill, " was the reply.
I know him," he said laconically.
i tangbt nim bis biz.
And then they saw him drift into the
sanctum and heard him say: "Hello,
Jack! You re doin welL I waat somo
thin to eat and drink."
Gasoline" got what he asked for,
net as all tourists do who apply. The
next morning be called on his editor
friend again, and when he fonnd bim
discussing prohibition with two or three
ministers and one or two of the elders
of the town he lurched right into the
editorial den and joined in the talk
, .1 . 1 erw
nejp me eaiior along, ne was very
drank He cried and said that naturally
be was a prohibitionist, but he really
longed to die and go to heaven, only he
had become "such a d d skeptic be
diun t believe there was snch a place,
Then be went to sleep. The preachers
looked at him in pity. The editor spoke
kindly of him as a comrade who had
seen better days. As the editor talked
"Gasoline" awoke and said:
"Jack, if yon don't gimme a quarter
to buy a drink with 1 11 sit here and
holler."
And "holler" he did.
tie "hollered" ' until the ministers
left.
This may or may not account for the
fact that prohibition has prohibited in
Editor Jack Hill's tow n since the last
visit of his Chicago printer friend.
Chicago Times-Herald.
A Tale of the 8a.
Two American captains were recently
relating their experiences on different
voyages. One of them told the follow
ing story: "About 1 p. m. on March 2
my ship was proceeding under full sail
when a cloud about the size of a man's
hand was observed on the horizon. It
came on, and as it neared the ship wo
discovered that it was composed of lo
custs. They settled on the sails, and yon
couldn't see a bit of canvas for them.
When they flow away, there was not a
stitch of canvas left on the yards. "
Ah," said the other captain, "I can
quite believe that, for at abont 8:30
p. m. on March 2 my vessel was pro
ceeding under full sail when we ob
served a small cloud on the horizon.
As it approached the ship we discovered
that it was a cloud of locusts, and as
they passed our vessel we saw that
every man Jack of them had a pair of
No. 1 canvas trousers oa " Brazil Nut.
Stagnation.
Stagnation is more dangerous than
revolution, but sudden change means a
house on sand Action and reaction is
the miserable seesaw of onr child world
If these extreme men had their way, the
end of the century would be plunged in
blood, a universal French revolution.
What we have to bear in mind is that,
even in a republic, there must be a
guiding hand; men of education, ex
perience, weight and wisdom must con
tinue to come forward. They who will
net be ruled by the rudder will in the
end be ruled by the rock. Tennyson.
Liquefied air can now be ordered by
the dozen bottles in Munich, but just
what it ean be nsed for in a general
way is in donbt. It is so cold that it
blisters the skin at a touch, but its ex
cess of oxygen Is a valuable feature. At
present chemists are the only customers
for It
A BEE'S RESTLESS LIFE.
It lleglui Work When Th
Days Old
and llee at furly-llve.
G. W. Reyuolda of Los Angeles,
one of the oldest traveling nmu iu the
United States, haa a ranch of which he
enjoys tolling evcu more than he does
of the experiences through which he
has paused during hla half century npou
tho road. Tho ranch Is near Kau Diego,
CaL The chief product is honey. This
f roduet ia gained from two apiaries,
which Mr. Reynolds visits every time
his business penults him to go to south
ern California.
"In my aplarlea, which are cared for
by my son," said he. "there are MO
stand of beoa The honey season huits
from April to July. Last season my
Does yieiuea u,uuu pounds or honov.
which sells in that country in bulk lota
at 4. cents a pound. Two of tho hive
gave over 000 pounds each. For te
years I have beeu Interested in bees in
small way, aud I take greater interest
lu them every year. A hive or staud n:
boos is worth f i. 60. Iu it are the queen
the drones aud the workers, a total
population of from 20,000 to 35,000
bet.
"This very good slwxl colony," he
continued, "resides iu a hive or wooden
box. lu tho hivo are a dozen frames 13
by 7 inches. Iu tlieao the bees make or
deposit tho honey, a foundation, of wax
having been first placed iu each frame
by the beekeeper, so that the bees may
have something to build upon. The
honey is taken out of tho frauios every
otuer wecic during the honey season,
hile doing so there is little need of
protecting tho hands. The bees seem to
be most inclined to sting oue iu tho
face. So, as a precaution, tho man who
is removing the honey from tho hives
weara a straw hat, from the brim of
which is huug a silk veil, like they have
to do op in the Klondike country to
ward off tho summer mosquitoes.
The queen is an absolute monarch
within her dominions, tihe is the un
disputed boss of tho Job. An ordinary
Dee lives during tuo working season on
ly 45 days. Young ouea are beiug hatch
ed ont all the time. A bee goes to work
ai me icmicr ngn oi a days and bustles
like a veteran for 43 days. Then it is
just naturally all tired out, I sunpotie.
for it diea The queen lives longer, anil
when a young queen conies into exist
ence In the hive she drives the old
queen out Her loyal subjects follow
her in her banishment, and that is what
makes the swarm.
"In southern California tho bees make
water white honey when the black sage
is in blossom. When tho white sage is
flowering, the honey haa an amber
tinge. Iu winter tho hoes ninko no bun
ey. Soveuty-flve carloads of the article
are shipped out of San Diego county in
good years. "Denver Republican,
GREATEST OF COLONIZERS.
Much of the Earth Owes Its Hettlemeat to
the rinding of Oold.
It haa been well said that gold is the
greatest of colonizers, and this has prov
ed especially true in the last half of the
present century. To what lone regions
the footsteps of man were attracted in
the earliest times by the discovery of
gold we may not know, but within the
memory of living men great regions of
the earth's surface have owed their set
tlement and occupation solely to the
finding by search or accident of a few
shining particles in the earth.
California was a remote and outlying
province of Mexico, inhabited by Indi
ans, gathered in missions or scattered
abroad, and cattle barons and their de
pendents, visited by a few ships each
year in starch of a freight of hides,
when tho picking up of a few grains of
gold in the banks of a mill race called
tho gold seekers from tho four quarters
of tho earth and transformed a wilder
ness into a populous empire.
Australia was a corner of the earth
selected ou account of its remoteness
from their former homo as a place of
banishment for British criminals when
the gleam of gold illuminated it and
filled the distant harbors with sails and
their shores with cities.
South Africa might have remained
forever a grassy waste, tho home of sav
ages contending with the Boers aud the
British for the possession of illimitatde
pastures, hud not gold called the miner
and those who follow him to build Jo
hannesburg. Kansas City Timea
The Hea.
It is the sea which ennobles every
thing. Between the line aud the surf
there waa but the ancient foreshore,
covered with prickly tamurisks and
manve colored heath, with yellow sand
conspicuous here aud there. At the lim
it of the foreshore the rugged border
line cut clear into a deep and somber
blue. It is she blue us any gnine ou
this cluster which hangs in the cooling
breeze. The azure deepens, filling up a
good half of the range of sight; the
white sail of a fishing smuck floats
alone, like a hollow shell; the eternal
monotone of ocean is borne upon the
ear. J-h-aw near and see the lcamutf sil
ver foam.
Above this intense blue the sky is trans
parently, superbly pale, and tho stars
are hurrying to light their lumps. There
is not a living soul, nor a pluut, nor
any sign of the hand of muu. There
might be neroids and fanns dancing
on the strand, as iu tho days when tho
world was young. II. A Taiue in
"Journeys Through France. "
Caught Napping.
did the police
" Where
man?"
catch their
"Found him asleep on a seat in the
park. " .
"Oh, I sea Then, I presume, they
arrested him on a bench warrant "
Philadwlphia Bulletin.
Nipped In the Had.
Mndge Which is proper to say
"Lend me $10," or "Loan me $ 10?"
Wickwire It won't do yen any good
to say either. Indranapolis Journal
Looking forward,
A Cleveland clergyman who is wit
given to putting mi a long face either
lu hla pulpit or out of it saya that bo
foro ho ciiiiio hero from tho south ho
was one day akcd by a young man to
tinito him with tho woman of his choice
lu tho holy bonds of wudlwk upon the
evening of a certain day.
"I am very sorry," said tho reverend
gentleman, "but I shall bo out of town
upon that day,
Tho young man was crestfallen, said
that ho had set his heart upon having perhaps lisvu heeu not useless members
that particular minister perform the of the body politic. Formerly lu tbo
ceremony and asked if there waa no United Btntes wo used largely to rid
possible way la which it could bo ar-, ourselves of this element by throwing
ranged nieu of that type out on to the frontier.
"I thought tho matter over," said Whllo millions went West with un
tho clergyman iu recounting tho ex perl- ilauuled resolution, boundless ouorgy
euco, "and finally agreed to return for, and strong ambition to inukti for them-
tho express purpose of complying with j selves aud their children homes iu the
his wishes, lie was greatly pleased, as- lauds newly opened to settlement, there
Hired mo that it was very kind of me' went along with them no Inuousidera
aud hinted that I would bo well repaid bio number who were simply uuooiu-
for my trouble mid consideration.
"So upon t ho day set for t lie ceremony
I traveled nearly S!00 miles, paid out
8.60 for my railroad ticket and other
accommodations mid guve tho happy
couple one of tho best marriago services
iu my repertory.
"After the ceremony tho groom came
to mo, blushing furiously, slipped a 5
bill iuto my baud aud iu all serious
uess said:
" 'This is all I havo to give you now,
but I hopo to be ublo to do better next
time.'
"I was a.60 out of pocket ou tho
transaction, and I guess I'll let him
hunt up somebody else 'uoxt time.' "
Clevelund Leader.
The Karly London Omnibus.
Wheu the qtiecu camo to tho throne.
omnibuses were a new but already pop.
olar institution. They wero longer, nar
rower and lower than tho present ones
and had no seats on tho roof. Tho tuts -
M'ligirs wero carefully shut lu by a
door at tbo end, as if to make quite sure
of them, once they were ennturud. till
they bad paid their farea Ou a little
round pi rch behind stood tho conductor
or "cad, hanging on by a leather loop ' example, a letter of tho Duke of Wei
passed over bis arm. Plxpcnco was tho llngton'a ran be had for 10 shilling,
usual bus faro tiO years ago, w hether whereas a letter of Lord Nelsou's will
yon went from beginning to end of the cost you i'5. "
journey or only a few hundred yards.
As there was very little regulation ofj
the street, trufllo of Loudon iu thorn
days, if tho bus was tilled up at start-
lug it went like a fire engliio iu order
to get in nu extra Journey, but other-
wise it crawled and pottered about till
the requisite number wus obtained
huch omnibus was licensed only for
a particular route. It paid the stage-
coach duty of i'5 when first started aud
a shilling a year1 for keeping tho license
in lorcti, besides a mileage duty, varying
with tho number of passengers it would
hold, but coming to about threcpeuc
per mile on the average. Gentleman's
Magazine,
A Mean tkg.
He waa a small boy not such very
small boy iu an out of town school
Ho had written a composition. It was
upon the subject of doga Now the
teacher of the school was a man, aud he
was not popular. Ho was what the boys
called "mean. " They dislikod bim thor
oughly, from the tips of his shining
shoes to the ends of bis pompadour comb
ed hair. In the composition thoro was a.
story of a dog. It was tho story of a
very mean dog, and as the composer of
the literary effort came to the last line
he read it emphatically aud with great
distinctness of utterance, and tho hearts
of all the other small boys iu tho room,
as they listened, quaked, half with do
light aud half with fear, knowing what
was to follow, and gazing, fascinated, at
the upright coiffure of the master, as
tho reader ended, "And that dog was so
meau that his hair stood ou end.
New York Times
What Is NtyleT
The fact thut wo use the word "atylu"
speukiug of architecture uud sculp
ture, painting ami music, dancing, play
acting ami cricket, that we can apply it
the careful achievements of the
househreaker aud the jxiiMoiicr, and to
the spontaneous nnimiil movements of
the limbs of man or beast, is the noblest
of unconscious tributes to tho faculty
of letters. Morals, philosophy and u-s-thetio,
mood uud conviction, creed and
whim, huhlt, pusHion anil demohstru
lion what art but the urt of literature
admits tho entrance of all these uud
guards them from the suddenness of
mortality? All stylo is gesturo, the ges
ture of the mind and of tho soul. Other
gestures chungo uud flit; this is tho ul
timate uud enduring revelation of per
sonality. "Stylo," by Walter Huleigh.
How Urownlug llred I'olitliwl Matter.
I huve reud tho newspapers only
through Robert's eyes. Ho reads them
In a room sacred from the foot of wom
an. And this is not uiwuys satisfactory,
as whenever Robert fulls iuto a state of
disgust with uny political party he
throws the whole subject over livery
now aud then ho ignores Franco alto
gether, uud 1, who am more tolerant
and more curious, find myself suspend
ed over a hiutua 1 ask about Thiers'
speech. "Thiurs is a rascal," bo saya
"I mako a point of uot readina a word
'of Thiers." M. Prudhon. theu'r "Prud-
hon is a madman. Who cares for Prud
hon?" Tho president? "Tho president
is an ass not worth thinking of. " And
so we treat of politics. Letters of Eliz
abeth Barrott Browning.
A Fredlcament.
nin in un awful nredica-
Mario 1
went. I urn iu love with two men
Mcrtie Aud you can't choose
bo-
tween them? How cmbarrussingl
Marie Oh, I can ohooso all right,
but aeiiher of the men seems able to
doses New York World.
Characterised.
"Coufound thut cuddio, he's never
room! except at the tee I"
"Sort of a tea caddie, eh?" Brook
lyn Lit
I Vagabond lloneere,
I In Tho Century tliero is an article by
the Into Francis A. Walker ou "The
Causes of Poverty." General Walker
' snyg :
I will not Inquire how many mute,
inglorious Whitmans or Thoruaus there
mny bu among the tramps of the United
States, but it cannot bo doubted that
tho outcasts of a highly sophisticated
soolely embrace not a few who in a
trlho of hunters or herdsmen or fisher-
tuxn would have had a plneo and would
fortablo under tho requirements of an
old society. They sometimes mado ex
oelluut pioneers up to a certain point.
Ho long as all, tho poorest and tho
best, hud to live in huts, wear shabby
clothes and live meanly while opening
tip the country nnd mukitig tho first
hurried Improvements 0u tho soil,
these men felt at homo. Hut when tho
mere camping out stage wws ik1,
when public decency began to liiuke its
requirements and social distinctions
rose into view, straight way they enino
to feel uneasy, uncomfortable, unhap
py. Dally they cast more and more
glances toward tho setting sun, aud be
fore long they went again ou the move,
"seeking a country" where they could
be as shiftless, irregular ami shabby as
they liked. The story of tint reputable
ploucr has been told lu prose aud iu
verso, but tho story of the plmieer vag
abond, sturdy, courageous, (sissihly giKKl
' uatured and honest, but intoleruut of
1 fear uclghhora and offcuaivo to gissl so-
ciety, has yet to bo written.
Valoee of Autographs.
"Tho different values of different au-
j togrnphs seem astonishing at first. For
"How is thntf"
"Well, Nelson is, of course, tho more
popular hero. Hut the main reason Is
that Nelson, who wus generally at sea,
wrote few letters comiiared with Wul-
lington, who was generally ou land
Aud yet neither of these reasons holds
good alwayi Hero are a d w prices
that may puzzle you: A letter of Lord
Hencoiistleld is worth guineas, but a
letter of John liriiiht's Is only worth 5
shillings, and letters of 1'ahucrstou, Wr
liobert Peel and George Canning aro all
, frequently priced under o ahlllimis."
"What is a letter of Charles Llckeua
, worth?"
"About 8 guineas."
Aud olio of Charles Lamb?"
"From 8 to
"Byrou?"
"A letter front Byron la worth fully
10, but a letter of Hind ley is worth
more than double thut sum. " '
"And Burns?"
"Oh, 125 to 110 at least" Acad
emy. Question of Headline.
Ouo who has douo institutional work
among tho Italians for years wonders
why tho printed stories of affrays among
those people always are headed "Htubbud
by au Italian," etc Wheu the Irish or
the Germuus fight, attontiou ia nut called
to their nationality iu headlines, yet
whenever a man w ith au Italian sound
ing uamo commits a crime this distinc
tion invariably is drawn. Italians fall
to see the justice in it This particular
muu whoso life has beeu aieut among
tho Italians is sure thut they do uot
havo recourse to tho stiletto as often as
is represented. They aro quick and sud
den iu quarrel, but so uru tho Irisli.
Why, then, should tho Italiuu bo singled
out for obloquy?
Often, too, it is a Greek with a mu
tilated n an mi who gets into u row and ia
credited with being tin Italian. In tho
lower Italian quarter tho Greeks aud
tho Italians uru hated rivals, and their
similarity in names leads frequently to
confounding their nationalities, when
there is no need, according to this ob
server, of bringing tho nationality iuto
tho question at all. Now York Press.
first l'rle For l'gllnss.
This is the story of un ugly muu, aa
told by u veteran of the lato war :
"My cousin was tho ugliest man in
tho regiment, "said tbo raconteur. "Ho
wus tho ugliest muu, iu fact, I ever
saw. A general suw him uud offered a
prlzo for the ugliest man in tho army
to encourage competition. A rival regi
in en t had its ugly man. The two wero
brought together. The general wus
there to act as referee. My cousin camo
up smiling aud looked contemptuously
at his adversary Tho other freak guvo
oue look ut my cousin. 'Take him
away, ho shrieked, 'ho tin t buuiuu.'
Then ho covered his fucu and fled. It ia
needless to suy my cousin took tho
prize. " Now Orleans Times-Democrat
Her Father.
A little girl whoso father was dead
Hid whoso grandfather pursued the cull
ing of shoemukiug hud often been told
thut she bud a Heavenly Futher who
would euro for Iter in tho absence of au
earthly father, and had got things some
what mixed in her small brain. One day
the village sowing society mot at tho
houso where she wus staying, and some
of the good women began talking about
her, a "poor, fatherless child." Slio
boro it for awhile, but finally burst out
with : "I ain't oitln r. I've got u Heav
enly Futher, mid hu's a shoeimtUer. "
Waterbury American.
Trulhrul Wltimiia.
Judge Do yon n"'im to swear that
you wero tho lust pus.-m to pluy ou the
old opera house stnye?
Witness Yes. your b r. I'm a
pipe.man iu a bose company. Detroit
Free Press.