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flnrit-ra Tbeulogj. In this age of fickle and cbangablo Ihounht concerning soine of the loner disputed problems of orthodox faith, the statement of Dr. Newman Smyth make Interesting reading. We copj a portion of the auerica and answers, in preliminary statement, the preacher aid: "I believe that the end of probation of the individual is not and cannot be in anr outward circumstance, temporal ao cident, or physical change, like the death of the body, that the conditions ol ex temal life are offered in the gospel, aud that whosoever willfully rejects them is in danger of the sin against the Holy Ghost, which is never forgiven; that if sufficient probation is not furnished in the world to infants, idiots, antediluvi ans, some heathen, and children who Lave no moral chance, Uoii will provide some probation in hades. I can but be lieve Christ's preaching to certain spirits warrants thii assertion: that a logical deduction of the biblical doctrine of the atonement permits no authority to offer any time but now for repentance, but thut Christ may have opportunities un revealed to us. Of what constitutes this we are not the judges, but will jodgo." The foregoing statement, it is said, created considerable surprise among the brethren, and Dr. Smyth himself ad milted that it might not bo best to preach prominently that tuora may be probation after death. Then came the following: "Whut to your mind is tho strongest evidence of the revelation of a God?" "Ood Himself." "Will yon describe the proceos of re generation?" "As eariily describe sunrise; it is tho work of God." "Of what does it consist?" "In bringing man from a false and disastrous personal relation into a true and loving friendship with God Him self. It wai, unloubtedly His inten tion o leave a chnrcU in the world." "What is your belief as to the Con gregational church you come to us so recently from the Presbyterian?" "I care very little for the harness in which I work, providod it leaves no mark on me." "What do you look for in tho future wliut is the last day?" "The end of time; the passing away of timo into eternity. I boliove that tho Scriptural doelrine of the resurrection secures to us tho truth of personal con tinuity und condition in our whole por eonulity, and that in the resurrection the vitalizing principles shall be clothed upon with elements of a celestial life. I do not believe in the annihilation or extinction of any created thing; it is impossible for us to concoive of eternity at all." "Has tho belief in a possible probation any foundation in Scripturo?" 'There is nothing definite in Scripture unless we construe with that litoralncr.H, which wo give to other passages the co conut of Christ preaching to oertuin hpirits in prisou. I should hope that no persons would' dolay repentance from any words of inino." . "Aro Christians sanctified?" "Christians are not sanctified in this life ao far as some people profess." "Do you not believe in perfection?" 'I look upon that belief as a humbug." -Albany I.N. Y.) Argus. Princes MathllOe. Prince Louis Napoleon, when young, dowu in tho world, in debt, disowned by his father, aud rogurdod by those who knew him as the impracticable dreamer he really was.fell in love with his eousiu, the Princess Mathildo, daughter of Jerome by his Lui'opoun Cutheriuo, after Betsy Patterson had been cast aside. When Louis Napoloon first saw Muthilde sho was in the bloom of radiont girlhood, and being cousins thoy wore allowed free intercourse. Tho result wss a mutual attachment that was other than cousinly. The prince was rudely sent away by the king of Westphalia. The cousins met and parted in an or chard at daybreak a sad and silent parting " ie prinoe had some dull mu nitions ten then, but did not say, "Don't marry till I can make you au empress," arid the cousins wont their way, hearts all sore enough, without mu tual explanation. There is no mutual explanation for such hours. The Princess Mathildo was born at Tricsto in 1320, has some mixture of German blood, sunlit by tho light of southern skies; her heart is said to re tain its youth as a heart that has never been broken. Soon after parting with Louis Napoloon she married Prince Anatolo Dc mid oil. It is said that the match was one of M. Thiers' blunder. Tho prince was as rich as Creasus, but vain as ignorance itself ; a heavy enter and drinker und a noisy sleeper. He usod to more at tho oiera and make his wife ashamed of him. lie was a count in Germany, prinoo in Tuscany, but nothing but a millionaire in his own country, and simply married Mathildo to improve his positiou in Bus ia. As sou-iu law of tho ex queen of Westphalia he would be a cousin of the queen of the Netherlands (who was uioeo of the czar), and a nephew of the king of Wnrtemborg. Tho prince's was twenty-two when she married him, und hor debut in Parisian society took place wheii sho was a bride. Her tine head, girt with a diamond coionet, produced a stir at the Italian opera. Sho was a princess of unusual beauty, of rare cul ture, and possessing above all that dom inant quality of genuineness without which men and women are as puppets, instead of living souis. II. Thiers ami his ladies arranged themselves ou her side, and Thiers advised her to pay her respects to the cousort of the citizen king. There was some squabbling with Jerome as to precedence, aud after three and a half years of married life the prinrPfB quitted her husha id, the heavy drinking and noisy sleeping being alto gether too much for her - could not live with him and maintain her self respect. Demidoff thought to bring her to terms by cutting off supplies, but finally the czar ordered him to grant bis wife an annuity of 200, 000 roubles and not to approach nearer than 300 leagues to any city in whioh she might be residing. He came to Paris, and Mile. Dnverger, of the Opera Comique was asked to iustall herself as mistress of the mansion. Prince Demi doff died three years ago and Mathilda put on mourning, but refused to don Like all low natures of contomptible abilitios and enormous ambitions, Louis Napoleon win an adept in the vice of de ception. When he waa electod Presi dent of tba Second Repnblio he asked bis oousin Muthilde to do the honors of the Elysee, and for three year she en joyed a social primacy; but it all had a humiliating, disagreeablo ending. "Princess Mathilda had early seen through the ambitious designs of the Countess de Montijo and her daughter, and frowned them out of the Elysee. As society concurred in her view of the two ladies, they both thought it dosirable to return for a short time to Spain. Unknown to his cousin, the Prince President corresponded with them both. When he proposed for tho Countess deTeba.sbo insisted upon him asking the Princess Matilda to bo, while the engsgemont lasted, her chaperon.and aa auch tojstay with her at the Elysee. Ti.a nili a liittar one. But it was swallowed on the conditions that the status given ns heir presumptive to Prince Napoloon was to uo maintained, and that, if Mrs. Patterson Bonaparte gave trouble, the judges were to be in structed to decide against her. In the palmy days the Einperor bought for her the country residence at St. Gratian, where she now lives from East6r to Michaelmas. Her house thore is a lurnrn fimmv tirmi-rtbmtiotlS Soveutcentll century ediflco, standing in a park on tho summit of a low nui. it commanus a viflw nl dm T.1a nf Enahicn. to which a grussy avenue flunked by ancient trees, descends. The Princess is fond of horti culture She is often seu with a whip in Wwl otinninir ft ml thrcutaninir her lap-dog', Barbotto, for having run in among tho flowers. niuaueipiiia Times. Army Lire on the Plain. It In more holiday work in the sorvico of the European nations compared with ours; they have long periods of rest, with lento bodies of their troops of all arms quartered in fine cities, in splendid barracks.where they aro almost in as full enjoymcut (of the good things of life as the citizens, while with us our lives, in a measure are passed, cut off from almost everything thut enhances life to the most humble. In my personal experience I have been eleven years straight without being a single day from active duty. I have not been in Now York City for twenty years, and not f mthor east than Washington sinco 18li0. I have been stationed at posts wore we were from 250 to 400 miles from a railroad, and ut one of which we did not tasto even so com mon a vegetuble as potatoes for six monthB, beef, bacon, broad, ooffee and tea being our constant diot from Christ mua to Christmas. My captain and my self once paid $15 for one burrol of potatoes, and divided them for our fumily uso, all of us being absolutely starved for a potato. Eggs at $1 a dozen. Butter not to bo bad at even a dollar a pound, and everything else in the same ratio. I could give you many such inci dents regarding the social life of our army ofiloera on tho frontier and the official life was one everlasting go scout ing scouting scouting- winter and summer, spring and fall. My doar sir, thero is not one porson of ten thousand of our population knows anything about the hardships and self denials which our little army undergoes, and many think it is all holiday work, wearing lino clothes and living off the fat of the land. Tho life of a line olllcor on the frontier is enough to wear out any man in twenty years active and contiuuoua aorvioe. Yet the ootiutryjueods it, and patriots do it for, after all, what is the reward? I am suro it is not a big thing financially, and it does seem hard that we have to pray and beseech no hard for what we do get. Look at whut Congress did last sessiou in the faco of a prayer sent thorn by three-fourths of the army otllcers asking for a little relief and very littlo at that. We are worse off than we wore before fletireuiont at the age of sixty-four, with a limited retired list, is no boon at all, and the branch of the somce that needs it most gets the least. I mean tho line. f Army and Navy Journal. Parental spparatlons. President Tyler hud a sister who was reckonod one of tho most giftod women of her day. She was the namesake of Patriok Henry and the pet of Jefferson. She lived with her father, Gov. Tyler, at Green way, iu Churles City oouuty, Vu. One uight, while slooping in the bod with a cousin, a lady of her own ago, she awoke aud saw her mother, who hud been dead for several months, sitting in the window seat. It was a bright sum mer night, and under the window was tho bed of a younger sister, who was an iu f.int at the time of her mother's death. The apparition leaned over tho child und gazed intently ou it. Miss Tyler romembered to have heard thut an apparition would remain as loug as the eyes wore fixed intoutly on it. She looked steadily at it without the least alarm. Now comes the strangost part of the story. The girl lying by her Bide said quietly, "Marin, there is jour mothor." Then tho form melted uway. Some years afterward, after Governor Tylor'sdeath, his daugh ter was at Greeuway again. Sho was then Marriod, aud was theu visiting tho first wife of her brother, Geueral Tyler. He was absent in Washington, being in the senate. Oue night ouo of Mrs. Ty ler's children became ill, aud hor sister-io-luw went into tho uursery to help take care of it. She suggested that she got a rem ed v from her own room, aud, taking a caudle in her hahd, she started for it. Ou hur return, as she passed the staircase, she saw her father standing be fore her. The idea fl wlied into her mind that she could hold tne apparition by her fixed gaze. She observed it carefully, aud saw that it wore a certain suit of brown cloth w hich she had sometimes seen tho governor wear, an 1 she was 8tdf-pos.HCd.scd euough to look for a molo on his forehead, which was a birth mark. Mrs. Tyler, after waiting some minutes, called to her to has'en, whereupon the figure vanished. A lady put her watch under her pillow the other night, but could not keep it there because it disturbed her sleep. cad there, all the time, waa her bed ticking right under her. and the never thought of it at all. Springfield Republican. ' Dangers of I'pper Uertui. While aitting in the smoking-room of a palace oar, conversing with an ac quaintance of mine from Brooklyn, the conductor dropped in and commeuced an eaav chat. "Being a railroad man," he said, "it may be foolish in me to speak of it, bnt did you ever notice anything particularly dangerous about the upper berths in a Pollman sleeper?" "No," I exclaimed, "and yet I havo slept in them frequently; what do you mean?" "Come here, and I will explain," was the reply, aud leading tho way into the car ho let down one of the upper berths, and, putting aside the mattross,displayod its inner workings, "Now, to look at It," he said, "you would imagine this heavy bottom weighed fully a hundred pounds, yet so nicely is it balanced, the slightest press uro lifts it np to its place. Give a more push and it goes up as light as a foathor. This is done by means of the strong coiled springs inside whioh roll np the supporting berth chains. The wood work fits so closely that when shut the whole appears as a solid part of the car. The cracks are not even visible, If a man were to be shut up in one of these places it would bo an air-tight tomb, and ho would die of suffocation." "But is it possible to be sunt in one of them?" I exclaimed, a shudder pass ing through me at the idea. "Certainly." replied the conductor, grimly. "This lock, as you see, shuts with a spring. TubU np the berth ever bo gently, and the lock fastens automati cally, with an almost imporooptiblo click. The lack is on tho outside, and it would bo utterly impossible to open it from within. Let the berth shut on a man, and he will be smothered to death in less than ten minutes would be flat tened out and jammed between the borth and the roof of the car, gasping for breath." "Is there notiiing to prevent these berths from flying np?" They make only a pretense oi it. This small wire cablo is fastened to the berth floor and the lower end fitted by slats into the berth below. But alitte jolting is enough to jerk therte out of place, and then the slightest tipping of the car will send the bertu liyiog up into its place, imprisoning the uneouscious sleeper iu the twinkling of on eye. The conductor's story was very hair raising, and we all looked around each other uneasily. "If this thing is so dangerous, why don't we hoar of some acoidents!" I asked. "Yon would hear of them.if youlooked in the right place. A ease oeourred not long ago, though fortunately not a fatal one. The car somehow jumpod the rail, and the jolt caused one of the upper berths, whose wire fastening had come loose, to fly up in its place. A young man was sleeping in the berth, and, as it hoppeuod, had his arm hanging over tho side. The arm was pretty badly mashed, but it saved his life, aud kept the berth from entirely closing and gave him air until we came to his relief. It is becom ing diflioult now to sell upper berths." f Memphis Weekly. Tiic Uight 0! the Cal dto bo Well-It rn. Children are tho germ-life of the fu ture. It is through our children thut our best and most permanent work must be done. It is of vital importance that the claims of childreu bo well under stood und fully met. Childreu have the right to be well-born. Wo do not mean boru into wealth or rank, which is often to bj ill bom, but boru of parents of good health und habits aud just convictions, and boru into condi tions fuvoruble to sound physical, mental and moral development. Entailed evils are ovorcome, if at all, with difficulty. The physical aud moral deformities of vicious parentage sweep down the ' r.nos with ever increasing power; filling our reform schools aud asylums, and cor rupting the homo the Church and the State. Indeed there would be no re demption for men under this law of in crease were it not that families, nations and races break down utterly under this entail of crimes. In view of all these facts it is not too mao:i to hope that it will bo considered the wisest policy to enforce sontimeDts, possibly to adopt measures that will tend to secure this first claim of every child good birth. In our publio schools one-half of the time now givon to formal knowledge might be replaced bv instructions ooj corning laws of heredity; and later by a presentation of the responsibilities in volved in parentage When these mat ters are better understood wo may hope thut the relutious of marriage aud pareut sgo will bo ussumed more thoughtfully. Fathers will then less often blast the lives of their offspring by the entail of vioious habits and Uncontrollable appo tites. The timo must come whoa de formed and diseased children will no longer curse humanity, aud when our advaucement in tho truly fine art of right living will lie measured by the health and parity of our youth. By these same laws of mherltanco vir tues aro transmitted. Such inheritance is the richest legacy a child cun receive; and for the lack of it no future gifts or opportunities can atone. The well-born child may safely suffer wrongs and privations, meet uuharmed temptation, while against degrading vices he is inwardly fortified. Susk iu heritanoe is derived from character. These laws of horedity furnish the high est incentives for living the best possible lives. It is along those lines that God visits tho vices or the virtue of parents on the third aud fourth generations. The questions of the hour wait solution bo cause the good and wise endowed by no ble ancestry are so few. Good birth makes good training com paratively easy. The first requisite in paren s is a knowledge of uieuUl, moral and physical laws. Ignorance here is the source of the yearly slaughter of mauv ianocents, of much life long in validism, etc., for which no after repent ance of parents can niak.i amends. Tho lawa which preside over all development must be known and obeyed or sorious losses must follow. The child is entitled, not only to be well-born, but to wise physical training. Parents should know how to keep their children in health. When through care lessness or negligence illness ha been induced, they should know how to re store h alth without recourse to doctors or drugs, simply by giving aa opportu nity for the working of nature's own curative forces. Plenty of sweet air and snnshine, simple food and proper cloth ing are the chief needs of infancy. No ignorant nurses or foolish fashions should be allowod to interfere. Sim plicity should wait on childhood. The wisdom of tho age demands that cloth ing of girls should be suitable for out door life, and that in its severe plain ness it should suppress, as far as possi ble, that innute vanity which undue attention to dross in tho past generations has fostered in women, always to her detriment, and frequently to her rnin. Said the hto Dr. Brown, of Edingburgh, "Children should always bo laughing or playing or eating or sleeping." This is most true of the first four years, after which objoct lessons on the principle of the kindergarten may be judiciously mingled with their play for the next three or four years. The child is also entitled to that dis cipline and instruction which aro to un fold and enrich his social and spiritual life. Little government is required when the example of the parents is cor rect and the atmosphere of the home ono of love, patience and self-denial. The training of the household should nnite itsolf to that of tho community. Tho publio school is a helpful means at this point. High moral character is lm porative in a teuoher, and all knowledge should bo subordinate to it. Tho teacher must have a brand mental outlook. Children xboiild bo protected from un due excitement, from usi'voits fatiguo aud overwork; we look upon external stimulus as hurtful. We deprecate the fostering by onr higher institutions of learning of the spirit of rivalry. We would banish prizes from school and col lego. Listly. tho child has a right to moral and religious training. Life has for parents and childron one law tho moral law; and the solution is religion. The wife and mother requires outside inter ests and activities to broaden her knowl edge and deepen her sympathies. She must obtain uutbority in Church and State, that her counsel may command the respect of her children. The richest ministrations of affection need the sup port of intelligence. Thewolfareof the home calls for this enlarged social and political power for tho mothor. The law of the household is constant concession, but it must be made for the sake of each ono who is partaker of it. When manly purity and womanly strength prevade tho home, it becomes the perch of that tern plo, the primordial institution of that Kingdom which is built of God und unto God, in the world. f Paper by Mrs. Emma C. Basoom at tho Woman's Congress Walnut Trees and Gum Trees Thore is now a greut scarcity of vul nut logs in this country, and it is said that it will be difficult to obtain a mil lion fcot of walnut lumber next year, as owing to the demand for wood in Europe the supply wus greatly reduced by last year's cutting. The uso of walnut in the manufacture of sewing machines aud load pencils has almost cleared this tree out of our Western forests. . Some farmers have begun raising walnut trees for the timbor. An important question for biiilders and manufacturers is, what other wood can be nsed in the place of walnut? There is a wide Bpread belief that no other native wood is equal to the walnut in certain qualities. It has a fine grain, and it curves evenly, does not readily split or crack, aud holds its color und shape nndei trying conditions which wonld warp, shrink and discolor other woods. It takes a better polish than other woods of native growth, and more nearly resembles mahogany and rosewood than any other timber grown on our soil. The snbstitue of cherry dyed to resemblo obony has partially sucoeded in the making of light frame work; but a broad surfuco of dyed cherry is not so easily obtained, lleoently some experiments have boeu made with the wood of the black gum tree, ono of the largest grown iu the South. Its small bluo fruit futtons theoppossum, and boes make honey in the hollow trunks. It is a peculiarity of the growth of these trees thut they become hollow as they grow old; but there is much sound wood -in the branches, which bus been largely used for railroad ties. It has been dis covered that tho wood of this tree can be dyed through and through. After it has boen dyed it is susceptible of a fine polish. Its durability, however, seems to depend, as docs its color, npon some artificial process, and this renders its availability aa a substitute for walnut questionable. There is a greut supply of gum wood in this country, and if it can bo utilized for a few years the farming of walnut trees mav make up what is now a serious deficiency in the supply of timber for manufacturing purposes. One significant fuct, showing the scarcity of walnut is the presence in the west of men who are pulling up old walnut stumps and roots to be sawed into ve neer. Wedding Kings. Most women have a sincero interest in betrothal and wedding rings, so that a few facts picked up concerning thorn may not come amiss. The first has altered noticeably in shape and setting. A pure white diamond, the only suitable gem, is underset in short ciaws so that the stone hides the setting completely. Polished gold is preferred to Romun gold. The shank is oval and tapers from tho gein. There is neither enamel nor engraving on its surface, and inscriptions are cut iuside as the purchaser may order. It is but an old fashion revived, and one which will be liked. In the last thirty years wedding rings have chanced twice in style, from the narrow, double circlet to the polishd oval; and lastly the plain, wide, flat band, which is now also preferable iu polished gold. A fourth style, and one eminently in harmouy with the present temper of romantic sentiment, niitfht well revive the ornament which decorated a ring discovered long ago in Egyptian ruins. It represented two cats, sitting back to back, and between them the goddess of love, who smiles sweetly on vacancy hue they glare around at each other in Kilkenny fashion. Such rings are gen erally made to order. That hard gastronomio authority, the London Caterer, has come to the con elusion that the process of egg and bread-crumbing Hsu is too Oiten abused by modern cooks. I Care of the Hone. 1. Never allow anyone to tease or tickle your horse iu" the stable. Tne animal only feeli the tormout and does not understand the joke Vicious habits are thus easily brought on, o Wii luint flia lini-nn when in the stable. Nothiag so soon makes him per manently vicious. litter be drv and clean underneath as well as ou top. Standing on not, joruieuung iuuuura makes the hoofs soft and brings on lame ness. i. Change the litter partially in some parts and entirely iu others every morn ing, and brush and cloan out the stall thoroughly. 5 To procure a good coat on your horse nuturally, use plenty of rubbing and brushing. Plenty of "olbow grease" opens tho pores, softens the skin and promotes the auimal's general health. C. Never clean a horse in his stable. The dust fouls the crib and makes him loathe his food. 7. Use tho currycomb lightly. When nsed roughly it is a source of great pain. 8. Let the heels be well brushed out every night. Dirt, if ullowed to cake in, causes grease and sore heels. 9. Whenever a horse is washed, never leave him till he is rubbed qnite dry. 10. When a horse comes otr a journey, tho first thing is to walk him about till he is cool, if he is brought in hot. This prevents his taking cold. 11. TIij next thing is to groom him quite dry, with a whisp of straw und then with a brush. This removes dust, dirt and sweat, and allows time for the stomach to recover itiolf and the appe tito to return. 12. Also let his legs be well robbed by tho hand. Nothing so removes a strain It ulso detects thorns or splinters, soothes tho animul und enables him to feel com fortably. 13. Let tho horse havo some exercise every day; otherwise ho will be liable to fever or bad feet. 11. Let your horse stand loose, if pos sible, without being tied up to the man ger. Pain aud weariness from a conttued position induce bad habits and cause swollen feet and other disorders. 15. Look often at the unimul's feet and legs. Disease or wounds in those parts, if at all ueglcctcd, soon becomes danger ous. 1G. Evory night look and sco if there is any stone between the hoof und shoo. Standing on it all night, the horse will be lame iu the morning. 17. If tho horse remains iu the stable his feet must be "stopped." Heat and dryness cause cracked hoofs and lame ness. 18. The feet should not be "stopped" oftenor thun twice a week. It will make the hoof Boft and bring on corns. 19. Do not urge the animal to drink water which ho refuses. It is probably hard and unwholesome. 20. Never allow drugs to be adminis tered to your horso without your knowl edge. They are not needed to keep the animal in health, und may do the great est aud most sudden mUchief. The Tomato as a Dietary. It is worth noting thut typhoid fever is most prevalent among the poor, to whom this expensive vegetable is al most unknown. Sailors, too, just ufter landing, are particularly liable to typhoid, and in them wo may expect a more or less scorbutic condition. But the question of the protection against disease by certain diets, und by such habits as the use of alcohol, tobacco uud opium, has as yet been hardly inquired into. Experiments are now being mado on the tincture of the tomato which will help in determining its therapeutic value. Meanwhile, cutou cooked with hot meats and in the form of salad after a cold lunch, it- is a pleasant aud useful ad dition to our ordinary rejiraen. The fruit acids it contains, combined with the mechanical effect of the seeds and skina, render it to some extent an enemy to scurvy as well as a laxative, and the sulphur, with its known power over scptij conditions, would probably con tribute to make its use a protection against the poison germs of those diseases like typhoid, that find their way mto the system primarily by the alimentary canal. One caution is needed to the lovers of this esculent. The tasto for it being an acquired one, it is the more likely to be indulged in to excess, and we have known almost as many tomato maniacs as astro-maniacs. All kinds of raw fruit, it should be remembered, ex cept nsed with cure, aro liuble to irritute, and wo have known an instaneo where a person, working hard all day on raw tomatoes only, was seized with imflun mation of the bowels, whiob proved fatal in a few hours. As an article of diet, then, two or three tomatoes will be found as effective as, aud certainly safer than a dozen. Australian Medical Journal. Iti I Sje n (ioaheailatlvrness. It is all right to keep up with the pro cession, as Isaiah has It, but we should avoid abruptness us far us possible. The momentum acquired by some of our young people is truly alarming to an old man. Nothing stirs ihe blood of an old man's heart and makes his pnlse fly like the gay and festive immediate girl aud the wink of hor soft blue eye. Abruptness is one of the peculiarities of our bnautiful climate. People get rich rapidly, bust simultaneously, get a 'quaiuted previously uud shoot imme diately. They do not give that close and wearisome study to important questions thut Eastern people do. They jam ahead aud do what they have to do early and repent of it afterward. It's a cold day when a man haj to repent of a thing be fore ho does it, and afterward too. We are like the man who decided to go over into a pastnrt-, catch a bull by tne horns and ynuk hi head off. Tho idea was so franght with unrtli that be laid down in the sand and rolled over it made him langhso. After hs bad grabbed tho bull by bis aquiline uose, and the bull had, in a frolicsome mood, in return thrown tbe man over the fence into the road and driven his head into the ground, Pat said it was a fine thing he did his laugh ing before he monkeyed with the bull. Vrhen a political party becomes too fretti, the people send it np Salt river. Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald. ."Collier Love. , ,We were at a railroad iunctim, , night last week waiting., 0TnZ a train, in the waiting-room, in tbeWi. rock.ug-ohair trying to talk . brow'T eyed boy to sleep, who talks a great deal when ho want, to keen .wake. lTeaoDu J freight train arrived, and a beautiffi little old woman came in, escorted hi . greut big Gorman, and they talked in Oennan, he giving her, evidently lu, of information about the ronto she' was going, and telling hor about hor ticket! and her baggage-check, and occasionally patting her on the arm. At first on, United States baby, who did not under saud German, was tickled to bear them talk, and ho "snickered" at the peculiar sound of the lunguage that was foinl spoken. The great big man put his band v.p to the good old lady's cheek, and said something encouraging, aud a great biir tear cuine to her eye, and she looked as happy as a queen. The little brown eyes of tho boy opened pretty big, and his face sobered down from its laugh and ho said: ' "Papa, it is his mother!" We knew it was, ' but how should a four-year-old sleepy baby, that couldn't undorstimd Gorman, tell that the lady was the big man's mother, and we askell him how ho know, aud he said: "Oh. the big man was so kind to her." The big man hustled out; we gave tile rocking chair to the little old mothor and prosently tho man oaino in with a baggage-man, and to him he spoke Eng. lish. He said: "This is my mothor, and she does not speak English. She is going to Iowa and I have to go buck on the next train' but I want you to attend to her baggage! und see her on the right train, the roar car with a good seat neor tho center, and tell tho conduotor she's my mother. And here is a dollur for you, and I will do as much for your mother some time." The baggage niun grasped the dollar with one baud, and grasped tho big man s hand with tho other and looked at the little German woman with an expres sion that showod that ho had a mother, too, and we almost know the old luily was well treated. Then e put the sleeping mind-reader ou a bench and went out on the plut form and got ao quainted rrith the big German, aud he talked of horse-trading, buying and selling and everything that showed he was a live business man, ready for specu lation, from buying a yearling colt to a crop of hops or barley, and that his . life was a busy one, and at times full of hard work, dis appointment, hard roads; but with allot this hurry and excitement ho was kind to his mother, and wo loved him just a lit tle, and when after a few minutes' talk about business, be said, "You must ex cuse me; I must go in the depot and see if my mother wants anythiug," we felt like taking his fat, red hand and kissing it. Oh! tho love of tho mother is the same in any laneuuge, and it is good in all languages. f Burlington Hawkeye. B.Mi:t.i to Have ft Divorce. She was fair, robust and as fresh as a "morning glory." Slie rushed in upon him while he wus deeply immersed in tho problematic rights of landlord against tenant. Ho is a very prominent political lawyer; she is a beautiful young child from tho Plutte Canon. She blushed, he bowed, she chassed to tho right and subsided into a convenient seut; he closed his calf-covered volume of Illinois reports aud arose with one hand under his coat tuil and the other one exieuded, ready for a fee. "Good morning, madam." "Are you Mr. T , the luwyer?" "That is my name, madam. What can I do for you?" "Well, sir, I am the wife of N up the Platte. I married the old man two weeks ago last Friday, and I don't like it. 1 wunt a divorce. How much is it?" The excited young lady here pulled out au odd looking tobacco pouch, around which a buckskin wus coiled aud prooeeded to untie it. The young limb of the law, whose eyes had been wandor ing way over the strange apparition, stammeringly replied. "Why, really, my dear missis beg pardon, but I forgot your name." "I ain't no missis no longer. 1 am Miss Bella Ann P , of Littleton, and am wiiling to pay for it." "Be patient, my dear Miss P , and I wili advise with yon." "I don't want no advice. I want a di vorce against old man N -. He ain't the sort of man I thought he was. He ain't rich and is stingier than a Texss cow, and he won't leave me be. So I left him and went over to Bar Creek to Arthur Bench's mother. Arthur usod to liko me before I marriod old Jacob N , and now I want a divorce." The lawyer reasoned with the excited young lady and assured her that he would be only too happy to file her ap plication for a divorce were there gronuds for the application. Tho angry young daughter of the mountains lis tened impatiently to the counsel of the young lawyer with the fury ofayouug lioness. At last she burst forth: "Can't get no divorce unless more cause, can't I?" Then I'll just tell yon, Mr. Lawyer, I'll get it anyhow. Arthur told me how to get it. I can send him to the Canyon City penitentiary and get a divorce on it. He traps trout, he does, ocd I can prove it on him, for I got him to make the trap and helped him to do it. and I can prove it. "Now," said this brilliant young mountain aniazon, "Can't I have a divorce and let the old man go to Canyon City?" The young lawyer thought she could, and at once wrote a letter to the "old man" advising him to let the young gi go. Denver Tribune. What Is tieoarrapuit" t- .i. i .- . .M.nnl wlm had been over the map of Asia, was reviewed by thfl teacher witu tne ioiiowius ' markable result: "What is geography?" "A big book." "What is tho earth composed?' "Mud." "No; land and water." . "Well, that makes mud, don't it? "What is the shape of the earth? "Flat." .. . hole through the earth where would i come out atr "Out at the hole." i