EUGENE CITY GUARD
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TKLKUBAFII TO 0ATF.
A fire in Wcllman'e warehouse at Ha-
vanab, Oa., damaged 800 bides of cotton
about DO per cent.
Hnllivun. the Dusrilist. says lie will
Cuht no man with bare knuckles for low
than f 10,000 a auto, lie tuiosa oi w
thng in California.
nn Hliprman denounces at an inton
tiooal falsehood the statement of the
Now York Ban that he bod been received
into the lloman Cathoho caurcli.
AlPiiUlnirff. Pa., on the morning of
Doj. 27th John Clark shot and killed bis
wife in a lixth avenue bagnio. Uar u
a member of a well known family, and
bis wife bad borne a bad reputation for
yeirs.
A three-story brick building on west
Canton street, lioston, occupied uy win.
1). flloason aa a wood ornament estab
lishment, wum partially burned with its
contents; loss probably ew.uw; poruauy
insured.
Tbo district court of Ciuoiiiuuti bus
decided that the word "damn" ia profuue
and vulgar, and Retained the action of
the telephone company in cutting off the
connection of A. 11, l'ugb, who used that
word in talking over the wire.
A Littlo Bock, Ark., apodal from Hope
reports considerable alarm prevailing
over reported uprising of blacks, who
ilirnntnn to burn the town. The Htreets
are patrolled by a sheriffs posse.
The acting governor of Iceland, the
bishop and other jierson of note, in a
communication to the London Timea say
that notwithstanding the largo donations
rscolvod there must be groat distresi
from want of food in Iceland during the
winter.
The main building of the Horaorsot
Fiber Company of Fairfield, Maine, was
burned on the 27th ult. A liugo digestor,
he. ted by the flames, exploded, throwing
the machine in all directions. John
Pooler wa killed by falling iron pipe
Loss, 155,000; insured.
A very protty wodding took place on
Deo. IHith at 'Bwanhurst, on Webster
street, the summer residence of Mrs.
Angnstua Whiting, of Now York, whose
daughtor.MIss Sarah Swan Whiting, was
married to Mr. Oliver Hazard Terry Bel
ruont, son of August Belmont.
Chicago has becoma the fifth largest
port o' entry in thia country, Laving
passed New Orloanaaod Baltimore, rank
ing after New York, Philadelphia, Boston
and Han Franoisco. The collections of
tho latter port are double thoso of Chi
cago, and she employs three times as
muny men in custom collections.
On Bunduy morning. Deo. 2lth, tho
mangled body of B. F. Warren was
pickod up on the railroad traok near
Httlem, 111. Tho coroiior'a jury decided
that he wa robbed by Samuel White and
II. Tucker, bcoten and loft insonsiblo on
tho traok, where the truiu struck and
killed hira. White and Tucker have
been arrested. They will say nothing
yet.
A Tucson, Ari ,oim, dispatch says that
Horgcant Bofus Somcrby of tho Gth cav
alry committed suioido at Fort Lowell on
Deo. '27th, shooting himself with a oar
bine in the presouoo of his company,
lie was a graduate of West Toiut, and
. formerly lieutenant of the (ith cavalry,
but was compelled to resign on account
of druukounsss and -misconduct. Tho
suicido is attributed to drink.
Tho Ban Franoisco Bulletin has tho
following, favoring the admission of
Washington Territory as a state. "Tho
development of its resources has only
just began. Tho grout lumber establish
ments have hardly uiado an impression
upon the magnificent forests, and coal,
iron ore and other iniiieruls havo not
been discovered to any extent. Tho re
sources of the great northwest territory
aro only partially known. It has the
most valuable forests of any state or ter
ritory in tho whole country ; has a hurdy.
intelligent population, extensivo roaf
fields, inexhaustible fisheries, a large
body of good agricultural lund, is a ter
minus of a continental railroad, the most
famous iuland water on the northwestern
ooust, a climate good, and the people
resolute and hopeful. '' It concludes by
saying that it is an interesting fact that
it is to day able to meet all tho conditions
of an admission into tho union.
A New York dispatch of Doc. 27 th says:
Two regularly trained heavy weight col
ored female pugilists last evening toed
tho mark and battered each other around
the historic ring to Quoeusbury rules.
Bessie Williams, wlmu down to her fight
ing weight, turns tho bourn at 270 pounds,
while Josephiuo Green, ia her clothes,
weighs 2W) pounds. Tho husbands of
both ladies are exneits at the niunly art
and have taught their housewives how to
defeud tliouifelvcs otherwise thau by
their tongues. For some time past every
effort to bring the amnions together and
settle tho question of superiority has
beou tried w ithout success, but eventu
ally a nnmher of sporting men with Billy
Mod lory at their head snoo.odod, tho
match being for twenty dollars a aido
and the colored lady championship.
They had a bloody, brutal and vicious
fight, and during its progress both looked
like spotted tigrtMscs. Finally Bosit
got in a right bander on Josephine's nose
and knocked her out. A largo crowd
l l. li . . . . i' .
wnavhsiHi mo u-smiaious proceedings.
A conference of tho sugar refiners and
importers of Boston and vicinity was
called on Deo. 27lh to present the views
of the trado to congress. The following
resolution was adopted: That the renti
ers and importer of sugar of Boston
favor a largo reduction in the duty on
sugar, aud that to accomplish thia pur
pose wo request our memier in congress
to favor a schedule as follows: Ou all
augurs, molado, etc., not above 75 de
grees of the poUrinOope test aud not above
duties, standard in coior, is to bo 75 cts.
per 100 pounds, with pro rata addition
for each degree of polarization above 75
degrees, which, upon this basis, ia throe
cents per degree per 100 Kunds. In
approving the giadnation of duty accord
ing to the poUriBOopo test they wean that
test which ia now uvd in commercial
transactions. It was intimated by con
gressmen present that the differences
among sngar importer and refiners bad
hitherto prevented action and if a plan
could I united noon there was hop of
securing a material reduction in the
UnS.
On tha morning of the 28th ult., Mary
Hewett, aged 41 and unmarried, waa
atruck and instantly killed by an express
train near Ban Jose, Cal. She was walk
ing on the track and did not hosd the
alarm of the engineer until it was too
late to stop the train to aave lier me.
DailQB urUi, - mubuiw, i" .. ---
sorted, owing to cholera being epidemic
Tlinni,nMi has 25 deaths daily. Bail-
wsy laborers havo abandoned the works
at Uaxaca. immunieauou wu wivuwu
towns is stopped. Bcaroity of water and
impure quality is the sapposod cause.
The dwelling bouse of M. Gonzales,
nnar flnlcanda. was burned Deo. 27th.
It was occupied by Gonzales, bis wife
and child, and was four railos from the
nearest neighbor. The family were loft
in the open plain, with the mercury at
zero, all night. They kept themsolyos
from freezing by the beat of the burning
dwelling, and in the morning walked
against biting northern wind to their
nearest neighbor.
The ship Charger recently arrived at
Han Franoisco from New York with an
assorted cargo and large quantity of
cartridges, caught fire between decks ton
days out. As the lire progressed, en
deavors were made to rcocn iuo cor
tridges. when suddenly the bullets com'
1 rlvinar in all directions, com'
Dletelv riddlintr tho sidos of the hold and
making it lively for tho sailors, who
scampered up the hatchway. Tho vessel
was Obliged to put uaCK 10 port iu. ru-
pairs.
HerrJohann Most dolivored a most
outspoken and socialistic speeou in Chi
cago on Dec. 2Hth. Tho only thing to
be douo, ho said, was to kill. The troublo
in the Fronch rovolution was when tho
people got the upjier hand they stopped
killing. They should have kopt on.
People here must kill. They muBt open
banks and stores and holp themselves to
whatever they wanted. Bunkers and
capitalists must be sot to work on the
streets. This talk was received with up
roarons applause.
Mrs. McKewon. widow ot tho lata Col.
E. J. C. McKewon, died at San Francisco
on Deo. 25tb of heart diseaso. The -do-encscd
was a oioneor. having come' to
California with her fathor, Dr. J. T.
White, in 18!. He was snoaker of tha
assombly in the first state legislature.
Mrs. McKewon waa ono of the small
number of ladiea who organized society
iu Sacramento, and old Culifornians re
call with ploasuro many agreeable inci
dents of her social' lifo at the capital
during early days.
A Los Angeles, Cal., dispatch of Deo.
27tu says: The second trial of Jos.
Smith, who murdered his 13-year old
son some weeks ago, at tho alleged "com
mand of the Lord," on the question of
insanity, was commonced in tho supreme
oourt. A large number of physicians
were examined as exports, some of whom
hold that Smith waa insane at the time
he committed tho murder, wbilo others
are ooutldont bo was novcr insane. Jailor
Thomson suid ho had watchod Smith
closely evor sineo bis incarceration and
bad seen no evidences of insanity.
Tho Now York Tribune bos the follow
ing: John lloacu & sons, snip uuiuicra,
havo closed enntructs for tho building of
tiro iron sailing ships for an Amuricun
corporation, of which William 11. Star
buck of tho Oregon ltailway & Naviga
tion Co., and John Bouub are stockhold
ers. Thoso vossols are to be from 1000
to 2000 tons capacity and will be ship
rigged, with three masts. The koel of
the first vosaol is new being laid and the
others will bo beguu in quick succession
so as to havo them ready for servico iu
May. They will run from New York to
any part of tho globe.
A Washington dispatch of Deo. 27 tU
says: Tho Dickson easo was rcsumod.
Wit liens Drivor stated that the eutire con
versation desoribod by Bowen .as occur
ring botwoec himself and Dickson really
occurred between witness and Bowen.
Witness was not allowed to relate the
conversation with Bowen on Monday last,
but Dickson's counsel positively stated
Bowen bad confessed to Driver that his
entire testimony was a perjury and ho
had been tho tool of Cameron and Hooper.
Thoro was nation oxeitomont aud tho
oourt recommended that tho defense ar
rest Bowen for perjury. .
A fatal shooting affray occurred in
Stunn's Best, a Lead vi lie gambling house,
on tho 27th ult. Mutt W ells, a gambler,
had previously had a difficulty with John
Kerr, a faro dealer, which was augmented
by ono Follory, another faro dealer, with
whom Wells bad au old feud aud who
carried the talk of each to tho other. Iu
tho morning at 10 o'clock Wells went
into Stunn's Best and culled for a drink.
Seeing Fellory be throw a glass and its
contents in his face. Subsequently Fel
lory met Wells ou tho street aud knocked
him down. Smarting uudcr tho inflic
tion, and half crazed with liquor, Wells
produced a revolver and returned to
Stunn's Best, and seeing Kerr commenced
tiring. Kerr returned tho Are, but shot
wild. Both emptied their revolvers, and
Kerr was mortally wounded. Wells was
immediately arrested. Two bystanders,
Hunt, another gambler, and Coulon, GO
years of ago, received severe wounds.
Kerr died the following dav.
A San Francisco dispatch of Deo. 2Sth
sitys: Tho feminiue portion of tho com
munity is considerably excited at tbo
singular freak of a mau who mauifests a
dislike for the weaker sex by slashing
their clothes with a knife. During the
crush incident to tie holiday season, ele
gantly dressed ladies returned homo to
tlnd their seal skins cut from top to bot
tom, silk dresses similarly backed, and
up to this time (he porn.trutor of the
outrage is not appreheuded. Miss Car
rie Kerr aud hercousiu, Miss Lottio Dow,
visiting tho ooast from the cast, are the
more reeout victims. They bad been out
buying presents and noticed the same
mau several time and invariably after
being ioled. Thev entered a store on
Post street and felt some one pushing
mem ami snowy alter touching tliem on
the shoulder. On goiucr nn stairs thev
were roughly pushed aside and saw a
face rapiilly disappear. Beaching home
Miss Dow was met by her mother, who
called attention to the condition of her
clotning. Her seal skin was cut in aev
era' places and a ribbon similarlv treated
While ulkiug the matter over, Miu Kerr
returned, asving the elevator boy in the
uoiei surieu at tier rmlely, ami when
looking iu the mirror she aaw that her
seal skin had been cut in two placea on
the shoulder. Tue man ia described as
pale looking with red mustache and
wearing gloves.
now iib woi ins Tfirt.
i.
"O younf Locblsvar U corns oat ot Uis Wert. '
August is nearlng Us close and going
ont in tears. Suoh mists and watery-
looking clouds! Such drippings and
droppin gs and miserable, forlorn little
ahowers! It requires cneery
spirit to bear up undor the wholesale
doom, but rain never depresses vi,
John Miles; it rather exhilarates Lira,
like fine wine.
To-dsy as be rides along through tho
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black mud, lie is wuishidk iu wyinu
fashion some endless tune that falls in
musically with the slush, slush of bis
horse's foot. Now and then it is tem
porarily stopped by an intrusive drop of
rain, or violently interrupt vj
dab of nativo soil; but even tbeeo seal
bis lips only for a time, for with a laugh
bo wipes tnem ou, auu resumes
m rrv nnta Affftln.
Hii is a joyous naturo. Justashe
brushed away that last drop of rain docs
be throw off all the lighter worries of
life. Borne who know him tuinK uis
bcart is onlv a surface allTnrrent and
no depth. We wmotimes And that the
deepest, most dangerous pools lio just
below the lightest, swiftest-currents.
But whutis all this expanse of water
just ahead of him? lift has bedn in Texas
only flvo yeorfl, but he knows what it
means. The Blanco river is upl The
continued raius, gathering slowly day
by day, in the main springs that feed its
bead, have suddenly rush:d together in
one mad, bounding torrent, and pouring
through the river bed have widened and
deopened it a along its oourse, tearing
ud trees and rocks in us way uuui wum
. .. i t - i. i
jq tho morniug iiau ubbuuiuii,
fordable littlo stream is now a dungorons,
roaring river.
Dr. Miles Is a brave man light
hearts 1 men generally aro but ' looking
across the swift, foaming waters, where
swimming is well nigh impossible, he
admits that his prospects for reaching
the further shore are very, very uncer
tain. He looks down at ins norso.
Brown Dick has good bbod in bis veins,
and the Dootor always trusts good
blood in man or beast, ne pats him on
the neok. "Old follow, can yon do it?"
The horse whinnies bock, and his master
takes courago. He and Dick have been
through many dangers together and have
always come out safe on the "othor
side," so why not this time?
To retrace his steps ana una Biioiwr iu
. . t.
some Irionaiy lurin uouse is to ua
como weathor-bonnd perhaps for days,
and imperative duties call him homo.
Pationtsaro waiting for lnm;an appoint
ment with anothor physician hits boen
made for the following morning; and
then and then, too w hon Jennie Cum
erou lookod up at him lust evening and
asked him to come to her "little musi
calo to morrow night," ho had promised
that ho would, and ho hud never yet
failed to keep his word.
lie remembers just now sou ana lumi
nous her brown eves were when, with
that littlo touch of imperiousnoss in her
voieo, she had ndrtod: "Now dont laii
to como, sir." ner eyes would always
plead oven whon bor voice commanded,
uud how he bad answered back in bis
jesting way: "Foul or fair, I will bo
there.
Ho wonders why bo did not toll her
then how dear those brown eyes wore to
him; why ho did not take heart "to speak
out what was in him, dear and strong."
Ho has loved her faithfully all thoso
years, and yet in bis humility bus nover
dared to tell her so. But then, he thinks
sho must have guessed it over and over
again must have felt the tenderness aud
passion that lap always just back ot bis
light word.
Well, ho will toll ber to night. This
decides him. IIo will try tho river. Ho
promised her to be thoro, and onco told
her that to bo false to your word wus to
bo cowardly. Ho romembcrod, too, last
but bitter thought, that bis rival, hand
some Joe Dudley, will bo thore, and
with tho thought there springs into his
eyes such a uory gteam of passionate
resentment that tho luughing gray orbs
become in thoir fierce displeasure al
most unrecognizable. It is a glimpse of
the still lifo of tho soul.
"Foul or fair, ho must bo thoro" iu
temblo earnest now. Commending him
self to a Higher Power ho cheers his
anxious stood and boldly plunges in.
Tho strong current beats them back like
hugo powerful arms; .the uprooted trees
and brokou branches null past them iu
mud baste; tbo "other side'' seems to re
cede as they near it.
Oli.it is a fieeo strucglo, but atMast
they are almost there! But a yard's
length and they will reach it! Just boro,
obeying a boyish impulse, ho stoops anil
kisses Brown Dick ou tho neck. Brave
horso and braver rider! They well do-
servo to triumph over wind nnd rain.
liut that moment of inattention is for tho
rider a fatal one. As ho raises his head
he (cooivesa severe blow, which sends
him entirely oil his horse, dashing him
almost ecnsolcs into tho bank. A loos
ened stump just above him has been
wreuehed suddenly away and whirled
violently against him.
With tho dospertlo clutch of expir;pg
vitality bo graspi tho roots of tin old
tree aaiust w hich ho has been throwu
and drags himself round to ita further
side. Tnere ho flghta uiaufully with the
terviblo faintuess that is rani tly over
powering him. In hi forehead ia a
deep gosh. Tho horso struggles to tho
shore, sees bis master's unconscious fuco
uud whinnies long and pitifully.
II.
Cuuoron Hill look Ktvung-dy beauti
ful iu tho pale, placid moonlight. Tho
rain has atopped, but th air is heavy
with tho promise of moro. Just outside
the p trior door, ou tho southern gallary,
Jeannie is listening iu a happy, absorbed
way, to Joe Dudley.
This man, with his handsome fuco and
smooth tonguo, has never attracted her.
There is aliout him a certain half
developed tendeuey to decep'ion, from
which sho instinctively withdraws. A
womau weakly accessible to the least
touch of the reul, tha earnest, the true,
flattery puts her on tb defeusive, and
hardens her into a Matoe of contempt.
So these two souls, whilo.often meeting,
have never touched. Buftto night he is,
for the moment, carried ot of himself
by the force of a real passioh, and ia woo
ing with all the teuder simplicity of hum
blest, trnest love, . i
She is following him sai t ly, surely,
across the borders of tlut n"y, dieam-
enshrondod Isnd of unreality and deln
ion, led on by the magio of his yoioe.
Across the borders into the heart of
the beautiful, mystical country, when
she is called back by the sound of a
name-j0,,t der cmm0DP,ft0f Dam8!
uttered ia tonos of careless inquiry, but
it startles ber gpell bonnd soul from its
trange enchautment, and wakos bor
boart into a very rapture of life. Joe
Dudley can win ber mind; he can al
most absorb ber intellectual being into
bis own, but tho mere syllables of John
Miles' homely, old-fashioned name sent
every pulse a throbbing. She starta up
and goes into the parlor. "What ore
yon all saying? Itbe Blanco up? Where
is Dr. Milos? Why don't you tell me
what you all wore saying?"
Borne one answers her that it is proba
ble that the Dootor bos attempted to
cross-he is so reckless of danger and
as be has not roturned yet, anxiety is felt
for his safety.
wiih tim iinmssrve of a great foar and
great love she excitedly demands,
"Why did you not tell me tuis Deiorer
Whv don't some of you go and see ? Do
you intend to lot him die? He may be
drowning now, tn, won i sumo oi jyu
nn unit hftln him?" The pretty voice
grow so pitiif ul bore, and the dark eyes
lipuiin o full of intreaty. that every
man feels roady to serve Ler, even to the
death of his own hopes.
"I will go and find him, and save his
lifo too. if von will give me my reward."
joe Dudley whispers in bor ear, and she
thinking ouiy ot tue kindly laoetuat may
bo already set in tuo rigid outlines oi
death, impulsively answers:
"Yes, yos I will give you anything
everything, if yon will only go now and
quickly, and save the Hie oi mat Drave
man!"
Ut nnnr ni-fttlv .Ti-antiio! You do not
know that you have unthinkingly bound
yourself by a futul promise, which only
a generous wooer will let you take back
again 1
ill.
T.vinor sirainst the rough side of the
il.l trn nrnfnctil from tho water bv the
spreading roots, they find John Miles.
The horse is pathetically licking his mas
ter's face.
Thev carry hira home, and through the
long fover that follows, Joe Dudley nur
ses him with all the faithful devotion of
a friend. With returning consciousness
Dr. Miles notices this, and puzzles his
mind over it. One day, when he was
almost well, he gratefully acknowledges
the kindness.
Joe Dudley laughs as ho makes this
answer:
"You noed not thank mo; I am only
laying off a debt. I promised to save
your life if it could bo done, ana i nave
been successful; tint is all except that
in six months Jeannie Cameron will be
my wifo.
Tho Bick man starts up, flushing pain
full v:
"Who says so? Does Jeannie Camer
on say so?"
"1 say so, the other answers tri
umphantly, "and that is snttioiont for nil
purposes. In six months that lady will
o mv wifo or wrovo falso to her word
and you- know as well as I that Bho
will nover do that."
John Miles risos to his foot and ex
claims: "Joo Dudley, I bolievo yon are play
ing mo false! I will see Jeannie Cam
eron to night and ask her to be
my wife; and if sho loves mo,
as I. have reason to believe she does,
no power on earth shall keep hor
from my arms. You are deceitful to the
heart's core, and my puro, proud girl
never promised to bo your wife unless
vr ti tw ililnn a.1 ltnv infra T.nova i t
tun UKauuuiiuii iivi tutu av ahvu luci
I am weak, but if you wore to tell me any
moro falsehoods I might bo tomptod to
strike you!"
Dudley is, physically, no coward, but
his pury, moral nature falters before the
grand, heroio soul shining out of the
sick man's eyes. Ho laughs uneasily,
and goes put of tho room. IIo has so
falsified everything to Jeannie and so
workod upon her exaggerated, struinad
sense of honor, that the careless, heed-lass-Bpokcn
words "Yes, yes, I will give
you unytliing, everything" have beon
construed into a solemn, plighted troth,
lrom wuicn moro is no wittutruwai. Al
though wickedly falso himself, ho es
timates at its full value tho tine, sensi
tive nature of the girl and feols secure
accordingly. That night Jeannie, iu a
big chair by the window, is startled out
of a troubled reverio by what she thiuks
is a ghostly visitant.
"Don't bo frightened; it is only I," a
famiiiar. wnll lovpil voien eulla out. nti.l
she goes forward gladly, to meet and
welcome vr. Milos.
Ho notes that these few weeks have
changod bor too. Sho is thinner and
paler, and has a restless, uneasy manner,
as if sho were always, montally, warding
off a blow. Ho watches her with anxiety,
nud feols that sho is troubled nnd un
happy. Iu a liUle while ho tells hor
what ho has como to say. Sua listens to
him nervously, and tho troubled look
deepens. When he finishes sho struggles
feebly with herself, and then, looking at
him through teur-diniuied eyes.opens her
poor, depressed, heavy-ladon heart, and
tells him all.
How bo loves her! She was dear to
him before, but never so madly loved,
so fondly worshiped as now, when he
sees for the first time into the very
depths of her pure soul. So spotless it
is, and so free from guile, that he al
most hesitates to take it uuto his un
worthy felf.
But when he tries to prove to her that
her promise to Joo Dudley is no protniso
at ril, but only tho mean advantage of a
base, uogojerons man, ho finds her im
movable. She loves him, but Bhe can
not marry him. His own words, "To bo
falso to your word is to be cowardly."
have haunted her of late, and now rise
up to kot-p them apart. She knows he
loves ber dearly, but will ho respect her
as uiguiy u sue ureas uer wora, even
though it be for him?
He is still vainly pleading, when Dud
ley s dark lace appears kt the door,
With a malignant ?cowl, as be looks at
John Miles, ho says in a threatening
voice:
"Jeannie Cameron, you lieloDg to me
Ton ean'i tn&rri tint man
Bhe rises at sight of him, and stands
looking helplessly from oue to the other.
Was ever a woman so tprrililv riH
Love, hsppinoss, rest on one side; on the
oiuer uer sacreu, pngiited word, and
miserv. dull. lioiwiriM niimi-
"Jeannie," Dr. Miles' voice is husky
from emotion, "will you be my wifa ?'"
He holds out his hand to her.
She turns despairingly to Joe Dndloy.
"Won't you give me back my promise,?
I cannot love you. You would not have
an unwilling bride?"
The obstiuate gloam only deepens in
Dndley'a eyes as be crosses over and
takes her rudely by the band. "I would
have you now if I bad to drag you to the
altar. You have promised to marry me,
and by all the powers above, you shall V
There flashes into John Miles' face
look that comes into gray eyes only when
there is something desjierato to be done.
Going toward the trembling girl, who
is mutely accepting him with her beauti
ful, soft eyes, he says, firmly, but ten
derly too: "Jeannie, darling, you are
mine whether you will or no; so thore is
nothing else for me to do but to steal you
from yourself. I don't like to do it, but
I see I will have to run awuy with my
wife and get her consent afterward."
Before either can guess what he is go
ing to do. be takes her lovingly in his
arms and carries her, weak as he is, to
the corriuge that is iu waiting, and whioh
he had brought in anticipation of this
very scene. A few minutes' drive brings
them to the old parsonage, where she is
absolvod from all the promises and re
sponsibilities of Jeannie Cameron, by
becoming Mrs. John Miles.
Joe Dudley, helpless with rage, re
mains standing whore they left him. As
ho realizes the whole truth he mutters a
curse aud rushes from the house.
Years afterward somo one meets him
in Eastern Texas, leading a religious
meeting u deludcr of souls to the Inst.
It is hard to tell which gets the most
petting Brown Dick or his master but
it remains an unanswerable fact, that
they arosboth terribly spoiled.
Two bides of It.
Soma unknown genius Las discovered
the following "Rules for Spoiling a
Husband:"
Snarl at him.
Find fault with him.
Koep an untidy house.
' Boss him out of his boots.
Always have the last word.
Be extra cross on wash day.
Quarrel with him for trifles.
Never have his meals on time.
Let him sew the buttons on his shirts
Pay no attention to household ex
penses. Qive as much as he can earn in a month
for a new bonnet.
Tell him plainly you married him for
a living.
Got everything the woman next door
gots no matter whether you can afford it
or not.
Provide any kind of a pick-up dinner
for him when you do not expect stran
gers. Let it out some time when you are
good and mad that you are sorry yon
didn't marry somo other follow you used
to go with.
If he has an extra amount of brain
work and comes homo with his nervous
system all on an edge don't try to
keep tho children quiet. Tell them
their father is nothing but a cross-patch
anyway.
HOW TO SPOIL A WIFE.
How will this do:
Snarl at her.
Find fault with ber.
Boss her out of her shoes,
Always have tho last word.
Quarrel with her for trillas.
Never be on time for your meals.
Make hor clean houso untidy by your
slovenly habits.
lie extra cross when she is harrassed
by the work and worry of wash day.
(irowl when she forgets through a
mulplicity of duties to sow buttons on
your shirts.
Spend the price of several new bon
nets for cigars and then skip tho bon
nets. Tell hor plainly you marriod hor to do
your work.
ltaise a row if sho bows pleasantly to
an old time gentleman friend.
r ind never-ending fault if sho happons
to want anything she sees tho woman
next door having.
Orumule when sho provides a pick-up
dinner.
Lot it out Bomotimo when you are
good and mud that you wish you bal
marriod some girl you used to run
with.
If you have hud a hard day's work in
the store or oflico, go home and let out
your gall on this poor woman who has
baked and ironed and mended all day.
Dont try to hold your peevish disposi
tion in check. Growl and fuss and fume
and find fault with the little patient
woman whoso rosy cheek you onco
kissed, and sworo by all that "was good
you'd love aud cherish her till death.
lhe thing is just about as broad us it
is long, brethron.
The Dyiso Hkndkicks. Thore is a
quiet laugh at the expense of big doc
tory in Indianapolis. Ex-seuator Hen
dricks was recoutly reported critically
ill of erysipelas, with gangrenous symp
toms, certain, tho great doctors of In
dianapolis and Louisville said, to carry
hira to a speedy death. The senator
prepared for his fate calmly, and resign
edly waited for tho grim messenger. But
he did not proceed to dio. Tho day to
which the scientific doctors limited his
life, a blunt old Democratic friend, who
was a couutry practitioner, came to pay
his distinguished friend a farewell visit.
Ho looked at the erysipelas of the dying
statesman, and suddenly said, with an
expressive gruut. "Nothing but bile,
by G -d!" Tho next day the statesman
was at the polls voting the Democratic
ticket. Tho distinguished scieutifio
physicians are very quiet on the subject.
Y have the docTumonts for this story.
L'.iytou Journal.
As to tho rapid formation of mineral
veins, Dr. Cloitman, of Iserlohn, makes
the following record: Two yeas ago the
bottom of a stuble pit was rammed hard
with common clay containing iron. It
had since served for storinn dung, water
being thrown in occasionally to prevent
overheating. It haviug become neces
sary to have the pit somii where else, it
was found that the clay had lost all color
and was divided into numerous fissures,
from 1-23 to 18 Inch in width, filled
irou ryrites. The iron oxide of the cloy
was changed0 by the organic matter
placed upon it, and the water containing
J sulphate ot ammonia, into sulphate ot
I irou. which deposited itself in the fissures.
A 8na Spot.
"Sinoe the great magnetic storm 6
Friday, and the brilliant auroral l
playa last night," laid the astronoraeh
the reporter on Monday, "porbajn
would like to look at the suu spot t ,
was probably at the bottom of all t i
disturbance?" ',
"To be sure i would," tho repo, (
replied; "but do you moan to uj u ;
a sun spot caused the magnetic atorr'
"Weil, to be more accurate, pert
I should say that the causes which
to the formation of the snn spot aliop
duced the storm. It is impossible' '
particularize very olosoly in this mnA
What we do know is that whensno
are most numerous and largest, u
auroras and magnot storms are nioit (
qnont and most violent. This has by'1'1
strikingly exemplified during tha pJJ'-h
ent year; we have had two or three gr,
magnetic storms, and simulUneotuY
with each ot the storms aun spots oft (:
traordinary magnitude have beon viii
I caught sight of the present great
just coming around the edgo of lu j-p
on November 13, and sinco then tlAU
has beon more or less olectrio an on i
netio disturbance, culminating in f
marvelous auroral outburst of Uitfm
day. I think this spot is identical H
the one which made its appearance i n
ing the perihelion of tho great con j
but it has changed greatly in appff
ance. t
"Thon it is visible without a t.f
i
"Easily. Smoke a piece of wind;
glass to protect the eyo, and you can1"
the great spot as a conspicuous black
on the sun." P.
"It must be very largo." t
"Largel Enormous doesn't begi; ,
express itl Counting the whole inrlT1,
covered by the various nuolosanj' V
penumbra not in which they appn-
bo entangled, is not less than tinj
milos long by 40,000 miles wide. I, .
all the continents and islands o!
earth together, add to them all k .
oceans, and sproad tho whole oat it .
and they would not cover one-twenty,
the area included in that tromemi, j
congeries of sun chasms."
"Let me see it," said the reporj
"Don't keep me waiting."
The astronomer laughed audpoia,.
the telescope at tho sun. After the-,
porter had somewhat recovered from wy
astonishment, he began to ask question
"So these aucorlv-shaped black nm
are holes in tho sun, are they?" -' -a,.
in- 1 . 11 . ?
xes, ropiica iuo astronomer. gi,
"And what is tne snauowv reu t
..1. v,,o"
ltT1.4 n .1n,.Auoi..n in 11. a
lUHb ia niOU 1ft MLIUPnaiWU IU Mid 9i,p
surface, but not so dep as the bl,
holes." k
"Wuat are the whito ridges srou
the spot?"
"Mountains of fire.or perhaps Ishovj
rather say billows in comparison w
the siz9 of which the Himalayas art
Andes are rows of mere ant hills." fa
"What are those whito, feathery-lcr, i
ing points projecting bore and there or "i
tho chasms?" 0 I
"Clouds in which iron and other me9' e
are floating iuthe form of metallic vajn t
What do you suppose you would i '3
you could stand upon one of tbo l
projecting points suspended over a i1 1
chasm." L'
The reporter couldn't tell,..
"Let us make the absurd auppW8
that your body would not, in the m.
ionth part of a second, be turned M1
vapor," said the ostronomer, "andletj fwJ
also suppose that you could for tn J'-S .
stant retain consciousness amid thecal
and roar of the solar notion, where ?'
noise of the bursting of a woria i
f.airmaiila wMil.l lta inrl wf. infftl i-iKi'
from the universal clangor, and I
try to give you a notion of what
would tee. Your horizon, suppoia
that immediately around you compj101
tive quiet could prevail, would bei
clo of fire, heaving, tossing, casting'!8
showers of hot motallic s-iray .while !j
and there fiory geysers shot up witb1.'.'
conceivable velocity, would rise a $
sand, ton thousand, twenty thoc!a
milos and condensing, fall Ihick t.
blazing rain. The sides' of tho cb V .
over .which you hung, gaping
enough to swallow this whole a. j j
would appear as cataracts of f1("J0Jjl
vapors, partially condensed '
tumbling downward to an awful df ' .
Some students of tho sun have atterij ;
to measure, or rather to approxiou w
estimate the depth of sun spots, and. ,
put it at from 2000 toGOOO miles..
the case of so large a spot as this 'ey
we may safely assume that its dep',
equal to the maximum estimate. ,
wouiu ucuoiu icyciuue moiions iu .
- a V" i.-l.IOl
sea oi mo prouuciug luariiu wo inl
and the rushing and tho clusbii.
vaporized elements.driven hy hurrif V
ni'
e
mat would inaae piaytnings oi t
tains. The fiory cloud bridge t,
1U1
which you stood would bo likely tc
jno
ton:
suattereu to imgmenis ut any wuuj
have seen such briilges di?app''r(i
few minutes. Then if you fell into " -chasm,
still assuming that you wonU0 J
instantly be turned into vapor.ijj;
would, after your turablo of C000 0J
strike no bottom on which n fo;t f0jt
bo placed, but would Bink into a
fiery gases, in which, probably, U ""(
elements that composo the solid
would be represented. Ah yon
lower and lower, the gases, while Ji;'0Rn
tuining their other properties, "6l
resist your descent like an ocean 'ove
the) effect of the tremendous terigh
ture and pressure to which they ar.,-,
jected." . . "Ex
"But would I find nothing but ?farni
the sun?" the reporter asked. to-ni
"Probably not," the nstronot-t'.
plied, "but you mnst renietabe'io, e
this is a matter of theory. AtroE Well
are only trying to account for w!) liun
see in ways that appear most con-horn
and reasonable. It is a long atersnd
the gaseous theory of the sun wb Prer
now widely accepted, though in "A
what varied forms, to the theorj Wivi
William Herschel, that the body K-atn
sun is a coil, inhabitablo world, . sai
rated from the glowing snrf.ee wb?r th
see by a protecting atmosphere -Eg t
nobody holds that theory no 1 It
fabled salamander would find tbjr ei
too hot for a place of residence, aflngi
deeper he got the worse it would i;r;v
N. Y. Herald. U I
2.-i4
A New York hotel-beeper h
810,000 invested in horseflesh, and j
people are wishing he would sell f' ,
the horses and buy a few tow-'
upf er bedrooms. "