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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1883)
HP PBEVAUICATIO.V IN LOVE. it wu lor lo1re4 ?'id n-.i tliotieht to b br ill the world "ir Me, mX quwn.my owns" .You'd" not lova in,' "be replied, Ifir,riririjirlo''. -Mr t-h( ' weaIth7 Dun; ifnoniy child ,n ' And ll bi ricbo" " nm,e Wbeuarar be iliill die. .RutricheMapMtbiays, , rDto tlwmselve talis wiugs; ob, if n. were Pr would rou love ins?"' '"would? h. cried, "by jingul" I o glJ ' ""' yu W0U'1 i jD your lovo aw blwl; p. fciled n'K1'1" 'h sobbed d rank l-(wn bor loner'i bretut. Tht I"11" n0t b'1 f difl;renc'." Tbt gullAut lover cried, 'jir tuke all clae beiide." Tbt night "ben her lover took hit If eve 11 mtatv minute to one, h.wbUpered ioltlr in bla ear, -Darling, I wo In fun. True, P bul nn I,ile Htdduly aattodby; . :.l.A I r vaiip f ml h D.rling. bow glad iml. For no I D0W yu woul1' ,0Te m we'l Een In poverty." And m be went home, the lover, yilo by no meant green, Bliihely hugged himself and tang I know what fuilurei moan." Cincinnati Commercial. FUOR LITTLK &Vt. i;n in Tompkins County, N. Y., lives . oll-to-do former, named Pitkins, with hit wife and twodangb ters. Having no vrnt lie is dependent on hired help, the inpplj of which is regulated according tn the season, a number of farm hands kninff necessary during planting and harvesting of crops, while one being wually the only assistant needed in the winter. Realizing the need of a boy on the place to do the chorea for which it did not justify to hire a man, Pitkins talked the matter over with his wife, and thev decided to select a waif from the poorhouse and raise him up as one of . ! 1 -1. I Li ilie Umuy, wuicu, ui uuurae, meant iuuu and clothing until he was of age, and three months schooling in the winter. With Farmer Pitkins, to decide was to set, so the next day he and Mrs. Pitkins drore over in the buggy to the county poor house and made application for an orphan. The superintendent, always tilling to dispose of his charge to farm en. ordered oat the boys iu line for a re Tie, and Pitkins and his wife eyed the boys closely and talked with them. He, with an eye to service, selected a largo, , itrong boy; but she, with h motherly instinct, more akin to sympathy, picked oat littlo Sut, the subject of the ketch. "Why, Mary," exclaimed Pitkins, "he's too small!" v "Bat he'll grow, John, and then I like his looks better. "Looks! tnt, tut! What have looks got to do with it?" "A great deal. If we are to adopt him and raise him up bb a son, and even if he is only to be a farm hand, we do not want a boy to grow up dishonest and vicious. I don't like the big boy's face. So, Farmer Pitkins grumbled a little over her choice, as he lifted Sut into the buggy between them and drove home, The boy was indeed small for service on a farm, but be seemed grateful for the home, and was willing to do all the busy tasks bis hands were put to, and would put Lis little band on his tired back without a murmur, after a long timo sawing wood. Mrs. Pitkins seemed drawn toward him by hia very diminu tive size and strength, while Pitkins seemed almost to dislike him, and was always grumbling about the boy's being too small, although the farmer's wife very sensibly would remark that she be Ueved the willingness of a small boy vould accomplish more than the unwill ingness of one twice his size. As little tint wasn't large enough to wait on the , girls, they rather sided with their father and made the poor boy s life rather un pleasant by teasing him. J. bus matters went on for a season or so, while one farm hand after another tame and went, and although colts and calves and pigs and chickens all grew and fattened on the place, little Snt teemed at a standstill and failed to come op to Mrs. Pitkin's assertion that he onld grow. "It's no use, Mary, waiting for this . bo; to grow. I must tuke him back to the poorhbnse and got a larger boy. You can go with me and select the boy, but he must be larger." Mrs. Pitkins, with a feeling of tender ness toward the little homeless waif she had selected, hadn't the heart to go and pick out a boy to supplant him in the borne that now seemed as dear to him as if he had been born in it, so Mr. Pitkins drove over alone, while the farm hand took the trogon and drove to the mill for lumber, leaving Mr. Pitkins, the two girls and littlo Sut on the farm alone, ex cept a little dog which Sut had been al lowed to adopt from the roadside, the cattle on a farm scarcely being counted company by lone women who can ot look to them for the protection blcu even a boy or small dog can at tempt. Tramps, miserable, dangeroua out 48t8i seem to be the constant menace of '"'Protected farmers, especially the omen who are ao often left alone. Little ?ut was in the barn, with his dog, sort aS potatoes, when his attention was cued by hearing one of the girls cream, and looking ont, to hia surprise nd terror, he saw a man rush out at the kitchen door in pursuit of one of the S1'1'- With a bovish impulse, Snt ran ft with a basket of potatoes in hia hand, 'ollowed by the dog, which he urged to fierce attack on the man. The little g went gallantly into the fight and set Jw teeth so vicorously into the legs of we tramp, that the girl was enabled to cape from him and run to a neighbor's or assistance. Little Sut realized that jere was work for him to do. The ;whioh came from tho fl0UBe -m T ,ndicted that the one man was wi the only enemy on the place, and ahont little Sut rushed in to find irVw H?mo 0tt tbe point of overoom- Mrs. Pitkia, and the other daughter w a fierce struggle, in which he had al tt0t torn their clothing off. .The noise that little But made and the ,"B"'",U ' 'uwiiaue oi potatoes that he hurled at the tramn an .i..nnn. that it allowed the two women a chance to escape and look themselves in a room up stairs. Poor little but and his dog wero left alone to mirmi ;ih ... enraged tramps; the fight was uneven ..u .uuii, i o uog was drivej from the Hold, and little Hut stood alone at bay. Suddonly one of the tramps, who had been keeping an eve open for dangor.saw epproachiner the '- v "U'M UVUIK) the other daughter bad fled, and giving the alarm, the two dosperadoes rapidly escape to me imck woods They had done their work rmnllv n Woll. Little Hilt 1nv in Dm miu m tionless where ha fll find ia n ni rvf had him on the bed, while Mrs. Pitkins uu iier aaugnters went over to him and frantically culled his name. Thore was a gurgling sound in his throat, and a littlo stream of blood trickled down the side of his mouth and stained the white rufllod slip of the pillow. Just thon Snt opened bis eyes as Mr. Pitkins returned from selecting another boy to tuke his Place. A little ont nn Hut'a hrnnnf showed where the knife had penotrated iiis lungs, and the gurgling sound was the blood that was famine ita lifa IiMa "Did T dm 'am nff9" That was all little Snt ever said, but with a smile on his face and the blood streaming from his mouth.be died in tbe arms of Farmer Pitkins, who had gone to swop him oil because he was too small A- J- tt I io ao anyiuing. A little grave down at the village chnrchvard. kent crnon hvthrnA vmlnfnl women, and fragrant with perfumes of nowers, is ail now leu on earth or little Sut. but aomAwhnrA wa tnnur Via linn gone where they do not think him too it BU1UU. Women's Waists. Women, especially those of the upper classes, who are not obliged to keep themselves in condition by work, lose after middle age (sometimes earlier) a considerable amount of their height, not by stooping, as men do, but by actual collapse, sinking down, mainly to be at tribnted to the perishing of tbe muscles tbat support the frame, in consequence of habitual and constant pressure of stays, and dependence upon the artificial support by them afforded.- Every girl who wears stays that press upon these muscles, and restrict the free develop ment of the fibres that form them, re lioving them from their natural duties of supporting the spine, indeed, m capacitating them from so doing, may feel sure she is preparing herself to be a dnmpy woman. A great pityl Failure of health among women when the vigor of youth passes away is but too patont, and but too commonly caused by this practioe. Let the man who admires the piece of pipe tbat does duty for a bnman body picture to himself the lasted form and seamed skin. Most women from long custom of wearing these stays, are really unaware how much they are hampered and restricted. A girl of twenty, in tended by nature to be one of her finest specimens, gravely assures one that her stays are not tight, being exactly the same size as those she was first put into, not percemug her condemnation in the fact that she has since grown five inohes in height and two in shoulder-breadth. Her stays are not too tight, because tbe constant pressure has prevented the nat ural development of heart and lung space. The dainty waists of the poets is precisely that flexible slimness that ia destroyed by stays. The rorm resulting from them is not slim, but a piece of pipe, and as flexible. But while endeav orintr to mako clear the outrage upon good sense and sense of beauty, it is neo essary to understand and admit the whole state of the case. A reason, if not a necessity, for some sort of corset, may be found when the form is very redun dant. This, however, cannot be with the very young and slight; but all that necessity could demand, and that practi cal good sense and fitness would con cede, oould be found in a strong, elastio kind of jersey, sunioiently strong, and even stiff, under the bust to support it, and sufficiently elastio at the sides and back to injure no organs and impede no funotions. Even in the case of the young and slight, an elastio band nnder tbe false ribs would not be injurious, but perhaps the contrary, serying as a con stant hint to keep the chest well forward and the shoulders back; but every stiff, unyielding maohino, crushing the ribs and destroying the fiber of muscle, will be fatal to health, to freedom of move ment and to beauty. It is scarcely too mnoh to say that the wearing of such amounts to stupidity in those who do not know the consequences (for over and over again warning has been given) , and to wickedness in those who do. The Nineteenth Century. Finding a Father. Ahnnt SO vAira nan there resided nnnn ww J O 1 farm, a few miles northeast of the city t OaHarv1 a man nnmAil Thomas A. of Fairbanks, who, if not in affluent circum- afnnraa via m fan aAvintr in. "nnmfnrt ably fixed," with a good home, .a happy m . t t : I lamuy, consisting oi a wne ana iwo cnu dron. He was proud in the strength of his manhood, and had a panorama of his life for the twenty years to come been spread ont before him he wonld have iha niMnrn. Hickness came. and after years of unavailing care, in 1857 he laid the mother of his children away in the grave. The long illness in his family and consequent expenses made it advisable for him to dispose of his homestead, and his children, then nniti small vera Liken in charce bv a sister of hie deceased wife, who, says the San Jose Mercury, shortly returned with th em to her home in juassaennsous. Fa lirbanks came to this valley soon after moVo a tiaw hnma. fnllv expecting in to a little time to again be able to gather ia ohiMrAn nnder his own roof. But his man proposes and God disposes. Soon after bis arrival hert, while engaged in hia vitafinn fi.a A farmer, his team ran away and he was thrown under a wagon and had one of his sides literally crushed. His wounds were very pain ful, and trouble him even yet. .uunng his long illness physiciana aought to alleviate his agonies by tbe use of opium and with the usual result. He became an opium nena. At ume oo luum against the habit, which be xnew wa deadening both body and mind. He :L4 .;1t Vw MivtvArtui hid be DOS again been the victim of miafortuoe. But again he was crushed and his limbs were mangled this time by the caving of a well which he was digpiug. Tbtm Ills courage left him, and he nlundouiM luut self io the use of the baleful ne-d. un.l for .the past twelve or tii'loou years ho has been most of tbe time an inmate of the county infirmary, and constantly so tor tne paet six years, until ten moutbs ago, when Dr. Kelly, one of the visiting physioians, became interested in the quiet, patient old man, and determined to give him a better home. Since then, Fairbanks, now npward of seventy years of age, has been thoroughly content, and uas striven earnestly to make all possi ble returns in the wav of licht chores. for the kindness of the doctor, whom he regards in the light of a benefactor. A week ago he received a lottor. An event in itself, as he had not received a lotter from any one in a half a score of years, and did not suppose that outside of this valley there was a friend anywhere who remembered him. His memory was weakened by the drug whioh had been his sole luxury for years, and ho scarce ly remembered that he had children somewhere in the world. The letter was opened with trembliug hands. It was signed (with a name that he had never heard, but it oontained queries which agitated him greatly, although it was vorj uriei. it merely assed if be bad ever lived at Frnitvale, in Alameda coun ty, and if he was the father of a daugh ter named Albortina. He recognized the name of his dauch ter, of whom he had not heard for many years, but Fruitvale he knew nothing of. He showed hia letter to his best friend. and describod to him the location of his former home, whioh is where Fruitvale Station now is. By the advice of the doctor he answered the letter, giving as inn account of bis own and the historv of his family as he could recall. A toi days ago he reoeived a letter from the same man, stating that he was the bus band of Albertina Fairbanks, for whose father they bad spent ten years in un availing searoh, and that they believed bim to be the man. He will be sont to Oakland in a few days for an interviow, but the ciroumstances are such as to loave no room to doubt that the old man has found a borne for his declining years and that the few years remaining to bim will be made as happy as possible. Dr. Kelly Bpeaks of him as honest, indus trious and faithful, having but the one vice, and that the result of his injuries. Dancing With Vim la It. Let us present ourselves at a genuine country dance in Vermont. The musi cians have just come in and taken the seats provided for them on a slightly raised platform at one end of the long hall. About fifty or sixty "couples" of young people are scattered about through the hall, some in merry groups, talking; others, more bashful, clinging to each other's arms and waiting in silenoe for the music to strike up. After the asual prelude of shrilling and tooting tho leader of the little orohestra nods to the floor manager, who promptly -steps for ward and shouts: "Gentlemen, please take partners for ," as the dance may bo. If it is a waltz, the expectant ewain awkwardly and blushingly encircles the fair one with his arm and begins to swing, with a sort of rhythmic apology for the prematureness of the embrace. She timidly places her hand in his and undulates slightly in sympathy with his impatience. At last the leader of the orchestra looks significantly around his little band of artists, nods his head upon his violin, draws his bow with an emphatio gesture, and the musio strikes up. About half the oouples in the room have caught the rythm of the musio; tbe others swing hopelessly round, changins step and bumping into each other, till something like a conglomerated dead-look ensues in one part of the room, and the dancers composing it disengage themselves, and wander away with many blushes to a more open space, where they try it again. JNobody seems to notice tbe little by play. All are danoing or trying to dance, and have enough to do to attend to their own motions. Here is a couple, neither of whom knows how to waltz or has the slightest idea of the magio power of rhythm; but that does not seem to dis turb them in the least. Bound and round they swing, execnting the simplest kind of a circle with endless repetition. Pres ently thoy both grow so dizzy tbat they stagger against the wall, and stand there panting and perspiring, till their equi librium and their breath are recovered, when they launoh upon a new series of revolution. But thora are plenty of good dancers on the floor whom it is a pleasure to watch. They do not adopt the limp, esthetio attitude and lazy lope of the fashionable city waltzer, but go whirling down the floor at a good lively pace, and even where the crowd is thickest carrom from couple to couple like billiard balls. The young lady does not lay her cheek affectionately on tbe young gentleman s shoulder, nor stretch out her lily whito arm and feathered fan in tho direotion of the Polar star, where it meets her partner's at an equally inconvenient and ridicnlons attitude, but she dances in a natural position, slightly inclined for ward and supported by her partner s arm, wbiie one band rests nrmiy on uis shoulder and the other is clasped by his disengaged hand. There is a spring and spirit, an endurance and evident enjoyment abont these country dances which you will look for in vain in the enervating and perfumed air of the fashionable salon. These young people will dance all night long, and be ready for another ball the next night. Bur lington, Vt., Letter. Beer and Railroad Bcildiso. The consumption of beer in the camps of railway builders is enormous, observes V. Smalley. in Tbe tjentnry. At Bis marck I saw an entire freight train of thirty cars laden with bottled beer from a Chicago brewery, bound for the towa nearest tne end of the track. Tbe chief engineer of the construction force said that an average of one bottle ior every tie laid is consumed, and that the ties ami the beer cost the same fiftv cent. Thus the workmen pay as much for their drink as the company tor one oi tne im portant elements of railway construction Ti:k li nt nl npnnn'dlilM T1 k In ttlA London Daily News that their effort to . . . t , prevent guests minung it necessary vj give fees to servant prove utterly un availing. A Story of a Quarter. "I gave you a quarter, sir," said an elderly woiuau with an a.'id smile at K.itiirJuy, as sh fcl.mcod through ber classes at an old o captain who bail just deposited her fare in the cash box of a Madison Aveuuo stage, says the New York Sun. He startod np and rushed to the box just in timo to see the quarter disappear through the trap, lie turned around in confusion and said that he did not notico)the money .and ttiat.be thought it was all right. Then ho hammered at the glass opening for tbe driver, and asked for twenty cent in change, but the driver wanted to know how ho was coins to get down into the box and got the quarter. He was sure he was not going to pay it out of bis own pocket and trust to luck to get it back from the company. If the passenger wanted it sue should go to tne ouice and get it. The old mariner said: "Blast your eyes, u you be so mean, 1 11 pay for my mistake, and he began fishing in his Jiookets for the money, whllo tho woman ooked like a picture of injured inno- oenco, and asked anotuer passenger in a bitter tone of voico if the one who bad taken her quarter was not connected with tbe company. "Me!" exclaimed the honest old blun derer, whose cenf usion was inoreasod be cause he could not find bis change; "bless you, I do not belong on land. I'll pay yon back this money, though; but I don t believe i ve got a cent. He completed his vain search, and, picking out an old memorandum book, asked for her name and address, saying that he would call there that night and loave the money. "Oh, nover mind," said she, in a mino ing way; "it only teaches me a lesson. iioreaitcr 1 will pay my own fare. "Oh, I'll bring you the money, ma'am. I just happened to be out of it now," and he placed tbe memoran dum upon bis knee and said, politely: "What's the name? I'll get the money to you "Oh, well," she said, "let it go. It' all right. I've learned a lesson. I'll pay my own fare horoufter." She repeated this several times with the air of one who knew she had been swindled, and wanted others to know it. The old captain, with flushed cheeks, asked again for ber name, and she at length gave it, but as a parting shot, re pealed tbat she bad learned a lesson. "Well, ma'am," he said, I am ready to make all amends, bnt I get a lessjn. too; and while I'm not a-saying what it is so much, 1 ve got it all tbe same. A pretty young woman, with eyes that began to snap ben'eath the shade of a big fur hat, oould not repress ber delight at this, and she said in the softest tone of voice, to the old captain: "I'll toll you, sir, what to do. We'll collect all the fares that come into the stage now nntil we make up this sum, and that will save you from further trouble." The old captain took off his hat and looked volumes of thanks. He was too happy to speak, and he kept an eager lookout. "Here's one coming," he said. The stage stopped, and a well dressed woman got in and opened a sealskin purse. The young girl explained what had happened, and tbe new passenger said , " Why certainly." Five cents went into the purse of tbe woman with on aoid smile. "Fifteen cents more, now," said the old captain, shaking his head, "and we're safe. He sighted two more passengers, and his glee increased. Thoy both laughed heartily in sympathy with the joy of the old captain, as he saw his debt decreased to five cents. The remainder was soon collected from another passenger, and finally the injured woman alighted with out a softened glance or a parting court esy. The old captain looked after her and said: "That wor a stress of weather. I didn't go to do it, but I'd got her money to her this night. I didn't toll ber the lesson I learned, but I hope she'll re member the one she learned." There was a laugh, and as the young woman who first suggested the way out of the difficulty was about to leave, she smiled a good-bye at the hearty old mar iner, and he took off his hat and said: "Thank you. Merry Chris'mas, miss." Then he leaned over and said in a hoarse voice to a man sitting opposite: "What a difference there is 'atwixt women; wonderfal, ain't it?" Alcohol. Colonel B. 0. Ingersol, in speaking to a jury in a case which involved the mannfacture of alcohol, used the follow ing eloqnent language: "I am aware that there is a prejudice against any man engaged in the manu facture of alcohol. I believe that from the time it issues from the ooiled and poisonous worm in the distillory nntil it empties into tbe hell of death, dishonor and crime, that it demoralizes everybody that touches it, from its source to where it ends. I do not believe anybody can contemplate the subject without becom ing prejudiced against that liquor orime. All we have to do, gentlemen, is to think of the wrecks on either bank of the stream of death; of tho snioidos, of the insanity, of the poverty, of the ignor ance, of tbo destitution; oi tne nine children tngging at the fadod and weary breasts of weeping and despairing wives, asking for bread: of the talented men of genius that it has wrecked, the men struggling with imaginary serpents, produced , by this devilish thing; and when you think of the jails, of the almsbouses, of tbe asylums, of tne prisons, of the scaffolds upon eituer bank, I do not wonder that every thoughtful man is prejudiced against this damned stuff that is called alcohol. Intemperance cut down youth in its vigor, manhood in its strength, and age in ita weakness. It breaks the father's heart, bereaves the doting mother, ex- tingmthes natural affuoiions, erases con jugal loves, blots out filial attachment. blights parental hope, and brings down monrning age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength; sick ness, not health; death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends, anJ all of them paupers and beggars. It feeds rheumatism, burse gout, welcomes epidemics, invites cholera, import pestilence and embraces consumption. It covers tbe land with idleness, suscry and crime. It fill yonr jail, supplies your almhonses and demands yonr asylums. It en genders controversies, foster quarrel and cherishes riots. It crowds your penitentiaries and furnishes viotims to yonr scaffold. It is the life Mood of tbe gambler, the clement of the burglar, the prop of the highwayman and the sport of the midnight luceudiurv. It counte nances tbe liar, respect the tliiof, es teems the blasphemer. It violates ob ligations, reverences fraud, and honors infamy. It defames benevolence, hates love, scorns virtue, and slanders inno cence. It incite the fathor to butcher his belplosa offspring, helps the husband to massacre hia wife, and the child to grind tho parricidal ax. It bnrns up men, onnsumos women, dotosts life, curses Qod, and despises heaven. It suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, de files the jury box, and stains the judicial ermine. It degrades the citieu, debases the legislator, dishonors the statesman, and disarms tho patriot. It brings shamo, not honor; terror, not safoty; do spair, nothopo; misery, not happiness; and with the malevolence of a fiend, it calmly surveys its frightful desolation, and, unsatisfied with its havoc, it poisons felioity, kills peace, ruins morula, blights confidence, slavs reputation, and wipes out national honor, then curses the world and laughs at its ruin. It does all tbat and more it murdorstbe soul, It is tho son of all villainies, and the fathor of all crimes, the motlierof abom inations, the devil's best friend, and Qod's worst enemy. Identification by Handwriting. A good handwriting is getting to be one of the lost arts. Tho fathors and grandfathers of the present generation, as a general thing, wrote a handsomer and more legible hand than do tho chil dren and graudchildron. There ia one point in penmanship to which I have lust been giving some attention. It re lates to the testimony of handwriting. Not long ago a man was hanged in New England by handwriting experts. As a class such experts ought not to have in fluence enough to hang a cat. And now it is claimed that some Brussels murder ers have been run down by tell-tale tricks of their penmanship. The readors of this little note may be assured that the writer of it knows individuals- who can write other people's names ao cunningly that these other people cannot dooide whether the signatures are their own or not. I have actual cases in mind where this puzzle ha been tried. One notable instance I must mention. The Stato of Massachu setts not many years since had two of its bonds presented for redemption, whioh eemcd precisely alike. One was a forged bond throughout. The oflloors whose names appeared upon these bonds could not tell "which was which." But this is nothing. I have a man near me who can write your signature and mine, or the signature of any person that may be placed before him as a study, so cun ningly that neithor you nor I can tell which is which. It is lucky that he is an honest man, or ho might do danger ons work with your name on a big ohook or note. Bankers in the United Statos place little reliance upon signatures as a means of identification in payment of chocks, etc. The person who pretfbnts a chock to a Boston bank for payment must be positively identified bofore the money will be paid to bim. It is in vain for bim to offer in evidenoe tbat he is the right man any handwriting testimony. And it ds not make any difference whether the check is payable to bearor or order. Identification in both oosos is demanded. In England one finds a most markod difference from this way of doing business. The paying teller of a London bank tries to assure himself that a check is all right both in point of signature of drawer as regards the drawer's balance, and then slaps out the money to whoever presents the check. Itmattors notwhethor the chock is payable to ordor or bearor; he demands no identification in either case. He only looks on the baok of the order oheok to see if it has the name in dorsed. This check-paying custom did not always prevail in England. At one time the'English practice in these prem ises was the same a ours is now. They have si no 3 progressed ont of it. We re main tiod to their old style. We shall get out of this rut one of these day. The great bankers of London long ago found they could never get through their busi ness if the identification responsibility was to remain upon them. They pressed the matter upon the attention of Parlia ment. Parliament came to their relief. It said, paj checks to whoever presents them, and yocr whole duty is done. If I to day drop my oheck in London, made payable to tbe order of W. IS. Morrill, the first rascal that picks it np in tho streets -and puts Mr. Morrill's name to the back may collect that check and get imprisoned for life for so doing. It is. of course, the imperative duty of any person who has lost a oheck to have its payment stopped at onoo, Boston Banker in Exeter, N. II., News Lotter. 1 Model Report or a Danglng. "IviHon Slado, colored, was hanged at noon to-day for the murder of Dora White, his sister in-law. last June, for creating trouble between him and his wife. Last night he mado an unsuccess ful attempt to kill his death watch. He was firm on the scaffold. He dropped five feet. Tbe gallows was in a valley near town. An immense crowd was present, many coming from South Caro lina and Ylrgina. dome came fifty miles. They camped all night. The procession to the gallows was a solemn scene. Slade confessed his orime. He died with a few convulsions." For a report of the hanging there is some business like style about the above. No blabber ing, no monkeying, no dull thud. All neat and sweot and prompt, and the platform oleared for the next candidate. Kansas City Journal. A plain tapioca, suitable for dolioate tnmacha. ia mode bv boilinor half a tea cupful of tapioca in half a pint of water; when the tapioca is entireiv dissolved or melted, add gradually half a pint of milk; jnst before taking from the fire (and, by the way, this should not be done till the milk i tbiokened with the tapioca), add a well-beaten egg, and sngar and flavoring to suit your taste. This is nice, either warm or cold. A Brooklyn landlady recently dropped ber false teeth into one of ber boarder' cup of coffee. Ho immediately made her a present of the coffee, and generously told her she needn't give him credit for it on hi bill. ALL BOUTS. It's getting so that one will fool safe only when living in a cave, What we've got against India is that they lot Josoph Cook oome home. Tbe dead beat, poor in the goods of this world, is generally rich in taffy. Neither interest nor friendship, to please any man, should cause us to do evil. Although too much "oliln" is not a thing of beanty, it is apt to become a jaw forever. "The young man who says "yes?" with an interrogation is to be married to the young woman who say "no!" with an exclamation. About the safest way to spend a night at a Western hotel is to stand out on tho steps and have the porter play tbe hose on you till morning, says tho Rochester Post Express. Tho prohibition amendment now be fore the Missouri legislature, says the Globe-Domoorat, contains enongh mate rial for litigation to keep all the courts in the State busy for twenty years. Jimmy's 25 cent watch not running satisfactorily, he pried it open and dosed it from ma's bottle of peppermintex plaining to hor that "I des it dot tomack ache," Watchman, Tbe mnsio for a Sunday bull fight ia Arizona was provided by a band of a United States cavalry regiment, with disastrous results, as it soared all the fight out of the bull. Boston Post. When a Toronto man can't achieve fame any other way, he sails in to be t'ae meanest man of the town, but there's so much competition that ho doesn't always got thore. Boston Post. "Dear Mr. Jones," said a learned woman, "you remind me of a baromoter tbat is filled with nothing in the nppor story." "Divine Amuha Brown," said he, "you oooupy my upper story." Aunt Esther is trying to persuade little Eddie to rotire at sunsot, using as aa nrgumont that tho little ohickons went to roost at that time. "Yes," said Eddie "but then, auntie, tbe old hen always goes with them." For the information of strangers who inten 1 to spend the Sabbath in this oity, we would state the penal code is pegging out and the back doors of most of the saloons are neither locked nor bolted. N. Y. Com. Adv. A few words properly used express a great deal. How do my customers like my milk?" Tbe youth, the fearfully preoooious youth, looked into the milk man's face with a perplexed expression and asked: "Your what?" A telegram from Boston states that on the 4th thore was a storm at Moun Washington, and the wind traveled at the rate of 141 miles an hour. This is the way in whioh a Mount Washington wind differs from a district telegraph moasengor boy. Puck. On the first Sunday in December or thereabontH such an amount of snow foil in Madrid, Spain, that the liko thereof had not been known for 20 years. It ia said the depth of tbe snow in the Span ish capital after a single day' storm was more than eleven inohes. It has been olaimod that using coffee and toa caused nervousness, and now oomos along a doctor and donies the statement entirely. The roal cause of the greatest nervousness among married men is the expectation of finding their wives awako when thoy come home lute. "You may talk about yonr mean men," said one rnstio to anothor on the forry boat the other day, "but we've got a wo man over there in Alameda who beats all." "Kinder close is sho?" "Close? Why. last month her husband dlod fourth husband, mind and I'm blamed if she didn't take tho doorplate off the front door, had his name added, and then nailed it on to his coffin. Said she guessed likely she'd be wanting a new name on tbe door soon anyway. A Practical MluUtcr. The pastor of St. Chrysostom's chnrch, Philadelphia, has hit upon a plan for de tecting unworthy persons soliciting aim at his door, and for tbe nearly two yoars it has been in operation hut one in- A dividual has oironmvented him. The . pastor accepted the request of the So ciety for Organizing Charity to make in quiry into the needs of applicants for alms, and he set about his work in this manner: He obtained a freshly-coined silver dollar, and to all persons who ap-.. plied to him for assibtance he hold tbe shining coin bofore them and said it would be theirs if they would remove a cartload of gravel that had been dumpod in the ministerial back yard. An hour would have sufficed to perform the work, bnt the applicant were unable to find a spare hour in whioh to remove the ob struction. The first case was a man on his way to Baltimore, who wauted only a little more to aid him. Tbe minister produced bis dollar, and tbe traveler's eye brightened as he spied the Binning silver. "Here, sir, is a dollar;" but holding on to it, he added: "You are a strong man, and honor able, and you would rathor work for it, wonld you not?" "Indood I would," was the response. "I have a load of gravel which I would like to have removed; it will take you an honr. I will give yon this." The traveler left to change his olothes, and, not finding tbem.he never roturnod. Tbe next was a man who had nothing to eat for two days. He bad a dinner given to him, and then wanted a little money for his sick wife. The bri ght dollar was produced, and many blessings were in voked a it mot the gaze of the poor man. The gravel heap was delicately hinted at and the man ataited immediately for his tools; but a spade was offered on the spot. Then he suddenly remembered his sick wife, who needed his attention, and that man failed to reappear. This course was continued for nearly twenty months, and in that time 113 persona were relieved in the manner dosoribed. Tbe one hundred and fourteenth custo mer was a match for the minister, and fiut a stop to that system of outdoor re ief. The man bad notioed that the dirt heap had been nearly leveled with the ground In the course of time; so, on ac cepting the offer, e merely kicked about the heap for a fat" minute, and the obstruction was removed to the satis faction of the minister, who paid the dollar to the witty knave.