The Eugene City guard., August 23, 1884, Image 2

LITTLE GIFFIX.
Dr. Frank Ticknor.1 .
Out of the focal and foremost Are, '
Out of the hospital's walls as dire; f '
(smitten of grnpo-sliot mid gangrene,
(Eighteenth Uittle and lie uxUmu!) :
Specter, uticb a you teMotn see,
little Uiflla of Tennessee.
"Take him and welcome," the surgeons (aid;
"Little tba doctor can bulp tba d.iau I"
Ho we took him. and brought him where
The balm was tweet In the summer air,
And we laid him dowu on a wholesome bed
Utter Lazarai, heel to bead I
We watched the struggle with bate 1 breath
Skeleton boy against sneleton Death.
Month of torture, bow many such!
Weary weeks of the nick and crutch, ,
And still a glint of the steel-blue eye
Told of a spirit tiiat would not die.
And did not; nay more, in Death'i despite
The crippled skeleton learned to write:
"Dear Mother," at flint, of ooume, and then
"Dear CapUiiu," Inquiring about the men.
Captain'i answer: ''Of eighty-llvs
Gilllu audi are left alive
Word of gloom from the war one day:
"Johnston is pressed at the front," they lay.
Little Giflin was up and away;
: A tear hli flnrt an be bade good-bye,
Dimmed the glint of hii iteel blue eye.
"I'll write, if pared!" There wai news of
the flzht,
Out none of Oiflln- be did not write.
I sometimes fane that were I King
Of the princely Knight of the Golden Ring,
With the tong of the minstrel In mine ear,
And the tender legend that tremblea bore,
I would give the beet on hii bonded knee,
The whitest eoul of my chivalry,
For Little GiUln of Teiinenuel
SUNDAY NICHT IN CHINATOWN.
rhlnga In Blott Street Which Strike
the Stranger aa Eulgmallc.
New Yoik Bun.)
One of the liveliest places in New
York on a Sunday evening in the lower
part of Mott street, from Chatham up
to Park. It is lively with a life thut
is an enigma to the stranger.
From nightfall till nearly midnight
the sidewalks, tho stoops, aud the stops
loading to the basements swarm with
Chinamen. It seems as though all tho
Chinese in tho city were gathered
there. The buildings on each sido of
the street are . occupied almost ex
clusively by Chinese tennnts, who ore'
shy of in liiisitive sightseers, and keep
1 their blinds and shade pretty closoly
.' drawn. The stroot is nevor bright
with lights, but its no.iro.st approach to
brightness is on Sunduy evenings.
Then it has a kind of holiday appear
ance. '1 here are two or three buildings
in the upper stories of whih festivities
of some kind appear to Le going on.
Strango noises come from the windows
noises like the clashing of cracked
cymbals, the piping of toy fifes, and the
flatter of unstrung snare drums. For
'all that can be heard in thetttreats,
these . ridiculous noises are made sol
, emnly and for some grave purposo ; no
fcoaud of the huumn voice rouoho tho
' ear. The rooms in which tho.se thing!)
are going on are brightly lightod. All
tho stores are open and rows of China
men, stauding around, line the walls.
The stranger can look through the
window of a buscmont and see a Chi
nese barber shaving ono of his country
mon. Tho victim winces, but takes his
punishinont as something which must
be endurod.
Almost without execpt'on tho Cinna
mon aro Cnntoneso. Nino-tenths of
them wear the dress of their native
country. Nquaro-crownod felt huts
eooin to bit considered the correct
thing. Jn some of tho stores the mer
chants are so different from the other
Chinamen that thoy seem like repre
sentatives of another roco. They are
the solid mon of Ch natown. Thoy
look as the mandarins ou tea cheats
would look if draped in tho less elabor
ate garb of commercial life. Thoir
clothing is of lino texturo, and it was
evidently mado with great caro. Long
' ago the Chino.su abolished buttonholes
tho tailor's friend, as the moth is the
furrier's friend. A curiously constructed
"frog" aud catoh servo as buttonhole and
button. Fashions do not change, cloth
fabrics aro lusting, and tho rich Chinese
merchant's outer garmont endures for
years upon years. These autocrats of
Chinatown are seldom soeu outsido
their pla es of business, An ngreoablo
combination of spicy odors pervades the
atmosphere of their stores.
The Chinumon ho make a holiday
of (Sunday nicdit soom to be very much
occupied. Tho swarms n round the
doois aro engigod iu interested talk.
The men hurry out of basements
and disappear in the entrance fiom
stoops, Evidence of the Chinese ad
. miration for lubyrinth'ne arrangement is
shown at nearly every basement door
which loads not into any room, but into
a narrow passage that runs parallel
with tho sidowalk. Within the door
the view is cut oil' by a turn iu the pas
sage. Home of these places are gmti
bling rooms or opium resorts, or both
CQiubinod. There isn't another place
iuNcw York wherehalf as many persons
can be seen about on a Sunday evening,
where it is not possiblo to 11ml the side
entrance to a bur-room ajar not far
away. The stranger naturally fulls to
conjecturing what the attraction can be
that thus draws so many Chinamen to
Chinatown, and occupies them till mid
night. There are always curio ity seekers
strolling up and down tho sidewalks.
Tho Chinese do not appear to seo them.
Hoodlums go through the street in
. small nii.bs, and t'.ie Chin mum boar the
infliction philosophically. Now and
thin a couple of young women with
faces of wax-1 ke pallor, hurry along
the sidewalk. 'J he stronger tayg to
himself that they are op um fiends,
coins to hit the pipe at some joint
Ten to one they are shop girls go ng
home from a stroll on the Urooklyu
bridge.
llelglaa Literary Vrlme.
Paris figure.
The king of the lielgians has regu
larly offered every year f jr the last ten
years a prize of $5,000 for the best
work on some subject of general inter
est, the greatest latitude of choice be
ing allowed the candidatte, provided
the woik tamo within the su:l'.cieutly
comprehensive category of "nuvre
d'intclligeuce. During the w hole ten
, years the prize has only been awarded
cnoc
Marguerite da Yalois: Hypocrites
hide their defncU with so much care
that their hearts arc poisoned by them.
OX A COLD TUA 11
I j Chicago Tribune.) . ,'
A tall woman leading a child by the
hand alighted from a Western train
three days ago at the Union depot on
Canal street. Her complexion was
brown, her cheeks wore high and pro
jecting, and her hair was jet bL -k. bhe
was plainly dres ed, and probably the
mo.-t et pensive art.cle of attire she
wore was her largo, brown
varnished straw hat surrounded by a
put pie feather. As she looked around
the station won.lor.ngly, and her little
boy at her side clung half ir ghtened to
her dress, it was euy to soe she was a
stranger to I hicago. Approaching one
of the men around the depot, she asked
several questions, tibook her head
gravoly once or twice, and then with
downward head, as if she were iu tears,
led her boy slowly up the stairway to
Canal street, where she stood for a few
minutes gazing alternately to all points
of the compass.
"That seems to be a kind of hard
case," said the depot-hand whom she
had been questioning, "She has come
with her boy all the way lrom i'awnee
City, Neb., and if it hadn't been for the
kindness of the other passengers on the
cars she would have been dropped
aomowhere on the road long before she
reached Chicago, because she started
without money or ticket, and, I dare
say, for that mutter tho pair
hadn't a morsel of grub be
tween them. You see, this is
how it is. She is a ' half breed In
dian, and married a white man a la
borer on the railroad. When the man's
job was finished he deserted her and
her child and left hor penniless, bhe
leurnod from some of the other labor
ers that he had gone off to Chicago,
and without knowing anything about
Chicago, except thut it was a pretty big
villugo somewhere in tho cast, she
silently went home, dressed herself and
hor boy, and boarded the first train to
this city.
"The conductor was telling me all
about her. When he asked her for her
ticket she looked scared and said she
hadn't uny, but if he wouldn't take her
along to Chicago sho and the boy
would just step out and valk walk,
mind you, to Chicago from Nebraska.
Well, this kind of staggered the con
ductor, who began to question hor. bhe
said she was going to llnd her husband,
whose name was Thomas, and that she
didn't expect there would be any dif
ficulty iu finding him, as be would
iirobably be working among the other
uborers ou tho new track at Chicago.
You toe, she thought Chicago was some
village where tho railroad was going to
be laid for tho first timo. V ell, the
conductor, a kind-hearted fellow,
didn't like to turn her oil
tho cars and he went among the
other pacsongers nnd told them how
tho Bipuuw, as he called her, was going
to take a walk to tho 'villugo of Chi
cago' to find her husband, who had
skipped out and left her alone with a
boy. The word was passed around and
in half an hour Mrs. Thomas hud not
on'y hor fare paid, but a few dollars
over to get her food on the trip and still
leave h-r some money to got along with
in Chicago for a day or so anyhow. For
two days she sat in the o.ir, speaking to
nobody and stating blank in front of
her, and it wasn't until tho third that
sho ventured to atk the conductor if she
wasn't going out of her way and
mightn't have passed Mr. Thomas on
the road. There goes the 's uuw' and
'papoose' now, along side tho fence up
titore," concludod tho depot-mun, "and
I expect they'll have a time of it before
they chance upon Mr. Thomas iu the
streets of Chicago."
The samo night tho guests of a small
hotel on .South Canal street were
thrown into consternation br singular
awakenings, and at breakfast next
morning they echangod stories about
their experiences towards the witching
hour of midnight. One said that ho
was sound adoep in bed when he found
himself grabbed by the feet. Hy the
dim light he thought he behold a giant
tugging at tho bedclothes and heard a
sepulchral voice saying : You are my
husband; you come with me." An
other said that in his room there were
three fellows sleeping, when all of a
sudden they were awakenod by being
pushed and hauled about. They
sat up simultaneously and asked,
"What in thunder is tho mat
ter r" and a voce replied,
"Which of you mans is my husband?"
All in turn condemned the specter
roundly for its intrusion, and it glided
away with a kind of grunt; but a few
seconds afterwards they heard a scries
of yells, and the clerk of the hotel came
tearing down tho corridor with a wild
looking woman at his heel s. He was in
his night clothes. Hie caught him by
the huir and ho yelled agaiu. bhe
mlled him under tho kerosene light.
Ie begged wildly for mercy, (la.ing
steadily into his faco for a fow mo
ments she pushed him away from
hor with a gesture of disgust
and sa d, "Y'ou aint no tho man
I want." By this time the whole
ho'.el had been aroused, and a crowd of
half dressed people came out of their
rooms into the halls to see what the
matter was. Tho tall woman with phe
nomenal strides swept past them all un
til she came opposite a stout-built, mid-die-sized
man with shaggy black whis
kers and a pair of Canton cotton
drawers, who was t tmding iu one of
the doorways. Clutching him frantic
ally around tho neck, and then sliding
dowu to the ground until sho caught
him by the kuees, she called out: "Oh,
Thomas, I got you I I kuowod Id get
you, Thomas I Oh. Thomas, don't never
leave your poor wife and baby no more
your poor labv, Thomas your poor
little buby, Thomas!"
In the meanwhile the man addrossed
as Mr. Thomas recovered from his first
astonishment, gave a whistle, and then
said in a tone of tho most ineffable d.s
gust, " Wai, 111 be doggonod 1 Shoot
me if 'taint the s maw 1"
Next day Mr. Thomas and his wife
and child took tickets back to I'awnee
i ity. It appears that after leaving the
Colon depot Mrs. Thomas wandered
southward a long distance, asking peo
ple hers and there whether they could
U'U her where Mr. Thomas was. bhe
happened to meet an elderly man to
whom she told, in patbetio broken Eng
lish, the story of her desertion; and La.
though Impressed with tho ap
parent hopelessness of her search,
resolved to accompany , her to
some ' of the hotels ; in the
neighborhood, as he knew the locality
to be a great resort for railroad men. ;
Ho examined hotel-book after hotel-'
book for the name of Thomas, and at
last he found one which did contain
that signature. Aftor asking the clerk
some questions about Mr. Thomas and
communicating the results to Mrs.
Thomas she never said a word nor
moved a muscle, but went up to the
desk and engaged a room for the night.
Shaking hands with her friend, she
and her child went to the room she
had paid for and remained there
so quietly that the clerk had forgot
ten all about' her until he was
roused at midnight and chased down
the corridor by a woman whom be took
to be a veritable maniao. The half
breed lady from the west had taken
the usual method of cornering her hus
band by arousing every man in the
houee until she found the one she
wanted. In hor simple way she had
argued that Mr. Thomas, caught with
his day-clothes on, uiiht run away
and leave her again, but that Mr.
Thomas, cornered in his night clothes,
would be a very different person to deal
with ; and she was right, for he neither
attempted to run away nor to deny
that he was the missing husband and
father. .
The l urunitlou Flirt. '
W. M. Doner' W in iexnnS'ftings.
The nnconsciom flirt is a frank, gen
erous, warm-hearted pirl ; young, im
pulsive, and with little knowledge of
the world. If she likes you, she lets
you see it very plainly, bhe doos not
love you, nor bus it ever entered hor
head to marry you. You are a man oi
the world, and at once, not understand
ing the girl's simple nature, you con
clude thut she has either fallen in love
with you, or is a most consummate flirt,
bo she is a ilii t, but one of tho uncon
scious kind.
Another unconscious flirt is the girl
who wants to convert you. bhe is bg
earnest, so pleading; her soft blue eyes
look bo tenderly into yours, as she lays
hor hand upon your arm and urges her
cause, that, if your heart is free, it is in
serious danger. ,
A third vnriety of the unconscious
flirt is sho who blushos and looks down
whon she meets you. bhe draws her
hand from yours hurriedly. Her voice
fulters when she speaks to you, and if
left alone with you by any chaneo, she
inakos eomo excuse to get away. And
yet you sometimes catch a tender ex
pression in her eyes as she looks at you,
that proves it is not dislike that causes
avoidunce. You draw your own con
clusions, and are perhaps led to love
the girl unawares. Then comes a pro-
Eosul, followed by refusal, bitterness of
eart, and disappointment; and for ever
after you regard .the girl as a flirt.
The simple fact was, sho had been told,
or in some was led to believe, that you
wore in lovo with her. bhe liked you,
but would not marry you, and hence
her avoidance and tho pity you mistook
for love.
Ills l'lrxt OUcnse.
Tuxjs Kl.'tm;.
"Guilty or not guilty?" asked an
Austin justice of the peace of a colored
culprit, who was accused of - stealing a
whole line full of linen.
Tat ur 'peuds on you, jedge. Hit's
for vou to say."
" i on must either plead guilty or not
guilty. 1 have nothing to do with it."
"Yes, you has. If you is gwiueter lot
me off with nutlin but a reprimand, like
yon did las' time"
"Well, suppose I do let yon off with
a reprimand, as I did last time?"
"in dat casj 1 pleads guilty to six
shirts, foah pilly slips, and about a
dozon udder pieces."
"But I'm not goinj to lot you off to
easy."
"Hen, cf yor is gwineter sock it ter
mo, FIT gib a li'ar ono ob de shirts, and
w e Will try this cose by a jury."
"All right. I'll euter a pica of not
guilty."
This did not seem to suit the culprit
very well, for he Bpoke up :
"I say, boss, I don't koer to put de
court and de sheriff to trouble on my
account. Jess lemme oil ag'in wid a
repriman', as you did las' week, on ac
count ob hit being my fust offense, and
I'll plead guilty ter five chickens I
pulled las' week, an' a ho I stole las'
wiutor, an' a pair ob shoes from de
store, and a wood-pilol'se gwineter haul
off to-night."
Europe's Slow ''Pauper Labor,
St, Louis Republican.
A man will accomplish twico as much
in an averago lifetime, in this country, as
anywhere in tho Old World and this
is truo of men in all positions, the
lawyer in his ollice, the plivsician in his
chaise, the m?chanio iu Lis shop, and
the operative in the milL ,
An American workingman who re
cently returned to l'ittsburg from a
visit to England expresses his surprise
at tho comparatively small amount of
work done by laborers in that country.
Thoy mo-e slowly and leisurely, they
tal.e their timo about everything and
seem never in a hurry all in striking
contrast with the tierce, unsparing
vehemonce w ith which men pursue their
vocations in this o uintry. There is no
doubt that Americans overdo them
selves. They accomplish as much in
side of 50 years of age as Furopeans ac
complish inside cf 70; aud if life were
meusured by the amount of work done,
our people are the longest lived iu the
world. One reason for this is the im
mense amount of work to be done in
this country, and the comparatively
small number of skilled persons to
doit. ' '
Landor: A little praise is good for a
shy temper. It teaches it to rely on
the kindness of others.
The mince pie graceth the festive board,
Uteking its juices rare.
And tne mouth of our baby waters the while
lie vieweth the treasure there.
Tbe doctor smileth a wan, sad smile,
And heaveth a crocodile moan ;
And the marble man goeth into bis yard
And polubeth up a stone.
And the undertaker mournfully asks:
"What wid bisuieaaure ber
While the sexton labels a spot "reserved"
Under a willow tree.
i.New Orleans Tues-Democrat
THE GERMANS OF PENNSYLVANIA.
In tba IIagnlflcent Valleys Family
JVames of tbe Old Stock.
9 "Gate's Letter.
In PitUburg and Its vicinity are aHout
3'J.OOO Irish, 15,001 English an I 4 l.OOo nat ve
Germane. Pennsylvania b the great prolific
hive of "the well-mixed American rac.
The natural Increase of the German-derived
people iu that state is enormous, and con
sidering the number imported at a compara
tively recent period, they have proliably In
creased much faster than the New England
stock. The Fenniyvania Germans only be
gan to arrive at tbe beginning of tbe
eighteenth century, and they continued to
come till the beginning of tbe Revolutionary
war. The Now England races came in from
the first third of the eeventeeth century, and
they had numerous centers of population and
interest at that time much superior to
Pennsylvania.
The Germans were fortunate enough ti get
Into the magnificent valleys of Pennsylvania
and to understand tbe cultivation of the lime
stone, and so tbey have slowly advaucei on
ward by natural lines, keeping down tbe val
ley Into Maryland aud Virginia and ovei flow
ing it into the lap of Maryland, and taking
up the smaller limestone valleys toward the
main Allegheny, and this old class of Ger
mans, unlike the more recent Germaus, who
came in during the intestinal commotions of
Germany, adhered to the southern side in the
war. Atzerodt, one of the assassins with
Wilkes Booth, was of the old stock, snd al
though he spoke broken English, was born in
this country. I think Imbodeu, one of (he
Confederate generals, was also of this bloo 1.
It Is both refreshing and depressing to look
Into thert old German towns of Pennsylvania
and see how like Europeans they take up
their little pursuits, find meat for living in
the small range of their experience, aud pre
sent an extraordinary contrast to the more
energet'o races we have. Among tho names
you will roccjnize as characteristic of this
old stock are Helntz.'Iman, Hittcuhouso,
Bookwaltnr, Ilartrauft and Menholenberg.
In the higher ranges of professional life and
in the highest honurs it is seldom that old
Germans of unmixed blood are found. I
think that not one of thorn has ever been on
the supreme bench, though Justice Miller
probably derives his name from an old Ger
man family. Abraham Lincoln ts bjlieved
to have bad some of this stock i.i him, aud if
so, it would account for his mingled steadi
ness and humor. The acquisition of money
is very characteristic of this rase, anil,
though not many of tbem become famous in
finance, tbey are generally a well-to-do race.
Dog Trains In Idaho,
Cor. Ban Francisco Chronicle.
During the day of my arrivul I saw a few
men sweating under the labor of pulling two
sacks of flour on a toboggan, and several dog
trains. These dog trains are amusing, if not
admirable, as meaus of transporting freight.
They are made up of Indian dogs, collies,
mongrels, scrub yelpers, Newfoundlands, and
mastiffs, with now and then a bulldog. The
driver goes behind and urges them en with
snowballs, now and then finding it necessary
to go forward and make a lazy cur work up
to bis collar by giving him tbe bight of a
packing-rope. Poor brute! Probably it is
his only bite of any kind for many hours. I
asked one dog-team maa what be fed to his
dogf aud he said:
'Tallow and Indian meaL"
"Are they trained 1"
''No; we pick up all sorts of dogs and work
them in very soon by putting a good dog on
the lead."
"Do they never balkr
"No: dogs Is the biggest fools in the world,
while they is tbe sagaciousest animals. Why,
when them dogs near about pull tbeir toe
nails off comin' up a steep hill, thoy bark out
their delight when I go up and put them on
the head and call them 'good dog.' Horses
nor no other animals won't be fed on such
taffy. Why, these dogs wills', tnd it to be
cussed for miles and then be tickled to death
at a pat on the bead."
So he rattled on about the dogs. Tho mer
chants say the dog teams spoil goods like tbe
mischief. They are all the time tippiug over
and rolling them around. The latest method
of packing has been developed to-day. Two
fellows came into camp with two sticks and
a crosspiece, upon which were piled flour
sacks and bacon, the ends of tbe sticks rest
ing upon the shoulders of the carriers. The
days of the toboggan are pretty much ended.
There is snow enough, but it is not evenly
enough distributed to be of any use. Tbe
totioggau has loomed up during this Cceur
d'Aleiie excitement, and has found its way
into literature to a remarkable extent. Tbe
men who have been most intimate with it
will cuss the toboggan for the remair-r of
their lives.
Tbe Mexican People.
Chas. A. Dana in N. Y. Sun.
The population of Mexico is commonly
estimated at nine or ten millions. No census
has boon taken, but this estimate is probable
not exaggerated. The great mass of the
inhabitant are Indians, and in racd and
habits they are similar to the Pueblo, Zuni,
and Navajo Indians of New Mexico and
Arizona. They are generally small in stature,
sober, honest, iudustrinus, tonierate and
intelligent. A more valuable peasantry can
scarcely be found. Their virtues are their
owu; their vices are of European admixture.
School education bos done little or nothing
for them; but of late years efforts have been
made to establish schools f jr tbeir benefit.
They seem very capable of being instructed;
and if, as we trust, there is a bright future
for Mexico, it lies in the development aud
education of the native race.
The ruling classes Iu Mexico are mainly of
Spanish and mixed blood. Tbe late Pre
sident Juarez was a pure Iudian, but the
number of educated people with nothing
Spanish in their origin, must be very small
indued. Among the civil and military func
tionaries the Spanish element appe-ir to
predominate; and the political usages of the
country are decidedly Spanish in their
nature.
Fport at Wanhlngtoiu
(Chicago Times. J
Washington, it seems, can be made Just as
much a paradise for the sports man as it is for
tbe itutosman. The Totomac, forty miles
below Alexandria, is famous for its ducking
bores. From the middle of November till
the 1st of May canvashacks, redheads, black
beads and w hUtlewiugs foed on the wild
cherry beds which line the shores. The great
forests of Stafford County, Va., are alivs
in the fall wita wdd turkey, and the bot
tom lands along the river with quail. The
bass fishing of the upper Potomac cau't be
excelled. The finest woodcock ground in the
world the glades of Garrett county, Mary
land is within a few hours' ride. A fair
day's sport is a dozen brace of as fine birds
as ever delighted the eye or tickled tbe pal
ate of an epicure. Blackwater, a day's ride
from Oakland, Md., is tbe greatest trout
stream south of Maine.
Hark Twain's Itevcnge.
Inter Ocean.
Mark Twain now proposes to plague the
Inventors of tbe autograph April-fool hoax
by publishing in a pamphlet all the requests,
with caricature portraits of tbe senders, and
brkf biographical (Mn, for which tbt
sharp pen of Twain will be dipped in a m.x
lur of vitriol and viorgar.
HlanlnC a Senorlta.
Perrl (Mex.) Letter.
"Senorita. I kiss your feet, a dios !"
This is the parting salute contained in
a note just fini-hed to a young Mexican
friend. VI course 1 uo not intend to
kiss her feet, but it is the proper caper
here, and I have conformed to it. Why
should I kiss Zenobia's feet, even meta
phorically 1 True, I would, and perhaps
have, kissed her hand and lips, her fore
head, cheeks, and probably the back of
ber neck, but, although .enobia is a
sweet gill, I must be excused from os
culutory contact with her pretty foot,
dressed in a high-heeled and archod
instepped gaiter. Like all the Mexican
girls, she is rather slouchy about her
hosiery, and 1 happened ouce to have
observed thut her white stocking were
not of the very cleanest, and hung in
folds over the tops of her gaiters in
stead of being braced up. The appear
ance reminded me of a collapsed con
certina, and the dear girl fell HO per
cent, in my esteem.
liy ttie way, the senoritas nave but a
faint idea of kissing the art which so
few possess the capacity of extracting
the most available ecstasy and I one
day oRered to show a dark-eyed, raven
haired young lady how los Americanos
performed the act. Bhe laughingly
agreed it is unnecessary for me to suy
that the male members and duonna
were out of the way and I advanced
upon her ; my left arm encircled her
waist, extending over the rght shoulder
downward; my right arm, bent at the
elbow, affordod my hand an oppor
tunity of accumulating her dimpled
chin. Oeutly holding hack her head
and throwing a look, or rather a rapid
series of looks of unutterable nothings
into my eyes, 1 gazed clean through
hor s for a moment, and then, with a
long-drawn breath I tapped her lips. It
was a revelation to her; she quivered
visibly, but. instead of returning my
kiss, she broka awav from my embrace
and ran off to lock hersolf up, fright
ened, pleased, but astounded. 1 was
satished that 1 had done myself aud
country proud, although, to be candid,
it was merely a mechanical operation
with me, done for the sake of etlect, as
I did not really care for the girl. I
think she remained in maiden medita
tion for two days, but at last 1 aw her,
and she told me, with a deep blush, that
she w shed she had been born an
American, to be kis ed like that.
Dynamite In Europe.
New York Tribuue.
Dynamite, in fact, has put a tremend
ous power in the bands of individuals,
and has reinforced all revolutionary and
seditious tendencies enormously, mak
ing mere folly and fanaticism seriously
dangerous, aud increasing the natural
bent of all lawless movements to gather
strength as they goon. And while a
philosophy which discerns the fatuity
of international quarrels has become
widely diffused, the international pre
parations for future lighting (at least in
Europe) have never been so extensive;
so that governments engaged largely in
elaborating machinery for wholesale
slaughter tiud it difficult to present the
usual front desirable to the people who
uphold the right of private warfare.
What measures can be adopted to
meet these impoitant changes is as vet
undetermined, (iovernments are be
wildered, and show their perplexity
only too plainly. And though the use
of dynamite for the farthe ance of po
litical or other ends may be shown to
be futile, it is evident that pure reason
will not control those who resort to it,
but that in this as in many other cases,
"the s;ght of means t.) do ill deeds,
makes ill deeds done." Tho ind ca
tions are that tho new problem forced
upon the world by the fertil.ty of
modern invention will give it serious
trouble in the future.
Not Afraid of "Shake."
Chicago Herald "Traiu Talk."
"My husband and I are going straight
through to San Francisco," said a middle-aged
lady to a chance acquaintance
on a 1 oilman car. "We mean to make
our home there in the future." "San
Francisco!" ejuculated the other; "I
wouldn't live in San Francisco for any
thing. I think it is a perfectly awful
place to live. You don't know what
minutj you are going to have a terr.ble
earthquake. My husband wanted me
to go there, but I wouldn t go a step.
Aren't yon afraid ?" "Not in the least."
" hy, it makes me shudder to think of
it, and I don't see how you can be so
calm when you are going where you ar j
likely to have your house shaken down
over your head." "My dear uiud.ime,"
replied the middle-aged lady, with a
smile, "if you had lived twenty years in
the ague swamps of Michigan, as I
have, you wouldn't be afraid of any of
the little one-horse shakes thoy have
out in California."
Learning Wlndom,
Detroit Free Fress.
A Teasant who had Seven Daughters
wearing out sole leather for him went
to the Cave of a Wise Old Duffer, and
besought his Advice as to how to bring
them up.
"Marry them off as soon as Possible,
and yon can then Break np Housekeep
ing and go Boarding among them."
After a few Months the Father Re
turned to the Cave and his phiz had
such a Lonesome Expression that the
Wise Man cried out :
"Ah, yon must follow my Advice to
learn Wisdom I
"The Trouble is that I did follow it,
but instead of having seven places
to board around at I have seven Sons-in-law
to board ou me."
Moral However, the Feasant had
the Wisdom.
Puzzling to Katarallata,
Chicago Times.
Milne-Edwards, the naturalist, is giv
ing in l'aris an interesting exhibition of
submarine plants and animals found
during his exploration of the Mediter
ranean. He took soundings to the
depth of 19,685 feet, and brought np
some of the most remarkable organisms
ever seen. They are said to have
puzzled the most accomplished nata
ralists, some of them being of such a
nature as to make it difficult to classify
them either as belonging to a botanical
or zoological species. The dredging
were on a large scale, samples of rock
weighing over 200 pounds being some
times bronght np.
WORKINQ THE HOSPITALS.
Scheme of a Burial Company Agent
Quick Ssdea and Small Prone.
Cblcaao Herald "Meddler."
A man with s decided stoop in hit
shoulders and a pair of before-the-war
saddle-bags walked into the o tice oi
the warden of the county hospital and
asked to see the captain, "lou mean
the warden V" inquired the young man
at the desk.
"The man that runs the whole blldin'
is what I mean," answered the visitor.
"I don't know what new-fangled name,
you may have for him."
"You wont to see Mr. McGariglo,
then."
"If that's his name, that's the man."
In response to a shrill whistle up a
tin tube, which caused the visitor to
make a tighter grip on his baggage.
Warden MoUarigle came in. "is this
him V" asked the visitor. "I want to ae
you privately." The warden led tin
way into his private ollice and the
visitor began to open the luggage.
"Cost much to run a hospital?" in
quired the curiositv, who began to fish
in the bottom of the saddle-bags. Th
warden grunted. "Sick folks lot's
trouble, ain't they ever a'ck so b yoi
couldn't hold up your head? Ever
hang out of the bed and feol as ef yon
wanted to tare np the lioor and throw
it out of the window?"
" You are very impudent. Now, what
are you driving at -what have yon got
in them saddle-bags?''
"Clampers; dead sure shot,"
"Crampcrs? What is a cramper?"
"Tell you, now that we are ac
quainted; I'm an agent for a new burial
company that's just been organized.
Y ou know that competition is the life
of trade quick sales and small profits
a nimble shilling is botter'n a slow
sixpence three aces beats two pair.
See?. 2.ow, what we want is dead men.
Want 'em bad, too. Got to have him
in the business w're in. Mighty poor
show bo lur. Hut here here's a
cramper. We raise 'in ; they are oui
own, aud aro the a Ivauce agents. Yoa
take one of these crampers, size of this,
and cut it into slices the sicker Um
man the smaller the slice. Man eats it,
thinks it's a wafer dies; therea
lemme see three times four are twelve,
un 1 three times three are nine, and one
you had leit over makes ten,, and fonr
that 1 forgot to count, that makes 10b'
don't it. Well, one of these cramp
ers that we give way in Feory harvested
us .0 h think of that! Of course, you
unders and we gi.e yon these era up
eis on condition that the company gets
to lurnish t ie burial case. We thought
we'd work tho hospitals first give you
fellows first show. This is the first
hospital I've been to in the city."
"Ihat 8 a new name for it," laughed the
warden, "that's a cucumber." " We caa
'em crampers; they Co the business,
don t they ? Hut I soe it's no use oi
wastin' time with you. Y ou look to me
like a man who didn't believe in dyin'
whi.h way do I get out?"
Devotee Buried Allvo In India.
At. D. Conway's Letter.
At last I approached a village, whoso
name was given to me as Daharwunga.
It must be four or five miles from Alla
habad, having passed through it I
came to a sort of a common, w here I
got out of my can iage and walked. I
uud not mo ed far before I came upon
human hood lying iu my path on
tho ground. Starting back I perceived
t.iat this painted and ashen head,
t..ouli its eyes were closed, belonged
to a living man, the rest of his body
being buried in the earth. A small
tent Lad been raii-ed over another head
farther oa to keep the sun from beating
upon him. t-'ceuos like those began to
inultip.y. I came upon several naked
bod es, apparently decapitated, their
heads being buried and the gravel
smoothed nat over t-iem. There were a
numbe.' of children in this situation,
stretching out their han 1m. and evi
dently expecting gifts. So li tie re
tpeit, however, did their young com
panions leel for those infant devotees
that they soiuet mcs put bits of tin or
flint .tones in the hands, which were
promptly thrown away.
I came to a point where a young
woman wai just burying a child ap
parently her own up to the nock.
She n "icated to me hor expictation of
pice for that performance, which, how
ever, sho u.d not get. 1 perceived that
1 was iu some comparatively uuil
lumincd spot ninth supplied a habitat
lor the fata' seh-bur.als once so fre
..n.ntiu India. The feeling stole over
me gradually that iu this uncanny
i ahuruanga these half-bur. ed ih.ldren
might, not s i long ago, have been
really deeap.tute.l, even if asevere vig
ilante might not discover some horror
of the same kin 1 now.
Lant Stage of Iloyuood.
The Fro idonce Journal says of tha
high op.niou held cf himself by tne
boy who has reached U, the lo-t stage of
boyhooa : "Tl.ere is no question of which
he has not a confident and all-disposing
judgment. V hy, if we were all lt
there woulu be no need of congress nor
of the supreme bench. We should each
know it all. in religion hie- opinions
are equally deci ive. Hut do not under
tand me, my friends, that in milking
fun of the boy, at this or any other
perio I of hii Lie, I mean to deprecate
or discourage his aspirutions. ,. ,1 ar
from it. 1 would not give a $ enny for
the boy of 16 who did not try"to be a
man." -
Cored Ills Throat.
Si iitttrmn.
A gentleman was sulTeiing from an
ulceration of the throat, which at length
became so swo.lod that h:s life was de
spaired Oi. II s ho Behold came to hut
bedside to bid him farewell: i-ach in
dividual shook hands with the dying
man and then went away weeping
Last of all sme a pet ape, and shaking
t..e man'a hand went away also with ita
hands over i s eyes t was so ludicrous
a Big..t that the patient was forced to
laugh, and laughed so heartily that the
nicer broke and his Lfe was saved.
A Had State or Afl'alm.
: - )
Thousands of yonng men really have
no home, except the parlor of a board
ing honso, and no domestic proierty,
except a tiuuk np in a thirJ sto.y bed-rt-oai.
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