EUGENE CITY GUARD.
t, U CAMPHELI . . rroprletrt
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
PITH AND POINT.
A ra nv d iy pictiiu and a broken
marrhifro cnii-nn'iit are in one re
aped alike postpone I on account of
the wmldcr. Jliirdi lk.
Can anybody tell why everybody
at a 1u.;tiiM inaniijrm to coii'li just a
the lecturer is pioiioiiiiein tlio one
word which or all others yon want to
Lear?
The Journal "f Chemitrii Rives
this piece of consolation: "If von jive
in a town don't cry over npilt milk.
Kxatnino it cloudy, and yon may iind
it U not m lk after all."
"Aunty," nuid a thoughtful boy to
his njjod nurse, "what coiihm of all the
old moon?" "'Deed, I'm not very
wire, child," shn answered. Maybe
they he chipped up t maki) stars out
of the bits. (iiM n Day.
The wife of Dr. Tanner med to
earn:i.n'j a year as a physician be
fore her marriage. Now she has lost
all that income. It Is never advisable
for a wlf-siipporlinj; woman to marry
a "fast"' ma 1. ... Citiseii.
The iiieessant talker in iy be of me
in the world, but there is a M on .sus
picion abroad that his principal service
to mankind is to illustrate the fact that
it doesn't require much brains to make
a noise in the world. oil. 1,'it; Ikrrii k.
A proof-reader, out for a walk,
was met by a Typographical Error;
but tlio proof-reader did not spi ak,
liordidhce.cn liu'.v in recognition,
"lla, ha." chuckled l!ie Tyiior.iphieal
Error, "I knew he wouldn t see me!"
Louisville dourur-Juurnal.
A family in Lowlston, Maine, re
cently received nvisit from a prominent
clergyman. In the family is a r'irl of
three" years the pet and privilege!
character of the household. At the
table she listened attentively while
grate was being said, and when the
clergyman had reached his "Amen,"
alio exolnit I: " "1'aiu't pretty to talk
ko at the table; my papa don't." Trou
Time.
A London chemist, in an analysisof
the tea we drink, found that it con
tained "nut-galls, iron lilings, filbert
husks, sulphate of cop)er, hornets'
ne-ts, acetii! acid, green paint, tar
rope, desiccated iloor-mats, ammonia,
aliibln hweeping, etc." Tliis would
seem to disprove the general belief that
t!ii is adulterated, unless something of
the kind may lurk in that suspicious,
"etc." Sorristuwn Herald.
A New York dude went to a cele
brated doctor to bo examined, ns Ins
health wan on the wane. The physician
examined the young man carefully ami
said: "1 Iind your heart is nlVected."
"Anything else, doctor?" "Yes, your
lungs are slightly a fleeted." "Any
thing else about mo that is affected?''
Yes, your manners are also alluded."
-tf. 1. Sun.
SNAKE AND BIRD.
A Koiiiilkwlilo I'nnli'it llttwiil a PurlrlilKP
unit it lllark Mini Up.
Whether or not it Is selciililieally true
that snakes ever charm bird 4, it is true
that birds somctimt'4 attiick and kill
(makes. An account, is given in the In
dianapolis I'enple of an exciting contest
of t!iis kind, in whVh a partridge .was
the victor. It happeuel in Preston,
Wayne County, Ui- A traveling sales
man, whihi trnut-lijliiii;; in a creek
near that place, heard a commotion in
the bushes near the creek, and cries
such as are made by young chicken
when they arc list, lie pirn d through
the hipdn'N and saw alien partridge
and a large black snako engaged in a
combat.,
Huddled together a short distance
nwav was the partridge's broud, peep
lug In teiro". The partridge attacked
thesnake w.tii her beak and feet, and
truck iiImi below with her wyigs. She
moved with such rapidity about the
make, tint, in spite of the quickness
with which the reptile is enabled to
throw its fold 4 about anything it at
tacks, the siiak'i w is foiled in all its at
tempts to encircle the bird, which
Keemed to be sccKing t blind the ser
pent by (.ti'iking at its eyes.
In its eU'orts to get th bird within its
coil the snake scenic .1 to glide over and
miller lier liken tlasli, Inil, 110 matter
what course it took, the partr'dge
never fade. I to slip away from it ami
deliver a telling Idow upon it.
Once the stuik'i retreated several feet
as if lly.ng from the bird, and this latter
followed it closely. Suddenly tilt
miake turned and rushed back lit the
art rid go with its head raised more
than a loot in the air. The b I'd dashed
forward to meet the serpent, and deliv
ered a blow with its beak which struck
the snake siiua'o in one of its eyes,
fflils was a;pa out to the witness, who
n iml wuhm ten te t of t lit contestants
by the Miak i's instantly dropping Its
lieait 10 tne trromin unit rolling It Irom
aale to side as if in threat pain.
The b,n ilnl not lo e a nviuid ill fol
lowing up her advantage, but pounced
mi thesnake close to iMii'tid, and, Willi
strokes delivered Willi Mirprisin; rapid
it v. indicted wounds with her beak
which seemed to dine the snake and it
plNUil liist in one direction and then in
another, making 110 further effort to
defend itself, mid yet apparently unable
to tied a wav to c-capc.
The partridge k pi no ita effective
Mrik'.ng on the nock ,.f the snake until
the head w almnsi separate I from the
bolv and the reptile cmm" I lo mow.
.The man advanced at this point in
the battle, but the bird continued to
tear at the tlesh of the snake until he
was near euoegli to touch her, when
iho lcc:ime aware of his presence for
the tir.t lime. Mie retreated hurried!,
to the spot where her terror-stricken
brood were huddled, and calling Iheiu
after her with a few ellleks, led llieni
away into the linderliribli.
On c. lining the mi. ike, it was found
that besides the fatal wounds it had ii
ccived in its in ck. both of its eves had
been put out by the partridge.' The
anake was nearly tivo feet in length,
ami had in its Momach the partially
digested remain of a large rattle-auuke.
MINING SHARPS.
W,tTn Npiry Ti llr Tlmt Ayir If1
lo Ural wlth-Twu Wit l.lrnn.
"Some big liars come to an ussnyer'
ofl'ice once in n while," a down-town
assayer said Incidentally in a talk about
nilnlii'r nropcrtv. "but I think the two
biggest liars I have ever seen came into
my oiiiei! last summer, not together,
thank goodness, for if they had I would
have kicked them out for supposing
that I might be an eternal fool. In
stead, I l'stene I to each, and then gave
him a piece of my mind. Tlio first wa
about forty-live years of age, sharp
featured, long-baire I, and with the ap
pearance of a Western miner. He care
lessly unwrapped a newspaper from a
lump of silver ore, and asked in a biisi-ness-liko
way to have it as-aved. I
picked up the lump and sr.id oil-hand:
Thero'a no need of having that as
saved. It's seventy-live per cent, silver
at' IiM glance.' And it was. It. was
nbout as rich a specimen ns I had seen
in some time. It was wortli at least
18,0ii) a ton.
" -Hut 1 want it ussayed,' he said.
I've got a drift of ore like that six feet
wide, and 1 want to sell it. I don't
want to lie about it, and I want to
know just what it is worth.'
"That's my business, and, of course,
I knocked oil' a piece of the lump. I
charged him more than I would any
body else, bccaii-o 1 knew bo Intended
to swiinllo somebody. I ground the
piece of ore into dust, mid put in a bot
tle. Then 1 took a little and assayed
it. It turned out just wh:it I thought
it would. As usual I made record of
the assay, and wailed for the man to
return.
"About four days after the. assay four
or live respectable old gentlemen came
into the ollico together, and one of them
unwrapped a piece of ore and 4 ii'b
'Will you please assay this for us?. We
are thinking of buying a silver mine,
iiml this is some of the ore. What do
you think it is worth?'
"I looked at It closely and discovered
that it was from the lump my Western
man had brought in.
" 'Kxciiso me, but I have assayed this
ore within live days,' I said.
"'Y-c-e-s,' the spokesman of the
party said, hesitatingly. 'Wo under
stand that It has been assayed, but wo
thought it would be safer to havo it
assayed for us particularly. How much
did you make it out to be worth?'
"'Twelve or fifteen thousand dollars
a ton.' 1 said, not wishing to be too
part'cular at first. 'I'll see.'
"While I was looking over my record
book I noticed the gentlemen looking
knowingly at one another.
" 'It was lH.iHK),' 1 remarked, turn
ing toward them. It didn't startle them
a bit.
" 'That's pretty rich. Isn't It?'
'Pecidedly so. . Where' a the mine?'
I asked.
"In Colorado. We have a drift
there s'x feet wide.'
" 'Colorado!' 1 exclaimed. 'That ore
never has seen Colorado. That's from
Home Mexican mine.'
"I knew what I was talking about
when 1 said that, because 1 can pick out
Colorado ore from two thousand speci
mens. 1 can pick out ore from the
Coinstock lode anywhere you put it.
After getting a few more particulars
about the man who wanted to sell the
mine, I said : '(icntleineii, 1 don't
want to lime you taken in by any body,
and especially by one of those West
ern mining sharps. Instead of taking
mv word for (his assay, goto somebody
else, and I ve no doubt you'll Iind many
who will be as honest with you as I in
tend to be, ami have your ore assayed.
Take some of this dust wiih you ami see
if it lie like your ore.'
" ' Hut we can buy this mine for only
$,'iO,im:i,' the first speaker said.
' ' If you can Iiml a mine where the
ore is nil like that,' 1 said, ' I'll Iind
men who will give you fc.'iO.OOO.IM) for
it. That isn't a true specimen, ami,
besides, it isn't from Colorado. It's a
rich ti nd from some old mine in Mex
ico.' "They looked rather glum and went
out. I really pitied'tlicni. The next
dav the Western man came in to see
me. 1 gave it to him hot. Look here,'
I said, 'we have just nbout enough of
such fellows as you around here. When
you come on hero to sell a mine, don't
try to palm off Mexican ore for Colo
rado ore. lake mv advice, and don t
show that lump to any miner, because
he II know It 111 a minute. Now sk p.
" 1 linve never seen the old gen
tlemeii since. I guess they found
touiib.idy who told them tluvtrutli as 1
diii.
"The other chap was a short, dumpy
fellow. He wauled to have eventhing
very secret. He had a piece of ore that
1 knew was Mexican, and it was a I nig
time before 1 could get nn thing out of
h:in. At lengtli lie said: vm a coin
niereiat traveler, una while 1 was in
Mexico this summer I struck an oil
trail over the mountains that, 1 thought,
would take me bv a short cut to w here
1 wanted to go. I took it, but it was
the roui'licst ground 1 ever struck
About noon I was almost overcome, and
1 dropped off mv mule near a shady
place to catch a imp and rest. My lnu'e.
Unit was wandering about, awoke me
after awhile by nearly stepping on nn
In pulling my blanket oil that served
as a pillow, 1 not'eed that the rock
sparkled. It struck me nil at once lhat
it was silver, and 1 looked around to
see if there were any other rocks like
that. I don't know w hether you'll be
lieve It, but a short distanceoll' the trail
the round was covered with them. 1
picked up about twenty pounds and
packed them on my mule and stinted
tor the ueare-t settlement. I didn t sav
anything to anybody in that neighbor
hood, ami 1 iliilut d ire to have the ore
assayed until I got to Kl l'aso. lint 1
in. mired about the price of land, and
found I could buy that piece of ground
for about .t.',iHKi. l'o come on here
to raise that and then start a mine.
What do You think the ore is wortli?
" I took the fellow all in and said:
'Hid ou pick this off the ground?'
" Certainly,' lie replied.
"Was it in this condition?'
" Hlf course.' he answered, although
he w us lieenininir to lie frightened.
" ' Then ou are the b&est liar 1
have eT ceen,' 1 said, verv decidedly.
" The fellow winced, and I con
tinned: 'You don't know anything
about ore, and you don t know any
thing about Mexican land. This ore
came from souio mine more than
twenty feet umb r ground, and it isn t
necessary to buy Mexican land before
Marling a mine'. You tell your story
well, but you'll have hard work to Iind
anybody who will give you l..0A) to
i.m- for'Mexican la id. lel out.'
i v - . .... ,,
" There s a grcni niner. nce, .
1 ,.,.. I,, tin, iiiiTi.virnneii of ore that
has lain on the stiri'ace any length of
time and that of oro just dug from un
der ground. The latter is more erys
tali.ed, for one particular. The si r
face pickings are what we call the re
sults of a blow-out. Two drifts, coin
in" together peak-shaped, are gradu
ally projected out by the washing away
of tins earth. Water gets in the crev
ices, and, alter awhile, the peak breaks
into jvecos, which ium scanereu o' i
the mirfucfl. If tiiat chap had had sur
face ore he might have been believed.
except that part no mt tin) land, wnxii
was way o.l. -V I.
TWO BRAVE WOMEN.
Tiirllllliff i:iNinlu of Mfo lu t!i tlrr'l
Mount iliii.
Tho heroines of history are usually
charact rs lil.nl.! conspicuous by the
emcr-viicies of war, or revolution, or
an uiiselt!'!.! state of society. The
same hcro'.e iiual t'es exist in woman's
nature at all times, only In a peaceful
age, and a peaceful land, the situations
that call them out otvur less frequently
and are less likely to go upon record.
The llwl'j Mountain Sews tills in the
following story what a girl can do bred
up in frontier life, and probably, for
that reason, better litted to cope w'tli
U dangers; out ca-cs of female bravery
are by no means uncommon in our
towns and cites. Tho.se wi.o complain
li"t, h",,"mfin dei'i'tp rO'n"
will do well to notice that in this in
btanco it was the J.rl who proved e.,u.ii
to tins occasion, w bile tlio woman was
utterly hclplors.
Heed's ranch did not differ mat orally
from hundreds of others in Colorado.
The saino straggling, one-story struct
ure, perfectly innocent of paint, with
outbuildings looking as if they were
ready to tumble down. The family
rons'!sted, at the time of this story, of
Joe Itced, the proprietor, his wife and
two ch hlron. KHa. the eldist. was a
rather pretty girl of c'ghtecn, who for
several years had relieved t lie tired 11101 ti
er of much of the burden of the house
work, attended, to the duties of tho
dairy, and was a good horsewoman
withal, often accompanying her fattier
111 rough rides of miles" when looking
for stray cattle.
Once n week Mr. K 'cd w ent to Den
ver to sell the dairy products, and pur
chase such articles of food as could not
be raised on tho ranch. Willie frc
(piently accompanied him, and the two
women, thought nothing of being left
alone in the house until long into the
night, as the d'stanco to the city made
the drive a long 0110.
It was on one of theso evenings in the
early fall, just as they had completed
their supper and the mother wa ar
ranging the table for tiie hungry father
and son, that the younger wimian went
to the b :irn, the back of which was im
nicdia'ely 011 tho road, toseo a calf that
was sick.
Suddenly she heard the voices of men
In the ro.ul near the barn. Lis.eninr
and scarcely daring to breath, she heard
words lhat almost froze her with terr.ir.
"The old 111:111 keeps his money-box
in the drawer of the. old bureau, I tK t e
old woman carries the key."
"How can wo get at it?" iu;kod an
other voii e.
"We can bind ho'h women, an 1 if
they make any noise, we cm stoo
tint."
For a mo-iic'it tho territ'ed l'.ste ier
was fairly paraScd with f ar: th.-n,
she stnrte. I uo.'ind running oulek'y
around to the back of the house aid
crawl'ii' lhiM',1 ill 1111 oven w.ndow
wen' to a closei :md took from it two
icvolvcrs whicn were always kep; load
ed for emergencies, concealing tl.em in
Ih 1 folds of her dress.
Hastily rejoining her mother in the
larger room, she was just in time to see
Iwo burly-looking; rulaans enter hy tne
doer.
Too taller of tlio two men demand d
supper, "mullet it eomoipiick, too," he
sa:d, in a menaeiii'r tone. The brave
girl placed the food on the table, know
ing tnnt the seouiulrels would satisfy
their Linger before putting their pur-
I, 1 1 . 1 1
pose 01 lo.utery, niiii p issioiv muioir,
into exeeu'ion. She then sat d.'iUi in
front of tliein, and wate cd t..cia. The
moment their meal was completed. sl(t
suddenly thrust tiie uui'.les of the
pistols in their faces, threatening to
shoot If lliey moved.
Kx'postnlations and pndestat'ons were
in vani; the heroic girl stand there with
eyes Hashing ami determined, for w hat
to tier scenic I ages. Hie poor mother,
ns soon as stie comprehended the siiua.
t'on. overcome by her great terror, had
fainted and was lying on the iloor,
At hist the sound of wagon wheels
was heard coming toward the house,
and in a moment the father 11ml brother
entered the lums ! in company with an
uncle w ho had arrived In I louver that
day from their old Kastern home in
rcn::s Lr.nia. and by the merest acei
ileiit nict Mr. Keed on Slxtoeuih Street,
in Denver.
As soon as they comprehended the
situaUon they compelled the ruffians
with revoliors at their heads to submit
to being hound with ropes, and when
day-light cam they were taken to the
county seat and pi. iced in jail.
The brao g rl as soon as relieved
from her terrible guard duly, and the
horrible strain on In r nerves w as taken
off, went into a succession of hysterical
spasms, and it w as tor weeks that her
rea-oii, if not her life, w as despaired of.
She eventually recovered, however,
and afterward married a wealthy I'en
r r gentleman, and is now living in tlio
Queen Citv. The two men were recog
nized lis old offenders, in fact they were
fugitives from justice from a distant
county, and afterward solved a long
time in the penitentiary in Canon City.
F.lnura, X. Y., lm lined a milk
man -'.') for putting one quart of water
and three of milk together and shaking
them up as a gallon of the creamy
uuill. A milkman can go too far.
htrntf t'nt iVv.'st.
A DRY TIME.
iha I)r Coming Wlirn the Earth Will
Drink I p All tli Sea.
Most of the planets have probably
rooted down by radiation to a solid un
der crust like the earth. The mm, owing
to his greater mass, Is still a fiery globe
not yet cooled down so as to have a
sol d crust. But "ur moon being a
body of hinall mass, only about one
cignticth of the earth's mass, is sup-
po-ed to nave nail lime 10 cooi oowu uj
a solid globe all the way from its sur
face to its center. Its internal heat is
supposed to have been nil radiated
a wav into the surrounding cold space.
Xuw the hot interior mass of the earth
can. of course, contain no water, and
little or none of the free gasei that con
st file an atmosphere. They would be
l o led oil", expanded and dr.ven to the
surtac ' where ar-J iounu now me greai
bulk of our ocean s and our atmosphere.
P..11 u-Iien llie eni-fli shall have pitrtcd
with nil t.siut M-iinl heat, having thrown
it into tlin surround, rig cold space as
Ion ilooe. then the cold.
solid but porous mass within its present
crust, winch is now incapable of ab-
orbiir' water or air, on account or the
. . . 01 1 ...
prc-cn! high temperauiro, win u-.-gui u
drink up the water and air just as tl-
parched soil after a summer's drough:
drinks up the rain, and the ground is
dry in a lew minutes after tiie shower.
li.it you may well n-k. could tho solid
porous mass w. thin, the pro-enl crust ot
itie .eii-iii tints drink 111) the whole of
ih.. uMtei-s of fie Ailautie and I'aci.'ic
Oceans and cause all the waters of our
done to disappear? Let us examine
tilt more closely.
While the interior ol the earth re
j iw lint .'is it is at present it is no
more possible for tho water and air of
our globe to penetrate to these liery
regions than it is for a drop of water to
remain on 11 hot stone. lint the earth
is losing its heat day by day and year
bv year? radiating it" out into the sur
rounding cold space. I know it has
1,,.,. n eoiniintcd that tin! earth receives
from the sun annually just as much
heat ns it loses 111 a year nv rauuiuou
;.,!.. tin, loo'i-oiinilimr Mince. (irant
that it be so for the present and for
many thousands ot years 10 come, out
in.. iVoiilile is lhat the sun himself is
cooling off, and. therefore, will not be
always ahle to send us as niuen neat as
ho .foes at nresent. The time, will,
therefore, surely come when we shall
lose more heat by radiation into space
than the sun will bo able to return to
us. Then it will be only a question of
time for the earth gradually to cool
iloivn. ns the moon has already done.
from surface to the center. When that
time comes will not the dry but solid
and porous core of our globe drink up
the oceans and atmosphere,-causing
them to disappear, not into la rare cav
ernous pockets, but into the minute
pores of its suDstancc!"
Tim nrooosition jinnenrs to be estab
lished bv strict calculation that the in
terior of the earth when cold will be
nl.l,. in ,iliorh more than four times.
possibly more than thirty times, the
amount 01 w aier now on us sin me.-.
Now, it seems certain that in the man
ner first explained the earth will con
tinue to lose both its superlicial water
timl iu atmosphere. Tim earth, the
other planets, nnd even the sun him
self, are regarded as doomed ft some
future day to the same fate. Mclau-
holv late! some Will say. Hut way
omplain of the general law of nature?
Y..i'vthi!iir ill nailire has its moi'llil!!?
of life, its high meridian of glory and
strength, its evening decline and its
midnight of blackness and death. Is
the case of a world is teat the last
term of a ser es? ''). OieWcy.
Ui
MIGRATION OF BIRDS.
A MyiterlniM nml IntiTostl i? Questliiii In
Zui.liiKV Wiilch I'lltll'S t:n Scl.Mi'.l.tl.
Familiar as llrs m grat'on of birds is
to us, there is, perhaps, no quest on in
.'.oology more o'iseure. The long llighli
they Like, and the unerring certainty
with winch they w.ng the r way be
tween the most d stau'. pl.ic's, arriving
and depart ng at th s i:ne period year
after yea1', are p i nts in the history of
Irrd.s of passage as mysterious ns they
are interesting. We know the 1110. t
migrants ily after sundown, tiioii'jh
many of thetn selcc a moo.d glit night
to cross the Med t Tranean. Hut that
their meteorological instinct is no! un
erring i proved hy tie1 fact that thou
s mils are every year d owned in (heir
llights over the Atlantic and other
oceans. Northern Africa and Western
As'a are selected as winter qil irlers by
in I-1 of tiieiit, a id they may often be
noticed on their way thither, to hang
over towns at ii'gh', pu.'ed. in spite
of their cxpercnoe, hy the shifting
I gllt ; of the ,! reels and houses.
The swallow or the nightingale may
somelinie.s lie detavnl by unexpected
circumstances;. Yet it is rarely that
they arrive or depart many days sooti
er or later, one year from another.
Font wen'hero' lair, heat or cold, the
putlins rena r lo ouie of their stations
punctually on a given day. as if their
liloveini n's wcie regulated by clock
work. Th swiftness of (light which
characterizes most birds enables them
to cover a vast space in a brief time.
The common black swift can Ily .'7ti
111 les an hour, a speed w hich, if it
could be maintained tor less than half a
day. would carry the bird from its win
ter to its summer quarters. The large
purple ivitt of America is capable of
even greater feats on the wing. The
chimney swallow is slower ninety
miles per hour being the limit of its
I .ower: but the passenger pigeon of the
'nite.i States can accomplish n journey
of 1,'V'1 miles between sunrise and siin
s.L The distance traveled seems, more
over, to have no relation to the size of
the traveler. The Swedish blue-throat
raises Its young among the Laps, and
enjoys its winter holidays among the
iieirroes of the Soudan, w hile the tiny
ruby -throat -d humming bird proceed
annually from Mexico to Newfound
land and back again, though one would
imagine that so delicate a little fairy
would be more- at home among th'
cacti and agaves of the Ticnv Caliente
than among the tirs and fog of the
North. hmihn S.'iin fiin.
A man who brings suit again-t a
young 'woman and wins her for his
wife soun-f tip's r .ts heavy damages.
THE " HOODOOED " CLAIM.
A flee, of MInlna I'roprty that llrlng
Hud Lurk ror Tho " no w or .
There is a superstition prevailing
among a number of the miners in that
locality that a certain claim in Iowa
milch Is wi unlucky one. It got
started In some way that a man
who worked in that claim was
sure to meet with bad luck of sonic
i-:...l 1I u-oolil either L'ct blown Up
IVIUI1. w .,-.... - 1,1
by giant powder, or fall down 11 ladder,
or tho mine would cavo in on him, or
some other dpiallv undesirable occur
rence would ti;ke' place. Hy degrees
tho whet Uecnnie so pioaie.n ui.u
...,.,.tv 11-111 I'lmsiilered "hoodooed.
to u-e a slang expression. The result s
that nolody win worn u in
owners are 'at a loss to "know what to do
for men. .
a . mlil renorler havinr heard of
the superstition, for, of coune, it is
nothing more or ie-s man a iMir i - .
tion, accosted nn old miner last neght
and asked him whether lie was one of
those who believed the stories that were
bein1.' circulated.
"Well, to tell the truth, I must con
fess I do believe some of them, strange
as it may seem to you."
"What foundation havo you for your
belief?" asked the reporter.
The old miner took a fresh chew of
tobacco and said: "The fact that so
many who have worked it have had bad
luck of s mie kind or oilier makes 1110
think there is something in it. I .know
one man who had not been at work in
1 1. at. infernal hole more than two .days
I-,,-,..... I,,, iv,u hil,in down with Din U-
.iv ..... - - 1 t
nvnia, and lie came very near dvinz-
Another went to v.oik i.vro aim ins
cabin was robbed before a week. A
third one tried it. and he fell from a lad
d r and came ne. r being killed; that
satisticd him and be quit. Besides these
there havo been several other mishaps
to men working the claim, and tliey fol
lowed each o:1i t in such close suc
cession and with such unvarying cer
tainty thai the men at last came to the
conclusion that tliero was bad luck in
some way connected with the properly."
"Is the claim wortli anything?" asked
the reporter.
"Yes, if it was developed I think it
would turn out to be flood properly;
but I, for one, would not work in it if it
was given to me."
"Might it not bj a job put up by some
one who wants to buy it?" asked tlio
news hunter.
"I don't know nbout that," replied
the miiicr, "but 1 do l't see how so
many of the men could get to believe it
if there wasn't something in it. No,
sir, it's 110 job, that claim lias bad luck
for any man lhat works it: You may
call it 'superstition or iinytliingyou like,
hut 1 don't go to work in it."
Seeing there was no chance toshnke
the old miner's belief that there was
some supernatural agency that had cast
a spell of bad luck over the ill-fated
prope.ly, the reporter left him linn lu
his Uhh.Leatlcillc lkrahl.
NOT WHAT SHE SEEMED.
The Otlier Slilo of the Young I.iicly ttie
Mea Stiire.l t Thrnuuh the Winilow.
Sim sat at a window on a public
street, and day after day the crowd
w ho'passcd 1 aw her at the sewing-machine.
The old men mentally re
marked that she was a perfect lady,
and the young men voted tier the rival
of a June rose. If she had raised her
eyes to the window she might have met
the pitying gaze ot various bald-her.ds,
and the in. miring glances of legions ot
mashers, but she never did so. Noses
wi re wired and Iniinlkeichicfs wawd
' with 11 a foi.t oi the glass, bill she
hemmed end ti:c;od and gatlr red nnd
pi. tiled as if utterly unconscious of the
existence of tip outside world.
It is probable na" live hundred ineu
g'aneed into th i'. v. i.ulow in the. course
of tiie day, bu tne sew 11 ;-m:!c!iiiie
never .-t ipped hiiiiini'ng on the r ac
count. Tilings had b e 1 going on Ih's wav
formout is when, only the other day.
a widower wiih a heart full of pity for
the uiii'oruinate got hiin-cif up regard
less of expense and boldly enter 'd the
place. Tiie charmer was there alone.
With a niching soul he approached the
sewing-machine and laid J:is heart up
on it. That is, he coughed, gurgled,
suuiiniercd and inquired if she
wouldn't prefer to boss a tifiecn-thoii-sand-dolhtr
brick house rather than
make shirts for se vent; -live cents, per
day.
The charmer io-c up. She had a
slior. leg. That .-id 1 of her face which
tiie public had never c:i displayed
three moles nnd a bad n'.nr. That eye
which the puMie hail never gazed into
contained a. squint, and he had bad
front teeth. She made a grab at a
yard-stick and said something about
'settling an old duffer's liasn pretty
infernally quick," and the wido.vcr
broke lor out doors. His sympathizing
and palpitating heart was lett behind
him as lie went, but the charmer picked
it up' nnd followed after him and
heaved it into tiie gutter with the re
mark: "I've just been waiting for a chance
to break some of your necks, and
don't you put your hoofs in hero again
if you want to see next spring's daudo
lious." lKlroit Free iViva.
Served Her Right.
A letter from London speaks in harh
terms of the Prince of Wales' .treat
ment of women, and asserts that he is,
in tliis regard. " simply a brute."
Among the proofs of tliis is mentioned
the fact that tiie celebrated, American
lieauty, Miss Cliainl-erlaine, win had
become notorious for moving about af
ter the 1'rinee. w:ws seated in xt to him
at a supper at a ball and said, "in the
merest fun: 'Jumbo, ymi eat too
much." That was enough. Only the
moment before, on terms ot that t'anVbar
intimacy w hich any man might be glad
10 be with a young and pretty g'r he
turned his shoulder to her without re
ply, and from that 011, as far as he w as
concerned, the famous Miss Chaniber
laine was incvntinenily dropped. Af.er
that there wasn't anything left but for
her father and mother to take her
home." We should think so! nnd she
had better he kept there t If .-he leania
how to behave. Eixru ithtr Salur-.iy.
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If you are a atilTVrer from Sleeph-Kiuicsti,
that warnlnn indication of ut-riim nervoim
rierBnueiiienlH, which, if not arrested, may
lead to moKt disastrouscoiiseipii'iices.tieBd
a statement of ymir case to Or. Btarkey
& I'alen, llllUGhard street, riillartolphla.
Thev have successfully treaied many such
cases wiih their new Vilali.lnu remedy,
which acts directly on the nervous centers.
An opinion will be promptly Riven, ainj
they will at the name time furnish you
with reports of cases from which you will
lie able to juilo for yourself as to the
value of their special Treatment in your
PaAll o'"er,etor the Compound Oxyjjre'u
Home Treatment directed to II. K. Math-.
ewa, Kn Montgomery Street, Sanhraii
tlsco, will be tilled on tiie same tennMaKif
Kent directly to ns in Philadelphia.
The First English Menagerie.
The lirst Knglish menagerie 1s a
pretty old affair, dating from the days
of that furious hunter, who thought
more of a doer than a man.King Henry
I. With a pa-s'onate fondness for tho
marvels of distant countries, he used to
beg fervently from fonign sovereigns
for'lions, leopards, lynxes, camels and
other iiniuials tnat were not piouuceu
in England, and he kept his favi.rlto
wonders in the park of Woodstock.
. . . . ..1,1 1.
Paul, I'.art 01 ur:nev, aunou-n nu-
jeetto the l. tig of .Norway, was con
stantly sending pro en's of that kind to
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gra'ily tne wn in 01 u uiy, i .""
he W.I.S, desir ui 01 oemg oineims 01
friend hip.
(ne especial pet was -a creature
called a po.cupine, which animal is
fuuul in -Africa, says a chrniider of
the time i,nd "which the in abitauts
call of th" urchin kind, covered with
bristly hairs, which it l aturally darts
agaiu'.st the dogs when pursuing it;
moreover, these' are, as 1 have seen,
more than a span long, sharp nt each
cxt:cin:tv, like the quills of a goose
where the feather ceases, but rather
thicker, and speck'ed, as it were, with
black and white."
The liivt elephant arrived in En
gland at a much'iater pericd, being sent
n. jj i-i Channel ill 1 i'-j,"'. lis II present
from the King of Franco to Henry 111.
Crowds of people, as may be imagined.
Hocked to seo tne no.oi monsiei.
O'uhLn Hays.
The Milwaukee Sentinm aay m
St. Paul's Episcopal Church in that
city "contains tlio linost window in the
world a triumph of art in stained
"lass, such as can be found nowhere
else." The central panel of the window
is a reproduction of Doro's great paint
ing, Christ Leaving tho Pretoriuni. The
entire window will cost about four
thousand dollars.
' The past season on the Erie Canal
has been tho dullest for twenty years.
Haifa':) Fxnress.
The school census of Iowa shows an in
crease of 2t,00U over last year.
TALL OAKS FEOM LITTLE ACOENS GKOW.
Great and good resultsoftenspriiiRfrom
small deeds and ho fatul diseases come of
aseeminKly tritllnR neglect. Colds neg
lected often lend lo serious catarrhal trou
bles. If this Is your case, lose no time in
becoming acquainted wiih Dr. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy. Its henling virtues will
surprise you. It Is simple, edlcacious,
speedy, sure. Dull, heavy headache, ob
struction ot the nasal passages, discharges
from the nose into tho throat are symp
toms ot this horrible complaint.
G nana inato. Mexico, has 4K) free schools,
with 17,71)1 scholars.
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Dealers, male special nuutuliov on Type
and Printing Material lo Purchasers in
the Northwest. Nos. 112 and 111 Front
street, Portland. Oiveton.
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TORPID L5VER.
Lossof appef ite, Nansea. bowels cos;
tire. Pain in the Iload.with a dull senr
satipajn thajDajjpartainjinder
th8shoulderblade, fullness'aiter eat
tagtrtUiadisinollnation toexertion
ofjodyormintl, Irritability of temp-er,-
Low spirits,Los6ot memory ,witi:
a feeling of having jieglected Bomo
duty, woariney. TJusinessjJluUerr
JKOeL'he Hearf,Tf5qts before theeye
MiowgkinHe-idac!y,Restlessiie.s3
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