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EUGENE CITY GUARD. i. J t'AJlrliKLL, . . rroprletor, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. It is baio that coffee has been suc cessfully grafted on the mesquite tree in Arizona. C. W.Mack lias brought suit against the San Francisco Chroniclt for f 100, 000, for alleged slander. To lay off an acre of land, measure 209 feet for eaoh side of your square, and it will contain an acre within an Inch. The area of closely built stores and residences of London, including the most populous suburbs, is 120 square miles. 6m Mohes Montkpioke was not as wealthy as many supposed. His for tune, according to lato reports, did not reach $5,000,000. The six parks of Chicago, aggre gating nearly 1900 acres, are con nected by a cordon of boulevards 250 foet wide, extending around the three land sides of the city. The great red spot which has so long been visible on Jupiter is disap pearing. An oval white spot now covers all the central portion, leaving only a narrow ring of the red substance visible around its edge. The foreign trade, imports and ex ports together, of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30th last amounted to $1,319,370,533. This is a smaller aggregate volume than we have had for six years. Taking the returns in millions they compare as follows since 1878 : Years. Volume of trade. 1R7S-79 tl.ail2.UIU.0n0 1879-HO 1.613,0110,01)0 1HS0-8I 1,675,000,000 1881- 12 l,A7,U0O,OU0 1882- 83 1,607,000,000 I 1883 HI 1,&I2,UU0.000 1884-U 1,31U,000,UUO Major Jones reports that the proper way of overcoming obstacles at the Cascades, on the Columbia river, is by a canal and a system of locks extend ing over a space of thirteen miles and costing about $11,000,000. But as it would require a very long period of time to excavate the canal which, in deed, from a statement of tho obsta cles, appears to be a work only second ia magnitudo to the Panama canal ho proposes in the meantime a portage over railway tracks, to cost something like a million and a quarter. The dark continent is receiving more attention than ever since Stan ley's explorations. This explorer, in writing of the country, says: "If a railway were completed from the mouth of the Congo sufficiently far into the interior to connect the four basins of the Congo, the Sahari, the Nile and the Niger, the result weuld be the establishment of commoroial intercourse with 80,000,000 of pooplo who now contribute nothing to the world's commerce, while tho area of the country thus opened would be about 2,370,000 square miles, or about two-thirds that of tho United States." There aro several easy ways to pre vent rusting of plows and cultivators and to keep the teeth bright. One is to give them a coat of thick limewush as soon as they are brought in from the field. Another is to dissolve an ounce of camphor in some turpentine, and add to this four ounces of lard and one ounce of pulverized black lead or stove polish, and mix well. This may bo rubbed on with a rag. To remove niBt from plows or tools nothing is bet ter than a mixturo of half a pint of oil of vitriol poured slowly into a quart of water, and apply this to the rusted metal. Wash off with water. Ofkickhs of the Chilunn navy iuform officers of our navy on the South American station that they look for ward hopefully to the day when they may loot San Francisco. They esteem that they could destroy the whole American navy in three hours. In view of the coldness, not to say the rudeness, with which our South Amer ican Commission wos received by the rulers of Chilo, tho braggadocio of the navy odicers of the Southern Republic cannot be dismissed with silont con tempt, says the San Francisco Chron iclt. Chile has all the temper required for a brush with the United States, and she could, as sha says, loot San Francisco. Of course, the ultimate end of the enterprise would be the obliteration of the name of Chile from the list of nations. But wars, as a rule, at the present day, are short, harp and decisive. And South Amer ican statesmen are not famed for fore eight. Tho bait of a temporary tri umph over the great North American Republic is well calculated to lure Chile into a fatal course. NA I AL The Wild Anlml TI.U Abound In Sooth 4 Mri. Thero a "0 no tign. s in Africa. This is a fft'rt which Is not geuorally known, for one con taut'y heart of t'gcr'Miunts nt tho Cape a mistake that Is c nucd by the nnti.e habit of calling any crea ture belonging to the cat or tign: fam ily a "t'ger." Colonists also lull into the same mistake. Patithers and leop ards are Indiscriminately timers" to the Kaffir, and the wild-cats are all tiger cats;" and even theso so-callod "timers," which are in real tr A small kind of leopard, have become so rare in tho civ ilized parts that a 'tigcr'Miuut there is now a rare diversion. Leopards are exceedingly shy crea tures. As tho farms and villages have increased, they have retreated furlher inland, so that the report of one being seen about a villago or farm creates quite a sensation, and be is soon hunted and killed, or driven back to his proper domain. The increasing scarcity of this par.hular kind of "game," though a matter of lament to f port men, is for tunate for too farmer, as these animals are terrible robber. The depredations which even ono will commit in a herd or flock aro ruinous, because they not only kill what they cat at the time, but they like to havo a well-filled larder, ana when they get a chance lay up pro visions in some secret place for a future day, a leopard not being, I imagine, overparticular as to tho Mat 3 of preser vation his dinner may bo in when ho requires it. This Ls such a difficult ani mal to get at, that a Kaflir who man ages to Kill one is regarded ns a kind of hero, and receives an ovation from his brother-Kaffirs, who at the same time ire not a little envious of him who has earned such a distinction. A leopard is a great prize to a Kaffir. Its teeth and claws he strings together for a necklace, and very well they look glis tening against his dark skin; the fa de ho makes into a carross or nig; and the tail is dangled , by a string from his waist If be happens to have several of these ornaments hung round him he is looked upon as a great swell, quito in full dross, indeed. Kaffirs seem to think that there Is something royal about a leopard's skin, and thoir chiefs' thrones are often composed of one thrown over a mound of earth. Though the loopard is so scarce in Natal that persons need have little fear of coming face to face with one, yet thore is a smaller edition of the sumo tribe which is more to be dreaded, on account of its frequent and daring dep redations in tho poultry-yard. This is tho "tiger-cat," or, properly speaking, bush-cat Wherever there are fowls to be had, these creatures will haunt tho place, and take every one, unless tho fowls are socurely shut up. They break through tho Kaflir-built huts, which people often unwisely keep their fowls in, as a neighbor of ours found to his cost, for ono morning all his fowls were strewn about dead in tho fowl-house, killed by the tiger-cat Thesa creatures are much larger than tho common eat, and very fierce and strong, though ca pable of being tamed. Another kind of cat also doea a doal of harm in Natal, namely, tho common cat run wild. Cats get drivon away from home, or loft behind when pooplo leavo their farms, these colonise, and become groat pests. When we left our house, there was a brood of kittens on the roof which we could not got near; they were perfoetly wild. I have hoard peoplo say that theso cats become fiercer and do more harm than even the bush-cats. There aro some other enemies to poul try of all kinds, which should bo care fully kept at a distance. Ono of these is tho jackal, lh black-backed ono be ing the most common in Natal. This animal Ls gifted with a rapacious appe tite, to which nothing conies am Us. lie will walk off with any small, woak crea tures that corao In his way. rowls, young pigs, lambs, and even small pup- pi s aro nevor safo from him ; and he tins been known to cuter houses and tako even tho oookod meat Luckily, they, too, aro gottiug scarcer in Natal, though thero aro still a number left about Capo Town. Tho Kalllrs niak'j splouiliil carrosics of their skins, par tieularly of the rare silver jackal, a very handsome animal which skins they sew together with perfectly even stitches. Tho most skilled workwoman could not do thorn better, though the prooess must rcquiro a great deal of patience, from the peculiar manner iu which they sew. Thev punch holes with s strong thorn in tho edges of tho things they want to fasten together, nud thon pass a Ions? piece of sinew as lino as a thread backwards and forwards through the holes. Another South African animal much sought after for tho sako of its pretty fur must also bo refused admit tanco to to the fowl-house. It is ono of tho smallest of foes, and can therefore creep through a very small hole. It is culled tho a.ss or caaina. It does not kill fowls. Its specialty is eggs of all kinds, Kven tho cr of tho ostrich is uot safe from it As its teeth are too small to break through tho shell, it rolls the eggs about uutii they smash against the other egs, or something hard. They are excessively greedy. 1 havo had a ncstful of eggs taken oil in no time, no doubt by ono of theso creatures. They have no objection to an egg having Deen sat upon; addled ones and all kinds are aoceptablo. Chambers" Jour nal. The French Birth Rate. The French birth rate is the lowest in Europe, and the consequence is that Frenchmen are becoming so scarce even in Franco that they are obliged to fill their workshops with Belgian, Italian, Swiss and English artificers; while they havo no surplus population, except cr minals, to send to their own colonic, and they even find a great difficulty in shipping off a few thousand soldiers to keep their little wars from eoV7ing. At the beginning of tho century tho population of Franco was nearly twice n large as that of Great Britain. They ire now nearly level, and in a few rears nore Franco will have to descend into e fifth rank of European stales, while nglun i will rise into the fourth posi on, the thiee greater states being Kas mtierm.iny and Anstria-llungarr.-' . J'. STUMPY GROUND. Reminiscences of tlm Time When Oien Were !' to flaw It. When ray memory g- es buck to the good old days of -whoa haw Buck," I can not help instinctively nibb'ng my shins. The first thing I ever bossed was a yoko of oxen. At tho mature ago of eleven I was invested with a large whip, ornamented with a keen cracker, and informed that I miht shape the course of old Buck and Bright whilo our hired man guided tho plow. I was young and inexperienced and entered upon my new duties with a zeal well nigh amounting to cnthu-iasrn, but at the end of tho first half day, when started for dinner with the bark nearly idl off tho front part of my legs nml four thousand splinters in tho bottoms of my lect, I felt that a chango hnd corao over tbo happy scene, and wis willing, in consideration of sorre slight roconi.ensc, to resign my position of honor and trust and accept a more humble and loss responsible office, where I would not be held to answer for everything that happenod to the hired man. Oxen, when drawing the plow in land that has not yielded to the gentle intlu ences of civilization, are apt to pau-e occasionally for tho purpose of medita ting upon the good they are doing. They generally pause just at the mo ment the plow gets stuck against a stump, and when the hired man, who has been walking leisurely along after the team thinking about getting married, overtakes tho plow and ttempls to shovo it right ahead with his stomach, the sky generally becomes a shade more azure, and the superincumbent Atmos phere recks with the fumes of ovordons brimstone. At such a moment tho boy who is driving the steors needs greM presence of mind. Unless he is quick and firm, he is liable to be slapped over before he can detract the attention f the hired man from himsolf to the s'eers. An experienced boy, as scon as he observes that tho hired man has been unsuccessful in driving the plow through the stump, will have a great deal of trouble with the oxen, and cut and slash around with the whip in trying to bring them to rights, in a way that will render it dangerous for the lured man to get very close to him. The chances are that he will get interested in tho oxen and confer upon them the favors he seemed about to shower upon the boy. There were a few other small issues liable to crop out in the course of driving a yoko of oxen across a field of stumpy ground. Ono of them was the prematura awakening of tho snakes that had lain dormant during the winter. As tho plow-share rolled thcra up and thoy wound around tho bare legs of the hired man, he often expressed himsolf in a way that made mo doubt h's Chris tianity, and I always noticed that he did not beam upon mo so graciously at such moments as he did when the patriotic note of the dinner horn was wafted to us from the honso. '1 here was another experience, how ever, that sometimes fell to our lot. It was to ruthlessly broak in Upon the do mestic harmony and blissful repose of a don of yollow-jackcts. I am afraid my renders never saw a yellow-jacket, so I will inform them right here that it is a sort of small, yellow wasp that can sting a fow bars and then go right back and repeat fortissimo. Tho yellow-jackets always build their nests in the immediate vicinity of a small stump, and the hired man never found out that he had disturbed them until the plow was effectually set against tho stump, when ho bent all his cnorgies to pull it out whilo the oxen w re bending all their energies to pull it in and the yellow-jackets wero working off their en ergies on tho oxon and hired man, while a boy about my si.o was carrjing his onerg cs away from all danger an a rate truly surprising. Tbe oxen finally broke the chain tbal bound them to the plow and made thoir way to a placo whero they could stand in water something more than kneo dcep, and that ended tho work of that particular day, the rest of which was dctoted to cremating the yellow-jack' ets' nost ISloominyton Through Mail. ABOUT THE BREWSTERS. The Wife of the Ex-Attrney-Gnral and the Family She Came Prom. In no country in tho worl 1 is fortune so fickle as In this; no position seems to be secure, no fortuno enduring and no good lasting. Tako the case of tho wife of ex-Attorney-General Brewster. Sho is the daughter of Benjamin J. Walker and the great-grand-daughter of Bonjaroiu Franklin, nud intellectual ly no unworthy female renresr ntativa of either. In her father's lifetime sho lived among the fortunate of tho world, enjoying all that distinguished socie;y and wealth can bestow. But Walker left no fortune, having exhausted it all during his lifetime, and so his eldest daughter, a young widow, with two children, became a clerk In Welling ton in tho Internal Revenue Depart ment. The confinement apd clerical work told rapidly on one accustomed only to tho luxurious side of life and tho roses on tho rounded cheeks began to pale. But one morning tho chair at her desk was empty. Sho had resignod in favor of a younger sister and to mar ry Lawyer Benjamin Brewster, of l'h 1-adelphia- After that event tho beauti ful Mrs. Brewster beeamo arain a leader in soeiotv, principally in Washington. Her reigti there is over now. With her husband sho has retired to the old Brewster homestead in rhiladolphia, but wherever she goes kin4 wishes mast attend her and society be adt -led by her presence. The Brewsters are among the oldest of old rhiladolphia families. Many of them hare deserved and won distinction in various ways, but the best known to tho Americas public are the ex-Attorney-General and his sister, Anns Brewster, who has re sided for many years in Rome and wbo has made for nersolf an enviable name in tho tight literature of the day. N. Y. World. m There are 73,000 boys and girls ero- E loved in the shops and factories in the tate of New York. Tho first morning yon forget to be polite to your wife, the honeymoon is over. ANTIPODEAN TOURISTS. Home of the Pciil.arltlei of Our Aus tralian CoikIik. The Britis'i tourist is in many ways an extraordinary creature and his Ain trulian cousin is no whit less so. I a fact In many par iculars the gentleman from tho South Pacific Island-continent is mora remarkable than tho gentleman from tho "right littlo, tight little .island," with the German Ocean and its German sovereigns. Just as the loyalty of the oolonist is more e fusive and pronouueed in the details of show so docs it happen that the Australian is found to retain certain peculiarities of dress and ad dress wtrch have long been attached to tho Britisher as part and parcel of his Insularity. More British than the Brit isher, he clings more pertinaciously to his briar root pipe, his little hat fits less than his home cousin's does, his clothes have creases in them which nothing but along sea voyage In a tightly paekeJ trunk could impart while his panta loons are marvels ot ungainliness tight where they should be loose, and very, very baggy where they should be tho snuggest Coming from Melbourno or Sydney, San Frauciseo is tho first American port which they strike and here it is that the attrition with another people begin. One of their great troubles is that of mastering tho bag-gago-check system. They are accus tomed to having a railroad card pasted on their "luggago" with the point of destination printed thereon aud to look ing out for the safety of each piece whenever tho journey's end is reached or a chango of cars made. They can not understand that the numbered and initialed metal tag affords them security and frees them from anxiety concern ing the whereabouts of their goods and they may be seen staring at ''tho brawsses as though they formed part of a gigantic swindle. An Australian steamer arrived re cently and for several days thereafter it was "as good as a play" to take up one's stand in the corner of the Palace Hotel courtyard where the baggage is weighed and checked. It was a sight to watch the hopeless way in which these exiles deliver themselves into the hands of the colored porters, their hor rifiod expression w.th which they saw thoir "boxes" whacked down on the weighing machine, and their protests, "you know," against the exorbitant rates for overweight They could not seem to understand that their personal attention was not required to superin tend every move and everything, and for two hours before the departure of any train on which they might tako passage they hovered around tho baggage-men like bees around crushed balm. A large contingent from tho Australia's passenger list, departed for the Yosemite, and though the hotel "bus" did not roll out of tno courtyard until after three o'clock, the swarm of Australians buzzed about the corner from a littlo after ono o'clock. Now they would skurry out to the agent's to inquire for the fiftieth time if their tickets were all right; then tbey would trotup-stairs to see what had become of "that portmanteau, you Knows again they would rush iuto the oftico to consult with tbs clork on tho railway time schedule; and so on, backward and forward, fuming, fretting, smoking and worrying generally. In marked coutradiction to their demeanor was that of an American who was going ovenami. tie came out, oi tno omco at 2:30 o'clock, dressed as if he was go ing to an afternoon tea dark-gray pantaloons and bluo frock-coat, both tittng to perfection, a silk hat on his head, natty shoes on his feet and an overcoat on his arm. Ho gave his t cket to tho transfer ilclivory man, say ing: ' Vlinn flin ftiinrra nnmrt ftnwn mm 009, ohock 'em allept the littlo alii- cay-tor bus. Ihen, turning to a por ter, ho added: "Charley, I'm a-going into tho barber shop; got a kernge, win vouf ' "All right" said Charley, and all right it was. Tho things came down from 0W, all were checked, and five minutes after tho yellow omnibus drove away, tho American, neatly shaved, was handed into a hack by Charley, who passed him his ticket cheeks and the "allurav-tor biiff. Another peculiarity of those antipo dean globo trotters is tho religious use which they ma ko oi tho "Ireo coach." The party referred to, somo en or twelve in number, clambered up into tho outside soats at the cry ot "All aboard!" and crowded in ono on the other, jostling each other lik- a lot of school-boys, and all vigorously sucking short pipes. Tho short pipe is the un failing indication of the Australian tourist and oven a clerical-looking gen tleman hold one as black as his coat be tween his teeth. Next to the pipe (and the pantaloons) is the bludgeon-like stick which ho always carries. Tho English man never stirs without his umbrella; tho Australian never comes to this coun try without his stick. It is to him as tho maquilla of tho Basqueat once a support and a pro'ector. Feculiar as are these young colonials in their man ners and appearance, conversation with them will go far toward removing the outer Impression which a casual ac quaintance might produce. It will be found by talking to them that they are chockfull of hard common sense and good judgment They dress they will tell you for comfort and not for show; they travel to learn and to enjoy mem solves, not to create a stir; they have money, but they do not see fit to spend it foolishly; they aro prepared to admire the United States and to give the American his meed of praise, but they will not hesitate to toll you that tbey consider Australia and Australians by no moans behind this country and peo plo in the rank of races. San Fran- Cisco Utovmcle. It is a safo and wise rule to follow, in all legislation, that whatever the peo ple can do without legislation will be better dope than by the intervention ol the State or Nation. Qarftld. m m m Trof. Wafilo, of the Lewisburg Uni versity, received the prize of $1,000 of fered by the Amorioan Sunday-School Union for tho best essay on "The Lord's Day of Rest" . Salt will remove the stam caused by eggs from silver. It must be applied dry. Detroit Tost. I LOST HIS RAILROAD NERVE. A Traveling Mn Who lias neentne Slorp bldly learral or au acciuouw A rovin? theatrical manager and a newspaper man wen broak'asting at tho Morton House ono day last ween. when the former remarked: "I am trying to got control of a house of my ownso that I tan locate permanently. In fact I have lost my railroad n-rve. Your railroad nerve; what do you mean?" " Just what I say. I havo lost my railroad nerve. Up to about a year a- I felt almost as safe on a railway train as I did in a hotel, but since tuaf t'mc, for some cause or other. I h ve become morbidly apprehensive ot rail road accidents, and now, when tr.ivu. in, I fret and worry all tho time. I can't rest in a sleeper any more. Many n limn I Imve la!n awake all niirht, and even if I do do.n, the slightest out-of- the-way jar will startle and m ouse m in the most unplea aut manner. If tho train slackens its speed. I dread that wo are too c'.oso to another, and I sometira :s become 60 agitated that I leave my ber.h and walk the at- lo lor an hour at a time." " You should conquer your fears, said tho nowspaper man. " hen I step on a train I consider that my fate is in the hands of others that worry or fret ivill not avail ono particle to help me in caso of trouble and 1 sleep almost as well In a ruliman or a u ag ner as I do in my own bod." "I have tried to reason myself out of my fears," was the response, "but I ean t I know I have only got to dio once, and that 1 must die some time. Honestly, though I am not at all dis posed to go off the hooks just yet the fear of in-tant death is not so much what haunts me as tho dread f acci dent that would deprive mo of a limb or otherwise cripple mo permanently. Did you ever see a one-armed or one legged theatrical manager or agent? We havo hard enough times to get alonz with all our limbs and faculties. To deprive mo of a leg or an arm would be to take away my means oi living and causo me to resort to some other that would perhaps make me a semi-mendicant. That is what I fear, and it is that which has deprived me of my rail road nerve. I will make almost any sacrifico that will enable me to locate and regain my former buoyancy of spirits. Even as I talk with you now I fret bocause I have to take the, train for Boston to-day, and I won't feol easy iu my mind till I get to the end of my tourney, and not then, for I know I lave to come back again." "Aro your fears shared by many other managers or actors?" "Indoed they aro, . but few of them care to acknowledge it I know lots of drummers, too, who feel just as I do. Stand in front of a ticket ollico before tho departure of a through train, especially at night, and watch the mon buy accident insurance tickets, and you will bo surprised to find how many thero aro who, like me, havo lost their rail road nerve. A year ago I hadn't a gray ba r in my head. Now there are plenty of them. Still, if circumstances compel, I will be on the road next season, with only ono consoling thought, and that is that perhaps after all I may never get a scratch, while somo ono who never gave the matter a thought, or who would laugh at it if ho did, may bo killed by a derailment or a collision within a year. It is strange though, considering how much they travel, how few actors got hurt and 1 don't believe one in a thousand ever buys an accident ticket. They aro too superstitious, and feel that if they wero to insure thoy would be certain to 'beat the game', and havo to dio to do it" N. Y. Sun. BUDDENSIEK MORTGAGES. A Warning to Thoee Who Advance Hener to Biillrire. The Fanitary World offers a warning to persons who are in tho habit of ad vancing money on mortgage to buildT ers without examining the structures intended to secure the loan, which de rives additional emphasis from the re cent fall of one Buddensiek block in Now York and tho enforced rebuilding of others, which is now going on by direction of tho Building Bureau. In the English case to which the Sanitary II orld refers, a builder ot the liuddcn sick sort of work erected iu London two houses, the workmanship of which was far from satisfactory to the dis trict surveyor, who complained against him for using bad mortar, and had him fined for tho offense, and ordered to change his mothod of building forth with. The builder took no not ce of the order, but complotod the houses ready for occupancy, and then managed to obtain, as builders know how to da, a largo loan upon them, giving a mort gage in return. The - Metropolitan Board of Works, whoso mandate he had disobeyed, had in the meanwhile. however, instituted legal proceedings against him, and obtaining a verdict with tho necessary authority from the court it proceeded, after order'ng out the occupants, to demolish both the houses, and with them the security of the unfortunate lender, who had really bought the houses at a high price from the builder, without troubling himself to inquire about defects, which, as it proved, made them worse than worth less. Tho Sanitary World, whilo de ploring the success of the trick by which the rascally builder shifted tbe consequences of his misdeeds upon the innocent mortgagee, points out that tno lattor, by taking the precaution to in quire of the district surveyor as to the character of the houses, might easily have ascertained that they were not only defective but had been actually condemned and ordered to be taken down, and would thus have been warned against throwing away bis money in a loan upon them, and truly says that notwithstanding the hardship to the mortgagee, his want of prudence should not be allowed to interfere with .ht public welfare, which unquestionably demanded the destruction ci the build ings. American ArcMUX Measures should at once be taken for renewing the forests, which are rap idly wasting away. This can not be done by speech-making, hymn-singing and setting out saplings and bushes about uhoolhovatil filadilphia BuU Ma. WHATISPORTING MEN RELY ON. When Lewis It. Redmond.the Somi. Carolina moonshiner, cornered, afU;r f&r eight years ending the government officials, was asked to surrender ha exciaimeu : "Never, to men who fire at ay back l" Before ho was taken, fivo bullets had gone clear through him, but strange to relate, he got well, in the hands of a rude backwoods nurse. By the way, if Garfield had been i the hands of a backwoods nurse, he might have lived. A heap of volun teer testimony against the infallibility of tho physicians has been accumulat ing of late, and peoplo are encouraged to oo uieir own uocwirmg more and more. 1 1 is cheaper and quite as certain. Before Detective Curtin of Buffalo caught Tom Ballard he "covered" him with his revolver, lorn saw the point and tumbled I Joe Goss was "covered" a few weeks ago and he tumbled, and so did Dan Mace. Death "fetched 'em" with that dreaded weapon kidney disease. But they should have been lively and drawn first They could easily have disarmed the monster had they covered him with that dead shot Warner's safe cure, which, drawn promptly, always take the prey. It is doubtless true that sporting men dread this enemy more than any mishap of their profession, and presumably this explains why they as a rule are so partial to that cele brated "dead shot." Redmond was right. No man should surrender when attacked in the back, lie should "draw," face about and pro ceed to the defence, for 6uch attacks, so common among all classes, will fetch a man every time unless "cov ered" by that wonderfully successful "dead shot." Sportsman's Neu's. OFF ON A TOUR. The Shrewd ObMrratlons of a Detroit Street Gamin. 41 Hi! hi!" yelled a boy in an alley off Clifford street yesterday. A second boy. who stood on the cross walk, meandered down and asked what was wanted. "Put your eye to this knot-hole and tell me what you see." " Nuthin but a man sittin' out in tho back-yard." " Don't you read the papers?" "Course I do." "D.dn't you see in the papers three or four days ago that this feller got married? Name's John Blacky" "Oh, yes." I An1 if enil fViA Vt a vnv attnrtla nA 6tarted on a bridal tour to Omaha." "Yes." "Just went as far as Chicago, and headed back for home. Got here in tho night ami walked up to the house to es cape observation. That happy couple has got to put in about ten days around bero with the front door locked and the curtains down, and some morning you'll see a great stir and learn that they have just returned after an enjoyable trip. Say, Jim." "Yes." "Don't get married." "Never!" "If you ever do, don't try to Omaha ( the public" "I won't." " 'Cause truth is mighty and must prevail, and deception must sooner or later go to grass.'' Detroit Free Press. Some of the recent eccentricities of John McCullough, the actor, now in an insane asylum, have been rather un pleasant ones. It has required tbe sorv ice of bis servants constantly to watch him in the house, and even then he has nearly killed himself with gas and flooded the house with water a dozen times, it being a great trick of bis to turn on gas, leave it unlighted, and go to bed, or turn on water, plug up tho outlets, and walk off, till the falling eeiline below told what was happening. THE ABT OF GETTWQ VI00E0US Is comprised In one very simple piece of advice, , improve digestion. Ko elaborate system of dietetics is needed. If you lack vigor, use systematically that pleasant prompter of it Hoetetter's Stomach Bitters. If yon take this hint and do not commit any excesses, there is no reason why yon should not gain in atronifth, appetite and weight Hosts of whilom Invalids are to-day building a foundation for years of vigorous health with this sound and thorough renovator of a dilapidated Dhyslaue and failing energy. 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